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Prevents water from 
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Coal-burning Hover 
50 to 500 chick size, $9.35 
50 to 1500 “ “ 10.30 
Provides ample room for 
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cure temperatures best 
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heat maintained. No 
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Hard coal, soft coal or 
coke. Cost to operate, 8 
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Chicken Coop. $1.92 
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Ventilators at top. Rain 
cannot enter. Sliding 
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135—Chick Brooder 
$3.85 , , 
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These brooders shelter 
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Self regulator. Steady 
burning brooder lamp 
with seamless bowl. 
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directions for operating. 
Many other styles shown. 
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New labor-saving conveniences. 
The Henyard 
Sick Turkey 
T have a turkey gobbler that has _ not 
eaten much for over a week. lie drinks 
a lot of water and eats some oyster shells. 
His droppings are very watery and are 
yellow. lie is getting very light. There 
has been .some corn where he could get it 
that was soft and unglazed. For feed 
he had scratch feed, a little corn and a 
dry mash. What do you think is the 
trouble? w. A. C. 
New York. 
This turkey is probably^ sufTcring from 
the universal scourge of his kind, “black¬ 
head,” prominent symptoms of which 
are diarrha'a and progressive loss of 
weight, followed by death. There is no 
known cure, the disease being due to an 
infection aciinircd by picking up the 
causative organism with food or drink 
found on range where other fowls have 
lived. Tliis disease commonly carries off 
the turkeys before they reach maturity 
but some survive to become chronic 
cases and carriers of the infection to 
others. M. B. I). 
Hen Cholera 
Is there any I’emedy or sjiecific for the 
extermination of hen cholera? I have a 
terrible scourge of this disease among my 
poultry, and numerous remedies common¬ 
ly used have failed to arrest the di.sease. 
Maryland. w. M. ii. 
True fowl cholera is comparatively raie 
in this country, but is virulent in its 
ravages whcui present and requires ener¬ 
getic measures for its eradication. There 
is no specific remedy, the basis of suc¬ 
cessful treatment being isolation of all 
affected fowls and disinfection of the 
premises. In the presence of this ma¬ 
lady, the flock should ho carefully watch¬ 
ed and all ailing birds promptly re¬ 
moved. Those that are seriously sick 
should be killed and their carcasses deep¬ 
ly buried or burned. No blood should 
he spilled in the process, as the blood i.s 
highly infectious. Well birds should be 
separated from those that are known, or 
suspected, to be sick and every effort 
made to keep them apart. Droppings, 
litter, etc., may he disinfected by satur¬ 
ating with a solution of one pound of 
sulphuric acid in 50 quarts of water. 
This is cheap and efficacious, but .should 
he used with great caution. Use wooden 
buckets and pour the acid carefully into 
a lai’ge volume of water, being careful 
to avoid si)la.shing. The pure acid is 
violently corrosive and will destroy any¬ 
thing with which it comes in contact, 
including fle.sh; after dilution it is safe. 
Perches, nests, etc., may be sprayed with 
any reliable disinfectant solution. An 
ordinary watering pot may he used to 
apply the sulphuric acid solution to piles 
of droppings and filth. This process of 
isolation and disinfection should be con¬ 
tinuous until the disease disappears from 
the premise.s. though it is sometimes 
found advisable to dispose of the well 
members of the flock for meat and to 
make a new start with uninfected stock. 
Not all diarrheeal diseases are true chol¬ 
era, and the milder forms are more easi¬ 
ly overcome by the same measures of iso¬ 
lation and disinfection, M. B. D. 
Double-yolked Eggs 
In my backyard poultry phant I have 15 
well-bred S. C. Rhode Island Reds. They 
are March-hatched pullets aud are now 
laying fairly well. One of the pullets 
is laying a very large egg, which I find 
is donble-yolked. Can you give me the 
reason why this pullet should lay this 
sort of an egg? E. ir. K. 
New York. 
T can explain the wherefore, hut not 
the why. If two yolks mature in the 
ovary at about the same time and drop 
into the upper end of the oviduct to¬ 
gether, they will pass along that organ, 
taking on their succes.sive coats of 
“white,” and will finally he included 
within the same shell Such eggs are 
larger than others, and, if they hatch, 
/are likely to produce double, or de¬ 
formed, chicks. Some hens lay double- 
yolked eggs habitually, and any hen 
probably may do so. Some hens go even 
farther in their variation from the nor¬ 
mal and possess double sets of egg-mak¬ 
ing organs, both sets of which have been 
known to functionate, as shown by find¬ 
ing eggs in each oviduct upon autopsy. 
M. B, D. 
Equipment for Handling Chickens 
I have here about 75 Rhode Island 
Red hens and pullets -and 12 Wyandotte 
pullets. I want to raise from 400 to 600 
young chickens this coming year. What 
equipment do you think necessary? I 
expect to sell the cockerels as broilers 
and to keep the best pullets for layers 
next Winter. Would like to have them 
hatched in IMarch and April. I now 
have a 140-egg incubator, a 50-chick size 
brooder and one-brooder honse, 8x8 feet. 
AYould you consider another incubator, 
about 200-egg size, a coal burning hover 
and another brooder house 8x8 a profit¬ 
able investment under the conditions 
named? If chicks were hatched in 
March, about how long would they need 
artificial heat, or, in other words, if 
using a coal hover how soon could you 
use it for another hatch Would you 
consider it advisable to purchase a 
couple of cockerels whose dams have egg 
records of 200 eggs or better, provided 
you could get them for around .$5? 
Pennsylvania. f. z. 
Your equipment is rather small for 
the production of 400 to 600 chicks, 
though, if the hatching were prolonged 
well into May and such broody hens as 
yoii may have were utilized, I think that 
you would have no difficulty in getting 
out the required number. All things 
considered, I should prefer May hatched 
chicks to those got out in March. If I 
were to purchase another incubator, I 
should choose a large size, preferring one 
400 machine to two 200-egg one.s. One 
coal heater would easily care for 600 
chicks if they were of approximately the 
same age. but if they are hatched in 
small batches over a jieriod of two or 
three months they cannot well bo brood¬ 
ed together. P>y using wire paititions 
•about the heater two or more different 
ages may be kept in the same building, 
however; An 8xS-foot brooder hou.se is 
pretty small for a coal heater, but may 
be u.sed. Your chicks would need some 
artificial heat until settled warm 
weather, probably Avell into May. It is 
hai-d to say what would be a “wise in¬ 
vestment” for another. For myself, if 
I wanted Init a few hundred chicks, 1 
should try to keep down the investment 
in permanent equipment and make use 
largely of the broody hen. With Rhode 
Island Reds, well cared for while sit¬ 
ting aud allowed to hatch two broods in 
succe.ssiou if need be. a good many chicks 
can be got out in three months, and they 
are likely to he considerably superior to 
artificially reared ones. I should con¬ 
sider two such cockerels reasonable in 
price if their other characteristics were 
equal to their dams’ egg records. 
M. B. D, 
Feeding Dry Mash 
I have about 90 pullets that were 
raised on free range and put in Winter 
quarters about Oct. 1.5. While on range 
in addition to their regular mash .1 gave 
them one feed of moist mash. When I 
put them in the laying house I tried to 
stop feeding the moist mash, but they 
ate such a little dry mash I was afraid 
to stop feeding it very long. I have 
tried to stop feeding it several times 
since, but had to start again. I have 
tried a number of different mixtures, 
hut it does no good. I am feeding the 
Oornell mash now, and am going to try 
8torrs. I have about 40 hens that av¬ 
eraged over 50 per cent, for the first six 
mouths of last year, but now they do 
not seem to relish their mash. I feed 
15 ])Ounds of corn and wheat to the 90 
birds and seven iwunds to the 40 hens. 
Virginia. E. N. H. 
While hens undoubtedly prefer moist 
ma.sh to di-y, there is usm lly little diffi¬ 
culty in inducing them to eat enough of 
the latter, and thei-f* is less danger of 
their suffering from the ills of overfeed¬ 
ing if mash is kept before them in dry 
form. Very likely your pullets show a 
disinclination to eat enough of the dry 
mash because of their appetites being so 
nearly satisfied with the whole grain that 
they are getting. By restricting the 
amount of whole grain fed the consump¬ 
tion of dry mash can be increased and 
with fowls laying well it is sometimes 
wise to induce heavy consumption of 
dry mash by this restriction. A greater 
amount of finely ground grain can, of 
course, be utilized by any animal than 
of whole grain, and, when the demands 
of production are heavy, ground grains 
meet them better than whole ones. 
M. B. D. 
Hens Eat Droppings 
You have recommended using dirt 
floors and no dropping platforms in 
henhouses. I have always ushuI dirt 
floors and prefer those, but have tried 
to get along without dropping hoards in 
our several 20x16 houses: have set the 
12-inch board on floor in f.-ont of roosts. 
How can the hens be prevented from 
loafing under the roosts aud eating the 
droppings? By 7 o’clock A. M. they 
have all droppings of previous night en¬ 
tirely eaten up. n. B, o. 
New Jersey. 
I do not know why hens should eat 
their droppings from the floor when 
they would not do so if dropping boards 
were used. Is it not possible that these 
droppings are buried from sight in the 
earth rather than eaten? The depraved 
appetite which results in eating drop¬ 
pings is probably due to digestive dis¬ 
turbances from the presence of intestinal 
parasites or some disorder of the diges¬ 
tive organs. See that fowls developing 
this habit have green food of some kind, 
charcoal and grit. If intestinal worms 
are present, give oil of turpentine in 
teaspoonful doses, administered through 
a soft rubber catheter passed into the 
crop. Feed whole grain, also, in deep 
litter to induce exercise, and give the 
fowls as much liberty as possible. 
M. B. Dl 
