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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 1G, 1920 
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For Ensilage Cutters 
T HE farmer must handle his 
silage at the right season and 
have a dependable machine that 
will get the job done in time. 
Hyatt Bearings in ensilage cutters make 
for more dependable operation. They re¬ 
quire far less time for oiling, provide more 
economical operation, decrease the need for 
repairs and add greatly to the life of the 
machine. They never need to be adjusted. 
And this is the kind of service that Hyatt 
Bearings also give in tractors, trucks, 
plows, threshing machines, grain binders, 
wind mills and other farm machinery. 
Send for the Ensilage Cutter booklet. 
HYATT ROLLER BEARING CO. 
Tractor Bearings Division 
Chicago 
Motor Bearings Div. Industrial Bearings Div. 
Detroit New York City 
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Hyatt Roller Bearings are 
used in the following makes 
of ensilage cutters:—Rowell, 
Holstein and Plymouth. 
greater expenditure of time and labor than 
most birds arc worth. Partially cured 
fowls often become chronic carriers of the 
disease, and keep it going in the flock 
year after year, so that many experienced 
poultrymen prefer to promptly kill anv 
birds believed to have roup and thus to 
prevent its spread. 
2. A cow having a chronic cough is 
quitcly likely to have tuberculosis, though 
a cough alone is no proof of the existence 
of this affection. Such a cow should be 
tested by a veterinarian with tuberculin, 
unless the physical signs of that disease 
are so marked a« to make a diagnosis pos¬ 
sible without the test. al n. n. 
Leghorns and Anconas 
What are the merits of the White Sin¬ 
gle Comb Leghorn and the Mottled An¬ 
cona? Which is the most profitable bird? 
New Jersey. s. n. b. 
The Single Comb White Leghorns have 
undoubtedly won first place in general 
favor on American poultry farms, though 
this does not show that other breeds, if 
given the same amount of attention, 
would not do equally well. Under the 
special circumstances of any one poultry- 
man some other breed might prove more 
profitable, and the question of which 
breed to keep must be solved by each one 
for himself. All of the recognized breeds 
have been highly developed along their 
lines of special merit, and no one can be 
said to be more profitable than any of the 
others under all circumstances. The 
Leghorns, however, have undoubtedly ob¬ 
tained first place in popular estimation as 
producers of the white eggs demanded by 
some markets. At. b. d. 
Talkative Barber: “Your hair is 
getting thin, sir! You should put some¬ 
thing on it.” Bored Client: “I do. 
T. Barber: “May T ask. sir. what it is?” 
B. Client: “My hat.”—‘Boston Globe. 
street walks, being surfaced with several 
inches of cement and sand. While that 
construction is new here, it has the ap¬ 
pearance of solidity and permanency. 
At. B. D. 
Possible Roup; Coughing Cow 
1. I have sick chickens, and so far 
tried everything I was told. Some have 
swollen heads, with sneezing, but most 
ago. lie said it was nothing, but the cow 
si ill has that cough. She eats well and 
gives milk, and seems in good condition 
otherwise. P. At. 
New York. 
1. Swelled heads, sneezing and running 
at the nostrils are very strongly sugges¬ 
tive of roup, though sometimes severe 
colds make one suspect true roup when 
it. is not present. If deaths occur from 
the affection, however, it is safe to as¬ 
sume that true roup is present in the 
flock, and that only the most rigid pre¬ 
cautions as to cleanliness and disinfection 
of quarters and utensils, together with 
separation of all sick birds from the rest 
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Open Circuit System for Burglar Alarm 
have just the sneezing with a white slime 
running from the mouth. The Spring 
chickens are getting it, too; in some cases 
they die. 2. I also have a cow that has 
a slight cough; had a veterinarian a year 
of the flock and the .maintenance _ of 
healthful conditions, of housing, ventila¬ 
tion, etc., will avail to get rid of the dis¬ 
ease. There is no medicine that can be 
given to cure roup, at least, without a 
The Henyard 
Installing a Burglar Alarm 
In a back number of The It. N.-Y. I 
saw an illustration and the directions for 
installing an electric alarm.which works 
with a magnet; the bell rings when the 
circuit is broken. Would you give me 
an idea how the system is installed, and 
where I can get the alarm? Unless the 
thieves who have been stealing our hens 
are exterminated there is hardly any use 
of attempting to do anything in the line 
of poultry. u. H. P. 
- East Taunton, Mass. 
The ordinary way of wiring burglar 
alarms is to use the open circuit system, 
requiring but two dry batteries, a switch 
and an electric bell, in addition to the 
necessary amount of wire and the springs 
for the doors and windows. These door 
and window springs may be homemade 
or purchased at any electrical supply 
house for about 20 cents each. The 
springe are so attached to doors and win¬ 
dows that when these are opened they 
close the circuit and ring the alarm bell 
at the house. The switch at the house js 
for the purpose of cutting out the bell in 
the daytime. This method of wiring is 
simple, as will be seen by the accompany¬ 
ing cut which shows the plan. The dry 
batteries, switch and bell may be placed 
anywhere it is wished, it being only neces¬ 
sary that they be properly connected in 
the circuit. 
Another system uses what are called 
burglar alarm traps, costing at supply 
houses about HO cents each. In this sys¬ 
tem a string is stretched in front of the 
doors and windows to be protected, and 
when interfered with by either pulling or 
cutting rings the alarm. The cut shows 
the method of operation of the “trap.’ 
A rocking arm of metal is held between 
two contact points by a coil spring on 
one side and a string that is stretched 
across the doors and windows and fas¬ 
tened at its end on the other. Bulling 
the string swings the lever against one 
contact point: cutting it allows the coil 
spring to draw it back against the other 
contact point, in either case ringing the 
alarm. One trap will answer for several 
doors and windows. 
The closed circuit system, mentioned 
by you. requires closed circuit batteries, 
such as are used in telegraph work. These 
batteries are comparatively expensive and 
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troublesome to keep in working order. In 
this system a small amount of current is 
flowing all the time to energize a magnet 
and hold down an armature or lever. 
AY hen this current is interrupted by the 
cutting of a wire or the opening of a door 
or window the magnet ceases to function, 
the armature flies up and closes a sec¬ 
ondary circuit that rings the alarm. I lie 
one advantage o! this system is that any 
attempt to put it out of commission by 
cutting a wire causes the alarm to ling. 
AI. B. D. 
Henhouse Floor 
AY hat could you tell me as to using 
cinders and coal tar for a henhouse floor, 
made as they make tar sidewalks? HaS 
it ever been used? If so. in what propor¬ 
tion do they mix it? What is your opin¬ 
ion about using it? AA’e thought it 
would be less expensive to make than a 
cement floor. r E - B * 
Voorlieesville, N. Y. 
Cinders and coal tar for floors is a 
new one to me. If they are list'd. I shall 
have to pass the inquiry on to someone 
familiar with this sort of construction. 
Coal ashes or cinders and cement are used 
to make floors, walks, etc., where heavy 
wear or pressure does not have to be sus¬ 
tained. though they are inferior for these 
purposes to cement and sand and gravel. 
Partially as an experiment the writer^ re¬ 
cently made a doorstep block about .!x.i ft. 
in surface area and I ft. thick from coal 
ashes’ just as they had come from the fur¬ 
nace. and Portland cement. The body 
of the block was made of one part cement 
to eight parts of ashes, and the surface 
of one part cement to four parts of ashes 
put through an ordinary hand coal sifter, 
thus taking out all but the fine cinders. 
After several weeks this block is hard 
enough for its use as a doorstep, both 
as to surface and body, and it is growing 
harder. The part made from a I :“ mix¬ 
ture seems to be about as hard as that in 
which proportions of 1 :4 were used. The 
surface can easily be dug into, or even 
scratched with the thumb nail, blit the 
concrete rings, when struck, and, so far 
as can be judged from present appear¬ 
ances, will make a permanently solid 
block. Goal ashes and cement in about 
the proportions of 1:8 are now being used 
in this vicinity as the base for concrete 
