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A TALK ABOUT BROODERS. 
Is a sectional pipe brooder indoors a prac¬ 
tical brooder to start and raise chicks in? 
I have a good spot for any indoor brooder, 
and have a chance to get one of this- style 
cheap. m. j. t. 
Bethel, Conn. 
The sectional brooder named is as good 
as any sectional brooder, and I might say 
as any indoor brooder. Some people still 
use them, and if you have them in a 
warm room they are fairly successful. 
We had at one time half a dozen of the 
twelve-foot sectional brooders, and ran 
one of them in the house, where it was 
warm, and had first-rate results, but 
when we tried to run our colony houses 
with them we found something was 
wrong. The floor was cold, and the mor¬ 
tality was greater than it should be. We 
had lots of trouble with leg weakness, 
and we finally threw out all of them. 
Then we tried various brooders, all home¬ 
made, until four years ago we hit upon 
what we are now using, and what Prof. 
Rice is teaching the poultry students at 
Cornell University to build for brooders 
when they start for themselves. We use 
a heater drum that was invented by 
Clymer S. Menges and used by him in 
his outdoor brooders. This drum, with 
a good hover, is all there is in the house, 
and is taken out when the chicks are large 
enough to dispense with the heat. These 
houses or brooders are large enough to 
work inside, in caring for the chicks, and 
are just raised enough from the ground 
to permit a galvanized iron lamp box un¬ 
derneath for the lamp. After one year’s 
work with lamps heating these houses we 
changed to gasoline, and have, we think, 
a very nearly perfect system of heating 
and brooding little chicks. We have hesi¬ 
tated writing it up before on account of 
the (generally considered) dangerous na¬ 
ture of gasoline, but we have used it for 
three years, and after the first year, when 
we did not know as much about it as we 
should, we have had not the slightest 
trouble in any way from our heater ar¬ 
rangements, and. we always had trouble 
the old way heating with oil lamps. 
The houses should be 8 x 8 feet, six 
feet high in front and three feet in rear; 
one large window in front, one-third of 
which is muslin and the lower two-thirds 
glass. We use a board to keep the 
chicks from straying from the hover for a 
few days, but as soon as they know 
where to go to get warm we remove this, 
and give them the freedom of the whole 
house to scratch in the chaff on the 
floor. We keep 150 chicks in a flock in 
one of these houses, with good results. 
The burner is a stove burner with an 
igniter or little supplementary burner, 
which keeps the burner hot. We use the 
igniter and never use the full burner, and 
two gallons of gasoline runs us in ordi¬ 
nary weather a week. floyd q. white. 
WHEN TO SOW RAPE. 
Is It advisable, in this section, to sow rape 
with oats to be used as pasture after har¬ 
vesting the oats, or would it be preferable 
to sow rape after the oats are up? Would 
it then need harrowing over with a light 
tooth-harrow? Would harrowing l>e neces¬ 
sary if rape is sowed before a rain? Is it 
too late to sow rape after harvesting oats 
to secure late Fall pasture? 
There can often be much feed for sheep 
and swine obtained from rape in oat stub¬ 
ble. It is better to sow the rape at the 
same time the oats are put in. It will 
get a firmer hold in the soil, and the 
chances are more favorable for a satis¬ 
factory crop. It would be very doubtful 
if it would get sufficiently covered, sowed 
after the oats were up, even if sowed just 
before a rain. To harrow lightly would 
certainly be better, but unless the ground 
and oats were in just the right condition 
—soil mellow and free from lumps, and 
oats well rooted—much damage would 
result to the latter. The crop is never 
certain in any case, and it does not pay 
to put any extra expense on it. The 
seed costs but 10 or 12 cents per pound, 
and if sown with the oats the outlay is so 
small that even if the rape is-a failure 
the loss will be slight. If it makes a good 
growth it will be a very cheap source of 
food, and is well worth the small out¬ 
lay. The only objection is that some¬ 
times the rape grows up in the oats and 
makes them harder to cure; otherwise 
that which is in the straw adds to its 
feeding manorial value. Unless the 
oats were harvested the first week in 
August, and the rape sowed immediately, 
I should not expect much of a crop for 
Fall feed in nine years out of 10. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
My judgment is that the rape sown 
with the oats, unless the latter should be 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
very thin indeed, would become very 
spindling, pale yellow, greatly enfeebled, 
and probably never would make very sat¬ 
isfactory pasturage. Rape is capable of 
starting quickly and making a very heavy 
rapid growth, and I think it would be 
better to sow it alone. I certainly should 
not sow the rape after the oats are up, 
for the seed lying on top must much of 
it fail to germinate unless weather con¬ 
ditions should be unusually favorable. 
Doubtless far better germination might 
be secured, and with little probable dam¬ 
age to the oats, if the field should be 
gone over with the harrow after sowing 
the rape seed. In this climate, certainly, 
rape sown after harvesting oats, while 
it would produce considerable Fall pas¬ 
ture, would by no means produce as 
much pasturage as if sown earlier. 
WM. P. BROOKS. 
I have never tried sowing rape with 
oats expecting to harvest the oats for 
grain and then use the rape for pasture. 
Mv opinion would be, from what I know 
of rape, that it should be sown after the 
oats were drilled in, and just before they 
pricked through the ground, going over 
the field with a light slanting tooth-har¬ 
row, scarifying the surface enough to 
lightly cover the seed. We sow rape 
here for Fall pasture about June 15. I 
should think that after oats harvested in 
Eastern New York, it would be rather 
late to sow rape for Fall pasture. If you 
sow rape with oats you must expect to be 
bothered with a rather heavy growth 
which may be partly cut off by 
the binder, and appearing in the 
bottom of the oat sheaves, necessi¬ 
tates immediate thrashing to prevent 
spoiling, and possibly spoiling the oat 
straw by the subsequent decay. I do 
not like the idea of sowing the rape with 
oats for these reasons. Better sow it 
alone, cultivating the ground thoroughly 
up to June 10, then put in the rape in 
rows 18 inches apart, using three pounds 
of seed to the acre. Cover the seed 
lightly, cultivate three or four times if 
possible and expect to turn on the sheep 
about September 15. Use one acre of 
rape for 16 sheep. c. D. smith. 
Michigan Ag’l. College. 
T would not advise the sowing of rape 
with the oats, any more than I would ad¬ 
vise the sowing of turnips with oats, as 
rape is a member of the turnip family. 
Rape can be sown any time after the 
ground becomes warm enough in the 
Spring, and should be well harrowed or 
disked in. After the oats are cut he can 
sow any time from July 10 to the first 
week in August. The ground should be 
well prepared, either by plowing or disk¬ 
ing, and then harrowed or dragged until 
in good condition for best results. It is 
taken for granted that he will use Dwarf 
Essex, as it is practically, the only kind. 
Its greatest value is' when planted late 
for Fall feeding, when green foliage is 
scarcest. Young lambs and shotes thrive 
on rape, but care must be taken in feed¬ 
ing it or serious trouble will result. B. 
Clay Co., Ind. 
DIARRHOEA IN FOWLS. 
Are chickens troubled with diarrhoea while 
feeding the following mash, two parts bran 
and one part meal, referred to in a recent 
issue of The R. N.-Y. ? h. c. l. 
Richmond, Va. 
Our chicks have never been troubled 
with diarrhoea from feeding the mash, but 
any change in feeding should be gradual, 
for diarrhoea is Sometimes caused by too 
sudden change in the manner of feeding, 
and the kind of food. Trouble in this 
way is often caused by feeding too much 
green bone, and other highly concentrated 
foods, but we see no reason for the mash 
causing it. grand view farm. 
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♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
This sketch is as 
true as any tiling can 
he made. If any 
one visiting my herd 
finds this hog other¬ 
wise than this cut 
shows, I will give 
him a pair of pigs. 
If found true I ex¬ 
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to same party. This 
has never failed. 
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