1913. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
706 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
Egg production decreases again this—the 
twenty-fifth week; 2,099 eggs were laid, 
as against 2,177 the week before, a loss of 
78. The 43 pens of White Leghorns are 
responsible for more than half of this loss, 
as they laid only 992 eggs this week, 
against 1,036 the twenty-fourth week. But 
the White Leghorns make all the high 
scores this week, with the exception of 
T. W. Burns’ pen of Silver Wyandottes, 
which tie F. A. Jones’ pen of White Leg¬ 
horns for second place with a score of 
29. A. P. Robinson's pen of White Leg¬ 
horns make the highest score for the week, 
viz.: 30; Leroy E. Sands’ pen of White 
Leghorns laid 28 ; Ilosswood Poultry Farm's 
White Leghorns laid 28; W. L. Slecgur's 
White Leghorns laid 28. Five pens of 
White Leghorns laid 27 each. They are 
the pens of W. P. Canby, F. Cl. Yost's 
pen of hens, Mrs. K. E. Woodruff's pen, 
R. A. Morrison’s pen, and Joseph J. Bar¬ 
clay’s pen. Of all the other breeds in 
the contest only three pens laid as many 
as 26. Last year in the twenty-fifth week 
2,306 eggs were laid, which is 217 more 
than were laid this year in the same 
week. 
Thomas Barron’s pen of White Leghorns 
laid 24, and Edward Cam's pen, 21 ; but 
while the other pens occasionally lay a 
higher number for one week, they do not 
keep it up so steadily as these English 
birds, whose records now are over 500, 
Mr. Barron's being 570, and Mr. Cam's 
510. No other pens in the contest have 
reached a total of 500, the nearest being 
George H. Schmitz’s Buff Leghorns, with a 
score of 4SG. Edward Cain’s White Wyan¬ 
dottes have laid 466; O. A. Foster’s White 
Leghorns, 452; Braeside Poultry Farm's 
White Leghorns, 445 ; Beulah Farm’s White 
Wyandottes, 442; Geo. P. Dearborn's S. C. 
R. I. Reds, 440; Dr. J. A. Fritchey's pen 
of same breed, 418; Glen View Poultry 
Farm's R. C. R. I. Reds. 410; Will Bar¬ 
ron's White Wyandottes, 403. There are 
15 pens of hens entered in the contest 
this year, of seven different breeds; and 
in not a single instance have they laid as 
many eggs as the pullets. Some of the 
entrants put in a pen of hens and one of 
pullets of the same breed, but in every 
case the pullets have outlaid the hens. 
Last year Mr. C. S. Scoville’s R. C. R. I. 
Red hens outlaid every pen of pullets of 
that breed, but this year he entered both, 
and his pullets are 32 eggs ahead of his 
hens. Mr. E. S. Edgerton entered both 
hens and pullets of the R. C. It. I. Reds, 
and his pen of pullets are 163 eggs ahead 
of his hens. 
The expense and labor of raising a flock 
of chickens every year—especially where 
there are hundreds or thousands to be 
raised—is very great, and a strain or 
breed that will produce profitable layers for 
three or four years, and make raising 
chicks every year unnecessary, would be 
a blessing to many poultrymen. It is to 
bo hoped that Mr. Barron aud Mr. Cam 
will enter these same good laying pullets 
in the next contest, as hens; and let us 
see whether their good laying is confined to 
the first year or not. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
“ THE PEDIGREE HEN.” 
It has always been a question in my 
mind whether the pedigree hen can lay 
eggs that will produce hearty vigorous 
chicks, and to this end I have conducted 
a little test that may prove very bene¬ 
ficial. I set 15 eggs from a White Wyan¬ 
dotte pullet, that was a very persistent 
layer; all 15 eggs had been laid 15 conse¬ 
cutive days, and the pullet had maintained 
her record of an egg a day for over a 
month. Out of the sotting of 15 eggs I 
hatched one chick. Then I set 15 eggs 
from a pullet that had been laying every 
other day; out of this setting I hatched 
s.* icks. This proves to me that a per¬ 
sistent layer with a wonderful egg record 
is likely to lay eggs that will not hatch 
a large majority. The hen in her primi¬ 
tive years laid only a few eggs in the 
opring, so I believe that the constant strain 
°u a hen’s system when she is making a 
wonderful egg record is not conducive to 
many or strong chicks. I know that unless 
we are very careful the vitality of our 
laying lions will diminish with every 
£“-. * *“**• tl,e on,y wa Y to maintain 
tue vitality of our great layers is to intro- 
t C H new blood each year from free range 
stock, if we are to maintain the vigor of 
laying hens we must do away with line 
breeding. If a man has a fine strain of 
ajmg stock, rather than do line-breeding 
let him look for some one who has indl- 
iduals equally as good as his, and if he 
't sell cockerels then try an exchange 
vitn him. Both parties would be better off. 
i you nave a cockerel whose mother had 
° cor d of 205, and some one else has 
f ame » wtl y line breed when you can 
exchange to advantage? 
THEODORE SHOEY. 
Ailing Pullets. 
kave had three or four laying pullet 
SS* *»7 e >r n 1:1 - vin S well all Wintei 
for I l t y - the >' 80(1 m to stagger aroun 
to h. ^ a / s anf t die; their crop seem 
in thorn 1111 T 0f r w ^ n(l an<1 very little grai: 
and h ^rain 1 , fce ? thom regulation maslies 
open-front’ hous^ ° f Wat f and M a 
I*ong Island. ’ 
A "u do not tell enough about these pullet 
to enable one to make oven a fair guess 
as to the cause of their condition. If you 
will note carefully all the symptoms of 
disease which they show and open one of 
the dead birds to discover any abnormal 
condition of the internal organs evident 
to you we will try to make a diagnosis and 
suggest the needed treatment. The fact 
that they stagger around and die with 
empty crops shows simply that they have 
reached the final stage of some malady 
which must have other characteristics dis¬ 
coverable either before or after death. 
M. B. D. 
Worms for Chicks 
Mr. Cosgrove, on page 621, says, dig 
some worms for chicks and watch the fun. 
This will work all right with a small brood 
of chicks by a hen.or with the heavy breeds. 
But don't do it with a large brood of Leg¬ 
horn brooder chicks or you are liable to 
have more trouble than fun. The Leg¬ 
horns are nervous and get so excited that 
after they can find no more worms they 
will grab toes and legs, stripping them to 
the hone. After a feed of worms one day 
I had to confine brood to a dark place for 
a whole week before they became normal 
again. l. b. thatcher. 
New Jersey. 
Ration for Breeding Fowls. 
What is the proper food for breeders, 
Leghorns, during Winter resting time, 
whether to leave dry mash in front of them 
or not? c. h. w. 
Columbia. 
It is not necessary to give fowls any 
special food to fit them for the breeding 
pen as those foods and methods of care 
which conduce to the highest vigor are 
essential to both layers and breeders. One 
should feed a well-balanced ration during 
the resting period, avoiding the temptation 
to keep the fowls on one kind of grain 
alone, and this kind the one that is cheap¬ 
est and easiest to get. There is probably 
no better method of feeding the flock at 
any period of the year than by the drv 
mash and whole-grain method as this af¬ 
fords a convenient means of supplying a 
variety of grains, both ground and whole, 
and the fowls are able to help themselves 
to the exact amount they need, whether 
for the purpose of growing feathers, or 
producing eggs. m. b. d. 
Chicks with Bacterial Disease. 
Has Dr. Buchanan Burr had any ex¬ 
perience in using permanganate of potash 
in treating what he calls secondary bac¬ 
terial infection in young chicks, and if so 
What is the method of treatment? Last 
year I lost a number of chicks through 
being crowded for brooder space. I moved 
one lot from brooders into small colony 
house in June, just in time for them to 
catch 10 days of cold, wet weather. Of 
course, drugs cannot take the place of 
dry, warm quarters for chicks, but in this 
case the epidemic continued after the cause 
had been removed, and I lost nearly all 
of them. In this same connection also, can 
Dr. Burr tell me something concerning 
the use of Rhinitis for colds in chickens? 
am using his remedy for roup— the axe— 
with great success. f. r. 
New Jersey. 
This trouble does not seem to have been 
Infection, but the result of improper brood¬ 
ing. The use of carbolic acid or perman¬ 
ganate of potash is only effective where 
there has been bacterial infection present 
for the purpose of removing the infection, 
and then treat the chick to bring it back 
to a normal condition. In the case men¬ 
tioned the chicks were crowded aud then 
chilled. Here antiseptics would be of no 
avail. Defective brooding is often mis¬ 
taken for infection, and causes by far the 
largest number of deaths among growing 
chicks. Proper brooding is the only pre¬ 
vention, aud I know of no treatment or 
cure. I would not use permanganate of 
potash in any event as carbolic acid or 
hyposulphite of soda do the work much 
better. I have never used Rhinitis for 
colds; it probably would help, but removal 
to dry open front coops or houses, greasing 
the nostrils with carbolized vasaline, ana 
giving a dose of castor oil by removing 
the cause would do better. 
BUCHANAN BURR. 
Crockery for Fowls. —The broken dishes 
that are thrown away, aud are always un¬ 
sightly whereover they may be, are of some 
value as a chicken feed or tonic. The better 
the goods the more they relish them. Break 
the pieces with a hammer on a stone to a 
size so the chickens can swallow them; they 
then will eat them more readily than corn. 
After once they find them they will be on 
hand any time they hear them crack and 
pick up all not too large; they can be 
broken more later. They seem to fill the 
place as well as oyster shells or anything 
of that class, aud are well worth it to clear 
the place. a. h. g. 
Davis Poultry Farm 
S. C. K. I. BEDS 
ALSO BARRED AND WHITE ROCKS. 
Dav-OIit * >er Full count guar- 
uay-uia CniCKS nnteed on delivery. Hatching 
Eggs BERLIN MASS. 
G iant strain mammoth bronze 
TURKEY EGGS—$5 per setting of II. White 
Wyandotte and 11. 1*. Rock eggs.JI persetting of 15: 
Riper hundred. C- A. HERSHEY, R. No. 1, Til'ie Pa. 
POULTRYMEN 
EASE 
-r>emt zc stamp for lllustratf 
Catalog describing 35 varietie 
DONEGAL POULIRY YARDS MARIEIIA, P 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs 
S3 per 10. R. C. R. 1. Red Eggs, $1 per 15. I. It. Duck 
Eggs, $1 per 10. Purebred S. O. White Leghorn cg^s 
$1 per 20. Whito eggs from pure White it. Ducks 
$2.50 per 10. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg Pa! 
S ILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. I. U. Keller, W. H. Dunn A 
Oak Lawn stratus. Most beautiful fowl. Excellent layers 
15 eggs *1.50 and *2. f. M. SWART, Margarotvillo, N. y! 
EGGS 0,0111 WHITE ORPINGTONS. winners 
w the show room: also in egg-kivii 
contests $3 00 per 15. Write for matins li* 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY FARM. - Glovcrsvilic? N 
Leghorn Pullets 
KIRKUP’S STRAIN S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
PULLETS 6 AND 8 WEEKS OLD 
60 cents Each 
Can You Beat It ? 
These pullets have had free range, right 
from the incubator, and are strong and 
vigorous. Mortality has not exceeded 10#. 
In less than 3 months these same birds, 
with very little care, will be worth from 
$1.50 to $2 each. One party has ordered 
2,000 for this season, and another party, 
who had 500 last season, writes as follows : 
“Please book my order for 500 six-weeks- 
old pullets. The pullets received from you 
last year gave entire satisfaction.’’ 
This season’s supply is more than half 
sold. Write ns today. 
CHESTNUT POULTRY FARM 
Kirkup Bre*., Props., - Mattitnck, L. I_ SI. Y. 
Chicks $10 per Hundred 
Purebred S.O. White Leghorns. Range’yearling 
chicks that will please, 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
MATT1TUCK WHITE 
LEGHORN FARM CHICKS 
please others—they will please you. 
One customer has bought 4000 from week to week 
since March 1st. 
Another has had 200 weekly since April 1st. 
A third customer writes: "Send me another hundred 
ns soon as possible. I still hare 97 of the hundred pur¬ 
chased April 2d, and they are growing like weeds." 
The price is $10. 00 p* r hundred 
You run no risk. Fend for circulars. 
Satisfaction in every respect is guaranteed. 
A. H. PENNY, - - Mattituck, ft. Y. 
BURNETT'S Coldenham Poultry Yards ? a r r y e h s ° t 
breeders of Minorcas. We have only the popular 
kind. Onr male birds are from 8 to II lbs. Ourliens 
are a most beautiful flock and are every-day layers 
of the largest, highest priced eggs known. Just try 
one sotting, for special price, only $1. If tiiey do not 
hatch satisfactorily we replace them. We know 
they will continue to please. We attend to your 
ortler at once. Get our new circular. COLDENHAM 
POULIRY YARDS, W. L. Burned, Prop.. Montgomery. N. Y. 
Box J 
MAKA-SHEL “ZlTZ' 
BlWy be obtained from poultry if 
no; fed a good grit. <*Maka- 
Sher’ has no equal ; there is 
none “just as good. ” Ask 
your dealer or send us $1.00 
for two 1<>» lb. l-ags: one ton for *1.00, f. o b 
cars. Agents wanted. Write today. 
EDGE HILL SILICA ROCK CO.. 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
GRIT 
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 hateh- 
ng eggs from my famous flock of record-breaking 
1; *yers, deep glowing red to the skin. Reds, Rose 
and Single Comb, raised on fine free range in colony 
housesi wide open all Winter. Hardy, vigorous, 
heavy \\ inter-laying birds. 1 guarantee high fertil¬ 
ity, safe delivery and strict upright dealing all 
unr«*r , 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 
TfVU'UVS?, laying heavily. Fine for breeders, 
v 1BERT RED FARM, Box 1, WESTON, N J 
Baby Chicks 10k. each 
Reductions on till orders over 100. All breeders 
are on free range and from selected 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 
S.C.White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
$3—100: $1.75—50; 75c—15; $25—1000. 501) hens at 7fy». 
apiece. They are a fine bunch of breeders. With 
order of 240 or more 8. C. W. Leghorn eggs we 
will give you 15 eggs from 3 of our best pens—5 eggs 
Irom each pen. RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARMS. Gilboa. N.Y. 
Abovo Poultry Farms Go., Inc. 
CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY 
Established. 1904. Breeders ami shippers of high 
class S. C. W. Leghorns. Hatching Eggs. Baby 
chicks. Cockerels. Write for price list. 
PRIZE WINNING STOCK 
Exhibition and utility White Plymouth Roeks, 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. O. R.jf. Reds; day-old 
chicks eggs by clutch or 1000; book your orders early. 
KN0LLW00D FARM, BS 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
Stock selected for vigor and given freerangeon large 
farm. In the Cornell Breed Testing project last rear 
one pullet from this flock laid 216 eggs, another laid 
212 eggs. The ten pullets laid 1739 eggs. Eggs $6.00 per 
100. Eggs that fail to hatch replaced at half-price. 
Fi E. STRONG, R. D. 2, - - . I THACA, N. V. 
Turkey, Chicken and Duck Eggs-g^ja 
Parcel Post. W. R. CARLE. R. F. D. 1, Jaco bsburg, Ohio 
New York Prize-Winning Strains-^ tt Y. 7 ; 
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds; Brown, Whits .Leghorns 
Beffs. $1.50,15 ; $7,100. Dark, Bight Brahmas: Eggs, 
$-.50,15. Catalog tree. A few choice breeders for 
s ale. M. P KKSCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R. No. 24, Athens, Pa. Breeders for 32 years of 
purebred poultry of high quality. Eggs for hatch- 
UL g - b , lIver Campines, Leghorns, Minorcas. Reds, 
'\ > andottes,Cochins,Rocli.., oeese, Ducks,Guineas. 
BARRED ROCK EGGS 
Nonpareil Strain, utility bred, $1 per 15, $3.50 per 100. 
B. H. HC/VfO/V, - Brockport, /V. V. 
BARRED ROCKS £ re,i "M he very best b,ood 
lines. Eggs. $1 per 15 and 
$4 per 100, CHAS. T. DOWNING. R. 2, West Chester. Pa 
HOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN |Tf*S*C 
AND WHITE ORPINGTON tUUO 
$1 per 15. Mrs. Arthgb Hawkins, Goshen, N. Y- 
200 Breeding Pekin Ducks For Sale 
WHITE HORSE FARMS. A. K Heath. Mgr., PA0L1, PENN. 
AWN AND WHITE INDIAN RUNNKK ' 
DUCKS and S. C. White Leghorns. Eggs, day- 
old Chicks and Ducklings from breu-to-lay, free- ! 
range stock at farmer’s prices. Catalogue free. ; 
210 BREEDING HENS - SI EACH. 
PATTERSON POULTRY FARM, Clayton, N. Y. 
B O**' PHIIK I.ECIIOK.NS, S. (. It I. KEUS—Eggs, 90c. per 15 
$1.50 per 30. Moltle.l Aucou&s, 91. Minorcas, eggs, $1.00 pel 
15; *1.75 per JO. Catalogue free. John A. Rath, qualtertonn, l'a. 
IMPERIAL RINGLETS, BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, ex- 
1 clusively direct from Thompson eggs. $i and $2 
per 15. J I 1 '. LAIliLK, Newark, New York 
HATCHING EGGS— From tran-nested W. P. 
*» Roeks. $6 per 100. A. S. BRIAN.’Mt. Kisco, N.Y. 
THE FARMER'S FAVORITE WINTER LAYERS-Kellerstrass 
■ White Orpingtons. Eggs, #6.00 hundred up. 
Baby Chicks. W. R. Stevens, Culver Road, Lyons. N. Y. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 
Iavawi 
white eggs $1.00 per 13: 
KOI CKANDALL, 
layers 
$6.00 per l(m. 
. Albion, N 
of pure 
White Indian Runner Ducksif^f pe s r ^s 
English Runners. Ejigs, $1 per sitting^ i eggs. Ci 
tal White Eggs. R. W. Shipman, R. 3, Hotlidaysburu 
:k 
Baby Chicks 1 fic~I^- ^ 7 • Leghorn Eggs. 
n , a , “ , **.50 hundred. Baby 
Ducks, lac; Mammoth Pekin Eggs, 15 for $1- $5 a 
hundred. TRI-STATES POULTRY FARM, Port Jervis, N. Y. 
Babv Chiclcs'T?’ V Leghorns, Barred 
,. . . y _ . Rocks, R. C. Reds. Strong, 
livable, irom vigorous, thoroughbred, range 
J^erfeliverv guaranteed. Circular free. 
WESLEY GKINNELL - SODUS, N. Y. 
Hone’s Crescent Strain af Rose Comi T,„.L- 
Clone S Rei j s and Mammoth Bronze * UrkeyS 
Eggs for hatching from exhibition matings; also 
utility in a tings of tested layers. Three of my Al¬ 
bany and Schenectady winners will be given free to 
the parties ordering the largest number of eggsduv- 
L a h'numthsof April and May, 1913. Mating list free. 
D. R. HONE, CRESCENT HILL FARM, SHARON SPRINGS, N. Y. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
gieT>-class st0 ck for UTILITY, SHOW or EX- 
* JE V . kSgsfor hatching. Mating listen reqnest. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Columbian Rocks—Aurora Strain 
l*t prize winners at_New York and Buffalo. Eggs, 
$3.00 and $5.00 per 15. Free mating list. 
LEW H. BROWN, - East Anrora, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANOOnES, LAKENVELOERS, BUFF LEGHORNS. 
The kind that please. Dotte and Leghorn eggs 
reduced prices: $1-15; $1 75—30: $3—60. Circulars. 
0WNLAN0 FARM, - Box 437, - SO HAMMONO, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200 STRAIN S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
Standard bred, red to the skin. Eggs for hatching 
$3.00, $n.00 and $10.00 per set (15). Utility $6.00 per 
100. 90$ fertility guaranteed Cockerels, yearlings 
pullets, baby cliicxs. 
AUSTIN'S POULTRY FARM, Box 17. Centre Harbor. N. H. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1844 
R. MaoKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs 
$.7—100. Buff Orpington Eggs, $4—100. In buv- 
mg our stock none was too good for us. Take ad¬ 
vantage. - KVEliUKEEN, Suffern. N. Y . 
Moe’s Sanitary Poultry Drinking Fountai 
COVEN AMC YVV 
HAVt ACONTWUXOSVyra 
AtMlrf 
Tkt Mott Popular Fcxmfoia 
on the Market 
FILLS FROM THE TOP. 
Dead air space between cover 
and reaervoir keeps water cool 
in summer and from freesir.g in 
winter. If not at your dealers, 
____write us to send you one on ap- 
proval and if you find it is the fountain yon want, write us for a special 
price og your requirements. Manufactured in three aizes: 1, 2 and 4 
gallon. A book on each fountain for hanging up when deatreiL 
cna A MOF, 1710 Otu Building. CHICAGO, I LX. 
RARY flHlY—12c each—S.O.W hite Leghorns, Prizo 
umu I will A stock, free range. $10.00 per 100. I. 
R. duck eggs: all 7c. each: $.7 00 per 100. Stock for 
sale. R0CKEY GLEN POULTRY FARM, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
NO MORE A venarius Carbolineum exterminates lice, mites, fleas and other 
insect pests on poultry. One application lasts 12 months or more. 
HEN LICE i5revents scal y leg, keeps the skin in good condition and makes hens 
“ w lay better by removing irritating and blood sucking vermin. Poultry 
houses painted with Avenaiius Carbolineum are absolutely sanitary and vermin free. 
They last longer. Avenarius Carbolineum can be .applied as a spray or paint. 
Always keep a supply on hand. Be sure and get the genuine. Ask for AVENARIUS 
If your dealer hasn’t it. write for Bulletin 38, giving full directions and prices 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO., 181 Franklin St., New York City. 
