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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard 
Frozen Wattles; Grinding Meat for Hens 
1. I have a rooster which has frozen 
his comb and wattles badly. I have been 
rubbing on ointment, also lanced wattles 
to let off fluid. Is there anything else I 
can do? Would it be advisable to cut 
off wattles? If so, how close to head 
should they be cut? I have to feed him 
by hand. 2. I am able to get calves’ 
heads and other offal from butcher. 
Would a green bone cutter grind heads 
as well as offal? I have to get a meat 
chopper for latter. Is there as great a 
feeding value in this as in dried beef 
scraps? a. b. c. 
1. A frozen comb may be cut off below 
the line of freezing and the wound touched 
with light caustic to stop bleeding, if de¬ 
sired. Nature will take care of the 
trouble, however, if given time. The 
frozen part will slough off and the bird 
will be none the worse for the injury. 
The only object of a surgical operation 
would be to hasten the getting rid of the 
dead tissue and perhaps lessen the time 
that the consequent soreness disables the 
bird. 
2. You would probably be unable to 
grind this meat satisfactorily in a bone 
cutter unless it could be done when the 
meat was thoroughly frozen. Fresh meat 
will replace beef scrap in the poultry 
ration. ji. B. d. 
Roup 
We raised a flock of 250 chickens. By 
October I they were the finest-looking 
birds. Then a few got sick with a cold ; 
some had their eyes closed, some had 
their windpipe swollen, and a few had 
cheesy matter in the mouth and throat. 
Please advise us how to cure those dif¬ 
ferent cases. A lot of the healthy ones 
we noticed lately twist their neck when 
swallowing whole corn, which we feed 
lit until 7 P. M., and h*j! wonderful re¬ 
sults in our egg production, therefore 
started to do the same this year on tiOO 
pullets, but have found out since that 
the same results can be obtained bv just 
giving them one hour for the meal instead 
of three hours, and in that, way saving 
fuel. Another good reason for putting 
lights on pullets during the cold Winter 
months is it helps to prevent colds among 
the flock. By letting the birds go to 
l'oost .at their usual time, they receive 
their last meal about 4 P. M., and on 
dark and dreary days about 3:80 P. M. 
They eat their fill and go to roost, but at 
about 4 A. M. you will find those birds 
down from the roosts and looking for the 
first signs of daybreak. Of course, the 
first place they will find that is in front 
of the coop, and as almost all up-to-date 
coops are open front and muslin frame 
style, it is a fine place for them to catch 
a cold, because they cannot see to work 
around and keep warm. Rut giving them 
an evening meal if keeps their crops full 
and also keeps them warm until daybreak 
comes. 
Of course, there are a number of differ¬ 
ent ways in feeding the pullets this meal 
which have proven very satisfactory to 
those who have tried them. One way is 
to light the coops up at 5 A. M. and 
leaving them lit until daylight, but that 
means get up early and feed and water 
birds, as water left in the coops overnight 
would freeze, and 'that would do more 
harm to laying pullets than the lights and 
meal could make good. For that reason 
we are using the evening meal method. 
Another way. and the way we worked it 
last year with good results, was to light 
coops up just as the sun was going over 
the hills, and keeping the birds busy 
until 7 P.M., and this year we are work¬ 
ing the birds just for the one hour from 
■N to !) 1*. M.. which seems to be the most 
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Along the Neic York I Voter Front in Winter 
evenings. Can you tell us bow long it 
usually takes a bird to get over that sick¬ 
ness and how to treat it? Could-we use 
a chicken for the table if we kill it os soon 
as we notice the sickness? f. 
New York. 
I am afraid from your description that 
your flock has true roup, though it is 
possible that the trouble is due to severe 
colds. There is no worth-while cure for 
roup, while colds will subside if the fowls 
are placed under healthful conditions. 
Any sick ones should be promptly re¬ 
moved from the flock and kept isolated un¬ 
til they have recovered. The quarters of 
the flock should be kept in dean. dry and 
well-ventilated condition. There should 
be plenty of fresh air without direct 
drafts upon the fowls, particularly when 
upon their perches. If a poultry house 
is not sufficiently well ventilated, the in¬ 
terior will become damp and unhealthful, 
conducive to colds and roup. 
True roup is contagious and apt to last 
over in partially cured fowls from one 
season to another. For this reason most 
poultrymen prefer to remove such birds 
have the disease from the flock and 
dispose of them by killing and burying. 
It is even sometimes necessary to clean 
out a whole flock, clean up. disinfect and 
start anew with healthy birds. It would 
be useless, however, to place healthy 
birds in dirty, disease-carrying quarters, 
formerly occupied by sick ones. 
I think that few would care to eat a 
sick fowl, even though the flesh after 
cooking might not be positively unwhole¬ 
some. M. B. D. 
economical way, and also the most con¬ 
venient way. 
It is really a pleasure to see how the 
chickens will come off the roosts in the 
evening and enjoy that evening lunch, 
and also another drink of water. I think 
all poultrymen like to see when the water 
Pans are empty, as that is a good sign 
tor plenty of eggs. I know I have found 
it to be so. With chickens singing, crops 
full and water pans empty at 9 P. M. 
means, as every poultryman knows, a 
full egg basket the following day. 
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New Methods in Lighting Poultry 
House 
By letting your pullets go to roost at 
their usual time, and then putting on 
the lights for one hour every evening 
from eight to nine P. M.. and giving 
them an evening meal, 3 lbs. of grain to 
the 100. you can greatly improve your 
egg production. On 600 pullets, the egg 
production was increased 20 per cent 
in one week’s time. With eggs at the 
price they are today, it well pays for the 
little labor it takes to attend to the birds. 
On November 15, 1919, we put the lights 
on 400 pullets at 4 P. M., and kept them 
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