1914. 
THE RUKAL NEW-YORKER 
1141 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T HE feature of this, the forty-fourth 
week, is the decided drop in egg pro¬ 
duction. Only 2,238 eggs were laid, 
as against 2,866 the previous week. This 
is a drop of 528 eggs in one week. But 
there have been some exceedingly hot days. 
Here on this breezy Willington Hill, the 
thermometer marked 90 degrees on the 
north side of the house, and the hens 
stood around with open mouths and wings 
held out from the body, panting for 
breath. The heat does seem to affect my 
home Hock of Leghorns, as to egg pro¬ 
duction ; they are averaging about 60 per 
cent, and the pen of English Leghorns 
laid 90.9 per cent, one day; 10 eggs from 
11 birds. This pen lays n, 7, 8 eggs a 
day, sometimes eight for two or three 
successive days. 
At the contest all the breeds were con¬ 
cerned in this loss of egg production, the 
Leghorns being responsible for a loss of 
285, or more than half of the loss. For 
the first time in many weeks no pen 
scored as high as 50. The highest num¬ 
ber laid was 47; Francis F. Lincoln’s 
White Leghorns tieing with A. B. Brun- 
dage’s S. C. Reds, with that number. 
Merrythought Farm’s White Wyandottes 
laid 40. The high totals are: 
Storrs pen No. 42, White Leghorns 1,881 
F. F. Lincoln’s White Leghorns... 1,S64 
Tom Barron’s White Wyandottes.. 1,835 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns.... 1,775 
The week’s score follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 21 
Frank X,. Tuttle, Massachusetts.... 6 
Waveny Farm. Connecticut. 31 
J. F. Francals, New York. 22 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzon, Massachusetts... 38 
F. II. Benton, Connecticut. 33 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 24 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 17 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 26 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 22 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 26 
Buff P. Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 37 
W. C. Morgan, Jr., Connecticut.... 24 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 34 
West Mt. Pity. Yards, Connecticut. 21 
Merrythought Farm. Connecticut.... 46 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island. 42 
1). J. Ryan & Son, Connecticut. 33 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 41 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 32 
Am. Buff Wyan. Club, New York.. 37 
H. L. Hamilton, Connecticut. 27 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Nat'l Col. Wy. Club, Massachusetts 33 
Single Comb Reds. 
Robert Seaman, New York. 23 
J. S. Gillespie, Connecticut. 21 
Dr. J. 0. Dingman, New Yora. 33 
Burnham Pity. Farm, Massachusetts 15 
H. P. Deming, Connecticut. 30 
Geo. P. Dearborn, Florida. 23 
I)r.«J. A. Fritchey. Pennsylvania... 20 
Ernest Underhill, New Jersey. 25 
W. H. Rnmsted Connecticut. 17 
Pluecrest Orchards, Massachusetts.. 31 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 10 
Colonial Farm. New Hampshire.... 23 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 47 
Rose Comb Reds. 
Glenview Pity. Farm. Connecticut.. 37 
O. S. Scovllle, Connecticut. 14 
White Leghorns. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 34 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 24 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 21 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut... 40 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut... 27 
Braeslde 1*1 ty. Farm, Pennsylvania. 34 
Glenview Pity. Farm, Connecticut.. 23 
Manor Pity. Farm, New York. 30 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 22 
Marwood Pity. Farm, Pennsylvania. 30 
Geo. M. Harris. Connecticut. 14 
Bonnie Brook Farm. New York.... 35 
N. W. Hondryx, Connecticut. 18 
J. J. Linehan. Massachusetts. 20 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 47 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 34 
Thos. W. Moore, Connecticut. 36 
Okas. N. St. John, New York. 37 
O. W. Sherwood, Connecticut. 30 
L. H. Sands, Pennsylvania. 36 
Tomoka Pity. Farm, Connecticut... 32 
Venture Pity. Farm, New York.... 16 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff. Connecticut.. 42 
Wliulsweep Farm, Connecticut. 11 
O. H. Savage, Connecticut. 27 
P. G. I’lutt, Pennsylvania. 33 
Heneta Bone Co.. New Jersey.• 14 
F. M. l’easley, Connecticut. 35 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio . 34 
Tom Barron, England . 44 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 42 
.Tames Munn, Massachusetts. 20 
Geo. A. Cosgrove, Connecticut. 44 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Pity. Farm, Michigan... 35 
Blue Andalusians. 
H. D. Bird, Connecticut. 35 
Buff Orpingtons. 
O. Wilson, West Virginia. 4 
White Orpingtons. 
P. A. Deuigar, New York. 20 
White Laced Red Cornish. 
W. L. R. 0. Club, Massachusetts... 17 
Silver Campinos. 
W. J. H. Lobel, New Jersey. 42 
“Hens.” 
H. W. Collingwood, New Jersey_ 34 
Daniel nine, Connecticut. 30 
Daniel Iliue, Connecticut. 14 
Mixed Breeds. 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts.. 35 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts . 35 
Total eggs laid to date, 105,874. 
1,240 
1,244 
1,233 
1,461 
1.340 
1.341 
1,105 
1,166 
1,299 
1,147 
99S 
1,350 
1,009 
1,835 
1,101 
1,681 
1,671 
1,259 
1,280 
1,228 
1,130 
933 
1,256 
1,008 
1,227 
1,132 
959 
1,204 
1,327 
1,417 
1,110 
873 
1,427 
1,198 
1,203 
1,592 
1,239 
918 
1.448 
1.530 
1,510 
1,881 
1,401 
1,310 
1,489 
1.375 
1,377 
1,545 
1.103 
1.507 
1.379 
1,284 
1,864 
1.550 
1.435 
1.429 
1,353 
1,372 
1,227 
1.120 
1,411 
1,202 
1.380 
1,588 
541 
1.404 
1,348 
1,775 
1,545 
1,208 
1,391 
1,430 
1,203 
948 
938 
706 
1.108 
1,178 
1.059 
1,050 
1,179 
1.19S 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Chicks Shedding Feathers. 
C AN you tell me why young stock shed 
their feathers? The chicks are from 
three to four months old, vigorous 
and have free range. I am feeding a 
grain ration of oats, wheat and corn, and 
there is a dry mash before them all the 
time composed of bran, middlings, corn- 
meal and beef scraps. Every morning 
When I clean out the colony houses the 
dropping boards are covered with feath¬ 
ers. I have raised chicks for several 
years, and this is my first experience of 
this kind. A. E. 
New Hampshire. 
These are doubtless their baby feath¬ 
ers that the chicks are molting and the 
process need cause no uneasiness on their 
owner’s part. Like milk teeth, the first 
feathers have to be discarded to make 
room for the dress of maturity and the 
ground underneath the perches of a flock 
of growing chickens sometimes looks in 
the morning as if a snowfall had oc¬ 
curred. M. B. D. 
Laying House. 
I WISH to build a henhouse for 200 
White Leghorn pullets for laying. I 
wish to keep them in the house all the 
time. What size of building would you 
advise me to use? M. A. A. 
Staten Island. 
If you intend to keep your fowls con¬ 
fined to the house Jill the time, you should 
give them more floor space than would 
be required if they had the liberty of a 
run. From three to four square feet of 
floor space is usually considered essential 
for each fowl as they are ordinarily kept 
and may be increased to any extent that 
you feel inclined to pay for. The more 
room they have the better. D'o not make 
the mistake of building a henhouse very 
narrow and long; a depth of 16 to 20 
feet is none too much, with such length as 
is required to give the necessary floor 
area. M. b. d. 
Breeding for Eggs. 
1 HAVE a flock of about 40 S. C. W. 
Leghorn heus which are very good lay¬ 
ers. These two-year old hens were 
mated to the sons of a male which was 
purchased from a well-known breeder. 
Which should I do. mate the best of these 
hens and this year’s pullets to their sons 
and brothers, or send to this same breeder 
and get another male so they will not 
be related? I am breeding to fill the egg 
basket with fancy large white eggs. 
New York. G. d. g. 
L T sing the males of your own flock in 
next year’s breeding pen would be in- 
breeding, but so would be the use of a 
male from the flock of the original owner 
of your strain, only not so closely. There 
is no objection to either plan, provided 
that you select your breeding pens from 
the most vigorous aud well-developed 
birds of the type that you wish to per¬ 
petuate. To breed for increased egg pro¬ 
duction it is necessary to use males from 
the highest producing hens, this char¬ 
acteristic being transmitted through the 
male rather than through the female line. 
There is no way of knowing which your 
best layers are without trap-nesting, 
though close observation will reveal cer¬ 
tain characteristics which accompany 
good laying and help in selection where 
trap-nests are not used. For the ordin¬ 
ary, non-professional, poultryman who 
cannot trap-nest selection will necessar¬ 
ily be confined to egg type, in so far as 
it can be ascertained, and to size, vigor 
and such superiority in prolificacy as it is 
possible to recognize from observation. 
Inbreeding in itself need not be feared if 
such selection is made. M. B. D. 
Indian Runners in Large Flocks. 
D O you know of anyone keeping large 
flocks of Indian Runner ducks? How 
many may he kept together? I have 
done well with six. but I do not see why 
more would not pay as well. w. J. 
New York. 
Theoretically there is no limit to the 
number of Runner ducks that one may 
keep, but it is not advisable to keep more 
than 30 or 40 in one pen or yard. Ducks 
are very timid birds, and when frightened, 
especially at night, they are inclined to 
“mill,” that is, run around in a circle, 
and many are killed. One drake should 
be supplied to six or seven ducks. 
w. H. H. 
A Good Word For Bats. —If L. S. 
will drive out the bats and screen all 
openings to his attic he will have no 
further trouble. Around here we never 
kill a bat, as they catch so many mos¬ 
quitoes and other night flying bugs that 
we think of them as friends, and have 
never been troubled by their getting into 
the house. P. A. II. expresses himself 
strongly against the cat. I wonder if he 
keeps a dog? A good mouser is just as 
valuable as a good watchdog, and eats 
far less. I have no use for the parlor 
brand of cats, nor lap dogs, but think 
that some cats are very useful, m. h. s. 
Harding, Mass. 
A suburban minister, during his dis¬ 
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each blade of grass there is a sermon.” 
The following day one of his flock discov¬ 
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about, aud paused to say : “Well, parson, 
I’m glad to see you engaged in cutting 
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