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Show J -.700 EGGS IN I 4 YEARS I "'" H ( Hen at A. C. does ex- H 1 pert laying, H I J - Other facts about the H ,',r big Egg factory, H The writer visited the A. C. uf U., H tho other (lav ami had tho pleasure H i and distinguished honor or belli; es- H coiled thiough the tlncst poultry H house In the west by the acknowledged B ' authority on chlckenology of the Unlt- H ' .' cd States Prof Dryden, who Is soon R I to leave Logan for the Montana Agri- B cultural School. Mr. Stoeny, 1'ics- B ldcnt Kerr's private secietary was PPJS .' also along, but, what ho doesn't know PpE about .chickens would Mil a hookas PPJj largo as required to contain the writ- PBj cr's Ignorance along that Hue,- so lie, PH ,l too, was a visitor. pfeW Prof. Dryden took us down to where PPJ , ,,' Assistant John Hopkins wsis weighing PPJi ! eggs with pencil sciatches all over PPJ them. (Ity the way, these sciatches PPJ J ','"' were not on the eggs when freshly PPJ 1 laid.) Hro." Hopkins was very care- PPJ 1 fulandcxplaluedth.it It is necessary PPJ: j to be accurate In securing the weight PPJ of the eggs, as the whole experiment PPJ j with chickens rests on quality or PPJ; weight. He was trying to II ml out PPJ how much certain eggs weighed that PH y came from a certain breed of hens pfept that had been fed a certain amount of PH I food and which weighed so much. pfepj This was a soit of Chinese pu..lc and PH j we passed to where 1'iof. Dryden PH i raised ills little chicks alter the hicu- PPJj bator ground them out. First of all PB just remember that this chicken PH house Is 150 feet long and that we arc pfepj' !' walking down an aisle In the center. At tho southwest corner, steam pipes arc very near the ground and the little lit-tle chicks aic placed In pens here. As they glow oldei ihey aic moved up a distance to whole t lie steam pipes are nob in such close pinxlmlnlt and finally when tho ait; able to take cue of themselves tin shifted to the'othei side of tho poult r housi wheie theie aic no pipes. As we pioccedcd. 1'iof. Dryden inatilpui;;d all kinds or patent pat-ent connivance for the opening of windows and ddflis entirely out of reach, and then showed lis how It is possible pos-sible to get accuiate iccoids In regard to the feathered beauties. Each lady chicken wears a number on her ankle. The food for the chicken is weighed caiefully and placed In leceptaclcs In the various de-p.iilinctits. de-p.iilinctits. Theie aie especially constructed nests, (1'iof. !i)den'.s Invention and of which he Is extremely extreme-ly pioud) so ananged that when a hen takes possession she shuts herself in and Is tuiaU'c to get out until ie-leased ie-leased by some emploje who looks at number on her ankle, and maiks it, with the date, on the egg. Each week the food not used Is ie-welghed and In this way accuiate statistics can be arrived at. In this poultiy house aie in the neighborhood of 1,000 chickens, four dllTeieiit bleeds. A peculiar feature Is that practically all the chickens aie white. 1'iof. Dryden Is authoiity for the statement that the Leghorn bleed lays the gieater number of eggs with less food. Ho says this breed offer some peculiarities, however. Last year one hen laid 21 - eggs and another didn't lay a single one. Tills one that pioduced it-eggs this year, brought foith -II last car and In four yeais of this kind of woik lias 700 eggs to herciedit. This ceitainly isn't a bad recoid. The Leghorns aic a pioud bhd and present a splendid appeaiaucc. Tho look game, their feathers aie a beauti-1 ful pine white, their limbs aie clean, combs large and red, the arch to the neck and curve down the back Is superb sup-erb -In fact we fell In love with them. A visit to the poultry house at the A. C. of L is well worth any chicken fancier's time and even those who' care little for chickens other than to eat tliem will tiud many things of interest. in-terest. Tills house Is perfect In appointments, ap-pointments, kept cleaner than the Irish parlor Immortalized in song as the place were the pig was kept, and Is evidence in itself that the impossible impossi-ble can be done sometimes. 1'iof. Diyden has brought the Logan Log-an experiment station to the attention atten-tion of the most piomlnent poultry ralseis of the world, and they iccog-j nle him as an authority. That he is to leave us N a souice of regret but we believe that the present high state j of peifectlon of the local "chlcl;ei" will be maintained now that lie has placed it on such a high' plane. |
