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TH E RURA.I, NEW-YORKER 
April 18, 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
The famous Vibert flock of beautiful, brilliant, glow¬ 
ing cherry to mahogany red-to-the-skin rose and single 
comb thoroughbreds. Not uncertain layers mated 
to males from uncertain layers, but specially selected, 
long backed, low tailed, certified trapnested record lay¬ 
ers, scientifically line bred along Government lines for 
heaviest winter egg production, with yearly trapnest 
laying rates of 211 to 267 eggs; bred away from broodiness, 
ana mated to large, vigorous, brilliant red males out 
of heaviest trapnest record layers. Heaviest winter 
laying, large, hardy Reds in America, hen hatched 
and raised, on absolutely free range, in wide-open 
front colony houses, on a scientific plant absolutely 
free from roup and white diarrhoea. Highly fertile, 
clean, well shaped, unblemished eggs, gathered 
hourly, shipped daily, delivered when wanted, guaranteed 
unbroken. Vibert Vitality Day Old Chicks. Splen¬ 
did breeding cockerels from trapnested hens, trios, 
mated breeding pens for sale, Prompt shipment, 
safe delivery all over North and South Amerioa, 
eourtcous, strictly upright dealings. Mating book¬ 
let upon receipt of stamp. 
VIBERT RED FARM, Box 1, Weston, New Jersey 
Hens With Colds. 
I have 32 pullets in one house that are 
not doing very well; I only get from four 
to six eggs a day from them. My hen¬ 
house has a basement under it where it 
is warm for them to roost and lay. They 
seem to sneeze all the time. One hen 
some time ago had yellow cheesy stuff 
on her mouth, and could not eat, so I 
killed her. Do you think she had some 
contagious disease? I am feeding mixed 
grain mornings, corn on the cob about 
three o’clock, beets one day and fresh 
ground bone the next; dry mash before 
them all the time; a deep litter on the 
floor and change it once a month. 
New York. M. J. K. 
If your hens are sneezing and showing 
other evidences of colds there is some- 
INT’L EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
COLONIAL REOS WIN over every American entry of the 
American breeds. Our pen of Reds, single comb, beat 
every American entry of the American breeds, each bird 
averaged for the year, 104 EGOS. Official record. 
We olfer EGGS FOR HATCHING, from our pedigreed 
stock that we honestly believe are the strongest-laying 
lines produced to date. Our mating list will tell you de¬ 
tails and prices, and will be sent on application. We prom¬ 
ise honorable treatment. We are the breeders that fur¬ 
nish all the birds that the Youth’s Companion ship out to 
their subscribers. Shipments made to forty-six States the 
past year. COLONIAL FARM. Rox 0, Temple, New Uampihlre 
R. I. Reds, Indian Runner Ducks 
Eggs for hatching. Breeding stock. 
Sinclair Smith, 608 6 th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200 Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds 
Standard bred; high record stock; red to the 
skin. Eggs for hatching, S1.50 to $10 per 
setting (15) Utility eggs, $7.50 per 100 . 90% fer¬ 
tility, and safe delivery guaranteed. Chicks. 
AUSTIN'S POULTRY FARM, Box 17. Center Harbor, N. H. 
D f Rode EXCLUSIVELY— If yon want the best R. 
IV. U, BtUS (j > l<li,,de Island Eggs that are fully 
guaranteed, at a satisfactory jiriee, write for cata¬ 
logue. Roanoke Poultry Farm, Sewell, New Jersey 
Dealing's S. C. R. I. 
hatching. Circular. H. P. DEMING, Robertsville, Conn. 
S. C. Reds, Dark Brahma cockerels, $2.60; 
S. C. B. Leghorn cockerels. $1.50; It. C. and 
S. C. RKD laying hens. $2.00. Won 16 ribbons this 
► eason, including New York and Philadelphia. Eggs and clilx. 
Mating list free. Hlverdale Poultry Farm, Rlrardaie, K. J 
BARRED ROCKS 
Eggs—$1 per 15; $3.50 per 100. Baby chicks. 
B. H, HKNION, • Brockport, New York 
“Perfection” Barred Rocks 7 ^, r ,f y ». » 
winners (Ringlet strain). Eggs, $2 per 15; 3 settings 
for $5. Utility eggs (free range) $1 per 15. Few fine 
cockerels »3 and up. l)r. Dayman, Itox K 48, Doylcstown. Pa. 
BARRED ROCK E66S 
$6 per 100 . Fawn and White Runner Duck Eggs, $1 
per 12; $0 per 100. J. 1. HERETER, R. 0. 4. Gettysburg, Pa. 
Fdtk for Hafphino— 1 barred rocks, good layers. 
L 550 IUI na lulling Pens are headed with Cocker¬ 
els from Pittsfield Heavy-Laying strain. 80c. per 
15; $4 per 100. S. H. MILLER, Hague, N. Y. 
PARKS STRAIN BARRED ROCKS 
Breeders headed by Males from the High Pedigree 
Pens of J. W. Parks for Eight Years. Eggs Testing 
over 90% giving us 60 to 70%. Hatches $3 per 50: $6 
per 100 THE MACKEY FARMS, Gilboa, N^Y. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS^SLM 
try; 200-egg strain: breeders and eggs. Send 2 -cont 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
Write for Circular Eggs for hatching. Day old 
ETIGUT DDrrnC ai1 ^ ducklings. You 
Clan 1 DlfCCUd cannot bny stronger vitality. 
IC APDFQ SH0H0LA FRUIT & POULTRY FARM, 
HwnCO Shohola, - - Pennsylvania 
P0ULTRYMFN- Sen<] 2c stam P for Illustrated 
\ uuu ' 11 1 m *- 11 price list describing 35 varie¬ 
ties. EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA. PA. 
fill VariPtiPS CHICKENS, ducks, GEESE TURKEYS- 
UU YQI IGlICb GUINEAS and HARES. Stock and eggs. 60 
page catalogue free. H.A. SOUDER, Box 29.Sellersville. Pa. 
pFAFOWL—1O0 Peafowl—beautiful birds. 316 pair. Plieas- 
r ants, Canadian geese, Carneaux pigeons. Book on ornn- 
mental birds, colored plates, 75c. O. Yoltninn, I'oaghkeepsle, N.V. 
SiFSTSS; partridges i pheasants 
Capercailzies. Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Qnaiis, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks. Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, ami all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM. J. MACKENSEN, Natural¬ 
ist. Department TO, \ardley, Pa. 
thing wrong with the housing conditions 
and not with the feed. I suspect that 
the basement where your hens roost is 
not only warm, but damp, and that the 
trouble has its origin here. Hens will do 
well at almost any temperature if the 
air is dry but they cannot stand damp¬ 
ness for any great length of time in their 
living quarters. If a basement is used, 
and very few basements are suitable for 
poultry, it should be so open that the 
air within cannot become saturated with 
moisture. A basement opening on one or 
more sides at the ground level may easily 
be kept dry enough for poultry, but no 
cellar is suitable. My suggestion is that 
you look to the ventilation of both house 
and basement and open both to such an 
extent as shall keep them dry, if you 
have to take a whole side out. M. b. d. 
Ventilation for Henhouses. 
I have a henhouse 18x160 feet; it was 
first built with loose floor overhead and 
straw on it, but is very cold, so am 
ceiling it with matched lumber on the 
sides and overhead with a door two 
feet wide in the center the whole length 
of the house, that we can have open or 
shut according to the weather. There 
are 32 windows 3x6 feet. Will cloth over 
half of the openings make sufficient 
ventilation? The house is located in a 
cold windy place. I have from 700 to 
800 hens in the house. j. b. w. 
New York. 
If you have a two-foot opening in the 
front of the house for its entire length, 
you will hardly need any cloth windows 
for further ventilation. If your house 
is entirely closed, however, with no other 
means of ventilation than the windows, 
the opening of every other one of these, 
with a cloth screen to cover them in very 
cold, or very stormy, weather will prob¬ 
ably admit air enough. A permanent 
cloth window is not a very satisfactory 
means of ventilation for a henhouse. Its 
pores soon become clogged with dust, 
and it is little better than a solid board 
screen. I prefer windows, guarded by 
poultry netting, which may be kept par¬ 
tially, or entirely open as the weather 
permits. Cloth screens upon hinged 
frames which may be lowered over such 
windows in very cold or stormy weather, 
and thus make it unnecessary to close 
them altogether, are valuable, however, 
and may be provided if thought best. 
With open windows in a very long house 
like yours the wind will sometimes sweep 
through it from one end to the other, and 
it is best to divide the house into com¬ 
paratively short compartments by means 
of solid partitions of wood or cloth, mak¬ 
ing, say, four compartments in a 160- 
foot house. The amount of open window 
space needed can be best judged by the 
condition of the interior of the house; 
if the air within is so damp that moist¬ 
ure condenses upon the walls in cold 
weather, better ventilation must be pro¬ 
vided. With such a house as yours, I 
think that I should depend upon open 
windows rather than cloth screens for 
ventilation, remembering that it matters 
comparatively little how cold the air 
within a henhouse is, if it is only dry. 
M. B. D. 
Silver Spangled Hamburg - ^^ 
Black Polish, .American Dominique, Blacl 
Langshan ami Buff Orpington eggs, 5 c. apiece 
AUSTIN JACKSON, Mineral Springs, N, Y 
PFILE’S 65 Varieties 
f AND and Water Fowls. Farm- 
*4 raised stock, with eggs in season. 
Send 2c for my valuable Illustrated de¬ 
scriptive Poultry Book lor I»i 4 Write 
Henry Pflle, Box 674 Freeport, Ill. 
Parcel Post Egg Boxes ^oVu.l.KKs 8 
H. It. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison St., New York 
Write us for prices on 
OYSTER SHELL LIME BONE MEAL 
CANADA AND COW PEAS 
CHICK FEED, BEEF SCRAP and CHARCOAL 
Lawn Seed, Timothy, Clover, Rape, Vetch, etc. 
CHARLES H. REEVE & CO., Inc., 179 West St., New Yerk 
Don’t Kill Your Baby Chicks with Poor Feed 
Out SPECIAL CHICK FEED 
is the sweetest and most wholesome feed on the 
market It can be fed to human beings. ALWAYS 
FRESH AND ALWAYS THE SAME. Send for prices and 
booklet- WM. ORR 8 SONS. Box 1. R, Orr’s Mills. New York 
MAKA-SHEL 
GRIT 
If you want plenty 
of eggs and strong 
chicks, feed a rough grit; feed a I 
grit that grinds; feed “Maka- 
Shel.” Used by the largest' 
poultry men. Ask your dealer 
or send $1.00 for two 100 lb. hags, f. o. b. cars; 
Middle and New England States, one ton at 
flO.OO, freight paid. Agents wanted. 
EDGE HILL SILICA ROCK CO. 
Box J New Brunswick, N. J. 
Eggs in Water Glass. 
The use of water glass in preserving 
eggs is one of the simplest propositions : 
eonuected with the chicken business, al¬ 
though a great deal of mystery has been 
developed about it. In several cases peo¬ 
ple have tried to sell a so-called new 
and mysterious method of preserving 
eggs, charging a good big price for it, 
which turned out to be nothing but our 
old friend water glass. You take one 
pound of water glass and then you take 
nine pounds of boiled water and mix 
the water glass thoroughly through it. 
This is put in a wooden bucket or stone 
crock. Take the egg as fresh as possible 
from the hen. Infertile eggs are much 
the best for the process. Take these 
fresh eggs, wipe them clean and put 
them into the water glass as soon as pos¬ 
sible after they are laid. Keep them 
down in the liquid by a cover or weight 
and simply leave them alone in this 
liquid until you want to take them out 
and use them. They will keep reasonably 
well in this liquid for six months. You 
must have absolutely fresh aud clean 
eggs. There would be no use whatever 
in putting stale eggs into this water glass 
solution, for it could not bring a dead 
egg to life or improve its quality. All 
the water glass can possibly do is to hold 
the egg in about the condition it was 
when it went into the solution, and when 
taken out of the water glass it should be 
used as quickly as possible. 
Newtown Giant Colony Brooder 
Coal-burning. Self-regulating 
Simple, safe, serviceable. Efficient, eco¬ 
nomical. Saves time, labor, fuel. Makes 
success sure. Heartily endorsed by prac¬ 
tical poultrymen. 
“ After thoroughly testing the Newtown Giant 
Colony Brooder, we consider it a good stove in 
every respect and one that unit save the poultry 
fraternity thousands of chicks and a large 
amount of money ”—W. R. Cuktis & Co., 
Ransomville, N. Y. 
Made in two sizes for 300 to 1,500 chicks. 
Write now for catalog. We prepay freight 
if there is no Newtown dealer near you. 
NEWTOWN GIANT INCUBATOR CORPORATION 
74 Warsaw Street Harrisonburg, Virginia 
Do You Want to Save Money 
and Raise All the Chicks ? 
The Ideal Colony Brooder 
Coal Burning Self Regulating 
100 per rent efficient. Econom¬ 
ical and safe. Superior to oil burn¬ 
ers. Lan;e ami small farms are 
using the Meal with success. The 
only Aystem giving perfect satis¬ 
faction. Write for booklet describ¬ 
ing the 
IDEAL COAL 
STOVE BROODER 
Price,$17.00. With Regulator,$22.00 
LIBERTY STOVE CO. 
110 Bi. Second St., Philadelphia,Pa 
Start Them Right 
The problem of getting your 
chicks safely through their chick- 
hood is simply a problem of 
maintaining high vitality. H-O 
Steam-Cooked Chick Feed has 
all the vital elements necessary to 
turn chicks into useful chickens. 
H-0 Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
is a carefully prepared mixture of Corn, Cut Oatmeal, 
Cracked Wheat, Kaffir Com, Peas and Millet— steam- 
cooked by a special process in our mill. 
Sold only in 10-lb. .25-lb.. 50-Ib. and 100-lb.bags. Each 
bag bears a tag showing the guaranteed analysis. If you 
cannot get H-O Steam-Cooked Chick Feed, Interme¬ 
diate Scratch Feed, Scratch Feed, Poultry Feed, Dry 
Poultry Mash or Chick Feed, from your dealer, write 
for sample and prices. 
The H-O Company 
Mills: 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
John J. Campbell 
General Sales Agent 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
Save Your Chicks 
From Lice 
Safe—effective—quick in its action. 
Sprinkle it on the roosts—in the 
cracks—in the dust bath—on the 
young chicks—use it on lousy 
stock—it’s a sure lice destroyer. 
DR. HESS 
Instant Louse Killer 
kills lice on poultry and farm stock, 
also destroys bugs on cucumber, 
squash and melon vines, cabbage 
worms, slugs on rose bushes, etc. 
Sold in sifting-top cans—guaranteed— 1 lb. 
25c; 3 lbs. 60c (except in Canada and the far 
West). If not at your dealer’s, write us. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
JW 
M? 
GERMOZONE’S Value 
is not so much in its great efficiency as 
a remedy for roup, canker, chicken pox 
and other diseases of poultry, but 
it is the greatest bowel regulator in 
the world for either poultry or stock 
(including pet stock), counteract- 
ling, especially, bowel troubles due 
to musty, spoiled orimproper food. 
With man, fowls or animals, regu¬ 
lar bowels means health. Con¬ 
tinued irregularity means some sickness, difficult 
to cure if not fatal. Thousands give Germozone 
regularly twice a week to chickens, young and old, 
at the same time having it ever handy as a ready 
remedy for other diseases. Sold by dealers or post¬ 
paid. One size only, 50 cents. 
GEO. H. LEE CO., Omaha, Nebr^ 
“Jimmy, Always Give 100 Cents’ 
lor Every Dollar You Get” 
That’s what my father said to me when I 
was a boy—and that's what I’m doing when 
I send you my Belle City hatching outfit. 
276,000 users will tell you so. I am giving 
you more when you compare my 8-timee 
World’s Champion 
Belle 
Jun Johan, Pres. ( 
with any other ’ 
incubator made. 
Double cases all over, 
best copper tank; nur¬ 
sery, self-regulating. _ 
Best 140-chick hot-water brooder, 
$4.85. Both, $11.50. Writ, lo 
book today or send prico now and save 
Belie City Incubator Co., Box 48 . Racine. 
Satisfaction 
MSfMfMfl 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered, liny direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples, list. 1844 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
THOKOtlGHBRKI) POULTRY—Best 20 varie- 
■ ties, Healthy, vigorous stock. Good layers. Eggs, 
15,$1: 40.|2. Catalog. H.K. Mohr,R.No.3,Quakertown. Pa. 
fiHIfiKS THAT I |VF— A lilnit °d number of day- 
UniUNO • HA I L 1 YC old chicks for sale during 
April. Write to MAPL EWOOD FARM, Cheshire, Connecticut 
CfJIJP that hatch and chicks that live from the 
LllUv Rose Comb Rods which won first at the 
- two Egg Laying Contests, Storrs. 
Glenview Poultry Farm, Rockville, Conn. 
Poultry Netting 
—Write for bargain price*. 
EXCELSIOR WIRE MFG. 
C0., 5 Cortland! St., N.l. 
'/ Fich ftifp Like hungry wolvei 
: r I>ue any time of the year 
if you use Magic-Fish-Lure. Best 
, fish bait ever discovered. Keeps you busy 
pulling them out. Write to-day and get a 
box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. 
J. F. Gregory, Dept. 99 8t. Louis, Me 
TYWACANA FARMS POULTRY CO. 
Ship Eggs in this Box by Parcel Post 
The New Wright Egg Hoxis the strongest and lightest pack- 
, age tor shipping hatching eggs or fresh table eggs. Easy to pack— 
each egg has absolute protection—cannot shake or jar. Wright boxes 
j are shipped to you Hat and are easily set up and packed for ship- 
I ment to your customers. Write today tor Frc, Booklet dcscrib- 
j ing The Wright boxes lor shipping chicks and eggs. 
TYWACANA White Leghorns, Barred and White Rocki 
1 Book your order non dor eggs or day old chicks Send today 
for our free, big. beautiful catalog, describing Tywaeana 
Farms I.eghorna and Rockn and giving prices on chicks, 
eggs and breeding stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
A. E. Wright, Supt. Box 68, Farmingdale, Long Island. N. T. 
VPARMS^ 
POULTRYCa 
SHIP BY PARCEL POST IN STRONG, 
LIGHT “H & D ” BOXES 
“n & D” Boxes are designed to carry farm products by Parcel Post. They 
meet all requirements of new regulations and guarantee safe delivery. Made 
of double-faced, corrugated Jute board—a perfect cushion for eggs and other 
fragile articles—protects from tieat and cold. Waterproof, sanitary, light, 
firm and strong. Shipped knocked-down, easy to set up and pack. 
"H & D” Three-piece Egg Boxes—Five Sizes 
Safest, most convenient for mailing. Double thickness corrugated board on all sides. 
Sizes, one to six dozen eggs. A one-piece dozen-size box for special trade. 
" H & D ” Boxes for Dressed Fowls, Fruit, Butter, Etc. 
We make up shipping boxes for any kind of farm produco. Write stating size and 
weight of articles you ship for quotation on boxes. 
Send for Free booklet "How to pack it for parcel post ” 
‘•H <fc D” Chick Boxes and Fireless Brooders known and used by successful poultry 
men everywhere. Write today for booklet. 
THE HINDE & DAUCH PAPER CO., Dept. E, SANDUSKY, OHIO 
