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THE RURAb NEW-YORKEK. 
March 4, 1911. 
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ADVANTAGES OF TRAP-NESTING HENS. ] 
On page 1211, James E. Walter, Jr., of 
Virginia, told about the hen Queen Lil, 
and referred to the Champion trap nests. 
What about them? C. E. s. 
Mineral City, O. 
I doubt if C. E. S. would find the 
Champion trap-nest satisfactory. After 
improving the Champion in several ways 
and using them for two years we are 
not satisfied with them. Even when 
carefully handled and watched con¬ 
stantly a hen will sometimes get out, 
or at other times a curtain will hang 
in some way, letting a hen pass out 
after laying, thus breaking into her 
record and foiling the pleasure of the 
work. Trap-nesting is, I think, the most 
pleasant of all work on a poultry farm. 
You get nearer your flock in this way 
than is possible by any other method. 
You know exactly what each hen is do¬ 
ing, and to breed up a flock of heavy 
layers this is necessary, but you have 
to be on the job 365 days in the year, 
and every hour in each day. I think 
one man could probably trap-nest 500 
hens, do all necessary work and raise 
the 500 pullets for renewing the flock 
the following season, besides attending 
to the 75 breeders necessary for raising 
this number of pullets. I would count 
on about 3,000 eggs from the 75 hens 
between February 15 and April 15, and 
I could not count on more than the 500 
pullets from this number of eggs. There 
are some poultrymen who claim that the j 
trap-nest is of no value, but the experi- J 
ence of others who have used the nest ; 
for a few years proves that it is of 
value and really necessary for the breed¬ 
ing of the heavy layers as well as the 
exhibition birds. The trap-nest also 
proves that the hens making the big 
egg records are not “freak” hens, as 
claimed by some, but are capable of re¬ 
producing their kind, and that the egg 
yield of their pullets will he greater 
than that of the average flock. There 
are other advantages, too, to consider in 
this work. 
Suppose we step into a poultry house 
containing 100 pullets for a few minutes 
and see what the trap-nester sees every 
day in his rounds. The first thing we 
notice as we step in the door is the 
battery of trap-nests, 12 of them, and all 
closed. We draw out a nest, lift out 
the hen; band No. 160. Well, if we 
had noticed the egg we would not have 
had to look at the number on her leg, 
for if has a groove in the shell running 
from one end to the other, passing en¬ 
tirely around the egg. The next hen is 
No. 230; this is the hen that lays the 
big chalk-white egg, but she only lays 
about every other day and takes long 
rests, so at the end of the year you only 
have a small profit from her. The third 
pullet taken out is without a band; she 
has been going on the nest almost daily 
for a month or more, hut has never laid 
an egg. You recognize her by that 
pretty red comb, long hack and perfect 
egg type. Owing to her beauty you let 
her run for a week or two longer, hoping 
she will lay, but at last you find she 
never will, so you sell her for table pur¬ 
poses. The fourth lien is No. 310 ; either 
her eggs are soft-shell or “pigeon” eggs 
and of no value. The others are all do¬ 
ing very well, making fair records with 
nice sized eggs, and you speak to them 
kindly as you turn them off. In the 
last nest you open you find one of your 
pets; she is laying 20 to 25 eggs every 
month and you must notice her condi¬ 
tion constantly and not let her get poor 
and stop laying, as she will certainly do 
without a little extra corn or a few 
scraps from the table when you turn 
her off the nest. Don’t he afraid of 
getting a laying Leghorn too fat to lay 
j so long as you are feeding a variety of 
i grain and a good dry mash. Again, 
don’t get it into .your head that a va-’ 
riety means a change. Choose your 
ration, include in it three or four kinds 
of grain, a good dry mash and plenty of 
green food, and then stick to it through 
thick and thin, even if every hen on the 
farm goes on strike; don’t make a 
change, for I believe the hen has to 
change the gear of her machinery every 
time you change the ration for her. 
When you do have to make a change 
owing to the cost or scarcity of some 
grain, let it be very gradual. I never 
make a change unless from one of the 
causes mentioned, hut I do vary the 
amount of each grain, taking tempera¬ 
ture and general condition of flock as a 
guide. I have also gradually changed 
the proportion of meat in the dry mash 
since I trap-nested Queen Lil two years 
ago. I used then 10 per cent, now we 
are using 25 per cent and also keeping 
it separate in hoppers for them at all 
times. Remember, we are handling Leg¬ 
horns. This would probably be too 
much meat for other breeds, so study 
your breed as well as your feed. 
Virginia. jas. e. Walter, jr. 
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