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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 15 
Live Stockand Dairy 
HENS IN COLD HOUSES. 
I am asked to state the conditions 
under which my hens lay as reported 
on page 91. “Are the houses artificially 
warmed? What, how much, and how 
often do you feed them? What breed 
of fowls are they?” Such are some of 
the questions asked me by farmers 
around here, who “haven’t had an egg 
since last October.” I would say in re¬ 
ply that the henhouses are not arti¬ 
ficially warmed, are not even double- 
boarded, with the exception of the last 
house constructed, the doors are kept 
open wide all day and water freezes in 
them whenever the outside temperature 
is a little below the freezing point. The 
doors are closed at night, but that does 
not raise the temperature sufficiently to 
prevent the eggs which are laid from 
the roosts during the night from freez¬ 
ing and cracking open. We often get 
from one to five eggs in the morning 
on the droppings boards, and nearly al¬ 
ways they are frozen. So it would ap¬ 
pear that extra warm poultry houses 
are not an absolute necessity for fairly 
good laying. 
I presume my hens would lay more 
eggs if their houses were warmer, but 
under above conditions I have one coop 
of White Wyandotte pullets that have 
laid from 13 to 18 eggs a day ever since 
the middle of November. That is hardly 
a fair statement, though, for there was 
only one day that we got 18 eggs from 
them, but they have laid 15, 16 and 17 
a good many times. 
The coops are 10 feet square, with an 
8x10 feet scratching shed connecting 
each coop to the next one. All have 
earth floors, and the ground inside is 
dry enough so that it never freezes, and 
it is a pleasing sight to see sometimes 
half of the floor surface covered with 
hens wallowing in the dirt and enjoy¬ 
ing themselves. I think a wooden floor 
in a henhouse is undesirable, unless it 
is kept covered with at least six inches 
of soil, in which case it might as well 
be an earth floor. In time the wood be¬ 
comes so saturated with the droppings 
that it is a constant menace to the 
health of the fowls. I find that is the 
case with the droppings boards, al¬ 
though they are kept covered with an 
inch of dry soil; and in my later built 
houses they are made of matched 
(tongued and grooved) boards, planed 
smooth and painted with three or four 
coats of good paint, to prevent that 
saturation. To say what I wish to say 
about feeding would make this article 
too long, so I will reserve that for a 
future number. o. a. c. 
Willington, Conn 
How to Nurse Baby Pigs. 
C. S. Plumb says in a recent R. N.-Y. 
that he has found great difficulty in 
raising pigs without the mother. As I 
have been very successful, I will give 
my experience. Four years since, a sow 
died and left 11 pigs. The hired man 
brought them to me. It was midsum¬ 
mer. I put them in the conservatory; 
being warm there, they could have sun 
and air. I had two flour barrels brought 
in. The girl who fed them caught all 
the pigs and put them in one barrel, 
and as she fed them put each one in the 
other barrel. I took new milk, and put 
about an eighth part water. I gave each 
one an extract bottle one-third full; of 
course, as they grew older, I increased 
the quantity. They all lived and were 
very thrifty. I have often raised them, 
but not so many as 11 at one time. If 
you take them in the Winter they must 
be kept warm. There is just one thing 
to say about feeding hogs; I do not 
think it pays to feed whole corn to 
them. I feed mush; it is not much 
trouble. Put two quarts of meal in a 
common bucket and pour a large kettle 
full of boiling water on it and stir well. 
I have been trying it for 50 years. 
Fauquier Co., Va. mrs. s. n. field. 
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