The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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MakeYour  Own  Brooder 
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EDMONDS  POULTRY 
:  ACCOUNT  BOOK 
"  If  you  keep  only  ten  or  a  dozen  hens. 
1 1  there  will  be  Satisfaction  and  Profit 
1  -  in  knowing  just  bowthe  account  stands. 
< 1  This  book  will  tell  the  whole  story. 
' '  The  account  may  be  begun  at  any  time, 
< 1  and  the  balance  struck  at  any  time. 
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RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
;  333  West  30th  St.,  New  York 
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THE  HENYARD 
Renting  an  Incubator 
Will  you  tell  me  what  I  should  pay 
for  the  use  of  an  incubator?  A  neighbor 
has  one  just  like  mine,  only  100  eggs 
larger.  He  would  like  to  have  me  take 
it  and  use  it  for  three  hatches,  and  take 
the  pay  in  pullets  when  they  are  large 
enough  to  tell  male  and  female.  How 
many  chickens  should  I  let  her  have,  all 
pullets?  I  furnish  the  eggs.  My  hens 
are  not  purebred,  but  are  good  layers. 
New  Hampshire.  mrs.  a.  m. 
It  is  a  lucky  think  for  King  Solomon 
that  they  didn’t  use  incubators  in  his 
time,  or  he  might  have  had  his  reputa¬ 
tion  for  wisdom  blasted  by  just  such  an 
inquiry  as  this.  Not  that  your  inquiry 
isn’t  a  sensible  one,  but  you  overestimate 
our  sagacity.  However,  we  should  try 
to  decide  what  the  use  of  the  incubator 
was  worth  to  us  in  cash,  and  then  what 
the  pullets  would  be  worth.  Having  set¬ 
tled  that  to  the  mutual  satisfaction  of 
both  parties,  the  rest  will  be  easy.  Sup¬ 
pose  you  decide  that  the  machine  is 
worth  a  dollar  a  week  to  you,  and  that 
your  pullets  when  old  enough  to  have 
their  sex  determined  are  worth  40  cents 
each;  then  your  problem  will  be  solved 
in  this  way  :  Nine  times  $1  equals  $9 ; 
$9  equals  900  cents ;  40  cents  will  go 
into  900  cents  22*4  times;  therefore  you 
will  owe  your  neighbor  22 1/>  pullets  for 
the  nine  weeks’  use  of  the  machine.  It 
does  not  come  out  right ;  we  shall  have 
to  call  for  Solomon’s  sword  to  divide  one 
of  those  pullets,  after  all.  However,  you 
probably  get  the  idea,  and  you  and  your 
neighbor  will  probably  be  able  to  come 
to  some  satisfactory  understanding  as  to 
the  values  involved  ;  only,  let  me  beg  of 
you,  reach  a  definite  understanding  be¬ 
fore  you  go  into  the  deal.  Lifelong 
friendships  have  been  ruined  by  differ¬ 
ences  of  opinion  as  to  values  that  should 
have  been  positively  fixed  in  advance. 
M.  B.  D. 
Roup 
Could  you  tell  me  what  ails  my  chick¬ 
ens,  and  what  to  do  for  them?  They  have 
swollen  face,  some  on  one  side  and  others 
both.  _  I  have  cut  them  open,  but  find  no 
pus  ;  just  a  large,  hard  swelling  that  al¬ 
most  closes  the  eyes.  I  lost  over  100  with 
what  I  suppose  was  the  roup,  a  discharge 
from  the  nostrils,  canker  in  mouth.  I 
have  not  lost  any  since  the  first  of  De¬ 
cember  ;  now  comes  this  swelling  of  the 
face.  What  is  it?  r.  r.  r. 
Cedarville,  N.  ,T. 
I  judge  that  you  had  roup  in  your  flock 
and  that  you  have  not  yet  gotten  rid  of  it. 
The  swelling  beneath  the  eye  is  caused 
[by  an  accumulation  of  hardened  dis¬ 
charge  in  a  sac  there,  this  being  a  result 
of  the  roup  infection.  You  are  feeding 
heavily  of  whole  grain,  and  I  presume 
that  your  pullets  do  not  consume  enough 
of  the  dry  mash.  They  should  eat  nearly 
as  much  mash  as  grain,  by  weight,  but 
will  not  if  given  all  the  grain  that  they 
wish.  Give  a  light  feeding  of  grain  in 
the  morning  and  all  that  the  flock  will 
eat  the  last  thing  at  night.  If  of  the 
lighter  breeds,  the  pullets  will  probably 
not  consume  over  eight  quarts  per  100 
birds  of  whole  grain  daily,  in  addition  to 
what  mash  they  should  eat.  Leghorn 
pullets  should  start  laying  at  about  five 
months  of  age,  the  heavier  breeds  a 
month  later.  It  is  a  hard  question  to 
decide,  whether  or  not  a  flock  should  all 
be  disposed  of  if  badly  affected  by  true 
roup.  The  disease  is  very  hard  to  eradi¬ 
cate,  partly  cured  birds  often  carrying 
it  over  from  one  season  to  another,  and 
it  is  sometimes  best  to  dispose  of  the  en¬ 
tire  flock  and  thoroughly  renovate  and 
disinfect  quarters  and  utensils  before  get¬ 
ting  more  fowls.  This  is  a  matter  to  he 
decided  on  the  merits  of  each  ease,  how¬ 
ever  ;  no  general  rule  can  be  made. 
M.  B.  D. 
A  Successful  Poultry-house 
An  inquirer,  E.  M.  F.,  asks  about  a 
poultry-house  40  ft.  long  for  500  hens. 
For  three  years  I  have  used  a  laying  and 
breeding  house  31 14 x. 24.  Last  Winter  I 
carried  400  pullets  and  35  roosters.  This 
I  admit  is  rather  crowded,  but  they  did 
well  and  I  had  good  hatches  of  strong 
chicks. 
The  back  half  of  the  coop  is  tight,  ex¬ 
cept  two  small  windows  in  the  peak,  for 
Summer  ventilation.  These  I  cover  in 
Winter  with  heavy  paper  to  prevent  a 
downward  draft  on  the  roosts,  which  oc¬ 
cupy  the  back  part  of  this  space.  The 
front  half  has  windows  on  both  sides, 
which  are  opened  and  closed  as  seems 
best.  In  front  is  a  double  door,  la'-ge 
enough  to  allow  a  team  to  be  driven  in 
to  carry  sand,  litter,  greens,  etc.,  or  to 
clean  out  the  coop.  The  doors  are  skele¬ 
tons,  covered  with  heavy  wire  netting, 
and  no  curtain  or  other  covering  is  pro¬ 
vided.  Each  side  of  the  doors  are  win¬ 
dows  that  can  be  opened  and  closed  at 
pleasure. 
I  had  drawn  my  plans  for  another  j 
house  of  the  same  type,  39  ft.  front  (20 
ft.  rafters)  and  40  ft.  deep,  which  I  in¬ 
tended  to  build  last  Fall,  but  finding  I 
must  have  room  for  more  brooder  stoves, 
built  a  combination  laying  and  brooding 
house  instead.  For  a  laying  house,  I 
think  E.  M.  F.  would  find  a  house  39x40 
very  satisfactory.  j.  Walter  smith. 
Read  the  Owner’s  Letter 
The  Quaker  Oats  Company: 
**/  am  enclosing  herewith  a  photograph  of  our 
pen  in  the  3rd  Laying  Contest  which  pen  broke 
allprevious  Canadian  records  fora  10-hen  pen 
•with  a  total  of 2498  eggs.  This  is  200  eggs  bet¬ 
ter  than  the  highest  previous  record.  It  gives 
me  a  great  dealo  f pleasure  to  tell  you  that  these 
birds  were  raised  on  Ful-O-Pep  Growing  Mash 
and  Ful-O-Pep  Chick  Feed.  I  can  also  highly 
recommend  your  Ful-O-Pep  Dry  Mash  which  I 
have  used  for  several  years."— Oldham  Farm 
(Largest  Egg  Farm  in  Can.)  L.  N.  Clark,  Mgr. 
-  egg  ictuiu  ever 
X  made  by  a  10-hen  pen  of  leghorns  in 
an  Official  Egg  Laying  Contest  in  the 
United  States  or  Canada  was  made  by  a 
pen  owned  by  Oldham  Farms,  Canada, 
and  raised  on  Ful-O-Pep  Growing  Mash. 
Could  you  ask  for  any  better  reason  why 
you  should  raise  your  growing  birds  on 
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