Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-23
EGG LAYING CONTEST
 AHEAD OF LAST YEAR
The Past Week Developed an Unex.
 pected Gain of Over Two Dozen.

PSSteo 1ain or OVer TWO 0o%ens
 The thirty-seventh week of the lay ing contest at Storrs developed an un- expected gain of 26 eggs. or a total proouctlon of 3102 as compared with 3016 for the proceeding week. The lighter breeds were for the most part responsible for holding up the record There were fourteen pens that pro duced AZ eggs each or more during the week. or a yield of 70 per cent. All of these were Leghorns except one, a Den of Rhode Island Reds owned by H. P. Deming of Robertsville, Conn, Ex-president of the Connecticut Poul- try Association. Four of these fourteen pens yielded 30 per cent or better dur ing the week. An experimental pen of White Leghorns that have had no beef scraps since the contest opened but have been led sour milk as a substi- ute is now only five eggs behind the English Wyandottes that are leading and it is believed they will be leading the competition before the end of the month.
 Thirty-four individuals including Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Leghorns, Ordinations, Campines, White Laced Red Cornish, and ''Hens," laid seven eggs each dur ing the week. Jules F. Francais's pen Of Barred Rocks from West Hampton, Long Island produced four of these all-the-week layers or more than any other one pen. A White Leghorn brook Point, Conn, known as No. 567 was credited with only six eggs for the week but one of these six proved to be 70 per cent. over size and the other one ss> per cent. over size so that this bird actually yielded the equivalent of a little over ' 1-2 standard size eggs, that is to say, eggs that weigh A ounces to the dozen. Seventy-six birds including princi- pally Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, and Reds, together with a few Leg horns OrpingtOns, and Hens" were shut up in h the broody cages during the week. This means that these 76 hens were not only not laying during the week but they probably will not lay again for period of Is or IS days. A pen of Buff Wyandottes and a pen of Rhode Island Reds were tied for the unenviable distinction of having the most broodies at any one time. But l these pens had six birds each wanting to sit
 An Ohio pen of White Leghorns owned by Charles Heigl of Rocky Riv- CT, won first place with 57 eggs to their | credit Two Pennsylvania pens of the same breed owned respectively by Marwood Poultry Farm of Butler, and P. G. Platt of Wallingford, tied for
 second place with 56 eggs each and the English pen of White Leghorns won
 third place with a yield of 54 eggs, 1 The three day conference of rural pastors together with the annual field
 meeting of the Eastern Connecticut l Business Mems Association brought nearly 500 visitors to the competition plant during the last week.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows: Tom Barron, Catforth. Eng land, White Wyandottes 1544; Fran. 1 ciS F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel Conn. White Leghorns 1517; Tom Barron Catforth, England, White Leghorn: ! 1896; Neale Bros. Apponaug, R. l. White Wyandottes 1889: Merrythough l Farm. Columbia, Conn, White wyan. | dottes 1884; Cecil Guernsey, East Cob leskill. N. Y., White Leghorns 1903; A
 3. Brunrage, Danbury. Conn.,, S. c Rhode Island Reds 12S5; P. G. PIatt 1 Branford Farm. Groton. Conn. Whit l Leghorns 1243; Bonnie Brook Poultr. Farm, Saratoga, N. Y, White Leg i horns 1921.
 The following Is a list of the tel leading Connecticut pens: Francis F
 Lincoln, Mt Carmel, White Leghorn
 1517; Merrythought Farm, Columbia White Wyandottes 1884; A. B. Brun dage Danbury. S. c. Rhode Islam
 Reds 12S5: Branford Farm, Grotor
 White Leghorns 1243; Glenview Foul try Farm. Rockville, White Leghorn
 117s; Frederick M. Peasley, Cheshire
 Central Village, White Leghorns 1114 c. H. Savage, Storrs, White Leghorn 1114; Mrs. K. E. Woodruff New Haver White Leghorns 1107; Frederick F Benton, Wallingford. White Plymout Rocks 1102.