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THE  RUR.A.lv  NEW-YORKER 
January  1,  1916, 
MMSi 
this  mash  to  advantage.  At  2,5  Wilts  a 
bushel  the  potatoes  arc  a  cheap  feed.  I 
bought  them  at  that  price  and  fed  them 
to  my  hens  for  several  years.  The  same 
mash,  thinned  with  skim-milk,  would 
make  an  excellent  growing  feed  for  hogs. 
The  quantity  to  feed  per  100  hens  is 
what  they  will  eat  up  clean,  say  in  10 
or  15  minutes.  Potatoes  will  not  take 
the  place  of  green  feed :  the  ohlorophyl — 
the  green  coloring  matter  of  vegetation, 
which  nature  extracts  from  sunlight — 
cannot  be  replaced  by  any  other  sub¬ 
stance.  so  far  as  I  know.  Sprouted  oats 
furnish  tins  now  cheaply  and  easily.  For 
years,  while  on  my  farm.  I  used  to  cut 
the  rowan  "June  grass."  which  throws  up 
no  seed  stalk,  is  just  long  narrow  leaves, 
cure  it  as  little  as  I  dared  and  store  it 
away  in  bran  sacks.  In  Winter  I  ran 
this  through  my  feed  cutter,  soaked  it 
in  hot  water,  and  fed  it  to  the  liens.  It 
would  be  as  bright  and  vivid  a  green  as 
growing  grass.  geo.  a.  cosghove. 
THE  HENYARD 
Line-Breeding  of  Poultry 
Where  can  I  get  a  chart  that  will  ex¬ 
plain  in  detail  the  line-breeding  of  poul¬ 
try.  A.  R.  n. 
Hillsdale,  Mich. 
I.inc-breeding  hardly  needs  a  chart  to 
explain  it,  since  it  consists  iu  mating  an 
individual  to  his  progeny  through  succes¬ 
sive  generations.  It  is  close  inbreeding, 
though  those  terms  are  not  always  used 
in  the  same  way  by  different  writers.  The 
chart  that  you  have  in  mind  is  doubtless 
one  published  by  Felcli  some  years  ago. 
In  this  chart,  the  possibility  of  concen¬ 
trating  the  blood  of  an  individual  in  his 
progeny  is  shown.  A  male  is  mated  to  his 
daughter  and  granddaughter,  sueecssive- 
1  the  resulting  great  grandchildren  eon- 
tain  the  blood  of  the  original  male  iu 
seven-eighths  proportion.  If  a  great  grand¬ 
son  now  be  mated  back  to  a  granddaugh¬ 
ter,  the  blood  of  the  progeny  will  be  13-16 
that  of  the  original  male.  This  is  line 
breeding  on  the  male  side;  line-breeding 
from  the  female  side,  using  male  orogeny, 
may  be  carried  on  in  the  same  way.  This 
method  of  breeding  is  used  to  concentrate 
the  blood  of  an  individual  of  great  merit 
in  its  progeny.  It  requires  careful  selec¬ 
tion  in  different  mutiugs  to  avoid  perpet¬ 
uating  and  intensifying  defects.  I  know 
of  no  place  where  this  chart  can  be  ob¬ 
tain'd  save  from  the  journals  that  have 
published  it  at  various  times.  It  ap¬ 
peared  in  the  April  12,  1913,  issue  of 
Till:  R.  N.-Y.,  and  has  been  frequently 
published  by  journals  devoted  to  the  poul¬ 
try  industry.  M.  B.  D. 
It’s  the  hungry,  hustling  chick  that  earns  the 
profit.  Start  him  right  by  feeding  F.  P.  C.  Chick 
Manna  for  the  first  two  weeks.  He’ll  go  for  it  like 
chasing  a  bug — and  be  too  busy  with  his  appetite  to 
have  any  trouble  common  to  baby  chicks. 
F.  P.  C.  Chick  Manna 
Standard  Since  1884 
Exactly  the  kind  of  food  Nature  intends 
for  baby  Chicks,  Turkeys  and  Pheasants. 
Brings  them  safely  through  the  first  10  days 
when  most  cases  of  bowel  trouble  and 
heaviest  losses  are  caused  by  common  food. 
Not  a  medicine.  Not  an  experiment.  Chick 
Manna  lias  been  the  food  of  healthy  chicks 
since  1884. 
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Manna,  or  write  direct  for  offer  of  trial 
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Green  Bone;  Growing  Rations 
How  much  green  bone  should  be  al¬ 
lowed  to  each  lien,  where  there  is  no 
other  form  of  meat  used?  What  are 
some  good  successive  rations,  including 
green  bone,  for  Leghorns,  from  baby 
chicks  to  ready-to-lay  pullets?  What  is 
a  good  fattening  mixture  containing  green 
bone?  \v.  A.  s. 
New  York. 
The  stereotyped  formula  for  green  bone 
feeding  to  laying  liens  is  one  ounce  per 
day  per  lien.  This  rule  cannot  bo 
thoughtlessly  followed,  however,  and  the 
drop  [lings  of  the  fowls  should  lie  watched 
for  evidence  of  excess.  Too  much  green 
bone  induces  diarrhoea ;  when  the  drop¬ 
pings  begin  to  indicate  the  danger  of 
this,  reduce  the  amount  of  green  bone 
fed.  Young  chicks  should  be  fed  propor¬ 
tionately  small  amounts,  with  tin-  same 
care  not  to  induce  watery  discharges. 
Hreen  botic  is  stimulating  and  needs  to  he 
fed  “with  judgment"  and  not  according 
to  any  fixed  formula.  I  would  not  advise 
mixing  it  with  the  standard  mash  formu¬ 
las  for  poling  chicks,  as  the  amounts  fed 
can  be  better  regulated  and  varied  from 
time  to  time  if  it  is  fed  separately. 
Green  bone  is  not  a  fattening  food  and 
there  is  no  need  of  adding  it  to  fatten¬ 
ing  rations,  if  it  is  desired  to  use  it, 
lnoyever,  the  same  precautions  against  in¬ 
ducing  diarrhoea  by  an  excess  should  be 
ubsi-rwil.  While  ground  oats,  ground 
buckwheat,  barley,  red  dog,  etc.,  are  used 
for  fattening  fowls,  the  standard  formula 
is  corn  meal.  Add  one  or  more  of  the 
jthers,  if  you  wish,  but  cornineal  is  tile 
>ase  of  all  fattening  mixtures,  and  usu- 
illy  the  superstructure,  as  well.  M.  b.  d. 
Lots  of  eggs  by  feeding  green  bone  fresh  cut,  because  it  Is  rich 
i"?K  '  leineiitH.  Y on  get  tw  ice  the 
meaner  tow  Is; - 
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Sprouting  Oats  in  Incubator 
I  have  a  room  about  8xS  feet  in  a 
cellar  that  is  five  feet  below  ground.  In 
this  room  there  is  a  small  window  12x 
24  inches  that  admits  direct  sunlight. 
The  cellar  on  the  whole  is  well  ventilated, 
lias  a  cement  floor  and  is  reasonably  dry. 
In  this  room  I  opt.* rate  two  incubators 
from  February  to  June.  Can  I  with 
absolute  safety  sprout  enough  oars  in 
this  room,  at  the  same  time  the  ma¬ 
chines  are  in  operation,  for  100  hens? 
I  am  somewhat  doubtful  as  to  whether 
the  air  would  be  too  moist  for  the  good 
b®  eggs.  A.  w.  L. 
New  York, 
It  is  customary  to  keep  the  floors  of 
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in  the  mouths  and 
and  other  fowls,  aud 
b  the  exact  nature  of  the 
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remedies  can  be  suggested.  Damp  and 
dirty  quarters  and  uucleaned  eating  ami 
drinking  utensils  are  responsible  for  the 
spread  of  most  such  diseases;  the  first 
thing,  therefore,  is  to  see  to  it  that  only 
healthful  conditions  surround  the  birds. 
Quarters  should  bo  dry,  reasonably  clean 
and  frequently  whitewashed.  Dishes  from 
which  the  birds  eat  ur  drink  should  be 
frequently  washed  and  scalded  with  boil¬ 
ing  water.  Litter  should  be  drv  and  free 
from  mustiness.  All  diseased  birds  should 
be  promptly  removed  from  the  flock,  and 
if  desired  to  treat  them  locally,  the  ulcers 
may  be  touched  with  a  small  cotton  swab 
dipped  into  undiluted  ercolih,  provided 
that  they  are  within  reach,  or  sulphur 
itiiiy  be  applied  to  them,  if  practicable. 
The  prevention  of  these  disorders  by 
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and  good  sanitary  conditions  for  those  in 
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Mangels  ;  Ration  for  Breeders 
1.  AA'hat  weight  of  mangels  can  be 
raised  to  the  acre  and  how  many  are 
needed  for  a  flock  of  100  hens?  Does 
a  pullet  nine  months  old  require  the  same 
laying  mash  as  a  yearling  hen?  2.  Should 
cockerels  before  mating  get  the  usual 
scratch  feed  and  no  mash  and  should  they 
and  the  breeding  hmis  receive  no  yiash  at 
all  while  in  the  breeding  pen? 
Vineland,  N.  ,T.  L.  E.  s. 
1  In  a  four-year  series  of  comparative 
tests  of  mangels  and  corn  silage,  the 
Cornell  Experiment  Station  raised  an  av¬ 
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of  course,  could  be  much  exceeded  under 
favorable  conditions  of  soil  and  cultiva¬ 
tion.  The  number  needed  for  a  flock  of 
100  bens  would  depend  largely  upon  the 
size  of  the  mangels ;  One  big  mangel  per 
day  might  to  satisfy  a  flock  of  that  .size. 
2.  Cockerels  and  pullets  should  be  fed 
as  are  laying  hens,  except  when  it  is  de¬ 
sired  to  fatten  the  former  for  market. 
Corn  may  then  be  their  chief  diet.  The 
high  protein  foods  used  by  the  hens  in 
the  production  of  eggs  will  be  utilized 
by  the  young  fowls  in  growth,  m.  n.  n. 
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Potatoes  if  fed  raw  will  take  the  place 
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