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THE RTJ RAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 25. 
The Henyard. 
Good Rhode Island Reds. 
During the year 1910, 170 R. C. R. I. 
hens and pullets were kept in curtain- 
front house and fed as follows: Morning, 
scratch food fed in litter, dry mash in 
hoppers always before them, with a small 
amount of scratch food scattered at noon 
to induce exercise. Night, whole corn and 
oats during cold weather, and scratch food 
substituted for corn during warm weather. 
Skim-milk and a liberal supply of green 
food, such as cabbage and mangels, is 
given, also oyster shells, grit and fresh 
water always before them. The following 
result was obtained: 
23313 eggs sold.$574.00 
Broilers sold . 200.26 
Hens sold. 107.58 
Increase in stock value. 44.25 
Total receipts .$926.09 
Expense of feed and eggs for hatch¬ 
ing . 369.64 
Balance to credit.$556.45 
F. M. V. s. 
New Paltz, N. Y. 
A Hawk Trap. 
This section being heavily wooded, we 
are troubled very much with hawks, and I 
have set up an effective trap, of which I 
enclose diagram. All that is needed is a 
pole and trap. (I find a No. 1 jump trap 
about the best, as it will set on pole better.)- 
Pole should be about 12 or 15 feet above 
ground and far enough in to hold your 
weight, hasten trap on pole by a chain 
Grasshoppers and Turkeys. 
Tell those western people that are trou¬ 
bled with grasshoppers to grow turkeys 
to catch the grasshoppers. I have obtained 
nearly $1,000 out of my grasshoppers the 
last two years by growing a little corn to 
feed the turkeys in the Fall after the grass¬ 
hoppers were gone. I have also saved the 
grass and grain by getting away with the 
hoppers. F. j. b. 
Ulenfield, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Out where the grasshoppers are 
following the Alfalfa it would take millions 
of turkeys to keep them in check. English 
sparrows are even better at killing the 
“hoppers.” 
TIIE HAWK TRAP. 
with a staple. Small blocks of wood are 
nailed on pole at intervals of about 18 
inches to serve as steps. Set pole in open 
field or some place where hawks frequent 
most (no bait is needed), and if your trap 
is set very light every hawk that flies to 
your trap is sure to get caught. As hawks 
fly to poles and such things, it is an easy 
matter to catch them in this way. I have 
caught a good many this way. Of course 
In the Spring and when insectivorous birds 
are about it is wiser to keep your trap out 
of commission, as these birds are very val¬ 
uable, but during Fall and Winter you can 
catch a good many hawks, thereby decreas¬ 
ing the number. I do not claim this to be 
any patent of mine and hope that any read¬ 
ers of The R. Y. N. who are troubled with 
these pests will set one up, even if only as 
an experiment. J. D. 
Middlesex Co., N. J. 
Begin in a Small Way. 
In spite of repeated warnings, a great 
many people are being taken in by the wide¬ 
spread advertising of many of the new “sys¬ 
tems” of poultry keeping, with their catchy 
promises of enormous profits, and will rush 
into the business this Spring, only to be 
grievously disappointed later on. It seems 
that inexperienced people can easily be in¬ 
duced to believe that the raising of poultry 
requires no preparation, and that anyone 
may go into it and raise hundreds of chick¬ 
ens and thousands of dollars, with very lit¬ 
tle labor or capital. As a consequence nine- 
tenths at least of those who take up the 
chicken business each year have the same 
story of failure and disappointment to tell. 
The" notion that poultry keeping must be 
commenced on a large scale, with incubators 
and brooders in order to be profitable is at 
the bottom of most of these failures. If 
every beginner would learn Nature’s way of 
hatching with a few hens before attempting 
to master the difficulties of the artificial 
methods, there would be much money saved 
and many more chickens raised. It is the 
small poultry plant well managed that pays 
the largest return upon the time and labor 
and money invested. 
wm. a. FISHER. 
A Commuter's Hens. —I have found old- 
fashioned wooden hoppers holding one-third 
bag of oyster shells, one for same quantity 
charcoal, one for wheat bran, one for cut 
clover beat all the new-fangled contraptions. 
It’s the eight-day clock versus the wind- 
evory -24-hour kind. Supply fresh water 
and sprouted oats daily. Wheat and oats 
thrown on a sandy or fine gravel floor in 
the morning and a pail of whole corn put in 
at night to be removed when stock has 
eaten enough and go back to roost. I use 
coarse sifted beef scraps, sweet and of light 
brown color, and somewhat oily when taken 
in hand. High protein scraps recommended 
by experiment stations my fowls do not 
relish. I am through with buying the fine 
powdered article which is wasted by the 
hens in hunting for the large pieces, and 
no more of the brands with that pungent, 
obnoxious, fertilizer odor. I have abun¬ 
dance of eggs throughout the year, though 
giving week days but a few minutes’ at¬ 
tention night and morning. A commuter 
can get good results and still catch his train. 
Special rations and mashes never appealed 
to me. If bought mixed we are not sure 
of what is being fed, and if we mix it our¬ 
selves there is considerable extra work, 
which to my mind is without corresponding 
benefit. My stock live, thrive, produce and 
cackle merrily in the open-front-no-yard 
house the year round. f. h. p. 
Open 'Front Houses. —nave any of your 
readers had any experience with open-air 
poultry houses having other than south or 
southeast exposures? I have a strip of land 
20x100, upon which I would like to erect 
a Winter laying house 65 feet long and a 
35-foot brooder house, the front facing 
southwest. I would prefer a curtain front, 
no glass house for the layers, but in all 
descriptions I have read a southerly or 
southeast exposure is recommended. Would 
a southeast exposure be a serious defect 
for such houses, and if so, what style of 
house would you recommend? With a south¬ 
west exposure the houses would be flooded 
with sunlight all day after about 9:30 a. 
m. in Winter. Prevailing winds are from 
the west at. this season of the year. 
New Jersey. John beet. 
R. N.-Y.—Let us hear from experienced 
hen men. 
Cracklings for Hens 
I try out the oil from beef fat and have 
quite an amount of cracklings left. These 
cracklings are valuable for chicken food: 
can you tell me if they would be more valu¬ 
able for fertilizer? I have a farm that is 
somewhat run down and want to fertilize it 
as much as possible. o. J. w. 
New York. 
These cracklings are better as poultry 
food than as fertilizer. We should feed 
them all. __ 
Litter for Hens. 
What is the best litter to use for hens? 
We have a number of hens that are crop 
bound. They have grit, shells and charcoal 
before them all the time, besides being on 
a gravel floor. We uso oat straw for litter 
and I think this is the trouble. w. a. b. 
From choice we should use buckwheat 
hulls. Dry forest leaves are good. We 
use dry corn cobs crushed quite fine in the 
feed grinder. We do not like long straw. 
A Big Egg. 
I would like to know what your poultry 
writers think about an egg laid by an eight 
months old pullet (Single Comb White Leg¬ 
horn) that weighed over four ounces and 
measured 6y 2 inches the small way and 
814 inches the long way around. Can any 
of you egg men beat it? It was laid about 
the middle of January. B. w. b. 
Port Jervis, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—This will pass as “big egg” until 
eome hen beats it and her owner reports. 
Save the shell of that egg as evidence ! 
Removes 
Shoe Boils 
Sloan’s Liniment is the best remedy for 
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about it and they have used it.” 
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