1074 
Contrary to expectations the forty-first 
week shows a gain in the egg output; 
3.625 eggs were laid, which is 146 more 
than were laid in the previous week. 
Tom Barron’s White Wyandottes lead 
in the weekly score, with 57 eggs to their 
credit. Storrs Agricultural Station’s pen 
No. 60 of White Leghorns is second with 
a record of 55. (’has. (>. 1'olhemus' pen 
of Rhode Island Reds from New York 
tie with Ilapp ch & I tanks’ White Leg¬ 
horns from the same State, for third 
place, each laying 54. N. W. Hendryx’s 
White Leghorns are fourth with a score 
of 53. Connecticut, stands at the top 
this week. J dge F. M. Beasley’s White 
Leghorns laid two eggs more than Tom 
Barron’s, which makes their total score 
1.627, against Barron’s 1,625. Barron’s 
White Wyandottes are only four eggs be¬ 
hind the leaders, their total being 1.623. 
In the last two weeks they have laid 
110 eggs against a possible 140; this is 
78.5 per cent. Not bad laying for the 
middle of August. 
What the limit of egg production is, 
it is impossible to say. Eglantine Farms 
of Pennsylvania has a pen of five White 
Leghorns in the Delaware contest that 
have laid 092 eggs in 40 weeks. Hen 
No. 5 of this pen has laid 240 eggs, 
an average of just six eggs a week for 
40 weeks. If she could keep this up for 
the rest of the year she would be the 
wonder of the world; It would be 312 
eggs. In the same contest a Columbian 
Plymouth Rock laid 31 eggs in July. 
The discovery of two oviducts in a White 
Wyandotte lien at Storrs, both oviducts 
being used, one having a ripened yolk 
just received into the oviduct and the 
other a full-sized egg ready to lay in 
it. makes one wonder how often this hap¬ 
pens; for here is the apparatus all ready 
to lay two eggs a day. Probably the 
limit of egg production is only the capac¬ 
ity of the fowl to eat and digest food. 
Among the first fowls I ever owned 
were two white-crested Black Polish; 
they had laid heavily all Winter and 
continued to do so all Summer. In the 
early Fall one died and a month or so 
later the other died. Both were mere 
skeletons when they died, although food 
was abundant. There was no trace of 
any disease about them. I thought then 
anil think now, that they laid themselves 
to death. 
* This week’s report follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 23 1,293 
Frank L. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 37 1,218 
Francis I.. Lincoln, Connecticut. 2(1 1.221 
Jules J. Francais, New York. 20 983 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 34 942 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 41 1,400 
O. A. Foster, California. 35 1,172 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 30 1,128 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 28 1,153 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 47 1,300 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 34 1.143 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 39 1,124 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 28 1,080 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 57 1,023 
Ed. Cam, England . 49 1.019 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 33 1,204 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island. 30 1.398 
Mrs. J. I). Beck, Connecticut. 30 1,290 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 41 1,108 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 40 1,390 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut. 35 920 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 30 1,193 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts... 40 1,233 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York.... 34 1,055 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythonght Farm, Connecticut.... 35 1,230 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Dr. J. C. Dingman, New York. 25 1,005 
Ilillview Poultry Farm, Vermont.... 28 1.001 
Homer P. Doming, Connecticut. 38 1,378 
Chas. O. Polhemus, New York. 54 1,444 
H. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 35 1.108 
John Backus, Vermont . 30 1,329 
W. H. Bumstead, Connecticut. 44 1.049 
Pineerest Orchards, Massachusetts... 29 1,385 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 24 1,188 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 23 1.309 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 24 1,100 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 43 1,432 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 30 1.249 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 42 1,212 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut...... 29 1.005 
Springdale Farm. Connecticut. 41 1,377 
D. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 33 1,240 
H. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 35 1,284 
Albert Ii. Ford, Connecticut. 24 784 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 11 889 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 22 • 945 
American Dominiques. 
II. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 29 849 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 37 1.073 
George Bowles, Connecticut. 42 1.403 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 30 1.144 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 53 1,499 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Penn. 50 1,474 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 41 1,187 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 35 954 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 28 1.089 
Chas. N. St. John, New York. 22 1,180 
Jay II. Ernisse, New York. 39 1.314 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 47 1,432 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 55 1.001 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff, Connecticut. 33 1,190 
Windsweep Farm. Connecticut. 49 1.000 
James H. Lord', Massachusetts. 43 1.310 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 40 1.400 
Dictograph Farm. New York. 48 1.380 
F. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 50 1.027 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio . 42 1.109 
Tom Barron, England . 48 1,025 
Edward Cam, England . 45 1,323 
Geo. M. McMillan, Missouri. 43 1,400 
Win. H. Lyon, New York. 32 1.225 
Happich & Banks. New York. 54 1.451 
A. P. Robinson. New York. 44 1,582 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 45 1,440 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 43 1,201 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 42 1,401 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 43 1,482 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 44 1,505 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 40 1,070 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City... 27 1.085 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 41 1.447 
S. J. Rogers. New York. 29 1,281 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm. Penn. 39 1.111 
Mrs. W. B. AVhitlock. Connecticut... 39 1,083 
Totli Bros., Connecticut.,. 29 1,043 
T'JHL£ RURAL 
James N. Thomas, New York. 27 1,402 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 42 1,228 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 30 908 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm, Michigan.... 32 1,027 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 25 1,151 
Black Leghorns, 
J. Collinson, England . 40 1.4S3 
Silver Campir.es, 
Uncowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut.. 36 1,274 
Lewis E. Prickett, Connecticut. 40 1,149 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey. 25 938 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Douglioregan Farm, Maryland. 30 983 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Pennock. Florida. 11 527 
Obed' 8. Knight, Rhode Island. 35 990 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 30 1,132 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Penn. 33 1,058 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New'York City.. 30 1,090 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
White Wyandotte Eggs. 
Do the “Barron” White Wyandotte 
hens lay uniform size and uniform color 
eggs? Eggs from Wyandotte hens are 
various sizes and colors in this part of the 
country. j. h. m. 
I’arkton, Md. 
No. The Barron Wyandottes, like all 
Wyandottes, lay eggs that vary in size 
and color, but the variation is slightly 
less than American Wyandottes. This 
may be due to the small number of birds 
(10) in the contest. Ten birds could 
be selected from any flock of 100 or 
more whose eggs would be practically 
uniform in shape and size and color. The 
rank absurdity of paying any attention 
whatever to the color of the useless egg¬ 
shell is so manifest that it is a standing 
wonder that sensible men and wimen 
should consider it all. No power of 
microscope or chemical analysis could 
possibly tell from any egg whether it 
had come out of a white shell or a brown 
slndl. _ What nonsense then to pay any 
attention to the color of the shell! 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Green Rape and Eggs. 
I have been a subscriber to your valu¬ 
able paper for several years and every 
little while I find some article which is 
worth several times the subscription 
price. 
I have had a fancy egg trade for sev¬ 
eral years, taking all my eggs from 400 
hens. I flattered myself I was producing 
an extra good grade of eggs, but I had a 
complaint of 12 poor eggs in one case, 
and I was dumbfounded. My wife also 
complained that the yolks and even 
whites of eggs were dark with a greenish 
tinge, and of course I began looking for 
the trouble. I found it in the July 31 
and Aug. 7 issues of The R. N. Y. I 
have been feed.ing rape all Summer, both 
cut and the whole leaf, about three- 
quarters bushel to 125 hens but two 
weeks ago I turned the hens from one 
house into a fresh yard of rape, and I 
feel that they ate too much, as they 
cleaned up a quantity in a few days. As 
all other feed is the same, and I knew 
eggs are all fresh. I think the rape did 
it although I should not have found out 
nor possibly convinced my trade that the 
eggs were not bad. JOHN c. DENNISON. 
New Hampshire. 
Starting a Poultry Business. 
Can you give me some advice in start¬ 
ing a backyard poultry business? I have 
two pens of purebred White Leghorns. 
Pen No. 1 consists of four hens and one 
cockerel and the other one three hens and 
one cockerel. The cockerel in pen No. 1 
is out of the same setting as hens in pen 
No. 2 and cockerel in pen No. 2 is out of 
same setting as hens in pen No. 1. They 
are not otherwise related, as the eggs 
came from two different places. Can I 
mate the chicks from these two pens? 
Can you give me a diagram of the line¬ 
breeding system? Would these two pens 
be enough to start with? Do you know 
of a trap-nest, which can be fastened un¬ 
der the front edge of the dropping board? 
Ohio. j. w. c. 
As the fowls in these two pens are of 
the same strain but unrelated, save 
through somewhat remote ancestry, they 
can well be mated and will, of course, 
serve as a nucleus of as large a flock as 
one cares to build up. Line breeding is 
for the purpose of establishing the blood 
of some individual in his progeny. The 
well known chart of Feleh illustrates it. 
An adaptation of this chart was pub¬ 
lished in the April 12, 1913. issue of 
The R. N.-Y. Most trap-nests may be 
placed beneath the dropping boards. 
Farmers’ Bulletin 357 from the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Washington. D. 
C., illustrates and describes the Maine 
Station trap-nest and may be obtained 
upon application to the Department at 
Washington. The breeding of poultry 
for utility or exhibition is almost too 
large a subject for indefinite “sugges¬ 
tions.” M. B. D. 
The Central Poultry Meeting. 
One of the important points dwelt upon 
by Dr. Raymond Pearl of the Maine Ex¬ 
periment Station, in his address at the 
Storrs meeting was the “progeny test.”. 
A record is kept not only of how many 
eggs a hen has laid, but also of the fer¬ 
tility of those eggs, and the viability of 
of the chicks. When hens are being 
selected for breeders their egg production 
is not the first point looked for. Their 
NEW-YORKER 
record is carefully gone over to see the 
fertility of their eggs, the livability of 
the chicks and the performance of their 
daughters. Evidently a hen whose pro¬ 
geny are poor layers, or whose eggs do 
not hatch, or chicks do not live is 
not a very good hen to breed 
from.. The breeding of “Winter lay¬ 
ers” is the point aimed at; and the 
records are kept of the number laid dur¬ 
ing the Winter months. This ranges 
from a dozen or 15 to an average for 
the pen of over 50. A hen that lays 
four dozen eggs when they are 50 cents 
a dozen has more man paid for her 
year’s keeping. What she lays after that 
is profit. It is not absolute proof that 
a hen produces only infertile eggs, until 
she has been tried with another male. 
1’ or this and other reasons it is quite 
an advantage to use two male birds in 
breeding, alternating them every four or 
five days. This system is largely prac¬ 
ticed by Tom Barron; by using males 
that are own brothers he does not dis¬ 
turb the blood lines. 
Prof. James E. Rice’s principal point 
was the correlation between early devel- 
ment, and early maturity, and the num¬ 
ber of eggs a hen would lay in her first, 
second and third years. The Leghorn 
that matures at eight, nine or 10 months 
of age is a low producer and unfit breed¬ 
er. Prof. Rice showed charts and rec¬ 
ords to prove this. Those that grow 
fast and mature early are the high pro¬ 
ducers. He recommended banding the 
early maturing pullets to distinguish 
them, and discard those that do not ma¬ 
ture early. Learn the normal time re- 
qu 1 rod to develop by the different breeds. 
Early hatching is a factor of importance 
chiefly because of weather conditions. 
Swollen Eyes.. 
Will you tell us what to do for baby 
chicks or chicks three weeks old when the 
left eye swells shut? We have had two 
or three such cases and would like to 
know what to give them. w. b. 
New York. 
Young chicks are subject to a watery 
inflammation of the eyes which appears 
-suddenly and gives them the appearance 
of having been in a fight. It is doubtless 
a simple catarrhal inflammation due to ex¬ 
posure to cold or dampness and does not 
need any special treatment. See that the 
chicks have a dry, warm place in which 
to stay, that they are not overheated in 
their brooders or subjected to any other 
condition which would weaken their vital¬ 
ity. In my own chicks, these black eyes 
have always subsided without any special 
attention on my part and, unless some in¬ 
fection becomes engrafted upon the catar¬ 
rhal condition, as shown by mattering of 
the eye and extension of the inflammation 
to other parts of the head, I should not 
attempt to doctor the youngsters. 
_ M. B. D. 
White Wyandottes With Single Comb. 
Should White Wyandottes have single 
combs? I ordered 100 eggs each of spe¬ 
cial strain from two different breeders 
and have over a hundred chicks that are 
feathered now from the two lots of eggs 
and though I have not counted the sin¬ 
gle combed ones, one by one, I think I 
would be putting it below, rather than 
above, the actual fact to say that one- 
third of them have single combs. 
McClure, O. F. G. 
White Wyandottes will always throw 
more or less single comb chicks. I bred 
them for a dozen years, and with the 
most careful selection, never breeding 
from any but rose-copibed birds, there 
would always be some single-combed 
chicks. The single combs are just as 
true Wyandottes in shape and charac¬ 
teristics as any, and there ought to be 
two recognized varieties, the same as the 
single and rose comb Rhode Island Reds. 
Although in this case the proportion 
(one-third) is so high as to show that 
careful breeding and selection to elim¬ 
inate the single comb has not been thor¬ 
ough or long continued, yet F. G. need 
not be discouraged; he can select the 
rose comb ones for breeding, and the 
singles will lay just as well as the rose 
combs—some say better. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
August 28, 1915. 
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