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Show The 200-Egp; Hen. Not very long ago anj one who made n claim to having a hen that prnlueed as man) na IV) ekgs In a jcar was looked Upon with some suspicion as tn the rilla-hlllt) rilla-hlllt) of his statements Then the ll-egg hen wns ennccdeel to be a possibility, but nn) tiling bijon.l that wns thought to be exeeedlnglj unllkelj nf realization for a good manj )e..rs to ntme Then the experiment stutlons look Ihe mutiir up and began In take great patns to determine the ultimate limit nf lapae-lly lapae-lly It. the way of egg production and somo wonelerful resJlts have already tie. n at tained llulletln "9 Maine experiment station, gives some ti suits that are caleulatid to make us believe that almost anvtlilng up to nn egg a elav Is poasll le Tho following follow-ing Is quoted from Ihe bulletin 'During the three jears In which we have been selecting bnedbig stock bv use or the trap nests vc hivo found ihlrty hens that laid between ?o nnd 2M eggs each In u jcar Twentj-slx of them nro now in our breeding pens and constltutt, lint II other neldltlons aro mu.le to them tho foundation stock upon which our I reeding eq erutlona are based .Mnlea for our u.o tiuvo been raised from them during dur-ing tho Inst two jrars Ihe number of the foundation Block now stcuretl makes practicable tho uvoldanco of Inbreeding and Ihls Is to hi slrlttly glnrdid against, ns It Is doubtful If the Inbreed lit., has sufficient consllutlon to enable her lo stand the demaid of heavy egg production produc-tion "All of Ihe other breeding stork wo aro now earning are titled hens tint htvo I ilcl over ifi tf'ga In u jear, pull, Is whoso mothers laid over Jul tggs lu one jear and whojo fathtrs' muthera lull over !'" eggs lu n jear, and pulleta tdrcd by cocker, la whoae mntluia anil grandmothers laid oi er 0' eggs In ono jear Iho size and color of the rijmoath Hock eggs are very fine The eggs from tho Wjnndoltoa are nf good shape and size, but aro us jet loo light In color" Orent Is the Dairy SIrol One dairy bull! What la ho worth? Nohodj knows Suppose he should cost 1VO. The Interest on this sum at 6 per cent for ten tears Is Kim Add this to the principal, and tho total la Svm, a sum less than Iho extra earnings of the first rtx helfera In tho siuue time He Is worth IV) then ot least, but he will nut cast so much as tint till his worth Is bitter known than It is toil t: In some Inst. ntes no thinjght la given to Ihe selection of a dairy bull Any bull at all la used, no matter how Ill-tired or crut bj be rnuy In. or how Inferior Indl-vlduallj Indl-vlduallj 'Ihe chief consldeiatlon Is, can he be used without paving i service fee? Others use n bull of the beef tjpe You could not hlro breeders of trotting horses tu use a drnit siru to produce trotters, or breeders of draft horses to use a trot tlng-hreel sire to produce heavy horses i:veu the suggestion Is ridiculous 11 Is Just na ridiculous for tho tlnlrjman to think nf obtaining dalrj anlmala rrom nny but their kind but It apparently does n t seem so to many runners The dairy bull Is lha most important fictor of a dairj hei 11c is more than the foundi-Hon. foundi-Hon. ho becomes almost the herd Itself "Average Cows." It is aald that if jou take the cowa of I'tah formtra as jou llnd them good, medium nnd poor -and strike nn average, I that this average cow produces less ihan I'D pouneis of butter per jear At 20 cents a pound, which Is a high average price for butter, this Is worth, say, mi The food eatin bj 'the average cow when sold nt the averago price brings about 12 cents per duj or a llltlo over Iio a )ear So the average cow Is kept at ,l loss of 1 moro thin llu per jear, not counting the labor or rtcilini, and making and market Ilnej ihe butter, which woull add eonsld-erable eonsld-erable tn this turn, ilurai, JJun't keep uveraEO cows. |