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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
K 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
iThc new hen barn, as stated before, is 
a two-story affair 16 feet high from sills 
to plate. It is what is called a balloon 
frame, with nothing in the way of girths 
or tie-beams to interfere with the packing 
as it settles from top to bottom of the 
studding, to which the novelty siding and 
the inside lining is nailed. First above 
the sills come the floor beams of the first 
floor, eight inches deep by two inches 
thick, placed two feet apart from center 
to center. The studding is the same dis¬ 
tance apart. The carpenter wanted to 
put the studs 16 inches apart. 
“Why do you put them so close?” I 
asked him. 
“That is the distance we always put 
them.” 
“But why? Is it necessary in order to 
make the building strong enough? Seems 
to me that with the studs two feet apart, 
and good inch novelty siding well nailed 
on the outside, and ceiled on the inside 
with inch boards, it will be as strong as 
needed.” 
He finally admitted that he believed the 
reason they usually placed them i(i inches 
apat* was on account of lathing with four- 
foot lath for plastering with lime and 
sand, so I carried my point and placed 
them two feet apart. This makes either 
12 foot, 14 foot or 16 foot boards cut with¬ 
out waste, an item which is of some im¬ 
portance in these days of high-priced lum¬ 
ber. The first story is six feet six inches 
in the clear, then eight inches for floor 
beams of second floor, then six feet six 
inches for second story; then six inches 
for floor beams of the loft floor. This 
brings the loft floor a foot lower than the 
plate. 
“What is the use of wasting that foot in 
height ?” 
I don’t count it wasted. I expect the 
packing in side walls will settle with 
time, and I want space on the loft floor to 
shove new packing under the caves and 
let it drop down the entire distance to 
the bottom of the building if need be. 
“Why do you use any loft floor? Why 
not let the hens have the entire space 
above the second floor for roosting quar¬ 
ters ?” 
That loft floor plays an important part 
in providing comfortable quarters for the 
hens. Did you ever try to mow away hay 
close up under a roof, with the sun boil¬ 
ing down upon the roof as it is apt to do 
in July? Hot, was it? I can believe you. 
This loft floor will have a layer of pack¬ 
ing spread upon it, which will act as a 
shield between the hens’ quarters and the 
roof upon which the sun beats with mer¬ 
ciless rays. That loft under the roof will 
be a hot place far into the night, while 
the sun’s rays will have but little effect 
below the shield of packing. 
“What other benefit will the floor and 
packing above the hens’ roosting quarters 
confer ?” 
It will hold the animal heat from the 
hens’ bodies down in Winter, and prevent 
it from ascending to the peak, where it 
can do no good, just as the covers on a 
person’s bed hold the heat from the sleep¬ 
er’s body. Did you ever have for a bed¬ 
fellow a person who persisted in elevat¬ 
ing his knees, and the covers with them, 
on a cold night, forming a space under 
the covers much like the space under the 
rafters of a building, while you were try¬ 
ing in'*vain to keep your legs warm? If 
so, you will get my meaning. Warm air 
has a buoyant property which causes it to 
rise at once in colder air, as surely as the 
law of gravity causes an apple to fall to 
earth when released from its supporting 
stem. This buoyant force is exerted even 
after it enters the air spaces within the 
layer of packing. Very many henhouses 
have been built with a layer of straw or 
other packing in the loft above the hens, 
and this buoyant force of the warm air 
from the hens’ bodies and breath utilized 
for securing needed ventilation. I expect 
to employ a different plan of ventilation, 
and aim to prevent the warm air from ris¬ 
ing through the cracks in the loft floor, 
and through the packing, as much as pos¬ 
sible. The Deacon suggested that I place 
a layer of paper on the floor between the 
packing and the floor. 
“You are wrong for once, Deacon. The 
papei^-wants to be on the top of the pack¬ 
ing instead of on the bottom.” 
In my last article we put the paper on 
the outside of the side walls, to prevent 
the cold winds from being forced into the 
packing. The same paper which stops the 
cold winds from forcing their way into 
the packing will prevent the warm air in 
the spaces of the packing from passing 
out by means of its buoyant force. There¬ 
fore the best place for an airtight barrier 
is at the outside of the packing above the 
hens also. 1 expect to place a layer of 
shavings on the loft floor about six inches 
thick, cover that with paper (old news¬ 
papers will do), then throw on a few more 
shavings to hold them in place. In this 
way the heat from the liens will be con¬ 
served to the greatest possible extent. 
“How close to the top of the room are 
the perches to be placed?” 
There are two sets of supports for the 
perches. The windows of the second 
story are low. and placed near the floor. 
In Winter the perches are to be placed 
on the upper supports, 4^ feet above the 
floor. This brings them well above the 
top of the windows, where they are sur¬ 
rounded by a solid wall of packing, with 
no cracks for cold drafts to strike them. 
In Summer the windows will all be thrown 
wide open, and the perches placed on the 
lower supports, near the floor. This po¬ 
sition w'ill give them the advantage of all 
the fresh air entering the windows, with 
the packing on the loft floor to shield 
them from the sun-heated space under the 
roof. A four-foot walk extends all around 
the outside of the second story, and the 
perches occupy the entire space within 
the surrounding walk, except the small 
space surrounding the stairway. This is 
boarded up tight, with a wide door lead¬ 
ing to the stairs. 
It is a question with me whether 500 
hens will furnish heat enough in a room 
of this size (24x36 feet) to prevent con¬ 
densation of moisture in the form of frost 
on the walls. That is one of the ques¬ 
tions to be settled by this experiment. If 
they do not there are different ways of 
preventing it. One way would be to put 
in more hens and thus get more heat. 
Another way would be to run a partition 
across one end of the upper story and 
make the roosting quarters smaller. An¬ 
other way would be to supplement the ani¬ 
mal heat by a fire in a stove on the coldest 
night. Still another way would be to 
provide more ventilation, making the 
quarters colder, and the air drier, by 
changing the air more rapidly. We won’t 
cross any of these bridges until we come 
to them. o. w. mapes. 
Hammond Dairy Food will produce more milt, 
more butter and more rheme at less cost, than 
any other feed on the market. 
To demonstrate to every Dairyman that tills is 
a fact, we aro offering a Free Trial. Wo pay 
all costs. 
You take the food and try it. Feed it to your 
cows nndcalves. If it does not prove as repre¬ 
sented and perfectly satisfactory the trial will 
not cost you one cent, if it is satisfactory we 
know you will want more and that is wliat we 
aro banking on. 
Wo know that there Is not a Dniryman in tho 
country who will not be convinced after a fair 
trial, that Hammond Dairy Feed is tho best 
and most economical feed on tho market. 
HAMMOND 
DAIRY FEED 
is guaranteed to contain 17 per cent Protein, 
8 percent Fat, 56 per cent Carbohydrates. One 
ton of Hammond Dairy Feed equals two tons of 
Bran. It is made of pure cane molasses, prime 
cotton seed meal, gluten meal, corn, oats and 
barley. It Is kiln dried so will not loose by 
evaporation, it is guaranteed to keep during 
ail seasons, will never sour, mould or freeze. 
FREE TRIAL 
We will not attempt to describe the feed 
in detail here or to impress you with Its 
superiority over other feeds—atrial will 
bestdothat. If you wil 1 give us your own 
and your feed dealers name and address 
we will send you an ample amount to try 
which wi 11 convince you more than words, 
what the feed is and what it will accomplish. 
WESTERN GRAIN PRODUCTS CO. 
4 Chamber of Commerce 
MILWAUKEE - WISCONSIN 
ID. ]VC. IVEagio Oo« 
OXFORD, OHIO. 
Headquarters for the 
OLD ORIGINAL MAGIE 
Poland China Hogs 
Established Over a Half a Century. 
IMPORTED CATALONA, MAJORIC 
AND KENTUCKY BRED JACKS. 
We have the grandest lot of 
Imported Cataloua, Majoric and 
Kentucky bred jacks ever offered 
by any firm. Our stock of saddle, 
trotting and pacing stallions is 
also very large. Poland China 
and Taimvorth Hogs. Write for 
Catalogue. Address 
J. F. COOK & COMPANY, 
I.exington Ky. 
FOR SALE 
Registered Morgan Stallions, Fillies 
and Colts. Registered Shorthorn Bull 
and Heifers. Registered Shropshire 
and Southdown Rams and Ewes. 
L. L. DORSEY 
Anchorage (Near Louisville), Ky. 
I Have Talked to Many 
Stockmen About— 
Dr. David Roberts, D.V. S. 
Cattle Specialist 
ABORTION 
IN COWS 
A ND I have always found that Abortion, the pre¬ 
mature birth disease, was the thing that they 
had had the grealeit trouble with in raising stock. 
They all admitted that Abortion was what kept many 
of their cows barren most of the time and caused 
sickly calves that could neither be raised nor fatted 
for veal. Most of them had never known how to get 
rid of Abortion until they took my advice. 
My advice to them, nnd my advice to you, is baaed on a 
lifetime of success in killing the germs of this dread cattle 
disease. And the right way is to begin by treating tho whole 
herd at one time, because one of your cows or your bull may 
be infected in tho worst form without its being apparent right 
now. It will spread if you don’t kill the germs of Abortion by 
$1 a Head 
for 25 or more 
5 head for S10 00 
10 head for 15 00 
15 head for 18 00 
20 head for 23 00 
Your Money Back if 
My Treatment does 
not Produce Results 
using Anti-Abortion Serum. This Serum of mine is indorsed and 
used by tho leading Experiment Stations of the country and by 
foremost breeders and dairymen. Positively cleans up your herd. 
My Anti-Abortion Serum ca"iiyVy >p yo« 
under my very plain instructions and advice, and costs you noth¬ 
ing if it does not bring the results! claim it will. See my Guar¬ 
antee rates hero at tho right. Certainly low enough for the work. 
I Eimranfoo my treatment, because I know what it 
aillcc will do, and can afford to for that rea¬ 
son. I also know that you’ll be satisfied, because it will save you 
many dollars and much trouble. Leading authorities claim that 
Abortion in cattle costs from $12to $25 a head annually in deaths, 
lost calves, lost milk and barren cows. You need not share in 
such a loss if you will net now. 
II„ 4 ,, I’„I1 The best possible way to examine n cow, heifer or calf to seo whether 
I1UW IU IcU they are infected is to have your helper hold asido the tail and then 
with your two hands open the bps of the vulva. If you see small red pimples, the animal is in¬ 
fected with abortion and is in condition to spread the disease to other animals or infect the 
herd bull. If yon find a gathering of white matter, very prompt action is necessary, us tho ani¬ 
mal is badly infected. Swelling of the udder and vulva are symptoms of approaching Abortion. 
I advise this kind of examination every 80 days. 
Now. whether you are suro your cows have got Abortion or not, it will pay yon to drop me 
a lino and let me write you more fully about Abortion. I know that I can help you or nny man 
in the country to make a herd of cows pay very much better in dollars. Writing to me now 
doesn’t commit you to anything. No obligation nt all. Write today, as this is the time of year 
to act. In winter. Abortion spreads rapidly. Yours truly, I>r. David Huberts, Cattle Specialist. 
DR. DAVID ROBERTS VETERINARY CO.. 508 Grand Ave., Waukesha. Wls. 
JERSEY CATTLE, 
BERKSHIRE HOGS, 
K. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg Pa. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send for froo illustrated pamphlet describing 
this great breed of cattle. 
F. L. HOUGHTON, Se<-’y,-BrattIeboro, Vt. 
nflTTARF RRfiVF QTfiflK FARM 
uuiihuu tinuve o i Uvh r«nm 
lias for salo Jersey Bulls from one to nine months . ( 
old, St Lambert Strains, Oxford Down Sheep. Poland , 
China Swine. S. E. GILLET’T, Kavelina, Ohio. 
TtTITT.T. P’A.IIM 1 
Holstein Cattle. , 
Home of Lord Netherland DeKol. Great sire of high 
testing cows. Ho lias 50 A. K. O. daughters and more 
that average 4<t and over than any other bull. High 
class stock for sale. Lot us quote you pricos on any- I 
thing you may need. 
E. c. itKII I,, l’ougliqaaf;, N. Y. ( 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS 
LEAD THE WORLD. 
THEY MAKE POOR MEN RICH. 
A WONDERFUL SHOWING! 
lead the sworn evidence of L. E. Corning. 
Lewis E. Corning being duly sworn deposes and 
ays that he bought of Horace L. Bronson at Star 
’arm, registered Holsteins, paying therefor $1,530. 
iinee tlie purchase lie has received from the increase 
f liis herd from Horace L. Bronson $2,135, from 
tlier parties $2,235, and has on hand $1,700; making 
grand total of $0,070 off from an investment of $1,530 
n Star Farm Holsteins. Not counting milk. 
Send fornsworn testimonial. Valuable information 
nd illustrated circulars, all sent free, 
lorace L. Bronson, Dept. I), Cortland, N. Y, 
FOR THIRTY YEARS 
BROOK SIDE HERD lias been producing and de- i 
veloping the kind of HOI.STEINS that have helped J 
t/O tbe breed 1 unions toi AIi 1 lv hiuI liuttoi inoduc —■ 
tion. Commencing with only a pair—as g,<od as could , 
be bought—this herd now numbers 850 head, and for 
years lias carried off the honors in the official com¬ 
petitive butter tests of the Holstein-Friesian Associa¬ 
tion. ■ (A good herd to liny from). 1 
THE STEVENS BROTHERS-HASTINGS COMPANY, 1 
Brookside Herd, Lacona, N, Y. i 
Farms ut Lacona and Liverpool (near Syracuse). ^ 
3ULL CALVES ^ YOUNG BULLS 
eady for service, that are of good size and individ- 
lality. All are from officially tested dams, and are 
ired by Homestead Girl I)e Kol’s Sarcastic 
>ad. We liavo over 10 daughters of this Bull that 
vill be kept in the Herd and officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
^ifton, Ulster County, New York. 
THE REFUTATION OF 
THE STEVENS HERD , 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE j 
j 
is not founded on one or two phenomenal records, 
but on tlie continued largo production and excellence 
\NGUS CATTLE, the°besl 
lust sell 15 choice BULLS quick to make room. 
Poland-China Hogs. Write for bargains. 
MYER & SON, Bridgeville, Delaware. 
from here is guaranteed by an experience of thirty > 
years of careful breeding. | 
A very large percent, of the higliost record cows of j 
loo- QURHDQUIPCQ for sale. I offer some very 
iCgi ormurom 11 Lu Qne rams and ewes bred from 
mported stock. Win. F. Black, Halls Corners, N.Y. 
records of over 30 pounds of butter in seven 
days, were either sold from this herd, or sired by J 
bulls bred here. 
Wo have a largo stock on hand of the very best 
quality, all ages, both sexes, and we want to reduce 
the herd. I 
Get our prices before purchasing. s 
HFNRV STFVFNS A <;ON 
IYRSHIRES, OXFORD SHEEP and CHESHIRES 
Three bull calves 8, 3 and 1 month; heifer calf one 
nouth; Ram Lambs, sows in farrow, Fall nnd Spring 
figs ; Rose and Single Comb White Leghorns. All 
tock eligible to registry and in fine condition. 
iOMEli J. BROWN, Harford, Cortland Co., V Y. 
1 A A_v i " I O 1 M—t Y A —4 1 T O W T y 
Brookside Stock Farm, Lacona, N. Y. L 
AT THE PRESENT HIGH PRICES you cannot 
^ afford to keep SCRUB HOGS or raise small 
itters. O. I. CHESTERS have large litters of 
apid growing pigs. Order a pair from I AR1)Y 
1ROS., CROSS-ROAD FARM, Plattsburg, N. Y. 
Your money back if not satisfactory. 
i 
PfjD 0 A| E— Young fine skin purebred HOLSTEIN r 
rUn OHLL BULL ready for service. Dam has an 1 
official record of 18*4 pounds. Sire's dam over 20 
transferred. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES iS.LX 1 " 
1 log. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
Meadow Brook Stock Farm, Rochester. Mich. 
^ JERSEY REDS GET HEAVY FAST ^ 
It’s “Pounds that count.” Buy Jersey Red 
Pigs—tho rapid growers. Strong, vigorous, 
small-boned, long-bodied. Nine months 
pigs often dress 350 lbs. Buy a pair now. 
Get quick profits. Circular Free. 
A. J. COLLINS, Box R , Moorestown, N. J. 
BERKSHIRES. 
American and English Breeding; tlie best at reason¬ 
able prices. Matings not akin. 
Descriptive circulars on application. 
WILLOUGHBY'FARM, Gettysburg 1 , Pa. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berlishircs and C. Whites, j 
8 wks. and older, mated not akin. 8er- 
Bf vice Boars, have stock returned, re- 
fund money if not satisfactory. Beg. ' 
Uolsteins. Heifers, Bulls and Cows j 
inCalf. Hamilton & Co., Krcildoun, Chester Co., Pa. J 
5PRINGBANK HERD^«g» 
LARGE BERKSHIREStgggjI^ 
\ fine bunch of Sows coming a year 
Id by Grand Premier, No, 80005, bred to Baron Duke 
nth. No. 91215. A son of Premier Longfellow, No. 
8600, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Hooklet 
n application. J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Conn. 
DISPERSAL SALE \ 
HIGH CLASS REG. HOLSTEINS J 
Scarcity of help renders it impossible to retain all 
our herd. Como and take your choice. Male calves ( 
at almost your own price. 1 
RIVENBURGH BROS., ‘ 
Hillhurst Farm, Oneida, N. Y. 1 
(alorama Farm Berkshires 
RE BRED RIGHT; GROWN RIGHT, AND SOLO RIGHT. 
Choice Breeding Stock of the most nopular imported 
nd American bred strains. Would be pleased to 
escribe them to you. 
3ALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
THE BLOOMING DALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. I 
are bred for large production. Good size. Strong J 
Constitution, Best Individuality. \ 
If these are the kind you want write or come to see I 
O. 1. C. PIGS. 
Tay, June, August and September farrow. Silver 
Stock. Five strains not akin. Young Boars and 
Irood Sows. All registered stock. Prices reasonable. 
F. J. SCHWARTZ, East Pharsalia, New York 
them 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 1 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. i 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bull Calves. 
A. A. COBTKLYOU, Somerville, N. J. i 
’RIMROSE STOCK FARMiJSElSBSSTSS 
mported stock. A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, N. Y. 
