1913. 
12XY 
TtiEC RURAI* NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-ninth week shows a further 
drop in egg production of 141 eggs, the 
output of the week being only 921; but 
this is 249 more than were laid in the 
same week a year ago. White Orping¬ 
tons make the highest score again this 
week, laying 23 eggs, and the same pen 
does it, viz. White Acres Poultry Ranch; 
this pen also has the highest total of 
any of the Orpingtons, viz. 776. Beulah 
Farm’s White Wyandottes are second 
with a score of 22; and W. G. Tyreman’s 
White P. Rocks are third with a score 
of 21. Woodside Poultry Farms Barred 
P. Rocks laid 19, and Homer P. Deming’s 
S. C. R. I. Reds also laid 19. E. D. 
Bird’s Blue Andalusians 18. The White 
Leghorns which used to make all the high 
weekly scores, are not “in it” any more. 
The highest number laid by any of the 
White Leghorns was 17 by Ingleside 
Farm Co.’s pen. Tom Barron’s pen laid 
11, and Edward Cam’s pen 13; W. L. 
Sleegur’s pen also laid 13. 
There will be no such close contest this 
year as there was last year, when Beulah 
Farm’s White Wyandottes were only two 
eggs behind F. G. Yost’s pen of White 
Leghorns, and had the contest lasted one 
day longer, would have come out ahead. 
Tom Barron’s pen has too strong a lead 
to be overcome in the three weeks re¬ 
maining. The Englishmen will take first 
and second this time without any doubt. 
W. L. Sleegur’s pen will take third place. 
Probably the Englishmen will win again 
in the next contest, which starts Nov. 1; 
but after that, we will have enough of 
the blood of those English White Leg¬ 
horns in our flocks, to make the contest 
on more even terms. A good many of 
Mr. Barron’s birds have been imported, 
and the effect ought to be an increase in 
egg production. I am glad that so many 
American breeders have realized what it 
means to get this strong vigorous stock,— 
that has been trap-nested and selected for 
10 generations, to mate with our best. 
Mr. Barron tells me that he never uses 
a male bird to breed from, whose dam 
has laid less than 200 eggs in her pullet 
year. The records at the contest here at 
Storrs, and at Mountain Grove, Missouri, 
show that his birds are in a class by 
themselves. In_Missouri Barron’s White 
Leghorns are 271 eggs ahead of any pen 
of any breed. At Storrs one of his pul¬ 
lets had laid 265 eggs with a full month 
in which to add to that number, before 
the contest closes. 
Mr. Rarron’s White Leghorns have laid_1,109 
Edward Cam's White Leghorns have laid. ..1.0S9 
W. L. Sleegur’s White Leghorns have laid.1,011 
0. A. Foster’s White Leghorns have laid... 988 
Frank Toulmin’s White Leghorns have laid 950 
W. P. Canby’s White Leghorns have laid.. 934 
Burton E. Moore’s White Leghorns have laid 926 
F. A. Jones’ White Leghorns have laid.... 923 
Smith Bros.’ White Leghorns have laid_ 917 
Braeside Poultry Farm White Leghorns have 
laid . 900 
Here are 10 pens of White Leghorns, 
50 birds, and the average per bird is over 
198 eggs each. 
White Wyandottes make the next best 
record. Edward Cam’s pen has laid 948; 
Mrs. II. F. Haynes’ pen 918; Beulah 
Farm’s pen 907; the three pens averag¬ 
ing nearly 185 eggs per bird. 
In the S. C. R. I. Reds only one pen 
has reached 900, that is the pen from 
Colonial Farm, which has laid 937. No 
other pen has laid 900. 
The highest score of the Barred Rocks 
is 761; of the White P. Rocks S62; of 
the Columbian Rocks 797; of White Or¬ 
pingtons 776; of Buff Leghorns 851: of 
Black Minorcas 725; of Blue Andalu¬ 
sians 783; of Anconas 62S; of Buff Or¬ 
pingtons 691. And the booby prize is 
taken by the Black Orpington with a 
record of 379. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Ration for Laying Hen». 
, I read the statement of your hens lay- 
mi? 50 per eent. in J uly. I have nearly 
300 hens, and at the present time they 
are laying from 12 to 18 eggs per day. 
They are two-year-old and yearling S. C. 
Uhite Leghox-ns. In July they were lay¬ 
ing from three to four dozen daily. In 
July I was feeding about 36 pounds of 
grain per day, 18 pounds at each feeding. 
This was a commercial feed. They seemed 
to be getting fat and lazy, so I cut it 
down until they are getting now 24 pounds 
scratch food daily. They have had a 
mash before them all the time. This is 
made of equal parts of bran, middlings 
and meal. They have had entire free 
range, so that I have not fed any meat 
scraps. Last year they were somewhat 
confined, and I fed them the meat scraps 
all the time, and gluten meal from Au¬ 
gust or September till April. I had bet¬ 
ter results, but not 50 per cent, during 
July* Would it be better to fence them 
Y\ ould bone meal help any? 
There are no lice, and they are not sick 
or diseased. They have charcoal, grit and 
snell before them all the time. I have 
feu them outside in the tall grass, and as 
80011 as they trampled it down, would 
move on to another spot. The dead grass 
tor ® e< i a litter for them to work in. 
They were moved a distance of about 
y. m des this Spring (April), and while 
this retarded their laying for a time, it 
seems as if they should have recovered 
by July. 
.The day-old chicks which I have sold 
m u alwa y s Proved satisfactory, and peo¬ 
ple have come back for more. The chicks 
nave free range, too. They are raised 
under the Cornell method of bread and 
johnny cako and mash, and later have 
the mash all the time before them, and 
the scratch food in litter twice daily. 
The hens get their water from a stream 
nearby. h. b. p. 
My own flock of 200 two-year-old 
White Leghorns, which I spoke of as hav¬ 
ing laid better than 50 per cent, during 
July, are not on free range but are con¬ 
fined to a half acre run. They are not 
fed according to any exact schedule, but 
are given a narrower, or higher protein, 
ration than the one which you are using. 
Their dry mash, always before them in 
open hoppers, has contained a fair pro¬ 
portion of either meat meal or beef scrap, 
and for the greater part of the Summer 
has been prepared according to one of the 
Maine Station formulas, containing one- 
ninth part by weight of meat meal. The 
exact formula is: Cornmeal, wheat mid¬ 
dlings, wheat bran, gluten feed or dried 
distillers’ grains, of each, 100 pounds; 
meat meal, 50 pounds, and one quart of 
salt. In addition to this, they have had 
mixed whole grains night and morning; 
these, for the most part, being corn, oats 
and buckwheat. Because of its high 
price, very little wheat has been fed, and 
the hens have eaten an unusually large 
proportion of oats, of which they do not 
seem to tire. Until dried up by the pres¬ 
ent drought they have had daily access for 
an hour or two to a grass and clover 
meadow, which has furnished them with 
sufficient green food. September 1st they 
were laying five dozen eggs daily. While 
this is not extraordinary laying, I am 
well satisfied to get that proportion of 
eggs from flocks of 200 or more. 
Your dry mash contains too large a 
proportion of cornmeal and too little of 
the high protein feeds like gluten and 
meat meal. I prefer beef scrap, but when 
I can get a good quality of meat meal 
often use it because of the price. I think 
that it is generally agreed that hens in 
semi-confinement lay better than those 
upon absolute free range, and it is not 
safe to assume that hens can find suffi¬ 
cient animal food if they have their lib¬ 
erty ; they usually cannot. I can see no 
reason for using commercial “scratch 
foods” if one can purchase ordinary un¬ 
prepared grain. Certainly, no manufac¬ 
turer can add anything to the food value 
of corn, oats, wheat and buckwheat by 
putting them into bags and giving them 
seductive names, and there is every rea¬ 
son to believe that mill by-products and 
inferior grains, unsalable by themselves, 
are often mixed with standard grains and 
the whole made attractive and market¬ 
able by artistic literature. M. B. D. 
Boiled Water for Hem. 
I am going into the country and will 
have to give my pullets well water. Will 
it be necessary for me to boil the water? 
Massachusetts. j. v. h. 
I trust that you will not find the well 
water at your country place so unwhole¬ 
some as to need boiling before being given 
to the pullets. It is a wise precaution 
against disease to clean all drinking 
fountains and feed dishes with boiling 
water occasionally, even though there is 
no evidence of any possible source of in¬ 
fection present, and at the hands of a 
good cook boiling water is a splendid ex¬ 
ternal application for almost any fowl. 
_ M. B. D. 
Sprouted Oats; Brooding Large Flocks 
1. Is the feeding of sprouted oats 
really so effective in producing many and 
fertile eggs in the Winter, as so many 
people claim? 2. Does the widelv ad¬ 
vertised “Magic Egg Tester” made in 
Buffalo really enable one to test out 
every infertile egg before setting? 3. Do 
you consider the plan of brooding chicks 
as adopted by Mr. Pollard and described 
in The R.*N.-Y. of July 5 a safe one 
to raise incubator chicks in large num¬ 
bers? Is there not too mnch danger that 
they will pile up in heaps and smother 
the lower ones? b. l. ii. 
Paige, Texas. 
Sprouted oats are one of the best of 
Y\ inter feeds, though they have no mirac¬ 
ulous properties. Perhaps the greatest 
objection to them is the trouble and labor 
required to prepare them for use. 2. An 
egg tester that could detect infertile eggs 
before the germ had been given an op¬ 
portunity to begin development would 
have to work through “magic,” and it is 
needless to say thqt sensible people do 
not believe in magic now-a-days. 3 . I 
believe the method described of raising 
chicks in large flocks with heat supplied 
from a stove of some kind to be the one 
which will ultimately be adopted on large 
poultry farms. There is, of course, dan¬ 
ger as there is in any method, but the 
time when it was not considered prac¬ 
ticable to rear more than fifty or sixty 
chicks in one flock has passed. The ex¬ 
pense in time, labor, and equipment, of 
caring for small flocks is too great where 
a thousand or more chicks are to be 
raised, and pool try men are learning to 
handle them in larger units. M. b. d. 
Tiie sweet young thing was being 
shown through the Baldwin locomotive 
works. “What is that thing?” she 
asked, pointing with her dainty parasol. 
“That.” answered the guide, “is an engine 
boiler.” She was an up-to-date young 
lady and at once became interested. 
“And why do they boil engines?” she in¬ 
quired again. “To make the engine ten¬ 
der,” politely replied the resourceful 
guide.—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. 
If PURINA CHICKEN CHOWDER 
wont make your 
hens lay, they 
must be roosters ( 
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Purina Chicken Chowder is a dry mash which contains just the in¬ 
gredients to insure an abundance of eggs right through the Winter. 
Dry Purina Chicken Chowder should be kept before hens all of the 
time. The more Chicken Chowder Biddy eats the more eggs she will 
lay. Hens should also have Purina Scratch Feed, two or three times 
a day, in a litter. 
Col. Purina guarantees 
More eggs or money 
to any poultry raiser who uses Purina Chicken Chowder accord¬ 
ing to directions and fails to get more eggs. 
Purina Poultry Feeds are for sale by the leading dealers. 
Your dealer will order them for you, if he doesn’t already 
carry them in stock. 
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For your dealer’s name I will send you this 4.8-page 
Poultry Book, containing plans of houses, breeding and 
feeding charts, space for daily egg records, cures of dis¬ 
eases, care for baby chicks, etc. It also contains inform¬ 
ation about Col. Purina’s half price galvanized iron 
Chick Drinking Fountain [2 for 25c] and more details 
about his galvanized iron Automatic Chicken Chowder 
Feeder [50c]. Write today. 
Col. Purina, Purina Mills, 
827 S. Eighth St., St. Louis, Mo. 
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By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks morn 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier i 
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WE CAN MAKE 
on Malt Sprouts! Cat¬ 
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SHELL LIME, Sunflower and Hemp Seed, Beef 
Scrap etc. CHARLES H. REEVE & CO.. 
INC., 209 Washington Street, New York. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. IS if 
R. MaoKELL ATI’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
P nil I TRYMFN _S ? n,! - c stara P for Illustrated 
■ wu " ■ •’ 1 I'ltfl price list describing 35 varie¬ 
ties. EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS. MARIETTA, PA. 
JNDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—Fin© stock laying; 
* only $4.00 a trio. Barred P. Rocks. Orpingtons, 
Langshams and others. Write wants. Big new Illus- 
trated Circnlar Free. Joh n E. Healwole, Harrisonburo.Va. 
T HO HOUGH BRED POl LTRY—Ducks, Geese, Guinea*. Turkevp 
Bantams. Cir. 2c. Writs, F. C. Wilbert. Grand Kaplds, Mieii! 
B. I. Beds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hate hing. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. 602 Fifth St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
R. I. Reds—White W ]f 3 11 (j 0 It6 S mas. Barred* Rocks, 
S. C. White and Br<>wn Leghorns,. Exhibition and utility 
quality. Young stock and yearlings. Bargain List and 
catalogue gratis. Riverdale Poultry Farm, liivcrdale, N. J. 
R.I.RED COCKERELS 
Beautiful large birds from scientifically Hne bred certi¬ 
fied heaviest winter laying lines, bred to increase the egg 
yield and improve any flock with which mated. Hen 
hatched and raised, free range, open front colony house; 
deep cherry red stock, hardy, vigorous, and of unusual 
stamina. Offered at half Spring prices, shipped with 
privilege of return at my expense and your money back 
if not suited. I have never had a bird returned. Dis¬ 
count on hatching egg orders booked now. 
VII5ERT RED FARM, Weston, N. J. Box 1 
Rhode island Reds&MammothBronzeTurkeys 
“HONE’S CRESCENT STRAIN” 
High class breeding and exhibition birds for sale. 
Every bird shipped on approval. Early batched Red 
cockerels and pullets, bred from tested layers. 
D. R. HONE, Crescent Hitf Farm, Sharon Springs, New York 
Austin's 200-Egg Strain 
hign record stock. Old and young stock for sale 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre H arbor, N. H. 
SALE-Choice Buttercup Cockerels 
MARY R.. TV HITE, • Andover, New York 
BARRED ROCKS 
Cockerels and pullets. The finest lot I ever 
raised. If you want something good, write. 
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MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R No 24 Athens Pa We hare 14 varieties cockerels, put- 
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for sale at livintr prices. Silver Campinee, Enelish type. Crystal 
Palace, Sew York, and St. Louis winners. Pekin ducks, bred 
from 9 and 18 lb. stock. White Emden Geese, bred from IS to 24 lb. 
stock. Indian Knuner Ducks—highest quality. Write your wants. 
BARRON’S ENGLISH LEGHDRNS-Wovld’s greatest lay- 
** et'S; leaders at Connecticut and Missouri con¬ 
tests. Cockerels for sale. F. PALMER, Cos Cob, Conn. 
F OR SALE—1,000 exceptionally fine S. 0. WHITE LEGHORN 
COCKERELS and PULLETS from our extra heavy laying strain. 
Attractive prices. Ramupo Poultry and Emit Farm, Spring Vol- 
1*7• X. Y. Geo. S. Thurston, Mar., formerly with Bonnie Bran 
CINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS—Se- 
*■* lected yearling hens for breeders. Prices Quoted 
for 100 lots or small pens for special matings. PINE- 
HURST POULTRY FARM, Levanna, Cayuga Co., New York 
600 S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
$1.00—$1.25 each. JOHN LO RTON LEE, Carmel, New York 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
2,000 yearling hens and early pnliets. Quality 
kind at right prices to make room. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
pinp nviAt Solid colors, Blacks and 
rine nngnsn uavies Reds . ;i]] ages anJ a few 
breeders. H. E. LANE, Walton, New York 
F0R Pnrphrprf Pnrliprpk— 1 single comb rhodeis- 
SALE-I UIBU1BU LiUUlHJlBIb LAND REDS, WHITE OR¬ 
PINGTONS and BUFF ROCKS. JOHN 0. RUE, Allentowo, N. J. 
FOR SALE 
Thoroughbred White Holland Turkeys. 
This year’s stock. Hens $5, Toms $ 8 . 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St., New York City 
