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The Henyard. 
THE CALIFORNIA LAYING CONTEST. 
The seventh month of the Napa (Cal.) 
egg contest, shows a very marked fall¬ 
ing off in the egg production, something 
around 33%, which can be partly ac¬ 
counted for by the intense heat, the 
weather having been more than season¬ 
ably warm; in some instances 110 in the 
shade being recorded, and taken in con¬ 
nection with the fact that the annual 
moult is also now going on will account 
for the large falling off in eggs. The 
American class is producing some re¬ 
markable layers; the five highest pens 
being composed of three of the American 
breeds and two White Leghorns. Lu- 
ben’s Barred Rocks with 613 eggs; 
Rutherford’s White Rocks with 605, and 
the writer’s pen of Buff Wyandottcs with 
707, Blom’s White Leghorns with 738, 
and Otten’s White Leghorns with 670 
being the high five for the seven months 
of the contest. 
As in the sixth month, only one pen 
ran over 100 eggs for the month, and 
again the Buff Wyandotte pen were the 
victors for the month with 103 eggs, they 
having laid 121 the previous month; Lu- 
ben’s Barred Rocks were second with 95 
for the month; Rutherford’s White 
Rocks third with 76; Clardy’s Buff Or¬ 
pingtons (from Missouri) fourth with 
73, and Slocum’s White Leghorns fifth 
with 72. 
The high pen of the contest, Blom & 
Son’s White Leghorns, have suffered a 
slump the past two months, dropping 
from 101 the fifth month to 79 the sixth 
month and to 54 the seventh. Likewise 
the Buff Wyandottes jumped from 84 the 
fifth month to 121 the sixth, and to 103 
the seventh, thus gaining 91 eggs on the 
top pen in two months, and putting them 
only 31 eggs behind first, and well within 
striking distance of being first if this 
gain lasts a month or so longer. The 
Brown Leghorns that were fourth two 
months ago are not among the first 15 
pens for the seventh month, having laid 
only six eggs for the month. As the 
secretary of the Napa Poultry Associa¬ 
tion puts it, “All Leghorns are not good 
layers. There are 25 pens of White 
Leghorns in the contest; the highest pen 
scores 738, the lowest 350.” lie also 
adds, “To succeed in the poultry business 
you must start right, and be sure you 
get started with a good laying strain.” 
One pen of White Leghorns only laid 
five eggs; one of Black Minorcas four, 
another of White Leghorns only six, and 
another of White Leghorns seven. The 
Leghorns are responsible for most of the 
falling off in the egg receipts which is 
somewhat of a surprise, as this breed is 
supposed to stand the hot weather bet¬ 
ter than the heavier breeds, which in 
this contest they have not done, the 
Barred Rocks, White Rocks and Buff 
Wyandottes so far having shown great 
vitality and productiveness, which is 
evidenced in their positions among the 
five leading pens. 
Following are the fifteen highest pens 
with their records to date: 1. Blom— 
W. Leghorns, month 54; 7 months 738. 
2. Pearson’s Buff Wyandottes, mouth 
103; 7 mouths 707. 3. Otten’s White 
Leghorns, month 03; 7 months 670. 4. 
Luben’s Barred Rocks, month 95; 7 
months 613. 5. Rutherford’s White 
Rocks, month 76; 7 months 605. 6. Slo¬ 
cum’s White Leghorns, month 72; 7 
months 604. 7. Clardy, Buff Orpingtons, 
month 73; 7 months 564. 8. Bunjes, W. 
Leghorns, month 28; 7 months 554. 9. 
Stice, Buff Leghorns, month 57; 7 months 
539. 10. Stice, Barred Rocks, month 43; 
7 months 534. 11. Stice, Barred Rocks, 
month 43; 7 months 534. 12. Stratton, 
White Leghorns, month 7; for 7 months 
531. 13. McMillan, W. Leghorns, month 
47; 7 months 523. 14. Bates, Barred 
Rocks, month 26; 7 months 522. 15. 
Reed, Black Minorcas, month 46; 7 
months 508. 
Under date of October 5, the secretary 
of the Napa Association, Mr. Wallace 
Rutherford, writes me that my pen of 
Buff Wyandottes, on October 3 were in 
the lead by two eggs, so they have caught 
up with the 31 egg lead of pen No. 1, 
that has been in the lead since the start 
last February and now leads all the pens 
in the contest. w. u. teabson. 
November 1, 
Trouble with Ducka. 
Can you tell me what to do for my 
ducklings which are three weeks old? 
They have clean water to drink, but not 
to bathe in. Early in the morning I 
feed four parts bran, one part cornmeal, 
one part sand and a little medium grit 
moistened. About 10 o’clock they are 
fed the same with one part cut grass or 
plantain leaves added. About two 
o’clock they are fed the same and about 
5.30 the same. They have spells of be¬ 
ing weak in the legs, not able to walk, 
but are usually over it in an hour or die. 
At these times the crop is sometimes 
empty and sometimes it has a hard 
chunk which I knead and loosen up with 
my fingers. I saw in August 1 issue 
something like this and your answer was 
to make their feed half greenstuff. What 
is there on the farm that I can use this 
time of year for greenstuff, it being so 
dry that my supply of grass and plantain 
leaves is getting low? I have some larger 
ducks which are eight weeks old that 
have been handled the same and have had 
free range through the meadow. 
I. M. F. 
Ducks upon free range can make up 
a considerable deficiency in their green¬ 
stuff rations, but those in confinement 
must be fed and provision should be made 
for this season of the year when ordinary 
farm vegetation is dry and tough. Young 
oats, rye or wheat are all good and a 
large supply of rape can be raised upon 
a small plot of good ground. You may 
be able to find second growth clover in 
abundance, or even Alfalfa if that is 
raised near you. This leg weakness in 
young ducks is sometimes due to lack of 
sufficient animal food in their rations, 
and if you are not feeding it, the addi¬ 
tion of good beef scrap up to 15 per cent 
of the bulk may overcome the trouble. 
This should, of course, be added grad¬ 
ually unless the ducklings are accus¬ 
tomed to it. M. b. n. 
Mating Mature Hens. 
I have some good layers two to three 
years old, from which I wish to get some 
good fertile eggs in February and March 
for hatching. Would it answer to mate 
them with a fine large cockerel hatched 
last April and therefore less than a year 
old? They are all R. I. Reds. 
0. B. S. 
As a rule, it would be better not to 
mate cockerels of less than one year of 
age, but if you have an exceptionally well 
developed cockerel from an April hatch 
that you wish to use early in the follow¬ 
ing Spring, I know of no good reason 
why he may not prove satisfactory if not 
placed with too many hens. If he can be 
kept away from the hens and given am¬ 
ple range, with suitable food, calculated 
to develop ins to ’ of fatten, until two 
or three weeks b. oore you wish to mate 
him, so much the better. M. B. n. 
Disinfecting Soil in Chicken Run. 
Would it be advisable to apply a 
stronger solution than two parts in one 
hundred of sulphuric acid to ground in¬ 
fested with gapeworms, if I should keep 
chicks off until Spring? I would like to 
make a thorough job of it if possible, as 
it is only two small yards. I would re¬ 
move top soil and put in fresh, using salt 
between new soil and soil left, in, to drive 
out angleworms, if I thought sulphuric 
acid would not make a good job. The 
brooder house is an expensive stone affair 
and cannot be moved. What effect would 
the acid have on vegetation? Could f 
seed runs to rye after reasonable length 
of time. t. w. 1*. 
Newfoundland, N. J. 
While I have never tried it, I should 
not hesitate to use a stronger solution of 
sulphuric acid than two parts to one hun¬ 
dred on the soil of the infected chicken 
run. If, however, you can remove the top 
soil to a depth of several inches and re¬ 
place it with new, I should consider that 
a more effectual precaution. The addi¬ 
tion of lime to the new soil would he of 
help, and this with other basic elements 
in the soil would soon neutralize the sul- 
phuric acid applied and render it hi 
less. I doubt if any amount of sulphuric 
acid that you would employ would pre¬ 
vent the growth of rye sown soon after. 
M. b. i>. 
Hens Going Light. 
I have a flock of White Wyandottes. 
and some of them are getting sick and 
dying off. The red about their heads 
turns very pale, and the hens waste 
away so that when they die there isn t 
much flesh on them. What do you think 
is the matter and how can they be doc¬ 
tored? Everything I have tried has 
failed. J- M* K - 
New Hampshire. 
This may be the disease known as g (> * 
ing light,” or some other chronic auoc- 
tion which is incurable. I would not ad¬ 
vise “doctoring” the sick fowls, but would 
promptly remove them from the flock and 
clean up and disinfect their quarteis, 
afterward whitewashing with lime wasii 
containing four ounces of crude carbon*, 
acid per gallon. The feeding utensi ■- 
shotfld be cleaned with boiling water. 
