1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
347 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND WHITE in a heap and left it will heat and the 
most valuable constituents he lost. When 
LUUJ. one has a big two-horse load each week, as 
One of our readers says he shut up some we do here, it is almost impossible to store 
of his best Plymouth Rock hens in a pen for it successfuly. We have found that In our 
breeding purposes. They began to lay white case it is best to keep the dropping boards 
eggs, and continue to do so. Have you ever covered with dissolved S. C. rock, or as it 
known purebred “Rocks” to lay white eggs, is sometimes called “acid phosphate,” clean- 
and if so, what can be done to remedy the ing once each week and drawing right out 
trouble? on the land and spreading carefully, as it 
I have often purchased Barred Rock does not want to be piled on like stable 
eggs to introduce new blood in my pens, maBure but more like a commercial fertilizer. 
and have paid from $5 to $8.50 per 13 ... , , , . . . 
^ -r ^ After each cleaning of our dropping boards 
eggs, and e\ en these eggs sometimes run every week, we sprinkle under the roosts on 
very light in color, and while not exactly the dropping boards enough S. C. rock. 14 
white they are very light indeed. I do P er cent Phosphoric acid, to dry the drop- 
not think it shows any inferior breeding, 
but I really do not know the cause. 
Pennsylvania. edward g. noonan. 
pings. This acts to hold the ammonia as 
does land plaster, having 1,400 pounds to 
the ton of sulphate of lime which is the 
same as the plaster. This keeps it dry and 
All well-bred or purebred Barred b ? for , e "T e ib we add much “° re of tbe 
- , , . . , , _ dissolved rock to make about 100 pounds 
Rock hen do not lay brown eggs, and I of it to the barreI of hen mamire . This 
know of no way to change the color, makes a complete fertilizer for com or any 
While the eggs are not as white as Leg- farm crop, and is particularly valuable for 
horn eggs they can very properly be g a '’ da n vegetables and small fruits. We have 
, u , . „ _ , , found it impossible to hold our manure with- 
termed white. . When part of the hens ou t adding something like the above to take 
lay brown eggs it is possible to build up up the moisture. j. e. van alstyne. 
a strain of hens that will lay brown eggs, Columbia Co., N. Y. 
by always selecting the brown eggs for I dust my dropping boards and floor with 
hatching TOHN w COX ashes and dry road dust, then about once a 
p .i . • ‘ week (I am not as particular as I ought to 
Pennsylvania. _ be) scrape up the droppings, and when 
Eggs from my purebred flock of weather is good put into basket or wheel 
Barred Rocks show some variation in the barrow a , nd ****** * hem , along rowa 
. , - , 111 x 1 °f vegetables, or broadcast it on the lot. I 
shade of brown, although I always use m ay not i iave got the most out of It that? 
eggs of uniform tint for incubating. I i liight, but if it accumulates it is apt to 
must say, however, I have never seen a heat, ° r 1 have used land plaster, hut ashes 
real white egg from a purebred Barred cost uotbing - and road dust less; I do not 
, like it mixed with stable manure, either horse 
Rock, and the fact that your correspond- 0I . cow> have no pigs . As my he ns run free 
ent gets white eggs makes it seem highly there is not a heavy quantity in Summer, 
probable that they have some distant re- and also all of the buildings are movable 
lationship with Minorcas or Leghorns. I (or ncarly so) ’ and wheu 1 get t0 ° lazy t0 
, , . carrv out the ashes I move the building. This 
would advise him to change the strain. makee a raw spot on the field for a few days, 
New Jersey. GRANT DAVIS. hut when it recovers that Is the spot where 
In my experience I have never known a * he claver and , gl-ass ® om f la st T rong and tbe 
a , . „ . ,, , . , . hens have in turn a feast. As I never carry 
flock of Barred Rocks to lay a white egg . off 
my place any manure direct and keep 
though I have occasionally seen an indi- three cows, two horses and some 400 or 
vidual case. It may possibly have been 500 hens, the ground is growing richer every 
caused by introducing new blood in the year - 1 feed $5 ° worth a montb of gralQ 
a , T f v • i i t bought, and last season kept about one cow 
flock. If it IS caused by the above, I t0 an acre and raised all my own bay> corn 
know of no remedy except to breed it out stover, etc. It is working the ground rather 
by selection. If this is not the case I sharp but when the grass has a chance It 
would get them back to natural condi- S ets ahead of me - There must bo surely four 
. , TT . or five tons to the acre. In theory I should 
ions, ree range, etc. However, one of gave up ben manure> m ; x it to save the 
the early Barred Rock breeders, Mr. Rudd, ammonia, and we use it as a fertilizer on 
of Boston, states that originally the beans, asparagus, corn, etc. Mangels for the 
Barred Rocks laid a white egg. Possibly cows ls a & ood cro P for me and this with 
silage (I have the only silo with one excep- 
this may be a case of reverting to the 
original type. george Howard, jr. 
New Jersey. 
I have been breeding Plymouth Rocks 
(Buff) for the past five years, and I 
never as yet saw a purebred Rock lay a 
white egg. The Whites and Buffs will 
often lay very light-colored eggs, tinted 
eggs, but never white. This man must 
have some foreign blood in his Rocks, 
possibly Leghorn or Minorca. Anyone 
familiar with the Rocks could readily 
detect any foreign blood in them by the 
color, size, shape, comb, etc., of the bird. 
I would suggest, however, that your read¬ 
er does not hatch any of these eggs, 
but break up his breeding pen of Rocks 
and buy eggs from a reliable breeder. 
New Jersey. A. l. vreeland. 
HOW THEY HANDLE HEN MANURE. 
I practice throwing the manure out on 
orchards and garden as soon as it is made, 
and think this is as good a way as any, 
though I believe it could be kept in good 
condition by mixing one part hen manure 
to one part dry earth, keeping same under 
cover, so rain or snow could not get to it. 
This mixture could be easily handled when 
the desired time came for hauling and 
spreading, and I think handling it in this 
way would be found satisfactory. 
New York. e. franklin kean. 
The problem of the best way to use hen 
manure to obtain the best results seems 
varied. I have obtained the best results 
by keeping the droppings under cover and 
mixing with dry land plaster as fast as 
cleaned from the roost, using care to mix 
a sufficient amount to absorb all moisture, 
each time leaving a thin covering of plaster 
over the top. Care is used when it gets 
warm in the Spring to watch the mixture 
and not let it heat. If at any time it looks 
as though it was heating at once shovel it 
over and mix in more plaster. 
Pennsylvania. w. G. mosher. 
With only a few hens the manure problem 
is a small one, but when we make a business 
of keeping hens in large numbers it has 
t» be taken account of, because if piled up 
^ • '■ 'M- 1 
tion on this island) makes a great feed for 
the cows. This seems contradictory but my 
milk is rich and my cows average 13% 
quarts, calf to calf. Walter siierman. 
Rhode Island. 
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