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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
I wish to preface my report by saying 
that I am not connected with the college at 
Storrs, and that my post ofliee address is 
West Willington, Conn. I am in daily re¬ 
ceipt of letters addressed to me at Storrs, 
which puts some one there to the trouble 
of readdressing and remailing my letters. 
1 trust that correspondents will make a 
note of this address and save the College 
authorities some trouble. 
A further drop of fifty eggs is the record 
for the ninth week; 638 eggs were laid as 
against 688 the previous week. It is safe 
to say that those in control of the contest 
would do anything in their power to cause 
a continuous increase in egg production, 
instead of a falling off; but the decrease of 
the last few weeks shows very plainly that 
no system of housing or feeding can be ab¬ 
solutely depended upon always to produce 
the same results. 
Buff Leghorns make the highest score this 
week. Geo. H. Schmitz’s pen laid 23, and 
the next highest score was made by Dr. 
J. A. Fritchey’s Single Comb It. I. Reds, 
which laid 21 eggs. Beulah Farm’s White 
Wyandottes are third with a score of 20, 
and Braeside Poultry Farm’s White Leg¬ 
horns fourth with 18 to their credit. 
White Plymouth Rocks also laid 18, the 
pen of Lewis G. Tyreman tieing with the 
Braeside Farm birds. Thomas Barron’s 
White Leghorns laid 16 eggs during the 
week and Edward Cam’s 17. The White 
Leghorns of Ballock & Burrows also laid 
17. But although the English birds are 
not leading the weekly score, they are still 
at the head in the total number of eggs 
laid. Mr. Barron’s pen has laid a total 
of 186, and Mr. Cam’s pen 177. The 
highest score made by American White Leg¬ 
horns is 150 by the pen from Braeside Poul¬ 
try Farm and the Rose Comb R. I. Reds 
from Glen View Poultry Farm come next 
with a total of 127. Geo. II. Schmitz’s 
Buff Leghorns have laid 122; and Burton 
E. Moore’s White Leghorns 120; Edward 
Cam’s White Wyandottes 118; E. H. 
Poble’s White Wyandottes 112; Geo. P. 
Dearborn’s Single Comb It. I. Rods 117; 
White Acres Poultry Ranch’s White Or¬ 
pingtons 102; and Smith Bros.’ White Leg¬ 
horns 100; 22 pens did not produce an 
egg last week. 
Mr. Barron has a pen of White Leghorns 
at the egg-laying contest in Missouri, and 
they have outlayed all the other pens. 
These pens consist of 10 birds instead of 
five, as at the Storrs contest. I think this 
is an improvement, five are really too few; 
20 would be still better. It would make 
the record whore only one pen of a breed 
is entered, much more valuable as a means 
of comparing breeds, than it is now. The 
reports of the Missouri contest are made 
monthly, and Mr. Barron’s pen won the 
silver cup by laying 222 eggs in December, 
being 60 eggs more than the next highest 
pen. The record of the month by varieties 
is as follows: 
White Leghorns . 222 
S. C. R. I. Reds. 162 
Silver Wyandottes . 157 
White Wyandottes . 151 
White Orpingtons . 136 
Barred Rocks . 135 
Black Orpingtons . 133 
Black Langshans . 131 
The above is the record of the leading 
pen only, in each variety. Director Quisen- 
bury of the Missouri Experiment Station, 
states that Mr. Barron's pen of White Leg¬ 
horns are more active than the other pens, 
and consume more dry mash. lie also not¬ 
ices the fact that they have larger combs, 
"tails not well spread and rather high, and 
(yes are not bay in color.” And further 
that "their eggs are not of the uniform 
lead white of the American White Leg¬ 
horns.” From all of which it is easy to 
deduce that more attention has been paid 
over there to egg production than to devel¬ 
oping fancy birds for show purposes. 
In connection with the Missouri contest 
they are trying 10 different methods of 
feeding. The birds used in this test are 
five White Leghorns and five Buff Orping¬ 
tons. The exact method of feeding these 
pens will be announced each month, and 
the results given. They also intend to 
give the most economical method consider¬ 
ing results, for that section of the country. 
In the Missouri contest there are an equal 
number of birds entered of each variety, 
three pens of 10 birds each, 30 of each 
variety. This gives a fairly good chance to 
compare breeds. There are 600 birds in the 
contest besides 10 experimental pens of 10 
birds each. Mr. Quisenbury states that 
they are now getting 33 1-3 per cent egg 
yield from the entire flock. In pen No. 68 
28 different kinds of feed are kept before 
the birds all the time, and this pen is mak¬ 
ing a rapid gain over the other pens in 
egg production. Whether they will keep it 
up and finally break down in health re¬ 
mains to be seen. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Questions About Poultry Rations. 
Referring to an account of the recent 
egg-laying contest in Connecticut and the 
food used, contained in a recent number of 
your paper, I would inquire whether the 
"low grade flour 25 pounds” refers to or¬ 
dinary wheat flour of a cheap grade. What 
is the advantage in the use of cracked 
corn instead of the whole grain? Would 
it be as well to use the latter? I have 
understood that a portion of the most val¬ 
uable and nutritious part of the kernel 
is extracted in the cracking process. Is 
the use of the automatic food hopper re¬ 
ferred to recommended where a flock of 40 
or 50 fowls or upwards are kept together, 
and if so what becomes of the element of 
exercise supposed to be taken care of by 
compelling the fowls to scratch in deep 
litter for grain? L. s. a. 
New York. 
The flour referred to above is the cheap 
wheat flour often called “Red Dog” flour 
in market quotations. The advantage of 
cracked corn is that it is smaller than 
whole corn, and is not so easily found in 
the litter, and make the hens exercise 
more to get a crop full. Nothing is ex¬ 
tracted from the corn in the cracking pro¬ 
cess, a little of the finest or floury sub¬ 
stance that is “cornmeal” would be lost 
probably in the grinding, but only a small 
per cent. Something is lost also by drying 
out if the cracked corn is kept very long. 
The worst thing about it is that an inferior 
grade of corn can be used for cracked corn. 
In using the Norwich feed hopper it is a 
good plan to rake or push the litter up to 
the hopper, making a heap into which the 
grain falls ; of course this does not remain 
a heap for only a few minutes, but they 
have to exercise to spread the heap. A 
hen, being feminine, has an extra amount 
of curiosity in her composition, and she 
just has to see what is at the bottom of 
that heap; if there was no grain there 
she would scatter the heap just the same. 
The Norwich automatic feed hopper has a 
can at bottom which can be arranged so as 
to let out only one or two grains when the 
feed bar is moved, so that considerable ex¬ 
ercise is necessary to obtain a crop full. I 
have one in my pen of 60 White Leghorns, 
but I do not depend on that entirely to 
supply the dry grain. At night I scatter a 
liberal supply in the litter all over the 
floor; so that there will be some left to 
induce exercise in the morning. I am using 
cut cornstalks for litter, this lasts longer 
than anything I have found, and the grain 
falls through it better, so they are obliged 
to scratch to find it. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Hen Records. 
On page 53 I read a request for hen rec¬ 
ords. I have kept a flock of White Wyan¬ 
dottes ; following is their egg record for 
1912, also record of entire plant, November 
1, 1911. I had 50 yearling hens and 111 
pullets. March 6 I bought 37 S. C. Rhode 
Island Rod pullets. I keep 10 birds in a 
pen 5x12, one run for five pens, so each pen 
can be left out every other day. All feed 
1 must buy with the exception of lawn 
clippings and garden weeds in Summer and 
mangel beets in Winter. 
Price No 
Eggs 
1’er Doz. 
Feed 
Hens 
Nov. 
1911. 
. 370 
40 
21.58 
161 
Dec. 
1911. 
. 600 
45 
17.10 
161 
Jan. 
1912. 
. 837 
4S 
17.61 
160 
Feb. 
1912. 
.1,493 
45 
40 
20.30 
161 
Mar. 
1912. 
.2,839 
34 
20 
27.00 
198 
A pr. 
1912. 
. 2.760 
28 
19 
24.45 
190 
May 
1912. 
.2,616 
80 
20 
14.17 
170 
June 
1912. 
.1.984 
32 
22 
15.28 
153 
July 
1912. 
.1,708 
33 
25 
17.25 
149 
A ug. 
1912. 
.1,254 
35 
26% 
16.28 
153 
Sep. 
1912. 
. 902 
38 
12.00 
119 
Oct. 
1912. 
. 276 
47 
9.00 
100 
Total eggs, 17,639; receipts, $443.91 ; 
feed, $212.36; returns, $231.55 from 153 
hens for 12 months. As you see on above 
prices I sold part of eggs retail in the 
city 23 miles from here, and the rest to 
market men nearby. After carfare and ex¬ 
penses for packing for retail is deducted (I 
pack in boxes, stamp each egg, and seal 
box with guarantee label), I made a profit 
of $55.10 above market price here. 
I set 883 eggs, 300 in Model incubator 
and the rest under hens. These eggs cost 
$18.86; 365 young birds cost $75.78. I 
sold 76 broilers for $31.30 ; used for table 
value of $6.02 ; sold baby chicks, $9.50 ; 130 
birds on hand, $81.28. March 1, 1911, I 
had 161 birds, value $114.84; bought 37 
pullets, $23.68; total. $138.52. November 
1, 1912, 103 old birds on hand, $65.92; 
sold, $64.95; for table, $18.60; for pres¬ 
ents. $5.89; total, $155.36. Profit on eggs 
of 153 hens for 12 months, $231.55; profit 
on young flock of 1912. $52.32; profit on 
gained weight on old flock. $16.84; total, 
$300.71. To attend to this flock I work 
three hours per day, 10 cents per hour, 
$109.50; interest on investment, $20; re¬ 
pairs I do myself, $20; total, $149.50. 
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