1911. 
THE RXJRAI> NEW-YORKER 
T77 
The Henyard. 
THE HEN CONTEST. 
The following reports from W. J. Dougan 
bring the hen record down to July 1. Re¬ 
member that Mr. Dougan started March 1 
with two pens. One contained 10 Wyan¬ 
dotte hens and a good rooster, the other 10 
White Leghorns and a good male. A close 
record of eggs is kept and also a record of 
all grain put into the feeding hoppers. The 
suitable eggs are put into incubators. The 
chicks are to be sold as meat. The in¬ 
ferior eggs are sold or used. The object 
of the contest is to see what income 10 
good hens will give in a year. 
Records of Wyandottes. 
Herewith you will find report of the 
Wyandotte hens in contest for the month of 
June. During the month they consumed, 
or have left in hoppers the following: 
17% lbs oats .at $1.17 per bag .20 
14 lbs. corn .at 1.32 per cwt. .18 
8 lbs. wheat bran ...at 1.55 per cwt. .12 
9 lbs. beef scraps ...at 2.85 per cwt. .26 
8% lbs. wheat screenings at 1.60 per cwt. .06 
.82 
Beside the above they have had all the 
grass and weeds they could eat, which was 
pulled from different growing crops. Dur¬ 
ing the month they laid 122 eggs, 22 of 
which were sold for 45 cents per dozen, two 
were broken and used in the house. 
w. J. DOUGAN. 
The last report showed that up to June 
1 these 10 hens had laid 410 eggs at a food 
cost of $4.03. Thus on July 1 the record 
was 532 eggs, costing $4.85. 
Record of 10 Leghorns. 
Herewith you will find report of the 
Leghorns in contest for the month of June, 
1911. During the month they consumed or 
have left in hoppers: 
17% lbs. oats .at $1.17 per bag .20 
14 lbs. cracked corn., at 1.32 per cwt. .18 
8 lbs. bran .nt 1.55 per cwt. .12 
3 lbs. beef scrap ...at 2.85 per cwt. .09 
3^ lbs. wheat screenings at 1.60 per cwt. .06 
.65 
In addition to the above they had all the 
grass and weeds they could possibly eat, 
which was taken from growing crops. If 
you know of any value for them you beat 
me. During the month they laid 129 eggs, 
12 of which were sold at 45 cents per dozen. 
W. J. DOUGAN. 
At the last report these 10 Leghorns had 
laid 439 eggs at a cost of $3.47. Thus the 
record is now 568 eggs, costing $4.02. 
Thus four months or one-third of the 
year finds the record as follows: 
Wyandotte. Leghorn. 
Total eggs . 5^3 568 
Total cost.$4.85 $4.02 
Cost per egg.93cent .70cent 
Cost per hen.485 .40 
Hen per day.04cent .033cent 
Eggs per hen.523 .568 
The Leghorns are ahead thus far. We 
understand the Wyandottes are about half 
through moulting while the Leghorns are 
just beginning to shed their feathers. You 
can see that the hens have not been forced, 
and there is no chance ror any phenomenal 
egg record. We shall soon be able to give 
figures showing how the chicks hatched and 
what they will bring. 
THE CAT AND THE GOSLINGS. 
I was interested in the story of that 
Missouri cat and the goslings, and I would 
like to know more about her. j. p. 
Mr. Cameron, who sent us the picture, 
gives these further details. 
"It seems that the cat is an old tabby 
or female which raised families of kittens 
regularly until this year. The goslings 
having lost their mother they were taken 
into the house to be raised until large 
enough to care for themselves. As soon as 
the cat saw them she got into their nest 
and insisted on staving there, although 
the goslings were very much frightened and 
tried to get away from her. The affection 
is nearly all on the part of the cat, as 
the young geese appear to care very little 
for their volunteer mother.” 
Picking the Culls.— In picking hens for 
market at the end of the Spring laying sea¬ 
son it is a great convenience, especially 
with Leghorns, to have an easy wav to tell 
the two-year-olds from the last Spring’s 
pullets. Of course, a poultry keeper of any 
experience can do this without much trouble, 
but often in a hurry, a bird will be slipped 
into the wrong lot. With white birds a 
dab ot paint on the shoulder or back of the 
head in the late Pall will make separation 
easy in the Spring, or a better way is to 
band the old hens early in the Fall before 
the pullets are full grown. You can get 
bands that are easy to put on, and can be 
used over again for $1 per 150. and it pays 
if you want to keep your flock cleaned up 
in good shape. There isn’t anv more need 
of a fuss in doing this "cleaning up” than 
there is need of that much dreaded Spring 
cleaning in the house. I aim to start with 
my Leghorns toward the end of April, by 
going through one or two pens in the even¬ 
ing. taking only those that seem overgrown 
or fat, and with a small pelvic opening, may¬ 
be 30 or 40 in all. I like to send off about 
20 in a lot, and pick them as near alike in 
size and weight as possible. The next time 
I go through them by daylight if I can, 
taking all the old hens and those pullets 
that are off in size or seem to be from their 
looks, poor layers. I go by the general appear¬ 
ance of health a good deal, by the brightness 
of the eyes, color in comb and activity. I 
f o, too, to some extent by the distance be- 
ween the pelvic bones. A pullet whose bones 
I could barely get two fingers between this 
late in the season is either a poor layer or 
she is laying undersized eggs. Having sep¬ 
arated these birds, I plan to keep them in 
a pen by themselves, feeding more fattening 
foods, principally cracked corn and corn- 
meal. Each week I pick out about 20 of 
the plumpest after nightfall and coop them 
in a four-compartment, fattening standing, 
putting five hens in a compartment. This 
stand is made of laths tacked on a frame 
of 1 1-3-inch stuff, and can moved around 
anywhere. It is light and airv. and much 
better than stuffing them into old boxes and 
crates that happen to be handy. After 
keeping them up for a week—longer would 
be better I think—and feeding mainly corn. 
I consider them ready for market. I doubt 
if in hot weather it pays to feed poor or 
thin hens into good condition. Better put 
thin and poor ones in a lot together and 
send them off early. My idea is to take 
the old hen in good condition, put a little 
more meat on her if you can, and then sell 
before prices drop or she loses flesh. 
H. B. 
RATION FOR DAIRY COW. 
The available feed for my dairy cows is 
limited to cotton-seed hulls, cotton-seed 
meal and dried brewers’ grains. The hulls 
cost me 40 cents per hundred: the meal 
$1.40 to $1.50 per hundred, and the brew¬ 
ers’ grains 80 cents. The grain is the whole 
waste product, the sprouts are not sepa¬ 
rated. How much more expensive would 
you consider the grains to be to me than the 
meal? In other words, in paying $1.40 for 
meal, what would the grains need to be 
purchased at to make it as cheap? How 
do you regard molasses for cows? I can 
purchase it for about 10 cents per gallon 
from a Texas refinery, I think. I have been 
told it acts as a slight irritant and much 
of it is not desirable. e. e. p. 
I do not consider cotton-seed hulls a 
proper feed for dairy cows, as they contain 
about 46 per cent, of fiber, of which only 
40 per cent, is digestible, leaving about 27 
indigestible fiber in the feed. This must 
cause a severe strain upon a cow’s digestive 
organs without any possibility of any com¬ 
pensating returns, as there is only a little 
over one per cent, of digestible protein in 
this waste product. As a rule, it will be 
found much more profitable to purchase 
good feed and use the hulls for bedding. It 
is not exactly a fair comparison to com¬ 
pare the cost of dried brewers’ grains with 
that of cotton-seed meal, as the two feeds 
are not in the same class, the cotton-seed 
meal being a heavy feed and the dried 
brewers’ grains being a light, bulky feed. 
It is practically necessary for you to mix 
some light bulky feed with the cotton-seed 
meal in order to make a properly balanced 
ration of the right consistency to keep a 
cow in the best physical condition for the 
production of milk and butter. It would 
therefore be more reasonable to compare 
the feeding value of dried brewers’ grains 
with other light, bulky feeds like wheat 
bran. However, figuring the feeding values 
of both upon the same basis according to 
chemical analysis, if cotton-seed meal costs 
$1.40 per hundred, dried brewers’ grains of 
the best quality would be worth 85 cents 
per hundred. Of course other methods ot 
figuring would produce different results, but 
this method is as fair as any with which I 
am familiar for computing the comparative 
values of the different feeding stuffs for 
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