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What the Trap-Nest Tells Us

By B. F. W. Thorpe

O one: should attempt to increase egg produc- t i o n by trap - nesting without first selecting a 50od type of some va- riety of real merit. Then ■ep in mind the facts ;itablishej by the ex- periments of Dr. Ray- mond Pearl described in Fakm axd i'lRESiDE last fall. Heavy produc- tion must be inherited i'n greatest degree from the male bird.

The male inherits from his mother his power to get heavy-laying daughters. This power of inheritance has long been known as the prepotent influence of the dairy sire to get heavy milk production in his daugh- ters. It has now been proven that prepo- tency also holds' true in poultry sires in regard to excessive egg production. Another fact to remember : unless the parent stock on both sides abounds in vigor, the labor and care in breeding will count for little.

How I Managed Without a Brooder

By Mrs. C. K. Turner

Y INCUBATOR hatched early in April. There was snow on the ground, and the weather was chilly and dismal. Having no brooder, the outlook for the clutch looked rather gloomy. It was a seri- ous question how I was going to care for those little peepers. sixty-£i\ e in all, fluff- balls of variegated beauty, all brown Leg- horns, sturdy and strong.

I had hoped when I set the incubator, in fact I was quite sure, some hens were going to set right away. But they deceived me, and the weather, too, was disappointing. Instead of being warm and pleasant, it was just the reverse.

The Hens and Weather Both -Disappointed Me

Fortunately, I had an old Rhode Island Red hen that had been on the nest for a couple of nights. The thought struck me that perhaps she would take chickens. The idea hardly seemed practicable, nevertheless I decided to try her, anyway. I cautiously slipped two or three in the nest, watching to see what kind of a reception they had.

I fully expected to see the little intruders viciously attacked, but, instead, she tucked them snugly away beneath her sheltering wings and clucked for more.

A Wash-Tub for a Nest

That gave me an idea. I procured a wash- tub, filled it half full of dry chaff, rounded out a nest for "Biddy" and placed her in it. There, by twos and threes and half dozens, I increased her family, until she was moth- ering the whole batch.

The tub was then carried out and placed in a tight, roomy brooder-house. For two or three days I kept the chicks confined to the tub. When feeding-time came, I gently lifted the foster-mother to the floor and placed a few chicks beside her. Then I scattered crumbs in the nest as well as on the floor, and also gave them water to drink, being careful that none was upset in the straw.

By the end of the first week the weather had warmed up. and I dispensed with the tub except at nights. A little later I dis- continued its use altogether. In this way the Rhode Island Red hen and I, together, managed to raise about sixty of those chickens to maturity.

A prominent lecturer recently pointed to the fact that when we changed from the buggy to the automobile we retained the dashboard. What old and useless methods are we following on the farm ?

Winter Coops of Building- Paper

By B. F. W. Thorpe

T HAVE a pen of six Single-Comb White Leghorns which began laying when a little over five months old and laid practically all

having no dead-air spaces ; and a muslin- covered window admitted outside air for ventilation even when the mercury, registered zero and below. The house was approxi- mately air-tight on three sides.

The bir4 in the picture is Queen of Sheba, hen No. 4, and is typical of*the 'entire pen.

Light Feeding, i^mall Production

By John. L. Woodbury

F YOU hear a breeder telling how little it costs him to keep his fowls, you may safely conclude that he is not. getting many eggs. The hen is not a magician. She must have certain elements to make an egg, as the housewife must have the proper in- gredients to make a pie. "I keep whole corn before my birds all the time," the would-be economist is often heard to say. "It is cheap, and they eat less than when fed at intervals."

Doubtless true, but it is the aim of the more astute breeder to see, not on how little and how cheap feed his birds can be kept, but rather how much they_ may be made to eat of the foods rich in the elements that enter into the composition of the egg.

One of the great secrets of heavy egg pro- duction is keeping the birds in good appe- tite so they will consume an abundance of food. This is done largely by variety and frequent change of ration. Especially in winter hens should be kept eating almost constantly through the hours of daylight, as the days are then short, and the demands of the system, which must first be satisfied, are much greater than in the warmer months.

A ProUfic Golden-Laced Wyandotte

By Frank Driskell /CREDITABLE egg records are not con- ^ fined entirely to flocks of the experiment stations. This Golden-Laced Wyandotte,

She laid ninety eggs in one hundred and four days

which is still less than a year old, laid ninety eggs in one hundred and four days. She is a product of the Lone Star State.

Queen of Sheba

winter. They were housed in a house sided with a single thickness of building-paper,

Facts Worth Knowing About Geese

By A. E. Vandervort /CONTRARY to common belief, geese ma- ture just as rapidly away from streams or ponds as near them. A generous supply of fresh drinking-water is all that is re- quired. There are many places on a farm worthless for cultivation that could be used with excellent results for geese-raising.

The cost of food for geese is proportion- ately small in comparison with other birds bred for market; A goose on range will eat grass, insects and other animal and vege- table matter found in the fields.

Eggs, Feathers and Flesh

Geese occupy the same place among poul- try that sheep do among live stock, and if given proper care are as profitable in pro- portion. It is just as necessary to pluck the feathers from a goose as to shear the wool from the sheep, and the product has a great demand. The feathers may be picked four times during the summer, and each goose of the larger breeds will yield about two pounds of fine, soft, downy feathers.

For the best results I feed my geese an egg-producing food, consisting of four meas- ures of wheat-bran, two measures of shorts, one measure of beef-scrap, one measure of oil-meal and one-half measure of sharp sand. I give them a small quantity of this food twice daily and allow them free range. I do not allow my geese to hatch their own eggs, because they are so clumsy that they break them, besides I wish to keep them laying all the time.

Though more geese were raised last year than ever before, yet the markets are not oversupplied. and the demand is growing all the time. Geese mature very rapidly and attain an enormous size.

The young are hardy and easy to raise. After they are five days old they should be left to find their own feed on the range and require no care except shelter during severe rain-storms and at night until feathered out. They live to be very old. Some breeders report them living and doing well at twenty years of age. Another important fact about them is that they are not susceptible to disease, this in- contrast ■ to most poultry.

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Sweating Caused by In- adequate Ventilation

By Dt. a. S. Alexander

1AM asked to prescribe for a cow which is reported to have a good appetite and is apparently in good condition, but ap- pears to sweat excessively when kept in the stable.

The air in the stable should be practically the same as that out-of-doors, and if one so ventilates the stable that this will be the case it is unlikely that the cow will sweat. Often the sweating is not real, but simply condensation of moisture upon the body of the animal.

Home-Made Rat-Poison

By B. F. W. Thorpe gARIUM CARBONATE is a poison whicli in small quantities is harmless to the larger domestic animals, but will kill rats and mice. Mix four parts of meal or flour and one part of barium carbonate, and place where the rats will find it, or mix ordinary oatmeal to a stiff dough in water, with about one-eighth its bulk of barium carbonate.

Shoat hams are bought mostly by city people having small families. My larger hams are sent by express and chiefly to cus- tomers having large families. In both cases they are people who are more anxious to get a super,ior article than to lower the high cost of living, and they know my hams.

Sometimes I put a small piece of break- fast bacon in the package as a sample, but so far I have received very few orders for it.

I have investigated shipping eggs by par- cel post pretty thoroughly and find that eggs can be shipped to Washington or Baltimore, which are in the second zone, and if sold at the regular city prices for fresh eggs will allow me a profit of about one cent a dozen over what I get in the local market. To get this small margin of profit I would have to ship the eggs in -five-dozen lots, as the larger the carton, the lower the price of same per dozen. The five-dozen size is about the largest carton that can be shipped by parcel post.

The few eggs I have shipped have been delivered in very good condition. There are a large numljer of cartons on the market with quite a wide range in prices for the same size. All of them which have been sent to me are very satisfactory. Our local merchants are not at all worried over the inauguration of parcel post.

Let the Track Save Your Back

By E. A. Wendt

OESX'T it make you tired to even think of pitching that manure two, three or four times to get it from the back stables to the door or wagon ? And, besides, each time you clean the stables ^ it takes two or three times as long as it would if you only had to make one pitch to get it from the stall to the wagon ; therefore, it costs two or three times as much as it should. Yet thousands of farmers are doing it in that way ; many of them employing an extra man for that very reason.

If you are one of them, do you wish to continue wasting money, or labor — it's all the same — all the y^ar 'roimd? Or, do you prefer this easy, economical, up-to-date method that you can easily install in half a day ?

First obtain a pair of roller-bearing barn- door hangers — the hinge-joint style is best, and they cost about fifty cents per pair — and bolt them to a piece of two-by-four, as near together as possible (see 1).

Then get enough track to be about six feet longer than the entry, or walk, behind your horse or cow stalls, and hang it from the overhead supports and exactly over the cen- ter of this entry.

Hang it as high as possible and yet per- mit the rollers to pass easily under the top of the doorway at end of entry. It should be supported as illustrated.

The irons that support the track must be made to order, something of the shape of 2 (see sketch), but of a length to suit your stable. You can make the track and sup- ports of good one-and-one-half-inch tire- iron.

Xow make a car four or five feet long and narrow enough to pass easily between the harness-hooks and stall-posts and through the doorway.

The upper outer corner of the stable-door, from the center, must be cut out so as not to interfere with track ; the piece should be hinged as illustrated.

Use a rope and double-block pulleys to hang the car from the carrier, and you can lower it to the floor, fill it with manure and pull it up by hand high enough to drop the load into the wagon or spreader that is backed up to the doorway under the pro- jecting track.

Use one swivel pulley, and have the chain that lifts front end of car arranged so that you can easily unhook it to drop the load.

Such a rig is applicable to the feed-entries for carrying from the silo or for bringing feed from the granary.

A hay-fork track and rig could be utilized for this purpooe. but it would not be as satisfactory, nor as cheap.

Meats and Eggs by Parcel Post

By John Smeltzer •yHE parcel post as it stands to-day has been very hclpfitl to me both in market- ing produce and in ordering merchandise, but I realize that no great amount of produce can be shipped from my post-office in Hamp- shire County. West Virginia, to any large city in competition with their merchants under the present rates and restrictions.

This winter I realized the advantage of the parcel post and butchered a number of shoats that would have hams weighing from eight to ten pounds and have had no trouble selling them at prices which would net me from twenty-three to twenty-five cents per pound, or about eight cents above the local iiinrk(t price.

High-Class Dairying

By Herbert Quick gROWX BROTHERS, of Minnehaha County. South Dakota, whose contribu- tions to our market page and other depart- ments are always" interesting and valuable, held a rather remarkable auction of dairy cows recently. The animals were Holsteins, practically pure-breds. but not eligible for registry. They had to go as grades, but were of exceptional merit as producers.

The average for fifty head, including twea- ty-five calves under six months old, was $91 per head. One cow brought $255 — claimed to be the highest record price for a grade cow at public auction. One heifer calf brought $50. A new herd of pure-breds has been placed on the farm, the choice cow of which has a butter record of 762 pounds in a year, while the best four have records averaging 660 pounds.

Raising an Orphan Colt

By Mrs. Theda Dee CEVER.\L years ago we had left on our hands an orphan colt. The mother of this colt had been in poor health and was very thin in flesh, consequently the colt was very poor and weak. At first it could not walk, nor even stand alone, and when helped up onto its feet would immediately tumble over. My husband, being a very busy man, concluded he did not have time to look after the colt, and said if I wanted to try and raise it I might have all I could get for it when it was a year old.

I Fed It Diluted Cow's Milk and Sugar

I began by getting a rubber nipple for a bottle, and gave it cow's milk, lukewarm, diluted with a little water, and also put in a little sugar. I had some trouble getting it to drink at first, as it was lying down most of the time, and I was almost afraid to stand it up for fear it would fall to pieces, it was so poor and shaky. I kept its stable warm and clean, with plenty of good, fresh bedding. I would open the stable door and let the sun shine in upon it whenever I could, but I kept it blanketed most of the time.

For the first three weeks I fed it every three hours, from early in the morning until late at night, and I would get up at mid- night and go out and feed it and see if it was all right. It had to be fed often, as it took so little at a time.

By the time it was a week old it cotild stand alone and walk a few steps. When h was two weeks old. I began giving its meals farther apart, and I quit gening up in the night to feed it. It kept gaining, right .ilong, and I began feeding it a little bran, corn- meal and oil-meaL It soon learned to lick it dry out of a backet. It would also eat a little hay. I was particular to give it only nice fine hay. It also had fresh water all the time.

It is Now a Sturdy Colt

How that colt did grow ! When it was a month old. it could run and play lilfc any other coit. and was quite a pet. I then stopped feeding it on the bottle, and let it drink from the bucket.

That colt grew and got fat, and as it was of good stock it was an unusually nice colt by fall. I brushed and curried it every day, and all through the winter I gave it the best of care and turned it out for exercise every day.

When spring came, I concluded to keep the colt until fall, as it could run in the pasture and would cost but little and be no extra trouble.

After every dance someone has to pay the fiddler. There is a wide difference in dances and the steps you take. Cultivate the kind that stands for manliness, up- rightness, temperance and honesty, and the fiddler's bill won't come to you.

Better Methods of Hog Castration

By R. V. Brown • (CASTRATION may be safely performed at any age, Ijut the best resuhs are obtained if done when the pig is about twelve or fourteen days old.

Select a good clear day. clean up the yard, put in fresh bedding, and have a clean pasture for the pigs when you are through with them. Now you can confiTie your pigs.

Use a Good Disinfectant

Your knife should be sharp and thoroughly disinfected in a three per cent, zenoleum solution, which should be used to wash off the place of operation before and after cut- ting. Zenoleum can be secured at any drug- store. It is well to have on hand a piece of catgut or some silk thread for treating ruptured cases.

When all is in readiness, have someone pick up one of the little pigs and hold it in any convenient way. The operator washes the rear of the pig with the solution, holds the testicles with his left hand and cuts with his right. Cut low down, making a fairly long opening and fairly far from the crease. This will insure good free leakage. Pull the cord out well before severing it. If the pig is ruptured, cut the skin open^ re- move the testicle, and tie securely behind it with the silk or catgut. Then open the covering of the testicle proper before sever- , ing. Wash again with the zenoleum. and turn the pig into the clean pasture. Wash your knife and proceed as before.

Too often do we find farmers doing this task as late as August or September when the pigs are nearly half grown. Forget the selecting of a muddy day and the "dark of the moon."

Do the work early, and do it carefully and in a sanitary way. The young pig makes little or no fuss and loses little blood. A large pig receives a check by worry and excessive loss of blood.

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Selling Butter by Parcel Post

By Mrs. G. E. Edmunds ll/|Y FRIENDS in New Jersey, twenty miles from New York City, were paying forty-two cents per pound for ordinary grade butter. I sent four pounds of butter from my post-office (Clarkson, Monroe County, New York) on Tuesday afternoon, and it reached my friends early Thursday morning in prime condition.

My grocer pays me twenty-eight cents a pound. I charged them thirty-two cents, and they paid the parcel postage which was twenty-seven cents for the four pounds.

I packed the butter in a new five-cent light-weight bread-tin lined throughoxit with oiled paper. We both call it a good bargain. J. make four cents a pound on my butter, and they get better butter for thirty-nine cents a pound. The square bread-tin makes a very convenient receptacle.

No one ever expects to see a silo on a shiftless-looking farm.

Learn to do neat carpentry around the farm, and be independent of dilatory car- penters, who work slowly.

Svoeet Clover

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Feeding experiments with sweet clover are few so that definite data on which to base positive stafements are scarce.

There have been, however, some lamb- feeding experiments at the Wyomirig Ex- periment Station in which the results from sweet clover were almost equal to tliose obtained from alfalfa and much better than those from prairie-hay. Hogs pastured on sweet clover at the Iowa Experiment Station made almost as much daily gain as those pastured on red clover, and the sweet clover carried a greater number per acre. Other experiments at the Iowa Station have shown

also that the addition of corn to a sweet- clover ration increases the digestibility of the sweet clover.

It is in the role of a soil-improver that sweet clover is perhaps best known, and in several districts it is being seeded with this object in view. The roots not only add nitrogen to the soil by means of their asso- ciation with the nitrogen-gathering bacteria, but owing to their fleshy character, coupled with their decay every two years, there is left in the soil large quantities of humus which loosens up heavy clay soils and im- proves their texture as well as that of sandy soils.

The sweet clover itself will grow on land almost devoid of humus so that it is avail- able on the poor, washed hillside soils as a pioneer crop. In Alabama com following sweet clover gave an increase of six bushels per acre on poor soil : in Ohio, eight bushels per acre, and in Germany sweet clover pre- cedin.g oats increased the yield seventeen bushels per acre. It is very tolerant of alkali, and a great deal of such soil in the West can be made productive by seeding it to sweet clover.

On account of its biennial character, it lends itself readUy to rotations. In the semi- arid sections its good effect on the following crop is spoiled by its heavy draft on the soil moisture.

Sweet Clover is Easily Eradicated

No trouble is experienced in destroying a stand of the clover. Continued mowing will prevent it from seeding and thus rid the field of it at the end of the second year, except for a few plants which arise from the hard seed which has not germinated with the rest.

A cultivated crop like corn following the sweet clover will catch all the stray plants arising from such seed and leave the field clean. No fear in regard to getting rid of it need be entertained, except in irrigated commtinities where the seed is scattered by the irrigation water from plants growing along the banks that are not reached by the mower or cultivator.

Seed Production Profitable

Very little attention is at present paid to the seed-production feature of sweet clover. Although it seeds abundantly, much of the seed produced is lost, owing to unevenness in maturity. A single panicle sometimes carries blossom and mature seed at the same time. Most of the domestic seed has been gathered by hand and flailed out. This is especially true in the South. It can also be harvested with a grain-binder and thrashed in a common thrashing-machine, the seed being run through a huUer later to remove the hulls. The present price of seed makes this feature of sweet-clover production very profitable. The yields of seed vary from three to twenty bushels per acre, and the retail price ranges from twelve to twenty cents per pound for clean hulled seed. The grower usually receives one half to three fourths the retail price when selling to seedsmen. Some growers market their seed crop locally and thus get the full price. Seed in the hull brings much less.

At the present time there are very few serious enemies of sweet clover, so that its production is a comparatively safe proposi- tion in most localities.

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The Indian 1913 type is a wonder for comfort and general efficiency. Plenty

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