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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 2 
Live Stock Matters 
THE RIGHT PRICE FOR EGGS. 
“ Are these eggs you are advertising 
for hatching purposes, the same kind 
that you were selling me a few weeks 
ago at 30 cents a dozen ?” asked a cus¬ 
tomer recently. The question appeared 
to be a little in the line of joking the 
seller of the eggs. 
“ Well, y-e-s was the somewhat 
hesitating, but composed reply. “From 
your point of view, I suppose they may 
be. I own somewhat the same hens 
that I then had (having merely added a 
few showing special good points) and, 
for table purposes, the eggs are prac¬ 
tically the same as those you bought.” 
“ But if they are the same, why can¬ 
not you afford to sell them lower, no 
matter what the point of view ? Eggs 
are selling at one-half the price they 
brought then, in open market, yet their 
owners don’t complain of losing money.” 
‘ * Perhaps not. But market eggs can 
be produced without a cock, and a good 
cock is worth 10 times the value of a mar¬ 
ket fowl, at least. Then, from the whole 
lot of hens which gave me the January 
eggs, have been selected the very best, 
the cream, say, one out of twenty. That 
should make the eggs 20 times as valu¬ 
able, should it not ? Yet I am selling 
them at less than five times the former 
price.” 
“ Well, that is a point isn’t it ? Hadn’t 
thought of it that way.” 
“ But that is only a beginning. The 
hens that lay the eggs for hatching, now 
require a separate yard and house for 
each breeding pen ; while of the eggs 
which these selected fowls lay, a second 
selection must follow. For any one who 
has ever set eggs, can tell you that at 
least one-fifth will be defective for the 
purpose, either in shell or in size and 
shape.” 
“ I see. Then I suppose you will sell 
me some of those sorted out cheaper ?” 
“ Certainly, they are but market eggs, 
and have no justification for bringing 
more than market price, even though 
they be from fine stock. I can no more 
use them for my own sitters than I can 
sell them. Indeed, the first point with 
me must be to use only the very best— 
for myself, as well as for my customex-s, 
else I shall defraud both them and 
myself. 
“ The price which seemed to you high, 
may then be really very low. I know of 
a man in Massachusetts who sells eggs 
fi’om his regular stock at $3 per sitting, 
and that is not called high among those 
who know, but the rather, moderate. 
The point I wish to bring out, however, 
is this : The man in question has made 
up some yai*ds from fowls of extra size. 
He makes no claim that there is any dif¬ 
ference between these and the rest of 
his yards except in the one point of size. 
Yet he asks $5 per sitting for eggs from 
these exti-as. If exti-a weight alone can 
add $2 per sitting to the price, what of 
any price less than his ? How much is 
right for selected cock, selected hens, 
selected eggs, etc., etc., etc. ?” 
MYRA V. NOBYS. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Rye for Horses. —How can I prepare 
rye so that it will be a safe feed for 
horses ? I have barley, corn on the cob, 
and rye. How would it do to get them 
ground, equal parts ? How would barley 
and rye, equal parts ground together, 
do ? I fed whole rye dry to a brood sow, 
last winter, and it killed her, so I have 
been a little shy about it since. I have 
been feeding ground rye and cooked 
potatoes to 17 hogs this winter, with 
good success. The potatoes keep the 
bowels loose. i. h. 
Spooner, Wis. 
R. N.-Y.— Farmers near the Rural 
Grounds feed considerable rye to horses, 
rye sti-aw being one of their best crops, 
with not much sale for the grain. For 
work hor-es, one successful farmer 
grinds a barrel of ear corn and a bushel 
of rye mixed. This ground feed is sifted 
to take out the sharp pieces of cob, and 
is fed with cut hay well moistened. 
This does well for work horses, but 
driving horses do better on whole oats 
or barley. How do you know that the 
whole rye killed the sow ? We doubt it. 
Sell Rye, Buy Grain. —I noticed in 
The R. N.-Y. of April 4, an article from 
J. O. T., of Brighton, Mich., headed, 
“ Rye and Bran.” I think that J. O. T. 
will be better pleased with the results, if 
he will sell his rye at 35 cents and invest 
the proceeds in equal parts (by weight) 
of corn, oats and wheat middlings, as 
rye has a tendency to decrease the flow 
of milk when fed to cows giving milk. 
I think the mixture is also far better for 
work horses. i. P. Q. 
Burnt Hills, N. Y. 
Feather-eating Hens. —What is the 
cause of my hens picking feathers from 
their mates, and also eating those that 
dropoff? The hens are “ scrubs,” but 
are carefully and regularly fed, and are 
fairly well housed, but are confined to a 
small run. J. R. 
Middletown, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—This trouble is not due to 
the fact that the hens are “ scrubs,” but 
is usually caused by laziness and lack of 
animal food. The hens are, probably, 
too fat, and do not have to exert them¬ 
selves. We would feed them meat in 
some form, and put them on short 
rations of grain—scattering it in stx-aw 
so that they will be forced to scratch 
and work for it. If the hens had more 
space for exercise, they would not be so 
likely to get into mischief. 
Lawn Grass and Clover Hay. —Is 
there any objection to feeding the short 
grass cut from lawns, to a cow or pigs ? 
Is there enough oil from the machine on 
it to do harm ? I see that you recom¬ 
mend clover hay for bitter milk. I have 
had trouble with three cows in succes¬ 
sion, beginning three months before 
cal ving. I can get no clover hay here. 
I have used ordinary hay. What else do 
you advise ? I. E. B. 
Worcester, Mass. 
R. N.-Y.—There is no objection to 
feeding the short grass. It will make 
pretty close to a “balanced ration” for 
the cows, and will keep the pigs in good 
condition. Clover hay is about the best 
rough fodder we have for giving the 
milk good color and flavor, but consider¬ 
able of the bitter taste in milk is due to 
changes that take place when the cow 
is advanced in pregnancy. Probably no 
food can overcome this disagi-eeable 
taste, when it is very strong, until after 
calving. 
A Talk About Meat Meal. —I noticed 
an article in a late R. N.-Y. concerning 
meat compounds for poultry feeding, in 
which you quote our animal meal. You 
do not speak, however, of the bone 
which is in these compounds, and which 
goes to supply lime for the shell and 
phosphorus, no doubt, for the yolk of 
the egg. Our animal meal will carry 
from 40 to 50 per cent of protein, or, as 
you term it, “ muscle-forming material.” 
I have never seen any meat meal which 
contained 76 per cent of protein, and I 
think that you have made some mistake. 
If you figure that out, it would be over 
18 per cent of ammonia, which is not 
possible. We have got our animal meal 
as free from fat as it is possible to make 
it, unless we extract the fat by the 
naphtha process, and in that case we 
think that it would injure it for feeding 
purposes. It is possible that the meat 
meal which has 76 per cent, has all the 
fat extracted by this process, but if so, 
we are inclined to think that it would 
be less digestible. It is not altogether 
the per cent of protein which is con¬ 
tained in the meat, but it is the digesti¬ 
bility of the protein. We have seen 
samples of what is called “ black blood,” 
containing, probably, 75 per cent of pro¬ 
tein, but they were almost a charcoal, 
and would be very indigestible, and so 
would hoof meal and horn waste. As I 
take it, it is not the amount of food 
which a hen, or a man, or an animal con¬ 
sumes that is to be considered, but it is 
the amount of it they digest, and that 
depends upon the individual organism 
(Continued on next page.) 
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