1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
C'35 
Ventilating a Henhouse. 
Will you tell me bow to ventilate chicken 
house? I have one 50 feet long, 14 feet 
wide, inclined to be damp in cold weather. 
It gathers frost on roof and retains moist¬ 
ure. Would sash in roof prevent this? Dia¬ 
gram shows size and shape. w. G. 
Connecticut. 
The dampness in your henhouse is 
caused by keeping it closed too tightly 
without proper ventilation. The best 
way is to keep the south windows open 
every pleasant day, allowing plenty of 
fresh air and sunshine to enter the house, 
as this aids materially in keeping the 
house dry and the stock in a healthy 
condition. If the windows on the south 
side are good size, you should make a 
frame for three of them, covering the 
frame with muslin or thin cotton sheet¬ 
ing. For convenience, you can have the 
frames hinged at the top, so they can 
be hooked up to the roof out of the way 
on pleasant days. Keep these three win¬ 
dows open all the time, closing the cloth 
screen at night or during storms. Ex¬ 
ception may be made to this rule only 
when there is danger of freezing the 
birds’ combs, when the windows should 
be closed. See that the north, west and 
east sides of the house are perfectly 
tight, so that no drafts can circulate 
through the house to cause sickness. 
When the weather becomes warm 
enough, so that no danger of freezing 
exists, of course, all the windows should 
be open night and day except when 
closed during a storm. c. s. GREENE. 
Chicken Lice; Calystegia. 
G. /?., Massachusetts. —1. Would some one 
give tne a remedy to kill head-lice on young 
chickens? 2. Can anyone tell me where I 
could get a root of Calystegia, a lovely old- 
fashioned double pale pink flower that we 
used to gather years ago? 
Ans.— 1. A mixture of lard and sul¬ 
phur very lightly smeared on the head 
will kill the lice. Do not use it too 
freely. 
2. The Calystegias are now included 
under Convolvulus (bindweed) by mod¬ 
ern botanists. Probably the inquirer re¬ 
fers to Convolvulus Japonicus (Caly¬ 
stegia pubescens) or California rose, a 
hardy perennial climber with double pink 
flowers, which is naturalized in some 
parts of the United States. It is very 
vigorous, valuable for covering walls, 
stumps or banks, and the flowers are 
very showy, but we do not find it in any 
catalogue at hand. In rich ground it is 
likely to crowd out other plants with its 
strong growth. 
Feed for Ailing Cow; Cribbing Horse. 
1. What roots and feed would you use to 
push a Jersey cow, rather old, lately sick, 
for milk? I wish to get her into condi¬ 
tion. IIow would you do it? 2. How 
would you cure a horse of cribbing and bit¬ 
ing not otherwise vicious? r. 
1. If you have mangels there is nothing- 
better in that line to put a cow in good 
condition after being sick. They aid 
digestion and furnish the succulence 
which is so necessary to the health and 
condition of milch cows. The remain¬ 
der of the feed depends entirely upon the 
condition of the cow at the present time. 
If she is very weak and thin in flesh I 
would begin feeding two parts ground 
oats, one part wheat bran and one part 
wheat middlings by weight. Feed very 
lightly at. first, gradually increasing the 
amount according to the cow’s appetite 
and her ability to digest the feed. Be 
very careful not to overfeed her during 
the first few weeks, as here is where the 
danger lies. As soon as she is strong 
enough mix in a pound of cornmeal 
every day and increase gradually to two 
pounds per day, mixed with the other 
grain. Do not feed any cornmeal to a 
cow during the last two months before 
she freshens, or for two weeks there¬ 
after, as it is too heating, and is liable to 
cause fever at this time. The best and 
cheapest milk-producing ration that I 
have ever found is a combination of 
silage, hay, dried distillers’ grains and 
cotton-seed meal. Gluten may be used 
in place of the cotton seed if the former 
is not available. If the silage is not well 
eared it would be advisable to mix in 
one or two pounds of hominy or corn¬ 
meal. Do not feed a Jersey cow more 
than two pounds of cotton-seed meal, 
but the other feeding stuffs should be 
fed generously, the amount depending 
entirely upon the individual cow. 
2. Cribbing or crib biting is not a 
disease, but it is an idle, vicious habit 
of horses. It has sometimes been cured 
by smearing the edge of the manger with 
aloes or lard and cayenne pepper. If this 
fails I would place a small revolving 
roller above the front of the manger 
so that the teeth would slide off quickly. 
Some persistent cribbers require a muz¬ 
zle made for the purpose before a cure 
can be effected. c. s. 
A Cow Ration. 
Would the following make a well bal¬ 
anced ration for the common dairy cow? 
75 pounds bran, 125 pounds cornmeal, 100 
pounds Buffalo gluten feed, 50 pounds old 
process oil meal, 40 pounds cotton-seed 
meal. These cows have all the clover hay 
they will eat, but no silage. w. u. 
Canton, N. Y. 
Your ration is too narrow, especially 
as you have no silage. Clover hay is a 
well-balanced feed, while bran, gluten 
feed, oil meal and cotton-seed meal are 
all very rich in protein. It is always 
more difficult to compound a satisfac¬ 
tory grain ration when no silage is fed, 
but the following is well balanced and 
ought to give good results, although for 
best results with milch cows a certain 
amount of succulent food is necessary: 
75 pounds wheat bran, 125 pounds corn¬ 
meal, 25 pounds oil meal. c. s. M. 
Rats and Mice Without Water. 
Is it possible for rats and mice to go 
for a week or more without water? Bats 
have gotten into my grain crib, and I know 
they cannot get out to drink. Yet they are 
alive. ' r. 
Rats ami mice seem to be able to go for 
long periods of time without drinking water. 
Many of the rodents which live in the 
western deserts seem to be able to do with¬ 
out water, even though they feed on dry 
seeds. Your correspondent should have no 
trouble in catching the few rats and mice 
which remain in his corncrib by means of 
out-of-sight traps. a. k. fisher. 
Department of Agriculture. 
One-Horse Cultivator. 
Can you recommend a one-horse imple¬ 
ment which will thoroughly prepare Fall- 
plowed land for seeding, and also be used 
for cultivating all kinds of garden vege¬ 
tables? w. G. K. 
Irwin, Pa. 
That is a hard job for any one horse 
unless he is extra strong and heavy. We 
should use a strong one-horse cultivator— 
first one with broad teeth and then one 
with sharp diamond-shaped teeth—the lat¬ 
ter really a one-horse harrow. 
dealer for cost of handling and profit. At 
this price I think teaming is extra, depend¬ 
ing upon the distance and the expense of 
putting into customer's cellar. Boslyn coal 
is a fairly high grade bituminous coal. It 
mines coarse and stands handling well. A 
carload of well screened lump makes a very 
excellent showing. It is rather high in 
volatile matter, and makes a good deal of 
soot, but it holds fire well and is a favor¬ 
ite fuel where it can be obtained.” 
There is no question but his statements 
are absolutely correct, while Mr. Fowler’s 
are decidedly misleading. A. T. b. 
New York. 
R.N.-Y.—Our desire is to give the facts 
Will some one now come forward and show 
that the prices paid or charged for farm 
products are not as stated? 
Silo for Apple Pomace. 
Would it pay me to build a small silo 
of concrete or wood to fill with apple 
pomace, from which about 40,000 gallons 
of cider has been made? I would have to 
haul the pomace about 1% mile, and 
would get it the day after "the cider is 
made, which is about three times a week, 
for about eight weeks long. I would use 
the pomace for hogs and cows. IIow 
largo should I build? c. a. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
This question is submitted to readers 
who have had experience. We have 
had several reports from Vermont 
which show the value of pomace for 
feeding. _ 
Ventilation for Incubators. —We 
have a bank of incubators in our house 
cellar, and although we use the very 
best incubator oil we can find, the odor 
throughout the dwelling was intolera¬ 
ble. We tried various systems of ven¬ 
tilation unsuccessfully, and finally re¬ 
ferred the matter to out plumber. He 
suspended over the machines a six-inch 
stove pipe, connecting it with a con¬ 
venient chimney. Then over the funnel 
of each incubator he placed a tin hood 
about 18 inches across the face, and 
connecting it with the stove pipe with 
three-inch tin tubing. The hoods were 
dropped as low as possible to clear the 
regulator, and the heat and odor passed 
off into the chimney, and we had pure 
air once more. f. c. c. 
Chemicals For Pastures.— At tlie 
Midland Dairy College in England two 
pasture lots, each of four acres, were 
laid off for an experiment. The pas¬ 
ture was poor and the soil was sour. 
To overcome this, lime was used on 
both fields. One was left as it was, 
while on the other about 500 pounds 
acid phosphate and 200 sulphate of pot¬ 
ash were spread. Both pastures were 
then harvested. Two cows were put 
in each pasture. Later the grass on 
the fertilized pasture was so much bet¬ 
ter than on the other that another cow 
was turned in. At the end of the sea¬ 
son it was found that the pasture which 
had been fertilized had produced 9,020% 
pounds of milk, while the other produced 
5,531 pounds. The cows were of a uni¬ 
form lot and the only difference in the 
pasture was the use of phosphate and 
potash. We believe this experiment in¬ 
dicates one of the best methods of im¬ 
proving old pastures. Such soils are 
usually sour, and they contain fair quan¬ 
tities of nitrogen. This is rarely in an 
available form. Milk removes from the 
soil nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid, 
but the stock of nitrogen is renewed by 
the clover which grew in pasture. Thus 
we may expect after some years to find 
a loss of both potash and phosphoric 
acid and unavailable nitrogen. The lime 
helps to make this nitrogen available 
and the phosphate and potash furnish 
what the soil needs. The harrowing 
breaks up the soil and gives the grass 
plants a start. 
CAUGHT 
In His Own Trap 
If any maker of out-of-date cream 
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o! your machine 
and are much 
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He dare not go, 
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Yet, by re¬ 
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are ground¬ 
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hopelessly 
caught i n 
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trap. 
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Coal Prices on the Pacific. 
On page 223, ‘TIold-up by the Farmers,” 
Henry Fowler, Whitman County, Washing¬ 
ton, writes as to the conditions about Spo¬ 
kane. You quote from ‘‘The Chronicle,” of 
Spokane, "Boslyn coal, $8.50 per ton,” and 
add : “We see from the above letter that 
Boslyn coal at the mine 180 miles away 
costs 50 cents to $1 per ton.” Beading of 
conditions in Pennsylvania in connection 
With bituminous coal mining, I could hard¬ 
ly reconcile Mr. Fowler’s statements, and 
was surprised at your comments. I wrote 
a friend on the Pacific Coast who is fa¬ 
miliar with coal conditions, and he advises 
me: 
“Spokane is 301 miles from Boslyn. The 
freight rate is $2.50 per net ton. Boslyn 
coal is sold f. o. b. cars at the mines at 
the following prices: Lump coal, $4 to 
$4.75 per net ton; mine run, $3.50; steam 
coal screenings, $2 to $2.75. Lump coal 
from Boslyn would therefore cost the deal¬ 
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The difference between this cost and the re¬ 
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