1913. 
N KW-YORMBK 
3'23 
The Henyard. 
Can anyone -beat tills egg record? I 
should be pleased to hear from them. From 
a pen of 30 fowls, 29 pullets and one 
rooster, purebred S. C. It. I. Red, for the 
month of December, 1912, 260 eggs; Janu¬ 
ary, 1913, 450; February 1 to 15, 313; 
total, 1023 eggs from December 1. It 
beats any egg record I have ever known 
from pullets hatched in June, 1912. 
Idlewild, N. Y. p. r. l. 
Ventilating Henhouse. 
Can any reader tell me how to ventilate 
my henhouse? The dimensions are 20 feet 
long, 12 feet wide, four feet in the rear, 
eight feet in the front. This house was 
built the later part of August. I put 
my hens in the house the last of Septem¬ 
ber. In the front of the house I have four 
large window frames out of an old house, 
two sash to a frame. I took the sash out 
of two of these frames and tacked muslin 
over them and the other two I left with 
the sash in. r. 
Copley, Ohio. 
If you do not get sufficient ventilation 
through the muslin curtains to keep the 
house dry, I suggest that you remove one 
or more of them and cover the openings 
with wire poultry netting, leaving them 
open except during storms or zero nights. 
Unless great pains are taken to keep them 
clean, muslin curtains soon become covered 
with dust and are about as impervious as 
wood. As ventilators for a henhouse, I 
consider them very inefficient. M. b. i>. 
Homemade Beehive. 
How can we make a homemade hive at 
least expense? Would like to start but 
have not the means which it seems to need, 
by reading bee culture. Have 20 apple 
trees on the place and the golden rod 
and fall asters abound. Have been told 
we could buy a colony in this neighbor¬ 
hood for $5. a. H. 
Anyone handy with tools may make a 
bee hive of standard dimensions, using a 
purchased or borrowed one as a model. 
Whether or not it would pay to make your 
own hives depends largely upon the value 
of your time, and your skill with car¬ 
penter’s tools; many do it with satisfac¬ 
tion, others find it cheaper and more sat¬ 
isfactory to buy. If desired, the outside 
boxes alone may be made, and the interior 
fittings purchased. It will make no dif¬ 
ference to the bees, but if the dimensions 
are not accurate, and the hives sufficiently 
well made to prevent their warping out of 
shape, the bee keeper will find it difficult to 
get well built and easily handled brood 
combs, and will be annoyed by an undue 
amount of propolis sticking up'his frames, 
and by the projection of burr combs, etc., 
where they are not wanted. However, the 
handy man who wants only a few hives, 
may well try to make them, and if willing 
to be content with the old fashioned box 
without movable frames, but with a super 
on top, he may harvest considerable honey 
if not much glory as an apiarist. 
M. B. D. 
Diseases of Turkeys. 
After reading Dr. Buchanan Burr's article 
on chicken diseases I hoped that he has 
had experience with turkeys aud that vou 
could get him to write on the fatal dis¬ 
ease which befall so many turkeys. I refer 
of course to ‘•blackhead.’’ diarrhoea or 
cholera. Nearly all writers on turkey 
raising dwell on the care necessary to get 
the turkey over its first few weeks. My 
experience is that it is the easiest time in their 
first eight months, that comparatively few 
die then, but that the critical time is after 
they are more than half grown for after then 
’blackhead” or diarrhoea overtakes many of 
them aud none survive who are taken with 
it. Others to whom I have spoken simi¬ 
larly talk. More than SO per cent of those 
I batched in the past season died from 
this cause. s. j. 
Coraopolis, Ta. 
S. .T.’s trouble is the common trouble of 
all turkey raisers in the settled part of 
the country due to inbred stock and in¬ 
fected . yards. lu the old days if the 
farmer's wife could dodge thunder showers, 
keep the brood dry until they “shot the 
red,” the turkeys were considered out of 
danger unless they ate too many rosebuga, 
or other accidents happened. The trouble 
is a bacterial infection from foul yards 
and it is not apparent until the liver and 
cieca are so badly infected and diseased 
that there is no hope of any cure. The 
only treatment Is preventive aud all birds 
should be treated once a week on the theory 
that they may be infected. Of course lice 
must bo removed from hen and poults by 
liberal use of fresh Dalmatia^ insect pow¬ 
der. Plenty of chopped onion, or better, 
wild garlic, will not only prevent worms, 
but also act as au antiseptic. I use two 
or three times a week in the drinking water 
a few drops of carbolic crystals made fluid 
with a little wood alcohol. 1 put this pan 
of carbolized water in the coop at night 
so that they get it first thing in the 
morning when they wake up thirsty before 
they are let out. Once a week 1 add to 
this carbolized water a large tablespoonful 
of Epsom or glauber salts, aud empty it 
out after they have all drunk, refilling the 
pan with clear water. I have seen some¬ 
where the use of hyposulphite of soda In 
place of the carbolic. I believe it would do 
the work, but I cannot locate the article. 
A handful of powdered flowers of sulphur 
fed in the mash will also help. 
A large part of the turkey troubles lend- 
t° “blackhead” or weakening the 
poult so that it is more susceptible to the 
disease comes from overfeeding, which 
should be avoided. New blood, pref¬ 
erably half wild, breeding only from two- 
year or older bens and young toms, keeping 
tlie poults away from infected chicken 
yards, with the above preventive treatment, 
wU1 - 1 believe take case of S. J.’s troubles, 
as it did of mine. buchanan burr. 
•the RURAL 
Sunflower Culture for Seed. 
I understand there is a growing demand 
for sunflower seed and it is quoted on the 
market at about three cents per pound. 
I am wondering if it cannot be grown 
at good profit. I would like information 
on culture, yield and method of harvest¬ 
ing. What tool is used in seeding, and 
distance apart plants should stand? What 
method is used in harvesting aud extracting 
the seed from the heads? What is the aver¬ 
age yield under good culture? w. k. m. 
Sikeston, Mb. 
There is a demand for sunflower seeds. 
They are used in stock foods for poultry 
and other animals. We have not been 
able to cure them successfully in New Jer¬ 
sey. It Is easy to grow them—the culture 
being practically the same as that for 
corn. We can grow large crops, but the 
trouble comes in curing. The seeds are 
so oily that they will not dry easily, in 
a dry Fall they may bo left on the stalk, 
but in that case tlie birds get nearly all 
of them. In dry climates the sunflowers 
are grown like corn or beans—usually har¬ 
vested by cutting off the heads arid throw¬ 
ing them into baskets or into a wagon. 
After the heads are fully dried out the 
seed is taken out by a thrashing machine 
or beaten out with flails. I’robably kilns 
or driers would be needed to fit the seed 
in humid climates. We doubt the wisdom 
of growing the crop largely except in very 
dry situations, but we would like to hear 
from readers. It is quite easy to grow 
the sunflowers with corn and cut the crops 
into the silo. 
Angora Goats. 
Has anyone made Angora goats pay as a 
wool and meat proposition, exclusive of 
selling for breeding purposes? h. j. b. 
Connecticut. 
We doubt if this has been done in the 
Eastern States. We are ready to record 
any such success when the facts are given. 
A Laken’Vkldek Record.—W hy is it that 
the Lakenvelder liens are not bred more? 
They lay a fair-sized white egg and a 
good average number per hen per year. 
My flock of hens were hatched July 3, 1911, 
began laying January 26, 1912, and up to 
the evening of January 25, 1913, have 
averaged 172 1-6 eggs per hen. This was 
their pullet year. 1 am keeping record of 
15 for the year of 1912. There is cer¬ 
tainly not a' more beautiful sight to the 
poultry fancier than a flock of Uakenvel- 
ders, with their black heads and tails and 
white bodies, and I know of no breed of 
birds that are as true to color as they. 
Olean, N. Y. h. l. o. 
Soft-shelled Eggs.—O n page 191 I see 
that P. O.. Watertown, N. Y\, lias liens 
that lay soft-shelled eggs. Some years ago 
I read in some poultry work the advice 
to drop in to the drinking water a piece 
of lime about the size of a walnut. I 
have had tlie same experience, usually in 
Winter months, when the fowls are con¬ 
fined, so I always keep a pail of slaked 
lime on hand and use about two table¬ 
spoonfuls of the soft slaked lime to a gal¬ 
lon of drinking water, just enough to dis¬ 
color the water to give it a milky ap¬ 
pearance for a week or 10 days. If J. O. 
or any readers will try this, I believe that 
the trouble will cease. Another good thing 
Is to have a lx>x of sifted coal ashes in 
an out-of-way place and occasionally throw 
a handful of grain into the ashes. It is 
surprising to see how many ashes a flock 
will consume in a week. J. G. k. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
HATCHES ONAGALLON 
F ill oil tank once with one 
gallon of oU, then light lamp—the 
RAYO, with outomatlo regulator 
will complete the hatch Cheap, casy- 
Saves big oil-money 
Lamp underneath—perfect radiation— 
even temperature. Turn egga without re- 
moving tray Clean lamp without remov¬ 
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thermometer through glass top. Regulato: 
adjusts exactly Double heating system 
saves heat. Automatic ventilation. Roomy 
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chicks. Low direct price, freight pre¬ 
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Rayo Incubator Go. 
Incubator 
9f»7 South 13th Street, Omaha, Neb. 
THE CORNING FEED MIXER 
thoroughly mixes the feeil 
so poultry cannot sepa¬ 
rate it, hut must eat all of 
it. Hand ami power sizes. 
Also Bono Cutters. Send 
for catalog. Manufact¬ 
ured aud sold by 
WILSON BROS. 
Easton, Penna. 
Davis Poultry Farm 
Established 1894 
Famous Laying Strains : S. C. R. I. Reds 
also Barred and White Rocks 
Eggs for Hatching 
ORDER NOW for future delivery 
FULL COUNT GUARANTEED ON* DELIVERY 
Davis Poultry Farm, Berlin, Mass. 
OK Varieties, Chickens, Ducks, Geese. 
D. I. C. Hogs. Fiuo stock ami egg* 
hie. Big illustrated circular Free. 
HlflTWOLE, Box 22, - - HARRISONBURG, VA. 
reasons 
JOHN E. 
(ARRHJ ROCKS. ‘’RINGLET'’ Strain. Enos SI ami SI 
per la. I. H. Dm-k Eggs $1.25 and $2.00 per 
Catalog. G. F. WILLIAMSON. Flanders, N. J. 
For Sale—Buff Cochin Bantams 
also liellerstrass strain White Orpington 
amt S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs fqr hatching. 
Hill Crest Poultry Farms, Purchase. N. Y. 
rOAQC 
■V by take chances with untried machines when 
Jor only $10 we guarantee to deliver safe ly, ail freight 
I chargee paid (East of Rockiest BOTH of these big 
I prize winning machines fnlly equipped, set up 
I ready for use Y Why not own an Ironclad—the only 
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^ hatched 148 chicks from 148 egg a in 1312 content 
ikt 30 Days’ Free Trial 
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and many other special advantages fully explained in 
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l&rlQO 
f Chick 
Brooder 
r Wins in the Two 
BIGGEST HATCHING 
Contests Ever Held 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 
and Hatching Eggs 
Carefully Selected from Pure Strain Stock 
Otir eurgs guaranteed 80% fertile ; our 
chicks warranted full count and vigorous. 
Buy your spring stock from us—it pays. 
|\ « Chicks—$150 per lOOOj $17 per 
I irCCS 100; $9 per 50. Epgs—$60 per 
1000 ; $7 per 100 ; $4 per 50; $1.50 per 16. 
Write Today for Descriptive Folder 
CROSSWICKS POULTRY FARM 
^has. W. Brick, Prop., Box D, Crosswicks, N. J. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
Healthy, Yigorons, (Tom heavy laying stock. 
(Guaranteed full count and satisfactory. 
Place your order NOW—and avoid the rush. 
Hutchins Eggs Breeding Stock 
S. C. W. Leghorns. White aud Barred Rocks. 
All eggs and stock guaranteed. 
Write for big new catalog : “Tywtcnna. 11 __— 
Quality.” G-ivo8 lull description aud prices. V FARMS^ 
TYWACANA FARMS POULTRY 00. ^^JRY CO. 
A. E. Wright, Supt. 
Box 6H, FarmingdaH, Long lx I aud, N. Y 
TYWACANA 
KEYST ONE, POULTRY FOODS 
Made of highest quality ingredients, carefully 
mixed in proper proportions. Clean, appetizing, 
vital foods for poultry, pigeons, chicks. Pei 
fectly balanced, absolutely pure. Used every- 
where. Keystone foods make birds healthy 
^1^ and keep them so. Your dealer has them— 
if not, write to Taylor Bros., Camden, N. J., for catalog 
Ask: Your Dealer for Keystone Foods 
GET YOUR COCKERELS NOW 
Barred ami Buff Rock, R. & S.O. 
Reds, ami White Wynndottes. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS - R. 0. 4 - ATHENS N.Y. 
IMPORTED ORNAMENTAL POULTRY-Aci-limated, hardy 
• and prolific. Lakenvelders, Longtail-Yokahamas, 
and Black Bumatras. Prize-winuilig stock; I,on- 
dou, Madison Square, Boston. Eggs, $5 a setting. 
Stock for sale, $5 and $10 apiece. Supply limited. 
Place orders at once. OKLANOVA I’AllM, 
Dr. V. G. Simkhovitch, Proprietor, While House Station, N. J. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM 
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
Stock selected for vigor and given freerangeon targe 
farm. In the Cornell Breed Testing project last year 
one pullet from this flock laid 21G eggs, another laid 
212 eggs. The ten pullets laid 1739 eggs. Eggs $(5.1)0 per 
100. Eggs that fail to hutch replaced at half-price. 
F. E. STRONG, R. D. 2, - - - ITHACA, N. Y. 
VIGOROUS BABY CHICKS 
From healthy, purebred to lay, parents. 1000 breeders. 
Hatching capacity 60,000. Six varieties Chicks $13.00 per¬ 
il undred. 
REE OCR GREAT OFFER 
25 ef eur best Chicks and a Brooder all for $5.00 
Safe Delivery Guaranteed. Ask for Free Catalogue C. 
THE GIBSON-FORD COMPANY 
Box 3. CLYDE, N. Y. 
Prize-Winning Poultry 
Our Pittsfield Maine-bred birds won more prizes at the 
Boston Show than any other Barred Rocks —6 regular 
and 11 specials, including best color male. 
Day-Old Chicks and Hatching Eggs 
from Pittsfield stock cost but little. AVe guarantee safe 
delivery. Book orders now free. Send no money until 
just before shipment igjwunted. Get our great book, 
“ Money-Making Poultry.it Just the help you need to 
make your poultry pay better. Write for it today. 
PITTSFIELD POULTRY FARM COMPANY 
4X6 Main Street, Pittsfield, Maine 
SUPERIOR BABY CHIXi^V^ 
26-page booklet free. lfiO,000 chick capacity. Order 
early to assure prompt delivery. TAYLOR'S 
POULTRY YARDS, Box R, Lyons. New York. 
S. G. White Leghorn Baby Chicks 10c each 
Safe arrival guaranteed. No order too largo or too 
small. Hatching eggs by the setting or thousand; 
fertility guaranteed. Write for catalogue. 
Kit II LAND FARMS - - Frederick, Md 
KIRKUP’S STRAINS. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
bred for size, vigor and large, white market eggs. 
Safe delivery of chix guaranteed. Send for our 
circular. CHKSTNPT POULTRY FARM 
Kirkup Bros., Props.. Mattitnek, L.I., N.Y. 
specials, except ono&i Sccaiiectady, 1313; also wou tlrstk. C. Red 
Cocker©! and color special at Albany, 1913, In competition with 
the Madison Square and Crystal Palm-© winners. Kjcgs fur hatch- 
inn from high-clAss matings; also a fbw choice breeding:birds yet 
for sale. D. U. llone, Crescent Uill Farm, Aharon Springs, N. Y. 
Hatching Eggs and Baby Chicks 
Our strains have always been known as heavy 
layers and choice market producers. Our recent 
winnings at the great shows demonstrate our exhi¬ 
bition quality. Get in on the ground floor with this 
combination. S. C. W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks and 
Salmon Faverolles, Leghorn Cockerels for sale. 
EVERGREEN POULTRY FARM 
Tol. connection. Chappaqua, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Breeders and shippers for 20 years of high-class S. C. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Baby chicks and 
hatching eggs our specialty. Correspondence invited. 
Pullets and Yearlings For Sale 
500 April and May Single Comb White Leghorn Pul 
lets. 700 selected yearlings. Every bird guaranteed 
purebred, hoaithy and vigorous. 
SUNNY HILL FARM Flemington, N. J. 
The Orange County Poultry House 
is the ” last word ” in poultry house construction. 
Houses the birds from incubator to old age. Costs 
about 70 cts per hen. Descriptive catalogue on ap¬ 
plication. O. \Y. MALES, Middletown, N. Y. 
CUSTOM HATCHING 
in onr Hall Mammoth Incubator, by experienced 
operator, means better chicks, free from lice and 
disease. When you want them, send us the eggs ; 
we’ll send you the chicks. S3 a compartment, hold¬ 
ing 150 eggs. MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM, Millertou, N. Y. 
Abovo Poultry Farms Go., Inc. 
CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY 
Established, 1904. Breeders and shippers of high 
class S. O. W. Leghorns. Hatching Eggs. Baby 
chicks. Cockerels, Write for price list. 
OSCAWANA BROOK FARM 
PUTNAM VALLEY, N. Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorns pay. 
For fertile eggs ONLY $0 per 100; $50 per 1000. 
HOFF’S “ Vitality ” Baby Chicks of Quality 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Rhode Island Reds, Colnni- 
bian and Barred Plymouth 
Rocks. My stock is bred for big 
egg production, as well as exhibi¬ 
tion type, and is noted for heavy 
laying of large eggs that bring 
top prices. I have had 24 years’ 
experience in artificial incuba¬ 
tion, ami by closely studying the 
breeding and hatching, under the 
most sanitary conditions, I am able to produce 
Chicks free from White Diarrhoea. Also Eggs for Hatch¬ 
ing. Sent by Parcels Post if requested. To make 
sure of securing my “VITALITY” ('hicks of 
QUAL1TY. get y-nir order booked now. Write for my 
booklet and reasonable prices on Chicks and Eggs. 
D. C. R. HOFF, Lock Box No. 1 I 5, Neshanic Station, N. J. 
Rose Comb White Leghorn Mammoth" l’ekin 
ducks. Eggs for hatching. ANSON HENRY, Banders, N. J. 
Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs 
S. C. White Leghorns exclusively. High class, free 
range utility stock. Healthy and vigorous. VAN- 
CREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co.. New York 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS 75c per doz. 
■ $4 hundred. Will exchange for Plymouth Rock or 
Rhode Island Eggs. Mrs. Geo. Davidson, Annapolis, Md. 
White Wyandotte.-pC3 b "J£5i;S; 
best ad. Write today tor new descriptive circular. 
0WNLAN0 FARM, Box 497, South Hammond, New York 
R. I. Reds, Hoifdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hate hing. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. 602 Fifth St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
IN BUSINESS SINCE 1885 
We do not know of a single failure by purchasers 
of our 
Mammoth Utility Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns 
THE FARMER S FLOCK 
PLEASED CUSTOMERS have force, 1 the increase of 
our capacity FOUR TIM ES ORIGINAL SIZE. 
Baby (’hicks, Eggs for hatching, etc., from vigor¬ 
ous. healthy, range-raised, heavy layers. Bred 
to the standard. Book now for lowest prices. 
THORNEHAVEN POULTRY FARM, Shelter Island Heiphts, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200 stAa.nS, C, Riiode'lsland Reds 
Standard bred, red to the skin. Eggs for hatching 
$3.Ik), $5.00 and $10.00 per set (15). Utility $0.00 per 
100. 90■& fertility guaranteed Cockerels, yearlings, 
pullets, hahv chic s. 
AUSTINS POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
White Holland Turkeys f“ s s * Iavers and 
excellent mothers. Mrs. R0BT. T. DAVIS, Cumberland. Va. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
WALNUT HILL STOCK FARM. 
NATHANIEL BACON, .Manager, Talcott, W. Va. 
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS 
1912 hatched Toms, 20 to 36 lbs. : Pullets, 16 to 22 
lbs. Also Black Orpington Pullets aud Cockerels 
F. B. GARNSEY, - - Clayton, New York 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs 
$3 per 10. R. C. K. I. lied Eggs. $1 per 15. I. U. l>-.i U 
Eggs, *1 per 10. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburp, Pc. 
Baby Chicks $1254 per 100 
Bred from large, mature, and healthy S, 0. White 
Leghorns (Young’s strain) on free range : good lay¬ 
ers and fine-looking stock. Healthy chicks, full 
count, and safe delivery guaranteed. $12.50 per hun¬ 
dred: $5<MM per attt) Guetilar on request. MATTITUCK 
WHITE LEGHORN FARM, Arthur H. Penny, Mattituck, N. Y. 
Mammoth White Holland Turkeys 
pure bred, large and vigorous. White Wyandotte 
and Pekin dnek eggs. H. W. Anderson, Stewartstown, Pa. 
DARRED ROCK S C W LEGHORN EGGS-Speotal matings. 
° $1-00 per 15; utility, $4.IK) per hundred. Order for 
future delivery. J. I. HERETER, R. D. 4, Gettysburu, Pa. 
