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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Lively Chicks! 
Chicks that brisk about, full 
of life and vim, are the ones that 
grow into money-makers. H-O 
Steam-Cooked Chick Feed keeps 
the chicks vigorous and lively at 
all times and in all seasons. 
H-0 Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
is a scientific mixture of Com, Cut Oatmeal, Cracked 
Wheat, Kaffir Corn, Peas and Millet— steam-cooked 
by a special process in our mill. 
Sold only in 10-lb., 25-!b., 50-lb. and 100-lb. bags, 
with tag showing guaranteed analysis. If you cannot get 
H-O Steam-Cooked Chick Feed, Intermediate Scratch, 
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. 
Do You Want to Save Money 
and Raise All the Chicks ? 
The Ideal Colony Brooder 
Coal Burning Self Regulating 
100 per cent efficient. Econom¬ 
ical and safe. Superior to oil burn¬ 
ers. Large and small farms are 
using the Meal with success. The 
only system 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 N. Second St., Philadelphia^ 
We ship 
Jquickfrom] 
Minneapolis, 
' Buffalo, Kansas 1 
City or Racine 
are better. Satisfaction guaran 
teed. Write for book today or 
eend price now and save time. 
Jim Rohan, Pres. 
BELLE CITY INCUBATOR CO. 
Box 48 Raci ne r WIs. 
Still Buys 
World's Champion 
140-Egg incubator 
_Double cases all over - best 
copper tank; nursery,self-regulating. 
Best 140-chick hot-water brooder, 
$4.85. Ordered together. $11.50. 
Freight Paid (E. of Rockies). No ma¬ 
chines at any price 
Writk 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 8 CO , Inc., 179 West St., New Yark 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry Is best. Coarse or lino granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturer* of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1814 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N.Y. 
Poultry Netting 
—Writ® for bargain price*. 
EXCELSIOR WIRE MFC. 
CO., 5 Cortlandt St., N.Y. 
Shafts partridges i pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., f or stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM. J. MACKICNSKN, Natural¬ 
ist, Department lO, Yardley, I'a. 
S. C W. DohuPhiobo in any numbers. HENHAI 
LEGHORN DdUj UIIIUKd POULTRY YARDS. Cortland, N 
HENHAVEN 
Y. 
60 Varieties 
page catalogue 
CHICKENS, DUCKS, GEESE, TURKEYS- 
GUINEAS and HARES. Stock and eggs. 00 
free. H.A. SOUDER, Box 29,Se!lersville. Pa. 
nnill TDVUCN - Send 2c stamp for Uli 
“UUL I III mull price list describing : 
ties. EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIi 
P EAFOWL—100 Peafowl—beautiful birds. S15 pair. Pheas¬ 
ants, Canadian geese, Carneaux pigeons. Book on orna¬ 
ment*! birds, colored plates, ;5c. Yeltmnn, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
F OR SALE—Choice Three-band Italian Oneens. 
Tested—$2; untosted, after June 1—$1 Write for 
booklet. W. K. Rockwell, .Bloomfield, Conn. 
BELGIAN HARES 
Pure breed Belgian Hares, all sizes and ages, at 
the right prices; the finest kind for the table. 
Stock your farm with game, also table, with 
good tender meat. Ask for catalogue and prices. 
CALEB BOGGS «fe SON, - Cheswold, Delaware 
v Fish Bite 
Like hungry wolves 
any time of the year 
if you use Magic-Fish-Lnre. Best 
fish bait ever discovered. Keeps you busy 
ulling them out. Write to-day and get a 
ox to help introduce it. Agents wanted. 
J. V. Gregory, Dept, 99 St. Louis, Mo 
Chickens, Ducks, Geese, 
V AnlU I ICw Turkeys, O. I. C. Hogs, 
JK AND EGGS. REDUCED PRICES, 
ew Illustrated circular, better than ever. 
* John E. Heatwole, Harrisonburg, Va. 
The Henyard. 
Questions in Hen Feeding. 
Is green bone and meat good for hens 
in the Summer? Is a wet mash as good 
for hens in the morning as a dry one? 
Would you advise me to raise beets and 
carrots for hens in Winter? F. w. 
New York. 
Green cut bone may be fed in the Sum¬ 
mer if care is taken not to allow it to 
become tainted or to use bone to which 
tainted meat is attached. It should be 
fed in moderation, and is, of course, not 
so much needed by fowls that are on 
range and able to pick up hugs and 
worms. When dry mash is fed it is not 
given in the morning or at noon as a 
single meal, but it is kept before the 
fowls either all day or through t v a after¬ 
noon, usually the former. The hens are 
allowed free access to it at all times, as 
they will eat but a mouthful or two at a 
time and will not gorge themselves with 
it as they would with wet mash if they 
had opportunity. Most poultrymen pre¬ 
fer to feed dry mash in this way rather 
than to give a wet mash once or twice 
daily. It saves labor, and the results in 
the long run are undoubtedly quite as 
good. Either mangels or cabbages should 
be raised for Winter feed for fowls if 
practicable. They are probably about 
equal in feeding value, and the choice be¬ 
tween them will depend upon which can 
be raised and stored to best advantage. 
As a rule, mangel beets will have the ad¬ 
vantage in these respects. M. B. D. 
Another Turkey Record. 
Though not expecting any champion¬ 
ship honors I can bring forward the lay¬ 
ing records of two turkey hens that can 
beat the one on page 241. During the 
season of 1912 a black hen laid 80 eggs, 
the other a Bronze, laid 86. These eggs 
were all laid before either hen showed 
any desire to sit. They were set July 
6 and 13 respectively, and although the 
poults were late hatched they were ready 
for the Christmas market at eight to 12 
pounds. During the season of 1913 the 
same black hen laid 17 eggs, then set, 
and when her brood was three to four 
weeks old began laying again, laying 81 
or 98 in all. The same Bronze hen laid 
16, set and when her brood was a few 
weeks old laid again, this time laying 89, 
making 105 eggs for the season. This 
record makes no account of broken eggs, 
of which there were a few. Another hen 
in our flock, a Bronze, laid a total of 
68 eggs and raised two separate broods, 
both of her own hatching during the 
Summer of 1913. Bertram m. ball. 
Vermont. 
Loss of Feathers; Feeding Chicks. 
1. My chickens get bare spots right 
in front of the tail. I don’t know what 
\ causes it, looks ugly hut it has no effect 
. on laying. Could you give me a remedy 
for it? 2. What is the proper feed for 
baby chicks? A. A. s. 
Englishtown, N. Y. 
1. Those bare spots may be due to the 
work of depluming mites, or, possibly, 
to the habit of feather pulling. A little 
lard or vaseline to which one fourth of 
its bulk of blue, or mercurial, ointment 
has been added, well rubbed into the 
bare places will destroy the mites and 
permit new feathers to grow. 2. Baby 
chicks may be started on bread crumbs 
moistened with milk, rolled oats, 
crumbled johnny cake, fine grit and 
water, and after a day or two, hard chick 
feed composed of one part pinhead oat 
meal, two parts finely cracked corn, and 
three parts cracked wheat. A mash kept 
before them dry in little trays, and also 
fed moistened alternating with the hard 
feed, may be made up of three parts each 
of wheat bran, wheat middlings, corn 
meal, and sifted beef scrap, to which one 
part of bone meal may well be added. 
Baby chicks should be fed five times 
daily for the first few weeks, a little at 
a time, later the meals may be reduced 
to three daily, a moist mash being given 
once. _ M. B. D. 
Paralyzed Fowls. 
Several times lately, I have noticed 
that a few of my flock of S. C. White 
Leghorns seem to lose the use of their 
legs for a short time. I have put them 
in “broody coops” and within 24 hours 
they apparently are all right again. They 
usually seem to be some of the best 
birds and heaviest layers. Their vitality 
seems unimpaired, as they flutter around, 
close to the floor, using their wings only. 
Combs and eyes are as bright as usual. 
Mortality is very low. Cement floors 
seem to gather moisture more this Win¬ 
ter than last, and when the floors are 
cleaned, I have used ground limestone on 
the floor in order to dry it. Could you 
give me any idea as to the cause of this 
trouble? E. II. II. 
New York. 
Day Old Chicks 
and 
Six to Eight Weeks Old Pullets 
6 weeks old 60 cents 
8 weeks old 70 cents 
Kirkup’s Strain S. C. White Leghorns bred 
for size, vigor, and large white market eggs 
—$15 per 100—$62.50 per 500—$125 per 1000— 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Order Today. 
REDUCED PRICES AFTER MAY 15 
Day Old Chicks, $10 per 100—Yearling 
Hen*, $1.25 each. Delivery after May 1 
It will pay you to get a breeding pen now— 
Why?—You can get May and Junehat.ched 
chicks, get. a good egg production until late 
in the Fall and then have a fine breeding 
pen for next season. We guarantee stock 
to be "Right.” Send for Free Booklet, de¬ 
scribing chicks, pullets and breeding stock. 
CHESTNUT POULTRY FARM 
KIRK UP BROS., Props. 
MATT1TUCK, L. I.. NEW YORK 
Ba oy CliicKs 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R 
I. REDS, B 
ROCKS 
Thoroughbred, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL, 
Sodus N. Y. 
GREATEST LAYERS 
IN AMERICA 
MY BREEDS RECOMMEND THEMSELVES 
BARRON LEGHORNS-World’s best 
BARRON WYAND0TTES England’s best 
STORR’S BUFF ROCKS America’s best rock* 
VIBERT-AUSTIN REDS—200 & 260-egg flocks combined 
HALF-BARRON LEGHORNS A 200-egg bird 
WALTON’S ENG. PENCILLED DUCKS-World’s record 
TOULOUSE GEESE—Largest —lay 40 eggs 
Eggs and chicks—all ages—all year. Custom 
brooding saves brooder trouble. 
“ROUEN DUCKS" 
Farm Prices, Circular 
MORRIS- FARM, r. 4, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Dune Alpin Heavy Laying 
S. C. White Leghorns 
have won more firsts, specials and other 
awards in the last four years at New York, 
Boston. Hagerstown and Philadelphia than 
all our competitors combined. 
HATCHING EGGS OR DAY OLD CHICKS 
PRICES LOW, QUALITY CONSIDERED 
Send for catalogue. 
DUNE ALPIN POULTRY FARM 
Easthampton, L. I., N. Y. 
- - 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
CHICKS 
give satisfaction. Try them. Prices now, for im¬ 
mediate delivery: 
Young’s strain.$IO per 100 
Young’s & Barron’s cross. 15 per 100 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Catalogue free. 
A. H. PENNY, - Mattituck, New York 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
D.W. Young’s strain. The finest in the world. Bred 
for their great Winter-laying qualities. Over 2000 
layers on free farm range. Largest plant of high- 
class breeders in the world at farmers’ prices. 
Eggs for hatching now ready in any quantity @ $6 
per 100, $50 per 1000. Quick shipments. Baby 
chicks $12 per 100—capacity, 8.000 weekly. The kind 
that live. My book Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved— 
5th edition, given free with all $10 orders. Satis¬ 
faction Guaranteed. Descriptive circulars free 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 141. Pleasant Valley, N.Y. 
TOM BARRON’S 
. . . ENGLISH . . . 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Imported direct from Tom Barron’s farm; Tom Bar¬ 
ron’s defeated all American breeds; 5 liens laid 1190 
eggs in 1 year, averaging 238; large handsome, vig¬ 
orous white cockerels, S3 and $5; eggs, $1; $0 per 100. 
P. F. RAFFERTY, Marlboro, Mass. 
Eggs from S. G. W. Leghorns 
iieaded by 'g Barron cockerol—15 for $1.50; 
60 for $5. B. P. Rocks and S. C. Reds—15 for 
$1: 60 for $3. W Wyandottes, i5 for $1. 
1IAKKY M. HALL, R. No. 2. Chester Depot, Vermont 
Temporary paralysis of the legs is a 
common affliction of fowls that have been 
closely confined and heavily fed for some 
time; it is believed to be also due to 
rheumatism contracted in damp, ill-ven¬ 
tilated quarters. Removal to a dry 
warm place and the administration of a 
dose of physic, as a teaspoonful of castor 
oil, usually suffices to cure cases of 
moderate severity. Occasionally it is 
necessary to kill fowls that do not re¬ 
cover. M. B. D. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING-!/, -rcV 
laying strain of S. C. W. Leghorns, order of J, >1. 
CASE,Gillxm, New York. 75c per 15; $4 per 100 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
chicks from heavy-laying strain. Strong, healthy stock. 
Fawn and White and pure White Indian Runner Duck 
eggs for hatching. Write today for free circular to 
Juniata Poultry Yards, Mifflintown, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY-Best20 varie- 
• ties, Healthy, vigorous stock. Good layers. Eggs. 
15,$1: 40.$2. Catalog. H.K. Mohr,R.No.3,Quakerlown. Pa, 
May 2, 
Baby Chicks & Ducklings ^, e™£iv$: 
From Youngs' strain. Prize winners at Madison 
Square Garden, 1913. Mating list free. BEAVER DAM 
POULTRY FARM, Harry Tweddle, Prop., Montgomery, N. Y. 
S.C. White Leghorn Eggs for Hatching 
by the sitting or thousand. Also BABY CHICKS from vi¬ 
gorous, heavy-laying stock. TOM BARRON and Wyckoff 
strains. Prices Low. Fertility and safe arrival 
guaranteed. Circulars free. R. T. EWING. Atlantic. Pa. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from selected, mature hens, bred 
for 18 years for vigor and Kgg production. 
FLOYD 0 WHITE, Successor to White 8 Rice, Yorktown, N. Y. 
S.C. W. LEGH0RNS- b ?«; ',”SS C ' 1 SU , «“ 
running over 90# in fertility. $1.50 for 15; SOper 100. 
Also few pens for sale at attractive prices. ROUT. 
G. MERCER, R. E. D. 3, Lynchburg;, Virginia 
RARY r!HIX- S - C ' White Leghorns, 
IJMD 1 vniA w per | 00i I. R. Duck¬ 
lings. Eggs forhatching. Old established business. 
ROCKY GLEN POULTRY FARM, Poughkeepsie. New York 
Range-bred Winter Layers 
Well filled egg-baskets in Winter spell success 
for tlie poultry keeper. Hatching eggs six dollars 
per hundred. Day-old chicks double, from our 
selected heavy-laying strain. S. C. W. Leghorns. 
RAMAPO POULTRY & FRUIT FARM, SpringValley.N.Y. 
Rahv Thirl™ AND CUSTOM HATCHING-OurS- 
DaDycniCKS, Eggs 0 w . Leghorns are bred for 
productionnndvigor;not for feathers and showtjp*. 
White Orpingtons from Cooks’ best. Pekin ducks. 
M. B. turkeys. Peaceful Valley Farm, Oxford Depot, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Baby Chicks ] s ° e f9 E * c I !|; 
val guaranteed. No order too large. Hatching EGGS by 
the sottingor thousand: fertility guaranteed. Writ* 
for catalogue. RICHLAND FARMS, Box 37, Frederick. Md. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS] eggs for hatching 
Fawn & White Indian Runner Ducks / and ducklings 
heavy-laying,pure white egg strains. Circular giving 
description, record, winnings, and guarantee, sent 
freo PATTERSON POULTRY FARM, Claytsn, New York 
Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs Eggs'uxai 
fail to hatch replaced at half price. Ten pullets 
from this Hock in Experiment Station test laid 1739 
eggs in a year. ALKEN FARM, R. D. 2. Ithaca, Ntw York 
DABV PUIPIfC AND EGGS FOR HATCHING, 
DUD I umtmo for heavy laying S. C. 
White Leghorn Hens mated to Tom Barron cock¬ 
erels, also from one pen pure Barron stock. 
Q BRUNDAGE, Salisbury Mills, Orange Co., New York 
Rahv Phinlrc OF LIVABILITY ,*eggs of hatchability 
DdUJ uDUiKS from D.W. Youngs’ strain, S.C. VV. 
Leghorns, direct from his best mat ings. Open front 
houses. Circular. WINANS 8 COFFIN, Stanfordville. N. Y. 
SJ I lA O—10c. S. C. W. Leghorns. Money 
V/ V/ IV back for dead ones. Pamphlet 
free. C. M. LAUVER, 15ox 73, Richfield. Pa. 
q R Whitp I p*7hnrnq- WYCK0Ff strain-E ggs f° r 
O.U. YY IIIIG LCgllUl Ho hatching, $5 per 100. Un¬ 
fertile eggs replaced. Robert E. Smith, Nassawadox.Va. 
flni/.lDM nhSmlec from excellent util- 
udy-viu LiMSJHS itv s _ c White LeB . 
horns—$9 per 100. GEO FROST, Levanna, Cayuga Co., N.Y. 
I INCOLN’S WINTER-LAYING LEGHORNS lead pens of all 
^ America in Storrs’eontest Eggs. $6per 100; chicks, 
$15 per 100. FRANCIS F. LINCOLN. Mt. Carmel, Connecticut 
EGGS FOR HATCHING SSStff&STK 
White Leghorn, S. C. Rhode I-land lieds—$1.50 per 
15; $5 per hundred. 50 Good Cockerels at $2 each. 
H. A BACON, Hillcrest Poultry Farm, Berwyn, Maryland 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS AND EGGS 
TT healthy business kind including Barron'* strain 
that grow great layers, delivery guaranteed. For 
Circular write, HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, New York 
975 BLACK LEGHORNS laid $820 worth of eggs in 
" ■ ** one year. Circular free telling about them. 
William C. Merrill, North Sanford, Broome Co., N.Y. 
Pedigreed S. C. Buff Leghorns 
bred from hens with records between 219 and 267, 
mated to 250 record blood. Winners at Chicago, Los 
Angeles, Indianapolis, etc. Get blood of “Egg Bred 
Winners.” Dr. L. HEASLEY, Box R N.. Dorr. Michigan 
B rn- WHITE LEGHORNS, S. 0. II. T. HEPS— Eggs 90c. p*r 15; 
$1.60 per 30. Mottled .Ancona*, Bl. Minorca*, egg* $1.00 par 
16; $1.75 per 30. Catalogue free. John A. ltoth, Quakertown, Pa. 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS ft.W; 
dollar for thirteen. LEON L. SAGE, Crown Point, N. Y. 
S. C. Reds, Dark Bralima cockerels. $2.50; 
S. C. It. Leghorn cockerels, $1.50; K. C. and 
S. C. RED laying liens, $2.00. Won 7G ribbon* till* 
Reason, including New York ami Philadelphia. Kgg* and chlx. 
Mating list free. lUrerdale Poultry Farm, Iliverdale, N. J 
!B American Dominiques HSRooks!MiH S E p. s 
M OTTLED ANCONAS EGGS for hatching. 75c., 15; $4.00, 
100. GEO. K. BOWDISH, Esperance, New York 
Write for Circular 
EIGHT BREEDS 
45 ACRES 
Eggs for hatching. Day old 
chicks and ducklings. You 
cannot buy stronger vitality. 
SHOHOLA FRUIT 8 POULTRY FARM, 
Shohola, - - Pennsylvania 
Wanted 500 White Leghorn Pullets 
6 weoks old, for delivery June 1st. Name lowest 
price and state strain furnished. 
Sunnycrest Orchards - Kimlerhook, N. Y. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS^:*^ 4 . 
try: 200-egg strain: breeders and eggs. Send 2-cent 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
Silver Laced Wprdottes-jMlSf'hSSS.'g: 
Send for feathers. F. M. SWART, Margaretville, N. Y. 
WliifpWvanrlntfpc THflT LflY KgKS from tw0 
YY niie VY yaiUlOllts |, enSi headed by cockerels 
imported direct from Tom Barron. Also eggs from 
other pens. Circular. WM. J. THOMSON, Delhi, N. Y. 
W UfVA Nil DT TPO—bred from $50 trio; elegant 
ifflHnUUI I CO shape and color Wonder¬ 
ful layers 15eggs, $2. W.W Carman, Margaretville, N.Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING WHITE WYAN- 
*-* DOTTES—Itegal Strain: W bite Indian Runners 
—$1 per settings. Special Price by tlie hundred. Sat¬ 
isfaction guaranteed. F. Cryus Twining. Pineville, Pa. 
Don’t Kill. Your Baby Chicks with Boor Fkkd 
Our SPECIAL CHICK FEED 
is the sweetest arid most wholesome feed on the 
market It can be fed to human beings. ALWAYS 
FRESH AND ALWAYS THE SAME Send for prices and 
booklot. WM. ORR 8 SONS, Box 1. R, Orr’s Mills. New York 
