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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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MAKING AN INCUBATOR HOUSE. 
How do you make an incubator house about 
12x12 feet square? IIow thick should the 
stone walls be? Can they be made eight 
inches thick? Should a stone incubator 
house be 'aid in mortar and cement from the 
bottom to the top of the house? Will the 
walls be liable to fall in if some big stones 
are laid on the wall on the level of the ground, 
wall having started five feet below the level 
of the ground? Is there much need of back¬ 
ers? The height of walls about nine feet 
from cellar to top. reader. 
In building an incubator house, T should 
make it double walled; would use good 
pine siding on the outside and matched 
boards on the inside, with building paper 
between (next to the inside wall). Use 
a shingled roof, the shingles sealed up 
on the inside of rafters, the rafters, 
studs, girths, and sills of 2 x 4-inch 
lumber. I should also have a good floor 
in the house, more for cleanliness than 
anything else. The house I use is above 
ground entirely, but is in a shady spot, 
so that it is cool in Summer and is 
well ventilated. I have had no experience 
with stone incubator houses, so can give 
no information about building one. The 
house which I use gives me very good 
results, and I am well satisfied with it. 
GRAND VIEW FARM. 
Stanfordville, N. Y. 
In making an incubator house of stone 
12 x 12 feet square, one should go 4)4 
feet below the level of the ground, and 
the same out of the ground. In laying 
up the wall use five parts sand and one 
part some good cement, and make the 
wall at least 20 inches at the bottom, with 
a batter of 10 inches in nine feet; that 
will make the wall 10 inches wide at the 
top. You will find such a wall will stand 
for ages. An eight-inch wall would not 
prove lasting. In making a narrow wall 
use boards on each side, and fill in with 
small stones and cement, using two parts 
sand and one part cement, leaving the 
boards until thoroughly set; mortar 
should be thin enough to fill in all crev¬ 
ices. Large stones at the level of the 
ground will not weaken the wall, although 
they are not necessary. You will find no 
backers needed. Either wall will prove 
satisfactory, but for me I should prefer 
the wall laid with stone, w. c. mosher. 
Pennsylvania. 
I would build an incubator house as 
follows: Go five feet under ground and 
build the first five feet cement or grout, 
eight inches thick, and the three or four 
feet above ground use tile or building 
blocks; they are hollow and you have a 
dead-air space then, which, I think, is 
better than a solid wall. The first five 
feet can be built also with common field 
stone, one foot to 1)4 thick, of all sizes if 
if you plenty of cement in your mortar. 
We built a wall last Fall (1905) of com¬ 
mon field stone from size of the fist to 
as large as two men could handle, one 
foot to 18 inches thick. We used plenty 
of cement and have made an excellent 
wall. We put it six feet in the ground 
and one foot out, using a course of tile 
on top. We used our incubators in this 
last Winter and Spring with fine results. 
I prefer a masonry wall for incubator 
houses, as it seems to give a more uni¬ 
form temperature at all times, than part 
wooden. J. f. nelson. 
Pennsylvania 
Any kind of a cellar ■ partly under 
ground is best for an incubator cellar, as 
the temperature would be more even in it. 
If we were to build one, we would lay up 
a wall 18 inches thick and use lime and 
cement, but would not build it more 
than seven feet in the clear, just enough 
to give good head room in the cellar. We 
do not think an 8 or 10-inch stone wall 
under the ground level and then a heavier 
wall on that from the ground up would 
be safe, for if the water should get be¬ 
hind it in the Winter time, it would bulge 
the wall and make it fall down. If the 
inquirer had an old barn or an outside 
building on the place, he could very easily 
rig up a place in that 12 feet square and 
fix it up so that it would answer every 
purpose for a small incubator cellar just 
as well as a separate building. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
A stone incubator house should be 
built with the walls not less than one 
foot thick, and if ordinary field stones are 
used it should be thicker. The wall 
should extend to the surface of the 
ground five feet and the remaining height 
can be built of lumber if desired, but 
cement wall is cheaper than lumber at 
present. No large stones should be 
laid in the wall at the surface of the 
ground in such a way as to project into 
the bank, for the frost will heave them 
and push the wall -inward. No backers 
should be used unless laid in mortar, for 
the same reason of frost following down 
the wall and heaving inward the stones 
used for backers. c. h. zimmer. 
New York._ 
MOLDY GRAIN FOR HENS 
We have 175 S. C. White Leghorn pullets, 
90 Plymouth Rock hens and about 35 to 40 
cockerels and cocks in the yard : feeding three 
gallons of wheat as soon as they can see to 
pick it up in the morning, dried ground meat 
scraps in a box ; crushed oyster shells, milk 
from the creamery, fresh water by. them all 
the time; one-half bushel shelled corn about 
4 p. m. They have the range of the farm. 
We are getting from 277 to 300 eggs per 
week. Can I feed them some musty wheat 
and moldy corn to advantage, and not stop 
the egg supply? How should I feed the 
wheat and corn, and should they have a 
bran mash every day? I would like to know 
how much in quantity add at what time to 
feed each article. We are getting a fair 
quantity of eggs for this time of the year. 
Do the Leghorns need as much feed as the 
Rocks, as they are only about one-third the 
size? How much wheat and how much corn 
is required for each per day, with the range 
of the farm? reader. 
Delaware. 
Leghorns are one of the easiest of all 
the different breeds to feed, as they are 
so nervous and active there is small dan¬ 
ger of over-feeding them, and we have 
only to feed them enough of a variety, 
and in a manner that will keep them 
busy finding it to get results. The same 
method of feeding would soon have the 
heavy breeds over fat. Never feed moldy 
or musty grain or feed to any bird. They 
do not like it, and will eat it under pro¬ 
test only to keep from starvation and it 
is a sure source of trouble. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
WYAND0TTES AND THEIR COMBS. 
What per cent of pure Wyandotte chickens, 
if any, should have single combs? I have a 
number of such from what I bought for 
pure Wyandotte eggs. j. d. p. 
Ohio. 
No per cent should have single combs; 
they ought all to be double or rose- 
combed. But the best breeders have not 
yet succeeded in eliminating the single 
comb. I think the endeavor to breed small 
combs on Wyandotte fowls is to a very 
great extent responsible for the number 
of chicks which come with single combs. 
At the same time the small comb is a de¬ 
cided advantage in Winter. When the 
Wyandotte hen tucks her head under her 
wing and settles down on a roost of 
proper size, that is two inches to 2)4 in 
diameter, so her toes will be covered by 
the feathers, she is entirely "housed in”; 
no flesh is exposed to the cold. With 
small pole roosts the fowls’ toes close 
clear around the roost and are uncovered 
on the under side, causing discomfort to 
the bird and sometimes frozen toes. I 
should say from two to five per cent of 
single combs would be no cause for “kick¬ 
ing.” If the number of single combs 
reached 10 per cent I should say that was 
too many, and yet those might be in the 
best lot of chicks. This correspondent 
twice uses the phrase “pure Wyandottes.” 
Doesn’t lie know that all the Wyandottes, 
all the American breeds, in fact all domes¬ 
tic fowls, since the days of the Gallus 
Bankiva or wild jungle fowl, are the 
result of various crosses and mixtures’ 
Where a kind has been bred for genera¬ 
tions to one ideal, the tendency to revert 
back to original types is pretty well bred 
out of it, and we can speak of it as 
“purebred,” but all the so-called American 
breeds have been “manufactured” within 
the present generation, and have not yet 
become fixed in type sufficiently to war¬ 
rant the expression “purebred.” 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Running Sores on Litttbs. 
Little Girl’s Obstinate Case of Eczema— 
Mother Says: “Cuticura Remedies 
a Household Standby. 
“Last year, after having my little girl 
treated by a very prominent physician for 
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the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment 
and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced 
with the Cuticura Remedies her feet and 
limbs were covered with running sores. 
In about six weeks we had her completely 
well, and there has been no recurrence of 
the trouble. We find that the Cuticura 
Remedies are a valuable household stand¬ 
by, living as we do twelve miles from a 
doctor, and where it costs from twenty to 
twenty-five dollars to come up on the 
mountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, 
Fairmount, Walden’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 
13, 1905.” 
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