1911. 
y?HE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
•713 
The Henyard. 
THAT HEN CONTEST. 
W. J. Dougan, of New Jersey, has 
been feeding those hens since March 1. 
The following brings their record up 
to June 1, or three full months: 
Record of 10 Wyandottes. 
1 am sending you report of White Wyan¬ 
dottes in contest for the month of May. 
Euring that time they consumed, or have 
standing in hoppers: 
19 % lbs. oats, at $1.05 per bag.$ .22 
6 lbs. bran, at $1.60 per cwt.10 
5 lbs. mixed, at $1.55 per cwt.08 
2 lbs. wheat screenings, at $1.60 per 
cwt.03 
24% lbs. corn, at $1.35 per cwt.33 
2 lbs. beef scraps, at $2.95 per cwt.. .06 
$ .82 
During the month they _ laid 152 eggs; 
49 of them were sold at 45 cents per doz. 
Four pounds of the oats were “sprouted 
besides that I feed plenty of weeds pulled 
from an onion bed, (the value of which I 
won't mention.) 
Up to May 1 these 10 Wyandottes had 
laid 258 eggs at a cost of $3.21. Thus 
June finds the three months’ record 410 
eggs which have cost $4.03. 
Record of 10 Leghorns. 
During May they consumed, or have left 
in hoppers 1 
17% lbs. oats, at $1.15 per bag.$ 20 
5 lbs. bran, at $1.60 per cwt.08 
5 lbs. mixed, at $1.55 per cwt.08 
1 lb. wheat screen, at $1.60 per cwt... 02 
21% lbs. corn, at $1.35 per cwt.29 
$ .67 
Three and one-half pounds of the oats 
were sprouted and plenty of weeds from an 
onion bed were fed. During the month they 
laid 166 eggs, 27 of which were sold at 45 
cents per dozen. w. j. dougan. 
The Leghorns had to their credit on 
May 1 273 eggs costing $2.80. Thus 
the total on June 1 was 439 eggs cost¬ 
ing $3.47. 
For the first three months or 92 days 
therefore the Leghorns are ahead. Here 
is a comparative statement of the record 
thus far: 
Wyandotte 
Total eggs. 410 
Total cost. $4.03 
Cost per egg. .98 cent 
Eggs per hen.... 41 
Leghorns 
439 
$3.47 
.83 cent 
44 
On the face of this the Leghorns are 
winning, but “the rest is to come ;’ r most 
of these eggs have been used for incu¬ 
bating. The Wyandotte chicks will 
bring more than the Leghorns as meat, 
and the sales in this contest are limited 
to actual food. We shall give a record 
of the incubating and brooding before 
long. You will see how the cost of 
grain fell off when the hens had a full 
feed of weeds and grass. 
More Indian Runner Duck Talk. 
My experience dates back over five years. 
I have tried these ducks well and to-day 
I would not do without them. They re¬ 
quire different treatment from hens but 
this special knowledge is easy to attain, 
easy to put in practice and has the double 
advantage of being cheap both in money 
and labor. I have shipped to the commis¬ 
sion houses in New York and generally get 
from six to 10 cents more per dozen than 
for hen eggs. Three cents above was the 
lowest and that was in August. In Spring 
I often got 20 cents more. This Spring I 
got 34 cents. The commission house sup¬ 
plies me with crates at 15 cents each. They 
are not new, but they answer just as well. 
I have tried different sized flocks and I 
find that it pays best to have 75 or 100 
layers, for you will be able even in the 
slack months to ship the eggs fresh. If 
the flock is small some would be rather 
stale before you had enough. I ship in 
30-dozen crates. Compared with the busi¬ 
ness hen she is at least her equal individ¬ 
ually. but in flocks of say 100, the hen 
simply won’t do it and I don’t believe she 
ever will. While the hen man is clearing 
his droppings boards, fighting lice and mites, 
and the other diseases a hen is heir to, but 
especially roup and gapes, the duck man 
has only to fork out the soiled bedding on 
the floor and throw in a forkful of straw. 
If you could eliminate the many troubles 
that are a constant menace to the hen that 
do not trouble the duck in the least that 
dream poultry farm would be quite numer¬ 
ous. I don’t believe a duck egg will stand 
the abuse a hen egg often gets, for an an¬ 
cient duck egg will speak for itself. This 
will make freshness a necessity, as it should 
be with ail eggs. d. w. f. 
New Jersey. 
Never Feed Fertilizer Tankage. 
Can you give me any facta about the 
good or ill effect of tankage when used as 
a constituent of dry mash feed for hens 
and chicks? I have been feeding it most of 
the time for some months past, but am not 
sure whether I ought to do so or not. I 
have had more sickness among the hens 
this passing season than ever before, though 
I have studied to do all that l could to 
maintain health among them. My reason 
for feeding tankage instead of beef scrap 
is, as you may guess, that it is much less 
expensive than the scraps, which cost here 
about $2.50 per 100 pounds, while the tank¬ 
age costs but $1.62 per 100 pounds, a sav¬ 
ing of nearly $1. Nevertheless I do not 
wish to feed it if it is injurious. I know 
that it is fed to hogs but have never seen 
any reference as to its use by others as a 
hen feed. There has been quite a lot of 
crop trouble among the fowls, crop-bound ; 
often I have seen one straining and twist¬ 
ing her neck as if she were trying to get 
something down her throat. A good many 
that seem in perfect health keep shaking 
their heads with sidewise, snapping motions 
and others seem to have suddenly wasted 
away and died without any definite symp¬ 
toms, not even having the keen appetite 
accredited to “going light.” n. l. b. 
Groton, Mass. 
You arc evidently feeding fertilizer tank¬ 
age instead of that made for feeding stock, 
which is called “digester tankage.” Stop 
such feeding right away if you value your 
hens' lives. Even the "digester tankage” is 
not as good as beef scrap for chickens, and 
we would never recommend its use, but the 
fertilizer tankage is a sure road to ruin. 
It is a wonder yon have any chickens left. 
The hens act as if they bad “Iimborneek” 
which is usually caused by eating tainted 
meat. 
Some Good Virginia Pullets. 
A neighbor of mine has a flock of 77 
pullets, hatched .Tune 6, 1910, that seem to 
me to have done better than any I have 
ever noted elsewhere. I enclose a statement 
of their ability as layers. My faith is 
proven by the fact that I have bought 25 
of these pullets for Fall delivery, and will 
use them as breeders next year. None of 
them nor their eggs will be for sale. Four 
homemade brooders, planned after that in 
the Business lien, in the Cornell shaped 
brooder house 8x12, gave fine results for 
me. 
Eggs laid by 77 IV. L. pullets, hatched 
Hen. 
19 + 
20 + 
24 + 
24 + 
20 — 
110 — 
.Tunc 6, 1910: 
January, 1911.. 
Total 
Eggs 
Laid. 
_ 1.510 
Av. per 
Day. 
48+ 
February . 
_ 1.593 
57— 
March . 
_ 1.875 
60 + 
April . 
. 1,871 
62 + 
May . 
- 1,610 
52— 
Totals.. . 
.... 8,459 
56 + 
These pullets were raised from 200 day- 
old chicks, and while not forced have had 
good care. They were fed dry mash and 
oats, wheat and cracked corn in litter. 
None died ; a few were broody in May, less¬ 
ening the yield for that month. They were 
kept during cold weather confined in a 
16x32 house, with buildings protecting it on 
three sides. No cockerels were in the 
house. f. j. s; 
Virginia. 
I had a hatch yesterday of 25 chicks 
from 30 eggs; sturdy little White Wyan¬ 
dottes, the host ever bred. I have put 
them, with one hen under a “heatless” 
Summer colony coop. I like this idea for a 
Summer coop as there are no bottom boards 
and it can be moved around and will keep 
the chicks out of the flower beds. I pro¬ 
pose to raise these chicks to half growns 
in this coop, which is about 6x12 feet. I 
have 100 older chicks and have had no 
losses from disease. s\ c. w. 
Madison, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—We have both chicks and little 
turkeys growing on much this same plan 
and they are all doing well. 
A PACIFIC COAST DAIRY HERD. 
Many cows with only very ordinary 
yields of milk could with proper hand¬ 
ling be made to give twice as much. I 
have bought and sold several herds in 
changing around, and of my present 
herd of 24 cows in milk I only raised 
four. Last year 20 averaged 6,770 
pounds milk and 346 pounds butter fat; 
nine of the herd were heifers with first 
calves; the least any of the heifers gave 
was about 5,600 pounds. I bought these 
young cows in the East at auctions in 
three days and paid from $75 to $135 
each—they are all registered Jerseys. 
They came from farms where they had 
good pasture and silage, and the dams 
of these cows were only giving about 
3,000 to 4,000 pounds each, and they 
were mature cows. You will see I did 
not pay fancy prices, and my cows are 
not more than fair individuals. For the 
month of May, 1911, 23 head gave 845 
pounds of butter fat, besides supplying 
three families liberally with milk and 
feeding some whole milk to young calves. 
Now if these figures are better than or¬ 
dinarily obtained, I will tell you all there 
is to it. 
At every milking I am on hand help¬ 
ing to do it myself, and I know that 
the cows are milked perfectly dry; if I 
hire a new man I try the cows after 
him to know that none of the milk is 
left in the cow; if he does not milk to 
suit me, he does not stay. I feed the 
cows liberally at all times and do it 
myself. I rarely feed over eight pounds 
of mill feed per day, but they are fed 
according to the amount of milk they 
are giving. The cows are kept in a 
comfortable barn when the weather is 
not fit for them to be out; when the 
weather is nice they are out. An ac¬ 
curate record is kept of the milk of 
each cow. Silage is fed about nine 
months of the year, and no dirty or 
spoiled feed is used at any time. It is 
not a hard matter either to buy or breed 
cows as good as mine, but no cow will 
do well unless well cared for. 
Washington. david C. diiavorth. 
Professor (coming from his club, tri¬ 
umphantly holding up his umbrella, to 
his wife) :—“You see, my dear Alma, 
how stupid are all the anecdotes about 
my absent-mindedness. I haven’t forgot¬ 
ten ray umbrella.” Mrs. Professor:— 
“But, my dear, you didn’t take your um¬ 
brella with you. You left it at home.” 
—Lippincott’s Magazine. 
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