1897 
fHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes. 
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at eight cents a pound, and they were 
offered 12 cents a pound for half of one 
carcass. These shoats cost $5 originally, 
and have lived almost entirely upon 
kitchen swill and waste vegetables like 
nubbins of sweet corn or small squashes. 
I cannot see how they have cost us one 
dollar’s outlay in cash. There are many 
large families and boarding houses in 
the little towns near us that will buy 
half of such carcasses at 10 cents a pound. 
These shoats ought to have weighed 200 
pounds, at least, and we know now how 
to make them grow faster. Now we are 
figuring on several good sows—looking 
ahead to a good pig crop next spring. 
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It makes us smile to read some of the 
articles on poultry by men who figure it 
out as so easy to get rich at the business. 
Who can tell the cost of an egg ? We 
can get pretty close to it. Our eggs in 
October cost us nearly five cents each 
for food alone. In November, they cost 
nearly eight cents each for food. In 
that estimate, we include all the food 
needed to feed our 250 birds, old and 
young Of course, only a few of the 
hens are laying. The rest are “ getting 
ready ”, and some of them are certainly 
taking their time. We have no useless 
birds on the place, except one Bantam 
hen They are all expected to produce 
fertile eggs some day, therefore we 
shall estimate the year's cost of feeding 
and the year’s supply of eggs. It would 
be easy to take November alone, and 
say that poultry keeping does not pay ; 
but what does November really show ? 
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It shows that only about 15 hens have 
begun operations. The rest are young 
pullets or old hens that are still dry. 
What a bill of expense old Jersey would 
be if you figured the cost of her food for 
two months before her calf was dropped, 
and divided by her few quarts of milk. 
There is certainly no money in eight- 
cent eggs, but wa will have them down 
to less than one cent before spring, and 
the average will tell the story. Oar 
hens must pay for themselves and the 
roosters and the young stock needed to 
fill their places, or get off the place. 
November is a frosty month for the man 
with the chicken fever. The hens eat 
down his good dollars and give mighty 
little in return. It takes courage for the 
new beginner to keep up the feeding 
while the hens are “ dry ”. 
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There is nothing else to do, though. 
Now is the time to keep them warm, 
dry and well fed. Eggs that cost eight 
cents each and sell for three cents, take 
the varnish off a fellow’s pocketbook ; 
but it’s like putting fertilizer into good 
soil. We will put our faith and our 
money into a good hen and a balanced 
ration without a wink or a murmur 
Are our hens good ones ? We don’t 
know yet, about most of them. The 
black pullets from that old breeding 
pen are all right. We know what their 
mothers can do, and the first one to lay 
has shamed her mother all out of sight. 
Most of our layers were bought in New 
York. They came from everywhere. A 
few of them have begun, and others 
give every indication that one can see 
in a red comb. It, evidently, requires 
about three months to feed one of these 
hens into good condition. It is a ques¬ 
tion as to whether they will pay. We 
are glad we bought them, just because 
there is a question about it, for we want 
to try to help answer it. At present 
we are banking on the hens, and would 
not sell them for their original cost and 
the food they have eaten. 
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We ran out of our regular poultry 
mixture last week, and as the best sub 
stitute on hand, we fed bran with about 
five per cent of animal meal mixed with 
it. This was fed morning and noon, 
with shelled sweet corn at night. This 
feed is too strong, though the sweet 
corn gives it about the right balance. 
Too much meat or bran or any food very 
rich in nitrogen appears to upset the 
hens. Mr. Mapes says that he thinkf 
too much meat or bran is worse than toe 
much corn. He also thinks that moult 
ing hens require less nitrogen than lay 
ing hens. I am not prepared to agree 
with that statement yet. We find dozem 
of people who say that they do not be¬ 
lieve in the plan of feeding the greater 
part of a hen’s food in the form of r 
mash, but very few of them have anj 
sound reason for this belief. h. w c. 
Roup and Balanced Ration.— A friend mailed 
me a copy of The R. N.-Y. with the article on 
roup marked for me to read; I found it not bad to 
take, especially about the bud and the graft 
There is a great deal of humbug about the bal- 
anced-raticn business. The best way to balance 
is to give enough of anything that is good to eat, 
with enough variety for change. When you can 
tell why the same food will produce milk from 
the cow and eggs from the hen, and why sour 
and sweet apples will both grow on the same 
branch, all fed from the same sap, I can then 
tell why the same food makes the bud fat and 
the graft lean Just about all that any of us 
knows about it is that it depends more on the 
consumer than on the consumed, what the result 
will be. 
Your correspondent who places the real cause 
of roup further back than the cold which brings 
it out, is right without doubt. Just so long as 
fowls which have bad the roup are used for 
breeding, just so long will roup exist. The worst 
feature of the whole matter is that all healthy 
stock which catch cold, also are liable to get it 
once the place becomes infected with it, for it 
most certainly is contagious when all the condi¬ 
tions are right. 
I never had a case of roup among my fowls 
until 1891, and up to that time, I had never bought 
any stock but once; I had always bought eggs, 
and raised my own when I desired a change. 
That year, I had bought eggs from a prominent 
breeder who, I knew, had been troubled with 
roup among his flocks, because I had seen 
him working with them at shows, when they 
had it bad, even to swelled eyes. But I was like 
most others, I did not think it possible that the 
eggs would carry the disease, but I now know 
positively that such is the case. Chicks hatched 
from eggs laid by hens that ever had the roup 
will be certain to have the disease if allowed to 
catch cold. As your correspondent states, the 
cold only starts the roup to working, ap it is al¬ 
ready in the system. I know this to be a positive 
fact, as I have made it my business to test the 
matter thoroughly. Roup, without doubt, is a 
germ disease, but it remains in the blood and 
taints the whole system, just as scrofula does in 
the human race, and a slight cold which, under 
ordinary conditions, would be perfectly harm¬ 
less, sets it to working, and it becomes more or 
less virulent owing entirely to conditions and 
strength of the virus in the system of the fowl. 
It has a characteristic odor which, once having 
become familiar, will never be' mistaken for any¬ 
thing else There is nothing more-foul-smelling 
than a fowl which has a bad attack of catarrh; 
but the odor is entirely different from roup, and 
although the fowl is unfit for anything else than 
to kill and burn or bury, it is not contagious like 
roup. 
The only wav by which it is possible ever thor¬ 
oughly to eradicate roup, is never under any cir¬ 
cumstances to hatch or raise chicks from stock 
that ever had a trace of it. A perfectly healthy 
hen which never had roup in the slightest degree, 
is just as safe among a flock where all have it, 
as though she were 1,000 miles away, under one 
condition only, that being that she do not catch 
an ordinary cold ; if she do, then she will be sure 
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