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THE HENYARD 
That Wonderful Wisconsin Hen 
What do you think of the enclosed 
clipping from the Literary Digest for 
July 19, 1919? According to the story, 
the White Rock hen laid eggs by the 
basketful every day, until a certain poul¬ 
try fancier came to the farm to watch 
her work. lie got a rocking chair and 
sat down and smoked Hull Durham while 
the lien laid 11 eggs in four hours and 
shortly after he left she laid two more. 
Now anyone knows that there simply is 
not room enough iu a hen’s body for 14 
eggs, to say nothing of the numerous eggs 
she would have to be making at the same 
time for future layings. It sounds like 
the Alaska wheat yarn the Saturday 
Dialing Post gave us some years ago. 
and I do not. see why a paper like the 
Literary Digest prints such nonsense for 
truth, as there are a great many people 
who will believe it. Harold w. hatch. 
Wisconsin. 
This refers to a White Plymouth Rock 
hen owned by Gus Rhodes of West Salem, 
Wis. We are able to give a picture of 
the hen on this page. It is claimed that 
this hen laid 151 eggs in a month, nine 
dinarily used for sills, girders and plates. 
A front four feet in height, would not 
give head room for the attendant, and 
any advantage gained in air space saved 
would be lost iu inconvenience to the 
caretaker. If the windows in the front 
are made to drop back a few inches from 
the top for ventilation and are removed 
entirely in warm weather, there need be 
little or no permanently open front ’These 
windows should be ample in size ana num¬ 
ber to Hood the interior with sunlight and 
ought to extend from within two feet of 
the floor nearly to the plate. If double 
sash, both sashes may be set in place 
without hinges and arranged with “hop¬ 
per sides” to drop back from the top, thus 
forcing the air to enter the building in 
an upward direction. m. b. d. 
White Wyandottes and Black Feathers 
About a year ago I bought a pen of 
purebred White Wyandotte liens, and 
have hatched from them this Spring. 
Some oft the chickens are from three to 
four pounds in weight, and some larger. 
I find an occasional black feather in their 
plumage. Some of them have two or three 
black feathers. Is this unusual for pure- 
breds, or is it a common occurrence 
among large breeders, or would you think 
that the parent stock had been mixed in 
some way? They were not mixed on my 
place, and were bought for purebreds. I 
The Wonderful 
iu 45 minutes, and 14 eggs in one day. 
.T. II. Benson swears that he watched her 
carefully, saw that no one approached 
her, and no other hen came near, and 
that he found 13 eggs in the nest under 
her. He saw her lay one more before she 
went on the nest. The R. X.-Y. has a 
number of readers near the Rhodes farm. 
One of them, Mr. John B. Nye. went at 
our request and saw the lien. . She did 
not lay while lie was there, hut after he 
left they found nine eggs in the nest 
under the hen. Mr. Ilayes. of the Wis¬ 
consin Experiment Station was in the 
barn when these nine eggs were found. 
Mr. Nye, after seeing the hen and talking 
with Mr. Rhodes, believes that this lieu 
did actually lay the egg.-. The poultry 
authorities at the Experiment Station 
consider the thing a joke, and do not be¬ 
lieve the hen made any such record. They 
asked Mr. Rhodes to send the hen to the 
college, where she will be given every 
chance to show what she can do. That 
would seem to be the quickest and surest 
way to settle it. but we understand Mr. 
Rhodes refused to let her go. It seems 
t i be the opinion of the college men that 
some members of the Rhodes family have 
been putting extra eggs under the hen. 
The various witnesses do not swear that 
they actually saw the heu lay the eggs. 
They found the eggs under her. We give 
this statement after spending much time 
in our investigation. Personally, we 
think this hen has laid two eggs iu one 
day. but we cannot believe the other stor¬ 
ies of her performance. The Literary 
Digest merely printed the statement by 
J. II. Benson as a piece of remarkable 
news. It did not endorse the story. 
Henhouse Construction 
What is best kind of a poultry house 
for a high, wind-kissed hill, affording no 
natural protection, and what construction 
is best, sheathing, paper and siding, or 
simply matched siding? Is four feet high 
enough for the open front? How much of 
the front should be open? o. o.L. 
Equinunk. Pa. 
I know of nothing superior in an ex¬ 
posed location to a simple shed-roof type 
of poultry house, with the front facing 
nvvav from the prevailing winds, usually 
south or southeast. Sheathing and paper 
are not needed if tin' walls can be made 
airtight without. Matched .stuff placed 
vertically from sill to plate is wind- 
tight. and one thickuess is sufficient, 
though in a peculiarly exposed place, it 
might he well to double-board behind and 
above the perches, thus making an insu¬ 
lating air chamber about them. By 
double boarding. 1 menu boarding both 
inside and outside the 2x4s which are or¬ 
Wisconsin Hen 
would like your opinion as to continuing 
with this strain, for I am anxious to 
build up a large flock and if I have to 
buy another pen this year it will put 
me back a whole year in my plans, but 
on the other hand I don't want to con¬ 
tinue breeding from this strain if they 
are scrubs. j. c. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is not unusual for an occasional 
black feather to appear in well-bred White 
Wyandottes, and a singular thing is, that 
the black feathers appear most frequently 
in the whitest birds. That is to say, a 
strain with a creamy tinge in the plumage 
will seldom show a black feather in their 
chicks. But creaminess* or brassiness is 
just what is not wanted: the endeavor is 
to get as white birds as possible. As 
everyone knows, the Wyandottes are a 
composite breed, made in America, and 
were admitted to the Standard as a dis¬ 
tinct variety or "breed" about 1SS3. There 
are now eight varieties of Wyandottes 
admitted to the Standard. No one seems 
to know exactly what breeds were used 
to make the Wyandottes, but it is pretty 
certain that Dark Brahmas and Silver 
Spangled Hamburgs were two of the 
breeds used. The Dark Brahma would 
give that feather-legged trouble, appear¬ 
ing as little tufts of down on the legs, 
which often condemns an otherwise good 
bird. 
J. C. S. need not worry about an occa¬ 
sional black feather in his young birds. 
Pull the black feather out and a white 
feather will come in place of it. So far 
as my experience goes this is universally 
true. The black sometimes appears in 
small spots on the neck hackle of the 
male bird: this is called “ticking,” and 
is cut as a defect by poultry judges, but 
is not a disqualification, unless there is 
much of it. I infer from the letter that 
J. C. S. intends breeding next year from 
his own birds. This can be done if "line 
breeding" is practiced, and good judgment 
used iu selecting the breeders: but for 
subsequent egg production a brother and 
sister mating is about the worst possible. 
Proper mating of the breeding stock is 
the main thing iu poultry keeping. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Controlling Red Mites 
On page 1085 K. M. W. asks what cau 
be done to mitigate the red mite trouble 
on poultry. If he will place bits of cot¬ 
ton batting between the perches and their 
supports the mites will pass the day in 
the cotton and can easily be taken care 
of. If all the mites could be reached by 
the application of kerosene the treatment 
would be all right, but if any are missed 
they prefer to stay on the hens rather 
than to spend the day on perches that 
have been treated with anything offensive 
to them. MRS. L. J. s. 
R. N.-Y.—Smear or paint the uuder- 
side of the roosts with melted fat. which 
will harden when cold. 
Patient: “Good Heavens! And you 
call yourself a painless dentist.” Den¬ 
tist: "My dear chap, I felt absolutely uo 
pain.”— Judge. 
