1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fifty-first week of the contest ended 
October 22. The falling off in egg produc¬ 
tion continues, as was to be expected. The 
drop this week is 146 eggs; the total for 
the week being only 692. In very many 
pens only one or two are laying. In 11 
pens no eggs were laid at all, and nine of 
the 11 were pens of White Leghorns. The 
White Wyandottes are making the best 
showing as Fall layers of any breed. Their 
pen average exceeds any other, and they 
also furnish the highest score for the week. 
W. B. Candee’s White Wyandottes laid 21, 
every pullet in the pen laying. The record 
is 5-4-6-1-5. E. S. Edgerton's Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds take the second place, 
with a score of 20. Their individual rec¬ 
ord for the week was 4-3-3-5-5. These two 
pens were the only ones out of the 98 
pens where every pullet in the pen laid 
during the week. Beulah Farm’s White 
Wyandottes tried hard this week to catch 
up to Yost’s White Leghorns; four of the 
Wyandottes laid 19 eggs. Of Yost's pen 
only three laid, producing nine eggs; so 
the White Wyandottes gained 10, leaving 
Yost’s birds only six eggs ahead. It looks 
now as though the White Wyandottes 
would beat the White Leghorns, and win 
the contest. It is worth noticing that the 
Wyandottes have come to the front by 
good Fall laying. This is a very valuable 
characteristic, as every egg laid during 
October, November and December is worth 
two eggs laid at other seasons. The total 
scores of the leading pens to date are as 
follows : 
F. G. Yost, White Leghorns.1,059 
Beulah Farm, White Wyandottes.1,053 
Marwood Farm, White Leghorns.1,031 
Toms Poultry Farm. White Leghorns.. 967 
Thomas Barron's, White Leghorns.... 971 
Cullencross Farms, White Leghorns. . . 970 
Frederick Peasley, White Leghorns... 962 
Susie Abbott, White Leghorns. 939 
White Rose Farm, White Leghorns... 918 
Geo. II. Schmidt, Buff Leghorns. 932 
W. B. Caudee, White Wyandottes. 916 
R. J. Walden, Barred Rocks. 913 
H. P. Deming’s, It. I. Reds. 911 
These are the only pens that have laid 
900 or over. 
Geo. H. Schmidt’s Buff Leghorns laid 18 
eggs during the week, and five pens laid 17 
eggs each. 
It is much to be regretted that Mr. 
Thomas Barron had the ill-fortune to lose 
two birds of his pen of English White Leg¬ 
horns. In all probability they would have 
won the contest. For several months his 
four birds have been competing with five in 
the other pens, yet the four are only 88 
eggs behind the leader now. These Eng¬ 
lish birds have very large combs, and com¬ 
ing over to this colder climate they suf¬ 
fered last Winter with the cold. Several 
times their combs and wattles were frozen, 
and the attendants worked some of the 
time night and day, rubbing combs with 
carbolated vaseline, and doing all it was 
possible to do to keep them from being 
frozen. Yet these birds laid right along in 
open-front houses in the coldest Winter in 
20 years, without even a drop curtain in 
front of the roosts at night. They outlaid 
all the other pens of any breed, and held 
the lead until some time after two of their 
number had died. But four against five 
was too much for them, and the American 
pens took the lead. Mr. Barron is not dis¬ 
couraged, but enters this second contest 
with another pen, and four other pens from 
England are also entered. Entries for the 
second contest are now closed, every pen is 
filled, and scores of applicants will have 
their entry fees returned, geo. a. cosghove. 
Dry Mash Without Beef Scrap. 
Will you give a good dry mash for lay¬ 
ing hens that are fed three pounds of 
green cut bone per 100 hens per day? 
Most dry mash mixtures contain beef scrap, 
and I do not intend to use this. 
H. w. c. 
When green cut bone is regularly fed to 
laying fowls, meat in any other form may 
be omitted from their rations. It is not 
necessary to follow any stated formula 
in making up a mash, but the wheat prod¬ 
ucts, middlings and bran, should form the 
basis of it, and to these should be added 
such feeds as cornmeal, gluten, buckwheat 
middlings, ground oats, oil meal, etc. As 
seasoning, one-half pound of salt to each 
hundred pounds of mash is desirable. A 
good mash mixture may be made up of 200 
pounds of wheat bran, 100 [rounds of corn- 
meal, 100 pounds of wheat middlings or 
of “Red dog,’’ and 100 pounds of gluten. 
To this 75 pounds of beef scrap should be 
added if meat in some other form is not 
being fed. Buckwheat middlings are a 
local product in the buckwheat regions, 
and where available should replace some 
one of the other more expensive feeds like 
gluten. The poultryman, like the dairy¬ 
man, should watch the feed market and 
learn to make up suitable rations from 
those feeds that are most reasonable in 
price. _ M. b. o. 
Henhouse Curtains ; Soy Beans. 
1. In the Spring I am going to bnild a 
small henhouse about 14 by 20 feet. I 
wish to put four windows into the front 
of it, two covered with glass and two 
with muslin. Shall I have to pnt a cur¬ 
tain between the muslin-covered windows 
and the hens at night? If so, how far 
from the window should it be put? 2. Do 
Soy beans make good hen feed? How 
should they be fed? L. w. b. 
New York. 
1. You will probably have no need for 
any curtain in the interior of a small 
house, such as you expect to build. When 
such a curtain is needed to protect the 
fowls’ combs from freezing in zero 
weather it is usually placed directly in 
front of the perches, and is most conveni¬ 
ently fastened to a hinged frame that can 
be hooked up against the rafters during 
the day, and at all times in moderate 
weather. 
2. Soy beans are very rich in protein 
and fat, comparing in these respects with 
oil meal, though even richer in fat than 
that feed. They should therefore form 
only a small part of the ration, and if the 
hens decline to eat them whole or cracked, 
they would have to be ground and fed in 
the mash. The writer has had no per¬ 
sonal experience in their use, but has 
known of their being recommended by 
others as a good feed for hens. M. B. D. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Farmers complain all along the line of 
poor prices. Their crops have not only 
been heavy enough to weaken prices very 
much, but in many directions there have 
been bigger yields than had been reckoned 
on and there comes up in consequence the 
old difficulty of the buyers refusing stuff: 
on some technicality when it has been con¬ 
tracted for early. This is true of West¬ 
ern New York apples, especially. Some¬ 
times so much fault has been found with 
apples when delivered at the railroad that 
the loads were taken home again. Early 
apples did well, but the general crop is 
too heavy, and it is not of as good qual¬ 
ity as was expected. I have to-day re¬ 
turned from a trip from Buffalo to Albion 
by trolley, and nine miles south from 
Albion by wagon, and there are apples 
moving in great amounts everywhere, with 
apparently half of the crop on the ground 
as windfalls, unfit to barrel. The canning 
and drying factories are swamped with 
them at mostly prices that do not insure 
much profit. Iu fact, farmers say that it 
is quite possible for renters, who have to 
do all the work and divide the fruit with 
owners, to come out iu debt, for no men 
are to be had for less than $2 a day. The 
apple buyers have been very wary and 
many farmers are storing their apples. 
Barrels have been very high, and even 
peach baskets doubled in price, with the 
railroads at last refusing to take them 
unless the baskets had covers on. Peaches 
sold for a song before the end. I bougbf 
in Buffalo Colorado peaches, considerably 
injured by cold storage, for 35 cents a 
third-bushel basket, after the fruit had 
been assorted here. I am sorry for the 
man who raised them. 
Another crop that is not what it seems 
to be is beans. The season was so ca¬ 
pricious that no dependence could be 
placed on the bean crop. Ripening was 
very irregular and often there was loss 
from disease. I saw a man pulling his 
bean crop in Niagara County with a ma¬ 
chine on the 30tli of October. The price 
has been nominally pretty high, and is so 
now, after going down to about $2.30 here. 
This, of course, means perfect beans, but 
it often means 50 cents a bushel dockage 
and sometimes more. Some buyers exact 
62 pounds to the bushel and all have a way 
of “shrinking” the loads from the bad 
ones taken out of a sample, often picking 
out beans that are raid to be salable to 
certain food-producing concerns. Then 
there is a charge besides for picking out 
the rejected beans, after which the buy¬ 
ers sell these rejects for $20 a ton. The 
farmers argue that these beans should be 
returned to them, but all the remedy they 
have found so far is in the competition 
among the buyers. Of course the moral 
of all this is to raise beans that are per¬ 
fect, but that is not so easy, especially in 
such seasons as this one has been. 
The new wheat crop looks well on the 
ground and a good acreage has been sowed. 1 
Cabbage is so big a crop that it sells at 
about a tenth of last year’s prices. 
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times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks moro 
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Poultry for the Holidays. 
Those who expect to ship poultry to 
New York for Thanksgiving trade should 
write their commission man several days 
in advance, advising as nearly as possible 
what they will send. This will help him to 
know where he stands, and he can handle 
the business to better advantage all around 
Trade for Thanksgiving begins the middle 
of the previous week. All poultry should 
be on hand as early as Monday, November 
25 Late arrivals are likelv to be held 
over and meet the dull trade that usually 
follows a holiday market. The crops of 
all poultry should bo empty. They are 
killed by bleeding in the month. Dry pick- 
mg is best, especially if the weather turns 
mild. In packing turkeys the hens and 
toms should be kept separate and the i 
culls put in another package; or, what is 
better, kept at home and fattened for later 
trade. Avoid packing the birds in short 
straw or anything that would stick to 
them. Neatness is a valuable asset. 
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