1914. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKEH 
©61 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T IIE report for the month of June 
shows an egg production of 13,983 
during the month. The largest 
number laid by any one pen was 249, by 
the English White Leghorns. This is an 
average of nearly 25 eggs by each pullet. 
One of these pullets laid 28, and two laid 
27 each. Chas. N. St. John’s White Leg¬ 
horns laid 238, taking second place in the 
monthly score, and P. G. Platt’s pen of 
same breed are third, with 23G to their 
credit. Geo. A. Cosgrove’s pen laid 235. 
Thos. W. Moore’s pen laid 227, and Bran¬ 
ford Farm’s pen laid 227. _ Glenview 
Poultry Farm’s pen laid 225, and 12 
other pens of White Leghorns laid 200 or 
over. Outside of White Leghorns there 
were only two pens that reached 200. 
One was the White Wyandottes of Mer¬ 
rythought Farm, 202; and the S. C. Reds 
of A. B. Brundage, which laid 211. 
The report for the thirty-sixth week 
shows an output of 3,07G, which is a drop 
of 76 eggs from the score of the previous 
week. The best laying months of the 
year are past, and we must expect a 
gradual decrease in the number of eggs 
laid. White Leghorns continue to make 
all the high scores; the highest for this 
week is 57, by P. G. Platt’s pen. Chas. 
Ileigl’s pen from Ohio are second with a 
score of 55, and the English pen are third 
with a record of 54. Thos. W. Moore’s 
pen tie with the “sour milk” pen from 
Storrs Agricultural Station, with scores 
of 53 each. 
Outside of the Leghorns A. A. Hall’s 
Buff Plymouth Rocks laid 51, tieiug with 
C. H. Savage’s, and Geo. A. Cosgrove’s 
White Leghorns. Barron’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes are now only 18 eggs ahead of pen 
number 42, the “sour milk” pen of White 
Leghorns from Storr’s Agricultural Sta¬ 
tion ; but as these are not in the contest 
for prizes, the real opponent is Francis 
T. Lincoln’s Leghorns, which are now 33 
eggs behind Barron’s Wyandottes. But 
steadily climbing up is pen number G8; 
Barron’s White Leghorns. As late as 
March they were in the tenth place, now 
they are fourth. But they are 124 eggs 
behind Lincoln’s and in the 15 weeks left 
would have to gain over eight eggs a 
week to catch up, and this is too much to 
expect. As it looks now Connecticut is 
the winner. The week’s record follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
A. A. Hall. Connecticut. 40 939 
Frank L. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 35 1,028 
Waveny Farm, Connecticut. 3(1 950 
J. J. Francais, New York. 39 1,105 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 40 1.082 
F. H. Benton, Connecticut. 39 1,000 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 30 859 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 27 885 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 43 1.037 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 40 911 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 43 733 
Buff P. Rocks. 
A. A. nail. Connecticut. 51 1,000 
W. C. Morgan, Jr., Connecticut. 18 798 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England. 30 1,499 
West Mt. Pltry. Yrds, Connecticut.. 23 901 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 33 1.342 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island. 50 1,341 
D. J. Ryan & Son, Connecticut. 21 1,049 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachustts.. 30 1,038 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn. Massachusetts.. 28 950 
Am. Buff. Wyan. Club, New York.. 31 880 
II. L. Hamilton, Connecticut. 17 092 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Nat’l Col. Wyan. Club, Massachusetts 48 994 
S. C. Reds. 
Robert Seaman, New York. 27 789 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut. 42 1,012 
Dr. J. C. Dlngman, New York. 34 910 
Rurnham Pltry. Farm, Massachusetts 24 7S5 
II. P. Deming, Connecticut. 30 923 
Geo. P. Dearborn, Florida. 38 1,098 
Dr. J. A. Fritchie, Pennsylvania.... 23 1,177 
Ernest Underhill, New Jersey. 38 850 
W. II. Bumsted, Connecticut. 45 042 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts.. 42 1,173 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 38 1,027 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 31 1,035 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 37 1,242 
Rosecomb Reds. 
Glenview Pltry. Farm, Connecticut.. 21 989 
C. S. Scoville, Connecticut. 27 725 
White Leghorns. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 39 1,140 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 48 1,200 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 40 1,221 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 53 1.481 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut.... 45 1,085 
Braeside Pltry. Farm, Pennsylvania 38 1,005 
Glenview Pltry. Farm, Connecticut.. 43 1,134 
Manor Pltry. Farm, New York. 39 1,044 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 35 1,055 
Marwood Pltry. Farm, Pennsylvania 42 1,151 
Geo. M. Harris, Connecticut. 30 925 
Bonnie Brook Farm, New York. 43 1,175 
N. W. Heiulryx, Connecticut. 45 1,044 
J. J. Linelian, Massachusetts. 48 970 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 50 1,400 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 50 1,250 
Thos. W. Moore, Connecticut. 53 1,004 
Chas. N. St. John, New York. 50 1,000 
Chas. W. Sherwood, Connecticut.... 42 1,033 
L. E. Sands, Pennsylvania. 40 1,005 
Tomoka Pltry. Farm, Connecticut... 21 955 
Venture Pltry. Farm, New York.... 22 909 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff, Connecticut.. 47 1,003 
Wlndsweep Farm, Connecticut. 34 970 
O. H. Savage, Connecticut. 51 1,004 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 57 1,207 
Ileneta Bone Co.. New Jersey. 23 373 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. 45 1,073 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio. 55 990 
Tom Barron, England. 54 1,342 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 4S 1,194 
James Miiiin, Massachusetts. 41 998 
Geo. A. Cosgrove, Connecticut. 51 1,021 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Pltry Farm, Michigan... 40 1.105 
Blue Andalusians. 
E. D. Bird, Connecticut. 39 S92 
Buff Orpingtons. 
O. Wilson, West Virginia. 30 703 
White Orpingtons. 
P. A. 
Demgar, New York. 
White Laced Red Cornish. 
28 . 
745 
W. L. 
R. C. Club, Massachusetts.... 
Silver Campines. 
5 
55G 
W. J. 
II. Lobel, New Jersey. 
Dunghills. 
33 
874 
IT. WL 
Oollingwood, New Jersey.... 
34 
800 
Daniel 
Illne, Connecticut. 
2<i 
814 
Daniel 
Hiue, Connecticut. 
Mixed Breeds. 
30 
871 
Profitable roultrv, Massachusetts... 
20 
917 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts... 
32 
030 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Eggs Versus Feathers. 
I T would be decidedly interesting if we 
could take the winning birds of the 
utility breeds, at all our great poul¬ 
try shows and enter them directly from 
the showroom into the egg-laying con¬ 
tests. But the fanciers, as a rule, 
haven’t got the nerve to try it. Occa¬ 
sionally one does put in a pen, not of 
bis show birds particularly, but of the 
breed be is interested in, and usually the 
showing they make is not one to be very 
proud of. Some years ago, when I was 
breeding White Wyandottes, I had in 
the flock an exceptionally good layer. 
From the Wyandotte Standard she was 
a disgrace to the yard; undersized, with 
a comb something like a Light Brahma, 
too long-bodied for a Wyandotte, she was 
so different from the general average of 
the flock that I could not use her to 
breed from at all. She laid all Sum¬ 
mer, was broody for a few days, then 
began laying again, and kept it up until 
late in the Fall; she was the last one 
to molt and in 40 years’ experience I 
never knew a hen to molt and get a 
new set of feathers so quickly. I did not 
set down dates, so have no means of 
knowing the exact length of time, but it 
did not seem to me that she took half 
the usual time. I remember with what 
surprise I saw her with a red face on 
the nest again laying. The point I want 
to make is this. Here was the very 
best hen I had raised in years: from the 
utility standpoint the most valuable hen 
on my farm; but I was so bound up 
in the theory that a Wyandotte must con¬ 
form to the “Standard” and that no 
bird was fit to use as a breeder unless 
it did so conform, that I sold this best 
hen to a peddler to be killed for mar¬ 
ket. Breeding “Wyandottes,” of course 
I must furnish eggs that would produce 
birds as close as possible to the Wyan¬ 
dotte standard. 
The fanciers themselves are beginning 
to see the unwisdom of some of the stand¬ 
ard requirements, and are not insisting 
on such shortness of body as formerly. 
I understand that there is a movement on 
foot now to change the standard in this 
respect. The effect of breeding to stand¬ 
ard was well illustrated by the experience 
of Mr. N. J. of Connecticut. At the 
Springfield, Mass., Poultry Show he won 
first premium for the best pen of White 
Wyandottes. I was there and saw them, 
and they certainly were beauties, very 
short-bodied, and up to the “standard” 
in every way. I met Mr. J. in Hartford 
two years afterward and asked him bow 
his Wyandottes were doing? 
“Haven’t got any,” he replied. “I 
bred ’em just a& the judges wanted them, 
but they wouldn’t lay, and what eggs they 
did lay wouldn’t hatch, so I got rid of 
the whole bunch.” Mr. J.’s experience 
was an extreme one, but it clearly shows 
that the tendency of the fancier is to 
make a fad of some unimportant feature 
and run that to an extreme, regardless 
of its effect on the utility qualities of the 
fowl. Birds are disqualified by the 
“standard” for trifles that do not in any 
way affect their usefulness, and that 
should be cut as a defect, instead of dis¬ 
qualifying the fowl. The egg-laying con¬ 
tests are doing much to educate the 
American people away from the idea that 
any particular breed is always better for 
egg production than any other. We are 
learning that exceptional individuals ex¬ 
ist in many breeds, and that what the 
commercial egg producers want is to se¬ 
lect and breed from those that show the 
best performance, whether they conform 
to some arbitrary standard or not. This 
must be done with judgment, or results 
will not be what one might expect. a 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Loss of Feathers. 
1 ITAVE a couple of R. I. Red hens that 
have lost the feathers on their heads, 
and a few Plymouth Rocks that have 
lost the feathers on the front of the 
neck. It does not affect the white hens. 
I have greased their heads with lard and 
kerosene but it does not seem to make 
any difference. Can you advise me what 
to do? I do not think it is mites, as 
the house is clean. e. s. 
New York. 
The mite which causes the loss of 
feathers from a fowl’s head and neck is 
not the red mite found about the perches 
and nests, but another variety which bur¬ 
rows in the skin at the base of the feath¬ 
ers and remains continuously upon the 
fowl. If ordinary grease will’not destroy 
this pest, add one-fourth its bulk of “blue 
ointment,” obtainable at any drug store, 
to the lard or other grease used and rub 
in well over the affected spots. You will, 
ot course, have to give new feathers time 
to grow before the appearance of the 
fowl is improved. m. b. d. 
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