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February 8, 
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THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST.7 
The trend of egg production which has 
been steadily downward for a month, has 
changed and the tenth week shows a 
small gain over the previous week; 671 
eggs were laid as against 638 during the 
ninth week. The total number of eggs 
laid to date is 5,743. Geo. H. Schmitz's 
Buff Leghorns lead again this week with 
a score of 21; and Dr. J. A. Fritchey's 
Single Comb R. I. Reds take second place 
with a record of 20; Thomas Barron's 
White Leghorns, and Glen View Poultry 
Farm’s Rose Comb R.'"I. Reds tie for third 
place with a record of 19 eggs each for 
the week. Will Barron’s White Wyan- 
dottes, and O. A. Foster's White Leg¬ 
horns have each laid 18, and the White 
Leghorns of Braeside Poultry Farm, and 
the White P. Rocks of Lewis G. Tyreman, 
each laid 17. In the totals the English 
White Leghorns still lead; Mr. Barron’s 
pen have laid 205. and Edward Cam’s pen 
193. This is keeping pretty close together, 
only 12 eggs apart after 10 weeks. The 
White Leghorns from Braeside Poultry 
Farm stand highest of any of the Ameri¬ 
can birds, their record to date being 167 ; 
the Rose Comb R. I. Reds from Glen View 
Poultry Farm come next with a score of 
146; and Geo. H. Schmitz’s Buff Leghorns 
score 143. Burton E. Moore's White Leg¬ 
horns have laid 135, Edward Cam’s White 
Wyandottes, 133; Geo. P. Dearborn's 
Single Comb R. I. Reds, 129; Dr. Geo. A. 
Fritchey’s pen of the same breed, 117; 
White Acres Poultry Farm’s White Orping¬ 
tons, 112 and E. H. Pohle’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes. 112 ; O. A. Foster’s White Leghorns, 
110; E. S. Scoville’s Rose Comb R. I. Red 
hens, 107 ; his pullets of the same breed have 
only laid 49. Ballock & Burrows' White 
Leghorns, 106; Smith Bros.’s pen of White 
Leghorns, 104 ; and a pen of English White 
cannot scratch it out, or waste it. The 
scratch feed is fed from a Norwich auto¬ 
matic feed hopper which the hens work 
whenever they want feed. 
Dried beet pulp, fed after it has been 
soaked out with warm water, is the prin¬ 
cipal source of “green feed’’ in Winter. 
This beet pulp will swell to four times 
its dry bulk. It may be used in a wet 
mash with cornmeal, middlings, etc. I 
use it together with ground Alfalfa and 
the waste from the table, surplus milk, and 
enough ground grain to make a crumbly 
mash. My hens won't eat enough dry mash 
to do them any good. 
“How much per day to 14 hens?’’ This 
is a question that always “gets’’ me. I 
never think of feeding my hens by any 
rule as to quantity. So much depends on 
conditions, time of year, etc., and whether 
they are laying well or not, that the 
amount and kind of feed varies so much 
it is difficult to set any arbitrary rule 
as to quantity. If they are laying well 
I want to feed all I can and still keep 
their appetites sharp; if there is any 
feed left in the litter I reduce the dry 
feed. If they are getting too fat, reduce 
the amount of corn, and feed more oats. 
In feeding you want to use brains, not a 
measure. g. a. c. 
Incubator Cellar. 
I am making an incubator cellar, now 
should it be ventilated properly? It is 
18 feet square. Would windows be all 
right as ventilators? 1 thought it would 
work well to have the windows near the 
ceiling, and the pipes connected at the 
bottom of cellar about a foot from the 
floor, then out to open air, in that way 
to get good circulation of fresh air in the 
cellar. Would windows be better without 
the pipes? If so, how large and how 
close together should they be in the wall? 
What would be the best material for cellar? 
I wish to make it six feet in the ground 
and four feet above, or would four below 
LEGHORNS STANDING SECOND IN CONTEST. 
Leghorns entered by Frank Toulmin have 
laid 102. These are all that have reached 
three figures. E. S. Scoville’s R. I. Red 
hens is the only pen where hens have out¬ 
laid pullets. Among White Leghorns the 
hens have made a very poor showing. F. 
G. Yost's hens that won the first contest 
have laid only 16 eggs in the 10 weeks, 
and Miss Susie Abbott’s hens that made 
a very good record last year have just 
begun laying, their total being three eggs. 
Geo. H. Schmitz’s Bull Leghorn hens have 
laid only 13, as against 143 by his pen 
of pullets. It must be remembered, how¬ 
ever, that these hens laid well up to the 
very close of the first contest, and that 
they have since had to go through the 
molting process which takes from eight to 
12 weeks, the rapidity of the process vary¬ 
ing greatly with different individuals. 
Twenty-two pens did not produce an egg 
during the week. For commercial egg 
production in Winter, early hatched pul¬ 
lets are still the main dependence. Where 
moulting has been forced in early Sum¬ 
mer, by starvation, followed by extra 
heavy feeding, the fowls have been known 
to molt again in the Fall; and if pullets 
are hatched too early and pushed along 
by good feeding to lay in August or Sep¬ 
tember, they are very likely to molt and 
not lay again all Winter. It is doubt¬ 
ful if there will ever be a time when fresh 
eggs in November and December will be 
less than double the price of other sea¬ 
sons of the year. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Food in the Laying Contest. 
I would like to know, what kind of a ra¬ 
tion is being fed the pen of White Wyan¬ 
dottes at the egg-laying contest at Storrs, 
Conn. Also, what do you think of dried 
beet pulp as a green food for hens? Would 
it pay to feed it at $1.30 per 100 pounds? 
I am feeding a mixture composed of 20 
pounds shelled corn, 10 of oats, 10 of 
wheat, noons, and equal quantities wheat 
and oats mornings with dry mash in hop¬ 
per. How much per day for 14 hens? 
Otsego, Mich. w. f. f. 
All the pens at the Storrs contest are fed 
the same ration, Wyandottes are fed the 
same as Leghorns and other breeds. The 
ration is as follows: 
Scratch Feed Mixture. 
60 pounds cracked corn. 
60 pounds whole wheat. 
40 pounds heavy white oats. 
20 pounds barley. 
10 pounds kaffir corn. 
10 pounds buckwheat. 
10 pounds coarse beef scrap. 
Dry Mash. 
200 pounds coarse wheat bran. 
100 pounds corn meal. 
100 pounds gluten meal. 
100 pounds ground oats. 
75 pounds middlings. 
50 pounds fish scraps. 
50 pounds beef scraps, fine. 
25 pounds “Red-dog” flour. 
The dry mash is kept in pans with a 
piece of wire netting on top, so the hens 
and four above be just as good? How 
many machines would this cellar take? 
Massachusetts. j. s. 
We would prefer having the incubator 
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