The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1483 
EGG-LAYING  CONTEST 
Bergen  County,  N.  J..  Egg  Contest 
This  contest  is  held  at  Emerson,  N.  J.,  under 
control  of  New  Jersey  State  Experiment  Station. 
There  are  100  pens,  each  with  20  birds. 
Week  ending  Xovmber  7,  1923. 
B.  P.  ROCKS 
Week  Total 
C.  W.  Brown,  N.  J .  0  1 
Garret  Buck.  N.  J .  0  5 
A  C.  Jones  Poultry  Farm.  Del .  0  5 
W.  H.  B.  Kent.  N.  Y .  o  0 
Eewis  Farm,  K.  1 .  0  25 
Kerr  Chickeries,  N.  Y .  0  4 
L.  E.  Laferty,  N.  J .  0  1 
Ontario  Agri.  College,  Can .  0  2 
Cbas.  T.  Stran,  N.  J .  4  32 
Navillus  Rocks,  N.  J .  0  0 
Wm.  H.  Sc  half,  N.  J .  0  0 
W.  P.  ROCKS 
W.  C.  Matthews-  Del  .  0 
WHITE  WYANDOTTKS 
Oktusba  Farm.  Ohio .  0 
Walnut  Crest  Poultry  Farm.  Conn _  0 
August  Weiss.  N.  .1 .  2 
F.  A.  Woodward,  N.  J .  1 
S.  C.  R.  I.  REDS 
Beacon  Poultry  Yards,  N.  J .  0 
C.  C.  Poultry  Farm  N.  J .  0 
Cedar  View  Poultry  Farm,  Del .  0 
F.  S.  Chapin,  Mass .  0 
Kerr  Chickeries,  Mass .  0 
Meadowdale  Poultry  Farm.  N.  J .  0 
Twin  Oak  Poultry  Farm,  NJ .  0 
F.  A,  Woodward,  N.  J. .  1 
Rosewood  Place,  N,  J . . .  o 
S.  C.  W.  LEGIIORNS 
Tanglewold  Farm.  N.  Y .  0 
Beck  Egg  Farm.  N.  J .  3 
J.  W,  Bottcher.  N.  J .  0 
Wene  Farms,  N.  J .  0 
Broad  View  Farm,  N.  J .  0 
A.  L.  Causse,  Jr.,  N.  J .  0 
Marthe  C.  Conlin,  N.  J .  0 
Meadowdale  Poultry  Farm,  N,  J .  u 
Marcel  Sassen,  N.  J .  0 
Cedar  Grove  Farms,  N.  J .  u 
Eigen rauch  &  De  Winters,  N.  J  .  4 
C.  H,  Chandler.  N.  J .  0 
Paul  Mads  n,  N.  J .  1 
Geo.  B.  Ferris,  Mich .  0 
North  Haledon  Leghorn  Club.  N.  J....  4 
Arnold  Poultry  Farm,  N.  J .  o 
Ameling  Farms,  Mo  .  1 
Well  ward  Farm,  N.Y .  0 
Barlow  Leghorn  Farm,  Pa  .  2 
Barne’s  Poultry  Yards.  N.Y .  ..  0 
The  Hoehn  Farm,  N.Y .  3 
C.  C.  Beall,  Jr,  Wash  .  3 
Hollywood  Poultry  Farm,  Wash  .  2 
Bonnie  Brae  Farm,  N.  J  .  o 
Brockman’s  Poultry  Farm, 8.  C .  0 
Windy  Brow  Farm,  N.  J . '....  o 
Oedarhurs'  Poultry  Farm.  N.  J .  I 
Robert  O.  Knapp,  N.  Y  .  0 
Cedar  View  Poultry  Farm,  Del .  0 
Cherry  Croft  Farm,  N.  J .  o 
Circle  (W)  Farm,  0 .  1 
F.  H.  Claflin,  N.  J .  o 
Marquis  &  Wagner.  N.  Y  . . .  o 
Clyde-Nairn  Farms.  N.Y  .  o 
Somerset  Co.  Poultry  Ass’n .  0 
Harry  N.  Connor.  N.  J .  0 
Fairvlew  Farm.  N.  J .  1 
C.  T  Darby,  N.  J  .  0 
W.  C.  Eckard,  Mich .  0 
S.  Olsen,  N.  J .  3 
Evergreen  Farm,  N.  J .  3 
B  S.  Ellis,  N.  J .  0 
D,  E.  Evans,  Pa .  0 
Rapp’s  Leghorn  Farm,  N.  J . . ! . "  3 
A  B.  Faure,  N.  J  .  0 
Associated  Farms,  Pa .  0 
Foisgate  farms,  N.  ,1 .  0 
W  A.  B'oster,  N.J .  0 
Foster  Ate.  Poultry  Farm,  N.  J .  0 
H.  C.  Hancock,  N.  J .  0 
Richard  C  Hixon  N.  J .  0 
Paul  L.  Holcombe.  N.  J .  0 
The  Kerr  Chickeries,  N.J .  o 
K Irkup  Bros.,  N,  Y  .  0 
Magnolia  P,  ultry  Farm.  N.  J .  0 
Lewis  Farms,  R.  1 .  0 
Ernest  C  Laudenberger.  N.  J . ]  .  .  .  .  1 
Navillus  Leghorns,  N.  J .  0 
J.  R.  Van  Houten,  N.  J .  0 
New  Brunswick  Poultry  Farm,  N.J...  2 
Dr  J  8.  Nief,  N.  J .  0 
Old  Orchard  Farm  N.  J .  0 
Pine  Hill  Farm,  N.  J .  0 
8  C  Price,  Pa  .  y 
Purit  sSprings  Poultry  Farm.  O . .’  o 
M.  J.  Quae  enbush  N.J .  y 
Ailend  la  Poultry  Farm.  N.  J  .  y 
Alfred  R.  Scott,  N.  J .  2 
L.  W  Steelman  Pa .  y 
8toc  ton  Hatchery,  N.  J  .  y 
Fred  Warren,  N.  J .  3 
Whltegg  Farm.  N.J .  5 
Le  Roy  Wilcox,  N.Y .  0 
F.  A.  Woodward,  N.J  .  y 
Skylands  Farm,  N,  Y  .  0 
15 
II 
31 
2 
7 
3 
0 
1 
2 
2 
5 
2 
0 
16 
30 
2 
0 
31 
6 
5 
7 
0 
0 
50 
2 
16 
7 
53 
8 
10 
14 
J6 
4 
26 
32 
34 
26 
3 
29 
15 
0 
9 
18 
34 
4 
5 
0 
25 
8 
7 
16 
4  5 
44 
44 
4 
24 
21 
3 
0 
19 
0 
0 
15 
8 
2 
16 
1 
14 
11 
1* 
15 
8 
27 
2 
21 
16 
5 
5 
23 
3 
7 
10 
2 
14 
84 
21 
0 
0 
Total 
1274 
Size  of  Brooder  House 
How  big  should  a  brooder  house  be  to 
take  care  of  600  baby  chicks?  F.  L.  c. 
Salt  Point,  N.  Y. 
Most  portable  brooder  houses  are  built 
about  8x12  ft.,  in  size,  this  being  as  large 
as  can  conveniently  be  moved  about.  Such 
a  brooder  house  would  care  for  600  chicks 
for  a  time,  though  a  thick  of  baby  chicks 
outgrows  quarters  with  surprising  rapid¬ 
ity  and,  a  little  later,  a  building  twice 
that  size  would  be  none  too  large.  Much 
depends  upon  other  conditions.  If  chicks 
are  raised  in  warm  weather  and  can  have 
a  large  outdoor  run,  less  housing  space 
is  needed  than  would  be  the  case  early  m 
the  season,  when  they  must  be  confined 
indoors  for  the  greater  part  of  the  time. 
An  ideal  equipment  for  600  chicks  would 
be  two  portable  broodier  houses  of  the  size 
mentioned,  each  equipped  with  a  coal¬ 
burning  brooder  stove,  and  placed  out  on 
grass  land  where  the  chicks  would  have 
unlimited  range.  Six  hundred  chicks  may 
be  kept  in  one  flock,  however,  and,  if  a 
stationary  building  is  to  be  erected,  we 
should  want  it  at  least  12x12  ft.  in  size. 
M.  B.  D. 
The  Poultry  Farm  that  Nearly 
Doubled  Egg  Production 
7  YOU  had  told  me 
last  September 
that  my  hens  were 
going  to  pay  me 
$10,000  a  year,  I 
would  have  set  it 
down  as  an  idle 
dream”  was  the 
way  Carl  Nelson  of 
Ridgefield, Illinois, 
started  explaining 
carl  nelson  to  us  his  remark¬ 
able  success  with 
a  flock  of  White  Leghorns.  His  is  not  the 
largest  poultry  farm  in  McHenry  county— 
but  he  has  just  about  smashed  all  records 
there  for  increase  of  his  flock,  and  in  egg 
production. 
F or  years,  these  hens  had  meant  no  more 
than  an  occasional  fowl  for  the  table,  and 
eggs  enough  to  keep  Mrs.  Nelson  supplied 
with  “pin-money.”  Then  egg  prices 
caused  them  to  ponder  on  the  profits  these 
hens  would  represent  if  they  were  to  be¬ 
come  heavy  layers.  What  he  did  ought 
to  interest  everyone  whose  hens  don’t  pay 
their  bare  board  and  lodging  ! 
“A  hen  is  an  egg-laying  machine  that 
you  can  regulate  to  lay  many  eggs  about 
as  easy  as  only  a  few/’  says  Carl  Nelson, 
“and  here  is  how  we  learned  to  ‘speed¬ 
up’  our  flocks: 
” Regulated  Hens  ” 
“The  quantity  and  quality  of  eggs  laid 
by  any  hen  depends  on  her  feelings. 
Healthy,  vigorous  hens  are  vigorous 
layers;  that’s  Nature.  And  a  hen’s  con¬ 
dition  is  just  about  ninety-percent  a  matter 
of  what  she  eats.  So  I  gave  first  thought 
to  rations.  ’  ’ 
PRATT  FOOD  CO..  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Nelson  soon  found  by  regulating  his 
hens’  appetite,  digestion,  and  elimination 
he  could  regulate  their  laying.  He  fed 
them  certain  elements  which  the  old  ration 
lacked — and  was  rewarded  with  a  golden 
harvest  of  eggs  from  the  same  hens  that 
had  been  doling  out  one  or  two  eggs  a  week. 
The  new  nourishment  kept  them  going, 
kept  them  laying,  on  the  job  day  in  and 
out.  He  marked  those  whose  health  con¬ 
dition  had  made  them  totally  unproduc¬ 
tive,  and  a  little  special  regulating  soon 
had  them  back  in  the  layers’  class.  He 
was  soon  shipping  eggs  on  a  scale  that 
meant  business.  And  this  is  how  he  brought 
it  about : 
How  Light  Layers  Were  Made 
Prolific  Egg  Producers 
“To  get  the  right  amount  of  eggs  I 
knew  I  must  feed  my  hens  right;  and  not 
being  an  expert  poultryman  I  didn’t  know 
exactly  the  way  to  supply  all  the  egg- 
producing  elements.  Then  I  discovered 
how  to  be  sure  my  hens  would  get  those 
minerals  and  vitamins — which  they  don't 
get  in  the  regular  ration  on  the  average 
farm.  I  found  a  prepared  nourisher  and 
regulator  to  fit  in  with  the  ordinary  feed 
and  give  the  hens  the  very  vital  food 
elements  they  had  always  lacked.  Those 
hens  soon  had  us  busy  gathering  eggs! 
And  they  have  never  stopped.” 
Above  is  the  story  got  at  first-hand, 
from  a  farmer  who  let  the  Pratt  organiza¬ 
tion’  s  fifty-year  experience  solve  his  prob¬ 
lem  of  feeding.  As  a  result,  he  has  built 
a  large,  modern  henhouse,  bought  some 
equipment  that  makes  his  place  a  model 
of  its  kind,  added  a  number  of  prize  cocks 
to  his  flock,  and  bought  several  bonds  of 
Hammond,  Ind.  Toronto,  Can. 
Poultry  Regulator 
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