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1.  Will  you  tell  mo  how  many  chickens 
I  can  house  fox*  the  Winter  in  300  square 
feet?  2.  I  received  181  eggs  from  De¬ 
cember  6  to  December  31  from  40  hens. 
Do  you  think  my  chickens  did  well  for 
December?  m.  E.  H. 
New  York. 
1.  Hens  confined  to  a  house  should  have 
at  least  three  square  feet  of  floor  space 
each,  though  they  may,  of  course,  be 
crowded  into  smaller  quarters.  2.  That 
depends  much  upon  the  age  of  the  hens; 
pullets  should  give  better  than  an  18  per 
cent,  egg  yield  in  December,  but  older 
hens  might  well  do  much  less.  M.  B.  D. 
For  there  is  where  the  profit 
is.  Wise  poultry  raisers  are 
making  sure  of  their  profits  by 
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This  wonderful  feed  makes 
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try  men  for  over  12  years  with 
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Write  us  if  he  can’t  supply  you. 
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Possible  Chicken-Pox 
My  lieus  have  sore  eyes,  swells  quite 
large,  inflammation  sets  in,  then  runs, 
and  eye  closes.  Scabs  form  over  the  sores. 
The  trouble  seems  to  spread.  What  can 
be  done?  j.  A.  B. 
Massachusetts. 
Running  at  the  eyes  and  subsequent 
formation  of  crusts  or  scabs  upon  the 
eyelids  and  about  the  face  indicates  the 
presence  of  ehiekefc-poX.  This  is  a  mild, 
contagions  disease  that  is  usually  easily 
controlled,  though  it  may  spread  rapidly 
through  the  flock  if  affected  bii’ds  are  not 
removed.  Among  the  many  remedies, 
painting  the  sores  with  tincture  of  iodine 
is  recommended  by  some  of  considerable 
experience  with  this  trouble.  Affected 
birds  should  be  promptly  removed  from 
the  flock  to  prevent  spread  of  the  con- 
tagioD.  and  all  utensils  should  be  cleaned 
and  disinfected  by  the  use  of  boiling 
water.  The  disease  is  not  serious  enough 
to  justify  killing  affected  fowls ;  with  rea¬ 
sonable  care,  they  should  recovei*. 
M.  B.  D. 
Contains  pure  Michigan  grains; 
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fat  and  carbohydrates  -the  elements 
that  make  strong  healthy  h eng; keeps 
your  poultry  in  fine  condition. 
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We  have  carefully  written  a  book  for 
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Pullets  for  Fall  Laying 
At  what  time  should  White  Wyandotte 
baby  chicles  be  purchased  in  order  to  have 
them  come  into  laying  by  November  1? 
If  purchased  too  early  would  they  be  lia¬ 
ble  to  molt  in  the  Fall?  II.  G. 
New  York. 
April-hatched  chicks  would  be  best, 
though  those  hatched  in  May  frequently 
do  about  as  well.  The  method  of  rearing 
has  much  to  do  with  the  time  at  which 
they  commence  laying  and,  perhaps,  still 
more  to  do  with  the  danger  of  molting 
after  a  period  of  Fall  laying.  If  chicks 
are  heavily  meat-fed,  and  are,  consequent¬ 
ly,  ’‘ripened”  early,  they  are  apt  to  lay 
early  and  molt.  On  the  other  hand,  if 
they  do  m>l  have  enough  animal  protein 
in  their  rations,  they  are  apt  to  develop 
too  slowly  to  lay  at  all  in  the  Fall.  There 
are  no  hard  and  fast  rules  for  feeding. 
One  with  experience  can  tell,  in  the  Fall, 
whether  pullets  are  ripening  too  fast  and 
whether  it  would  be  best  to  check  them  a 
little  by  less  food,  particularly  meat  food, 
and  more  range.  There  is  comparatively 
little  danger,  however,  with  April  and  May 
batched  chicks  and  these  are  undoubtedly 
the  best  two  months  for  hatching  in  the 
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In  the  Summer  of  1014  I  purchased  a 
setting  of  eggs  from  which  were  hatched 
11  chicks,  all  of  which  were  raised  to  ma¬ 
turity.  Four  pullets  aud  one  cockerel 
were  mated  last  season,  and  from  this 
mating  about  40  pullets  were  raised. 
From  the  40  pullets  I  contemplate  using 
about.  25  as  breeders.  Will  it  be  inbreed¬ 
ing  too  closely  to  mate  one  of  the  young 
cockerels  and  the  cock  with  the  pullets, 
or  will  it  be  better  to  purchase  a  cockerel 
from  the  same  breeder  ?  L.  F.  E. 
New  York. 
It  will  be  inbreeding  to  use  either  a 
male  from  your  own  flock  or  one  of  the 
same  strain  purchased  from  the  original 
breeders.  You  need  not  fear  to  do  either, 
however,  provided  that  you  select  strong, 
vigorous,  well  developed  fowls  of  hot  lx 
sexes  to  fill  your  breeding  pen.  Inbreed¬ 
ing  is  not  in  itself  detrimental  ;  a  strain 
covtld  not  be  built  up  without  it;  in- 
breeding  without  care  in  the  selection  of 
suitable  individuals  for  breeders  would, 
however,  l’esult  in  deterioration  of  the 
flock.  if.  b.  D. 
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Blind  Pouches  and  Bacterial  Infection 
T  noticed  recently  in  answer  to  a  query 
from  Virginia  as  to  the  cause  of  swollen 
blind  pouches  in  chicks  weighing  a.  pound 
or  so,  Dr.  Dean,  who  is  usually  most 
careful,  hits  passed  the  query  over,  not 
recognizing  or  overlooking  the  fact  that 
this  condition  is  always  present  in  bac¬ 
terial  infection  as  I  have  told  in  The  R. 
N.-Y.  several  times  during  the  past  10 
years.  You  may  remember  several  years 
ago  Mapes,  the  hen  man,  had  similar 
trouble,  and  as  I  had  just  studied  an 
epidemic  of  it  I  gave  symptoms  and  treat¬ 
ment.  if  infected  chicks  are  on  range, 
the  ground  is  infected  and  they  should 
be  confined  to  fresh  pasture.  Give  car¬ 
bolic  acid  in  the  drinking  water  and 
glaubcr  salts  (tablcspoouful  to  eight 
quarts  of  water  in  the  morning)  water 
for  three  days,  and  then  repeat  in  a 
week.  When  glaubcr  stilts  is  not  present 
add  sulphate  of  iron  to  earbolizcd  water. 
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