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THE PiUPfAL NEW-YORKER 
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Keeping a Pure Strain. 
I >o you advise using a cockerel with 
pullets of the same mating? I have 12 
pullets and five cockerels from a trio of 
imported birds from Tom Barron’s flock 
of English Leghorns. Can I keep them 
pure Barron, or should I cross them with 
American Leghorns for best results? The 
cockerels are finer ones. \v. c. m. 
Rupert, Vt. 
By all means, keep the Barron strain 
pure. These Leghorns, with their superb 
laying qualities, are . he product of many 
years of skillful breeding by an expert. 
There is, of course, no guarantee that 
their good qualities will be perpetuated 
in the hands of their American owners, 
but it would be the height of folly to un¬ 
necessarily introduce inferior blood. Se¬ 
lect the best cockerel of the five and mate 
him with the pullets next year. 
Chickens With Colds. 
This is the time of year when the 
poultryman must keep a sharp lookout to 
detect trouble in his flock. About the 
first thing that appears to make him 
uneasyis a pullet with a swollen eye, and 
perhaps a running nose also. There are 
many remedies used, and 1 have at var¬ 
ious times used different methods, but the 
one that gave me quickest results is as 
follows: I remove affected bird from flock, 
place same in a coop with a slatted front, 
placed upon a box off the floor, in some 
protected building. If the eye is closed 
and suppurated, take camphorated vase¬ 
line and coat all around the eye, taking 
care not to get any inside the eye. 
Should you have any two-grain quinine 
pills, give one morning and night for 
three days, or one-quarter teaspoonful 
epsom salts in a wineglass of water. Give 
this to the chicken half a spoonful at a 
time. One dose will do. Take one-eighth 
of a teaspoon of permanganate of potash 
and dissolve in a pint of water, to use as 
an antiseptic solution for the cleft, in the 
roof of tlie mouth. Pour some of the 
solution from the pint bottle in a small 
vessel about the size of a wineglass and 
keep it there a few seconds, and it will 
move its tongue about and force the liquid 
up in the cleft. This solution is not in¬ 
tended for drinking, as it is four times 
stronger than that given in the drinking 
water, but I find that this method used 
four or five times a day is quicker than 
using a weak solution in the drinking 
water. 
After you have applied the camphor¬ 
ated vaseline for two or three days the 
eye will open, and then I make a solu¬ 
tion of corrosive sublimate, one teaspoon¬ 
ful to one quart of water, and bathe the 
eye, pressing the lids apart, and letting 
the water reach the eye. Boric acid, 15 
grains to the ounce of water, is good, 
but the above gives me best results. I 
have cured my birds in five days. Now 
don’t mistake this malady for roup, as 
it is not. W._E. BROWER. 
This is good treatment with the ex¬ 
ception of the use of corrosive sublimate. 
This substance is extremely irritating, 
and when used in strong solution in sen¬ 
sitive places like the eye, is very painful. 
Boiling water would not be more so. A 
teaspoonful to the quart is at least eight 
times as strong as should ever be used 
in the eye, and even this might better be 
replaced by the boric acid, which while 
not so powerful, is painless and soothing. 
M. B. D. 
The Poultry “ Systems.” 
I think M. B. I), in his reply to W. I. 
B. on page 1337 is decidedly unfair to the 
so-called systems for distinguishing the 
laying hens from the drones. Five or six 
years ago I paid one dollar for a book 
describing one of these systems, and I 
consider it the best dollar investment I ever 
made in the poultry line, as it has saved 
me many dollars every year. I have two 
special uses for the system. First, be¬ 
ginning in November or December, soon 
after the pullets commence laying, I han¬ 
dle every one of them every two weeks 
until February, keeping a record of their 
laying condition, and have thus been able 
to know, and save for breeders, my best 
Winter layers. And I find that the pul¬ 
lets getting a high mark in the Winter 
are generally the ones that are still 
shelling out the eggs late the following 
Autumn. Secondly, when the hens begin 
to slack up in egg production in August 
or September, I go over them every 
week, and ship to market those that 1 
find have quit laying (unless they are to 
be saved as breeders). This latter plan 
alone has saved me many dollars. I 
have made many tests, and never yet got 
an egg from a hen I picked as a non¬ 
layer. In all my experience I have found 
but one hen whose pelvic bones did not 
close up to one finger’s width or less 
when she quit laying and of course opens 
again when she again lays. I fear M. B. 
I). has never given These systems a thor¬ 
ough trial or he would not so utterly con¬ 
demn them. I may say that in my opin¬ 
ion the originators of these systems go 
rather too far in their claims, but to the 
extent I have mentioned I consider them 
of great value. w. A. R. 
Yarmouth, Me. 
You are entirely right in saying that 
the promulgators of (he various “systems” 
go too far with their claims; in fact, that 
is characteristic of systems in more than 
one branch of human thought and activ¬ 
ity. Some one discovers or appropriates 
a small bit of truth and builds around it 
an elaborate structure of error I'.' there 
is any value in the method of selecting 
layers by noting the width of the opening 
between the pelvic bones, you will obtain 
H by a regular and systematic examina¬ 
tion extending over a period of several 
months. Few would do this, however, 
but would depend upon one or two tests. 
As a little test of this method, I went 
to my henhouse the other evening and 
examined 26 two-year old hens, none of 
which is laying. I was able to place one 
finger between the pelvic bones of six; two 
fingers between those of 14 ; and three fin¬ 
gers between those of six. Then catching 
15 pullets, an unknown number of which 
are laying, the one linger test applied to 
five; the two finger test to eight; and 
the three finger test to two. Not much 
in that to help me select the layers. I 
understand, also, that the originator of 
this test has failed signally to pick out 
the layers from pens whose records were 
known and which were submitted to him 
for demonstration. m. b. d. 
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