Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-11
SECOND QUARTER IN
 EGG LAYING CONTEST
More Sprintine Tn Production Ex-
 Pee&ed in Next Three Months

The hens in the laying contest at Storrs are just beginning the second quarter. They have now passed the twenty thousand egg mark This does not mean that they will lay only eighty thousand eggs during the year because it is expected that they will lay perhaps more than twice as many eggs in the second three months Of the competition than in the first three. Tn other words there will be more sprint ing in the matter of producing eggs in the coming three months than in any other period of the year The total production for the fourteenth week was 1S4 eggs less than for the preceeding week but almost exactly the same as for the correspondiug week last year there being a difference of only eight eggs in favor of the present contest or Q yield of 2O4S for the week
 The same three pens of wyandottes that made a clean sweep of the first three places last week were able to repeat in the fourteenth week except that they were in a little different order. The StoTT-s Stations sour milk pen Of Whites won first and not only that but their yield of 49 eggs equals by Wirdsweep Farms Leghorns in the second week of the contest back in November. Tom BaTTon's English pen were a close second with a yield of 4S eggs and MeTrythought Farms pen of Coluubians from Columbia, Conn, were third with 43.
 IL IS & very interesting coincident that at the beginning Of the second quarter of the competition a large number of pens are exactly tied: thus a Massachusetts pen of White Rocks and a. Missouri pen of White Le2horus are deadlocf1ed at 1S6 each. 4 Con necticut pen of Reds, 8 Connecticut pen of Leshorns, and one of the Ru- rSl New Workers '-F'avorfte Hem pens are all tied at 1eS each. 4 Connecti- cut pen of Leghorns and a pen of the same breed from New York are tied at 200 eggs each. A Connecticut pen Of Barred Rocks a, Pennsylvania pen of Ieghorns and a Connecticut pen of Another New York and Connecticut combination, both White Leghorns. are tied at 2e5 eggs each. The Storrs Stations sour milk pen Of Barred Rocks is tied with a Connecticut pen Of Leshorus at PA. i Connecticut Massachusetts pen of Buff Wyandottes are deadIocked at 264 each. A Con necticut pen of White Wyandottes and Pennsy1vaIlia pen Of White Leg horns are paired al 292.
 The ten leading pens to date are as follcwh: Ed Cam, Hosh&on near Pres ton. England, White Wyandottes 524; EillviSw Poultry Farm, SE- Albans, Vt, Rhode Island Reds, 4SS; Merritt NJ. Clark, Brookfeld Center. Conn, Barred
 Rocks 4ff; Colonial Farm, Temple, N. H., Rhode Island Reds. 9S1; 4. P. Rob inson. CaIverton, N. Y, White Leg horns SS1; Eesle Bros, Apponaug, F. L. White Wysndottes 5Ss; Storrs Exp. Station (Sour milk penl White Leg horns 357: Pinecrest Orchards, Groton Mass, Rhode Island Reds. s5S: Frank L. Futile, Southboro, Mass, Barred Rocks S4S; H. B. Hitler, Unionville, Conn, American Douiuiques 33s. The ten leading Connecticut pens to date are as follows: Merritt II. Clark, BroekfeI6 Center, Barred Rocks Al; H E. Filler. Unionvi1le, American Don1ini4urr 93s; Windsweep Farm, Bedding dge. White Leghorns $50; l 1feIrythousht Farm, Columbia, Colum- 1 biaa vVyandotteS 325; Mrs. J. D. Beck, ] Canaan, White Wyan6ottes S14; F. N. i PeasIey, Cheshire, White Leghorns ] 38S: Harry B. Cook, Orange. Rhode Island Reds So2; J. F. Byron, Willi- { naartic, White Wyazdottes 292; 1 Springdaie Poultry Farm Rurlaam, ] Rhode Tsiand Reds 2s1: Aerrytheught l Farm, CoIurto;a White WyaudotteS 1 --o'-'