1914 . 
THE RURAL NIC W-YOK.KIil'L 
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The Henyard. 
Breeding from Pullets. 
Would 35 two-year-old hens be too 
many to mate with two yearling cock¬ 
erels? Would you advise using pullets 
to breed from? They are purebred It. I. 
Ited, hatched in April, were laying in 
September and in Octooer I received 90 
dozen eggs from 60. They have laid 
heavily all Winter, but seem full of vi¬ 
tality. I have a pen of two-year-olds 
that I keep to breed from, but would 
like to substitute some of the better 
marked pullets. Th« pullets paid me 
well, but the old hens rarely paid for 
their feed until lately. I would like next 
year to keep all pullets. Last year’s 
stock was hatched from pullets and while 
the hatches were not remarkable, the 
chicks were strong and lusty. L. n. P. 
Vermont. 
One vigorous cockerel should be suffi¬ 
cient in a pen of 35 hens of the lighter 
breeds, and two would be ample for the 
heavier fowls. I should not hesitate to 
breed from well developed pullets, even 
though they had laid well all Winter; 
there is no adequate reason why their 
chicks should not be healthy and vigor¬ 
ous, as I have frequently demonstrated. 
The advantages of using old hens as 
breeders are that their eggs are larger, 
and the chicks hatched from them are 
consequently larger, and these old hens 
by living and laying for a year or more 
have demonstrated a vitality which the 
pullets have yet to prove; some of the 
pullets may be weaklings that will fail 
to stand up under egg production, and it 
would be unfortunate to hatch from such 
pullets. 
Sour Crop. 
I have a Buff Orpington pullet about 
10 months old. She does not eat, and 
has not for about two weeks, only once 
in a while; she sits on the roost most 
of the time and when her head is held 
down a yellow kind of water runs out. 
Gan you tell me what is the matter with 
her? B. w. M. 
Ilopewell Junction, N. Y. 
This pullet may have catarrh of the 
crop, or “sour crop,” due to the eating 
of indigestible food or poisoning by 
putrid meat or some other deleterious 
substance picked up by the bird. This 
disease is frequently a complication of 
some other trouble. The treatment con¬ 
sists in emptying the crop by holding the 
fowl head down and expressing the con¬ 
tents of the crop by gentle pressure and 
manipulation; after this about five grains 
of subnitrate of bismuth combined with 
two or three of bicarbonate of soda may 
be given, stirred up in a teaspoonful of 
water; this will relieve the acidity of 
the crop. Then remove the bird to com¬ 
fortable quarters by herself and feed 
lightly upon soft easily digested food un¬ 
til she recovers. 
Head-twisting Hens. 
1. Some of my hens have a trouble 
which starts with a slight bending of the 
head to one side, which keeps getting 
worse and, when excited, they twist the 
head so that it is upside down and there 
is a rattle in the throat. Can you tell 
me the cause and also if there is any¬ 
thing I can do for them? 2. On page 
1312, under “Poultry Notes,” it speaks 
of cheap heavy spraying oil. Can you tell 
me of what it is composed and if it would 
be safe to use it in a brooder house for 
small chickens? House well ventilated; 
have been using one part of carbolic acid 
to four of kerosene for mites, w. F. H. 
Massachusetts. 
1 . I cannot tell you what causes the 
peculiar actions of your fowls, having 
never seen anything of the kind that was 
not temporary, and apparently due to 
some local irritation which the liens were 
trying to rid themselves of. Irregular, 
purposeless, movements of the head are 
usually ascribed to congestion, or other 
disturbances, in the brain, very possibly 
a reflex from intestinal irritation due to 
the presence of worms or indigestion. A 
physic, as a teaspoonful of castor oil, 
could do no harm and might relieve the 
trouble. 
2 . I infer that the writer was speak¬ 
ing of one of the “soluble” spraying oils 
used by orelmrdists. These are oils 
usually derived from petroleum, so 
treated as to miscible with water, form¬ 
ing an emulsion. I know of no reason 
why they should not be as well adapted 
to brooders as to poultry houses, though 
I have never used them. The mixture 
that you are using is a very effective one, 
but probably more expensive than a 
spraying oil. M. b. d. 
Featiieb Pulling. —Some time ago I 
wrote you asking about feather pulling; 
since then I have tried to cure it myself, 
and up to the present think I have cured 
the habit. Morning feed as follows: 
Oats, one pound; wheat, one pound; 
buckwheat, one-half pound; place same 
in a covered pan in which is a piece of 
lard the size of a butternut, melt and 
stir the same together, feed warm. Noon: 
Oats, one-lmlf pound; buckwheat, one- 
half pound; mix with same amount of 
lard and let cool, then feed. Evening: 
Whole corn; raw meat twice a week. I 
have had no feather pulling since I 
started to feed the above, and my hens 
run together the same as ever. H. e. w. 
Laying Ration. 
I have a flock of 300 Barred P. Iiock 
hens. Of the following grains, which 
ones, and in what proportion, are best 
for egg production? Corn, oats, wheat, 
barley, bran, sprouted oats, green cut 
bone, and plenty of beets and cabbage. 
Should beets be cooked and fed with meal 
as wet mash, or mash dry and beets raw, 
or a light feeding of wet mash and also 
dry mash before them all the time? 
Should breeders receive the same as lay¬ 
ing hens? Give a good growing ration 
from the above grains for chicks after 
they are three or four weeks old. T. P. 
Sterling, 111. 
All of the feeds that you mention are 
good for egg production, and none is 
“best.” Sprouted oats are not needed 
where beets and cabbage are at hand, and 
vice versa. Green cut bone should be 
fed in moderation, especially to breeding 
pens. Beets should be fed raw, and 
these, also, should not be fed in excess. 
A wet mash is unnecessary, and unde¬ 
sirable, when dry mash is constantly be¬ 
fore the fowls. Breeders should receive 
the same rations as layers, but they 
should not be fed quite as heavily and 
should be given more freedom and ex¬ 
ercise. A good growing ration for 
chicks a month or more old is composed 
of cracked corn and wheat in equal parts 
for whole grain, and a mash made up of 
30 pounds each of wheat bran, middlings, 
cornmeal, and beef scrap, to which 10 
pounds of bone meal are added. (Corn¬ 
ell formula). Both whole grain and 
mash may be kept dry in hoppers con¬ 
stantly before the chicks on range, and 
one feeding a day of the mash moistened 
with skim-milk or water will hasten de¬ 
velopment. m. B. n. 
Line and Inbreeding. 
I wish to breed from my own stock. 
Will you inform with regard to line 
breeding, if I can do so and not inbreed? 
I have what 1 consider good pure stock, 
White Leghorns, and have picked some 
good cockerels from my own raising for 
breeding. w. E. l. 
New Jersey. 
The distinction between line and in- 
breeding is not very clear, though most 
writers seem to use the term inbreeding 
to describe a closer blood relationship 
than line-breeding. Mating a cock to his 
daughter would be called inbreeding; to 
a cousin, line-breeding. There is no good 
reason why you should not use males 
from your own flock, provided that you 
take pains to select the most vigorous 
and best developed birds of both sexes to 
make up your breeding pen. Careful se¬ 
lection should be practiced where in- 
breeding is the rule, as family defects 
are rapidly accentuated by inbreeding, 
and it is necessary to guard against this. 
M. B. D. 
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and twenty years from now to keep out 
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or the snow and ice of winter. If a per¬ 
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448 Pearl Street New York City 
INDIAN RUNNER Duck Errs for Hatoh- 
iiiR. English pencilled, white egg strain, JI.50 for 
13, delivered. Drakes, $ 1.50 each 
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WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Host General Purpose Fowl in the World 
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GEO. H. POLLARD 
Main Street - - Greenbush, Mass. 
WHITE WYANOOTTE Cryo'c fnrUatrhino’ -Farm 
AND S.C.YV. LEGHORN Lggb lUi tldlUllll& ,,red. Pure 
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White Wyandottes“!K 5 ,K' 
THOM AS C. GORDON, - Brockport, N. Y. 
Whiio ’rintiae—“On honor sincel90l.” Eggs 
mine UOIieb $7 IOO. Day-old chicks, 
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15: $(i—100. Day-old chicks. $4—25: $7.50—50. WHITE 
FAVERGLLES. Eggs, $4-15; $7-30. LAKENVEL0ERS Eggs, 
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means my Permanent Success. Matings and Price 
List free. Ownland Farm, Box 497, So. Hammond, N Y. 
White Holland Turkeys right 
Mrs. BURR R. LFM, - Rarker, New York 
CGGS for HATCHING—WhiteOrpingtons.Barred Rocks, 
1- Dark Brahmas. White Pekin Ducks. Prizewin¬ 
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S. C. Buff ORPINGTONS 
scientifically line-bred for 10 years to develop size, 
color and heavy egg-production, as well as prize¬ 
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broilers and capons. Hens are great layers, 1,000 
yearling fowls now for sale at very reasonable 
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SUNSWICK POULTRY FARM 
Ruius Delafield, Owner Box N SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N J. 
Barred Rock EGGS 
From birds laying better than any American birds 
at Storrs'. Large, healthy, vigorous stock; good 
type and color. If you want to hatch some good 
Barred Rocks I can supply the eggs at $2 per 15; $0 
per 50. FOUR ACRES, A. L. Vreeland. Prop’r, Nniley. N. J. 
QUA FOWL— 100 Peafowl— beawtifu I birds, $15,pair. Pbeas- 
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O 7 E BLACK LEGHORNS laid $820 worth of eggs in 
— ■ *4 one year. Circular free telling about them. 
William C. Merrill. Narth Sanford, Broome Co.. N.Y. 
S. C.BLACK MJNORCAS-CUPWINNERS 
Highest award for larce white eggs, Cook’s While Orpingtons, 
Joe-Pye strain. Buff Orpingtons. Utility Barred Rocks. 
Minorca and Orpington Cockerels—Hatching Eggs, Bay-Old and 
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FRANCIS II. WRIGHT, Tuekahoe, New York 
CGGS FOR HATCHING from thoroughbred stock at live 
U and let live prices. Rhode Island Reds. Both Combs. $1 per 
15 ; $3 per 50 ; $5 (terlOO*. Sicilian Buttercups, $2 per 15. Write 
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Silver Campines, White Orpingtons, Anconas 
Prize stock. Extraordinary layers. Eggs, Chicks. 
ALGONQUIN FARMS, • Amesbury, Mass. 
sALE-lndian Runners—Fawn and White Strain 
$1.50 each. Eggs for hatching, 75c. doz.; $4 per KO. 
Also Pittsfield Barred Rocks at $1.25 per doz. 
Mrs. GEORGE DAVIDSON. R. F. 0 1. Annapolis. Maryland 
Burnett’s Special During April 
Wonderful Egg record stock. Eggs at 5 and 6 cents 
each. 100 Hens laid 90 eggs a day during very cold 
weather. See our other advertisement in this 
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W. L. BURNETT, Prop. Coldenham Poultry Yards, Rocklet, N.Y. 
Elizabeth Poultry Farm 7 ^ ust ^^ at f c 0 h ; 
Hatching, and day-old baby chicks.from Lotuselect- 
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and Buff Orpingtons. W rite for PRICES. Visitors 
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n0 YOU WANT LOTS OF EGGS 2-Brinkerhoff’s famous 
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S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks & Eggs 
Purebred, large, vigorous, true Leghorn type. Seven 
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P A Ul 1 CPUflDMC known iLcU of 
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Eggs for hatching. *5 00 per 100 
Day-old chicks. 12.00 ” 
Puilefs, in FaH . 1 00 each 
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TOM HARUON’S STRAIN 
S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs for Sale 
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A Cutter That 
Does More 
Than We Claim- 
5 
that’s why Silberzahn owners are satis¬ 
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107 So. Water SI., Wosl Bend, Wis. 
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aft* 
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mmt 
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Jocoy’s Setting Hen Breaker - *?®* 
work without shutting her up. His R. I. Wnites 
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Infertile Eggs REPLACED 
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OSGAWANA BROOK FARM’S 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Bred for size and eggs! 
Eggs for hatching at farmers’ prices! 
Pay for fertile eggs only. 
No day-olds shipped. 
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J_ Do you go at the spring 
__ work with your overcoat on? 
Jc? Of course you don’t— 
Coats are a burden—you even roll 
up your shirt sleeves. Then how can 
you expect the horses to show proper 
energy under the hot sun with the same 
heavy coats on that they have worn all 
winter and which hold the wet sweat 
and dirt ? Clip them before the work begins with a 
Stewart Ball-Bearing 
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it and get your money back. (T rft 
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he can’t supply you send $2 and 
and we wifi ship one C.O.D- 
for balance. 
If it 
return 
Get More Wool 
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Shearing Macnine 
will more than pay for it¬ 
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knives fully guar- SilSO 
anteed. Price . . v 11 _ 
If your dealer hasn’t it, 
send $2.00 and pay bal¬ 
ance C. O. D. 
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