Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-01-31

Away up among the New Hampshire
hills, back from the railroad and awal
from town or village, one of the bes
trained agricultural minds of America i,
demonstrating that extensive, intensive
farming pays in New England as on tn,
praires. For fifteen years the battl,
has waged, and his second term of eight
year rotation is about completed, anC
his $50 acres of tillage have been brough
TO high state of cultivation. His cow,
-l60 grades-averaged this year 6,35(
pounds of milk, and the problem is we'll
nigh solved. Alongside, his son, also
well trained and having years of expert
ence in large business centres, has takeI
up the poultry industry in the same
methodical manner his father has shown
in his larger operations. This work on
Wilson Farm by Professor j. w. San
born and his son, II. w. Ssnborn, must
be reckoned among the important de-
monStrative work of the last quarter of a
century.
II. W. Sanborn is now in his fourth
year in extensive, intensive poultry rails
ing, and the story he tells and facts he
presents are important for others to
think over.
From Jan. /, 1908, to Dec. 81, 1910,
the average of his six hundred hens was
156 eggs; for 1909 it was l44.9, owing to
the late Matching of his pullets and keep
ing over so many old hens. The first
eleven months of 1910 give an average of
l56 45, and unless something unforeseen
occurs this will be increased to 1877 or
l6S before the 3lst. This is great
record, when one remembers that one
hundred hens occupy each pen. Trap
nests are used for every hen, so that the
daily record is known. From Nov. 2S,
1907, to Nov. 2S, 1908, Hen No. ~ pro-
duced 255 eggs, the next year 2lS, and
she closed the third year on Nov. Is
with l72, making total in three years
oE645 eggs. Where is there hen kept
under like conditions with record to
equal that, one known to be absolutely
correct? Better still, in 1905 eighteen
pullets from this hen laid more than 100
eggs each; three of these 200 and one of
them 23l the first year and 2O5 her sec
ond The pullets from No. II raised in
1909, being late hatched, have not com
pleted the year, but promise fully TO
equal the hatch of 1908. One cockerel
from No. IL mated with good hen from
a breeding pen of forty, produced pullet
which from Sept, II, 1909, to Sept. II, 1910
produced 2S2 eggs. Here is strong con
tirma alton of the work so thoroughly done
by Professor Gowell of Maine, and proves
that the power TO produce may be trans
mitted as well as other factors. The at
tempt TO deny this relegates the whole
DIT blem To chance. Mr.. Sanborn is car
rying forward some important expert
meutS To still further substantiate the
claim that like produces like and that
great producers may be the dams of bet
ter birds. The method of feeding is as
follows: To every one hundred hens
there is fed in the litter in the morning
four quarts OF whole corn, two of wheat
and two of oats, and the following dry
mash is kept constantly before them
One hundred pounds OF wheat bran, 200
pounds of -four middlings, 100 pounds
of cornmeal, 100 pounds of gluten, 5O
pounds OF linseed meal, 30 pounds OF
alfalfa meal, $50 pounds of beef scraps
and 8 pounds of salt. Charcoal, grit
and oyster shells are kept in the pens al
all time. His method of feeding his
chicks is TO give infertile eggs, boiled
thirty minutes and ground up, shell and
ali, and mixed with six times their bulk
of rolled oats, when the chicks are thir-
ty-six 10 fOrty-eight hours old, feeding
five times 4 day for three days, when the
following dry mash is fed three times a
day and commercial chick feed twice
One hundred pounds of cornmeal, 10C
pounds of flour middlings, 70 pounds ol
beat bran, % pounds of alfalfa meal
80 pounds of beef scraps and 80 pound'
of ground oats.
When the chicks are old enough to
run out of doors they are fed in an out
door feeder having four compartments,
cracked corn, wheat, oats and dry mash,
When the pullets weigh two pounds or a
little more they are separated from the
cockerels and fed on the dry mash fol
LAYING hens. The breeds kept are White
Wyandottes and Single Comb Rhode
Island Reds 1t will be evident that tht
one standard aimed at is that of utility
and whether these birds would win ol
not in the show pen, where the point or
the comb or turn of a tail feather would
settle the momentous question, they are
surely winning in that supreme test oI
real value. These breeds are being kept
pure and the type maintained. The fact
that for the year closing on April %
1910, these six hundred heps paid mel
profit of S2 SO a head, or more thar
81, 700, and that this year promises Il
increase this is proof positive of good
business management. This record car
never be duplicated by any guess So
policy, for it rests upon the application
of strict business principles, but any
man who likes hen and is ready to de
vote himself to the details can win ou
as truly as our friend at Pittsfield, N. II
The industry is all right. NJ. Twitch
ali i'm Tribune Farmer.