The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
69 
THE HENYARD 
Warm Water for Hens 
I live in Alabama where it is seldom 
necessary to warm water for stock. It is 
usually too warm. Still, it seems to me 
that the following plan might work. I 
got the idea from a dentist, who put an 
ordinary glass in a large pasteboard 
mailing tube and an electric light set up¬ 
right in the tube under the glass. It 
gave a supply of warm water. Take a 
tin bucket and solder in a false bottom 
half way up, and insert light beneath 
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Warming Water for Hens 
the water-holding half. Then wrap In 
some insulating material like paper, or 
build a false box around it (covered) and 
fill with ashes to prevent radiation. This 
would keep the water drinkable and. un¬ 
frozen. The vessel would be partly cov¬ 
ered with a board with place sawed out 
to allow fowls to drink. A galvanized 
bucket, soap box, piece or board for cov¬ 
er, light and socket, should not be expen¬ 
sive. ALABAMA. 
Pullets Fail to Roost 
What could I do to make my pullets 
go on the roosts at night? They all seem 
to get in a corner. They are Plymouth 
Itocks, five months old. I put them up 
on the roosts every night for three weeks; 
roosts 2 ft. from the floor. Roosts are 
clean ; no lice ; coop is a brand-new one. 
There are about 25. and the roosts are 
half full. My coop is 14x24 ft., and has 
two roosts, each 24 ft. long. w. H. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
When hens get into the habit of stay¬ 
ing upon the floor instead of going onto 
perches at night, it is pretty hard to 
break them of the practise. Perhaps you 
can succeed with these by placing a guard 
across the corner where they usually sit, 
far enough out from the corner to make 
them look for another place to roost. 
Have perches enough to give them plenty 
of room. Fowls, more than men, are 
creatures of habit, and the habit of going 
upon perches at night should be taught 
early by giving them low perches to use 
when a few weeks old. M. B. d. 
Dried Buttermilk; Storrs Ration 
1. I am at present feeding Cornell 
mash to my hens, but am thinking of 
using some dried buttermilk in the mash. 
How much dried buttermilk should be 
used to each 100 lbs. of mash, and would 
it be all right to use a little less beef 
scrap? 2. What do they feed the hens 
at Storrs or some other egg-laying con¬ 
tests? Do you think it would be any 
improvement on the Cornell method? 
Springfield, O. A. M. 
1. Dried or powdered buttermilk may 
be used to replace part of the meat in 
the mash if desired, though it is not 
equivalent in protein content, pound for 
pound. If you wish to cut the amount 
of meat scrap in your standard mash to 
50 lbs., add about 80 lbs. of powdered 
buttermilk as the equivalent of the meat 
omitted ; 165 lbs. of powdered buttermilk 
are approximately equal to 100 lbs. of 
beef scrap in protein value. 
2. Feeding practices vary at the dif¬ 
ferent egg-laying contests. They have 
used the mash frequently spoken of in 
these columns, viz., equal parts of corn- 
meal, ground oat, wheat bran, middlings 
and beef scrap, with equal parts of 
cracked corn and wheat as scratch grain, 
at the Storrs contest, but I do not know 
whether that is their present ration or 
not. The above mash is sometimes called 
the Cornell formula, but I do not know 
that it originated there. The New Jer¬ 
sey Station at New Brunswick terms it 
the New Jersey standard dry mash. Oth¬ 
er mixtures may be made equally good; 
this is simply a conveniently made-up ra¬ 
tion from standard poultry foods ob¬ 
tainable nearly everywhere, and one con¬ 
taining the needed food products in what 
is now recognized as suitable proportion. 
M. B. D. 
Lights for Fattening Fowls 
“Brevities” asked recently if lights 
paid on fattening fowls. Having a year- 
round trade in fat fowls, I have used 
lights the last two years with excellent 
results on R. I. Reds and Barred Rocks. 
Both hens and pullets weigh from 1 to 2 
lbs. more in December under lights from 
the middle or last of October than they 
do without lights. p. h. many. 
New York. 
What some new neighbors 
taught an old Poultryman 
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„ Wisconsin, on the Bay road you 
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Barred Plymouths you sense that Mr. 
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‘ ‘The year just closed paid 
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Eggs—and More Eggs 
* ‘When a young couple took 
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including the regulator, was 
$71.60 and their eggs 
brought $201.06—or a gross 
profit of $129.46. Another 
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for the same period but egg 
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profit $37.07 but showing 
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