1914. 
THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
Rattling in Throat. 
I have a cock bird that has a rattling 
in his throat, not a continuous rattling, 
but at times it is worse than others. He 
eats well, eye is bright and otherwise 
seems all right. I have tried washing 
throat with peroxide but did no good. 
He is a fine It. C. Red from a great lay¬ 
ing strain. I would like to use him this 
season for a breeder. He will be two 
years old in the Spring. Can you give 
me a remedy? H. H. 
Indiana. 
The trouble is not in the throat, but 
in the respiratory passages, and is prob¬ 
ably due to an accumulation of mucus, 
either from an ordinary cold, or from 
some other cause of inflammation of the 
respiratory tract. Try injecting a few 
drops of kerosene diluted with an equal 
quantity of olive or sweet oil into the 
nostrils and the clefv of the palate, or 
kerosene alone may »e used. A small 
syringe, medicine dropper, or oil can may 
used for this purpose. Then keep the 
bird where he will wot be exposed to 
dampness or to drafts of air while on the 
perch. M. B. D. 
Picking Out the Profit Makers. 
To the breeder whose heart is in the 
work comes the sore trial of having to 
cast aside a bird whose trap-nest record 
shows her to be high class, but whose 
stamina has not proved equal to the 
drain on her system, making her worth¬ 
less as a breeder. The ordinary farm 
flock produces an average per hen of per¬ 
haps (10 to 70 eggs per year. Cases are 
quite common where the trap-nest shows 
records as high as 240 to 280 eggs per 
year. The latest from the Oregon Ex¬ 
periment Station gives the top record as 
303. The 200-egg hen is therefore quite 
within the bounds of reason. 
The average town or city dweller who 
desires to keep a dozen or more fowls 
ask first: “What breed shall I keep?” 
Later, when he has learned more about 
the egg machine, he will ask: “What 
strain shall I keep?” It’s the strain, not 
the breed, when a large egg yield is 
sought. 
It is conceded that the White Leghorn 
as a breed produces the largest number 
of eggs. Two comparative illustrations 
taken from actual figures obtained during 
the past 12 months will show the dif¬ 
ference between an ordinary White Leg¬ 
horn and a White Leghorn that has 
been scientifically line-bred and trap- 
nested for Winter eggs through a num¬ 
ber of generations. 
no. x. 
No. of 
Sold 
Month. 
eggs laid. 
for 
Oct. 
. O. . . 
.$ .00 
Nov. 
Doc. 
. 3. 
.15 
.Tan. 
. 8. 
32 
Feb. 
.12. 
.36 
Mar. 
is 
54 
April . . . . 
.50 
May . .. . 
.14. 
June .14.35 
July . 0.30 
Aug. 0.00 
Sept.0.00 
$2.87 
Cost of feed 12 months. 1.40 
Month. 
Oct. 
NO. II. 
No. of 
eggs laid. 
Sold 
for 
.$ .28 
Nov. 
09 
.' .92 
Dec. 
.21. 
.TflP. 
.18. 
.72 
IPph. 
.25. 
March . . 
.‘>4. 
April . .. 
*» 
Mav . . . • 
.19. 
June . . . 
.20. 
July . .. . 
.15. 
.50 
Aug. 
. 0. 
.00 
Sept. ... 
. 0. 
.00 
$0.46 
Cost of feed 12 mouths. 1.40 
$5.00 
The ordinary commercial egg farm car¬ 
rying from 1,000 to 5,000 layers cannot 
afford to trap-nest the entire flock dur¬ 
ing the pullet year. An equipment of 
trap-nests, and the labor incident to 
their proper care will not warrant the 
expense except in rare instances. A sys¬ 
tem, however, which will build up the 
general average of the flock and one 
which may be practiced by all breeders 
is to equip a small pen with trap-nests. 
If the plant carries 1,000 layers a pen 
to hold 50 birds and 10 trap-nests is 
ample. In September or October, when 
the pullets are gathered from the range 
place 50 of the best-developed birds in 
this trap-nest pen. By March 1 your 
records will show from five to 15 birds 
that are heavy Winter layers. Select 
the finest cock bird you have and save 
a sitting of eggs from the most vigorous 
pullet of the 15. If the bird chosen is 
also tht> heaviest layer so much the bet¬ 
ter. Select for stamina first and heavy 
Winter egg record second. Hatch this 
sitting of eggs, toe-mark the cockerels 
and sell their sisters off the place. When 
these cockerels are one year old the five 
or 15 selected trap-nesters will be two 
years old. and will be mated with the 
finest bird found with a toe-mark. Eggs 
from this mating will be hatched sep¬ 
arately and the resulting cockerels used 
for the following Spring’s breeding pen. 
If your breeding pen contains 300 two- 
year-old hens, select 30 of the finest cock¬ 
erels and throw in with the flock 10 days 
before eggs are desired for batching. 
Cockerels intended for one breeding pen 
should always be together from the time 
they are six weeks old. With proper 
housing and feed, breeding pens handled 
in this way will produce eggs running 
92 to 97% fertile, and each year will 
show a higher egg yield per hen. 
G. XI. STRONG. 
Pulping Mangels in Cider Mill 
On page 275 F. M. P. asks for some 
machine to pulp mangels. Two years 
ago I raised quite a lot of these beets. 
One of our neighbors, who was moving 
to town, had an old eider press and told 
me if I wished I could have it for mov¬ 
ing it. I have a three horse-power en¬ 
gine which I used to run it and found 
it made mangels into fine feed for cows 
or chickens. Some of the pieces will be 
too large for chickens to swallow, but 
will be so torn up they can easily pick 
them to pieces, I also used quite a lot 
of beets by sticking them up on nails and 
letting chickens pick them to pieces them¬ 
selves. If F. M. P. keeps large flocks 
of poultry and has ground where he can 
raise beets, I think he will not be dis¬ 
appointed in an old cider mill to grind 
them, as they make a good feed cooked 
in an old kettle and mixed with bran or 
meal for a mash in cold weather. The 
mill I speak of is hand power and can 
be turned by hand as well as by power 
but as I had power I used it instead. 
Gap, Pa. R. w. H. 
R. N.-Y.—Last year we heard from a 
man who ran mangels through the silo 
shredder with the corn. The shredder 
pulped the beets and mixed this pulp with 
the silage. 
“Here’s dat dog you done los’,” said 
Mr. Erastus Pinkley. “Yes,” replied 
Uncle Razbury; “dat sho’ is him.” 
“Aain’t you g’ineter gimmie no reward 
foh bringin’ ’im back?” “Sho, I is. You 
kin keep de dog.”—Washington Star. 
“Now that you have agreed to marry 
me, dearest, I presume I had better ask 
your father’s consent.” “You may if you 
like, but it isn’t at all necessary. I am 
in the habit of doing exactly as I please.” 
“Oh, in that case, perhaps I’d better con¬ 
sult your father about the advisability 
of not marrying you then.”—Detroit 
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