1915. 
THE KUKAb NEW-YORKER 
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■ Fruit Growing and Poultry Keeping ■ 
(Concluded from page 336) 
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be so located as not to interfere with the 
trees, and the backs of the houses should 
be close up to the trees, or as close as 
possible; even then the row of trees di¬ 
rectly in front will get more than its 
fair share of the droppings. As an illus¬ 
tration of the “pushing” quality of poul¬ 
try droppings it is told that in an or¬ 
chard where the houses are set among the 
apple trees, the three rows of trees along 
the lower side of the orchard require but 
slight annual pruning, that part, of the 
orchard being hut seldom visited by the 
birds, while the rows of trees nearest 
the poultry houses need heavy yearly 
pruning to keep them within hounds, and 
the fruit on these trees has to he heav¬ 
ily thinned. In the account of the fruit- 
poultry farm from which the above notes 
are quoted the statement is made that 
they grow about ‘2000 bushels of corn 
each year, and “all the wheat we can 
grow!” This is a large New York State 
farm, where about 3000 head of layers 
are kept, and about 1000 to 1200 year¬ 
ling hens are given free range over a 
seven-acre apple orchard. No fertilizer 
has been bought for this farm in recent 
years, excepting pulverized South Caro¬ 
lina rock, which was scattered over the 
roost platforms after each cleaning, and 
which was scraped off and mixed with 
the droppings to conserve the ammonia. 
Oxf. Case of Adverse Criticism.— 
In only one . instance has the writer 
chanced upon adverse criticism of hav¬ 
ing fowls running in an apple orchard, 
and this was from one of the proprietors 
of a large fruit and poultry farm in 
Rhode Island, which was visited last 
Autumn. The criticism was to the ef¬ 
fect that in the last three or four years 
the apples “hadn’t colored up well.” not 
so well as first-quality fruit should be 
colored, and the lack of good coloring 
was charged to the too-rich poultry drop¬ 
pings. To this criticism the answer could 
he made that the fowls were too concen¬ 
trated. They were grouped in two large 
flocks in the upper half of the orchard, 
instead of being scattered about the or¬ 
chard in flocks of say 50 birds, in houses 
which could be moved from one location 
to another by a pair of horses. Undoubt¬ 
edly the “colony plan” of housing is pre¬ 
ferable to the long-house plan on a com¬ 
bination fruit and poultry farm ; then the 
houses can he moved every year or two, 
as changed locations may appear desir¬ 
able, and the droppings are then more 
widely scattered. That this last quoted 
fruit-poultry farm does a great business 
is proved by the figures we gathered. 
Their gross sales of poultry products 
alone run from $5000 to $7000 a year; 
their host year, three or four seasons 
ago, the total sales of poultry products 
were a bit over $7000. And yet, the 
fruit department has grown to so great 
importance the poultry side of their work 
is being let shrink. The only reason 
given for this thought was that poultry 
work is a 365-days-in-the-year job. In 
fruit growing, however, there are pos¬ 
sible times of comparative leisure, and 
there are few times in the whole year 
when a day off cannot be accom(dished. 
Tin; combination of fruit and poultry has 
been most advantageous. It is a decid¬ 
edly helpful combination; each crop helps 
the other, and both crops are the better 
for the combination. The better crops 
bring hotter prices and yield larger prof¬ 
its, and the profits of a line of work is 
the final test which we apply. 
A. F. HUNTER. 
Fowls Picking Each Other. 
M Y few White Leghorns, though lay¬ 
ing finely, would occasionally at¬ 
tack one of their number and pick 
its comb till blood ran, and one fowl was 
nearly killed in this manner. Feed usual 
scratch in morning; mash (dry) at noon 
and scratch feed at night. They have 
water to drink constantly, hut think they 
must lack something. Perhaps you know 
of similar cases. n. c. F. 
New York. 
Fowls that are closely confined will 
often attack each other, and. having 
drawn blood, will frequently kill a vic¬ 
tim. This seems to he a vice of idleness 
rather than one caused by some lack in 
the food; hens being fed fresh meat often 
display this cannibalistic trait. The host 
remedy that I have ever found, and some¬ 
times the only one. is to turn the fowls 
loose and let them forget each other in 
their wanderings about the place. 
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