are afraid our American cousins have re¬ 
ceived a very inferior lot of these birds, 
many of which could not have been worth 
the cost of shipping them.” What are the 
“Buff” Leghorns, any way? Last week 
the writer visited a poultry farm where 
hens are bred for layers. Leghorns aro 
kept, the brown hens being crossed with 
white roosters. From this cross were a 
dozen or more birds almost exactly like 
the Buff Leghorns exhibited at the late 
poultry show. There were others nearly 
like them, and others spotted or mottled. 
The breeding of these birds was straight 
enough—they are cross-bred birds and 
nothing else. Now, where do the high- 
priced “Buffs” come from; also the 
“Spangles” and “Dominques ?” 
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quiring careful handling to produce the 
best results. In looking at the illustra¬ 
tions of the two hens I can hardly refrain 
from advising a cross. 
“Then again, all of my hen-houses 
are but one story high and 12x40 feet, with 
board floors and a partition in the center 
making two apartments of 12x20 feet. 
The sides and ends are two thicknesses of 
one-inch boards with tar paper between. 
The houses are six feet high to the eaves 
with a shingle roof, and stand east and 
west, with two windows to each apart¬ 
ment, each containing six 10 by 14 lights, 
which give sufficient light when the houses 
are kept clean and whitewashed. Inside, 
running along the entire length of the 
north side of the building, is a platform 28 
inches wide and 15 inches above the floor ; 
15 inches above it, and running lengthwise 
of it, are two perches set in notches in a 
frame arranged every 10 feet for their sup¬ 
port; they can be easily lifted out and 
shoved back against the side of the house 
—an arrangement that permits the plat¬ 
form to be easily cleaned. A strip of board 
nailed to the front edge of the platform 
stiffens it and also prevents the droppings 
from being thrown off upon the floor. On 
the floor and immediately under the front 
of the platform are sections of nest boxes ; 
a board hinged to the front of the platform 
comes down to the top and even with the 
front of the nest boxes ; an opening in the 
ne3t boxes every 10 feet allows the hens to 
pass through under the platform and back 
of the nests, so that they have easy access 
to them and are not disturbed at any time 
by the attendant doing any necessary work 
about the house. The eggs are reached by 
raising the hinged board. A box contain¬ 
ing dry road dust, a water pan covered by 
a crate, and a trough for feeding the morn¬ 
ing meal comprise the furniture. Every¬ 
thing upon the floor is movable and can be 
cleaned out at any time. Plenty of dry road 
earth and cut straw is used upon the floors, 
which are cleaned often. 
“I do not give a description of this house 
as if it were a model; but because it has 
answered my purpose so well. I am In¬ 
clined to think that it is a good practical, 
common-sense, business hen house. I do 
not feed a pint of oats per day; half that 
amount I would think plenty. Instead of 
two quarts of charcoal per day I would 
think one quart sufficient. I do not chop 
beets fine and mix them with the morning 
feed, but slice them and feed them at noon. 
The hens will do the chopping. The only 
object in slicing them is to make pieces 
enough so that all can get at them. The 
average number of eggs per hen for 1890 
was 174, instead of 168, as stated.” 
Groton, N. Y. c. H. wyckoff. 
large, gray lice on the skin of the heads 
and necks will cause the same difficulty. If 
the male is very heavy he will injure the 
hens’ spines and cause like symptoms. The 
best remedy is to see that there are no 
draughts on the fowls at night. Add a 
tablespoonful of chlorate of potash to each 
quart of drinking water, and, with a sew¬ 
ing machine oil can, force five or 10 drops 
of a mixture of one part spirits of turpen¬ 
tine and three parts of sweet oil, on the 
skin of the neck, and on the comb, head 
and beak, twice a week. P. H. JACOBS. 
A Little “ Egg Record.” 
Below are a few figures. There is no 
big showing, but if people knew what I had 
to contend with by floods, they would think 
I had done well. There have been two feet 
of water in the coop twice, and I lost 
three or four fowls by roup, which got in the 
flock on account of the water. It was a 
long time before the hens got over the 
effects of the disease and started laying 
again: 
DR. 
Paid for feed.$22.07 
•• lime.40 
•* eggs.25 
hens and chickens. 10.50 
•' plaster.. . .60 
“ medicine. .60 
“ whitewashing coop.50 
“ a cockerel. '50 
Profits . 9.29 
Total...$41.72 
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job. All the floors are of matched lumber, 
and the entire building Is lathed and plas¬ 
tered. 
The floor of the feeding-room is covered 
with lake sand and fine gravel, on which 
the morning mash of bran is throwD. 
There is a dust room 8 x 16 feet, and 
the rest of the floor in the east wing is lit¬ 
tered with straw and cut hay. Here screen¬ 
ings, wheat, etc., are fed. The places 
marked c are chimneys and a fire is kept 
in the feeding-room in extremely cold 
weather. This building has been in use 
for three years and has given entire satis¬ 
faction. c. B. s. 
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The Indian Game “boom” has started 
another for the Malay Game. 
Those Premium Langsiians.— My wife 
wishes me to say that the premium she re¬ 
ceived on the potato contest is doing nice¬ 
ly— a pair of Langshan fowls. Last year 
she raised 12 pure-blood chicks, took them 
to our county fair and got the first pre¬ 
mium on both fowls and chicks. This year 
she will try to do better. J. F. R. 
Waukon, Iowa. 
At the late poultry show one breeder 
told us that the best paying part of poultry 
keeping was the breeding of Pit Games. 
Of course, be never would fight them him¬ 
self, but he could sell them to fanciers who 
were fond of the “sport.” We now find 
the following in The Fanciers’ Journal: 
“Pit Games, like whisky, have a commer¬ 
cial value, and no man can be blamed for 
exchanging either or both for the very 
necessary lucre that all human beings are 
after,” The cock fighter and the rum 
seller make a precious pair. 
J. H. Drevenstedt says, in the Poultry 
Monthly, that he has always contended 
that a cross of an Indian Game on the 
Golden Wyandotte makes a very fair In¬ 
dian Game. There is Game blood in the 
Golden Wyandottes; this all acknowledge 
who have kept the breed any length of 
time. The fowls are pugnacious and de¬ 
cidedly more close feathered than the Sil¬ 
ver Wyandottes. The peculiar penciling 
of the feathers of many old hens tends to 
further prove this assertion. He has 
plucked feathers from Golden Wyandotte 
pullets that were beautifully double laced. 
Buff Leghorns.— The Feathered World, 
an English publication, is quoted as say¬ 
ing : “ We find that ‘ nearly 200 ’ Buff Leg¬ 
horns have been sent to America by a 
poultry farm in this country. Several 
consignments have been sent by other 
people. Now, as there have not been a 
dozen decent birds of this variety exhibited 
in this country during the year 1890, we 
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readers. Mr. Wyckoff kindly sends the 
following notes in answer to some of these 
questions : 
“ My present stock of hens were not 
bred from crosses of Plymouth Rock 
and White Leghorn, as stated by The 
Rural’s correspondent, but were bred and 
selected from pure, single-comb White 
Leghorns and are not ‘Silver Crested.’ In 
selecting my breeding stock each year for 
the past nine or ten years, I have spared no 
pains in order to get together the best 
year-round layers as well as those showing 
early maturity. As to the two hens de¬ 
scribed by the correspondent as of the egg 
type and the scratch type, I hardly know 
from the illustration which of the two I 
would select for the best layer, as a hen of 
a square or blocky build is apt to be very 
quiet, fat and lazy and a poor layer. On 
the other hand, I find that I have some 
occasionally of the other ‘type’ that are 
too wild and hawky to be of much use as 
layers. I find that my best layers are 
quick, active and somewhat nervous, re¬ 
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