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January 27, 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN 
MAINE. 
The last Maine Legislature placed the 
custody of our sealing standards with 
the Department of Agriculture, and 
Commissioner Buckley took up the work 
of sealing all weights and measures and 
starting a crusade that should insure, as 
far as possible, uniform and correct stan¬ 
dards for both. He at once found that the 
State had no standards; that all had 
been condemned. He immediately went 
to the Governor and Council and se¬ 
cured permission to purchase some new 
standards. Convinced that there was 
necessity for active investigation, he be¬ 
gan a campaign of education and se¬ 
cured Mr. J. C. Connors, who had done 
such efficient work in New York City, 
under Mayor Gaynor, for one of his 
chief speakers at the dairy conference 
recently held in Portland. Mr. Con¬ 
nors brought along a collection of false 
weights and measures collected by him 
in his home work, and used them for 
illustrations in his addresses. They 
formed a great object lesson, and the 
deceptions were so rank that everyone 
was convinced they represented extreme 
conditions, and that nothing like it could 
be found in Maine. Commissioner 
Buckley was asked to go out and pur¬ 
chase a two-bushel bag of potatoes, 
which he did, being careful to ask 
the clerk if the bag held two full 
bushels. He was assured that it 
did. The potatoes were presented 
to Mr. Connors, and when he 
weighed them he pronounced them 13 
pounds short in weight. This only 
lacked two pounds of one peck, or one- 
eighth of what the bag should have con¬ 
tained. Clipping the peck in the same 
ratio the two-bushel bag was clipped, the 
dealer would gain one bushel in every 
eight handled. This, with potatoes at 
present prices, would make a pretty good 
commission in itself. It goes without 
denying that the last possible pound was 
exacted from the producer. This being 
the case one of the items of expense 
between the producer and consumer is 
accounted for. It is to be hoped that 
Commissioner Buckley will follow the 
work so effectively begun until he shall 
reach every avenue in Maine where 
the people of the State are being robbed 
of their money through the manipulation 
of weights and measures, or where ex¬ 
tremely careless methods prevail. The 
cheating in weights or measures is a 
crime against both the producer and con¬ 
sumer. It robs the one of a legitimate 
market for his product, and the other of 
his too often hard-earned monev. 
Maine. b. walker mc* keen. 
chicks without bran before them, but with 
this method of feeding I was making sure 
not to feed too much of the heavier feeds 
and let them fill out their lack on bran, of 
which I do not believe they could overeat 
on account of its bulk. Then what was the 
trouble? Not having a sufficient amount 
of grain feed I forced them to fill out on 
beef scrap which was the direct cause of 
the bowel trouble. I took the scrap away 
and gave no bran to test my theory out. 
and at same time increased the other ra¬ 
tion, and in a week the trouble was all 
over, proving it was an excess of beef 
scrap and not a lack of bran. 
I put another lot of chicks in same 
brooder and had fine success raising them. 
In seven years I have never fumigated a 
brooder, and often do not clean it out 
even when changing broods, hence I doubt 
the contagion of bowel trouble. However, 
I do not recommend such methods, but I use 
incubator and brooders to lessen work, and 
I practically let them take care of them¬ 
selves. So summing up I believe 75 per 
cent of all failures are improper feeding, 
and what poultrydom needs is someone to 
tell what proper feeding is. About proper 
incubation, etc., I had a hatch six days 
late on account of incorrect thermometer 
and raised SO per cent of them to maturity, 
hence I believe if they get out of shell 
there is no reason why they should die. 
\ irginia. a. s. showalteu. 
Sick Sow. 
Can you tell me what is the matter with 
my brood sow? She farrowed September 
28, was apparently all right, and raised 
seven pigs. About four weeks ago she be¬ 
gan to lose her appetite; within the last 
five days her flesh has turned a pinkish 
purple and is apparently sore when touched 
with the hand. h. m. h. 
New Jersey. 
When the skin of a pig turns purple the 
disease usually is cholera, and it promptly 
proves fatal. Erysipelas sometimes causes 
a similar discoloration, but does not neces¬ 
sarily prove fatal. Better wean the pigs 
and turn the sow out for exercise, feeding 
her on light, digestible and laxative food. 
Give her lime water freely in her food. 
Keep her bed clean and dry. a. s. a. 
AUTOS 
OVERFEEDING THE TROUBLE. 
I have just read with interest the article 
on page 1204 “How They Saved the Chicks” 
by O. W. Mapes. I have been following 
him up on his theory of white diarrhoea 
in former issues of The R. N.-Y. and have 
nlwavs disagreed with him with reference 
to contagion by occupying same brooder, yet 
I have hesitated and yet hesitate to put 
up my judgment and experience against 
his, as' he raises thousands to my hundreds, 
I suppose, yet in my seven years’ experience 
with incubator and brooders I have learned 
some things, and one thing I have learned 
is that if a chick has vitality enough to get 
out of the shell he has enough to live if 
conditions are right. My experience is that 
with proper feeding and temperature they 
will live.] I am not going to say I know 
just how to feed, but I do know to my 
sorrow how not to feed some things. I 
have put 100 chicks in brooder and raised 
05 per cent to maturity and again I have 
not raised 40 per cent at other times, in 
same brooder and what I thought the same 
method of feeding, but a careful study will 
reveal a difference. When I find any sickly- 
looking chicks my first thought is overfeed¬ 
ing, and I believe 75 per cent of the trou¬ 
bles with brooder chicks are overfeeding. 
Last Spring I had a hatch of 170 chicks. 
I put them in brooders identically alike, in 
both of which I had raised chicks for five 
years, sometimes with marked success and 
again almost a complete failure. I aimed 
to give them similar treatment iu every 
respect; fed a mash of equal parts of ground 
oats and shorts, and as much cornmeal as 
both the others together, fed cracked corn in 
litter. I fed every three hours, alternating 
mash and cracked corn, about what they would 
eat in five minutes. I had self-feeders in which 
I kept bran, grit, beef scrap, and charcoal. 
‘ In about three weeks one lot began to ap¬ 
pear weak, wings down, and head drawn in. 
The other lot was iu fine condition. I be¬ 
gan to look for cause, and my first impulse 
was to cut down the mash and corn, think¬ 
ing they would not starve with bran before 
them. They began to die and I kept cutting 
down on feed. I was still sure the cause 
lay in feeding and refuted any other idea 
that my wife or anyone else suggested. 
After half of them had died I looked into 
the feeder and to my surprise there was no 
bran in it. Then I remembered having 
changed feeders between this house and 
another when moving to new ground, and 
this lot had had no bran. Now was this 
the cause? No! For I have often raised 
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