Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-10
LEADING PENS HAVE LAID
 OVER 100 DOZEN EGGS EACH
Marked Difference Between the Av- craze Hen in These Pens and Those At the Bottom of List.

The three leading pens in the con- test at Storrs have now laid more than one hundred dozen eggs each. The thirty hens in these three pens nave averaged to lay 122 eggs apiece whereas the three poorest pens in the contest have produced only a little over forty dozen eggs per pen or an average individual yield for the thirty nens In these three pens of 4S15 eggs each.
 Changes among the ten leading pens continue to occur. The Vermont pen or Rhode Island Reds that has been In second place for the last twenty two weeks and the New York pen of Leghorns that has been in fourth place TOT the last ten weeks were both pass ca during the week and strangely enough one breeders birds did the work in both cases. Barron's Wyan- dottes succeeded in getting by the Reds with a margin of two eggs and his Leghorns beat out the New York pen by three eggs. Thus two pens of the competition. Another interesting change concerns the pen of Barred Rocks from Brookfield Centre, Conn.,, which has been among the ten lead ing pens from the very first week of the contest and was in fact in third place from the tenth to the eighteenth week. They have however, finally been supplanted by a pen of White Leghorns from Ballston Lake, N. Y.
 Seventy individuals including Ply mouth Rocks, Wandottes, Rhode Is land Reds, Light Brahams, Silver Campines, Faverolles, and Orpingtons made perfect scores for the week by laying seven eggs each. Seven pens Of Leghorns made perfect pen scores on the last day of the week each pen of ten birds laying ten eggs. The best continuous record so far is held by Salmon Faverolle hen No. 944 from Ellicott City, Md. Since the 2nd of May this hen has laid for thirty six consecutive days.
 The best weekly record in the pres ent competition is 59 eggs made in the zOth week by pen of English Wyan- dottes. This was equalled in the 18th week by English Leghorns and in the 5Oth week by pen of Connecticut Leghorns. It is again equalled in the 31st week by Dictograph Poultry Farms Leghorns from West Nyack, N. T., and by one of the Storrs Sta tion's Experimental pens of Leghorns. The highest weekly yield last year was 63 eggs, made in the 18th weeks, Barron's Leghorns from Catforth, Eng, were second with 5S eggs, and three pens of the same breed owned by Braeside Poultry Farm, Strouds- burg, Pa, Windsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge, Conn. and Ed Cam, Hoghton, Eng, all tied for third with 56 eggs each. The total production for all pens amounted to 4164 eggs or S6 more than for the preceding week.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows: Ed Cam, Hoghton, near Preston, Eng, White Wyandottes 1243; Tom Barron, Catforth, near Preston, Eng, White Wyandottes 1908; Hillview Poultry Farm, St. AL bans, Vt, Rhode Island Reds 12O6; Tom Barron, Catforth Eng, White Leghorns 1119; A. P. Robinson, Cal verton, N. Y, White Leghorns 1116; F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, Conn., White Leghorns 1 1O9; Windsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge, Conn, White Leg horns 1066; Pinecrest Orchards, Gro ton Mass, Rhode Island Reds 1047; Colonial Farm, Temple, N. H., Rhode