064 
5THtEj RUR-A.1^ NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The twenty-third week of the contest 
shows a further drop in egg production, 
though the loss is only 41 eggs. This loss 
is caused entirely by the American breeds; 
the White Leghorns show a gain of 22 eggs 
over the previous week, their output being 
1053, against 1031 last week. The White 
I.leghorns also make the highest score for 
the week, and second and third place too, 
with the exception that Colonial Farms 
S. C. Rhode Island Rods tie two pens of 
Leghorns for second place, each of the three 
pens laying 20. The highest score, 30, was 
made by the pen of W. L. Sleegur. Mrs. 
E. K. Woodruff's pen laid 29, and O. A. 
Foster's laid 29. 
Five pens of White Leghorns laid 28 each. 
They are the pens of W. P. Canby, Leroy 
E. Sands, A. P. Robinson, Marwood Poultry 
Farm, and the pen of F. A. Jones. Beulah 
Farms White Wyandottes laid 27, C. S. 
Scoville’s R. C. R. 1. Reds 27, F. G. Yost's 
White Leghorns 27. Rosswood Foultry 
Farm's White Leghorns 27; R. A. Marri- 
son’s White Leghorns 27; Joseph J. Bar¬ 
clay’s White Leghorns 27, and the Blue 
Andalusians from E. D. Bird laid 27. 
The average number of eggs laid per 
pen is about as fair a way of comparing 
the performance of the different breeds as 
any. The averages are given below : 
Laid Average 
8 
pens 
Barred P. Rooks. . . . 
147 
18.36 
o 
pens 
White P. Rooks. 
39 
19.5 
o 
pons 
Columbian P. Rocks 
46 
23. 
pens 
White Wyandottes. . 
244 
22. IS 
2 
pens 
Buff Wyandottes . . . 
41 
21.5 
8 
pens 
S. C. IL I. Reds_ 
176 
09 
5 
pens 
R. C, R. I. Reds_ 
90 
18. 
43 
pens 
White Leghorns. 
1053 
24.5 
3 
pens 
Buff Leghorns . 
58 
19.3 
2 
pens 
Buff Orpingtons . . . . 
41 
20.5 
4 
pens 
White Orpingtons . . 
44 
11. 
It will be seen that White Leghorns not 
only made nearly all the high scores, but 
the average for all the pens of that breed 
was greater than that of any other. At 
this time of year the larger breeds are 
losing a good deal of time by being broody, 
while the Leghorn goes right on laying eggs. 
While Thomas Barron's White Leghorns 
laid 26 and Edward Cam's 19 this week, 
they lay enough to keep themselves at the 
head of the procession all the time. Mr. 
Barron’s have now laid a total of 520. and 
Mr. Cam’s 466. Geo. II. Schmitz's Buff 
Leghorns have laid 443, and Edward Cam's 
White Wyandottes 420. The White Leg¬ 
horns from Braeside Poultry Farm have 
laid 409, and O. A. Foster’s White Leg¬ 
horns 404. No other pens have laid 400. 
Twelve pens of the White Leghorns con¬ 
tribute to the high scores this week, the 
number of eggs ranging from 27 to 30. 
All the other breeds combined contribute 
four of the high scorers, ranging from 27 
to 29, and the White Leghorns also make 
the highest average per pen, viz., 24.5. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
These Prize English Leghorns. 
I was up at Storrs, Conn., last week, and 
in looking over the pens in the laying con¬ 
test I was mightly impressed with those 
English Leghorns. There are two pens 
entered from England, and one from Cal¬ 
ifornia for which Barron raised the birds. 
This latter was two weeks late in arriving, 
which handicap just kept them out of third 
place in the race. Now every one of those 
15 birds is of a distinctly different type 
from any of the American stock. Their 
beaks are shorter and thicker, their combs 
and wattles larger and heavier, and their 
eyes larger and more prominent. The type 
is uniform, and has vigor stamped all over 
It. Naturally it brought to my mind the 
question whether or no English judges lay 
stress upon those features in the show ring. 
It was evident that Barron does in any 
case. His birds are on the qui vive every 
minute, while all of the American Leghorns 
do more or less loafing. c. m. g. 
Indian Runners With Mixed Eggs. 
1. What makes my Fawn and White In¬ 
dian Runner ducks lay all-colored eggs? 
Some are a very light color, some a muggy 
color and others a very green color. The 
latter and former will not hatch. My 
feed is all right, what other duck raisers 
use. 2. Is grit good to feed to baby chicks 
exclusively for four weeks? 3. T have a 
farm and always have lettuce that I cannot 
ship. Is this good to feed .to laying hens 
for greens? w. k. p. 
Florida. 
1. It is not the nicest thing in the 
world to say, but the chances are that your 
correspondent’s Fawn and White Runners 
lay “all-colored eggs” because he has been 
buncoed. If he did not ask for white-egg 
layers, and the breeder did not advertise 
them, there is no redress. If he did, he 
can demand his money back, or ducks that 
do lay white eggs. The color has nothing 
whatever to do with the batching unless 
the green eggs are freaks. Some wliite- 
egg birds out of condition have been known 
to lay eggs with rough, greenish, triple¬ 
thick shells. These are abnormal, and do 
not count, except against the condition of 
the bird laying them temporarily. Your 
readers will note that here is proof posi¬ 
tive (in the fact that these ducks lay less 
eggs of all colors), that the Fawn and 
White, or American Standard birds, have 
not reached the happy white-egg state 
which their breeders claim so strenuously ! 
2. I would not feed grits or anything 
else exclusively to chicks. Variety is far 
better, and there is no better food for baby 
chicks than bread moistened with sweet 
milk. Not even of this would I feed ex¬ 
clusively. The more variety of good feed, 
the better chicks and the more of them to 
answer pullet roll-call next Fall. 
3. If you have plenty of lettuce to feed, 
you are the luckiest of breeders and I 
envy you. Feed liberally, remembering 
that it must not be decayed lettuce, and 
that one can feed so much watery stuff 
as to hinder nutrition. There must be 
enough nutritious grain, etc., to make the 
eggs, with enough lettuce to insure the 
best of health. Good for the youngsters, 
too, both ducklings and chicks. 
C. S. VALENTINE. 
Roup. 
I have several S. C. W. Orpington and 
R. C. R. I. Red hens which have a swelling 
of the eye (affecting one in each case_ so 
far). The eye is closed and, in one case 
the swelling has broken above the eye and 
discharged a yellowish pus. In one other 
case the mouth and throat have swollen 
and there is great difficulty in breathing. 
Death resulted in this case from strangu¬ 
lation. I separated the affected ones as 
soon as discovered, but others are affected. 
I have fed a grain mixture in the morning 
and at night and dry mash is before them 
all the time. They have been fed liberally 
with green food, cabbage, etc., and fresh 
water at all times. The coops are dry 
and clean. I have washed the affected 
parts with peroxide and carbolic acid 
solution and used vaseline, but nothing I 
can do seems to help. What is the cause 
and what remedy can be used? e. r. 
New York. 
Your fowls evidently have a contagious 
inflammation of tile lining membrane of 
the nostrils, throat, and eyes, probably 
caused by the germs of true roup. As this 
is readily transferred from one to another 
through the medium of the discharges from 
the affected fowls’ heads, you should imme¬ 
diately remove and quarantine all fowls 
showing any evidences of sickness, and thor¬ 
oughly clean up and disinfect their quarters 
and all utensils used by them. The house 
should be whitewashed with lime wash to 
which four ounces of crude carbolic acid 
to the gallon have been added, and the 
utensils used by the flock should be cleaned 
with boiling water. As this is a serious and 
very infectious disease, you cannot be too 
thorough in your precautions to prevent its 
spread. M. b. d. 
Leg Weakness in Chicks. 
I have 400 chicks three weeks old, all 
equally divided in six pens in a house 
heated" with a coal stove. They are grow¬ 
ing well, but there are a few that seem 
to get weak in the legs. Some get over it 
and some do not. They have fine straw 
and sand to work in, and some to sit on 
at night under hovers. Feed in morning 
chick feed, gravel, charcoal; 10 o’clock, 
grass and beef scrap; noon, chick feed, 
bread crumbs; three o’clock, grass and a 
little wheat; 5 o’clock chick feed. T. f. b. 
New Jersey. 
We have never been able to keep chicks 
confined to a house for more than three 
weeks without their showing leg weakness 
and other symptoms of lowered vitality. 
Many poultrymen believe that they should 
have access to the ground and unlimited 
exercise almost immediately after hatching, 
but our personal experience leads us to 
think that the first two weeks of a chick’s 
life are much like the first year of a baby’s; 
a time when they need to do little but eat, 
sleep, and grow. After that time, how¬ 
ever, the chicks need to get to the ground 
and have ample space in which to stretch 
their wings and wiggle their toes; they 
have now reached the mud pie age and 
should no more be confined than should 
a growing child of six. M. B. d. 
Lame Goslings. 
My goslings become lame—lose the use 
of their legs. It seems to come on them 
all at once; some get better and some die 
in three or four days. They eat well 
but cannot stand up. I have had bad 
luck with mine for four or five years and 
others had the same luck. What causes 
it and what can I do to avoid the trouble? 
Some are taken when very large, after 
feathering out. MRS. w. a. l. 
I am told by those who have had ex¬ 
perience with geese that two possible causes 
of such trouble as you describe are over¬ 
feeding with concentrated grain rations, 
particularly cornmeal, and too long con¬ 
tinued inbreeding. If you are feeding corn- 
meal, I would suggest that you replace 
the greater part of it with wheat bran 
and that you also procure a gander un¬ 
related to your flock if you have not re¬ 
cently done so, M. B. D. 
Hatching Eggs by Mail. 
I see considerable discussion in your val¬ 
uable paper regarding parcel post, and will 
give my experience. I sent two settings 
of eggs carefully packed in double-walled 
corrugated cardboard boxes. One box went 
to Kora place in Virginia, and every egg 
arrived smashed. I packed the eggs myself, 
and was surprised at the result. The other 
shipment went to a place 20 miles outside 
of Boston and the eggs arrived intact, but 
only six hatched out of 15 eggs, while 
the same eggs, i. e., from the same pen, 
hatched 80 to 100 per cent when sent by 
express. Clearly the severe jarring and 
handling by parcel post killed the germs. 
My own opinion is that we shall not have 
better results until the parcel post is di¬ 
vorced from the regular mail business and 
handled as a separate affair. I have lived 
for many years in Germany, where the 
parcel post takes the place of express and 
is handled in much the same way as our 
express is here, by a different set of clerks 
and in different wagons and in a different 
part of the post office. Parcels are never 
dumped in the mail sacks as here, but are 
put in the baggage car as express parcels 
are here, and are put out at each railway 
station to clerks who are on the platform 
with enormous hand trudks to receive 
them. At large stations I have seen six 
or more trucks used to take away the 
packages arriving by one train. We must 
eventually have the same system here. 
New Jersey. f. m. prescott. 
Distinguishing Guineas.— l T our corre¬ 
spondent asking how to distinguish male 
and female Guinea did not receive a very 
satisfactory answer (page 588). The most 
apparent difference is the larger size of 
the wattles on the male. As to the voice, 
one may or may not be any louder or 
harsher than the other but the female’s 
call consists of two syllables—the male’s 
of one. j. n. 
Girard, Ill. 
IRON ME 
Know that yarded fowls must be kept active; j 
| that clean, sweet scratching grounds are 
" necessary for good health of the flock; L 
theu turn under the top soil with an I 
Wheel 
Plow| 
and make yard fresh and healthful. 
Light, easily handled,effective. Price, 
$2.50; with hoes, cultivator teeth, 
etc.,$3.50. Hill and Drill Seeder ' 
and Wheel Hoe with all necess- , 
f cultivating tools, $ia.oo. 38 | 
combinations to choose from. ; 
Also potato machinery, spray¬ 
ers, etc. Write for our ] 
new booklet,] 
"Gardening] 
With Modern ] 
Tools 
BATEMAN 
M’F’G <30. 
Box 1023 
Grenloch, N. J. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Won national egg laying contest. Mature early, 
make finest broilers, are good mothers, and most 
beautiful and profitable of all fowls. I 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- 
Establlshod 1894 
Austin’s'200 
YOUR 
MONEY 
BACK 
on infertile eggs. Bred-to-lay S.C. R.I. 
DCflQ hW. *6.00; 50, $3.00; 30, $11.00. 
IIL.UO Sitting, by parcel post, $1.25. 
Circular. W. A. BUCK, Naples, N. Y. 
MATTITUCK WHITE 
LEGHORN FARM CHICKS 
please others—they will please you. 
One customer has bought 4000 from woek to wook 
since .March 1st. 
Another has had 200 weekly since April 1st. 
A third customer writes: "Send me another hundred 
•s soon as possible. I still liaveOT of the hundred pur¬ 
chased April 2d, and they are growing like weeds.” 
The price is $10 -°-° per hundr ed 
You run no risk. Send for circulars. 
Satisfaction in every respect is guaranteed. 
A. H. PENNY, - - Mattituck, N. Y. 
Baby Chicks 10k. each 
Reductions on all orders over 100. Ail breeders 
! are on free range and from solected S. C. White 
Leghorns. Prompt delivery. A hatch every 
week. Safe arrival guaranteed. Circular free. 
Chas.R. Stone,Baby Chicken Farm.Staatsburg-on-Hudson.N Y 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Large, vigorous true S. C. White Leghorn type. Unlimited 
range. Persistent layers. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
CUSTOM HATCHING 
by the same mammoth incubators and expert operation that 
produces our famous chicks. $3 per compartment of 150 eggs. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, SALT POINT. DUTCHESS CO., N.Y. 
Davis Poultry Farm 
Famous Laying Strains : S. C. R. I. Reds 
also Barred and White Rocks 
Eggs for Hatching 
IDay’-old.Cliix 
ORDER NOW for future delivery 
FULL COUNT GUARANTEED ON DELIVERY 
Davis Poultry Farm, Berlin, Mass. 
STRAIN S. C. Rhodejlsland Reds 
Standard tired, red to the skin. Eggs for hatching 
$3.00, $5.00 and $10.00 per set (15). Utility $0.00 por 
100. 90(6 fertility guaranteed Cockerels, yearlings, 
pullets, baby chicks. 
AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H 
R. I, Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hate liing. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Day-Old Chicks and 
Hatching Eggs 5&.C 
in advance. Send no money till just before shipment. 
We ship any distance. Guarantee safe delivery. We 
take the risk. Pittsfield Barred Rocks mature earliest, 
are heaviest layers. Get our great free hook, “Money 
Making Poultry." 
PITTSFIELD POULTRY FARM CO., 
416 Main Street Pittsfield, Maine 
PRIZE WINNING STOCK 
Exhibition and utility White Plymouth Rocks. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C. R. 1. Reds; day-old 
chicks eggs by clutch or 1000; book your orders early. 
KN0LLW00D FARM, fcSX&gfiS- 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R. No. 24, Athens, Pa. Breeders for 32 years of 
purebred poultry of high quality. Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing. Silver Campiues, Leghorns, Minorcas, Reds, 
Wyandottes,Cochins,Rocks, Geese, Ducks,Guineas. 
Fernwood Farm & Gardens, Yorktown, N.Y. 
S f Whifp I P<rhnrn«“® El '' s for hatching from 
. "y uue Legnorns mature i,i r d R t> re d for 
vigor and egg production. Write for prices 
FLOYD O. WHITE, successor to White& Rice 
Bargain Sale of Breeders pLi^fand^s 
for hatching. I'.ig illustrated circular Free. 
JOHN E. liEATWOLE, Box 22, Harrisonburg, Va. 
May 10, 
SPECIAL PRICES! 
KENOTIN LEGHORNS 
STRAIN S.C.W. —... — 
Prof. Krurn, the noted Cornell University 
expert, has verv kindly permitted us to 
state that our breeding pens were mated 
by him, and that we have an exception¬ 
ally clean flock of the best laying type. 
Selected eggs for hatching $5.00 per 100. 
BABY CHICKS 
Healthy, vigorous full of vitality, all sound, 
guaranteed full count, delivered alive or 
money refunded. $10.00 per 100. For May only. 
KENOTIN FARM, F. W. Sessions, Washington Mills, N. Y. 
Twenty elegant, ten months old, Berkshire sows at 
$30.00 each. Bred March pigs $12-00. 
Abovo Poultry Farms Co., Inc. 
CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY 
Established. 1904. Breeders and shippers of high 
class S. W. Leghorns. Hatching Eggs. Baby 
chicks. Cockerels, Write for price list. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
75c per 15; $4 per 100; from an extra large sized and 
one of the best-laying strains of S. C. W. Leghorns 
in existence. J. M. CASE. Gilboa, New York 
—Choice Buff Wyandotte Eggs exclu¬ 
sively. $1 per sitting of 15; $5 hun¬ 
dred. Purebred: free range; good iayors. 
CHAS. I. MILLER, R. F. D. No. 1. Hudson. N. Y. 
hv f’hi/'htt -1 S- C. W. Leghorns, Barred 
DaDy LniCKS Rooks, r. C . Reds. Strong, 
livable. From vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
breeders. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular free. 
WESLEY GKINNELL - SODUS, N. Y. 
THE FARMER’S FAVORITE WINTER LAYERS-Kellerstrass 
1 White Orpingtons. Eggs, $6.00 hundred up. 
Baby Chicks. W. R. Stevens, Culver Road, Lyons, N. r. 
Black Leghorn Eggs for Hatching 
the kind that lay. A. E. Hampton, Route 4, Pittstown, N. J. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKSi£&‘‘V y pK 
white eggs. $1.00 per 13: $6.00 per 100. 
KOV CRANDALL, . A lbion, N. Y. 
WE HAVE THE BEST PEKIN DUCK8 
They have won 21 first prizes this season out of 24 
competed for, including four first at Grand Central 
Palace, and three first and, a second at Madison 
Square Garden. Fertile Eggs, $2.00 for 11. Wonlso 
breed S. C. W. Leghorns, R. C. R. I. Reds. Bronze 
Turkeys and White Guineas. RIDGKLEIGH 
FRUIT AND POULTRY FARM, Huntington, N.Y. 
200 Breeding Pekin Ducks For Sale 
WHITE HORSE FARMS, A. K Heath. Mgr.. PA0LI, PENN. 
White Indian Runner DucksiF^f pe s7anda.-d 
English Runners. Eggs, $1 pet* sitting 11 eggs. Crys¬ 
tal White Eggs. R. W. Shipman, R. 3, Hollidaysburo, Pa. 
Indian Runner Ducks^irne^Se 
fawn and white, large and racy eggs. $1 per 11; $7- 
por 100. Also Buff Orpington Barred and White 
Rock eggs, $1 per 15. S. T. WITMER, Union Deposit, Pa. 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs 
$3 per 10. R. C. U. I. Red Eggs, $1 per 15. 1. R. Dusk 
Eggs, $1 per 10. Purebred S. C. White Leghorn eggs 
$1 per 20. White eggs from pure White R. Ducks, 
$2.50 per 10. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
Henp’s Crescent Strain of Rose Comb Tuv-L-^vc 
none S R et j s anl j Mammoth Bronze A urKeyS 
Eggs for hatching from exhibition matings; also 
utility matings of tested layers. Three of my Al¬ 
bany and Schenectady winners will be given free to 
the parties ordering the largest number of eggs dur¬ 
ing mouths of April and May, 1913. Mating listfree. 
0. R. HONE, CRESCENT HILL FARM, SHARON SPRINGS, N. Y. 
17 r* r* O-FR0M WORLD’S BEST LAYING STRAINS 
LVjKUiJ Fishel W. R„ $1-15 or $5-100; I.R. 
- ■ — *1—11; Blakers W.H. turkeys, $3-10, 
C. E. CASSEL, It. 1). 3, Middletown. Pa. 
G iant strain mammoth bronze 
TURKEY EGGS-$5 per setting of 11. White 
Wyandotte and B. P. Rock eggs. $1 per setting of 15; 
$3 per hundred. C. A. HERSHEY, R. No. 1, Tillie, Pa. 
Columbian Rocks—Aurora Strain 
1st prize winners at Now York and Buffalo. Eggs, 
$3.00 and $5.00 per 15. Free mating list. 
LEW H. DOWN, - East Aurora, N. Y. 
S ILVER LACED WYANDOTTES, I D. Keller, W. II. Dunn A 
Oak Lawn .strains. Mcst beautilnl fowl. Excellent layer,. 
15 eggs $1.50 an,l it. F. M. SWART, Margarotvillo, N. Y. 
K"FI I FR^TR A GQ—CRYSTAL WHITE 
1 K/XOO ORPINGTONS—Eggs 
from birds that weigh 8 3 4 lbs. Price, $3 per 15. 
W. A. KAISER. 2703 Jamaica Ave., Richm ond Hill, L. I..N.Y. 
THE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
I layers on earth. Eggs, I1.0U per 15. Catalogue 
free. THUS. WILDEK, Route 1, Richland. N Y. 
New York Prize-Winning Strains-™^’: 
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds; Brown, White Leghorns, 
Eggs, $1.50,15 : $7, 100. Dark, Light Brahmas: Eggs, 
$2.50, 15. Catalog free. A few choice breeders for 
sale. E. M. PRESCOTT, Itiverdale, N, J. 
Dnill TPYRICN—Send 2c stamp for Illustrated 
I rUIILInllilLH Catalog describing 35 varieties. 
I EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA. PA. 
Baby Chicks—Hatching Eggs 
8. C. W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds Barred Rocks, 
to lay. Prices right. 
l'loinington, N. J. 
W. Leghorns, R. I. 
White Wyandottes. Bred 
SUNNY HILL FARM, 
RARY PUIY—l-c each—S.C.White Leghorns, Priz.e 
DAD I UnlA stock, free range. $10.00 per 100. I. 
R. duck eggs; all 7c. each: $5 00 per 100. Stock for 
sale. R0CKEY GLEN PO ULTRY FARM, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Turkey, Chicken and Duck Eggs^/hS 
Parcel Post. W. R. CARLE, R. F. D. 1, Ja cobsburg, Ohio 
E acs FOR HATCHING—From heavy-laying It. I- Red and 
s. C. White Hock chickens* per netting of 15 
GEO. M. LAUDERMILCH, R. F. D. No. 1, Union Doposlt, Pa. 
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. 1811 
R. MacIvELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill,N.Y. 
