THE RURAL NK W-VUKKKK 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
TIjp forty-fifth week of the contest 
shows the great majority of the birds still 
continuing to shell out the eggs at a 
profitable rate. Barred Rocks take first 
place this week ; pen No. (1—a milk-fed 
pen from Storrs Agricultural Station—be¬ 
ing the only pen in the contest to reach 50 
eggs. Another pen from Storrs of the 
same breed, but not fed milk, are nearly 
000 eggs behind pen G. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns which 
are now the leading pen in the contest, 
take second place for the week with a 
score of 40. N. W. Hendryx’s pen of 
White Leghorns tie with Homer P. Dem- 
ing’s R. T. Reds for third place, with 
scores of 48 each. The four leading pens 
are White Leghorns; Tom Barron’s pen 
have laid 1.824, Judge Beasley’s pen 
1,805, Storrs Agricultural Station’s pen 
1.700. and Windsweep Farm’s pen 1.701. 
Hillview Poultry Farm’s R. T. Reds, 
which were the leaders at one time, are 
now fourth, with 1.788 to their credit, and 
Edward Cam’s White Wyandottes are 
fifth with a score of 1.700. 
Mtt.k Feeding. —Storrs Agricultural 
Station entered two experimental pens 
each of Barred Rocks. White Wyan¬ 
dottes, R. I. Rods, and White Leghorns. 
One pen of each breed was fed milk, and 
the other was not. The milk-fed pen of 
Barred Rocks has laid 500 eggs more 
than the pen fed the same except that it 
has had no milk. The milk-fed pen of 
White Wyandottes has laid 200 eggs 
more than the milkless pen. The milk- 
fed pen of White Leghorns has laid 107 
eggs more than (he other pen. But the 
milk-fed pen of R. T. Reds is 232 eggs be¬ 
hind the pen that had no milk. This goes 
to show that feeding milk cannot make 
a pen that are inferior layers beat a pen 
of better layers; also it shows that many 
experiments must be made before any 
definite conclusion can be made. 
The week’s record follows : 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
Merritt At. Clark, Connecticut. 25 1,42(1 
Frank L. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 20 1,333 
Francis L. Lincoln, Connecticut. 25 1,319 
.Tnlcs J. Frnncais, New York. 22 1,072 
Stor-s Apr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 15 1,042 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 50 1,635 
O. A. Foster, California. 42 1,302 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts.... 29 1,241 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 33 1,312 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 40 1,522 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 24 1.250 
Bi..nford Farms, Connecticut. 28 1,257 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 33 1,200 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 42 1,738 
Ed. Cam, England . 27 1,260 
Merrythought Fnrm, Connecticut. 30 1,407 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island. 42 1,561 
Mrs. J. P. Beck, Connecticut. 41 1,446 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 31 1,312 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 40 1,581 
Mapledale Farm. Connecticut. 25 1,044 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 30 1,322 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts... 39 1,422 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York... 41 1,178 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 37 1,357 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Dr. ,T. C. Pingman, New York. 43 1,108 
Hillview Poultry Farm, Vermont.... 41 1,788 
Homer P. Doming, Connecticut. 48 1,550 
Chas. O. Polhemus, New York. 36 1,017 
II. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 25 1,293 
John Backus, Vermont. 36 1,465 
W. IT. Bumstead. Connecticut. 25 1,106 
Pineerest Orchards, Massachusetts... 38 1,539 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 33 1,307 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 35 1.501 
A. B. Brundage. Connecticut. 35 1,223 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 42 1,592 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn.. 17 1,300 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City... 19 1,317 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut. 20 1,190 
Springdale Farm Connecticut. 28 1,480 
D. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 35 1,355 
H. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 43 1,434 
Albert R. Ford, Connecticut. 15 800 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 27 979 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 16 1,036 
American Dominiques. 
II. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 20 938 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 25 1,183 
George Bowles, Connecticut. 40 1,557 
Ellis W. Bentley. New York. 45 1,317 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 48 1,692 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pa. 39 1,646 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 31 1.339 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 30 1,084 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 22 1.196 
Chas. N. St. John, New York. 21 1,274 
Jay n. Ernisse, New York. 31 1,449 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 37 1,599 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 47 1,796 
Mrs. Roliin S. Woodruff, Connecticut 20 1,285 
Windsweep Farm, Connecticut. 44 1,794 
James II. Lord, Massachusetts. 31 1,465 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 40 1,058 
Dictograph Farm, New York. 35 1,525 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. 45 1,805 
Chas. lleigl, Ohio . 29 1.315 
Tom Barron, England . 49 1,824 
Edward Cam. England . 40 1,480 
Geo. M. McMillan, Missouri. 37 1,539 
Wm. H. Lyou, New York. 29 1,351 
Happieh & Danks. New York. 35 1,609 
A. 1’. Robinson, New York. 37 1,750 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 33 1,598 
Branford' Farms, Connecticut. 31 1,391 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 19 1,499 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 39 1,033 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 30 1,002 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio. 40 1,245 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City... 20 1,202 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 44 1,014 
S. J. Rogers, New York. 23 1,384 
Stoncleigh Poultry Farm, Penn. 28 1.237 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut... 30 1,223 
Toth Bros., Connecticut. 20 1,130 
James V. Thomas, New York. 20 1,552 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 40 1,392 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 24 1,026 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm, Michigan.... 31 1.105 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 2d 1,235 
1181 
« 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 32 1,030 
Silver Campines. 
Uneowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut.. 37 1.427 
Lewis E. Prickett, Connecticut. 45 1,321 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jedsey. 13 984 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland. 24 1,102. 
White Orpingtons. 
Henry S. Pennock, Florida. I 555 
Obed S. Knight, Rhode Island. 27 1.078 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 16 1,223 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Pa. 36 1,197 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 24 1,210 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Mosquitoes and Hens. 
Can anything be done to keep mos¬ 
quitoes away from the chickens? I have 
the chickens in small colony houses, and 
at night mosquitoes are in swarms in the 
houses, and the chickens are moving 
around all night. J. 11. 
Long Island. 
We should thoroughly fumigate and 
spray the inside of the houses to destroy 
any lurking mosquitoes and then treat 
the houses just as we would the dwelling 
house. Cover doors and windows with 
fine netting and keep the pests out. We 
have but few reports of this trouble, and 
apparently only here and there do mos¬ 
quitoes really trouble the hens. 
Blood Meal or Beef Scraps. 
What is the value of blood meal as 
compared with beef scraps for poultry 
food? No one keeps it here. Some years 
ago I fed it to a calf (about 20ft 
pounds) until the calf was six mouths 
old, and when it was one year old the 
calf was larger than any two-year-old 
in this neighborhood. e. v. f. 
New York. 
I have never known of blood meal be¬ 
ing used as poultry food, but, aside from 
its high cost, know of no reason why it 
should not be. It is much richer in pro¬ 
tein than the other meat products and 
would probably need to be fed in corres¬ 
pondingly small amounts. Its particular 
value seems to be in rearing calves and 
pigs, and I doubt if it would he an eco¬ 
nomical substitute for beef scrap and 
meat meal in poultry rations; still, I 
have no knowledge of its use and cannot 
advise you definitely with regard to it. 
M. B. D. 
Barley and Beans. 
IIow does barley compare with wheat 
as a feed for chickens and pigeons? I 
cannot get any old wheat in this sec¬ 
tion and do not want to feed new wheat 
Do the wax beans, (table beans) com¬ 
pare favorably as to protein with Cana¬ 
da peas or Soy beans? What kind of 
feed would sugar corn when thoroughly 
dried out and cured like field corn make 
for chickens and pigeons? w. r. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
Barley will replace wheat, in part, as 
a poultry food. It has not been consid¬ 
ered as valuable but the high price of 
wheat has brought about the substitution 
of barley for a considerable proportion of 
the more expensive grain. Barley con¬ 
tains practically the same amount of 
crude protein as wheat hut less fat and 
much more fibre. I cannot advise as to 
feeding pigeons. 
Canada field peas contain 23.7% crude 
protein while cull beans contain 21.6%. 
Soy beans are much higher in protein 
content, containing 33.5%. I have no 
analysis of wax beans and do not know 
of their being grown for stock feeding. 
Sweet corn is about 1% higher in crude 
protein than Hint corn and about 3% 
higher in fat. It contains about 1% 
more fibre and 3% less of the other car¬ 
bohydrates. From this analysis, I should 
conclude that sweet corn is slightly more 
valuable than flint corn hut I do not 
know of any actual feeding experiments 
with it in comparison with other varie¬ 
ties of corn. m. xi. d. 
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