1915. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
463 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
T HE g:iiu in egg production still goes 
on. The eighteenth week, ending 
March 7, shows an output of 3,454; 
this is 14S; eggs more than were laid last 
week. The gain in four weeks is 1,411. 
This is also the fourth successive week 
that Tom Barron’s White Wyandottes 
lead all other pens; their output this 
week was 55. Stores Agricultural Sta¬ 
tion pen No. 37 of It. I. Reds was only 
one egg behind, 54 being their score, and 
a Connecticut pen also takes third place, 
Branford Farm’s White Rocks laying 53. 
None of the White Leghorns touched the 
50 mark, but the pen of Light Sussex en¬ 
tered by Dr. E. K. Conrad of New Jersey 
laid 52, and B. 1*. Nase’s pen of White 
Orpingtons laid 50. 
This is the time of the year when 
young chicks are coming out, and many 
beginners would be thankful for a little 
instruction as to how to feed and care 
for them. The chick comes out of the 
shell with the whole yolk of the egg in 
its body, and if this yolk has not been 
hardened by overheating in incubation, 
it will all be absorbed by the chick in a 
few days. But this does not mean that 
i he chick requires no other food. Nature 
does not like sudden changes, and I have 
found nothing better than hard-boiled 
eggs (the infertiles tested out are all right 
for this) chopped very fine and mixed 
with stale bread crumbs. The difficulty 
in this is that the chicks like the taste of 
rhe egg so well that, they won’t eat any¬ 
thing else, if they can get enough of the 
egg. Therefore feed but a little at a 
time, and wait until that is cleaned up 
before you feed more. Add rolled oats, 
line cracked wheat, fine cracked corn, to 
rhe scratch feed, as they get older. Get 
some coarse sand and feed the chopped 
egg on that, it will stick to the egg, and 
the chicks will get some grit into their 
gizzards in that way. A dry mash com¬ 
posed of bran, middlings, cornmeal, ground 
oats (sifted to get out the hulls) with a 
pound of fine charcoal to each 50 pounds 
of mash, and a little salt, should be kept 
where they help themselves. I found that 
20% of ground'Alfalfa made a good addi¬ 
tion to this dry mash. But if possible to 
obtain, don't fail to feed milk. Dip the 
chick’s beak in sour milk, or give it two or 
three drops from a pen filler, as soon as 
taken from the nest. There is an ele¬ 
ment of growth in milk that nothing else 
seems to contain. Milk-fed chicks will 
grow right away from chicks of the same 
lot fed just the same except the milk. 
Feed the milk in granite-ware pans one 
inch or so deep, with inch mesh poultry 
wire stretched over the top to keep the 
chicks from getting wet and daubed up 
with the milk, and scald out the pans 
every day or two, with boiling water. 
The week’s record follows: 
Barred Rocks. 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
Frank I,. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 
Francis I,. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
Jules J. Francais, flew York. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
0. A. Foster, California . 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 
Hranford Farms, Connecticut. 
Mranford Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
Hranford Farms, -Connecticut. 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Ilall, Connecticut. 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Ed. Cam, England . 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 
Neale Bros.. Rhode Island. 
Mrs. J D.-Beck, Connecticut. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Mapledale Farm. Connecticut. 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York... 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Dr. ,T. 0. Dingman, New York. 
Hillview Poultry Farm, Vermont.... 
Homer P. Doming, Connecticut. 
(’has. O. Polhemus, New York. 
H. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 
John Backus, Vermont . 
W. Ii. Bumstead, Connecticut.. 
I’lnecrest Orchards, Massachusetts... 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 
Colouial Farm, New Hampshire. 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut.„ 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. peu, Conu. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn, 
ituray New-Yorker, New York City.. 
S. (J. McLean, Connecticut. 
Springdale Farm, Connecticut. 
1>. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 
II. W Sanborn. Massachusetts. 
Albert R. Ford, Connecticut. 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Apr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn, 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
American Dominiques. 
ii. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
George Bowles, Connecticut. 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Penn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
( cell Guernsey, New York. 
•Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
• has N. st. John, New York. 
•\*y H. Ernisse, New York. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
^, torrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
, Kollln S. Woodruff, Connecticut 
•’"id sweep Farm. Connecticut. 
'.i lm y s H. Lord, Massachusetts. 
J • Piatt, Pennsylvania. 
Dictograph Farm, New York 
}'• M - Peasley. Connecticut.”! 
(- has. Hoigl, Ohio . 
Week 
Total 
44 
543 
49 
490 
31 
343 
29 
287 
29 
307 
49 
392 
3(5 
303 
35 
285 
44 
187 
63 
240 
38 
218 
33 
201 
33 
301 
55 
554 
42 
007 
37 
413 
20 
450 
17 
414 
345 
333 
33 
445 
31 
200 
34 
401 
30 
414 
19 
201 
40 
480 
30 
299 
48 
621 
84 
352 
48 
378 
34 
295 
42 
444 
24 
238 
43 
494 
35 
428 
32 
500 
43 
330 
54 
403 
48 
325 
42 
280 
43 
333 
48 
479 
44 
316 
32 
400 
17 
102 
30 
209 
27 
190 
20 
432 
25 
297 
33 
382 
23 
309 
30 
350 
30 
336 
29 
283 
19 
175 
22 
312 
41 
338 
27 
360 
24 
309 
30 
425 
21 
207 
30 
451 
32 
200 
30 
432 
35 
210 
39 
401 
28 
148 
Tub Barron, England . 
40 
430 
Edhvartl Cam, England . 
10 
218 
Ceo. M. McMillan. Missouri. 
48 
325 
Win. II. Lyon. New York. 
37 
204 
Happieh & Dauks. New York. 
38 
358 
A. 1’. Robinson. New York. 
43 
523 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 
35 
391 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
40 
241 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
39 
349 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
40 
337 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
43 
347 
Anna Dean Farm. Ohio . 
25 
110 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
20 
251 
A. S. Sondregger. Connecticut. 
18 
320 
S. J: Rogers, New York. 
38 
277 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm, Penn. 
32 
280 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock. Connecticut... 
40 
318 
Toth Bros., Connecticut. 
30 
257 
James V. Thomas, New York. 
43 
302 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 
30 
203 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 
14 
104 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm. Michigan... 
4L 
171 
o. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 
30 
251 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinsou, England . 
410 
Silver Campines. 
Uneowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut.. 
39 
302 
Lewis E. Prlokett, Connecticut. 
33 
234 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey. 
52 
240 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland. 
32 
203 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Pennoek, Florida. 
27 
128 
<lbed S. Knight. Rhode Island. 
41 
315 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 
50 
205 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Penn.... 
20 
184 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
29 
250 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Yarded Hens. 
I always gave hens free range, but wish 
to run a market garden this year, and 
think it less expense to fence chickens 
than garden. _ How large ought the lots 
to be for 25 hens and one cockerel? 
Should they be worked up or remain 
firm? It is a rolling surface facing the 
south, has lots of fine gravel on it. 
Should the grains be fed on this or in the 
houses in litter? I want all eggs for 
hatching. Can hens’ fertility be judged 
by cockerels showing great vigor? 
Virginia. c. M. o. 
There is no standard size for poultry 
runs; the larger they are, the better. 
If so arranged that they can be alternated 
in use and one plowed and cultivated, or 
sown to a grain crop, while the other is 
occupied, they may be kept fresh and 
clean longer than the same amount of 
land constantly occupied. If only the 
garden is to he protected, it will be bet¬ 
ter for the hens and probably no more ex¬ 
pensive to fence that. I should prefer 
to feed the grain in litter in the house 
if the runs were small, though I do not 
know that it matters particularly. If 
strong fertility is desired, free range for 
the fowls is doubly desirable The vigor 
of cockerels may be judged from observa¬ 
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