Cfce RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
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. 
Record at Storrs, Conn., for week ending 
November 21. 1918: 
BARRED ROCKS 
Week 
Total 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
32 
107 
Samuel M. Monks, Conn. 
35 
174 
Glenhope Farm, Mass. 
18 
62 
Jules F. Francals, L. I . 
38 
no 
Laurel Poultry h arm. Quebec . 
25 
84 
Fairfield Poultry Farm's, N. H. 
28 
109 
Norfolk Specialty Farm. Ontario. 
9 
47 
Mich. Agricultural College, Mich. 
24 
101 
ltock Rose Farm, N. Y. 
35 
127 
J, H. Wilson, Methuen. Mass. 
11 
22 
Joseph M. Rothschild, N. Y. 
14 
50 
Ingleside Farm.N. Y. 
16 
121 
Ore. Agricultural College. Oregon. 
13 
112 
it. L. Smith, Maine . 
19 
59 
H. K. Wallace, Jr., Mass . 
3 
7 
WHITE ROCKS 
S. Bradford Allyn.Mass. 
16 
92 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
0 
0 
Chickatawbut Farms, Mass. 
0 
9 
D. S. Vaughn, It. I. 
4 
23 
H. A Wilson. N. H. 
21 
91 
HollistonHill Poultry Farm, Mass.... 
6 
45 
BUFF R0CK8 
A. A. Hall, Conn. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Beulah Farm, Ontario. 
W. Bradley, Victoria, B. C. 
Herbert L Warren. Que., Canada 
18 
21 
4 
A. B. Hall, Conn.. 
Kxmore Farms, Pa. 
James O. LeFevre, N. Y. 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
W m. L. Gilbert Home,Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Sunny Crest Corporation, N. Y. 
L. K. lngoldsby, N. Y. 
B. S. Ells, N. J. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
Bonnie Brook Farm, N. Y. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm, N.J. 
Westwood Farm, N. Y. 
A. P. Robinson. N. Y. 
C. Rasmussen, N J. . 
Sunny Side Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Gustav Walters, N. J . 
R. Lindsey Ireland. Ky. 
E 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 Farms, N. Y. 
Locust Grove Farm, N. J. 
Hopewell Farms, N. J. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
D. Tancred, Wash. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
The Yates Farm. N. Y. 
Herbert O. Maxham, R. j. 
W. B. Kieft, Ill. 
Kllwood Newton, Ccnn. 
C. S Green, N. J. 
Coleman Miles, Ill. 
Total. 
17 
29 
24 
8 
10 
15 
10 
3 
26 
16 
19 
13 
16 
7 
0 
40 
9 
0 
3 
18 
10 
11 
25 
20 
12 
15 
9 
4 
15 
35 
0 
26 
25 
9 
0 
23 
25 
9 
8 
14 
5 
13 
0 
94 
129 
7 
Mrs R. W. Stevens, N. Y. 
13 
43 
Laurel Hill B’arm. It. 1. 
44 
211 
Obed G. Knight, It. I. 
38 
240 
Merrythought Farm,Conn. 
12 
89 
O. L. Magrey, Conn. 
10 
135 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
Patrick F. Sullivan, Conn. 
11 
24 
32 
137 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 
16 
60 
Cook & Porter. Mass. 
9 
54 
K. Terry Smith, Conn. 
9 
31 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Chns. H. Lane, Mass. 
29 
77 
Ktjon Poultry Farm, N.J. 
7 
14 
Homer P. Doming, Conn. 
0 
U 
Hopewell Farms. N.J . 
4 
5 
Pleasantville Farms. N. Y. 
9 
21 
Laurel Hill Farm. It. I. 
20 
189 
Natick Farm. It. 1. 
26 
84 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
20 
87 
Jacob K. Jansen. Conn. 
24 
122 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 
24 
137 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
Harvey A. Drew, N.J. 
F, W. Cumpstone, Conn. 
2 
22 
il 
47 
BLACK RHINELANDERS 
A, Schwarz. Cal. 
9 
21 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS 
Blue AndalusianClub of America,N.Y. 
0 
1 
OREGONS 
Agricultural College, Corvallis,Ore.... 
0 
58 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. H. Penny, N, Y. 
0 
0 
Itobt. C, Ogle, N.Y. 
0 
71 
S. G. McLean, Conn. 
34 
171 
Glenhope Farm, Mass. 
20 
60 
Edward T. Tonissen, N. Y. 
2 
112 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. 
0 
63 
Kirkup Bros, N. Y. 
33 
119 
116 
128 
144 
86 
166 
112 
86 
41 
208 
140 
93 
70 
96 
14 
5 
135 
123 
42 
74 
76 
85 
133 
189 
78 
89 
50 
21 
54 
64 
132 
14 
79 
91 
20 
26 
224 
139 
30 
48 
66 
60 
71 
16 
1484 8024 
Cold or Roup 
Wo have some sick chickens that we do 
not know what to do with. Their eyes 
get swollen and they cannot see. They 
cannot breathe through their nostrils. 
They gape all the time. We separated 
the first case from the rest, but still some 
other cases were noticed. We had some 
such cases last year, and one was cured. 
Would you tell us what to do? l. s. 
New York. 
As the cold damp season approaches 
fowls become subject to “colds” and ex¬ 
hibit the symptoms you describe. In some 
cases the germs of roup obtain a foothold 
and this disease becomes engrafted upon 
what otherwise would be simply a cold. 
The remedy is suitable quarters for the 
Hock where they will be free from those 
conditions which produce “colds,” cold 
drafts upon their perches, dark, damp, 
dirty buildings, etc, and where they will 
find an ample supply of p resh air through 
open-front buildings or other suitable 
means of ventilation, together with clean 
utensils from which to eat and drink, 
clean litter in which to scratch, and all 
the sunlight that there is in which to 
bathe. Affected birds should be promptly 
removed from the flock, and the causes of 
trouble, as suggested above, should be re¬ 
moved from their premises. m. b. d. 
Ration for Laying Hens 
Would you give me your opinion about 
the following mixture of feed for laying 
pullets? Owing to the high price of beef 
scrap I cut down same. Cracked corn, 
200 lbs.; wheat, 100 lbs.; bran, 200 lbs. ; 
middlings, 100 lbs.; cornmeal, 100 lbs.; 
ground oats, 100 lbs.; ground barley, 100 
lbs.; gluten, SO lbs.; beef scrap, 100 lbs. 
($3.26 per 100). I bought a ton of Mex¬ 
ican peas; they are buggy; cannot get 
them cracked. I am feeding them whole, 
a little at the time. Have J^ou any idea 
of their feeding value? I am getting 26 
per cent eggs of my March and April 
hatched pullets the last few days. Do 
you think I should get a higher percent¬ 
age? Of course, the egg yield is increas¬ 
ing slowly. F . K . 
New Jersey. 
Your mixtures are very good, though 
the gluten feed, if that is what you mean 
by “gluten,” may well be used in the 
same proportion as are the other ingredi¬ 
ents, or 100 lbs. each. One-eighth part 
beef scrap would give you good results. I 
am not familiar with “Mexican” peas. 
If these are peas and are readily eaten 
they should be a valuable addition to the 
ration, though they should not replace the 
foods mentioned above. A 26-per-cent 
egg yield from pullets as early in the sea¬ 
son as this (Nov.-Dee.) is very good, 
though it should increase considerably by 
mid-winter. m. b. d. 
Disinfecting a Henhouse 
I wish to clean and thoroughly disin¬ 
fect the walls and interior of a large poul¬ 
try house and a good-sized brooder house 
so that I may be sure that all insect life 
has been killed. I have recently pur¬ 
chased a small farm in the southern part 
of New Jersey on which this poultry 
plant is located, and I have every reason 
to believe that the former owner took 
very poor care of his chickens and had 
very little regard for cleanliness. I do 
not care to use whitewash as it rubs off so 
readily, but I would like to learn of some 
solution for disinfecting these houses. 
Pennsylvania. a. m. b. 
A liquid disinfectant that can be 
sprayed or painted upon the woodwork of 
a poultry house may be made from or¬ 
dinary commercial cresol. This is recom¬ 
mended by the Orono Experiment Station 
at Orono, Me., as one of the most satis¬ 
factory general disinfectants to use, and 
may be prepared as follows: Put 3 1/5 
quarts of raw linseed oil into a four or 
five gallon stone crock. In another dish 
dissolve 1 lb. 6 oz. of commercial lye, or 
“potash.” in as little water as can be 
used for the purpose, starting with one 
pint and adding more if needed, very 
slowly. Let this stand for three hours, 
or until the lye is fully dissolved and the 
solution is cold. Then add the cold lye 
solution slowly to the linseed oil, stirring 
constantly. Continue the stirring until the 
mixture forms a smooth liquid soap, per¬ 
haps for a half hour. Then, while this 
soap is in a liquid state, add. with con¬ 
stant stirring, S 1 /) qts. of commercial cre¬ 
sol. This will make a clear, dark brown 
solution that will readily mix with water. 
This is cresol soap ; two or three table¬ 
spoons of it to a gallon of water will 
make a powerful and convenient disinfec¬ 
tant solution for use through spray pump 
or with brush. If properly made, the so¬ 
lution will be clear. For special purposes 
it may be used in double this strength, but 
the above is sufficiently strong for gen¬ 
eral use if the poultry house has pre¬ 
viously been thoroughly cleaned. M. B. u. 
Egg 
Why Artificial Lighting Stimulates 
Production 
The majority of reports seem to show 
that lighting the henhouse night and 
morning does induce the hens to lay more 
eggs during the Winter season. Why? 
What is the philosophy of it? The Cor¬ 
nell Experiment Station gives the follow¬ 
ing reasons: 
“The light appears to equalize the time 
between meals and to shorten the period 
of inactivity of the fowls during the long 
nights.^ The long nights of the late Fall 
and Winter months apparently cause the 
fowls to use a larger proportion of the 
night feed for bodily needs than would be 
the case under normal conditions in the 
Spring, when the days and the nights are 
of practically equal length. 
“At the time of the year when fowls 
lay the most eggs in New York State— 
the months of April, May and June—the 
days and the nights are approximately of 
equal length. Under these conditions 
fowls appear to assimilate their feed, se¬ 
cure the proper amount of exercise and 
form their eggs to best advantage. The 
latter part of December there are about 
lo hours of darkness and nine hours of 
daylight, whereas in the latter part of 
June the reverse is true—there are ap¬ 
proximately 15 hours of daylight and nine 
hours of darkness. 
“In other words, illumination attempts 
to imitate Spring conditions so far as the 
hours of activity and the regulation of 
feed supply is concerned.” 
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