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January 21, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
COSGROVE’S HEN NOTES. 
I have a White Wyandotte pullet that 
has laid two eggs, one hard-shelled and 
one soft-shelled, at night four times. I 
have found them early in the morning on 
the droppings board, the eggs lying close 
together; in fact, touching each other. At 
first the soft one had no shell on at all, but 
the last two soft ones had a very thin 
shell that cracked slightly as it struck the 
board. That pullet must be a good feeder 
to manufacture albumen enough to cover 
the yolks of two eggs at a time, faster 
than she could deposit shell to cover them. 
Some people will not believe that it is pos¬ 
sible for a hen to lay two eggs in 24 
hours, but I have had it happen under cir¬ 
cumstances that left no chance to be mis¬ 
taken—several times in my experience 
with fowls. I remember a big white hen 
owned by my father that laid a hard- 
shelled egg in the daytime and a soft one 
at night, and did it so frequently that 
Father put up a board under where that 
hen roosted to catch and save the soft egg. 
Almost every morning I find eggs on the 
roost platforms that have been laid at 
night; generally they are frozen and 
cracked open, but are all right for home 
use after thawing. When one remembers 
that a hen sits on the roost at this time of 
year 16 hours out of the 24, it is no won¬ 
der that eggs are laid while on it. 1 his 
know that protein is the scarce and costly 
element in our feed stuffs, the one which 
most of us do not raise in sufficient 
quantity, and is one of the principal rea¬ 
sons for our buying mill feeds or grain of 
any kind. Cotton-seed meal is the cheap¬ 
est source of digestible protein, and even 
in this one must pay from 3'A cents per 
pound up for it. Here was a chance to 
get 320 pounds of extra protein for $1, 
which at the very lowest calculation was 
worth V/ 2 cents per pound, or $11.20 on 
the ton, and that small miserable dollar 
looked so big that in tryiug to save it 
they threw away 10 or 11 like it. If this 
isn’t a fact why isn’t it, and what are you 
going to do about it? “Penny wise and 
pound foolish” applies in the buying of 
feed stuffs as much as in any of the things 
we buy. H ' G ' M ‘ 
Making Butter Come.— In reply to G. S., 
of Eastondale, Mass., will say I have had 
the same experience with milk from a pure¬ 
bred Jersey cow, and have a very simple 
and effective remedy, given me by a cousin 
in Ohio. After the milk has stood 12 hours, 
set it on the stove or in hot water and let 
it warm up gradually until the cream crin¬ 
kles up considerably, then set it away 12 or 
more hours until usual skimming time, and 
you will have no more trouble with churning. 
Since adopting above method our butter comes 
in from live to eight minutes. N. B. c. 
Bentonville, Ark. 
A Trotting House.— You might tell II. C. 
S., Harrisville, W. Va., page 918, that blood 
THE NEW BABY AT THE BARN. Fig. 22. 
is another advantage of a droppings 
board; one can save the eggs laid at night. 
I bought 200 pounds “cubical grit” for 
hens, and the stuff is practically useless 
because it is so large. It is almost a quar¬ 
ter of an inch square, and some of it near¬ 
ly a half inch long. I have opened-the 
gizzards of a good many hens and the 
coarsest gravel I have seen in them was 
from one-sixteenth to one-eighth inch in 
diameter. I would advise anyone sending 
for grit to send for samples first. Prob¬ 
ably the little chick grit would be just 
right for hens. For little chicks I use a 
fine sharp sand, scattering their feed on it 
so they will get some with their first feed. 
Poultrymen ought to inform the manufac¬ 
turers of grit for hens that the largest 
pieces should not be over one-eighth inch 
in diameter. When a sufficient number of 
11 s send in a “kick” about it, they will 
probably grind it to the size it ought to 
be_ GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
HOW DO YOU BUY FEED? 
Recently I saw a feed dealer unloading 
to farmers from two adjoining cars hom¬ 
iny feed and gluten feed. Hominy feed 
has 7^4 per cent digestible protein, and 
sold at $24.50 per ton. Gluten feed has 
23J4 per cent digestible protein and sold 
for $25.50 per ton. The hominy went off 
like the proverbial hot cakes, while the 
gluten went pretty slow. Apparently the 
reason was the difference of $1 per ton in 
price; yet for this extra dollar they were 
getting at least 10 per cent more digestible 
protein, or 320 pounds in a ton. Now we 
will not make a horse trot no matter how 
many generations of the blue blood there 
may bo. I have had them from 2.00 sire and 
2.05 dam that never could be made to trot 
a mile in eight minutes. If II. C. S. is a 
farmer he will not have hobbles nor the 
wherewithal to get them, neither will he 
know from what M. D. W. says about writing 
how it should be done. Many old trainers 
are troubled at times on that score. If the 
snow is deep he might get his single-footer to 
trot by working him in the soft deep snow; 
he will have to trot. In Summer deep sand 
will some) imps do it. G- S. 
Westfield, N. Y. 
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of Standard br«d poultry for 1905, printed in colors, 
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B. H. CREIDER, RHEEMS, PA. 
BUY SUCCESS 
POULTRY FOOD 
it’s best for moulting fowls, also laying hens. It 
contains clover, meat, bone and linseed meal, thor¬ 
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$8.00; 1010 lbs., $15.00. Oyster shells, 100 lb. sacks, 50c; 
500 lbs., $2.00; 200010s., $7.50 F. O. B. cars. New- Haven 
Ct. W ite us for prices on cut clover and meat meal. 
CASE BROS. Colchester, Conn. 
Union Lock Poultry Fence. 
A FENCE—NOT A NETTING 
Ever try to stretch a netting? The top and bottom edges draw together and the centre bulgeB out. 
The horizontal members of the Uri n Lock fence are cables—ver ieal members > re single wires, 
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Keeps in small chickens, and the rectangular mesh prevents them from hanging themselves. 
No top rail or bottom boards requires ; strong 
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Heavily galv <nized with prime Western Spelter, 
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Costs no more, put up, than cheaper nett ngs 
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Sold by the rod only—in rolls of 10 or 20 roils— 
50 rods or more delivered F. O. B. nearest de^ot. 
Made in widths from J2 tj 84 inches. 
Write for Catalogue I), and •• A Short Story for 
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Mills at . 
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THE “GEM" MONEY MAKER 
hatches chickens at a lively rate— live 
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She’ll coin a mint of money when she 
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