THE RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
The Henyard. 
Crops for Poultry. 
I have two acres of land in New Jer¬ 
sey which I intend to use in the follow¬ 
ing manner to make a living: One- 
quarter acre I intend to work intensively 
as a vegetable garden. One quarter I 
have put in berries, currants and grapes. 
The remainder I intend to use for poul¬ 
try, fruit trees, and green food or grain 
for chickens. Will you tell me what 
chicken food it would be most profitable 
to raise on the acre and a half? I in¬ 
tend to have S. C. White Leghorns, and 
use the open-front poultry house as ad¬ 
vised by the agricultural stations. I 
have worked this land for a year, and it 
is very fertile, and in good condition; 
last Summer I had as large a variety of 
vegetables as they had on Hope Farm. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. w. A. M. 
Corn, buckwheat, rape and mangels are 
probably the best crops for such a plan. 
All will respond well to the use of hen 
manure. The corn, after it gets a foot 
or more high, will make good shade or 
protection for the hens and chicks. Sow 
clover and rye at the last cultivation of 
the corn for a cover crop. This will make 
good pasture both Fall and Spring. You 
can sow oats or barley in Spring. This 
grows grain and straw for litter, and 
after harvest the grain stubble can be 
seeded to buckwheat and clover, the buck¬ 
wheat for grain and the clover to remain. 
The mangels are always useful for feed¬ 
ing poultry. A piece of rape will give 
fine pasture. 
A Hen Record. 
In December, 1912, I had a pen of 29 
pullets. I enclose the record of eggs 
laid by them during the year ending No¬ 
vember, 1913. Dec., 260 eggs; 1913, Jan., 
450 eggs; Feb., 569 eggs; March, 603, 
five hens now setting; April, 419; May, 
305; June, 332; July, 382; Aug.. 341; 
Sept., 342; Oct., 130; Nov., 152; No. of 
eggs laid during the year 4,285. 
These hens also hatched me 250 chicks 
1913, I had lost three of my 29 pullets, 
leaving me 26 hens, have added 49 pul¬ 
lets to these, making me a flock of 75. 
During December they have laid 756 
eggs. To me it seems ‘a big record for 
an ordinary farm flock of S. C. R. I. 
Reds, where there is no specialty made of 
poultry in egg-raising except to keep 
them as near purebred as possible. 
Orange Co., N. Y. p. K. L. 
Charcoal for Chickens. 
How can I make charcoal for chickens, 
and what kind of wood do I need for it? 
Old Bridge, N. Y. j. z. 
Willow is best but any wood will 
answer. Many stockmen use corncobs 
with success. Dig a hole in the ground, 
pack the cobs in firmly with a small 
quantity of light kindling. Cover the top 
over with soil so as to prevent a draft 
and set on fire. After the fire is well 
started, cover all openings so as to ad¬ 
mit just enough air to enable the pile 
to smoulder without blazing. 
Defects in Type. 
Is it a natural defect in S. C. White 
Orpingtons to have yellow feet and legs, 
or is it caused by ill-mating? What is 
the cause of the pullets having grey feath¬ 
ers occasionally? Would it be advisable 
to breed hens to a cock with black feath¬ 
ers in his tail? Would you advise one 
to keep such stock and by careful selec¬ 
tion in mating try to overcome the diffi- J 
culties, or would you make a change in 
the breeding stock used? M. S. S. 
Draper, Va. 
The plumage of the White Orpingtons | 
should be pure white throughout, and j 
the feet of a white or pinkish white col-! 
or. Like all “made breeds” they will oc¬ 
casionally show reversions to the mark¬ 
ings of some one of their ancestors, these 
having not been entirely bred out. You 
will have to get rid of such defects by 
discarding from your breeding pens the 
fowls showing them, or, in other words, 
selecting for purity of type. This is a 
long, slow, process, but the only one by 
which a new breed can finally be made 
to always come true to type. 
A Case of “ Limberneck." 
On page 12S0 J. W. N. asks for remedy 
for limberneck. The only remedy is the 
ax after the fowls have taken it. Pre¬ 
vention is what you want; it is simply 
burn every fowl that dies, which only 
requires a few minutes and a little wood 
or oil in an old pot. Limberneck I find 
is caused by a maggot that gets into the 
carcass of a fowl that is left lying around. 
The other poultry eat these and they 
stick in their throats and windpipe and 
begin eating and of course soon eat 
through, and the fowl dies. Last Sum¬ 
mer I found a hen dead, and began to 
look for the cause. By the time I dis¬ 
covered the hen that the maggots were on 
I had found half a dozen choice fowls 
dead or dying. Again, never bury a dead 
fowl, for these maggots will work up 
through the ground and before you know 
it you have one or more limberneck 
fowls. I saw this happen to a hen with 
a large brood; in 24 hours after eating 
all were dead. J. o. G. 
Virginia. 
Dry Mash Formula. 
I have always fed wet mash, but wish 
to try hopper feeding dry mash. Which 
formula do you think is best to feed? 
The Maine mash is about one in eight 
of scraps, and the Cornell is one in five 
scraps. My hens are yearlings and two 
year olds, cross between W. Rock and 
Leghorn. My plan is to feed a light feed 
of grain in the litter in the morning, open 
dry mash at noon, open whole grain hop¬ 
per two hours before dark. My whole 
grain is corn and wheat in Winter and 
wheat and oats in Summer, mixture equal 
parts by measure. The corn I grow, so 
it is whole corn. G. s. 
Whitman, Mass. 
Your proposed plan of feeding is good, 
and you will probably get good results 
with either the Maine or Cornell formula 
for a dry mash. Nothing but an ex¬ 
tended test could determine which 
formula was best, and that would deter¬ 
mine it only for the exact conditions un¬ 
der which the test was made. While I 
frequently recommend certain formulas 
for compounding dry mashes, this is done 
only to present a well-balanced combin¬ 
ation of foods, and not because that par¬ 
ticular formula is superior to all others. 
All domestic animals adapt themselves to 
a wide range in variety of foods, and it 
is not necessary, or even desirable, to 
limit them to any one definite combina¬ 
tion. One who feeds domestic animals 
for profit should learn the general prin¬ 
ciples governing nutrition and feeding; 
he will then be able to make combinations 
with such feeds as are available to him, 
and to take advantage of the difference in 
market prices of these feeds. M. b. d. 
Sulphured Oats. 
A very large number of poultrymen 
would like to feed sprouted oats to their 
hens. Most of the oats obtainable now 
in the market will not sprout because 
the germ has been killed by the sulphur 
treatment. A grain dealer told me re¬ 
cently that not one carload in ten would 
sprout on account of that treatment. If 
the germs are dead are the oats first qual¬ 
ity? Have they not been injured by the 
treatment? Would not a law forbidding 
such treatment be a good law? h. c. t. 
Last Spring we gave the facts about 
these sulphured oats. They are usually 
grain that has been discolored in some 
way. When treated with sulphur fumes 
the oats are whitened and given a better 
appearance. The germ is usually de¬ 
stroyed and of course such oats will not 
sprout. Some of them taste so strongly 
of sulphur that horses will not eat them 
unless very hungry. Grain dealers tell 
us that plenty of natural oats can be 
obtained. They cost two cents or more 
per bushel extra, but they will sprout. 
The sulphured oat as sold at present is 
a fake—inferior stuff brightened up to 
look like the read goods. There ought to 
be a law compelling grain dealers to sell 
sulphured oats as such—marked and 
branded to distinguish them from the nat¬ 
ural, live grain. It is a clear case of 
fraud to sell “dead” oats to a poultry- 
man when he wants the grain for sprout¬ 
ing. 
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