The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-02


 markable results for a few months dropped and died. seemily because they could not stand the demands made up- on them for heavy work.
 November 1, 1901, fifty-five barred Plymouth Rocks matched during April May and June. and forty white Wyan- dottes, matched during the some months, commenced their years work with the trap nests. These birds were brought in during the two last days Of October from portable houses out on q range. where they were raised and had their liberty. Most of those matched in April had been laying well during October. and some of them commenced in September.
 So far as individual records were con- cerned the eggs laid in September and October were lost, and the birds did not get credit for the work they actually performed for the year ending Novem- Der i, 1902 Had they had credit for eggs laid before they were housed for the test more birds would have top ped the 200 mark, and those placed there would have enhanced their rec ords.
 Seven of the f1fty-five barred Rocks yielded from POI to 240 eggs, and the fifty-fve laid 1872 eggs. During the time the birds were out four were stolen and three died. The forty white Wyandottes reached the 200 mark. Six died. The record of these birds was lower than in previous years due. Pro- lessor Gowell thinks to considerable number of them taking cold while out doors part of wet day in April.
 One of the Wyandottes did not lay an egg, and another, after laying ten in March and one iii June, died. The non-layer seemed to be in good health, and her external form was not unlike that of her laying mates
 Professor Gowell has been making steady progress in his undertaking and has now at the expermental station a sufficient foundation flock of big lay CTS to make practicable the avoidance of in-breeding. It is doubtful, he | thinks, if the inbred hen has sufficient constitution to enable her to stand the demands of heavy egg yielding. Males | for the breeding operations have been raised from the most desirable of the foundation stock, and the breeding fe- males now being carried are tested hens that have laid over 1SO eggs in year. | There are bullets whose mothers laio over 200 eggs in year and whose fathers mothers laid more than 200 and bullets out of hens whose sires were out of 20o-egg hens, the bullets l themselves being sired by coclSerels bred for two and three generations or both dam and sire sides from 200-ege | producers.
 The experiments determine that it is necessary to have the bullets of tht breeding used in tests matched by thu last of April in order to have them lay. ing regularly by the first of November | They then have a full year for worl before being removed in the following 1 fall to make room for the new bullet: l that must be in winter quarters earl. 1 If they are to do satisfactory work l This feature of poultry management says the professor, counts for a grea l deal.
 l One of the curious discoveries made b. l the test was that of white Wyandott' ! hen, which strutted about with he mates, big, strong and healthy, fol four years without laying an egg. An l other hen, a barred Plymouth Rock didn't lay until she was months old when she laid eight eggs in one monti and quit. She was kept six month l thereafter, but proved to be dron and was sent to market. One of tn l barred Plymouth Rocks laid 237 egg
 in one year, another 251. third 24O ant | fourth 219.
 There are many successful poultr, farmers in Maine who are conducting
 their enterprises along lines suggested by Professor Gowell Very careful,
 they observe the work of their flocks In order that the drones man be weed
 ed out each fall for meat. These ar replaced with bullets matched along il April and May, and all winter the bird
 are carefully fed with mashes of mike,
 corn and oats; wheat and cracked cor
 for dry grain; mashes of cornmeal gluten meal, meat meal or beef scraps
 buckwheat, barley mashes of cooke
 vegetables, and green food, such a
 cabbage sugar beets split in halves
 and so forth. Many of the poultr
 farmers make profit of from $l5O t
 $2 per year for each hen, a great dea
 depending on the price of grain.
 One of the most successful poultr women in the state Mrs. Hitchcock, 0
 Damariscotta, averaged nearly $2 pro
 fit on each of her 250 hens last year
 She sells practically all of her old bird
 each year. replacing them with layin bullets,
 The bulk of the fowl seen in Main
 are barred Plymouth Rocks, whic , have given the best results at the ex
 pertinent station; Wyandottes an
 Rhode Island reds. The Leghorns
 Black Spanish and mongrels of a dog en years ago are fast disappearing, tn
 aim now being to breed for brown
 shelled eggs, which bring the highes
 prices.-From the Boston Globe.