1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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4i i 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
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feed for the year, including meat , will 
figure up but 82 cents per hen, even 
though we fed meat every day in the 
year ; and this notwithstanding the fact 
that our grain costs us more than J. A. 
W. pays. 
Just one more turn of the screw; and I 
hope that our friend won’t cry “theory,” 
because I quote another’s work. We 
have been much dissatisfied with our 
fowls all winter. Others report many 
more eggs than we got, and the editor of 
the best farm poultry paper in the coun¬ 
try affirms that hens, properly cared for 
in all respects, will lay 50 per cent of 
their number in January and February, 
and 60 to 75 per cent thereof in March 
and April. His published reports, which 
J. A. W. or any one else may read, show 
that his fowls have sometimes laid nearly 
50 per cent of their number every day 
for the year, so that it can’t be theory 
with him. If any one, therefore, wishes 
to multiply my figures in the third 
paragraph back by two, the result will 
show how I ought to astonish the world, 
but haven’t done so. I mean to get 
there, though ; even though I have to 
spend four or five weeks of every year 
mixing mashes for 200 birds, instead of 
a paltry two weeks, tossing out grain. 
MYRA Y. NORYS. 
Observations of a Hen Man. 
Labor, steps, time, thought, will all be 
fully occupied if the poultry plant be 
constructed with a view to economize 
every effort, and every step. The style 
of buildings will be what the owner 
fancies, usually, though circumstances 
may vary their cost. I think that a 
poultry building proves more satisfac¬ 
tory in the long run, to be not very large, 
and to be so built as not to require con¬ 
tinual repairing. I would prefer paper, 
covered with clapboards or shingles, 
though the expense of these prevents 
their use many times. For instance, one 
might, in the spring, build a house and 
cover with paper, and in a year make 
profit enough to put on shingles ; but he 
has spent as much money, or more, as 
if he had put shingles on in the first 
place. 
Running water in the cook room, the 
kettle filled by turning a faucet or by 
the strokes of a pump handle ! How 
much better than to hitch up a horse 
365 days in a year and go to a spring or 
brook for water, as I did for years ! 
The first pumping windmill set up in 
town put an end to that. Market day 
comes once a week. What would you 
think fair pay for a proper team and 
driver to make 52 trips a year, say, 10 
miles, to sell your eggs, dressed poultry, 
often bring home grain, etc. ? If we say 
$3 for each trip, there is an expense of 
®156 per year. How can such a poultry- 
man hold out against a man who can 
take his eggs to customers in one-half 
hour, and do his day’s work at home as 
usual ? Don’t get too far from the sta¬ 
tion, or post-office, or market. Some¬ 
times profit in dressed poultry depends 
on putting them on the market at just 
the right time. 
Poultry in isolated flocks in small, sep¬ 
arate houses, will furnish less subjects 
for the grave digger or the manure pile ; 
but such fowls are more exposed to 
enemies—haired, feathered, or clothed. 
Home-Seekers’ Excursions to the West 
and Northwest. 
On June 9 and 23,1896, the North-West¬ 
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will sell Home-Seekers’excursion tickets 
at very low rates to a large number of 
points in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, 
Northwestern Iowa, Western Minnesota, 
Nebraska, North Dakota and South Da¬ 
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210 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.— Add) 
Crows will walk among young chickens 
just as a hen would do, and gobble up 
the innocents by the hundred if not 
stopped. 
When one can buy ground oyster shells 
and ground scraps of good quality at 
present prices, it is not foolishness to 
say no to the bone-mill agent, and to let 
the meat grinder alone. Time will fly 
fast while you hunt up horses and cattle, 
and chop them up and boil and serve 
them to your birds. Green cut bone and 
meat are all very well if they don't cost 
too much, and few are so situated as to 
make it pay to pound bones with a 
hammer. 
An open shed for hens to scratch in in 
winter, is a good thing if you can man¬ 
age it right. So is an egg room, where 
eggs won’t freeze, and large enough to 
hold cases, baskets, etc.; but very few 
have one. 
As to hatching chickens, it is a good 
deal of trouble, but the seat of the busi¬ 
ness is raising them. Eternal vigilance 
is as much the price of chickens as it is 
the price of liberty. 
The enthusiastic beginner should bot¬ 
tle up some “ henthusiasm ” to sustain 
his courage during the melancholy times 
that will surely come before he has 
served his five years’ apprenticeship. 
Seasons will vary, prices will vary, no 
hens will be sure to lay in the last three 
months of the year, and no two years 
will give the same quantity of eggs from 
the same number of hens. Too little 
importance seems to be given to the fact 
that pullets will usually lay earlier and 
more steadily through the winter if they 
are in their winter quarters in Septem¬ 
ber or October, are kept dry and clean, 
and allowed plenty of room. 
Don’t put too many hens in one flock ! 
Hold your ambitious desires in check ; 
you will probably get as many eggs from 
20 hens as if you had 30 in the same room. 
Some might say that it is not so, and in¬ 
deed, for a time, it might seem as though 
he was right, but time will show him 
wrong, all the same. 
All breeds have their friends, but the 
Leghorns and P. Rocks are common- 
sense birds, and will be good property 
as long as eggs and poultry find a mar¬ 
ket. I have two brooder houses, and 
each will accommodate 400 chicks till 
maturity, that is, if the males are mar¬ 
keted at the proper time. Each house 
must be at some distance from other 
poultry, so that the chicks may have un¬ 
disturbed range, when large enough to 
run outdoors. Each house contains 
eight brooders, and a big stove. Each 
house is sideways to the sun, with four 
windows one foot wide and 12 feet long, 
set in the roof; these give as much light 
and sun to the back side of the house 
as to the front. Each house is 16 feet 
wide and 32 feet long, posts one foot 
high, rafters 12 feet long ; the glass is 
set just the same as greenhouse glass, or 
may be laid on two rafters. Little yards 
of wire netting are used outside. 
Hens are, in very many respects, the 
counterparts of their relatives, the un¬ 
feathered bipeds of Plato. Notice the 
neat, lady-like step of this bird, the 
motherly patience and impatience of that 
one ! What village sensation was ever 
greater than that caused by the advent 
of two or three new members into the 
old flock ? When you turn a lot of 
strange roosters together, will you not 
remember your school days? These 
birds want to know who is boss, as much 
as any school boys ever did. They will 
all run after some new thing just as 
humans will do, and drop it too, in much 
the same way. They will persist in eat¬ 
ing corn and meal with a zest and appe¬ 
tite that they exhibit for nothing else in 
the grain line, in the same quantity, and 
to feed and care for a Brahma as for 
a Leghorn, will bring totally different 
results. g. r. t. 
Ashby, Mass. 
Killing Horns With Caustic Potash. 
—My experience in dishorning or stop¬ 
ping the growth of horns on young calves, 
with caustic potash, has not been uni¬ 
formly successful. Three years ago, I first 
tried it on two little Jersey heifer calves, 
and was completely successful with only 
one application. Last year, I tried it 
again with another Jersey calf and 
failed. I tried it again this spring, and 
failed—all these applications were made 
when the calves were from three to five 
days old, or as soon as we could locate 
the buttons. Each time, we used the 
caustic or pencil potash, and I suppose 
that it was made by different parties, 
and must have been of uncertain 
strength. Now this is a matter of large 
importance to the American farmer, and 
if some chemical factory will make a 
specialty of manufacturing potash espec¬ 
ially for dishorning calves, and will 
make it of such uniform strength that it 
will be always successful, it would be 
very profitable. w. H. R. 
Mascott, Mo. 
A Hen-Rooster.— A writer in Farm 
Poultry tells this remarkable story : 
Last year, Mr. Geo. VV. Dale, raised a few 
chickens, and among the number was a Brown 
Leghorn pullet which, probably, had a cross of 
Dunghill in her. However, she proved to be a 
very good layer, but after a while, she laid out 
and became broody. A sitting of eggs was given 
her, and she proved to be a good sitter, and came 
off with a nice brood of chicks. After awhile, she 
began moulting, and shed nearly all her feathers. 
When she began to put on new feathers, it was 
noticed that they were of a different color from 
the first ones. In fact, she begau to look like a 
rooster, and in due time, she put out as nice a 
coat of rooster feathers, sickle feathers, and all, 
as one ever looked at, and to-day she is as fair a 
specimen of the Brown Leghorn rooster as one 
would find in a day’s travel. No one unacquainted 
with the facts would ever believe it to be a hen ; 
but nevertheless, she still continues to lay. 
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