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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 15, 1922 
SSSL WHITE LEGHORNS 
Wo lmve over 3(10 certified leghorns, mated to certified 
malea from which wo offer eggr. at >3 00 per netting 
(15eggai, 38.00 per fifty; 0IS.OO per hundred. Also 
a pen of yearlings, mated to certified males at 32.00 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
CHICKS 
THE HENYARD 
I . Good stock, well-bred for big eats 
* and lot* of them is thn kind with 
which you can make the 8 ® next Fall 
and Winter. 
Practical Laying-house 
Here is a diagram of a well-built house, 
facing the south, SO ft. Jong, l(i ft wide, 
with a 14-in. cellar, well cemented. This 
was originally a brooder house of old 
type, heated with lamps. The brooders 
were elevated to ground level, with a 
trench in the back to look after the 
lamps. It was nil well cemented to make 
it rat proof. Is the 16 ft. wide enough? 
Straight American Stock 
QUALITY RELIABILITY 
Bred for vigor, size and large whit* market 
eggs. IS,000 already sold to old customers. Let 
ns refer yon to them. Sate delivery and full 
count of strong, healthy chicks guaranteed. 
Price list on request. 
K1RKUP BROS. 
Chestnut Poultry Farm, Mattituck, L. I., N, Y. 
White Leghorn Chicks 
n and Eglantine strains. fi.ooo quality chicks I 
hmv# been bred for years as a motioy-maktog 
strain. All our breeders have been State 
tested for White diarrhea. That mean* 
real Chick Insurance for every cuttomer. 
Our famous 
Barron arid EgUtitiue strains. ...... ..-„ 
weekly from healthy, vigorous, five range breeders. 
No lights or forcing methods used. All chirks 
hatched >n improved rinshalr Incubators, designed 
atrd loiilt under my personal supervision; acquired 
by fifteen yraiV experience hatching anil breeding 
Leghorn*. It trill pay you to get my reduced prices 
and free circular. 
HKOOlvSIDE POULTRY farm 
E. C. Brown Bergeantsvllls, N. J. 
GRADE “A” CHICKS 
will show you more profit than »ny chicks 
yon can buy. Order NOW to b* *ur* of 
delivery. 
I Wi llfi IVT March 25th- ^ 
mmmmmw/ m* r 2nd 
l&inUalillaaiiiv/ and mostly with orders 
I from old customers. That 
speaks well for the satis¬ 
faction our chick. 
HOW MANY? Y ^ 
. WHICH r. 
L. TUESDAY? 
PRICES TO MAY 15th 
Our famous Grade A Chicks: 
100 orators... 
1000 or more. 
The same strain. Grade B: 
100 or more. 
1000 or more. 
(jraund 
l*vrl 
ELMF0RD FARM 
If not, how can we make a practical lay¬ 
ing house 20 ft. wide? Would you ad¬ 
vise raisiug the front to 7 ft.? Will the 
chickens do well in this shallow cellar? 
The cement seems to be perfectly dry. 
New Jersey. W. E. 
If this house has, or is provied with, 
windows of ample size for lighting and 
ventilation, it would make an excellent 
laying house just as it is. These, win¬ 
dows should reach pretty nearly to the 
plate, to permit the sunlight to pene¬ 
trate as far as possible toward the rear, 
for the front is a little bit low for a 
house of that depth. The excavation 
will be nearly tilled with litter and, if dry, 
will probably be no detriment to the 
building. If well lighted and ventilated 
through the front, I see no reason why 
this should not make a most desirable 
laying house. M, B. D. 
ci ORZCBINO /NSTITUTiOtf 
»># Mere Hitchtnj 
FAIRPORT. N.Y. 
White Leghorn Baby Chicks 
A practical farm for bettor chicks, 
Where breeders are trapped, 
And the best are Certified. 
Proven by their Contest records 
At K.iruungdale and Cornell, 
Where bluff* arc called. 
And fonrffushers barred. 
Moderate price* and a square deal. 
If you mean business, send for free circular. 
And ask about our Certified Chicks, They pa 
SCHLEIN'S BLUE RIBBON POULTRY FARM 
Centre Moriches, N. Y. 
80-Page Illustrated Catalog FREE, 
LORD FARMS 
67 Forsst Strost, Msthusn, Mss*, 
Baby 
Chicks 
A. B. Haifa Chicks Stand 
for Quality 
Our 2000 S. C, Whit® LwyliOrn *ml Rhode latent! Red breeders 
ere selected for vigor, etie.nnd type, end ore the result of 10 
veers* ear*fel nalertion. Our r»vn of White l*eghorna iu the 
N.Y. Stete Ley log Contest, holds 4 th piece for tbe let yeer. 
We have the I urgent and heat-equipped hatching plant in Con¬ 
necticut. with 40 , 000 -egg ceuedLy. All cblohe jpoetpeld and 
safe arrival guaranteed. Write for llluatrated circular end 
prices. 
A. B. HALL - - .Wallingford. Conn. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
BARRON STRAIN OUT OF IMPORTED BIRDS 
3000 breeders on free farm range, buttermilk fed. 
All mated to cocks and cockerels ont of imported 
birds. The finest lot of breeders 1 ever owned, 
Now booking orders for baby ubioks. Feb.. March. 
April. May delivery, 10 to 12,OBI) weekly. The kind 
that live If given half a chance. ICggs for hatch¬ 
ing now ready In any quAUtd.v. My book. "Profit* lu 
Poultry Keeping Solved." St, Of free with nil *10 orders. 
Circulars Free. EDO A It Bltl««S. Uoi t&. Plea*, 
ant Valley, N. Y. 
Loss of Chicks 
I have Rhode Island Reds, and hatch 
them by incubator and fowl. They grow 
very fast, but as soon as their wing feath¬ 
ers are all grown out and start on their 
tail feathers they begin to get very weak 
and die. I have them in a warm and dry 
building and have a little litter for them 
to scratch in for their grain. T only give 
them enough to clean up In 20 minutes. 
I feed them three limes daily; drinking 
water with the chill off. T am very care¬ 
fill in picking my eggs for setting; they 
hatch 14 to 15 eliieks to every hen ; same 
in the incubator. H. H. B. 
The only suggestion as to the possible 
cause of trouble that you give in your let¬ 
ter is the statement that you keep your 
chicks in a warm, dry building, and that 
they begin to get weak and die at about 
three weeks of age. Young chicks cannot 
he confined to warm buildings and floors 
for more than two to three weeks with¬ 
out showing indications of lack of vigor 
as a result of that confinement. It is not 
unlikely that your whole trouble is a re¬ 
sult of this practice. (let your chicks out 
upon the ground by the time they are two 
weeks old. and preferably earlier, even if 
they have to wade about, in the mud. Do 
not keep them out, of course, hut give 
them a chance to go in and out as they 
please, always having a warm, dry place 
to which to return when they become 
uncomfortable outside. Take pains at 
first to teach them to go back to their 
hover when cold. or. when first let out, 
they may huddle outside and perish. 
Early contact with the earth is a neces¬ 
sity if baby chicks are to thrive, and. 
while a clean grass run is the ideal play¬ 
ground for baby chicks, a clean mud pud¬ 
dle is to be preferred to a dry board 
floor. M. B. D. 
S. C. IV. Leghorns 
pUREBRED. 
strong, livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Certified 
males. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Our breeding stock reach the top notch in size, 
Khitpe. type, vigor end above all iu consistent heavy 
laying throughout the year. Each pen of breeders 
heeded by pedigreed nislu. Place your order at 
once to secure 
8 to 10 Week* Old Pullet* 
Price* reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed 
Hardimont Poultry Farm, Toma River, N. J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sod us, N.Y. 
T Pen* ol 2 and 3-year-old non-setting and largo 
producing HENS, Hated to Cockerel of high quality 
and vigor—.»U HOGAN Tested. Carefully selected 
EGGS for HATCHING. 
16 E 0 DS_ S 3.00 25 CHICKS.... S 7 .B 0 
SO *’ .... 5.00 50 " .... 13.50 
SO “ .... 8.50 IOO “ .... 25.00 
100 “ .... 15.00 
Flock Matlnga—SI 2 per IOO COOS 
J. H. WILSON - Methuen, Ma»* 
HAMPTON’S 
Black Leghorn Chicks 
Porter s Certified Leghorns 
TH* Egg Producer*—The Buiinet* Hen* 
Our Breeding Stock U Officially Certified «nd Regis¬ 
tered. Tlii« guarantee* that our breeders reach the 
top notch of excellence insizc, shape, type and vigor, 
and above all, in consistent h*nvy ikying throughout 
th* year. These are large S. C. "White Leghorns. 
Very different from the ordinary chickery 
chick. The square treatment you will receive 
is unusual, Write for circular and prices. 
A. E. HAMPTON, Box A, PITTSTOWN, N. J. 
White Leghorn PULLETS 
Fine, healthy, vigorous yellow- 
shanked range raised birds that 
will please. 8-week old pullets 
ready to ship after April 21st, $1.35 
each. Discount on lots of over 250. 
HEDELCA POULTRY FARM NEW JERSEY 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
CERTIFIED SINGLE COMB 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS 
Barron strain. Bic. hn*ky chicks properly hatched. 
Cornell Certified breeders, two to four years old 
matod xvith Certified cockerels, S20 per J DO and up 
Extra quality utility stock, xvith Certified cockerels 
$15. Hatching Egg*, $8. Circular free. 
RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM Cortland. New York 
From these Certified nnd Registered Breeder*. Pul¬ 
lets lor 1922. April hatched* u, lu and 12 weeks old. 
fnerente Your Egg Production 
by introducing our great line of male*. Thev are 
bred from Certified heavy producers of large, ch»lk 
white egg*. SOU Grown Pmlcta for sale, now laying 
or ready to lay. Come nnd see one of the beat 
modern plants, which ia located on a hundred-acre 
fruit farm. The conditions nre ideal. No fences. 
Free range. 
FARLEY PORTER, Box W. Sodu«, N. Y. 
BigMalueBaby Chicks 
C U TT Real Va,ue - Lar » e E n g ,ls h- 
Xl X XV American White Leghorns 
Pedigreed free-range breeders on our own farms. 
This is an extensive farm with a poultry plant—not 
just a hatchery. Send for free booklet and 1922 re¬ 
duced prices. LAUREL LOCKS FARMS. R f-0.. Poiltiown. P», 
Eleven popular, money-making breeds. 
Easy to buy—priecd low. Easy to raise 
—husky, healthy, vigorous. And guar¬ 
anteed! Write today for I' REE catalog 
showing many breeds in full colors. 
OHLS POULTRY YARDS and HATCHERY 
Box 31. Marion, Ohio 
EGGS ARE HIGHEST IN OCTOBER, 
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 
Do You Want Your EggsThen? 
Order Our White Leghorn Chicks 
. “ With the Lay Bred in Them " A 
N—--—s. Send for free cstslog 
EVERLAY LEGHORNS 
Th® beautiful bu»tn®«* hmt Wonderful winter lay 
•ra. Big whit® eggs World H«eord layer** Ameri¬ 
can Kgg Contest) Gr®»t®»t winner# New Yorlr- 
Chicago H®rdjr, vigorous money mak»r«, 2 stuck 
Eggs. Chick*. nnippad aafolv. Catalog free 
EVERLAY FARM Boa 2S Portland, Ind. 
GUARANTEED 
.BY CHICKS 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Cost of Poultry-house 
I wish to build n coop for 500 chick¬ 
ens. How biff should the coop be, and 
how much lumber do T need? I want to 
put in a double floor and a double wall on 
the north side, About how much for 
labor and lumber? A. S. 
A building' 20 ft. deep and 75 ft. lone 
would be large enough for 500 fowls of 
any of the smaller breeds, and would be 
in good proportion. A concrete floor 
would probably he less expensive than u 
double woodpn floor, unless necessary to 
have this floor above the ground level. A 
double wall is not needed on any side, 
and would be unnecessarily expensive. 
All that is required is that tbe wall 
should be airtight, and using a single 
thickness of matched stuff is usually the 
most economical way of bringing this 
about. 
There is no way of estimating the cost 
of such a building unless the exact meth¬ 
od of construction is known and the 
local cost of labor and material is given. 
Any local carpenter can make an esti¬ 
mate, after knowing the plan. You will 
note on page 474 of the April 1 issue of 
this paper an interesting article on the 
cost of poultry houses which shows that 
the three described cost from $2 to .$3 
per fowl for labor and material. It is 
further stated there that poultry houses 
were formerly built at a cost of $1 per 
bird. These figures may give you some 
idea of what to expect, but cannot, of 
course, apply directly to any building 
that, you would put up, for it is not at all 
likely that you would build in just the 
Rnme way or that your labor and build¬ 
ing material costs are the same. M. ft. D. 
You t*ke no riokiri buying "Continent®!* 'chlci*- 
gti*r*nt®®din quality, brood.®®fe delivery^®vary* 
thlnjr. Big hunky, chfckn thot gr**w 
eurlirr. All brood®: 260 to 800 egg®train®. Shinned 
anywhere, prepaid. Send for catalog and price*, 
^ontlnawtal H®tcH®rU®, Box 122 Bprlw«tl®ld. O. 
Get your BABY CHICKS and HATCHING EGGS from the 
flock that produced my pens which tiui&hed next to 
the top in the Vineland and Bergen Comity Contests. 
Write for prices, stating quantity and date desired. 
J. W. Bottchek - Mt. Holly, N. J. 
The Pine Grove Poultry Farm 
of 
CENTER MORICHES. L. I. 
Offers for Immediate shipments S. C. W. L. 
Chicks, $2tMJU per hundred. Of 2 and 3-yenr old 
stock, of trap-nested birds. Free range stock. 
Our hatching dates, 'Tuesdays nnd Wednesdays 
every week. Anyontt calling at the farm with 
containers, &5( discount. .SVrid lor free circular. 
J Black Leghorn Chix of Quality 
■“direct from free range stock, owned and bred 
^hy us. Sent prepaid. D e I i v e r y guaranteed, 
m Writs today. PIELL B R OTH E R S, Pillstown. N. J. 
Rost Comb Brown Leghorns lid? 
39.to per 16, delivered. Biit'SH fc so*, 
tO CENTS VP. C. O. D. by parcel 
post. Pellvety guaranteed 2,000 
miles. Bred ror vital It y, quick 
growth and laying qualltie*. 17th 
year, Pmmpfilat. Bor 7S. 
RY - McAIIttarvllle, Pa 
yearly profit per hen is made by using Bifold 
Hatcheries and Brooders. 47.UU0 now iu use, 
Lost LEAST. Proved BEST Proof free. 
Expt, GRUNDY, Morrisonvlll*, Illinois. 
REGISTERED and CERTIFIED 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Registered on hotli sire and dam side, 50c each, lim* 
Had number. Registered on sire sideonly.$20 hundred. 
Vigorous, thrna-ynsr-old h«ns of heavy type, mated 
to lively 5-pound cockerels, $20 hundred. Uliicks 
from earlv hatched millets, $16 hundred. No lights 
used. E. J. XV A l>E, 1558 Ilk* SI.. Dtp t. 2. Elmirs. N.Y 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
Barron strain Baby Chieks at 817.50 per 100 for 
delivery after May 8th Circular. 
A. H. PENNY - Mattituck, I,. I., N. Y. 
J^Unln “ Fnllnest" 300-Kgg Strain Large, 
—t- 1 lopped combs. Catalogue. Hatching 
Egg*-*1.50 per IB, postpaid, 1* per 100, 
FAIRLAND POULTRY FARM Louisville, Kentucky 
Baby Chicks 12fc Each leghorns 
Safe arrival guaranteed. 15 years shipper of day- 
old chicks. Circular free. 
BABY CHICK FARM • SttoUburp-On Hudson, N. Y. 
Important to Advertisers 
S. C. Brown and English S. C. W. Leghorns 
Hons and pullets, laying. Hatching eggs, Bred-to- 
luy. Booklet free. VERA FULTON. Bos 98. Bsllipolis. Ohio 
Copy and instructions for clas¬ 
sified advertisements or change 
of copy must reach us on Thurs¬ 
day morning in order to insure 
insertion in following week’s paper. 
Notice to discontinue advertise¬ 
ment should reach us on Tues¬ 
day in order to prevent advertise¬ 
ment appearing in following week's 
paper. 
for all our Khode Island Had* and S. C White Leghorns 
Hatching Eggs. All bird* from high trap-nanted stock. 
Seventy-flv* per cent fertility guaranteed. 
CONNISCLIFFE POULTRY FARM - Tesally, N J. 
S. C. White Leghorn Eggs leettd breeding stock of 
American blood having free range. Write fur particulars 
to Pl.tlYll q. ttlllTF, Terktown WailchMter f'o., YY 
Vancresl Poultry Farm 
8. C. White and Brown Leghorn*, llai red 
Hock* and Ancona*. Send for circular 
- .Milford, N. J. 
Single Comb White Leghorn chicks hatched from 
eggs produced on our own plant by buttermilk-fed 
liens on free range. Some certified. Circular. 
FRANK VAN WAONKK Hyde Park, N.Y. 
Kulp Strain S. C. Whit* Leghorn* 
at *10 per 100, Parcel Tost Paid. 
FRANK SLUM Maw W*ikin)laa. Obi* 
Baby Chicks 
S.C. White Leghorns B |§V«rlr 1 ' 
Bargain prices. Breeders all ages. Toulouse Geese 
eggs. 20c Bronze Toms. All thorobreds Offer 
surplus 700 head. MURRAY'S FARMS, Moriches. N. Y. 
Selected S. C. White Leghorns 
Baby chicks. $15 jper 100. Hatching eggs, $8 per 108, 
Cir. free. Mountain View PoultryFirnb tipocwcll Job, NX 
THICKS AFTER MAY 
15th 
Our famous Grade A Chicks: 
100 or more. 
... ZOo 
... lOe 
The same strain. Grade It: 
.. 18c 
17o 
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