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T.'HE RURAL NBVV-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The thirty-fourth week of the contest 
shows an output of 2,056 eggs. This is 
262 eggs more than were laid in the cor¬ 
responding week last year, but it is a 
drop of 95 eggs from the production of 
the previous week. The hot weather is 
probably responsible for part, if not all 
of this loss. The hen cannot throw off 
her coat and vest or dress “thin” in 
hot weather, and the hen that is un¬ 
comfortable, will not continue to produce 
many eggs. The large breeds, with their 
tendency to take on too much fat, suffer 
more in hot weather than the smaller 
breeds, and the result is seen in a les¬ 
sened egg production. The necessity of 
providing abundant shade is very evident. 
White Leghorns make the high score of 
the week, two pens being tied for that 
honor, P. G. Platt’s pen laying 30, and 
Mrs. K. B. Woodruff’s pen laying the 
same number. Mrs. Woodruff is the wife 
of ex-Governor Woodruff of Connecticut. 
T. W. Burns’ Silver Wyandottes laid 
29, as did W. I*. Canby’s White Leg¬ 
horns, A. 1*. Robinson’s White Leghorns, 
W. L. Sleegur’s White Leghorns, and 
P. A. Keppel’s White Leghorns. No less 
than 10 pens of White Leghorns laid 
28 each. They are the pens from Eglan¬ 
tine Farms, A. B. Hall, Orchard Hill 
Poultry Farm, Rosswood Poultry Farm, 
Smith Bros., Frank Toulmin, England; 
Edward Cam, England; O. A. Foster, 
California; Blue Mountain Farm, and 
F. A. Jones. W. J. Tilley’s pen of White 
P. Rocks also laid 28. Three pens of 
White Leghorns laid 27 each, and Lewis 
G. Tireman’s pen of White P. Rocks 
laid 27. The 43 pens or White Leghorns 
averaged over 24.5 eggs per pen. which 
is just 70 per cent, of the possible total. 
Good laying for this time of year. Tom 
Barron’s pen of -White Leghorns have 
now laid S24 eggs; Edward Cam’s pen, 
745; O. A. Foster’s, 703; W. L. Sleegur’s, 
669; Braeside Poultry Farms, 645; W. 
P. Canby’s pen, 635; Bullock & Bur¬ 
rows. (522; Joseph .T. Barclay’s pen. 617; 
Burton E. Moore’s pen, 614; Frank 
Toulmin’s, (507; F. A. Jones’, (504. 
All the above scores are by White Leg¬ 
horns. 
Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes laid 
074; Beulah Farms, 624; and Mrs. II. 
F. Haynes’ White Wyandottes, 602. Of 
the Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, 
Geo. P. Dearborn’s have laid 616, and 
Colonial Farms’, 606. Geo. H. Schmitz’s 
Buff Leghorn pullets have laid 662. No 
other pens have reached 600. The total 
number laid to date is 51.362. This is 
1,094 more eggs than were laid at the 
close of the 34 th week last year. 
Cut out a large part of the corn and 
cornmcal from the ration these hot days; 
feed all the green food they will eat. 
both chicks and hens; give clean cool 
water at least twice a day, and shade 
absolutely must be provided. Pour some 
water in a corner of your henhouse, if 
it has an earth floor, or in the henyard, 
and make a mudhole. liens will eat 
a lot of mud. Sprinkle the earth in the 
dusting box, hens just revel in damp 
earth to wallow in, especially in hot 
weather. geo. a. c6so rove. 
THE CALIFORNIA EGG CONTEST. 
The fourth month of the Napa, Cali¬ 
fornia. egg contest ends with quite a 
switch in the leaders. With a few no¬ 
table exceptions, the high pens are com¬ 
posed of Leghorns, mostly White. This 
is to be expected as the hot weather 
comes on and many of the American and 
English breeds will become broody, thus 
lowering the number of hens in the 
laying class. Of the 45 high pens. 10 are 
Leghorns; nine White and one Brown. 
As the Leghorns are very largely in 
the majority, of the entries, they have 
quite a large per cent, in their favor, 
and should be able to make a better 
showing than tin* other and larger breeds, 
which have only one or two pens en¬ 
tered. 
The pen of Buff Wyandottes entered 
by the writer, are now in the lead of the 
American and English classes. Only 
tour pens of Leghorns are ahead of them 
i,n, l they are making a record of which 
Buff Wyandotte admirers may well take 
notice. They are bred from blue ribbon 
winners, and show their breeding in the 
egg basket. 
4 he high pen of the contest is White 
Leghorn, These birds are averaging 
over 100 eggs per month, for the four 
months, having laid 504 eggs; this is 
nothing short of phenomenal. During 
tlie past month they laid 105 eggs, fully 
as good a record as any of the English 
Pu 11S T,°f Whit 0 Leghorns are making in 
the Last, and the California birds are 
handicapped by being kept entirely in¬ 
doors m a small space, with no outdoor 
exercise at all, and in the same build- 
500 or more fowls. Certainly 
the * ahfornin Leghorns have no occasion 
to take off their hats to anything so far 
shown by England. 
Following is the record for the fifteen 
leading pens at the end of the fourth 
month: 
Bloin and Son, White Leghorns, for 
thrc , ‘ months, 399; for fourth 
l9->: total. 504 
Otten, W. Leghorns, for three months, ! 
336; for fourth mouth, 96; total, 432. 
Stratton, W. Leghorns, for three 
months, 326; for fourth month, 95; total, 
421. 
Forragiaro, Brown Leghorns, for three 
months, 305; fourth month, 95; total, 
400. 
Pearson. Buff Wyandottes, for three 
months, 329; fourth mouth, 70; total, 
399. 
Blom, W. Leghorns, for three months, 
315; fourth month, SO; total, 395. 
Lubben, Barred Rocks, for three 
months, 332; for fourth month. 56; total, 
388. 
Bunges, W. Leghorns, three months, 
322; for fourth month. (56; total. 388. 
Swanson, W. Leghorns, for three 
months, 295; for fourth month, 90; total, 
38;.). 
Worel, W. Leghorns, for three months, 
302; for fourth month, 82; total, 384. 
McMillan, W. Leghorns, for three 
months, 312; for fourth month, 70; total, 
382. 
Bates. Barred Rocks, for three months, 
316; for fourth month, 64; total, 380. 
Kimble, W. Leghorns, for three months, 
292; for fourth month, 86; total, 378. 
Gilmer. W. Minorcas, for three 
months, 292; for fourth month, 75; total, 
367. 
Stice, Barred Rocks, for three months, 
311; for fourth month, 51; total, 362. 
w. H. PEARSON. 
TURKEY AND PHEASANT. 
The Tioga Co. (N. Y.) Herald reports 
the following: 
“A strange freak of a turkey came 
to light at the farm of Mrs. Sidney 
Belcher, south of this village, a few 
days ago. Some six weeks or more ago 
a hen turkey disappeared. It was thought 
she had been killed in some way or had 
been stolen, but a few days ago this 
turkey reappeared in the fields near the 
house. On investigation it was discov¬ 
ered that she had a flock of five little 
birds with her and it was noted at once 
that they were not young turkeys. They 
were smaller and looked much like baby 
Brown Leghorn chicKs. Though they 
were very wild at first after a few days 
those about the farm were able to catch 
them as the old turkey came for food, 
and it was found that they were young 
pheasants. The theory is that the old 
turkey wandered into the woods found 
the nest of a pheasant, drove off the 
old bird and appropriated the nest for 
her own. probably laying some of her 
own eggs in it. When the hatching time 
came the pheasant eggs hatched quicker 
than the turkey’s eggs and the old turkey 
having forgotten her calendar and think¬ 
ing everything was all right left her nest 
with her strange brood. The pheasant 
clucks are now with the turkey mother 
about the fields near the house and thriv¬ 
ing well.” 
mouth, 
Chick Epidemic. 
I would like to know what to do for 
my chicks. At first I thought they had 
roup, but am advised by good authority 
that it is distemper, and was told to use 
permanganate of potash in water, and 
have been doing that. This trouble was 
brought into my flock a year ago by some 
young chickens I bought at the store to 
kill. It is confined to young chickens 
and as they get up nearly grown they 
seem to outgrow it. It is very contagious 
and was evidently carried through Win¬ 
ter by infected coops or ground; is mani¬ 
fested chiefly by thin watery discharge 
from nose. Feathers are ruffled up, fowl 
does not grow, and frequently has diffi¬ 
culty in breathing. Occasionally one dies. 
What should I do? u. i>. L. 
North Carolina. 
Tt is impossible to say whether this 
trouble is true roup, a milder form of 
contagious catarrh, or some other affec¬ 
tion, but, so far as the treatment is con¬ 
cerned. it matters little. The disease is 
evidently contagious and cannot be 
eradicated until all sources of infection 
are disposed of. To this end, all fowls 
known to have or to have had the trouble 
should be disposed of, not by selling them 
to further spread the disease, but by kill¬ 
ing and burying such as are not iit for 
food. After ridding the premises of all 
affected fowls, their quarters should be 
cleaned up and disinfected by the use of 
carbolized whitewash and boiling water. 
M. B. P. 
Scaly Leg. 
What will cure my hens of scab's on 
legs? I have tried everything I could j 
hear of and nothing seems to do them any 
good. F. M’L. 
New York. 
The use of kerosene, either as a dip for 
the legs, or applied ns an ointment made 
up with vaseline or lard is usually effica¬ 
cious in the treatment of scaly legs. A 
10 per cent carbolic acid ointment with 
vaseline is also a good application. In 1 
very bad cases it is necessary sometimes 
to soak the legs of tin' fowls in warm 
soap suds until the scales can be gently | 
removed before applying the remedies. A 
little persistance will effect a cure, though 
to prevent reinfection the perches used 
by the fowls should also be cleaned and 
disinfected. m. b. d. 
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