1914. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
203 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The tenth week 851 eggs were laid, 25 
less than last week. The White Leghorns 
are the ones responsible for these losses; 
25 pens, 250 birds, produced only 00 eggs 
in a week ; 10 of these pens did not pro¬ 
duce an egg. The other eight pens of 
White Leghorns laid only 170 eggs, a 
fraction over two eggs each in the week. 
Leghorns are not living up to their repu¬ 
tation as Winter layers, obtained in 
previous contests, but they will be shell¬ 
ing out eggs later when the other breeds 
are broody. 
In the home yards of White Leghorn 
breeders all about me, there has been a 
similar falling off. As housing and food 
are the same as before, it must be or 
at least it is reasonable to suppose, that 
weather conditions are more or less re¬ 
sponsible for the poor showing. But here 
comes in the pertinent inquiry, why do 
not the same weather conditions also 
affect the egg output of the White Wyan- 
dottes, the R. I. Reds, etc.? If anyone 
can answer this I would be glad to have 
him, I confess that I cannot, except on 
the supposition that Leghorns are more 
susceptible to weather conditions than 
the larger breeds. Tom Barron’s White 
Wyandottes outlaid all other pens again, 
as they have for six consecutive weeks. 
Their output for the week was 51, and 
their total to date 396. 
Merrythought Farm White Wyandottes 
are second with a score of 37, and Dear¬ 
born & Sharpe’s S. C. Reds are third 
with a record of 33. White Leghorns 
come in fourth, the pen from Storrs Agri¬ 
cultural Station laying 31. Below are 
some of the scores made during the week, 
and the totals: 
BARRED ROCKS. Week Total 
F. L. Tuttle, Massachusetts. . . 10 69 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 3 47 
Waveny Farm. Connecticut. ... 1 27 
J. F. Francais, Long Island... 24 228 
BUFF P. ROCKS. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 10 73 
W. C. Morgan, Connecticut.... 0 55 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
Tom Barron, England. 51 396 
Xeale Bros., Rhode Island.... 20 292 
Merrythought Farm, Connecti¬ 
cut . 37 271 
West Mt. Poultry Yards, Con- 
Connecticut . 17 171 
D. J. Ryan & Son, Connecticut 2S 103 
BUFF WYANDOTTES. 
American Buff Wyandotte Club, 
New York . 16 72 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massa¬ 
chusetts . 10 61 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massa¬ 
chusetts . 12 22 
II. E. Hamilton, Connecticut... 6 11 
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. 
Natl. Col. Wyan. Club, Massa¬ 
chusetts . 14 72 
SINGLE COMB REDS. 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey, Pennsyl¬ 
vania . 29 203 
Pinecrest Orchard, Massa¬ 
chusetts . 11 160 
Dearborn & Sharpe, New York. 33 150 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire 9 147 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut.... 24 144 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut.. . 15 113 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut.. 19 100 
ROSE COMB REDS. 
Glenview Farm. Connecticut... 25 140 
C. S. Scoville, Connecticut. 8 117 
WHITE LEGHORNS. 
F. F. Lincoln. Connecticut.... 27 342 
Storrs Agr. Sta.. Connecticut. . 31 295 
Cecil Guernsey. New York. 21 237 
Tom Barron, England. 9 206 
Storrs Agr. Sta., Connecticut.. 22 18S 
Marwood Pity. Farm, Pennsyl¬ 
vania . 21 188 
Storrs Agr. Sta., Connecticut. . 17 155 
Bonnie Brook Farm, New York S 130 
Storrs Agr. Sta.. Connecticut. . 4 122 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut.... 1 121 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania.... 5 107 
BUFF LEGHORNS. 
Wolverine Pity Farms, Michigan 11 60 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS. 
E. D. Bird, Connecticut. 0 4 
BUFF ORPINGTONS. 
O. Wilson, West Virginia. 4 21 
WHITE ORPINGTONS. 
P. A. Demgar, New York. 4 32 
DUNGHILLS. 
H. W. Collingwood, New Jersey 3 3 
David Hine, Connecticut. 13 58 
David Hine, Connecticut. IS 64 
MIXED BREEDS. 
“Profitable Poultry,” Massa- 
clisuetts . IS 149 
“Prolitable Poultry,” Massa¬ 
chusetts . 19 129 
The White Laced Red Cornish and the 
Silver Campines have not laid as yet 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Hens on Strike. 
Our hens seem to be on a strike so 
far this Winter. We received only a 
few eggs in October and none in No¬ 
vember or December. We have about 55 
hens and probably 70 pullets, the pullets 
hatched in March, April and May. All 
Fall and until the snow came the chick¬ 
ens ran to the stacks, getting barley, 
wheat, Alfalfa and small amount of mil¬ 
let. Since the snow came we have fed 
in the houses, cooked barley about eight 
in the morning. When it warms up we 
turn into the scratching pens and feed 
wheat in the straw, not thrashed. We 
also give them warm skim-milk each 
morning. At noon we feed sugar beets 
and at night we feed part corn and part 
barley. On going to roost at night 
chickens’ crops are well filled. We live 
30 miles from town and it is hard to get 
other feed. Is this feed all right? 
Colorado. MRS. J. L. A. 
I am afraid that 3V miles from a feed 
store would put most Eastern poultry- 
men out of business, and it is evidently 
a little handicap to you. Your grain ra¬ 
tions are a little too wide for best re¬ 
sults with poultry; that is, they con- 
tar., too large a proportion of the fat¬ 
tening elements in food and too little of 
the egg, milk, and muscle-making ele¬ 
ments. Barley, corn, wheat, and millet 
are all of a fattening nature, and need 
to be balanced by meat in some form, 
skim-milk, and the higher protein grain 
feeds like gluten, oil meal, buckwheat 
middlings, wheat bran and middlings, 
dried brewers’ grains, etc. Your skim- 
milk and Alfalfa fall into the high pro¬ 
tein class, but your hens eat too little of 
them in proportion to the other foods 
that they are getting. If you cannot feed 
a mash of ground grains containing those 
rich in protein, perhaps you can procure 
beef scrap at a reasonable price, or pos¬ 
sibly fresh meat of some kind. I would 
feed all the skim-milk that the hens would 
eat and replace the sugar beets with Al¬ 
falfa leaves, either dry or steamed, as 
the hens would eat them best. You can 
in this way at least partially balance 
your grain ration. M. B. d. 
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titles. Day-old chicks—April, $12 per ]00. May, $10 1 
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THE MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM established a re- 
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chicks, nnd for fair dealing. It is our purpose to live up 
to this standard, and you will profit bv dealing with us. 
Send for circular. A. H. PENNY, Mattltuck, New York 
S.C.W. LEGHORN CHICKS AND EGGS 
Chicks—$12 per 100. Kggs — *5 per 100. Is seven 
years’ experience in this line worthy of considera¬ 
tion 1 VANCREST POULTRY FARM. Salt Point. New York 
S. C. White Leghorn Baby Chicks gjjyJ 
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for catalogue. RICHLAND FARMS. Box 37. Frederick. Md. 
Single Comb White Leghorn Eggsl^gfVhat 
fail to hatch replaced at half price. Ten pul lets 
from this flock in Experiment Station test laid 1,739 
eggs in a year. ALKEN FARM. R. D. 2, Ithaca. New York 
ffi D L r c K o Tb white leghorn eggs 
Utility stock. Bred to lay. $1 per 15—$5 per 100. 
Also baby chicks. Place order* early. 
ENGLISH POULTRY FARM. F, P. Keeler, Prop., Charlotte.N.Y. 
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Single Comb White Leghorns Baby^Mx! 
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VIEW POULTRY FARM. Lock Box 106, Suffieid. Connecticut 
MATURED COCKERELS. R. 1. REDS. W. WYANDOTTES. 
"*■ Barred Rocks, Dk. Brahmas, $2.50: S- C. White 
and Brown LEGHORNS, $1.50. R. 1 RED. laying hens. $2. 
Hatching eggs & Uhix. Won 76 Ribbons this Fall, 
Catalog gratis. RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM, Riverdale.N J. 
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Barred Rock Cockerels 
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B, H. HKNION, • Brocbport, New York 
Black Leghorns-#*, 
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MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R u„ d„ " e have 14 varieties Cock- 
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RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Hone’s "‘Crescent Strain”—Winners wherever 
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Austin’s 200 Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds 
Standard bred; high record stock; red to the 
skin. Eggs for hatching, *1.50 to $10 per 
setting (15) Utility eggs, $7.50 per 100. 90% fer¬ 
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AUSTIN'S POULTRY FARM. Box 17. Center Harbor, N H. 
B.l. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
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White Holland Turkeys SMI 
M R T lirlf nye - Bred from large, lioalthy stock. 
* aud as fine as they grow. 
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Giant M. B. Turkeys'*““*•SJfj 
each. ASHLAND STOCK FARM, Tillie, Fa. 
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Standard Bred. Bine ribbon winners, 
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COCKERELS AND EGGS 
from Miles Montank strain. Barred Rocks 
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B uff white lec.hokjis. s. c. k. i kei>s-Ekss 90 ,-. is; 
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