The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Brooder House Arrangement 
I am desirous of starting approximate¬ 
ly 800 day-old chicks this Spring. At 
present I have no brooder or brooder 
houses and I am submitting the following 
plan for your approval of criticism. My 
idea is to build three 8 by 10 ft. portable 
shed roof colony houses and set them in a 
line connecting the two outside ones with 
the center with a covered runway and 
placing a 1,000-chick oil burning brooder 
in the center pen. I)o you think I could 
successfully brood 800 chicks with the 
above plan? After they no longer require 
heat and I could distinguish the cockerels 
I could separate the houses and the flock 
so as to fatten the cockerels. I am com¬ 
pelled to keep my laying stock yarded. 
My yard space is limited to about 20 sq. 
ft. per hen. Could you advise me- how 
best to care for same to insure good re¬ 
sults if same is possible with such a small 
space? E . G. m. 
New York. 
This plan does not commend itself to 
me. In the first place, it is not generally 
desirable to place more than from 300 
to 400 chicks in one flock, not because 
heat enough cannot be supplied by one 
stove for more but because larger flocks 
do not afford individual chicks the op¬ 
portunity for development that they 
should have and increase the difficulty ‘a 
caring for them properly. Then, too, 
your proposed brooder houses are too 
small for best results. An 8 by 12 ft. 
portable brooder house has long been a 
standard size, but, with brooder stoves, 
a considerably larger one is desirable. 
I would suggest making your brooder 
houses at least 8 by 12 ft. in size and 
using a 500-chick brooder stove in each, 
dividing your flock accordingly. By sort¬ 
ing your chicks occasionally, placing 
those of like size and strength together, 
you will help materially in bringing them 
to even and profitable maturity and will 
minimize the care needed to prevent the 
weaker ones suffering at the hands, or 
rather feet and bills, of their stronger 
companions. For anything but warm 
weather, I should prefer the coal burning 
brooder stoves. 
Laying stock can be housed early in 
the Fall.and their runs seeded to rye or 
wheat, this being allowed to make a good 
growth before the hens are turned into it 
in the Spring. Confinement to their 
houses will be no detriment to fowls. 
jr. b. d. 
not having time to find out what to do I 
filled their mouth and nose full of car- 
bloated vaseline. At night they were 
able to eat, and in a day or so all had 
recovered, and it never appeared in them 
or their offspring for at that time I did 
not know any better than to breed from 
them. I have told this to many and 
have not heard of the trouble ever appear¬ 
ing after being so treated. I keep Buffi 
Orphingtons and find them the best all¬ 
round bird if kept busy. G. P. D. 
West Haven. Conn. 
QUALITY CHICKS 
They Come Prepared 
Your pVofl ts*arc* based Solely on thaT eBsenl,a ‘ r ° 
FOR PROMPT DELIVERY 
lav anil i-»s»v —tor they are all from Hillpot Record Layers. What- 
, over the breed, its representatives in our splendid 
breeding flocks have had first to prove their possession of that essential abilitu to 
ICiy. Your tirnrttfl uro hacpd colelv on thut 
Washed Eggs for Incubation 
We are often admonished not to use 
eggs for incubation that have been 
washed. On page 201, Mrs. II. F. W. 
used duck eggs after they were washed 
without any apparent injury. Has any¬ 
one had experience with hens’ eggs that 
Lad been washed or wiped with a damp 
cloth, and did it injure them for hatch¬ 
ing? We frequently have otherwise good 
eggs for hatching, but discard them lest 
they carry disease to the chicks, because 
the chicks pick at everything in sight 
as soon as hatched. P. w. s. 
Otego, N. Y. 
I have never observed any bad effect 
from wiping hen’s eggs off with a damp 
cloth before placing them in an incu¬ 
bator, and I do not know that it would 
injure them to give them a thorough soak¬ 
ing. This latter is not necessary, how¬ 
ever, as the great part of the dirt upon 
a Soiled egg can be removed by brushing 
it dry, and the remainder by the use of 
a damp cloth. While I have never tried 
it out, I strongly suspect that the advice 
not to wash eggs before incubating is part 
of that that is repeated by one person 
after another, without any real knowl¬ 
edge as to its effect. >r. b. d. 
Effect of Lights on Birds: Milking Once 
A Day 
1. I would like information concern¬ 
ing White Leghorn hens under lights. 
This is their second Winter, and last 
November I put lights on them -with 
splendid results. After they have free 
range and go through their molt will 
these same birds be all right for laying 
next Winter under lights? Do lights 
ruin a flock of birds in one season? 2. 
When a cow is on corn fodder and cow 
peas and only milked once a day will it 
dry up a cow? Our cow has always been 
milked twice a day. I have been told 
I will get just as much milk from her 
if only milked once a day. 
JIBS. E. L. M. 
1. If artificial lighting ruins a flock of 
fowls in one season, it is hardly to be 
recommended as an advisable practice in 
poultry keeping. I do not think that 
you will find any harmful results from 
the heavier laying induced by lighting 
after another molt has been passed, 
though it is not considered good practice 
to “light up” a flock that is to be used 
for breeders in early Winter. If it is de¬ 
sired to use lights with such a flock, they 
should not be turned on before about the 
middle of January. 
2. Milking but once daily will tend to 
decrease the milk flow, no matter upon 
what the cow is fed. When it is desired 
to dry up a cow, grain is removed, dry 
fodder is fed and milking periods are 
gradually decreased in number, with 
lengthened intervals between, until so lit¬ 
tle milk is being secreted that it is con¬ 
sidered safe to stop milking entirely. 
Regular milking at stated intervals, twice 
or even three time daily, stimulates the 
secretion of milk. The contrary prac¬ 
tice diminishes it. When cows are being 
forced to the limit for records, they are 
milked four times within 24 hours. 
M. B. D. 
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Remedies for Colds and Canker 
Some time ago, when I first began to 
keep chickens, and thought that they 
should be kept warm in Winter, I placed 
a curtain in front of the roost, and let 
it down at night . This kept them warm, 
too warm in fact, for they all took cold, 
and some of them had bad cases of roup ; 
eyes closed and discharge from eyes, nose, 
and mouth, and much sneezing. I put 
from 15 to 20 drops of tincture of aconite 
to every gallon of water that I gave 
them. There was much improvement in 
24 hours, and all were well in less than 
a week. In the Spring I found one 
morning on going to feed them two or 
three did not eat. and on looking closer 
found their mouths full of a white sub¬ 
stance, so full that they could not close 
their mouth. This I later learned was 
canker. Not knowing what to do and 
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