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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 twm-year-old form. Below 
is given the record of the full pullet year, 
the record for the current week ending 
October 16, 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 
Ist yr. AVeek Total 
Garret W. Buck. N. J. 
...... 
IfloO 
2 
1.366 
Tliom.-is Henry, Pa. 
...... 
1.748 
24 
11.79 
Otto C. Luhrs, N. .1. 
1474 
13 
1227 
0. N. Myers, Pa. 
. 
1689 
20 
1466 
Harry H. Ober, N.J. 
144.1 
16 
1.714 
Overlook Farm, N.J. 
1199 
16 
1272 
George O. War<l, Me. 
.. 
14.79 
7 
1.36.3 
Woodside Farm, R. I. 
. 
1867 
2 
837 
WHITE PLYMOUTH 
Chester P. Dodge, Mass. 
ROCKS 
163.7 
12 
1049 
Holliston Hill Ponl. Fin.,Mass. 
Kiiwaril E. Murray, N. Y. 
Victors. Reiclienbaeli, Fa. 
Overlook Farm, N. J. 
Wilburtha Poultry Farm N..).. 
1980 
1038 
16t« 
1214 
1176 
102:! 
899 
1124 
984 
COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Deptford Poultry Farm. X. J.. 
1447 
19 
T. J. Enslin, N. J.. 
1302 
17 
J. M. Jones. N. J. 
18;74 
11 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Thomas Coates, N.Y. 
144.7 
10 
A. H. Faulkner, N. J. 
1412 
15 
Tlioinas Henry, Pa. 
1322 
1^3 
Gablewood Poulti-y Farm. N. .1. 
1.798 
2.3 
Lusscroft Farm. N. J. 
1761 
12 
E. C. Moore, N.J. 
148.7 
1.7 
T. H. Matteson & 8on, K. 1. 
1410 
6 
Sunnybrook Farm, N.J. 
1460 
26 
H. S. Tuthill, N.J. 
1721 
29 
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES 
Lake Farm, R. I. 
1513 
12 
Sunnybrook Farm, N.J . 
1483 
13 
Wilburtha Poultry Farm, N.J. 
1253 
13 
1217 
1089 
1270 
1161 
1035 
1108 
1243 
1248 
1206 
1081 
1221 
1.550 
1181 
1204 
1053 
BUFF. WYANDOTTES 
Clark andiHowland, Vt. 1.591 9 824 
W. P. Laiiig, N. .1. 897 7 906 
Mrs C. B. Elliott N. J. 1279 1 1009 
8. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Beffe Ellen Stock Farm, N. .T... 1522 15 938 
H. VV. Collingwood, N. .1. 1425 14 1.309 
Thomas W. Dawson, Pa. 1410 9 1218 
Etjon Poultry Farm, N. ,1 . 1479 14 1134 
Thomas Henry, Pa..' 1522 %14 1179 
Jliss A. S. Macintosh, N. .1. 1635 9 13.30 
Underhill Bros., N.J. 1906 17 12.52 
Woodland Poultry Yard, Pa.... 1082 10 883 
S. 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. S. & 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. Frank Grunzig, N.J. 
Henry E. Heine, N. J. 
Richard Heine, N. J. 
Heigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio.... 
Hilltop Poultry Yards.Conn.... 
Hillview Farm, Mo. 
Holliston HillPoul. Fm., Mass. 
Piiiebeach Poultry Farm, N. J.. 
James F. Harrington, N.J. 
John R. Ladder, N. J. 
Lay well Poultry Farm, Conn... 
Fred J. Mathews, N.J. 
Mercer Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
H. H. Myers. N, J. 
Samuel Niece & Son, N.J. 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Oakland Farm. N. J. 
Mist Anna C. Parry, Pa. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Riverside Egg Farm, N. Y. 
Joseph H. Ralston, N.J. 
Shadowbrook Farm. Conn. 
Sloan’s Egg Farm, N.J. 
Pinehurst Poultry Farm, i’a.... 
Herman F. Sender, N.J. 
A. E. Spear, N.J. 
Surinybrook 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. J. 
White House Poultry Fm., N. J. 
W. K. Wixson, Pa. 
Willanna Farm, N.J. 
Woodland Farms. N.J. 
1937 
2 
1451 
1843 
26 
1666 
2053 
10 
1497 
1425 
10 
1114 
1698 
4 
1484 
1734 
12 
1.536 
1674 
0 
1400 
1730 
11 
1470 
1649 
0 
1362 
1728 
14 
1511 
1714 
.3 
1061 
1595 
4 
1249 
1772 
5 
14.34 
1772 
8 
1299 
1742 
2 
1244 
1277 
7 
1087 
1622 
4 
1371 
1527 
4 
11.36 
1616 
3 
1113 
1774 
3 
1221 
1436 
6 
1.357 
2114 
10 
1488 
1412 
3 
1.365 
1719 
12 
1565 
1851 
19 
17.5.3 
1867 
11 
1.326 
1755 
21 
159.3 
1612 
5 
1434 
1673 
3 
1323 
1843 
5 
1492 
1851 
18 
1446 
16,35 
10 
1451 
1117 
11 
1.528 
1655 
10 
12.33 
1,726 
1 
1295 
2173 
12 
1685 
1815 
7 
1430 
1614 
8 
1388 
1620 
.3 
1234 
1666 
6 
1455 
1884 
4 
1365 
1802 
0 
14.56 
1716 
9 
1.363 
13.53 
;o 
11.53 
1312 
9 
12.57 
1702 
6 
1471 
1.535 
0 
1104 
2212 
18 
1.557 
2115 
18 
1262 
1883 
11 
1294 
1489 
13 
1430 
19.59 
23 
1683 
1915 
11 
1555 
1896 
8 
14.57 
S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS 
H. G. Richardson, N. J. 1448 .3 1027 
Romy Singer, N. J. 1137 2 1097 
Monmouth Farms, N, J. 1407 4 1291 
8. C. BLACK LEGHORNS 
A. E. Hampton, N. J. 1746 15 1368 
Fred C. Nixon, N. J. 1758 .3 1221 
Sunny Acres, N.J. 1754 7 1282 
Totals.. 161875 955 128358 
Egg-Eating Dog 
I have a valuable white Scotch collie 
pup about five months old. He is eating 
eggs from the nests. We have tried every 
way to stop him, but have not succeeded. 
Could you suggest some way to cure him 
of this? S. E. 
New York. 
Egg-eating dogs and egg-eating hens 
seem to be in the same class when it 
comes to changing their tastes in the mat¬ 
ter of food. I confess that I have never 
found any sure cure for either when the 
appetitie for eggs had become fixed. Such 
expedients as treating eggs with some 
nauseous substance and leaving them 
where the olfending dogs or hens would 
find them have proved successful in some 
cases, and entirely without effect in oth¬ 
ers. If anyone can suggest a more profit¬ 
able procedure, we shall be glad to pub¬ 
lish it. M. B. D. 
State-Wide Jottings 
(Continued from page 124.3) 
kept open by the State Department of 
Highways. The work Will be done by 
means of enow fences, and it is expected 
that if but half the motorcar drivers of 
llonroe County co-operate by giving ip.5 
each the necessary funde will be available: 
It is planned to have trucks in series with 
especially heavy snow plows and drags, 
and start them with the earliest snowfall, 
so that the snow may not accumulate. 
Influenza EpiDE.Aric SuHvSidiNg.— The 
run of Spanish influenza is losing its 
hold at many State points. Avith fewer 
ca.ses reported and fewer fatalities. 
Western NeAv York counties AA'ere the 
last in the State to feel the ravage, arid 
it has accordingly held on there. Among 
the death toll is nuriibered .Terry A. 
Davey. of Spencerport, an extensive cat¬ 
tle dealer and a member of Ogden Grange 
No. 111. Besides a large business at 
home. ^Ir. Davey was also a large dealer 
in the Buffalo stock yards. A. ii. P. 
Retail Prices at New York 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce of 
good quality and the buying opportunities 
of at least half of NeAv York’s popula¬ 
tion : 
Butter—Be.st prints .61 to Ole 
Tub. choice ..50 to OOe 
Medium to good..54 to .57c 
Cheese .38 to 45c 
Eggs—Best nearby.90 to 9.5c 
Gathered, good to choice.70 to SOc 
Potatoes, lb. .3 to 4c 
Cabbage, head. 8 to 19c 
I.ettuce, head . 3 to 5c 
Onions, lb. 4 to .5c 
Dressed fowls, lb..35 to 42c 
Chiekeps, lb.40 to 4.5c 
Leg of lamb, lb.40 to 46c 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
Best creamery, prints, 6.3 to 6.5c; tub 
choice, 60 to 61c; packing stock, 39 to 
41c. 
Eggs. 
Nearby choice, 63 to 64c.; gathered, 
best, 55 to 57c; lower grades, 46 to 50c. 
tivE Poultry. 
Fowls, 35 to 38c; chickens, ,34 to .38c; 
roosters, 24 to 2.5c; ducks, 28 to .30c; 
guineas, paii*, 75e to .$1.2.5. 
DRESSED POULTRY, 
Chickens. 35 to 40c; foAvle. .34 to .38c; 
roosters. 28)4c; ducks. Spring, 39 to 40c; 
squabs, doz., .$6 to .$8.2,5. 
Eruits. 
Apples, bbl., .$3 to $6; pears, bbl.._^$7 
to .$12; plums, 4-qt. bkt., 50 to 65c; 
grapes, 3-lb. bkt., 20 to 25c. 
Veretables. 
Potatoes, No. 1, bbl.. $3.50 to .$4.50; 
SAveet potatoes, bbl., ,$2.50 to $3 ; cucum¬ 
bers. bu., $1 to .$1.,50; cabbage, ton. $10 
to $17 ; onions, 100 lbs., $1 to $1,75. 
HAY AND BTRAW. 
llav, No. 1 Timothy. $36 to $38; No. 2, 
$.34 to .$35; No. 3, ,$28 to $33; clover 
mixed, .$27 to .$34.’ Straw, rye. $16 to 
$20; oat and wheat, $12.50 to 36. 
Ridding Henhouae of Lice 
I would like some information in re¬ 
gard to freeing my coops and hens of 
lice. I have about 100 hens. Nests and 
roosts are covered with the insects. Hens 
are losing their feathers and do not lay 
well. J. 9- E. 
New York. 
First, clean the house thoroughly with 
a broom, after removing all rubbish and 
loose fixtures as well as litter. Then 
thoroughly whitewash it or spray iti with 
one of the coal-tar dips used in ridding 
cattle of the vermin, to be purchased at 
any drug store. The perches and nests 
need special treatment. They are prob¬ 
ably infested with great numbers of the 
red mites that feed upon the blood of the 
fowls at night. Look carefully beneath 
the ends of the perches and in the crevices 
about the nests and see if you do not find 
disgusting swarms of them. These may 
be killed by any grease or oil painted or 
sprayed over them and their hiding places. 
Kerosene thoroughly applied is good and 
not expensive; mixed with some heavier 
oil, it is more lasting in its effects. I 
have recently used a mixture of kerosene 
and engine oil from the motor of my car. 
Instead of throwing away the worn oil 
drained from the engine and the kerosene 
used to rinse it out with, I have mixed 
them together and used the mixture to 
souse the perches and the adjoining wood¬ 
work of the henhouse thoroughly. To rid 
the fowls themselves of body lice, procure 
some blue ointment at the drug store, 
mix it with an equal amount of vaseline, 
and taking each fowl from the perch at 
night smear a bit of the mixture about 
the size of a kernel of corn over the skin 
beneath the vent and up under each wing. 
The red mites do the most damage, but 
will be easily disposed of if you keep 
after them. M. b. d. 
Heater For Brooder 
I would like to get a practical heating 
apparatus to raise young chickens after 
they are hatched; in other words, a re¬ 
liable apparatus to act as a means of 
heating the air so as to keep the bodies 
of the chickens at a certain temperatxire. 
I have tried several styles, but have found 
them all absolutely worthless. J. L. M. 
New York. 
The various kinds of lamp-heated 
brooders are satisfactory where small 
flocks of chicks are to be raised and atten¬ 
tion can be given to small units. Recent 
years have seen marked development in 
the rearing of chicks in larger flocks, 
however, and the coal-heated brooder has 
been an important factor in making this 
practicable. The coal heater is simply a 
small coal stove having an automatic de¬ 
vice for regulating the draft and temper¬ 
ature and an oA^erhanging hood, or de¬ 
flector, that helps to keep the heat near 
the floor. With these heaters installed in 
a building of suitable size, flocks of sev- 
^e^al hundred chicks are as easily reared 
as fifty to one hundred chicks xinder a 
lamp-heated hover, 
A variation of this plan was recently 
described to me by a very successful New 
Jersey poultryman. This poultryman 
placed ordinary steam or hot-water radia¬ 
tors in a long brooder house, one radiator j 
to a pen, and connected them to a heater l 
such as is used in dwellings. Over each 
radiator he placed a circular hood in the 
same manner that they are placed over 
stoves. Hot-water circulating throxigh 
the radiators provided the necessary heat, 
and this was found to be as easy to regu¬ 
late as is the same apparatus used in 
homes. M. B. D. 
Poultry Notes 
October is the month to prepare the 
flock for colder Aveather, which Ave may 
expect in the near future. All old birds 
.should he disposed of at once, except those 
which are required for breeding purposes. 
It is often .a serious question on many 
poultry farms as to the best plan to pursue 
.^that is, whether it would be more profit¬ 
able to keep the old hens over for laying 
or sell them off in the Fall after they have 
stopped laying, and replace them with 
Spring-hatched pullet-s. To my mind the 
answer to this question depends first upon 
the quality of the old stock, and second 
on cost of raising pullets to take their 
places, as compared with the co.st of 
keeping the old birds over during the pe¬ 
riod of non-production. 
Of course, the alluring price of eggs 
during, the months of October, November 
and December make it appear to many 
people that there is a large profit in pro¬ 
ducing Winter eggs, but the fact is that 
the cost of production is so much greater 
during this time that there is really much 
less profit in the business during these 
months than there is at other seasons of 
the year. 
The co.st of raising a White Leghorn 
pullet this year up to the age of six 
months, when egg production starts, must 
be placed at about $1.50 under average 
conditions, and a pullet will lay about 2,5 
eggs more than a yearling hen in one 
year. These 25 eggs are Avorth at least 
$1.25; subtracted L’om the cost of the 
pullet, this leaves 25 cents as the net 
cost of the pullet. The cost of keeping a 
hen over the period of non-production 
amounts to about $1. so the figures show 
that the custom of raising pullets pays a 
net profit of 75 cents more than_ can be 
made from old hens, and this is in addi¬ 
tion to the value of the old hens Avhich are 
marketed for meat. This year they sold 
for 28 cents to .35 cents per pound, alive, 
so an average sized Leghorn would sell 
for $1.25, Avhich, added to the 75-cent 
profit on egg production, makes a total 
income of practically $2 on each bird 
VA’hi^e pullets are raised to take the place 
of old birds more than can be realized 
when the old stock is kept over. _ Of 
course the breeding value of the old birds 
is not taken into consideration in the 
above figures. c. s. greene. 
Eager Lady : But what if your en¬ 
gine stops in the air—what happens? 
Can’t you get down? Aviator: That’s 
just what ’appens, mum. There’s two 
Germans up over in France now with 
their engines stopped. They can’t get 
down, so they’re starving to death.— 
California Pelican. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants, Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stockinff purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes. Stork.s. 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 
SUNNY “EFFICIENT” S. C. W. 
CREST Bred For Business LEGHORNS 
Price list pamphlet with harpains. I.argest poultry farm 
instate. SU.N.Ny CREST I’OIIETUY FARM, East in rorn, N.T, 
FOR SALE 
mp Barred Rock Cocks and Cockerels 
Salisfaction Guaranteed. Charles Eckhart, Shohola, Pa. 
For Sale-Selected White Wyandotte Cockerels 
Martin’s, Regal-Dorcas line. $4 and $5 each. 
H. W. BUNK, - Germantown, New York 
S. C. R. I. R E D S 
A lbert trapnested stock. 231 to ZSl egf; strain, chckerels, 
S3 and SS each. ANNA M. JQNE8, Craryvillb, >N. Y. 
SILVER spangled HAMBURG anti 
White Crested Black Polish Cockerels 
$l.,A0e.Toh and upwards. A. Jackson, Mineral Sprinos.N.Y. ’ 
For Sale-150 S. C.W. Leghorn Breeding Hens 
AVyckoff Strain direct. SI. 50 each. 
J. M. CASE, . Gilboa, New York 
S. C. White Leghorns 
3U-egg strain. 4 yearling hens and i cockerel, Sts. 
E. CLAUDE JONES, - Craryville, N. Y. 
Colored Muscovys Spotted Guineas. $3 
JESSIE REYNOLDS, - Petersburg, N, Y. 
Bourbon Red TURKEYS 
Egg record stock. 
EhORA ilOKMING, Ueneire, Pa. 
Ferris WhiteLeghorns 
■V real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 years, rec¬ 
ords from 200 to 264 eggs. Get <mr prices on pullets 
and yeaiding hens, breeding males, eggs for hatching, 
and day-old clucks. We ship C. O. D. and guarantee 
results. Catalog gives prices; describesstock, tells all 
about our farm and methods; results you can get by 
breeding this strain. .Send for yonr copy now—it is 
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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 Y ALTOONA. PA. 
puSmed^hTtI Plymouth Rock Cockerels 
from good layers. Also a few hens and pullets. 
MAKTHA A. BEECHER, R. F. D.. Lima, N.Y. 
IMPROVE YOUR STOCK BY BUYING EXTRA FINE 
White Rock Cockerels 
hatched from trap nested stock with records of 240 
to 2.58 eggs. Have twenty for sale at <65 each. 
E. AI. Benford, California Raad, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 
300 April and May Pullets 
HaiTon Leghorn, S. C. Red. Bred for Egg Production nnd 
Vigor. A few Yearlings and Cockerels too. Whatare .voiir 
requirements I JUSTA POULTRY FARM, Sonthtinptoii, N. Y. 
inn PIILT.ETS 
lull C Alla ull III vO ready to lay. Beautiful birds and 
the Kite kind to own. JUSTA POULTRY FARM, isuthtmpttn, M.Y. 
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