very palatable* Buckwheat is liked and 
is much used in cold weather by farmers 
who raise it. Buckwheat and oats are 
high in fiber content, though containing 
about, the same amount of protein that 
corn does. They cannot, replace corn in 
a poultry ration, but may well be added 
to it. Oats should be heavy to be of 
value. M. b. D, 
SLEEP on 0 gtnu|pe Aunt Hannah Adirondack 
balsam pillow, soothing, refreshing, invigorat 
*ng; 3-lb. piltow, $1.25; cash with order. HAN¬ 
NAH PAYNE, Pine Hill Camp, Raquette Lake. 
N. Y. 
The Henyard 
FOR SALE—Pare extracted clover honey, 5-lb. 
pails, $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.20; delivered into 34 
zone. HARRY J. BOREMAN. Box 87, Katonab. 
feed at night; plenty of water. w. a. 
Bethel, Conn. 
Your mash contains all the ingredients 
necessary in a poultry ration, but you 
are unnecessarily finicky about propor¬ 
tions. Why not. make it up as follows: 
Equal parts, by weight, of cornmeal, 
gnmnd oats, wheat bran, standard mid¬ 
dlings. gluten feed and beef scrap. I 
should omit the Alfalfa meal, as being 
too expensive to justify its addition to a 
mash. Feed Alfalfa or clover hay if you 
have either, but let the hens do the 
grinding. You will note that ihe above 
suggested mash has a greater amount of 
beef scrap than the one you submit, one- 
sixth part, instead of two-nineteenths. 
Your mash is too low in animal protein 
for thp best results. The addition of 
some wheat to your scratch fecal would 
improve it. though Cracked com should 
form the basis of this part of the ration, 
and wheat, buckwheat, barley and oats 
may .ill be fed With the com. Make it. 
tine-half cracked corn, and use such other 
grains as you have to make out the bal¬ 
ance. Oats should he heavy to he of 
value, and if is well to see that they are 
not wasted in the litter instead of being 
eaten. Sprouted oats are excellent for 
green food, though this grain treated with 
boiling water to soften it and make it 
more palatable is thought equal in value 
to sprouted oats by many poultrymon. 
Eight quarts of scratch feed per day for 
lot) hens is rather light feeding; they 
will probably eat half as much again and 
still consume a full amount of mash. 
Give a rather light feeding of grain in the 
morning and all that they will eat at 
night. M. B. D. 
Henhouse Ventilation 
1 recently purchased a farm upon which 
a new henhouse has been built, but not. 
entirely completed. It is 20x100 ft., and 
a monitor or Cornell type house, but not 
much provision has been made for ven¬ 
tilation. There are 12 windows 2x414 ft. 
on south side. In the upper part are 12 
windows 2 ft. square. Above these win¬ 
dows. and between each rafter is an open 
space, filled loosely with straw, for the 
air to pass out. Would some extra can¬ 
vas windows on the south side give suf¬ 
ficient ventilation, and. if so. how mrtny? 
Would a fresh-air duet every 1." ft. work 
in a heuhou.se? The Winters in Southern 
Michigan sometimes go 10 or 15 degrees 
below zero. The floor of this house is of 
gravel. Would it he necessary or better 
to pm in cement floor? Would a cement 
floor be any drier if. after drying a few 
days, paint with asphalt paint, then cover 
with 1 in. more of cement? ,t. r. l. 
Michigan. 
Modern poultry-houses are ventilated 
through windows or openings in one wall, 
the other three wall- of the building be¬ 
ing airtight. 1 think that you will find 
the window openings (bar you mention 
sufficient for the ventilation of ibis build¬ 
ing. The windows should be removed in 
the Summer. In rbe Winter, the upper 
sashes, or the whole window, if of single 
sash type, -hould be dropped back for 
several inches ar the top. and the side 
openings thus made should be closed by 
V-slmped boards cut to fit. This will 
compel the entering air to pass over the 
tops of the saslies and prevent direct 
drafts upon the floor. The small win¬ 
dows in the upper portion will probably 
need to he kept closed in cold weather. 
A concrete floor is superior to one of 
gravel alone, because of being more easily 
kept clean aiul of being rat proof. If 
well under-drained and raised above the 
level of the surrounding ground, it should 
be dry and without need of any special 
precaution to prevent seepage of water 
through it. M. B. D. 
NICE large Oregoa prunes direct; special 12% 
lb. sample bag, express prepaid, $2; 25 lbs. 
prepaid. $3.75. KINGWOOD ORCHARDS 
Salem. Ore. 
Worms in Fowls 
My chickens are troubled with worm. 
What is the remedy? a. a. 
Rhode Island. 
The tobacco treatment is recommended 
for flocks that are so badly infested by 
worms as to need flock treatment. For 
individual birds, one to two teaspoons of 
turpentine, mixed with an equal quan¬ 
tity of some simple oil. may be given and 
followed in a few hours by a physic of 
castor oil or Epsom salts. 
To administer the tobacco treatment, 
steep 1 lb. of finely cut tobacco stems for 
each 100 birds in enough water to cover. 
Then mix liquor and stems with four 
qunr s of mash and feed in the middle of 
the afternoon to the fowls that have been 
without food since the previous day. A 
few hours later, give a physic of 1 lb. of 
Epsom salts for each 100 fowls dissolved 
in water and mixed with three quarts of 
ma<b. feeding so that each fowl will get 
its share. In order that the fowls may 
not quickly pick the worms expelled by 
the treatment and thus become reiufested, 
it is necessary that the droppings be 
promptly removed or so covered that the 
fowls cannot get at them. M. B. D. 
ALFALFA and Timothy hay; several car» mixed 
and straight Alfalfa for sale; also clear Tim¬ 
othy amt straw. W. A. WITHROW, Route 4. 
Syracuse. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Pure extracted buckwheat honey. 
in pails'. 5 lbs., net price, 85c, postpaid in 
second zone; 10c extra each additional zone; 
give county with address. EDWIN RICKARD. 
Schoharie, N. Y. 
40 TONS of extra goo*) cattle beets; first cut¬ 
ting of Timothy and Alfalfa mixed bay. DEAN 
M. BARBEE, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
SERE POP old white rice corn; 25 lbs., pre 
paid 3d zone. $2.40. W. HALBERT, Oxford 
FOR SALE—Alfalfa and Timothy hay. A. A 
MOORE, Wampeville, N. Y. 
HONEY—Pure extracted; circular free. FOS 
COE F. WIXSON, Dept. G. Dundee, N. Y. 
HONEY—10 Ibe, finest white. $2 in 3d zone: 
$2.20 in 4th zone; buckwheat 20c less; 60 -lb 
cans, white, $7.80. f. o. b. here; buckwheat, 
$6. F. W. LESSER, Fayetteville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Hot air furnace. 
pipes and floor registers; good condition. A. 
O. CHAPIN, Sharor Springs, N. Y. 
• fn TOWERS ° 
FISH BRAND SLICKER 
HAVE you any real old letters bearing postage 
stamps stored in your attic? Turn them into 
money. Write COLLECTOR, 18 Hewlett Street. 
Waterhurv. Conn. 
IBs the Patented Features 
v/TA the Special Materials ami 
Workmanship thatma/ie 
Big Difference 
Poultry Questions 
1. Having to purchase baled material 
for my henhouse litter, which would he 
preferable, straw. Timothy, clover or Al¬ 
falfa? 2. Having one screened (wire) 
opening 20x20 in. in door, facing the 
south of my henhouse, should this he 
changed to a glass window or covered 
with heavy cheesecloth, or left just as it 
is for the Winter? 3. Having a small 
outside run. should this be accessible to 
liens in the Winter? 4. For a white¬ 
washed henhouse “ ft. high, li ft. wide 
and 11 ft. long, what size electric bulb 
should be used? 5. Having the Cornell 
dry uiash before the fowls all the time, 
what kind and how much scratch feed 
should he given to 20 fowls? E. X. s. 
1. Aside from cost, clover or Alfalfa 
would make the best litter, since the 
leavo will bo eaten and furnish much 
needed food elements. Probably, how¬ 
ever. you will prefer to use straw for lit¬ 
ter and feed a lirtle clover or Alfalfa hay 
daily, allowing the waste parts to add to 
the floor covering. 
2. Your one opening on the south will 
probably not be sufficient to keep the 
house dry in cold weather. If it does, 
when entirely uncovered, no further ven¬ 
tilation will he needed. If the interior 
becomes damp, open windows on tbc 
south by dropping the upper sashes back 
a few inches into the house and closing 
the side opeuings thus made with V- 
shaped boards, ’"hopper slides.” Don’t 
cover ventilator openings with cloth. 
3. As you and the liens please. It will 
not hurt the hens to run outside if they 
arc allowed to do so the year round. 
4. Ese as small a bulb as will light 
the floor clearly and enable^ the fowls to 
find their grain in the litter. A reflector 
above the bulb will help materially. 
5. Make scratch feed one-lialf, or more, 
cracked corn; the balance wheat, buck¬ 
wheat. oats, barley. »»r a part of these, 
in about any proportion you wish, (live 
the liens a small handful of grain each 
in the morning and all that they will cat 
at their last, meal under lights. They 
may need from two to four quarts daily. 
Try to get them to eat about equal quan¬ 
tities of whole grains and mash, and, if 
they neglect the mash, feed less whole 
grain to stimulate their appetities for 
the less palatable mash mixure. m. it. n. 
’—Clover-bassw >o<J, extracted, delivered 
ne. 5 lbs. $1,25; 10 lbs., $2.15: clover, 
color, fine flavor, $1.15 and $2; buek- 
$1.15 and $1.90; larger quantities buck- 
ask price; satisfaction guaranteed. H. 
.LIAMS, Romulus. N. Y. 
) EVERYWHERE 
AJTOWER CO 
BOSTON ► * ^ 
HONEY—Light, extracted. Autumn flower honev 
none finer; 5-lb. pail, $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.15 
delivered third postal zone. H. R. LYON 
Cranford. N. J. 
Hens with Corns 
I had one ben first with a hard core 
in the bottom of her foot, swelling to the 
size of a hickory nut. ami very sore. 
Some of the other hens have it in both 
feet. I cut one open and it seemed to be 
a hard growth. R. R. 
New Jersey. 
This condition is very like that induced 
by corns in humans, though sometimes 
abscesses form in the deeper tissues of 
the feet, and an open, running sore may 
result. Ordinarily these hard bunches do 
little or no barm and need not be treated. 
If inflammation and abscess formation 
ensues, it may be wise to open the swell¬ 
ing with a sharp, clean blade ami dress 
the wound with some simple antiseptic 
ointment. Give the fowls sufficiently wide 
perches for their comfort, as the tight 
grasping of too small perch supports is 
believed to be responsible for corn forma¬ 
tion. Jumping from high perches to hard 
floors is also said to bring about bruises 
of the feet. m. B. D. 
WANTED—Caudce or Buckeye Mammoth incu 
bator. any elze W. A. JOHNSTON, Box 91. 
Route No. 1. Bridgeport, Conn, 
Make Money for You 
j Churn the finest grade butter. 
I wash and work it ready for pack- 
J ins without removing from chum, 
thus savins valuable time and 
\ labor. This method keepa rraia 
of batter firm. 
Sturdily built, but lifetime- Ce- 
*■—— pacity, it gal-. In X00 gait. 
Sold thru dealer* or direct- Write 
for Mulin'. 
FREDRICKSON BROS. 
706 Wellmaa Building Jem ••town, N. Y. 
HONEY—Pure extracted, postpaid, first three 
zones; clover, 5 lbs., $1.25; 10 tbs., $2.15; 
buckwheat. 5 lbs.. $ 1 ; 10 lbs.. $1.90: special 
prices on quantity lots. WALNUT ORCHARD 
FARM. Ithaca. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Best grade maple syrup, $2.50 per 
gallon. C. TIMMERMAN, R. 3, Cortland, 
STATPE RICE 
Carload lots. 
fhane tO«FJ 
CiderApples Wanted 
N. count t mson. Maple kn.. Pnlukin. M. 
FOR SALE—Eastern Shore sweet potatoes 
per barrel 165 lbs. f. o. b. Painter. GEOi 
W. WARREN. Painter. Va. 
FOR SALE—One carload of Danish Ball Head 
••abbage. also one of nice potatoes. Apply 
HAROLD J. REEVES, Riverside Farm, Well* 
Bridge. N. Y. 
CAR LOTS. State price. 
V. Palmer Co- Cob, Conn. 
» -nine Wanted in car load lots or less by 
Applet John F. Wliken* P»-ka.lll, a. T. 
TKt.Kl'tHlSK PXEKSKtLL «— PkETT T— 4 
FOR SALE—One Planet Jr. combined hill and 
drill seeder, double and single wheel hoe 
cultivator and plow; good as new; $12; one 
Acme adjustable dress form: good as new; price 
$6.50. GEORGE L. BUXTON. Minerva, Stark 
Co.. O. 
Cid8r Apples Wanted 
Molting Pullets 
I have trouble with my pullets going 
into a partial molt each Fall. They were 
hatched the last of March and during 
April. j. B. c. 
Maryland. 
If these pullets are really molting, not 
merely exchanging chick feathers for the 
dress of more mature age, it is because 
they Lave been hatched too early aud 
forced by heavy feeding to premature ma¬ 
turity, It frequently happens that early 
hatched pullets, March or early April, 
when well fed tipou a ration containing 
considerable animal protein, mature and 
lay a few eggs in the Fall and then molt, 
remaining idle until tile following Spring. 
This occurrence is to he avoided by inter 
hatching aud by refraining from forcing 
to early maturity by heavy feeding upon 
high protein foods. If it is seen in late 
Summer that pullets are ripening too 
fast, as shown by cunb development and 
the other characteristics of maturity, they 
should he retarded iu development by 
withholding the mash and feeding whole 
grain alone, at ihe same time giving all 
the range possible. Molting may also he 
tmlueed by making radical changes in 
feed and methods of care or of surround¬ 
ings. Pullets should be got into their 
Winter quarters before they have com¬ 
menced to lay, iu order that a sudden 
change in surroundings may not check 
laying aud induce a molt. M. B. P. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
GRAIN THRESHER, hay baler, drill, gas en¬ 
gine, binder and other farm machinery; prae 
tically new. JESSE COLLINS, Port Washing 
ton. L. I., N. Y. 
Other Advertisements of Subscribers 
Exchange will be found on page 1331 
YEI.LoW Jersey, Write Hymau, 
sweet potatoes, bushel.' $1.20 
COLIN McNleOl , Milford, Del. 
Red Porto Rieo 
: barrel, $2.50. 
FOR EXCHANGE —best quality maple syrup 
grapes or easa taken DEN. ROBINSON 
Pawlet, Vt. 
MUST SELL —<’,,000 Candee Incubator; used four 
seasons: everything good as new; price $55" 
f. o. b. s. KLINE, Middleereek, Pa. 
FRESII Id-style op yeas: cakes will assure 
you bett.-r I'lvsie ; v. nt for 3"e. money order. 
MISS h. M. Worsham. Seventy Six. Mo. 
FOR SALE—Ventral New York State road farm 
cheap; one worth locking into; tools: no stuck 
ADVERTISER 2""t, .are Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Two or '.tree 600-egg sections for 
Newtown Riunt tn> ubator. in perfect order; 
would eotis'ii<r et.flre machine; state lowest 
cash price. A- Ui BRIDGE FARM. Marlboro 
Muss. 
FARM—Near Chatham; 110 acres; 70 tillable. 
14 iu wood; brooks, springs; lu-roeiti house; 
with or Without stock, tools. It. S. MePHKU 
S*IN, R. D., Chatham, N. A. 
Ration for Pullets 
Would you give us a ration f<>r pullets, 
using buckwheat ami oats, with other 
necessary grains? All the rations call 
for wheat, which is very expensive here, 
and as we have a good supply of buck¬ 
wheat would like to use that if a good 
raiion can be made to include it. Our 
pullets are now ,1V. months old aud have 
been laying for a month. How many 
pounds should he fed to 104> pullets? We 
keep the (’ornell laying mash before them 
all the while. w. R. R. 
New York. 
Ruck wheat and oats may be used iu the 
whole grain mixture where the Cornell 
mash is fed. and wheat may be omitted.- 
Wheat lias long been considered one of 
the most indispensable grains in poultry 
feeding, but ii is probably inferior to 
corn as a single graintfood, and there is 
no doubt that it can be more nearly dis¬ 
pensed with than many poultrymen be¬ 
lieve. Crackl'd corn should make up half 
or more of the. grain ration, and the bal¬ 
ance may be oats, barley, buckwheat, and. 
perhaps, rye. Wheat may be used also in 
some proportion if desired. The trouble 
with oats as whole grains is the indispo¬ 
sition of most flocks to eat any great 
quantity of them, and rye, also, is not 
:•) CLEVELAND tractor, with 2-bottom plow: 
mst lie - d; $650 lor quick sale. ADYER 
ER 1936, re Rural Ncw Yorker. 
ALE—First-class dairy farm of 279 acres; 
equipped with stock and tools; flu. 
from railroad town: district school on 
Ibis (arm must be sold to settle u part- 
> business. RoX 174, DovvUsvUle, N. Y. 
-.ire.- first-class York State 
t I'REWSTER, Deep River. 
Miscellaneous 
fancy hand-picked; 1" 
1.25: postpaid, insured. 
, Franklin, Va. 
HOMES W ANTED—T o 1*1 \U) NR OUT BU¬ 
REAU, 415 Broome Street, New York, desires 
to communicate with responsible Catholic fami¬ 
lies who will take us member' of their house¬ 
hold suitable boys between 7 and 12 years. 
There is no greater charily than this. 
FOR s.VI.E—»'hesrunt post', cut to suit your 
wants: pi: -s rig nr; write, stating your needs. 
ZEUFASS FARM Dullsville, X. Y. 
Improving Poultry Ration 
I would like to know if the following 
laying mush is mixed right. I feed it 
twice a day to 130 liens—"Barred Bocks 
and I.egborns. Three parts ground oats, 
four parts bran, two parts white mid¬ 
dlings. two parts beef scrap, four parts 
Alfalfa, fine cut, or sprouted oats; two 
parts gluten, two parts cornmeal. 
Scratch feed of two parts cracked corn 
and two parts oars. Grit and oyster 
shells in hoppers. Is this a good scratch 
feed I am feeding with the above mash? 
1 have just started feeding this mash. I 
feed four quarts of scratch feed, cracked 
corn and oats in morning; tuash in the 
hopper all the time; four quarts scratch 
• nther pillows. VIOLA HUNT 
Schoharie, N. Y. 
COUNTRY BOARD wanted, near Kingston. N. 
Y., by nuditle-w'ed couple with no children; 
quiet and good food essential. Reply to AD¬ 
VERTISER 1949, care Rural New Yorker. 
FOR SALE—30-30 Wii • Hester repeating rltb 
almost new; price $24. ELMER MIDDLt 
MAST, iblie. n Y. 
MILK CHOCOLATE—Made at our dairy; box of 
120 pieces, 2 lbs. net. postpaid. $1; sold la 
stores $1.75; send remittance with order. R. 
W. WIND, Babylon. L. I., N. Y. 
FOR SALE—quitter horsepower motor and 
vacuum 'leaner. 32 volts, direct current; 
good ■•••Uili: $35. a. A. DICKINSON. Appb 
ton. N. V. 
CLOVER or Basswood honey in 60-lb. cans, $7.50 
buckwheat, $6.50; f. o. b. G. W. BELDEN 
Berkshire, X. Y. 
FOR SAI-E — Pure delicious Vermont maptr 
-yrup. $2.80 gal.; 10-lb. can sugar,. $3."": 
satisfaction guaranteed; cash with order. BERT 
PRESCOTT, Essex Junction, Vt. 
HONEY —Pure clover extracted. 1922 crop; 5 
ills., $1.25; 10 Ills., $2.15: buckwheat, 5 lbs-. 
$1.15: 1" lbs $1.90; postpaid to 4tl> zone; each 
additional -mio add 10c for 5’s. 20c for 10‘a: 
satisfaction .uni safe delivery guaranteed. We 
nre Farm Bureau member*. RANSOM FARM, 
l.-.lii Spring sr Svr :i, use, N. V 
Ear y poultry, registered Berk 
E isiy calves for gasoline engine 
orooder stoves. WOODS 1D1 
EG, On., Pa, 
