1911. 
THE RL) KAb NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
What Ails These Ducks ? 
I see on page 868 Mrs. R. A., Wyoming 
Co., Pa., has such very good success with 
her Indian Runner ducks. I also have 
ducks of the same breed, but, on the con¬ 
trary, my luck is different. They have laid 
three eggs since Spring. I set them under 
a hen, hatched two; both lived three days 
and were then ready to give up. The old 
ducks have not laid an egg since. They 
have everything they could want; plenty of 
run, grass, water and feed, but don’t seem 
to have a desire to lay. Could you give 
me some advice as to what to do so they 
will lay some eggs? The drake is three 
years old, the ducks two, and no relation, 
as I got them from different parties. 
Coopersburg, Pa. H. a. l. 
I must say that it is the strangest thing 
I ever heard of, either among Runners, or 
ducks of any other kind. Experience 
would lead me, in advance, to pronounce it 
impossible. The only possible causes I cen 
see are too great age in the ducks (they 
might have been older than was represent¬ 
ed to the buyer) or that they are from 
run-out stock. Judge Clipp said in print 
during the present year : “We have in our 
yards as fine specimens in the pure fawn 
and white (he means the American stand¬ 
ard kind) as the sun ever shone on, but 
I must say that aside from exhibition pur¬ 
poses they are simply worthless; no good 
at all, compared with the penciled ducks 
for eggs, while our English ducks continue 
to lay every day a large, pure crystal white 
egg. I paid some of the best breeders in 
this country their price for the best money 
could buy, and yet their nest in fawn and 
white will not begin to lay half as many 
eggs as the English strain.” This man is 
an acting judge at poultry shows. I do 
not know him, and know nothing at all of 
his reputation. I simply give you what he 
says in one of the best poultry papers of 
the country. If the show kind, besides 
laying many green eggs proportionately, is 
also “simply worthless” for eggs, it may 
be that II. A. L. has this kind. I do not 
believe this worthlessness is true of all 
American Standard I. R. ducks, by any 
means. My special quarrel, with them was 
the green egg, which breeders say they are 
getting rid of. But Mr. Clipp’s statement 
does offer a possible explanation of the 
trouble. Certainly no one could handle 
ducks that were right in vigor and age so 
poorly that they would give this farce af 
a “record.” 
The letter published in The R. N.-Y., 
page 746. seemed to me to contain as much 
common-sense of the Runner question as 
anything I have seen in print. I advise all 
readers to look it up and read it a second 
time, if they have read it already. I will 
quote only one sentence: “I have no per¬ 
sonal knowledge of the quality of ducks of 
any kind, or of their eggs, and this is my 
first season with the Indian Runner, but so 
well am I pleased with them that, could I 
be assured of a market for all I could pro¬ 
duce at the same price as chickens bring. I 
would quickly substitute them for hens al¬ 
together.” This opinion leaves the fancy 
duck entirely out of consideration. It deals 
with the Runner from experience as to 
what it will do (cost 22 cents each to 
raise to market size) and looks at it from 
the market point of view only. I beg to 
assure the lady that an old and reliable 
commission firm in New York, one which 
advertised with this paper for years, told 
me personally that any duck that was well 
fattened would sell always. This was in 
answer to my question as to whether a 
duck of this size would be acceptable. Tt 
seems rank folly to rate it as too small, 
when the market continually takes hens of 
the same weight, and when the average 
family almost invariably asks for a bird 
weighing about four pounds. It is surely 
but folly to say that a perfectly good food 
product that is in the demand that eggs 
command, will not sell, especially when 
some are selling it right along. It is no 
longer a question what the Indian Runner 
will do, for too many have tested it, and 
testified, and its future rests very largely 
on the market demand and the skill of its 
breeders in finding the markets that need 
itS eggS. C. S. VALENTINE. 
Lime Sulphur for Hen Lice. 
On page 933 .T. C. I.. Connecticut, asks 
how to rid a henhouse of bedbugs. We are 
not bothered with bedbugs, but we did have 
a lousy henhouse, and this is the way we 
got rid of them: With our orchard spray 
outfit, backed up to the henhouse door, 
using commercial lime sulphur, one to eight, 
a man to work the pump and a man to 
operate the nozzle, spraying a 10x16 foot 
henhouse was a short job, and in less than 
six hours live lice were a minus quantity 
J. r. s. 
I have been in the poultry business a 
good many years. I keep purebred Rrown 
Leghorns. I winter about 400 hens every 
year, and have found a sure louse cure. 
When I had done spraying my orchards 
with lime and sulphur I cleaned out house 
thoroughly and sprayed inside with a good 
coat of lime and sulphur, same as we use 
to kill scale, and I would add it does the 
business so it will stay done. i. v. b. 
New York. 
Egg-eating Hens, 
In the discussion in regard to hens eat¬ 
ing their eggs, there is one point I wish to 
add that I have not seen mentioned. When 
I find a pen of hens that are eating their 
eggs I reason that they are living too high, 
so I reduce the amount of feed given to 
them, then fix the nests so as to make them 
dark. The hens are taught to eat eggs by 
finding them with soft or thin shells, and 
In 10 times out of 10 times the hens that 
lay soft-shelled eggs are fat. By reducing 
the feed, they will have a tendency to lay 
a less number of eggs, but with better 
Bhells. When the question is asked again 
about egg eaters, you might bear this in 
mind. v. e. h. 
Lakeport, N. H. 
Iron Roof for Poultry House. 
Replying to “C. M.,” who asks as to the 
advisability of putting a corrugated iron 
roof upon an open-front henhouse, tacking 
the same directly to the rafters without 
roof boarding beneath, I did exactly that 
thing about five years ago, and had in con¬ 
sequence a roof which leaked like a sieve, 
though it bad a good pitch and was well 
built. I was compelled to tear the roof off 
and board tight beneath it, after which I 
replaced the corrugated iron and cemented 
all joints, and still have a roof which leaks 
badly, and always will. Mv observation of 
corrugated iron roofing tea-hes me that it 
should be laid with the greatest care upon 
a good foundation, using a “half round” 
under the corrugation through which the 
nails are driven, and my opinion is that if 
“C. M.” lays his roof as he suggests he will 
regret it. As to its readily conducting 
both heat and cold, I believe that to be im¬ 
material, particularly in an open-front 
house. M. B. DEAN. 
New York. 
My own experience about corrugated metal 
roofing is as follows : I have used it as a 
roof covering on several poultry houses and 
find it to be sweltering hot in the Summer 
months and in Winter very cold, as it 
sweats and gets very frosty, and if one 
does not paint both sides of it every year 
it will rust through very soon. Where the 
joints are nailed onto the roof boards it 
will rust through just the same whether 
painted or not; it is about the cheapest 
roofing that can be used, and is like a cheap 
suit of clothes. The best and most durable 
roofing in the long run is a solid roof of 
matched lumber with a two-ply felt cover¬ 
ing. I find that also to be the cheapest, as 
it will need no repairs for a good number 
of years. w. L. 
Hawleyville, Conn. 
Iron Roof for Poultry House. —C. M. 
asks on page 952 if a corrugated iron roof 
will be too cold in Winter or too hot in 
Summer; I will give my experience with 
same. Two years ago I tried this kind of 
roof on my chicken house and found it to 
be a regular Turkish bath in Summer and 
very cold in Winter, consequently many bad¬ 
ly frozen combs. Last Winter I put common 
building paper direct to strips and the roof¬ 
ing over the paper and did not have a par¬ 
ticle of trouble after that. My house, built 
in this manner, is 14x16, front seven, rear 
five feet: scantlings, 2x4, laid crosswise four 
feet apart; strins 1x3, lengthwise, six 
inches apart; building paper stretched care¬ 
fully direct to strips and the roofing over 
paper. This makes a cheap and very satis¬ 
factory roof in every respect. o. E. b. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Another Brahma Man. —After reading 
Mr. Bonham’s letter and seeing the picture 
on page 873, I cannot refrain saying “sec¬ 
ond the motion.” My Brahmas, five pul¬ 
lets and a rooster, kept in a coop four feet 
high and wide and 12 feet long, in Seattle. 
Wash., paid half the railroad fare for three 
across the continent in less than 60 days 
from the sale of their eggs and day-old 
chicks, themselves bringing .$25 in April 
last. I wish to endorse Mr. Bonham’s state¬ 
ment to the letter. I think the Brahma 
equal to the best, and they are certainly 
beautiful, fine large birds. g. w. p. 
New York. 
“The First Egg.”— On page 91S is an 
article by R. B., Maryland, “The First 
Egg.” In looking up my record I find my 
first hatched chicks out April 2, R. C. Reds, 
and on August 27 I found the first egg, 
and by this time I have three pullets lay¬ 
ing. The eggs are small in size, but one 
cannot ask for larger eggs from five-months- 
old pullets. The chicks have had good care 
and house, lots of room, feed regular three 
times a day, and it looks as if they expect 
to pay for it. i. m. 
New I’altz, N. Y. 
- Blumer Barn, Munroe, I Vis. 
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Only one application a year necessary. Send for 
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