242 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 9, 1924 
-f 
a 
A Few Easy Payments from Milk 
Check Makes New Silo Pay Its Own Way 
'Until we have booked our factory capacity for 
1924 , we will ship to responsible buyers their new 
Green Mountain Silo for a small payment on de¬ 
livery—and a similar amount monthly for a few 
months. With this liberal plan you cannot afford 
to get along without a silo—or to manage with less 
capacity than you need. By providing better silage 
at lower cost your new Green Mountain will be 
paid for almost before you know it. 
BUT — send your orderin early. Factory capa¬ 
city is limited and this special plan may have to be 
withdrawn early. 
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN 
A Lifelong Silo 
For years the Green Mountain has been the 
choice of those who looked deeply into the silo 
question. Here is a silo not built to fit a price, 
but to give a long lifetime of perfect, sweet milk¬ 
making silage at a low feed cost. 
CREOSOTED STAVES. The 
heavy, carefully matehed 
Green Mountain’ staves are 
dipped in creosote preserva¬ 
tive. No painting required. 
Looks fine; wears well. 
EXTRA HEAVY HOOPS. 
Green Mountain hoops are 
extra "Heavy, with oversize 
threads. 
SAFE LIKE DOORS. Multi¬ 
ple door bearings.—like you 
see on a safe or refrigerator 
door. 
WOODEN RUNG LADDER. 
No iron to frost the fingers 
when you climb your Green 
Mountain silo. 
RED GAMBREL ROOF. Gives 
handsome appearance, extra 
capacity and long life. 
REINFORCED ANCHORAGE 
SYSTEM. Novel anchorage 
prevents sagging or warping. 
Save OneWhole Payment by OrderingWithin 30 Days 
Because we must plan steady production throughout the 
year, we make a special inducement for early orders. On 
orders sent within 30 days from now we will deduct entirely 
the first payment. Write us today, stating number of cows, 
and we will send all information, booklets, etc., by return 
mail. You will see there are no strings whatever to this lib¬ 
eral monthly payment plan. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MEG. CO., 338 West Street, Rutland, Vt. 
Roofing 
o Down 
Puts this Of die-Tan 
Metai-to-Metai 
Harness on Your Horses 
We trust you wherever you live. Only 
$7.50 down. Pay the rest monthly. Write for free 
harness book. Learn all about this improved metal- 
to-metal harness construction. Metal wherever 
there is wear or strain. No old-fashioned buckles. 
fan 
famess 
First Olde-Tan leather produced 70 years ago. Now 
known throughout America for its pronounced 
superiority. Olde-Tan harness is made by a tan¬ 
ner-manufacturer who follows every step from 
the raw-hide to the completed harness. 
Write for Free Book 
Ask for free harness book. Learn all about oar $7.60 
down and easy payment offer and the Olda-Tan metal-to- 
metal harness. 
BABSON BROS., Depf.30 -72 
19th Str*«t and Marshall Btvd., Chicago, III. 
Buying the best 
is greater economy today than ever before. 
ARMCO INGOT IRON 
is pure rust resisting iron and lasts from five 
to ten times longer than ordinary steel roof¬ 
ing. It is by far the most economical roof in 
years of service you can buy. (We make stock 
tanks.) Write for illustrated catalog. 
American Iron Roofing Co. Sta. 72, Middletown,0. 
PURE IRON 
$0 DOWN 
s ONE YEAR ^ 
mat TO PAY ' 
m2 
Buys the New Butterfly Jr. No. 24^ 
" ‘gnt running, easy cleaning 
$/f A 1 , 
Light running,_ _ 
close ekimming, durable. 
NEW BUTTERFLY _ 
lifetime against defects in material and worf^" 
•nanshio. Made also in four larger eizea up to 
No. 5 1*2 shown hero, sold on 
30 DAYS* FREE TRIAL 
and on a plan whereby they earn their own 
cost and more by what they save. Postal 
brings Free Catalog Felder. Buy from the 
manufacturer and save money. [1) _ 
ALBAUGH-DOVER Co., 2171 Marshall Bl. v Chicago: 
Best Locking 
Device ° 
Ever Made 
--BARN 
U I PM ENT 
r-> 
2110E 
An improvement found only 
on West Bend Barn Equip¬ 
ment. One lever locks in or 
releases from 2 to SO cows 
instantly, and also operates 
cow-stops. Saves thousands 
of steps. Simple, practical 
and indestructible. Used on 
the best dairy farms every¬ 
where. Our steel stalls, 
mangers, pens, litter carriers, 
ventilators, water bowls and 
other dairy barn necessities 
are your best investment. 
Get our 
Big, FREE Barn Equipment Book 
Explains entire line, also our special FREE service to 
farmers building new or equipping old barns with the best 
labor-saving devices. Blue prints furnished. Drop us a 
postal for full information. We are helping thousands of 
farmers make more profit out of their barns. Why not you? 
Write TODAY 
WEST BEND EQUIPMENT CORP. 
West Bend, Wis. Syracuse, N. Ye 
Write nearest office—Address Dept. B 
When you zvrite advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal . ” See guarantee editorial page. 
Cost of Feeding a Hen 
There are two egg-laying contests in 
New Jersey—one in Bergen County, the 
other at Vineland. Some figures regard¬ 
ing the hens at these contests have just 
been published and they will interest our 
people. There were 2000 birds at each 
contest, and during the year 294 died 
in Bergen County and 355 at Vineland. 
At Bergen County, 451 birds laid 200 
eggs or more during the year. This in¬ 
cluded 412 Leghorns, 27 Reds, 6 Wyan- 
dottes, 5 Barred Rocks and 1 Ancona. 
At Vineland this record included 342 
birds with 200 eggs or more—282 Leg¬ 
horns, 27 Barred Rocks, 17 Reds, 13 
AVhite Rocks and 3 Wyandottes. Of 
course it must be remembered that more 
than half the birds in these contests were 
Leghorns. 
There are many questions about the 
mined, I think that you could get along 
with it all right. 
I suppose that your idea of using horse 
manure as a sub-base for the floor is to 
get the heat from the fermenting manure, 
as a hothouse bed does. I shouldn’t try 
it; heated floors are not needed in a 
brooder house, even if they are not abso¬ 
lutely detrimental. Better use a board 
floor, covered with chaff. A layer of sand 
or loam beneath the chaff is a good thing, 
I like loam, since it acts as an absorbent 
of liquid droppings and aids in keeping 
building in a sanitary condition. Nothing 
better, in my opinion. M. b. d. 
Washes for Young Chickens 
We would like a formula for baby chick 
starting mash, growing feed, and develop¬ 
ing feed (dry mashes). We are feeding 
the Cornell laying' mash, which we got 
BERGEN COUNTY CONTEST 
Item 
Plymouth 
Wyan- 
R. I. 
Cam- 
An- 
Leg- 
Av. for 
2000 
Rock 
dotte 
Red 
pine 
cona 
horn 
Hens 
No. of Birds. 
120 
80 
200 
20 
20 
1560 
2000 
Lbs. Grain Consumed 
. . 34.73 
34.27 
34.18 
32.60 
33.94 
34.72 
34.07 
Lbs. Mash Consumed 
.. 45.15 
43.74 
46.56 
32.05 
34.14 
41.70 
40*55 
Ratio Grain to Mash 
. . 1-1.2 
1-1.2 
1-1.3 
1-0.98 
1-1 
1-1.2 
1-1 1 
Feed Cost per Bird . 
... $2.17 
$2.11 
$2.20 
$1.73 
$1.82 
$2.15 
$2.01 
Value Eggs per Bird 
. .. $4.36 
$4.89 
$5.25 
$4.86 
$4.66 
$6.30 
$5.89 
Returns above Feed . 
... $2.19 
$2.7S 
$3.05 
$3.13 
$2.84 
$4.15 
$3.88 
Item 
VINELAND CONTEST 
Plymouth Wyan- R. I. 
Black 
Leg- 
Av. for 
2000 
Rock 
dotte 
Red 
Giant 
horn 
Pullets 
No. of Birds. 
Lbs. Grain Consumed 
Lbs. Mash Consumed 
Ratio Grain to Mash 
Feed Cost per Bird 
220 
37.92 
53.28 
1-1.4 
$2.99 
Value Eggs per^ Bird. $5.72 
Returns above Feed. $2.73 
SO 
31.97 
35.90 
1 - 1.1 
$1.84 
$4.24 
$2.40 
220 
33.95 
45.62 
1-1.3 
$2.13 
$4.50 
$2.37 
60 
37.79 
56.54 
1-1.4 
$2.58 
$3.56 
$0.98 
1420 
37.66 
45.52 
1 - 1.2 
$2.25 
$5.82 
$3.57 
2600 
35.89 
47.37 
1-1.3 
$2.27 
$5.54 
$3.27 
cost of keeping a hen, her average in¬ 
come. etc. The above table will throw 
light on some of these questions: 
Buttermilk Mash; Feeding Turkeys and 
Pheasants 
1. I am starting to raise chickens on a 
large scale. If raising day-old chicks on 
buttermilk mash, how often should it be 
fed? How much would it take to feed 
1,000 for two months? 2. What is the 
proper feed for pheasants? 3. What is 
the proper feed for turkeys? w. s. D. 
1. A buttermilk mash is a mash con¬ 
taining dry buttermilk as one of its in¬ 
gredients. Buttermilk, either dry or in 
liquid form, is an excellent food for 
young chicks, and a buttermilk mash that 
contains the other needed ingredients 
would be good for the young chicks. There 
are different methods of feeding mashes to 
voung chicks. Some keep a dry mash be¬ 
fore the chicks at all times, after the 
first week ; others prefer to feed a moist, 
not wet, mash twice daily between feed¬ 
ings of hard grains. In feeding moist 
mashes, great care should be taken not to 
overfeed. My own preference is for dry 
feeding, when overeating is much less apt 
to occur. 
2. Hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine and 
with bread or cracker crumbs, may be 
given newly hatched pheasants. After 
five or six'days, small grains, such as 
cracked corn, rolled oats and wheat, 
should be fed. Milk curd is liked by 
young pheasants. 
3. Young turkeys are fed upon such 
foods as are given chickens, and those 
recommended above for pheasants are 
much used. Here, as with pheasants and 
young chicks, avoid overfeeding. A good 
rule for the beginner is to take just what 
he feels that the young birds should have, 
then cut the amount into two parts and 
feed one of these parts. M. B. D. 
from The R. N.-Y.. and like it better 
than the commercial mash we use and 
bought ready mixed; besides, it costs 
about 50 cents per cwt. less, even at the 
retail price we have to pay for the in¬ 
gredients. The three mashes we want 
have dried buttermilk for the foundation. 
We have about 1.000 laying pullets which 
are giving a good account of themselves, 
and we want to raise about 200 this 
Spring to keep for layers. We want to 
start about 600 chicks, as we have a good 
market for broilers. J. w. C. 
Lynnhaven, Ya. 
It isn’t necessary to use three different 
mashes for young chicks, starting, grow¬ 
ing and developing. Chicks will start on 
a growing mash and grow on a developing 
one. They need the same food elements 
at all ages, with some slight changes in 
proportions and forms in which these are 
given. If you are feeding the so-called 
“Cornell” mash, consisting of equal parts, 
by weight, of eornmeal. ground oats, 
wheat bran, wheat middlings and beef 
scrap, with 3 lbs. of salt added to each 
500 lbs. of the mixture, you may make a 
good chick starting, growing, developing 
and growing mash by adding 20 lbs. of 
wheat bran to 100 lbs. of this laying 
mash, from which the coarse oat hulls 
and larger parts of the beef scrap have 
been sifted out. Your miller will have a 
sieve with which this sifting can be done. 
Sifting will not be necessary after about 
six weeks. The increased quantity of 
wheat bran gives the growing chicks more 
mineral matter, of which they stand in 
greater need than do mature fowls. If 
you wish to feed dry buttermilk also, you 
may replace half of the beef scrap by it. 
We should prefer buttermilk or sour 
skim-milk fed separately in liquid form, 
however. M. B. D. 
Arrangement of Brooder House 
I am planning a house for little chicks, 
8 ft. across, octagonal, large enough to 
start 500, and take out the males as fast 
as I can pick them out. I figure 24 ft. 
in circumference; will it be large enough? 
I plan the roof to slope from the center to 
the eight squares, so that a stove in the 
center will naturally send the heat to the 
top. then the slope of the roof would carry 
down and all around the sides. Will this 
be practical? Then I have in mind to 
dig a place the size of the building, 12 or 
15 in. deep, and fill part way with horse 
manure, covering this with 3 or 4 in. of 
gravel, for the floor. L. G. B. 
Darien Center, N. Y. 
I do not know whether the heat from 
the stove will be carried down to the floor 
in a satisfactory manner in such a build* 
ing or not, but, if it is not, you can place 
a canopy about the stove, similar in style 
to those used over regular brooder stoves. 
I have seen an ordinary coal-burning 
heater with a make-shift canopy made 
from tin roofing used in a section of an 
ordinary poultry-house in this way. Of 
course, such an arrangement would not 
be as convenient as are the commercial 
brooder stoves, but it can be made to 
answer the purpose. Your building 
would have a floor space of approximately 
90 sq. ft., not very large for 500 chicks, 
though if the males were removed as soon 
as large enough for the sex to be deter- 
Egg Record for Plymouth Rocks 
The greatest number of eggs laid by 
any Plymouth Rock in one year at our 
New Jersey contests was laid by a White 
Plymouth Rock at the Vineland Egg-lay¬ 
ing Contest in 1916-17. She laid 301 
eggs. The highest Barred Plymouth 
Rock production is 313 eggs. I don’t 
know at which contest this was made. 
Our highest average production for Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks (three varieties: Barred, 
White and Columbian) is 169 eggs. 
New Brunswick, N. J. R. r. h. 
A Boy’s Farm Interests 
I read the paper to my hoy until he 
could read it for himself. From it he has 
had incentive for two hobbies: chickens 
and goats. The latter he has only re¬ 
cently ventured in, having purchased two 
does last Fall. The R. N.-Y. has had 
much influence to build up the ideals of 
our boy, and we thank you for it. At 
one time his hobby was bees, but they 
proved a failure for him. Yet it was not 
all loss, for he read and enjoyed A. I. 
Root’s page in Bee Gleanings for two 
years, and I often find him deciding his 
actions by ideas I know he has gained 
from this reading. 
He has no chickens now; has favored 
the White Leghorns and did have his 
best success with that breed. For some 
time he has been quite interested in the 
Black Jersey Giants. mrs. R. m. h. 
Mackinaw City, Mich. 
