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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 28 
Live StockatidDairy 
Short-horn Cattle in Argentina.^ 
The picture shown on our first page, 
Fig. 303, is taken from a bulletin of the 
United States Department of Agriculture 
entitled “The Animal Industry of Ar¬ 
gentina.” Great efforts are being made 
by stock growers in Argentina to im¬ 
prove the quality of their fiocks and 
herds. Short-horn cattle are greatly de¬ 
sired, particularly as the dairy industry 
is increasing, and a good general-pur¬ 
pose cow is wanted. We print this pic¬ 
ture as a good type of the dairy Short¬ 
horn—a cow that is popular wherever 
good pasture and roughage are found. 
MIAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Smoking Stoves. —^Mrs. Mapes, and 
indeed our whole family, can sympathize 
with A. J. L., page 786, who asks about 
the smoking stove. Our kitchen chim¬ 
ney, or stove, has caused trouble occa¬ 
sionally ever since we have used it. Our 
jjredecessors had the same trouble. Al¬ 
though the chimney was over 20 feet 
high it had a way of refusing to “draw” 
when a stiff east wind was blowing. No 
matter what was on hand, even to a tur¬ 
key dinner party, the smoke would take 
possession of the kitchen and drive the 
cook out. We kept trying different ex¬ 
pedients, even tearing the chimney down 
and building a new one at the other end 
of the room. Tile chimney tops and re¬ 
volving hoods that were guaranteed to 
secure a good draft in all situations, all 
met with the same fate. Some tall ever¬ 
green trees standing near, in connection 
with the peak of the houise roof, finally 
suggested a cause for the trouble, which 
evidently was a reverse draft, caused by 
some peculiar whirl of the wind. .About 
six months ago the chimney was extend¬ 
ed fully 15 feet above the roof, making 
an unsightly job, but the problem seems 
to be solved. We have had several se¬ 
vere storms such as formerly brought 
out the gasoline stove and the cook’s 
tears, but not a puff of smoke thus far. 
Hen Advice Wanted.— Given a certain 
amount of experience, including the rais¬ 
ing of chickens by artificial means, proper 
conditions and free range, what income 
could be expected from 1,000 hens? Would 
you advise the purchase of a good quality 
of I^eghorn and Wyandotte pullets at $2 
per head to start an egg farm with, or 
would you advise buying the eggs and 
hatching and rearing the chicks by arti¬ 
ficial means for this purpose? Whaf is 
the average laying ability of the average 
pullet of the above-named breeds? Will 
pullets make good breeders at one year 
old? Will it pay to keep old hens until 
the third Fall; that is, years old? 
Would it be safe to mortgage property 
that it is not now advisable to sell at a 
sacrifice, in order to raise the capital to 
go into the chicken business (egg farm)? 
How does the following estimate strike 
you? Give comments, suggestions and 
advice. The estimate is based on an ex¬ 
perience with 100 hens, and it is proposed 
to buy 400 pullets, house them, etc., as fol¬ 
lows: Eight houses at $75, $600 ; 400 pullets 
at $2, $800 ; 40 roosters at $3, $120; extra land, 
$350; fixtures, coops, etc., $200. Total $2,000. 
In my own case the extra land is needed 
properly to arrange houses, and I find T 
can feed 100 hens for about $6 per month; 
have averaged about 150 eggs per hen per 
year and sold the eggs for about $1.87 per 
hen per year, or a fraction better than 25 
cents per dozen. At this rate I suppose it is 
reasonable to expect $748 from 400 pullets 
in one year; feed bill about $288; jnterest 
on $2,000, $100. Total, $388. This would 
leave about $360 for one year’s labor. 
Now, barring accidents, it is reasonable 
to suppose that in the Spring, if stock is 
bought at once, you will still have the 400 
pullets; that they will give you a brood 
apiece of five chicks or 2,000 chicks, and 
that you will be able to rear 1,000 pullets 
from these. We have thus started, in an¬ 
ticipation, a 1 , 000 -hen egg farm on good 
stock the feed for which to laying age 
has been paid for by the sale of the cock¬ 
erels and chicken meat. But we have to 
hou.se the remaining 600 and there will 
probably be an expense account as follows 
at the beginning of the second year: 
Twelve houses at $75, $900; coops, fixtures, 
etc, $300; interest on $2,000, $100. The 1,000 
pullets should net $1,270, and provided one 
can live without this income the houses 
should be all paid for at the end of the 
third year, and so on until the entire plant 
was free of debt, and perhaps a settled 
income established if labor and attention 
is given to the business. If Mr. Mapes 
would give his approval or disapproval of 
the above dream and would comment upon 
the feasibility thereof, many. I am sure, 
would be greatly assisted through the 
columns of The R. N.-Y. a. r. 
It strike.s me that there are most of 
the elements of success in the above 
“dream.” Experience will suggest some 
changes in this man’s estimates, but he 
has left plenty of room for reserves on 
which to draw. If he has plenty of per¬ 
severance and good common sense I see 
no risk in his making the attempt to 
work his dream into a reality. 
Buying Stock and Fixtuhes. —The 
purchase of good foundation stock at 
the price named, sufficient to lay all eggs 
reeded for hatching is good policy, but 
he will not need so many as 400. Incu¬ 
bators and brooders or else cheaper hens 
of common stock will be found more 
satisfactory for hatching and brooding; 
200 layers should be an ample stock 
from which to raise 1,000 pullets. Bet¬ 
ter plan to hatch 3,000 chicks instead of 
2,000. More or less mortality is sure to 
be encountered. His allowance of $75 
per house for 50 hens can be shaded to 
quite an extent, and still have good com¬ 
fortable houses. I think 150 eggs per 
hen an exceptionally good yield, but if 
he can secure it and get 25 cents per 
dozen for them he will have an income 
of over $3 per hen instead of $1.87 as 
stated. Forty roosters at $3 each is at 
least twice as many as will be needed, 
even for 400 hens. The $500 allowed for 
“coops, fixtures, etc.,” would better be 
invested mostly in incubators and brood¬ 
ers. I should advise the cutting out of 
those Wyandotte birds entirely. Re¬ 
ferring to market quotations at present 
time, it will be noticed that best selected 
white eggs are quoted in New York mar¬ 
ket at 38 cents per dozen, while best 
selected mixed eggs are only quoted at 
31 cents. What is the use of raising 
mixed eggs, when market conditions 
make so much difference in favor of 
white eggs? This difference is extreme 
just now, but the white eggs are in 
greater demand at all times. This dif¬ 
ference will more than pay the interest 
on the proposed outlay if only white 
eggs are produced. 
PuDLETS AND Hbns. —Will pullets 
make good breeders at one year old? 
Yes, but do not force them to lay too 
much until eggs are wanted for hatching 
purposes. This seems to be the con¬ 
census of opinion in best-informed 
circles. “Will it pay to keep old hens 
until the third Fall—that is 214 years 
old?” Yes, and even longer if desired. 
I had a call yesterday from one of The 
R. N.-Y. family who says he is making 
over $2 per hen yearly above the cost of 
feed from his hens, and that he finds a 
three or four-year-old hen equal to a 
pullet. This man lives near Passaic, 
and has a good retail^ market for his 
eggs at high prices. Most of the 
“dreams” of the possibilities of the 1,000- 
hen farm are indulged in by men who 
have no capital and no experience. Tliese 
are different matters from one who has 
property that he can mortgage, and who 
“can live without this income for the 
first two years.” The tested ability to 
secure 150 eggs each from 100 hens is 
a great factor towards success. If 'he 
can duplicate that with 1,000 hens, a 
handsome income is assured. The great¬ 
er the number of eggs produced daily 
the higher the price which can be se¬ 
cured for the eggs. I had a chance to 
secure an order recently from a hotel 
which is willing to pay 50 per cent above 
highest market quotations, provided I 
could guarantee ^ree crates every day 
and eight crates each Friday, What an 
inducement for a big hen dairy! 
O. W. MARKS. 
Good 
News 
for Stockmen 
During this month, if you will write 
giving statement of s.vmptoms and 
conditions, 
DR. HESS 
M.D., 
D.V.S.. 
The Eminent Veterinarian, 
Will Prescribe 
for any of your ailintr animals. 
Tins service would likely cost you 
a good many dollars it secured in 
the usual way. Absolutely no 
charge—send2c stamp for reply. 
Say what stoeJt you have—how 
many head of each—wliat 
stock food you have used, 
and mention tills paper. 
I>R. HESS & CLARK, 
Ashland, Ohio. 
Makers of Hr. Heaa Stock Food 
Breeders’ Directory 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES. Scotch Collies, Spayed 
” Eemales. SILAS DECKER, South Montrose. Pa. 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal registered. 
WOODCUE8T FARM, Rlfton, Ulster Co., N. T. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN STOCK. 
—Heifer and 
_ and Bull 
Calves for sale at very low prices. Write for list giving 
prices and breeding. W.W. CHENEY,Munllus.N.Y. 
COD QAI C—Btirebred Holsteln-Frieslan Bulls 
rUn uALl from 5 to 18 months old. Improved 
Chester White Pigs of the best breeding at reasonable 
prices. CHARLES RECORD, Peterboro, N. Y. 
fOKHOLSTEM CATTLE 
Good ones, and aU ages. Fine Yearling BnUa; 
read.' for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write DELLHUKST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa- 
you ever owned would be a bettar 
COW both in general condition and 
milk yield if fed a regular ration of 
Alma Dried-Molasses 
Beet-Polp 
When pasture is insufficient or altogether lacking 
this Food supplies just the needed elements to 
maintain the maximum yield of milk. It is better 
than bran and costs less. 
Let us send you our printed matter which tells how 
careful we are to have it proportioned j ust right and abso- 
luteiy clean. See, too, wh.at others think about it. 
Alina Driod-Molasses Heet-Pulp is un¬ 
like many patent “ stock-foods.” It is a natural 
product and contains no drugs or other injurious 
ingredients. 
Sanitary Milk Co.. Grand Rapids. Mich., writes: “Send 
a second carload. We find it as a milk producer better 
than bran." 
If you are feeding stock for the market you will 
find Alma Dried-Molasses Heet-Rnlp fed 
with grain the best fattener, because it increases 
the appetite, aids digestion and assimilation. 
Do not confuse this with wet beet pulp which freezes 
and ferments, or with common dried pulp containing no 
additional sugar. It takes JG tons of wet pulp to make 
one pon of our Food, and it keeps indefinitely. The gen¬ 
uine \lma Dried Molasses Beet Pulp contains 72 times as 
much sugar as wet pulp, and nearly 5 times as much as 
common dried pulp. 
Write to-day for prices, directions for feeding, analysis 
by U. S. Governmeat expert, etc. Address 
Dept.Jfy Alma Sugar Company. 
Alma, Michigan, 
TUBULAR 
CREAM 
SEPARATOR! 
Buckets, 
Buckets, 
A Multitude 
Buckets. 
Buckets full 
of radish grat¬ 
ers,buckets full of discs, 
buckets full of vanes, 
buckets full of blades, buck¬ 
ets full of contraptions. All 
separators have these' ‘buck¬ 
et bowls” except just one,the 
Tubular; a distinct type, an 
improved separator entirely 
different from all others. 
Simple, convenient, safe, 
durable and efficient. Skims closer and re 
quires less power to run than any other 
separator. Free catalogue No. 153- 
THE SHARPIES CO., P. M. SHARPIES, 
Chicigo, llllnolt. W(tt ChttUr, Pi. 
Clean Skimming. 
That’s the bright mark of the popular priced 
AMERICAN 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
They win when they work beside others. 
That’s why we can send them freely on 
trial. America catalogis free. Write for it. 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO. 
Box 1066 
BalnbrldflO, N.Y. 
I UMI JR kood agents to sell Keyclone Call 
fAIH I Feeder. Positively best made. 
Good inducements to live people only. Write today. 
W. T. PHILLIPS, Box 18, POMEROY, PAu 
'’Foster Steel Stanchion 
The only completely acceptable device lor holding 
cattle; made of steel; allows greatest freedom of 
bead; cattle cannot spring or loosen it; easily op- 
-erated. Once used supplants 
all others. W. G. Markham, 
of Avon, N. Y., says: 
**I have iix different makes of Stan- 
chions in tny stable— Dune of them 
is equal to the Foster. 1 shall use 
it m preference to all others." 
Agents reap a harvest by se¬ 
curing territory. Big Pay. 
Send for circular No. 12 
FRANK H. BATTLES, 
Seed Grower, 
Roohesier, New Verk. 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale 25 Cows, 
8 Heifers. 3» Bulls. 8. E. NIVIN, Landenburg, Pa 
|-|ERE are two Jersey Bulls that must go? They 
* K are both sired by my great prize winner. Queen’s 
Czar,55573 Nol.dropped De(’ember25.1902, Dam Ida’s 
Orphan Maid, 151.980. No. 2, dropped April 22, 1903, 
Dam Hickory’s Rlssa, 117,093. (Butterrecord 14 pounds 
10 ounces in 7 days). Any fair offer will be considered 
Also cows and heifers for sale. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Poolville, N. Y. 
GNAGEY FARM 
Offers Jersey Bull Calves on approval. If you need 
one. write us at once. SAMUEL HERSHBERGER, 
Manager, Grantsvilie. Md. 
in KUKTHiIUIDl? Dire farrowed in Sept.. 1903, by 
4U DoIllVOniuL rlbO Gold Heels. 69838, and out 
of Sows by King Will of Fllston. 59811, that will please 
any fancier of Berkshire blood. They will be disposed 
of at prices that wiU appeal to anyone about to in 
vest in Berkshire Swine. 1 have two grand yearling 
Boars, four March and April Boars, and ten March 
and April, HX)3 farrowed Sows, large, and fit to be bred 
for next Spring litters. All of first-class breeding 
and fine individuals. I breed to sell. 1 do not expect 
to have this lot long. Address, 
J. E. WATSON. “Springbank.” Marbledale. Ct 
CHESHIRES FOR SALE. 
Two Young Boars, two gilts, weight 100 pounds; fine 
stock $10. Registered. Rabbit Hounds, fourmonths 
Old, pups, $5 All stock guaranteed. 
H GRANT, Cleveland, N. Y. 
t P. CMnas, BerKsliires and C. Whites. 
- 8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
' Service Boars, Bred Sows. *Writefor 
prices and desciiptlon. Return if not 
^ _ satisfactory: we refund the money. 
HAM IT,TON X'. CO.. Er elldnuTi. Ghocter ro.. Pa. 
THE NIAGARA STOCK FARM 
flers some choice Shropshire Ewes of different age- 
red to Imported Rams Address, ,, -o- 
J. C. DUNCAN, Lewiston, N Y. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES ST;!" 
3 g. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADO.W BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
Rural Poultry Farm, 
Bar-ed and White Plymouth Rocks and Buff Cochins. 
Eggs and stock for sale Illustrated catalogue of 
poultry houses for stamp only. 
Var’s Poultry. Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats, 
10 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty 60 p book, lOc. 
Ratesfree. J A BERGBY, Box8,Telford, Pa 
S TOCK FOK SALK—Cockerels, Pullets and Hens. 
All leading varieties. ■ Prices lower now than 
later. Write to-day and state your wants. 
MT. BLA MGO POUTiTRY FARM. Mt. Blanco. Ohio. 
—Four Cockerels for $6 If 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
from big eggs from big hens. All purebred, without 
disqualifications. WHITE & RICE, 
tW~JiOX A, Yorktown, N. Y. 
IHIGKENS 
mbators. Booklet free. 
Sound and Strong ones are 
easy to liaise. Use the PER¬ 
FECTED HATCHING SYS¬ 
TEM to get them. It beats 
F. Grundy, Moriisonville, Ill. 
FERRETS 
—The finest lot ever offered 
for sale at Shady Lawn Ferret 
Farm. Price list free. 
Address, W. J. WOOD, New 
London, Ohio. 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnificently 
bred. A.’J. BENEDICT, Woodworth. Wis. 
nClTU Tfl I inC hens and CHICKS, 
IICA In I U LlUC 64-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307. Apponaug. R. I. 
MAKES HENS LAY 
10 dftjg* frM trial, no monej In ndranoo, on 
Mann’a New Model Bone Cutter, 
Ton prOTO on jour own premlaoi tbat 11 iatiu omIot and 
•utB faator than any other. Catalofuo free. 
F. W. MANN CO., BOX IS. MILFORD. MASS. 
THE CROWN 
bones. For the poultryman. Best in the world. 
Loieest in price. Send for circular and testi¬ 
monials. Wilson Bros., EASTON, PA. 
HOW TO FEED AND BREED HOGS 
A 
swine 
paper for farmers can be had from now 
• January, 1905 , by sending 10 Cents 
In Silver at once to 
is of Importance to swine growers, 
practical, clean, common-sense sw 
BLOODED STOCK, 
Oxford, Pa. 
PRESCOTT’S S 
KEKPS 
WINGING 
WIVEL 
TANCHION 
COWS CLEAN 
Swings forward while get¬ 
ting up or lying down. Locks 
back while standing. Pull 
particulars free. PRESCOTT, 
50 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
