•P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
395 
Long Island Hatcheries 
Tree-Conkey’s Poultry Book 
The Henyard 
roof should ho tight-boarded and covered 
with prepared roofing if the pitch is as 
slight as indicated. A steeper roof may 
be shingled. The walls should be air¬ 
tight. upon all sides but the front, and 
that should face the south or southeast. 
The front may well be a very open one 
in your latitude, one-third or more of the 
space being covered with poultry netting. 
This opening should extend nearly' across 
the front of the building and he about 3 
ft, from the floor. One or more windows 
may also be used, if desired, and if need¬ 
ed to admit sunlight, but the open-front 
construction should be well adapted to 
your latitude. Concrete makes, iu many 
respects, the most desirable floor. 
M. D. D. 
A Dry Henhouse 
Would M. P». 1). describe the henhouse 
of which he speaks on page 214 in answer 
to Mrs. L. A. S.? Would he state size 
of building and number of fowls in it? 
M. it. I>. says he can kick up dust with 
the litter. This is surely dry. and also 
wish he would state if same is content or 
board floor. If board floor, state whether 
double-boarded, with tar paper between, 
and if open or closed under floor. This 
henhouse of M. B. P.'s must be a good 
dry building. r. i*. k. 
Monticello. X. Y. 
The house in which I can “kick up 
dust” dops not differ materially from 
many others and was not built by myself, 
having come with the place. Otherwise, 
it- would differ in some respects from its 
present form. But it is certainly dry. It 
is about 12x35 ft. in size (too narrow), 
has a gable roof, with space beneath gable 
filled with straw (a great place for mice), 
tight boarded, papered and clapboarded 
walls (unnecessarily expensive), and a 
concrete floor on dry. gravelly soil. It is 
even painted red and trimmed with white, 
hilt my predecessor made that concession 
to the appearance of the landscape. It 
originally hud one single sash window 2 
ft. square in each end, one on north side 
and four on the south, all 3 ft. from the 
floor. The walls are 7 ft. high, from 
floor to plate and straw. Practically ihe 
only change that 1 have made in it has 
been to remove the two center windows 
from the south wall and saw out the 
hoarding between, leaving an open space 
2x11 ft. in size and 3 ft. from the floor. 
This space is never closed by anything 
more nearly airtight than 2-in. mesh wire 
poultry netting. This space admits a lot 
of air, and air that is frequently far be¬ 
low zero in temperature, having gone this 
Winter close to 30 below. This ’Winter 
there has been added a sleeping shed con¬ 
nected by a runway, where most of the 
inmates, nearly 200 in number, roost. 
This to increase the capacity of the house. 
Tbis building is literally dust dry. and 
the fowls are always happy in it, singing 
like a house afire when heiug fed on zero 
days, and only a few of their large Leg¬ 
horn combs have been tiped by the frost. 
The flock of yearlings and over has passed 
but one day without an egg this Winter, 
laying all through their molt in addition. 
There have been no colds or other dis¬ 
eases among tire members of the fldek. 
M. D. D. 
QUALITY 
Rocks, Reds, Leg-horns, Minorcas, Light Brahmas, Whits 
Pekin Ducklings. 
We specialize in Marcy strain 
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From Cornell Certified Breeding Stock. 
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Blood Spots in Eggs 
What is the cause nf blood spots in 
eggs? I keep Burred Plymouth Iiocks, 
ami I think they arc in good health. They 
have been laying very well. The eggs 
have had the blood spots for some time. 
Xovv I have put the roosters with the 
hens to have the eggs for hatching. Will 
those eggs lie good for hatching? Is 
there anything to prevent the blood 
spots? I feed Cornell rations. p. c. 
Blood spots* in eggs are caused by the 
breaking of a ^mnll blood vessel in the 
egg passages and the formation of a small 
blood dot which is enclosed within the 
shell as the egg is formed. It does not 
injure the egg for anything but eating 
purposes, and not for these if one can 
overcome his repugnance to the thought 
of eating a small clot of blood with the 
egg. There is no way of preventing their 
occurrence, hut eggs containing them can 
be detected very easily by candling. 
M. B. D, 
wanteo—| .OOO Whits Leghorn Pullets 
six eight. wks. old, delivery my farm May 10th-30th. 
Smaller qmuititieB considered. Give parent stock 
vecord IjOW price gets qnirk order. 
FRANCK 108 Roseville Ave. Newark, N. J. 
Early chicks pay best. Send 
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Chicks sent parcel post, prepaid. 
Safe arrival guaranteed any¬ 
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S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks certified 
2-4-yr.-old liens, mated P* Cornell pedigreed cockerels. 
Ought to make good layei b. '\ e hare a limited quantity 
at reasonable pries. WILLIAM JANOS, Hnnrtnrtoo, I,. I..N.T. 
W. F. HILLPOT 
Box 1, Frenchtown, N. J 
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EGGS-S.C. W. Leghorn - CHICKS 
from heavy-laying vigorous vrmiii from Cornell ce»Mified 
stock. Minimum* weight of bleeders. 4 lbs. Reared on 
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Poorly Balanced Ration 
I am having trouble with my Leghorn 
pullets and hens. I am feeding a mash 
consisting of equal parts of cornmeal, 
middlings, flour middlings, ground oats. 
oOmeal and meat scraps, and a scratch 
feed composed of equal parts of cracked 
corn, wheat and oats. In addition to this 
they get all the skim-milk and buttermilk 
that they can drink, fresh water, oyster 
shells, grit, and rutabagas. I also’ give 
them pieces of moat which I hang on the 
wall, and occasionally I give them a pail¬ 
ful of warm, hofled potatoes. I have a 
chicken coop 16x32 ft. which h s four 
large windows on the east, one on the 
west and one on the south which covers 
half the <-:de. It has a cement floor, but 
I keep it covered at all times with a drv. 
cionn Liner of straw. I have about 100 
birds; 40 of these arc pullets, six are 
roosters, and the rest are old hens. I 
feed thorn two quarts of scratch feed in 
the morning, two quarts at noon, and 
four quarts at night. About half of the 
chickens are scratching in the litter all 
the time, and the other half are sitting 
on the roosts. When I feed them th" 
scratch feed they all fly off the roosts and 
go for the egg mash, although I keep that 
before them all the time. When I first 
started to feed this way I got over 40 
eggs a day and the chickens seemed to 
have Tors of life, but after a month or so 
they cur down on the eggs until I only got 
about 20 a day. It was about this time 
they began to sit on the roosts. I thought 
they might he too fat. so 1 did not give 
them sn much scratch bed and kept the 
egg mash from them part of the time. 
They seem to have more life, but their 
combs have turned almost white and 
they lay only eight eggs a day, so I have 
started to feed thpm almost as much as I 
did bcfo”C. I keep fine wood ashes be¬ 
fore them so they can have a dry dost 
bath, and I looked for lice the other day 
but could not find any. A. D. 
You arc not feeding too much, but you 
are feeding an excessive quantity of meat 
and meat equivalents. Your dry mash is 
one-sixth part meat, enough iu itself, and. 
in addition, you are giving an indefinite 
quantity of fresh meat and the equivalent 
of meat in ihe form of skim and butter¬ 
milk. Where all that the fowls will con¬ 
sume of milk is given, the meat ration 
may be small, say one-eighth, or less, of 
flip dry mash. And, if fresh meat is fed, 
the amount in the mash should be corre¬ 
spondingly reduced. Frequent changes 
iu rations and methods of feeding, too. 
are disastrous to egg production. One 
should adopt a proper plan of feedlug an i 
make only such changes as arc absolutcfv 
necessary. A small feeding of whole 
grain in the morning in the litter, dry 
mash always before the fowls, ami all the 
whole grain that they will consume at 
night is ft good method, though a little 
whole grain at noon to keep the fowls 
busy scratching in the litter is all right. 
Fed in this way. 100 Leghorns should cat 
in the neighborhood of 10 quarts per 100 
birds of whole grain each dnv. and an 
equal quantity of dry mash. When lay¬ 
ing heavily they should consume a 
larger quantity of mash. A limited quan¬ 
tity of potatoes, raw or boiled, may be 
given at noon, though boiled potatoes are 
fattening rather than an egg-producing 
food. With rutabagas for succulent veg¬ 
etable food, better keep the boiled pota¬ 
toes for the pigs. Adopt a rational plan 
of feeding and don’t change it every time 
you note a change in egg production ; the 
latter fluctuates, no matter how bens are 
fed, m. n. D. 
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Best winter an<i summer laying strain. From Mar. 
tin’s? special matings. Eggs. 100-"3. Cockerels, 
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hlte Wyandotte Cockerel*, -*S. #5. JtO. On ap¬ 
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Heat from Brooder and Hover 
I have been using the 1.000 chick size 
coni brooding stoves. I only wish to put 
about 400 chicks in one flock. What size 
coal brooding stoves would you advise 
using—the 500-cliick size or the 1000 size. 
f»r best results in '.he latitude of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C .? Will the small size keep 
fire as long as the large size? What do 
you think of the oil-burning hovers, and 
which is the cheaper for mild weather? 
Delaware. w. H. G. 
The question of size of brooder stove to 
use is governed more by the size of the 
room in which it is to be used, and the 
season in which the chicks are to be 
brooded, than by the rated capacity of 
the stove. While 1.000 chicks have been 
successfully raised in one flock under one 
large stove, the great majority of poultry- 
men will certainly have better results if 
i' ey keep the size of their flocks down to 
300 or less. This is not because of the 
lack of ability nf a stove to furnish ln-at 
for more, but because the individual chick 
has a better chance for life and thrift if 
it is not forced t» compete with too many 
fellows If I had a 1.000-chick size stove 
T should not discard it for a smaller size 
in order to brood 400 chicks, since a few 
can as well be brooded under a large stove 
as a greater number, but. if purchasing a 
new stove for use in your latitude and iu 
a well-constructed brooder house or room 
not too large to bo heated by the smaller 
sized stove, I should stive the extra cost 
of the larger stove. The small fire put 
and coal reservoir will, of course, not 
keep the fire as long without attention as 
those of larger stoves, but the difference 
in ' i aspect no very material, cer¬ 
tainly in moderate weather. I have nev¬ 
er used the oil-burning stoves and cannot 
compare them with the others, hut see no 
reason why they should not operate suc¬ 
cessfully if one prefers to burn oil. 
M. B. D. 
ulf Orplnxt on lltn. and Pullet-, jll and 84. 
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thickens Sick 9 
Hens Nor Laying | 
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Henhouse Plan 
Would you give flip plan and dimen¬ 
sions of a henhouse large enough to ac¬ 
commodate 100 hens? n, s. s. 
Strasburg, Va. 
Fowls should have from 3 to 4 sq. ft. 
of floor space each in a poultry house, and 
a deep buildiug is to be preferred to a 
narrow one. for a number of reasons. A 
buildings 1^x20 ft. or 20x20 ft, would be 
amply large for 100 fowls, and one 10x20 
ft. Would do very well. If is most eco¬ 
nomically built in the familiar shed-roof 
style, with front S ft. to 0 ft in height, 
and rear IL. to 5 ft A single thickness 
of board walls is .sufficient if made air¬ 
tight. either by using matched stuff, cov- 
ering with paper, or by tight battening, 
though, of course, as expensive a method 
cf i'illd'ntr may he adopted as the own- 
o"' ■ 'n-t» :*t>'I pocketbook suggest. The 
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S. C. Black Minorca Baby Chicks 
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