THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
25 
EGG-LAYING  CONTEST 
The  report  for  the  seventh  week  shows 
a  gain  of  1.3  eggs  over  the  previous  week, 
notwithstanding  the  cold,  cloudy  and 
stormy  weather,  but  the  gain  is  wholly 
due  to  the  American  breeds,  the  White 
Leghorns  falling  off  156  eggs,  as  com¬ 
pared  with  the  last  week.  It  seems  to  be 
a  fully  demonstrated  fact  that  the  Med¬ 
iterranean  breeds  will  not  endure  cold 
and  cloudy  weather  as  well  as  the  larger 
breeds.  There  are  exceptional  cases 
where  a  flock  of  Leghorn  pullets  started 
to  laying  at  just  the  right  time  and  prop¬ 
erly  housed  and  fed,  will  even  in  Winter 
outlay  any  other  breed.  There  is  no  doubt 
but  that  the  smaller  breeds  arc  more  sus¬ 
ceptible  to  cold  and  cloudy  weather.  The 
absence  of  sunshine  has  a  good  deal  to  do 
with  poor  laying. 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Stevens’  White  Wyan- 
dottes  laid  tlm  highest  number  yet 
reached  in  this  contest,  viz..  50.  taking 
first  place  for  the  week.  Tom  Barron's 
pen  of  English  White  Wyandottes  are 
second  with  an  output  of  47.  and  .Tides 
F.  Francais’  pen  of  Barred  Rocks  third 
with  40  to  their  erpdit.  Their  total  of 
277  is  the  highest  number  laid  by  any  pen 
to  date.  The  week’s  record  follows: 
Barred  Rocks.  Week  Total 
A.  B.  Hall.  Connecticut . .  17  117 
Mrs.  Andreas  Brooks  New  York .  4  7 
Frank  L.  Tuttle.  Massachusetts .  10  100 
Jules  F.  Francais,  Long  Island .  40  277 
Hampton  Institute.  Virginia  .  20  112 
Fail-fields  Farms.  New  Hampshire....  39  201 
O.  A.  Foster,  California., .  13  07 
Oregon  Agr.  College.  Oregon .  24  122 
Rock  Rose  Farm.  New  York .  17  90 
Memlelay  Poultry  Yards,  Ohio  ......  10  42 
White  Rocks. 
Branford  Farm,  Connecticut .  9  21 
Branford  Farm,  Connecticut  .  23  v2 
Albert  T.  Lenzen,  Massachusetts .  17  35 
Keweenah  Farm,  Massachusetts .  15  102 
Holliston  Hill  Farm,  Massachusetts..  23  144 
Buff  Rocks. 
A.  A.  Hall,  Connecticut .  7  13 
Columbian  Rocks. 
Mrs.  George  R.  Wilcox,  Connecticut..  1  1 
White  Wyandottes. 
T.ime  Ridge  farm.  New  York .  27  02 
National  White  Wyau.  Club.  Pa .  21  57 
Obed  G.  Knight.  Rhode  Island .  29  170 
P.  W.  Backus,  Ontario  . .  22  123 
Beulah  Farm.  Ontario  .  IS  92 
Vine  Hill  Farm,  Massachusetts .  14  58 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Stereos.  New  York .  50  182 
Everett  E.  Wheeler.  Massachusetts..  22  105 
,1  E.  Watson,  Connecticut .  2  3 
Tom  Barron.  England  . 47  229 
Ms  reden  Cross  P.  Form,  England .  32  118 
Neale  Bros.,  Rhode  Island  .  11  20 
.  Merrythought  Farm.  Connecticut .  15  70 
Silver  Wyandottes, 
Mrs.  Lena  C.  Bray,  Missouri .  10  00 
Columbian  Wyandottes. 
Merrythought  Farm,  Connecticut .  4  15 
Buff  Wyandottes. 
Pr.  N.  W.  Sanborn.  Massachusetts . . .  17  1G8 
G.  Arthur  Cook,  Massachusetts .  18  132 
Rhode  Island  Reds. 
Colonial  Farm,  New  Hampshire......  18  139 
A.  I?  Brumlago,  Connecticut .  15  81 
Ilillview  Poultry  Farm,  Vermont....  31  143 
Homer  P.  Doming,  Connecticut .  14  S3 
Charles  O.  Polheiuus.  New  York......  27  ISO 
8  G.  McLean.  Connecticut .  8  25 
Springdale  Poultry  farm.  Connecticut  23  70 
Laurel  Ilill  Farm,  Rhode  Island .  2  2 
II.  W.  Sanborn,  Mnssnchusctts .  17  125 
Harry  B.  Cook,  Connecticut .  18  92 
A.  W.  Rumerv.  New  Hampshire .  23  133 
F.  l>  Clark  Council  lent .  22  124 
Allan's  Hardtobeat  Reds,  Rhode  Island  17  112 
Charles  Becker.  Connecticut .  10  50 
Fatherland  Farm.  Massachusetts .  25  91 
Jacob  E.  Jansen.  Connecticut .  34  140 
H.  w.  Col i logwood.  New  Jersey .  23  M 
W.  IT.  Bumstead,  Connecticut . .  0  34 
Pinecrest  Orchards  Massachusetts...  30  115 
Hampton  Institute.  Virginia  .  20  97 
Jos.  Brandenburg,  Michigan  .  17  71 
White  Leghorns. 
A.  B  Hall,  Connecticut .  18  20S 
Brae-Ode  Poultry  Farm.  Pennsylvania  14  170 
Jay  11.  Ernisse.  New  York .  19  114 
Broad  Brool  Farm  New  York .  3  22 
James  H  Lord.  Massachusetts .  5  90 
Mrs.  Rollin  8.  Woodruff.  Connecticut.  14  84 
Windswoep  Farm.  Connecticut .  0  145 
Francis  F.  Lincoln.  Connecticut .  21  132 
P  O  Platt.  Pennsylvania .  0  43 
Dictograph  Poultry  Farm.  New  York..  12  c>7 
F  M.  Peasley.  Connecticut .  S  140 
Cltas.  Heigl,  Ohio  .  77 
Tom  Barron,  England  .  24  185 
Will  Barron,  England  .  19  233 
J.  Colli nson,  England!  .  21  143 
Marsdon  Cros9  P.  Farm.  England...,  10  150 
Rushkil!  Poultry  Farm,  Pennsylvania  0  94 
A.  P.  Robinson,  New  York .  S  10S 
River  Ledge  Farm,  Connecticut .  19  58 
Frank  R.  Hancock,  Vermont .  20  124 
Margareta  P.  Farm,  Ohio .  5  40 
Branford  Farm.  Connecticut .  17  89 
Branford  Farm.  Connecticut .  25  90 
w.  E.  Atkinson,  Connecticut .  7  in 
Ellis  IV*.  Bentley,  New  York .  S  111 
N.  W.  Hendry v,  Connecticut .  8  55 
Bonnie  Brook  Poultry  Farm. New  York  9  141 
George  Phillips,  Connecticut .  8  88 
Hampton  Institute,  Virginia .  1  139 
Toth  Bros..  Connecticut.., .  1  4fi 
White  Leghorn  Club  Illinois .  2  H8 
Harry  Williams,  Connecticut .  5  113 
Oakcrest  Farm,  New  Vork  .  11  102 
Jas.  F.  Harrington,  New  Jersey .  21  152 
Summer  Grove  Farm.  Ohio  .  10  sa 
Buff  Leghorns. 
L.  E.  lleasley,  Michigan .  7  20 
O.  L.  Magrey,  Connecticut. . . .  8  39 
Black  Leghorns. 
J.  Collinson,  England  .  23  125 
Red  Sussex. 
Dr.  E.  K.  Conrad,  New  Jersey .  7  13 
Mottled  Anoouas. 
Claude  Clinton,  New  Jersey .  8  133 
Elmwood  Farm,  New  York, .  4  04 
White  Orpingtons. 
Obed  G.  Knight,  Rhode  Island .  5  01 
Oregona. 
Oregon  Agr.  College,  Oregon .  24  150 
Imperial  Progressives. 
Wni.  R.  Wells,  RhoiTe  Island .  3  3 
Black  Rhinelanders. 
A.  Schwarz,  California  ..............  S  44 
GEO.  A.  COSGROVE. 
Blind  Pouches  in  Chicks 
Can  any  of  your  many  readers  tell  me 
the  cause  and  prevention  of  blind  pouches 
in  chickens?  My  little  chickens,  weighing 
less  than  one  pound,  have  them,  and  be¬ 
lieve  it  is  the  cause  of  nearly  all  the 
deaths  of  young  and  old  stock.  I  find 
them  as  long  as.  a  finger  and  as  large, 
with  the  intestine  shriveled  to  the  size  of 
a  straw,  with  scarcely  any  opening  for 
passage  of  feces.  C.  J.  E. 
Virginia. 
I  doubt  if  any  of  our  readers  can  tell 
the  cause  of  the  blind  pouches  attached 
to  the  intestines  of  birds,  unless  some  are 
sufficiently  well  versed  in  comparative 
anatomy  to  explain  them  on  the  ground 
of  evolutionary  changes  in  the  reptilian 
group  of  prehistoric  animals  from  which 
our  domestic  fowls  are  derived.  Suffice 
it  to  say  that  these  blind  pouches,  or 
caeca,  arc  part  of  the  natural  anatomy  of 
the  fowl  for  which  nature  is  to  blame,  if 
any  blame  attaches  to  their  presence. 
The  human  animal  has  a  similar  one  in 
the  appendix.  The  presence  of  this 
troublesome  organ  can  only  be  explained 
on  the  ground  that  it  is  the  remnant  of 
an  organ  once  important  when  man  occu¬ 
pied  a  lower  scale  in  animal  life  than  he 
now  does.  Like  the  appendix  in  man, 
these  caeca  in  fowls  are  sometimes  the 
seat  of  disease,  but  there  is  no  way  of 
preventing  them.  M.  b.  d. 
Balanced  Ration  for  Fowls 
I  feed  mixed  feed,  cornmeal,  meat 
scraps  and  oats  to  my  heus.  IIow  much 
of  eacll  feed  should  I  use,  to  make  it  as 
near  as  possible  a  balanced  ration,  or 
rather  a  proper  nutritive  ratio.  I  know 
I  should  use  other  feeds  for  palatability, 
etc  .  but  I  wish  to  find  out  the  nutritive 
ratio  of  what  I  do  feed.  S.  H.  G. 
Maine. 
The  nutritive  ratio  of  a  properly  bal¬ 
anced  poultry  ration  is  somewhat  nar¬ 
rower  than  that  of  a  dairy  ration,  being, 
in  the  former  case,  about  one  part  of  pro¬ 
tein  to  four  and  a  half  of  carbohydrates. 
Since  a  hen  s  consumption  of  food  cannot 
be  exactly  regulated  as  can  that  of  a  cow, 
however,  there  is  no  need  of  figuring  nu¬ 
tritive  ratios  of  the  rations  given;  it  is 
sufficient  to  provide  an  abundance  of  all 
needed  elements  in  about  the  proper  pro¬ 
portions  and  to  allow  the  fowl  to  do  tli> 
exact  balancing  herself.  If  an  exactly 
balanced  ration  was  placed  before  a  hen, 
she  might  decide  to  make  her  dinner  ex¬ 
clusively  upon  cabbage;  she  would  thou 
unbalance  the  most  careful  computation 
of  her  feeder.  The  whole  grains  com¬ 
monly  used,  corn,  wheat,  buckwheat,  oats, 
barley  and  rye  are  all  sufficiently  alike  in 
their  composition  to  make  it  unnecessary 
to  consider  anything  but  their  availabil¬ 
ity,  palatability  and  cost.  They  all  carry 
about,  the  same  amount,  of  protein  and 
do  not  differ  widely  in  carbohydrates.  A 
variety  of  these,  however,  is  better  than 
any  one  alone  and  wheat  seems  to  possess 
some  virtues  not  explained  by  its  chemical 
composition.  The  ninxh  should  contain 
ground  grains  of  low,  medium  and  high 
protein  content.  Cornmeal  represents  the 
first  group,  the  wheat  by-products  the 
second,  and  such  high  protein  concen¬ 
trates  as  gluten  feed,  distillers’  grains,  and 
buckwheat  middlings  and  beef  and  fish 
scrap  the  third.  If  cue  part  of  low  pro¬ 
tein  concentrate,  two  parts  of  medium 
protein  concentrates  and  one  part  of  high 
protein  concentrate  are  mixed  and  meat 
scrap  is  added  in  the  proportion  of  from 
one-fourth  to  one-sixth  part  of  the  whole 
mixture,  all  proportions  by  weight,  the 
mash  will  balance  all  right.  In  addition, 
a  variable  amount  of  green  food  is  needed, 
mineral  matter  in  the  form  of  grit  and 
oyster  shell,  or  lime,  is  indispensable  and 
water  must  be  provided  in  abundance. 
M.  B.  D. 
“Goodness,  little  boy  !"  exclaimed  the 
kindly  uhl  gentleman  to  the  weeping 
youth,  "what  on  earth  is  the  matter?'’ 
“I  had  a  turrible  accident,"  bawled  the 
boy.  “Gracious!  What  was  it?"  “I  met 
pop  when  I  was  a-playin’  hookey.” — La¬ 
dies’  Home  Journal. 
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SINGLE  COMB  WHITE  LEGHORN 
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GEO.  C.  THOMAS,  201  Williman  tic,  Conn. 
TDn  T  1  *=±‘1’  d- Tom  Barron.  75c 
^  toll.  Only  few  left. 
L.  E.  I  NGOLDSBY,  tlartwicb  Seminary,  N.Y . 
WRITE  FOR  OUR  1916  MATING 
Comb  Leghorns  pays  $3  each  over  ordinary  helis. 
Bingham  Egg  Farm,  North  Bingham,  Pa. 
Prize- Winning  Bourbon-RedToms^fTioa,! 
Guineas  for  tale.  MILTON  0.  STICKLE! ,  Stnsburj,  Va 
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CORNELL 
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Equal  to  five  Kerosene  Heaters 
Improved  1916 
Cares  for  250  Chicks  , 
Needs  little  attention 
No  lamps  to  trim 
No  ashes,  no  dirt,  no  soot 
Absolutely  safe 
Perfect  ventilation 
PRICE  COMPLETE 
*11.52 
Recommended  by  the  New  York 
State  College  of  Agriculture 
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Manufacturers  of  Poultry  House 
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Hoff’s  “VITALITY”  Day-Old 
Chicks  of  Quality 
S-  C.  White  Leghorns  and  Rhode  Island  Reds 
Bred  for  heavy  egg  production,  quick  maturing,  strong 
stamina  and  vitality.  The  results  of  over  a  quarter  of  a 
century's  experience.  I  giiarunter'  to  ship  Properly 
Date  lied  Health,*  Vigorous  Day-old  Clucks,  the  kind 
that  will  Improve  your  Monk  or  start  y.ui  right  in  the 
Poultry  business.  Book  your  orders  NOW  for  February 
and  March  delivery.  Send  for  my  illustrated  booklet  and 
reasonable  prices.  Also  Eggs  for  Hatching. 
D.  C.  R.  HOFF.  Lock  Box  115.  Neshanic  Station,  N.  J. 
Rhode  Island  Reds 
TR  APXESTED 
Rich  cherry  to  mahogany,  larje  furdy,  free  range 
hen-hatchcd  slock,  long  bi.ks.  low  tails,  short  wide- 
set  legs.  Heavest  winter  laying  Reds  in  America. 
Laying  rates  21  1  to  267  eggs.  Splendid  breeding 
cockerels  irom  tripnem-d  layers;  splendid  young 
breeding  hens:  some  fine  utility  birds  al  extremely 
low  prices;  early  halchcd  1915  pullets  and  breeding 
cockerels.  Sate,  deliver.'  upright  dealings.  Hatching 
eggs.  1916  booklet  now  ready 
VIBERT  RED  FARM.  Box  1 .  WESTON.  N.  J. 
Colonial  Reds 
A  real  bredto-lay  strain  of  national  reputation. 
We  offer  well  developed  pullets  and  yearling  bens, 
carrying  very  strong  blood  lines  Cockerels  from 
record  liens,  to  father  consistent  layers.  Prices 
reasonable.  Honorable  treatment  guaranteed. 
COLONIAL  FARM,  Bex  0,  Temple,  New  Hampshire 
Rhode  is'and  none»s  Crescent  Strain 
Line  bred  for  several  years  Choice  breed¬ 
ing  and  exhibition  birds,  bred  front  se¬ 
lected  layers  and  sold  on  approval 
D.  R.  Hone,  Crescent  Hill  f»rm. Cherry  Valley,  N.Y. 
AUSTIN'S  200-EGG  STRAIN  S.C.R.  I.REDS 
Standard  bred,  lilch-record  stock.  Red  to  the  skill. 
OLD  AND  YOUNG  STOCK  FOR  SALE.  Book¬ 
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Cockerels.  WAITER  PRICE.  Warehouse  Point.  Conn. 
BARRED  ROCK  COCKERELS-^9;1,8’^ 
J.  I.  HERETER.  Gettysburg.  Pa. 
Pittsfield  strain.  El  up. 
BIARRED  ROCKS 
Business  birds;  bred  to  lay  -and  they  do  it."  Orchard 
range,  large,  healthy,  vigorous  stock.  Single  birds,  pairs, 
trios,  in- netia  mated  for  hi  st  results.  Write  your  wants  now. 
“FOUR  ACRES,”  Nutley,  N.  J. 
RED  SUSSEX  EGGS 
Twenty  birds  en  route  from  England.  These  and 
former  importations  in  my  coining  pens  The  util¬ 
ity  brood  of  the  near  future  Matinglist  on  request 
after  January  1st.  W.  W.  GRAVES  Jefferson  City.  Mo 
CHICKS 
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each.  Rocks, 
Leghoms.etc. 
Money  back 
for  dead  ones  ns  far  as  Colorado 
Texas  and  Maine-  pamphlet  Frre- 
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BARRON'S  LEGHORNS 
248  to  284-egg  record.  Cocks,  Cockerels,  Pullets. 
6  and  yearling.  Cock.  SI2.  t>  cockerels,  *10. 
S.  W.  JONES,  -  Hillsdale,  New  York 
Rnrrnn  flnplr prplg-^-  c-  White  Leghorns,  farm 
Barron  UOCKBreiS  veart,d  front  pen  imported  di¬ 
rect.  Certified  egg  records.  250  to  280;  order  early. 
The  White  Poultry  Farms,  -  Cairo,  N.  Y. 
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for  eggs  and  cbicks  from  Laurelten  Layers 
Utility  Leghorns  Exclusively 
Our  Pure  Bred  Trap  Nested  Layers  are 
bred  for  size,  vigor,  Quality  and  heavy 
egg  production. 
Secure  Hatching  Eggs  and  Chicks  from 
the  strain  that  has  made  the  world's 
largest  poultry  plant  a  success. 
Send  today  for  descriptive  circular  and 
prices. 
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Box  H  Lakewood,  N.  , 
DO  IT  NOW 
(~1ET  youvepring  ordor  in  now  forS,  C.W.  Leghorn 
baby  chicks,  and  b«  sttru  to  place  the  x.nnio  with 
tlie  farm  ttiat  has  the  goods.  We  are  not  only 
quantity  breeders,  but  quality  breeders.  15c  cbicks 
bought  ns  lute  an  July  8th  last  yonr  boat 260  eggs  in 
the  hands  of  our  customei ».  Not  every  one  did  this, 
but  you  will  get  as  many  liig  l  Ay  or*  in  onr  strait!  as 
you  could  probably  buy.  and  our  stock  is  straight 
American  hi  or ,  nn  English  blood  in  out- strain.  We 
believe  in  good  looking  Leghorns  that  lay  good  white 
egg8:i8  well  as  good  )a>ei  B  and  this  kind  of  stock  is 
what  all  breodera  will  ovontn.'ilLy  buy.  Weshipped 
over  itW.000  Unity  chicks  last  season 
One  of  our  customers  lu  Connecticut  who  pur¬ 
chased  3000  chicks  from  ns  last  »pring  mad'-  a  net 
profit  of  around  SfiUO.OO  in  the  month  of  November. 
He  ifihed  over  HO**  of  his  chicks  and  this  year  we 
have  bis  order  for  7000  more  for  next  season  We 
sold  4000  eggs  to  oue  party  iu  Virginia  last  spring. 
This  year  we  have  already  received  his  deposit 
on  25,000. 
Our  stock  usually  makes  good  and  onr  plant  is 
continually  growing  We  operate  seven  Hall  Mam¬ 
moth  Incubators,  and  can  take  your  order  for  np  to 
12,000  chicks  a  week.  Our  prices  ate  no  higher  than 
for  common  bred  stock  There  is  no  guess  work 
about  it.  Buy  yonr  chicks  from  a  reliable,  respon¬ 
sible,  experienced  poultry  plant  that  is  making  a 
business  of  producing  strong,  well-bred  stock.  Onr 
breeders  are  ail  of  one  strain,  and  are  on  tree  range 
tin  five  farms 
Send  for  our  06  page  catalog  to 
THE  EVERLAY  FARM 
(The  Lord  Farm*)  Box  240-F,  Methuen,  Mass. 
WHITE  ORPINGTONS 
S.  C.  White  Leghorns 
High  Grade  Utility  Stock.  Day-old  Chicks 
and  Hatching  Eggs. 
PEACEFUL  VALLEY  FARM 
Oxford  Depot.  Orange  County.  New  York 
S.  C.  While  Orpington  Cockerels ~Quaiity  au,i-c,ys 
up.  Write  your  wants. 
tal  strains.  S2  and 
C  0  PHILLIPPI  Hamburg,  N.Y. 
MY  WHITE  WYANDOTTE  COCKERELS  from  heavy-laying. 
itxp  nested  liens,  win  itiot  ease  your  egg  prottnctlon. 
MIODlEBffOOK  P0Utr»Y  F ARM,  Miss  Marion  I.  Maore.  Hamliuti).  N.  T. 
(•Mm  VpaMirfilS  J»- JI'RSIS! 
CUlat'  prices  reasonable.  Ralph  Woodward,  Bar  28,  Grallon,  Moss. 
WHITE  WYANDOTTES.  S  C.  BUFF  AND  WHILE  LEGH8PMS, 
BARRED  ROCKS.  '  >ur  14tb  year.  .Special  values  Cock¬ 
erels  (!,  F3.  $5  each:  Pens.  SI 0  and  $1,7.  Also  Bronze 
Turkeys.  Circulars.  Owatiud  Firm,  Bo,  197,  Soulli  Hammond,  N.V. 
TOM  BARRON  WHITE  WYANOOTTE  COCKERELS 
ANO  PULLETS  for  sale.  283  and  263-egg  stock.  Eggs 
a: id  clucks  for  sale  in  season. 
E,  E.  LEWIS,  .  A  pis  lac  hi  u,  New  York 
WHITE  WYANDOTTES 
with  twenty  years  breeding  back  of  them,  for 
heavy  laying  and  great  vigor.  March  liat-hed. 
“FOUR  ACRES,-'  -  Nutley,  N  J 
S,  C.  BUFF  LEGHORNS 
lOOO  Island  Poultry  Farm,  South  Hammond.  N.  Y. 
A  .  B  .  HALL  *  S 
S.  C.W.  Leghorn  and  Barred  Rock  Cockerels 
from  same  matiugs  as  pens  i'l  EGG  LAYING  CONTEST 
To  *4  ,?5.  White  Leghorn  bn  by  chicks.  March  1st, 
*10  T 00.  A.  B.  HALL,  Walliugford.  Conn. 
arron  Stools. 
S.  C.  W.  Leghorns.  White  Wyandottes,  Cock  birds. 
Cockerels,  Yearling  Hens  and  Pullets,  out  of  direct 
importation  from  the  World's  greatest  layers.  Cata¬ 
logue  free.  Sfoofclictd  Poultry  Firio.  *.  F.  0.  Ho.  J.Virtftillis,  Ohio 
Fully  Guaranteed  Stock^Ns7  ^ 
will  lay  iu  January.  Breeders,  one  and  two  years 
old  Hobs  at  $2:  cocks  and  cockerels,  to  $5,  that  are 
guaranteed  to  satisfy  or  vre  will  refund  yonr  money. 
WHITMAN  FARM,  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass. 
Barron  young  strain  April  leghorn  ful. 
l.KTS.fl;  yearlings.  FI  Collie  imps  <5.  bred  fe¬ 
males  cheap.  Pouies.  ALTAVISTA  FARM  DarMngtoii  Md. 
300  May  Hatched  S.  C.W.  Leghorn  Pullets—^“j ro‘ 
W.  Young  blood.  JOHN  L0RT0N  LEE,  Carmel.  New  York 
Barron Whiteleghorn  Cockerels  lingy18*?.-^"- 
Wyandotte  cockerels.  Pedigrees  all  over  200.  Im¬ 
ported  birds.  Barron  Farm,  CoanellsviUe,  Pa. 
S.  C.  White  Leghorn  Pullets 
each.  Riverdale  Poultry  Farm,  Rivenlale.  N.  J. 
rnrKPRFI  C-S.  c.  W.  LEGHORNS  b  P  HOCKS. 
LULKEilxELO  R  |  Rtos  w  WYANDOTTES,  from 
the  well-known  Gibson  strain.  Twenty  yp»!  s  bred 
for  heavy  laying.  Pine  healthy  birds  that  will  in- 
litse  valuable  blood  into  your  Hock.  Galen  Farms, 
G.  F.  Gibson,  Owuer,  Drawer  C,  Clyde,  N.  Y. 
60  Varieties  of  Purebred  Poultry ~£eyl9'  ii'e  i g  u n 
Hares  and  Collie  paps. 
Preo.  Edwin  A.  Sotider,  Box  fl 
Large  descriptive  catalog 
:,  Telford,  Pa. 
Rnnrhnn  Rod  Tnrlfnu<j-°  SHOEMAKER'S  BREEDING 
bouroon-ned  lurKeys  SIUCK  t-rom  N  Y.  st.-ue  pair 
winners.  Pullets.8  111.  to 9 lb. each, $4;  9  lb. -10  lit  ,$5. 
Cockerels,  12  lb. -14  ib..  55;  14  lb, -18  lb.,  iti  Prices 
advance  51  each  after  Jan.  15,  1916.  Argusville.  N.  Y. 
500  LIVE  “EGG  MACHINES 
H  must  be  sold  at  once  owing  (o  accident  to  owner  who 
cannot  care  for  them  now.  The  »ery  best  in  S.  C. 
White  leghorns,  A  flock,  250  strone,— the  best  pullets  you  have  ever  seen,  with  large  lop-over  t  ombs, 
bright  red  showing  perfect  vigor,  health  and  ovulation  Large,  able-bodied  vigorous  hens.  250 of 
them  all  through  their  moult;  with  their  cotubs  turuingr&d  they  will  be  laying  >n  two  weeks. 
These  are  the  birds  we  expected  to  keep  for  ourselves.  We  will  give  you  satisfaction  and  state 
positively  that  if  your  order  is  uot  as  represented  eilhe-  in  value  or  quality,  we  will  take  b.,»k  the 
birds,  refund  your  money  and  pay  all  charges  for  tranaportation.  Could  any  offer  he  faift-r  * 
Wlure  e«n  you  liuy'd  tnwll  flock  bl  Uyine  pullets  fox  SO  cents  each  ?  Stall  better  orkes  on  la/tte  orAtm.  Drop  u»  ft  post  a 
sow  to  make  this  opportunity  save  you  money.  COLUMBIA  POULTRY  FARM,  Toma  River,  N.  J, 
