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T1IH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 26, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
INCOME FROM A HEN. 
The average farm hen lays about 10 dozen 
eggs. Average price for eggs 15 cents per 
dozen ; cost of keeping a hen on a farm should 
not be over 50 cents per year, leaving net 
profit about $1. o. i\ 
Mississippi. 
The income from a flock of hens will vary 
in the same locality according to the cost of 
raising, which in this district varies from 
40 to 00 cents; that is. to bring a fowl to ma¬ 
turity. 1 think the average profit would be 
about .$1 ; the income of course would vary 
according to the cost of keeping. s. c. n. 
Lancaster, Mass. 
I have made a careful study of the farmer 
and Ibe hen the past few years, and conclude 
that a fair average gives an income of about 
$1.25 per lien. I consider that would be a 
shame to the lien were it not the farmer’s 
fault, in the first place, he starves her in 
this land of plenty. What a shame when I 
know of hens last year that had all they 
could eat and paid a profit of $2 per head. 
Fayette, (>._a. e. n. 
HAULING SHOCK TO STACK. 
1 herewith send you sketch of manner 
of hauling shock hay to stack that I think 
hard to beat. Get a pole eight or nine feet 
long, sharpen one end nicely, taking off the 
bark. Cut a couple of notches about one 
foot from the small end ; at the other end 
fasten a common plow clevis. Then take 
a rope long enough to reach over shock 
and back end of the pole. Attack a ring 
large enough to go over the pole and 
large enough so that it will not pass 
through the clevis. To use push the pole 
under near the center; take the ring end 
of the rope over the top of shock, put it 
over the pole and in the notch and start 
your horse; the rope will draw down 
light and you can haul the hay any dis¬ 
tance without disarranging it. 
Ohio. s. 0. PRESTON. 
USE OF TRAP NESTS FOR POULTRY 
I use the ideal trap nest, a very simple 
though effective device, and not expensive. 
It would not be considered by a poultry- 
man any great care or bother. Of course 
it is necessary to gather the eggs once in 
two hours or such a matter in order to re¬ 
lease the hens and give room for others to 
lay, though this could be avoided or made 
at longer intervals by having enough nests. 
It is certainly worth while to weed out the 
poor layers, and breed from the good lay¬ 
ers if one wants layers, but the good lay¬ 
ers are often not ones we desire to keep 
for size and color; in fact, m - experience 
so far is that the best layers are the 
smaller birds of any breed, or, in other 
words, the larger the bird of any variety 
the less the laying qualities. Color often 
goes wi*h size, though not always. Prob¬ 
ably by selecting the good layers even if 
smaller, the size could be somewhat in¬ 
creased bv selections of good males and 
keeping up the laying qualities. 
Kansas. _ ]L m. byers. 
WHAT AILS THE CHICKS? 
Wlial can 1 do for chicks three months old 
with something like gape worms between the 
linings (skins) of the gizzard, not in the 
windpipe, where "The Business lien tells 
me they are. Those worms are white, not 
red with blood. I have some fine broilers, 
and would not like to lose them. I feel sure 
that the disease has spread through all old 
and .young chickens. J. M. R. 
Greenwich, Conn. 
If T had anything of that kind 1 would 
immediately kill off all infected birds and 
disinfect my pen with formaldehyde gas, 
generated by boiling to dryness four 
ounces of a 40-per-cent solution of for¬ 
maldehyde to every 1,000 cubic feet of 
space in tile building.—all cracks being 
carefully stopped up, to keep the fumes 
in. This for the sake of safety should be 
done on an alcohol stove set in a tub 
with a little water in the bottom. Build¬ 
ing should be kept closed eight hours. Be 
sure that none of the fowls or chicks arc 
left behind, and air thoroughly an hour 
before any birds are allowed to go in. 
This is the best disinfectant I know of, 
and pays a big interest upon the invest¬ 
ment if done once or twice a year in all 
houses where fowls are kept. e. m. s. 
A DAIRYMAN’S SILO - 
Three years ago 1 erected a round silo 
16 x 50 of 2 x 6 studs placed 12 inches 
from center, boarded outside with one-half 
inch stulT, double boarded inside with some 
tar paper between. It lias been perfectly 
satisfactory. The first year, owing to corn 
being too dry, a small quantity molded. 
Last year there was not a pound of waste 
except on top. I find when feeding silage 
that 1 can save about one-half of grain 
ration. My plan of feeding is one heap¬ 
ing bushel basketful to two cows, directly 
after milking in the morning, feeding 
grain or silage; about nine o’clock a feed¬ 
ing of hay; after milking at night silage 
and grain same as morning. This Spring, 
being short of hay, 1 increased grain ra¬ 
tion and fed no hay for about six weeks; 
cows did as well as when feeding hay. 
Two years ago, having a small quantity 
of sunflowers, they were cut and put in 
silo. They seemed to make good silage; 
cows ate them readily, but did not have 
enough to compare results with corn. 
There are about 20 silos in my locality, 
ranging in size from 50 to 100 tons. There 
will be about 150 acres planted this year. 
There is no corn of any amount raised for 
husking; the kinds most commonly plant¬ 
ed are Learning and Pride of the North. 
The best silage is made from corn that 
has reached the boiling stage, but we are 
not always able to leave it till then be¬ 
cause of frost. I cut into one-half inch 
lengths and keep man in silo to spread 
and pack, keeping sides higher than mid¬ 
dle. and leaves well mixed with stalks. 
After opening feed enough from entire 
top each day to prevent mold. 
Delhi. N. Y. L . p. r. 
T. A. Mitch hi. i,, Oakland Farm. Woeds- 
i’ort, N. V.. has recently bought the eele- 
hrated Holstein hull Paul Beets l)e Kol. This 
animal is said to have more A. It. <). daugh¬ 
ters (51) than any other bull. 
Imported 11oi.steins. —F. l\ Knowles, of 
Auburn, Mass., has just returned to this 
country from Holland, where he bought a 
shipment of line Ilolstein-Friesian cattle, two 
yearling bulls and 25 females ranging in age 
from two io six years. They will be out of 
quarantine about November 1, and will then 
be ready for inspection al liighlawn Farm, 
Auburn. Mass, lie states that these ani¬ 
mals and all their increase will lie sold with¬ 
out reserve at the breeders’ consignment sale 
next June. 
Hi i kwheat for Mites. —My remedy for 
chicken mites, the ones that, stay in the hen¬ 
house in the daytime and eat the chickens at 
night, is to spread buckwheat straw on the 
floor of the henhouse and in the nests, and 
sprinkle down with water once or twice a 
week. The fresher the straw 1 lie better, hut 
any will do, and mites will gradually disap¬ 
pear. I laughed when I first heard of this 
remedy, but tried it and was convinced. 
Akeley, Pa. reader. 
Turkey Diseases. —The only disease that 
seems to have any weight with turkeys is 
the infectious eutero-hepatitis, the so-called 
black-head, which in my opinion kills nineteen- 
twentieths of the young poults. This disease 
is plainly indicated by the sores or diseased 
spots in the liver, and by the sores in the 
blind guts, the cteca. I note an unusual num¬ 
ber of instances in the poultry papers of tur¬ 
keys dying of this disease this year, and have 
frequent inquiries regarding it. If we cannot 
learn how to handle this disease the price of 
turkeys will run at the top notch during the 
coming years, even if they can be secured at 
all. The disease seems to be making progress 
in the Middle West, and in the South, and 
those turkey owners who have infected flocks 
will do well to provide against infection 
through importation of new turkeys and pos¬ 
sibly new flocks into their barnyards. I am 
meeting with some slight success in my exper 
intents, hut not such ns I can yet point with 
any certainty to a method by which poultry- 
men can raise any satisfactory percentage of 
turkeys. cooper curtice. 
It. I. Experiment Station. 
“ Hollyrood Farm’s ” Great Dispersion Sale! 
Thursday, September 7th, at the Farm. 
Located one mile from Circleville, five miles from Middletown. Orange County, N. Y. Trains for 
Circleville leave Middletown at 7.35 and 11.20 a. m. Stages will meet these trains. 
100 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS! 
EVERYTHING SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE. 
Best Lot of Females Ever Offered at Public Auction All young, 
good individuals, grandly bred. Representing the best milk and butter 
families of the breed. The most important sale of Black and Whites ever 
held in the State. 
DON’T MIfeS THIS SALE. This stock is the kind every one wants. NO 
CULLING, hut the pick of this great herd. SALE STAIiTS AT 9 30 
A. M. SHARP. For extended pedigrees and official records address, 
James H. Wallick, - - Middletown, N. Y. 
&EDNEY FARM 
L. E. ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST GLASS JERSEYS 
GOLDEN STREAMER (15000 
Son of Forfarshire out of Golden Stream 8th, 
born Feb. 22,1901, amt considered the best Jersey bull 
that ever crossed t he Atlantic as a two-year old. 
A few choice Hull Calves for sale by GOLDKN 
STKKAMKK and GOLDEN FERN’S LAD out of im¬ 
ported cows. 
Specialty— Young Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also Imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTK8. 
t W~ Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM. White Plains, N. Y. 
SPECIAL BERKSHIRE SALE. 
FOR ONE MONTH, from July 29, 1905. we will 
sell six to eight weeks old Pigs, ail from registered 
Boar, tit $5.00 amt $0.00 each. The lot also includes 
many STRAIGHT BRED PIGS, eligible for registry. 
Also YORKSHIRE PIGS out of registered Boar. 
Write for circular giving full information. 
HUDSON VALLEY FARMS, Olens Falls, N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
of Pedigree BERKSHIRES 
FLORETTA’S litter of Pigs by Grand 
Premier, 80005- farrowed June 12,are beauties. Floretta 
is the dam of the Champion Boar Nutmeg, at N. Y. 
State Fair in 1903. Grand Premier, 80005, is the best 
bred son of N. H. Gentry’s Lord Premier. 50001. They 
are all for sale—ami are champion material—also 
some sows bred for Fall litters. 
J. E. WATSON. Prop.. Marbledale, Conn. 
Large Eng. Berkshires 
1 mported and Domestic Strai ns. Descriptive circular 
showing pedigrees of breeding stock, and price-list 
on application. Pigs, pairs and trios not related 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg, Pa. 
I ARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES 
la Males and females, of choicest breeding—for sale 
reasonable. NUTWOOD FARMS. 
K. F. D. No. 4, Syracuse, New York. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES Eng. bacon 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCH FARM. Rochester.Mich 
SHROPSHIRE and SOUTHDOWN RAMS 
Prize winning; Canadian and homo bred: big lofty 
fellows. 160 premiums won in 1904, 
NOAH DENNY. Routed, Fort Recovery. O. 
BELGIAN HARES. 
Choice brod and in fine condition; 10 weeks old, $2.00 
per pair JNO. VRY, Lakeland, Minn. 
R egistered angora goats.— Pairs or 
trios. REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAMS. 
Write for prices and information. 
MELROSE STOCK FARM, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
DR. DAVID 
ROBERTS 
CATTLE 
SPECIALIST 
OFFERS THESE BOOKS FREE 
No. 1. Abortion in Cows. No. 2. 
Barren Cows. No. 3. Retained 
Afterbirth. No. 4. Scours In 
Calves. No. 5 How to make vour 
OWN STOCK FOOIl at home. 
Or. IluilU Kohertii, Cattle SperlulUt 
431 Grand A ve.. Waukesha. Wls. 
LAKELAND HERD, 125 HEAD 
HOLSTEIN-FRI ESI AN CATTLE 
of both sexes and all ages. Cows all officially tested, 
breeding of the best, many sired by or descended from 
Pietertje Hengerveld’s Count 1 >e Kol, who lias 47 A. 
R. O. daughters. Mutual Pietertje Paul at bend of 
herd; dam s record, 25 lbs. 9 oz. in 7 days. 
JF' Inspection invited. Correspondence solicited. 
WING It. SMITH, Syracuse, N. Y. 
THE STEVENS HERD 
Offers young COWS and HEIFERS bred to I)e Kol 
2d’s Butter Boy 3d, or Beryl Wayne's Paul Do Kol, 
Two of the Best HOLSTEIN BULLS Living, 
or to the great Imported Bull Karel whose dam and 
dam's dam have the largest records of any cows in 
Holland. 
YOUNG STOCK of both sexes. Their breeding and 
individuality will please you. Write or visit us. 
HENRY STEVENS & SON, 
Hrookside Stock Farm, Lacuna, N. Y. 
OAKLAND FARM HERD 
FOR | SSI, “PAUL BEETS DeKOL” 
aii r ‘ Young fCanary’s Mercedes’ Son , 
oALt / Bulls - DeKol Hengerveld Burke, 
' Sired by LSoldene Clotliilde Artis. 
WE EDS PORT, N. Y. 
T. A. MITCHELL, 
Western Horses I Mules 
Our sales will begin about July 1 of 
Western Horses and Mules. Most 
of them will be two to four year olds 
, and unbranded. If you want 
Money Makers 
send us your address. Wo will keep 
I you posted as to our sales. 
COOK & COMPANY, Lexington, Ky. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS. 
Popular Stock. Popular Prices. 
STAR FARM leads all its competitors in supplying 
the masses with registered Holsteins. 
Circulars sent FREE on application. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, 
Department D, Cortland, N.Y. 
Pure Bred Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
Front Registered and Record stock. ALFALFA 
SOIL from lots that have raised alfalfa for the jiast 
live years. Prices moderate. Write promptly. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius. New York. 
THE BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HO LSTEIN-Fit 1 ESI ANS 
are bred for large Production, Good Size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to see 
them. 126 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
ai.d all ages to oiler at prices that will please you.'’ 
A special otter on some nicely bred BfiA.CAi.VES. 
A. A. COltTifiLYOU, Neshnnic, N. J 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
From choice A. B. O. Dams, and by such sires at 
Beryl Waynes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
DeKol. Wo will make attractive prices on these 
youngsters as they must be disposed of to make room 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices on 
anything needed in Holstein-Frieslans. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co.. N.Y. 
R K(iisT't) Jersey Cattle, Lin¬ 
coln, Shropshire. Hamp¬ 
shire and South Down Sheep; 
Chester White, Poland China 
and Berkshire Pigs; Scotch 
Collie Pegs and a vuriety of 
Poultry. Come see my 
stock and make yoor own 
selections. Send 2c. stump 
Fancy of Knreka 130891 for New Catalogue. 
EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Penna. 
No More Blind Horses 
sore eyes, BARRY CO.JowaCity. Iowa, have sure cure 
.•.: r .THE 
EjV; ANIMALS’ 
«irr-> ^ FRIEND 
• Kills every fly it strikes, 
when either of our patent 
sprayers are used ; keeps off 
the rest. &hoo-Fly is the 
original stock protector, ab¬ 
solutely hsn miens to man or 
beast. Curcn all sore*, Pre¬ 
vents contagious diseases, 
used by same dairymen since 
18tJ5, because it protects cows 
in pasture from all in: t 
pests longer than any irnita- 
_____ . tion. Half cent* 8 worth saves 
^quarts milk and much flesh. NO LICE in poultry houseorany 
blace it is sprayed. Ifyourdealer does not kcepfchoo-Fly (made in 
Philadelphia,Pa,,) send $l.t)l) for Improved Three Tube Sprayer 
and enough hhoo-Fly to protect 200 cows. Name exp. office. Dol¬ 
lar returned if cows not protected. Free Booklet describes 
Compressed Air Sprayer, will spray 50cowb in few minutes. 
SH00-FLY MF’G. CO.. 1028 Fairmount. Phila., Pa. 
EDITOR kuoir, fruw experlcac* bboe-Ely la 0. k. 
FOR SALE 
MALE AND FE- 
m _ __ MALEELKat 
The Michigan School for the Deaf, Flint, Michigan. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
■*'.. 8 wks. aDd older, mated not akin. Ser¬ 
vice Boars, have stock returned, re¬ 
fund money tf not satisfactory. Reg. 
HolBtelns. Heifers, Bulls and Cows 
In Calf. Hamilton & Co., Ercildoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
YOU CAN’T AFFORD A GRADE 
when I will sell you a registered JERSEY HULL, 
best dairy stock; ready for Herviee: at farmer’s price. 
It. F. SHANNON, 905 Liberty St.. Pittsburg. Pa. 
GUERNSEY CATTLE \ Excellent 
Chester White Swine V K'?o K w 
o« sale. Clover Knoll Stock Farm, Orangeville, Pa, 
