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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard 
An Experience with Turkeys 
The little picture on this page is sent us 
by Miss Mary C. Iluff of .Somerset Co., 
N. J. Mi-s Huff’ is evidently an expert 
at raising turkeys, and gives us the fol¬ 
lowing brief notes about her method of 
handling them : 
“I live on a large farm. Last Winter 
I thought I would try raising turkeys 
again. I had raised a good many in for¬ 
mer years; as I am in my seventieth year 
I thought I was getting too old. I had a 
Bourbon Red tom given me for Christmas, 
but he was in poor condition, so I kept 
him. Later I bought four late hens. They 
laid and I set each one. The eggs hatched 
well. I fed them bread and milk ; at first 
sweet milk. I gave them no water to 
drink ; only milk. When about a week old 
1 gave them hard-boiled eggs; I mashed 
them up, shells and all. and mixed oat¬ 
meal in them. They did well. When they 
were large enough I gave them oats, 
wheat and corn. Every day they ran 
over the farm, bur always came home to 
roost in the pine trees on the lawn. I 
sold 40 for Thanksgiving for $240. Some 
young toms weighed 20 lbs." 
New Jersey. M. c. HUFF. 
hatch and one never has an ailing hen, 
it would be difficult to show any great 
fault in the matter of feeding, though T 
think tlicre can be no doubt that a high 
protein, forcing ration fed through the 
Winter and accompanied by heavy egg 
from profitable to purposely restrict Win¬ 
ter laying. As a matter of fact. I do not 
know to just what extent heavy Winter 
laying decreases Spring hatehability: it 
may not be so great as is commonly sup¬ 
posed. 
I see no object in cooking tlie night 
ration unless food of doubtful character 
is used and it is desired to sterilize it. 
Authorities upon animal feeding discour¬ 
age the practice of cooking food for stock, 
having found that it actually decreases 
February 28, 1920 
of cormneal, wheat bran, middlings, 
ground oats or barley and meat scrap. 
To each 500 lbs. of this mixture 3 lbs. 
of salt are added. This is a more simple 
mixture than the one you are using, and 
probably equally valuable as well as less 
expensive. Sudden changes in the ration 
of layiug hens should not be made, how¬ 
ever. m. n. D. 
Increase of Poultry 
If one purchase April 1. from a reliable 
dealer, eight Grade A yearling liens at $5 
each and one cock at $20 and 50 baby 
chicks at 50c each, all guaranteed from 
200-egg strain, and knows how to feed 
and care for the birds, by the end of Sep¬ 
tember. same year, what will be the status 
of bis investment, considering that he 
wishes to increase bis live stock by batch¬ 
ing and sell eggs only if not fertile? We 
wished to state an average, but our guess¬ 
es were miles apart. What will be a fair 
average result, not in dollars but in num¬ 
bers ? c. B. 
New York. 
There is a possible egg production of 
4S0 from eight bous during the natural 
batching season of April and May. and all 
the eggs should be fertile. Granting that 
75 per cent of the possible production is 
realized, one would have 300 eggs. If 70 
per cent of these produced vigorous 
chicks, one would Lave a flock numbering 
252. Granting, further, that lie raised SO 
per cent of bis chicks, the owner would 
have 210 cockerels and pullets ou Sep¬ 
tember 1. If one-half of these proved to 
be pullets, he would have 108 possible fu¬ 
ture layers and an equal number of cock¬ 
erels. though the greater part, or all. of 
the latter would probably have been sent 
to market a- broilers previous to this 
time. These figures are capable of any 
variation that you care to introduce, but 
it would be a real optimist who would 
venture to revise them upward. They 
do not represent possibilities, of course, 
as the eggs from these liens might all be 
incubated throughout the Summer. On 
the other hand, there are a thousa A and 
one things that might prevent getting the 
results described. Counting chickens be¬ 
fore they are batched is a proverbial gam¬ 
ble. but'we would be willing to lay some¬ 
thing on getting the results mentioned 
above. I{ - D * 
Ration for Breeding Pen 
I am interested in poultry, making a 
specialty of egg' for hatching, and I would 
like to know if the ration I use is of 
too forcing a nature. I have a Lalf-tou 
mixed at a time, the scratch as follows: 
200 lbs. wheat, good quality; 200 lbs. 
oats, clipped: 200 lbs. cracked corn, 200 
lbs. barley. 200 lbs. hulled barley. A 
quart* of this is fed in the litter in the 
morning to each pen of 15 pullets and one 
cockerel. In very cold weather three 
handfuls to each pen are given when eggs 
are gathered about one o clock. r I bey 
always have access to dry mash, which is 
mixed as follows: 200 lb', ground Al¬ 
falfa. 200 lbs. meatmeal. 100 lbs. wheat 
bran. 100 lbs. flour middlings, 100 lbs. 
gluten feed. 100 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. 
] tea nut meal. 100 lbs. cormneal. 5 lbs. 
fine charcoal. 3 lbs. salt. Oyster shells 
and grit in boxes and water always to 
drink. The night feed is a cooked ration, 
•half oats and wheat' (of* poorer quality •. 
this food being prepared by cooking from 
two to three L,.iic- or until tin* water is 
all absorbed. This i> fed hot in "Winter, 
all the hens will clean up in 10 minutes— 
about three quarts to each pen of 30 
birds. The grain 1 feed, while being ex¬ 
pensive, does get results, although the 
breed hi (I is as important as thf feeding. 
I never have a sick hen or one who is off 
her feed; when tlie hour for the feeding 
comes they are always ready to eat and 
never leave anything. But I have been 
told my dry mash is too forcing to get the 
best results in fertile egg'. I also feed 
one large or two small mange’s to each 
pen every other day. I breed Bufl’ Wyan¬ 
dot tes only, and have buil up a strain 
that are great layers. My first hatch, 
which I always mean to get off March 1. 
usually hatches 50 per cent of eggs in¬ 
cubated. As the season advances they 
do better than this. Can 1 improve this? 
Connecticut. mbs. av. h. 
When 50 per cent of February eggs 
A Fine Flock of. 'New Jersey Turkeys 
production will decrease the hatehability 
of the eggs laid in the Spring by fowls so 
fed. I’nless hens are kept entirely for 
the purpose of producing eggs for hatch¬ 
ing, however, it mauifestlv would lie far 
rather than increases food values in most 
instances. You may be interested in 
knowing that the present dry mash recom¬ 
mended by the Cornell Experiment Sta¬ 
tion is composed of equal parts by weight 
Worms in Fowls 
Can you give me a remedy for chickens 
with worms? The droppings are full of 
white round worms about 3 in. long. The 
droppings are a reddish color with these 
white worms mixed with same. Fowls 
have pale combs and are slowing down in 
egg production. ,t. m. 
New Jersey. 
One of the best general remedies for 
intestinal worms in fowls is spirits of tur¬ 
pentine. This must, be given individually 
and is most easily administered by passing 
a soft rubber catheter carefully down to 
the bird's crop and injecting through it 
from one to three teaspoonfuls of the rem¬ 
edy. It is not an easy matter to eradi¬ 
cate worms from premises that have be¬ 
come badly infested, as the parasites are 
picked lip from the droppings and con¬ 
tinue the infection. In addition to giv¬ 
ing the needed remedies, the droppings 
must be frequently removed and kept from 
the flock's reach. New ground should hi 
used, if possible, where worms have be 
come a serious pest, and every effort mad 
to avoid infection rather than to attempt 
to rid a flock of it. A moderate numbei 
of worms have not been thought to b< 
detrimental, but. in excessive number.' 
they undoubtedly are, and recent evi 
deuce is to the effect that some forms of 
so-called rheumatism and leg weakness 
are due to these intestinal parasites. 
M. it. 
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The Universal milks two teats and massages two 
others , alternately . It milks the cow cleaner and in 
less time—by milking in this alternating-action way. 
Your dealer will be 
glad to demonstrate 
the Universal to you. 
See him or write us. 
The Universal 
Milking 
Machine Co. 
222 West 
Mound Street 
Twelve-Y ear-Old 
Girl Easily Handles 
Universal 
l find the Universal Milk¬ 
ing Machine satisfactory in 
every way. 
My 12-year-old girl has 
milked the cows alone several 
lima and handles the machine east- 
ly. 1 have had no trouble at all. I 
previously had another machine and 
I find the Universal has it slopped 
in all ways. 
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interested in milking machines. 
(Signed) W. w. CONSUAL 
Clayton, Neu) York 
ALTERNA TES • Like Milking with Hands 
