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THBJ RURjVI> NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
Turkey With Swollen Head. 
I have a young hen turkey, that has 
soft white bunches, or swellings, on each 
side of head, under the eyes, along the 
side of bill. We have bathed them with 
camphorated oil, also kerosene, but they 
seem to be getting larger. She seems to 
be lively, and eats all right, but I am 
afraid trouble is contagious, as I have 
three others running with her. Can 
you tell me the cause and remedy? 
New York. m. b. 
The socket containing the eyeball is 
lined by mucous membrane continuous 
with that of the nasal passages. Catar¬ 
rhal inflammation sometimes extends to 
the eyeball socket and causes an accumu¬ 
lation of thick cheesy mucus beneath or 
about the eye, producing a more or less 
prominent swelling there. If this swell¬ 
ing does not subside of itself it may be 
opened with a clean sharp knife and the 
contents gently pressed out; after which 
the wound may be dressed by applying an 
antiseptic, such as carbolized vaseline in 
5% strength. m. b. d. 
Installment Incubation. 
Having seen the discussion in your paper 
in regard to eggs at different stages of 
incubation in the same incubator, I am 
giving our experience. For the past three 
years we have been supplying private 
trade, and could not get enough surplus 
eggs to fill a machine all at once, so tried 
putting in 100 eggs, or a trayful each 
week in each of two three-tray 300-egg 
incubators, and have had success. We 
do not test out, and our average has been 
slightly over 75 strong chicks out of each 
100 eggs by this method. This is about 
the same as we averaged by the old 
method of filling the machine, and I 
cannot see any difference either in num¬ 
ber or quality of chicks. T. H. L. 
West Xyack, N. Y. 
Silage and Buckwheat for Hens. 
Is it well to feed corn silage to lay¬ 
ing hens? They seem fond of it. Is 
buckwheat good in connection with other 
grain? E. A. A. 
New York. 
Corn silage is a good feed for fowls, 
and buckwheat is also excellent as part 
<>f the grain ration; better, the writer 
thinks, than it is usually credited with 
being. It is particularly valuable in 
the Winter when its heat producing 
qualities are most needed. M. b. d. 
Feeding Laying Hens. 
I was interested in what Messrs. Stone 
and Matthews had to say, on page 615, re¬ 
garding feed for chicks. Lest some may 
think there is no other side to this ques¬ 
tion. I wish to quote from a recent ad¬ 
dress of Professor Atwood, of the West 
Virginia Experiment Station. 
“Of all our domesticated animals, baby 
chicks stand in a class by themselves in 
respect to their rapidity of growth. 
Chicks when hatched weigh about one 
and one-half ounces each, and they can 
be made to weigh 2*4 pounds, or 40 
ounces apiece, when 12 weeks old. This 
is an increase of slightly more than 26 
times the original weight in 12 weeks. In 
other words, during the first 12 weeks of 
its life a little chick averages to increase i 
in weight each week more than double ' 
its original weight. Let us see what 
this means, taking for example a young 
child. If a baby weighing 10 pounds at 
birth were to grow relatively as fast as 
a chicken, it would weigh 260 pounds 
when 12 weeks of age! This extreme 
rapidity of growth in the case of a 
chicken requires liberal feeding, and I 
have never yet been able to understand 
why the advice is so trequently given not 
to overfeed little chickens, for if the 
chicks are healthy and are given an op¬ 
portunity to take a normal amount of 
exercise, they will not eat more than 
they can properly digest and assimilate. 
A baby, under normal conditions, doubles 
its original weight in about 180 days; a 
chick, in about six days. In other words, 
the process of digestion and assimilation 
are about 30 times as active in the case 
of a chick as in a baby, and the amount 
of food required is about 30 times as 
great, in proportion to the body weight. 
Liberal feeding is the keynote of success 
in feeding little chicks. 
“As stated above, the advice is fre¬ 
quently given to feed chicks scantily dur¬ 
ing the first few days or until the con¬ 
tents of the yolk sac is fully absorbed. 
This advice is like much other that is 
founded entirely on theory. It is true 
that there is a considerable amount of 
nutritive material stored up in the yolk 
sac in the case of a chick just hatched, 
but nature has provided this reserve ma¬ 
terial to supplement, but not to take the 
place of other food materials that the 
chick is able to get by its own efforts or 
by the efforts of the mother hen. In 
passing, it may be well to say that this 
view of early and liberal feeding is ap¬ 
parently being adopted more and more 
widely by the most successful men in the 
poultry business. 
“Admitting that the baby chick should 
be fed liberally and as soon after it is 
hatched as it desires food, the question 
at once arises, what shall it be fed? The 
fact that a chick doubles its original 
weight in about six days gives us some 
very, valuable information on this subject, 
for it has been proved, in the case of ani¬ 
mals that suckle their young, that the 
composition of the mother’s milk varies 
directly according to the length of time 
required for the young to double its 
original weight * * * The more quickly 
the young animal doubles this weight, the 
more protein and ash constituent it re¬ 
ceives in its ration. In fact, we might 
naturally expect this to be the case, for 
if the body of an animal is to be built up 
quickly, it stands to reason that the ra¬ 
tion should be concentrated and contain 
an abundance of protein to form flesh, 
and ash constituents to form bone.” 
It is not for me to say whether Pro¬ 
fessor Atwood is right or not If he is 
right, then the chick should be fed lib¬ 
erally from the time it begins to crave 
food, furthermore the ration should be 
concentrated from the start A friend of 
mine, who has been raising chickens for 
over 20 years purely from the love of it, 
has had such remarkable success that if 
he were an advertiser rather than an 
amateur, he would be known from one 
end of the country to the other. His 
chicks are never allowed to go hungry 
from the time they are taken from the 
incubator, and from the start they are 
fed a concentrated ration. Every natural 
craving is thus met from the beginning, 
and in the Fall the fowl’s bodies are so 
replete with substance and vigor that 
they beget egg records that are very won¬ 
derful to me. And they win the better 
in this race, I am inclined to believe, just 
because they do not receive the check of 
semi-starvation during the first two or 
three days of life. I may add that I 
have had the same trouble Mr. Stone ex¬ 
perienced, and many times—even when 
I starved the chicks for 48 and (in some 
cases) 72 hours before feeding. Perhaps 
some other factor than feeding has en¬ 
tered in, both in his use and mine. In 
fact, it seems more reasonable to me that 
chilling, rather than feeding, may cause 
the non-absorption of the yolk-sac. Does 
not the successful mother-hen feed her 
chicks from the start? 
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asked one of his audience. “Well, yes,” 
was the answer, “you can put it that way 
if you like!” “Well, all I have to say,” 
said the interrupter, “is that you have 
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