THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1281 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
The forty-ninth week shows an output 
of 2,129 eggs. The total up to last week 
of 145.309 eggs, was relatively 1,539 
more than for the full year’s output last 
year. The average yield this year for 
every bird in the contest will be more 
than 150 eggs, which for a thousand birds 
is good laying. 
The monthly awards for September 
were as follows: Barron’s English Wy- 
andottes won the blue ribbon with an 
output of 204 eggs in the month. Second 
prize went to N. W. Hendryx’s White 
Leghorns—202 eggs—and third to (’has. 
O. Polhemus of New York, whose R. I. 
Reds laid 197 eggs. The highest number 
laid this week was 47 by Hillview Poul¬ 
try Farm’s R. I. Reds. This brings 
their total up to 1.940, and gives them 
third place. Tom Barron’s White Leg¬ 
horns still lead with a total of 1,958; his 
White Wyandottes being second, total 
1,941. Judge Beasley’s Leghorns are 
fourth, total 1,934. and Storrs experi¬ 
mental pen of milk-fed Leghorns fifth 
with a total of 1,931. 
It is interesting to note that the pens 
which have made a big record during the 
whole year so far, are the pens that are 
laying the best now; the heavy laying of 
previous months which has given them 
their big scores has not detracted from 
their ability to keep on laying. This 
shows why it is advisable to leg-band the 
hens found laying now. and to reserve 
them for next season’s breeders, the 
chances being that they are the best lay¬ 
ers in the flock. 
The week’s record follows : 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 20 1.514 
Frank L. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 25 1,485 
Francis L. Lincoln. Connecticut. 32 1.400 
Jules J. FrancaiS, New York. 18 1.101 
Storrs Agr. Station, E.cp. pen. Conn.. 18 1,124 
Storrs Apr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn.. 37 1.797 
O. A. Foster, California. 20 1,422 
White Rocks. 
Albert T. T.enzen, Masschusetts. 23 1,340 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 28 1,431 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 20 1.053 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 20 1,327 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 23 1,303 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 20 1,284 
White Wyandottes. 
Toni Barron, England . 40 1,941 
Ed. Cam, England . 28 1.889 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut.... 18 l.n09 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island. 41 1.731 
Mrs. ,T. 1). Beck, Connecticut. 28 1.579 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 38 1.400 
Storrs Agr. Station. Exp. pen, Conn.. 30 1.725 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut. 25 1,151 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 31 1,477 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 33 1,591 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York... 27 1,291 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
White Orpingtons. 
ITpnry S. Fennock. Florida.. 0 500 
Obed S. Knight, Rhode Island. 32 1,170 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 20 1,318 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yards, Pa. 22 1,304 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 32 1,320 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Chickens Pick Feathers. 
Can you give me the cause of chickens 
picking the feathers from each other and 
eating them? Is it only habit, or is it a 
disease, and is there something I can do 
to stop it? If so, will you tell me about 
it? F. c. 
Iowa. 
Feather pulling and eating is a vice 
that is not uncommon in flocks of fowls 
that are confined to close quarters, but it 
is rare among those that have their lib¬ 
erty. The irritation from the presence 
of lice and mites may possibly start the 
habit of picking at the skin and feathers 
and the taste of the fleshy ends of the 
feathers probably leads to a continuation 
of the habit. Lack of animal food and of 
shell and grit may also result in a de¬ 
praved appetite that induces such prac¬ 
tices on the part of the fowls. 
The remedy is cleanliness of quarters 
with destruction of the lice and mites, 
suitable variety of food, including oyster 
shell and grit if fowls are confined, free 
range if this is practicable and, finally, 
removal of such offenders as can be de¬ 
tected from the flock. M. B. D. 
Balancing a Laying Ration. 
Is the following a “balanced ration” for 
the laying hen which has access to rye on 
limited range? Grain, 10 pounds of 
corn, 10 pounds of wheat, five pounds of 
oats; mash, five pounds bran, five pounds 
wheat shorts, Styj pounds meat scraps, 
feeding, 25 pounds of grain to 13% 
pounds of mash. I. S. M. 
Virginia. 
Your whole grain mixture is good, but 
the mash contains an unnecessary 
amount of beef scrap, and would be im¬ 
proved by the addition of cormneal and 
some such high protein food as gluten 
feed, distillers’ grains or oil meal. With 
one or more of these latter, the beef scrap 
could be reduced in amount at a saving 
in expense. A better mixture would be 
equal parts of cornmoal, wheat mid¬ 
dlings, wheat bran, gluten feed, adding to 
100 pounds of each of the foregoing: 20 
pounds of oil meal and 50 pounds of beef 
scrap. This would make 470 pounds in 
all. It is not necessary that a poultry 
ration should be exactly balanced, but a 
good ration is rather more narrow than 
that usually given milch cows ; that is, it 
contains a larger proportion of the foods 
high in protein. M. B. D. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut- 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Dr. ,T. 0. Dingman, New York. 
Hillview Poultry Farm, Vermont.... 
Homer P. Doming, Connecticut. 
('has. O. Polhemus, New York. 
IT. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 
John Backus, Vermont . 
W. II. Bumstead. Connecticut. 
Pineerest Orchards, Massachusetts.. 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 
A. B. Bruml'age, Connecticut. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 
S. C. 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. 
H. B. niller, Connecticut. 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
George Bowles, Connecticut. 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 
N. W. Hcndryx, Connecticut. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
Cecil Guernsey, New Yock. 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 
Chas. N. St. John. New York. 
Jay H. Ernisse, New York. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff, Connecticut 
Windsweep Farm, Connecticut. 
James H. Lord, Massachusetts. 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 
Dictograph Farm, New York. 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. 
Chas. Ileigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Edward Cam, England . 
Geo. M. McMillan, Missouri. 
Win. II. Lyon, New York. 
Happich & Banks. New York.. 
A. P. Robinson, New York. 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York.... 
Branford’ Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 
Branford Frms, 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, Pa. 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut.. 
Toth Bros., 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. 
J. Collinson, England . 
Silver Campines. 
Dncowa Poultry Yards, Connecticut. 
Lewis E. Prickett, Connecticut. 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey. 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland. 
27 1,4SG 
32 
1.242 
47 
1.940 
20 
1,(589 
39 
1,80(5 
25 
1,450 
23 
1.568 
22 
1,290 
15 
1,638 
23 
1,442 
Id 
1,581 
27 
1,294 
27 
1.705 
32 
1,476 
34 
1,444 
23 
1.313 
29 
1,013 
17 
1,473 
18 
1,508 
2S 
909 
22 
1,055 
31 
1,140 
9 
1,007 
9 
1.201 
33 
1,050 
19 
1,434 
41 
1,871 
21 
1,779 
IS 
1,44(5 
15 
1,171 
12 
1,2(53 
7 
1,324 
18 
1,548 
19 
1,707 
22 
1,931 
14 
1,300 
21 
1,921 
12 
1,550 
29 
1.807 
10 
1,002 
19 
1,934 
10 
1.395 
24 
1,958 
22 
1,003 
12 
1,629 
5 
1.407 
24 
1.718 
10 
1,851 
14 
1,091 
20 
1,491 
9 
1,501 
14 
1.727 
11 
1,749 
10 
1,344 
7 
1,272 
2(5 
1,749 
1 
1.430 
5 
1,815 
10 
1,288 
4 
1,174 
1(5 
1,019 
14 
1,487 
14 
1,111 
13 
1.248 
15 
1,300 
8 
1,713 
25 
1,547 
30 
1,488 
5 
1,014 
18 
1,189 
Sales Center for Indian Runner Eggs. 
The annual meeting of the Cumber¬ 
land White-Egg Indian Runner Club was 
held at the Poultry Building. State Fair 
Grounds, Syracuse, N. Y., during Fair 
week. The members are all breeders of 
the Penciled Runner, which was admitted 
to the American Standard of Pecfection 
last year. The club has now turned its 
attention directly to tin* matter of mar¬ 
kets for utility eggs. It took action at 
the meeting which is expected to work 
out into a sales center for Runner eggs, 
through some selected dealer in Syracuse. 
The Cumberland Club established a big 
booth in the waterfowl tent at the State 
Fair, and manned it throughout the 
week. Samples of the eggs were on exhi¬ 
bition, from breeders in various counties, 
showing the average cnaraeter of the 
eggs from different producers. The Run¬ 
ners themselves were right at hand, 
about 200 of them in three varieties. 
Several Now York members of the club 
served at the booth most of the week, 
together with (he President, C. S. Val¬ 
entine, from New Jersey. Educational 
placards wore used freely. As soon as 
action looking toward a sales center was 
taken, a series of circulars was ordered 
printed for distribution. 
Hen Manure; Callous Feet. 
1. What is the most profitable way of 
disposing of lien manure? 2. What is 
the cause of my chickens getting a ball 
under the center of the foot? My perch 
sticks and nest boxes are about three 
feet in height and the perch sticks are 
square about two inches wide, not round. 
Would that cause this trouble? P. B. 
New York. 
1. Hon manure should be kept dry, un¬ 
der shelter, until used and if mixed with 
some absorbent like land plaster, or dry 
loam will retain its virtues longer than 
if piled alone in heaps. It is a strong¬ 
ly forcing fertilizer and may be used to 
good effect upon grass land, upon corn 
or garden crops. If used too heavily 
upon the latter, however, it will teud to 
force a rank growth and delay maturity 
of crops. Farmers having limited 
amounts usually find it most useful upon 
corn, hoeing in a good handful about 
each hill. 
2. Hens are subject to corns upon the 
sole of the foot and to soft tumors due 
to injury from scratching or jumping 
from a height upon hard floors. Flat¬ 
tened perches with the edges rounded are 
suitable and do not cause the trouble. 
M. B. 1). 
S. G. W. LEGHORN PULLETS March anil Aprii 
hatched. Raised on free range. Also HENS. 
SYCAMORE POULTRY FARM. Shelter Island, N. Y. 1 
4-in-l Cornerless 
PoultryHousesi" 
Portable, durable, sanitary. Ideal 
for Brooders. N<> corners for | 
chicks to crowd into and suffo¬ 
cate. Light and sunny. Open-1 
air front; removable, adjustable I 
floor. Convertible into Breeding I 
Pen, Brooder, Colony or Laying I 
Floiide. Features double available | 
Boor space. Cheaper and lietter | 
than home built houses. Same 
materials as our famous silos. Cash or easy payments. 
Special introductory offer to Agents. Literature and 
prices on request. How About a Silo ? Unadilla Silos 
are dependable. We rush late orders. Write for catalog, 
prices and terms. AGENTS WANTED. 
Address Box C. Unadilla Silo Co., Unadilla. N. Y. 
.Winter Layers 
Are Money Makers 
BLUE RIBBON LAYING MASH 
Makes a heavy winter egg yield. Send for 
our special wholesale prices On Poultry 
Feeds and Free Feeding Booklet. 
GLOBE ELEVATOR COMPANY 
91 Kentucky Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Improved Parcel Post Egg Boxes 
New Flats and Fillers- New Egg Cases 
SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE DESCRIBING OUR 
Modern Poultry Equipment 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Street, N.Y. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier, j 
prolits larger. 
MANN’S \model Bone Cutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. 10 Days’ Free Trial. 
No money In advance. 
Send Today for Free Book. 
F.W. Mann Co., Box 15 i Milford, Mesa. 
SHELL POTASH SPAR POULTRY GRIT 
The best grit on the market, order it now before 
winter sets in. 2—100 lbs. sacks, $1.00: ]4 ton. $4.00; 
1 ton, $7.00, F. O. B. Atglen P. U. K. Samples Free. 
Black Horse spar quarries. E. S. Beiler, Parkeshurg, Pa. 
TRAP NESTS 
That, never confine the poultry or pcral- 
tryman. Write for particulars. 
The SI0I.Fit AUTOMATIC TRAP NEST CO., North I,aiming, N.Y. 
Barred Rock Pen No. I 
inpresent Storrs’ egg-laying contest. 
MERRITT M. CLARK. Owner 
BrookfieijD Centicr, - - Conn, 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
D. W. YOUNG’S STRAIN 
1,000 choice yearling hens at 75c and $1.00 each during 
Sept, and Oct. Special bred for layers on free farm 
range all their lives. Choice breeding pens of 10 
hens 1 cock for $12.00. My book. Profits in Poultry 
Keeping Solved, free with all $10 orders. Circular 
Free. ED6AR BRIGGS, BOX 75. PLEASANT VALLEY. N. Y. 
PULLETS 
FOR SALE-S. C. W. LEGHORN 
April and May batched 
Raised on unlimited range in 
well shaded orchard. Recommended for heavy egg 
production. GILEAD EGG FARM, Carmel, N. V. 
For Sale-300 S. C. White Leghorn Yearling Hens 
famous Kielp 242-ogg strain; 75 cents each; 200 S. C. 
Rhode Island Red yearling liens, Tompkins strain, 95 
cents each; 100 imported improved Silver Campine 
yearling hens, Jacobus strain, $1.50 each; good cock¬ 
erels, $2each. H. Bacon, Hillcrest Poultry Farm, Berwyn, Mil. 
300 APRIL HATCHED 
S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets 
at 75c. per pullet; and 700 May pullets at 65c. per 
pullet; also 100 S. 0. W. Orpington Pullets at$l per 
pullet; and S. C. Brown Leghorn cockerels at $1.25. 
Our stock O. K. All Right. The Lakewood strain. 
THE ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM, John H. Warfel 8 Son, Rohrerstown, Pa. 
For Sale-HATCHING EGGS^^" 
Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and White Leg¬ 
horn, by HIRSCH AGRICULTURAL SCHUUL. Waodhine, N J. 
Fur Sale-A Large Type uf S.C.W. Leghorn Pullets 
and year-old lions. Heavy egg producers. Wyckoff 
strain direct. J. M. CASE, Gilboa, New York 
White Leghorn Pulld«-Si r 5tLES?,i5!iS«l>'5j3 
hatch 50c. and 75c. each. Hudson River Farms, Esopus,N.Y. 
Tom Barron’sWhite Leghorns 
Direct Importers. Purebred yearling hens for breed¬ 
ers. Best trap-nested stock. 282-egg strain. It's 
the Strain thatcounts. Hens, $1.50; cocks, $2; cock¬ 
erels, $1.50. P. E. Rafferty, Marlboro, Mass. 
BARRON COCKERELS 
from stock direct. Leghorn records, 284-260. Wyan¬ 
dottes, 283-275. Mr. L. E. Heasley, Holland, Mich. 
BARRON LEGHORN COCKERELS 
of 200-egg pedigree. Choice birds, $1.25, to close 
out stock. PULLETS. BARRON FARM. Connellsville. Pa. 
Tom Barron White Leghorn Cockerels 
248-272-egg strain. Large, healthy, free-range stock. 
Write .Patterson’s Poultry Farm, Clayton, N. Y, 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels $1 each 
280-egg strain. E. S. HETRICK, R. 0. 1, Brockwayville, Pa. 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
lias for salo March and April hatched pullets— 
large, healthy, handsome birds at SSL.50 EACH. 
AKTI1UK II. PENNY, - Mattituck, N. Y. 
High-Glass, Utility, Free Range, S. G.W. Leghorns 
Yearlings, (Barron's Strain,) 75 cents each; $70 per 
1 Lunched. JAMES H. OWEN, R. F. D. No. 4, Newburgh, N.Y. 
P I T | f C nr C-W. Leghorns. Must 
U I—i Hi 1 O sell- Also Yearlings. 
Your chance. 
Click's Leghorn Farms, - Smoketown, Pa. 
APRIL P„||o4o$l; May pullets 85c., Barron-Young 
LEGHORN strain. Altavista Farm, Darlington, Md. 
For Sale-2,000S.C.W.L. PULLETS 
raised on free range and in perfect condition, at 
$1.50 oach. Also 500 S. C. W. L. breeding liens, at 
$1 each. C. W. Sherwood, 2 Gramercy Park N. Y. C. 
DOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN COCKER 
“ELS. Buy now. I. C. Hawkins, Sprakers, N. Y. 
Colonial Reds 
PTJLLETSi'KS 
Imported direct. 248-260-egg stock. 4-mos.-old pul¬ 
lets, $1.50 each; 5-mo. pullets, $2 50. 6 yearling hens 
and cock, $10. Barron’s Wyandottes; 4 hens and 
cockerel $10. E. Claude Jones, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
S.C. White Leghorn PulletsiKr&SJKS 
“FAKMLEIGH,” - Carmel, N.Y. 
Dllllo+C— s - C. w LEGHORN— h Tom Barron, 
r UIIC ID Few laying, rearing pullets, my 
specialty. To introduce my stock I am offoring 
them at reduced prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
L. E. INGOLUSBY, Hartwick Sem’y, N. Y. 
PULLETS 
S. C. W. Leghorn, Barron and Conn. Agr. College 
strains, $1, $1.50. Free range stock tested for White 
Diarrhea. Also White Leghorn and Barred Rock 
cockerels. A. B. HALL, Wallingford, Conn. 
Knapp-Wyckoff S.C.W. Leghorns 
Freo range raised. The very best “ Utility” strain. 
Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Write me yourwants. 
“ CHASE POULTRY FARM,” F. M. Davis, CINCINNATUS, N. Y. 
S P U/UITC I CftUflQMQ 700 early April hatched 
. U. Will lb LtUnUnNo Pullets for sale, $1.25 to 
$1.50 each. Selected YEARLING HK.NS $70 per 100. 
GEO. FROST, Levanna, Cayuga Co,, N. Y. 
A real bred-to-lay strain of national reputation. 
We offer bargains in yearling hens and cockerels. 
A fino lot of young stock coming on. Correspond¬ 
ence solicited. Honorable treatment guaranteed. 
COLONIAL FARM, Bex 0, Temple, New Hampshire 
AUSTIN’S 200-EGG STRAIN S.C.R.I.REDS 
Standard bred, bigli-record stock. Red to the skin. 
OLD AND YOUNG STOCK FOR SALE. Book¬ 
let. AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM. Box 17, Centre Harbo , N. H. 
BARRED ROCKS 
Cockerels and Pullets from great Egg Producers, $1 
to $2.50 each. B. Everett Jones, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
Porrnn Wyandotte cockerels—$3. Marly, large. Farm 
DallUll m-own, Pure bred. Burt' Leghorns, White 
Rocks, $1.50—$2. L. A. MAPES, R. No. 3, Newburgh, N. Y. 
UIHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS from heavy-laying, 
** trap-nested hens, will increase egg production. 
MID0LEBR00K POULTRY FARM, Miss Marion I. Monro. Hamburg, N. Y. 
Tom Barron WhiieWyandotte Cockerels and Pulleis 
for sale. 283-263-egg stock, imported direct. 
E. E. LEWIS, - Apalacbin, N. Y. 
White Indian Runner Ducks p a Vi., l u w y S j 
PULLETS 
-S. C. W. LEGHORN 
Young’s strain. 
From high-egg- 
record stock. $1-$1.50 each. Also cockerels and 
yearlings. Baoba Poultry Farm,Glen Eyre, Pa. 
Barron Cockerels 
-Leghorns and Wyan¬ 
dottes. From selected 
Barron trapnested hens, mated to imported Barron 
cockerels with pedigrees from 248 to 272—$2 each. 
C. W. TURNER, - West Hartford, Conn. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
248-260-egg stock. Imported direct. Yearling hens, 
pullets, cocks and cockerels in lots of 6 or 10 at rea¬ 
sonable prices. Also Austin's S. C. R. I. Red pul¬ 
lets and cockerels. S. W. Jones, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
MAMMOTH Pekin Ducks, White China geese. 
™ Maude M. Perkins, Ocean View Farm, Newburyport, Mass. 
nilf'VC—Pekin, Rouen and Indian 
U IVO Runner Ducks. $2 and $3 each. 
A id ham Poultry Farm,R. 34, Phoeuixville, Pa. 
and and Water Fowls 
laple Cove Poultry Yards, R.2, Athens, Pa. 
S PECIAL FALL SALE— Reduced prices on Turkeys, Ducks. 
Chickens, Geese, Guineas, Guinea pigs, Hares and 
Dogs. Price List Free. H. A. S0U0ER, Box 29, Sellersville, Pa. 
3000 PULLETS 
QUALITY IN EVERY ONE 
Just off Free Range. Typey, vigorous birds—many now laying. 
Bred from heavy laying stock. 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks 
Write for Catalog and Prices 
TYWACANA FARMS POULTRY CO. 
POULTRY CO. Box 6g E A . Wright, Supt., Farmingdale, L. I., N. Y. P^T^L 00 ' 
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