Gleanings in bee culture . llillllllll!llllllli POULTRY DEPARTMENT BUTTERCUPS; HOGAN S DISCOVERY,Do you still think the Buttercup fowls the bestbreed? Can > ou give me any information on Hogan-izing hens >. I have had your literature more or lesssince 1877. B. A. Bemls. Dinuba, Calif, Oct. 14. I decided some time ago that Buttercupswere no better layers than the Leghorns;and tliey certainly have never laid as well asthe Lady Eglantine pullets I have been writ-ing about in Gleanings of late. In regard to Hoganizing, I believe our different experiment stations have decidedthat, while it te
Gleanings in bee culture . llillllllll!llllllli POULTRY DEPARTMENT BUTTERCUPS; HOGAN S DISCOVERY,Do you still think the Buttercup fowls the bestbreed? Can > ou give me any information on Hogan-izing hens >. I have had your literature more or lesssince 1877. B. A. Bemls. Dinuba, Calif, Oct. 14. I decided some time ago that Buttercupswere no better layers than the Leghorns;and tliey certainly have never laid as well asthe Lady Eglantine pullets I have been writ-ing about in Gleanings of late. In regard to Hoganizing, I believe our different experiment stations have decidedthat, while it tells what hens are layingand what are not at the time the test ismade, it does not by any means take theplace of a trap-nest. Perhaps it may payyou to invest in their book; but the sub-stance of the whole matter has been giventhru our poultry journals again and have liad a copy of his discovery, that wassold for five or ten dollars some years ago,but I have never made any particular use 1140 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. THE YOrTHFlTTi MOTHER. The above Eglantine pullet laid her first egg when she was four months and eight days old; and, surpris-ing to relate, she continued laying nn egg every day, or almost every day, until she had laid eighteen or twentyeggs, when she wanted to sit; and jusr for the novelty of the thing I gave her thirtteen eggs and let her goahead. Only nine eggs proved to he fertile; and from those she hatched seven chicks which you see picture was taken when she was only a little over 0V2 months old. of it. When I wanted tO sell off some of myold hens I could tell by the Hogan systemwhich were laying at the time and whichwere not. Its simply measuring with yourfingers the distance between the pelvic bones. When a hen is laying right along regularlythe points will be separated the width oftwo or three fingers. When she hasnt beenlaying for some time the points of the pel-vic bones come almost up together. |{l||||||||||||||l||||||||||||||||||||l
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