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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
January 28, 
The Henyard. 
Our hens made good, 3157 dozen from 
400 hens, sold for $730.04. That does not 
include eggs for family use, which would 
average three dozen a week. That is what 
the good wife and daughter did as a side 
line in the egg business. But they read 
The K. N.-Y. a. i. 
Bethalto, Ill. 
I think I am doing well with my liens, 
and not much fooling. I took 100 hens, 
mostly Lieghorns. We used all eggs needi-d 
for a family of 12. We set 23 dozen, 
and sold on the open market (no private 
sale for hatching), just store prices. We 
sold to the sum of $212.32. We feed 
whole grain, barley, buckwheat, a few oats, 
some bran, roots, shell and good water. 
New Y’ork. o. b. s. 
The poultry outlook for the coming sea¬ 
son in general is the brightest I have ex¬ 
perienced in the last 12 years, both in sales 
of chicks and eggs, also breeding stock. As 
to comparative profits in little chicks, eggs 
or breeding stock, that is a matter of opin¬ 
ion. and depends on how situated and con¬ 
veniences installed. For the man of mod¬ 
erate means starting in I would advise buy¬ 
ing chicks, especially of the Leghorn varie¬ 
ties, as they become profitable at an earlier 
age. As for us we find the day-old chick 
business is the most profitable of all, as 
our eggs hatch exceedingly well we are 
able to sell at a moderate price. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. john h. weed. 
The Other Side. —Last Winter we had 
80 hens, some of them we paid as high as 
75 cents apiece for, which we thought 
rather high. We kept account and found 
they paid for keen and some over through 
the Winter, and grain was high ; we had 
everything to buy.. In April we com¬ 
menced setting hens on eggs we got from 
chicken raisers, good stock, and some of 
our own eggs. Not more than half the 
eggs hatched; then a cold wet spell killed 
lots of the chicks. When half grown a 
vile skunk got into the coop one night and 
killed four White Leghorns, and wo only 
got 15 cents for his skin and about a pint 
of oil out of his carcass. The two pullets 
he left commenced laying in November 
when eggs were selling at 40 cents a dozen 
at the cooperative store. Since Christmas 
eggs have dropped to 37 cents a dozen. 
We lost some chickens by huddling when 
we changed them from the small coop to 
the chicken house. The hawks' got some, 
some had rickets. Now after one year’s 
experience trying to raise chickens to make 
hens for laying purposes (counting out the 
roosters) we think a laying pullet ought 
to be worth about $75 instead of 75 cents, 
and fresh eggs should bring 08 cents a 
dozen at the least. i. m. s. 
Lisbon, Me. 
Of late years, our experience has been 
confined to R. C. Rhode Island Reds and 
Indian Runner ducks. We breed only from 
our own birds, cull out all specimens that 
show the least deterioration from a high 
standard of vigor, no matter when it shows 
or how valuable the individual may be. 
All utility hens are disposed of Immediately 
after their second laying year. We feed 
from November 1 to May 1 oats and wheat 
at daylight, moist mash at noon and whole 
corn at night. The mash consists of hran. 
ground oats, cracked corn, gluten meal. 
Alfalfa, charcoal, grit and beef scraps, and 
varies in proportions with the seasons, being 
much richer in scrap, grit and charcoal from 
July 1 to December 1 (the moulting season!. 
Five years ago, when we first used this 
system of feeding (which we have had no 
reason to change) it gave us an average i 
annual egg yield of 143 eggs per hen with 
a flock of 300 hens and pullets. The 
same system has been carried on since, 
with yearly improvement, until the present 
output shows an average of 170 eggs each 
a year. As the treatment and feeding 
has heeq, the same, we can only attribute 
the increase of product to increased vigor 
of constitution. While five years ago we 
had trouble in getting our Reds up to 
standard weight, they now show an average 
of 75 per cent, over weight. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. 
Abuse of Kindness. —Beginners at poul¬ 
try keeping tend to overfeed their chickens 
during the Winter. Too much grain : too I 
little animal food and green food. Fowls I 
require each of these three kinds of food : 
all the year round, in order to keep in 
vigorous health, and if they are overfed I 
or underfed with either one there is apt 
to be a loss in vitality that shows itself j 
in diminished egg production. It is not 
much trouble to throw out grain two or 
three times a day, nor to furnish enough 
animal food in the shape of beef scrap; 
but to supply a sufficient ration of fresh 
green food Is not always an easy matter. 
So there are a great many flocks' that are 
compelled to get along on a very scanty 
amount of vegetable food. Yet experience 
teaches that chickens need bulky vegetable 
diet every day, just as human beings and 
our cattle do, not so much for the nourish¬ 
ment it affords as for its effect on the 
appetite and digestion. They consume 
large amounts when they can get it. When 
the supply is small and at the same time 
they are freely fed with g.rain they tend 
to grow too fat, and the unhealthy condition 
shows itself in the laying of soft-shelled 
eggs, diminished egg production, lack of 
fertility, disturbances of the digestive or¬ 
gans, and sometimes death. It would an¬ 
noy and offend most poultry keepers if they 
were accused of abusing their fowls; yet 
such a charge would be true of many of 
them. The term abuse does not always 
mean neglect or harshness; it may often be 
applied justly to those who are overanxious 
to do all they can for their birds. More 
hens are injured by overfeeding and cod¬ 
dling than by lack of food and rough usage. 
WM. R. FISHER. 
daily ration does not include meat in some 
form. The best preventive is to keep the 
hens busy. Start them to working early 
in the morning and keep them at it all day. 
It is a good plan to feed a portion of 
cracked grains in the litter each morning. 
This should be scattered around and well 
covered so that the hens will have to 
scratch for it. At noon feed meat scraps 
or cut bone and green food in some form; 
also give them free access to a good dry 
mash. For the afternoon feed they may 
•be given more grain, which will keep them 
working until dusk. If any of the hens 
are injured they should be removed until 
the wound is entirely healed. F. T. F. 
An Open Front Henhouse. 
A short time ago I read an article in 
The R. N.-Y. on the open front poultry 
house and asking for experience with such 
houses. I can give but one year's experi¬ 
ence, which was highly satisfactory to me. 
Seven years ago I built a poultry house 
25 miles east of Buffalo, N. Y., 15x45, 
divided into three rooms, intending to keep 
50 White Leghorns in each compartment. 
The building was 5% feet high at the 
rear and eight feet in front. To each 
room there was an opening six feet square 
over which poultry netting was fastened. 
1 then made a light frame the size of 
opening and stretched a good quality of 
muslin over same, and hinged it to top of 
opening, which was close to the roof as 
possible, so as to let the sunlight penetrate 
to the rear of house. 1 built a roosting 
platform of one inch matched • boards at 
the rear slightly sloping toward the front 
and three feet from the ground. I also 
made a muslin curtain on a frame hinged 
to the roof to close down against the 
front of roosting platform. Other inside 
arrangements can be made to suit owner. 
Now for results. All my neighbors 
said my chickens would freeze, but I did 
not think so. That Winter was the coldest 
I have ever experienced; for three weeks 
the thermometer registered from zero to 
20 below, and the morning of January 17 
the mercury said 27 degrees below zero. 
Some of my neighbors came over to count 
my dead chickens, but instead there was 
not even a frosted comb. I had the ground 
floor covered to a depth of eight to 10 
inches with planer shavings, and feed all 
grain in this litter, mixing it thoroughly 
by scuffling through it with my feet, and 
it was a great lot of pleasure to me to see 
those Leghorns make those shavings fly. 
They make the finest litter for all pur¬ 
poses that can be found, and when we got 
a bright sunny day the way those chickens 
would sing one would think there were 
500 instead of 50. If I were to build one 
or 100 poultry houses I would follow out 
above plan. o. o. marston. 
Fighting Hens. 
What is the cause of fighting among a 
flock of hens? Mine are all April and May 
hatched pullets. They sometimes kill each 
other, and as they are fine strain of S. C. 
White Leghorns, I do not like to lose them. 
Gasport, N. Y. j. c. h. 
I think the cause of the fighting is prob¬ 
ably due to idleness. Leghorns very often 
become uneasy unless they have plenty to 
do. This may lead to picking or feather 
pulling. An accidental taste of blood cre¬ 
ates a hankering for more, and the results 
are often disastrous, especially when the 
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