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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 15 
Live Stockand Dairy 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Grain Slop for Pigs.—I n feeding pigs a 
grain slop (no milk) should It be fed sweet 
or allowed to ferment? c. e. w. 
New Hamburg, N. Y. 
Feed sweet by all means. While I am 
not prepared to deny that it is possible 
to secure a ferment that would be an aid 
to digestion, the chances are ten to one 
that in the average swill barrel a harm¬ 
ful ferment is started. It is a well recog¬ 
nized fact that the feeding value of whey 
deteriorates very rapidly as fermenta¬ 
tion progresses. Doubtless the same is 
true of all mixtures of grain and water 
in the swill barrel. 
Ailing Chicks. —This Spring I bought a 
second-hand Cyphers 360-egg incubator, and 
I set it and received a good hatch. In 
about three days the chickens began to 
have bowel trouble and over half died. 
1'hc second lot did likewise. Can you tell 
me the cause? I aired the eggs less than 
five minutes each day (no directions came 
with the machine). The eggs w’ere from 
hens that laid all Winter and had been 
fed ground bone, corn and oats. How long 
do you air your eggs? What do you feed 
your chickens for the first week? 
Fulton. N. y. F. G. V. 
There are so many causes which might 
produce bowel trouble in young chicks 
that I hesitate to make a guess on such 
meagre information. If the incubator is 
operated in a room that is not severely 
cold I would prefer to air the eggs long¬ 
er than five minutes a day. After the 
advent of warm weather, a half hour is 
not too long. I have frequently left the 
doors open all night by an oversight at 
different stages of the hatch, and must 
confess that equally good hatches were 
secured as when no such oversight oc¬ 
curred. I think the fact that these hens 
had been laying well all Winter tended 
to produce chicks of weakened vitality. 
It is a well recognized fact that late- 
hatched chicks are harder to raise than 
early ones. I believe this to be due at 
least partly to the fact that the early 
hatches are from hens that have not 
been laying long. It is pretty generally 
conceded also that breeding stock fed 
exclusively on whole grain gives strong¬ 
er chicks than where they are forced to 
excessive laying by means of soft 
mashes, etc. We have used bread 
crumbs for the first week or so, moist¬ 
ened with water, without any loss from 
bowel trouble. 
ber-hatched chicks in them without arti¬ 
ficial heat other than the one lamp in 
the brooder. We do not use yards for 
breeding stock, since we only breed one 
variety of fowls. Where an attempt is 
made to breed different varieties it 
would be necessary either to use yards 
during the breeding season or locate the 
colonies farther apart. o. w. mapes. 
A WOMAN FARMER’S NOTES. 
Boarding Stock. —A woman on a 
farm meets some conditions which seem 
of less consequence to a man, but which 
loom up in gigantic proportions before 
her. The question of fence repairs was 
a serious one to me. There was a good 
deal of barbed wire on the farm, more 
or less good. There were posts, too, but 
there was little money to pay for labor. 
It occurred to me that if I took some of 
my neighbors stock to pasture it would 
pay for the fencing and poissibly do 
more good than harm. There are at 
least four acres of swale with a running 
stream through it. It is very enduring 
pasture, and is ready for use, as soon as 
dry enough in the Spring. One side of 
the swale a hill extends the width of the 
farm north to south, and a fence ran 
along its foot, leaving a few rods of hard 
land in the pasture lot. On the other 
side of the north end of the swale is an 
old apple orchard of perhaps 10 acres. 
About ?20 was expended in making the 
fence good on orchard and swale. I pas¬ 
tured one milch cow, 11 yearlings and 
one colt, besides my own two cows and a 
calf, and received $48.75. Some of the 
yearlings went away after harvest, and 
some stayed until frost. Last year I in¬ 
closed another field and took 13 board¬ 
ers besides the cow and colt of the year 
before. I had two milch cows and three 
yearlings of my own through the season, 
and for a few weeks had two two-year- 
old heifers which I sold before mid¬ 
summer. I received $55.40 for pasture. 
There was a large crop of apples, so that 
I was obliged to keep the stock out of 
the orchard before the first of July, and 
the swale and the new field were eaten 
quite bare. I feared that this would ruin 
the new pasture, but only the milch cowis 
and a few others were turned on it this 
Spring, the other pasture being suffi- 
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Shoo-Fly 
This cow -was 
a terror to 
, milk prior to 
using cents 
worth of Shoo-Fly. Had it 
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.milk and flesh to theamountof $14.00. The 
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8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
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purebred Holsteln- 
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Golony Houses. —"What is the size of Mr. 
Mapes's colony houses and how made? 
How many hens does he keep in them? 
How far apart are they? 'Does he have 
yards for breeding stock? Has he ever 
tried individual houses with one brooder 
for young chicks, and how does he like 
them compared with long brooder houses? 
Wliat size should they be? c. n. r. 
Canton, Pa. 
Our colony houses are 10x12 feet 
■with shed roof. They are eight feet 
high in front and five feet four inches 
at rear. The siding, floor and roof are 
of matched inch boards. The sides are 
lined with single-ply tarred felt, and 
the roof covered with either two-ply or 
three-ply roofing felt. The floors are 
covered deeply with shavings or other 
litter in Winter. If roosts are properly 
constructed and ventilated the droppings 
will not freeze in these ho,, es in sever¬ 
est Winter nights. Most of them are 
eight rods apart. At this distance the 
sod is not destroyed, hut the fields are 
always green and furnish lots of pas¬ 
ture for cattle in addition to what the 
hens eat. In a few places where colonies 
of 50 hens are located only four or five 
rods apart the sod Is mostly destroyed, 
and very little is growing except weeds. 
I have tried Individual brooder houses 
with a single brooder, but find a long 
house with a number of brooders much 
more convenient and satisfactory. Our 
Individual brooder houses are 6x8 feet, 
and we have aucceaefully raised Novem- 
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