602 
&he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  S,  1016. 
dishonest.  A  day  nr  two  before  reaching 
market  the  poultry  was  starved,  and  then 
fed  a  mixture  of  red  pepper  and  groan  I 
grain.  This  made  them  very  thirsty  and 
they  were  given  all  they  would  eat  of  soft 
food  heavily  mixed  with  sand,  in  which 
condition  the  poultry  was  weighed  an  I 
Sold. 
The  buyers  naturally  obieeted  to  pay¬ 
ing  poultry  prices  for  four  per  cent,  or 
more  of  sand,  but  most  or  the  business 
was  controlled  by  a  few  large  dealers  who 
worked  together,  so  that  the  buyers  were 
helpless.  This  overfeeding,  and  the  graft 
demands  of  the  handlers  and  unloaders, 
some  of  whom  were  thugs  and  ex-eou- 
viets,  caused  many  arguments  which  de¬ 
veloped  into  riots  with  resulting  broken 
beads  and  even  murder.  In  personal 
hazard  some  features  of  the  live  poultry 
business  have  ranked  next  to  war. 
There  are  plenty  of  laws  covering  this 
matter  on  the  grounds  of  honesty,  cruel, y 
to  animals  and  public  health,  as  much 
this  abused  poultry  is  in  an  unhealt’  y 
S.C.  WHITE  LEGHORNS 
RANGE 
r^URElLTON 
CL  FARMS  J- 
THE  HENYARD 
EXCLUSIVELY— ON  FREE 
Eggs  and  chicks  from  selected  2-year-old  hens. 
Mated  with  Hamm  cockerels  from  best  imported 
stock.  Selected  eggs  (averaging:  28  oz*.  to  the 
d'ox.)  guaranteed  satisfactory  to  you  and  (>07e 
fertile — $6  a  100.  Candee  hatched  chicks  for 
May  delivery — $12  a  100.  Quantity,  prices  and 
information  on  request. 
THE  NISSESUOGUE  FARM 
K.  T.  SMITH.  Owner  &  Msr.  8T.  JAMBS  IM>  t  N.  Y . 
A  Few  Thoughts  on  Turkey  Raising 
My  experience  with  turkeys  has  been 
confined  mostly  to  the  Bourbon  Beds.  I 
prefer  this  breed  for  Several  reasons. 
They  do  not  wander  far  from  home,  and 
if  given  a  feed  at  night  will  always  re¬ 
turn  for  it.  They  are  tauie  and  quiet, 
and  can  be  handler!  and  made  to  sit 
where  you  wish  them  to.  They  make 
their  nests  near  I  lie  farm  buildings,  and 
often  with  the  chicken  hens.  They  are 
Very  easily  broken  up  when  broody,  and 
will  commence  laying  again  in  a  few 
days,  often  in  a  week’s  time.  They  lay 
more  eggs  than  many  breeds  before  want¬ 
ing  to  sit.  I  have  bad  several  hen  tur¬ 
keys  that  laid  120  eggs  during  a  season. 
Fifty  eggs  is  often  their  first  clutch. 
Turkeys  that  are  tame  and  do  not 
wander  can  be  more  easily  raised,  es- 
Place  Your  Order  Now 
for  eggs  and  chicks  front  Laurelton  Layers 
Utility  Leghorns  Exclusively 
Chlr  Pare  Bred  Trap  Nested  Layers  are 
bred  lor  size,  vigor,  quality  and  heavy 
egg  production. 
Secure  Hatching  Egg;  and  (  hicks  from 
the  strain  that  has  made  the  world’s 
largest  poultry  plant  a  success. 
Send  today  for  descriptive  circular  and 
prices. 
LAURELTON  FARMS 
Box  H  Lakewood,  N.  J. 
|S.  C.  WHITE  LEGHORNS  ONLY.  The  World’s 
Official  Record  Laying  Strains  of  America  Eng¬ 
land,  Australia  and  New  Zealand.  Egg  and  Chick 
Circular,  25  Lay.  Coat.  Reports  and  the  u»osl 
practical  catalog  written.  ‘'Utility  Facts”  Free. 
J.  R.  PARKS.  Box  T.  ALTOONA.  P A 
Ten  Weeks  Old  Pullets 
S.  C.  WHITE  LEGIIORNS 
Write  for  catalogue. 
Hillsboro  Poultry  farm*,  A  M.  Shea.  Mor  ,  Somerville.  N  J 
Baby 
Chicks 
H reader  and  importer  of  Torn  Barron's  st  rain  exclu¬ 
sively.  Legs  f«r  hatching  from  selected  trap  nested 
stock.  Price  list  and  records  upon  request. 
M„  J.tJUACKKNHUSH  -  Nutlivy,  N.  ,J. 
WHITE  ORPINGTONS 
S.  C.  White  Leghorns 
S.  C.  IV.  Leghorns 
R  .AS.  C.  R.  f.  Reds 
B .  Rocks 
High  Grade  Utility  Stock.  Uay-ohl  Chicks 
and  Hatching  Eggs. 
PEACEFUL  VALLEY  FARM 
Oxford  Depot,  Orange  County,  New  York 
DCRKBltni. 
*  Strong,  Livable. 
From  heavy  -  laying, 
healthy,  free  range 
stoik,  Safe  arrival 
gua.'Suteed, 
WHITE  ORPINGTONS 
Great  Winter  Layers 
..  .  .  .  „  )  Utility  stock.... 
Hatching  Lggs  . . '/Prizewinners...  Si  j  ** 
Mating  list. 
SKY-LOW  FARM.  S.  C.  MCCARTHY,  Midland  Pork.  I 
Wesley  Grinnell 
Sodas,  N.  Y. 
Barron  Hatching  Eggs 
Utility  Strain  S  C.  W  Leghorns.  Trap-nested  and 
bred  to  lay— 2.0110  breeders,  bggs.  88  per  hundred. 
The  Haven  Lake  Egg  Farm,  Milford,  Del. 
BARRON  eggs 
248- 200-281  egg  S.  (J.  W.  Leghorns.  0  pullets  and  l 
cockerel,  $lii.  bggs,  $7  per  100;  $611  per  1,000.  Baby 
chix.  *8  per  SO;  $15  per  100.  Mating  list. 
K.  CLAUDE  JONES  -  Hillsdale,  N.  Y. 
blood.  Don't  send  to  us  If  you  want  anything  but 
the  pare,  uinidu Iterated  American  Leghorn  that  we 
have  been  improving  lor  year*.  Wc  raise  W.  Leg¬ 
horns.  not  brassy  or  yellow  Leghorns,  and  wo  don't 
raise  the  2  or  .'i  pound  kind.  Our  strain  has  got,  size  : 
and  color  and  pullet*  from  these,  properly  handled.  ! 
lay  eggs  that  bring  top-market  prices.  We  are  breed¬ 
ing  the  kind  of  Leghorns  that  yon  will  eventually 
buy.  Birds  from  our  strain  last  year  laid  up  us  high  i 
as 252  eggs,  and  for  good  average  egg  production  In 
big  Hooks  they  area  very  profitable  strain.  We  have 
customers  w  ho  cleared  over  $i  a  bird  last  year  from  1 
our  stock,  the  run  ot  the  hatch.  Wc  are  trap-nest¬ 
ing  every  pullet  on  our  plant,  and  our  methods  and 
farm  are  always  open  for  the  inspection  of  the  pub¬ 
lic.  Wc  issue  a  iw-page  catalogue:  costs  us  over 
14c  .  that  we  will  mail  to  you  for  4c.  In  stumps. 
The  Evcrlay  Farm  (The  Lord  Farms )  Boa  240-F.  Methuen  Mass 
S.  C .  WHITE  LEGHORNS 
Torn  Barron  atui  Danish  Stratus.  Hatch¬ 
ing  eggs  and  Itahy  Chides  from  healthy, 
vigorous  stock.  W rite  for  P  rices. 
PHILIP  DAWSON,  It.  No-  3,  Alexandria,  Virginia 
Pill  I  CT6?'  C.W.  LEGHORNS 
U  L  Lb  I  O  DARKER  ROCKS 
Engage  your  Pallets  now  for  Delivery  next  Full  at 
F  our  ami  Five  Months  old.  We  are  booking  Orders 
now  for  future  Delivery.  Price  so  reasonable  it  will 
not  pav  to  Raise  them  yourself-  Circular. 
THE  MACKEY  FARMS  .  Gilboa,  N.  Y. 
A  Group  of  Bourbon  Red  Turkeys 
pecially  during  wet  seasons.  I  keep  my  condition  when  killed ;  but,  like  many 
turkeys  so  tame  they  will  come  from  a  other  laws,  enforcement  has  been  only 
distance  when  T  call  them,  and  L  always  partial  and  sporadic.  In  the  live  poultry 
reward  them  with  a  little  feed.  market  conditions  may  be  found  any  day 
I  like  dry  ground  bread  crumbs,  egg  which  are  a  disgrace  to  a  civilized  coin- 
shells.  cut  onion  tops,  moistened  with  m unity,  and  would  not  be  tolerated  in  the 
sour  milk  curd  for  the  young  poults.  I  handling  of  cattle,  sheep  or  any  other 
add  chopped  boiled  eggs  the  first  few  class  of  live  stock  intended  for  slaughter. 
days.  After  three  weeks  I  leave  out  the  _ _ 
bread  and  add  bran,  oatmeal,  and  corn 
cake,  baked  and  crumbled  up.  When  Why  Quarrel  ? 
two  mouths  old  I  feed  chick  feed  at  night 
and  brail  and  oatmeal  is  where  they  can  The  letters  of  M.  Michaud  and  Mr. 
have  it  if  they  wish.  Sour  milk  is  kept  Gosgrove  are  about  entirely  different  sub¬ 
in  pans  for  them  to  drink.  Oyster  shells  jeots.  yet  they  think  not.  Wbat  is  your 
and  wood  ashes  accessible  also.  Clean  object?  That’s  the  question  to  ask.  A 
drinking  water  is  very  essential.  On  bird  for  the  feasting  of  the  eye  or  a  bird 
hot  days  I  add  one  teaspoon  of  Epsom  for  the  feasting  of  the  stomach,  or  I 
salts  to  five  quarts  of  wafer.  This  cools  might  add  one  for  the  feasting  of  the 
their  blood  and  keeps  their  liver  and  taste,  for  some  like  as  those  who  have 
bowels  working  well.  corned  !>eef  and  cabbage  instead  of  lamb 
I  confine  the  mothers  and  young  for  chops;  prefer  an  ill-smelling  Rock  carcass 
a  week  on  board  floors  after  hatching;  to  a  dainty  Hamburg  or  Poland.  1  breed 
this  floor  has  been  sprinkled  with  lime  a  few  pretty  birds  to  look  at,  and  do  not 
ami  sulphur  with  a  thick  coat  of  chaff,  think  much  about  how  many  eggs  they 
During  this  week  I  accustom  the  mother  lay.  I  do  not  eat  meat  so  that’s  no  ob- 
to  my  handling  the  young.  I  talk  and  met  to  me.  I  breed  for  feathers,  for  a 
pet  tii cm  and  feed  from  my  hand.  When  pretty  addition  to  the  farm,  but  this  year 
they  are  ready  to  go  outdoors  they  will  I  thought  to  add  utility  birds,  and  so  got 
run  and  flv  to  me  at  sound  of  my  voice,  some  2N2-ogg  strain.  I  didn't  ask  for 
I  fight  lice  as  the  worst  enemy  of  tur-  birds  of  .Standard  requirements.  I  sim- 
keys.  When  setting  the  hens  I  sprinkle  ply  asked  for  birds  for  tlic  purpose  for 
them  with  sulphur  and  insect  powder,  which  I  want  them.  If  M.  Michaud 
also  the  nests.  When  removing  the  wants  birds  to  look  at,  why  let  him  have 
young  I  dust  them  with  insect  powder  them  and  enjoy  them  without  bothering 
purchased  in  hulk  at  store;  strong  in-  the  egg  plant!  Don’t  tear  your  hair  be- 
sect  powder  is  injurious  to  young  tur-  cause  a  bird,  bred  from  pure-bred  White 
keys.  If  black  head  lice  appear  grease  Leghorns  lays  2*2  eggs  in  a  year  and 
with  camphor  oil.  Make  this  oil  by  plain,  money-needing  farmers  want  them, 
cutting  camphor  gttui  with  sweet  oil.  instead  of  a  bird  of  95  points  that  lays 
Avoid  letting  the  young  out  in  the  150  eggs  less  in  a  year.  Call  these  liar- 
fields  until  the  dew  is  dried  off.  If  they  mu  eggers  if  yon  want  to.  Money-need- 
shoiiid  get  drenched  in  a  storm,  don't  ing  farmers  say  “Call  ’em  anything;  we 
despair.  Gather  them  up  iti  a  lined  has-  want  the  eggs.”  If  these  new  Barrens 
ket,  put  them  in  the  oven  and  stir  with  happen  to  look  fairly  well  as  Mr.  Cos- 
liand,  keeping  them  moving  until  dry.  grove  says,  and  as  do  those  he  sent  me, 
Give  each  a  drink  of  milk  with  black  why  let  us  be  glad  they  do,  and  not  quar- 
pepper  sprinkled  in,  before  returning  to  rel — but  go  on  keeping  tab — these  Leg- 
their  mother.  I  have  saved  them  this  horns  from  February  are  behind  my 
way  when  they  appeared  dead.  White  and  Buff  Polish,  my  Ginger  llam- 
Avoid  letting  turkeys  run  on  ground  burgs  and  my  La  Fleche.  I  hadn’t  kept 
where  bens  are  kept.  Provide  a  place  count  before  and  of  course  I  am  well 
for  the  mothers  to  roost  where  the  cold  pleased  that  utility  might  be  found  among 
damp  winds  cannot  wet.  them  through  my  feathered  beauties.  Mate  your  birds  l'oi 
until  they  are  heavily  feathered.  Diar-  beauty,  M.  Michaud,  and  for  eggs.  Mr 
rhu-a  is  often  caused  by  cold  damp  drafts  Cosgrove,  blit  as  you  are  after  different 
of  wind  and  drenching  rains.  goals  why  write  to  each  other? 
Potter  Co.,  Pa.  fi.ona  horning.  Maryland.  klmkrt  wakkman. 
InJ  deciding  where  you  will  buy  your  baby  chicks  or 
pullets  you  mus  have  four  principal  considerations  in 
mind,  viz.:  1,  Vigorous  stock.  2.  Stock  bred-to- 
loy.  3.  Reosonnble  price.  4.  Honest  treatment. 
Our  stock  and  business  methods  fulfill  these  conditions. 
To  illustrate;  our  flock  otllXKI  pullers — Barron- Young' 
Strain  were  laying  500  eggs  per  day  in  Oct.,  when  eggs 
netted  u*  65 c.  per  doz.  wholesale.  By  Feb.  15th,  they 
were  laying  4b<),  and  even  (be  snow  Mu!  cold  <X  February 
haven't  stopped  them  And  wo  do  not  fore*  Our  hens. 
Rut  semi  for  miceinnitar.Hiid  rein]  the  experiences  of  oth- 
pr  with  our  stork.  Read  particularly  paragraph  headed: 
*  '200-900  h*n*.  and  such."  It  may  bring  up  ideas  you 
hadn't  conridei  ed  before.  Write  today  to 
ARTHUR  H.  PENNY,  Mattituck,  N.  Y. 
from  two  and  three-year-old  stock.  Free  range.  Cir¬ 
cular.  RICH  POULTRY  FARM,  Mohabt.  N.  Y 
BABY  CHICKS  of  dupeiirlableciu.dity  from  onr 
'•I  7SUHI  Mammoth  Machine  Custom  hutching 
WESTWOOD  POULTRY  FARMS  CO  .  Westwood,  N  S. 
Front  Leghorns  that  are  layers,  24'2-2L5-'25(L-260 
Parrott  strain. 
AA  .  E.  ATKINSON  -  \Ya 111 ngford.  Conn. 
PINE  TREE  HATCHERY 
Over  100,000  Egg  Capacity 
“Wichmoss  Farm  Efficiency  Chicks’1 
All  from  good,  vigorous  Egg  type  Breeder'-.  S.  C 
AV.  Leghorns,  White  Wyandottes,  S-  C-  R.  I.  Reds 
ltarred  Rooks.  Send  for  Booklet  and  prices. 
WICHMOSS  FARM,  -  Box  127,  Demurest,  N.  ,1 
It  is  where  the  shipment  of  “  Day  old  ('hicks” 
originated  24  years  ago  by  me.  Undoubtedly 
more  chirks  have  been  shipped  from  my 
Hatchery  than  any  other  in  America.  I  was 
in  the  business  for  years  before  others  knew 
nr  thought  of  such  a  thing.  Onr  Booklet,  giving 
description,  anti  low  prices  of  eight  of  the 
leading  breeds,  and  other  tilings  you  should 
know  is  free. 
JOS.  D  WILSON.  ::  Stockton.  N.  J. 
Leghorns-B  A  R  R  0  N- W  yandottes 
Eggs  from  imported  pens.  Records;  26o,  265  268, 
268,  269.  271.  273  ;  283  cockerels. 
TI1E  BARRON  FARM,  -  Conuellsville.  Pa 
Tom  Barron  White  Leghorn  Hatching  Eggs 
I5esg>-. $1.50;  Hundred. $45.  Satisfaction  guaranteed. 
A.  W-  SOPER  IIS  South  Slootlioll  Ave..  Richmond  Hill.  L.  I 
&?.?  WHITE  LEGHORNS 
DAY  OLD  CHICKS— CCGS  FOR  HATCHING 
W»  are  speciality  breeders  <,f  S.  C.  White  Leghorns 
of  the  highest  commercial  standard.  We  gnnrati- 
tie  safe  delivery  of  chicks  and  fertility  of  eggs,  also 
that  a  customer  must  he  satisfied.  Write  tor  our 
now  booklet  which  describes  our  methods,  stock 
and  plant,  Book  your  order  now  for  a  positive 
shipping  date. 
Tom  Barron  Wyandottes  and  Leghorns 
Hatching  eggs  front  breeders  with  Tnipiinst  rec¬ 
ords  Write  for  price*.  II.  W. TURNER, WestHartlurd,  Conn. 
SPRING  WATER  POULTRY  FARM,  Stockton,  N.  J 
Cyphers  and  Young  Strains 
Hatching:  Eggs,  Guaranteed  1K)<  fertile.  $5 
per  hundred,  $4(1  per  thousand.  Hay-Old 
Chicks,  $1 ‘3  per  hundred.  From  vigorous,  pro¬ 
lific  hens  on  alfalfa  range.  Knt, Ire  flock  milk  fed. 
WHITE  SPRINGS  FARM  Geneva,  N.  Y. 
S',  c.  AVhito  Leghorns  on  free  range.  Eggs 
for  hatching  $4.00  per  100.  Duy-old  chicks 
SI 2  per  100. 
Oak  Grove  Poultry  Farm,  Calverton,  L.  I. 
Single  Comb  White  Leghorns  Exclusively  %Yr°u.\g  s 
3,000  breeder*  on  free  farm  Range,  Milk  Fed.  Fpe- 
ci'il  breil  lor  Winter  eggs.  Kill. 000  baby  chicks  lor 
1916  and  Sl.llilO  batching  egg*.  Now  booking  orders 
for  baby  c.hieL*.  March  ami  April  delivery,  or  212  per 
100.  No  order  too  laige  or  too  small.  The  kind  that 
live  if  given  half  a  chance.  Get  your  order*  In 
early,  Kggs  for  hatching  tew  ready.  6#  $6  per  100  in 
any  quantity.  My  Book.  ”  Profit*  in  Poultry  Keeping 
Solved."  Tree  with  nil  All)  order*. 
Edgar  Briggs,  Box  75,  Pleasant  A  alley,  N.  Y. 
BARRON  LEGHORNS.  2t«  TO  SfU-Efifl  9TKUNS.  Wynn- 
dottes  from  Storr.-'  Hud  Missouri  Con  tost  pens.  All  birds 
trap-nested.  J»jH  Ernisse.eor  Hudson  ■ndTifusAve  .  troiidequoil.N  Y 
S.  C.  White  Leghorns 
AVe  have  a  strain  GUARANTEED  TO  LAA’.  Isn't 
that  just  what  you've  been  looking  for  .’  Write  for 
Free  Descriptive  Mating  List. 
Hough  Egg'  Farm  Box  R  Far  Hill*,  N.  J. 
Loading  Poultry  With  Sand 
The  holding  up  at  New  York  of  several 
ears  of  live  poultry  loaded  with  sand  calls 
attention  to  an  abuse  that  has  been  car¬ 
ried  out  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  in  the 
live  poultry  trade  for  many  years.  As 
first,  practiced  the  method  was  to  mix  a 
little  sand  with  the  food,  and  the  ad(led 
weight  did  not  amount  to  much.  But  in¬ 
genuity  backed  by  greed  soon  improved 
on  this  natural  method  and  developed 
schemes  for  loading  the  bird’s  crop  that 
were  fiendish  in  cruelty  as  well  as  rankly 
Damp  Henhouses. — On  page  353  M. 
.T.  K.  wishes  to  know  why  hiw  hen  houses 
arc  damp.  Among  other  things  he  says 
that  his  houses  arc  raised  from  the  ground 
and  that  he  hanked  up  with  horse  manure 
to  keep  floors  warm.  I  did  the  same 
thing  and  immediately  floors  became  so 
damp  that  boards  warped  and  litter  was 
wet  through  on  second  day  after  being  put 
in.  Banking  up  hinders  free  circulation  of 
air  and  the  result  is  dampness.  Kindly 
publish  this  so  that  M.  J.  K.  will  get  the 
benefit  of  it.  J*  G. 
