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THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7 , 
How many of your chicks 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
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The Henyard. 
Type of White Wyandotte. 
Will you give distinguishing marks of 
White Wyandottes? H. A. F. 
Trenton, N. J. 
The one distinguishing mark is the 
comb; this is of the Rose type. In other 
points they so closely resemble the White 
Plymouth Rocks as to be undistinguish- 
able from them, save by an expert, and I 
doubt if any expert would care to risk 
bis reputation in a mixed flock, if he 
could not see the combs. The plumage 
is entirely white, the beak, shanks, and 
toes yellow, and the weight about a 
pound less than that of the Plymouth 
Rocks. The contour of the typical Wyan¬ 
dotte differs from that of the typical Ply¬ 
mouth Rock, the latter fowl being more 
“rangy.” This cannot be well shown, 
however, except by illustration or from 
life. M. B. D. 
Grain Mixture for Hens. 
Can you give me a good proportion for 
the following kind of grain V Bran, hom¬ 
iny, Alfalfa meal, and beef scraps. My 
hens are Barred P. Rocks. I keep the 
meal before them all the time and feed 
wheat in the morning and cracked corn 
at night. Would you advise feeding 
gluten with the meal? If so, how much? 
H. P. H. 
The feeds you mention, alone, would 
not make a well-balanced ration for hens. 
I would suggest, instead, 100 pounds 
each of corn meal (instead of hominy), 
wheat bran, wheat middlings, gluten 
feed, and beef scrap. To this. 50 pounds 
of Alfalfa meal might be added. The 
somewhat more elaborate Cornell formu¬ 
la is: 00 pounds cornmeal, 00 pounds 
wheat middlings, 00 pounds wheat bran, 
10 pounds Alfalfa meal, 10 pounds | 
oil meal, 50 pounds beef scrap, and one 
pound of salt. 1 like gluten as one of 
the constituents of a dry mash. 
M. B. D. 
Hens Do Not Lty. 
Can you tell mo why my hens do not 
lay? I have 00 White Wyandotte pul¬ 
lets in new house 12x24 feet. They were 
hatched in early May, grew well and 
were put into house iu September. The 
house has four windows facing south, 
one being of muslin. The floor is of nat¬ 
ural earth and dry. I feed wheat, corn 
and oats with grit, shells, charcoal and 
meat scraps constantly before them as j 
well as fresh water. They are not lousy. ! 
They lay only three or four eggs a day. 
Last year at this time under the same 
conditions 30 hens laid IS to 24 eggs per 
day. a. s. A. 
Alstead, N. II. 
It would be difficult to find an excuse 
for your pullets under the conditions you 
describe, though you do not mention giv¬ 
ing them any ground grains in the shape 
of either dry or wet mash. This is need¬ 
ed for best results with poultry, and I 
presume that you are feeding such a 
mash. It is true that hens will some¬ 
times lay well on whole grains alone, 
but, as a rule, they will do far better 
with some of their food in the shape of 
more easily digested and assimilated 
ground grain. liens and pullets some¬ 
times refuse to lay well even though con¬ 
ditions seem ideal. The defect is some¬ 
times in the strain, they are not “bred 
to lay,” and sometimes it is impossible 
to make a good guess as to why they are 
derelict. 
Sweet Potatoes and Hens 
I noted an inquiry as to sweet pota¬ 
toes drying up cows, aud Mr. Massey’s 
opinion to the contrary. There is a wide¬ 
spread and ancient belief throughout this 
section that sweet potatoes will stop hens 
from laying, and doubtless the belief as 
to drying cows is derived from this. 
Sweet potatoes are excellent hog feed, and ! 
are readily sought by swine, but Irish 
potatoes are not. A hog will root up an 
Irish potato patch and bite a small piece 
out of every potato and then drop it. 
Sweet potatoes are wholesome and fat¬ 
tening to both man and beast, and are 
practically the bread of many poor peo¬ 
ple throughout the country districts, dur¬ 
ing Fall and Winter. The idea undoubt¬ 
edly originated in the observation of peo¬ 
ple that soon after chickens getting 
cooked potatoes they quit or fell off in 
laying, which, as potatoes come in iu 
the Fall, they would have done anyway, 
it being simply a coincidence that pota¬ 
toes mature about the time of fowls go¬ 
ing into the molt, and has about the same 
amount of influence on them as the moon 
has on the growth of crops. You can 
easily learn of this superstition by mak¬ 
ing the inquiry, and doubtless you will 
get answers from all over the South say¬ 
ing sweet potatoes will make hens stop 
laying, though, so far as I know, it has 
never been tried to see anything about 
it. and there is no reason to feed them, 
1 as they pay better in hogs or cows. 
Pumpkins are not popular in the South 
I except for stock feed, as they are about 
as good a substitute for yellow yam 
as a mixture of corn and wheat is for 
buckwheat. M. A. P. 
Alabama. 
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