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“ The Favorite Hens ’ 
Six of Them At Work 
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They sampled the 
a hite of charcoal 
were 
new 
dry 
and 
T IIE 30 favorite hens reached the 
Connecticut Agricultural College 
promptly and safely. By Saturday 
night at the end of October, they were 
all comfortably housed in their new 
quarters, where they proceeded to get ac¬ 
quainted and adapt themselves to the now 
situation. As is the case when liens or 
human beings are brought together from 
the corners of the country to live as a 
community for a year, leaders or bosses 
must first be selected. Civilized human 
beings have been taught to run such 
things by the majority rule and they set¬ 
tle the matter by ballot, or perhaps it 
might be said by wire pulling in a cau¬ 
cus. Having settled these matters, the 
majority of humans settle down to work 
and proceed to business. The 30 hens 
seemed to follow a rather different plan. 
When 10 of them were put together, 
strangers out of 10 different flocks, they 
proceeded to scrap and fight each other 
until the boss was finally relected in 
this way. In each of these pens there¬ 
fore there are two or three hens that 
seem to have established their right to 
stand by the feed dish or the water 
fountain whenever they see fit, and the 
other hens have learned from experience 
to get out of the way when they see 
the bosses coming. These things had to 
be settled first. There was a little blood 
shed in the Mixed pen, in a contest be¬ 
tween the Black Minorca and one of the 
big Wyandottes. but it was finally set¬ 
tled in favor of the active Minorca 
These favorite hens were hungry and 
tired. They went to roost early that 
first night, and in the morning 
stirring about examining their 
quarters, 
mash, took 
shells and made themselves generally at 
home. Several of them began investigat¬ 
ing the trap-nests. We went to look at 
them shortly after Sunday noon and 
found every nest of the Leghorn pen con¬ 
taining a lien. It looked as if they had 
started in early to break the world’s rec¬ 
ord, but there was not an egg in any of 
the nests. These inquisitive creatures 
were simply trying to spy out every corn¬ 
er of their new house and they had 
sprung the nest by mistake. They will 
soon learn, however, what the trap-nests 
are for, and then they will start on their 
year’s record. The larger proportion of 
these birds are very good specimens, and 
we expect that several of them will stand 
up well in the final year’s record. Some 
of them were evidently laying before 
they came. It is possible that these 
birds will now stop laying and proceed to 
molt or order a new dress in honor of 
the occasion. That is one disadvantage 
in sending laying birds to a contest of 
this kind, for the shock of the new sur¬ 
roundings will sometimes stop their lay¬ 
ing and send them to the dressmaker for 
a light molt. It is too early yet there¬ 
fore to know about this. We will watch 
them through the contest. As we see 
below, five of the Leghorns and one of 
the Buff Orpingtons had begun to lay; 
the others are a little slow, but they will 
come along later. The hens have been 
named by their owners, and we hope to 
give tlieir records by name right through 
the year. You will notice that Beauty, 
the White Leghorn, is true to name 
when it comes to putting out the eggs, 
and we expect a lively record from a 
number of these favorite hens. We shall 
all watch their career with interest and 
the records of their work will be faith¬ 
fully reported. We print the names of 
all the liens, even those which have not 
yet started to lay; the record runs 
to the close of Nov. 11. 
LEGIIORNS — RECORD TO NOV. 11. 
Mrs. N. D. Rand. New York, Lucy.. 
Mrs. Lewis J. Ilappich, New York, 
Lady Hopeful . 0 
up 
0 
Mrs. V. D. Miller, Ohio. Ann. 0 
Mrs. A. .T. Skellie, New York. Ity.... 1 
Mrs. C. L. Todd. Virginia, Patsy.... 0 
Mrs. Walter Fletcher, New York, 
Peggy . 0 
Miss Tillie B. Cloud, Pennsylvania, 
Peggy . 0 
Mrs. Josephine Ilollenbach, Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Viola . 3 
Mrs. W. E. Phelps, Pennsylvania, 
Beauty . 4 
Mrs. L. E. Ililborn, New York, Madam 
Tootsey . 3 
MIXED R REEDS — RECORD TO NOV. 11. 
Mrs. F. M. Earl, Connecticut, White 
Wyandotte, Gladness . 0 
Mrs. A. N. Conell. New York, White 
Wyandotte. Dolly . 0 
Mrs. It. W. Stevens, New York, White 
Wyandotte, Tilly . 0 
Mrs. W. X Walters, Michigan, Barred 
Rock, Bi.lgeman Girl . 0 
Mrs. G. L. Rotligeb, Virginia, Barred 
Rock, Roxie .. 0 
Misses Osier & Wilcox, New York, 
Barred Rock, Marguerita . 0 
Mrs. Robert II. Wood, Elmwood. Lit¬ 
tle Falls, N. Y., White Rock. Faith 0 
Mrs. Joseph di Fabrizio, New Jersey, 
Black Minorca, Retina . 0 
Mrs. Emma H. Wood, New York, 
Buff Orpington, Louisine . 2 
Mrs. Edwin Walker, Massachusetts, 
Buff Orpington, Lady Ashby. 0 
RHODE ISLAND REDS TO NOV. 11. 
Mrs. Carrie M. Bliss, Virginia, Poca¬ 
hontas . 0 
Mrs. E. S. Marlatt, New Jersey. Polly 0 
Mrs. T. Schwenk, Connecticut, Iioxv- 
Lou .0 
Miss Ethel A. Pierce, New Hampshire, 
Lady Pierce . 0 
Mrs. Samuel O. Travais, New York. 
Rose . 0 
Mi - s. W. It. Merrick, Massachusetts, 
Betty M. 0 
Miss Edna M. Porter. New York, Betty 0 
Mrs. Andrew ,T. Wilson, Connecticut, 
Betty . 0 
Mrs. E. P. Andrews, New York, Gold¬ 
en Lass . 0 
Mrs. Cecil Farnham, Maine,. 0 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
AL 
pound. Turnips, egg and purple-tops. 75 
per box; rutabagas $1.25 per bag. Beets 
75 cents per box; carrots 75; parsnips 
$1 ; radish 75 and $1. 
Apple shipments for week of Nov. 1. 
13,315 barrels against 23,931 same week- 
last year; total shipments up to date this 
year, 134.900, against 135,535 last year 
for same period. 
Best butter one-half cent higher than 
last week; other grades about the same; 
supply not heavy, neither is demand, and 
the poorer grades sell slow. Best 30 and 
30 V 2 by tub, others 35*4, 94*4, down to 
29 and 30 for fair creamery. Cheese 
sales slow, with supply plenty for de¬ 
mand, 171/4, 10 and 15*4 cents are gen¬ 
eral prices. Eggs very short for native 
nearby fresh, which bring 58 cents per 
dozen by case; Western more plenty but 
not enough so to affect the others; also 
9,000 cases of these were shipped to Eng¬ 
land this week. 
Live fowls and chickens 14 cents per 
pound; roosters 12; dressed fowls 14 to 
19; broilers 21; roasting chickens 20 and 
turkeys 2.8 and 30 for Northern 
western ; ducks 10 and 17; 
for 
A GENERAL improvement in 
conditions has helped the 
business 
Boston 
market by making an improved de¬ 
mand for some of its products; a few 
foreign orders for onions have helped 
the market on these and boosted the price 
stock, 22 
geese 20. 
Best hay 
$10 to $22. 
50 and 58 per 
seed meal $20 
$24 per ton, other grades 
Meal $1.61 per bag; oats 
bushel: bran $25 ; cotton- 
and $28 per ton; linseed 
meal $33; gluten $30. 
hogs 7% and 8; dressed 9*4 and 
live cattle $4.50 up to $8.75 per 
common milch cows $40 to $G0 
extra good $S5 to $110; good 
THEY WILL CROW AND CACKLE LATER. 
and demand for them. Good apples are 
doing better, partly because demand is 
largely for the best and also because 
the poorer grades are largely disposed 
of by this time in various ways; cider, 
canning, or have deteriorated so as to be 
unfit to offer for sale. This brings the 
better grades into use and a satisfied 
customer is usually a come-back for 
more. Good Baldwins bring up to $2.50 
per barrel; McIntosh $3.50 and $4, 
other kinds and grades $1.50 to $2.50. 
Nearby box fruit 50 cents to $1.50; more 
is sold at the former figure or near it 
than the latter. Western box fruit $1.25 
to $2. Bananas $1.50 to $3 for most 
sales of yellows, according to size of ban¬ 
anas and size of bunch for yellows; reds 
$2 up to $4 for fine ones. No improve¬ 
ment in cranberries, which are very low; 
$1.25 and $1.50 per box and $3.50 to 
$4.50 per barrel is all that can be worked 
out of them. Grapes still plenty, but in 
some cases of poor quality, especially 
California stock which some claim is 
caused by damp weather when packed. 
Prices about same as in the past few 
weeks. Grapefruit and oranges fairly 
plenty; a heavy southern crop will keep 
them so for a while and low prices will 
be the rule. The former go at $2.25 to 
$3 per box, the latter $2 and $3 per box 
for Florida stock and up to $4 for Cali¬ 
fornia Valencia. Lemons in good suit- 
ply and sell at $2.50 up to $5 per box. 
Pears still in fair demand at good prices, 
$2 and $3 per box for Seckel. $2.50 and 
$3.50 for Bose, Anjou and Sheldon 
$1.50 and $2.25: common stock for cook¬ 
ing purposes $1 and $1.50. Quince 
plenty and cheap, native about $2 per 
box. New York stock $4 per barrel; 
California stock about same price as 
native or slightly less. 
Potatoes about the same in price, $1.10 
and $1.20 per bag but supply is not 
heavy, and I understand an outside de¬ 
mand is likely at any time, which will 
move the price upward, perhaps quite 
a little. Sweets $1 per basket. $2 and 
$2.50 per barrel. On most other vege¬ 
tables prices rule good, as supply is not 
much over demand, in some cases below 
it. Cabbage up to $1 per barrel for both 
drumhead and Savoy, with reds going at 
85 cents per box. Cauliflower, native 
$1 per box; New York stock $1.50 per 
crate. Celery, white and self-blanching. 
$1 per dozen: Pascal $1.25. and 
Boston market $1.50 and $1.75. Cu¬ 
cumbers, best. $5.50 per box. others $5, 
$4.50 and $3.50. Lettuce 40 to 05 per 
box; squash, marrow, $1 per barrel; 
turban, Bay State and Hubbard $1 and 
$1.50 per barrel or per 100 pounds. To¬ 
matoes $3 and $4 per box for ripe. $1.50 
for green; hothouse 12*4 cents per 
yearling heifers $15 and $18 each, two- 
year-olds $25. Bull, cow and steer hides 
13, 14 and 15 cents per pound : calf skins 
21. Horse market good for season and 
sales heavy, partly for home trade and 
also for export, as horses are in great 
demand over the water; prices range 
from $100 up to $450 according to size 
and soundness. a. E. p. 
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of 
A Barn Henhouse. 
SEE in the “Hope Farm Notes” men¬ 
tion is made of a barn henhouse. 
Last Summer I cemented the floor 
my south mow, put a floor in about 
seven feet deep; cut out numerous win¬ 
dows on the south side covering with 
wire and saving the boards for shutters. 
Next to the driveway through the barn 
there is a board wall 2*4 feet high, then 
wire up to floor above. This wire was 
covered with building paper in Septem¬ 
ber. and the house is a very warm one. 
It is 14x28 feet, arranged with nests on 
the sides and no dropping boards. 
Connecticut. Francis f. Lincoln. 
Poultry and Peanuts. 
F OR three successive Fall we have no¬ 
ticed that when our Spanish peanuts 
are harvested and stacked near the 
barn, so that our White Plymouth Rocks 
can help themselves at will, the egg yield 
falls off. This year they have stopped 
laying almost entirely. Does this in¬ 
dicate that peanuts are not good for 
hens, or only that ours get more than is 
good for them? John b. lewis. 
Virginia. 
Our guess is that a limited feeding on 
peanuts would help the hens—too many 
would make them too fat to lay. The 
peanut is rich in fat or oil and like other 
peas is relished by poultry. With this 
constant supply we think these Rocks 
get too fat! 
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