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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CACKLE, CACKLE, LITTLE HEN. 
Cackle, cackle, little hen ! 
How we wonder where you've been; 
Oft In places strange you lay, 
Where, oh where's your nest, we say. 
Thus the housewife in her quest 
Blesses such a guide to nest; 
.She could not tell where to go 
If you did not cackle so. 
Well it is, success to share. 
Shout your triumphs through the air; 
Cackle, cackle o’er your deed. 
Of such songs the world has need. 
—Ida E. Tilson, in N. E. Farmer. 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
A Year With Choice Stock.— The 
new hen barn is to be stocked for 
the most part with pullets raised from 
eggs purchased from my son Jesse, and 
readers will be interested in an account 
of the performance of his flock last year. 
His experience in renting a poultry farm 
was rather brief. He made the mistake 
of only renting for one year, and when 
the year was up (September 1) it was im¬ 
possible to renew the lease without an en¬ 
tirely new deal. This included a higher 
rent and the purchase of a lot of farming 
utensils and other personal property, with 
no assurance of more than a single year’s 
occupancy. As the position in the city 
with his brother was still waiting for 
him, he decided to accept it, and has 
moved to the city. The stock on this 
White Leghorn farm at Norwich, N. Y., 
when he took possession September 1. 
1905, consisted of about 400 hens, 500 
pullets and probably about the same num¬ 
ber of voung cockerels. All had been 
bred with special care, to produce show 
birds of high scoring quality. The build¬ 
ings are new and well built, and the 
owner thought 400 hens was a full stock 
for them. Jesse sold most of the cock¬ 
erels. and crowded the 500 pullets into 
the same buildings with the 400 old hens. 
1 his made 900 head in four houses GO 
by 15 feet. Quite a good many sales for 
breeding purposes soon reduced the num¬ 
ber to about 850 hens. 
1 he Returns. —The monthly sales of 
eggs from these 850 hens follows: 
September 
150 
dozen. 
_$48.90 
October, 
137 
dozen . 
_ 47.22 
November. 
20 Vj dozen. 
_ 8.82 
December, 
152 
dozen. 
_ 63.00 
January, 
444 
dozen. 
_ 178.40 
February, 
615 
dozen. 
_ 174.20 
March, 
880 
dozen. 
. . . . 246.00 
April. 
932 
dozen. 
May. 
936 
dozen. 
_ 260.50 
June, 
1.020 
dozen. 
_ 276.90 
July, 
900 
dozen. 
August, 
540 
dozen. 
- 161.70 
0,726% 
$2,039.74 
The cockerels 
and breeding 
stock sold 
amounted to $541.04, making total cash 
sales from poultry of $2,580.78. Much of 
this item of $541.04 for breeding stock 
sold was for single birds, pairs, etc., at 
from $2 to $10 each, but the cost of ad¬ 
vertising in order to make such sales 
possible eats up a good share of the ap¬ 
parent profit in fancy stock, and the bulk 
of the profit was from market eggs. 
Many of the sales of breeding stock were 
to distant States and Canada, and one 
good sale was made in Europe. A dairy 
of 10 cows was also kept, the milk from 
which was sold at a creamery, adding 
nearly $S00 to the proceeds from the 
farm. A hired man was employed during 
the greater part of the year. 
Further Details.— It is interesting to 
note that though the yearly sales were 
quite satisfactory the egg crop for the 
month of November only amounted to 
$8.82. This was but little better than 
mv own hens were doing when they 
stopped entirely. A few new milch cows, 
and a lot of cockerels to sell at this time 
helps out wonderfully in keeping things 
going. In the above account no reckon¬ 
ing is made of eggs used for setting. Of 
the 600 voung chicks raised this season 
and on hand September 1, 350 were pul¬ 
lets and only 250 cockerels. This was 
quite remarkable, as the preponderance is 
apt to run the other way. The inventory 
of stock and crops on hand at the close 
of the year showed a small balance in 
tenant’s favor, so that the year’s experi¬ 
ence was decidedly a success, showing that 
stock bred for the show room need not be 
injured for utility purposes. Though the 
young stock I have on hand of this strain 
of White Leghorns are very promising 
I must report poor success, as entirely 
too many losses occurred between two 
and six weeks of age. A good propor¬ 
tion of them were hatched in June and 
July, and they are too young to be ex¬ 
pected to lay very early. They will be 
placgd in the new barn about November 1 
and given the best care I am capable of, 
in the hope that they will do somewhere 
near as well as the parent stock did last 
vear. 
The Dry Mash.—I am interested in your 
dry mash plan of feeding. I would like to 
know what kind of boxes you feed the dry 
mash in. I find the hens scatter and throw 
out more than they eat. w. c. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
The feeding of dry mash has been given 
a pretty fair trial, and I have no wish 
as vet to go back to the wet mash with 
its increased amount of labor. I have 
tried a number of different kinds of feed¬ 
ing hoppers, boxes, etc. As satisfactory 
a plan as any I have tried is to set a 
common soap box, such as can be had at 
most grocery stores for five cents, right 
on the floor of the hennery, and throw 
into the bottom of it once a dav a little 
more than enough to last the flock of 40 
or 50 for 24 hours. These boxes are six 
or eight inches deep, and nearly two feet 
square. There is absolutely no waste of 
the drv feed with this plan, and the feed 
does not get soiled to any appreciable ex¬ 
tent. Two or three busy hens can be 
found scratching and feeding in it at al¬ 
most anv time of day, so there is no idle 
lounging on the sides of the box with 
droppings falling into the feed. Such 
boxes that have been in use for months 
are still drv and clean. Should I fail to 
put a fresh supply of feed in them for a 
day or two, the hens would clean the box 
almost as nicelv as a cow would lick 
them out. In making a self-feeding hop¬ 
per. an opening at the bottom three inches 
high should be left, close to the floor. 
A box should surround this opening three 
or four inches away from the hopper, the 
top of it extending three inches higher 
than the opening. This will enable the 
hens to help themselves as long as there 
is a supply in the hopper without wasting 
anv of it. The objection to this method 
of feeding in my experience has been 
that occasionally a rat will attack the 
feed during the night, and in the morn¬ 
ing he would have a big pile of feed out 
on the floor. o. w. mapes. 
A Good Hen.— The picture shown at 
Fig. 377, page 868, is sent by John Cohick, 
of Huntingdon Co., Pa. This is what he 
says about the hen: “This hen was hatched 
on April 17, 1906, and commenced to lay 
at the age of three months and 28 days. 
When she had laid 11 eggs she went to 
hatching, and on September 22 hatched 
10 chicks. Those 10 chicks are all living 
and doing as well as can be; they are at 
this time the size of partridges. This 
hen is a snow white Wyandotte of the 
finest type. I am the owner of 70 of 
those fine birds. Those White Wyandottes 
of mine are the ever-laying. I have seven 
pullets of this hatch of April 17 that are 
laying; commenced 10 days later than my 
prize winner. I would like to see or hear 
of the pullet that, can beat this one. She 
is of a large strain, weighing 6J4 pounds. 
Who can beat this?” 
Tommy had been sent to the attic as 
a punishment for misconduct. After the, 
lapse of two or three hours his mother 
went up and tapped at the door. “Tom¬ 
my, dear,” she said, “your papa says you 
mav come down now if you will apolo¬ 
gize and promise to behave better.” 
“You tell paw,” answered a muffled 
voice on the inside, “there ain’t nothing 
to arbitrate.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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Eczema Broke Out Also on Hands and 
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I then went to a surgeon, whose treat¬ 
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would go and see a physician in Erie. 
The reply was that I could go anywhere, 
but a case of eczema like mine could not 
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the Ointment with great effect after wash¬ 
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once. I am now cured. The Cuticura 
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curative. Wm. H. Gray, 3303 Mt. Ver¬ 
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E VERY atom that hens use in making eggs, 
comes from the food, they eat. They 
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That being true, you must, if 
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materials. 
Analysis shows that not only 
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and the feathers of fowls are all 
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Hence, fowls must have protein 
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But protein is found only in 
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and vegetables, but in large quan¬ 
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That's why all fowls crave 
worms and bugs. Instinct teaches 
them that they weed such food. 
Of course, they can’tcatch "the 
early worm” in winter or when 
they are yarded, so you must give 
them this protein in some other 
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The best substitute is fresh-cut, 
raw, green bones—the trimmings 
from the meat market, with meat 
and gristle adhering to them. 
In its raw state it contains ex- _____ 
actly the same food elements as 
the worms and bugs. It contains over four 
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