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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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TROUBLE WITH YOUNG CHICKS. 
Will Homo poultr.vmnn toll ino what ails 
my chiekons? I hatched 300 Rods, good 
lively chicks, put them in heated brooders, 
used shavings (from planer) for litter; 
fed a commercial chick feed containing lisli 
scrap. They seemed all right for a few 
days, then acted strangely ; would tremble, 
fall down and shiver all over, then get 
up and go on. They seemed to be con¬ 
stipated, so I put in dry mash of bran, 
Alfalfa, cornmeal and a very little beef 
scrap. I have done everything I can think 
of, hut I feel sure that in a few days 
none will he living. Some are twisting all 
out of shape, feet curling up, spine twisting 
similar to lop-tail only more so. The 
stock from which these chicks came was 
good healthy pullets and cockerels, and 
the chicks came from shell strong. 
Massachusetts. M. J. c. 
I am of the opinion that your chicks 
have boon getting some spoiled or musty 
food, such as spoiled fish or meat scraps, 
or that your methods of feeding have 
been improper. Another possible source 
of trouble is in planer shavings used as 
litter; young chicks frequently eat a con¬ 
siderable quantity of their litter, and yours 
may have oaten small bits of the shavings, 
better replace this with barn chaff if you 
can get it, and if this chaff contains broken 
leaves from clover hay, so much the bet¬ 
tor. Do not depend upon commercial 
chick food alone, but make part of their 
rations of soft feed, such as cornmeal 
johnny cake made with sour milk and soda, 
or the following mixture ; rolled oats, eight 
parts; bread crumbs, eight parts; sifted 
beef scraps, two parts; and bone meal (if 
available), one part. This should he 
moistened with sour skim-milk and fed, in 
moderate quantity, live times daily, while 
the grain chick feed is kept before tin* 
chicks in shallow trays, or the soft feed 
may be fed three times and the cracked 
grain twice per day until the chicks arc 
about one week old. Feed only as much 
of the soft feed as the chicks will readily 
clean up, leaving none to become spoiled; 
little and often for the first few days. 
After one week soft feed may be given 
twice and grain three times daily, and the 
following mixture makes a good mash to 
be fed either moist or dry, or both ways, 
until maturity: Wheat bran, cornmeal, 
and wheat middlings, of each three parts 
by weight, sifted beef scrap, three parts, 
and hone meal one part. After three weeks, 
the number of meals may he reduced to 
two of mash and two of grain, then to one 
of mash and two of grain. The grain need 
not he so finely cracked and dry mash 
should he kept constantly before the chicks, 
in hoppers. I>o not forget to give wafer 
from tile first, and fine chick grit as soon 
as hard food is given. m. n. d. 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
The supply of fruit in Boston, with the 
exception of apples, is not heavy, and prices 
are slightly higher. Most vegetables are 
plentiful and in many cases prices are 
unreasonably low and not likely to improve 
much, If any. Squash is an exception, be¬ 
ing in demand at good prices; $00 per ton 
for Hubbard is obtained. Southern Summer 
goes at about $8 per crate. Cabbage does 
not as the rule bring the grower over 50 
cents per barrel for drumhead, but Savoy 
does a little better, at about 75 cents. 
New southern brings $1.75 per crate with 
Blow sales. Turnips, yellow, $1.25 per bar¬ 
rel; white egg, if fancy, 00 cents per box; 
purple-top, 40. Beets, old stock, 75 cents 
per box, new $1.50 per crate. Carrots 00 
to 85 cents per box for old ; parsnips 75. 
Hothouse rhubarb eight cents per pound; 
lettuce 75 cents per box; cucumbers $5 to 
$10 per box; dandelions $1.50 per box; 
beet greens 75 cents per box; tomatoes 35 
cents per pound ; Southern $2 per carrier. 
Onions, native, 50 to 75 cents per bag; 
foreign stock $1.75 to $2.75 per crate. Po¬ 
tatoes in good supply, with plenty of re¬ 
serve stock in growers’ hands when needed, 
$1.30 per two-bushel bag. New Bermuda 
$0 and $7 per barrel; sweets $1.50 per 
basket. 
Apples, slow sale and being very ripe 
in many cases makes prices Unsatisfactory ; 
Baldwin $1.50 to $8 per bnrtel, a few sell 
up to $4 if fancy enough to suit the best 
trade. King $2.50 to $4 ; Spy $5 ; Kusset 
$2 to $3 per barrel; Western l>ox fruit, 
$1.75 to $2.50. Bananas $1 to $4 per bunch ; 
lemons $0 per crate; oranges higher ami 
short, $2.50 to $0 per crate. Strawberries 
are selling well just now, hut will drop 
shortly as supplies will now increase in the 
next few weeks ; 35 to 40 cents is present 
price. Cranberries about done and bring 
$12 per barrel. 
Best beef $12.50 per hundred pounds; 
other grades $8 to $11 dressed. Lamb 11 
to 14 cents per pound; veal, best, 15 cents, 
other grades 9 to 13. Dive poultry higher, 
at. from 10 to 10 cents per pound. Dressed 
fowls 17 to 20; broiler chickens 35; roast¬ 
ing chickens 22 to 25 ; western capons 25 ; 
turkeys 25. Dive hogs at Brighton uino 
cents per pound; dressed 10 and 11. 
Best horse hay $21 to $22 per ton ; aver¬ 
age good $18 to $20; other grades $12 to 
$17 as you catch the trade. Bran $22 per 
ton, mixed feed $23 to $20; cottonseed 
meal $31.50; linseed $28.50; gluten $25 per 
ton; meal $1.15 per hundred pounds; oats 
average about 40 cents per bushel. 
Butter and cheese are inclined lower, yet 
retail price will not change to any extent 
just yet. The butter supply is ample at 
present and will increase gradually as the 
season advances. All old stock left over is 
being worked off when possible to find buy¬ 
ers. Best Is hehl at 38 to 40 to sell the 
Poor grades at 34 to 37. Beat cheese 18 
and 10 , some at 17. Western holdings are 
about to be let loose to satisfy loans on 
storage stock, it is stated, and will incline 
the market down a shade or two I believe. 
Kggs very plentiful in all grades, and stor¬ 
age stock is being cut loose at any price 
to dose out. Good fresh are cheap, retail¬ 
ing In many cases at 25 cents in the general 
stores. Wholesale prices are from 18 to 23, 
with a few for fancy trade at 24 to 2(5. 
The season is now ou for day-old live 
chicken trade. The average price at this 
season is 15 cents each In lots of any size 
you want. The hutch is in some cases 
about 50 per cent, probably few average 
better. A. E. i*. 
MILK PRICES BY TEST. 
One tiling relative to milk prices seems 
now to be fairly well established, and that 
is that milk is to lie bought on test to a 
much larger extent than for the last 10 
years. Here in the East there has been 
little disposition to regard the test, and 
the consequence is what all have known 
must happen, that the test of milk has 
come down each year until herds of cows 
are found that do not test three per cent. 
Such low tests are not common but those 
under 3.5 are to be found in every neigh¬ 
borhood. Cows of high test have been in 
very poor demand, and sell for but little 
more than half price quite commonly. One 
can expect nothing else. If a hundred 
pounds of three per cent, milk brings as 
much as the same quality of five or six 
per cent, milk then the farmer is foolish 
to sell the six if it costs him a half more 
to produce it. It may not cost in propor¬ 
tion to tlie test, but it will cost more. 
How much more I will leave for the ex¬ 
perts to determine. 
With the new contracts for the season 
now about to open the test factor enters 
into the deal in nearly every instance. I 
am not informed as to the way that the 
Exchange will handle the matter, but all 
others of which I have any information, 
and that is about all classes, there is a 
clause in the contracts relative to the 
test of the milk. This Is not the first 
Instance of what is likely to happen, for 
there is one concern that lias used the test 
for a little time and It is no small fac¬ 
tor in the milk business in the city trade. 
I have the statement of an informed per¬ 
son that this concern has been gaining on 
the .others in the city retail trade to a 
marked degree, showing that city people 
know something of the real condition after 
all. It is the competition of this one con¬ 
cern that has evidently brought the others 
to the point of adopting the test. 
This particular contract is a somewhat 
modest affair, but it is also diplomatic. 
For milk testing 3.8 per cent or bettor 
a bonus of 10 cents a hundred is named. 
For that testing under 3.2 there is a de¬ 
duction of two cents a point. In the 
region of the high testers there are premi¬ 
ums offered in addition to this one of 
four cents a point for all milk testing 
above 4.1. This means that if the milk 
tests five per cent the June price is $1.56. 
On the other hand, if the milk tests 3.7 
per cent or under the price is $1.10, witli 
further reductions if it tests below 3.2 
per cent. Six per cent, milk would bring 
in June $2.0(5, in September it would lie 
$2.4<i. In April $2.36. These very high 
tests arc extremely rare even in the land 
of high testing cows, but live per cent 
milk is common in that region. Five per 
cent, milk averages $1.83(4 fur the six 
months April-September. I wish it dis¬ 
tinctly understood, as I have indicated on 
previous occasions, that the prices are not 
high. For April they are too low and so 
they are for May. In no case are they 
higher than there is reason for their being. 
The prices average for the season just fair¬ 
ly good. The point is at tills time that the 
test is here and is likely to stay, and I 
believe it should. H. w. u 
The Best Ayrshire Cow. 
In reply to your inquiry of recent date, 
would say that our greatest Ayrshire cow 
is Lily of Willowmoor, 222(59, owned by J. 
\V. Cllse, Redmond, Wash. Her record, 
made in 365 days, was as follows: 22,106 
pounds milk; 888.70 pounds butter fat; 
1046. pounds butter, 4.02 per cent fat. 
c. M. WINSLOW, 
Secretary Ayrshire Breeders’ Association. 
Storing Mangels Without Cellar. 
I saw an inquiry in the current It. N.-Y. 
In regard to storing mangels without a 
cellar; will tell you how we did it one 
year. We lived on a rented place at 
that time, so did not care to go to the 
expense of a root cellar. We dug a pit 
In the ground near where we pulled the 
mangels, about 50 bushels. The pit wasn't 
quite deep enough, so about a foot or 
more of the roots were above ground, a 
defect easily remedied by making a larger 
pit. We put the mangels in a pile, then 
on top put about a foot of dirt. Over 
this we put about two feet thick of straw 
with boards to keep the straw from blow¬ 
ing awav. To get the mangels to use 
during the Winter we chose sunny days 
when it was not freezing much, took out 
a few bushels, enough to last several days 
anil covered pile again ns quickly as pos¬ 
sible. Those taken out were put in the 
lmrn on some lmy and covered with old 
bags, newspapers and carpets to keep from 
freezing, and used as needed. During 
January and February a few on top of the 
pit became chilled and when it grew warm 
in Spring a few rotted. We lost perhaps 
10 bushels of the 50 in those ways. The 
rest kept fine and fresh all Winter and 
how the stock did enjoy them. We only 
had two cows, two pigs and some chickens, 
so this plan might not be practical on a 
larger scule. H, a. e. 
Connecticut. 
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n p;„L f ii |f( There is no bottor time 
UO IVI gill f\l II . than while the horse is 
working and sweating for our treatment: which 
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—and cures without blistering or loss of hair. 
We Originated tho treatment of horses—Under 
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A 1,1. Lameness. Tells How to Tost for Spavin— 
What to Do for over 5H FOUMS OF LAMIC- 
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i 40C hicks from 140 Eggs 
This World’s Championship Record is not 
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55 Still Buys 
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best copper tank; nursery, solf-rcg- 
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ANCONAS—Free range, groat laying strain. Kggs, 
" 81.50 per 15; $(> per 1IH). YVliito Runner Decks. 
Eggs, $2 per 12. J. W. ANDERSON, Delhi, N. Y, 
j— Choice BufF Wyandotte Eggs exclu- 
sively. $1 per sitting of 15; $5 hull- 
yfou. Purebrod: free range; good layers. 
GHAS. I. MILLER. R. P. 1). No. 1. Hudson, N. Y. 
. Ton- 
to Leghorn, if you 
Ligonier, Ind 
IF U-R looking for W. Pekin, Indian Runner. W. 
1 P. Rock or W. 1 jughorn Chut, Dux or hatching 
eggs, write . C. SCiili v vick, Omar, N. Y. 
U/HIIE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS- From prizo-winnlu* 
** stock. MRS. E. J. RIDER, Rodman, N. Y. 
Rarrorl Rnr-lra - ^argo, Free rnnge, prize-winning 
Darrea rocks struill . Fifteen eggs u.sn. s«tia- 
fuctiou guaranteed. N H. BROWN, LaFargeviUe, N. Y. 
K F. I.I.KItSTRANS—• CrvHtnl White Orpington* — K k 'ki from 
bird* ilmt wnlxh II**.; from orixhiul price, $3 
por J6. W. A. Kaitior, 2703 Jamaiou Avom Richmond Hill 
R A k v Hofifnorns, Barred 
paoy snicks K ocks. R. <j. keda. Strong, 
livable. From vigoroun, thoroughbred, ranuo 
breeders. Safe delivery guar a aloud. Circular free. 
WUSLKY LiiUNNELL - 801)118, N. Y. 
- — 
UflllTK Wynndotte Eggs for Hatching 
—(Choice Stock. $I.(H) per 15; $4.UU por 
hundred. M. W. Hell, Hmldonfield, N. J, 
POULTRYMEN^aio?dS{;i f,,r - m, ^ rat " d 
IASI DONEGAL - 
I I VINO EGG MACH INKS—R. (.’. Buff Leg- 
*“ horns. Must beautiful and hardy of fowls. Eggs, 
$2 por 15. Circular. W. J. THOMSON. Delhi, N. Y. 
RARRFTT ROCKS bred * n t * 10 vury best blood 
IYUUIYO )ilms Egg*. $1 per sittings 
$5 per 100. CHAS. T. DOWN ING. R. 2. West Chester. Pa. 
Chicks and Eggs f ,™ 1 &T"*! 
Indian Runner Dnck Kggs. Write for prices. 
JOHN 1>. VAN I1YKK. R 0, Liottysburg, Pa. 
”“!■ Catalog describing 25 varieties. 
POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA. PA. 
ITBronze Turkey, Runner Duck 
LvV*v*o louse (loose, White l.ogl 
want some thing good. JAS. M. FRYE 
R. I- WHITES Lead the Reds 
Booklet froo. J. A. JOCOY, TOWANDA, PA 
EGGS FOR HATCHING-White Orpingtons. 
J- White Leghorns, Black Minorcns. Rhode Island 
Reds. Barred Plymouth Rocks, Price list muileil. 
TATT POULTRY FARM. Bux 3/. Holland Palcnt. New York 
Indian Runner Duck Eggs 
$3.80: 100. $G.50. W. T. EASTON, R. 5. Delawaro, O. 
B UFF WHITE LKliHOKNS, S. I'. U. I. HKDS—K*k», 90c. per 1- 
$1.50 per 30. Mottled Ancona*, ill, Minorcan, ckkb.H.uo pe r 
15; $1.75 per 30. Catalogue free. John A. Koth, <}!ink*rtomn, l*a 
IN THE INTERNATIONAL EGG LAYING CONTEST at Storrs, Conn 
WHITE ACRES TYPE TRUE 
Single Comb White Orpingtons 
load all the Orpingtons and 42 out of 47 pens of Leg¬ 
horns. They are laying better than 85< of the repre¬ 
sentative Leghorn strains of this country and gained 
their big lead during the Fall and Winter months. 
Write for folder IT___ £„ _ ¥j . l? _ 
anil price-list of lOT licit Citing 
WHITE ACRES POULTRY RANCH. Three Tuns, Pa. 
II. S. Sl'Af IJiI.Nii, Manager. 
RARY PHIY—12c each — S.C. White Leghorn*. Prize 
UHU I UlllA stock, froo range. $10.00 per 100. I. 
R. duck eggs; all 7c. each: $5 00 per 100. Stock for 
sale. ROCKEY GLEN POULTRY FARM. Poughkeepsie. N. Y 
HAMPTON'S S. C BLACK LEGHORN -Eggs for hatching 
*■ $8.00 per 100. World's best egg producers 
A. E. HAMPTON. Route 4, PITTSTOWN. N. J 
puipip-c— R. r. Reds, 15c ; hatchings, $1 25 
w Orpingtons, 38c.; hatchings. $2.00. 
KBNS1COFABM VALHALLA, N- Y 
THE FARMER'S FOWL—Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
I layers on earth. Eggs. $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THUS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y. 
EXTRA LAYING STRAIN White Wyandotte*, 
c Eggs, $1.80and $2per 15. W. J. THOMSON, Delhi, N. Y. 
Baby Chicks—Hatching Eggs 
S, 0. W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds Barred Rocks, 
White Wyandottes. Bred to lay. Pricos right. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
B ovr OKIMNOTON KflOHIt.M per 13. Owen Farm* prize strain. 
. la.linn Knnner Kk*;*, while egg strain, >1.50 per 11. 
T. H. AlKTl 2>'Ky * • * * Ka»t MllUtanc, N. J. 
