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Notes on Picking Ducks 
Take the duck as soon as it is killed. I 
pick off the fine feathers to keep for pil¬ 
lows. Then I take rosin, and roll it so 
it is fine powder. Rub the rosin in the 
feathers all over, dry; then scald the 
duck. Either dip duck in boiling water 
or hold duck over pail. I pour boiling 
water over duck. I dip a few times in 
water, so all feathers get wet. Rosin 
will make the small feathers come out 
clean, and make the work much easier. 
A pound of rosin will dress, I would 
think, a dozen ducks or more. 
New York. .jane c. keaft. 
I have noticed requests several times 
for a way to pick ducks, but have never 
seen an answer that describes our way. 
Have plenty of water in boiler and scald 
only one or two at a time. It is best to 
keep boiler over a slow fire, but do not 
have water boiling. If it is too hot it 
will cause the skin to tear. Take the 
duck by the head and feet and plunge up 
and down several times, rubbing up the 
feathers on the breast, so the steam can 
penetrate. Then hang up by a cord tied 
around the neck. We screw hooks in the 
ceiling and have the cord with loops in, so 
as to slip over their heads easily. It 
saves a great deal of time and trouble to 
hang them up this way, and beginning at 
the head rub down gently. Usually all the 
“down’ comes off as you go along by this 
method. MRS. Y. 
New York. 
Mrs. H. M. of Pennsylvania asks for 
an easy way to pick ducks. There is a 
very “easy” method. After you kill the 
duck, rub through the feathers powdered 
rosin, then dip in boiling water, and roll 
in a bag just a minute, then pick while 
hot. You will find the down will stick to 
the feathers and the duck will be nearly 
clean. The rosin will hot flavor the meat. 
If one wishes to save the feathers the 
rosin cannot be used, as it spoils them. 
New York. j. s. 
Running Water in 
Henhouse 
I intend to install running water in the 
poultry-houses, connecting with the city 
water. How would you install in the 
house? Will water freeze in the severe 
weather? How would you get rid of the 
overflow? j. K.. 
Water will freeze in cold weather un¬ 
less kept running at a rate sufficient to 
prevent it. It will not be necessary to 
purchase any expensive devices; your 
local tinsmith can furnish you with a 
long iron trough, using perhaps galvan¬ 
ized iron eaves troughing. Water may 
be admitted at one end from the bottom, 
and the overflow discharged from the top 
at the other end ; a cock connected with 
the inlet pipe would enable you to regu¬ 
late the rate of flow. The discharge may 
be into the city sewer, a small cesspool 
dug to below the frost line or, possibly, 
even out upon open ground where it 
would do no harm. Such trough, or 
troughs, should be placed in as well-pro¬ 
tected parts of the buildings as prac¬ 
ticable, away from open windows. A 
single long trough may be made to ex¬ 
tend through several pens, or may be 
placed in the partition between two pens, 
so that it can be reached from both sides. 
Your local tinsmith or plumber will prob¬ 
ably be able to suggest desirable precau¬ 
tions against freezing and overflow, know¬ 
ing the local conditions present, m. .b. d. 
Birds With Obstructed 
Breathing 
Some of my hens make a peculiar noise, 
and later seem to be gasping for breath. 
I have undertaken the care of another 
person’s birds with mine, and since hav¬ 
ing these chickens have this trouble. My 
own chickens are in good condition, but 
as soon as I find they are starting to do 
this pipping noise I kill them. Would a 
crowded house cause this, or do you think 
it is an infectious disease? They make 
the noise and shake their heads. I have 
given Epsom salts and roup mixture in 
the water. The droppings were very soft 
and brownish color. I got some mash 
from these people and thought it might 
have been moldy, as there were some 
large lumps in it. Would this cause this 
condition? C. M. 
'Saugerties, N. Y. 
There is some obstruction to breathing 
present. In a simple and common form 
at this time of year, colds are responsible. 
Sometimes there is a fungus growth at 
the entrance of the windpipe that ob¬ 
structs the passage of the air; this may 
be detected as a soft yellowish ring that 
can be seen upon opening the bird’s 
mouth. Similar patches may be found in¬ 
side the mouth. If found, remove with a 
soft instrument and paint with tincture 
of iodine. Beginning roup may also show 
itself in this obstructed breathing. It is 
not necessary to kill birds thus affected. 
Simple colds are usually recovered from 
if the fowls are kept in clean, dry and 
well-ventilated quarters; fungus growths 
from moldy food or litter may be de¬ 
stroyed by the iodine applications. Af¬ 
fected birds, should be removed from the 
flock and kept by themselves until it is 
determined that they have no contagious 
disease like roup. If later they show un¬ 
mistakable evidence of this, it is better to 
kill and bury them than to risk the heal¬ 
thy flock by returning them to it. M. b. d. 
Missouri Type Henhouse for 
Cold Climate 
Next. Summer I intend to build a lay- 
ing-liouse that will accommodate at least 
500 layers (White Leghorns). The Mis¬ 
souri type looks good on account of tbe 
straw loft, which should help take care of 
the moisture, also to ventilate without 
drafts. I would like to build at least 
30x50 ft., or possibly 30x60 ft. What is 
your opinion of this house for Oswego Co., 
N. Y. ? We have a large fall of snow, 
and at times the temperature drops to 20 
degrees or more below zero. If this type 
of house is practical for any climate, as 
they say it is, why are not more of them 
built? The first cost is greater, but if 
the moisture is taken care of the house is 
cheap at any cost. j. c. p. 
Phoenix, N. Y. 
I have never used a poultry building of 
this type and cannot speak from personal 
experience, but it also “looks good” to 
me and I do not think that I should hesi¬ 
tate to build one, even if unfortunate 
enough to live as near to the North Pole 
as you do. You certainly have snow and 
low temperatures, but this type of house 
should protect from both as well as any 
type of building could. The Missouri type 
of building is not a long one, however, 
but square, though I believe that some 
have been built of greater depth than 
length. It has the straw loft, open front 
and glass windows for light upon the 
sides. The original plan was for a build¬ 
ing 20 ft. square, for from 100 to 150 
fowls, but the Missouri College of Agri¬ 
culture at Columbia, Mo., says that a 
building 30x30 ft. or larger is equally 
satisfactory. Very possibly they will send 
you their circular describing this building 
if you ask for it. m. b. d. 
An Ailing Flock 
I have 550 birds in a coop, and I am 
only getting four to five dozen eggs a 
day; 350 are young pullets hatched in 
March, and the rest are one-year-old 
fowds. A lot of pullets are dying; one 
day I lost four. Their combs seem to 
turn purple and they gasp as if they 
could not get air enough. When I see 
one like that in three or four hours she 
is dead. Could you tell me the best rem¬ 
edy to save the others? a. s. 
Delmont, N. J. , 
Your pullets are certainly not laying 
well, but there are so many possible 
causes that it would be useless to venture 
a guess at this distance. Those that gasp 
for breath and die have some obstruction 
to breathing; this may be a fungus 
growth at the entrance to the windpipe, 
in which case you may see it by opening 
the bird’s mouth in a good light. If a 
yellowish or grayish ring is found about 
the entrance to the windpipe or in the 
mouth elsewhere, swab it out and paint 
the place with tincture of iodine. See to 
it that the poultry quarters are clean 
and dry and that, while well ventilated, 
the building does not permit direct drafts 
upon the perches within it. Common 
colds are frequent at this time of the 
year and require the above mentioned 
precautions to save the fowls from colds. 
Do not close up houses tight, but give 
ample ventilation through open-front 
windows or otherwise, while protecting 
from direct drafts upon birds on their 
perches. m. b. d. 
Purple Combs 
I have been losing chickens for some 
time which get purple combs. Last two 
or three weeks I lost two; last week, two 
more. I shut birds up; they get lumps 
on side of face. We disinfect house, 
clean out droppings, feed three times a 
day, dry feed always in box. m. 
Oxford, N. J. 
Purple combs are evidence of sluggish 
circulation of blood through them, and 
this may be due to a considerable number 
of causes, such as some disease of the air 
passages and some of the digestive or¬ 
gans. Without knowing the exact disease 
present, it would not be possible to pre¬ 
scribe a specific remedy, and there might 
not be one worth while if the disease was 
known. As a rule, a sick fowl is not 
worth doctoring. Pains should be taken 
to prevent disease or its spread by clean¬ 
liness of quarters and proper feeding and 
care. T nless a hen can maintain vigor¬ 
ous health she is pretty sure to be an un¬ 
profitable member of the flock, and there 
is little to be gained by trying to cure 
her; in fact, in perhaps the majority of 
cases, there is no reasonable possibility 
of it. M. B. D. 
More Eggs this Winter 
TTSE CEL-O-GLASS for your chicken houses and 
^ scratch pens. It lets in more light and heat from the 
sun and keeps cold out. Diffuses light evenly and is a 
good conductor of the Ultra Violet ray which makes chick¬ 
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than fragile glass for cold frames, hotbed sash, 
garage, harn and cellar doors and windows, storm 
doors—in fact most any place where you need light 
and protection from the weather. CEL-O-GLASS is 
unbreakable and weatherproof. Put it up with hammer and tacks— 
no glazing. Thousands are using and recommending it. You will find 
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