1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
22i 
A BATCH OF HEN RECORDS. 
A One-Third Record.—I have a flock of 
47 hens which have averaged about 33 1-3 
for December, January and so far in Feb¬ 
ruary. They consist of 35 White Leghorn 
first and last of May pullets, the others a 
mixed lot of mostly yearling sitters. They 
have a house 12x18, to which they have 
been confined since November 15, have had 
not to exceed eight days when it was safe 
to let them out, as we are nearly 2,000 feet 
up. I give them a mixture of wheat, buck¬ 
wheat and oats, whole in the morning in 
a trough, more than they will eat at once, 
and all the water they want for the day 
warmed so it will not get hard too quick¬ 
ly. At night I give what corn they will 
eat (cold), and a liberal amount of green 
cut bone to please them; oyster shells of 
course, no green stuff or mashes. I am 
sure I would have done much better if 
they could have been out more in the sheds 
and barn, but the greatest mistake was 
when about the middle of January I killed 
a beef and put the entrails in for them to 
pick, thinking with the meat they were 
having it would be all right. It caused 
diarrhoea and took away their appetite. 
One died and of course my egg yield fell 
off. These hens, when chickens, were fed 
in the morning enough to run to all day 
where the old hens could not get it. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. r. j. ray. 
Ohio Hen Record.— From December 1, 
1003, to February 16, TJ04, number of birds 
205; pullets, 210; hens, 85. Number of eggs 
laid by months: December, 2,585; January, 
3,607; February, 2,337; total, 8,529 eggs for 
two months and 16 days. Eggs sold, De¬ 
cember $56.52; January $79.54, February 
$43.31; total, $179.47. Expense, feed, $58; 
profit, $121.47, No account was made of 
corn fodder, millet, clover hay and milk. 
Hens were fed three times a day; one feed 
wheat screenings, one feed whole corn on 
the cob, third feed warm mash made of 
wheat bran, buckwheat middlings, equal 
parts given about what they would clean 
up in half an hour. In addition to this 
they got three gallons of milk each day, 
a bundle of corn fodder, bunch of clover 
hay. A few sheaves of millet hung in 
scratching shed. Plenty of fresh water 
and oyster shells for grit. Birds were 
housed in two coops, one with 38, remain¬ 
der 257. They had ample room for roost¬ 
ing quarters with scratching shed 11x24. 
Breed Barred Rocks. h. garrison. 
Ohio. 
Overcrowding Hens in Winter.— I have 
a brooder house 12x20 with a scratching 
shed 10x20 attached. Last Fall I put roost 
platforms and roosts in the brooder house 
and 132 pullets and 15 cockerels in it tem¬ 
porarily until I had my new 40-foot house 
completed. The chicks would come out 
into the scratching shed first thing in the 
morning, and as I went in there to put the 
mash in the feeding troughs there would 
hardly be room for my legs. I thought I 
must hurry up that new house sure, but 
circumstances and the weather delayed so 
that it was not finished until December 
7. By that time the pullets were laying so 
well that I did not like to remove them, so 
I put 45 others that were roosting in little 
houses 3x4 feet where they had been all 
Summer in the new house, and the 147 have 
remained all Winter in the brooder house 
and shed. Looking in there one would 
think the whole ground was covered with 
hens. A wide board across the shed di¬ 
vides two-thirds of the floor space from 
the rest, and in the larger part is put oat 
straw for litter, the other part is dry 
earth for dust baths. Nests are tacked up 
around the walls. Shed is open to the 
south in Summer, but boarded up in Win¬ 
ter with two windows and a wire netting 
door on south side. The chicks appear 
comfortable and happy, and it is surpris¬ 
ing how warm the presence of so many 
fowls will make it. A large swinging 
door, hinged at top in each gable, lets the 
strong west wind sweep clear through both 
buildings, and keeps them dry and well 
ventilated. The outside door on windward 
side is closed during driving storms and 
extra cold nights. Now for results. Some 
of these pullets began laying in November, 
increasing rapidly through December and 
laying 45 to over 60 eggs a day all through 
anuary. One of my lOxlO-foot houses has 
a wide platform with three roosts 10 feet 
long, in this house over 60 hens have 
stayed all Winter, all old hens, many 
moulting, not expected to lay much, but 1 
have got; as high as 20 eggs a day from 
his house. The water pail has not been 
skimmed over with ice more than three 
or four times this Winter in this house. I 
do not dispute that if the above fowls had 
eon kept in flocks of a dozen or so, and 
with equal warmth, I should have got more 
e B gs, but I do not think the increase would 
Pay nterest on the cost of extra houses 
lequired. It used to be one of the positive 
s atements that overcrowding was fatal to 
the production of eggs, but the experience 
,. r ‘ Cook, myself and others, shows 
that we do not know it all yet. g. a. c. 
Connecticut. 
MARKETING LAMBS. 
Select prime, fat lambs only. In dress¬ 
ing early in the season, the lambs should 
be cut open only to the breast bone, but 
as the season advances, and the weather 
becomes warmer, it is best to cut down 
to the head. The entrails should be taken 
out, leaving in the haslet. The skin must 
be left on, but the head and feet removed 
at all times to comply with a sanitary 
ordinance. The skin should be taken off 
the hind legs half way down, and the caul 
drawn over them, and well down over the 
kidneys securing it with skewers; slit the 
caul just enough to allow the kidneys to 
come through. Replace the pelt over the 
legs, and be careful about putting in the 
back sets. The sticks should be just long 
enough to fasten one end under the flank, 
and the other end in the breast close to 
the first rib, having the sticks cross just 
behind the kidneys. Wrap the whole car¬ 
cass in clean white muslin, then cover with 
burlap or bagging and ship by express. 
Lambs should not be handled too soon 
after killing, and must be entirely free 
from animal heat before shipping. Early 
lambs should not weigh less than 35 pounds 
to bring the extreme market price; any¬ 
thing lighter than that sells accordingly, 
but as the season advances buyers will 
demand heavier stock. Late Summer and 
Fall lambs will never sell as Spring lambs. 
It is a mistake to expect high returns be¬ 
cause a shipment consists of lambs, as 
they will not sell to advantage unless they 
are cared for as above described. Buyers 
are very critical and examine them closely 
as to quality and weight. Care in the 
growing and dressing of lambs will not be 
wasted, as that alone can insure remun¬ 
erative prices. Owing to the severe weath¬ 
er we have had this Winter lambs are un¬ 
usually scarce, and consequently demand 
high prices, which we believe will con¬ 
tinue throughout the season. The best 
market days for lambs here are Monday, 
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They 
should not be shipped to arrive here either 
Friday or Saturday, as they will then have 
to be carried over until the first of the 
next week and sold for a lower price, 
thereby hurting the sale of fresh stock. 
New York. archdeacon & co. 
Business Fowls. —On page 207 is 
shown a pen of typical high-class White 
Leghorns on the poultry farm of C. G. 
Brainard, Waterville, N. Y. About 3,000 
birds can be handled in the buildings 
as at present arranged. No breed but 
White Leghorn is kept. 
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