Subscribers’ Exchange 
THE HENYARD 
Mr. Poultryman, How Much 
Money Are You Going To 
Make Next Winter? 
Ton great exlent this will bo deter¬ 
mined by yonr good or bad judgment 
now in placing your order for baby 
chicks. ' I nod chicks only come from 
good eggs. and good eggs only corno 
from good breeding stock, and good 
breeding sinek only comes from gen¬ 
erations of good breeding. 
THE LORD FARMS’ SINGLE COMBED 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
have generations and generations of 
good breeding back of them. If you 
buy your chicks from Lord Farms 
you will get an even, uniform lot of 
stock that will mature early, for 
their size. 
Don’t Lose a Dollar Trying to Save a Dime 
WRITE FOR OUR BIG, INSTRUCTIVE, WHITE 
LEGHORN CATALOG 
LORD FARMS Melhnen, Mass. 
®^ST S C. R£D PEW, Slors Content 1916. 1918,1920 
INDIVIDUAL RED in Conte** 191 6*18-20 21 
Best indiviilnnu best peti, Jiiul consecutive 
yearly production record* ever made by anv breeder 
ot R. l Ke*i$ Storrs fomesr.s. Average f»>i eon- 
seciitive yearn in content, 183 ego* per bird. Ail birds 
lirtd iiuu owmpiI irj nv. B-iiigreeti i iinlcere]-; e*rt:s. 
chlr.ks. PfNECREST ORCHARDS. R, D. 2 Groton Mass 
Other Advertisements of Subscribers , 
Exchange will be found on page 31 . 
Cause of Partial Molt 
Can you roll me the cause of throwing 
White Leghorns into a SCmi-moIt? We 
have about 100 White Leghorn pullets. 
They were coming along well in Novem¬ 
ber. We were getting almost a .10 per 
cent egg yield. At the beginning of 
December they began to drop, and then 
commenced to molt. Now rIn* yield is 
only half what it was. We feed a mash 
< nnsislbig of 200 Ihs. bran. *200 lbs. mid¬ 
dlings. 200 lbs. comment 100 lbs. tank¬ 
age and ,10 lbs. dried buttermilk. This 
is before them all the lime. We feed a 
light feed of commercial scratch grain at 
.1 a. m. and at M p. ru.; a full feed of 
whole corn at 8:30 p. m. Wo feed cab¬ 
bage for a green feed. Grit, oyster shell 
and charcoal are before them all the 
time, also plenty of fresh water. We 
had 100 lbs. of nice meat scrap, out of 
which we sifted the coarse parts and fed 
it in hoppers. We only fed 100 lbs. that 
way. We turn oil the lights at -1 a. m. 
and again at 8 :M0 p. m. Can you tell us 
what we have done or what we have neg¬ 
lected to do to cause this molt? c. i.. k. 
West Virginia. 
Au.v sudden change in the care or feed¬ 
ing of pullets is likely (o throw them into 
it partial molt, with a drop in egg pro¬ 
duction. You speak of giving beef scrap 
in hoppers: if you added this scrap in 
unlimited quantity to the other ration, 
permitting the birds to have all that they 
wanted for a time, the trouble is easily 
accounted for. Perhaps, however, you 
added this scrap gradually, bur made 
some other radical change in the kind of 
mash or other grains fed. Possibly you 
did not accustom the fowls to artificial 
lights and additional meals gradually, 
making the change in hours of feeding all 
at once; or, possibly, you moved the pul¬ 
let fmm one place to another after they 
bad begun to lay. A review of your 
operations for a few weeks will very 
likely bring to your mind some radical 
change that you made which preceded the 
molting. Even permitting birds to get 
out of mash for a day or two and feed¬ 
ing them during that time upon whole 
grain, thus entirely changing the com¬ 
position of |he day's ration, has brought 
about the result that you complain of. 
Pullets are very sensitive creatures, and 
great care should be taken to accustom 
them gradually to changes that it is de¬ 
sired to make. M. B. D. 
GflCkprpk k>ark f’nrnish. Martin's Regal White 
1515 Wyanrlottes, Barron’* H. (’. White Leg¬ 
horn* H. C. ItBADLE Y. Hartwick. N. Y. 
roitPWOOI) for sail 
reaKoOnhle "lT,'r ret'.i 
i'iiri, Ifnrfil New-York. 
ROSE COMB R. I. REDS 
VERMONT STATE CERTIFIED 
Cnckprok 1 arK, even color. $5 each. A few at 
, VRC * , . $<>. Get Vermont vigor. Our climate 
doe- it. snipped on approval. 
C. E. WILSON 
Tnlnvni Acre, St. AI butt ft Vermont 
incubator. itOO to 1.000. 
three coal burning brood- 
\V. 1>. SMITH. Corn- 
strain. Cockerels. *5 an.] Katch- 
A.VMA M. JO-MS, Craryiilli-. N„ York 
one-ltorse I’ennsylvaiMi l’.lutz wagon, 
eloseil country murUet wagon. ?40: 
t milk wagon, $33: sb-il S20: new 
ness. $15: heavy express, $ 2 'i. i.i.orn 
ltd, .Uolinton, Pa, 
Comb R. I. Reds 
JOLMI RIO cockerels Shipped on appmval 
CATALPA POULTRY FARM R 0.. Gellyshur,, Pa 
*». Itctl l‘ulift*. \pril Inn 
in-,.:- eg, ir Griffiths. 
• clip,1 1 S~tO. V, oiling 
Add'suit. New York 
YOU WILL IMPROVE the Egg Production 
ol Your S. C. White Leghorns 
by usingcoclterels from our i mp-nested hens, Prices 
and records as follow 6 ; 180-200 eggR, 84-: 21)11-210 
*5: 2HI-22M. S6;«20-2«. $7 ; sued by males whose 
dams records were not less than 250. <ntiafacr jew 
gnm anteed. Valley Kgg Farm, Little Valley. N. V. 
p,w—-eggs, high 
5 f) ¥ I nee of grain,. , 
11 _ what better crop for the farm I To 
JL^JL VJ. make tintuey, how ever, out oi poultry. 
__ —you H,u*i know how to feed, bow 
I VVI I L| W to bonxr, bow to male the leiifiit stock 
IkW Lifor trnvt rr.'il/f*. Old metlioiL artel ihe 
£ ^ mongrel foxvi do not. ,n* >,I, iirajlls 
I s * loilny. Prof. It. R. Lewis, I 1ms. f>. 
i ^ * llevelami. Haii.-. i olhc- and ol Iters, 
who are practh-al poultry keepers 
tell you how in Et-rrybadyi I’nnUry jVitooVinr, 
For 25 cants new III -f no you A'lvrub.xfy.i for ,T nonirti- 
lit n trial—i'k to 12n pages each issue— Amerira < Mont 
tnimlnv Pnohry l/opitEIni-—2yr* , 11.1)0: 5 yis., t2.n0, 
EVERYBODYS POULTRY MAGAZINE. Dent. 1 J3, Hanover, Pa. 
Single Comb White Leghorn Cockerels 
Front better than 200-egg hens, at four nod tire dollars 
each, will help vitality and egg production in your 
flock. Free from disease and vermin. Host satisfy you 
every way or money hack. Will ship on approval. 
FIVE POINT LEGHORN FARM Ml. Ephraim, H. J. 
WHITE QUEEN POULTRY FARM 
.America s Premier heavy-weight J owJ 
er-: Heavy layers; Yellow skin Free 
Cntalogand Price List. C. M pacts SOUS b 0 j i 
Now Taking Orders lor Hatching Eggs 
lor Spring Delivery 
Over *00 two and three veai ul.1 hens, finest breeders we 
eve* - )umL, no lights iikwiI, over8-« per t'ufit*, ol ourbu£iD6-$ 
in DHlrluutfejrgsror I'l vwiiy fi -ui our old vustotneis or 
0,1 tiii'ir reeominnndalioii Prize wltiueip at Vluelfind 
ami w^otllmry I'tlllly Sill ITS. livery Kiittmnt€C | (l to 
lie produced on Otlr uwa farm. I'l l. c : Krhrimrv. £10.00 
per luo j 31a-oil, $9.U |wr TW | Api l,$fi.00 Jx r Iihi. 
W. J. COCKING 
Lineoln Avenue - Vineland, N. J- 
Jersey Black Giants 
ami old stoi li. Live 
capons. E i ee circular. D. I*. LPII AM. Relniar. N. J. 
BIG CLEARANCE SALE ol Black Leghorns 
Ev-r vi lung must go. (jualaiiteed yea 1 ling liens ami 
pnllvt*. Pi' :e Wrniier*. YuUiig and Old. Robbins 
furnish. BABY CHICKS —five leading v.-i ieties. Write 
your wants IMULL IIKOS., I’ittstonn, N. J, 
Jersey Black Giants 
Hatching Etru r >. josn’n 11 . in tuies* ii» 
Wini»t»rsi»t New¬ 
ark tins year. 
mtfioii Square, V J 
C I* 111 I Birhnrne R reiMo-lay str dn. L ev ing pullet?. 
O.li.n. Lcgnurna y e a r 1 1 n g lunsnud ^Inuei-c»uk- 
ei-els Prices l ight. I IOC i l.n.UOIIN i «km, Itlchfonl. R.T, 
at very lY-agonahle Prices. Livedelire y guar¬ 
anteed Barred Rocks,R. I. Kedsu Whin .brow u 
Li ghorns, Mlnorcas. Write Tor pamphlet— 
Fiee VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM 
J. It. Sl TIFT. Prop. )Ir 1 ii.lrr, lllr. I’a. 
DIRECTLY IMPORTED 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN cocks atnl cockerels, 
hcail pari, of our pure Barron Strain matings 
tins Sen son. Pedigrees 272-2B8. Our Third 
importation. Strong clucks and fertile eggs 
from these and other Leghorn matings, at low 
prices. Fully guaranteed. Choice males for 
•uile. Write. R. T. EWING, Atlantic. Pa. 
Qflfl White Leghorns Yearlings un<! Prize 
uUu Ainm r^ j;^uiy 1*. I.iv, — 83. 
BOULDEKWoOL* T\ lOl - Wit.tok. CO.\% 
W inner of A*1rftitc <1 Rcjfisiry r«*ult*8t nt <’»*rnell 
t~nivci«it • with iiv* i&irc 186 * -.'gs perbmi. ottinnJly 
sooond laying yem. ofters cli'*i<*e i’i*rtitill certified Tom 
Barron White Leghorn I’ookHwK Plnce orders before too 
lat**. .Mso booking orders Tor ogKCftnd »»hirk?. circu¬ 
lar* WILLOW BROOK POULTRT F ARM Jllenll. B.-lklty Prop.,Odessa N t 
A leading Breeds. >end 3e stamp for cite 
Prize list. SAMUEL T FRY Elizabethtown. Pa 
Hens Pick One Another 
We have a flock of SO Leghorn pullets 
in a yard large enough for 500 fowls. 
We are feeding them scratch feed, dry 
tniisb. wheat, oyster shells, cabbage and 
plenty of water. They are continually 
hnrmiug one another, scratching their 
necks and picking their heads, so that the 
blond appears, and even went so far as 
to pluck an eye out of one. What is the 
cause of this, and is there anything we 
might do to put a stop to it? a. a. it. 
New Jersey. 
Sometime- hens do act like fiends for 
no conceivable reason. Possibly it is for 
luck of something to do. Are these hens 
fed in deep litter, where they have to 
work for their food? 1 would suggest 
getting a big chunk of cheap raw meat 
and hanging it where they can peck nt it. 
We used to be able to get beefs' heads 
for that purpose; perhaps G. A. II. can 
from his butcher. They will not pick nt 
themselves if they can get raw meat to 
pick at. G. A. c. 
liauis' stock to ii*»jni your brooding pens this sml-ft}) 
Price, S5 up. EBERDALE FARM. Phocnixville. Pa, 
COCKERELS Light and Dark BRAHMAS 
iu i.fgn *' ns, h. I .Reus.both com»»s. White 
Bnoen right. Chirks m Lea*ot>. ilhwrated 
RIVEIOAU POULTRY FARM, Ba> 165. Riverdale. N J. 
BARRON’S WHITE WYAND0TTES 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS 
friiui ItVil to 180 -clit hens ;it$3 ami $5 each, '-hipped 
on npiuoval. Sunny brook Farm, Elizavilie, N Y 
ONLY. 1 have been an lmporter since 1912 of ill., b 
ivein'll sriii fc: pbUuuable. My fowl are i auc" fni d 
I'Kd priHlncers .hi e iniexci lii tl. I have i iM-ks, I'ocl 
liens, pn,iris. Em for hatching. Prtccs ••.•isn 
I’alUphlct oil ElppIlCMtioil 1. I.IWI.S, Vpnl.rliln. 
Hummer’s FAMOUS BA3Y CHICKS,®f,™ re 0 , 
pile s 1th special olt-l. E 8. HUMMER S CD , Frvnchro.n, N. 
WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS LIGHTBRAHMAS WANTED ^ ( 
From VINELAND Pen 22. 19I8-I91!l. (Recorii 2225 egg-.) H. A. WEEKS . Cedarhurst, x< 
Prices low. B. F. DECKER, Korlh Pleasant Ave Ridqe«*ood. M. J ■ 
Buy Your Baby Chicks, Hatching Eggs 
and Breeding Cockerels ’5? Lakewood Layers 
Our.-tuck is sired by sons of )9lii Vinelan.l con- 
tost pen which avor.iited 221 timj. , ,t C ii. l>i i,. e 
lor cockerels, £o.$10 em li. Himy i i,ic -•>.*,«• 
tor l'el». and March. 20e lm vj>rii un.l .M.ij 
Hatcluug Eggs, $1(1 x lOn $* n ,« t ii-iK 
LAKEWOUO LE6 
HORN FARM M. RABINOWIfZ LAKEWOOD N J 
Cockerels -* 111 
ers. *12 and 81 5. 
tiKI o I. Nlruin. 
best my. TH Blue Kib- 
L. G. IIIX'KEL. 8,|o„, x.y. 
Pure Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
Bone and Frame. ’'Equal to tlm Best ’ 
ISEBROUGH. The locusts.“ Brociporl. New York 
FINE COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE 
May pnliets. 8*J. t'oekero s. 
L. S. SPAFFOBD - Martville. N. Y. 
PEN 131 (WHITE WYANDOTTESt 
in present ST0RRS EGG-LAYING CONTEST, sole 
B E DECKER North Pleasant Aye. Ruluewaoil. N J 
Bred-to-Lay Barred Rocks 
I '-'U ul. Rot'kanti-t-orrsTi6t>i-?ir. Cornell ivtiu e • 
n >7 cock.-i. 1 m. Hiitrfirnpt cpgs. Hi,dday-oJtt Etbiuks. ‘ o- 
ciibi!' Kent I'oultii F arm. Caxeuuv lu, Vew York 
FOR sale Mammoth Bronze Turkevs 
12 stock •* I,lliank St ai • 
frame and boon. lli„ 111 a ClllMKItY, lirm|.T. \ IibIuU 
Maitc \Vj iinilottc', R'sMi lior< is Fli i i,. \ .Vo, I Ck's 
*J. .ih.'in-f«v. :ol| 1 .ll»r'inte«-il. R Hill. Scncti Fills, NT 
IV yniid.it te^ — S. i.Incumis. 
OW.NL.rMi I'AllM Dux 4 v 
• unit Kroner Tiirkcs. Ri erders f, in a: 
THOMAS RE1LY, Cmitoaville. Plymouth. Mass 
I rap4l*|i»it l!*rr«ilRook,. lipK-bt'cd,r!infrc~i';ii-.,! 
lipping nrirs. chicks .him k. Sun.fm-i•• >n . ,,ai’ 
nt,i!o„- free. ARTHUR l SCARLES. Bo. H. Milloril. H. H. 
1,200 Rosa Comb R. I. Red Hatching Eggs 
!• its of 600 micli. Delivery Pal,. Uih „| u 
Jrc f,,l! J'-'irticninrs in flrsi (. it.- r 
KES Cab destoiie Farm Sullern New York 
SPECIAL FALL PRICES tu kke*s. oucks geese 
' , nt 1 riUVLO Rl imoc oun ruincruc. 
“Poultry Fit to Eat” 
I have just been reading ihe article by 
M. E. G. on jiage and thought I 
should like tu give my experience. Sev¬ 
eral years ago I was advised by an older 
woman if 1 wanted to eat chicken that 
“bad had a bath” and was cTenn. 1 should 
dean it w’tb soap. Like M. E, G,. I 
thought T i referred not to have my vic¬ 
tuals washed with Soap. I was sure I 
woiftfl taste tin* soap. As I never found 
any bethod of removing the hairs from 
the skin exeep’ by singeing, 1 always 
singe ni> eliii kens, and consequent’y bliK’k 
ii some. K,id 1 also found, especially with 
fnt ibieketo, it took consideniblc washing 
and scrapibr uach part to make i! In ,k 
'lean, and hen 1 sometimes had my 
floiihts as to •.■qua 1 cleanliness. I’m one 
day a happy thought struck me. "If I 
can wash the h. by with soap and clean 
it all off land hk cartainly does not smell 
or taste of soap when T have him fin¬ 
ished). so why nvt a chicken?” Right 
there T resolved In try it out. And so the 
next chicken, after viugeiug. was placed 
in a large pan ,>f vyatm water and given 
a thoi’ongh scrubbing xitb soap and n 
brush. The only answ - ] needed was 
found in the water. With several good 
rinsings in warm water I will say there 
was tile elnnir I chieken Tihad ever seen, 
and we surely enjoyed the Anvar of tlie 
skin By no streteh of the imagination 
could one discover any trace ot soap. 
*HS. TT. S. 
Big\aliieBabj Chicks 
Flcven popular, money-making breeds. 
Easy to buv—priced low. Easy to raise 
—husky, healthy, vigorous. And guar- 
ar.ttrd! Write todav lor FRFE catalog 
showing mar.y breeds in full colors. 
0HLS POULTRY YARDS and HATCHERY 
Box 31. Marion. Ohio 
ARDEES 
ERFECT 
K.K 1N 
America’s Stnmlara 
Strain. BREEDERS NOW. 
PARDEE'S efKINS ISLIP.N Y 
Reduced Prirpx on Cnirkpn*? odcrs. geese, guineas 
ocuutcuniuesun vnicKens, TI | BKE y S hares soogs 
Hiitehing eggs. Catalog free H H FREED, Telford. Pa. 
VlBERf'S S. C. R. I. Red Cockerels 
L’KIil egg strain. $5 A nd $*. Shipper 
"unnybrook Kami. Kliaavillc 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheaiants,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for 9t«cktiiir purpoM», 
Fancy Pheii-auts. Peafowl, Cranes, Stork? Swans 
Ornamental Dm-ks and Ueese. Bears. Foxes. Jiac- 
?«>ou, Squirrel a, and «ii kinds of Hirds and animnis, 
WM. J. MACKENSEN. Naluralisf. Oepf. 10 . Yardley-Pa 
100 Pure Bred S. C. R. I. R 
range l it u limn any disease. Bred tin 
• *'z« and tliriit. S4 aim $5 Few uhoirc 
?.75. Broadview Stock Farm. Lambcrtville N J 
For Sala-3 WHITE CHINESE CEESE 
r W o and gande3 rears old. Pi ice $20. 
A. H. NKWltEJEST, North 5 Val.lolx.ro. .Alaine 
For Sale A Few Toulouse Geese 
Pi I S I O per pair. W E. CREASE. Bo» J7/. Em CreumiOi. R. I. 
Crescent Strain of Rhode Island Reds 10 5} *V 
I * 1 i‘o< 1111 g. Dark. 1 teh red cockerel- and pullets 
l.re.i frot,i ,-est selected layers. 83 u> SlOc.vb \ so 
'•In.ice cxhibuion iimls- D . R. HONE. Cherry Valley. N.Y, 
Few Silver Spangled Hamburg Pullets 
Brown beylxn n. Anemias. White W vu ml n tie 
Cockcre.s, $3. E. B FIGGS R. 0. 1. Delmar. Del.iw.ire 
Grandsons of College Queen 
No reiiia.es. INEZ TAYLOR, Kelsey. New York 
land and water fowl 
CTtCKFNS. DUCKS. GEESE. TUWEYS, GUINEAS BANTAMS 
PIGEONS HARES. CAVILS and Oi)GS Stock J1J5 .hi;, up 
Write for inv Illns, and P©h**.. Cata ng—it's Tr-e 
EDWIN SOUOER - SELL E RS V ILL E. P A. 
K reeill n k Uroc, $ 1 *► 1‘air. 
-J - Sin IIarhiiu X'tw Iokk 
SoO.emi chick* ko it lttag. 
S. C. White and Himn f-cgiiurtis, S. ('. 1 {. 1 
He is, Rarred anil White K.i.k -. Jllborcas. 
\".onas, rl.:, Pile..? ,i u),i.., liH) per 
crit «pre delivery guaranteed Cnstomeis 
ri'i'iirr ixi-imc '.is p r cent. Our 12th year. 
Place • »cders early. Oir.tlny ,, re. l b,. 
keystone llatchcry, Kirhflcld, I’a. 
Silver Guinea Fowl For Sale A. 
iug pnrposrs, I- .ell. JOSEPH JERNICX, SaulUM. 1. I„ N. r 
GUT II K A 1 
Ibilain. llridg 
ill*. Wyiunlottc: 
M -V ". liluc Rfblwtu win nr rial New 
i"G i inut Hhldlptowib \Iso l imit*** 
IIOI.M; Vjlll'KINHON, Ilig^aanniJonitf 
Black Flemish Giants' 4, vL?»k < n. , v. fakm 
Buff Rock COCKERELS 
Fine Poultry 
EDMONDS’ POULTRY 
ACCOUNT BOOK 
MBY CHICKS—Slone’s S.C. While Leghorns—HATCHING EGGS 
A parsimonious Contii*cfii-ut\farmer, 
after having married a widow wort), ,N10.- 
000. was being congratulated. “Weli, 
Seth.” remarked a neighbor. “I beat yon 
are SI0.000 to the good.” “Not Unite 
that.” said the farmer, mournfully. “>mt 
nnite that. Ye see. it cost $’2 for thy 
license.”—American Legion Weekly. 
I lie beat wo know. Complete In one book, 
tasily kept. Net results shown at any 
lime, frond for one year. 
Price $1.00 To Canada $1.25 
For Sale iy-The Rural New-Yorker 
333 YV. 30th Street New York Citv 
