1912. 
'J'fciEO RURAt NEW-YORKER 
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EGG LAYING CONTEST. 
The twentieth, week shows a gain of 
178 eggs over the nineteenth week, 
which gained 156 eggs over the eigh¬ 
teenth week, and that gained 100 eggs 
over the seventeenth week. This pro¬ 
gressive gain from week to week shows 
that the birds are receiving the best of 
care, and ought to disarm all carping 
criticism. The Single Comb R. I. Reds 
of Colonial Farm, New Hampshire, have 
beaten all previous records with a score 
of 32 eggs for the week, a 91.4 per cent 
yield. Two of the five pullets laid 
seven and the other three six eggs. This 
is getting close up to the possible 35. 
The S. C. Reds of Homer P. Deming, 
Connecticut, laid 30, and the White P. 
Rocks of W. J. Tilley, of Connecticut, 
laid 30; the S. C. White Orpingtons of 
Gilbert & Moore, Pennsylvania, laid 29; 
Reed & Lloyd's Barred Rocks 29; Hen¬ 
ry D. Riley’s *Barred Rocks 28; S. Ml 
Goucher’s Barred Rocks 28; Beulah 
Farms’ White Wyandottes 28; John A. 
Fritchley’s S. C. Reds 28; Tom’s River 
Poultry Farm White Leghorns 28; and 
Parker Place Farm White Leghorns 28. 
Nine different pens laid 27 each. These 
20 best pens laid over 80 per cent of the 
possible limit. 
Those astonishing White Leghorns of 
Thomas Barron, England, laid 26 eggs, 
their total to date, March 19, being 395. 
E. S. Edgerton’s Rose Comb R. I. Reds 
have lost the second place, which is now 
held by F. G. Post’s White Leghorns, 
with a score of 341; Edgerton’s have 
336 to their credit, but are closely fol¬ 
lowed by Howard Steel’s S. C. Reds 
with a score of 333. S. C. Scoville’s 
R. C. Red hens have a score of 300. 
Thirteen pens now have a score of 300 
or over. In the average number of eggs 
laid per pen in the week the White Leg¬ 
horns have raised to third place; the 
White P. Rocks being first, with 26 eggs 
for each pen, the Single Comb Reds 
averaged 25.3, the White Leghorns 24.8, 
the Buff Orpingtons 23.7, the White Wy¬ 
andottes 24.3, the Columbian Wyan¬ 
dottes 24, the Barred Rocks 24.2, the 
White Orpingtons 23.4, and the Rose 
Comb Reds 22. 
No poultry event that has ever hap¬ 
pened in this country has attracted so 
much attention as this contest. All the 
little country weeklies have items con¬ 
cerning it, and thousands of city people 
who never kept fowls and never expect 
to are interested in the reports. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
THE HEN MAN TALKS. 
Perpetual Layers. 
I am contemplating entering the chicken 
business. Can you give me the name of 
some good laying strain that will lay for 
three or four years without sitting? They 
are called non-sitters. 1 have never seen 
any. G. F. w. 
Bowling Green, Ind. 
The appellation non-sitting as .applied to 
fowls is used only in a comparative sense, 
as all breeds necessarily display more or 
less broodiness. An absolutely non-sitting 
breed would, without the help of man, die 
out in one generation. The smaller and 
more active breeds like the Leghorns, Min- 
orcas and Hamburgs are usually spoken of 
as non-sitting because they, as a rule, dis¬ 
play much less tendency to broodiness than 
do the heavier types* like the Wyandottes 
and It. I. Reds. The particular breed that 
you should keep will depend on the re¬ 
quirements of your market and the line of 
work you intend to follow. If your idea 
is to establish an egg farm, and your mar¬ 
ket prefers white eggs, you can do no bet¬ 
ter than to choose the Leghorns, either 
White or Brown, as your fancy dictates, 
but if your market pays a premium for 
brown eggs or you desire to raise fowls 
for meat, the Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks 
and R. I. Reds are as well established as 
profit-producing fowls as any in their class. 
M. B. D. 
Dry Mash for Poultry. 
1. What is meant by a dry mash, kept 
In hoppers before hens? Is it simply all 
the different kinds of dry food such as 
bran, middlings, meal and beef scrap, all 
mixed together with no water at all and 
put in the same kind of hopper used for 
grit, etc., and bow can you get enough in, 
or tell how much is needed to feed pens of 
50 hens each? 2. Is the following a good 
mixture to feed as a warm wet mash in 
morning? Two parts bran, one middlings, 
one cornmeal (yellow), half quantity beef 
scrap, half tablespoon egg producer, one 
quart of mixture to every 25 hens. Is it 
too late to feed this mash now? My hens 
have a handful of scratch to every pen to 
work for from six to eight, then warm 
mash, then at noon one quart to every 25 
hens scratch, at five same quantity wheat 
and same of whole corn, with cabbage, grit, 
charcoal and fresh water every day with 
roup cure in it. They have produced from 
50 to 75 per cent eggs all Winter from 
November 2, but have had from 15 to 25 
cases of roup, as I understand it. watery 
eye, which soon swells to three times the 
size, finally after working on them for 
days have cut heads off. I have had at 
least a dozen hens get down off their feet, 
which hens when put entirely alone have 
recovered excepting one. Can you tell lue 
what has caused this ailment, and roup 
also? Perches are cleaned daily and ashes 
put on, also kerosene; floors are concrete, 
with deep layer of sand, then straw. 
Houses face south, glass front, curtains to 
drop at night; windows open from top all 
day. Chickens not out all Winter. What 
can you recommend to prevent vermin? I 
have found some on two hens, even with 
this care referred to. H. S. 
Chatham, N. J. 
1. By a dry mash, is meant simply the or¬ 
dinary mixtures of ground grains fed to 
fowls, but given to them dry instead of 
after having been moistened with water or 
milk. To avoid waste, it is usually fed 
in hoppers made to hold a considerable 
quantity, and to feed it down slowly as the 
fowls cat it. These hoppers are usually 
left open for a part or the whole of the 
day and the fowls help themselves at will; 
being comparatively difficult to swallow, 
they will seldom overeat of the dry feed, 
but will scratch industriously for all the 
whole grain fed in the litter before turn¬ 
ing to the dry mash hoppers. As a gen¬ 
eral rule they should eat about one half i 
as much dry mash, by weight, as whole 
grain. 
2. If by “half quantity” you mean one- 
half part of beef scrap your mixture is all 
right, but if you mean that the beef scrap 
makes up one-half the mash, you are feed¬ 
ing too heavily of the meat. Beef scrap is 
usually fed in the proportion of from 1/6 
to 1/4 of the entire mash. 
The colds or roup from which your fowls 
are suffering are probably caused by one 
or more of the three D’s which so often in¬ 
fest hen houses, viz., dirt, drafts, and 
dampness. If you have eliminated the first 
D, look carefully after the other two. To 
prevent the ravages of vermin, spray the 
perches, droppings boards, and nests twice 
yearly with carbolineum, furnish the fowls 
with a dust bath, and whitewash the inter¬ 
ior of your henhouse frequently. 
M. B. D. 
Tub Champion- Picker. —We have heard 
stories of champion' hens—here is the 
champion poultry picker and his claim: 
I can dress 600 fowls or better in 10 
hours, one day’s work. Any good man 
ought to do that, for I have done it with| 
ease. I can kill and dress a broiler in- 
less than a minute, and get it ready for 
the cook. I have worked in one place for 
12 years. If you have heard or seen any 
one that could do better let us hear from 
you and them, too. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. baptiste diabo. 
R. N.-Y.—We certainly have no desire 
to pick any chickens or bones with Mr. 
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