The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-10
INTERNATIONAL EGG
 LAYING CONTEST

In the forty-fourth week of the laying competition at Storrs, all the hens taken together produced 3,21O keggs. While this isz148 less than for the preceding week, it is on the other hand, relatively 859 eggs more than ago. Now 359 is of course only one | egg less than a case, and at current wh o1esale quotations, namely S4 to S6. cents, the extra case of eggs these hens have laid is worth nearly s11. Dr. N. w. Sanborn's Buff Wyan- dottes from Holden, Mass, were first | for the week with a production of 50 Ieggs. These ..broody'' Bluffs are 1fv- ling down an unenviable reputation. l&hey are not broody: neither are they wasting a single eN thought on their new fall coats; they are simply busy; : they have sheIed out an even hundred eggs in the last fortnight, a record surpassed by but one pen in the et'- Itire competition. Windsweep Farm s Leghorns from Reding Ridge. and P.>G. Platt's pen of the same breed from Wallingford, Pa, tied for Sec-s ond place with 49 eggs each. The Storrs Stations sour milk pen of White Wyandottes and N. w. Hen dryx's Leghorns from New Haven, were close thirds with 48 eggs each The experiment stations sour milk pen of Leghorns laid AT for the week and the sour milk pen of Barred
 Rocks, 46; thus it is apparent that the milk fed birds are holding up
 well. The milk fed pen of Light Brahmas has laid more than a thou sand eggs to date in spite of the pre- diction by well known visitors to the plant that the management of the
 contest would be lucky to get these
 big Asiatics to lay 75 eggs apiece, or 1 750 for the pen for the whole year. The reader may perhaps contem- lplate sending a pen of birds to the
 next contest at Storrs he may be interested in some other com petition
 in this country or some of the con- tests abroad. But whether he sends his birds away or keeps them at home. the poultryman is interested in se- I I1ecting those bullets ynat are likely to
 give the largest yield of eggs during
 the coming year. Those who cannot
 avail themselves of trapnest records
 must always as definite and tangible
 as statistical data and yet they are well worth consideration. Other
 things being equal, the bullets that | have grown rapidly and well, will prove to be the better layers, that is Ito say. young birds that have at any ttine during the growing period been stunted have also iii all probability 4 had their egg functioning powers re- tarded. Another consideration of inn lportance is quality; it Is the same sort of thing that the dairyman seeks for in milk producer. It is indicated lin hens by soft p1iable skin over the Ibreastbone and the abdominal cavity.
 The 10 leading pens to date are as Efol1ows:
 Tom Barron. Catforth, near
 Preston, England, White Leg horns 775
 F. M Peasly, Cheshire, White
 Leghorns .---...-- -.... IT 60 tWindsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge. White Leghorns ....1750 Hillview Poultry Farm, St. AL
 bans, Vt, Rhode Island Reds 1747 Ed Cam. Hoghton, near Preston. I England. White Wyandottes. ..173s A. F. Robinson. Ca1verton, N. r.. from Barron, Catforth, England,
 White Wyandotts .1696 IN. W. Hendryx, New Haven,
 White Leghorns .1644 4Branford Farm, Groton, White
 | Leghorns :. ..1626 26 EP. G. Platt, wal1ingford, Pa,
 White Leghorns 161 2