1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
343 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 14. 
STIFF AND SORE 
from head to foot? Can’t work 
today, but tomorrow you can, 
as the Old-Monk-Cure 
TRADE 
MARK. 
St Jacobs Oil 
will soften and heal the 
muscles while you sleep. 
It Conquers Pain 
Price, 35c. end jOo. 
EXACT WEIGHT 
STEEL LEVERS, DOUBLE BEAM, 6 TON 14x8 
Wagon Scales 
$25 
On trial. Pay when satisfied. 
TRUK WEIGHT CO., 
Box No. 5 BINGHAMTON N. Y. 
WE LEAD THE WORLD 
We are the largest manufac¬ 
turers of Grooved and Plain 
Tire Steel Farm Wagon 
Wheels in America. We 
guarantee our patent 
Grooved Tire Wheels to 
be the best made by anybody 
anywhere. Write us. 
HAYANA METAL WHEEL CO. 
BOX 17 HAVANA, ILL. 
DANA,, LABEL 
Stamped with your 
’ name or address, also 
numbers. The best 
mark for all live stock 
to save loss or confusion. 
Sample, Free. Agents Wanted. 
C. H. DANA, 74 Main St.. 
West Lebanon, N. H. 
IT'S A CORKER 
The Keystone Incubator—cork lined, 
double walls, adjustable egg trays, 
safety lamp, heat and ventilation 
under perfect control. Easy to 
operate. Big, healthy hatches. It’s a 
corker every way. Catalog free. The 
Diehl-Bohilling Co., Box 605, Easton, Pa, 
QT A R INCUBATORS 
V I ft n & BROODERS 
Guaranteed to suit or no sale. 
Big hatches and broods prove 
their money - making merits. 
Write for new FREE catalog. 
STAR INCUBATOR CO. t 626 
Church St., Bound Brook, N. J, 
I 
Take Your Choice. 
Guaranteed Self Regulating Incubators 
QPUT at $l and $2 per month. Ret 
■■til ■ rent pay for it. We pay freight. 
Buy on 40 Days Trial or buy parts and 
plans and build one. Prices, ready to 
use: $5.00 up. Free catalog—tells all. 
3UCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., Box 23 , Sprlnallold, O. 
GREEN CUT BONE vs. BEEF SCRAPS. 
Is It true that green cut bone is inferior 
to beef scraps for feeding breeding hens be¬ 
cause It makes the membrane so tough that 
chicks cannot get out of the shell? 
I cannot believe that cut bone or raw 
meat is inferior to scraps or animal meal, 
but think that it may contain more fat, 
and be less desirable to feed on that ac¬ 
count. It is more desirable on account of 
the solubility of the material in the meat. 
I have seen but few chicks which failed 
to get out of the shell on account of thick 
membranes. When the shell is firm the 
membranes usually break easily with it. 
•Most chicks fail to get out of the shell 
because they are not developed sufficiently. 
When the shell is too thin, then it may 
break before the membrane is cut, and the 
chick will then have a time in struggling 
out. I, myself, would think that there was 
some disease of the membrane secreting 
portion of the oviduct, should the mem¬ 
brane be too thick, and this is not apt to 
be the case. Each part of the oviduct 
secretes its appropriate fluid, whether it 
be albumen, shell membrane, or shell, and 
the character of these is not changed to 
any appreciable extent by the food, ex¬ 
cept that some of it may be wanting and 
some portion of the oviduct may be dis¬ 
eased, thereby modifying the quantity de¬ 
posited. COOPER CURTICE. 
R. I. Station. 
While this may be true of the brown- 
shelled eggs, such as Brahma, Wyandotte 
or Plymouth Rock, yet the Leghorn eggs 
hatch so easily that I would never hesi¬ 
tate to feed green cut bone in ordinary 
quantities to our breeders, for I think the 
benefit would far outdistance any trouble. 
A chick with lots of vitality will come 
out all right if he has half a chance; it is 
the weak ones that cannot get out of the 
shell, and if the parent stock is strong 
there is much less chance for poor hatches. 
Of course the best eggs may be weakened 
by the way the incubator is managed. With 
over 1,000 hens there is no danger of over¬ 
feeding green cut bone if one has to cut 
it by hand. floyd q. white. 
CONCRETE CISTERNS . 
I should like to say a word about concrete 
cisterns In answer to S. W. W., Fort Scott, 
Ivan. I wouvld advise S. W. W. and anybody 
else to make their cisterns of concrete, ex¬ 
cluding crushed material larger than one- 
half inch in diameter. Everyone knowing 
anything about cement knows it is not im¬ 
pervious to water. Brick walls and stone 
walls not only will crack, but when the 
water oozes through to the brick or stone 
It goes through the brick and round the stone, 
following the lines of least resistance, which 
are not the way it went out. Crushed stone 
is a source of leakage in a cistern. I use 
coarse sand alone three to one, I have used 
It for stable floors, barn sills, chimneys, 
cisterns and In railroad work. I put a 
concrete lining in a stone cistern that had 
been plastered and patched. It was under 
the house, four feet diameter at bottom, 
five feet at top. It took myself and mau 
one dav to make the forms and finish the 
job; 75 cents worth of lumber; 1% barrel 
cement. I have built cisterns in Kansas too. 
I had to line an irregular brick wall cistern 
square at one end, rounded at the other. It 
will hold 70 barrels of water. I built a 
concrete shelf half way up one end, and 
laid brick across the edge of it for a filter. 
It Is a fine success. d. p. b. 
Bedford, N. Y. 
LIFE PRODUCERS 
SUCCESSFUL INCUBATORS. 
LIFE PRESERVERS 
SUCCESSFUL BROODERS. 
The only machines that rival the mothir 
hen. Incubator and Poultry Catalogue 
EE. Booklet, “Proper Care and Feeding Small Chicks, 
cks and Turkeys,” 10c. 50c poultry paper one year, 10c. 
DES MOINES INCUBATOR COMPANY, 
Department 90 Dee Molnee, Iowa, 
In Bee Culture 
[teaches you how to profit- - 
; ®hly fill the “honey-box.” 
; Pj 8 e ^sy to buy boxes and 
; hives j but without a paper 
, hke ’Gleanings” you can’t 
i get much money out of bees. 
, Learn the newest, easiest, 
' Sww>K est wa y s to handle bees. 
bee-men read it. Write 
- hiol£? 0 «. san ?Pi e copy and our 
■ bright booklet. Now’s the 
i ™e. 6 m o n t h s ’ trial-25c. 
; Money back If not satisfied. 
THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, 
t Medina, . Ohio, 
mimtm 
Poultry Manure and Hoof Clipping. 
J. E. JNo. Tarry town, N. Y. —I have 
about two team loads of horse manure and 
hoof clippings from the local blacksmith, 
accumulations of the Winter, some fresh, 
some partly rotted, mixed. What can I apply 
to this to bring out its value for this season 
particularly? I have hard-wood ashes hut 
doubt advisability of using them. Material 
Is to be used in connection with intense 
vegetable gardening operations. 
Ans. —The manure in this mixture is 
worth as much as other manure, but the 
hoof clippings will be of no use to this 
year’s crop. The plant food they contain 
will not be available for some years. We 
would spread the mixture from the shop 
and plow it under. Then broadcast the 
wood ashes and harrow in. Use the ni¬ 
trate of soda along the hills or drills. 
Muffled voice (under the machine) : 
“Say, Bill, back her up a little, will yer?” 
Bill: “What’s the matter?” “My face is 
caught in the works.”—Life. 
INVESTIGATE THE 
POULTRY BUSINESS 
Write for a free copy of my 
book describing 
Profitable 
Combinations 
of Egg , Broiler 
and Roaster 
Farms 
It gives the prices paid for eggs and poultry 
week by week for the past three years. It 
tells how and when a hatch taken off each 
week in the year could be most profitably 
marketed. It shows how you can make $2.00 
on a large winter roaster. It tells what 
profits can be made with each of the popu¬ 
lar breeds, and the costs of production. 
I have helped thousands to make money 
with poultry. My Model Incubators and 
Brooders are used on the money-making 
farms. It is my business to teach those who 
use them to do so profitably. Whether your 
needs are small or large, I will furnish with¬ 
out charge, estimates and plans for a com¬ 
plete equipment that will insure success 
without your spending a dollar uselessly, 
bend for my complete literature. 
CHAS. Am CYPHERS 
3943Henry St. _ Buffalo, M. Y, J 
Lice refuse to live 
where Pratts Lice 
Killer is used. Kill 
the lice and save your 
chickens, it’s much 
cheaper. 
Before you buy roof¬ 
ing for any building, from 
a small poultry house to the 
largest mill or factory, it will pay 
you to get samples and complete 
proofs of quality from the oldest mak¬ 
ers of ready roofing in America. (We 
originated the roll of roofing ready to lay 
with fixtures packed in the center.) 
Our concern was 
Founded in 1817 
We can show you why “Paroid” 
is the best ofthem all—lasts longer and saves 
most in repairs. Drop us a postal to-day. 
F. W. BIRD & SON, 
East Walpole, Mas*. 
New York, Washington, Chicago, 
Hamilton, Ont. 
ROOF! 
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I POULTRY LIN E-Fencing, Feed.Incu-S 
(bators. Live Stock, Brooders—anything—< 
(it’s our business. Call or let us send you. 
jour Illustrated Catalogue—it’s free for the) 
(asking—it's worth having. ^ 
(Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co.,< 
IDepH. G. 26 & 28 Vesey Street. New York City, i 
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40, 60 or 90 Days Trial on 
Old Trusty” 
The Easy Machine to Operate. 
You run no risk. Five year guar 
antee. Strongest hatches—less 
care—less oil—most profit. Don’t 
pay two prices. Thousands sold. We 
sell direct. Big 1906 Book Free. 
M. M. Johnson Co., - —>• Clay Center, Neb. 
9 I 0-80 For 
I “ 200 Egg 
INCUBATOR 
Perfect in oonstrnction and 
action. Hatches every fertile 
egg. Write for catalog to-day. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 
Let Me Tell You the Special Price 
On This Genuine 1906 
Chatham Incubator 
It's this way: 
We make more In¬ 
cubators than any 
other concern any¬ 
where. 
Our two factories— 
equipped with the 
best labor-saving, 
wood • working ma¬ 
chinery to be had.fin¬ 
ish six to seven hun¬ 
dred incubatorsaday. 
We buy lumber in 
Immense Quantities. 
All this means high 
f :rade Incubators at 
ow cost. 
And we are now after the trade with a machine 
°f upstairs quality at a downstairs price. 
We want to tell you about it—and surprise you. 
We want you to get our cutalog, pick out your 
Incubator and let us astonish you with the price. 
We will also tell you our liberal selling plan. 
And of the 84 days FREE trial. 
You can hatch four times to prove the machine 
1* all we say. If it isn’t, send it back at our cost. 
A five year ironclad guarantee goes with every 
Incubator wt sell. 
We couldn’t do this with a cheap Incubator. 
. v (Chatham Incubators will stand it. 
And they will outlast the guarantee. 
For they hare steel and brass regulators—the 
best and costliest—good for a hundred years. 
No cheap, leuky wafer regulators for us. 
vV o ship direct to you from nearest warehouse— 
we have 20 in leading cities. 
Ask for FREE catalog today. It will please yon. 
THE MANSON CAMPBELL CO., Ltd. 
236 Wesson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
How to Raise Young Chicks 
The difficulties encountered in raising young chicks are numerous. 
Disease and lice are said to destroy nearly 50 % of the annual poultry 
crop. Errors in diet and unsanitary conditions also help to decrease 
the poultry profit. But you do not need to suffer these losses if you 
will give poultry half the care yon give other stock. Besides 
DR. HESS 
POULTRY PAN-A-GE-A 
is guaranteed to prevent and cure gapes, cholera, roup, indigestion, etc., allaying 
fermentation and destroying the germs of disease. By its special touic prop¬ 
erties it increases the powers of digestion and assimilation and compels the sys¬ 
tem to aopropriatethe maximum amount of food to egg production, also making 
the young grow fast, healthy and strong. Besides increasing growth and egg 
production Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a has special curative properties peculiar 
to itself. Take no so-called poultry food as a substitute. Remember that 
Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ee-a is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M. D., D. V. S.) and 
bears the endorsement of leading poultry associations in the United States and 
Canada, and is sold ou a written guarantee. It costs but a penny a day for 
about 30 fowls. Feed Poultry Pan-a-ce-a as directed, sprinkle Instant Louse Killer 
on the roosts, nests and into the dust bath, and we guarantee yon will have no loss 
from disease. 
Except in Canada 
and extreme 
West and South. 
1/4 lbs. 25c, mall or express 40c. 
5 lbs. 60c. 12 lbs. $1.25 
25 lb. pail $2.50. 
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48 -page Poultry Book free. 
DR. HESS &. CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
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INSTANT LOUSE KILLER KILLS LICE. 
