1911. 
The Henyard. 
POULTRY IN SMALL RUN. 
R. Thomas's article on page 1106 on 
poultry yards is so interesting we would 
like to have another article, touching on 
the following points: Can the hens be kept 
healthy in these narrow quarters the entire 
year? Are the young chickens raised en¬ 
tirely in these quarters? Is it best to 
divide the chickens in small colonies of 
one cock and say dozen hens, or it is prac¬ 
tical to put 100 hens and six or eight 
cocks in one run? s. r. c. 
Rome, Ga. 
I must say that chickens are certainly 
healthier in my Summer runs, for I have 
had no sickness at all in them. I have 
a large open-front poultry house that I 
only use in the Winter months, and I 
have occasional sickness in them. I 
should think in Georgia my narrow runs 
would be ideal the year round, for they 
are always clean and fresh. For breed¬ 
ing stock I would keep 12 hens and 1 
cock in each section (16x4 feet), but 
for laying stock I would keep 100 hens 
or more together, but no cocks, at the 
rate of 20 hens per section. I would keep 
100 small chicks in one section, from one 
to three, weeks old, and add one or 
more sections on as they grew larger, 
and I keep them there till November. I 
think in Georgia you could keep them 
all the year. My growing chickens do 
better in these yards than in free range, 
and the quantity remains the same, for 
with free range there are always a largo 
number which disappear, besides what 
are drowned in thunderstorms. The 
grass does not get so long and there 
are no tall weeds, so they do not get 
wet with dew and rain as they would 
with free range, but move daily, or at the 
most every two days. The runs could 
be made wider, say eight feet, but rhey 
are not so handy to move, and would 
be very likely left when other work is 
pressing. The 16x4 runs can be moved 
so easily it does not count among the 
many jobs on a truck and poultry farm. 
R. THOMAS. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
New York Poultry Show. 
The Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock As¬ 
sociation held its 2 2d annual show in 
Madison Square Garden December 27-31. 
As usual excellent specimens of all the 
standard and fancy breeds were there. The 
greatest apparent increase was in the Or¬ 
pington class. These large, handsome birds 
make tine table fowls and are said to be 
good layers. Fancy prices, from $500 to 
$1,000, were put on some of the prize win¬ 
ners. A Connecticut man had a large 
collection of fancy ducks and other water 
fowls, pheasants, cranes, storks, etc. This 
annual show is well worthy of study by 
both the fancy breeder and the strictly 
utility poultryman, as there is opportunity 
to see a great variety of birds in a short 
time and ask any desired questions. There 
was a cat, pigeon and pet stock depart¬ 
ment for those interested in these matters. 
SPROUTED OATS FOR POULTRY. 
We receive many questions from people 
who want to know how to prepare sprouted 
oats for poultry. Sprouted oafs make a 
most convenient and excellent green feed 
for Winter—in some respects better than 
anything else. A recent bulletin from Cor¬ 
nell University shows how the oats are 
prepared. A rack with several shelves is 
very useful in preparing the oats. The 
rack in question is constructed of four 
2x4-inch sticks, six feet long. These are 
used as corner posts fastened by horizontals 
with their top edges 10 inches apart. The 
corners themselves are two feet six inciic 3 
apart by outside measurement and the two 
pieces of cleated sticks are fastened to¬ 
gether exactly two feet six inches apart 
Inside measurement with the cleats on 
the inside. A diagonal brace is nailed at 
the back of the frame. The cleats serve 
as slides and supports for the shelves, 
which are exactly two feet six inches 
square and two inches deep. The bottom 
is made solid except for a few holes to 
allow for drainage. One trouble with 
sprouted oats has been that smut or mold 
develops during the sprouting. Iu order to 
prevent this the oats are treated with 
formalin the same as when they are used 
for seed. One pint of formalin in 30 gal¬ 
lons of water or in smaller proportions 
will answer. The oats are spread on a 
tight floor and the liquid sprinkled over 
them. They must then be thoroughly mixed 
with a shovel and a rake and after mixing 
up into a wet pile covered with blankets 
and left for 12 hours, then the blankets 
are removed and the oats dried by stirring 
about. They can be kept in sacks or in 
bins which have also been sprayed with 
the formalin. For sprouting soak the oats 
for 24 hours, using warm water. One 
10-quart pail of oats will make enough 
for one tray. Sprinkle each trayful 
of the oats with warm water every morn¬ 
ing. The time required for the oats to 
sprout and grow will depend upon the 
temperature of the room. Under artificial 
heat about a week or 10 days will be re¬ 
quired to make a growth of about three 
inches high. By this time there will be 
a solid mat of roots all through the oats 
and this can be cut off in chunks. The 
ordinary requirement is about one square 
inch of such growth per hen each day. 
By keeping all the troughs filled as fast 
as they are fed out a constant supply 
will be on hand and it will make a most 
excellent feed for the poultry. 
“GROWTH” ON CHICKEN’S TOES. 
I saw on page 1171 that II. .T. F.'s hens 
have large growths on the end of their 
toes. The probable reason is that they, 
have been scratching in damp coal ashes 
or mud until it has accumulated on their 
toes. If he will take a hammer and lay, 
the hen's toes on the floor and give the 
bunches on the toes a light tap they will 
crack off. I have had hens in the same 
condition. c. b. f. 
. Concord, N. n. 
The inquiry concerning lumps oq the 
toes of White Leghorns, which “look like 
lumps of mud,” by H. J. F„ page 1171, 
facetiously commented upon by Mr. Cos¬ 
grove, is very probably not a “growth” 
from the system of the birds, but an ac¬ 
cumulation of filth due to the hens’ scratch¬ 
ing or standing in wet or moist manure 
of their own making. A mucilaginous con¬ 
sistency of the excrement of chickens very 
often pertains when they are not in best 
of health. These balls will therefore some¬ 
times form on a hen's feet- if she roosts on 
the droppings board instead of roosts 
proper, and if she is not a lively bird she 
will pick up on her sticky toes dust or soil 
from the droppings board or floor of the 
coop, thus accumulating night and day, 
first manure, then dirt, which dries in lay¬ 
ers until the mass becomes, may be, as 
large as English walnuts and as hard as 
concrete. Little chickens will do this, 
much more readily, if allowed to walk in 
the mud of a dirty coop, especially if their 
dry mash forms a part of the paste—a 
slopped-over drinking fountain together 
with the filth is most often the cause. 
When I first discovered this condition some 
years ago in a neighbor’s coop the little 
chickens beat a veritable tattoo upon the 
floor running for feed. It will bo thus 
noted that such a condition of chickens’ 
feet does not compliment their owner 
much, but if II. J. F. will soak the feet of 
his Leghorns in very warm water and 
gradually soften these masses they will 
come off. But in no case try to force them 
off until soft, or the skin of the toes and 
probably the toenails will come off them. 
Then if he will ever after keep clean he 
will have no further trouble. 
Long Island. Charles e. thorne. 
Ganders Sing Tenor. 
Can you tell me how to recognize the 
sex of Toulouse geese before they begin 
laying? j. h. n. 
Toulouse ganders are larger than the 
geese, and can readily be distinguished by 
their sharp, shrill voice when calling for 
their mates. Remove each bird separately 
from the rest of the flock and observe 
the noise they make. A goose has a low 
bass voice quite unlike that of the gander. 
C. s. G. 
The Sunflower Crop, 
Can you tell me how large growers of 
sunflowers harvest their crop? 
Vermont. d. b. ii. 
We raised three acres on our poultry 
farm this year, but as we had 2,000 grow¬ 
ing chickens in the same field, and 2,000 
more in the field adjoining, in addition to 
1,500 laying hens here at the plant, we 
were enabled to feed nearly all of the seed 
as fast as it ripened, being obliged to 
gather and cure only about 15 bushels. 
These heads were cut and spread on the 
ground for a few days, and then the seed 
pounded out. We then spread it on the 
barn floor, shoveling it over each day for 
about a week. This, of course, would be 
impractical had we been obliged to gather 
the entire crop. I believe, some growers 
cut and shock sunflowers the same as 
corn, allowing the shock to stand as late 
as possible. Even then it is necessary to 
spread the seed out in order to cure them 
thoroughly. w. g. krum. 
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