THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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plenty of good climbing, however, on 
the ladder far below him. One hundred 
dollars a day above expenses, on a small 
farm, is a target worth aiming at. I am 
glad to have seen the arrow in the bull’s 
eye, graced with a hen’s feather. I pre¬ 
sume that if we could have visited Mr. 
Brisbane on the day that he hatched his 
17,000 Brown Leghorn chicks, he would 
have looked down on us from his high 
rung of the ladder, and been justified in 
doing so. Yet we must remember that 
>his ladder got a jolt from white diar¬ 
rhoea and roup, and his ladder collapsed. 
May Mr. Brown be able to steer clear of 
such a fate. 
Caring for Goon Layf.rs. —Readers are 
sure to want to know what the hens at 
Lakewood Poultry Farm eat in order to 
produce 3,000 eggs a day in mid-Winter 
from 7,000 hens. It is a coincidence that 
the feed is almost identical with what my 
hens in the experimental hen barn have 
had. Who can explain the vast difference 
in results? For whole grains he gives 
them wheat, oats and cracked corn. This 
is not mixed, but fed one kind at a time, 
alternating from one to the other some¬ 
what irregularly. The most usual meth¬ 
od is to feed oats in the morning and 
either wheat or cracked corn at night. In 
addition to this a dry mash is kept in 
hoppers at all times where they can help 
themselves. The dry mash is composed 
of the following by measure: Three parts 
wheat bran, one part middlings, one part 
cornmeal, one part meat scrap, one-half 
part linseed meal. Great preparations 
are being made to do a big business in 
baby chick farming. Twenty-two Model 
incubators of 360-egg size were running 
at the time of my visit (most of them fill¬ 
ed with eggs), and 20 more were pur¬ 
chased and expected any day. I have not 
space to discuss this great poultry farm 
further at present. Why cannot we all 
achieve the same measure of success? Tt 
looks easy when you see it or read about 
it. How long would it be before all our 
farms would be hen farms if it were reap 
!y easy? In contrast I will mention the 
following: 
Eggless Poultry. —A man who lives 
next door to Mrs. Crawford, who will be 
remembered by many of my readers, told 
me to-day that he has 150 as fine looking 
healthy hens as one would wish to see, yet 
he had not got a single egg in over a 
month. Another party within sight of 
my place bought 100 White Leghorns from 
a noted breeder about November 1. Twen¬ 
ty-seven of these have since died with 
roup, and not a single egg has yet been 
laid. R. N.-Y. readers will be expecting 
the truth about my experimental flock of 
500 in the new hen barn, and are entitled 
to it. No one would think of introducing 
roup into an experimental flock of such 
size, but the fact of its having got into 
my flock, makes the experiment all the 
more interesting and valuable to the pub¬ 
lic, if not to the owner. December and 
January have been almost blanks as far as 
egg production is concerned, and 22 have 
died to date, January 26. This is nearly 
five per cent. Indications are that the dis¬ 
ease has about run it course and the 
worst is over. The lowest egg yield for 
any day was 13, averaging about 24 per 
day for the two months. If I did not 
know that hens can be kept at a profit on 
Summer eggs alone the outlook would be 
rather dark. The only argument against 
a large flock I have ever heard that has 
much weight, is the increased risk from 
contagious diseases. Should T succeed in 
bringing this flock through the siege of 
roup without doctoring, and keep the loss¬ 
es down to about five per cent, the lesson 
will have its value. 
Fertility in Large Flocks. —I am 
sometimes asked if fertile eggs can be se¬ 
cured in a large flock as well as in a small 
flock. I believe they can. A friend 
bought 200 from this flock of mine to put 
in his incubators about two weeks ago. 
His report from the first 100 was that 
ondy three infertile were found. The oth¬ 
er 100 had not yet been tested when I 
saw him. That T consider a remarkable 
run of fertility for any sized flock in Jan¬ 
uary eggs. 
Improved Ventilation. — 1 have heen read¬ 
ing Mr. Mapes’s description of his hen harn, 
and how he ventilates it, and I thought per¬ 
haps if lie would hang a lighted lantern in 
the flue that extends through the roof it 
might create a draft and cause the system 
to work all right in close muggy weather. 
As the experiment costs nothing to frv. if 
it would not he asking too much, I would like 
to have him test the idea and report result 
when he writes again. n. l. g. 
South Lee, N. II. 
The experiment of a lighted lamp in a 
flue to increase draft is of no practical 
value. I have tried that long ago. In 
the fir«t place the fire risk is too great, 
and in the second place a little wind will 
start so much draft in the flue that the 
lamp will be extinguished. There are two 
forces to be reckoned with in a ventilat¬ 
ing flue. One is the buoyant force of the 
warmer air within the room to be ven¬ 
tilated, and the other is the force with 
which the wind blows across the top of 
the flue. The latter force is not in evi¬ 
dence in close, muggy weather. I suggest" 
ed at one time the use of an electric fan 
in the flue. Before I got ready to try that’ 
the Deacon gave me another idea. The 
day was still and warm, and the hens 
needed more ventilation. 
“Why don’t you open that trap door 
that leads up into the loft above the 
hens?” 
Sure enough! Here was a chance to 
take increased advantage of the buoyant 
force of warm air, in the absence of wind 
fpree. It was a short job to cut a couple 
of scuttle holes in the loft floor, protect¬ 
ed by wire netting to prevent the hens 
flying up when opened, and arrange slides 
to close them when not needed for extra 
ventilation. With these scuttle Foies open 
and one of the windows in the peak open, 
more ventilation in muggy weather is 
easily secured without opening any of 
the windows below. One of my cor¬ 
respondents writes that the incident of the 
feather being drawn up the flue so quick¬ 
ly, proves that there is a strong draft, and 
that a draft is sure to be dangerous. He 
should remember that this draft is the re¬ 
sult of warm air passing out of the room 
and away from the hens, instead of cold 
air blowing on the hens. The fresh air 
enters in smaller flues, comes through 
the floor, and spreads along the floor, 
rising gradually. There is a current of 
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pond flows over the dam, but no per¬ 
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though there is change enough to prevent 
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