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*Pn RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A Day in O u 
A Busy Morning. —"Old 3 uiteful,” the 
alarm clock, woke us on Tup - lay morning 
to the realization that about ">00 chicks 
were getting tired of their corfinement to 
incubators, where they had spent more 
than 3(3 hours, and that the b ooder stove, 
while set up in place in the old shop, had 
never had a fire in it; that the floor was 
bare; that no drinking fountain had been 
provided, and that, in short, the hundred 
and one other details necessary to the 
care of a large flock of chicks still lacked 
attention. Obviously, the "first thing to 
be done after breakfast was to get a tire 
started in the new brooder stove and the 
building warmed up. The 3-in. smoke 
pipe went straight up and through the 
ridge of the roof, but, for all that, the 
stove refused to draw, and the better part 
of an hour was spent in getting the fire 
to burning properly and the stove regu¬ 
lated for business. It then became evi¬ 
dent that there must be some fire-resisting 
material beneath the hot base of the 
stove and that the hard boards of the 
floor needed carpeting with some softer 
material than protruding nail heads. A 
couple of inches of coal ashes served the 
first purpose, while a trip to a neigh¬ 
bor’s barn loft secured some soft chaff for 
the floor of the chicks’ nursery, playroom 
and cafeteria. Wide boards, set on edge 
about 4 ft. from the stove, lessened the 
amount of chaff needed and assured that 
the chicks would not wander too far from 
their iron foster mother until they had 
learned where her circular wings were 
poised to form a canopy over them. 
The Chicks. —For all its initial ob¬ 
stinacy, the stove burned beautifully now, 
and the room was getting well warmed, 
so the car was backed out and started for 
the neighbor’s, where about half of the 
chicks had been hatched for us. Our own 
4<X)-egg incubator had given us 245 chicks 
for this lot, while the neighbor, who had 
set his incubators at the .same time, had 
enough more to give us about 475 chicks 
in all. When placed within the S-ft. 
square enclosure, the little peepers made 
it sound like at 10-acre swamp in the 
Spring time. They evidently wanted 
something and wanted it badly. Our 
guess was that food and drink were the 
only things that would fill the bill, or, to 
he more exact, 475 bills. As we wanted 
(hem to have a drink of some of that 
Nebraska made condensed buttermilk the 
first thing, drinking fountains must be 
quickly improvised. Hanging upon a nail 
in the old shop were several old frying- 
pans of large size. They were about 2 in. 
deep and one was of heavy castiron. 
They appealed to us as ideally adapted to 
the use of small chicks if the latter could 
be kept out of them, and we then blessed 
the New England thrift of our predecessor 
upon the place that kept him from throw¬ 
ing these old kitchen utensils away, and 
cur own inability theretofore to find 
a hi 1 e in any floor through which we 
could drop them; they were just what 
we wanted. 
The Drinking Pans. —Recalling a 
picture that we had recently seen in a 
bulletin upon chick raising, we decided to 
cover these pans with wire poultry net¬ 
ting. This was cut around well beyond 
the edge of the pan and the overhang 
turned down. A wire was then thrown 
around the pan and drawn tight, after 
which he free edge of the netting be¬ 
neath the uieireling wire was bent up 
over it. The wire netting was fix'd se¬ 
curely in place and we looked unon the 
completed job with pride, hut with some 
misgivings withal, as we not id the size of 
the meshes. However, we filled the pan 
with buttermilk and started for the shop, 
keeping the bulletin firmly in mind and 
trying to ignore some comments from the 
mistress of the place. 
A Buttermilk Bath. —Either the 
sight of that old frying pan brought sa¬ 
vory odors to the minds of the 475 chicks, 
or they were consumed by curiosity. Be¬ 
fore we could get the contraption away 
from them more than a dozen had plunged 
through it. dipping in and out from one 
mesh to another, and emerging from the 
other side, a soaked and sorry looking lot 
The sound of the splashing attracted the 
others also, and a mob was madly rushing 
from all quarters fo join in the bath. If 
buttermilk is as good for young chicks as 
it is said to be, some of that flock will 
make remarkable records before they die. 
We withdrew the frying pan .with all 
haste and cut a circular piece of tin to 
cover the fop within about an inch of the 
edge all around. This tin cover was 
weighted in place by it stone and the fry¬ 
ing pan returned to the pen, while we in¬ 
dulged in the fervent hope that we might 
some day meet the author of that bulle¬ 
tin. It occurs to us now that we, top. 
will draw a picture one of tiiesi days and 
r Back Yard 
that it will he of a tin cover cut to turn 
down over the edges of its dish. All 
around its circumference, semi-circular 
holes about an inch across will be cut, 
and through these the chicks will be ex¬ 
pected to drink. This cover will become 
wet and slippery, of course, and the chicks 
that take a running jump to alight upon 
it will slide across and drop from the 
other side, but the exercise will be good 
for them. 
The First Meal. —Having provided 
drink and a hath for these chicks, the 
next thing was to set solid food before 
them. A mixture of finely cracked corn 
and pinhead oatmeal was put into shal¬ 
low wooden boxes and set within the en¬ 
closure. The idea proved very popular, 
and the boxes were soon filled with chicks 
whose only regret seemed to be that they 
must leave off sticking their legs down 
into buttermilk while they ate hard grain. 
There can be no question as to the appre¬ 
ciation of buttermilk by that flock ; what 
they can’t take internally they are willing 
to set themselves to soaking up externally. 
The old shop is some distance from the 
house, and before night we began to 
realize that it is hardly fair to set one 
pair of legs to waiting upon four hundred 
and seventy-five. It was one of the first 
warm and sultry days of the season, too ; 
one of those days that seem to put an 
ache into every muscle and to subtract a 
pound of energy for every ache they im¬ 
pose. More than that, all the work 
must be performed within the heartbreak¬ 
ing sight of an implanted garden ; grim 
reminder of a terrible Winter that still 
refused wholly to loosen its grip and per¬ 
mit the sun and warm showers to pre¬ 
pare the earth for planting. 
The Brooder Stove.— The brooder 
stove was the one bright spot upon the 
horizon, however, not literally bright, for 
the fire burned low, but bright with 
promise of days and nights free from 
worry over the comfort of the chicks. It 
kept am even temper and maintained an 
even temperature within the brooder 
house. About it, nearly 500 chicks were 
as comfortable and happy as 50 would 
have been in an old-fashioned lamp-heat¬ 
ed brooder. And no wind or sudden cold 
storm could put it out of commission. 
Without question, the coal-burning brood¬ 
er stove is the greatest advance in prac¬ 
tical equipment that the poultry industry 
has seen since the perfection of the incu¬ 
bator. 
The End of the Day. —After more 
than a busy day, the last evening trip of 
inspection before retiring was made to see 
that all was well with the chicks. Some 
of them hadn’t yet. learned where the com¬ 
forting heat came from and had to he 
picked up in double handfuls from the 
corners and out of the feed boxes and 
placed within the circle about the stove. 
Then we limped, rather than walked, to 
the house and, removing our heavy shoes 
in the kitchen, tried to get by Rattlepate, 
the typewriter, without attracting his at¬ 
tention. The effort was useless, however, 
for. from his dark corner in the den, that 
sable imp sent a jeering, cackling laugh 
after us. calling out. “What about this 
pile of unanswered letters on the desk?” 
M. n. D. 
Is a Pig Eite Poisonous? 
A A' ill you kindly advise me whether or 
not the bite of a pig is poisonous to 
persons? A friend was telling my hus¬ 
band how his uncle had been bitten in the 
calf of the leg by a boar. The Hto was 
disinfected, but lie claims that the next 
day the leg began to swell and pain him, 
and on going to the doctor he was told 
he had come too late. The doctor claimed 
that the bite of a pig was more poisonous 
than that of a rattlesnake. The next day 
the swelling had crept up through the 
man’s body, and in less than 48 hours 
after he was bitten he died. This was 
told as a fact hv a reliable person. When 
we heard it my husband said we should 
write to The R. N.-A r .. as we could, get 
reliable information from you. If this is 
true of a pig bite, is it safe for the boys 
to keep tip the pig-raising contests? We 
have a registered Puroe-.Terse.v sow. and 
our boy of 10 has taken all the care of 
it. hot th 5 s story has made us feel as if 
we should get more information on the 
subject, and not let the hoy go into the 
pen to feed her, hot fix up sme kind of 
a chute to feed from outside the pen. Is 
there any foundation for th : s fear? 
Massachusetts. mils. ii. f. d. 
There ran he no doubt that the lrte of 
man or ol any animal i • c: t-eme!y dan¬ 
gerous. The teeth < f /ill animals carry 
infective matter into the wound. Take 
the teeth of a dog. or the teeth of a hog; 
these are particularly liable to infect the 
wound, on account of the food eaten by 
such animals, and the high chance of con¬ 
tamination from the food. The hog’s 
teeth, so far as we are aware, do not 
carry any particular germs of poison that 
would be deadly to man. If you examine 
the hog’s teeth you will see that the 
wound he gives is more to be dreaded 
than the bite of a dog, since they rip and 
tear the flesh. Such a wound would be 
almost certain to be infected with dan¬ 
gerous germs, which cause blood poison¬ 
ing. It is true that humans vary in their 
power to resist the action of these germs. 
The blood of some human beings appears 
to lack what is known as the anti-bodies, 
which serve to combat the germs and 1 
destroy them without serious injury, and 
this is why some people are more easily 
affected hy the bite of an animal than 
others. 
As for the danger in having children 
handle large hogs, we have never felt it 
wise to encourage too close an association 
with them. Most hogs are apparently 
good-natured, and would not willingly in¬ 
jure the child. Others, however, are 
vicious in disposition, and are always to 
be feared. We have had two sows in 
particular which acquired the habit of 
catching and eating chickens. They were 
fierce beyond description, and we would 
not under any circumstances permit our 
children to get inside an enclosure with 
them. Oftentimes a good-natured hog, 
when hurrying for its food, will, without 
meaning to do so, knock the child down 
and trample upon him, and we think that 
on the whole it is safer to keep outside 
and have the fence between the child and 
the hog. The following letter from Dr. 
H. S. Baketel of Brooklyn makes an in¬ 
teresting statement about this matter: 
The bite of a hog is not necessarily 
poisonous, but a hog can have on its 
teeth or in its mouth bacteria which 
would be introduced into a wound hy 
means of a bite which would prove 
poisonous. 
A number of years ago, while in gen¬ 
eral practice, a patient was brought to 
me for a hog bite in the hand. Over this 
wound he had placed a large piece of 
pork for the purpose of “drawing out’’ 
the poison. I took off the dressing and 
for a moment held it over the forefinger 
of my right hand while getting my waste- 
pail open. I forgot at the moment that 
I had been peeked by a setting hen the 
night before and had an abrasion of the 
skin. Very shortly my finger began to 
swell and within a couple of days 
the swelling had extended up the 
arm and included the glands in the 
axilla. I had the finger opened by a sur¬ 
geon, and it was only after the most 
strenuous efforts that my hand was saved. 
I was compelled to soak it in an anti¬ 
septic solution for three hours at a stretch 
three times in 24 hours and I was laid up 
for six weeks. Strange to say. the patient 
had no blood poisoning and made a very 
prompt recovery. 
You were quite safe in saying that, 
while there is probably no poison in the 
teeth of hogs, they may transfer a poison 
through something they have eaten, and 
a hog bite should he very promptly taken 
care of. 
Value of Standing Grass 
W’tli ns a good crop of grass will sell 
readily for one-half the price or value of 
hay iii the barn, estimating the amount 
of hay the standing grass will make. Our 
nearest neighbor, having no stock, dis¬ 
posed uf his grass last year to a dairy 
farmer, each taking half, the buyer stor¬ 
ing the seller’s half in the seller’s barn. 
New Hampshire. n. g. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JUNE 26, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Taking a Chance on a Potato Crop... .1129. 1130 
Facts About Oat and Pea Hay. 1130 
New York State Farms.... JJ31 
A Big Co-operative Movement in New York 1131 
Farm Products and Union Time. 
•'Little Bits of Service”. J135 
Hope Farm Notes.1136. 1137 
Agriculture in Political Platforms. 1130 
A Conference on Farm Labor. 1139 
Of Interest to Farmers. 1139 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Bringing Up Motherless Rabbits With a 
Bottle ... 
Country Consumption of Milk. 
Sheep in Apple Orchard. *,11 
Soft Butter . 1:1, 
The Old-fashioned Rennet. “Lf 
Kudzu Vine For Pasture. j,11 
•Hiunderstorms and Sour Milk... *111 
Laurel Poisoning Successfully Treated... ■ 
Furial as “Cure” for Poisoning. "1. 
Cilves on Pasture. i,1~ 
''eori"g S’lage Over Summer. r;11 
Keeping Up Mi’k Flow. 
Pig-fattening Quest’ons . 1,11 
Cistern Water for Cattle. 11,b 
THE KENYARD 
A Dry in Our Backyard. lj|| 
Egg-laying Contest . “g 
Ailing Turkey . 
HORTICULTURE 
1137 
Improving a Lawn. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Finishing Pine Floors. jj 33 
Ginger Ale il33 
Sterilizing Horsehair .. 1133 
What Is “Metheglin”!. ....... ng 3 
Removing Scratches from Leather. ,j 33 
Using Glucose for Sugar. H33 
Baking Powders . 1141 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.... 
Origin of American Negroes. 4443 
The Home Dressmaker. ....... ■•••;• . 1443 
Macaroni and the Other Paste Foods.. 
The Effect of “Overalls Clubs”. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Editorials .• 
Replies from Candidates 
Publisher’s Desk . 
for Governor.. 
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