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T1IH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 9. 
TOO KIND TO THE HENS. 
I have read with interest Mr. Cosgrove's 
account of his chicken business, and ail 
other articles relating to poultry. As a be¬ 
ginner in the business, I wish to get some 
information on the subject. I have a chicken 
house 16x32, built after the model of the 
Maine Experiment Station, and started with 
a tine stock of White Plymouth Itocks. I 
thought my efforts should excel tiiose of my 
neighbors, who have neither good buildings 
nor tine stock, but excepting the fact that 
no deathly sickness occurred among the fowls, 
and that the liens did not entirely shut off 
the egg supply since I bought them in No¬ 
vember. I feel that they are not doing well. 
My fowls have been fed the dry mash formu¬ 
lated by the Maine Experiment Station and 
wheat and oats, while it is customary in 
our locality to feed corn only, so the eggs 
laid previously to February were rather ex¬ 
pensive, and since then my hens were not lay¬ 
ing nearly as many eggs as the scrub fowls 
generally kept by our neighbors. Many of 
them seem fat and some had a great deal of 
diarrhoea, always after feeding meat scraps 
freely, separate from the mash, and from free 
feeding of green bone occasionally. 1 feed no 
cut hay or clover, thinking it would be an 
unnecessary expense to buy it, and we start¬ 
ed too late to raise it: and I use boiled tur¬ 
nips for green food and bulk. Is it possible 
that my liens have had too much nitrogenous 
food and too little bulky food? They got 
two quarts corn in litter in morning and one 
quart each of wheat and oats per 50 hens, 
beside dry mash in hopper. A large number 
of the stock are year-old hens. Then the 
louse question is a seriously painful one. 
My house is kept scrupulously clean and yet 
my hens are lousy. Twice I have caught 
every one and separately sprinkled each one 
with a powder bought in our village and 
painted the roosts and dropping-boards and 
nests with Pheno-Chloro and again white¬ 
washed the roosts, all since November 15, 
and still they are t roubled ; I have put plenty 
of sand on concrete floor and plenty of litter, 
and recently put coal ashes on the floor. 
What do the wise ones of the poultry frater¬ 
nity use for protection from lice, for surely 
with hundreds of fowls the powder-shaking 
method is impracticable? I have an idea 
that the great loss of chicks reported in a 
recent issue of The It. N.-Y. under the title 
of “What Next?” was largely caused by in¬ 
sufficiency of fresh air; in the efforts to 
keep the temperature raised to 90 per cent 
the brooder boxes and possibly the brooder 
houses or buildings, fail to supply the re¬ 
quired amount of air naturally used by 
chicks, reducing the vitality and stamina of 
the chicks. It is well known that fowls 
need much more air for health than was 
formerly believed, so why not the chicks? 
Normally the mother hen steals her nest and 
brings forth her brood, all out of doors. 1 
think the air and feeding questions are the 
principal features in either success or fail¬ 
ure in the hen business. G. o. n. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
I think the trouble with “G. O. B.’s” 
poultry is caused by too much meat and 
too concentrated a ration generally. When 
liens have free range in Summer prob¬ 
ably more than half of their food is 
grass, and when this is entirely shut off 
in Winter some bulky food like cut 
clover, cabbage, beets or something of the 
kind should be provided. Not having the 
clover, I saved a lot of short grass, stor¬ 
ing it in bags. T mowed all around the 
house with a very sharp scythe as often 
as the grass got two inches high, and it 
was astonishing the way it thickened up 
and grew. Running this grass through 
my feed cutter, I put enough in my feed 
kettle to make the mash about one-third 
grass, then pour hot skim-milk on it and 
let it soak an hour or so, then stir in as 
much middlings, bran and cornmeal as 
it will wet, also a little meat scrap and 
salt, with cayenne pepper about twice a 
week as a tonic This makes bulk enough 
to fill the crop and give that comfortable 
feeling of being “full,” without clogging 
the system with too much food. 1 have 
been trying the dry mash in one of my 
houses and noticed to-day several hens 
had their feathers soiled and wet, result¬ 
ing from bowel looseness. The trouble 
with feeding the dry mash is that some 
of the hens will pick out the beef scraps 
and get more of that than they ought to 
have. The remedy is to reduce the 
amount of scrap and feed plenty of char¬ 
coal—in fact, crushed charcoal should be 
kept by them at all times. 1 don't think 
much of turnips as a food for hens or 
anything else; have tried halving them 
and leaving them in the houses for hens 
to pick at, but they would not eat them. 
G. O. B thinks ’cut clover an “unneces¬ 
sary expense,” but if half the money spent 
for meat had been expended for cut 
clover the result would probably have 
been much better. G. O. B. also has 
trouble with hens being lousy, and does 
not say that hens have any dust bath ex¬ 
cept sand on the floor, except recently 
coal ashes. Sand is not fit for a dust 
bath; it is too coarse and heavy and does 
not smother the lice like fine, dry loam. 
The coal ashes is better, if well sifted, but 
has a bad effect on the plumage. I do 
not claim to be one of the “wise ones of 
the poultry fraternity,” but can say that 
sifted loam, while it does make an ob¬ 
jectionable dust, seems to do the busi¬ 
ness so far as keeping the hen's reason¬ 
ably free from lice is concerned. T find 
that old cocks too lazy to dust themselves 
will sometimes need a lice powder, and I 
look them over occasionally to see. and 
always apply the powder when setting a 
hen, whether she is lousy or not. G. O. 
B. is all right as to chicks needing plenty 
of fresh air, and when you notice how 
small a hen’s lungs are, the reason is 
plain to see. geo. a. Cosgrove. 
SHIPPING INCUBATOR EGGS. 
An experience the past week in eggs for 
our incubators prompts me to ask shippers 
of eggs to he more careful and particular 
in packing the same. We have two incuba¬ 
tors, a Model, 240-egg size, and a Cyphers, 
120-egg capacity. Wanting to start these 
the first of February I ordered 30 dozen 
White Rock eggs from one of the largest 
poultry farms on the South Shore. The 
price quoted was more than other shippers 
were naming, hut considered the larger 
plant and its reputation for quality justified 
the extra expense. In sending the order a 
check for the same was inclosed, and atten¬ 
tion called to the need of plenty of packing 
under the eggs to save them from all the 
jar of travel that it was possible to do. 
The order came in three baskets, 10 dozen 
in each. These were of good size and ample 
for their contents, and a goodly lot of 
packing. The first basket opened had 17 
cracked or broken eggs, the second 23 and 
the third 4, making a total of 44 eggs useless 
for the incubators. The packing was ample 
on the top of the eggs, and the bottom of the 
baskets were well supplied, but between the 
layers of eggs there was but very lit fie pack¬ 
ing (excelsior), so little that the eggs rubbed 
together, and one layer was forced down 
into a lower one. This is not my first experi¬ 
ence of this kind, and I send this communi¬ 
cation asking the shippers of incubator eggs 
to be more careful. The price charged is 
from two to four limes what eggs would sell 
for the table, and not: only Is the loss of eggs 
to be taken into account, but the delay to 
the receiver. I could fill only one incubator, 
as there were not enough left to fill the 
smaller one, and at this writing am still 
waiting for eggs enough to go with those on 
hand to supply the machine. Instead of the 
whole hatch coming off at the same time 
there will be two different dates, and a 
lather all the time. These eggs should have 
been separately wrapped in paper, and layers 
of paper put between each layer, as well as 
packing, so that there would not be any 
chance to rub. The shipper will lay the 
blame on the express company, overlooking 
his own careless methods, or say that the 
receiver is making a claim of this kind in 
order to get an extra supply of eggs. This 
case of mine last week was so bad that I 
want those who are filling orders for eggs 
to take notice. hoijace b. parker. 
Massachusetts. 
Eczema Afflicts Family. 
Father and Five Children Suffered For 
Two Years With Terrible Eczema— 
Wonderful Cure by Cuticnra. 
“My husband and five children were all 
afflicted with eczema. They had it two 
years. We used all the home remedies 
we could hear of, without any relief, and 
then went to a physician and got medicine 
two different times, and it got worse. It 
affected us all over except head and 
hands. We saw Cuticura Remedies ad¬ 
vertised and concluded to try them. So I 
sent for $1.00 worth, consisting of one 
cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Oint¬ 
ment and one vial of Pills, and we com¬ 
menced to use them. I do not know 
how to express my joy in finding a cure, 
for two of my children were so bad that 
they have the brown scars on their bodies 
where they were sore. Mrs. Maggie B. 
Hill, Stevens, Mason Co., W. Va., June 
12, 1905.” 
Ofll I IP nOfiC _ E' ine I >n P s For Sal®- Dams 
VAIl-Lllj I'"'UO by Imported Thorndale Hope. 
Pups Sired bv Imported Emerald Galopin, Im¬ 
ported Champion Emerald Eclipse and Im¬ 
ported Glencrott Guard, 3 of the most typical 
Collies ever Imported. These pups are worth $10.00 
to $15.00 each or $20.00 per pair. Orders booked. 
J. H. LEWIS & SON, Cameron, W. Va. 
COLLIE PUPS 
Females and brood bitches. 
SON BHOS., Grove City, Pa. 
NEL- 
1,000 CHOICE FERRETS for the 
Spring trade. Ptirfeet workers. They clear out 
rats, hunt rabbits. 48 p. illus’d book, 6 c. Cir. price 
list free. g. KA11NKWOUT1I, Middletown, Ohio- 
Vnilftlfi rillPlf Q Hatched, shipped safely; Wh. I,ns 
I UUflU UlllUlVO horns, Barred Rocks, $15 per 100 . 
Poultry supplies; circulars. E. COOLEY, Prenchtown, N. J. 
R OSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS Exclusively; 11 
years America’s heaviest egg producers. Special 
finest cockerels, hens, rock bottom prices. Hatching 
eggs, 15, $1; 100,$4. Wm Schluer, Jamesport, N. Y. 
200 
BRONZE turkeys from 47 lb. toms and 25 
lb. hens, winners the world over; stamp. 
GEO. WOLF, Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
POD C A| p—Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, 
I l/IV large beautifully marked birds bred 
in line for 30 years. Toms $7.00 to $10.00, hens $5.00 to 
$7.00, trios $15.00 to $17.00; 2 pair Rouen Ducks $3.00 
per pair. Partridge Wyandottes. Partridge P. Hocks, 
Golden Barred P. Rocks, Bose Comb Black 
Bantams, Stock and Eggs for sale. Address 
J. H. LEWIS & SON, Cameron, W. Va. 
S DNNY8IDE POULTRY FARM, Box B.Shermans- 
ville,Pa. Breeders of Prize Winning 8. C. B. 
Leghorns, Bd. P. Bocks. Great winter layers. Why 
not get the best? Eggs, $1.35 per 13. 
inn 8. C. Brown Leghorn Cockerels at half price; 
IUU fine ones. NELSON BROS. Grove City, Pa. 
Standard-bred Poultry— Highest quality; lowest 
prices; catalog free. Fairview Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
BUFF ORPINGTONS “eTCSfi”- 
TABLE ROCK POULTRY FARM, Table Bock, Pa. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS, Pu a r u e d br e e x d 
cellent layers; $1.00 per 15 eggs, $4.00 per 100. 
PETEK C. IJTTLM, Home, Pa., K. D. No. 7. 
OR nnn Fertile Wh.Wyandotte Eggs, $4 pe 
£«fyUUU 100; selected 15 eggs, $1.60; Baby Chick: 
later. FOREST HILL FA KM, Burnwood. New York 
From a practical standpoint hens are simply egg machines. They take 
the feed, convert it, and lay the eggs. But like every other kind of ma¬ 
chine, to do the most work, the hen must be in perfect order. The diges¬ 
tive apparatus is the important factor in egg production. Many poultrymen 
feed an abundance of good albuminous food such as should produce a pro¬ 
fitable egg yield, but if the digestion is impaired and the egg-organs dor¬ 
mant, no amount of food will produce the desired results. But give the 
fowls a tonic to increase the digestion, a little iron for the blood, and regu¬ 
late the system generally, toning up the egg-organs and you are certain to 
get eggs even in the coldest weather. 
DR. HESS 
Poultry PAN-A-CE-A 
the prescription of Dr. Hess (M. D., D.V. S.), contains all these principles 
to increase egg production and cure cholera, roup, indigestion, etc. It has 
the indorsement of leading poultry associations of the United States and 
Canada, costs but a penny a day for about 30 fowls and is sold on & written 
guarantee. 
" Except in Canada 
extreme 
; and South. 
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48 -page Poultry Book, free. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice 
1 T -2 lbs. 25c, f Except 
mall or expre** 40c j 
6 lbs. 60c, 12 lbs. *1.25 \ ’ 
25 lb. pall *2.50 (_ West £ 
Rust’s £,’< 7(7 Producer —keeps 
hens laying steadily all winter. 
Prices 14c to 25c per lb. at dealers. 
Rust’s Egg Record and valuable 
booklet free. Write today. 
WILLIAM RUST & 80NS. 
Dept. P, New Brunswick, N. 3 - 
POULTRY & PIGEON 
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for every need in onr lino including famous 
KEYSTONE foods. Prices right. “ 
Send for Booklet and Souvenir— FKKE. 
TAYLOR BROS., Dept. M, Camden. N. 3 , 
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UTILITY! 
Laying ability flrst.standard require¬ 
ments second. LARGEST POULTRY 
PLANT IN AMERICA. S. C. White 
Leghorns, White Wyandottes, Barred 
Plymouth Bocks. Free Booklet. 
WOODLANDS FARM, Iona, New Jersey. 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue C. 
MAPLELING POULTRY YARDS, Pulaski, N. Y. 
B arred rock cockerels. Ringlet 
Strain, good ones, $1.50 to $3.00 each. Eggs, 
$1.00 pr. 15. J. W. COX, Now Wilmington, Pa. 
ly/IAI’I.E VILLA rOL’I.TRV YAHPScan till order* from all vail- 
etfen, AutittliiHfaiiH, llocks, Wyandottes, Minorcas, Leghorns, 
Handlings, Spanish, A neon us, Javns. W. G. Mosher, Sylvanla, Pa. 
r lK CHOICEST OF BREEDING cockerels. Si ngle 
Comb White Leghorns, large healthy, hardy birds. 
GREYSTONE POULTRY FARM, Enfield, Mass. 
Single Comb Buff Orpington, and® 
Barred Bock. Rose Comb It. 1. Red, single Comb Red. 
Eggs to batch. Also Bees for sale at any time. 
Circulars. A. H. KANAGY, Milroy, Pa. 
B UFF, Wh. Leghorns, Kggn 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. K. 1. 
Red F.ggw 90<\ per 15, $1.50 per SO; Mottled Ancona Eggs, $1.25 
per 15, $2.00 per SO: Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTII, Quakertown, Fa. 
P<iGS FOR HATCHING— Giant Bronze Turkey, 
*"* White Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red and Brown 
Leghorn. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
COR SALE— Eggs for Hatching from tliorough- 
* bred White Wyandottes. Prises $1.25 per 15; $5 
per 100. From fancy matings $2.50 per 15, $0.00 per 
50. Address E, FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
Ward’s Lane Poultry Farm, Albany, N. Y. 
Choice White Wyandottes, W. Ply. Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorn Cockerels for sale. Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing $1.00 per 15, $5.00 per 100. Baby chicks. 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY YARD. S3 
Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale, 75c. setting of 15; $4.00 
per hundred. Satisfaction guaranteed. HOWARD 
SUTTON Fairmount, New Jersey. 
P A11 P A | ^—Incubator Eggs at $5.00 per hundred; 
I Ol wwlC 15 for $1.50. The best utility stock. 
W. and Brown Leghorns, White 
Wyandottes, Barred and W. Rocks. 
" CHESTER CREST ” YARDS, Mt. Vernon. N. Y. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 'TwYo'rT 1 
W. Plymouth Rocks ami W. Holland Turkey*. 
SPECIAL SALE 
CA S. <\ White Leghorns,(Wyckoff Strain), at $1.50 
each. White and Partridge Wyandottes, also a 
few Black Langshun Cockerels for $1.50 and upward. 
Lauderdale Farm, Loudonville, N. Y. 
WaI/TBR McEyvaN, Prop., Wm. H. Skik, Mgr. 
GOOD POULTRY FOODS 
§ are necessary for big poultry profits. 
Harvey's Cut Alfalfa and Cqt Clover Hay, 
Poultry and Chick foods of all kinds are 
profit-makers. Send for Free samples 
and catalog of full lineof poultry supplies. 
HARVEY SEED CO. 
721 Ellicott St., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Poultry Supplies 
Wo keep everything 
in the Poultry Line 
—Fencing, Feed, In¬ 
cubators, Live Stock, 
Brooders—anything— 
it’s our business. Call or let us send 
you our Illustrated Catalog it’s free. 
Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co., 
Dept. HG, 26-28 Vesey St., New York. 
BONNIE BRAE 
ew Rochelle, N 
Y. 
Breeders of strictly high 
Class Single and Rose Comb 
White Leghorns. White 
_I Wyandottes, White and 
arred Plymouth Rocks and Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
re ribbons and two silver cups won at the last 
aughkeepsie, Danbury .Walden and Madison Square 
urden Shows. Eggs for hatching now ready in any 
lantity at $6 to $8 per 100, $1.50 and $2.00 per sitting, 
ighty percent, fertility guaranteed. Send for free 
rcular. Choice breeding cockerels and Pekin Ducks 
ill on hand in any quantity. Largest plant in vicln- 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
for hatching, $1 for 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
WRIGHT’S WHITE WYANDOTTE 
F.ggs. Huston's illri-et. $1.50 par 100 . Mammoth Pekin Duck 
eggs $1.00 per sitting. Gband Vimv Farm, Standforvllle, N. Y 
WILD and BRONZE TURKEYS 
Leading varieties of poultry. Prices low. Catalogue 
free. Valley View Poultry Farm, Belleville, Pa. 
B arred, buff and white Plymouth 
ROCKS, White Wyandottes, White Minorcas, 
Wtiite Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks; $3.00 each, 
$7 50 for trio. $12.91) for breeding pen. Catalogue free. 
EDWARD G. NOONAN. Proprietor East Donegal 
Poultry Yards, Marietta, Pennsylvania. 
MANOKIN WHITE LEGHORNS SATISFY 
No experiment, bred 12 years from ttie best laying 
strains in America. Stock and Eggs at FARMERS’ 
PRICES. R. B. Pusev, Box 6, Princess Anne, Md. 
FIRST-CLASS 
MATED 
HOMER PIGEONS 
FOR 
SALE. 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Wm. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
R O, RHODE ISLAND REDS—Eggs $1.50 to 
• $5.00 per 15. Mating List sent on request; a few 
cockerels left, $2 up. Sinclair Smith, 602 5th Street. 
Brooklyn, New York. Yards: Southold, New York. 
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Buys the Best 
120-EGG 
Incubator 
freight prepaid, ever made. 
Double cases all over; best 
copper tank; hot water; 
self-regulating. Best 100 chick hot water 
Brooder $4.50. Incubator and Brooder ordered 
together $11.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Our 
book, "Hatching Facts” tells all about them. 
Mailed free. Write today. 
Belle City Incubator Co., Box 46 Racine, Wis. 
