Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-13
HENS MAKING sPURT
 IN sToRRs\coNTEsT
1882 Eggs Laid During FortiethSWse
 -PackerviIle Fowl Laid 2s.

The total number of eggs laid dur ing the fortieth week of the interna- tionaI egg laying contest at Storrs was 1882. This is a slight increase over last weeks production, due to the taet | that many of the broody hens Of the, past have started laying again.
 There were two pens that tied Tor first place for the week. each laying twenty eight eggs; one was pen ot White Plymouth Rocks owned py w. J. Tilley of Packerville, and the other a pen of White Wyandottes owned by Beulah farms of Hamilton, Ont.
 The next highest score for the week was twenty six eggs. Thene were four pens that laid twenty six eggs for the week. as follows: A. J. Clark New Haven barred Plymouth Rocks Robert J. Walden, AIddlebury, M., barred Plymouth Rocks; Cullencross farms. South Columbia, N. r., single comb white Leghorns; l.. o. keeton' Brookland, D. C.. single comb white Orpingtons.
 This pen of Orpingtons which laid twenty six eggs for the week had but four hens laying; two hens laid seven eggs each and the other two laid six eggs each. This is considered a pretty good score for four hens to make.
 
 l the week was a pen of single comb white Leghorns owned by Paul Van | Deusen of Vineland, N. J. This pen | laid twenty-five eggs.
 | The champion hen laid but one egg | this week. this being soft shelled one. | This makes her score 210 eggs. The | hen is a single comb buff Orpington, | owned by o. Wilson of Carlisle, W. Va. An interesting change has taken | place in the leading pens this week. | Yost's Leghorns are still first in the | contest, but Baron's Leghorns have dropped to fourth place from second place, which they have held so long. | Beulah farms white Wyandottes from | Canada laid twenty eight eggs this week, giving them jump to second | place, while the Leghorns of Man l wood poultry farm are now third. It has been a long time since the English Leghorns lost the last bird. leaving them four, but from that time until this week they have held second place. They would have held their place long l CT If all four birds had been laying. | But three birds have been laying the | last few weeks. Of the first ten lead ing pens there are nine single comh | white Leghorns and one white Wyan- dotte.
 The following is a list of the first ten pens as they stand 10 date with the total number of eggs laid by each:
 F. c. Yost, Sayre. Pa., single comt white Leghorns, S61; Beuiah farms
 Hamilton, Ont, white Wyandottes S14; Marwood poultry farm, Butler Pa, single comb white Leghorns, S11;
 Thomas Baron Catforth, England. sin.
 gle comb white Leghorns, S10; Tomi
 poultry farm, Toms River, N. J.. sin.
 gle comb white Leghorns, 799 Susii
 Abbott, Parkersburg, Pa, single coml
 white Leghorns. 7s7: Frederick Peas
 ley Cheshire, single comb white Leg,
 horns, 757: Cullencross farms, Soutl :. Columbia, N, T., single comb whit, Leghorns, 756; H. A. Seaver, Brown
 Mills, N. J.. single comb white Leg horns, 7S9.
 The following is a complete list 0
 the Connecticut pens as they stand t
 date with the total number of egg
 laid by each pen:
 Frederick Peasley, Cheshire, singl comb white Leghorns, 757; c. s. Sec vile, East Haven, rose comb Rhod Island reds, TO; Burton E. Moore l Winsted, single comb white Leghornl 1 692; W. J. Tilley, Rockville. whit Plymouth Rocks, 679; A. J. Clark, Ne1 } barred Plymouth Rocks, SIT; Fir poultry yards, Hartford, single com I white Leghorns. s7s; H. P. Demint Robertsville, single comb Rhode Is land reds. S75; E, s. Edgerton, wes