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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 25 
A YEARNS HEN RECORD. 
Part 1. 
January I, the flock consisted of 
210 fowls, as follows: Pullets, 102; one- 
year-old hens, 74; two-year-old hens, 20; 
one cock and four cockerels; total, 210. 
Set 27% dozen eggs, April to May; 
chicks hatched, 330, or 70 per cent; nuni- 
her chicks died, 34, or 15 per cent of 
those hatched; mi.ssing, probably caught 
by hawks or owls, 15, or 6% per cent 
hatched; raised to maturity, 92 cocker¬ 
els and 89 pullets, or 80 per cent hatched. 
Food Bouoirr.—Wheat, 7,39C pounds; 
cost, $109.43. Corn, 5,100 pounds; cost, 
$02.20. Ground oat food. 2,200 i)ounds; 
cost, $23.45. Fine middlings (“Red 
Dog’’), 1,580 pounds; cost, $20.23. Dry 
ground meat, 2,000 pounds; cost, $37.95. 
Oyster shells, 300 pounds; cost, $1.95. 
Total, 18,576 pounds, or 9.29 tons; cost, 
$255.21. Eggs sold and eaten at home, 
1,963 dozen for $477.96, 22.80 cents per 
dozen; poultry sold and used, 489 
pounds, $60.51; total receipts, $538.47; 
less cost of feed, $255.21; net above feed. 
$283.26; average per fowl above cost of 
feed, $1.34; average number eggs by each 
hen, 115.36. 
How Fkd.—F owls, morning, warm 
mash of oat food and “Red Dog,” with 
ground beef scraps; noon, dry meat 
scraps, a little wheat and boiled beets 
and carrots in Winter; milk at 11 o’clock 
if we have it. Night, wheat alternately 
with corn, warmed in Winter, and all 
they will eat. At all seasons when green 
feed is to be had, they are fed two and 
three times daily with lettuce leaves, 
cauliflower leaves or weeds, all they can 
eat. Clean, fresh water is kept before 
them all the time, changed two and three 
times a day; in Winter warmed. Oyster 
shells, ground, or old lime mortar is kept 
by them all the time. Gravel or fine 
crushed stone is supplied in the Winter 
houses. Chicks, when very young, fed 
with pinhead oatmeal, then cracked 
wheat, and later cracked corn; fed five 
times daily until six weeks old; after 
that four times daily awhile, then three 
times; fresh water constantly supplied. 
They run at large and scratch among 
the garden and field crops until large 
enough to damage the crops, then fenced 
away from lettuce and cauliflowers, that 
they will eat to harm. Squashes, cu- 
cum.bers, beans, etc., they will not harm, 
but are a positive advantage by eating 
the bugs and worms at the roots. The 
mother hen, of course, is confined in 
coo))s until she weans her chicks. Then 
she is put back into the yards. 
How Housed axd Y.vrdkd.— In Win¬ 
ter the fowls are confined to their 
houses, not being allowed to go out on 
frozen ground or snow. The houses are 
about eight feet high on south side, 
slope to the north, are 10 feet wide, ex- 
cejit one, which is 14 feet wide. They 
are double boarded with matched boards 
on north and west sides, and shingled 
or covered double on roof with heavy 
waterproof paper, impervious to air. 
The south side is of single matched 
boards, with windows enough to give 
plenty of sunlight. More than half the 
windows extend from the bottom six 
feet up. There are four houses joined 
in continuous line, and separated by 
board doors, and also lattice doors, and 
divided into separate pens about every 
10 or 12 feet by lath fences. 
Tiiu Yards. —Occupied in Summer in 
connection with the houses, these are 
only about twice the size of the houses. 
They are partially shaded by peach or 
plum trees. The fowls roost in the 
houses at night the year round. A wide 
board about 1% foot below the roosts 
and a foot or two from the ground re¬ 
ceives the droppings at night, and is 
cleaned every day. The floor of the 
house is simply the ground, which is 
kept partly covered in Winter with dry 
litter, hay, straw, peavines or chaff, in 
which grain is thrown for the fowls to 
scratch for. When w’et and dirty it is re¬ 
moved. The soil is also in Winter daily 
forked up in a sunny jiart of the house 
for the bens to wallow in. Daily (his 
litter is all forlced up light, which, with 
(he freshly stirred soil, is as interesting 
to the fowls as the morning newspaper is 
to the family. Instead of “moping” 
around in the cold they keep busy, inter¬ 
ested and happy, and a fair proportion 
of them are sure to lay all Winter, when 
eggs sell at a good price. Fine tobacco 
dust in nests keeps the fowls free from 
lice. Kerosene oil put on the roosts 
twice a year kills all red mites. 
Breeds. —Mostly White Leghorn, some 
crossed with Barred Plymouth Rocks or 
Bucks County, to get early sitters. Leg¬ 
horns have given me better results in 
eggs than several larger breeds tried. 
Their eggs are of a superior quality, as 
proved by eating, and also by analysis, 
la New York markets they are often 
quoted at two or three cents per dozen 
higher than ordinary eggs. Their meat 
is also of fine quality, but their bodies 
are so small that they do not command 
a ready market for poultry. While the 
110 fowls of 1901 occupied the same 
small quarters that 164 fowls occupied 
in 1900, yet they averaged per hen a 
little more than one-third dozen eggs 
more than the smaller number did in 
1900. Their monthly average of eggs 
during the cold months of the year has 
been kept up with any previous year. 
Corn advanced from $1 per bag (100 
pounds) to $1.60; wheat from $1.60 to 
$1.80, oat food from 95 cents to $1.35, 
“Red Dog” from $1.20 to $1;50, making 
an average increased cost per fowl of 25 
cents, or a total increased cost of the 
110 fowls kept of $52.92 more than it 
cost per fowl in 1900. c. k. record. 
OUTLOOK FOR HACKNEY HORSES 
The demand and price for good driv¬ 
ers, both Hackney and Standard-bred 
and their grades, was never better in the 
West. I can see nothing in the imme¬ 
diate future to change these conditions. 
Flandreau, S. D. oeo. f. few. 
In our 53 years in business in central 
Illinois I never saw the demand for good 
coach horses or in fact good horses of 
any class better. I cannot speak of the 
eastern demand, but in this part of the 
country there are half a dozen seekers 
for every good horse. In my judgment 
there will never be anything to displace 
a good horse. t. c. ponti.vg & sons. 
Moweaqua, Ill. 
Never in the 24 years that I have been 
in the Hackney horse trade has there 
been such a bright future for this busi¬ 
ness as at this time. Automobiles are 
like the bicycles, they will not take the 
place of a pair of high-acting attractive 
horses, and to substantiate this asser¬ 
tion will say that never in the history of 
the horse trade in either the United 
States or England have high-acting, 
well-trained harness horses sold for so 
high prices as they have done in the past 
two or three years, and are doing now. 
Dealers have bought up all the stallions 
possible that had the conformation and 
action regardless of price or age, and 
that of itself has taken from the breeder 
many of the best sires in the country, 
and makes room for more that have to 
be imported or if trotters bred hei’e. We 
have had a very nice trade in Hackneys 
and have at this time on the ocean one 
of England’s best chestnut Hackneys in¬ 
cluded with our other stallions. 
Bushnell, 111. J. o. truman. 
STANDARD OF THE WORLD 
for 6o years. Used on 250 millions 
annually. Superior to all other 
kinds. No smell. Benefits while it 
cures. Keeps flock clean a long 
time. Increases growth and quality 
of wool. Used by large majority of 
sheep breeders in all countries. 
Sold by all leading druggists and 
general merchants everywhere. 
If local druggist cannot supply, 
•end $1.75 for $a (100 gal.) pkt. to 
CYPHERS INCUBATOR CO., 
No. 8 Park Place, New York. 
Sheep Dips, Tanks, Worm Cures, Ear Marks, 
Punches, Tattoo Markers, Shearing; Machines, 
Shears, Sheep Marking Paint, Lamb Feeders, 
Lica Paint, Pouitry Suppiies, Veterinary 
Remedies, etc. Write for Catalogue J. 
F S. BURCH & CO.. 144 Illinois St.,CHICAG0. 
BARREN OOWS OURED. 
Write for Pamphlet and Testimonials. 
Oidmmt mnd Bmmt Trmaimmmf Eximnt, 
Moore Brosm, ASbmny, Nm Y, 
Registered Jersey. Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
B. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty jStreet, Pittsburg, Pa 
Spzvvlii 
Cure These Blemishes 
_ Also Blngbone. hard or soft 
V •nlsraements. Sweeny, Ene«- 
I SpnmgiFistaia and Poll Bril, 
xl I " " slight cost and certain cares. 
IVo big booklets telling how I 
, to do It sent free.Write today, 
rLBMIHfl BBOB., Cheabt., 
■ft Cslra StsskTards.CUsa|ts,in. 
SpltIV^ 
DREER’S 
POULTRY SUPPLIES 
Prairie State Incubators and Brooders 
Send for Catalogue 
HENRY A. DREER, 
714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 
Lee 
of Omaha 
' makes the best lice and 
mite killer for poultry— 
Lee’s Lice Killer. A liquid— 
slni])!}' spray or sprinkle on 
the roosts. Nohandllngof 
fowls. No labor or bother. 
Kills both body-lice and 
mites. Sold in every state 
at cts. per qt., li i)er gal. 
Send for free catalogue, 
poultry booklet and calen¬ 
dar, list of D.OOO agencies, etc. 
(JEO. H. LEE t'O., Omaha, Neb. 
DEATH TO LICE 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 
ou HENS and CHICKf'" 
64-page book FUEE. 
807, Apnonang, R. ID 
Holstein-Friesians oTtst 
best breeding for sale. Prices reasonable. Every 
bnlmal registered. WOODCBEST FARM, Blftoa, 
Ulster County, N. Y, 
iFOR HOLSTEIN cattle 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Bulla 
ready for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write DELIiHURST FARM.S, Mentor, Ohio, 
Registered Holstein-Friesian Bulls 
for sale cheap. Two Bulls, nearly two years old, and 
five yearUngs. A11 large for their age; straight, hand¬ 
some, perfectly marked. Sired by Dora DeKol’s Count 
No. 23757, bred by Stevens & Sons, Lacona, N. Y. 
Dams best In herd. Also several bull calves. AddreM 
P. B. MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
For Scotch and A X# ^ U I D ET C 
American-bred FX 1 IXWllllXCiO 
of best dairy quality, and Shetland Ponies, gentle for 
children. Address J. F. CONVERSE & CO., Wood- 
vUle, Jefferson County, N. Y. 
BX Jk I Purebred. Devon Ca've/ 
Lb at reasr'nable prices 
B. J. WIGHTMAN, West Eaton, N. Y 
BtRKSHIKt VlUb Wyandotte eggs, 95c. 
per 15; $1.50per30. MaplesbadeFarm.GrantsviUe.Md. 
FOR SALE 
Ice. 
Choico Recorded Largo Engbsh 
Berksblr. Boars, ready for serv- 
Write your wants or come. 
E. E. HALL, Stanley, N. Y., B. F. D. 1. 
VICTOR...,, 
V INCUBATORS^ 
H&toh every fertile egg. Simplett, 
most darsble, cheapest first-class 
hatcher. Money back if not pobI* 
lively as represented. Wepay/reight. 
Circular free; catalogut 6o. 
S I 0.80 For 
I ^ 200 Egg 
INCUBATOR 
Perfect la eonstmotion and f^***^^ 
action. Eatohea every fertile I [ 
Wriv for catalog to-day. | ,— 
oeo, t 1 . STAHL, Qnlncy, Ill 
INCUBATORS 
From $6 up. Beat reaaonable prlcod 
hatchers on the market 
Brooders, $4 up. None better at any 
price. Fully warranted. Catalog free. 
L.A. SANTA, LIGONIER, IND. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES 
hog. Pigs of all ages from Imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BUOOK STOCK FAllM, Hochester, Mich 
Reg. P. Chinas, BerKshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. W rite for 
prices and description. Keturn if not 
satisfactory; we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Brclldoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
0 1 P CUf 111 C As good as money will buy 
■ li Ui 0 Iff III El or scientific breeding pro¬ 
duce at prices that farmers can afford to pay. 
Pedigree furnished witli eve^ animal. Start right 
by ordering a bred sow or a pair of pigs. 
G- S. BENJAMIN, Box 14, Portland, Mloh. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
150 Jacks, Jennets and Mttles now ready for the 
Fall trade. Some bargains. Address 
BAKER’S JACK FARM, Lawrence, Ind. 
one: gxru 
batches 1733 chloka. One woman 3406. 
One man 3632. Many others do equally 
well with the PERFECTED HATCH- 
INQ-SYSTEM. Bests inoubatora. Book¬ 
let free. F. OXTXNDY.Morriaonville.IlL 
PRESENT BARGAINS 
$5; dog pups, $7 to $10. First come, first served. They 
won’t last long. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N.Y. 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnificently 
bred. A. J. BENEDICT, Woodworth, Wls. 
S n \A/ IE:nUnDKI<k' '^NLY select mating. 
■ Ui YYi LtbHUnllO Eggs. $1 per setting. 
FRANK LOTSFOKD, l“enn Yan, N. Y., R. D. No. 3. 
VnilMR PUin^Q Shipped safely any distance 
I UUItU urllUIxO Try them instead of eggs .foj 
aitohing. VUleview Poultry Farm Co., Salem, N S. 
varieties. Any amount Poultry.Eggs, Pigeons 
andHarcs. Guido desc. 6 U-page book, 10c. 
J. A BEKGEY, Box 8 , Telford. Pa. 
I Single-Comb Brown and White 
LuU n U niiu Leghorns are chock-fuil of business: 
standard bred also. Eggs by the set or hundred. 
C. W. PARKINSON, Bridgewater, N. Y. 
HOUDANS 
Our stock direct from the greatest breeder In France. 
Circular. D. B. HOW ATT, New Brunswick, N. J. 
Rose-comb Buff Leghorns, Rose-comb 
rOl 031V Brown Leghorns, White Guineas. 
Eggs for batching from the above stock and Silver 
Wyandobtes. A &BEEKMAN.Soutli Branch, N.J. 
IfftlfM Miff ATTCC—“Stay” White Wyandottes 
ff lASlUUI ICO that win. Eggs, $ 1 . R.F.D. 
VALENTINE & SULLIVAN, Huntington, L. I., N. Y. 
IIIUJiyilfflVVIPQ Golden, Silver Laced and 
n I AnllU I I CO Bull. Finestockand eggs at 
fair prices. Birds returnable If not O. K. Breeder 
since 1884. F. S. TENNEY, Box 14, Peterboro, N. H 
Tnuflc fnr Wyan., P. Rocks and 
rUnlw lUI OulC Leghorns. Stamp. Eggs, $1 
for 13. Mus. J. P. HELLINGS, Dover, Del. 
flimPifCDCI C—tlhoice W. Wyan., P. Rocks, 
uUIiRCHCLO Brahmas, Cochins, Leghorns, 
from prize-winning stock. 23 varieties of land ana 
water fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed. Big catalogue 
fr^e. PINE TREE FARM, Box T, Jamesburg, N. J. 
s, c. WHITE LEGHURNs 
We breed from the large true egg type. Have been 
preedlng nine years to make this breed perfect. We 
have over 7(X) to select from, and offer you the benefit 
of our experience. Send for circular. 
WHITE & RICE, Box A, Yorktown. N. Y. 
SQUABS PAY ^ 
Easier, need attention only part of 
time, bring big prices. Raised in one 
month. Money-makers for poultry- 
men, farmers,women. Send forFREE 
BOOKLET and learn this rich home 
Industry. PLYMOUTH BOCK SQUAB 
CO., 4A Friend Street, Boston, Mass. 
Eggs, 4C. IK.', 
Wyan. | Farm Range. W. IRISH, 
I. Reds, f Po’keepsie, N.Y. R.F.D. 
’White Plymouth Rock Fggs for Hatch 
ing; 13 for 50c. J. M. Tborniiey, Marietta, Ohio. 
OK nnn choice Fertile Eggs, for hatching, from 
£«I|WUW hundreds of turkeys, chickens, ducks and 
geese. Good hatch or new eggs free. Cat. and cir. for 
postal. Orchard Farm Poultry Yards, MiUerton,N. Y. 
PA A A for hatching from choice matings of Barred 
CUUW P- Rocks and White Wyandottes.„$3 per 
Bitting; three sittings, $5. WOODCBEST FARM, 
Rif ton, Ulster County, N. Y. 
Eggs that Hatch at Gut Prices 
•>Dl’tance no objection. We pack In cotton battinff, 
which prevents jar and chili. B. RookB, W. Wya^ 
dvttes, B. Leghorns. MT, BIANCO POULTRY 
FARM, Mt. Blanoo.O. 
,_ Single-Comb White Leghorn, the egg- 
producer; Partridge Wyandotte, for 
EGGS ^ 
broiler and roaster, Pittsburg and Cleveland winners 
Eggs from above Leghorns, 15 eggs, $2; 30 eggs, 13.76; 
100 eggs, $10. Partridge Wyandotte Eggs, 15 eggs, 13. 
Above stock are winners and bred from winners. Cor- 
reepondence soUolted. 
J. W. WARWICK, Washington, Pa. 
DADDCn OnnFC esicluslvely. Stock and eggs 
DAnriLU nUulVufrom prize-winners. 
faction guaranteed. Farmers’ prices. Circular i ree. 
J. W. COX, New Wilmington, Pa., Box H. 
Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes 
Eggs for batching, $3 per 100. 
C. A. TTATiTi, Oak Hill, Greene County, x'l. Y. 
W HITE WYANDOTTES, no fancy; bred for 
business; brown eggs: bread-winning strains: 
600 layers; 11.50 per 15; 16 per 100; $48 per 1,000. Stock 
for sale. J. A. DeMAR, Silver Lake, Mass. 
rppQ 15,$1; 40,$2. Buff, Wh., Barred Rooks; Bnffi 
■CUUo Wh.,Br. Leghorns; B.uff,Wh., Golden Wyan.; 
Black Langshans, Buff Cochins, Lt. Brahmas, SUnor 
oas, Hamhurgs. Cat. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, ra. 
