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Ten Years
of Successful Poultry Farming
tve.iire,n ItOSE,
In a recent isuse of the Ontario
Farmer, the following story, written
by Erie D. McGroer, appeared;
Walter throw his bag of tools into
the corner with a bang.
"What's the 'matter," gently in-
quired his wife.
"Oh nothing, bu£ I'm through with
this electrician's work. I'in going
into chickens," replied Walter.
His wife made no reply but she
wasn't alarmed or surprised at her
husband's decision. It had been
brewing for some time. He had been
brought up on a farm in Hibbert
Township near Mitchell where he
first showed more than usual intermit
in attending to poultry chores a-
round the home. Ever since he had
left the farm some years ago, to work
at the electrician's trade he had kept
a small number of fancy birds and
had exhibited at local and larger
shows with a great deal of success.
It seemed a natural step for him to
go in for poultry raising on a com-
mercial scale and besides the elect-
rician business was none too brisk.
It didn't take Walter Rose long to
act once he had made up his mind
and the next day he started off to
locate a suitable place at a reason-
able cost where he might start into
the poultry business. He wanted to
A group of Leghorns. (Courtsey
take over a small established plant
and in his travels he was to go
through the village of Brussels, for
he had heard of a place beyond that
town. But he didn't go through the
village of Brussels. He stopped
right there, for just at the edge of
the village he saw the place he want.
ed, a neat but not fancy poultry
plant carrying 400 Leghorns and 400
Barred Rooks and equipped with a
2,400 egg incubator. A few days
later Walter Rose was in full posses-
sion and had plans on foot to im-
prove and expand his newly acquired
business.
That was ten years ago. The rest
of the story 'can now be told.
As Walter Rose had always fam
cied the Single Comb White Leghorn
breed he disposed of the 400 Barred
Rocks and increased the Leghorns
up to 800 during the first year. The
hens that he took over were all well
bred of the Barron Strain and he:
resolved to develope a business bits -
ed on good breeding stock,
About this time poultry breeders 3
and government officials were con-
cerned with two important steps
which proved later to be among the
most outstanding advances made by
any country in the world towards the
improvement of the poultry industry.
of (Potnrto farmer)
The first step was the establish-
ment of annual egg laying contests
which later made the registration of
poultry possible. The second step
was the Record of Performance Sys• i
tern which put the keeping of poultry
production records on a sound pre.
etical basis.
For a few years Walter Rose did
not take advantage of these methods
of keeping records. He was busy es-
tablishing himself and working up
business connections. From the first
however he had definite ideas or
building up a strain of high produc-
ers through line breeding. Early in
his career he had had experience with
introducing other lines of blood to
mate with his Barron bred birds but
by closely checking up results he
found that this method didn't bring
about the desired improvement. Since
that experience he has used the im-
proved Barron strain exclusively and
has steadily improved the qalityu and
the production performance of his
flock,
In 1920 the first entry was made
in the egg laying contests and since
that date only two years have been
missed. Last year in the Nova Scotia
contest highest honors were won by
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the pen entered by Walter hose and
he also owned the hen which gave
the greatest production in the con.
test that year and the year before.
In 1925-26' third and fourth places
were won in the Ottawa contest and
one in Nova Scotia.
These contests were the basis for
the registration of the best hens and
cockerels. Registration was grant-
ed to females that bad laid 200eggs
or over with a weight of twenty-four
ounces to the dozen, The birds that
qualified had to pass inspection to
make sure they were free from stan-
dard disqualifications such as; side
sprigs in the comb, feathers or stubs
on the legs or any pronounced off -
type characteristics. Males whose
dam and grand dam were registered
and whose sire and grand sire were
approved were also registered after
passing inspection. With other
breeders who have taken advantage
of this work great strides have been
made by the use of registered cock-
erels, for the wide use of these well
bred males seems to be the solution
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towards increasing the ,production
and egg weights in farm .flocks.'
The Record of Performance is an.
other valuable system followed by
Walter Rose in checking up and lin-
Proving his stock. 'Ie first took ad.
vantage of this three years ago when
he .made application about Septem-
ber lst to the Dominion Department
of Agriculture to enter 100 birds.
An Inspector came to the poultry
plant and after looking over the birds
and the surroundings he was satisfied
that there was no breed disqualifi-
cations and that the trap -nests were
of good design and in working order.
The entry was accepted and sealed
leg bands were put on the hens. The
entry fee was twenty-five dollars.
A record of the number of eggs
each hen laid was kept from the time
the first egg was laid until the end
of 865 days. Only eggs found in
the trap -nests were counted and
each week the records were mailed
to the Poultry Division at Ottawa.
From time to time, usually monthly,
an Inspector made unannounced visits
and took complete charge of the trap
nests for a day or sometimes two
days. He weighed the eggs collected
on the days of his visits. At the end
of the year an affidavit was taken
stating that the records as sent to
Ottawa were correct.
Certificates were then issued for
all hens that in the 365 days had laid
from 150 to 224 eggs and an advan-
ced registry certificate was given
for all :hens which had laid 225 eggs
or over. In each case, egg weight
was a factor taken into account be-
fore the certificates were issued. Af-
ter two months of the laying period
was over at least half the number of
eggs weighed by the inspectors had
to weigh two ounces or over,
The first year 44 hens were grant-
ed R, 0. P. certificates and 11 hens
qualified for advanced certificates
The hen wit', tin hest record la:d
272 eggs in the year.
Last year 200 hens were entered
in the R. 0, P. and 111 hens Laid
over 150 eggs each. Fifty-five of
these qualified and 17 were granted
advanced certificates. The high hen
had a record of 287 eggs.
All the breeding hens this year
are daughters..of R. 0. P. or register-
ed stock. The male birds used this
past season for 5,000 matings are
from registered hens. This is likely
a record in the Province of Ontario.
ng Practicg,
To insureFeedistrong vigorous chicks,
strict attention is paid to the feed-
ing of the breeding flock. The hens
are kept in the best possible physic-
al condition because it is felt that
the food eaten has a great deal to
do with giving the chicks a good
start the first six days of their lives.
Each 100 hens are fed one-half
pint of cod liver oil daily. Ten per
cent. of the ration in alfalfa meal of
good quality. Eighteen per cent. is
made up of fish meal, beef areal and
bone meal. Fresh buttermilk and
water are kept before the birds at
all times.
Last year the first chicks taken
off in the first week in March hatch-
ed out 64 per cent. and the subse-
quent mortality was only three per
cent.
Briefly the feeding system this
past month has been as follows.
7 a.m.—Fresh water and butter-
milk is placed in the vessels after
they have been washed and one-third
of the grain feed is fed.
10 a.m.—Green feed consisting of
mangles and sprouted oats are fed.
When the hatching season draws
near the mangles are discontinued.
1 p.m.—A damp mash is fed mois-
tened with buttermilk and cod liver
oil.
6 p.m.—Water is replenished and
two-thirds of the daily grain ration
is fed. Dry mash is'before the birds
at all times. They also have access
to oyster shell and limestone grit.
, Lights are used from 7.30 a.tn. till
daylight and„in the early evening un-
til 7.30 p.m.
The incubator now in use has a
capacity of 33,000.
From small beginnings Walter
Rose has built up one of the hest
poultry breeding establishments in
the province. He has done this
through keeping production record
and by maintaining a strict policy
of line breeding.
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age was never as bad as on this oc-
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ATWOOD MINISTER
NAMED MODERATOR
REV. W. J. WEST APPOINTED
HEAD OF STRATFORD PRES.
BYTERY AT MEETING HERE.
At the regular quarterly meeting
Stratford Presbytery in St. Andrew's.
church, Stratford, a large docket of
business was disposed of, including
the appointment of Rev. W. J. West
of Atwood as Moderator, succeeding
Rev. G. J. MacKay, of Avonton,
whose tern had expired and the
nomination of Rev. Dr, Perrie, of
Winghan as the next Moderator of
the General Assembly; and of Rev.
W. J. West as next Moderator of the
Synod of Hamilton and London.
Rev, J. Elder, of Cromarty pre-
sented a hearty call from the Mitch-
ell congregation in favor of 'Rev,
Janes Kirkwood, oi` Creerhore,
Cargill, Feb. 28—The Bruce Town
strip Municipal Telephone System
lines were bard hit by the severe
sleet and wind storm here yesterday.
A stretch of poles on the Saugeen
Road were blown down, rompletely
blocking the traffic along the high-
way for several hours before the
wreckage could be cleared, This
particular portion of the system has
always been a .heavy strain during
The call was sustained and forward-
ed to the Barrie Presbytery. Pro-
visional arrangements were made for
Mr. Kirkwood's induction on April
5. Reports of the various standing
committees were presented through
their respective convenors. It was
reported that Shakespeare had in-
creased the minister's stipend. by
$150 annually, reducing their claim
on the augmentation fund by that a-
mount.
The following were appointed con-
veners of the standing committees:
Home missions, Rev. W. Maclntosh;
r eir,ion fund. Rev. W. 3, West; S.
Schools and Y. P. S., Rev. J. Elder;
colleges, Rev. G. Rowland; church
life and work, Rev. G. J. MacKay;
general intcreots, Rev. G. P. Duncan.
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