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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17 
THE POULTRY SHOW. 
Maria is a Brahma fowl with feathers on 
her lees. 
She's queen of Perkin’s barnyard when it 
comes to laying eggs; 
She's earned a social standing through her 
“one-a-day” success, 
But Maria’d swap her honors for a rainy 
daisy dress. 
On such a day as Monday, now, the trim 
young Plymouth Rocks 
Can go a-promenading through the puddles 
with the cocks, 
The while Maria tempest-bound, with comb 
all creased with care, 
Regards this flirty jollity with jealous, en¬ 
vious stare. 
She does not cross the barnyard, for she’d 
wet her feathered legs— 
And a case of epizootic interferes with lay¬ 
ing eggs. 
Off yonder is the cuttle fish and yonder is 
the sand. 
And here she stands full-bloomered and all 
helpless on the strand, 
The while her sisters ’tend to biz and travel 
at their ease, 
With water to their—what d’ye say? Their 
elbows or their knees? 
And though she’s social leader, ah, Maria 
will confess 
She’d swap her hard-won honors for a 
rainy daisy dress. 
—Lewiston Evening Journal. 
REMARKS ON “THE FAT HEN." 
If a hen gets too fat to lay, she will 
surely have to get poorer before laying, 
even though fed a balanced ration. • It is 
very doubtful, in my opinion, whether a 
laying hen will ever get too fat to lay, 
even though fed on corn exclusively, if 
she be allowed free range, and there is 
anything to be found within that range 
that she can utilize as a bulky or an in¬ 
sect food. From my personal observa¬ 
tions I feel confident in saying that the 
hen that gets too fat to lay is one that 
either cannot lay, owing to some defect 
of the egg-producing organs, or more 
likely, one that never would lay half 
enough eggs to pay her board, and there 
are likely to be some of this kind in 
every flock. There is a great difference 
in the breeds as to their habit of putting 
on fat. My experience indicates that the 
Cochins are easiest to fatten, even more 
so than the Brahmas, and at the same 
time they are, with the possible excep¬ 
tion of the Indian Game, the poorest 
layers of any breed I have ever kept. 
But for capons and market poultry gen¬ 
erally, 1 know of no breed that presents 
a finer appearance than the Cochins and 
Indian Games. The Plymouth Rock and 
Wyandotte are surely the best all-’round 
fowl, when everything is considered, 
both for eggs and as market poultry. 
The Leghorn and Minorca type are the 
slowest to take on fat, and while they 
are considered the heaviest layers, I 
have not found them to be the most 
profitable, as they really are not so good 
Winter layers, under ordinary condi¬ 
tions, as some of the other breeds, and 
the Fall and Winter eggs are those that 
count best. 
There is much said against corn as a 
poultry food, but for my part, if I were 
confined to one grain for feeding, that 
one would be corn every time. A few 
years ago I was as much against corn, 
as principal food, as anyone, and fed 
very little of it. but am thankful for 
living in a fi’ee country, where one can 
change his mind. This change was 
rather forced upon me by the difference 
in price between corn and other grains. 
For the last two years corn has been the 
principal grain food used here, with 
wheat and other grains occasionally for 
a change. Formerly it was the other 
way about. Now I would much rather 
take corn, clover hay, green clover, or 
Dwarf Essex rape, and green bones or 
ground meat, than all the ocher rations 
ever mentioned, without the corn. Hens, 
when fed corn as the principal grain 
food, will surely give a larger number of 
hatchable eggs, and better quality eggs 
for table use, than those fed a highly 
nitrogenous ration, even though they do 
not lay a larger number, and I am not 
sure, by any means, that there will not 
be a greater number, as well as better 
quality. Do not understand me as advo¬ 
cating the feeding of corn exclusively, 
but make it the principal grain food, and 
I am confident that you will get satis¬ 
factory results. If I were sure that the 
hens were too fat to lay, I should send 
them to market at once, as they never 
get too fat for that purpose, and it is 
very doubtful as to whether they would 
ever be profitable layers, even though 
reduced in flesh and fed the best-bal¬ 
anced ration. It would be far more prof¬ 
itable to send them to market while fat, 
and give their room to better layers. 
J. E. STEVENSON. 
HUMAN TUBERCULOSIS AND CATTLE 
in an address before the special com¬ 
mittee of the New York Legislature, ap¬ 
pointed to consider tuberculosis, I ad¬ 
vised the committee especially to in¬ 
vestigate the question of communicating 
the disease from cow to man, because 
the question of how to deal with bovine 
tuberculosis depends upon the solution 
of this problem. I told the committee 
that thus far the money and efforts al¬ 
ready spent to eradicate the disease in 
cattle in this State had accomplished 
practically nothing, and other States 
that had not spent a dollar were just as 
well off as our own. 1 predicted they 
would find that where cattle tuberculosis 
is plentiful, human tuberculosis is so 
rare as to bear no relation to it; that 
when in the thick of bovine tubercu¬ 
losis they would find themselves prac¬ 
tically outside the consumptive belt. 
That committee has been working on the 
subject for the past six months, and has 
examined over 60 witnesses, more than 
half of whom were experts, among them 
men eminent in the several professions, 
biology, meuicine and veterinary sur¬ 
gery, and they selected especially men 
who have given tuberculosis consider¬ 
able study. Their report states that 
“Evidence taken by the committee 
would indicate that very rarely, if ever, 
does a person contract tuberculosis 
from meat or miiK of animals.” Thus 
every prediction I made to that commit¬ 
tee last August has been fulfilled, and 
the recommendation then made, that 
for the present it will only be necessary 
for the State to give cattle owners full 
information on the subject, in order for 
them to wora out their salvation, has 
been seconded by the committee, when 
they say, “The evidence seems very 
abundant that the State can better use 
its funds along the lines of educational 
work, rather than following the present 
policy of destroying all animals show¬ 
ing a reaction under the tuberculin test.” 
EDWARD MOORE, V. 8 . 
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COMANN, Franklin, N. C., November 11,1892. 
For the Liver use Jayne’s Painless Sanative Pills. 
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