The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
497 
THE  HENYARD 
Impacted  Crop 
Some  of  my  hens  have  big 'crops  in  the 
morning;  they  do  not  seem  able  to  digest 
their  food  well.  I  have  this  trouble  every 
Winter  just  in  the  beginning  of  the  hatch¬ 
ing  time.  I  only  have  15  yearlings  and 
several  are  always  with  big  crops.  I 
killed  one  and  she  only  had  about  15 
pieces  of  scratch  feed  in  the  crop ;  the 
rest  was  all  straw  which  she  picked  up 
from  the  ground.  I  do  not  have  any 
trouble  with  my  pullets  at  all.  What  can 
I  do  to  stop  them  from  eating  this  straw? 
Hawthorne,  N.  J.  a.  j.  h. 
I  do  not  know  the  reason  for  this  de¬ 
praved  appetite,  other  than  that  the 
highly  artificial  conditions  under  which 
Hocks  are  now  kept  necessarily  tend  to 
bring  about  artificial  tastes.  I  think  that 
you  will  find  the  trouble  disappearing 
when  the  fowls  get  out  upon  the  ground. 
If  the  hens  seem  to  want  hay,  however, 
why  not  ,  chop  some  clover  or  Alfalfa, 
steam  it  with  boiling  water,  and  feed  it 
several  times  a  week.  It  may  be  that 
this  will  supply  the  need  which  causes 
the  craving,  and,  at  any  rate,  it  is  a  good 
addition  to  the  ration.  M.  B.  D. 
Depluming  Mite;  Composition  of  Mash 
1.  I  have  about  225  Brown  Leghorn 
pullets,  hatched  last  June.  They  are  now 
fully  matured,  and  are  laying  about  50 
to  00  eggs  a  day.  They  are  losing  the 
feathers  just  in  front  of  the  tail  feathers. 
The  fowls  seem  to  pick  these  birds  on 
that  bare  spot.  Is  this  some  disease,  and 
how  could  I  prevent  it?  They  act  healthy 
and  are  not  idle. 
2.  Is  this  a  good  mash  to  be  fed  along 
with  whole  coup  :  20  per  cent  bran,  20  per 
cent,  middlings,  30  per  cent  cornmeal,  10 
per  cent  ground  oats.  20  per  cent  meat 
scrap  and  8  oz.  of  salt?  F.  L. 
Morenei,  Mich. 
1.  These  birds  are  probably  infested  by 
the  depluming  mite,  a  mite  that  works 
m  the  base  of  the  feathers,  burrowing 
into  the  superficial  layers  of  the  skin  and 
causing  an  irritation  that  induces  the 
hens  to  pick  at  the  itching  spots.  Rub 
some  sulphur  ointment  into  the  skin  over 
and  around  the  bare  places  and  repeat 
after  10  days.  The  trouble  will  spread 
from  fowl  to  fowl,  but  is  chiefly  injuri¬ 
ous  to  the  bird’s  appearance. 
2.  Yes;  but  it  would  be  fully  as  good 
if  you  used  equal  parts,  by  weight,  of  the 
ingredients  mentioned,  and  perhaps  a  lit¬ 
tle  less  salt.  m.  B.  d. 
The  discovery  of  a  new  fiber  known 
as  “malvaviseo.”  which  is  said  to  be  a 
substitute  for  jute,  is  announced  by  the 
Industrial  Experiment  Laboratory  of  the 
Mexican  Department  of  Commerce  and 
Industry.  The  malvaviseo  plant  grows 
abundantly  in  the  humid  level  lands  near 
the  rivers  and  at  present  is  employed  in 
Vera  Cruz  for  making  brooms.  Pro¬ 
longed  experiments  have  shown  this 
plant  to  possess  qualities  similar  to  jute 
and  the  cost  of  extracting  the  fiber  to  be 
small.  The  fiber  has  a  silky  appearance 
and  has  been  woven  into  cloth  with  ex¬ 
cellent  results,  says  Assistant  Trade 
Commissioner  IT.  Bently  MaoKenzie, 
Mexico  City,  in  a  report  to  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Commerce. 
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Red-  W-Farm  White  Leghorns 
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