1914. 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
There was a heavy drop in egg produc¬ 
tion this, til? thirty-fifth week; 103 less 
eggs were laid than in the previous week, 
but this was 151 more eggs than were 
laid in the corresponding week last year. 
The number laid this week was. 1,953. 
The hot dry weather of the last few 
weeks can hardly fail to affect egg pro¬ 
duction unfavorably, but it seems to be 
true that it does not affect the smaller 
breeders so much as it does the large 
and heavy breeds. The large breeds are 
usually fatter, and probably feel the dis¬ 
comfort of heat more. 
Results, so far as they go, confirm this, 
for the week’s loss of 103 eggs is nearly 
all due to the larger breeds; White Leg¬ 
horns laid only five eggs less than the 
week before, the other breeds laid 98 
less; though Leghorns are nearly half 
of the whole number entered. 
White Leghorns make all the high 
scores this week. Four pens tie for the 
first place with scores of 29 each. They 
are Tom Barron’s pen, Frank Toulmin’s 
pen from England; Rosswood Poultry 
Farm’s pen, Pennsylvania, and A. B. 
Saylor Drug Co.’s pen, also Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Five pens of White Leghorns tie 
for second place with scores of 28 each, 
Ingleside Farms Co., Toms River Farm, 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff’s, O. A. Foster’s 
and F. A. .Tones’ pen. Nine pens of 
White Leghorns laid 27 each. Three 
pens 26 and six pens laid 25 each. The 
only pens of other breeds that laid as 
many as 25. were Lewis G. Tyreman’s 
White P. Rocks, and Edward Cam’s 
White Wyandottes. 
Torn Barron’s White Leghorns have 
now laid 853; the highest pen of Ameri¬ 
can-bred Leghorns is W. L. Sleegur’s, 
score, 695. This shows Mr. Barron’s 
birds to be 158 eggs ahead. Edward 
Cam still holds second place with a score 
of 772; O. A. Foster is third with 731, 
but these are a pen of English White 
Leghorns bought from Mr. Barron. Mr. 
Sleegur’s is the leading pen of American- 
bred birds. Edward Cam’s English 
White Wyandottes, score 699, are ahead 
of Sleegur’s White Leghorns, which score 
695. Geo. II. Schmitz’s Buff Leghorns 
score 676; Braeside Poultry Farms 
White Leghorns 670; W. P. Canby’s pen 
of same breed 660; Joseph J. Barclay, 
also White Leghorns, 641; Burton E. 
Moore’s White Leghorns, 6-39; Frank 
Toulmin’s White Leghorns. 636; F. A. 
.foues’ White Leghorns, 632; Beulah 
Farm’s White Wyandottes. 638; Ballock 
& Burrows’ White Leghorns 646; Colo¬ 
nial Farm’s S. C. R. I. Reds. 630; Geo. 
P. Dearborn’s S. C. R. I. Reds, 626; 
Mrs. II. F. Haynes’ White Wyandottes 
624; W. J. Tilley’s White P. Rocks 623; 
Smith Bros.’ White Leghorns 619; Mar- 
wood Poultry Farm’s White Leghorns 
613; Ingleside Farm’s White Leghorns 
607. These are all of the pens that have 
reached 600. 
At the Missouri contest there is a race 
on between three English and three 
American birds to see which will first 
make a record of 200 eggs in eight months. 
Gne American hen has only 10 eggs to lay 
to reach that number. The 10 highest 
individual records are as follows: 
> Eggs 
Bull Wyandottes from Vermont.... 190 
I'itc Leghorn fr m England. 187 
Lufl Wyandotte from Missouri. 1S4 
hjte Leghorn from England. 179 
White Leghorn from England. 17S 
'it® Leghorn from England. 175 
Black Langshan from Missouri. 171 
'' “‘.te Leghorn from England. 167 
Bufl Wyandotte from Missouri. 1(55 
Kosecomb W. Leghorn from Missouri 165 
The above shows that Mr. Barron’s 
pen holds five of the eight highest indi¬ 
vidual scores. Mr. Barron’s pen is 259 
eggs ahead of any other, not counting the 
tM(l solt-shelled eggs which one of his 
pullets has laid, probably from some de- 
eot in her internal organs. With these 
•".mled he would 359 eggs ahead of any 
etuer pen. The increasing interest in 
liese competitions is shown by the fact 
nut already entries for the next Missouri 
contest to begin December 1 have been 
received in sufficient number to fill two- 
tnircte of the pens. Canada, England 
' i, Australia will be represented. 
J-'^ng Tests.—In the Missouri con- 
lA. 6 Pens of 10 birds each are fed 
J lle l )eu wbicli has had all 
tv before it at all times, the 
them selves when they 
i l,lse ’ ..keld first place among the 10 
& " mter and up to the last of 
"Ut now they have passed to sixth 
l h e ‘ 1 he pen which has had nothing 
b,itt, COr Mi "beat and ground oats, with 
uttermUk to drink has now passed to 
bist place. geo. a. cosguoye. 
Trouble With Turkeys. 
olri'V'- 1 ^ ? au . d° for turkeys two months 
Tb.v IUC1 Slc 'ben and die in three days? 
(livJ were Perfectly healthy eight to 10 
bom -f:, 1I: . lV0 froe range—no chickens 
u the place, roost outside since the 
THE RURAL 
hen left them, and grew rapidly. They 
“cry” incessantly when taking sick, and 
the droppings are very yellow, though no 
tendency to dysentery. They have been 
raised on rolled oats, hominy grits, clab¬ 
ber and hard-boiled eggs. f. R. 
Virginia. 
It is a fair presumption that your 
young turkeys are suffering from the 
prevalent disease known as “blackhead,” 
though, if this be the case, they have been 
sick for more than a few days, even if 
you have not noticed the symptoms. 
Blackhead is an infectious disease caused 
by an intestinal parasite, and in chronic 
cases, may not show itself to casual ob¬ 
servation until shortly before death. You 
will note, however, that the affected birds 
become sluggish, lagging behind the rest 
of the flock, and usually displaying a 
roughened plumage, some time before the 
disease reaches its final stage. The other 
symptoms that you mention are also 
found in this disease, though not con¬ 
stantly. There has been no cure found, 
and prevention by keeping the turkeys 
upon uninfected ground and away from 
other infected fowls, offers about the only 
hope of saving them. The disease is 
spread by sparrows and other domestic 
poultry, and is a very difficult one to 
avoid where turkeys have ever been 
raised. It lias completely wiped out tur¬ 
key raising in some sections, and until 
some method of prevention or cure shall 
have been found bids fair to make tur¬ 
key raising in this country about the 
most precarious branch of the poultry 
industry. m. b. d. 
Fertile and Infertile Eggs. 
Should male and female fowls range 
together after hatching season is over? 
V ill they lay as well if the roosters are 
taken from the hens? How long should 
the male and female be together before 
setting the eggs? l. l. b. 
Salisbury, Md. 
The male birds should be removed from 
the flock as soon as the hatching season 
is over, for the hens will lay equally well 
without them and the eggs, being infer¬ 
tile, will keep much better. Fowls should 
be mated about two weeks before the 
eggs are saved for hatching, though many 
of the eggs would become fertile iu less 
than that time, probably within a week. 
M. B. D. 
Buying Young Poultry. 
Where can I buy poultry—particu¬ 
larly pullets and cockerels—first hand. 
That is, I can use these goods in quan¬ 
tities. and would like to buy direct, at as 
reasonable price as possible, in order to 
net myself a profit after fattening, and 
further, I should like to have more S. C. 
W. Leghorn pullets than I have been 
able to raise this year. I have under¬ 
stood that there are large shipments of 
this commodity made to Newark and New 
York, and I should like to buy right from 
the car. f. w . f> 
Madison, N. J. 
There are no car lots of pullets shipped 
to the general markets in New York, that 
I am aware of.* The market for pullets 
does not lie in New York but among 
poultrymen who wish them for layers. 
The cockerels that are shipped there 
come from two sources, poultrymen who 
are disposing of their broilers and sur¬ 
plus cockerels, and country shippers who 
buy them up' in small lots from farmers 
and others who do not have enough to 
make their own shipments. These are 
usually consigned to commission houses 
and the only way that I know of in which 
you could get them would be to buy di¬ 
rect from such country shippers, or ad¬ 
vertise for individual shipments from 
farmers and poultrymen. Later in the 
season you will find pullets advertised for 
sale in these columns. Such pullets are 
not yet ready for market, and it would 
only be iu exceptional instances that you 
would be able to purchase them now 
from those who are raising them. 
M. B. D. 
Trouble With Indian Runner Ducks. 
What is the trouble with some Indian 
Runner ducklings belonging to a little 
girl friend of mine? Out of 25 hatched 
only three remain. They have been con¬ 
fined in a large pen on clover, no water, 
except drinking water. I dissected one 
of them : found the crop full hut bowels 
empty, other organs normal, except heart 
which was engorged with blood. About 
the eye under skin was black circle ex¬ 
tending one-third inch. Symptoms were 
closed eyes, dragging legs, droopy one 
day, dead the next. Parent birds came 
from West last Fall; seem healthy. 
Massachusetts. e. g. o. 
There are various troubles that might 
be responsible for the death of these 
young ducklings, but unless your little 
friend has been taught how to feed young 
ducks, the probabilities are that over¬ 
feeding ot' too concentrated grain rations 
has caused their death. Ducklings can¬ 
not he fed like your chicks, hut must 
have a large proportion of their food in 
shape of green stuff, while their ground 
grain mash should he made up of about 
one-half wheat bran. Finely chopped 
green stuff should be fed from the first 
and by the time that the ducks are about 
three weeks old should constitute one- 
half of their ration. They should also 
have shade, exercise, plenty of water for 
drinking and bathing their heads, and 
dry oomRrtable sleeping quarters. 
II. b. D. 
NEW-YORKER 
THE BOSTON MARKETS. 
The past week has been a good busi¬ 
ness one in the fruit and vegetable line 
in Boston market. Native products have 
sold well and growers are feeling well 
pleased with the prices they received and 
amount of stuff they have been able to 
place on sale at this season. Fofaroes 
L..ve taken a big jump from a very low 
market for this time of year to a more 
natural price, selling now at $3 and bet¬ 
ter per barrel for Virginia stock. The 
report from New Jersey of about one- 
half crop is the cause of the raise. The 
onion supply is largely native sets which 
sell at $1.25 to .$1.50 per bushel. Native 
cabbage brings around $2 per barrel. 
Cucumbers are lower, going at $5 per 
box for best and $2 to $4 for other 
grades. Spinach goes well at 50 to 65 
cents per box. Lettuce at 50 to 75 cents 
per box is a satisfactory crop to grow. 
Native Summer squash, $1 per dozen for 
yellow; white scallop, $1 per bushel. 
Hothouse tomatoes, 18 cents per pound, 
demand good. Beets, $1.50 per box and 
50 cents per dozen bunches; carrots, 70 
cents per dozen. Rhubarb, 75 cents pox- 
box; peas, $2 and $2.50 per bushel. 
String beans, $2 per box for both green 
and wax. Green corn, $2.50 to $3 per 
box. 
Southern produce—Sweet potatoes, 
$2.50 _ per bushel; pineapples, $3.50 
to $5 per crate; watermelons, 30 
to 40 cents each ; cantaloupes, $1 to $2 
per crate; apples, $2.50 per basket; to¬ 
matoes, $3 per carrier; peaches^ $3.50 
per ' " 
C 
per 
pears. $3.25 per box; plums, four basket 
carrier, $1.50 to $2.50; bananas, $3.50 to 
$4 for best yellow; firsts and seconds, 
$1.25 to $2.50 per hunch; reds, $2 to 
$3.50. Maine and Nova Scotia straw¬ 
berries. 18 to 20 cents per box; native 
blueberries, IS to 20 cents per box; 
raspberries, 15 cents per pint; currants 
10 to 12 cents per box. 
Butter is firm and short for good stock, 
while second grade and cooking stock 
is being worked off at buyers’ offers; 30 
to 32 is asked for good, while prices 
vary on_poor stock. Cheese holds about 
same. 15 and 16 cents down to 13*4 per 
pound. Eggs still slowly rising, best go 
at 35, others from 25 cents up. Fresh 
meats are held at firm prices, with supply 
just about normal. Best beef dressed. 13 
to 14 cents per pound; lamb. 15 to 17; 
veal. 15; hogs, 11*4 P er pound; live hens, 
16*4 per pound; bi-oiler chickens, 20; 
roosters, 11 ; dressed fowls, 21: broilers, 
26; roasters. 22; ducks. 18. Early ap¬ 
ples are not plenty, many trees not 
bearing. Pears look like good crop ; 
peaches, fair crop, not so large as bloom 
promised. General farm crops look well, 
especially corn. a. e. p. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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