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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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COSGROVE’S HEN ANSWERS. 
Please tell me just what to feed my 
young pullets to make them lay ns soon 
ns possible (hatched in April), and when 
should I expect them to lay? They are 
some White Wyandottes and a few R. I. 
Reds. Should I have more than one cock¬ 
erel? There are about 25 pullets. Would 
you advise me to get rid these old hens? 
They do not lay and are fat. k. a. s. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
If the pullets have free range on 
grass land where they can get crickets, 
grasshoppers, etc., it is only necessary 
to have a pan or box of cracked corn, 
wheat and oats, where they can get at 
it whenever they wish, and good clean 
water, and they will grow and thrive 
amazingly. But if they are confined 
in a yard then green food must be 
supplied, and meat in some form, and 
exercise induced by throwing the dry 
grain in litter of any kind so they will 
have to scratch for it. In the absence 
of litter, scatter the grain all over the 
yard. It is a good plan to cover a 
strip of ground with oats, then spade 
up the strip, turning the oats under. 
If the pullets do not scratch them all 
up before tliey sprout then as soon as 
the green sprouts show above the 
ground, dig a shovelful out of the 
center so as to expose the oats and 
white rootlets, and the chicks will do 
the rest. A dry mash of two parts 
wheat bran, one part middlings, one 
part cornmeal, and one part beef scraps 
kept before them all the time will help 
force them along; but the whole grain 
should not be omitted when a dry 
mash is fed. Feeding properly is the 
most difficult thing about the hen busi¬ 
ness; don’t spoil their appetites by over¬ 
feeding. As Prof. Graham, of Ontario, 
said at the Manchester, Connecticut, 
meeting, “If they will cat 17 handfuls, 
it is perfectly safe to give 16J4, but if 
you give 17*4, it will take a week at 
least to get them in condition again.” 
The dry mash is perfectly safe; they 
will not overeat of that, in fact cannot, 
as the supply of saliva to wet it is 
used up after a few mouthfuls. 
Two cockerels would be apt to give 
more fertile eggs ordinarily, but there 
are exceptional males that will take 
care of 25 hens without any difficulty, 
and the eggs be very fertile. When 
the old hens do not lay and get fat it 
is always advisable to market them, 
unless they arc very good specimens 
and wanted to breed from. Pullets of 
the same brood will often vary a month 
or more in commencing to lay; gen¬ 
erally for the American breeds it is 
safe to calculate on the majority of 
them laying when seven months old; if 
they have been well taken care of some 
will lay probably when six months old. 
The Mediterranean breeds, Leghorns, 
etc., will lay a month earlier than the 
Rocks, Wyandottes and R. I. Reds. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
POLLED JERSEY CATTLE. 
Is there any such breed as Polled Jersey? 
If so, how did it originate, and how do the 
cattle compare with other Jerseys? 
Yes, there is such a breed. The 
American Polled Jersey Cattle Com¬ 
pany was incorporated in 1895; its head¬ 
quarters arc at Springfield, Ohio. Up 
to date 174 bulls and 360 females have 
been recorded in the herd book. Quite 
a number of Polled Jerseys arc eligible 
to record in the American Jersey 
Cattle Club Register, as they are really 
pure-blood Jerseys without horns. 
We are informed by the secretary that 
the Polled Jerseys were recorded, and 
traced back to the cow Funston, breed 
unknown. She was dropped about 1880, 
and was the foundation of the polled 
feature. At the contest of cattle made 
the Pan-American Show in 1901 a 
PoVcd Jersey was said to be the richest 
milker of the 50 cows entered for the 
test. £he rules governing registration 
of Polleti Jerseys are as follows, and 
this statement will give a clear idea as 
to the diifere, cc between the ordinary 
Polled Jersey and the A. J. C. C. stock. 
It will be seen that some of the Polled 
Jerseys might be registered in either as¬ 
sociation, while others have some out¬ 
side blood. 
Rules for Registration. 
To be eligible to record in the American 
Polled Jersey Herd Book au animal must 
conform to the following rules: 
Rule 1. It must be at least six months 
old. 
Rule 2. It. must, bo hornless; calved 
hornless, dehorned by no device. 
Rule 3. The progeny of animals recorded 
In Hie American Polled Jersey Herd Book; 
provided that, it conforms to Rules 1 and 2. 
Rule 4. An animal whose sire is re¬ 
corded in the American Polled Jersey Herd 
Book, and whose dam is recorded in the 
American Jersey Cat lie Club Herd Register; 
provided that it conforms to Rules 1 and 2. 
Rule 5. An animal whose dam is re¬ 
corded in the American Polled Jersey Herd 
Book, and whose sire is recorded in the 
American Jersey Catlle Club Herd Register; 
provided that It conforms to Rules 1 and 2. 
As animals bred as described in Rules 4 
and 5 sometimes fail to conform to Rule 2, 
a supplementary herd book called the Amer¬ 
ican Polled Jersey Herd Book for Founda¬ 
tion Stock, has been provided, in which such 
animals may be recorded, but no bull can 
be recorded in this supplementary herd book 
unless the application is accompanied by iu 
application for the registration of one or 
more of his descendants in the American 
rolled Jersey Herd Book. 
HEATING CAPACITY OF BOILER. 
It". T. I,., Newburyh, N. Y.—How many 
square feet of floor space will an eight 
horse-power boiler heat in a bouse standing 
alone, yet not in an exposed place? It lias 
the ordinary number of windows in each 
room, with nine-foot ceilings. 
A ns. —This question is somewhat in¬ 
definite, from the fact that different boil¬ 
ers vary in capacity as heaters, even 
though rated evenly in horse-power. It 
would probably be safe to reckon on a 
capacity to heat rooms aggregating 6,000 
square feet of floor space, provided that 
the direct radiation system be used, or 
50 per cert less if the indirect system be 
used. But this estimate might require 
revision in case there should be any 
special difficulties in laying out the 
piping, by which unusual friction and 
consequently retarded circulation may be 
caused. w. h. t. 
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