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THE RURAL, NKW-YOK K KIN 
January 25, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
RATION FOR PULLETS. 
Will Mr. Cosgrove tell us how he is 
feeding his laying pullets this Fall? I 
have Wyandot les this year for the first 
time and how they can eat. when they have 
.all they want! I am afraid mine are get¬ 
ting a little too heavy. The first of No¬ 
vember there, were four laying out of 
28, hatched the middle of April. I feed 
boiled oats in the morning, a very little 
mash at noon, so as to feed the beef 
scraps; corn at night, and a ground feed 
before them all the time. R. 
I have told how 1 feed my pullets at 
least twice or three times this Fall in 
The R. N.-Y. The enquirer’s feeding 
as described above is very good, but he 
can feed the beef scraps just as well dry 
with the ground feed as to make a mash 
to feed them in. If he thinks his pul¬ 
lets are getting too fat he can feed 
whole wheat at night in place of corn, 
or make it part of both. Barley is a 
good feed for a change, but as much de¬ 
pends on how they are fed as on what 
they are fed; and that can be learned 
only by experience, gkorgk a. cosgkove. 
DIMENSIONS OF HKNHOUSF;S. 
In “The Business lien" Mr. Cosgrove says 
that his coops are 10 feet square; but he 
does not give the dimensions of height. I 
should like him to tell me the height, both 
hack and front. Will he also tell me how 
large tlie window' is and its location, also 
how many fowls he carries through the 
Winter in the coop with a scratching pen 
the same size? What is tin: most econom¬ 
ical wny to have the lumber cut for the 
lien coops? 
Matteawan, N. V. w. H. C. 
My henhouses arc four feet high at 
the back and seven feet in front. I buy 
12-foot, 14 foot and eight-foot lumber. 
The 12-foot cuts three four-foot lengths 
for the back, the 14-foof two lengths 
for the front, and the eight-foot is the 
length of the roof boards, which run lip 
and down, not crosswise of the roof 
slope. A few extra hoards of each 
length cut up to good advantage in 
making the sides. 1 use matched boards 
(tongued and grooved) exclusively, tak¬ 
ing pains to make every joint as tight 
as possible. There are two windows 
in the front, each six 11x13 glass. They 
are put on so as to make the boarded! 
part of the front of about the same 
width at each end and in the middle. 
The door is on the side, and opens into 
the scratching shed. Thirty fowls will 
winter comfortably in one of these 
houses, with the scratching shed to run 
into in daytime; but one Winter 1 bad 
04 hens in one of these houses and they 
laid well and kept healthy; but 1 had 
to keep the door open night and day 
most of the time. These houses have 
slanting fronts, but while I admit that 
the additional iloor space obtained by 
slanting the front is very cheaply got, 
ye.t I should never build any more that 
way. *In Winter snow hangs on the 
glass and has to he swept off; in Sum¬ 
mer when the windows are open, rain 
wets the earth inside, unless one runs 
to close the windows with every shower. 
Making houses of that size now I would 
have the front perpendicular, six feet 
high, with a short upward slope of 
about three feet to the peak, which 
should he seven feet high; then a long 
slope to the hack. The window would 
he two-sash, the upper to swing inward 
at top from the center of its sides and 
to be placed in the middle of the front. 
Each side from the window to he 
hoarded up tight four feet high, the 
upper two feet being a cloth curtain 
tacked to a frame. The benefit of hav¬ 
ing the window in the middle is that 
the easterly sun strikes the west of the 
house inside, and as the sun travels to 
the west, the whole floor will he in the 
sunlight at some time of day, and there 
is nothing that makes more for the 
health and happiness of nearly every liv¬ 
ing creature than sunlight. The win¬ 
dow should reach from a foot above the 
floor to within a foot of the roof. I wo 
slopes to the roof save material and 
makes less air space to he heated by 
the bodies of the hens. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
SILAGE AND TUBERCULOSIS. 
I have been told that silage produces 
tuberculosis in cows. Do you know any¬ 
thing about it? B. k. n. 
Waynesboro, Pa. 
Silage cannot produce tuberculosis in 
cattle. This disease is due to the work 
of a germ known as Bacillus tuberculos¬ 
is. It cannot originate spontaneously, 
that is, from some condition of the ani¬ 
mal or its feed, or from the air, but the 
beginning must he through this germ. 
It passes from animal to animal—us¬ 
ually through the sputum coughed up 
from the lungs, though in some cases it 
has been spread among calves through 
skim-milk taken from a creamery. In 
those cases the milk of a good many 
cows was put together and thus the 
milk from tuberculous cattle was 
mixed with all. The germ dies hard. 
It has been found alive after 180 days 
in dry material. After lungs were 
buried 167 days germs were still alive. 
Direct sunlight destroys them in 10 to 
15 hours. Even in boiling water the 
dried sputum requires an hour for kill¬ 
ing. Freezing has little if any effect. 
Even when pickled for six weeks the 
germs in tuberculous organs were still 
found alive. While this germ produces 
the disease, it might he possible for an 
animal to take the germs into its body 
and still not have consumption. It 
would he strong enough to throw the 
germs off. When from any cause the 
vitality of the body has been reduced 
the cattle are more likely to take the 
disease. Keeping cattle in damp, foul 
stables without fresh air make them 
more liable. Heavy milking, forcing 
cows hard for milk, thus making too 
heavy a drain upon the vitality, will 
pull them down, and feeding an un¬ 
wholesome diet will weaken the cattle. 
Thus it will he seen that silage fed rea¬ 
sonably with a fair amount of grain 
and hay could not cause tuberculosis or 
make a cow liable to take the disease. 
Mrs. Hayrix (reading) : “This paper 
says til’ doctors hev discovered another 
new disease, Hiram.” Hayrix; “Huh! 
I wish th’ pesky critters would stop 
lookin’ fer new diseases long enuff tew 
hunt up a cure for th’ rheumatiz, by 
grass!”—Chicago Daily News. 
When you write advertisers mention Tnw 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee. 
HORSE OWNERS! USE 
GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC 
BALSAM. 
A safe,speedy and positive cure. 
The safest, Bill blister over 
usod. Remove-all bundles from 
Horts*. Impossible to produce 
scar or blemish. Send for circu¬ 
lars. Special advico trea. 
LAWRENCE-WILLI AMS CO., Cleveland, O. 
GOLDSMITH, N0.657 
Dutch Itelted Hull dropped March 30, 1007. 
Also younger Dutch Belted Calves for sale by 
(i. f*. GlllltS, Vail, New Jersey. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN YEARLING 
BULLS FOR SALE AT 
a FARMERS’ PRICES. 
1 have for sale several Registered Holstein-Frie- 
sian Bulls ready for service: handsomely marked, 
well-grown, straight animals, of exceptional breed¬ 
ing, and perfect In every respect. Also six heifers a 
year old in November and December last, of equal 
quality. Those animals are offered for sale at 
prices within easy reach of the ordinary fanner. 
If price and breeding are satisfactory, will ship on 
approval as to individual qualities, and if not en¬ 
tirely satisfactory may he returned at my expense 
both ways. Pedigrees, markings, and full descrip¬ 
tion furnished on request. Address 
I*. It. Mcl.KNNAN, Syracuse, New York. 
best of the breed ; 
HACKNEY STALLIONS! I, 
V. Champion and right at home. Prices one-half 
what others ask. if. P. Sterh-ker, WestOrango,X.J. 
Jacks, Jennetts, Raddle Horses, 
Trotting and Pacing Stallions, 
Poland China and Tam worth 
Hogs. Wo are the largest 
Breeders and Importers of 
Jacks in America, and have a 
large stock of Raddle Stallions 
and Mares, Trotting and Pacing 
Stallions. 
Our catalogue is the finest 
overissued by any .lack brooder, 
J. F, COOK A CO., Lexington, Kentucky. 
BRANCH BARN : Greenville, Texes. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD’S 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM 
of nearly 1500 acres, and barns holding 300 horses, 
has now on hands over 200 stallions of fine 
BELGIANS, PERCHERONS and GERMAN COACH 
Bunningin ago from 1 year old to 5 years. Color— bays, blacks and 
grays; weigh from 1600 to 2200lbs. These stallions are all for -sic on 
reasonable terms. Cash or bankable notes running 1, 2 and three 
years. Also there is n lotoffine Belgian and Perehemn mares for sale. 
Newark is situated 33 miles oast of Columbus, and 157 miles west 
of Pittsburgh, on B. &(). and Pan Handle R. R. Trains every hour. 
Customers are invited to visit the farm and see the nice stock. 
Sonci for Catalogues. 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, Newark. Ohio. 
Citizens Phone 266, Bell Phone 651 \V. 
THE CLARK FARM HERR 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CA TTLE 
GENIE CLOTHILT)E 4SOD7 RECENT OFFICIAL RECORD. 
One day test 95.1 lbs. milk, 4.943 IBs. fat and 6.179 lbs. butter. 
Seven day lest 639.4 lbs. milk, 24.337 lbs. fat and 30.121 Ills, butter. 
Thirty day test 2602.15 lbs, milk, 93.439 1 I>h. fat and 1 16.797 lbs. butter. 
Best World’s Official Record of all Breeds for One Day’s Butter Production 
The Clink Farm herd is headed by PONTIAC CHIRON 39423, one of the best sons of Heugerveld 
DeKol and out of Inka Darkness 2nd \s Queen 40182, with a record of 402.20 lbs. milk and 25.70 lbs. butter 
in seven days, with average butter fat of 4.17. Two sisters of this hull on the dam's side have reci ntly 
made records, one at four years of 20.39 lbs. and another at three years of 20.59 lbs. butter In seven days. 
There have recently been tested from the Clark Farm herd twelve cows and heifers of which eight 
were full ago cows from four years up; the average of these eight for seven days was 464.44 lbs. milk, 
10.092 lbs. fat and 20.113 lbs. butter. The remaining Four were two-year old heifers with their first, calves, 
and these averaged for seven days 349.50 lbs. milk, 12.202 lbs. fat and 15.253 lbs butter. Nine of these 
twelve animals tested were raised on or originated from the Clark Farm herd, and eight of these twelve 
animals had never been tested before. 
A fine lot of Bull and Heifer Calves is offered for Sale. 
W. W. CIIENTEY. Manlius, 3V. Y. 
VILLAGE FARM 
JERSEY HERD 
M. V. PRENTICE, Prop., Worcester, Mass. 
HERD HEADED RY 
THE GREAT FONTAINE FERN BULL 
GOLDEN FERN’S 
GREY FONTAINE 
A son of GOLDEN FERN’S LAD. 
Dam Fontaine of St. Saviour, with a butter 
test of Hi lbs. 12 o/.s. This herd contains nine 
daughters of Golden Fern’s Lad and several 
daughters of Eminent 2d, Blue Bell’s Blue 
Fox.Oaiest, Maple’s Poet, Stoclcwell and other 
noted sires. 
I AIIRFI FARU - JERSEYCATT, ' K ONI ' V! I’"not 
LnUIlLL I HIIIY1 Jl}i g us what wo have for sain but 
tell us what you want. Wo will not try to sell you 
something different. Laurel Farm, Hamilton, N. Y. 
I CAN furnish YOU with GRADE JERSEYS 
and HOLSTEIN'S, fresh and soon to freshen. 
Write for special price on car lots. Address 
F. S. WILBUR. Port land villa, New York.|| 
Springdale Hulateins— Are producers, line in¬ 
dividuals and richly bred. A grand lot of bulls,cows, 
heifers anti calves, for sale at reasonable prices. 
Wills,.tat tux wan I., II.M.Lyon & Sons, Wyalusing.Pa. 
Are You Feeding A Balanced Ration? 
Calculating a nutritive ratio made easy by use of 
a device recently invented. 
Write for part ionium. 
Address Henry W. Jeffers, IMuinsboro, N. J. 
I\r I nU 50 Mammoth Hron/.e 
K I U I I Y Turkey*; 75 Chester 
IILflU I White,Poland China. 
and Berkshire I’igs, 
ail ages. HID bus. Improved Golden Dent Gourd 
Seed Corn, and 2 litters Scotch Collies. Send 
2-eont stamp for prices. 
EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Pa. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-T’K I ICS IANS 
are bred for largo production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality, 
if these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please yon. 
A special offer on some nicely tired Bpi.i, Cai.VKS. 
A. A. COKTLLYOU. Somerville, V J. 
BULL CALVES«YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality All are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Homestead Girl lie Kol'a Sarcastic 
l.ad. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will he kept in the Herd and offcially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rift on, Ulster County, New York. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS 
If you are interested in Registered 
Holstein-Friesian Cattle, you should 
send for Star Farm’s new publica¬ 
tion called 
“STAR FARM NEWS.” 
Sent free. Write to-day. Address 
HORACE L. BRONSON, 
Department D, - Cortland. New York. 
REG. HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN STOCK. 
For Sale at FARMERS’ Prices. 
I have several hcil'er- past two years old. due to 
freshen in January. February and March next, 
perfectly marked, large, hundsome animals. Also 
a tine yearling bnli of excellent breeding, and -cv- 
ernl hull calves which will be read, for service in 
the Spring. Also six choice young cows due to 
freshen in January and February next. All these 
animals are guaranteed perfect in every respect and 
will he sold at reasonable prices May he seen at 
farm only 30 minutes trolley ride from Syracuse. 
JOHN McLennan, Fayetteville, N. Y . 
O. I. C. PIGS. 
Silver Premium Stock; Aug.. Sept, anti Oct. row; 
10 weeks pigs $24 trio with pedigree; Brood sows$25 
each. F. J. SCHWARTZ, East Pharsalia, N. Y. 
PRICED TO SELL-DUR0C JERSEYS 
Three Spring Boars; some nice Sows bred; Fall 
I’igs, the best lot we ever raised; choice Collie 
Ilogs all ages. Address 
J. H. L.KVVIS Jk SON, Cameron, W. Va. 
C H F S HI IM : S the new york 
LIILOIIIKLU FARMERS’ HOG. 
Hardy;prolific:strong tine boned ;quick growers and 
easy keepers. Young stock for sale. Department of 
Animal Husbandry, Cornell Uni verst ly. Ithaca. NY. 
A 2 to 3 Mos. Old Pig, Express Paid, 
in exchange for a few days of your spare time. 
You lav«at no motier. ..I l,n ion tlctlUrc .. 
Penna. Berkshire Company, Funnett-burg, Pa. 
Qll C — Choice Chester White Pigs of 
dfiLu both sexes, also a tine lot of 
Dorset Rams ready for breeding. Address 
HEARTS I 'FLIGHT FARM, Chnzy. New York. 
ALE ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send for free illustrated pamphlet describing 
this great breed of cuttle. 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE OF AVON. 
As I am making arrangements for my next trip to 
Scotland. I have a few very choice young Imported 
Cows, also Heifers and Bulls from imported Sires 
! and flams, which I will offer at very attractive 
prices in order to make room for my next importa¬ 
tion. Write for prices, etc., or call and sec them. 
W. P. SCHANCK. Avon. New York. 
SOAPSTONE FARM 
Haverford, Penna. 
We will be glad to quote prices on 
GUERNSEYS, SHROPSH1RES, l)U- 
ROC-JERSEYS, WHITE MUSCOVYS 
AND WHITE WY AN1H)TIES. 
KALORAMA 
LARGE IMPROVED ENGLISH YORKSHIRES. 
from best Importation. Address 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsbttrg, New York, 
BERKSHIRES. 
American and English Brooding. Mating-not akin. 
Large, Early Maturing. Catalogue on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FA KIM, Gettysburg, I’u. 
OHIO FARM 
oil hand. M. L. 
Berkshire Hogs and Jersey 
Cattle; stock for sale; always 
BENI I AM, LoRoy, Ohio. 
JERSEY CATTLE. 
BERKSHIRE HOGS, 
R. F. SHANNON. 91)7 Liberty St.. Pittsburg, Pa. 
BERKSHIRES 
A limited number of young sows bred to a grand 
imported boar for March and April farrow. 
Also u tine lot of fall pigs of the highest quality 
and breeding at very att ractive prices. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
Aubrey Farm Berkshires. 
Our herd is headed by Lord Premier of Aubrey, 
an own -on of the Groat Lord Premier. We are 
offering some of his got, also a few sows in pig to 
him at attractive prices. 
J. G. & J. L. ST AC EY L Geneva, N. Y. 
LOCUST HOME BERKSHIRES. 
Yearling Sows and Spring Gilts,bred to Charmer 
Masterpiece 103371 for early Winter mid Springfar- 
row; one aged herd Boar, choice Spring Boars, Sum¬ 
mer and Fall Pigs for sale. For prices, etc., write 
S. O. FKKNCH, - Atwater. New York. 
SPRIN GBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A tine bunch of Sows coming a year 
old by < H and Premier, No. 80005, bred to Baron Duke 
85th, No. 01215. A son of Premier Longfellow, No. 
68000, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Booklet 
on appifuiLtion. J. E. WATSON", Marblednle, Conn. 
WE OFFER 
STONE I ARM BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
4 Lull Arc Sows Med for March far- 
rowing. lo Spring Colt* hr«d for March 
uttd April farrowhc 6 Spring and 
Summer Service Hours; I 2-Yr. Old 
Son of Masterpiece 77000; 60 Summer and Fall Pigs. All 
repreaontime lln- Unproved American type. NVe have «»vei loo 
head of all mci's, and all prlcet*, from K"‘*d rutflil farmers’ hofpi 
to fancy *lm\v uuhnulH. A'Miens all lelte.-a In 
KICIiAKI) II. STONK, TrtnimnsburjS, N. V. 
Reg. P.Ghinas, Berkshires&C. Whites 
8 wks. and older, mated not akin. 
Service Boars, have stock returned, 
refund money if not satisfactory. 
Keg. Holsloins, Heifers, Bulls and 
Jl AM 11 .TUN Ha C< >.,Oochruuvi)lu,Pu 
Cows in Calf. 
