The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
INTERNATIONAL EGG
 LAYING CONTEST.
Report for the Fourth Week
 Ending Nov. g, 1914.


 The production for the fourth week. of the laying contest was 132 eggs better than the previous week and relatively 311 eggs better than for the corresponding week last year, the hens having yielded in this period 1171 eggs. The Storrs Experiment Stations sour milk pen of Leghorns stood first with production of Az eggs The English pen of White Wyandottes owned by Ed.a Cam Of Hoghton were second with 39 eggs, and Hillview Poultry Farms Rhode Island Reds from St. Albans, Vt, were a close third with 38- Windsweep Farms White Leghorns from Red ding Ridge, laid 35 eggs for the week and an English pen of Black Leg horns owned by Jonathan Co1linson of Garstapg followed closely with 34 Stations sour milk pen in the cou- test last year finished within five eggs of first place. It is interesting to note that the sour milk birds in the present contest are now .57 eggs ahead of the record for the same period last year Seventeen pens including Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes. Rhode Island Reds, White. -Leghorns and Black Leghorns yielded 80 per cent. or better for the week, the lead ing pen going up as high as 60 per cent.
 The colds which appeared among some of the birds soon after the con test started and which were due no doubt to change of climate and to possible exposure in transit ,are now much less general and also less se- were. One Of the chief remedies eIn- ployed, by the management of the con Hest has been a sort of a chloroform l Hniment made up of Sone part of chloroform and three parts Of cot- 1 ton seed oil. Whenever there was
 
 1 the birds throat was swabbed out I with this nniment in much the same l way as chi1d,s throat would be swabbed for diphtheria- In addition to this 9. little of this 1iniment was lsapp1ied by means of abSorbent cot ton to the nostriIs. The hens should be induced to inha1e just, a little of the 1ininent, thus rendering 1t more effective.
 1 The awards for the month Of Mo- l yember have been announced as fol- lows: Blue ribbon or first prize was won by Windsweep Farm, Redding Ridge. whose White Leghorns pro-
 duced 17S eggs during the month.
 Second prize was won by Ed Gam, Hoghton. England, with White Wyan- was won by Merritt M Clark's White iLeghorhs, Brookf1eld Center. with a production of 128 eggs for the first month of the contest Of the I, 900 hens in the contest the following sig did the best Individual work for the first month: Rhode sIsIand Red, No. 422, Attic boro, Mass, 28 eggs. L. White Leghorn, No. 5es, Storrs, 25 Iseggs.
 Rhode Island Red, No. APO. Bridg- ton. R. T., 24 eggs. White Leghorn, Mo- 617, Bedding Ridge, 2s eggs
 Rhode Island Red, No. 261. St.
 Albans. Vt, 22 eggs. White Wyandotte, No. 142, Hogh- ton. Eng. 22 eggs.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows: E WIndsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge,
 White Leghorns, TIP. Ed. Cam, Hoghton, near Preston,
 England, White Wyandottes. 158. Storrs Experiment, Station (sour milk pen1 White Leghorns, 136. Merritt M. Clark, Brookf1e1d Gen.
 ter, White Leghorns; 123. r. Hil1view Poultry Farm, St. AL l bans, Vt, Rhode Island Reds, 12S., Storrs Experiment Station, White I ILeghorns, 98.
 l Albert Sonderegger; South Coven- try, White Leghorns, ST. | Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Carmel. White Leghorns, 95.
 Ellis W. Bentley, Windharn, N. r., + White Leghorns, 94.
 Merritt M Clark. Brookheld- Center,
 White Rocks, s1-
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