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THE RUR.A.K NEW-YOKKEK 
September 9, 
The Henyard. 
Liars About Layers. 
There has been a sudden outburst of ”hen 
notes” in the daily papers lately. Perhaps it 
is due to the “hot wave.” At any rate 
here are a few about “Business Hens”: 
A man at Tarrytown.N. Y., claims a hen 
which brings him his pipe every night after 
supper. She then takes a match in her beak 
and hands it to him to light! 
A N. Y. doctor is said to have saved his 
life by swallowing 18 eggs. lie drank a 
solution of bichloride of mercury by mis¬ 
take. “The physician immediately shouted 
to his wife, who was dressing his two chil¬ 
dren, and Mrs. Grosner broke one egg after 
another and gave them to him until he had 
swallowed the whites of 18. At this time 
he was lying on a couch suffering agonies.” 
A woman in Connecticut lost a valuable 
pearl and is convinced that one of a flock 
of hens swallowed it. This flock has been 
sold and the woman is chasing up all traces 
of them—trying to buy every bird. What 
a chance for a novel writer! 
A Pennsylvania man lias found that his 
liens will eat chopped tobacco stems. His 
scheme is to keep them at it until hen 
lice will shun them, and then advertise a 
new breed of vermin-proof hens. 
A Massachusetts hen tripped over a bum¬ 
blebee's nest, got a case of bumble foot, and 
is expected to lay eggs containing a quan¬ 
tity of fine honey. 
A California Leghorn is said to have 
hatched a chick with three wings and four 
feet: “So great a freak is the chick that 
immediately after it was hatched the old 
hen left her nest and refused to have any¬ 
thing to do with it. The third leg is set 
in the middle of the body immediately back 
of the other two, which arc in their normal 
position. The extra leg also has a fully 
formed extra foot.” 
A Utility Poultry Test. 
The “North American” of Philadelphia 
is responsible for a great poultry test or 
contest which will start November 1 at 
the Connecticut Agricultural College. There 
will be room for 100 pens of birds and 
many entries have already been made. Prof. 
A. A. Brigham, one of the managers, says: 
“Every pen of layers will be housed in 
similar quarters, fed alike, except as to 
quantity, on a dry mash and dry grains, 
green food, etc. 
“The simplest practices will obtain for 
the purposes of economical operation. 
With low labor cost, high egg yield and 
maximum market for eggs, the competi¬ 
tion will give more valuable data to poul- 
trv men than can result from individual 
effort. 
“While it is generally admitted that sci¬ 
ence has not, and may never, successfully 
determine the proper ration for any living 
thing, it is also admitted that certain ra¬ 
tions produce better results than nature 
has, when nature furnishes the ration in 
an environment opposed to artificiality and 
reproduction of species is the instinctive 
objective. The combined experience of the 
advisory board will lend Itself strongly 
for success in this undertaking, every de¬ 
tail of which will have behind it matured 
thought resulting from close connection 
with the largest gatherers and dissemina¬ 
tors of poultry knowledge extant, and with 
investigators who have become well known 
through accuracy of results obtained.” 
which are worth nearly as much more. It 
is presumed that the feed for the chicks ,is 
included in the feed bill given, and as that 
is deducted from the egg account, the chicks 
are clear gain, to be added to the profit 
on eggs. This season seems to have been a 
very poor one for hatching. Very few peo¬ 
ple report good hatches, though of course 
there are exceptions. The hatch given 
above is not very far below the average 
this year. My best hatch was 120 chicks 
from 180 eggs, hatched 'n an incubator. 
It must be remembered that the seven 
months’ report given is for the best lay¬ 
ing part of the year; the five months to 
come will not show as much profit, al¬ 
though it will be the time when eggs are 
highest in price. geo. a. cosgiiove. 
Market for Hen Manure. 
Is hen manure sold to fertilizing firms, 
or are there other buyers? a. w. h. 
New York. 
Dealers in fertilizers do not usually buy 
hen manure. It varies too much in com¬ 
position. and is too bulky to use except as 
a “filler.” The pure manure is sometimes 
bought by tanners, but in the great major¬ 
ity of cases it will pay best to use it to 
grow crops for feeding the hens, or in an 
orchard. 
Don’t Mix Them. —It is not a good plan 
to keep pullets and mature hens together 
in the same flock, if we wish to get plenty 
of Winter eggs. Laying pullets require and 
consume with advantage an amount of food 
that will quickly overfatten the liens, and 
the fat lien lays poorly or not at all. When 
layers of all sorts and ages are housed and 
fed together, either the pullets will get too 
little or the hens will get too much, and in 
either case we diminish egg production, and 
are apt to injure some of the flock. Over¬ 
feeding is to be avoided in fowls of ell 
ages, but it is much easier to overfeed the 
mature bird than the growing pullet. The 
tendency to take on fat is common in the 
yearlings and older hens of all kinds, being 
most marked in the larger and heavier 
breeds. In order to avoid overfeeding one 
must take a good many other conditions 
into account. Each must study his birds 
and learn the details of management for 
himself. Their behavior at feeding time is 
a good indication of the amount of food that 
should lie given. If they are eager and 
lively all goes well; if they move about 
slowly and show indifference the amount 
of the ration should be cut down. Breed 
should be considered, the active, hustling 
Leghorn will dispose of more grain in pro¬ 
portion to its size and weight than the 
slow-going Cochin. Then the kind of food 
that forms the bulk of the ration is an 
item of importance. Look out for the fat¬ 
tening effects of corn. Too much fat puts 
an end to laying and it is the cause of 
much ill health and some deaths in the 
poultry house in the Winter. 
Pennsylvania wm. r. fisher. 
“MEN WHO KNOW 
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Why should YOU experiment or 
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A Record of Laying. 
.Tanua'rv 1, 1911, I bad 70 hens. I killed 
and sold‘25 hens between January 1 and 
May 30; bought 32 hens between .Tune 1 
and July 31. From January 1 to July 31 
inclusive I have received 5.250 eggs. The 
largest month’s yield was April, 1.024 
eggs; average yield 750 eggs per month. 
What do you think of this egg yield? Is 
it good, bad, or about the average? My 
grain Dill figures up to $57.53 for the seven 
months, or an average of $8.21 per month. 
How does this compare with the average 
cost? I set 14 hens with 13 eggs, which 
equals 182 eggs; I got 84 chickens, lost 
two. My first hatch was April 20; the 
cockerels’ are crowing; the pullets will 
weigh about three or 3% pounds; breed, 
Plymouth Rock, Barred and White Wyan- 
dottes, size about the same. 
What do you think of the size and weight 
to date? How good was the hatch com¬ 
pared to the eggs set. I use the open- 
front coop system and keep the hoppers 
full of dry mash and grain, with plenty of 
fresh water at all times. I am watching 
with much interest the hen contest. Mr. 
Dougan had rather hard luck with his 
chickens, but Mr. Dougan wasn’t alone in 
the hatching being poor. We had the same 
trouble out here in Blackstone Valley. My 
opinion for some of the trouble was wet 
and cold weather. J. s. 
Uxbridge, Mass. 
The above cannot be called very good 
laying; as near as one can estimate from 
the figures given it is not far from 11 
eggs per hen per month, or a little over 
one egg in each three days per lien. But 
allowance must be made for the fact that 
both breeds kept are sitters, and some time 
was lost by broody hens, besides the 14 
hens that were set and raised chicks. Taken 
all together the output is not far from the 
general average. 
The feed cost is all right, just about 
what it should be with good feeding. Es¬ 
timating the eggs received at 30 cents a 
dozen, the profit for the seven months would 
be $73.72, or over $1 per hen, and this is 
in addition to the value of the 82 chicks, 
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