Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-26
HENS FELL OFF FROM
 MARK IN EGG LAYING.
Produced Over POGO in Fifteenth Week
 Less in Sixteenth.

To thousand a week was announced as the slogan in the international egg laying contest at Storrs and in the re- port for the 18th week the production stood at 2,o06 eggs. In the 16th week the hens yielded 1925 eggs, or a loss of only Al in spite of three snow storms during the contest week. These storms meant that it was necessary to close the curtains to the houses for three days during one week. Closed houses mean damp houses, and dampness as is well known is not conducive to egg production. Henry D. Smith in ad- dressing the State Poultry association assembled in Hartford last week gave this simple rule for determining wheth- CT or not a poultry house is as dry as 1t should be. Go into the house and attempt to blow the dust off of the window sill and other places where it would naturally collect If this can be done easily the house is dry and well ventilated, but if the dust that has collected sticks little and is not cas- fly stirred up by simply blowing with the mouth then the poultry house is beginning to get damp, and unless we are careful the hen shelters will soon begin to smell like hen houses and however paradoxical it may sound, a hen house should not smell like a hen house.
 White Wyandottes at tho Top. The best weekly record goes again to Barron's white Wyandottes that laid A eggs during the week. The Rhode Island reds of Dr. J. A. F'rit- chey, Harrisburg, Pa, were a close sec l ond with 43 eggs to their credit, and l the reds of George P. Dearborn of Lake l Como, Fla. were an equally close third with a production or AZ for the week | A Connecticut pen of Leghorns owned | by F. s. Edgerton of Rockville was close behind the leaders with a yield | of 39 eggs, and pr. Sanborn's buff Wy J be dangerous competitors. They laid g l eggs for the week just ended.
 1 The. Leghorns continue to lay their pro rata share of eggs. It will be re- 1 membered that they constitute Al per ! cent. of the birds in the competition Last week they laid about 39 per cent 1 of the eggs, this week, yet it is inter- esting to note some of the changes i that are taking place in the leading pens The Leghorns seem to have ] fewer phenomenal pens than usual While they are all plugging along and l doing their work there are few con- l spicuons pens of American breeds thai
 seem to be outstripping them. It is oi 1 course yet early in the race, so that l these conditions in the end may bf l more apparent than real. Last weel l Fritchey's reds from Pennsylvania OV6TIOOk 6ueTnSey Wulle 1GSHUIIis Likewise Pinecrest Orchards Rhode Island reds from Groton. Mass. nass- ed Barron's white Leghorns, leaving
 the latter in tenth place.
 It seems fairly safe to predict thai
 a much larger egg yield is soon to b.
 expected. in view of the fact that thu
 hens laid 1,260 eggs during the frs five days of the 18th week and 665 dur,
 ing the other two days.
 Pens That Lead
 The ten leading pens to date are a
 follows:
 Tom Barron, Catforth, England
 white Wyandottes, 617; Francis
 Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, Conn, white Leg
 horns, ASA; Neale Bros. Apponaug,
 thought Farm, Columbia, Conn, whit l Wyandottes, 424; Dr. J. A. Fritche5
 Harrisburg, Pa, $. c. Rhode Islam
 reds, All; Cecil Guernsey, East Coble
 skill, N. Y, white Leghorns, 396; Jule
 r. F'rancais. West Hampton, L. l., \
 Y, barred Plymouth Rocks, S47; Get
 F. Dearborn, Lake Como, Fla, s. ( Rhode Island reds. 344; Pineerest Or
 chards, Groton. Mass. S. c. Rhode Is land reds. SIS; Tom Barron, Catfortt
 England, white Leghorns, BOA
 Top-Line Connecticut Pens. E The following is a list of the te leading Connecticut pens:
 Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, whit I.eghorns, ASA; Merrythought Earn Columbia, white Wyandottes, 424 Glenview Poultry Farm, Rockville, $ c. Rhode Island reds, 290; D. J, Rya & Son. Bridgeport. white Wyandottei 2s9: West Mt. Poultry Yards, Nauga tuck, white Wyandottes. 2S2: J. s. Gil lespie. Stamford. $. c. Rhode Islan reds, 2S1: A. B. Brundage, Danbur. s. c. Rhode Island reds, 271: Harry I Cook, Orange. s. c. Rhode Island red 259; Branford Farm, Groton, whit Leghorns, 226; c. S. Scoville, East Ha