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■ Sa™ ZADYZPZPY arAfOZZAOOK' 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Os all set critters, beast or men, commend me k> the settin’ hen. Without a whine, without a sob, jhe 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,

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3US has some unknown poet immortalized the settin’ hen, and now if some other bard will come forward to state “I sing the hen, 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 and lays another hundred eggs,”

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the really important role in a . hen’s life will be fittingly immortalized. For ingenious man with the incubator has provided an adequate substitute for the settin’ hen, but so far the only rival to the hen as a “just as good” egg producer is another hen I More than that, her egg-laying ability has within the last two years become news —big news! In the summer of 1926 one of the leading metropolitan newspapers in the East carried the following story under the top headline of “CHAMPION STIRS MISSISSIPPI AREA —Arkansas Leghorn’s Laying Is Hailed as Marking a New Era in Poultry Industry.” St. Louis.—A hen that laid an egg a day for 149 days, political campaigns in which gubernatorial candidates are to be 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 zoning law, are a few bf the varied affairs that are engaging public interest these days in that stretch of territory that lies between St. Louis and New Orleans along the Mississippi river. At first thought one probably would not believe that the achievement of one hen along egg-pro-ducing lines would be of moment, but when Lady Lindy, a single comb white Leghorn, the property of a Gentry (Ark.) fancier established a world record the other day by laying 149 eggs in 149 days, her praises were sung in the press and editorial paens were almost poetic in their enthusiasm. In making her record, Lady Lindy took the honors from a Missouri hen owned by Homer Collins of Ozark, Mo., which in competing in an egg-lay-ing marathon in 1925, at Mountain Grove, Mo., set the mark -at 141 in as many consecutive days. The result has been considerable good-natured editorial banter, which, however, had a Serious element, it being pointed out that Lady Lindy’s exploit is significant of the vast strides that have been made in the poultry industry in these parts during the past-few years. ■ Especially interesting is the fact that both the old and the new records were made by fowls in the so-called Ozark mountain region, which only recently realized that its economic future lies in the development of its resources along poultry and dairy lines. But Lady Lindy, bred and owned by William R. Curry of Gentry, Ark., was not allowed for long to enjoy her honors undisputed. She had" established her record of 149 eggs in 149 consecutive days from February 15 to July 13 (inclusive), 1926. On November 1, 1926, the National Egg Layers’ association started its annual contest at Omaha with 255 pullets, representing 32 states entered. The contests run a year, but that one ended October 18, 1927, when Lady Amco of Norfolk, a White Leghorn pullet, bred and owned by A. R. Landers of Norfolk, Neb., laid her one hundred seventy-third egg in as many Consecutive days. Then she missed a day, but her owner and officials conducting the contest were just as well satisfied because the strain was comenencing to tell on her physical appearance. She had done enough—not only broken Lady Lindy’s American record of 149 eggs, but also the official world’s record of 165 eggs held for some years by an Australian hen—but she had 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 champion for whom her owner refused offers ranging from SSOO to $3,000. Although the contest started November 1, 1926, it was not until April 29 that Lady Amco of Norfolk began her record-breaking feat. Before that time she would lay for a period of from 5 to 20 days consecutively, then would skip. But on April 29 she settled down to business 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 Lindy’s record, press associations carried a dispatch hailing the new champion and later one of the eggs of the champion was sent to President Coolidge by air mail. A short time before Lady Amco of Norfolk established the new record of 173 eggs Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig t-f the world’s champion New York Yanks visited Omaha with their teams. Babe Ruth was introduced to Lady Amco and the two champions were photographed together. This incident led to an amusing mistake, for in subSj»quei« news stories Lady Amco was called “Bane Ruth,” so that she is now variousy known as Babe Ruth, Lady Amco and Lady Norfolk. The champion ben was stimulated to egg producing by a special food. It was heavily laden

Pet’s Good Qualities Called for Emphasis

Victor Murdock, the Bull Moose leader, used to tell of an old chap out In Kansas, known as Uncle Jack, who had a dog. It was not a highly bred dog, but it was a wonder at catching 4 rats, and moreover Uncle Jack was fond of the dog personally, aside from its excellent qualities as a rat killer. Uncle Jack had few other Intimates. " because of a disposition to be rather savage in his conversation. He imag-

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with proteins, and when her owner deemed it time to discourage her he gradually changed her diet to feed containing carbohydrates. Her feed, like that of all the hens in the contest, was made up of meat scraps, wheat flour middlings, finely ground oats, corn meal, wheat standard middlings, wheat standard brand and salt. When Lady Norfolk entered the contest she weighed four and three-quarter pounds; after laying her last egg she weighed a little less than four pounds. Mr. Landers is* a graduate from the University of Nebraska, but did not specialize in poultry husbandry while at that institution. He attended the university three years and took a course in business administration. After he left school ho had no capital, but he had plenty of intelligence, initiative and energy and these things he capitalized. Backed by his father-in-law, a successful surgeon of Norfolk, he started chicken farming three years ago with eighteen pullets and SBO. Now he has 2,500 chickens and one of the most up-to-date chicken farms in the Middle West. During the year his champion hen consumed less than $2 worth of feed but produced close* to $lO worth of eggs. She was an incubator chicken, and came from a 307 hen, which means that her mother laid. 307 eggs in a year. That mother in turn came from a 275 hen. On the basis of present offers and estimates, the Leghorn and her progeny will be worth in a year $8,250. * : As was to be expected publication of Lady Norfolk’s record brought forth new claimants to her title. From Vancouver, British Columbia, came the statement that at the Agassiz contest in that province in 1925-26 White Leghorn hen No. 6, bred and owned by the University of British Columbia, laid for 213 consecutive days and made a new official world’s record for total egg production by laying 352 eggs in 52 weeks. From Canon City, Colo., came the news that Lady Skyline, a White Leghorn hen, owned by the Goris Brothers Poultry farm, had hung up a record of 235 eggs in 235 consecutive days, and from Scotland came the news that in a national contest in that country a ligrtit Sussex hen had made an official record of 279 eggs in as many days. Then in October, 1927, Oregon came forward with the statement that such egg-laying records might be good enough for the so-called “lighter breeds,” but if you wanted real long-distance layers, look to the heavier breeds, notably the Barred Rocks. For Lady Oregon State, bred and owned by the Oregon Agricultural college at Corvallis, had set a new mark of 335 eggs in as many days. The news story from Corvallis telling of this feat follows: Democracy in education—where the most obscure have equal opportunity of achieving success—is a matter of considerable pride as existing in many of the higher institutions of learning, including this one. Anyone bent on carrying the theory to its ultimate conclusion might find a parallel, not too far fetched, in the recent accomplishment at the Oregon Agricultural college of the now famous hen that won the national championship for the Barred Rock breed. This hen “rose from the ranks," as it were, and won a place in the poultry hall of fame October 26, by laying her 335th egg in 365 days, thus bettering the former record made a few months Earlier by two, and regaining for this college the individual national championship in the heavy breeds So much from the “ranks” was she that she was not named, being merely known as Q-1596. Since then she has been fittingly christened Lady Oregon State. In spite of her former individual obscurity. Lady Oregon State s was by no means an accidental arrival among feathered greatness, as she is the result of a long period of selective flock breeding begun by the Oregon station some twenty years ago. Os late years this work has emphasized the development of high-producing and longer laying strains rather than phenomenal individual records. Thus Q-1596 was obscure only in that she was but one of a flock of 200 hens from the vigorous, high-producing strain developed by the college. What interests the breeders more than the indi-

ined that half the people he wH-ere antagonistic toward him, mid this made him not any too companionable. So it was just as well that he had a warm friend in his dog. Orie night, as he and the dog were passing a corner grocery where everybody loafed two or three bystanders sought to make a hit with Uncle Jack by complimenting his dog. “That’s certainly a fine little dog of

Uncle Jack’s,” remarked one of them. “Yes. I don’t suppose there’s a better rat dog anywhere,” rejoined another. i Uncle Jack turned and glared at the bunch and hurled this: “Ye think he’s just good for catching rats, eh? Well. I’ll have ye know lie’s just as good on mice—ye gol darn fools.”—Exchange. Mercury and Venus, as well as the moon, sometimes ceme between the earth and the sun.

THE SVKACrSE JOURNAK

/ \ / r ■ 3Lv it* / . K vA WmkEKL ' IrmLL ' ML -*• ' !* o* e vjßpOWt ■ LAPYATTdO AA.JAtfnZR'S. vidua! showing of the new champion is that the entire flock averaged 61 per cent production tor the year and from the flock there were five hens exceeding the 300 mark. When it is remembered that 50 per cent production is considered unusually good for commercial flocks and that the average is far below that figure, the accomplishment of the hens is better appreciated. Leading breeders in this country and even in 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 t,he poultry department here. At that time there was not xa commercial poultry farm in the state, nor was there a’ trapnest, so far as known, as it had never been proved that highlaying characteristics 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 produced another record breaker in a hen known as K-24, later christened Lady Dryden. This hen laid 324 eggs in her first year, which was at that time a national tecord for all breeds and missed being a world’s record only by one egg, ks 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. The record flock of a year ago and the one this year (as 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. type’’ and are situated adjacent to the campus proper, where the laying flocks are supervised by F. B. Fox, associate professor of poultry husbandry. The latest national champion of the heavy breeds is considered exceptionally noteworthy because of 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 in a Kansas City contest owned by French Brothers of Ontario. Canada. From all of the foregoing it is apparent that “championships” in egg-laying can be awarded only with certain reservations in regard to breeds, conditions of the contests, etc. Arkansas, while admitting that Lady Lindy’s consecutive record has been be’aten by a Nebraska hen of the same breed and an Oregon hen of a different breed, maintains that Lady Lindy still is champion in one respect. From her home town comes this statement in regard to that: We are particularly proud of the size of eggs “Lady Lindy” laid during the year and during her long distance cycle. You will note that the record claimed 6 for her was made in a state contest at the 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 Lindy 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 939.) Her official record, made in the thirteenth Arkansas state egg laying contest, conducted by the college of agriculture of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, is as follows: 149 two ounce eggs in 149 days (February 15 to July 13, inclusive); 272 eggs in 10 months (January 1, 1927 to November 1, 1927) * 291 eggs in 365 days (November 1, 1926 to November 1. 1927); 303 eggs before molting (291 official eggs plus 12 eggs laid at Inglenook farm). Weight of hen October 31. 1927. 4.3 lbs. William R. Curry has a flock of S. C. White Leghorns, Tancred Strain, which he has trapnested every day since October 1, 1923. Eve'ry nest on his place is a trapnest. His entire flock has been trapnested since October 1, 1923. Mr. Curry was graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural college in 1914. He was formerly state supervisor of vocational agriculture in Oklahoma and Kansas. but has been operating his own poultry plant for the past six years

Lived Simple Life Neal Boyce, who recently died at Aughavoy. Ireland, at the age of one . undred and fifteen, lived entirely on potatoes, oat bread and porridge, never knew what tea was until hd was about seventy years old. and at one hundred and five worked with a scythe in a hay field. All the Difference A politician thinks of the next election ; a statesman of the next genera lion.—James Freeman Clarke.

CROCHET HATS AGAIN POPULAR; LURE OF COSTUME JEWELRY

WELL, here they are again, those pert little crochet hats which women love to wear. It is plain to be seen that crochets are going to occupy a more prominent place than ever among the new season’s milli-nery-elect. Designers are doing themselves proud this season, working fine crochet bodies into flattering youthfnl shapes, thus giving them a renewed fashion appeal. Most of the smart crochets are small, tight types, with narrow brims, manipulated in novel ways. Quaint Dutch bonnet effects and off-the-face treatments, also tricky "one eye” brims abound in the newest crochet styles. Color is another arresting feature of the fashionable crochets. Not only

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exquisite solid colors, but striking interworkings of multi-tones and tints mark spring modes. Many of rnese crochets present the colorful aspect of a rainbow, done in bands, each band a contrasting color. Spanish stripes, for you must know that Spanish offerings are quite “the thing” this season, also ombre effects, also two tone and three-tone combinations all contribute to the enchantment of the crochet hat. Another item of absorbing interest is tinsel crochet, metallic threads being interworked into the crochet stitch with pleasing effect. Every hat in this picture/ is a crochet. The model at the t»u_ suggests a cunning Dutch bonnet effect. Its only trimming feature is a daggerpin ornament. Hat ornaments are a

Lc>\ r' L. >’ I wF — Sample* of Costume, Jewelry.

very important theme in fashion s realm just now. The model to the left below exaggerates simplicity to a fascinating degree. It has a bit of stitchery done in white angora across its front, for angora is a very, smart item in sports styling whether it be for hats or for gowns. A brim a la Napoleon distinguishes the hat to the right. The model is in the much-talked-of almond green. Just below is a cloche done in two tones of beige, by working points of a deeper shade into a crown of lighter degree. A cluster of felt grapes trims the last little chapeau. Which brings to mind that scores of the new hats combine felt with crochet. And now it is costume jewelry which is taking the world of fashion by storm. Not in the memory of this generation has the subject presented a oicture of such barbaric splendor. Not only is the new jewelry

Brown Suede Shoes for Sports and Morning Wear Dark brown suede shoes tor sports and morning wear are an outgrowth of the popularity of beige and brown. Brown suede oxfords, a beige mixture coat trimmed with beaver and beige felt hat lined with brown velvet are being worn by one of the best dressed Parisians. Her dressmaker has had many orders for copies of the coat she wears. It has a full-length tuxedo collar.

itself record-breaking in point of elaboration, but the real sensation is the fact of its being heartily endorsed by the mode for daytime wear. It is a question as to whether gold or crystal jewelry has awakened the greater interest. They both are at this moment in the spotlight of fashion. Also in this furor for jewelry fashionables are unearthing discarded and forgotten gems, some perhaps relegated to the vault for safe-keeping. These they are taking to their jeweler with a view to having them reset in voguish mountings. „ Gold jewelry to be worn with sports and daytime costumes, especially the new sweater ensembles, is the smarr theme of the moment. With consummate art have these gold necklace-

and-bracelet sets been devised, so that they blend directly into the picture. So many of the three-piece sweater modes are in beige with chocolate brown and parchment tones. With these gold jewelry is at its best. A necklace and bracelet of gold coils, such as is shown in this picture at the top to the left among the little outline sketches, would add a beauty touch to any brown or beige-toned sweater or cloth or tailored silk frock. Long strands of gold beads such as are sketched below to the left are also exceedingly good form for daytime wear. For crystal jewelry, also rhinestone shoulder pins and ornaments for bat and for frock, there is no end of enthusiasm. Necklaces set in the Chanel manner (see the panel picture at the

top to the left) are the “tall town.” With the simple black velvet or satin gown their effectiveness is outstanding. Cut crystal beads are also much worn. Os special interest in costume jewelry are the novel rhinestone and crystal shoulder pins which have taken the place of the bodice bouquet. Note the handsome one posed to the right below in this group. It is In the form of a flower whose petals are of cut crystal stones. A choker earring anil bracelet set of thickly encrusted rhinestones 4s shown at the top of the extreme right in this picture. A set consisting of earrings, necklace and bracelet is also shown in the group. This is fashioned of rhinestones with pendant pearl insets. Extreme, but interesting is the “sweetie handcuff’’ which concludes this group. Only pretty arms can dare this bracelet-and-ring-set. JULLA BOTTOM LEY. ((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union.)

Lisle Hosiery Very new and smart, particularly for sports wear, are stockings of French lisle with openwork or embroidered clocks. They come in twotoned mixtures. All-White Frock of Velvet The all-white evening gown is not new, but the all-white velvet frock that is guiltless of trimming is so lovely it is a wonder it was not thought of years ago.

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