1913. 
THE RURA-L, HEW-YORKER. 
1969 
The Henyard. 
THE THIRD EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The third week of the contest at Storrs 
shows a gain of 8S eggs over the previous 
week’s production, a total of 539 eggs for 
the week. The highest scoring pen was 
Francis F. Lincoln’s White Leghorns 
and the score 38. One of the experi¬ 
mental pens from Storrs Agricultural 
Station—also White Leghorns—takes sec¬ 
ond place with a score of 31. This pen 
has been fed sour milk from the time It 
was hatched, and the sour milk is fed yet 
in the place of beef scraps. Otherwise 
the ration fed to this pen is the same as 
that fed to all the contestants. 
The wonderful effect of sour milk In 
overcoming white diarrhoea, and in pro¬ 
moting rapid development and growth or 
chicks, is fully described in Bulletin No. 
74, which is still available to those who 
care for it. Write direct to Connecticut 
Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 
White Wyandottes are third this week ; 
Neale Bros.’ pen laying 29 eggs, and Tom 
Barron’s pen of same breed laying 27 
eggs; 30 of the 33 pens of White Leg¬ 
horns laid during the week a total of 
327 eggs; leaving 212 eggs as the total 
production of the other 49 pens of dif¬ 
ferent breeds. This is not a very bad 
showing for Leghorns as Winter layers. 
Below is given the week’s production' and 
total of some of the leading pens. 
For the 
Week 
Total 
WHITE LEGHORNS. 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. . 
38 
79 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. . . 
17 
61 
C. N. St. John, New York... 
13 
61 
Storrs Agr. Sta., Connecticut 
31 
47 
Windswecp Farm, Connecticut 
15 
45 
C. H. Savage, Connecticut. . 
8 
45 
Mrs. I\. E. Woodruff, Con- 
neetieut . 
3 
44 
J. J. Linehan, Massachusetts 
16 
44 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. . 
20 
37 
C. W. Sherwood. Connecticut 
19 
36 
Bonnie Brook Farm, New 
York 
1 X 
QQ 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
13 
32 
Tom Barron, England. 
13 
35 
Storrs Agr. Sta,, Connecticut 
18 
28 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island.. 
29 
97 
Tom Barron, England.*. 
27 
55 
Merrythought Farm, Conueeti- 
cut . 
19 
66 
West Mt. Poultry Yards, 
Connecticut . 
15 
31 
D. J. Ryan ■& Son, Conueeti- 
cut . 
0 
2 
S. C. R. I. REDS. 
Pineerest Orchards, Massa- 
chusetts . 
19 
50 
Colonial Farm, New Hamp¬ 
shire . 
15 
39 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey, Pennsyl¬ 
vania . 
21 
34 
Dearborn & Sharpe, New 
J ersey . 
5 
5 
R. C. R. I. REDS. 
C. S. Scoville. Connecticut. . 
11 
39 
Glen View Poultry Farm, 
Connecticut . 
4 
5 
BARRED P. ROCKS. 
J. F. Francais. Long Island 
13 
28 
VVaveny Farm, Connecticut. . 
1 
4 
BUFF P. ROCKS. 
W. C. Morgan, Jr., Connecti¬ 
cut . 
9 
rns 
13 
have 
Tom Barron’s White Legho 
not started off in the lead this 
year, as 
on previous occasions, but the breeding is 
there, and will show up later, without 
doubt. Mr. Barron has just sent me as 
a gift, a pen of six White Leghorn yearl¬ 
ing hens, with the following records: No. 
126—legband numbers—235 eggs ; No. 
105, 248 eggs; No. 123, 250 eggs; No. 
109, 237 eggs; No. 120, 228 eggs; No. 
117, 225 eggs. The five best of these 
six birds foots up 1.198 eggs. This is 
eight more than the winning pen laid in 
the contest just closed at 'Storrs . The 
average of Barron’s winners was 23S 
eggs; the average of the best five in the 
pen just sent me is 239.6. I want to 
call special attention to the fact that 
furnishing winners to the egg-laying con¬ 
tests in America and England, does not 
exhaust his stock of good layers, he has 
birds at home that are doing better than 
the winners at the contests. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Flour for Poultry. 
I have about 200 White Wyandotte 
fowls some two years old, and a good 
many hatched in March and April, last 
Spring. I am not getting any eggs. I 
have a barrel of flour that was weevily. 
Would you advise me to give it to the 
chickens, as I have no other use for it? 
I feed them on scratch food morning and 
noon; in the evening all the corn they 
can eat. besides one cabbage every other 
day; also they get plenty of ground oys¬ 
ter shell and charcoal in coop. They have 
a good run and a very warm, comfortable 
house. c. E. M. B. 
Oyster Bay, N. Y. 
If not musty, the flour might be fed in 
small quantity in the mash, but it is a 
fattening rather than egg-making food, 
and should be sparingly used. If vou are 
giving your hens “all the corn that they 
will eat” at night, after having had two 
other meals through the day. you are 
probably over-feeding them and giving 
them too wide a ration for profitable egg 
production. That is, too much corn and 
fattening food, and too little meat meal, 
beef scrap, skim-milk, or other food rich 
in protein. Try giving them “scratch 
food” morning and night only, and a dry 
mash containing meat meal or beef scrap 
in the proportion of from one-sixth to 
one-eighth by weight, and do not feed so 
much of either that they become over fat 
and sluggish. You will find formulas for 
suitable dry mashes frequently given in 
these columns; look over your file. 
M. B. D. 
Molting Pullets. 
I have 35 pullets hatched the first of 
April; they laid" 233 eggs in September 
and 412 in October; have dropped off to 
four and five a day this month. The 
feathers are all around on floor and roost; 
they act dumpy. They are White Leg¬ 
horns. Combs look light; when they 
were laying their combs were red. I fed 
wheat once a day and scratch feed in 
morning, bran and middlings and meat 
scrap in hopper all the time. They do 
not eat much of this now, not half so 
much as they did when they were laying. 
I give them all the cabbage they will eat. 
I would like to hear what I can do for 
them. h. C. 
Kendall, N. Y. 
You have crowded these pullets pretty 
hard, and forced them to a premature 
maturity. It would have been better to 
feed them less meat and allow them to 
become a month older before beginning to 
lay. As it is, all that you can do is to 
feed them carefully and give them time 
to recover their tone. If they are molt¬ 
ing, it will probably be some time before 
they get into their stride again. 
M. B. D. 
Laying Ration. 
Can you tell me what amount of food 
per day should be given to 25 fowls? We 
are somewhat new to the business, and I 
am of the opinion that we have been over¬ 
feeding, as our hens are fat and do not 
lay. We give about three quarts of grain 
(corn and wheat) in the morning, green 
food at noon and a wet mash at night, 
the mash consisting of one quart of bran, 
one quart middlings, one pint of oats, and 
about a pint of gluten. Occasionally I 
vary this with dry mash. Do you think 
it advisable to keep hens that are more 
than two years old? c. E. 
Wortendyke, N. J. 
No definite quantity can be fixed as the 
proper amount to feed a certain number 
of fowls. If your hens are over-fat and 
sluggish, eating their grain and mash and 
loafing around until the next meal, cut 
down their rations until they fly to meet 
you as you enter the pen, and scratch 
long and vigorously for the last grain in 
the litter. Do not go to the other ex¬ 
treme, and feed just enough to maintain 
the hen. leaving no surplus to be worked 
into eggs. A hen must be fat to lay well, 
but she should not be corpulent. You 
will be in less danger of overfeeding if 
you. keep a dry mash before your hens in 
a hopper and then feed them as much 
grain morning and night as they will 
clean up readily with evident relish, nei¬ 
ther acting hungry for more nor indiffer¬ 
ent about eating up all that is given. As 
a starter, cut down your present ration 
one-half and after a few days the actions 
of the hens will tell you whether it should 
be increased or not. 
Amount of Grain for Hens. 
How many pounds of wheat would it 
require to feed 100 White Leghorn hens 
for one day? j. b. m. 
De Lancey, N. Y. 
This is much like asking how many 
pancakes are required to fill up a hungry 
boy, and every mother knows the useless¬ 
ness of trying to solve that problem with 
a pencil. If fed nothing else, 100 hens 
would probably eat about four quarts of 
wheat three times daily, and this would 
weigh approximately 23 pounds. The j 
size and activity of the hens, and the op¬ 
portunity they have to get other food, ! 
govern the amount of grain that they 
actually need. m. b. d. i 
Hen Ration; Heaves. 
1. When should yearling hens that have 
moulted and feathered in begin laying? 
2. What is the best formula for mash and 
also for scratch grain for above hens? 
They are White Leghorns; have sour 
milk and ground oats, other feeds I have 
to buy. 3. I have a horse that has a 
slight attack of heaves; at times has a 
rattling in throat and cough some. Is 
there anything that I could give him that 
would cure or help it? f. r. b. 
1. No definite time can be set at which ! 
hens should begin laying after moulting. ! 
Much depends upon the way the hens 
were fed and cared for previous to and 
during their moult. Some begin within a 
few weeks, and many nor until well past 
mid-winter. 2. The whole grain mixture 
should include wheat, corn, oats, and 
during the Winter, buckwheat. A good 
mash much used by the writer is one 
recommended by the Maine Experiment 
Station, and is composed of 100 pounds 
wheat bran, 100 pounds gluten feed, 100 
pounds wheat middlings, 100 pounds corn- 
meal. 50 pounds meat meal, and one quart 
salt. 3. There is no cure for heaves when 
once that disease becomes established, 
but in light or beginning cases much may 
be done to alleviate the trouble. Atten¬ 
tion to the feeding is the most important 
consideration; a horse subject to the 
heaves should never be fed moldy or dusty 
hay or moldy fodder of any kind. Clover 1 
hay is objectionable and should not be 
used. Clean, bright hay cut and moist¬ 
ened and fed in small quantity should 
constitute the roughage while sound corn 
and oats may make up the grain ration. 
Carrots or other roots are a valuable ad¬ 
dition to the diet, and the addition of 
from half a pin.t to a pint of feeding 
molasses to each feed is considered use¬ 
ful. Water should be given before feed¬ 
ing and the horse should not be allowed 
to overload the stomach at any time and 
should not be worked directly after feed¬ 
ing. The bowels should be kept open, 
using a pint of raw linseed oil as a laxa¬ 
tive when needed. An ounce of Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic given twice daily in 
the drinking water will alleviate the 
symptoms. _ m. b. d. 
A Precocious Pullet. —I have been 
greatly interested in the quite remark¬ 
able performance of a White Leghorn 
pullet, and am wondering whether 
any of your readers can duplucate a 
performance of this kind. One of 
my purebred White Leghorn pullets, 
hatched in an incubator March 1, 
1913, while out on range, stole her 
nest and appeared in my vegetable 
garden Sept. 12, 1913, with 11 chicks as 
lively as young pheasants. I secured 
them all after nightfall, placed them in 
a large open-front brood coop, well lit¬ 
tered with cut Alfalfa, and at this writ¬ 
ing October 2, the chicks are all the 
sturdiest bunch I ever saw for their age. 
The nights, a good portion of the time 
since they were hatched, have been pretty 
frosty, but the chicks appear to be well 
mothered. For a reputed non-sitting var¬ 
iety this Leghorn pullet’s performance 
has been very unusual. w. j. a. 
Oxford, N. J. 
Death To Rats. —Tell that poultry- 
man who wishes to destroy vermin there 
is nothing that beats fox terriers for rats. 
They are on the job all the time, never 
let up. I have a female, spayed, and 
she is a terror. There is an organ-box 
enlarged for a certain amount of chickens 
and that is a regular death trap for the 
rats, and whenever one gets under she 
makes it known and with a long lever 
we raise it, under she dives, and that 
is the last of the rat. The same with 
weasels, minks or muskrats or rabbits; 
she is forever on the hunt. We have a 1 
fine tiger cat and a great hunter, but he 
never tackles a rat in the open, as they 
often run from one outbuilding to an¬ 
other, and the fact is a rat is a bad cus¬ 
tomer to tackle, but the dog knows her 
business and she never was- hurt. Un¬ 
der this one place she caught a dozen or 
more. I am no dog crank, but they cer¬ 
tainly do away with the rat and all kinds 
of vermin that are enemies of the poul- 
tryman and his flock. g. l. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Cows, ^fresh, $50 to $75; cows, store, 
$30 to $50; heifers, coming two years, j 
$25 to $40; calves. Spring, $15 to $20; 
calves, veal, live, lO cents a pound; pork, 
dressed, 12; beef, dressed. 10; butter. 
35 to 38; milk $1.80 per 100 lbs.; eggs 
50; potatoes 70; cabbage five to eight 
cents head; turnips 25 cents a bushel; 
carrots 50; beets 50; apples $3 to $4 
barrel. c. B. w. 
Hartwick, N. Y. 
Our fancy white eggs just sold for 48 
cents. Cows from $20 up. No fruit 
here; we are buying apples $3.50 deliv¬ 
ered at our station. Potatoes 85 at stores. 
Hay $20; oats 50; pork $11 per hundred. 
Hartford, N. Y. j. h. b. 
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