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THE RURA.I* NEW-YORKER 
June 3, 
The Henyard. 
THAT HEN CONTEST, 
Here are two more reports from \V. J. 
Dougan, bringing the hen record up to 
May 1: 
Report No. 4, Record of 10 Wyaxdottes. 
Following is report of the 10 Wyandottes 
in contest for the last 13 days of April. 
During that time they have consumed, or 
have left in hoppers: 
Fer Cwt. 
11 lbs. corn.at $1.17 .13 
7 lbs. wheat bran.....at 1.70 .14 
7Mi lbs. mixed feed (cooked) at 1.33 .12 
G lbs. beef scrap.at 2.85 .17 
5% lbs. wheat screenings... .at 1.55 .09 
51/2 lbs. oats .at 1.10 .00 
.71 
During that time they laid 64 eggs, 16 
of which were sold at 45 cents per dozen 
and 56 placed in incubator. 
w. J. DOUGAN. 
In the last report we had 194 eggs, 
costing $2.50. Now the figures are 258, 
costing $3.21, or 1.25 cent each. Re¬ 
turns from eggs sold run to $1.63. Thus 
far it will he seen the Leghorns have 
cost less than the Wyandottes, and pro¬ 
duced a cheaper egg. 
Report No. 4, Record of 10 Leghorxs. 
The 10 Leghorns in the contest gave the 
following results for the last 15 days of 
April. During that time they consumed, 
or have left in hoppers: 
Fer Cwt. 
11 lbs. cracked corn.at $1.17 .13 
7 V 2 lbs. mixed feed .at 1.55 .12 
6 lbs. beef scraps.at 2.85 .17 
Per Bag. 
6 lbs. oats .at 1.10 .07 
5 lbs. wheat screenings.. .at 1.55 .08 
4 lbs. bran .at 1.70 .07 
.64 
During that time they laid 83 eggs, 14 of 
which were sold at 45 cents per dozen, and 
we have set 103 in incubators. 
w. J. DOUG AX. 
Previously these hens had eaten $2.14 
worth of food. The total is now $2.80. 
They have laid 273 eggs, costing a frac¬ 
tion over one cent each. The eggs sold 
have brought $1.57. The value of the 
chicks will come later. 
SELECTING THE GOOD HENS. 
How do the expert poultry men select the 
best hens for breeding when they do not 
use the trap-nest? 
While it is not easy to tell your best 
layers always without trap-nests, yet the 
expense of trap-nesting on a large scale is 
such that it is out of the question for a 
large poultry man. Of course a poultry 
man can tell by handling a hen whether 
she is laying or not, but this also is a 
large contract when you are keeping hens 
by the thousands. So we have to find 
other ways to judge a hen by. We can 
tell by the hen’s looks and actions whether 
she is laying or not. A laying hen is busy, 
she will range a long way from the roost; 
she is active and happy, scratching and 
“singing” as we call it all day. A hen 
who spends much time loafing around the 
roosts can safely be put in the discard. 
We go, perhaps, more by the shape thaD 
any one other single factor. A good layer 
should be what we call an egg type, that 
is built like a wedge with the bulk of her 
weight taken up with tne digestive organs. 
This shape on a hen, taken with the neces¬ 
sary size, activity and vigor to stand high 
feeding, is a safe thing to go by in selecting 
your breeders where you ax - e building up a 
flock of laying hens. 
New York. fi.oyd q. white. 
With trap-nesting shelved as being fussy 
and impractical, the selection of the best 
laying hens virtually resolves itself into a 
question of individual opinions and beliefs, 
perhaps “notions” influenced by a greater 
or lesser knowledge of the hen’s anatomy 
and of the evolutions of an egg in process 
of formation. Our experiences have 
failed to verify in practice many of the 
claims and theories advanced by accepted 
authorities on the subject of selecting the 
layers, so we go by appearances and indi¬ 
cations in general, alike to the experienced 
dairyman in his selection of the best milk¬ 
ers from among a lot of cows. In recent 
years we have held to and followed a theory 
in breeding for the continuous ias’er, where¬ 
by we believe nature assists us on its own 
lines in the multiplication of the fittest, if 
heredity and percentage count for anything. 
It consists in simply allowing the hen to 
have her way and following it up with con 
tinuous hatching. Briefly explained, our 
plan is to take a number of pullets, raised 
and kept under equal conditions, and in due 
time allow each layer to become passive, 
broody, when in the mood and setting her 
with eggs not her own but from active 
layers. Continue doing so with all the orig¬ 
inal units until all have placed themselves 
on the passive list as layers, the breeding 
season of these units ending with the last 
layer set on her own eggs, no eggs from 
a second cycle being used. On reserving 
future breeders begin with the last hatch, 
inverting the ordinary plan of selecting 
them from the earlier hatched chicks. 
Pennsylvania. gori and son. 
CATCHING THAT WEASEL. 
On page 558 mention was made of a 
weasel that “eats" or gnaws oxen. IIow 
can he be caught? 
If a weasel was eating my oxen I think 
I would stay with them at night and get 
the weasel that way if I could. If I had 
a perfectly tight box stall or one that could 
be made so I would keep the oxen there, 
leaving a small hole for the weasel to en¬ 
ter ; then a steel trap properly placed 
would get him. H. «. 
Frankfort, N. Y. 
Geo. Cosgrove wishes to know how to 
trap that weasel that is eating his oxen. I 
recollect a weasel got into our henhouse 
and played havoc with our hens. I took a 
steel trap and set it against the henhouse 
on the outside where there were signs of 
the weasel entering and then took a young 
chicken, hung it up by the legs against the 
building above the trap about 15 inches. In 
less than 15 minutes the cries of the chick 
attracted the weasel; he jumped up for the 
chicken and when it dropped it landed in 
the trap. J. a. m. 
New York. 
In answer to your question about weasels 
eating cattle at night I'll give a Swedish 
remedy of at least 50 years ago. Put a 
large sounding bell on each ox; when the 
weasel bites him he will shake the bell 
which will frighten him away. 
CHAS. STEXINS. 
Shut a chicken up in the place with the 
oxen. The weasel will kill and eat a por¬ 
tion of the chicken, and leave the rest. 
Now let Mr. Cosgrove sprinkle a small por¬ 
tion of strychnine on the portion left, and 
place next" night where the weasel left it, 
being careful to exclude other things, and 
next morning the weasel will be his. I 
have always caught all my varmint ene¬ 
mies this way. No other poison excepting 
strychnine will get them, for if they ever 
get a bite of any other kind and it does not 
kill them, you cannot get them any more, 
but strychnine, even a small portion, will 
always get them the first time. By using 
due caution there is no danger. But care 
must be used in handling the poisoned 
chicken. s. h. James. 
Louisiana. 
If M. G. M„ page 558. will take a box 
15x18 inches, 12 inches high, make a cou¬ 
ple of holes in sides or ends large enough 
for rat to enter, bait his trap under the 
box, set on chicken house floor, he will 
get rid of mice and rats. The box will 
prevent chickens getting at bait or in trap. 
For convenience I knock top off box and 
invert it on floor over trap. s. 
Washington. 
Fey Paper for Weasels. —Having read 
about weasel eating oxen, would suggest 
placing sticky fly paper around freely, es¬ 
pecially at any hole you would think weasel 
enters by. It may catch a few rats at same 
time, is very inexpensive, and worth giving 
a trial; is always good until used. 
EGGS STICK TO SHELLS. 
My customers to whom I sell eggs are 
complaining that the skin (membrane) on 
the inside of eggs sticks to the shell. What 
causes it and what is the cure? 
Toledo, Ohio. w. s. 
When a fresh egg is broken, the inside 
skin or membrane should “stick to the 
shell” allowing the contents to escape. 
What is troubling your customers is prob¬ 
ably the white or albumen, clinging or even 
sticking to the membrane so that part is 
left in the shell and wasted. Feeding may 
have something to do with it, but we have 
had this trouble only with eggs that have 
lain for some days without turning. Fre¬ 
quently, this happens in hot weather when 
eggs have stood for only a short time, and 
in some cases, not only the whites but the 
volk will stick as well I should say keep 
the eggs in a cool place not too dry, and 
if held any length of time before delivering 
turn at least every other day. r. b. 
CARING FOR YOUNG TURKEYS. 
Having read the letter of Mrs. E. J. 
Rider on turkey raising, I would like to 
get full particulars of her method of rais¬ 
ing turkeys, as I have raised some big 
losses and much trouble. MRS. c. w. L. 
New York. 
Ans.— I feed the young poults noth¬ 
ing but good sweet bread and milk with 
sliced onion tops, also dandelion top, 
with plenty of grit, good clean fresh 
water where they can get it at all times. 
Feed the bread and milk until they are 
three or four weeks old, then sprinkle a 
few kernels of wheat where they can 
get it, and they will readily pick it up, 
and in a few days you have them eat¬ 
ing wheat. Good wheat (not screenings) 
should be fed. Remember to keep them 
free from vermin by sprinkling the 
mother with insect powder every week 
while sitting, and when the poults 
come off they will not have the lice to 
contend with. Clean the coops every 
day, have them good and roomy, with 
a floor, so skunks cannot get in, and 
have a good roof to keep mother and 
poults housed at night and dry during 
rainy weather. Let them have their 
liberty. They destroy many insects, and 
even small snakes I have seen them eat, 
also many weeds. They surely are a 
benefit to a farm. Some people are very 
bitter against a turkey, but all people do 
not see alike. MRS. e. j. rider. 
New York. 
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trated descriptive Catalog 10c. F. G. WILE, Telford, Pa. 
EGGS—$1 per 15, $2 per 40 of Thor. Brahma.. Rocks, Wvvii- 
ilotlea, Reds, Minorcas, Houdaus, Leghorns, Hamburg*; 19 var., 
28 years’ experience. Catalogue. S. K. Mohr, Coopersburg, Pa. 
nnill TDYMP M — Don 't fall to secure Stock and 
rUULI II I lYlL.li Eggs at our reduced prices. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, Marietta, Pa. 
Indian Runner Ducks, $4 per pair, from 200-egg strain. 
*r 12. C. GORDON, Sprakers, N. V. 
Eggs, $1.00 and S'2.00 per 
W HITE EGG STRAIN INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS-Tlior- 
oughbred, vigorous birds. Wonderful layers 
of large white eggs; mated with imported drakes, 
well marked, fawn and white; $2.00 for 15; Buff 
Orpingtons, $1.50 for 15. Liberal discount for incu¬ 
bator eggs. Cherry Hill Farms, Pittstown, N. J. 
rnpQ-TNTUAN RUNNER DUCKS, Barred 
LUUO Pb’niouth Rocks, Mammoth Bronze 
Turkeys and Pearl Guineas. Write for 
Free Price List. C. ADELL KAYNER, West Falls, N. Y. 
Hunn Lake Poultry Farm frsK m 
White Wyandotte Chicks, $12 per 100. Eggs, $5per 100. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Beds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y, 
DAVIS S. C. REDS 
200 EGG STRAIN Prices reduced after May 1 
EGGS Utility, $5.00 per 100; S1.00 per 13, 
:-a- Special Matings, $1.50 per 13; $8.00 per 100. 
Mammoth Hot Water Incubator Chicks, $15.00 per 100 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
Eggs For Hatching-} 1 ,-,,?;;, 
Indian Runner Ducks. High-class stock- 
utility, show or export SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 
Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
SPECIAL OFFER— White Rock Eggs. $1 15; $5 $ 100. 
Partridge Cochin Eggs, $1.25 15; $0.00 ^ 100. 
Partridge Wyandotte Eggs. $1.00 ^ 15; $5.00 $ 100. 
Barred Rock Eggs. $1.25 ft 15; $7.00 ^ 100. 
Fresh eggs from good stock, free range and healthy. 
Circular prices hold on your choice of matings. 
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Platform hangs low;rides level. 
Will hold four 40-qt. milk cans. 
Tips forward like warehouso 
truck. Will turn clear over to 
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PRIZE WINNING STRAINS 
Bonnie Brae White Leg¬ 
horns and Pekin Ducks 
| Barred Rocks, 
• White Wyan¬ 
dottes, Rhode Island Reds, both combs, Single 
Comb White and Brown Leghorns, eggs $1.50, 15; 
$7.00, 100. Light and Dark Brahmas, $2.00, 15. Cat¬ 
alog gratis. F. M. PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
W RIGHT’S WHITE WYANDOTTE WINNERS 
—Baby Cliix. dune Hatch, $11 per 100; $0 per 60. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, - Stan ford vi llk, N. Y. 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHKIt. 
Single and Rose Comb W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks 
and Imp. Pekin Ducks. Cockerels and Ducks of 
both sexes for sale in any quantity from $'.’ up. 
Chicks. $15 per 100. Ducklings, $25 per IUU. Write 
for special prices in large lots. Orders booked for 
early celivery of hatching eggs and day old chicks 
and ducklings. Safe delivery and satisfaction 
guaranteed. CARL W. LLOYD, Mgr., 
Hillside, Westchester County. N. V. 
ARE BETTER 
than over. 
Eggs from our 
heavy laying 
strains now 
ready; also some choice matings of Barred and 
White Plymouth Rocks, Rose Comb White Leg¬ 
horns, White Wyandottes, Single and Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds, Light Brahmas, Mammoth 
Bronze Turkeys and Pearl Guinea Fowl. Orders 
for early settings and baby chicks now booked. 
Get some prize matings at right prices. BONNIE 
BRAE POULTRY FARM, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Largest 
successful plant in New York vicinity. 10,000-ogg 
capacity. Agents for Cyphers Incubator Company. 
Correspondence invited. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Baby Chicks, prompt shipment, $9 per 100. Hatch¬ 
ing Eggs. Pullets and Yearling Hens, prompt or 
future shipment. Quality kind at right prices. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
Buff, Wh. Leghorns, Mottled Anconas, S. C. U. I. Red. 
Eggs, 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. $2.75 per 00, $4 per 100. 
Catalogue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
■WT-YCKOFF-BLANCHARD strains Single-Comb 
” White Leghorns, $1.25 setting. Heavy laying 
Rose-Comb Black Minorcas, $1.50 setting. Circular. 
HIGH RIDGE POULTRY FARM, Laurel. Md. 
BABY CHICKS, 10c. S SEe'a’t 
C. White Leghorns in any quantity. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circulars free. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby 
Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Cr/ 5 /IiC—30 for $1. $3. per 100. Single-comb 
“ 0 Brown Leghorns. Good stock guar¬ 
anteed. H. A. THACHKR, Perulack, Fa. 
DABY CHICKS—Single Comb White Leghorns. 
•*-' Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 9c and 12c each. 
Strong and livable. From vigorous free range stock, 
bred for utility and standard qualities. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. WESLEY GRINNELL, Sodus, N. \'. 
