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HIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 23 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
A Bajin Henhouse.—D oes Mr. Mapes 
tl’ink it practical to convert a large barn 
(10 feet wide) into a “Winter resort” for 
bens? In the Summer I want the hens 
scattered in colonies in my orchards. I 
have no first-class place to build new 
houses for them for the Winter, but I 
have the barn, a large part of which I can 
spare. I would propose to use a part for 
a three-story henhouse, basement (front 
is level with the outside ground), main 
floor and scaffolds, making the pens 13 
feet wide by about 36 feet from front to 
rear, suitably divided into roosting, lay¬ 
ing, scratching and feeding rooms, using 
where necessary just a board set up edge¬ 
wise on the floor, and having a walk at 
the back. One object in such a scheme 
would be the consolidation of the birds 
into close quarters where one man could 
easily care for a large number. w. o. B. 
Harrison. Me. 
It seems to be more and more the 
tendency of the times among practical 
poultry men to keep their hens con¬ 
fined to their inclosed quarters during 
Winter weather, and I see no good rea¬ 
son why such a barn cannot be con¬ 
verted into a Winter resort for hens. 
If it is what we call a bank barn the 
two lower floors could be used for hens 
the year round, making runs in front 
for those kept in the basement, and in 
The rear for those on the main floor. 
The upper floor or “scaffolds” would 
be all right in Winter, but the birds 
would have to be removed to the col¬ 
ony houses for the Summer. Plenty of 
window's should be used in the front, 
furnishes an ideal perch from June 1 
to October 1, after the chicks are old 
enough to fly up to it. Instinct seems 
to teach them that safety from noc¬ 
turnal enemies is to be found on a high 
perch. One visit of a skunk or mink to 
the premises will send to the limbs the 
next night every bird that can possi¬ 
bly fly high enough. I have never known 
mites to trouble chickens roosting in a 
living tree, and have yet to find any 
record of such a case. This is quite an 
advantage. The droppings are de¬ 
posited where the tree gets the full 
benefit from them. My mouth fairly 
waters yet at the remembrance of the 
large cherry tree in which my father’s 
chickens always roosted when I was a 
boy. The pullets should be removed 
from the trees to their Winter quar¬ 
ters before they are ready to begin 
laying, as it is poor policy to excite 
them after laying begins, for fear they 
will stop and not start again. It is no: 
so pleasant to climb about in a fruit 
tree after dark in search of chickens, 
as it is after ripe cherries. If there 
are many to catch it is best to teach 
them to eat inside an inclosure of some 
kind. If no building stands conveni¬ 
ent a small inclosure can be extem¬ 
porized with a few old boards and a lit¬ 
tle wire netting. Teach the chickens 
to eat their supper in this inclosure, 
and when you are ready to remove 
them from the orchard shut the door 
FOUR MEMBERS OF TI1E FAMILY. Fig. 26. 
in order to get sufficient light, as pens 
36 feet deep are of unusual depth. 
Scratching or feeding room could be 
arranged nearest the front where best 
light can be secured, and roosting 
quarters in the darker end near the 
alley. One man could give a host of 
hens good care in such a “Winter re¬ 
sort,” and a little artificial heat could 
be used to better advantage than in the 
ordinary one-stoqy house. 
Green Bone Questions.— For 75 hens how 
much green bone would be best to feed at 
a time for eg g producing? How much for 
young incubator chicks? How often for 
both? E. R. D. 
Jefferson Co., Ind. 
An ounce of green cut bone per hen 
is usually considered a full meal, and 
three or four meals a week is consid¬ 
ered often enough by most of those 
who use it. This would take from four 
to five pounds per meal for 75 hens. 
Mr. Turner, who fed the banner flock 
last Winter in the cooperative feeding 
test conducted by Cornell Experiment 
Station, an account of which is given 
in Bulletin 212, fed his 500 White Leg¬ 
horn pullets all they would eat once 
each day, but cooked it before running 
through the bone cutter. He used the 
whole carcasses (largely horses), and 
his hens ate an average of nine-tenths 
of an ounce per hen daily for the entire 
119 days of the test, cooking and cut¬ 
ting before weighing. They kept in 
good health, only eight being lost dur¬ 
ing the entire Winter, and laid 22,420 
eggs in the 119 days from December 1 to 
March 31. Mr. Turner writes me that 
on December 17 of the present Winter 
he got 50 eggs from a pen of 150 White 
Leghorn pullets all fed in one flock. 
His success indicates that cooked meat 
and bone can be profitably fed in larg¬ 
er amounts than is usually advised. 
Orchard for Chicks.—W ill chickens do 
well if they are taken out of the brooder 
and turned loose in an orchard with no 
shelter until Fall? a. C. l. 
Woodbury, Conn. 
I answer yes without hesitation to 
the above. The limb of an apple tree 
while they are eating their supper. 
You can then handle them with ease 
and at a minimum of fright, as soon as 
it becomes dark. o. w. mapes. 
A Family Group. —A reader in New 
York State sends us the picture shown 
at Fig. 26. This is certainly a happy 
family. The girls care for the cow, who 
has had all inclination to be rough 
pruned out of her by dishorning and 
devotion. fShe is not afraid of the dog, 
and he will not be found nipping butter 
fat out of her heels on the way home 
from pasture. Suppose a man could 
have 30 such cows—what a grand fam¬ 
ily of girls he would have, and how the 
cows would care for them. 
Bells on Sheep.— In regard to bells on 
sheep for the purpose of keeping dogs 
away, I consider them of great value. I 
have used them for the past 10 years in 
my flock. I use about 10 bells to "every 100 
sheep. I have no doubt that the bells 
bewilder the dogs, and they leave them. 
Of neighbors on three sides of our lot, one 
man lost over 30 sheen in one year. I 
did not lose any. I put the bells on old 
sheep and the tamest. f. b. gorham. 
West Rutland, Vt. 
Getting Rid of Soot.— Will you ask 
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of getting rid of the soot in the chimney 
other than burning it out, which is not 
always safe? e. g. 
Ashfield, Mass. 
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Breeders’ Directory 
Naiad of St. Lambert 
was a great cow. Aside from her official test, she 
was a full sister to Mary Anne of St. Lambert 
[36:12 in seven days. 867:14 in a year] and her 
owner once refused 115.000 for her. AUie of St. 
Lambert was another great cow, and her record 
combined with that of her full sister has never 
been beaten for milk and butter by any other 
two full sisters of the Jersey breed. Eurot»s 
was another great cow, as shown by her then 
great year’s butter test and the potency of her 
blood through her descendants. 
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WINTKRGREEN HILL FARM 
SCOT TSVILLE, N.Y. 
Registered Jersey bun ogives 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg. Pa 
irnPrY<? Five Reg Bulis: 7 Keg. Heifers; Sond 
JUlOL I 0 color; St. Lambert strain; 2tolOmonths 
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BLACK MINORCAS and WHITE WVANDOTTES 
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For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnificently 
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