THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
817 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
The thirtieth week of the contest, end¬ 
ing May 30. shows a gain over the pre¬ 
vious week of 126 eggs. This is the time 
of year when Leghorns show up well in 
the egg basket. They take ail the first 
four places this week. Windsweep Farm’s 
pen. Connecticut, taking first place with 
a score of 39—which is over 84 per cent— 
closely followed by Tom Barron’s pen 
with a score of 58, and Braeside Poultry 
Farm’s pen is only one egg behind Bar¬ 
ron’s, score 57. N. W. Hendryx’s pen. 
Connecticut, laid 56. Seventeen pens of 
White Leghorns laid 50 or more, also .T. 
Collinson’s pen of Black Leghorns laid 51 
which makes 18 pens of Leghorns laying 
50 or over, against three pens of all the 
other breeds laying that many. In the 
totals five pens of Leghorns have passed 
the 1.000 egg mark, three pens of R. I. 
Reds have done the same, also two pens 
of White Wyandottes. 
This seems to have been a very bad 
season for hatching. A well-known 
breeder writes me that he has had to du¬ 
plicate nearly all his orders, on account 
of poor hatches. Very frequently this is 
not chargeable to infertile eggs, but is due 
to careless or rough handling by express 
companies. I recently sent 39 eggs to a 
customer in New Jersey who has a dark 
room with a hole in the side where the 
sun can shine through the egg. He tested 
the eggs as soon as received and found 
every one with the contents liquefied, the 
air space being at the top when the egg 
was held horizontally, instead of at the 
big end where it should be. Although no 
shell had been cracked, yet they had been 
so jarred that the membrane between 
white and yolk was broken and the con¬ 
tents mixed up. This is done probably by 
throwing the packages from the express 
wagon to a man at the door who catches 
them—if he doesn’t miss—and throws 
them down on the floor. An amateur 
would have set these eggs, and later re¬ 
port “every egg infertile.” If 100 or 
more eggs are ordered they will go more 
safely in an ordinary commercial egg 
crate than in any other way. The crate 
is so thin and fragile that he does not 
dare to throw it; he has no time to look 
at labels, but he instantly knows it is an 
egg crate, therefore it is carried and not 
thrown. If the Government would fur¬ 
nish hampers to carry fragile mail mat¬ 
ter, as they do in Europe, instead of put¬ 
ting it in mail bags along with iron cast¬ 
ings. or wooden boxes, then parcel post 
would be the best way to send eggs for 
hatching. 
The week’s report follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week 
Merritt M. Clark. Connecticut. 38 
Frank I,. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 2t! 
Francis L. I.ineoln, Connecticut. 43 
Jules J. Franeais, New York. 33 
Storrs Apr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn. 27 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. r>4 
O. A. Foster California . 39 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 17 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 3. r > 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 53 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 37 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 38 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Ed. Cam. 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. 
Maplednle 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. J. C. Dingman. New York. 
Hillview Poultry Farm. Vermont.... 
Homer P. Detning. Connecticut. 
(’has. O. Polhemus. New York. 
II. M. Bailey. Connecticut . 
John Backus, Vermont . 
W. H. Bumstead. Connecticut. 
Pinecrest Orchards. Massachusetts... 
Harry 1$. Cook, Connecticut. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 
A. B. Brundage. Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
Rural New-Yorker. New York City.. 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut. 
Springdale Farm. Connecticut. 
D. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 
H. W. Sanborn. Massachusetts. 
Albert R. Ford, Connecticut. 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
American Dominiques. 
II. B. Ililler, 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. 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
Chas. N. St. John. New York. 
Jay II. Ernisse, New York. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn. 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn. 
Mrs. Rollin S. Wood'ruff. Connecticut 
Windsweep Farm. Connecticut. 
Janies II. Lord. Massachusetts. 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 
Dictograph Farm. New York. 
F. M. I’easley. Connecticut. 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Edward Cam. England . 
Geo. M. McMillan. Missouri. 
Wm. II. Lyon, New York. 
Happich & Danks. New York. 
A. I*. Robinson. New York. 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
28 
46 
40 
38 
47 
47 
48 
47 
39 
31 
30 
45 
41 
45 
44 
47 
44 
80 
44 
41 
38 
33 
42 
31 
41 
33 
40 
28 
46 
50 
39 
34 
24 
38 
7 
31 
54 
45 
56 
57 
31 
84 
39 
42 
39 
43 
53 
35 
59 
51 
53 
54 
82 
48 
58 
52 
50 
40 
51 
32 
40 
50 
Total 
987 
912 
830 
701 
639 
966 
779 
709 
743 
819 
731 
681 
771 
1,154 
1.196 
874 
941 
887 
770 
916 
:>;>!> 
832 
843 
623 
881 
647 
1,173 
901 
919 
771 
967 
689 
1,007 
872 
993 
761 
1.014 
848 
822 
734 
972 
862 
841 
476 
610 
640 
627 
700 
879 
768 
903 
908 
711 
543 
771 
861 
868 
892 
1,009 
693 
1,010 
745 
922 
781 
1.058 
(>41 
1.061 
751 
891 
764 
920 
1,066 
918 
781 
Branford Farms. Connecticut. 
49 
856 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
53 
924 
Branford Farms Connecticut. 
51 
933 
Anna Dean Farm. Ohio. 
38 
616 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
37 
699 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 
8. J. Rogers, New York. 
44 
872 
49 
852 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm. Penn. 
40 
099 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut... 
27 
662 
Toth Bros., Connecticut. 
37 
693 
James V. Thomas, New York. 
54 
972 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 
38 
77G 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place. Connecticut. 
41 
500 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm, Michigan.... 
39 
647 
o L. Magrey, Connecticut. 
42 
725 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 
51 
964 
Silver Campines. 
TTncowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut. 
38 
825 
Lewis E. Frickett, Connecticut. 
38 
688 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey. 
27 
658 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland. 
33 
575 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Pennock, Florida. 
14 
379 
Obed’ 8 Knight Rhode Island. 
40 
713 
B. I’. Nase, Connecticut. 
34 
734 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Penn.... 
40 
638 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
43 
719 
Logwood for Chicks. 
Will you give recipe for logwood that 
is given to chickens for white diarrhoea? 
Is the extract of logwood, or the bark 
used? My chickens have been dying at 
the rate of a dozen a day. They have 
sour milk every day, but die just the 
same. c. E. s. 
Massachusetts. 
I do not know of the use of logwood 
for white diarrhoea, and if this disease 
is of the germ type, am very sure that 
logwood in any form would be of no use. 
Either the solid extract, the fluid extract, 
or a decoction made by boiling the log¬ 
wood might be used. This wood contains 
tannic acid and is astringent, making it 
useful in serous, or watery, diarrhoea, 
but, so far as I know, it is of no avail 
in true bacillary white diarrhoea of 
chicks. This latter disease depends upon 
an infection which may come through 
the droppings or litter of diseased fowls 
or even through the eggs laid by infected 
hens. Sour milk fed early and continu¬ 
ously acts as a preventive, to some ex¬ 
tent, but hatching from disease-free 
stock and keeping the chicks where they 
cannot come in contact with old or young 
fowls' carrying the germs of the disease 
seems as yet the only effectual method of 
avoiding the heavy losses due to it. 
M. B. D. 
Death of Young Chicks. 
I purchased 500 chicks and put them 
in a brooder house 10x14 feet, in which 
I have a coal stove brooder. This house 
stands in a clover field. I did not feed 
them until the afternoon of the day after 
they arrived, when I gave them hard- 
boiled eggs mixed with rolled oats, which 
I kept before them but a short time. I 
fed this for several meals and then gave 
them cracked grains, about equal parts of 
wheat, corn and rolled oats. I have a 
coarse sand on the floor together with 
a lot of hay chaff for them to scratch 
in. Water is before the chicks all the time. 
In addition to the water I had one jar 
in which I had sour milk, which I 
thought would be a good preventive of 
white diarrhoea. I fed the chicks about 
five times a day, and commencing from 
the fourth day they commenced to die 
about 15, 20 or so a day, until now I 
have lost over 200, about 2*4 weeks after 
having received them. On the fifth day 
I stopped feeding the sour milk, as I got 
the idea that was what was causing 
them to die. This was whole milk that 
was left to stand until it was sour, and 
by the time it was in the brooder house 
it was in a thick condition. The chicks 
seemed to go wild for it. A friend has 
told me since that he. lost many chicks 
through feeding sour milk, and I would 
like to have your advice. From what 
I have read since I judge I should have 
used skim-milk. I now feed a dry mash 
of bran, cornmeal, middlings and about 
10% beef scrap twice a day and for the 
other three meals give them the cracked 
corn, cracked wheat and rolled oats as 
before. 1 have not changed the litter 
since I have had the chicks, about 2% 
weeks. Would this have much, if anything, 
to do with the chicks dying? I have let 
the chicks out on the ground, and grass 
for a while on each nice day. 
Pennsylvania. f. p. s. 
It is impossible for anyone not per¬ 
sonally acquainted with all the conditions 
surrounding these chicks to say what 
caused their death. There are many pos¬ 
sibilities involved; over feeding upon 
suitable foods may be as fatal as giving 
unsuitable food. Dry mashes are very safe 
for the amateur to use; chicks will not 
overeat of these if given constant access 
to them. Dry hard grains are also less 
likely to be given in excess than moist 
mashes, though the latter are needed to 
produce the best results. Soured skim- 
milk is usually used as it is, of course, 
much cheaper than whole milk but I 
know of no reason why the latter should 
not be as good, or even better. It is very 
easy to ascribe tin* death of chicks to 
some particular feature of their care, 
without any real knowledge that this 
feature is responsible. Sour milk has 
certainly proven its value, and no one 
need fear to nse it freely. Young chicks 
frequently do well for several days and 
then succumb to some inherited, or ac¬ 
quired, deficiency which only personal 
knowledge of all the conditions involved 
will detect. m. b. d. 
Chicks Killed by Sand. 
A correspondent from Connecticut 
sends the following report of a rather un¬ 
usual occurrence, but one which, because 
of its demonstrated possibility, should 
place poultrymen on their guard. 
“I have just lost almost all of a flock 
of 400 chicks from distended gizzards due 
to eating too much sand grit. They could 
get no food through them, as their giz¬ 
zards were chock full, and they died off 
regularly. I put in some sods and a gen¬ 
erous supply of sand about the third day, 
and they ate that sand for hours just 
like food. This has been a costly exper¬ 
ience for me. There is doubtless no dan¬ 
ger with chicks under hens or brooder 
chicks that are allowed to run out doors 
for grit.” 
The writer has never used sand on the 
brooder floors, as is so often recommended, 
and gives only commei’cial chick grit 
scattered lightly over the food or in the 
litter. The source from which the above 
report comes leaves no doubt as to its 
reliability, and it will evidently repay 
poultrymen using sand if they will watch 
a newly hatched brood of chicks until the 
latter have learned to discriminate be¬ 
tween food and grit. m. b. d. 
Chicks Pick One Another. 
What causes chicks to pick one an¬ 
other? The last two weeks I had about 
50 which were picked until they nearly 
bled to death. My mash is made up of 
one quart middlings, one quart cornmeal, 
one quart ground oats, two quarts bran 
and two quarts beef scraps. I feed a 
good chick feed. Feed and water before 
them all the time. I have a run which 
is 50x80 which has plenty of greens in 
it. They are kept out of the house all 
day. Could you tell me what the trouble 
is? j. ii. 
New York. 
The habit of killing each other is not 
confined to humans; chicks often acquire 
it, and, having once obtained a taste of 
blood, show a persistency worthy of civil¬ 
ized Europeans. Idleness and curiosity 
seem, usually, to lie at the bottom of 
this vice; chicks peck at each other’s 
feet until they have drawn blood; the 
taste of this infuriates them and they 
chase their victim until they have killed 
him. I know of no reliable remedy; 
hanging a piece of raw meat where they 
can peck at it has been recommended in 
these columns by a most successful poul- 
tryman, and is, consequently, worth try¬ 
ing. I have known grown fowls to kill 
and devour each other even while being 
fed upon raw beef in all the quantity that 
they would eat. Giving chicks their lib¬ 
erty and watching carefully to remove 
any that have been peeked and injured 
will overcome mild cases of the trouble, 
some severe cases seem almost hopeless. 
Furnish the chicks with grit and a little 
lime in the shape of finely crushed oys¬ 
ter shell and keep them as busy as pos¬ 
sible out of doors. This, with watching, 
is about all that I can suggest. Others 
may know of some infallible remedy, I 
do not. m. B. D. 
Loss of Chicks. 
I would like to know what ails my 
chicks. When three or four days old 
they begin to look droopy and soon both 
eyes become closed, but not swollen or 
watery. Thinking it a contagious dis¬ 
ease we killed the first half dozen, but 
that did no good as others got it and 
lived three or four days and died. There 
were at first 40 with two hens in a col¬ 
ony house 3x10 feet with open front. 
There are now but 25 three weeks old, 
and about half of them look well and are 
growing. The others have closed eyes 
and I suppose will die. We are sure they 
are not lousy. They are fed commercial 
chick feed in litter from hay mow, also 
some bread scraps slightly moistened. 
They drink pure water from glass can 
fountain. j. c. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Many chicks die without showing de¬ 
finite symptoms of any disease. Where 
no diarrhoea or other obvious trouble is 
present, about all that we can say is 
that they lack sufficient vitality to live. 
They start well, but soon begin to droop, 
close their eyes, stagger around for a 
day or two and expire. There is, of 
course, some definite cause for this, but 
I do not know that anyone knows what 
it is. In my experience late-hatched chicks 
suffer the most and this leads me to 
think tha-t deficient vitality in the par¬ 
ent stock, due to improper care or long- 
continued laying, is primarily responsi¬ 
ble. Very likely there is some infection 
which these inherently weak chicks do 
not resist ..s their more robust brothers 
do. but what that infection may be I do 
not know. The strong members of the 
flock will live and thrive with proper 
care, but I know of nothing that will 
save those that seem destined to perish 
from sheer lack of vitality. The remedy 
is to hatch from parent stock of known 
vigor and to give the young chicks such 
care as will preserve the vitality with 
which they start in life. m. b. d. 
TOM BARRON’S 
WINNING WYANDOTTE PENS 
I* A. (’OXTICST: WINNEKS In epfr* ami value: 
aver. 226. “Baroness V” laid 282 ejrirs ; others, 274.252. 
(ONN. CONTEST: WINNERS in value; aver. 
208?-£ j 2nd Prize in ejjg*. 
MISSOURI CONTEST: 2nd PRIZE, likely: 
aver. 210. Barron Leghorns, 284 : Buff Bocks, 242 : 
Vlbert Beds, 257. Prize Uouens. Big Toulouse (ieese. 
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