The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-28
INTERNATIONAL EGG LAYING CONTEST

Several interesting incidents occur red in the tw enty-nirith week Sof the laying contest at Storrs. In the first place nearly all the hens contending for individual honors have been rest ing on their oars so to speak. Nearly all of them, however. got down to- ebusiness again last week, notably the Massachusetts Buff Wyandotte No. | 229 that outIaid any other single hen in the contest during the first four
 months and was tied for first place at the end tof the fifth month. The
 White Wyandotte No. 993 from New York state that was third best in her breed and fifth best in the competi- tion at the beginning of the month has been broody for. the first time. She is over this however and is now | laying again. This hen did not yield i a single egg for the first tfirty-eight days of the contest A Connecticut
 Rhode Island Red No. 40 from Dur ham is likewise busy again and at this
 writing is third best hen in, the com petition Of the half dozen leading ] individuals out of the thousand hens | competing only one apparently, a Barred Rock No. 3 from Brookfeld
 Center. has not as yet eased up at all. { In consequence she now has lead of five eggs over her next nearest l competitor whereas she had a mar
 gin of only one egg on May 1st. Her record at this writing is 148 eggs
 which is just about twice the yield
 of the average hen in entire year.
 First pen honors for the week go l to Barron's English eLeghorns with a. yield of 50 eggs. This is the best! weekly production of any Lsegh orn l pen and equals but does not surpass
 the Wyandotte weekly record of 69i
 made in tn etwentieth week. Wind.
 sweep Farms pen of White Leghorns
 from Bedding Ridge, and Jonathan Collinson's s Black Leghorns from Gar
 stang, England, tied for second place
 with 55 eggs. One of these pens the White Leghorns, led the competition
 for the first five. weeks. The cold
 weather of early December, however.
 seemed to affect them adversely and
 they began to go back. dropping out of
 the ten leading pens entirely in the 18th week. They have, however, shown their ability to come back Last week they appeared on the roll
 of honor and in the 18th week nov ed up still another place. The Black Leghorns that tied with this pen have Jbeen steady pluggers ever since the
 comp etition started. They have not before been mentioned as an honor pen for any week nor are they
 among the ten leading pens but they are too close to them for the comfort of several of those now in the list. Four pens of White Leghorns owned by F. M. Peasley. Cheshire, Conn,
 Braside Poultry Farm, stroudsburg, Pa, Happich & Banks, North Branch, N Y, and James V. Thomas. Ball
 ston Lake, N. Y, all. tied for third place with 54 eggs each. The total production for all pens for the week
 amounted to 3e52 eggs. The ten leading pens to date ara
 as follows:
 Ed Cam, Hoghton, near Pres
 ton, England. White wyan-
 Hillview Poultry Farm St. AL
 bans, Vt, Rhode Island
 Reds. ..... 1129
 Tom Barron, Catforth near
 Preston, England, White Wy
 andottes, -..,..l...-. -...... HOS
 A, F. Robinson, Calverton. N Y. White Leghorns, 1034 F. M. PeasIey, Cheshire, Conn, White Leghorns, ... 1O06
 Tom Barron. Catforth, England,
 White Leghorns, ..-..-... 1oos
 Pinecrest Orchards, Groton, Mass, Rhode Island Reds, e. 969
 Colonial Farm, Temple, N H., | Rhode Island Reds, . 951 | Windsweep Farm. Redding < Ridge, Conn, White Leg