1914 . 
THE RUKAL NEW-YORKEK 
1273 
The HenyarcL 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T IIR forty-ninth week shows an e<ig 
production of 1,417 eg;gs; this is 250 
eggs less than last week. All of the 
American breeds, Rocks, Wyandottes, It. 
I. Reds, show a much better egg produc¬ 
tion than the White Leghorns, with the 
exception of the high-scoring pens <>f the 
latter breed, which are holding up re¬ 
markably well. A singular fact is that 
this week all the three highest pens of 
White Leghorns lay the same number of 
eggs. Tom Barron’s pen laid 2S, Francis 
F. Lincoln's pen laid 28, and Storrs 
Agricultural Station pen No. 42—the 
“sour milk" pen laid 2S. These were 
the three highest scoring pens among the 
Leghorns. But the “top-notcher” for the 
week is Tom Barron’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes, with a score of 41. When Mr. 
Barron was on here last July, and his 
Wyandottes had fallen to second place, 
he said to me that he still thought they 
had a good chance to win, because “they 
would beat the Leghorns at laying when 
the cold weather comes.” But Francis 
F. Lincoln’s Leghorns are 25 eggs ahead, 
and there are only three weeks to go, so 
it looks doubtful; yet if the Wyandottes 
can gain for two weeks as many as they 
have this week, viz.; 13 eggs, they will 
beat Lincoln’s birds by one egg. Ifs a 
very pretty light as it stands. What 
impresses me very much is Mr. Barron’s 
confidence in the results of his breeding; 
in private conversation, he would say 
“those birds are bred right, and they 
will do”—so and so. It seemed ns if in 
his mind it was like a mathematical 
demonstration; that there was very little 
of the element of chance in it. 
I have just received the report for 
September of the Missouri contest. The 
English Leghorns have laid 2,13t> eggs 
in the 10 mouths; the next highest pen 
is a pen of Leghorns from Missouri, and 
their total is 1.001), showing a lead of 
227 eggs for the Barron pen. 
The Storrs contest bids fair to have 
100 pens full in the next contest; more 
breeds are represented than ever before. 
So far no one has entered any Light 
Brahmas. Hasn't some breeder of this 
grand old breed the “sand” to enter a 
pen? The report for the week is as fol¬ 
lows : 
Barred Hocks. 
A. R. Hall. Connecticut. 
Frank I,. Tuttle. Massachusetts. ... 
Wiivony Farm, Connecticut. 
Jules F. Francois, New York. 
White P. Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen. Massachusetts.... 
F. II. Benton. Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 
Storrs Aga. Station. Connecticut- 
Buff P. Hocks. 
A. A. ITall. Connecticut. 
W. 0. Morgan, Jr., Connecticut.... 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron. England. 
West Mt. Pity. Yards, Connecticut. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island'. 
I). J. Ryan & So.i, Connecticut.... 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 
I)r. N. W. Sanborn. Massachusetts.. 
Am. Buff Wyan. Club. New York.. 
II. I,. Hamilton, Connecticut. 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Natl. Col. Wy. Club, Massachusetts. 
Singlo Comb Hods. 
Robert Seaman. New York. 
J. S. (Jillespie, Connecticut. 
Dr. J. C. Dingmnn. New York. 
Burnham Pity. Farm. Massachusetts 
H. 1‘. Doming, Connecticut. 
Coo. P. Dearborn, Florida. 
Dr. J. A. Fritchey. Pennsylvania... 
Ernest Underhill. New Jersey. 
W. It. Bumsted. Connecticut. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts.. 
Harry 1). Cook, Connecticut. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire.... 
A. B. Brumlage. Connecticut.. 
Rose Comb Rods. 
Glenview Pity. Farm, Connecticut.. 
C. S. Sooville, Connecticut. 
White Leghorns. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut.... 
Storrs Agr. Station, Connecticut..., 
Storrs Agr. Station. Connecticut.... 
Bracside Pity. Farm, Pennsylvania.. 
Glenview Pity Farm. Connecticut.. 
Manor Pity. Farm, New York. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
Marwood l'lty. Farm, Pennsylvania 
Geo. M. Harris. Connecticut. 
Bonnie Brook Farm, New York. 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 
J. J. Liuehan, Massachusetts. 
F. F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
Cecil Guernsey, Now York. 
Thus. W. Moore. C'cmeeiicut. 
Clias. N. St. John. New York. 
Ohns. tv. Sherwood. Connecticut.... 
L. E. Sands, Pennsylvania. 
Tomoka Pity. Farm. Connecticut... 
Venture Pity. Farm. New York.... 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff. Connecticut.. 
Wlndsweep Farm. Connecticut. 
C. II. Savage, Connecticut. 
P. G. Platt. Penns Ivnnin. 
Heneta Bone Co.. New Jersey. 
F. M. Peasley. Cn:i ecticut. 
Chas. HoigI, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
James Munn, Massachusetts. 
Goo. A. Cosgrove. Connecticut. 
Buff Leghorns. 
Wolverine Pity. Farm. Michigan... 
Blue Andalusians. 
E. D. Bird, Connecticut. 
Buff Orpingtons. 
O. Wilson, West Virginia. 
Week 
Total 
20 
1.847 
23 
1,415 
13 
1,345 
30 
1,820 
28 
1,514 
25 
1,501 
12 
1,195 
27 
1.29S 
23 
1.420 
25 
1,201 
1,071 
30 
1,483 
11 
1,153 
41 
2.011 
10 
1.177 
21 
1,852 
30 
1.838 
10 
1,340 
35 
1,433 
25 
1.307 
20 
1,205 
30 
1,078 
25 
1.3S3 
19 
1.115 
23 
1,341 
17 
1,247 
7 
1,000 
20 
1,330 
20 
1,440 
27 
1.861 
21 
1.232 
19 
988 
10 
1.540 
oo 
1.330 
18 
1.398 
34 
1,800 
27 
1,383 
14 
990 
15 
1,540 
10 
1,004 
9 
l ,570 
28 
2.014 
15 
1,490 
18 
1,431 
23 
1,008 
IS 
1.455 
4 
1. Ill 
23 
1,009 
17 
1,235 
20 
1,631 
5 
1,422 
5 
1,333 
28 
2.030 
14 
1,074 
7 
1,545 
21 
1,580 
5 
1.419 
1 
1,435 
14 
1.311 
1,150 
21 
1,505 
4 
1,228 
15 
1,407 
9 
1.072 
1 
552 
18 
1,512 
7 
1.424 
28 
1.950 
10 
1,007 
1 
1.303 
15 
1,517 
18 
1,544 
1G 
1,311 
11 
1.005 
White Orpingtons. 
P. A. 
Demgar, New York. 
White Laced Red Cornish. 
18 
1,033 
W. L. 
It. 0. Club, Massachusetts.. 
Silver Campines. 
13 
853 
W. ,T. 
IT. Lobel, New Jersey. 
"Hens.” 
11 
1,301 
H. W. 
Col 1 i ng wood. Now Jersey.... 
13 
1.207 
Daniel 
Illne, Conneet’eut. 
14 
1,103 
Daniel 
Iline, Connecticut. 
Mixed Breeds. 
14 
1.121 
Profitable Poultry, Massachusetts... 
24 
1.290 
I’rolltable Poultry, Massachusetts... 23 1,342 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Fowls on ITee Range. 
I AM about to start a small chicken 
ranch of about 100 hens. I have no 
pens. Do you think if I keep about 12 
cockerels and let a different one run each 
clay to prevent their fighting, this would 
be sufficient to insure good fertile eggs? 
I think breeding fowls will do better and 
keep in a healthier condition if let run at 
large. Bo you not think so? it. s. 
Three vigorous cockerels should be am¬ 
ple in a flock of 100 Leghorn bens, and 
if they have free range it is not neces¬ 
sary to keep part of them shut up to 
prevent fighting. It is true that breeding 
fowls do better when having their lib¬ 
erty, but in cold weather it is necessary 
for them to have comfortable quarters of 
some kind ; these quarters may be very in¬ 
expensive, however, if dry and free from 
drafts. M. B. D. 
Lettuce and Feathers. 
I S there an element in lettuce leaves, 
which will promote the growth of 
feathers, on chickens, which are slow 
to feather out? I ask because in a 10- 
chicken hatch kept in a coop of Plymouth 
Rocks, two did not feather out; they 
were covered with a down until quite 
large, five or six weeks old. I then fed ! 
the brood lettuce, and a few days after 
I commenced doing so I noticed that 
feathers came out rapidly and they were 
soon covered, while the others in the 
brood seemed to grow brighter and more 
feathers. M. H. D. 
I know of no reason for thinking that 
lettuce leaves can stimulate the growth 
of feathers, these latter requiring for their 
development the protein element of food 
in which most vegetables are deficient. 
The observation is interesting, however, 
and may well be followed up if occasion 
offers. Most flocks show, at times, cases 
of delayed development in feathering out, 
this seeming to be rather a curious physio¬ 
logical phenomenon not easily accounted 
for. A friend in Alabama gives the fol¬ 
lowing interesting account of delayed 
feathering as seen in the South. “I have 
bad Barred Rocks, chicks hatched in 
early Spring or late Fall, go along and 
feather normally but those hatched in 
late Spring and early Summer shed the 
baby down and the pullets grow a normal 
covering, while the little cockerels go as 
naked as a plantation pickaninny, except 
for a few of the flight wing feathers and 
some on the head and back of the neck. 
They often get badly sunburned on the 
back because of the lack of protection. 
The young roosters always feather up all 
right as the cooler nights begin, and it 
has appeared to me that, as a rule, the 
featherless specimens feather up and are 
better birds. This happens as regularly 
here as the year rolls around to the ap¬ 
pointed season.” m. b. d. 
Cleaning Soiled Eggs. 
W HAT can be used to remove spots 
from eggs? I generally keep from 
;.()() to 800 hens and at times some 
of the eggs get very dirty and I find 
it impossible to remove the stains. 
\ York. W. B. 
I know of nothing more suitable for 
this purpose tlm. one of the scouring 
materials used upon a soft dampened rag. 
Most stains may be quickly scoured off 
with one of these scouring soaps and the 
shell is left in as good condition as is 
possible after washing. Poultrymen are 
frequently cautioned against washing eggs 
in preparation for market, as this re¬ 
moves the protective coating from the 
newly laid shell and injures the keep¬ 
ing quality of the egg. While all this 
is undoubtedly true, all poultrymen know 
that it is practically impossible to keep 
eggs from becoming soiled in the nests, 
and if they were sent to market without 
cleaning they would be severely cut in 
price. Until some method of preventing 
hens from soiling their eggs is devised 
eggs will be washed, and the use of these 
scouring materials removes the stains 
with as little injury to the egg as any¬ 
thing known to the writer. M. n. n. 
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Originated from Cornell High Producing hens 
ami developed by rigid selections for vigor, egg 
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shows. Cockerels and yearlings for sale. 
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THE EVERLAY FARM, Box 240-E, Methuen, Mass, 
Winter-Laying Leghorns-^ 
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Don lost. Won at Chicago, Indianapolis, etc. Get 
blood of "Egu-llred Winners.” t'orkerols. $2.50 
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Marwood Leghorn Cockerels 
Storrs’ certified records—253, 236, 215, 203, 201. May 
cockerels from this pen, $2.50. 
MARWOOD FOld-TRY FARM, Butler, Pa. 
Tom Barron S. C. White Leghorn 
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direct importation, from the World's greatest 
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Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Imported direct. 280-egg strain. May Cock¬ 
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P. F. RAFFERTY, MARLBORO, MASS. 
Tom Barron S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
from stock imported direct from his best-laving 
yards. April hatched, range grown, vigorous 
follows Now only $2.50 each. Yearling hens. 
Wyckoff strain, 85 cents; Wyekoff cockerels, from 
record-laving stock, $1. Choice cocks, now $2. 
It. T. EWING. - - Atlantic, Pa. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
May hatched pullets, $1 each: 12 for $10. Six liens anil 
Barron cockerel, $10. E. CLAUDE JONES. Hillsdale. N. Y. 
Barron Cockerels, White Leghornsi'^TA'.'g 
liens. Prices reasonable. Hamilton Farm, Huntington,N Y~ 
There seems to be no definite standard 
for middlings or trade name by which 
the grade can be recognized; millers mar¬ 
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nothing as to the quality of the pro¬ 
duct. Mixed wheat feed, composed of 
both middlings and bran, is superior to 
ordinary middlings, whether marked 
“Brown" or “Standard” and should 
bring more in the market. m. b. d. 
BREDTO LAY- 3 c white li 
oncu I U LH I HORNS, America 
Barron, anil half-Barron cockorels for sale. \< 
is the time to buy. P. G. PLATT, Wallingford, I 
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Hens. Pullets ami Cockerels—none better layers— 
Write. - J, M. CASK, Gilhou, Now York 
BREEDING HENS, 75c each. S. 0. 
W. Leghorns. Barred Rock Pullets 
hatched December 1913— SI. 35 each. 
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TOM BARRON’S 
CONTEST WYANDOTTE PENS 
At 1*A., COXNm MO., are owned by me 
u World's greatest winter layers” 
LEGHORNS nnd WYANDOTTES—288—282—AGO—248 
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