1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
767 
Hope Farm Notes. 
(continuted.) 
How much oil meal ought I to give for a feed, 
and how prepare it ? How often should It be 
fed ? m. c. E. 
I do not believe that oil meal will com¬ 
pletely take the place of meat in a hen’s 
winter ration. The chemical analysis 
may be the same, but I believe that the 
hen is better able to utilize the muscle- 
makers in meat than in any vegetable 
substitute. I would certainly try hard 
to obtain dried meat or cut bone. Bran 
or crushed oats is the foundation of a 
ration for a laying hen, and corn meal 
or cracked corn gives it the agreeable 
taste. Our Michigan friend might mix 
three parts wheat bran, two parts corn 
meal and two parts crushed oats, with 
one part ground meat or 1% part linseed 
meal. I would like to add half its bulk 
of ground or very finely cut clover hay 
This would make a fair mash, and T 
would feed it so that the hens would 
never become very hungry. We feed a 
mash entirely, keeping it before the 
hens practically all the time. During 
the winter, when the hens are housed, 
we shall try feeding cut green bone 
every other day separate from the mash, 
and whole corn every night in place of 
the mash. In our part of the country, 
we would use other ingredients in this 
mixture, but the one named above is 
simple enough for any locality, h. w. c. 
A SUCCESSFUL POULTRY RATION. 
I am now feeding my hens a very light 
whole-grain ration in the morning, scat¬ 
tered in litter. Beets, cabbage, or clover 
are fed after the grain in the morning, 
for green feed. A warm mash is fed at 
noon, all they will clean up quickly, and 
whole grain about 4 p, m., scattered in 
litter, all they will eat, as nearly as I 
can judge. The whole grain is corn, 
oats, wheat and buckwheat, equal parts. 
The warm mash is ground corn, oats, 
and rye, equal parts, and coarse winter- 
wheat bran. About one-third of the 
whole in bulk is bran, to which I add 
about 14 pounds prepared meat, and 
about seven pounds of old process oil 
meal. I also use a little salt. This is for 
600 hens. They also have the skim-milk 
and buttermilk from two cows, mixed 
with dishwater, etc., to drink. 
According to my ideas and experience, 
you are right in thinking the moulting 
period the most critical part of the hen’s 
life. During this time, when she is not 
laying, therefore is unprofitable, some 
people will stop feeding meat and the 
other most costly parts of the ration, 
thinking to economize, and that, when 
the hens are not laying they do not need 
it; but they make a great mistake. 
Feathers and quills beinglargely nitrog¬ 
enous, the hens should have nearly the 
same food as when laying, except that 
I would increase the oil meal and wheat 
bran. I always keep their appetites good 
and keen by exercise and by not over¬ 
feeding. H. J. BLANCHARD. 
Tompkins Co . N. Y. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
A Dog Cabt that really deserves Its name, being 
a small vehicle drawn by a large and cheerful 
dog, is the mode of traveling adopted by a legless 
man who is journeying from Buffalo to New 
York. The man was thus crippled in a railway 
accident, and has been going about in this way 
since. His equipage will be suggestive of the 
Belgian milk-carts, which are very often drawn 
by dogs. Better this than a lawless animal 
allowed to become a nuisance and a danger by 
running undisciplined at large. 
Pheasant-Farming is quite an important in¬ 
dustry in England, the birds being reared by 
hand for stocking game coverts. One noted 
pheasant-farm covers an area of 400 acres, 
divided by six-foot wire netting into large pad- 
docks. There are about 12 miles of netting on 
the estate. The birds have to be moved about 
frequently as, if confined to one spot, they “stale” 
the ground, and disease appears. Each pen, 
about 40 feet long, contains a family of six birds, 
one cock and five hens. The eggs are removed 
from the laying pheasants, and hatched under 
ordinary fowls, 19 eggs to a nest. When hatched, 
the young birds are taken to a large meadow in 
which long lanes have been mown in the grass or 
clover, where the coops are placed, the foster- 
mother being tethered outside the coop. The 
young birds shelter from hot sun in the long 
grass. In spite of their rearing, these birds are 
very shy and wild and, in the covert, they can¬ 
not be distinguished from their wild brethren. 
Constant watch is kept over the laying pheasants 
and the young birds, as crows and jays watch an 
opportunity to steal the eggs, while jackdaws 
and sparrow hawks are very destructive to the 
newly-batched birds. 
An Anti-Hair Plant. —The fact that food actu¬ 
ally dangerous to the horse may be eaten with 
impunity by ruminant animals, is curiously 
illustrated by the Wild tamarind or Jumbai plant 
of tropical America. If the young shoots, leaves 
or seed and seed pods are eaten by horses, mules 
or donkeys, the animals lose all the hair from 
their manes and tails, while pigs lose every hair 
over the entire body. A case is cited in which 
the horse lost its hoofs, also, having to be kept 
in slings until the new hoofs hardened. While it 
is said that horses fed exclusively on corn or 
grass will recover from these effects, the hair 
grows on again different in color and texture 
from what it was originally. Ruminant animals, 
however, are in nowise affected, and in the 
Bahamas, the same plant is encouraged to grow, 
being used as a fodder plant for cattle, sheep 
and goats. 
A Canadian Calf.— In the Canadian Farmer, 
Jos. Yuill & Sons tell how they manage their 
heifer calves. The calves never suck the cow, 
but are fed new milk or skim-milk with flaxseed. 
“ As soon as the calf will nibble hay (that will be 
when it is about 10 days or two weeks oldj, a 
bunch of early cut, well-saved clover hay is 
placed where she can reach it. If any of it is 
left over remove it and give a fresh lot at least 
once a day. As soon as the calf will lick meal, we 
give it a little meal composed of the following 
mixture: four pounds bran, four pounds oat?, 
one pound peas and one pound barley. The 
peas, oats and barley should be ground fine. By 
the time it is three or four weeks old, a good 
thrifty calf snould not be getting a,ny new milk. 
Great care and judgment must be exercised in 
feeding. The feeder must study the digestive 
power of each calf. Just feed each calf what it 
will digest properly, and no more. Regularity is 
another important matter in feeding calves. We 
try to have our calves come in October or Novem¬ 
ber, and feed them along in the way outlined 
until the grass is good in the spring, when they 
are turned out on the grass and remain there 
until autumn. Next winter they are fed a poor 
quality of hay and about 10 pounds ensilage. We 
want a well matured heifer to drop her first calf 
when she is two years old. If they are not very 
well matured they would better be !iy t years old 
before they have a calf.” 
Another dairyman gives this experince: “As 
soon as the calf is dropped it is taken into a loose 
box and fed its mother’s milk for the first 10 days 
—as much as it can take, say 10 pounds daily, 
after the first three days—when we begin to 
add gradually a little separated milk, and con¬ 
tinue giving more separated milk until the calf 
is a month old, when it is entirely fed on the 
separated milk. As soon as the calf begins to 
get the separated milk, a little linseed jelly is 
mixed with its milk, in order to keep up the fats 
extracted by the cream being taken off the milk. 
When the calf is a fortnight old, we begin to 
teach the youngster to eat turnips, cutting them 
in finger lengths in slices, and holding a piece in 
its mouth until it acquires a taste for them, which 
it soon does; a little bran and ground oats, one- 
eighth of a pound to start them, is put on the top 
of the roots.” 
Disease and death often lurk in a continuously 
neglected cold, when It might be speedily eradicated 
with a few doses of Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant 
Safe and Sure. Jayne's Painless Sanative Pills.— 
Adv. 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive Core 
The Safest, Best BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
DR FIRING. Impossible to product scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
lent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
Oak-tanned leather Harness 
3 end your address with 2-cent stamp for Illustrated Catalogue, 
all kinds of Single and Double Custom-Made Harness, sold direct io 
the consumer at wholesale prices. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. 
KING HARNESS CO.. No Q Church St., Owggo, N. Y. 
Dim 
and 
Draught-Power 
are the net results of feed¬ 
ing 
The H-O Co.’s 
Horse Feed 
Brood mares thrive 
upon it, and their colts 
dre well advanced in nerve, bone and muscle. 
Send for literature. 
THE H-Q COMPANY, New York City. 
“BLIZZARD” 
Horse Ice Calks. 
Medal awarded at 
World’s Fair. 
Prices to Agents reduced. 
•For particulars address 
S. W. KENT, Meriden, Conn 
NEWTON’S 
JLATKST IMPROVED 
DEHORNERS 
Save time and money by dehorning 
your cattle. Write os for special 
iniorination on the subject. ' 
H.H. BROWN MFG.CO. 
P8CATVJU ipu 
FALL WORK 
is about over, and you can take tbosa 
trips to buy LIVESTOCK. We have been 
instructed to sell NORM ANDIES, HOL- 
STEINS, JERSEYS, AYRSHIRES. 
TROTTING STALLIONS, PERCHERONS and BERKSH1RES in Pennsylvania. We have inquiries 
for Guernseys. AMERICAN LIVE STOCK COMPANY, 24 State Street, New York City. 
N3~ Refers by permission to Thk Rural Nbw-Yorkkr. “©ft 
Cows barren 3 years 
MADE TO BREED. 
Moore Brothers, Albany, N. Y. 
POULTRY 
We keep every. 
— - - -- thing in the 
POULTRY LIKE, Fencing, Feeu, Incubat¬ 
ors, Live Stock, Brooders—anything—it’s 
our business. Cali or let us send yo* our 
illustrated catalogue—it’s free for the ask¬ 
ing—it’s worth having. 
Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co. 
^ 28 Yesey Street, New York City. a 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR 
LEADS THE WORLD. 
WE ARE GENERAL AGENTS; 
AND HEADQUARTERS FORi 
THE BEST POULTRY SUP-1 
PLIES. Circulars on Applica- ! 
tion. HENRY A DR6 €R, 
714 Chbstnut St.,Philadelphia. 1 
THK IMPROVED 
VICTOR Incubator 
Hatohea Chickens bj Steam, kbaoluwlj 
«elf-reculatinc. Th ® moit 
reliable, and oheapeat Hrst-otaae Hatcher 
p in the market. ('Ircularn FKFK 
6EO. ehtel co.. Qi r i yV rlr.r.. 
LIFE PRODUCERS 
THE SUCCESSFUL INCUBATOR. 
LIFE PRESERVERS 
THE SUCCESSFUL BROODERS. 
All about them in our 128 page 
Catalogue. Sent for 6 c, worth a $ 
DES MOINES INCUBATOR CO., Box 90 DES MOINES, IA 
*L A Z£H Chickens «I 
EXCELSIOR Incubator 
Simple. Perfect, Self-Regulat¬ 
ing. Thousands in successful 
operation. Lowest priced 
0rat-elaaa Hatcher made. 
CEO. II. STAHL. » 
114 tolga M. 6th St. Quincy. Ill 
Bone Cutler, 
If you Intend 
buying a 
before doing so, send to us for our new 
catalogue, just out, giving particulars 
and a full line of testimonials. Mention 
this paper. 
STRATTON A OSBORNE, Erie, Pa. 
A LITTLE CHILD 
can run the Premier Creen Bone 
Cutter— it turns so easy. Cuts fastest, 
and leaves product in best form. “Mort¬ 
gage-Lifting lien” book tells about it and 
more. P . A . We bste r , Cazenovia, N.Y. 
Ground Beef Scraps for Poultry 
Bone Meal. Granulated Bone, Crushed Oyster Shells. 
Calcite, Crushed Flint. Send for Price TAst. 
YORK CHE MICAL WORKS, York, Pa. 
flFATH TH I IPF A disinfectant Powder for 
ULMin IU LlUL Poultry Vermin. Sample 10c. 
Book Fueb. D J. Lambert Box 307. Apponaug. R I. 
1MAKE HENS 
jThla Priceless Secret of Kuccchm with Poultry is 
j fully told in our New Poultry Hook which is sent 
_ 9 Free as a Premium with our Poultry Paper 5 
nio s lor 10 cents. Address. W. P. CO., Clintonvillc, Coma 
Guernseys. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American and 
Island breeding. Butter average, whole herd, 318 
pounds per head. No catalogue. Come and make 
your own selection. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM. 
KHINHOL1FF, N. I, 
Florham Guernseys. 
To effect an Immediate sale, we will sell at very 
reasonable prices a number of well-bred bull 
calves. Included in the number are sons of Sheet 
Anchor, imp. Patriot, Main Stay, and Sheet 
Anchor 2nd; the two last being out of Rutila’s 
Daughter. 
J. L. HOPE, Farm Supt., Madison, N. J. 
JERSEY CATTLE FOR SALE. 
R, F. 
To the Highest Bidder! 
We hereby offer for sale to the person who sends 
the highest ofTer before December 1,1897, the follow¬ 
ing described Jersey Bull, dropped March 2. 1896, 
Sire Isabella’s Combination 34757 Dam Imported 
Cypres 17413. Broken color. Very large, finely built 
animal. Took first premium at both Madison and 
Chenango County Pairs this year; the only places 
shown. Has been served to a small herd of heifers 
this year, and has proven himself very sure. Pull 
pedigree and description sent upon application. The 
person who makes the highest offer will be notified 
December 1, and bull shipped Immediately upon 
receipt of New York draft. v 
HICKORY HILL 8TOCK FARM, Poolville, N. Y. 
J. Grant Mouse, Prop. 
Snntti DflWTN both sexes, all ages, for sale. Prices 
uuutu 1AMI11J reaaonable L B Frear Ithaca N Y 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshlres 
and C.WH1TE8. Still selling 
at hard times prices. Choice 
Boars and Sows, not akin, all 
ages Sows hied. POULTRY. 
HAMIL TON A CO.. Coohranvllle, Chester Co., Pa. 
CHESHIRES 
at auction. 50 Flret-class Cheshlres of various 
ages. Send for Circulars and Description. Sale 
closes December 1. 
W. E. MANDEV1LLE, Brookton, Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
Cheshire Customers. 
We shipped service Boars to New York, Pennsyl 
vania. Long Uland ; Pigs to New York Connecticut 
and South Dakota last week, and have six wore sole 
to go this week. Four young sows. Beautiful. Bar¬ 
gains. Bred. Catalogue. History. Cuts, Potato Hints 
on application. C. E. CHAPMAN. Peruville, N. Y. 
Duroc-Jers ey Swine 
NewMadison, Ohio. 
30 
of our 100 Fall Pigs sold at $12 a pair. We have 
no competition in Poland-Chlnas if you want 
size and breeding. Catalogue. 
F. H. GATES & SON8, Chlttenango, N. Y. 
TWfl niMFC 8-et one of these 25c. Books : 
RHIWJCQ ”500 Ques. & Ans on Poultry”; 
500 Q. & A. on Pigeons”; “500 Q. & A. on Flower 
Culture : aOO Q. & A on Dairying”; “ Plans for 
Poultry Houses”; “A B C Poultry Culture " ALL 
»1 • “ REVIEW,’’ Box 6. Chatham, N. Y 
£ ill nnrltt 8tam P for cat - 8howing how it’s done. 
$ in i/uunu Brookside Poultry Farm, Columbus, N.J 
Great Egg Makers, 
MARJM’Q GREEN B0NE CUTTERS j 
HI HUH O GRANITE CRYSTAL GRIT Swinging FeeoTnay" 
r. w Tvi“ I v^,Vmf» tc * h -,r 0od ont of, nor dirt into, MANN’S SWING-' 0 " Poultry, j*_ 
onln«f»IlmZS^rn' nor roost on it. Saves its cost in the food it saves. We sell for cash < 
on installments. Ill. oatalog free If you name this paper. F.W, MANN CO., Milford, m«» 
