•She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
S. C. 
White 
LEGHORNS 
BARRON & YOUNG 
CHICKS 
Coal or Wood Brooder Stove 
This Spring I expect to buy a brooder 
for baby chicks, but feel uncertain about 
the kind to get. What would you advise, 
a brooder that heats with coal, or one 
that heats with oil? I was told the odor 
of the oil harmed the young chicks. 
North Branch, N. Y. h. c. V. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
Both coal and oil buring brooder stoves 
are successful in operation, there being 
several standard makes that give entire 
satisfaction. For early season brooding, 
where considerable heat is needed, I pre¬ 
fer the coal-burning stoves; later, those 
that use oil and permit convenient shut¬ 
ting off of the heat in the middle of the 
day, .ire very convenient. The fumes of 
the oil burners should give no trouble in a 
properly ventilated brooder house. 
M. B. D. 
Loafing Hens and Broodiness 
I have been told that hens which 
“loafed” during the Winter would not be¬ 
come broody until very late Spring. Is 
this true? How can hens be made to sit 
early in the Spring? My flock of 16 Jer¬ 
sey Black Giants are not laying at all. I 
give them corn, buckwheat, oats and sun¬ 
flower seed as scratch grain, and mornings 
a mash made of boiled potatoes, ground 
corn and oats and scraps of boiled meat, 
leavings from table, etc. I will not have 
the scraps of meat much longer, and am 
thinking of giving them the boiled pota¬ 
toes alone, and keeping a dry mash before 
them of two parts each ground corn and 
oats, one part bran and one part meat 
scrap. They have free range, scratching 
in the hay and chaff in the barn. c. I. 
Mansfield. Pa. 
I do not know whether Winter loafers 
are late sitters or not as a rule, though I 
think that hens that begin laying early in 
the season are apt to show the broody in¬ 
stinct correspondingly early. Neither do 
I know any method of making hens sit 
early, or late. You are not feeding a good 
laying ration, though an excellent one to 
keep the hens fat and happy. The boiled 
potatoes, corn, oats, buckwheat, sunflow¬ 
er seed, etc., are all fattening foods, con¬ 
taining comparatively small amounts of 
the protein needed for egg production. 
Meat scraps contain this, but you prob¬ 
ably feed but little of these. Better use 
a good mash eonlaming one-fifth part by 
weight of meat scrap, in addition to your 
whole wheat grain as scratch food. Make 
your mash of one part each by weight of 
ground corn, ground oats, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings and beef scrap. Restrict 
whole grain feeding until the hens are 
consuming an equal amount by weight of 
the mash. m. b. d. 
Basement Henhouse; Blue Ointment 
1. Would it be practical to build a hen¬ 
house 24x24 ft. with a basement built 
on a bank, the basement having three 
sides of concrete and the front (south 
side) of wood and glass? Would it be 
damp and cold? Would sheathing over 
the concrete make it better, leaving a 1-in. 
air space between? 2. Would the use of 
blue ointment on fowls to kill lice be 
liable to affect the fertility of the eggs, a 
small amount being put around the vent? 
Lebanon, N. II. m. b. b. 
1. Basements are not necessarily damp or 
cold. If intended for fowls, precautions 
should be taken to see that there is pro¬ 
vision for drainage so that water cannot 
seep through walls from the bank in the 
rear or up through the floor. A blind 
ditch filled with stones about the three 
sides of the wall at its foot and having 
an outlet at a lower level in front and a 
layer of field stones several inches or a 
foot thick as a sub-base for the floor 
would, I think, keep ground water from 
seeping through the concrete. The front 
should be at least S ft. in height, with 
windows reaching to the plate, in order 
that sunlight might penetrate to the rear. 
I do not think that an air space would be 
required or of any benefit. 
2. Blue ointment will not affect the 
eggs unless enough is used to smear them 
when the hen is on the nest, a wholly un¬ 
necessary amount. m. b. d. 
Change of Feed Causing Molt 
I have been told several times that if 
one should change the mash feed of poul¬ 
try to a different ration, it would throw 
them in a molt, and put them back a great 
deal. If this is so, please let me know, 
and why it would do it. r. e. 
Garnerville, N. Y. 
Any sudden change in feeding or care 
of a flock of laying pullets is likely to 
induce a partial molt and check egg pro¬ 
duction. For this reason, any needed 
changes should be made gradually. If the 
kind of feed is to be changed, gradually 
substitute the new for the old. not imme¬ 
diately discontinuing one. thing to give 
another of a different kind. Do not change 
suddenly from wet to dry, of dry to wet 
mashes, or make great changes in the 
amount of meat scrap fed. It is of course 
necessary that changes should be made in 
the management of a flock at times, but 
avoid the shock to what appears to be a 
very susceptible nervous system of hens 
that ensues from quick changes. I know 
of no way of helping a flock through its 
molt, other than by good c-are and feeding. 
Do not change the accustomed ration, 
with the idea of helping the molt along, 
providing that you were feeding a suitable 
laying ration before the molt began. 
M. B. D. 
Chicks that carry 
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headers for our Special Mat¬ 
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