ID 12. 
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TRAP NEST TRIP-BLOCK. 
On page 1170 you give a picture of trap- 
nest in use at Storrs College egg-laying con¬ 
test, and as I have charge of a plant of 
1,000 hens would like details of construc¬ 
tion. I am using the style employed at the 
Maine Experiment Station. The picture 
shows this new nest as being simple and 
not so large as most trap nests. H. w. F. 
Thomasville, N. C. 
The block switfging freely on the screw 
at “c” is pressed down at “a” until the 
swinging door (as shown on page 1170) 
pressed inward, rests on the shoulder of 
the block at “b.” As the hen on entering 
the nest raises the door a trifle with her 
back, it releases the block which falls on 
the screw at “d,” letting the door fall to 
the front where a wood or metal button 
keeps it from being pushed outward. The 
nest should be 1<> inches deep from front 
to rear, 10 inches high and 12 inches wide. 
The swinging door is 11% inches wide by 
8% inches high. The nest is boarded up 
five inches at the bottom to hold the nest 
material in. The swinging door should be 
of half-inch stuff so as to be easily lifted 
by the hen. This is the simplest trap- 
nest made, there being only one piece be¬ 
sides the swing door. By turning the but¬ 
ton the door swings out in front, does not 
have to be pushed inward against the hen. 
As the hen steps out into the running 
board in front of the nests, she is taken in 
hand, her number read, then put down 
gently on the ground, and the record made. 
The poultrymen of the United States owe a 
debt of gratitude to Prof. Stoneburn for 
freely giving this invention of his to the 
public. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
“HOLLOW HORN” AGAIN. 
I thank you for your reply to my ques¬ 
tion about hollow horn. My reason for 
writing you on that subject was to learn 
just what veterinary surgeons know about 
the disease commonly called by that name. 
I find that they do not know how to pre¬ 
scribe for a cow so afflicted. I have had 
quite a set-to with Dr. Smead, of the 
“Stockman,” on the subject. The veterin¬ 
arians think that a cow that has been prop¬ 
erly fed will not have the disease, and they 
call it a myth, and think that a cow with¬ 
out horns could not have it anyway. From 
my point of view the cold horns are a sure 
symptoms of some ailment of the cow that 
carries them. The disease has been called 
hollow horn by farmers for more than 100 
years, and probably more than 1.000 years. 
I have told you that my father died in the 
Civil War. My mother kept one cow and 
made a pet of it. She took the best of care 
of it, just as you do of your own cow, but 
that did not prevent the cow from having 
the hollow horn. We were living in Lena¬ 
wee Co., Mich., at the time, and one of 
our neighbors told her to mix up the fol¬ 
lowing ingredients aud give them to the 
cow and it would cure her (aud it did) : 
One pint soot, one pint vinegar, nine eggs, 
three tablespoonfuls salt, three tablespoon- 
fuls black pepper. Thicken with meal, 
make into nine balls, give three each morn¬ 
ing until all are given. This usually effects 
a cure, but if still ailing after three days, 
repeat. Not many drugs about it, is there l 
Hut I have known cows too sick to stand, 
get up and go to eating after taking the 
first dose. In the case of my lied Polled 
cow, she was fed hay and grain all Winter 
and came out In the Spring looking line. 
My pastures were unusually good, aud as 
soon as my oats and peas were large enough 
to cut (July 1) I fed her all of the oats 
and peas that she would clean up at night. 
I have other three-year-olds on another 
farm that kept fat, so I do not think that 
shedding teeth was altogether to blame for 
the It(*d heifer’s sickness. I think that the 
stomach gets deranged in some way and 
that hollow horn is reaWy a stomach 
trouble, and the cold horns merely a symp¬ 
tom of it, and that Polled cows can have 
it as well as horned cows, and that both 
horned and Polled cows need medicine when 
afflicted, but there is no use of asking a 
veterinarian to prescribe, for they won’t, or 
cannot do it. l. n. s. 
New York. 
It is quite true that a sick cow may 
have cold horns, and it is as true that the 
horns of a sick cow may be hot; that, how¬ 
ever, is no proof that the horns are dis¬ 
eased. It also is true that a sick cow may 
have a dry nose, but \\»e do not call her 
disease “dry nose.” The dry nose, or the 
hot or cold condition of the horns, indi¬ 
cates sickness, to be sure, but these are 
symptoms, not disease. Derangement of 
the stomach may cause cold horns, or cold 
ears, or cold feet, while any fever may 
cause hot horns, ears, muzzle, and so forth. 
The hornless cow, however affected, could 
not have hollow horn, but she might show 
other symptoms seen in the horned animal. 
The wonderful concoction of medicine sug¬ 
gested, like many another monstrous mix¬ 
ture, may help in stomach derangement; or 
it seems possible that we should credit the 
animal for recovering despite the treat¬ 
ment, while others doubtless are kilh-d 
thereby. The old “hollow horn” doctors 
THK RURAL 
bored a hole in each horn and there in¬ 
serted medicine; just as the “wolf in the 
tail” doctor split the tail and inserted 
garlic, salt and pepper, and other mixtures. 
They treat'd the part which showed symp¬ 
toms indicating systematic sickness, but they 
knew nothing about the true disease or its 
proper treatment. The proper understand¬ 
ing of disease, its symptoms, cause and lo¬ 
cation and the proper remedies, is taught 
in veterinary colleges nowadays, and this 
enlightenment was not available by the 
“hollow horn” doctors of long ago. The 
student at the modern veterinary college 
also knows full well that the horns of all 
adult cattle are hollow, hence there could 
not possibly be a disease such as the name 
“hollow horn” suggests. Possibly some peo¬ 
ple still believe that the world" is flat, but 
they are dying out. Tossibly, too, in some 
benighted localities ignorant folk still be¬ 
lieve in witches and manage their farming 
operations according to the “signs” of the 
zodiac; but they simply are behind the 
times and their children are being educated 
to know better. There is none so deaf as 
him who will not hear, and in such cases 
it might be added “where ignorance is bliss, 
’tis folly to be wise.” a. s. a. 
The “Open Front” Henhouse. 
We have several semi-open-front plants in 
our neighborhood, but they are being given 
up as failures. Perhaps you would print a 
letter which I am sending to the proprietors 
of one of the largest exhibition plants. 
"I shall want new blood for this season 
and as I have had some birds sent me that 
have been deficient in stamina owing to 
their home conditions, I thought instead of 
going to the Boston Show I would run out 
and go over your plant, where the best 
and latest of every method obtained. I 
didn't expect to find so near Washington 
really colder weather than we have on Long 
Island, and I found at your place, where 
everything is done at its best, the plant 
subjected to the severest test. Tin? birds 
in the glass front closed houses were in 
perfect condition, and offered a sight which 
no show at the Garden ever approached. 
There was not an unhappy bird among the 
hundreds; but what a sorry spectacle the 
open-front curtained house birds made, all 
pinched with cold and ill conditioned, some 
with bulged eyes, nearly all with swollen 
frozen wattles and combs. I suffered for 
them, and I am haunted by their pitiable 
appearance. Surely the open-front house 
should be abandoned, no bird can stand 
such an experience and such debilitating 
hardship and be fit for either laying or 
breeding. 
“It is easy to criticize I .know, but two 
more long houses like the one where I saw 
such beautiful birds would have accom¬ 
modated all your flocks and the hens would 
be ready with lots of eggs right away. It 
is a good rule to go to a plant before buy¬ 
ing, in visiting a show you see artificially 
groomed birds, away from the surroundings 
that can honestly place them as breeders. 
A large poultry plant like yours can teach 
more in 15 minutes than could going to 
shows for a lifetime. The stories about 
strangers visiting birds and frightening 
them into sterility is merely an excuse. I 
saw no frightened birds at your place. I 
didn't take much of your time, for I was 
told to go where I wanted. I ask you to 
pardon my expressions regarding your open- 
front houses.” ELBERT WAKE.MAN. 
Long Island. 
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