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February n, 
THE: RURAb NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
SELECTING BREEDING STOCK. 
Select your breeders now for your com¬ 
ing flock of chicks. Get a good male bird, 
for this is the foundation of your next 
year's layers. It costs a little extra to get 
a good cockerel, but it pays to buy the best 
one can afford. Those who have a mixed 
lot of hens and wish to improve them 
should decide what breed they like and 
which is best suited to their purpose, 
should then buy a good cockerel and mate 
some of their best hens, say 10 or 20, with 
this cockerel, and they will have some good 
grades. By following this plan for a few 
seasons one builds up a good flock of uni¬ 
form color and size. But the writer thinks 
it pays best to keep purebred fowls on the 
farm and it does not cost very much to 
start with if one only takes the time to 
look after a few breeders or raise a few 
purebred chicks from eggs purchased from 
some reliable breeder. In caring for your 
breeders while in close confinement be sure 
to make them exercise as much as possible 
by scratching in litter for all grain, and 
hang up cabbage, carrots or mangels so 
that the hens will have to jump up to 
pick them. If you want vigorous healthy 
chicks do not feed too much animal matter 
to force heavy egg production, for if you 
do you will weaken the vitality of your 
chicks. Be sure to feed plenty of green 
food and do not get your breeders too fat. 
I like a dry mash made as follows: 200 
pounds bran, 100 pounds wheat middlings, 
200 pounds ground oats, 100 pounds corn- 
meal, 100 pounds linseed meal, 100 pounds 
beef scraps. As soon as the weather will 
permit' give them as large a run as pos¬ 
sible. Do not neglect to have before the 
hens at all times plenty of clean water and 
a good supply of grit and oyster shells. 
Schuylerville, N. Y. 
j. c. P. 
A VILLAGE FLOCK. 
Here is my account with fowls for the 
year 1910. We think it pretty good for 
a small flock on a village lot, 100x300 feet, 
which is mostly taken up by special crops, 
fruit and berries, lawn and vegetable gar¬ 
den, with a ginseng garden 50x05 feet. 
The fowls have to be confined to two small 
yards with about 20 fowls in each. The 
fowls are S. C. White Leghorn. We started 
the year with 21 yearling hens and 21 
pullets in separate pens. The hens began 
moulting quite late in the Fall of 1909, so 
laid but few eggs until about the middle 
of March. The pullets began laying in 
November, 1909. My record shows eggs 
laid in 1910 as follows: January, 239; 
(February, 450; March, 559; April, 094; 
May, 057; June, 014; July, 545; August, 
370; September, 85; October, 63; Novem¬ 
ber, 240; December, 268, making a total 
of 4,785, or . 398% dozens for the year. 
Most of the hens were killed and marketed 
in August (which accounts for so few 
eggs in September and Oetober) to make 
room for the chickens, of which we raised 
about 80 in little movable brooders with 
a covered chicken wire run attached that 
could be moved to a fresh place every 
three or four days or as often as it be¬ 
came foul or they had eaten the grass 
down close. The pullets raised in 1910, 
of which we have now the original num¬ 
ber of 42, began laying the third day of 
October. I have charged up all the feed 
(except the scraps from the table from 
our small family of three persons), which 
consisted mostly of cracked corn, oats and 
wheat, which we feed in scratching pens 
morning and afternoon, with a mixed feed 
at noon, similar to that recommended in 
“The Business Hen.” About the first of 
April last year I sowed about four square 
rods of Alfalfa in the garden, which grew 
finely, and I cut three crops from it and 
cured for the fowls in the Winter, bought 
a small machine which cuts it in one- 
eighth-inch lengths and feed it with the 
mixed ground feed, about half and half, 
scalding it some time before feeding, giv¬ 
ing it time to soften and partially cook. 
I also usually sow turnips among the 
sweet corn after the last hoeing, the tops 
of which I fet'd the fowls in the Fall (after 
the lawn grass has failed), and put the 
roots in the cellar, which with beets and 
other roots I cut in a root cutter and give 
them for green food. I keep a hopper of 
oyster shells and another of grits by them 
all the time so they can help themselves 
as they need it. 
I keep the fowls tame, so that when I 
go in their pens thoy gather around me to 
see what I have for them, and can pick 
them up and pet them, and have to walk 
carefullv to keep from stepping on them. 
I had quite a costly experience this Winter 
with one of my pens of 22 pullets, which 
reduced my egg record very materially. 
They had just got to laying nicely in 
| December, and I was getting eight or 10 
eggs a day from them, when I carried in 
a large basket of leaves for them to scratch 
in which so frightened them that they quit 
1 laying at once, and some of them even 
commenced moulting and lost most of their 
feathers, which are now coming in again. 
The thing puzzled me for a long time, as I 
never knew of a similar instance, but when 
I read “The Business Hen” I found out 
■what was the trouble, that it was all due 
to the fright they had received. But it 
was rather a costly experience, occurring 
when eggs were worth 40 to 45 cents a 
dozen. Received from the sale of eggs : 
310 doz. sold, average price 33 7-10 
cents . $98.43 
Used in family, 80 doz. 27.12 
Fowls killed and sold... 32.95 
Fowls and chickens used in family 
at 75 cents each. 9.00 
.$167.50 
Paid for feed, etc. $65.25 
25 incubator chicks at 15 cents each. 3.75 
$69.00 
This deducted from the total receipts 
leaves a not profit of $98.50, which I con¬ 
sider a very creditable showing for a small 
flock, but which our Government does not 
seem to consider worth mentioning in the 
census reports, and I am only one of prob¬ 
ably 50 in our town who keep fowls. I 
have given no credit for the manure from 
the fowls, which I keep in barrels under 
cover and use on the garden, lawn and 
berries, seldom using any other fertilizer, 
against which I offset my work in caring 
for the fowls, which for a man who has 
led an active life for over 73 years I con¬ 
sider a pleasure. a. N. G. 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
Tiie “Standard” for American poultry 
breeders seems to have gone in favor of 
the green egg of Indian Runner ducks. This 
we believe to be a mistake—the white egg 
strain is more practical for farmers. Nearly 
all the breeders admit that the white egg 
is far better, but think they must follow 
American Standard in order to get high 
prices. 
The past year of 1910 has been a very 
good one with us in spite of being drowned 
out in the Spring and then dried out in 
the Summer and Fall. Our crops were all 
good, although not record-breakers, and we 
feel very much encouraged, and are now 
planning the work of 1911. The poultry 
never did better than last year. We keep 
a large number of old hens for breeding 
from, and while they lessen our egg record 
somewhat, yet we find that it is the best 
way to get vigorous stock. Our hens laid 
well into the moulting period, and were 
a ragged and disgraceful lot when we housed 
them in the Fall, but have come out of their 
moult in fine shape and commencing to 
lay, some pens of old hens laying 30 per 
cent. now. We keep the muslin fronts open 
all the time, except in very extreme cold 
and stormy weather, as we think more of 
vigor and health than we do of the few 
eggs we lose by the cold air. We have 
never purchased a baby chick, and if we 
could have a choice we would much prefer 
to buy breeding stock or eggs from a well- 
known breeder, whose stock we knew to be 
all right, than buy baby chicks, because 
we like to handle our breeding stock in 
our own way, and know that one can ruin 
the best eggs in the management of their 
incubator. While it is admitted the brood¬ 
ing and rearing is the hardest part, much 
depends on what has gone before. 
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