Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-05
CLOSE or EGG
 LAYING CONTEST. conneetieut Leghorns Beat Out the English Wyandottes by Three Eggs


 The third egg laying competition, which has just closed, proved to De py far the closest hen race ever held at Storrs. The three leading pens, name ly, Lincolns Leghornss Barron's wy andottes and the Storrs stations sour milk pen of Leghorns, all finished within five eggs of each other. Tne three pens taken together laid total of considerably more than 5000 eggs No one of the three pens was able 10 lay quite a quarter of one per cent. more eggs than either of the other two.
 The total production for the year for all pens, S20 hens. amounted to 117,SOl, which is an average of nearly IA eggs for every individual that participated in the contest. The fact that some hens are better than other hens was most strikingly brought out in this contest For instance, the average yield of the poorest competing pen or Leghorns was only a little more than 115 eggs per hen, whereas the aver age yield of the best pen of Leghorns was nearly 209 eggs per hen. If one compares the experimental pens it is found that the poorest pen of Leghorns yielded 55 eggs each, whereas the best pen yielded a little more than POS eggs
 each, thus one is obliged to conclude that some hens are better than other hens.
 It is interesting to note that in the very last week of the contest the stronger. GIenview Poultry Farms
 pen of Reds from Rockville. Conn, laid more eggs in this last period than any other pen, or a total of 3S eggs.
 Frederick H. Benton's pen of White 1 Rocks from Wa1lingford, Conn., and Dr. N. w. Sanborn's Buff Wyandottes from Holden, Mass, tied for second place for the week with 29 eggs each. l Colonial Farms pen of Reds from
 Temple, N. H.. followed this closeiy with 28 eggs.
 Connecticut gets first place for best ] individual work. A White Wyandotte | owned by MeIrythought Farm of Co.,
 lumbia, Conn.,, produced 265 eggs dur | ing the year. Massachusetts supplied | the second best individual in a Buff | Wyandotte from Holden that laid 246 1 eggs, and the third best individual for | the year proved to be a White Wya1- | dotte owned by Neale Bros. of Appo- | naug, R. I. Thus it happens that three | adjacent New England states have | supplied the three best hens in lay
 ing contest which included more than | 800 hens from two countries and 15 | different states
 The blue ribbon or first prize for the
 years work has been awarded to | Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Carmel, Conn,
 whose pen of White Leghorns laid | 2o8S eggs. The second prize goes to Tom Barron of Catforth, England, | whose White Wyandottes laid 20S5
 eggs for the same period, and the third | prize likewise goes to this same breed | CT, whose pen of White Leghorns came l third with 2010 eggs.
 The 10 leading pens for the year | are as follows: Francis F. Lincoln, Mt ] Carmel Conn, White Leghorns, 20ss i; Tom Barron, Catforth, England White | Wyandottes, 20S5; Tom Barron, Cat | forth, England, White Leghorns, 2010;
 Neale Bros. Apponaug, R. l., White l Wyandottes, 1918: Merrythought Farm | Columbia, Conn.,, White Wyandottes | 1901; A. B. Brundage, Danbury, Conn. | $. c. Rhode Island Reds, 1885; Ma-- l wood Poultry Farm, Butler, Pa, White | Leghorns, 1722; Bonnie Brook Poultry | Farm, Saratoga, N. Y.,White Leghorns
 1704; Cecil Guernsey, East Cobleskiil | N. r., White Leghorns, 1703; Branford
 Farms, Groton, Conn, White Leghorns ! 17O1
 The following is a list of the 10 best | Connecticut pens for the year: Francis | F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, White Leg
 horns, 20sS; Merrythought Farm, CO-
 lumbia, White Wyandottes, 1901; A. B | Brundage, Danbury, s. c. Rhode Island | Reds 1885; Branford Farms, Groton
 White Leghorns, 1701; Glenview Poultry Farm, Rockville, White Leg
 horns, 1646; Mrs. K. B. Woodruff, New | Haven, White Leghorns, 1919; Freder-
 ick H. Benton, Wallingford, White Plymouth Rocks, 1878; Frederick NJ Peasley, Cheshire, White LeghornAs
 1861; Thomas W. Moore, Central Vii. | lage, White Leghorns, 1548; George A Cosgrove, West Wilmington, White | Leghorns, 1547.