Evening star., 1915-02-21

mixture is:
Wheat middlings ......-....-..-.... 20 pounds
coTnLneal ~ pounos
Gluten meal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10 pounds
Iinseed meal ...................... 10 pounds
100 pounds
To this amount add five pounds of
granulated charcoal and three pounds
of coarse salt, mixing all thoroughly
and running 1t through a medium fine
sieve IL possible. Feed in ordinary dry
mash hoppers. This mash may also be
used to make wet mash If desired.
using enough boiling water to make
a crumbly mass. or wetting the dry
mixture with skim milk or buttermilk
II you have either.
Questlon-Will you kindly inform me
in your Sunday poultry column the
eggs. also the minimum weight per
dozen of select market eggs?
Answer-The average weight per
dozen of market eggs is about eighteen
ounces The minimum weight per
dozen of eggs to be graded as select
market eggs is twenty-four ounces.
Strictly fancy premium eggs. for the
best trade. will weigh from twenty
eight to thirty ounces per dozen. How
ever, the eggs from different. breeds
true of different strains of the same
breed. Ordinary market eggs, from
storage. often weigh as low as one
pound, sixteen ounces, per dozen, while
there are fiocks that produce extra
select eggs that will average straight
through, two pounds to the dozen.
Question - Traders here Fauquier
county. Va.-are paying IS to 20 cents
dozen for the best eggs. At present
prices of feed this price makes the
poultry business losing proposition.
Would it be possible for me to get
better prices by shipping eggs to
Washington? I could ship two cases
twice each week.
Answer-As the very best grade of
table eggs are selling in Washington
for 40-45 cents a dozen at dealers, you
should be able to get from 25 to 80
cents dozen for your eggs If you
shipped them direct here, after paying
expressage. and you might get even
more. provided the eggs are uniform.
strictly fresh and lnfertile. Why not
try selling them direct to consumers
by parcel post: You know, produce
same as by express An Inexpensive
advertisement in The Sunday Star or
The Evening Star should find plenty
of customers for you.
Question-Is it true, as many poultry
raisers declare. that there are distinct
show types of fowls and equally dis
tinct egg-laying types? Many success
full breeders. l am aware, assert that
heavy layers of any breed of poultry
are not good" enough to win in the
shows; while other breeders are just
as positive in declaring that hens that
come up to the American Standard of
Perfection lay as many eggs, with
proper attention to feeding, as hens
that would not be considered as hav-
ing a chance in the show rooms
Answer-This is a question that for
years has been the basis for acrimoni-
Gus dispute among poultry breeders.
Many men apparently qualified to be
bred for exhibition purposes are al
most always too finely bred to be of
much account as layers: while others
just as highly qualified are equally
positive on the other side. Experience
of proprietors of big egg farms would
quite to the American Standard of
Perfection are not. as a rule. very
heavy layers 1t is true, also. that
hens that have made high records in
egg-laying contests have never been
prize winners when judged on points.
Leghorns must have low. well spread
tails, small combs. long. somewhat mar
row, bodies. etc. while. as a matter of
fact, the heaviest laying Leghorn pull
lets and hens of which the writer
knows have been birds with rather
high, straight tails and large combs
hanging down so far as to obscure one
eve, although the body conformation
of these hens has invariably been long.
with plenty Of breadth between the
legs. II may easily happen that in
breeding for points the productiveness.
in eggs. of the hens may be lost sight
of; no breeder, no matter how closely
he attends to the details of his busi-
ness, can possibly keep an eye on every
feature of breeding. Without desiring
to start a controversy in this column,
however, the writer will state that the
single-comb white leghorns bred by
Tom Barron of England would never
capture even honorable mention in an