1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
351 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Salmon Roe for Poultry. 
Could you substitute fish for meat for 
chickens, and would salmon roe be good? 
We can get all we want free. Is fish bone 
as good as other kind of bone? c. f. s. 
Sumdum, Alaska. 
I have never had any experience in 
feeding fish to poultry, but know that it 
is largely used by many who raise ducks 
extensively with very satisfactory re¬ 
sults. I judge that it would be equally 
good for hens. If I lived where I could 
secure all the salmon roe I wanted free 
I should lose no time in giving it a 
trial. Do not make the mistake, how¬ 
ever, of thinking that hens can be kept 
on this feed exclusively. This will do 
all right, I think, for animal food, but 
grain will be needed in connection with 
it. It will spoil very quickly, and will 
have to be secured in small lots and 
often. Better cook it before using. Mrs. 
Crawford uses fish trimmings from a 
market, cooked in this way, with excel¬ 
lent results. I think fish bones would be 
all right but they should be ground or 
reduced in some way to avoid the dan¬ 
ger of choking. Long sharp bones 
would be apt to become lodged in the 
throat or crop and cause trouble. We 
are feeding more meat and bone this 
Spring than ever before, and never had 
eggs with such thick shells. I attribute 
this to the extra bone which they are 
getting. In former years we often had 
two or three dozen cracked or thin- 
shelled eggs a day, so that we had to 
take a good many to the bakers. This 
year we hardly get enough such for 
family use, though we are using the 
same nests and get about the same 
number of eggs. The meat and bone 
seems to have an advantage over milk 
in this respect. 
Concentrated Blood or Green Bone. 
What about the concentrated deodorized 
blood which is advertised by poultry sup¬ 
ply houses, claiming that one pound is 
equal to 16 pounds of green cut bone? 
Will it fill the place of green cut bone, 
and will the results be as good? If so, it 
would be cheaper, and a great deal of 
labor saved, and would be much more 
convenient than to bother with green 
bone. a. p. m. 
Fountain City, Tenn. 
While it is possible that one pound 
of this product is equal to 16 pounds 
of green cut bone in some one element, 
by chemical analysis, if anyone expects 
to get as good results from feeding one 
pound to hens as he would by feeding 
16 pounds of green cut bene I would 
simply say “don’t”; “16 to 1” may be all 
right in its place, but not here. 
Hens or Hogs. 
I am in the poultry business for eggs 
and have been in it long enough to know 
that one works for all he gets. As 1 
understand it, you keep 1,500 hens. Does 
it pay? What feed do you, recommend for 
eggs? With 12 or 15 acres, near a good 
market where you have to buy most of 
your feed, will hens pay better than hogs? 
You seem to be going into the pork busi¬ 
ness some. Is there any stimulant that 
will make hens lay for four or five months, 
regardless of the health of the hen or the 
fertility of the eggs? What you wrote 
about buying pullets in the Fall was all 
right. I want a few pointers from some 
one who has done it. Any amount of stuff 
and nonsense has been written on this 
subject by people who went into the poul¬ 
try business and quit and went to selling 
incubators. Would it pay to buy hens 
stimulants for four or five months for 
eggs and then sell the hens and buy more? 
Ontario. r. P- 
Readers of these notes have noticed 
that I recommend corn and wheat for 
grain feed, in connection with animal 
food of some kind. Green food in some 
form is undoubtedly desirable, but I do 
not consider it as essential as the two 
former. “Will hens pay better than 
hogs?” A great deal depends on cir¬ 
cumstances. There have been times and 
places during the past two years where 
pork could be produced at a good profit 
on purchased grain. As a rule, how¬ 
ever, the man who feeds hogs on the 
same farm where the feeds are produced 
has a decided advantage. The bulk of 
most farmers’ income can be reckoned 
as representing the proceeds of his own 
labor. When his whole time is spent in 
the care of hogs or other stock on pur¬ 
chased feeds, his whole income depends 
on the price which pork brings above 
the food cost. Where he raises his own 
grain the price of pork may go down so 
that it barely covers the food cost, and 
he still has an income from the labor 
in raising the grain. In the other case 
the income would be entirely wipted 
out. A year ago at this time pork was 
worth in the New York market 10y 3 
cents per pound. To-day it is only 
worth eight cents. Suppose the food cost 
to be six cents per pound and here is 
a cut of over 50 per cent in the income 
of the farmer making pork on purchas¬ 
ed grain as we are making it. For the 
man who is both raising grain and feed¬ 
ing it, the cut is less than 25 per cent. 
For this reason I am somewhat in doubt 
as to the advisability of feeding a big 
lot of pigs this Summer. It is something 
of a lottery at the best; so much depends 
on the relative price of grain and pork. 
Last Spring we had to ship several tons 
of pork to the New York market, since 
the demand is light in our local market 
after the advent of warm weather.-This 
could then be done at a good profit on 
account of the high price prevailing. 
This Spring the problem has been a dif¬ 
ferent one, as the expense of freight and 
commission would consume most of the 
profits. We have been able by butcher¬ 
ing at from 80 to 100 pounds weight to 
work them nearly all off on our local 
butchers at eight cents net. Some of 
our September pigs dressed 130 pounds 
and more in February. The later ones 
we killed when they weighed from 80 
to 100, rather than to run the risk of 
having to pay freight and commission 
on them. I doubt whether market con¬ 
ditions will often be as favorable for 
making pork on purchased grain as for 
the past two years, and shall probably 
reduce our stock of pigs. I know of no 
“stimulant that will make hens lay for 
four or five months regardless of the 
health of the hen.” A hen needs to be 
in the pink of health in order to lay at 
all. A sick hen lays no eggs. Where 
good hens can be bought at market 
rates in February or March, fed for eggs 
four or five months and sold again, 
there are big chances for profit. For any 
other four or five months of the year 
I should be doubtful about the profit. 
O. W. MAPES. 
Frank C. Ward’s third importation of 
Jersey cattle will be sold by Peter C. Kel¬ 
logg at Hoboken, N. J., April 26. This 
herd of about 120 head surpasses the previ¬ 
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merit. In the lot is progeny of the follow¬ 
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2d; Mon Plaisir; Clovis; Golden Marquis 
2d; Primrose Lad; Mabel's Poet; Napoleon 
Bonaparte; King of Arden; and Mauser. 
Nearly all the cows and heifers are fresh. 
They have the characteristic beauty of im¬ 
ported cows, with fine udders and large 
teats. There are also some excellent young 
bull calves. Further particulars will be 
furnished by Peter C. Kellogg, 10? John 
St.. New York. 
“If you want to know how to raise 
Calves cheaply and successfully without 
Milk, write to J. W. Barwell, Wauke¬ 
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