1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
9i 
DISEASED HENS. 
My hens have some disease of the eyes. 
I cannot see any other trouble. The swelling 
goes around sometimes one eye, and some¬ 
times both; sometimes one first then the 
other, but sooner or later both of them 
until the hen cannot see and starves to 
death. The swelling is about the size of a 
hazel nut, and entirely circles the eye. The 
disease has been among my hens for two 
or three years. Perhaps a dozen die in a 
year from it. Just as soon as one gets it 
now I cut its head off and feed it to the hogs. 
w. M. M. 
This looks like the first stage of roup, 
but it may be something else. I should 
try bathing t'he head with a solution made 
of one part spirits of turpentine to six 
parts glycerine; bathe the head three or 
four times a day; and mix a half tea¬ 
spoonful each of ginger, cayenne pepper 
and mustard, with a tablespoonful of lard. 
Mix together well, t'hen add enough flour 
to make a dough of it; make into boluses 
as big as the top joint of your little finger, 
and give one every 12 hours. Another 
remedy is to pour a gill of kerosene on 
a pail of water, take the bird by the legs 
and dip its head deep enough to cover 
t'he eyes into the kerosene—hold it there 
ten seconds or so, then withdraw and 
wipe off the head with a soft rag. Do it 
once a day for three days, if they do not 
improve kill and bury or burn. This may 
take the feathers off, and surely will if 
the head is left in too long. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
RECORDS OF THE BURR HEN¬ 
HOUSES. 
To those of your readers who were in¬ 
terested in the Burr two-story house for 
2,000 hens, and the records of one house 
for the first nine months of the year, it 
may be interesting to follow the No. 3 
and No. 4 houses through the coming 
year. No. 3 with 1,026 April and May 
batched pullets; they had been fed beef 
scrap during August and September in 
my absence, and consequently laid before 
full maturity, and many were moulting 
in November and December. Note right 
here that to get Winter eggs from early 
pullets they should not be allowed to lay 
before late September, when they have 
gained full growth. It is easy to keep 
them back by cutting out all beef scrap 
after August 1, and with a grass run and 
wheat and cracked corn they will grow, 
but not lay. The moving of them into 
their permanent quarters in September 
will retard the laying about two weeks 
more, and when they begin to lay they 
will keep it up, as they have the growth 
and health to stand the strain. The No. 4 
house was partly filled by November 1 
with 566 later pullets, and 324 were 
added during the month. The pullets in 
No. 3 laid during November 3,028 eggs; 
they consumed 5,097 pounds of feed, cost¬ 
ing roughly $76.31. The value of the 
eggs at 36 cents per dozen was $90.84. 
I he pullets in No. 4 laid during Novem¬ 
ber 1,213 eggs, consumed 3,864 pounds of 
feed, costing roughly $57.96. The value 
of the eggs at 36 cents per dozen was 
$36.39. There were 1.003 pullets in No. 3 
on December 1, and 19 immature runts 
were killed or died during the last month. 
Whole corn was fed to both houses for 
two weeks during my absence, in place of 
cracked corn, and this lowered the egg 
yield. No fine feed was mixed with the 
beef scrap, which I think also checked 
the normal increase in egg production 
during this month. The engine is not yet 
in, and considerable bone was ground by 
hand and fed to both houses. 
No. 3 laid during December 4.684 eggs 
and consumed 4,760 pounds of feed, cost¬ 
ing $95.20. The eggs at 36 cents per 
dozen were worth $140.52. No. 4 con¬ 
tained 885 pullets, and one died during 
the month. They laid 2,987 eggs, con¬ 
suming 4,854 pounds of feed, costing 
$72.81. The value of the eggs laid at the 
above price was $89.61. Of course we 
pet a much better price than 36 cents per 
dozen; in fact, we average a better price 
the year around, but that is a fair price 
for the ordinary farmer. You will notice 
that while one pound of feed nearly 
made one egg in No. 3 in December, it 
took over a pound and a half of feed in 
No. 4 to do the same thing. The average 
for all the houses last year for the full 
12 months was about one pound of feed 
to make two eggs. With feed averaging 
l'A cent per pound and eggs at 30 cents 
per dozen gives three cents worth of 
feed to produce 10 cents worth of eggs, 
leaving a margin of seven cents for 
labor, rent, mortality and profit. 
Maryland. buchanan burr. 
WHAT KILLED THE GOSLINGS? 
For two years I have tried to raise geese. 
I.ast year I set five eggs under a hen and 
she hatched out two nice goslings. They 
were doing finely when one was taken lame 
and dragged around for two weeks, then died. 
The other was nice and smart, but fell into 
some cold water, and he went lame. I have 
been told it was blackleg. Will some one 
tell me what was the cause? Will some one 
tell how to raise geese? Did my goslings 
get cold? c . n. h. 
Northboro, Mass. 
I will say in a general way that gos¬ 
lings will go into the water, especially if 
hatched wtih a goose, in which case they 
are always hardier and stand wetting 
much better. As soon as able to walk 
they will stay in for some time without 
any bad effects. It is possible if these 
were very early goslings and running 
with a hen that the wetting would hurt 
them, but it' was much more likely that 
they got hurt in some way. I never 
heard of “blackleg.” Goslings, if goose- 
hatched, get their own, living—grass en¬ 
tirely—and do well. If hatched with 
hens they must be placed with or where 
there is plenty of short green, tender 
grass, and are usually fed three times a 
day with “dough,” cornmeal mixed hard 
dry with water, (cracked corn mixed 
with it will make it more crumbly), and 
should have fresh water every meal, but 
not necessarily very much at one time, 
and not enough so they can get into it all 
over, as while with a goose they run in 
the water at will. With a hen they get 
wet almost as easily as chickens, and so 
should be watered in shallow dishes. 
The only disease we ever had was one 
similar to that affecting young chicks— 
white dysentery, in rare cases when very 
young, and a kind of cholera when it 
gets late in season and weather is hot and 
feed grass is tough and dry, otherwise we 
expect to raise about every smart gos¬ 
ling put out. FRED ALMY. 
Rhode Island. 
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