i»i3. 
“I saw it in Tiie Columbiad” will 
ensure prompt attention if you mention 
the fact when writing to Advertisers. 
RIGHT ABOUT 
FACE 
Y OU’RE headed for the city—in 
search of opportunity. But, you’re 
really running away from it when you 
leave the farm. 
There are big chances lying right 
within your reach—one of them, a busi¬ 
ness that will pay you between $15 and 
$18 a day is contract ditching with the 
BUCKEYE 
TRACTION 
DITCHER 
The farmers right around you will 
keep you busy. They know the Buck¬ 
eye—know how clean, true and fast it 
digs drainage ditches, and they’re will¬ 
ing to pay a good price for this kind of 
work. 
The Buckeye can be had with (team 
or gasoline power. Either will cut 
100 to 150 rods a day, at a very 
smell operating expense. And the 
Buckeye gasoline machine operates 
just as well on kerosene thus cutting 
fuel expense in two. 
Look up the Buckeye exhibit at the 
State fairs of Sedalia, Missouri ; or 
Springfield, Illinois. The man in 
charge will be glad to give you a FREE 
demonstration and tell you just what 
the machine will do for you. 
Write for catalogue 3 
THE BUCKEYE TRACTION DITCHER CO., 
FINDLAY. OHIO 
V___/ 
KRESO Dl P N?1 
STANDARDIZED. 
EASY AND SAFE TO USE 
INEXPENSIVE 
KILLS LICE 
ON ALL LIVE STOCK 
DISINFECTS.^ 
CLEANSES. 
PURIFIES. 
j It has so many uses that It Is 
a necessity on every farm. 
CURES MANGE, SCAB, 
RINGWORM, SCRATCHES 
Destroys All Disease Germs 
DRIVES AWAY FLIES 
Write for Free Booklets 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
OETROIT, - - MICHIGAN 
W£ HA*E_ FOR SALE A QUANTITY OF EARLY HATC 
Pekin Ducks at$f.50 ea 
A' so 100 Breeding Duck* at $2 each. 
WHITE HORSE FARMS, - Paoll, : 
sau-White Indian Runner Ducks~ v R Plshf 
Price KeftHonablc. 
Direct. Kim 
Mnr,h Creak Poultry Farm, Uettjuburs;, l’i 
R.I.Reds-WhiteWyandolleSn^M^ 
and Brown Leghorns, Exhibition ami utili 
l idiity. Young stock and yearlings. Itargalu I.lst u 
catalogue gratis, ltlrerdalo Poultry Farm, Uirerdals, N. 
TH k; rural 
The Henyard. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The forty-third week of the contest at 
Storrs, Conn., shows a small gain over 
the previous week; 1,775 were laid this 
week as against 1,749 last week. In this 
gain of 26, the White Leghorns had no 
part; they laid 64 less than the previous 
week, so the total gain made by the other 
breeds during the week was 90. W. L. 
Sleegur’s pen of White Leghorns make 
the highest score for the week, viz., 28. 
This pen makes the highest total of any 
of the American-bred birds, viz., 918. 
Four pens of White Leghorns tie for sec¬ 
ond place, with scores of 25 each. They 
are F. A. Jones’ pen, Tom Barron’s pen, 
Mrs. K. E. Woodruff’s pen, and P. G. 
Platt’s pen. Four pens of White Leg¬ 
horns tie for third place with scores of 
24 each. They are the A. R. Saylor 
Drug Co.’s pen, Burton E. Moore’s pen, 
Edward Cam’s pen, and C. W. Sher¬ 
wood’s pen. Five pens of White Leg¬ 
horns laid 23 each, and J. M. Jones’ 
pen of Columbian P. Rocks laid 2.3. Tom 
Barron’s pen have now laid 1,066, which 
is_148 more than the best American-bred 
White Leghorns have laid. But W. L. 
Sleegur’s pen is slowly gaining on Bar¬ 
ron’s; Sleegur’s was 159 behind Barron’s 
a few weeks ago: now they are 148 be¬ 
hind. Edward Cam’s White Leghorns 
hold second place with a total of 980, or 
86 behind Barron’s. O. A. Foster’s pen 
score 924, Edward Cam’s White Wyan¬ 
dotte’s 859, Frank Toulmin's White Leg¬ 
horns 848, W. P. Canb.v’s White Leg¬ 
horns 851, F. A. Jones’ White Leghorns 
842, Braeside Poultry Farm’s White 
Leghorns S29, Burton E. Moore’s White 
Leghorns 821, .Smith Bros.’ White Leg¬ 
horns 821, Joseph J. Barclay’s White 
Leghorns 826, Colonial Farm’s S. C. R. 
I. Reds 816, Marwood Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns 800. The above are the 
only pens that have laid S00. 
So far the honors as egg producers are 
clearly with the White Leghorns, 
whether the English birds are counted 
in or not. Another great advantage is 
the length of time during which they 
will remain profitably productive. I re¬ 
cently visited a neighbor who has over 
100 White Leghorns, two and three years 
old. constantly confined in a house and 
small yard. The egg score card fastened 
against the wall showed that these birds 
were laying nearly 50 per cent right 
along, and were paying a good profit. 
Prof. Rice’s experiment at Cornell Col¬ 
lege. trap-nesting the same birds for 
three years in succession, shows that a 
three-year-old Leghorn is a profitable hen 
to keep. The same birds are being trap- 
nested for the fourth year. When this 
is finished we may find that they still pay 
a good profit. 
What this means to a poultryman who 
is making a business of producing mar¬ 
ket eggs is that after he has got his 
houses filled with a stock of pullets he 
can cut out all the expense and trouble 
of raising a fresh lot of pullets, for three 
years at least. Of course the larger 
breeds will also lay eggs for three or four 
years, but they are not supposed to lay 
enough to make much profit after the 
second year. I have never tried keeping 
them until three or four years old, to 
see how many eggs they would lay; usu¬ 
ally have sent them to market at the end 
of the second season’s laying. The Leg¬ 
horn does not seem to have that tendency 
to take on fat, which is characteristic of 
the larger breeds, after the first laying 
season, consequently she remains in bet¬ 
ter condition to continue egg production. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Cats as Poultry Policemen. 
Answering the queries on page 805 l 
as to the best method to rid a poultry plant 
of four-legged vermin, would say that 
our plant is in the open couutry and our 
colony houses and long breeding houses 
are open to the visits of any of these 
nightly marauders through the hen holes. 
Our neighbors are troubled with rats, 
weasels and opossums, while we are free 
from these pests and our only remedy 
is, strange as it may seem, “cats.” We 
have a tom that has been on the place 
about seven years and a mother cat three 
years. Both eats by day and night go 
over all the poultry houses climbing up 
the five and six-foot wire fences which 
enclose the yards and go in the hen holes. 
Our hoppers of dry mash are a great 
invitation to rats and the cats know 
where to find them. I have seen the 
cats catch rabbits half as large as them¬ 
selves. killing them and bringing them 
to kittens at the barn. We have about 
1.000 fowls, a good part of which are 
young growing chicks and the cats never 
touch one of them. I do not believe 
that all cats would fill the bill as ours 
do, but it is a suggestion worth trying. 
Our cats were not trained to it except 
by not feeding them or allowing them 
to sleep in the house, they were forced 
to forage for themselves. 
New Jersey. f. m. PRESCOTT. 
Rats and Fox Terriers. —On page 
884, J. F., Zionsville, Pa., says he has 
rats in his poultry house; we had them 
several years in poultry house, barn and 
residence, but two years ago we got a 
fox terrier puppy and we haven’t had a 
rat since. lie treed several ’coons and 
’possums last year; he has the run of 
our five acres and does not allow a “var¬ 
mint” of any kind to stop there. Fox 
terriers are small and easily kept and 
are natural ratters. MRS. c. 
NEW-YORKER 
You bet! I always 
use ATLAS, and 
We got the finest 
concrete farm build = 
ings in the county! 
"The standard by which all 
other makes are measured” 
Handy Concrete Mixer for the Farm 
Save from $5.00 to $7.00 per day on all your cement and concrete work. Be 
ready to do the work at any time or anywhere—for yourself or your neighbors. 
The Whitworth Power Batch Mixer 
is built especially for ail farm work—fence posts, blocks, sidewalks, floora 
Will mix batch of 6 to 7 cubic feet in a minute. Strong, simple, dependable 
Weighs 335 pounds- drum 36 inches long; a 1-H.P engine will run it. Price 
only $33.75. Will pay for itself in a few days work. Guaranteed satisfac¬ 
tory or your money back. We also make Hand Mixer at much lower price. 
Get ourspecial combination offer. Agents wanted, good proposition,write n s . 
CHAMPION MFG. CO., P. O. Box 358 G. Cedar Rapids, la. ___ 
carbolineum wood 
will never shrink, swell or collapse in dry weather or 
collect mould inside while empty if you paint it with Ave- 
narius Carbolineum—the very best wood preserving paint 
for barns, shingles, posts, and general farm use. Goes 
further than ordinary paint ; cheap and easily applied. Has a beautiful 
chestnut brown color. Not only preserves wood, but keeps out all insects, 
teredos, dry rot, etc. Costs little and goes far. Easily applied as paint or 
spray. Has a hundred uses about the place. Every farmer should have a 
supply at all times. Your dealer has it—ask for AVENARIUS—do not take 
substitutes. Write for Bulletin 33, giving full directions and prices. 
PRESERVING CO.. 181 FRANKLIN STREET, NEW YORK CITY 
Leghorn Breeding Stock 
KIRKUP’S STRAIN 
S. C. White Leghorns 
$1.00 EACH 
A few choice hens for breeding stock for imme¬ 
diate delivery at a bargain price. Supply lim¬ 
ited. A few bright May hatched pallets at 75c. 
each. Write at once to 
Chestnut Poultry Farm 
Kir hup Bros., Props., Mattituck, /V. V. 
Moes Rat Destroyer 
, REMOVE COVER | 
TO BAIT 
Patent Pending 
Get rid of the rats in 
your buildings and 
poultry yard without 
endangering the lives 
of your doinestic animals 
and fowls . They cannot 
reach the poison but the rats 
can Any poison can be 
NONE BUT 
RODENTS CAN RtACl 
POISON 
.. ■ can Any poison can be 
used but wo recommend one that kills them without odor and o * • 
one package Jive vntheach destroyer. Price $1.00. If notat your 
ej/i ^a^^^tovni^midtaMa.carryinir Chare, prepaid. 
OTIS & Af Q£, 1710 Otis Binding, CHICAGO. ILL 
S.C. White Leghoriw-iSL^S'asir^ 
Pineliurst Poultry Farm, Levanna, N. Y. 
2,000 S. G. W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
HATCHED MARCH—APRIL 15th. 
JOHN l.OliTON l.EE, ■ Carmel, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
2.000 yearling hens and early pullets. Quality 
kind at right prices to make room. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Fleuiington, N. J. 
R. I. REDS FOR SALE 
THE VIBERT REDS, scientifically line bred for heavy 
winter egg production, are widely and favorably 
known as THE HEAVIEST WINTER LAYERS. Some BEAUT¬ 
IFUL EARY PULLETS, also FEW PRIME HEAVY LAYING YEAR¬ 
LING HENS for sale. Unexcelled for winter egg pro¬ 
duction and for breeding. Magnificent breeding 
cockerels and hatching eggs from certified layers at 
half spring prices. Prompt service, strictly upright 
dealings. VIBERT RED FARM, Bo« 1, Westnn, N ew Jersey 
R. I. Reds, Mans, Indian Runner Ducks 
MAKE HENS LAY*! 
more eggs; larger, more vigorous chickil 
heavier fowls, by feeding cut boao. 
LATEST MODEL 
BONE CUTTER 
I ■ ■ cuts fast, easy, fine; never clog*. 
^•0 Days' Free Trial. No money in advance. Book free. 
F.W.MANN CO.. Box 16* MILFORD. MASS. 0 
MANN’S 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best Coarse or tine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 18U 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO„ Peekskill, N. Y. 
P0ULTRYMFN- Sen i - c stamp for Illustrated 
l!l„ Catalog describing 35 varieties 
LAST 00NEGAL POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA, PA 
CASKS AND CARTONS. 
_ _ „ FLATS AN1) FILLERS 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison St., N. Y. 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Kggs for hatching. Mating list on leanest. 
SINCLAIR SMITH. 602 Fifth St..Brookly 
reqne 
rn. N. 
Y. 
Pill I FT^~ S - C - KEI»S, BARKKI) ROCKS 
TULLL I O Rn a S. < . W. LEGHORNS—April 
and May Hatchos. THE MACKEY FARMS. Gilboa, N. Y. 
FOR SALE-S. C. ANCONAS 
Cockerels, Pullets, Yearling Hons. All from prize 
winning stock. Record breaking layers. Write to 
night and get tirstchoice. C.W. Simouds. Homestead, Pa 
CXjji!^Ln.X3SrGr S.A.T i V-: 
Superb Stock of Silver Campine Cockerels 
Bargain prices. MOHAWK LOOGE FARM, Cornwall, Conn 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain 
ii^; r's 
125 INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS at farmers'prices. Write 
* u me your wants. Geo. F. Williamson, Flanders. N. J 
S. C. W. Leghorn April Hatched Pullets 
Young & Wyckoff strain. 200 yearling, 40 two-year 
old hens. -Mrs. W. XV. Wisor, I’atatunk, N. Y 
