1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
i5 
SCALDING POULTRY BEFORE 
PICKING. 
If V. B. (page 900) will heat the water 
to 130 degrees lie will find his chickens 
will pick much easier than dry. I dress 
several hundred every year, and scald 
them all. I take a little oil stove, set 
a large pail on it nearly full of water 
that has been heated on the kitchen range, 
put in a floating dairy thermometer, and 
keep the water at 130. I keep a pail of 
cold water handy to cool that in the 
scalding pail if it gets too hot. Kill the 
chicken by cutting off the neck hone just 
back of the head, but not the skin. Hold 
a minute while it bleeds, then put 
into the water, souse up and down a few 
times, try the feathers on the thigh, and 
as soon as they start easily hang up 
ayainst a wall or board so it will not 
swing, and strip the feathers off. If 
care is taken in having the water just 
right they will not tear, and will look 
much cleaner and plumper than any dry- 
picked poultry can. If they arc to be 
marketed with heads on, hold the head 
and part of the neck out of the water, 
as the hot water will turn the face and 
comb purple, and they will not look so 
well. Sometimes old hens have to he 
scalded a little harder. I f any pin feathers 
remain take a short, blunt-bladcd knife, 
and pull them out with knife and thumb. 
If many are to be dressed, have several 
pickers, while one hand does the killing 
and scalding. frf.d g. bishop. 
Maine. 
HEN NOTES FROM WHITE. 
Treatment of Breeding Stock. 
Would one-year-old liens fed this Winter a 
balanced ration of corn, gluten, bran, oil 
meal, cooked meat and potatoes, with man¬ 
gels and grit in plenty, and comfortably 
boused, lie impaired for brooding purposes 
in (lie Spring? M.v hens thus handled usually 
lay well all Winter. Would progeny of such 
hens lie lacking in vitality as a consequence? 
liens are made to exercise during Whiter. 
Taking Into consideration soil Improvement 
from growing beans, would they lie a profit¬ 
able crop to grow for poultry? If so, woat 
variety would lie most prolific? My expe¬ 
rience with cooked beans fed on a small scale 
has been very satisfactory, lias anyone ex¬ 
perimented with tills source of protein on 
a large scale? i,. u. l*. 
Chester Co., 1'a. 
Instead of being detrimental or impair¬ 
ing the hens for breeding purposes, I think 
the best of care is necessary all Winter, 
and the fact that they lay only shows 
their vigor and vitality. We never feed 
stimulants or try to force egg production 
from our old hens, but we do want them 
to lay, and feed them the best we know 
how on whole grain with very little hot 
mash at noon. Beef scraps and green 
cut bone not only tend to make eggs, but 
make strong, vigorous birds, so we feed 
one or the other regularly to till of our 
stock. Ju the olden times our grand¬ 
mothers used to care for a few hens, and 
they used to feed the table scraps with 
lots of pepper and a little whole corn at 
night, and although they used to have 
a miserable place to roost, and we boys 
used to drive them out of the wagon 
house and off the hay mow, yet they used 
to commence to lay in February, and 
everybody was pleased and gave the credit 
for the eggs to the pepper instead of the 
fact it was the hens’ nature to commence 
laying at this season. 
Doubtless grandmother would have got 
lots of eggs and made great success if she 
had only a comfortable house for her 
biddies to live in. While with our large 
flocks it is out of the question to use trap 
nests, yet we can watch the hens that lay 
during the Winter and cull out the loaf¬ 
ers when we begin to select our breeders. 
Everyone can get eggs in Spring and 
Summer, but what we all are after is 
eggs in Winter when the price is 45 cents 
a dozen, instead of April and May, when 
the price runs to 15 and is cents. The 
question is can we get any closer to our 
ideal by selection and breeding oidy from 
the Winter layers? We believe we can, 
and so, proving our faith by our works, wc 
are giving our old hens the best of care 
possible without coddling them. They 
get lots of fresh air and good feed, and 
we only want those strong enough to lay 
and thrive all Winter. We do not expect 
them to lay like the early pullets; in 
fact, if we get 50 per cent of the eggs 
we get from the pullets in the month of 
December we are perfectly satisfied, and 
4 know they are in good condition, paying 
for their feed, and will be in fine shape for 
breeding in the Spring., There is one 
.thing most poultry men overlook when 
feeding their hens, and that is palatability 
of the food. One reason we are feeding 
so many different kinds of grain is that 
one hen will prefer corn, another wheat, 
another oats or buckwheat, and now we 
have added barley, as we had to cut out 
some wheat on account of the expense. 
1'he same is true of ground feed for the 
mash. Wc have given up oil meal en¬ 
tirely, as we found the hens did not like 
it, and no matter what its analysis is, 
a feed is wasted if the hens dislike it. 
We have not fed many beans, but what 
experience we have had was very favor¬ 
able, and we feed hi 1 the beans we can 
get, but have never raised them just for 
hen food. I don't know why, unless be¬ 
cause we never thought of it; we certain¬ 
ly will try it the coming year, and can 
tell something of more value about them 
this time next Winter. FLOYi) q. white. 
DISCOURAGING A HEN. 
The propensity of spine hens to sit. In sea¬ 
son or out, on eggs, stones, door-knobs or any¬ 
thing Ilia! comes handy, Is one of the most 
grievous nlllletlons of the poultry keeper. In 
his interest is reprinted the description of a 
“sum cure" discovered by a correspondent of 
the Chicago Chronicle In l.esueur, Minnesota. 
The cure consists of a cheap watch that ticks 
loudly and clearly, and is enclosed In a white, 
egg-shaped case. When a hen manifests a de¬ 
sire to sit at the wrong time, the poultryman 
gently places under her tills bogus egg, and 
llie egg does the rest. Cheerfully It ticks 
away. The hen soon begins to show signs of 
uneasiness. She stirs I lie noisy egg with her 
hill, thinking perhaps that It is already lime 
for U to hatch, and the chicken in It wants 
to get out. She grows more and more ner¬ 
vous as the noise keeps on, and finally she 
Jumps off the nest; and runs round awhile, to 
get cool. Generally she returns to her self 
imposed duly; hut things got worse and worse 
for her. Site wriggles about, and cackles, ruf 
lies ’her feathers and looks wild, until at 
last, with a frenzied squawk, she abandons the 
nest for good and all. The fever of Incuba¬ 
tion is broken up completely. The l.esueur 
poultryman declares that he lias never found 
a hen that could stand the strain of tin* con¬ 
versation egg for more than three hours. In 
much less time than that, as a rule, the hen 
Is ready to return to her legitimate business. 
A Grade Holstein. — The heifer shown 
at Fig. 4 (page 3) is owned by P. E. and 
J. H. Hawkins, Orange Co., N. Y. She is 
20 months old. Notice the white on her 
face forming the figure 7. No wonder she 
is known as No. 7. 
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