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March IS, 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fifteenth week of the contest shows 
a further gain of 118 egg's over the pre¬ 
vious week, and as last week made a gain 
of 275, the increase in two weeks is almost 
400 eggs; 393 to be exact. Last year the 
fifteenth week showed a gain of 419. The 
total number of eggs laid during this fif¬ 
teenth week was 1,393, and the total since 
this second contest began is 10.9S8. Barred 
Plymouth Rocks make the highest score 
this week, the pen from Woodside Poultry 
Farm 249. Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes 
are second. The pen entered by Mrs. II. 
F. Haynes of Idaho, laid 25. These birds 
from the Idaho mountains have a total of 
3 42 to their credit now. Four pens laid 24 
eggs each ; they are the Silver Wyandottes 
of T. W. Burns, the White Wyandottes 
of Edward Cam, England, the White Wyan¬ 
dottes of E. H. Fohle, and the Buff Leg- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
is quite evident from the winnings at dif¬ 
ferent utility contests, and the testimonials 
from customers, that the high records at 
Storrs and at the Missouri contest of 
these competitors’ birds (Mr. Cam’s and 
Mr. Barron’s) is not due to any particular 
skill in ricking out birds which will prove 
to be extraordinary layers, or to any value 
in the English climate, or even to “the 
educational advantages of foreign travel”; 
but to the skill and persistency with which 
egg production has been worked for. It 
is no accidental thing that these English 
Leghorns and Wyandottes outlay ours. The 
thing for the American breeder to do is to 
get this strong laying blood into his flocks; 
and then by trap-nesting and breeding for 
vitality as well, bring up our flocks to 
where they will not have to take second 
place in any competition. 
The proposition is being considered now 
of doubling the number of birds in each 
pen at the next contest at Storrs, without 
increasing the entry fee. The coops are 
plenty large enough. This would practic- 
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PEN OF IDAHO WYANDOTTES. Fig. 128 . 
horns 
ron’s 
total of 311 
20. Edward 
of Geo. II. Schmitz. Thomas Bar- 
White Leghorns still lead with a 
their score this week being 
Cam’s pen are next with a 
total of 287; their score for the week being 
16. Geo. H. Schmitz’s Buff Leghorns are 
next to the English birds with a total of 
249. Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes 
have laid 241; Braeside Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns 233; Glen View Poultry 
Farm’s Rose Comb R. I. Reds 228; Dr. J. 
A. Fritchey’s Single Comb R. I. Reds 225; 
Geo. P. Dearborn’s pen of the same variety 
205, and O. A. Foster’s W’hite Leghorn’s 
200. Since the contest began the different 
breeds have averaged as follows: 
Barred P. Rocks .. 
No. of 
pens 
.. 8 
Eggs 
laid 
673 
Average 
per pen 
84.1 
White P. Rocks 
2 
297 
148.5 
Buff P. Rocks. 
.. ! 
139 
139. 
Columbian Rocks . 
. . 2 
159 
79.5 
White Wyandottes 
. . 11 
1510 
137.2 
Buff Wyandottes . . 
2 
117 
58.5 
S. C. R. I. Reds.. 
. . 8 
1235 
154.37 
R. C. R. I. Reds.. 
.. 5 
615 
127.5 
White Leghorns . . 
. . 43 
4613 
107.5 
Buff Leghorns ... . 
. . 3 
484 
161.3 
Buff Orpingtons . . 
.. 2 
163 
81.5 
White Orpingtons . 
. . 4 
532 
133. 
The average for 
the White Leghorns is 
cut down a good 
deal by 
the fact that 
many of the pens 
did not 
begin 
to lay 
until several weeks 
after the 
contest began. 
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am well aware that trap-nest selection of 
breeders has not worked out at the Maine 
Agricultural Station as well as could be 
desired; other factors than merely egg 
production have to be considered; but in 
England and Australia the results obtained 
seem very desirable. One of Mr. Cam’s 
customers testifies to obtaining 292 eggs in 
one year from a White Wyandotte pullet 
bought from him, and another makes the 
still more remarkable statement that from 
six White Wyandotte pullets there were but 
two days in a year that he failed to get 
an egg from thorn. They must have molted 
at different times to get such a result. 
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The White Laced Red Cornish pen com¬ 
menced to lay this week, one pullet laying 
four eggs. The only pen in the contest 
which has not laid is the pen of Butter¬ 
cups. 
The bulletin containing the facts ascer¬ 
tained in the first contest is not yet ready 
for publication, but will probably be out 
in two or three weeks. No one at the Col¬ 
lege realized the tremendous amount of 
work required to get at all the facts; so 
the records accumulated from day to day 
until at the end the whole year’s work 
has had to be gone over. This year they 
have learned by experience, and the rec¬ 
ords are being kept up as they go along, 
so that when the contest is finished there 
will be comparatively little work to be 
done. 
I am in receipt of a letter and pam¬ 
phlet from Mr. Edward Cam, which shows 
that “Utility Contests” are comparatively 
common in England. It is rather strange 
that we have omitted such contests in this 
country. Poultry shows without number 
we have always had; but these have paid 
very little attention to anything but 
feathers. In England they have utility 
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some of them being for six months, others 
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