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March 14, 
ARRANGING POULTRY PLANT. 
I expect this Summer to enlarge my 
poultry plant and move it to my other 
farm in order to be nearer the railroad. 
1 have two plans in mind of housing the 
hens and desire the advice of The it. 
N.-Y. as to the best plan. I send you 
arrangement of my fields so you can bettor 
judge whch plan will be the best. One of 
the ideas is to house the hens in 10 colony 
houses holding 50 each, scattered as far 
apart as possible in the 25-acre apple 
orchard. The other is to build a long 
house holding 250 each at A and B, giving 
the hens free range, using timber and 
field C alternately for flock A, and the 
orchard and field D for flock B. By this 
plan I can give the hens a fresh range 
whenever desired. Water can be piped to 
houses A and B, but if I adopt the col¬ 
ony plan it will have to be carried. This 
plan is for the layers; breeding pens and 
colony brooders will be arranged on other 
side of house. Is it your opinion that 
250 hens are too many to have in one 
flock? I have been as successful with 
100 in a flock as when there has been but 
a few. w - R - 
Virginia. 
The fact that water can lie piped to 
the two long houses, while it would 
have to be carried every day to the 10 
colony houses, would of itself make me 
decide in favor of the former. But 
the carrying of water is only one of 
the added labors that the colony house 
system compels. While feed by the hop¬ 
per plan can be supplied in sufficient 
quantity to last a week at a time, it is 
still necessary to visit each house every 
day to gather the eggs, and on stormy 
days this becomes very burdensome. 
The only objection to housing 250 fowls 
in one building is the danger from dis¬ 
ease, but with sufficient watchfulness 
and care, with good ventilation, but 
freedom from drafts, a dry house kept 
reasonably clean, this danger could be 
reduced to a minimum. The splendid 
range which these fowls can have ought 
to be a very great factor in keeping 
the birds healthy. Two hundred and 
fifty fowls in one house may seem too 
many, but if divided into two flocks by 
a partition across the middle of the 
house it is only 125 in a flock and I 
have successfully kept that number all 
Winter and had them lay well and keep 
healthy in two houses connected by a 
door, the total area of both being only 
40x11 feet. I would advise W. R. to 
build his houses 80 feet long by 15 fe^t 
wide. This would give 1,200 feet of 
floor space, or nearly five feet per fowl, 
which is sufficient room for any of the 
American breeds. george a. cosgrove. 
THE YOUNG LEGHORN ROOSTERS. 
Would some of your expert poultrymen 
tell me how to feed, house and care for 
young Leghorn roosters from the time they 
are separated from pullets until they 
weigh 2V 2 pounds each alive? I wish to 
have them hatched about April 1 and 21, 
and would like to sell about the middle of 
July, say three or three and one-half months 
old. I would like to ship them to New 
York alive as soon as possible, the earlier 
the better. h. h. 
Clymer, N. Y. 
The care of Leghorn cockerels is 
quite a question, as on an average one- 
half of the chicks are cockerels, and 
only one-tenth of the cockerels are worth 
raising for breeders. What will we do 
with them until they are large enough 
the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
to market? It will not do to let them 
run with the pullets as they will not 
fatten so as to give satisfaction to your 
customers. They must be kept by them¬ 
selves. The housing need not be very 
expensive, just a shed with muslin win¬ 
dows, open all the time nearly; in fact 
only closed during storms, and all the 
room in the house used for perches ex¬ 
cept enough for grain hoppers. The 
floor should he paved or cemented and 
doors and windows shut or covered with 
wire so as to keep out vermin at night. 
We have found the following work 
very successfully with our own cockerels. 
Just as soon as the males can be deter¬ 
mined, which, in April-hatched chicks, 
will be as early as they can dispense with 
artificial heat, they are carried off to 
bachelors’ hall, on another part of the 
farm, across the road, and so far from 
the pullets that although they are given 
free range, they never get back. Here 
we keep grain before them all the time, 
in large hoppers holding about about one 
bushel each. This grain should be 
cracked corn four parts, wheat two 
parts, hulled oats one part, and beef 
scraps one part. As they have free 
range they can get grit and water when 
they want it, and if they are separated 
from the pullets when young, they rare¬ 
ly fight or make any trouble. If we 
wished to hurry these youngsters up for 
market we would give them a mash once 
a day made of cornmeal and wheat mid¬ 
dlings mixed with skim-milk, but do not 
give any more mash than they eat up 
clean, as it will quickly sour in hot 
weather, and then will give bowel trou¬ 
ble. FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
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mes 
A hen does well or poorly according as her 
food supplies necessary nutriment in right 
proportions. Doubtless you give a nutritious 
ration, but does the larger part of it digest? 
If not, your profits will be in dimes rather 
than dollars. 
It is easy to see why this is so. The domestic 
hen is a captive ; she is denied the privilege 
of selecting food at times and in ways that 
Nature meant she should. Man attempts to 
coax and cajole her into laying many eggs 
under these unnatural conditions, and it is 
evident there can be little success until natural 
conditions Are restored as far as possible. 
If you make the hen derive from her food 
the same elements she would get when at 
liberty, your end is gained. This can be 
largely brought about by giving once a day 
a small portion of 
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Poultry 
It is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) and 
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