RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ouo. Whal was tho cause of the differ- 
ence in fertility? Are three geese too 
many to mate to a gander? E. B. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
Goslings just hatched should have for 
a first feed rolled oats, bran and fine grit, 
slightly moistened. Sand will do if yoii 
have no chicken grit. Grit should always 
he added to the mash until they are old 
enough to get it for themselves. The 
oats should be replaced by cornmeal after 
a V eek or two. They should have access 
to new grass from the beginning and 
should always have plenty of clean drink¬ 
ing water. At first they should have a 
limited yard for exercise. As they grow 
older the yard should be enlarged. When 
the wing feathers begin to grow they 
should have a chance to exercise all they 
can, or the wings will grow faster than 
their strength and droop. w. tt. tt. 
Factors in Incubation” 
A very interesting and important bul¬ 
letin on “Factors in Incubation” has 
been issued by the Connecticut Experi¬ 
ment Station at Storrs, Conn. This is 
Bulletin 95, and is prepared by G. H. 
Bamson, Jr., and William F. Kirkpatiuck. 
This bulletin is very thorough, and gives 
a very close study of the incubation prob¬ 
lem, bringing out a number of things 
which have not been thoroughly studied 
before. There is a discussion of the 
formation of the egg, its chemical com¬ 
position, the problem of producing fer¬ 
tile eggs, and the care of the egg in the 
incubator and before it is put there. 
Speaking of the factors influencing 
vitality, it seems very evident that hens 
closely confined do not produce as strong 
and vital chicks as those which have a 
free range. It is generally believed, too, 
that when hens are kept in an open type 
of house they give more vital eggs than 
those in houses of the closed type. It is 
also true, as everyone knows, that older 
and well developed birds give more desir¬ 
able eggs than young, immature pullets. 
Then, of course, _ feeding has much to 
do with this proposition. There seems to 
be no doubt that an over-stimulation for 
an egg yield during the Winter months is 
responsible for many poor hatches. Green 
food in some form is necessary to give 
good results. Farm flocks are usually 
strong and rugged and rarely need to be 
fed stimulants for forcing feeds. This 
bulletin states what has often been 
brought out in The R. N.-Y., that the 
eggs from purebred exhibition bird.s some¬ 
times give very poor hatches. It is true 
that some breeders, who wish to bring 
out a particular quality in their birds, 
neglect the all-important quality of vi¬ 
tality. The young woman who was asked 
to decide between two young men, one 
of whom was a farmer, and the other a 
city clerk, bad a hard problem. The city 
man, among other things, sported a pair 
of patent leather shoes, and rather in¬ 
ferred that the ability to wear such things 
gave him an advantage. The young 
woman finally decided that she would 
rather have the man of her choice, pol¬ 
ished at the head rather than at the feet, 
and the practical poultryman in picking 
out breeding stock would rather have 
the vital organs of his hens strong and 
vigorous rather than to have superior tail 
feathers and head. The entire bulletin is 
very interesting, and well worth the study 
of poultrymen. 
Hens Going Light 
My hens are going light, stop eating, 
and their combs turn black and some of 
them gets dirty behind. I have lost 
about a dozen this last week. What 
remedy can be used? p. s. 
Virginia. 
“Going light” and dying with the symp¬ 
toms that you mention is due to several 
di.sorders, one of the most common of 
which is tuberculosis. These diseases do 
not manifest themselves to ordinary ob¬ 
servation until well advanced, and tliere 
is then no cure, if, indeed, there is one 
at any stage. All fowls showing marked 
symptoms of disease and those dying as 
yours are doing should be removed to 
where they may not infect others. The 
carcasses should be burned or deeply 
buried. Cleanliness and disinfection of 
the poultry quarters at intervals will do 
something to stop the ravages of such in¬ 
fections, and all measures tending to in¬ 
crease the health of the flock are helpful. 
Individual treatment, however, is of no 
avail. M. B. I). 
Countrywide Produce Markets 
POTATO MARKET UNSETTLED. 
The tone of the potato market has 
been more or less uncertain the last two 
weeks. The efforts to increase the use of 
potatoes in place of flour, etc., have no 
doubt increased the demand. Farmers 
everywhere have been busy with Spring 
work and preferred to plant new crops 
rather than to haul cheap potatoes over 
muddy roads. It is not pleasant work 
for Maine producers to market potatoes 
at .$1..30 per 100 lbs. that might have been 
sold at least .$1 higher la.st Fall without 
shrinkage or cost of storing. At present 
there are plenty of cars in most sections, 
and the_shipping movement is fully as ac¬ 
tive as it has been at any time, approach¬ 
ing 3,000 cars per week. The effect of 
the situation upon the acreage in the 
North will be watclied with interest. 
Southern growers planted liberally .as far 
north as Virginia and Maryland, where 
the combined effect of the labor and mar¬ 
ket .situations discouraged growers and 
acreage is reported reduced by fully one- 
third. A report from the Northwest as¬ 
serts acreage there will be reduced one- 
half. 
New potatoes ai’e coming forward close 
to 100 cars per day, mostly from Florida 
and Texas, with some from Bermuda. 
Florida growers are getting slightly over 
$4 per barrel at their shipping sta¬ 
tions. Old potatoes at .shipping points 
show .some iraiirovement, the price to 
growers at shipping stations ranging from 
7.5 cents in the Northwest to $1.2.5 in 
Western New York and .$1.37 per 100 
Ib.s. bulk in Northern Maine. The city 
wholesale markets range mostly from 
$1.50 to .$1.<S0 per 100 lbs. At some 
points there is complaint of dry rot and 
-sprouting, and reports of heavy shrinkage 
are common. Recent advances in potato 
values have been less noticeable in the 
Northwest because of remoteness from 
market centers, and very noticeable in 
Eastern markets where the crop was rela¬ 
tively light and large markets nearby. 
ONION SITUATION SLOWLY CLEARING. 
The onion markets have acted better 
than expected, considering the arrival of 
large stocks—old and new crops at the 
same time. Fortunately the Texas crop 
has been carefully managed, by delaying 
and limiting shipments in various ways, 
thus giving markets a chance to clear up 
somewhat without wholly wrecking values. 
Some markets were so nearly cleaned- up 
that prices jumped to .$2 or moi*e per KM) 
lbs., but quickly sagged back with the 
arrival of a few cars from Texas. The 
general range is $1 to .$1.75 per cwt. for 
old onions, and about $2 per ,50-lb. cr.ate 
for best new stock. The Southern crop 
was damaged .somewhat by weather and 
pe.sts, and may not total over 5,000 cars 
for the season. 
ACTIVE MOVEMENT OF TRUCK. 
New cabbages are moving at the rate of 
nearly 1,000 cars per week, and only half 
a dozen cars of old stock. Florida and 
Carolina cabbage brings about $2 per bbl. 
crate in Northern markets. The heavy 
movement will soon start from Virginia, 
severely testing the market. Most South¬ 
ern truck_ is doing pretty well so far. 
Strawberries have held up in price won¬ 
derfully, although weakening somewhat 
about May 1 to an average wholesale 
range of 1,5 to 25e for good stock on 
Northern markets. Until then many mar¬ 
kets were above 30c. North Carolina is 
still the heavy shipper; Tennessee is just 
starting. Fruit of all kinds is pretty 
scarce and high. The apple movement 
now is only about 250 cars u week, and 
orange shipments less than ,500 cars. 
Accordingly the public are likely to stay 
hungry for berries. o. B. F. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
(Continued from page 070) 
age at .30 per cent at least. This is not 
confined to the commercial plants, where 
great incubatoi’s are used, but farmers are 
not setting as many hens as usual. There 
are several reasons given for this, but the 
chief one is a genei'al feeling that no one 
knows what the Food Administration will 
do next. Most of these regulations and 
rules have been given to the public much 
like orders to an army, without explana¬ 
tion or any attempt to “soften the blow.” 
That is all right for soldiers who have 
taken an oath to stand for stern dis¬ 
cipline, but it has worked wrong with 
our fanners, I am sony people feel as 
they do about the poultry situation, for I 
am sure that the man with fair capital 
will make money by hanging on. At auc¬ 
tions or other sales hens are bringing 
great prices. The trouble, however, is 
mental. People have little confidence, 
and fear that the Food Administration 
will come out with some drastic regula¬ 
tion at any moment. No doubt the Food 
Administrator will deny it, but if he will 
get out into the actual country he will 
learn that his efforts to save will result 
in a loss of poultry. Our Reds at the 
Vineland contest are “going .strong”—i 
still leading the entire outfit of Red.s, and 
up among the first 20 of the entire 100 
pens. We are not made dizzy by this 
high position, for the sobering fact is that 
interest in poultry has been so deadened 
that few people seem to care about high 
records. Personally I tliink it will take 
a long time to overcome the effect of that 
“hen-killing” order. At the same time I 
think it might have been a help if it cotild 
have been clearly explained. The dam¬ 
age was caused by the fear and suspidon 
it created. n. w. o. 
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C ALVES relish and thrive upon 
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Blatchford’s 
Calf Meal 
should be used to push the calf forward to a grain diet. 
Tliia important move is more essential now than ever. 
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— ■ ■ Calves at tho 
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DOGS 
Airedales and Collies oT^aTi 
pnps, grown dogs, and brood matrons. Large in- 
truetive list, 5c. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland, Iowa. 
HATCHABLEHATCHING EGGS. 
Oiuray .Martin’s White Wyan- 
dottes, Ringlet Barred Rocks, S. C. Reds, Wnite 
lieghorns. Eggs, $7 per 100. Chicks, $15 to $20. 
Sunny Side Foultry Farm, Copper Hill, N. J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Sires of the 314-egg stock. 4 pullets and cock, SIS. 
Bggs, $2.50 per 15: SB per lOi). Chicks, SIS and 520 
per 100. K. CLAUHF JONES, Craryville, N.Y, 
Full Biod^Tom Bauon White Leghorn Hens 
$2 each. M, E. BRADLEY, R. R. B, Terro Haute, Ind. 
Whlfo RnxilfC I'TSHEL DIRECT. Selected yearlings 
If llllc nUCKs Eggs, 83 per 15; 88 per 100. Chicks, 
818per 100. A. BCOFlKLll, Green Iluvcn, New York 
I ialif Rrnlimac ONLY. Fiftsenth year. Se- 
l-ilgnE DraninaS Jected Eggs—Settings—SI.50 ; 
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White Holland Turkey Eggs “ 001 ^’ forTWve 
cents each. Julia K. .S. Bell, East Hampton, Conn. 
ForSaIe-i[S5^ AircdalcPups 
G. F. KIMBALL, P. 0. Box 65. Wells Kiver, Vt. 
Fed. Collie Pups 
^15. GROWN COLLIES CHEAP. 
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Trap Nest 
Records 
have had printed 
on cardboard ll%x7 
neat and complete trap- 
n e s t record. Printed 
both sides—25 each side. 
Will send 12 for 10c. 
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^3 West 30th Street, New York 
