1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
9i 
V 2 I t’H and injurious insecls more 
X nC V^Illv^JvCIl X d>l U* than to pay for themselves. 'Phey do 
- not stand confmemeiu well, and will not 
HEN PARTNERS THAT PAY. lay more than one-half as many eggs as 
Hit,!, Results from a “Greenhotn " j' ‘'S'l- 
. larly morning and night they will al- 
I send you a transcript of my poultry ^^ys be on hand for their share. They 
account for the year 1900, which I think desire to roost in trees near the barn at 
is a remarkably good showing. Poultry are most excellent guards 
on hand January 1, 120; this was x'e- either night or day; anything out of the 
duced by sales of old hens in the Sum- usual astir, they will set up a great cry. 
mer to 80, the average number kept dur- They roost so high that they are out of 
ing the year being about 100: j^he way of thieves or wild animals. In 
Number of eggs laid. their Wild State they will fight and drive 
Poultry sold . 10.39 other fowls, but if used kindly as other 
-poultry, they will stay and feed with the 
Cash receipts .$320.01 other fowls without showing much of 
Eggs used in family. 10.00 pugnacious habit. But if any other 
-fowl wish to fight, the Guinea cock is 
Total .$343.04 always ready for the fray and never 
horse, hog and two cows. 169.52 ^omes out second. 
-The Guinea hen is a Spring and Sum- 
Total .$173.52 mer layer and lays from 90 to 120 eggs 
vaTuT^of manure;;:;;;::::;::;:;;::;;;^ ItZ yearly. They nke a secluded place to 
- lay in. When their nests are found. 
Profit on too hens. ..$223.52 leave two or three eggs, or they will 
lo this should be added value of gtain leave the nest for anothei* nlsee 1 have 
fed to horse, cows and hog. at least. 69.52 ^'^ave me iiesc 101 anotnei piace. l nave 
_ had them lay in the nests with hens. 
Tola! .$293.04 Better set their eggs under hens to 
hatch, as the Guinea does not sit until 
This shows a profit of nearly $3 per i^^e in this latitude to have the 
hen. My hens are White Wyandottes, young get grown before Winter. Be- 
and a cioss of White Wyandotte hens sides, if raised by common hens they 
with a White Leghorn cock. The lowest be taken care of better, for they 
number of eggs laid was on Januaiy 5, must be fed often, as the young eat but 
14; the next lowest was on November 7, ^ 
when they only laid 20 eggs. The high- ^ 
est on any day was 83. The panic of 
1893 closed the factory in Brooklyn, N. 
y.. where I was employed, and I came is excellent 
up here in northeastern Connecticut and ^ 
bought a farm; being as “green” about distinguished by their screeching 
farming as a man born and brought 
up in a city could be. None of the being larger, and by holding their heads 
family knew how to milk, I had never 
plowed a rod, was 57 years old and ggimrally curl in a sort of a semicircle 
slight of physique, but we have made a ^ 
success of it. None of us would go back g^^^^g 
to the city to live if we could. I have ,pg^y ^ profitable fowl for 
built a cow barn, wood and wagon sheds. ^ ^ 
added a room to the house, built six wnrf.p<;tpr Macjc, 
poultry houses, planted 500 peach and 
plum trees, and wouldn’t sell the farm 
for less than twice what I paid for it. 
The above is written for the encour¬ 
agement of the mechanic, clerk, sales¬ 
man, who reads, in the eye of the man¬ 
ager or superintendent as he passes by 
him: “I guess it is about time to put a 
younger man in your place,” and who 
has saved $1,000 or $2,000 to show him 
that a good living can be made by an 
industrious man on the cheap farms of 
New Lngland. in this locality $700 to 
$1,000 will buy a good supporting farm, 
where a worker can make an indepen¬ 
dent living. Where, from lack of money, 
a heavy mortgage has to be carried a 
man is handicapped, and has to scratch 
much harder to pay interest and still 
make a living. I wish to add in closing 
that a large share of whatever success 
I have attained is due to the wise and 
careful management of the “Madame.” 
Willington, Conn. g. a. c. 
The Guinea Fowl. 
There are two varieties of Guineas, 
Pearl and White. There is no difference 
in their characteristics save in their 
color. The Pearl variety should be blu¬ 
ish-gray in color, each feather covered 
with white spots resembling pearls, 
hence its name. It should be free from 
any white, or partly white, feathers in 
any part of the plumage. The neck is 
covered with black hairs near the head 
and between that and the feathers is a 
soft down, of a light brown color, that 
glistens in the sun. On the top of the 
head is a horny spike that turns back¬ 
ward. The bill and legs are brown. The 
White variety should be a pure white in 
plumage with a yellow, orange or yel¬ 
lowish-white bill and legs, this being the 
only difference between them and the 
Pearl variety. Some birds of the Pearl 
variety have white feathers in the breast 
and wings, but are mongrels, being a 
cross between the two varieties. They 
are great foragers, and will pick up 
Oats and Hens. —I have seen so much 
in The R. N.-Y. about feeding oats to 
hens, that I think I will have my say 
now. I have fed them for years, and 
think them a good feed, and no more 
likely to kill hens than any other grain. 
No matter what you feed, occasionally a 
hen will die. I think I get more eggs 
and lose no more hens than those who 
feed no oats. Last year 1 had 60 year- 
old hens and 30 pullets, and they laid 
during the year 11,468 eggs. Tne hens 
were fed a mash of two-thirds coarse 
bran and one-third cornmeal in the 
morning, and at night about three-quar¬ 
ters dry oats and one-fourth corn. In 
cold weather the mash is fed hot, and 
the oats and corn warmed. When the 
hens cannot run out, at noon a little 
cracked corn is scattered in the litter 
on the floor to keep them busy. They 
do not have any other kind of grain or 
meat, or any hen food. Warm water 
and ground oyster shells are kept before 
them all the time, and they have thick 
sour milk r.bout every day. Whole 
apples are also given them two or three 
times per week. I do not think you can 
find a nealthier or brighter lot of hens, 
and I shall keep right on with the oats. 
Dover, N. H. w. e. r. 
Egg Eaters. —Two Winters past I 
have had some trouble with hens that 
eat eggs. Along in December and Janu¬ 
ary some hens will lay a few eggs, and 
in spite of all I can do they are as liable 
to place the egg on the floor as any¬ 
where. Then if the hens are at all ac¬ 
complished, as some hens are in almost 
every flock, they will quickly go at every 
egg they can find and eat it. The very 
best thing I have ever tried is to place 
earthen eggs about, and let the hens try 
their skill on them. But after they get 
a taste of real eggs it is pretty hard to 
discourage them. This year I placed the 
eggs about the fioor early in the season, 
before the hens begin eating eggs. Of 
course I try to furnish such food as they 
need. This year I haven’t had an egg 
eaten so far as 1 know. The generous 1 
“feed” of earthen eggs in season did the 
good work, I am certain. It is no mat¬ 
ter now if some hen of perverse nature 
does deposit an egg on the floor; the 
others have had their ambition for egg¬ 
eating so blunted by those hard-shelled 
eggs that they don’t molest any. 
_ n. H. I.. 
Lime in tub Henhouse.— There was a 
certain odor in one apartment of my hen¬ 
house that was disagreeable and, I feared, 
emanated from a source of danger. After 
trying the clearing-out method several 
times with little effect, I decided to use 
lime. Lime is a good cleanser truly, but 
I dislike to use it where there is much hen 
manure, for it will cause the manure to 
decompose, liberate its ammonia, a,nd thus 
add to the nuisance besides spoiling the 
manure. By clearing away everything on 
one side away from the roost, and sprink¬ 
ling air-slaked lime evenly over the floor, 
the odor was completely annihilated and 
the manure not injured. A friend who says 
he has no sick hens uses lime every day 
in his henhouses. He clears out all drop¬ 
pings every morning, and sprinkles in the 
lime. This, doubtless, is good for the hens, 
but, I fear, bad for the manure. To be 
sure, one keeps hens for what the hens 
pay, and not especially for the manure, 
but by careful managing the lime can be 
used to a limited extent with little injury 
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