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CO.. Box 16« MILFORD. MASS. M 
WE HAVE FOR SALE A QUANTITY OF EARLY HATCHED 
Pekin Ducks at $1.50 each 
Also 100 Breeding Ducks at $2 each. 
WHITE HORSE FARMS, - Paoli, Pa. 
ABARCAII\I WI1ITE HOLLAND 
« DHnWHIlI TURKEYS. Early hat oh 
prizewinners. Price, now *2.50 and *3. 
LESLIE VOSBURGH, R. R. 3. Locust Place, Canajoliarie. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—To Make Room 
Full Grown Penciled Runner Ducks 
White egg strain of great layers, Prices, reasonable. 
SIDNEY WOODCOCK, Fredonia, N. Y. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-first week of the contest 
shows an egg production of 1,847; which 
is 85 less than were laid last week, and 
147 more than were laid in the forty- 
first week a year ago. Colonial Farm’s 
S. C. R. I. Reds take the honors this 
week, making the high score of 31. This 
pen has also made the highest total of 
any of the Reds, 765. White Leghorns 
make all the other high scores; O. A. 
Foster’s pen of English birds laid 30, 
and three pens laid 28; W. L. Sleegur’s, 
Tom Barron’s pen from England and 
Tom’s Poultry Farm’s pen. F. G. Yost’s 
White Leghorn hens laid 27, and three 
pens of Leghorns laid 26, as did J. M. 
.Jones’ pen of Columbian P. Rocks. T. 
J.. McConnell’s pen of White Wyandottes 
laid 25, and 10 pens of White Leghorns 
laid 25. E. D. Bird's pen of Blue Anda¬ 
lusians also laid 25. This pen of Anda¬ 
lusians—although they were very late in 
starting—have rolled up a score of 624. 
Tom Barron’s pen has passed the 1.(100- 
egg mark, their total now is 1.016. That 
is an average of over 203 eggs for each 
bird in the pen. Edward Cam’s White 
Leghorns’ total is 931, or S5 eggs behind 
Mr. Barron’s They have been about 80 
eggs behind Mr. Barron’s for several 
months. O. A. Foster’s pen of English 
birds scores 981; W. L. Sleegur’s pen 
are still at the head of all the American- 
bred White Leghorns with a total of 863, 
or 153 behind Mr. Barron’s. Edward 
Cam’s White Wyandottes have laid 825; 
and W. P. Canby’s pen of White Leg¬ 
horns S10. These are the only pens that 
have laid S00; 22 pens of White Leg¬ 
horns have laid from 713 to 791. Of the 
other breeds eight pens have laid from 
707 to 765. 
I received this week by steamer Celtic 
of the White Star Line, a pen of White 
Leghorns from Mr. “Tom” Barron; four 
pullets and a cockerel. Mr. Barron evi¬ 
dently learned while in this country what 
type of Leghorn is favored over here, for 
the pen he has sent me are fit to show at 
I Madison Square Garden, or the Boston 
I Show. The cockerel has a beautiful 
[ comb, straight up from the beak without 
a wrinkle or bend in it; not too low or 
too high back of the head, evenly ser¬ 
rated with five points; tail low, forming 
an obtuse angle with the line of the 
back; bay eyes, golden yellow legs, but 
not a trace of brassiness in plumage 
which is very white, as are all the pul¬ 
lets. The latter have their combs about 
half grown, just beginning to lop over. 
Altogether it is about as handsome a lot 
of White Leghorns, for their age, as I 
have ever seen. Now, if they will show the 
Tom Barron style of egg performance 
later I shall be greatly pleased. 
Several letters have been received ask¬ 
ing how Mr. Barron feeds his birds: how 
many he puts in a brooder, what size 
incubators he uses, etc., etc. I trans¬ 
mitted the questions to him, and quote 
from his letter in reply. He writes: “We 
use both hot-water incubators of my own 
make. 100-egg size, and hot-air machines. 
240-egg size. I consider this size better 
than larger ones. We put only 70 chicks 
in a brooder. I believe in small brooder 
lots; but I confess your people have very 
nearly knocked this idea out of me. 
He feeds a wet mash.—“We make our 
wet mash by mixing one part bran, one 
part biscuit meal, one part ‘thirds’ or 
‘pollard,’ half part clover meal, one- 
eighth part ground, oats, one-eighth part 
meat. We mix this with enough water 
to make it nice and crumbly. We feed 
the wet mash at night; do not feed it in 
the morning. For dry grains, we feed 
various kinds, the more kinds the better, 
mixed together and fed in the litter the 
same as you do. We use the skim-milk 
from our 10 cows, but have always fed 
it as sweet us possible. For our breeding 
pens we put 10 hens and a cocker-4 in a 
house. The market egg flocks run 300 
or more together without any males.” 
From the above it seems to me quite 
evident that the feeding does not at all 
account for Mr. Barron’s heavy laying 
birds; it is not in the feeding so much 
as it is in the breeding. Ten generations 
or more bred from males with high pro¬ 
ducing dams, vitality being constantly 
looked out for, is the real cause of Ins 
great success. geo. a. cosgrove. 
FOR SALE-S. C. ANCONAS 
Oockorels, Pullets, Yearling liens. All from prize- 
winning stork. Record breaking layers. Write to¬ 
night and get first choice. C.W. SimomJs. Homestead, Pa. 
tymiTE AFRICAN GUINEAS. $3.00 perpai 
\\ lute Chinese Geese, great layers, $5 00 pai 
Uhester \\ hue boar. May farrow, registered, $15.( 
GEO. E. HOWELL. - Spruce Farm, Howells, N. 
Handy 
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The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York City 
Cleaning Sand in Henhouse. 
I have a henhouse 16x18 feet with 
three inches of sand on the floor and lit¬ 
ter on top. The question s. how can 1 
wash or clean the sand, so I ran use it 
another year? 1 can sift the sand, but 
the droppings for the year make it unfit 
for use auy longer. I use dropping 
boards and all there !s in the sand is 
what collects during the day. As I live 
in the city and must buy the sand I do 
not feel like throwing it away. 
New Jersey. p. k. d. 
The only practical method of cleaning 
this sand that I can suggest is to place it 
in a pile out of doors, allowing it to re¬ 
main there for several mouths with an 
occasional shoveling over. If you can 
obtain loam, the addition of a team load 
to the sand upon the floor will renovate 
it by its absorbent action, and make it 
fit for further use. Unless your hen¬ 
house has been overcrowded—more than 
one fowl to every four square feet of 
floor space—or is lacking in sunlight and 
fresh air, it would not seem that this 
sand should yet need renewing. 
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BRUNNER, 45 Harrison St., N. Y. 
pnill TR YMFN - 'Semi 2c stamp for Illustrated 
1 j u ^ 1 '* 1 m Catalog describing 35 varieties. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA. PA. 
2,000 S. C.W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
HATCHED MARCH-APRIL 15th. 
JOHN I,ORTON I.KE, - Carmel. N. Y. 
C 10SING-0UT SALE— S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS 
150 choice birds. E. W. SLATE, South Hammond. N. Y. 
Leghorn Bleeding Stock 
KIRKUP’S STRAIN 
S. C. White Leghorns 
$1.25 EACH 
A few choice hens for breeding stock for imme¬ 
diate delivery at a bargain price. Supply lim¬ 
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Chestnut Poultry Farm 
Kirkup Bros., Props., Mattituck, /V. V. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
2,000 yearling hens and early pullets. Quality 
kind at right prices to make room. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
PULLETS Early HatchediMK, 
White Leghorns and Barred Rocks that wiil lay 
Early this Fall while Eggs are High. Strictly 
Pure-Bred to Lay Strains. Catalog on request. 
THE MACKEY FARMS, - Gilboa, N. Y. 
S.C. White Leghorns- s X r ’75 r '^!:"; s J“ 
Pinehurst Poultry Farm, Levairna, N. Y. 
FOR SALE S. G. WHITE LESHORN HENS 
one and two years oid. March ami April hatched 
pullets. White and Rice strain. All on free ram-e. 
SYCAMORE POULTRY YARDS. - Shelter Island. N. Y. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain |,£ d R „i,S; 
high record stock. Old and young stock for sale. 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Cent re Harbor, N. H. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hatching. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. 602 Fifth St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
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R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill.N. Y. 
