Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE HENYARD 
Cracker Waste for Poultry 
What is the value of factory waste 
from cracker factories as feed for poul¬ 
try? This feed consists of cracker crumbs, 
<-ocoanut. peanuts, broken crackers and 
cookies. It sometimes contains (piite an 
.imount of sujjar. Is sugar of any feeding 
value for poultry? ® L. S. S. 
.Martville. X. Y. 
I consider factory waste from cracker 
factories very good feed for poultry, as it 
is most thoroughly cooked ; therefore, it is 
easily digested, and it has the advantage 
of being very palatable. For laying hens 
I have used la to 20 jier cent of this feed 
mixed with the di-y mash with very good 
results. For growing chicks and fatten¬ 
ing broilers about 2a i)er cent of the dry 
or moist mash may be broken crackers. 
When feeding cracker waste, the fact 
should be kept in mind that this is »a 
very* fattening feed, and the ration for 
an.v particular lot of fowls should be reg¬ 
ulated accordingly, feeding it only to birds 
which can stand a little more flesh with¬ 
out becoming too fat. Sugar has consid¬ 
erable fe»'ding value. All starchy matter 
must be changed into sugar before it can 
be used to i'e))lenish the wornout tissues 
of the body. I would consider this waste 
from ci'acker fa<‘tories about two-thirds 
jis much as corumeal. C. S. GREENE. 
Packing Eggs ; Kafir Corn 
1 . lias it been decided which is the bet¬ 
ter way to stand an egg, on the little end 
or big end? Of course, I know that to 
keep long they should have the case 
turned often; but I put the eggs in the 
case as I gather them, to be shipped in 
a week, and I want to know which end 
up. 2. Is kafir corn high in protein? 
IIow does it compare with Indian corn 
as feed for la.ving hens? IIow does buck¬ 
wheat comi)are with corn? R. M. B. 
Xew York. 
1. The small end of the egg downward 
is the customary way to pack eggs in con¬ 
tainers, and if packed in that wa.v they 
do m)t need to be tiirned. but if eggs are 
left lying on the side it is veiT? necessoary 
to turn them, as the yolk will settle 
through the white and finally touch the 
shell, when the egg will be spoiled. 
2. Corn 'and kafir corn are very nearly 
altke in carbodyrates, hut kafir corn 
has less i)rotein. Comparing the two in 
terms of. yolks and whites 100 pounds of 
corn would contain the elements of 25-5 
yolks and 124 whites. Kafir corn would 
contain 254 yolks and 125 whites. Buck¬ 
wheat is more nearly balanced. A hun¬ 
dred pounds would contain 178 yolks and 
128 whites. Feed problems are of great 
importance now. Wheat we must elim¬ 
inate ; the world needs it too badly for | 
human food. Below is a war ration 
evenlv balanced. 
T.bs. Yolks. Whites. ' 
rain, corn. 
... 200 
.510 
208 
asli. middlings . . 
. . . 20 
41 
44 
r.raii . 
. . . 20 
Ml 
41 
(Jronnd oats. . . . 
20 
.81 
f'ornmeal . 
. . . 20 
52 
28 
Beef seraj). 
. . . 20 
27 
2.88 
500 
700 
700 
GKO. A. 
(OSGKOVE. 
Capons as Brooders 
Noticing on page 01 the reciuest for in- 
foi-mation on “Caiams for Brooding.” I | 
will give my <‘xi)erience of the past sea- i 
son. I have had o])i)ortunity to test out i 
but two breeds for this jmrpose. Dark i 
Cornish and Columbian Wyandotte. The 
former would not own chickens or have 
anything to do with them, but the Wyan- ; 
dottes .with few exceptions, readily adopt- ' 
ed the youngsters and made most excel¬ 
lent “mothers.” The capons used were 
yearlings, some of them less than a year 
old. 'riiey were jdaced in the coop they 
were to occupy a few days before <4iicks 
were due, that they might become accus¬ 
tomed to the new (piarters and possibly 
feel lonely. Chicks were placed with their 
foster mother when .about 48 hours old; 1 
this should be done on a warm day or in 1 
ii warm place, to av(tid chilling the chicks, 
as the capon is sometimes a little slow in 
hovering pro))erly—acts as you have per¬ 
haps seen a young father in the human 
family, willing, but just a little awk- 
waial at first, but they soon get the idea 
and cluck, call, feed and warm chicks as 
<loes the hen. but entirely without the 
nervousness and worry which she dis¬ 
plays, and so are much less likely to step 
on or injure them. 
('apons brooding chicks are as pugna¬ 
cious toward neighboring broods as are 
mother hens, and unless separated will 
never wean their chicks. However, after_ 
chicks are old enough to do without hov-‘ 
ering, he may be taken away, and after a 
<lay or two is ready to take on a new 
family of little «nes, and so on indefinite- 
l.\-! Capons for this purpose should, of 
course, be kept very tame; as they are 
larger and much more heavily feathered 
than hens, they will cover a <'onsiderabl.v 
larger brood. The scheme has certainly 
solved the brooding problem for me; saves 
lots of time and labor, no lamps or stoves 
to care for. and with an eloctrobator to 
hatch ’em, allows the old hen to keep right 
on laying. I am wintering an increased 
number for use next season. No, have 
none to sell. w. ii. wuipble. 
Maine. 
Laying Ration 
Will you tell me how to mix the fol¬ 
lowing grains for a perfect ration for 
Plymouth Rock hens? Corn. oats, wheat 
and buckwheat, and also suggest mash to 
balance it up. r. w. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
I wouldn’t feed good, sound wheat to 
hens to-day. Other grains will so nearly 
take its place that its use for poultry 
isn’t justifieel; that is. unless you have 
shrunken or “feed wheat.” Corn, oats 
and buckwheat are good in almost any 
proportion. ()ats are comparatively cheap 
and may well be fed in as large iiuantity 
as the hens will eat without waste. Here 
is the war ration for hens recommended 
by the agricultural stations of several 
States. It may be “perfect.” but you 
can probably modify it a little without 
noticeable damage. Grain: 400 to 000 
lbs. cracked corn (don’t bother to crack 
it; hens enjoy doing that) ; 100 lbs. feed 
wheat (cut it out. unless you really have 
“feed” wheat) ; 100 to 300 lbs. barley; 
200 to 3(K) lbs. heavy oats. Mash : Equal 
parts, by weight, of wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, cornmeal, ground oats, gluten 
feed ami meat scrap. If you have plenty 
of .skim-milk, you can replace the meat 
scrap, wholly or in i)art. _ I suppose that 
the only really perfect ration for egg pro¬ 
duction would be eggs; they certainly 
contaiu all the needed nutrients in exactly 
the pi’oportions in which they are found 
in eggs, but they are a trifle high just 
now. yr. n. d. 
The Dove-cote Bug ; Driving Through 
Field 
I. I bought some turkeys last Spring, 
and this Fall when I cleaned the hen¬ 
house I found bedbugs. Did the turkeys 
bring them, as they roosted in the hen¬ 
house? The house has been built about 
five or six years. 2. After a snowstorm 
how long may people travel through the 
fields? Have they any right to stop one 
the first day after a storm ; that is, if the 
road is drifted full? Have they any right 
to stop your horses, and tell you there is 
the road? ir. M. s. 
I'lster Co., N. Y. 
1. These parasites may be the true bed¬ 
bug of our houses, or the dove-cote bug, 
that infests pigeon houses. They are 
very similar in appearance, and some be¬ 
lieve them to be identical. The dove-cote 
bug most seriously affects young pigeons, 
but ma.v be fouml on other fowls ; it does 
not seem to me likely that the pests were 
brought to your poultry house on turkeys. 
2. The matter of using the fields in 
time of drifted snow is, I think, a matter 
of custom and courtesy. If there is any 
law permitting it. I do not know of it. 
and I have driven country roads for 
many years. Ji. R. n. 
round pasture are a big advantage 
to the stock raiser when he buy.s 
good land cheap, as he can in 
Eastern Oklahoma 
along the M. K. & T. Ry* 
The mild, short winters here demand little 
shelter for stock, and many of these new, 
low-priced farms will pay for themselves 
with owe good crop of corn, wheat or oats. 
Here’s just owe of these Eastern Oklahoma 
farm bargains; 140 acres, Mayes county, 
two miles from good to^vn; nice, smooth 
land, 75 acres in com and oats, remainder 
in native blue stem grass; oats on 50 acres 
made 52 bu. per acre in 1917, and the land 
costa only $i5 per acre. Ea.stem Oklahoma 
offers a wonderful combination of advan¬ 
tages. U. S. Agricultural Dept, reports it 
“exceptionally favorable for agriculture." 
More annual rainfall than in Iowa end 
Illinois, early plowing, long seasons, and 
soil adaptable to great variety of crops. 
Many owners are discovering oil. 
The Eastern Oklahoma Farm Bureau has 
no land for sale; it has listed a number of 
farms for farmers looking for low-priced 
land that will bring them big returns. 
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And of course you will. 
But then comes the problem. 
“How shall I keep down the chick 
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