6612 
April 2' 
THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
LEG WEAKNESS IN CHICKS. 
What causes chicken's leg to grow out 
of shape? I have an early brood of B. P. 
Rocks that have grown splendidly, but three 
of them have weak, crooked legs, although 
their appetites are as good as ever. They 
are housed in a dry, sunny coop with plenty 
•f earth on the floor. R. B. 
Massachusetts. 
Leg weakness in growing chicks is due 
to various causes; sometimes to inherited 
weakness, sometimes improper feeding 
is the cause. “R. B.” refers to their 
being “kept in dry, sunny coops, with 
plenty of earth on the floor/’ I have 
found by experience that it is possible 
to have things too “dry” for the best 
interest of the chicks. I have seen the 
legs of little chicks shrunken because of 
too much dryness in their. runs. The 
brooder where they stay nights should 
not be damp, but the runs may be damp 
in some parts without harm, indeed, 
with positive benefit to the chicks. I 
take a pailful of damp earth—preferably 
sand—and dump it in a heap in the runs 
and mix the dry grain feed in the earth 
so they will have to dig in the damp 
ground for it, and when that pailful be¬ 
comes dry, put in another. The large 
breeds are more apt to have leg weak¬ 
ness than the smaller ones. Keep by the 
chicks a dry mash composed of bran, 
middlings, pin-head oats, or oatmeal, 
sifted beef scraps and hone meal. Here 
is a good formula: Eight parts wheat 
bran, three parts cornmeal, three parts 
middlings, four parts sifted beef scraps, 
one part bone meal, by measure. If it 
is not an inherited weakness this feed¬ 
ing ought to help them. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
CHEESE-BOX CHICK BROODERS. 
I did not know until recently that cheese 
boxes could be utilized to make heatless 
brooders, but a reference to brooders so 
made appeared in an article by Mr. Cos¬ 
grove in The R. N.-Y. a few weeks ago. 
To utilize these boxes, which are thrown 
away by grocers and provision dealers, was 
a happy thought by some one, as they are 
just the proper form and height to make 
brooders. I had been thinking for some 
time what waste package made of wood 
would answer the purpose, but could think 
of nothing that had straight sides. The 
cheese box, however, completely solves the 
question. I have seen no directions for 
making these brooders, and the question 
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DIAGRAMS OF BROODER. Fig. 180. 
arose how to make the cloth cover over the 
chickens’ backs quickly and easily adjust¬ 
able to different heights. We finally hit 
upon a plan which is both simple and sat¬ 
isfactory, and can be made in 10 minutes. 
Take two pieces of wire of proper length 
and possessing some stiffness and straighten 
them. Make a loop in the end of each. 
We used wire about one-eighth-inch in di¬ 
ameter. On the sides of the cheese box at 
four points selected, draw straight vertical 
lines. Starting at about three inches from 
the bottom of each, space them off by pen¬ 
cil marks every half inch up the side of the 
box ns high as is desired. With an awl or 
small bit make holes through the sides of 
the box at the points indicated by the pen¬ 
cil marks. Then slip the wire pins through 
the holes at any required height, letting 
them come out through the holes on the 
opposite side of the box. This makes four 
points of support for the wire ring on 
which the cloth is stretched. 
Connecticut. w. L. chamberi.aix. 
HEN AND COW CONTEST. 
It seems to me that could this contest' 
be arranged it would have to be in one of 
two ways, either hens and cow would have 
to be held down to food value of eggs and 
milk produced, or else be allowed to make 
the most possible of eggs and milk in any 
way cither party may think to his advan¬ 
tage. For instance, the cow man could 
start his cow in the contest the day be¬ 
fore she freshened, trade her calf for two 
brood sows which will farrow in a few 
days, and produce 20 good pigs; feed the 
pigs till nearly a year old. kill and sell 
them, and if well fed would bring perhaps 
$500. At the end of seven months from 
beginning of contest the sows would pro¬ 
duce 20 more pigs which when five months 
old would bring probably $200 more, mak¬ 
ing $700 to the cow's credit, and if we 
credit up the sows at end of year they 
would offset the loss of a pig or two, and 
during all this time we could have fed 
all these pigs some of the milk produced 
by the cow, and I am sure the cow should 
have credit for the money from the pig 
deal just as much as those 104 hens should 
have credit for the 480 dozen eggs Mr. 
Dougan says those 60 first selected pullets 
laid before January 1, 1910. 
On page 234 Mr. Dougan invites criti¬ 
cisms of his figures. He says on that page 
the first 60 pullets chosen laid 480 dozen 
eggs before January 1. 1910, and the whole 
number laid during the year was 21,464 
eggs. Taking the 480 dozen from 21,464 
eggs we have left only 15,704 eggs, and 
allow the other 115 selected pullets did not 
lay one egg before January 1, 1910, that 
only gives each of the 104 old hens only 
151 eggs each. How does Mr. Dougan 
make out they laid 164 eggs each? Surely 
if those other 115 chosen ones laid any¬ 
thing like the 60 it would bring the record 
of the 104 old ones down pretty low, for 
think of it: 60 pullets hatched in the Spring 
months laid 96 eggs each on an average 
before January 1 of the year following that 
they were hatched, that is “going some," 
I think. 
On page 234 Mr. Dougan says. “I did not 
try to see how much I could figure in as 
profit, as I think it very foolish to try to 
fool yourself; it is nearly as bad as stealing 
sheep from your own flock." Now, if it is 
not like stealing sheep from your own 
flock to credit yourself with $96 for drop¬ 
pings from 104 hens for one year, pray 
what is it like? I believe it is gross re¬ 
ceipts, not profit Mr. Dougan is figuring, and 
what else could he have possibly figured in 
that he did not figure? 
From a flock of 500 layers for the year 
1910 (S. C. White Ijeghorn mainly, just 
a few S. C. Black Minorca), I had a net 
income of $1,000 or $2 per hen. I say a 
net income; I did not charge the poultry 
with any labor nor for the mangel wurzels 
grown for them, nor anything for depre¬ 
ciation of plant, nor did I give them any 
credit for manure nor for eggs and poultry 
used at home, and we use a lot. I think 
easily 150 dozen eggs and 50 head of poul¬ 
try during the year. I am not telling this 
to try to match Mr. Dougan, but to show 
I am a hen man and not a cow man, and 
I believe if you take the value of any cow 
in Leghorn hens and pit them against the 
cow the hens will win every time with 
equal care in a net profit. 
New York. Marion lewis. 
Below find a record of 60 liens for the 
month of February. Most of the hens are 
White Leghorns; I cannot say how many 
were laying. They were fed bran, corn and 
screenings. The eggs were sold to a con¬ 
sumer at 20 cents, which was two cents 
more than merchants were paying. The 
average is more than 60 per cent, of eggs 
per hen. Kindly give your opinion of the 
record and the feed, etc. 
Record of 60 hens for February: 
Sold 54% dozen eggs at 20 
cents .$10.09 
T'sed 18 dozen eggs at 20 cents 3.60 
Two settings sold at 75 cents. 1.50 
Four hens eaten at 40 cents.. 1.60 
-- $16.79 
Expenses. 
Paid for corn and bran. $7.00 
Paid for screenings and oyster 
shells . 1.40 
-- 8.40 
Net gain . $8.39 
Virginia. mrs. w. T. 
R. N. Y*.—We make this 896 eggs, which 
is 15 eggs per hen, or nearly 54 per cent. A 
good February record. 
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