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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 19, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
262 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
Enclosed find circulars of the King sepa¬ 
rator and aerator. Will you inform me 
whether the machine will do what it is 
claimed to do and if the company is re¬ 
liable? i. j. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have cautioned our people against 
this fake time and time again. We re¬ 
peat that warning now. Farmers who 
have bought it report that they can do 
nothing with it, and that the company 
pays no attention to complaints. 
The I). L. Marshall Milling Company of 
Buffalo, N. Y., have not attempted to or¬ 
ganize the farmers here that I can find, 
but they have sent their agents among the 
dealers here, and I am told they have also 
been working at Clinton, N. Y. Their 
proposition is that a dealer shall Invest 
$500 in their stock, and by becoming a 
member the dealer will naturally push the 
feed which this firm handles. This will 
enable them to sell to the dealer for one lo 
two dollars less on a ton than the dealer 
can buy elsewhere. Our dealers did not 
take to the scheme. f. j. k. 
New York. 
The company claims that New Eng¬ 
land dealers took kindly to their propo¬ 
sition, and that many of them are now 
stockholders in the company, and that 
they also have interested dealers in 
New York State to some extent. In¬ 
formation from our readers in some 
sections is to the effect that the com¬ 
pany proposed to sell direct to farmers 
with the object of eliminating the mid¬ 
dleman, hut they propose to sell stock 
to only one dealer in a town, so as to 
give him a monopoly of their products,' 
and it does not appear that the middle¬ 
man is being eliminated very fast. Be¬ 
sides, from our understanding of their 
position, they are middlemen them¬ 
selves. They are to buy their supplies 
from millers, who formerly sold direct 
to local dealers, and simply mix it, and 
then sell themselves to dealers where 
the dealer can be induced to go into the 
scheme. It looks to us like one more 
middleman between the mill and the 
consumer. If the feed proves good 
quality, and can be bought at right 
prices well and good; hut the more wc 
know of the conditions and proposition 
the more emphatic we are in advice to 
farmers to leave the stock alone. 
Enclosed find remittance of $2 for sub¬ 
scription, also find 10 cents for trial sub¬ 
scription for a neighbor. This is a business 
man in town who lias been paying for a 
small farm where be expects to retire to 
spend bis declining years, and asked me 
what farm paper I would recommend to 
him. I replied The It. N.-Y.: I considered 
it far ahead of any I bad ever taken and 
mentioned the 10 weeks’ trial trip, and be 
asked me to send for it for him. I wish you 
would send him the latest number containing 
the article on the Alaska wheat. He bad 
been reading of it and seemed all taken 
up with it. T told Him I thought it another 
big fraud. I knew The It. N.-Y. would 
get on as soon as there was anything doing, 
so I want him to see what you have to 
say of Alaska wheat. I like The It. N'.-YVs 
way of getting after tHe fakes. It seems 
to enjoy turning on the searchlight and 
showing up a thing as it really is. Of 
course it would be Impossible lo estimate 
the number of good dollars that stay in 
the pockets of (he large family of Rural 
readers by its energetic efforts to smell out 
and expose the fakers, hut it is safe to pre¬ 
sume that those dollars run up into many 
thousands. Just keep at them; rip them up 
the hack and down tHe front, and they will 
he mighty thankful to get out of sight, hut 
many of these fakers seem to bob up so 
serenely in some new stunt somewhere that 
in the language of Bill Nye, the only safety 
of the umbrella is eternal vigilance, but the 
Rural seems pretty near equal to the task. 
May it over prosper is the wish of your 
bumble friend. w. h. 
New York. 
With such friends as that speaking 
for The R. N.-Y. it is pretty sure to get, 
sooner or later, the best farmers in any 
neighborhood, and we have such friends 
in many a corner of the country. The 
thing that impresses us with it all is 
that these good friends should be so 
enthusiastic in praise of a paper for do¬ 
ing the things that it ought to do. If 
a farm paper does not use its best ef¬ 
forts to protect the farmer and to cham¬ 
pion farm interests, as Mr. F. D. Squiers 
lias well said, “What in God’s name are 
the farm papers for?” While we think 
we are doing nothing more than our 
duty as a farm paper—and more often 
dissatisfied with it at that—we yet con¬ 
fess that we like to receive such ex¬ 
pressions of approval and confidence. It 
is the letters of this kind, more or less 
of which appear in every mail, that 
cheer on the work of many an exacting 
and trying day. j. j. D. 
ROOSTING HOUSE FOR YOUNG CHICKS. 
At this time of year the chicks 
hatched in March, April or May grow 
so fast that what was abundant room 
for them a month ago is much too close 
quarters now, and considerable loss is 
sustained by sweating on hot nights; so 
much so that what is gained in growth 
in the daytime is practically lost at 
night. The amateur poultryman won¬ 
ders why his chicks don’t grow faster, 
but if, after they have settled down for 
the night, he will take a look at them 
and see how they are packed in their 
little houses, lie will readily see where 
the trouble is. Then again when there 
is plenty of room if the chicks would 
remain in their own houses, it often 
happens that the chicks from two or 
three coops will all crowd into one 
house, especially if there comes on an 
extra cool night. I have had pullets 
that weighed four pounds each smoth¬ 
ered to death in this way by overcrowd¬ 
ing. 
To remedy this I now remove all 
the small coops in July and make some 
roosting houses like that in the cut. 
This is made by taking two planks eight 
inches wide by 12 feet long and nailing 
a board same width and four or five 
feet long across the ends, making a 
box 12 feet long by four feet wide. 
Then each half of the room is made 
separately of hoards half an inch thick, 
tongued and grooved and nailed to two 
strips of inch stuff three inches wide by 
12 feet long. The hoards project two 
inches below the strips at bottom and 
one inch at top. the bottom strip rest¬ 
ing on top edge of the plank and being 
held there by a nail driven through the 
roof into the plank. At the top one 
side of the roof rests on the strip to 
which the other side Ls nailed. T baiik 
the earth up against the outside to pre¬ 
vent water running in, and put straw or 
trash of some kind inside to keep the 
chicks up off the ground. Tfiese tem¬ 
porary structures are only about three 
feet high and a hundred or more chicks 
will find abundant room until they are 
full grown. My chicks remain in these 
houses at night of course, until it is time 
to put them into Winter quarters in 
November. The gable ends being open 
there is plenty of air and if the roof 
overhangs a little at each end rain is 
kept out and the chicks are dry. 
The total cost of such a house is not 
over $3, and if stored away in some 
shed when not in use, they will last for 
years. Bv the use of these houses I 
have overcome all difficulty about over¬ 
crowding, having never lost a chick in 
them. Some of my young cockerels 14 
weeks old weigh nearly six pounds and 
some of the pullets are losing their 
tail feathers, which they always do a 
short time before they begin to lay. This 
for Wyandottes is rushing things. I 
don’t like such precocious youngsters 
and will have to hold them hack by 
less feed and a different ration. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
TIME OF MOULTING. 
When should April chickens begin to 
moult? Is lliore any special treatment or 
feed to give them to induce same? 
Linlithgow, N. Y. n. b. s. 
April-hatched chicks should not begin 
to moult until 18 months old, unless 
forced unduly when chicks. We have 
known Leghorn chicks forced by the 
use of wet mash and beef scraps so 
they would make a partial moult in the 
late Fall, or when about seven months 
old. Why anyone should seek to cause 
a moult is more than I can understand, 
as it is a distinct shock to the hen to 
cause her to moult out of her season, 
and positively nothing is gained by it. 
Hens shut up in August and starved 
for a time, then let out and fed heavily, 
will moult, but not the kind of moult 
we like to see, and we gain nothing by 
it, and lose all the eggs for August 
and September, and these same hens 
are liable to moult again in December. 
Hens should he given the very best of 
care and feed when moulting and then 
they will come out of it in good shape, 
some of them even laying right through 
their moult. The natural moult is for 
the feathers to drop as new ones come 
in. Sometimes you will not know they 
are moulting except as you see the 
feathers all around the floors, and not 
as we sometimes see them, looking as 
if they had been dipped in boiling water 
and picked. fi.oyd q. white. 
LATE HATCHED PULLETS AND SMALL 
EGGS. 
From July 5 to August 13 I have hatched 
550 chickens. I would like to keep the 
pullets to lay market eggs. I have been told 
Unit they would lay eggs too small for mar¬ 
ket. Is this true? They are Barred Rocks 
and Wyandottes. If I cannot keep them I 
want to sell before they lay, as 1 can get 
from five lo 10 cents more per pound for 
chickens than for fowls. They get the best 
of care and will make fowls that will weigh 
from five to seven pounds. g. d. m, 
Randolph, Mass. 
d hese July and August-hatched pul¬ 
lets, if they have free range, with beef 
scraps and grain where they can get it 
whenever they want, ought to make a 
fairly good growth and lay by next Feb¬ 
ruary. They will always he smaller 
in size than early-hatched birds. Up to 
October they thrive very well, but after 
that the cold seems to shrink them and 
they increase in size very slowly. But 
that does not always affect the size of 
the eggs; in fact size of body, seems to 
have nothing to do with size of eggs. 
A three-pound White Leghorn lays a 
larger egg than an eight-pound Cochin 
hen, and in my flock of White Wyan¬ 
dottes the largest hens do not lay the 
largest eggs. I would keep the pullets 
and sell all the cockerels for broilers as 
soon as they weighed two pounds, and if 
I wanted to breed from these? pullets 
next Spring, would buy some large male 
birds to mate with them. By so doing 
the chicks, if hatched in April and May, 
and well cared for, will show a decided 
improvement in size over their mothers. 
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