Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-07-10
THE EGG SPECIAL
Was Here Tuesday and Gave Some
Interesting Information.

1uo 6SS Sp0dld1 cdi SouI Oue ny
Dr.. NJ. E. Pennington, Of the Food
Research Labartory and Bureau d
Chemistry Of the U. S. Department o.
Agriculture. Of PhiRdelphia, Pa, was
in the city all day Tuesday and until
10 O'Clock Wednesday morning, on
their campaign Of education along the
lines OF the better care and preser-
, walton Of the eggs.
It is estimated by men who have
made a study Of the propositacn that
the farmers and poultry raisers OF
Kansas annually lose at least two
mdIMon dollars trom the spoilage Of
eggs. This looks Ike an enormous
amOunt Of money to be lost on this
one line alone, but the estimate is
said to be conservative by men who
know, and it Is also said that the
larger per cent Of this sRtm could be
saved II the poultry radsers would
only follow the admondtion OF the ex-
perts who were here with the egg
special and Swat the Roosters." It
has been demonstrated without any
question Of doubt, and was amply
demonstrated by the experts here,
that the quality OF a fertile egg be-
gins to deteriorate Within a very few
days after it is laid, while an infer
tile egg win keep in good shape for
sevearl months. This being the case,
i will readily be seen that the keep
ing Of the males wIth the 1lock af-
ter the breeding season closes b a
money losing proposition. They do
mot mean that poultry raisers shall
kill OF their valuable male birds, but
that they shan pen them away from
the hens e. coon as the breeding |
season closes. They gave a .number
OF interesting end instructive demon.
stratione Of the keeping auahtdes Of
the tnfertile over the fertile eggs, sO|
that the most skeptical could Dot help
but see. the truth Of their Statesmen &.
They had. an Interesting chart pre-
pared from the last census showing
the value Of the. poultry production
per farm IN the different counties Of
the Slate, and this showed that Bar.
ton county was we'll up in the list,
being sixteenth out of the one hun
dred and five counties. The average
value of the poultry and egg prodUc-
ton per year on the Barton county
farms is about $3.50, there being TWEEN.
ty'three counties in the state where
the average value per farm is over
$50. Sixty-o counties have an av.
erage poultry pordnction per farm
Of from $1OO to $3.50; eighteen Of
from $50 TO 800, and but three have
an average Of less than $50. The ay-
erage per farm for the entire state
is .$121.2S. Mitchell county leads the
INST with an average value per farm
Of 31SS.
There are many ways in which the
poultry raiser can increase the value
OF his his egg crop. Keeping the
males from the flock is only one Of
the many different means by which
thds can be done. Keeping the nests
clean, gathering the eggs once or
twice each. day, and bringing them
to market clean and fresh will not
only tend to increase the pirce during
The time Of. yeas when the price. is
ge0earlly low, but will greatly tend
to increase the consumption as we'll.
The poultry and egg industry in Bar
ton county is already a big business,
but It is also one which can easily
be doubled If just a little more care
and attention is given the same and
all poultry radsers are urged to co.
operate along these lines. From $50
to 300 hens should be kept ON every
farm IN Barton county, and Il this
was done and the proper attention
given the flock and their product the
occasional failure Of wheat would not
be noticed nearly as much as it b at
the present time.
The gentlemen with the car here
were H. c. Pearce, who Is IN charge;
M, 3. Pennington, H. L. Shrader, NJ
c, KSlpatrick, H. u, Sullivan aud
Frank E. Mussehl. the htter beng 6
representative Of The Kansas State
Agricultural College. The car uset
for a demonstration car q a retriger
aoT car and IS equipped with its owl
ventSafHg and lighting system; q
:: dnfeehorse epower gasoline me,u,
beng used to develop the power TO
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