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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 22 
Live Stock and Dairy 
PROFITABLE CONNECTICUT HERS. SHEEP WASHING NOT LIKED. 
Having been much interested In the 
accounts of poultry keeping that have 
appeared in The R. N.-Y. in the last two 
years, and having 80 good common pul¬ 
lets of my own raising that were com¬ 
mencing to lay last October, I kept an 
account of eggs laid from November 1 
for this Winter. The previous Winter 
1 fed bone with corn, oats, pumpkin and 
shells. The hens did well, but I was 
not convinced of the great value of bone. 
This Winter, having a good variety of 
feed of my own raising, sunflowers, corn, 
buckwheat, oats, cow peas and squash, 
1 determined to feed no bone or meat, 
and in place of bone to feed all the 
broken long clam shells they would eat, 
thinking that possibly they would an¬ 
swer as well as bone and cost less. 1 
have thought that the want of lime is 
often the cause of few eggs in Winter, 
and it is astonishing to me to note how 
lew shells are fed by many poultry keep¬ 
ers. I have had many years’ experience 
with hens, and the great problem has 
been how to produce eggs that belong 
to me; the past Winter has been a hard 
one on poultry keepers who had to buy 
their feed, and it is time we waked up 
to the idea of raising our own feed and 
becoming greater producers and smaller 
consumers of western products. The 
matter of saving and utilizing hen ma¬ 
nure may seem to many men a small 
matter, but it is the small matters of 
years that attain large results, and it 
is time to learn the lesson that a bushel 
of grain fed to hens, by mixing muck or 
other dry absorbent of ammonia, will 
furnish abundant fertility for raising 
another bushel. I prefer the muck by 
all means if obtainable. This is one of 
the good ideas that 1 obtained from The 
R. N.-Y., and it has been worth more to 
me than seven years’ cost of subscrip¬ 
tion. I know a farmer who says The 
R. N.-Y. is only a gentleman farmer’s 
paper. This man “don’t take no stock” 
in muck or fertilizers; uses the poorest 
of tools, buys hay and feed on a good 
farm, and says “farming don’t pay.” It 
does not seem to me that it requires a 
great head to answer tchy, and 1 hope 
The R. N.-Y. will go on waking up 
brain thought until all farmers become 
gentlemen under their own vine and fig 
tree with none to make them afraid to 
think or speak. 
I know that this egg account is only 
a fairly good one, but it shows the ra¬ 
tion balance for men the right way; 
next it shows that common fowis with a 
good variety of feed in clean, comfort¬ 
able quarters will be healthy, happy, 
sing and lay. I have been asked the 
question whether I thought the feeding 
of sunflowers made a difference in my 
hens’ laying. My answer was that I 
was only positive that they sang better. 
1 hope that this will encourage some 
one who thinks he has made a failure 
of it to see the point that it is better 
to be self-sustaining than to be depen¬ 
dent on others for feed; better to ferti¬ 
lize well, plant well, cultivate well, and 
we have the promise from infinite wis¬ 
dom that we shall reap well. By think¬ 
ing deeper on this subject you may 
make a failure a stepping stone to suc¬ 
cess, and eventually will learn that the 
best hen book to study is a hen, and 
that the real practical knowledge of to¬ 
day is leaving many of the old hen ideas 
in the background, where they ought to 
have been long ago. 
The number of hens was 80; the eggs 
were as follows: November, 1901, 467; 
December, 449; January, 1902, 647; Feb¬ 
ruary, 745; total, 2,308. These eggs were 
sold at an average price of 38 cents a 
dozen, $72.96; value of manure, $10; 
total gain, $82.96. I have estimated the 
manure made at a low price. I could 
not replace it with $10 worth of ferti¬ 
lizers. Mr. Mapes’s theory of the ab¬ 
sorption of the eggs that are partly de¬ 
veloped in poorly-fed fowls I believe to 
be true, and I would like to ask this 
question to men of brains: Are not eggs 
rather dear feed for hens? 
New Haven Co., Conn. l. g. tuttle. 
How much is lost by selling our wool un¬ 
washed, or how much do we gain for our 
trouble by washing the sheep? 
We do not wash our sheep, as we do not 
think that the price warrants the washing 
when you consider the trouble and time 
and the results to the ewes from washing, 
and loss in weight of the washed fleece. 
Abington, Pa. h. calvin williams. 
I think in a short time sheep washing will 
not be practiced here or elsewhere. The 
way sheep are usually w r ashed I believe 
there is more money to the farmer so far 
as wool is concerned, but I think the ad¬ 
vantage to the flock will fully balance the 
difference in the price of washed and un¬ 
washed wool, to say nothing as to the ex¬ 
pense of washing. geo. a. henry. 
Bellefontaine, O. 
Much depends on how thoroughly the 
washing is done and how the flock has been 
cared for. Exposure to heavy rains during 
several weeks previous to washing, and 
the sheltering from "Winter storms, as well 
as clean pens, where in drying the fleeces 
do not get loaded with soil or dirt of any 
kind, all tend to cause a variation of loss 
percentage. With average conditions the 
loss of weight in washing the sheep is 
reckoned in Ontario at 33 1-3 per cent. If 
the flock is well attended to, kept in clean 
pens and fields, and the shearing delayed 
for 10 to 14 days after washing, a portion 
of the above mentioned loss can be re¬ 
gained by the return of natural oil to the 
fleece. Wool buyers here, as a rule, buy 
unwashed wool on the basis of one-third 
off for dirt, and in our 20 years’ handling 
of Shropshires we have been ready to sell 
at that rate of reduction rather than have 
the trouble of washing the sheep or run 
any risk of injury. john Campbell. 
Woodville, Ont. 
Much depends upon how well the wash¬ 
ing is done, also how well the grower is 
posted on the quality and value of his 
wool. If we grant thorough washing and 
sales according to merits I will make the 
assertion that we gain by selling unwashed 
and lose by washing, and that out of a 10- 
pound Delaine or Shropshire fleece about 
two pounds or 20 per cent will wash away. 
When I was a boy our sheep were tagged 
and turned out into the pasture as soon as 
grass started. The lambs dropped in May, 
subject to losses by frosts, rains and 
snow, were got up and washed in June, 
and finally shorn about July 1. We clip 
unwashed about April 1, and generally sell 
at about five cents per pound under 
washed prices. Do our sheep suffer? No, 
they have their warm Winter stables and 
the ewes do not go to grass until the lambs 
are on their feet, so we escape the terrors 
of cold storms, have no cotted or felted 
fleeces. Unwashed wools are also much 
safer to store, as moths do not eat them 
You believe that 
statement. But you 
only realize in part the 
obligations implied by 
it. Do you keep that temple 
of the body clean? If not, the 
defilement attaches to every 
service of the temple. Dis¬ 
ease of the stomach and other 
organs of digestion and nutri¬ 
tion, affect* the mind as well 
as the body. The dull mind 
stupified by poisonous glasses, 
enters on its service without 
desire, and accomplishes it 
without delight. A healthy 
clear mind result 
body and a 
from the use of Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. 
It removes the clogging and 
poisonous impurities from the 
stomach, stimulates the flow 
of the juices necessary to 
digestion and increases the 
blood supply in quality and 
quantity. The * ‘ Discovery ’ ’ 
is strictly a temperance medi¬ 
cine and contains no alcohol 
or whisky, neither opium, 
cocaine, nor other narcotic. 
* I had suffered from indi- 
:estion and only those who 
ave suffered from it know 
what it eally is,” writes Mrs. 
M. J. Fagan, of 1613 East Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. V. “ I had had severe attacks 
of headache and dizziness with cold hands 
and feet; everything I ate distressed me, 
bowels were constipated and I was growing 
very thin and nervous. I cannot half ex¬ 
press the bad feelings I had when I com¬ 
menced taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery.Ol took nine bottles of the ‘Dis¬ 
covery.’ I commenced feeling better with 
the first bottle and kept on improving. Now 
I am so greatly improved in health my 
friends often apeak of it.” 
m 
as they do those that are washed. One 
can clip much earlier, the sheep are better 
off, and the lamb stands a better chance 
than when the wool is on. Thus you will 
see that the indirect advantages are nearly 
all on the side of not washing. 
Cuba, N. Y. s. s. cole. 
If It’s trees you want write for free Catalogue of 
MARTIN WAHL, Rochester, N. Y. 
Ca|a~G uernsey Bulls, 6359, 6934 . 7203, 
rOl dale dropped July, 1899, June and No¬ 
vember, 1900: also three five-months’ Bull Calves. 
J. H. HUNTER. Valley Falls, N. Y. 
Hereford Bull Calf. 
Registered — age (1 months; sire, Oliver 2d No. 
76543; dam Duchess Bacon Hall No. 76539. Also one 
Hereford Bull Calf, about six months old, not 
registered. W. R. 8ELLECK, Huntington, L I. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
An extra fine lot of Jacks; all premium Jacks. 
All stock delivered free aboard cars at city of In¬ 
dianapolis. Ind. Address 
BAKER’S JACK FARM, Lawrence, Ind 
==§ NO SPAVINS == 
The worst possible spavin can be cured in 
45 minutes. Ringbones, Cnrbs and Splints 
} nst ae quick. Not painful and never has 
ailed. Detailed information about this 
new method sent free to horse owners. 
Write today. Ask for pamphlet No. 88 
Fleming Bros., Chemists, Union Stock Yds., Chicago. 
250 Cockerels, Hens and Pullets. W. & Bd. Rocks, 
W. & Br. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes. Pearl Guineas. 
Eggs, $lfor2H. Mrs. J. P. HKLLINGS, Dover, Del. 
White Wyandottes Exclusively.—Eggs 
for hatching, from choice matings, $1 per 15. 
M. M. LAMB, Branchport, N. Y. 
1) T Dpdq—Farm-raised, hardy and prolific. For 
Hi 1, UCUo eggs to hatch at 6 cents each, send to 
Walter Sherman, 25 Boulevard, Middletown, It. 1. 
8. C. White Leghorns. A heavy Winter 
laying strain. Cockerels and pullets SI each. Eggs 
75 cents per 13, $4 per 100. 
ZIMMER BROS., Weedsport, N. Y. 
E GGS from Thoroughbred Bar. Wh. Buff Rocks, Br. 
Wh. Buff Leghorns, Gold. Wh. Buff Wyandottes, 
Langshans, Cochins, Minorcas, Hamburgs, Brabmas, 
15, $1; 40, $2. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, Pa. 
I— - S2 for 15. One farm devoted ex- 
Ei XJIXJI clusively to choice Barred V. 
Rocks. Free range; fertility assured. 
Dr. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
Incubator Eggs. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks exclusively, $3 per 100. 
C. A. HALL, Oak Hill, Greene Co., N. Y. 
EGGS 
► —Fertility guaranteed. By the sit¬ 
ting or hundred. 23 varieties of 
prize-winning land and water 
fowls. Big catalog free. Our guarantee means some¬ 
thing. PINE TREE FARM, Box T, Jamesburg, N.J. 
Money-Making Hens 
Eggs and Fowls. Partridge Wyandottes, brilliant 
plumage; Dark Brahma Wyandottes. silverpencllled, 
beautiful soft gray; Violet Wyandottes (Bunch of 
Violets). Eight first prizes, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Great 
Boston Show, 1902. C. C. Loring, Dedham C. H., Mass. 
QLa fl a IaIah«I Da g .—Persistent Winter 
KnOQe island K6dS Layers. From 31 
1299 Eggs in 3 Mos. pullets 318 eggs In 
November; 499 In December; 482 In January. I have 
a strain of layers and will carefully select sittings 
of 13 at $1.50 each. Single-comb variety only. 
H. L. GIFFORD, Hornellsvllle, N. Y. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS 
els and 50 pullets for sale at reasonable prices. Also 
25 B. P. R. cockerels. All bred from Madison Square 
Garden winners. Eggs for hatching from Light 
Brahmas. Barred P. Rocks and W. Wyandottes $2 
per 15. Woodcrest Farm. Rifton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
White Wyandottes. 
Choice, large farm-raised stock. 
Eggs. $3 per 100; $2 per 50. Safe ar¬ 
rival guaranteed. Address 
S. DEAN, OAK HILL, N. Y. 
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ttftls. 6000 agents wanted for 1902. either eex. Pleasant work. Blf 
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Natural Hen Incubator Co., B 184 Columbus, Bob. 
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“ Used everywhere by practical poultrymen and 
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FIDELITY FOOD f6r FOWLS 
forgetting birds into highest show condition; for 
maximum egg production; for keeping fowls free 
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ARROW BRAND Ready Roofing 
Surfaced with gravel. Can be laid by any man 
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without the 
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FIRE, WIND and 
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PINELAND 
Incubators and Brooders. 
1902 
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Make Your Hens Lay, with 
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It makes them lay, by furnishing all the material to make eggs with. It also 
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THE B0WKER COMPANY, Dept. No. 7, 43 Chatham St., Boston, Mass. 
iOES IT PAY?t*° * Ucw 
D bw II rH I S the sheep, 
hogs,horses, andpoultry to become in¬ 
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After two weeks' use of Bowker’s Animal Meal 
my hens increased in laying from sixty-five eggs to 
148 eggs per day. Other food was given them exactly 
the same as previous to its use. Geo. S. Barney 
Rehoboth, Mass. 
