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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 15, 1919 
Milk and Poultry 
Crops have been good except oats, 
which were light. Potatoes are being 
loaded at the station for $1 per bn. Cab¬ 
bage, white, $25 per ton ; red, $50. Peas 
were r. fair crop, earlier selling for $4; 
late ones. $2.50 to $3. On account of the 
high cost of feed many have reduced their 
number of cows ; also poultry, d. k. n. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
Boys Do The Work 
*'I have used your Number 14 Outfit since March 
and think it is fine. I don't see how I could get along 
without it. My two boys, of 12 and 14 years, do most 
of the milking." Edward Schwenn, 
Corono, South Dakota. 
Much unsettled weather, though but lit¬ 
tle rain ; wells, springs and streams low. 
It has been a good season for farmers 
generally. All crops except apples good. 
Corn, best in years: hear of one piece 
that went 250 bu. of cribbed corn per 
acre. Some complaint of potatoes rot¬ 
ting. Rather more farms changing hands 
than usual, at slightly advanced prices, 
but not to extent of nearly everything 
else. Shippers are offering $1.25 per bu. 
for hand-picked apples, $1 per cwt. for 
ciders and $1 for potatoes. This is a 
milk producing section, but present prices 
are not satisfactory considering the cost 
of feed and labor, but probably best that 
can be obtained under present conditions. 
Dairymen's League is strong Jiere. Noth¬ 
ing but Holsteins go in three parts, and 
many fine herds of purebreds are ovmed. 
They sell from $300 to $1,000 and above; 
best grades around $200. Horses, young 
and sound, may be bought for $100. Not 
many seen on the highways now. Gaso¬ 
line has largely replaced horsepower. 
Gluten, $04 per ton; wheat feed, $55; 
bran, $45! meal, $70. Feed prices are 
dropping. e. a. j. 
Susquehanna Co., Fa. 
Potatoes are about one-third of a crop, 
selling for 90c a bushel and rotting badly. 
Apples are scarce in this locality, about 
one-fourth of a crop, selling for $2 a 
bushel to local buyers. Cabbage is from 5 
to 8c a head. Pork, $22 per cwt. Corn 
crop was the best in years. Oats, wheat 
and buckwheat just a fair crop. Labor 
from $40 to $70 a month, board, lodging 
and washing included. Milk. $3.11 per 
100 lbs. for three per cent milk. Feed 
very high, about $82 a ton. Many of 
the farmers are selling their fall cows to 
go to France on account of the high cost 
of feed and the drop in milk. M. N. T. 
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Worms In Fowls 
Would you advise me how to treat 
worms iu chickens? I have a nice flock 
of White Leghorn pullets and know they 
are affected for I see them on the drop 
boards. w. n. T. 
Springfield, O. 
The question as to amount of harm 
done by intestinal worms in the poultry 
flock is as yet unsettled. Some observers 
think that these worms are frequently the 
source of serious troubles affecting the 
birds, while others believe that, unless 
present in large numbers, worms do little 
or no harm. I have never, personally, 
seen any injury of consequence from intes¬ 
tinal worms, but appreciate the fact that 
others may have been more unfortunate. 
As a general remedy for worms, spirits 
or oil of turpentine is valuable. The only 
question is as to its administration. Some 
recommend mixing it with food for the 
flock, but I doubt very much whether 
enough of it will be taken in this way to 
do any good. It is not a palatable relish. 
Fpsom salts are also of value and may 
follow turpentine. A natural desire is for 
remedies that can be mixed with food and 
so given in a wholesale way, but worms 
are not easily expelled from their chosen 
habitation, and worm remedies with suffi¬ 
cient kick to be valuable do not add any¬ 
thing to the palatability of poultry ra¬ 
tions. More than that, worms once ex¬ 
pelled are not done for. They or their 
eggs are quickly picked up again by other 
fowls and they have often simply changed 
their residence. To do a thorough job, 
each fowl will have to be treated individ¬ 
ually and all droppings will have to be 
immediately removed from the flock’s 
reach. More trouble than many will take. 
A soft rubber catheter, purchasable at 
any drug store, may be oiled and passed 
gently down into the crop of the bird to 
be treated, carefully avoiding the windpipe. 
Through this, a teaspoonful or more of 
oil of turpentine, diluted with an equal 
quantity of some bland oil. may be forced 
directly into the fowl’s crop. There will 
be no question thou but that the bird has 
had its medicine. A small glass syringe 
may be purchased with the catheter for 
the purpose of injecting the oil. The 
druggist will understand the combination 
if its purpose is explained to him, and it 
will be well to explain it to him. 
If all this is too much trouble, and it 
probably will be, you may try mixing 
Epsom salts with the food of the flock, 
using enough so that each bird will got a 
small teaspoonful. Chopped onions, gar¬ 
lic. etc., are also recommended, as are a 
number of other remedies which I haven’t 
the patience to mention, knowing some¬ 
thing of the habits of chickens and of 
worms. On promises where the infesta¬ 
tion has become serious, it may be neces¬ 
sary to change the poultry quarters to 
new ground, and here is where tin 1 man 
who is trying to make a business of keep¬ 
ing poultry on a small plot is badly handi¬ 
capped. Concentration leads to troubles 
which only constant care can avoid, and 
not always then. M. B. D. 
