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TIIK RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stockand Dairy 
GETTING THE HENS UNDER COVER. 
The Winter has come unusually early 
this year, and within 75 miles of New 
York the roads were blocked with snow 
on November 13. Lots of biddies were 
roosting in the trees, and their owners 
will be wondering why they don’t get 
more eggs this Winter, but these farmers 
would not let any other stock suffer like 
this. These farmers consider what they 
get from their hens clear gain, and rightly 
too, as they neither feed nor care for 
them. Hens should be housed before the 
cold storms of Winter come, and some¬ 
times we have these in November, as we 
know by this season’s storm. Get your 
houses ready some time before you have 
to shut up your hens. Then it is not such 
a hard task to shut them in. Have the 
houses clean, sprayed, windows mended, 
new muslin on frames and clean sand on 
floor of scratching shed. We find we 
must house the pullets early, and if pos¬ 
sible get them in their Winter quarters 
before they begin laying, and then there :s 
not so much danger of their getting a 
check and starting a moult, which the ex¬ 
perienced poultryman dreads to see, as 
they are a good deal like old hens if 
they have even a partial moult. We run 
great danger of colds and roup if we leave 
the pullets out too late, but we often 
leave the younger pullets out for a month 
after the early-hatched birds are housed. 
Be careful to have everything possible 
open when you first house your hens; have 
the doors and windows covered with wire 
only at first, so as not to be too violent 
a change and after you close the windows 
leave the doors open unless it is storm¬ 
ing. By this method there will be very 
few colds in the flocks. Be sure houses 
are dry and free from vermin. By having 
floor raised somewhat and giving plenty 
of ventilation no one should be troubled 
much with dampness. It is a sin to shut 
nice stock in a dirty house. After houses 
are full get rid of surplus birds; don’t 
crowd them in the houses because more 
pullets were hatched than usual. Care¬ 
ful men have worked it out. and they say 
a hen needs five square feet of floor space 
to do her best. Unless you intend to let 
them run outside in .the daytime, merely 
housing them nights, you would better 
give them the right allowance of floor 
space. FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
HOW HENS ARE FED. 
To obtain the best results from poul¬ 
try in Winter, well-lighted bouses free 
from dampness and draft must be pro¬ 
vided, and pullets in Winter quarters 
by October 15. If eggs are desired 
in Winter, pullets must be expected to prod¬ 
uce them, and they must be well matured 
before Winter sets in. If they are kept 
comfortable and happy, a well-filled egg 
basket will surely result. If they are healthy 
and robust their appetite will be pretty good, 
which must be well satisfied with an abun¬ 
dance of good food and kept keen by ex¬ 
ercise and variety. Our treatment of pul¬ 
lets is: Small grains fed in clean litter 
in the morning, not enough to satisfy, and 
at 11 o'clock all the mash (warm) they 
will eat up clean in 20 minutes. This mash 
is composed of boiled cut clover thickened 
with corn and oatmeal while boiling: then 
after pouring in the mixing box is made 
into a crumbly mass by the addition of bran 
middlings, beef scrap, II. O. and American 
poultry foods. The proportions are about 
as follows—by measure: Two-fiftlis water, 
one-fifth cut clover, one-tenth beef scrap, 
one-half as much bran as the whole amount 
of middlings, corn and oatmeal and poultry 
foods required to make it dry and crumbly. 
Don't forget to salt it. About three o'clock 
as much corn and wheat as they will eat. 
If a little should be overlooked, it will be 
found early in the morning. I’lenty of 
clean water, and grit, oyster shells and 
granulated (dry) bone always before them; 
cabbages and mangels are given but spar¬ 
ingly ; they are not egg producers, but assist 
in promoting health. Don't be afraid of get¬ 
ting the pullets too fat; if one or two out of 
500 should happen to, you can well afford 
to sacrifice them. The yearling hens that 
are being kept for breeders are not fed so 
SHETLAND PONIES. 
|—A fevr choice ANGOIIA DUCKS 
at reduced prices. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. WOODS FARM Bath. N. H. 
FOR SALE 
GMDjVSY farm 
Li. E, ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST GLASS JERSEYS 
generously, but otherwise are treated very 
much the same. One of the essentials in 
promoting comfort and happiness is, that 
the houses are not overcrowded. Fifty Leg* 
horns in a pen 15 x 15 ought to be the 
limit. IIILANDALE FARM. 
Ohio. _ 
HENS IN A MARYLAND HOUSE. 
Let me state (hat all my stock is standard- 
bred S. ('. White Leghorn, bred especially for 
eggs, hence (lie treatment that gives a profit 
with them might not apply to the more 
“beefy" American and Asiatic classes. Dur¬ 
ing the month of October all young stock 
is brought into the curtain-front laying 
sheds, and by November 1 I am ready to be¬ 
gin Winter feeding. The floors of till these 
houses are heavily covered with straw and 
leaves from the woods. After till birds are 
settled on roost for the night I take a 
feed of grain (oats, wheat, corn or screen¬ 
ings) atid scatter over the floors. Next 
morning, as soon as light enough to see, 
the birds are down working for their break¬ 
fast. at the same time warming up and get¬ 
ting in good shape for the day. About eight 
o'clock the mash is fed in troughs out iD 
front of houses, except in very stormy 
weather. Other feeds of grain are given 
in the litter in houses, or. if good weather, 
scattered in field in front of houses about 
eleven and two o'clock, and again just lte- 
fore roosting time. This last feed should 
lie corn if weather is very cold, and, with 
Leghorns, plenty of corn may be used at, 
all times. 
Now for the “side dishes’’—which arc 
really of as much importance as anything 
in the list. Oyster shells, cracked in a Wil¬ 
son mill, are kept where hens can always 
get them. Meat meal, mixed regularly in the 
mash, is given separately about (vice a 
week, at which time the birds are allowed ty 
have about all they want of the pure meat 
meal. Sunflower seed (of which I now have 
about 45 bushels) are fed from time to 
time, as I think the hens need them. And 
last—but by no means least - I try to keep 
good, clean, fresh water before the birds at 
all times. It must be remembered that a 
laying hen needs fresh water, and plenty of 
it. Also, she needs shell, and meat tneal 
(or green bone), and several different kinds 
of grain, and, in order to do good work, 
she must have enough of each and every 
one of the above items. Given these, with 
regular attention and a reasonably warm 
house, and the Leghorns may be depended 
on to give a satisfactory profit every time. 
Maryland. Robert b. pusey. 
GOLDEN STREAMER 65000 
Son of Forfarshire out of Goldf.n Stream 8th 
born Feb 22.1901, and considered ttie best Jersey bull 
that ever crossed t he Atlantic as a two-year old. 
A lew choice Bull Calves for sale by GOLDEN 
STREAM ER and GOLDEN FERN'S LAD out of im¬ 
ported cows. 
Specialty- Young Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also Imp CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
fflf" Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY EA KM, White Plains, N. Y. 
JERSEYS! 
Combination and 
Gold* n Lad. For 
saleli cows. lOheif- 
ers. and 25 bulls. 
S. E. NIVIN, LANDENUEltG, 1*A. 
December 3 , 
Breeders’ Directory 
STAR FARM HOLSTEIHS. 
250 Registered Holsteins for Sale. 250 
Service Bulls, male and female Calves, Cows and 
Heifers bred to Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline Count, 
son of the world's champion cow. Aaggie Cornucopia 
Pauline, A. R. O seven day butter record 84.31 lb. 
3 lb and 9 oz. in excess of any other cow In the world. 
You will save money by ordering of Star Farm. 
Circulars sent on application. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D., Cortland, N. Y, 
N. B.—A few Bull and Heifer Calves at six months 
left, $100 takes a pair. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
From choice A.R. O. Dams, and by such sires as 
Beryl Wavnes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
DeKol. We will make attractive prices on these 
youngsters as they must be disposed of to make room 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices od 
anything needed in Holsteln-Friesians. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co.. N.Y, 
POULTRY SUPPLIES- 
■ The Kind that Make Eggs—Ail per lOO lbs. 
Recleaned Ground Oyster Shells, 60c; Mlco'Grlttor 
Poultry. 60c,; Mico Grit for Pigeons, 60c.; MlcoGrltfor 
Chicks. 6Cc.; Saul’s Poultry Scratching Food.$2; Saul's 
Poultry Mash Food, $2; Saul’s Pigeon Food, $2; Saul’s 
Chick Food, *2.50: Cut Clover, $1.60; Clover Meal, 
$1.60; Pure Ground Beef Scraps, $2.25; Pure Meat 
Meal, $2 25: Pure Meat and Bone, $2 25; Pure Poultry 
Bone, $2.25; Pure Bone Meal, $2.25; Hemp Seed, $3.60; 
Sunflower Seed, $3.60; Chicken Millet, $2.59. 
CHAS. F. SAUL, 220-224 James Street. Syracuse. N. Y 
R n Blk. Minorcas, Wh. Brown and Bf. Legs, 
■ Ui Bar. Bocks, Wh. and Bf. Wyandottes, Reds, 
Sherwoods, Wh. Wonders. Pic Ducks. Bronze Turkeys, 
Cockerels. MCCAIN CO., B., Delaware, N.J. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Cockerels and Pullet6, live months old, $1.00 each; 
heavy Winter laying strain. Catalogue free. 
ZIMMER BUOS.,R. D. 41, Weedsport, N Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS 
A number of verv choice birds for sale at prices 
right for quality. WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N Y 
Var's Poultry. Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book, 10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BKRGKY. Box 8,Telford.Pa, 
BRILL FARM. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Home of Lord Netherland DeKol. Great sire 
of high testing butter cows. Stock and prices right. 
E. C. BRILL, Ponghquag, N. Y. 
uni QTEIN Dill I Q from 3 to 18 months old. A 
nULolLm DULLOfcw choice young Cows; 
Improved Chester Whites of all ages. Prices right. 
CHARLES K. RECORD, Peterboro, N.Y. 
H0LLYR00D FARM AUCTION. 
A handsome grandly bred young Bull. Born March, 
1904. Sired by the greatest bull of the breed. 
MERCEDES JULIES PIETERTJE PAUL, 
29830. SERVICE FEE, SHOO. 
Son of Mercedes Jullps Pietertje, 39480, the World's 
Champion Cow in l'JOu. Dam Lula 3d. 35534,412 lbt*. 
milk. 181bs 1 oz. butter in 7 days. DamofLula3ds 
DeKol. 2 years, 250 lbs. of milk, 14 lbs. 7 oz. butter; 
also Lula’s Lass, 3 years, 428 lbs. of milk. 20 lbs. 7 oz 
butter in 7d: ys Tne dam of this young Bull, her 
two daughteis and his sire's dam have a combined 
official record of 22 5 lbs. of milk and over 83 lbs of 
butter in 7 days; average of nearly 21 lbs. each. 
Who wants him? Write or wire to-day. Make 
roe your best offer. Highest Bid take him. 
JAMES II. WALLICK, Middletown, N. Y. 
WHITE SPRINGS FARM 
GUERNSEY HERD. 
Headed by PETER THE GREAT OF PAXTANG. 
No. 6346, and BLUE BLOOD, No. 6310. 
Such Cows as Sheet Anchor's Lassie. Imp. Deanie 
7tb, Lady Myrtle of Homestead,'etc. The Herd num- 
ders about 40 carefully selected animals. Registered 
and tuberculin-tested. - Breeding stock for sale at 
all times, including the choicest of Bull and Heifer 
Calves of all ages, and at reasonable prices. For 
further particulars and catalogue, address, 
ALFRED G. LEWIS, Geneva, N. i. 
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FEEDING WESTERN CATTLE IN 
NEW YORK. 
Last year we referred to a lot of western 
heifers which the .Tackson & Perkins Co., of 
Newark. N. Y., were feeding. The object 
was to obtain a good lot of stable manure 
and some profit on the beef. When asked 
about results Jackson & Perkins reply as 
follows: , 
We are not able to give you any very 
definite figures upon the lot of cattle 
which we fed last Winter because it was 
impossible for us entirely to separate the 
cost of feeding and tending these from 
the cost of feeding and taking care of a 
lot of swine that we also handle each 
year. We bought yearling heifers last 
year, but a much larger percentage were 
with calf than we had expected, and this 
somewhat disarranged our plans for han¬ 
dling them. This year we have bought 
100 cows, averaging about 1,000 pounds 
each. We plan to run them through the 
Winter, mostly on roughage, until they 
have had their calves, which we shall turn 
off for veal as fast as fit, and then finish 
the cows and turn them off along in the 
Summer as early as they can be got 
into proper condition. 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO. 
R egistered Dorset and tunis rams, tsio 
each. Bonnie Brook Farm. Buffalo, N.Y. 
TTTrTT n A CO percheron and french 
11 lUll I I A >> Coach Stallions Scotch Collie 
llllTll V LilvJvJ p upS- e S. AKIN. Auourn. N Y. 
nEiTLI Tft I me on HENS and CHICKS, 
UCA I 11 I U LluC 64-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT. Box 307 , Apponaug, IL I. 
Springbank Berkshires. 
I have some grand 11 months old Service Boars. 
Some Spring Gilts and Boars, and some Yearling 
Sows; will breed them for Spring litters. All first, 
class individuals. 
j E WATSON, Proprietor, Mar bledale, Conn. 
B erkshire and C. White Pigs. $5; Serviceable Berk¬ 
shire Boars, $ 10 ;Shropshire Rams,$12; Collie Pups, 
$6; WhiteHolland Turkeys,$2.50; Barred Rocks,$1.50. 
Stock guaranteed purebred. W A. Lothers.Lack, Pa. 
Reg. P. Cliinas, BerMires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos . mated not akin, 
service Boars, Bied sows. Write for 
prices and description Return if not 
^_*. satisfactory; w r refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Ercildpun, Chester Co-^Pa^ 
Lartre English Berkshires of choicest breeding 
for sale, males and females. Write for prices, etc., t . 
NUTWO OD FARMS, R. F. D. No. 4, Syracuse,N. \. 
P URITAN HERD OF CHESTER WHITES.- 
The peer of any In America. Write your wants to 
WILL W. FISHER. B. 2. Watervliet. Mich 
C HESTER WHI TEL 
Both O. I. C. and Todd strains. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M. L. 
HowerROx.H 3;Braafor^. Dk Co,t 
Chester Whites and Cheshires 
Choice in quality and breeding; also Hampshire 
Sheep. K. S. HILL. Kreeville. N. Y 
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QUALITY, 
CflD CAI C I Jersey Bull Calf, double grandson 
rUn uALL i of Emma’s Pearl57485; best 21 lbs. 
butter In 7 days, from 36a lbs. of milk; 87 lbs. butter 
in 3(1 days, from 1522 lbs. milk. The greatest Jersey 
cow that over lived. Also heifer calves, grand 
daughters of Emma's Pearl; dams giving over 8,000 
lbs. milkayear, and making over 400 lbs. butter 
No fancy prices. Everything guaranteed. Address, 
E. W. MOSHER, Aurora, N. Y. 
Jersey Bulls, Berkshire Boars 
"Good Ones—Registered—Cheap. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Ltbm-t.v Streat. Pittsburg. Pa 
CHOICE YEARLINC JERSEY RULL 
(registered), dam sister to Maquilla’s Violet 311 bs 1 oz 
butter 7 days; also few grand yearling heifers, due to 
freshen late winter. A. F. PEIRCE, Winchester, N H 
You can find Cattle at ROE’S 
that will please you, and we would like to have you 
come and look the Herd over. Herd headed by two 
of the best Bulls of the breed. 
Lilith Pauline DeKol’s Son and Alta 
Posch’s Son. 
Their dams hold World’s A. B.O. records for cows four 
years and under. H. D. ROE, Augusta, Sussex Co., N .J 
AYRSHIRES AND CHESHIRES 
Heifer Calf, six weeks, nicely marked; 5 Sows to 
farrow in February and March; service Boars; Fall 
Pigs in pairs; not akin All stock eligible to registry. 
HOMER J. BROWN. Harford, Portland County.N.Y. 
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the popular 
Eng. bacon 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES 
hoe Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
POLAND CHINAS. 
P 0 U LT R Y^ss, a i 
(POULTRY LiNE—Fencing, Feed,Incu-J 
jbators, Live Stock, Brooders—anything—j 
fit’s our business. Call or let us send you< 
Jour Illustrated Catalogue—it’s free for the j 
(asking—it's worth having. , _ ( 
>Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co.,< 
J Dept. H.G. 26 & 28 Vesey Street. New York City. < 
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Disposal sale of 70 head 
of high grade Shetlands 
Catalogue and price list just published. Address, 
THi MSON POXY FARM. Toledo. Ohio, 
Show stock, bred from show stock 
Bred Sows. Fall Pigs. Low prices. 
B. H. ACKLEY. Lacevville, Pa. 
O. I. C. PIGS. 
August and September farrow. Two Brood Sows; 
real-tered stock Pairs and trios not akin. Farmer’s 
piices. F J. SCHWARTZ, East Pharsalia.N. Y. 
SHROPSHIRES—Rams & Ewes 
We have some of either sex for sale. Same breeding 
as our World's Fair winners Address. 
J C. DUNCAN, Lewiston. N. Y. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
The finest lot of JACKS and JENNETS I ever 
owned. Some special bargains. Address, 
BAKER’S JACK FA KM, 
Box 1, Lawrence, Ind. 
Service Boars, SPECIAL BARCAINS. 
If ordered at once. In Cockerels, Pullets, Trios, and 
pens of five or more. We have S. C. and R. C. Brown, 
Buff and White Leghorns, Buff Irpingtons. R. I. Reds, 
Houdans, Hamburgs, Brahmas, Pit and C I. Game.- 
White. Buff and Barred P. Bocks. Buff, Gold, Silver 
and White Wyandottes. Cochins, and ALL other 
breeds, price on application. 
MT. BLANCO POULTRY FARM, Carpenter, Ohio. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, 
New Rochelle N. Y. 
Breeders and shippers of high class Single Comb Pure 
White Leghorns and Mammoth Pekin Ducks Stock 
and Eggs for sale at all times Largest poultry plant 
in the vicinity of New York City Agents Cyphers 
Incubators, Brooders, etc. Correspondence invited. 
ANGORA BUCKS 
of Exile, 
FOR SALE. Thorough- 
__bred Sons of Godfrey 
JOHN L. LEWIS. Corning, N. Y. 
IA BARRED ROCK PULLETS, purebred, Tbomp- 
■fU son strain, farm raised, and grand layers, $1.00 
each; $10.00 per dozen. Also a few White Rocks a.t 
same price. Grand View Farm, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
60—GREENWOOD HERD HOLSTEINS-60 
Write for prices for best bred and finest BULL CALVES In America. Fine show animals one month 
to one year old. Sire contains one-half the blood of Katy SPOFFOItD CORONA, the World's Champion 
Heifer in her class In private, official, show, and economic records she has no equal. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, America’s leading strain for22 years. ENGLISH BERKSHIRES 
Long Distance ’Phone. E. H. KNAPP & SON, Fabius, N. Y. 
