1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
379 
A Lay of an Ancient Hen. 
Yes, I am a lazy, fat old hen, 
The pet of the farmer’s wife; 
I’ve never reared a family 
Or laid but one egg in my life . 
I never get up in the morning till ten, 
And I go to roost at four, 
With a crop chuck-full of the finest corn— 
Now, what could a hen want more? 
There’s some of my sisters get up with 
the dawn, 
While the grass with the dew is still wet. 
And come home with some very marvel¬ 
ous tales 
Of the wonderfu worms they get; 
But once when I tried the plan myself 
(It was foolish to be so bold), 
Why, all that I got for three hours’ work 
Was a horrible nasty cold. 
But now I wait till the air is warm, 
And the ground all nice and dry, 
So if you notice an early bird 
You can bet that it is not I. 
They may call me a lazy, fat old hen, 
But I know when I give up the ghost, 
They will bury my body decently, 
For I am far too tough to roast. 
So take my advice, young hens and old, 
And don’t get up too soon, 
Just follow my plan—eat all you can, 
And go to roost at noon. 
it is only a common, ignorant hen 
That is scraping about all day: 
Just eat like me, and you’ll very soon see 
Why keeping old hens don’t pay. 
—Feathered World. 
Early Hatching Eggs from the South. 
Regarding the matter of securing 
early eggs for hatching from southern 
breeders, I think that there is an ad¬ 
vantage for a few men who want early 
broilers In sending south for eggs dur¬ 
ing the early Winter months, because 
hens there are just beginning to lay at 
that time. Later in the season the eggs 
become weaker, therefore less desirable. 
This would come at a time when north¬ 
ern poultrymen would want t'heir chick¬ 
ens hatched for early Winter layers, so 
it would be a positive disadvantage as a 
rule, to send south for eggs for hatching. 
As a matter of fact, Nature has properly 
adjusted the matter, so that our early 
hatching season, March and April, finds 
our hens laying their strongest eggs. 
The matter of distance would not cut 
any figure, except in cost of transporta¬ 
tion and actual breakage. As an illus¬ 
tration of what the North can do in the 
Spring, I will say that our own hens are 
now laying an average of 85 eggs a day 
to every 100 fowls, and they are actually 
testing 91 per cent fertile. Our chicks 
are doing nicely, and we feel very much 
encouraged in the business. 
HENRY VAN DRESER. 
What About Angora Goats ? 
We have corresponded with the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture in regard to 
the Angora goat question. The Depart¬ 
ment issued a pamphlet, which seems to 
have started people up all over the 
country. Dr. D. E. Salmon, the Chief of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, tells us 
that a sort of Angora craze has spread 
all over the country during the last year. 
This has resulted in very high prices 
for those breeders who have goats for 
sale. 
“But is there any substantial reason 
for this craze?” 
“The price of mohair has continued 
high, and the demand seems to be 
strong; prices on the large ranches av¬ 
erage about 31 cents a pound. If the de¬ 
mand for mohair continue, there is no 
reason why Angoras should not be fair¬ 
ly profitable.” 
“What can really be said ! in favor of 
the Angora goat as against a well-bred 
sheep?” 
“The animal is exceedingly hardy, and 
has the ability and inclination to live 
upon vegetation which sheep and other 
animals would discard.” 
“Do you think that on the average 
eastern farms Angoras would prove 
more profitable than sheep of good 
breeding?” 
“No, I would not undertake to say 
that. From my knowledge of the An¬ 
gora goat I believe that where he thrives 
best sheep will not do well, that is, on 
rocky hillsides, abounding in brush and 
weeds. Sheep prefer more level situa¬ 
tions and the most nutritious grasses.” 
Dipping Hogs for Lice. 
Several Headers .—On page 315, G. A. G. 
tells of dipping hogs to destroy lice. He 
drives them through a vat in which he 
places a liquid dip. What liquid does he 
use? 
I use for a standby chloro-naptholeum 
diluted, one part of this to 40 or 50 parts 
of water, with a little lime thrown in 
as a disinfectant. I also use at other 
times, when handy, kerosene diluted 
with 20 or 30 times its bulk of water, 
with concentrated lye to make a good 
suds. I have no set rule, put in enough 
to bubble up well. As a disinfectant, 
tobacco water is excellent. When the 
weather is warm I use often, therefore 
'it is not necessary to have it over strong. 
If all farmers would use a little air- 
slaked lime in the hogs’ beds (if their 
beds are dry) once or twice a week, hog 
cholera and swine plague would become 
a thing of the past. Every time that 
they make their beds they shake it up 
enough to make a dust, and no germs 
can live in lime. I feel perfectly safe 
with all of mine. I put lime into their 
troughs once a week to sweeten them, 
also around them. o. A. g. 
The News, of Salt Lake City, Utah, re¬ 
marks that oleomargarine is being called 
by its makers and advocates “poor man's 
butter.’’ They should change the name io 
“ man’s poor butter,” so the title would 
convey a more accurate idea of the stuff 
as food. 
Cotton Seed for Hogs.— It has been 
generally thought that cotton-seed meal 
should not be fed to hogs even in small 
quantities. At the Kansas Experiment 
Station this meal was fed to a lot of hogs 
that had not done well in another experi¬ 
ment. It was first fed at the rate of one- 
quarter pound of meal per day to 1,000 
pounds live weight of hogs; that means a 
hog weighing 200 pounds would receive less 
than one ounce per day. This amount was 
increased each day for 10 days, when the 
hogs received at the rate of about 12 ounces 
per day for a 200-pound hog. This quan¬ 
tity was fed with good results, but, of 
i-ourse, it was thoroughly mixed with the 
other grain, so that a single hog would not 
obtain too much of it. 
Egg Eaters. —My hens had an attack of 
the egg-eating fever this Spring; in fact, 
the entire flock would run for the first 
chance to get an egg held in my hand. I 
gave them a pound chunk of salt pork and 
they quit. Have done so before. Can’t 
explain why it comes, unless the biddies 
want meat. While in Florida, I was an¬ 
noyed by the eggs disappearing, so I took 
two condensed milk cans, took top and 
bottom off one can, and then with an egg 
for pattern, and cans for molds (plus some 
damp loam), cast or molded a quantity of 
plaster-of-Paris eggs which were as nice 
and smooth as any hen-laid egg. I found 
the marks of some “varmint’s” teeth on 
one of them a few days after placing them 
in the roost, but they did not entirely 
leave the premises as did some of their 
predecessors. 
“Hog Cholera.”— A writer in the Breed¬ 
er’s Gazette tells of a farmer who was in 
the habit of feeding hogs on the waste or 
swill from a dining room in the city. He 
collected this swill in barrels, cooked n 
and mixed with grain before feeding. One 
day he was too busy to do the usual cook¬ 
ing, and fed the hogs direct from the bar¬ 
rel. The next morning some were dead, 
and others too weak to stand. At the 
local packinghouse he was advised to bring 
the live hogs to the slaughterhouse at once, 
and the packers offered to pay for all that 
were not condemned. The hogs were 
slaughtered, and it was found that their 
stomachs and intestines were terribly in¬ 
flamed. The Government inspector con¬ 
demned the hogs as being sick with gen¬ 
uine hog cholera, but the farmer was not 
satisfied with this decision. On looking 
things up he found that the people at the 
dining hall where he obtained the swill 
had been making their own soap, using a 
concentrated lye of great strength. They 
used this same soap for cleaning their 
floors, but one batch of soap had not been 
well made, and so they had dumped the 
whole mass into the swill barrel. It was 
the eating of this strong lye that had 
killed the hogs, and given the terrible ap¬ 
pearance shown In their stomachs. There 
was not any doubt about the death of the 
hogs, but what can be said of the Govern¬ 
ment inspector who was so quick to call 
this a case of hog cholera? The trouble 
is that dozens of hog diseases are called 
cholera as the best and easiest way of set¬ 
tling the matter. 
A BUNCH OF DAIRY BRIEFS. 
Light cotton-seed meal Is better than 
dark. 
Corn bran Is not digestible, and mixing 
with something else doesn’t make it so. 
Gov. Hoard says that rudimentary teats 
of sire shape the udder of his daughter. 
Thick abdominal wall of the cow tells 
that she gives her calf sufficient vitality. 
The more woody fiber the less digestible 
a food. Oat hulls contain 37 per cent fiber, 
while the kernel has only 1% per cent. 
You cannot afford to put high priced food 
into flesh, so look out for the flesh-making 
temperament. Don’t breed from a flesh 
temperament. It means failure if you do. 
It is conservatively estimated that the 
people of New York City annually consume 
over 50 tons of manure in their milk. 
What an awful waste of manure that is 
so sadly needed on some of our dairy 
farms. 
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Steam Turbine, 325 “ 125 
Steam Turbine, GOO “ 200 
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Weat Cheater, Pa. 
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