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occasionally a bran mash In the morning; 
then, about noon, I give about four quarts 
of the cut bone for every 50 chicks two or 
three times a week. w. c. G. 
Mentor, Ohio. 
A Good Food. 
I use a bone cutter for cutting meat and 
bones for poultry, and find the preparation 
good feed for them, three or four times a 
week. I feed it with any kind of feed 
(soft or with grain) putting it in clean 
Level carefully. Set up the six uprights 
upon the extremities of the cross-pieces, the 
front ones being four feet eight inches 
long, those at the back six feet eight inches. 
Then put on the plates (12 feet 2x4 scant¬ 
lings.) Two pieces should be set in the 
frame at the back about three feet eight 
inches above the sill to help to support the 
platform and for nailing the siding to them. 
Then tack strips of tarred paper up and 
down outside the frame at the back, and 
boxes by itself, and letting the poultry go 
to it at pleasure. I buy my bones at local 
markets, and pay about half a cent per 
pound. J. w. L. 
New London Co., Conn. 
Hard Work by Hand 
The machine is probably successful 
enough and very practical. It must be kept 
sharp and in good condition, and clean 
and well oiled If used by hand; else 
It will turn somewhat hard; but a 
hand cutter Is quite successful. Cut bone is 
excellent poultry food; to be assured of this 
all that is needed is to see the poultry eat it 
up a few times. The possession o f a machine 
prevents the necessity of buying the bones 
already crushed at a good price. We get 
all the bones from the neighboring butch¬ 
ers without price, or sometimes in trade. 
The cut bone should be fed with corn or 
mixed with meal, bran, etc., or scattered 
about the yard where it will all be picked 
up. It is good as a kind of laxative, es¬ 
pecially in cold weather. It serves as a 
change from grain. First boil the bones 
well and then grind them. I have arranged 
to run my bone cutter by means of a small 
Shipman engine which furnishes a small 
power for pumping water and lighting the 
premises by electricity, etc. C. H. H. 
Hartford, Conn. 
Cut Bones for Fertilizer. 
I cannot say anything about the value of 
bones for poultry food. I have not made 
any tests of them for this purpose. There 
is near me a market where waste bone3 are 
thrown away, and I pick them up and cut 
them. I have not bought any. Some of 
the bones I cut are quite dry, and I put them 
around trees and vines. From what I have 
read about bones I know that they make a 
nail on the siding over It. There are nine 
sets of rafters three feet apart. The scant¬ 
lings are cut seven feet four Inches and 
three feet 11X inches, the longest measure. 
Old fence boards can be used for the piece 
Fig. 273. 
which binds them together, forming a 
truss. The rafters can all be framed before 
they are set up, if one set is put together 
for a pattern. 
Now, set up the rafters, put on tarred 
paper crosswise, then the roof boards. The 
ends are next sided, the tarred paper having 
been first applied as before. Next comes 
good dressing for any kind of crop, and 
when cut they will soon be available for 
plant food, while if they are applied whole, 
it will be a long time before they can fur¬ 
nish a supply. A. H 
Pocassett, Mass. 
A Handy Poultry House. 
The building is 9x24 and should front 
toward the south. Use for the frame 2x4 
hemlock scantlings if they can be obtained. 
Get six large stones, four for the corners, 
and two to be placed 12 feet from the cor¬ 
ners on each side. Lay two 12 foot scant¬ 
lings end to end for each side. Upon these 
on the ends and in the middle lay the three 
nine-foot cross pieces and spike all together. 
shingling; the front is finished last. Four 
windows 3x3X. are sufficient. A long scant¬ 
ling set in the frame forms the window sill 
and pieces of the same set up make a frame 
for the window, which extends to the plate. 
The door frame is five feet wide and three 
feet eight inches high. A frame of 2x4 
scantling is made in the building as for a 
stationary table or counter, and inch rough 
hemlock boards are nailed on lengthwise 
of the building. 
Crosswise of the building, about eight 
inches apart, are 34 roost poles of 2x2 stuff 
with the corners shaved off. The poles 
are four feet long and 14 inches above the 
platform. 
Eighteen nests, 12 Inches high and deep< 
and 14 inches wide are placed under the 
front of the platform. The hens go in from 
the back side at a hole 6x7 inches. A board 
shelf is put up on which they can walk along 
to the nests, and a short ladder reaches to the 
ground. The sides and bottom of the nests 
are of single boards 12 inches wide, with 
board divisions; but the front board Is slit 
into three pieces of equal width ; the middle 
one, being hinged at the bottom and fas¬ 
tened with a button at the top, turns 
down, opening nine nests at a time. The 
ladders upon which the hens climb to the 
roosts are set out so that the turning down 
of the above pieces may not be Interfered 
with. These are merely boards with cleats 
nailed across them. If a ventilator is put 
in it should open near the ground. 
Fig. 270 is a cross-section of the building. 
Fig. 271 is a cross-section of a cheap three- 
section breeding-pen house (requiring about 
400 feet of lumber.) Fig. 272 shows the con¬ 
struction of the nests and roosts. Fig. 273 
is a convenient arrangement for six breed¬ 
ing pens with yards (mine are26 2 3x70 feet). 
Fig. 274 (5) is a wooden stationary feed box 
Fig. 275 (6) is a water trough of galvanized 
iron, which any tinner can make. Fig. 274 (7) 
is a long box with slats across the top—a very 
convenient feeding box. Fig. 275 (8) Is a per¬ 
petual feeding box for use in fattening 
fowls, feeding dry bran or ground shells, 
bone, grit, etc. 
BILL OF LUMBER, ETC , FOR HEN-HOUSE, 
400 fept matched pine, at *ts.on per M.$7 20 
120 feet hemlock boards, $13 M. 1 5) 
230 feet 2x4 hemlock, at $13 M. 8 00 
Shingles. 6 75 
4 windows, at $1.25. 5 00 
100 pounds tarred paper. 2 50 
Nails, hinges, etc. 2 CO 
Total.$27 95 
No estimate is made for roof boards, as 
old fence boards were utilized. One dollar’s 
worth of oil and Venetian red should paint 
the building twice over. A. D. WARNER. 
IMPROVED 
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/Park's 
Cutaway 
POSITIVE IN ITS ACTION and 
PERFECT IN ITS SEEDING. 
Will sow all kinds of GRASS SEED & GRAINS 
SEND FOR SPECIAL CIRCULAR. _ 
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FREE Subscriptions 
1 /, 2, j, 4 or 5 Years. 
Our Watch offers have been so exceedingly popular that we believe the following 
combinations with subscriptions will meet with quick favor. These watches, as before, 
we believe, are as good as can be produced, and at 25 to 50 per cent below the prices 
usually charged by retail jewelers. 
Our object in making these offers Is to give our subscribers good watches at low 
prices, to advertise The Rural New-Yorker, and to get new subscribers. 
The subscriptions are given for the number of years mentioned in parentheses, thus 
(three years), which indicates that for the price named you get the watch described and also 
a free subscription for the period named. Your own subscription can be continued for the 
time mentioned, or, If preferred, new subscriptions will be taken to correspond. That is, 
on a three years’ offer, your own subscription may be continued for one year, and we will 
also send the paper for a year (or from receipt of order to end of 1892) to two new names 
which you may send us, to whom you will have sold the subscriptions. 
|J3P“ At the same time you are getting both watch and subscriptions at 
considerably less than the retail price of the watch alone. _<&H1 
MEN’S SIZES. 
No. 1. - A genuine New York Standard move¬ 
ment; 7 Jewels, safety pinion, com¬ 
pensation balance, stem wind and set; 
In a solid nickel silver ease, open face; 
a really excellent watch and far su¬ 
perior to any other cheap watch 
we have seen (two years).$ 8.50 
No. 2.—.Same movement as No. 1, In gold-filled 
case, 15-year guarantee, open face 
(three years). 15.00 
No 3.—Same as No. 2, hunting case (three 
years). .... 17.00 
No 4.—Same movement as No. 1, in a solid gold 
14k. hunting case, weighing 40 dwt. 
(five years). 39.50 
RURAL SPECIAL BARGAINS. 
N 5.—A genuineWaltham movement; 7 Jewels, 
compensation balance, safety pinion, 
stem wind and set; In a solid nickel- 
silver case, open face (two years). 9.50 
No. 6.—Same movement as No. 5, In gold filled 
case, guaranteed to wear 15 years, 
open faca (three years. 16.50 
No. 7.—Same movement as No. 5, In hunting case 
same as No. 6 (three years).18.50 
No. 8.—Same movement as No. 5, In solid 14k. 
gold hunting case, weighing 40 dwt. 
ifiveyears). . 42.00 
No 9.—A genuine Waltham full Jewel move¬ 
ment, compensation balance, safety 
pinion, stem wind and set, patent reg¬ 
ulator, Breguet hair spring, hardened 
and tempered in form, in open face, 
nickel-silver case two years). 13.00 
No. 10.-Same movement as No. 9, in gold filled 
case, guaranteed for 15 years, open 
face (two years).18.25 
No 11—Same as No. 10, hunting ease (two years) 21.25 
No. 12.—Same movement as No. 9, In solid 14k 
gold hunting case weighing 40 dwt. 
A very handsome watch (five years).. 45.00 
LADIES’ SIZE. 
No. 13.—A genuine Waltham ladles’ watch with 
Jewels, compensation balance and 
safety pinion, stem wind and set; in a 
solid coin silver case (four »ears). 14 50 
Ladies’Watch. No. 15. 
No. 14.—Same move¬ 
ment as No. 13, in 
a 15 year guaran¬ 
teed gold-filled 
hunting case (four 
years).$19.25 
No. 15.—A beautiful 
11 Jewel move¬ 
ment, full nickel, 
In a handsomely 
engraved hunting 
case made of 14k. 
U. S. Assay solid 
gold, usual retail 
price from $50 to 
$75. One of the 
prettiest watches 
for a lady that we 
have ever seen. 
The Illustration 
shows the case In 
exact size and 
style (five years) 
. $29.00 
The watches we sent to our subscribers on our previous offers have surprised us 
greatly. 1, As to the high-grade demanded in most cases; cheap watches were not 
wanted. 2, On account of the great number called for. Only one or two complaints have 
reached us, and many have expressed great satisfaction with the watches received. 
We send the watches prepaid by registered mall to any part of the United States. 
Watches sent to Canada are subject, of course, to Custom House restrictions. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., Times Building, New York. 
