1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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BRIEF POULTRY TALKS. 
An Overfed Hen. 
What Is the matter with a White Leg¬ 
horn hen, one year old, which appears 
rather dull, and when walking around, or 
sometimes -when trying to get upon the 
roosting poles, it sinks down on the ground, 
bends its head back until the back of It 
touches its back, then gazes around up 
in the air? Sometimes it appears partially 
to lose control of the muscles; then it will 
stagger around like a drunken man. Is 
there any cure for it? o. w. s. 
Applegate, N. Y. 
From description, I should judge the 
hen mentioned is a victim of overfeed¬ 
ing, or her food is too stimulating, 
causing vertigo. Give a teaspoonful of 
castor oil, or any convenient purgative, 
and feed very lightly for a few days. 
j. e. s. 
Skim-Mi Ik for Hens. 
What about feeding hens sweet skim- 
milk? It acts as purgative, but sour milk 
does not. At present we are feeding soured 
milk curds, and like it this way much bet¬ 
ter. Sometimes we mix in bran or corn 
meal for a change. w. h. a. 
South Lebanon, Conn. 
I think there must be some other 
cause for the trouble mentioned by W. 
H. A. than the sweet skim-milk. I have 
used a great deal of milk for poultry, 
and always with the most satisfactory 
results, and if I could buy what milk I 
need at a reasonable price, I would never 
think of using water for mixing the 
mash, and would also give the birds all 
the milk they would drink. I have used 
sweet milk altogether in place of water, 
for weeks at a Mme, giving the hens no 
water at all, and always with good re¬ 
sults. I think milk one of the very best 
foods for egg producing and growth of 
chicks. , J. e. s. 
An Indian Game Cross. 
I would like your opinion on crossing an 
Indian Game cock with B. P. Rocks, as a 
profitable breed. c. M. R. 
Candor, N. Y. 
The Indian Game crossed on B. P. 
Rocks will slightly improve the value of 
the offspring for market purposes, at the 
expense of decreasing their value as egg 
producers, and would probably make as 
good a cross as any, but why cross at 
all? With almost any cross of purebred 
fowls there will be as much or more lost 
in one direction as gained in the other. 
The only place where crossing is of 
much value is in improving common 
fowls, by using purebred males on com¬ 
mon hens, and by continued selections 
of the best pullets mated with males of 
the variety desired each year. One will, 
in a few years, be able to establish a 
good stock of fowls. j. e. s. 
A SMALL HERD OF BROOD SOWS. 
In my management of a small farm 
hogs have always come in for a share 
of attention, because my fancy has al¬ 
ways run in that direction. When a 
good herd of sows is secured they are 
retained as long as their work is satis¬ 
factory. They are kept under control 
so well that they do not have to be 
sold in their prime because they are 
breachy. Sometimes they are nine years 
old before they go to market. Their 
teeth fail often before they show failure 
in quality of pigs produced. For years 
Berkshires have been used, and it has 
not been found that the sows become 
sluggish and indifferent in their care 
of their pigs as they grow old. Here is 
the story of five sows: — 
May 28, 1892, two sows farrowed; the 
next day a third. The three saved at 
one day old 27 pigs. June 18 the fourth 
sow littered 13 pigs; at one day old had 
12 pigs, 11 good ones. June 22 the fifth 
sow farrowed 10 pigs, making in all 50 
pigs farrowed. The record shows that 
39 were living at weaning time, all of 
which went to market, excepting four 
killed for home use. In November sev¬ 
en were sold for breeders at $10 each, 
or, as I supposed, about seven cents per 
pound. Jan. 26, 1893, 28 were sold for 
$431.62. The four retained for home 
use at same price per 100 pounds were 
worth $60, making for the 39 hogs 
$501.62. None of them had been on the 
farm quite seven months. At the time 
I sold the seven hogs were selling at 
5% cents per pound. At time of mar¬ 
keting the others they were worth 7% 
cents per pound. February 13 to 16, 
1893, four of the sows farrowed and 
saved 34 pigs, all these went to market 
except one. April 1 the fifth sow far¬ 
rowed and saved 10 pigs. September 
20 I sold 40 pigs, weighing 7,780, at 
$5.95 per 100, saving three of the April 
pigs for meat. December 27 these 
weighed 250 pounds each, worth $4.85 
per 100, which makes for the Spring 
farrowing $499.28 and for the two lots 
$1,000.90. 
Four of these sows brought Fall lit¬ 
ters, the first one farrowing August 28, 
the last one September 2. They far¬ 
rowed 46 pigs, saved 35. These pigs 
were farrowed in field at farthest dis¬ 
tance from the farm buildings, and did 
not receive the attention they would 
have had had they been nearer home. 
But the feeding hogs were about the 
buildings and we could not have them 
all so close together. Thirty-three of 
the 35 pigs saved are good ones. Four 
of them were sold at weaning time for 
$15.50, making cash sales from the five 
sows, in less than one year, $910.02. I 
am well satisfied with these results and 
can easily see where I could have im¬ 
proved to some extent in their care and 
weights made. The lot sold January 
26, 1893, did remarkably well till the 
cold spell in January came on; they 
had warm beds, but must eat out in the 
weather. As soon as the severe cold 
came on they dropped off one-fifth in 
amount of food consumed. The lot sold 
September 22, 1893, were short of good 
grass for two months before selling. 
These points that are often hard to 
avoid cut the returns to some extent, 
but a management that carries all from 
weaning time to market without sick¬ 
ness or loss for years in succession is 
far ahead of the usual management on 
farms in the great hog-producing States. 
Ross Co.. Ohio. joiin m. jamison. 
The Cost of Horseshoeing. 
I have seen accounts published at 
times, in farm papers, of what it costs 
the farmer for shoeing horses. The fol¬ 
lowing is what I paid our blacksmith 
(he does all my shoeing, and chargest 25 
cents for new shoes and 10 cents for 
changing shoes), for the year 1899. I 
have four mules, two of which are shod 
only in front, the other two all around, 
and one driving horse, used only in 
buggy. The mules are principally worked 
on the farm and on dirt roads: 
For new shoes for mules.$3.25 
For changing shoes and renailing. 1.50 
Driving horse (on all kinds of roads), 
for new shoes. 1.00 
For changing shoes.80 
Total for year.$6.55 
Uniontown, Md. j. m. s. 
R. N.-Y.—To those of us who travel 
on hard stone roads or on pavements 
such figures are startling. In New York 
on the stone pavements, the cost of 
snoeing a single horse, at retail prices, 
would be at least $35. The easier for 
tne wheels the harder on the heels. 
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