The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
337 
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 yenr. 
Record at Storrs, Conn., for week ending 
January 23, 1920: 
BARRED ROCKS 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
Samuel M. Monks, Conn. 
Edward F. Goddard R. 1. 
Ore. Agricultural College, Ore. 
Jules F. Franeais, L. I. 
Oneck Farm, L, 1. 
E. C Foreman, Ontario. 
Gossard Breeding Estates. 
Rock Rose Farm. N. Y. 
Ingleside Farm. NY. 
Etjon Poultry Farm. N. J. 
WHITE ROCKS 
W H. Bassett, Conn. 
D. S. Vaughn, R. I. 
H. A Wilson. N. H. 
Applecrest Farm CO , N. II. 
S. Bradford Allyn. Mass. 
Albert T. Lenzen, to ss. 
Chickatawbut Farms Mass . 
BUFF ROCKS 
A. A. Hall, Conn. 
COLUMBIAN ROCKS 
T. J. Enslin, N. J. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
Applecrest Farm Co.. N. U. 
Harry 1). Emmons, Conn . 
Patrick F. Sullivan, Conn. 
Herbert L Warren, Que., Canada .... 
Mrs R. W. Stevens, N. Y. 
Langford Poultry Farm. B. C. 
Middlebrook Farm, N. Y. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Mrs. C. O. Polhemus,N. Y. 
Richard Allen, Mass. 
H. S. Bickford. N. H. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Jacou E. Jansen.Conn. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm. N. II. 
Chas. H. Lane, Mass. 
W. E. Bumsted, Conn. 
H. P. Iteming, Conn. 
Benjamin Guyette. Mass. 
Tri-Acre Farm, Conn. 
Edward P, Usher, Mass. 
Natick Farm, R. I. 
John E. Dorsey, Conn. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
A. L. Anderson, N. H. 
RUSSIAN 0RL0FFS 
W H Bassett, Conn. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS 
George R. Swain, Conn. 
DARK CORNISH 
We^k 
Total 
35 
311 
25 
16 
i “ t 
72 
34 
240 
38 
292 
34 
288 
13 
40 
14 
90 
28 
250 
28 
257 
19 
82 
49 
151 
. . 
1 
5 
50 
31 
219 
22 
207 
16 
41 
23 
188 
19 
34 
28 
218 
34 
312 
31 
272 
14 
181 
29 
156 
25 
298 
27 
255 
41) 
315 
22 
234 
23 
383 
33 
319 
27 
334 
21 
122 
20 
475 
26 
345 
39 
256 
41 
420 
16 
102 
12 
97 
K 
120 
28 
213 
18 
189 
23 
169 
18 
39 
31 
365 
6 
58 
Henry E. Jones, Conn.. 
8 
14 
OREGONS 
Ore, Agricultural College, Ore. 
23 
108 
BLACK LEGHORNS 
F. A. Brizzee, Pa. 
17 
119 
A. E. Hampton, N. J. 
37 
216 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. H. Penny, N, Y. 
29 
103 
W. Edgar Baker, Jr., L. I. 
43 
286 
S. G. McLean, Conn. 
26 
306 
Glenhope Farm. Mass. 
Kmory H. Bartlett, Mass. 
36 
373 
16 
162 
Meadowedge Farm, L. 1. 
31 
339 
Kirkup Bros, N Y. 
27 
222 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
19 
165 
Kigenraucta & DeWinter, N. J. 
16 
118 
James O LeFevre. N Y. 
26 
199 
Shudowbrook Farm, Conn. 
8 
101 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn. 
22 
296 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
19 
184 
Goshen Poultry Club, Conn. 
26 
1T8 
L. A. Grouten, Conn. 
23 
160 
L. K lngoldsby, N. Y. 
33 
248 
B S. Ells, N. J. 
35 
153 
Hollywood Farm. Wash. 
15 
188 
Bonnie Brook Farm, N. Y. 
11 
203 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
33 
191 
Bock Egg Farm, N. J. 
4 
38 
lleigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
27 
no 
A. P. Robinson. N. Y. 
39 
249 
C. Rasmussen, N. J . 
36 
225 
Imperial Poultry Farm, N J. 
Emil Klein N. J . 
. . 
61 
2 
30 
l.aywell Poultry Farm, Conn. 
35 
226 
K A. Ballard. Pa. 
45 
287 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
27 
262 
Hilltop Poultry Yards,Conn. 
27 
261 
J Frank Dubois, Mass. 
29 
184 
Clifford I. Stoddard. Conn. 
21 
144 
George Phillips. Conn. 
38 
394 
J A. Hansen. Ore. 
30 
178 
Alex MeVlttie. Mich. 
12 
149 
Mrs. J. L Theusen, Conn. 
21 
242 
Rockland Co. Poultry Assn., N. Y. 
19 
131 
Bert Horsfall. Quebec. . 
o 
54 
U S. Disc. Barracks. Kan. 
4 
140 
U. 8. Dlst. Barracks. Kan. 
4 
51 
Hopewell Farms, N. J. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm. N. J.. 
23 
152 
27 
156 
Merrythought. Farm, Conn. 
28 
376 
M.J. Quackenbush. N. J. 
26 
51 
The Yates Farm.N. Y. 
4 
28 
Columbia Poultry Farm, N. J. 
12 
56 
C. O Polheruus, N. Y. 
20 
186 
Willanna Farm. N. J. . 
19 
43 
C. S Greene, N. J. 
20 
79 
Coleman Miles, Ill. 
9 
47 
Total.. 
2292 
18499 
Hens With Inflamed Eyes 
I have three or four hens with one eye 
closed and white liquid dropping out. I 
am feeding scratch grains, and dry mash 
before them all the time, and often mix 
mash with warm sour milk. Could you 
tell me the cause and what to do? 
d. v. IV. 
This trouble may be a simple inflam¬ 
mation of the eyes or it may be one of the 
symptoms of roup. The affected birds 
should be isolated and may be treated by 
washing out their eyes with a solution of 
boric acid in soft water, 10 grains to the 
ounce. If other symptom of serious ill¬ 
ness occur, it would be better to kill and 
bury the birds than to attempt to cure 
and return them to the flock. M. B. D. 
66 
I made one mistake—But this time 
I think I picked a winner” 
(From a letter to the Western Electric Company ) 
“If I was a mechanic instead of a farmer, I would have 
bought a Western Electric Outfit in the first place, and 
not waited till I was several hundred dollars poorer and 
wiser in the bargain. I am not going to say anything 
against other plants, because I know that isn’t the way 
you work. I can’t even tell the whole truth about your own 
outfit for fear that people might think you 
paid me to boost it. You don’t have to., j -£^“£* 7 ' 
Mr. Levis is a farmer 
near West Chester, Pa. 
When it comes to electricity 
I ^ive up 
“I believe the wiser a man is, the 
quicker he will admit how little he knows 
about electricity. We can see and touch 
mechanical things, but when somebody 
gets talking about electricity, he can tell 
us pretty near what he pleases, and we 
can’t dispute it. 
“Take batteries for instance—the most 
important part of any light plant. We 
farmers, and even the wiser ones, talk 
about current flowing into a battery and 
out of it. But how many people go 
beyond that? Now look at it this way. 
If you shoot a stream of water into a 
bucket fast enough, most of the water 
will splash out as fast as it splashes in. 
And if the bucket is an average wooden 
one, it won’t be long before the bottom 
pushes out. To you men whose batteries 
are giving trouble, and you who haven’t 
bought yet, I’d suggest first of all that 
you consider how the battery is charged 
by the generator. If the current comes 
in fast at first and then slows up grad¬ 
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Western Electric—that means you’ll 
have long-lived batteries. Otherwise 
you’re ‘out of luck,’ as my son says since 
he came back from France. 
Power and light, or light 
and power—which? 
“When I started to buy a plant, I was 
dead wrong about the lighting end of it. 
I had a lot of gentle hints at home and 
heard talk around the neighborhood about 
how nice electric light is—and it is nice. 
But what I needed, and what I think nine 
farmers out of ten need, was a piece of 
machinery .first and last— 
an engine to help me do 
the farm work. Because 
if I had power enough, 
light would go with 
it as a matter of course. 
“It took me quite a 
while to wake up to the 
Western 
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Power and 
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fact that it would be an economy to 
pay a little more for a large outfit that 
supplied plenty of power, as well as light, 
rather than to buy a slightly cheaper and 
much smaller plant that would furnish 
light only. Right here’s the important 
thing, and the farmer who buys an under¬ 
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What I insisted on was an 
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“Of course getting plenty of engine is 
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as it’s easy. But I figure you’d rather 
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than read my remarks. 
“Please don’t get the 
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no good farm plants ex¬ 
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There probably are. But 
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by people who are fairer 
to a buyer or who have 
been in the electrical bus¬ 
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—I’d like to congratulate 
you, because you are 
some little finder.” 
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