The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-06

The egg crop of this country. in pro-
portion to the population, allows each
person about one-half an egg per day
II all are used for domestic purposes,
but large part of it goes to the arts
and the trades, so that each human, If
the remainder were divided evenly,
would get a mighty small fraction OF
an egg daily.
New York is the great egg market Of
the United States. Her per capita con
sumption is about one egg per day.
To reach that figure all over the
country the egg output would have to
increase over 30 per cent
It is estimated at Washington that
last years poultry product reached
$720,0O0OO0. Was that egg you used
for nog, that chicken you fed preacher
counted? No.
A strict poultry census would put
our poultry crop up over the billion
mark. Double that egg crop and nc
one will get bilious; triple the chickens
and preachers and all will yell for
more. Our weeping Jeremiahs have
forgotten that this is a growing cOun-
try and will outgrow anything on
earth, and that means a permanent
paying market.
FEATHERS AND EGosHELLs.
You have often wondered why
snakes, cats, hawks and mongooses
were classed as sacred animals in an
Client Egypt. Simply because they
catch rats and mice, the germ distrib
uters and grain destroyers.
Sporty game feathers make the besi
artificial flies for trout fishing. jar
bantams' sickle feathers cut swell
figure on a lady's hat The fair one
who cackles much should wear white
Leghorns to make a good match.
In one year over eighty-eigbt tons Of
poultry were seized and condemned
by London health authorities. Thi'
shows you that the United States Il
not the only place where these devils
that sell rot are getting hot shot
The Chinese prefer eggs that ar
three years old and sell them at [
higher price than fresh. When 20,
go to China sample them, but wear ,
mask and a coat of mail, for the,
shoot. A clothespin on your nose vii
come handy.
In some cases as high as twenty doz
ans of rots and spots are found in {
single crate Of eggs by professional
egg Gamblers at the big egg ware
houses. Think Of 240 rots out Of 86'
eggs, and all generally from careless
ness in handling the product.
According to a recent ruling, al
Pennsylvania normal schools mus
give instruction In agriculture and do
nestle science. AS her agriculture
adjunct Shippensburg Normal adde's
a pig and an Incubator Rats got al
the incubator chicks, but the hog stil
survives.
People talk Of the hens marvelou
fecundity. A Norway rat average
forty eight young a year. Most o
these mature before the year is up
have families of their own, and tn
sum total reaches as high as SSC
That beats the Texas grasshopper AM
the Jersey skeeter.
Arthur Young, an English poultr.
writer of 1902, states that in thos'
days turkey raisers considered it I
healthy and necessary thing to bath
young turkeys daily. This is on pa
with John Bulls idea that little pleas
ants should have no water except wha
they get or the dewy grass.
The eggs that reach the marke
standard reach the critical customer
pocketbook, and If your flock doesn'
lay that kind discard the breed for on
that fills the need. A man at marke
with what the people don't want feel
as much at home as a woman with
green silk and Merry Widow hat at
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