Milford chronicle., 1921-11-18
HEN LAYING 343 EGGS
In 10TH N. A. CONTEST
MAKES A new RECORD
AMERICAN BARRED ROCKS WIN HIGH
PEN HONOR WITH SCORE OF ll4l.
BY F. v. L. TURNER
Secretary North American Egg Laying
Competitions

Secretary North American Egg Laying
Competitions
Monday night, October 81, ended the
greatest of all egg-laying competitions
in the world, establishing a new cham
pion and proving beyond doubt that the
science of mating and feeding will ulti-
mately bring about the egg-every- -day
hen. At sunset on Monday Lady Egg-A-
Day, a buff Orphington, became the
worlds champion layer, yielding, in the
365 days of the Tenth Philadelphia North
American Egg Laying Competition at
Georgetown, Delaware, S4S eggs, four
eggs more than any hen ever laid in any
authenticated egg-laying competition IN
any country, the deposed champion, an
Australian Black Orpington, laying last
year 339 eggs.
This output of eggs under exactly the
same conditions of housing and feeding
as obtained with the 500 birds entered IN
the competition proves that mating of Sc
lected birds will produce progeny that
inherit prenatal characteristics and that
continued genetic selection will ultimate
ly and within a few generations of hen
life, a few years. bring into being high
" fecund flock, very greatly more profit
able and of increased stamina. No figures
from other American competitions are
vet available but it is safe to state that
the early fall molt from which this coun-
try suffered this year has cut down the
number of birds that reached 300 eggs.
This competition had two birds over SOO'
second high bird recording the splendid
score of S13 eggs, an American bred and
owned Barred Plymouth Rock, member
of the winning pen.
Enqlishman Entered Winner
Lady Egg-A-Day was raised by JOS
eph Thomas Garstang, Lancashire, Eng
land, was shipped, with four team mates'
to this country in October, 1920, to COM
pete with 495 other birds for the purpose
of demonstrating the effects of breeding
or mating, for egg production.
In the early spring when she began
scoring weekly in the unmistakable man
ner that indicates exceptionally heavy
production, negotiations for her pur-
chase began and she was bought by l.
Brooks Clarke, the owner of Egg -A-Day
Farm, Meriden, Conn.,, a longtime breed
er of Buff Orpingtons. Her entrance in
to an American breeding pen may mean
a great deal to the future of American
utility Buff Orpingtons. All of the Or
pington are highly esteemed in the land
of their origin, England, both for meat
and eggs-the performance of the black
variety in Australia 3S9 eggs, and of the
buff variety in this country 343 eggs,
warrants the esteem in which the Eng
lishman holds his favorite fowl and is
justification for the introduction of high
ly fecund blood lines into the breeding
yards of this country.
England Gables for Scores
While the bird was no longer the prop
erty of Mr.. Thomas his interest in her
never Jagged throughout the
year and he wound up his
inquiries as to her performance on the
last day with a cablegram as follows;
."Tl1rner North American Phila., oblige
with total bird 4 Thomas" The reply to
his cable afforded as much pleasure to
he competition management as to Mr..
Thomas and the North American in toto
,ongratulates the winner and highly COM
nands the attendants and all of those
onnected with the competition for secur-
ng to America and this newspaper the
reatest egg record ever made by hen. ]
Summarized, the 100 pens were divided {
oto the following sections as to pro- {
uctivity: One pen over HOO eggs' two a
ems over 1000 eggs, twelve pens over