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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
PERIOD OF GESTATION. 
How many months do the following ani¬ 
mals carry their young previous to birth: 
horse, cow, sheep and sow? s. 
New York. 
Individual animals vary considerably, 
but the following is the average period of 
gestation, based on a long series of obser¬ 
vations: Mare, 330 days; cow, 285; ewe, 
150; sow, 120. 
TURKEY NOTES. 
Soon after the first of March your tur¬ 
keys will be looking for nests. Encour¬ 
age them to stay near home by making 
nests for them on or near the ground, 
in secluded spots. A barrel laid on its 
side, a shovelful of earth thrown in, a 
little chaff on top of the ground, makes 
a nest to their liking. They usually 
choose a place where they will be hidden 
from sight, but take strange fancies at 
times. Last Spring I had an ordinary 
shoe-box in my woodshed, in which I 
had put some straw as a scratching place 
for my bantams. I was surprised to find 
an egg there one day, and eventually five 
turkeys chose it as a laying-place; occa¬ 
sionally we would see all five turkeys in 
the box at one time, sandwiched so 
closely that we wondered how they ever 
got there. This box was in plain sight 
of everyone going to and from the barn, 
and we would stroke the turkeys as we 
passed by. 
It does not matter where they make 
their nests, as it is a very easy matter to 
move them to a convenient place when 
we want to set them. We are well 
pleased if our hens do not commence lay¬ 
ing until about the middle of March, as 
we do not care to set any irr this latitude 
(near Kingston, N. Y.) until about the 
middle of April. If we suspect one of our 
hens has stolen her nest, we keep them all 
shut up some morning until about 11 
o’clock; when let out they will probably 
go quickly to their nests, thus making it 
easy to find them. Take great care that 
the eggs do not become chilled. As soon 
as brought to the house set on end in a 
pan or box of grain or bran, changing 
them end for end occasionally. Kept in 
this way in a cool place they will hatch 
well a month after being laid. We like 
to set our turkey eggs all at one time— 
using fowl hens if we have not enough 
turkeys. Late-hatched turkeys seldom do 
well unless they can be kept apart from 
the earlier-hatched and have extra care. 
m. c. v. w. 
Cement Floor for Henhouse. 
W. D., Titusville, Pa .—I am building a 
poultry bouse 14x36 feet, and I wish to put 
in a cement floor. Will some of the many 
friends of your paper tell me how to pro¬ 
ceed with the foundation for the cement, 
also how to mix it so as to get a good 
floor? About how much cement will it take 
to do the job and what is the best cement 
to use? About how much should the job 
cost when finished? 
Ans.— All the preparation necessary 
will be a sound solid dirt foundation with 
drainage so that there will be no danger 
of cracking from heaving or settling. If 
the building is placed over sod land, clean 
the surface soil away, and make the sur¬ 
face smooth; then put down 2x4 scant¬ 
ling flatwise; have ready a straight edge 
as long as the width of the building if not 
over 12 feet wide. If wider put down in 
two sections, which means a scantling in 
the middle. Now mix the coarsest sand 
you can find, three parts, Portland ce¬ 
ment one part, hoeing over in a box 
3x6 feet with sides one foot high in the 
dry form until thoroughly mixed. Then 
add watei enough to make a spreadable 
mortar. Spread on the floor space at 
once a bit thicker than the two-inch thick¬ 
ness required, and work down solid and 
smooth or level with the straight edge. 
Do not try to finish with a trowel; it 
makes a slightly undulating surface diffi¬ 
cult to clean. Be sure that no air bubbles 
are left in the mixture. They will sooner 
or later break and be annoying. I would 
not advise a rough surface finish for a 
henhouse, but rather would I smooth the 
surface with a trowel after it has been 
down two or three hours. It will always 
be covered with straw, and so not slippery, 
and this smooth finish will be more easily 
cleaned, which it should be once a week. 
Of course I am unable to figure cost of 
your job because the size is not men¬ 
tioned. But for each 10 x 10 or 100 square 
feet there would be 16 cubic feet of plas¬ 
tic mortar or 17-9 cubic yard. It will 
require 2.48 barrels cement and one cubic 
yard of sand per cubic yard of plastic 
mortar or V/ 2 barrel cement and 16-27 
cubic yard of sand for the 100 square 
feet two inches thick. From the size of 
your building and the cost of the cement 
in your market plus cost of sand you can 
quickly determine total cost. There are 
many good cements; buy the brand used 
by railroads or contractors in your local¬ 
ity. Put down a form and build up a 
covering to the top of the sill, thereby 
shutting out all escape for warm air. 
_H. E. COOK. 
The Banner Egg Yiei.d. —In response to 
the call for a better hen record than that 
given by F. W. R. on page 160 I will give 
ours. Our eggs have not sold at as high a 
price, but I can keep “inside the facts” and 
present a better egg record. We have 48 
hens, most of them Buff Orpingtons, and 
the remainder grade R. I. Reds, and three 
days during the present Winter, January 14, 
22 and February 17) they have laid 35 eggs. 
On many other days they have laid more than 
30, while the daily average for the month of 
January was a fraction more than 28. Our 
henhouses are not very warm, and have been 
cleaned only four oj- five times since the first 
of October. The fowls have had no meat, 
cut bones, animal meal nor commercial grit. 
They have been heavily fed and are very 
fat. Many of file other pet theories of poul- 
trymen have been thrown to the winds, 
but the lady of the hpuse is very fond of hen 
society. v. r. w. 
Lysander, N. Y. 
Lice on Cattle.— Referring to lice on cat¬ 
tle, page 133, I would suggest the use of lark¬ 
spur and rum, which I know would kill the 
lice, and would not remove the hair. j. k. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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It is more than a food; 
you may doubt it, but it 
digests perfectly easy and 
at the same time gets the 
digestive functions in a 
condition so that ordinary 
food can be easily di¬ 
gested. Try it if you are 
run down and your food 
doesn’t nourish you. 
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KENTUCKY JACK FARM. 
A fine lot of big Black well-bred 
KENTUCKY JACKS, also Im¬ 
ported SPANISH JACKS, 
selected by me personally from 
the very best breeds of Jacks in 
Spain. We furnish a certificate 
of pedigree with each Imported 
Jack. Come and see me or write 
for prices. I can please you. 
JOE E. WRIGHT , Junction City, Ky. 
KENTUCKY JACKS 
Jk AND STALLIONS. 
|P|L One hundred head of 
Jacks, Jennets. Saddle, Trotting 
and Pacing Stallions and some nice 
# Poland China Hogs, We won more 
S Wx premiums on Jacks than all other 
breeders combined at Ky. State Fair 
1905. Write for what you want. 
J. F. COOK & COMPANY, Lexington, Ky. 
Branch barn for jacks, Marion, Kansas. 
The WAGON to BUY. 
Properly con¬ 
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STEEL WHEELS WAGONS! 
Your address on a postal will bring you free catalog. 
The Geneva Metal Wheel Co., 
Box 17, Geneva, Ohio. 
A 3 to 4 Months Old Pig, EXPRESS PA D, 
In exchange for a few days of your spare time. You 
invest no money. Send tor particulars at once. 
PENN A. BERKSHIRE CO., Fannettsburg, Pa. 
Large English Berkshires fate. ‘S 2- 
year old Registered Sow of choicest breeding. 
NUTWOOD FARMS, Syracuse, N. Y„ R. F. D. No. 4. 
Large Eng. Berkshires 
Imported and Domestic Strains. Matings not akin. 
Descriptive circulars on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg:, Pa. 
R 
EG. O. I. C. AND P. CHINA PIGS, CHEAP. 
JOHN L. TREXLER, Mertztown, Pa. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
All ages and sexes, son of Lord 
Premier, No. 50001, the $1,500 Boar, at head of herd 
Send for booklet. 
J. E. WATSON, Prop., Marbledale, Conn. 
HOLSTEIN BULL FOR SALE 
Butter Boy Mechthilde, Born March 15, 1905. 
More white than black; well grown; a fine indiviuual. 
Sire, a son of De Kol 2ds. Butter Boy 3d. Dam 
made 440.4 lbs. milk, 3.0# fat, 19.4.0 butter in 7 days. 
1753.95 lbs. milk, 77.98 lbs. butter in 30 days. A.R.O. 
T. A. MITCHELL, 
Weedsport, N. Y. Oakland Farm. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
From choice A. R. O. Dams, and by such sires as 
Beryl Waynes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
DeKol. We 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 Holsteln-Friesians. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co,. N.Y. 
The Edgewater Herd, 
Huntington, L. I., New York. 
Holstein cattle of the purest breeding, Chester 
White. Poland China. Berkshire, Essex, and Duroe 
Jersey Red Swine of all ages A Splendid bred lot 
of Young Stock on Hand for Sale, also Choice Grade 
Dairy Cows Write for prices and descriptions. 
Address VV. It. SELLECK, Huntington, N. Y. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send postal card for 64-page illustrated pamphlet, 
describing this great breed of rattle. 
F. L. HOUGHTON, Sec’y, Brattleboro, Vt. 
THE BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
H O L.STEI N-FKI LSI ANS 
are bred for large Production, Good Size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the klud you want write or come to see 
them. Iz5 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bull Calves, 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Neshanlc, N. J 
Star Farm Holsteins 
CUT IN TWO. 
That is terrible for our competitors— but grand 
for you. The specious claims of alleged quality and 
superiority are simply intended to make you pay 
more than you ought to. I guarantee superiority 
and quality, and cut the price 25 per cent., isn’t that 
worth saving! Special prices on registered cows, 
service bulls, heifers and calves. 
250 head to select from 250 
Illustrated circulars and valuable information sent 
free on application. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, 
Dept D. Cortland, N. Y. 
IT’S A FACT 
That we now have more young cows of milking age 
than we can possibly stable this coming Winter. 
They are bred to such bulls as DeKol 2u’s Butter 
Boy 3d, Beryl Wayne’s Paul DeKol, and the imported 
bull Karel Bos 1st, BRIZE and CHAMF1()N at the 
New York State Fair. We will make a reduction in 
price in all lines. This is an opportunity you should 
not overlook. Send for further particulars and folder. 
THE STEVENS HERD. Established 187 6 
HENRY STEVENS & SON, 
Hrookside Stock Farm, Lacona, N.Y. 
Pure Bred Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
From Registered and Record Stock. ALFALFA 
SOIL from lots that have raised alfalfa for the past 
five years. Prices moderate. Write promptly. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, New York. 
Degistered Ayrsliires. If you want to Improve 
IV your herd, purchase cows and young stock from 
first-class milkers of strong constitution and the best 
dairy type. Correspondence solicited. MAPLE 
ROW STOCK FARM, Cherry Creek, N. Y. 
Jersey Cattle, Berkshire Hogs, 
Rhode Island Reds. 
R. F. SHANNON, 905 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa 
)egist’d Jersey Cattle, Lin¬ 
coln, Shropshire, Hamp¬ 
shire and South Down Sheep; 
Chester White, Poland China 
and Berkshire Pigs; Scotch 
[Collie Dogs and a variety of 
.Poultry. Come see my 
’stock and make your own 
selections. Send 2c. stamp 
Fancy ol Eureka 130891 for New Catalogue. 
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r*/\ ri Q A | f- MALE AND FE- 
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8 wks. and older, mated not akin. Ser¬ 
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fund money if not satisfactory. Reg. 
Holsteins. Heifers, Bulls and Cows 
in Calf. Hamilton & Co., Ercildoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
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to save loss or confusion. 
Sample. Free. Agents Wanted. 
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West Lebanon, N. H. 
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