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THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The egg production at the contest con¬ 
tinues to increase; the fifth week shows 
a gain of 136 eggs over the previous 
week, the total for the week being 841. 
White Wyaiulottes beat the Leghorns 
this week. Tom Barron’s pen of the 
above breed laid 48 eggs, taking first 
place for the week. Francis F. Lin¬ 
coln’s White Leghorns are second with a 
score of 46. This pen leads in the total 
to date score, with 172. The only bird 
in the contest to lay every day in the 
week, was Tom Barron’s White Wyan¬ 
dotte pullet 5*o. 4 The “sour milk” pen 
of White Leghorns from Storrs Agricul¬ 
tural Station laid 41 eggs, taking third 
place. Their total is 120. Tom Barron’s 
White Leghorns take fourth place with a 
score of 34. It looks as if his pen of 
Wyaiulottes would beat his Leghorns this 
year; they are 55 eggs ahead now. 
The “Philadelphia North American” is 
carrying on an egg laying contest at 
Thorndale, Pa., with five birds in a pen, 
100 pens being entered. Tom Barron’s 
pen of White Wyandottes leads all the 
Wyaiulottes with 21 eggs for the week, 
and a total of 55 in the four weeks. 
Charles D. Bartholomew of Pennsylvania 
leads all the White Leghorns with a 
total of 73, and a score for the week of 
21. Tom Barron is next with a week’s 
score of 22 and a total of 69. There are 
seven pons of White Leghorns entered 
from England, and all but one are among 
the highest scores. 
Week Total 
Alfred Parkinson . 21 60 
Frank Toulmin . 19 59 
G. B. Sharp . 10 34 
Will Barron . 14 30 
Edward Cam . 14 27 
J. Collinson . 8 14 
Ex-Governor Rollin S. Woodruff of 
Connecticut has a pen of White Leg¬ 
horns entered ; their total is 48 and w r eek’s 
score 14. Mrs. Woodruff has a pen of 
the same breed in the contest at Storrs. 
A new breed. “Red Pyle Leghorns,” en¬ 
tered by Irvin D. Dietrich, Pennsylvania, 
laid 18 in the week, and total 49. 
For the first time in any of the egg 
laying contests a pen of Light Brahmas 
are entered, Charles E. Colelough of New 
Jersey being the man with confidence 
enough in their egg-laying capacity, to 
enter that breed. But they have not laid 
an egg yet. The total score made by the 
different breeds, follows: 
Barred P. Rocks . 29 
White P. Rocks . 21 
Buff I’. Rocks . 44 
Columbian P. Rocks . 31 
Silver Wyandottes . 21 
White Wyandottes . 55 
Buff Wyandottes . 0 
Columbian Wyandottes . 31 
S. C. R. I. Reds . 41 
R. C. It. I. Reds . 6 
S. C. Brown Leghorns . 36 
S. C. White Leghorns . 73 
R. C. White Leghorns . 0 
S. C. Buff Leghorns . 0 
S. C. Red Pyle Leghorns. 49 
Ancon as . 52 
Silver Campines . 0 
S. C. Buff Orpingtons . 36 
White Orpingtons . 16 
Silver Spangled Hamburgs . 0 
One bird in each of four different 
breeds, laid seven eggs during this week. 
In the fifth week at Thorndale, 76 pens 
laid 718 eggs, Tom Barron’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes leading with 24 eggs, making his 
total 79. But Charles D. Bartholomew’s 
White Leghorns laid 21, making his total 
94, and Alfred Parkinson’s White Leg¬ 
horns laid 21, making his 81. Compari¬ 
son of the records made at the contests 
for the three years, shows the following 
gains: First year at Storrs the fifth week 
showed a total for the week of 
423 eggs: the second year a to¬ 
tal of 69S eggs; the third year at 
Thorndale 718 eggs. We cannot com¬ 
pare the third year here at Storrs, be- 
cause there are 10 birds in a pen this 
year instead of five, as in former years. 
But about half of the entrants at Thorn¬ 
dale are the same ones who had birds in 
the first and second contests at Storrs, 
and as there are five birds in a pen at 
Thorndale the comparison of yields is 
fairly made. 
As the output, shows an increase each 
year, it is evident that we are making 
progress in breeding better utility fowls; 
and that these egg-laying contests are 
furnishing the needed stimulus to Ameri¬ 
can utility breeders, which will result 
eventually in an increased average pro¬ 
duction by American poultry. 
GEO. A. COSGKOVE. 
Doves and Pea Fowl. 
Can you tell me about the breeding of 
doves and the market for them? 
Sergeantsville, N. J. h. c. K. 
The term “dove” is used to designate 
certain wild species of birds very closely 
related to our domestic pigeons. I know 
of no market for them, or of any reason 
why people should raise them. There are 
several species of these doves which are 
kept in very limited numbers in cages by 
lovers of birds and other naturalists. 
They usually mate for life and live to¬ 
gether during all seasons of the year. 
The only possible market there would be 
for them would be to zoological gardens, 
and there are very few people who care 
to have them in a cage, because of their 
affectionate disposition and gentle charac¬ 
teristics. 
What can we do to make our young 
pea fowl healthier? 
Pea fowl usually are quite healthy and 
free from diseases. It is a very frequent 
thing in breeding rare birds of this kind 
to inbreed them without any careful se¬ 
lection, with the result of rapidly deterior¬ 
ating the vigor and stamina of the off¬ 
spring. I would recommend another year 
that unless the parents are exceptionally 
strong and healthy and of no relation 
the inquirer change blood and that from 
the time the birds are five or six days 
old until they are nearly grown, he sup¬ 
ply them with sour milk, both to drink 
and to eat in a thick clabbered form. 
A. L. C. 
Vermin on Hens. 
I have a fine flock of White Wyan¬ 
dotte hens, that stopped laying about a 
month ago, and since then several have 
died. On examining one I find they are 
just alive with large lice, of a reddish 
color. The hens are getting very poor, 
although I feed them well. I have used 
insect powder on the hens but it does 
not do any good. Will you let me know 
what to do for them? j. c. D. 
Your hens are doubtless suffering from 
the ravages of red mites, and probably, 
also, of body lice. These mites, which 
are the most serious pest of the two, do 
not stay upon the fowls through the day 
unless they are present in enormous 
numbers. They hide in cracks and cre¬ 
vices about the perches and nests, and 
may often be found in great masses be¬ 
neath a loose board or under a perch 
support. They come out at night to suck 
the blood of their hosts and return to 
their retreat for the day. To get rid of 
them, clean up thoroughly, removing 
loose boards and other objects behind 
which the mites may hide. Then paint 
or spray perches with a solution of one 
quart of crude carbolic acid to the gallon 
of kerosene. With a long nozzied spring 
bottom oil can squirt this mixture into 
such cracks about the perches as you 
cannot otherwise reach: spare no place 
where the mites may hide. A little close 
search will probably show you thousands 
of them where you did not dream that 
any existed. If you have a nest box 
nailed up against the wall, tear it down 
and look at the crawling mass of mites 
behind it, red with the blood of your 
hens. After doing this, clean up and 
whitewash the interior of your henhouse, 
furnish your fowls with a good dust bath, 
and make frequent search, oil can in 
hand, for the vicious red mites in all 
places where your observation will show 
you that they hide. 
Employer: “Yes, I advertised for a 
strong boy. Do you think you can fill 
the bill?” Applicant: “Well, I just fin¬ 
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were waitin’ out in de hall.”—Boston 
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MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS —From iarge. vigorous 
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