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( PltlC'K SIX CENTS 
1 92.30 PElt YEA It. 
I Entered according to Act of Conxroas, In the yc.tr 1H7H, 'by r>, |j. T. Mookm, In tUe offlce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
cal Poultry Book, says that fowls that show 
symptoms of scurvy legs should at (Bice be 
removed from other fowls and placed in 
warm, dry quarters. Give them wholesome 
and animal food as often as once a week ; 
wash the legs with a weak solution of sugar 
of lead in the morning, mid anoint them with 
clean lard, mixed with ointment of creosote 
in the evening, just before going to roost. 
Don’t, on any consideration, allow them to 
ho exposed to drenching mins or to roam in 
wot, or even damp grass. Keep them warm 
and as ipiict ns possible until the disease dis¬ 
appears, which, if proper care is taken, will 
result in from eight to ton days. 
able aids in the tedious and annoying process 
of worming tobacco. 
I also find geese a great help to cotton 
planters, by keeping down their greatest on 
emy —{, r., crab grass. During the rainy sea¬ 
son, when it is death to work the crop, they 
are busy from morning till night, destroying 
millions of the miniature monsters, and when 
the residue gets too firmly rooted to be pulled 
up, their sharp beaks will keep them grazed 
oil close, anil thereby prevent them from 
spreading till the woalhur will allow a hoe 
to be Used. 
1 state the above as facts fonndeu upon ex¬ 
perience ; I do not pronounce them infallible. 
MR. CRAWFORD’8 FIGURES 
In reference to the poultry statement for 
1*72, ill the ItOKAL Nrw-Yorkmh, March 1, 
1878, 1 should like to ask Mr. E. 1. CRAWFORD 
the reason why his <il chicks sold for the 
exorbitant price of *128,15, or about *2 per 
head, and 12 turkeys for *121.30, or about *3 
per head. Fa rmers.in this Part of the country 
cannot realize *50, for the same, number of 
Chicks ; nor could they realize more than 
*H0, for the same number of turkeys ; and 
not much more, if all of them were gobblers. 
Are the chicks and turkeys of this gentleman 
uncommonly large ( Please explain. 
t draco o rimer. 
THE CRESTED TURKEY 
A CORRESPONDENT of the It URAL NlW- 
Yorkkr writes :—“Some time ago 1 remem¬ 
ber seeing in your paper a portrait of the 
head and crest, of a Crested Turkey, which 1 
believe you said was the only une ever seen 
in this country. I write to ask if they are 
Row bred here and if any specimens or eggs 
can be obtained,” We do not know whether 
any one is breeding t hem or not. They are 
not, according to the best authorities, a dis¬ 
tinct species, hut a variety of the common 
species. It Ilob been asserted that there was 
in Mexico a race of wild Crested Turkeys; 
but tills lias been doubted, and the testimony 
does not seem conclusive that such is tin* 
fact. We publish herewith a full portrait of 
a Crested Turkey, and ask our readers if they 
know who has them ; if any one has I,hem 
for sale, it would be well to advertise the 
fact. Whatever can be sail I of their charac 
teristios, if they have any to distinguish 
thorn from the common breed, will be inter 
esting and gratify our readers. 
The illustration alluded to by our corre¬ 
spondent, above, was 
of the head of one 
owned and exhibited 
in this city at an ex¬ 
hibition by the New 
York- State Poultry 
Society in I860, by I). 
R. Gavit, Jamaica, N. 
Y. It is the only one 
of tills variety we ever 
saw. Whether Mr. 
Gavit has bred any, 
we are not aware. The 
Crests are sometimes 
black and sometimes 
white. Mademoiselle 
liuOKKK, TeMMINUK 
wrote, in 1813, hail in 
her menagerie near 
the Hague, a breed of 
Crested Turkeys of a 
beautiful Isabelle yel¬ 
low, inclined to chest¬ 
nut color ; all had full 
crests of pure white. • . j 
The breed is now only 
found in Africa, or 
from African importa¬ 
tions, we believe. If 
Crested Turkeys were 
ever natives of this ^ 
country, the variety c, 
SfiOfOg extinct. How 
the crests were ob¬ 
tained is unknown, 
but some naturalists : 
attribute it to crossing ' ^ 
with allied genera of 
crested birds. 
TURKEYS, GEESE, COTTON AND CRAB 
GRASS. 
SEPARATING BREEDS 
POULTRY NOTES 
llow long should pure bred hens be kept 
from cocks Of Other breeds in order to pro¬ 
duce pure chickens of the same breed ? I 
have some pure-bred White Leghorns which 
have run with common breeds all winter. I 
want to get some pure eggs for hatching. 
How long after 1 separate them from the 
comnmn fowls can 1 hope for pure ec'za ! _ 
W. VY P„ North East, Pa. 
W ic should say at least three weeks. Some 
say two weeks are enough, but we should 
not want to risk it. 
In lHlki my cotton crop was invaded by the 
army worm. When I first discovered them 
they had consumed a spot about 20 yards 
square; the second day they enlarged their 
boundary to 30 yards square : the third day 
an acre.was entirely denuded of its leaves. I 
turned a flock of turkeys <20 In number) upon 
them, which, in four days, entirely annihi¬ 
lated them. 1 have been informed by a friend 
who cultivates the plant, that they are valu- 
would be no doubt of their hatching I” It 
would of course depend upon the manner in 
which they are packed. We know dealers 
who have shipped to California and the eggs 
| —say 75 per cent, of them— have hatched suc¬ 
cessfully. It both depends upon the manner 
of shipping and the 
treatment you give 
them after their ar¬ 
rival. 
Friction M a t dies 
and 0} apes. — A New 
Mexico correspondent 
of the Rural New- 
Yorker says: —An ar¬ 
ticle published Jan. Is, 
page 11, Rural New- 
Yorker, on carbolic 
acid and gapes induced 
me to experiment witli 
friction matches, 
which was successful— 
merely burning three 
or fou r at a time under 
the bill of the fowl, 
forcing her to inhale 
the fumes of the brim¬ 
stone. 1 tried it on 
L several ; dose, twelve 
|L matches.” 
SS Wh ite Leghorns with 
lied Ear Lobes. — W. 
P. A., asks If White 
Leghorns with red ear 
lobes should he dis- 
carded from the pen. 
LVTKJ. We shou 1 d discard 
such, though we do not 
BtfJiWjjV; choose to take the re- 
IH| sponsihlllty of advis- 
mmm\ mg others to do so. 
We shall bo glad to 
W WaM hear from experienced 
** WW * breeders on the sub- 
The Rural New- 
,, Yorker and. Poultry. 
. . '?>'/' ■“ —A subscriber writes : 
- ' “I am a subscriber to 
y':* 1 : a poultry magazine, 
but I derive more beu- 
" t - u • 
efit from one or your 
papers in regard to 
poultry, than I have 
from a aix months’ 
subscription to one de¬ 
voted exclusively to 
poultry.” 
8UURVY FOWLS, 
B. Dexter writes 
that a neighbor lias 
‘owls whose legs are 
all scabs from the body 
to the ends of the toes; 
these legs swell, und 
the scab is one-fourth 
of an inch thick. Asks 
for a remedy. Lewis, 
in The People’s Practi- 
Ralph Ev ans ag 
