1911 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
933 
The Henyard. 
Come Mrs. Hen, get busy, 
Don't wait so long this Fall, 
To get yourself a-going, 
_ And sound your welcome call. 
Start in before Thanksgiving, 
Don't dawdle through the year, 
No time to take vacation 
When new-laid eggs arc dear. 
Say, Mr. Man, you tire me, 
Get busy once yourself. 
You think I’m going to hustle 
While you sleep on the shelf? 
Come—fit me up a parlor 
And set a table rare 
And then I’ll think it over. 
And possibly get there. 
An Egg Talk. 
In Extension Bulletin No. 8, of the Ohio 
State University, Columbus, Prof. C. S. 
Plumb gives an interesting talk on egg 
marketing. The first point discussed is the 
size of eggs. Investigation of an ordinary 
case of store eggs showed some so large 
that a dozen weighed 30% ounces, others 
26%, and some so small that they weighed 
only 21% ounces. A case of the large 
ones would weigh 57 pounds, 3 ounces, 
while the same number of the small size 
would total only 40 pounds, 12 ounces. In 
the cut. Fig. 363, this discrepancy is shown, 
and it would seem as though eggs should 
be sold the same as beef, by weight. 
Another point is to have the eggs clean. 
“Dirties” are always quoted 25 to 40 per 
BY THE DOZEN OR POUND ? Fig. 363. 
cent lower in the markets. Where feasible 
it is better to sort the eggs as to color, 
making solid cases of white and brown. 
Eggs of odd shape should be left out. This 
sorting as to color will often make a dif¬ 
ference of two or three cents a dozen. In 
small mixed flocks it would not be possible 
to get full cases of one color unless there 
were some form of neighborhood co-opera¬ 
tion, as in Denmark. There the egg indus¬ 
try is carefully managed. The eggs are 
gathered from farms and taken to the city, 
where they are carefully examined and 
sorted before selling. In this way the farm¬ 
ers know just how the eggs are handled 
and are able to guarantee their quality to 
consumers. 
Anconas and Leghorns. 
How do the Anconas compare with Leg¬ 
horns in hardiness and egg production? 
s. H. M. 
Both are Mediterranean breeds, and as 
breeds go are equally good layers. In hardi¬ 
ness, the Leghorns being more numerous and 
longer bred in this country, have the advan¬ 
tage. It is more a matter of strain than 
of breed, the Leghorns having the advantage 
because there are more strains of hardy 
birds and heavy layers to choose from. 
K. B. 
taken in mating to keep up the vigor of the 
birds, and not sacrifice it for any especial 
feature, as coloring or heavy laying. Taking 
this point into consideration, line breeding 
ought to give you a more satisfactory and 
uniform lot of birds. r! b. 
Cracked or Whole Corn. 
I have a friend who has been reading that 
cracked corn is much better feed for egg 
production than whole corn. Is that so, 
and if so, can it be explained? If not, so 
(as I believe) can the reiteration of the de¬ 
lusion be explained. e. l. 
No. Truro, Mass. 
When corn is cracked there is no change 
in it that would make it better for laying 
hens, Vxcept that it keeps the hens busier 
hunting for it in the litter. As a matter of 
fact, when cracked, corn loses some of its 
feeding value, through the evaporation of 
oils and other food compounds in the layer 
next to the outside skins. It also dries out 
much more quickly and is more liable to 
spoil and mould. The laying hen is per¬ 
fectly able to digest whole corn, and when 
possible I would feed it that way. r. b. 
Bedbugs in Henhouse. 
ITow can I rid a henhouse of bedbugs? 
I have one or two of my poultry houses 
overrun, with that pest; do not know how 
they got there; perhaps on a piece of old 
lumber. I have sprayed them every week 
with kerosene and carbolic acid, but there 
are lots of them left. Would fumigating 
with sulphur or any other thing kill them 
and rid the house of them for good? 
Connecticut. j. c. i. 
Carbolic acid and kerosene will help to 
keep them down, but when bedbugs are so 
plentiful, fumigating with sulphur is cheap¬ 
est and best. Take all the movable fixtures, 
roosts, nests, etc., out and burn them. Seal 
up all cracks and openings possible. Put 
three to four pounds of flowers of sulphur 
in a dish for a house 12 feet square, add a 
little wood alcohol, and light with a match. 
Shut the house up tight and leave it so for 
at least eight hours. r. b. 
Grain Ration for Chicks, 
Here is a question for the hen men. I 
have asked this question more than once 
in poultry papers, but have never been able 
to get a satisfactory answer. How much 
grain per day would you feed to 200 chicks 
three months old that have dry masli in 
hoppers before them all the time? The 
answer has always been, “What they will 
eat up clean.” What I want to know is 
somewhere near the amount in quarts. Is 
it five, 10, 20 or more? F. p. briggs. 
For growing chicks, three months old, a 
mixture of five pounds grain to one pound 
beef scraps per day for every hundred 
pounds of chicken ought to be enough ; 200 
chickens at this age ought to average 2% 
pounds apiece, and total 500 pounds. This 
gives 25 pounds grain to five pounds beef 
scraps as their daily feed. Of the 25 
pounds grain you can feed a mixture of five 
pounds bran and five pounds wheat mid¬ 
dlings with the beef scraps as a dry mash 
in the hopper. The balance of 15 pounds 
may be cracked corn, which in this mixture 
would be cheapest. This places the esti¬ 
mate at eight to 10 quarts of grain per day, 
depending on the breed of chicks and 
amount of range they have. r. b. 
On March 10 I purchased 153 S. C. 
White Leghorn eggs from a nearby farmer. 
From these eggs I hatched 40 weak chicks, 
all of which soon died. On April 28 I set 
300 more eggs, hatching 180 chicks. Of 
these I now have 162. I also have 20 
chicks about four weeks old. These chicks 
have cost: setting eggs, $20; food, $24.30; 
total. $44.30. e. C h 
Itushville, N. Y. 
Feeding Beef Scraps. 
What is the proper way of feeding beef 
scraps to the chickens? Is it harmful to 
give beef scraps to fowls as much as they 
want, and have it before them all the time? 
Claremont, N. H. h. b. 
Where the chickens are on free range and 
used to it, I would feed beef scraps in a 
hopper and keep it before them all the time. 
When they are not used to it, I would feed 
beef scraps to them a little at a time in a 
box trough until they were used to them, 
and would not overeat. Sometimes it is 
more convenient to feed scraps in a dry 
<>r wet mash. For laying hens five parts 
by weight of grain, ground or whole, to one 
part of beef scraps is about right. After 
chicks are three days old. I make it a prac¬ 
tice to keep beef scraps bfore them all the 
time until they are grown. R. B. 
‘•Line Breeding” of Poultry. 
What is you opinion of the following, 
taken from “The Philo System,” “Breeding 
in Line”; “Line breeding is to use our 
stock and not to introduce new blood with¬ 
out a knowledge of what it will produce. 
Inbreeding is generally practiced to start 
line breeding, although it is not the proper 
way for best results, especially in breeding 
utility stock, as the vitality is weakened to 
a certain extent, requiring several years to 
overcome the bad effects. Our way to start 
line breeding is to get eggs or stock from 
(wo poultry men who are separated by as 
many miles as possible. The birds are not 
as likely to be related as those from near¬ 
by poultry yards; and should they be re¬ 
lated, the fact that they have been bred 
under different conditions of climate etc., 
will render them of nearly as much value 
as birds not related. You will then carry 
two distinct strains and may use the male 
birds from one side to cross with the fe¬ 
males of the other side. After the first 
cross it may be necessary to cross first 
cousins, which is not considered inbreeding, 
and this will produce stock that is more 
'ikel.v to inherit the good qualities of its 
ancestors.” 
Is this a practical thing to do? J. s. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
This plan has long been used in the mak¬ 
ing. of new breeds and in developing heavy 
laying strains by careful poultrymen. It is 
most important that you begin with strong, 
healthy birds and breed only from the most 
vigorous offspring. Great care must be 
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