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*Pt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1, J020 
Cure Your Meat 
Quickly With This 
Pure Salt 
\\ 7'HETHER you kill one hog or a hundred hogs, finish the 
V V job right with this perfect curing salt. Good meat is 
worth the best salt you can buy. Colonial Special Farmer’s 
Salt cures more quickly, penetrating and drawing out the 
moisture, leaving the meat sweet, tender and of excellent 
flavor. Preserves the color and prevents forming of hard crust on outside. 
COLONIAL 
SPECIAL FARMER'S 
SALT 
No Lumps No Waste 
Just soft, flaky grains of pure salt 
without adulteration of any kind. 
Colonial Special Farmer’s Salt is 
like snow flakes compared with 
ordinary brands filled with lumps 
like hailstones. Once you try 
Colonial Farmer’s Salt you will 
appreciate its superiority over or¬ 
dinary salts that cake and lump. 
Dissolves quickly, making a clear, 
strong solution. Best for every 
farm purpose — butter making, 
cooking, baking, etc. Highly re¬ 
fined—never gives foods a gritty 
taste. 
COLONIAL SALT COMPANY 
AKRON, OHIO 
Chicago, III. Buffalo, N. Y. Boston, Mass. Atlanta, Ga. 
A 70 pound bag of this soft, fluffy 
salt is as big as a 100 pound bag 
of the ordinary kind. Colonial 
Special Farmer’s Salt does the 
work quicker and more thorough¬ 
ly. The strength never varies— 
never changes. 
Packed conveniently in strong, 
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There is no other salt just as good. 
If not handled by your dealer, 
write to us, giving his name. 70 
pound bags only. 
Tiffany’s Superior 
M A M M OT II PEKIN 
GIANT KOI/KN 
Ducklings 
Iivorlny Indian Runnars. (All varieties.) Eggs. 
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Fine Poultry, Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Guineas 
Pigeons, Bantams, Hareg.Cavies, I>ocs, Stock, Eggs 
low. Catalog. Pioneer Farm, Telford, Pa. 
Penciled Indian Runners 
‘The MacPherson Farm 
Large white eggs from Wal¬ 
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Millington, N. J. 
White Chinese GEESE 
GEORGE E. HOWELL. 
Eggs that hatch, 40c. ouch by 
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THE HENYARD 
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Disease in Yarded Flock 
Can you tell me what is wrong with 
my chickens? I have lost seven of them 
in about three months, and they are get¬ 
ting worse. At first little hard lumps 
form in crop, and when raised up by the 
feet water will run out of mouth. Then 
the droppings arc green and yellow. 
Fowls live from two to four weeks; at 
last stage they have a bad diarrhoea. It 
is a small Hock of the It. I. Reds. The 
coop is sprayed and cleaned every week. 
They have park 15 ft. square and there are 
about 50 to 55 chickens. There have 
been chickens in this lot for 15 years. 
Pennsylvania. Nv. u. k. 
Some of the symptoms that you men¬ 
tion suggest true fowl cholera, an incur¬ 
able disease that calls for prompt isola¬ 
tion of affected birds and thorough clean¬ 
ing and disinfection of their quarters. It 
is conveyed to healthy fowls through the 
droppings and spreads rapidly. Fowls 
that die. and probably even those that 
have been only slightly affected, but, if 
not killed, may continue the infection, 
should he disposed of by burning or deep 
burying. While a less serious infection 
"1 ay lie present in your flock, all ailing 
birds should he promptly removed aud 
thorough cleanliness of utensils and quar¬ 
ters should he maintained. No surviving 
birds should be returned to the (lock until 
there is no question of their complete 
recovery. The food given should lie care¬ 
fully inspected to see that none of any 
kind that has been spoiled is given, meat 
. products particularly being under sus 
pieion. There is little Use of attempting 
to treat birds already infected: the aim 
should be to protect the healthy fowls 
from the rest. If at all possible*, a new 
run for the Hock should he provided, and 
the old one should be put under cultiva- 
(ion for a year or two. A small enclosure 
of this kind used for many years in sue- 
cession becomes a breeding place for in¬ 
fectious germs of various kinds, and 
makes it difficult to keep a flock using it 
in health. As a possible source of trouble 
also, note whether these fowls may not 
have obtained- access to some poisonous 
mixture; even possibly the spraying ma¬ 
terial that you are using. m. b. d. 
Shortening the Molt 
During hast Fall the hens were very 
long in molting, and I would like to 
know what the cause was. Would the 
feeding have something to do with it? 
•1^ ^ ar f?®r fed a good deal of food mixed 
with milk, mid he thought this had a 
tendency to prolong the molting. The 
" iV te Scorns wei 'e longer in molting. 
Reading. Pa. a. s. k. 
I think it likely that feeding has some¬ 
thing to do with the rate of molting, but 
cannot tell just what that influence is. 
In some experiments once made to induce 
molting, the hens were put on .short ra¬ 
tions for a time, then suddenly given full 
trod again. This procedure induced molt- 
mg. hut was not found to be to the ad¬ 
vantage.of the hens. The feeding of milk 
is certainly good practice, supplying the 
materials needed in the production of new 
feathers, and, while T think that it might 
delay molting, I should not expect it to 
induce slow molting. Many hens that lay 
until late in the Fall, being well fed upon 
such high protein foods as skim-milk, will 
drop their feathers suddenly and shiver 
around nearly bare until new plumage 
can he produced. nr. b. n. 
Corrugated Steel Henhouse; Carrots for 
Poultry 
hat are the objections, if any, to 
building poultry houses of corrugated 
steel nailed to studding (no boards)? 
M by are they not more common if they 
are practical? 2. What are the objec¬ 
tions to carrots as a Winter green foivl 
for hens ? p, u. F. 
Massachusetts. 
1. I know of no objection to the cor¬ 
rugated steel for this purpose except the 
fact that it is such a ready conductor of 
heat as to be cold in Winter and hot in 
Summer. The interior of such a building 
upon which tin* July sun has poured dowu 
for a few hours would probably resemble 
a furnace, in spite of ventilation, and the 
corrugated walls would be white with 
frost in severe Winter weather. If the 
steel sheets were used for walls only, with 
an ordinary roof, there would be less ob¬ 
jection to them, and, if the studs were 
covered with boards or lath and plaster 
inside to make an air space between them 
and the iron, there would probably he 
none. 
2. Carrots, or any other garden vege¬ 
tables, are excellent for Winter feeding 
of hens; even tin* potato is better than 
nothing in tin* way of succulent food in 
cold weather. Vegetables are not “green 
food." however; that is, they lack the 
chlorophyl that gives color to greens. 
Whether it is this chlorophyl itsell or 
some vitUQiines that it contains that 
makes greens necessary for the best ra- 
tion, I do not know. The fact that the 
food chemists have almost discovered some¬ 
thing that they call vitamines in various 
foods leaves us up in the air with regard 
to these things; they are fixing to knock 
the underpinning from beneath sonic ot 
our ancient belief and all that we can 
do is to wait in fear aud trembling. 
M. b. D- 
