Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-07

Chickens in Contest.
Kindly tell me how many there are
in each pen of chickens in the egg
laying contest at Storrs, Conn, now
being held. Also, how would an ANA
teur start in the poultry business?
Harrison. D. r. ID.
There are ten birds in each pen,
double the number in the contest last
year. An article dealing with the Sec
ond inquiry will be published in next
weeks Star garden page.
Permit TO Keep Chickens.
Kindly advise il it is necessary TO
obtain permit in East Orange to
keep poultry | live in a fashionable
neighborhood and would like TO keep
about ten hens, but am afraid of the
neighbors objecting; also on account
of living III a corner house
Please advise the meaning of the
following: Roup, and how to tell
when a hen is developing this disease;
green bone. and the difference be-
tween a hen and a chicken
East Orange.
Yes, the license fee is ST. The usual
objection to poultry keeping on a citS
lot is from the growing of the
ROSTERS. This can be easily obviated
by keeping hens only; they will lay
just as many eggs without the
ROSTERS. The latter are needed only
for the breeding season, and wise
poultry keepers do away with them
anyhow after they have all the eggs
they want for Matching. When you
want to hatch. buy the eggs from
some breeder who has fertile eggs.
When a fowl sneezes, waters slight
ly at the ncstrils and eyes, the face
,l1ffc oil nf GU n
toms indicate common cold.
When it rattles in the throat, it has
cold with bronchitis.
When it experiences great difficulty
in breathing, it has, probably, pneu-
monia
When cankers form in the mouth
and throat, il has diphtheria or diph.
theritic roup.
When discharges from the nostrils
are profuse and ill-smelling. it has
common roup, influenza. Looseness
of the bowels accompanies many dis
eases. and if there are symptoms in
dicating the presence of another dis
ease (not intestinaD, that should be
treated first.
The term roup is used to apply to a
variety of diseases affecting the head
and throat. The present tendency is
to limit the use of the word roup to
diphtheria or diphtheritic roup. and
to call ordinary roup not seriously af-
fecting the throat, influenza. Infiu-
enza can be treated as cold. Fol-
diphtheria a number of different
treatments have been successful al
one time and failed at another
Whether or not a cure can be effected
probably depends as much on the
constitution and antecedents of the
fowl as treatment. Most of the
roup remedies advertised have beer
successfully used in many cases Elk
perienced practical poultrymen do moi
doctor fowls which have diphthef'ia
They kill and bury or burn them. Fol
those who wish to try to save theil
| birds. the following remedy is given:
| One ounce oil of sassafras, one
ounce best Jamaica ginger, one
ounce tincture of iron, one ounce al
cohol a half-ounce prickly ash fluid
extract, one fourth ounce oil Of anise
Dose, fifteen drops to one teaspoon
full to each gallon drinking water.
Green bone" is the fresh bones
from animals such as butchers throw
into the waste or bone barrels. 1t
must be ground before being fed.
Robinson in his Poultry Culture"
defines chickens and hens as fol-
lows: Chicken-A young land bird OF
either sex; applied mostly when the