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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
To the surprise of the men in charge 
of the contest, the twenty-third week 
shows still further gains in egg produc¬ 
tion; 2,406 eggs were laid during the 
week ending April 9, a gain of 45 over 
the preceding week. It was supposed 
that broodiness would occur to such an 
extent as to reduce the egg output con¬ 
siderably, but only 12 pullets'out of 490 
are reported as being broody. Whether, 
the absence of male birds has anything 
to do with it or not is yet to be deter¬ 
mined ; but without doubt the correct 
feeding and good care and surroundings 
is stimulating egg production to such 
an extent that the birds cannot help 
but continue laying. I know of a plant 
of 150 hens and pullets where there are 
24 broody hens now—16 per cent. If 
the same proportion obtained at the Col¬ 
lege they would have 78 broody instead 
of 12. 2,406 eggs for the week is over 
70 per cent, of the possible total, and 
for such a large number of birds this 
is an astonishing good yield. About two 
months ago it was predicted that some 
pens would reach 30 eggs in a week; 
but 32 was laid by one pen, and this 
week two pens reach 31 eggs each. 
They are the White Rocks of W. J. 
Tilley and the Barred Rocks of Reed 
& Lloyd. Four pens laid 30 each. Henry 
D. Riley's Barred Rocks, E. W. Crock¬ 
er’s White Rocks, Beulah Farm’s White 
Wyandottes, and Bunker Hill Farm’s 
R. I. Reds. Three pens laid 29 eggs 
each. For continuous laying O. Wil¬ 
son’s Buff Orpington pullet No. 1 leads 
the whole lot; this bird has only missed 
three days in two months, 60 eggs in 63 
days is remarkably good laying. The 
total score of the leading pens is as 
follows: 
Thomas Barron’s White Leghorns, 459 
F. G. Yost’s White Leghorns. 426 
Bunker Hill Farm’s R. I. Reds.... 417 
Beulah Farm’s White Wyandottes.. 414' 
E. S. Edgerton’s R. I. Reds. 410 
Howard Steele’s R. I. Reds. 407 
Marwood Farm’s White Leghorns. 396 
White Rose Farm’s White Leghorns 395 
Gilbert & Moore’s White Orping¬ 
tons . 390 
0. Wilson’s Buff Orpingtons. 390 
Mt. Orchard Farm’s Buff Orping¬ 
tons . 388 
There is a similar contest being held 
in Missouri, and it is remarkable how 
closely some of the breeds are running 
with the same breeds in the Connecticut 
contest. Here are a few instances: 
Missouri. Conn. 
White Orpingtons 
.... 335 
334 
Barred Rocks .... 
_ 321 
304 
White Rocks . 
.... 258 
252 
White Wyandottes 
... 346 
356 
S. C. R. I. Reds.. 
.... 376 
360 
R. C. R. I. Reds.. 
.... 338 
360 
Houdans . 
.... 74 
85 
Black Minorcas .. 
.... 199 
167 
White Leghorns .. 
.... 289 
417 
Brown Leghorns . 
.... 217 
266 
In the Missouri 
contest a few of 
the 
feathered legged breeds are entered 
* 
Light Brahmas ... 
108 
Buff Brahmas .... 
130 
Buff Cochins . 
188 
These heavily feathered breeds it will 
be seen are laying about one-third as 
many eggs as the American breeds. In 
the Missouri contest there are 18 vari¬ 
eties entered that are not in the Con¬ 
necticut contest, including two varieties 
of Indian Runner ducks. In the Con¬ 
necticut list are two breeds that are 
not in the Missouri contest. The Fawn 
ducks have laid 162 eggs, the White In¬ 
dian Runner ducks 104. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Green Crops for Hens. 
My chicken yard is about 60 feet square, 
divided into two runs, each about 30 feet 
by 60 feet. I want to sow something like 
rape, millet, etc., and rotate the crops by 
closing up one run after the seed is planted. 
What would you recommend planting, and 
what quantity would be required for the 
above space? Also, is it advisable to plant 
fruit trees of any kind in a chicken yard? 
Dunellen, N. J. G. b. d. 
Your idea of a succession of grain crops 
In your yards is excellent. I believe, how¬ 
ever, that the use of common grains, as 
oats, wheat, etc., will give better results 
lor what you want than rape and millet. 
' ou still have time to seed one of your 
runs to Spring oats as a starter, about one 
peck to a 30 by 60 lot, I should say. You 
• ■an afford to seed such a lot much heavier 
than a field acre, as it is well manured and 
the crop .is removed long before maturity, 
lou can if you wish, lessen the amount of 
oats by half, and after the oats have 
started seed a quarter pound of rape or 
kale among it. In May or early June, 
a planting of millet, say three quarts, will 
help out. From the first of August on I 
would plant rye, wheat, or either with Win¬ 
ter vetch, about a peck when the straight 
grain is planted, and half that amount to 
two pounds of vetch, if the latter is used. 
I would be sure to seed one lot very early 
in September to the mixture, so that you 
will have an early Spring lot to turn the 
hens on. A quarter pound of Cow-horn 
turnip seed along with such seeding, if 
planted not later than the middle of 
August, will furnish first-class Winter root 
feed at little cost. When a run is bare 
and ready for seeding again I would always 
spade or plow it thoroughly. A couple of 
bushels of lime spread over it and worked 
in during the year will help sweeten and 
improve it. Fruit trees will make good 
growth and furnish shade, but for your 
own comfort trim them to branch high. 
Also. I would prefer to plant them along 
the fence lines, in fact as close to the 
fences as possible, instead of in the middle 
of the runs as we often see them. This 
would give you about three rows of apple 
trees. 30 feet apart,, or if you prefer, plums, 
cherries, or pears. r. b. 
More About Guineas. 
Our main business is market gardening. 
[ read an article recently on the Guinea 
fowl and would like to ask a few . ques¬ 
tions. The writer says they do not scratch 
and destroy crops as other fowls do. 
Would It be safe to let them run in the 
gardens among lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers 
and such truck? If so, they would be a 
valuable help to the market gardener. 
Could not their wings be clipped so as to 
prevent their flying so high or far? On a 
40-acre place we could give them good 
range. Do you think they would pay to 
raise for market in Toledo and Cleveland, 
and do they not bring much better prices 
than chickens? I have been intending to 
raise more chickens, but it might pay bet¬ 
ter to raise Guineas instead, as I cannot 
give them much time. m. b. r. 
Fremont, O. 
I am always glad to say a good word 
for that very useful bird, the Guinea fowl. 
I consider them well nigh indispensable 
on a truck farm. On my truck farm of 
25 acres I always keep a flock and allow 
them to roam without restraint, and the 
labor and expense they save me in devour¬ 
ing insect pests is great. I grow all the 
crops you have mentioned and in addition 
all the other garden crops such as aspara¬ 
gus, melons, peas, beans, cabbage, etc., and 
they do not injure any of them. Of course 
their wings could he clipped to prevent 
their flying, but I have never practiced it, 
nor would I allow it to be done. Their 
wings are their protection; on the ap¬ 
proach of an enemy the whole flock sails 
out. of harm’s way. I do not know whether 
it would pay to raise them for the Toledo 
and Cleveland markets. The way I dis¬ 
pose of mine is off my market wagon direct 
to the consumer. In this way it is profit¬ 
able. Unless you could market them in 
this way I would not advise you to go in 
the business too largely at the start, but I 
would strongly advise you to keep a flock 
to roam about your garden crops. 
G. G. i. 
How to Catch Crows. 
It will soon be in season for crows to 
fatten up on young chicks and sprouting 
corn. We all know very well that the 
“scarecrow” is practically useless, and that 
the most effective means of scaring crows 
away is to hang up a dead crow on a 
pole. The most difficult part for many 
is to get that dead crow. A plan that I 
have never had to fail is to take six 
or 10 eggs which have failed to hatch, 
make a nest with them far enough from 
the building so the chickens will not find 
it, and surround it with two or three 
old steel traps. These traps should have 
rather weak springs. Cover the traps 
and chains well with green grass. The 
next morning you will have a crow. You 
never catch two in the same place, so 
after you get one and want another, move 
the outfit to a new location. 
Pennsylvania. e. r. Johnson. 
Another Egg Record.— I have had a 
flock of 100 pullets this last Winter; 70 
are White Wyandottes and 30 Rhode Island 
Reds. Here is their egg record: They be¬ 
gan laying when five months and two days 
old. Through November, December and 
January they gave 50 per cent egg yield; 
through February, 53 per cent, and March, 
64 per cent. They have already netted me 
$175. I have nothing to choose between 
the two breeds as layers. My houses are 
the open-front type, and the temperature 
has gone down to 26 below several times. 
Harrington, Me. l. b. w. 
Fattening Podt.try. —The method used 
by most of the large establishments en¬ 
gaged in fattening poultry in this coun¬ 
try is to feed the chickoms in crates from 
troughs, according to information collected 
by the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture. From six to ten birds are placed 
in each division of the battery or feeding 
coop, depending on the size of the birds 
and the ideas of the feeder. Most “milk- 
fed” chickens are fed for 14 days, but re¬ 
sults indicate that a more profitable gain 
can be secured in a shorter feeding period, 
provided the same price per pound can be 
obtained for the finished product. Prac¬ 
tically all of the special feeding in this 
country involves the use of milk, thus pro¬ 
ducing “milk-fed” chickens. Milk, while the 
least expensive, seems to be the most es¬ 
sential constituent of the ration, and when 
a feeder cannot get milk in some form he 
generally does not attempt to fatten poultry 
commercially. Fresh buttermilk, condensed 
buttermilk, and skim-milk are preferred in 
this relative order. The feed is mixed to 
the consistency of thick cream, or so that 
it will drip from the tip of a wooden 
spoon. Rations of 50 per cent cornmeal, 40 
per cent low-grade wheat flour, and 10 per 
cent fine shorts; or of 58 per cent cornmeal, 
36 per cent oat flour, and six per cent tal¬ 
low, by weight, give very good results, pro¬ 
ducing gains which cost from 6.45 cents to 
7.74 cents per pound. Dow-grade wheat 
flour is a more economical feed than oat 
flour at the present prices of grain. The 
results of extensive fattening tests con¬ 
ducted in the Middle West, showing the 
methods of feeding and the costs of grains, 
are given in Bulletin 140 of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
lific laying strain of S.C. W. LEGHORNS-$6.00 
per 100. Limited number of eggs from extra choice 
matings of W. P. Rocks, W. Wyandottes and W. 
Orpingtons—$2.00 per 15. Ninety per cent fertility 
and safe delivery of all orders guaranteed. A trial 
order will convince you. EVERGREEN POUL¬ 
TRY FARM, Chappaqua, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES Jgfi 
Free range. Send for 1912 Mating List. Eggs, $1.50 
per 15; $6.00 per 100. CLARENCE H. FOGG, 
Bridgeton, N. J. R. F. D. No. 3. 
Single Comb White Leghorn 
Eggs, Stock and Day Old chicks from Prize winning 
White Leghorns. Eggs Ten cents each. 
MARYLAND SQUAB CO., Cambridge, Maryland 
r n . C,|„ S. G. Brown Leghorn Eggs—26 for $1, 
1 or Odlc or $ 3,50 pn r loo. Pure bred stock: all 
right. H. A. THATCHER. Perulack, Pa. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Wyckoff Strain. Unequaled for size and egg pro¬ 
duction. Eggs—$1.25 per 15, $5.00 per hundred. 
Alden Nodine, Elm Lawn Farm, Ravena, N. Y. 
SPFflAI Eggs for hatching from 
rlULEO f ree raTlg0i fine]y 
bred S. L. W. Leghorns. Special prices on large 
orders. Also Indian Runner Duck Eggs. H. C. 
LAWRENCE, R. D., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
nUSTOM HATCHING— S3.00 a compartment in our HALL 
U MAMMOTH INCUBATORS. Each compartment holds 150 
epos S. C. W. Leghorn Hatching Eggs for sale—$1.50 per 
Mtting; SB 00 per hundred. S. C. W. Leghorn DAY-0L0 
CHICKS—S15.00 per hundred; $130 per thousand. See our 
Swine ad. MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM, MILLERT0N, N.Y. 
THE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
1 layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
Maple Cove Poultry Farms a,L5: 2 k. 
Eggs and Baby Chicks from matnre breeders of 
exhibition quality, in S.C. White Leghorns, Wyan¬ 
dottes, Rocks & Emden Geese; R.I. Reds, P.Cochins, 
B. Rocks and B. Leghorns. Breeders at all times. 
Whltp WvamWh»«t Satisfaction strain, 
yy iiuc yy y ctnuoues brefi by me for Vi years . 
Large, fine birds, splendid winter layers. Free 
range. Have won for six years. Eggs—100, $5.00; 
setting, $1.00. WILLIAM O. BURR, Fairfield, Conn. 
WHITF s. C. White Leghorns and O. 
YY ni 1 Ei A.WLIVD j, c . Swine. Write me your 
wants. Leedsville Poultry Yards, Amenia, N. Y. 
Big Barred Rocks 
that will hatch—$2 per 13, $3 per 26. Rock Cockerels 
and Pullets for sale. A Sensible System of Poultry 
Keeping, free. Lambert’s Poultry Farm. Apponaug, R. 1. 
DARRE0 ROCK EGGS, Parks strain, $4.00 hundred. 
“ S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs, Youngs strain, $4.00 hun¬ 
dred; 90 per cent fertility on both breeds, and safe 
delivery guaranteed. Leghorn Chicks in May, $9.00 
hundred. THE MACKEY FARMS, Gilboa, N.Y. 
HOGS and FOdm-EfEJMSS 
ner Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
of best strains, Bred Berkshire Sows and Pigs. 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio. 
BUFF ROCK & WHITE LEGHORN E6GS lor HATCHING; 
purebred. $1.00 setting of 15. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. HOWARD SUTTON, Fairmotint, N. J. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 
EGGS and DUX. WHITE LEGHORN CHIX. 
Prices reasonable. Inquiries answered promptly. 
CLIFFORD SOHRYVKR.OMAR, N. Y. 
O w NS’ CELEBRATED STRAIN OF BUFF 
v ORPINGTONS-EGGS, $3.00 A SETTING. 
J. A. DICK.8TUYVESANT FALLS, N. Y, 
TURKEY EGGS, all breeds, $3.25 for 12. Rocks, R. I. 
1 Reds, Minorcas, all Wyandottes, Orpingtons and 
Leghorns—Eggs, $1 for 17. Pekin & I.R. Duck Eggs, 
$1 for U, W. R. CARLE, R. 1, Jacobsburg, Ohio. 
Hone’s Rose Comb Reds £ STL 7" 
and superior layers of large brown eggs. Hatching 
eggs from tested layers and Schenectady and Al¬ 
bany winner*. A satisfactory hatch guaranteed. 
D. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
Kirkup’s Strain S. C. White Leghorns 
Bred for size, vigor and large white market eggs. 
If you do not know their merits, visit our farm or 
send for circular. Custom hatching a specialty. 
Baby Chicks. 10c. each. CHESTNUT POULTRY 
FARM. Kirkup Bros., Props. Mattituck, L.I..N.Y. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I. REDS 
200 EGG STRAIN 
DAY OLD CHIX—Chix that live and grow hatched 
in Mammoth Inenbators. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING — Eggs from vigorous, 
fresh-air housed stock. 
Place your orders for Chix now and get positive 
date of delivery. Safe arrival guaranteed. 
Circular Free. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM . . . BERLIN, Mass. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS SfM’&S 
Orders booked for future delivery. Young and old 
stock at attractive prices. Best laying strains. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
Rockies), 
No machines 
at any price 
are better. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Write for book today 
or send price now and save time. 
Bell* City Incubator Company, Box 48 
Bays Best 
140-Egg Incubator 
Double cases all over;best copper 
tank; nursery, self-regulating. 
Best liO-chiclc hot-water brooder, 
$4.85. Both ordered together. 
Freight prepaid (E. of 
Racine, Wiiconiio 
RICHLAND FARMS 
Breeders and Exhibitors of 
S. C. White Leghorns, S. C. Black Orpingtons, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
We are now booking orders for the PROFIT PAYING 
KINO of BABY CHICKS and EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for Catalogue. 
RICHLAND FARMS, FREDERICK, MD, 
Chicks, Ducklings & Hatching Eggs 
Now Ready from Selected Breeders. 
S. C. W. Leghorns—Barred Plymouth Rocks. 
S. C. R. I. Reds—Imperial Pekin Ducks. 
300 Breeding Ducks. Also a few BARRED 
ROCK COCKERELS at right prices. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM.NE W ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
S. G. White Leghorn BABY CHICKS 
and HATCHING EGGS. Free range, farm bred 
quality. No order too large or too small 
CHICKS THAT MAKE GOOD.” Circular. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Poin t. Dutchess Cn.. N. Y, 
S. C. IV, LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs from selected yearling breeders. 
Choice breeding stock at reasonable prices. 250 
acres devoted to Leghorns of exceptional quality 
S, n . d T>Ti go £- S ® n, ] T for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace. Ml). 
Farm Bred Poultry 
OF SHOW QUALITY 
Barred Rocks 
White Rocks 
Partridge Cochins / 
Partridge Wyandottes 
500 Selected Birds in Our Breeding Yards 
$1.50, $2.00 and $3.00 per setting. 
“ —— — $7.50 to $15.00 per hundred 
MINCH 
_ BRIDGETO N, N. J. 
Rahv CHirljC From free range, selected S. C. 
uavy vllILIVS WHITE LEGHORNS, in 
any quantity. Safe arrival guaranteed. Cir¬ 
cular free. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby Chicken 
Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Indian RUNNERS-White Eggs Only 
First-class Eggs for Hatching from fawn and white, 
pencilled, and English Walton strains. All stock 
is pure, vigorous and prolific. Breeders kept under 
natural conditions, produce eggs that hatch, thrive 
and grow. Baby Duck culture freo with egg order. 
Write for prices and Free Mating List. 
CHERRY HILL FARM.,..Pitt stown, N. J. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS—barred Rocks 
Eggs from selected breeders—free range—$4 per 100. 
LINDQUIST POULTRY FARM. Boonton, N. J. 
Barred Rocks 
and beauty. 
LJ I Hatching Eggs, Wyckoff 
wlllwIVO'WhHe Leghorn Ringlet 
Barred Rocks, Brown Leghorns, five other breeds, 
raised from superior free range stock; capacity 
100.000; strong, liveable chicks; safe arrival 
f uaranteed. Illustrated catalogue free. TAY- 
.OR S POULTRY YARDS, LYONS, N. Y. 
Fine, large 
birds bred 
for utility 
-- Eggs for hatching, $1 per lo, 
$4.50 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Chas. T. Downing 
Route 2, West Chester, Pa. 
R»hv s - c - w - Leghorns, Barred 
'7****^y vIUCKS Rocks, R. C. Reds. Strong, 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular 
free. WESLEY GRINNBLL, SoDUS, N. Y. 
B UFF WHITE LEGHORNS-S. C. R. I. Red Eggs, 90c. per 
15, $1.50 per 30, $2.75 per 60, $4.00 per 100. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
Kean’s White Wyandottes 
Bred nine years for vigor, utility and standard re¬ 
quirements. Eggs from selected stock; eight fe¬ 
males mated to each male; thirteen, $1.00; tifty- 
two, $3.50; one hundred, $6.00. Choice COCKERELS 
and INDIAN RUNNER DRAKES at $2.50 each. 
E. FRANKLIN KKAN.Stanley, N. Y. 
Madison Square Garden ggisft&g 
Prize-Winning Strains 
Island Reds, White Wyandottes, Barred Rocks. 
Eggs reasonable. Catalog gratis. 
F. M. PRESCOTT.Klverdale, N. J. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Walnut Hill Stock Farm 
NATHANIEL BACON, Manager, Talcott. W. Va. 
HOFF’S “VITALITY” BABY CHICKS of QUALITY 
Over twenty years' experience in breeding and incubation 
or Eggs for Hatching. Write me for catalog and prices, 
H>. O. H. Hoff, ±403: 115, 3VTos3a«,nio 
S. C. WHITE 
LEG HORNS 
I can please you if you want Chicks 
Station, IXT. O'. 
Don’t Be a Clam I 
A BELAIR man remarked the other day, “I know where Darlington Is, all right: it is an old 
fashioned place that is good to get out of.’* Yes, Darlington is old fashioned: our grand¬ 
mothers had a rule—they called it the GOLDEN RULE (probably now obsolete in Court 
House Square). It is still good in Darlington. Our bushel does not have to be weighed. We sleep 
with our doors unlocked and our latch strings are always out. OUR girls (God bless ’em) are like 
their grandmothers—and our grandmothers made the men sit up and think. Our men are as homely 
as a "stone fence.” Yes, we are old fashioned; thank God there is one place leTt that is. A Belair 
man standing on a store porch six miles out from Darlington, and seeing the carriages go by, said, 
“Whose funeral is that V His friend remarked, “Don’t you see how pleasant the people look; that 
is not a funeral; they are Belair people going over to see the DARLINGTON EGG FARM.” We 
are also glad to see pleasant people. If you come with a smile (and don’t come without it), the 
fault will be ours if you don’t go back with a grin. 
There is not much old fashioned about the DARLINGTON EGG 
FARM. You will see 1,000 Breeding: Hens in one house and one 
flock. Yon will see the MAMMOTH HOT WATER MACHINE 
hatching Chicks for you. You will see a unique brooder house, 
36 hovers in two tiers. You can get Eggs for Hatching that 
for size would make an ostrich blush, testing over 93# fertile. 
You can get Baby' Chicks that live. And If your credentials are 
all right, see one or two Darlington, girls. 
DARLINGTON EGG FARM . . Alfred P. Edge . . Box O, Darlington , Md. 
