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T1IH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THAT PLASTERED HENHOUSE. 
We have one house at Wooderest Farm with 
plastered walls, and others built almost iden¬ 
tically the same, only that the studding is 
covered on inside with building paper and 
ceiled with a cheap grade of matched lumber, 
and can see no material difference in the two 
houses. Whatever the inside wall may be it 
should be thoroughly whitewashed at least 
once a year, and perches and nest boxes fre¬ 
quently gone over with kerosene. In this way 
we have but little trouble with vermin, and 
consider one style of house as easily kept 
clean as the other, so that I should consider 
the kind of inside wall from a financial stand¬ 
point only. a. s. CHASE. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
I would render my verdict in favor of the 
plastered henhouse. If it is the intention of 
your Ohio reader to lath his poultry house 
there would be an air space between tlie 
weatherboarding and the plaster which would 
aid in keeping the house dry. There is the 
advantage of not having any cracks for the 
lice to harbor in and the house can be made 
warmer than with siding or paper. I do not 
think that there would be enough advantage 
in having a house plastered to pay for the 
extra labor necessary and for the material. 
A house can be made warm by tacking several 
thicknesses of old newspapers to the weather¬ 
boarding on the inside, and then lining with 
tarred paper. The paper will make an ab¬ 
sorbent for the moisture in the house. I vis¬ 
ited a henhouse once that had formerly boon 
a dwelling house and I was very favorably 
impressed with it. john w. cox. 
Pennsylvania. 
not like them, as they seem to make the 
building damp. Were I to build again I 
would make the above changes. I would lath 
and plaster throughout. I believe an air 
space is all right as an aid in keeping out 
dampness in Winter. c. a. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
WINTERING AN IDLE HORSE. 
What have you found the cheapest way to 
winter an idle horse? Many farmers have 
little use for their work horses during the 
Winter, and find it quite an expense to carry 
them through till Spring. How can such 
horses be cared for at the least expense? 
I feed my horses when idle five ears of 
com and some mixed hay in the morning. 
During the day, if pleasant, they have the 
run of the barnyard, where they get some 
straw or cornstalks. If in stable,'I give 
a little hay or wheat straw. At night I 
give three quarts of oats and bran mixed, 
with a little oil meal. I feed some small 
potatoes or chopped turnips for a change. 
I try to give as much variety as possible. 
They keep in good condition, and are ready 
for a day’s work any time when wanted. 
1 think $8 to $10 a month will cover the 
cost of feed, and the manure will pay for 
the care. A good grooming every day pays 
well. Young horses can be kept at less 
cost than old ones. Some exercise is es¬ 
sential to good health for horses, as well 
as for humans. w. l. jagger. 
Long Island. 
A Plastered House; Some Mistakes. 
Some years ago I had charge of a farm, 
where they had a new henhouse just com¬ 
pleted. It had an air space, was lined with 
paper and ceiled inside with matched siding. 
The hens began to be troubled with lice. We 
whitewashed the house thoroughly, burnt sul¬ 
phur one whole day with the doors and win¬ 
dows closed, and used kerosene in nests and 
on roosts. The lice still remained. They 
fairly ate up the newly-hatched chicks. Then 
we tore out the inside of that house. On 
the under side of those boards there was a 
mass of lice two Inches wide extending the 
whole length of the 12-foot boards. The 
men who removed the boards scratched for a 
month. We then lathed and plastered tne 
house overhead and on the sides with adamant 
cement. That ended the lice trouble. All 
we had to do after that was to keep tlie 
roosts and nests clean. 
Ten years ago I built a henhouse on the 
place we now occupy 50 feet long. 12 feet 
wide, on a foundation of quarry stone laid in 
cement; single roof; rear posts six feet high ; 
front elevation nine feet. We had a four- 
inch air space, then lined inside with tarred 
paper, then lathed overhead and sides, and 
plastered the first three feet from floor up 
with adamant, the remainder with common 
lime mortar. We never had any lice there 
except a few on the roosts or in the nests. 
House has a dirt floor. It is divided into 
four rooms with wire partitions; lias a win¬ 
dow sash in each part on south side. The 
windows have tight board shutters that are 
closed every night in Winter. They are a 
great advantage, as the building does not cool 
off as rapidly as it did before we put them 
on. The house runs east and west the long 
way, with a door at each end. It is a very 
warm house; it must be a very cold day that 
we are not obliged to open either one door 
or the other to air it. Some moisture will 
gather on the walls over night when the 
weather is very cold, but soon dries off when 
the door is left open. Hens are confined 
from the beginning of Winter until Spring. 
We never have had any sickness of any kind 
among hens; had as high as 180 hens in 
building during the Winter.. 
Mistakes we made in building were, first,— 
We built too far from dwelling; 400 feet is 
too far to travel through snow and bad 
weather. Second, oosts are too high ; six feet 
front and three feet rear are plenty high 
enough. Third, too much glass. Ours were 
sash that came out of an old church seven 
feet high and three feet wide running from 
floor up. It would have been better also to 
have a door to each part opening to the out¬ 
side of the building on the side. It would 
have saved work in cleaning and also in put¬ 
ting in chaff and litter. We now have to 
travel the whole length of the building from 
each end and open the gates between each 
room. There was quite a slope to the ground, 
and one end of foundation is 2*4 feet high. 
We filled inside with large stone from an old 
wall and covered with gravel. Result was 
that there were too many crevices in stones; 
gravel kept sifting away and floor became 
uneven, also made a hiding place for rais. If 
small stones had been used and well rammed 
down It would have been better. I have been 
iu several houses with cement floors and do 
Of course it depends somewhat upon the 
price of hay and grain, as these articles 
change in value, but most farmers have 
hay that does not sell to advantage on the 
market. I mean hay that grows on low 
lands, or on land that has not been plowed 
for a long time; hay that has been rained 
on and is dark in color, and that growing 
on salt meadows besides oat straw. The 
above kinds of hay, including the oat 
straw, will do to feed to idle horses in 
Winter with a small amount of grain. It 
must be borne in mind that I do not mean 
moldy or smoky hay. As I bought hay 
last Winter to feed my stock I can give 
you some figures. I bought some hay that 
grew on the salt meadows near the upland 
where fresh water soaked down through 
it, making it half salt and half fresh. I 
paid $6 per ton for this hay, and fed my 
horses on it for two months, the rest of 
the Winter 1 fed them some hay for which 
I paid $12 per ton; which grew on upland 
that had not been plowed for many years. 
I fed to each horse 21 pounds of hay per 
day and 4(4 pounds of corn per day (or 
15 ears of corn;. The hay at $6 per ton 
would be in round numbers six cents per 
day, and the corn at $1.25 per hundred 
pounds would be five cents per day, mak¬ 
ing 11 cents per day, and the hay at $12 
per ton would be six cents more, or 17 
cents per day. These horses were used 
during this time to do the ordinary farm 
work, and to draw a number of loads to 
market, 12 miles distant. Taking the three 
Winter months at 11 cents per day it 
would cost $0.00 and at 17 cents per day 
$15.30 to feed one horse, Of course this 
does not include the labor. We make but¬ 
ter, and we give the buttermilk to the 
horses, which we think is beneficial to 
them. We also give them the skim-milk 
when we do not have anything else to feed 
it to. P. K. HOADI.EY. 
Connecticut. 
When I took my present place in April, 
1003, the man I work for had always kept 
from two to six horses, and had never 
turned a horse out either to pasture or in 
a barnyard. But I managed to get the 
shoes off one team and turned them into 
the yard about three months last Winter, 
and this Spring he said to me. “Why, it 
don’t cost much to winter an idle horse, 
does it?” This is how I fed them: Two 
quarts of bran, 6 ears of soft corn per day, 
and a run to shredded cornstalks each day. 
They had no straw at all, not even for 
bedding. At that rate it cost as follows: 
50 pounds bran per month, 55 cents; four 
bushels soft corn, $1, or for three 
months’ grain, $4.65. One of them, 
a Percheron mare, purchased in the West 
three or four years ago, we thought was 
past her usefulness, to us, at least, and 
thought we would winter her as cheaply 
as possible, and dispose of her. She was 
one of those horses that would catch a 
stranger’s eye, but one that was always 
ailing; first was an ulcerated tooth, with 
a running sore on her jaw; then she was 
lame, and where I couldn’t tell, and neither 
one of four veterinaries agreed about it. 
One said sweeney, another navicular dis¬ 
ease ; one gave me medicine for a ring¬ 
bone, and the “boss” took her to another 
one and he fixed a bone-spavin. On ac¬ 
count of buying more land we had to buy 
another team, so we concluded to try her 
another year. We put her in harness the 
middle of March and she has worked every 
day since, holding her own as well as any 
horse we have, and is worth just as much 
as the day we bought her. She was so fat 
she would pant like a hog at first, but it is 
easier to take fat off a work horse than it 
is to put it on. Conditions vary on dif¬ 
ferent farms, but I think a horse can be 
wintered and also put in condition for 
about $2.50 per month, besides the value of 
the manure they make. 1 would always 
give a small amount of grain, especially 
wheat bran, and let them into the yard 
every day rain or shine. Of course no ani¬ 
mal ought to be out all day in a blizzard, 
but a horse is better off out an hour or two 
in one than any other animal I know of. 
I have never yet failed to bring a horse 
through all right and in good shape for 
work in the Spring when they had a little 
grain, but no roughage alone will balance 
a ration unless it is Alfalfa. o. j. B. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
STIR FARM HOLSTEINS 
Headed by Aaggle Cornucopia Pauline Count, the 
son of Aaggle Cornucopia Pauline, the to-day Cham¬ 
pion Butter Cow of the world with an official seven 
day record of 34.5.2 pounds. Second—Mer¬ 
cedes Julip’s Pietertje Paul, son of Mercedes Julip’s 
Pietertje, the 1900 World’s Champion Butter Cow, 
official seven day record, 29.5.7 pounds. Average per 
cent of fat In milk of both cows over 4 per cent. Cows 
and Heifers bred to these two greatest Bulls in the 
world are now offered for sale. 
250 HEAD TO SELECT FROM 250 
Specialties—Extra fine Holstein Cows and Heifers 
due to freshen soon. Elegantly bred service Bulls 
ready for immediate use at bargain prices. Heifer 
and Bull Calves-in short everything that you want 
In the Holstein-Friesian line. 
FOR THIRTY 1)AY» I make this extraordinary 
offer: A purebred, registered Holstein Heifer and 
Bull Calf, from two to four months old, for an even 
$100. Offer open until the supply of Calves Is ex¬ 
hausted. Easy terms of payment. Circulars A. and 
B. mailed on application. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D., Cortland, N. Y. 
At ROE’S 
more large (officially tested) butter record 
cows have been bred than at any place in 
the WORLD. 70 head to choose from. 
Get prices before buying elsewhere. 
H. I). ROE, Augusta, Sussex County, N. J. 
SPECIAL BARGAINS 
IN RICHLY-BRED 
HOLSTEINS. 
Leading families. W rite me, describing what you wish. 
Will quote lowest possible prices to quick buyers. 
N. F. SHOLES. 128 Bastable Block. Syracuse, N. Y. 
BRILL FARM. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Home of Lord Netherlaml I)«Kol. Great sire 
of high testing butter cows. Stock and prices right. 
E. C. .BRILL, Poughquag, N. Y. 
pUREBKKi) noLSTEiN BULL CALVES, | 
* Chester Whites, all ages: bestof breeding, Forsale 
atreasonable prices. Chas. K. Record, Peterboro.N.Y 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal registered. 
WOODCRE8T FARM. Rif ton. Ulster CO..N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Bulls, 
ready for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write DELLIIURST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES— 
■ The Kind that Make Eggs—AU per lOO lbs. 
«Recleaned Ground Oyster Shells, 50c; Mico-Grlt for 
Poultry. 60c.; MicoGritfor Pigeons,60c.; MlcoGritfor 
Chicks.6Cc.; Saul’s Poultry Scratching Food.$2; Saul's 
Poultry Mash Food, $2; Saul’s Pigeon Food, $2; Saul’s 
Chick Food, $2.50; Cut Clover, $1.60; Clover Meal, 
$1.60; Pure Ground Beef Scraps, $2.25; Pure Meat 
Meai,$2.25: Pure Meat and Bone, $2 25; Pure Poultry 
Bone, $2.25; Pure Bone Meal, $2.25; Hemp Seed,$3.60; 
Sunflower Seed, $3.50; Chicken Millet, $2.50. 
CHAS. F. SAUL, 220-224 James Street, Syracuse, N. Y 
nr ITU TR V iPE on hhns and chickk 
IIC A In I II LlllC 64-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponang. R. 1. 
SQUABS PAY S5£S 
Easier, need attention only part of 
time, bring big prices. Raised in one 
month. Money-makers for poultry- 
men, farmers,women. Send for FREE 
BOOKLET and learn this rich home 
Industry. PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB 
CO., 289Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Cockerels and Pullets, five months old, 11.00 each; 
heavy Winter laying strain. Catalogue free. 
ZIMMER BROS., R. D.41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
Var’s Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book. 10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BERGEY,Box 8,Telford,Pa- 
SPECIAL OFFER. &S? 8 a o f n?¥ 
We will furnish 10 young 8. C. Brown Leg. Hens and 
one Cockerel for $8.50. All standard bred. Also, 
Cocks, Cockerels, Pullets and Hens, Trios, etc , of 
ALL BREEDS at extreme low prices, as we have 
to make room. AVliy wait until you have to have 
them and pay double our prices now. 
MT. BLANCO POULTRY FARM, Ml. Blanco. Ohio. 
For Sale.— Scotch Collies, magnificently 
bred. A. J. BENEDICT. Bristol. Wls . U . F- D- No. 2. 
N O MORE BLIND HORSES.-For Speclflo Oph¬ 
thalmia, Moon Blindness, and other Sore Eye*. 
BARRY CO., Iowa City, Iowa, have a sure oure. 
Breeders’ Directory 
L. E. ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST GLASS JERSEYS 
GOLDEN STREAMER 65000 
Son of Forfarshire out of Golden’ Stream 8th, 
born Feb. 22,1901, and considered the best Jersey bull 
that ever crossed the Atlantic as a two-year old. 
8pecialtv— Young Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also Imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
C3T" Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM, White Plains, N. T. 
EXILE OF ST. LAMBERT 
JERSEYS. 
The Herd of JERSEYS established at Staatsburgh, 
N. Y.. by the late W. B. DINSMOKE In 1860. and now 
largely made up of the blood of Exile of St. Lam¬ 
bert, has a few surplus animals of both sexes and 
various ages to dispose of. 
Representatives of the Herd are in every State 
and Territory In the country. Apply to 
TIMOTHY HERRICK, Supt., Staatsburgh, N. Y. 
Jersey Bulls, Berkshire Boars 
Good Ones—Registered—Cheap. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa 
WHITE SPRINGS PARM 
GUERNSEY HERD. 
Headed by PETER THE GREAT OF PAXTANG. 
No. 6346, and BLUE BLOOD, No. 6310. 
8uch Cows as Sheet Anchor’s Lassie. Imp. Deanie 
7th, Lady Myrtle of Homestead,'etc. The Herd num- 
ders about 40 carefully selected animals. Registered 
and tuberculin-tested. Breeding stock for sale at 
all times, including the choicest of Bull and Heifer 
Calves of all ages, and at reasonable prices. For 
furthe- particulars and catalogue, address, 
ALFRED G. LEWIS, Geneva, N. Y. 
H0LLYR00D FARM HERB. 
HIGHLY BRED. ADVANCED REGISTRY. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 
All the popular families represented. Size, Individ¬ 
uality, constitution and production, 
100 Choice Animals to Select From 100 
MATURE AND YOUNG STOCK FOR SALE. 
Few Bull Calves from 4 to 8 months old. Sired 
by MERCEDES JULEPS PIETERTJE 
PAUL, No. 29830. 
Dams with Official Advanced Registry Records. 
Write for description, breeding and prices; all will 
suit you. Como and see the Herd; only two hours 
_ . _ from New York City. 
JAMES H. AVALLICK, Middletown, N. V. 
Send for circular. 
Now Is the time to purchase the BEST, and thff 
BEST can be found at 
ALTAMONT STOCK FARM, 
Millbrook. N. Y. 
Property of G. HOWARD DAVISON. 
National Delaine Merino Rams for sale at reason- 
u able prices. Ingalls & Son, Greenville. N. Y. 
CHOICE DELAINE EWES EM*S!.SE 
Stock registered. In writing state number and age 
Wanted. Bargain prices. F. C. Mulkln. Friendship,N.Y 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES 
and Oet. boars. 
10 Fall farrowed sows, 2 yearling Boars, and Boar 2 
years old next Sept; 6 Sows bred to farrow in May 
and June forsale at prices that no man in need of 
Berkshires can disregard. First-class individuals la 
all respects. J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Ct.® 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin, 
service Boars, Bred sows. Write for 
prices and description. Return if not 
satisfactory: we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Ercildoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
0.1C 
•W/itilllfMI® 
CHESTER WHITES 
Both O. I. C. and Todd strains. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M L. 
Bowersox,K.3; Bradford, Dk. Co,U 
PROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES STSSS 
;. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
IMPROVED 
LARGE YORKSHIRES! 
all ages, from Imported stock, 
at modest prices. W.H. Fisher, 
Suahr Building. Columbus, O. 
DURITAN HERD OF CHESTER WHITES.— 
•The peer of any In America. Write your wants to 
WILL W. ELSUK1L B. 2. Watervliet, Mich 
Large English Berkshires of oholoest breeding 
for sale, males and females. Write for prices, etc. to 
NUTWOOD FARMS, R. F. D.,No. 4, Syracuse, N.Y. 
