1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
763 
The Henyard. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The thirty-second week of the contest 
closed June 11, and it shows a drop of 
128 eggs from the number laid the pre¬ 
vious week. The long continued drain on 
the reproductive organs must result soon 
in a lessened production. Many of these 
pullets have already far exceeded the nor¬ 
mal yearly production of the average hen. 
The champion egg layer so far is O. Wil¬ 
son’s .Buff Orpington pullet No. 1, with 
180 eggs, that is 15% dozen; 10 dozen to 
12 dozen eggs is a good year’s work for an 
ordinary hen, and there are far more hens 
lay less than 12 dozen than there are that 
exceed that number. 
The Barred Rocks come to the front this 
week with the highest score, the pen of S. 
M. Boucher laying 32 eggs. Robert J. Wal- 
don's Barred Rocks take second place with 
a score of 31 eggs. The White Rocks of 
E. W. Crocker and Hans Robert each laid 
28, as did the White Leghorns of Toms 
Poultry Farm and the White Wyandottes 
of W. B. Candce. F. G. Yost’s White Leg¬ 
horns still lead with a score of 672, but 
Thomas Barron’s English White Leghorns 
laid 24 to Yost’s birds 23, the English 
birds’ ’score being 665, reducing the lead 
again this week by one egg. Some of the 
leading individual scores are : 
Mrs. Harris I>ehman, S. C. Reds, 158; F. 
G. Yost, White Leghorns No. 1, 156; 
Woods Lane Farm, White Leghorns No. 4, 
140: F. Pcasley, White Leghorns No. 5. 
142; Geo. Gil-lett, White Rocks, No. 4, 146; 
W. .1. Tilley. White Rocks No. 3, 137; Hans 
Robert, White Rocks No. 1, 129; W. B. 
Candee, White Wyandottes No. 1, 135; W. 
B. Candee, White Wyandottes No. 2, 126; 
McLeod Bros., White Wyandottes, No. 3, 
132 ; McLeod Bros., White Wyandottes, No. 
5. 146; T. J. McConnell, White Wyandottes 
No. 1, 135; T. .1. McConnell, White Wyan¬ 
dottes No. 5, 134 ; Howard Steel, S. C. R. 
I. Reds No. 1, 135; Howard Steel. S. C. It. 
I. Reds No. 3, 135; Bunker Hill Farm, S. 
C. R. I. Reds No. 2, 141; H. P. Demings, 
S. C. It. I. Reds No. 2, 126; A. P. Hill- 
house, Brown leghorns No. 1, 141 ; Mar- 
wood Farm, White Leghorns No. 2, 144; 
W. II. Peterson, White Leghorns No. 1, 
144 ; Thomas Barron, White Leghorns No. 
1, 146; Thomas Barron, White Leghorns 
No. 2, 137. 
There are more than 30 others with 
scores of 124 to 135, showing that they 
have already laid as many eggs as the 
average hen lays in the whole year. It 
certainly speaks well for the care and for 
the ration fed when such good results are 
obtained. The White Leghorns show up 
well in the general average of eggs laid by 
each pen of the different breeds, their aver¬ 
age per pen being 23.46 ; that of the White 
Rocks 23.5; of the S. C. I£. I. Reds. 21 ; of 
the Barred Rocks, 22.58 ; of the R. C. R. I. 
Reds. 25.6; of the Black Minorcas, 21.75; 
of the Buff Orpingtons, 17.25 ; of the White 
Orpingtons, 12.6; this average per pen is 
for the week only. geo. a. cosgkove. 
Hen Advice Wanted. 
What is the best way of keeping a hen¬ 
house clean, and if hen lice appear how 
best to get rid of them? How can I rid 
the fowls of scaly legs? What do you sug¬ 
gest for egg-bound hens? Some seem to be¬ 
come so pouchy in the back, probably from 
eggs. s. B. M. 
New York. 
Possibly the best way to keep a hen¬ 
house clean is to keep it dirty, unless you 
hold to the idea that dirt is always mis¬ 
placed matter. Coal ashes sifted upon the 
droppings boards, a dust bath in which 
the fowls may wallow, and with the con¬ 
tents of which they may fill the air, and 
frequent applications of whitewash to the. 
walls, are among the most efficient ways 
of keeping a henhouse free from lice, but. 
to the poultryman who wishes to gather 
the eggs on Sunday afternoon without 
changing his meeting clothes, they can 
hardly be said to contribute to the build¬ 
ing's cleanliness. Fowls may be rid of 
scalv legs by the application of kerosene, 
either in the form of an ointment made up 
by adding it to vaseline or lard, or used 
as a dip for their legs, and repeated if 
necessary. The poucbiness which you men¬ 
tion is probably due to an overaccumula¬ 
tion of fat, and the remedy is. more ex¬ 
ercise and less food of a fattening nature. 
More oats, and less corn. m. b. d. 
Liver Troubles in Fowls. 
We have a flock of purebred S. C. White 
Leghorn hens which are dying from en¬ 
larged livers and gizzards. They have 
been wintered in a henhouse with concrete 
floor, open front towards the south, the 
house is 20 feet by 40 feet and has only 
held 180 hens. They are fed a warm mash 
consisting of bran meal, low-grade flour, 
and in the Winter we added meat scraps 
and oil meal; at night they are fed cracked 
corn. They have had all the green food, 
shells and pure water they could eat, also 
ashes for dust bath in Winter. We live on 
a macadam road, which they oiled last Fall, 
and after the rains the hens go in the 
road for angleworms. Do the oiled angle- 
worm hurt them? They also have free 
range all Summer. Which do you advise, 
whole corn or cracked corn, dry or wet 
mash? If dry, please send kind and pro¬ 
portion of each. j. H. l. 
Greene, N. Y. 
There are several causes for the en¬ 
larged livers found in fowls, including the 
congestion and inflammation due to over¬ 
feeding and lack of exercise, the irritation 
from the indigestion of tainted food or other 
poisonous substances, the action of some 
of the infectious diseases, and the presence 
of various disease producing bacteria. You 
do not state the proportions of the various 
feeds that you have been giving, but, as 
you mention a warm mash composed of 
corntneal. low grade flour, or red dog. 
and oil meal, with beef scrap and cracked 
corn in addition, it is evident that you 
have been feeding a highly fattening ration 
through the Winter when the fowls had but 
limited exercise, and also have been forc¬ 
ing them for egg production. I have little 
doubt that this, together with the strain 
of heavy laying through the Spring months 
is at the bottom of your troubles. My ad¬ 
vice would be to leave out the red dog 
from the mash, and reduce the amount of 
corn and cornmeal fed, substituting for 
these wheat' bran and middlings in the 
mash, and wheat and oats in the place of 
a portion of the cracked corn given at 
night. As your hens now have free range, 
where they can probably get an ample sup¬ 
ply of green food, such of them as have 
not been too severely affected should re¬ 
cover. I do not believe that the oil used 
upon your roads has any deleterious effect 
upon your fowls. There is no advantage 
in cracking corn for fowls old enough to 
eat the whole grain, and it is therefore 
labor and expense wasted. The dry and 
wet mash systems of feeding both have 
their advocates. My own preference is, 
however, very decided for the dry mash, 
save in those cases where it is desired 
to fatten fowls for market, or to force 
growing stock into the quickest possible 
growth. The following dry mash for lay¬ 
ing hens is recommended by the Cornell 
Station, and is an excellent one: Corn- 
meal, 60 pounds; wheat middlings 60 
pounds; wheat bran. 30 pounds; Aifalfa 
meal, 10 pounds; oil meal. 10 pounds; 
beef scrap, 50 pounds; salt, one pound. 
M. B. D. 
Worms in Chicks. 
Can you tell me what to do to kill the 
worms that are killing my eight and 10- 
weeks old chicks? They have grown finely 
until lately, when many of them have los't 
their appetite, become weak and emaciated 
and some have died. I find that the blind 
intestines, as i think they are called, are 
partly filled with a hardened, lumpy mass 
which contains many fine white worms, 
some of them one half inch long. Last year 
towards the last of the season we lost some 
chicks and found similar worms in the lin¬ 
ing of the gizzard. There seems to be 
more in these. The chicks have bec« fed 
chick food, rolled oats, cracked corn, wheat, 
a dry mash of bran and one-tenth part of 
beef meal and a little ground bone. They 
have had access to charcoal and coal ashes 
and have had potatoes, oats and Alfalfa for 
green food. Most of the time they have 
been confined in large yards; lately have 
had free range at times. Some have been 
raised with hens, some with heated brood¬ 
ers. Those with the hens seem to be most 
troubled. Where do the worms come from? 
I have found much help by reading your 
Business Hen. There it says to give two 
teaspoonsful of turpentine, but does not 
say for how many hens or how to admin¬ 
ister. Nothing is said about worms iii 
chicks. I have been giving a little per¬ 
manganate of potash in drinking water for 
the last two days. Will that do any good, 
and how often is it safe to use it? 
Connecticut. m. l. b. 
The worms you describe are varieties of 
the nematode or round worms infesting 
the digestive organs of fowls, and some¬ 
times causing serious losses in a flock. The 
treatment of such parasitic infestations 
should be largely prophylactic, and consists 
in removing the fowls to fresh ground every 
year or two, if practicable, and particularly 
if they have become diseased while run¬ 
ning upon any particular plot. All fowls 
showing symptoms of the trouble should, be 
promptly isolated, and their excreta either 
burned or otherwise destroyed, in order 
that the. parasites or their eggs which may 
be contained ,in such droppings may not be 
picked up by healthy fowls. Perhaps the* 
best remedy for all worms infesting the 
digestive tract of fowls is oil of turpen¬ 
tine, and this may be given in dose of 
irom one to three teaspoonsful either clear 
or diluted with an equal bulk of olive or 
other bland oil. When diluted in this way, 
it is a little less severe in its effects and 
also a little less efficient, and if found 
necessary, it may be given clear. It is 
best administered by passing a well oiled 
soft rubber catheter down the fowl’s gullet 
being careful to avoid the wind pipe, and 
by means of a small glass syringe holding 
about two drams, forcing the remedy di¬ 
rectly into the crop. Unless the fowls are 
particularly valuable, individual treatment 
in this way is hardly worth while, and de¬ 
pendence should rather be placed on the 
preventive measure recommended. Per¬ 
manganate of potash may be freely admin¬ 
istered without danger, but is not’ effective 
against the parasitic worms. m. b. d. 
Proportion of Drakes to Ducks. 
Does the same rule apply to ducks (Indian 
Runners) as well as hens, a rooster to 
every 12 hens? z . y. x 
It is not necessary to keep a rooster for 
each 12 hens in a flock, to insure fertility 
of the eggs as one male to each 25 to 40 
hens, according to breed, and conditions un¬ 
der which they are kept, is sufficient. I 
have never kept ducks, but am told by my 
neighbors who do that one drake is needed 
for each three to five ducks. m. b. d. 
Cages fob Broody Hens.— Here is a sug¬ 
gestion in regard to hanging coops for 
broody hens. Cover the bottom of the 
coop with one inch mesh (or smaller) 
chicken wire. Place a perch the diagonal 
way of the box about six inches from the 
wire and near each end of the perch hang 
feed and water cups. The hens so dislike 
standing on the wire floor that they get 
up on the perch and are soon cured of 
broodiness. e. y. b. 
Sewickley, Pa. 
A Poultry Disinfectant. —When you 
wish to tell your poultry raisers how' to 
save some money I will tell you how to 
do it. A useful article, being a disinfect¬ 
ant that can be used in drink to help ward 
off parasitive disease, is Germozone. It is 
sold at 50 cents for about an eight-ounce 
bottle. Mistrusting from appearance what 
It was, I had it analyzed at the Connecti- 
cut Agricultural College department of 
chemistry, and they found it to contain 
a small quantity of permanganate of pot¬ 
ash and a little alum, the rest being ordi¬ 
nary water. All the drugs in it would not 
be the value of one cent, the other 49 cents 
being charged for the water and bottle. The 
same preparation may be prepared by any¬ 
one by using one part permanganate of pot¬ 
ash to one-thousand part of water (this 
Germazone was somewhat less when used 
per directions), and a little bit of alum 
added. It is useful in roup, diarrhoea from 
germ infection, etc. a. e. c. l. 
Massachusetts. 
EARLY PULLETS AND HENS 
Leghorns, Wyandottes, Rocks and P. Cochins 
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