1014. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
75 3 
A perfectly sanitary hen-house 
means profitable hens! It’s 
merely a matter of keeping the 
interior of the hen-house free 
from lice, flies, nits, etc. This is 
easilydonewithCreonoid—a coal- 
tar product which no vermin can 
stand. 
Creonoid also protects your cows from 
being pestered by flies and increases 
their yield of milk. 
Ask your dealer for it. 
BARRETT MFC,. CO. 
New York Chicago 
Philadelphia 
Boston St. Louis 
Pittsburgh Cleveland 
Cincinnati Kansas City 
Minneapolis 
Seattl e 
Birmingham -j 
Tt.VIBERT REDS 
A flock of deep glowing and brilliant cherry to nia- 
hOf/a It y red to Hie skin rose and single comb Rhode 
Island Reds, famous for being the heaviest-laying 
Irapnrsteri flock of the breed in existence. J,ong- 
1 tacked, low-tailed birds, hatched and raised by hens 
only on absolutely free range in open-front colony 
houses wide open all winter. A plant on which roup 
and white diarrhoea are entirely unknown. 
IlirhlT fertile, slrong eggs for hnlehlng the year round. 
Clucks in small lots front specially selected eggs. 
Cockerels from trapnesied liens of high laving rates. 
Breeding pens, trios, nod utility stock for sale at re¬ 
duced Spring prices— 
all from 
THE HEAVIEST-LAYING REDS IN AMERICA 
Prompt sorrier, courteous nod honerahle treatment, 
hacked by a national reputation for square dealing. 
1914 mating booklet upon request. 
VIBERT RED FARM, Box 1, Weston, N. J. 
Rose and Single com^ 
Rhode Island Reds. IP 
& F. Strain. 109 Acres 
devoted to them. Heavy 
layers and show record 
of 87 first in 12 ve ars - Kggs, $2.00 per 15; 
83.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50; 89.00 per 100; 880.00 
per 1,000 eggs. Fine breeding cockerels at 
85.00 each. We have size and type that 
shows well, looks well, breeds well 
and lays well. Order direct from this ad. 
or send for mating list. 
& FREESE 
R. F. D. 9 Geneseo, N. Y. 
INT’L EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
COLONIAL REDS WIN over every American entry of the 
American breeds. Our pen of lteds, single comb, heat 
every American entry of the American breeds, each bird 
averaged for the year. 194 EGGS. Official record. 
W- offer EGCS 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. Wo 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 Stales the 
past year. COLONIAL KAltM, B»t O, Temple, New Hampshire 
Austin’s 200 Egg Strain S.C. R. I. Reds 
Standard bred: high roeord stock: red to 
the skin. Half prices on eggs for batching. 
Booked up for season on chicks. : : 
AUSTIN’S POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
R. I. Reds, Indian Runner Ducks 
Eggs for hatching. Breeding stock. 
Sinclair Smith, (503 5th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
FAA0 that hatch and chicks that livo from the 
CtHld Rose Comb Reds which won fi st at the 
— . two Egg Laying Contests. Stores. 
Glenview Poultry Farm, Koekville, Conn. 
Single Comb Reds Only- Bro , d , ^ht. ,f?™wn right, 
— 1 mated to produce vigorous 
stock of llrst class utility and good standard quality. 
Kggs for hatching, my specialty. SI.(hi per IS. Sil.00 i>er 
11X1. Slock reasonable. A. QUaCKKNHUSII, Parien, Conn. 
COR SALE-PURE-BRED RHODE ISLAND RED'S EGGS per IS 
r $1.00 S.C. BLACK MINORCA EGGS 5c each; layers of 
large white eggs. I,. M. Stewart, Vega, IN'. Y. 
White Wyandottes & Buff Leghorns 
Special low prices now. Circulars free. 
OWNLAND FARM, - Box 497, South Hammond, New York 
White Wyandottes _ ^od y stock' *'o? eT J*. 
THOMAS C. GORDON, - Brockport, N. Y. 
—Choice Buff Wyandotte egc 
Wl Wl for s a I e. 75c for tifteei 
---- $4,011 a hundred. Free rangi 
OHA.S. 1. MI I.LICK, R.F.D. No. 1. Had soil, N. Y 
Ring-Neck Pheasant Eggs gf 75 15 A * 0 ™™ 
and Silver Pheasant Eggs, $3.75 a setting of 15. 
Ring-Neck Pheasant Eggs, $15 per 100. Address 
SUPT. TAHLULAH FARM, Babylon, Loop Island. New York 
F OR SALE— Choice Three-band I Lilian Queens. 
Tested—$2; untested, after June 1—$1 Write for 
booklet. W. K. Kockwel., Bloomfield, Conn. 
O AND WHITE ANGORA RABBITS-Send 
iiai cj for prices and booklet free. Pleasant 
Valley Rabbit Farm, 0 W. Phelps, Prop., Georgetown, N Y. 
BARRED ROCKS 
F.ggs—SI per 15; $3.50 per 100. Baby chick*. 
B. H, BUNION, - Brockport, New York 
“Perfection” Barred Rocks'®,™'* 
hooded by prize-winners (Ringlet strain). Eggs. $2 
per 15; 3 settings for $5. Utility eggs (free range) $1 
per 15. l>r. HAYMAN, Box R 48. Oovlestown, Pa. 
POULTRYMEN 
ties. EAST DONEGAL 
—Send 2c stamp for Illustrated 
price list describing 35 varie- 
POULTRY YAR0S. MARIETTA, PA. 
THE FARMERS FAVORITE WINTER LAYERS WHITE 0RPING- 
' TON EGGS ANU CHICKS Square Heal Guaranteed 
Catalogue free. W. R. STEVENS. Culver Road, Lyons, N Y. 
The Henyard. 
Feeding Young Chicks. 
A question of great interest to amateur 
poultrymen at this time of the year is 
how to feed young chicks. Here is the 
way they do it at the Agricultural Sta¬ 
tion at Mountain Grove, Missouri. “We 
sprinkle a little clover chaff, shredded 
Alfalfa, fine cut straw, or other clean 
litter free from must or mold, over the 
floor of the brooder before the chicks are 
put in it. We fill a small fountain with 
sour milk or buttermilk for the first half 
of the day, and water for the last half. 
If you cannot get the milk, then see that 
they always have plenty of pure water. 
We prefer sour milk to sweet milk, be¬ 
cause much of the harmful bacteria in 
the intestinal tract is prevented from 
developing by the lactic acid of the sour 
milk. The acid of milk aids digestion, 
kills bacteria and has an appetizing ef¬ 
fect. 
“Begin by feeding a mixture of two- 
thirds rolled oats, one-third wheat bran, 
with a small amount of fine charcoal. 
Oatmeal is the finest food known for 
young animals. This is fed on a clean 
board four or five times a day, and the 
board removed after five minutes. Clean 
sand or fine grit is given at the same 
time. Aftei' two or three days we begin 
feeding a little commercial chick feed 
with the above mixture, and gradually 
increase this. The rolled oats and bran 
are fed morning, noon and night, and 
the chick feed thrown in the litter be¬ 
tween meals. After the fifth day feed a 
dry mash made as follows: Two parts 
wheat bran, one part cornmeal. one part 
middlings, one-half part rolled oats. To 
every 100 pounds of this add a hand¬ 
ful of charcoal, a handful of bone meal, and 
one-half pound of table salt, mixing it in 
thoroughly. When the chicks are five or 
six weeks old their ration of chick feed 
and rolled oats may be gradually changed 
to cracked corn, wheat and kaffir corn. 
Continue the dry mash, and the sour milk 
if you can get it. Get the chicks out on 
bare ground and in colony houses as soon 
as possible. Feed them from hoppers 
both of dry mash and grains. Let them 
have free range and help themselves to all 
the feed they want. If you want to 
push them rapidly feed a wet mash once 
a day with 10% of fine beef scrap in 
it.” 
This is the Missouri way, but I prefer 
the Coruell College way. 
GEO* A. COSGROVE. 
Poor Hatch. 
I have about 200 pullets in fine con¬ 
dition, are laying very well, but it seems 
their eggs do not hatch. I had two hens 
coming off, one got two chicks, the other 
none. The eggs were all fertile and full- 
grown chick in every egg. What can be 
the trouble? I started the incubator 
with 350 eggs before the hens were due. 
They are White Orpingtons. The shell 
does not come off the egg when boiled. 
New York. e. h. 
There is evidently a lack of vigor in 
your flock somewhere which prevents 
your eggs from hatching, though fertile. 
This may be due to the heavy laying of 
the pullets through the Winter, or, possi¬ 
bly to an excessive number of pullets 
with the males in the breeding pen; or 
the males, themselves, may be at fault. 
Close confinement of the flock and heavy 
feeding through the Winter also tends 
to lack of vigorous fertility in the Spring. 
As the season advances, particularly 
after you have turned your fowls out. 
this condition will probably improve, and 
you may get a better hatch from the eggs 
in the incubator than from those set 
earlier under hens. If it can well be 
avoided, eggs from fowls that have been 
closely confined through the Winter, and 
fed for egg production, should not be de¬ 
pended upon for hatching in the Spring. 
They may be fertile, but are apt to con¬ 
tain weak germs which can never de¬ 
velop into vigorous chicks. M. b. d. 
Loss of Young Chicks. 
Do S. C. W. Leghorn day-old chicks 
have wing feathers that cover their 
bodies? I have lost 52 out of 200 and a 
lot more are on the same road as they 
are rocking backing and forth, don’t want 
to eat, and a lot of them had feathers 
longer than their bodies. The seller 
claims that these chicks being older than 
day old. and being on the road for two 
days without anything to eat were 
starved so when they did start to eat 
couldn’t stand it. f. w. m. 
Connecticut. 
The wing feathers of White Leghorn 
chicks develop rapidly but do not cover 
their bodies at one day old. They are 
well started by the beginning of the third 
day, however, and in a few days more 
are as long as the chicks’ bodies; some 
that I have now, five days from the in¬ 
cubator, have wings that extend to with¬ 
in about three-quarters of an inch from 
the extreme end of the body and their 
tails are about one-half inch long. Your 
experience iu losing chicks is far from 
uncommon, whether purchased as “day 
olds” or hatched on the premises. Many 
chicks start out in life with a lack of 
vitality which condemns them to a very 
brief existence. m. b. d. 
On Farms 
Where Efficiency 
Rul 
es 
— where progressiveness marks every feature 
of equipment and method — you will find the 
buildings covered, once and forever, with 
J-M Asbestos Roofing 
44 The Roll of Honor” 
A roofing of everlasting, pliable stone, made of pure Asbestos 
and Trinidad Lake Asphalt. A perfect protection for other¬ 
wise perishable buildings. Requires no paint or other pro¬ 
tection. No maintenance cost. Keeps buildings cool in 
summer, warm in winter. Affords wonderful fire protec¬ 
tion. Proof against 
every weather condition. 
Easy to lay with J-M 
Cleats, which come with 
each roll. White and 
attractive — no cement- 
smeared, unsightly joints 
or laps. 
J-M REGAL ROOFING 
was perfected to supply a de¬ 
mand for a rubber type, wool 
felt roofing, lower in price than 
J-M ASBESTOS, but con¬ 
taining the H. W. Johns-Man- 
vilie Co.’s standard of quality 
and service. Also applied with 
J-M CLEATS. 
J-M ASBESTOS SHINGLES meet the 
demand for a decorative fire-proof resi¬ 
dence roofing that never needs paint. 
Your dealer keeps J-M Roofings, or 
you may order direct. Write nearest 
branch for Book No. 38 
(ilia j&lT«rplra Srpiirntirr <So. 
Wc*T Cnttik.f*. USA 
Jkprll 0, 1914. 
B. f. John*-Hanv111* Company, 
*•» York City, Haw York. 
Oantlasen: 
Wa are ualng your iabaatoa Roofing on our 
naw dairy barn, having deoided to adopt it 
beoauae of the aatlafactlon it .has given 
ua on other buildings. Our barn and 
©qulpmar.t are thoroughly modern in every 
way, and our dairy la run on a proflt- 
pxoduolng baela, so that the feature of 
ultimate oavlng which oan be made with 
your permanent roofing wae an attraotiva 
one. It also gives an appearance of 
neatness, whloh is vory valuable on a 
dairy Tars like oure. Te are glad to 
raoosaend it. 
Tours very truly, 
TEE 5RABPLE8 SEPARATOR CO- 
Tlce-Preeid^nt, 
H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLE CO. 
Albany Chicajro 
Baltimore Cincinnati 
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Indianapolis 
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M ilwnukee 
Minneapolis 
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New York 
Omaha 
Philadelphia 
Pittsburgh 
San Francisco 
Seattle 
St. Louis 
Syracuse 2460 
Sharpies Separator Company Dairy Barn, 
West Chester, Pa. 
10,000 KERR’S CHICKS 
at CUT PRICES 
Ready for Shipment May 28th and June 2nd 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Rhode Island Reds 
25 Chicks 
$3.00 
3.50 
3.75 
50 Chicks 
$5.00 
6.00 
6.50 
100 Chicks 
$10.00 
12.00 
13.00 
Regular price $12.00 to $20.00 per 100. 
Terms Cash with order. Can not ship C.O.D.,but will guarantee to deliver the chicks in first-class 
condition. If any are dead upon arrival will refund your money or replace them free of charge 
These chicks are from healthy, vigorous, pure breed stock. The kind that will produce eggs and" 
plenty of them. 
To be sure of getting Kerr’s Top Notch Quality Chicks order now. Send for Free Catalogue No. 5. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YABDSlS^Mt 
try; 200-egg strain; breeders and eggs. Send 2-cont 
stamp for illustrated catalogue. Route 24, Athens, Pa. 
35 Best Breeds Poultry bu^w"hSU™** 
Circular Free. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Virginia 
White Indian Runner'Duck Eggs 
from blue ribbon winners at Boston 1913 and 1914. 
$1.50 per twelve. Frank F. Terry, Assonet, Mass. 
White Indian Runner Duck Eggs~Sre“gg S n t, t a Tn d 
$1.50 per 13. FRED S DEYOE, Hunter, Greene Cn., N Y. 
Indian Runner Ducks~ZX ^«?uVe ow of 
Ducks,’’ free. Mrs. J. A. PUGH, South Williamsport, Penn. 
Indian Runner Duck Eggs'if? per 
100, express paid. CRANDALL FARMS, Albion. N*w York 
Silver Campines, White Orpingtons, Anconas 
Prize stock. Extraordinary layers. Eggs. Chicks. 
ALGONQUIN FARMS, • Amesbury, Mass. 
^ R Rlark Minnrm- E *es. $4. inn. $1.15 prize 
0.0. Dldbn lYllllUI lido stock G.C. Miller,Oxford. N J. 
UIGH GRADE FARM-RAISED RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
11 and White Plymouth Bocks, Eggs for hatching, 
$1; 30 eggs, $1.50: Runner Due:, ''ggs$l; Chick, 
$12.50 per 100. L. A. ROBBINS. Pepperell. Massachusetts 
Bargain Prices Now for Runner 
ALSO S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS. 
Mrs. GALVIN WILCOX, - Spencer, N Y. 
STANDARD LIVE STOCK BOOKS 
Sheep in America, Wing.$1.00 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals, 
Plumb . 2,00 
Swine in America, Coburn.2.50 
Indian Runner Duck Eggs v »?^une’s sTS 
Bred from prize-winning birds. White egg strain. 
Eggs $L per 13- ROBERT K. TWEDDLE, Montgomery, N Y. 
G iant bronze turkey eggs, $ 4.00 per 10 
RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS, $ 1.00 per 15 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS. $1.00per 12 
H. J. VAN DYKE, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 
TURKEY CHICKEN, and DUCK EGGS—15 
■ unnt l, varieties by Insured Parcel Post and at 
reduced prices. W. R. CARLE. Rt. 1, Jacobsburg, Ohio 
W HITE CHINESE GEESE, 90 egg strain. Eggs 25e each. 
Fertility guaranteed: prompt shipment. Geo. 
K. Howell, Spruce Farm, Howells, N. Y'. 
60 Varieties 5S 
DUCKS, GEESE, TURKEYS- 
GUINEAS ami HARES. Stock and oggs. 60 
page catalogue free- H. A. SOUOER, Box 29,Sellersviiie, Pa. 
Diseases of Animals, Mayo. 1.50 
Science and Practice of Cheese 
Making, Van Slyke. 1.75 
Feeds and Feeding, Henry. 2.25 
Practical Dairy Bacteriology, Conn 1.25 
The Horse Book, Johnstone. 2.00 
Forage Crops, Voorhees. 1.50 
Animal Husbandry for Schools, 
Harper .1.40 
Questions and Answers on Butter 
Making, Publow .50 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St.. New York 
