Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-24
BLrEzAhD TAILED TO
 HALT HENS AT STORES

Last Sundays blizzard distressed the men but not the hens In the egg laying contest at stofrs. The well fed bullets in their comfortable quarters sheiled cut the eggs just the same. Tine fact Is they had over 500 eggs more than the management expected to set During the last ten years there have been trapnest- cd at Storrs 1e.oeo hens that have laid more than one and half million eggs. These 10000 hens represent thirty differ ent varieties. They came from twenty i've different states, Enriand and three of the Canadian provinces and were bred and owned ever three hundred different breeders. Win this vast amount of data csnstantly- at hand the men in charge of the laying contest can usually predic1 with telling accuracy the number of eggs the hens will lay in any particular week or month.
 Tn the sixteenth week of the eontesty all the pens taken together laid 33s1 eggS or yield of ls per cent Eruea " PickeYs pen of Barred Rocks from 0len Bidge. Y. J, were at the top ef the iist with . production of 55 eggs for the wesk. Two pens of Rhode Island Reds vile. N. H. and Charles H. Lane frsm ssuthboro. Mass, tied for second plnes with Si egEs each. F. s. Chapin's "a of the same breed from LongfueaAsw, Mass, was the third best pen fer ehs week with . score of 4S egys. Three pens of White Leghorns managed to cayturs fourth and fifth places. Hdnywoe1 Farms birds from HeilTvood. wesA. l1ld 47 eges and Mountain View PoultTy Farm from Rutland. Va. and Ernest H Scett from Farmngton, Conn. SsGA | sesrea iS eFgs each.
 During the sixteenth week ehres Rheds | Egtaad Reds and one Leghorn iaid c to- | tAi of five double yoIked err. IL b h. teresting to note n this connection that about four-hfths O. all the double yolk- ed ergs pfodsced are iaId by outlets and net by henA Some individuals are of eourSe more diapoeed than others to produce an over sire product On the av- craze. however, enc can in general ex- | peet to get one double yoiked egR cut ei ebsut every 300 bens that arc collected. This means that the ratio of doubis l to single yoiked eEgs Is only about tvies as high e the raIe of twin to single births h the human family.
 The four leading pens in each of Shs prineiDal Harieties are es fofievB: PlyDeuth Rse4s.
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 Rhsds Island Reds.
 Charles Lane, Bouthboro. Mass. GTl H. s. Bickford. Gr0ssyilla. V. n. e. T5i P, 8. Chapln, Long meadow, Mass Q. gf Deer Brook Poultry Farm. Short fsiis, ". H. ,s....ss.-s..-..s.s. be' | Whits LeShsr-s.
 Jrases c. Le Fsvrt, New PsltS N | .:....-.... .............. b1l A. P. Robinson. Caiyerten, v. '. e. BI LSon Head Poultry Farm. Doyef. V.
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 otteP vsristies.
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 Brjdgeton, R. l. NN.S.S.N.,. ti H. P. Cloves tBuh wyandoitfi Sfl-
 yer Lane. Conn. ............ lz A v, HamPisa (Biack Legiiornsl PittstoEn, \. J. ....,...,... 90 HaryY D. EmBAeRs Cwhiie Wa ld0ite)
 Plymouth, Conn ...,....,.s.... @