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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March G, 11120 
The History of a Word 
'THE trade-mark “Kodak” was first applied, 
in 1888, to a camera manufactured by us and 
intended for amateur use. It had no “derivation.” 
It was simply invented—made up from letters of 
the alphabet to meet our trade-mark requirements. 
It was short and euphonious and likely to stick 
in the public mind, and therefore seemed to us to 
be admirably adapted to use in exploiting our new 
product. 
It was, of course, immediately 
registered, and so is ours, both 
by such registration and by 
common law. Its first applica¬ 
tion was to the Kodak Camera. 
Since then we have applied it to 
other goods of our manufacture, 
as, for instance, Kodak Tripods, 
Kodak Portrait Attachments, 
Kodak Film, Kodak Film Tanks 
and Kodak Amateur Printers. 
The name “Kodak” does not 
mean that these goods must be 
used in connection with a Kodak 
camera, for as a matter of fact any 
of them may be used with other 
apparatus or goods. It simply 
means that they originated with, 
and are manufactured by, the 
Eastman Kodak Company. 
“Kodak” being our registered 
and common law trade-mark 
can not be rightly applied except 
to goods of our manufacture. 
If you ask at the store for a 
Kodak Camera, or Kodak Film, 
or other Kodak goods and are 
handed something not of our 
manufacture, you are not get¬ 
ting what you specified, which 
is obviously unfair both to you 
and to us. 
If it isn’t an Eastman, it isn’t a Kodak. 
Eastman Kodak Company, 
Rochester, N. Y., The Kodak City. 
Thinjc ii 
over 
If the seed you 
planted in good 
ground did not 
produce, would 
you plant that same kind of seed again? 
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another porcelain plug ? 
, The Splitdorf Spark Plug—break-proof and 
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TRADE 
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Raising Chicks with Hens 
Style of Coop.—O u page 192 the 
Pastoral Parson writes of the fact that 
most of the back-country farmers depend 
upon hens for brooding chicks, though 
they may have incubators for hatching 
the eggs. Some personal experience in 
this line may be helpful to some of Tiie 
R. N.-Y. readers. The little chick coop 
the farmer usually makes is the “A" 
coop, so called, with slats nailed on hori¬ 
zontally. front and back. The reason be 
does this is because it is the quickest and 
easiest way to make a coop. His wife 
wants a coop, so lie makes one with the 
least possible trouble to himself. He does 
not care that the wind may drive rain 
clear through the coop, or that the grow¬ 
ing chicks have to squeeze through the 
shits, making crooked breast bones, etc.; 
the coops keep the hen in. That is all 
that is necessary, lie thinks. I made my 
“A” coops by sawing one board 2 ft. 6 in., 
the other 2 ft. 7 in. long, nailing the long¬ 
est one ou the top edge of the other. This 
gives both sides the same slant. Then I 
nailed a 2-iu. wide strip across the bot¬ 
tom. sawing the ends so it would set in 
flush with the outer edge of the boards. 
Thou I nailed on strips perpendicularly, 
and as far apart as possible and still 
keep tlie lion in. Chicks could go in and 
out of such a coop until half grown with¬ 
out disturbing their breast bones. 
Keep the Wind Out. —Then, to keep 
the wind from blowing through, I boarded 
up the back, using half-inch thick stuff 
to make the coop lighter to handle. The 
board was narrow enough to leave about 
four inches of the peak uncovered, so the 
hen could stick her head out to watch for 
hawks and for ventilation; also the top 
board was hinged to the lower one by 
two little strips of leather, so it could 
be dropped down to take the ben out, 
if wanted, and it was held up iu place by 
a wood burton at the top. I made the 
coops 24 iu. deep, so if it rained in at the 
front the lieu and chicks would bo dry 
in the back part. I put wood floors into 
a few of the coops, but took them out 
later. I found that by putting in a few 
shovelfuls of dry earth, thereby raising 
the surface inside the coops a few inches 
higher than the ground outside, they re¬ 
mained dry. no matter how hard it rained. 
Without a floor the lien could have a dust 
bath whenever she pleased, her droppings 
were mixed with the earth by her scratch¬ 
ing. and the chicks did not have to re¬ 
main all night with their noses an inch 
from a soiled and filthy jloor. Also I 
found that floors made flue hiding places 
for rats and mice. I put 20 of these 
houses in a row, with a hen and 20 chicks 
iu each house. There were 400 chicks 
where the brooder heat would be just 
right night and day. The lamps would 
not smoke, nor go out, and I did not need 
to get up in the night to see if they were 
running all right. 
Facing to the Fast. —T faced that 
row of coops to the cast. Why? This is 
the why: In March, April and May the 
morning sun rises far to the north of due 
cast, and it is cold in the early morning. 
My coops faced to the east, let the first 
sunshine directly into tlie coops, where 
it was needed. Later, at 11 A. M., it was 
warmer and now the lien had shade and 
the chicks were running everywhere. How 
is it with a row of coops faced to tlie 
south? Not a ray of tlie morning sun¬ 
shine comes into them. At noontime the 
hot rays of the sun heat directly ou the 
lien, slio has no shade, as does tlie lieu 
with coops faced to the east. 
Waxiiektxg Chicks.—B ut the little 
clucks would wander hack of the coops 
and peep and peep because they could not 
see their mother. Sometimes they would 
wander so far away they would get 
chilled. To overcome that I made a long 
pen in front of the coops, dividing it with, 
partitions into as many parts as there 
were coops. Now the chicks could not get 
out of sight ©f the mother; neither could 
one hen rob the next one of her chicks. 
A week or 10 days before the eggs were 
due to hatch I covered the ground iu each 
of these pens with oats and spaded them 
under. When the chicks were put in the 
little green sprouts of the oats were just 
coming through tlie ground. When the 
chicks had dug the ground all over I cov- 
again with oats and 
The board pens were 
When the chicks got 
over them they were 
taken away and stored under a shed 
the next season, or used again for 
ered the ground 
spaded them in. 
about 14 in. high, 
big enough to fly 
all 
for 
another lot of chicks. Tt. was rich garden 
soil where those coops were: worms were 
plenty, and it was fun to turn up a few 
forkfuls of earth and see the chicks hustle 
with the worms. A little chick looks at 
its first worm hesitatingly, but if it. takes 
the worm iu its beak, with the first taste 
there is no more doubt, no more hesita¬ 
tion. Away the chick with worm goes, 
in a desperate effort to have that tidbit 
all for himself. 
Separating Chicks. —Just before dark 
I used to go along that line of coops and 
would often find a hen with f>0 chicks, 
perhaps, and the next hen with none. 
Then I had to take a hatful of chicks from 
one and give to the other. They were 
all of one age and color, so no lieu-could 
tell her own chicks. Practically the only 
loss was by clumsy liens stepping ou their 
chicks. This was offset by time saved and 
no expense for oil or coal. 
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had used l:::nn brooders of my own inven- 
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