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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 1924 
No farmer can afford to 
slight—in any degree 
whatever — the vitally 
important work of 
planting. When prices 
are high a bumper crop 
means bumper profits. 
When prices are low, 
more reason than ever 
to make every acre 
produce its utmost. 
Play safe on the seeding jobl 
Start right —or you cannot 
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W HAT the Superior Drill is to the grain farmer, 
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Row adjustment 28 to 48 
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THE HENYARD 
Death of Fowls 
We had a farm flock of several hundred 
hens. These had the free range of our 
farm and access to an apple pomace heap 
and the manure heaps of both hog and 
cow barn. We keep no horses. Trouble 
developed recently when we opened a bag 
of cracked corn the feedman had just 
brought. The hens started to drop dead. 
The feedman took back this feed, which 
looked perfect, and fed it to his own 
fowls, without results. After that, hens 
kept dying one or two a day until yes¬ 
terday, when 20 or more, and one duck, 
dropped dead, again at feeding time, ex¬ 
cept that there were a few dead ones 
early in the morning. The conditions 
under which these fowls are kept have 
been the same for years, with good re¬ 
sults before la£.t Tuesday. Some fowls 
drop with full, some with empty crops. 
All are active and most of them in good 
flesh. On examination the dead chickens 
show nothing unusual except in one case 
a big clot of blood near the heart. We 
fear poison, but have no enemies that we 
know of. Our property is posted against 
trespassing. That may have galled some 
pot-hunter, but I don’t quite think so. 
. New York. h. c. b. 
Thk is certainly a most peculiar case, 
and I am afraid that the explanation 
must await your own investigation, since 
there is nothing in your description that 
gives me a clue to the cause of the 
trouble. Where heretofore healthy fowls 
die suddenly in numbers, as you relate, 
the natural suspicion is, of course, that 
they died of acute poisoning, but it is not 
necessary to assume that the poisoning 
is the wilful act of someone. Hens 
sometimes obtain access to poisons left 
about the farm ; salt, corrosive sublimate, 
Paris green, nitrate of soda, used in fer¬ 
tilizers, paint skins, rat poison, spray 
mixtures and the decaying carcass of 
some animal. I would suggest that you 
make a careful search of the premises 
over which your flock runs and see if you 
cannot find something of a seriously poi¬ 
soning nature which the fowls might have 
found and eaten a short time before the 
bag of corn was opened. n. b. d. 
Feeding Cabbage; Stray Hens 
Is there any danger of feeding too 
much cabbage or any other green stuffV 
Is gluten good to feed laying hens? Does 
it make them lay better? What do you 
think of keeping your layers shut up" all 
Summer? Do they lay better with or 
without cockerels with them? Some of 
our pullets are falling off on their eggs a 
day instead of gaining, and their combs 
don’t seem to look as bright a red as they 
did. What is the cause of-it? We are 
feeding the Cornell mixture of dry mash, 
and their scratch grain, and cabbage, the 
same as we have all the Fall. Our neigh¬ 
bor on one side is quite close ; there, isn’t 
any fence between. Their hens are over 
here most of the time. We have some 
cockerels running out. They ordered us 
to shut them up. because they claim they 
had chased their hens. They sometimes 
follow their hens over home. Can they 
make us keep them shut up when theirs 
are running out and over here? B. M. 
Yes, too much cabbage should not be 
fed laying hens or pullets, though, if fed 
at noon in such quantities as will be read¬ 
ily cleaned up before night, too much 
will probably not be eaten. Gluten feed 
may be used as part of the mash. It does 
not make hens lay any more than any 
other suitable food does. Some poultry- 
men believe that it is not a good poultry 
food; others like it. Hens will lay as 
well during the Summer if confined to 
clean, roomy and comfortable quarters 
and properly fed, as if at liberty, but the 
chances of disease appearing and spread¬ 
ing through the flock may be increased 
somewhat. The presence of males in the 
flock does not affect laying. Egg produc¬ 
tion in a flock of pullets fluctuates; you 
cannot expect _ steady and continuous 
gains. Your neighbor’s hens have no bus¬ 
iness upon your premises, nor yours upon 
your neighbor’s. If you have cockerels 
that will chase stray hens from your 
premises you are fortunate. M. B. D. 
Improving a Mash 
We have 200 pullets. Our laying 
mash is: 100 lbs. meat scraps, 100 lbs. 
gluten feed. 100 lbs. ground oats. 100 
lbs. bran, 100 lbs. middlings. Is this a 
laying mash? We give them morning 
and nights all the corn they will eat. We 
get 2Q eggs a day now. They get this 
mash all day dry. j. K. 
Harrington, Del. 
This mash would be improved • and 
would cost a little less if you added 100 
lbs. of cornmeal. The morning feeding 
of corn should be limited, to encourage 
consumption of more dry mash through 
the day, giving about one-third the total 
day's quantity of whole grain in the 
morning and the rest at night. The pul¬ 
lets should have all the masli and grain 
that they will eat and be sent to their 
perches at night with full crops. If fully 
fed upon corn in the morning, however, 
they will not eat sufficient dry mash 
through the day to promote good laying. 
IT. B. D. 
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