Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-06
THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
 EGG LAYING CONTEST
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Sta iton-Report for the Thirty ninth
 Week, Ending July 31, 1914.

The hens in the laying contest at Storrs laid only a few less eggs Tn the thirty ninth week than in the pre- ceeding week In spite of the army of visitors and consequent interrup ton, they went about their usual bus mess of laying eggs as if nothing un- usual was going on and yielded 1879 eggs.
 The Annual Midsummer Meeting of the Connecticut Poultry Association attracted to Storrs during the week the largest gathering of poultrymen ever convened in this state. There were about 800 visitors during the week, there being in attendance 500 on the middle day of the convention. Nearly all of the forenoon of one day was devoted to inspecting the compe- tition plant under the direction of MT. Tom Barron of England who exam ined the birds carefully and gave demonstration of his method of se- lecting laying hens. MT. Barron de- clared the birds in the contest to be in excellent condition.
 Pen, 42, the Experimental Leghorns that are being fed sour milk attracted a great deal of attention on account of the fact that last week they succeeded in passing the English Wyandottes i that had. been leading the contest for i so long. At one time during the week i these Leghorns succeeded in getting ! lead of five eggs but the English | Wyandottes kept coming strong all the ! time so that at the close of the week | this Experimental Pen was standing exactly as it did at the close of the | 3sth week, only one egg ahead.
 Editor Collingwood of the Rural i New Yorker attended the convention : and insisted on defending the work of his scrubs" So much has been said
 about the egg yield of pure breeds as
 compared with the ordinary barnyard ! hen that every visitor to the plant
 wanted to see the man who really had
 the nerve to put these birds into a laying competition along with hens
 that have been bred for years for the
 express purpose of laying eggs.
 First honors for the week seem to be in a way very appropriate. Barron's pen of Leghorns were doing their very best
 during their owners visit to the con-
 test and beat the next nearest pen
 by two eggs. getting first place with 58 eggs for the week. A Connecticut
 pen of Leghorns owned by Glenview
 place for the week with a yield Of 56
 eggs, while Marwood Poultry Farms
 Leghorns from Butler, Pa, came third
 with production of 54 egs.
 The race between the two leading
 pens of American White Wyandottes
 has been exceedingly close. These
 two pens. owned respectively by Neaie
 Bros. of ApPenaHg, R. I. and Merry
 thought Farm, Columbia, Conn. laid
 well in the very first week of the con-
 test yielding 37 and % eggs respective
 ly. The Rhode Island pen kept the
 lead for 22 weeks but at times with a
 margin of eRly two eggs, In the 2srd
 week tine Connecticut pen took the } lead and held it fer period of weeks, then the Rhode Island per
 forged ahead and at the close of tns , 3and week were leading by tive eggs The very next week these two pens sWaPped places asan and the Gonnec- ticat pen held the lead fer three weeks l In the 3fth week the Rhode Island per 1 had again passed them and set ths ! pace for a fortnight. At the oless ol