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THE RXJ K.A. L, NEW-YORKER 
March 21, 
The Henyard. 
present, the resistance of the fowl’s tis¬ 
sues is such that it cannot develop its 
malignancy. M. B. D. 
Patent on Hovers. 
Can you tell me if I have or have not 
the right to make a homemade chick 
brooder or hover using the hot air for 
heat, or do the patents on them prevent 
me? o. 
New York. 
There can be no valid patent upon the 
principle of using hot water or air in 
brooders. All poultrymen have been do¬ 
ing it for years, and one of the chief joys 
in the amateur’s life is to devise some 
new scheme for keeping the chicks warm. 
Standing upon the head in the rain, try¬ 
ing to light a smoky lamp, is the joyous 
prerogative of all poultrymen, and none 
need make them afraid. M. B. D. 
Day-old Chicks. 
Are day-old chickens as full of vitality 
if not shipped too long distances, as 
those raised under hens and'reared where 
hatched? In other words, can I safely 
buy day-old chicks up North, have them 
shipped here and expect to have them 
mature into as vigorous adults as those 
hatched right here oh the place? 
Salem, Va. j. E. w. 
There is no doubt that a chicken, 
hatched and reared without being shipped 
to a distance, has some slight advantage 
over one that has been subjected to the 
vicissitudes of a railroad journey; but 
it must be remembered that there is a 
difference in “day-old chicks.” Chickens 
well hatched from vigorous stock, free 
from disease or other conditions that 
tend to lowered vitality, will live and 
thrive, whether shipped or not, when 
weaklings would either die or mature 
into inferior fowls. Perhaps the greatest 
advantage in home hatching is in the op¬ 
portunity it affords to know the condi¬ 
tions under which the chicks were pro¬ 
duced. So far as the shipping alone is 
concerned, day-old chicks are success¬ 
fully sent to very considerable distances 
without obvious detriment. M. b. d. 
Deformed Pullets. 
A day or two ago I culled from my 
White Leghorn pullets all deformed ones, 
and put them in a pen by themselves. 
Later on giving them a pan of feed, I 
had the sensation of one when dizzy, and 
his head begins to swim. However, I 
knew that I felt all right, and on ob¬ 
serving more closely I noticed that the 
tails of these crooked-backed pullets all 
turned to the left, and as they circled 
around the pen, the slant of their tails 
carried the eye round and round the 
feeding group. I now wondered if this 
was a coincidence that these dozen or 
more tails all turned to the left. I then 
went to a pen of R. I. Red cockerels 
where there were several deformed, here 
I found all tails turned to the left. My 
interest now well aroused, I went over 
all my flocks, and found only one excep¬ 
tion in twisted tails. This was a White 
Orpington which carried her tail with a 
very slight tendency to the right. 
Massachusetts. F. E. P. 
I confess that I do not know whether 
the majority of twisted tails veer to the 
right or left; your own observations are 
the only ones that I have ever noted 
upon the subject. It may be more than 
coincidence. I suppose that deformities 
are not strictly hereditary, but are due to 
improper development of the embryo, 
and this, in turn, to various conditions, 
such as lack of vitality in breeding stock, 
improper temperatures during the hatch¬ 
ing, and possibly, also, to hereditary 
transmission of tendency to certain mal¬ 
formations. M. b. d. 
Colds or Roup. 
Explain the difference between colds 
and roup in fowls. Two of my P. Rocks 
had a bad odor in the head and I used 
the ax to be on the safe side. A. 8. 
Woodbury Falls, N. Y. 
Ordinary "colds” in fowls are marked 
by about the same symptoms that hu¬ 
mans display under the same circum¬ 
stances. The fowls sneeze, their eyes and 
nostrils run, the breathing is more or 
less obstructed, they act dull and gen¬ 
erally uncomfortable. Now if these symp¬ 
toms all become aggravated, the discharge 
from eyes and nostrils instead of remain¬ 
ing thin and watery become thick and 
purulent, cheesy masses form about the 
eyes, sometimes displacing the eyeball, 
the discharges take on a foetid colox*, the 
fowl loses appetite and becomes droopy, 
the feathei’s ruffled, and marked weakness 
supervenes, it is fair to conclude that 
the germs of true roup are present, either 
developing the original trouble or being 
added to it because of the favorable 
ground which the catarrhal cold afforded 
them. As a practical precaution, fowls 
showing evidences of a cold should be 
removed from the flock, and permangan¬ 
ate of potassium should be given in the 
drinking water of both sick and healthy 
fowls. If instead of l-ecovering, the symp¬ 
toms become aggravated, as described 
above, particularly if a markedly foetid 
odor appears, the affected fowls should 
be killed and buried. Technically, the 
difference between colds and roup is 
pi-obably that in the latter disease there 
is a specific germ present that is not pres¬ 
ent in the former, or at least if it be 
Poor Laying. 
1 have a flock of GO one and two-year- 
old Barred Rocks; am getting about 17 
eggs a day now, January average nine. 
What changes would you make in the 
following method of feeding? I have 
only small space to use as scratch pen 
with deep litter; feed . s follows: Morn¬ 
ing three quarts whole oats in litter, five 
quarts wet mash. Noon feed four quarts 
wet mash, with beets or turnips every 
other day. Four o’clock six quarts wet 
mash and just before dark all the cracked 
corn they will eat. Mash mixture 200 j 
pounds ground oats, 200 pounds wheat ! 
bran, 100 pounds each cornmeal, gluten, 
middlings, best grade dried meat scrap. 
Also feed plenty of grit, shells and char¬ 
coal. L. E. II. 
Pennsylvania. 
Your plan is all right if you wish to go 
to the trouble of mixing wet mash for 
your hens three times per day, and are 
careful not to overfeed of it so that the 
hens do not have a proper proportion 
of whole grain. Most poultrymen do not 
care to mix mash for the fowls more 
than once a day, and this usually either 
in the morning or at noon, pi'eferably 
the latter. I would not use a wet mash 
at all, but would give this to them dry, 
in a hopper, open to them all day. I 
should then mix the corn and oats, add 
some wheat and buckwheat, and feed the 
mixed grain in the litter, morning and 
night. This is the approved method of | 
feeding used by the majority of poultry- 
men, but it is not the only method that 
will bring good results, and yours may 
be satisfactory to you. m. b. d. 
Feeding Sour Milk. 
Tell us how the so-called “sour-milk 
pen” of Leghorns at Storrs is fed. That 
is, how do they feed the sour mi'k? Is ! 
it fed by itself or in a mash? If it is j 
fed alone is it allowed to become very 
thick before feeding? I have found in > 
feeding milk that the birds get it all over 
their feathex-s. To avoid this I have fed 
sour milk in a mash or porridge. I want 
to feed it to baby ^nieks this coming 
Spring, but I should like to know what 
sort of a utensil to put it in, so they 
won’t get it all over themselves, g. b. 
Westport, Conn. 
The feeding of sour milk to little 
chicks does result in sticky feathers, for 
they do get themselves daubed up with 
it unless prevented from doing so. At 
Storrs College they accomplished this 
by feeding the milk In circular granite 
ware cake pans about two inches deep, 
then on top of this a piece of wire net¬ 
ting was placed and the edges bent down 
at the corners so the chicks could not get 
it off. Then the chicks could dip their 
heads thi-ough the wire and get the milk 
without wetting themselves. If sweet 
milk was put in the pans, it soon became 
thick—“loppered”—and in this condition 
was eaten much more readily by the 
chicks. They preferred to eat it rather j 
than to drink it. For hens they are i 
using “ovei’-all” feeders; these are heavy : 
porcelain, very easily cleaned, and ai-e 
heavy enough to stand without tipping 
over if a hen gets on the edge of it. The 
hens do not get the milk on thoi.- feath¬ 
ers, or not enough to do any harm. 
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We cook the Colic out 
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The steam-cooking we give 
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cells, perfectly preparing the nu¬ 
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