Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-17
POULTRY EXPERTS SAY
BETER BREEDING Is
BIG HELP TO LAYING
Exhibitors at the Show Discuss
Methods of Obtaining
More Eggs From
Fowls
HENS AVERAGE 10 A YEAR
poesible to Raise Number to 200,
Says H. D. Riley, President
Of Association

,orhs yearly egg product Of the United
s,stes is 100000.
nRstter breeding will double the out
put"
aim with these words on it hangs
IN front of the coop in which Lady Eg-
,antins. worlds champion egg layer is
h,,nr exhibited at the Poultry Show In
,hs Metropolitan Building, Broad and
wallace streets. In the opinion Of the
ss,cksn experts It tells a great funda-
r.n,al truth Of interest to every poultry
raiser.
Hsttsr breeding, the experts say. is tho
wsy 10 success. And from the figures
,hst some OF them give It appears that
a large proportion of farmers are not
sr.Ninx money from their egge, despite
ths high price that they bring in tho
market.
N raisers OF poultry would give moro
.ttsntion to breeding, II Is pointed out,
,bsre would be a tremendous reduction
In the number of cold storage eggs
vh,ch Mrs. Housekeeper is now forced to
huy. They assert however, that the in
crease in production would not lower tho
rrice to the consumer because of the
sreat demand for fresh eggs.
Coyernment figures show that the aver
age hen lays 20 eggs year According
10 Henry d. Riley. president of the Phil
sdeIphia Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock
Association, under the auspices of which
ths show Is being held n man loses
money unless his hens average $50 eggs
a year.
average production of hens to more than
10 a year. For that reason he regards
The work which has been carried on Mt
Eslsntine Farm so important.
Lady Byzantine is the product of heart
sreaking efforts to establish n strain OF
birds that would make our egg farm
profitable and that would acuuit them
selves creditably in contests with other
layers" asserts the Byzantine Farms cir
cular being distributed at the show. The
experts all agree that It is a hard, nrdu-
Gus task, requiring great patience ana
effort, to raise layers of this type. Lady
Byzantine is the product of an effort
stretched over many years of careful
mating OF tho best breeders year after
year
The Byzantine circular says:
"First Tho 2oo-egg hen is almost stand
ardized.
SECOND The 25o-egg hen can he pro-
duced in Increasing numbers and held
In necessary vigor as the years 60 by
Third. The S00-egg hen is a rara avis,
hDOut WuOS6 utNtlDpllltliL We
have yet to learn. But she can be pro-
duced-because she has been"
Lady Eglantine's record is 3l4 eggs in
E5 days.
ut Is possible to raise the average num-
Der of eggs.' said Mr.. Riley. TT Ia not
possible to raise hens that lay 3l4 eggs
q year now. because that's phenomenal.
But It is possible to raise hens that will
average $50 eggs, for without that pro-
aactlon egg raising does not pay. 1t Is
possible to do this on any farm, If you
20 to the trouble of developing pure
breeds and trapnestlng."
Trapnesting means to arrange the coops
% that when the hen mounts the nest 1t
Is not released until 1t lays an egg. If
this Is done a record of the hen Matched
from the egg Is kept by punching holes in
the foot of the bird as a means of iden-
tfeation and mating the best layers.
1T will be a big thing to the raiser
OF eggs II he can increase his product
but eggs will never get cheaper, because
the demand will never lessen. But it will
be possible for more people to get fresh
eggs then, and II will mean moro money
to the farmer
There is some egg laying going on
at the poultry show now. Each day
about 100 eggs are collected from the
hens entered In the show. Lady Eglan-
tine, however, Is not laying. She is moult-
Ing just now and will not lay for several
weeks, II is thought.
The possibility of increasing the egg
output Ia one of the pet topics of con-
versation. 1t was discussed again last
night at the meeting of the Order of the
Fleas. The Fleas is an association of
poultry men, and gets its name from the
frst letters of the words. friendship. love.
ecsnomy and assistance.
Following are the awards made today:
PIGEONS.
Blue DraEosn. 1915 Cock - First. W. n