7bt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Whey for Poultry 
What is the value of milk whey as a 
food, etc. for chicks and laying stock? 
New York. C. h. b. 
Whey has about half the value of skim- 
milk in feeding pigs or other live stock 
and doubtless could be used in poultry 
feeding, though I cannot say from either 
experience or observation how satisfac¬ 
torily. It is much more watery than 
skim-milk and contains much less pro¬ 
tein ; it is quite likely, too, to be kept 
in unclean tanks or other vessels before 
becoming available for use. Fermenting, 
decomposing whey is not good food for any 
animal. Whey contains only 0.8 per cent 
crude protein, as against the 8.6 per cent 
of skim-milk; 4.7 per cent carbohydrates, 
as compared with 5.1 per cent of skim- 
milk and 0.3 per cent fat, as compared 
with 0.2 per cent. Its total digestible 
nutrients make up 6.2 lbs. per 100, as 
compared with 9.1 lbs. in separated 
milk. M. b. D. 
one part cornmeal, two parts fine-cut 
green stuff, 5 per cent chick grit and 5 
per cent sifted beef scrap. This should 
be fed sparingly, and opportunity for 
plenty of exercise given. Whether or not 
the lameness that you speak of is the so- 
called “leg weakness” so common among 
ducklings, I am unable to say. m. b. d. 
Improving Poultry Strains 
Your article entitled “Time and Cost 
on Trap-nesting,” on page 849, interests 
me, and I hope it will stimulate contri¬ 
butions on the subject of breeding, trap¬ 
nesting, etc., from some of the successful 
contest entrants. 
From what I have gathered from the 
experiences of others, trap-nesting and 
breeding simply from the highest pro¬ 
ducers without progeny testing gives a 
flock average of about 160 eggs. (Un¬ 
usually good care, culling and forcing 
may raise this figure.) If further prog¬ 
ress is to be made the breeding quali¬ 
ties of each hen must be tested by trap¬ 
ping her offspring; that is, by progeny 
testing. When by this means an excep¬ 
tional or prepotent breeder is discovered, 
her blood is introduced into the flock to 
the fullest extent. Of course, by the 
same method of progeny testing a prepo¬ 
tent male may be discovered, but as a 
number of females are mated to each 
cockerel, the chances favor the discovery 
of the hen that has the ability to pass on 
high fecundity rather than the male. 
Prof. Goodale of the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College says that there should be 
at least seven daughters to enable one 
to judge the performance of the dam. 
His own remarkable success as a breeder 
gives weight to his recommendations. 
In the artice in The R. N.-Y. referred 
to, W. H. A. of the New Jersey State 
College, recommends to busy commercial 
poultrymen the use of the egg-laying 
aontests as a substitute for doing their 
own trapping. He states that one can 
have 40 birds thus trapped, but this 
limits the poultryman to applying the 
progeny test each year to only five hens 
and say one male. At such a rate the 
chances of discovering the prepotent bird 
which is to raise the average of the 
flock would seem to be very limited. 
Something surely must be wrong with 
the usual methods of breeding when the 
egg-laying contests here in the East show 
little if any improvement in annual aver¬ 
ages over a long period of years. 
However, won’t some of the breeders 
who have trap-nested and progeny-tested 
write their experiences and give us their 
opinion of the value of progeny testing 
vs. the more or less indiscriminate breed¬ 
ing from the high producers regardless 
of the performance of their offsprings? 
New Jersey. m. l. l. 
Broody Hens for the Table 
Are there any scientific reasons for ob¬ 
jecting to eating broody hens? About 
how long after the hen keeps the nest 
should they not be eaten? .j. p. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
The only objection to eating a broody 
hen that I know of is that if she has 
been broody long she is apt to have too 
large a proportion of bone to meat. A 
broody hen is not “feverish,” as is often 
said ; in fact, I believe that the body tem¬ 
perature of a sitting hen is slightly less 
than that of a non-sitting one. If there 
is any good reason, scientific or otherwise, 
for refraining from the flesh of a prop¬ 
erly cooked broody hen, I do not know 
what it is, and I am willing to take a 
chance on the first one of the kind that 
the neighbors send in. m. b. d. 
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Stock Yards, Philadelphia 
Bergen County, N. J.. Egg Contest 
This contest is held at Emerson, N. J., under 
control of) New Jersey State Experiment Station. 
There are 100 pens, each with 20 birds. 
Week ending June 18, 1924. 
B. P. ROCKS 
C. W. Brown, N. J. 
Garret Buck. N. J. 
A. C. Jones Poultry Farm, Del. 76 
W. H. B. Kent. N. Y. 
Lewis Farm, K. I. 
Kerr Chickeries, N. Y. 
L. E. Laferty, N. J. 
Ontario Agri. College, Can. 
Chas. T. Stran, N. J. 
Navillus Rocks, N. J. 
Wm. U Schaff, N. J. 
W. P. ROCKS 
W. C. Matthews. Del. 
Oktusha Farm. Ohio. 
Walnut Crest Poultry Farm, Conn. 
August Weiss, N. J. 
8. C. R. 1. REDS 
C. C. Poultry Farm N. J. 
Cedar View Poultry Farm, Del. 71 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 
Kerr Chickeries, Mass. 
Meadowdale Poultry Farm. N. J. 
Twin Oak Poultry Farm, N J. 
F. A, Woodward, N. J. 
Rosewood Plate, N, J. 
8. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Tanglewold Farm. N. Y. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
J. W, Bottcher. N. J. 
Wene Farms, N. J.. 
Broad View Farm, N. J. 
A. L. Causse. Jr., N. J. 
Marthe C. Conlin, N. J. 
Meadowdale Poultry Farm, N, J. 
Marcel Sassen, N. J. 
Cedar Grove Farms, N. J. 
Eigenrauch & De Winters, N. J. 
C. H, Chandler. N. J. 
Paul Madsen, N. .1 .. 
North Haledon Leghorn Club. N. J... 
Arnold Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Ameling Farms, Mo. 
Wellward Farm, N.Y. 
Barne’s Poultry Yards. N.Y. 
The Hoehn Farm, N. Y. 
L. C. Beall, Jr, Wash. 
Hollywood Poultry Farm, Wash . 
Bonnie Brae Farm. N. J .. 
Brockman’s Poultry Farm,8. C... 
Windy Brow Farm, N. J. 
Oedarhurst Poultry Farm. N. J... 
Robert O. Knapp, N. Y. 
Cedar View Poultry Farm, Del... 
Cherry Croft Farm, N. J. 
Circle (W) Farm, O. 
F. H. Claflin, N. J. 
Marquis & Wagner. N. Y. 
Clyde-Nairn Farms. N.Y. 
Somerset Co. Poultry Ass’n. 
Harry N. Connor. N. J. 
Fairview Farm. N. J. 
C. T. Darby, N. J. 
W. C. Eckard, Mich. 
8, Olsen, N. J. 
Evergreen Farm, N. J. 
B. S. Ellis, N. J. 
D, K. Evans, Pa. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
A. B. Faure. N. J . 
Lame Ducks 
I am keeping ducks ; have running wa¬ 
ter, a dry place for them to sleep, and 
a free range. They are lame; the leg 
swells just above the foot. Can you tell 
me the cause and what to do for it? 
Oswegatchie, N. Y. j. h. p. 
Leg weakness L. young ducks is said 
by duck raisere to be caused by over¬ 
feeding upon a too concentrated ration. 
Wheat bran should form a large part of 
their mash, and with this should be 
mixed plenty of green food. A formula 
for a mash that is given is four parts 
wheat bran, one part wheat middlings, 
W. A. Foster. N. J. 
Foster Ave. Poultry Farm, N, J. 
H. C. Hancock, N. J. 
Richard C. Hixon N. J. 
Paul L. Holcombe. N. J. 
The Kerr Chickeries, N. J. 
Klrkup Bros., N, Y . 
Magnolia Poultry Farm. N. J.! 
Lewis Farms, R. I. 
Ernest C. Laudenberger. N. J. 
Navillus Leghorns, N. J. 
J. R. Van Ilouten, N. J. 
New Brunswick Poultry Farm, N. j. 
Dr J 8. Nief, N. J. 
Old Orchard Farm N. J. 
Pine Hill Farm, N. J. 
S. C Price, Pa. 
PuritasSprings Poultry Farm, O_ 
M. J. Quaci enbush N. J. 
Ailend le Poultry Farm, N. J . ... 
Alfred R. Scott, N. J. 
L. W Steelman Pa. 
Stockton Hatchery, N. J. 
Fred Warren, N.J.. 
Whitegg Farm. N. J. 
Le Roy Wilcox, N.Y. 
F. A. Woodward, N. J... 
Skylands Farm, N.Y. 
Total.8670 
Week Total 
1418 
2080 
. 76 
1924 
.. 93 
2213 
1605 
2016 
. 87 
1815 
1870 
. 86 
2056 
. 85 
2059 
2049 
2030 
82 
1657 
. 65 
1548 
2098 
1671 
. 57 
1925 
. 54 
1728 
. 71 
1776 
. 61 
1513 
. 77 
1481 
, 52 
1770 
1766 
. 65 
1479 
0 
1008 
. 81 
2158 
80 
2132 
. 90 
1958 
. 90 
2022 
. 100 
2056 
. 99 
2070 
. 99 
1990 
90 
2064 
99 
1806 
58 
2208 
105 
2272 
94 
1799 
95 
2195 
112 
2441 
88 
1965 
98 
2325 
98 
2444 
119 
2641 
102 
2526 
103 
2010 
84 
2057 
118 
2751 
82 
2575 
115 
2357 
94 
1741 
76 
2502 
78 
1666 
99 
2092 
102 
2194 
84 
1896 
106 
2662 
17 
1935 
63 
1669 
86 
2209 
90 
2025 
99 
2051 
101 
1816 
90 
2559 
84 
2497 
83 
2441 
94 
1924 
88 
1910 
87 
2020 
93 
2335 
84 
1869 
85 
2249 
91 
2061 
90 
2199 
97 
2044 
85 
1840 
110 
2146 
87 
1892 
105 
2287 
87 
1773 
86 
1987 
102 
2140 
77 
1832 
102 
1914 
89 
2072 
95 
1994 
89 
2072 
108 
2133 
87 
1395 
84 
2417 
82 
1973 
88 
1905 
65 
1976 
101 
2142 
106 
2388 
80 
1593 
95 
1933 
76 
1958 
98 
2184 
110 
1769 
88 
1590 
8670 
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