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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 6, 1924 
A FEED 
FDR EVERY 
PURPOSE 
Some of the 
GoldMedalFeeds 
Gold Medal Vitamin Egg Mash 
(22 % protein) 
Gold Medal Egg Mash 
(with dried buttermilk—22 % protein) 
Gold Medal Scratch Feed 
GOLD Medal Chick Mash 
(with dried buttermilk) 
Gold Medal Chick Feed 
GOLD MEDAL Growing Mash 
(with dried buttermilk) 
GOLD MEDAL Developing Feed 
Gold Medal Vitamin Dairy Ration 
(20% protein) 
NORTH STAR Molasses Dairy Ration 
(16% protein) 
GOLD MEDAL Hard Wheat Mixed Feed 
, (16% protein) 
There are 37 other GOLD MEDAL FEEDS. 
Your dealer should carry every one. Write 
our Feed Department if he can’t supply you. 
A FEED FOR EVERY 
FEEDING PURPOSE 
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Millers of GOLD MEDAL FLOUR 
and Gold Medal Feeds 
General Offices: Minneapolis. Minn. 
Gold Medal Feeds 
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THE HENYARD 
Cotton Seed Meal for 
Poultry 
We have had many questions about the 
safety of feeding cottonseed meal to poul¬ 
try. From the analysis of the meal it 
would seem to be a good substitute for 
meat scrap, yet most of our Northern 
poultrymen seem to be afraid of it. We 
find that Southern henmen use cotton¬ 
seed meal quite freely, but it is doubtful 
if it will ever become popular at the 
North. The following report is from the 
Agricultural College of Texas: 
"I am pleased to Inform you that our ex¬ 
periments have shown that cottonseed 
meal can be used in a ration for laying 
hens if used as a substitute for meat 
scrap. It takes at least 2 lbs. of cotton¬ 
seed meal to replace 1 lb. of meat scrap, 
therefore it is doubtful whether cotton¬ 
seed meal will be useful to a Northern 
poultry raiser. We believe it is necessary 
to have fresh cottonseed meal, as the cot¬ 
tonseed meal contains so much fat that it 
becomes rancid in a relatively short time. 
I also wish to call your attention to the 
fact that cottonseed meal contains a 
large amount of phosphoric acid, and for 
that reason we have thought it advisable 
to be very ctireful that plenty of oyster 
shell is available. Our ration in which 
cottonseed meal is used is composed of 
125 lbs. wheat bran, 75 lbs. milo meal or 
cornmeal, 120 lbs. cottonseed meal, and 
75 lbs, wheat shorts. R. M. sherwood. 
Mites or Ticks 
Jersey Giants are not growing as well 
as I expected, which I think is due to a 
pest called mites ; it is: a black bug, and 
if it gets on a human body, bites fircely. 
I have sprayed my roost, also birds, with 
fly repellent and kerosene, but it seems to 
me I would have to almost soak the 
chickens in kerosene before I could kill 
these pests. What can I use that will 
kill them ? mrs. s. r. 
New York. 
There are several insect pests that at¬ 
tack poultry and inflict more or less pain¬ 
ful wounds upon the hands or arms of 
those who come in contact with them. 
In the North the red mite is the most 
common parasite of this class, but it is 
easily destroyed, and is not a bloodthirsty 
enemy of man. From your description, I 
suspect that your poultry-house has be¬ 
come infested by one of the poultry fleas 
or ticks common in the South ; some of 
these bite severely when getting upon hu¬ 
man skin. Red mites are easily disposed 
of by spraying or painting the perches 
and all parts of the poultry-house where 
fowls congregate at night with some oil; 
a mixture of waste engine oil and kero¬ 
sene is good and cheap. If you have these 
yet, you haven’t done a good job at spray¬ 
ing or painting the interior of the build¬ 
ing. It is under and behind things that 
these mites stay during the day; perch 
ends, loose boards, nest boxes, etc. Soak 
such places. If you have some of the 
fiercer beasts of similar but larger nature, 
more thorough measures will have to be 
taken. Remove loose parts from the in¬ 
terior of the building, spray or paint with 
one of the coal tar preparations, like car- 
bolineum, burn litter and such nest boxes 
and loose fittings are are not worth the 
trouble of thorough spraying. It may he 
necessary to keep the infested chickens 
in other quarters for 10 days in order 
ithat the ticks upon them may become 
gorged and leave them. These parasites 
suck the blood of fowls at night and hide 
in cracks and crannies through the day. 
It is in these latter places, rather than 
upon the bodies of the fowls, that they 
are to be attacked and destroyed. 
M. B. D. 
Mill Shavings for Litter 
What do you think of fine mill shav¬ 
ings for litter for either pullets or baby 
chicks? These could be obtained for very 
little cost. I notice they were recom¬ 
mended for ducks. w. A. R. 
Newcomerstown, O. 
I have never used fine shavings as 
poultry-house litter, but see no reason 
why it should not prove very satisfactory. 
Excelsior makes good nesting material, 
hens seeming not to mind its woodeny 
feel. A strange name, by the way, for 
packing material, “excelsior.” Possibly 
given to it by the inventor of the ma¬ 
chine which makes it, when elated by his 
success. I have just learned that excel¬ 
sior is not a waste from wood-working 
machinery, as I had supposed, but a 
specially made packing material. It seems 
that a gang of knife blades are set up¬ 
right, with points downward and the dis- 
tnce apart of a fiber of excelsior. Sea¬ 
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lengths and split. The gang of blades is 
then drawn lengthwise over the flat sur¬ 
face of the block, the points of the blades 
penetrating the wood to the depth of an 
excelsior fiber. This scores the surface 
of the block to the wished-for depth, and 
another knife blade, set flatwise, follows 
the upright blades, shaving to the depth 
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