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EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Vineland, N. J. 
The Vineland, N. J., egg-laying contest 
is now in its second year. The same hens 
which were reported last year are being 
tested for their two-year-old form. Below 
is given the record of the full pullet year, 
the record for the current week ending 
October 2. and the full record for this 
year. Do not confuse these records with 
the Connecticut figures, for that is a pul¬ 
let contest. 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
1st yr. Week Totai 
13.56 
1118 
1194 
1113 
1476 
1239 
1341 
830 
1020 
1166 
1004 
892 
1107 
975 
1183 
10.54 
1239 
11.37 
1001 
1100 
1201 
1221 
1175 
1068 
1172 
1496 
1150 
1175 
1019 
804 
893 
1004 
Garret W. Buck, N. J. 
19;56 
11 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
1548 
14 
Otto C. Luhrs, N. J. 
1474 
29 
C. N. Myers, Pa. 
1689 
26 
Harry H. Ober, N.J. 
1443 
25 
Overlook Farm, N.J. 
1199 
24 
George 0. Ward, Me. 
14.59 
12 
Woodside Farm, R. I. 
1867 
13 
■WHITE PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS 
Chester P. Dodge, Mass. 
1635 
14 
Holliston Hill Poul. Fm.,Miiss. 
1985 
18 
Edward E. Murray. N. Y. 
1573 
10 
Victor S. Reichenbach, Pa. 
1038 
14 
Overlook Farm, N.J. 
1662 
10 
Wilburtha Poultry Farm N. J.. 
1214 
8 
COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Deptford Poultry Farm, N. .1.. 
T. J. Enslin, N. J. 
J. M. Jones, N, J. 
1447 
1302 
1854 
18 
20 
36 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Thomas Coates, N.Y. 
A. H. Faulkner, N. J. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Gnblewood Poultry Farm, N. . 
Lusseroft Farm, N. J. 
E. C. Moore, N. J. 
T. H. Matteson & Son, U. 1.. • 
Sunnybrook Farm, N, J. 
H, S. Tuthill, N. J. 
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES 
1445 
1412 
1322 
1.598 
1761 
148.5 
1410 
1460 
1721 
16 
21 
5 
17 
21 
13 
11 
21 
19 
Lake Farm, R. I. 
Sunnybrook Farm, N. J . 
WUburtha Poultry Farm, N. J. 
f513 
1483 
1253 
12 
15 
21 
897 
1279 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
Clark andiHowland, Vt. 1.591 
W. P. Laine, N. J. 
Mrs C. B. Elliott N. J. 
8. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J.. 
H. W, Collingwood, N. J. 
Thomas W. Dawson, Pa. 
Etjon Poultry Farm, N, J- 
Thomas Henry, Pa.. 
Miss A. S. Macintosh, N. J. l<)3a 
Underhill Bros., N.J. 
Woodland Poultry Yard, Pa.. 
8. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Avalon Farms, Conn. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
Will Barron, England. 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J.. 
Broad Brook Farm, N. Y. 
Cloverlawn Farm, N.J. 
W. J. Cocking, N.J. 
Jos. H. Cohen, N, J. 
J. S. Cray & Son, N. J. 
Chas. Daval, Jr., N.J. 
L. 8. & N. L. Depue, N.J.. 
R. F. & R. A. Earle, N.J. 
Harry G. Gardiner, N.J. 
C. S. Greene, N.J. 
Wells S. Hastings, Conn. 
B. Prank Grunzig, N.J. 
Henry E. Heine, N. J. 
Richard Heine, N. J.. 
Heigl’s Poultry Farm, Oliio... 
Hilltop Poultry Yards,Conn — 
Hillview Farm, Mo. 
Holliston Hill Poul. Fm.. Mass 
Pinebeach Poultry Farm, N. J . 
James F. Harrington, N.J- 
John H. Lauder, N. J.... . 
Lay well Poultry Farm, Conn... 
Fred J. Mathews, N.J. 
Mercer Poultry Farm, N. J — 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 1673 
H. H. Myers, N,J—......... 
Samuel Niece & Son, N. J — 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Oakland Farm, N. J. 
Miss Anna C. Parry, Pa. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Riverside Egg Farm, N. Y — 
Joseph H. Ralston, N.J. 1614 
Shadowbrook Farm. Conn. 
Sloan’s Egg Farm, N.J. 
PinehurstPoultry Farm. Pa.... 
Herman F. Sender, N.J. 
A. E. Spear, N. J. 
Sunnybrook Farm, N. J. 
TenacrelPoultry Farm, N.J — 
Tom’s Poultry Farm, N.J. 
Training School, N.J... . 
J. Percy Van Zandt, N. J. 
Shurts and Voegtlen, N.J . 
Gustav Walters, N. .1..'. 
White House Poultry Fm.. N.J. 
W. K. Wixson, Pa. 
Willanna Farm, N.J. 
Woodland Farms, N.J. 
S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS 
H. G. Richardson, N.J. 
Romy Singer, N.J. 
Monmouth Farms, N.J. 1197 
S. C. BLACK LEGHORNS 
A, E. Hampton, N. J. 
Sunny Acres, N.J. 
1522 
17 
906 
1425 
20 
1278 
1410 
13 
1193 
1479 
28 
1096 
1;522 
19 
1147 
1635 
15 
1308 
1966 
23 
1216 
1082 
11 
862 
ORNS 
1937 
7 
1443 
1843 
24 
1618 
2053 
15 
1474 
1425 
11 
1096 
1698 
8 
1477 
1734 
12 
1510 
1674 
5 
1396 
1730 
20 
1440 
1649 
8 
1358 
1728 
15 
1485 
1714 
2 
1054 
1595 
9 
1239 
1772 
12 
1424 
1772 
10 
1283 
1742 
5 
1238 
1277 
8 
1074 
1622 
5 
1363 
1527 
10 
1124 
1616 
8 
1105 
1774 
11 
1207 
1436 
11 
1343 
2114 
21 
1464 
1412 
9 
1357 
1719 
24 
1540 
1851 
23 
1712 
1807 
19 
1211 
1755 
26 
1548 
1612 
4 
1425 
1073 
13 
1312 
1843 
12 
1479 
1851 
20 
1409 
1635 
18 
1426 
1117 
15 
1505 
16.55 
15 
1209 
1.526 
3 
1291 
2173 
12 
1660 
1815 
13 
1413 
1614 
9 
1375 
1620 
1 
1227 
1666 
8 
1442 
1884 
6 
1358 
1802 
14 
1456 
1716 
T7 
1339 
1353 
2 
1151 
1312 
16 
1234 
1702 
H 
1456 
1535 
4 
1100 
2212 
16 
1418 
2115 
17 
1225 
1883 
12 
1270 
1489 
17 
1402 
1959 
30 
16.19 
1915 
15 
1.533 
1896 
7 
1440 
ORNS 
1448 
4 
1021 
1137 
6 
1091 
1407 
9 
1280 
15 
4 
17 
1339 
1217 
1260 
Totals. 161875 1381 126214 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
priatod for experimental purposes. My 
own experience, however, along this line, 
which covers a period of over 20 years, 
indicates that the most practical plan for 
a good-sized breeding establishment is to 
breed from cocks or cockerels not related 
to hens or pullets every second or third 
year, and at the same time to keep a small 
pen of selected trap-nested layers espe¬ 
cially for breeding cockerels for mating 
with regular breeding pens. This out- 
cross, which is made every second or 
third year, can be made fi-om birds pro¬ 
duced on the same farm, provided the line 
is kept separate for at least three years 
to remove any trace of relationship so far 
distant as to make it a negligible factor. 
There is one fact or principle whuch must 
always be taken into consideration in 
dealing with breeding problems of this 
kind, and that is this: 
When male birds are kept each year 
from the general flock the harmful effects 
of inbreeding are in exact proportion to 
the number of breeders kept. That is, 
if you have only a pair of fowls and keep 
birds (cockerels or pullers) bred from 
them to mate back to their own parents, 
it would be direct inbreeding, while if you 
have, say, 400 breeders and keep, say, 50 
of the best cockerels for breeding the fol¬ 
lowing year, the chances for direct in- 
breeding are vei’y remote, and would prob¬ 
ably never be noticed, 
2, The feeding formulae at the^ Vineland 
and Storrs contests are practically the 
same, and vary somewhat with the season 
of the year, but the i*egular formula is as 
follows; 
Poultry Breeding and Feeding 
1 What do vou think about breeding 
voung pullets back to their own sire? 
What is considered by poultry experts the 
best breeding rules when breeding for 
production? I would like to see what 
other people are doing along these lines. 
2 Can vou print the full food courses 
given to‘the hens that are laying in these 
egg-laying contests, their dry feeds, 
mashes, grains, scratch feed, grits, etc., 
and how much is allowed to each bird. 
New York. ' R- w. K. 
1. The practice of breeding young pul¬ 
lets back to their own sire has been quite 
generally practiced by fanciers when 
breeding for fine exhibition stock, and has 
re.sulted in many cases of weakened stock 
and lowered egg production. For these 
reasons I would not advise close inbreed¬ 
ing when breeding for increased egg pro¬ 
duction. We realize that there is a lot 
for all of us to learn yet along this line, 
and that we really do not positively know 
very much about it, notwithstanding the 
large amounts which are annually appro- 
Grain Bation. 
100 wheat 
100 cracked corn 
100 clipped oats 
Dry Mash. 
100 bran 
100 middlings ' 
100 cornmeal 
100 ground oats 
100 beef scrap 
The above are the original formulae but 
may be changed according to conditions 
and the rules of the Food Administration. 
To the dry mash may be added 50 pounds 
of oil meal during the molting season, 
and the remainder of the year, when birds 
are laying heavily, from 50 to 100 pounds 
of gluten feed may be added. The grain 
ration, of course, must be used with less 
wheat, which is about the only change 
necessary. The mash is kept before the 
birds at all times, while the grain ration 
is scattered in the litter three times a 
day, just what will be consumed without 
waste. Grit, oyster shell and charcoal to 
he kept in separate hoppers before the 
birds at all times. c. s. G. 
Care of Young Turkeys 
On page 957 I saw a letter from H. S. 
in regard to loss of young turkeys. I had 
the same trouble until I started to use 
coops for them, built 10 inches off the 
ground, and tightly sided on the north 
and west sides, either lath or netting on 
the east and south. This gives them 
plenty of air when they are to be kept in 
on rainy days. On the floor I use gravel 
and once a week throw lime in and 
around the coops. I believe lime and sour 
milk the only preventives of blackhead, 
which is no doubt IT. S.TS trouble. 
After they roost in the trees, lime well 
under the trees so that it will keep the 
droppings disinfected. After my turkeys 
get quite large I lose one now and again, 
but I think unripe grain and apples often 
responsible. As soon as I see a bird 
which looks sick and will not eat I have 
it killed and burn the body and head, 
being careful to get all the blood, which 
I have heard carries infection. I feed 
sour milk and chick feed until they can 
eat whole grain grown the previous year, 
but I want to impress on H. S. to use 
lime. 
In the Spring I wrote you asking ad¬ 
vice on pigs, for which I now thank you. 
We have a fine lot, some of them tipping 
the scale heavily at 100 pounds, only 4)4 
months old. E. B. E. 
Wallkill, N. Y. 
While Hens Are 
Molting 
Put Sleekene in the Dry Mash 
^^^WglQMT OHt PQUMn 
To have 
the plumage 
glossy and 
the combs 
red,sho'wing 
prime condi- 
tio’n. You 
onlymix half 
a package in 
a bushel of 
dry mash or, 
if you prefer 
a -wet mash, 
one tablespoonful is sufficient for 
twenty hens. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, 
a full sized package will be sent 
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PARKS WINTER LAYING 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Won First Honors and Outlayed 
the 2600 birds in the Five Miss¬ 
ouri Laying Contests (Under 
Govt. Supervision) Including the 
Famous English Laying Strains. 
Also made the remarkable winter 
month record of 134 eggs in Jan. 
Cir. Free. Large Catalog a dime. 
J. W. PARKS, Box V ALTOONA, PA. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants, Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for Btockinff.purposea, 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, thanes. Storks, Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears, Foxes, Rac¬ 
coon, Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist, Dept. 10, Yardley, Pa 
Mottled AnconaBreedingPen*PE^KLE5LVs«^VcK^^^^^ 
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Storrs Contest 
PEN NO. 26 FOR SALE 
F. W. HARRIS, • Melrose, Rensselaer Co., New York 
CLOSING OUT SALE OF 
S. C. R. 1. Reds, Barred Rocks 
and White Rocks 5Ve are stocking our 
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heavy birds for sale. Have about 100 yearling breed¬ 
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each, 5 cocks at $5.00 each and lot of cockerels at 
$3.00 to .$.5.00 each. We also have several hundred 
pure Barron Leghorn cockerels at $3.00 to $4.00 each. 
Everything shipi)ed subject to customer's approval. 
RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM, Cambridge Springs, Pa 
PARKS’ BARRED ROCKS 
cockerels for sale, bred from Parks’ ped. 231 to 237- 
egg strain. April hatched. Weight, 7 lbs. 
Mrs. C. B. MARSH, - LaFargevIlIe, N. Y. 
For Sale 
Pen 4 at Storrs contest, also cockerels. 
J. F. FRANCAIS, West Hampton Beach, L. I. N. Y. 
Giants, Belgians, New Zealand 
English. 2H to 5 month. 
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COLORED Muscovys 
9 4 PAIR. 
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the following high-class pedigreed r^lleUaleS 
1 Male watchdog, 91S. 1 yr.-old Female. 91 O. 1 Brood 
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Great Danes TAlWETdlOai 
Collie Pups NELtiON^s' 
The intelligent kind. Also Guinea Pigs 
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