iioo 
1913. 
THE RUEAL NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE HEN CONTEST. 
The number of eggs laid in the forty- 
seventh week is 1,216; 85 less than were 
laid in the same week a year ago. This 
is the first time since the contest began 
that a fewer number of eggs were laid, 
than during the corresponding week of 
the first contest. Twenty-three was the 
highest number laid by any pen this 
week; and»two pens laid that number, 
viz.: Homer P. Deming’s pen of S. C. R. 
I. Reds and Blue Mt. Poultry Farm’s 
White Leghorns. T. J. McConnell’s White 
Wyandottes are second with a score of 
22; Colonial Farms S. C. R. I. Reds laid 
21, Orchard Hill Poultry Farm’s White 
Leghorns laid 21 and E. D. Bird’s Blue 
Andalusians laid 21. Tom Barron’s pen 
of White Leghorns laid 20; their total 
now is 1,147; Edward Cam’s pen of 
White Leghorns laid 19 and their total is 
1.057. W. L. Sleegur’s White Leghorns 
laid 14 and their total is 987; they are 
losing ground as compared with Mr. Bar¬ 
ron’s pen. At one time they were only 
117 eggs behind; now they are 160 be¬ 
hind. 
Edward Cam’s pen of English White 
Wyandottes still lead that breed with a 
total of 986; Mrs. H. F. Haynes’ pen 
being second with a total of 881. Beulah 
Farms’ White Wyandottes, which came 
so near winning the contest last year 
(only two eggs behind the winner) have 
a total of 864. W. P. Canby’s White 
Leghorns have laid 914, O. A. Foster’s 
975; Frank Toulmin’s 933, Burton E. 
Moore’s 904; F. A. Jones’ pen 910; Col¬ 
onial Farms’ S. C. R. I. Reds 908. 
These are the only pens that have reached 
900. 
The best pen of Barred Rocks is R. J. 
Walden’s Maryland, record 744; the best 
White P. Rocks. W. J. Tilley’s. Connecti¬ 
cut, 830; best White Wyandottes of the 
American bred is Mrs. H. F. Haynes’, 
Idaho, S81; best S. C. R. I. Reds, Col¬ 
onial Farm, New Hampshire, 908'; best 
It. C. R. I. Reds, E. S. Edgerton’s, Con¬ 
necticut, 780; best White Leghorns, (out¬ 
side of the English pens) W. L. Sleegur’s, 
Pennsylvania, 987; best Buff Leghorns, 
Geo. H. Schmitz’s, Illinois, 824; best 
Buff Orpingtons, Mt. Orchard Poultry 
Farm’s, Pennsylvania, 680; best White 
Orpingtons. White Acres Poultry Ranch, 
Pennsylvania, 730. 
There are 10 breeds in the contest 
which are represented only by a single 
pen, each. There is nothing to compare 
these with, so no “best” can be given. As 
illustrating the great interest being taken 
in poultry matters, the Missouri Poultry 
Experiment Station held a series of nine 
meetings in various parts of that State 
in August. They were all day and even¬ 
ing meetings and it is estimated that at 
least twenty thousand people attended. 
No such audiences have ever attended 
poultry meetings before, anywhere in 
America. They were open air picnic 
meetings, with moving picture illustrated 
lectures in the evening, as well as day 
lectures. These egg-laying contests have 
done more to create interest in poultry 
keeping, than anything that has happened 
in a hundred years. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Sick Turkey*. 
I am raising turkeys, and there seems 
to be some disease among them. A water 
blister comes under the wings, then they 
droop around and die; can you tell me 
what ails them, also a remedy for them? 
Long Eddy, N. Y. w. i. 
I do not know whether the water blis¬ 
ter beneath the wings that you speak of 
has any connection with the death of 
your turkeys, or not; but it is a pretty 
safe guess that, where turkeys “droop 
around and die” in any large numbers 
they are affected with black-head, or in¬ 
fectious entero-hepatitis. This is a con¬ 
tagious disease of the digestive organs to 
which turkeys are peculiarly susceptible 
and which has made the rearing of them 
in any number almost impossible in most 
localities. There is no known remedy for 
this disease, and prevention is so diffi¬ 
cult that turkey raising as a business 
has been largely given up where black¬ 
head has become prevalent. M. b. D. 
Roup. 
I have about 50 8. C. R. I. Red pullets 
that have a whitish substance running 
from their nostrils; it has a strange 
odor. They have had it about a month. 
• me of my friends said it was roup, and 
• got some roup cure about two weeks 
ugo; cannot see that it has done any 
good. I have not lost any as yet. What 
can I do for them, and what is it? 
Batavia, N. Y. w. h. m. 
All discharges from the nostrils of 
tow Is are not due to roup, but where such 
a discharge is evidently contagions, 
spreading from one fowl to another, and 
is accompanied by a foul odor, it is safer 
to assume that it is roup and treat it 
accordingly. Those fowls showing any 
signs of infection should be promptly 
isolated and placed in warm, dry quart¬ 
ers where they may be fed upon easily 
digested, nourishing, food. As medicinal 
tieatment they should be given perman¬ 
ganate of potash in their drinking water. 
This may be administered by making up 
a stock solution containing one ounce of 
the permanganate to three pints of water. 
A pint of this stock solution should be 
added to every four quarts of drinking 
water, and no other should be accessible 
to the fowls. The heads of affected 
fowls may also be dipped into this water, 
holding them under for only a few sec¬ 
onds until some of the solution is drawn 
up into the nostrils. Quarters once oc¬ 
cupied by diseased fowls should be thor¬ 
oughly cleaned up and disinfected by 
whitewashing with lime wash to which 
four ounces of crude carbolic acid to the 
gallon have been added. M. B. D. 
Care of Geese. 
What should I feed my old geese? 
What should I feed to get the largest per 
cent, fertile eggs? What should be fed 
to goslings to produce rapid maturity? 
Please give full directions for care. Do 
you think they are profitable if they are 
cared for in the right way? I have the 
Brown Chinas. a. j. 
Chester, Vt. 
Geese are natural grazers, and need but 
little grain food when they have access to 
good pasture. When the latter is short, 
they may be fed whole or cracked corn 
once a day, and this feeding has the addi¬ 
tional value of helping to keep them tame. 
Goslings may be given a mash of mixed 
ground grains with from five to 10 per 
cent, of beef scrap, corn bread, rolled 
oats, etc., but should also have an abund¬ 
ance of tender grass or other vegetation. 
They should not have access to water, 
except for drinking purposes, until feath¬ 
ered out, and should otherwise be cared 
for very much as ducklings are. Upon 
large farms where they can have ample 
pasturage without interfering with other 
stock, a few geese should be profitable. 
While they are voracious eaters, mature 
geese require little shelter or care, and 
much of the vegetation which they de¬ 
vour might not otherwise be utilized. 
There seems to be comparatively little 
demand, however, for green goslings or 
goose eggs, and while the feathers furnish 
another source of income, it would prob¬ 
ably not be wise for the ordinary farmer 
or poultryman to invest heavily in geese. 
M. B. D. 
Care of Peafowl*. 
Having purchased a pair of peafowls 
three years old, I wish to domesticate or 
make them at home on a lawn about 150 
feet square, I would like some one having 
experience to tell me the best way to 
make them at home, they having always 
been cooped up. j, a. 
New Jersey. 
A friend who has reared many flocks 
of peafowls upon her farm tells me, in 
answer to the question how they may be 
domesticated, that they are by nature 
very wild birds, refusing shelter, and 
perching in the tops of the tallest trees, 
even during the coldest weather. She 
has seen them so tame that they would 
eat out of a person’s hand, and' yet, at 
the slightest move, they would scream 
and fly away. She is sure “that the only 
person who can domesticate them suffi¬ 
ciently to confine them to a lawn is the 
taxidermist.” Peafowls are much, es¬ 
teemed as food by those who have reared 
them, and where they may have ample 
farm range they behave very much as do 
turkeys, but I know of no one who has 
perfected a front lawn strain that will 
consent to give up their wild habits and 
pose only as ornaments. m. b. d. 
R. N.-Y.—The only peacock we were 
intimately acquainted with used to roost 
in the henhouse with the other fowls, and 
was very tame. Fie was rather a nuis¬ 
ance, however, being very greedy, and 
ugly towards the other birds. They are 
out of place in a barnyard, where they 
draggle their beautiful feathers. Their 
proper place is on some stately terrace. 
In such surroundings, with caretakers to 
whom they are accustomed, they will lose 
their wildness. 
Hen* with Eye Trouble. 
Some of my hens have one eye closed, 
starting identically the same with a 
gradual closing of one eye. There is 
very little swelling, no watering, no run¬ 
ning of nose or cankers in mouth, so I 
cannot imagine it in any way connected 
with roup. Some of the other birds have 
bad colds. I separated them and all are 
now well, but these birds with the closed 
eyes. I have syringed through the eye to 
nose passage with permanganate of pot¬ 
ash, also bathed with solution of cresol 
dip, but with no result. f. c. 
New York. 
The swelling and closing of a fowl’s 
eyes are due to inflammation of the lin¬ 
ing membrane and as this membrane is 
continuous with that of the nostrils and 
other air passages, the trouble with the 
eyes usually follows “colds” or other 
more severe affections of the air passages. 
Such inflammation accompanies true 
roup and may also be a symptom of less 
severe disorders. Affected birds should 
be isolated and kept in warm dry quar¬ 
ters, free from irritating dust. Mild 
cases usually recover spontaneously, and 
severe ones should condemn the fowls 
for breeding or mixing with healthy 
flocks. m. B. D. 
700 White Leghorn Pullets 
early hatched. 300 yearling hens. All raised 
on our own farm from our own eggs. The mothers 
of these hens and pullets have a flock record of 
over ISO eggs each in pullet year. Price right 
W. & If. J. McKWKN, Flemington, N. J. 
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Box 41, 
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Two sets of plates fur- 
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Station D ELYRIA, OHIO. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value Is font 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks morn 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier 
profits larger. 
MANN’S ‘model Bone Cutter 
Cats all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. 10 Days’ Fraa Trial. 
No money in advance. 
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*»■ Mann Co.. Box is , Milford, Mass 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
oowdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1SU 
M.qcK’FbLATTS SONS CO.. Peekskill. N. Y. 
WE CAN MAKE 
tie Salt. Granulated Charcoal. OYSTER 
SHELL LIME, Sunflower and Hemp Seed, Beef 
Scrap, etc. CHARLES H. REEVE & CO., 
INC., 209 Washington Street, New York. 
PDIII TRYMFN S ? ,,a 2 . c st: ‘ m P for Illustrated 
** ' ■•1LI1 price list describing 35 varie¬ 
ties- EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA, PA. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS FOR SALE 
£ toe k 7.r a JVi' 1 , % Y h ’ te ■ and English Standard. 
MRS JAS. WITNEY, Lahore Duck Farm, Montgomery, N, Y. 
100 INDIAN RDNNER DUCKS at Farmers’ prices. Write 
me your wants. Gee. Williamson. Bande rs. N J. 
WE HAVE FOR SALE A QUANTITY OF EARLY HATCHED 
Pekin Ducks atSI-50 each 
Also 100 Breeding Dncks at *2 each 
WHITE HOUSE FARMS, - faoli. Pa . 
WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS—From extra laying 
" strain, WM. J. THOMSON, Delhi, N, Y. 
RIIINFA PI RQ FOR SALE—Inquire of W. H. DECKER, 
UUIIILM llUO Box 51, Highview, Sullivan Co., New York 
CLEARING SALE 
Superb Stock of Silver Tampine Cockerels. 13.00— 
$5.00. MOHAWK LODGE FARM, Cornwall, Conn. 
R. I. Reds—White Wyandottes 
S. C. YVbita and Bn.wn Lcgborns, Exhibition and utility 
quality. Young stock and yearlings. Bargain 1,1st and 
catalogue gratis. KW.rdal. Poultry Farm, Kherdale, Ji. J. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for hate hing. Mating list on reqnest. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain 
high record .stoek.' Old and young stock for sale. 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Cenlre Harbor, N. H. 
F OR SALE—1,000 exceptionally fine S. C. WniTE LEGHORN 
COCKE BE 1.8 aDd PULLETS fr«-m our extra heavy laying strain. 
Attractive prices. Bamapo Ponltry and Emit Farm, Spring Val¬ 
ley. N. Y. Geo. S* Tlinrston, Her., formerly with Bonnie Brao 
A r aw MARCH, APRIL Piillafe at $1.50, *1.25 and 
AND MAY lUIICIS eae j), according 
to 3ge and development. Purebred S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns, splendid laying strain, free range farm bred. 
Match pullets now laying. M. B. DEAN, Candor, N. Y. 
thorough White Leghorn Pullets forSale - tn d 
May hatched, at $1.00 each while they last. First 
orders will get first hatched and all will be-shipped 
when 5*c months old. All from good laying stock 
J. K. FOSTER, • Cincinnatus, New York 
2,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
HATCHED MARCH-APRIL 15th. 
JOHN LORTON LETS, • 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, Flemington, N. J 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
R Ro 24 Athens Pa We h *' e 14 v «™”les cockerels, pul- 
n. no. aniens, ra. , 0t8i kreeder9 » ml » few cock birdJ 
for sole ot living prices. Silver Oampines, English type. Crystal 
Palace, New York, and St. L.mii winners. Pekin ducks, bred 
from 9 and to lb. stock. White Emden Geese, bred from 18 to 24 lb. 
stock. Indian Kunuer Ducks—highest quality. Write your wants. 
FOR SALE—S. C. WHITE LEGHORN HENS 
one and two years old. March and April hatched 
pullets. White and Rice strain. All on free range, 
SYCAMORE POULTRY YARDS. - Shelter Island. NY. 
C C. W. LEGHORN PULLETS—April and May hatched, 
at $1.25 and $1. Also a choice lot of Cockerel* 
at *2 to $5. A few S. C. B, Leghorn pullets, April 
hatched, at $1.25. Riverside Poultry Farms Gilboa, N. Y 
For Sale—White Rock Cockerels 
ENGLISH RUNNER DRAKES. SI.25 EACH. 
Desmond Nelson, Box 7, lirookliaven, N. Y. 
Thoroughbred Poultry 
Pigeons, all varieties. Book. 10c. Care, disease, etc. 
POULTRY-I’lGKON FARR, Marietta, Pa. 
Rarrorf Rnrlt e-500 barred and white rock and 
Ddrieu nuuiv* s. c. buff orpington pullets, 
cockerels, hens, and cocks for sale at prices that 
will move them quickly. All stoek hen hatched 
and free ranged These birds have the right 
breeding in them and the prices will suit you. 
\V. H. MOOKE, K. 8 . - Home, N. Y. 
R.l. RED COCKERELS 
Beautiful large birds from scientifically line bred certi¬ 
fied heaviest winter laying lines, bred to increase the ego 
yield and improve any flock with which mated. Hen 
hatched and raised, free ranoe. open front colony honse: 
deep cherrv red stock, hardy, vigorous, and of unusual 
stamina. Offered at half Sprino prices, shipped with 
privilege of return at my expense and your money back 
if not suited. I have never ha* a bird returned.' Dis¬ 
count on hatching egg orders booked now. 
VIHERT ItEI) FARM. Weston. N. J, Pox 1 
100 Pekin Ducks and Drakesi®*^ 
Egg strain. Geese—Emden-Toulouse Cross. $3 each 
CHoiee yearling hens. W.L . $1 each AH molted rr 
the TRI-STATES POU LTRY FARM, Port J ervis, New Yo r fc 
JINGLE COMB WHITE I.KGHORXS-So- 
*- Tee ted yearling bens for breeders. Prices quote! 
! for 100 lots nr small pens for special matin"® PHU- 
i HURST POULTRY FARM. Levanna. Cayuga Co.. New York 
