THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
575 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
The number of eggs laid in the twenty- 
first week, ending March 28, was 4,026. 
This is good laying for 1,000 hens, it’s 
over 57 per cent. The gain over the pre¬ 
vious week is 151. D. E. Warner’s pen 
of R. I. Reds from Rhode Island, tried 
hard to beat Tom Barron’s White Wyan- 
dottes, but it was a “dead heat,” each pen 
laid 54. The race will be tried out next 
week. Leghorns are getting into the 
scrap now. Branford Farm’s pen tie for 
second place this week, with Chas. O. 
Polhemus’s pen of R. I. Reds, each pen 
laying 53. Pen No. 11 of Branford 
Farm’s White P. Rocks take third place 
with a score of 52. Four pens laid 51 
each. They are Storrs Barred Rocks, 
Branford Farm’s pen No. 9 of White P. 
Rocks; John Backus’ pen of R. I. Reds, 
and B. I’. Nase’s pen of White Orping¬ 
tons. N. W. ITendryx’s White Leghorns 
laid 44 eggs, which made their total 444. 
a string of 4s. Such a combination would 
not occur again in a thousand years. I 
am informed that a Connecticut pen of 
White Wyandottes owned by William E. 
Boss of Eagleville, has just made the com¬ 
plete possible score at the North Ameri¬ 
can contest at Newark, Del. It often 
happens that a small pen will lay 100 per 
cent, one day; but that they should do 
this for seven days In succession is re¬ 
markable. W. J. Tilley’s White P. Rocks 
did it some years ago at the Storrs con¬ 
test, but one of the seven successive days 
was on the next week. Their score for a 
week was one egg short of the possible 
total. The week’s score follows : 
Barred Rocks. 
Jules J. Franoais, New York. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen, Conn. 
O. A. Foster, California . 40 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. T.enzen, Massachusetts... 
hranford Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut- 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 3o 
Buff Rocks, 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Ed. Cam, England . 
Merrythought Farm. Connecticut... 
Neale Bros.. Rhode Island. 
Mrs .T. D. Beck. Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen, Conn 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut . 
.T, F. Byron, Connecticut . 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Pr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York.. 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut... 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Pr. .T. C. Pingman. New York. 
Hillview Poultry Farm, Vermont... 
Homer P. Peming. Connecticut. 
Chas. 0. Polhemns. New York. 
FT. M. Bai'ey, Connecticut. 
John Backus, Vermont. 
W. H. Bumstcad'. Connecticut. 
Pinecrost Orchards. Massachusetts.. 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 
Colonial Farm. N-"v Hampshire- 
A. B. Brundage. Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Staff , Exp. pen, Conn 
Storrs Agr. StnHon, Exp. pen, ( tin 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City, 
s. G. McLean, Connecticut.... 
Springdale Farm. Connecticut. 
1). E. Warner. Rhode Island.. 
II. W. Sanborn, '.Massachusetts 
Albert R. Ford Connecticut... 
Light Brahmas 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn 
Starrs Ag . Station, i'.-p. pen. Conn 
• American Dominiques. 
II. B. Hiller, Connecticut... 
Wlilie Leghorns 
A. B. nnll. Connecticut. 
George Bowles. Connecticut.... 
Ellis W. Bentley. New York.. 
X. W. nondrvx, Connecticut.. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Penn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
Cecil Guernsey, New York.... 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
Chas. N. St. John. New York.. 
.lav II. Ernisse. New York.... 
Storrs Agr. StnHon, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Mrs. Roliin S. Woodruff, Connecticut 
Wind swoop Farm. Connoetiout. 
.Tames IT. Lord. Massachusetts. 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania . 
Dictograph Farm. New Yirk. 
F. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Edward Cam, England . 
Geo. M. McMillan. Missouri. 
Win. n. Lyon, New York. 
llapnich A- Banks. New York. 
A. I’. Robinson. New York. 
Manor Poultry Farm. New York. 
Branford Farms, ConnectJcut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 
S. J. Rogers. New York. 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm. Penn. 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut... 
Toth Bros., Connecticut . 
.Tames V Thomas, New York. 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorn 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm. Michigan.... 
0. L. Mngrey, Connecticut. 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 
Silver Campines. 
Ilncowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut.. 
Lewis E. Prickett Connecticut.. 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad,, New Jersey.. 
Salmon Favorolles 
Doughorcgan Farm, Maryland... 
Week 
Total 
37 
661 
41 
619 
41 
446 
32 
388 
39 
389 
51 
539 
4G 
420 
44 
409 
51 
340 
46 
381 
52 
360 
35 
378 
46 
427 
54 
718 
44 
801 
41 
532 
37 
548 
32 
506 
40 
450 
36 
551 
32 
353 
35 
509 
34 
520 ^ 
34 
291 
41 
582 
33 
398 
43 
761 
45 
a 
53 
\.z! 
41 
414 
51 
584 
45 
348 
50 
638 
39 
531 
43 
614 
45 
44! 
48 
618 
44 
471 
47 
427 
23 
439 
47 
(ill 
54 
469 
S3 
512 1 
20 
222 I 
40 
322 
41 
303 
22 
494 
39 
399 
34 
487 
36 
392 
44 
44 1 
46 
457 
32 
374 
• 
"58 
.13 
389 
28 
462 
43 
479 
39 
480 
50 
548 
32 
310 
48 
564 
43 
331 
39 
r>.32 
43 
335 
50 
599 
38 
261 
48 
576 
44 
310 
47 
451 
45 
385 
38 
477 
43 
666 
40 
515 
43 
363 
45 
467 
45 
474 
5.3 
492 
46 
257 
37 
360 
47 
438 
47 
410 
29 
372 
49 
426 
352 
46 
504 
43 
s. 
388 
19 
171 
41 
5>9F 
36 
31-4 
40 
535 
477 
38 
348 
41 
378 
28 
273 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Pennock, Florida. 2t 207 
Obed S. Knight, Rhode Island. 25 417 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 01 304 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Penn.... 35 291 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 39 359 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Poor Hatchings. 
1. The eggs from my Plymouth Rock 
hens are not hatching well, 10-20%. 
Eggs are fertile 85%, but germs die at 
all stages. Have been feeding about one- 
third of total ration a wet mash com¬ 
posed of stale bread and mixed feed, also 
considerable rye bread dry, the rest of ra¬ 
tion being whole corn and Cornell dry 
mash, all they will eat of both. The egg 
yield has been satisfactory but do not 
hatch properly. I also feed Alfalfa and 
turnips. Does the excessive feeding of 
wet mash or rye bread prevent eggs from 
hatching? 2. Have you a rational treat¬ 
ment for depluming mites? It persists in 
some of my hens year after year. 
Massachusetts. c. A. R. 
1 . I should look for this lack of strong 
fertility in some other source than your 
method of feeding, though your total ra¬ 
tion is somewhat low in protein. The dry 
mash is well balanced in this respect but 
your bread, corn, and mixed wheat feed 
are fattening in their nature, and, being 
fed after moistening, the fowls probably 
eat more heartily of these than of the less 
palatable dry mash. Close confinement 
through the Winter with heavy feeding 
and heavy laying are incompatible with ; 
vigorous fertility, and it is in these. ' 
rather than in the feeding, that I should 
expect to find your trouble. 
2 . I think that you will bo able to rid 
your fowls of the depluming mites by 
rubbing into the bare skin over the af¬ 
fected parts a simple sulphur ointment 
made up with vaseline, or by adding to 
vaseline not more than one fourth part 
of blue ointment. The latter ointment is 
the more efficacious hut also needs to be 
used with more care. The treatment may 
need to be repeated once or twice at in¬ 
tervals of ten days. Persistence should 
conquer the mite. M. B. d. 
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