1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
!<J13 
The Henyard. 
Girls and Poultry. 
Mr. H. L. Hayes, of Maine, sends us 
the picture shown on page 995. The 
girls are 10 and 11 years old, and seem 
to be genuine farm workers. Mr. 
Hayes says they saved the work of a 
hired man this year in haying by driv¬ 
ing teams and helping take off 135 tons 
of hay by machinery. As for the poul¬ 
try, Mr. Hayes says: 
“I find the geese more profitable than 
the ducks, as they do not require any 
grain, just grass, and any old refuse, 
such as potato peelings, cabbage trim¬ 
mings, apple parings and the like, and 
in the Winter I feed them some clover 
and the same refuse as before stated. 
The ducks I do not feed very much 
grain only when small, and a lot of 
clover and grass and refuse the same as 
the geese. As the picture shows they 
run together, and as I do not believe in 
a specialty of any particular kind 1 have; 
a little of everything. I only had a pair 
of geese wintered, and the females be¬ 
gan to lay in March and laid 53 eggs, 
and the older the goose the better layer 
she is and the more likely she is to be 
fertile, but it is no use to keep more 
than one female for a male. I kept 
three ducks and a drake, and they be¬ 
gan to lay early in April and laid until 
July, and began again in the Fall, and 
generally lay about 20 to 30 eggs in the 
Fall. The geese are worth about 13 
cents alive now and the ducks 15 cents.” 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-fourth week of the contest 
closed September 3. It shows a drop in 
egg production of 171, the total for the 
week being 1,427. Molting and broodiness 
are the main causes. No very high scores 
were made; the largest number of eggs laid 
was 26, and two pens tied with this num¬ 
ber; they were Robert J. Walden’s Barred 
Rocks and the Columbian Wyandottes of 
B. W. Cooper. The White Wyandottes of 
Beulah Farm and the Barred Rocks of S. 
M. Goucher each laid 25, as also did the 
White Leghorns of Cullencross Farm. It 
is not likely that any very high scores will 
be made from now on ; the lateness of the 
season and the increasing number of birds 
that will be molting cannot help but lower 
the output. The largest producers to date 
are as follows: 
F. G. Yost, White Leghorns. 947 
Marwood Poultry Farm, White Leg¬ 
horns .... ... 902 
Beulah Farm, White Wyandottes. 898 
Toms Poultry Farm, White Leghorns. 896 
Thomas Barron. White Leghorns. 876 
Susie Abbott, White Leghorns. 875 
Cullencross Farm, White Leghorns.... 859 
Frederick Peasley, White Leghorns. . . . 839 
The White Wyandottes of Beulah Farm 
have gone up to third place, and they laid 
25 eggs this week ; Marwood Farm’s birds 
laid only 16; if they each do about the 
same next week it will put the Wyandottes 
in second place. F. G. Yost's White Leg¬ 
horns have too great a lead to be over¬ 
come; they will carry off the honors of 
this contest without much doubt. 
It is greatly to be desired that Mr. Yost 
will re-enter the same birds for the next 
contest, as it will be of much interest to 
know how these birds will lay in their sec¬ 
ond year. The same thing is true of all 
the high scorers. C. S. and S. A. Seoville 
of Connecticut entered Rose Comb R. I. 
Red liens, instead of pullets; and the hens 
have laid more eggs than any pen of pullets 
of either the Rose or Single Comb Reds. 
This is in opposition to fhe rule that a 
pullet lays more eggs in the year that 
ensues after she begins laying than she 
ever does In any subsequent year. Why 
this should be the case is, so far as I know, 
unknown. A hen has more undeveloped 
eggs in her ovaries than she ever lays, 
and a singular fact is that the hen that 
lays only 20 or 30 eggs in a year, or per¬ 
haps none at all, has as many undeveloped 
yolks in her ovaries as the best laying 
hen does. Why she does not lay as many 
eggs in her second or third year is worth 
finding out, if it could be, and it would 
be exceedingly interesting to note what 
the second year’s performance of these 
pullets at Storrs would be. 
Robert J. Walden's Barred Rocks win 
the silver medal for the largest number of 
eggs laid during the month. The pen laid 
117. Cullencross Farm’s White Leghorns 
laid 112, Geo. H. Schmidt's Buffi Leghorns 
110. entitling these last two to bronze 
medals. 
The other high scorers in August arj> as 
follows : 
W. ,T. Tilley, White Rocks. 108 
W. B. Candee, White Wyandottes. 106 
H. P. Demings, R. I. Reds. 102 
Marwood Poultry Farm, White Leg¬ 
horns . 102 
A. J. Clark, Barred Rocks. 100 
Hans 1-obert, White Rocks. 100 
Paul Van Denson’s White Leghorns... 100 
F. G. Yost's White Leghorns. 100 
The pen that lays 100 eggs in a month 
has to average 20 eggs per hen, and that 
is about 66 per cent of the possible out¬ 
put if every hen laid every day. Not a 
bad showing for the time of year. 
In the best record of individual birds O. 
Wilson’s Buff Orpington pullet No. 1 has 
lost the lead she has held so long. Her 
scoto of 210 is beaten by Marwood Poultry 
Farm’s White Leghorn pullet No. 2, with 
213; third place goes to W. H. Petersen’s 
White Leghorn No. 1, with 208 eggs to 
her credit. Heiiry D. Riley's Barred Rock 
No. 2 laid 206; Mrs. Harris Lehman’s R. I. 
Red No. 4 laid 206; F. G. Yost’s No. 1 
laid 205; A. P. Hillhouse’s pullet No. 1 
laid 202; Frederick Peasley’s White Leg¬ 
horn No. 5, 200; W. B. Candee’s White 
Wyandotte No. 1, 200. Thomas Barron’s 
pen of English White Leghorns have the 
honor of producing three birds with scores 
of over 200; pullet No. 1 has laid 203, No. 
2 has laid 202, No. 4, 202. Mr. Barron 
is to enter more of his birds in the next 
contest, and several other Englishmen ex- ' 
pect to enter birds for the contest. This 
contest at Storrs has stimulated interest 
in poultry keeping to a remarkable de¬ 
gree. Even the staid old “Springfield Re¬ 
publican” now has a whole page in its 
Sunday edition devoted to articles on poul¬ 
try keeping, and advertises the fact. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
AILING FOWLS; BLACKHEAD IN 
TURKEYS. 
Last February I bought four White Ply¬ 
mouth Rock cockerels. I put two of them 
in an old pen and two in a new pen. In 
about a month I noticed one in the new 
pen looking droopy. He would scarcely eat 
and seemed very weak. I took him out of 
the yard, but he died in about a week. In 
another month the second was affected 
the same way. I took him from the yard 
and watched carefully and he has recov¬ 
ered. I put another in the yard. He was 
soon affected the same w r ay and died. That 
made three affected of the four I bought, 
with one saved. Then I put one from my 
own raising in that yard, and last week he 
died. When opened all organs seemed in 
good condition but the lungs, which were 
almost dried up and as thin as paper. Is 
this tuberculosis, and is it spreading? 
There were 35 hens in the pen, and lately 
a few of them seem to me to look sick. 
Their heads and combs are white looking. 
These birds are in a good-sized open house 
with scratching pen attached, also a large 
yard to run in. They have clean water 
every morning; have been fed a mixed chick 
feed with grit handy, and are now fed 
wheat. Please tell me if this disease is 
contagious and if there is danger of it af¬ 
fecting my whole flock; also if the rooster 
that recovered will be fit to use to breed 
from next year. 
I wish also to ask about my young 
White Holland turkeys. They are two 
months old now, well feathered out. They 
have the range of a clover field and a 
wheat and oat stubble; go more on clover 
than any other. In the last week about 
five have died, and when opened the liver 
seemed enlarged and spotted, and the en- 
testines congested. One fell off the roost 
dead, and two others toppled over when 
they came up at night. m. c. c. 
Crewe, Va. 
The general symptoms of tuberculosis in 
fowls are so similar to those of various 
other diseases that a diagnosis cannot be 
made from them alone. In tuberculosis, as 
in other affections, there is progressive loss 
of flesh and strength, an increasing pallor 
of the combs, a dull stupid attitude on the 
part of the affected fowls, and perhaps a 
marked and persistent diarrhoea which leads 
to exhaustion and death. Post mortem 
examinations more frequently show involve¬ 
ment of the abdominal organs than of 
the lungs alone, the liver, particularly, 
being a favorite seat of the disease. In¬ 
volvement of these abdominal organs may 
be recognized by the occurrence of small 
tubercles or nodules, grayish white in color, 
and varying in size from mere points to 
that of a pea, or even larger. The large 
nodules are firm to the touch and fre¬ 
quently softened in the center. Whatever 
the disease affecting your fowls, the ap¬ 
parent confinement of it to one pen, and 
the involvement of other fowls placed in 
that pen, would certainly indicate that it 
is of an infectious nature spreading from 
fowl to fowl either by contact, or through 
the use of common utensils, or from a com¬ 
mon source of infection located in that pen 
or yard. The rational thing to do, there¬ 
fore, would .be to remove and isolate all 
fowls showing signs of the trouble, thor¬ 
oughly to clean and disinfect their eating 
and drinking utensils, as well as the house 
itself, and, if possible, to plow and cul¬ 
tivate the run for a season before allowing 
fowls access to it again. For the disin¬ 
fection of utensils, boiling water is effica¬ 
cious. The pen should be thoroughly 
cleaned and the droppings burned or buried 
where other fowls cannot get access to 
them. The walls, perches and other furni¬ 
ture of the pen should have a coat of hot 
whitewash containing four ounces of crude 
carbolic acid to the gallon. A rooster that 
has once been affected with a serious and 
debilitating disease should not be used in 
a breeding pen, no matter if apparently 
fully recovered. 
Your young turkeys are probably affected 
with the so-called “black-head” or Infec¬ 
tious entero-hepatitis, which, being inter¬ 
preted. means a contagious inflammation of 
the intestines and liver. The discoloration 
of the head which gives it its name is 
merely a symptom of the internal disorder. 
This disease is caused by a parasite which 
Is taken into the digestive tract with the 
food or drink, and there multiplies, causing 
Inflammation of the affected organs, par¬ 
ticularly of the liver, which becomes en¬ 
larged and spotted. Living in the intes¬ 
tines, these micro-organisms are discharged 
with the excrement, thus contaminating 
the runs, and the food and drink used by 
the fowls, and spreading the disease. No 
satisfactory treatment has yet been discov¬ 
ered, and about the only hope of overcom¬ 
ing the trouble seems to lie in securing 
breeding stock that has nver been infected 
and raising the young upon ground that is 
free from contamination; not so simple a 
matter as it might seem. m. b. d. 
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EVERY LOSSY HEN 
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700 SCW LEGHGR^S~ A , un " ll s,ll ° ot 
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1 B. DILTS, Maple Spring Farm, Flemingtou, N. J. 
S. C. WhVtE LEGHORN BREEDING HENS 
j The hardy, heavy-laying kind, at prices yon can 
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Leghorns, Wyandottes, Rocks and P. Cochins 
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1000 WT LEGHORN "II s $1.00 EACH 
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W) We have mated four pens for fall hatchings. 
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I SAW it stated that a steamer had arrived in San Francisco 
Harbor loaded to the water line with eggs from China 
Hid you ever try to eat a China egg? It is awful to think of. 
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DARLINGTON EGG FARM, Alfred P. Edge, Box O, DARLINGTON, ML'. 
