The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-10

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returns for year showing that poultry
products sold for ST. 900 more than
the total field crop of the entire State.
Bully for old Mother Hen!
The art Of Matching eggs artifcially
has been known from the remotest ages
but not as II is done In this country.
Artificial Matching has been practiced
so long IN Egypt that the hens have
completely abandoned that part of their
work to man, 4 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 hatchers on
the Nile do not attempt 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
nelghborhood arrive with palm basket
To carry the chicks away by the hun
dreds. Forty~eight hours after they
emerge from the shell they are scat
tered over the country.
novel practice in Egypt is to pluck
the feathers from the young birds ard
slightly grease their skins. This adds
greatly to their health but detracts
much from their beauty, 1t strikes the
stranger as extremely odd to see hun
dreds of perfectly naked chickens bask~
ing in the sun or running about. An
other peculiar feature of the industry
IN Egypt is that the operators of the
lncubators do not use thermometers, but
regulate the temperature of their ovens
by Keeping the heat trifle greater than
that or their own skins The Egypiian
incubator of today Is an exact reproCGc-
tion OF the one in use thousands of
years ago, and in all the centuries the
Egyptian breed of chickens has not
changed in the least. Not long since
the metal stamp of Il chicken was found
In tomb where it had been deposited
over 1000 years ago, and ii was n per-
feet type of the Nile fowl of TODAY.
When that stamp was struck artificial
incubation was thing of actual prac-
tlcc i'll the land of the Pharaohs.
The last poultry show held at Mad
lson Square Garden in New York was
proclaimed by the authorities to be the
most complete and best attended eXhi-
bitlon of the lUInd held IN the world to
date The official catalogue contained
the grand total of 7,06l entries. which
included fowls of every kind and de-
I ls
homing pigeons, owls, canaries. gray
Iinnets. goldfnches. sskons, minos. par
rotS. and African hncheS; also rabbits,
guinea pigs, rats, mice, cats and bees
There were three countries (thc United
States. Canada and England) and TWEEN
I ty-seVen States represented, as follows.
Connecticut, New jersey. Pennsylvania,
New York, North Carolina. Rhode Is
land. Massachusetts. Maryland, Georgia.
Indiana, Kansas. District of Columbia,
Maine, Missouri. Oregon, Alabama,
Michigan. Ohio. Illinois, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Delaware, Iowa, South Car
olina, Wisconsin. Minnesota and Texas,
One Of the best Indications of the
growth of the poultry industry in this
country is tne fact that last season
there were 470 poultry shows, exclusive
of fall fair exhibitions, which were dis
tributcd as follows: Ohio. 80; Illinois,
%; Iowa, As; Indiana, 30; Michigan,
/ 81: Missouri, 27; Pennsylvania, 23;
sctis, II; Wisconsin. ~; Oklahoma. II;
/ Minuesota, 9; Texas, 8; Connecticut, s;
I Nebraska, s.; New Jersey. s; washing
/ ton. 8; Ontario. Canada: I: California,
. 6; Tennessee, 6; Colorado, ). North Car
/ olina, D; New Hampshire, i; South Da
! kora, 1: Arkansas, 3; Kentucky, 5; AL
! ALBANIA, 3; Georgia, 9; Maine, .; Orc,
] S'",. h''i''N ''i.t'"' 'V''' ~ 'i,,,"N
>; Vermont, 2; Virginia, ?; West yir-
! ginia. 9, Arizona, /; British Columbia
/ Canada. !; Delaware. |, Hawaii, |;
| Louisiana, 1; Manitoba. Canada. | :;
/ Maryland. !; Mississippi, j, Nova SEQ
tin, Canada, l.; Utah, !.
There is much talk about increas.
1 ing he egg production of the hens Of
the United States. Some readers may
wonder how 1t is possible 10 make A hen
, Law more eggs than she would ordinar-
lily. but the professional ponltrymcn can
easily persuade her to double her guam
tity. First, q tag Is put on one of the
legs Of each hen, so that She can be
identified, Then trap nest Is used, so
that an accurate account may be kept
of her record during the season. AT the
| end of the year the ones who have laId
the most are saved for breeders, and
paired with males whose mothers had
equally good records, 4 breeder wish
ing to increase the production of his
flock would use no female in the breed
ing pens whose mother had not laid AT
least 100 eggs III her pulet year. He
would use no male unless his mother
had laid over 200 eggs per year. BY
keeping his pens filed with birds bred
under these rigid rules of selection, he
can easily force the egg production far
above that OF tho average hen of mon
grcl breed and Indifferent habits.
Personal Stories will be tho subject
treated by Mr. Hashin in The Tribune
Thursday,