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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 5, 1922 
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TUST think of it! A Delco-Light Plant, capa- 
J ble of supplying abundant electric light and 
power to the average farm, costs only $395. 
It will light the house and barns, pump the 
water, turn the separator, churn and grindstone, 
run the washing machine and heat a flatiron. 
And it will do all of this at a cost of a few 
cents a day. 
Write now for the Delco-Light booklet, prices 
and details of Easy Payment Plan. 
Domestic Electric Co., Inc. 
43 Warren St., New York- N. Y. 
DEPENDABLE 
DELCO-LIGHT 
More than. 160.000 Satisfied Users 
Hatches due August 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 
100 per cent, live delivery guaranteed—postpaid to your door. 
H 0,, ched by experts witli 12 years experience in one of the 
largest, finest and best equipped hatcheries in the State, 
S, C. White and Brown Leghorns.09c each .08c each 
S. C. Black Minorca* and S. C. Reds.13c “ .12c “ 
Barred Plymouth Rocks....•.. ■ .11c “ .10c ** 
Mixed Chicks (light and heavy breeds).07c “ . 06 '/ 2 C “ 
Mixed Chicks (all heavy breeds).08c “ .07'/ 2 c “ 
White Wyandotte* ...14c “ .13c “ 
Keystone chicks are famous for their easy to raise and quick to grow qualities. They are Bred 
Right, Hatched Right and Shipped Rigid. Thousands of satisfied customers. 65 per cent, of 
our orders from old customers. 
Order Early. Cash With Order. Catalog Free. 
THE KEYSTONE HATCHERY 
(The Old Reliable Plant) RICHFIELD, PA. 
S.C.White Leghorn Pullets SE 
Hate hod from one of t.he highest producing strains in the Eastern States, average 
production 1200, April and May Pullets, 1921 hutched. 144 eggs November to July. 
Raised on fnse grass range. Thousands sold yearly and never one returned. Guarantee 
t,<> please. Not the cheapest, hut, the best, you can buy. 
COLUMBIA POULTRY FARM :: Tom* River, New Jersey 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS 
In cmitr to introduce this breed that is sweeping the world we are going to send out 25,000 chicks nt a 
sacrifice We want you to be one of the thousands that are boosting the Jersey BJack Ginuts. Why? 
They are the super fowl for meat production, great layers and are spreading to all part* of the world. 
25,000 chicks for immediate shipment. 25 chicks @ @7.00: 50 chicks ® @V3 00; 100 chieks @ @25 00 j 
500 chick* ® @130.00. Hatching eggs. ®3 per 15. Barred Rocks, R. I Reds, White and Columbian 
Wyandotte*. SIS per 100. Parcel Past prepaid. Safe arrival guaranteed. Rend money order or check 
PICTURESQUE POULTRY FARM :: Trenton Junction. NEW JERSEY 
The Magic Brooder 
Self-regulating: etilctent 
ami high-grade through¬ 
out, Take no chances with 
your broods but nuy the 
Magic, the beat brooder 
on earth. It insures suc¬ 
cess. Write for catalogue 
and prices. 
UNITED BROODER CO., 301 Pennington Ave., Trenton, N.J. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, PheasanU,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for @toeklr»K purpoM*. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl. Cranes. Storks. Swans. 
Ornamental Ducks and Hesse, Dears, Foxes, Rac¬ 
coon, .Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals, 
WM.J. MACKtNSEN, Naturalist, Dept 10. Yardley, Pa 
YOUNG’S 
DRY FRONT 
Poultry House 
Write tor 1922 Booklet. 
Note the features of the overhang roof, absolutely 
rain proof; also, ventilator above the swinging win¬ 
dow. The above is the type that Prof, Harry K. 
Lewis, head of the Vinel/md Ectr Laying Lon test, is 
equipping his new farm with, at Davisville, Rhode 
Island. Made in all sizes. Write for free booklet, 
showing forty different cuts. 
E. C. YOUNG CO. 16 Depot St.. Randolph, Mass. 
Quick- !|j 
;t Chance 
ialSilo^ 
THE HENYARD 
Treatment for Cannibal Chicks 
Here is a treatment, for chicks that are 
picked by others which puts an end t" 
the attack on the chick: Get a bottle or 
can of pine tar at the drug store, and 
apply some on raw spot, covering all 
bloody places, even on the feathers: then 
put. the chick with the others, and they 
will not molest him. only to get a whiff 
of the tar and walk away disgusted. The 
pine tar is healing, and works in every 
case, and i have never had to doctor the 
same chick swice, nor have 1 lost, one 
when giving this remedy, W. C. n. 
You can have Silage at less 
cost per ton in a Craine Silo 
—because: 
It keeps silage better; 
Stays put and requires 
no tinkering ; 
Serves longer and looks 
better. 
The reason for the truth of this 
claim is plain. Craine Silos are 
triple walled: A staunch stave 
silo inside, a thick Silafelt wall 
between and a strong spiral 
Crainelox covering outside that 
binds the whole structure. The 
result is a handsome building 
with every square inch of its 
surface protected in every direc¬ 
tion. Waterproof, frost resisting 
and storm defying. 
Before buying any Silo send for a 
Craine Catalog. If you want a 
Craine Silo in time this year, 
write now. 
Old silos rebuilt into Craine Silos at 
one-half the cost of a new silo. Crasco 
( one-wall) Silos furnished if desired. 
Craine Silo Company, Inc. 
Box 110 Norwich, N. Y. 
“Unders” Instead of Leghorns 
About two years ago the term “Leg¬ 
horns” came into use in poultry quota¬ 
tions in pricing undersized hens and 
broilers. The term is a misnomer aud 
an injustice to the breeders of Leghorns, 
of which there are more in the United 
States than of any other breed. Some of 
the leading produce men have agreed that 
the term “Unders” would he more appro¬ 
priate as a terra to describe this grade of 
fowls. There are a number of breeds of 
poultry as light or lighter in weight than 
Leghorns, and there are many strains of 
Leghorns which weigh as much as the 
so-called heavy breeds. 
AMERICAN P0UI.TRY ASSOCIATION. 
Choking Chicks 
If U. K„ Connecticut, page 905, will 
keep his chicks away from all grass and 
low shrubbery, and put them on a fairly 
clean sand or dirt run, his troubles will 
probably stop immediately. I discovered 
this remedy by accident, having had the 
same trouble, and it: has never failed me 
nor others to whom I advised the same. 
Necessary greens may be thrown into their 
run, Tt is my opinion that most cases 
of gapes, especially with late chicks, are 
not caused by the gapeworm, hut by some 
sort of fungus growth or the larva* of 
some bugs. This is especially prevalent 
with chicks in warm, damp weather of 
July and August, If after a few weeks 
U. K. lets his chicks into the grass again, 
he should watch them carefully. If the 
cause is still there, a few chicks will 
surely come in after an hour or two gap¬ 
ing and choking themselves to death, a 
sign that they must stand on sand lunger. 
Connecticut. fait, jansen. 
Sleeping Sickness 
I have about 500 young chickens; they 
are about four months old. I feed them 
three times a day with growing mash and 
scratch feed, and every second day with 
sour milk. 1 have between 50 and 70 
sleeping sick among them. They are 
sleeping all the time. j. T. 
This sleepiness is the result of growing 
weakness from any one of several causes. 
There is nothing in this symptom that 
would enable one to say just what the 
1rouble is. The chicks are suffering from 
some more or less chronic disease which 
gradually saps their vitality, aud they 
•become weaker and weaker until they 
finally die. It. will he best to remove any 
evidently sick chicks from the llock, but 
there is no way of curing them when they 
have reached this stage of constant sleep¬ 
iness. Your method of feeding is good, 
but 1 should keep the sour milk constantly 
before the chieks, instead of giving it 
every other day, If I could get a sufficient 
quantity. _ m. tj. d. 
Inbreeding and White Diarrhoea 
('an you give me any pointers on breed¬ 
ing poultry for disease-resisting qualities? 
Does line-breeding tend to lower vitality 
and make chicks more susceptible to dis¬ 
ease? My breeding stock was purchased 
from someone who practices line-breeding. 
We had five hutches this Spring (with 
incubators) and in two lots (the second 
and fourth hatches) white dianhica got 
hold, and in spite of all we could do 
swept the whole hunch. Iu both cases 
there were chicks hatched at the same 
time from eggs purchased from another 
breeder; chicks kept under the same con¬ 
ditions in absolutely every way, and they 
were untouched. Chicks from our own 
stock, from other three hatches, have done 
splendidly, with no sign of disease. 
Feeding Ilills, Mass. K. D. N. 
Line or inbreeding may or may not 
lower the vitality of animals. No general 
statement of its effect can be made. The 
tendency probably is to lower inherent 
vigor, for the breeder is apt to pay more 
attention to blood lines than to selection 
for vigor and hardiness. I 11 breeding, or 
less close line breeding, should tiot: he 
indiscriminately condemned; it is by these 
methods that the best strains or families 
of animals have been hi ilt, up. It must 
he remembered, however, that weakness 
is a defoct constantly cropping out iu all 
families of animals and plants, and that 
any method of breeding which intensities 
good points is equally potent for intensi¬ 
fying the had. The line breeder must, 
therefore be more constantly on his guard 
against lowered vitality, a common ami 
destructive bad point, than must, the out 
breeder. He must ever have selection for 
vigor and fertility jn mind, lest he be¬ 
come so absorbed in perpetuating and 
intensifying good family qualities that he 
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