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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
September 2, 
The Henyard. 
Come, Mrs. Hen, aud shake yourself, 
Your dressing sorely drags. 
Get through your moult and deck with care 
Your Winter’s gladsome “rags.” 
Jack Frost is coming—hear you not 
Miss Katydid's shrill tone? 
If he should catch you half undressed 
He’d chill you to the bone. 
So feather up, Miss Wyandotte, 
Or Mrs. Rock or Red, 
Remember how the price of eggs 
Is soaring up ahead. 
The Hen Contest. 
We now have the egg record of these 
10 Wyandottes and 10 Leghorns for 
July. 
Record of 10 Wyandottes. 
Herewith is the report of the doings of 
^ the Wyandottes in contest. During the 
month of July they consumed, or have re¬ 
maining in hoppers: 
25 lbs. corn at $1.47 per cwt.36 
16^4 lbs. oats at $1.30 per bag.21 
7% lbs. wheat screenings at $1.85 per 
cwt.14 
7 lbs. beef scraps at $2.68 per cwt... .19 
6 lbs. wheat bran at $1.40 per cwt... .08 
.98 
During the month they laid 124 eggs, 
seven of which were sold for 45 cents per 
dozen, and two were broken in nest. They 
had abundance of green food in the weeds 
from crops. I don’t know how many pounds 
there was, but it seems like 40 tons. 
w. J. DOUGAN. 
Including the last report this makes 
656 eggs, costing $5.83 up to August 1. 
Record of 10 Leghorns. 
During the month they consumed, or have 
standing in hoppers: 
25 y 2 lbs. corn at $1.47 per cwt.36 
16% lbs. oats at $1.30 per bag.21 
7% lbs. wheat screenings at $1.85 per 
cwt.14 
7 lbs. wheat bran at $1.40 per cwt.09 
4 lbs. oyster shells at 55c. per cwt... .02 
4 lbs. beef scraps at $2.68 per cwt.11 
.93 
During the month they laid 147 eggs, six 
of which were sold at 45 cents per dozen. 
The others were used in incubator. Green 
food consisted of weeds. 
, w. J. DOUGAN. 
Thus we have 715 eggs, costing $4.95. 
If we analyze the record of these five 
months for eggs alone we find the fol¬ 
lowing : 
Total eggs 
Total feed cost. 
Feed cost per egg... 
Feed cost per hen... 
Hen per day. 
Eggs per hen. 
Wyandotte 
. 656 
$5.83 
. .89 cent 
. .583 
.038 cent 
65.6 
Leghorn 
715 
$4.95 
.69 cent 
.495 
.032 cent 
71.5 
This is for 151 days. Last week we. 
saw that there were 148 Wyandotte and 
160 Leghorn chicks on hand. Mr. Dou- 
gan expects to continue hatching eggs 
through the year, though the per cent 
of “hatch” has been low thus far. 
Ration for Growing Chicks. 
I have a pen of Single Comb White Leg¬ 
horn pullets, 23 in number, 4% months old. 
They are fed on the following rations: 
Scratch feed fed one-half quart in the morn¬ 
ing. 7 a. m., one-half quart in the evening, 
5.30, in litter. Proportions of scrap feed, one 
part cracked corn, one part whole wheat, 
one-half part oats. Mash feed fed two 
quarts at 2.30 p. in.; proportions of mash 
feed by weight, eight parts wheat bran, four 
parts rolled oats, one part wheat middlings, 
one part oil meal, one part cornmeal, one 
part gluten meal, 16 parts beef scraps. 
Green food consisting mostly of lawn clip¬ 
pings fed in morning right after scratch 
feed. Permanganate of potash put into 
drinking water every other day. Drop- 
boards under roosts and cleaned the first 
thing every morning. These pullets are 
confined to a run six by 12 feet, which is 
changed once a week. They seem bright 
and healthy and are pretty large, almost 
large enough to lay it seems, which is all 
satisfying, but their droppings are all kinds 
of colors and very watery and soft. Some 
piles are dark gray, others are reddish 
brown, some are light brown all streaked 
with white, with plenty of watery sub¬ 
stance present. The birds also have plenty 
of grit, oyster shells and charcoal present 
all the time. What is wrong with the birds 
that their droppings should be in such con¬ 
dition ? Should they not be firm enough 
to hold their shape and tie of a grayish 
color streaked with white? m. 
Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
The above is a good illustration of the 
mistakes an amateur is liable to make in 
following some formula to feed his fowls. 
He is feeding these growing pullets a 
forced laying ration; it is in fact the ra¬ 
tion published by the Corning Brothers 
In their book, with this difference, viz., lie 
is feeding beef scraps instead of green cut 
bone. There is an essential difference in 
the two. The green cut bone is usually 
les than half meat, and frequentlv not 
25 per cent meat, the bulk of it being bone. 
Y^t this correspondent is feeding beef 
scrap, which is nearly all meat, in the 
same proportion. The general rule is to 
have the mash consist of one-tenth to one- 
eighth beef scraps: but this mash is one- 
half beef scraps. No wonder the droppings 
are soft, the wonder is that the chicks 
can stand up under it and continue healthy. I 
The Corning Brothers put 1,500 pullets 
ready to lay in a long house, and then for 
10 mouths feed them for market eggs, feed¬ 
ing the strongest ration the birds can stand. 
Then instead of keeping the fowls during 
the molting period, and losing the time aud 
cost of feeding for two or three months, 
they send them to market and put in a 
fresh lot of pullets. Their breeding fowls 
are kejpt separately, and are not fed any 
such ration as the layers. Corn is one of 
the best feeds for fowls and with Leghorns 
which do not take on fat so easily as other 
breeds, it can be. made one-fourth to one- 
half of the entire' ration. I should change 
his ration by cutting out the oil meal, mak¬ 
ing it four parts cornmeal and six parts 
beef scraps. Charcoal is one of the very 
best regulators of the bowels. I have 
known it to change the appearance of the 
droppings and correct looseness of the 
bowels in five hours’ time, and if the fowls 
do not eat enough of it in its granulated 
form, I would grind it up fine and mix it 
with dry mash. I visited the poultry yards 
of a man who. years ago, used to raise 
chicks all Winter for broilers for the Bos¬ 
ton market, and I noted that the mash 
he had mixed for his little chicks was 
black with fine charcoal. As I have fre¬ 
quently said no “formula” will take the 
place of brains or good judgment in feeding 
fowls, or anything else for that matter. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
The Work of the Pullets. 
I have read with a good deal of interest 
the figures in the hen contest, and I want 
to tell you what my five pullets have done. 
I started last year with one hen. I bought 
a setting of R. C. R. I. Red eggs, and 
raised 11 chickens, six roosters and five 
pullets. I kept the five pullets and one 
rooster and they commenced laying the 
middle of November last. I did not think 
about their being anything extra, so did 
not keep any record of eggs, but they laid 
right along through all kinds of weather, 
sometimes receiving five eggs from the five 
pullets in the coldest of weather. T have 
numbered my hens, for convenience. Nos, 1. 
2, 3. 4 and 5. No. 1 was set January 17 
and hatched. February 7, 13 chickens out of 
13 eggs; commenced laying again March 14; 
laid 18 eggs. Was set second time April 11, 
hatched 12 chickens out of 13 eggs. Com¬ 
menced laying May 27. laid 16 eggs; set 
June 12. third time, hatched July 3. 13 
chickens out of 13 eggs, and she looks to me 
as if she would lay in about a week. No. 2 
hen was set March 13. hatched April 3, 13 
chickens out of 13 eggs, commenced laying 
May 13, laid 17 eggs; set second time .Tune 
1; hatched 11 chickens June 22 out of 13 
eggs. No. 3 hen was set April 9. hatched 
April 30. 10 chickens out of 13 eggs; com¬ 
menced to lay May 29. laid 18 eggs; set 
June 17, second time, hatched July 8, 11 
chickens out of 13 eggs; commenced laying 
August 8. No. 4 hen set April 13. hatched 
May 4. 10 chickens out of 13 eggs; com¬ 
menced laying June 6; laid 12 eggs; set 
second time .Tune 21. hatched .Tilly 12. nine 
chickens out of 13 eggs; commenced laying 
August 12. No. 5 was set May 9. hatched 
May 30. 10 chickens out of 13 eggs; com¬ 
menced laying .Tune 28; laid 17 eggs; set 
second time July IS. hatched August 8, 
seven chickens out of 15 eggs. In all T 
have hatched 119 chickens and have on 
hand 70. including eight that T killed and 
sold, that have passed the critical stage, 
and seven just hatched this week; 20 of 
the remaining 42 died in the very hot 
month of July and seven were killed by I 
dogs. I am sorry about one thing; I did not 
keep a record of the cost of food, tint I am 
positive I have not spent over 25 cents 
per week for grain ; that and what I threw 
out from the house has been a plenty. I 
fully expect all five hens to set and raise 
one more litter of chickens before the mid¬ 
dle of November, which will be one year 
from the time they commenced laying, and 
I think it perfectly reasonable to expect 
that I will raise over 100 in all from the 
five pullets. The eight that I sold I got $1 
each for. and they weighed from two pounds 
to 2V 2 pounds each, and 40 of the chickens 
I have on hand are worth $t each any day. 
I want to kill them, but most of them are 
pullets and those I am going to keep. The 
pullet I hatched on February 7 laid to-day 
for the first time, being six months and 
one week old. h. c. l. 
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