THE KUKAL NEW-YOKKEK 
January 2, 
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The Henyard. 
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Hens With Worms. 
H OW can I rid a flock of hens of 
Worms? They are not thin, but I 
feed them all they will eat, and get 
very few eggs. They have both tape¬ 
worms and round worms. I feed as you 
have directed and plenty of it. K. K. 
New Jersey. 
As a general remedy for worms, spirits 
of turpentine is, perhaps, as good as any¬ 
thing. This may be mixed with an equal 
quantity of olive or castor oil, and given 
in tablespoonful doses to each fowl. By 
gently passing a soft rubber catheter, 
such as can be procured at any drug 
store, down to the fowl’s crop and using 
a small syringe, the turpentine may be 
easily administered. In bad cases, tur¬ 
pentine with less oil may be given, and 
it may be found necessary to repeat the 
treatment. As the droppings of the fowls 
will contain worms and their eggs it will 
be necessary to keep them removed from 
the pen in order that the hens will not 
re-infect themselves and unless these 
droppings are put where other fowls can¬ 
not get at them, they should be treated 
with quicklime or a 10 per cent, solu¬ 
tion of sulphuric acid. Bidding a badly 
infested flock of worms is not an easy 
task. M. B. n. 
Swollen Wattles; Care of Breeders. 
S EVERAL of our cockerels have one 
wattle swollen, some slightly, while two 
cockerels have one of their wattles 
swollen about one-fourth of an inch 
thick. Will you tell me what kind of dis¬ 
ease it is, its cause, prevention and also 
its cure if possible, and whether after 
recovering such cockerel can be used in 
breeding pens? 2. Would it be advisable 
to put cockerels intended for breeders for 
the coming season together with our 
breeding hens now as we have no quar¬ 
ters to accommodate the cockerels? We 
do not intend to start the incubator be¬ 
fore February 22. or March 1 and will 
not start to save eggs for hatching be¬ 
fore February 15. Will the putting of 
the cockerels with the breeding hens now 
in any way impair the health of the stock 
(as the hens are just completing their 
molt) or decrease the fertility of the 
eggs? 3. All our houses have muslin 
front curtains. At wb^t temperature at 
night would I be advised to let the cur¬ 
tain down? S. Y. 
New York. 
1. I do not know of any disease in 
which swelling of the wattles is the only 
symptom; they may become inflamed 
from frost-bite or other injury and in 
such cases it will be sufficient to anoint 
them with carbolized vaseline and wait 
for the inflammation to subside. If the 
trouble is simple inflammation it should 
not a.feet the value of the birds as breed¬ 
ers after they have recovered from the 
soreness occasioned by it. 2. Males may 
be left with the breeding hens if desired, 
the chief value of removing them being in 
insuring infertility of eggs that are in¬ 
tended for market. 3. Curtains should be 
dropped when the temperature is likely 
to go low enough to freeze combs or wat¬ 
tles. This will be the case when the tem¬ 
perature approaches zero even in warm 
houses. M. B. D. 
Mixing Breeds. 
M Y neighbor has White Leghorn fowls 
and I have Barred Plymouth Rocks. 
We both let them run out some 
every day. I want to keep the breed 
pure, and would like to know if it is un- 
w'se to have the different breeds mixing 
together. Some one said he thought it 
made no difference, until we wanted to 
hatch eggs. Can you tell me what I 
ought to do? M. F. w. 
New York. 
If the fowls are separated two weeks 
before eggs for hatching are wanted, 
there is little or no danger of contamina¬ 
tion with the other breed. It is known 
that eggs will hatch from six to 10 days 
after the male bird has been separated 
from the female. I have never known 
of any case longer than 10 days. So it 
is practically safe to save eggs for hatch¬ 
ing two weeks after they have been sep¬ 
arated from other breeds. This ques¬ 
tion reminds me of a letter I received 
a few days ago. The writer is breeding 
White Leghorns, but had one cock run¬ 
ning with a pen of mixed breeds. He 
wrote me to learn if there would be dan¬ 
ger of getting colored feathers into his 
Leghorn chicks, if he used that cock bird 
in his Leghorn pens again. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Lame Rooster. 
1 IIAVE a two-year-old cock which for 
the past week or so has not been as 
active as usual; I noticed that he 
seemed to favor one foot. Upon exam¬ 
ination I found quite a swelling, with 
what seemed to be a black scab slightly 
smaller than a 10-cent piece. I thought 
possibly it was bumblefoot, but on lanc¬ 
ing the swelling it contained nothing but 
blood. I then tried to loosen the scab, 
and as I could not do so cut it off. It 
seemed to be more like a corn than any¬ 
thing else. I cut down quite deep, and 
it still continued of the same structure. 
As this puzzled me I decided not to go 
further until I was more sure of my 
ground. I therefore swabbed out the cuts 
with quite strong carbolic solution, put a 
liberal supply of boracic acid on and 
wrapped a good-sized bunch of cotton un¬ 
der the foot He is coming along all 
right as far as the cuts are concerned. 
Can you give me any idea what this is 
and what to do for it? c. B. 
New Jersey. 
This condition is very likely a corn, as 
you suggest, and may be due to roosting 
upon too narrow or sharp a perch or to 
lighting heavily upon a bard floor when 
flying from the perches. Corns should be 
prevented by providing sufficiently broad 
perches to make it unnecessary for the 
fowls to grasp them tightly in order to 
keep their footing and by covering con¬ 
crete floors with soft litter. Your treat¬ 
ment of the wound made in the foot was 
good, and unless infection follows it will 
probably heal without trouble. Because 
of their vigorous use of their feet, fowls 
are subject to disorders of these mem¬ 
bers, and when infection follows some 
abrasion in the skin pus is likely to form 
and the condition known as bumble foot 
results. H. B. D. 
Virtues of Brown Leghorns. 
W HY are Brown Leghorns so un¬ 
heard of? Twenty years ago I had 
a flock, and they were fine layers 
and they laid till the were four or five 
years old. H. F. H. 
Connecticut. 
The Brown Leghorns are not lost to 
sight, though the White Leghorns, in re¬ 
cent years, have achieved such promin¬ 
ence as layers that they have somewhat 
overshadowed their brown sisters. It is 
unfortunate that breeders of the brown 
birds have not entered the official con¬ 
tests more freely and demonstrated what 
their favorites are capable of. Purebred 
Brown Leghorns are beautiful birds, and 
if they had had the same attention that 
the Whites have had it is doubtful if the 
latter could have demonstrated any su¬ 
periority as layers. As market fowls, 
the Browns have the disadvantage of 
their dark color and, unless of selected 
strain, are a little smaller in size. Their 
eggs, too, are apt to be a little inferior 
in size to those of the white variety. 
Nothing could be prettier than a flock 
of young Brown Leghorn chicks, and the 
soft tints of their adult plumage are a 
pleasure to the eye, as their clean white 
eggs are satisfactory in the market. 
M. B. D. 
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