1913. 
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THE EGG CONTEST. 
The last week of the poultry contest 
ended October 30. There was one more 
day in the year, but the following records 
are figured up to the end of the last 
week. The highest score was finally made 
by the five Leghorns entered by Tom Bar¬ 
ron of England. These five birds laid 
1,190 eggs, an average per hen of 238. 
The best hen in the contest was also one 
of these Leghorns. She laid 282 eggs in 
the year. The next highest record was 
made by the White Leghorns entered by 
Edward Cam, also of England. These 
five birds laid 1,107 eggs, an average of 
221. The following list shows the records 
of those pens which laid over 900: 
W. L. Sleegur, White Leghorn.109 
Beulah Farm, White Wyandotte. . . 945 
Mrs. H. F. Haynes, White Wyandotte .951 
Colonial Farm, R. I. Reds. 968 
Braeside Poultry Farm, White Leg¬ 
horns . 907 
W. F. Canby, White Leghorns. 952 
Ingleside Farms, White Leghorn... 90S 
Burton E. Moore, White Leghorn... 945 
Smith Bros., White Leghorn. 934 
Frank Toulmin, White Leghorn.... 954 
A. O. Foster, White Leghorn. 997 
Blue Mountain Farm, White Leghorn 909 
F. A. Jones, White Leghorn. 928 
The booby prize or lowest record ap¬ 
pears to have been won by a pen of 
Black Orpingtons, which laid 390 eggs, 
with one hen in the pen dead. 
The following figures show the average 
of all the pens of each breed : Eight pens 
of Barred Plymouth Rock laid 5.192 eggs, 
or an average of 649. Including the 
White, BulT and Columbian Plymouth 
Rocks, there were 13 pens of Rocks all 
told. The 11 pens of White Wyandottes 
laid 8.560 eggs, or 778 to the pen. Two 
pens of Buff Wyandottes laid 655 and 
712 respectively, and one pen of Colum¬ 
bian 755. Eight pens of S. C. It. I. Reds 
laid 6.496 eggs, an average of 819. Five 
pens of It. C. Tt. I. Reds laid 3.426, or 
an average of 685 to the pen; 43 pens 
of White Leghorns laid 36,686 eggs, or 
an average of 854 to the pen: four pens 
of White Orpingtons laid 2.642 eggs, or 
an average of 660. In the next contest 
we shall endeavor to give as far as pos¬ 
sible the valuations of these eggs from 
week to week, or month to month. Some 
of the champions of the American breeds 
claim that their birds are more profit¬ 
able, since they lay eggs at a time when 
the prices are highest, while the Leghorns 
are more likely to produce while the price 
is lower. We shall try to figure this out 
during the season, so as to put this on 
a fairer basis. 
Limberneck. 
I have seen remedy for fowls with 
limberneck. Can you tell me what this 
treatment is? J. w. N. 
Madison Co., Va. 
The disease called limberneck is sup¬ 
posed to be caused by the ingestion of 
putrid meat or other spoiled food and the 
consequent development of ptomaine poi¬ 
soning. The remedy is prompt flushing 
of the digestive tract to dispose of the 
poisonous matter therein, and this may 
be accomplished by the administration of 
a dose of epsom salts or calomel; the 
former in quantity of about one-half tea- 
spoonful dissolved in a tablespoonful of 
water, the latter in dosage of one or two 
grains which may be obtained in tablet 
form. Search should be made for dead 
rats, fowls, or other decaying food to 
which the hens may obtain access. 
. M. B. D. 
Wyandottes and White Eggs. 
Has anyone had the White Wyandottes 
to lay a white egg—white enough to sat¬ 
isfy the New York trade? If one care¬ 
fully compares eggs called white he finds 
several sorts of “white” shells. There is 
so much more paid for white eggs in 
New York that I am surprised there is no 
strain or breed of general purpose fowls 
commonly known and used in this coun¬ 
try that lays a white egg. I have heard 
of one man who bred his W. Wyandottes 
to lay a pink-white egg, but he is out of 
the poultry business now. 
When keeping a flock of about 40 W. 
Wyandottes I was pleased with the egg 
production as well as table qualities, and 
they were excellent as Winter layers. 
1'he eggshells were all colors from light 
cream to dark brown. I would like just 
such another flock that would lay white- 
shelled eggs. If someone who has suc¬ 
ceeded in getting the white shell will 
write up his method of breeding in detail 
it should interest a good many readers of 
1 'he II. N.-Y. Please state whether the 
table qualities of the fowls are injured in 
the breeding. E. l. f. 
Hartford, Conn. 
The idea of breeding White Wyan¬ 
dottes to lay white eggs is an old one. 
i’rof. Stoneburn tried it while he had 
charge of the poultry department at 
ctorrs. Conn. He asked me to send him 
flay of my Wyandottes that laid white or 
nearly white eggs. But I’rof. Stoneburn 
had a very much better business offer, so 
he left the college before proceeding very 
far with his experiments. It looks as if 
anyone by breeding only from the Wyan¬ 
dotte hens that laid the whitest eggs, for 
several years, might in time produce a 
family or “strain” that would produce 
only white eggs. But it is not so easy 
as it looks. While the hen may produce 
only white eggs, how about the male bird? 
If his dam also laid white eggs, what does 
he inherit from his sire? And if after 
several years’ labor we could get birds 
whose ancestors on both sides had come 
from white egg layers, there would al¬ 
ways be the tendency to revert towards 
some of the brown egg-laying Asiatics, 
used in the make-up of the Wyandotte. 
Notwithstanding the many years that 
Wyandottes have been bred, that Asiatic 
blood still shows itself in the tendency to 
tufts of down on the legs and toes which 
still continues to disqualify some other¬ 
wise very good birds. The idea of an 
“all-purpose” fowl is very like the “all¬ 
purpose cow,” nice to think about, but 
difficult to realize. geo. a. cosgkove. 
Utility Standards for Poultry. 
The American Poultry Association has 
for a good many years well covered the 
fancy end of the poultry business. The 
utility side has been neglected by the as¬ 
sociation, though well developed by in¬ 
dividual breeders. These breeders and 
the various poultry contests seem to have 
convinced the A. P. A. that the time has 
come to revise or add to their “Standard 
of Perfection” by including market poul¬ 
try and eggs with fancy stock. Therefore 
a committee headed by Robert II. Essex 
of Buffalo, N. Y.. has begun to collect 
needed data. Mr. Essex begins right by 
asking farmers and others to give him 
the facts. These 10 questions cover what 
he wants to know, and we hop - our peo¬ 
ple will help by sending answers to Mr. 
Essex: 
(1) Tell us about the grea’"“St diffi¬ 
culties you have to meet with in market¬ 
ing your poultry and eggs. 
(2) Tell us so far as you know where 
the greatest loss occurs—where the most 
disappointments arise. 
(3) Do you keep purebred poultry of 
a single variety, and do you try to pro¬ 
duce and market eggs of a uniform color, 
size and shape? 
(4) Where, and in what temperature, 
do you keep your eggs while holding them 
for market? What other farm product do 
you store nearby? 
(5) How often do you market your 
eggs, especially in hot weather? 
(6) How are they marketed—sold to 
the huckster who calls at your door, sold 
for cash to a local dealer, or traded for 
merchandise? 
(7) Do you make a practice of scuffing 
out all the small, dirty and misshapen 
eggs and using these at home? 
(8) Do the dealers who buy your eggs 
during the Summer months candle them 
and only pay you for the good ones, or 
do they take them just as they come? 
(9) Do you know how to grade or 
candle eggs? Do you do it before send¬ 
ing them to market? 
(10) Do you keep male birds with your 
laying hens during Summer months? 
Line-breeding Fowls. 
As I do not quite understand the chart 
adapted from Felch. where it states, to 
obtain greater preponderance of the blood 
of A in future generations you mate the 
best of his daughters and granddaughters 
back to him, 1 do not understand how 
to get the granddaughters unless to mate 
uncle and niece and then mate the grand¬ 
father back to his grandchildren; or 
must I put in new blood on the male side 
the second year? I have five good pure¬ 
bred pullets and three good cockerels and 
a three-year-old cock to start my founda¬ 
tion stock with, S. C. R. I. Reds. This 
stock has been line-bred for nine years. 
Port Richmond, N. Y. t. j. g. 
Mating “A” with his daughter will 
give you a third generation which I have 
called granddaughters when of the female 
sex. because daughters of a daughter. The 
relationship is a little mixed, of course, 
and the term granddaughter does not ex¬ 
actly express it, being taken from those 
used to express human relationship, 
which have no exact counterpart of this 
relationship in animals. Such breeding 
is called incestuous and is practiced with 
the lower animals, without, unfortunate¬ 
ly, having a separate set of terms to ex¬ 
press the degrees of relationship between 
them. M. B. D. 
Sour Milk for White Diarrhoea. 
We raise about 1.000 chickens to broiler 
size only, for our own use in the chicken 
and waffle business, and among so many 
we notice once in a while white diarrhoea, 
and detect it by the smell. This smell 
strikes me as a urine smell, the same as 
nurses would notice on a patient whose 
kidneys did not act, and many times I 
have thought, how I would like to take 
these little ones and see if I could cure 
them on buttermilk. I would like to | 
know whether the action of plenty of 
buttermilk on the kidneys would not 
cure the white diarrhoea? f. c. r. 
Beattystown, N. J. 
Sour milk and buttermilk fed liberally 
are excellent preventives of white diar¬ 
rhoea, not because of their action upon the 
kidneys but because of the action of the 
lactic acid bacteria in the milk. These 
lactic acid germs appear to combat the di¬ 
arrhoea-producing germs in the intestinal 
tract of the chicks and do much to pre¬ 
vent the development of diarrhoeal trou¬ 
bles. To be effective, the sour milk should 
be fed liberally from the start, m. b. d. 
Ailing Hens. 
What was the cause of two of my hens 
dying? They both had a greenish dis¬ 
charge from the bowels. D. E. C. 
Maryland. 
A green or yellowish diarrhoea indi¬ 
cates intestinal inflamation which may re¬ 
sult from one of several different causes. 
Among the most common are the eating 
of spoiled food of some kind, or the drink¬ 
ing of water which has become foul and 
putrid. _ Various diseases are also ac¬ 
companied by this symptom, and from it 
alone a diagnosis cannot be made. 
M. B. D. 
Hen With Cold. 
What is the matter with my hen? 
Her head and neck swelled up, with rings 
around her eyes and some white matter 
forms in them. Feed, mostly corn. 
w. N. 
Your hen is probably suffering from a 
severe “cold.” due to exposure or to con¬ 
tact with some other sick fowl. You 
should promptly remove any fowls show¬ 
ing symptoms of colds from the rest of 
the flock and confine them in warm, dry 
quarters. Add permanganate of potash 
crystals to their drinking water in quan¬ 
tity sufficient to turn it to a deep wine 
color. Light cases recover, while the 
more severe ones go on to exhaustion and 
death. Seek to prevent by keeping fowls 
in dry quarters free from drafts and 
away from other sick hens. m. b. d. 
JVA1HERINE nacl been brought up to be¬ 
lieve that tale bearing was despicable, but 
there were times when her greedy twin 
strained her principles to the snapping 
point. “Katherine,” said her mother one 
day, “Is it possible that you and Howard 
have eaten that whole bag of peppermint 
that I meant to take to grandmother, just 
because I left the bag on the table?” “I 
didn’t take any of them, mother,” said 
Katherine indignantly, “but Howard— 
well, I sha’nt tell tales, but you just 
smell him.”—Credit Lost. 
COR SALE-VIGOROUS COCKERELS frem business White Wy- 
* auaottes. n m. Schrader. New Syriugrille, Seaton I»lnnd,>\ Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Owen strain, elegant pens, 4 pullets, cockerel. $25. 
Satisfaction. HOUSTON, 97 S. Grove St., East Oranoe. N. J. 
sa? e r _Berry Strain Indian Runner Ducks 
and DRAKES, $2 each. J. F. McCUNTOCK, Groton, N. V. 
THOROUGHBRED BRONZE TURKEYS— Young toms weigh- 
■ ing 20 lbs. R. E. SWIFT, Cherry Valley, N. Y. 
For Sale—White Holland Turkeys 
Best of breeding, farm raised and healthy. Price, 
86 per pair. Dr. X. Paul Peery, Tazewell, Virginia 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys-^Y^hmu 
tion birds and breeding stock a specialty. Extra 
size and plumage. G F. DECKER. South Montrose, Pa. 
L EGHORNS—Thoroughbred It. C. Brown Leghorn Cockerels. 
Hearty anil strong. 1. C. Hawkins, It. P. 3, Middletowu, S. Y. 
Choices. C. White Leghorn Yearling Breeders 
*1 each. VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point. New York 
Single Comb White Leghorns y f,® 
for breeder*. Price, II each. Special price on quan¬ 
tities. Day-old chicks—April, $12 per 100. May. $10 
per 100. Geo. Frost, Levanna, Cayuga Co., New' York 
Barron’s English Leghorns - ^.! 10 ” $*£ 
neetient. Cockerels for sale. I own the leading Amer¬ 
ican p.-n of Leghorns (Sieger's). Also leading 
American pen of White Wyandottes—Mrs. Haines 
Idnno birds at the Connecticut. Contest. A limited 
number of eggs for sale F. PALMER. Cos Cob. Conn 
TRA P N E S T E D 
YEARLING HENS 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN S_ 
A Few Choice Breeders at a Hare Bargain. Write 
at once for particulars. TOM litKltO.V I'OCK- 
KRF.LS— A LIMITED NUMBER FOR SALE. 
THE PENNA. POULTRY FARM, LANCASTER, PA. 
On 1 tiers of the l finning Pen in the Missouri 
Egg Laying Contest 
YOUNG'S STRAIN 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
I HAVE NO OTHER BREEDS 
They are the standard 
for all the Leghorns of 
all America, and the 
greatest layers of all 
varieties of domestic fowl. 
I have hundreds of year¬ 
ling hens and cocks for 
sale. Mating list free. 
Address 
D. W. YOUNG, Monroe, New York 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or flne granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers ol 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 18B 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
WE CAN MAKE SSSiS 
* T tie Salt, Granulated Charcoal, OYSTER 
SHELL LIME, Sunflower and Hemp Seed, Beef 
Scrap etc. CHARLES H. REEVE & CO., 
INC., 209 Washington Street, New York. 
Give Your Chickens Teeth 
Feed Grit—give the chicken something that grinds 
the grain in the crop and prepares food for proper 
assimilation. Oyster shells and bone are too soft 
and won’t do what Maka-Shel Grit will do. Slaka- 
Shel Grit will increase weiglitand egg-laying, by 
helping the chicken digest all she is fed. 2001bs. 
for$1.00 f.o.b. cars. One ton at $7.00 f.o. b. cars. 
Edge Hill SilicaKoekOo., Box J,.New Brunswick,N. J■ 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value Is font 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier .i 
profits larger. 
MANN’S ‘ASH! Bone Gutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. 10 Days’ Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today for Free Book. 
'•W. Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mass.' 
- 
The Extra Eggs 
will 
soon 
these 
Automatic 
Self-Heating 
Poultry 
'Fountains 
and Heaters 
Keeps water at the right tem¬ 
perature day and night in the coldest weather and 
requires less than a quart of oil a week. Made of Galvanized 
Steel. A long felt want supplied. Every Hen>ouse needs one. 
gallon Automatic Fountain complete 
i>] .lo. Write for Circular T and testimonials. Agents wanted. 
^^A^S^FORGEJVORKS, SARANAC- MfCKEGAN I 
PQULTRYMFN- S ? ml 2c stamp for Illustrated 
* wul " 1 11 1 ” ul " price list describing 25 varie¬ 
ties. EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARUS, MARIETTA, PA. 
Fine English Cavies~ So - ,id c ?. ,or *' Blacks and 
breeders. H. E. 
Reds; all ages and a few 
LANK, AA'alton, New York 
GUINEA PBG English Smooth-haired, 
UUI/VCH Black, White, Bed and 
Cream Dolors 2 Sows and 1 Boar, 3 months old. $3. 
H. A. REGEL. J11 North 42nd Street, Camden, New Jersey 
P 
OULTRY, EGGS, PIGEONS 
AU varieties. Construction, disease, care, etc. 
Book 10c. POULTRY PIGEON FARM, Marietta. Pa. 
W hite Emden Geese 
PARTRIDGES t PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies. Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails. 
Kabmts, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks. Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes. 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. AAAI. J. MACKKNSEN, Natural¬ 
ist, Department 10, Yardley, Fa. 
M. B. TURKEYS FOR SALE 
Heaviest strain in the P. S. F. B. G arnsey, Clayton, N Y. 
fOR SALE—LARGE AV H IT E FEIvIN 
* DUCKS for breeding, $3 each; $5 per pair. 
C. E. ERNEST, - R. F. D. 41, Gasport. New Yuri 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—Fine stock laying; 
■ only $4.00 a trio. Barred P. Rocks. Orpingtons 
Langshans and others. Write wants. Rig new Illus- 
t rated Circular Free. John E. Heatwoie, Harrisonburg,Va. 
Austin's 200-Egg Strain KiB: 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R No 24 Athf>n<; Pfl We ha\e 14 varieties cockerels, pul- 
, * 10 ‘ LMinens > ra - lets, breeders and a few cock birds 
for sale at living: prices. Silver Campines, English type. Crystal 
Palace, New York, and St. Louis winners. Pekin ducks, bred 
trom 9 and 10 lb. stock. White Emden Geese, bred from 18 to 24 ib. 
•took. Iudian Kunner Ducks—highest quality. Write your wants. 
R, I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hate hing. Mating list on rtom-., 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St.,73rooklyn. N. V 
q—L t and Dk. Brah- 
J mas, Barred Rocks, 
— ■ —, Exhibition and utility 
quality. Young stock and yearlings. Bar-rain List and 
catalogue gratis. Itiierdale Poultry Farm, Riverdale, N. J. 
R. I. Reds—White Wyandottes - 
S. 0. White and Brown Leghorns, Exh; 
Rhode Island Reds&Mammotli Bronze Turkeys 
“HONE’S CRESCENT STRAIN” 
High class breeding and exhibition birds for sale 
Every bird shipped on approval. Early hatched Red 
cockerels and pullets, bred from tested layers 
0. R. HONE, Cresctnt Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, New'York 
REGAL WHITE WYANDOTTES 
BRED FOR HEALTH, VIGOR AND EGGS 
Perfect union of show and utility qualities. Sot a short bnelt 
m tin- stork. At two quality shows this autumn, with ten 
entries, they won S blues, 1 red. 1 yellow, jutd special for 
best wyandotte in the show, all varieties competing 
" ateh them in Washington, Baltimore and Boston Best 
of all they lay eggs, big brown fertile eggs. 100 cockerels 
and cocks for sale. $.i.00 to S10.00 each. Eg-gs from mv 
best pens, $o.r0 per setting. Just say Wyandottes andl 
will do the rest. MONTROSE POULTRY PRODUCTS 
R. R.TURNER, PROP. THE PLAINS, VIRGINIA 
S O. AVHITE LEGHORNS, S. C RHODE IS 
• LAND REDS. WHITE WYANDOTTES. BARRED PLY' 
MOUTH ROCKS S. C BUFF ORPINGTONS. MAILAR0 DUCKS 
Bred for exhibition and utility. 500 surplus cocker' 
els at special prices. ON ONTfl FARM, Portland, Conn' 
600 S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
$1.00 $1.25 each. JOHN L0RT0 N LEE, Carmel. New York 
want of S. C.White LeghornPullets&Cockerels 
v „. of . a . lalxe and great-laying strain, write 
J. MU ASK Gilboa. New York 
Also have a few breeding hens for sale. 
