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April 5, 
THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The eighteenth week shows 2,078 eggs 
laid during the week, a gain of 178 eggs 
over the previous week, and a gain of 
exactly the same number over the eigh¬ 
teenth week last year. Of this gain of 178 
eggs the White Leghorns contributed only 
36. Their total output for the week was 
849 ; but last week they laid 813, so other 
breeds make up 142 of the weeek's gaffa. 
Thomas Barron's White Leghorns are tak¬ 
ing everything this week; they make the 
highest score for the week, as well as lead 
in the grand total. They have laid this 
week 7-5-5-0-6, or 29, and out in the 
contest at Mountain Grove, Missouri, they 
are 115 eggs ahead of their nearest com¬ 
petitor. Two of his 10 pullets out there 
have made the two highest individual 
scores, viz.: 84 and 82. I hope Australia 
will come into the next contest. If they 
have bred anything that can outlay Bar¬ 
ron's White Leghorns, the American poul¬ 
try men would like to know it. 
O. A. Foster takes second place in the 
week’s score with 28 eggs from his pen. 
He is the buyer of the White Leghorns that 
Mr. Barron had in the first contest. The 
White Wyandottes are doing good work 
this week, three pens laying 27 each, Mrs. 
H. F. Ilaynes’ pen from Idaho: Beulah 
Farm's pullet pen, and T. J. McConnell’s 
pen; Woodside Poultry Farm’s Barred 
Rocks also laid 27, and O. Wilson's Buff 
Orpingtons laid 27. As 27 is over a 74 
per cent, lay it is worth remarking. Bar¬ 
ron’s 29 eggs are almost 83 per cent, of 
the possible total. Seven pens laid 26 
each, and 10 pens laid 25. All the peris 
of every breed are laying except the But¬ 
tercups. Judge W. II. Card's new breed, 
the White-laced Rod Cornish, laid 20 
eggs this week. Thomas Barron’s White 
Leghorns have at total of 386 to their 
credit now, and Edward Cam's birds of the 
same breed still hold second place with a 
total of 355. » 
George II. Schmitz’s Buff Leghorns come 
into the 300 grade this week, their total 
being 322, and so do the White Wyandottes 
from England, Edward Cam’s pen having 
laid 317. No other pens have reached 300. 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey’s Single Comb R. I. 
Reds have laid 293; Braeside Poultry 
Farm’s White Leghorns, 292; Glen View 
Poultry Farm’s Rose Comb R. I. Reds, 
274; George P. Dearborn’s Single Comb R. 
I. Rods, 275 ; Beulah Farm’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes, 266; O. A. Foster's White Leg¬ 
horns, 268, and White Acres Poultry 
Ranch White Orpingtons, 250. 
At the Missouri contest the birds are 
laying very much better than they did 
last year. In the month of February they 
■laid 2,224 more eggs than in the same 
mouth last year. Below is the output of 
the 10 leading pens. This is for 15 days in 
November and all of December, January and 
February, 104 days: 
Pen Eggs 
2—S. C. White Leghorn, England.... 656 
25—Silver Wyandottes, Illinois . 541 
19— Silver Wyandottes, Iowa. 518 
57— Black Langshans, Missouri. 488 
33—Barred Rocks, Illinois . 477 
20— White Wyandottes, Arkansas. 471 
59—Black Orpingtons, Canada. 469 
30—Buff Wyandottes, Vermont. 433 
24—White Wyandottes, New Jersey. . 438 
58— Buff Orpingtons, Missouri. 433 
Of the 700 birds in this Missouri contest 
78 have not yet laid an egg. In the con¬ 
test at Storrs there is only one pen—five 
birds—that have not yet laid. But out of 
the whole 500 birds there were 34 that did 
not lay during the week. C. S. Seo- 
ville’s Rose Comb R. I. Red hens have 
been outlaid by his pullets of the 
same breed, the record standing 172 for 
the pullets. 168 by the hens. Last year 
the same breed, the record standing 172 
for the pullets, 168 by the hens. Last year 
Scoville’s If. I. Red hens outlaid all the 
pullets of that breed. His hens were the 
only ones in the contest that laid as well 
as the pullets. 
Some breeders who very much prefer eggs 
from yearling hens for hatching, make it 
a point to keep the pullets back as much 
as possible, by scanty feeding, and feeding 
little or no meat, and by moving them to 
different quarters occasionally, so as to cut 
down egg production the first year; expect¬ 
ing to get a good many eggs the second 
year, when the eggs are supposed to pro¬ 
duce better chicks. 
I don’t know of any extended experi¬ 
ments having ever been made to deter¬ 
mine how much, if any. better chicks are 
that have been hatched from hen eggs than 
from pullet eggs; but it is generally 
thought that if cockerels and pullets are 
bred from continuously for several years, 
there will be a loss of vitality and stamina 
in the flock. Pullets lay smaller eggs than 
hens, as a rule. Some experiments were 
carried on at Cornell College, Ithaca, N. 
Y.. to determine what relation the size of 
eggs had to the size of the chicken. Small 
eggs, medium size eggs, and large eggs 
were used, and it was found that the 
weight of the chick corresponded almost 
exactly to the relative weight of the eggs; 
and to their surprise it was found that 
this relative weight of the checks per¬ 
sisted. When the chicks were 5% months 
old, the heaviest chicks were the ones 
from the largest eggs; the medium size 
chicks were from the medium eggs, and the 
smallest chicks were from the smallest 
eggs. One experiment does not really de¬ 
termine anything ; it would be worth while 
if many breeders would try this. It could 
be very easily done where chicks are 
hatched by hens, putting all large eggs un¬ 
der one hen, and the small eggs under 
another, and marking the chicks as soon 
as they were hatched, then weighing the 
broods as they continued to grow. There 
is a great deal yet to be learned in the 
poultry business. geo. a. cosgiiovb. 
Treatment for Roup. 
I have just read a communication and 
request from B. A. T., Maryland, page 322. 
1 have had but two cases of roup among 
my fowls, and successfully treated those 
cases, so I feel confident that I can show 
him how to treat them. The two cases I 
have mentioned had so far advanced that 
the heads were swollen and pus was issuing 
from nostrils, eyes and mouth. A friend 
told me to drop into the mouth 10 drops 
of kerosene, after the hens had gone to 
roost in a warm henhouse, well ventilated, 
but warm enough to keep out the frost. I 
took some kerosene in a long vial and tried 
to drop some in their mouths, but acci¬ 
dentally poured the mouth full and it ran 
over into the eyes, and I thought of course 
It would kill the hen, but 1 did the same 
by the other and put them on a roost in 
a cold room and in the morning I found 
they were not only alive but all the pus 
had disappeared and they looked nearly 
well, and were entirely well in a few days. 
After about two weeks I let the hens out 
to enjoy a bright sunny day, and soon it 
began to rain, a cold rain. As they were 
getting wet and chilled I at last drove 
them in. The next day 75 of them were 
sneezing and coughing. The night of the 
following day I went into the henhouse 
and following the roosts, I listened to the 
breathing of every hen and if she rattled 
in the throat, or breathed at all unnatur¬ 
ally, I filled her mouth with kerosene. I 
followed this up for a week or more, as 
long as there were any evidences of the 
trouble, and they were all cured before 
they had time to get sick. j. d. p. 
R. N.-Y.—Kerosene, used as suggested, 
has long been a standard remedy for colds 
or incipient roup. It would be of doubtful 
value in advanced cases of true roup, out 
in those cases of contagious catarrh which 
lack only the specific infection to become 
true roup, a few drops may be injected by 
means of a medicine dropper, either into the 
nostrils, or into the cleft in the mouth 
which communicates with the nostrils. The 
operator should remember, however, that 
applied to inflamed membranes, kerosene 
cannot be otherwise than painful, and he 
should not use enough to choke or strangle 
the fowl. 
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