eo 
THE RURAL NEW >VORKE»< 
TWO WAYS OF HATCHING. 
Advice About Incubators. 
From our own experience I would say 
that fresh eggs with strong fertility from 
healthy stock are one of the most neces¬ 
sary items of running an incubator suc¬ 
cessfully. Given good eggs, any one of 
the best modern machines are good. 
Don’t buy a cheap thing you know noth¬ 
ing about. I have found it easier to run 
a large machine holding 400 eggs than 
one of 60 or 100 eggs, as it is not so 
subject to changing temperature. A 
basement or cellar is the best place to 
run an incubator, as it gives the neces¬ 
sary moist atmosphere, and also the 
steady temperature, which an upstairs 
room will not do. Airing the eggs I be¬ 
lieve an essential feature to strong 
chicks, although a “hatch” may be se¬ 
cured with very little air. A machine 
where the thermometer hangs above the 
eggs should be run 104 degrees, while 
one with thermometer lying on the eggs 
is right at 103. Leave the machine closed 
while hatching, and leave the chicks in 
the machine 24 hours after the hatch is 
over, as they do not need anything to 
eat for two or three days. What is the 
use of hurrying them out into what at 
the best is an unkind world to a mother¬ 
less chicken? With these suggestions 
and the direction's which are sent with 
the machines anyone should be .able to 
make a satisfactory hatch, and have 
chicks that are not handicapped in their 
race for life. floyd q. white. 
Wholesale Natural Incubation. 
At this season nearly every poultry- 
man, and especially the inexperienced en¬ 
thusiast, thinks that if he only had more 
and earlier pullets he could make money 
producing Winter eggs. He also sees large 
and sure profits in early chickens for 
market purposes. For both reasons he 
feels that he must run an incubator and 
get ahead of the season which nature 
chooses for breeding operations. Thus 
year after year the whole. question of 
artificial incubation must be thrashed 
over in the agricultural press, and in the 
end each man or woman must work out 
the details of the problem with the aid 
of common sense and a love for the 
work. Success with an incubator lies 
largely in the outside surroundings and 
in the judgment of the operator. I re¬ 
cently saw two old machines sold at a 
country auction. They were little more 
than pine boxes lined with paper with a 
lamp and water tank, the latter leaking. 
The purchaser was a good mechanic, 
and had hatched chicks before. He 
bought new lamps, plugged up the holes 
with putty, and at the first attempt 
hatched almost all the fertile eggs. These 
machines were kept upstairs in one of 
uhe rooms in daily use by the family. 
Tt would be useless for this man to tell 
anybody how he ran his machine, for 
the conditions would be similar to -his in 
very few places. In large commercial 
plants the problem will be solved by ex¬ 
periment, or the plant will fail. No 
written advice can he expected to be 
sufficiently comprehensive to cover the 
multitude of differing conditions with 
which the machines will be surrounded. 
I have noted how many small opera¬ 
tors fail utterly^ in incubation, and that 
even a larger proportion fail to raise a 
satisfactory number of chickens, and 
further that a large number of the chicks 
raised are unthrifty and undersized, and 
as I am raising large breeding stock on 
a comparatively large scale I determined 
to invest the price of an incubator in 
such fixtures as would make it easy to 
manage and handle a large number of 
broody liens. It will be immediately ob¬ 
jected that broody hens cannot be had 
when they are wanted, but I find that 
the offer of about 50 per cent above 
market price will bring to light quite a 
number of broody hens quite early in 
the season. To move successfully and 
set a hen is as impossible for some peo¬ 
ple.as to run an incubator, but a person 
who can do neither should retire from 
the business. 
My plan is to give each hen a separate 
nest and yard, so that she cannot get 
more than four feet from her eggs. My 
nests are made in boxes of three each, 
called trinesters. These are four feet 
long, 18 inches wide, about 20 inches 
high in front and 16 at the back, cover 
sloping one way", partitions dividing into 
three nests 16 inches wide. The cover 
is cut into three lids, so that each nest 
can be opened independently, and the 
upper part of the front of each nest is 
cut out and fitted with a slatted door 
which drops in from the top. A couple 
of strips are nailed on the sides of the 
trinester projecting from each end to 
form handles. The yards are made of 
lath or wire netting four feet square and 
20 inches high, divided into three runs, 
each 16 inches wide. These runs are 
open at one end, and this end fits against 
the front of the trinester. Thus each 
hen has her own nest and yard, yet has 
company within clucking distance. Eight 
of these trinesters will accommodate two 
dozen sitters, and a little girl can attend 
to them in a few minutes. These 24 hens 
will cover at least 288 eggs, and the 
average man can hatch more chicks with 
them than with the machine and raise a 
great many more than with a brooder. 
The more hens we can start at once the 
better we like it. We test the eggs about 
the seventh day, and fill up the nests of 
some hens from the others, so as to re¬ 
lease one or more to be started again 
with the next lot. In this way there is 
little lost time, and* at hatching only 
enough hens are removed to care for 
the chicks, the others being reset, so that 
we get six weeks of service from nearly" 
half of our sitters. As we raise only 
purebred stock our mongrel sitters are 
sold off on weaning their chicks, and 
have often brought more than they cost, 
but even if they sell for less, the differ¬ 
ence will hardly represent more than the 
annual depreciation on a machine, and 
we have no idle capital on our hands. 
By this method we have hatched in the 
last two seasons 66 per cent of all eggs 
put under the hens, the loss represent¬ 
ing the infertile, the broken and the 
chicks dead in shell or killed in nests. 
In these two years we have set some 
3,000 eggs. So it may be seen that the 
figures probably represent an average of 
what we may expect with our Barred 
Rocks. I should add that we keep our 
sitters out of doors and on the grass. 
Virginia. w. a. sherman. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Indigestion in Horse. 
Can you tell me what to feed my horse 
to keep him in flesh, as he has a weak 
stomach and kidneys and gets sick if I 
feed him corn? .Ttist now I am keeping 
him on rye hay and ground oats, and he 
keeps well, hut gets very lean. I had some 
carrots which I was feeding him, hut found 
they brought on the kidney trouble. I had 
the same experience with corn. 
Connecticut. s. jj. D. 
Rye hay makes excellent bedding for 
horses, but it is not suitable as roughage 
in place of hav. Feed good mixed or 
Timothy hay and a ration composed of 10 
parts of oats, five of corn and three of 
bran. Feed the corn in the ear at noon. 
Do not feed ground food. If ho cannot chew 
properly have his teeth attended to by a 
veterinary dentist. See that the horse is 
worked or abundantly exercised every day. 
lie will not get sick if you feed aiid ex¬ 
ercise him properly. a, s. a. 
Eczema. 
What is the matter with my dog, and 
what can I do for him? About six months 
ago an eruption appeared around his 
mouth, ears and between his toes, and now 
his toenails are about an inch longer than 
they should be, and are shedding. The 
eruption is something like poison from 
thunderwood or poison oak. He had dis¬ 
temper not long before the breaking out. 
Alabama. c. e. p. 
The dog is in a rundown condition, and 
the skin eruption is a form of eczema. 
Once daily soak the feet in a saturated solu¬ 
tion of boric acid, as hot as the hand will 
bear, and after removing and drying the 
feet smear balsam of Peru upon all sore 
places. Apply sulphur ointment freely once 
a day to all other affected parts pn body, 
after a thorough cleansing, and if they itch 
add ichthyol to the ointment at the rate 
of one dram to the ounce. Feed lightly. 
Have him live an outdoor life. If recovery 
is tardy give 20 drops of elixir calisaya, 
iron and strychnine twice daily in a little 
water. a. s. a. 
• Scours. 
I have a horse that is 15 years old. 
About six months ago, when I started to 
feed new hay, he got the scours. He had it 
for some time. I tried different remedies, 
such as flour, allspice, raw oil, charcoal, 
which were recommended by my neighbors, 
without very much benefit. In the Fall 
he began to get poor and hidebound. A 
druggist recommended equal parts of ginger, 
copperas, gentian and charcoal. I gave the 
horse a tablespoonful in two quarts of 
wheat bran morning and night. This did 
him some good; his hide seems to be na¬ 
tural, his scours stopped and he was gain¬ 
ing some, but now be has the scours again. 
I am feeding him good, clean Timothy hay 
morning and night, and oat straw at noon*; 
have been feeding him bran twice a day 
for some time. What would you recom¬ 
mend giving him? w. e. t. 
New York. 
Have his teeth put in order. Feed whole 
oats, bran, carrots and hay. Stop feeding 
oat straw. Let him run out every dav or 
work him regularly. Allow free access to 
rock salt. Always give the drinking water 
before and not soon after feeding. If the 
trouble continues mix in the feed night and 
morning a tablespoonful of a mixture of two 
parts powdered wood charcoal, ground 
ginger root and powdered catechu. If his 
coat is long, rough and staring have him 
clipped. „ a. s. a. 
Best Roof for a Barn. 
J. L. FCastile, N. Y.—I intend build¬ 
ing a barn next Spring, and I would like 
to get your opinion as to what is best to 
use for shingles. I can get the so-called Red 
cedar shingles at $4 per 1,000, and a cypress 
shingle at .$4.50 per 1,000. Some carpenters 
tell me that the cypress will outlast all 
other shingles, and are cheap at twice the 
price of cedar shingles. Others sav they 
are no good at all in this climate. Some 
people advocate galvanized roofing. What 
is your opinion as regards galvanized and 
the other kinds of roofing so extensively 
advertised ? My barn is to be 72 by 36 
gambrel roof. 
January 22, 
Wm. Galloway 
.President 
Get My Price 
This Ad Saves You Dealer, Jobber, 
Supply Men, Catalog-House 
Profits. Nobody Can Beat It 
Buy direct from the biggest spreader factory in the world 
—my price has made it. No such price as I make on this 
high-grade spreader has ever been made before in all manure- 
spreader history. Here’s the secret and reason: I make 
you a price on one based on a 30,000 quantity, and pay 
the freight right to your station. You only pay for actual 
material, labor and one small profit, based on this enor¬ 
mous quantity. 
on it. They all tried it 30 days free, just like I 
ask you to try it—30 DAYS FREE. 
Drop me a postal and say—“Galloway, send 
me your Clincher Proposition and Big Spreader 
Book, Free, with low prices direct from factory.” 
T. F. Stlce, Oswego, Kans., writes me—“Often pull It 
with my small buggy team. Does good work. Have 
always used the . ..before. Galloway much the best. It 
going to buy a dozen more, they would all be Galloways. 
Thousands more letters like these here. 
Get my Clincher Proposition for 1916 with 
proof—lowest price ever made on a first-class 
spreader. No. 5 , complete with steel trucks, 70- 
bu. size; or Galloway Famous Wagon-Box, 4 
sizes, from 50 to 60-bu.—with our agreement to 
pay you back your money after you try it twelve 
months if it’s not a paying investment. How’s 
that for a proposition? If I did not have the 
best spreader, I would not dare make such an 
offer. 40,000 farmers have stamped their O. K. 
Wm. Galloway Company, of America, 669 Galloway Station, Waterloo, Iowa 
GALLOWAY 
Wagon-Box Spreaders 
—Save You $25 to $50 Cash 
—Freight Prepaid 
With Exclusive Roller-Feed— worth 
$25 to $50 Alone < 
N / I now ONLY V/ 
/ $54.50 and 
TjJ Up-Without \ 
■' f t Trucks—Freight \ 
yy Prepaid East of 
/Rockies and Nor. of Ten- 
~ nessee—Freight Allowed 
that Far to Points Beyond. 
Here Are Facts You Want To Know:— 
Hans M. Johnson, Parlcston, Minn.: “I Dewey 
would not trade my Galloway for any 1125 used a- 
epreader I have ever seen.” 
Garrett Mathias, Mathias, W. Va.: “It is 
worth two of the-” 
Hicks, El Reno, Okla.: “Have 
, a 8135 machine. Couldn’t think 
of changing even. 
C. C. Johnson, Morrison, Mo.: 
Isn’t in It with the Galloway.” 
‘The- 
Eleven 
Patents 
The ONLY Spreader 
with MALLEABLE 
and STEEL for ALL 
Parts that break and 
wear out In other 
spreaders. 
Fits the wagon 
gears you al¬ 
ready haye. 
The 
ONLY 
End¬ 
less-Apron 
Force Feed 
Spreader in 
the World. 
From 50 to 70-bn. 
Capacity. With 
Complete Steel Truck 
Spreader, only $90.00, 
32 YEARS OF SUCCESS 
Smfin.ZJ 
ROLLER-BEARING 
LIGHT DRAFT 
Get > 
Our 
Book 
Free 
SUCCESS SPREADER 
The only spreader with a 32-year record of good work. Simplicity, Durability 
and Light Draft always foremost. Direct Chain Drive. No Cog Gears. The 
choice of men who investigate thoroughly. Wood or metal wheels. A generation 
of experience back of every Success. The leader from the first. Exclusive features 
all patented. Catalog of facts Free. Write us promptly. 
Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co. sy n a 5. use 
THERE WAS A TIME 
when an engine that would saw wood, grind feed 
and do general farm work weighed a ton and had a 
water tank like a young straw stack. Think of cart¬ 
ing water by the barrel whenever power is needed! 
THEN Ik EMeyeWS V'm COOLED Came; 
no more water nuisance, no cold weather troubles, 
al ways ready and able to do any work summer or 
winter. That’s the kind you want. 
WRITE US FOR CATALOG NO. 5. 
The Only Air Cooled Enoine TheNcW-WSY MOTOR COMHNY 
Guaranteed for all Work. 4 Lahsjhs, /tfCffieAJt, O.S.A. 
LOOK FOR 
THIS BRAND 
140 SHERIDAN ST. 
AND UPWARD 
THISOFFER IS NO CATCH. 
It is a solid, fair and square 
proposition to furnish a brand new, 
well made and well finished cream 
separator complete, subject to a 
long trial and fully guaranteed, for 
$15.95. It is different from any¬ 
thing that has ever before been 
offered. Skims I quart of milk a 
minute, hot or cold, makes thick or 
thin cream and does it just as well 
as any higher priced machine. Any 
boy or girl can run it sitting down. 
The crank Is only 5 inches long. 
Just think of that! The bowl is a 
sanitary marvel; easily cleaned and 
embodies all our latest Improve¬ 
ments. Gears run in anti-fric¬ 
tion bearings and thoroughly 
protected. Before you decide 
on a cream separator of any 
capacity whatever, obtain 
our $15.95 proposition. 
Sown AMERICAN 
SEPARATOR 
EXCELS ANY SEPARATOR IN THE WORLD 
OUR LIBERAL TRIAL ENABLES YOU TO 
DEMONSTRATE THIS. While our prices for all 
capacities are astonishingly low. the quality is high. 
Our machines are up to date, well built and hand¬ 
somely finished. Run easier, skim closer, have a 
simpler bowl with fewer parts than any other cream 
separator. Thousands of machines in use giving 
splendid satisfaction. Write for our 1910 catalog. 
We will send It free, postpaid. It is richly illus¬ 
trated. shows the machine In detail and tells 
all about the American Separator. Our 
surprisingly liberal long time trial proposi¬ 
tion. generous terms of purchase and the low 
prices quoted will astonish you. We are the 
oldest exclusive manufacturers of hand separa¬ 
tors in America and the first to sell direct to the 
user. We cannot afford to sell an article that 
is not absolutely first class. You save agent's, 
dealer’s and even catalog house’s profits by deal¬ 
ing with us and at the same time obtain the 
finest and highest quality machine on the mar¬ 
ket. Our own (manufacturer's) guarantee oro- 
tects you on every American Separator. We ship 
immediately. Western orders filled from West¬ 
ern points. Write us and get our great offer 
and handsome free catalog. ADDRESS, 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., Box 1075, BAINBRIDGE.N.Y. 
