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somebody grabbing big chunks out of the pools and 
raiding the bunches on the farms, both very wisely, 
so the price can be held. You must give them credit 
for the best of eyesight. They see all I have told 
you. and far more. They saw those Ohio women as 
soon as I did. Somebody in Cincinnati saw the 
program prior to that. “Truthful Textiles” is a red 
rag, and it took some diplomacy to explain to the 
chairman (a real nice Cleveland young woman who 
has been admitted to the bar) that I had no wool, 
no cloth, nor anything to sell, and that I had no 
relations with grafters. I remark in passing that 
■they are all mine. Now let me do some prophesying. 
I say wool will never again be as low as in 1920 and 
1921. Further, I say that the owners of the little 
30,000.000 sheep we now have will shortly begin to 
hustle to increase them, and. that before two years 
sheep will be the most coveted of all farm animals. 
Put these statements down and call me a false 
prophet if I deserve it and am alive in two years. 
In the meantime buy no shoddy. Let them unload 
the present stocks where they can and 
help make a market for wool. 
Ohio. W. W. REYNOLDS. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
. Leghorns or Wyandottes, a large brown egg similar 
to the Plymouth Rocks), and, third, they are abso¬ 
lutely at home in pens as common chickens, eat no 
more, but seem to desire more green stuff, which 
they devour eagerly. I am therefore fully convinced 
that they will become a favorite fowl, especially for 
family use and for meat.” z. t. spencer. 
A Wagon-box for Seed Com 
A BOX fastened on the side of a wagon is a con¬ 
venient way to haul seed corn from the field to 
the barn. Usually, if the seed corn is not selected 
from the standing stalks, it is soft at husking time, 
and there is also a problem of how to get good seed 
corn to the house after having it mixed with the 
corn for the crib. Furthermore, it is always a small 
amount as compared with the crop grown, and it 
needs a little extra care to keep from shelling. 
The illustration (Fig. 573) shows how the box 
may be used in this way, and also a trailer for liaul- 
Is It a Turkey-Chicken Hybrid ? 
S OME time ago one of our readers 
in Washington sent us a newspaper 
clipping stating that an Oregon man 
had succeeded in making a cross be¬ 
tween a turkey and a chicken. Among 
other statements in this article was the 
following: 
The photographs show the combination 
rooster-tom, a regular Hooligan in appear¬ 
ance and in barnyard actions. This great 
bird, the size of a turkey gobbler, has the 
feet and struts like a turkey, the body of 
a rooster, the neck of an old tom turkey, 
but the head is the real queer combina¬ 
tion in that it has the wattles and ap¬ 
pendages of the gobbler with the comb of 
a rooster. The naked skin of this hybrid 
is a brilliant crimson and is startlingly 
prominent. The customary ruff of hair 
is missing as in the turkey, and instead 
he wears a feather boa. Ilis call starts 
out with a crow and then trails off into a 
sort of muted gobble. 
At first thought this seemed too 
ridiculous to consider, but we were in¬ 
terested enough to consult the Oregon 
Agricultural College. Prof. Dryden. 
poultry expert of that institution, was 
absent, but Prof. Lum sent us the pic¬ 
ture engraved at big. 574, and a letter 
from Z. T. Spencer of Bellingham, 
Washington. We give extracts from 
Mr. Spencer’s letter below. We merely 
print this as a matter of general in¬ 
terest, without any endorsement of the 
“new breed.” 
“For the past two years T have been 
developing a new breed of fowls, a 
cross between a large Red hen and a 
•turkey gobbler. The exact history of 
these so far as I am able to trace is 
this: Three years ago an emigrant 
from Holland arrived here, and worked 
a farm five miles out. They brought 
over with them a young hen and cock¬ 
erel of this strange fowl. He raised 
from these that year six pullets and eight r(fosters. 
I ate one of the roosters last Thanksgiving and was 
forcibly struck with its looks, turkey head and hen 
body, as well as with the real turkey flavor of the 
meat. I decided to get these birds and develop them 
into a true strain to put before the public. I did 
secure half the pullets and a cockerel, and from 
these I now have 53, 47 of which are the third 
generation. At first the pullets bred back to the 
common chicks at the ratio of one to three, but by 
careful selection of my breeders I have reduced this 
to one in eight. The roosters have never bred back, 
only the pullets. 
“Recently there appeared in the Northwest Poul¬ 
try Journal an account of practically the same 
fowls, but as you have probably noticed, Dr. Thomas 
Ross of Portland claims to have crossed them him¬ 
self within a year. It 'looks more as if he had 
secured a sitting of eggs from my strain. I have 
sold a few sittings, one going to California, and as 
the Holland family left this section two years ago 
the doctor's might easily have come from him. This 
is in full all that I can learn of them, and I am sure 
that I am the only one who has been developing 
them into the standard strain. I want to say in 
utter truth that these fowl are remarkably valuable 
for three reasons: First, the fine turkey-flavored 
meat; second, their surpassing egg-laying capacity 
(they lay more eggs by 20 per cent than my White 
Wagon with Reed Box and Trailer for Soft Corn. Fig. 573 
The New Turkey-Chicken Fowl. Fig. 57// 
iiig nubbins or soft corn from the field. This shows 
a Western Ohio farmer husking standing corn, but 
the trailer and seed corn box could be used for 
shock corn as well. Usually the corn in the trailer 
is fed up directly, or placed where it can be got at 
within a few weeks for feeding, for it may spoil if 
kept too long. In this way the corn is carefully 
graded, and that which should be fed immediately 
can go into the feed lots, while the better corn, 
whether it is to be fed or go to market, may be 
stored away in the crib for future use. 
Ohio. c. M. BAKER. 
November 19, 1921 
adjoining wheat field, there causing a slight dam¬ 
age. When the sheep owner went to claim his flock 
the neighbor presented him with a bill of damage 
for .$10. The sheepman willingly agreed to pay the 
amount, but lacking the necessary cash at the 
moment he said he would return in the morning and 
bring the money. In the meantime the angry neigh¬ 
bor kept the flock. Next day the sheepman came 
back, bringing the $10. Unfortunately he had 
counted without his host. The latter had raised his 
claim to $25. 
Of course the sheepman felt the imposition of 
what seemed to him an unreasonable demand, but 
anxious to settle he proposed to deposit the full 
amount in the hands of a third party, or one of the 
town justices of the peace, and leave the damage to 
the decision of some disinterested persons. The 
neighbor, considering himself the only judge in the 
matter, refused to compromise in any other way, and 
so he kept the flock. Now imagine this flock through 
two weeks of very warm weather in a corner of a 
dark, ill-ventilated basement, crowded, 
almost packed, like sardines. Thus the 
neighbor kept the sheep, feeding them 
as only an inexperienced man will do, 
and then came out at the end with a 
claim of $150. Anyone who has raised 
sheep knows that this is the time 
(October) when Spring lamibs make the 
most gain, and therefore can realize 
where the damage belongs. 
It can be seen from the above that 
if the plaintiff has a grudge or is un¬ 
fair he can make the law serve his pur¬ 
pose pretty well, since he can hold the 
live stock until his claim (light or 
wrong) is settled. He is both the plain¬ 
tiff and the judge of his own case. Of 
course the defendant will go to the jus¬ 
tice of the peace, but the latter’s de¬ 
cision may be appealed from or a trial 
by jury decided upon. In the meantime 
expenses will accumulate and the dis¬ 
pute develop into a very expensive law¬ 
suit. In my opinion there is need for 
a new law or some amendment to the 
existing law in order to dispose of such 
cases quickly and effectively. 
Every farmer feeds his horses daily. 
His cows must be fed and milked reg¬ 
ularly and evenly. In fact, any kind 
of live stock requires the constant care 
of its owner. Surely a person is en¬ 
titled to damages if there is damage, 
but the holding, impounding or shut- • 
ting of some one’s else live stock is 
absolutely wrong, and surely it does 
not right a wrong, but provides a fine 
excuse for spite if not for extortion. 
It sounds too much like the old lynch 
law. r. g. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had several let¬ 
ters like the above urging some amend¬ 
ment to the present New York law. 
There is also a strong demand for a 
law which will cover the case of a 
scrub male animal breaking into a field 
where purebred females are pastured. 
There has been great trouble this year from this 
cause, and the laws at present give no proper remedy. 
We want to hear from stockmen regarding the legal 
needs of such cases. 
N' 
New Live Stock Laws Needed 
T WISH to bring to the attention of your readers 
J. some facts concerning the law relative to dam¬ 
ages caused to crops by stray horses, cattle, sheep 
or any other farm live stock. For my part I think 
the present law is inadequate in most cases, but 
sometimes may be too radical, as is the case in the 
following: 
Recently a sheep owner had 85 head, composed of 
breeding ewes and Spring lambs, in a pasture field 
a few miles away from where he lived. He would 
pay an occasional visit to his flock, and incidentally 
inspect the fences. A few weeks ago, on his visit 
to the pasture, he discovered that his sheep had just 
broken through the fences and gone to a neighbor’s 
Organic Matter Needed in Soil 
'OW we learn of a new machine for harvesting 
tlie seed of Hubam clover and probably buck¬ 
wheat or Soy beans. It takes off the tops of the 
plants, shakes off the seeds and leaves the stems on 
the ground. Thus a farmer could harvest a seed 
crop and have the bulk of the plants to plow under 
for manure without the labor of handling it. That 
is one of the things which our Eastern farmers must 
work for. We must have more organic matter in 
the soil, and it is often too expensive to thrash out 
small lots of grain or seed. Such a machine as is 
here mentioned would do the work for 11 s with least 
labor. The Hubam clover we seeded on July 20 
stood two feet high on September 10. While seed 
sown in August made a fair growth, we think July 
15 will be about the limit for profitable seeding. 
The latest news from Mr. Berrang is that he stopped 
at -the border of Ohio to buy new rubber shoes for the 
oxen. This is a rubber pad to take the place of a steel 
shoe. 
