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Ihs RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 30, 1924 
How you feed your 
growing birds now 
determines how they will 
lay next winter 
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County Agricultural School, 
Menominee, Mich., where 
yeast-feeding experiments ha ve 
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begin tiozv to get your birds ready 
for winter laying! 
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Chickens Eat Feathers 
I have 80 young hens eight weeks old. 
They are eating feathers when they see 
them fly around. I feed them a growing 
mash and have it before them all the 
time. They have 400 sq. ft. to run in. I 
give them grass every day, and plenty of 
fresh water. c. S. 
New Jersey. 
Young chickens may acquire a taste 
for feathers, or other indigestible things, 
particularly if confined to small or bare 
quarters. Aside from feeding green stuff 
and a suitable chick ration, the best pre¬ 
ventive that I know of is to give them a 
grass range, where they can pick up such 
substances from the earth as seem to sat¬ 
isfy their cravings. If no such range is 
available, one has to do the best he can 
with proper foods, including sour milk, if 
that is to be had, and such tender green 
stuffs as are at hand or can be procured. 
M. B. D. 
cause and what can be given them to stop 
this disease. The turkeys have been in- 
bred. Would this cause them to weaken 
and die? j. d. k. 
This is the trouble known as blackhead, 
or infectious entero-hepatitis. It is the 
scourge of turkey flocks, and no effective 
preventive or remedy is known. Perhaps 
the latest one that has seemed to promise 
well is the use of powdered ipecac in a 
little moist mash two or three times 
weekly. A teaspoonful of ipecac to each 
20 birds, young and old, is fed as a pre¬ 
ventive. Experimenters with this rem¬ 
edy in California, the Drs. Wegeforth, 
believed that they had found in it an ab¬ 
solute preventive of blackhead ; others are 
not so sure; but it is worth trying. In- 
breeding is not the cause of the trouble ; 
it is a small organism that is picked up 
with food and drink and that is found 
everywhere that poultry is kept. M. b. d. 
Trouble With Ducks 
We bought day-old Pekin ducks, and 
later ducks which were one month old. 
The dealer advised feeding them greens 
mixed with bran and some gravel also 
mixed in with feed. They are not doing 
well. The day-old ducks are now two 
months old and look stunted; we have 
lost several. Of the older ducks which 
are now three months old we lost, too. 
Three died in one day. We opened one 
of them and she looked healthy enough. 
They just sit and cannot stand on their 
legs, and in a day die. Would it be a 
leg weakness, and, if so, would the cod- 
liver oil be advisable, as it is for chicks? 
And the feed? Do you think we should 
eliminate the gravel? We have them en¬ 
closed. D. A. K. 
Ohio. 
Overfeeding upon too concentrated food 
is said to be the cause of “leg weakness” 
in ducklings. Green stuff should form a 
considerable portion of their diet, and the 
bran and gravel recommended are all 
right. A ration, mash, recommended by 
a duck raiser for ducklings, after a few 
days, is four parts wheat bran, one part 
wheat middlings, one part cornmeal, two 
parts fine cut green stuff, 5 per cent chick 
grit and 5 per cent sifted beef scrap. 
Ducklings should be fed sparingly and 
given plenty of opportunity for exercise. 
Perhaps you have overfed yours and kept 
them too closely confined. I do not know 
of codliver oil having been fed to duck¬ 
lings, but see no reason why it should not 
be as beneficial as it seems to be when 
given to chicks; ducks and codfish seem 
more nearly related in their habits than 
chickens and fish, at any rate. M. b. d. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
lay ina contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Storrs Postoffice in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the 
number of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets 
entered for the next year. 
Week ending August 6, 1924: 
Week Total 
Drugs for Poultry 
Will you tell me how much copperas in 
water can safely be given little chicks 
when their bowels are too loose? Not 
white diarrhoea. I am afraid I might 
poison them if I give too much. Also, 
how much powdered catechu and how 
much water for coccidiosis, and how 
much permanganate of potash to how 
much water for prevention roup, in their 
drinking water? B. w. C. 
New Jersey. 
Copperas, or sulphate of iron, is not 
classed with the “poisons,” but is an as¬ 
tringent that may be of value in checking 
simple diarrhoea, after the cause is re¬ 
moved. I do not know just how much 
could safely be given little chicks, much 
depending upon how little they were. A 
dram to a pint of drinking water is rec¬ 
ommended for adult fowls. Dess would 
be sufficient for young ones. One-third 
teaspoonful of powdered catechu to the 
gallon of drinking water is the customary 
dose for fowls suffering from coccidiosis ; 
this also is an astringent, though of veg¬ 
etable origin. Enough permanganate of 
potash to color the water a wine red. so 
they say. The exact amount will depend 
upon your idea of “wine red,” of course, 
but this is a not a poisonous drug; 
neither, do I believe it to be of any value 
as a preventive of roup, unless you can 
soak the roup germs in a fairly strong 
solution of it, a rather difficult matter in 
practice. M. b. d. 
Blackhead in Turkeys 
Turkey eggs hatch well, but when the 
turkeys get about six weeks old they 
droop for a few days and then die. We 
found their livers were just covered with 
yellow spots; would like to know the 
BARKED ROCKS 
Purdue University, Ind. 
W. H. B. Kent, N. Y. 
Ontario Agricultural College, Ont .... 
Lewis Farms, R I. 
Jules F. Franeais, L. I. 
Morris E. Bride, Conn. 
Wob rn Poultry Farm, Mass. 
Miss Harriet Smith, Mass. 
Edgar Stoughton Conn. 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
E, C. B’oreman, Mich. 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 
J. V. Sheap, Mich. 
The Ferguson Farms. Tenn. 
Jasper E. Guptill, Maine. 
Storrs Exp. Station. Conn. 
The Ramblers Farm, N.Y . 
W. J, Arenholz, N.V. 
WHITE ROCKS 
Monstone Farm, Mass. 
Ameling Farms, Mo. 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Davidson Bros., Mass. 
Chas. E, Butler, Conn. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Harold F. Barber. Mass. 
H. B, Spangler, N, J. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
D. O. Witmer, Mo. 
Obed G, Knight, R. I. 
F. L. Weiland, Ky. 
Frank P Matteson, R. I . 
Hi-Quality Hennery, Vt. 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 
Woodbridge Orchards, Conn. 
William E. Moran, Conn. 
Albert W. Buckbee, N.Y. 
H. Y. Bierly, Pa. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn. . 
H. P. Deming, Conn. 
Scott’s Red Farm, II. 
Abbot M. Smith, Conn. 
Fellows Bros.. Conn. 
E. Newton Searles, Conn. 
Geo. R. Treadwell. Mass . 
Sunset Poultry Farm, Mass. 
John Z. Labelle, Conn. 
I. W. Mitchell, Conn. 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 
Jas. E. Ewing, Vt. 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn_ 
Fernside Barm, Mass. 
Dickinson Bros.. Mass. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Ed. A. Oelkuct, Conn. 
W. A. Dickinson, Mass. 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 
Red Mount Farm. Mass. 
Forest H. Clickner, N. J. 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. 
WHITE LEGHORN8 
Roy H. Waite, Md... 
Small's Poultry B^arm, Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
8. G. McLean, Conn . 
Deo A. Grouteu, Conn. 
E. H. Scott, Conn . 
if. M. Johnson, Maine. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn.’.... 
Ernest W. Picker, N. J. 
Hanson’s Poultry Farm. Ore. 
C. G. Reame, Pa. 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm. L. I. 
Mountain Meadow Farm, Vt. 
Ernest Craze, N. J. 
Acrebridge Farm, Mass. 
Hilltop Farm, Conn... 
St. John’s Poultry Farm, Mo. 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. 
C. T. Darby, N. J. 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn_ 
R. C. Dunn, Mass. . 
L. W. Steelman, Pa. 
Barlow Leghorn Farm, Pa. 
White Springs Farm, N. Y. 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter, N. J. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
Featherland Farm, Pa. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
Francis J. Hogan. Mass. 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 
Ruchles Sunnyside Farm, N.Y. 
O. C. Chadwick, Vt. 
Geotge B. Ferris, Mich. 
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