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‘Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 5, 1918 
What is Pratts Poultry Regulator ? 
A positive tonic and conditioner for poultry of all kinds and 
ages. A health-builder and health-preserver. Not a food. 
What does it contain ? 
Roots, herbs, spices, mineral substances, etc. Each ingredient 
performs a certain duty. The combination spells ^‘health 
insurance.” 
What does it do ? 
Pratts Poultry Regulator makes and keeps poultry healthy, vig¬ 
orous and productive. It shortens the molt, sharpens the ap¬ 
petite, improves digestion and circulation, hastens growth and 
increases egg-production. It saves feed by preventing waste 
due to poor digestion. It prevents disease by keeping the birds 
in condition to resist the common ailments. 
Has it been fully tested ? 
Yes! In general use for nearly fifty years. The original 
poultry conditioner. Imitated, but unequalled 
Does it give general satisfaction ? 
Positively I Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Test 
it at our risk. Increased egg-production will prove that “Pratt* 
makes hens lay. ’ ’ 
How is it best used ? 
Daily in small quantities. For adults, a tablespoonful daily for 
10 birds. Younger stock in proportion. Mix with dry or 
moist mash. 
Whclt does it cost ? 
Nothing, because it pays big profits. One cent a month per 
hen is the investment required. 
Where can I get it ? 
From 60,000 Pratt dealers. There is one near you. Direct 
from the manufacturer, prepaid, if your dealer can’t supply you. 
How can I learn more about it ? 
Ask the Pratt Food Co., Philadelphia, for valuable 
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SHAR 
Early Molt 
Should chickens at five months bejrin 
to molt, and if so, would like to know of 
a good feed for quick molting? Where 
can I obtain the best beef scrap, also the 
be.st market in New York for Leghorn 
eggs? j. F. w, 
Pennsylvania. 
Chickens at five months are molting 
their baby feathers preparatory for a 
Winter coat. Any good feed for growing 
pullets is good for "quick molting,” and 
no special preparation is needed. If 
plenty of skim-milk i^ not at hand, the 
poultry mash should contain some beef 
scrap, as much as you think that) you can 
afford, up to, say, one-fifth part by 
weight. This beef scrap can be purchased 
through any dealer in feeds for poultry 
and cattle. There are many good brands, 
no one being the "best.” The better 
grades are, of course, the most expensive 
and it has been difficult lately to obtain 
this meat product at anything like a rea¬ 
sonable price. I know of no better mar¬ 
ket in New Y"ork for eggs than can be ob¬ 
tained through a reliable commission 
house, unless one can obtain a direct or 
special market of his own. Special mar¬ 
kets are difficult to get, hard to satisfy, 
and a chimera to most small poultrymen, 
many of whom have embarked in the 
poultry business with the idea that they 
could easily obtain a fancy price for a 
superior product. m. b. d. 
Pop Corn for Poultry 
1. What is the food value of popcorn 
as a chicken feed? I can get quite a lot 
of it from a local popper and have been 
feeding it lightly to the hens. This is the 
corn which docs not pop, and, of course, 
is thrown out. Feeding the kernel as it 
is seems to be a little large sometimes. 
I have noticed that some of the birds had 
difficulty in getting it down. So I have 
cracked it for them in a little grist mill, 
and all the trouble about swallowing it 
has been removed. I am feeding good, 
wholesome table scraps and brown mid¬ 
dlings (wheat bran cannot be boiight any 
more) and very little j^ain, and lately 
mostly popcorn.^ My chickens are doing 
well. 2. What is a good tonic for chick¬ 
ens occasionally? I am giving "Venetian 
red” in their drinking water now and 
then. My chickens are confined all the 
time. They have access to oyster shells, 
fine gravel and sand, crushed burned bone 
and cracked charcoal, and plenty of green 
food is supplied to them every day. I 
find that they are quite fond of plantain, 
dandelion and yellow dock, food which is 
usually easy to be had. If the popcorn 
can be used to advantage it would be quite 
a help to me, as I can get it for taking 
it away. f. b. 
Ohio. 
1. Popcorn has a slightly higher food 
value than flint corn, and I know of no 
rea.son why it should not be fed in any 
desired quantity to i)oultry. As it is not 
a poultry food in my vicinity, I have had 
no experience in its u.se, and can see that 
its shape and size might interfere with 
the ability of the young chick to swallow 
it. I presume that you refer to the rice 
variety. Corn that has been through a 
popper is charred, of course, and has 
probably lost slightly in food value by 
this treatment. ‘ 
2. I know of no "occasional tonic” 
worth while. If Venetian red has any 
tonic, food, or medicinal properties, I am 
not aware of it. The best tonics are green 
stuffs for yarded fowls, wholesome foods, 
clean water, and sanitary surroundings. 
From your description of your methods, 
I judge that you need little advice as to 
the care or feeding of your fowls. 
M. B. D. 
Thriftless Cow 
Can you tell me a remedy for a cow five 
years old that is run down? She gets 
plenty of good feed and gives milk right 
along. She has a spot on one hip and 
one foot where the hair is dead. It 
commenced th»’“e or four years ago with a 
spot as ..’penny; now nearly as 
large as the top of a gallon crock. 
Ohio. F. M. F. 
It is probable that tuberculosis is the 
cause of the cow’s rundown condition, 
and that you should isolate her, stop us¬ 
ing the milk and have the tuberculin test 
applied by a specially trained and experi¬ 
enced veterinarian. The intradermal test 
is preferable in hot weather, hut can only 
be properly interpreted by an expert, such 
as we have suggested. The hairless spots 
may be due to riugworm, for which tinc¬ 
ture of iodine is a good remedy, to be ap-' 
plied twice daily after all scabs and 
crusts have been removed. If crusts are 
not present it is not ringworm, but may 
be alopecia, for which there is no certain 
remedy. A. s. A. 
Obstructed Teat 
About a month ago I discovered that I 
could not get milk from one of my cow’s 
teats. The trouble seems to be a small 
lump in the inside of the teat, at the end, 
about the size of a pea. She will freshen 
in about a month. If she fre.shens and 
the lump is still there and she does not 
give milk from that teat, what would you 
advise? E. o. K. 
New York. 
You should have the teat operated upon 
at once. It should have been done before 
the cow was dried off. The veterinarian 
either should ream out the growth with 
a clean, sharp scalpel, or split through it 
in four different directions by means of a 
teat bistoury, after which the portions of 
the growth that can be seen when the tip 
of the teat is squeezed may be removed 
with the scalpel. When such an operation 
is done when the cow is giving milk, a 
little milk should be stripped away sev¬ 
eral times a day during the healing prO' 
cess. If the wound tends to close the 
orifice in healing when no milk is being 
secreted, a lead dilator may be used to 
keep the duct open. Care must be taken 
to sterilize the teat and instruments at 
the time of operation. A. s. A, 
Dairy Ration 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
my Jersey cow? I have to buy all feed 
used and our pasture is poor, very little 
clover. Sometimes we have a large 
amount of milk and of rich quality and 
again the amount is mall and poor qual¬ 
ity. Why should it vary? M.A. T. 
New York. 
Make up a ration of 100 lbs. cornmeal, 
100 lbs. middlings, 100 lbs. ground oats 
or bran, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal, and 1 
per cent salt. If your pasture is poor you 
will need to grain about the same as in 
Winter to get the maximum flow of milk. 
For a .Tersey cow this should be about a 
pound of grain to each 3% lbs. of milk 
produced daily. Would judge that the 
possibility of your cow actually consum¬ 
ing different amounts of feed daily or the 
coming of the flies were causes for a var¬ 
iation in the amount of milk given. I 
note also that you feel that the milk 
varies in quality. This is natural to a 
small extent. There is no accurate method 
of measuring milk quality except to de¬ 
termine its butter fat content by means 
of the Babcock test. The color of the milk 
i.s no indication as to quality within the 
different breeds and one can scarcely 
judge by the amount of cream that rises 
on the milk. There are too many factors 
that enter in, such as the amount of milk 
in the vessel, the temperature at which 
the milk is set, and the time the milk is 
allowed to set. n. F. j. 
Grain With Pasture 
Will you give me a good grain ration 
for fresh cows on pasture? They are 
giving about 40 pounds of milk a day. I 
can get the following feeds: Bran, mixed 
wheat feed, hominy, gluten, cottonseed 
meal and wheat middlings. w. E. E 
New York. 
For a grain ration, to eupplement paS' 
ture, I should mix up two parts bran, one 
part hominy, one part gluten feed, one- 
half part cottonseed meal, with one per 
cent salt added. Feed this at the rate of 
about a pound to four pounds of milk pro 
duced daily. n. f. j. 
Salt Cure for Warbles 
Will some one try sprinkling salt on 
cattle for warbles? I have seen hut two 
cases of them on ojir own and that was 
before I knew of this simple remedy. Per¬ 
haps it just happened so. Just rub a 
little salt on the hacks of the cattle sev¬ 
eral times during the season. n. b. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
(Continued from page 1138) 
off the figures. Mother will tell you how 
she made one piece of beef go for four 
meals and one soup. lOven little Rose 
had an economical problem over four 
gumdrops. Aunt Eleanor and I are up 
in the algebra of life dealing with many 
unknown quantities. What the apple and 
the fire stand for will make the figuring 
easier. The apple means hope, for when 
we put those little whips into the ground 
years ago it was only through faith and 
hoiie that we could expect to make them 
what they are today. Your experts may 
say it was sweat and spraying and fer¬ 
tilizer, but it was hope! The fire means 
contentment in which you burn up envy 
and false ambition and greed, and become 
satisfied with love and competence and 
home. 
But say—^little Rose is nearly asleep 
and Motlier leads her away. Aunt Elea¬ 
nor and four of the childi'cn follow, and 
the larger boy and I remain by the fire 
Thomas will soon be back, hut I shall not 
sit up. The wind seems to be rising and 
the rain comes harder. I think of our 
boys in France—out in the trenches oii 
worse nights than this, and it seems al 
most ignoble for us to he here in the com¬ 
fort of home. Yet this is our job and we 
must stand for it here. The apple and 
the fire in your home and mine will be 
like one of those long range guns throw¬ 
ing cheer and comfort across the sea to 
our soldiers. You may say that your 
troubles and afflictions are so heavy that 
you should not be expected to add to the 
world’s good will. You are wrong. The 
chances are that if you came here and 
matched your troubles fairly against ours 
you would not exchange them for your 
own. u. w. c. 
