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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH The Cream of the Tobacco Crop f 4 , famous Scotch Comedian zAzsrzmPY GFzm'zzwoK' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Of all set critters, beast or men, commend me to the settin' hen. Without a whine, without a sob, she patiently sticks to her Job; nor ma nor pa nor all the rest can coax her from her chosen nest. The world needs humans of such Kind, whose work Is ever on their mind; who will not shirk and will not run until their duty's fully done. We wish the Lord would give us men with backbones like the settin' hen. Anon. Y ve smoked time Y ve been active in my work which unknown poet immortalized the settin Ron, and now if some other hard will come forward to state "I sing the lien, the layin hen, who makes a layin- - record, then, if another comes along to rob her of the prize, gets on the Job, hies to her nest on speeding legs W and lays unother hundred eggs, tiie really Important role In a hen's life will be fittingly Inimortulizod. For Ingenious man with the Incubator has provided an adequate substitute for the settin lien, but so far. the only, ricul to the lien as a. Just as good" "egg .producer is another ben ! More than tliai, her ability bus with-- . In 'the lust two years become news big news In the summer of 192(5 one of the leading metropolitan newspapers lu the Fast carried the following story under the t(fp bendline of "CHAMPION IIHN STIRS MISSISSIPPI A UFA Arkansas Leghorn's Faying Is Mailed us Marking a New Fra In Poultry Industry." demands a clear voice for singing and good wind for It's always a bra bricht dancing. St. Fouls. A hen that laid an egg a day for HD days, political campaigns In which gubernatorial candidates ar to ba nominated, flood rehabilitation, a unique highway problem which required federal Intervention to determine what should be done with an ancient wood approach to a bridge, he crash of the dream school of a World war hero and the legality of a city xonlng law, are a few of the varied affairs that are engaging public Interest these days In that stretch of territory that lies between St. I.ouls and New Orleans along with Luckies Hoot, . asm. In making her record, Lady Llndy took the honors from a Missouri hen owned by Homer Collin g of Ozark, Mo,, which In competing In an marathon In 1925, at Mountain Grove, Mo., set the mark at 141 In as mauV consecutive days. The d result has been considerable editorial banter, which, however, had a serious element, It being ,'ointed out thatM.ndy Llnilys exploit Is significant of the vast strides that have been made egg-layin- Photograph of "Lady Llndy courtesy W. R. Curry; of Lady Oregon State," Oregon State college, and of Lady Ameo of Norfolk," Norfolk Chamber of Commerce. the poultry Industry In these parts during the past few yenrs. especially Interesting Is the. fact that both the old and the new records were made by fowls In the Ozark mountain region, which only recently realized that Its economic futur.d lies In the development of Its resources along poultry and dairy lines. In jL.7l.UUrZ)RS, CWVgRAM) jBRggafiR, , with proteins, and when her owner deemed it time to discourage her lie gradually (hanged tier diet "to feed containing carbohydrates. tIIer feed, like that of all the hens In the contest, was made up of meat scrajw wheat Jlour middlings, finely ground oats, cjru meal, wheat standard middlings, wheat standard brand and salt. When Lady Norfolk entered the contest r she weighed four and pounds; after laying her last egg she weighed a little less, than .four pounds. Mr. Landers is a graduate from the University of Nebraska, hut did not specialize In poultry husbandry while at that Institution. He attended the university three years and took a course in business adminls'triition. After he left school ho had no capital, hut he had plenty of intelligence. ' Initiative and energy and these things he capitalized. Hacked by his father-in-law- , a successful surgeon of Norfolk, he started cliickeimriTinTg three years ngo with eighteen pullets and $S0. .Now he "Ira's 2,500 chickens and one of the most updo-datchicken farms In t he Middle West. Iuring the year his champion hen consumed, less than $2 worth of feed hut produced close to. $10 worth of eggs. She was an Incubator chicken, and came frjmi a 507 lien, which means tha: her mot tier laid 507 eggs in a year. That moth ' er In turn came from a 275 hen. On the basis of present offers and estimates. , the Leghorn progeny will be worth in a vldual showing of the new champion Is that tlis entiro flock averaged 61 per cent production for the year and from the flock there were five bens exceeding the 300 mark. When It Is remembered that 50 per cent production Is considered unusually good for commercial flocks and that the average la far below that figure, the accomplishment of the hens is better appreciated. Leading breeders in this "country and even tn Hawaii have been quick to recognize the value of these strains and already the majority of the flock of 200, have been sold. However, the 12 best birds have been kept to continue the work next year. The Oregon station took the lead In poultry breeding soon after the arrival of President Kerr In 1907, when he brought James Dryden from Utah to organize the poultry department here. At that time there was not a commercial poultry farm in the state, nor was there a trapnest, so far as known, as it had never been proved that high-layicharacteristics- are inherited. Oregon was then an Importing state as to eggs and poultry. In 1922 Professor Dryden gave up his work at the college to go into the poultry business commercially and to devote more time to writing. His place here was taken by A. G. Luhn, who had received his training under him. About this time the station flocks prod.uced another record breaker In a hen known as later christened Lady Dryden. This hen laid 324 eggs In her first year, which was at that time a national leeord for all breeds and missed being a .worlds record only by one egg, as a Canadian hen of the same strain had completed a record ot 325 about the same time. The selective breeding has continued ever since, lately under the immediate supervision of F.' L. Knowlton of the experiment station staff. A year ago a flock similar to the one which has Just completed Its record produced above 60 per cent and had one Individual making a new national breed record at 325. jear $S,250. was to be expected publication of Lady forth new claimants lo her title. From Vancouver, British Columbia, came the statement that at the Agassiz contest In- that White Leghorn hen province In 1925-2No. 0, tired and owned by the University ol British Columbia, laid for 215 consecutive days and made a new official worlds record for total egg production by lajing 552 eggs in 52 weeks. From Canon City. Colo., came the news tlin' Lady Skyline, a White Leghorn hen, owned bj .the Goris Brothers Poultry farm, had hung up a record of 2.55 eggs In 235 consecutive days, ami from Scotland came tiie news tlmt in a national contest lu that, country a light Susses hen had made un official record of 279 eggs in Tis many'-days. Then In October, 1927. Oregon came forward with tiie statement that such records might he good enough for. the liglitei but If you wanted real breeds. layers, look to tiie heavier breeds, iiotably the Barred Rocks. For Lady Oregon State, bred nml owned by the Oregon Agricultural college at Cor valiis, had set a new murk of 555 eggs In as many days. Tiie news story from Corvallis tell ing of tills feat follows; As Norfolks record brought days from February 15 to July FJ (Inclusive) 1920. On November 1, 192G, t lie National Kgu Layers association started its nnnual contest lit Omaha with 255 pullets, representing 52 states entered. The contests run a year, but that one ended October IS, 1027, when Lady Ameo ot Norfolk, n White Leghorn pullet, bred and owned by A. It. Landers of Norfolk, Neb., laid her one hundred seventy-thiregg In ns ninny oonsecu ttve days. Then she missed a day, but her ownet and otlieials conducting the contest were just as well satisfied because the strain was" com tneiiclng to tell on her physical appearance. She had done enough not only broken Lady I.indy8 American record of M9 eggs, but also the official worlds record of 105 eggs field for some years by an Australian ben but she hail also elevated herself from the standing of being just an ordinary White Leghorn hen, worth $2 at the most, to the proud position of a etftfmplorrfor whom her owner refused offers ranging from .500 to $5,000. Although the contest started November 1, 1020, It was not until April 29 that Lady Ameo of Norfolk began her feat. I.efure that time she would lay for a period of from 5 to 20 days consecutively, then would skip. P.ut on April 29 she settled down to bus! ness and kept at It throughout the spring and summer. In the meantime she became something of a national figure. When she laid her 151st egg thus breaking Lady LIndys record, press ns the a dispatch carried soclations hailing new champion and later one of the eggs of the champion was sent to President Cooltdge by air mail. A short time before Lady Ameo of Norfolk established the new record of 175 eggs I.abe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the world's champion New York Yanks visited Omaha with their barnstorming teams. I.abe Ruth was Intro duced to Lady Ameo and the two champions were photographed together. This Incident led to news an amusing mistake, for In stories Lady Ameo was called Babe Ruth," so that she Is now variotisy known as P.abe Ruth, Lady Ameo and Lady Norfolk. The champion hen was stimulated to egg pro duclng by a special food. It wej heuvily laden . egg-layin- d long-distanc- e Democracy tn education where the most oh scure have equal opportunity of achieving sue la a matter of considerable pride .as exist Institutions of learning Ing In many of Including this one. Anyone bent on carrying tin theory to Its ultimate conclusion might find r parallel, not too far fetched, In the recent sc complishment at the Oregon Agricultural col!eg of the now famous hen that won the nations championship for the Barred Rock breed. x This hen rose from the ranks, as It were, a place In the poultry hall of fame October 2C 365 In 335th i.y laying her egg days, thus betterlni. the former record made a few months earlier b' for and this two, regaining college the tndividua' national championship In the heavy breeds S. much from the ranks" was she that she was no' Since thei named, being merely known as she has been . fittingly christened Lady Oregoi State. In spite of her former individual obscurity Lady Oregon State was by no means an aecidenta arrival among feathered greatness, as she Is Hu result of a long period cf selective flock breeding begun by the Oregon station some twenty years ago. Of late years this work has emphasized th and longer laylne , development of strains rather than phenomenal Individual records was obscure only In that she was Thus but one of a flock of 200 hens from the vigorous strain developed by the college What Interests the breeders more than the Indl am-wo- high-produci- No Throat Cupid" Sparks once remarked: A little bit more attention to home comforts would keep many husbands from wandering afield. Most men. In order to hold their jobs iu shop and office, literally have to make good The wife, if she is keeping house, does not feel that she has to and her lack of 100 per cent' effort often leads to. disaster. Too many wives are like Mrs X. Her husband came home audlound a wonderful dinner, awaiting him, his favorite book and pipe ready, and his slippers and dressing gown conveniently laid out. He regarded them for a moment and then Inquired Well, my dear, how much Is your account overdrawn this time?" f" Yes? Cigar Dealer That cigar Is made from the choicest leaf. Victim The choicest leaf of what kind of plant? Dr. Van Fardleah of the American medical commission, recently assigned to work in the Near East, remarked that medical effectiveness in the Orient would never be established until the masses were better educated. .A peasant woman," he said had several children and when one of them was taken ill, we insisted that Much the others be ' vaccinated. against her will, 'she finally consented. Two days afterward she stormed into the relief hospital and upbraided us because one of the recently vaccinated children was dead. Dead ! I exclaimed,' but how could he he dead? lie was all right when we vaccinated him. He fell down and broke his neck, scoffed the woman. A lot of good . vaccination does.'"- . Bobby's Explanation Revenge is not so sweet as a change of scene that utterly shuts out the object of vengeance. Little' Sister I wonder why February has 29 days every fourth year? Little Brother Dont you .know, silly? Its so that people born on the 20th of February can have a birthday once in a while. egg-layin- g We si e particularly proud of the size of eggs I.ady Llndy laid during the year and during her ;ong distance cycle. You will note that the record claimed for her was made In a state contest at ihe university, thus making the record an OFFICIAL RECORD. When size of egg, long distance .cycle, and total record for the year, Is considered, we believe "Lady Llndy of Inglenook" Is the official champion long distance layer of two ounce eggs. (Please note these eggs were not merely standard sized eggs but were two ounce eggs. In egg contests In U. S. 22 oz. Is the highest standard. American Poultry Journal, December, 1926. page official record, made In the thirteenth state egg laying contest, conducted ollege of agriculture of the University of by the Arkan- sas at Fayetteville. Is as follows: 149 two ounce Rgs In 149 days (February 15 to July IS, Inclusive): 272 eggs in 10 months (January 1, 1927 to November 1, 1927); 291 eggs in 365 days (November 1, 1926 to November I, 1927); 303 eggs before molting (291 official eggs plus 12 eggs laid at Inglenook farm). Weight of hen October 31, 1927, 1.3 ' enome From all of the foregoing It Is apparent that can fie a war-le"championships" in only with, certain reservations in regard to breeds, conditions of the contests, etc. Arkansas, while admitting that Lady Lindys consecutive record Im3 been beaten by o Nebraska ben of the same breed and an Oregon lien of u different breed, maintains that Lady I. indy still is champi'on in one respect. From her home town comes this statement In regard to that:. 3.) Her Cough, ' The record flock of a year ago and the one this year tas well as similar ones not so famous) were all from eggs produced on the experiment station farm and made their laying records under strictly commercial conditions as to feed and care, excepting for strict trapnesting. The laying houses are what are known as the O. A. C. to the campus type, and are situated adjacent proper, where the laying flocks are supervised by F. 13. associate professor of poultry husbandry. The latest national champion of the heavy breeds Is considered exceptionally noteworthy because ol her own good size, form and vigor and for the large size of her eggs. Her performance exceeded by two eggs that of a hen tn a Kansas City ccn-le- st owned by French Brothers of Ontario, Canada. . Irritation-N- o Hard to Get. Around Knew He W ould Have Need for Checkbook Ignorance Like This K-2- 4, and-her- Hitt Fntl.v Fimly. bred and owned by William It Gurry of Gentry, Ark., was not allowed for Iona to enjoy her honors undisputed. She bud estab lisbed her record of Hi) eggs In MO consecutive suh-eque- JAUY ATTdO QI iroizFouz Aim e good-nature- Mon, they dinna hurt my wind or throat three-quarte- the Mississippi river. At first thought one. probably would not believe that the achievement of one hen along lines would be of moment, but when t.ady Llndy, a .single comb white Leghorn, the property of a Gentry (Ark.) funder established a world record the other day by laying 149 eggs In 149 days, her praises were sung in the press and edl- torlal paens were almost poetic In their enthusi- nicht moonlicht egg-layin- g record-breakin- Luckies for years and all this UUS hits some d Hoot, Mon, Luckies dinna hurt my throat or wind, says Sir Harry Lauder, lbs. William R.' Curry has a flock of S. C. 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