ua-s. 
THIS KURA1, NEW-YORKER 
February 21, 
Healthy Food — 
healthy brood! 
Start your chicks on the road 
to profit by feeding them H-O 
Steam-Cooked Chick Feed. 
Fine grains (properly blended) 
plus fine cooking (in steam) make 
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assurance of a healthy flock and 
larger profits. Our process cooks 
the colic out of feed. 
H-O Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
is a scientific mixture of Com, Cut-Oatmeal, Cracked 
Wheat, Kaffir Com, Peas and Millet — steam-cooked 
by a special process in our mill. 
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with tag showing guaranteed analysis. If you cannot 
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Scratch, Scratch Feed, Poultry Feed, Dry Poultry 
Mash or Chick Feed from your dealer, write for sample 
and prices. 
The H-O Company 
Mills: 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
John J. Campbell 
General Sales Agent 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
NEWTOWN 
Colony Brooder 
Coal-burning, Self-regulating 
Safest, Most Economical 
tor 300 to 1,500 chicks. Fill coal maga¬ 
zine every other day. Fuel costs eight 
cents a day. Gives chicks correct tem¬ 
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Ask your dealer or write to-day for Col¬ 
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NEWTOWN GIANT INCUBATOR CORPORATION 
' *4 Warsaw Street Harrisonburg, Virginia 
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Make this your most profitable year. Conditions 
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Buffalo New York 
Gibson Strain Day-Old Chicks 
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strain of large size, vigorous breeding 
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PFILE'S 65 Varieties 
f AND and Water Fowls. Farm- 
" raised stock, with eggs in season. 
Send 2c for my valuable illustrated de¬ 
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Henry Pflie, Box 674 Freeport, Ill. 
The Henyard. 
Laying Ration. 
Wliilt is a good ration to make liens 
lay more eggs? Which is better for hens 
in Winter, a dry mash or a warm wet 
mash? h. a. 
Cazenovia, N. Y. 
I think that the largest majority of 
poultry men now use dry mash, Winter 
and Summer, though I have little doubt 
that for a limited time, at least, a 
properly made moist mash would produce 
slightly better results in eggs. The 
greater danger of overfeeding where hens 
are being forced to large egg production, 
together with the greater cost in labor, 
more than counterbalance the slight ad¬ 
vantage which a moist mash has over a 
dry one, and the latter is, I believe, com¬ 
ing into practically universal use on large 
plants in this country. The Cornell 
formula for dry mash is: GO pounds 
cornmeal GO pounds wheat middlings, GO 
pounds bran, 10 pounds Alfalfa meal, 10 
pounds oil meal, 50 pounds beef scrap, 
and one pound salt. A mixture of GO 
pounds corn, 00 pounds wheat, 30 pounds 
oats and 00 pounds buckwheat, is used 
for whole grain, fed in the litter night 
and morning. m. b. d. 
Forcing Egg Yield. 
Is there any difference between the nu¬ 
tritive values of an egg laid by a hen 
that is forced, and an egg that is laid 
by a hen not forced, if both eggs weigh 
the same? Does a light yolk indicate 
less nutrition in an egg than a dark yolk? 
What are the causes of very light yolks, 
also very dark yolks? I keep S. C. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Rocks, feed the 
-New Jersey Experiment Station ration, 
with some green food at noon, hut a cus¬ 
tomer says the yolks are much lighter 
than those in eggs he had sent him from 
up-State, (New York) ; also claims that 
I am forcing my hens, therefore the eggs 
are not so nutritious. _ What is your 
opinion, and opinion of experts in this 
matter? w. E. M. 
New Jersey. 
I know of no reason for believing that 
the composition or nutritive value of an 
egg can be materially changed by feed¬ 
ing. The color of the yolk can be al¬ 
tered, it is true, and this indicates some 
change in the egg's chemical composition. 
This change is probably very slight, how¬ 
ever, and due simply to the fact that some 
foods, as clover, contain a coloring mat¬ 
ter which is transmitted to the fat of 
which the yolk is composed. If you will 
add clover or Alfalfa in sufficient quan¬ 
tity to your rations, I think that you 
will find that the yolks will become suffi¬ 
ciently dark to suit your customers. 
Forcing liens certainly cannot cause a 
deterioration in the quality of their eggs; 
for forcing is simply feeding a large quanti¬ 
ty of easily assimilable egg producing food, 
and if it made any change, it would be to 
increase the nutritive value of the egg. 
Analogy, however, if not actual experi¬ 
ment, would suggest that feeding could 
no more alter the composition of an egg 
than it can of cow’s milk. m. n. d. 
Concrete Floor for Henhouse. 
On page 22 the New Jersey Experi¬ 
ment Station, replying to Irving C. 
Lewis, states, that concrete floors do not, 
so far as they have observed, wear off 
hens’ toes, but they do not explain that 
there is a difference in cement floors. 
Evidently Irving C. Lewis has floors 
made of sharp sand or gravel and left tin- 
glazed. This kind of cement floor is 
torture to hens. The method of glazing 
is simple. When making the floor ob¬ 
tain enough very fine sand to make the 
last half-inch of two-parts sand, one-part 
Cement and puddling, or if fine sand is 
not procurable finish the floors off as 
smoothly as possible by puddling; that is, 
rubbing with trowel till water comes to 
the top, and then when set wash all over 
with clear cement, wetted to consistency 
of thick cream. If Mr. Lewis has an 
old rough floor it can be smoothed by 
washing thoroughly and skimming with 
clear cement, that is, coating as thin as 
possible. f. E. PARSONS. 
Massachusetts. 
A concrete floor that is laid wet, mate¬ 
rial Inflow it containing a great deal of 
water, which will have a chance to pass 
downward before the cement has set, will 
have tin' cement nearly all pulled down 
from the surface, by the water, leaving 
the surface pretty much like the surface 
of a piece of sand paper. A concrete floor I 
that is laid under conditions that allow 
the cement to set well without tiny per¬ 
ceptible amount of water passing down 
through the concrete, will have a fairly 
smooth cement surface if trowelled be¬ 
fore it has set. The rroor that has been 
left with a rough sandy surface by the 
action of water in pulling the cement and 
smaller particles of sand downward from 
the surface, may be given a hard smooth 
surface by coating it with pure cement 
mixed very thin with water, so that it 
may be spread over like a coat of paint. 
It takes very little cement to put on a 
coat this way. In case it is put on so 
soon that it settles partly into the body 
of the concrete, leaving a slightly rough 
surface, a second coat, after the first coat 
has set well, will give a very hard, 
smooth surface, so polished that the hens 
can hardly stand up alone on it. 
Connecticut. george Phillips. 
Jim Rohan Will Tell 
You How You Can 
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Belle City Incubator Co. 
Box 48 Racine, Wis. 
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1 Filling Only: 1 Gallon per Hatch; 
Saves 75c to $1.25 in Oil 
We want you to know all about the construction of 
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Imore eggs: larger, more vigorous chicks; 
I i heavier lowls, by feeding cut bone. 
W MAIIU’C latest model 
I Yaill^r "*Al*™ v BONE CUTTER 
I cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 
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Ship Eggs in this Box by Parcel Post 
Thei Mew Wright Egg Uoxis the strongest and lightest pack¬ 
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Deposit of Seed at Axle Center Does the Work 
All Emerson Grain Drills deposit seed at ne,.t—t a —. 1 — 
equipped with independent springlift. 10 orl 2 
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axle center. An exclusive patented Emerson 
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