Milford chronicle., 1921-11-18
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from which eggs could be made with fee6
converting digestive tracts and organs.
Facts Developed
Two potent facts stands out promi-
nently in the tenth competition just clos
ed: First, the housing and feeding sys-
TENS employed developed the greatest
layer the world knows; second, the same
system of housing and feeding could not
produce more than nine eggs from the
geometically incapacitated bird, the low
est score made.
Another potential fact is prominent,
but not so seriously regarded by good
feeders for eggs; there is no such thing
as forcing a hen to eat beyond her ca
pacity to digest because, especially in
these competitions, the dry mash hop
pers are open all the time and the hens
feed at will, and because the whole
grain hoppers are opened a sufficient
time to allow the hen to fill her crop
for the nights digestion. No electric
lights are used to further enable the hen
to eat more grain late at night after her
afternoons consumption of grain has
been partially digested.
OF still less Importance is the matter
of mortality-not a bird with a score of
200 or more died-the weak, poor layers,
suffered the 100 per cent of mortality, or
12 per cent of the total flock died be-
cause they were inherently weak and
incapacitated.
1t behooves the American poultry men
and women to breed better birds; to
prove out strains more contests must be
operated in this country.
Other Competition Scores
For purpose of information all scores
of winning pens and individuals will be
published in these columns as soon as
they are available: Storrs College COM
petition, Storrs Conn, furnishes the fol-
lowing figures: High pen, ten birds,
White Wyandottes, 22S4 eggs; second
high, White Leghorns, 221S eggs; third
high, White Leghorns, 2097 eggs. High
individual, White Leghorn, 263 eggs; Sec
ond high individual, Rhode Island Red,
26O eggs. Average for the year. 1917
eggs.
One thousand birds competed at
Storrs, 500 Leghorns, 27O Reds, 14O Plym-
outh Rocks, so Wyandottes and 40 miscel-
laneous. Ten breeds and varieties were
entered at Storrs. In The North American
competitions fourteen breeds and varie-
ties were represented, rty-eight of the
100 pens entered were of the Mediterra-
mean class, Oregons, Anconas, Brown,
Black and White Leghorns, a total of
240 birds against field of 260 birds made
up of three Rock classes, two varieties of
Wyandottes, Reds, Sussex, Buff Orping-
tons and Jersey Black Giants. Entries
were made from England, Canada and
several American states in both Storrs
and the Delaware competitions.
Missouri, the two Jersey competitions;
Oregon, Kansas, Massachusetts, Long Is
land and Canada have not yet forwarded |
reports.
The wonderful educational value of !
egg-laying competitions to the agricul-
turist is almost MISUNDERSTANDING the !
mediocre farm hen from an average an
nual production ten years back of sixty
eggs to a commercial egg-producing
farm average yield of $50 and fair per-
centage of plants to nearly 200 eggs, is
a scientific phenomenon, and one that
has untold economic value.
Eleventh Competition Begins
The eleventh competition began on No
vember 1 at Milford, Del, the competi-
tion moving from Georgetown, sixteen
miles distance, to Milford, because the
district about the latter place is vastly
more concerned with poultry than
and is destined to become a
widely known poultry center. !
The ground occupied at the new loca- s
ion has never been used for poultry and =
las been under cultivation for years, is '
# sandy nature, highly porous and c
Ioes not retain moisture in excess of
atural requirements for crop purposes.
'or poultry culture and particularly for f
purposes conditions seem to t
e IDEAL The grounds are part Of the Il
ght of way of the du Pont boulevard f,