1911 . 
THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
793 
The Henyard. 
Damaged Barley for Poultry. 
I would like to know the feeding value 
for poultry of damaged barley that has been 
kiln-dried. I can buy it for 43 cents per 
bushel. I am feeding oats and corn with 
beef scraps before them all the time. Shall 
I get any better results feeding this barley 
with the ration 1 am using? My hens are 
laying well now, 50 per cent laying. The 
price of grain here is, corn, 50 cents per 
bushel; oats, 33 cents per bushel. I always 
feed lots of oats to poultry, and it will get 
the eggs. " c. a. s. 
New York. 
The feeding value of damaged barley 
depends entirely upon the nature and 
extent of the damage, which could not 
well be determined without seeing a 
sample of it. If the damage is slight, 
caused by getting it wet in the shock 
and possibly sprouting a portion of it, 
you could no doubt feed it profitably at 
43 cents per bushel, but if it has been 
burned so that it presents a burned odor 
or taste, or if it became sour or musty 
before being kiln dried, as it was very 
apt to do, I could not advise its use as 
a poultry food at any price. 
C. S. G. 
Blood Spots in Eggs. 
I have a large contract with one or two 
of the principal hotels, by the terms of 
which every egg shipped to them must be 
candled, even though just laid, for the sole 
purpose of detecting “blood spots.” These 
can usually be detected, but notwithstand¬ 
ing the utmost care are liable to slip in and 
cause trouble. An occasional egg will be 
red through, and through, others will have 
a clot say half the size of your little 
finger nail, while still others will have but 
a hair-line of red. So far I have never 
heard a clear suggestion as to the cause of 
these blood spots, and as the tendency to¬ 
ward such seems to be Increasing, want to 
ask you the cause, at same time begging 
for information as to a remedy. The old 
theory that it was a mark of a fertile egg 
seems to be exploded. We have some six 
roosters only in the entire flock, yet And an 
abnormal number of these eggs, all of 
which have to be thrown out and used, if 
they can be, in the house. M. B. 
The experts who prepared “The Busi¬ 
ness Hen” say that these blood spots are 
due to bursting of small blood vessel's 
in the glands where the egg is secreted. 
The blood thus lost enters the egg. 
Among other causes are fright, injury 
or over-feeding on meat or rich foods 
which may overwork the blood vessels 
supplying blood to the egg factory. If 
many such eggs are laid let up on the 
meat feeding and forcing—give more 
green food and make them exercise. It 
sometimes happens that a few hens in 
the flock do nearly all the mischief and 
produce these bloody eggs regularly. If 
you can spot them take them out. We 
would like a practical discussion of this. 
Can you give any experience? 
How to Kill Lice on Chicks. 
How is the mercurial salve made which 
Mr. Cosgrove recommends in the “Business 
Hen” as a remedy for lice on sitting hens? 
A. F. 
It won’t do to put “mercurial ointment” 
on sitting hens, or anything else of a 
greasy or oily nature; the grease closes the 
pores in the shells and will kill every 
chick. My advice was to put it on hens 
after the eggs were hatched—hens run¬ 
ning with chicks. I used it last year with 
good results ; this year I sent to the same 
store and got some, but it was put up in a 
different manner; was very much stronger 
and it resulted in the death of about 20 
chicks. The fumes of the ointment was 
what affected the chicks. It was in the 
cold damp days of middle June, thermom¬ 
eter below 50 degrees; it had been 92 de¬ 
grees in the shade two days before. My 
wife noticed that the chicks were shaking 
with the cold but would not go unaer the 
hens; she brought them into the house and 
put them in a basket with warmed woollen 
covers. They stopped shaking in a few 
minutes, but nearly all died before morning. 
I think the chicks stayed out in the cold 
rather than endure the fumes. I put the 
ointment on three hens, using a piece 
smaller than a pea, rubbing it all along 
the sides of the body and under the wings. 
I used it full strength on the first hen and 
all her chicks died. Noticing that the oint¬ 
ment seemed stronger than usual, I mixed 
some with lard and used it on-the other 
two hens; about half of their chicks died. 
I don’t know how the mercurial ointment 
is made, but know that it can be bought 
at any drug store; but since this last ex¬ 
perience I would not recommend its use. It 
did not seem to hurt the hens any, and it 
certainly does destroy the lice, but the 
quality of it is too variable to use it for 
little chicks. 
The editor of Farm Poultry tells in a 
recent number of his magazine of a visit 
to Mr. F. W. C. Almy of Rhode Island. Mr. 
Almy raises thousands of R. I. Red chicks 
by hens. He was taking off 60 hens that 
had just hatched 550 chicks. The hens 
were put in bags and loaded on the wagon, 
then the chicks were scooped up by the 
double handful and put in boxes and dusted 
with a lice powder until every chick was 
covered with it, Mr. Almy shaking the pow¬ 
der from a can with a perforated cover. 
The boxes were then loaded on the wagon 
and taken to the colony coops, nearly a 
half mile away, where each hen was given 
20 to 25 chicks. The editor says “The 
dead lice were very plainly to be seen in 
the bottom of the boxes when the chicks 
were taken out.” This was doing the job 
by wholesale, as a hundred or more chicks 
were treated in a minute. A standard lice 
powder is used in this locality. I saw Mr. 
Smith, the manufacturer, at the Stafford 
Fair, take a hen, tip her head downward 
and shake a little of his powder under her 
tail and in the fluff, rubbing it down into 
the feathers; then hold her over a piece 
ef paper and rustle her feathers and the 
dead lice fall on the paper, the whole oper¬ 
ation not taking 30 seconds. 
GEO. a. coSgbovb. 
SUMMER SILAGE FOR A FEW ANIMALS. 
Following is my way of keeping silage 
for Summer feeding for a few animals: 
Silo is 16x35 feet. Three days after 
cows were turned out to pasture they 
ceased to eat silage. I had nine calves 
and big herd bull (Holstein) to feed in 
stable (for calves must be kept grow¬ 
ing). I use about five bushel baskets 
per day. I covered silage with two 
inches of oat and hay chaff, well wetted 
down and trampled, then one inch of 
soil, ordinary ground out of cornfield or 
any other place, than five or six quarts 
of oats, then another inch of soil well 
tramped, then watered. In less than 
10 days it will Ic as green as any lawn. 
Then cut out small wedge-shaped blocks 
(the same as a round layer cake is cut) 
about 18 inches deep, or in other words, 
no larger than can be fed in two or 
three days so as to keep side from 
spoiling. When cutting a new block, 
carefully place green top on place you 
quit feeding from. When properly done 
there will not be enough silage spoiled 
worth speaking about. Don't forget to 
water the whole of it once in a while 
when needed. If some one has a better 
method I should very much appreciate 
to know it. w. R. 
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