Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-09
CASE OF EGGS MORE
THAN A YEAR AGO
Record of the Hens at Storrs for the
Past Week.

In the forty-fourth week Of the lay
ing competition at Storrs. all the hens
taken together produced 1910 eggs.
While this is las less than for the pre-
ceding week, 1t is on the other hand,
relatively $50 eggs more for the cor
responding week a year ago. Now $50
is Of course only one egg less than a
case, and at current wholesale quota
lions. namely 81 to IS cents. the extra
case of eggs these hens have laid Is
worth nearly eleven dollars
Dr. NJ w. Sanborn's Buff wyan-
dottes from Holden, Mass, were first
for the week with a production Of 80
eggs. These '.broody' Bluffs are liv-
ing down an unenviable reputation,
they are not broody; neither are they
wasting a single thought on their new
fall coats; they are simply busy: they
have shelled out an even hundred eggs
in the last fortnight a record sur
passed by but one pen in the entire
competition. Windsweep Farms Leg
| horns from Redding Ridge. Conn. and
P. G. Platt's pen of the same breed
from Wallingford. Pa tied for second
place with 40 eggs each. The Storrs
Stations sour milk pen of White
| Wyandottes and N W. Hendryx's Leg
| thirds with IS eggs each. The ex-
pertinent stations sour milk pen Of
Leghorns laid A for the week and the
sour milk pen OF Barred Rocks. 40;
thus it is apparent that the milk fed
/ birds are holding up we'll The milk
fed pen of Light Brahmas has laid
more than a thousand eggs to date, in
/ spite of the prediction by well known
| visitors to the plant that the manage
| ment of the contest would be lucky to
| get these big Asiatics to lay rs eggs
apiece. or $50 for the pen for the whole
year.
The reader may perhaps contemplate
| sending pen of birds to the next con-
| test at Storrs or he may be interested
in some other competition in this
country or some of the contests abroad
But whether he sends his birds away
or keeps them at home the poultry
man is interested in selecting those
pullets that are likely. to give the larg-
est yield OF eggs during the coming
| year. Those who cannot avail them
| selves of trapnest records must rely
on external characteristics. These arr
not always as definite and tangible az
statistical data and yet they are wei
worth consideration. Other thing
being equal. the pulets that have
grown rapidly and WELL will prove e
be the better layers, that is to say
young birds that have at any timt
during the CROWN period, been stunteC
have also in all probability had theil
egg functioning powers retarded An
other consideration of Importance Il
quality; It is the same sort Of thinl
that the dairyman seeks for in a mill
producer. 1t is indicated IN hens b.
) soft pliable skin over the breastbon,
and the abdominal cavity.
The ten leading pens to date are a.
} follows:
Tom Barron. cathforth mr.. Preston
England. White Leghorns 1775; F. N
| Peasley. Cheshire, Conn, White Leg
horns 1850; Windsweep Farm, Reddini
Ridge, Conn. Whdte Leghorns 1850
Hillview Poultry Farm. st. Adams. VT
Rhode Island Reds 1877: Ed Cam
Hoghton. mr.. Preston. England, Whit
Wyandottes 1913; A P. Robinson, Cal
verton, n. Y, White Leghorns 1713
Tom Barron, Cathforth, England
White Wyandottes 1896; N. "
Hendryx, New Haven. Conn. Whit
Leghorns 1914; Branford Farm, GrotoT
Conn. White LegNnorns, 1926; p. G
horns 1912.
The ten leading Connecticut pens Z
date are as follows exempting the fou
above:
Branford Farm. Groton, White Leg
. horns 1894; A s. Sondregge<, Sout
Coventry. White Leghorns 1870
George BowIes, westport, White Leg
horns 1917: Homer P. Deming, Win
sted, Rhode Island Reds 1909; Bran
: ford Farm. Groton. White Plymout
: Rocks 1882. Branford Farm, GrotoI
: White Leghorns 1880; Springdal
. Poultry Farm. Durham. Rhode Islam
3 Reds 1452: Mrs. J. d. Beck. Canaan
3 White Wyandottes 1908; Merritt y
Q Clark, Rrookneld Center. Barre
e Plymouth Rocks 1401; Uncowa Cam
5 pine Yards. Southport. Silver Caupine
r 1880.