BOTH THE PREMIER Exhibitor and
Premier Breeder awards were won by the
same farm this year at the State Black
and White Show for the first time in his
tory. From left to right are George Rutt,
Stevens; Donld Seipt, Easton, B. L. Hin
Beacon-trolled
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LIVING PROOF
denach, Easton; and J Norris Earnshaw
Diraoch. Rutt presented the exhibitors
award and Earnshaw the breeder award
Keystone Farms took both awards. (LF
Photo)
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Lancaster farming, Friday, Sept. 27, 1957—3
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Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers!
“What Size Eggs Do
Babcock Bessies Lay?”
The Western New Yoik Random Sample
has just finished and om entiv of Babcock
Bessies finished in the hist quartile The New
York Random Sample Tests now a rc opciat
mg on a quartile basis where the first quarter’
of the entries are grouped togethei and aie
called about equal in performance. The next
quarter is called the second auaitile and then
the thud and the last quartiles This is un
doubtly a move in the light direction because with lust 50 pullets
in an entry there just isn’t any logic in saying that one entiy was
the winner and is better than the other entues The sample is
too small, and environmental differences am play havoc with
standings It just doesn t make logic to draw conclusions on such
small samples
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Perhaps the most accurate measuie vou get oi a strain in a
random sample test is the egg size. I believe that birds will more
accurately show their inherited egg size in spite of the environ
ment than any othei characteristic This is piobably also true
.or strength of shell, interior quality, freedom fiom blood spots etc.
At this writing the only mfoimation we have on our eggs is
the egg size
We are listing below the percentage of large, medium, pullet
and peewee eggs that our entiy laid for the duration of the test,
and showing them by months. These figures are compared against
■he average for the test
One entry (Reds) beat us on the per cent of large and extra
large eggs, by almost 2%, and beat us on eggs per day-old duck
started, 2 eggs per bird. One entry of Leghorns tied us on per
cent ot large eggs but these birds did not lay quite as well as our
birds. Two other entries of Leghoins laid slightly larger eggs
than our birds but did not lay as many eggs as our Bessias.
The pen of Reds which are actually called New Hampshires
in the test are bred by a good New York State breeder. They
consumed 10 lbs of feed per bird more than our birds during the
year Birds were entered in the test from all over the United
States and also from Canada
I know I am prejudiced but I believe the Babcock Bessies did
the best job of combining large egg size with high rate of lay and
good feed efficiency of any entiy. There were a lot of entries that
were very close on this.
I question if these random sample tests mean an awful lot
because of the small-samples, and the practice of raising various
strains of birds all into together which you would not do in autual
practice The tests are only run to 500 days of age which is not
comparable to the practice of the average egg producer, and witn
only 50 birds or less in a pen, these results are not comparable to
your practice of running 300 to 1,000 birds to a pen.
We would like to hear from you and if you will call us on the
phone collect at Ithaca 4-6384 we will book your order for Babcock
Bessies, for anytime this fall or next winter or spring.
Babcock Poultry Farm. Inc.
, Box 286 F
Ithaca, New York
3rd Western N. Y. Random Sample Test
Chicks hatched March 29, 1956
Test Ended August 12, 1957
Distribution of Egg Wts * in ' n 5 s
Extra Laige & per chick
1956 Large Large Extia Large Medium Pullet Pee Wee started
to date
October 131 „ „„ .
Babcock Bessie 3 8 319 35 7 52 7 11 3 0 3 20 0
Test Average 35 18 8 22 3 60 9 163 06 -3 4
November 1 30 ,
Babcock Bessie 84 55 1 63 5 32 6 39 00" 41 a
Test Average 4 7 39 9 44 6 50 7 4 7 0 1 43 7
December 131 „ „, „
Babcock Bessie 11 7 671 78 8 21 2 0 0 0 64 3
Test Average 8 0 55 2 63 2 35 4 1 4 0 64 1
1957
Januaiv 1 31 „ „
Babcock Bessie 30 6 61 8 92 4 76 00 0 853
Test Average 25 3 60 3 85 6 14 1 0 3 0 82 3
February 1-28 _
Babcock Bessie 31 9 58 5 90 4 9 6 0 0 0 103 5
Test Average 28 4 59 9 88 3 11 4 0 2 0 98 7
March 1 31 ’
Babcock Bessie 43 1 514 94 5 5 0 0 5 0 126 o
Test Average 30 1 59 4 89 5 10 3 0 2 0 115 9
April 1 30
Babcock Bessie 45 3 49 2 94 5 5 5 0 0 0 145 6
Test Average 34 0 57 7 91 7 8 0 - 0 3 0 132 0
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May 1 31
Babcock Bessie 40 2 54 3 94 5 5 5 0 0 0 164 2
Test Average 32 2 58 7 90 9 8 9 0 2 0 148 6
June 1 30
Babcock Bessie 52 8 41 0 93 8 6 2 0 0 0 182 9
Test Average 36 6 53 9 89 5 9 2 0 3 0 164 1
Large &.
Extra Extra Eggs per chick
500 Days of Age Large Large Large Medium Pullet Pee Wee started
to date
Babcock Bessie 30 5 51 8 82 3 15 5 2 1 0 1 July 1 207 1
Test Average 22 3 50 1 72 3 23 4 3 3 0 4 to 185 3
Aug 12
We will look for you at
NEPPCO . . .
Please come to the
Babcock Booths,
No. 168 and 185
right across from the
Sample Flock display.
Babcock Poultry Farm/ inc. Box 286fohaco/fy. y.|
• PLEASE NOTE Pullets hatched m
the fall and winter months will lay
more small eggs than these birds.
Pullets hatched in April, Mav ami
June will lav fewer small eggs than
these birds did
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Russ Mease, Local Representa
tive, Route 4, Manheim, Pennsyl
vania. Phone MO 5-4705.
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