RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1369 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Week Total 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Storrs post office in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the num¬ 
ber of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets en¬ 
tered for the next year. 
Hecord at Storrs, Conn,, for week ending 
November 21. 1918: 
BARRED ROCKS 
Merritt M. Clark, Conn. 
Samuel M. Monks, Conn. 
Orlenhope Farm, Mass. 
Jules F. Francals, L. 1. 
Laurel Poultry Farm, Quebec . 
Fairfield Poultry Farms, N. H. 
Norfolk Specialty Farm. Ontario. 
Mich. Agricultural College, Mich. 
Rock Rose Farm, N. Y . 
J. H. Wilson. Methuen. Mass. 
Joseph M. Rothschild, N. Y. 
Ingleside Farm. N. Y. 
Ore. Agricultural College, Oregon. 
R. L. Smith, Maine . 
H. K. Wallace, Jr., Mass . 
WHITE ROCKS 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Chickatawbut Farms, Mass. 
IX S. Vaughn, R. I. 
H. A Wilson, N. H. 
Uolliston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.... 
BUFF ROCKS 
A. A. Hall, Conn. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Beulah Farm. Ontario. 
W. Bradley, Victoria, B. 0. 
Herbert L Warren, Que., Canada .... 
Mrs R. W. Stevens, N. Y . 
Laurel Hill Farm. R. 1. 
Obed y. Knight, R. I. 
Merrythought Farm,Conn. 
O. L. Magrey, Conn. 
Shadowbrook B'arm, Conn. 
Patrick F. Sullivan, Conn. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 
Cook & Porter, Mass. 
K. Terry Smith, Conn. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Chas. H. Lane, Mass. 
Ktjon Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Homer P. Deming, Conn. 
Hopewell Farms, N. J. 
Pleasantville Farms. N. Y. 
Laurel Hill Farm, R. I. 
Natick Farm, R. 1. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Jacob K. Jansen,Conn. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
Harvey A. Drew, N. J. 
F, W. Cumpstone, Conn. 
BLACK RHINELANDERS 
A, Schwarz, Cal. 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS 
Blue Andalusian Club of America,N.Y. 
OREOONS 
Agricultural College, CorvalU Ore.... 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. H. Penny, N, Y. 
Robt. C, Ogle, N.Y. 
S. U. McLean, Conn. 
Glenhope Farm, Mass. 
Kdward T. Tonissen, N. Y’. 
Meadowedge Farm. L. I. 
Kirkup Bros, N. Y. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Exmore Farms. Pa. 
James O. LeB'evre, N. Y. 
Shadowbrook B'arm, Conn. 
W m. L. Gilbert Home, Conn. 
B’rancis B’. Lincoln, Conn. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Sunny Crest Corporation, N. Y. 
L. K. Ingoldsby, N.Y. 
B. S. Ells, N. J. 
Hollywood B’arm, Wash. 
Bonnie Brook B’arm, N. Y. 
W. E. A,tkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg B'arm, N. J. 
Westwood B’arm, N. Y. 
A. P. Robinson. N.Y. 
C. Rasmussen, N. J . 
Sunny Side Poultry B’arm, N. J. 
Gustav Walters, N. J . 
R. Lindsey Ireland, Ky. 
B. A. Ballard, Pa. 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards. Conn. 
J. Frank Dubois, Mass. 
Clifford I. Stoddard, Conn. 
George Phillips, Conn...:. 
J W Welch, Neb. 
M. T. Lindsay, N. Y. 
Mrs. J. L. Thuesen, Conn. 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Bert Horsfall, Quebec. 
Tarbell B’arms, N. Y. 
Locust Grove B’arm, N. J. 
Hopewell Farms, N. J. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
D. Tancred, Wash. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
The Yates B’arm, N. Y. 
Herbert O. Maxham. R. i. 
W. B. Kieft, III... 
Ellwood Newton, Cenn. 
C. 8 Green, N. J. 
Coleman Miles, HI. 
Total. 
11 
24 
18 
45 
3 
3 
5 
9 
4 
12 
9 
17 
8 
9 
7 
14 
n 
31 
0 
0 
0 
0 
16 
37 
13 
26 
U 
0 
0 
0 
5 
25 
0 
0 
0 
9 
2 
8 
4 
37 
9 
18 
0 
3 
12 
27 
22 
46 
0 
0 
6 
8 
9 
45 
38 
93 
12 
44 
24 
70 
0 
2 
11 
30 
4 
13 
7 
24 
0 
3 
3 
0 
8 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
29 
0 
9 
89 
11 
17 
18 
27 
18 
36 
1 
46 
3 
1 
0 
24 
0 
0 
15 
49 
0 
0 
16 
50 
26 
41 
0 
0 
14 
32 
9 
30 
15 
30 
19 
49 
13 
28 
24 
33 
9 
28 
35 
80 
16 
32 
10 
11 
7 
13 
29 
70 
16 
50 
0 
9 
8 
21 
10 
44 
0 
2 
1 
5 
6 
13 
20 
65 
7 
28 
16 
37 
5 
5 
16 
45 
24 
57 
21 
47 
4 
9 
14 
45 
o 
7 
0 
0 
11 
23 
13 
19 
18 
30 
2 
4 
5 
11 
8 
17 
0 
0 
3 
21 
46 
93 
20 
45 
4 
4 
11 
27 
2 
15 
8 
29 
12 
27 
0 
1 
952 
2411 
The First and Second Year Laying 
The laying contest at Vineland, N. J., 
where the same hens have been trap- 
nested for two years, gives some interest¬ 
ing figures as to comparative productivity 
of the different breeds during their first 
and second years. The report shows that 
not a single pen of White Leghorns laid 
as many eggs the second year as they did 
the first year. One pen laid 833 fewer 
eggs the second year; another pen 741 
fewer. One pen that laid 1,489 eggs the 
first year, laid 1,452 the second, or only 
37 eggs less. But most of the Ijeghorn 
pens laid from 200 to 600 fewer eggs the 
second year. 
On the contrary, two pens of Barred 
Rocks exceeded their first year’s produc¬ 
tion, one pen laying 92 eggs more and 
another pen 90 eggs more than during 
their first year. One pen of Buff Wyan- 
dottes also exceeded their first year pro¬ 
duction by 22 eggs. One pen of the 
Barred Rocks made an enormous drop in 
their second year, laying 1,030 more eggs 
the first year. 
The totals show that 151,875 eggs were 
produced the first year, and 129,499 the 
second year; a drop of 32,376. As this 
is the record of a thousand hens, it shows 
that the average loss for the second year 
was about 32^ eggs, or less than three 
eggs a month. 
This brings some data to bear on the 
advisability of keeping hens for their sec¬ 
ond year’s production, rather than to sell 
them and replace with pullets. Part of 
the cost of raising the pullets is offset by 
having to feed the hens during their 
period of idleness while molting, and an¬ 
other thing to be considered is the fact 
that diu'ing the molting period. Fall and 
early Winter, eggs are more than double 
the value of Spring and Summer eggs; 
so that pullets laying at that time soon 
pay the cost of raising them. However, I 
always practiced keeping hens over for 
their second year’s laying, as I think bet¬ 
ter pullets, that is, larger birds, are pro¬ 
duced from hens’ eggs than from pullet 
eggs; besides, the labor of caring for 
young chicks is avoided. 
This third-year contest at Vineland, 
now beginning, being of pullets from the 
second-year hens—^^the progeny contest— 
ought to give some valuable data. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Lighting the Henhouse 
We are using electric lights over 1.500 
hens. The lights are turned on at ,3 :30 
a. m. and run until daylight. We do not 
light in the evening, as it is much easier 
to get the hens down in the morning than 
it is to keep them down in the evening. 
We think the above the better way, al¬ 
though people still use both morning and 
evening lighting. We installed lights last 
Spring, about March 1, and turned them 
on this Fall, Octoher 1. We have no 
check pens, but think very highly of the 
lights. It is simply a matter of getting 
extra rations into the hens. The cost for 
us at six cents per kilowatt is about 10 
cents a day. We are getting about 450 
eggs a day from 1,000 March and April 
piillets; some of the March pullets in 
this lot have been laying since August 
and are now molting, while pens of the 
later hatched are laying 60 per cent. This 
is much better production than we have 
ever had at this season. Our old hens 
have also kept up better than usual. 
Connecticut. a. b. hall. 
There are a few poultrymen using light 
in their henhouses in this section, but not 
many yet. I have only one house wired 
up now, but expect to have more soon. 
Many of our improvements planned have 
had to wait this year, when the war has 
taken all the labor and bonds all our 
money. There is no douht that lights 
properly given will pay anyone who has 
nice pullets to feed, but I would not use 
them or any other forcing method on hens 
that I intend to use for breeders. There 
are two methods used, one turning the 
light on at dusk and dimming at seven 
o’clock, giving the hens time to go to 
roost before cutting it off entirely. The 
other, turning the lights on at 3 a. m. 
and off at daylight. One requires a “dim¬ 
mer,” the other needs an alarm clock. 
Either method works well, and as I have 
jiaid, will pay 'w’ith good birds to work 
with. FLO’YD Q. WHITE. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Extra Fine Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
S months. Hens and toms, $8 and $10. Also two mag- 
.niticent toms, year old. White Plymouth Uock cocker¬ 
els, $3.50. KOOS, VVuHhliii^toiif Conn. 
For Sale-Bronze TURKEYS 
Extra Fine young birds. W. T. KOOEBS, Bridge Hampton, H.V. 
Barron Legliorn Cockerels 
Good, big, husky, raiige-rai.sed birds, with pedigrees 
from 240 to 284. We have over a hundred birds to 
choose from and will make you a good selection. 
All stock sold subject to customers approval. 
THE RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM. Cambridge Springs. Pa, 
MISCELLANEOUS 
HEREFORDS 
By Champion Prince Real and 
from Prince Rupert 8tb, cows 
STOCK ALL AGES 
If you want the best, write 
ALEX MORRISON, Sh*elburne.VL 
Capt. J. Watson WEBB, Owner 
WALGROVE HERD 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
OVER 50 HEAD IN HERD 
Many imported. Ail registered. Tuberculin tested. 
:Milk recorils kept. Write for price and particulars 
on Herd Heading Bulls. Walnui Grove Farm.WashlngfonyillB, N.Y 
The beef breed for tae East. Mature 
early, easy feeders. Send for illus- 
A n #¥ 11 G trated booklet with particulars of 
11 ^ ^ the breed and stock for sale. 
Clarence W. Eckardt, 31 Nassau St., New Tork City 
Mr. General Farmerlg^iiry Shorthorns “pro'stTbfe 
breed for you. Try thorn. We offer a trio for foun¬ 
dation. 2 heifer calves and unrelated. Choice¬ 
ly bred. First draft or coeck for S425 takes them. 
A few others. EDWIN EASTERBROOK. Interlaken, N Y 
SHETLAND PONIES 
We sell on the INSTALLMENT plan. 200 head to 
select from. Herd established 1891. Send 10c 
for contract and price list. Address Dept. L 
THE BHADTSIDE FARMS, North Benton. 0. 
Swiss Goats $40 
A few dry does. No milkers to sell. Only letters enclos¬ 
ing stamp answered. 8. J. 6HA RTI.E8, ». o. 5. .NerrUtews, Pe. 
L VST wiiitor when price.«! were 
4 sky high, what wouldn’t you 
have done to get more eggs. 
This winter witli prices still 
higher—see that yon do get more! 
Do th'is simple little thing to keep 
your poultry healthy! Give them 
SLEEKENE 
Mix it with the mash! 
One tablespoon fill in a wet mash is 
enough for twenty hens. Or mixed 
with dry m.ash a half package of 
SLEEKENE to a whole bushel of 
the feed. 
In the confinement of cold weather 
particularly, it is only natural that 
poultry should need the tonic of 
SLEEKENE to keep well. And to 
Ifty. 
Try One Package 
and see for yourself the good effect 
on your birds—their bright red 
combs, inci’easod activity and in¬ 
creased egg production. 
M.VDE ONLY BY 
G, C. Hanford Mfg. Co. 
308 Oneida St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
If your dealer, 
can't supply you 
send his name, 
and 50 cents for 
a full sized pack- 
age postpaid. 
SURPRISING INCURATOR 
Bargain 
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$0,95 
for the 
famous 
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iSteell Hatcher 
The greatest in¬ 
cubator value at 
any price. Built 
round with a cen¬ 
tral heater; no cold 
corners which 
mean unhatched 
eggs. Perfect regulation of heat, ventilation and moisture, 
roomy chick nursery, visible egg chamber easily accessible, 
triple wall, water jacketed heat flume, sloping egg tray 
keeps small ends of eggs always downward—enables chicks 
to develop more perfectly. Economical to oper- QIC 
ate. So well-built it lasts a life-time. Priceonly 
Order from this advertisement. Send check, money or 
express order, we ship at once, f. o. b. Quincy, Ill. For 
shipment by parcel post include postage for 17 lbs. weight. 
ly ^SA'rIlFI°Eo"after 30 DAYS’ TRIAL 
write us and we wdll refund all money you have paid. We 
are responsible. In business in Chicago 46 years. Ask your 
banker. You also need our spIendid^’Liberty Hover,” 70 
chick capacity.oil heated,self reeulatlns.Wcfahs 14 lb. S4,50f.o.b. 
Quincy, 111. For larger incubators write today for special catalog. 
B. F. Gump Co.. 439 S. Clinton St., Chicago, III. 
Bo^ 
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CLOSE-TO-NATURE 
GRAIN SPROUTERS 
Produce the Succulent VapoisBatb Sprouts that bring the 
eggs. Reduce your feed bill and increase your egg yield. Get 
oor free circular on Sprouted Oats and Eggs. 
CLOSE-TO-NATURBCO. 78 Fronc St., COLFAX, IOWA 
More. 
CCGS1 
Meawhy^ 
/Chicks !—How?\f 
IFeED YOUR POULTRY WITH' _ _ 
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Meat Scrap 
lUsed at New Jersey Lr^ing Contest! 
. V«f*AA/l9l8 Farmers Almanac. 
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WRITS TO-OAV. 
>1AURER MANUFAaURINO CO. 
„.D£pt. 365. 
^J4eWARK, 
make hens lay 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier, 
profits larger. 
MANN’S Bone Gutter 
Guts all bone with adhering meat and 
OTistle. Never clogs. lO Days’ Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today for Free Book 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15. Milford, Mass. 
Kfom-™ HiD Colony Brooders 
Address, UNITED BROODER CO., 380 Pennington Ave., Trenton, N. J. 
Cockerels 
Hocks, W. W y andottes. 
T r a p n e s t e d , farm 
range heavy laying 
stock that will multi ply 
your poultry profits. 
Illustrated folder free. 
Write for it NOW. 
G. F. GIBSON 
Galen Farms, 
Box 200 Clyde, N., Y. 
Baby Chicks 
Eggs 
8. C. W.I.eg- 
horns, ;k. I, 
Ueds. B. F. 
Ferris WhiteLeghorns 
A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 years, rec¬ 
ords from 200 to 264 eggs. Get our prices on pullets 
and yearling hens, breeding males, eggs for liatcliiiig, 
and day-old cliick.s. We ship C. O. U. and giiaraiiiee 
results. Catalog gives prices; describesstock, tells all 
about our farm and methods; i-esults you can get l)y 
breeding this strain. Send for yonr copy now—it is 
GEORGE B. FERRIS, 935 Union. Grand Rapids, Mich 
QUEENSBURY STRAIN S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORN COCKERELS (FouNgSrioN) 
The law forbids the shipment of live stock December 10-31, 
inclusive. Order your cockerels now and ffot the best selections. 
Our males arc from hiRh producers of oisr white e8g»> Sires 
from 260 to 272 egg hens. Fine vigorous birds that will begret 
profitable dauKhters. Prices $5.—$10. Either class positively 
sruaranteed to please you. Send in your order to-day. 
Queensbury Farms, 211 North Main Sfreot, Toms River, New Jersey 
1$ w White leghorn Cockerek 
Tom 15arron“.s Strain direct. These birds are sons of oiir 
officially counted 290-egg contest hens. Kemember the 
cockerel is two-thirds the breeding pen. Price, $5 up. 
Order early. qaK HILL ESTATE, Uniontown, Penn. 
SUNNY “EFFICIENT” S. C. W. 
CREST Bred For Business LEGHORNS 
Price list pamphlet with l)argains. Ijirgest poultry farm 
in State. SUNNY OREST I’Ori/niY FARM, East Aurora, N.Y. 
ForSalo-WyckofI Strain S. C. W. Leghorns 
Cockerels direct. J. M.CASE, Gilboa, New York 
Buff Wyandottes 
10 Cockerels from 3 hens with official Storrs Contest 
Records of 202 to 248-Eggs. Price, 88 to St O each. 
Money back if not satisfied. Orders tilled as received. 
H. R. SULLIVAN, Drawer 1321, HARTFORD, CONN. 
For Sale-Columbian Wyandotte Cockerels vigor¬ 
ous, Well Marked birds. Good to look at. $8 each . 
if taken this month. .T. J. IIAIMtIN <>, Albion. Maine 
Rose and 
Single Comb Reds 
Viber. ’s 229 to 25.5-laying strain. Cockerels, $4 and 
$5 each. D. Evebett Jones, Hillsdale. N. Y. 
Barred Rock Cockerels 
Both light and dark. Also Parks’ heavy-laying strain 
and Parks’ heavy-laying stiain crossed with Thompson’s 
for utility. Choice trios from the above strains. Price 
ranging from $10 to $20. Pens 818 to $35. Single 
cockerel, $3.60 to $15. All birds sliipped on approval. 
I. H. DACOKN, . Sergeautsville, N. J. 
S. C. Brown Leghorns m^i'cXreis'o^Mhl 
finest breerling. C. J. SHEL.MIDINE, Lokbaink, New York 
BRONZE TURKEYS 
Bred to win, weigh, lay and pay. Sjitisfaction gu.-ir- 
anteed. Hens, 86. Toms, 88 and 810. 
Larry Cullen. Ne-w Albany, Pa, 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
Fine stock; raised on range. 
John D. Smith, - Walton, New York 
-.. ..wj w uiuus sbuca. ioms, ana 
$12. Hens, $6. Toulouse geese, either sex, $ 5 . Satisfac¬ 
tion guai-anteed. Order NOW. WM. W. KETCH, Cohocion, N. Y. 
R R RrnwnI flirhnrno cockerel and three 
.,U. DlOnll Lognurns good hens, $9. Extra cockerel, 
$2 C. J.8]1ELM|]>1N E, Lorraine, N ew Y* ork. 
For Sale n Hoi land Turkeys 
Wyandotte cockerels, 83. Mr«. II. U. PRICE, Newark, Ohio 
White Holland Turkeys 
each. Hens, 85 each. nr. T. I’AUI. PEERY, Taiewell.VIrginla 
For Sal e-Y‘o u7o Bronze Turkeys ^sT?ik™ 
Toms, $1 O; hens, $7. C G. BOWEK, Ludlowyille. N.Y. 
For Sale-20 April Hatched BlueAndalusianCockerels 
85 Each. Good Size and Color. 
D. S. GEROIiD, Supt., P. 0. Box 101, liarchmont, N.Y. 
Columbian Rock-Cock and Cockerels fow^'ofTxJlt: 
lent color, $S-$5. Young pen, $tl. C. J. Shilmiilini, Lorraine, N.T. 
S. C. R. I. R E D S 
’Vibert stock, 231 to 251-egg strain. 4 hens and cockerel, 
818. Cockerels, 83 and $5. ANNA M. JONES, Crarysille. N.T. 
Choice S.C. White Leghorn Hens, Pullets cockerels 
200-egg strain. ORANVlj^V POULTRY FA HU, Genova, Ohio 
FOR SALE—BARRED ROCK COCKERELS 
of Parks Pedigreed. 14 and $6. Cheap, considering 
breeding. Write, DONALD KEYES. G.W.S., Lima, N. Y. 
D SHOEMAKER'S BLUE RIBBON BOURBON RED TURKEYS 
■ Largest display 1915-1918X.Y. State Fair. Toms, 88-810. 
Prize Brigian Hares and Guinea Piga Ft. Plain, N. Y. 
