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November 27, 191.3. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Over a thousand eggs were laid in this, 
the second week of the contest. Barred 
Rocks make the highest, viz. 43, by Jules 
J. Francais’ pen from Long Island. A. 
A. Hall’s pen of White Leghorns are 
second with a score of 40, and Hampton 
Institute’s Leghorns from Virginia are 
third, with 39 to their credit. Will Bar¬ 
ron’s Leghorns from England are fourth, 
laying 30, and A. P. Robinson’s Leghorns 
are fifth, score 35; Windsweep Farm 
Leghorns sixth, score 34. With the ex¬ 
ception of J. J. Francais’ pen of P. 
Rocks the Leghorns take all the first 12 
places. 
The new breed, originated at the Ore¬ 
gon Agricultural College, said to be a 
cross of Barred Rocks and White Leg¬ 
horns, which they have entered as “Gre- 
gons,”_ are starting off well. A bird of 
this cross was reported last year to have 
laid 303 eggs in the year. The birds re¬ 
ceived for this contest were in much bet¬ 
ter condition than in previous years. 
American breeders are learning that it 
is not wise to hatch Leghorns especially 
too early in the Spring. When they have 
been laying for a few weeks, changing 
their location is apt to disturb them 
enough to cause them to stop laying; 
then they are pretty sure to molt, and if 
it is a full molt it will take GO to 90 
days and some time after the molt is 
completed before they resume laying. But 
these are just the birds for breeders; the 
long rest has stored up vitality, and the 
eggs are larger than the first clutch, and 
will produce larger chicks. Experiments 
at Cornell showed that the largest eggs 
produced the largest chicks, the medium- 
sized eggs medium chicks, and small eggs 
small chicks, and this relative size per¬ 
sisted clear through the growing season. 
If this is so, and there is no reason to 
doubt it, it must have been a big egg that 
produced a Leghorn pullet I have, for 
she weighs 5% pounds, and is a beauty. 
The week’s record follows: 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 12 
Mrs. Andreas Brooks, New York. 
Frank L. Tuttle, Massachusetts. 12 
Jules F. Francais, Long Island. 43 
Hampton Institute, Virginia . 7 
Fairfields Farms, New Hampshire. 23 
O. A. Foster, California . 10 
Oregon Agr. College, Oregon. 13 
Bock Rose Farm, New York. 13 
Mendelay Poultry Yards, Ohio . 3 
White Rocks. 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts. 
Keweenah Farm, Massachusetts. 
Holliston Hill Farm, Massachusetts... 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 
Columbian Rocks. 
Mrs. George R. Wilcox, Connecticut... 
White Wyandottes. 
Lime Ridge Farm. New York. 
National White Wyan. Club. Pa. 
Obed G. Knight, Rhode Island. 
P. W. Backus, Ontario . 
Beulah Farm, Ontario . 
Vine Hill Farm, Massachusetts. 
Mrs. R. W. Stevens, New York. 
Rverett E. Wheeler, Massachusetts.... 
J. E. Watson, Connecticut. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Marsden Cross P. Farm, England. 
Neale Bros., Rhode Island . 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Mrs. Lena C. Bray, Missouri. 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.... 
G. Arthur Cook, Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 
A. B. Brundage, Connecticut. 
Hillvlew Poultry Farm, Vermont. 
Homer P. Deming, Connecticut. 
Charles O. Polhemus, New York. 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut. 
Springdale Poultry Farm, Connecticut. 
Laurel Hill Farm, Rhode Island. 
II. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.. 
Harry B. Cook, Connecticut. 
A. W. Rumery, New Hampshire. 
F. I). Clark, Connecticut. 
Allan’s Hardtobeat Reds, Rhode Island 
Charles Becker, Connecticut. 
Fatherland Farm, Massachusetts. 
Jacob E. Jansen, Connecticut. 
II. W. Collingwood, New Jersey. 
W. II. Bumstead, Connecticut. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Massachusetts.... 
Hampton Institute, Virginia . 
Jos. Brandenburg, Michigan. 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Connecticut. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Jay II. Ernisse, New York. 
Broad Brook Farm, New York. 
James H. Lord, Massachusetts. 
Mrs. Rollin S. Woodruff, Connecticut.. 
Windsweep Farm, Connecticut. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
P. G. Platt, Pennsylvania. 
Dictograph Poultry Farm, New York.. 
F. M. Peasley, Connecticut. 
Chas. Ileigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Will Barron, England . 
J. Collinson, England . 
Marsden Cross I’. Farm, England. 
George M. McMillan, Missouri. 
A. P. Robinson, New York. 
River Ledge Farm, Connecticut. 
Frank R. Hancock, Vermont. 
Margareta P. Farm, Ohio . 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
W. E. Atkinson, Connecticut..... 
Ellis W. Bentley, New York. 
N. W. Hendryx, Connecticut. 
Bonnie Brook Poultry Farm, New York 
George Phillips, Connecticut. 
Hampton Institute, Virginia . 
Toth Bros., Connecticut . 
White Leghorn Club, Illinois . 
Harry Williams, Connecticut. 
Oakcrest Farm, New York. 
Jas. F. Harrington, New Jersey. 
Summer Grove Farm, Ohio . 
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Buff Leghorns. 
L. E. Heasley, Michigan. 
O. L. Magrey, Connecticut. 4 5 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 10 12 
Red Sussex. 
Dr. E. K. Conrad, New Jersey. 
Mottled Anconas. 
Claude Clinton, New Jersey. 20 28 
Elmwood Farm, New York . 4 5 
White Orpingtons. 
Obed G. Knight, Rhode Island. 14 26 
Oregons. 
Oregon Agr. College, Oregon. 17 25 
Imperial Progressives. 
Wm. R. Wells, Rhode Island. 
Black Rhinelanders. 
A. Schwarz, California . 3 3 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
NEW-VORKER 
it adds much to the labor of feeding, 
however, and one must judge for himself 
whether the increased egg production 
paylEfor the extra labor- M. b. d. 
The Hen Flea. 
The Arizona College of Agriculture 
describes a poultry pest said to be in¬ 
creasing in the dry districts of the South¬ 
west. This is called a flea, though it is 
not a true flea, and does not hop. It is 
found embedded in the skin of the af¬ 
fected fowl, having there the appearance 
of shot in the skin. They may be so 
numerous as seriously to disfigure the 
bird with their warty appearance. The 
flea infests shady places beneath hedges 
and in old dirty buildings, old adobe walls 
affording them especially congenial re¬ 
treats. It is the female flea that becomes 
embedded in the skin, and when the warty 
excresence which she produces sloughs 
off, as it does after a mouth or two, her 
larval are carried to the ground where 
they infect other birds. If numerous, 
young chicks may be killed by them. 
Water and sunshine are found to destroy 
these parasites, and if infected places are 
kept soaked with water for a short time 
and the sun admitted to them the para¬ 
sites die. m. b. d. 
Green Bone With Meat Scrap. 
How much ground green bone should 
be fed to 1,000 birds, 800 hens, 200 pul¬ 
lets? I am feeding at present for a dry 
mash equal weights of dry meat scrap, 
bran, gluten, cornmeal and middlings. If 
I feed ground green bone should I stop 
putting meat scrap in the mash, which 
is before them all the time? Would you 
feed green bone to growing cockerels in¬ 
tended as breeders? J. A. s. 
long Island. 
With a dry mash containing one-fifth 
part of beef scrap, ground green bone 
is not needed and furnishes an over¬ 
supply of meat food. If the bone is 
available and used, cut out all or part 
of the beef scrap, according to the 
amount of green bone used. Green bone 
may be used for growing stock, but is 
thought to interfere with fertility when 
given during the breeding season. It 
should be used with some caution at all 
times; if given in excess the droppings 
will become loose and watery; if al¬ 
lowed to become spoiled, poisoning of the 
fowls may result. The exact amount to 
be given 1,000 hens cannot iyell be stated. 
The writer does not use it and does not 
feel qualified to give very explicit direc¬ 
tions as to amounts. If he had it, he 
would give it “in moderation,” feeding 
it two or three times weekly, perhaps a 
small handful to two or three fowls at 
each feeding, and he would watch the 
droppings for evidence of excess. If any 
poultryman has used green bone sufii- 
ciently long and with enough fowls to 
have formulated safe rules for its con¬ 
stant use, he will confer a blessing upon 
his fellows by reporting in these columns. 
M. B. D. 
Feeding for Egg Production. 
I have 800 White Leghorns kept 
for the production of eggs. Am I feeding 
my stock the right way or can I improve 
any in feeding? I feed the half year 
birds, 400 pullets, 12 quarts cracked corn 
at 6.30 a. m., in the litter; 8 a. m. 
mangel beets, 9 a. m. wet mash, corn- 
meal bread, clover; 10 a. m. I open the 
dry mash, consisting of cornmeal, bran, 
beef scraps and charcoal; 4 p. m. cracked 
corn, 12 quarts in litter. The 400 one 
and one-half-year-old hens I feed as fol¬ 
lows: 14 quarts cracked corn at 6.30 a. 
m. in the litter; 8 a. m. mangel beets; 
9.30 a. m. open dry mash, consisting of 
bran, cornmeal, beef scraps and charcoal; 
2 p. m. mangel beets; 4 p. m. 14 quarts 
oats in litter. Am I feeding right for 
the production of eggs, or can I improve 
by changing the feed? O. s. 
Long Island. 
As you do not give proportions of the 
different grains in your dry mash, I can¬ 
not say how well balanced it is, but I 
think that it can be improved. Cornmeal, 
bran, middlings, gluten feed and beef 
scrap would suit me better; equal parts 
by weight of the first four ingredients 
and 100 pounds of beef scrap to from 400 
to 600 pounds of the ground grain mix¬ 
ture. Corn and oats are excellent for 
whole grain, but wheat, barley, oats and 
buckwheat are all valuable, and a variety 
is beneficial. Feeding five times daily is 
unnecessary. The dry mash may be kept 
before the fowls, in open hoppers, all the 
time. The whole grains fed morning and 
night, and such green food as mangels, 
once daily or every other day. Charcoal, 
grit, ground oyster shell are best kept in 
open hoppers where the fowls can help 
themselves at will. A moist mash once 
daily certainly helps in egg production; 
Caponizing Turkeys. 
Can a male turkey be caponized? We 
know young male chickens are made bet¬ 
ter and more tender and bring a better 
price if that is done, but I am told a 
male turkey cannot be so treated. 
w. B. 
The caponizing of turkeys has never 
come under my observation, but I am in¬ 
formed by competent authority that it 
has been successfully done, and that there 
is reason to believe that there would be 
a big market for the birds. This opens 
a field for experiment that I think worthy 
of investigation. Turkeys are. of suffi¬ 
cient individual value to make it profita¬ 
ble to give them special care, but the 
operation of caponizing would require 
some little skill and the losses from opera¬ 
tive deaths would be serious. Until some 
means of combating black-head has been 
found, turkey raising will probably con¬ 
tinue a somewhat precarious occupation 
on most farms, but many succeed in rais¬ 
ing a few each year and these few cer¬ 
tainly add not a little pin money to the 
purses of their fortunate owners. While 
some may insist that turkey meat is no 
sweeter than that of other fowls, there 
are associations and a sentiment con¬ 
nected with this king of the Thanksgiving 
board that will long maintain his pres¬ 
ent supremacy. M. B. D. 
Congested Liver. 
I have a hen whose droppings are of a 
hard green nature; she is weak and at 
times cannot stand up. She eats well, 
but does not seem to gain much strength. 
I feed Cornell rations. What is good for 
fowls with congested liver? H. H. R. 
New Jersey. . . 
Such a hen should be promptly killed 
and buried; her value does not offset the 
time and care required in treatment and 
the risk of conveying infection to others. 
Congestion of the liver, a name adopted 
to conceal ignorance rather than to de¬ 
scribe a disease, is treated by giving 
green food a plenty, exercise and little 
meat or other stimulating food. As the 
“disease” cannot be diagnosed until after 
death, knowledge of its treatment is of 
little value. Don’t treat too much, either 
at the bar or the barn. M. B. d. 
A Two-story Henhouse. 
1. I expect to build a henhouse about 
16x170 feet. Would it be practical to 
build it two stories high, the upper 
story to be used for storing Alfalfa, 
grain in the shock (unthrashed), straw, 
seed corn, tools, etc., and possibly for a 
small workshop? Would lice or moisture 
be troublesome in the upper story? 
Should the upper floor be double with 
tar paper between? Are two-story hen¬ 
houses, where both stories are used for 
poultry, a success? Are different flocks 
kept on each floor, or does the same flock 
use both stories of the building? Where 
can I find out more about how to build 
and use such houses? 2. How large a 
space (cubic volume) will I need to 
store an average crop of wheat in the 
shock or bundle, i. e., unthrashed, from 
five acres? B. P. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
1. It would be 'entirely possible to 
build a two-story poultry-house of the 
dimensions that you mention, and use 
the upper floor either for storage or for 
poultry, but I would not advise such a 
plan. For poultry, two-story houses 
have not met the expectations of their 
builders and few. if any, are now built. 
A storage space 16 by 170 feet would be 
very inconvenient, because of its nar¬ 
rowness and length, and I doubt if you 
would like it. A poultry house 20x136 
feet would give you the same capacity 
as the one that you propose, would be 
cheaper to build, because of less material 
in the walls, and would be superior as a 
poultry shelter to the narrow one. It 
has been a marked fault in poultry house 
construction, in the past, that houses 
have been built very narrow and long. 
This is now recognized, and deeper 
houses are being constructed. 
2. I cannot advise as to the space 
needed for the storage of five acres of 
wheat in your section. Some of your 
farmer neighbors who are in the habit 
of storing their crops in the sheaf should 
be able to give you some idea of the 
space they need. M. b. d. 
To Prevent Family 
and Stock Diseases 
Keep the home and all the farm premises 
thoroughly disinfected. And don’t forget 
that Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfectant is the 
safest and surest preparation to use because 
it is non-poisonous and its strength never 
varies no matter when or where you buy it 
Dr. Hess Dip and 
Disinfectant 
is excellent for cleansing and purifying 
stables, sinks, drains, garbage cans, out¬ 
houses, stagnant pools, etc. 
It kills hog lice, ticks on sheep, scab, and 
other parasitic skin ailments of horses, 
cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and dogs. 
1-Oallon Can, $1.00 (except in Canada and the far 
West); smaller pkg9. as low as 25c. In pint bottles, 
quart, half-gallon, gallon cans and barrels. The 
household size has a handy take-off-and-put-on 
stopper. 
Dr. Bess Fly Chaser 
Doesn’t gum, color or blister. Makes stock com¬ 
fortable. At your local dealer's. 
OR: HESS & CLARK. Ashland, Ohio 
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times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier,! 
prolits larger. f 
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