The Development of Egg Laying Contests in the United States and Canada

Abstract

The past ten years has witnessed wonderful development and interest in poultry husbandry. This has been due to a considerable extent, to the development of egg laying contests in America. These contests have demonstrated the wonderful ability of hens to lay eggs. They have likewise demonstrated that hens differ in their egg laying ability. These contests have done much to focus public interest upon poultry raising and its possibilities. These contests have also been instrumental in solving many perplexing problems of management, with the result that poultry raising is now carried on far more efficiently than formerly, or than it probably would have been had not egg laying contests become so firmly established. Early egg laying contests were started by private interest, largely for advertising advantage.

Note:—See New Jersey bulletin 338, page 6.

In recent years the development of egg-laying contests has been stimulated largely by a public desire . . .