1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE BUSK MILK PAIL 
The accompa-nying diagram, reproduced 
from the New York Produce Review, 
gives a cross section of the Busk milk 
pail showing the ice chamber in dotted 
lines as well as (0) the brass screw cap 
which closes the chamber. With the pail 
is a small funnel with which to till the ice 
chamber with crushed ice and salt and the 
milking is done as far as possible by di¬ 
recting the streams on the ice chamber. 
The pail is rather heavy, and its practical 
value remains to be proven by careful 
comparative experiments. 
HENS IN CLOSE QUARTERS. 
Most of your readers are familiar with 
the methods of Mr. Cosgrove a-nd “Mapes, 
the Hen Man,” and others among your 
contributors who keep hens on an exten¬ 
sive scale. There is another system, how¬ 
ever, which has, as far as I know, never 
been described in these columns, and as it 
is comparatively -new and altogether novel, 
I will try to give a brief outline of the 
system as carried on by Humphrey & 
Goodnow, at Amherst, Mass. They keep 
from 1,000 to 1,500 hens, S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns and White Wyandottes, in houses 
shown in accompanying picture. A frame 
of cheap 2 x 1 inch lumber is built. 10 feet 
long, six feet wide and 18 inches high; this 
is covered, top, sides and ends, with two- 
inch mesh poultry netting, except that for 
three feet of the top, at one end, the wire 
is left off and a roof, shape of inverted V, 
is built of half-inch boards and tarred pa¬ 
per, one end of roof being boarded up 
and the other covered with the poultry 
wire, giving ventilation without a draft. 
Under this roof are two poles for roosts 
and an orange crate or other box for 
nests, a hole being cut in wire and nests 
reached by a small hinged door. An 
empty tin fruit can with a strip of cover 
bent into a hook is hung on wire on one 
side of coop, and answers for water cup, 
and when we have added a small flat 
wooden trough for food we have about all 
that a hen needs for comfort, except a 
chance to go calling and this she learns to 
do without. This coop is suitable for 10 
hens, and they will live and thrive in it all 
Summer, coop being moved to clean grass 
as often necessary to insure reasonable 
cleanliness. Multiply this coop and 10 
hens by 100, and we see quite a hen busi¬ 
ness on a small piece of ground, and in 
shape to be handled at pretty nearly a 
minimum of labor and expense. 
This for warm weather. In Winter the 
liens occupy long continuous houses, each 
house being divided into pens 10 feet 
square and again horizontally into three 
decks or floors, one above another, and 
two feet apart, making each pen or room 
10 feet square and two feet high, and each 
of these pens holds 10 hens. Windows 
are provided as necessary, and each set of 
three pens has a door on the south side, 
doorway being covered with wire netting, 
and the wooden door left open much of 
the time. The same orange box and fruit 
can are used as in Summer, arranged in 
reach of a walk or passage along north 
side of building. Conditions as just de¬ 
scribed are not ideal for laying hens, yet 
the hens are lively and healthy and lay 
well. At the time of my last visit, about 
August 1, many of the hens were begin¬ 
ning to moult, and yet 1,200 hens were 
shelling out 600 eggs per day, not an 
alarming yield, but fair, and one man was 
doing all the work connected with caring 
for the hens, and had time for many other 
duties. 
Many of the village places are using 
from one to 10 of these coops for Sum¬ 
mer, and here is where the system shows 
to best advantage, as a few hens can be 
kept in any little unoccupied corner of 
land or even, as I have often seen them, 
on the lawn. Kept in this way a woman 
or child can feed them and gather the 
eggs, which is about all the labor involved 
except moving coop to clean grass occa¬ 
sionally. L. C. LITCHFIELD. 
Vermont. 
COLT WITH INJURED EYE. 
Can anyone tell me what to do in the fol¬ 
lowing case? I have a colt, who is about a 
year and a half old. When he was alx>ut six 
months old he was kicked on the eye bv a 
horse: the next day he was again kicked 
in the same place, by a eolt. The eye did 
not seem sore, excepting that water ran from 
it, so I washed the eye with boracic acid, 
hoping it would get well, but the eye con¬ 
tinues to run: no matter, but just clear 
water, and gets worse when the weather 
turns cold, I should like very much to cure 
him as he is a fine colt. f. o. 
Kentucky. 
There is a duct (or canal) that goes 
from the inner corner of the eye to the 
lower part of the inside of the nose, where 
the lower end of this duct can be seen. 
It is through this duct that the fluid (or 
tears) pass from the eye to the nose, and 
sometimes this duct becomes closed from 
some cause, and when there is a large 
amount of fluid formed in the eye and 
this duct becomes closed, as the cha-nces 
are it has from the bruises in this case, the 
tears then run down the side of the face 
under the eye. I know that some people 
use boric acid for an eye wash where 
there is an inflammation of the eye, but it 
should not be used where there is a-n ex- i 
cess of tears, on account of its astringent 
action and its tendency to close the duct. 
Try an eye wash made of 30 grains of 
sugar of lead, one dram of laudanum, in 
one pint of rai-n water that has been 
boiled; one teaspoonful of this eye wash 
can be turned in the eye on the lower lid 
once a day. The trouble is that most peo¬ 
ple make an eye wash too strong, and do 
more harm than good. It will pay you 
to have a competent veterinarian examine 
your colt, as it may be necessary to use a 
silver probe to open the duct, or it may be 
that the bone has been so crushed that 
treatment more than a good eye wash will 
be of little use. 
M. D. WILLIAMS. D. V. S. 
BEATS THE 
Grindstone 
Ten Times Oyer. 
Grind any tool, knife to mower 
sickle, with the 
Practical 
Grinder. 
3,000 revolutions of 
carborundum wheel 
per minute. Greatest 
abrasive known. No 
pressure needed, does 
not draw temper or 
heat tools. Every 
home needsit. Write 
for price and circu¬ 
lar. A few good 
agents wanted. 
ROYALMFCiCOq 226 C. Walnut St., Lancastar, Pa. 
CHAIN-HANGINti 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
CATTLE FASTENER 
ever invented. 
Manufactured and for 
O. H. ROBERTSON, 
Forestvllle, Conn. 
HORNS ARE DANGEROUS 
Mnrnu noilcn T..ca 
Horns cause considerable loss 
You can stop the loss quickly, 
easily, painlessly. Use the 
KEYSTONE DEHORNER 
and perform the operation in 
an instant. Does not splinter 
horn or tear flesh. A humane, 
money-saving method. Write 
for free Dehorning booklet. 
M. T. Phillips, 
rJ^Box 18 Por 
Pomeroy, Pa. 
TUBULAR-or “Back Breaker?” 
When you see the waist low Tubular you can’t be driven into buying a 
back-breaking, “bucket bowl” separator. Can and crank are just the 
right height on the Tubular. Here is the largest Dairy Tubular along 
side four “back breakers.” The girl with her hand on the Tubular is 5 
feet, 4 inches tall. This is an exact reproduction from a photograph. 
Which kind for you? Makers of “back breakers” try to get their cans 
low by setting the cranks low. High cans break your back backward— 
low cranks break it forward. Unless you are a double jointed giant, 
you’ll find a high can is no joke. To show you how high these “back 
breaker” cans really are, when the machines are set high enough to turn 
easily, we raised these “back breakers” ’til their crank axles were level 
with the Tubular crank axle. “Back breaker” makers don’t like this 
picture— it’s too true. They try to squirm out of it. You wouldn’t like 
turning cranks as low as “back breaker” makers put them. 
The low can is only ono of many advantages Dairy Tubulars have over all others. 
Dairy Tubular bowls are simple—“back breakers” are complicated. Tubulars are 
self-oiling—no oil holes to till up. “Back breakers” are oil drippers and oil wasters. 
To learn a lot more about Tubulars, write today for catalog N-153 
The 
Sharpies Separator 
Company 
West Chester, Pa. 
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Toronto, Can. 
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Which way do you skim youf milk ? 
It is hard sometimes to realize just how 
great the loss of cream is with crocks and 
pans. Some people may not believe that a 
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skims enough closer than the old way to inc-ease their butter yield one-fourth 
or more. But it does. Users say so. Here's an. every-day example— 
“ Carsonvillh, Mich., July 23,1005. 
“We purchased one of your No. 6 U. S. Cream Separators in 1902. It is all right. It has 
given the best of satisfaction with no repairs. It is as good as when we got it. We have 
ten cows and make about one-fourth more butter than the old way. It saves me a lot of 
work—washing pans and carrying milk down cellar, and gives warm, sweet milk for calves 
and pigs. We would not be without one for three times the price we paid for it, and con¬ 
sider the U. S. the best on the market.—Mrs. MAGGIE KIDD.” 
For additional proofs write for our interesting free catalogue 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
436 18 centrally located warehouses in (Jnited States and Canada 
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CHEAPEST 
CREAM SEPARATOR. 
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The really "cheap” cream separator, like all 
other machines, is the one which will perform your 
work in the most profitable and satisfactory manner, 
and last the greatest number of years. A cream 
separator-which wears out in two years is worth 
only one-fifth of what the one is that lasts ten year*. 
OE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS 
have proven to be capable of lasting from fifteen 
to twenty-five years. The very best of other sepa¬ 
rators at the most cannot last more than five or six 
years. The poorest ones become “junk" within a 
few months and represent simply a pure waste of 
money to buyers of such machines “Cheapest” 
in first cost does not mean “cheapest” in the end, 
nor does the manufacturer’s unenforceable guarantee 
mean that you are getting the most for your money. 
Low prices and extravagant guarantees are the 
capital stock of the “fakir” Before buying a 
separator write for a DE LAVAL catalogue of 
“durability" facts and reasons. It will cost you 
nothing to know the truth. 
THE DE LAVAlIePARATOR CO. 
Randolph & Canal sts. 
CHICAGO 
74 CORTLANDT ST. 
NEW YORK 
WILDER’S 
SELF-ADJUSTING STEEL LATCH 
stanchion meets the demand for a safe, 
strong, convenient fastening—ono thataf- 
fords the cow perfect freedom when stand¬ 
ing or lying down. A stanchion operated 
without removing your gloves or mittens. 
Made of hard wood; does not chill animals 
in cold weather. A happy combination of 
utility, cow comfort and cleanliness. Holds 
cattle securely for dehorning. Hung on 
pins or chains as desired. Illustrated 
catalogue and prices free. 
wtldER-STRONG IMPLEMENT CO. 
■ Box 20 Monroe, Mich. I 
BZSkHnEj 
Climax Carrier* 
Feed, Ensilage, Litter. 
A stable help that saves labor. Brings feed from 
silo or bin to manger, carries manuro front all 
stablings to same pile or dumps on wagon. Easy 
lift, light running, positive dump. Made of steel. 
Straight or curved tracks to run anywhere and suit 
any stable plan. Write for descriptive circular. 
Warsaw-Wilkinson Co., 
50 Highland Ave., Warsaw, N. 7. 
COOK YOUR FEED and SAVB 
Half the Cost—with the 
PROFIT FARM BOILER 
With Dumping Caldron. Empties its 
kettle in oue minute. The simplest 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food for stork. Also make Dairy and 
Laundry Stoves, Water and Steam 
Jacket Kettles, Hog Scalders, Cal¬ 
drons, etc. w Send for circulars, 
D. R. SPERRY & CO.. Batavia. UJ. 
CHAIN 
HANGING 
STANGHIOi 
WARRINER’S 
HOLDS THE 
ANIMALS AS 
FIRMLY 
AS RIGID 
STANCHIONS 
W B. CRUMB, 73 Main St., Forestville.Conn. 
THE 
going to buys HARROW 
Want Bent for least! ash. 
11/ C make that kind. 
,11 LP.U FRKIiiHT.Cst. 
.free. Write for price. 
U.H.POlNDKR.No. 
17 Ft. Atkln.ua, Wis. 
CUTAWAY HARROW CO. 
CLARK’S REV. 
BUSH PLOW and HARROW 
Cuts a track 5 feet wide, 1 
foot deep. Connects sub¬ 
soil water. Can plow a 
newly cut forest, stump, 
bush or bog land. 
CEARK’S J)bl. ACTION 
CUT A WA P Moves 1S,000 
Tons of Earth in a Day. 
Send for Circulars. 
HIGGANUM, CONN., U.SA, 
