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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyarch 
Feeding at the California Contest. 
Since we gave that report of the Cali¬ 
fornia laying contest, on page 553. there 
have been requests for the plan followed 
in feeding. At this contest the hens 
were kept in one large house—there were 
no outside runs and a poor chance for 
exercise. Under such conditions there 
would naturally be a different system of 
feeding from where the hens were out 
doors part of the time. The hens were 
fed as follows: 
“Birds were fed twice daily, dry mash 
in the evening about 3)4 hour before sun¬ 
down, wheat, cracked corn and oats in 
the morning, green feed at noon ; grit and 
shells in the straw. We made birds 
scratch in the morning because if exer¬ 
cised at night birds take cold after going 
to roost, especially during molt. The 
mash was composed as follows: For 50 
pounds—wheat 13*4 pounds, middlings 20 
pounds, bran 7% pounds, Soy beans 2)4, 
meat scraps four and ground bone 2)4. 
During molt I feed five pounds of meat 
scraps, instead of four, and added to 
the mash 5% of sand. The 460 birds 
would consume about 45 pounds of the 
above mixture daily. No two pens con¬ 
sumed alike. The same pen did not con¬ 
sume alike every week. The consump¬ 
tion varied with the production. The 
grain was fed in the straw, 26 quarts to 
the house, fed in this proportion, three of 
wheat, one cracked corn, one oats. In 
midwinter birds were costing us about 
12 cents per month (11%), the larger 
breeds costing one-fourth more than the 
Leghorns.” 
A Satisfactory Concrete Henhouse. 
[There has been some criticism of con¬ 
crete poultry houses. Therefore we are 
glad to print a description of such a 
house that has made good.] 
The henhouse has an eight-inch wall, 
gable roofed. It is 40 feet long, 14^ feet 
wide; gables carried up with cement and 
shingled roof, using 26 bunches of shin¬ 
gles. It was built in Fall, 1913, and has 
housed 124 Brown Leghorns, free from 
disease, with no loss at all; perfectly dry 
and practically no smell whatever. There 
Concrete Henhouse. 
are two pens, 17 feet; feed room six feet 
(scant); all walls eight inches; side walls 
6)4 feet with 2x6-inch plank wall plate 
overhung two inches, with eight-inch 
spikes driven down into cement wall. 
Foundation was dug 2)4 feet deep and 
filled with broken field stone, somewhat 
wider than wall, or 32 to 14 inches. We 
used 2xl2-ineh plank for form boards, 
building six inches, then reinforcing by 
using heavy fence wire all around house 
in the wall, thus making a continuous 
bond. After finishing one foot of height 
we left the forms as filled for one or 
two days. When forms were raised an¬ 
other foot for building until sides and 
ends were complete. The window and 
door forms were placed as needed of 2x6- 
ineh, and large enough to be re-cased. 
For the floor we leveled off the 
dirt thrown in from the foundation 
with a top-dressing of fine sand and ce¬ 
ment wet down, then old tar paper. All 
over floor, two and three-ply; then 1)4 
inches of good cement mortar, well trow¬ 
eled, smooth. For ventilation we used 2x4- 
inch on end on north side of house two 
feet centers and nailed at top to floor 
joists, leaving the bottom open for .18 
inches, steel lath or wooden lath for 
nailing on face side to leave four inches 
dead air space chimney, the whole length 
of north side. One inch of good wall 
fibre plaster on the lath makes the air 
chambers complete. 
Over floor joists we used three-inch 
strips, three inches apart, with six inches 
of straw on upper floor. In each gable 
we made an opening 24x28 inches with a 
trap door hinged at top to be let down 
outside in extremely cold weather. The 
west door was made double, on inside 
and outside door. On south side we 
placed five windows of 12 lights 7x9 inch¬ 
es, two sash, to raise or lower, with 
frame of wire screen inside. We used 
6x8-inch wide paddles for outside pad¬ 
dle finish to house. 
Side walls should be carried up with 
cement flush with top side of rafters even 
over a part of the plank roof plate. One 
can use as many extra cloth window sash 
and doors as circumstances may require. 
We h ave our own gravel and sand pits 
close at hand, so this is a cheap house 
to build. Rafters and floor joists were 
nailed together as put up, and spiked to 
plank roof-plate. We used six or eight 
inches of straw for floor covering, so the 
hens’ feed did not come in contact with 
cement. Roosts are along north side of 
house, with nest boxes under, and all 
easily removable. Center partition was 
boarded up 2)4 feet, remainder wire 
screen. Doors are all placed near south 
side, so as to disturb fowls as little 
as possible. I have built a number of 
houses, but this is by far the best. A 
16 or 18-foot wide house would house 
200 fowls easily, in this climate. We 
usually shut up stock December 1 and 
keep there until April 1. f. m. p. 
Scipioville, N. Y. 
Wry necked Pullet. 
I have a pullet that has wryneck; she 
is nine months old in good condition, ex¬ 
cept that her neck is twisted upside 
down and she cannot pick up her food, 
or drink unless held in position so that 
she can locate it. I have given her salts 
and olive oil at different times, but it has 
not cured her. How can I relieve her? 
Cresskill, N. J. n. e. r. 
If this pullet’s head and neck are per¬ 
manently fixed in the position you de¬ 
scribe. I am at loss to account for it or 
suggest a remedy. Twisting of the head 
and neck in this way is usually ascribed 
to vertigo from some brain disturbance, 
and this, in turn, is apt to be caused 
by intestinal irritation from indigestion 
or the presence of parasites. At a ven¬ 
ture. I should give this pullet one or two 
grains of calomel in tablet form and after 
a few hours follow it with about two 
teaspoonfuls of castor oil. This would 
clear out the digestive tract and might re¬ 
move the source of irritation; if it did 
not. I should conclude that the pullet had 
some permanent brain trouble and kill 
her. m. b. D. 
Cholera; Diarrhoea in Chicks. 
1. My hens are getting sick and I have 
already lost four of them. They start by 
losing appetite, and after the first day 
they mope around and the comb turns 
dark. Most of them have the diarrhoea, 
soft and tinged with yellow. I keep 
Barred Rocks and feed scratch food in 
litter, also give them dry mash in hoppers 
before them all the time. 2. Can you 
tell me a cure for diarrhoea in young 
chicks? a. F. 
Amston, Conn. 
1. This may be cholera, though not of 
a very malignant type, and it will be best 
to guard against its further spread by 
removing promptly from the flock all 
birds that show signs of sickness and 
burning or burying deeply all carcasses 
of those dying from the disease. The 
poultry house and utensils used in it 
should be cleaned and disinfected, the 
former by whitewashing with lime wash 
containing four ounces of crude carbolic 
acid to the gallon, and the latter by clean¬ 
ing with boiling water. No moldy or 
tainted food should be given the fowls, 
and their quarters should be kept in a 
generally clean and sanitary condition. 
2. Sour milk fed in abundance to young 
chicks is a preventive of some forms of 
diarrhoea caused by germs, but I know 
of no remedy of any great value for the 
diarrhoea] diseases when they have once 
become established. Hatching from only 
healthy and vigorous stock and raising 
the chicks in quarters and upon ground 
not contaminated by others that have 
been sick are the essential methods of 
preventing diarrhoea, aside from proper 
feeding. A sick chicken should be killed, 
not cured, and diarrhoea should be pre¬ 
vented rather than perpetuated by keep¬ 
ing sick fowls about. m. b. d. 
Eating Shingle Nails and Tacks. 
We have just had the following ex¬ 
perience, which may be worth noting in 
your poultry department. We placed 
1,500 White Leghorn baby chicks in new 
brooder house about a month ago. The 
loss was very few until lit days ago, 
many apparently full-sized healthy chicks 
began to drop their wings, quit eating and 
die. We at once commenced to open 
the dead bodies and found our birds had 
been swallowing shingle nails and some¬ 
times four-penny nails which had been 
dropped around the building. We have 
opened 26 and found a nail in the giz¬ 
zard of each and at last a dozen others 
still alive show similar symptoms. Of 
course we shall not be guilty of dropping 
nails around in the future. 
California. w. H. macy. 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry Is best. Course or line granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
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R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N.Y. 
Don’t Kill Your Baby Chicks with Poor Fekd 
Our SPECIAL CHICK FEED 
is the sweetest and most wholesome feed on the 
market It can bo fed to human beings. ALWAYS 
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GEO. H. LEE CO., 972 HARNEY ST. OMAHA, NEB. 
May 30, 
Day Old Chicks 
and 
Six to Eight Weeks Old Pullets 
6 weeks old 60 cents 
8 weeks old 70 cents 
Kirkup’s Strain S. C. White Leghorns bred 
for size, vigor, and large white market eggs 
—$15 per 100- $63.50 per 500—$135 per 1000— 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Order Today. 
REDUCED PRICES AFTER MAY 15 
Day Old Chicks, $10 per 100—Yearling 
Hens, $1.25 each. Delivery after hflay 1 
It will pay you to get a breeding pen now— 
Why?—You can get May and June hatched 
chicks, got a good egg production until late 
in the Fall and then have a flue breeding 
pen for next season. We guarantee stock 
to be “Right.” Send for Free Booklet, de¬ 
scribing chicks, pullets and breeding stock. 
CHESTNUT POULTRY FARM 
KIRKUP BROS., Props. 
MATTITUCK, L. I., NEW YORK 
The Mark of Poultry Quality 
The Tywaeana Farms Indian Head signifies to 
either the novice or extensive breeder, hardy, vigor¬ 
ous birds of great laying ability. 
TY-WAC-A-NA 
WHITE LEGHORNS, BARRED AND WHITE 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
arc the surest layers and are best for marketing. 
Years of utility breeding are back of them. They 
are birds to lie proud of, being well marked and 
well colored and full of stamina. Tywaeana 
Baby Chicks are shipped in strong, light boxes 
insuring safe delivery after long shipments. 
PRACTICAL, PROFITABLE 
FARM BIRDS 
They are big and hardy, excellent layers and I 
great hustlers—Just the birds for the farm. ■ 
Send for our beautiful catalog. ^FARMS^ 1 
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A. K, Wright, Supt., 1 ']' ~7" 
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TYWACANA 
MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
CHICKS 
GIVE SATISFACTION. TRY THEM. PRICES 
NOW, FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 
Young’s strain. $10 per 100 
Young’s & Barron’s cross. 13 per 100 
FOR JUNE 
Young’s strain.. $9 per 100 
Young’s & Barron’s cross.10 per 100 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Catalogue free. 
A. H. PENNY, - Mattituck, New York 
Dune Alpin Heavy Laying 
S. C. White Leghorns 
have won more firsts, specials and other 
awards in the last four years at New York, 
Boston, Hagerstown and Philadelphia than 
all our competitors combined. 
HATCHING EGGS OK HAY OT.H CHICKS 
PRICES LOW, QUALITY CONSIOKKED 
Send for catalogue. 
DUNE ALPIN POULTRY FARM 
Easthampton, L. I., N. Y. 
TOM BARRON’S 
BEST STRAINS AND HIS 
283 - 202 - 260-248 
EGG STRAINS ARE AT 
MORRIS-FARM, R.4, Bridgeport, Conn. 
“GREATEST LAYERS IN AMERICA” 
BARRON LEGHORNS AND WYANDOTTES 
BUFF ROCKS. REDS, DUCKS, GEESE 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
U.W. Young's strain. The finest in the world Bred 
or their great Winter-laying qualities. Over 2000 
layers on free farm range. Largest plant of high- 
class breeders in the world at farmers’ prices. 
Eggs for batching now ready in any quantity @ $6 
per 100, $50 per 1000. Quick shipments. Baby 
chicks 112 per 100— capacity, 8,000 weekly. The kind 
that live. My book Profits in Poultry Keepino Solved— 
6 th edition, given free with all $10 orders. Satis¬ 
faction Guaranteed. Descriptive circulars free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Hox 141, 1‘lcusunt Valley, N.Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING, S.C.W. LEGHORNS, 
Bred to Lay Winter Eggs; Never Offered 
For Sale Before, $10.00 Per Hundred, 
$2 .00 Per Setting. ROSEDALE POULTRY 
FARM, Hempstead, L. I., R. F. D. No. 4., 
New York Office, 22-24 West 43rd St. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks & Eggs 
Purebred, large, vigorous, true Leghorn typo. Seven 
vears’ experience. Not how many, but now good. 
Circular. VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, New York 
Baoy Cliiclis 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R 
I. REDS, B 
ROCKS 
Thoroughbred, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL, 
Sodus N. Y, 
GIBSON Strain Day-Old CHICKS 
We ship lively, hardy chicks from 
our strain of large size, vigorous 
breeding stock of bred-to-lay S. C. 
White Leghorns. Barred Plymouth 
Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. 
Write For Free CahlQr«of™ 0 iS nW.? 
ings and prices of Baby Chicks, Eggs for Hatching, 
breeding stock and Indian Runner Ducklings. 
GALEN FARMS, G. F. Gibson, Owner, Drawer G, CLYDE, N. Y. 
MAY and IIIN P nro pre-eminently the months that 
mrt • anu UUllb nature choose for egg hatching It 
is wise to have hatches late, as the late season makes May 
and June hatches safe investments. Stock is needed. We 
offer special our Black Beauty Minoreas, only $1.30per 
50, $5 per 100 . Also following breeds at same price: White 
Leghorns, Brahmas and Beds. 1‘ckin Ducks eggs. 10 for 
$1.60. Turkeys eggs, 60 cents and $1 each. Ribbons from 
all big shows. We ship in safe box, Express paid. Poultry 
Advice mailed free. Send orders at once. Telegraph of¬ 
fice at Montgomery. Letters answered by return mail. w. 
t. Burnett, Prop.. (oldcnhani Ponltry Yards, Montgomery, N. T, 
TOM BARRON’S WHITE LEGHORNS 
Imported direct from Tom Barron's farm; Tom Bar¬ 
ron's defeated all American breeds; 5 hens laid 1190 
eggs in 1 year, averaging 238; large handsome, vig¬ 
orous white cockerels, $3 and $5; eggs, $1; $6 per 100. 
P. F. RAFFERTY, Marlboro, Mass. 
BRED for E8fi8"*ss?„,^ n „ y 8 hi^ 
result 90 per cent fer¬ 
tility. Many of the hens lay C eggs per week, We 
guarantee 80 per cent fertility or freo renewals; free 
range stock, 15 eggs. $1: 100 eggs $4, delivered to you. 
Free valuable instructions for feeding, forcing and 
getting eggs all the time. 
It. J. 6IBBIN, Mount Holly, New Jersey 
Baby Chicks & Ducklings'^ 
From Youngs' strain. Prize winners at Madison 
Square Garden, 1913. Mating list free. BEAVER DAM 
P00LTRY FARM, Harry Tweddie, Prop., Montgomery, N. Y. 
RA RV U I \F— S. C. White Leghorns, 
1 $10 per 100. I. R. Duck¬ 
lings. Eggs for hatching, Old established business. 
ROCKY GLEN POULTRY FARM, Poughkeepsie, New York 
S. C. White Leghorn Baby Chicks 
From Barge, Vigorous, Bred to Lay stock. Wyekoff, 
and Tom Barron’s Strain Direct. Wyekoff strain only $8.01 
per 100 after June 1st. $75.00 per 1000. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circulars Free. R. T. EWING, Atlantic, Pa. 
H Whitp I po-hnrn<i- WYCK0FF STRfllN - Ep P sfor 
O.U. IIIIHC LCqIIUI Ho hatching, $5 per 100. Un¬ 
fertile eggs replaced. Robert E. Smith, Nassawatfox.Va. 
Atkins’ White Leghorns {SJ5S..WSS; 
$2 for 15. Robert Atkins, Esopus, N.Y. Established 1889. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from selected, mature hens, bred 
for 18 years for vigor and Egg production. 
FLOYD 0 WHITE, Successor to White & Rice, Yorktown, N. Y. 
Rahvnilirkc in an J numbers. HENHAVEN 
LEGHORN DdU)( OlllUAb POULTRY YARDS, Cortland, N.Y. 
S C. BROWN & WHITE I.KGIIOKNS, l>t. A I.t. BRAHMAS. R. I. 
« KEItS, YV. YVyandottes& Barred Hocks. Show & Util¬ 
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WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS ANI) KGGI 
healthy business kind including Barron's strain 
that grow great layers, delivery guaranteed. For 
Circular write, HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, New York 
Write for Circular 
EIGHT BREEDS 
45 ACRES 
Eggs for hatching. Day old 
chirks and ducklings. You 
cannot buy stronger vitality. 
SH0H0LA FRUIT & POULTRY FARM, 
Shohola. - • Pennsylvania 
Oiaun LG&IIUIII Cggo 1UI oalo layers. White eggs 
Circular free. WM. C. MERRILL, R. F. D. No 2, Afton, N.Y. 
"IK Reef Rrpprlc Pmilfrv- EK S S ’ reduced Price. 
od oesi i>reeas rouitry BiK new illustrated 
Circular Free. JOHN E. HEATW0LE, Harrisonburg, Virginia 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS^L&SkS 
try; 200-egg strain: breeders and eggs. Send 2-cent 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
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Swans, Ornamental Goese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. TVM. J. MACKICN8KN, Natural¬ 
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Parcel Post Egg Boxes^SY 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison St., New York 
SHIP BY PARCEL POST IN STRONG, 
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“IT & D” Boxes are designed to carry farm products by Parcel Post. They 
meet all requirements of new regulations and guarantee safe ’ deliver)/. Made 
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Send for Free booklet “How to pack it Ar parcel post ” 
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