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■She-  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Onkcresf  Farm.  New  York  .  . . 
Jas.  F.  Harrington.  New  Jersey . . 
Summer  Grove  Farm,  Ohio  . 
Buff  Leghorns. 
L.  TO.  Hea«ley,  Michigan  . 
0.  L.  Mugrey,  Connecticut  . 
Black  Leghorns. 
J.  Collinson,  England  . 
Bed  Sussex. 
Hr.  E.  Tv.  Conrnd,  Ww  Jersey... 
Mottled  Anoonas. 
Claude  Clinton,  New  Jersey  . 
Elmwood  Farm,  New  York  . 
White  Orpingtons. 
Obed  G.  Knight,  Phode  Island... 
Oregona. 
Oregon  Agr.  College,  Oregon  .... 
Imperial  Progressives 
TVm.  R.  Wells  Rhode  Island . 
Black  Rhinelanders. 
A.  Schwarz,  California  . 
EGG-LAYING  CONTEST 
WantWinter  E 
Egg  prices  ere  rising — will  soon  reach  the  high  point  of  the  year.  Winter 
eggs  pay  big  profits,  but  you  can't  get  them  by  wishing  for  them.  Actt 
Have  your  hens  laying  well  when  eggs  mean  money. 
At  this  time  every  bird  in  your  flock  needs 
Pratts  Poultry  Regulator 
the  Guaranteed  Poultry  Tonic  and  Conditioner.  A  natural  egg-maker — makes 
hens  want  to  lay.  It  tones  them  Up — increases  appetite — assists  digestion 
— stirs  up  the  sluggish  egg-producing  organs — drives  the  hens  to  the 
nest — insures  profits  for  you. 
Pratts  Poultry  Regulator  will  keep  your  old  hens  laying  steadily 
GEO.  A.  COSGROVE, 
Laying  Ration 
T  would  like  a  good  up-to-date  ration 
for  feeding  laying  hens  in  Fall  and  Win- 
terT\  .  .  G-  H. 
Pennsylvania. 
There  are  many  “up-to-date”  rations 
for  laying  hens,  each  poultryman  being 
likely  to  have  his  own.  compounded  ac¬ 
cording  to  his  own  notions  and  the  re¬ 
sults  of  his  experience  in  feeding.  ,So 
far  as  the  writer  knows,  there  is  no  one 
combination  of  foods  superior  to  all 
others  and  no  one  that  should  he  rigidly 
adhered  to  regardless  of  its  availability 
and  cost.  A  mixture  of  whole  grains 
should  be  fed  and  a  part  of  the  ration 
should  he  in  the  form  of  ground  mash; 
the  latter  fed  either  dry  or  moistened 
with  skim-milk  or  water.  All  of  the  or¬ 
dinary  available  grains  are  relished  by 
hens;  oats  and  rye  being  least  palatable, 
A  formula  fur  dry  mash  used  by  the 
writer.  buL  nut.  superior  to  others,  is  equal 
parts  by  weight  of  cornmeal,  wheat  bran, 
wheat  middlings,  gluten  feed  and  beef 
scrap.  In  addition,  green  food,  grit  and 
crushed  oyster  shells  are,  of  course,  sup¬ 
plied.  M.  B.  D. 
BARRON’S  White  Wyandottes 
I  imported  direct.  Cockerels  from  liens  with  255  to 
2H8-egg  records.  A  few  pullets  and  yearling  hens, 
E.  E.  LEWIS  -  Apalachin,  N.  Y. 
,PON^ 
TOOLS 
MATURE 
Barron  Leghorn  Cockerels 
Selected  from  trap-nested  yearlings,  ailovei'200-eggs, 
by  pedigree  sire  fioui  284-egg  lieu.  W  rile  for  prices. 
Leonard  b.  Oakes,  -  Medina,  N.  Y. 
5222aSfl7>  MORE  THAN  DOUBLE 
^HgP^YOUR  COCKEREL  PROFITS 
yyW  Capons  grow  twice  ss  large  on  tbesnme 
If  IT  amount  of  Xeed  and  bring  twice  the 
_ IV-  price  per  pound. 
Z,'  ‘  Complete  eer.  of  reliable,  prac- 
lapons  bring  tlcnl.  c.asy-t‘>U.90  C  A 
30c  per  Ih.  Capon  Toots  .  .  VD  dZ.  ■  OU 
R ousters  I5r  — hill,  illustrated  Instructions  ln- 
Koosters  i3c  clutletK  parcel  Poat  prepald. 
G.  P.  PILLING  ft  SON  CO..  Phlla.,  Pa. 
Send  for  FREE  Capon  Book 
BARRON’S  LEGHORNS 
248-284-egg  strain.  6 lien*  and  a  cock  for  $10,  A  few 
lQ-weens  pullets  to  spare.  E.  Claude Junes,  Hillsdale.  N  Y. 
ForSale— AH  of  My  S.C.W.  LEGHORNS 
AND  EQUIPMENT.  Going  cheap.  Write  for  particulars 
and  prices.  Margaret  Metzger,  Yulan,  X.  Y. 
some  pills  of  the  cure — fill  nineties,  ami 
when  one  shows  signs  of  being  a  bit  off, 
hand  them  a  pill  a  day  till  showing  re¬ 
covery  ;  have  saved  a  few  in  this  man¬ 
ner.  2.  I  am  hacking  a  home  out  of  the 
bush,  coming  from  Illinois  nearly  three 
years  ago.  This  year  the  coyotes  have 
become  so  hold  we  have  to  do  something 
desperate  in  the  near  future.  They  come 
into  the  yard  in  daytime  after  the  calves, 
tackling  the  yearlings.  I  have  been  poi¬ 
soning  in  the  Winter  with  strychnine,  but 
it  is  too  slow.  Bounty  is  $3  per  head. 
Could  you  toll  me  of  a  liquid  poison,  or 
oue  that  can  he  made  liquid,  that  will 
break  down  the  tissues  of  the  mouth  as 
soon  as  the  coyote  bites  Into  the  bait,  en¬ 
tering  the  blood  in  this  manner  instead  of 
going  through  the  stomach,  also  how  to 
keep  the  poison  from  freezing  solid  in 
Winter?  I  have  an  ideal  ranch  for  sheep 
and  like  to  handle  them  best  of  any  stock, 
but  dare  not  attempt  it  at  present.  All 
right  if  one  has  flic  coin  to  buy  wire 
feuce,  so  have  made  up  my  mind  to  try 
to  make  the  coyote  pay  for  the  wire  fence 
I  must  have  to  keep  the  sheep. 
Francois  Lake,  B.  C.  j.  m.  s. 
1.  Very  likely  a  soft  shelled  egg  broke 
before  being  extruded ;  such  eggs  are  oc¬ 
casionally  laid  by  the  best  regulated  liens. 
A  pill  that  would  cure  every  ill  would 
certainly  be  handy  and.  if  a  supply  of 
these  were  kept  in  a  self-feeding  hopper 
which  a  hen  might  visit  at  any  time  that 
she  chanced  to  fed  out  of  sorts,  the  prob¬ 
lem  of  medicating  the  flock  would  he 
solved.  It  would  manifestly  he  impossi¬ 
ble  for  a  hen  to  help  herself  to  a  Suitable 
dose  from  a  bottle  hut  she  is  uniquely 
fitted  to  swallow  a  pill  without  rolling  it 
around  in  her  mouth  until  the  sugar  coat¬ 
ing  dissolves  or  without  previously  con¬ 
cealing  it  in  a  Taisiu ;  in  fact,  the  pecu¬ 
liar  adaptation  of  the  pill  to  the  hen  and 
the  hen  to  the  pill  should  not  be  over¬ 
looked. 
2,  As  for  a  poison  that  will  break  down 
the  protective  tissues  of  the  mouth  aud 
enter  the  circulation  before  reaching  the 
stomach ;  the  plan  does  not  seem  to  me 
feasible.  It  is  but  a  short  distance  from 
a  coyote’s  mouth  to  its  stomach  by  the 
natural  route  and  any  attempt  to  short 
circuit  a  poison  would,  in  my  opinion,  be 
foiled  by  the  refusal  of  the  coyote  to  co¬ 
operate.  My  acquaintance  with  coyotes 
is  far  more  limited  than  yours,  but  I  am 
sufficiently  familiar  with  corrosive  poi¬ 
sons  to  feel  very  sure  that  any  animal  as 
coy  as  a  coyote  would  refuse  to  plunge 
its  muzzle  into  one.  Lead  poisoning  ap¬ 
pears  to  me  more  practicable,  the  metal 
to  be  administered  hypodermically. 
250  Half  Barron  Yearling  White  Leghorn  Breeders 
85c.  each.  C  F.  INGOLDSBY.  Hirtwick  Seminary,  N.  Y. 
V  tofanm  ht|r  y  when  pdAM  u  r«  1iiarfi«#t. 
■L  i  ImkkuioMIis  inffndwnUi.  Ktnult*  rf*. 
pond  on  what  you  iced  your  pullcLu.NO  IT. 
Allen’s  Guaranteed  Foods 
Vr  1  dt>»wxy  with  KucaMWork.  Keeult,,  <uar- 
NOW'S  the  time  to  *tert  'em 
^  right.  Write  us  today  t 
Allen  Milling  Cu..  Uept.5.  NiaoaraFalls.lt.T. 
Early  White  Leghorn  Pullets 
Early  White  Leghorn  Pullets 
Wellalong  toward  laying.  John  Lsrlonlee.  Carmel,  N.Y. 
Hillview  Poultry  Farms  R.  C.  Reds 
won  first  pen  for  market  value  of  eggs,  all 
breeds,  in  last  year's  Stores  contest.  Eggs 
from  this  pen  ii  regular  price.  Hens,  cock¬ 
erels  and  pullets  for  sale.  ST.  ALBANS,  VT. 
Leghorn  Pullets 
t.  0. RAMSEY 
Ramsey,  N.  J. 
SOW  I  puhnrnc  YEARLINGS, PULLETS  AND  COCKERELS. 
„  .  LSgnorna  Prices  right.  Write  your  wants, 
Satisfaction  guaranteed.  Just-a-Mere-Faroi, 
E  K.  Wolfe  &  Son,  Prop's,  Box  A  Columbia  Cross  Ro3ils,  Pa 
Vihert  strain.  Cockerels,  $2  and  $3.  4  yearling  bens 
and  cockerel,  $10.  Anna  M.  Jones,  Hillsdale.  N.  Y. 
Standard  Bred,  high  record  stock,  red  to  the  skin, 
Old  and  young  stock.  Summer  prices  Booklet. 
AUSTIN  POULTRY  FARM.  Box  17.  CENTRE  HARBOR.  N.  H, 
SIX  EXCELLENT  FARM  BOOKS. 
Productive  Swine  Husbandry,  Day.. $1.50 
Productive  Poultry  Husbandry,  Lewis  2.00 
Productive  Horse  Husbandly,  Gay..  1.50 
Productive  Feeding  of  Farm  Animals, 
Woll  .  1.50 
Productive  Orcharding,  Sears .  1.50 
Productive  Vegetable  Growing,  Lloyd  1.50 
BOOKS  ON  INSECTS  AND  PLANT  DIS¬ 
EASES. 
Injurious  Insects,  O’Kane  . $2.00 
Manual  of  Insects,  Slingerland . 2.00 
Diseases  of  Economic  Plants,  Stev¬ 
ens  and  Hall  .  2,00 
Fungous  Diseases  of  Plants,  Duggar  2.00 
STANDARD  FRUIT  BOOKS. 
Successful  Fruit  Culture,  Maynard.  .$1.00 
Productive  Orcharding,  Scars  .  1.50 
The  Nursery  Book,  Bailey  .  1.50 
The  Pruning  Book.  Bailey  .  1.50 
Dwarf  Fruit  Trees,  Waugh . .  .50 
PRACTICAL  POULTRY  BOOKS. 
Progressive  Poultry  Culture,  Brig¬ 
ham  . $1.50 
Productive  Poultry  Husbandry,  Lewis  2.00 
Principles  and  Practice  of  Poultry 
Culture,  Robinson  . 2.50 
Hens  for  Profit,  Valentine  .  1.50 
Diseases  of  Poultry,  Salmon.. . 50 
Champion  Heavyweight  Dark  Cornish, Choice  May 
U«!elinri  Qirdo  $2.00  each,  trio  *(.  IM>.  For  limited 
naicneu  Biros  time  omy.  e.  a.  s>  ott.  Dnn»iu«.  >.  ?. 
Mammoth  Emrfen  Geese  ifr[ 
lied.  Oarapines,  Mlnorcas.  Leghorns.  'Wyandottes 
Maple  Cove  Poultry  Yards,  R.  2,  Athens,  Pa, 
SUMMER  SAL  E  OF 
BARRON  Leghorns  and  Wyandottes 
Direct  imported  record  hens  and  daughters. 
THE  BARRON  FARM  .  Connellsville.  Pa. 
CHICKS  $12  per  100,  $55  per  500 
SILVER  LACEIJ  end  WHITE  WYANDOTTE 
Breeding  stock  for  sale.  Pekin,  Rouen,  and  Run¬ 
ner  Ducks  @  $2  and  up. 
Aldham  Poultry  Farin.R  34,Phoenixville,Pa. 
LINCOLN  LEGHORNS 
Winners  at  Storrs,  13-14 
See  record  in  this  year’s  contest. 
Cockerels  ami  j-eariings  for  sale. 
FRANCIS  F.  LINCOLN,  Mt.  Carmel,  Conn. 
Does  Your  Stock  Need  Improving?  °rYtess°“nt 
the  addition  of  LEGHORN  COCKERELS  FROM  MY  STRAIN 
increased  the  vigor  of  his  chicks  by  50V  1  offer  you 
Promising  Young  Cockerels  and  Pullets  at  65c. 
and  up.  C.  A.  ROGERS,  Bergen,  New  York 
Quality  Leghorn  Chicks,  10  c.  each 
September  delivery.  R.  C.  Red  Breeders,  $1.25  each. 
Anconas,  Black  Leghorns  and  R,  C.  Ron  Cocker¬ 
els.  £>each.  E.  R.  HUMMED  &  C0..R.0  A,  Frenclilown,  N.  J. 
The  above  books,  written  by 
practical  experts,  will  be 
i‘»und  valuable  for  reference 
or  study.  For  sale  by 
The  Rural  New-Yorker 
333  West  30th  Street,  New  York 
L. E.  Ingoldsby,  Pullet  Specialist. 
O.  W.  Leghorn  pullets,  reared  on  now  ground,  under 
most  sanitary  conditions.  Circular  and  prices  on  re¬ 
quest.  CLEARVIEW  POULTRY  FARM. HartwickSeminary  ,  N.Y. 
“Gee.  I’d  like  a  square  meal  just  once.” 
"What’s  the  matter,  aren’t  you  getting 
enough  to  eat  at  home?”  "No.  You  see, 
the  doctor’s  put  pa  on  a  diet,  aud  the 
rest  of  the  family  has  to  starve  to  keep 
pa  out  of  temptation.” — Detroit  Free 
Press. 
Dill  I  ETC  FOR  SALE-S.  C.YY.  LEGHORN 
|  P  LLC  |  u  March.  April  And  May  hatched. 
Raised  on  unlimited  range  in 
well  shaded  orchard.  Recommended  for  winter  egg 
production.  Gilead  Efe'tf Farm, Ourmel, N.Y, 
