The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-05
INTERNATIONAL EGG
 LAYING CONTEST.

The thirtieth week of the laying contest at Storrs saw some significant changes in the ten leading pens. An English pen of Leghorns and a Con- necticut pea of the same breed from Cheshire tls tt stood fifth and sixth have swapped places during the week. Another Connecticut pen of Leghorns from Bedding Ridge passed a, pen of Rhode Island Reds from Massachu-. SettS and another pen of Reds from New Hampshire, thus moving from ninth place to seventh. Eight weeks ago there was only one pen of Leg horns among the leading ten, now there are four. All the leading pens for the week proved to be White Leghorns. Wind sweep Farms birds from Bedding Ridge were first with a, yield of 59 eggs. Barron's pen from Catforth, England was second with 58. A l Pennsylvania, pen owned by Braeside Poultry Farm of Stroudsburg came third with 57 and a Conn. pen own ed by N. w. Hendryx of New Haven, were fourth with a production of 56 eggs. One pen of Barred Rocks, one pen of White Rocks, one pen of Rhode Island Reds, seventeen pens | of White Leghorns and the black | Leghorns, or a total of 2 pens, each | laid 50 eggs or more during the week. | The total yield for all pens amounted l to 4,078 or 125 eggs better than for 1 last week.
 The continued cool nights and late l frostsi may mean that the poultrymen
 may have less trouble this coming l season with red mites; that is to say
 they may not appear quite so early, 1 they probably will show up sooner or 1 later. All poultrymen are agreed 1 that whenever or wherever they ap- 1 pear they are undesirable aliens. The | hen houses and breeding coops ought | tob e carefully inspected from time ] L5.z on the hens no doubt cause some lit | tie discomfort but they do not live 1 on the life blood of our poultry as | does the red mite which hides him
 self during the day in the cracks and | crevices of the house and@then- comes
 out at night like bed bugs to get in ! their work. If taken in time spray | ing the houses with any ordinary dis | infectant will perhaps hold the mites
 in check, if however they are per
 mitted to multiply and are present in | large numbers, one ought to paint the | under side of the roosts and other l supports with something like wood
 preserving carbolinieun or spray with 1 one part of crude carbo1fc acid and
 four parts of kerosene. If this does l not prove to be sufficient, decrease l the amount of kerosene and increase l the amount of carbo1ic acid. It should i be rem embered further that one in | spection, one spraying will probably l not be Suff1c16nC. MUGS are an enemy that seize every vantage point and
 entrench themselves at every oppor- tunity.
 The ten leading pens to date are as | follows:
 Ed Cam, Houghton, near Preston England. White Wyandottes 1,196. Hi1lview Poultry Farm, St. Albans Vt Rhode Island Reds 1,173.
 Tom Barron, Catforth near Preston
 England. White Wyandottes 1,154. A P. Robinson. Calverton, N. Y
 White Leghorns 1,O66. Tom Barron, Catforth, England
 White Leghorns 1,061.
 F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, Conn White Leghorns 1,05S.
 Windsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge
 Conn White Leghorns 1,O1O. Pinecrest Orchards, Groton, Mass Rhode Island Reds. LOOT.
 Colonial Farm, Temple, N. H Rhode Island Reds 993.
 Merritt M. Clark, Brookfie1d Gen.
 ter, Conn. Barred Rocks 987.