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Famous Horse Case. 
In The R. N.-Y. of April 1, 1911, page 
426 mention was made of the Knowl Reward 
horse case. This stallion Know! Reward 
was to be sold to a company consisting of 
27 shares of $100 each. The company was 
never formed, owing to dissension among 
the members, but the promoter had se¬ 
cured several notes with good signatures, 
which he discounted in a neighboring town; 
the horse, which had been kept by a local 
liveryman while the company was being 
formed was finally sold at auction to pay 
bis board bill. 
The makers of the notes refused to pay 
them, claiming that they were obtained 
through misrepresentation. The case has 
been in the courts 15 years, the last trial 
resulting in a verdict of $1,332.43 against 
the makers of the notes. A motion to set 
aside the verdict was denied by Judge Reed 
at New London, Conn. It is said that the 
case will go to the Supreme Court. 
Some Backyard Hens. 
Mr. George Macafee of Pennsylvania 
sends the following hen record. He sold 
the original birds to this man three years 
ago : 
The hens were S. C. R. I. Reds ; they had 
before them all the time a dry mash, two 
parts wheat bran, two parts gluten; one 
part wheat middlings, one-fourth part oil 
meal, one-fourth part 60 per cent protein 
beef scraps. They were fed corn and 
wheat at night liberally; had grit, oyster 
shells and fresh water before them all the 
time. The man is a mechanical engineer, 
and worked every day, only caring for the 
hens night and morning. They have a 
house 6x10 feet, double boarded with paper 
ventilator at top. 10x12 inches opening at 
bottom to go out in run, open all the time; 
two 2x3 feet sash glass in south side, also 
wire run 10x12 feet on south side of house. 
1909. 1910. 1911. 
Ilens.Eggs. Ilens.Eggs. Hens.EggS. 
-I A 1 A ft OR 107 Oft ftft 
January ... 
14 
140 
20 
137 
29 
99 
February .. 
14 
267 
20 
178 
28 
221 
March. 
14 
264 
20 
285 
27 
522 
April . 
14 
170 
20 
348 
27 
483 
May . 
14 
171 
20 
235 
26 
414 
June . 
14 
125 
20 
233 
26 
383 
July . 
14 
175 
18 
229 
25 
403 
August .... 
14 
152 
18 
167 
24 
381 
September . 
14 
151 
18 
165 
23 
361 
October ... 
14 
86 
15 
180 
23 
225 
November .. 
14 
34 
15 
81 
23 
3 84 
December .. 
14 
86 
14 
67 
23 
151 
Totals .. 
1821 
2305 
3827 
Average cost of feed per doz. 10% cents. 
Average price sold at, 25 cents per dozen. 
GEORGE MACAFEE. 
Cockerel’s Ear Lobes Discolored. 
What causes ear lobes of White Leghorn 
cockerel to turn yellow? I purchased a 
cockerel some weeks ago with perfectly 
white ear lobes, but after having same 
about three weeks they seemed to turn yel¬ 
low. I am feeding yellow corn, wheat and 
oats and oil meal in mash. e. c. 
New Jersey. 
Tt is generally believed that yellow corn 
will give a yellow tinge to white feathers 
and ear lobes. I do not know of any data 
on the subject that can be relied upon. 
There is a process by which yellow lobes 
are made white for a time. This is one of 
the forms of faking which is practiced by 
many fanciers, but is probably not the 
cause of the change from white to yellow 
in this ease if you purchased the bird from 
a reliable breeder. f. t. f. 
Pullets Do Not Lay. 
I feed my pullets a dry mash in hoppers 
at 2.30 p. m. composed of eight parts bran, 
four ground oats, two blood! meal, two beef 
scraps, one oil meal, one corn meal, one 
gluten meal, one middlings; in the morning 
and at 11 o’clock corn on the cob; always 
hot water, dry bone, oyster shells, grit and 
charcoal before them; wheat straw eight 
inches high, and green feed. They lay but 
five or six eggs, and I have 135 pullets 
hatched last May. They throw mash out 
of the hoppers with beak, as if they were 
searching for something else. Last year I 
fed their parents the same way and they 
laid 30 and up to 55 eggs every day for 
60 pullets only, which I think was good. 
The same pullets, which are now yearlings, 
laid all last Summer well, and are now 
laying 10 and 15 eggs every day, and I have 
only 50 left of them. Do I feed too much 
bran or what? As you see, it is very near 
Coming’s system. Is it the very cold 
weather? e. de c. 
New Jersey. 
I think the poor egg production in this 
case is due to some other cause than the 
food. How about the henhouse? Have 
they plenty of room to exercise, and is ex¬ 
ercise encouraged? They should have about 
three square feet floor space per hen, and 
plenty of fresh air without draft. Encour¬ 
age exercise by throwing mixed grains in 
deep litter. f. t, f. 
Poisoning Foxes. 
Can you give me directions for fixing 
poison to kill foxes, as they carry oflf so 
many of my hens and I cannot see to shoot 
them? I have heard that lard and strych¬ 
nine would kill them, but I do not know 
how to fix it. G. H. H. 
New York. 
B. N.-Y.—Will the fox killers help ns out? 
Milkless Heifer. 
I have a heifer coming two years old in 
April; her sire was a registered Holstein 
and her dam a purebred Jersey. She is 
good size, in good order, went her full time, 
and calved about a week ago, and hasn’t 
a drop of milk; had a nice fair-sized calf. 
I have run a dairy for a number of years, 
but never had anything like it before. Could 
you tell me the cause and if it will happen 
with her again? e. p. h. 
New Jersey. 
A chill or attack of congestion may cause 
suppression of milk, and while some milk 
may come down gradually if you massage 
and strip the udder two or three times a 
day, she will not be likely to prove a 
profitable milker now, or after another 
calving. a. s. a. 
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