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THE RUR-A-D 15 W -VORKE R 
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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The second week of the contest shows 
287 eggs laid during the week. The con¬ 
test is starting off in good shape and bids 
fair to make a higher record than the first 
contest. In the Australian contests gains 
were made in the number of eggs laid 
nearly every year until the world's high 
record was made of 264.8 eggs as the 
average per bird in the leading pen. Thomas 
Barron's English White Leghorns have got 
right down to business at once, every bin! 
laying; the five pullets laying, 5-S-4-6-5, 
making 25 eggs, the highest score of the 
week. Wonder if there is anything in a 
sea voyage that is conducive to good lay¬ 
ing? The native birds here in New England 
are laying very poorly; I know of two 
flocks of 500 to 600 birds each that are not 
laying as many eggs as these five English 
birds. A neighbor, who has a contract to 
furnish eggs for a hotel, finds it impossible 
by driving around to all the farms within 
a radius of four or five miles to obtain 
eggs enough to fill a 30-dozen case in a 
week, and he has about 600 fowls himself. 
I have never known a season where the 
pullets were so backward about laying. 
Last year one of my White Wyandotte pul¬ 
lets laid In August, when just five months 
old to a day, and by this date (November 
23) most of them were laying. This year 
only one has laid up to date; 60 White 
Leghorns, shut up by themselves in a 
house with 400 square feet of floor space, 
and extra well cared for, most of them 
being seven months old, lay only three to 
four eggs a day. They ought to be lay¬ 
ing 25 to 30 a day. And this has been an 
unusually pleasant Eall; no snow and no 
frost in the ground. With 40 years’ experi¬ 
ence in poultry keeping, I must admit that 
I cannot account for it. 
The White Leghorns of Smith Bros., 
Pennsylvania, take the second place this 
week with a score of 23 eggs, the puirets 
laying S-5-5-5-3; the White Leghorns of 
Ed Cam of England laid 16, the five birds 
laying 6-2-3-2-3. These three pens were 
the only ones in the contest where each 
bird in the pen laid. The White Orpingtons 
of White Acres Farm, Pennsylvania, laid 15 
eggs, four of the pullets laying. The pen 
of White Wyandottes entered by Ed Cam 
'of England made the highest score of any 
pen of that breed, his birds laying 10 
eggs. It must be the sea voyage that 
does it. Only about naif the pens arc 
laying ; 45 of the 100 pens did not produce 
an egg this week. Beulah Farm’s White 
■Wyandotte hens (birds that were in the 
first contest) laid six, and the pullets of 
the same breed entered by the same per¬ 
sons laid three eggs. The Brown Leghorns 
entered by A. P. llillhouse, Quebec, which 
laid 11 last week, laid seven this week. 
Walter Hogan’s pen of White Leghorns 
from California laid eight, Frederick M. 
Peasley's pen of White Leghorns laid nine, 
and Burton E. Moore’s, of Connecticut, laid 
10. Quite a number of pens which laid last 
week did not produce an egg this week. 
Nine different breeds did not lay an egg. 
The middle of November is always the “dry 
time” of egg production; a less number 
being produced that month than in any 
other month of the year. I have kept a 
record for nearly 20 years of the number 
of eggs laid each day, and without excep¬ 
tion the monthly total is less for November 
than for any other month. 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Leghorn Cross. 
What about crossing a Leghorn hen so 
as to increase her size without injuring 
her laying qualities to any great extent? 
New York. t. u. 
A cross of any of the larger breeds, such 
as the White Wyandotte or White Ply¬ 
mouth Rock, upon the White Leghorn will 
Increase the size of the progeny without 
decreasing yield. Such eggs, however, will 
be tinted brown instead of being pure 
white. . If this is objectionable, a some¬ 
what smaller gain in size, without chang¬ 
ing the color of the egg, may be made by 
crossing the Leghorn upon the Minorca. 
Much more is usually lost than gained by 
crossing two distinct varieties of purebred 
fowls, but there seems to be a fierce desire 
to do this upon the part of amateur poul- 
trymen, most of whom like to play tricks 
upon Dame Nature in this way. M. b. d. 
Mixing Breeds. 
I have about 500 White Wyandottes. I 
have also a few very fine purebred White 
Rocks. I wish to substitute the White 
Rocks for the Wyandottes as soon as pos¬ 
sible. In the meantime would you advise 
crossing White Rock cockerel with Wyan¬ 
dotte hens for the general laying stock un¬ 
til the Rocks can be bred in sufficient num¬ 
ber? My thought is to Increase size of lay¬ 
ing stock at once by the cross. Would egg 
production suffer? j. m. a. 
Massachusetts. 
I can see no objection from the stand¬ 
point of egg production to the crossing of 
the Wyandottes upon the White Plymouth 
Rocks, though, as a rule, there is far more 
lost than gained by making such a cross. 
Yon .will find it very difficult, too, to dis¬ 
tinguish between your purebred fowls and 
their cross, and if, after a year or two of 
keeping them side by side you do not And 
the flocks hopelessly intermingled, you will 
bo exceedingly fortunate. m. b. d. 
Mites on Hens. 
I have a few hens which are covered 
with red lice. I have tried everything and 
cannot get rid of them. What can I do? 
Massachusetts. C. R. K. 
The red lice which you see on your hens 
are doubtless gray mites, which become red 
only when filled with blood. They do not 
often stay upon hens during the day, but 
hide in the crevices about the perches and 
in the filth beneath. To rid your hens of 
them, thoroughly clean the interior of your 
henhouse, removing all droppings and loose 
dirt from about the perches, and then paint 
or spray the latter with a mixture of crude 
carbolic acid and kerosene, using one part 
of the carbolic acid to three parts of kero¬ 
sene, and paying special attention to all 
cracks and crevices. After doing this, 
whitewash the interior of the house with 
lime wash, to which four ounces of crude 
carbolic acid to the gallon has been added. 
The painting of the perches should be re¬ 
peated at intervals of two or three weeks 
until no more mites can be found. Owing 
to their habit ot leaving the fowls during 
the day to cluster in the cracks about the 
perches, these pests are comparatively 
easily disposed of. m. b. d. 
What Ails the Ducks? 
I have a few ducks in good condition, 
but every once in a while one will get 
lame and will not go with the others, then 
suddenly she will disappear and I will 
never know how she got lost. I feed only 
whole corn ; they have free range. Is there 
something lacking in their systems? 
New City, N. Y. j. w. n. 
Young ducks quite often contract such 
trouble as is described. It is probably 
sometimes due to inbreeding or inheritance. 
Often, however, it can be traced directly to 
an ill-balanced ration. Undoubtedly this Is 
the cause in this case. Corn is a fatten¬ 
ing food and low in normal matter and 
muscle-forming elements. Whether the 
ducks are young or old they need something 
besides corn. If full grown, they need 
some wet mash made of middlings, ground 
oats and cornmeal of equal parts with 10 
per cent, meat scraps. This will stop the 
trouble and encourage egg production at 
the proper season. The, corn has probably 
made them over fat and weakened their 
bones and muscles. They lose control of 
their limbs and perish about the range. 
a. l. c. 
Leg Weakness. 
We have a Buff Rock rooster. May 
hatched, which seems to be weak in bis 
legs, not ill in any other way. Can we do 
anything to help him? s. si. 
New York. 
Leg weakness in heavy cockerels of the 
age of yours is not infrequent, and is 
probably most often due to rheumatism 
caused by exposure or confinement in damp, 
unventilated houses. Forced feeding also 
predisposes to this trouble. Place thorn in 
warm, dry quarters, and feed upon plenty 
of green stuff, with a minimum amount of 
meat. The feeding of skim-milk is also 
helpful in this condition. si. b. d. 
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So many chicks die early that most 
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Don’t feed little chicks raw grain. 
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Eggs in’ November. —In the Hope Farm 
Notes, page 1182, the question is asked: 
“Any fresh-laid eggs in your neighborhood ?” 
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p. m., and he will find 100 eggs less than 
10 hours old. The following is the record 
for the ast seven days: November 16, 99 
eggs; November 17, 92; November 18, 105; 
November 19, 98; November 20, 102; No¬ 
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