Newark post., 1920-12-15
INELAND PAPER
FEATURES VISIT OF
SOLDIER STUDENTS
Tells of Poultry Wisdom
Imbibed at Fount of
Learning

can appears the following account
of the visit of a. delegation from
the Rehabilitation Unit at Della
ware College to Vineland which in
the terms used by the enterprising
reporter is "Wisdom's Font" with
regard both to chickens and
"chickens." The ingenious article
follows:
Ponce De Leon was a good old
sport,
He knew thing or two;
He chased his hunch to the foun-
tain head,
And sod id me and you.
Ponce was sure a wise old scout
He knew thing or two"
(From the "Blue and Gold,' the Dela-
ware College Student paper.)
"They came all the way up
from Delaware College, at New
ark, Del, twenty of them, count
'em twenty, to learn the secrets of
the golden hen from the extreme
fountain head as it gushed forth
in the peach groves and amidst
the bevies of pretty South Jersey
maidens.
They were part of the rehabili-
tation unit that are stationed at
Delaware College-ex-service men
who have seen such real and such
hard service as to- be partly dis
abled. They are studying useful
professions and the government
had sent them to Vineland to
study the inner intricacies of the
golden hen.
Like we'll behaved school boys
with pads and pencils, they sat at
the feet of President Whetsel, of
the Vineland Poultry Association
in session at the American Legion
rooms last night and listened to
the pearls of poultry wisdom as
they fell from his lips.
Secrets of the Temple
They were told many priceless
secrets; that the Vineland hen of
the utility type had become so
highly specialized as to be prac-
tically an egg machine; that to
accomplish this, the highest type
of skill and vigilance must be
practiced as we'll as business
methods adopted in the conduct
of the profession.
They were told that Vineland
Association eggs were the highest
priced on the New York market,
commanding an average of two
cents above the top quotations
That these eggs all bore the Vine
land label on the crate as we'll as
the name of the individual pro
ducer; that a crate of 'firsts'
should weigh Sc pounds and al,
under that grade as seconds"
Pullets' eggs are seconds" {
pullet will lay seconds for about
six weeks and then hops into the
front row. Chicken-pox is forced
out fhens by feeding sulphur
and EPSON salts is regular die
to keep the hen in good condition
the association buying it by tn,
ton.
Mash feeds are kept constant,
before laying hens. Charcoal
ground oyster shells, empty crate
are bought in car lots. Every file
egg crate going out bears tn
Vineland Associations copyright
ed label. They are all infertil'
the leghorns, that dominate, bein
pearl white. Most poultrymen no'
use artificial lighting. In a year @
so, all will practice it. Electri
lights are turned on at a a. n
and the hens are busy scratchin
while the owners are still snOo;
ing in the hay. Lights are graz
ually diminished and by April
the hens working day has bee
restored to normal. This actio
pushes the spring laying perio
two months ahead. You get egg
when eggs is eggs.' The pra'
tice inclines to make hens brood
and one authority says that afte
two years they are unfit ft
brooders.
This and much more was tol
bv President Whetsel and his a
sociates to the men of Argonr
Forest and ST. Milhiel before the