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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Working For You 
Day and night, feed manufacturers are grinding 
out chick feed for spring chicks. 
Without it, early chicks would perish and 
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Did you ever stop to think that the feed manufacturer 
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“all out” and need feed immediately? 
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Commodities do not distribute themselves and land at the door of the public without 
brains, money and a fair reward for the effort and risk. Every bag. of feed for horses, 
cows, steers, hogs and poultry that is produced by our members is honestly labeled 
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Amount of Lumber to Build Henhouse 
I am going on a farm in the Spring and 
wish to build some chicken-houses. I 
have a chance to buy some lumber. About 
how much would I ueed to house about 
400 or 500 chickens? I am not going to 
start so heavily, but am getting this lum¬ 
ber at $42 per thousand, and'I thought 
it would be a good chance. It is all 
tongued and grooved. J. o. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Assuming that your proposed poultry- 
house will be 20 ft. iu depth and 20 ft. 
long for each 100 fowls, with rear wall 5 
ft. and front walls 7 ft. in height, the 
roof being of the double pitch type and, 
further, that about one-third of the front 
will be open, you will find that it will re¬ 
quire for each 100-fowl unit 00 ft. of 
, matched stuff for the front wall, 100 ft. 
for the rear wail and something over 120 
-1 ft. for each end wall, the exact amount 
depending upon height of roof gable. This 
will make approximately 310 ft.; adding 
one-fourth for matching and waste you 
will have 387 feet as the total amount re¬ 
quired for a peu of 100 fowls. If you 
build a long house for several hundred 
fowls something will be saved, of course, 
in material for end walls, only two ends 
being needed no matter what the length 
of the building. Your matched stuff, 
placed vertically from sill to plate, will 
make excellent walls iu single thickness, 
and you may not be able to get any 
cheaper lumber for roof boards, certainly 
not better material. If used for roofing, 
you will ueed to add the requisite amount 
and you will need some 2x4 in. stuff for 
sills, plates and girders. Using the di¬ 
mensions given above for each 100 fowls 
and multiplying by as many times as you 
expect to build 100-fowl units, you will 
be able to arrive at the approximate 
amouut of this lumber that you will need. 
M. B. D. 
Leghorns vs. R. I. Reds 
May I add a few words with reference 
to the excellent article by E. T. Biddle, on 
page 70, “Leghorns vs. R. T. Reds"? The 
only criticism I would make to the figures 
he presents is they are based upon the 
production of only 120 layers, and they 
selected as the best in each breed that 
were in the Vineland egg-laying contest. 
As a comparison of the relative egg 
production and food cost of different 
breeds, in what follows I am submitting 
the trap-nest record of 7,378 pullets and 
hens that were in five egg-laying contests 
at Stores, and three at Vineland. The 
layers consisted of 1.265 Rocks, 1.185 
Wyandottes. 1,170 IL I. Reds and 3.758 
Leghorns. That number of units should 
give a close approximation which of these 
breeds will produce the most eggs in one 
year, and at the minimum food cost. 
Combining these contests together the 
Rocks produced 201.590 eggs, an overage 
of 150 each in one year. The Wyandottes 
produced 183,095 eggs, au average of 
154 each. The R. I. Reds produced 176, 
330 eggs, an average of 151 each. The 
Leghorns produced 614.738 eggs, an aver¬ 
age of HU each. 
Therefore, in the combined eight con-, 
tests the Leghorn unit produced in one 
year five more eggs than did the Rock. 
10 more than did the Wyandottes and 13 
more than did the R. T. Reds. If we 
combine the three meat breeds together, of 
which there were 3.620 pullets and hens, 
they produced 561,015 eggs, an average 
of 155 eggs each per year. As will he 
seen, the Leghorn unit has produced nine 
eggs, per year, more than the meat breeds. 
The price at which the eggs sold and the 
food cost for a unit is only available for 
two years at Vineland. I have, therefore, 
taken two similar years at both contests 
for computing the value of the eggs and 
the food cost. The average for those two 
years gives the egg value for the Rocks 
as $5.88. Wyandottes $6.02. R. T. Reds 
$5.63 and Leghorns $6.55. The average 
selling price of the eggs produced in one 
year by the meat breeds was $5.84, or 71 
cents less than those produced by the Leg¬ 
horns. 
The average cost of food for the Rocks 
was $2.92, Wyandottes $2.78. R. I. Reds 
$2.75 and Leghorns $2.68. The average 
food cost for the meat breeds was $2.S2, 
which is 14 cents more than for the Leg¬ 
horns. 
Combining results, we find a Leghorn 
unit in four contests produced 71 cents 
more in egg value and cost 14 cents less 
for food. Therefore, as a straight busi¬ 
ness proposition the meat breeds in these 
contests would have to sell for more as 
a meat product, by 85 cents, to equal the 
productive efficiency of the Leghorn. How¬ 
ever. based upon this comparison of the 
egg yield of over 7.000 layers, it confirms 
the conclusion suggested by Mr. Biddle, 
the Leghorn unit is the more efficient 
layer and produces the eggs at a less cost 
for food. GEO. A. HILL. 
On page 76 figures are quoted trying 
to influence readers in favor of Leghorns 
vs. Reds. The writer of the article does 
not place any value at all on the carcass 
of the Reds in meat value or the value 
of the broilers produced by both breeds 
during the three years of figures quoted. 
I am a poultry raiser on Long Island, 
and 90 per cent of poultry raisers on 
Long Island would not feed Leghorns on 
account of the carcass of them, either for 
market value or for home use. which dif¬ 
ference in value offsets any difference iu 
price of eggs. ALEX. F. BARBAII. 
Long Island. 
