1913. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
726 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The twenty-sixth week of the contest 
completes the first six months of this 
year’s contest; 2,077 eggs were laid dur¬ 
ing this week. The highest score for the 
week was made by the single pen of 
Silver Wyandottes entered by T. W. 
Burns, his pen laying 150. F. G. Yost’s 
pen of White Leghorn hens laid 29; Alex. 
P. Totman’s White Leghorns laid 29; 
and the White Leghorns entered by the 
wife of ex-Governor Woodruff, of Con¬ 
necticut, also laid 29. P. A. Iveppel’s 
White Leghorns laid 28. Two pens of 
White Leghorns laid 27 each; they are 
the pens of A. B. Ilall and O. A. Foster. 
Below is a table giving the performance 
of the different breeds during this first six 
months, which includes the four months 
of Winter. Many of the birds were im¬ 
mature and did not begin laying for sev¬ 
eral weeks after the contest began. The 
table shows the number of pens of each 
breed, the total number of eggs laid, and 
the average per pen. Of course where 
only one pen of any breed is entered 
there is no “average”; we can only give 
the performance of that pen : 
Pons. Breeds. 
Total 
Eggs 
Laid. 
Av. 
per 
Pen. 
8 
Barred P. Rocks. 
2,256 
282 
2 
White P. Rocks. 
779 
389.5 
i 
Buff P. Rocks. 
384 
384 
2 
Columbian 1*. Rocks.. 
640 
320 
I 
Silver Wyandottes . . . 
338 
338 
ii 
White Wyandottes . . . 
4,016 
365 
2 
Buff Wyandottes . 
563 
281.5 
T 
Columbian Wyandottes 
300 
300 
8 
S. C. R. I. Reds. 
3,121 
390 
5 
R. C. It. I. Reds. 
1,658 
331.6 
1 
Brown Leghorns. 
306 
306 
43 
White Leghorns . 
15,254 
354.7 
o 
o 
Buff Leghorns. 
1,198 
399.3 
1 
Black Minorcas. 
2 S2 
282 
1 
Blue Andalusians .... 
263 
263 
1 
Anconas . 
220 
220 
*) 
Buff Orpingtons . 
639 
319.5 
1 
Black Orpingtons .... 
196 
190 
4 
White Orpingtons .... 
1,349 
337.2 
1 
White la’d Red Cornish 
197 
197 
1 
Buttercups . 
92 
92 
This table brings out the contrast as to 
average laying ability of the birds at the 
contest, but as a comparison of breeds 
it amounts to very little because of the 
varying number of pens. Buff Leghorns 
make the highest average, nearly 490 
eggs per pen. S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
are second, and White Plymouth Rocks 
third. White Wyandottes make a higher 
average than the White Leghorns. 
Barred P. Rocks make a poor showing, 
their pen average being exactly the same 
as the one pen of Black Minorcas. 
The strictly fancy breeds are hopelessly 
behind as egg producers. Mr. Barron’s 
White Leghorns continue to lead, their 
total being now 590. Edward Cam’s 
White Leghorns have laid 520. Mr. 
Cam’s White Wyandottes lead all the 
pens of that breed with a score of 491. 
Beulah Farm’s pen of White Wyan¬ 
dotte pullets score 400, their pen of liens 
of the same breed are 121 eggs behind 
the pullets. Geo. II. Schmitz’s pen of 
Buff Leghorns score 504; they are the 
only pen of American birds that have 
reached 500. geo. a. cosgkove. 
Trouble With Fowls. 
I have five pens of chickens containing 
100 iu each pen, which are fed the Cornell 
ration. The pens are 15x15, with deep 
“tter and with plenty of light, 'three of 
tho.se pens show a kind of weakness in the 
legs and a few do not walk at all. I killed 
one and found her to bo a very good layer. 
Sometimes some pens do not eat the whole 
corn, although they eat it rapidly when 
cracked. The chickens have been closed at 
all times, fed with about three square feet 
of grass, cabbage and sprouted oats, also 
grit, charcoal and oyster shells. f. w. 
New Jersey. 
Mhile no one could say positively from 
your description what the cause of the leg 
weakness showing Itself in your fowls is, 
one would be led to suspect that too close 
confinement and over-feeding lay at the 
bottom of it. Your pens are too small for 
the number of fowls that you keep iu them, 
and the diet is evidently a liberal one. 
Hens seldom refuse whole corn unless they 
are already overfull, and frequently not 
then. Try letting your hens out upon more 
range, if you have it, and restrict their 
rations a little. m. b. d. 
Toe-marking Fowls. 
l notice reference to toe-marking fo 
i want to learn how to do this. Will 
furnish me with the above information 
B. L. i 
< 'licks may be marked at any time a 
they are a few days old by ‘punehiui 
n'Ji J 10 e * n the web between the t 
islug for that purpose either a punch : 
l, al1 dealers In poultry supplies, or 
ordinary harness punch. Many comb 
™ ns . to distinguish different sets of cli 
ay be made by punching between ceri 
* u 01,0 se t and between other 
n other lots. A simple mark to s! 
f L ■ V i V ' aof ’’htrh Is to punch the ri 
K., evon ’ years, and the left fool 
' a . .“ttle ingenuity will de 
mmi.rous combinations that raav be i 
" ’written memorandum will pre\ 
tlen f°, ,nM n»tion. The one prei 
outs 1 V tak u n , fs t0 sec that the pu 
no as fhL ca, J. h , ole: otherwise It may c 
V as the chick grows. m. b. i 
Removing Poultry Droppings. 
In Mr. Cosgrove’s article on page 020 
he makes a statement that he only cleans 
his henhouse about every five months, and 
has done away with drop hoards. I have 
an open front house, 12x24, and clean off 
my drop hoards every morning, and from 
75 hens get about three-quarters of a 14- 
quart pail of manure. On the basis of 
five months it would mean a pile of manure 
under the roosts of 112 pailfuls, which 
if it would stay where dropped might be 
all right if covered with land plaster, but 
as I have litter on floor the hens would 
have it scattered all through it. Even 
as it is I renew this litter about every 
two months, as their droppings during the 
day are mixed and ground up with the 
litter from their scratching and makes 
a body of manure full of humus that I 
have found very good. C. E. 
Parkers Glen, I’a. 
I am surprised that it didn’t occur to 
C. E. to put a wide board across the coop, 
separating the droppings from the rest of 
the house. That is all that I do and not a 
particle of the litter gets over the 14-inch 
wide boards that divide that part from 
the rest of the house; and it follows of 
course that the droppings cannot be 
scratched out into the litter. I put in 
fresh straw about once in two weeks, and 
every three months clean out all the broken 
litter and dirt, as I find with C. E. that 
It makes a lot of “humus” as well as a 
fine fertilizer for the ground. Corn stalks, 
either, cut or thrown in whole, make the 
most lasting litter I have ever used, hut 
the long stalks are a bother when it comes 
to cleaning out the house. But the grain 
sifts down through the stalks so easily that 
the hens have to scratch and that is what 
litter is for, i. e., to compel scratching. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Cleaning Henhouse. 
On page 620 George A. Cosgrove says 
he has done away with the dropping 
hoard. If he feeds his hens grain in the 
litter, does it not become very filthy if 
(hot cleaned out for so long a time? 
Middleburg, Md. .T. d. e. 
I answered this question for some corre¬ 
spondent only a short time ago. No. the 
litter does not get any dirtier than where 
dropping hoards are used, because a wide 
hoard is set up edgewise reaching clear 
accross the henhouse and effectually sepa¬ 
rating the droppings from the litter. Not 
a particle of the night droppings gets into 
the litter. There are no unsightly barrels 
or boxes around filled with hen manure; it 
just remains where it is dropped until I 
want to use it. The hens do scratch iu 
it some, but the board is high enough to 
prevent any being scratched over it. and a 
lew handfuls of land plaster scattered over 
it Occasionally prevents any unpleasant 
odoif arising from it. Yesterday I shoveled 
it all down* to the end near the door. It 
peeled up in great cakes three to four inches 
thick, and as large as I could lift and throw 
with the shovel. There was a big wagon¬ 
load heaped at that end. Now a hen can¬ 
not tolerate a “heap” of anything. A hen 
has more curiosity than any other two- 
legged creature. She must know what Is 
at the bottom of that heap, so they start 
scratching those lumps of manure all down 
fine, and _& shovel the fine part out Into a 
wheelbarrow and put it on my garden or 
grass as wanted. There are 55 White Leg¬ 
horns in a house 20x20. They have no out¬ 
side run, have been out of the house only 
once for an hour since last November, and 
lay continuously from 66 to SO per cent. 
Last month 1,128 eggs, and 1,068 the pre¬ 
vious mouth. GEO. A. COSGROVE, 
Price of Non-fertile Eggs. 
In your reply to S. E. B., Penna., page 
556, in regard to non-fertile eggs, you say 
that they do not bring higher prices than 
fertile eggs of the *fiame degree of fresh¬ 
ness, and that they Ceep better than fertile 
eggs, but are not superior in any other 
respect. As to price, they do bring more 
in this market, and should bring more iu 
any market. Gimbel Bros., who probably 
do a larger grocery business than any 
other house in Philadelphia under onei 
roof, are doing a big business in infertile 
eggs at 52 cents a dozen, while they are 
selling strictly fresh eggs over the same 
counter for 25 cents. We started last Sep¬ 
tember to establish a business in infertile 
eggs, and our trade has been increasing 
all the time, so that at present we find it 
impossible to fill all our orders at 40 cents 
a dozen, with people all aroilnd us selling 
new laid eggs at 25 cents. We made a 
net profit last year of $6.22 per hen above 
all expenses by working up the selling 
end of the business. In regard to infertile 
eggs “keeping better, hut not being superior 
in any other respect.” what is the matt r 
with all the rots and spots on the market 
except that they did not “keep.” and 
wouldn't they have kept and been worth 
the highest price if they had been infertile? 
If S. E. B. will go to the doctors in his 
nOghborhood an( j explain to them that an 
infertile egg cannot rot under any cir¬ 
cumstances, while a fertile egg may go bad 
In less than a week after it is laid, ho can 
work up a market at a fancy price for 
all the infertile eggs he cau produce. 
Pennsylvania. jno. a. wells. 
Leghorn Pullets 
KIRKUP'S STRAIN 3. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
PULLETS 6 AND 8 WEEKS OLD 
60 cents Each 
Can You Beat It ? 
These pullets have had free range, right 
from the incubator, and are strong and 
vigorous. Mortality has not exceeded 10*. 
In less than 3 months these same, birds, 
with very little care, will be worth from 
$1.50 to $2 each. One party has ordered 
2,000 for this season, and another party, 
"'ho had 500 last season, writes as follows : 
“Please book my order for 500 six-weeks- 
old pullets. The pullets received from you 
last, year gave entire satisfaction.” 
This season’s supply is more than half 
sold. Write us today. 
CHESTNUT 
Kirkup Br»*., Props., 
POULTRY FARM 
Maltitack. L. I.. H. Y. 
RARY RRIY—'- c eac h—S.O. White Leghorns, Prize 
UHU 1 Uil IA stock, free range. $10.00 per- 100. I. 
It. duck eggs: all 7c. each: $5.00 per 100. Stock for 
sale. R0CKEY GLEN POULTRY FARM. Poughkeepsie, N. V. 
Chicks $10 per Hundred 
Purebred S. C. White Leghorns. Rango yearling 
breeders. Big strong chicks that will please, 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Won national egg laying contest. Mature early, 
make finest broilers, are good mothers, and most 
beautiful and profitable of all fowls. 1 have hatch¬ 
ing oggs from my famous flock of record-breaking 
layers, deep glowing red to the skin. Reds, Rose 
and Single Cotnb, raised on fine free range in colony 
houses wide open all Winter. Hardy, vigorous, 
heavy Winter-laying birds. I guarantee high fertil¬ 
ity, safe delivery and strict upright dealing all 
through. Further particulars and prices on request. 
NOTICE— I have only a very few of my large, splen 
did Cockerels from record-lay iug mothers left. Fin¬ 
est birds for egg-laying strain. Also few beautiful 
yearlings now laying heavily. Fine for breeders. 
VIBERT RED FARM, Box 1, WESTON, N. J. 
Davis Poultry Farm 
S. C. R. I. REDS 
ALSO BARRED AND WHITE ROCKS, 
Dav-OIft per 10 °- Full connt guar- 
UAy Via LniCKS a ,,teed on delivery. Hatching 
Egg 
BERLIN 
MASS. 
MATTITUCK WHITE 
LEGHORN FARM CHICKS 
please others—they will please you. 
One customer has bought 4000 from week to week 
since March 1st. 
Another has had 200 weekly since April 1st. 
A third customer writes: “Send me another hundred 
at soon as possible. I still have 97 of the hundred pur¬ 
chased April 2d, and they are growing like weeds." 
The price is $9. 00 per hundred 
You run no risk. Send for circulars. 
Satisfaction in evory respect is guaranteed. 
AIREDALE TERRIER PUPS FOR SALE—Registered Stock 
A. H. PENNY, - - Mattituck, N. Y. 
PRIZE WINNING STOCK 
Exhibition and utility White Plymouth Rocks. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C. R. 1. Reds; day-old 
chicks eggs by clutch or 1000: book your orders early. 
KN0LLW00D FARM, &|W.S£S: S, 
MAPLE GOVE POULTRY YARDS 
R. No. 24, Athens, Pa. Breeders for 32 years of 
purebred poultry of high quality. Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing. Silver Campines, Leghorns, Minorcas, Reds, 
Wyandottes,Cochins,Koclts, Geese, Ducks,Guineas. 
H ATCHING EGGS—From trap-nested W. P 
Rocks. $0 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N.Y. 
RARRFH ,,r o<i in 9te very host blood 
D.aiVIVE,LJ RULIYO Hlies . Eggs. $1 per 15 and 
$4 per 100. CIIAS. T. DOWNING, R. 2, West Chester, Pa. 
Baby Chicks 81c. Each 
from Single Comb White Leghorns. All breeders 
are on free range and from selected stock. Prompt 
delivery. A hatch every week. Safe arrival guar- j 
anteed. Circular free. 
CHAS. R. STONE 
Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-ou-Hudson, N. Y. I 
Columbian Rocks—Aurora Strain 
1st prize winners at New York and Buffalo. Eggs, 
$3.00 and *5.00 per 15. Fiee mating list. 
LEW H. MOWN, - East Aurora, N. Y. 
For Sale-S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
10 weeks old June 3rd. Thrifty stock. 50c. each if 
taken at once. Address B. B. CHASE, Wyoming, Del. 
Rahv Cbirlr« —S- c - w - Leghorns, Barred 
papy pnicKS Ro( , kSi R c 6 Re(is Strongi 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular free. 
WESLEY GKINNK lL - SODUS, N. Y. 
New York Prize-Winning Strains-™^ t ^ B y ; 
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds; Brown, White Leghorns. 
Eggs,$1.50,15 : $(, 100. Dark, Light Brahmas: Eggs, 
$2.50. 15. Catalog free. A few choice breeders for 
sale. F. 51. PRESCOTT, Kiverdale, N. J. 
P0ULTRYMEH _Sen,i 2c stanl P for Illustrated 
, ,5 nn. rn. Catalog describing ::.i varieties. 
FAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS -:- MARIETTA, PA. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
Stock selected for vigor and given freerangeon large 
tarm. IntheCornell Breed Testing project last year 
one pullet from this flock laid 210 eggs, another laid 
212 eggs. The ten pullets laid 1739 eggs. Eggs $d.0U per 
100. Eggs that fail to hateh replaced at half-price 
F: E. STRONG, R. D. 2, - . . ITHACA, N. Y. 
Fawn Indian Runner Duck Eggs 
reduced to 13 for 75c. Robert R. Tweddle. Montgomery,N.Y. 
EGGS“ FR0M WH,TE ORPINGTONS, winners in 
the show room; also in egg-layiug 
GOLDEN R00 
$3.00 per 
POULTRY 
15. 
FARM. 
Write for mating list. 
Gloversville, N. Y. 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN 
AND WHITE OR1M.NGTON tgiV*® 
$1 per 15. Mrs. Arthur Hawkins, Goshen, N. Y 
;!L c n' , td"S5r ! " i ; PARTRIDGES I PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails. 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. F’ancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks. Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM. J. MACKENsFN, Sutural 
ist, Department lo, Yardley, Pa. 
M Y BARRED PLYMOUTH RCCXS have won at the leading 
shows. Extra larne, narrow tarred, true rock shape. Every 
specimen mated for best results. 15 Years a breeder. Choicest 
matings, $2 for 15 ; utility matings, $5 fur 100. HILL- 
HURST FARM, F. H. Rivonburgh, Prop., Munnsvllle, N.Y. 
G iant stkaix mammoth hronze 
TI KKKY KGGS-15 per setting of 11. White 
Wyandotte and B. P. Uock t»ggs,$i per setting of 15: 
$3 per hundred. C- A* HESSHEY, R. No. 1, Til'ie, Pa. 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs 
*3 per 10. R. C. It. I. Red Eggs. $1 per 15. I.’R. Duck 
Eggs, $1 per 10. Purebred S. C. While Leghorn eggs 
$1 per 20. White eggs from pure White K. Ducks, 
$2.50 per 10. TV rite H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg. Pa. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKSi, 
white eggs. $1.00 per 13: $0.00 per 100 . 
HOY LUANDALL, . Albion, 
BURNETT'S Coltlenham Poultry Yards 
breeders of Minorcas. We have only the popular i n i n j n i , _ , 
kind. Our male birds are from 8 to 11 lbs. Our liens R. I, K6QS, HOUudiiS, illdiail RUtlUST DllCKS 
are a most beautiful flock and are every-day layers 1 
of the largest, highest priced eggs known. Just try 
ono setting, for special price, only $1. If they do not 
hatch satisfactorily wo replace them. We know 
they will continue to please. We attend to yotir 
order at once. Get our new circular. CGLDENHAM 
POULTRY YARDS, W. L. Burnett, Prop , Montgomery, N. Y. 
MAKA-SHEL ? ood ra,,,lw 
GRIT 
Box J 
L'antiot pos¬ 
sibly he obtained from poultry if 
not foil a good grit. ‘‘Maka- 
8 hei” has no equal; there Is 
none “junt as good.” Ask 
your dealer or send us $ 1.00 
for two 100 lb. bags; one ton for $7.00, f. o. b. 
care. Agents wanted. Write today. 
EDGE HILL SILICA ROCK CO., 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EN- 
P< > RT. Eggs for hate hing. Mating list on reauest. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. G02 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. V. 
Baby 
B IFF WHITE LEU HORNS, S. C. U. I. HKDS—Eggs, 90<\ per 15 
$1.50 per 30. Mottled Ancouax, HI. Minorcas, e^ga, $1.00 pel 
Id; $!.».» per 30. Catalogue free. John A. Roth, qmikortown, I*a. 
Above Poultry Farms Go., Inc. 
CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY' 
Established, 1904 Breeders and shippers of high 
ciass S. G. W. Leghorns. Hatching Eggs. Baby 
chicks. Cockerels, Write for price list. 
Mammoth Pekin Buck Eggt 
$5—100- Buff Orpington Eggs, $4—100. In buy¬ 
ing our stock none was too good for us. Take ad¬ 
vantage. - EVERGREEN, Suffera, N. Y. 
Phif'lo; ftp — S. C.W. Leghorn: the kind that 
Uiliuno Uu. are hound to pav their board and 
trouble. Next hatch May 31, June 12 and 22nd. Tri- 
States Poultry Farm. Anthony Simon, Prop., Port Jervis, N.Y. 
Tuikey, Chicken and Duck Eggs-^l'^^i 
Parcel Post. W. R. CARLE, R. F. 0. 1, Jacobsburg, Ohio 
White Indian Runner Ducksi^fgf^'stmYda'd 
English Runners, Eggs, 81 per sitting 11 eggs. Crys¬ 
tal '' bite Eggs. R. W. Shipman, R.3, Kollidaysburg, Pa. 
Austin's 200 
strainS. G. Rhode Island Reds 
Standard bred, red to the skin. Eggs for hatching 
$3.U0, $5.00 and $10.00 per set (15). Utility $0.00 per 
100. !H)< fertility guaranteed Cockerels, yearling*, 
pullets, babv clucks. 
AUSTIN S POULTRY FARM, Pox 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
Moes Rat Destrovft? 
REMOVE COVER 
TO BAIT 
Patent Pending 
Get rid of the rats in 
your buildings and 
poultry yard without 
endangering the lives 
of your domestic animals 
and fowls. % They cannot 
reach tnc poison hut the rats 
can _ Any poison can bo 
NONE BUT 
ROOCNTS CAN REACH 
POISON 
used but wo recommend one that kills them without edor ami </•'»*<; 
one package free with each destroyer. Price $1.00. If notat your 
to lT ur address, carrying charges prepaid. 
OTIS & NIOE, I Tie Otis Binding. CHICAGO. ILL. 
Wmkn’ you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Unna’ii Crescent Strain of Rose Comb 
none s Reds and Mamnioth Brulue l urkeys 
Eggs for hatching from exhibition matings; also 
utility matings of tested layers. Three of my Al¬ 
bany and Sohenectadv winners will be given free to 
t he parties ordering the largest number of eggs dur¬ 
ing months of Anvil and Mav, 1913 Mating list free 
D. R. HONE, CRESCENT HILL FARM, SHARON SPRINGS, N. Y. 
NO MORE A venarius Carbolir.eum exterminates lice, mites, fleas and other 
insect pests on poultry. One application lasts 12 months or more. 
HEN LICE Prevents scal y le s. keeps the skin in good condition and makes hens 
l,wl *■■'**■ lay better by removing irritating and blood sucking vermin. Poultry 
houses painted with Avenatius Carbolineum are absolutely sanitary and vermin free. 
They last longer. Avenarius Carbolineum can be applied as a spray or paint. 
Always keep a supply on hand. Be sure and g«M the genuine. Ask for AVENARIUS. 
If your dealer hasn’t it, write for Bulletin 38, giving full directions and prices. 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO., islFranklin St., New York City. 
