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LEG WEAKNESS IN HENS. 
a question 
not know 
are damp. 
I have a flock of 20 Rhode Island Red 
hens. They are in fine healthy condition, lay 
ing, but they have some weakness in their 
legs. I went to feed them yesterday and 
one of the hens could not stand. She ate, 
but sat to do so. I put her in a pen and 
gave her some medicine, to-day she laid 
and is up, walking about. I have had 
several the same way. I gave them a 
mixture of castor oil, turpentine and Jap- 
ansese oil; a spoonful of oil and two or 
three drops of the two latter. It has never 
failed to cure them. I want to know the 
cause of this trouble and a preventive. 
My hens are fine layers, all young, j. s. c. 
Florida. 
It is difficult to answer 
like this when one does 
the surroundings. If they 
it might be rheumatism that ailed the 
fowls, or it may result from a lack 
of some element in their food, which 
they ought to have. If J. S. C. can 
get fine ground bone to mix their mash, 
or cracked bone in pieces as small as 
oats or wheat, he will be surprised to 
see how greedily it will be eaten .by 
the fowls. Lime they must have in 
some form; ground oyster or clam 
shells, the latter preferred because it 
breaks into square pieces with sharp 
edges, and not flaky like oyster shell, 
therefore helps to grind the food—are 
the commonest kind of lime supply; but 
lacking these, common slaked lime, 
(whitewash) can be used, putting a 
half teacupful in a 12-quart pail of 
water and stirring it up. The lime will 
settle to the bottom, but the water will 
THE RURAL 
kind were injected into different eggs, 
and in a few days the familiar smell 
of decomposition was noticed. The con¬ 
clusions drawn from the experiments 
are: 
Eggs may be infected by bacteria both in 
the oviduct before the egg is laid, and 
through the pores and defects in the shell, 
after the egg is laid. Moisture is a great 
factor as an aid to the infection of eggs. 
Heat hastens the decomposition when the 
bacteria are present within the egg. In¬ 
fertile eggs are infected as well as fertile 
eggs. The eggs laid during the months of 
April, May and early June have the best 
keeping qualities. “Water glass” when 
properly made seals the eggs to prevent fur¬ 
ther infection, and when kept at a com¬ 
paratively low temperature prevents the 
multiplication of bacteria within the egg. 
As a preservative “water glass" is reliable, 
cheap and easily made, and by its use 
every one having a supply of fresh eggs in 
the Spring can make a considerable saving, 
and at the same time have a large number 
of fresh eggs to use in the Winter. 
NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 
Dead Animals as Fertilizer. 
R. L. G„ Staunton , Va .—I should like 
an opinion as to the following method of 
enriching orchard trees. I have dead horses 
and cows buried about three feet deep close 
to where I intend planting a tree. One 
of the experiment stations wrote me that 
a carcass weighing 1,000 pounds was worth 
as a fertilizer $6. 
Ans.—A carcass weighing 1,000 
pounds will contain in round numbers 
27 pounds of nitrogen, 20 of phosphoric 
acid and barely two of potash. Most of 
the nitrogen is in the meat, which will 
decay in the soil more or less rapidly 
and feed the tree. The phosphoric 
A “FAKE” LOAD OF CORN. 
enough 
contain lime 
ply the fowls 
very often suffer from leg weakness, 
but it is quite common among rapidly 
growing young chicks, especially if the 
supply is not abundant. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
lime 
in solution to sup- acid is in the bones, most of them very 
Adult fowls do not hard and not easily reached by the 
tree roots. If the meat containing this 
55 pounds of nitrogen were made over 
into tankage and dried blood it would 
be worth in these forms over $4.50. If 
the bones were ground fine and steamed 
the phosphoric acid would be worth at 
least one dollar. But the carcass has 
not been worked up in this way, and 
its plant food is not worth as much. 
You may bury these bones near a tree 
and in ten years a good share of them 
will still be there, though the roots will 
be at them. The nitrogen in the car¬ 
cass will make the trees grow, but 
the entire bones will not give a very 
satisfactory showing. You will see, too, 
that the carcass contains little, if any, 
potash. That is true of all animal sub¬ 
stances. 
Water Glass Eggs For Sale. 
I bave private customers for my own 
and my neighbors’ eggs the year around, 
but in the Fall and early Winter I do not 
have eggs enough. Could I buy some eggs 
this Spring when they are cheap, put them 
down in water-glass and sell them next 
Fall, telling the people of course what they 
were? IIow must I go to work and where 
would you store them? G. it. 
Connecticut. 
We think you would be likely to have 
trouble in doing this. We regard the 
water glass plan as excellent for family 
use, but should hesitate to sell the eggs. 
Even if you told your customers just 
what the eggs are, the fact that you han¬ 
dled two different grades would make 
some of your customers suspicious. We 
have found it hard to convince some 
people that the water-glass eggs are 
sound. Our advice would be to use 
water-glass eggs for home use or for 
good friends who buy eggs, but to keep 
them away from a first-class trade in 
fresh eggs. 
There is no doubt about the success 
in keeping eggs in the water glass solu¬ 
tion. The Connecticut Experiment Sta¬ 
tion has issued a good bulletin on pre¬ 
serving eggs. It has been found that 
some eggs are infected with bacteria 
even before they leave the hen. The 
best keeping eggs are those laid in April, 
next May eggs' and then those laid in 
early June. It seems that dirty nests 
contain bacteria which infect the eggs. 
Nine different kinds of these bacteria 
were found in one nest. Some of each 
Cow with Tender Feet. 
I bave a cow eight years old giving milk. 
Last September both hind feet got sore be¬ 
tween the toes. My neighbors called it foot 
rot. The cow's feet are still sore and very 
tender. I have four more cows and they 
are not affected. What can I do to harden 
up the cow’s feet? a. l. 
Illinois. 
Wash the foot thoroughly with cas- 
tile soap and warm water, using a 
syringe, if necessary, to force the water 
in between the toes. Then dust in a 
half teaspoonful of powdered blue vit¬ 
riol while the sore is wet. Do this every 
other day. Two or three applications 
will effect a cure. 
Big Ears of Corn.— Another “fake” 
corn picture is printed here. This is 
a post card sent out by a seed corn 
grower in Hamilton Co., Ohio. There 
in no attempt to deceive anyone, but a 
pleasant reminder of the “big things” for 
which this section is famous. As you 
will notice the largest ear appears to be 
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