1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
hi 
COSGROVE'S POULTRY NOTES. 
September 2.—Now is the time to see 
that the covering on your poultry houses 
is in proper condition for the coming 
Winter; to put in glass that has been 
broken, and especially to get in that dry 
earth which is needed just the same 
whether the poultry houses have board, 
cement or earth floors. I usually put in 
two or three wagon loads in each house 
after the house has been cleaned by rak¬ 
ing up the feathers and top dirt and cart¬ 
ing it on my garden. Generally I get the 
dry loam from the potato patch after the 
tubers are dug, the soft earth making easy 
shoveling. It takes two persons to do it 
handily, one in the wagon with a long- 
handled coal sifter, the other on the 
ground to shovel the earth into the sifter, 
the stones and litter being thrown out 
over the side. This soft clean earth makes 
an ideal dusting place for the hens, and 
each week through the Winter is spread 
on the droppings boards an inch deep to 
absorb the moisture and prevent the ex¬ 
crement from sticking to the boards. 
When earth and droppings are scraped 
off and put into the covered bins where 
1 keep it, the earth absorbs any ammonia 
that might otherwise escape and be lost. 
By Spring it becomes one homogeneous 
mass, no earth being visible, and is in 
much better shape to use than the clear 
hen manure, and less liable to burn the 
roots of tender plants. As a top-dressing 
for grass this gives better results than the 
best fertilizer that can be bought, but it 
should be applied in February or March. 
Thinking the nitrogen in it would be 
wasted, I used to wait until the grass had 
got a good start before applying the ma¬ 
nure, but found by experience that much 
better results were obtained by putting it 
on the grass land in Winter. I have 
spread it on the snow in midwinter with 
surprising results in the increased crop of 
hay. 
One' of the things to look out for now 
with the advent of cool nights is the over¬ 
crowding of young chicks. They will 
leave the coops where they have been 
roosting and crowd into one coop until 
some get smothered. 1 have had big pul¬ 
lets that weighed five pounds killed in this 
way. Another thing that careless people 
forget is that a coop plenty large enough 
for 50 chicks when they are little will be 
badly crowded by 20 when they are half 
grown. Eternal vigilance is the price of' 
success in the poultry business, rather 
more so, I think, than in any other. 
Is there any rule among poultry keepers 
as to number of uest boxes necessary for a 
given number of hens? j. b. m. 
Michigan. 
Answering the above query, would say 
that poultrymen have no “rule” as to such 
matters; a very little observation would 
show a man whether he had nests enough 
or not. If about 10 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, which is the time when most of the 
laying is done, he should find all the nests 
occupied and three or four hens on a 
nest, then it would be well to put in more 
nests. But hens are notional creatures; 
sometimes four or five will crowd into 
one nest when there are a dozen empty 
nests right alongside of the one they are 
in. As a general rule about five nests for 
a pen of 20 to 25 hens would be enough. 
Hens like to have new nests made for 
them occasionally; a wide board slanted 
up against a corner of the coop with the 
earth hollowed a little and a handful of 
straw in it will often attract them from 
the most elaborate nest. My hens fre¬ 
quently make nests for themselves on the 
ground under the droppings boards, and 
my instructions to the boy who gathers 
the eggs are “always look under the 
roosts before leaving the coop.” Don’t 
use deep boxes for nests; a heavy hen 
jumping down into a nest with eggs in 
it will sometimes break one, and will im¬ 
mediately eat it and begin scratching for 
more, throwing the other eggs against the 
side of the box, breaking them also, and 
learning how the thing, is done^ will be¬ 
come that terror to the poultry keeper, 
an “egg-eating hen.” 
Don’t use any straw for nests that has 
any grain in it. Don’t throw grain in the 
coop in such a way that any of it will get 
into a nest. In other words, don’t give 
the hens any inducement to scratch in the 
nests. I assume that the writer of the 
question is an amateur in the poultry 
business, and that is the reason for this 
long sermon from a short text, for I real¬ 
ize fully how much the little unconsidered 
trifles—not set down in poultry books— 
make for success or failure in poultry 
keeping. geo. s. cosgrove. 
EPILEPSY. 
I have a horse about 9 or 10 years old 
that every two or three months has some¬ 
thing like tits. Without any warning he will 
begin to stagger, then fall, gnashing his teeth 
and biting at his shoulders and sides; stays 
down about two or three minutes, then seems 
all right and in half an hour is entirely 
normal. When in these trances he often 
injures himself against fences or the walls 
of his stable, a large box stall. The last 
time he was this way he had five attacks in 
one day and night. The dealer from whom 
I got him says he was bred in Virginia. He 
has been bled from the neck vein two or 
three times, about six quarts at each time, 
and has been given powders, etc., but noth¬ 
ing seems to help much. What do you sup¬ 
pose is the cause of this trouble, and can 
you suggest a remedy? The horse is at all 
times very nervous, otherwise is a faithful 
worker. reader. 
North Caro'ina. 
The fits are epileptic and incurable. 
Such cases often are called “megrims” 
and “blind staggers” in the old text books 
and may possibly be brought on by in¬ 
digestion induced by overfeeding and 
lack of exercise or in some instances, by 
a tight fitting collar. Evidently the brain 
is affected and therefore the entire nerv¬ 
ous system, but the exact cause of the 
trouble has not been determined. The 
horse should be exercised or worked 
every day and should not remain a single 
day idle. When there is little work to be 
done cut down the grain ration and keep 
the bowels open with soft food. He 
should be clipped Spring and Fall. Stable 
should be clean, cool and well ventilated. 
Harness should fit properly. Feeding 
should be regular and water always given 
before feeding. Medicines or bleeding 
will do no good. a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
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