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March 11, 
THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE HENWOMAN’S HENS. 
On page 10 we gave the statement of a 
woman in Massachusetts who has started 
under unusual conditions to keep hens. 
She promised to give a monthly statement 
of her business. This is the second in¬ 
stallment. 
Statement for January, 1911, from 
the Massachusetts lien woman : 
Took in : 
Received for eggs.$37.71 
For .12 fowls. 10.36 
Total.$48.07 
Paid out: 
Grain bill.$29.70 
Grain bill . 4.70 
Oil for incubators. 5.00 
Roof .35 
$39.81 
Cleared . $8.26 
And this is better than it sounds, 
because we have grain enough to last 
till March 6 (bought January 25). We 
reckon that it does not cost $5 a week 
to feed 150 birds, but nearer $3.50. We 
are getting from 130 birds 55 to 59 eggs 
a day, and retailing them for 40 
cents a dozen. For fowls we get 19 
cents a pound wholesale. We have now 
240 eggs for incubating, and have also 
enough for our customers. But, I said, 
January would sound well, but wait till 
May or June. We shall have all those 
chickens to rear, on nothing. If we had 
to pay one cent for labor we should lose 
dreadfully. I believe, however, time will 
tell. We have liked the answers so 
much, and hope they will continue. In 
April we move on to a real farm where 
we shall have a horse, cow, hens, one 
acre of land to cultivate and land for our 
hens (we hope to have 300 by April), 
pasture for cow and wood lot. This 
farm is in Lincoln. We pay $350 a 
A YOUNG POULTRYMAN. Fig. 113. 
year for it, and we have to build our 
own henhouse and buy our own hay. 
Query.—How would you manage this 
proposition? Would you raise your 
own vegetables or give the acre to corn 
and cabbage, feed for cow and hens? 
I will send you our assets and liabilities 
for a year. There are three of us, my 
husband, my brother and myself, and 
we shall keep one hired girl. We do 
not ask to make money; all we ask is in 
two years to learn to make a farm— 
with our labor thrown in—give us a 
living. I believe it can be done—if you 
know how—and work like a slave. 
E. H. 
COOKED FEED FOR POULTRY. 
Is bran, middlings and cornmeal with a 
few oats all cooked together better for all 
purposes for poultry than uncooked food? 
What feed is best for stimulating an egg 
yield ? J. M. s. 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
Ans.— For a long time it was thought 
by most feeders of animals of all kinds 
that cooked food was much more di¬ 
gestible and gave better results than un¬ 
cooked food, but careful experiments 
finally determined that the gain was not 
enough to pay for the extra time and 
labor required to cook the food. I think 
very much of oats as a food for poul¬ 
try, and for man, too; my breakfast 
consists mainly of oatmeal and milk, 
and the way I use the oats for poultry 
is to put about three quarts in a 12- 
quart pail, pour our skim-milk on them 
and let it set on the kitchen stove from 
breakfast time to noon. The oats will 
swell to double the quantity put in, they 
are softer, and the fowls eat them bet¬ 
ter than when dry. But I don’t feed 
the oats alone; I pour the milk and 
soaked oats into the big iron pot I use 
for mixing feed and stir in bran, mid¬ 
dlings, a little cornmeal and beef scraps, 
and feed the “mash” in troughs at noon 
time. Don’t feed much dry feed in the 
morning; keep them scratching in the 
litter by having them still unsatisfied, 
hungry; then at noon they will go for 
that mash greedily. At night be more 
liberal with the dry feed. I like to go 
around after the hens have gone to. 
roost and feel their crops full and round. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Roup Remedy. 
Can you find out for me the proper 
amount of permanganate of potash to use 
with specified amount of water for roup? 
New Jersey. u. J. c. 
You will find it all in “The Business 
Hen.” Mr. Cosgrove advises enough of 
the permanganate crystals to give the water 
a strong wine color, say a teaspoonful to 
8 or 10 quarts. This is to be used to pre¬ 
vent roup—not to cure it. Use when the 
ducks begin to show wet nostrils. 
Stone Poultry Houses. 
I should like the opinion of those who 
have tried it, of making feeder houses 
and henhouses of stone. I have an enox - - 
mous quantity of stone on my place, and if 
it were suitable for that purpose, I could 
get the stone out of the way and put it to 
good use. G. s. jp. 
Stratford, Conn. 
We have had little experience with stone 
or even concrete houses. Stone houses we 
have never considered, because of the ex¬ 
pense of building even when the stone costs 
nothing at all. The mere matter of laying 
stone usually costs more than the construc¬ 
tion of a wooden house. There are a few 
concrete block houses in the country which 
are giving satisfaction. Such a house is 
written up in bulletin form and recently 
published by the Minnesota Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. Speaking from general experience, I 
would think it not impossible to construct a 
brooder house or a laying house out of 
stone, using the same general ideas of ven¬ 
tilation as practiced in other buildings. I 
would expect the stone house, however, to be 
colder in Winter as well as cooler in the 
Summer. Where artificial heat is supplied 
as in a bi-ooder house, this factor would not 
be so objectionable, whereas the additional 
coolness of the house in the Summer would 
make it very desii-able for young chicks. 
C. A. ROGERS. 
NERVES 
NEED 
the same as babies. 
Babies can’t take care 
of themselves, nor can 
nerves. 
Babies cry for atten¬ 
tion—so do nerves. 
Probably both are half- 
starved for proper 
nourishment. 
Give them 
SCOTT'S EMULSION. 
Shavings for Litter. 
We have used planer shavings with good 
results. As they are dry they absorb the 
moisture from the droppings and prevent 
dampness, and being light the gi-ain works 
down into them, keeping the hens busy, 
although we prefer about four inches of 
dry sawdust and eight or 10 inches of 
straw on top of the sawdust. The hens 
mav pick up some sawdust, but xiot 
enough to do any harm; at any rate we 
have never had any -wooden eggs. 
Maine. willow nest yards. 
As to “planer shavings” for sex-vice in 
the scratching shed, I have used them for 
quite a long time with the best of results, 
and when you can get shavings made from 
local cedar, as I have been able to do, it is 
a sure preventive for lice and other 
vermin on fowls. The Southern cedar has 
not the strong but agreeable smell of that 
gi'own in the Northern States. c. Q. e. 
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