1060 
TH EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 28, 
The Henyard. 
\ Long Island Henhouse. 
Will you advise us as to planning the 
brooding, breeding and laying houses on a 
lot 80x100, building line to extend across 
the narrow part? The style of house we 
have in mind is open front, 15 feet deep, 
by 13- five feet high in front, 3y 2 feet 
back. This is high enough for chickens. 
We wish to keep a permanent flock of 200 
and breed for eggs and meat. What pro¬ 
portion of building space for brooding, in 
all, say, 1.000 chicks? A. C. 
Long Island. 
The house you suggest is too low for 
convenience and will not permit the sun s 
rays to reach far enough into the house. 
The chief points to be considered in con¬ 
structing poultry houses are location, ca¬ 
pacity, style of house and cost of construc¬ 
tion. Laying or brooding houses should be 
drv well lighted and comfortable. To ob¬ 
tain these conditions choose a well drained 
location with a southern exposure if possi¬ 
ble Properly constructed houses faced to 
the south get the greatest exposure to the 
sun’s rays. An eastern exposure is prefer¬ 
able to a western exposure. The capacity 
and style of building to construct depends 
greatly upon the location. When the build¬ 
ing area is limited as in the above-named 
case the continuous house is preferred to 
the colony plan for laying hens. At least 
three to four square feet floor space per 
hen should be allowed. Therefore a flock of 
200 hens would require 000 to 800 square 
feet floor space. If the building line is to 
extend across the narrow part of the lot it 
will be be.st to make the laying house as 
short as possible. For this reason the 
writer would advise M. A. P. to construct a 
shed-roof house 20 feet wide by 40 feet long, 
nine feet high in front and four feet six 
Inches high in back. This will give ample 
floor space and leave a building line 40 feet 
long for brooder houses. The building may 
be divided, making two pens 20 feet square. 
After laying the foundation the building 
space may be filled in with gravel to about 
six inches above the highest point of land 
to afford good drainage. Use either board 
or cement floor. Cement or concrete floors 
give excellent satisfaction provided the 
land is well drained. „ . , , 
There should be one square foot of glass 
surface to every 16 square feet floor space, 
making 25 square feet glass surface to each 
pen. This amount of glass will give the 
best satisfaction if divided, making two 
windows in each pen. Place the windows 
in the front of building about 10 feet apart, 
with the top of each window one foot be¬ 
low the roof boards. In addition to the 
glass windows one square foot of muslin 
curtain to everv 13 souare feet of floor 
space is desirable. Two curtains, each 
three feet by five feet, will fit nicely be¬ 
tween the glass windows. They should be 
hinged at the top and fastened up in the 
house when the weather will permit. In 
hot weather the curtains may be moved 
to the outside of opening and used as 
sunshades. 
The pens should be separated with a 
solid board partition extending to the cen¬ 
ter of the building. This will protect the 
fowls from draughts and help support the 
roof Wire netting may he used to make 
the other half of partition. Koosts should 
be placed along the back of the building. 
Allow six to eight linear inches per hen 
end nlace the roosts about 12 inches apart. 
Underneath the roosts, which should be 
portable, build a platform of tight boards 
This platform saves labor in cleaning, and 
is much more sanitary than to permit the 
droppings to collect in the litter. The 
nests should he 14 or 15 inches square 
and six inches deep. They may be placed 
underneath the dropping boards or along 
the partition. Nests should be so constructed 
that cleaning and egg gathering may be 
done with comparative ease. Provide a 
broody coop for each pen in which to place 
either setting hens or extra males. There 
should be a door in eacli end of the building 
about 10 feet from the back. A building 
of this style and capacity should not cost 
over $1 per hen in your locality. 
As to brooder houses, use the colony 
house system ; you will find it much more 
satisfactory on your lot than a long brooder 
house. The New York State gasoline heated 
colony house is giving good satisfaction. 
This house is eight feet square and will ac¬ 
commodate 200 chicks to broiler age. For 
particulars write to the Poultry Depart¬ 
ment. College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. These same houses may be fitted 
with portable hovers should you desire to 
do so. You would need five of these houses 
to rear 1,000 chicks. f. t. finch. 
Testing New York Hens. 
The Department of Poultry Husbandry 
of Cornell University has completed ar¬ 
rangements whereby a poultry testing con¬ 
test is to be carried on for a term of years 
at Ithaca, N. Y. This project is to the 
poultry men precisely what Professor Wing 
of Cornell is trying to do for the dairy¬ 
men, through the cow-testing stations now 
being conducted. The objects of this com¬ 
petition are to improve the quality of our 
poultry, to teach the proper housing and 
feeding of tlio birds for the best results, as 
well as to determine what breed or breeds 
fire particularly adapted for farm raising. 
It is the intent to eliminate, as much as 
possible, any advertising feature which 
might be connected with it by the owners 
of the flocks. During the competition the 
owners’ names will be withheld and only 
disclosed at the termination of the con¬ 
test. 
The station will accept entries for one 
or two years, of any standard variety of 
poultry bred by a resident of New York 
State, an entry to consist of 10 females 
and one or two males, and may be entered 
at the owners’ discretion for the long or 
short term. All hens are to be trap-nested 
and minute records kept of what each hen 
has done. The eggs laid during the breed¬ 
ing season will be incubated by the testing 
station, leg-banded and brooded until 10 
weeks of age, when they will be shipped to 
the owner of the entry. In case of stock 
tested for meat production principally, a 
record will be kept of the chicks hatched. 
as to the rate of growth, size, vigor and V 
economy of production. This latter test, 
however, is not to be undertaken for a 
year, owing to the lack of facilities. 
An entry fee of .$20 for one year and $40 
for two years will be charged", as this is 
the only available money at. hand to con¬ 
duct the experiment. All expenses are to 
be taken from these fees, and at the end 
of the test any monies left are to be divided 
pro rata among the contestants. This ex¬ 
periment is being taken up solely at the 
risk of the Poultry Department of Cornel’., 
as to date no appropriation has been made 
by the State to finance the plan. However, 
an effort is being made to have such appro¬ 
priation set aside by the State that the 
work may be carried on more extensively 
another year. At present only a very lim¬ 
ited number of 'flocks may be admitted, but 
there is little doubt, if the experiment is 
entered into with enthusiasm, that the work 
may be extended in the near future. This 
plan, while practically new in the United 
States, has been carried on extensively in 
Australia for a number of years with most 
gratifying results, and we look forward to 
results every bit as gratifying and instruct¬ 
ive here. Full information may be ac- 
ouired by writing direct to the station at 
Ithaca N. Y. c. h. s. 
Start With Three Hens. 
I have been reading with interest the 
“Henyard” items, and wish to add my ac¬ 
count. Last March a setting P. R. hen 
was given to me. I brought her home in a 
basket, gave her a setting of eggs and she 
went to work in earnest. I bought three 
other setting hens: one of them I reset. 
From the 60 eggs set I raised 22 cockerels, 
14 pullets. I only lost two chickens after 
the hens left the nests. Many of the eggs 
proved infertile. My expense account 
stands: 
3 hens at $1 each. $3.00 
5 settings of eggs at $1 eacli. 5.00 
Feed (with enough on hand for this 
month) . 15.70 
Total.$23.70 
Eggs. 
.Tune—3 hens, 61 eggs at 21 cents. . . $1.07 
July—4th hen began laying July 13, 
79 eggs at 25 cents. 1.64 
August—80 eggs at 30 cents. 2.00 
September—76 eggs at 35 cents. 2.22 
$6.93 
September 26, ate I cockerel, 3 lbs., 
at 20 cents per lb.60 
Total. $7.53 
I have on hand my original four hens, 
with 35 fine, sturdy chicks, most of them 
about six months old. The hens are molt¬ 
ing now and are not laying as well. 
Washington. nettie keakney. 
Gas Tar for Lice. 
Here is a mite and louse preventive that 
has just been made public here, that seems 
too good a thing to keep, so I pass it long. 
For years one of our druggists has been 
selling a spray at 60 cents per gallon to 
use on roosts and henhouse walls. At our 
recent State fair the Lincoln (Neb.) Gas 
Co. gave the whole tiling away. It seems 
that in the manufacture of illuminating gas 
there is a by-product called gas tar. This 
gas tar is now offered by local gas com¬ 
panies for 10 cents per gallon in barrel 
lots, 15 cents per single gallon. One ap¬ 
plication with a paint brush lasts a long 
time and means total and complete exile 
for the lice and mites. That is. unless 
some of it touches them : in that case it is 
death. It is also an excellent wood pre¬ 
servative. Mixed with a little cement it 
makes a good iron paint. It seems to bo 
a cheap, useful and lasting article. 
Nebraska. j. h. tubbs. 
Hens as Grain Harvesters. 
We have 12 acres we are going to use 
exclusively for fruit, largely raspberries and 
currants. We plan to cultivate until after 
picking, then to sow to oats: buckwheat 
and rape to keep down the weeds and save 
labor. As this crop matures we plan to put 
in our portable coops with White Leghorn 
chickens and let them do tiie harvesting 
and leave the straw on the ground. These 
coops are furnished with a drinking foun¬ 
tain and hopper of corn to be opened at 
night only. Has any of your readers ex¬ 
perimented along this line? F. p. co. 
Wayne Co.. N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.— 1 This seems like a good plan 
in all ways. Can anyone give a record of 
actual experience? 
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A DIPPING TANK OR A HOG WALLOW 
WITH 
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THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR LOUSY MANGY 
UNTHRIFTY PIGS. IF YOU HAVE SOME 
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WHILE TO GET OUR CIRCULAR ON 
TANKS AND WALLOWS. IT TELLS 
HOW TO MAKE THEM OF CEMENT 
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ABOUT ALL LIVE STOCK 
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MICH. 
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latter stock 
make< better iced 
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Get ground feed at a fraction of usual 
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You can grind 80 bu. grain to table 
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New Facts on Hay Presses 
We have just issued a new Free book on 
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know, it tells about 
the reliable, reason¬ 
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—the Hay Press you 
t have seen advertised 
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MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value Is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier . 
profits larger. 
MANN’S l model Bone Gutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Nover clogs. 10 Days' Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today for Froo Book. 
T, W, Mann Co., Box 15, Mlllord, Mass. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or" fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1811 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peckskill, N.Y . 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
is losing real money for you. You can’t 
expect your lice-infested hens to havo 
vitality enough left to produce eggs. 
Every egg you DON’T get is so much 
money lost. Bulletin No. S3, sent free to 
anyone, tells “ How to Keep Vermin 
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GARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO. 
181 Franklin Street, New York City 
INfTTR ATIfYN - 'Our hot water custom hatch- 
11'1 LUDA 1IV/11 j ng plant was so successful 
last season that wo have doubled our capacity, 
which is now over 200,000 eggs. East year we had 
to turn away over 1,000 eggs a day for a period of 4 
months, as our Incubator was full. Over 80 per 
cent of our last year’s customers have already en¬ 
gaged space in our Incubator for the coming sea¬ 
son. Don’t be among the disappointed—engage 
your space now. Our Incubator" starts on Jan. 2d. 
Write for prices and information any way. 
MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM 
JMillerton,_ New York 
Rose Comb Reds-Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class breeders and young stock for show, 
utility and export. May return at my expense if not 
satisfactory. Sinclair Smith, 602- Filth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL-Rose (lomb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
Hone’s Rose Comb Reds and Large, vigorous util- 
‘ , „ Tunvrvc ity and exhibition 
Mammoth Bronze 1 UKlLhla birds, bred from host 
selected layers: also choice yearling breeders at 
reasonable prices, quality considered. All birds 
shipped on approval. 
0. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
n a Dorn pnrK'Q white rocks, 
dAKKLU RUIAo partridge wyan 
DOTTES, PARTRIDGE COCHINS. We have a 
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MINCH BROS., Route 3, Kridgeton, N. J. 
‘QUPERB STRAIN” WHITE WYANDOTTES—Selected COCK- 
O ERELS for breeding, $2.00 and $3.00 each, this 
month. If they don’t ploase, return at our ex¬ 
pense. OWNLAND FARM, Box 497, South Hammond, N. Y. 
Snow White Wyandottes Thoroughbred 
lay. Circular free. 
r and bred to 
Goldenrod Farm Stewartstown, Pa 
rnnn Single-Combed White Leghorns, Barred 
OUUU Plymouth Rocks, Imperial Pekin Ducks, 
wv/vw Bronze Turkeys and Guinea Hens at 
right prices. Yearlings, pullets, cocks or cockerels. 
Order at once for best selections. Largest success¬ 
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Agents Cyphers’ Incubators. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM New Rochelle, N. Y. 
SINGLE 00MB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Choice lot Yearling Hens, Early Pullets and Cock¬ 
erels: any quantity at attractive prices: bre<l-to-lay 
kind. SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemmgton, N. J. 
CTERLING STRAIN S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS-Express paid 
O on all stock purchased in October. March. April 
and May hatched Cockerels—May hatched Pullets. 
Write for prices. W. Sterling & Son, Cutchogue, N. Y. 
P ULLETS AND YEARLING HENS, W. Ct B. 
Leghorns, W. Wyandottes, from 80 cents each 
up. Write for just what you want. MAPLE 
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FARMS WANTED 
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We have a number of earnest people with moder¬ 
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stock, within a radius of 200 miles of New York 
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prices must therefore he quoted. Send for blank. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL AND 1NDUS- 
TRIALAID SOCIETY, 177 Second Avo., Now- York. 
FARM FOR $2,500 
Sullivan County, New York State Farm in good 
state of cultivation, well fenced and watered : apple 
orchard, maple orchard, small fruit. Largo 13-room 
house, large barn and wagon-liou-e, granary and 
outbuildings. One mile from post office, stores 
and Stato l'oad; in the heart of the popular summer 
boarding section. It contains about 130 acres: to 
close the estate it will be sold for $2,300, less than 
the cost of the buildings. It has been used as a 
dairy and grain farm; creamery one mile. Address 
FARM, care Rural New-Yorker, 409 Pearl St., N A . 
LOOMIS CORN HUSKER 
Run by 3 H. P. 
Husk 25 bushels 
an hour. 
Price on application. 
L. R. LOOMIS 
Claverack, N. Y. 
-Don’t fail to secureStock and 
. _ w ...Eggs at our reduced prices. 
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Box 150 Bloomfield, Ind. 
I Want Your Boy 
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implement dealer black-list me because I sell ray’U. S. StandardScales to you at 
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and his dollar is the equal of any man’s. . 
Your boy can help. Write me for particulars. 
“JONES, he pays the freight,” 
90 Kid St.. Binghamton, N. Y. 
