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®» RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 1, 1921 
Vigilance 
T HE VALUE TO THE PUBLIC of the Bell System 
service is based on the reliability, promptness and 
accuracy of that service. 
As quality of service depends upon the economic 
operation of all telephone activities, vigilance begins 
where work begins. Science and engineering skill enter 
into the selection of all raw materials; and into the adapt¬ 
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finished product may be most efficient in operation and 
endurance, and produced at the least cost. 
A series of progressive tests are made at every stepj 
during the transformation of these materials into tele¬ 
phone plant and equipment. And when all these com¬ 
plicated devices, with their tens of thousands of deli¬ 
cately constructed parts, are set in operation they are 
still subjected to continuous, exhaustive tests. 
As the best of materials and the most complete ma¬ 
chinery is of little value without correct operation, the 
same ceaseless vigilance is given to the character of 
service rendered in providing telephone communication 
for the public. 
Such constant vigilance in regard to every detail of 
telephone activity was instrumental in upholding stand¬ 
ards during the trials of reconstruction. And this same 
vigilance has had much to do with returning the tele¬ 
phone to the high standard of service it is now offering 
the public. 
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Molting Pullets 
Is it natural for my five-months-old 
Wyandotte pullets to molt at that age? 
They are large, husky birds, and judging 
from their size and appearance should 
lay in October. They are mostly the 
short under feathers, and not tail or wing 
feathers. They were on free range up to 
four months, but since they have been 
brought into restricted quarters this 
molting has developed. j. H. J. 
Roxborough, Pa. 
It is not uncommon for pullets to shed 
their tail feathers and grow a new tail; 
hut. a molting of the body feathers, that 
is, if it is a real molt, is unusual. Per¬ 
haps the warmth of the “restricted quar¬ 
ters” may have something to do with it. 
Probably it is only a partial molt, and 
will not do any harm, anyway. They 
may shed their tail feathers yet, if 
they have not already done so, before 
they begin laying. But there is no cause 
to be alarmed. george a. cosgrove. 
A Record for Early Laying 
When a pullet commences laying before 
she is 17 weeks old it is something worth 
noting. So thought Mr. Coites of Con¬ 
necticut, when his White Leghorn pul¬ 
let laid her first egg at three months and 
22 days from tho time she got out of an 
eggshell. It beat any record that I knew 
of, and I wrote Prof. W. F. Kirkpatrick, 
head of the poultry department at Storrs 
Agricultural College, to know if he had 
any better record. He had not at that 
time, but now he sends me the following 
letter, which I give in full: 
“Last week I was at the convention, at 
New Brunswick, of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Instructors and Investigators. 
While there I understand that Dr. Ray¬ 
mond Pearl reported from the Maine Ex¬ 
periment Station a Barred Rock pullet 
that laid her first egg at three months old. 
I understand, furthermore, that Cecil 
Shepard. Berea, O., the Ancona breeder, 
claims that one of his pullets laid her 
first egg at 12 weeks old. The Barred 
Rock record is probably authentic, but 
the other I don’t know about. Both of 
these of course surpass the record sub¬ 
mitted. I thought probably you would be 
interested to know about these two cases 
that came to my notice last week.” 
That a Barred Rock pullet should lay 
at three months old is wonderful, be¬ 
cause they are a larger breed than the 
Leghorns, take longer to mature, and usu¬ 
ally do not begin laying until a month 
later than the smaller breed. Anconas 
are about the size of Leghorns ; they are 
mottled black and white, look like a 
White Leghorn with a lot of black feath¬ 
ers through its plumage. I have no means 
of verifying that record, but no one who 
mows Dr. Raymond Pearl would doubt 
any statement that he made. 
Prof. James E. Rice of Cornell used 
to maintain that the earliest laying pul¬ 
lets were usually the best layers in the 
flock. It would be interesting to note if 
these specimens of early fecundity were 
trap-nested whether they prove to be also 
extra good layers. geo. e. cosgrove. 
Chicks with Inflamed Eyes 
We have about 2.000 young White 
Leghorn chicks from five to 10 weeks old, 
divided off in seven different pens about 
four rods square. Their night quarters 
are 12x16 feet, 6 feet rear and S feet 
front. We clean and disinfect regularly. 
We are feeding a mash of equal parts by 
weight of shorts, bran, corn, ground oats 
and 25 pounds of beef scrap to 400 mash 
in the morning. Wheat at noon, cracked 
corn and wheat mixed at night. About 
1,000 were hatched with hens and the 
rest we sent for to three different firms. 
They have coarse sand and ground oyster 
shells before them at all times, all the 
fresh water they want three times a day. 
The chicks’ eyes start to water and swell, 
they scratch their eyes with their toes 
and sometimes they rub their heads on 
their body. This disease started in one 
pen, and it seems as if it is going through 
the rest of the pens. The first pen is 
better, but we have lost quite a number. 
What is the trouble? g. p. w. 
Maryland. 
Young chicks are subject to a catarrhal 
inflammation of the eyes (conjunctivitis) 
that causes the symptoms that you des¬ 
cribe.' It is not roup, and I have never 
observed any serious consequences, the 
chicks recovering without special treat¬ 
ment if kept in dry, sanitary quarters 
and properly eared for. Unless some 
more serious trouble becomes grafted tip- 
on this simple inflammation I do not 
think that you will suffer any severe 
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vidually several times per day with an 
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free 
from 
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Keep their sleeping quarters, 
the feeding grounds, pure and 
healthful. Use the sprinkling 
can. Add four tablespoonfuls 
of Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfect¬ 
ant to each gallon of water. 
Sprinkle the animal body to kill 
the lice, the sleeping quarters 
and feeding grounds to destroy 
the disease germs. Or provide 
a wallow, to which add about 
one gallon D and D to every 70 
g allons of water. Disinfect the 
arns, the poultry house. 
# Also use it about the home, in the 
sick room, sink and cesspools, to es¬ 
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