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THE) RURAL NEW-VOKKER 
March 14. 
The Henyard. 
Importing Poultry. 
I am going to import some poultry 
from England and several persons tell 
me that there is some sort of go-between 
from the steamship to the express com¬ 
pany who charges his own price for de¬ 
livering the stock to the express com¬ 
pany. One man had to pay $12 to get 
a pair of bantams off the ship, another 
had to pay $4 to get a setting of eggs, 
another $5 to get some hens. Is this 
duty that has to be paid to the govern¬ 
ment or is it a scheme of the steam¬ 
ship company to “soak” the importer? 
How much would I have to pay on six 
birds valued at $36 in England? 
New York. D. m. h. 
The duty on live poultry is one cent 
per pound, and this in addition to trans¬ 
portation and a small custom house fee 
is all the expense necessary. Most of 
the large express companies have for¬ 
eign departments, handling such ship¬ 
ments from start to finish, and for a 
person at some distance from the port 
where the shipment is received it is far 
better to deal with them than some in¬ 
dividual broker, who is likely to add a 
large slice of extras. 
Brooding Chicks in Large Flocks. 
Will H. E. Matthews, who writes on 
page 12SS, tell bow he constructs his 
ventilator flue for intake, and flue for 
ventilator through roof, position of radia¬ 
tors and any details that would enable 
me to change over house 20x10 for brood¬ 
ing? T. H. M. 
Our intake comes from the east and 
the west ends of the building, and is car¬ 
ried under the hover floor. The radiators 
are set near the back of the hover, direct¬ 
ly over this air pipe. An eight-inch pipe 
comes up between the two radiators to 
within four inches of the top. In this 
way the air is delivered at the warmest 
part of the hover, and passes out near the 
floor into the room. This is according to 
the King system of ventilation. After 
the air passes from under the hover it 
rises to the top of the room leaving the 
heavier carbon dioxide near the floor. 
The ventilator shaft to remove this foul 
air should be placed near the south side 
of the room, beginning within three 
inches of the floor, and extending three 
or four feet above the roof. The pipe 
should be eight inches square. In mak¬ 
ing use of an old building the heater 
should be in an adjoining I’ooin and on 
a lower level, so the water will flow to 
the radiators. An oil heater or the coal 
heaters designed for 1,000-chick flocks 
would be cheaper for a single room. The 
same principles of ventilation will apply, 
always being careful to take the air in 
through a pipe coming from a low point, 
and delivering the air two feet or more 
above the floor. h. e. mattixews. 
Leg Weakneis. 
I have a pullet that seems weak in the 
legs; whenever she walks, it is with un¬ 
certainty, and after a few steps she 
squats down, in which position she re¬ 
mains most of the time. Her droppings 
are mostly white, soft and pasty. I 
feed the Maine Experiment Station mash, 
with one part cut Alfalfa added. I am 
treating her for cholera; am also feeding 
very scantily with grain. Can you give 
me any information as to her ailments? 
C. L. K. 
The chief causes of leg weakness in 
fowls are believed to be rheumatism, from 
housing in damp, ill-ventilated houses, 
and overfeeding upon rich, stimulating 
food, combined with lack of sufficient 
exercise. The remedy would obviously 
be the correction of whatever conditions 
led to the trouble in any given case; 
with pullets, I should be inclined to 
think of rheumatism first. M. B. D. 
Why Don’t the Hens Lay ? 
“The melancholy days have come, the 
saddest of the year.” Grain is expensive, 
and eggs are scarce. My neighbor, who 
has 300 White Leghorns of good breed¬ 
ing, about half of which are pullets, told 
me yesterday that he was considering 
whether it would not be best to sell them. 
He takes good care of his hens, and has 
a fine-looking flock. They had reached 
a daily egg production of 57 when the 
very cold snap of January struck us; 
they dropped down to 14, and have now, 
January 28, got back to 31. There has 
been no lull in the price of feed during 
this time. 
Another neighbor left a salaried posi¬ 
tion about three years ago and, having 
some means, purchased a desirable place, 
with a few acres of land, in town. lie is 
a man of good business judgment, great 
energy, and a tireless worker. Not wish¬ 
ing to retire from the active labor to 
which he has been accustomed for a life¬ 
time, he started a poultry plant; 200 
Leghorns did exceedingly well for him, 
so he increased his capacity and now has 
200 yearlings and 300 fine pullets. He 
gives them all his time, cuts green bone, 
sprouts oats, and works “Harder than I 
I ever did in my life before—and that’s 
going some”—and as a reward for his 
labor, and a very considerable invest¬ 
ment, is getting 60 to 70 eggs per day. 
There is no fault to be found with the 
care; his hens are being intelligently 
and painstakingly looked after; they 
are beautiful to look at, and chat¬ 
ter persistently about what they are 
going to do—in the Spring. They will; 
but the owner would like to sell his 
plant. I think of these men, and others, 
when I read the optimistic ebullitions of 
a well-known poultryman who is urging 
his fellow farmers to discard cows and 
keep hens, and who seductively intimates 
to tired town workers that a few “units” 
of poultry, kept upon a back lot, after 
his plan, will afford a delightful income 
and take but a few minutes of time. 
It may be that there is a difference in 
seasons; the complaint that hens don’t 
lay seems more insistent this year than 
usual. A late warm Fall gave the pul¬ 
lets a good start, but the sudden onset 
and persistent zero weather put a crimp 
into the fair prospects of many a flock. 
They will recover their stride, but the 
grain bills mount and egg prices decline 
while they are recovering. Faith is the 
foundation of all business, but it must 
enter into the superstructure as well if 
one is to stay in the poultry business. 
There is no need for discouragement in 
those who have not “plunged.” If they 
have invested wisely, kept their feet upon 
the ground, declined to put their all into 
an egg basket and have made the filling 
of one only a part of their work, the 
skies will blue again, and with the coaxing 
of Spring the hens will seem very foun¬ 
tains of eggs. The downy chicks will 
twitter their way into our. hearts, we 
shall again believe their fair promises 
and all our mid-winter gloom will be dis¬ 
pelled. M. B. D. 
j Vertigo. 
What is the matter with one of my 
hens? It is a Spring chicken and it 
turns its head around so the bill will 
point to the roof, eats pretty well when 
I hold her but will turn round and round 
when put on the floor and does not try 
to walk much. Head seems hot and she 
tries to rub it on floor; head keeps turned 
and neck also all the time. A. D. w. 
These symptoms of vertigo, or dizzi¬ 
ness, are supposed to be caused by some 
brain disturbance, probably often due to 
intestinal irritation from the presence of 
worms, or from indigestion. A rational 
treatment would be a good dose of physic, 
such as a teaspoonful or two of castor 
oil, or a couple of grains of calomel, and 
the subsequent feeding for a few days of 
soft easily digested food. If the presence 
of worms is suspected, a teaspoonful of 
turpentine, mixed with an equal quan¬ 
tity of some bland oil, is indicated. 
M. B. D. 
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