1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
481 
A GOOD FARM HENHOUSE. 
The average farmer who does not 
care to devote his entire time to the rais¬ 
ing of chickens will find the henhouse 
described in this article well adapted to 
his needs. The structure is 40x14 feet, 
having a stone foundation and cement 
HANGING ROOSTS AND DROPPINGS 
BOARD. Fig. 216. 
floor. It is sided with iron over build¬ 
ing paper, and being ceiled up in the 
same manner, is quite warm and com¬ 
fortable during cold and windy weather. 
Gable windows, one at each end, serve 
as ventilators, and during the Winter a 
frame covered with cotton cloth is fit¬ 
ted in to keep out the snow and rain. 
The interior is divided into four pens of 
equal size, namely, 10x14, each having 
one large window protected by a wire- 
covered frame. This frame has hinges 
and catch, making access to the win¬ 
dows very easy in case of raising, low¬ 
ering or cleaning. In arrangement the 
pens are practically the same, and will 
accommodate about 25 fowls each. 
Fig. 216 gives a plan of the droppings 
board. The perches (a) fit into the up¬ 
right end at b, and are easily removed; 
EXTERIOR OF HENIIOUSE. Fig. 217. 
then with a hoe the droppings are 
scraped off into a box or basket. A 15- 
inch space between the wall and board 
enables one to reach the nests which 
are beneath the latter. There is plenty 
of room for the hens to scratch, and the 
low south windows add much to the 
warmth on a sunny day. 
One feature, however, we would 
change were we to do it over, and that 
is the outside door; we would prefer to 
have it at the south side of the west 
end, making it in direct line with the 
INTERIOR OF HENHOUSE. Fig. 218. 
inner doors. But on the whole we find 
the building very convenient, and are 
much better satisfied with it than we 
would be with others we have seen. 
L. E. H. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Boai:i> op Health Round-Up.—O n Mon¬ 
day of this week the New York Board of 
Health condemned the following food stuff 
in tliis city: 225 boxes of lemons, 50 of 
oranges, 500 crates of pineapples, 3,000 
pounds of fruit, 3,000 pounds of fish and 
about one ton of vegetables. 
Sugar from Australia.— A cargo of 10,- 
000 bags of bool sugar lias arrived at Port 
Huron, Michigan, from Australia, by way 
of the St. Lawrence River and the Great 
Lakes. Tills is said to be the largest quan¬ 
tity of foreign sugar ever landed at a lake 
port. 
I resh Fruits. —The list of varieties has 
been increased during the past week by the 
addition of peaches and melons from Florida 
and blackberries and huckleberries from 
North Carolina. Apple trade continues 
light. Strawberries now arriving average 
poor, many of them se'lling at 10 cents or 
under. 
Game Laws and Tariff. —The writer 
finds difficulty in keeping up to date on the 
game laws, as about every session of State 
and county legislatures makes changes. But 
not so with the tariff. The little pampfilet 
covering this matter, and dated 1897 is 
still reliable and will continue so for an¬ 
other year at least, as the Ways and Means 
Committee announce that, there will be 
“nothing doing” in tariff revision at this 
session. Hence the consumer will continue 
to pay his tax of 30 per cent on hand saws, 
50 per cent for umbrella fibs, face powder 
and billiard balls, 30 cents per ounce for 
strychnine, l% cent per pound for bolts 
and 20 per cent for gun wads, while fish 
skins, dragon’s blood, turtles and unmanu¬ 
factured teeth will continue to be admitted 
free. 
Business is Improving. —The past six or 
seven months have been very hard for many 
manufacturers and dealers in staple pro¬ 
ducts, but conservative judges estimate that 
not only is the worst over, but that there 
will now be a decided and steady gain. 
The panic has caused a wholesome search¬ 
ing of business methods and the stopping 
of many little leaks that are scarcely 
noticed in times of booming prosperity. The 
dry goods trade, which was in especially 
bad condition, is on the mend; surplus 
stocks have worked off better thap was 
supposed possible, and trade in the useful 
metals, especially iron, is encouraging. The 
improvement in copper though not so 
marked, is evident. Dealers in money and 
stocks are having something of a boom, 
Amalgamated Copper having steadily ad¬ 
vanced during the past month until now it 
is above the price before the panic. 
w. w. H. 
SILAGE FOR POULTRY. 
I am very much interested in raising 
poultry. I see so much in your paper 
about silage for cattle, and I am won¬ 
dering why this would not be a splendid 
feed for ducks and chickens, especially 
ducks in Winter. I believe I would prefer 
to have clover silage instead of corn silage. 
Would it be possible for me to put up 
clover and keep it as well as corn silage, 
and do you think it would be injurious if 
fed to ducks and chickens in Winter, or 
do you think the corn silage would make 
a better feed for this purpose?. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. w. R. c. 
R. N.-Y.—We refer this to poultry- 
men with experience. Our own exper¬ 
ience is that sour feed like silage would 
not be suitable for hens. It might do 
for ducks, but for hens we would much 
prefer the clover dried into hay, run 
through a cutter and soaked or steamed 
with hot water. We believe this would 
be far better than putting the clover into 
a silo, and we would rather have 
sprouted oats than silage. 
Tubular 
In February a certain man 
wished to try an experiment 
with a Tubular separator He 
wanted to know by actual test ex 
actly what the Tubular would do. 
He had no cows so he arrang¬ 
ed with a dairyman neighbor to 
make the experiment with the milk 
from the dairy of the latter. The ar¬ 
rangement was for the experiment¬ 
er to skim the milk at the neighbor’s 
dairy, and the cream to go to the 
creamery instead of the whole milk. 
The dairy owner feared a loss of 
cream in this way, and so bargained 
that the experimenter was to pay the 
difference between what would have 
been obtained for the whole milk and 
the money actually received for the 
cream. 
At the end of the month Mr. Dairy¬ 
man was surprised to find that the 
cream had returned him $30 more money 
than the factory would have allowed 
him for the whole milk. 
Sequel—Next day the dairyman and 
two neighbor dairymen each bought a 
Tubular separator, and then hired a 
man out of employment to kick them 
Gained 
$30 More 
in a Month, for 
Cream Alone, than 
Whole Milk Yield- 
ed. Hauling and 
Time Losses 
Also Saved. 
because for years they had been throw¬ 
ing away $30 per month in ignorance of 
what a Tubular would do for them, 
though the opportunity to try a Tubular 
in their own dairies was always open to 
them. 
If you haven’t a Tubular you can 
gain profitable knowledge by a test 
similar to above: and money profits 
twice a day after you put the Tubular 
in your dairy. Write for Catalog No. 153, 
THE SHARPIES SEPARATOR COMPANY, 
West Chester, Pemia. 
Toronto, Ont. San Francisco, Calif. Chicago, Ill. 
Cures Strained Puffy Ankle#, 
Lymphangitis, Bruises and 
Swellings,. Lameness and 
Allays 1 am Quickly without 
Blistering, removing the hair, or 
Joying the horse up. Pleasant to use. 
$2.00 per bottle, delivered with full 
directions. Hook 5-C, free. 
ABSORBINE, JR., for man¬ 
kind, $1.00 Bottle. Cures Strains, 
Gout, Varicose Veins, Varicocele, 
Hydrocele, Prostatitis, kills pain. 
W, F.YOUNG. P.D.F. 88 Monmouth St .Soringfield Mass 
MINERAL 
HEAVE 
REMEDY 
NEGLECT 
Will Ruin 
Your Horse’ 
Send today for 
PERMANENT W $3 PACKAGE 
PERMANENT M willcureany case or 
money refunded. 
$1 PACKAGE 
cures ordinary cases. 
Postpaid on receipt of 
price. Agents Wanted. 
Write for descriptive booklot. 
KS 
SAFE 
CERTAIN' 
Mineral Heave Remedy Co.. 461 fourth Avenue. Pittsburg, Pa 
SHOULDERS 
ry Bickmore’s Gall 
Harness Galls.Cuts 
Positively cured b 
lAIso' 
f and Sores on horses and 
1 cattle. Guaranteed good 
for man and beast. Sam¬ 
ple and new horse book 10c. 
BICKMORE QALl CURE CO., 
BOX 912 OLD TOWH, MAINE ^ 
DEITHOIEHESISIf® 
GUARANTEED 
Heave and Cough Cure 
\ Remedy for Wind and Throat 
troubles. 25yearsiu use provesita 
worth for heaves and chronic 
cough. $1.00 per can. We also 
make a 50c can for Colds, Acute 
Coughs, Distemper, Worm Ex- 
peller, Blood Purifier and grand 
-- conditioner for horses badly 
run down, but it doea not contain enough to cure heavc 9 . All 
dealers or sent direct, express prepaid. Send for booklet. 
THE NEWTON REMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio 
ME NT AND RED 
CEDAR 
REINFORCED 
▼anised ffte« 1 frame. Continuous 
opening. Safe ladder. How to Build. 
C.m.nH A l.AMAI00 CO. 
D«pt 24 Mich. 43110 
GREEN l MOUNTAIN 
SILOS 
Superior in design, material 
and workmanship. 
Simplest, strongest, most 
practical, most durable. 
Write NOW for money-sav¬ 
ing offer. 
Creamery Package Mfg. Co. 
220 West St., Rutland, Vt. 
THE INTER¬ 
NATIONAL 
In Actual Use. Tt has 
an Automatic Take - up 
Hoop. Self-Adjusting. 
A Continuous, Open 
Door Front. An easy 
Operating, Non-Sticking 
Door. A Permanent 
Ladder. Selected Tank 
Pine in. before dressing. 
Guaranteed Workman¬ 
ship. 
The International Silo Co., 
Erie 8t., Linesville, Pa., U.S.A, 
is not only the closest skimming- separator in the world, 
but in construction it is as far superior to any other sep¬ 
arator in the world as it is in its skimming 1 efficiency. It 
has a low down supply can. a dust proof enclosed gear, 
is a practically noiseless gear, a small bowl, and conse¬ 
quently a light power machine. All the operating parts 
are near the floor and consequently a minimum of vibra¬ 
tion. It is in a class by itself. 
The closest skimming separator in the world. Only 
authenticated competitive tests ever certified by an 
Experiment Station where the work was done by the 
professors in charge. 
In these tests the Iowa skimmed 41% per cent closer than the De Laval. The Iowa skimmed 66% per cent 
closer than the Empire. The Iowa skimmed 175 per cent closer than the Omega. The Iowa skimmed 8% per 
cent closer than the Sharpies. The Iowa skimmed 57% per cent closer than the U. S. Buy a separator that 
gets all the cream. See Bulletin 89, Oregon Station. 
The growth is an evidenced appreciation We 
offer these facts as to the merits of the Iowa Dairy 
Separator. In ten years we have built up the 
largest Separator Business in America. 
IOWA DAIRY SEPARATOR CO., 142 Street, Waterloo, la, 
THE IOWA DAIRY SEPARATOR 
Made in the Largest Cream Separator Factory in the World 
The Only Separator awarded Gold 
Medals at the Three Last Worlds 
Fairs and International Exposition. 
Portland—GOLD MEDAL. 
St. Louis—GOLD MEDAL, 
Jamestown—GOLD MEDAL. 
THE IOWA DAIRY 
