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TO EMPTY A FOWL'S CROP. 
A crop-bound fowl is not uncommon, 
and ordinarily it dies for lack of a skilled 
hand to relieve it. The ordinary poultry- 
man sometimes blunders into a success¬ 
ful job of opening the crop, removing the 
contents, and stitching up the opening 
again, but oftener in the hands of an inex¬ 
perienced person it is a fatal operation. 
Certainly it is an unpleasant task for the 
operator, and a hard thing for the fowl. 
To remove all danger from an operation 
like this where the knife is used, would 
be impossible. A man with whom 1 was 
talking recently said that he had found 
and practiced a much better way of re¬ 
lieving a fowl of an indigestible lot of 
food. He simply brings the fountain 
syringe into use, putting on the largest 
nozzle, and taking the fowl under the 
left arm, inserts the nozzle, and lets as 
much water pass in the crop as will. Re¬ 
moving the nozzle, he applies lateral pres¬ 
sure to the crop, and at the lower side 
alternately. Soon the contents begin to 
come out. After some is removed, he 
again inserts the nozzle, and there is in¬ 
creased room for water. Taking it out 
he again adds pressure to the crop, and 
on on till the crop is empty. This 
man said that he treated 125 capons in 
this way within a period of about 10 
hours. He fed them one morning a mess 
of shredded beet with meal stirred in. 
This would have been a cheap and diges¬ 
tible feed, but, thinking to add a quantity 
of ginger, he put in white hellebore in¬ 
stead, and the capons were actually poi¬ 
soned. Some lay already prone upon the 
ground, and he began work upon these 
first. This poison dose lay in their 
crops 24 to 36 hours, and every one was 
saved and ready for breakfast the next 
morning. A syringe is to be found in 
nearly every household, and here is an 
excellent use for it. clark m. drake. 
STORY OF A PIG. 
We had with us last Summer the Hon. 
William Berkshire and a relative of his. 
They enjoyed life and waxed fat until we 
thought it time for the Hon. William to 
cash in his chips, and then, for some rea¬ 
son, his relative, a brother we believe, 
went back on us and refused to eat. This 
fellow we had agreed to send to a busi¬ 
ness man in town at a later day, otherwise 
he would have departed this life on the 
same day William stepped out. What 
did he do? Why, just fell away, melted, 
and when called to account showed up 
25 pounds to the bad. A mean trick, after 
all our kindness. But the end is not yet. 
We contracted to sell this pig at seven 
cents per pound dressed, but when the 
time came to deliver the goods our busi¬ 
ness man thought was all he could 
pay. Now, we could have obtained eight 
cents per pound the day the Hon. William 
Berkshire left us, but we value our prom¬ 
ise above price, and delivered the goods 
as agreed. Following is a copy of the 
letter sent to our business man, and it 
explains itself: 
“I am not willing to believe that you 
desire to repudiate your agreement with 
me regarding the contract price for the 
pig sold to you about November —, and 
delivered to you, as agreed December —. 
The difference between the contract price 
(seven cents per pound) and the price 
(6^< cents per pound) you offered me this 
morning through your representative is 
but 52 cents, but this difference, 52 cents, 
while insignificant in itself, does, under 
the circumstances, represent the selling 
price of your business reputation, a repu¬ 
tation that has taken years of hard work 
and honest dealings to establish. The 
law presumes that every' person means 
that which he distinctly says. We will 
put all legal questions aside, and let the 
matter hinge on one point—and one 
point only. Does Air. - wish to repu¬ 
diate his agreement and thereby hazard 
his business reputation for honest deal¬ 
ings for the difference between his con¬ 
tract price for pork (seven cents per 
pound) and the price (6bj cents per 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 18, 
pound) offered through his representa¬ 
tive? Without final proof I will not be¬ 
lieve that such is the fact.” d. s. 
SOME LIVELY BROWN LEGHORNS . 
Thirty-two of my Brown Leghorn pul¬ 
lets laid 532 eggs in January. Is that a 
fair average? Seventy-five from five 
years to five months old laid 797 eggs in 
the month of January, 1905. One-half of 
this record was due to the coop that I 
keep them in. I have a basement barn 
that is 36 x 56, 10 feet high, with a drain 
under the stone wall and from the stone 
wall to the hay and grain mow it is 
double boarded. I have a box stall 15 
by 11 feet with one window, two panes 
12 by 24 inches, in the southwest corner. 
This is the place where I keep them; they 
never get a cold draft, for I have to go 
through two doors to feed them. I put 
them in about the middle of November, 
and they have not been out since. They 
laid about 20 dozen in December. 
I feed buckwheat, corn, oats and wheat. 
I have a kettle that holds about 16 gal¬ 
lons; I boil cabbage, carrots, turnips, po¬ 
tatoes, and about three pecks of buck¬ 
wheat. When boiled I mix it well; they 
get one feed of this every day warm. If 
I feed this in the morning they get all 
the milk they want at noon, but no grain 
till four oclock, and then I feed the four 
kinds together on about six inches of 
straw and chaff, all they can eat and have 
some left to work at the next day. If I 
feed the boiled feed at noon they get the 
milk in the morning, and wheat and buck¬ 
wheat, and at four o’clock or later they 
get oats. If very cold they have corn; 
warm water every morning, and plenty of 
oyster shells all the time. I fill a box of 
coal ashes once or twice a week. The 
cockerel that sired most of these pullets 
was not a full-bred Brown Leghorn. His 
sire was a well-bred Brown Leghorn and 
his mother a cross between Black Leg¬ 
horn and Black Spanish. She was the 
finest hen I ever saw, and she was a 
good Winter layer. I had her for four 
Winters, and I never as much as heard 
her cluck. C. o. 
Chicara, Pa^_ 
Teacher : “What are the primary coi¬ 
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none, ma’am; only the High School pupils 
are allowed to have ’em!”—Yonkers 
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MADE HIS PIGS 4% MONTHS OLD WEIGH 200 POUNDS. 
Cured His Calves of Scours. 
International Stock Food Co. Elgin, Nebraska. 
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had a litter of pigs the second week of July; we took good care of them and fed 
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weighed 200 pounds. Everyone says they are just simply line and they think 
my pigs are March pigs instead of July pigs. The pigs were weaned only 
three weeks when we sold the mother, weighing 350 pounds. It would take 
something besides corn to come up to that. 
My calves had the scours so bad they passed 
nothing but blood. I fed “International 
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neighbors lost a great many calves last 
spring, and we not one, so I just laid it to 
feeding “International Stock Food.” 
Yours truly, 
ED. BATIE. 
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