1914. 
461 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKE»v 
Chicken Pox. 
Among my flock of White Leghorns, I 
have had some break out about the head 
and eyes and on the wattles with dark 
colored blotches. It appears to be a 
contagious disease, as one follows another 
with it. They eat and drink all right, 
and I know one infected hen to be laying 
regularly. So far only one of those in¬ 
fected has died, and I found her where 
she had apparently fallen from the perch. 
I have five or six other breeds, but the 
Leghorns seem to be the only ones in¬ 
fected. I have the diseased birds sepa¬ 
rated. Could you tell me name and 
remedy of the disease? E. Q. G. 
This eruption may be that of chicken 
pox, though you do not describe a typical 
chicken pox eruption. In any case, 
anointing the sore spots with 5 per cent, 
carbolized vaseline will be good treat¬ 
ment, as the disease is evidently con¬ 
tagious, and the germ is very likely to 
have its origin in the eruption. You 
should continue to keep all affected birds 
isolated until the disease has run its 
course, and should, in addition, disinfect 
all utensils used by the ailing flock. 
_ M. a. D. 
Conditions in Egg-Laying Contest. 
Will you give size of runs the hens 
have in the egg-laying contest? I would 
like a detailed account of how they do 
it. Perhaps they issue a bulletin; if so 
where can I get it? D. H. w. 
Macksville, Kan. 
Replying to D. II. W. would say that 
the runs are about 15x30 feet, and are 
sown with oats, barley, etc., and the hens 
kept out of them until the graius get a 
good 3tart in the Spring. The fowls are 
fed whole grain in the litter in the morn¬ 
ing, to induce exercise, the grain hopper 
being closed when the last round is made 
at night. This scanty feed in the morn¬ 
ing also tends toward their eating more 
of the dry mash, which is always acces¬ 
sible. At noon the whole grain feed hop¬ 
pers are opened, and the hens can go to 
roost at night with full crops if they wish 
to, The feed hopper used has a cam on 
the bottom which can be opened to let 
out a handful with each turn of the feed- 
bar, or so graduated as to let out only 
two or three grains. This “feed-bar” is a 
tube of wire netting about iy 2 inches in 
diameter and six inches long. It is filled 
with cracked corn, wheat, oats. etc., and 
as the hens pick at the grain, it moves 
the bar, and that lets fall a few grains 
from the grain holder above. It is inter¬ 
esting to note how quickly the hens learn 
that it is the movement of the bar, that 
lets down the grain; they don’t pick at 
the grain visible in the wire tube, but 
put their beaks on top of the tube and 
give it a whirl, just as well as a man 
could. I have the same kind of hoppers 
in daily use in my henhouses, and like 
them very much. 
The bulletins of the first and second 
egg-laying contest are to be published to¬ 
gether. These will give all the data one 
can ask for, the weight of each hen’s eggs, 
the amount of food consumed in each 
pen, food cost per egg, total number of 
eggs laid by each hen, etc. I will notify 
readers of The R. N.-Y. when the bulle¬ 
tin is ready. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Crowded Hens. 
I have 23 R. I. Red pullets, 25 
Plymouth Rock pullets, seven old hens 
and three cockerels in a coop 8x12 feet. 
The coop faces the east and has two 
windows and a door. One window has 
muslin over it and the other has been 
open all the time when not too stormy. 
1 keep gravel, oyster shell and charcoal in 
the coop at all times. I throw their feed 
in a deep litter of straw and chaff in the 
forenoon; feed two quarts of wheat; at 
2 o’clock in the afternoon a wet mash 
of three quarts of bran and one table¬ 
spoon of oil meal; at 4 o’clock iy 2 quarts 
scalded oats and a pint of corn. I put 
two quarts dry bran in the dry mash 
dish; for green food I give raw beets or 
cabbage, all they will eat. and I give 
them from two to four gallons of thick 
sour milk per day and occasionally but¬ 
ter milk. I have not given them any 
water for about two weeks. I have had 
the chickens shut in the coop for about 
four weeks and they have been and are 
having a bad diarrhoea and are only 
laying about half the amount of eggs they 
were when I shut them up. If I am not 
feeding right I should like to have you 
tell me what to feed and what is wrong. 
Buckley, Mich. k. m. 
If. as I understand, you are keeping 
58 fowls in a coop 8x12 feet in size, you 
are overcrowding them badly, and with 
all the sour milk and cabbage that they 
will eat, it is not strange that they have 
diarrhoea. I can only advise that you 
manage in some way to give them more 
room, as that number of fowls should 
have at least 180 square feet of floor 
space, if they are confined to their coop. 
Then, do not feed all the beets and cab¬ 
bage that they will eat. but limit the 
amount, giving them perhaps one head of 
cabbage, or an equivalent amount of 
beets, every other day. I think that you 
will get better results, also, by feeding 
less often, and the labor will certainly 
be less. Two to three quarts of mixed 
grains in the litter in the morning, and 
about the same amount at night should 
suffice for the whole grain ration, and a 
dry mash of ground grains kept before 
them in a hopper will supply their needs 
in this line. If you prefer to feed a 
moist mash mixed with sour milk, this may 
be given at noon, in such quantity as they 
will quickly clean up without evidently 
“stuffing” themselves. Sour milk may 
also be kept before them, but it should 
not replace water; that is needed also. 
Corn, oats, wheat, and buckwheat, may 
all be used for whole grain, and you will 
frequently find formulas for mash mix¬ 
tures in these columns. It is well to fol¬ 
low these as closely as possible as they 
are made up to properly balance the dif¬ 
ferent kinds of food. Finally, if you can¬ 
not give the fowls more floor space, open 
the doors and let them go out and in at 
will, regardless of snow. M. B. D. 
Two More Prize Turkeys. 
I note on page 241 that F. C. S. has 
a Bronze turkey that laid 84 eggs last 
Summer. I have a purebred White Hol¬ 
land turkey that beat that record by far. 
She began laying early in April, and did 
not offer to sit until August, when I gave 
her a sitting of eggs which she hatched 
September 3, rather late in this locality; 
but we have had two of the young birds 
on the table and I have two more of the 
young hens that are doing well. The 
above mentioned turkey laid over 100 
eggs in the season mentioned, the exact 
number was 102 or 1015. 
New York. wxr. j. berriioft. 
In February. 1013. I bought two tur¬ 
key hens and a gobbler, purebred Bour¬ 
bon Reds. The hens commenced laying 
the second day of April on the bank of 
the spring run very near the house. They 
laid together in the same nest, a mother 
turkey and her daughter. The older hen 
laid 41) eggs and wanted to sit. I divided 
the nest, putting a large box open on one 
side over her. and the younger turkey 
continued to lay every day until she had 
laid 06 eggs. She then stayed on her nest 
two nights and skipped four days with¬ 
out laying. I decided to set her that 
evening, and she had decided to roost in 
a tree. The next day she laid again and 
continued until she laid 128 eggs. She 
then wanted to sit; I put 11 eggs under 
her. and she hatched nine turkeys and 
raised seven of them. I could easily tell 
the eggs apart, as the old turkey’s eggs 
were a third larger and much darker in 
color. I sold several sittings of eggs to 
my neighbors, and raised 42 young ones 
out of a large number hatched. Last 
Fall I sold them for $02.27. I still have 
four hens and a gobbler for this year s 
turkey raising. This is my first exper¬ 
ience with turkeys. I am in love with 
the work, and like F. C. S., with the 
Bronze breed, I surely think the Bourbon 
Reds are all right. flora iioerirg. 
Pennsylvania. 
Pullets With Twisted Necks. 
What can I do for a couple of pullets 
that have developed a very strange ail¬ 
ment in the shape of twisted neck? The 
neck is so twisted that the head a good 
part of the time is exactly upside down, 
and they seem too weak to hold it up, but 
have to sit a good part of the time with 
head resting on the floor. They eat well 
and at times can straighten up to walk 
around and eat, but if disturbed a little, 
they seem to get a spasm and lose all 
control of themselves, and often strug¬ 
gling and tumbling around awhile again 
drop their heads upside down on the floor. 
New Jersey. H. z. 
This trouble is probably vertigo due to 
disturbance of the circulation in the 
brain; this, in turn, being due to in¬ 
testinal irritation, as from the presence 
of worms in large numbers, or from indi¬ 
gestion. Blows upon the head, and ex¬ 
posure to the hot. sun are also said to be 
exciting causes. Giddiness, a staggering 
gait, and peculiar movements of the head 
an neck, are evidences of this trouble. 
Treatment should be directed to any 
known cause. If the presence of worms 
is suspected, give a teaspoonful of turpen¬ 
tine mixed with twice its quantity of 
sweet, or olive oil. Repeat if necessary. 
Place the affected birds by themselves 
and feed upon soft easily digested food 
for a few days. In any case, a physic 
of one to two teaspoonfuls of castor oil. 
or two grains of calomel, will do no harm 
and may remove irritating matter from 
the digestive tract. M. B. d. 
Beets For Hers. —A few weeks ago 
I saw the question asked as to a machine 
for cutting up sugar beets for hens. Now 
I think that a machine is unnecessary 
as I am feeding some at the present time 
and I believe with good results and I 
simply drive a finishing nail into the wall 
of the henhouse about IS inches from the 
floor and then taking a beet in my hand 
drive it onto the nail. The hens do the 
rest, and after a short time it is impos¬ 
sible to find anything left of the beet. 
Madrid, N. Y. w. h. b. 
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materially and profitably increased 
by the use of Rock Phosphate 
Corn, Wheat, Oats, Clover, 
Potatoes, Silage 
On a typical corn-belt farm the continued uscj 
of Rock Phosphate at an annual cost of $1.00 per | 
acre has given increased yields of 16 bu. corn, 
23 bu. oats and one ton of clover per acre. 
In a recent issue of Breeder’s 
Gazette there was reported an in¬ 
crease of 25 bushels of wheat per 
acre from an application of 600 
pounds of Rock Phosphate. 
Increased yield of 20 bushels 
of oats and one ton of clover per 
acre from 1.000 pounds of Rock 
Phosphate is reported in Prairie 
Farmer. 
At the University of Wisconsin 
the use of Rock Phosphate gave 
an increase of 47 per cent in the 
potato yield. 
In the plowed sc 
r200"J5punds of 
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$149.4: 
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Done in Dollars and Cents 
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vania Experiment Station $1.05 per 
acre invested in Rock Phosphate gave 
increased crop yields valued at $5>5 
as an average of the 12 years. At 
present prices these crops would be 
worth $9. 
At the Maryland Experiment Station 
$1.96^ worth of Rock Phosphate produced 
crop increases valued at $22.11. At present 
prices this increase would show a profit of 
2000% on the Rock Phosphate investment. 
At the Ohio Agricultural College 15c worth 
of Rock Phosphate added to each ton of 
manure increased the crop producing value 
of the manure 75c per ton. On this basis one 
ton of Rock Phosphate is worth $37.50. 
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rs produced crops valued at $148.75, $151.30, 
and $149.96. respectively. On four adjoin- / \ 
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The Ohio Fanner reports an in¬ 
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per acre at the Ohio Experiment 
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reports 2652 pounds more of clover 
yier acre from the use of lime and 
Rock Phosphate than from the 
use of lime alone. Prairie Farm¬ 
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the use of Rock Phosphate on clover in five counties of 
Illinois. On an average Rock Phosphate doubled the 
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$229.20 and $225.57. On an average of all tests 
made by the Illinois Agricultural College, each dol¬ 
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crop yields. 
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