Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
661 
tliiit will divert thoir minds nnd oansn 
t.lifin to forgot onoh other. 
If salt pork proves a remedy, it seems 
to me some indication that salt may he 
what they crave and find in fresh blood. 
.\iiimals deprived of salt become ravenous 
for it. Salt in large quantity is poisonous 
to fowls, but in proper quantity they 
probably need it as much as any other 
members of the animal kingdom. Salt 
should be added to the mash in the pro¬ 
portion of abotit one-half pound to the 
hundre<l. I do not know how much more 
could l)e safely given. >r. n. P. 
Lighting up the Henhouse 
I have been reading the article on page 
518 on “E.xtending Daylight for the lien” 
by M. B. Dean. We are living in Peta¬ 
luma, Cal., “the largest poultry center in 
the world,” and we have a number of 
houses in this locality lighted by elec¬ 
tricity. The houses contain from 500 to 
1 ,0(K) hens, but instead of lighting them 
at night as the author writes of, ours 
are started in the morning, sometimes as 
early as ?, A. W. The lights are started 
by an alarm clock in the henhouse. Our 
own house is about 250 ft. from our 
dwelling, and the minute the lights go on 
the roosters begin to crow. Yes, there 
are roosters. We have been selling eggs 
to a hatchery for several months, and we 
have a friend who lights up for his hens, 
and from a case of 432 eggs the hatchery 
gets 400 chicks. That looks as though 
M. B. Dean need not end his article 
with “Alas, and alas!” 
California. mbs. E. w. orkex. 
White Diarrhoea 
.\bout April 1. I bought 15 day-old B. I. 
Red baby chicks; have lost all of them 
but three with what looks like diarrhoea. 
1 have fed hard-boiled eggs without Hake, 
dry mash, chick scratch food, corn bread 
baked hard. What can I do for this 
trouble? I, n. s. 
New York. 
Tf these chicks were infected with true 
white diarrhoea when you got them, there 
was nothing that you could have done to 
have cure<l them. That disease is fatal 
in the majority of cases, and without 
other remedy than prevention by hatching 
from disease-free stock and rearing in 
disease-free quarters. If, howover, the 
diarrhoea that yoti noted was the result 
of improper feeding, that could be cor¬ 
rected. The foods you mention .are all 
suitable for chicks, though some, like the 
corn bread and boiled eggs, might be fed 
to excess, I would suggest getting chicks 
from some other source and being careful 
not to overdo in the matter of feeding. 
M. 15. I). 
Rye Bran for Chicks 
T am expecting to raise yoiing cliickens, 
but unable to obtain Avheat bran or mid¬ 
dlings to fee<l them, due to in-esent system 
of grinding wheat for flour. I can get 
rye bran locally (consists of Avhat corre- 
simnds to wheat bran ,and middlings 
mixed). Would it be all right to feed 
young chickens? ilye is considered an. 
undesirable grain (when whole) for poul¬ 
try, and have heard rye bran will scour 
chickens badly. n. n. At. 
New York, 
T have never used rye bran as chick food, 
and do not know’ of its being used. Bye, 
however, is a better poultry food than it is 
generally cre<lited with being. Fowls do 
not ordinarily seem to like it as well as 
they do other gi-ains, but I have known 
of its being fed in considerable quantity 
and with good results. I, myself, have 
used it with other grains. It does not 
seem to me that rye bran, partimilarly if 
mixed with other foods, can be other than 
a good food for chicks, but, having had no 
experience with it, I can only suggest try¬ 
ing it with some care until its suitability, 
or otherwise, is demonstrated. ir. 15. p.' 
Substitutes for Bran 
In view of the increasing shortage of 
whe.nt bran and high prices, what ♦•ouhl 
he used (mixed up) with these dry 
mashes? .\ substitute is needed that 
would furnish some kind of feed of neaj-ly 
the same value as the bran. In common 
with many others, I do not see how we 
<‘an raise chickens sticcessfully without 
feeding bran, still do not care to <|iiit just 
yt. ' o.'K. i). 
(’onnecticut. 
T am afraid that the .search for inex¬ 
pensive chick foods will be a vain one 
this Summer. If it becomes imiatssible 
to get wheat bran and middlings, corn- 
meal ajid ground oats, with hulls sifted 
out. will have to replace them. '^I'hese 
have not exactly the same food values as 
the wheat products, but countless thou¬ 
sands of chicks have been raised ui)on 
cornmeal alone. Bye bran, is obtainable 
in some ))laces. and, while no one seems 
to know much about its use for chicks, it 
seems to me well worth trying. In food 
value it ranks higher than wheat bran, and 
I can see no reason why it cannot replace 
it. I have never tried it. however. More 
attention than is u.sual should be paid to 
green stuff as food for growing <diicks 
(liis year. While this will not wholly re¬ 
place grain in the ration, by any means, 
it can be made a much larger part of the 
food supjdy than most people do nuike it. 
Young clover, lettuce, tender grass and 
othei- garden and field greens should be 
utilized to the limit. We may be forced 
into the discovery that fowls, like iiigs. 
are really grazing animals, and that Ave 
have been responsible for making them 
subsist almost wholly upon grain and 
meat. We shall be likely, before the sea¬ 
son is oA'er, to discover ncAV possibilities 
in foods, not only for ourselves but for 
our doinestic animals. ,Ar. )5. p. 
Growing and Laying Ration 
Mhat is the dilTerence betw’een a Rum¬ 
mer mash ration for gi’owing chicks or 
(lullets. and Winter-laying ration ? L. B. 
XeAV York. 
* Young chicks and gi’owing pullets may 
well have a larger proportion of meat 
food in their r.ation than is necessary for 
laying hens. One-tifth or one-fourth part 
nieat scr.ap is not too much in the ma.-th 
for growing chicks, though at present 
prices not inany ai-e likely to get it. Inly¬ 
ing hens Avill also utilize soiUe feeds, lik»^ 
cottonseed meal, oil meal, gluten feed, 
etc., not usually given chicks. Bullets 
nearing maturity may be fed upon the 
.saine ration given laying hens, but tlie 
choice for young chicks is not quite as 
wide, as they have not the same ability 
to utilize the coarser or less Avell-adapte<l 
foods. There is much unnecesssiry com¬ 
plexity in poultry foods, hoAvever, .and no 
ne<‘essity for providing a different ration 
for every fe_w weeks’ change in. age. A 
food that will produce feathers will pro¬ 
duce eggs, and a develoi)ing ration is a 
producing one. The changes needing to 
be made with age are chiefly tho.se due to 
the difference in <ligestive poAvers of 
young chicks and older ones. at. b. p. 
Buffalo Markets 
The supply of green stuff and kindred 
articles of food is good and prices have 
declined slightly as a rule, though apples 
are higher, in spite of the big showing of 
Western by the small measure. The 
quality of apples is fine, and most other 
fruits and vegetables are high grade. Bad 
Aveather is probably to blame for an ad- 
v.ance of strawberries. Southern fruits 
continue high. Live poultry is tempo¬ 
rarily out. Butter and eggs are lower 
than formeidy, but as a mile .strong. Far¬ 
mers report that they cannot sell onions 
at any price. Maple sugar has declined 
sharply on account of the long season. 
Botatoes are quoted about as before, 
9.5c^ to .$1 per bu. for whites and $7 to 
$8..50 per hbl. for Bermudas and Floridas. 
Apjiles are .$(» fim Baldwins, $7 for Spy 
and .$2.50 to .$,5 for common and low 
grades jier bbl.; onions, 50c to .$1 per bu.; 
beans, !j!7..S0 to .$0 per bu. 
Vegetables are quiet but firm ; cabbage, 
$3 to .$3.50 per 100 lbs., .$1.75 to $2 for 
ncAA' Florida ner hamper; cauliflower 
plenty at .$2 to .$2.25 per California crate; 
asiiar.agus promises to he plenty, now 
quoted at .$4 to .$.5..50 per California and 
Southern case; beets, .$1. to ,$1.25; car¬ 
rots. ,50c to $1.40; parsnips, 50 to 7.5c: 
white turnips, 50c to $1, all per bu. 
Celery is $2 to $2.25 for Florida, crate; 
lettuce, .$J.25 to $1..50 jier 2-doz. box; 
endjve. 3.5 to 40c j)er basket; pieplant, 
.$1.50 per box; radisht's, 25 to 35c: shal¬ 
lots, SOc to $1 ; jiarsley, 20 to 40c per 
doz. bunches; yellow turnips, $1.()0 to 
$1.7,5 per bbl.; hothousi* cucumbers, .$1 
to $1.25 per doz.; Floridas, .$2.25 per 
hamper; tomatoe.s, $3.50 to .$4.,50 ])er 
Florida crate. 
Southern, fruits are .$,5..50 to .$7 for or¬ 
anges and lemons, and .$5 to $0 for grape¬ 
fruit per box; bananas, $2 to $2.50 per 
bunch; pineapples, fcAV, retailing at 2.5c 
for medium size; .strawberries, $8 to $8.50 
per 24-qt. case, quality good; maple 
sugar, 10 to 22e per lb.;. syrup, $1.50 to 
$1.05 i)er gal.; honey, scarce, 20 to .30(’ 
per 11). 
Butter is 47c for best creamery, .30 to 
lie for dairy, 37 to 38e for crocks, 25 to 
28c for low grade, 25 to 20c for nut mar¬ 
garine. Cheese is ea.sy at 20 to 27c for 
best old. 24 to 25c for new. 
Boultry is in light ilemand at .33 to .38(; 
for dressed turkey, 20 to 3.5c for fowl, 
28 to .33c for roasting chickens, ,30 to .38c 
f<u' broilers, 27 to 28e for old roosters, 
35 to 3(>c for ducks and geese, ,30 to 3.5c 
for pigeons per pah\ Live poultry is 
about 3c lower than dressed. 
Tlay is quiet at $1.0 to $22 for various 
grades of Timothy. Straw is $10 to $12 
for oat and Avheat per ton. Hides are 
8 to 10c per lb. for grown cattle, 24 to 
20e for calf; tallow, 13 to 14c per lb. 
.T. w. c. 
Winter Avheat and rye look A’ei\v poor, 
not as large an aci'cage as the year bi'fore. 
Farmers somewhat discouraged, as April 
1 milk droi)|)ed to .5i^c and feed still stays 
up. Tlay has dropped from .$20 to .$15 
l)er ton; j)ot!itoes from $1 to 5()c a bu. 
Butter, 4.5c; eggs, 3.5c. Help more scarce 
than last year, as Ave are near the big 
General Electric Avorks at Schenectady, 
all go there. l. b. yr. 
Schenectady Co., N. Y. 
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lOOl'HirKS BOcHtCKS IfMHK'K.S 
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272 278 
Buck’s Barred Rocks 
Win at Vineland 
PEN No. I, hrud and owned by ns, won thii'il anmnil 
vui'icLy swimpstiikus, and wiis first in timir class; 
iilso hens Nos. 17 and 11) finishod fifth and sixth, 
jiKuinst 1,000 competitors, hoiiiK tho two high Barroil 
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Vibert231 to 261-egg ntraiii. 0 hens and cockerel for $15. 
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C<rwa tnira Bronze, B. Red, Narragansett and W. 
kggo Holland turkeya 14 per 12. B. P. Rocks 
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Winners at 1917 National All-rjeghorii ‘^Ihiw. Stock 
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• 1 FROM SKLEOTED HEAVY-IjAYINO HENS 
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IIOTTLED ANCONAS. BluoBcIl straiii. Egga for hatch- 
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Barron 200-Egg S.C. While Leghorns 
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Dnolrc I'Tl’HEL DIRECT. Selected yearlings 
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WHITE WYANDOTTE CHIX $20 
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R 11 Rrnwn 1 oohnrno win iiors; none hotter. 
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A M ^ A IH A Q Layers and winners. 
« IM W W IW ^ Eggs, 82.50 per 15. 
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