1914. 
THE EURA.I> NED W-YORK EH 
897 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
•Tust 100 more eggs were laid in the 
thirty-third week than in the thirty- 
second, the output for the week being 
$309. Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
take first place for the week with a score 
of Gl. Twice before this pen has scored 
Gl, the highest number yet laid. Chas. 
N. St. John’s pen ties with the pen of 
Geo. A. Cosgrove for second place, each 
scoring 57. If this last pen had laid one 
more egg on the thirty-first week it would 
make 57 each week for five weeks in suc¬ 
cession. This is pretty even laying. 
Three pens tie for third place with 
scores of 55 each. They are Glenview 
Poultry Farm, Manor Poultry Farm, and 
P. G. Platt’s pen from Pennsylvania. 
Frederick M. Peasley’s pen laid 55, as 
did the pen from Branford Farm, Conn. 
All the above winning pens are White 
Leghorns. The prospect of the White 
Leghorns winning the contest is very 
good. The “sour milk’’ pen from Storrs 
Agricultural Station is now only 43 eggs 
behind Barron’s White W.vandottes. The 
Storrs pen is one of the “experimental” 
pens, and is not competing for the prize; 
but the pen of Francis F. Lincoln is only 
67 eggs behind the White W.vandottes, 
and stand a fair chance to come out on 
top. The weekly record is below : 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
A. B. Hall, Conneeticnt. 28 816 
[■'rank I,. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 30 924 
Waveny Farm, Couneetieut. 42 833 
.1. J. Francais, New York. 38 1,037 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.. 
41 
F. II. 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Benton. Connecticut. 35 
Agr. Station, Connecticut. 32 
Station, Connecticut. 38 
Agr. 
Agr. 
Agr. 
Agr. 
Station, Connecticut. 44 
Station, Connecticut. 36 
Station, Connecticut. 47 
Buff P. Rocks. 
Hall, Connecticut. 47 
Morgan, Jr., Connecticut. 31 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron. England. 39 
West. Mt. Poultry Yards, Connecticut 30 
A. A. 
W. C. 
Merrythought Farm, 
Neale Bros., Rhode 
D. J. Ryan & 
Connecticut. 51 
39 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Storrs 
Island.. 
Son. Connecticut. 35 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 32 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 28 
Am. Buff Wyan. Club, New York.... 30 
H. L. Hamilton, Connecticut. 35 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Nat’l Col. Wyan. Club, Massachusetts 37 
S. C. Reds. 
Robert Seaman. New York. 35 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut. 34 
Dr. ,T. C. Dingman. New York. 23 
Burnham Pltry. Farm. Massachusetts 32 
H. P. Doming. Connecticut. 37 
Geo. P. DearboVn, Florida. 35 
Dr. J. A. Ritchie. Pennsylvania. 45 
Ernest Underhill, New Jersey. 38 
W. H. Bumsted. Connecticut. 29 
Plnecrest Orchards, Massachusetts... 47 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut.. 24 
Colonial Farm. New Hampshire. 24 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 49 
R. C. Reds. 
Glenview P’.try. Farm, Connecticut.. 37 
C. S. Scoville,' Connecticut. 16 
White Leghorns. 
Agr. Station, Connecticut. 51 
Agr. Station. Connecticut. 48 
Aar. Station? Connecticut. 50 
Agr. Station, Connecticut. 52 
Agr. Station, Connecticut. 31 
Braeside Pltry. Farm, Pennsylvania. 41 
Glenview Poultry Farm. Connecticut. 55 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 55 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 32 
Mar wood Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania 41 
Geo. M. Harris, Connecticut. 40 
Bonnie Brook Farm. New York. 51 
N. W. Ilendryx, Connecticut. 46 
J. J. Linehan, Massachusetts. 41 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 49 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 42 
T. W. Moore. Connecticut. 51 
Chas. N. St. John. Now York. 57 
C. IV. Sherwood, Connecticut. 35 
L. E. Sands, Pennsylvania. 48 
Tomoka Poultry Farm. Connecticut.. 45 
Venture Poultry Farm, New York... 43 
Mrs. IC. E. Woodruff. Connecticut... 48 
Windsweep Farm, Connecticut. 46 
C. H. Savage. Connecticut. 49 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 55 
Heneta Bone Co.. New Jersey. 34 
F. M. Poasley, Connecticut. 53 
Chas. Ueigl, Ohio. 49 
Tom Barron, England.... 61 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 53 
James Munn, Massachusetts. 50 
Geo. A. Cosgrove, Connecticut. 57 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Poultry Farm, Michigan.. 44 
Blue Andalusians. 
D. Bird, Connecticut. 27 
Buff Orpingtons. 
Wilson, West Virginia. 36 
White Orpingtons. 
A. Demgar, New York. 24 
White-Laced Red Cornish. 
L. R. C. Club, Massachusetts.... 26 
Silver Campines. 
J. H. Lobel, New Jersey. 45 
Dunghills. 
W. Collingwood, New Jersey. 46 
Hiue, Connecticut. 26 
Line, Connecticut. 20 
Mixed Breeds. 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts.... 43 
Profitable Poultry, 
E. 
O 
W. 
W. 
H. 
Daniel 
Daniel 
884 
914 
743 
792 
921 
788 
605 
943 
697 
1,373 
840 
1.216 
1.206 
960 
923 
858 
788 
606 
851 
705 
905 
7S2 
691 
814 
985 
1,088 
742 
548 
1.049 
917 
938 
1,111 
915 
052 
997 
1.061 
1,080 
1,330 
936 
895 
987 
957 
905 
1.079 
821 
1.043 
906 
841 
1.307 
1.119 
905 
904 
937 
951 
859 
821 
918 
850 
922 
1,046 
315 
948 
847 
1,169 
1,043 
862 
865 
983 
810 
70S 
661 
508 
701 
751 
723 
788 
Masachnsetts.... 37 
GKO. A. COSGROVE. 
846 
821 
Possible Limberneck. 
I LOST five bens out of 170 hens in 
May. Their combs turned blue and 
necks got twisted, and next day I 
found the hen dead in the morning. Is 
there any remedy for it? E. V. A. 
New York. 
Your description of symptoms is not 
sufficiently complete to enable one to 
make a positive diagnosis of the disease 
from which your hens died, but the twist¬ 
ing of the neck which you mention often 
accompanies serious digestive troubles or 
possibly the eating of spoiled or putrid 
food of some kind. I would suggest giv¬ 
ing any fowl which shows signs of .this 
trouble a full dose—two teaspoonfuls or 
more—of castor oil and after its opera¬ 
tion feeding the fowl upon soft, easily 
digested food until recovery; or death. 
M. B. D. 
Bumblefoot. 
W HAT ails my birds? Last week I 
killed one cockerel similarly af¬ 
fected and this week another has 
developed the same trouble, but because 
it is a valuable one I wish to save it if 
possible. The toes begin to swell, begin¬ 
ning at the nail, and progressing until 
the whole toe is swollen and hard. It is 
due to parasite or is it a disease, and 
what is the cure? m. n. g. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The inflammation of the toes which 
you describe is probably due to infection 
through some abrasion of the skin of the 
foot. If continued, it may result in ab¬ 
scess of the foot, or bumblefoot. Soak 
the affected foot for a half hour in warm 
water and clean it thoroughly, remove 
any sharp splinters or other foreign mat¬ 
ter that may bo detected, if pus has 
formed, open to it with a clean sharp 
knife. Keep the foot anointed with five 
per cent, carbolized vaseline after having 
bathed it with a solution of carbolic acid 
in water, one teaspoonful to ten of water. 
Then keep the fowl upon clean soft grass 
or clean soft litter which will not irri¬ 
tate the foot. M. B. D. 
Feather-eating Hens. 
M Y liens are eating their feathers, they 
are entirely nude under the neck. 
I have lost three in one day. I feed 
cracked corn, wet oats and scratch food, 
oyster shell, charcoal, plenty of water. 
They are getting thin and do not look 
well. Do you think they are fit to kill 
for table? What do you think I ought to 
do? When they see a feather they seem 
to crave for them as they run wild after 
it. F. R. 
Feather-eating is the result of a de¬ 
praved appetite, usually the result of 
close confinement and an insufficient va¬ 
riety or improper quality of food. When 
fowls have contracted the habit they 
should bo given as much liberty as pos¬ 
sible, and if the worst offenders can be 
detected they should be removed from the 
flock. See that they do not lack for grit, 
supply some animal food, such as meat 
meal, beef scrap or skim-milk, give green 
stuff if their yards are bare, and look 
carefully about the perches and nests for 
red mites which may be sapping the 
vitality of the fowls by the irritation and 
loss of blood which they cause. If mites 
are found, clean their quarters thorough¬ 
ly, whitewash the interior, paint the 
perches, nest boxes, etc., with kerosene to 
which one-fourth its bulk of crude car¬ 
bolic acid has been added and see that 
the fowls have opportunity to take dust 
baths to free themselves from large body 
lice. The habit of feather eating would 
not render the fowls unfit for the table. 
M. B. D. 
Dysentery. 
W ILL you give me a remedy for dys¬ 
entery in chickens? We give them 
clean grain of various kinds, also 
plenty of pure water, and the coops are 
cleaned every day. m. H. v. 
New York. 
See that the fowls do not have access 
to spoiled food of any kind or an oppor¬ 
tunity to drink stagnant, impure, water. 
Add sulphate of iron, copperas, to their 
drinking water; a dram to the pint. As 
individual treatment, if desired, give each 
fowl a teaspoonful or more of castor oil 
and feed soft easily digested food for a 
time to relieve the intestinal irritation 
causing the watery discharges. M. B. D. 
Variation in Feathers. 
1 ITAVE a dark rich-colored male bird 
of the Partridge Rock variety that 
has small splashes of white in his 
cycle feathers since molting—none until 
after molting. Can you give the scien¬ 
tific reason for white appearing with new 
feathers? t. o. m. 
Bridgeton, Ind. 
This is a very frequent occurence with 
poultry. The same is true with feathers 
on the legs. I have known of a pullet 
that won first prize and a special as best 
female in the whole show to develop 
feathers on the legs the second year and 
be disqualified the second show season. 
These are inherited characteristics. If 
T. O. M. desires to use this male bird in 
breeding pen he should place only such 
females with this male as do not show any 
signs of white anywhere, and so hope 
that the solid and partridge color pat¬ 
terns will predominate so strongly that 
the offspring will not inherit this ten¬ 
dency to throw white the second year. 
There are many such changes which oc¬ 
cur in fowls as they age. Mediterranean 
males are likely to show white in the 
face, buff colored birds fade to lighter 
shades as they grow older. Breed and 
strain characteristics as established by 
inheritance are responsible. A. L. c. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick 
reply and a “square deal.” See guaran¬ 
tee editorial page. : : : ; 
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DISTINCTIVELY SUPERIOR 
We make all our own mixtures. Always Fresh, and ship 
direct to customers. What is saved thru middle¬ 
men we put in extra quality, so send your orders to 
us. we have been in the feed business over 300 
years ami at Ovr'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’s Mills, N. Y. 
Improved Parcel Post Egg Boxes 
SEND 15 CENTS FOR SAMPLE 
New Flats and Fillers and Egg Gases 
CATALOGUE SENT FREE ON REQUEST 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Street, N. Y. 
Burnett’s Black Beauty Minorcas ™j, s fl e fc d 
if you are breeding chickens for recreation or for 
egg-profit have the best. Our strains have for 12 
years produced the most satisfactory results with 
the least amount of resistance. Send for two of our 
year old birds, a special, $10. If not satisfied money 
returned. Pekin Ducks, year-old, only, $0.00 a trio. 
Beautiful stock. Trios of White Turkeys also for 
sale. COLDENHAM POULTRY YARDS, MONTGOMERY, N. Y. 
L^w. Leghorn Pullets 
Young Wycoff Strain. Twelve-weeks old. About 
Four hundred for sale, in lots of 25. Price, $1 per 
piece. II. I. BURTON, R.F.D.5, Millsboro, l>el. 
For Sale—S. C. ANCONAS 
Winter layers. Money makers. Laying hens, 
young stock, and eggs for hatching at reduced 
prices- C. W. SIMONDS, Homestead, Pa. 
“Perfection” Barred Rocks - p v f r * 
headed by prize-winners (Ringlet strain). Eggs, $2 
per 15; 3 settings for $5. Utility eggs (free range) $1 
per 15. I>r. HAYMAN, Box R 48, Ooylestown. Pa. 
—To make room for young 
stock will sacrifice a few 
more yearling white run¬ 
ner ducks at $1.00 each, 
Mrs. Brooks Strain. J. M. WISOTZKEY, R. R. 3, Gettysburg. Pi. 
Indian Runner Duck Eggs 
Fawn and white. Valentine’s strain. Bred from 
prize-winning birds. White egg strain. Eggs.Slper 13. 
ROBERT K. T WEDDLE, Montgomery, N.Y. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 
FOR SALE by middle of July. 600 April hatched full 
grown birds apt to lay early September. Irving 
Cockerels and 13. F. Morgan famous strain, Trio, 
$5.00. Five ducks, one drake. $8 00; Ten and two, 
$12.t'0. FAIR VIEW POULTRY FARM, Mayville, New York 
FOR SAT F—® l-year old Indian Runner Ducks. 
rvJlY JoLL Fawn and white. Rarshbarger 
white egg strain, guaranteed No Draks. JOHN 
SCHMITT, Harold Farm, Montgomery. N.Y. 
nilHKI INfiQ guinea chicks.teghorns 
UUUIVLinUO, j M „ eK g S a Ji kinds: fr 
KEITH, 
Tel. 98-2. F. S. 
etc.: hatch- 
•ee circular. 
EASTON, MASS. 
Utility American Dominiques—Eggs. $2.00 per 30. Breod- 
w ers and8 week-old chicks. Herbert D. Rooks, Mills, Pa. 
Superior Strains 
Poultry, Eggs, fancy Pigeons; 
(Madison Square Winners ) 
Largo squabbers. POULTRY-PIGEON FARM, Marietta, Pa. 
I 
ANCE ,fl sALE EA 0F S* C. Buff Orpington Breeders 
including leading pen this variety at second Inter¬ 
national Egg-Laying Contest. 
CHERRY LANE FARM CO., (Desk B), Oak Hill, West Virqinia 
THE FARMERS FAVORITE WINTER LAYERS-WHITE ORPING- 
* TON EGGS AND CHICKS Square Peal Guaranteed. 
Catalogue free. W. R. STEVENS, Culver Road, Lyons, N.Y. 
Special Bargain for Baby Chicks 
IN J U LY 
S8 per 100 in any quantity; last hatch July 
27. My book. “Profits in Poultry Keeping 
Solved,” 5th edition, given with all 100- 
ehick orders. Eggs for hatching. $4 per 100. 
Circular free. 
Box 191 EDGAR BRIGGS, Pleasant Valley, N.Y. 
BABY CHICKS, 9c each 
from free range selected S. C. White Leghorns, 
prompt delivery. A hatch every week. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circular free, CHAS. E. STONE, 
Baby Chicken Farm, StaatsburQ-on-Hudson, Y. 
PI fK NR fl IT following stock on account of 
ULUOII1U UU I keepingWhite Leghorns exclusively 
Rhode Island Keds, Black Minorcas, White 
Orpingtons. I.gt. Brahmas, White Plymouth 
ltocks. White Pekin Ducks, a few Yearling 
White Leghorns & White Leghorn Cockerels 
First-Class Stock for sale cheap for want of room 
SUSSEX FARMS, Middleville, Sussex Co., N. J. 
S C. BROWN WHITE T. ECHO It NS. Ilk. * 1,t. BRAHMAS. It. T. 
■ REDS. \V. Wyandottes A Barred Rocks. Show & Util¬ 
ity quality. Won TO ribbons this season, including New 
York & Philadelphia. EGGS. Babv CHICKS. Breeders. Illus¬ 
trated catalog free. ItlTerdale Poultry Kami, KWrntalc, N. J 
Utility S.C White Leghorns-^Jf^i; 1 ^^ 1 ^ 
per 100. GEO FROST, Levanna, Cayuga Co., New York 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS^;!; ll ;r„‘o„ I i! 
try: 200-egg strain: breeders and eggs. Send 2-cent 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
R. I. Reds, Indian Runner Ducks 
Eggs for hatching. Breeding stock. 
Sinclair Smith. 603 5tli St., Brooklyn. N. Y. 
AUSTIN'S 200-EGG Qhnfio I c I ft IT ft Roflo standard 
STRAIN SINGLE COMB ITIIIHIg IbldllU 11605 i >re a. high 
record stock, red to the skin. Old and youngstoekfor 
sale. AUSTIN'S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor N H. 
nnOlClC, Large, Prolific THHKE-HANI) 
** ITALIAN qt’EKNS—untested,$1; tested,$1.50. 
Ready to mail. W. K. ROCKWELL, Bloomfield, Connecticut 
CRACKED CORNWAT T BUclwHfAT.KAmR CORN. 
OATSBARLEY.SUNFlOWfR SEED 
WHEN FID TO HENS THEY CANT HELP LAYING- 
TIO-GA 
— POULTRY GRAIN ^ 
ITINCREASESTHE CAPACITY OF 
GOOD HENS,AND MAKES EVEN 
A POOR HEN DO HER LEVEL BEST 
MAKES HENS LAY 
MORE EGGS 
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ANALYSIS 
070% 
2.08% 
4 79 % 
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Dune Alpin Heavy Laying 
S. C. White Leghorns 
have won more firsts, specials and other 
awards in the last four years at New York, 
Boston, Hagerstown and Philadelphia than 
all our competitors combined. 
HATCHING KGGS OK DAY OLD CHICKS 
PRICES LOW, QUALITY CONSIDERED 
Send for catalogue. 
DUNE ALPIN POULTRY FARM 
Easthampton, L. I., N. Y. 
1 ■ ■ 1 — ... j 
TOM BARRON’S 
203-202-260-2240 
EGG STRAINS ARE AT 
MORRIS-FARM, R.4,Bridgeport,Conn. 
BARRON LEGHORNS and BARRON WYANDOTTES, BUFF ROCKS, 
VIBERT-AUSTIN RE0S, DUCKS, GEESE, KALF-BARR0N LEGHORNS— 
A 200-EGG BIRO. REDUCED SUMMER PRICES 
The Greatest Layers in America 
Tom Barron’s Strain SfflUES 
lOO—8-weeks old cockerels, $1.00 each 
100—10-week» old cockerels, 3.00 each 
These cockerels were sired by the best cockerel* 
money could buy of Barron, and dams are from a 
257 egg hen of my own breeding. 
S. J. ROGERS, UNADILLA, NEW YORK 
TOM BARRON'S 
ENGLISH 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Special for June—Eggs $5 per 100 
Imported direct from Tom Barron's Farm. Trap- 
nested stock. 280-egg strain. The greatest laying 
strain in the world. Eggs, $1 per set : $5 per 100. 
P. F. RAFFERTY, - Marlboro, Mass. 
CHICKS 
O c C. O. D. S. C. W. 
Leghorns. Money 
back for dead ones. Pam¬ 
phlet free. C.M. LACVKR 
Box 73, Richfield, Pa. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Growing S. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 
Tom Barron and other heavy laying blood. W. Rock 
and W. W. Pullets for sale. John Lorton Lee. Carmel, M.Y 
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