1912. 
THS KURAI> NEW-YORKER 
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When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Father Mother 
Sister Brother 
Don’t work any more. Take advan¬ 
tage of these gas engine days on the 
farm, and let the Sturdy Jack do your 
hard chores—pumping (for one cent 
he will pump enough water for a day’s 
use on an ordinary farm), running the 
separator, the washing machine, yes, 
even the sewing machine, ana a 
hundred other uses. 
Truck mounted, it can be moved 
Instantly and set up to the work 
to be done. Never bucks. Runs 
in cold weather as well as in hot. 
Really making a revolution in 
gas engines because oi its com¬ 
pleteness. 
This Gas Engine 
is the Friend of 
the Whole Family 
Sturdy 
Jack 
2 b. p. 
A horizontal engine built just like the big fel¬ 
lows of 25 h. p. and more—one proof that the 
idea in it is all right. Air-cooled or hopper- 
cooled. But we do not ask you to take our 
word alone. Investigate. Read our books 
on engines. We will send them to you free. 
Tell you how an engine should be made in 
order to do effective work—advise you what 
points of importance to look for and insist 
upon—save you from buying engines that 
have to be propped up and that lean upon 
their work. Even a small engine should stand 
alone. Write for these today. 
JACOBSON MACHINE MFG. CO. 
Dept. D , Warren. Pa. 
THERE ARE CHEAPER VESSELS 
than Po-Pig'e Canteens for Watering' Poultry— 
a tomato can, a cup and saucer, a pie pan, 
antediluvian types of galvanized iron fonts at 
any old price; but every one is a death trap. 
Contrariwise a Po-Pige Canteen is a life pre¬ 
server to baby chicks and a comfort to old 
ones. Simple in construction, wonderful in 
action. Not a valve or other contraption of man 
to govern the flow of water—just God’s free 
air. Never too much water, never too little, 
just enough. Always on tap. 
See the cuts in The Rural New Yorker, Feb., JO, 1912. 
POULTRY APPLIANCE CO., Desk 8 Hazleton. Pa. 
[.-COCKERELS and PUIE 
& LETS—hen hatched and 
Large, healthy, vigorous stock. Good 
"FOUR ACRES.” Nutlet, N. J. 
Rose Comb Reds' 
reared. 
color. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS HATCHING ^GCS 
Orders booked for future delivery. Young and old 
stock at attractive prices. Best laying strains. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
Kirkup’s Strain S. C. White Leghorns 
Bred for size, vigor and large white market eggs. 
If you do not know their merits, visit onr farm or 
send for circular. Custom hatching a specialty. 
Baby Chicks, 10c. each. CHESTNUT POULTRY 
FARM, Kirkup Bros., Props. Mattitnck, L.I..N.Y. 
RICHLAND FARMS 
Breeders and Exhibitors of 
S. C. White Leghorns, S. C. Black Orpingtons, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
We are now booking orders for the PROFIT PAYING 
KIND of BABY CHICKS and EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for Catalogue. 
IUCHLANI) FARMS, FREDERICK, MD. 
. C. W. L. 
Bred from hens that 
laid over 175 eggs in 
pullet year. Perfectly hatched, strong, vigorous, 
livable chicks—the kind you want—money makers. 
Will make great foundation stock. Write for free 
circular and prices today. 
PEERLESS FARMS, B. F. D. 10, Northport, Long Island, N.Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs from selected yearling breeders. 
Choice breeding stock at reasonable prices. 250 
acres devoted to Leghorns of exceptional quality 
and vigor. Send for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
LAYERS AND PAYERS 
Are the SPRING WATER STRAIN 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
Day-old Chicks. Eggs for Hatching. Book your 
order NOW for a positive shipping date. We guar¬ 
antee safe delivery of Chicks and fertility of Eggs. 
Mammoth Incubators—capacity 20,000 eggs at one 
setting. Send for new Illustrated Booklet. It is free. 
SPRING WATER POULT RY FARM, STOCKTON, New Jersey 
HOGS and POULTRY-“S»S£,^£ 
ner Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
of best strains, Bred Berkshire Sows and Pigs. 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio. 
Ilf _ \T . 1 a reliable helper in our 
■ ■ C 11 vCU poultry department to 
attend brooders, etc.; also some farm work at 
times; also need farm hand for eight months. 
No booze. Give reference and state wages, 
SHELDONCROFT, SILVER LAKE, PA. 
Baby Chicks 
The Henyard. 
Fowls With Chicken Pox. 
I have some B. Orpington chickens; a 
few of them have developed a certain dis¬ 
ease which I cannot define. White scabs 
appear on the face (which is no doubt 
chicken pox) ; these white scabs are fol¬ 
lowed by one of the eyes of the affected 
bird closing up and getting a kind of scum 
over it. I doctored the scabs with iodine 
and carbolic acid, and just as soon as the 
scabs heal and fall off the eye returns to its 
normal condition. l. r. 
Your birds have chicken pox. Remove 
all affected birds and disinfect the house. 
Wash the heads of affected birds with soap¬ 
suds and carbolic acid (weak solution). 
Grease with carbolated vaseline. F. t. r. 
Honor to “The Business Hen.” 
Twenty-two White Wyandotte pullets, 
nine months old on January 17, 1912, bred 
particularly for Winter laying, laid 363 
eggs in January, the coldest month on 
record in New Hampshire, the thermometer 
standing at 17 degrees below zero at 11 
A. M. on January 26. These pullets were 
fed just as the "Business Hen” advises for 
laying hens, and were kept in an open- 
front house, cotton cloth screen lowered 
only at night. It is our first Winter with 
pullets raised from day-old chicks. 
Ashland, N. H. w. w. P. 
A New Poultry System. 
Do you know whether the "Successful 
New Poultry Method” advertised by Mrs. 
IAtha Alley is all right? She claims to 
have a remedy or egg producer that will 
make 100 hens lay 80 eggs a day In Winter. 
Elburn, Ill. A . s. 
We do not know about Mrs. Alley. Her 
“claim” reads like a dozen fakes that have 
dried up and blown away in former years. 
The methods and the "systems” for making 
hens lay are usually devised to make 
humans shell out the money. We decline 
to shell or to let the systemizers play a 
shell game on our people. 
Concrete Henhouse. 
I Intend building a poultry house next 
Spring on the same plan as the “Business 
Henhouse” described in the "Business Hen,” 
house to be 12x20 feet. Would concrete 
be suitable for house, solid wall or blocks? 
How thick a wall ? I have excellent gravel 
on the farm. I am watching with great 
Interest the discussion on farm storage. 
Michigan. w. f. p. 
I have never seen a poultry house In 
use that was constructed entirely of con¬ 
crete, but I do know of several two-story 
henhouses, the first story being of cement 
blocks and the second of wood, that are 
giving excellent satisfaction. The blocks 
make a much drier house than solid walls 
The foundation walls should be at least 
one foot thick, side walls about eight inches. 
________ r. t. f. 
Vertigo in Hens. 
I have a flock of pullets that are always 
shaking their heads. I feed equal parts of 
corn, wheat, oats, morning and night. At 
noon I feed a warm mash of equal parts of 
bran, wheat middlings, beef scraps and 
Alfalfa meal. They clean up all the feed I 
give them; sometimes a pen or two will 
take longer than the rest to eat the mash, 
but it ;s cleaned up within an hour. I 
would like to know what ails them. 
Franklin, Mass. e. s. b. 
Vertigo, giddiness caused by rush of 
blood to the head, is often due to over¬ 
feeding. Give each bird a dose of 20 to 30 
grains of Epsom salts. Bleeding under the 
wing will often relieve the congestion. 
________ F. T. F. 
Stoppage of Laying. 
1. I have 100 S. C. W. Leghorn pullets 
that started to lay last September; they 
laid an average of 30 eggs per day during 
November and December. We moved, and 
the chickens were all crated and on the 
car for three days. It turned very cold. 
We took them out on January 2; they 
looked mopy and cold. For about three or 
four days we gave them a good warm mash 
with ginger and red pepper added, and they 
soon picked up, and look fine, vigorous and 
combs bright, but have not laid a single 
egg. They have nice warm house, plenty 
of sunshine, litter to scratch, etc., also 
dry mash, oystershell grit, charcoal, and 
water before them all the while, grain and 
cabbage and potatoes once a day; in fact 
the same feed as they have always been 
used to. They also have all the beef scrap 
they want. Will they commence to lay as 
soon as they get used to their new sur¬ 
roundings, or is it possible they will not 
start until warmer weather? Do chickens 
always act like this? 
2. I have a few S. C. Leghorn chickens 
with a small single comb, only about half 
Inch deep. They lay very regularly. If the 
eggs hatched chickens with the same shaped 
comb, would this be an improvement on the 
usual Leghorn with the large comb? 
New Jersey. g. f. h. 
1. Egg production is usually retarded for a 
time where birds are changed to new quar¬ 
ters. In this case the weather conditions 
while en route undoubtedly had a great 
deal to do with it. I had a similar ex¬ 
perience last Fall, and it took over a month 
to start the birds to laying again, although 
they were given the best of care. 2. The 
small comb is an improvement over the 
large, beefy combs so often found on Leg¬ 
horns. The standard calls for a medium¬ 
sized comb. f. t. f. 
Coal Ashes and Poultry.— On page 109 
Is an article that is headed “Coal Ashes 
and Poultry.” I have had experience with 
coal ashes for poultry without any other 
grit, only what they could pick up on a 
clay soil, and found It excellent. The 
ashes were unsifted and dumped in a pile, 
and often it would be covered with hens, 
and they made good egg records and were 
healthy. mbs. m. d. 
GREIDER’S FINE CATALOGUE 
Book and calendar for 1912 contains 200 
pages. 72 varieties pure bred, (52 colored 
plates. Many other illustrations, descrip¬ 
tions. Incubatorsandbrooders. Low prices 
on all stock and eggs. How to raise and 
make hens lay. Get my plans. All say it’s 
great—this book—only 15c. Price list free. 
B. H. GREIDEE, Box B8, Rheema, Pa. 
Our large con¬ 
sumptive outlet 
enables us to pay HIGHEST PRICES for 
WHITE and BROWN EGGS. Also DUCK 
EGGS. Try us and you’ll know why our ship¬ 
pers continue with us. Empties furnished. 
George M. Rittenhouse & Co., 154 Readc St., New York 
C USTOM HATCHING in our 21,000 Egg Incubator, 
heated by hot water, gives strong, healthy 
Chicks. Space for a few thousand more eggs. 
$3.00 a compartment holding 150 eggs. Day-old 
Chicks, Hatching Eggs and Pullets for sale. See 
our Swine ad. Maple Glen Poultry Farm, Millerton, N. Y. 
OO EGGS $1.00—Leading varieties, 52 breeds. Prize Poul- 
/ U try. Pigeons, Hares, etc. Booklet free. I-ftrge illus¬ 
trated descriptive Catalog 10c. F. G. WILE, Telford, Pa. 
30 
BREEDS Best Pure Bred Poultry. Bred for lay¬ 
ing. O. I. C. Hogs. Big Illustrated Circular 
-. HEAT!- 
Free. JOHN E. 
TWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 
T horoughbred POULTRY-Best 20 varieties, eggs 
from vigorous,healthy stock; 15—$1.00, 40—$2.00. 
Catalogue. H. K. MOHR, R. No. 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
Pnill TRYMFII -Sen<1 2c stamp for Illustrated 
rUULIIlllflkll Catalog describing 35 varieties. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS -:- MARIETTA, PA. 
CQUAB BREEDING HOMERS —Large Mated Birds, $1.00 a 
pair. Eggs, Stock and Day-old Chicks from prize¬ 
winning Single Comb White Leghorns and White 
Pekin Ducks. MARYLAND SQUAB CO., Camhridoe, Md. 
Special Bargains “>'S£ 
the entire stock of the Van Diver Poultry Yards, 
will sell, for two weeks only, 500 B. and W. Rocks 
and R. C. Reds, 1911 hatched, in lots of 10 or more, 
$1.30 each. 200 S. and R. Comb B. Leghorns, 1910 
and 1911 hatch, in lots of 10, at $1.15 each. All 
good, strong and healthy. Cockerels, $3.00 each. 
MAPLE COVE FARM, R. D. 24, Athens, Pa. 
Danolds farm EGGS 
UATpii BUSINESS BARRED ROCKS 
, ■ ■ •» I Lll Write for our free illustrated cat¬ 
alog describing our common sense 
practical poultry, the result of 
14 years breeding, egg-layer*. 
Settings from our strain of early ma¬ 
turing, large, healthy Rocks, $2a doz. 
anold’s Farm, R. F. D. 19, Albion, N.Y. 
I . —y _ 
RARRFfl ROPYQ Exclusively—10 Cockerels 
DniinLU nUllIxO Parks, 200-egg strain, from 
$3.00 up. Order settings for Spring delivery now 
from J. A. Fausneh, 120« 84th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
B ARRED ROCK EGGS, $1.00 per 15. Bred-to-lay strain. 
Catalog free. J. W. DAIL, Cambridge, Md. 
ARRED ROCKS, Indian Runner Drakes, Toulouse 
Geese. Bred-to-lay strains. Nelson's, Grove City, Pa. 
B 
PULLETS and YEARLING HENS 
dottes, single and rose comb; Brown and W. Leg. 
horns, R. I. Reds. Write for just what you want 
and how much you wish to invest. MAPLE 
COVE POULTRY YARDS, R. 24. Athens, Pa. 
F 
ARM BRED POULTRY of Show 
Quality. Barred, White and 
Columbian. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
PARTRIDGE COCHIN 
LIGHT BRAHMA 
PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTE 
PEKIN DUCKS 
Each variety bred on separate farms. 
Our matings for 1912 are now all 
made and egg orders are coming in. 
We now offer surplus stock at special 
prices. Write us your wants now. 
MINCH BROTHERS, Bridgeton, N.J. 
Austin's 200-Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds. 
Standard bred, record stock. Red to the skin. Eggs 
$1.50 to$5.U0 per 15;$6.0(lper 100. Mating list. Austin 
Poultry Farm box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
T HE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
R. I. Reds, Mans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hatching. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
HONE’S ROSE COMB REDS 
155 good breeding Cockerels and Pullets, $3.00 each. 
All bred from my Albany and Schenectady win¬ 
ners. Also 50 choice yearling Hens at $2.00 each. 
Every bird shipped on approval. D. R. HONE, 
Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
75 Rose and Single Comb Cock¬ 
erels, $2.50 to $5.00 each; 100 
Yearling Hens and Pullets, 
$1.50 to $3.00 each. Farm raised; large, strong 
and vigorous; can be returned if not satisfactory. 
ROANOKE POULTRY FARM.... Sewell, N. J. 
Rose Comb Reds-Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class breeders and young stock for show, 
utility and export. May return at my expense if not 
satisfactory. Sinclair Smith, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
S. C. BROWN LEGH0RHS 
Surplus Stock; Thoroughbred Pullets, $1.35; 
Cockerels, $1.50. EXTRA FINE BIRDS. 
HILLSIDE POULTRY FARM, CANAAN, N. Y. 
REDS 
Mammoth Imperial nrvm nilPIfC 
AFTONFARM PEKINS are ILlVIll UUUlXU 
prize winners (see 
New York and Philadelphia awards) and market 
toppers. Last year 500 hens averaged over 149 eggs 
perhen! Getstock from Afton Farm. Itmennssuc- 
cess. Write for "Facts From Afton Farm," todav— now. 
AFTON FARM, Box D-l, YARDLEY, PA. 
Indian Runner DUCKS’ EGGS 
Kleven for $1; Fifty for S5; Farm Kange 
R. W. SHIPMAN, Hollidaysburg, Pa., R.F.D. 3. 
WHITE ORPINGTON COCKERELS, Kellerstrass strain; choice 
stock, $1.50 each; It. C. Black Minorcus Cockerels, $1.26 
each. Indian Runner Ducks. Geo. Howrtlsb.Esperanee,X.Y. 
O RPINGTON CHICKS and EGGS— Our first hatch comes 
off February 19th; hatches every week there¬ 
after. Buff or White Orpington Chicks, 40c. each. 
We hatch by Mammoth Hot-Water Incubator, the 
best system known for hatching healthy chicks. 
Eggs, $3.00 per setting: two settings for $5.00; $15.00 
per 100. Liberal fertility guarantee ou eggs. Safe 
delivery chicks and eggs guaranteed. No danger 
shipping coldest weather. Our stock is farm-bred, 
yigoi-ons, heavy-laying, and has won over 200 prizes 
in the last two seasons. Book orders now. Remit 
by Express Money Order, P. O. Order, Bank Draft. 
Valley Knoll Farm, R.F.D. 3, LaGranoevillc, Dutchess Co.,N.Y. 
W U TURKEY S— Pure Bred. Also Kggs in sea- 
»li i son. MRS. K. J. RIDER. .Rodman, N. Y. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Walnut Hill Stock Farm 
NATHANIEL BACON, Manager Talcott, W. Va. 
White Holland Turkeys-SK^Ksfe 
breediug; hundreds of unsolicited testimonials 
from all parts of U. S. Early orders for best 
prices. H. W. ANDERSON, Sticwartstown, Pa. 
AMM0TH BRONZE TURKEYS-Hens. $6; Toms,$8, $10; 
... Imperial White Pekins-Ducks $2, Drakes $3. 
First-class, strong, healthy stock, raised among tho 
Berkshires. N. E. PERKINS, Ashley Falls, Mass. 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
(Stamp.) Hedge Lawn Farm, Washington, Conn. 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys £y 6 w u>m d 
Indian Runner Ducks, faun and white. Eggs and 
stock. W. T. EASTON, Route 5, Delaware, Ohio. 
(lisrif Rronzc turkey eggs, $ 3.00 per 10 . 
umiu LH uiue R> c> Ri I# Redi $100 per 15 
Indian Runner Ducks,_$1.00 per 10. Write 
H. J. VAN DYKE. Gettysburg, Pa. 
C OLUMBIAN WYAND0TTES and MOTTLED ANC0NAS- 
Great Winter Layers—bred for show and egg 
production. Eggs for hatching, $2.00 per fifteen. 
Incubator Eggs, $8.00 per hundred. WAYNE B. 
EISENHART, Box 29, Richland Center, Pa. 
C OLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES-Grand Breeding Pen, five 
Hens, one Cockerel; thoroughbreds. Eggs, $2.00 
per setting. BAYLES, 305 West 43d St., New York. 
G UARANTEED WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
Write FRANK HYDE.Peekskill, N.Y. 
Wright's White Wyandotte Winners 
Baby Chix and Eggs from high-class, strong, heavy lay¬ 
ing farm raised stock. Grand View Farm, Stnnfordvllle, N.Y. 
White Wyandottes===Aristocrats 
Again—just a little better than those you liked last 
year. Strong, sturdy, full breasted, broad backed, 
free range Cockerels. Will make hustling, husky 
breeders. Fishel Strain—$3.00 each and they are 
yours. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
MONTROSE POULTRY PRODUCTS, 
K. R. Turner, Prop. The Plains, Va. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES-ST JSSt 
Free range. Send for 1912 Mating I fist. Eggs, $1.50 
per 15; $6.00 per 100. CLARENCE H. FOGG, 
Bridgeton, N. J. R. F. I). No. 3. 
Kean’s White Wyandottes 
Bred nine years for vigor, utility and' standard 
requirements. Eggs from selected stock; eight 
females mated to each male; thirteen, $100; fifty- 
two, $3.50; one hundred, $6.00. Choice COCKERELS 
and other breeding stock at right prices. 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN.Stanley, N. Y. 
Snow-White Wyandottes ^ 6 d ro to gl iay ed c" d 
cular free. Goldenkod Farm, Stewartstown, Pa. 
SPFPIAT PRIPF^J -Kg ss for hatching from 
OrE.V,l/VL. TIV1GE.O go,, free range , finely 
bred S. C. W. Leghorns. Special prices on large 
orders. Also Indian Runner Duck Eggs. H. C. 
LAWRENCE, R. D., Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
S. G. White Leghorn BABY CHICKS 
High-class utility stock. Now booking orders for spring 
delivery. Eggs for hatching. Safe delivery guaranteed. Cir¬ 
cular. VANCKEST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, N.Y. 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm 
Baby Chicks, Ducklings and Hatching Eggs now 
ready from selected breeders. S. C. W. Leghorns, 
Barred and White P. Rocks, Single and Rose C. 
R. I. Reds, Imperial Pekin Ducks. Some choice 
Barred Rock and S. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels left 
at right prices. Correspondence invited. 
Rnhv fllirLrc From free range, selected S. C. 
LmUjr vlllvlva WHYTE LEGHORNS, in 
any quantity. Safe arrival guaranteed. Cir¬ 
cular free. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby Chicken 
Farm, Staatsburg-ou-Hudson, N. Y. 
P'Viiolrc S - C -Leghorns, Barred 
L»clQy U1SCKS Rocks, R. C. Reds. Strong, 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular 
free. WESLEY GRINNELL, Sodus, N. Y. 
F OR SALE —1,000 March and April hatched Pullets, 
S.C.Wh. Leghorns; White, Barred, Buff Recks, 
R. I. Reds; laying now. Also 3 Prairie State 3, 
Cyphers, 1 Cornell Incubators. Prices right. Apply 
g. a. r- — - - .. - 
to 
MILLER, Supt. Altu Crest, Greenwich, Conn. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS and R. I. REDS 
Eggs for Hatching from selected 1 and 2-year-old 
hens at 12c. per dozen above N. Y. best quotations, 
in 30-dozeu lots. No one has better utility birds 
than ours. Satisfaction guaranteed. JOHN P. 
CASE & SONS, Clover Hill, N. J. 
TtC'f* rAQFC Second Hand (f*Q A A With Fillers 
JLVlVl IfAJLJ 30 doz. Capacity «pO.UV per Hundred 
P. McKANNA’S SONS, HONESDALE, PENNSYLVANIA 
HEAVY LAYING RANGE BRED S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Baby Chicks that live *12.00 per 100; after May 1st. $10.00; packed to insure safe delivery. Eggs for 
hatching, testing high $1.25 per 15; $5.00 per 100; $40.00 per 1000. As I am running a mammoth machine 
and control 1500 breeding bens, 1 can supply the above in any quantity. Correspondence solicited. 
DARLINGTON EGG FARM ALFRED P. EDGE DARLINGTON. MD. 
