1912. 
666 
THE Ft U RA L, NEVV-YORKEH 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-second week of the contest at 
Storrs closed August 20. Just 1,700 eggs 
were laid during the week. This is a gain 
of 22 over the previous week. For three 
weeks in succession there has been a gain 
over the week before. It is quite surpris¬ 
ing that with an increasing number of birds 
beginning to molt, and so late in the sea¬ 
son it would be doing well for them to 
hold their own, a continuous gain is pos¬ 
sible. It certainly shows that the system 
of feeding is about as good as it can be 
made. Three breeds tie for the high place 
this week. They are the Barred Rocks of 
Robert J. Walden ; the White Wya adottes 
of W. R. Candee and the Buff Leghorns 
of George H. Schmidt of Chicago. Each 
pen laid 29 eggs. Marwood Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns laid 27, Paul Van Deusen’s 
26, and four pens laid 25 each. F. G. 
Yost's White Leghorns laid 23, bringing 
their total up to 907. This is over 181 
eggs for each pullet in the pen. The high¬ 
est record made by any pen in the Aus¬ 
tralian contests in five years was an aver¬ 
age by one pen of 199 eggs each. It is 
quite within the limit of possibility for 
Yost’s pen to beat this. They have over 
two months yet in which to add to the 181. 
If they should beat the world’s record it 
would be something to be proud of by every¬ 
one connected with the contest. Marwood 
Poultry Farm’s White Leghorns take sec¬ 
ond place with a record of 864; Tom's 
Poultry Farm, Toms River, N. J., are third 
with a score of 854, Beulah Farm’s White 
Wyandottes fourth with 850 to their credit, 
and the English pen of White Leghorns 
fifth with a score of 843. White Rose 
Farm is only one egg behind, 842, a'nd 
doubtless they will displace the English pen 
next week. Miss Susie Abbott has a rec¬ 
ord of 833, and Judge Frederick Pcasley 
enters the 800 class with his White Leg¬ 
horns, their total being 801. All the high 
scorers are White Leghorns, except the one 
pen of White Wyandottes from Canada. No 
other pen of any breed is within 50 eggs of 
the 800 mark. The total number of eggs 
laid in the 9% months is 63,942. If all 
the birds entering the contest had lived, 
the average for each bird would be 133.2 
eggs, with two and a half months yet to 
go. But as some have died, the average is 
still higher, certainly not less than 135 
or 136 eggs each. 
It is to be hoped that Mr. Yost will 
enter his winning pen of pullets for the 
next contest; It would be both interesting 
and instructive to note how the same birds 
would lay in their second year. This is 
work that ought to be done by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture at Washington 
without cost to the entrants. The cost of 
entering a pen at Storrs ($25) deters many 
who would like to participate in such a 
contest. geo. a. cosgrove. 
The “ Cornell ” Insect Powder. 
We have tried to mix the so-called insect 
powder advocated by the Cornell experts, 
but have not had much success. Just how 
do they do it? s. b. 
Prof. C. A. Rogers of Cornell says in re¬ 
gard to this : 
‘‘I enclose the directions for making the 
Lawey lice powder. I fear that the cor¬ 
respondents who have had such difficulty in 
mixing it did not understand fully 'the 
method of managing this powder. We or¬ 
dinarily mix it as a demonstration before 
an audience in five or 10 minutes. Spread 
2% pounds of plaster of Paris in a shallow 
pan or tray. Pour one-quarter pint of 
crude carbolic acid into a cup and into 
this pour three-quarters pint of gasolene. 
Pour this mixture over the plaster of Paris 
and mix thoroughly. Rub through wire win¬ 
dow screen upon a piece of paper. Allow it to 
stand for 1% to two hours, until thoroughly 
dry. Do not place near a stove. Keep 
powder in a closed can or jar. Apply by 
means of ordinary sifter, or with the fin¬ 
gers. Brush the powder in among the 
feathers about the vent, fluff and under the 
wings. Repeat in about two weeks in ex¬ 
treme cases. Ordinarily this need not be 
repeated for six months. A small pinch of 
the powder is sufficient for a fowl.” 
Catarrhal Inflammation; Fattening Cockerels 
1. We have lately found that some of our 
chickens get a swollen face around the 
eye, and we do not know what causes it. 
We keep them clean and give them plenty 
of fresh water in clean vessels, and they 
have all the comfort possible. But now 
and then we find a hen or rooster with a 
swelling around the eye, while the mouth 
is clean and breath pure, unlike a case of 
roup. They always have a jelly-like clear 
substance under the lid first, which turns 
yellow and gets hard after a while and 
finally kills the eye. Is it a form of can¬ 
ker, and how can it be cured or prevented? 
2. Which is the best fattening mash for 
broilers? Are cooked potatoes or potato 
parings very good, and how would you 
keep the broilers while fattening them? 
Center Moriches, N. Y. p. b. 
1. The condition which you describe is a 
contagious catarrhal inflammation of the 
mucous membrane lining the orbital space, 
or cavity, in which the eye is set. This 
membrane is continuous with that lining 
the nostrils, the two being connected by an 
internal passage, and the inflammation 
doubtless extends from the nostrils to the 
orbital cavity. The inflammatory secre¬ 
tion is at first watery, but becomes puru¬ 
lent, then cheesy,-and finally accumulates 
in such quantity as frequently to nearly 
force the eye-ball from its socket. It is 
often difficult to say just where this con¬ 
dition ends and true roup begins. The 
latter disease undoubtedly has its own 
specific micro-organism which is present in 
all cases of true roup, but since a bacter¬ 
ial diagnosis cannot be made by the poul- 
tryman, it is safest to treat all these cases 
as if they were known to be of the malig¬ 
nant type. Affected birds should bo 
promptly isolated, eating and drinking 
utensils disinfected, and their living quar¬ 
ters put into the best possible sanitary cqn- 
dition. The contagion of true roup is g 
difficult one to eradicate, and it should not 
be allowed to obtain a foot-hold if possible 
to prevent it. 
2. Cooked potatoes and parings may be 
mixed with bran, meal, etc., as a portion 
of the fattening rations for cockerels. Corn- 
meal usually constitutes the major portion 
of such rations, and, while opinions differ 
as to the best formula for this purpose, the 
following one mentioned in the “Business 
Hen” is simple and perhaps equal to any : 
Four parts cornmeal, two parts wheat mid¬ 
dlings, and one part beef scraps, these pro¬ 
portions being by weight. This is mois¬ 
tened with skim-milk until it is of such 
consistency that it will drip from a spoon. 
Cockerels to be fattened for broilers should 
be confined in roomy coops or in small 
runs, given plenty of clean fresh water, 
and fed as much of this porridge as they 
will clean up three times daily. M. b. d. 
Troubles With Poultry. 
1. For the past few weeks I have lost 
one, two and sometimes three chickens al¬ 
most every day. I find them dead in the 
morning in the chicken house, and I am 
at a loss to know the reason for this. I 
am located near a railroad station where 
ice cream is sold, and the rock salt in 
which the cream is packed is thrown out 
where the chicken? can eat it. Would 
this be responsible for the death of these 
chickens? 2. Can you also advise me as 
to a good preventive and remedy for 
chicken lice? I have not had a great deal 
of trouble in this matter until within a 
few weeks ago, and cannot seem to get 
entirely rid of them. F. H. w. 
Palenville, N. Y. 
1. Eating salt in any quantity is said 
to be fatal to chicks, and this may account 
for your losses; however, the fact that 
they die one or two at a times does not 
indicate that some of the flock are not 
suffering from the attacks of vermin, or 
from some disease, and that the weaker 
ones are not gradually succumbing. 
2. The best preventive of ravages from 
lice is to furnish the fowls with ample op¬ 
portunity to keep themselves free by wal¬ 
lowing in a good dust bath whenever they 
like. To rid fowls of lice, use any good 
lice powder worked into tlioir feathers at 
frequent and short intervals, and spray 
their perches, nest boxes, etc., with kero¬ 
sene alone, or with crude carbolic acid and 
kerosene in the proportions of one part 
of the acid to four of the kerosene. Con¬ 
stant vigilance is the price of liberty from 
ravages of vermin. m. b. d. 
Green Feed for Poultry. 
I have been interested in the “Egg-lay¬ 
ing Contest" at Storrs College; they are 
getting more eggs than I can. I wish you 
would publish their method of feeding, 
giving the size of runs each five birds has, 
etc. I have about 500 chickens that I 
keep confined; they have been and are 
doing well. I only have a small yard and 
grow oats around until it is about six 
inches high, then shovel it out, roots and 
all, to the chickens. According to theory 
of soil rotation I am wearing out the 
ground. What crops suitable for feeding 
to chickens as green food should I rotate? 
IIow long will oats continue to grow in 
one spot and what should be added to soil 
to keep it producing oats? a. r. s. 
Valley Stream, N. Y. 
The grain ration is cracked corn, wheat 
and oats, with a little buckwheat or bar¬ 
ley, fed from one of the Norwich feed hop¬ 
pers, by which the fowls can get only a 
few grains at a time. The dry mash is 
composed of bran, cornmeal, wheat mid¬ 
dlings, low grade flour and fish scrap and 
beef scraps. The feeding committee do not 
want to publish the exact proportions of 
each ingredient until some experiments are 
concluded. Replying to the other question 
about growing oats, etc.. I would say that 
Swiss chard makes a fine green feed for 
hens. The outer leaves can be pulled off 
and fed and the plant will grow all Sum¬ 
mer. Mens and chicks like it very much. 
But there is no trouble about continuing 
to feed sprouted oats ; put the heu manure 
into the ground, and wee the ground every 
day, and it will continue to grow the oats 
indefinitely. In fact the oats will grow 
without any ground ; just put them in a | 
box and keep them wet and they will grow; 
most of the sprouted oats fed are grown 
in that way. Green corn, stalk, leaves and 
all, run through a feed cutter that cuts 
% inch long will all be eaten by the fowls. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
“ Pipping” a Hen’s Tongue. 
Some time back on page 536 there was 
a discussion of “gapes” and pip—the two 
being considered the same. Pip, as the 
term is used here, refers to two things: 
First, when a chick is hatched, the speck 
of hard horny material at the tip of the 
beak is called pip, and it is usually taken 
off, though personally I have never seen 
any sense in doiug so, as it will drop off 
of itself. Second, pip is a hardening of the 
outer skin on the under side of the fowl’s 
tongue. It is a hard, white and corny 
sheath, and if not attended progresses down 
the tongue to the base and will sometimes 
cause ulceration of the lower throat at 
the base of the tongue. It is common to 
all chicks from a few months old until 
they are old and worn out. You can detect 
the pip on a chicken, or rather a chicken 
that has pip, by its looks; they do not pick 
up grain rapidly, look sickly and are in¬ 
active. On being caught up and examina¬ 
tion of the mouth you will find by holding 
the hen’s legs in your lap between your 
knees, taking her head in your left hand 
and opening her mouth, putting one finger 
in the “off side” to keep it open, you can 
easily push her tongue over to the near 
side of you and hold it between your 
thumb and first finger, and look at the 
under side, and you will see a horny, 
white looking coat on the tongue. 
Use a needle or your finger nail (right 
hand) and “start” this hard coating 
at the lower end of it and pull it off 
as you would a corn, being firm but gentle 
with it. keeping your finger that holds the 
tongue on the top side of it so as not t° 
tear the tongue, and the whole “pip” will 
come off and not hurt the tongue, but will 
leave it raw on under side. Give a little 
ball of lard and black pepper to the bird, 
just why, I do not know, but as it does 
not hurt the fowl and they like it, I usu¬ 
ally give it, much as you give a child a 
piece of candy after medicine. I hava 
omitted it often, and see no difference in 
results. Care must be exercised not to 
be rough in “pipping” a fowl, as it does 
not do them any good to tear their tongue, 
and it is not necessary. 
You will read in poultry instruction 
books that pip is cured by bathing several 
times a day with glycerine and water and 
other preparations. It may cure it. but I 
opine the result would be 'about the same 
as applying moral suasion to a balky mule 
unless accompanied with “cuss words” and 
a good stick. I would not advise trying 
the glycerine treatment, for the trash pile 
would probably be the ultimate fate of the 
fowl. Personally, I pip my young chickens 
when three or four months old, if on ex 
amination they need it. I pip all ray grown 
stock at least once a year, and some have, 
when three or four years old, been, all 
told, pipped five or six times and still have 
the full amount of tongue nature Intended 
them to. - In my experience I never have 
injured a chicken by pipping and never 
have heard of one being hurt, and the 
practice is, in this section, practically uni¬ 
versal. You will see a chicken promptly 
begin to get in good shape after being 
properly pipped. It will not stop their 
laying to remove the pip. It is virtually 
taking a corn off the tongue. Any treat¬ 
ment for pip, other than physical removal, 
so far as my experience goes, is pure folly, 
and is about as practical as to dissolve 
your finger nails chemically when they are 
too long, when you could take them off 
with ease and little inconvenience. Fip is 
as contagious as corns or freckles; no 
more so. marsena a. barker. 
Alabama. 
Paper Henhouse.— A newspaper report 
credits Henry T. Faure. a Massachusetts 
poultryman with a novel idea in poultry 
buildings, which are said to have been very 
economical in cost and satisfactory in serv¬ 
ice. These buildings are 100 feet long, 7% 
feet high in the front, and 4% feet in the 
rear. A board framework is made and cov¬ 
ered on all sides and the roof with wire; 
presumably poultry netting. This wire, in 
turn, is covered with ordinary tarred paper, 
save for a space of two feet just beneath 
the plate on the front side. The open space 
thus left is for ventilation and is provided 
with canvas covered windows, to be used 
when needed. Glass sashes are also placed 
beneath this space for use in the Winter, 
but are removed in the Summer. The floors 
are of dry gravel, and the interior fittings 
of the ordinary type. The perches are 
placed lengthwise through the center, and 
the nests are upon the ground. These 
houses are said to have cost about $200 
each, inclusive of labor, and to have proved 
entirely comfortable during the past Winter 
for the fowls kept in them. 
It’s Time to Give 
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■^Regulator 
to your 
pulieta 
and 
hens 
It hastens 
laying ma¬ 
turity. Insures 
quick and com¬ 
plete moult. That 
means fall and win¬ 
ter eggs, which bring 
the big prices. It acts 
upon the digestive and egg 
producing organs. “ Your 
money back if It falls.” 
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Sold by dealers everywhere, or 
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I NDIAN ItTJNNElt DTTOKS at farmers’ prices 
for the next few days. Write your wants. I can 
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WHITE INDIAN RUNNERS-Fine Eishol strain, Write 
" Marsh Creek Poultry Farm, R. No. 4, Gettysburg, Pa. 
PULLETS FOR SALEp 8 ;™" 1 
Barred Rocks and Youngs S. C. W. Leghorns. All 
March and April hatch. The Mackey Farms, Bilboa, N. Y. 
DARRED ROCK COCKERELS AND PULLETS $1.00 EACH. 
u Write tor circular. J. WILSON OAIL, Cambridge, Md. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX- 
Lrxl/?y , r, 5 «?’ J 1 atc mg. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, Southold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
THE FARMER S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
I layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. V. 
PRIZE WINNING STRAINS-®®*^ 
Lightand Dark Brahmas, White Wyandottes, Reds’, 
Barred Rocks, White and Brown Leghorns. Year- 
lin^s and April hatched from $1.50 and upwards. 
F. M. PRESCOTT, - IUVliKDAIE, N. J. 
more eggs: larger, more vigorous chicks! 
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IHF.W.MANN CO.. Box T6.MILFORD,MASS.fl| 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
is losing real money for you. Every egg you don't 
get is so much money lost. Stop that leak ! Hens 
tormented with lice can’t be expected to lay eggs. 
V ou can keep them free of lice with one application 
a year, and Circular 61 tells you liow. Sent Free 
Write us today. 
CAR BOLIN EUM WOOD PRESERVING CO. 
181 Franklin Street New York 
JUALITY S. C. White Leghorn Hens for 
' sale. J. BESWICK, Madrid Springs N. Y. 
FOR SALE^’n^ w ' Leghorn yearling hens. 
”" *White and Rice strain. Price, 75c. 
and $1.00. Two year old, 50c. All on free range. 
Sycamore Poultry Yards, Shelter Island, N. Y 
WANTED—EARLY PULLETS 
give full particulars and prices when you write. 
J. ARTHUR LEE, 
Gleiifield, N. Y. 
700 S. C. W. LEGHORNS-^To'uIM 
yearlings and two-year olds, 75c. to $1.00 per head, 
m bi.fr, Maplo Spring Farm. Flemingfcon, N. J. 
EARLY PULLETS *■> HENS 
Leghorns, Wyandottes. Rocks and P. Cochins 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY FARM - R. 0. 24 - ATHENS, PA. 
WANTFn single COMBwhite iprhrrm PULLETS 
M ust be thoroughbred, early and healthy. Give full 
particulars. HARRY Y. JOHNSON, R. 2, Flemiiigton, N. J. 
BABY CHICKS 8^c EACH 
From Free Range Selected 
S. C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
Prompt delivery. A hatch every week. Write for 
prices on throe-weeks’-old chicks. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circular free. OHAS. R. STONE. Baby 
Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-IIudson, N. Y. 
Pullets for Sale 
Mid-April hatched, purebred, S. C. White Leghorn 
1 ullets, splendidly developed upon free range, and 
from heavy-laying strain. $1.25 each. A few March 
hatched, and now beginning to lay, $1.50 each. 100 
yearling hens, 75c. each. Dean Poultry Farm, Candor, N.Y 
THE 
SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS 
(CONTEST STRAIN) 
We have mated four pens for fall hatchings. 
Eggs $3 per fifteen. Place your ordor early. 
FARM 831731 O. WILSON, Carlisle, W. Va. 
1000 "sTF LEGHORN "S? s $1.00 EACH 
to make room for young stock. Grand 
Laying Strain. First come first served. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM.NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Annual Sale of Selected Yearling Breeders. 
HENS AND COCKS, $1 EACH. 
Mt. Pleasant Poultry Farm, Havre de Grace, Md. 
1000 S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS gSR™®! 
Young and Lakewood Strains direct. Prompt 
COLOMBIAN WYAND0TTES-RS» k * r so1 ! ,“ou 
approval. F. F. RIGGS, Elmira, N. Y. 
PIIRFRRFH WHITE WYAND0HE PULLETS. EXTRA LAY- 
runcDncu ing strain, w.j.Thomson,oelhi, n.y. 
WHERE IS DARLINGTON? 
D ARLINGTON is a small village ill Harford County, Md. It is rapidly 
becoming the “Mecca” of Poultiymen interested in S. C. WHITE 
, . _ L EGHORNS, all owing to the fact that it is where Mr. Edge has located 
his EGG harm, a model in its way. There is more shoe leather being worn out 
in getting to Darlington than any place of its size in America Yes, or Africa 
either for that matter. The question of the day is not “ Who will be President " 
Imt, Where is Darlington,” and “ How do you get there ? ” It is said—we think 
truthfully—“All roads in Harford County lead to Darlington and none lead out." 
1 he roads that formerly lead out soon became grass-grown and were closed, 
simply because no one whoever came to Darlington wanted to leave. We hope¬ 
fully look forward to Darlington becoming one of our great seaports, we already 
have a boat building establishment, fish of all kinds swim up almost to our 
doors, oysters (but no CLAMS) are just over the way (if you don’t believe it 
we can show yon the shells) and remarkable as it may sound, after a heavy rain 
catfish can be caught iri our corn fields. I promised you early in the day that 
things would happen at Darlington. Is it any wonder our S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORNS are so far in the lead? 
DARLINGTON EGG FARM, Alfred P. Edge, Box O, DARLINGTON, M D. 
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y°ur poultry troubles can usually be traced to yourfailure to properly protect 
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