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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 30, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
COSGROVE'S POULTRY ACCOUNT 
FOR MAY. 
May 7, 1,142 eggs laid this week. The 
time of year has come when the maternal 
instinct in hens is in full course. Even 
the late pullets that did not begin laying 
until January are getting broody now. 
When the hens and pullets have been lay¬ 
ing well all Winter, there comes a time 
in the Spring when it seems as if the 
whole flock wants to set at the same time. 
About every other night we have a lot of 
broody hens to imprison. I have three 
covered runs six by 10 feet With part of 
them roofed over and roosts in that part. 
I put the broody hens in one run for 
three days, then for three days put the 
broodies in another run, so hv the time 
the second run is filled the first have been 
shut up three to six days, and generally 
have stopped clucking and are ready to be 
let out. If any go back on the nests they 
are shut up again. 
May 14, 1,070 eggs this week. Have 
34 hens sitting. Have given up the incu¬ 
bators for this season. My last hatch in 
my 360-egg machine gave me only about 
80 chicks, while there were 196 chicks 
dead in the shells. What is the cause of 
such a poor hatch I do not know. There 
is good ventilation, no foul odors that I 
can perceive, no vegetables except pota¬ 
toes are kept in my cellar where the incu¬ 
bators are, and eggs from the same pens 
are hatching very well under liens. I am 
glad now to have broody hens, and they 
will hatch the rest of the chicks I raise 
this year. Being “well hatched” is quite 
an important part of a young chick’s 
start in life, and these 80 chicks arc not 
well hatched. I put them in one of my 
brooders and every day there are three 
or four dead ones to take out; some with 
bowel trouble, some with no signs of it, 
but dead just the same. Next brooder to 
these has 70 chicks in it, a hearty, lusty, 
hungry, hustling lot, with never a dead 
chick in it, but these were “well hatched” 
—part of them in an incubator and part 
under liens. So I believe that a large part 
of the mortality among young chicks is 
due to poor hatching. In my experience 
where chicks are hatched out early, that 
is, on the twentieth day, and the hatch 
completed before the end of the twenty- 
first day, the chicks are always stronger 
and more vigorous than where they are 
late in hatching. And there is a differ¬ 
ence in hens as well as incubators in this 
respect. I have two houses that I use to 
set hens in, setting from 17 to 2.7 hens in 
a house. Food and water and a dry earth 
floor to dust in leaves me nothing to do 
but look in as I pass to see that two hens 
do not get on the same nest and that all 
the eggs are covered. I have noticed that 
some of the hens under such conditions 
will hatch out their chicks nearly a day 
ahead of others. It might be because 
their eggs were fresher. I could not say 
as to that and I have never experimented 
to determine whether that makes a dif¬ 
ference in the time required to hatch. 
May 21, 825 eggs this week; hot 
weather seems as bad as very cold to de¬ 
crease the egg yield of the American 
breeds, though I think it suits Leghorns 
better. I noticed something in my last 
hatch in the incubator that I never ob¬ 
served before. The egg trays slope to¬ 
wards the middle of the machine to equal¬ 
ize the heat and to facilitate turning the 
eggs. By removing the lower one or two 
rows the rest roll down, turning them¬ 
selves, when the removed ones can be 
put on the upper side. I took some eggs 
from under hens and replaced those tested 
out of the incubator, so that at hatching 
time the trays were nearly filled with 
eggs. In the lower rows there were 16 
chicks partly out of the shells, but they 
seemed to be so bound in by the weight 
of the other eggs rolling down against 
them that they could not free themselves 
and died in the shells. It occured to me 
that if at the last turning of the eggs 
they had been placed endwise so they 
would not roll down it would perhaps 
obviate that trouble; but I am not certain 
it would help because it is endwise that 
the shell has to expand to let the chick 
out. On the whole, I think level trays 
would be better, and some other way of 
equalizing the heat ought to he adopted. 
May 31, 1,065 eggs laid in these last ten 
days of the month. Like friend Mapcs 
was last Winter, I am “hoping for better 
things,” when the hens that have chicks 
and those that want to have, get down to 
their normal business of egg laying. Eggs 
are hatching well under the hens, 70 to 80 
per cent on an average, and in some cases 
there is not an egg left in the nest, every 
one hatching. I have about 500 young 
chicks now, and don’t think I shall hatch 
any more this season. In the whole lot 
there is scarcely a single drooping or 
sickly chick. In fact, I think they are 
the nicest looking lot of youngsters I have 
ever had. Some of them weigh over two 
pounds each now. 
Receipts and disbursements have been 
as follows: 
Commercial eggs sold at 20 cents 
per dozen .$60.00 
Eggs to set sold for. 20.40 
Total receipts .$80.40 
Paid for grain . 39.89 
Balance to credit side.$40.51 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
"MEAT INSPECTION ” AND WEST¬ 
ERN STOCK FEEDERS. 
[The following letters are from prominent 
Western farmers—in reply to our request for 
information as to the effect of the Presi¬ 
dent's message on the business of meat pro¬ 
duction.] 
I think there is good reasons for criticis¬ 
ing the inspectors and the inspection system 
is not what it should be. The present agita¬ 
tion is affecting the prices on certain kinds of 
cattle 25 cents to 50 cents per hundred. The 
thing to do is for the Government to make 
the investigation thorough and do it as quick¬ 
ly as possible. t. a. tiiornburt. 
Iowa. 
In a general way the campaign against the 
packers bears heavily on the stock raiser, 
for the reason that no matter what happens 
the stock man has to pay the freight. The 
only general complaint tlie breeders and stock 
men have to make against the packer is that 
they believe there is too large a margin be¬ 
tween the price paid for the live stock and 
the price asked for dressed beef, and he feels 
that owing to the close communion between 
the packers of America, the prices are made 
entirely In the interest of the packer. 
H. A. HEATH. 
There is no doubt but that this campaign Is 
having a very injurious effect on the beef 
product of the corn-belt. At the price beef 
is now selling, the feeders are losing money 
and if the prices continue as they are now, 
the majority of the feeders will be driven 
out of business. I know that the meat ship¬ 
ped from this part of the country is as good 
as can be furnished from any country, as it is 
all fattened on corn. We have no doubt that 
the sanitary conditions at the stock yards 
could lie improved. Any action against the 
packers as to the quality of meat furnished 
will be very detrimental to the Western farm¬ 
er as lie is the one who has to stand all the 
loss from this agitation in the long run, as 
the packers are in the habit of taking any 
losses they may have out of the producers. 
IOWa. E. D. BAIRD. 
The meat producers of the West as a gen¬ 
eral thing do think that the present agitation 
has done an injury to the live stock indus¬ 
try that it will require years to overcome. 
We have no objection to the most rigid In¬ 
spection that can be devised. In fact we de¬ 
sire it and ask for it. But we know that 
19-20 of the sensational stories now in print 
have no foundation in fact. We believe that 
some of the statements in the Neill-Reynolds 
report come in this catagory. The stock ship¬ 
pers of the West are all familiar with con¬ 
ditions at the yards and packing houses and 
they know that they send to those yards some 
of the best live stock that is produced on 
earth and the packers are not such fools as 
to take this stock and prepare It so that it 
will be poison to their customers. We have 
no special love lor the packers. We give 
them credit for being able to take care of 
themselves and we know (hat in the end it 
is the man who raises the stock that will 
pay the piper. Don’t understand me as 
claiming that everything is in perfect shape 
at the packing-houses. It is not a place for 
kid gloves and dress suits. When you can 
run a slaughter house without blood, grease 
and more or less distasteful odors we must 
have legislation from a higher body than 
the United States Congress, legislation that 
will change the laws of nature. As I said be¬ 
fore we ask for the most rigid inspection, 
but it does not seem to us that it was neces¬ 
sary for the President of the United States 
to become press agent for Upton Sinclair. 
If it has become necessary to cleanse those 
foul pla.is that the Neill-Reynolds report 
devote so much attent’on to, was it absolutely 
imperad/e that this fact be published in Ger¬ 
many and Great Britain? j. b. sheehan. 
The stockmen of the middle West feel they 
are being made the victims in an unwar¬ 
ranted campaign against the packers in re¬ 
gard to the mode of curing and dressing 
meats. They feel that while there are some 
grounds for complaints and criticisms, the 
open publicity given to this campaign for a 
more rigid Inspection of packing-house pro¬ 
ducts is wholly unwarranted at this time. 
To say that this agitation has Injured the 
live sto^s buslnes is putting It mildly. In 
some lines of the industry It has bepn almost 
paralyze 1. In (lie ehtl it util mCfttt h loss 8? 
millions of dollars to the producers of meats- 
We believe the President has been grossly 
misinformed on this subject or else he is 
making a vital mistake in the course he is 
pursuing in order to remedy this so-called 
vice. We are not opposing a rigid meat in¬ 
spection iaw but we do oppose flaunting an 
imaginary evil before the public in the way 
this is being none We believe such important 
questions touching and affecting one of the 
greatest industries of our nation should have 
been thoroughly studied by competent and 
trusty men whose environments were such that 
they could render an unbiased report. Wo 
believe also that as a whole the packers have 
tried to maintain cleanliness and purity in 
their food piodocts to perhaps as groat an 
extent as was possible under the existing con¬ 
ditions. Animals affected with Lump-jaw or 
other diseases have to pass their inspectors; 
the Government, the State and the city, be¬ 
fore thev can be converted into food pro¬ 
ducts. ft will he difficult to tell to what ex¬ 
tent this agitation will affect the meat pro¬ 
ducers of the West as that will depend on 
how soon and on the wav in which it is 
settled although they are bound to suffer a 
great loss under the most favorable settle¬ 
ment. We are convinced that as the question 
now stands, a rigid inspection law should be 
passed by Congress at once, the maintenance 
of same to he borne by the government and 
not the packers, because if the packers bear 
the cost they will at once place It upon the 
producer by buying his products cheaper. 
A. SYKES. 
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Department D, Cortland, N, Y. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
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THE BLOOMING DALE HERD OP 
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DO YOU WANT 
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at a reasonable price? 
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