1913. 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
Loss of egg production at this time of 
year is what everyone expects, and the 
managers of the contest are—like the 
rest of us—unable to avoid it. The 
forty-eighth week shows a loss of 154 
eggs from the record of the previous week, 
and what they like still less, is the fact 
that the number of eggs laid is 56 less 
than it was in the same week a year 
ago; 1,062 is the number the 500 liens 
laid during the week, but as a matter of 
fact only 264 hens laid ; the other 236 did 
not produce an egg. Those that did lay, 
produced a fraction over four eggs each, 
on an average. In my own pens at 
home I find that the larger breeds are 
now outlaying the Leghorns. Probably 
the rest in Summer—obtained by the 
broody periods—is the cause of the bet¬ 
ter laying of the larger breeds now. 
For the first time in many months the 
Leghorns are not among the week’s best 
layers. White Orpingtons take first place 
with a score of 23; White Acres Poultry 
Ranch, Pennsylvania, being the owners. 
Scores of 21 were made by Homer P. 
Deming’s S. C. It. I. Reds, and by Beulah 
Farm’s White Wyandottes. Mrs. H. F. 
Haynes’ pen of White Wyandottes laid 
20, and W. Lee Spring’s pen of Buff 
Wyandottes laid the same number. Three 
pens of White Leghorns laid 10 each, 
bringing them down to fourth place in 
the week’s score. Tom Barron’s pen laid 
11, Edward Cam’s pen laid 10, their re¬ 
spective totals are 1.158 and 1,076. W. 
L. FUeegur’s pen laid 11, and his total 
is 998. O. A. Foster’s pen of White Leg¬ 
horns are next with a total of 9S2. Frank 
Toulmin’s pen from England, total 943, 
and Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes 
042. W. P. Canby’s White Leghorns have 
laid 025, F. A. Jones’ pen of same breed 
018, Burton E. Moore’s pen 914, Smith 
Bros.’ pen from Pennsylvania 907, and 
Mrs. II. F. Haynes’ White Wyandottes 
have laid 901. One pen of the S. C. R. 
I. Reds also come into the 900 rank; 
Colonial Farm’s pen have laid 021. 
Some remarkable individual scores 
have been made. Tom Barron’s pullet 
No. 4 has laid 265 eggs. With four 
weeks more before the contest ends, it is 
possible that she may equal or surpass 
the White Rock pullet that laid 2S1 eggs 
at the Missouri contest last year. The 
other birds in Mr. Barron’s pen have laid 
3 follows: Pullet No. 1. 230; No. 2, 
251; No. 3, 210; No. 5. 201. 
In the White Wyandottes Edward 
Cam’s No. 5 has laid 205: Beulah Farm’s 
No. 3. 219; T. .T. McConnell’s No. 1, 237; 
W. E. Ross’ No. 3, 221. 
In the S. C. R. I. Reds Geo. P. Dear¬ 
born’s No. 3 has laid 201; Colonial 
Farm’s No. 4, 222; Colonial Farm’s No. 
5, 227. 
_ In the White Leghorns there are 30 
birds with scores of over 200 eggs now, 
and four weeks more in which to add to the 
number. Over 3,000 more eggs have been 
laid this year, than in the first contest. 
In the next contest at Storrs Mr. Tom 
Barron will have some of his White 
Wyandottes entered as well as a pen of 
his world known White Leghorns. 
The editor of a well-known agricultural 
paper is going to enter a pen of pure 
dunghills, in the next contest; to see 
how, under the good treatment received 
at Storrs, they will compare with the 
thoroughbreds. geo. a. cosgrove. 
THE AUTOMATIC FEEDER. 
Will Mr. Cosgrove tell what he thinks 
of the automatic feeder and exerciser? 
Will not hens eat more grain than is 
good for them? Will not a few hens do 
the jumping and the rest of them stand 
around and pick it up? B. a. 
The Norwich automatic feeder is not 
much of an “exerciser.” The hens mere¬ 
ly put their beaks on the feed bar and 
give it a whirl, then pick up the grain 
that falls. There is a cam which can be 
adjusted in an instant, so as to regulate 
the amount of grain that falls when the 
feed bar is moved. If only one or two 
grains of wheat, cracked corn or oats, 
fall, of course it takes the hens longer to 
get filled up. I have one in daily use in 
my Leghorn house, and would not be 
without it for twice its cost. Mine holds 
about 12 quarts; when I have filled it, 
and set the cam as I want it, and filled 
the pail with drinking water, I can go 
away from home to be gone all day, with 
the knowledge that the fowls will have 
plenty to last them all day, and that it 
will not all bo eaten at once and nothing 
left for the night feed. My feeder has 
been in constant use for nine months. 
My Leghorns are not too fat; they are 
just in good laying condition. If using 
one of these feeders with two-year-old 
fowls of the American breeds, and I found 
that they were getting too fat, I should 
simply feed more oats and less corn and 
wheat. I think fowls vary the same as 
human beings do about getting fat; some 
wdl get too fat on rations that are just 
right for the average. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Eggs in October. 
year there was a discussion in 
Hie R. N.-Y. concerning the output of 
e ggs in November. It was contended by 
? 0n jc persons that hens lay very few eggs 
m November, and that November eggs do 
JHt pay even when the hens do their duty, 
takers, however, proved that their hens 
laid vei’y well in November and that the 
income from the sale of eggs during that 
month was satisfactory. But how about 
eggs in October? Are they a paying pro¬ 
position? The writer of these lines has 
about 330 chickens, of which 250 are pul¬ 
lets and 80 old hens. Most of the hens 
are moulting and, in consequence, lay 
very few eggs. The oldest of the pullets 
were hatched about the first of April, the 
rest, two weeks later. The first pullet 
egg was laid when the chickens were only 
4 Vs months old. My chickens are, of 
course, well fed and housed, but they 
all run together. The following is the 
egg record for the past 13 days beginning 
with the first of October : 1—63 ; 2—76 ; 
3—84; 4—75; 5—80; 6—SI; 7—S3; 
8—87 ; 0—70; 10—87 ; 11—02; 12—82 ; 
13—100. This does not include a dozen 
of soft shell eggs. In my opinion, this 
is a good record, especially when we take 
into consideration the fact that my chick¬ 
ens are B. P. Rocks, unpretentious fowls, 
as it were, and not Leghorns which for 
the past two years have been heralded as 
the best layers in the world. 
CLEMENS P. BERYLSON. 
Sullivan County, N. Y. 
Scaly Leg. 
In reply to F. M’L.’s inquiry for a rem¬ 
edy for scaly leg, I did have 12 or 14 
chickens with scaly leg. I made a paste 
of sulphur flour, lard and kerosene oil. 
I plastered it over the scaly leg, then I 
wound a strip of rag entirely around it, 
and with a needle and thread put two or 
three stitches to it to secure it and pre¬ 
vent it from coming off. I left it on for 
just one week, and then took off the rag 
and found that each chicken’s leg was en¬ 
tirely clean and free from scale; that is, 
it had every bit loosened off. T. G. L. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Ducks Lack Vigor. 
What is the cause of my ducks being 
weak in the legs? They drag their wings 
and sit down now and then as if they 
are weak and tired. These are young 
ducks about 2% months old. I had 
them running on a large lawn and fed 
them soft feed until a week ago. I put 
them in a pen 25 by 20 feet, seven ducks 
in all; feed them some soft feed (wheat 
bran) and whole corn and plenty of 
drinking water. Do you think I do not 
give them enough grit, such as sand or 
gravel, or is it caused by something else? 
It seems to take effect on them all at 
once; they seem to be in good health, 
but very weak. j. s. 
Missouri. 
You do not mention having fed these 
ducklings any meat food, and if you 
have not this omission is quite sufficient 
to account for the weakness of the young¬ 
sters. Good beef scrap or its equivalent 
in some other form of animal food should 
be added to the rations of the young 
ducks in the proportion of from five to 
fifteen per cent of the whole ration. This 
should be fed from the start, commencing 
with the smaller quantity and increasing 
it somewhat as the ducklings grow older. 
You can now give it to your ducks, add¬ 
ing it gradually to their other food, not 
forgetting the green stuff, and it should 
overcome the leg weakness. M. B. D. 
The poultry show at Madison Square 
Gai n. New York, will be held this year 
Dec r u ber 26-31, being the 25th annual 
exh bition. Premium lists and other pnr- 
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200 S. C. Black Minorca Hens 
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100 Pekin Ducks and Drakesi^S 
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VIBERT RED FARM, Weston, N . J. Box 1 
R. I. Reds—White Wyandottes mas. Barred* Rocks, 
S. C. White and Br-wn Leghorns, Exhibition and utility 
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B. I. Reds, Mans, Indian Runner Ducks 
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Austin’s 200-Egg Strain ! t LL'iK : 
high record stock. Old and young stock for sale. 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H . 
Rarrari Riw»k «- 500 barred and white rock and 
D cirrou nucKS s ; c. buff orpington pullets, 
cockerels, hens, and cocks for sale at prices that 
will move them quickly. All stock hen hatched 
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VV. H. MOORE, R. 3 - . Rome. NT. Y. 
OARRON’S ENGLISH LEGHORNS-World’s greatest lay- 
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F OR SALE—1.000 exceptionally flue S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
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Attractive prices. Ramapo Poultry and Frnit Farm, Spring Yal- 
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March pullets now laying. M. B. DEAN, Candor, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
2,000 yearling hens and early pullets. Quality 
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1,000 S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
hatched March-April. JOHN L0RT0N LEE, Carmel, N. Y 
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