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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 2, 1919 
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Poultry and Live Stock 
Life on a Remote Missouri Farm 
From a farm community miles back 
from a little railroad village comes a voice 
from a simple farm home in the shape of 
a letter, and from it we gather how the 
advance in the price of farm products has 
reached and stimulated life there into a 
new courage and activity. It is from the 
wife, and she tells us of the money she 
has made from her poultry under the 
most ordinary farm conditions, without 
modern house or appliances or any spe¬ 
cial study of balanced rations. This letter 
is dated May 3, and says that since the 
first of the year she has sold $126 worth 
of eggs, and has improved her flock by 
investing $28.50 in fine eggs from far¬ 
away breeders. She lias taken advantage 
of this new prosperity to make her home 
more cheerful by buying a graphophone, 
a stereoscope with 100 views and a kodak. 
The son has used part of liis profits from 
the farm to buy a buggy, which conduces 
to his popularity with the farm daughters 
of the neighborhood. She now has a num¬ 
ber of chicks and 20 hens sitting. She 
reports that her mother has 14 hens sit* 
ting, one sister with 100 chicks and eight 
liens sitting and another sister with i75 
chicks and IS liens sitting, from which 
we perceive that these good people have 
not yet realized the value of the incu¬ 
bator. 
This worthy lady relates further that 
she now weighs 230 pounds, and that a 
15-year-old niece' balances the scale at 
190, which makes us sure that their tables 
are well supplied, and that good health 
waits on the duties of farm life. As a 
result of the labor of the-father-and son 
young. The indications would point to 
two things; insufficient food, or a savage 
brute. I would suggest in such cases as 
this a muzzle. While this would cause 
some extra trouble at feeding time, it 
would protect the young. 
New Jersey. e. r. hummer. 
From the information that I can gather, 
it cannot be ascertained for sure why 
a female dog will do such a thing. I have 
heard of cases ofVlfis sort, and the owners 
of the dogs seem to think that it is a sud¬ 
den madness that comes over the mother 
dog to seize the pups and do away with 
them. They appear to wander around 
in a sort of daze, due probably to the 
strain. At one time it was thought that 
the cause was due to the mother dog hav¬ 
ing not been fed sufficient meat, or, on the 
other hand, too much had been fed, but 
these ideas have since been exploded. The 
only prevention that I know of is to muz¬ 
zle the mother when pups are horn. 
W. W. KDHLMANN. 
It sometimes happens that they eat 
their puppies, and I have known of two 
or three cases in my experience when the 
old one would eat the small puppies as 
soon as they were born. Rabbits will do 
the same thing sometimes, and I believe 
the best thing to do in either case is to 
feed them all the fresh meat that they 
will eat, hut even at that it will not al¬ 
ways save the puppies. _ w. r. watson. 
iowa. 
Buffalo Markets 
The dry season seems to hit Western 
New York most severely of anywhere. 
A Missouri 
there are 40 acres of wheat. 15 acres of 
oats and 35 acres of meadow, all promis¬ 
ing good crops and prices that will bring 
a further measure of prosperity unknown 
before the great war shook the world to 
its remotest hamlet and sent a tidal 
wave of increased values to enrich Amer¬ 
ican rural life. L. R. 
Ailing PouEs 
I have some young turkeys about two 
weeks old. suffering from leg-weakness.. 
They cannot walk. -They were apparently 
all right until now; are in a coop with 
a board bottom, tut have the run all 
around, only the old turkey shut up. I 
also have some about six weeks old that 
are affected with a yellow diarrhoea and 
have lost all but four cf them. n. o. c. 
New York. 
I do not know the cause of leg weak¬ 
ness in the young poults, but the. story of 
diarrhoea and death in those six. weeks 
of age is a familiar one. Good Thanks¬ 
giving prices for mature turkeys tempt, 
each year, many to engage in turkey 
raising and lead the majority of these, 
perhaps, to disappointment. A disease 
popularly known as blackhead carries 
off a large part of the poults hatched 
after they have reached four or five weeks 
of age, and spares only those that prove 
vigorous enough to resist its ravages. 
This is caused by a minute organism 
picked up with the food. This organism 
lias become so widely distributed where 
poultry is kept that it is practically im¬ 
possible to guard the turkeys from it. 
The first symptoms of the disease are an 
evident weakness that shows itself in a 
lagging gait and droopiucss in carriage. 
The affected poults drop behind their 
fellows and travel with 1 peculiar trot. 
Diarrhoea follows at some stage, the 
birds become emaciated, grow progres¬ 
sively weaker, and finally drop dead. No 
cure and no method of prevention have 
yet been found. Some flocks escape with 
few losses, but apparently as a matter 
of good luck rather than because of any 
particular management. M. B. D. 
Dogs Eating Their Young 
Have you known a case where the fe-t 
male dog eats her pups completely, short¬ 
ly after they are born? If you know of 
such a case; what can be done in order to, 
prevent it? 
We have not experienced any such, 
trouble wilti our female dogs eating their 
Farm Flock 
We hear of plenty of rain in most sec¬ 
tions of the country, even a big half inch 
in arid Phoenix, Ariz., but Buffalo has 
had but .07 of an inch since the 23d of 
May, though earlier May had given us 
more than 4^4 inches. We have not had 
a Summer in a long time without a bad 
drought, and usually a flood season also. 
The present dry spell has been withstood 
remarkably well. The under depths of 
the soil still show some of the Spring 
moisture, and rain threatens. I am moro 
and more taken with clay soils when I 
observe how they stand dry weather. 
The fruit and especially the berry crop 
is badly cut by the drought. Small fruits 
are terribly high, apples are badly in¬ 
jured and there will be few potatoes un¬ 
less it rains before long. Butter is firm, 
hut lower. Potatoes are quoted about as 
formerly, $1.20 to $1.30 per bu., and 75 
to 00c for small; $6.75 to $7.50 per bbl. 
for Eastern Shore. Onions are firm at $5 
to $5.25 per sack for Southern; beans, 
steady at $4.50 to $6.50 per bu.; a few 
new apples bring $3 to $3.50 per hamper; 
peaches plenty at $3 to $4 per bu. for 
Southern : home crop to be light. 
Small fruits scarce and high ; cherries, 
$7 for 32-qt. crate for sweets; currants, 
50c for 4-qt. basket: gooseberries, 75c for 
same; raspberries, 36 to 38c for rods. 28 
to 32c for blacks, per qt.. sometimes re¬ 
tailing at 60c; huckleberries. 20 to 25c 
per qt. California plums, $2.25 to $3 
per hex. 
Vegetables active and strong; aspara¬ 
gus, $1.75 to $2; beets, 75 to 90c; car¬ 
rots, <35 to 75c; pieplant, 50 t 75c; rad¬ 
ishes, 40 to 50c, all per doz. bunches; 
string beans, $2 to $3; cucumbers. South¬ 
ern, $3.50 to $4. all per hamper; cab- 
I :v-^. $2.50 to $3.50 per 100; celery, 20 
to 30c per bunch ; lettuce, $1 50 to $2 50 
per 2-doz. box; green corn, $3 per crate ; 
Jersey peppers, $2.25, same; spinach, 50 
to 75c; purple-top turnips. $1 to $1.25 
per bu.; tomatoes, $2 to $2 25 per flat; 
green peas, $4 to $4 50 per hag. 
I tier is 51 to 56c for creamery, 45 to 
50c ‘ >r dairy, 42 to 47c for crocks, 43 to 
4.1c for common and 29 to 38c for oleo¬ 
margarine; cheese is firm at 33 to 35c 
ail sorts; eggs are 53 to 5Sc for hennery. 
46 to 52c for candled. Poultry is scarce 
for either fresh dressed or live .fowl, but 
frozen is fairly plenty at 46 to 48o for 
frozen turkey, 32 to 36c for fowl, 38 to 
39c for roasters. 37 to 38c for chickens, 
42 to 40c for broilers. 38 to 40c for ducks, 
22 to 2.3c for live geese. Live poultry is 
nearly as high as dressed and from 3 to 
5c,over frozen. , J. W. 0. 
