1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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PURE WATER FOR THE CHICKENS. 
Something new in a fountain for water¬ 
ing the chickens is shown at Fig. 86. It 
is made by Geo. C. Kirkham, of Connecti¬ 
cut. The lower part is made of zinc, 
and much resembles an overgrown fruit- 
can cover. The upper part is made of 
glass, round in shape except that it is 
depressed at two opposite points at the 
bottom. It appears just as a glass tum¬ 
bler would if one were to press in the 
opposite sides by squeezing them be¬ 
tween the thumb and finger. In one of 
these depressions, near the bottom, is a 
small hole. The upper part is easily 
detached from the bottom, inverted and 
filled with water; then the bottom is 
clamped on, the whole thing reversed, 
and it is ready for use. It seems a very 
desirable contrivance. Being of glass, 
it is easily cleaned, and one may see at 
a glance how much water it contains. 
The chicks cannot get into the water, 
CHICKEN' FOUNTAIN. Fig. 86. 
yet the two depressions give them ample 
opportunity for drinking. If not broken 
by accident, it would seem practically 
indestructible. 
Lose the Use of Legs. 
L. S. W , Wooster, 0.— What Is the matter with 
the hens ? Every once in a while I find one lying 
on the ground having no power to use her legs; 
otherwise they are in apparent good health, eat 
well, but finally die. 
Ans. —You do not give details enough 
to enable us to give an intelligent 
answer. The disability mentioned would 
indicate that they may have been in¬ 
jured by a too-heavy male; or, perhaps, 
in some other way. Frequently a hen’s 
inability to use her legs results from an 
injury to her back. If the trouble is 
with the male, remove him. Nothing 
more can be done. 
A Change of Roosters. 
E. P , Northampton, Mass.— How long before the 
eggs will be all right for hatching, after chang¬ 
ing roosters ? 
Ans —What do you mean by “ all 
right ” ? If you mean how soon after 
being separated from a scrub rooster, or 
a rooster of another breed, and put with 
one of the same breed as the hens, will 
the eggs produce pure chicks of the latter 
breed, some authorities will tell you 
“never”. They contend that a hen once 
mated with a male of any other breed, 
will never again produce purebred chicks. 
They have good arguments to support 
their contention, too. Our own belief is 
that a month’s time after separation is 
enough to insure eggs that are “ all 
right.” 
Gape worms in Chickens. 
Jl J. K, Covington, 0.— How is the Gapeworm 
in chickens propagated ? Does it become an in¬ 
sect, or does it simply live a worm life ? I can 
hardly believe it to be an insect with power of 
flight, as I have noticed adjoining farms where, 
on one, the gapes were bad for years, and on the 
other there were none. 
Ans —Authorities do not seem to be 
agreed, and some (not authorities, how¬ 
ever) say there is no such thing as a 
Gapeworm. From all our observations, 
we are led to believe that the Gapeworm 
propagates in the soil. When the latter 
becomes infested, it seems impossible to 
raise chicks on it and have them free 
from the trouble, without disinfecting 
the ground. In such localities, keeping 
them continually on the board floor until 
they are of good size, wards off all 
trouble, hence it is clear that infection 
comes from the ground. Its prevalence 
on some farms and absence from other 
nearby ones, have been commented upon 
before. 
A Business-Like Brahma. 
F. C. C, Sandy Creek, Me.—We have a Brahma 
pullet which, from the time she laid her first egg, 
has chosen a particular spot on the roost to lay. 
The eggs at first were broken by falling to the 
dropping board, and we obviated that difficulty 
by placing a pan of tobacco dust or ashes to 
catch the egg when it falls. We have had to do 
this all Winter. This intelligent bird, when she 
flies up to the roost to lay, looks to see whether 
the pan is in its place, and finding it there, calmly 
settles down upon the roost to lay and drop it 
into the pan. Brahmas have the reputation of 
getting broody, and probably, this one will, in 
due season, desire to mother a flock of chicks. 
When this event occurs, how can we place the 
eggs ? Hens like to sit where they have been in 
the habit of laying, and should this one desire to 
sit in her favorite spot, tell, Oh, tell us how we 
can arrange the eggs on the roost! 
Ans. —We find the Brahmas very much 
“ set in their ways.” They have ideas 
of their own, and are hard to change. 
With us, they are very sure to become 
broody, and will sit almost anywhere 
without trouble. Let them once get the 
incubation fever, and they would sit 
down on a door knob right under a water 
spout, and stay there. That pullet will 
“stay put” in any fair situation when 
you put the eggs under her. 
The Best Family Cow. 
D. F. J., Pocatello, Idaho. —Which is the best 
cow for family use ? 
Ans. —From experience with more than 
a dozen different family cows, we prefer 
a high-grade Jersey or Guernsey. These 
cows are intelligent and small enough 
to keep in an average-size box stall; they 
are easy keepers, gentle, and with good 
care, will give a large quantity of very 
rich milk. A cow for family use should 
give rich milk, rather than a large flow 
of thin milk. In families, a good supply 
of thick cream is very desirable, more 
so, in fact, than a large supply of skim- 
milk. The Jersey grades are easy keep¬ 
ers, while larger and heavier cows will 
require more fodder, if not more grain. 
Best Way to Sterilize Milk. 
J. K., Brockville, Out.— What is the best and 
simplest way to sterilize and cool milk ? I have 
a steam boiler, plenty of good water, ice, and a 
good cold storage, all in connection with my 
milkhouse. 
Ans. —Probably the simplest way to 
sterilize the milk would be to put it in 
small cans or open bottles in a tank con¬ 
taining water. Then let in enough steam 
to heat the milk to about 156 degrees. 
The heat should-not go above 160, and 
considerable practice will be needed to 
regulate the heat exactly. Hold the milk 
at this temperature for 10 or 15 minutes, 
then cool it as quickly as possible, either 
with ice water or in cold storage. The 
principle of sterilizing is to heat milk to 
about 156 degrees, at which temperature 
mo 3 t of the germs are destroyed. It 
should then be cooled as rapidly as pos¬ 
sible, the reason for this being that any 
germs that may enter the milk after 
heating are inactive at a low tempera¬ 
ture. At the New Jersey Experiment 
Station, a simple plan for sterilizing 
m ; lk is as follows : The milk is first run 
over a Star cooler, through the interior 
of which hot water is run. This is reg¬ 
ulated so that the milk does not rise 
above 156 degrees. As soon as it has 
been run over past the hot water, this is 
turned off and ice-cold water is run 
through the cooler. Then the milk is 
passed over it again, after which it is 
bottled and submerged in cold spring 
water. 
Jayne's Expectorant cured me of a cough of a very 
severe nature, after all the doctors had failed.— 
THOMAS MCGUIRE, Wellstown, Ohio, October 29, 
1895. 
For Headache, take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills.— AUv. 
FumaCarbon Bisulphide 
Nowis thetimefor WOODCHUCKS ‘wUh ” 
farmers to put 
“ FUlVEiL.” 
EDWABD R. TAYLOR, Cleveland. Ohio. 
PERFECT MILK 
embodies perfect flavor, perfect 
purity, long keeping qualities, 
etc. This is brought about by 
perfect cooling and aeration. 
The Champion 
Milk Cooler and Aerator 
does this and hence makes 
perfect milk. It will make 
more butter for the dairy¬ 
man, more cheese for the 
cheeseman and will increase the 
trade of the retail milk dealer. Our 
free book Milk” explains all. 
Champion Milk Cooler Co. 
Milk Dealers’ Supplies. 39 Railroad St., Cortland, N. Y. 
Your Butter Profit 
may not be as great as 
you could wish. No mat¬ 
ter what it now is, it 
would be increased one- 
fourth to one-third if you 
used a Safety Hand 
Separator. It is better 
in every way than any 
plan you have yet tried. 
It gets all the butter fat, 
and makes it into an 
improved quality of 
product. Better butter, 
better prices, and 
more money. Send 
for Catalogue No. 25. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
Branches: West Chester, Pa. 
Toledo, O. St. Paul, Minn. 
Dubuque, la. San Francisco, Cal. 
Omaha, Neb. 
IEATS THEM ALL 
Di 
[J heats the old shallow pan and the 
■V most improved deep setting process 
because it getsmore cream—is a cleaner 
skimmer and is so much less trouble, it 
comes within the reach of everybody 
and requires no expensive power plant 
to run it. Our Improved Potent 
Aquatic Cream Separator 
take* all the cream out of milk more 
cheaply than it can be done in any other way. 
Just as good for one cow as more. Sizes up to 40 
cows. Prices, $ 5 . to $ 11 . Catalogue and testi¬ 
monials FREE. They are good Heller*. 
We want Agent* In every locality. 
AQUATIC CREAM SEPARATOR CO. 
119 Factory Sqr. Watertown, N. Y. 
SMALL’S CALF FEEDER. 
Calves suck their milk, grow sleek, 
thrifty and very large, commanding the 
highest market prices for veal or dairy. 
Write for free circulars. 
J. B. Small & Co., Boston, MaAa. 
Top Price Butter. 
The kind that a fancy private 
Good Cows 
are the foundation of successful 
dairying. The next important step 
is to secure an 
all about separators. 
Empire 
Cream 
Separator. 
Then it will be an 
easy matter to make 
high-grade butter and 
the most of it. They 
run 50% lighter than 
any other machine of 
similar capacity. Our 
catalogue will tell you 
Send your address. 
U. S. Butter Extractor Co., Newark, N. J. 
BUTTER COLOR HEEDED NOW. 
ONLY BUTTER OF RICH, JUNE COLOR 
BRINGS HIGHEST PRICES. 
XV., R. & Co’s Improved Butter Color Used 
by the Best Buttermakers Everywhere. 
To have butter sell well and at a good price, It must 
have a rich, June color the year round, and this can 
only be gotten by using Wells, Richardson & Co.’s 
Improved Butter Color. The prize winners at the 
National and State Dairy Conventions almost invari¬ 
ably use and recommend this Color. It is endorsed 
by leading pure-food authorities and dairy experts 
as the only natural color that can be added. 
trade demands, is colored with 
Thatcher’’s Orange Butter Color — 
the color that does not contain 
This Improved Butter Color Is much stronger than 
any other color sold, and hence is the most economi¬ 
cal. Only a very little Is needed to give the required 
shade. 
any poison. Send for a sample. 
THATCHER MFG. CO., Potsdam, N.Y. 
If you are not using our color, send four cents for 
postage on a free sample to the manufacturers, 
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. 
THERE IS MONEY IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS 
IF YOU USE THE 
Improved D. S. Triple Current Separator. 
With it a better grade of butter is possible, and there is no 
loss of cream. It also is simple, durable, easy 
to operate and clean. 
U. S. Butter Brings 5 cents above Market Price. 
Carnes, Iowa, Nov. 24, 1898. 
Have used a No. 6 Improved U. S. Separator about one and 
one-half years, and must say I am more than pleased with it. We 
have no trouble to sell our butter to regular customers for about five 
cents above market price, and sometimes more. We are milking 
only five cows at present, but would not think of doing without the 
separator. Every farmer should have an Improved U. S. Separator. 
a H. PAULSON. 
w ,rr iat{Z/uff/ al Yt. Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Yt. 
A Good Cream Separator 
THE BEST OF FAR M INVESTMENTS. 
McEwensville, Pa., Dec. 26,1898. 
“ The ‘Alpha-Baby ’ separator which I purchased about two months ago 
is giving perfect satisfaction. When the agent told me that we were losing 
a pound of butter to the cow each week by our crock system, I did not 
believe it. I am now inclined to say, like the Queen of Sheba when she 
viewed the riches of Solomon, that the half has never been told, for he never 
told me of one-half the actual benefit which the use of the separator would 
bring. This I discovered after one week’s trial. People would hardly believe 
me if I were to give the entire truth of what the separator has done for me. 
I had been selling from 12 to 14 lbs. of butter per week before using the ma¬ 
chine. There has not been one week since that I have not sold as much as 
25 lbs. My records are very carefully kept and I have the figures to show 
for it. This certainly goes to show very decidedly that a cream separator is 
the best paying machine on the farm. It is like money drawing interest; 
it works rain or shine, Sundays and every "other day. It pays a higher rate of 
interest on money invested than anything else in which a farmer can invest. 
It gives a clean profit every day in the year, while any other piece of ma¬ 
chinery is only used for a couple of days throughout the whole year. It 
saves time, labor and money. There is no carrying or repeated handling, 
storing away or replacing of crocks and pans, no long and tedious washing 
of utensils, no fires to keep up for warming skim-milk for calves, and no 
sick calves on account of having fed them sour skim-milk. One more point 
is this, it will soon tell you which cow is a boarder and which is paying for 
her keep.’ 
Very respectfully. 
T. F. Menges. 
Send for new 1899 “Dairy” catalogue. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Western Offices: 
Randolph & Canal Sts. 
CHICAGO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 
NEW YORK. 
Branch Offices: 1 
1102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
