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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 15, 
The Henyard. 
That Woman Hen Farmer. 
We have had two reports previously from 
the woman who started under peculiar con¬ 
ditions to try to make a flock of hens sup¬ 
port three people. She now sends her third 
report: 
In February we ran $6 behind, but put 
aside 720 eggs for incubation. For these 
we should have had to pay five cents 
apiece, so we did not do so very badly. 
In March we show up better: 
Eggs sold .$25.37 
Incubation eggs solid. 2G.70 
Fowls sold, 30 at 18 cents a pound. . 28.08 
Day-old chicks. 13.00 
We had grain, so all we had to buy 
was about $G worth. This makes a good 
showing. For the 30 fowls sold we paid 
$1 apiece on December 10, and received 
in February and March $28.98. Out of 
720 eggs we got 370 chickens, most of 
them doing finely. We liked the letter 
from the $9 hen man and shall take his 
advice about corn. We got 12 cents for 
day-old chicks. Incubation eggs seem to 
me a good idea, because you get 60 cents 
a dozen when eggs are only 30 cents. 
Massachusetts. E. T. 
The Houdan Birds. 
See those eggs iu a pile? 
Says Mrs. Iloudau with a smile; 
I can beat the other breeds a mile; 
Agaiu does Mrs. Iloudan smile. 
Good for W. C. D„ of Pittsburg, Pa., I 
was glad to see his article. Now that Mrs. 
Houdan has been introduced, let us hear 
more of this valuable bird. The best bird 
is what we want, and if it is the Houdan, 
why hide the light under the bushel basket, 
or any other kind of a basket? Let us 
hear about the Iloudan. And if anyone 
has anything to say against the Houdan 
breed, let us hear that. In my opinion 
there is no fowl to equal it. The breed 
will bear well being picked to pieces by 
those who prefer other birds. I was pleased 
to read W. C. D.’s statement that his 
Houdans took care of themselves against 
hawks just as well as other breeds, for 
his statement is founded on experience. 
Let us hear from others who have had ex¬ 
perience. I have a small flock myself, and 
it is yet to be proven to me that any 
other breed can equal the Iloudan as an all¬ 
round bird. Thomas. 
bran, beef scraps. Alfalfa and linseed meal. 
The hens are Klaek Orpington and White 
Leghorn, hatched April 15, 1910. J. p. l. 
New York. 
The presence of the blood is due to a 
hemorrhage of the blood vessels in the 
glands of the oviduct. The hemorrhage is 
the result of fright, injury, or forced feed¬ 
ing. which overworks the blood vessels 
carrying supplies to the organs of secretion. 
Blood spots are usually found in the al¬ 
bumen, since the glands seci’eting this ma¬ 
terial are delicately responsive to forced 
feeding. If the fowls are producing bloody 
eggs in numbers, the rich meat materials 
should be decreased and green food in- 
creased. Exercise should be encouraged 
and disturbing conditions eliminated. Oc¬ 
casionally an individual hen, through weak¬ 
ness or disease, will produce bloody eggs 
regularly. Such a fowl should be removed 
from the pen and fed carefully until her 
body regains its normal condition. 
Those $12 Hens —On page 381 you ask 
for criticism of Gori & Son’s $12 hen story. 
It seems to me unfair to give the hens 
credit for the chickens raised. It would 
seem to me that the hens should be credited 
with the eggs laid, and if the hens are 
used to hatch the chickens, then they should 
be credited with the value of the chickens 
at that time. As you say, on this basis 
the hens certainly earned $12.31; but isn’t 
the basis wrong? On the same basis one 
could make an aci’e of strawberries pro¬ 
duce an enormous sum by converting the 
berries into shortcake and selling the short¬ 
cake at 25 cents per portion ; or the milk 
from a scrub cow could be converted into 
milk punch (or shake, if you prefer) and 
thus be made to foot up quite a respectable 
total. c. E. w. 
New York. 
A Chicken Law. — The North Caro- 
Legislature passed a law which provides: 
Sec. 2. That any person so permitting 
his fowls to run at large, after being 
notified to keep them up, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall 
be fined not exceeding five dollars or im¬ 
prisoned not exceeding five days; or if it 
shall appear to any justice of the peace 
that after two days’ notice any pex’son per¬ 
sists in allowing his fowls to run at large 
and fails or l'efuses to keep them up, then 
said justice of the peace may order any 
sheriff, constable or other officer to kill 
said fowls, or said justice of the peace 
may, in his discretion, deputize the com¬ 
plaining party to kill fowls when so depre¬ 
dating. 
This applies to 12 counties and one 
township. The act covers all kinds of 
poultry which run on any cultivated field 
or garden. 
That Cow-Hen Controversy. 
[The latest installments of the cow-hen 
battle are responsible for the following.] 
The hen—she has no place on earth ; 
The cow—she is the bird ; 
And all who question this should be 
Led out and massacred. 
I’ll figure up with pen and ink. 
Or lead pencil and pad, 
To give you all my various thoughts 
I’ll be most mighty glad. 
I’ll talk until your arm gets lame, 
And feels like dropping off; 
I’ll talk until you wish like sin 
I’d get the whooping cough : 
I’ll show to you by all the words 
Our language will allow ; 
But, bet your life, you'll never get 
Me back there with the cow 1 
New York. Frederick m. holmes. 
In regard to the hen vs. cow contest, if 
such should be arranged, I should not like 
to see either side limited to food products 
at wholesale prices, but give both con¬ 
testants every chance to sell as high, and 
for any purpose, they may see fit. Then 
let the contest be decided for the one who 
showed the largest net profit at the end of 
contest. Of course it would be fair to re¬ 
quire both sides to make proof of sales, 
and that all sales should be bona fide busi¬ 
ness deals. Then let the best man win. or 
rather the best stock. In my mind I 
leather favor the liens, for I know that in 
my own case I could do more with the 
hens and a good incubator than with the 
cow. J. a. c. 
Marion, N. Y. 
Express Rates on Eggs. 
While I am about it I will give some 
express company experience. I receive 
through the Adams Express Co. eggs 150 
miles on which I pay 36 cents per crate. 
Our suburb is between seven and eight 
miles out from center of city. Some time 
ago I had a crate of eggs shipped from 
the city, charges 35 cents. “How is that,” 
I said to driver who delivered them, "you 
charge 35 cents and for one cent more you 
haul them over 150 miles? 1I<' said, “We 
do not haul eggs for less than 35 cents." 
The eggs from a distance must go through 
the city to reach us. d. w. b. 
Mt. Airy Pa. 
Feather Pulling, 
I have a flock of hens that are well fed 
on various kinds of gx-ain and grit. They 
lay well, but are picking off their feathers 
and eating them. What is the matter with 
them, and what is the remedy? b. m. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
This trouble usually starts through fight¬ 
ing or accident and continues for lack of 
sufficient mineral and animal food. The 
vice spreads rapidly among the fowls in a 
flock. It is seldom acquired in properly 
managed flocks. This vice is the result of 
erroneous methods of feeding and manage¬ 
ment, similar to the conditions which en- 
courage egg eating. Give the fowls as much 
liberty and freedom as possible. Increase 
the amount of animal food in the ration. 
If the pens ai’e small, it sometimes becomes 
necessary to change the fowls to a dif¬ 
ferent house, or to harness their bills with 
feather pulling bits, which prevent them 
from getting a grip on the feather. 
Blood Spots in Eggs. 
I have been getting eggs from my hens 
with sti’eaks of blood in them. Gan you 
tell me the reason why they are that way? 
I feed a prepared food and also a dry 
mash of equal parts cornmeal, middlings, 
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