1913. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
657 
The Henyard. 
HENS HARVEST BUCKWHEAT. 
I think I have partially solved the 
hired help problem. I had a field of 
late-sown grain that was ripe in August 
and ready to harvest, but other work 
so needed my attention that I could not 
spare time to do it myself. I had some 
neighbors living in a house right by 
the side of the grain field whom I knew 
to be industrious and I decided to in¬ 
vite them to do the harvesting. They 
were very glad of the job and immedi¬ 
ately went about it. It was a pleasure 
to watch them, as they enjoyed their 
work so much. I have known some 
laborers who would not get around to 
their work until a late hour in the 
morning, and theft appear to take no 
pleasure in their- task, but these helpers 
of mine would be in the field at work 
as soon as light and much of their time 
they sang as they worked. Well, they 
finally completed their task and I never 
saw the work done better or with so 
little grain shattered out and left upon 
the ground to waste. When they were 
through, they seemed perfectly satisfied, 
although I did not offer to pay them 
a single cent. Each night when my 
neighbors were through work, I went 
out to their house and found that they 
had changed my grain into eggs, which 
after it- is cleared and sowing to beard¬ 
less barley in July which will ripen in 
September or early October. I think 
it would be safe to sow wheat with the 
barley and thus get two crops from 
one seeding. This plan is being suc¬ 
cessfully followed in the production of 
a late Fall and early Spring soiling 
crop for cows, and ought to be as suc¬ 
cessfully used in raising grain for hens. 
The wheat, by keeping the ground 
covered through the Winter with a 
green crop performs a useful service 
by absorbing all available fertility and 
preventing the land from washing. 
Surplus grain can be cut when ripe and 
put under cover or stacked near the 
henhouses. In the Winter this can be 
pitched down to the hens as they need 
it. They will thrash it out cleaner 
than it could be done by hand, and the 
exercise is very beneficial to them and 
is a great aid in the production of 
Winter eggs. , 
When working hens in this way, 
small colony houses are needed that 
can easily be moved from one field to 
another. These methods are especially ad¬ 
vantageous in raising growing chickens, 
as they are more easily changed from 
field to field than are older fowls, and 
they arrive at the right age and ma¬ 
turity to utilize whole grains just in 
time to begin harvesting the early ripen¬ 
ing crops, thus making it possible to 
' HENS IN BUCKWHEAT. 
were much easier for me to carry home 
and send to market than the grain would 
have been. 
1 his grain was sown in a cultivated 
orchard of about 1acres in extent 
late in June to check excessive wood 
growth and furnish humus-making ma¬ 
terial for plowing under the following 
Spring, and m> flock of about 100 hens, 
for they were the workers, got all their 
living aside from about 75 pounds of 
beef scraps for fully three months from 
this grain, and their eggs sold for much 
more,than the grain would have brought 
if I had gone to the work of harvesting 
and thrashing it myself. There is still 
another advantage in this method, for 
it reduces the labor of caring for hens 
to the least possible amount, thus re¬ 
moving one of the largest items of ex¬ 
pense in poultry keeping as in grain 
growing. I found it necessary to visit 
my hens only once a day, which was at 
night, when I carried them fresh water 
and gathered the eggs. 
I see no reason why this system can¬ 
not be greatly extended. By sowing 
W inter wheat the preceding Fall one 
might have a crop ready for the hens 
to begin work upon in the early Sum¬ 
mer. 1 his could be followed by early 
sown barley. By later sowings, barley 
can be had continuously until snow falls 
in early Winter. Buckwheat sown in 
June will ripen in August and give a 
large yield of splendid feed. The stiff 
stalk of the buckwheat plant holds the 
grain well up from the ground where 
it keeps until the hens- need it, being in 
good condition until snow comes in 
early Winter. It is possible to raise 
tuo crops of grain in one season by 
disking or plowing the wheat stubble 
harvest a large amount of grain by 
carrying a comparatively small breeding 
stock through the Winter. In my own 
practice I have found that tfte young 
roosters, sold as broilers, pay for the 
feed purchased up to that time, leaving 
the young pullets as profit and these 
are very cheaply grown to maturity by 
my methods. Under this system of 
farm management there need not be 
much expense for fertilizer. By plow¬ 
ing in so much vegetable matter the 
ground will become very rich in humus, 
and if the poultry droppings are put 
back on the land, most soils will need 
nothing but a little phosphorus unless 
they are light and sandy, when some 
potash will be needed also. 
New Hampshire. Alfred c. dcrgin. 
;Leghorn Eggs 
and Brown 1 
*2.75—50: SI—15; *25- 
- Prom hens raised ami are 
_ _ on free range. $:>— 100 ; 
1000. Special matings a matter 
of correspondence. Riverside Poultry Farms, Gilboa, N. Y. 
Italian Bees Cheap 
ey. 
-Get Bees now and get ben¬ 
efit in extra fruit and lion- 
Write for prices. OR. JOHNSTON, Suffem. N. Y- 
BARRED ROCK EGGS 
Nonpareil strain, utility bred, *1 per 15; *3.50 iter 100. 
B. H. HENION, - . Brockport, N. Y* 
Indian Runner Ducks—Barred Rocks 
Prixu winner!. Fawn and Willie I. It. duck egge $1.25 and $3 
|wr 1 ». Rock ckk'si SI and J 1 .SO per 15. Catalogue free. 
CEO. F. WILLIAMSON, - Box 215, Flondors, N J. 
IN THE INTERNATIONAL EGG LAYING CONTEST at Storrs. Conn 
WHITE ACRES TYPE TRUE 
Single Comb White Orpingtons 
load all tlie Orpingtons and 42 out of 47 pens of Leg¬ 
horns. They are laying better than 85of the repre¬ 
sentative Leghorn slramsof this country and gained 
their big lead during the Fall and Winter months. 
Write for folder ¥7 r vv . 1 • 
and price-list of iLggs tor Hatching 
WHITE ACRES POULTRY RANCH, Three Tuns, Pa. 
H. S. Spaulding, Manager. 
Eggs for Hatching—10 Cents per Egg 
From large, vigorous farm raised S. Buff Orpingtons. 
Have averaged 50* egg yield from Nov. 1st. Winners 
at Oleau Poultry Show. w. B. CLARK, chipmonk, N. Y. 
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1 40C hicks from 140 Eggs 
This World's Championship Record is not 
uncommon with users of my Belle City incu¬ 
bator. Many are doing this right along. The 
United States governmentis one of my 201,840 
Belle City users. Make Sure of Success 
by using my proof-backed Belle City* 
Write me for all of the proofs or order direct 
from this ad. Thousands of others do. 
Jim Rohan. Pres. Belle City Incubator Company* 
55 Still Buys 
World’s Champion 
140-Egg Incubator 
Double cases all over; 
best copper tank; nursery, self-reg¬ 
ulating. Best 110-chick hot-water 
brooder, $4.85. Ordered together. 
$11.50. FreightPaid (E. of Rockies)® 
No machines — ” 
any price are 
better. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Write for book today or send price 
now and save time. Jim Rohan, Pres. ^ 
Belle CitylncubatorC 0 ..B 0 X 48.Racine, 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Won national egg laying contest. Mature early, 
make finest broilers, are good mothers, and most 
beautiful and profitable of all fowls. 1 have hatch¬ 
ing eggs from my famous flock of record-breaking 
layers, deep glowing red to the skin. Reds, Rose 
and Single Comb, raised on fine free range in colony 
houses wide open, all Winter. Hardy, vigorous, 
heavy Winter-laying birds. I guarantee high fertil¬ 
ity, safe delivery and strict upright dealing all 
through. Further particulars and prices on request. 
NOTICE— I have only a very few of my large, splen¬ 
did Cockerels from record-laying mothers left. Fin¬ 
est birds for egg-laying strain. Also few beautiful 
yearlings now laying heavily. Fine for breeders. 
V1BERT RED FARM, Box 1. WESTON. N. J. 
D ADV PHIY —' 2 c each—S.C.White Leghorns, Prize 
UHD I UlilA stock, free range. $1U.U0 per 100. I. 
R. duck eggs: all 7c. each: $5 00 per 100. Stock for 
sale. R0CKEY GLEN POULTRY FARM, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 
THE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
I layers on ear'a. Eggs. *100 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route I, Richland. N. Y. 
Reduction in PriceT 3 * 10 * 1 ', 1 ’ 868 * 5 * 1 " 0111 high ‘ 
ncuuLitvu 111 1 1 ilc iy developed strain Single 
Comb White Leghorns *1 for 15; $5 per hundred 
F. A. CLEMENT, RICHMOND, MASS. 
Baby Chicks 12c. Each 
range'selecteo S. C. White Leghorns 
Prompt delivery. A hatch ©very week. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Reduction on hatching eggs balance 
of season. Circular free. CHA 8 . U. STONE, 
BABY CHICKEN FARM, - Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
1,000 superior baby chix 
yfej y come to life daily with 
tkiB report. White aud Brown Leghorns are two 
of our varieties. Write for catalogue, mating and 
price list of chix and hatching eggs. 
Taylor’s Poultry Yards, Box R, Lyons, N.Y. 
RjiKv , C - Y?- I' e g'"Orns, Barred 
DELDy CD1CKS Rocks, R. C. Reds. Strong, 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular free. 
WESLEY GK1NNFLL - SODUS, N. Y. 
THE MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM now offers 
* chicks at *10 per 100 . Satisfaction in every respect 
guaranteed. Address, Arthur H. Penny, Mattituck, N. V. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN chicks, 8 c : 
S. O. B. Orpington chicks. 15c. 
If over 4 are dead to each 100 on 
reaching your station, I will 
make good ilie 
1 o sb. Catalog " 
on feeding aud 
diseases free. 
C. M. LAUVER, a 
It. T8, 
Richfield, Pa. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R. No. 24, Athens, Pa. Breeders for 32 years of 
purebred poultry of high quality. Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing. Silver Campinas. Leghorns, Minorcas, Reds, 
Wyandottes,Cochins,Rocks, Geese, Ducks,Guineas. 
UAMPTON’S S. C. BLACK LEGHORN-Eggs for hatching 
*5.00 per 100 . World s best egg producers. 
A. E. HAMPTON. Route 4, PITTSTOWN, N. J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Day-old Chicks, $12 per 100 ; Eggs, *5 per 100 . 
Large, vigorous, true Leghorn type. Persistent 
layers. Unlimited range. Hot water mammoth 
incubators used. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, R. 0. No. 54. SALT POINT, N Y. 
Fernwood Farm & Gardens, Yorktown, N.Y. 
S C White I pohnrn«“ Es:s;s for hatching from 
. L. TV Ulie Legnorns mature hirds bred for 
vigor aud egg production. Write for prices. 
FLOYD O. WHITE, successor to White & Rice. 
PHA NPF TO improve your S. C. W. Leg- 
xx-xixLLi * horn stock by pnreha-ing 
eggs from flock averaging 163 eggs per year and 
headed by grandsons of Lady Cornell, whose official 
record was 257 per year. Eggs, *1.50—15: $8 per 100 . 
VALLEY VIEW HEIGHTS. S. L. Purdie, Mgr., GENOA, N. Y. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKStJ^'V^ 
white eggs. * 1.00 per 13: *6.00 per 100. 
KOI CKANDALL, . Albion, N. Y. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS—*1.50 per 15; 
■ *7 a 100, prepaid. Heavy layers of white eggs. 
R. G. HARTWELL, - BREWSTER, N. Y. 
200 Breeding Pekin Ducks For Sale 
WHITE HORSE FARMS. A. K. Heath, Mgr.. PA0LI, PENN. 
K ELLERSTHASS—Crystal White Orpingtons — Eggs from 
bird* that weigh lbs.; from original 10 eggs, price, $3 
per 15. W. A. Kaiser, 2703 Jamaica Ave., Richmond Hill 
Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs"®;^ Juts. 
In buying our stock uone was too good for us. 
Take advantage. EVERGREKN, Suffern, N. \ r . 
Indian Runner Ducks~ Frm " iiw» ted English 
13 eggs *1. 
stock. White egg strain. 
JOHN RICHARDS, llethel, Vt. 
INDIAN RUNNER OUCKS-Genuine White Egg strain. 
1 Eggs from W. special mating, $1.50 for 10. White 
Orpington eggs, $1.25,15. Geo. Bowdish, Esperance, N.Y. 
RarrAii RLarge, free range, prize-winning 
Darrea IYOCKS straiu . Fifteen eggs * 1 . 50 . Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. N. H. BROWN, LaFargeville, N. Y. 
RARRFD ROCKS in the very best blood 
DAAIVEU IYULIYD Hues. Eggs. $1 per sitting; 
*5 per 100. CHAS. T. DOWNING. R. 2. West Chester, Pa. 
Columbian Rocks—Aurora Strain 
1st prize winners atNew York and Buffalo. Eggs, 
$3.00 and *5.00 per 15. Fiee mating list. 
LEW H. BOWN, - East Aurora, N. Y - . 
Barred P. Rock Eggs 
from large liens on free range. *5 per 100: *3 for 50: 
*1.25 forlS. F. O. B. Washington, 1). C. One breed 
only. YY . A. SHEIIMAN, K. 3, Vienna, Va, 
WHITE ’DOTTE S-Our plan— 
LAKENVELDERS 
OWNLAND FARM, Box497,South Hammond, N.Y. 
B ARRED ROCK EGGS— Special mating, *1 per 15; utility, *4 per 
100. Indian Kumier Durk eges, *1 per 12. M. B. Turkey 
* 3 P° r H>- I- HF.RETER. R. D. 4. Gettysburg. Pa. 
DLUE RIBBON STRAIN WHITE WYANDOTTE HATCHING 
u EGGS, *1 PER DOZEN BY MAIL. 
_Send check, money or money-order. 
HESSIAN HILL FARM, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. 
XTRA LAYING STRAIN White Wyandottes. 
Eggs, $1.50 and $2 per 15. W. J. THOMSON, Delhi, N. Y. 
E 
PRIZE WINNING STOCK 
Exhibition and utility White Plymouth Rocks, 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C. R. I. Reds; day-old 
chicks eggs by clutch or 1000 : book your orders early. 
KN0LLW00D FARM, 
