1913. 
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THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fifty-first week of the contest at 
Storrs, Conn., shows an output of only 
521 eggs, 211 less than the previous week, 
and 171 less than the corresponding week 
a year ago. But the grand total for the 
year is over 3,000 eggs ahead of what it 
was last year. 
At this time of year Leghorns take a 
back seat. The larger breeds are making 
all the high weekly scores now. I brought 
up from my farm seven Wyandottes and 
Orpingtons that wanted to sit about 
August 1, and after they had hatched the 
chicks and weaned them, threw them into 
the house with my 55 Leghorn pullets. 
Now, November 1, I am getting five to 
seven eggs a day from those seven hens, 
and only three or four eggs from the 55 
Leghorns. Two Leghorns have died in 
the year, so there are 53 now. Almost 
every one of the Leghorns is molting, and 
so are two of the Orpingtons, but they 
continue to lay. Those 55 Leghorn pul¬ 
lets put in my 20x20-foot house November 
14, a year ago, have laid 9,078 eggs, an 
average of over 105 eggs per hen. At 30 
cents a dozen—which I am sure is less 
than the average price received—the eggs 
amount to $4.12 per hen. Cost of feed, 
$1.26 per hen ; profit, $2.86 per hen. In 
other words, my 55 pullets (now 53) 
have made me a profit over the cost of 
feed of $151.58—practically $3 a week 
right through the year. It is two weeks 
yet before the year is up, and I consider 
the eggs received from the Orpingtons 
will be about offset by what the Leghorns 
will lay in that time. These Leghorns 
have been shut up in their house for the 
year ; they have no outside run. All they 
have to cat or drink has to be brought 
to them. I think the entire time spent 
on them won’t average JIG minutes a day. 
Everyone is healthy, not a sick bird 
among them; and the mortality (two) 
is loss than half that of average flocks. 
_ To return to the contest report. The 
highest number laid during the week is 
19, by Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes, 
and A. B. Hall's Barred P. Rocks. There 
was a tie also for second place, T. .T. Mc¬ 
Connell's White Wyandottes, and Wood¬ 
man & Smith’s S. C. 11. I. Reds having 
laid 17 each. The pen of Columbian P. 
Rocks from J. M. .Tones laid 14. The 
highest number laid by any Leghorn pen, 
12, was by F. G. Yost’s pen of hens. 
Tom Barron’s pen laid eight, and Edward 
Cam’s pen five. 
Below is the number laid during the 
week, and the total to date of some of 
the leading pens: 
White Leghorns. 
Laid daring 
the Week Total 
Tom Barron, England. 8 1,185 
Edward Cam, England. 5 1,102 
0. A. Foster, California. 4 997 
Frank Toulmin, England. 0 954 
W. P. Cnnby, Pennsylvania. 5 947 
Burton E. Moore, Connecticut... 5 940 
F. A. Jones, Pennsylvania. 1 928 
Smith Bros., Pennsylvania. 6 931 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Penusyl 
vania . 0 907 
Blue Mountain Poultry Farm, 
Pennsylvania . 5 904 
Ingleside Farms, Pennsylvania.. 10 902 
Barred Bocks. 
R. J. Walden, Maryland. 5 772 
J._ W. Miller, Pennsylvania. 0 748 
Woodside Poultry Farm, Penn¬ 
sylvania . 10 735 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 19 609 
S. M. (toucher, New Jersey. 13 658 
White P. Bocks. 
L. G. Tyreman, Pennsylvania... 11 836 
W. J. Tilley, Connecticut. 4 876 
Columbian P. Rocks. 
.T. M. Jones, New Jersey. 14 824 
F. G. Bean, Pennsylvania. 5 658 
White Wyandottes. 
Edward Cam, England. 19 983 
Mrs. II. F. Haynes, Idaho. 11 944 
Beulah Farm, Ontario. 8 933 
Wm. K. ltoss, Connecticut. 8 852 
Will Barron, England. 12 827 
T. J. McConnell, New York. 17 819 
Valley Green Farm, Pennsylvania 12 791 
S. C. R. I. Reds. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire.. 13 963 
Woodman & Smith, Pennsylvania 17 859 
Dr. J. A. Fritehey, Pennsylvania 13 833 
II. P. Deming, Connecticut. 4 85-1 
Geo. P. Dearborn, New Jersey.. 0 763 
R. C. R. I. Reds. 
Glen View Poultry Farm, Con- 
necticut . 6 810 
C. S. Scoville, Connecticut. 5 714 
C. 8. Scoville (liens), Connecticut 4 693 
E. S. Kdgerton, Connecticut. 6 615 
White Orpingtons. 
White Acres Poultry Ranch, 
Pennsylvania . 12 808 
Rockwell & Co., Pennsylvania... 4 744 
Gilbert & Moore, Pennsylvania.. 0 580 
J. It. Post, Pennsylvania. 0 487 
Next week’s report will end this year’s 
contest, and a full report will be given 
of what every pen in the contest has done 
during the year. geo. a. cosgkove. 
New York Poultry Show. 
The exhibition at Madison Square Gar¬ 
den, New York, this year will be held De¬ 
cember 26-31. An unusually large show 
is expected. The attention of exhibitors 
is called to the fact that the Garden will 
be open two days before the commence¬ 
ment of the show, and that it will not be 
necessary to ship birds out of the Garden 
on the closing night, thus ample time is 
given at both the opening and the closing 
of the show to coop the specimens and to 
have them received in the owners’ yards 
without being delayed on the road during 
any holiday. The express companies 
state that it will be easier for them to 
take care of the exhibits this year than in 
any previous year, as the dates of the 
show come at a time when the holiday 
rush is over. The secretary and superin¬ 
tendent is Chas D. Cleveland, Eatontown, 
N. J. 
A Note on Electric Incubators. 
The writer has run one of these incu¬ 
bators four years, purchasing the only 
sort then on the market, made by a well- 
known Buffalo firm. There is now a 
machine made in New Orleans which 
seems to me to be much better in sev¬ 
eral respects. Properly adjusted, as is 
easily done, the only further attention 
needed is to turn the eggs and watch the 
moisture by a wet-bulb thermometer. 
There is absolutely no danger and no 
worry. The eggs hatch just a shade 
quicker on account of the steady heat. 
If your time and a feeling of safety count, 
then the thing pays. But it is expensive 
in dollars and cents, much more than the 
makers admit. Kerosene is cheap and the 
ordinary incubator burns a lot of it and 
uses a part or all of the heat as the 
regulator determines. Electricity is not 
cheap, but all the heat is used on the 
eggs, and the current stops when not 
needed. 
In a room already warm, as a living 
room, much less current would be used 
than was found to be required in a room 
otherwise unused. There is a form of 
electric using ordinary carbon lamps; it 
looks all right, and is sold a little cheap¬ 
er. Anyone with some ideas and a bit of 
knowledge about electricity could make 
an electric incubator from an old box, 
a thermostat and a few feet of niehrome 
wire, but the latter two should be pur¬ 
chased unless the builder is willing to 
spend quite a little time making what 
will likely turn out to be a poor thermo¬ 
stat after all. f. d. c. 
Poultry Variations from Standard. 
A very prominent breeder of White 
Plymouth Rocks has made me the fol¬ 
lowing statements: 1. “All clean-legged 
varieties of poultry will once in a while 
throw stubs or feathered legs.” 2. “WTfite 
ear lobes are a common defect among 
Plymouth Rocks, 'Wyandottes. Rhode 
Island Reds, etc.” I would like the opin¬ 
ion of others about the matter. Would 
one-thml of a hatch be called “once in 
awhile?” This is the first season any of 
my White Rocks have feathered legs, and 
this breeder, (after acknowledging that 
it crops out in his flocks), insists it must 
be the fault of my hens. j. n. 
Bogard, Mo. 
The breeder is right: fowls like the 
Plymouth Rocks which originated in a 
mixture of several breeds, some having 
feathered shanks, will occasionally show 
a reversion to some characteristic of one 
of their ancestors. This does not indi¬ 
cate impurity of blood if of only occa¬ 
sional occurrence; if feathered legs ap¬ 
peared upon one-third of the birds in a 
flock of Plymouth Rocks, however, I 
should suspect that there had been an 
outcross with some one of the Asiatics 
not very far back, and that evidences of 
this cross had not yet been eliminated. 
I believe that a cross between two pure 
strains of a breed will often result in the 
exhibition of such reversions when they 
would not have occurred in either alone, 
and I should hesitate to accuse any breed¬ 
er of dishonorable practices in this re¬ 
gard without considerable evidence. 
M. B. D. 
The Barron Poultry Mash. 
I should like to learn the rule used by 
Mr. Tom Barron in making what he 
terms “a proper wet mash” for poultry. 
He uses skim-milk, but the proportion of 
the grains was uot given. m. b. d. 
Pratt’s Junction, Mass. 
Replying to above query, will give Mr. 
Barron’s method of mixing a wet mash: 
One part bran; one part biscuit meal; 
one part “thirds” or pollard ; one-quarter 
part clover meal; one-eighth part ground 
oats; one^eighth part meat (beef scraps), 
mixed with enough water to make it 
crumbly, and fed at night. In this I 
think Mr. Barron makes a mistake, espe¬ 
cially if fed in the Winter. The best time 
to feed a wet inash is at noon. In the 
morning in cold weather the fowls need 
to exercise to warm up and set their 
blood to circulating freely, and the best 
way to induce this exercise is to scatter 
a small quantity of grain in deep litter, 
and if you haven’t much litter, and 
have an earth floor, hoe the earth up 
into heaps and scatter the grain through 
the heap as you hoe it together. I used 
to do that for young chicks as well as the 
hens. During the long Winter night hens 
need whole hard grain, to “keep lire up 
under the boiler” ; a wet mash is digested 
too quickly, and there is nothing left in 
the crop. So I should not feed a wet 
mash at night, in the Winter. Mr. Bar¬ 
ron feeds for dry grains as large a variety 
as he can obtain. But wheat is the main 
ingredient; barley and oats next. As 
they do not raise corn over there, it is not 
fed to so great an extent as we do here. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Damp Henhouse. 
Last year I built a house 30 feet long 
by 12 feet wide; 7^ feet front and 5% 
feet rear, shed roofed, partitioned off into 
five pens of six feet each, four for poul¬ 
try and one for feed room. The founda¬ 
tion at the West end was one foot from 
the ground and at the East end three 
feet, with concrete wall all around six 
inches wide at top and 18 inches at the 
base filled in with rock and loose dirt, 
lined all through with wall board, having 
a four-inch air space on all four sides 
and the roof, which was covered with 
galvanized iron roofing. Flush with the 
roof in front of each compartment was a 
narrow window for ventilation that open¬ 
ed outward and below the same was a 
larger window opening the same way. 
The narrow window was left open at all 
times, but a frame covered with cheese¬ 
cloth was in its place; the lower one 
closed all Winter. There was only eight 
or nine fowls in each compartment, but 
some mornings the ceilings as well as 
sides were quite damp and sometimes 
froze to small drops of ice. I thought 
perhaps some moisture might have been 
retained in the dirt used to fill the front 
of the perching and nesting system un¬ 
derneath. which was a concrete floor its 
full width—three feet—as the season 
was quite late when the fowls were 
put in, and we had had some very cold 
nights, and perhaps a little frost was in 
the ground. Can you suggest any plan 
by which the dampness can be avoided 
the coming Winter and, would you con¬ 
sider the small windows covered with 
cheesecloth and left open all the time as 
before advisable. s. M. c. L. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
The dampness of your henhouse walls 
in the Winter showed that ventilation 
through the cloth-covered windows was 
not sufficient to remove the moisture¬ 
laden air before the moisture had con¬ 
densed upon the cold walls. Such cloth 
is apt to become covered with dust and 
to be made practically impervious. Un¬ 
less great pains are taken to keep cloth 
window screens clean, they become very 
inefficient ventilators, and, personally, I 
do not consider them suited to poultry 
houses, where dust is always present. 
With your house warmly built and tight 
upon all sides, you can remove, or open, I 
two or more of the large windows in 
front and keep them open all Winter, 
save perhaps, upon a few of the coldest 
nights. Do not alternately open and 
close them, but open them now and keep 
them open. All fowls are provided by 
nature with warm overcoats, and if the I 
air in which they live is dry, they will 
thrive even though the temperature goes 
very low at times. This applies to the 
small breeds as well as to the heavier 
ones. My own henhouse, about 10 miles 
from you. containing White Leghorns, 
is practically never closed in the Winter. 
I would also remove those partitions be¬ 
tween the pens; give each hen the run 
of the whole house so that she can take 
a 30-foot trip without turning at any 
time she wishes; she won't feel so cooped 
up, and your labor in caring for them 
will be lessened. m. b. d. 
Disposing of Poultry Offal. 
What do the large henmen do with the 
offal or refuse from the hens and broil¬ 
ers? My trade all want them dressed 
and it seems to me I ought to have a bet¬ 
ter way of disposing of the refuse than 
to bury it. q. h. r. 
Connecticut. 
I do not know of any method of dis¬ 
posing of the offal from dressed poultry 
that would return a profit. It may be 
that where a sufficient quantity is to be 
had this offal might be turned into fer¬ 
tilizer, but if it is done by poultrymen 
operating upon either a large or small 
scale, I am not aware of it. M. B. D. 
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