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Hinged Sicutile in. Bnrti Hoof 
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to the side of the barn high enough to he 
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to the barn with a heavy wire. We fas¬ 
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fastened two boards to the hangers and 
built the gate to the bottom, something 
like^ picture above. 
Next is a manger to feed horses when 
fed from the floor. The end is one inch 
below the front; the front boards extend 
Horse Manger for Floor Feeding 
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London Purple for Gapes 
I would like to reply to .nn inquiry on 
page 8S5 regarding the use of Londoji 
purple for gapes in chicks. It is the most 
satisfactory remedy I have ever used, is 
efficient, cheap and easy to use, but being 
very ixii.soiious must he \i.sed with care. 
Put about four tahlespoonfuls of sIuIumI 
lime or road du.st and one tablespooiiful 
of London purple in a halt-pound baking 
[iowder box with perforated top, and 
sprinkle on the lien, especially under the 
wings, and shake over the chick.s, and it 
will cure them of gapes, also of suuflliiig. 
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R. N.-Y.-—It does not seem po.ssible to 
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course, those who try it must be careful 
and realize that they are doing it at their 
owu risk. 
Fleas in the Henhouse 
On page 057. M. R. S , ronnecticut, 
asks how to get rid of fleas in henhouse. 
The reply is too general to be very help¬ 
ful ; a reiiort of actual experiouce inay be 
of interest. For five or six years fleas 
tormented the hen woman on this place, 
and doubtless the hens also. They in¬ 
creased amazingly. Carrying off the lit¬ 
ter sinijily distributed the parasites all 
along the route, and ordinary spraying 
seemed to have no effect,. Nobody con¬ 
sulted could offer any suggestion for re¬ 
lief. Last year a persistent and much iu- 
Septeniber 2.*?, IfilS 
terested hired man solved the prob’nni, 
and common kerosene was the agent. 
Nest boxes and the litter on the floor were 
the infested places; fleas were never seen 
on roosts or dropping boards. Nests were 
Ciirefully removed from the houses and 
their contents soaked with kerosene before 
emptying, the sprayer being plied against 
every moving tiling from the nests, jind 
the emptied nest material was burned on 
the ground. The same treatment was 
given the litter on the henhouse floors, 
faking special pains with the edges near 
the silks. I do not remember how- many 
times the treatment was repeated, hut 
before hot weather was over the comiuest 
was complete and neither fleas nor mites 
have been seen this season. 
Massachusetts. M. a. marshat.l. 
Yolks and Whites in Different Feeds 
An inquirer from Northern New York 
asks if there is any book which gives the 
nuifibor of yolks and whites of eggs in 
various feeds, in place of the usual “pro¬ 
tein and carbohydrates.” I don’t know of 
any book that does. This subject was 
worked out at the Mi.ssouri Agricultural 
Station by Prof, (k T. Patterson, I think, 
several years ago. It is mentioned in 
I'nlletin No. 10 from that Station, and 
there is a .short list of the yolks and 
whites in a few of the most common feeds 
in that bulletin, published in 1915. Prof. 
Patterson kindly .sent me a much more 
complete list, which I give below for the 
benefit of readers of The R. N.-Y. 
This list is made out to show the num¬ 
ber of yolks and whites, or the elements 
thereof, in 100 pounds of the different 
feeds. Decimals arc omitted, so it is not 
exact, but sufficiently so for general use. 
Appetite is to be taken into consideration 
in making up a food ration ; so it is well 
to use a variety of feeds instead of mak¬ 
ing a balanced ration of two or three 
suhstance.s. Eliminating wheat for ob¬ 
vious reasons, a war-time ration may bo 
m.ade .as follows: 
Grain 
Yolks 
5Vhitea 
200 Ihs. corn . 
.. .510 
208 
20 lbs. middlings . . . . 
41 
44 
20 lbs. bran . 
,21 
41 
20 lbs. gr. oats . 
.29 
.21 
20 lbs. cornmeal . . . . 
52 
28 
20 lbs. beef scraps. . . 
27 
288 
.200 
700 
700 
The corn should he fed whole or 
cracked, the rest in a mash, to which 
should be added one pound of salt and 
five jiounds of bone meal. Of course 
ground oyster shells should always be ob¬ 
tainable, and I have great faith in 
crushed charcoal as a cleanser for the 
sj'stem. Hems will eat a great deal of it 
when they can get it. The table of yolks 
and whites in 100 lbs. follows : 
Grain 
Yolks 
Whites 
Corn . 
124 
Kaffir corn . 
125 
Wheat . 
182 
Cow peas . 
205 
Oafs . 
155 
Bariev . 
145 
Buckw'heat . 
... 178 
128 
SunfUnver seed . 
.. . 2.‘>..2 
200 
Mill iiroducts: 
Wheat I)ran . 
. .. 1.55 
205 
Middlings . 
91‘> 
(’ornmeal . 
... 200 
1.25 
Ground oats . 
... 195 
155 
Blood meal .. 
4.20 
-Mfalfa meal .. 
. . . 1.2.2 
205 
G. P. oil meal.. 
500 
(''otton.seed meal. 
. . . 148 
020 
’Meat foods: 
B(>ef scrap .. 
, . . 100 
1107 
Fish scraps.. 
87 
,800 
Driod l)lf)od. 
19 
.871 
Fesh cut hone. 
. .. 190 
2.20 
Green foods: 
Alfalfa . 
07 
Corn fodder (green).. 
42 
10 
(’lovi'r . 
48 
('al)bage . 
40 
11 
Rape . 
11 
Vegetables : 
Apples . 
02 
12 
Mangel beets . 
19 
18 
Mangel beet h'aves. . . , 
28 
10 
Gnions . 
11 
25 
T’ofatoes . 
15 
2'urnips . 
20 
10 
Pumpkins . 
oo 
22 
Corn silage . 
42 
15 
Liquids : 
Whole milk. 
44 
00 
Skim milk . 
oo 
52 
Buttermilk . 
o*> 
05 
With the above table almost 
anvone 
with a common school 
education 
can fig- 
lire out a balanced ration from such sub¬ 
stances as are obtainable, bearing in mind 
that ■i)alatahility must also bo considered. 
For instance, a nearly balanced ration 
could he made from Alfalfa, clover and 
cow-pea hay, a hundred pounds of each 
would give the elements for .280 yolks 
and .204 whites, hut a hen fed exclu.sively 
on that hay w'ould not he likely to lay 
very many eggs. 
I think the above table will answer the 
(Uiery of the reader from Northern New 
York and perhap.s interest some other 
reader.s. oEO. a. cosguove. 
liiTTi.p; Girl (before statute in muse¬ 
um) : “Mamma, who’s this?” Attendant 
(after a pause) : “2’hat's Mercury, the 
messenger of the gods. You have read 
about him, no doubt?” Mother; “Of 
oour.se she has. Rut .do you know’, my 
little girl has such a very poor memory 
for Scripture.”—Boston Transcript. 
