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TTH K RLJR A.L» NEW-YORKER 
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THE AUGUST CHICK. 
The greatest drawback to the chicken 
business is that there is not a day’s 
let-up in the steady routine of work 
from the time the egg is pipped until 
the ax closes the hen history. It is 
natural after the pullets are feathered 
out and weaned and the roosters sep¬ 
arated from them, to let up a little in 
the care bestowed on them. This is a 
great mistake if Winter eggs are ex¬ 
pected. 
If there is one thing more -than an¬ 
other that the average poultryman is 
liable to err in it is lack of fresh air in 
the co’ony coops at night. Slip out 
•some hot night about eleven o’clock and 
you will perhaps hear the thump, thump 
of restless chickens crowding around 
against each other, fighting in vain for 
a cool, airy spot to sleep in comfort. 
Or in the morning take a whiff of the 
fetid unwholesome air before letting 
the chickens out, and you will realize 
that nights spent under such condi¬ 
tions must prevent the steady, healthy 
growth necessary for best results. This 
condition of affairs is liable to be 
worse with incubator chickens, because 
they are raised in larger Hocks and the 
tendency is to crowd them more after 
taking them from the brooders. 
A coop 3x6 and four feet high 
should accommodate about 30 half- 
grown pullets. Open fronts are de¬ 
sirable, with slats to keep out skunks 
and minks, but ample protection must 
be afforded on stormy nights. It is also 
imperative to teach the pullets to roost 
as early as possible. To the Leghorn 
type of fowl this comes second nature, 
but the heavier breeds often need a lit¬ 
tle coaching. One way is to lay down 
deats about two inches thick, and put 
roosting strips on them, gradually rais- 
ig the roost higher until they have to 
jump up to reach it. Roosting in trees 
until cold weather is all right if there 
b no danger from owls and two-legged 
thieves without feathers. 
A filthy coop is not to 4je tolerated, 
and at all times the floor should be 
well covered with dust or chaff. One 
of our ingenious neighbors put 'his 
coops on stilts about two feet from the 
ground, with slat bottoms, which did 
not require cleaning out. Last, but not 
least, fix a hole so the pullets can jump 
out at dawn, or else get up early and 
let them out; for the early bird catches 
the worm, and that worm is just what 
the bird needs. G. M. c. 
wheat bran at $28 and $30 per ton. 
Neither the chemical analysis nor the 
experience of feeders warrants buying 
it at these prices. The cost of wheat 
bran has simply soared above the reach 
of practical dairymen, so we must sub¬ 
stitute something cheaper. Dry brew¬ 
ers’ or distillers’ grains seem to take 
the place of bran better than anything 
else, and they are worth all they cost 
at the present time for feeding pur¬ 
poses. _ c. s. G. 
STALE BREAD FOR POULTRY. 
I have an opportunity to purchase 40 or 
50 barrels (flour barrel size) of stale bread, 
biscuits and rolls. This Is good, fresh 
stock, not more than two days old, none 
musty or mouldy. I can buy these goods 
at 50 cents per barrel. Bach barrel holds 
2bushels. My idea is to buy this and 
put it into an oven and thoroughly dry 
out all moisture so that it w'ill not heat 
or mould, then grind and put away in bags 
and feed next Winter and Spring as a 
mush for chickens. If this will keep, and 
drying does not destroy Its feeding quali¬ 
ties, it will bo cheaper than corn, which 
is $1 per bushel here. The expense of dry¬ 
ing will be small. I shall keep this Winter 
from 40 to 50 pullets for laying. I am 
providing other foods. What do you think 
of the stale bread scheme? I intend to 
buy 10 or 15 barrels of carrots, grind, dry 
in oven and use to mix with other foods 
as a mash. Chickens will eat raw carrots, 
cut or ground, like coarse cracked corn 
with great avidity. What do you think 
of this? H. C. F. 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
Stale bread at 20 cents per bushel or 
50 cents per barrel ought to prove a 
profitable investment at the present 
prices of feed, provided you can dry 
it thoroughly before it becomes sour or 
moldy. Drying does not injure the 
bread at all for feeding purposes, but 
after being dried and ground it must 
be kept in a very dry place, or it will 
absorb the moisture from the air and 
soon become musty and unfit for use. 
It should therefore be used as soon as 
possible. In feeding this dry ground 
bread to chickens or laying hens it is 
better to be moistened with milk than 
water. This bread can easily form one- 
half of the ration for poultry, and is one 
of the best feeds known for this pur¬ 
pose. For newly-hatched chickens it 
should be mixed with the raw infertile 
eggs. I think you are making a mistake 
if you grind carrots and dry them for 
Winter use, as their principal value is in 
their succulence, and drying destroys 
this value almost completely.. It is not 
necessary to dry carrots to grind them 
or keep them either, as they will keep 
nicely all Winter in a cellar, or even a 
pit dug in the field, so you can save the 
labor of drying and still have a much 
more valuable feed by storing them in 
this way and feeding some fresh each 
day, either ground or chopped into small 
pieces. c. s. grkene. 
Iswego, N. Y. 
RATION FOR FAMILY COW. 
Would you give me a balanced ration 
f°r a cow weighing about 900 pounds, 
part Jersey, giving about seven quarts per 
flay of very rich milk? She was fresh last 
August, bred this Spring. Milk is used only 
fur family use and churning. We are more 
particular about quality than quantity, al¬ 
though would not object to increasing 
amount of milk if it could be done. Cow 
la on good pasture and lias been fed a 
dairy ration at $1.75 per 100 pounds. Give 
ration for grain feed with pasture, and also 
for Winter use, with feeds at the follow¬ 
ing prices: Brewers’ grains, $1 per 100 
Pounds; No. 1 white middlings, .$1.55 per 
but; bran, $1.50 per 100; oil meal, $1.90 per 
ha>. Hay about $15 per ton, and expect 
to have some corn fodder, but not enough 
t" last all Winter. I have looked over The 
K. N.-Y. for some time back but have not 
'fen a ration with middlings, everything 
I ing brewers’ grains, cotton-seed meal and 
"il meal. Cotton-seed meal seems a scarce 
article around here. Most people here feed 
hfan, middlings and brewers’ grains in 
various proportions. 
Bogan’s Perry, l’a. 
I cannot give you a ration that will 
increase the amount or quality of the 
ittilk your cow is giving, but you can 
probably produce the same amount of 
milk at a lower cost with the following., 
grain ration; Three pounds dry brewers’ 
grains, two pounds wheat middlings, antU 
two pounds old process linseed meal. 
II you could get cotton-seed meal in-' 
stead of linseed, it would pay to make 
t' ! e change. We find a great many 
dairymen making the mistake of feeding 
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The Passing of the Milk F actories 
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The Vermont Farm Machine Company are the pioneers in the 
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The farm or dairy sizes of the United States Cream Separators 
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the greatest International skimming test ever held, in endurance tests 
running over thirty days. 
The United States Separator also beat this pet separator in the 
county where its factory is located ; and in that county, for ten years 
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