526 
July 18 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stockand Dairy 
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MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Turnips for Cows. —How do turnips 
(rutabagas, I suppose), affect cows in 
making butter? 1 shall not have a good 
hay crop this year, and would like to plant 
about an acre of turnips for my cows if 
it wnild not taint the butter. Some tell 
me it would, and some the reverse, so I 
would like your view on the subject. I 
have also started in the poultry busine.ss, 
and am much interested in your weekly 
notes. 
I'^ranklin Falls. N. H. 
If the same precaution is used as in 
feeding turnips for selling milk, there 
need be no fear of injuring the butter. 
Turn a cow loose in a turnip field at 
noon, let her eat turnips until milking 
time, and both her breath and her milk 
will be rank with the turnip fiavor. Feed 
in the stable, immediately after milk¬ 
ing, in connection with some grain feed 
and hay or other dry fodder, and if they 
affect the breath and milk at all the ef¬ 
fect will have entirely disappeared by 
next milking time. This is probably due 
to the extremely volatile nature of the 
turnip flavoring principle. Rutabagas 
are probably the best, especially for late 
Spring feeding, but the Purple-top, Cow- 
horn or Yellow Stone are good enough, 
and an enormous crop of them can be 
grown on a small amount of land with 
no labor except sowing the seed on well- 
prepared ground, and gathering the 
crop. If sown broadcast it is well to 
mix some clover seed with it in order 
to facilitate an even seeding. One pound 
of seed to the acre, if evenly distributed, 
is ample. A better way is to mix the 
pound of seed evenly in 300 pounds of 
nitrate of soda or some high-grade fer¬ 
tilizer. In this way it may be sown any 
time in August on well-prepared land. 
When pitted for late Spring feeding the 
pits should be dug deep and narrow. A 
broad deep pit will sometimes ferment 
in the middle, causing them to rot. Nar¬ 
row bins in the cellar are also prefer¬ 
able to broad ones on the same account. 
Nothing is much more offensive to han¬ 
dle than a lot of rotten turnips. 
Planning a Henhouse.— I intend to buil.'l 
a henhouse 12 x 25 feet to accommodate 100 
hens in two flocks, and expect to add to it 
later on until it i.s perhaps 100 feet long 
and sheltering 400 fowls. On account of 
the lay of the land, it will be necessary to 
build it nearly north and south, so that 
the windows must face east or west. Will 
you give me a few points on this matter? 
Shall I put all of the windows east or 
west, or alternate ones on each side? Will 
the position of the house be greatly in¬ 
ferior to one facing south, regarding the 
production of Winter eggs? f. w. p. 
Preston, N. T. 
In a house of this size I should place 
the windows on the east side, and alteo 
a good-sized one in the south end. This 
will give ample light for the present. 
Should the building ever be extended 
very much it would then be advisable 
to put part of the windows in the west 
side. With only two pens, and wire net¬ 
ting for the partition, ample light can 
be secured from windows on the east 
side and south end. This gives a good 
opportunity for roosting tables, perches, 
etc., along north side. 
Filtration Ventilating. —The new 
ventilating system, by means of filtra¬ 
tion, described on page 730, last volume, 
has been patented, and is to be installed 
in a large poultry plant now building at 
the New Jersey State Home for Boys at 
Jamesburgh. The new system claims to 
solve .the heretofore troublesome prob¬ 
lem of avoiding cold drafts in the hen 
roost, and also all freezing and conden¬ 
sation of moisture, without artificial 
heat. Qne of the great natural sources 
of heat, the oxidization of the blood, has 
heretofore been largely wasted In order 
to secure a supply of pure air. This new 
building at Jamesburgh, belonging to 
the State, will give Jerseymen a good 
opportunity to learn how successful the 
new system is. 
Dying Chicks.— Will you tell us what 
ails our young chicks? After all the care 
(hey have had we have lost as many as 
30. Last Fall we bought a young rooster, 
which was claimed to be a purebred Brown 
Leghorn. We kept nothing but young 
Brown Leghorn pullets and we have come 
to the conclusion that we made a mistake 
in breeding from young stock on both 
sides. Are we right? We find the third 
week the hardest to get them through. 
One of our neighbors, who has Brown Leg¬ 
horns, complains of the same trouble. My 
coops are well ventilated and made of 
boards entire, so they do not roost on the 
ground; they are whitewashed and kept 
clean. For feed we give them bread crumbs 
when first hatched, and from the time 
they are a week old my wife bakes corn 
bread for them; as they grow older they 
have cracked corn and wheat. A very 
little carbolic acid is put in their drink¬ 
ing water; there are no lice, and yet when 
a couple of weeks old their wings droop, 
they look perfectly bloodless, and in a little 
while are dead. Are the Brown Leghorns 
harder to raise than other breeds? We 
hear more complaints of them than any 
other. G. M. D. 
Paegertown. Pa. 
Would that I could tell this reader 
positively the cause and cure of his 
trouble! The best that I can do is to 
surmise. A's hardy healthy chicks as I 
have ever seen were many of them 
Brown Leghorns, so that I hardly think 
it fair to blame the breed. Very many 
of our most successful poultry raisers 
use yearling stock only in their breed¬ 
ing pens. They will not attribute the 
trouble to the age of the parent birds. 
It appears from the description that the 
worst period is between the time that 
bread crumbs are fed and the time that 
cracked wheat is first used. Nothing but 
corn bread is used during this period, so 
far as appears. Science tells us that 
corn is notoriously deficient in some of 
the elements needed to build a young 
chicken. Is it not fair to assume that 
the corn-bread diet is bad for the chicks 
and that to add a portion of coarsely- 
ground wheat to the meal from which 
the bread is baked would be wise? 
.•\s Mr. Maiic.s sighs for a really good 
brooder I want to tell him what I have 
seen the Petaluma brooder do. Elmer 
Ross, of King Co., Wash., has used them 
for five years. About a month ago I went 
to see his poultry plant, and there were 
200 chicks a week or 10 days old in one 
brooder and all seemed to be doing, well. 
They did not get proper care otherwise, 
as the brooder had not been cleaned for 
.several days. The brooder house is made 
of rough, unmatched boards with tar paper 
outside and a two-inch space over the 
ifiate. J. *• 
W'oodinsville, Wash. 
J. R. does not tell us whether or not 
this good brooder has an automatic heat 
regulator. The kind that I am sighing 
for will maintain a uniform tempera¬ 
ture, in all kinds of weather, day and 
night, without very much attention, 
closely imitating in this respect the 
blood in the mother hen’s body. 
O. W. MAPES. 
PASTURE THE HOGS. 
Recently, while looking over a western 
farm paper I found an article entitled: 
“Root, hog or die,” in which the writer 
advocated letting the hogs run loose and 
hunt their own living till the pigs were 
fit to be put into the fattening pen. Out 
here in Kansas this suggestion is being, 
or rather has been, carried out long be¬ 
fore said writer outlined the plan. The 
trouble is that the hogs when turned out 
generally root where they should not. 
In the Spring, about the first thing on 
the programme will be a raid into the 
garden, where they soon discover a 
patch of newly-planted potatoes. After 
rooting up about all they can find they 
next turn their attention to some hot¬ 
beds; after finishing up here they will 
come back home, upset the slop bucket, 
and spoil the water your wife or hired 
girl put out for the chickens by wallow¬ 
ing in it. Not satisfied with playing the 
mischief at home they pay a visit to 
your neighbor’s oat field or corn patch; 
root up his meadow’ or get into his corn- 
crib. If your neighbor has hogs of his 
own running outside it wmn’t make so 
much difference, but if not he will most 
likely set the dogs on your drove and 
send some of them home minus one ear 
or tail, and just as like as not a lawsuit 
for damages will follow’. Build hog pas¬ 
tures and see to it that your hogs do 
their rooting where they can harm noth¬ 
ing. An acre sown down to rye, or bet¬ 
ter still to Alfalfa, fenced hog tight, will 
keep a large drove of hogs, and keep 
them in better condition too than all the 
range of country in Sight. A man who 
can afford to raise hogs at all can afford 
to keep them up, and a man who cannot 
afford to keep them at home should not 
raise any in the first place. j. m. r. 
Kansas. 
GLUTEN AS STOCK FOOD. 
Can Kluten feed be fed alone? Should it 
always be mixed with bran? Can it be fed 
with corn? Do horses and cow’s relish it 
fe.d alone? j. h, a. 
New Jer.sey. 
If fed in any amount it would very 
rapidly increase the protein content of 
the ration. If three pounds of gluten 
were fed each day, so far as the effect 
of the gluten itself was concerned there 
would be no difference whether fed alone 
or with other food. I do not think that 
animals as a rule take as kindly to the 
food alone, although usually they will 
soon learn to eat it. I should not ex¬ 
pect the best results if fed with bran. 
The ration would contain an excess of 
protein, and would not have the desired 
physiological effect. Foods like bran, 
middlings and gluten have a tendency to 
loosen the bow’els, and are especially 
disadvantageous if fed to driving horses. 
I should much prefer to mix gluten with 
corn for horses, equal parts, varied of 
course to suit the needs of the individ¬ 
ual. For cows mix gluten With corn if 
they are heavy milkers and would lose 
flesh, without it. For cow’s inclined to 
put on fat, gluten fed alone might be 
satisfactory. Prof. Kennedy, of the 
Iowa Experiment Station, found good re¬ 
sults from mixing gluten, bran and corn, 
equal parts, fed to hard-working horses, 
that is draft horses. My experience 
would suggest for draft horses equal 
parts gluten, corn and middlings; for 
drivers, varying according to the de¬ 
mands of the individual, using these 
same foods. I am assuming that the 
inquirer does not want to feed oats. 
H. E. c. 
A Hand Separator. —My experience with 
a cream separator is only one of the many 
proofs that a farm might just as well be 
without cows as without a separator. I 
weighed my milk for a week; creamed it 
by gravity system, and made 914 pounds of 
butter. Then I weighed for a week, using 
the same number of pounds of milk and 
used separator, and made 12% pounds of 
butter. This is a gain of over 35 per cent 
in butter fat, and surely must be 35 cents 
on the dollar. I find the skim-milk per¬ 
fectly clean with a Babcock test. The 
warm skim-milk, to feed, is worth nearly 
as much as new milk is sold for. The best 
of butter can be made. The separators are 
labor savers, besides being much more 
cenvenient. d. j. b. 
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Free tnltion to New York State students. Bztextd«4 
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EORHOLSTEIN cattle 
Tood ones, and all ages Fine Yearling Bulls 
ready for service, 
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HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice voung stock of she oest breeding for saJs 
■Prices reasonable Every animal registered. 
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GUERNSEYS 
—30 Cows and 3 Bulls 
for sale. Home choice 
stocli at low prices. 
Address JOUN MILLIGAN,273 W. Main Street. Port 
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Registered Jersey Bull Cafvet^ 
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at reasonable prices, 
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FtVECHOtCE ANGUS BULLS 
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The best large hog. Get a Boar and have large litters, 
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WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
j 700 Big White Beauties, bred to lay Big White Eggs; 
nine years developing the strain. WHITE & RICE. 
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90 
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Shoo-Qy 
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ANIMALS’ 
FRIEND 
KUtfl 
every 
fly it 
strikes! 
keeps off 
the rest. 
Harmless 
to man 
or beast. 
This cow wai 
a terror to 
milk prior to 
using cents 
worth of Shoo-Flj'. Had it 
■been used earlier, she would 
milk aud flesh to theamountof |14.00. ine 
otbcrcowwas protected early and continued 
to give 18 qts.of milkdaily through fly-time. 
Shoo-Fly*^ the orif^nal stock protector used by the Bamo 
dairy*men since 1885, after testing ImltatiQns. It prevents contagi¬ 
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diseases, hoof ailments, etc. NO LICE in poultry house or any 
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hours and make sores. If your dealer does not keep Bhoo-J aj 
( made In Philadelphia, Pa.,) send ns fl.OO for latest ImpTovea 
Three Tube Sprayer and enough Bhoo*Ely to protect 200 cows. 
Cash returned if cows are not protected. f 
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