THE: RURA.E NEW-YORKER 
©IT 
1914. 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
Tho extremely hot weather of the last 
week has been very uncomfortable for 
hens, and the egg record for the thirty- 
fourth week shows it. The egg produc¬ 
tion at the Storrs contest was 244 eggs 
less than the previous week. When the 
hen has to stand and hold her wings out 
away from her body, and breathe with 
her beak open, as many have during the 
last week, her appetite for food dimin¬ 
ishes, and she cannot produce eggs un¬ 
less she eats and digests a good supply 
of food. Anything that makes a hen un¬ 
comfortable is sure to lessen the output 
of eggs. 
The highest score made this week is 
58, made by Francis F. Lincoln’s White 
Leghorns. C’has. N. St. John’s pen are 
second with a score of 57; Merrythought 
Farm’s White Wyandottes, Tom Bar¬ 
ron’s White Leghorns, Thos. W. Moore’s 
White Leghorns, and Pen No. 39 from 
Storrs Agricultural Station, all tie for 
third place with scores of 56. P. G. 
Platt’s pen of White Leghorns tie with 
Geo. A. Cosgrove’s pen of same breed 
for fourth place with scores of 55 each. 
Barron’s White Wyandottes still lead 
all other pens with a total of 1.418, the 
next b-'st pen being the White Leghorns 
from Storrs Agricultural Station, Pen 
No. 42, which have a total of 1,378. 
The week’s record follows: 
Barred Rocks Week Total 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 40 850 
Crank I.. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 30 954 
Waveny Farm, Connecticut. 41 874 
J. F. Franeais, Now York. 38 1,095 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts_ 47 931 
Fred II. Benton. Connecticut. 40 984 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 37 780 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 34 82(5 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 3(5 957 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 40 828 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 41 646 
Buff P. Rocks. 
A. A. Hall. Connecticut. 30 973 
W. C. Morgan, Jr., Connecticut. 46 743 
White Wyandottes, 
Tom Barron. England. 45 1,418 
West Mt. Poultry Yards, Connecticut 22 862 
Merrythought Farm. Connecticut. 56 1,272 
Neale Bros., Ithode Island. 39 1,245 
D. J. Ryau &. Son, Connecticut. 30 990 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts... 40 963 
Dr. N. W. Saubcyn, Massachusetts.. 36 894 
Am. Buff Wyan, Club, New York_ 39 827 
II. L. Hamilton, Connecticut. 40 046 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Nat’l Col. Wyan. Club, Massachusetts 45 896 
S. C. Reds. 
Robert Seaman, New York. 32 737 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut. 29 934 
I)r. J. C. Diugniati. New York. 44 826 
Burnham I’ltry. Farm, Massachusetts 32 723 
H. P. Doming. Connecticut. 35 849 
Geo. P. Dearborn, Florida. 33 1.018 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey. Pennsylvania.... 34 1.122 
Ernest Cnderhill. New Jersey. 42 784 
W. H. Bomsted, Connecticut. 23 571 
Pineerest Orchards, Massachusetts... 42 1,091 
Harry I!. Cook, Connecticut. 27 944 
Coloninl Farm, New Hampshire. 32 970 
A. B. Bruudage, Connecticut. 47 1,158 
Rose Comb Reds. 
Glenview Poultry Farm, Connecticut 34 949 
O. 8. Scoville, Connecticut. 20 672 
White Leghorns. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 56 1,053 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 46 1.107 
Storrs A-r. Station. Connecticut. 50 1.130 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 48 1,378 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut. 48 984 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania 37 932 
Glenview Poultry Farm. Connecticut 51 1,038 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 30 987 
A. B. Hall. Connecticut. 21 989 
Marwood Pltry. Farm. Pennsylvania 9 1,088 
Geo. M. Harris. Connecticut. 32 853 
Bonnie I’.rook Farm. New York. 45 1,088 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 45 951 
J. J. Linehan, Massachusetts. 43 884 
F. F. Lincoln. Connecticut. 58 1,865 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 47 1,106 
T. W. Moore, Connecticut. 56 961 
C. N. St. John, New York. 57 961 
C. W. Sherwood, Connecticut. 22 959 
L. E. Sands. Pennsylvania. 39 990 
Tomoka Poultry Farm, Connecticut. 45 904 
Venture Ponltry Farm. New York... 33 854 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff, Connecticut... 48 966 
Windsweep Farm. Connecticut. 43 893 
C. H. Savage, Connecticut. 45 967 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 55 1,101 
Heneta Bone Co., New Jersey. 20 335 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. 43 991 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio. 39 886 
Tom Barron, England. 56 1,225 
Branford Farm .Connecticut. 51 1.094 
James Munn, Massachusetts. 47 909 
Geo, A. Cosgrove, Connecticut. 55 920 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Poultry Farm, Michigan., 31 1,014 
Blue Andalusians. 
E. D. Bird, Connecticut. 14 824 
Buff Orpingtons. 
O. Wilson, West Virginia. 15 723 
White Orpingtons. 
P. A. Demgar, New York. 27 688 
White-Laced Red Cornish. 
W. L. R. C. Glut), Massachusetts.... 29 537 
Silver Campines. 
Wm. J. H. Lobel, New Jersey. 43 804 
Dunghills. 
W. H. Colllngwood. New Jersey. 41 792 
Daniel Hine, Connecticut. 34 757 
Dauiel Hine, Connecticut. 21 809 
Mixed Breeds. 
Profitable Poultry. Massachusetts.,.. 30 876 
Profitable Poultry. Masasehusetts_ 42 863 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Poor Hatches. 
W HAT is the matter with my eggs? 
I have set my incubator with 140 
eggs twice, test out first time 35, 
second time 40 eggs. I hatched out first 
time 20 chicks, second time 25 plus five 
cripples. On examination of eggs I found 
that each time 25 eggs with full-grown 
chicks were ready to hatch and remainder 
with chickens half grown. The eggs I 
tested at end of 10 days were found to 
be stale, and all eggs were put in when 
a week old. I feed my hens six quarts of 
mixed grain evening and morning, with 
a wet mash of beet pulp and gluten. All 
they want to eat at noon, and beef scrap 
in front of them all the time. 1 have 
100 hens with a male bird for every 15 
hens. e. s. 
Canaan. 
There are a number of ways in which 
these poor results in hatching may be 
accounted for. If there is nothing wrong 
with your incubator or its management, 
the trouble probably lies in lack of vigor 
in your breeding pen. Close confinement 
with heavy feeding and laying through 
the Winter so lessens the vitality of a 
flock as to make hatching of the eggs in 
the Spring difficult, even though the eggs 
are fertile and the embryos develop to a 
greater or less degree before dying. If 
you can turn your flock out upon range 
for a week or 10 days before incubating 
any more eggs, you should find a marked 
improvement in the hatehability of the 
eggs. You have double the number of 
males in the flock that should be needed. 
M. B. D. 
Chicks Die in Shell. 
W HY do little chicks die in the egg 
just before they are ready to hatch? 
I lost so many that way last year 
and again this year. Barred Rocks and 
Light Brahmas, tUso some turkeys. 
L. II. 
The chief cause of death of fully devel¬ 
oped chicks within the shell is probably 
lack of vitality, due to a corresponding 
lack of vigor in the parent birds. Arti¬ 
ficial methods of incubation also fail to 
bring forth chicks that under natural 
methods would probably have been able to 
have broken the shell and emerged. This 
simply means that artificial methods 
have not yet been made equal in efficiency 
to natural. Failure of turkey eggs to 
hatch, where there has been no fault with 
the sitters, should also be laid to de¬ 
ficient vigor in the embryo due to some 
defect in the care or condition of the 
breeding stock. M. b. d. 
Goslings Going Blind. 
1 HAVE IS goslings, and they were 
doing fine until a couple of days and 
two of them are blind now. I have 
been feeding them a pint of cornmeal 
with a teaspoonful of salt. A. m. c. 
I do not know the cause of the blind¬ 
ness. They should have a more varied 
food. For the first few days one of the 
best feeds is rolled oats, slightly moist¬ 
ened, with a little fine grit and not more 
than half the salt you give. Change 
gradually to a mixture of as many kinds 
of ground grains as you can get. I am 
using growing feed for chicks, with a 
little bran and cornmeal added, always 
with the grit, and I find it very satis¬ 
factory. Keep them on grass, of which 
they are very fond. w. h. ii. 
Defective Hatch of Ducks. 
I GAVE a custom hatcher 160 duck 
eggs. When tested on the eighteenth 
day there were only 10 eggs not fer¬ 
tile. leaving a total of good eggs 150. 
When these began to hatch only 11 ducks 
came out of the shell, and the remainder 
were all full grown. When I was notified 
it was three days after first ducks 
hatched and on investigation found that 
the remaining ducks in shell were alive. 
In breaking the shell there was a queer 
substance which would run out. and 
the lining which is directly under the 
shell was so tough and hard that it re¬ 
quired considerable strength to tear it 
open. I also noticed one black spot on 
the shell which looked to me as if it had 
stayed in one position so long that it 
became roasted or partly burnt. One 
other peculiarity was that in some of 
them their gizzard was like a growth just 
below their rectum. It looks to me like 
lack of care in turning the eggs, in giv¬ 
ing proper moisture, and over-heating in¬ 
cubator. I ask your honest opinion, not 
that I intend to try to make the hatcher 
pay for eggs, as I have all ready paid 
for hatching, nor do I intend to hatch 
more eggs until I find just cause for 
trouble. j. l. s. 
Vermont. 
Assuming your statements to give the 
whole case I should conclude that there 
was something wrong in the management 
of the eggs, either iu turning, cooling or 
sprinkling. There are so many factors in 
the successful management of an incu¬ 
bator that few become expert without 
some such experience as you describe. 
The black spots you mention could not 
be the result of scorching. The growth 
was not, I think, the gizzard, but a 
growth about the navel where the yolk 
of the egg is absorbed. \v. H. ii. 
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