1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
113 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
During the first half of January our 
hens seemed to have that same “ tired 
feeling” that possessed them in Decem¬ 
ber. They looked well, and sang and 
talked, but it all ended in noise. We 
cut down the feed just a little, and kept 
them as clean and comfortable as we 
could. On January 18 they suddenly 
started up and began a steady gain, until 
the freeze and storm of January 29. Dur¬ 
ing the month they laid in all 304 eggs, 
which averaged three cents each in value. 
It cost us for grain to feed all our poultry 
during January $8.78, which is a little 
over 2 4-5 cents each. In estimating this 
cost we figure the cost of feeding all the 
poultry on the farm. Some of our friends 
say this is not fair, but we don’t know 
how else to do it. All our stock will 
contribute in some way to the year’s 
supply of eggs. Since we try to keep no 
useless birds, the layers must pay for the 
drones, until we are able to pick the 
latter out. 
The pen of 60 New York birds that 
laid only 10 eggs in December, managed 
to squeeze out 85 eggs in January, at a 
cost for feed of $3.12. Not much profit 
to them yet—-but wait till June 1 before 
condemning them entirely. The most 
profitable lot we had in January is a pen 
of about 50 mixed birds—mostly with P. 
Rock blood. These hens laid 145 eggs 
during January, at a cost for grain of 
$2.54 for the hens and their husbands. 
drones he carried. My December eggs cost me 
only one cent, and I had to buy my feed, and care 
for nine cocks and cockerels, with 30 hens and 
pullets. I have one pen of 1(1 P. Rocks and one 
Langshan, one pen of six Brown Leghorn pullets, 
one pen of Games. I fed oats, corn, and bran 
mash two or three times a week, with plenty of 
cabbage for green feed. a. h. 
Attica, Ind. 
It strikes me that the “surplus rooster” 
is having his inning in that flock. We 
carried a good many drones, but we are 
learning a good deal from them. The 
December drone may be the money¬ 
maker in March. I know some poultry- 
men who are ready to go out of the busi¬ 
ness because they could not pay expenses 
in December. Why—there is hardly a 
business in the city that pays expenses 
every month in the year. There is month 
after month when receipts will hardly 
be enough to pay the hands, and the 
business must live on the profits of the 
few good months. Any quantity of these 
poultry men who make such a great stir 
about their profits, know that the great 
majority of their eggs are laid between 
March 1 and November 1, with four idle 
months when the hens do not pay ex¬ 
penses. November and December eggs 
are mighty nice things to have, but they 
do not grow on every hen. They come 
from pullets of some laying strain, 
hatched early, pushed along, and warmly 
housed before the fall rains and frosts 
set in. 
And now, here is an interesting story 
from a man in western New York • 
general shape and appearance. I am 
sure that a trait is stronger than a type. 
I don’t care to buy any more hens unless 
I know what their female ancestors have 
done. The dairy cow and the laying 
hens are creatures of nerve and inherited 
habit. They arc not mere machines tak¬ 
ing in food at one end and rolling out milk 
or eggs at the other. We are finding that 
out to our cost this Winter. Some of our 
drones have the most perfect egg type 
you ever saw, but their mother sent them 
out into the world without the egg trait , 
and we are footing the bills at Hope 
Farm. Feed the best layers well, and then 
breed f rom them. Look for good shape 
and vigor in the male, but go to the hen 
for the egg-laying habit ! n. w. c. 
Bunches on Heifer’s Teats. 
We have a nice two-year-old heifer that has a 
large bunch on each of her forward teats, nearly 
as large as a chestnut. I think they were cut 
last Summer on a barbed wire fence. What will 
remove the bunches and thus save the heifer ? 
New York. p. b. 
The bunches will, probably, have to be cut off 
with the knife or scissors. If they have a nar¬ 
row or constricted base, they can be’ sloughed oil' 
by tying a cord, or preferably, a rubber band, 
tightly around the neck. Owing to the danger of 
causing inflammation in the teat, which may ex¬ 
tend to the udder, it would be safer to employ a 
competent veterinary surgeon to remove them. 
For the worst of Colds there is no better remedy than 
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Save * Cows 
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HolsteinsareMoney Makers 
They are strong and rugged. They give a big pall 
f uU of good milk. They make the best use of the 
coarse farm fodder. They are gentle, happy, and 
seldom sick. When done at the pall they ornament 
the butcher's block. They are prepotent, and alwavs 
stamp their good qualities upon their calves. THE 
HOLSTEIN IS THE BUSINESS COW. The 
best blood is found in the herd of 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Neshanfc Station. N. J. 
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Two months to a year old, 
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White, Berkshire, Poland- 
China and Yorkshire Pigs 
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F. 11 . GATES & SONS. Chittenango, N. Y. 
The workers in that flock are 15 pullets 
that were bought in New York last 
August. These pullets are mostly P. 
Rock grades. They cost originally about 
38 cents each, and it has cost about 27 
cents each to feed them up to February 1. 
They will sell for 50 cents apiece in 
August, and it will cost nearly 40 cents 
to feed them until then. IIow many 
eggs must they lay to give us 75 cents 
per head profit? We don’t care to do 
any figuring until the thing is all over. 
.January gave us a profit of one-fifth of a 
cent per egg, and “small favors are 
thankfully received” at Hope Farm. 
One-fifth cent profit is better than six 
cents’ loss, and we expect to make a good 
gain in February. 
Of course, we understand that lots of 
people are beating us with hens. We are 
not bragging, hut trying to state facts. 
Here is an Ohio man who throws us in 
the shade: 
Our hens laid December and January eggs at a 
profit, eveu though we did sell at 16 cents per 
dozen: 
December, eggs sold, 30 dozen at 16c. $4.80 
Feed, corn, four quarts daily, 25c. per bu_ 1.00 
Bran, 50 pouuds at 50 cents yier ewt.25 
Cost of feed. $1.25 
Balance. $3.65 
Number of hens, 70; breed, B. P. Rocks, except 
six pure Brown Leghorns, which did not lay an 
egg, and two P. Rock-Leghorn cross, which laid, 
at least, 20 eggs each; range, unlimited; location, 
close to a small creek, limestone and gravel bot¬ 
tom ; two acres of timber and field of ragweed 
close by. Since January 1, the same hens have 
laid, to date (January 20), 22*4 dozen eggs; great¬ 
est number in one day, 23; smallest number, 8; 
price, 16 cents per dozen. The corn ration has 
been very slightly increased since January 1, the 
bran dropped, and a few heads of sorghum seed 
from our “molasses patch ” fed at night. The 
henhouse is 10 x 18 feet, of rough hemlock boards 
driven up close, and cracks battened, The doors 
are opened about 7 a. m. every day, and the fowls 
given their morning feed of corn. They range at 
will during the day, and get their afternoon feed 
at 4 p. M. We have not had a sick hen this Win¬ 
ter. Last Winter, our hens did as well as they 
have this, and with similar treatment, laid eggs 
during January which proved 85 per cent fertile 
by the hatching test. c. d. lyon. 
Mr. Lyon says that he thinks the free 
rang-e had much to do with this good 
record. He says, “ No hen man who 
pens his hens can compete with the man 
who has such a range as ours.” There 
is truth in that idea. You will notice 
that last Winter’s hens did just about as 
well. That lets out another great truth. 
The laying habit is in the family. You 
can’t make a drone lay until she gets 
ready. The daughter of a layer can’t 
help laying if you feed her right. Here 
is another cheap egg man : 
In a recent R. N.-Y. I read how H. W. C.’s 
Decembe.- < ggs cost him nine cents each. I would 
like to know what feed cost’him, or_ how many 
In looking through The R. N.-Y. of January 
15, I came across the Mope Farm Notes on hens. 
Thinking my hens will compare favorably, I send 
a statement of what they have done from January 
I to December 1, 1897: 
No. Eggs. 
No. Hens. 
Average 
January. 
294 
31 
9.5 
February- 
391 
31 
12.6 
March. 
569 
31 
18.3 
April. 
485 
31 
15.6 
May. 
24 
14.6 
June. 
199 
17 
11.7 
July. 
256 
15 
17.1 
August. 
231 
13 
17.8 
September .. 
191 
13 
15 
October. 
118 
12 
9.8 
November... 
28 
12 
2.3 
3,116 
144.3 
As to the breeding of my hens I would say that 
April, 1894, I bought a flock of 50 hens, mostly 
White Leghorns, with a few B. P. Rocks and two 
R. C. W. Leghorn roosters. I procured some B. 
P. Rock eggs from a neighbor, and used my own 
the rest of the season. As soon as my young 
roosters weighed two pounds live weight, I began 
selling them off, and about August, I sold one 
old rooster and nearly all the old hens, keeping a 
few old hens to lay fall eggs until the pullets 
began. I kept a young Leghorn rooster witli one 
of the old ones the next season. The young pul¬ 
lets began laying in November, and continued all 
through the Wiuter of 1895. The dark-colored 
eggs in proportion to the few B. P. Rocks and a 
few black hens (from the cross between the B. P. 
Rock hens and White Leghorn rooster) attracted 
my attention so much that I got more B. P. Rock 
eggs to use with my own. 
In 1896, I got a sitting of Black Minorca eggs 
(not quite pure) and from them, I kept two 
roosters with high single combs, black bodies 
and breasts, the remainder red. They were the 
roosters that ran with my 31 hens last year, of 
which 25 were pullets, the remaining six one year 
oid. In the Spring of 1897, as soon as I had set 
what hens I wanted, I sold some to neighbors for 
sitting purposes, and in August, I began to sell 
young and old roosters, and some of the old hens, 
till I had the old hens reduced to 12. 
I have now on hand three young roosters and 
60 hens (12 old), of which there are 20 B. P. Rocks, 
eight White Leghorns and 32 black. These hens 
laid 102 eggs in December, and 282 until to-night 
(January 22), this month. I kept my chickens in 
a yard last season, and I think the confinement, 
together with the wet weather, and cracked corn 
for feed, kept them back so much that egg pro¬ 
duction was about one mouth later than last 
year. w. c. dempsey. 
That breeding - is, certainly, pretty well 
mixed by this time. The hens are doing- 
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One is that the individual character of 
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A breed is only a more or less loose col¬ 
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There are good and bad specimens in all 
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good habits and qualities will become 
fixed. Another thing that we consider 
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out laying hens by their shape and out¬ 
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