pouLTßysnewai BEST METHOD OF COMBING UTILITY QUALITIES WITH FANCY COPYRIGHT* 1916 "The King of All Poultry." the Light i Brahma, is the tirst product of the ] America from India, about 1846 anil: These first specimens came into j America from India, amout 1546 and i seven years later specimens of the: Light Brahmas were exported to Eng- j land, the first of these going to tlie late Queen Victoria and they rapidly became popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Their great size, strength and vigor, prolific egg-laying Qualities and value as exceptionallv fine table | poultry, endeared them to fanciers and j commercial poultrymen alike. There are several strains of Light i Brahmas in the New England States. ! which have been exceptionally well, developed as layers and inmost the: tirst sensational 200-egg hen (record j proven by trap nesting) was a Light i Brahma, which laid 26$ eggs in one j year. Xot all Brahmas will do as well as that, but it is a fact that the I MARRIES RUSSIAN PRINCESS Petrograd, via London. Jan. 23. — Dr. Philip Newton, one of the American Red Cross surgeons in charge of the Kiev Hospital, married the Princess Helene Schaliofskeye to-day. The princess is a Russian woman who vol unteered to serve as a nurse in the hospital operated by the Americans. Make Your Hens Lay When Eggs Are High Anyone can get plenty of eggs when eggs are cheap —that's what makes them cheap. The people who make money from poultry get eggs when the others cannot. You can make your hens lay and get your biggest profits when your neighbors' hens aren't earn ing their feed bills. It's all a matter of knowing how. Poultry raiting isn't a matter of guesswork any more. The breeder who mahet $2.00 a year net profit from every fowl ham got to know how to raite, feed and care for hit flockt. Get the special training that you need to make poultry-keeping pro fitable. 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SATURDAY EVENING, LIGHT BRAHMAS By louis Paul (iraliaiu i females generally produce large num | bers of brown eggs and most of these in winter. j These fowls are hardy and do ex jceptionally well, either in confinement !or on free range. The hens will get j broody, sit. hatch and rear chicks. The chicks are strong and vigorous, mak ing rapid rugged growth, but the pul- J lets do not lay until six months old. j Old breeders claim that it actually takes eighteen months for a Brahma I male to reach full size and complete j development. I A small fence will keep them In I their yards, four feet high being (ample. They are most excellent ror | table poultry, from broiler size to j roasters and are especially desirable I in some localities for capons, i The feipales weigh from eight to [ten pounds, males from ten to twelve j pounds and many males will weigh I close to fourteen pounds. Mistaken Theory That They Cannot Be Bred Into One Bird ' Practical Breeders Have Demonstrated Advantages of Producing Both By .lame* I'. Hopkins 1 Poultry Judge, Ijecturcr and Author. Copyright, 1915. j The old theory that utility and fancy qualities must be bred separately Is j ! rapidly disappearing. In Tact. It Is an | exploded doctrine, ror liotli qualities I arc now ' iiijt combined by the most' men In the itoultry indus try Surprising results have been obtain- ] ed at leading State and other experi ment stations. Beginners, tliererorc. j should not lie discouraged by old < theories, but should study the possi- j hilities of breeding from stock with good utility and fancy records. The results will well repay them in finan cial returns, i Within the past few years, there has I appeared in the poultry press much I said in favor of utility* until the aver- ! age beginner is utterly at a loss as to ! which road to take. In most cases j there has been no give-and-take in the j matter of utility or fancy, and both I sides have w ritten in the majority of cas-s from their own viewpoint, j The dyed-in-the-wool utility breeder condemns anything that "smacks" of ;the showroom and in some cases the fancier is just as narrow regarding | utility qualities. But the reaction can be seen, especially during the past few years. leaving contests have had i much to do with this condition of af j fairs, an dthe different State experi ment stations, which, by the use of itrap nests, good housing and in some leases careful feeding, have shown to 'the poultry public that the so-called 1 j utility breeders' fowls have made good j records. But more remarkable still, I 1 fowls from the yards of the fancier | | have also been among the leaders. Then the egg-type theory, as it was ' known, was exploded when fowls, not I lon the accepted egg type, from differ-| i ent breeders made wonderful records, i 'So, as each year goes on. theories have I j been relegated to the rear and prac- ] jtical tests bv experiment station and | j the country's leading breeders have ] shown that there is still much to I j le«rn regarding poultry culture. I : Utility stands for productiveness in i ! the fowl, eggs and meat, and in pay- ' jing quantity. Whenever a flock is sol j bred by progressive breeders that it performs better than the average hen. j •it is called a utility strain, an dherein 'lies a fault becoming more general each year. Anything that looks like a chicken but has fair producing pow- j ers has been labeled "utility fowl" and j in many cases not to be disputed they are little more than scrubs. Utility Fowls Often Merely Culls In some cases utility fowls are sold, ; though they are culls from the good I flock, and Instead of finding their way* J into the hands of the beginner in poul- 1 try should have been sold on the open ! market for what they could bring. It, , is in such cases that the beginner re :ceives his first lesson in poultry and many times it is his last in the pur : chase of so-called utility stock, that in reality are not more than culls. The fact must be considered that the |gool utility strain of any breed, made .so by its past and present records els layers, or a combination of layers and ; flesh-formers,' are worth considerably more than a few cents above the mar ket quotations. In fact, the hatching eggs, day-old chick, or stock are worth ias much from a utility standpoint as the fancier's fowl with its showroom I points. A 200-egger Is worth as much ;as the leading blue ribbon winner at any of the good poultry shows, for. in spite of the high records one reads about, they are just as hard to obtain as a point w inner at the leading shows. So, when one reads about utility* strains with a price but a few cents above the market quotations, it is time I to question whether they are really all | that is claimed for them. The fancier, in spite of the opposition shown by jthe rank and file of commercial poul- Itry raisers, has still held his own. I When the farmer wishes to improve his flock either in Plymouth- Rocks. Wvandottes. Rhode Island Reds, Or pingtons. Leghorns, etc.. the fancier has had the call for the order. Why? : First, because everyone knows that the leading fancier has in his breed shape characteristic, that is utility; second, uniform color, that is fancy, and when egg production is added to this. It means a utility fowl in the fullest sense. This is what more progressive bowler) nteße-.s What Do You Read? By BEATRICE FAIRFAX "Have you "the tired businessman" type of mind which insists on gayety for relaxation and is ready to be en tertained? Does your daily reading consist of the headlines in the news papers'." Do you carefully omit, in your perusal, all editorials, and are you particular not to read the serious. I instructive articles which the maga zines offer you? Do you ignore all the ! world of literature in which poetry, the drama, essays and charmingly written biographies, histories, works of science and philosophy lie? Reading worth-while things is hon estly nothing more or less than a ques tion of getting the habit. I know a young woman who proudly boasted that she had read none of the classic novels. And then someone gave her Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame." Feeling that she owed it to the donor to read the book, she set about what she supposed was going to be a very | dry task. Here is the confession she made to me: "I found as thrilling a romance, as fascinating a love story, as any of the my favorite 'best sellers' had ever given me. Then. too. 1 discovered a real philosophy back of the story. 1 found myself interested in the discus sion of architecture and in the descrip tion of old Paris. My goodness! when 1 got through with that book X was fairly inspired to go off and study architecture, the history of the church, the dresses and customs of the fif teenth century, and the chronicles of Margaret of Flanders. And I givu you my word that I found reading the ordinary love story about as interest- I ing as drinking hot water in place of a ] frasrant cup of coffee!" There is the testimony of an aver age girl anent the classical novel versus the passing romance. Reading merely for amusement be comes rather appalling amusement to any mind that is at all ambitious. Read ing for Instruction is by no means a breeders have in their flocks than the average beginner realizes. Quality Commands Price But when these characteristics, shape, uniform color of plumage and production are stamped in a strain, the price of eggs, day-old chicks and stock is double the price of the so called utility strain because added characteristics are harder to obtain than one or two of the utility quali ties, and here is the point on which so many beginners are at loss as to what to do. In the first place, the average beginner wishes first of all eggs, and plenty of them to supply the home table and to pay the feed bill and upkeep of the poultry plant, be it large or small. This quality can be found in any utility strain of al most any breed. But most people arp also lovers of the beautiful and like the flock to look fairly uniform. In such a case, they must look further jthan to just the plain utility breeder, j who does not care if a Leghorn's tail ■ goes straight uv> in the air, or if its • omb is as large as a Minorca's, or if its legs are yellow or white, or the eyes tish-colored. and plumage, as so often seen, yellow or whether the Ply mouth Rock has barring all over its body any color but the proper one. or the Rhode Island Red has a lemon neck, red back and saddle feathers [another color. In this case, they will | eventually wind up in getting stock | from the so-called and much-abused | fancier, who. it has been claimed, j breeds only for feather and not for 'utility, and •••ho some times advocates [that fine feathers and egg-production cannot be combined. In this they are wrong, for the best feathered 'fowl, a Madison Square Garden win | ner. can be a high producing layer, and at the same time have shape, (the characteristic of the breed) and this hasbeen proven not only by breeders of long years of experience but by the different experiment stations and lay ing contests as well. Proper Breeding tlie Thing It only means proper breeding. To the utility poultry raiser, who cares nothing for the showroom, or does not aim to sell hatching eggs, day-old chicks or stock, but aims only to sup ply New Tork and the surounding zone with shelled eggs, it matters little what the flock looks like so long as i the best layers are picked to keep up the uniform egg supply, and 1: is vast ly easier to breed for one characteris tic, egg production, than to watch for shape, plumage, etc., and such a com- Imercial breeder will make money. Put this does not mean that the two I—utility and fancy—cannot be com bined. For all over the country fire today progressive breeders 'fanciers so-called) who are working about the lir«s of fancy and utility—U means (closer culling, for all specimens re tained must not« only possess a Rood egg record, but they must ils'i have the characteristic of the I recd and plumage. This means » closar culling, for whereas ihe utility breeder retains all good egg producers, the so-called fancier must reject many which do not come up to the standard in shape and plumage, and the higher art of breeding is well worth the monev paid by any beginner, who seeks the best jponlblc start in poultry. It lias been said that one cannot serve two masters and serve them well and that for the best possible re sults. one must cither go in for the fancy or the utility. This is not so, for the two can be combined and It is serving but one master, only the com bination is harder to accomplish, util ity only or fancy«only. But, as in every line of business en deavor. the profits are greater in the combination of both than would be in following one line. It is true that in the past, and perhaps will be In the future to some extent, that a few fancy breeders in their ambition for showroom honors have to some ex tent neglected the utility qualities of their flocks and have retained fowls [only because of their shape and plum age. neglecting egg production. But lin most cases, the leading progressive | breeders of the country are working along the lines of utility, are using I trap nests anil breeding only from i good egg producers, for they appre ciate the call is for the producing hen, I and will continue to work along util | ity lines, as well as fancy. That the : fancy and utility breders are being brought closer together each year is 'shown in the experiment tests and lay ing contests and the trap nest, and practical breeding Is proving to all ' poultry raisers that the heavy produc ing flock is not a matter wholly of j shape, color of feathers or eye. or the i size of the comb, but is due to breed ; ing from good layers and from the Getting Busy " For Spring Work Spring is the busy season for the poultrvmen. An early start will | help relieve tension of the later months. Selections for the breeding pen , have to be made; purchase of new • stock is to be.done; broiler raising ; demands attention; mating for the headth of the breeders Is important: keeping the quarters I free of vermin is vital: In fact there J are a score of things to be done that cannot be put off. Next week's article will go Into these matters in detail. L<ook for it, appearing exclusive ly in the Telegraph next week. harrisburg telegraph dull and dry affair. You simply have to know what to read. Cast about in your niind for something in which you are interested—for every thinking human being has surely one major in terest and several minor ones. Sup pose you like music. Go to the nearest public library station and ask for sug gestion as to reading along this line. Even if your interest is merely in the melody, of popular songs you will llnd yourself delighted by the wonder ful fortitude of Beethoven's life, for instance: by the romance of Mozart's, or by the magnitlcent capacity for work of Abbe Franz Liszt. In all of life there is interest. In all sorts of writing there is the ele ment of being "a human document"— since writing must chronicle conditions of life and living of theories about them. There are no more splendid his torical novels than the actual facts of history. There are no more thrilling adventure stories than the real tales of such a man as Stanley, for instance. And so through al the departments with which fiction deals fact supplies romances fully as great as those which fiction offers. If you have ever listened to a really brilliant and charming man talking, you have undoubtedly thrilled respon sive to his viewpoint and commentaries on uife. The good essayists offer you the same stimulation. Reading worth-while books will open a magnificent vista of under standing of life and people and of yourself too. It will keep you from boredom and from slipping back men tally. It will prove just as interesting, even at first, and far more interesting when you get Into the swing of learn ing through your amusements than does the "hot water diet" of reading trash. Good reading—the aroma of fragrant coffee—the stimulation of your own thoughts through the thoughts of others. Doesn't it sound tempting? Try it. WITH BELTED REDTNGOTF A Pretty Frock with Fashionable Vei »nd High Collar. By MAY MANTON 8510 Redingcte Dress for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 years. Truly the redingote idea has developed many variations. Here is one of the newest and the prettiest. It gives open fronts with a narrow vest that is designed for contrasting material, and finished with a high collar that is a modification of the military style. Made as it is here, with sleeves to match the vest and skirt, it is exceedingly smart but this season is primarily one of va-iety and the sleeves cottld match the redingote while the vest matched the skirt or the vest and collar could be of fancy material when plain ma terial is used for the main portion of the frock, or both redingote and skirt could be of the same material. Available fab rics include wool and silk and linen and cotton. Gabardine and chartreuse satin are the materials illustrated. Broadcloth would be pretty in place of the gabatdhie for the wool frock. Cotton materials arp ! really wonderful and for a cotton frock, ] colored piqu£ could be used with .vhite jto make a charming effect,*or a flowered i crfpe could be used for the redingote with j plain for the skirt and sleeves. ! In the medium size the redingote will j require 4 yards of materia! 27 inches 1 wide, 2 x /i yards 36 or 44, and the skirt, j vest and sleeves 4 yards 27, 3 yards 36 ; or 44- I The May Manton pattern 8519 is cut jin sizes for 16 and iS years. It will be 1 mailed to any address by the Fashion I Department of this paper, on receipt I tl tea cents. : Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns. ' males and females that have the breed characteristics and plumage. It is also demonstrating that the underslze utility flock, can be made productive with a true breed shape and good plumage, which means only one thing, • closer culling and more pains in se lection and in the end more profit. 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