Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-25
THIRD WEEK IN
 EGG LAYING CONTEST.
Increased Production Shown-White Leghorns and Wyandottes Neck and Neck.


 The Sd week of the international egg laying, contest at Storrs showed a bal ance on the right side of the ledger There was an increased production of 88 eggs or a total yield of 539 for the week The White Leghorns and White Wyandottes continued to run neck and neck for first place. The White Leg horns owned by Francis F. Lincoln took first place for the week with 38 eggs. An experiment pen owned by the Storrs station was second with 31 eggs, and Neale Bros White Wyandottes were third with 29.
 One of c. S. Scoville's Rhode Island Reds enjoys the distinction of being the first hen in this contest to contract l @broOdy fever" This means that at teast one particular hen at Storrs has no conception of the eternal fitness of things. T. is an almost unpardonable sin for hen to want to set when eggs are 65 cents a dozen.
 The experiment pen which took sec ond place for the week was one of five such pens entered by the Experiment Station for the purpose of testing out the use of sour milk for laying hens. The tremendous advantage in the use of sour milk for growing healthy chicks and in combating white diarrhoea has already been reported by the Storrs station in Bulletin No. "A, which is still available for distribution to any one who cares for it. When the Experi- ment station found that sour milk was of so much benefit to the little chicks. 1t then thought perhaps sour milk might also be useful for. laying hens, and so the sour milk question is being tired out in connection with the egg laying contest The particular pen that got second place for the week is fed the regular ration fed to all the com petition birds except that the beef scrap, one of the expensive parts of the ration, is omitted and sour milk substi- tuted for it. One weeks result is not, of course, conclusive. but it is expected that some interesting things will de- velop from the use of this sour milk ration before the experiment is com p1eted.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows:
 Neale Bros, Apponaug, R. l., white
 Wyandottes 97 Francis F. Lincoln. Mt. Carmel.
 white Leghorns .......... 79 Mcrrythought farm, Columbia, Conn.
 white Wyandottes " 66 P. G. Platt Wallingford, Pa, white
 LeghornS ................ 61 Charles N St. John, Greene, N. Y,
 white Leghorns ....... 61 Thomas Barron, Catforth. England, Ptnecrest Orchards, Groton. Mass,
 single comb Rhode Island reds.... 50 Experiment. pen, Storrs. Conn, white
 Leghorns ...-.............. AT C.. H. Savage. storrs, Conn, white
 Leghorns ............ 45 Windsweep farm, Bedding Ridge.
 Conn, white ILeghorns. .. 45
 The ten leading Connecticut pens are as follows:
 Francis L. Lincoln, Mt Carmel,
 white Leghorns " 79| Merrythought farm. Columbia, white
 Wyandottes 66 C. H. Savage. Storrs. white Leg Windsweep farm, Redding Ridge,
 white Leghorns ...4 45 Mrs: K, E. Woodruff. New Haven,
 white Leghorns ....,..,,. A c. s. Seoville, East Haven, rose
 comb Rhode Island reds ~ 39 Frederick M, Peas1ey, West Chesh-
 ire, white Leghorns ,., 37 Charles W. Sherwood Saybrook
 Point, white Leghorns ..... 36 A. B. Hall, Wallingford, white Leg
 horns 32 West Mt. Poultry Yards, Naugatuck,
 white Wyandottes ............ 31l
 Some of the visitors to the connpeti- tion during the past week were ". s. Starr, B. J. Neiian, both of New Lon-