1912. 
THE? KURAL NEW-YORKER 
3S3 
The Henyard. 
Device for Sprouting Oats. 
Calling to mind the different ways of 
producing sprouted oats during the cold 
weather, I send a drawing. Fig. 133, of the 
contrivance used by me this Winter, which 
is compact and takes but little room in a 
kitchen, where a week’s time will sprout the 
oats in good shape. I purchased some com¬ 
mon tin pans, two for five cents, and 
painted so as to keep from rust, putting 
in one inch of oats, soaking over night in 
warm water and draining off next morning. 
Dimension of pans, diameter across top 7% 
inches, depth 1% inch, rim one-half inch. 
This rim holds nicely on cleats of cabinet. 
Dimensions of cabinet: Sides %x8 inches 
wide, 31 inches high. Top and bottom 
shelves 7% inches across and 7% inches 
front to back, which allows for half-inch 
back board to fit in. Bottom shelf is one 
inch from bottom of sides and top shelf is 
1% inches from top. Back board is one- 
half inch stuff, seven inches wide, allowing 
air space. The five half-inch cleats measure 
as follows from bottom : First cleat, 714 
inches; second, 12 inches; third. 1614 
inches; fourth. 21 inches; fifth, 2514 inches. 
Possibly the above will be of benefit to 
some of the amateur poultry raisers, as it 
DEVICE FOR SPROUTING OATS. Fig. 133. 
is difficult at times to find it convenient 
to have green stuff in Winter and by the 
above method you will see a pan for every 
day of the week is obtained, sufficient for 
12 or 15 hens, and with very little incon¬ 
venience. T. w. M. 
St. Paul, Minn. 
Pullets Do Not Lay. 
I have 30 fine pullets hatched in April 
and May. They are partly purebred It. I. 
Red, crossed with Buff Plymouth Rock. 
They have never laid an egg. I have kept 
hens all my life (am nearly 78) and never 
had anything like it before. I feed a warm 
mash of bran. Alfalfa meal and corn chop 
once a day, a grain feed of two parts 
wheat and one part corn, green cut bone 
every other day and plenty of skim-milk to 
drink. Good quarters, plenty of straw to 
scratch in. What is the matter with them? 
Kansas. T. b. s. 
I am unable to tell the exact reasons 
why your hens do not lay, but I think your 
mash probably consists of too much fibre, 
and would suggest that you dd wheat mid¬ 
dlings, meat scraps and a little oil meal, 
also give green food in the form of cab¬ 
bage or beets. f. t. finch. 
Value of Sprouted Oats. 
The recent remarks of Mr. iyce to the 
effect that sprouted oats value has been 
enormously exaggerated, would lead a novice ' 
to conclude that they are not worth while. | 
Any man of experience knows that they 
lose protelds; he also knows that in doing 
so they acquire greater values. Sprouted 
oats are not fed by anyone who knows his 
business, for their protein content, nor for 
their carbohydrates; their value lies in 
th-ir succulent qualities. There is too often 
a tendency in the poultry world (as well as 
every other) by men of experience to be¬ 
little every discovery or device not origi¬ 
nated by themselves. I think so highly of 
sprouted oats (in moderate quantities) that 
had I the alternative of giving up sprouted 
oats or going out of the chicken business, 
the question would almost resolve itself into 
a toss-up. w. H. T. 
Connecticut. 
A. Satisfactory Arrangement of Nests. 
Our hens’ nests are made of boxes three 
freet long, 1G inches wide and six inches 
deep. These are divided into three compart¬ 
ments by thin board partitions. Cleats are 
nailed onto the sides of the boxes about 
three inches from the bottom. These cleats 
rest on two supports 1x3 inches, which 
are placed about eight inches below the 
dropping board and run the full width of 
the pen, the ends resting on cleats notched 
to hold them 10 inches apart. The boxes 
can easily be set in place, slipped back and 
forth to allow other nests to be added if 
desired, or taken out to be cleaned. A bur¬ 
lap curtain fastened just under the dropping 
board screens them. This is the most satis¬ 
factory arrangement for nests which we 
have found. Of course one could use boxes 
of any size desired if they were all one 
width, so they would fit in between the 
supports. Care should be taken to allow 
sufficient space between the dropping board 
and nests for the nests to be easily re¬ 
moved. A. H. S. 
Shade in Chicken Run. 
About the first of .Tune I shall have sev¬ 
eral three-months-old chicks to turn in a 
yard. What can I plant early in the season 
that is of upright growth, that will furnish 
shade and some green feed up to about the 
first of September? Corn does all right if 
chicks are not turned into it until about 
tenth of July, but is not far enough ad¬ 
vanced by the first of June. I want some¬ 
thing to plant in April or first of May. that 
will grow upright and bo large enough to 
be out of chicks’ way by first of June. Do 
not care about any crop, but want plant 
to stand the onslaught of the chickens at 
least as well as corn until after hot weather 
is mostly over. I would say rape also, this 
to provide green food for chickens, or is 
there anything better? j. e. m. 
Long Island. 
We know of nothing better than corn or 
sunflowers for this purpose. Crops which 
can be planted earlier will not grow high 
enough or live long enough to give needed 
shade. Try one of the earliest flint varieties 
or Eureka and plant in late April. If you 
have only a small lot you can start corn 
in pots or boxes like melons and trans¬ 
plant when a foot high. We should plant 
corn early and risk the first and sow rape 
and clover among it in June. 
A Maryland Flock. 
What do you think of L.is Maryland flock 
of Barred Rocks consisting of 24 pullets 
which commenced to lay November 23, 1910, 
and up to and including November 22, 1911, 
averaged 182% eggs each? Our 103 hens 
and pullets during December, 1911, laid 944 
eggs ; during January, 1461 eggs, and up to 
and including February 21 have laid 1022. 
Lansdowne, Md. g. b. m. 
R. N.-Y.—We wish we had 100 more like 
them. 
Stone and Concrete Houses. 
I must build a henhouse in the Spring, 
had intended to build of stone with entire 
inside faced with concrete, so as to make 
It louse and mite proof. I notice, however, 
on page 215, that one writer does not be¬ 
lieve in them, I think on account of damp¬ 
ness. Would the concrete help any? My 
building is on a southern exposure, nearly 
at the top of a hill which is naturally 
very dry. If that would not help, would 
you suggest some way to render a stone 
building dry? I wish to use stone as lum¬ 
ber is scarce on my farm, while stone is in 
abundance. m. 
Burlington, Pa. 
The objection to stone and concrete walls 
for a henhouse, aside from their cost, lies 
in the fact that these materials, being good 
conductors of heat, become very cold in the 
Winter, and the moisture of the air within 
condenses upon them in the form of frost, 
making them damp and unhealthful. This 
“sweating” of the walls is not due, as is 
often supposed, to penetration of moisture 
from without, but to the condensation of 
the moisture within the building, and this 
suggests two ways of minimizing the trouble 
if such walls are used. Furring strips may 
be fastened to the wall and these lathed and 
plastered upon, thus leaving a dead air 
space between the stone wall and the plas¬ 
ter for insulation, or still better, the air 
in the building may be so frequently 
changed by an adequate system of ventila¬ 
tion that it does not become sufficiently sat¬ 
urated with moisture to condense upon the 
walls. This latter object is best attained 
by constructing the building in the modern 
open-front style, and- if this is done I see 
no reason why the inquirer may not build 
a satisfactory poultry house of stone lined 
with concrete. In fact I am now keeping 
200 hens in a semi-basement, throe of the 
four walls of which are of stone plastered 
upon the inside; the fourth wall, however, 
is of wood and is constantly left open for 
ventilation. .Should I close it the plastered 
walls would quickly become damp, and I 
should expect trouble in the flock. The 
room is 30 feet square and so satisfactory 
as a henhouse that I expect next Winter 
to put 300 fowls into it. M. b. d. 
O WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
ti.l i 13 for$i. 2 S, 26 for$ 2 .oo. Every- 
body write for Free Illus¬ 
trated Fruit Tree and Poultry Catalogue. 
WELLS WHOLESALE NURSERIES 
F. W. Wells, Prop. Box 2, Dansville, N. Y. 
Snow-White Wyandottes 1h ia” d c?* 
cular free. Goldknrod Farm, Stewartstown, Pa. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES Sinf .££ 
Free range. Send for 1912 Mating List. Higgs. $1.50 
per 15; $(i.00 por 100. CLARENCE H. FOGG, 
Bridgeton, N. J. R. F. D. No. 3. 
Wright's White Wyandotte Winners 
Baby Chix and Eggs from high-class, strong, heavy lay¬ 
ing farm raised stock. Grand View Farm, Stanfordrilli*,N.Y. 
C OLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES and MOTTLED ANC0NAS- 
Great Winter Layers—bred 1 for show and egg 
F roduction. Eggs for hatching. $2.00 per fifteen. 
nenbator Eggs. $8.00 per hundred. WAYNE B. 
EISENHART, Box 29, Richland Center, Pa. 
C USTOM HATCHING in our 21,000 EGG INCUBATOR, 
heated by hot water gives strong, healthy CHICKS. 
Space for a few thousand more Eggs. S3.00 a compart¬ 
ment holding 150 eggs. DAY-OLD CHICKS. HATCHING 
EGGS and PULLETS for sale. See our Swine ad. 
MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM, MILLERTON, N. Y. 
KEAN’S WHITE WAYAND0TTES 
Bred nine years for vigor, utility and standard re¬ 
quirements. Eggs $1 for 13; $3.50 for 52; $6 for 100. 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN, STANLEY. N. Y. 
GREIDER’S FINE CATALOGUE 
Book and calendar for 1912 contains 200 
pages. 72 varieties pure bred, 62 colored 
plates. Many other Illustrations, descrip¬ 
tions. Incubators and brooders. 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. GREIDER, Box 58, Rheema, Pa. 
Farm Bred Poultry 
OF SHOW QUALITY 
Barred Rocks Partridge Cochins 
White ltocks Partridge Wyandottes 
500 Selected Birds in Our Breeding Yards 
rppo $1.50, $2.00 anil $3.00 por sotting 
LUUO $7.50 to $15.00 por hundred 
MINCH BROS. 
BRIDGETON, N. J. 
DanotdsThcm EGGS 
U ATY'U BUSINESS BARRED ROCKS 
II I Write for our free illustrated cat¬ 
alog describing our common sense 
practical poultry, the result of 
14 years breeding, egg-layers. 
Settings from our strain of early ma- 
t turing, large, healthy Rocks, $2adoz. 
Oanold’s Farm, R. F. D. 19, Albion,N.Y. 
B arred Plymouth rock eggs—B est 
breeding, $1 per fifteen: utility mating, $4 per 
hundred. J.T. HERETER, Gettysburg, Pa. 
B arred Plymouth ROCKS-’Ringiet strai D .” Eggs 
for hatching. $1.00 and $1.50 per fifteen. Folder 
free. GEO. F. WILLIAMSON, Flandkrs, N. J. 
MONEYMAKING POULTRY 
Send for fY*ee book. Describes early 
maturing, heavy winter laying, 
Pittsfield Barred Rocks, now united 
with the Gowell trap nested strain. 
Wo Won Again at Boh ton. Grand 
Prize and Silver Cap for best dis¬ 
play—12 Regular, 18 Special Prizes. 
Chicks, Eggs, Breeding Birds. 
Order Now. 
Pittafield Poultry Farm Co. 
416 Main Street, Pittsfield, Me. 
Parks’ Bred to Lay Barred Rocks 
Eggs, $1 per 15, $5 per 100. Baby Chicks, 15c. each. 
Young’s S.C.W. Leghorns—Eggs, $ljperl5,$5perlOO. 
Baby Chicles, 12c. each. The Mackey Farms, Gilboa, N.Y. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hatching. Mating fist on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifh St..^Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds. 
Standard bred, record stock. Red to the skin. Eggs 
$1.50 to$.>. 00 per 15; $0.00 per 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. 
Mammoth Imperial DCVIM MIPIfQ 
flFTOH FARM PEKINS are | Lftlll U U w iVO 
prize winners (see 
New York and Philadelphia awards) and market 
toppers. Last year 500 hens averaged over 149 egg* 
per hen! Get stock from At’ton Farm. It means suc¬ 
cess. Write for "Facts From Afton Farm,” todav—now. 
AFTON FARM, Box D-l, YARDLEY, PA. 
Indian Runner DUCKS’ EGGS 
Eleven for $1; Fifty for 8S5; Farm Range 
R. W. SHIPMAN, Hollidaysburg, Pa., R.F.D. 3. 
Wild &. Bronze Turkey EggsifillK! c'K 
2 c. stamp, 
mountain. 
showing pure wild gobbler from the 
VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM. Belleville, Pa. 
Ciiani Rinuitp turkey eggs, $ 3.00 per k 
Aiiau i ui uiizc R c _ R _ L Redi $I 00 per j. 
Indian Runner Ducks, 
H. J. VAN D 
,11.00 per 10. ^Vrite 
KE.. Gettysburg, Pa 
White Holland Turkeys-JIM^SS; 
breeding; hundreds of unsolicited testimonials 
from all parts of U. S. Early orders for best 
prices. H. W. ANDERSON, Stewa rtsto wn, Pa. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Walnut Hill Stock Farm 
NATHANIEL BACON, Manager, Talcott, W. Va. 
Q C, WHITE LEGHORNS —Standard bred for utility. 
”■ Hatching eggs & day-old chicks. Fertility & free 
from white diarrhma guaranteed. Prices on appli¬ 
cation. Oscawana Brook Farm, C. Kramers, Peekskill, N.Y. 
d 
15, $1.50 per 30, $2.75 per 60, $4.00 per 100. Cat; 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
P C. WHITE LEGHORNS, the large white kind, bred 
for heavy laying. Hatching eggs, little Chicks, 
breeding stock. Kstab. 1904. Price List mailed. 
Abovo Poultry Farms Co.. Inc., Chatham, Morris Co., N.J. 
Rflhv f’hirL'C From free range, selected S. C. 
uavy viiiilYS WHITE LEGHORNS, in 
any quantity. Safe arrival guaranteed. Cir¬ 
cular free. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby Chicken 
Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
Write at once if you wish eggs for hatching or 
Baby Chicks from our “Mammoth Utility” strain 
°f heaviest layers and the most successful and 
probably the best known egg farm on Long Island. 
Upon a good foundation build success. 
Prices the cheapest—Qualify the best. 
THORN Eli A YEN POULTRY FARM 
Shelter Island Heights, N.Y. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hoff’s Day-Old Chicks Are Hatched Brim Full 
of Vitality, and Are Bound to Live and Grow. 
My stock ia bred for big egg production as well as exhibi¬ 
tion typ'sand is noted for heavy laying of larze white eggs 
that bring top prices. I have had more than 20 years' 
experience in artificial incubation, and by closely studying 
the breeding and hatching, under the most sanitary con- | 
ditions, I am able to produce 
Chicks Free from White Diarrhoea 
I also have S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for hatching. Write 
for illustrated catalog and my reasonable prices on chicks 
and eggs. 
D. C. R. HOFF, Lock Box 115, Neshanic Station, N. J. 
C P W | CfiLinDMe-LOOO BREEDERS. 
Oi Ui If ■ LLUnUnilO Eggs, $6 00 per 100: 
10 per cent gratis to insure fertility; $50.00 per M. 
Chicks after April 15th, $12 00 per hundred. 
E. H, PLANK, Routo No. 4, Gettysburg, Pa. 
Famous Laying Strain ISS'fK 
$1; Cockerels, $2. St. Moritz Farm. Ramsey, N.J. 
Ralvir f’Vii/'lre U. W. Leghorns, Barred 
LniCKS Rocks, R. C. Reds. Strong, 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular 
free. WESLEY GRINNELL, Sodus, N. Y. 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm 
Baby Chicks, Ducklings and Hatching Eggs now 
ready from solected breeders. S. C. W. Leghorns, 
Barred and White P. Rocks. Single and Rose C. 
R. I. Reds, Imperial Pekin Ducks. Some cboieo 
Barred Rock and S. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels left 
at right prices. Correspondence invited. 
gPCfl A I k 68 s for hatching from 
OI LvlrVLi r IV1LLJ 600 free ra „ e e. finely 
bred S. C. W. Leghorns. Special prices on largo 
orders. Also Indian Runner Duck Eggs. H. C. 
LAWRENCE, R. D., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
S. C- IV- LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs from solected 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. 
S. C. W. L. Rally fthiclrc 
Bred from hens that MUM J UIIIWH0 
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 freo 
circular and prices today. 
PEERLESS FARMS, R. F. D. 10, Northport, Long Island, N.Y. 
S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS SLIP'S 
Orders booked for future delivery. Young and old 
stock at attractive prices. Best laying strains. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flkmington, N.J. 
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 POULTRY FARM. STOCKTON. New Jersey 
RICHLAND FARMS 
Breeders and Exhibitors of 
S. C. White Leghorns, S. C. Black Orpingtons, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Wo are now booking orders for the PROFIT PAYING 
KIND of BABY CHICKS and EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for Catalogue. 
RICHLAND FARMS, FREDERICK, MD. 
Kirkup’s Strain S. C. White Leghorns 
Bred for size, vigor and large white market eggs. 
If you do not know their merits, visit our farm or 
send for circular. Custom hatching a specialty. 
Baby Chicks, 10c. each. CHESTNUT POULTRY 
FARM, Kirkup Bros.. Props. Mattituck, L.I., N.Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn BABY CHICKS 
and HATCHING EGGS. Freo range, farm bred 
stock of quality. No order too large or too small. 
"CHICKS THAT MAKE GOOD.” Circular. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM. Salt Point. Dutchess Co.. N.Y 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS and R. I. REDS 
Eggs for Hatching from selected 1 and 2-year-old 
nens at 12c. per dozen above N. Y. best quotations’ 
in 30-dozen lots. No one has better utility birds 
than onrs. Satisfaction guaranteed. JOHN P. 
CASE & SONS, Clover Hill, N.J. 
lAA PULLETS and YEARLING HENS, S. C. 
1 WHITE LEGHORNS, YOUNG STRAIN. 
$1.00 and $1.25 each. Sold yards. Must 
Vacate April 1. Fred D. Sutliff, Addison. N. Y. 
JOGOY Originated the R. 1. WHITES 
MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO 
They lead the reds for quick maturing, are better 
layers, and are easier to breod. Booklet FREE. 
J. A. JOCOY, Townada, Pa. 
DAVIS S. O. Ft. X. REDS 
-SOO EOG STRAIN- 
33 a, y <3 1 dL Cliix j Sggs for HEatoliirLg; 
Chix that live and grow hatched in I Eggs from vigorous, fresh-air 
Mammoth Incubator. I housed stock. 
3 F*l«,c© Y o xx x* O r ci e r s for Chix No w 
and get positive date of delivery. Safe arrival guaranteed. Circular ** 4 hi »•: - 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, - - - BERLIN, MASS. 
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 1 am running a mammoth machin ) 
and control 1500 breeding hens, 1 can supply the above iu any quantity. Correspondence solicited. 
DARLINGTON EGG FARM ALFRED P. EDGE DARLINGTON. MD. 
HENS MUST LAY * 
GVABA/rrZED I 
pRATTS POULTRY REGULATOR. 
