Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
Eeo LAYINo coNTEsr.
Hens in New Competition in Best
 Condition of Any.

The Fourth Laying Contest which | opened at Storrs on November 1st nao g. most favorable first week All but four of the hundred pens that are en- tered were in their place and ready to start on Sunday morning the nrst oay of November. These four pens came in during the first week so that they will suffer little or no handicap on ac- count of a late start.
 In general the condition of the hens for this fourth competition is far su- perior to that of any earlier contest On every hand it is evident that al great real more care has been exer- cised in rearing the chicks and sc- Iecting the bullets that are to strive with other bullets from all parts of the country for supremancy- in tHe. matter of egg production.
 A nearby pen of White Leghorns owned by Albert Sonderegger of South Coventry, Conn, produced the first egg laid in this fourth competition which has just been launched and will con- tinue for one year. This pen made the second best record for the week with Q yield of 47 eggs. First place for the week goes to. a pen of White I-eGllsrns owned by Windsweep Farm, EeLC-ng Ridge. Conn, in which pen every one of the ten birds is laying; they Iro6JCed 47 eggs during the first week or ten eggs better than any pen for the coIGe spending period last year. Third place for the week was won by Ed Cams White Wyandottes from Hoghton., England. This was a big surprise to the management of the contest, on account of the fact that this English pen was a day late .n arriving and did not begin to lay for two days after they reached Storrs and yet they finished third with 34 eggs for the week. all of which goes to | show that the pen was of course in the pink of condition and ready for business. The next best production was 29 eggs laid by Obed G. Knight 8 pen of White Orpingtons from Bridge ton,s R. I.
 A Rhode Island Red hen owned by | H. w. Sanborn of Attleboro, Mass, is | the -- only hen out of the thousand | which has so far laid every single day 1 since the contest opened. Fourteen | other individuals including Barred | Rocks, R. I. Reds, White Wyandottes and White Leghorns laid six and | seven eggs during the week but none were able to follow the pace of the | Massachusetts Red.
 l The total production for all pens
 amounted to 751 eggs which it will he | noted is three quarters of an egg 1 apiece for each hen in the contest. | This compares most favorbly with tre 1 first weeks yield last year which was | 439 eggs for S20 hens or only about | half an egg for each hen. Sixty mine ] pens started the years work during | InS IlFSL week or the contest
 | The ten leading pens to date are as
 follows: Windsweep Farm, Redding | Ridge, Conn.,, White Leghorns AT; AL | bert Sonderegger, South Coventry | Conn.,, White Leghorns fl; Ed. Carl
 Hoghton. near Preston, England | White Wyandottes 34; Obed G. Knight
 Bridseton, R. T.. White Orpingtons 29;
 Mrs. W. B. Whitlock, Warehouse Pt.
 Conn, White Leghorns 26; Jay H Ernisse, Irondequoit, N. Y., White | Leghorns 26; J. F. Byron, Willfmantic Conn, White WyandOttes 23; HillvieW 1 Poultry Farm, St. Albans, Vt, Rhode
 Island Reds 22; Merit NJ. Clark
 Brookf1eld Center, Conn, White Leg.
 horns 22; Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Car
 mel, Conn.,, White Leghorns 21
 The ten leading Connecticut pens tC
 date are as follows:' Windsweep Farm
 Bedding Ridge, White Leghorns 4;
 Albert Sonderegger, South Coventry
 White 1eghorns Al; Mrs. W. B. Whit
 lock, Warehouse Point, White Leg.
 horns 26: J. F. Byron, Willimantic
 White Wyandottes 23; Merritt NJ Clark, Brookfield Center, White Leg. I horns p; Francis F. Lincoln. Nit
 Carmel White Leghorns 21: Merit VI
 Clark, -Brookfield Center, Barred Rock;
 20; Merrythought Farm, Columbia White Wyandottes IT; A. A. Hall
 Danbury, Buff Rocks 14; Elm Poultr,
 Yards Hartford White Leghorns F.