The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-27
sToRRs HENS TOTAL
 100000 EGGS NOW Have Averaged 1as Eggs Each in

More than a. hundred thousand eggs is the record to date of the hens in the laying contest at Storrs. This is an average of nearly 23 eggs each for every individual in the contest, in cluding good. bad, and indifferent and is only about one and half eggs per hen behind the record for the cor responding period in the previous con tests. More than 300 birds are en- gagged in the present contest as conn pared with only 500 in the earlier coII1- petitions.
 Not only Connecticut pou1trynen but all Ambertcan breeders will be proud of the pen of little White Leg horns owned by Francis F. Lincoln of
 Mt. Carmel. For the first seven weeks of the contest this Connecticut pen of Leghorns. Merrythough Farms White Wyandottes from Columbia Neale Bros. White Wyandottes from Appon- aug. R. L, and Barron's White Wyan- dottes from England all seemed to be perfectly evenly matched. Towards English Wyaudottes forged ahead and persistently held the lead for more than seven 1nonths, Meanwhile as Lincoln's Leghorns began to gain on these English birds. Barron's Leg horns came up like good reserves to defend his w sandottes and these Leg horns succeeded in passing the Rhode < week and the Connecticut Wyandottes in thest esthirty-seventh week, but neither the English Leghorns nor the English Wyand dottes have been able to stop the onrush Of LincoIn's Leghorns. At the close of last week this Connecticut pen and this. the fortyzsecond week, they are leading the contest by a margin of four eggs. Barron says that if the American Leghorns do not succeed in getting more than fifty eggs ahead during the next few weeks his Wy andottes will overtake them in the home stretch.
 During the past two months the Storrs Experiment Station has tested fifteen hocks in the State with to- tai of considerably more than four thousand hens. Of this number 482 or little more than II per cent. were found to be infected. This blood test is undoubtedly a long step forward in the eradication of this disease that destroys so many young chicks Bonnie Brook Poultry Farm 8 White LegF1orns from Saratoga, NY. won first place for the forty-second week with aE yield of dfty-six eggs. The English Leghorns were a close second with fifty-f1ve eggs to their credit and another pen of Leghorns from Manor Poultry Farm. Manor Iville, l.. L. were san equally close third with a. yield of ffty-four eggs. The total yield for the week amounted to 3,o65 or only thirty eggs less than l the previous week, making a grand ftota1 of 100, ,67O eggs.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows:
 Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, Ct, White Leghorns, 1,767.
 Tom Barron, Catforth, England, 1 White Wyandottes, 1,7e3-
 Tom Barron, Catforth, England, White IseghOrnS. 1.678
 Merrythought Farm, Columbia, Conn, White Wyandottes, 1,6o0. I Neale Brothers, Apponaug, R. l., I White Wyandottes, 1,5S2.
 Cecil Guernsey, East Cobleskil1, N. Y., White Leghorns. 1,511. A. B. Brundage, Danbury, Conn.,. s. c. Rhode Island Reds, 1,493.
 Marwood Poultry Farm, Butler, Pa, White Leghorns, LASS. P. G. Platt, Wallingford, Pa, \ White Leghorns, 1.486.
 Bonnie Brook Poultry Farm, Sara l toga, White Leghorns. 1.47o.