‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
849 
The Henyard 
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Time and Cost of Trap Nesting 
“Can you tell us how many hens one 
man can trap-nest? What is done on the 
large poultry farms? What does it 
cost?” 
sickness about a teasoonful dissolved in 
a little water. The dose for flock treat¬ 
ment is 1 lb. per 100 fowls, dissolved in 
all the drinking water that they will con¬ 
sume during the day. m. b. d. 
In trap-nesting, as it is carried on at Notes from Oklahoma 
most of the egg-laying contests, where We are again in the midst of a busy 
the birds are in small unite, we find that season, with numerous tasks, both indoor 
it takes two men to trap-nest 1,000 birds, ou ^’ ca ^*. n S f° r every spare minute. 
, , . , , , . ,. ., ’ The garden is growing nicely, and the 
and an extra girl to keep the individual fi rst plantings of spinach, radishee, mus- 
xecords and do other work in the office, tard, lettuce and onions are furnishing 
At the Toms River trap-nesting project 
1,000 birds are being trapnested in 
houses of 100 each. It takes one man to 
do the trapping and about half of one 
girl’s time to keep the records. Of course 
these records are not kept in quite the 
detail that they are at the Bergen and 
Vineland contests. On commercial poul¬ 
try farms of New Jersey many breeders 
are trapping 200 to 300 birds without 
any extra labor. Mr. Wm. Longstreet 
states that under his arrangements one 
man can take care of 5,000 birds and 
trap 400, and still have time to do other 
work. 
Trap-nests such as the Connecticut 
trap-nest, which is being used most gen¬ 
erally throughout the East, cost about 
50 cents to build. With careful handling 
and a little repair from time to time, 
they will last 10 to 15 years. 
There are really no figures on the cost 
of trapping on large commercial breed¬ 
ing farms, inasmuch as trap-nesting alone 
is only one part of the problem, and the 
other is the pedigree hatching and pedi¬ 
gree breeding, which must go along with 
trap-nesting if it is to be successful, and 
run into a great deal of money and time. 
For this reason I have not been very 
active in recommending many poultry- 
men to follow it on their own plants, as 
we usually find that most commercial 
poultrymen have so much otner work to 
do that they fall down somewhere along 
the line in trapping and pedigree breed¬ 
ing. 
My recommendations are for poultry- 
men of New Jersey, at least, to put a pen 
in either one or both of the Vineland and 
Bergen egg-laying contests, where they 
can have as many as 40 birds trapped. 
These, of course, are used for pedigree 
work during the second year, the result 
being that the average man gets sufficient 
cockerel sreturned to mate up with his 
breeding pens, and if he selects his 
breeders carefully he can always keep up 
the vigor and vitality of the strain, as 
well as heavy egg production. Such men 
as Henrv Rapp, Chas. Back and C. T. 
Darby clearly demonstrate that this is 
possible. w. h. a. 
New Jersey State College. 
A Hatching Record 
After reading the article, “Counting 
Your Chickens After Hatching,” page 
799, would like to submit our hatching 
record for this season, as taken from our 
records as kept for our own use. This is 
about the way our hatches have been for 
the last 15 years, and we nave had aver¬ 
ages of 72 per cent for the season, so we 
are not claiming anything remarkable m 
this result. This count is made of good 
strong salable chicks, no weaklings or 
cripples counted, and of which 90 to 95 
per cent live 
after being sold: 
Per cent 
Date set 
Eggs set 
Hatch 
hatch 
February 10 
846 
565 
67 
February 17 
855 
553 
65 
February 23 
845 
540 
64 
March 5... 
. 1,680 
1,045 
62 
March 12. . 
. 1.680 
1,109 
66 
March 10'. . 
. 1,120 
692 
62 
March 28.. 
. 1,750 
1,135 
65 
April 5. .. . 
. 1,680 
1,083 
64 
10,456 
6.722 
64 
New Hampshire. 
TITUS FARM. 
Ailing Hens 
What ails my hens, and what to do 
for them? I have had seven out of 100 
die; their combs and gills turn pale, and 
the droppings are almost an orange yel¬ 
low, and they stand about and get thin 
and finally die. About 10 days ago the 
stable manure was drawn out, and the 
hens were all over the opened pile. I 
think perhaps that is the cause. Could 
it be? What can I do for them? Is it 
safe to kill and eat them at the first sign 
of illness? mbs. a. s. 
New York. 
It is possible that these fowls found 
some decaying carcass, or other poison- 
our material, in the open manure pile. It 
may be a good plan to give the rest of the 
flock a dose of Epsom salts, or to give 
any individual fowl showing evidence of 
variety and wholesomeness for the noon¬ 
day meal every day. Our family are 
great vegetable eaters, and with a goodly 
supply of boiling greens and salad plants 
we are not worried as to what will serve 
as the foundation for dinner as well as 
supper. The frost-proof cabbages are grow¬ 
ing bigger every day, and there will soon 
be a lot of compact, pointed heads for 
slaw, stew and other delicious cabbage 
dishes, so nice for the early Summer din¬ 
ner. Peas are blooming, beans will soon 
be, carrots, parsnips, bee’s, okra, cauli¬ 
flower, and a big patch of tomatoes all 
have a place in the garden ; also cucuni 
bers and squash, sweet peppers and po¬ 
tatoes. Surely the”e ii no better invest¬ 
ment than a large, well cared for garden, 
where a bountiful supply of all the com¬ 
mon vegetables is grown at a cost not 
to be compared with an occasional mess 
of vegetables bought from the store. 
There is every promise of a bumper 
fruit crop this season. Peach, apple anti 
plum trees are loaded with fruit, and un¬ 
less damaged by frost or hail the crop will 
be heavy. This means that there will be 
millions of cans of these delicious edibles 
put up this Summer, for Oklahoma house¬ 
wives are great eanners, and do not be¬ 
lieve in letting any fruits and berries go 
to waste. There is also a fine prospect 
of a heavy crop of wild blackberries and 
huckleberries, both of which abound in 
old fields and on the hillsides of this sec¬ 
tion. 
Commencement and graduation exer¬ 
cises are almost at hand again, and there 
is the usual call for rather heavy expen¬ 
diture in the way of extra wearing ap¬ 
parel, etc. There will be one of the 
largest graduating classes that our col¬ 
lege has ever had. One of my daughters 
graduated last year and one is in the 
present graduating class; two others 
graduate from high school later in the 
Sunimer, while the youngest of the seven 
finishes the grades this Spring. It is 
indeed gratifying to see them one by one 
step out, fitted to make their own way 
in the world, but it has been a long, 
hard struggle to keep them in school. 
However, the result has been well worth 
the trouble and expense incurred, and we 
feel thankful indeed that Providence has 
made it possible that, in our weakness, 
we have been able to carry out this, our 
greatest of all ambitions. 
Our woods are beautifully green now 
and millions of wild flowers are in bloom. 
The dogwoods are lovely, ana along with 
them are the hundreds of red and black 
haw trees, which are gorgeous with their 
wealth of white bloom. There are many 
lofty pines growing on the hillsides, and 
gigantic oaks, hickory, ash, maples, syca¬ 
mores, box elders, hackberry and other 
trees abound in our miles and miles of 
forest land. Occasional sawmills are con¬ 
verting the oak timber into cross ties and 
the pines into building material, while 
timber grafters are buying and shipping 
out hundreds of fine black walnut logs. 
Originally all the land belonged to the 
Indians, but since white ownership has 
become possible, most of the agricultural 
lands are being bought by whites. The 
Indians are a quiet, peaceable, law-abid¬ 
ing people, but they are poor farmers, and 
are not inclined to work unless really 
necessary; however, we occasionally find 
hard-working, energetic people among 
them, but, as a rule, the women do most 
of the hard work, while the men fish, hunt 
and take life easy. 
Just now the farmers are finishing the 
planting of the large cotton crop. Cot¬ 
ton is the cash crop of practically all the 
farmers of Eastern Oklahoma, and has 
almost eliminated the live stock industry, 
which 15 years ago was the leading fac¬ 
tor in farming here in the hills, where 
there are thousands of acres of free 
range, and where cattle, hogs and other 
stock run at large the year round. There 
is a fair acreage of wheat and oats on 
most farms, but cotton is usually in the 
lead, especially with the tenant farmers, 
who usually trade on time and must have 
a cash crop to meet their bills. 
There are nice numbers of young chick¬ 
ens on most farms, and quite a few of my 
friends are ordering purebred chicks with 
the expectation of establishing heavy lay¬ 
ing flocks of hens. Farm folks, as a rule, 
have been very much depressed the past 
Winter. Low production and low prices 
for farm products always have a tendency 
to discourage the farmer and his family, 
but the approach of the planting season, 
ga.dening time and Springtime condi¬ 
tions always renew one’s courage and 
give us faith and hope to take up the 
work with renewed interest and a strong¬ 
er zeal, and isn’t it grand and glorious to 
be able to look at the bright side always? 
MBS. BILLIE BEEP YOBK. 
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Your choice of our flock of 1,400 Hens at 481.50 
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