1911. 
The Henyard. 
Some things I have found out by experi¬ 
ence. You cannot feed chickens of varying 
ages together with much profit. The old 
ones trample the little ones to death. Old 
hens and pullets do better separated. As 
the pullets do not need as high feeding 
until nearing time to lay, each breed should 
be kept apart from another. One style of 
feeding does not do for Asiatics and Medi¬ 
terranean poultry. m. b. 
Plump Market Fowls. —In breeding 
fowls for market individuals should be 
chosen which have small bones and plump¬ 
ness as a first consideration. Shortness of 
leg and neck are necessary; but these points 
usually belong to the plump bird. There is 
more from breeding from good individuals 
than there is in any one particular breed. 
We must have a good breed of course, but 
its improvement depends on the selection 
of the right individuals for breeding pen. 
Weedsport, N. Y. b. n. h. 
Mustard fob Poultry. —The foreign 
correspondent of the New York Sun 
says if your chickens show a disinclination 
to lay give them mustard. An experiment 
has been made in Wales that proves that 
this condiment acts as a stimulant to hens. 
The experiment was made by the vice- 
president of the English Poultry Club and 
it was carried on for one year. Buff Or¬ 
pington pullets were selected for the test. 
The birds had never laid eggs and were as 
nearly alike as possible. Food was served 
to six birds in one pen. The food of six 
birds in another pen had mustard added 
to it. At the end of six months the birds 
fed with ordinary food had laid 369 eggs, 
whereas the birds fed with the mustard 
addition to their food had laid 532 eggs. 
At the end of the year the birds fed on 
ordinary food had laid 914 eggs, as against 
1,023 eggs laid by the mustard fed birds. 
Late Hatching. —While it may be prac¬ 
tical to hatch chicks all Summer, we do 
not do it, nor do we think it profitable for 
us. In our own experience of over 16 
years we find the Leghorn hatched in April 
to be the most profitable for eggs, as she 
commences to lay in September and will 
not make any moult, which is the one trou¬ 
ble of March-hatched Leghorns. May- 
hatched chicks will make good Winter lay¬ 
ers, but we have never been able to get 
good birds later than May. The reason for 
this may be owing to our being unable to 
give them proper care, as at this season we 
are rushed with our work with fruit, but 
whatever the cause or reason is, we have 
never succeeded in making a Summer- 
hatched chicken a profitable egg machine. 
New York. FLOYD q. white. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Yellow Clover for Poultry. 
Having a lot of yellow clover hay, I 
would like to know how good it is to feed 
to laying hens? L. G. w. r. 
Mongaup, N. Y. 
This is probably Yellow trefoil, although 
there are several kinds of yellow clover. 
Yellow trefoil has a composition a little 
better than ordinary clover, but not equal 
to Alfalfa. G. F. w. 
Preserving Fish for Poultry. 
I am located near a river, where I can 
get a lot of fish for my poultry. How can 
I preserve the fish so it will keep any 
length of time? c. p. a. 
Bournedale, Mass. 
While fresh fish makes a good animal 
food for growing chicks and laying hens, 
It is not suitable for feeding market poultry 
just before killing, as it gives the meat a 
“fishy” flavor. Although I have never seen 
fish preserved with anything except salt, 
which of course would spoil it for poultry 
food, I can see no reason why it could not 
be cooked, dried and ground the same as 
beef scrap is prepared. It should then keep 
for months. c. s. g. 
Alfalfa for Hens. 
Will you tell me what is the general 
opinion of Alfalfa as a “green food” for 
laying hens, and how it is best prepared for 
that purpose? D. F. w. 
Newark, N. J. 
Alfalfa is recognized as one of the best 
green foods for laying hens that we have. 
Of course it must be cut at the proper time 
and cured without getting wet, or its value 
will be greatly decreased. It may be cut 
or ground and steamed and mixed with the 
noon-day mash, or it can be mixed with the 
dry mash and fed dry in hoppers. It Is 
Impossible to say that one method is better 
than the other, as both accomplish the 
same results, so it is largely a matter of 
convenience or preference which method is 
pursued. c. a. G. 
Gapes or Pip. 
Give me a cure for the gapes or pip in 
chickens. I have lost several with that 
disease, and there seems to be no cure. 
New York. J. z. 
Gapes are caused by worms in the 
chick’s windpipe. The best treatment is 
prevention. Ground on which chickens 
suffering with gapes have ranged becomes 
infected and should not be used in suc¬ 
ceeding years. The trouble can be mini¬ 
mized by practicing rigid disinfection and 
cleanliness in the coops, yards and eating 
places. Feeding strong onions or garlic, 
chopped and mixed with other food and 
fed before the worms gain a foothold, is 
beneficial in keeping down the growth and 
development of the parasite. Early hatch¬ 
ing also is advised. Keeping the chicks on 
a board floor—away from all soil, will 
prevent the trouble. “Pip” is a general 
name applied to a diseased and dried con¬ 
dition of the mouth. The common treat¬ 
ment of tearing off the dried portion of 
the tongue is cruel and often causes death. 
Dr. Salmon recommends a wash of equal 
parts of glycerine and water, with 15 
grains of boric acid to the ounce. This 
will loosen the hardened tissues, which 
may then be carefully removed. 
Turkeys in Washington 
On page 1160 a reader in Washington 
tells of his success in raising turkeys. How 
did he do it? He beats us. j‘. h. l. 
Regarding those turkeys we don’t think 
that we did anything unusual. I have 
known better results in several instances. 
•Not perhaps in price, but surely in per¬ 
centage. The good wife gets the honors 
for the raising, having had all the care 
of the little ones for the first three 
months or more. To begin with, the 
poults were not hatched early enough to 
do their best for Thanksgiving, the first 
ones only coming May 15. For the first 
two or three weeks they were fed hard- 
boiled eggs with chopped onion and grit, 
mixing in chick food part of the time. Be¬ 
tween meals finely cut Alfalfa was given 
freely, this brought them to the stage 
where they could forage for themselves, 
getting only wheat when they came in 
at night. About four weeks before Thanks¬ 
giving whole corn was placed where they 
could get all they would eat to finish them 
off, though I don’t think they ate more 
than 100 pounds. We give most of the 
credit to the dry, warm climate. The 
gobbler is a Bronze with three Bronze fe¬ 
males and two cross-bred ones. 
Pasco, Wash. r,. a. p. 
The poultry business is very limited. 
Farmers do a general farm business. It is 
very hilly in this locality, and land is not 
in its virgin state, we lose a great amount 
of fertility from heavy rain causing the soil 
to wash. From some cause the fruit busi¬ 
ness has not been a success, mostly being 
killed by late frosts. In former years a 
great many sheep were kept, but on account 
of low price of wool and low price of fat 
wethers this is largely dropped. The price 
paid by shippers for 125-pound wether is 
$3.50 per 100, and lambs $5 per 100. Wool 
sold at 23 and 24 cents. I am past 66 
years old, and 40 years ago I have sold fat 
sheep of less weight at $5 per 100. The 
high cost of living cannot be placed to the 
farmers’ account, as wages are high for 
hired help, and that next to impossible to 
secure. It seems as though farm work is 
considered degrading, or work for undesir¬ 
able people that cannot be trusted. When 
I first started on the farm to do for myself 
in 1866 I could secure good help which took 
an interest in the work, but it is different 
now, and the cost of production is increas¬ 
ing. I only had a few farming tools when 
I commenced, but now our barn and sheds 
are all full of machinery, and repairs are 
almost out of the question, and it is almost 
better to buy a new machine. w. k. g. 
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