1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
149 
NOTES FROM A CONNECTICUT HEN 
MAN. 
I have a small farm of 80 acres up 
here in northeastern Connecticut. Only 
17 acres are cleared, and if it were not 
for my poultry I would find it difficult 
to make a living. I am keeping now 
about 400 birds. 250 of which are pul¬ 
lets. During December they laid just 
2,500 eggs, and have increased their out¬ 
put almost daily since, until now they 
are laying 12 dozen a day and over. I 
got 156 (13 dozen) yesterday, January 
27. I send all the eggs to Worcester, 
Mass., and have received from 45 cents 
down to 37 cents per dozen, price of the 
last sent. So these hens have netted me 
above the cost of feed $12 to $15 a week 
since the first of December, and this is 
an exceptionally cold, cloudy and unfa¬ 
vorable Winter. 
My fowls are all White Wyandotte ex¬ 
cept 24, which are White L'eghorns, and 
the little Leghorns are doing their share 
of the laying. A few years ago I crossed 
the two breeds, and it made the best 
layers I have ever had. I intend to make 
the cross again this year. I read with a 
great deal of interest Mr. Ivlapes’s ar¬ 
ticles in The R. N.-Y., and usually can 
say “Amen” to what he writes. His re¬ 
marks as to the necessity of a good appe¬ 
tite in the fowls, if eggs are to be ex¬ 
pected, have led me to watch that point 
sharply, and to feed enough and not 
overfeed is one of the nice points where 
rood judgment must he used. I am con¬ 
vinced that good feeding is of far more 
importance than warm quarters, that is 
for the American breeds (of course Leg¬ 
horns and Minorcas, with their large 
combs, must have warm houses), for my 
houses are only one thickness of seven- 
eigliths-inch matched pine, and the frost 
inside is an eighth of an inch thick on 
roof and north side during these zero 
days, especially on the last house built, 
and not finished until December 7, where 
I have 40 pullets which have laid 16 to 
26 eggs a day, averaging nearly a 50- 
per-cent “lay” since the middle of De¬ 
cember. 
I feed a warm mash in the morning 
generally, sometimes at noon, made as 
follows: Into a big iron kettle I put 
about a half bushel of clover rowen 
is known, and no doubt the uniform 
good health of my large flock is due in 
a great measure to the continuous feed¬ 
ing of charcoal. 
Nearly all my pullets were hatched in 
incubators and raised in brooders that I 
made myself. At a cost of about $3 for 
material, I can make a brooder that 
will care for 100 chicks until they are 
big enough to sell for broilers, two 
pounds each; a brooder that sufficiently 
warms the floor and passes a continuous 
current of warmed outside air over their 
heads, giving the needed top heat with 
abundant fresh air. I raised 600 chicks 
in these brooders last Spring, with a loss 
of not over five per cent. Many small 
but important points in the care of fowls 
occur to me, but this article is too long 
already. clo. a. cosgrove. 
More About Smoke Houses.—I think it 
probable that I have had a much longer 
experience in building smoke houses, and 
smoking meat, than H. S., page 100, but 
do not claim superiority over him on that 
account, as some men will learn more in 
one year than another in a lifetime. H. S. 
says a smoke house “may easily be made 
impregnable to meat bugs, flies, mice, and 
all other vermin.” If a smoke house is 
made tight enough to keep out flies, and 
does not have a ventilator, it will become 
too hot for the benefit of the meat hung 
in it. I never knew flies, or bugs, to molest 
a smoke house so long as a smoke was 
kept up in it every day, and as soon as 
the meat is smoked enough it should be 
taken down and tied up tightly in paper 
sacks and hung up in a cool dark room in 
the house. The common flour sack, hold¬ 
ing 49 pounds of flour, is about the right 
size for ordinary hams and shoulders, and 
two or three flitches of bacon can be put 
into one. The writer has two poles sus¬ 
pended from the ceiling overhead in his 
house, about six inches apart, and parallel 
with each other. In hanging up, a short 
stick is put through a loop in the string 
that ties the sacks, and then placed on top 
of the two poles, letting the sacks hang 
under them without touching each other. 
H. S. says: “Green wood, of any kind ex¬ 
cept pine, may bo used to make the 
smoke.” The objection to green wood is 
first, its smoke is three-quarters steam, 
which condenses on the meat, resembling 
dewdrops, and even drips from the meat, 
which is not conducive to its flavor or 
keeping quality. In the second place, it is 
difficult to build a fire wii.h green wood 
without a lot of dry pine kindling wood to 
start it, and even then it must be con¬ 
stantly watched, and more green wood 
added from time to time, or the fire will 
go out. As previously stated, the best 
wood I know of for furnishing good smoke 
are hickory, maple and birch. Oak will 
certainly give the meat an oaken flavor. 
Pennsylvania J. w. ingham. 
which has been run through my hay 
cutter twice, leaving it in inch to two- 
inch lengths, pouring on it two pailfuls 
of hot water and skim-milk, stirring in 
a handful of salt, and three quarts of 
animal meal, adding enough bran, mid¬ 
dlings, and “provender” (equal parts of 
corn and oats ground together) to make 
a crumbly feed. I mix this, up with a 
shovel, and it takes five to eight min¬ 
utes to do that job properly. At noon 
a light feed of cracked corn and wheat, 
at night a full feed, all they will eat, of 
corn, whole and cracked, and wheat. My 
houses are all on the scratching-shed 
plan, and I raise an acre of oats for lit¬ 
ter, in which all the dry feed is thrown, 
except when I am late wi:h the last feed, 
when it is put in the feed troughs, so 
the hens tan get all they need before 
it is too dark. 
These oats are cut when ripe, tied in 
bundles and stored in a corn house to 
keep them from rats and mice. If put 
in a barn the oats will all be eaten and* 
the straw cut to pieces by the vermin. In 
fact, I find it difficult to keep them out 
of my corn house entirely, but the loss 
there is comparatively small. I also raise 
about 500 heads of cabbage for the fowls 
but place more importance on the clover 
rowen as an egg producer than on the 
cabbage. Two or three times a week I 
boil a potful of small potatoes, mash 
them while hot and mix them in the 
morning feed. Ground oyster shells are 
kept by them all the time, and charcoal, 
about half a peck a day, is broken up 
fino and fed them. It is surprising how 
much of the latter they will eat. I think 
my hens would eat a half bushel a day, 
and in three hours the droppings will be 
black, showing how quickly it is di¬ 
gested. No greater cleanser and purifier 
Tiie Deadly Trail 
Of disease is often the trail marked by 
a woman’s gown. A recent investiga¬ 
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ing those of influenza, consumption and 
a dozen other varieties, gathered in the 
trail of a woman’s dress. 
The microbe is everywhere, but its 
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or throw off dis¬ 
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My parents insisted on my 
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than I have for ten years. 
I cannot speak too highly 
in its favor.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant 
Pellets are easy 
and pleasant to 
take. A most 
effective laxa¬ 
tive. They 
do not be¬ 
get the 
pill 
habit. 
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SPRAINED TENDONS AND ALL LAMENESS. 
About three years ago ono of my sons rode a very valu¬ 
able stallion I own, on a fox hunt—the Morse was then 
four years old. A few days after I noti.I he was lame in 
right hind leg, so I blistered him several times without 
doing any good. Then I sent him to Baltimore, Md.. to 
be treated by tiie best Veterinarian I know of, who said 
the horse was spavined in both legs, would lire him 
hut be doubted if cure could be effected. I let him go 
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Easton, Md., January 30, loot. Respectfully. 
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Monroe, Orange Co., N., Y., November 26, 1903. 
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