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THK RURAL- NEW-YORKER 
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SOME FACTS ABOUT SQUABS. 
About a year ago we answered an in¬ 
quiry as to the profitableness of squab 
raising. At that time we could only 
express our ideas without any definite 
grounds upon which to base them. 
January 1, 1907, we commenced to keep 
an accurate account and I send you the 
summary of one year witli the pigeons. 
\\ c had about 65 pairs, but not as care¬ 
fully mated as they should have been. 
This flock had grown from one pair of 
gift birds March, 1904, and four pairs 
bought June, 1904. Some of the birds 
must have been too young at the first 
of the year to breed. The house is 
12x16 and divided into two pens. They 
have been fed twice each day and wa¬ 
tered. The grain has been mostly 
cracked corn and seed wheat. They have 
had two or three bushels of peas and a 
few bags of a mixture such as we feed 
growing chicks. They were supplied 
salt, charcoal and oyster shells. Once 
when my wife was away 1 was left in 
charge of them. 1 cleaned them out and 
noticed the salt box was empty. There 
was some pork salt handy, so l put some 
of that in; the next morning there were 
five of the best birds dead. I soon 
came to the conclusion that while salt 
is a necessary diet, rock salt is sure 
death to them. During the year they 
hatched 414 young, not a very good 
showing, being only 3*4 pair per pair. 
Of squabs we sold 342. The net price 
was a trifle over 19 cents each. We lost 
by death 18, and 24 found their way to 
our table; 30 were saved and added to 
the breeding stock. A few of the breed¬ 
ing birds died and we have now over 
80 pairs. To date they are making a 
better showing than same time last year. 
There are now 18 pairs young and 18 
nests with eggs. The eggs arc proving 
very fertile, as only two have not 
hatched. They have gained five pairs 
and as many more eggs. The squabs we 
used were small and in our market 
would bring 10 cents each. For the 
squabs we save to breed from we list 
25 cents each. Thus we have it: 
342 squabs sold.$65.34 
30 squabs saved. 7.50 
24 squabs for table . 2.40 
Manure for garden. 8.00 
$83.24 
$3.05 
72.20 
50 
-$70.44 
$0.80 | 
Int. on Investment as G per cent.$9.50 
I liese figures are not very gratifying, 
especially to my wife, who has had all 
the care of them, with the exception of 
a two weeks’ vacation in October and 
six weeks in November and December, 
the last on account of an amputated fin¬ 
ger But we are going to give them an¬ 
other year’s trial. The prospect of get¬ 
ting our money back is not so sure. It 
is easily seen that if only 3)4 pairs per 
pair will so nearly keep them square, 
with mated birds that will breed from 
eight to 10 pairs per year there would 
be a handsome profit. Can we get 
them? w. t. wallis. 
Massachusetts. 
TROUBLE WITH AN INCUBATOR. 
Last Spring I purchased an Incubator 
and never having had any experience with 
one 1 followed the directions that came 
with it as nearly as possible, placing it 
in a collar with a dirt floor, where there 
was considerable dampness, and hatched 
only ;>3 chicks from 100 eggs ; the second | 
batch was only a little better, being 
*’•’ from 100 eggs. This Spring I have 
had no better luck, hatching 50.from 100 
eggs. In each case nearly every egg had a 
fully developed chicken, which seemed to 
have died just before hatching, some even 
after the egg was pipped. The Inside 
'-kin of the egg seems to be very dry and 
sticky. Can sonic one who has had experi¬ 
ence tell me the cause of this trouble, and 
give me a remedy? w. m. p. 
KeysviUe, Va. 
1 be statement, “I followed direc¬ 
tions, is not sufficient to enable any 
one unfamiliar with this incubator to 
tell what is the matter. It may be too 
EXPENSES. 
Expressing squabs . 
Cost of grain. 
Salt, charcoal, shells. 
much air at the time of the hatch, or 
it may be that the chick has been weak¬ 
ened at some earlier stage of the hatch. 
But as the eggs seem to be full of per¬ 
fectly formed chicks, it would seem 
that the trouble is at the last stage. 
Begin to air the eggs after the fifth day 
and increase the time of airing or cool¬ 
ing the eggs until the seventeenth or 
eighteenth day. Then be very careful 
not to let the heat run down in the 
machine, and 105 degrees is not any too 
high to keep the thermometer when the 
chicks are coming out. Keep the ma¬ 
chine closed as tight as possible until 
hatch is over. There may be some¬ 
thing wrong with the incubator itself. 
We have one incubator of a modern 
standard make containing 120 eggs, and 
we have more than once taken 100 
chicks from it. We have also some 
big machines 15 years old which give 
us good hatches, but keep us guessing 
all the time, as the thermostats are not 
as good as those on modern machines. 
FLOYI) Q. WHITE. 
GAPES IN CHICKENS. 
I would like lo And a remedy to euro 
Rapes in chickens. My chicks all seem to 
die w ii b i be irouble. <\ d. ii. 
The "gapes" is caused by a worm in the 
throat of the chicken. The lies! remedy is 
prevention. Keep the little chicks on a 
board floor—-away from tin* ground. Part 
of (lie life of this Insect is passed in the 
soil. The chicks get it from the soil or 
from earth worms. The board floor prevents 
them finding it. When they are actually 
suffering the worms must be killed or re¬ 
moved to bring relief. A loop of horse hair 
put down the throat and jerked quickly out 
will remove many. They should be killed. 
A feather dipped in turpentine is sometimes 
used. In some cases the chicks are put in 
a covered box. a little line lime being 
dusted Inside. This dust makes the chicks 
cough or sneeze and some of the worms 
are thrown up._ 
Kilm.no Chicken Mites. I have seen 
in The It. N.-Y. reference to mites in poul¬ 
try houses and best ways to get rid of them. 
I wish to give my experience with the use 
of Carholineum, which 1 have used now 
nearly two years. I was formerly pestered 
badly with mites, but have found no mites 
in any place once dressed with earbolineum. 
One old house which was swarming with 
mites two years ago and was then dressed 
with Carholineum is still free from the pest 
so m.v foreman tells me. I have used it 
as paint, brushed on clear, and also as a 
spray used with an atomizer. To use suc¬ 
cessfully as a spray it needs to be reduced 
with spirits of turpentine or alcohol, either 
of which will “cut” it. I tried to thin it 
with kerosene and also with gasoline, but 
neither would “cut.” it. If I could overcome 
till obstacles to poultry raising as easily 
and cheaply ns I have overcome the mite 
1 rouble I could make a fortune at the busi¬ 
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