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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
BEGINNER'S POULTRY EXPERIMENT 
Anticipating the chicken business in a 
couple of years we borrowed an idle in¬ 
cubator a year ago, placed 120 eggs in it 
January 28, 1905; hatched 72 chicks and 
raised 50 of them. Experienced ones 
said that w r as good for a start in the 
dead of such a Winter as last year. In 
March. 1905. I took a city charge as a 
minister. Last October we bought five 
W. Wyandotte pullets, built a pen out of 
a piano box and two small annexes out 
of two small boxes (see diagram). We 
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recently added a cockerel; six chickens 
now in all. The actual space is less than 
feet for each fowl. Portable drop¬ 
pings board and roosts are placed in po¬ 
sition every evening and removed every 
morning. The east annex is used for 
laying only, reached from main pen by a 
door. Small windows are in all the apart¬ 
ments as indicated. The roofs of the 
annexes are on hinges and can be lifted 
when necessary. We worked out this 
ration and have been feeding it daily: 
Wheat, three-quarters pound; corn, one 
pound; oats, one-half pound, mixed. For 
mash, at noon a mixture of wheat mid¬ 
dlings, one quarter pound; cornmeal, one- 
Jialf pound; bran, one-half pound; Alfalfa 
hay, small pinch; scraps from table. Beef 
scraps in hopper before them all the time, 
likewise grit and oyster shells. The yard 
they run in is 18 x 65, a cold, bleak place. 
No sun has shone on the foxvls all Win¬ 
ter. They arc located right in the heart 
of the city of Philadelphia. The nests 
where they lay (east annex) are within 
two feet of the cement pavement, a fence 
separating, and along one of the busiest 
streets of the city, where runs a trolley 
car every two minutes in daytime and 
every 15 minutes after midnight. The 
chickens roost within about 24 feet of 
this very noisy trolley line. They began 
to lay the last day of December, 1905, 
when we got one egg that was laid out in 
the yard on the cold bricks on a cold 
day. In January they laid 40 eggs; in 
February 80, one egg more than 10 dozen 
in 60 days. Considering the unfavorable 
conditions, isn’t this a pretty fair record? 
We keep the pen floor covered with clean 
litter, and remove (and save) the drop¬ 
pings every day. These six fowls make 
about one five-eighths peach basket full of 
good fertilizer per month. Of course 
success with a few docs not guarantee 
success with a large flock. Rut we believe 
we have caught on to the principles un¬ 
derlying any success. Theory, then ex¬ 
perience, paves the way to results. 
_ A. M. v. 
CLOTTED CREAM; CREAM CHEESE. 
Would you give me recipes for Devonshire 
cream, English cream cheese and French 
cream cheese—the latter as sold in Paris 
ia little heart-shaped baskets? a. k. f. 
Radnor, Pa. 
1 here are slight differences in the 
methods of preparing Devonshire or 
clotted cream; the following is the sys¬ 
tem followed by an experienced English 
housekeeper: Set the new milk in shallow 
pans in cellar or milkroom and allow the 
cream to rise for 12 hours; then set the 
pan on the back of the stove where it will 
heat gradually without reaching the boil¬ 
ing point. An earthen pan is best; we 
like the .old-fashioned yellow crocks, but 
if a tin is used it should be stood in an¬ 
other pan containing water, so that there 
is no risk of scorching, which ruins the 
flavor of the cream. When the cream be¬ 
gins to wrinkle on top remove from the 
stove; if left too long it becomes leathery. 
Cool, then skim the cream off with a per¬ 
forated skimmer. It should be thick and 
rich, yet without any cooked taste, and is 
delicious with fruit. According to Mrs. 
Berthe Julienne Low, the French cream 
cheese is made just like any other, mere¬ 
ly molded in the little heart-shaped bas¬ 
kets, and served with sugar and sweet 
cream. The English cream cheese seems 
the same, sometimes with the addition of 
powdered sage or other herbs. If anyone 
can give us more specific instructions we 
should be glad to learn of them. 
CONTROLLING A RUNAWAY. 
What Is the host to do in case a horse holds 
the bit In the teeth while riding or driving, 
and runs away? How can this habit be 
broken ? s. 
New York. 
Here is a question that should bring 
out a larger discussion than the balky 
horse problem. The dispositions of horses 
are so different that it is hard to tell this 
inquirer just what to do, as I do not 
know what has been done. I judge that the 
horse in question is a light harness or 
saddle horse. Some horses are hard bitted 
others run for exercise and then get 
scared and others are high-lifed, get 
frightened and it might be said go crazy. 
This class of animals should never be 
hooked only when they are where it is 
known that they can be controlled. After 
a good lot of hard work and constant 
exercise most of these animals can be 
handled in safety but many times it will 
take hard work to level the heads of those 
that go crazy or get rattled. I have never 
had any trouble with this class of animals. 
1 put on a rope harness so they cannot 
plunge or gallop and use a good bit with 
an over-check or the common check with 
a pair of martingales as the case may re¬ 
quire. There are horse breaker’s hop¬ 
ples made so that they prevent the 
horse from kicking or jumping that are 
very good. m. d. williams, d. V. S. 
“I’m glad Billy had the sense to marry 
a settled old maid,’’ said Grandma Win- 
kum at the wedding. “Why, grandma?” 
asked the son. “Well, gals is hity-tity, 
and widders is kinder overrulin’ and up- 
settin’. But old maids is thankful and 
willin’ to please!”—Modern Society. 
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