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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 19, 
Live StockandDairy 
INCUBATOR EXPERIENCE . 
For two years I have been shipping eggs 
to a person in Massachusetts who makes 
a business of hatching chicks and selling 
them as soon as hatched. As he uses the 
same make of incubator as mine, and has 
much better success in hatching, I wrote 
him for instructions about running incu¬ 
bators. His reply stated that he began to 
air the eggs after the first four or five 
days, airing them five to eight minutes, 
and increasing the time each day, until by 
the fifteenth day he was airing them a half 
hour at a time, and that he aired them up 
to the last minute. Just before they began 
to hatch he put sponges wet with warm 
water in the machine. I was very glad to 
get those instructions, and proceeded to 
put them in practice. My incubators are 
in my cellar, which has only two windows, 
both on south side. While it never 
freezes in the cellar even in the coldest 
weather, though we never bank up around 
the house as farmers here generally do, 
yet it is quite cool, and varies very little, 
running from 42 to 50 degrees. I put 350 
eggs in my 360-egg machine, and aired 
them every day, according to directions, 
with this exception: I soon saw that the 
eggs would get too cold if aired as long 
as he said, so I put a thermometer on 
the eggs, and when they had cooled to 70 
degrees put them back in the incubator. 
Once I forgot them, drove away to the 
station, and the eggs were out about three 
hours. Of course they were “stone cold,” 
but I had known hens to get shut away 
from their eggs a half day, and then hatch 
a fair percentage of the eggs. So I put 
them back in the incubator and continued 
cooling them twice a day. On the nine¬ 
teenth day I put two carriage sponges wet 
with hot water in the incubator .and found 
12 hours later that they had cooled off the 
air in the machine down to 93 degrees. 
I took the sponges out and ran the heat 
up to 104 degrees. The eggs were due to 
hatch Monday; one chick appeared on 
time and was all alone for nearly two 
days; then about a dozen hatched, and 
next day a few more, and so on for al¬ 
most a week. Saturday I helped eight 
out of the shells a full week behind time. 
Altogether 54 chicks were hatched. The 
eggs had been cooled off so many times 
that the chicks had been delayed in their 
development, and when hatched were not 
as strong and vigorous as they would have 
been under right conditions. 
From this experience I have learned 
that instructions which are all right for 
one situation are all wrong for a different 
one; the cooling that might have been ben¬ 
eficial if done in a warm room was a de¬ 
cided hindrance when done in a cool cel¬ 
lar. I put these chicks in a brooder, and 
the first week a dozen of them died. Since 
then not a chick has died, and although 
they do not grow as fast as the others, yet 
they seem tough and able to stand hard 
usage. A neighbor who hatched 215 chicks 
has had a large part of them die, finding a 
half dozen or so dead in the brooder every 
day. I do not know which is to be pre¬ 
ferred; a good hatch and then have them 
die off, or a poor hatch and have what 
you do get live. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Some Pexxa. Hens. —I have a flock of 32 
B. and W. P. Rocks, eight two-year-old hens, 
22 pullets and two roosters. The pullets were 
hatched under hens in .Tune and July. The 
hens began their rest the very last of Octo¬ 
ber, having kept up their laying during the 
moulting season. November 31 three pullets 
commenced laying. By the end of December 
all were laying with from eight to 14 eggs 
a day. January they laid 480, February 
512, and during March not less than 20 
eggs a day, and as high as 28. Five days 
In succession they laid 26 each day. Their 
feed consists of cracked corn and oats. They 
have a feed trough about five feet in length 
with a cover slanting backward so their food 
is always clean. A peck measure two-thirds 
corn, one-third oats, is put in their trough 
each morning. A shallow pan holding six 
quarts is filled every morning with skSm- 
milk. Oyster shells are kept by them al¬ 
ways. Occasionally a few heads of sunflower 
seed are thrown to them, also scraps from 
the kitchen. Mashes I never bother with. 
When the ground is covered with snow I keep 
them confined, at other times they have 
free range. I never warm their milk or 
water. Back of their house runs a stream of 
clear spring water. The chicken house is 
12x20 feet with gable roor. For foundation 
an 18-inch trench was dug and filled in 
with small stones, on which was laid a wall 
of stone and mortar one foot high. Boards 
with seams battened form sides of house. 
Five windows, six-light, 10x12 and two 
doors. Inside arrangement has three-foot en¬ 
try full length of house, entrance at soqth 
end. Partition is flag poles spaced. Two- 
thirds of floor hoard flooring, one-third for 
wallowing or dusting pit, into which quanti¬ 
ties of coal and wood ashes are thrown. 
The nests, 14 in number, are placed under 
partition opening in hallway for convenience 
in gathering eggs. Floor kept covered with 
dry sawdust. Roosts brushed with coal oil, 
moth hall in each nest. Ceiling slatted with 
1x3 inch scantling spaced, covered one foot 
deep with oat straw, which furnishes good 
ventilation, house always dry. No lice, mites, 
roup or other sickness. Chickens contented, 
happy and full of song. mrs. e. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
Dried Blood for Calves. —We have never 
used dried blood, only as a remedy for scours 
in calves. We use this in small quantities 
when the trouble is first discovered, and if 
taken in time it hardly ever fails. We feed 
Blatchford's calf meal with skim-milk with 
very satisfactory results. 
WOODCREST FARM. 
If O. II., page 269, will put a leading-clasp 
or “bull-ring” in his cow's nose, and a rope 
from that to the tip of each horn, she will 
not get her horns far into the fence before the 
nose calls a halt. o. h. l. 
Manchester, N. II. 
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and all Lameness. No scar or loss 
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a bottle, with written binding 
guarantee or contract. Send 
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from business men and trainers 
on every kind of case. All Dealers or Express paid. " 
Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ^ZZn\ 
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we say cure is possible. Our great book, 
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Tuttle’s Elixir Co., 
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sore eyes, BARRY 00,, Iowa City. Iowa, have a cur 
KENTUCKY MULES 
We are booking orders for wean¬ 
ling and yearling Mules for Sep¬ 
tember and October delivery. 
Our stock of yearling to three- 
year-old Jacks and Stallions is 
very large. Write us your wants. 
J. F. COOK Si COMPANY, Lexington, Ky. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION, 
Warranted the Best • 
30 Days Trial. 
Unlike all others. Stationary when 
Open. Noiseless. 
The Wasson Stanchion Co. 
Box60, Cuba, N.Y. 
HOGS and CATTLE, from $1.00 per 100 
up. Best on the market. Send for Free 
_ Catalogue Stockmen’* Supplies. 
F.S. Burch & Co., 177 Illinois St„ Chicago. 
That Is the title of our new 216 page book. It 
tells everything anybody could possibly want to 
know about the silage subject. You can’t think 
of a question that it does not fully answer. How 
to build, from foundation up, all kinds of silos. 
All about the crops and how tocutandfill. How 
to feed, with the most complete feeding tables 
ever published. About 40 illustrations help to 
make things plain. Used as a text book In 
many Agricultural Colleges. We have always 
sold the book for 10cents, but lor a limited 
lime, to any reader who will ask for it, 
and name this paper, we will send a 
copy free. Write at once. 
SILVER MFG. CO., 
Salem, Ohio. 
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strikes, when eithcrof 
our patent sprayers is used; 
keeps off the rest. The origi¬ 
nal stock protector, absolute¬ 
ly harmless toman or beast. 
Cures all sores, prevents con¬ 
tagious diseases; used by 
same dairymen since 1885, 
11 aL because it protects cows in 
L /^‘pasture from all insect pests 
longer than any imitation. 
Half cent’s worth saves 3 quarts milk and much flesh. 
No lice In poultry hou*e or anyplace it is sprayed. If 
dealer hasn t SHOO-FLY (made in Philadelphia) send $1 
for Improved 3-tube Sprayer and enough SHOO-FLY to 
protect 200 cows. Name express office. $1 returned if 
cows not protected. Free Booklet descrilies Compressed 
Air Sprayer—sprays 50 cows in a few minutes. 
Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co., 1018 Fairmount Ave.,Philadelphia 
ABSORBINE 
REMOVES 
BURSAL ENLARGEMENTS, 
THICKENED TISSUES, 
INFILTRATED PARTS, and any 
PUFF OR SWELLING, CURES 
LAMENESS, ALLAYS PAIN 
without laying the horse up. Does not 
blister, stain or remove the hair. $2.00 a 
bottle, delivered. Pamphlet 1-B free. 
ABSORBINE, JR., for mankind, $1.00 
Bottle. Cures Synovitis, Weeping Sinew, 
Strains, Gouty or Rheumatic Deposits. 
Allays Pain. Book free. Manufactured only by 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mas*. 
IT’S A FACT 
Breeders’ Directory 
F OR SALE Sporting and Pet Dogs, Pigeons. Fer¬ 
rets, Belgium Hares and Swine. 8 cents 40-page 
Illustrated Catalog. C. G. Lloydt. Dept. K, Sayre, Pa. 
O. I. C. PIGS and Fine Guernsey Bull, prices 
reasonable. VAN DOREN BROS., Lysander, N. Y. 
Unlctain Rnlle of choicest breeding, for sale at 
nOISIcin DUIIS Farmers'Prices. Write for par¬ 
ticulars. VALLEVISTA FARMS. Albany, N. V. 
O f* Dmc Reg. Stock; March and 
■ ■■ r IDO April farrow: live strains 
not akin: good thrifty stock; price reasonable. 
J. F. SCHWARTZ, East Pbarsalia. N. Y. 
Large Eng. Berkshires 
Imported and Domestic Strains. Matings not akin. 
Descriptive circulars on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg, 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. 
F OR SALE—Large White Yorkshires Boars and 
Sows.7 months old; Registered full pedigree: Ex. 
Germania 5995, by Goshen 6386. He ex. Imp. Walton 
Patience by Imp. Walton Bovic, $12 to $15. MILE- 
ST6NE FARM, Mlllbrook, Dutchess County, N. Y. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. and older, mated not akin* Ser¬ 
vice Boars, have stock returned, re¬ 
fund money if not satisfactory. Reg. 
Holsteins. Heifers, Bulls and Cow* 
in Calf. Hamilton & Co., Ercildoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
The Edgewater Herd, 
Huntington, L. I., New York. 
Holstein cattle of the purest breeding. Chester 
White, Poland China, Berkshire, Essex, and Duroc 
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 W. R. SELLECK, Huntington, N. Y. 
THE BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to see 
them. 125 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, Somerville, N. J. 
T hat 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 2d’s Butter 
Boy 3d, Beryl Wayne's Paul DeKol, and the imported 
hull Karel Bos 1st. PRIZE and CHAMPION 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 1876. 
HENRY STEVENS & SON, 
Hrookside Stock Farm, Lacona, N.Y. 
STMI FIRM HOLSTEINS. 
‘50,000‘S?'50,000 
Head of Registered Cows, AAA 
Heifers, Service Hull*and Calves £UU 
Will be included in this offering. 
Prices on all grades of stock will be reduced 25£ 
on everything, Commencing MAY 10th and 
Ending JUNE 10th, 1906. 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COWS 
$IOO per Head and Upwards. 
Registered Holstein Service Bulls 
$75 per Head and Upwards. 
Registered Holstein Yearling Heifers 
bred, $75 per Head and Upwards. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send postal card for 64-poge illustrated pamphlet, 
describing this great breed of rattle. 
F. L. HOUGHTON, Sec'y, Braftleboro, Vt. 
Hoistein-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 rojm 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices or 
anything needed in Holstein-Friesians. 
WOODCREST FARM. Rifton, Ulster Co.. N.Y. 
Pure Bred Hoistein-Friesian Bull Calves 
From Registered and Record Stock. INOCULATED 
ALFALFA SOIL from lots that have raised alfalfa 
for the past five years. Prices moderate. Write 
promptly. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, New York. 
J ERSEYS— 1 Cow in profit, Bull 2 14 years old, kind 
and sure. 2 Bulls and 4 Heifer Calves. Solid 
Color. Good. J. ALDUS HERR, Lancaster, Pa. 
All stock sold fully guaranteed to be as represented. 
$5,000 $5,000 
This will be by far the largest and most important 
sale of Registered Holsteins ever held in this country. 
This great sale takes place at STAR FARM, situated 
on trolley line two miles east of the city of Cortland, 
N. Y. Ample accommodations will be provided for 
all visitors. You have only to write in advance of your 
coming. ALL PARTIES BUYING A CARLOAD 
LOT WILL HAVE THEIR STOCK DELIVERED 
FREIGHT PREPAID TO ANY POINT EAST OF 
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Catalogue and circulars 
sent free on application. Do not miss this sale. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D, Cortland, N. Y. 
Jegist’i) 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 of Knreka 130891 f or New Catalogue. 
EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Penna. 
Jersey Cattle, Berkshire Hogs, 
„ „ „„Rhode Island Reds. 
R. P. SHANNON, 905 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
ENG. BERKSHIRE SWINE 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
All of the Very Highest Quality. 
If you desire the best to be had at a reasonable price, write us 
at once, stating just what you want. Wo guarantee perfect 
satisfaction to every customer who trusts us with an ord er 
E. H. KNAPP & SON, - FABIUS, N. Y. 
PUBLIC SALE 
Hoistein-Friesian Cattle 
SIXTH PUBLIC SALE, 
Svracuse, New York, June 7 and 8, 1906. 
This offering consists of 30 HEAD OF PURE BRED IMPORTED 
and 130 HEAD of PURE BRED DOMESTIC, without doubt this 
will be the Best Lot of Cattle that we have ever consigned. 
BREEDERS’ CONSIGNMENT SALE COMPANY 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, N. Y. 
F. P. KNOWLES, Auburn, Mass. 
T. A. MITCHELL, Weedsport, N. Y. 
A A. CORTELYOU, Neshanic, N. J. 
8TEVENS BROTHKRS-HA8TINGS COMPANY, 
Lacona, N. Y. 
WING R. SMITH, Syracuse, N. Y. 
H. A. MOYER, Syracuse, N. Y. 
We wish those interested to have a catalogue. The best yet. Ready May 15. Address 
S. D. W. CLEVELAND, Sales Hanager, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. 
