davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newark post., 1915-09-01

with the North American" sounded
interesting. Not that we cared
who he was, so long as he was
success-but it is interesting to
trace success. 1t sometimes
gives us a cue how to put it
across ourselves. Pollard's his
tory fills the bill for a good story,
Born in Massachusetts is his first
claim for recognition, and his Ca
reer backs up the claim. After
attending public schools, we find
him at Is at Massachusetts, Col
lege of Pharmacy. His work here
brought an invitation from the U,
S. Government to go to the Philip
pines to take charge of the Phar-
maceutical Department at Manila
He refused and took the second
honor of being the youngest reg
istered pharmacist in Massachu
sets.
An interesting thing in Mr.. Pol
Newark post., 1915-09-01
A Story Of The Egg-Laying Competition

to pay their board, for the poor
layer is generally poorly fed and
the good layer, we'll fed and
housed, is a money maker, more
so than her sister in economics,
the cow.
The cow testers association tells
us that fifty per cent of all the
cows in this country do not earn,
in milk output, enough to pay
their feed bills; add to this so per
cent a few more per cents for
those that just pay their board
and some more per cents for
those that pay their board only,
not labor bills, and so on through
the whole scale of profit and
loss and only a few per cents re-
main which show a net gain!
Had the same attention, expert
ment, research and money been
devoted to the culture of the hen
that has been given to cows the
world would stand aghast at the
enormous income from the most
generally used of all the items in
our economic scheme.
In all of the world there is not
a country so we'll and favorably
adapted to the rearing Of poultry
Newark post., 1915-09-01

total of S1.12 1-2.
Deduct the 40 cents for corn
and then deduct another 40 cents
for anything you like and her net
income is 80 1-2 cents against
some loss on COW that has ceased
to be either useful or ornamental.
The investment for housing ter
losing cows is considerably more
than housing 100 profitable hens
and the labor item, comparatively
becomes huge joke.
Missouri evidently demanded
that he cow and the hen must
"Show Me" and chose the hen!
Small wonder.
Taken by and large, at any angle
the COW has a slim chance to make
money against the hen, and it is
safe to assert that there are more
eaters of eggs by millions than
there are drinkers of milk.
This leads us to propose an in
teresting experiment. We would
suggest that the expense of build
ings, upkeep, care, inventory OF
stock, be kept on cows, hogs,
horses-a plan which will show
the profits. Then compare this
with the poultry department and
Newark post., 1915-09-01
The Poultry Plant At Delaware College Experiment arm
And The Men Behind 1t.

lowing dav. workmen at the plahV
make the rounds gathering the
eogs and releasing the hens, every
hour during the day. Every men 10
banded with a ring upon which IS
marked her individual number ana
her pen number. These NUMBERS
are marked upon the eggs, anu
every day an entry of the eggs lalo
the previous day is made. Ihe ell
tire plant is an experiment con-
Quoted in the most scientific man
er. Because of this, records even
to the most minute detail, are kept
Six hundred pages of entries are
made in a single week. AS a re-
suit the superintendent can give
at a seconds notice, the record Oh
every single. bird and of every pen'
az we'll as the exact cost of feeding
anv bird for year. A purely
commercial plant of the same SIZE
could be successfully operated py
one man.
The Philadelphia North Amerl-
can international Egg Laying COM
petitions were instituted as a
means of establishing a standard
for poultry fanciers throughout
the world. What the competitions
Newark post., 1915-09-01
The Chicken On The Farm

The Chicken On The Farm
Chickens are always an inter-
esting subject. Whether OF the
Boardwalk type or the plain barn
ward fowl, you can almost always
start an argument on their points
and merits. At Grange meetings
and Farmers Institutes, when IN
terest in COWS, hogs, alfalfa, lags'
the chairman usually brings up
the Poultry Man. Without excep-
tion, he starts something. Every
bodv-man, woman, and child, IS
interested, and has ideas on poul-
try raising. The cow or hog en-.
thusiast may disdain to talk OF
such insignificant things as ven.
tilation for poultry. He boasts OF
cows, stanchions, silos, and the
like. He's too big to consider
chickens. They are a nuisance
anyway. He loafs around the
creamery, losing valuable time,
little realizing that his 2-quart
cow with her silos and attention
is a profit-eating business, financ-
ed bv the wife's poultry money.
The poultry money buys the stuff
ed furniture for the parlor, pays
the insurance, fixes the roof ana
ALWAYS buys the wedding dress
for Mary. Too often, it helps
nav for the moving machine or
buys the new buggy.
So that's the reason Tor thls
story. The Poultry Department
at he College Farm, under the
n,anaqement of the North Amer
lean and the college authorities,
is of vital interest to every farm
or in the State. The Dairy has lts
advocates. The pigs have attrac-
tions to the pork-raiser; the
neaches and grain experiments
their students. All the Depart
ments are serving the State ana
increasing her wealth. But the
noultrv touches every farm. "A
delaware farm without chickens
roosting in the carriage house
we'll it's not a farm. A nuisance,
nerhaps. the way it is managed
hu+ sure necessary evil Poul-
trv keeping under Pollard's ldea
ceases to be nuisance even to
the dairy and becomes real ous-
mess. 4 comparatively small out
Law of capital will build an up-to,
date plant and put the barn END OF
the farm to shame. This poultry
danartr1ent has not been present
cd in it's full value to our farm
ers. Newspapers have tailed te
Give it due publicity. This uI
then is given to the farmers
there are more money Suggestions
here at the farm than they realize
It is far cry from 70 eggs
wear, the average of the American
hen. to 2S6 eggs in the same perlo'
of time!
When the Augustinian monk
Gregor Mendell, in the clolstere'
seclusion of his institution a
Briin, found the laws of heredlt'
in nature, little did he think tina
his discovery would not onl,
change the sweet peas color
height of vine, etc, but would de
termine the egg laying capaol.l1'
of the hen, would transform ne
from an indolent boarder iron
earlv summer to the folloWln!
snring when she lays only enougl
eggs to reproduce her kind into
Newark post., 1915-09-01

constant producer for nearly three
hundred out of the three hundred
and sixty-five days that make up
her pullet or novitiate year OF re-
productive effort.
And egg laying competitions have
brought about the facts govern
ing the possibilities in this direc-
ton.
The men who originated these
competitions, who linked them
with institutions without previous
regulations in poultry research
work, have done just what our
state and federal governments
have failed to do to further an in
Newark post., 1915-09-01

at prOht as is Che UnlteQ otateS.
In the East, that portion of it lying
along the Atlantic Coast north Of
Cape Charles, offers exceptional
markets for poultry products and
the state of Delaware is specially
favored with soil and climate for
10 wcost of production and access
to good markers.
With the nucleus of the present
egg laying competition staged on
the grounds Of the Delaware Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, the
industry should be fostered by the
State to the fullest extent.
Thousands of visitors will come
to Newark to view the plant and
it's operation; the opportunity to
induce intelligent poultrymen 70
locate in Delaware is greater than
can be imagined at first blush.
Now that the work has been
successfully started, and is weekly
advertised without cost by the
North American, a quick readjust-
ment of the station work should be
made that all advantages may ac-
crue to the State of Delaware and
its people while the time is ripe.
No such opportunities as are
now available can again be Sc
cured at so little cost, nor can suf-
ficient support to a duplication of
the present splendid competition
be secured except by overcoming
the prestige the North American
enjoys in creating these annual
egg laying contests and it is only
fair that proper credit should GO
to that paper for it's highly laud-
able effort to better conditions in
poultry culture.
For successful effort toward i'm
provement, Missouri stands head
and shoulders above any other
state in the union, not, possibly, in
actual money expended but in
bringing about conditions which
are monumental to the wisdom OF
those who hold the interest of the
poultry industry paramount tC
lines of domestic economics which
do not offer the same return ir
dollars.
An association of 5000 poultry
men have secured for Missouri {
State Poultry Experiment Station
have brought up through instruc
tion therefrom their poultry to ;
point where it overcomes competi
tion in domestic and foreign mar
kets and enjoys the fruits of thei
efforts in bettered home condition
and added conveniences to life
existence.
If the average cow owner aver
ages 2 quarts of milk from eacl
cow per day with a market price o
, 2 l2 cents per quart, his cow
, product is 5 cents per day. He
board cannot possibly be paid fo
with that overwhelming amount o
: money, whereas, the farm hen tina
eats 40 cents worth of corn in
year is a lucky animal, yet her 7
, eggs per year will bring an ave,
| age of 19 cents per dozen, or
Newark post., 1915-09-01

have already accomplished for the
poultry industry is forcibly illus
trated in the figures for the va
rious years. Durings the first
year the hens averaged 154; the
second, 1876; the third, ITO eggs.
The birds entered in the present
competition include fourteen diff
ferent breeds, a number of which
have been shipped from England,
Pennsylvania, New York, Connec-
ticut, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey.
Among local entrants are the Dia-
mond Egg and Poultry Farm, Will
mington, Oliver A. Newton,
Bridgeville, and James Spiers of
the College Farm. Each entrant
upon the shipment of six birds,
pays an entrance fee of $1,000.
Five birds are placed in the own
er's pen, and one goes to a general
reserve pen. At the end of the
second year of the competition the
North American, after paying all
expenses of the plant was able to
r.turn twelve dollars to each en-
trant.
Various prizes are offered by
the large incubator companies of
the country. A fifty dollar cup is
also offered by the North Ameri-
can for the highest monthly re-
cords, these prizes going in May,
June, July and August to E. M.
Ballard of Chestnut Hill, Pa.
1t seems highly probable that
the Egg Laying Competition,
which came to the oCllege Farm
for period of three years, will
make the present location a per-
manent one. In connection with
the plant is a special house stocked
with birds owned by the farm.
This is no doubt the beginning of
poultry department at Delaware
which previous to this time has
been the only agricultural college
IN the country without such a de-
partment,-a department which at
Cornell, Connecticut, Michigan,
and Wisconsin, is the most popu-
lar IN the agricultural college. AT
Delaware this branch of agricult-
ural work promises to work in
well with the Home Economics
department of the Women's Col.
lege.
The following make up the staff
directing the work of the present
competition: H. Hayward, super
visor; Prof. F. H. Stoneburn
chairman; Prof. F. V. L. Turner
secretary; Geo. McDavitt, A. NJ
Pollard. superintendent.
Newark post., 1915-09-01
Pollard-Delaware's
Poultry Man

whenever you start to investi-
gate an institution, a factory
church, college or farm, get a line
on the man back of it. That will
set you on the right track. Emer-
son wasn't far wrong when he
salo An institution is the length
ened shadow of one man" Sc ~
lacking this Poultry Plant we
looked up Pollard. Associated
Newark post., 1915-09-01

over ten times the income tax on
all of the created wealth of this
country, outside of the wage OF
laborcrs, mechanics, and clerks,
next in value to corn and cotton
and greater than all the gold and
silver mined in the world every
twelve months.
It is we'll to remark that the
farm hens annual average (the
loose flock of fowls on the ordi-
nary farm is brought up to seven
ty eggs through the egg farmer
who secures an average output OF
from &c to 140 eggs from each of
his well-bred and wellcared-for
layers.
If an egg laying competition can
so educate the egg producer and
average farmer to the extent that
he can make each hen i'll these
United States lay just one more
egg III year, another million OF
dollars is piled up to the hens
credit. Make the average an even
hundred (and that figure is rapid
ly being approached through the
incentive of egg contests) and the
increase of S30,000,000 therefrom
give US an equal of 33 1-2 per cent
of our income tax.
Egg laying contests began years
ago n Australia, New Zealand fol-
lowing the lead the next year,
England taking them up several
years later and America came last.
The first Egg Laying Competi-
tion held in America was staged at
Storrs College, Connecticut, at the
suggestion of men associated with
the North American Poultry De-
partment.
North American staff.
A number of active and widely
known poultrymen were formed
into an executive committee and
laid down rules and regulations
under which the competitions
were to be operated, prescribing
feed formulas, housing, etc.
Mr.. A. M. Pollard, Professor
Stoneburn's assistant at Storrs,
was made active superintendent
and has occupied that position
throughout all of the succeeding
competitions.
The first and second competi-
tions were conducted on the
grounds of Storrs Agricultural
Experiment Station and that sta
tion has become known through.
out the world in consequence.
The value of these competitions
to Storrs Agricultural Experiment
Station and Connecticut College
is incalculable; the effect on thu
poultry industry is greater than il
! fifty years previous to the ad
vent of egg laying competitions.
By comparison the advance
made in poultry breeding for egg
has been, in four years, more de
cidedly marked than all of the eff
forts made in the past thirt.
years in the Improvement OF hogs
sheep, horses and dairy cows.
Rare, no matter how low tn
: WELD of eggs, is it that hens fai
Newark post., 1915-09-01

see how the old American hen
comes across. Talk about the
Irishman's pig as mortgage rails
er. It's not so in Delaware-the
hen and eggs do the trick with
only half a show.
Newark post., 1915-09-01

dustry with value for its pro-
ducts of 1,OOO,00O,O00 per annum.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05
KANSAS

FOR SALE house OF seven rooms
400 foot lot, good barn. fine lawn
of blue grass, deep well on porcn.
RWo porches, bearing fruit ana shauo
trees; east front, two large cioSess'
hard pine floors. Terms easy. A. n.
Connect, Great Bend, Kan. So-lVt
SALE OR TRADE, half section
miles from Abilene, Kan. Two seu
wood improvements. 230 cultivation,
SaIance pasture, 1870 creek bottom
al tillable except acres mo wasn
land, hard pan, gumbo or overIi0w.
Good neighborhood. Price thirty tive
thousand. Take good quarter In
trade. Will sell either quarter TOT
sash. Must be seen to be appreciat-
Cd. II interested write j. Dever.
Clay Center, Kan. So-iot
KANSAS FARMS. Along the new
nine OF the Santa Fe In southwest-
arm Kansas, the fastest DEVELOPING
district In America today. VIZ 70
sac on easy terms. Information
Erices and maps yours for the ask
Ing. r. M. Luther & Sons, Cimar-
rom. Kan. Local agents for Santa re
Land improvement Co. SF-lOt
GARDEN CITY ALFALFA LAND
~ own and offer for salo 76O
acres shallow water lands, i 10
miles east Garden City, Kan. Most
Ali in alfalfa now. Prices $50 to
$3.50 per acre, any size tracts. Id
cash. balance in 10 annual pay
ments. B. L. Hart, Owner, Kansas
City, Mo-, Commerce Bldg. 42-lOt
BOTTOM FARMS Corn, wheat
oats and alfalfa never fail on sum
ner county bottom farms. NO rocK'
mo overflow. Prices lower than COM
mon upland in other parts of Kan
mas. Be sure and write US Tor par
ticulars before you buy. Membrow
II williams, Caldwell, Kan. 42-lOt
$40 ACRES - Half cultivated.
$4,000; improvements; price $ZO
acre. Farms and ranches up 10
$4,000 acres. For best bargains In
Kansas, write, telling what you
want, to ]. A. Denslow. Meade, Kan
~ no Il now. 42-10t
FARM BARGAIN NEAR LIBER-
NJ: Improved quarter wheat land
IA miles west of town. Well I'M
proved; 100 acres ready for fall
wheat. Price $1,000. Write for
list. Land-Thayer Co., Liberal
Kans 4410tw
$40 ACRES BARBER co. S12h
Acre. 22O acres bottom farm land;
MO cultivated; 100 acres Alfalfa
land; miles to storet; maiitroute:
ali fenced; some improvement; ~
miles to r. r. p. 0. Box I'll,
Sharon, Kans. 6wSt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05
PROPER FENCING FOR SHEEP
Always Looms Up 40 Serious Problem
to Those Interested In Keeping
Few Of the Animals.

To those interested in getting few
sheep ON the farm the fencing prob
lem always looms up as most serious
diflculty. It does not require a heavy
fence to hold gheep. Barbed wire,
however, is most unsatisfactory fenc-
ing for sheep.
The best kind Of fence d. one made
Of woven wire FROM eeto - anches In
height, having from i've 70 uine hosa-
Sontal wiressand from 10 10 20 stays
or vertical wires to the rod. rN,
ANY woven fence coming inside
these limits II put ON to good pests
from IA to 10 feet apart viii make .
satisfactory fence for turning shss1.
With a S0-Inch woven wire It is IL
ways desirable to place at least one
barbed wire on top.
When building fence to turn sheep
It might Just ~ well be 90 construct
ed as to turn all clauses Of farm AMI
mails.
/ Where It il desired to feuce against
hogs it win be. necessary to haye .
barbed wire next to the ground &c veil
and . somewhat closer mesh and
heavier wire must be used.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05

(By GEORGE II. 0LONEn, No"io~
Experiment station.)
There is a disease among cattle.
seen mostly In the summer. Affecting
the eyes and causing many OF them
TO 20 blind. This is an infectious
sore eyes, and by cattlemen on the
range is spoken Of as pink eye OF
cattle.
This disease IL undoubtedly infec-
tlous and spreads from one animal 70
another, probably through the medium
of dies. The disease runs Its course
in an animal In from one to two weeks
and may result in total blindness
though usually the sight is not Inn
paired. Only one eye may be affected.
The frst symptoms Ia a profuse now
of tears. Soon the eye becomes very
sensitive to light and Is kept con-
staDtly closed. The eyeball becomes
cIouded and gives the appearance Of
Q film over the eye.
Animals affected with this disease
should be confined in o comfortable
stall with the light excluded and given
laxative. nourishing food.
A simple treatment consists OF
bathing the eyes with strong solu-
ton of boric acid. or perhaps what
will be still better, q few drops Of the
following mixture may be placed In
the eyes with a dropper several times
a day: Add half g grain of zinc sui
Dhate and ten grams Of boric acid to
Al, ounce OF distilled water.
The animal should be protected
from the flies, as they greatly increase
the irritation to the eyes and probably
spread the infection to other animals.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05
NEW MEXICO

NO FLOODS, droughts, cyclones,
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the Artesia district of the PecOs
Valley of New Mexico -, climate ideal
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prosper here growing fruit, live
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come let us show you this beauti-
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Artesia, N. NJ. 6w1Ot
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05
SHROPSHIRE IS BEST SHEEP
New York Breeder 10 Very Careful to
see That Ewes and Lambs Get
Plenty Of Exercise.

/ consider the Shropshire the best
utility breed among sheep. AS a pro-
Queer Of wool and mutton both Of the
best quality are secured. l became
interested as early as 1880, having
at that time some Shropshire grades
writes Arthur s. Davis Of Orange
county, New York, in Orange Judd
Farmer. One Of my ewes weighs SOO
pounds, and in four years has sheared
COZ pounds wool. My yearling rams
run from ITO to 200 pounds.
It is my rule to change the sire 70
prevent inbreeding once every two
years. My method Of breeding for
show does not differ from that for
any other purpose. 1 give them
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05

plenty to eat, like oats, clover hay
and clover pasture. in season. ! am
very careful to see that the lambs
and ewes take lots Of exercise, and
do not care for shelter except from
winds and storms.
My chief difficulty has been with
stomach worms. l am now using to-
bacco dust with a salt, which gives
good results. 1t Is advisable not to
keep them on old pastures too long
at o time.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05
FAsTIAAND DEAD LIST
os1, ELECTRIC co. SAYS

Chicago, Aug. Anime hundred
and eiShty-onea persons lost their
lives in the steamer Eastland disas-
ter. according to final figures Civ
en- out today by the Western Elec-
tr,c company, which completed the
checking Of It's employees and friends
who boarded the vessel. The iden-
,,f,ad dead are sss; unidentified
aead two, and the Western Electric
company's verified and final list Of
missing Is 141.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05

London, Aug. I'm the eastern
sector Of the Lublin region, wherA
for days, the fighting has been ex-
tremely violent, several additional
points have been evacuated by the
Russians, according to Berlin. and
they are declared to be in retreat
on both banks Of the Bug and on the
front between the Bug and south
OF Leczna. The Teutons have pass
ed through Chelm on the heels Of
tie Russians.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-05

brown in butter; remove from the pan
and fry a sliced onion. then add three
tablespoonfuls Of grated cocoanut tine
dry may be used II soaked in milk for
an hour), q teaspoonful of curry pow
der. one teaspoonful Of chutney.
half cupful of milk or stock. tea
spoonful OF salt, then add the chicken
and simmer 40 minutes. Add q table
spoonful of lemon Juice and serve with
plain boiled rice.
There are any number Of confec-
'tions that are delicious made with CO.
coanut, as we'll as cake filings ana
buildings. A custard pie sprinkled
with q generous handful Of cocoanut
IL we'll liked.
Cocoanut added to salmon salad
Is perhaps q little unusual, but Is
really most tasty.
Benares saIad.-Take two cupfuls
Of grated cccoanut, pint OF chopped
apple, a tablespoonful Of chopped red
pepper, one Of green and teaspoonful
of grated onion, seasoned well with
salt and a dash of cayenne, II the red
pepper is sweet. is a very good salad.
cocoanut cookIes.-Take a cupful
of cocoanut, a cupful Of currants. two
cupfuls of brown sugar, half cupful
of butter, one-half cupful Of lard. one
cupful Of raisins, teaspoonful OF Dak'
ing soda, a half teaspoonful OF salt
two cupfuls Of -four, two well beaten
eggs and half cupful Of warm water
a teaspoonful OF vanilla. Mix all to-
gether and let stand overnight. In the
morning roll very thin, add more Hour.
IL needed, but II well chilled they Will
roll and cut when very soft.
Cocoanut added to whipped cream
as a filling for cake is most delicious.
Grated cocoanut sprinkled over
sugared slices Of oranges is q pleasant
dessert.
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