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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
Feather Troubles. 
1. Can you toll me what makes old fowls 
lose their feathers in midwinter? 2. What 
is the matter with young chicks that do 
not feather and look ragged? S. B. 
I'atton, Pa. 
1. Your hens losing their feathers in 
midwinter may be due to a kind of mi to 
that works around the quills of the feathers 
and are too small to be well seen. Hub the 
bare spots with carbolated vaseline. it is 
more than likely though that they are not 
getting just the right food to keep their 
feathers in shape. Try feeding a little lin¬ 
seed meal in the mash. 2. Feeding is 
also the trouble with your young stock 
I think. They have not had enough meat 
and feather growing food. Keep the ragged 
ones by themselves. Give them plenty to 
eat and about one part beef scraps and 
one part linseed meal to 10 parts of grain. 
K. B. 
A Liceless Henhouse. 
On page 952 Mr. Clements asks about 
hen lice. I had no lice in my henhouses 
last year. This made me careless, and 
this year I looked for them once a month 
only. Result, up to May, none. After re¬ 
sult: In June as many as the inquirer ever 
had. I did like Mr. Clements; sprayed, 
sprayed and sprayed, and did not get rid of 
them entirely. Finally, with a cheap and ef¬ 
fective mixture, I drenched the houses 
twice in three days and cleaned them out 
entirely. Mixture is one gallon kerosene 
and two quarts of water, in which half a 
cake of laundry soap has been dissolved. 
To use it, add seven parts of water. Then 
I knocked all my nests and roosts and 
wooden hoppers to pieces, killed the mites 
out of pure vengeance, and threw every¬ 
thing in the remotest corner of my one- 
acre place. There sun and rain are disin¬ 
fecting the stuff. Then I made new, lice- 
proof roosts of my own invention. They 
are worth lots of money because they rep¬ 
resent that heavenly condition Mr. Clem¬ 
ents is longing for. Put you get the recipe 
free. Here it is; Take planed 2x2s. 
Plane off edges. Paint with Carbolineum 
Avenarius. Saw off two pieces to support 
the lengthwise pieces, B. Drill holes 
through both where they cross and put 
nails into the holes (nails 4 inches long). 
You can take that roost apart in three 
seconds and put it back in six seconds. 
Make one and look for the mites or lice 
after two months. You won’t find any. I 
have not seen more than two dozen lice in 
two months; none of them on the roosts or 
nests. I believe that if I paint early next 
Spring the houses will be free of lice and 
mites all the year. I shall do it. A friend 
of mine did it with this result. P. K. 
Lynbrook, N. Y. 
The Hen Contest. 
The record of the 10 Wyandottes and 
10 Leghorns is thus continued for 
August: 
RECORD OP 10 WYANDOTTES. 
Herewith you will find report of the 
Wyandottes in contest for month of August. 
During the month they consumed or have 
left in hoppers: 
18 lbs. cracked corn at $1.55 per cwt. .27 
12% lbs. oats at $1.35 per bag.25 
9% lbs. wheat screenings at $1.45 per 
cwt.14 
8 lbs. beef scraps at $1.75 per cwt... .14 
4 lbs. wheat bran at $1.47 per cwt.. .06 
.86 
During the month they laid 148 eggs, all 
of which were held for incubator use. 
This gives us 804 eggs, costing up to 
September 1, $6.69. 
RECORD OP 10 W. LEGHORNS. 
Herewith you will find report of the 
White Leghorns in contest, for the month 
of August. During the month they con¬ 
sumed, or have left in hoppers: 
15% lbs. cracked corn at $1.55 per cwt. .24 
12% lbs. oats at $1.35 per bag.25 
8 lbs. beef scraps at $1.75 per cwt... .14 
7 94 lbs. wheat screenings at $1.45 per 
cwt.12 
6 lbs. wheat bran at $1.47 per cwt.. .09 
.S4 
During the month they laid 157 eggs, all 
of which were held for incubators. 
w. J. DOUGAN. 
This brings the count up to 872, cost¬ 
ing $5.79. 
An Engineer and His Hens. 
On page 972 Mr. L. R. Thatcher made a 
statement about the record of his flock of 
S. C. W. Leghorns. There have been calls 
for further details, so we have arranged 
with Mr. Thatcher to tell us how he man¬ 
ages this flock in playtime. The first article 
follows: 
After living in town a number of years 
we moved to a small farm about two miles 
out, lioping thereby to reduce our living ex¬ 
penses by the help of a cow, some chickens, 
fruit and vegetables. It was easy getting 
to work on a bicycle in Summer, but often 
a hard, dark walk in the mud and snow in 
Winter. I bought at what I then thought 
October 14, 
a very high price 30 White Leghorn pul¬ 
lets, matured and about to lay, and the way 
those pullets laid eggs is what set me think¬ 
ing. After several years of ups and downs, 
reading poultry books and journals, experi¬ 
menting, fighting ignorance and “varmints,” 
we finally settled to the following way, 
which has been successful for the past three 
years. This is how we get eggs that hatch 
chicks that live and grow: 
In October we select the first 75 pullets, 
age considered, out of a flock of 300 or 
more that start to lay. These are leg- 
banded, kept in the laying flock, no eggs 
are hatched from them in their pullet year. 
When molting the following Fall they are 
separated from the layers, have range and 
enough grain in deep litter in Winter to 
keep them in good health and flesh, but not 
enough to induce much laying until about 
March, when we want the eggs for hatch¬ 
ing. The eggs these hens then give are 
large, heavy, of even size and strong shell, 
and will hatch large, plump, fluffy chicks 
with eyes like shoe buttons. 
Hatching Chicks. —I have an old-style 
hot-air machine that I fitted up with sand 
trays. This machine holds 400 large eggs; 
a few more if eggs are smaller, and in 15 
hatches it has never given less than 302 
strong chicks, with 335 the best hatch. 
Eggs are dipped in a disinfectant and put 
in machine wet, which has also been thor¬ 
oughly scrubbed with the dip. Eggs are 
turned morning and evening after the third 
day by rolling them about the trays with 
the hands. They also get plenty of airing. 
The thermostat on this old machine is not 
so sensitive as on up-to-date machines and 
will vary, so the temperature runs from 
100 to 107 degrees. This used to worry 
me so I was about to put on new regu¬ 
lators, but as the chicks always came I de¬ 
cided to let good enough alone. 
Brooding Chicks. —This is where most 
of us fall down. We tried a number of 
ways, and makes of brooders, but finally de¬ 
cided th#t the brooders on the market 
were too small to be practical for us, so 
we tore the heating fixtures out of them 
and used them in a brooder of our own 
make that will care for 200 chicks. It 
takes about as much time to care for a 
brood of 35 to 50 chicks as it does for 200, 
and we grow as good pullets in the 200 
brood as we ever did in the smaller brood, 
but it will take more experience and better 
judgment to do it. These brooders are put 
in eight-foot square colony houses, on run¬ 
ners, in a grass field about 50 feet apart, 
and moved several times during the season 
as the ground becomes foul. Brooder and 
houses are bedded with cut clover, leaves or 
chaff. Old bags are placed on litter in 
brooders first three days, as chicks will 
sometimes gorge themselves on the litter. 
Chicks are fed several feeds on bagging in 
brooder, after which they have the run of 
the house, and are fed once a day in litter 
in quantity so that there is always some 
grain in litter. After the first week they 
have always a box of mash before them. 
When weather is cold a large lantern is 
lning in the house. They are confined to 
wire run about the house until they are six 
weeks old. Chicks have milk, sweet or 
sour, always in founts until three weeks 
old. and longer if I have it, and all the 
sprouted oats they will eat. 
L. B. THATCHER. 
Tell the man who asked about spots in 
his eggs that he wants to get rid of his 
six roosters. We were on a farm this 
Summer, and I knew the one who sup¬ 
plied us with eggs had no roosters the 
minute I saw the fine clear eggs. Before 
we came away I found he had more than 
100 hens and no roosters. A wealthy 
man now of Boston, supplies one of the 
big markets here. He has many hens and 
no roosters. He goes to a beautiful Sum¬ 
mer home each Spring and takes his many 
hundred hens with him. They are the 
only hens I ever heard of that go to the 
country for Summer. I wish the poor 
little babies of Boston could fare as well. 
Hoslindale, Mass. i. d. h. 
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MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM 
Millerton, New York 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
ffs losing real money for you. You can’t 
expect your lice-infested hens to have 
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Every egg you DON’T get is so much 
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BLANCHARD’S STRAIN 
S.C. W. LEGHORN HENS and COCKERELS 
J. O. VOOKHEES, Groton, N. Y. 
CTERLING STRAIN S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS-Express paid 
** on all stock purchased in October. March, April 
and May hatched Cockerels—May hatched Pullets. 
Write for prices. W. Sterling & Son, Cutchogue, N. Y. 
5000 
Single-Combed White Leghorns, Barred 
Plymouth Rocks, Imperial Pekin Ducks, 
Bronze Turkeys and Guinea Hens at 
right prices. Yearlings, pullets, cocks or cockerels. 
Order at onco for best selections. Largest success, 
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Agents Cyphers’ Incubators. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM New Rochelle, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Choice lot Yearling Hens, Early Pullets and Cock¬ 
erels: any quantity at attractive prices: bred-to-lay 
kind. SUNNY HILL FARM. Flemington, N. J. 
7nft S. C. W. LEGHORNS—Annual Sale of Tlior- 
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F. B. Dilts, Maple Spring Farm, Flemington, N. J. 
Hone’s Rose Comb Reds and Large, vigorous util- 
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Mammoth Bronze I UKKfcYo birds, bred from best 
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0. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
PULLETS and YEARLING HENS 
dottes, single and rose comb; Brown and W. Leg¬ 
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BARRED ROCKS 
WHITE ROCKS, 
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MINCH BROS., Route 3, Bridgeton, N. J. 
Rose Comb Reds-Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class breeders and young stock for show, 
utility and export. May return at my expense if not 
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T HE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
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Zll try, Pigeons, Hares, etc. Booklet free. Large illus¬ 
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INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS —Genuino white egg strain. 
I $6.00 per trio. It. C. B. Minorcas, Cockerels, 
75 cents each. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperance, N. Y. 
‘QUPERB STRAIN’’ WHITE WYANDOTTES—Selected C0CK- 
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month. If tlioy don’t please, return at our ex¬ 
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HEN-LICE WAX 
Only one application a year necessary. Send for 
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