1914. 
THK RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
845 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T HERE is quite a decided drop in egg 
production during the thirty-first 
week, the number laid being 3,440— 
12 dozen less than the previous week. 
White Leghorns are responsible for most 
of this loss, their output for the week be¬ 
ing 111 eggs less than the week before. 
But the Leghorns make all the high 
scores again this week, A. B. Hall of 
Connecticut, taking first place with a 
score of 60. Four pens of Leghorns tie 
for second place with scores of 57 each. 
They are the Glenview Poultry Farm’s 
pen, Chas. N. St. John’s pen, Mrs. Iv. E. 
Woodruff’s pen and P. G. Platt. Three 
pens of Leghorns tie for third place. 
They are Thomas W. Moore’s pen, Chas. 
Heigl’s pen, and Geo. A. Cosgrove’s pen, 
each pen scoring 56. Three pens of 
White Leghorns also tie for fourth place 
with scores of 55 each. They are X. W. 
Hendryx’s pen, Branford Farm’s pen, 
and the “sour milk” pen from Storrs 
Agr. Station. 
Of all the American breeds only one 
pen scored 50. or over; and that was 
Neale Bros. White Wyandottes which 
scored 52. The week’s record is given 
below : 
Barred Rocks, Week Total 
A. R. Hall. Connecticut. 47 7",2 
F. L. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 40 853 
Waveny Farm, Connecticut. 45 748 
J. J. Francuis, New York. 30 930 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. I,enzen, Massachusetts_ 4(5 800 
F. H. Renton. Connecticut. 41 872 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 33 078 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 30 721 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 43 839 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 28 720 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 40 518 
Buff P. Rocks, 
A. A. nail. Connecticut. 41 848 
W. C. Morgan, Jr., Connecticut. 35 623 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Rarron. England. 39 1,305 
West Mt. Htry. Yards. Connecticut. 31 779 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut_ 30 1,117 
Neale Rros., Rhode Island. 52 1,128 
D. J. Ryan & Son, Connecticut. 39 889 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 39 859 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn. Massachusetts.. 40 803 
Am. Ruff Wvandotte Club. New York 22 725 
H. L. Hamilton. Connecticut. 21 555 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Nat'l Col. Wyan. Club, Massachusetts 41 784 
S. C. Reds. 
Robert Seaman, New York. 32 035 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut. 30 842 
Dr. J. C. Dlngman. New York. 30 744 
Burnham Pltry. Farm, Massachusetts 34 032 
H. I’. Doming. Connecticut. 39 730 
Geo. P. Dearborn, Florida. 28 918 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey, Pa. 27 1,013 
Ernest Underhill, New Jersey. 38 005 
W. II. Rumsted, Connecticut. 38 4S0 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts... 40 958 
Harry R. Cook, Connecticut. 43 805 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 35 870 
A. R. Rrundage, Connecticut. 46 ,1,008 
R. C. Reds. 
Glenview Pity. Farm. Connecticut... 17 847 
C. S. Scoville, Connecticut. 31 608 
White Leghorns. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut_ 40 895 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut_ 52 974 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut_ 50 981 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut_ 55 1,228 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut_ 49 841 
Braeside Pltry. Farm, Pennsylvania. 45 813 
Glenview Pltry. Farm. Connecticut.. 57 S82 
Manor Poultry Farm, Now York. 44 801 
A. R. Hall. Connecticut. 00 883 
Marwood Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania' 51 983 
Geo. M. Harris. Connecticut.... 44 740 
Bonnie Rrook Farm, New York. 54 940 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 55 809 
J. J. Llnehan, Massachusetts. 48 750 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 49 1.209 
Cecil Guernsey. New York. 45 1,032 
T. W. Moore. Connecticut. 50 803 
O. N. St. John. New York. 57 790, 
O. W. Sherwood. Connecticut. 45 857* 
L. E. Sands. Pennsylvania. 44 853 
Tomoka Poultry Farm, Connecticut.. 48 708 
Venture Poultry Farm. New York... 40 735 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff. Connecticut... 57 820 
Windsween Farm. Connecticut. 40 753 
C. H. Savage. Connecticut. 51 820 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 57 930 
Heneta Rone Co.. New Jersey. 33 240 
F. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 40 848 
Chas. Heigl. Ohio. 50 745 
Tom Rarron. England. 53 1.051 
Branford Farm. Connecticut. 55 937 
James Munn. Massachusetts. 49 702 
Geo. A. Cosgrove, Connecticut. 56 751 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Poultry Farm, Michigan.. 51 898 
Blue Andalusians. 
E. D. Bird, Connecticut. 50 734 
Buff Orpingtons. 
O. Wilson, W. Virginia. 18 639 
White Orpingtons. 
P. A. Derngar, New York. 29 017 
White-Laced Red Cornish. 
W. L. R. C. Club, Massachusetts.... 27 402 
Silver Campines. 
W. J. n. Lobel, New Jersey. 45 073 
Dunghills. 
H. W. Collingwood, New Jefsey. 43 002 
Daniel Hine, Connecticut. 38 004 
Dauiel Uine, Connecticut. 25 748 
Mixed Breeds. 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts.... 23 705 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts.... 35 751 
Total to date, 60,001. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
The chill routine of the day in the bank 
was one day lightened by the receipt of 
the following communication: “Dear 
Bank: What interust would you give on a 
Depossit of 15 dollars? What interust 
per annium and allso (confidenshial) 
could my Husband draw it out without 
my signacliure an is it the Law that I 
would have to have his Permission to 
Deposit it thare in your Bank. Please 
to ancer back an be sure to say what in¬ 
terust per annium an if he can draw it 
out. Yours with respeck.”—New York 
Evening Post. 
This fancy shape 
about played the 
An “ Innocent Purchaser” of Wyandottes. 
B EING one of the “innocent purchas¬ 
ers,” I think I have a right to enter 
this Wyandotte discussion. I hold 
no brief for Tom Barron, simply speak 
on behalf of fair play. Charges that can¬ 
not be proved will surely prove a boom¬ 
erang. 
Why is this rumpus anyhow? We’re 
badly beaten, that’s what! We feel bad 
over it, as we should ; but that’s no ex¬ 
cuse for recriminations. More and 
worse, we are hoist by our own petard, 
(with a “furriner” doing the hoisting) 
for the White Wyandotte is of American 
origin. We are also again taught a 
needed lesson in thoroughness by the peo¬ 
ple of the older countries, and that stings 
also. 
’Tis said the Barron Leghorns show 
Minorca also. What of it all anyhow? 
Who’s posing either breed as show birds? 
Isn’t it easily possible that Barron in 
choosing his breeding stock solely by trap- 
nest egg records, chose thereby those hav¬ 
ing the particular types complained of, 
and by breeding from such, accentuated 
them? Wouldn’t it be possible to take 
what are called the “sports” of any made 
breed, and by using them revert to a bird 
something like the original parents of the 
breed? Who is to say what was done in 
the way of crossing the stock before Bar¬ 
ron got them originally? It seems to be 
a common practice, 
and feather folderol is 
limit; we cannot “shape” or sell "feath¬ 
er,” except to goops who hope to win, 
to sell to other goops who hope, etc. 
Fancy points haven’t the slightest in¬ 
trinsic value; people keep hens for eggs 
and meat at least 360 days in the year. 
Witness how few keep peacocks! But if 
a certain breed of fowls will lay double 
the ordinary output, that trait has value. 
Why did I import Barron White Wyan¬ 
dottes? To got a fowl laying heavily, 
furnishing a fair carcass for dressing to 
private trade at all stages, and, not least, 
able to reproduce in strong chicks. 
If any American breeder could beat or 
even equal the record of the Barron 
White Wyandottes, with any breed, it 
would be shouted from Sandy Hook to 
Golden Gate, for anyone knows the value 
of his stock would be at least tripled, and 
the demand for them treble tripled. Yea. 
for the sake of the national honor, let 
such a one put them where the fact will 
be officially proven. Besides, a fortune 
awaits his taking. 
Barron’s Wyandottes will almost cer¬ 
tainly have the greatest profits to their 
credit, oven if beaten as to numbers. My 
first Barron White Wyandotte chicks, 
five weeks old, and the younger ones, are 
very uniform, and exceedingly lively. 
They resemble their parents as much as 
chickens possibly could. Every one is 
rose combed, which I don’t recollect ever 
seeing in even one hatch of American- 
bred ones. Let those who know declare 
if these things would be true of the chick¬ 
ens from cross-bred stock. Not if I un¬ 
derstand the Mendelian law! 
But cheer up, fellers, we take the next 
trick; the ’boat races are coming and 
they cannot lift that bloomin' mug! 
Orange Co., N. Y. leo a. mapes. 
Shrink in Laying. 
I have 11 pullets that began laying 
in January. They have laid well up to 
the present, although the yield has 
dropped off a little in the last two weeks. 
For some time the droppings have been 
very soft and in a few cases quite watery. 
I am feeding about two pounds of scratch 
feed a day with dry mash in .« hopper; 
grit, shell and charcoal always handy. I 
feed some green stuff each day. Is the 
condition described natural, or should 
food be -altered? w. M. B. 
Massachusetts. 
Most hens have passed the flush of 
laying and have bt-„un to shrink a little 
in egg production so it is not strange 
that yours have done so. The soft drop¬ 
pings may indicate a little excess of 
green food or of meat in their rations, 
and unless so marked and persistent as to 
be evidently due to some inflammatory 
condition of the digestive tract, it need 
not cause you concern; should the drop¬ 
pings become green and bloody, however, 
it would be necessary to take son e rem¬ 
edial action. m. b. d. 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S.C.R 
I. REDS, B 
ROCKS 
Thoroughbred, 
Strong. Livable. 
Fromheavy-lay mg, 
healthy, free rango 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GR1NNELL, 
Sodus N. Y 
Dune Alpin Heavy Laying 
S. C. White Leghorns 
have won more firsts, specials and other 
awards in the last f our years at New York 
Boston. Hagerstown and Philadelphia than 
all our competitors combined. 
HATCHING EGGS OR DAY OLD CHICKS 
PRICES LOW, QUALITY CONSIDERED 
Send for catalogue. 
DUNE ALPIN POULTRY FARM 
Easthampton, L. I., N. Y. 
TOM BARRON’S 
BEST STRAINS AND HIS 
283-282-260-248 
EGG STRAINS ARE AT 
MORRIS-FARM, R.4,Bridgeport,Conn. 
“GREATEST LAYERS IN AMERICA” 
BARRON LEGHORNS AND WYANDOTTES 
BUFF ROCKS, REDS, DUCKS, GEESE 
MAY and MlNF are pre-eminently the months that 
HIM I allU UUI1L nature choosn for egg hatching It 
is wise to have hatches late, as the late season makes May 
and June hatches safe investments. Stock is needed. We 
offer special our Black Beauty Minorcas, only $1.30 per 
50, $0 per 100 . Also following bl eeds at same price: White 
Leghorns, Brahmas and Beds, l'ekin Ducks eggs. 10 for 
81.60. Turkeys eggs, 50 cents and $1 each. Ribbons from 
all big shows. We ship in safe box, Express paid. Poultry 
Advice mailed free. Send orders at once. Telegraph of¬ 
fice at Montgomery. Letters answered by return mail. W. 
L. Burnett, Prop„ Coldeuham Poultry Yards, Montgomery. N. Y. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Growing S. 0. W. Leghorn Cockerels for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks & Eggs 
Purebred, large, vigorous, true Leghorn type. Seven 
years’ experience. Not how many, but how good 
Circular. VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, New York 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 
Tom Rarron and other heavy laying blood. W. Hock 
and W.W. Pullets for sale. John Lorlon Lee, Carmel, N Y 
CHICKS 
8c. 
C. o. D. S. C. W. 
Leghorns. Money 
hack for dead ones. Pam¬ 
phlet free. C.M.LAITVKH 
Box 73, Richfield, Fa. 
Feeding Formula. 
I have a flock of 40 hens and about 
100 chicks. I feed them a dry mash 
coifcisting _ of 15 pounds wheat mid¬ 
dlings; 15 pounds ground oats; 10 
pounds glu-ton ; 15 pounds eornmeal; 15 
pounds Alfalfa meal; 10 pounds beef 
scrap. Do you consider this a good 
formula? If I can add or subtract some¬ 
thing from this formula for their benefit 
I wish to. ii. s. 
Ohio. 
This is a first-rate formula for a mash, 
though it might be made a little more 
bulky by the addition of as much wheat 
bran as there is middlings, and increas¬ 
ing the meat scrap sufficiently to keep the 
proportion of one-eighth part of the 
whole. With corn, oats, wheat and per¬ 
haps buckwheat as a whole grain ration 
in addition to the dry mash your little 
flock should give you good returns and 
make it well worth your while to give 
them the attention they need. I take it 
for granted that they have plenty of fresh 
water at all times as well as crushed 
oyster shells and grit. m. b. d. 
P OULTRYMEN. ATTENH0N—THE LAYING CONTEST proves onr S. C.W. 
Leghorn, are among the foremost. We have dozens of letters 
telling of the health and vigor of our baby chicks. We can deliver 
2,000 weekly during June and July, $10, 100 ; $90, 1,000. Cash 
with order; safe delivery guaranteed. A. B. HALL, Wallingford, Conn. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS AND EGGS 
T healthy business'kind including Barron’s strain 
that grow great layers, delivery guaranteed. For 
Circular write, HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, New Yark 
S C. BROWN A WHITF. LKGHORNS. I)k. * I,t. BRAHMAS. R. I. 
• RI PS. W. Wyandottes A Barred Rocks. Show A Util¬ 
ity quality. Won 76 ribbons this season, including New 
York A Philadelphia. KOtSS. Rahv CHICKS. Breeders. Illus¬ 
trated catalog free. Rlverdnlo Poultry Farm. Riverdalo. N. J 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS^: tl £^ 
trv; 200-egg strain: breeders and eggs. Send 2-cent 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
Parcel Post Egg Boxest^l’i:i?,S! 
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GEO, H. LEE CO.. 072 HARNEY ST. OMAHA. NEB. 
MAKES HENS LAY 
MORE EGGS 
MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
CHICKS 
GIVE SATISFACTION. TRY THEM. PRICES 
NOW, FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 
April hatched pullets.6l’c each 
Young^s strain...... $ 9 P erl(H) 
Young s & Barron s cross .10 per 1U0 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Catalogue free. 
A. H. PENNY, - Mattituck, New York 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
D.W. Young's strain. The finest in the world Bred 
or their great Winter-laying qualities. Over 2UOO 
layers on free farm range. Largest plant of high- 
class breeders in the world at farmers’ prices. 
Eggs for hatching now ready in any quantity (a 
per 100. $50 per 1000. Quick shipments. Baby 
chicks $12 per 100—capacity. 8.000 weekiv. The kind 
that live. My book-Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved— 
6th edition, given free with all $10 orders. Satis¬ 
faction Guaranteed. Descriptive circulars free. 
EDGAR liRIGGs, Box 141, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
DISTINCTIVELY SUPERIOR 
We make all onr own mixtures, Always Fresb, and ship 
direct to customers. What is saved thru middle¬ 
men we put in extra Quality, so send your orders to 
ns. we nave been in the feed business over 300 
years and at Orr’s Mills, since 1857. Square dealing 
and honest goods. Everything in the poultry feed 
line made and guaranteed by 1). Lincoln Orr. 
Send for booklet and prices 
WM. ORR & SONS, Box I-R, Orr’. Mill*, N. Y. 
ITINCREASESTHE CAPACITY OF 
GOOD HENS, AND MAKES EVEN 
A POOR HEN DO hER LEVEL BEST 
VIBERT REDS 
at Reduced Prices 
We offer from our famous flock of rose and single 
comb brilliant red TRAPNESTED RHODE ISLAND 
REDS, splendid breeders at sharp reductions upon 
breaking up of some of our heaviest laying pens. | 
This is a rare opportunity to obtain large, vigorous, 
hen hatched, free range, open front colony house 
TRAPNESTED STOCK, hens and cockerels. Some 
rarely fine ntility stock. HATCHING EGGS FROM 
OUR BEST PENS AT V 2 PRICE. Fertile eggs the 
year round. Honorable treatment, prompt shipment, 
safe delivery, and full value guaranteed. 
VIBERT RED FARM, Bex 1, Weston, N. J. j 
IHT'L EGG LAYING CONTEST 
•ry American entry of the 
’ Re ' 
COLONIAL REDS WIN over everi 
American breeds. Our pen of Reds, single con'd), best 
every American entry of the American breeds, each bird 
averaged for the year, t 94 EGGS. Official recon!. 
" e offer EGGS FOR HATCHING, from our pedigree)I 
stock that we honestly believe are the strongest-layin 
lines produced to date. Our mating list will tell you de¬ 
tails and prices, and will be sent on application. We prom¬ 
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their subscribers. Shipments made to forty-six States tli < 
past year. COLONIAL FAltM, Box 0, Temple, Piew Hamp«tili a 
Austin’s 200 Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds 
Standard bred: high record stock; red to 
the skin. Half prices on eggs for hatching. 
Hooked up for season on chicks. : - : : - ; 
AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
R. I. Reds, Indian Runner Ducks 
Eggs for hatching. Breeding stock. 
Sinclair Smith, 603 5th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
“They live to lay, The’re bred that way” 
ROSE COMB REDS. Strong chicks, 10c. Breeding: stock, $1 to $2 
Universal Hovers, $9.00. HILLVIEW POULTRY FARM, St. Albius, Vt 
ance^sale^of S. C. Buff Orpington Breeders 
including leading pen this variety at second Iuter- 
__ national Egg-Laying Contest. 
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THE FARMERS FAVORITE WINTER LAYERS-WHITc ORPING- 
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BARRED ROCKS 
Lggs—$1 per 15; $3.50 per 100. Baby chicks. 
B. H, FIENION, - Brockport, New York 
“Perfection” Barred Rocks - p v ® r * 
headed by prize-winners (Ringlet strain). Eggs, $2 
per 15: 3 settings for $5. L'tility eggs (free range) $1 
per 15. I)r. HAYJ1AN, Box R 48, Doylestown. Pa 
Suoerior Strains r Dul,ry ' Eg " Sl Fancy Pigeons; 
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fill Varipfip*; chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys- 
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Indian Runner Duck Eggs 
Fawn and white. Vaientine’s strain. Bred troin 
prize-winning birds. White egg strain. Eggs.Sl per 13 
ROBERT K. TWEDDLE, Montgomery, N.Y. 
FOR <\AI p—l-year old Indian Runner Ducks. 
V/I\ unlit Fawn and white. Harshbarger 
white egg strain, guaranteed No Drnks. JOHN 
SCHMITT, Harold Farm, Montgomery. N.Y 
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