1912. 
HO© 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-eighth, week o£ the contest 
closed October 1 and it shows a decrease 
of 1S3 eggs from the previous week. This 
is a heavy falling off and probably the 
number of eggs laid will continue to de¬ 
crease as more fowls start molting. W. B. 
Candee’s White Wyandottes laid the larg¬ 
est number of eggs, their score for the 
week being 26. Robert J. Walden's Barred 
Rocks laid 23; F. G. Bean's Columbian 
P. Rocks laid 23; Beulah 'Farm’s White 
Wyandottes, 23; Homer P. Deming's R. I. 
Reds, 23, and Marwood Poultry Farm's 
White Leghorns laid 23. Nearly all the 
high scorers are still laying better than 
the other pens of the same breed. Three 
of the Plymouth Rock pullets laid every 
day, as did one White Wyandotte, one R. 
I. Red, one Black Langshan and one S. C. 
White Orpington. The pen averages for 
the week show the White Wyandottes in 
the lead; the eight pens averaging 15.4 
eggs per pen. The Barred Rocks average 
13 per pen; the White Rocks, 11.5; the 
Columbian Wyandottes, 14.3; the S. C. 
R. 1. Reds, 12.5 ; the It. C. Reds, 14.3; 
the Brown Leghorns, 11 ; the Buff Leg¬ 
horns, 15; the Buff Orpingtons, 12; the 
White Orpingtons, 9, and the White Leg¬ 
horns, 8.8. Where but a single pen of 
any breed is entered, no average can be 
made, but the single pens have made good 
scores this week, laying better than the 
averages of the other breeds. 
Columbian P. Rocks laid 23; Silver 
Wyandottes, 16; Buff Wyandottes. 17; 
Golden Wyandottes, 14; Partridge P. 
Rocks, 12; Black Langshans, 12; Anconas, 
17; Buttercups, 14. 
F. G. Yost’s pen of White Leghorns still 
lead, their record being 1.023; during the 
week they laid 18. Beulah Farm's White 
Wyandottes laid 23, and their total is now 
991. It will be seen that the White Leg¬ 
horns have a lead yet of 32 eggs, and 
they will not probably lose enough to make 
them take second place. Marwood Poultry 
Farm's White Leghorns score 984; Toms 
Poultry Farm's White Leghorns, 952; 
Cullencross Farm’s White Leghorns, 941; 
Thomas Barron's four English White Leg¬ 
horns, 937; Susie Abbott's, 924; White 
Rose Farm’s, 916, and Frederick Peasley’s 
White Leghorns, 914. With the exception 
of the White Wyandottes, no breed but the 
White Leghorns has reached the 900 mark. 
But 900 means an average of 180 eggs 
for each bird in the pen, and that is 100 
eggs more than the estimated average of 
the American hen. It is difficult to over¬ 
estimate the interest which this contest 
has created; I do not see a weekly local 
paper anywhere but what it has an ac¬ 
count of this contest in its columns; and 
many of the city dailies give space once a 
week to the record being made at Storrs. 
The advertising value to those whose birds 
are making big records is immense. For 
years the poultry fancier whose birds won 
at the big shows was enabled to get large 
prices for his stock thereby. Now the 
utility man has his innings, and the de¬ 
mand for stock and eggs from the best 
producers is already greater than ean be 
supplied. Of course, any man can adver¬ 
tise high egg records made by his flock, 
but this contest is an official certified 
record which cannot be doubted. Thirty- 
two pullets of 10 different breeds have 
made scores of over 200 eggs each, up to 
this date. W. B. Candee’s White Wyan¬ 
dotte No. 1 has laid 233 eggs, though she 
did not begin laying until more than two 
months after the contest began. She has 
laid the 233 eggs in eight months and 20 
days. Marwood Poultry Farm’s White 
Leghorn No. 2 has the highest individual 
score, her record being 235. Other high 
scores are: W. . II. Peterson’s White Leg¬ 
horn No. 1, 226; F. Peasley’s White' Leg¬ 
horn No. 5, 222 ; F. G. Yost’s White Leg¬ 
horn No. 1, 221 ; F. G. Yost’s White Leg¬ 
horn No. 5, 214; J. O. Trenhauser’s White 
Leghorn No. 5, 216; White Rose Farm's 
White Leghorn No. 1, 215: Toms Poultry 
Farm’s White Leghorn No. 1, 214 ; Thomas 
Barron's White Leghorn No. 1, 221 ; 
Thomas Barron’s White Leghorn No. 2, 
221 ; Thomas Barron’s White Leghorn No 
4 223; Cullencross Farm’s White Leghorn 
No. 3. 206; .T. E. Burrows’ White Leg¬ 
horn No. 4, 203; Marwood Pultry Farm’s 
White leghorn No. 1, 205; W. B. Candec’s 
White Wyandotte No. 2, 200; McLeod 
Bros.’ White Wyandotte No. 3, 218; Mc¬ 
Leod Bros.’ White Wyandotte No. 5, 209; 
P. J. McConnell’s White Wyandotte No. 1, 
208: P. J. McConnell’s White Wyandotte 
No. 5, 201 ; W. .1. Tilley’s White P. Rock 
No. 3, 214; Hans Robert's White P. Rock 
No. 1, 200; F. G. Bean’s Columbian P. 
Rock No. 1, 203 ; B. W. Cooper's Columbian 
Wyandotte No. 4, 202; II. I\ Deming's S 
C. R. I. Red No. 2. 215; Mrs. Harris Leh¬ 
man's It. I. Red No. 4, 229; A. P. Hill- 
hurst’s Brown Leghorn No. 1, 223; George 
II. Schmidt’s Buff Leghorn No. 3, 206- O 
Wilson’s Buff Orpington No. 1, 210 
Including three pens of Barred Rock 
200-eggers, nine breeds besides the White 
Leghorns have produced “the 200-egg hen.” 
So it is not “in the breed.” The White 
Leghorns have produced 15 pullets that 
have laid 200 or over, out of 30 pens ; the 
White Wyandottes have furnished five out 
of eight pens, and the White I*. Rocks 
two out of four pens. In three cases 
where but one pen of the breed was en¬ 
tered, that one pen has produced “the 
200 -egg hen.” 
Mr. Yost very modestly disclaims any 
extra laying for his strain, giving the 
credit for their extra good record entirely 
to the good care and system of feeding at 
Storrs. geo. a. cosgrove. 
THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
Hen Lice. 
. What is the best thing to destroy mites 
in a henhouse? m. w m 
Milo, Me. 
Paint the 
kerosene 
HOW TO SPROUT OATS. 
On page 860 N. W. M., Milburn, N. J., 
asks about keeping sprouted oats from 
mould. The plan that I use, and find there 
is no trouble from mould, is to spread 25 
bushels of oats on the floor and sprinkle 
with a solution of one pint of formaldehyde 
then spread out and let dry, and when thor¬ 
oughly mix until the oats are all moist, 
then spread out and let dry, and when thor¬ 
oughly dry again put in bags, and they are 
ready for use to be put in boxes and 
sprouted. I let the first growth get about 
five or six inches high and then cut them 
off, and set the box back again 
for the second growth, and then I 
feed the whole contents the second time. 
The experience I have had is that by feed¬ 
ing the whole contents at the first growth 
you lose a lot of good oats that are slow 
to germinate at the first growth, but will 
come up at the second growth. 
New York. geo. h. van Dusen. 
I use what I might call a dripping box, 
a small box say one foot high and 10x16 
or 18 inches. Cut top of this box in style 
of a shed roof, or about one inch lower at 
one end than the other. On top of this I 
make a board frame two or three inches 
larger than the boxes in which I sprout the 
oats, nail a one-inch square strip on each 
side and across highest end of this frame 
on top of frame and close to edge. Over 
this place a piece of good rooting paper 
large enough to cover frame and extend up 
on strips, to which it can be tacked with 
carpet tacks, having roofing extend over 
lower edge of frame one or two inches to 
make spout to carry drippings off into 
crock or bucket set under it. My sprout¬ 
ing boxes are about 14x20 inches and about 
four inches deep. I have eight or 10 , with 
quite a number of one-quarter-inch holes 
bored in one end of bottom to allow sur¬ 
plus water to drain off. I put about eight 
quarts of the dry grain into a five-gallon 
bucket and fill nearly full of water, being 
careful to press the grain down under 
water so there will not be a bunch of dry 
grain on top. Warm water should be used 
in cold weather, and the bucket kept in a 
warm place 10 or 12 hours. Then I take 
two of my sprouting boxes, place them out 
of doors on a sloping piece of ground, with 
holes down the hill, then pour as near as 
I can half of the soaked grain into each 
box and allow it to stand for five or 10 
minutes, till most of the water has drained 
off : even if the weather is freezing cold it 
will not hurt the grain in such a short 
time, and it saves risk of slop indoors. I 
next carry the sprouting boxes into kitchen 
and place them on dripping box, being 
careful to keep holes in bottom of boxes 
next to lower end of dripping box, so all 
surplus water can drain out. I set first 
box on dripping frame, then place two one- 
inch strips on top of first box near either 
end and set second box on top of these 
strips, and so on with as many boxes as 
I have. In my first experience with sprout¬ 
ing oats I used a large store box with half¬ 
inch strips nailed to sides, and made my 
sprouting box to fit this store box, and slid 
them in and out like a chest of drawers, 
but I found this unsatisfactory, as the 
damp grain would mould in this tight box, 
so the sprouting boxes with strips between 
them have proved most satisfactory to me. 
I use a sprinkling can and go over these 
boxes night and morning, give them a thor¬ 
ough soaking, even though the water runs 
down onto dripping frame in a good 
shower. Then I thoroughly stir and mix 
the grain in the boxes so there will be no 
dry bunches in corners or on top. I gen¬ 
erally have the grain 1 % to two inches 
deep according to what I need to feed my 
flock. I continue this sprouting and mix¬ 
ing till the sprouts are long enough to 
feed, which in my experience I find is about 
one-half to three-fourths inch long, that is 
the head sprouts, as the finer root sprouts 
may be one inch or more long. I find if 
the head sprouts are allowed to grow and 
burst into the green flat blade, the best of 
the grain is lost, and only answers the 
place of green food, as I found my hens 
laid better when fed the sprouts about 
one-half inch long. At first I fed twice a 
day, but do not do so any longer, as I be¬ 
lieve one feed a day, say at noon, is 
enough. I have always fed sprouts wet 
and have never seen any harm from it; in 
fact I find the hens eat the sprouts much 
better when wet than dry. I feed them in 
troughs, about as much as they can eat up j 
clean. R. w. ii, 
Pennsylvania. 
perches with 
mixture 
The Dog for Protecting Poultry. 
On page 660 G. H. W. speaks a good 
word for the Airedales as the best dog for 
the farm. Can you give fuller information 
about them, intelligence, disposition, etc.? 
I have never seen one, nor any advertise¬ 
ments of them. Wishing to be secure from 
the raids of both two and four-legged visi¬ 
tors, I am thinking of closely fencing my 
entire poultry field and giving a good dog 
“free range” at night. I should judge from 
G. II. W.’s article that the Airedale might 
be the best kind to get. J. tv. s. 
Massachusetts. 
When I came here 19 years ago I had 
nothing but bulldogs, and I found it im¬ 
possible with these to protect myself 
against the foxes, so I fenced in five acres 
with ordinary poultry netting four feet 
high. This kept the foxes out, as they 
will neither climb over or dig under. I 
have never regretted doing this; in fact 
T am constantly adding fence each year. Jt 
keeps out everything but minks and 
weasels and the Airedales attend to these 
before they get started. As the Airedales 
vault this fence easily there is a fox 
chase every time Brer Fox gets near the 
place. The Airedale is certainly preferable 
to the bulldog as a watch dog in a case 
of this kind, as he is on the job all the 
time; his keen nose tells him instantly 
when there is a depredator around, and be 
he two or four-legged, he gets instant at¬ 
tention. Just to show you the confidence 
we have in these dogs, there is not a lock 
over the droppings boards; and 
whitewash the interior of your henhouse 
at least twice yearly. m. b d 
the combination of the Airedale, and there 
is no key to them but their master. 
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MAKE LAYING RECORDS 
Their performance in the North American Inter¬ 
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700 THOROUGHBRED s. c. w. leghorn pullets. 
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