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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING. GONTEST. 
Tlit? numfior of eggs laid the thirty- 
third week is 2,151, just the number laid 
the thirty-first week. This is- 871 more 
than were laid in the corresponding week 
last year. 0. A. Foster’s pen of White 
Leghorns make the high score of 88, tak¬ 
ing first place for the week. Leroy II. 
Sands’ White Leghorns tie with <S. 
Scoville’s It. C. It. I. Reals for second 
place, each pen laying 32. Tom Bar¬ 
ron’s White Leghorns are third with 31 
to their credit. Ingleside Farms Co.’s 
White Leghorns tie with the White Or¬ 
pingtons of White Acres Poultry Ranch 
for fourth place, with scores of 30 each. 
E. D. Bird’s Andalusians laid 29. and 
six pens, of White Leghorns also lard 29. 
They are W. P. Canby’s, I’. G. Platt’s, 
W. L. Sleegur’s, Alex. P. Totman’s, W. 
E. Tillinghast’s, and P. A. Jones’ pen. 
Four pens of White Leghorns laid 28 
each, and four pens laid 27. 
Mr. Barron’s pen has laid 798; Mr. 
Edward Cam’s pen 717; O. A. Fosters 
pen 675; Edward Cam’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes 651; Geo. H. Schmitz’s Buff Leg¬ 
horns 647; W. L. STeegur’s White Leg¬ 
horns 640; Braeside Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns 618; W„ P. Canby’s 
White Leghorns 6(H); Beulah Farm’s 
White Wyandottes 613. These are the 
only pens that have laid 600. 
Seventeen birds have died, including 
one of Mrs. FI. F. Haynes’’ White Wyan¬ 
dottes from Idaho, and one of Tom Bar¬ 
ron’s- White- Leghorns. Tile mortality 
has been only four among the White Leg- 
water always fresh. They have shade. 
My ducklings have sore eyes. Some get 
well but most die. Give me advice if 
you ean.. a. h. Pv 
Olmsted Falls. O. 
While it is possible that there is an in¬ 
herent weakness due to lack of vigor in 
the breeding stock that is responsible for 
the early deaths of your goslings, I am 
very much more inclined to think that 
your method of feeding is at the bottom 
of the trouble. The feeds that you men¬ 
tion are too concentrated unless welL di¬ 
luted- with wheat bran which should form 
a large proportion of the mixture ; green 
stuff should form, another large propor¬ 
tion of the rations. Too concentrated 
grain food and too much of it is respon¬ 
sible- for very much of tire fatality among 
young ducks at from three to four weeks 
of age. Here is a good formula for a 
growing ration: Four parts wheat bran, 
one part wheat middlings, one part corn- 
meal. two parts green stuff, cut very fine; 
five per cent chick grit, five per cent sift¬ 
ed beef scrap. You will note that bran 
forms nearly one-half of the bulk and 
green stuff about one-fourth. The green 
stuff and beef scrap should be fed lightly 
at first and gradually increased, until the 
full proportions are used. At from six 
to eight weeks of age the green stuff may 
form nearly one-half of the- total ration. 
Again, feed- sparingly, never leaving a 
surplus in the dishes to sour, and see that 
all foods used are free from mustiness. 
Give plenty of exercise and shade. Do 
not make mash too wet. If sweet milk is 
used in the mash, discontinue it upon the 
appearance of sore eyes or heads. Give 
the ducklings water so arranged that 
they can dip their entire heads beneath 
TOM BARRON AND UI8- BEST HEN. 
horns, or less than one-third that of the 
other breeds. 
Mr. Quisonberry heads his report of 
the egg-laying contest in Missouri, “An 
American Hen Now Leads,” One of Mr. 
Barron’s White Leghorns which has un¬ 
til now been the highest individual per¬ 
former, has been passed by a Buff Wyan¬ 
dotte hen from Vermont.. This hen has 
laid 167 eggs in 197 days. One Bali' 
Wyandotte pullet laid every day for two 
months, 62 eggs in 62 days. 
Mr. Barron’s pen of White Leghorns 
are 230 eggs ahead of all the other pens. 
They have laid 1-888- eggs: the next best 
pen- were Silver Wyandottes with 1.108- 
eggs to their credit 
Owing to some defect in her internal 
organs one of Mr. Barron’s pullets lays 
soft-shelled eggs, which are not included 
in the reports. Only marketable eggs are 
counted. If these eggs were added, it 
would make Barron’s White Leghorns 
830 eggs ahead. Eleven pens have laid 
more than 1.0(H) eggs each. There are 
10 liens in a pen in the Missouri contest, 
and it is proposed to put 10 in each pen 
at the next contest at Btorrs, Conn. It 
is worth tin- entrance fee to got 10 of 
your best hens or pullets trap-nested, for 
a year. You have a certified record of 
what each hen has done, when you want 
to mate up your breeding pens the next 
year. geo. a. cosukove. 
R- N.-Y.—The picture shows Mr. Tom 
Barron, of England, and one of the best 
of his Leghorn hens. It is said that a 
man shows in his appearance some of 
the characteristics of the animals which 
he succeeds with. The question is how 
would Mr. Barron score as a LeghornV 
Weak Goslings. 
I am losing my goslings, aiul write 
hoping you may give me some advice. I 
use hens to hatch them; some I bave- 
v'lth the mother hen and some without, 
hut they all, when about three weeks old, 
get weak in their legs and sit down for 
two or three days and then die. They 
seem lively up to a certain size, and as 
soon as they reach that age and size they 
me as above stated. I feed them grit 
and water and what they can eat of grass 
and clover in their run, giving them a 
tresh run every few days. Some have 
had a mixed feed of oatmeal, comment 
and ground wheat in addition to the 
grass and clover, others have had only 
i tlle - v Spaaed. Their runs are on an 
mu awn and could not be better. Their 
drinking utensils are kept clean and their 
the surface and keep eyes and nostrils 
clean. Clean quarters, fresh air. plenty 
of_ exercise, an abundance of green food 
with a limited amount of concentrated 
grain foods, and water are all essential. 
M. B. D. 
Ailing. Turkeys. 
Can you tell me the trouble with my 
turkeys. The seeortd lot hatched seemed 
to grow nicely for about two or three 
weeks and all at once they would go 
backward, fall over and in. a day or two 
about half of them died. I fed them 
mostly on prepared chicken feed of mixed 
grain, a small bit of mean meal and all the 
fresh milk they would drink. li, s. s. 
Maryland. 
I cannot tell from your brief descrip¬ 
tion just what ailed your young poults, 
though the fact that this one hatch was 
affected, and that they were all taken 
sick at one time and died within a few 
days, would indicate that something was 
wrong with their food. Possibly tainted 
meat meal or musty grain was fed, or 
sonic part of the prepared chick food was 
unfit for use. Your success with other 
hatches makes it seem probable that you 
know how to feed young poults, and care 
for them generally, so I should look care¬ 
fully to the feed as a possible cause for 
the trouble with this hatch. m. b. p. 
Small Eggs. 
From a small dock of White Leghorn 
chickens we are getting quite a number 
of very small eggs, about the size of a 
pigeon, egg. Is this an indication that 
the bens laying these small eggs have 
exhausted their laying qualities? 
New York. t. a. b. 
All docks lay smalL eggs at times, and 
it is no indication that the hens have ex¬ 
hausted their capacity. Hens lay smaller 
eggs at the beginning and toward tin- 
close of their laying periods than at other 
times and the only reason that I can sug¬ 
gest for this phenomenon is that the 
glands secreting the albumen of the egg 
grow gradually more active at the begin¬ 
ning of flu- laying period and as gradually 
diminish in their capacity for work 
toward its close. m. b. d. 
Catching, Weasels.— Tell ML B. D. 
to put a small chicken in a bird cage 
near where weasel stays, and set two 
steel Traps close beside it. After losing 
50 chicks- we caught the weasel the first 
day. Lie did not get the chick either. 
Pennsylvania. a. j. m. 
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