THE KUKAL NEW-VORKER 
1447 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
The third week of the contest 1,340 
eggs were laid. This is 301 more eggs 
than were laid in the third week last 
year, and the total is 4S0 greater than a 
year ago. the same number of birds com¬ 
peting. As long as gains can be made in 
egg production, and the average output of 
the different breeds increased, the keep¬ 
ing up of these contests will seem worth 
while. The trap-nesting and careful rec¬ 
ord keeping of each bird for an entire 
year is well worth the cost of the entry 
f e. The best birds- thus selected and 
mated with a male from a high producing 
hen. ought to produce pullets that would 
surely be worth more as egg producers 
than their ancestors. 
.Tales F. Francais’ Barred Rocks have 
outlaid all other pens again this week, 
their output being 42; and their total is 
the greatest of any pen; 119 eggs in the 
three weeks. Will Barron of England 
takes second place with 41 eggs from his 
White Leghorns, but is third in the 
total output; A. B. Hall’s White Leg¬ 
horns being second in the total with 109 
eggs, and third in the week’s output with 
40 eggs to their _ credit. All the White 
Leghorns are doing well, or rather the 
majority of them, their average being 
greater than that of any othjr breed. But 
we have not had any very severe weather 
.vet. when zero weather comes it is very 
likely that the Leghorns will take a back 
seat for a while. The week’s record fol¬ 
lows : 
Barred Rocks. Week Total 
A. R. nail. Connecticut. 
Mrs. Andreas Rrooks, New York. 
Prank T,. Tuttle. Massachusetts. 
Jules P. Francais, Rons: Island. 
IInine ton Institute. Virginia . 
Fairfield Farms, New Hampshire. 
<>. A. Foster. California. 
Oregon Agricultural College, Oregon... 
Rock Rose Farm, New York. 
Menddlay Poultry Yards, Ohio. 
White Rocks. 
Rrnnford Farm, Connecticut. 
Branford Farm, Connecticut. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Massachusetts. 
Ke ween ah Farm, Massachusetts. 
Holliston Hill Farm, Massachusetts... 
Buff Rocks. 
A. A. Hall, Connecticut. 
Columbian Rocks. 
Mrs. George R. Wilcox, Connecticut... 
White Wyandottes. 
Rime Ridge Farm. New York. 
National White Wyatt. Club, Pa...!!! 
Obed G. Knight. Rhode Island. 
P. W. Rackus, Ontario . 
Beulah Farm, Ontario . 
lino Hill Farm. Massachusetts. 
Mrs. R. W. Stevens, New York.!!!!!! 
Fverett F. Wheeler, Massachusetts.... 
J. K. Watson. Connecticut. 
Tom Barron. England . 
Marsden Cross P. Farm, England!!!!!! 
Neale Rros., Rhode Island. 
Merrythought Farm, Connecticut. 
Silver Wyandottes. 
Mrs. Lena C. Rray, Missouri. 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Merrythought. Farm, Connecticut. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Or. N. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts.... 
G. Arthur Cook, Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island Reds. 
Colonial Farm, New Hampshire. 
A. R, Rrundage. Connecticut. 
Hi 11 view Poultry Farm, Vermont. 
Homer P. Peming, Connecticut. 
Charles o. Polhemus, New York. 
S. G. McLean, Connecticut. 
Springdale Poultry Farm, Connecticut. 
Laurel Hill Farm. Rhode Island. 
II. W. Sanborn, Massachusetts. 
Harry R. Cook, Connecticut. 
A. W. Rnmery, New Hampshire. 
P- II. Clark, Connecticut. 
Allan's Ilardtohcat Reds. Rhode island 
Charles Reeker, Connecticut. 
Fatherland Farm. Massachusetts...!!! 
Jacob E. Jansen, Connecticut.! 
H. W. Coilingwood, New Jersey. 
W. H. Bntnstead. Connecticut. 
Plneerest Orchards, Massachusetts.... 
Hampton Institute, Virginia. 
Jos. Brandenburg, Michigan.. 
White Leghorns. 
A. R. Hall, Connecticut. 
Rraeside Poultry Farm. Pennsylvania. 
Jay II. Ernisse, New York. 
Broad R>-ook Farm. New York. 
James II. Lord. Massachusetts. 
Mrs. Rollin 8. Woodruff, Connecticut.. 
Wind-sweep Farm. Connecticut. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Connecticut. 
P. G. Platt. Pennsylvania. 
Pietogranli Poultry Farm, New York.. 
P. M. Peasley. Connecticut. 
Pitas. IIeigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England* . 
Will Barron, England . !!!!! 
J. Collinson, England .! 
Marsden Cross B. Fanil, England. 
George M. McMillan, Missouri. 
A. B. 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. Ilendryx, Connecticut. 
Bonnie Brook Poultry Farm, New York 
George Phillips, Connecticut. 
Hampton Institute, Virginia. 
Toth Bros., Connecticut... 
White Leghorn Club, Illinois . 
Harry Williams, Connecticut. 
Oakerost Farm, New York. 
las. F. Harrington, New Jersey. 
Summer Grove Farm, Ohio. 
Buff Leghorns. 
I. . E. Hensley, Michigan. 
(). L. Magrey, Connecticut. 
Black Leghorns. 
J. Collinson, England . 
Red Sussex. 
Dr. E. IC. Conrad, New Jersey. 
Mottled Anconas. 
Claude Clinton. New Jersey. 
Elmwood Farm, New York. 
White Orpingtons. 
Obed G. Knight, Rhode Island'. 
Oregons. 
Oregon Agricultural College, Oregon... 
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Imperial Progressives. 
Wm. R. Wells, Rhode Island. 
Black Rhinelanders. 
A. Schwarz, California. 7 10 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Poultry House from Old Material. 
I have a barn 18x21, 14 feet high, that 
I wish to take down and make into a 
poultry house that will house 50 or 00 
laying liens. The lumber in this building 
is rough, but in good condition, may need 
a new roof for poultry. 1 want to" make 
it warm and comfortable. How should it 
be used? w. H. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
A building 15 feet square will he amply 
.large for your proposed flock, and may he 
simply and economically built. Make ali 
Lies but the front wind-tight. Lse the 
old sills and plates and board vertically 
from sill to plate. If you wish to save 
the old lumber, a single thickness, well 
battened or covered with tarred paper, is 
sufficient for the walls; double boarding 
will make a more permanently tight build¬ 
ing, however. Make a single slope, or 
shed, roof; board it tightly with old lum¬ 
ber and cover with a good grade of pre¬ 
pared roofing. Board it tightly; don’t 
attempt to save lumber there. Eight feet 
in height for the front and five for the 
rear are good proportions for a small 
building of this kind. These dimensions 
may fie cut down one foot, if desired. Put 
two large windows, extending from with¬ 
in 20 inches of the floor nearly to the 
plate, in the front and the entrance door 
where most convenient. Cover the win¬ 
dow openings with wire poultry netting 
so that the windows may be left open 18 
months out of the year. The glass is for 
ornament and a concession to ancient 
prejudices. Make the floor of concrete 
or dirt; if of the latter raise it enough 
above surrounding land to insure perma¬ 
nent dryness. With those hints and your 
lumber you can build a small poultry 
house that any flock would be proud to 
occupy. M. B. D. 
Selling Chicken Manure. 
Noticing your article on page 1217 en¬ 
titled “A Western Cold Mine in Poultry 
Manure.” I want to tell of my little per¬ 
sonal ‘‘gold mine” on my poultry farm 
here in Florida. Although new in the 
business, having only come here from 
Cuba, after 14 years spent there, I only 
wish I had more manure to dispose of. I 
started with dirt floor houses, but after 
a few months found it was impossible to 
get over a wheelbarrow load from 100 
nens a month. By putting in cement 
floors I am to-day getting 250 to 200 
pounds per month, dry pulverized ma¬ 
nure, and am selling same at $10 per ton 
at my place. I use some myself, but 
could sell many times more than I have if 
I cared to. When I want to use it I use 
loam from my own land sprinkled on the 
floors to prevent sticking and every week 
return it to the same place taken from, 
usually around fruit trees, peach, orange 
or grapevines. When I sell it I sack it in 
100-pound feed sacks, of which I have 
plenty, and the air passing through it 
dries it completely, although I have 
known in damp weather for it to be warm 
through the sack after six months’ stor¬ 
age. L. M. HARVEY. 
Florida. 
Unthrifty Fowls. 
T have now over 50 pullets, Barred 
Ilocks, which do not seem to grow lately, 
but were considered good chickens all 
Summer. I noticed on the dropping 
boards a good many having the appear¬ 
ance of raw meat chopped, also brown in 
color and soft, some black. I feed on a 
scratch feed of two bushels of oats, 100 
pounds of barley, same of cracked corn, 
about two quarts a day to 17 hens, and 
a mash of one sack of bran, a half of 
ground oats, also middlings, 50 pounds of 
gluten meal, 25 of Alfalfa, some salt anl 
some meat scraps. I also have about 45 
roosters which I brought in out of the 
yards to a pen in the barn about the mid¬ 
dle of September to fatten. I gave them 
the mash, cracked corn and dry corn- 
meal, all they would eat, but in" a few 
days they wouldn’t eat very much. They 
grew but would not gain in flesh. I 
changed them in to two pens and a yard 
outside, but with little success. They 
do not seem to relish corn or cornmeai, 
but would eat mashed potatoes greedily, 
which I feed them on as long as I had 
them, also raw cabbages. Their droppings 
seemed loose, but a good many of a brown 
color and a few real yellow and frothy. 
They were all the time bright and lively 
looking, good color, will run and fight but 
do not eat or get fat. Both roosters and 
pullets have plenty of charcoal and grit. 
What do you think is the matter and 
what can I do to fatten them? o. m. 
Massachusetts. 
The appearance of a fowl’s droppings 
are a good indication of the condition of 
its digestive organs. Normal droppings 
are sufficiently dry and hard to retain 
their shape and be easily removed from 
the boards'; about a third of the sub¬ 
stance is whitish in color, being com¬ 
bined, the 
diarrhoea, 
proportion 
posed of the urates secreted by the kid¬ 
neys. From this normal appearance the 
dropping may vary widely; if they be¬ 
come soft and pasty and there is con¬ 
siderable fluid with them, the condition 
of the bowels would be known as “loose” ; 
if this condition is marked and the drop¬ 
pings are yellow or green, or contain 
bird would be said to have 
and this latter is serious in 
to its cause and severity. 
Some looseness of the bowels is of fre¬ 
quent occurrence and need cause no anx¬ 
iety. though, if marked, its cause should 
be looked for. Spoiled food, too much 
green stuff, o v er-feeding of wet mash, too 
much meat, etc., are to be inquired into. 
The condition is corrected by rectifying 
whatever is wrong with the food and see¬ 
ing to it that exposure to cold and damp¬ 
ness or foul drinking water do not con¬ 
tinue the trouble. Just what is wrong in 
your case would take personal investiga¬ 
tion to ascertain. Worms may be pres¬ 
ent without harm, unless in excessive 
numbers. Cockerels will not fatten well 
on dry cornmeai; make a moist mash of 
it. You probably overfed these on the 
start. Scant them a day or two, until 
they get hungry, then commence the moist 
mash and give only what they will quick¬ 
ly clean up three times daily. You can¬ 
not. stuff them for more than about two 
weeks; longer than this will be apt to 
“throw them off their feed.” Fatten 
quickly and dispose of them. M. b. d. 
Trespassing Hens and Pigeons. 
Will you tell me what I can do about 
my neighbor’s hens and pigeons coming 
on my land and destroying my crops? 
The pigeons are a nuisance on the roof 
where we catch the rain water to use. 
Connecticut. j. l. f. 
In regard to trespassing pigeons the 
only thing you can do is to poison or 
shoot them, when they come on your 
property. This is a very mean nuisance. 
In every neighborhood there will be one 
or two parties who feed a great flock of 
these birds on their neighbor's farms. 
These pigeons tear up grain, steal feed 
from the poultry, destroy fruit, and are 
a perfect nuisance in and around the 
barns. As they can fly rapidly and are 
very shy there is no way of keeping them 
off except destroying them, although 
many farmers object to doing that. We 
have been greatly annoyed in this way on 
our own farm. A flock of these pigeons 
began to occupy the barn, and we were 
unable to get rid of them without shoot¬ 
ing, and a thorough campaign was ne¬ 
cessary to kill them all. We have known 
cases where these pigeons were poisoned 
by putting a box of poisoned grain up 
near the top of the barn where 
poultry would not touch it. 
shooting at them day after 
drive these birds away. 
As for hens, this form of petty tres¬ 
passing is a very mean kind of neighbor¬ 
ly nuisance. The most effective remedy 
while the hens are laying is to entice 
them into the house or yard and shut 
them up. You then get the, benefit of 
such eggs as they lay, and the neighbor 
cannot come and release them without 
making himself liable for trespass. At 
this season when hens are not laying 
such a remedy would be useless. In many 
eases a smart little dog trained to chase 
the liens will keep them away. Some 
victims shoot a number of the hens and 
toss them over the line fence upon their 
neighbor’s property. This makes bad 
feeling, but it generally ends in having 
the offending hens shut up. We offer no 
sympathy whatever to those people who 
write and say that their hens have wau- 
the farm 
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Barron CockerP 8“ S - L White Leghorns, farm 
U reared, from pen imported di- 
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The White Poultry Farms, - Cairo, N. Y. 
Barron WhiteLeghorn Cockerels lings TS B a°iM o fl n! 
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BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
248-260-284 egg stock Imported direct. 6 pullets 
and cock S15. Cockerels J2 each, 6 for $10. Barron’s 
w yandottes4 pullets and cock $10. 
E. CLAUDE JONES Hillsdale, N. Y 
s - c - W. Leghorn 
T Also 25 yearling hens, Young strain. 
J. M, CASK, - Gilboa, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets and'*1*50 
each. Itiverdale Poultry Farm, Riverdale, N. j. 
COR SALE— Bred-to-Lay Free Range S. C. W. Leg. 
7 . ho r".' fenr | ln e»- SI each; $00 per Hundred. Pul- 
lets. $l.aO each, Harry Smith, Montuomery N Y 
SINGLE COMB 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Breeder and importer of Tom Barron’s strain 
Exclusively. A few pullets and cockerels for 
sale at reasonable prices, considering quality. 
Records ami price list upon request. 
M. J. QUACKENBUSH, Nutley, N. J. 
SINGLE COMB WH?TE IFGHORN PULLETS 
4 months old. One Dollar e*-... Year-old hens. One 
Dollar each; cockerels, $1 to $5; cock birds, $2 to $5 
250-egg strain. No better birds to be found at any 
price. A. R. G RAVES, WhiteBville, New York 
S.C.W.LEGHORN COCKERELS 
A few choice cockerels from April hatched chicks 
bought direct from thenoted “ JustnPoultry Farm ” 
for sale. $;i tqich. K. 3. T urner, The Plains, Va. 
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VIBERT RED FARM. Box 2. WESTON. N .1 
noted on to their neighbor’s yard and 
been trapped or shot. Long trouble in 
these matters convinces ns that no one 
in a thickly settled neighborhood has any 
business whatever to let his hens run at 
large so that they trouble his neighbors. 
100 Barred Rock COCKERELS 
82 each. B. H. HENION. Brockport, N. Y. 
Thoroughbred Rose Comb BROWN LEG¬ 
HORN COCKERELS. 1. C. Hawkins, Sprakers.N.Y. 
Tim Johnsons had an old hen which 
insisted upon neglecting her comfortable 
nest to lay a daily egg in the coal-cellar. 
“I can t think,” fretted Mrs. Johnson, as 
she and her small son. Joe, hunted for 
that particular egg, “why this one hen 
insists upon using the coal-cellar.” 
“Why, that's easy, mother,” exclaimed 
Joe in astonishment. “I s’ pose she’s seen 
the sign : ‘Now is the time to lay in your 
coal.’”—Credit Lost. 
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, stock. References given. Pair, $8; trio, $10. Young 
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White Holland Turkeys 
Best of breeding, farm raised and healthy. Price: Toms, 
$.'•.00. lions, $1.00. Dr. T. PAUL PEERY, Tazewell, Va. 
BQ Best Breeds -C ! ,ieketls * ducks, geese, turkeys, 
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For Sale—African Geese 
Price $5 a pair. Address 
WM. H. WARCUP, - West Branch, N. Y. 
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“FOUR ACRES,” Nutley, N. J. 
For Sale-A Few Ancona Cockerels 
Both combs. Bred from a good-laying strain. For 
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