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In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Storrs I’ostoflice 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 
number 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 
entered for the next year. 
Week ending November 28, 1921: 
BAKKKD ROCKS 
Purdue University. Ind. 
W. H. B. Kent. N. Y. 
Ontario Agricultural CMlege, Ont ... 
Ljwis Farms, K I. 
Jules F. Francais, L. I. 
Harry G. Culver. L I. 
G. B. Traadwell. Mass. 
Seven Hills Farm N. Y. 
Edgar Stoughton. Conn. 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
Michigan Poultry Farm, Mich. 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 
A. Hamburger, Mo. 
Forrest Ferguson. Mo. 
Dundas Poultry Plant, N. J. 
H. E, Dennison, Mich. 
COLUMBIAN ROCKS 
T. J. Enslin, N. J. 
George J. 8ullivan. N. J. 
WHITE BOCKS 
James F. Macdonald, Mass. 
William H. Bassett, Conn. 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Applecrest Farm. N. H. 
F. R. Petnber, R. I. 
Albert 3'. Lenzen, Mass. 
Harold F. Harotr. Mass.. 
E. W. Picker, N. J. 
Week Total 
WHITE WYANDOTTE8 
Walter Bradbury. England . 
Clarence U. Hanes, MLh_ 
Arthur H Shaw. Mass. 
Frank P Mattes n, K. I . 
Benjamia F. Decker. N. J.... 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn.. 
Woodbrldge Orchards, C nn. 
Harry D. Knnnons, Conn. 
Merrythought. Farm Conn... 
Mrs. Inez Taylor. N. Y. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Sutinyfields Farm, Conn. 
H. P. Denting, Conn. 
Prospect Farms, N. J. 
D. S. Vaughn, R. I. 
Wni. M. Batt, Mass. 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 
Harold Tompkins. Mass. 
Glen Wright. Conn*. 
John Z. Labelle, Conn. 
Jacob E. Jansen, Conn. 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 
Mrs. C. O. Polhentus, N. Y. 
Charles D. Peirce. R. I. 
The Orchards. Mass. 
Old Town Farm, N. H. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Alton Farm. Vt. 
Applecrest Farm, N. H. 
K. P. Usher, Jr.. Mass.. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H 
Hall Farm. Vt. 
Henry P. Walker, Mass. 
Charles H. Lane. Mass.. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Max Axelrod, Mass.. 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn.. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
Goshen Poultry Club, Conn. 
Leo A. Grouteu, Conn. 
E. H. Scott. Conn . 
F. M. Johnson, Maine.. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
A. B. Hall. Conn. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
Lion Head Poultry Farm, N. J. 
A. P. Robinson, N. Y. 
James O. LeFevre, N. Y. 
Imperial Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm, L. I. 
Jack Trevethan, N. J. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
John K. Roessner, N. J. 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 
J. Frank Dubois, Mass. 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. 
George Phillips, Conn. 
Riverside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Kirkttp Bros., N. Y. 
Mrs. J. L. Theusen, Conn. 
Tanglewold Farm, L. I. 
White Springs Farm. N. Y. 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter, N. J. 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
M. J. Quac.kenbnsh, N. J. 
The Yates Farm. N. Y. 
L. E. Ingoldsliy, N. Y. 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 
Willanna Farm, N. J. 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn. 
George B. Ferris, Mich. 
Total. 
6 
7 
7 
30 
9 
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1 
5 
4 
19 
19 
52 
10 
34 
26 
17 
9 
34 
15 
87 
0 
0 
7 
13 
3 
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1 
9 
4 
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0 
0 
0 
3 
12 
34 
147 
5 
10 
21 
119 
14 
78 
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0 
0 
1 
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0 
0 
so 
81 
22 
92 
9 
27 
33 
159 
34 
127 
33 
109 
26 
112 
15 
58 
25 
61 
0 
0 
21 
81 
0 
0 
0 
1 
5 
10 
6 
25 
14 
54 
0 
0 
0 
5 
16 
87 
12 
56 
32 
139 
32 
135 
6 
21 
13 
27 
36 
147 
27 
96 
33 
135 
27 
64 
34 
90 
22 
58 
3 
8 
9 
28 
29 
104 
37 
105 
S 
25 
26 
122 
7 
44 
35 
111 
13 
62 
10 
68 
19 
89 
32 
90 
11 
61 
14 
54 
5 
35 
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40 
19 
67 
0 
6 
0 
14 
12 
43 
26 
66 
13 
it 
6 
21 
17 
85 
25 
88 
14 
31 
6 
11 
22 
37 
12 
49 
8 
59 
8 
56 
16 
47 
27 
114 
3 
11 
7 
16 
2 
S 
20 
88 
22 
64 
3 
11 
20 
97 
7 
34 
5 
25 
5 
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1385 
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told 
Number of Birds in House 
have a henhouse 20x30 ft. 
by the leading poultrymeu 
am 
that 
mis- 
and 
M. 
, and 
here 
I cannot winter over 200 birds in it with 
any success. Here is a clipping from your 
last paper saying a house 16x24 ft. will 
keep 500 to 700 birds. Is this a 
print? 1 have 300 birds to winter 
wanted to put them all in one house 
Damascus, Pa. MRS. C. A. 
The figures that you quote from a pre¬ 
vious reply of mine are, of course, er¬ 
roneous. We should come down on 
Ihi! printer hard for making us say any¬ 
thing so ridiculous if we were not afraid 
that he might dig up our old copy and 
show us that he had printed the figures 
exactly as they were given. From 3 to 4 
sq. ft. per fowl are usually recommended 
as needed floor space in a poultry house, 
though there can be no absolutely fixed 
rule in such matters. I agree with your 
neighbors that 200 fowls are quite enough 
for your building, and I have little doubt 
that you would find it more profitable to 
cull your flock to something like that 
number rather than to overcrowd the 
building by keeping some inferior birds. 
rofit in culling than in 
few flocks get enough 
a poultry house is ex¬ 
ited for in the way of 
keeping if clean and frequently renewing 
the litter, the birds may be crowded for 
a time and do very well, but the weaker 
ones are greatly handicapped when crowd¬ 
ed. and birds that might pay very well 
under more favorable circumstances may 
he unprofitable when obliged to compete 
with their more vigorous sisters. If done 
at all intelligently, culling is about the 
most profitable work that can be done in 
a flock, and there are very few flocks of 
pullets that go into Winter quarters with¬ 
out suffering as a flock from the timid¬ 
ity with which their owners go about the 
task of ridding them of probable board¬ 
ers. M. B. D. 
Treatment of 
Will you give all the 
can on the treatment of 
with chicken pox? 
New Britain, Conn. 
Chicken Pox 
information you 
chickens affected 
o. s. 
Chicken pox in 
not usually a very 
try flocks, though 
may cause serious 
the Northern States is 
serious disease in poul- 
in warmer climates it 
losses. Affected fowls 
should be promptly removed from the 
flock, for the disease is very contagious, 
and the sores treated! by the application 
of formaldehyde ointment or tincture of 
iodine, after loose crusts have been re¬ 
moved. Several applications of either of 
these may be made at ’ntervals, if needed. 
Utensils used by the flock in which the 
disease has appeared should be cleaned 
and disinfected by boiling water and the 
general precautions as to cleanliness and 
disinfection of qcarte-? should he ob¬ 
served. This is likely to mean at least 
thorough cleaning and 
the disorder is probabl- 
contact, and isolation 
is most essential. 
whitewashing, but 
• spread by direct 
of affected fowls 
M. B. D. 
Lice on Chickens 
My chickens all seem to have lice. 
Some are picking at tails of others, and 
they are bleeding and bare around tails. 
These I have put by themselves, cleaned 
chicken house thoroughly and put lice 
powder all around and on hurt chickens 
arid nests. I shall have to treat every 
chicken, T think. Is there anv bath you 
can give for lice? I sprinkle diluted car¬ 
bolic acid around on floors when I clean, 
and also on roosts. d. d. 
If you refer to small chickens, this 
picking by others may not be the result 
of the presence of lice, but rather of a 
cannibalistic habit that closely confined 
chicks frequently acquire, and of which it 
is difficult to break them. All injured 
chicks should be promptly removed from 
the flock, and their hurts may he dressed 
with carbolized vaseline. The flock should 
be given all the liberty possible and plenty 
of. green stuff to pick at. Keep the 
chicks busy with something else than their 
fellows; a large range helps tremendouslv 
in this. 
If by “chickens” you mean old fowls, 
clear them of lice my rubbing a bit of 
blue ointment the size of a bean over the 
skin just beneath the vent, or, if you 
wish a dip for them, dissolve an ounce of 
sodium fluoride in a gallon of water to 
make it. This dip, while disagreeable to 
administer, is effectual in ridding the 
fowls of lice and also of some of the 
burrowing parasites that infest them. 
Sprinkling lice powders about the prem¬ 
ises doesn’t annoy lice particularly; they 
are too hardy for that. You must get 
after them xyhere they live. M. b. d. 
Limberneck 
A neighbor of mine has a flock of old 
hens—about 100—which two weeks ago 
started to drop dead with a disease known 
as limberneck. About 50 of this flock 
are already dead. Can you give remedy 
for this or a preventive for the young 
chicks, a flock of 200? h, w. h. 
“Limberneck” is not a disease, but a 
symptom of some disorder affecting the 
nervous system in such a way as to cause 
loss of control of the muscles of the neck. 
It is believed to be usually due to food 
poisoning from the eating of decayed 
food. This form of poisoning was for¬ 
merly called ptomaine poisoning, but the 
scientists now tell us that there is no 
such thing as ptomaine poisoning from 
eating spoiled food. Such poisoning is 
due to the spoiled food, not to ptomaines 
generated by bacteria therein, and should 
he. called food poisoning. Not to split 
hairs with the scientists over definitions, 
and it makes very little difference to the 
human being or lower animal poisoned 
whether putrid food or ptomaines are re¬ 
sponsible for the trouble, search should 
be made for the source of the poisoning 
in this case. It may be that some spoiled 
meat scrap has been fed, or that the fowls 
have found a dead rat, or some other kind 
of vermin, and have consumed it, or 
that musty grain of some kind has 
fed. The surviving members of the 
should have a physic, and Epsom 
may be given in the amount of 1 lb. to 
each 100 fowls. This may be dissolved 
in a little water and mixed with a moist 
mash. A sick fowl should have one to 
two teaspoons dissolved in water and ad¬ 
ministered individually. m. b. d. 
even 
been 
flock 
salts 
Salt for Poultry 
I happened to read au article wherein 
it said : “One thing, don’t forget to give 
your chicks salt.” My husband held bis 
December 17, 1921 
hands up in horror and said: “Don’t 
you ever give any to the chickens.” I 
said; l! \Vhy?” He replied that a South¬ 
erner told him if on give salt to a 
chicken it will die. He could not believe 
it. so he tried it; the chicken keeled 
right over and died. Do you think 
it was the salt? This article read to put 
a little in water so as to make them drink 
more water, as water is the main thing 
for eggs. MRS. T. s. 
Long Branch, N. J. 
Both your informants are right; fowls 
need salt in their food, and salt will kill 
chickens. This is one of the eases where 
two apparently contradictory statements 
are both correct. It is wholly a matter 
of quantity; a little salt, say a half- 
pound, mixed with each 100 lbs. of mash 
is a good thing; a considerable quantity— 
I do not know the minimum fatal dose— 
will kill the fowls to which it is fed. A 
rather peculiar case was reported to this 
paper not long ago. A woman baked a 
cake, and by mistake used salt instead of 
sugar. Her .son fed the cake to a flock 
of chickens, in which he took great pride, 
and the chickens promptly turned up their 
toes. As to the statement that “water is 
the-main thing for eggs,” I can’t agree. 
It is true that it is the main thing in 
eggs, so far as quantity goes, but nothing 
as cheap as water will make hens lay. 
M. B. D. 
Damp Henhouse 
Can you tell me how to get rid of the 
dampness in my henhouse? Floor is of 
cement, and the litter gets wet and foul 
in a few days. The land is well drained, 
the filling of stone and sand, a fill of 
four feet at one end and the other end 
upon, the natural earth. The house is 
18x72 ft., setting on a gradual slope to 
the east. The pen that sets up the high¬ 
est is the dampest. I am told by some 
it will dry out this Summer and will not 
bother any more. w. h. c. 
Your trouble may come from lack of 
ventilation in your henhouse, rather than 
from moisture coming through the con¬ 
crete floor. If the floor is underdrained 
by several feet of sand and stones, it does 
not seem at all likely that the moisture 
that you note in the litter comes through 
that. It is more probable that the moist¬ 
ure from the air within the house con¬ 
denses upon the litter in excessive 
amounts and causes your trouble. The 
remedy for this is better ventilation, and 
that usually means open windows. If a 
poultry house is kept too tightly closed, 
the air becomes saturated with moisture 
from the hens’ bodies and quickly damp¬ 
ens the litter. In cold weather it also 
freezes upon the walls as frost. If ven¬ 
tilation is sufficient to change the air fre¬ 
quently enough, this condensation does 
not occur, or, at least, occurs to only a 
limited extent, and litter may be kept 
reasonably dry. 
A concrete floor may be protected from 
moisture beneath by mopping on a layer 
of tarred paper with hot tar and then 
adding several inches of concrete above 
that. This is ordinarily done while the 
floor is being constructed, hut the neces¬ 
sity should be avoided by sufficient nnder- 
drainage, and by making the concrete of 
such character and consistency as to he 
water-proof in itself. ‘ m. r. p. 
Grain Treated with Carbon Bisulphide 
F. B. II. on page 1140. asks: “Will 
wheat treated with fumes of bisulphide of 
carbon kill chickens?’ My experience is 
no. While in Florida last year and the 
one preceding, during the Summer months 
it was impossible to procure corn not so 
treated, and my hens did not show any 
different effects than from feeding un¬ 
treated, only that if the grain had been 
kept too long in bins so treated without 
being aired they would absolutely refuse 
to eat it. So would live stock, too. just 
as. they would ratty or mousey grain. I 
think we gave it a fair trial, as it was 
for six to eight months each year. Said 
grain was shipped in from New York 
(’ity. Georgia and Tennessee, and treated 
by the wholesale grain houses while in 
storage, the sacks bearing the brands of 
millers in those States. Florida does not 
grow enough grain for her own consump¬ 
tion, much of it being destroyed by the 
grain weevil in the fields before being 
gathered. I have spent a good part of 
the past 10 years in different parts of 
that State, and speak from personal ex¬ 
perience. as I have farmed there several 
seasons. This, however, is from lack of 
attention to the taking of proper precau¬ 
tions in selecting varieties and a season 
of planting. I have grown -weevil-proof 
corn there and kept it without trouble 
from one season to another without treat¬ 
ing with bisulphide. 
Vermont. ririT.TP c. tucker. 
Sawdust for Litter 
Is sawdust good to put in a chicken 
house for the fowls to scratch in this 
Winter? I am near a sawmill, and can 
get all I want. ’They are sawing mostly 
chestnut and oak. c. A. F. 
T know of no reason why dry sawdust 
should not be used on a poultry-house 
floor, though it does not seem to be in 
great favor. Poultrymen usually prefer 
straw, leaves or other coarse* vegetable 
litter in which the fowls may scratch for 
their whole grain. If sawdust is used, I 
should prefer to have some coarser litter 
upou the top of it. m. b, d. 
