1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
No high scores were made this week, the 
thirty-eighth of the contest; the highest 
was 26 eggs by the White Leghorns of Cul- 
lencross Farm. Three pens laid 25 each, 
Toms Poultry Farm's White Leghorns, 
Colonial Farm's S. C. R. I. Reds, and the 
Columbian Wyandottcs of B. W. Cooper. 
The drop in egg production was 193 eggs 
less than the number laid the previous 
week. The total production for the week 
was only 1012. which is nearly 800 eggs 
less than were laid the twenty-fourth week. 
The high scores are made for this season ; 
the long continued drain on the organs of 
reproduction is beginning to tell heavijy on 
the egg output. But the record that" has 
already been made is a good one, far ex¬ 
ceeding the average production of the same 
number of fowls under the usual care of 
the ordinary poultryman. It is a record of 
which the poultry experts at Storrs have 
good reason to be proud. There is no 
change yet in the relative position of the 
leadiug pens. F. G. Yost's pen of White 
Leghorns lead with a score of 818 eggs; 
the pen of Thomas Barron still hold the 
second place with a record of 778 not¬ 
withstanding their handicap of four birds 
to the others live. Marwood Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns are third with 772 to their 
credit, and Toms Poultry Farm fourth with 
a record of 7(54. Susie Abbott's White 
Leghorns have laid 745 : White Rose Farm, 
765: Frederick Pcaseley’s pen. 716; Cullen- 
cross Farm, 704. These are all White Leg¬ 
horns and they are the only pens that have 
laid 700 or over, except the White Wyan- 
dottes of Beulah Farm, which have laid 
759. The score of F. G. Y'ost's pen, 818, 
means an average for every pullet in the 
pen of 163.6 eggs in the nine months since 
the contest began. When five pullets make 
a record like that it certainly establishes 
the fact that the owner has a good laying 
strain. The White Leghorns still hold the 
highest average per pen. tiie total. 570 eggs, 
divided by the number of pens, 30. gives 
au average per pen of 19 eggs. The White 
P. Rocks average 18.5; the Barred Rocks, 
16.75; the R. C. R. I. Reds, 18: the 8. C. 
Reds. 17.5, the White Wyandottcs, 10.5 ; 
the Black Minorcas, 17.75; the Buff' 
Orpingtons, 10, and the White Orpingtons, 
7.4. If an equal number of pens of each 
breed had been entered, the average output 
per pen would mean much more, and be A 
much fairer test of the laying quality than 
it is now, when the number of pens en¬ 
tered varies so much in the different breeds. 
The result of the contest so far proves that 
the White Leghorn is the egg machine. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Two Hen Notes. 
The report, in careful detail, of Mr. Dou- 
gan's experience with his now famous 10 
hens was exceedingly interesting, and not 
without its illuminating features. But fts 
usefulness is much impaired by the one 
factor of the excessive price which he re¬ 
ceived for his eggs. Whether we should 
figure the results this particular way or 
that particular way may be a matter of 
opinion, but in any event it is not diffi¬ 
cult to determine, by any of the processes 
of figuring, whether or not the hens were 
profitable. But what does it all amount to 
to the average poultry raiser when we bear 
in mind that Mr. Dougan received 45 cents 
a dozen for his eggs, while the average 
poultry raiser does not and cannot get any 
such average price, no matter how con¬ 
scientiously nor how scientifically he may 
care for his hens? 
When it comes to making growth in an 
orchard of young trees or an orchard of 
old trees headed back- “dishorned”—I have 
never found anything, never seen anything 
to compare with hens. Put hens into the 
orchard, plenty of them. You cannot get 
too many, until you reach the point where 
the hens are too numerous for their own 
good. Fence them in and. when the weather 
admits of it. scatter their grain feed all 
over the premises, especially immediately 
under the trees. The trees will make such 
wood growth as they will not make under 
any other treatment. But when the trees 
have begun to bear, shut out the hens, or 
at least shut them out after July first, 
this date may of course be varied somewhat 
to suit climatic conditions North or South. 
ROBERT S. DOfBLEDAY. 
The Hen Contest Discussed. 
In response to your invitation for criti¬ 
cism of the hen contest conducted by Mr. 
W. .T. Dougan of New Jersey I beg to sub¬ 
mit the following: 
In the first place a contest between one 
cow and 10 hens is a difficult matter to 
arrange on equal terms, at least the hens’ 
part is difficult. In the case of the cow. 
her product would be much easier handled. 
It would simply mean the milk she gives 
in one year and one calf at the most. The 
rearing of the calf for one year, assuming 
that the calf was born shortly after the 
contest commenced, would not require any 
appreciable extra room, equipment or labor. 
The same thing could be said about the 10 
hens and the eggs, if the eggs were all 
sold, but in that case the hens would be de¬ 
feated. 
The report shows that 937 Leghorn eggs 
were set and 449 hatched. We will assume 
that the IQ hens were housed in a house or 
part of a house, by themselves when the 
contest was started, same as one cow 
would be, and as stated before, the cow 
could not produce more than one calf in 
one year, for which no extra room or equip¬ 
ment would be needed. In order to set 937 
eggs and raise 449 chicks, less 105 that 
died while young, an incubator or two would 
be required, as well as brooders and brooder 
houses for the young chicks. Green feed 
would be required and a house of consid¬ 
erable size for the young pullets as laying 
house. The argument may be put forth 
that Mr. Dougan had all this equipment al¬ 
ready so he did not go to any extra ex¬ 
pense for incubators, brooders, brooder 
houses, water fountains and miscellaneous 
equipment, or green feed, but that would 
not be fair. A starter in the poultry busi¬ 
ness would have to have all these things, 
and even if the cost of this equipment 
should not be considered as an expense 
within the year in which the contest was 
carried on, the interest on the money that 
these things would cost, as well as depre¬ 
ciation must be considered. The item of 
rent, investment and other overhead ex¬ 
penses is mentioned casually in the report, 
but details and actual figures are missing. 
There is auother defect in the report, 
namely : The value of young stock at close 
of the contest is given as $155.60. Does 
that represent both pullets and cockerels? 
In practice it would not be good policy to 
keep the cockerels hatched during the Sum¬ 
mer and Fall until March 1 the following 
Spring. As there is no iucome shown from 
cockerels it is apparent that none were dis¬ 
posed of. In that case the cost of feed for 
young stock. $119.67. is not stated fairly, 
because the pullets have brought in $77.51 
from eggs, while the cockerels have only 
been eating their heads off. and at market 
prices tli'e pullets would bring in just as 
much per pound as tile cockerels. A sup¬ 
plementary report covering these points, 
and further discussions of Mr. Dougan's 
report in your columns, 1 believe would 
be interesting to many, and might be a 
warning to many who contemplate entering 
the poultry business with small capital. The 
equipment necessary for hatching and rais¬ 
ing a thousand or two thousand chicks rep¬ 
resents a considerable outlay of money, and 
its nature is such that it is out of the 
question to convert it into cash again. 
Canal Zone, Panama. ji e johxsox. 
Surplus Roosters. 
As all of us do know. 
They eat your feed, 
And scratch your seed. 
And do little else but crow. 
\Ye say Amen ! to the following from N. 
E. Chapman of the Minnesota Station. “Do 
it now.” 
“Minnesota has a surplus from her farms, 
annually, of over a million and a half cases 
of eggs. Three-fifths of these are produced 
before September 1 of each year. The Gov¬ 
ernment experts consider that there is a 
loss of five per cent in value because of 
“chick development.” or because roosters 
run with the laying flock. This common 
practice causes a loss of above $1,000,000, 
annually, to the farmers of Minnesota. 
What should bo done? 
“A few breeding cocks, the best produced, 
should be kept for exchange with other 
farmers, or for sale. These should be con¬ 
fined by themselves, like all the other 
breeding stock of the farm ; and all the rest 
should be killed or sold at once. They 
should never be allowed to run with the 
flock. You will get just as many eggs; 
they will cost you less : they are more easily 
preserved; will withstand heat longer; are 
better for shipping; are better for storage; 
will save the hens from injury during the 
molt; and they will go to laying sooner. 
Mate up your breeding pens: keep two or 
three extra birds for emergencies; then sell 
or kill all the rest of the roosters on the 
farm. Help save that million dollars; and 
perchance save yourself from paying a fine 
of $50 for marketing eggs unfit for human 
food. Let there be a mighty slaughter of 
those non-productive, greedy useless roosters 
on the farm.” 
Trouble With Chicks. 
I think it likely that your correspondent, 
F. O.. Glen Head, L. I., page 821. is having 
trouble with bis young chicks because of 
overfeeding them. I once asked Mr. Card, 
who was visiting us, why my chicks died, 
and he said, “Too much feed while young.” 
and went on to say that when he first 
started raising chickens such quantities 
died that he was in despair, and one day 
going over to a cousin's he said, “Rachel, 
why do your chicks thrive and mine die?" 
She said, “I feed them three times a day. 
morning, noon and late afternoon, and if 
I happen to be busy they sometimes do not 
get their noon meal." I have a neighbor 
who hen-hatches all his chicks, and he feeds 
twice a day the first week, and three times 
after that, and he raises fine chickens. 
Since adopting the three meals a day plan 
I have been much more successful with 
little chicks. T used to feed every two or 
three hours. I firmly believe that if they 
are overfed during the first week of their 
lives they never get over the effects, but 
begin to drop off at four weeks old and 
look stunted and “queer." That has been 
my experience, which 1 tell in the interest 
of chicks, being very fond of them. 
r,. h. c. 
Frauds in Bitting.—I was very much in¬ 
terested in B. M.'s experience with frauds 
in buying eggs and chicks, on page 786. 
It reminded me of a little incident in my 
own experience a few years ago. I had 
some nice Chester White pigs for sale. 
There was an active demand that year for 
pigs. A man wrote me an inquiry for a 
pair of pigs on a sheet with a letter-head 
of a merchant. I quoted him my price, 
812 per pair, as I had sold several others. 
He wrote me asking me to cut the price so 
as to allow him a profit, as he was buying 
the pigs for a customer. I wrote him that I 
preferred to sell direct without any middle¬ 
man’s profits between me and my customers, 
so I could not cut prices. He then sent 
me a check for $12. ordering the pigs, but 
in a few days he wrote me not to ship the 
pigs, as he would not want them. M.v 
opinion is that he thought he could raise 
the price on his customer, and when he 
found that he could not make something 
off bis customer in the transaction he 
canceled the order. I was very glad that 
he did recall the order, as the same mail 
that brought his letter also brought a check 
to pay for the last pig I had to sell, and 
I preferred to send the pigs to my cus¬ 
tomers direct without any merchant’s 
profits. a. j. legg. 
West Virginia. 
We have heard of the great record of 
those English White Leghorns in the Con¬ 
necticut poultry contest. It is not likely 
that our American breeders will ever let 
those birds go back to England, if money 
will buy them. The White Orpingtons are 
also making a good record, and each year 
creates an increased demand for them. Dur¬ 
ing 1911 a single English breeder exported 
$13,436 worth of White Orpington poultry 
to this country for breeding purposes. The 
price for good cockerels from this, flock ran 
from $15 to $100, and for pullets $25 up. 
»8I 
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