1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
209 
SOME POULTRY NOTES. 
Leg Weakness in Hens. 
is there any remedy for hens that seem 
to have lost the use of their legs? They 
eat well, but cannot stand. They have 
been fed on good wholesome food; boiled 
potatoes, bran, and corn meal mixed in the 
morniijg, and afternoon, two or three kinds 
of grain, mixed. w. c. H. 
Orwell, Vt. 
This leg-weakness in hens is usually 
due to overfeeding and idleness. I would 
advise reducing the feed, and to feed 
all whole grain, well mixed in plenty of 
chaff or other litter of some kind, to 
compel the hens to scratch for it. Too 
many heavy males will sometimes in¬ 
jure the hens, causing weak backs re¬ 
sembling leg-weakness. f. l. k. 
Poultry and Sprayed Poison. 
I have never as yet sprayed my apple 
orchard, but now have a sprayer, which 1 
intended to use, but am doubtful on ac¬ 
count of our fowls, that are almost always 
to be found in the orchard when not con¬ 
fined. The mixture I have for spraying is 
poisonous, and I fear that the fowls will 
be killed by what falls on the ground when 
spraying. h. f. c. 
Cornwall, N. Y. 
I do not believe that there is any case 
on record where poultry have been poi¬ 
soned by feeding in orchards which have 
been sprayed with any of the ordinary 
poison mixtures. Many years ago it was 
demonstrated that when all of the grass 
growing under a tree was fed to a 
horse soon after the tree had been thor¬ 
oughly drenched with a j/aris-green 
spray, the horse was not injured in the 
least. I should not hesitate a moment 
to spray trees with the usual poisonous 
mixtures, for fear of injuring fowls. A 
half dozen hens would have to eat most 
of the grass under a sprayed tree, at one 
meal, to get enough to poison them. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
while Charlie claimed it was the chicken 
manure he threw out of the house! I 
knew a deaf man who chewed some pep¬ 
sin gum. His hearing was temporarily 
brighter for this chewing, for the work¬ 
ing of the jaws seemed to clear the 
throat passages a little. If the man who 
made the gum could get hold of that, he 
would be out with a claim that “pepsin” 
cures deafness! n. w. c. 
Effects of Previous Mating. 
I have a B. P. Rock hen and rooster. 
The hen has been running with other fowls 
of a different breed. If I were to shut her 
and the purebred rooster together, how 
long would it be before the eggs are true 
to breed? o. l. 
Demster, N. Y. 
As a rule, hens will breed true after 
two weeks’ confinement with the prop¬ 
er males, although there are exceptions, 
and it is best to separate the different 
breeds as long as possible before the 
breeding season. Much of the difference 
of opinion in regard to this question is 
due to the different characteristics of 
the individual hens. Some hens will 
carry the effects of cross-mating much 
longer than others. There are breeders 
who go so far as to say, that hens that 
have been running with males of dif¬ 
ferent breeds, will not again prove to 
be certain breeders, during the whole 
season. I have always allowed all my 
different breeds free range, running to¬ 
gether after the season is over, and 
never had a chick to show the effects of 
it, after three weeks’ confinement in 
their respective pens. j. e. s. 
Blooded Stock says that a good way to 
give medicine to a hog that refuses to take 
it in swill is to take an old boot, cut a hole 
in the toe, put the toe part well back in 
the hog’s mouth and pour the medicine in 
the top of the boot leg. 
What Started the Hens ? 
I have just been reading about those 
hens and condition powders at Hope Farm, 
page 147 . It does look rather favorable for 
the powders, but has it occurred to you 
that those hens were just coming in profit 
when you began the powders, as it was 
about the time of the year when they 
should begin laying better, or that some 
other change in the feed had brought about 
the desired result? Of course, it may 
have been the powders that helped, but 1 
have very little faith in any kind of pow¬ 
ders when the birds are healthy, and firm¬ 
ly believe the same amount expended for 
meat and grains will give one many more 
eggs. j. e. s. 
Columbus. N. J. 
The last of the condition powder was 
fed February 20. The meat was also 
discontinued, and linseed meal fed in its 
place, btill tne 33 hens have kept at it. 
This is their record for the first 12 days 
in March: 
March 
l. 
Eggs. 
.21 
March 
7. 
Eggs. 
.14 
2. 
.13 
* < 
8. 
.20 
3. 
.21 
* ( 
9. 
.2T> 
• • 
4. 
.20 
1 4 
10. 
.14 
• • 
5. 
.12 
« « 
11.... 
.20 
« • 
6. 
.26 
• • 
12. 
.26 
We 
fed 
a hot 
rar.sh 
composed of 
ground corn and oats, with a little lin¬ 
seed meal in the morning, and shelled 
sweet corn at noon and night. The hens 
have a good range. On very cold morn¬ 
ings a dash of ginger and pepper is put 
in the mash. He would be a wise man 
who would stand up and say that he 
knows what caused the hens to start so 
rapidly and keep it up so well. Mr. 
Holmes, who sent the powder, says that 
he has started up flocks of old hens— 
five and six years old, in much the same 
way. I know that it is hard to read an 
experiment aright sometimes. Last year 
we planted some potatoes on light soil 
and used the Mapes fertilizer. The 
drought threatened the crop, and I put 
on nitrate of soda. We had a fine crop, 
but what produced it? Uncle Ed said 
it was the fertilizer; 'it looked to me as 
though the nitrate punched the crop up, 
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