1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
657 
COSGROVE'S POULTRY ACCOUNT 
FOR JULY. 
The first week of July 995 eggs were 
laid, but from now on until the last of 
November the number of eggs received 
will pretty steadily decrease. November 
is always with me the month in which 
the fewest eggs are produced. The re¬ 
ward for one’s labor will be found main¬ 
ly in the growth and development of the 
young chicks. About the middle of April 
I hatched 25 chicks from. 50 eggs pur¬ 
chased from the man who won first prem¬ 
ium for the best breeding pen of White 
Wvandottes at the big Boston Poultry 
Show last Winter. As these eggs were ex¬ 
pensive and the chicks very nice looking, I 
determined to give them a good chance; 
so I gave them to a good hen, taking 
them out of my chick yard, and putting 
hen and chicks in a small coop under an 
apple tree near my house. Hen and 
chicks had free range every day, being 
cooped up only at night. Abundant food 
was kept all the time where they could 
get it. Cracked corn, wheat, barley and 
oats was the main feed; that is after 
they got old enough to eat it. Very sel¬ 
dom have they had any soft feed. I 
ought to have fed beef scraps to them, 
but as most of the time I was feeding ani¬ 
mal meal in the mash for the old hens. 
I did not have the beef scraps on hand. 
These chicks have developed ’way be¬ 
yond any others on the farm. The cock¬ 
erels, not four months old, weigh about 
five pounds each, and at a little distance 
it is difficult to tell the pullets from old 
hens. They have the most beautiful 
clear white plumage and the richest gold¬ 
en-yellow legs, and are a constant delight 
to look at. There is a great deal of com¬ 
fort and satisfaction in seeing young 
stock develop from day to day that the 
poor city man is entirely deprived of, 
along with a good many other things. 
The cow furnishes these chicks with a 
daily supply of meat. It is amusing to 
see them surround her out in the pas¬ 
ture, and pick off every fly within their 
jumping reach. Do animals reason? This 
is what I saw a few days ago. The old 
cow was standing in the shade chewing 
her cud; directly in front of her was 
one of these pullets with neck stretched 
up to its limit looking at a fly on the 
cow’s head. The cow turned her nose 
to one side and slowly lowered her head, 
and the pullet picked the fly off. Then 
the cow raised her head and went on 
chewing her cud. It was evident the cow 
knew what the chick wanted, but what 
was it, if not reason—that taught her 
that the fly was too high for the chick 
to reach ? 
July 14, 936 eggs this week; which is 
nearly five dozen less than the previous 
week. July 18—Went to the second 
“Field meeting” of the Connecticut Poul¬ 
try Association at Storrs College. This 
was a very successful meeting the at¬ 
tendance from outside the State being 
quite large; Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 
New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island 
and Colorado were represented. The 
principal speakers were Prof. Gowell, of 
the Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion; Prof. Graham, of the Canadian 
Agricultural Station at Guelph, Ontario, 
and Edward Brown, of Hawksbury Agri¬ 
cultural College, Reading, England. 
President Stimson, of Storrs, made the 
welcoming address. About 250 were 
present. Comfortable settees on the 
lawn provided seats and an abundant 
free luncheon with hot coffee was served. 
After the poultry exercises, at the invi¬ 
tation of Prof. Clinton, the college dairy 
was visited where we saw the cows be¬ 
ing milked by steam. A vacuum pump 
in the dairy building—a hundred feet 
from the barn—exhausts the air in an 
iron pipe running in front of the cows. 
A rubber tube connected with the iron 
pipe is attached by four smaller tubes 
to the cow’s teats, and the cows are 
milked by suction, the milk flowing into 
a tank which sits on the floor between 
each two cows. Part of the tubing where 
it connects with the tank is of glass, so 
the milk “squirts” can be seen; for a 
trip valve is so arranged as to make the 
flow intermittent, very much like milk¬ 
ing by hand. The cows chewed their 
cud contentedly and stood still as if they 
enjoyed the operation. The attendant, as 
lie passes along, notes when the milk 
ceases to flow (can see by the glass tube) 
and removes the holders from the cow’s 
teats. Everything is enclosed; there is 
no possibility of bad odors affecting the 
milk, and I should say it was a decided 
success. 
July 21—947 eggs this week, July 28, 
842 eggs and 382 in the last three days 
of the month, make 4,102 for Julv. 
Strange to say it is exactly the number 
received in May. Receipts and disburse¬ 
ments have been as follows: 
Received for 330 dozen eggs. $80.40 
Received for eggs to set. 11.00 
Received for 15 broiler chicks. 8.00 
Received for 4 hens. 2.55 
$101.95 
Paid for grain (which includes 
oyster shells, animal meal, char¬ 
coal, etc.). 48.75 
Balance to credit side,. $53.20 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE . 
With a wheat crop of 92,000,000 bushels 
and a prospective corn crop twice as large, 
Kansas is surely doing her share toward 
feeding the multitude this year. Secretary 
Coburn states that the bank deposits for the 
State average $100 for every inhabitant. 
The prosperity of textile goods business 
is shown by the announcement of a 14-per 
cent dividend by the American Thread Co., 
a branch of the great English thread trust 
capitalized at about $19,000,000. During 
four of the seven years of Its existence this 
American branch has paid over 10 per cent, 
and in 1904 a 16-per cent dividend was 
made. 
That Maryland canned tomato corner is 
hopelessly smashed, we are told, owing to 
the underhand machinations of the 1906 
crop, which grew, and grew, and boiled over 
with tomatoes, until the bottom dropped out 
of the corner. The bankers who financed 
the deal have exchanged their collateral for 
tons of tomatoes and carloads of experience, 
neither of them in active demand just now. 
Pickled Whale is a staple article of diet 
in some northern seaports, end according to 
reports from Canada the better portions of 
the lean meat are now being canned for 
export to China and South America. It is 
said to be better than the coarse grades of 
salt beef, but that is not saying much in 
its favor. As the whale runs on free pasture 
and needs no grain, he might prove a serious 
competitor of the American steer should the 
taste of the meat-eating public change to 
the extent of preferring whale steak to 
bovine. 
The round up of the small fruit, peach and 
• plum season, shows the strawberry to have 
given the largest proportion of profit for 
capital and labor invested, and it is quite 
likely that this has been true for some time 
past and will continue so. Now and then 
a peach crop proves phenomenally profitable, 
but there are many exceptions, which bring 
down the average. The strawberry has 
within it possibilities of quick profit pos¬ 
sessed by no other fruit, that is for those 
who give it the necessary care and have fair 
success in selling. The acreage of straw¬ 
berries intended from shipment to the great 
markets is probably large enough; New 
York, at least, gets all the berries it can 
handle in a fair season. But many smaller 
places do not, and there are hundreds of 
farmers so located that the crop of, say, 
one-fourth acre could be disposed of profit¬ 
ably, with but little trouble and expense, 
and this without raising record crops or 
getting fancy prices. The small acreage 
strawberry business is worth looking into. 
Fruits. —Apples of fairly good quality 
continue scarce, the market being loaded 
down with low grades. Pears are selling 
quite well. Le Conte continues highest. It 
is not quite so good as either Clapp's 
Favorite or Bartlett, but those seen are 
mostly low grades. Bartletts in particular 
are small and knotty. The peach business 
is decidedly improved. Some of the Western 
Maryland fruit is bringing the highest price 
of the season, and the general average for 
basket fruit is high. Some Champion grapes 
from the Hudson River section have arrived, 
selling at $1 to $1.50 per small carrier. 
Maryland and Delaware black grapes sold in 
about the same range. Muskmelon trade is 
dull, but solely because of the poor quality. 
The outlook is surely discouraging to 
growers. There is not a melon too many 
here if they could be depended upon, but 
consumers can scarcely be expected to buy 
freely when not one in five and possibly 10 
is edible when cut. 
Coffee Valorization. —This recently en¬ 
acted Brazilian law, just signed by the Pres¬ 
ident of that country, has had but slight 
notice in North American newspapers, yet 
it is an industrial measure well worth look¬ 
ing into. The Brazilian coffee planter has had 
uphill work for several years. Many plan¬ 
tations have been abandoned, and others run 
at bare cost or even loss. The coffee market 
has been so handled by speculators that the 
price paid the planter has been cut to a 
disastrous figure, while consumers in Eu¬ 
rope and the United States have paid enough 
to make a fair profit for all concerned. The 
milk producers supplying the New York 
market have at times been in position to 
sympathize with these Brazilian coffee plant¬ 
ers. In this new valorization act the Bra¬ 
zilian government purposes entering the cof¬ 
fee business officially by guaranteeing to 
maintain a value sufficiently high to make a 
living profit for the planter. Quite natural¬ 
ly many coffee speculators do not like this 
move, seeing in it a cut in their profits. 
It deprives them of the privilege of bull¬ 
dozing the individual planter into selling 
at any price they may name, and they well 
know that an attempt to squeeze this surplus 
profit out of the consumer will result in 
ioss of trade. Whether the Brazilian govern¬ 
ment will be able to handle this big job 
without serious financial loss remains to be 
seen. If Brazil produced the entire world’s 
supply of coffee, its control would be a 
simple matter. After regulating the plant¬ 
ings to avoid serious overproduction the 
government could lock up the supply and 
sell only at profitable prices, as is now the 
case with gum camphor, which is prac¬ 
tically controlled by Japan. But about one- 
third of all the coffee used is grown outside 
of Brazil, and unless other coffee countries 
take a similar stand, which seems improir 
able, speculators and others opposing this 
government control will have a powerful 
weapon. One of the schemes will doubtless 
be to depress the market temporarily so 
that Brazil will have to store and hold large 
quantities, being unable to sell at the prices 
agreed upon by the valorization authorities 
This will make it appear that the affair is 
badly managed and that the government has 
undertaken an impossible task. Further 
mention will be made later with details of 
the workings of this act and its effects on 
producing and consuming trade, after a fair 
trial has been given. w. w. h 
Hands Raw With Eczema. 
Suffered For Ten Years—Spread to Body 
and Limbs—Cured by the Cuti- 
cura Remedies. 
“I had eczema on my hands for ten 
years. At first it would break out only 
in Winter. Then it finally came to stay. 
I had three good doctors to do all they 
could, but none of them did any good. I 
then used one box of Cuticura Ointment 
and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, 
and was completely cured. My hands were 
raw all over, inside and out, and the ec¬ 
zema was spreading all over my body and 
limbs. Before I had used one bottle of 
Cuticura Resolvent, together with the 
Ointment, my sores were nearly healed 
over, and by the time I had used the third 
bottle I was entirely well. I had a good 
appetite and was fleshier than I ever was. 
To any one who has any skin or blood 
disease I would honestly advise them to 
get the Cuticura Remedies and get well 
quicker than all the doctors in the State 
could cure you. Mrs. M. E. Falin, Speers 
Ferry, Va.. May 19, 1905.” 
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