1364 
November 13, 1915. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
This week’s report ends the contest for 
1914-1915; 151,806 eggs were laid, an 
average of 151.8 eggs for each bird in the 
contest. Tom Barron’s White Wyan- 
dottes win the contest with 2,072 eggs; 
Hillview Poultry Farm’s It. I. Reds take 
second place with an output of 2,039, and 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns are third 
with 2,001 to their credit, and Judge 
Beasley’s Leghorns from Connecticut won 
fourth place with a production of 1,962. 
In average individual production White 
Wyandottes stand first, producing 165 
eggs. White Leghorns are second with 
an average of 158.1; Rhode Island Reds 
third, averaging 155.8 per bird ; Plymouth 
Rocks fourth, averaging 146.3; and the 
miscellaneous lot of Buff Leghorns, Cam- 
pines, Faverolles, Buttercups, etc., aver¬ 
aged 125.8. The general average for all 
breeds was 151.8. 
One White Leghorn hen did not lay an 
egg during the year. The highest indi¬ 
vidual score was made by a Rhode Island 
Red hen which laid 257 eggs. 
The immense difference in the ability 
of hens to lay is well illustrated by the 
contrast between the poorest pen which 
laid only 569 eggs, and the best pen. 
which laid 2,072; one averaging 57 eggs 
per hen, and the other 207 eggs per hen 
tinder exactly the same conditions as to 
feeding, housing, care, etc. 
The records show that the American 
breeds pay up later for their long rests m 
the Summer, while they are broody ; and 
as Fall eggs are worth double the price of 
Summer eggs, they fully make up in value 
the loss by broodiness. All records for 
egg laying ever heretofore made, were 
broken by the White Leghorn hen from 
Eglantine Farms, at the Newark, Dela¬ 
ware, egg laying contest. This hen has 
laid 313 eggs in 364 days, beating all 
records at the Missouri or Storrs con¬ 
tests, or any in England or Australia. 
All her mates have laid well over the 200 
mark, the pen laying 1,181 up to the 51st 
week. This is an average of 217 for the 
other four birds in the pen. It is truly 
a wonderful record. The week’s record 
follows: ^ , _ . , 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut . 28 1.596 
Frank I,. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 4 1.401 
Francis L. Lincoln, Connecticut. 2o 1.536 
Jules J. Francais, New York. 31 1.240 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 21 1.181 
Storrts Apr. Station. Exp. pen. Conn.. 13 l.Hoo 
O. A. Foster, California. lo 1,480 
Albert T. 
11 ran ford 
Branford 
Branford 
Branford 
White Rocks. 
Lenzen, Massachusetts. 
Farms, Connecticut. 
Farms, Connecticut. 
F'arms, Connecticut. 
Farms, Connecticut. 
18 
1 
17 
12 
4 
1.405 
1.457 
1,704 
1.375 
1,389 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 15 1,341 
White Wyandottes. 
Tom Barron, England . 40 2,072 
Ed. Cam, England ....-..... - 20 1.961 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut- 13 l.oos 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island . 31 1,840 
Mrs. J. I). Beck, Connecticut. 1< 1,648 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 36 1,578 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 13 1,788 
Mapledale Farm, Connecticut. 8 1,200 
J. F. Byron, Connecticut. 27 1,566 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Pr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 15 1,651 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Silver Wyandotte Star, New York.. 25 1.37S 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut- 17 1,548 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Pr. J. C. Pingman, New York. 31 1.333 
Hillview Poultry Farm, Vermont- 27 2,039 
Homer P. Peming, Connecticut. 15 1.740 
Chas. O. Polhemus, New York. 31 1,919 
II. M. Bailey, Connecticut. 9 1,500 
John Backus, Vermont . 14 1,016 
W. II. Bumstead, Connecticut. 10 1.330 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts... 6 1,604 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 13 1.480 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 19 1,047 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 17 1,306 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 21 1,775 
Storre Agr. Station, Exp. pen. Conn.. 21 1.548 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 5 1.499 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut..... 15 1.309 
Springdale Farm, Connecticut. 15 1,667 
P. E. Warner, Rhode Island. 10 1.521 
II. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 18 1.557 
Albert R. Ford, Connecticut. 15 1,021 
Light Brahmas. 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 9 1,104 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 7 1,194 
American Dominiques. 
H. B. Hiller, Connecticut. 18 1,057 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 5 1,283 
George Bowles, Connecticut. 2 1,078 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 3 1.458 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 19 1.948 
I’raeside Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania 3 1,800 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 3 1,402 
Cecil Guernsey, New York. 2 1,192 
Merritt M. Clark, Connecticut. 1 1.279 
Chas. N. St. John, New York. 1.335 
Jay H. Ernisse, New York. 5 1,571 
Storns Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 8 1,742 
Storrs Agr. Station, Exp. pen, Conn.. 11 1,974 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff, Connecticut 3 1,375 
Windsweep Farm, Connecticut. 3 1.937 
James H. Lord, Massachusetts. 1 1,503 
I’. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 5 1,844 
Dictograph Farm, New York. 3 1,015 
F. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 5 1,902 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio ... 1 1.410 
Tom Barron, England . 11 2,001 
Edward' Cam, England . 4 1.027 
Geo. M. McMillan, Missouri.• 9 1,057 
Wm. II. Lyon, New York. 1.412 
Happich & Danks, New York. 8 1,706 
A. P. Robinson, New York. 1.850 
Manor Poultry Farm, New York. 3 1.713 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 13 1,538 
Branford F'arms, Connecticut. 5 1.5S4 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 4 1,708 
Branford Farms, Connecticut. 2 1.759 
Anna Dean Farm, Ohio . 2 1,358 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 1 1.2S1 
A. S. Sondregger, Connecticut. 13 1.804 
S. J. Rogers, New York. 1,430 
Stoneleigh Poultry Farm, Pa. 1,310 
Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Connecticut. 1.296 
Toth Bros., Connecticut. 1.183 
James V. Thomas, New York. 4 1,040 
Sunny Acres Farm, Connecticut. 3 1,500 
'THIIL KURAL NEW-YORKER 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 
The Gale Place, Connecticut. 4 1,131 
Buff Leghorns. 
Lakeside Poultry Farm, Michigan.... 5 1,277 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 3 1,334 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 1,719 
Silver Campines. 
ITncowa Poultry Yards, Connnectieut 8 1,591 
Lewis E. Prickett, Connecticut. 3 1,543 
Light Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, Now Jersey. 1,021 
Salmon Faverolles. 
Doughoregan Farm, Maryland. 10 1,235 
White Orpingtons. 
Ilenry S. Pennock, Florida. 509 
Obed S. Knight, Rhode Island. 15 1.240 
B. P. Nase, Connecticut. 11 1,371 
Buttercups. 
Chanticleer Poultry Yard's, Pa. 10 1,355 
Favorite Hens. 
Rural New-Yorker, New York City.. 14 1,382 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Garden and Poultry Show. 
The 27th Annual Madison Square 
Garden Poultry Show will begin Decem¬ 
ber 31st and end January 5th, A re¬ 
markable exhibition, both in class and 
number of individual specimens exhibited, 
is expected. Stronger than ever in the 
coming show will be the educational ex¬ 
hibit which will be principally contained 
in the concert hall and which will in¬ 
clude a series of lectures illustrated with 
lantern slides, motion pictures and with 
exhibits and practical demonstrations. 
The greatest poultry experts in the coun¬ 
try from agricultural colleges and Na¬ 
tional and State government departments 
will be there to tell both novice and ex¬ 
pert how to breed poultry for pleasure 
and profit. A kaleidoscopic picture with 
all the colors of the spectrum will be 
seen in a remarkatde collection of rare 
wild birds, including particularly game 
birds both terrestrial and aquatic, and 
especially a fine representation of the 
world’s pheasants. The great authority 
on pheasants, Dr. C. William Beebe, will 
lecture on pheasants and show lantern 
slides of specimens of the genus phasi- 
anus from all around the globe made from 
photographs taken by himself in his 
world’s hunt for rare birds of the pheas¬ 
ant family. Standard breeds of both 
poultry and pigeons will be more exten¬ 
sively represented than ever. Entries 
will be positively closed on December 
loth. The secretary is Charles D. Cleve¬ 
land, Madison Square Garden, New 
York. 
Large Eggs; Exterminating Vermin. 
1. Which breed of the following fowls 
lays the largest white egg. Blue Andal¬ 
usian, Black Minorca, W. F. Black Span¬ 
ish or Iloudans? 2. Will soaking in 
water exterminate chicken vermin infest¬ 
ing old lumber? 3. If I cover a coop 
with canvas and then use tar on it as 
a substitute for paint, will the tar injure 
the canvas in any manner? gallexo 
1. The size of eggs laid by any breed 
depends somewhat upon individuality 
and age of the bird, but, so far as I know, 
the Minorcas as a class excel the others 
you mention in the weight of their pro¬ 
duct. 2. Soaking in clear water cannot 
be depended upon to destroy vermin and 
their nits. Some oil or one of the creo¬ 
sote preparations should be used. 3. I 
do not know the effect of gas tar upon 
canvas, but, from the fact that it is con¬ 
sidered injurious to metal, I should ex¬ 
pect it to be more or less deleterious to 
the fibre of canvas. M. B. D. 
Poor Laying. 
I had a flock of about 350 birds 
(White Leghorns) yearling and two- 
year-olds. Last Winter they laid mis¬ 
erably, but started after the first of the 
year to come up a little and for several 
months in the Spring they laid pretty 
well, but everyone was getting eggs then. 
They started then to drop off so in the 
beginning of the Summer I decided to 
sell all but 150 of my youngest birds, and 
from the 150 birds I have not had a 
dozen eggs a week. They are through 
molting and look in first-class condition. 
They have been fed from eight to 10 
quarts of mixed grain, wheat, oats and 
cracked corn per 100 birds and mash 
feed before them of the Cornell mixture. 
They are well housed, clean litter, plenty 
of water and skim-milk (eight quarts per 
day). I have become discouraged, as the 
present high price of feed, with no eggs, 
is not much of a game. My birds were 
purchased from a well-known poultry 
farm, and are good healthy looking birds, 
have had plenty of exercise and green 
food all Summer. w. H. T. 
New Jersey. 
It would be easy to jump at the con¬ 
clusion that these unprofitable fowls of 
yours were ill-bred, from non-laying an¬ 
cestors and so incapable of good work, 
but that may not be the reason for their 
failure, at all. You seem to have fed 
amply and well, so the trouble appar¬ 
ently does not lie there and this leads to 
the question of age. You say that your 
hens were one and two years old; I won¬ 
der if you raised them and know their 
age, or if you purchased them as one and 
two-year-olds. If the latter is the case, 
there may be the possibility of an error 
on the part of the one who sold them to 
you and you may have got birds that 
had passed their prime; any old bird 
under three years of age should have 
done better than these have. Certainly, 
a flock of 150 hens that does not lay a 
dozen eggs per week through the Sum¬ 
mer should make a trip to the city mar¬ 
ket, and the sooner the better. While I 
there may be conditions that would ac¬ 
count for the failure of these hens, which 
your letter does not disclose, the evi¬ 
dence at hand would justify the advice to 
replace them with good stock, of known 
age. A moist mash, once daily, using the 
same mixture that you are feeding dry 
and using the skim-milk in it, would do 
as much as anything to stimulate laying 
and it is barely possible that these hens 
are not eating enough of the dry mash 
to more than satisfy the needs of their 
bodies, with no surplus for eggs. If 10 
days of such stuffing did not start egg 
production, I should crate the hens. 
M. B. D. 
Questions About Ducks. 
1. IIow can I distinguish the sex in 
young Pekin ducks, three months old? 
2. About when will Pekins that were 
hatched July 1st commence to lay? 3. 
My ducks have free range. Do they need 
a grit box or will they pick up enough 
on the range? 4. Can you give me the 
formula of a good fattening food? 
New York. c. o. L. 
1. As soon as the voices change or the 
drakes acquire the curled feathers in the 
tail. A duck has a low-pitched voice— 
a quack. The voice of a drake is higher 
—pitched and often more prolonged. 2. 
Probably late in the Winter. 
3. It is advisable to keep a box of 
grit and one of ground oyster shells as 
the time for egg-laying approaches. 4. 
Feed a mash consisting mostly of corn- 
meal. W. H. H. 
Pullets Off Their Feed. 
My pullets seem to be “off their feed,” 
at least- their crops are empty in the 
evening when they go to roost. I give 
scratch feed and dry mash, and the chick¬ 
ens have the run of a lawn for about on 
hour each day. I had trouble with colds 
about four weeks ago, and now the hens 
have black sores on combs and about the 
eyes. Is this the after effects of the 
colds? J. F. s. 
Chickens should not go to bed with 
empty crops, but why yours do so it 
would be impossible to guess without 
considerable information as to their feed¬ 
ing and care that you do not give. With 
dry mash only, chickens are not apt to 
distend their crops as they do when fed 
moistened food and it is possible that 
yours eat more than you think. Neither 
can I tell what these black sores are, 
though it is not unlikely that they may 
be the eruption of chicken pox. If this 
is thought to be the case, the sick chick¬ 
ens, if few in number, should be isolated 
and the quarters of the healthy ones and 
their utensils cleaned up and disinfected. 
The sores may be painted with tincture 
of iodine or well greased with sulphur 
ointment. When moderate in severity, 
chicken pox is ordinarily recovered from 
with simple treatment and good care. 
M. B. D. • 
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