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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 7, 1922 
The Henyard 
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mash better than wet mash? j. e. b. 
Ossining, N. Y. 
A good laying mash, to be fed either 
dry or moistened, may be made according 
to the Cornell formula, viz., equal parts 
by weight of cornmeal. wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, ground oats, and beef scrap; 
3 lbs. of salt, may be added to each 500 
lbs. of this mash. The majority of poul¬ 
try men feed the mash in dry form, keeping 
it always before their fowls in hoppers 
or protected troughs. Kgg production can 
undoubtedly be temporarily stimulated by 
the use of a moist mash, but it is a ques¬ 
tion whether the full year's results will 
be materially changed by the use of a wet 
mash, and the labor involved is certainly 
much greater. m. b. d. 
Practical Poultry Ration 
My mash mixture for pullets is; 100 
lbs. bran. 100 lbs. middlings, 100 lbs. 
cornmeal, 100 lbs, ground oats, 100 lbs. 
beef scrap. The grain mixture is equal 
parts cracked corn and wheat and beet 
pulp, s, L. F, 
Pennsylvania. 
If you will add 100 lbs. of gluten feed 
to your inash ration it. will bo similar to a 
mixture used by one of the Eastern ex¬ 
periment stations in their egg-laying con¬ 
test. Your scratch feed would be im¬ 
proved in case you replaced the beet pulp 
with whole oats. It is necessary to use 
as much beef scrap or tankage as you 
have indicated iu order to provide a suffi¬ 
cient amount of animal protein to meet 
the requirements of growing birds. 
My hens shake their heads the same 
as a rooster will if bis comb lias been 
frosted. They started to do this last 
Summer, and 1 thought maybe il was 
because they were lousy, but sprayed 
houses out. and still they acted the same. 
They do not sneeze any. and look healthy, 
except Occasionally one gets dumpy and 
dies. I have never had any trouble be¬ 
fore. and would appreciate it if you can 
let me know cause and remedy. b. o. 
Massachusetts. 
Hens stillering from colds frequently 
shake their heads, as if to free their air 
passages from some obstruction, but I 
have never observed the habit iu other 
fowls, unless they were suffering from 
some soreness of the comb or other evi¬ 
dent irritation. Spraying the poultry 
house will not free the fowls from lice, 
and if may be that your bens are ex¬ 
cessively lousy. Get some blue ointment 
at the drug store, and smear at bit about 
the size of a large kernel of corn oyer G le 
skin beneath the vent, or if you wish to 
use a powder, get some sodium fluoride 
and work a few good pinches of this 
down through the feathers to the skin. 
These are the two effective remedies for 
body lice upon fowls. M. r. d. 
Quantity of Sprouted Oats 
How much dry oats should I use to 
sprout a day’s feeding for 100 he us? 
Chester, Pa. W. 0. N. 
You may feed all tne oats tint’ you care 
to have the hens consume for the day iu 
sprouted form, if you wish, or you may 
feed both dry and sprouted ants daily: 
there is no fixejl rule in this matter. 
Where oats are sprouted on trays in lay¬ 
ers of about 1 in. in thickness, n square 
inch of the mass is usually considered 
sufficient for each day’s feeding, per hen. 
This amount would require a tray 10 iu. 
square and holding outs to the depth of 
at least 1 in. for each day’s feeding of 100 
hens. m.r. d. 
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Required Grain Ration 
Will you suggest proper correction of 
my laying ration? The flock consists of 
30 per cent liens and TO per cent pullets— 
White Leghorns. They have all the skim- 
milk they can consume, inasb of 10 lbs. 
bran, 10 lbs. middlings, 10 lbs. ground 
oats, 10 lbs. ground corn, and 4 lbs. beef 
scrap: scratch. Cracked corn: grain, corn, 
oats, and wheal : shell, grit and ground 
hone: beets, turnips, and sprouted oats. 
Outs and corn arc available on the farm. 
I have difficulty in determining amount 
of grain to feed. L. w. c. 
Silver Lake. Ind. 
Your ration needs no correction, being 
well adapted to the needs of the fowls 
The amount of beef scrap is small, of 
course, but with all the skim-milk that the 
fowls will consume, is probably sufficient. 
Ordinarily, one-fifth part by weight of 
meat scrap in the mash Is not too much. 
Fowls should consume about equal parts 
hv weight of mash and whole grain. If 
the mash is kept dry before them, as it 
usually is. a limited feeding of whole 
grain in the morning will encourage con¬ 
sumption of it. and a full feeding of the 
whole grains at night will send the fowls 
to roost with full crops. Leghorns will 
cat from N to 10 qts, of whole grain per 
100 fowls daily, in addition to dry mash, 
more if it is given to them, but’ at the 
expense of the mash, No definite rules as 
to quantity can be given : they should 
have all that they will eat, and when lay¬ 
ing should consume a little more than half 
their day’s ration in the form of ground 
mash. if. u. n. 
Ailing Hens 
I have a flock of 170 pullets and year- 
old Leghorn hens, which are laying well. 
I had as many as 04 eggs in one day. 
Ilut every once in a while I lind one of 
the birds with either an eve dosed or a 
scab on the comb or bead, We wash it 
with boric acid and give roup tablets, but 
with slow results, Yesterdnv we found 
u line hen, apparently healthy, a nice red 
comb, making an unusual noise and gap¬ 
ing for air; her bright red comb turned 
blue, and she died later. Another had 
the same symptoms. A neighbor told us 
to put a horsehair in her throat with a 
little turpentine, and she got better. 
New York. o. B. 
There was evidently sonic obstruction 
to breathing in the case of this hen. which 
you were able to remove by passing the 
horsehair down past the windpipe, and 
this leads me to think that it may have 
been a fungus growth which sometimes 
attacks healthy fowls and obstructs tile 
air passages by forming a circular brown¬ 
ish growth just at the entrance of the 
windpipe, where it cun bo seen when the 
mouth is held open. This growth can be 
removed by scraping it gently with a 
toothpick or sliver of wood and the fowl 
relieved. M. b. d. 
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I am thinking: of building a henhouse 
with concrete floor. I have heard that if 
felt paper is put down on tin* concrete, 
then more concrete put on top it will 
prevent dampness. Does a concrete floor 
get damp? Would concrete make a good 
floor for granary, or would it be too 
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Eggs 
Is scnii-so]id buttermilk good for baby 
chicks? Would you have ir before them 
all the time? I have 22 cockerels; just 
bought them. I notice some of their 
combs arc getting black on the tips. 
What would you think is the trouble? 
They seem active and eat well. How 
long can you keep eggs for hatching, and 
what would you dean dirty eggs with if 
you were going to batch them? Would 
you turn them, and how often? 
Pennsylvania. j. w. h, 
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I doubt if there is anything wrong with 
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The shorter time that eggs are kept be¬ 
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