Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
NINTH WEEK OF
 EGG LAYING CONTEST
Still Far Ahead of the Record at the
 Same Time Last Near.

The hens in the laying contest at
 Storrs continue to beat the pace s@s
 by the hens in the previous cornpett-
 ton. They laid 1921 eggs last week
 or relatively 251 more than for the
 corresponding week last year. Fur
 thermore every pen in the contest has
 now laid where as on the correspond
 ing date a, year ago there were still
 three pens that had yielded no eggs.
 The four best pens for the weelo were
 all within three eggs of each other.
 F. L. Tuttles pen of Barred Rocks
 from Ashland Mass, got away with first place with a score of $ eggs,
 A Massachusetts pen of Rhode Island
 Reds owned by Pinecrest Orchards Of Groton won second with g, while two
 pens of Rhode Island Reds owned by
 HiIlview Poultry farm of St Albans,
 Vt. and Springdale Poultry of Dur
 ham, Conn, tied for third with 50 eggs each
 nounced as follows: Blue ribbon or
 first prize goes to the English pen Of
 White Wyandottes owned by Ed Cam,
 Hoghton, with a score of 166 eggs for the month of December and which happens to be exactly the same num-
 Der of eggs produced by this same pen the previous month. Colonial Farms Rhode Island Reds from Temple, N. H., won second prize for the month with a yield of 143 and Merritt M. N-IdIh 5 haIIeo 1AOCEAS IIOitl bIUOhISAL Center, Conn. were awarded third
 prize with a production of 142 eggs F. L. Tuttle's Barred Rocks mentioned above and Neal Bros White Wyan- dottes from Apponaug, R l., were close contenders for the monthly prize with
 Perhaps never before have the five
 best pens for any month been so wide ly distributed geographically. In reporting the judging of tfs Wy andottes no account has been taken of the weight clause, or in other words their scores are on just the same basis as the Plymouth Rocks. The best shaped and highest scoring White Wy andotte was Hen No 194 owned by Storrs Experiment Station This indi- ? points for shape. Two Connecticut
 individuals, No. 157 owned by Merry
 thought farm and No. 204 owned lrv
 Ma,pledale farm were the best cts> ored birds each scoring 91 3-4 and
 each having been cut but points for color. The best Columbian Wy
 andotte scored 91, the pest Silver 91 1-4 and the best Buf g 1-2 The Storrs Stations experimental pen and Mapledale farms pen tied for best score of all the Wyandottes taken to- gether, F pens, 120 birds was 90 1-2. Six Whites and one Silver or less than S per cent Of the Wyandottes were disqualified by the judge.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follows:
 Ed Cam, Hoghton, near Preston,
 England. White Wyandottes. S44; TIillview Poultry Farm, St. AlbaDs, Vt, Rhode Island Reds, 265; Storrs Exp. Station (sour milk pen) White Leghorns, e61; Windsweep Farm, Red
 ding Ridge, Conn, White Leghorns, 244: Merritt NJ. Clark, Broozfeld Gen. Ire Conn, Barred Rocks, PA: Colonial
 Farm, Temple. x. H., Rhode Island Reds, 239; Storrs Experiment Station, White Leghorns, 227; NeaIe Bros, Apponaug, R. l., White Wyandottes, 226; Manor Poultry Farm. Manorville, l. L. White Leghorns, 222; H, B. Hil- Ter, Unionvi1le, Conn, American Dom iniques, 213.
 The ten leading Connecticut pens to date are as follows:
 Wnidsweep Farm, Bedding Ridge,
 White Leghorns. PA: Merritt NJ. Clark, Brookeld Center. Barred Rocks, PA; H. B. Hitler Unionville, American Dominiques, 21S; Merritt M Clark,
 Brookf1eld Center. White Leghorns, POT; Albert Sonderegger, South Gov entry, White Leghorns,, 1S8: F. M.
 Peasley. Cheshire. White LeghoTnS,
 1855; Merrythought Farm. Columh6a,
 White wyandottes, 1s1; J. F. Byron,
 WilIimantic, White Wyandottes, 179;
 N. W. Hendryx. New Haven, White Leghorns, ITS: Mrs. ". B. Whitlock,
 Warehouse Point, White Leghorns, 177