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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
August 2G, 
The Henyard. 
Sorehead in Chicks. 
I have lost quite a number of young 
chickens about half grown and younger 
with sore head. Please advise me of a 
remedy. What causes them to have sore 
head?' Only the young chickens have it. 
Texas. s. m. b. 
The disease is due to infection from 
pox or “sorehead’’ germs. Rub the af¬ 
fected parts daily with carbolated vaseline 
and separate the sick birds from the rest. 
Disinfect the coops, etc., with five per cent 
carbolic acid solution. k. b. 
Water-Glass Eggs. 
1 am preserving eggs in water-glass, as 
indicated in the "Business Hen.” 1 boiled 
the water of half the pail, as directed, but 
on lilling up with additional solution for¬ 
got to boil the water. Will it make any 
difference? Is it best to empty the pail 
and till it up with new solution, boiling 
the water first? c. c. 
Let the eggs alone. While it is better 
to boil the water you will get good results 
as you have started if the water is rea¬ 
sonably pure and clean. 
Work of White Leghorns. 
I had a pen of 17 S. C. W. Leghorn pul¬ 
lets hatched in June, 1910, from which I 
got the first egg on January 3, 1911. They 
laid 1(59 in January, 292 in February, 391 
in March, 39(5 in April, 389 in May, 391 
in June. On July 3 one pullet was killed 
by accident, and I got 368 eggs in July. 
This gives a total of 2,054 eggs for six 
months (January 3-July 3), or an average 
of 120.71 eggs for each hen. It has been 
a profitable pen, as I have sold nearly 830 
worth of eggs and raised a large flock of 
chickens from them. J. a. C. 
Rifton, N. Y. 
White Diarrhoea Germs. 
Does a rooster carry the white diar¬ 
rhoea germ? I’have a good rooster 1 wish 
to mate to some new stock which is better 
than my old stock, that being infected 
with white diarrhoea. I am in doubt 
whether to use him or not. E. G. 
New Jersey. 
Use him. We have asked Prof. Stone- 
burn about this. As we understand him 
the germs of white diarrhoea have not been 
found in the male organs. They are un¬ 
questionably in the livers of many young 
roosters. . but what becomes of them as 
these birds develop is at present a mys¬ 
tery. They are found in the ovaries of 
the hens. Perhaps this is because they 
found in those organs the most favorable 
or only field for their growth—like bac¬ 
teria on clover roots.. 
When Will Pullets Lay? 
My White Leghorn pullets hatched in 
April lay after the sixth month. Will they 
do the' same if hatched in October or 
December? f. o. 
New Jersey. • 
This question does not give data enough 
on which to base an answer. If the chicks 
are kept in a brooder house and have a 
warmed brooder to run into whenever they 
need it. and have plenty of good food and 
care, with lots of green food, they will lay 
at about the same age as chicks hatched in 
the Spring. But if they are hatched and 
brooded by hens, the little things suffer 
from the. cold. After a week or two the 
hen does not brood them as often as they 
need : the chicks get stunted and never 
at tail} full size; and under such conditions 
might not lay until they were seven months 
old. of course if the hens and chicks are 
kept in a warmed house where the chicks 
are comfortable they will do as well as if 
under brooders, if they are kept free from 
lice. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Indian Runner Ducks and Hens. 
In November,' 1909, 1 bought three Indian 
Runner ducks and one drake. I had never 
kept a duck before, and did not know any¬ 
thing about how to care for them, but 
soon learned how to feed and raise them. 
Since January 1. 1911, until the first of 
August, 1911, I have kept 3(5 Indian Run¬ 
ner ducks and 50 S. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
I have sold from ray Reds $119.29 worth 
of chicks and eggs and $107.(57 of duck¬ 
lings and eggs from my ducks. I did not 
sell more than 25 ducklings but sold a good 
many chicks at 15 cents apiece. My ducks 
are not laying much now; they are shed¬ 
ding. My hens are laying well, but I expect 
that tiie ducks will lay well this Fall when 
the hens stop. My few old ducks did last 
Fall, and I believe that by the end of the 
year the ducks will bring in more money 
than the hens. I have had no feathers to 
sell this year from my small flock. I have 
kept them for myself. With me the Indian 
Runner duck has come to stay. I am very 
much interested in them. I set eight hens 
on duck eggs this Spring, giving them 11 
eggs each, and they brought off 78 ducks 
with only one weak one, and how they did 
grow! I do not lose any ducks, only by 
accident, but I cannot say that of chicks. 
I keep strict account of all that I buy and 
sell, and know at the end of the year what 
my profit is. I would not want to do 
without my hens, for you see when one is 
idle the others are doing their best. I sold 
almost all my duck eggs at wholesale price, 
and received a little more for them than 
I would for hen’s eggs. 
Wyoming Co., Pa. jirs. r.. a. 
Limberneck Again. 
Two years ago I paris-greened potatoes 
for bugs and killed quantities of them, as 
I intended. I noticed chickens eating 
bugs, and in a few days they began dying. 
On examination I found their beaks al¬ 
most glued shut with thickened saliva. 
Some people told me it was “limberneck.” 
They swayed from side to side and went 
blind also. I lost nearly all of them. Last 
year they did no good till we fed a 
poultry food. They picked up, and tips 
year had somewhere near 100 feathered, 
nearly two months and more old. Then 
they began to die. In three days they 
were nearly all gone: acted almost the 
same as others. Part were in board floor 
brooders and some on ground in yard 
where none of our other chickens were. 
1 got eggs at different places. Is ‘‘lim¬ 
berneck" caused by a germ through egg 
or air? We bought mixed chicken feed and 
fed soaked bread with (feed. Could the germ 
of disease be in the water? Is there any 
danger in moving of carrying the disease 
with what chicken I have left? They all 
seem healthy now. One man said to dis¬ 
infect with creolin and coal oil, and feed 
them some also. What experience if any 
have you had with it? G. a. d. _ 
Your first case was clearly that of poi¬ 
soning. due to eating the poisoned bugs; 
due either to the Paris green or to pto¬ 
maine poisoning from the decaying bugs 
which would cause “limberneck." If your 
second case is that of “limberneck” it is 
due to the same cause, eating some decayed 
animal matter or stale feed in the hot 
weather; a very small dose will kill off 
large numbers. There is no danger of car¬ 
rying the trouble with you: keep their 
water and feed fresh and clean, and bury 
everything stale or dead. There is no 
help for badly poisoned cases; apsom salts 
iu water will purge and possibly save some 
not so badly off. Creolin and coal oil will 
not answer'here. R. b. 
Express Company and Baby Chicks. 
In case named on page 848, putting my¬ 
self in the position of the shipper, although 
he was not to blame, would gladly refund 
the price of the six chicks to the purchasing 
parties, and hereafter send no more goods 
C. O. D. I have found the express company 
hard people to collect claims from and try 
to do business through them in such a man¬ 
ner that I do not have an occasion to, even 
though I have to refund a little money once 
in a while. JAS. r.. van aestyne. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
If I were the shipper in this case, and 
was unable to prove that the correct number 
of chicks was shipped, I would think it a 
matter of good business to replace the miss¬ 
ing chickens. I have had shipments of 
breeding stock arrive short, and while sure 
the correct number was shipped, we could 
not prove it, and so replaced the birds, 
charging it to “experience.” It would be 
much more difficult for the shipper of baby 
chicks to prove that the correct number 
was shipped, and I think lie should replace. 
What I do not understand is how the ex¬ 
press agent knew there were six dead chicks 
in the box. What right had he to open and 
examine the package? floyd ‘q. white. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Close Kept Poultry. 
Mr. Dougan, one of your “lieu men,” in 
a recent short article, writes of keeping his 
poultry “closely yarded.” I would be glad 
to hear more particularly of his methods 
of caring for and feeding his laying stock. 
He has once before hinted at the small 
amount of land required for fowls. 
Concord, Mass. e. m. a. 
I use no yards outside of the poultry 
house, although I did last year. The poul¬ 
try house has no floor, but is raised up 
about five or six inches with sand, making 
it that much higher than the ground out¬ 
side of the house. That makes the only 
yard hens have, and I put 90 hens and 10 
roosters in a part of the house 24x15 feet. 
I now have some that have not been out 
of the house in five months, and have had 
as many as 71 eggs a day from the 90 hens. 
It certainly is much better than having 
hens run over the whole farm. Of course 
the house being open front, there is plenty 
of fresh air. I have no yards outside of 
the house, and if I want to give the hens 
exercise more than they get inside the house 
I simply let them over everything. On 
August 8 tin 1 same 90 hens gave me 45 
eggs, and I fail to see any.one in this neigh¬ 
borhood get that number from hens running 
out. For feed, I give whole oats in morn¬ 
ing. wheat screenings at noon, and cracked 
corn at night; that is all scattered. Then 
I keep wheat bran, grit, oyster shells, beef 
scraps and charcoal in hoppers. I throw 
grass, all kinds of weeds, salt hay, bean 
vines, peavines or buckwheat straw on the 
floor for litter. To repeat, laud space, 
15x24 feet for 90 hens, and whole house 
made on same proportion, w. j. dougan. 
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