The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1521 
The Henyard 
An Active Hen Caught on the Fly 
The hen pictured on this page is not 
insane, nor is she trying to execute a war 
dance, because she has just completed a 
year’s record of 300 eggs. This Plymouth 
Rock chicken was “caught on the fly,” 
to use the exact expression, by the photog¬ 
rapher. What she is trying to do is to 
jump up and take a bite out of some beet 
leaves which have been hung up for these 
birds to nibble if they can. It is not 
often that the photographer can hit such 
a scene exactly right, but he caught this 
bird on the jump, and it is a very natural 
picture. It is quite a common practice, 
as our readers know, to hang up a piece 
of meat or cabbage, where the birds must 
jump or stretch themselves in order to 
get a bite of it. This exercise does them 
good, and they will make better use of the 
food acquired in this way than they would 
if it were all cut nicely and put before 
them so that there would be no need for 
any exercise on their part. It is with a 
hen much as it is with a child. They are 
all better off when they are obliged to buy 
some equivalent for their food in labor 
or other exercise, although some hens are 
l Plymouth Rock Caught on the Fly 
would be all right to mate the pullets 
and cockerels? All are of one flock. I 
bought, thorn when chicks from a good 
breeder. Would you use the cockerels or 
buy some cockerels elsewhere? o.U. L. 
Equinunk. Pa. 
If the cockerels are well developed, 
vigorous and of good type, there is no 
objection to using them in the breeding- 
pen next season, though pullet and cock¬ 
erel matings will not give you as large, 
vigorous chicks as cockerels mated with 
old fowls would. A pen composed of the 
best of these pullets in their second year 
will make superior breeders, and mated 
with cockerels from hens of known high 
production should improe your flock. In 
using these pullets next season you will do 
well to select only the best for the breed¬ 
ing pen, rejecting all inferior birds, and 
to mate them with only the very best 
cockerels. Another year you will have 
greater opportunities to improve your 
flock, for you will then have hens that 
have passed through one laying season 
and demonstrated their laying ability, or 
lack of it, and also their ability to stand 
up under the strain of production. 
Whether you should continue to use males 
from your own flock or purchase from 
outside will depend largely upon your 
ability to select the best of both sexes. 
Inbreeding involves some dangers from 
perpetuation and intensification of weak¬ 
nesses, while outbreeding takes you into 
like boys in the fact that they would 
rather have the food handed them on a 
plate. 
Growing Ration for Chicks 
I have read accounts of feeding mash 
to young chicks and the losses it causes. 
I never kept any exact accounts, but my 
losses were extremely light this year and 
I am proud of a line bunch of fully ma¬ 
tured cockerels and pullets in Barred 
Rocks. I started them in the month of 
February, incubator hatched, electric 
brooder, run of greenhouse under the 
benches. First feed bread crumbs in sour 
milk. Two or three feeds of that, then 
chick feed at intervals and dry bran before 
them constantly. At end of week I began to 
add cornmeal to the bran and feed a large 
percent of their entire ration of rolled 
oats and sour milk or buttermilk mixed 
quite wet. I could almost hear them 
grow. I fed rolled oats and buttermilk 
until six months of age, and I was almost 
the only person exhibiting standard 
weight cockerels of any breed at our fair 
this week. This stock has been almost 
entirely without green food from the start, 
except, as they got it from the Alfalfa in 
commercial egg mash. Had pullets laying 
at six months. There may be some help¬ 
ful hints in this for someone. 
Michigan. paul L. ward. 
Mating Pullets and Cockerels 
I have 1(50 S. (’. Buff Leghorn pullets 
and nine cockerels. Do you think it 
unknown fields and exposes you to un¬ 
known dangers. A large flock will not 
be closely inbred, however, if only its 
own blood is depended upon for some 
generations. M. B. d. 
Laying Ration 
I am feeding 100 lbs. bran, 100 lbs. 
cornmeal, 100 lbs. oatmeal. 100 lbs. 
ground oats. 100 lbs. middlings, 100 lbs. 
Alfalfa horse feed, 100 lbs. meat, for dry 
mash, and 10 bu. corn. 10 bu. oats, 300 
lbs. barley, 200 lbs. wheat for scratch 
food. What do you think is a good bal¬ 
anced ration for egg production. F. w. 
Millville, N. ,T. 
The mixture you are using should be a 
satisfactory one for laying hens, contain¬ 
ing. as it does, the standard grain foods 
with sufficient meat and a vegetable food 
in the form of Alfalfa. I am assuming 
that, the Alfalfa feed mentioned is ground 
Alfalfa. Your hens should have, in ad¬ 
dition, some green food when available, 
and by green food I mean green plants 
like grass, clover, etc., not vegetables. 
Vegetables also are a valuable addition 
to the ration and. in the Winter time, will 
probably be the nearest approach to Sum¬ 
mer greens that you can provide, with the 
exception of sprouted oats. M. B. D. 
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ways as foolish as you are now?” Wife 
(calmly) : “No. dear. Don’t you re¬ 
member that I refused you three times 
before I was foolish enough to marry 
you?”—Melbourne Australasian. 
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