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THE ORANGE COUNTY POULTRY HOUSE. 
Part III. 
Let us look at some of the possibili¬ 
ties before us as farmers, in the light 
of what has already been done, by a 
judicious combination of the business 
hen and the dairy cow. The average 
Orange County farmer keeps about 25 
cows. I am not going to advise you 
to abandon your cows. The adaptability 
of Orange County soil and climate to 
dairying is too well established for that. 
1 shall rather advise you to add an 
extra man and woman, or man and boy, 
to your working force, and add 20 or 
25 such units of the business hen to 
your equipment, each unit to contain 
250 hens. The extra man can take care 
of the hens and the woman or boy can 
clean and pack the eggs, provided you 
do not already have some one in the 
family who could do it. Instead of 
selling milk, and robbing your farm of 
needed fertility with every can of milk, 
separate the cream from the skimmed 
milk. Sell the cream, either in the form 
of gilt-edged butter or of sweet cream. 
If the former, then you can bid the 
city milk inspectors a polite good-bye 
and run your own farm in your own 
way again. The skim-milk can be util¬ 
ized at home as food and drink for the 
hens. I know of nothing that equals 
it to stimulate egg production, or quick 
growth in young chickens. You may 
not get so much cash for the cream or 
butter as you could for the whole milk, 
but the chances are that you will in 
this way make a profit of $1.25 or $1.50 
per hen, instead of $1. Figure out for 
3 'ourself what this means for a flock 
of 5,000 or 6,000 hens. A hundred dol¬ 
lars’ worth of milk means at least two 
heavy loads to market with a slow- 
moving team. More likely it means 10 
or 15 smaller loads on as many differ¬ 
ent days. A hundred dollars’ worth of 
eggs and butter means one light load 
in a spring wagon or automobile. You 
can count on such a load at least every 
other day during most of the year from 
chickens from three crates of eggs to 
stock a house, and raised them to 10 
■weeks of age at a cost for feed and 
coal of seven cents per bird, raising 
from 90 per cent, to 95 per cent, of 
them. At that age you can remove the 
brooder and install the perches, and 
your income will begin from the sale 
of squab broilers. After 10 to 12 weeks 
of further feeding of the pullets your 
income from eggs should begin. I have 
had a flock of 250 hens lay eggs enough 
in 60 days to pay the entire cost of the 
house in which they are kept., when 
sold as market eggs, with just such care 
as I have indicated. 
I do not advise you to build 20 houses 
at the start unless you are already an 
expert poultryman. Some of you will 
not take kindly to the work, and would 
make a failure of it. With one set of 
incubators you can start four or five 
flocks a year from March to September, 
and by the time the first ones get too 
old for profitable laying you will have a 
full equipment. There is wealth enough 
in our land. Let the business hen set 
some of it in motion from the pockets 
of those in our cities who can afford 
the luxury of new-laid eggs and broil¬ 
ers, towards the pockets of our farm¬ 
ers. Thus will she help keep the boys 
and girls on the farm and turn the tide 
of population from city to country. 
o. w. MAPES. 
Infected Udder. 
I own a three-year-old Jersey, came in 
fresh latter part of August. I could never 
dry her up. She is such a heavy milker 
she milked right up until she dropped her 
calf. About two weeks ago I brought her 
in from the orchard to milk and 1 noticed 
her udder swollen as big as a pail; on the 
end of one hind teat I noticed something 
like a spider bite. I used a proprietary 
medicine, raw linseed oil and finally cam¬ 
phorated oil. That brought the swelling 
all down. Ever since that morning the 
milk out of one hind teat is stringy, a 
yellow, oily look, and as it looks now 
that teat is drying up. I milk her out on 
that teat three or four times a day. It is 
not garget; she had no caked bag. The 
cow is a pet, gets the best of care, four 
quarts of gluten per day, good pasture, 
INTERIOR OF ORANGE COUNTY HENHOUSE. 
your farm. If a business man or manu¬ 
facturer sees a chance to double his 
business and treble his profits without 
moving from the present location, is he 
slow in grasping it? True, it means a 
little more investment of capital, but 
most of you can manage that. People 
have made the mistake too long of 
thinking that the poultry business can 
be successfully handled with little or 
no capital. 
Are average Orange County far s 
growing more productive or the re¬ 
verse? Last June I took a trip from 
Middletown to Newburgh by way of 
Campbell Hall, and back by way of 
Greycourt and Goshen. The months of 
April and May were ideal for the 
growth of grass, yet I was astounded 
not to see even one decent field of 
grass on the whole trip. What has 
become of the once boasted fertile fields 
of the county? They have gone to the 
city on the milk train. Has the equiva¬ 
lent gone into your bank account? I 
fear not. I believe that on most Orange 
County farms where 25 cows and milk 
production results in a bare living and 
a discontented farmer a judicious use 
of the business hen along with the 
dairy cow, for butter or cream and egg 
production, will result in a profit of 
$3,000 to $5,000 a year, a contented 
farmer, and bumper crops wherever the 
poultry manure is applied. 
How can it be that there is so much 
difference in profits of milk production 
and egg production? I call attention to 
a few reasons. First:—The cow has to 
be milked while the hen “milks herself,” 
so to speak, as I said. Second:—The 
cost of distribution is much greater 
with milk than with eggs. More of the 
consumer’s dollar finds its way ordi¬ 
narily to the egg producer. Third:— 
Milk and eggs are both made from 
much the same kinds of food. The 
market price of a pound of dry matter 
in the form of eggs, at the farm, is at 
least five times as much as for a pound 
of dry matter in milk. The water costs 
nothing. It does not take very much 
capital to get started after your house 
is up. I have frequently hatched enough 
and corn fodder at night, and stabled in 
barn at night. I gave her Epsom salts 
and glauber salts. h. k. 
New Jersey. 
Infective matters entered the udder by 
way of the teat and the sore was the prob¬ 
able source of the germs. Such cases are 
common where a milking tube is used 
without proper sterilization. It is just 
possible that the quarter may be saved by 
once daily swabbing out the inside of the 
teat by means of a new, clean pipestem 
cleaning brush dipped in a warm, sat¬ 
urated solution of boric acid. The brush 
may be inserted several times at each 
operation, cleansing it in hot water each 
time. Also immerse the teat in the hot solu¬ 
tion at each operation. Massage the 
quarter thoroughly three times a day and 
at night rub well with a mixture of one 
part fluid extract of poke root and three 
parts sweet oil. Instantly cease using the 
brush if it seems to aggravate the condi¬ 
tion present. It must be very carefully 
and judiciously used. a. s. a. 
Swelling on Heifer’s Jaw. 
I have a heifer calf eight months old 
which came in the barn at night after a 
rain breathing quite hard, also slightly 
swollen underjaws. Breathing was all 
right in morning but jaws swollen worse. 
She eats and is all right in other ways: 
has been this way for three weeks. I 
have been bathing with vinegar and salt¬ 
peter. but do not reduce it much. What 
would you advise? l. p. 
Maine. 
Stop bathing the enlargement. Clip off 
the hair and rub in some iodine ointment 
each other day, or rub in 10 per cent 
iodine petrogen once daily. If the swell¬ 
ing softens it will have to be opened for 
liberation of pus, but it would be best 
to have the cutting done by a veterinarian. 
_ A. S. A. 
Boils. 
My mare has something like boils (one 
on back, breast and over right eve), which 
seem to have a hard place in them. They 
have been on her a month or more and 
I have done everything I know. She is 
in foal and nursing one five months old. 
What would you do in such a case? 
Virginia. c. E. J. 
Paint the boils with tincture of iodine 
each other day until they disappear or 
soften. If they soften open them freely 
for evacuation of pus and then swab 
with the tincture once daily until healed. 
We are not at all sure that" they are boils, 
however, for they may be little fibroid 
tumors without presence of pus, and if 
that is so they should be cut out and the 
wounds treated with antiseptics until 
healed. You should have given us a more 
detailed description of the condition pres¬ 
ent. a. s. A. 
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