The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 31. 1921 
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The Henyard 
Poor Laying 
I am having some trouble with my Leg¬ 
horn pullets, since they are only laying 
20 per cent. I feed one part cornmeal, 
one part middlings, one part meat sera)) 
and one part ground oats, and a scratch 
of two parts cornmeal, one part oats and 
one part wheat. What is wrong? a. m. 
Nanuet, N. Y. 
Mix one hag of middlings, one bag 
cornmeal, two bags of bran, with 50 lbs. 
of ground beef scrap; mix it well. Make 
a long box, say 8 ft. long, 10 in. wide and 
6 in. high. Make a frame of 2-in. wide 
strips, the size of the box, and tack 2-in. 
mesh poultry netting on this frame. Put 
the mixed dry mash in the box, and the 
frame on top of it. Now the hens can 
eat the mash through the wire, but can¬ 
not scratch it out and waste it. You 
should have litter of some kind to feed the 
dry grain in. Straw of any kind, or corn¬ 
stalks cut up in short pieces; anything 
that will make the hens scratch and hunt 
for their food. Cracked corn is better 
than whole corn, because they cannot 
eat it so fast; it hides in the litter and 
makes them work more. Feed in the 
morning about three quarts of a mixture 
of cracked corn and oats; that is a small 
feed for 100 hens, but if you feed all they 
will eat they won’t eat much of the mash, 
and the mash should make about one-half 
of their feed. At night feed all they will 
eat of corn and oats, and if there is a lit¬ 
tle left in the litter they will find it in 
the morning. Make a box with three com¬ 
partments and put ground oyster shells 
in one, grit in another and ground char¬ 
coal in the third, if you can got the char¬ 
coal without much trouble. Feed green 
food of some kind ; cabbage, sprouted oats, 
beets. Beet pulp, such as is fed to cows, 
is good if you cannot get the other stuff. 
Oats boiled and fed warm three times a 
week, at noon, is good. Be sure .to fur¬ 
nish a place where they can have a dust 
bath of fine dry earth. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE, 
Delayed Laying 
Will you furnish me with a well' bal¬ 
anced laying ration for my 04 Rhode 
Island Reds? They are all early Spring 
hen-hatched birds, and are not progress¬ 
ing as well as some incubator stock that I 
bought around Easter time. The incu¬ 
bator chickens are now laying. I am in 
the habit of feeding them two quarts of 
scratch feed morning and night, besides a 
hot mess in the morning and half of a 
loaf of bread cut in small squares. They 
get plenty of greens and grit; have ideal 
houses and plenty of running space. I 
have a four-acre orchard fenced in for 
them. Evidently they have passed 
through their molt, for I find few feath¬ 
ers on the drops. I also have before them 
mash. Apparently they are all in healthy 
condition, but what we want, are eggs, as 
the birds cost, me .$12 per month to feed. 
Madison, N. J. g. s. 
Hen-raised chicks arc more likely to be 
lousy than incubator chicks. It is pos¬ 
sible that this is what is delaying G. S.’s 
earlier birds. Take a pullet off the roost 
gently, with hands on both wings, so she 
cannot flutter, then put her under your 
arm and bend the feathers under her tail 
upyard. so as to expose the little hollow 
spot just above the vent. If the hen kicks 
or struggles the lice scatter among the 
feathers and you won’t see one. But if 
they are numerous the feathers below the 
Vent will have a bunch of “nits” attached 
to the base of each feather, A drop of 
kerosene oil on each bunch will dispose of 
them, and all the lice will be driven off 
and kept away by mixing some “blue 
ointment”—obtained at any drug store— 
with an equal amount of lard, then tak¬ 
ing a piece as big as a pea, rub it into the 
skin below and above the vent, then 
wipe your fingers under the wings. Be 
sure to treat the rooster the same way. 
But never put that ointment on a sitting 
hen or one with chicks. They may not be 
lousy at all: it may be some setback in 
chickhood that causes the delay. It can¬ 
not be the feed, if one lot is laying well 
on it. See that the bread is not musty ; 
try it with your nose; it will tell you 
sometimes what your eyes cannot see.’ 
G. A. C. 
Wasting Disease in Poultry 
Lately one of my hens, nearly through 
molting, was found dead. She was a 
large hen. but seemingly had wasted away 
until she weighed but a fraction of her 
former weight. Shortly after another 
was found in like condition. Now an¬ 
other lias one eye blinded and is very 
light, in weight; has no appetitite and 
inclined to be dopy. The droppings lately 
have seemed to be hardly natural and 
offensive in odor. What is the trouble? 
Waterbury, Conn. e. m. s. 
There arc several chronic wasting dis¬ 
eases to which fowls are subject, the most 
common being tuberculosis, and it is quite 
likely that it was that disease that caused 
the death of your hens. There is no cure 
for it in fowls; in fact, it is not usually 
discovered until the fowls display the ex¬ 
haustion of the last stages. Fowls dead 
from this disease should be deeply buried 
where other members of the flock cannot 
get at them, and any known to be ailing 
should be removed from tin* flock and 
disposed of. While the disease is com¬ 
municable, its ravages are not usually 
serious, most fowls seeming to be able to 
resist it, m. b. d. 
Suspected Cholera 
There seems to be cholera in my flock 
of poultry; droppings are yellow, streaked 
with green. Have tried several remedies, 
and though some have seemed to help 
for a few days, the trouble soon re¬ 
appears. Recently I was recommended 
the use of baking soda or bicarbonate of 
soda in place of sub-nitrate of bismuth, 
which I had been using. This would, of 
course, be much cheaper than the bis¬ 
muth. and we had thought of using about 
a pound a day for 1,200 to 1,500 birds. 
Can you tell us whether this would be 
effective and if such an amount would 
be all right? Would the soda harm the 
chickens in any way? c. J. s. 
Essex, Conn. 
I should give these birds a big dose of 
Epsom salts at once. Give a heaping tea- 
cupful to each 100 birds in a wet mash. 
They will not drink it if put in their 
drinking water, but do not seem to mind 
it in a wet mash. Close the dry mash 
box and feed nothing but the wet mash 
for one day. The object is to empty the 
intestines as completely as possible. Then 
mix red pepper in a wet mash, a heaping 
teaspoonful to each 100 birds. Do this 
for three days, in place of the dry mash, 
feeding scratch grains night and morning. 
Supply them with .plenty of granulated 
charcoal. Charcoal will absorb many 
times its volume of deleterious gases. I 
used to buy it by the 100 lbs., and was 
surprised at the quantity of it my hens 
would eat. 
I have never used the sub-nitrate of 
bismuth or baking soda, but I do not 
think the soda would hurt the fowls. I 
would thoroughly clean the droppings 
boards and spray them with a strong dis¬ 
infectant. As soon as the effect of the 
Epsom salts has passed, I would remove 
all the litter and top surface of the 
ground under it, and put in clean litter. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Poultry with Swollen Eyes 
I have some young pullets which have 
some sickness affecting their eyes. First 
the eyelids swell, then close completely, 
and the eye waters constantly during the 
swelling. Usually they have it on one 
eye only. Is (here any cure for it, and is 
it a contagious disease? Quite a number 
of my chickens have it now. We feed 
them scratch feed, corn, boiled oats, skim- 
milk. c. z. 
Merrow, Conn. 
This is probably due to bad colds, and 
likely to run into roup. Put the affected 
birds into a pen by themselves where they 
can be warm and comfortable. Wash the 
eye with boracie acid, and if any show a 
discharge from the nostrils, with an of¬ 
fensive odor, kill and bury or burn them 
at once. That is roup, and a bird having 
it is not worth much if cured. Roup is 
very contagious; when the bird drinks 
the nostril discharge floats on the water 
and other birds drinking there catch the 
disease. I should cut out the boiled oats 
and feed in place of it a good wet mash 
once a day. with all the red pepper in it 
that they would eat. Put in a half tea¬ 
spoonful of red pepper to two quarts of 
dry mash, mix it well and wet it with hot 
water or milk. Feed it warm; not too 
hot. Some of the birds will get well if 
nothing is done for them, and probably 
some may die anyhow. These colds are 
due to the long, damp and rainy days we 
had. See that your roofs do not leak and 
litter is not musty. Smell it; your nose 
will tell you what your eyes cannot see. 
G. A. C. 
Powdered Buttermilk for Poultry 
Has powdered buttermilk all the feed¬ 
ing qualities of semi-solid buttermilk? 
Poultrymen here think some of the qual¬ 
ities are destroyed in reducing to a pow¬ 
der. How should the powdered compare 
with semi-solid in price? e. w. v. 
New Jersey. 
Powdered milk has not been injured by 
the process of evaporation itself, though, 
of course, any particular sample might 
have been injured in the manufacture of 
it. Powdered milk at 8c per lb. is con¬ 
sidered equal to semi-solid buttermilk at 
3c per lb., and to skim-milk at lc per 
quart, any one of the three being equal 
in feeding value to beef scrap at from 4% 
to 5 cents. 
Damp Henhouse 
I.have a henhouse 12x16 ft. It has 4u 
open front 2x6 ft., which I keep open in 
fair weather. It has two large windows 
in front and one on the side, which makes 
it possible for sun to shine in all of the 
time. I keep 15 laying pullets and 20 
laying year-old hens in this henhouse. 
The henhouse gets damp within two 
weeks from the time I clean it out and 
put in dry shavings. It has a double 
board floor and I keep it banked up with 
snow. Is there anything I could do so 
that it would not get damp so quickly? I 
have lights in this henhouse which I turn 
on at dusk and do not feed them until 5 
p. m., and they are all on the roost at 7 
p. m. Every night there is a hen that 
lays on the roosts. Is there any way to 
stop her from doing this? L. w. R. 
Maine. 
Litter will get damp within a short 
time under almost any system of ventila¬ 
tion. but if there is sufficient moisture in 
the air within the building to condeuse 
upon the walls, or to make them “sweat,” 
in cold weather, it is evidence of insuffi¬ 
cient ventilation. The only remedy for this 
is more ventilation, and this is to be ob¬ 
tained by opening windows, doors or other 
means of ingress for the outside air and 
escape of that inside. There will be very 
few days in the Winter when your 2x6-ft. 
opening should be closed, regardless of the 
temperature outside. Storms should not 
he allowed to beat in through this open¬ 
ing, of course, and a burlap curtain may 
prevent that, but an open front henhouse 
should be open in Winter as well as in 
Summer, unless windows are so arranged 
as to give ample ventilation. The air 
within a poultry house may be fully as 
cold, as that without, and this without 
detriment to the fowls if only that air is 
dry, hut air cannot be kept dry in a 
closed building occupied by fowls. 
Keep your lights on until about 8 p. m„ 
and (hen give your hens their last feeding 
of whole grain. The object in using arti¬ 
ficial lights is to make the days and nights 
of about equal length, as they are in the 
Summer. You do not do this when you 
feed at 5 p. m. and turn off the lights. 
See to it also that there is food in the 
litter for the fowls as soon as they get 
down in the morning, and water also. If 
you do not do this you lose the value of 
artificial lights. M. n. D. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Storrs Postoflice in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. Tile 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the 
number of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets 
entered for the next year. 
Results for week ending December 12, 1921: 
Week Total 
BARRED ROCKS 
Purdue University, Ind. 24 44 
W. H. B. Kent, N. Y. 9 46 
Ontario Agricultural College, Ont .... 16 57 
Lewis Farms, R 1. 5 15 
Jules F. Francais, L. 1. 19 49 
Harry G. Culver, LI. 26 105 
G. B. Treadwell, Mass. 12 56 
Seven Hills Farm, N, Y. 29 147 
Edgar Stoughton. Conn. 26 76 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 25 134 
Michigan Poultry Farm, Mich. 16 23 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 17 46 
A. Hamburger, Mo. 11 23 
Forrest Ferguson. Mo. 6 1!) 
Dundas Poultry Plant, N. J. lu 21 
H. E, Dennison, Mich. 10 22 
COLUMBIAN ROCKS 
T. J. Enslin, N. 3 . 2 2 
George J. Sullivan. N. J. 6 27 
WHITE ROCKS 
James F. Macdonald, Mass. 16 185 
William H. Bassett, Conn. 6 20 
S. Bradford Allyn. Mass. 28 175 
Applecrest Farm, N. H. 18 113 
F. R. Pember, It. I.». 0 0 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 0 0 
Harold F. Barber. Mass. 6 13 
K. W. Picker, N. J. 0 0 
WHITE WYANDOTTK 8 
Walter Bradbury, England. 36 151 
Clarence It. Hanes, Mich. 9 115 
Arthur H. Shaw, Mats. 2 33 
Frank P Matteson, B. 1. 39 237 
Benjamia F. Decker, N. J. 27 187 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 35 180 
Woodbrldge Orchards, Conn. 32 172 
Harry D. Emmons, Conn. 21 94 
Merrythought Farm. Conn. 16 97 
Mrs. Inez Taylor, N Y . 7 8 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn. 15 113 
H. P. Demiug, Conn. 0 1 
Prospect Farms, N. J. 0 1 
D. S. Vaughn, R. 1. 10 30 
Wm. M. Batt, Mass. H so 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 10 76 
Harold Tompkins, Mass. 3 3 
Glen Wright, Conn. 10 20 
John Z. Labelle, Conn. 18 121 
Jacob E. Jansen, Conn. 17 *8 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 25 205 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 23 184 
Mrs. C. O. Polhemus, N. Y. 6 36 
Charles D. Peirce. R. 1. 16 55 
The Orchards, Mass. 40 229 
Old Town Farm, N. H. 30 157 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 37 211 
Afton Farm, Vt. 32 127 
Applecrest Farm, N. H. 48 181 
E. P. Usher, Jr., Mass. 19 98 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H 7 20 
Hall Farm, Vt. 14 52 
Henry P. Walker, Mass. 30 159 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. ... 26 178 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Max Axelrod, Mass. 7 40 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn. 19 159 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 7 57 
Goshen Poultry Club, Conn. 26 159 
Leo A. Grouten, Conn. II 83 
E. H. Scott, Conn . . 16 98 
F. M. Johnson, Maine. . 10 114 
Hollywood Farm, Wash.:_ 31 156 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 8 81 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 7 70 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 13 60 
Lion Head Poultry Farm, N. J . 19 75 
A. P. Robinson, N. Y. 20 110 
James O. LeFevre, N. Y. 11 25 
Imperial Poultry Farm, N. J...:. 0 14 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm, L. 1. II 64 
Jack Trevethan, N. J. 25 113 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 8 46 
John K. Roessner, N. J.. 4 35 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 18 124 
J, Frank Dubois, Mass. 15 122 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. 7 48 
George Phillips, Conn. II 27 
Riverside Poultry Harm, Pa. 32 88 
Kirluip Bros., N. Y. ..;. 12 75 
Mrs. J. L. Theusen, Conn. 8 74 
Tanglewold Farm, L. 1. 4 63 
White Springs Farm, N. Y. 24 91 
Meadowedge Farm, L. 1. 24 157 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 2 17 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter. N. J. 3 23 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. . 6 21 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 22 128 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. .. 25 100 
The Yates Farm, N. Y. .... 0 II 
L. E. Ingoldsby. N. Y. 19 132 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 4 45 
Willanna Farm, N. J. 1 30 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn. 1 25 
George B. Ferris, Mich.... 13 67 
Total. 1541 8113 
