Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-09-29

Of the progress made for this years
exhibition.
The United States Department Of
/ Agriculture has appropriated $4,000
for the extension and publicity OF the
poultry industry.
Local exhibitors had some fine speci-
mems on display at the Trenton Fair
this week. Every Delaware bird shown
is an ad for the Diamond state.
Aaron Rice. former police sergeant,
who Is living at Rosele, has a flock Of
nineteen chickens which have been
producing iS eggs daily for some time.
J. d. Carville, the well known breed
or OF Houdans. Of Belefontc, has taken
up his residence I'm Pennsylvania. j.
Wilson Greenfield. of Boselle, has
number Of these Ioudans for sale
That poultry pays was proven by
series OF tests at the Missouri College
Of Agriculture recently when ten White
Leghorn pullets produced eggs at
feed cost OF less than "A cents per
Nember and began TO lay I'm January.
At the end of seven months, May 81,
the flock had produced 7i9 eggs. At 80
cents a dozen for the eggs they thus
returned a labor income of Si.2 each.
The house was made OF packing
boxes. Exclusive Of the packing boxes
the cost Of the house was 1888. No
yard was provided. The hens were
confined To the house, which was five
and one-half feet square, five feet high
In front and three and one-half feet in
the back, during the entire period.
The hen that lays one egg a week
for a year pays for its keep and each
additional egg is profit.
Herbert Thornett, OF Marshalton.
who has specialized in Rhode Island
Reds for years, is planning to show q
number OF birds at the winter show
here in November.
Cash prizes, instead Of cups, will at
tract breeders TO show here this year.
Poultry breeding, theoretical and
practical as an outlet for feminine ac-
tivlty has been an established fact for
sometime but not all women who en-
ter the field come out winners In
many cases farmers wlEcs who start
keeping a few hens on The farm con-
slider them a makeshift, something TO
consume waste from the kitchen or
truck house which is too good for the
hogs in the pggery To these women,
a few eggs now and then with chirk-
en- for the sunday meal rep0ys them
for their troubles.
To the business women on the farm
however, the chicken industry is the
chief asset OF the place and among
those OF this class in this portion Of
I the State, is Mrs. George A. Wolf OF
Long Acre Farm, at Talleyvlle.
Fowls. bred by Mrs Wolf entered in
the Tri-State Fair at Trenton, n. j..
this week have won more than pass
ing notice, one bird a pullet winning
in one Of the largest classes Of Barred
Rocks in the history Of the Showdom,
not only for the best pullet, but spe-
clal honors for color, shape and the
Spratts Medal The first prize for pull
let mating pen was also won by the
Delaware breeder While winning
medals as show birds, the fowls on
the Wolf farm are egg producers and
it is because Of their egg producing
qualities that these fowls are noted.
Mrs. Wolf started in the poultry bust
ness five years ago next December with
i6 ordinary Plymouth Rocks, but the
second season new blood was instiled
by the purchase OF a thoroughbred
Barred Rock cock bird.
From this start Mrs. Wolf has bred
her fowls until she now has eight
pens and two big utility flOcks. The
last flocks consist Of eight males 10
every one hundred hens.
The egg record made by this strain
Of fowls is notable, the first year 5,7OS
eggs being laid by 20 hens.
In the second season. lois eggs
came from % hens, and this season.
the egg production so far has been
1850 out Of 40 hens with three
months and one week before the end
OF the season. Taking one month from
the year, August, for instance, which
is a particularly hard month due TO
brOOdy hens and those stealing nests.
one gets an idea OF the increase in egg
production in August, 1915, 620 eggs
were recorded, CAS- in August, 1916, and
in the same month 1917 the number
was 1923 from 80 hens with about 10
out brOOdy.
During the past season Mrs. Wolf
supplied a number OF setting eggs 10
the state Board Of Agriculture Of Penn
sylvania, when that body made plea
for setting eggs for farmers Of that
state, who desired to engage in the
poultry industry.