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August 31, 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fortieth week of the egg-laying con¬ 
test at Storrs, Conn., shows a gain of 40 
eggs over the previous week, the number 
laid being 1632. This gain is somewhat 
surprising from the fact that very many 
of the birds are molting. This early molt 
is a good thing; the hen is denuded of her 
feathers while the weather is warm, and 
does not have to shiver through the cold 
rains of November. The highest score for 
the week was made by two pens, IV. J. 
Tilley's White Plymouth Rocks and Beulah. 
Farm White Wyandottes, each having laid 
28 eggs. Four pens tied for second place 
with scores of 26 eggs each ; they are the 
Barred Rocks of A. .T. Clark and Robert J. 
Walden, the White Leghorns of Culleneross 
Farm, and the Buff Orpingtons of L. O. 
Keeton. The largest number of eggs laid 
during the month was 117 by Culleneross 
Farm's White Leghorns; they receive the 
silver medal which is given-for the highest 
monthly score. The White Leghorns of 
Toms Poultry Farm laid 108, entitling 
their owner to the bronze medal for second 
place. For third place in the month's 
record the White Leghorns of Susie Abbott, 
and the White Leghorns of Conyers Farm 
tie with a score of 105, a bronze medal 
being given to each. White Leghorns make 
practically all the high scores for the 
month. The following are all of that breed : 
Elm Poultry Farm, 104 ; II. E. Seaver, 104 ; 
Burton E. Moore. 103; F. G. Yost, 100; 
Paul Colburn, 100. The White Rocks of 
Hans Lobert laid 101. To lay 100 eggs in 
a month each pen has to average nearly 
25 eggs a week, which for this season of 
the year is very good laying. 
F. G. Yost's White Leghorns increased 
their lead this week; they are now 50 eggs 
ahead of their nearest competitor: last 
week they were 44 eggs ahead. The handi¬ 
cap of four birds against five was too much 
for the English pen of White Leghorns; 
they lose the second place which they have 
held so long. Marwood Farm birds, also 
White Leghorns, come into the second place 
with a record of 811. The English pen is 
only one egg behind; 810 is their score. 
The score of Y'ost's pen is 861. The high¬ 
est score made 1.'' single pens of the dif¬ 
ferent birds is as follows : White leghorns 
lead with 861 ; White Wyandottes, 814; 
Buff Orpingtons, 718; Rhode Island Reds, 
710: White Orpingtons. 705; White Rocks, 
<:99; Buff Leghorns, 695; Barred Rocks, 
692. 
The egg-laying competitions have shown 
that the best laying birds are not confined 
to any one breed. It is the family or 
"strain.” While the White Leghorns stand 
at the top in this competition, in the Mis¬ 
souri contest the highest scorers are the 
R. 1. Reds. A Buff Orpington leads with 
the highest individual record at Storrs; in 
Missouri a White Plymouth Rock has the 
highest score. If all we had to do to pro¬ 
duce good layers was simply to mate high- 
scoring females with males bred from high- 
scoring mothers, the art of poultry keeping 
would be greatly simplified. But that sys¬ 
tem was carried out faithfully for eight 
years at the Maine Agricultural College, 
with hundreds of birds trap-nested to make 
the selections from, and it Jailed. The 
average production at the end of the ex¬ 
periment was actually lower than at the 
beginning. The system that operates well 
with the Jersey cow, for instance, does not 
work the same with hens. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Sprays for Henhouse. 
Is a spray mixture containing cresol as 
good as one containing carbolic acid for 
killing life in poultry houses? How does 
cresol compare with carbolineum? How 
*-oon after spraying a chicken house with 
the carbolic acid and oil compound would 
it he safe to let the chickens into the 
bouse? a. E - B - 
F.dgeton. Ohio. 
Cresol, like carbolic acid, is a derivative 
from coal tar, and has similar properties 
as a disinfectant to that acid. 1 am not 
able to compare it as to its effectiveness 
in ridding a henhouse from lice with eitfier 
carbolic acid or carbolineum. having never 
used it for that purpose. As its cost is 
about twice that of carbolic acid. I see no 
reason for wishing to substitute it for that 
parasiticide. I should not hesitate to ad¬ 
mit fowls at once to a building that had 
been spraved with a solution of carbolic 
acid in proper strength. For painting or 
spraying small surfaces like the perches, a 
mixture of one part of carbolic acid with 
three of kerosene may be used, though this 
proportion would be too large for a wash 
that was to be applied to the walls. For 
the latter purpose a lime wash containing 
four ounces of crude carbolic acid to the 
gallon is sufficiently strong. M. B. D. 
Trouble with Ducklings. 
What ails my ducklings? They are very 
healthy when I let them out from their 
coops with the hens, and all of a sudden 
they get on their backs and after kicking 
a few minutes they die. They have no 
access to any water but that which they 
drink from a small water fountain. They 
have a discharge f watery and odorless) 
from one eye and nostrils. I have lost 
pnitc a number from same ailment. I feed 
soaked bread and cornmeal and plenty of 
grit and fresh water. w. f. 
Fairliaven, N. J. 
As far as the letter of the inquirer re¬ 
veals the situation, the trouble is due <m- 
tfrely to too concentrated food. It is the 
hardest thing to get the novice to under¬ 
stand that the ducklings must have a large 
percentage of roughage or coarse food. 
From 10 days to eight weeks, if they are 
to be fattened, and up to 15 weeks, if they 
are to be used as breeders, ducklings should 
have at least 30 per cent of their food in 
green stuff of some kind, such as clover, 
green rye. oats, or cornstalks cut up. and 
if too early for green stuff, use dried clover 
or Alfalfa cut up and soaked out. I am 
sure that this is the entire trouble with 
vour correspondent’s ducklings, and prac¬ 
tically everyone has to go through it be¬ 
fore they fully understand the difference 
between ‘ feeding young chicks and young 
ducklings. r. b. skinner. 
ITHE RURAL N EW-VORKKic 
Unrelated Cockerel. 
Could you inform me how I could pro¬ 
duce what they call au unrelated cockerel? 
Newfield, N. J. g. a. j. 
By an unrelated cockerel, in poultry par¬ 
lance, is meant simply a cockerel that is 
not related to any of the hens witli which 
he is placed in a breeding pen. The re¬ 
lationship of fowls in poultry breeding is 
spoken of in the same way as that of the 
human family, father and daughter, son, 
cousins, etc. The only way to get a cock¬ 
erel unrelated to any of your own fioclj. is 
to procure him, either hatched or un¬ 
hatched, from some poultry raiser whose 
flock was not bred from the same strain 
as your own. Too much stress is fre¬ 
quently placed upon the necessity of using 
unrelated birds in mating, and money 'is 
spent to no advantage for the sole purpose 
of introducing “new blood” into a flock 
where it is not needed. If proper care is 
taken to breed from only the most vigor¬ 
ous, prolific and well developed fowls in a 
flock, the introduction of new blood may 
usually be long delayed, and, indeed, such 
a step may prove disastrous rather than 
beneficial. M - B - D - 
Indian Runner Duck Club. 
An English (Cumberland) Penciled 
White-Egg Indian Runner Club has re¬ 
cently been started after months of plan¬ 
ning.’ Its aim is to preserve to the farmer 
and the consumer tlie original type of the 
white-egg runner, which is a penciled bird. 
The officers are C. S. Valentine, Mrs. An¬ 
drew Brooks and C. K. Vanderbilt._ The 
directors are apportioned to each division 
of the territory covered. The plans are 
to offer cups at shows, provide classes and 
give prestige to the Penciled Runners, and 
especially to devise means whereby the 
club can he of practical help to its mem¬ 
bers. Fee and first year’s due, $2. The 
name will be voted on by members at the 
first called meeting, State Fair, Syracuse, 
Now York. September 10, 1912. All 
straightforward breeders of white-egg pen¬ 
ciled Indian Runners in Canada, the East 
and South are cordially invited to join, for 
the good of the white-egg type, which has 
an official record of 185 eggs in eight 
months. c. s. valentine, 
Acting President. 
The Weight of Eggs. 
There is one thing I note is lacking in 
the egg-laying contest at Storrs College. 5 on 
give the number of eggs, hut is there any 
difference in the weight of the eggs that 
have been laid by the several pens? I have 
been buving eggs for a good many years, 
and 1 find that the Leghorn eggs are the 
lightest as a general thing of any (they 
weigh the least), per dozen when the hens 
got to laving bovond the pullet stage, and 
I find that I can get as much or more weight 
in eggs from almost every' other breed than 
when they have Leghorns, according to the 
number of bens kept. That is my experi¬ 
ence. H * B * n * 
West Randolph. Vt. 
All the eggs laid at the egg-laying con¬ 
test at Storrs are weighed, and a record 
kept of both the number and the weight 
of the eggs from each hen or pullet. This 
record of the weight of eggs has not been 
given out yet, but it will be published when 
tin* contest ends, or soon after. The amount 
of food consumed by each pen is weighed 
and a record kept, a separate record being 
kept of the amount of dry mash consumed, 
and of the whole or unground grain. Some 
pens cat very little of the dry mash, others 
eat more of that than they do of the whole 
grains. 1 have not found much difference 
in size between the eggs of Leghorn bens 
and the eggs of any of the American breeds. 
I have, however, noticed that White leg¬ 
horn pullets when they first begin to lay 
produce quite small eggs, smaller than the 
eggs of pullets of the American breeds; but 
after the first clutch of eggs are laid, the 
size of the egg increases. I have noticed 
that feeding abundance of beef scraps or 
green cut bone, will considerably increase 
the size of the eggs. As a rule the Minor- 
cas lay the largest egg of any breed; 
though some Light Brahmas lay a very 
large egg. An eight-pound Buff Cochin hen 
lays a smaller egg than a three-pound Leg¬ 
horn hen. and only about half as many. 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
CB.OP 
OUTLOOK FOR GRAIN AND FEED. 
Wheat is short in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, 
and Michigan, the big Winter wheat States, 
also the big feeding States of the Central 
West. This will have two results; first, 
nearly all the feed made in those Suites 
will he consumed at home, second. New York 
and the East will draw their supplies from 
further West. This is likely to result in a 
feed famine if traffic gets tied up by the 
weather as it did last Winter. Mill feed 
is low. During the past 15 years there 
have been hut few years when prices were 
lower than at present, and we think that 
with our increase in population those prices 
will never be seen again. Prices on mill 
feed may be 50 cents to $1 per ton lower 
than to-day’s market, hut on the other hand 
I believe that it is only a question of six 
to 10 weeks time until there will be a 
heavy advance in mill feed, particularly 
bran; that the probabilities are stronger 
in favor of an advance than a decline. 
Farmers are holding their oats wherever 
they have anything to feed them to. That 
is one reason why bran is so low. With 
oats at 28 to 32 cents in Ohio farmers 
are feeding them heavily. They will soon 
he consumed and prices will go higher. 
Thousands of bushels of oats were raised 
here, but neither ourselves nor our com¬ 
petitors have shipped out a carload. This 
shows our farmers have money (and 
brains). 
Corn is in fair shape so far. There is a 
groat deal planted late that is still subject 
to damage by some of our worst months. 
Oklahoma and the Southwest, if damaged 
as they were last year, will cause mill feed 
to advance 85 to $8 per ton over present 
basis 
We do not believe the Government hay 
crop report is right. Hay is too high for 
a bumper crop coming; while the prospects 
are better than last year the acreage is 
reduced, and the total tonnage will not 
supply the demand. We look for $25 hay 
after the rush of harvest is over, or about 
$5 cheaper than last year's average price. 
The cotton crop is not as heavy as was 
predicted earlier. Price of cotton-seed meal 
is about the same as last year. Flax seed 
crop is good and the price is moving down¬ 
ward. The bottom will probably be reached 
in October and November. Starch factories 
and distilleries are not running heavily, and 
there is barely enough gluten feed and dis¬ 
tillers’ dried grains produced now to supply 
tin* demand. The heavy feeding season 
will he on before they get to running heav¬ 
ily, so that we do not look for any great 
change, unless there is a drought. It al¬ 
ways seems to us that in con,paring crop 
reports one important feature is omitted, 
i. e., population. The Government figures 
compare each time with a year ago, with 
five or 10 years average, but little if any 
attention is given to difference in population 
in that period, Ordinarily an increase of 
10 per cent in the prospect for wheat over 
10 years' average, means a slump, whereas 
the population (and consequently the con¬ 
sumption of wheat), may have’ increased 
20 per cent in 10 yeffrs.’ J. w. g. 
Ohio. 
It takes two good crops to counteract one 
poor. The effect of last year's shortage 
lias been felt more this Spring and Summer 
when stocks were heavily exhausted than 
it was felt last Winter. ' You do not feel 
a draft til! you reach the bottom of the 
well. This,year's average prices on feeds 
will therefore be higher than last year, 
but the fluctuations or extremes will he 
less. The crop of corn this year is not 
quite big enough to make low prices, as 
the country needs bigger crops each year. 
The surplus oats ouly help partially. We 
should have raised three billions of corn 
this year instead of 2S00 millions. It 
takes four bushels of oats to replace three 
bushels of corn by feeding value, so the 
surplus oats do not quite fill the gap in 
corn. Oats at 32 cents Chicago are about 
equal to corn at 75 cents. At this basis 
ground oats will cost about $28 in the 
East, and are no cheaper than cornmeal 
at $34. There are no stacks of feed any¬ 
where,/ so prices will rule high till new 
corn conics in November. After that no 
one can tell, except in a general way prices 
will not be as low as in other' years. Cot¬ 
ton-seed meal will not he as plentiful as 
last year. Protein feeds will rule high 
comparatively, we think. A hay crop above 
the average docs not depress grain prices, 
hut a deficient hay crop compels the use of 
grain and advances grain and feed prices. 
The high price of grain has made many 
industries run light, thus reducing avail¬ 
able mill feed and by-products. In general 
the prices of feed are fixed largely by coarse 
grains, but feeds being largely of the protein 
class, are indispensable.' All that we make 
are always consumed : none is usually car¬ 
ried over here, it takes three tons of Al¬ 
falfa to furnish the protein in one ton of 
gluten feed, so Alfalfa is not in the East 
a cheap source of protein. Wheat feeds 
are relatively too high to he economical, 
hut the average farmer does not know how 
to substitute other feeds, hence, like other 
things, when too many want them, the 
price goes up beyond real worth. 
Buffalo, N. Y. Chapin & Co. 
Tlic crop condition in Attica and War¬ 
saw, N. Y., are generally very good, the 
bean crop being especially so; corn doing 
nicely, and way ahead of the corn seen in 
tin* vicinity of Aldeu and Albion. The 
apple crop to all appearances is going to 
be a bumper one. judging by indications 
in Albion and vicinity, and also from state¬ 
ments made by the fr.uit growers. The 
apples are also very good in Attica, al¬ 
though Attica lias never made claims of 
being au apple growing section. j. b. 
New York. 
The honey crop as an average will he 
smaller than last year^ partly owing to 
Winter loss of bees. 
Michigan correspondents estimate that 
the potato crop for the State will not run 
above 85 per vent of normal. Hay was 25 
per cent better than last year. reaches 
are very light, not over one-sixth of last 
year. The corn outlook is ouly fair. 
500 VE FflRM G STRfll°N TIN S.G.W. LEGHORNS 
FOR SALE CHEAP. In A1 condition for hoavy 
winter laying. 
KENOTIN FARM, Washington Mills, N.Y. 
U/HITE 
IF Mar 
INDIAN RUNNERS —Fine Fishel strain, Wriro 
Marsh Creek Poultry Farm, R. No. 4, Gettysburg, Pa. 
w 
HITE ORPINGTONS and INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. Yearling 
stock at bargain prices. Geo. Bowdish, Esperance, N Y. 
QARRED 
D Writ 
ROCK COCKERELS AND PULLETS $1.00 EACH. 
Write for circular. J. WILSON DAIL, Cambridge, Md. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Annual Sale of Selected Yearling Breeders. 
HENS AND COCKS, $1 EACH. 
Mt. Pleasant Poultry Farm, Havre de Grace, Md. 
1000 S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS early'pullets 
Young and Lakewood Strains direct. Prompt 
on future delivery. Special prices on large lots. 
SUNNY HILL FARM FLKMINGTON, N, 
WtHTFn smere mb white [ FfiHnail PULLETS 
Must be thoroughbred, early and heal thy. Give fu.l 
particulars. HARRY Y. JOHNSON, R. 2, Remington, N. J. 
THE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
I layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y. 
1000 s Efi c L w G LEGHORN h at s $1.00 EACH 
to make room for young stock. Grand 
Laying Strain. First come first served. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM.NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
EARLY PULLETS ATHENS 
Leghorns, Wyandottes, Rocks and P. Cochins 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY FARM • R. D 24 - ATHENS, PA. 
Dfllll TR YM 2c Stamp for Illustrated 
rwUL.IIlllTEkR Catalog describing .15 varieties. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS -:- MARIETTA, PA. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW Of EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hatching. Mating liston request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, Southold, Suffolk Co., X. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 8^C EACH 
From Free Range Selocted 
S. C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
Prompt delivery. A hatch every week. Write for 
prices on thvee-weeks’-old chicks. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circular t'ree. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby 
chicken Farm, Staatsbuvg-on-HuHson, N. Y. 
S. C, WHITE LEGHORN YEARLING HENS 
Several hundred large, vigorous, of heavy-laying 
Strain, all raised on free range. 75 cents each in lots 
of ten or more. W. & F. J. McEWEN, Flemingtou, N. J. 
rno CAI C-SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS. Thor- 
rUrl wHLC ouvlilired, Young and Wyckoff 
strain. Bred for laying. One year old. $1.25 apiece. 
J. M. WAV', Ii. F. 1)., Hockessin, Delaware 
Rarrorl Dnrlc c — 100 Barred Rock and S.C..White 
LktricUfiUtnv Leghorn Cockerels and several 
cocks for sale at sacrificeprices. Tnose birds have 
the breeding right in them, and their superb style, 
shape and marking will surely please you. Write 
me your wants and get my prices on some of this 
grand stock. W. H. MOORE, R. 2, Rome, N. Y. 
S7c7BUFF LE6H0R»S-&'S i .S" ,, aL p , , K 
birds for sale cheap. Jos. L. Ruzicka, Arlington, N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
500 S.G. White LEGHORN BREEDING HENS 
7 5 CENTS—$1.00 EACH 
Write “ FARMLEIGH,” Carmel, New York 
« THE ? SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS 
<». (CONTEST STRAIN) 
® We have mated four pens for fall hatchings. 
Eggs $3 per fifteen. Place your order early. 
FARM 831731 O. WILSON, Carlisle, W. Va. 
PULLETS FOR SAlEpTJR'WfflfgJ?! 
Barred Rocks and ) oungs S. C. W. Leghorns. All 
March and April hatch. The Mackey Farms, Bilboa, N. Y. 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
is losing real money for you. Every egg you don't 
gt-r is so much money lost. Stop that leak ! Hens 
tormented with lice can't bo expected to lay eggs. 
You can keep them free of lice witli one application 
a year, and Circular 01 tells you how. Sent Free. 
Write us today. 
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ISt Franklin Siroot New York 
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