1911. 
THE RUHAfc NEW-YORKER 
729 
The Henyard. 
BOARD FLOOR IN BROODER. 
I was interested in your advice to M. L. 
H. regarding the deleterious effect of keep¬ 
ing chicks on board floors. How is it pos¬ 
sible to avoid this when hatching chicks in 
the Winter season, and when the weather 
will not permit of their being allowed out 
of doors? I have a piece of ground 50x120 
which I intend devoting to the poultry busi¬ 
ness. I am now erecting a 40-foot house, 
70 feet from the front line, so I will have a 
run 40x70, which I will probably divide 
into four sections 10x70 each. The house 
being 14 feet wide will leave a space in the 
rear 30x40 on which I contemplate build¬ 
ing a brooder house, say 14x36. This I 
want to keep filled practically all of the 
time, running my machines throughout the 
year. 
The man I have working for me wants to 
put in double floox-s, say one three feet 
above the other, so as to keep double the 
number of chicks and both to be constructed 
of wood. The idea is to divide the house 
into 24 separate pens 3x11, that is 12 up 
and 12 down. This allows a three-foot pas¬ 
sageway at rear of building. I am having 
a hard time trying to convince my man that 
chicks will not do so well on board floors, 
but I don’t know what to suggest in their 
place. lie is an experienced poultry man, 
and as I understand conducted a profitable 
broiler plant for several years, and claims 
board floors are all right if covered with 
plenty of litter. I spoke of putting in 
cement floors and dividing each pen into 
two sections and putting about two inches 
of sand or earth in one section and litter 
in the other, but he does not approve of 
that. What knowledge I have is principally 
North 
book knowledge, although I have kept 
chickens two years, and my man has no pa¬ 
tience with book theories. 
1 am enclosing diagram of my proposed 
arrangement and ask your suggestions. 
H. II. 
If “II. H.” has some place where he can 
store earth where it will not freeze there 
need be no difficulty on account of the 
board floors of his brooders. lie can empty 
a pail of earth on the floor of the runs at¬ 
tached to the hovers, and put on more when 
that gets dry and dusty. The plan is to 
have two-storied brooders, one lot three feet 
above the other. The floors should be of 
tight matched boards so that the dirt from 
above would not sift down on the lower 
chicks. If he is to raise chicks “the year 
around” he must plan to heat the house in 
cold weather. In a house 14x30 feet lamp- 
heated brooders would not heat the house 
enough, besides the difficulty of getting rid 
of lamp fumes. I would recommend the 
pipe system with a coal heater at one end 
and the pipes after running through the 
hovers extended out to the wall and back 
to the heater, so as to give heating surface 
enough to keep the house comfortable in 
extreme cold weather. The house cannot be 
shut up tight; abundant ventilation must 
be provided or there will bo trouble. Pure 
air is the first requisite. If “H. II.” is go¬ 
ing to raise a large number of chicks he 
will be obliged to have colony houses out¬ 
side to which the chicks can be removed. 
That is, if he wants to raise them beyond 
the broiler size. The “soft roaster” breed¬ 
ers put their chicks out in colony houses, 
sweeping the snow away from around the 
doors, and leave the doors open all day ex¬ 
cept in very stormy weather. I presume 
they must have some kind of a fireless 
hover for the chicks to nestle under at 
night, but I do not know. These “soft 
roaster” chicks are caponized and kept until 
bpring, when they weigh seven to nine 
pounds or more, and sell for 30 cents a 
pound. 
“II. II.” sends a plan of his laying house 
a dd brooder house which shows the latter 
attached to the laying house and facing 
west. This is decidedly wrong. If the lay¬ 
ing house should ever get lousy, especially 
with the little white mites, nothing would 
prevent their getting into the brooder house, 
l should detach it from the laying house 
and face it to the south, to get all the sun¬ 
shine possible. The windows should be 
hinged at the bottom so as to swing in¬ 
ward a foot or so at top, with some strong 
sacking tacked to the V-shaped openings at 
the side, to keep the air from coming in ex- 
cept at top. Curtains to be let down at 
night would largely prevent the loss of 
through the glass. I should obtain the 
dirt for the runs in a dry time in Septem¬ 
ber before the ground freezes, sift it and 
store in barrels, where it will not freeze. 
And don't fail to supply chick grit, char¬ 
coal. and green food. geo. a. cosgkove. 
How About It, Mr. Mapes ? 
I was very much interested in reading 
Mr. Mapes’ hen article on page C01. It was 
very instructive, and yet there were some 
parts of it I should certainly have called 
fairy tales if I had read it in any other 
paper than The It. N.-Y. I do not believe 
many men can take care of 200 hens in five 
minutes a day, yet when one studies Mr. 
Mapes’s figures it seems possible. But how 
often does Mr. Mapes care for those hens in 
five minutes? Does he never pause with his 
egg basket on his arm and lean up against 
the side, or rather the end of his 40-day 
chicken house and spend another five min¬ 
utes of his valuable time admiring the in¬ 
dustry with which his hens gather up the 
grain he distributes by the pailful? I am 
sure I do , and we haven’t got as nice a 
flock of hens as Mr. Mapes has, either. Or 
should this be charged to recreation instead 
of the hens? Does he never stop to exam¬ 
ine the perches for lice or mites, or does he 
have a sign on his line fence reading “No 
Lice Allowed.” Does he never pick up and 
examine a lame or dumpy hen, or does he 
never have any such? In what shape 
would a flock of hens be at the end of the 
year, if they had only the prescribed five 
minutes a day, even with labor-saving de¬ 
vices? Would the egg yield continue to stay 
up? I know our egg yield drops when the 
hens are not properly cared for, and I be¬ 
lieve Mr. Mapes’s would, too. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
C. C. CLEMENT. 
That “White Egged American.” 
Your contributor who writes regaining a 
white egg American I think would do much 
better if he would use the R. C. White Mi¬ 
norca and White Dorking, or if he would 
have yellow flesh a R. C. White Leghorn on 
the Dorking. The fifth toe would be bred 
off far more quickly than the brown color on 
the egg. The shape would not be unlike the 
evidently desired Wyandotte. Every desir¬ 
able “American” (?) feature would be had; 
great laying proclivities, moderate sitting 
desires, yellow flesh, size, superior flesh for 
table, white eggs, early maturity. The 
spindling shape of the Mediterranean and 
the blocky Dorking shape should make an 
excellent combination. I have frequently 
crossed Hamburghs and Dorkings and very 
desirable birds have resulted, not unlike 
Wyandottes in appearance. 
Long Island. elbert wakeman. 
The following is the egg yield from six 
Rhode Island hens for four months : Feb¬ 
ruary, 108; March, 110; April, 126; May, 
125; total 469. On May lt> one hen con¬ 
cluded to sit, the only one that has wanted 
to sit to date. About May 20 one hen be¬ 
came sick; don’t think she laid any more 
in May. a. l. 
New Jersey._ 
Sri, age for Hens.— We wintei - ed 125 hens 
in the cowshed where we formerly kept 
15 cows, but now keep only two. Every 
morning after we fed the cows silage we 
left about two bushels in the bottom of 
the silo chute and opened the door so the 
hens could get in. They would be busy 
there all day long, and at night only a 
little of the hardest part of the stalk 
would be left, corn, leaves, and pith being 
eagerly devoured. This silage and the 
Canada peas mixed in the grain ration are 
mainly responsible for our all Winter egg 
yield, something we never had before. In 
addition to the hens, the cows, horses and 
pigs ate silage here last Winter, and it 
saved hay and grain. c. c. clement. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Wisconsin farm lands have risen in 
value 59 per cent, during the past 10 years, 
according to the census reports. 
Missouri, which usually produces large 
quantities of honey, will have a short crop 
this year owing to drought. 
Fifteen to One.— That was the propor¬ 
tion of milk to water used by Max Kessler, 
a milk wagon driver in New York. But a 
health board inspector observed the dilu¬ 
tion, and the offender is in jail for three 
months. 
The American Seaman’s Friendly So¬ 
ciety, of 76 Wall street, New York, is 83 
years old. One of its charities is the loan 
library, which consists of 40 or more books 
properly cased and placed in charge of the 
captain or mate, who distributes the books 
to the crew. There are 228 of these libra¬ 
ries, which are changed from vessel to ves¬ 
sel, largely sailing craft, as opportunity 
affords. 
Toll receipts on the Suez Canal during 
1910 amounted to $26,340,000, an increase 
of $2,040,000 over 1909. The traffic con¬ 
sisted of 4,533 vessels, with a net tonnage 
of 16,581,898 tons. The average time for 
passage of the canal was 16 hours, 54 min¬ 
utes. By constant dredging a channel 34 
feet deep is maintained, 4,000,000 cubic 
yards of dredging being removed in the 
year. 
The steamer Olympic, the largest in the 
world, arrived at New York from South¬ 
ampton, England, June 21. Judging from 
the amount of food taken on board, the 
“ship’s cook” has plenty of material to work 
with. Among the supplies were 75,000 
pounds of fresh meat, 25,000 pounds of 
poultry, 3.000 dozen eggs, nine tons of fish, 
250 barrels of flour, 40 tons of potatoes, 
live tons of sugar, one ton of coffee, one-half 
ton of tea, 3,500 pounds of jam, and five 
tons of cereals. About 1,400 passengers 
were on board. 
Humans may bow in moi’e or less will¬ 
ing subservience to our various tariff “sched¬ 
ules,”’ but live stock appear to be lacking 
in stand pat respect for this greatest of 
American institutions. “Horned critters,” 
and other domestic animals along the Cana¬ 
dian border often stray over into United 
States territory, without squaring them¬ 
selves with the custom house people. This 
has made . so much trouble that a new 
regulation is proposed, by which these stray 
animals and their offspring will not be sub¬ 
ject to duty if rounded-up and returned to 
Canada within six months. 
A disgusting practice in the food trade 
is the common method of sampling butter. 
A trier is run into the tub or jar; a cone 
of butter withdrawn ; and the sampler, per¬ 
haps removing a cigar from his mouth, 
gnaws off a little butter from various points 
along the trier, inserting the leavings into 
the place from which removed. Butter 
judges in public exhibitions of scoring, 
sometimes test in this way, though, of 
course, they do not smoke during the opera¬ 
tion. There is probably no provision in the 
pure food law covering this filthy practice, 
but it is certainly a violation of the spirit 
of the law. In parts of Northern Europe 
where dairying is made a specialty, clean 
bits of wood are used for every test, so that 
the mouth does not touch the butter that is 
put back into the tub. 
Eating at G. Adolph's. —The name on 
his sign is a little loDger than this, but 
the upwards of 1,000 people who daily cat 
there could find the place if it bad no sign. 
In fact, the man who started the business 
never had a sign. For 40 years or so he 
handed out sandwiches, pies, coffee, etc., 
and with them a highly discriminating line 
of conversation, a plan which his suc¬ 
cessor caries out in a revised and im¬ 
proved way. First among the eatables dis¬ 
pensed come sandwiches made from pum¬ 
pernickel, bread, hard or soft rolls, with 
filling of cheese, boiled ham, roast beef, 
corned beef or tongue, the meats all cooked 
there instead of being boiled a week before¬ 
hand and carted around the city in wagons. 
Next come the pies. Restaurant pie does 
not sound attractive. I removed a piece of 
anthracite coal as big as the end of my 
finger from a piece of alleged mince at an¬ 
other eating house. But G. Adolph’s pies 
are worth eating ; the corpulent, homemade 
kind, cut in four pieces at seven cents each ; 
apple always, and other fruits when avail¬ 
able. Other substantial are boiled eggs, 
sardines, and sometimes bologna and liver- 
wurst. At 1 :30 soup and a regular dinner 
are ready. One customer has been eating 
there 35 years, and a lot of us have a rec¬ 
ord of five to 10 years. Nick has recently 
celebrated his 27th year as chief builder 
of sandwiches, dissector of pies, etc. He 
represents a substantial part of the “good 
will” of the business. 
Bean Prices.— I notice Red Kidney beans 
are quoted at $6 to $6.70 per 100 pounds 
and pea beans at $3 to $3.70 in your mar¬ 
ket report. Why is there so much differ¬ 
ence? K. L. 
Wisconsin. 
It is solely a matter of supply and de¬ 
mand. Two and three years ago Red Kid¬ 
ney were 50 cents to $1 per bushel lower 
than Marrow or Pea beans, and the same 
thing will doubtless happen again should 
the supply of Red Kidney exceed the active 
demand. _ Hence it would be unwise to go 
heavily into raising this variety because 
they happen to be high priced now. A sur¬ 
plus of dark beans is as a rule harder to 
dispose of than of white varieties. Many 
people have a prejudice against the dark 
color, so that, after the regular trade using 
red beans is siipplied, a heavy discount will 
be needed to interest those who ordinarily 
use white beans. w. w. H. 
Warts, 
I have a valuable heifer, Jersey, tuber¬ 
culin tested, aged 20 months, freshened two 
months ago. She is covered with a growth 
that varies from size of pea to a closed fist. 
Many think these are warts. If so, will you 
tell me what I can use to remove them? 
The growth is entirely on the body and 
not on the udder. m. w. a. 
New York. 
The growths are warts and the large ones 
should be twisted out and the bleeding 
stopped by application of a red-hot iron or 
Monsell’s solution or powder. Flat masses 
of warts may be got rid of in time by once 
daily rubbing freely with best castor oil. 
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