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THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T HE new contest at Storrs starts off 
with a full 100 pens as against the 
S2 pens in the last contest. The new 
breeds entered that were not among last 
year’s competitors are American Domin¬ 
iques. Light Sussex, Salmon Faverolles, 
Buttercups, Black Leghorns and K. C. 
Brown Leghorns. Edward Cam, of Eng¬ 
land. is in this time with a pen of White 
Wyandottes and a pen of White Leg¬ 
horns, his Wyandottes laying 34 and his 
Leghorns 12 this first week. Thirty of 
the entrants of the last contest have en¬ 
tered birds again this year, one. the Bran¬ 
ford Farms, entering eight pens. The 
highest record made for the week is by 
the White Leghorns from Windsweep 
Farm, Connecticut. This pen laid 47 
eggs, every bird in the pen laying, one lay¬ 
ing seven eggs. There are eight days in 
this first week, the date of ending the 
week being changed to Sunday night. A 
remarkable fact is that IT. W. Sanborn’s 
Bhode Island Bed pullet No. 2 laid eight 
i'ggs in these first eight days, while none 
of her sisters in the same pen laid at all. 
White Leghorns also made the second 
highest record for the week : Albert Sond- 
regger’s pen laying 41. Edward Cam’s 
Wyandottes are third, with a score of 34. 
and O. G. Knight’s White Orpingtons 
fourth with a record of 20. The week’s 
score follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week. 
Merritt M. Clark. Connecticut. 20 
Frank L. Tuttle, Massachusetts. J 
Francis F. Lincoln. Connecticut. 9 
White Rocks. 
Albert 1'. Lenzen, Massachusetts. 10 
Branford Farms. Connecticut. 1 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 2 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 4 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 14 
White Wyandottes. 
Torn Barron, England . 5 
Edward Cam. England . 34 
Merrythought Farm. Connecticut. 1‘ 
Neale Bros.. Rhode Tsland . 10 
Mrs. .7. P. Beck. Connecticut. 3 
Mapled’nle Farm. Connecticut. 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 23 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Pr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusett. ,s. 17 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 8 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Hillview Poultry Farm. Vermont. 22 
Charles O. Polhemus, New York. 2 
John Backus, Vermont. 
W. II. Bumstead, Connecticut. 3 
Pinecrcst Orchards, Massachusetts. 13 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 0 
Colonial Farm. New Hampshire. lu 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 10 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 4 
S. G. McLean. Connecticut. Jj 
P. E. Warner, Rhode Isand. ‘ 
H. W. Sanborn. Massachusetts. 8 
Albert R. Ford. Connecticut. 2 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 11 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 4 
American Dominiques. 
H. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 3 
White Leghorns. 
George Bowles. Connecticut. 4 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. O 
N. W. llendryx, Connecticut. 2 
Braeside Poultry Farm. Pennsylvania. < 
Francis F. Lincoln. Connecticut. 21 
Merritt M. Clark. Connecticut. 22 
Elm Poultry Yards, Connecticut. 12 
.Tay H. Ernisse, New York. 2f> 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 21 
Storrs Agr. Station—Experimental Pen. 23 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff. Connecticut. 3 
Windsweep Farm. Connecticut. 47 
Janies IT. Lord, Massachusetts. 9 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 10 
F. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 4 
Edward Cam, England . 12 
William II. Lyon. New York. 3 
A. P. Robinson. New York. < 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 9 
Branford’ Farms, Connecticut.1 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 12 
Branford Farms. Connecticut. 11 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 8 
Rural New-Yorker. New York. 9 
Mbort S. Sondcregger. Connecticut. 41 
S. J. Rogers. New York. 18 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm. Pennsylvania. 2 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock. Connecticut. 2(5 
James V. Thomas. New York... 5 
Sunny Acres Poultry Farm, Connecticut. 3 
R. C. Brown leghorns. 
The Gale Place. Connecticut. 1 
Buff Leghorns. 
O. L. Mngrey, Connecticut. 5 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Colllnson, Barnacre, England. 1 
Light Sussex. 
Pr. E. K. Conrad. New Jersey. 3 
White Orpingtons. 
Obed G. Knight, Rhode Island. 29 
“Favorito Hens.” 
Rural New-Yorker, New York. 1 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
TL'HEl RURAh NEW-YORKER 
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poultry industry? Will the price of eggs 
and chickens rise as compared to their 
feed, or will their price drop. Will the 
demand increase or decrease? H. D. H. 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
1. Answering above questions as near¬ 
ly as possible I would say to the first, cost 
per hen $1.30 to $1.60, according to how 
much becfscrap and good wheat is fed. 
2. General average is about 50% of 
each, males and females. It is believed 
by many that a large number of females 
to each male bird, will produce a larger 
per cent, of pullets, but so far as I know 
nothing definite has ever been worked 
out concerning it. 
3. Twelve dozen eggs a year is a good 
average production, and can only be ob¬ 
tained by good care and good feeding. At 
the present contest at Storrs, cutting out 
the pen which has made an abnormally 
poor record, the average per bird of the 
Leghorns for 51 weeks is only a fraction 
over 154 eggs each; while the leading 
pen in the same contest has produced 
17.3 dozen, or 207.8 eggs per hen, in the 
same time. 
4. My guess is that the war will not 
materially'affect the price of eggs either 
way, because we neither import nor ex¬ 
port a sufficient quantity to affect the 
price very much. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Hen Questions. 
chicks bought from 
what egg average 
per year (pullets 
horns, feeding not 
treme)? 4. In your 
feet will the present 
E‘ 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
GGS are higher and potatoes and 
onions are a trifle lower. Farmers 
are getting 30 cents for potatoes and 
40 cents for onions. Good-sized cabbage 
heads sell for three cents retail. Honey 
is low, 17 to 18 cents per pound, whole¬ 
sale. Apples are not only of much bet¬ 
ter quality than formerly, but are sell¬ 
ing by name more than ever. _The high¬ 
est wholesale quotation is $2.05 per bar- 
sells Greenings 
bushel, Baldwin 
cents. Butter 
down, wholesale, 
not quote above 
with cheese 20 
tinue rather 
sale, though 
The retailer 
60 cents per 
rel, with $1.25 for No. 2. 
at 50 to 
at 60 cents. Spy at id 
is quoted at 31 cents 
but market retailers do 
that price to consumers, 
cents retail. Eggs con¬ 
source. at 45 cents whole- 
the general retail price is 
not above 30 cents. Oleo in pound pack¬ 
ages retails at 23 cents. Grapes are 
still very plenty and cheap, at $35 per 
ton for blue, wholesale and 35 cents for 
20-pound basket. A red Rogers grape is 
taking the place of Catawba for late car¬ 
rying, though there are still plenty of 
Concords. The California Tokays are 
as plenty as ever and in perfect condi¬ 
tion, retailing in big bunches at eight 
cents per pound. Peaches an] plums are 
gone. The showing of pears is poor and 
only Kieffers are quoted, at 50 to 75 
cents a bushel. There are a few others, 
as for iustanee Beurro Clairgeau, but 
not in any quantity. The quince crop 
is small also and quality poor, retailing 
at 75 cents per large third-bushel basket. 
Cabbage is a big crop, the wholesale 
price being $2 to $3.50 per 100 heads. 
There is also more cauliflower than 
usual, good heads retailing at 10 cents 
each. Some Brussels sprouts are offer¬ 
ing at not less tlian 20 cents per quart, 
retail. Celery is fine and plenty at 10 
cents per small bunch to 40 cents per 
Lettuce is still 
per dozen heads 
large bunch wholesale, 
cheap at 20 to 30 cents 
and radishes retail at three bunches for 
five cents, spinach 15 cents per peck, re¬ 
tail. Cucumbers and tomatoes are be¬ 
ginning to return to hothouse prices, be¬ 
ing $1.25 per dozen for the former and 
20 cents per pound for the latter. Poul¬ 
try is scarce, but in light demand, at 23 
cents per pound for turkey and 17 cents 
for fowl dressed, wholesale and 20 cents 
for turkey and 15 cents for fowl, fancy, 
live. ‘ J. w. c. 
Brood 500 Chicks in One Flock 
Save Time, Labor, Fuel and Money 
Get all your chicks out early at onq time and cany 
them safely to strong maturity. 
Take your eggs to a Candee Custom Hatchery or buy 
baby chicks there. Then, with a coal-burning Candee 
Colony Brooder, raise all of them in olio flock, in one house, 
with only one heater, at a cost of a few cents a day for coal. 
Healthy Heat—Automatic Heat Control 
Coal-Burning—Safe—Sure 
Sealed base, east iron heater—no worry, no danx.r of loss 
from fire. Magazine Feed keeps even lire—eliminates guess¬ 
work. Thermostat automatically 
and holds correct heat all the 
Burns Coal 
Profitable for 100 
Chicks 
Best for 300 to 
500 
Candee 
\w/t> Colony 
Cast Iron jDROODEKS 
Coal Burning-Self Regulating 
opens and closes draft 
time. Swinging Hover 
Section makes it easy to uet at Heater for cleaning, coaling 
and shaking down ashes. 
Write today for illustrated circular that tells why tho 
Candee will save you labor, fuel, chicks and money. 
Candee Incubator & Brooder Co., Dept R, Eastwood, N, Y. 
TOM BARRON’S 
CONTEST WYANDOTTE PENS 
At 1*A., CONN., M.O., are owned by me 
World's greatest winter layers” 
LKGH011NS and WYANDOTTES—288—882—260—248 
Storrs’ Buff Rocks, Vibert-flustin Reds, Ducks and Geese 
MORRIS-FARM, R. 4, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Tom Barron White Wyandottes '^° stock 
imported last 
yards. E. E. 
sp'ing from Barron best-laying 
LEWIS, Apalachin, New York 
500 Choice Pullets and Cockerels 
Tiffany's Superior Silver Wyandottes, Pekin and 
Rouen Ducks, sired by winners at America’s greatest 
shows. Free range grown. F. A.Tiffany, Phoenuville, ra. 
F or sack-at arch 
WYANDOTTE COCKERELS,*2 to $."> each. 
F. D. JOHNSON, 
HATCHED WHITE 
to $.! 
R. No. 1. Boonton, N. J. 
S.C. White Leghorn Cockerel: 
Tom 
Barron _ 
and White Wyandotte cockereisj_ pullets 
direct importation, from the 
layers. In splendid vigor 
SO 
out of 
World's greatest 
BROOKFIELD 
COLONIAL REDS 
We offer finely-bred cockerels for sale, from 
our best lines for egg production. Strong, 
rugged birds of pedigreed ancestry. Also pu, 
lets and yearling breeding hens of proven 
value. Honorable treatment guaranteed. Sa¬ 
tisfied customers all over the country. 
COLONIAL FARM. - Box O. Temple, N. H- 
R. I. Reds-White Wyandottes^ 
Barred Rocks, S.C. White and B row n Leg horns. Show 
and utility quality. Bargain list. Breeders f i ei . 
K1VERDALE POULTRY FARM, Riverdale, N. ,1. 
AUSTIN’S 200-EGG* RhnHs IclRIlH RPflS standard 
STRAIN SINGLE COMB NIIUUC lOldllU I1CUO bred, high 
record stock, red to theskin. Old and young stock for 
sale. AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Bax 17, CentreHarbor. N.H. 
6 S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED PULLETS 
AND COCKEREL, direct from Austin’s eggs. 
$10. ANNA M. JONES, HILLSDALE,NEW YORK 
o.,(f /”)/ifCockerels, Pullets and Hens, 
BUTT UTpiUyTOn Owon strain: also Barred Rock 
Cockerels. Write, J. I HKKETER, Gettysburg, Pa. 
Practical Barred Rocks stTains. 
ners. Breeding stock. Mrs. Andrew Brooks, Auburn, N.Y. 
POULTRY FARM, R.F.D. 3.Versailles, Ohio For Sale - A ofyoong Muscovy Ducks 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Imported direct. 280-egg strain. May Cock¬ 
erels, $2. Yearling hens. Si.-V). Trios, $;>. 
P. F. RAFFERTY, MARLBORO, MASS. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
The greatest money-makers of them all. 4 hens, 1 
cockerel,$6: 8hens, 1 cockerel. Sin. Alsolvulns R. C. 
Browns. TROUT BROOK FARM, Hillsdale, N.Y. 
Pedigreed Barron Leghoms“^tin r 
laid 258eggs; grandsire's mother, 248eggs. A;s<> R. 
I. Red Cockerels. $2and$k. Harry B Cook.Qranne, Conn. 
200,000 3. C.W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators; 12,000 
chicks per week after February 15th: only No 1 .high- 
class chicks shipped; New England^ most profitable 
breed, the famous ’’Everlay Strain. Roast liable 
prices: prompt service. 60-page catalog on request. 
THE EVERLAY FARM, - Box 240-E, Melhuon, Mass. 
POULTRYMEN, ATTENTION 
75,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN BABY CHICKS 
/REE FROM WHITE DIARRHEA 
Ail breeders tested by Storrs’ Station. Free circu¬ 
lar. White Leghorn and Pittsfield Barred Rock 
cockerels. A. 15. HALL, Wallingford, Conn. 
White be-horns—TESTKRLAID Strain. Pullets lay 
at 4l£ months. Bought by So KxjwrtmentStations. All 
stuil males erund-flam record of more than to e ~ '■ In 2 
years. Prices very reason able. Bringsuccess. Cetarlsfree 
Yesteki.aid Ego F.ut.u Co., Dept. 62 Pacific, Mo. 
large, fine birds. $2 a pair. Also several pair Oh 
English Bantams. Hens, great layers. Cockerels 
as beautiful as Mongolian Pheasants. $2.50 a pair. 
A yearling registered Perclieron Stallion; dark gray. 
Will mature to 1,800 pounds. Cheap for want of room. 
Address, The Casket Farms, Richmondville N. i. 
f and w. Indian run- Ppkin Ourlcs and Drakes 
NER AND M A M M OT H ■ eRm UUC A !> _ U . „ . 
for sale reasonable. 
GEO. WILLIAMSON, Flanders, N. J. 
WHiTE HOLLAND TOMS 
prize-winning stock. 
Mrs. A. L. SPINK, Route 3. Watertown. 
N. Y 
E. J. RIDER, 
Redman, New York 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS^ 
Half Wild, Half Bronze TURKEYS 
JOHN D. SMITH. 
Walton, N. Y. 
Cleaning Soiled Eggs.—W o have 
boon helped so many times by sugges¬ 
tions found in your paper, that I would 
like to return the favor by sending an 
answer to W. R., who asks in regard to 
the cleaning of soiled eggs. We have 
found that a cloth moistened in vine¬ 
gar will remove the moist stain, much 
quicker and easier than scouring pow¬ 
der. and does not polish the shell as 
scouring docs. J. L. R. 
Vineland, N. J. 
Soiled Eggs. —W. R.. New York, 
wants to know how to remove spots from 
eggs. We have found the best way to 
remove spots from eggs is to rub with a 
cloth moistened with a little clear vine¬ 
gar. Another good solution for cleaning 
eggs, is one ounce of ammonia and two 
quarts of water. I have gathered as high 
as 80 dozen eggs a day in mid-Winter, 
and of that number there would be a 
few that would require cleaning. We 
look for the “llenyard” in The R. N.-Y. 
every week, to sec how the “hens” are 
coming in the egg contest. We have a 
pen of “hens” we are going to run against 
our Reds and Rocks this Winter. 
North New Salem, Mass. it. L. C. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
Imported direct. 248-260 ejjg strain. April pullets 
and cockerels, $3 each. 6 hens of this strain and foil 
blooded cockerel, $10. E. CLAUDE JUNES, Hillsdale, N.Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS-™,E?" 0,S A 
fine Golden Campine lien-feathered cockerels 
pullets. Moderate prices. S. D. HALL, Seville, 
rea- 
few 
and 
Ghio 
IF !N NEED OF A LARGE AND C f U7 I Ff.HORNS 
HEAVY-LAYING STRAIN OF YT * LLUnURllO 
Hens, Pullets and Cockerels—none better layers— 
Write, - J. >1- CASE, Gilboa, New York 
40 Large April White Leghorn Pullets 
$) each. No culls. 
GRAVEL RUN FARM, - Dundee, N. Y. 
100 S. C. W. Leghorn Breeding Hens 
75 C each. 
JOHN LOllTOX LEE ■ Carmel, N, Y. 
BREDTO LAYi 0 & w ;',,!JkS: 
Barron, and half-Barron cockerels for sale. Now 
is tho time to buy. P. G. PLATT, W a 11 i: j g f o r tl, Pa. 
Pullets, Yearling Kens, Cocks & Cockerels 
lots to suit purchasers at attractive prices. 
Purebred Mammoth BronzeTurkies Campines 
and White Wyandottes. Satisfaction Guaranteed:. 
I. A. WHEELER, R. F. 0. 2, Maplewood Farm, Massena, N Y. 
BRONZE TURKEYS 
bred from 45 lb. toms and 25 lb. hens. 
Mr,. FRED EYSAMAN, Ii. F.l>. 18, Moravia, N.Y. 
Purebred Bronze Turkey Toms 
Healthy stock. RALPH B. WARDELL. Sandy Creek, N. Y. 
Bourbon-Red Turkeys 
each; hens, $4. First orders get the best ones. 
Mrs. K. F. liUNDY, - Tazewell, Virginia 
BourbonRedTurkeys^ r ¥rio”i”swpm P enVs 
Nov. 1. Orders booked now. Fiona Horning, Ulysses, Pa. 
Bourbon-Red TURKEYS 
Hens $3, and toms $4. Milton D. Stickley, Strasburg, V.i. 
an Variotioc CHICKENS. DUCKS. GEESE. TURKEYS. 
0U Vdllcllba GUINEAS and HARES StockandeeKS.fi) 
page catalogue free. H. A. Souder, Box 29, Sellersville. Pa 
Utility S.C. Brown Leghorn CockerelsiUs 5 iV. 
Utility R. C. Rhode Island Cockerels, $2. 
IDA BLOYE, Franklinville. Cattaraugus Co.. Mew Ysrk 
utility S. C. White Leghorns^”, 
per 100. GEO. FROST, Levanna, Cayuga Co., New York 
s f ALE-$ingle Comb White Leghorn Cockereis 
and YEARLING HENS. SI each. 
GEO. L. FERRIS & SON, - Atwaters, N. Y. 
YOUNG’S 200-EGG STRAIN S. C.W. Leghorn Apr! 
» BULLETS, $1. ALTAVISTA FARM, Darlingion, Mdl 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARUS. 
R. 24, Athens, Pa. 
Money in Honey j 
C9R SALE-SINGLE COMBED WHITE LKG- 
" HORN PULLETS AND COCKERELS. 
?1 each. James H. Owen, R. F.D. 4, Newburgh, N.Y. 
r Bees pay. 
—Easy, inter¬ 
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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Box k .Hamilton,?!!. 
A SMALL boy 
telephone pole. 
W ILL you give me your opinion on 
the following questions? 1. Cost 
per year 100 hens, buying all feed 
(White Leghorns)? 2. Average number 
f pullets per hundred chicks (50% or 
better)? 3. From pullets, raised from 
reliable poultry men, 
should they have 
being White I.eg- 
forced to an ex- 
opinion, what ef- 
war have on the 
seated on the curb by a 
with a tin can by his 
dde, attracted the attention of an old 
gentleman who happened to be passing. 
“Going fishing?” the old gentleman in¬ 
quired good-naturedly. “Nope,” the 
youngster replied. “Take a peek in 
there.” Investigation showed the can to 
he partly filled with caterpillars of the 
tussock moth. "What in the world are 
you doing with them?” “They crawl up 
trees and eat off the leaves." “So I un¬ 
derstand.” "Well, I’m fooling a lot <>f 
them.” “IIow?” "Sending ’em up this 
telephone pole.”—Judge. 
Your Neighbors Will 
Want to 
Posted 
on the Poultry Contest at Storrs, Connecticut. The contest is just 
beginning. Among the entries is the Rural New-Yorker’s pen cf 
Thirty Favorite Hens. 1 he Rural New-Yorker will contain weekly 
record ard comment. Get your neighbors’ subscriptions, but first 
send for Reward List showing articles given for securing subscrip¬ 
tions. A postal will do. 
Department “M” 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York City 
