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THE HENYARD 
Poultry on Back Lots 
The New .Tersey State Poultry Associa¬ 
tion is a live .irganization, with C. S. 
Greene of Lakewood, N. J,, as president. 
This ass oiation believes that backyard 
gardeners and owners of small tracts of 
laud should be encouraged to keep more 
poultry, both as a means for conserving 
food and also to provide a market for 
chickens and eggs. 
In many town families no provision is 
made for taking care of the table scraps 
and garbage, which, in spite of all the ad¬ 
vice given by iSIr. Hoover, amount to con¬ 
siderable in the course of a month. In 
some cities like Mobile, Ala., provision has 
been made for keeping pigs inside the city 
limits away from the crowded sections. 
In this way the garbage is saved to ad- 
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vantage. There are thousands of places, 
however, where‘it would not be possible 
to keep the pigs, but in many of these 
cases a good crop of chickens wnnld jirove 
a regular source of income. Table scraps 
would help feed them, and the refuse from 
the small garden could be well used by 
these birds. If handled with good .indg- 
ment a small flock of iimiltry kept in this 
way would prove a good family asset. It 
would not be wise to keep such a large 
flock that the grain hill would be excessive, 
but a dozen or more of good hens kept in 
a small enclosure would get nearly half 
their living from the wastes of the table 
and garden, and would in this way prove 
ver.v useful to the small town family. 
Then in addition to this, this plan would 
provide an excellent outlet for the sale 
of eggs and chickens, which would enable 
our poultry breeders to keep in the busi¬ 
ness and continue their work of improving 
A Box of Sprouted Oats 
their birds until the . times improve and 
cheaper grain can be found. 
Gii the whole this suggestion from the 
New .Terse.v society is a good one. It 
ought to bo taken up and developed, and 
many a family will find it greatly to their 
advantage to find this outlet for the table 
scraps. In the meantime, as if anticipa¬ 
ting such a plan, the Department of Agri¬ 
culture has issued a bulletin on ‘‘Back¬ 
yard Poultry Keeping.” by B. B. Slocum. 
This is Fanners’ Bulletin SSO. It is well 
illustrated, and gives a very good idea of 
how to keep a small flock of hens. This 
bulletin is well worth reading, and it may 
be commended to many of our readers who 
live in town and have room for a dozen 
birds. The pictures given herewith are 
taken from this pamphlet. One shows 
the form of a small house made out of 
two piano boxes placed back to back, and 
covered by a frame of paper. The other 
shows a scheme for providing green feed. 
As will bo seen, a frame is covered with 
poultry netting. The oats are seeded, and 
this frame is put down over them, so that 
the oats as they grow come up through 
the wire and enable the hens to nibble off 
the green feed without destroying the oats. 
January 12, 1918 
Improving Hen Ration 
Will you advise me about a dry mash? 
I am using a mash I never used before 
composed of 10 lbs. bran, 5 lbs. middlings, 
5 lbs. meal, 5 lbs. ground oats, 10 lbs. 
gluten, 5 lbs. Alfalfa, 5 lbs. scrap. They 
do not eat it as they ought, and do not 
lay well. This is the scratch: 5 qts. 
cracked corn, 4 qts. shrunk''n wheat, 4 
qts. oats, 2 qts. barley, 1 qt. buckwheat. 
All but the corn is .soaked in warm water 
until fed. I give them a big handful each 
at night. Every 2.5 hens six handfuls in 
morning. I feed them at noon a peck of 
cattle beets chopped fine, with a little of 
the mash on this. The next day I give 
them 4 qts. Alfalfa, cooked, with 4 qts. 
mash, mixed, eight pens, 175 birds. I 
have a nice lot, and never so poor egg 
yield. w. K. S. 
Vermont. 
The grains and mash that you are feed¬ 
ing are all right, but I presume that you 
are feeding so much chopped beets at noon 
that the fowls don’t eat much of the mash. 
A hen holds only so much, and if you fill 
her up on something that tastes good 
she naturally declines less palatable food, 
even if the latter would be better for egg 
production. I should keep the mash al¬ 
ways before the fowls, unless you prefer 
to moisten it and feed it once daily, and 
I should not bother to soak the whole 
grains. With soaked grain, soaked Al¬ 
falfa and soaked beets your hens are get¬ 
ting .so much water that it is not strange 
that they are soaking you. Keep plenty' 
of water before them, but keep the most 
of it in a pail. 
Five handfuls of grain to 25 hens is a 
prett.v small morning meal, and when you 
are feeding them at night yon are prob- 
ahl.v thinking about the price of corn. 
Don’t do it; it cramps one's hand so that 
the hens are likely to go to bed without 
grist enough to keep up their weiglit and 
turn out a surplus in eggs. It’s hard 
work to feed hens enough at this time of 
the year, hut they won’t lay unless they 
are well fed, and some won’t do it anyway. 
It takes a great combination of faith and 
recklessne.ss to keep up egg production in 
the Winter, and you never know which 
one of the traits is going to receive its 
natural reward. M. n. n. 
Mixed Color of Barred Rocks 
I bought a setting of Barred Rock eggs 
from a man supposed to have fine birds. 
After raising these birds and picking out 
m.v best cockerel I find that ho has one 
feather brown and greenish. Has this 
bird mongrel blood? One of my cockerels 
that I raised from him also has a wing 
feather like this. m. p. e. 
Ohio. 
The above letter when received by me 
contained one feather which looked like 
a tail covert feather from a cockerel. It 
was a very poorly marked feather for a 
wellhred Barred Bock. Yet it seems 
hardly right to condemn a bird’s breeding 
on the fact that one feather was not prop¬ 
erly marked or colored. If the rest of the 
feathers were brightly and clearly barred 
I would not sa.v he was illhrod. 
In breeding iiarticolorcd birds it is very 
difficult to breed a flock which does not 
contain some liirds imperfectly marked, 
and it is that fact which gives so much 
value to the perfect ones. Even with 
single-colored birds like White Wyan- 
dottes. or any of the breeds made by cross¬ 
ing several other breeds, there will be an 
outcropping occasionally of foul feathers. 
The very whitest specimens of White 
Wyandottes are prone to have black 
feathers in the half-grown cockerels, but 
if these feathers are pulled out, they will 
be replaced by white feathers. The 
creamy White Wyandottes seldom are 
bothered with black feathers. The mating 
of Barred Bocks so as to produce evenly 
l)arred and good colored birds is something 
to he learned only by years of experience. 
A man may have a pen of perfectly 
marked birds, raise a hundred chicks from 
them and not get a bird the equal of their 
parents. The reason is, because there was 
not a proper balance in the color of the 
male and the females. Indeed, it is per¬ 
fectly easy to produce hlack pullets by 
mating Barred Rocks where both sexes 
are too dark colored. GEO. A. Cosgrove. 
The annual meeting of the Rural Sav¬ 
ings and Loan Association will be held at 
the office. West ,30th Street, at one 
o’clock. Tuesday, January 1.5. 1918. This 
meeting is for the purpose of electing offi¬ 
cers for the ensuing year, and six direc¬ 
tors for a term of one and three years. 
M. G. Keyes. 
Secretary. 
