1914. 
THE RUK.A.L NEW-YORKER 
836 
The Henyard. 
Incubation Under Difficulties. 
WAS much interested in article, “Car¬ 
bon Dioxide in Incubation,” on page 
713. I will give an incident that 
goes to prove the statement made there¬ 
in, that “it is known that the chick em¬ 
bryo is able to withstand a wide varia¬ 
tion of moisture and hatch,” and also 
that some variation in other respects will 
not always cause failure. 
Being unable to secure sitting hens in 
sufficient number this Spring I put in 
use a 70-egg capacity, single-wall, hot- 
water incubator, new a year ago; had 
been run only once, and had a record of 
two chicks. The only place available 
for its operation was in an upper room, 
fairly warm in daytime, but cool at 
night; this location, combined with a 
single-wall machine and a regulator that 
seemed to work by contraries, produced 
a somewhat variable temperature in egg 
chamber. Not caring to trust eggs from 
good stock in such a contraption, and 
really doubting if any chicks could be 
secured under such conditions, I placed 
G7 eggs in machine from a pen of two- 
year-old White Rock hens, (15) mated 
with a R. I. Red cockerel. These eggs 
were three weeks old, had only been 
turned once during that time, and had 
been kept on the lower shelf of a closet 
where the temperature at night must 
have gone as low as 40 degrees. 
The temperature of incubator in first 
twenty-four hours varied from 97 to 10G 
degrees, after it was held fairly steady 
at 103-104 degrees, with variations of 
98 to 105 degrees. Eggs were tested on 
seventh day, and three removed. At this 
time I discovered that tank of machine 
was leaking, at a far corner which could 
not be reached. No hens were available, 
so I put some cornmeal in the tank, in 
hope that a few particles might find the 
leak; bade farewell to my last hope of 
chicks, and kept up steam. To do so it 
was necessary to pour a cup full of 
water in the tank every two or three 
days. Eggs were turned twice a day, 
and cooled once; from five to 15 minutes, 
according to temperature of the room. 
The longer periods were given during the 
last week, but at any time during the 
three weeks when it was noted that the 
temperature was climbing toward 105 de¬ 
grees the tray was pulled out for a 
breath of air. The inside of incubator 
was damp all along one side, and at times 
the door swelled so it was hard to open. 
The eggs began to hatch on time, and 
56 chicks were secured from 64 fertile 
eggs; a better per cent, than was secured 
from hens which hatched at same time, 
and so far the chicks from machine seem 
stronger, are more lively, and grow fast¬ 
er. I am not advising others to try 
hatching under these conditions, but my 
experience shows what can be done—■ 
sometimes. L. It. piiinney. 
Massachusetts. 
the skin taut to prevent tearing as the 
right hand pulls off the feathers by the 
handful. Much of the down can bo 
rubbed off by the wet hand. The rest 
must be pulled out separately or shaved 
off with a knife of good steel honed to a 
razor edge. The long flight feathers of 
the wings are usually left on. as are those 
for an inch or more from the head. The 
latter is not removed. Any tears of skin 
should be sewed up. 
As soon as the feathers are all removed 
the carcass should.be put at once into 
cold water, and after it is washed thor¬ 
oughly to remove all blood from the body 
and dirt from the feet, it should be put 
into colder water, ice water if possible. 
If the ducks are to be shipped to Boston 
or other large markets they should be 
carefully prepared by folding the head 
under one of the wings and then tying 
a string or tape around the body to hold 
the head and wings in position. In warm 
weather the carcasses should be kept on 
ice till shipped, and should be packed 
in ice, either in boxes that are to be re¬ 
turned, or if too far away to make the 
return of boxes profitable, in barrels that 
need not be returned. w. n. huse. 
New Hampshire. 
Fowls With Colds. 
Some weeks ago I purchased some 
Black Minorca chickens. They soon de¬ 
veloped what seemed to be colds. They 
have a rattling sound in breathing and 
keep their mouths open most of the time. 
I do not think it is roup, as I have not 
noticed any discharge from nostrils or 
eyes. I have lost two, and the rest all 
seem to have the same symptoms. Do 
you think it is bronchitis? A. L. M. 
New York. 
These fowls are probably suffering 
from colds due to exposure to cold and 
dampness in their roosting quarters. 
They may be treated by adding perman¬ 
ganate of potash crystals to their drink¬ 
ing water, a teaspoonful to the quart, 
and by injecting with a medicine dropper 
or small oil can a drop or two of kero¬ 
sene into each nostril and the cleft of 
the mouth. The birds should be kept in 
dry comfortable quarters until recovery. 
M. 15. D. 
Egg-Eating Hens. —Somebody asks 
for a remedy for hens eating their eggs. 
The most efficacious thing I ever heard 
of is to feed them chopped, fat salt pork. 
In fact, as far as my experience and ob¬ 
servation both go, it is as sure and speedy 
a cure as it is easy to give. Somehow it 
seems to fill an aching void in the hen, 
and she no longer hankers after her own 
“hen-fruit.” m. w. b. 
Another Remedy. —I see, on page 615, 
that II. II. W. is having the trouble that 
all poultry keepers meet with, liens eat¬ 
ing eggs. I have heard this complaint 
many times and have had experience 
many times notwithstanding I have used 
trapnests and fed balanced rations. Here is 
a remedy that everyone uses in this section 
and have never heard of a case where it 
failed to cure hens eating eggs; Vinegar 
in drinking water will do the trick. 
Central Square, N. Y. e. n. b. 
Electric Incubation. —There is lit¬ 
tle to add to my note of last year on 
electric incubators, but as there are con¬ 
stantly new readers it may as well be 
repeated that while the electric current 
is rather expensive, it is the ideal method 
of heating. Once adjusted, there is 
nothing further to be done but turn the 
eggs and wait the 20 days, (since the 
constant heat gains a day,) while there 
is no fire risk and no odor. On the other 
hand the cost, which depends directly on 
the coldness of the room in which the 
machine is. may run as high as 10 cents 
per day. But peace of mind, safety and 
certainty are sometimes cheap at any 
price. Each has his own ideas about 
added moisture, but where there is no 
flame in the room, the air may be far 
drier than normal, and a wet bulb ther¬ 
mometer will show that more moisture 
is needed than when a flame is used. 
F. D. c. 
A Precocious Cockerel. —Here is a 
pretty good cockerel story. I tried an 
experiment this Spring in crossing a 
White Leghorn cockerel with a B. 1*. 
Rock hen. The result was snow white 
chicks, but quite a bit larger than the W. 
Leghorns. I have one young cockerel 
that was hatched April 12 and developed 
so fast that on May 22 he was strutting 
around crowing, just 40 days old. Can 
any one beat that? I. J. D. 
Iowa. 
Trimming Incubator Lamps.—O n 
page 613, II. B. Parker tells how to trim 
incubator and brooder lamps. His brush 
may work all right but the ordinary 
match which lights his lamps will beat 
the brush a mile. If he will, before 
turning up the wick rub his match back 
and forth over the burner, the charred 
part and no more will be removed, and 
the lamp will be trimmed exactly even 
with top of burner, anyone trying this 
way will never bother with a brush. 
Butler, Pa. J. c. H. 
Hawks And Poultry. —I note an in¬ 
quiry on how to prevent ravages of 
hawks. I have had my coops near 
buildings, but these small hawks would 
come down within six feet of house, and 
make off with chickens, and were so 
quick that I found it impossible to shoot 
them. The most satisfactory method I 
have found was to strew rows of brush, 
preferably spruce and fir, small trees, 10 
or 15 feet apart, in the chickens’ run. 
This gives the chickens shelter and breaks 
the bird’s swoop. w. 
Maine. 
Another Laying Wonder. —Although 
a short-term egg record is of little value 
in selecting breeders, I desire to report 
what I think is a most remarkable per¬ 
formance. My son has a White Orping¬ 
ton pullet which has laid 48 eggs in 44 
consecutive days. (March 30 to May 12 
inclusive). 8he then rested three days 
and has laid 11 more in the last 11 days. 
On two mornings an egg was found on 
the roost platform which had been laid 
some time before daylight, and yet that 
same day she went on the nest and laid 
another. Two other days she laid two 
soft-shelled eggs, but both were full size. 
We are absolutely sure no other hens ob¬ 
tained access to the house. I never be¬ 
fore heard of a hen laying 44 days with¬ 
out skipping a day—to say nothing of 
the four extra eggs. It is only fair to 
say she did not begin to lay until the 
middle of March and had no doubt been 
storing up energy all Winter. F. N. B. 
New York. 
Reporter : “I hear a wild man was 
seen roaming about in a swamp here.” 
Native: "Yes; he was a city man, try¬ 
ing to locate a choice building lot he’d 
just bought.”—Chicago Daily News. 
Tommy started his third helping of j 
pudding with delight. “Once upon a 
time, Tommy.” admonished his mother, ( 
“there was a little boy who ate too much 
pudding, and he burst!” Tom .y con¬ 
sidered. “There isn't such a thing as too 
much pudding,” he decided. There must 
be,” contended his mother, “otherwise 
why did the little boy burst?” Tommy 
passed his plate for the fourth time say¬ 
ing—“I suppose because there was not 
enough boy.”—Yonkers Statesman. 
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I F ducks are killed for home consump¬ 
tion they can be slaughtered in any 
way and scalded. Ducks and geese 
should be left longer in the hot water 
than chickens, or wrapped in au old 
blanket or sack to start the down. If 
they are to be killed for market the 
heads should be left on and not disfigured 
in any way. The Boston market de¬ 
mands dry-picked ducks, and all intend¬ 
ing to ship ducks to that city should 
acquire the art of picking them dry. 
They should be killed with a pointed 
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be thrust into the roof of the mouth so 
as to pierce the brain, and then turned 
so as to cut the arteries and cause pro¬ 
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the point of the blade just back of the 
bead with a sawing motion that cuts the 
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the right eyesocket back of the eyeball 
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