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THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fiftieth week of the contest shows 
the smallest number of eggs yet produced 
in any week since the twelfth week; 836 
eggs were laid, which is 137 eggs less than 
the previous week. Nearly all the hens 
are moulting, and biddy can't be expected 
to do much housework while she is making 
new dresses. The race between the lead¬ 
ers grows closer, only 16 eggs separating 
them now. Yost’s White Leghorns, seeing 
the lead walking away so rapidly from 
them, put on a spurt and laid 15 eggs, 
three of them laying four, six and five. 
Beulah Farm's White Wyandottes all laid, 
producing two, two, four, four, five, total 
17, thus gaining two on Yost’s birds. But 
nobody has a sure thing of it yet. The 
high scores to date are, 1,050 by F. G. 
Yost's White Leghorns, 1,034 by Beulah 
Farm's White Wyandottes, 1.021 by Mar- 
wood Poultry Farm's White Leghorns, 902 
by Toms River Poultry Farm’s White Leg¬ 
horns, 966 by Cullencross Farm's White 
Leghorns, 961 by Thomas Barron’s pen of 
four English White Leghorns, 948 by 
Frederick Peasley's White Leghorns, 935 
by Miss Susie Abbott’s White Leghorns. 
The Buff Leghorns of George H. Schmidt, of 
Chicago, have crossed the 900 mark, their 
total to date being 914. Ilomer P. Deal¬ 
ing's Single Comb It. I. Reds are close to 
it with a score of 894; Robert J. Wal¬ 
den's P. Rocks, 898; W. B. Candce’s White 
Wyandottes, 895; T. J. McConnell’s White 
Wyandottes, 880. H. P. Deming's S. C. 
Rhode Island Reds laid the highest score 
for the week, viz., 24; the next highest 
being also Single Comb Rhode Island Reds 
of Brother Wilfred, Quebec, Canada. No 
less than six pens laid 19 eggs each. Mrs. 
Louis Hiller's American Dominique pullet 
No. 2 laid seven eggs during the week, 
as did H. P. Deming's No. 1, and Colonial 
Farm’s R. I. Red pullet No. 2, and Mrs. 
Harris Lehman’s R. I. Red pullet No. 5. 
The advertising value of this contest is 
well illustrated by a letter from Miss 
Susie Abbott, whose pen of White Leg¬ 
horns have laid 935 eggs, an average of 
187 eggs per pullet. She writes : "It has 
been impossible for us even to make a 
good start toward supplying the demand 
for hatching eggs, day-old chicks, pullets 
and cockerels of our laying strain, which 
wa. practically unknown before we entered 
this contest. We have entered the second 
competition, just as we did the first, for 
the sake of having our layers proven, and 
we are more than satisfied with the re¬ 
sults.” 
While a man may trap-nest his own 
flock, the time it takes to do it properly 
for a whole year is almost prohibitive, 
and then he lacks the official certified rec¬ 
ord which an entry in this contest gives 
him. A very large number of prizes are 
offered in this second competition, the 
Philadelphia North American offering eight 
silver cups of the value of $25 each. Febler 
& Landis of Allentown, Pa., offer a $20 
cup, and there are prizes of incubators, 
automatic feeders, and no end of small 
prizes. The data which this first contest 
will render available for the use of poul- 
trymen will be of untold benefit. But far 
in excess of that value will be the in¬ 
creased egg production due to the spread¬ 
ing abroad through the land of the blood 
of these best laying strains by sales of 
eggs for hatching, day-old chicks, and male 
and female fowls. Not the least of the 
benefits will be the teaching of the best 
methods of feeding and daily care, also 
what the amateur ought reasonably to 
expect his fowls to do. An increase of 
10 eggs per hen would add millions of 
dollars to the profits of poultrymen, and 
I do not think a gain of that extent is 
at all unreasonable to expect within two 
years. One thing we have learned by ex¬ 
perience is that it is absolutely impossible 
to glut the market, as is the case with 
most perishable products. The head of 
the largest cold storage firm in Hartford, 
Conn., told me that “there is nothing that 
lends itself to cold storage so well as eggs ; 
they will keep longer and undergo less 
change than almost any other commodity.’’ 
This helps to equalize the price and is 
really a great boon both to the poultry- 
man and the general public. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Variations in Wyandottes. 
I have two White Wyandotte pullets, 
bred from prize show birds. They are 
both good size and shape; one has yellow 
legs and yellow bill with single comb, the 
other has white legs and white bill with 
single comb. Would both birds be dis¬ 
qualified if put in show? J. e. c. 
Massachusetts. 
Without the distinguishing rose comb of 
the Wyandotte family I am afraid that you 
might have trouble in convincing the judge 
that you were not trying to foist a White 
Plymouth Rock upon him for a Wyan¬ 
dotte. The white legs of one of your 
pullets would also serve to carry it far 
from the sight of a blue ribbon. Just be¬ 
tween you and me, this matter of creating 
varieties of poultry between which there is 
no essential difference, and which only an 
expert judge can distinguish, has been 
carried to extremes. ii. b. d. 
Ration for Pullets. 
I have some pullets that were hatched 
out the 18th of March, last, and they laid 
three eggs, one each day, and never laid 
an egg since this time, two weeks ago. 
Could you give me some hints in regard to 
the feeding, or a system of feeding? I 
would like to make up my own rations, as 
the commercial foods are very reasonable, 
but it costs a lot in expressage for ship¬ 
ping the same, which does not leave much 
profit after all expenses are taken out. 
Massachusetts. j. j. c. 
Pullets hatched as early as the middle 
of March and pushed along to quick ma¬ 
turity are apt to begin laying in August 
and then to stop after laying a few eggs. 
The best plan is to hatch a little later, 
or retard maturity by feeding less animal 
food than is usually given. 
The following rations recommended by 
the Cornell Experiment Station, and often 
given in these columns, will serve as a 
good guide for the preparation of poultry 
feeds, though it is by no means necessary 
to adhere rigidly to these or any other 
formulm. Unless one is so situated that 
he cannot obtain the standard grains and 
mill by-products at reasonable prices, he 
will usually find it more economical and 
satisfactory to prepare his own rations: 
Whole grain—Summer, 60 pounds wheat, 
60 pounds corn, 30 pounds oats, 30 pounds 
buckwheat; Winter, same formula as for 
Summer, omitting the buckwheat. Dry 
mash, Winter and Summer—60 pounds 
cornmeal. 60 pounds wheat middlings, 30 
pounds wheat bran, 10 pounds Alfalfa 
meal. 10 pounds oil meal, 50 pounds beef 
scrap, one pound salt. m. b. d. 
Ferrets in Poultry House. 
Can ferrets be used safely about poultry 
houses to exterminate rats? ir. w. d. 
Concord, N. H. 
I know of no reason why a trained 
ferret could not be used in a henhouse to 
catch rats, provided that his keeper stayed 
with him. There are fe^' predatory ani¬ 
mals that do not considei chicken a tooth¬ 
some morsel, and, as ferrets are no excep¬ 
tion to the rule, it would not be safe to 
turn one loose in a coop and trust him to 
devote his attention to the rats. 
M. B. D. 
KINDNESS FOR ANIMALS. 
The man who abuses his horses cannot 
expect to make a good example of him¬ 
self. The chief of good traits that best 
befit a man for handling and caring for 
farm animals is that of humanity. The 
man who was brought up a humane man 
will find it as hard to be bad as a bad 
person finds it to be good, through second 
nature. Children should be taught kind¬ 
ness to animals, as they may in later years 
have the handling of animals themselves. 
They should be taught to feed the chick¬ 
ens and gather eggs and many other easy 
jobs about the place ; thus as ‘the “twig is 
bent so is the tree inclined.” I remember 
when I was a small boy I got my humane 
ideas from some honest old hard-working 
farm horses which I felt sorry for. How¬ 
ever, later, as I grew to manhood. I soon 
learned that the test of true feeling for 
animals was shown in the way we treat 
them in daily life. m. e. moret. 
Michigan. 
CAM DEE AUTOMATIC 
CUSTOM HATCHERS 
FOUR COMPARTMENT, 1.200 EGG SIZE 
Every section Tins room for at least one profit¬ 
able Central Custom Hatchery. Once open, more 
business is offered than can be handled. It can 
be located on any main road and the only equip¬ 
ment needed is a CANDEE INCUABTOR in any clean 
cellar. Full details and directions in our Custom 
Hatching Booklet, sent free upon request. 
Address: 
Candee Incubator and Brooder Co. 
Dept. 27 Eastwood, N. Y. 
DeArmon Automatic 
TRAP NEST 
Make Your Own Trap Nests 
For SI.00 will man you 
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drawings and full instruc¬ 
tions for making an abso¬ 
lutely reliable Trap Nest, 
that la both cheap and sim¬ 
ple. (ieo. TV. DoArmon. 911 
TV. Superior Avo., Dayton,O. 
EVERY LOUSY HEN 
is losing real money for you. Every egg you don’t 
get is so much money lost. Stop that leak 1 Hens 
tormented with lice can’t be expected to lay eggs. 
You can keep them free of lice with one application 
a year, and Circular 61 tells you how. Sent Free. 
Write us today. 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO. 
181 Franklin Street New York 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier ; 
profits larger. 
MANN’S ‘SSI Bone Cutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. lO Days’ Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today lor Froe Book. 
W. Mann Co., Box 15, Mlllord, Mass 
□ ARREO ROCKS— 500 vigorous, snappy, Barred Rock 
“ Pullets, clean, bright barring, free ranged and 
hen-hatched. Also 100 big, husky Cockerels that 
would make splendid breeders. This stock has the 
right breeding in them and priced will be made es¬ 
pecially attractive to early buyers. Write me yonr 
wants and get my prices. They will surprise you. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. R. 2, W. H. MOORE, Rome, N.Y. 
75 Selected S. _C. W. Leghorn Cockerels 
* w and 100 Choice Breeding Hens, one and 
two years old. One of the best laying strains in 
existence. Large white eggs and large white birds. 
J. M. CASE, - - Gilboa, N. Y. 
„ April-June hatched. 
JOHN LORTON LEE, 
Write to 
Carmel, N. Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs. $1.00 per 15. Catalogne 
free. THOS. WILDER. Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
White African Guineasi?^ 
XV. WILBUR WALLACE, 
sex. $2 each. 
in season. 
Sigcl. I’a. 
THOROUGHBRED BARRED ROCKS 
March and April hatch; free range. Cockerels $3.00, 
or two for $5.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. CAYUGA 
LAKE ORCHARDS. Trumansburg, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200 
S.C. Rhode Island Reds 
EGG 
I STRAIN 
Large, vigorous, early hatched cockerels, standard 
bred, $1.50 to $10.00. Pullets, yearlings. 
AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor N. H. 
UIGH CLASS S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BREEDING HENS FOR 
11 SALE. Also a few choice Cockerels. All hardy, 
healthy and from a heavy-laying strain. Write 
MAPLE GROVE FARM, Smithville, N. Y. 
mr Catalog describing 35 varieties. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA, PA. 
R, I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY. SHOW or EX- 
&£gs for hatching. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, Sonthold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
1000 LEGHORN <W $1.00 EACH 
to make room for young stock. Grand 
Laying Strain. First come first served. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM.NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Oboice April hatched Cockerels for breeders. Bred 
for vigor. Roared on free range. Write for price?. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown. N. Y. 
Pullets and Yearlings For Sale 
500 early April and May Single Comb White Leg¬ 
horn Pullets, $1.00 to $1.25. 700 selected yearling 
Hens, 85c. Every bird guaranteed purebred, health v 
and vigorous. Shipped C. O. D. upon receipt 10*. 
SUNNY HILL FARM Elemington, N. J. 
EARLY PULLETS*"*HENS 
Leghorns, Wyandottes, Rocks and P. Cochins 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY FARM - R. D. 24 - ATHENS. PA. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Annual Sale of Ski.ected Yearling Breeders. 
HENS AND COCKS, $1 EACH. 
Mt. Pleasant Poultry Farm, Havre de Grace, Md. 
WHITE EWIDEN GEESE 
MAPLE COYE FARM, R. D., 24. Athens, Pa. 
GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS -TUe world ’ 3 
strain. C. D, 
leading 
KANE, Brasie Corners, N. Y. 
REMARKABLE 
OFFER 
PrizeWinninglmperiai Pekins 
White egg strain. May hatched. Insufficient ac¬ 
commodations necessitates immediate sale. $1.15 
each. Order today. HOWARD D000S, Cambridoe, N. Y. 
PULLETS FOR SALE 
Barred Rocks, RoseComb Reds. Bred for business, 
frombusinoss birds. Hen hatched, free range. Prices 
low, if taken now. Limited number. Write quick. 
FOUR ACRES. -:- Nntley, N. J. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers ol 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. ISM 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N.Y. 
Happy, Healthy, Hustling Hens 
produce the eggs and bring in the money. Health is more than freedom from dis¬ 
ease. It means perfect digestion and good circulation: abounding strength and vigor. 
Poultry Regulator 
puts and keeps hens in this condition. 
25c, 50c, $1; 25-lb. Pall, $2.50 
Prevent and cure roup, colds, catarrh, with 
Roup Cure 
25c, 50c, $1. 
•‘Your money back if it falls.” 
Pratts 160-page poultry book, 4c by mail 
Get Pratts Profit-sharing Booklet 
Our products are sold by dealers everywhere, or 
PRATT FOOD CO., Philadelphia, Chicago 
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Turn More Food Into Milk 
The fact that you can fatten your hogs on the grain that passes through your 
cows is bullet-proof evidence that cattle waste a good part of their ration. 
Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) went after this question of wasted feed over 20 years ago, 
and discovered that the cause of this waste was due largely to poor digestion and that the 
use of certain bitter tonics was necessary to give added zest and whet to the appetite and thereby 
increase the cow’s digestion of food. He then formulated what the whole country knows as 
DR. HESS STOCK TONIC 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic 
I contains: 
Nux Vomica. Digestive 
and Nerve Tonic. 
Quassia. Digestive Tonic 
and Worm Expeller. 
Sulphate of Iron. Blood 
Builder and General 
Tonic. 
Sulphate of Soda. Laxa¬ 
tive and Liver Tonic. 
Common Salt. Appetizer, 
Cleanser. 
Epsom Salts. Laxative. 
Nitrate of Potash. Stim¬ 
ulates kidneys. 
Charcoal. Prevents 
Noxious Gases. 
Fenugreek. Tonic and 
Aromatic. 
The above Is carefully 
compounded by Dr. Hess 
(M.D..D.V.S.), with just 
enough cereal meal to 
make a perfect mixture. 
which had the desired effect—putting more feed into the 
milk pail and in the case of hogs, steers and sheep con¬ 
verting more feed into flesh, blood and muscle. The 
ingredients of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic are printed in the 
panel on the left, with the remarks of the U. S. Dispensa¬ 
tory showing their high value as tonics and strengtheners. 
Our proposition. Yon get of your dealer a 25 lb. pail of Dr. Hess 
Stock Tonic at $1.60, or 100 lbs. at $5.00 (smaller quantities at a slight 
advance). Except in Canada and extreme West and South. Use it all winter 
and spring. If it doesn’t pay you and pay you well, get your money back. 
Every pound sold on this guarantee. If your dealer can’t supply you, we will. 
FREE. Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) will at anytime prescribe for your ailing 
animals free of charge if you will send him full details. Mention this 
paper and send 2c stamp. 96-page Veterinary Book also free. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, 
Ashland, Ohio. 
DR. HESS POULTRY PAN-A-CE-A 
also has every ingredient printed ou the label. 
It overcomes the debilitating influences of moulting, gives 
Sold on the same written guarantee—to make your hens lay. 
them life, brings back the scratch and cackle, puts the dormant egg organs to work, and you will plainly see the result in the egg 
basket. Besides, it cures gapes, cholera, indigestion, and the like. lbs. 25c (mail or express 40c); 5 lbs. 60c; 12 lbs. 
$1.25; 25-lb. pail $2.50. Except in Canada and the extreme West. If your dealer cannot supply you, 
we will. Send 2c for Dr. Hess Poultry Book, free. 
INSTANT LOUSE KILLER KILLS LICE 
