Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-12
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n a hundred cars of live poultry

or hundred cars of live poultry a,
week.
The professional poultry man has to
make constant study of peeuliarities
of the different markets. The people
of Boston and New York prefer dry
picked poultry. and will take the scald-
ed product only at a discount. Phila-
delphia and San Francisco also prefer
the dry picked. while Washington, BAL
timore Chicago and st. Louis prefer
the scalded kind. unless it is wanted
for shortage purposes. The New York,
Washington and San Francisco mar
kets show a preference for white,
shelled eggs, while Boston and Phila
delphia will pay more for eggs having
dark brown shells.
The best known grower of turkeys In
the United States is Horace Vose, of
Westerly, Long Island. He has become
famous on account Of the custom of
sending a prize turkey to the White
House every Thanksgiving. He sent
General Grant a turkey during his first
term and has not missed year since
that time. He has received autograph
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dents since General Grant, and has be-
come we'll known from the publicity
given him every year by the newspa-
pers and magazines. Mr.. Vose goes
to considerable trouble in selecting a
prime fowl for the White House ta-
BILE. He not only inspects his own
flock a month or so after the seasons
chicks have been Matched, but makes
tour OF the farms for miles around
in order to secure options on any
promising specimens that he may see.
BY taking this precaution he makes
it certain that the fowl which event
ually goes to adorn the first table in
the land will be the finest of its kind.
Few people know that the hen is the
American farmers greatest asset. Her
extraordinary wealth producing ac-
complishments were surprisingly dem
onstrated in a recent compilation of the
statistics in Missouri, one of the lead
ing poultry states in the union. Mis-
souri, has rich soil, which the farmer,
aided by improved machinery, and
hired man. has worked for all it is
worth. AS he passed on his way to
work each morning ne let out the old
hen to scratch for her living. AS a
wealth producer this industrious deni-
zen of the barnyard, altho neglected
and left to. herself actually beat tho
farmer and the machinery and the
hired man all put together, the official
returns for year showing that pou.-
try products sold for SIT, 900 more than
the total field crop of the entire state.
The art of Matching eggs artificial]y
has been known from the remotest
ages. but not as it is done in this
country. Artificial Matching has been
practiced SO long i'm Egypt that the
hens have completely abandoned that
part of their work to man. A notable
difference in the methods of the two
countries is that in Egypt the work of
Matching is never attempted except
during the months of February. March
and April Another important variance
is that hatc1ers on the Nile do not at
tempt to rear the young broods. Word
is sent out from the incubators that a
certain number of young chickens will
be discharged on given day, and the
women of the neighborhood arrive with
palm baskets to carry the chicks away
by the hundreds. Forty-eight hours
after they emerge from the shell they
are scattered over the country.
A novel practice in Egypt is to pluck