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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 4, 
The Henyard. 
As noted, it is slow starvation for the 
younger set to feed together chicks of two 
sizes, but something may be gained, if it 
is unavoidable, by establishing “cities of 
refuge” with good food inside palings just 
large enough to let the kids through, 
taking care to reset the bars as they grow. 
F. c. 
I did not like the statement that the 
book, “ The Business lien,” was prepared 
nearly 20 years ago, when it was compiled, 
copyrighted and sent out as a premium in 
1004. 1 consider it a good work and like 
The It. N.-Y., but when you call down other 
people whose papers do not lit the goods, 
it disgusts me to read statements so utterly 
at variance with the facts. No doubt great 
changes have come in 20 years, but not such 
an awful lot in seven. However, I en¬ 
close the dollar to see if there is the great 
difference between the two books. 
New Hampshire. i. m. woolson. 
We like deep scratching in the hen- 
and it is 05 per cent or more new blood. 
yard, and a little scrapping shows quality, 
bur friend is wrong. The writer compiled 
" The Business lien ” in 1800. We admit 
it was not much of a book then, but that 
was the date—20 years ago. Again, in 
1004, the book was revised and issued as 
" A New Brood.” Now it has been re¬ 
written and issued as “ The Latest Hatch,” 
I have been reading “Hope Farm Notes,” 
page 58, about hens. 1 would like to give 
an account of 30 White Wyandotte pullets 
and their egg record for the month of 
December, 1010. These 30 pullets laid 021 
eggs, at an average price here of 50 cents 
per dozen. They were all hatched between 
May 1 and .June 8 and were raised in a 
yard about 30 feet square; 51% dozens at 
50 cents per dozen. .$25.87. 1 cannot tell 
just what it costs to keep a hen a year, 
as we have some table scraps, but would 
say one-half cent per day is a fair price, 
counting feed at retail price. J. E. W. 
So. Glens Falls, N. Y. 
I notice an inquiry for a cure for gapes. 
Having struggled to raise chickens on an 
old place infested with the gape worm, and 
losing numbers, I have found copperas the 
best thing. For two years 1 have not 
onlv kept chicks up on boards four weeks, 
but given copperas in drinking water daily 
from very first till at least two months old- 
in fact, all Summer. Last Summer 1 did 
not have a case of gapes, and Summer be¬ 
fore very few. A lump, size of grain of 
corn, to a pint of water. My pullets, not 
having been stunted by the gapes, have done 
better this Winter than any 1 ever raised. 
1 also have had less trouble with white 
diarrncea with chicks in brooders since 
using copperas, or sulphate of iron. 
West > irginia. mks. b. w. t. 
1 just read the article about the Jersey 
hens, from Mr. W. J. Dougau; they cer¬ 
tainly break the world's record. He must 
get an average of 20 dozen per hen, and 
average 50 cents per dozen, or he must 
get 52 dozen per hen in a year, which will 
be 384 eggs in 365 days, because I think 
30 cents per dozen the year around is about 
all a farmer or poultry man can get for 
tahle use. I do not believe a hen can be 
kept for less than a dollar per year. I 
will give you my bill of fare. 1 have 2o0 
chickens, ‘including the roosters, divided in 
three sections. The morning feed is 12 
quarts of wheat, worth about 30 cents. 
At noon a mash—live pounds of beef 
scraps—16 cents; at night, about one-half 
bushel of corn, worth 25 cents; six quarts 
of oats for the hopper, worth 10 cents; 
loan in the hopper and mash, worth nine 
cents; total, 90 cents. Besides this, for 
the mash, about one-half peck of second- 
grade potatoes and some short-cut Alfalfa, 
and all the mangels and cabbage they will 
eat, which I do not charge, because the 
droppings would be worth that, and no 
charge for straw for scratching; no charge 
for grit and oyster shells. Ninety cents 
a day would be $328.50 per year, or a trifle 
over $1.29 per head. H. r. Y. 
I’erkiomen Valley, l’a. 
Hens Eating Eggs. 
I am troubled with my hens eating eggs; 
not much, but a few of them. Is there 
anything I can do? Would it be caused 
by improper feeding? 1 feed dry mash 
composed of ground clover, cornmeal and 
mixed feed in equal proportion, and about 
half as much animal meal. They have 
oyster shells before them and cracked corn 
lor scratch food. A. C. W. 
New Hampshire. 
They probably got into the habit through 
tasting an egg broken by accident. If 
there are only a few egg eaters we should 
catch them at it and take them out. Cut 
off the end of the bill so it will hurt them 
to strike an egg with it. Generally it 
pays best in the long run to kill the few 
egg eaters as you catch the first ones. It 
sometimes helps to “doctor an egg by 
blowing out the contents and refilling the 
shell with red pepper and mustard. Then 
let the egg eater sample it. A special nest 
can be made of leather or burlap with a 
hole in the bottom, through which the new- 
laid egg rolls onto a soft place below. 
Business Hens and the Census. 
I noticed some time ago an article by a 
correspondent of Thio K. N.-Y. in regard 
to the poultry and egg industry of the 
country, whether the census returns could 
be relied upon; but I have come to the 
conclusion that if our Government census 
is as inaccurate and unreliable in all re¬ 
spects as in regard to the poultry industry 
there can be but little confidence placed in 
any of the reports. I presume there are 
verv few people, comparatively speaking, 
who know that the last two Government 
enumerations took no account of the poul¬ 
try or other live stock, except horses, in 
any of the cities or villages of the country, 
and very few people, I believe, have any 
idea of the enormous number of “ business 
liens ” there are in the cities and villages 
of the country. Taking this village as an 
example, with a population of about 5,000, 
I think it safe to say that there were as 
many fowls (counting the chickens raised 
and the fowls kept) as there were in¬ 
habitants during the last census year. 
Within sight of my home there arc 16 
people who keep anywhere from 10 to 100 
fowls, and 1 think this is perhaps an 
average locality, and if that is the case 
in this village, what must be the result 
when the thousands of villages of this 
country are considered? 
As to my reasons for the statements I 
have made in regard to the census re¬ 
turns, in the enumeration of 1900 I was 
one of the enumerators, and had the whole 
town of Ballston to enumerate, which town 
contains a part of the village of Ballston 
Spa, in which I live, and finding there 
was nothing in regard to fowls except in 
the farm schedules, I resolved to try to 
have the matter attended to in the next, or 
last, Government census. So, in August, 
1907, 1 wrote to the Department of Com¬ 
merce and Labor, calling attention to the 
facts, and asking that the Department have 
the matter attended to, and received the 
following reply : 
“ Keplying to your letter of recent date, 
concerning the enumeration of fowls in 
cities and villages, 1 thank you for your 
suggestion, and, in formulating the sched¬ 
ules for the agricultural census of 1910, the 
matter will be given consideration.” 
“H. I*. C'lIII.DEUS, 
“ Acting Chief of Division.” 
Then imagine my surprise when the 
enumerator came around last Summer to 
find there had been nothing done in regard 
to the matter. It seems to me that the 
people of the country should know these 
things, so that they can form a more cor- 
cstimate of the value of the census 
rect 
reports. 
New York. 
B, 
N. G. 
Mud and Hen’s Toes. —About a week 
after writing you about growths on hen’s 
feet 1 discovered it was just mud and wet 
horse manure which they had been scratch¬ 
ing in in their yard. After closing them 
up with nothing but straw to scratch in 
the lumps soon disappeared, but in one 
case at least the toenail came off with the 
lump knocked off in running. They arc 
doing very nicely now, and are beginning to 
lay fairly well. H. J. F. 
Giassport, I’a. 
Rearing Deer by Hand. 
Can a deer or young fawn eight or 10 
or 12 weeks old be raised by hand, and 
how long must it have milk after taken 
away from its mother? Can a deer be 
trained to a halter to be tied up like a 
calf? J- s. k. 
Tylersville, Pa. 
Fawns are usually taken from the doe 
when 10 or 15 days old and reared with 
cow’s milk. This is the only way to 
make them perfectly tame. We are about 
to issue a bulletin on the subject of rais¬ 
ing deer, and nearly all your correspon¬ 
dent's questions can be answered from the 
experience- of breeders given in the bul¬ 
letin. D. E. LANTZ, 
Assistant Biologist. 
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