1913. 
'rt-IK RURAL NEW'YORKEH 
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The Henyard. 
Analysis of an Egg. 
What is the chemical analysis! of an egg? 
Lynn, Mass. r. g. m. s. 
The chemical composition of a fresh egg, 
as given in Bulletin No. 17 of the College 
of Agriculture at Cornell University, is as 
follows: Water, 65.7%, ash, 12.2%, pro¬ 
tein, 11.4%, fat, 8.9%. m. n. d. 
Ailing Poultry. 
What is the matter with one of my 
chickens I killed? It had a lump on its 
liver as big as a small hen’s egg, soft and 
yellow. h. s. 
Ohio. 
The soft yellow “lump” that you ob¬ 
served was an abscess, and if accompanied 
by other whitish spots varying in size 
from that of a pin head to that of a wal¬ 
nut or larger, it indicated tubercular in¬ 
fection. If the rest of the liver and the 
other internal organs were healthy, how¬ 
ever, the abscess was due to some local in¬ 
fection and did not indicate any serious 
disorder among your fowls. si. b. d. 
Meat Scraps for Poultry. 
"Will you give me a formula for makiug 
meat scraps for poultry? We have a great 
deal of meat that can be used up iu this 
way,‘hut it soon spoils, because of lack of 
proper knowledge in handling it. a. o. 
Warminster, Pa. 
The manufacturers of commercial beef 
scraps have facilities for cooking and dry¬ 
ing their product which would not be 
practicable on a small scale. Unless you 
ean keep the meat at your disposal In a 
frozen condition, you will find it impossible 
to keep it indefinitely, though its preserva¬ 
tion may be prolonged by packing in 
crushed charcoal, or in ground, unburned 
limestone. By keeping it fresh as long as 
possible and then cooking it, or by grind¬ 
ing it and mixing it with dry wheat bran, 
you will also prolong its usableness. 
M. B. D. 
Diarrhoea in Fowls. 
Some of my hens are troubled with 
diarrbcea; the droppings are yellow and 
very thin. I have about 60 hens; I feed 
three quarts buckwheat iu morning, two 
quarts steamed oats at noon and three 
quarts shelled corn at night, with dry 
mash before them all the time which con¬ 
tains one quart bran, one of middlings and 
one-half of cornmeal; pumpkins once or 
twice a week and a very little beef scraps. 
New York. w. n. 
Too much pumpkin, or an excessive 
amount of beef scrap, particularly if the 
latter is of poor quality, might cause the 
diarrhoea of your fowls; there is nothing 
in the other feeds mentioned that should 
produce this effect. The beef scrap should 
be the first thing to come under suspicion, 
and should be carefully inspected to see 
that it has not become musty or spoiled. 
M. B. D. 
Fowls in Small Run. 
Can I keep 100 chickens on a lot of 
ground 60x150 feet, with building of 300 
square feet? I have one house 10x24 and 
three others smaller. What kind of poul¬ 
try would be best suited for so small a 
place? T. D. 
Pennsylvania. 
You may easily keep 100 fowls on a plot 
of that size and in buildings having a 
floor area of 300 square feet. You will 
find it necessary, however, to pay greater 
attention to cleanliness of the buildings, 
and to spade or plow up the run more 
frequently than if you had larger quarters. 
Any one of the larger breeds, such as the 
Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, or R. I. Reds 
would be satisfactory, as they do not re¬ 
quire high fences to restrain them, or, if 
you wish to enclose the run with fence 
10 or 12 feet iu height, you ean keep the 
more active breeds of the Leghorn type. 
M. B. D. 
Concrete Poultry House. 
I am about to erect a concrete poultry 
house which I wish to be rat-proof, but I 
do not want a concrete floor. Will walls 
sunk two feet below the surface of the 
ground be deep enough to keep them out? 
My idea is to use the lumber that I will 
need for the interior work for moulds for 
the concrete walls. How long would the 
concrete have to stand before I could re¬ 
move the moulds? I have no gravel on this 
farm, but plenty of clean sand which is 
full of pebbles up to one-half inch in 
diameter. Would this make a strong wall? 
Pasadena, Md. H. b. 
A wall extending two feet beneath the 
surface of the ground should be rat-proof. 
Several factors, particularly the amount of 
water contained, influence the rapidity with 
which concrete sets. The drier the' work 
the quicker it sets, and the more difficult 
the making of a good job. If your idea is 
to. make a solid wall of concrete, sand alone 
will not be satisfactory, as it will be de¬ 
ficient in strength, and would require much 
more cement than a mixture containing 
gravel or broken stone. Gravel beds are 
frequently found which contain a sufli- 
cient proportion of sand to make a good 
mixture, but sand alone should be used 
when cement mortar is made to plaster 
over metal lath or other permanent foun¬ 
dation. 
M. B. D. 
Dry Mash Formula. 
Can you tell me value of this mash 
for egg production and not for breeding: 
200 pounds of scraps : 200 pounds of bran : 
100 pounds of fine feed; 100 pounds of 
ground Alfalfa; 100 pounds of meal; one 
bag of ground oats; 100 pounds of gluten ; 
50 pounds charcoal; 100 pounds linseed 
meal? This mash is before them all the 
time. I feed whole grain iu the morning, 
two quarts of oats, two quarts of wheat 
and four quarts of corn on the ear broken 
in pieces. This is fed to a pen of 100 hens, 
what do you think of this method of feed- 
in f• I have not had very good success as 
yet. My hens are -a cross between White 
Rock and White Leghorn. g s 
Whitman, Mass. 
We see nothing to criticise in your dry 
mash formula, save possibly its complexity 
and cost. The following dry mash reconi- 
mended by the Cornell Experiment Station 
is more simple, and we think that you will 
find it cheaper: 60 pounds cornmeal, 60 
pounds wheat middlings, 30 pounds wheat 
bran, 10 pounds Alfalfa meal, 10 pounds 
oil meal, 50 pounds beef scrap, and one 
pound of salt. Your whole grain should 
be fed in deep litter twice daily, giving a 
little more than one-half at night; grit, 
oyster shell and charcoal should be always 
before them, clean water should be always 
accessible, and green or succulent food 
should also be provided. M. B. d. 
Trouble with Barred Rock Pullets. 
I am having some trouble with my 
Barred Rock pullets; yesterday I found 
one dead on the dropping boards of the 
oost and later I noticed one very sick, 
eyes closed, etc. I took her in the house 
and gave her small doses of kerosene and 
later some castor oil. She seems likely 
to pull through. I have been feeding 
grain in the morning and evening, two 
parts corn, one part wheat, one part oats 
and a bran mash at noon and I put stock 
beets in the coop for them to pick at. It 
is possible that during the cold weather 
the beets may have frozen in the coop. 
Both birds seemed lively the night before 
and their combs are red and bright. They 
seem to like the stock beets but one of 
our neighbors told me he had a cow die 
from eating frozen beets, and has never 
fed them since. f. h. f. 
Maple Plain, Minn. 
It would be difficult from the insuffi¬ 
cient data that you give to form an 
opinion as to the trouble with your pul¬ 
lets; your grain ration is all right, and 
I have no knowledge of any trouble re¬ 
sulting from the feeding of frozen beets, 
as a matter of precaution, however, it 
would be well to avoid this, and your 
idea of giving a teaspoonful of castor oil 
to cleanse out the digestive tract of any 
fowl showing symptoms of trouble is a 
good one. _ m. b. d. 
Late Pullets ; Care of Manure; Frosted Combs 
1. I have a number of late-hatched 
Plymouth Rock pullets weighing about 
three pounds each, and am in a quandary 
what to do with them. Would it pay best 
to sell them now for what they will bring 
for eating, or keep them for laying later? 
They will hardly lay before Spring. 2. 
Will hen manure lose its virtue by being 
spread on the ground in Winter around 
trees, etc.? 3. Do frosted combs affect 
cockerels badly for breeding purposes after 
the combs are all healed? c. h. p. 
Ulster Park, N. Y. 
1. If these pullets are of a good laying 
strain and well developed for their age, 
they should be worth more as future layers 
than for meat. Under ordinary circum¬ 
stances, I should advise keeping them. 2. 
While it is better to keep hen manure 
under shelter with a sufficient amount of 
absorbent material to keep it dry, I doubt 
there being any material loss where it is 
spread upon ground sufficiently level to 
prevent washing during the Spring thaws. 
3. Frosted combs will not injure fowls, 
save from a cosmetic standpoint, after they 
are healed and the soreness is gone. 
M. B. D. 
Cows are selling here for $30 to $50 
per head; butter, 35 to 40 cents; cheese, 
18 to 22; eggs, strictly fresh, 50 cents per 
dozen; potatoes, 50; apples, 40; onions, 
90; cabbage, $3.50 per ton; popcorn. $1 
per bushel. c. e. h. 
Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
Cows, fresh, $40 to $60; heifers, 18 
months old, $20 to $25; calves, veal, 7 Yu 
to eight cents per pound; dressed beef, 
eight to nine cents; hogs, dressed, nine; 
butter, 30; eggs. 26; poultry, live, 10 
apples, 60; potatoes. 60; oats, 45; corn, 
70; wheat, $1; buckwheat, 60; hay at auc¬ 
tion, $15. c . o. 
Chicora, Pa. 
_Draft horses from $200 to $250; cows, 
$50 to $75; hogs, 7% ; pigs, eight weeks 
old, $3.50; calves, eight cents a pound; 
wheat, 90; oats, 30; corn, 41; potatoes, 
50; apples, 75 ; hay, $11 in mow, $13.50 
on track; butter, 25; lard, 12%; eggs, 2S ; 
chickens, 10; turkeys, 17. Milk, $1.85 
per 100 at condensery; six cents a quart 
when sold by quart. Cherries, $2 a 
bushel; peaches, $2.25 ; pears, $1 ; Damson 
plums, $2.25 a bushel; tomatoes, 25 cents 
a bushel; onions. 60; cabbage, two cents 
a head. Quite a good nmnv silos were 
built in this county last Fall. Prospect 
for wheat and rye in this county good: 
corn all in crib, quite a good deal' of Fall 
plowing done. Feed of all kinds plentiful; 
stock doing well. Our first snow on 
ground now; had a very nice Fall with 
very little rain up till now. w. b. s. 
Union Co., O. 
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Box 38.J Frederick, Md. 
sIle- 250 Rose and Single Com!) R. I. Red 
Yearling Cocks and Hens, Cockerels and Pullets 
raised: males, $2.50 to $5.00 each; females 
J1.50 to $3.00 each. Can he returned if not satisfai 
tory. ROANOKE POULTRY FARM, Sewell, New Jers 
C C. WHITE LEGHORN BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE— Layi 
3 i result of many years breeding. Sele 
eu hens and cockerels. Prices reasonable, consists 
with quality. SPECIAL OFFER— Breeding pen of 15 He 
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Frail Women 
sometimes suffer discomfort 
and contract colds because 
their blood is thin or insuf¬ 
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could fully realize the blood- 
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Scott's Emulsion is an 
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on testing seed, preparing ensilage, 
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Air-tight, frost, weatherand waterproof. 
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63 Main Street, Norwich, N. Y. 
529-544 Watkins Building, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Keep a Few Hens 
R. C. Black Minorca Pullets, the kind that lay those 
large, chalk-white eggs, and lots of them, they are 
regular egg machines and sure winners. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS R. 0. 24 ATHENS, PA. 
Hatching Eggs and Baby Chicks 
Our strains have always been known as heavy 
layers and choice market producers. Our recent 
winnings at the great shows demonstrate our exhi¬ 
bition quality. Get in on the ground floor with this 
combination. 8 . O. W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks, W. 
vv yandotte* and Salmon Faverolles, Leghorn 
Cockerels for sale. 
EVERGREEN POULTRY FARM 
Tel. connection. Chappaqua, Westchester Co. N. Y. 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
is losing real money for you. Every egg you don’t 
get is so much money lost Stop that leak 1 Hens 
tormented with lice can’t he expected to lay eggs. 
You can keep them free of lice with one application 
a year, and Circular 61 tells you how. Sent Free 
Write us today. 
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181 Franklin Street New York 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 
and Hatching Eggs 
Carefully Selected from Pure Strata Stock 
Our esrgs guaranteed 80$ fertile ; our 
chicks warranted full count and vigorous. 
Buy your spring stock from us—it pays. 
D-.* ae Chicks—$150 per 1000; $17 per 
rrices 100; $9 per 50. Eggs—$60 per 
1000 ; $7 per 100 : $4 per 50 ; $1.50 per 15. 
Write Today for Descriptive Folder 
CROSSWICKS POULTRY FARM 
Chas. W* Brick, Prop., Box D, Crosswicks, N. J. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
Healthy, vigorous, from heavy laying stock. 
Guaranteed full count aud satisfactory. 
Place your order NOW —and avoid the rush. 
Hatching Eggs Breeding Stock 
S. C.W. Leghorns. White aud Barred Hock*. 
All eggs and stock guaranteed. 
Write for big new catalog: “Tywacana. 
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A. E. Wright. Supt. 
Box 68, Farniingdale, Long Island, N. Y 
farms' 
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mature earliest, are heaviest la vers. Get our great 
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PITTSFIELD POULTRY FARM CO. 
416 Main Street Pittsfield, Maine 
S. C WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hoff s baby chicks are hatched brim full of “ Vital- 
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producers as well as exhibition type. Also Rhode 
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Safe delivery guaranteed. Also eggs for hatching! 
EXPERT CUSTOM HATCHING at reasonable 
charges. 24 yea vs experience inartificialineubation. 
Candee mammoth and Prairie State incubators 
used. Write for my booklet and reasonable prices. 
D.C.R.HOFF, Lock Box 115Neshanic Station, N.J. 
BabyChicksl2cEach 
front free range selected 8 . C. White Leghorns. 
Prompt delivery. A hatch every week. Safe ar¬ 
rival guaranteed. Eggs for hatching, $6.00 per 100. 
Reductions on orders over 100 . Circular free. 
CHAS. R. STONE, 
Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson,N. Y. 
AlacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers ol 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1844 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
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Nothing better for the congh of bronchitiB and asthma, 
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25c. 60c, $1.00. Sample Free. 
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Erickson Leg 
Arms, Crutches, Stockings, 
SOLD ON EASY TERMS. 
£• if. Erickson Artificial Limb Co., 
19 Wash At..N o#,Minneapolis. Minn* 
Does not chafe, overheat 
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Send for Catalog. 
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IIAMM0TH BRONZE TURKEYS-One-fonrth wild, 20 to 
hi 26 lb. toms $7. 12 to 14 lb. hens 15. 
JOSEPH E. JANNEY, Brookeville, Montgomery Co., Maryland 
Mammoth White HOLLAND TURKEYS 
purebred, large, vigorous White Wyandotte win¬ 
ners. H. W. ANDERSON, Stewartstown, Pa. 
BRONZE TURKEYS from Prize Winners. Eggs in sea- 
u sen. Stamp. MRS.H.C’HUMBLEY, Draper, Va, 
Fnr <sah»-74 FRTCAN GEESE AND ANCONAS. 
ror oa,e WM. H. WARCUP, West Branch, N. Y. 
White Emden Geese and Ganders 
extra fine at a bargain through December. 
MAPLE COVE FARM. R. D. 24, ATHENS. PA. 
B arred Rock Cockerels and I.B. Drakes Cheap. Eggs for 
hatching. Catalog free. G. F.Williamson, Flanders, N.J. 
For Salpv. 5I L B/1RRED P- r ock and w. wyandotte 
r Vj COCKERELS. Strong, vigorous breeders 
of fine quality at $2.50. Dr. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
SAI F'-Single Comb White Leghorn 
* Cockerels. $1.50 each or flvo 
for $5. GEO. L. FERRIS & SON, Atwater, N. Y. 
BUREBUEI) S. C. W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
1 —Choice April hatched Cockerels. Orders taken 
for April day-old chicks. John Lorton Lee, Carmel, N. Y. 
P0ULTR YME N' 7 v en< * 2c stamp for Illustrated 
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75 SELECTED S. C. W. LEGHOKN 
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strains in existence. Large white eggs and large 
white birds. J. M . CASE, GUboa, N. Y. 
SPLENDID S C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS fromthehome 
0f 1 io f en Ll i; ’ Record 234 eggs in 10 months 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
. ®® st ,. Twln > n - stock. Cockerels and Pullets at 
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BURNETT'S BLACK BEAUTY MINORCAS-Ahsolutely un¬ 
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largest ever raised. We win all large show' Send 
card for circular. Coldenham Poultry Yards. Rocklet, N. Y. 
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R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
st0 .ck for UTILITY, SHOW or EX- 
I,;>Rr. Eggs tor hatching. Mating list on reanest 
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S. G. White Leghorn Baby Chicks 10c each 
Safe arrival guaranteed. No order too large or too 
small. Hatching eggs by the setting or thousand; 
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S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
OF rxrSUAI. QUALITY AND VIGOR 
FOR SALE CHEAP—Desirous of quitting 
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PLEASANT POULTRY FARM, Havre de Grace, Md. 
Prize Winning Strains - ^' 1 ' 6 ',®', 5 ’ Pul ; 
lings, $1.25 and upwards. White Leghorns, Brown 
Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds.Barrod Rocks .White 
Wyandottes. Light and Dark Brahmas. Catalog 
gratis. E. M. PRESCOTT, Hiverdale, N. J? 
Pullets and Yearlings For Sale 
w A S " 1 and May Sin « le Comb white Leghorn Pul¬ 
lets. 100 selected yearlings. Every bird guaranteed 
purebred, healthy and vigorous. 
SUNN Y HILL FARM Elemington, N. J. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM 
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
Breeders and shippers for 20 years of high-class S C. w 
tfkhorna and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Baby chicks and 
hatching eg gs our specialty. Correspondence invited. 
EGG 
STRAIN' _ 
Standard bred, red to the skin. Eggs for hatching 
tnn 0 U 'omi 0 f a , n .f . t $ 10 - 00 P« 1 ’ S( R- Go) Utility $ 6.00 per 
pulled,Vah“chfcfs ai ' aUteed Cockereis - Yearlings. 
AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. II. 
Hone's Crescent Strain of R ose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds~F l % h i las J ® xWbitica 
v,!,-, birds, bred from exhi- 
eta. tings, also choice breeding birds bred from 
afvv-L - 1 y. 50IS ' kvery bird sold on approval. D. K 
HONK, Crescent Hall Farm, sharon Springs, N. Y. 
COCKERELS - ^ 11 White and Barred 
, , Rocks, $1.50 each. E"cs 
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Barred and Buff Rock, R. & S. C. 
rveds, and White Wyandottes 
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Austin’s 200 STRAIN S.C. Rhode Island Reds 
55 BREEDS 
Pure-Bred 
Chickens, Ducks, 
Geese, Turkeys, 
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Dogs. Send 4c for large Poultry' book 
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