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March 18, 
THE RUR.A.E NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
SOIL SPROUTED OATS FOR HENS. 
Having always until three years ago 
lived on a ranch where my hens had a 
free run of the fields, when moving into 
town I was at a loss to know how best 
to provide them with green forage. 
After trying several methods I have 
adopted the following plan, which has 
proved a success: My yard for 60 hens 
is only 24x32 feet outside the poultry 
house. This is laid out in four plots. 
On plot one I sowed a peck of oats, 
and with a manure fork spaded the 
ground to the depth of live or six inches, 
mixing the oats all through the soil. 
The next morning I sowed on plot No. 
2 the same, and so continued until all 
four had been worked over, then began 
with No. 1 and so continued through 
the season. The hens would work busily 
all day, scratching for the oats, and only 
getting thqse nearest to the surface. 
After going over the yard a few times 
there would be an abundance of tender 
rootlets thrown up from the bottom, 
which the hens ate with a great relish, 
and found profitable employment all 
through the day. Towards night they 
had about the same quantity of wheat 
thrown onto six or more inches of 
clean dry straw in their scratch pen, 
under cover. The frequent turning of 
the soil and the germinating of the grain 
has kept the ground, which is a sandy 
loam, in fine condition and free from 
odors. When too cold for the grain in 
germinate quickly I fill one of the 
cylinders of the bone cutter with vege¬ 
tables and the other with green bone 
and cut them up together. They have 
green cut bone nearly every day, and a 
mash of bran, barley and oats ground 
mixed with ground Alfalfa occasionally, 
and access to ground bone all the time. 
Whenever there is a day too cold for 
them to scratch in the dirt, which is 
not often, I throw their grain into a 
good bed of straw and make them 
scratch for a living all the year around. 
Washington. c. F. w. 
free from any grain. Lawn clippings were 
fed nearly every day. In October the flock, 
105 in number, was sorted, selling the sur¬ 
plus to market. This left 30 pullets and 
six cockerels. In November a few of the 
pullets began laying, then the cockerels were 
taken away, and by December nearly every 
pullet was laying, as we gathered 27, 27 
and 29 eggs three different days. The 
average was a fraction over 20 eggs per day 
for December, also for January. The 
ground has been covered with snow since 
Thanksgiving, and a great many mornings 
have been below zero. The house is 12x24 
feet, divided into three pens, each having 
a 3x6 foot sash, window hung on hinges. 
Every day this Winter these windows have 
been wide open. We have a board floor in 
the house, and the fowls have had no colds 
whatever. The above dry mash has been 
before the pullets in hoppers all the time. 
Every morning a small amount of cracked 
corn, wheat, barley and oats is scattered 
in about eight inches of litter, and again 
at noon. At night the same grain is fed 
in troughs, and all that they do not eat is 
taken away from them. These pullets have 
never had any setbacks from the day they 
left the shell, as some of them now weigh 
over seven pounds. I am away from home 
all day ; if I had the time to grow sprouted 
oats or gave them cabbage I am confident 
that thev would have greatly increased the 
egg yield. J. e. white. 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
Caring for Little Chicks. 
Upon reading answer to I’., page 133, I 
feel like saying a word about the over¬ 
crowding of chickens. We have had a good 
deal of trouble, and lost quite a few by 
overcrowding; that is, naving two or three 
lots crowd into one coop, or brooder. One 
year we lost 11, two-thirds grown pullets. 
The night was cool and they were shut in 
a too close coop. Now we have a way and 
have had from 1,000 to 1,200 chicks on free 
range, and no crowding of two lots together. 
Our coops are made with plenty of chance 
for ventilation, and we add or diminish ac¬ 
cording to the season. We use a small coop 
3x2 with a slide door 10 by 12 inch, cov¬ 
ered with inch mesh wire, and a three-inch 
hole at each end, which we cover with bur¬ 
lap in cold Spring weather, or when the 
chicks are small. We also tack a piece of 
burlap over slide door. When the weather 
is suitable and the chicks are from four to 
five weeks old, we put them out in these 
little coops in lots of 30 or 40, and put 
a covered-in wire yard 3x12 feet, 18 inches 
or two feet high. The chicks are fed in 
there, and closed into the coop at night. 
These coops are set 30 or 40 feet apart, 
which is important. In a week or 10 days 
after the chicks are put out. we put a brick 
on edge under one corner of the wire yard 
and let the chicks lino their way in and 
out at pleasure. We keep on feeding in 
this yard, and if there are larger ones rang¬ 
ing we don’t move it away or raise it so the 
large ones can eat up all the feed. When 
10 or 12 weeks old the cockerels are taken 
away, sold for broHers or yarded by-them-- 
selves. Now the pullets are about large 
enough to go to roost, so we take away the 
little coop and put a 3x6 size coop with 
two roosts, in it, upon the same spot- If 
this is done in early morning the chickens 
get used to it.and will usually go in them¬ 
selves ; any way, with very little bother. 
Chickens and fowls are regular home bodies, 
and when. settled, or established in a home, 
it is work to drive them to new quarters, 
and then they will have to be shut in, or 
they will stray back to the old home. Not¬ 
withstanding all this, a real poultry mail 
has no business to be absent-minded, or for¬ 
getful of his flock. lie may have the „est 
of houses and' best of range, Wlul every¬ 
thing favorable to keeping healthy, vigorous 
stock, but a temporary aberration of his 
mind, or forgetfulness, will upset everything 
and failure comes. w. T. Wallis. 
Massachusetts. 
Minorcas or Leghorns ? 
Do you consider the Black Minorcas as 
good for laying and as hardy as the Leg¬ 
horns? e. 
With us the Black Minorcas lay a larger 
egg than the Leghorns, but are not as 
hardy. They do not stand a wet or damp 
climate. 
I have just completed a hen house (open 
front! 9x10 feet, in one corner of my en¬ 
closure. I placed 11 hens and a rooster in 
the coop on January 16, 1911, and by the 
end of the month I had received 37 eggs. 
The previous place occupied by the hens 
was damp, and my flock was threatened 
with roup. I doctored them more or less 
all Winter. In three or four days all this 
disease has disappeared, and they com¬ 
menced to lay with the above results. Of 
course, my neighbors thought I was crazy, 
but I am satisfied to have them think so. 
Uxbridge, Mass. J. s. 
Figuiung ox IIexs. —In reading the 
note, ‘'Ileus or llogs,” written by our 
Hillcrest Fruit Farm man, page 197, I 
note that he says, after spending for the 
keep of a sow $5, he sold her pigs for $20 
and still had the sow left, but after spend¬ 
ing so much for the keep of his chickens, 
$25 for building, $10 for fencing, other 
fixtures $5, and only valuing his 38 pullets 
at 3914 cents each and roosters at 50 cents 
each, he does not say he has his four hens 
and roosters and his chicken house and his 
fence and other fixtures left. I wonder if 
my friend would sell those pullets for 39 V4 
cents (}acli, or those White WyandfOtte 
cockerels that weigh six to eight pounds, for 
50 cents each. The way we at Hillside 
Farm would figure bis poultry would be: 
DIt. 
Four hens and roosters. $6.00 
Feed . 10.00 
Chick feed . 2.00 
$18.00 
10 per cent, for use of chicken 
coop set . $4.00 
$22.00 
CR. 
38 pullets at $1.$38.00 
One rooster at $1, sold. 1.00 
Six roosters at $1, sold. 6.00 
$45.00 
.$22.00 
Total expense 
.$23.00 
Total profit . 
And he still has those four hens and 
rooster, and nothing was said about the 
eggs those four hens laid from Spring till 
January 1. Was it only enough to hatch 
38 pullets and seven roosters, and didn’t 
that sow require any $25 house or $10 
fence to keep her in th’e pasture? What 
do you supnose we would have had the 
profit of our Hillcrest friend’s poultry if 
he had tried the 12 hens against the sow? 
Well, we don't all figure the same. 
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Eggs in December. —I have been asked 
to tell how I cared for the 30 White Wyan¬ 
dotte pullets that laid 51% dozen of eggs 
in the month of December. The pullets 
were hatched by hens between May 1 and 
June 8. The chicks were raised in a little 
yard about 30 feet square. They were fed 
the first few weeks on chick grain and table 
scraps; after this a crumbly mash composed 
of two parts bran, one white middlings, one 
cracked corn, one gluten, one good meat 
scrap. This was fed in the morning in 
troughs and what was not eaten was taken 
away. The same mixture dry was kept be¬ 
fore the chicks in hoppers all the time. 
Cracked corn and wheat was fed liberally 
and at night a pen of hens from another 
yard was let in to clear up all that was 
left, so that every morning the yard was 
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