Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-10
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR
 POULTRY BREEDERS

Within a short time there win be in progress two contests Of the great est interest to poultry raisers Of the country. One of these contests mas already been started at the Connect. icut Agricultural College at Sturrs, Conn, and the other will soon begiu al the Missouri Poultry Experiment station. The former is known as the Philadelphia North American Inter national Egg-laying competition and the latter as the Missouri National EgS-lay.ng competition In the form. CT there are 800 hens engaged and in the latter there VII be T2e. These l,ZZ0 birds represent tract caily all Ct the recognized breeds that have won reputations- as great layers rather than for the weIght Of carcass. For their reception conditions have been made as nearly ideal as modern and scientific ulithods can make them and the result will be watched wilh absorbing interest by an who are en- gagged on large, CT on a small sc lC in the rearing of poultry for the eggs that arc laid Each contest wiil last for year and pr.zes are offered for the winning pen and for the winning birds II is hot-phyGical joints that tell the story and win the blue ribbons in these contests, it is eIgs that c9Gnt, each egg a point. And while the contests are in progress interesting data relative to breeds, lndividual pens and single birds will be gathered by the experts in poultry culture who have the contest in charge. A. StC-rs the first week resulted n 9l eggs. On y one hen laid an egg each day
 The fact that the production w,s not higher is accu4uted for by JHe season Of the year end more iupUri ant slll that some of the pens had been trans ported from a distance and had not yet become used 60 their surroundings fer such a state of affairs IS .a well known 10 breeders has d Ge-iJcd el- feet on the birds. The egg d cIy bird for the first week was a Waite Wyau- dOttee. 1t is too eariy in the com petition to make an esriu4.. on per centages for auy one breed O.. any enc pen may make large aIiI5 and leap from low to a leaCiEs .JsiICn by 1 single weeks record.
 Green food ana grit is a text tha. may be preached to these who keep chickens. It can be preached Ia sea- son but not out of season for those words are always apropOs just as the articles themselves are always l0Und in the poultry yard. Add to these two words, Lwo ether and Ia ? foundation is prepared. These two other words are charcoal and lime. Grit is. essential to the poultry ra.s
 CT. He or she will have discOUr agements. It is the other kind of gTE that the fowls require. Broken gran ite or other stone gr,t are teeth Tor Biddy. As scarce as hens teeth Is an old saying and in 100 many poultry pens it is found that this saying is applicable for the thOughtless owners Of the flock has not put the teeth where Biddy can get them. Tho grit wears out in the crop with constant friction and has to be replaced with fresh. If this Is not done an kinds of trouble and sickness result and the poor dyspeptic hen Is blamed for not being a 200 egg per year bird. Next tO grit cones green stun. lt IS natural for the fowl to obtain this in ahe native state. Nature demands that they shah have a certain pIopOr- lion Of greens for subsistence and when nature is denied or thwarted i'm any way the old dame reseuts it, rebels and there is old hob Co pay whether the trouble be in the hen bcase or somewnere else for nature is self wllled. Charcoal is great pur- ider. Biddy finds it a good medicine