741 
THE RURA La MEW-YORKEK 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
The twenty-seventh week continues the 
gain, the total number laid during the 
week being 4.244, which is 30 more than 
were laid last week. The White Leg¬ 
horns alone gained 63 over the previous 
week: 22 pens of the White Leghorns laid 
fiO eggs or more, and 50 in over 70 per 
cent of the possible total. White Leg¬ 
horns also take first, second, and third 
place in the week’s record. Tom Barron’s 
pen ties with Happieh & Danks’ pen with 
scores of 57 each for first place, and three 
pens of Leghorns tie for third place with 
scores of 56 each. They are Braeside 
Poultry Farm’s pen. Storrs Experimental 
pen Xo. 60, and Dictograph Farm’s pen. 
Three pens of Leghorns also tie for third 
place, with records of 55 each. They are 
F. M. Beasley’s pen. Branford Farm’s 
pen. and A. S. Sondregger’s pen. Neale 
Bros.’ White Wyandottes laid 54. and 
three pens of White Leghorns laid 54. 
The last report from the contest at 
Mountain Grove. Mo., is devoted largely 
to observations on broodiness in fowls. 
They give a table which shows the aver¬ 
age number of eggs laid by the different 
breeds, and the number of times the hens 
went broody. They deduce the following 
points: 
The best hens lay 188 eggs and go 
broody four times a year. 
Second, it is not safe to assume that 
those that get broody the fewest times 
are the best layers. It is assumed by 
some that a certain number of yolks ma¬ 
ture, and when that “clutch” is all laid, 
the hen goes broody. The Missouri Sta¬ 
tion does not hold to this idea. I quote: 
“We are convinced that broodiness is a 
condition of the brain, and not of the 
body, for at the time she goes broody, she 
is in laying condition, having the egg 
partly developed, but because of staying 
on the nest, lack of exercise, loss of appe¬ 
tite and lack of nourishment, the hen 
takes the egg material back into her body 
and uses it as nourishment just as hens 
do when a change of weather or location 
stops them from laying.” From which I 
deduce that a nestful of eggs is a con¬ 
stant temptation to a hen ; it puts the 
idea of setting into her mind, and she 
often starts to set while she is still laying 
and lays one or two eggs after she has 
made up her mind to set, and has been 
setting for several days. In other words, 
broodiness is an effort of the will, and 
you have to make the hen “change her 
mind” about it, before you can break her 
up. 
The week’s record follows: 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm, Penn__ 
Mrs. TV. B. Whitlock, Connecticut., 
James V. Thomas, New York 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm, Michigan.... 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 
Black Leghorns. 
Barred Rocks. 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 27 
Frauk L. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 41 
Francis L. Lincoln, Connecticut. 34 
.Piles J. Francois, New York. 38 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen, Conn. 32 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pne, Conn. 53 
O. A. Foster, California . 37 
White Rocks. 
Uliert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 38 
Urauforil Farms. Connecticut. 30 
Itranford Farms. Connecticut. 45 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 33 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 34 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Ed. Caui, England . 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island . 
Mrs. J. D. Beck, Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut . 
J. )•’. Byron, Connecticut. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Pr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts... 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York... 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Dr. J. C. Dlngman, New York. 
Jlillview Poultry Farm, Vermont.... 
Homer P. Dealing, Connecticut. 
• 'lias. O. Polhemus, New York. 44 
H. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 41 
•iohn Backus. Vermont . 42 
W. II- Bumstead. Connecticut. 33 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts.. 40 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 42 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 43 
15. Brundage, Connecticut. 53 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 44 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 46 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 42 
G. McLean. Connecticut. 36 
Week Total 
874 
821 
700 
570 
556 
816 
667 
642 
632 
662 
605 
39 682 
52 1,021 
45 1.078 
756 
794 
744 
639 
766 
437 
743 
39 
54 
51 
42 
41 
1 5 
44 
39 722 
38 505 
25 778 
Springdale Farm, Connetieut. 
B. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 
H. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 
Albert It. Ford, Connecticut. 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
American Dominiques. 
H. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
Ceorge Bowles, Connecticut. 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania 
frauds F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
(eeil Guernsey, New York . 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
< lias. N. St. John, New York. 
■lay H. Eruisse, New York. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn, 
storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn. 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff, Connecticut. 
'Viih! sweep Farm, Connecticut . 
.lames H. Lord, Massachusetts. 
i : Platt, Pennsylvania . 
Bietograph Farm, New York. 
Peasley, Connecticut. 
< has. Heigl, Ohio . 
fom Barron, England . 
Edward Cam, England . 
’■ eo - M. McMillan, Missouri . 
Mm. IL Lyon, New York. 
Happieh iV Danks, New York. 
A. P. Robinson, New York. 
22 534 
49 1,043 
47 755 
814 
655 
844 
577 
899 
767 
875 
653 
892 
740 
680 
660 
858 
727 
732 
377 
542 
542 
32 
40 
46 
32 
29 
42 
Silver Campines. 
Uncowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut., 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad. New Jersey... 
Salmon Faverolles. 
White Orpingtons. 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Pa. 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
53 
787 
48 
640 
40 
723 
54 
770 
55 
778 
34 
503 
37 
588 
55 
738 
51 
701 
39 
570 
39 
578 
40 
582 
50 
8X3 
50 
641 
30 
367 
47 
522 
40 
588 
51 
810 
41 
695 
41 
570 
39 
579 
41 
407 
14 
344 
25 
620 
43 
623 
40 
514 
39 
608 
10 604 
38 
50 
43 
51 
56 
40 
30 
52 
46 
50 
45 
50 
52 
54 
49 
47 
56 
55 
44 
57 
50 
50 
44 
57 
54 
604 
744 
034 
742 
742 
004 
454 
647 
719 
732 
700 
849 
555 
843 
590 
775 
626 
901 
498 
889 
594 
744 
042 
768 
949 
Egg-bound Hens. 
I have recently lost two laying S. C. 
White Leghorn pullets, and now a third 
one is showing similar symptoms, out of 
a flock of 40 divided between two open- 
front houses, built on Government speci¬ 
fications. They have difficulty in laying, 
accompanied by hemorrhage and appar¬ 
ently some obstruction of the oviduct. 
What remedy may be suggested? 
Virginia. o. M. s. 
Heavy laying fowls, particularly pul¬ 
lets, are subject to inflammation of the 
oviduct or to obstruction of that chan¬ 
nel, a condition known as being egg- 
bound. If, through straining to lay an 
over-sized egg, or from some other cause 
the parts become everted, other hens are 
apt to peck at the red mass protruding 
from the vent and eventually kill the 
fowl. Hens or pullets that go frequently 
to the nests and fail to lay, or those that 
strain and drag their hind parts upon 
the ground, or pass bloody eggs, should 
be removed from the flock and placed by 
themselves where they may be kept quiet 
and sparingly fed upon soft food. A dose 
of castor oil, or one of salts, sufficient to 
thoroughly empty the bowels is good 
treatment and in cases where severe in¬ 
flammation or rupture of the oviduct is 
not present the fowl should recover. 
Other cases where the parts have become 
torn or an infectious inflammation has 
become set up will finally die, however, 
and there is little that can be done for 
them. The general remedy for this con¬ 
dition in a flock seems to be avoidance 
of over-stimulating foods and over-crowd¬ 
ing for egg production and breeding only 
from hens that have shown ability to 
stand up under modern codnitions of 
heavy laying. m. b. d. 
Hen Questions. 
1. Is the ordinary sour milk used in 
cooking suitable to use for the treatment 
of bowel trouble? Would you advise giv¬ 
ing it as a first drink to prevent it? 
Does it have to be a certain degree of 
sourness? 2. What causes three or four- 
day-old chicks to tumble over and kick 
for five or 10 minutes? Sometimes I 
can’t tell them from the others and more 
often ends in bowel trouble. It first ap¬ 
peared two years ago in a hatch of 150 
eggs I bought; raised nearly all of them, 
though eight or 10 would tumble at once. 
8. Would hens laying well from Thanks¬ 
giving on cause trouble in the hatch? 
Mine laid but few in November and by 
February 1 was getting 50 eggs from 
200 hens, Brown Leghorns and B. P. 
Bocks, 11 roosters, and shut up most of 
the time. Every dumpy one goes to town 
as soon as noticed. Flock now 180; 
laid 91 eggs the day after I set the incu¬ 
bators. Six infertile out of .300 eggs but 
50 were dead the fourteenth day. Eggs 
kept in a temperature of 62 and gath¬ 
ered while still warm, none over four 
days old when set; hatched 202. 4. What 
makes the egg yolk in the last hatched 
chickens explode about 24 hours after 
hatching? Last year I never lost one 
by sickness in the first three hatches 
and do not think the fault in the manage¬ 
ment there. 5. What causes crops to 
puff up, even when they are five and 
six weeks old? e. s. s. 
Nebraska. 
1. Ordinary skimmed milk, soured, is 
to be used for food and for its prevent¬ 
ive value in the diarrhoea of chickens. 
It need be of no particular degree of aci¬ 
dity, perhaps the sourer the better, but 
should not have reached a stage of de¬ 
composition. Pains should he taken to 
keep the utensils in which it is fed clean. 
For its greatest value it should be fed 
at the start, and continuously. 
2. Indigestion would account for the 
“spasms” of young chicks which you de¬ 
scribe, very much as it will for many of 
those of infants. 
3. Hens that lay well all Winter will 
not produce eggs in the Spring that equal 
in the vigor of their germs those of hens 
that take a IVinter’s rest; their eggs may 
hatch fairly well, however. By the way, 
what happens to those “dumpy” hens 
that “go to town?” 
4. If you mean that the yolks of the 
unhatched eggs explode, this means that 
the eggs have rotted in the incubator and 
that the confined gas finally bursts the 
shell. If you mean that the yolks ex¬ 
plode within the chicks, this phenomenon 
is unknown to me and I guess that we 
will have to ascribe it to that universal 
“goat,” the European war. 
5. Overfeeding and indigestion, or 
souring of the crop contents, are the only 
reasons that I can ascribe to account 
for puffed crops in young chicks. I am 
very much inclined to credit your own 
skill and care with the success that you 
have attained in chick rearing and do 
not believe that you need to depend Upon 
any proprietary chick foods. Your plan 
of. removing and killing every dumpy 
chick is most excellent and economical 
in the long run. m. b. d. 
Poor Hatches. 
Our first hatch from the ii ubator has 
arived, and there are 13 chicks out of 
112 eggs. We have opened lots of the 
eggs and found half-grown and nearly 
full-grown chicks in them. The incu¬ 
bator has not varied at all to speak of; 
it was placed in the collar, eggs were 
turned every day, etc. The only excuse 
we can think of is; there is no circula¬ 
tion of air in the cellar. The ventilator 
holes in the three sides of the incubator 
(one in each side) are about one-quarter 
inch in diameter. Is that large enough? 
Last year our success was just about as 
above. Can you suggest where we are 
at fault? e. P. A. 
New York. 
The most frequent complaint from in¬ 
cubator users is of dead chicks in the 
shell, and various reasons are assigned 
for this. In some cases, there have been 
accidents while the incubator was run¬ 
ning that would account for none but the 
most vigorous germs reaching full devel¬ 
opment and leaving the shell, in others, 
there is no evident reason why so many 
fully developed chicks should fail to 
emerge from their covering. Incubator 
cellars should be well ventilated but the 
ordinary house cellar should accommo¬ 
date a 112 egg machine with no special 
provision for ventilation; an open win¬ 
dow upon one side is ordinarily sufficient. 
The provision for ventilation in the ma¬ 
chine itself may safely be left to the 
manufacturer. My personal opinion is 
that in the. majority of cases of this kind 
the fault lies back of the incubator, and 
may be found in lack of vigor in breed¬ 
ing stock. Hens are closely confined 
through the YVinter and heavily fed; 
many times the breeders have laid well 
nearly all Winter and approach Spring 
with diminished vitality due to these 
causes. As a consequence, the eggs, 
while fertile, do not contain germs of the 
highest vigor and, under the handicap 
of artificial methods of hatching, these 
germs fail to reach full development or, 
if they accomplish that, fail to break 
through the shell and emerge. The only 
remedy that I can suggest, in our pres¬ 
ent state of knowledge, is to maintain 
our breeding pens under different condi¬ 
tions from those surrounding the Winter 
layers. More freedom, more exercise, 
ample feeding but avoidance of attempts 
to force laying during the natural rest¬ 
ing season of the hen. This is compar¬ 
atively expensive, but is growing more 
and more necessary. m. b. d. 
BaDy Clilclis 
S. C. W. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R. 
I. REDS 
Purebred. 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL, 
Sodus. N. Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Baby Chicks 
Barron Strain, imported direct. Also Famous American 
Bred Layers. I guarantee sale arrival of strong, properly 
hatched chicks. Can supply in thousand lots on three 
weeks’notice. 8 CENTS EACH and up. HATCHING 
EGGS shipped promptly. WRITE FOR CIRCULARS. 
R. T. EWING, ATLANTIC, PA. 
30,000 CHICKS for 1915 
Following ure my remarkable low prices for chicks from 
farm-raised Utility Stock: 25 . 60 .100 lots 
S. C. W.Leghorns.$2.75 $5.00 $0.00 
Burred Bocks. 8.00 5.60 10.00 
kite Wyandottes. 8.00 5.50 10.00 
Broiler Chicks. 2.00 8.75 7.00 
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Winners at Storrs and Missouri. Trap-uested 20 
years. 282-egg strain. Pure blood, male and fe¬ 
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pens, $2. 1’. F. KAFFKKTV, Marlboro, Mass. 
CHICKS 
8c., C. O. D Alonev back for dead ones. Pam¬ 
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When you write advertisers mention 
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TOM BARRON’S 
WINNING WYANDOTTE PENS 
PA. CONTEST: W1NNER8 In eggs and value: 
aver. 236. “Rareness V’ laid 2S2 era* ; other.. 274. 2o"* 
CONN. CONTEST: W IN N EKS in value ; aver. 
80S I,', ; 2nd Prize in eggs. 
MISSOURI CONTEST: 2nd PRIZE, likely: 
aver. 210. Rarron Leghorns, 281 : IlnlT Hock*. 2SO: 
Vibert Reds, 247. Prize Itonens. Big: Toulouse Reese. 
CPFFI A I TII7Q * have li'e'y Imported (he HIGH 
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Eggs Half-Price After June 1st 
MORRIS-FARM, R. 4, Bridgeport, Conn. 
White Wyandottes 
“REGAL STRAIN” 
Eggs for Hatching from heavy laying Standard bred 
birds. Free farm range. Also a beautiful flock of 
breeders for sale at $2 each for liens in lots of five or 
over. Also breeding pens mated for best results. 
E. B. UNDERHILL, Old Orchard Farm, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y 
Barron ^Vvandotte *nd Leghorn Epps, $1.50. 
Ijcl,rrul1 J^nuuuc Cockerels and pullets, 
dams records 203 to 284, including Barron Contest 
entries, $2.00 up. BARRON FARM, CONNELLSVILLE- PA. 
WYANDOTTES —“Ingleside quality,” large, pure white 
l-nested exhibition-utility strain. Eggs, *1.60 per 15 ; 
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W HITE 
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Light Brahmas Only-^f^^ 0 ^: 
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200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
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White Rocks - ; Strain). Eggs, $1 per 
TV line rvLJL.IV5 ]5 Baliy chicks, $12 per 100 
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Comb Rhode Island Reds~ Dark red 
Single wvmu IIIIVUC laidiiu ncua farm raised 
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MAHOGANY STRAIN s c RH00E island reds 
Breeders selected each 
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8 Giant Bronze Turkey Hens at r onxe- 
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WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
eleven. H. \V. Anderson, Stewartstown, Pa. 
DRONZE TURKEY EGGS—twenty-five cents 
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For Sale, 35c each, delivered, anywhere in the U.S. Fine 
large birds, imported stock. Crandall Farms, Albffiu, N.Y. 
White Eggs from Fawu and White Runner 
for 12. 
— — Ducks, at reduced prices. 60 cts. 
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MAY JUNE JULY 
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vfii* 0 -c£ a, :V on crosses same prices. 
AY HITMAN IARM, Shelburne Falls, Mass. 
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