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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1365 
THE HENYARD 
Co-operative Brooder House. 
Our association is going to install a co¬ 
operative brooder house and we are de¬ 
sirous to obtain your advice in the mat¬ 
ter. Our intention is to build a house 
with two wings of 100 feet each, with a 
heater house of 16 feet in the center, each 
wing to contain 10 divisions of 10 feet by 
16, the house being 16 feet wide, and 
each division to house 300 chicks. The 
heating device is to be a hot water heat¬ 
er with 1^4-inch overhead pipes. The 
height of the house is to be 7 y 2 feet in 
front and four feet in rear, a three-foot 
alley in front, on a platform raised one 
to be valuable by most poultrymen. 
Fresh water should always be available 
and some green stuff, as cabbage, man¬ 
gels, steamed clover or Alfalfa or dried 
beet pulp should also be fed in moderate 
quantity several times weekly. 
M. B. D. 
Best Storage for Eggs. 
On page 1053, regarding a farm storage 
room, it is stated that the room is good 
for storing eggs, as it is cool and lacks 
moisture. Bulletin No. 353, Cornell Ex¬ 
periment Station, states eggs should be 
kept in a moist place. Later bulletins 
advise “keeping the floor wet by sprink¬ 
ling" to prevent evaporation of the inter¬ 
ior of egg. Has not this subject been 
proven by tests? Personally I like a 
■'4- - 
foot from floor. The windows and cur¬ 
tains would be three feet wide and al¬ 
ternating along the entire front. We 
would like to know if our plan is a good 
one, or if the plan could be improved 
upon without increasing the cost. 
New Jersey. m. s. 
While the plan of your proposed 
brooder house is good, the question re- 
tnains whether you would not find it more 
icconomical and satisfactory to build sev¬ 
eral portable colony houses, about eight 
by 10 or 12 feet, in size, and install eoal- 
iheated brooders during the brooding -sea¬ 
son. Much depends upon the amount of 
land at your disposal and your system of 
caring for your poultry. The continuous 
ibrooder house requires less space to house 
|a. given number of chicks but cannot Do 
'changed to fresh ground or well be used 
for any purpose but brooding, while port¬ 
able colony houses may be placed upon 
apy part of the farm, changed in loca¬ 
tion from time to time as convenience 
.dictates, and may be kept in use the year 
aroupd for young chicks, pullets and 
cockerels, and even laying hens, if de¬ 
sired. The continuous house has the 
advantage of greater convenience and a 
corresponding saving of labor but lacks 
the advantages of flexibility and econ¬ 
omy of building service, this latter as¬ 
suming that you intend to hatch chickens 
only in Spring and early Summer. Dur¬ 
ing the greater part of the year, the 
building would be idle. Why raise the 
alley floor one foot above the level of the 
pen floors? The writer would prefer it 
depressed an equal distance. M. B. D. 
Fall Goose Eggs. 
Can you tell me the cause of my China 
geese laying this time of the year or is 
it the proper time for them to lay? I 
purchased them in the Summer and do 
not know whether they laid this Spring 
or not. Do you advise me to set the eggs 
or do you think it will be too cold for 
them ? w. N. 
New Jersey. 
Fall egg-laying by geese is not a rare 
occurrence, although it is the exception 
rather than the rule. I would not ad¬ 
vise setting the eggs, for they are usually 
less fertile than in the Spring and it 
would be difficult to rear goslings suc¬ 
cessfully in the Winter. w. H. H. 
Feed for 50 Pullets. 
Will you give me information as to 
what, and how much, to feed 50 Barred 
Rock pullets? E. f. ir. 
A good ration for these Barred P. Rock 
pullets would consist of mixed whole 
grains, wheat, oats, buckwheat and corn, 
or as many of those as are obtainable, fed 
twice daily in litter, giving as much as 
the fowls will quickly clean up and show 
an appetite for, perhaps a handful to 
each fowl. In addition to this whole 
grain, a mash composed of equal parts 
by weight of wheat bran, middlings, glu¬ 
ten feed, cornmeal and beef scrap may 
be kept before the fowls in open hoppers, 
so that they can help themselves at will. 
If they show a tendency to gorge them¬ 
selves upon the dry mash so fed and hang 
about listlessly, the hopper may be 
opened afternoons only. If they do not 
eat enough of the dry mash to encour¬ 
age proper growth and laying when they 
have reached a sufficient age, one feed¬ 
ing a day of the same mash moistened 
with skim-milk or water may also be 
given, or, if preferred, a moist mash once 
daily may be fed instead of the dry. 
Crushed oyster shells should be kept be¬ 
fore the fowls in an open hopper; 
crushed charcoal so fed is also believed 
cool dry place, as I pack eggs in cartons 
and never hold over three days. A moist 
atmosphere will take the stiffness out of 
the cardboard cartons and lessen their 
protective qualities in shipment. 
Orange Co., N. Y. e. f. p. 
The best conditions under which to 
keep eggs are to keep them as moist as 
possible without danger of molding, also 
of course keeping them cool. When eggs 
are to be held only for a short time, I 
do not advise keeping them at a tem¬ 
perature below 50 degrees, but of course, 
the cold storage temperature is 30 de¬ 
grees. If eggs are at 50 degrees, they 
must be kept much drier, in order to pre¬ 
vent molding and development of a musty 
odor, than is necessary if they are kept 
as low at 30 degrees, and the time of 
holding must also be considered. I be¬ 
lieve that a cool, moist place is desir¬ 
able for eggs, provided they aren’t to be 
kept there long enough to start develop¬ 
ment of molds. The man who keeps his 
eggs not over three days, and puts them 
in cartons before holding them will find 
that a cool dry place will not cause much 
more evaporation than a cool, moist 
place. It is possible that the other mat¬ 
ters under consideration are important 
enough, so that he can stand a little 
evaporation in the eggs. 
EA?L W. BENJAMIN. 
Cornell University. 
Chickens Roost in Trees. 
My chickens roost in tall birch trees 
in preference to their houses, which was 
all very fine until this rainy weather 
came on. I have been going out after 
dark and pulling them down to put them 
in their houses. Is it safe to leave them 
out in the trees during rainy nights? 
They are April and May hatches and are 
fine big White Wyandottes. Two have 
had eroupy colds but there have been 
as many cases among the birds that were 
in their houses. a. m. w. 
Massachusetts. 
I have always let my chickens take 
to near-by trees as soon as they wished 
and have never seen any ill effects from 
the exposure; in fact, I feel quite easy 
about my pullets when they begin to take 
to tall timber, and the higher above 
ground they go, the easier I feel. It is 
quite a job to pull them down for their 
Winter quarters but the harder it is to 
get them the better. Some tall apple 
trees near my colony houses often look 
as though they had blossomed out in 
white on Fall evenings and are very pret¬ 
ty in the moonlight. It is true that a 
cold rainy night in early Fall makes one 
shiver for the pullets, but, if they have 
spent the latter part of the Summer in 
the trees, the exposure does not seem to 
harm them. Far better in the trees than 
in close, stuffy houses. m. b. d. 
Winter Laying. 
I have been in the poultry business a 
number of years, but of late I cannot 
seem to make them lay in the Winter. 
Could you tell me a ration to keep them 
laying the best part of the Winter? 
New York. a. r. k. 
Unfortunately, there is no ration that 
will make hens lay in the Winter; the 
nearest that we can come to it is to give 
them a ration that will supply all their 
needs, . both for bodily maintenance and 
the production of eggs, and then depend 
upon such other factors as laying age, 
general comfort and a disposition to lay 
inherited from laying ancestors. 
A good ration will contain grain food, 
both ground and whole, green food in 
some form, water in abundance, grit and 
lime, the latter most conveniently given 
as crushed oyster shells, and meat or 
skim-milk. Good formulas for prepar¬ 
ing grain foods are numerous, no single 
one having been demonstrated to be bet¬ 
ter than all others. The following sim¬ 
ple one has given good results in the 
hands of the writer; For whole grains, 
a mixture of wheat, corn, oats and buck¬ 
wheat ; barley is also excellent. For 
ground mash, to be kept, dry, before the 
fowls at all times, equal parts of corn- 
meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings, glu¬ 
ten feed and beef scrap. This contains 
a larger proportion of meat scrap than 
is usually recommended, but none too 
much, I think, unless an ample supply of 
skim-milk can be made to replace a part 
of it. While the exclusive use of dry 
mash is the practice of a very large 
number, if not the most, of poultrymen, 
there is little doubt that a dairy feed¬ 
ing of moist mash, in addition, will stim¬ 
ulate egg production through inducing 
the hen to eat more egg producing food 
than she otherwise would. The neces¬ 
sity of clean, dry, comfortable quarters, 
of sunlight, clean water and all other 
conditions which tend to make a hen 
happy are too well understood to need 
dwelling upon. m. b. ». 
Weak Ankle. 
We have a mare, a good free drawer, 
and full of life. Lately we notice she 
stumbles behind, and at times stands as 
if ankle-cocked, and a small swelling ap¬ 
pears on front of ankle about size of 
silver quarter, yet a little raised. Could 
you tell what is good for this and the 
cause? a. 
New York. 
The mare has wrenched or turned her 
ankle a trifle and will be likely to do so 
again when driven hard, and especially 
when suddenly stopped or turned. Let 
her occupy a .box stall in the stable, and 
each time she comes in, hand-rub the 
ankle and then bandage snugly with 
flannel. If this does not suffice bathe the 
ankle twice daily with a mixture of equal 
parts of druggists’ soap liniment, alcohol 
and extract of witch hazel and bandage 
when dry. Keep her off board floors. 
Have the foot kept level and the shoe 
reset at least once a month. A. s. A. 
* Dishorning Calves. 
I am interested in removing the horns 
from a calf’s head and having been told 
to use caustic potash, I purchased a 
small stick of it and rubbed it on the 
buttons as they appeared on the calf’s 
head. I was under the impression that 
the drug would eat its way into the roots 
of the horn and that the buttons would 
drop off. This did not happen, however, 
and I believe the horns are continuing to 
live and grow. Can you give me some 
details on this matter so that I may re¬ 
move all traces of the horns? w. e. w. 
New York. 
Caustic potash is used before the calf 
is a week old, when the horn buttons can 
just be felt under the skin. The hair is 
shaved off, the skin then slightly 
dampened and the caustic rubbed in until 
the skin is well cauterized, or a crust 
begins to form. This prevents the horn 
from growing and the calf develops a 
natural-appearing “mulley” poll. Care 
has to be taken not to make the skin so 
wet that caustic will run down where 
it is not needed, and one end of the stick 
of potash should be wrapped in strong 
paper to protect the fingers of the oper¬ 
ator against burning. In the calf in 
question the horns will have to be re¬ 
moved now by gouging, or later by saw¬ 
ing or use of dishorning shears. 
A. S. A. 
! 
Capture Your 
E<fof Market 
J. B. Mormon writes in American 
Poultry Journal: “Danish farm¬ 
ers became keenly alive to the fact that 
when fowls were intelligently bred and 
•well fed they laid larger eggs, and so captured 
the London egg trade.” You can capture your 
egg market by feeding Red CombMeat Mash.the 
great egg maker for chickens, ducks or turkeys. 
It Costs 
You Less 
to feed Red Comb 
than to buy the ma¬ 
terials and mi x them 
yourself. Sell your 
grain. Buy Red 
Comb. Quisenberry, 
who made hens pay 
a yearly profit of 
$7.16each,says:“We 
use Red Comb.’* 
Ask your dealer. 
Write for free book, 
‘‘Feeding Poultry 
for Profit.” written 
by six experts. 
Edwards & Loomis 
344- € N. Elizabeth Si. 
Chicago, Ill. 
BTfrs. of Famous Ltnoof 
Bed Horn hairy Feeds 
Red Comb 
MEANS HEALTH 
I 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
D. W. YOUNG’S STRAIN 
1,000 choice yearling hens @ $1 each, during Novem¬ 
ber. Special bred for layers on free farm range. 
Choice pens of 10 liens, 1 cock, $12. My Book, 
"Profits in Poultry Keepiotj Solved,” free with all $111 or¬ 
ders. EDGAR DRIGGS, Box 75, Pleasant Valley, N.Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
200 choice yearling hens, heavy winter layers 
of large white eggs, nice large fowl with large 
comb. 75 CENTS EACH 
ERWIN H. HULSE, GALVERTON, L. I., N. Y. 
1,000 S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
range raised; in fine condition. Selected for win¬ 
ter layers. Also some extra good cockerels. 
RAMAP0 POULTRY ANU FRUIT FARM, Sprint) Valley. N. Y. 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
400 pullets for sale at45c. per lb. BUY BY WEIGHT and get 
what you pay for. GEO FROST, Levanna, Cayuga Co., N.Y. 
For Sale A Large Type of S.C.W. Leghorn Pullets 
and year-old liens. Heavy egg producers. Wyckoff 
strain direct. J. M. CASE, Gilboa, New York 
Tom Barron’sWhite Leghorns 
Direct Importers. Purebred yearling hens for breed¬ 
ers. Best trail-nested stock. 282-egg strain. It’s 
the strain that counts. Hens, $1.50: cocks, $2: cock¬ 
erels, $1.50. 1*. F. Rafferty, Marlboro, Mass. 
BarronWhiteLeghornCockerels 
Wyandotte cockerels. Pedigrees ajl over 200. 1m 
ported birds. Barron Farm, Connellsville, Fa. 
PULLETS-S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
ks Tom Barron and ^ Cornell University Strain, 75c. 
to $1.25. I make rearing pullets my specialty. Best 
Of references. L. E. ING0L0SBY, Hartwick Seminary. N.Y. 
arron Stock. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, White Wyandottes, Cock birds, 
Cockerels, Yearling Hens and Pullets, out of direct 
importation from the World’s greatest layers. Cata¬ 
logue free. Brookfield Poultry Farm, R. F 0. Ho. 3,Versailles. Ohio 
Tom Barron White Leghorn Cockerels 
248-272-egg strain. Large, healthy, free-range stock. 
Write Patterson’s Poultry Farm, Clayton, N. Y. 
“Are the fish biting now?” asked the 
stranger. “Yes,” replied the boy. “But 
you ain’t allowed to catch ’em.” “Do you 
mean to say that you don’t fish?” “I 
don’t exactly fish. But if a fish comes 
along and bites at me I do my best to 
defend myself.” — Philadelphia Public 
Ledger. 
If0 S. C. White Leghorn pullets for sale. Nice, 
large, healthy birds of March and April hatch, nice 
type and shape and ready to do business. $1 each. 
Guaranteed as represented. Address 
H. II. AUDLFY, Box 661, Cincinnati, Ohio 
COCKERELS 
S. and R. C. Reds. Best strains. $2 up. BUURBUN 
REU TUMS, $5 UP. A. F. Conklin, Amenia, N.Y. 
Tom Barron WhiteWyandotte Cockerels and Pullets 
for sale. 283-203-egg stock, imported direct. 
F. E. LEWIS, - Apalachin, N. Y. 
White Leghorn Pullets and Cockerels'^^.’d 
Wyckoff’s strain. Vigorous, Farm Range grown 
birds from record layers. Also yearling liens and 
cocks. Prices Right. R.T. Ewing, Atlantic,Pa. 
200 Sept. Hatched W. Leghorn Pullets 
Will keep until March if ordered before December 
10th, otherwise will sell as broilers. Also Gray Afri¬ 
can geese and Homerpigeons. C. G.Schryver,Omar.N.Y 
Purebred White Holland Turkeys Kodman‘,^. d Y^ 
Pure Breed BOURBON RED TURKEYS 
References given. Pair, $8; trio $10. YoungToms, 
$5; old, $7. Fiona Horning, No. 1, Genesee, Pa. 
Bourbon-Red Turkeys, p t ” V 7,”” 1 54 
toms, $5. Milton D. Stickley, Strasburg, Va. 
UIHITE WYAN00TTE COCKERELS from heavy-laying, 
** trap-nested hens, will increase egg production. 
MIDDIEBR00K POULTRY FARM. Miss Marion I Moore, Hamburg, N. Y 
PULLETS 
Young s S. C. W. Leghorns, months old, 
$1.25. Fisliel’s White Rock cocks, cock¬ 
erels, $3 to $5. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H. KUHL, PLEASANT VIEW POULTRY YARDS 
Tibbitts Ave., Troy, N. Y. 
PULLETS 
S. C. W. Leghorn, Barron and Conn. Agr. College 
strains. $1.25, $1.50. Free range stock tested for 
White Diarrhea. Also White Leghorn and Barred 
Rock cockerels. A. B. Hall, Wallingford, Conn. 
For Sale-2,000 S.C. W.L. PULLETS 
raised on free range and in perfect condition, at 
$1.50 each Also 500 S. C. W. L. breeding liens, at) 
$1 each. C. W. Sherwood, 2 Gramercy Park N. Y. C. 
P I r I S neavy-iaying, sianaaru-Dred S.C.White 
. 7 .7 ‘ \ Leghorns. 75 cents each for quick sale. 
J.GCY LFSHFR, - Northumberland, l’a. 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
3 months old. Also cockerels, including Barron 
lafe^aarMag •rH&i&sa.-'s:'?; 
Knapp-WyckoffS.C.W. Leghorns 
Free range raised. The very best " Utility” strain. 
Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Write me yoiirwants 
“ CHASE POULTRY FARM,” F. M. Davis. CINCINNATUS, N . y! 
Rflrrnn P.nrlprpk -8 - c - White Leghorns, farm 
DdrrunOOCKereiS ,. earedt from pen imported di¬ 
rect. Certified egg records, 250 to 280; ol der early. 
The White Poultry Farms, - Cairo, N. Y. 
S.C. While leghorn Pullets 
“ FARM LEIGH,” 
Carmel, N. Y. 
S. C. W. Orpington Pullets 
at $1 to $1.50 per Pullet and S. C. Brown Leghorn 
cockerels at $1.25 to $2.50. Our stock O K—all right. 
THE ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
John H. Wariel S Son, Rohrerstown, Pa. 
