1914. 
THE KUKAL NEW-YOKKER 
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The Henyard. 
Farm-Raised Pheasants. 
C AN I raise pheasants on the farm 
with hens, the same as turkeys? 
Would they stay around or would 
they wander away? H. H. M. 
Carmel, N. Y. 
So far as the actual raising of the 
pheasants is concerned there is no great 
difficulty in getting good results, and 
they usually stay around until the neigh¬ 
bors or “friends from the city” shoot 
them. I have heard of a number of cases 
near here where as good hatches were 
made and as many birds raised as would 
be likely to be the case with Leghorn 
chickens. The greatest difficulty is 
with the game law. In order to be per¬ 
mitted to raise pheasants, whether you 
let them wander off from your land or 
not, it is necessary: (1) to bo sure that 
the entire boundary of your farm is 
marked in some way. (2) To post no¬ 
tices at each corner and not more than 
40 rods apart between corners stating 
that this farm is established as a private 
game preserve. (3) To publish this 
information once a week for four weeks 
in some paper printed in the county 
where the farm is situated. (4) To pay 
five dollars annually fo* a license, which 
will be issued when the Conservation 
Commission has been satisfied that the 
application has been made in good faith. 
Wayne County, N. Y. A. C. W. 
Pullets Eating Feather*. 
1 HAVE about 24 pullets in my back 
yard ; as soon as one drops a feather 
there will be another right there eat¬ 
ing it. They look well and healthy. Is 
this bad for the hens and what is the 
cause of their eating feathers? They 
get grit, charcoal, beef scrap, bone meal 
in mash and lots of green food. G. B, 
New York. 
Feather eating is a habit likely to be 
acquired by chickens that are closely con¬ 
fined and perhaps have some cravings for 
unnatural foods that would be satisfied 
by the hundred and one things that they 
pick up when they have their liberty. If 
you can spade up the soil in some place 
and let them dig in it, and then give 
them all the liberty possible, they will 
probably not suffer any ill effects from 
what feathers they eat, but the practice 
should not be encouraged. M. B. D. 
Arrangement of Henhouse Windows. 
I N my poultry house, with opening 
about 5x8 feet, house 15 *4 feet square, 
if curtain is not closed when we have 
southerly rains litter gets wet and fowls 
have colds. Mow would it do if the 
opening had sash arranged at an angle 
to keep out rain? Would it be sufficient 
for 55 to 70 birds? A. F. L. 
New York. 
Your plan should prove satisfactory 
if you did not yield to the temptation to 
keep the windows closed too much of the 
time. An awning or other protection for 
the opening would be cheaper than sash 
and, perhaps, fully as satisfactory. The 
method of ventilating a henhouse is of 
less importance than the thoroughness 
with which it is done, remembering, how¬ 
ever, that fowls should not be exposed to 
direct drafts. This building should 
house 75 fowls. M. B. D. 
Buff Orpington*. 
W ILL you give me information con¬ 
cerning Buff Orpington hens and 
tell me the best method of feeding 
them ? A. w. 
Dover, N. H. 
Replying to A. W.’s inquiry about 
Buff (Jrpington hens, would say that I 
kept that breed for a while and liked 
them very well. For table poultry I 
never saw anything better, and for lay¬ 
ing in cold weather they equalled the 
best of my White Wyandottes. At the 
Storrs contest last year, if I remember 
right, one of Mr. O. Wilson’s Buff Or¬ 
pington pullets laid the most e"~s of any 
hen in the contest. As to feeding them, 
the only thing to look out for is to see 
that they do not become' too fat. They 
take on fat very easily, therefore a small¬ 
er proportion of cracked corn in the 
grain feed, and of cornmeal in the dry 
mash should be used than if one were 
feeding Leghorns for instance. 
A good dry mash would be three parts 
wheat bran, two parts middlings, one 
part cornmeal by weight, with one-half 
part of beef scrap added. If gluten and 
ground oats can be had, ffdd one part of 
each. For the grain feed use equal parts 
of wheat, oats and cracked corn. Mr. 
Barron uses also Kaffir corn and barley, 
thinking the larger varietv the feed the 
better. IIow to feed is almost of as much 
importance as what to feed, but this can 
be best learned by experience. Mr. Bar¬ 
ron feeds dry grain in the,litter in the 
morning, a little more at noon, then a 
full feed about 4 p. m. of boiled oats, 
sometimes with cooked vegetables in it, 
the whole dried off into a crumbly mash 
by stirring in a mixture of ground grain, 
bran, middlings and meal. But experi¬ 
ence only can teach a person how to be 
a good feeder. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Chicken Pox. 
1 IIAVE a flock of White Wyandottes 
and Light Brahma pullets and cock¬ 
erels, five months old. The birds were 
healthy and thriving until about two 
weeks ago, when I noticed sores appear 
on their combs, wattles and evelids. On 
several, only the eyes are affected, no 
sores being visible, only a white foam in 
the corners of the eyes. The sores vary 
in size, the largest being about the size 
of a pea. They are yellow and pink in 
color, and do not open unless the chick¬ 
ens pick or scratch them. The birds af¬ 
fected worst, have also diarrhoea. I feed 
a wet mash of cornmeal. middlings and 
ground oats in the morning, and wheat 
and corn at noon and evening. The coop 
is in sanitary condition, also the runs, 
both being new and used for the first 
time. What can I do for them? The 
disease is spreading rapidly. I have al¬ 
ready separated the healthy fowls. 
New York. F. H. 
This eruption is very likely that of 
chicken pox and is very contagious, but, 
in Northern States, not apt to be fatal. 
The sick fowls should be isolated and the 
eruption painted with tincture of iodine; 
the utensils should be disinfected with 
boiling water and it would be well to 
whitewash the interior of their quarters, 
even though new. With care the trouble 
should be eradicated. H. B. D. 
Cross-breeding Fowl*. 
I S it advisable to mate R. C. Rhode 
Island Reds with S. C. Red cockerel? [ 
Do you think it of any benefit to mate ! 
a mongrel Brown Leghorn, a good layer, 
with a White Leghorn cockerel? D. D. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is nothing to be gained by cross- . 
ing the Rose and Single Comb varieties I 
of the different breeds, and a little some¬ 
thing in the way of purity of strain is 
lost. There is no serious objection to | 
it, however, if one wishes only a utility 
flock. The same statements apply to 
crossing the different colored varieties of 
the same breed; the result is a mongrel 
flock of many colors but not necessarily 
inferior as layers. M. B. D. 
Limberneck. 
M Y poultry have limberneck; this is 
the fourth year. I have tried dif¬ 
ferent remedies but they still have it. 
They get slimy in the mouth, and their 
feathers fall out. L. B. 
Delaware. 
If your fowls have true “limberneck” j 
caused by eating decayed and poisonous 
food they should be treated by administer¬ 
ing a cathartic, such as one to tw T o tea- j 
spoonfuls of castor oil, and preventing 
their access to such food. This does not 
cause feathers to fall out. however, and 
it is possible that your fowls are afflicted ' 
with depluming mite, which burrows into [ 
the skin at the base of the feathers and 
causes their loss over the affected areas. 
These mites may be destroyed by rubbing 
in grease of some kind, like .lard or vase¬ 
line with the addition of a little kerosene. 
Without a more complete description of 
the trouble with your fowls and your j 
methods of care, I cannot be at all sure 
of the cause of their ill health or of the 
measures that need to be taken to over¬ 
come their indisposition. si. B. D. 
Thermostat for Incubator. 
C OULD you give me any information 
in regard to the construction of the 
heat regulator for incubators, of the 
disk type, and what the fluid is that they 
contain? B. H. 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Wafer thermostats of the disk type are 
made of thin sheet metal in hollow form, 
and are filled with a volatile fluid which 
by its expansion and contraction under 
varying degrees of heat moves the regulat¬ 
ing bar of the machine. I do not know 
what fluids are used by the manufactur¬ 
ers, but presume that any volatile liquid 
like ether or bisulphide of carbon would 
answer the purpose. These disks may b* 
purchased from the incubator manufac¬ 
turers whose advertisements you will find j 
in the agricultural and poultry journals. 
Disk thermostats, while sensitive, are 
comparatively short-lived, and the better ; 
grade of machines usually use the zinc 
and steel bar thermostats; these also may 
be purchased alone and used in any ma¬ 
chine. SI. B. D. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
American Association of Farm Insti¬ 
tute Workers, nineteenth annual meet¬ 
ing, Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C., 
Nov. 9-11. 
New. England Fruit Show in connec¬ 
tion with the Rhode Island Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association annual meeting in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I., November 9, 10, 11 and 12; 
secretary, A. M. Parmelee, Norwood, 
National Grange, annual meeting, Wil¬ 
mington, Del.,. November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition. State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Oop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Association, Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Institute and convention. Lycoming, 
County Farm Bureau, Williamsport. Pa., 
November 17-20. 
Annual Show of the Paterson. N. ,T. 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
Dover Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock 
Association, tenth annual show, Dover, 
N. J.. Nov. 23-28. 
Mansfield Poultry Association, Mans¬ 
field, Mass., third annual exhibition, 
Nov. 25-28; L. Faye Ilowe, secretary. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn., Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition, Hull’s Armory Hall, 
Danbury. Nov. 23, 27, 28; secretary, 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. 
Second annual seed exposition, Mon¬ 
tana Seed Growers’ Association, Boze¬ 
man, Mont., December, 8--10. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, State Experiment 
Station, New Brunswick, Dec. 8-10. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College, December 28, 1914 to January 
8, 1915, State College, P. O., Penn. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915, 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
“Why does that fellow look so glum 
and grouchy all the time?” “I fancy 
it is because he knows so many mean 
things about himself.”—Kansas City 
Journal. 
“How’s vacation, Johnnie?” “Bully. 
Fell off a shed, most got drowned, tipped 
over a beehive, was hooked by a cow, 
Jim Spindles licked me twice, an’ I got 
two stone bruises an’ a stiff neck.”— 
Zion’s Herald. 
BLACK MIN0RCAS 
WANTED 
50 year-old hsns. No fancy prices. 
W. A. DICKSON 
Box 316 - - Knightstown, Ind. 
Money in Honcy-^v^- 
^ estinjj work. 
Latest methods of bee-keeping — simply told it , 
our “Bee Primer." Highly i retractive. Send 
today for the book and 6 ni >nths ’ subscription to 
AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Box k .Hamilton,!!!. 
500 Choice Pullets and Cockerels 
1 Tiffany's Superior Silver Wyandottes. Pekin and 
Rouen Ducks, sired by winners at A merica's greatest 
shows. Free range grown. F. A.Tiffany, Phoenixville, Pa. 
Silver Campine and White Wyandotte 
Yeaning Hens for sale cheap 
MOHAWK LODGE FARM, Cornwall, Conn. 
curt S.U.K-MAKOH HATCHED WHITE 
r WYANDOTTE COCK KREJLS. $2 to $n each. 
F. D. JOHNSON. It. No. 1, Boonton, N. J. 
R. I. Reds-White Wyandottes Tr//? *1 
Bari edi?ocfc*,S.C. White and MyovthL eghorng Sin w 
and utility quality. Bargain list. Bret.. t e 
1UVERDALE ROULTIA FARM. Riverdaie, N. J. 
TOM BARRON’S 
CONTEST WYANDOTTE PENS 
At PA., CONN., MO., are owned by me 
* World’s greatest winter layers” 
LEGHORNS and WYANDOTTES—288—282—260--248 
Storrs’ Buff Rocks, Vibcrt-Aortin Reds, Ducks and Geese 
MORRIS-FARM, R. 4, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Imported direct. 280-egg strain. Mav Cock¬ 
erels, §2. Yearling hens, $1.50. Trios, $5. 
P. F, RAFFERTY, MARLBORO, MASS. 
Tom Barron S. C. White Leghorn 
and White Wyandotte cockerels: pullets, out of 
direct importation, from the World's greatest 
layers. In splendid vigor. BROOKFIELD 
POU LTRY FARM, R.F.D. 3,Versailles, Ohio 
Pedigreed Barron Leghorns'^j^* 
laid 258 eggs; grandsire’s mother. 248 eggs. A ls<> R. 
1. Red Cockerels. Harry IT. Look. Orange, Conn. 
TOM BARRON’S WHITE LEGHORN 
• COCKERELS, bred from Fen of Prize Win¬ 
ners at Burnley, England, 1912. Each Cockerel I 
guarantee pure Barron and from a high producing 
hen. Price, $5 each. F W. GILL, Storrs, Connecticut 
BARRED ROCK PULLETS 1 TTr ; 1 
Stock, hatched May 1st, averaging clos° to 4 lbs. 
each. Price, $1. THE MACKEY FARMS, Gitbou, New York 
FOR SALE 
White Plymouth Rock Cockerels 
thoroughbreds. M. A. BEECHER, R. F. D., Lima, New York 
Bourbon Red Turkeys^^^, 3 ^ 3 ^ 1 ;^^ 
Nov. I. Orders booked now. Fiona Horning, Ulysses, P». 
PUREBRED RED BOURBON 
NON-WANDERING TURKEYS for Sale 
Mrs- EDGAR CUNNINGHAM, Conewango Valley, New York 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYSiSJ 
Giant Bronze Turkeys - " 5 "” 
Pairs no akin. 
Runner Ducks and Drakes 
d for $5. 
CHARLES ROSE.Water Mill, N.Y 
C. D. KANE, Brasie Corners, New Y^ork 
SALE-Purebred BRONZE 
W.Orpingtons, Campines. Mr. ALFRED MEAD. Vega, N.Y. 
50 
F. and W. INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS and DRAKES— $2 each. 
Prize winner*. White-etcs strain. Geo.Wiiliimson, Flanders, K.J. 
^(“.AFRICAN GEESEbxo'i 
H. W A RCUF 
No.1,West Branch. N.V. 
200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators; 12.000 
chicks per week a'ter February 15th; only No 1. high- 
class chicks shipped; New F.ngland's most profitable 
breed, the famous “Everiay Strain.” Reasonable 
prices: prompt service. 60-page catalog on request. 
THE EVERLAY FARM, • Bex 240-E. Methuen, Mass- 
Single Combed White Leghorn Cockerels 
for sale. Blue Ribbon stock. Write or visit eastcoiden- 
HAM POULTRY PLANT, J. H. Owen, Prop., R. F. 0. No. 4, Newburgh, N. Y. 
PRFDTO I AV-s c white leg 
I V/ LA T HORNS. American, 
Barron, and half-Barron cockerels for sale. Now 
is the time to buy. P. G. PI.ATT, Wallingford, Pa. 
F ORSALE-C W. KHKRWOOIPS HEAVY LAY¬ 
ING S. C.WHITE LEGHORNS—2,000 Pullets 
ready to lay. 1,000 Breeding Hens. 500 Cockerels. In¬ 
spection invited. C. W. Sherwood. Saybrook Point, Conn. 
FOR SALE—A fine lot of free range purebred 
Single Comb White Leghorn Pullets 
& unrelated coekerels, $2. Peter J. Wagner, Nortk Branch, N.Y, 
BREEDING HENS, 75c each. S. C. 
W. Leghorns. .Barred Rock Pullets 
hatched December 1913—Si.25 each. 
John Uorton Lee, Carmel, N. Y. 
IF IN NEED OF A LARGE AND C f XV I 
HEAVY-LAYING STRAIN OF ”• LEUnUlVllO 
Hens, l’ullets and Cockerels— none better layers— 
Write, - J. M. CASE, Gilboa, New Turk 
IDLEW1LD LEGHORNS^;,," 
hatch. Price, $1 each. H. LINDSEY, R. 2. Bryan. Ohio 
300 White Leghorn Pullets A? 1 flne 
strain, $1.25 each. 
1 i t y 
W. E. CATHER, R. 2. Winchester, Va, 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in lots t<> suit, purchasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS, - R. 24, Alliens. Pa. 
Utility S. C, White Leghorns~ Se!ec - ted yeariiTie 
per 100 . 
hens, 80c each. $75 
GEO FROST, Levanna. Cayuga Co., New York 
300 White Leghorn Pullets-,y^y^ 1 
Also Black Minorcas. EDW WIXON, Marydel. Maryland 
sale-75 Leghorn Pullets -A " s y \, a ^ tchod - 
ARTHUR H. PENNY, • Mattttnok. N. V. 
100 S. C, Buff Leghorns vmeetSSS^ 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
A few choice Cockerels from pen imported direct 
from Tom Barron, $3. 4 yearling hens (Ranoocns 
strain) and Barron Cockerel. * 6 . 9.W. JONES, Hill, dale, N.Y. 
Winter-Laying Leghorns- f ?-£ B 2 fe pe r Sf 8 d 
Out-laid all Whites tor winter months at Missouri 
Contest. Won at Chicago, Indianapolis, etc. Get 
blood of ‘Egg-Bred Winners.” Cockerels, $2 50 
and $5. Dr. L. Heasley, Box R. N., Dorr. Michigan 
White LeKhorns—YESTKRLAID Strain. Pullets lay 
at mniith-. Bnnubt by 20 Experiment Stations. All 
studmalea grand-dam record of more than GO«£•:*in 2 
year*. Prices very reasonable. Briugsuccess. Details free 
Yesteblaid Egg Farm Co., Dept. 63 Pacific, Mo. 
FOR 
ounicB tot, yeaning tjeunorn 
hens. Address. WILPEN 
POULTRY FARM. Sewickley Pa. 
COLONIAL REDS 
We offer finely-bred cockerels for sale, from 
our best lines for egg production. Strong, 
i tigged birds or pedigreed ancestry. Also pul¬ 
lets and yearling breeding hens of proven 
value. Honorable treatment guaranteed. Sa¬ 
tisfied customers all over the country. 
COLONIAL FARM. - Box O, Temple, N. II. 
AUSTIN’S 200-EGG Rhnria lolfinfl Toffo standard 
STRAIN SINGLE COMB nllUUtJ lildllU I PUS i, re<i , h j gh 
record stock, red to the skin. Old and young stock for 
sale. AUSTIN S POULTRY FARM. Box 17, CentreHarbor N. H. 
Single Comb R, I. RedCockerels^VTs^rch 7 
hatched, Austin'* strain, price. $3 to $1 each. COOK 
PARK POULTRY FARM, Ernest Langs, Prop., 3!oriches, L. I. 
Rhode Island RedsATJT fTn e* 1 *' 
$2, $3,$.">. Dingman's strain. M RIISTIN, Mousey. N.Y* 
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