THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 17 , 
136 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN, CORRECTED 
A Hen Woman’s Experience. 
Mr. Mapes thought some one would suggest 
avoiding his breed but I think it is feed. To 
compare his feeding wilh the feeding recom¬ 
mended by Mr. Ilartman in “The Business 
lien,” that table of food per 100 hens, was 
carefully thought and worked out. I came 
from a city to a lonely farm, and having no 
children, the chickens took my main care and 
interest. A one-eighth part of that mixture 
is entirely too much animal meal, especially 
as he said he uses 123 pounds of milk also 
most of the time. One-eighth part of wheat 
middlings, if ground fine, as I know it, would 
make the mass sticky. Use more wheat bran 
or oats Instead. He does not feed enough 
oafs, in fact not enough grain, too much 
salt. Turnip, beet or cabbage should ncvei 
be fed until after last feed in the evening es¬ 
pecially to the Leghorn type. Three P. M. 
is entirely too early to take the water away 
from them. They will drink until dusk if 
they have the chance. I often turn my feed 
bucket upside down aud sit on it right among 
them. My 17 l^eghorns quit scratching long 
before the busy Wyandottes do. but if 1 come 
with cabbage or beet they get busy again. 
Mr. Mapes’s may not do as mine do, but 1 
have had Minorcas do the same, and think 
as Mr. Mapes gives all they will eat they 
do not eat enough grain to make lots of 
eggs. If I had my Leghorns by themselves 
I would make them eat more grain, as they 
do not do their share of laying. Our 7."> hens 
in all laid from 22 to .14 eggs per day De¬ 
cember and January, tuns. d. l. hahtman. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feeds Too Much Corn. 
I would tell Mr. Mapes that he fed far too 
much corn. One-third of the morning scratch 
feed, nearly one-half noon mash, and all of 
the evening feed is corn—too much. My 
advice would be to cut the cracked corn out 
in the morning and cut it down to at least 
TOO pounds cormneal at noon. My menu for 
the hens is wheat and oats in morning 
(equal parts): mash of 100 pounds wheat 
bran. 100 shorts, 50 pounds beef scraps and 
what cut clover they care for, and occasion¬ 
ally salt is added; for night they get whole 
corn only. So you see they get corn only 
once a day, and then about all they want. 
I do not rank with such men as Mapes, Cos¬ 
grove and others in the chicken industry, 
but I am the happy possessor of those so- 
called 50 per cent hens. Wheat and oats, 
I think, are the egg foods. We need other 
feeds of course, but they, I believe, are the 
stand-bys. c. s. 
Canterbury, O. 
Warm Breakfasts and Human Nature. 
I a in sorry for Mr. Mapes. and very sorry 
for his hens. I would no more think of giv¬ 
ing my hens a cold breakfast in the Winter 
than 1 would think of giving my family a 
cold breakfast. Imagine a man on a cold 
morning in a huckleberry lot where the ber¬ 
ries are scarce, picking berries for his break¬ 
fast. Do you think he would feel like doing 
a good day's work afterwards? Do you 
think he would feel contented and happy? 
Well, hardly: but I think he could sympa¬ 
thize with Mr. Mapes's hens. A cold and 
hungry hen will not lay, no matter what 
her breed, and a Leghorn lien will exercise 
after a good warm breakfast if you only give 
her a chance to do so. It is hen nature to 
scratch, and she will do it just for the fun 
of it: it is also her nature to lay. and she 
will do that. too. if she has enough to eat, 
a place to stretch her wings as well as her 
legs and a fairly warm place to sleep. There 
is a great deal of human nature in a ben: 
a high strung White Leghorn hen will resent 
being cooped up and forced to work like the 
slower Asiatic breeds just as much and as 
quick as a good smart American man will 
resent being treated like some inferior. I 
have a flock of 18 old hens and 75 pullets: 
35 of the pullets were hatched in August and 
the oldest were not hatched until late in 
May. They are a mixture of everything, just 
what a “hen man” would call a “scrub” 
flock. I feed in morning warm mash of two 
parts cornmeal, one part wheat bran, one 
large quart of meat scrap (we have alxml 
12 quarts of the dry grain) wet with hot 
water. I just take the chill off the drinking 
water. At noon six quarts oats scattered on 
the floor, which is covered with dry leaves, 
coal ashes, and chaff from the barn, (hay. 
corn husks, weed seeds). At night 1 feed 
warm whole corn alternated with whole 
wheat. If weather is very cold I give corn 
till the cold snap is past. I warm the grain, 
and it helps to keep the hen warm at night. 
I did not begin to keep count of the eggs 
till the first of December. In December I 
got 003 eggs. New Year’s Day gave me 31, 
and so far in this month I have got 72!) 
eggs (yesterday 41), which is not had for a 
scrub flock. We have no cut clover, or cab¬ 
bage, or turnips, but the hens run out on 
grass land every day that is not too cold for 
them to go out, and as this Winter has been 
so pleasant they have been out most of the 
time. I am not usually an envious person, 
hut I do envy Mr. Mapes his 1,400 beautiful 
White Leghorn hens. If T had them I would 
feel richer than ever Rockefeller felt, and 
I would make a fortune with them that would 
be sufficient for me at least, but I don't think 
there are any cast-iron rules in feeding and 
caring for poultry more than there are for 
raising babies. I have seen good natured 
babies spoiled by too scientific feeding and 
care, and 1 guess it is about the same way 
with hens. You will not succeed, no matter 
what you feed, if you don’t use common sense 
as a seasoning. My hens have no fancy care. 
The house is an old building 12 x 14, with 
an upstairs to it; the roosts are upstairs. 
They have all the downstairs for a scratch¬ 
ing place, and to lay. The dropping boards 
are cleaned when 1 can get a man to do it, 
perhaps once in from four to six weeks, some¬ 
times longer. I never open windows because 
there are cracks enough in the walls, and 
broken glass in the windows. They have shell 
and grit before them all the time. I have never 
before written about hens; although I have 
had very good luck with them. I do not keep 
a scrub flock from choice, but necessity, as I 
did not have the money to buy purebreds. 
My favorites are White Leghorn, Light 
Brahma, White Plymouth Rock and Silver 
Wyandotte. A person adapted to poultry can 
make a good living with the breed he likes 
best, and I would not advise anyone starting 
in with a breed lie did not like, or any breed 
if he does not really like the business. A 
hen knows whens she is sworn at as well 
as a cow, and will act accordingly. 
Connecticut. mrs. w. h. french. 
POULTRY NOTES. 
A Hen Man.—B y the way, I can sympa¬ 
thize with Mr. Mapes on the egg question, 
as I am getting only three or four eggs per 
day from 100 hens and pullets; got 10 times 
tlie number a year ago; can't understand it. 
Auburn, It. I. w. c. K. 
1 see a good many people tell what their 
chickens are doing through your paper, but 
I do not see any who have our flock beaten. 
We have 37 May pullets of the White Wyan¬ 
dotte breed that liegan laying November 27; 
in December laid 20 dozen and nine in 
January to 24th; 39 dozen and 10, we think 
that pretty good. w. b. k. 
Conneautville, I’a. 
A Hen Record. —I have been keeping a 
record of 27 pullets for one month. These 
pullets were hatched May 15 and June 14 
and the first egg was laid the last day in 
November. After snow came they were all 
put in one pen without a male. When 1 
thought they were all laying, which was 
Decemlier 23, I commenced to keep account 
of the eggs. There were 14 purebred It. C. 
Rhode Island Reds, and 13 8. C. W. Iveghorns, 
and for one month they laid 440 eggs. They 
were fed oats* in the morning, mash at noon 
and some cabbage and wheat and buckwheat 
at night. They had no meat or milk, but 
the mash had some animal meal in it. 
Lisle, N. Y. j. f. 
Son Beats Father, —I see one of Father’s 
letters recently said: “Mapes the hen man, 
but not the egg man.” He had about the 
same number of pullets that I had last Fall, 
and his have laid hut very few eggs this 
Winter, and mine have done* fairly well. At 
the present time I am getting over 200 eggs 
a day from about 850 hens and pullets. I 
have one hen sitting on 11 eggs from m.v 
New York winner of 190 (J. 1 tested her 
eggs this morning, found one broken, but 
from 12 eggs I found 11 fertile ones. I was 
somewhat surprised at the results for this 
time of the year. Since I came home from 
New York I have had a number of orders for 
birds, among others I have shipped two to 
Canada, also 12 birds to Norkopping, Sweden. 
I am at present corresponding with a man 
in Switzerland for an order to be shipped 
to England. I hope to raise quite a number 
of young stock this Summer, and will dis¬ 
pose of pretty much of my present stock. 
. 1 . E. MAPES. 
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