THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
777 
1908. 
BIG AND LITTLE CHICKS TOGETHER. 
Which would be the better plan regarding 
some poultry, to put four-months-old chicks 
with laying hens or to put eight-weeks-old 
chicks with those four months old? I am 
a little cramped for room, and cannot very 
well have three runs for chickens. 
Kgg Harbor City, N. J. J. J. M. 
Of two evils choose the lesser, and as 
the lesser evil in this case we would put 
the four-months-old birds with laying 
hens. At that age they should be able 
to look out for themselves. But putting 
little and big chicks together is very 
hard on the little fellows, as they are 
hustled this way and that, at feeding 
time, and never do as well as where 
kept by themselves. floyd q. white. 
“BIG WINGS” AND CHICKS. 
On page 726 C. B. asks what others 
think about “big wings” in Leghorns. 
This Spring I sent to New Jersey and 
got 100 White Leghorn eggs, and did 
not have a “big wing” from these eggs. 
Shortly after I got 60 from a poultry- 
man closer home, and I believe every 
one of the chicks hatched from those 
eggs got the “big wing.” The first lot 
were a strong, lively, hustling bunch 
from the time they were hatched, and 
the other lot were sick, weak and puny. 
Mr. White says they are sick, another 
says it is the care; C. B. says it is the 
breed. About the first thing a Leghorn 
chick does is to start to grow wing and 
tail feathers, and this draws on their 
systems for nourishment, and if they 
have not vitality enough to supply their 
whole system alike, they get in an im¬ 
poverished condition; since naturally 
they grow the wings for flight the 
wings get all the nourishment and grow 
to the detriment of the rest of the 
body. I have been told by men who 
say they have clipped these big wings 
that the chick got all right. If this is 
a cure it should be done as soon as the 
chick is noticed to be getting weak, but 
if that chick is intended for a breeder 
it would better die, for from these sick 
pampered doctored chicks come stock 
that is not fit for anything but the 
butcher, and if T got my choice I would 
sooner eat the fowl that never was sick. 
With parents that lack vigor you can¬ 
not expect (or should not) strong ro¬ 
bust offspring. These chicks of mine 
were given care, feed and everything 
alike, so it was not this. ' R. 
Pennsylvama. 
HIVING WILD BEES. 
I). C. R., Stratton, Vt .—As I am about to 
take up a wild swarm of honey-bees I 
thought I would write you in regard to the 
hives. Should they be painted inside and 
out, and should they be smoked? What is 
the best way to take up a wild swarm of 
bees ? 
Ans. —It is immaterial whether hives 
are painted on the outside, except as the 
paint improves the appearance, and 
makes them more durable; the inside 
should be clean as possible, but not 
painted, or smoked, because smoke is 
distasteful to bees. I have never suc¬ 
ceeded in felling a bee tree and having 
it in condition for saving the swarm, 
as the combs are invariably broken and 
the bees daubed with honey. It is prac¬ 
ticable only if you can cut the log 
above and below the hive and get them 
down without smashing the comb seri¬ 
ously They may then be transferred 
to frame hives in the ordinary way. 
Some bee hunters climb high trees by 
means of heavy spikes driven into the 
tree in the form of a ladder, or by other 
methods, and saw in above and below 
the hive, and split out a piece of the 
side and take combs and bees out in 
this way, but unless you got the queen 
and most of the bees, and did the job 
during a honey flow, it would probably 
prove a failure. Unless you can get 
them by the first plan, or are expert in 
working “up a tree,” 1 think the best 
way would be to wait until all the Fall 
honey was gathered, cut the tree, get 
all the honey possible, and, while it al¬ 
ways goes against the grain to know of 
anyone killing a colony of bees for the 
honey, let them die, which they will in 
a few days. It will probably be easier 
to buy a colony than to try to save 
them. j. a. crane. 
JERSEYS AT THE NEW YORK STATE 
FAIR. 
It would seem that the Jersey breeders 
have awakened to the fact that they have 
not been doing their share in showing 
cattle at the State Fair, for this year 
at least five herds were represented from 
four different States. But whether their 
showing of cattle will be of much bene¬ 
fit to the Jersey interests is not so ap¬ 
parent. The greater part of the Jerseys 
shown were of the fine Island type, and 
one would think that they had taken 
particular pains to select “pony” Jerseys 
for this show. The cow that won 
sweepstakes was a beauty. In fact it 
would be hard to find fault with her if 
her size were not taken into considera¬ 
tion. She would make a beautiful orna¬ 
ment for some rich man’s lawn, and was 
one of the kind that the millionaires go 
crazy over at the auction sales and run 
up into the thousands in bidding on 
them. 
In reply to my criticisms in regard to 
this cow’s size some of the Jersey fan¬ 
ciers said: “What more would you 
want? These are the cows that bring 
the highest price of any cattle in the 
world. Why are they not good enough?” 
My reply was: “My friend, there are 
but a comparatively few millionaires in 
this country to buy such cows (for which 
we should thank God), but there are 
millions of farmers who are in need of 
good, practical working Jerseys. About 
the only time that these farmers get a 
chance to see the Jerseys is at the fairs. 
Then, why will you insist on showing 
them a lot of doll cattle, cattle which 
these plain, practical farmers can see at 
a glance are not the cows for them?” 
There are two or three hundred thou¬ 
sand registered Jerseys in the United 
States and their numbers are rapidly in¬ 
creasing. But there is room for them. 
There are thousands of farmers to-day 
who are not satisfied with the cows that 
they have and would be glad to buy 
purebred Jerseys of the right kind if 
they only knew where these Jerseys are 
to be found. Yet year after year you 
bring.these “model” Jerseys to the fairs. 
Jerseys which are no more like the good- 
sized, handsome, big-producing cattle 
which many of you have at home than 
a little “model” toy engine is like the 
one that drew you up here to the fair. 
One of the exhibitors at this fair owns 
a Jersey cow that last year was the 
champion Jersey butter maker of the 
world. I have been looking up his ad¬ 
vertisement in one of the papers and 
find that he has 15 cows that have made 
from 450 up to 794 pounds of butter in 
a year. But not one of these cows was 
at the fair. This man also has a bull 
that is getting some wonderfully big 
producing daughters. But he was absent 
also. This man said that he was not at¬ 
tending the fairs for his health, but was 
out to win prizes. He informed me that 
the cows were judged by a college pro¬ 
fessor, who judged them by the score 
card. “If you want to see how your big, 
practical Jerseys come out at the fairs 
just go down to the lower end of this 
barn and look at a herd of working Jer¬ 
seys that your Rural New-Yorker has 
fooled some man into bringing here.” 
I did go and look at these cows and 
I found what I should consider the best 
cow on the grounds regardless of breed. 
She was five years old and would weigh 
close to 1,000 pounds. She was as well 
built as the sweepstakes “model,” but 
she was the real thing. Her udder 
looked as if it could hold 12 quarts of 
milk at a time, and best of all she had 
some big, nice teats placed away out on 
the “corners” to let a fellow get that 
milk out. Here was a cow that would 
appeal to the farmer, and I would ven¬ 
W iiex you write advertisers mention Tun 
It. N.-Y. and you'll set a quick reply and 
a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
ture to wager that, if all the Jerseys 
shown at the fair this year had been of 
this stamp, several thousand cattle would 
be sold during the coming year as a 
direct result of the exhibition. 
This herd of practical Jerseys won 
two individual second prizes, and the 
owner will go home disgusted and, in all 
probability, will cut out the fairs in the 
future. J. GRANT MOORE. 
Apples for Cows. 
Are apples or crab apples hurtful to 
milch cows or calves? They say around 
here that sour apples make their teeth sore. 
When I was a boy father used to say apples 
were worth 25 cents a bushel to feed to 
milch cows. a. g. 
Maine. 
Your father was about right—when the 
apples are properly fed. If you should turn 
a cow into an orchard to fill up on apples 
you might kill or ruin the cow. She would 
bloat, stop milking and fall down in a 
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