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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 9 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A YEAR'S HEN RECORD. 
Pjjlt II. 
Selling the Eggs. —The eame dealer 
has had the eggs on contract for seven, 
eight or 10 years past, with the agree¬ 
ment to pay the top price of the market 
for fresh eggs, as all these were. He 
gave as high a price in Winter as he 
has ever before given, and he gave no 
lower price in Summer than he has 
sometimes before given. Indeed, his 
Summer price has some years been three 
cents per dozen less than he paid for 
these eggs of 1901. And yet the average 
price for the whole year of 1901 has 
fallen below the usual average price by 
2.29 cents per dozen, making on the 
1,963 dozen sold a transfer of $44.95 into 
the pocket of the dealer, that belonged 
to the producer, provided the real mar¬ 
ket price in the city was no lower than 
usual. However, it appears that eggs 
as well as milk did actually advance in 
price, if not to the extent of the full in¬ 
creased cost of feed. Even at the head¬ 
quarters where this dealer maims to 
get his weekly and daily quotations, by 
which his prices to me are regulated, I 
learn that they did one while pay as 
high as 50 cents per dozen to sell again, 
this early Winter, December, 1901. Yet 
the telegraph or telephone did not seem 
to work well about that time, for my 
dealer never heard they were above 40 
cents. And yet a former clerk of that 
headquarters store drove four miles 
every week for two years to one of my 
nearest neighbors and paid them just 
as much, and sometimes five cents per 
dozen more, than my man was paying 
me for eggs carried to his store. And 
yet the average price of 1901 was 2.29 
cents below his own price as paid the 
year before (1900), when the average 
should be higher. 
How is that explained if he paid as 
high and paid no lower prices? 
By advancing the price very slowly 
and by only one cent, two cents or at 
most three cents per dozen at long in¬ 
tervals on the rising market, and falling 
quickly and with plunges of five cents 
and 10 cents per dozen at a time. In 
other words, he kept about two weeks 
behind the market when prices were ad¬ 
vancing, and about two weeks ahead of 
the market when declining. 
Moral: When farmers allow the 
dealer to make the prices of both what 
he sells to them and what they sell to 
him, as is usually the case, they are 
likely to have an object lesson, if they 
will do a little figuring, showing how 
easy it is to transfer—perhaps uncon¬ 
sciously to both—not a small portion of 
the profits into the wrong pockets. 
A Comparison of 1902 with 1901.— 
During the year just closed about the 
same number of hens have occupied the 
same houses and yards, and have been 
fed substantially the same kinds, qual¬ 
ity and quantity, of foods (with the ex¬ 
ception of milk, which has been almost 
wholly lacking), and have received 
equally attentive care.* Since the hens 
were shut into their houses we have 
also been handicapped by lack of chaff 
and strawy material for bedding and 
scratching material, so that in Novem¬ 
ber and December eggs scarcely paid 
for feed. The entire year’s results when 
compared with 1901 show a fall off of 
266% dozen eggs, of which 110 2-3 dozen 
of this diminution were in the months 
of November and December, when eggs 
were at the highest price of the whole 
year. While the wholesale price of eggs 
in our city did not reach so high a 
point by five cents per dozen in 1902 as 
in 1901, yet the price in January and 
February kept up somewhat longer 
than usual. But my hens fell off in 
egg production during those months, so 
that out of the total shrinkage of 266% 
dozen 126 dozen of this falling off was 
in the months of highest prices, more 
than enough to counterbalance the nat¬ 
ural increased average price of the 
whole year. But in selling the eggs of 
1902 we endeavored to correct the mis¬ 
take of 1901, when we allowed the buy¬ 
er to raise and lower the price at his 
own sweet will. We kept ourselves in¬ 
formed as to the actual market price 
each time when the eggs went to mar¬ 
ket, and got that price at the time we 
ought to get it. However, we got no 
higher price than the highest in 1901, 
and the lowest price was quite as low 
as 1901 price. But the average price for 
the whole year was 3 7-10 cents per 
dozen above the yearly average price of 
the year before. Had we looked out as 
sharply when selling in 1901 and got as 
high an average price for the whole year 
(and there is no good reason why the 
average should have been less) the eggs 
(1,963 dozen) for the 200 hens would 
have brought $72.63 more than they did 
bring. That would have nearly paid 
the taxes on a $5,000 farm at $15 per 
$1,000—rather too much of a revenue to 
be transferred to the wrong man’s 
pocket annually. That was just 34 per 
cent of the proceeds of the hens above 
the cost of feed, to say nothing about 
the labor of caring for the 200 hens. 
But the profit of any business (or what 
one gets above actual cost) is all he 
gets out of that business to live on. But 
if he throws away 34 per cent of that 
profit in selling his product he reduces 
his income to a very small margin, es¬ 
pecially when the income of hens above 
cost of food is, at best, scarcely enough 
to allow even small wages for their 
care. That is a leak that the egg pro¬ 
ducer will do well to look after. 
C. K. RECORD. 
CRIPPLED INCUBATOR CHICKS. 
I (or rather my wife and daughter) have 
had some experience with hatching chick.s 
in an Incubator which to me appears 
strange, and I wish to seek through The 
R. N.-Y. some explanation. I will give the 
facts and perhaps some one having more 
experience can give reasons for the results. 
In 1902 the incubator for one hatch had 161 
tested eggs, and hatched 104 chicks, six of 
which were cripples, having deformed legs 
or feet. Another was from 149 tested eggs 
which hatched 74 chicks, eight of which 
were cripples like the others. During this 
hatch 60 tested eggs were under hens until 
seventh day, then placed in incubator until 
sixteenth day, then taken out and put un¬ 
der hens to hatch, and produced about 50 
chicks, none of which was crippled. In 
1903, 250 eggs were put In Incubator, from 
which 140 chicks were hatched, 15 of which 
were cripples. Again, 250 eggs hatched out 
137 chicks, 18 of which were cripples. Dur¬ 
ing this last hatch, when the eggs were 
tested on seventh day, the eggs removed 
left room to put in some eggs which had 
been under hens an equal length of time, 
and 45 such tested eggs were put into the 
Incubator where they remained until the 
nineteenth day, when they were taken out 
and placed under hens and 30 chicks were 
produced, none of which was crippled. At 
the time the eggs were taken from incu¬ 
bator and put under hens, the chicks could 
be heard in the eggs. 
Now the conundrum is: What causes 
cripples to be hatched in incubator when 
hens hatch healthy chicks? Remember 
that the eggs hatched by hens were in the 
incubator in one case from seventh to six¬ 
teenth day, and in the other case from 
seventh until nineteenth day, and the 
chicks hatched under hens were all per¬ 
fect. While in the incubator the eggs were 
all treated alike, turned twice daily. The 
eggs were from the same source so it 
would seem heredity could not be the 
cause. If the incubator does the mischief 
is it done during the first seven days or 
during the last three or even two days? It 
seems to me there Is a cause producing de¬ 
formity, working here, which is worth in¬ 
quiring into. I imagine all animal life is 
subject to the same natural laws, and the 
Influence which causes deformed chicks 
might cause deformed human chicks. Per¬ 
haps investigators more competent than 
myself and with more leisure have already 
solved this problem. If so I have not seen 
the statement. In former years when I 
have hired chicks hatched I have not had 
a larger proportion of chicks from eggs 
than from the above-mentioned hatches. I 
cannot imagine how one incubator would 
be more likely to produce such results than 
another, nor how it could be the result of 
faulty manipulation. m. morse. 
Massachusetts. 
Hens that Pull Feathers. 
Is there any cure for hens pulling 
feathers? Mine have been shut up all 
Winter, and will have to be confined in a 
yard this Summer. They have been fed a 
ration of whole wheat and cracked corn, 
skim-mllk before them all the time, a lib¬ 
eral allowance of table scraps and quite 
a lot of meat scraps, some raw and some 
cooked; oyster shells and grit always be¬ 
fore them and cabbage every few days. 
Some of them are nearly bare except their 
wings. Is it something they crave, and 
can they be cured without chopping off 
their heads? c. p. b. 
Lewiston, Vt. 
Our experience is that the damage is 
usually done by a few evil-minded hens, 
and that the majority of the fiock do 
not pull feathers. If we could catch the 
rascals at it we would cut their heads 
off. Lack of place for exercising, over- i 
feeding and consequent laziness and a j 
lack of meat in the ration are all men- j 
tioned as causes, for this trouble. Lazi¬ 
ness is responsible for many crimes. i 
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If local druggist cannot supply, 
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INCUBATORS 
From $8 up.F Best reuonable prlood 
hateners on the market' . 
Broodera. $4 up. None better at aay 
price. Fully warranted. Catalog tree. 
L. A. BANTA, LIGONIER. IND. 
one: OXRX.' 
hatobea 1733 ohioka. One woman 3493. 
One man 3632. Many others do equally 
well with the PEBPBCTBD HATCH- 
INO SYSTEM. Beats inoubatore. Book¬ 
let free. F. OmillDY.MorriaonviUe, UL 
FOR SALE 
—Pekin Duck Eggs from choice 
stock. J1 for 12. 
E. P. ARCHER, New Hope, Pa. 
VnilNR nUIPI^Q Shipped safely any distance 
I UUliU UniUixu Try them instead of eggs fo 
^.tn^lnll' vuievlew Poultry Farm Co.. Salem, N x- 
C nnonnu charleston Four Comers, N. Y., 
I UUnUUli) Box 63, will spare a few Mam¬ 
moth Light Brahma Cockerels. Eggs, 76c. per 16. 
llfVl||nnTTCC~“®*^y’’ White Wyandottes 
If I AHUU I I Co that win. Eggs.$L R F.D. 
Vai.entine & SULLIVAN, Huntington, L. I.,N. Y. 
A lot of fine breeding birds at reduced prices. 
Wh. Wyan., P. Rock and I.rf}ghorn EGGS. $1 tor 
26. Stamp. Mils. J. 1*. UELLING8, Dover, Del. 
BARRED ROCKS 
exclusively Stock and eggs 
faction guaranteed. Eggs, $1 per 15. Circular Free. 
J. W. COX, New Wilmington, Pa., Box H. 
Breeders’ Directory 
^HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Bnll^ 
ready for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write DELIiHURST FABMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal regi.stered. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 91)7 Liberty tStreot, Pittsburg, Pa. 
A****** Leghorns. Three 
nl nunlnLo calves, Uve months, one bull; fall 
pigs; service boars; Rose Comb and Single-Comb 
White Leghorn Fowls; eggs for hatching. 
HOMER J. BROWN. Harford, Corll ind Co., N. Y. 
For Scotch and A '\f n Q U I D CT G 
American-bred I IW I I I iw Ei 
of best dairy quality, and Shetland Ponies, gentle foi 
children. Address J. F. CONVERSE & CO.^ Wood- 
vUle, Jefferson County, N Y 
* I p Purebred Devon Calves 
at reasonable prices. 
B. J. WIGHTMAN, West Eaton, N. Y. 
Dorlfohiroo”^'^®*' *****^ American blood. 
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FOR SALE 
Ice. 
Choice Recorded Large English 
Berkshlr Boarsi ready for senr 
Write your wants or come. 
B. B. BALL, Stanley, N. Y., B, V. D. 1. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES rg^’^tn^ 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester,Mich 
Re|i. P. Chinas, BerKshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. Write for 
prices and description. Return If not 
_ _ satisfactory; we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Rosenvlck, Chester Co., Pa. 
nrnvcilinpc Choice Berkshire Pigs eligible 
DCn^OnilfCd to registry. Prices reason¬ 
able. SUGAR GROVE FARM, Grantsvllle, Md. 
0 1 P PIPQ for sale at farmers’prices. Fine 
I If Ui rlUu stock. None bettor; few as goon. 
May and June delivery. J. D. DATES, Idlewild 
Farm, R. F. D. No. 9, Ludlowvlllo, N. Y. 
0 1 P As good as money win buy 
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Pedigree furnished with every animal. Start light 
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G. S. IIEN.JAMLV Horf< MV.h 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnificently 
bred A. J. BENEDICT, Woodworth, Wls. 
Jk A I in purebred Scotch 
L# FA f \ I Ia Collie Pups. Present 
price from $5 to $10 each. 
W. W. 
Apply promi)tly to 
CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
Eggs, 4c. 
J W. Wyan. I Farm Range. W. IRISH. 
(R. I. Reds, f Po’keepsie, N.Y. B.F.D. 
MAM for hatching from choice matings of Barred 
HUv P. Rocks and White Wyandotte#. $3 per 
ttfng; three sittings, $5. 
ifton, Ulster County, N. Y 
WOODCREST FARM, 
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
for Sale for setting from Pittsburg and Cleveland 
winners. High scoring, large size, great egg produc¬ 
ers. Remainder of season: 15 eggs, $1.50; 50 eggs, $4 60. 
A circular for the asking. 
JNO. W. WARRICK, Washington, Pa. 
Eggs that Hatch at Cut Prices 
Distance no objection. Wej)ackin cotton batting, 
which i)revents jar and chill. B. Rocks. W. Wyan¬ 
dottes, B. Leghorns. MT. BLANCO POULTRY 
FARM, Mt. Blanco, Ohio. 
Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes 
Eggs for hatching, $3 per 100. 
C. A. HALL, Oak Hill, Greene County, N Y. 
White Plymouth Rock Eggs for Hatch 
ing; 13 for 50c. J. M. Thorniley, Marietta, Ohio. 
rppp 15,$1; 4U,$2. Buff, Wh..Barred Bocks; Buff, 
lUUu Wh.,Br.Leghorns; Buff, Wh.,GoldenWpn., 
Black Langshans, Buff Cochins, Lt. Brahmas, Minor- 
caS; Hamburgs. Cat. H. K. Mohr, Quukertown,Pa. 
W HITE WYANDOTTES, no fancy; bred for 
business; brown eggs; bread-winning strains: 
<500 layers; SI.50 per 16; $5 per 100; $48 per 1,000. Stock 
for sale- J. A. DbMAR, Silver Lake. Mass 
90 
varieties. Any amount Poultry, Eggs, Pigeon* 
and Hares. Guide desc. 60-page book, 10c. 
I. A BBRGBY, Box 8, Telford. Pa- 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS the ones that pay. 
We breed from the large true egg type. Have bwn 
breeding nine years to make this breed perfect, we 
bave over 700 to select from, and offer you the bei eui 
of our experience. Send for ciacular. _ 
WHITE & RICE. Box A, Vorktown,N. k. 
OnnifCDCI W. wyan., P. Rocks, 
UUUAkllEiLO Brahmas, Cochins, Leghorns, 
from prize-winning stock. 23 varieties of land ana 
water fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed. Big catalogue 
free. PINE TREE FARM, Box T, Jamesburg,N. J' 
