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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 
The Henyard. 
ARRANGEMENT OF HENHOUSES. 
What plan of building is advised where 
land slopes downward rather steeply west 
and is exposed to the north? I shall be 
obliged to fill in considerably to get a 
level to have runs on south and face 
chicken house south. Can I face house to 
east and have runs east (up hill) and get 
satisfactory results, or how could I best 
arrange under the circumstances, exposure 
considered? I prefer an open front house 
with scratching shed for Winter. 
Connecticut. G. E. c. 
I would suggest that you face the houses 
as you desire, toward the east, bringing 
them around to the southeast as much as is 
consistent with the nature of the land. You 
could then use a single pen colony house 
for the fowls, using cloth curtains on the 
front or east side and tight glass windows 
on the south side. I would consider it 
rather impossible to utilize such a slope of 
ground for the construction of a house con¬ 
taining a series of pens. 0. a. kooers. 
BUCKWHEAT FOR POULTRY. 
On page 47 a reader in Delaware asks 
what he can best do with a supply of 
buckwheat. This grain is a good food for 
poultry, and the middlings one of the best 
milk-producing foods known. The price 
of other grains as given are higher than 
in other markets, although he does not 
give the price of the buckwheat. I pre¬ 
sume he means buckwheat middlings, as 
the shucks—“bran"—are not fit to feed and 
of no value as a food. Buckwheat here is 
worth a little over a cent per pound, and 
all of his prices for other grain are con¬ 
siderably above that. From my limited 
experience among the farmers of his State, 
1 am inclined to think that too much corn 
is fed to poultry. The climate is much 
warmer than in New' York, and a “cooler" 
food is required. Also a less fat condi¬ 
tion of the. hens to make the conditions 
less favorable for cholera germs to get 
hold. Considering the commercial value 
he cannot afford to sell the buckwheat and 
buy other grains, for they would cost so 
much, that he would be the loser, and 
would have the extra labor of transporta¬ 
tion both ways. Considering the food 
value, he will get as much for his money 
to feed it unground as ground, and more 
than he would if he exchanged it. Con¬ 
sidering the effect of this grain, he will 
have a healthier flock of fowls by feed¬ 
ing it, and I think will soon see a de¬ 
cided increase in egg production. Being 
black, it is not so readily seen in the 
litter, and will last longer as an “exer¬ 
cise promoter.” It will be found in time, 
no need to worry about its being wasted. 
Of course, everyone knows that the part 
which will bring the most per pound—the 
center of the kernel, the flour—is worth 
the least for feeding, and he can have some 
of it floured and sell it, reserving the 
shorts for his cows, feeding them during 
the milking period. I would keep enough 
of it for fowls, so that 1 could feed at 
least one-quarter of the whole grain ration 
of it. I would mix oats, buckwheat and 
corn for their ground grain, equal parts 
and add bran. I would flour and sell 
some at retail among my friends, putting 
it in 10 and 25-pound sacks, and feed 
the middlings or shorts, but would not 
let the miller run in the shucks. They 
will not injure the stock, if he is not fixed 
for keeping them out, but they are worth 
much more fob the floor litter. I like 
them the best for this purpose of any ma¬ 
terial I ever used; they are so dry that 
they will absorb a good deal of moisture 
before becoming damp. They are so light 
and fluffy the grain will sink out of sight 
at once, causing the hen a lot of work 
to find it without tiring her to move it 
around. T regard 1 uekwheat as one of the 
best, as well as the cheapest food, for 
fowls known. c. e. c. 
Poultry is bought by dealers and shipped 
mostly to New York City. We are getting 
nine cents for chickens, nine cents for 
ducks, and 16 cents for turkeys, live weight. 
Leipsic, Ohio. ' J. w. p. 
The Cuero (Texas) Star says that 
Rudolph and Edwin Egg, of Meyesville, 
assisted by five hands, drove 966 fine fat 
turkeys into town about noon to-day. The 
distance of 13 miles between the starting 
point and destination was covered in a 
day and a half, keeping the caravan out 
only one night., 
The Atchison (Kansas) Globe says: 
Henry A. Roeske, a florist of Winsted, 
Conn., has solved one problem to his own 
satisfaction; he has taught his eiistwhile 
erring hens to lay during cold weather 
when the demand for eggs is greater than 
the supply. This result is accomplished 
by putting the chickens in a screened part 
of his greenhouse. lie contends that the 
sight of flowers, ferns and such fools the 
hens into the notion that it is Summer 
time, and that they should lay. Moral: 
A bouquet will often do the work where a 
brickbat falls. 
The outlook for the coming season both 
in fowls and eggs for hatching was never 
better, the demand for high class stock is 
greater than the supply and prices are each 
year going higher for purebred fowls and 
eggs: $25 to $75 are ordinary prices for 
breedings birds, and thousands are sold at 
these prices each year, while scores are 
sold at from $200 to $1,000 for the bpst 
specimens of the most popular breeds. The 
best eggs for hatching bring 75 cents to $2 
each. Such prices were unheard of a few 
years back, and I have bred fancy poultry 
for more than 20 years. Anyone who will 
carry good stock and raise good chicks can 
sell them all, with a little advertising, at 
prices that will leave a handsome profit. 
The barnyard fowl seems doomed, and the 
farmer, commuter and everyone who has a 
few spare feet are going in for purebred 
poultry. Baby chicks are not a paying 
proposition, as there is too great risk in 
poor hatches which brings the cost up. I 
will not try to sell them, as I prefer to 
hatch all I can and raise to sell at high 
prices. Lots of breeders are now refusing 
to sell eggs for hatching, preferring to set 
all their eggs and sell the matured fowls 
at a profit the eggs would not bring. This 
plan is better business for the breeder, as 
some of the eggs sold might hatch better 
specimens than he hatched and raised him¬ 
self. I consider baby chicks the least 
profitable, and the most troublesome part 
of the business. F. m. frescott. 
New Jersey. 
Lumps ox Hens’ Toes. —I was amused 
to read about the lumps on the toes of 
H. J. F.’s Leghorns on page 1171. If 
II. J. F. would have taken time to inspect 
the toes I am sure he would have found 
that it was only dirt. I have a friend 
who had the same thing some years ago; 
he called my attention to it, and on exami¬ 
nation we found it was only mud dried 
on their toes. The way they received the 
lumps was from going from dry brooder 
to a wet spot in one corner of the room, 
running back and forth and accumulating 
dirt and dust on their wet toes. Let H. 
J. F. take a pair of pliers or a hammer 
and crack the lumps and break them off 
as gently as he can. a. b. 
College Point, N. Y. 
Doubling Up. —On a recent visit to Cor¬ 
nell Prof. Rice pointed to an engineer’s plan 
for utilizing the colony brooder houses in 
Winter. These colony houses are the three- 
cornered structures shown in “The Busi¬ 
ness Hen.” They are on runners, and In 
Summer are hauled out on the farm to 
provide shelter for the little chicks. In 
Fall they are hauled back to the college 
and used for pullets. For some years they 
were used singly, but it finally occurred 
to Prof. Itice that they could be doubled 
up by connecting two with a large pipe— 
like a stove pipe. So now they are put 
side by side with the pipe connection. 
The pullets pass from one to the other, 
thus having scratching shed and feeding 
room and a sleeping room and place for 
laying. 
“Utility.” —Sufficient stress cannot seem 
to be laid on the importance of forming 
“utility” clubs throughout the States. 
While I do not wish to be understood as 
believing that there is nothing being done 
towards the uplift of the utility hen, I yet 
must confess that which has been done 
is known only to a few. Many times the 
question comes up which is the best laying 
hen or the best table bird. The question 
is answered as follows: The Plymouth 
Rock breeder says, “Why, the Rocks.” The 
White Leghorn breeder replies, “My birds 
are the best.” The Cochin breeder claims 
his to be the best, and so on down the line. 
The chances are not very good for picking 
out a utility strain under these conditions. 
If a straight-bred flock is useless for utll- 
ity, then let us have a crossbreed. Here 
is* where the utility club comes in. The 
most important thing needed is a “Standard 
of Utility,” such as is used for fancy fowls. 
With such a standard we would soon find 
out who’s who. Of the standard I shall 
write next time. There are many things 
to be put into the standard to make it as it 
should be in order to do the most good. 
F. ANTHONY KUHN. 
While there is lots of rape raised in this 
section it is mostly fed to sheep and hogs. 
One man told me that he fed lots of it to 
cows, but not enough to determine the 
questions asked. All were agreed, how¬ 
ever, that caution should be used in turn¬ 
ing cows or sheep on to a field of rape on 
account of bloat. As such large stock as 
cows would trample down and soil as much 
as they would eat it would seem the better 
way to cut and feed, cutting high enough 
so as to allow the sprouts to start again 
from the bottom. In this way it could 
be fed after milking, which would over¬ 
come the danger of tainted milk. Rape 
has 2.16 per cent of digestible protein, 
nearly double that of green corn fodder 
and nearly nine per cent carbohydrates, or 
about three per cent less than corn, and 
while it contains less dry matter it should 
compare favorably with corn as a soiling 
crop. Some very large yields have been 
reported, as high as 27 tons to the acre 
at one cutting. As rape will make a good 
second grorwth, if cut early, it seems as 
though there was no limit to the yields. 
Livington Co., N. Y. c. s. hunt. 
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