1912. 
THE RUJR~A.L> NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
A FEW HEN RECORDS. 
Canadian Back Yard Hens. 
Figuring the year from the 18th of No¬ 
vember, 1910, till the 7th of November, 
1911, the record is as follows: The flock 
consisted of seven Rhode Island Red pullets 
just six months old and just beginning to 
lay; one R. I. Red cockerel the same age, 
and two old half-bred Barred Rock hens, 
kept for setting. Number of eggs laid, 
1,421, or 118 5-12 dozen at (average) 40 
cents a dozen, .$47.36; extra price for eight 
settings (of 15 each) $2 setting, equals 
$1.50, $12; five purebred young cockerels 
sold at $1 each, $5; 10 chickens used in 
home at $1 each (minimum), $10. Balance 
of increase on hand 30 purebred R. I. Red 
pulltfts and cockerels, $30; gross total, 
$104.36. Paid out for feed, $35; insect 
powder, etc., $3; three sittings of eggs, $8; 
$46; net total profit, $58.36. 
The birds were kept in nearly all the 
time. The henhouse is 6x12, being a piece 
partitioned off the north end of the barn, 
attached to which is a run with a roof 
over it, but open wire front six feet wide 
by 16 feet long. The chickens were all 
hatched by hens in coops outside of the 
run, with runs attached to each coop two 
feet wide, four feet long (made of laths) 
and 18 inches high. The feed consisted 
principally of good wheat, with a change 
now and then of barley, cracked corn or 
oats; sprouted oats in Winter, cabbage 
leaves, rape or other green feed as much as 
could be conveniently procured. Dry bran 
was continually before them, as was also 
grit and fresh water every day. Charcoal 
was given whenever any could be saved 
from the house fires. The scraps from the 
home carried all the meat they had, and 
with an occasional bale of straw for them 
to scratch in about completes account. No 
charge is made for labor attending to the 
flock, as this was all done in mornings 
and after work hours. No credit is al¬ 
lowed for the manure either, which is worth 
considerable. Broody hens were broken up 
by putting them in a slatted cage two feet 
square and two feet high, with plenty of 
food and water for two days. The cage 
was suspended and swinging and had a 
slat bottom. Chickens were fed commer 
cial chick feed for the first three or four 
weeks. Soft wet food is hardly ever fed. 
Vancouver, B. C. n. t. t. 
I have 18 White Wyandotte pullets 
hatched March 26, 1911, that began laying 
September 9. and up to and including De¬ 
cember 31, laid 967 eggs. This seems to 
me a good record. h. c. p. 
New Hartford, Conn. 
I see on page 1246 C. C. M. Jr., gives 
his record for one year for seven Buff 
Leghorns. Here is the account of my seven 
R. C. R. I. Reds kept in a colony coop with 
a rooster. They were April hatched; la-id 
19 eggs in November and from December 
l, 1910, to December 1, 1911, the record 
was: 
December, 1910... 76 June .110 
January, 1911....110 July .117 
February 110 August .120 
.March .129 September.116 
April .137 October .115 
May .136 November . 72 
Total .1,348 
They are kept in a small yard 15x22 feet. 
We had 26 one and two-year-old hens in 
another larger house with a yard. All are 
on back part of two town lots 40x130 each. 
Ohio. H. E. E. 
Just before Thanksgiving, 1910, I bought 
50 Rhode Island Reds. They commenced 
laying December 5 and here is the record 
from January 1, 1911, to January 1, 1912: 
January .685 July .527 
February .794 August .434 
March .939 September .484 
April .734 October .274 
May .702 November .320 
June .754 December .426 
Total .7,073 
We hatched about 300. b. v. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
I submit the following record of 35 com¬ 
mon White Leghorn pullets and seven mixed 
breeds, 42 in all. These were hatched in 
April and May, 1910, and cared for in a 
common way, with good food, regularly fed, 
such as corn, wheat, and oats, thrown into 
litter in scratching shed late in the day, 
clean water, clean roosts, mash in feed box 
at noon, consisting of refuse from the table, 
mixed with bran and good serap. chopped 
up fairly fine, also garden waste for green 
food, in an open-front wired house, with 
curtains to roll down during hard storms. 
November, 1910.. .213 May .603 
December .331 June .624 
January, 1911.377 July .668 
February .422 August .341 
March .476 September .104 
April .571 October . 83 
Total .4,813 
An average for the year to November, 
1911, of 13 eggs per day. These hens com¬ 
menced moulting the middle of August, and 
were not in good laying condition until 
November. Four hens were set during 
April and May and seven were used for the 
table during the year, which no account 
was made of. The lowest day’s laying of 
<-ggs was four, the highest was 31; the 
average price for eggs during the year at 
the country store was 28 cents. The aver¬ 
age cost per fowl was five-eights of a cent 
each day, not including green food from 
the garden. E. p. H. 
Southampton, L. I. 
My hens earned over $3.50 per hen in 
twelve months. January 1, 1911, I had 75 
B. P. Rock hens, mostly February and 
March hatched pullets. March 1 I began 
selling off; July 1 found me with 40; Sep¬ 
tember 1 with 25. which I have January 1. 
1912, with 65 February and March hatched 
pullets which laid their first egg June 18. 
Total number of eggs laid for the year, 
9.951. I sold 4.100 for hatching slightly 
above market price, used 70 dozen myself 
for hatching, and sold the rest direct to the 
consumer; total income from eggs, $223,87.. 
I raised over 400 early chicks, sold them all; 
but 65 pullets when they were from eight 
to 12 weeks old. My total income from the 
sale of hens, broilers, 100 day-old chicks, 
15 more hens now than a year ago, chick¬ 
ens used on the table, and manure, was 
$227.87. Total with the egg money. $450.99. 
Expenses for feed, corn, wheat, oats, bran, 
beef scraps, oyster shells, charcoal. Alfalfa, 
linseed meal, coal oil to run my 100-egg in¬ 
cubator and two home-made brooders and 
eggs for hatching was $168.90. leaving a 
profit of $282.09, or about $3.50 per hen. 
I raised my corn and wheat, but charged 
my account with mill price. s. L. 
York, Pa. 
Bad Hatching Record. 
Having read the article on page 1224 
about Mr. Dougan’s hen contest, 1 should 
like to ask you if you can explain why he 
has such a poor record in hatching, usually 
getting but little over half? Is this duo 
to the fact that the small number of eggs 
set did not fill the incubators, but that they 
were set at such frequent intervals that 
eggs were started in the incubator be¬ 
fore the preceding ones had beeu hatched? 
In many cases the percentages lost after 
hatching seem very high, as eight out of 18 
and nine out of 15. In other hatches he 
did much better, for instance out of 33 he 
only lost four and out of 17 only three. 
However, I note that there is a discrepancy 
in regard to the 33 hatched from setting of 
September 9, as he says “lost four, gained 
28“ but if the loss was four the gain would 
be 29. These all refer to the Wyandottes. 
Taking the totals for the Wyandottes he set 
456 eggs, hatched 240 and lost 65. Thus 
he hatched a little over 52 per cent and 
lost a trifle over 27 per cent, and the per¬ 
centage raised out of the eggs set is a trifle 
better than 38 1-6. Of the Leghorns he set 
539 eggs, hatched 243 and lost 62. Thus 
he hatched 45 per cent and lost a trifle 
over 25% per cent and the percentage raised 
out of the eggs set is something over 33%. 
How much below the average are these 
percentages? Can you give any reason why 
the hatch of Wyandottes shows a higher 
percentage and the mortality of the young 
Wyandottes is greater than the Leghorns? 
Of course this shows a better net result 
for the Wyandottes, but cannot the differ¬ 
ing loss of young chicks be accounted fbr at 
least partially by size of broods? 
New York. geokoe g. hopkins, jr. 
Sneezing Hens. 
Why do some of our Columbian Wyan¬ 
dottes sneeze? They appear well, but are 
always sneezing. House is not very warm, 
but there is no direct draught. I have 
tried painting the roosts with coal tar, but 
do not seem to help it. We are feeding 
whole wheat, corn, and a dry mash of 
ships, gluten and beef scraps. e. d. o. 
New York. 
My experience has been that the newer 
breeds such as the Columbian Wyandottes 
are more liable to show signs of roup or 
cold than not when damp weather such as 
we have been having for some time past 
prevails. Be sure your house is well 
drained and that there is no damp litter 
about. I should suspect draughts if you 
were not so sure that there are none.' I 
do not think either feeding or parasites 
are the trouble. r. b. 
Beef Cake for Hens. 
I have about 40 pullets that look ns 
though they ought to be laying; their 
combs are red and they have free range. 
I bought a chicken cake (old meat), weigh¬ 
ing about 100 pounds; how would you ad¬ 
vise feeding it? c. b. 
South Nyack, N. Y. 
I used to buy that pressed beef cake 
and put it in the henhouse and chop into it 
with an ax, letting the hens help them¬ 
selves. When they have eaten all that is 
loose, chop into it again. It is much more 
convenient to use the ground beef scrap, 
which is kept now by nearly every grain 
dealer, especially if you want to mix it in 
a dry mash. There is no harm in letting 
the hens help themselves to the meat if 
plenty of yrain is supplied; otherwise they 
might eat enough to give them the scours. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Elevated Poultry House. 
Will some reader of The R. N.-Y. kindly 
give us their experience with poultry 
houses built several feet from the ground, 
using the space under same for a scratch¬ 
ing shed? The soil here is sandy and very 
damn. Do you think it would be damp and 
mouldy, or a place that will harbor vermin 
and disease? 
Tell IT. P. D., Massachusetts, that the 
following is a good dry mash for laving 
fowls: Four parts wheat bran, three parts 
eornmeal, one part ground oats, two parts 
middlings, two parts beef scrap. 
Dover, Del. e, c. w. 
Poultrt Figures.— If you did not know 
which States would you say had most 
poultry? At first thought the average per¬ 
son would say New England and the East¬ 
ern States. He would be wrong. The cen¬ 
sus report just completed states: 
“Iowa has the largest total value of poul¬ 
try, amounting to $12,270,000. and Mis¬ 
souri ranks second, with $11,871,000. The 
eight States next in order are Illinois, 
$11,697,000; Ohio. $9,533,000; New York. 
$7,879,000; Indiana, $7,762.000; Pennsvl- 
vania, $7.674.000; Kansas. $7,377.000; 
Michigan, $5,611,000. and Texas. $4,807- 
000. In these 10 States together the value 
of poultry is $86,481,000. or 55.9 per cent 
of the total value of poultry in continental 
United States.” 
New England has but a little over two 
per cent of all the poultry in the country, 
but with one exception birds in this sec¬ 
tion are the most valuable in the country. 
There are, all told. 295.345,190 head of 
poultry, or nearly four for each human. 
The value of this poultry is $154,663,220. 
or 52 cents each. 
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Millerton,_ New York 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
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R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
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Book and calendar for 1912 contains 200 
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I from vigorous,heaithy stock: 15—$1.00, 40—$2.00. 
Catalogue. H. K. MOHR, R. No. 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
Fine Breeders For Salei^^-^-, 
Hens, 50 Pullets, 50 Cockerels, 50 Indian Runner 
Ducks and 10 Drakes—all at $2.25 each, whilo they 
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CIFTY RHODE ISLAND RED COCKERELS for sale, from 
I prizewinners; $2.00 and up; both combs; great 
laying strain. Geo. H. Le Fever, Montgomery, N.Y. 
DOSE COMB R. I. RED COCKERELS now 
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High-class breeders and young stock for show, 
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WHITE WYANDOTTES-gK?' »=‘ 
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White Wyandotte Cockerels 
LAYING STRAIN, FARM RANGE-$3.00. 
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Snow-White Wyandottes l ^ 
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Breeding Hons at low price to make room. Also 
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Baby Chicks 
