The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
785 
The Henyard 
Live Chicks by Mail 
One of our renders in Maine Rends us 
the following clipping from the Wftter- 
villo (Me.) Sentinel: 
Eighty incubator day-old chicks, or 
they were when they started, arrived at 
Bar Harbor about a week ago by parcel 
post, very hungry and much disgusted 
with the world in general, having come 
all the way from a farm in Iowa. The 
label read "Salisbury, Me,," but as there 
is im such office, the postal clerks thought 
perhaps it meant Salisbury Cove, and 
the chicks brought up at Bar Harbor. 
No one at Salisbury Cove had ordered 
any live chirks from out West, for they 
have chicks to sell down there. The lit¬ 
tle wanderers were taken out of the 
boxes and made happy and contented in 
the basement of the pontoffice until the 
postmaster could find our from the ship- 
pern where they were going. Word finally 
came that they were started for Salis¬ 
bury, Maryland, and a mistake made in 
the marking, The chicks protested bit¬ 
terly when put hack iu the boxes to he 
started for the South. The good feed 
they had here made their traveling com¬ 
partments seem smaller. 
It seems a shame that such shipping 
mistakes should be made. It is bad 
enough when imperishable freight goes 
wrong, but when tender little chicks are 
sent about at random in this way there 
is sure to be more or less suffering. We 
have usually found the mail clerks good- 
natured and willing to help, but no one 
cau possibly he too careful about writing 
or printing shipping directions. 
Geese or Turkeys 
Please send to my address copy of vour 
paper referred to in the following article; 
also blank for subscription. 
Oklahoma. o. n. tjcdriok. 
‘‘Toulouse Geese.—I find in The 
Rukai. Nkw-Yokkkk a definite and un¬ 
qualified statement that after a long trial 
in breeding and careful comparison, tbe 
Toulouse geese are found to be superior 
to turkeys as poultry. The meat is said 
to be superior to the meat of the turkey 
and the birds are said to be much easier 
to raise. And the geese are said to be 
easier keepers. Well, we haven't bad 
any experience with that kind of a goose 
to enable us to speak with authority; but 
wo have not the slightest doubt that, 
such an absolute statement made on the 
editorial page of a paper as conservative, 
and at the same time as forward in all 
matters of progressive ngrienlure, as The 
Rubai. New xOrkek is, should receive 
the closest attention of all poultryitlen. 
We will never stop raising the great 
American turkey. 
The note in question contained less 
than three lines, printed in the smallest 
typo we have. It was merely intended 
as a bit of personal opinion, and there 
was no thought of trying to influence the 
public. On our own farm it is entirely 
true that the geese have proved more 
satisfactory than turkeys. We tried 
three varieties of turkeys, and gave them 
every attention, but never succeeded in 
developing a large flock. Our climate is 
damp and not well suited to turkey rais¬ 
ing. The farms are small and narrow. 
There are many gardens and truck fields, 
and the wandering turkeys do much dam¬ 
age and cause great trouble with the 
neighbors. We had difficulty in raising 
the young birds. The turkeys do not do 
well in confinement, and, taking it alto¬ 
gether. we concluded that our own local¬ 
ity was not well adapted to turkey rais¬ 
ing. This does not prove that others on 
larger farms and drier locality, and dif¬ 
ferently situated, might not meet with 
good su cess, but in our own experience 
the turkey was not a profitable fowl. 
On the other hand, our Toulouse geese 
have proved about the most profitable 
poultry we have ever tried to raise. We 
have an old orchard of high-headed trees, 
through one end of which runs a little 
brook. We put a woven wire fence about 
4y> ft. high around this orchard, dammed 
the brook so as to form a little pond, and 
turned the geese in. They have had lit¬ 
tle shelter Winter or Summer. They 
pick up fiO per cent of their living from 
fallen apples, grass and weeds. It does 
not seem to be generally known that the 
goose will graze much like sheep or 
calves. They are quiet and mind their 
own business. Our geese usually lay 20 
to 25 eggs each, and when they are prop¬ 
erly mated tin- eggs hatch well. They 
can be hatched under hens or in the in¬ 
cubator, as well as under the goose, al¬ 
though the latter makes by far the best 
brooder to care for the little goslings. 
Our geese require practically no care be¬ 
yond supplying them with grass and a 
small pond, and throwing grain to them 
occasionally. Tnc.v will pick up the ref¬ 
use from gardens, cat green cornstalks 
closer than our cow will, and they are 
well able to take care of themselves. We 
think tIn- meat, of the goose is better 
even than that of the turkey, and our 
geese make rapid growth and give us a 
full supply of meat. As between tbe two, 
therefore, our experience certainly shows 
that the goose suits us better than the 
turkey. 
As stated before, we cannot say that 
this will be true of all farms or of all 
localities, and it is understood that when 
we say what we do about this, we are 
merely giving our own experience and 
nothing more. 
Corn Smut for Sick Hens 
Mr. F. C. Curtis of Maine suggests the 
use of Ustilnf/o Maydix. or corn smut in 
flocks where disorders of tlm egg-produc¬ 
ing organs appear. He (plotes Hr. R. T. 
Woods, an old and well-known writer 
upon poultry topics, an recommending this 
drug where Soft-shelled eggs were being 
produced and bens were displaying such 
troubles as inflamed oviducts and the re¬ 
tention of eggs, or the laying of bloody 
eggs. In tin 1 bands Of Mr. t urtis it has 
seemed to bo very effectual in allaying 
these disorders of the oviduct, and bis 
practice lias been to keep a supply of tab¬ 
lets of the drug on band and to give a 
tablet at any time to a hen showing indi¬ 
cations of trouble in laying. If soft- 
shelled eggs were being produced by the 
flock, and the individual lien or hens at 
fault were not known, he would dissolve 
a tablet per hen in the drinking water 
of the flock. Fstilugo Maydis tablets in 
the 2X. or second, trituration may he ob¬ 
tained of homeopathic physicians or phar¬ 
macists. and are easily administered, be¬ 
ing given, I presume, each day until no 
longer needed. 
I shall have lo confess to a little skep¬ 
ticism in the matter myself, but T am glad 
to give poultrymen the benefit of the 
opinion of others. Tn eases where nature 
is usually able, unaided, to bring about 
a cure of physical troubles, it is very dif¬ 
ficult to tell whether remedies adminis¬ 
tered have lmd any rmil influence over 
the disease. In fact, it is- impossible to 
tell if there is no other method of reaching 
a conclusion than to judge by apparent 
results. No amount of "experience" can 
be conclusive, so long as the results of 
experience are not uniform, and it is a sad 
fact in medicine that drugs that have 
enjoyed absolute and universal confidence 
for many years are constantly being 
dropped from the physician’s armamen¬ 
tarium as their uselessm-ss finally becomes 
demonstrated by scientific methods of re¬ 
search. However, there are many who do 
not feel that they are doing their full duty 
by their flocks Unless (bey "treat" them 
for any symptoms of illness shown, and 
it is n fortunate animal that, if it must be 
dosed by laymen, gets homeopathic treat¬ 
ment rather than some of tbe horrible 
doses that are frequently forced down a 
helpless beast’s throat. M. B. D. 
Questions About Chick Feeding 
1. Ts anything material gained by feed¬ 
ing chicks milk or buttermilk in liquid 
form, instead of feeding a dry mash con¬ 
taining buttermilk or milk? 2. If chicks 
have plenty of grass range, is it necessary 
to feed green food? Is there less dan¬ 
ger to the health of chirks if mash is 
withheld for two or three weeks and 
scratch grains fed only? ,t. a. p. 
Walden, N. Y. 
So far as T know, the dried milk prepa¬ 
rations have given as good results in chick 
feeding ns does liquid milk. It is difficult 
to find any definite data with regard to 
this. Some experiments at the Indiana 
Experiment Station indicated llnlt dried 
buttermilk gave slightly superior results 
in fet'd!tig laving pullets to buttermilk in 
liquid form, 5.75 lbs. of the dry milk b- iug 
considered equivalent in protein content 
to 50 lbs. of the buttermilk in liquid form. 
Milk in some form is pretty nearly indis¬ 
pensable for young chirks, but the form 
in which it is given does not seem to be 
very material 
2. Yes. ordinarily. If the ranee is upon 
grass sufficiently young and tender to en¬ 
able the chicks to eat plenty of it. it may 
not lie necessary, but grass does not stay 
in that condition long Try your chicks 
with some tender greens, and see if they 
have any appetite for them. 
My own opinion is that feeding only 
upon hard, cracked grains, with milk and 
green stuff, for at least two weeks is a 
safeguard against, digestive trouble in 
young chicks. This, of course, (lot's not 
promote as rapid growth as does soft food, 
and it is not. tin* general practice. Some 
use wheat bran in addition to bard grains 
for two weeks, and then change from bran 
to one of the regular chick mashes. 
Changes with young chicks, as with lay¬ 
ing hens, should be made gradually. There 
is little doubt that filling np on soft foods 
renders the little ebiek more susceptible 
to digestive disorders than does a more 
rigorous diet, even if he grows faster 
while he maintains bis health. M. B. D. 
Dysentery 
Can you tell me the cause of six-weeks- 
old chicks passing blood in droppings? I 
have put Epsom salts in drinking water, 
as one of our poult,rymen sai l that was 
all he could tell to do. The chicks have 
done very well till four days ago, when 
this trouble started. I have done every¬ 
thing possible for them, but they die fast. 
We are always particular about keeping 
everything clean : have coal brooders. 
Tbe chicks have had mash, nice sour milk 
from our own cow. and commercial chick 
feed. Drinking dishes are glass jars, and 
are washed and scalded. M. it. it. 
Castile, N. Y. 
Dropping are frequently bloody in the 
coccidial form of diarrhoea and it may be 
that your young chicks have become in¬ 
fected through eggs laid by liens carrying 
the eoceidia. or internal parasites so com¬ 
mon in fowls, or by contact with these 
minute organisms carried by imported 
chicks or fowls. Fowl cholera may also 
be transmitted through the egg and. Inter, 
produce its symptoms in the chicks. From 
the fact that you have been particular 
about oleanlim ss and disinfection of your 
own premises, one would be led to sus¬ 
pect importation of one or the other 
types of these germs in hatching eggs or 
stock. The eoocidial form of diarrhea 
being more common than that from chol¬ 
era, suspicion is directed to it. AH pre¬ 
cautions against the spread of the con¬ 
tagion should be taken, atnl what, is said 
to be Very effective treatment of OoCcidial 
diarrhoea may be administered. This is 
the addition of one-third teaspoonful of 
powdered catechu to each gallon of drink¬ 
ing water. M. B. D. 
Size of Brooder-house 
Would you tell me the proportions for 
a brooder house for 1,000 chicks, with a 
coal stove brooder? MBS. L. s. 
Freeville, N. Y. 
If the brooder house is to be a mova¬ 
ble one, Nxl2 ft. is about as large as 
should be built. If. however, a station¬ 
ary house is desired, there is uo limit to 
the size that may be used, though in cold 
weather it might be necessary to enclose 
the stove in a space small enough to be 
properly warmed by it. A room 10x12, 
12x14, or 12x1(1 gives none too much 
space for a large Hock of chicks, and I 
should not care to keep 1,000 chicks in a 
small, portable brooder house for any 
length of time; in fact, it is a question 
whether it is ever advisable to brood that 
number of chicks together. Owing to dif¬ 
ferences in size, strength and vigor, it is 
better to divide a large flock, keeping 
about <">00 together, ami I should much 
prefer to have 1,000 chicks iu three 
small, portable brooder houses, each 
Warmed by one of the smaller sized 
stoves, to having them in one flock and 
by one large stove. The limit to profita¬ 
ble size in flocks of young chicks is not 
set by the capacity of a stove to keep 
them warm, but by the inability of the 
less vigorous chicks to hold their own iu 
competition with their stronger fellows. 
Flocks of 1,<KM> arc kept together, but I 
think that few who do this would deny 
that the same chicks would do much bet¬ 
ter if they could be sorted into three 
grades, according to size and vigor, and 
each grade kept in a flock by itself. 
M. B. D. 
Deformed and Eccentric Breeders 
Would it he all right to breed from 
fowls that have cracked wishbones, neck 
feathers that stick out. and crazy fowls? 
The rooster is all right in every point. 
Would they be apt to breed chicks like 
them. b. c. 
I do not think that cracked wishbones 
or protruding neck feathers would he at 
all likely to bo transmitted from fowls to 
their young, these, so far as I know, not 
usually being included among hereditary 
defects. Fowls that are crazy, however, 
certainly show unstable nervous systems, 
and it would probably be wise to exclude 
them from the breeding pen. It. is a 
pretty good rule to use only the most 
healthy and vigorous fowls to breed from. 
M. B. D. 
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sarcastic and angry woubl-bc passenger. 
"Why,” explained the genial station- 
master, “if it weren't for those figures 
we’d have no way of findin’ out how lute 
the trains arc.”—New York Globe. 
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Box L Stockton, New Jersey 
S.C.W. LEGHORN hens 
We an* oflVring our surplus of yearling 
llDliS D t $1.75 e{u h These birds have been 
flue layers and will make good foundation 
stock. For three consecutive years our birds 
have been tested by tbe New Hampshire 
State College, Mm entire flock being abso¬ 
lutely free of Bacillary White Diarrhoea. 
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Per S00 
Per 100 
Per 50 
Per 25 
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