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THE RURAL NCW-VOKKEK 
February 13, 
The Henyard. 
Gluten Meal for Hens. 
W ILL gluten meal take the place of 
dried meat in a laying hen ration? 
If not, how about the dried milk? 
Much of the dried meat seems only fit for 
fertilizer. I averaged 1(52 eggs from 95 
liens last year and made a clear profit of 
over $.‘552 above the feed. it. M. 
Vegetable protein does not take the 
place of animal protein in the hens’ ra¬ 
tions. Gluten will not take the place of 
beef scraps, but milk will, either dried or 
liquid. But it is quite possible to get 
beef scraps that have no offensive odor. 
If the beef scraps you have been feeding 
made that profit of $4.42 per hen, I 
think you would better keep on feeding it. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Clipping Wing Feathers. 
W ILL cropping or cutting the wings 
of fowls stop or prevent their laying 
until the feathers grow again? I 
have heard that it does stop them from 
laying, but want the views of real poultry 
men. S. 
Kinsale, Va. 
Clipping the wing feathers of hens will 
not affect their laying, as these feathers 
are not replaced until after the following 
molt. If the wings, themselves, are in¬ 
jured in the operation, however, the ac¬ 
companying shock to the fowl would in 
all probabilitv stop laying for a time. 
Incubator and Vibration. 
W ILL vibrations of a house interfere 
with the hatching of eggs in an in¬ 
cubator? A says to put them on the 
top of the house and B says they would be 
better in the cellar where there are no 
vibrations of the kind. w. o. 
West New York, N. J. 
The ordinary vibrations of a country 
dwelling would not affect an incubator, 
no matter where placed. They are fre¬ 
quently run in living rooms. It is quite 
possible that if a house were situated 
very close to a railroad over which trains 
were frequently run the vibration would 
he deleterious to the hatch; I do not 
know as to this. The cellar is ordinarily 
the best place to run an incubator, as the 
temperature within the machine is more 
easily kept uniform there, and the mois¬ 
ture of the air is present in greater quan¬ 
tity than above ground. M. B. D. 
Silver Campines; Sour Milk for White 
Diarrhoea. 
W IIAT are the good and bad qualities 
of the Silver Campines? Do they 
lay a white egg, and also make a good 
table fowl? As a rule, do chickens, when 
they fail to lay a fair number of eggs 
in the pullet year, make good layers in 
the second year? Will chickens eat 
enough meat (if kept before them in open 
hoppers), to force their egg production 
to any extent? Do you think there is 
any benefit derived in checking the white 
diarrhoea, by injecting a few drops of sour 
milk in the crops, when taken from the 
incubator? J. G. K. 
Millville, N. J. 
1. Some of the breeders of the Silver 
Campines will doubtless be glad to an¬ 
swer your first question. My understand¬ 
ing is that they are to be classed with the 
Leghorns, both as to color of eggs and 
quality as table fowls. They seem to be 
gaining in popularity among those who 
want something a little different from the 
ordinary and well-known breeds in this 
country. An inferior layer in her first 
year is apt to make a better record in her 
second, and vice versa, but if a pullet 
does not lay a ‘‘fair number” of eggs dur¬ 
ing her first season the chances of her 
being profitable in the long run are not 
good. Meat scrap kept constantly before 
hens, in open hoppers, is certainly stimu¬ 
lating to egg production ; this alone will 
not force egg production, however, as 
other conditions as to breeding, age, feed¬ 
ing and general care play an important 
part in the process. • 
2. Injecting a few drops of “starter,” 
which may be considered concentrated 
sour milk, into the crops of chicks as they 
are removed from the incubator was at 
one time reported by a writer in these 
columns as having been very successful 
in forestalling white diarrhoea. I do not 
know of any further experiments along 
that line, however, and cannot say as to 
whether it has continued to be successful 
in this poultryman’s hands. M. B. D. 
Feeding for Fertile Eggs. 
I WANT strong fertile eggs. I am 
feeding a dry mash. 200 pounds bran, 
100 cornmeal, 100 middlings, 100 
gluten, 100 ground oats, 50 beef scrap in 
hoppers; 12 quarts cracked corn to 100 
hens in deep litter. I want these eggs 
for hatching. Will this mash weaken the 
eggs? These birds have been on free 
range, have not been forced for eggs since 
last August. If the mash is wrong let 
me have a mash for eggs for hatching as 
this is what I want, good strong hatch- 
able eggs. There are 25 birds in colony 
house, curtain front, yards 50x220 feet, 
plenty of cabbage and mangels as green 
food, breeders two years old. I have two 
cockerels to 25 birds and one of them 
in each case is afraid of the other. 
Would it be better to alternate each day 
or will one cockerel be enough for the 
whole breeding season? Does poultry 
tonic help in securing fertile eggs? Does 
permanganate of potash hurt them? 
New Jersey. c. K. 
Your mash is an excellent one but corn 
exclusively for the whole grain is not 
equal to a mixture containing oats and 
wheat in addition. A good whole grain 
mixture is the one recommended by the 
Cornell Station: 60 pounds corn, 60 
pounds wheat, 30 pounds oats, 30 pounds 
buckwheat. If buckwheat is not avail¬ 
able, it may be left out with little detri¬ 
ment to the ration. One vigorous cock¬ 
erel should care for 25 hens and I should 
prefer to remove the inferior cockerel, 
leaving the other constantly with the 
hens, taking pains to note in each ease 
that the cockerel left in the pen showed 
sufficient vigor to be dependable. It 
would be better to alternate the cockerels 
than to leave them both confined to small 
quarters where they would interfere with 
each other. Poultry “tonics” do not aid 
fertility and permanganate of potash 
does no harm. Fertility in eggs is not 
exclusively a result of feeding but comes 
from a combination of those conditions 
which induce vigor and general well-be¬ 
ing in the flock. Close confinement is 
detrimental, and a pen of breeders should 
be given access to the ground as soon as 
possible in the Spring. m. b. d. 
Infertile Eggs. 
W ILL you tell me which is the better 
plan given below, if either is 
worthy? As an outlet for eggs 
that do not show any germ at the end 
of seven days, is it better to apply them 
to the land and plow them under, or feed 
them to hogs? I have seen them in ma¬ 
nure piles worked by hogs and wondered. 
J. m. ir. 
Infertile eggs are more valuable as 
chicken feed than as fertilizer; they 
may be boiled hard and fed, crumbled, 
to either young chickens or old fowls. 
Care should be taken in feeding young 
chicks upon them, giving them in moder¬ 
ate quantity to avoid inducing bowel 
troubles and they should, of course, not 
be fed too heavily to old fowls. I do not 
know why they would not be suitable 
food for hogs, though I have never fed 
them to other animals than fowls. 
M. B. D. 
Swollen Heads. 
I HAVE had * two cases of poultry 
trouble that I cannot seem to get 
any light on. The birds have a large 
swelling on the side of the head closing 
the eye in each case. It seems to have 
started as a cold, but certainly is not 
the roup swelling. Birds seem perfectly 
well and happy, but get no better under 
bathing or dipping treatment. At the 
end of about a month I opened the swell¬ 
ing, but it contained no matter, and only 
bled profusely. One bird died after sev¬ 
eral days, but the other seems to be all 
right at the end of one week, swelling re¬ 
mains same as before. I should like very 
much to get some information as to the 
cause and treatment of this case. A. F. j. 
St. Helen, Mich. 
These swellings about the eyes of fowls 
that have had colds are caused by the ac¬ 
cumulation of thick, cheesy, matter in 
sacs there, and may be disposed of by 
opening the tumor with a sharp blade, 
turning out its contents, and filling the 
space with some antiseptic powder like 
boric acid or aristol. Iodoform is also 
good, but its odor is very objectionable 
and still more persistent. The tumors 
are the result of catarrhal inflammation 
that has extended from the nasal pas¬ 
sages to the spaces about the eyes and are 
not, necessarily, an indication of roup. 
M. B. p. 
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