Show I Mat Manti Flock Fock Leads safe In hi Test est The pen of White Leghorns entered enter ed by the Imperial Poultry Farm of or ManU Manti in time the Fourth Intermountain egg laying contest at the Agricultural al College produced the best record during the time month of December The rhe pen produced eggs their near- near st t competitor the tho Frank II Soren- Soren omm Salt SnIt Lake pen lIen produced eggs The Time latter pen holds the high record for tho the two month eggs The Time Mrs J. J L L. L Quinn of Elma Wash Vash h holds second place eggs and time the Manti pen third with eggs The Time Fourth Contest st started November November No No- vember 1 I 1927 1937 with twenty-nine twenty entries each containing ten competIng competing ing pullets and two alternates which are the two lowest birds to date in each entry Electric lights are used during the winter months No replacements are allowed after contest starts The contest Is to torun torun torun run one fifty-one weeks The rime fourth con est went event through December in good shape considering consider consider- ing ns ng the thery very ry cold weather that prevailed pre pre- ailed during a a. good part of tho the month and the fact that the tho birds In several of the time entries were suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering with chicken pox This disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease easo is undoubtedly going to cause marked decrease decrease de de- some loss of birds and a crease in production spite of all our efforts to control it The Time or has been good during the tho past week and the birds are arc now looking fine but hut a 3 change in the tho weather usually affects the time bir birds s in certain stages of this disease rather seriously The birds made an average pro production for December of or eggs egg each which is only a little more than one egg behind last months month's re re- re- re cord 1 No No 67 in entry G 6 Gowned Gowned Two pullets pullets- owned by Riverbend Farm and No S SI S1 1 owned by the VoId Wold Poultry Farm are tied for Individual hon honors with a record of 51 Gl h The Time Imperial Poultry Farm entry won w first place for December with a record record record re re- re- re cord of eggs and tho time Ivins Ivin's l Farm alm pullet won first llaco with a record of 2 26 6 e eggs gs for time the month of shortest and coldI coldest coldest cold cold- I est days das I |