El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-11
E PASO HENS IN
LAYING CONTEST
El PaSo Pen Comes Near
First Place; Are Away
Ahead Of Average.
b H. .. PARsONs.

Some time ago there appeared in the
columns OF The Herald a conmunica-
ton intimating Cno doubt -unintention-
alIy) that there had been but one man
in FL Paso who had enough faith in
the laying qualities Of his hens to en-
ter them in laying contest OF any
consequence There were and are two
In order 10 keep the records straight,
as far as FL PasO hens and their lay
ing prOclivities are concerned. / think
il well to state that at the same con-
test where the other FL Pas0 hens made
a very good showing" there was also
entered a pen Of Barred Plymouth
Rocks which were bred and raised In
the outskirts Of FL Paso and this pen
finished second and was beat only by
a pen Of Barred Rocks from Michigan
In this contest. there were entered 10
pens Of ten hens each from different
parts Of the United States There were
four pens OF White Orpingtons, four
pens Of : c r / Reds, four pens OF
White Wyandottes. and four pens Of
Barred Rocks Michigan Barred Rocks
won first and FL Paso Barred Rocks
were second
On the first Of November, 1915. at
the same place CAIt. Grove, MissourD
there was completed another laying
contest in which there We're entered
IS pens Of five hens each They came
from the foremost and largest breed
England and each breeder selected
hens he supposed to do the best laying
for the year to come There were 20
varieties or breeds and the contest eN-
tended over a period of one year from
November /, 1914. to NOFember !, 1912
Now here is where El Paso chickens
come in. At this laying contest, pen
Of Barred Rocks were entered by tne
same man that had the other pen IN
former contest These chickens were
rfuh~ here in NN RaE0-
They finished In 18th place. There were
two other pens entered from TeNas'
one a pen OF White Leghorns and the
other a pen OF White ROcks-none from
Fl PasO other than the Barred ROCKS
as far as my knowledge goes
The FL Paso pen Of Barred Rocks
in this contest outlayed such FAMOUS
hens as Tom Barron's White Wyan-
dottes. of CatfOrth. England; I'd cam
English White LeghOrns, or Housnlon'
England and won by n margin Of Il
eggs over the Barred Rocks from
Michigan that beat them last year
They outlayed every pen Of p breeds
completely. and lacked only two eggs
Of landing among the 10 high pens
They beat the pen average for al
mems entered by 1S5 eggs They beat
the pen average Of the ) g w nlte Leg
horns entered by = eggs The. pen
average OF this contest was aoou l.-. 10
eggs above the general average
throughout the country; TINS WouId
make these Barred Rocks 36l eggs
above the general pen average
This laying contest as Wen as ON
ers shows the value OF breeding LOT
eggs along scientific lines; IL shows
ne s4Ici, breeding followed persistent
" will and does produce hens that lay
consistently the year round me
breeder OF these chickens has been az
IT only seven years. and, by strict at
tention to detail ard well laid plans
has been able TO produce hens that do
moi have TO take a back seat Tor any
breed OF straiR-hens that have the
Law bred into them so well that they
can be depended upon to do the most
S-,1orfant thing for which a hen was
created-lay eggs. lots OF them, the