1913 . 
THE: RURAEi NEW-YORKER 
645 
The Henyard. 
Method of Raising Incubator Chickens. 
I will assume the little chicks are just 
Incubator-hatched. Two conditions must be 
had: 1. A warm room that can be very 
small. 2. A few ordinary hotbed frames 
with glass. The chickens are kept two 
days at least without special food, but for 
reasons seen later should be immediately 
put in their home-to-be, which I now de¬ 
scribe: Make a box about 18 inches square, 
six inches high. Cut a door in one end 
four inches from top to bottom. Have a 
piece of muslin big enough to cover the top, 
with a sag that goes to the bottom of the 
middle, then a wood cover. This is their 
home. Then three pieces of six-inch stuu’, 
say three feet long each. Now arrange your 
box as the cut shows. The three pieces 
form a triangle, with the apex at the door. 
The object of this triangle is very impor¬ 
tant—to teach the little chicks just as 
soon as possible to hunt their house when 
cold. They will huddle in this triangle 
and squeeze themselves right in the house. 
About 50 little chicks will be right for this. 
Take a small bucket of hayseed from the 
barn or cut Alfalfa and cover the bottom 
of box and yard. Put the chicks in the 
box, a muslin pressed down so it touches 
the middle wood top on box. The wooden 
top should have a few %-inch holes for 
ventilation. 
Food. —1. Have ready hard-boiled incu¬ 
bator eggs, fine charcoal, fine grit, fine-cut 
Alfalfa, fine oats, corn ground, onions. 
Take the yolks of the eggs only, never the 
whites, say six yolks of hard-boiled eggs, 
discarded incubator infertiles; handful 
charcoal, half handful grit, Alfalfa and 
ground feed to suit fancy, and, most im- 
/ * ^ 
portant, cut up two medium-sized raw 
onions in very small pieces. Now mix all 
together well. The object of this mixture 
is to force the chickens to eat at every 
meal green food, onions and grit, charcoal 
and green cut Alfalfa. This mixture must 
be the main food for a month, changing 
only the size of the grit and charcoal; 
never omit the onion or Alfalfa, above all 
the raw onion. 
Put this food in a tray or plate and do 
not bother the little chicks; let them find 
it themselves. Make it fresh every day 
and you may sprinkle a little cracked 
wheat or corn in the cut Alfalfa or hay 
seed as you wish. They will grow like 
weeds with their wings tight at their 
sides. In about two weeks they will jump 
over the six-inch board yard and then they 
must go outside. 
Now the window or hotbed sash comes 
in, for you do not want them either to 
run out in every rain. Take out your box 
and arrange as' shown. Box and hotbed 
sash one foot above ground, with one-foot 
boards to make sides. Slope toward open 
yard, yard as before on one-foot boards and 
any size you want. The object of the sash 
is to provide for the cold rains and winds 
We always get. When outside the wooden 
top must be covered with tar paper to be 
absolutely rain-proof. In about six weeks 
they can be taken and raised anywhere. 
These directions leave much to common 
sense—arrangement, size of yard, etc. The 
food must be exactly as I indicate, and the 
cut Alfalfa or hay seed is important and 
it must be changed once a week. Do not 
pack a lot of stuff to heat them too much. 
This is the result of years of all kinds of 
experiments, and proved uniformly suc¬ 
cessful. R. h. B. 
New Jersey. 
The Californian Egg-Laying Contest. 
The Napa Valley Poultry Association of 
Napa County, Cal., inaugurated a one- 
year egg-laying contest, which commenced 
February 20, 1013. The birds are housed 
in a building 50x120, which contains 72 
pens, all under one roof, with no outside 
yards. There are 07 pens entered in the 
contest, each of which is composed of six 
hens and one rooster; 20 of these pens are 
White Leghorns. The rest of the entries 
are scattered among the different breeds, 
and no one in particular has any very 
large entry. I am enclosing the record of 
the 15 leading pens for the first seven 
weeks of the contest, which shows that 
the larger breeds so far are holding their 
own remarkably well. So far it has been 
noted by the man in charge that the hens 
stand the confinement much better than 
the roosters. It is also suggested that 
some of the pens are overlaying them- 
sevlves, and will suffer later on in con¬ 
sequence. As I wrote you a short time 
ngo, the pen of ltuff Wyandottes which I 
entered, and which are direct descendants 
rr°in New York and Boston prize winners, 
continue to give more than a good account 
or themselves. They are holding their 
'- ,u *' w 'ith the very best of the others, and 
i’ .. on y two Pens out of the 20 pens 
ot White Leghorns are ahead of them, one 
pen only by four eggs, which goes to 
show that the descendants of blue ribbon 
birds are just as good for laying con¬ 
tests as they are for shows. Your cor¬ 
respondent who somewhat belittled the lay¬ 
ing capacity of prize winners is invited to 
keep his eye on this pen and see how they 
come out on this contest. 
Record of the Fifteen Leading Pens. 
7 th 
week. Total. 
1. Blom & Son, White Leghorns.33 213 
2. Lubben, Barred Plymouth It. .27 189 
3. Stiee, Barred Plymouth It....30 188 
4. Stratton, White Leghorns... .30 187 
5. Pearson, Buff Wyandottes... .29 185 
5. Tobin, Barred Plymouth It...27 185 
7. Brupbaeher, White Leghorns.25 183 
7. Schroeder, White Leghorns..25 1S3 
9. Porter, White Leghorns.25 180 
10. Kemble, White Leghorns.... 27 179 
11. Otten, White Leghorns.30 177 
12. McMillan, White Leghorns. . .29 174 
13. Mosher, Black Minorcas... .24 170 
13. Rutherford, White Plym. It..20 170 
13. Blom & Son, White Leghorns.25 170 
California. w. h. pearson. 
Trouble With Hatching. 
I have one pen of Buff Orpingtons, one 
pen White Wyandottes and one pen B. P. 
Rocks. Each pen consists of five hens and 
one cockerel. These birds are full grown 
and vigorous and have been laying for 
seven months. In the morning I feed 
cracked corn in litter, at noon a mash 
consisting of bran, beef scraps, cornmeal, 
oat sprouts and dried bakers’ bread. At 
night 1 feed equal parts of wheat and oats. 
These birds have comfortable houses with 
large runs and get plenty of fresh air and 
exercise. Early in February I set a heu 
and out of 10 eggs set seven hatched. 
About the middle of March I set three 
hens and started an incubator, but only 
two eggs hatched out of 135 eggs set. After 
having opened the eggs 1 discovered that 
75 per cent, of the eggs had full-grown 
chicks in them, but apparently lacking in 
vitality to pick their way out. The seven 
chicks mentioned above are now good-sized 
broilers. Can you throw any light on the 
subject? h. l. v. 
New York. 
A long-distance guess would be that your 
incubator or its manager is at fault, though 
it may be that forcing the hens for laying 
through the Winter has so reduced their 
vigor as to render their eggs unhatchable. 
It is uncommon for so large a proportion 
of the eggs to show full development of the 
embryo with practically none hatching, how¬ 
ever, and if it were not for the failure of 
those set under hens I should feel very 
sure that either the incubator or its care¬ 
taker had failed at some point in their 
duty. A neighbor has just taken off a 
hatch of no chickens from 240 fertile eggs. 
He cooled them one day during the third 
week by leaving them out of the incubator 
in a cold cellar for three hours. He thought 
to kill two birds with one stone by attend¬ 
ing to some other duties while cooling the 
eggs, and by his temporary lapse of memory 
killed more than two. M. b. d. 
Hen’s Feathers for Pillows. 
I saved a good many chicken feathers 
with the intention of putting them up in 
pillows to sleep on. I told several persons 
about it, but I cannot find anybody who 
approves of it. Some say chicken feather 
are full of fever, others say their irritate 
the nerves, and still worse, someone told 
me: “You don’t live long if you sleep on 
chicken feathers.” Is there any truth in 
this? j. c. R. 
Ohio. 
I am inclined to agree with your inform¬ 
ant that one wouldn’t live long if com¬ 
pelled to sleep upon chicken feathers, par¬ 
ticularly if the quills were not removed, 
and as for irritating the nerves, they cer¬ 
tainly would. Such feather are altogether 
unsatisfactory as "stuffing” for pillows or 
beds because of their stiff quills and their 
tendency to mat rather than to remain 
light and resilient under pressure. As for 
their being more unhealthful than other 
feathers, I know of no reason for such a 
belief. m. b. d. 
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