May 30 
378 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
J. A. W. Talks Again. —Mr. Mapes 
says : “Theclass of people who are will¬ 
ing to pay a big price for eggs, expect a 
supply the year ’round.” That may be 
true, but the trouble with me is to find 
the class of people who are willing to 
pay a big price for eggs at any time. 
People in this vicinity, as a rule, place 
no more value on eggs direct from the 
nest, than they do from those of uncer¬ 
tain age. I have offered to supply re¬ 
tailers and consumers with warranted 
fresh eggs the year ’round at market 
prices for ordinary eggs, but with the 
exception of a very few, they would not 
engage a definite number for a year. 
The fact is that most of my customers 
are only too glad to have me leave them 
when eggs are scarce. When the price 
advances, they consume a much smaller 
number. Not only does the low price 
increase consumption, but also the great 
demand for eggs for making ice cream, 
and for other purposes at beach and 
mountain resorts. So while Mr. Mapes’s 
criticism might be a good one in his 
locality, it is utterly pointless here. 
1 will say, also, now that I am writing, 
that “a good case of roup though-1” 
would be rather disagreeable no doubt, 
but clean quarters and clean food have, 
thus far, prevented anything of the kind, 
while Mr. Mapes, with mush and small 
flocks, had “roup by the acre.” J. A. w. 
Size of Eggs. —I have never noticed 
any difference in the size of eggs laid by 
hens fed on any particular kind of grain, 
when they have been well fed. If as 
well cared for in other respects, 1 think 
that the kind of grain does not affect 
the size of the eggs. Good feeding does 
affect the size. I have noticed that the 
eggs are larger in spring when the birds 
get plenty of insect food with the grain. 
I do not think that the size of the eggs 
affects the number laid by any hen, un¬ 
less a hen lay abnormally large eggs 
that have two yolks. Breeds of fowls 
are affected that way, that is, Brown 
Leghorns lay more eggs than White 
Leghorns, generally, but the eggs are 
smaller j yet X do not know that it 
affects individual hens of any breed. 
That is to say, I do not think that any 
hen lays more or less eggs on account of 
the size of the eggs. henry hales 
WHITE LANGSHAN POULTRY. 
For the past 18 or 19 years, I have 
bred poultry of the various breeds, 
starting with B. P. Rocks. I have bred, 
besides these, S. and R. C. Brown Leg¬ 
horns, S. C. White Leghorns, Black 
Javas, L. Brahmas, W. P. Rocks, Silver 
and W. Wyandottes and various breeds 
of bantams. All the above I bred pure 
and of the best strains I could obtain. 
Then came the Black Langshan, a new 
breed for America. I tried these, and 
finding them the best fowl I had ever 
seen, I disposed of every other kind, and 
gave my whole attention to them. 
Later came the White Langshans. I 
bred them for years beside the Blacks, 
compared them in every way with them, 
and finding them superior in every way, 
I disposed of all my Blacks three years 
ago and have since bred only the Whites. 
I believe that no other breed of fowls 
will lay so many eggs in a year; that n 
other breed is so good for the table, 
being pure white, with large bodies, no 
colored pinfeathers, and with little 
waste. They are very hardy, and good 
sitters and mothers. For the above rea¬ 
sons, I shall keep pure White Langshans. 
As soon as my trees are a little larger, 
so that it is difficult to raise other crops 
between them, I shall build small houses 
about 10x12 feet, with open sheds at one 
end for dusting and scratching, placed 
at convenient distances about the 
orchard. The trees will afford ample 
shade and forage ground for the hers, 
and the hens will furnish fertilizer ard 
cultivation for the trees ; thus ■! shal 
get a double crop from my land, the 
hens destroying the insects about the 
trees, and I have always been able to 
grow the finest plums where hens were 
allowed to run among the trees. 
I would not dare try to keep more 
than 25 hens in a house 10x12 feet, 
through the winter ; but in the summer, 
I could keep 40. For laying hens, I 
would feed green cut bone and fine cut 
clover hay for a large per cent of the 
feed. A. A. II ALLA DAY. 
Vermont. _ 
GETTING RID OF RATS. 
When I was a good-sized boy, living, 
at the time, in an adjoining State, my 
chum gave me a rat terrier puppy, and 
she proved to be a good ratter. I named 
her Brownie, and, of course, like any 
boy with a dog, thought that there was 
not another such a good, loving and 
intelligent dog in the country. I kept 
her till she died of old age, and many 
and many a frolic have we had together. 
When she had located a rat, I would 
help her get it, if it were possible. 1 
remember once that we got over into the 
corn crib when the corn was low. It 
had been built for a wheat bin, and had 
tight sides. Brownie told me that there 
were rats there, so I moved the corn, and 
she went to work on them. When we 
got through, the dead rats nearly filled 
an ordinary wooden bucket. 
But there came a time when the rats 
got away ahead of us. It seemed as 
though they would take the place. I 
used Rough on Rats, but with poor suc¬ 
cess. I used traps, and with three, by 
setting them when I got through chores 
and then again at nine o’clock, would 
catch from three to five every night. I 
kept the gun at the barn, and shot every 
one that showed itself, but found, in a 
short time, that they got very shy of the 
gun and kept out of sight. All this 
time, of course, Brownie kept up a con¬ 
tinual warfare on them, but their num¬ 
bers were, apparently, undiminished. 
One day, a neighbor who had a big farm, 
kept lots of stock, had numberless barns, 
sheds, cribs and pens, was at our place, 
and 1 said to him, “How in the world 
do you keep the rats from eating you 
up? With all those buildings, I would 
think that you would have thousands of 
them.” 
“ No,” he said, “we do not have many 
rats, and are not bothered by them 
at all.” 
“ Well how do you manage it ?” 
“ Simply keep cats.” 
“Will cats keep down the rats? I 
would think that some of those big, 
overgrown rats would whip a cat.” 
“ Well, I don’t know as a cat would 
tackle a big rat, but they will watch 
around and pick up the little ones, and 
the first thing you know, the rats will 
be wonderfully thinned out.” 
While, as we all know, a man’s advice 
(Continued on next page.) 
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