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uncertainly  out  of  poultry-raising. 
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Takes  Th©  Guesswork  Out  Of  Hatching 
100  percent  lialrhoa  common.  Honc.'r»'di  of  defi«S  ntr  e*-lla 
protee t  cfrffS  UKuiMfil  rmilticn  chHr,u"rM.  Incubator  uU'tu  $7.87i~ 
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Jjearu  t.o  brood  without  in**,  malcing'  THREE  I'UU- 
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>:>5  Detroit  Incubator— a  wizard  _ 
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P  HOMER  L.  SMITH,  Pres. 
Ill  Detroit  Incubator  Co.,  436CampbcllAve. Detroit, Midi, 
il  olocf  Rnnlf  Pcotllablo  Poultry.  Finest 
LdlCSI  IIUUIV  pubtUhed;  HI  i>age»  2lo.pletui.-a 
and  IhiRUtlfiU  color  pJaU*H,  Tells  how  tOsaccoed  with 
poultry.  dcft«Til>e«  busy  Poultry  Farm  with  68  pure- 
brc»t  varktiei  priccn  un  fowls,  tgga,  Incu- 
hiitorn,  ttproutcf  g,  oic.  'ih It*  great  bo"k  only  «  cents. 
Berry’s  Poul*rv  Farm,  Box  47,  Clarinda.  Iowa 
February  12,  101(5. 
first  ben  to  recover  when  attacked  as  this 
one  was. 
Last  Fall  I  wrote  you  about  my  use  of 
a  dip  with  linseed  oil  spread  on  the 
roosts  for  hen  lice.  That,  I  believe,  was 
September.  I  have  not  found  a  louse 
in  tlic  henhouse  since. 
I  sift  coal  ashes  under  the  roosts  about 
every  day:  sometime  during  March  in¬ 
tend  to  spread  the  manure  on  my  garden. 
The  soil  was  filled  in  for  grading  pur¬ 
poses,  and  some  of  it  packs  in  lumps 
about  the  consistency  of  skim-milk  cheese 
and  is  rather  poor  stuff  for  roots  to  grow 
in.  1  think  that  eoal  ashes  well  sat¬ 
urated  with  hell  manure  will  help  pul¬ 
verize  it  and  furnish  food  for  garden 
"snss,”  Am  I  right  or  wrong? 
New  York.  M.  ii.  d. 
In  regard  to  the  application  of  coal 
ashes  and  lieu  manure  to  help  pulverize 
ihc  soil  in  your  poultry  yards  would  say 
that  this  will  undoubtedly  add  to  the 
fertilizing  of  the  soil  and  will  eventually 
have  a  beneficial  effect  on  its  physical 
(j.ualities.  However,  this  should  be  ac¬ 
complished  by  constant  and  thorough 
tillage  of  the  soil.  w.  c.  T. 
THE  HENYARD 
Construction  of  Henhouse 
I  have  40  boards  4V"  feet  long  and  five 
inches  wide,  40  boards  feet  long  and 
five  inches  wide,  atid  Sx2x4  strips  seven 
feet  long.  I  wish  to  build  n  chicken 
coop.  Flense  advise  how  to  start  it,  and 
would  this  make  a  fair-sized  coop  for 
about  25  hens?  I  am  no  carpenter  and 
would  like  to  have  you  show  a  small 
sketch.  B.  F. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
A  poultry  house  10  feet  square.  614 
feet  high  in  front,  4*4  feet  high  in  the 
rear,  with  single  slope  shed  roof,  would 
house  25  fowls,  but  would  require  a  lit¬ 
tle  rnoec  lumber  than  you  have.  To 
build  such  a  house,  construct  a  wall  of 
stone  or  concrete  10  feet  square  and  a 
few  inches  high.  On  this  wall  lay  2x4- 
inch  scantlings  for  the  sills  and  spike 
them  together  at  the  ends.  Use  2x4’s 
"ip’  Duck  With  Pneumonia 
A  young  duck  kept  on  laying  until  she 
had  laid  00  eggs,  then  wanted  to  sit. 
again  mid  laid  S5  more,  then  again 
again  and  laid  85  more,  then  against 
wanted  to  sit.  I  broke  her  up  again, 
again  in  10  days  she  began  to  lay  and 
has  kept  it  tip.  hardly  missed  a  day.  This 
morning  she  laid  her  325th  egg.  She 
has  always  been  vigorous  until  about  a 
and  week  ago,  when  she  took  her  bath.  She 
-ally  seemed  to  take  cold,  for  it  was  a  cold 
you  day.  After  getting  out  of  the  water  she 
pur-  sconied  to  shiver.  Her  feathers  froze.  I 
By  wrapped  her  in  a  flannel  to  dry  her,  but 
>  t“e  she  developed  a  severe  cold  in  her  lungs, 
.xl  s  ]  Jo  not  know  what  to  do  for  her  to  help 
feet  her.  I  try  to  keep  her  from  getting  more 
pur-  cold,  give  her  warm  olive  oil.  Will  you 
1  to  advise  me  what  to  do  for  her? 
reaj-.  New  Jersey.  8.  I\  b. 
Bity  The  duck  has  undoubtedly  been  chilled 
rear  nn^  suffering  from  a  disease  known  as 
•ope,  pneumonia.  The  only  thing  that  can 
ling,  he  done  is  to  keep  her  in  a  dry,  warm 
anj  place  by  herself,  giving  easily  digested 
'tch,  food,  and  keep  her  under  the  most  fav- 
be  orable  environmental  conditions  possible, 
ther  H*r  egg  record  is  a  very  interesting  one. 
uad  is  well  drained  so  Early-hatched  Chicks 
Iways  dry  and  if  you  Looking  over  your  March  21  issue, 
to  renew  the  surface  -j < ) i  tt  j  gnW  in  Geo,  A.  Cosgrove's  re- 
m.  b.  u.  port  of  the  egg-laying  contest  that  Mr. 
Barron  had  1,000  chicks  hatched  out  Feb- 
-Un.nm  riuiiy  first.  Can  Mr.  Cosgrove  tell  us 
p  ids  object  in  batching  them  so  early? 
e  me  what  to  do  for  Can  he  toll  us  how  he  brooded  his  chicks? 
hs  old.  that  have  sore  Does  he  hatch  them  with  small  or  mam¬ 
'll  form  scabs  on  lower  moth  incubators?  IIow  many  breeds 
build  also  he  glad  to  does  he  keep,  what  kinds  and  which  does 
f  this  trouble.  I  have  he  keep  the  most  of?  Can  he  tell  us 
have  been  doing  well  about  bow  many  are  raised  each  year? 
ng  between  four  and  1  saw  in  Mr.  Cosgrove's  report  of  egg- 
day.  B.  H.  laving  contest  that  Lady  Eglantine  held 
the  world's  record.  Can  you  tell  us  how 
.  ...  „  ,  c  ,  -  near  Mr.  Bar.ron  come  to  that  record? 
h  this  flock  of  birds  is  j  HJIW  iu  TlIE  r  N.-Y.  that  Mr.  Barron 
ve.n-pox,  a  contagious  ]jeepB  7,000  lions.  Can  you  tell  us  how 
I  would  suggest  the  mi-  Innnv  0f  these  iie  trap-nests? 
.f  all  affected  birds  as  Michigan.  c.  l.  d. 
Immerse  the  heads  of 
in  antiseptic  dip  twice  Mr.  Barron’s  object  in  hatching  so 
ii  of  calcium  sulphide  many  chicks  in  February  is  to  have  a 
mash  to  each  affected  lot  of  well-developed  cockerels  for  sale 
blood  tonic  and  often  in  the  early  Fall.  Most  of  the  pullets 
the  disease.  w.  c.  t.  hatched  at  this  time  will  lay  out  their 
-  first  “clutch”  of  eggs,  then  molt  and  not 
.  lay  again  until  Spring.  But  the  Spring 
eloped  Chickens,  egg s  from  these  pullets  are  line  for  hatch- 
tter  with  our  chickens?  I1.1*:  they  are  larger  than  the  first  eggs, 
m  then,  is  no  meat  on  {ht‘  b,rd»  »«*  'J11,  of  v,^v  trnm  \h'\  ]™g 
east :  the  white  moat  rest,  and  the ;  chicks  are  strong (  and  viable, 
i  Ti,,.,-  *,v.  i n  tr,u-tA  * r-  Barron  had  no  miimniotli  incubator 
L  q,uf  „  up  HI  l»»t  full;  whether  he  hue  put  one 
Wifi  it  puv  tg  Lep  •«.*£'*  1  <>»  »’.t 
mor?  They  are  not  in-  h'nk  11  HU'Se*®  Vn  "'h''1'  i"™' 
s  tender;  they  are  fed  J**0  *’  f  'n,n  J00  to  360-egg  machines, 
it  whole  grain,  and  a  aiU‘  broods  >"  small  lots  m  colony  houses, 
wheat  bran,  middlings  asrm  T 
T  „  The  breeds  he  keeps  are  \vhite  Leg¬ 
horns.  White  Wyandottes.  Buff  Rocks 
and  Buff  Orpingtons.  lie  keeps  more 
use  of  birds  failing  to  Leghorns  and  Wyandottes  than  of  the 
other  breeds. 
I  never  heard  him  say  what  proportion 
of  the  chicks  hatched  he  expects  to  raise, 
but  I  guess  that  he  does  not  fall  very 
much  short  of  75%.  The  best  record  of 
a  Barron  Leghorn  that  I  have  heard  of 
is  284  eggs  in  a  year,  which  is  30  eggs 
less  than  Lady  Eglantine;  but  it  must 
be  remembered  that  Lady  Eglantine  is 
herself  half  Barron  stock.  .She  is  out  of 
a  male  imported  bird. 
To  the  last  question  my  reply  is  that 
Mr.  Barron  trap-nests  only  a  few  hun¬ 
dred  of  the  most,  promising  birds;  it 
would  cost  too  much  to  trap-nest  7,000. 
He  also  trap-nests  the  pullets  from  spe¬ 
cial  matings  to  determine  the  results  of 
different  matings.  geo.  a.  cosguove. 
Indigestion  ;  Hen  Manure  and  Coal  Ashes 
Recently  I  noticed  one  ben  appeared 
dumpish,  feathers  untidy,  seemed  to  stand 
out.  scraggly  all  over.  .She  did  not  eat,  “The  truest  philosopher,”  says  Jerome 
would  hold  her  wings  away  from  her  IC  Jerome,  “I  ever  heard  of  was  a  worn- 
body,  seemed  to  be  straining  as  though  an.  She  was  brought  into  a  London  hos- 
to  discharge,  seemed  weak  in  her  legs,  pital,  suffering  from  a  poisoned  leg.  The 
wabbly,  bad  bard  work  getting  on  the  house  surgeon  made  a  hurried  examina- 
roost.  This  morning  would  not  eat.,  was  tion.  He  was  a  man  of  blunt  speech, 
weak,  could  not  walk  without  falling  'It  will  have  to  come  off,’  he  told  her. 
down.  Diagnosis,  indigestion.  Treat*  ‘What,  not  all  of  it?’  ‘The  whole  of  it, 
nient,  four  ounces  warm  soapsuds  in  a  I  am  sorry  to  say,’  growled  the  house 
vaseline  bottle,  two  teaspooufuls  olive  surgeon.  ‘Nothing  else  for  it?’  ‘No 
oil  mixed,  used  ns  an  injection  with  a  other  chance  for  you  whatever.’  explained 
half  ounce  glass  syringe,  two  syringefuls  the  house  surgeon.  ‘Ah.  well,  thank  hoav- 
in  about  three  hours.  She  ate  Cornell  ens.  it's  not  my  ’ead,’  observed  the  lady.’  ” 
mash  and  was  on  her  feet.  This  is  the  — Weekly  Telegraph. 
