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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 15 , 
Live Stock and Dairy 
POULTRY-HOUSE POINTERS. 
The plastered henhouse question is getting 
interesting. As for myself, I have no use 
for plaster, and a double wall is an unneces¬ 
sary expense. Houses built of cheap rough 
lumber and covered, both roof and sides, with 
a good grade of roofing felt, and kept asphalt¬ 
ed are cheap and entirely satisfactory. 
Houses can be constructed at 40 cents per 
hen capacity which are entirely satisfactory. 
We have successfully solved the question of 
getting rid of moisture in Winter by lathing 
the houses overhead, leaving three-inch space 
between the lath and packing fine straw 
above. We also leave a two-inch space be¬ 
tween plate aud roof open; this permits a 
very gentle circulation through the straw, 
which entirely removes moisture and pre¬ 
vents its collecting on the walls as frost. 
Board lloors are a decided advantage. They 
are drier, can be more readily kept clean, and 
are in every way to be preferred. The dirt 
floor is not a good one on which to put litter 
and feed. It makes the house too disagree¬ 
able to go about it. with decent clothes, a 
thing which I will not tolerate. The cement 
floor is cold in Winter, and when the hens 
are fed upon it for a long time their beaks 
are worn away considerably, aud they are 
loath to pick feed therefrom. A year and a 
half of experience with cotton cloth in place 
of glass is very favorable to the cloth, and 
the cost: of building is very materially reduced, 
i am now building a house for 100 hens, and 
will use only cloth for windows: have six 
poultry houses, two of which have glass win¬ 
dows. I have been successful in getting 
Winter eggs, but doubt very much if there is 
any profit in it. I would like to have the 
question discussed. J.-t. c. 
Hartstown, Pa. 
VALUE OF A HEN RATION. 
Will you give me the feeding value of the 
following, and tell me what would be the 
cheapest feed to get a balanced ration for 
poultry: Corn at 70 cents per bushel: oats at 
45 cents; wheat at 90 cents; bran. .$1.20 per 
100; middlings, .$1.30; oil cake meal, $1.50. 
Which is the cheaper of the two, wheat at 
90 cents per bushel, or bran and middlings 
mixed at $1.25 per 100 pounds? u n. u. 
Tyner, W. Va. 
Digestible 
follows: 
nutrients contained are as 
Protein. Carbohydrates. Pat. 
65.2 
2.9 
9.2 
47.3 
4.2 
10.2 
69.2 
1.7 
1 2.5 
40.5 
3.1 
14.4 
47.9 
5.0 
34.7 
0.4 
for whole’ 
Corn . 
Oats . 9.2 
Wheat .10.2 
Wheat bran .... 
Wheat middlings 
Oil meal .-’9.4 
At the prices you mention 
grains feeding the wheat at 90 cents per 
bushel (or $1.50 per 100 pounds) is con¬ 
siderably cheaper unless you get the 
scorched wheat, which is usually sold at a 
price far in excess of what it is really 
worth. For mash feeding a mixture of 
wheat bran and cornmcal or of bran and 
feed (cornmcal and oats ground together) 
will, I think, give the best results. You 
can see from tne table above that the bran 
and middlings at $1.25 per 100 are much 
cheaper than the wheat at $1.50 per 100. 
H. G. M. 
FEEDING HOGS ON SWILL 
From the reply to Reader, page 663, 
in regards to “Keeping Hogs on Shares,” 
to be fed on swill, I conclude that those 
who answer have very little experience 
in feeding hogs on swill. The first thing 
to be known is whether family or res¬ 
taurant swill is to be fed; next, if a private 
route is to be picked up, or if it is taken 
off the street. If taken off the street when 
the city department collects, which in small 
cities is only once or twice a week, “Read¬ 
er” will find the swill partly decayed 
and quite unfit and risky to feed. If a 
private route from a good class of people 
can be picked up and an agreement made 
with them to keep the swill clean, it makes 
a good feed for hogs, but it should be 
collected at least four times a week in 
hot weather and two or three times in 
Winter. This family swill should be fed 
as soon as collected, and the remainder 
be put in large barrels and covered with 
water; it will then keep in good condition 
for several days. In cold weather it 
should be cooked or at least heated. 
Restaurant swill requires cooking for 
from two to six hours according to time 
of year. In cold weather it requires longer 
cooking, because it contains more meat 
and fat. The fat should be skimmed off 
and can be sold to soap factories. The 
cooked swill is then mixed with middlings, 
bran and bread, for brood sows and young 
growing stock; for fattening stock with 
bread, middlings and cornmeal. This 
is my way of feeding and it makes a good 
food and fine pork, also gives plenty of 
milk to brood sows. This swill, family 
swill, is good for shotes and old stock, 
but young pigs, six to eight weeks old, 
will not thrive on it alone; it is too bulky, 
consisting mostly of vegetable tops and 
potato parings. In Summer it is much 
more bulky than in Winter; the pigs have 
to eat too much of it and soon will get 
pot-bellies and look unthrifty, and if 
proper care is not taken in feeding, they 
may all die. The cooked restaurant swill, 
if middlings is added, is a much better 
feed for young stock, but 1 prefer to give 
them an extra feed of middlings and water 
at noon, until they arc about 2'/ to 3 
months old; by that time the digestive 
organs are stronger and they will do well 
on swill alone. 
The best plan is to raise your own pigs, 
but if they are lo be bought from a place, 
where no swill is fed, great care should be 
taken, and the pigs only be fed very little, 
increasing from day to day, but never give 
them more than they will eat up clean. 
As soon as they show signs of being 
off their feed stop feeding swill and change 
to middlings. The average weight you 
can make is about 100 pounds at six 
months old; to make 200 pounds of pork 
will take at least 10 to 12 months with 
average run of pigs, and the heavy pork 
brings less money than the light. I 
would not advise “Reader” to go in part¬ 
nership with owner; the possible profit 
is too small for two, and “Reader” will 
find it a great deal of work. The best plan 
would be to buy a few brood sows, raise 
your own stock and sell young pigs; it 
pays better than to feed them and sell 
to butcher and is less risk. c. j. 
Bergen Co., N. J. 
A PLASTERED HENHOUSE. 
Many articles arc appearing in the farm 
papers commendatory of plastered hen¬ 
houses. My nephew built one a year ago 
for 500 hens, plastered between the studs 
and inside, making a double air space. A 
•loose floor was laid overhead, covered 
with straw. 1 watched this in comparison 
with one we have in use made entirely of 
boards stuffed with straw. Both have 
concrete floors. There was moisture on 
the side walls and frost in the coldest 
weather, while ours was dry all of the 
time. I might say that we had nearly 
twice as many liens to a given air space, 
which would of course make a difference. 
The danger from vermin usually found in 
these board side walls is entirely overcome 
by a coat of Carbolineum Avenarius put 
on four years ago this Fall; how long it 
will last and be effective I do not know. 
It has the objection of being a very dark 
color, which makes for a dark room in¬ 
stead of a light one. We have, however, 
ample window space, with double win¬ 
dows, and the house is light enough. The 
objection to plaster is that it is a good 
conductor of heat. I have not seen this 
combination, but feel sure it would be 
very satisfactory if the walls were stuffed 
with straw 10 inches thick, using cheap 
lumber for ceiling and then lath and plas¬ 
ter, with cement near the floor, would 
make a most ideal side wall. Whitewash 
would keep the room light and such a wall 
would be a non-conductor of heat and a 
non-breeder of vermin. Sanitation and 
dry air first, and then added thereto 
warmth make ideal Fall, Winter and 
Spring surroundings for hens. Insula¬ 
tion and plenty of hens to the given air 
space will da it if the building is right. 
_ H. E. COOK. 
Cabbage in Silos.—I have uot known of 
instances where cabbage has been put into 
silos, but inasmuch as cabbage is very prone 
to rot when massed together, I should expect 
a great lot of foul, rotten material to be taken 
from the silo. Of course we are familiar 
with the process of kraut making, in which 
case tlie material is well preserved, but in the 
making of kraut the mass is pounded and 
compacted until the juice of the cabbage is 
started in such a way as to fill the interstices 
between the particles of cabbage, and thor¬ 
oughly to drive out the air. so that the fer¬ 
mentation does not proceed very far before 
all the air is consumed. It would bo impos¬ 
sible, I think, to compact the mass of cab¬ 
bage in a silo sufficiently to produce this re¬ 
sult. Furthermore, cabbage, to be fed to 
dairy cows without damaging the flavor of 
the milk or butter, must be fed very care¬ 
fully, and no diseased cabbage given to the 
animals. I do not believe that cabbage can 
be carried very far into the Winter without 
enough of the leaves becoming decayed to in¬ 
jure the flavor of the milk, unless, indeed, at 
feeding time the decayed leaves were care¬ 
fully removed, which would be a process 
probably too expensive and disagreeable to be 
warranted for stock feeding. 
Cornell University. [etiof. ] .r. l. stone. 
ON THE FARM 
■ nothing 
EQUALS 
SLOANS 
LINIMENT 
o. i. c. PICS. 
August and September farrow. Two young Boars; 
registered stock. Pairs and trios not akin. Farmer’s 
prices. F. J. SCHWARTZ. East Pharsalta. N. Y. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES ffiTKSSJ 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
t/% 
W k» GHAMPWH SHROPSHIRE. RAM AUAMHIS HM5LEUC 
Send for circular. 
Now Is the time to purchase the REST, and the 
BEST can be found at 
ALTAMONT STOCK FARM, 
Millbrook. N. Y. 
Property of G. HOWARD DAVISON. 
R egistered shropshires of choicest breeding 
•for sale. Large and well-built yearling Rams; also 
choice large March Ram Lambs. Cheap for quality. 
NUTWOOD FARMS, R. F. D.,No. 4, Syracuse, N Y. 
SHROPSHIRE RAMS 
and Ram Lambs, Breeding Ewes. 
Chester White Pigs. All stock 
eligible to record and of the best 
strains money will buy. Also some 
fine B- I’. Rocks. Have been breed 
lDg and shipping 12 years. Have hundreds of satisfied 
customers. SIDNEY SP RAGUE, Falconer, N. Y. 
Oxford Ram Lambs horn cows and heifers, fresh 
soon. Address. G. Seymour & Son, Rootstown, O. 
CHOICE DELAINE EWES 
DURITAN HERD OF CHESTER WHITES— 
I Th. no 
’lmepeer of any In America. 
W. FISHER. 
_ Write your wants to 
B. 2. Watervllet. Mich. 
CHESTER WHITES 
Both O. I. C. and Todd strains. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M. L. 
Bowersox.R.3; Bradford, Dk. Co.O 
PUREBRED CHESTER & POLAND CHINA PIGS, 
$4.50 each: 3 for $12.50. CashorC.O.D. Circular. 
ARTHUR McCAIN & CO., Delaware, New Jersey. 
FOR SALE (NO 
_ _ ____RAMS.) Aliages. 
Stock "registered. In writing state number and ago 
wanted. Bargain prices. F. C. Mulkin, Friendship,N.Y 
Wational Delaine Merino Rams for sale at reason- 
ill able prices. Ingalls & Son, Greenville, N. ¥. 
SPECIAL CUT PRICES. 
We offer 1 Cockerel, 5 1 yr Hens in either S. C. White, 
S. C. or K. C. Brown Leghorns All Standard Bred, 
We have bargains In ALL, Piym. Rocks, Wyandot- 
tes. Cochins, Laugsbans. Mlnoroas, Orpingtons, R. I. 
Reds, Games, and all other breeds. Why wait 
until you have to have them and pay double 
our prices now. Exhibition Cockerels, Trios, 
etc,, priced on application.’ 
MT. ‘BLANCO POULTRY FARM, Carpenter, Ohio. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Cockerels and Pullets, five months old, $1.00 each; 
heavv 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. 00 p. book. 10c. 
Rates free. J A. BERGEY,Box 8,Telford,Pa, 
90 
nCITU TH I me on HENS and CHICKS, 
KJCA In I U LluC 04-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
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., Krcildpun, Chester Co., Pa. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES i,Toll'll 
10 Fall farrowed sows, 2 yearling Boars, and Boar 2 
years old next Sept; 58owsbred to farrow in May 
and June for sale at prices that no man m need of 
Berkshires can disregard. First-class individuals in 
all respects. J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Ct. 
Purebred English Berkshires 
of all ages, at Farmer’s prices. From “ Hood Farm " 
stock. O. G. PHELPS & CO., Stock Farm, Milton, Vt. 
WHITE SPRINGS EARM 
GUERNSEY HERD. 
Headed by PETER THE GREAT OF PAXTANG, 
No. 0346, and BLUE BLOOD. No. 6310. 
Snch Cows as Sheet Anchor's Lassie. Imp. Deanie 
7th, Lady Myrtle of Homestead,-etc. The Herd num- 
ders about 40 careiuliy 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 
further particulars and catalogue, address, 
ALFRED G. LEWIS, Geneva, N. Y. 
Jersey Bulls, Berkshire Boars 
Good Ones—Registered—Cheap. 
B. F SHANNON. U07 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Fa. 
GEDNEY FARM 
L. E. ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST CLASS JERSEYS 
GOLDEN STREAMER 65000 
Son of Forfabsuihk 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. 
Specialty —Young Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTK8. 
t&~ Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM, White Plains, N. Y. 
HIGH CLASS 
CERCHERON AND FRENCH- 
Poach Stallions £ Scotch Collie 
Pups. E.S. AKIN, Auburn. N. Y. 
At the ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION 
the descendants of Czar Coomassie won 
more prizes than those of any other hull. 
His son, QUEEN’S CZAK, No. 55573, A. 
J. C. C. has 22 first prizes to his credit. 
Three of his sons, from high-class regis¬ 
tered cows, for sale at from $25 to $50. 
J. Grant Morse, Hamilton, N. Y. 
H0LLYR00D FARM HERD. 
HIGHLY BRED. ADVANCED REGISTRY. 
HOLSTEI N-FRI ESIAN 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 JULEP-J PIETERTJE 
PAUL, No. 29830. 
Dams with Official Advanced Registry Records. 
Write for description, breeding and prices; ail will 
suit you. Come and see the Herd; only two hours 
_ from Now York City. 
JAMES H. WALL1CK, Middletown, N. Y. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS 
BARGAIN COUNTER. 
Extraordinary Offer. Holsteins 
at Half Value. 
Thirty choicely bred, handsomely marked, registered 
Holstein Calves, one to six months of age, at $1UU 
per pair, male and female. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D., Cortland, N. Y. 
N. B.—Four pairs already sold, eleven pairs left, 
Oder good until they are gone. 
Hoisfein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
From choice A. R. O. Dams, and by such sires as 
Beryl Waynes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
Deitol. We will make attractive prices on these 
youngsters as they must be disposed of to make room 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices on 
anything needed in Holstein-Friesians. 
WOODCREST FARM, Riflon, Ulster Co.. N.Y. 
DUREBKED HOLSTEIN HULL CALVES, 
* Chester Whites, ail ages: bestof breeding, Forsale 
atreasonable prices. Chas. K. Record, Peter boro, N.Y 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES. Scotch Collies, Spay ed 
11 Females. SILAS DECKER. South Montrose, Pa. 
ANGORA GOATS. 
27 Registered Bucks. 
200 Does. 
POULTRYand 
(FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT.) 
Catalogue free. Established 1888. 
Elm Poultry Yards, Box Y, Hartford, Conn. 
Foi’Sale.— Scotch ColTies. magnificently 
bred. A. J. BENEDICT, Bristol, Wis , R. F. D. No. 2. 
Some Kids. 
FOX TERRIERS 
BROOKS I DE-MOYER DALE HERD. 
Having just purchased the entire MOYERDALE HERD OF HOLSTEINS, we offer a 
selection from over 200 head of the highest class animals ever collected together. To reduce our 
stock at o nce we offer special inducements through August. 
STEVENS BROTHERS, XjAOONA, 3NT. Y. 
