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The Henyard. 
Hens and the Man. 
H OW many chickens would it take for 
one single man to make his living? 
I am going to buy S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns, and wish to sell eggs. I have 
handled S. C. W. leghorns before, and 
incubators, too, and am willing to work 
with my chickens. C. K. 
This is one of the kind of questions 
that inevitably propound questions them¬ 
selves. What sort of a “living” is re¬ 
quired? If a man is content to live in a 
shanty and on plain food, it won’t take 
so many hens to support him as it would 
if he wants to live in better style. Also, 
very much depends on his ability and 
knowledge of how to care for hens, also 
on his energy or laziness; also on his 
good luck or good sense in getting hens 
that will lay well. The number of hens 
that it would be necessary to keep de¬ 
pends very largely on the quality of the 
hens. Then there is distance from mar¬ 
ket, cost of food, price of eggs, danger 
from hawks, skunks, cats, coyotes, etc. 
All elements to be allowed for in answer¬ 
ing the question. But averaging every - 
thing, I think a single man, able and will¬ 
ing to work and endoAved with ordinary 
common sense, ought to make a good liv¬ 
ing from 500 Leghorn hens. In the hands 
of a man who knows ho tv, they would 
give a profit of $1.50 each, or $750 a 
year; $15 a Aveek. On that a single man 
ought to live in comfort with plenty of 
books and magazines and papers, Avliich 
to-day go a long way toward making life 
Avorth living. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Squab Guineas. 
H AVING a plan in view for the rais¬ 
ing of guineas, I would like some 
information as to the best kind for 
mating purposes. Gan young guineas be 
sold when about the size of a squab? 
If so where is there a demand for them 
and Avhat is the average price? 
Cobleskill, N. Y. E. A. K. 
The best known and by far the most 
common is what is called the Pearl 
guinea fowl. It has purplish gray plum¬ 
age regularly dotted with white. There 
are pure white guinea fowl, also some 
Avith Avhite breasts. The flesh of all is 
dark and about the same quality. There 
is a ready demand for squab guineas 
weighing a pound apiece. The demand 
for them in city markets is constantly in¬ 
creasing on account of the more stringent 
game laws which are being enforced. 
They furnish an excellent substitute for 
game, as their flavor is similar in many 
ways to that of game birds. The large 
wholesale poultry dealers in the city buy 
rhem. There is also some demand for 
them at fashionable resorts. The average 
price is from about 75 cents to $1.25 
per pair, varying according to the de¬ 
mand and the time of year. G. o. I. 
Rooster With Frozen Comb. 
I HAVE a cock bird who has had the 
top of his comb frozen to the bottom 
of the points. I would like to use him 
as a breeder this Spring. Would this 
defect hurt his breeding qualities? He 
is vigorous and otherwise healthy. 2. I 
had a pullet Avhich I think was egg-bound. 
She had a very pale comb and her feath¬ 
ers were somewhat ruffled. I found her 
dead next morning. Can you tell what 
eaused her death? H. A. B. 
1. No, it won’t hurt the cock bird at 
all for breeding purposes; the frozen part 
will turn black, dry up and fall oil. 
2. If the pullet avus “egg-bound” it 
wouldn’t be much of a “post mortem” 
that didn’t reveal the egg. A hen is egg- 
hound wher she cannot extrude the egg. 
■’ :g passage becomes so dry that the 
and does not slide along easily. 
• inslet was not egg-bound, her pale 
face indicates that she was sick; the 
description given is not sufficient to tell 
what ailed her. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Outdoor Brooders. 
L AST year I purchased an indoor 
brooder and, having no experience in 
the matter, got one that was an ab¬ 
solute failui’e, losing practically all of 
my chickens by reason of not being able 
to get sufficient heat. I would like an 
outdoor brooder. Avith a capacity of 120 
to 150 chicks. Can you recommend to me 
a good one? E. H. 
There are numberless satisfactory 
brooders upon the market; among these 
the so-called adaptable type, which con¬ 
sists of a portable lamp-heated hover 
which may be installed in any small 
building and removed at will, is popular. 
For 150 chicks, two of these would be 
needed. The gasoline heated Cornell 
brooder Avill care for 200 or more, in one 
flock, but needs a small building adapted 
to its use. This may be homemade, how- 
<’ver. Where not more than 150 chicks 
are to be raised there is no brooder equal 
to the old hen; it will take several of 
her, but she is automatic, never goes out 
in the middle of the night and lets her 
chai-ges huddle, doesn’t smoke, and if sup¬ 
plied with fuel, maintains an even tem- 
peratux-e in all kinds of weather. 
M. B. D. 
Buff Plymouth Rocks. 
1 WISH to know something about the 
Buff Plymouth Rocks. We bought 
White Oi’pingtohs last year. We are 
told Buff Plymouth Rocks are from a 
cross of Cochin, BroAvn Leghorn and Ma¬ 
lay Game, pullets laying between five 
and six months old. Can you give ex¬ 
perience of this early egg laying, and 
what they will weigh when full grown? 
New York. c. L. 
The early egg laying whicn is claimed 
for Buff Plymouth Rocks made by the 
cross named above, would be due to the 
BroAvn Leghorn blood infused in the 
stock. It should be remembered, how¬ 
ever, that claims for early laying may 
be founded on the case of a few in¬ 
dividuals. I have had White Wyandottes 
lay at five months, but it would not be 
the truth if I should say that my Wyan¬ 
dottes Avould lay when five months old. 
A flock of ordinary White Wyandotte 
pullets would have quite a number of in¬ 
dividuals laying when six months old, but 
it would probably be seven months before 
the majority of the flock was laying. I 
mean xvith ordinary care—production can 
be hastened somewhat with an abundance 
of meat and stimulating foods. As to the 
weight that may be expected; that too de¬ 
pends a good deal on how they have 
been fed and cared for, but it would be 
reasonable to expect tlxat pullets would 
weigh close to six pounds and cockerels 
about a pound and a half more. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Rhode Island Reds 
TRAPNESTED 
Splendid cherry to mahogany rich glowing red. 
thoroughbred, hen hatched, free range, open- 
front-colony house, hardy stock. Scientifically 
line bretf away from broodiness and for heaviest 
winter laying, on a strictly sanitary plant. 
Heaviest laying Reds in existence, laying rates 
211 to 267 eggs. HATCHING EGGS from mag¬ 
nificent, large, hardy, gloAving red hens, not pul¬ 
lets, mated to splendid, large, vigorous, burn¬ 
ing red males, themselves out of trapnested 
hens. Fertile, strong, hatchable, large, unblem¬ 
ished eggs, gathered hourly, shipped dally, safe 
delivery guaranteed. White diarrhoea absolutely 
unknown. FINE BREEDING COCKERELS, early 
hatched, large, hardy, vigorous breeders, great 
stamina; long backs, low tails, short legs well 
spread; brilliant rich glowing retT and out of 
trapnested hens, BREEDING HENS, pullets, 
mated trios and breeding pens. Satisfaction or 
money returned. 
We ship all over U. S., Canada, and abroad as 
far as Australia, and sell eggs and stock to 
States and the IJ. S. Government. Courteous, 
straightforward dealings. Spring egg orders 
now booking. 
Hating booklet on request. 
VIBERT RED FARM. Box 1, WESTON, N. J. 
COLONIAL REDS 
We offer fine pedigreed breeding cockerels, year¬ 
ling hens of proven value and pullets from onr 
best lines. Booking orders now for hatching 
eggs and chicks. A pen of our Reds hold high¬ 
est record for egg production ever made in offi¬ 
cial laying contest. Average, each bird, 194 
eggs. We have satisfied customers in 46 states of 
the Union. Honorable treatment guaranteed. 
COLONIAL FARM, - Box O, Temple, N. II. 
Rose and single 
comb Rhode Island 
Red Cockerels. 
Grand breeders 
from heavy layers. 
$3.00 and $6.00 each. 
Doty & Freese 
Route 8, aoneose, N.Y. 
AUSTIN’S 200 Egg Strain S. C. R. I. 
ncnC—Standard bred high record stock, red to the 
skin. Eggs, $1 50 to $5.00 (15). Utility, 
$7.50 (100). Safe delivery and 90* fertility guaran¬ 
teed: Husky, well grown cockerels, $3.00 to $5.00. 
Chicks. Booklet, Austin's Poultry Farm. Six 17, Centre Marker, N. H. 
Hone’sCrescent Strain of Rhode Island Reds 
Exhibition and breeding birds bred from selected 
layers which have nice type and dark rich red color. 
Every bird sold on approval. D. R. Hone, Cres¬ 
cent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, New York 
S. C. R. I. RED CHICKS 
Thousands after Feb. 5. Eggs for hatching from 
host show and utility strains. Aiso a few breeders. 
The ltrewster Poultry Yards, Cornwall, N.Y. 
Sicilian ButtercupsT ^ 0 “eLSiS 
rices. Vigorous, farm-raised stock. G. A WIT*. 
~ AMS, Box 324. Warwick, N Y., Sect’y Am. Buttercup Club 
S3 
C<i|«ay J The coming utility fowl. Write 
I ' cu vxuajCA for descriptive mating list of 
imported birds. W. W. Graves, Jefferson City, Ms. 
Dnillirvman - Rond stamp for large folder. 
rUUlir Jfllefl East Donegal Pigeon, Poultry 
and Guinea Pig Yards, Frank McMullen, Marietta, Pa. 
Catalog and Folder. E. B. S0UDER, S0UDERT0N. PA 
Buff Orpington Pullets & Barred Rock Cockerels 
Hens and pullets 41 to tl.60 each. J. I. HERETER, Gettysburg, P». 
WHITE CORNISH 
FOWL—10 to 12 lb. males, 7 to 9, females. Good 
layers. Eggs, $3.00 setting 15. Guarantee 10 fertiles. 
Replacements Free. Catalog. 
Mountsville Farms, Duck Rd.. Mountville, Va. 
For Sale-Buff Cochin-Bantam Eggs 
from stock receiving Blue Ribbon, Madison Square 
Garden. $1 per setting of 15 Eggs. S. C. W, Leg¬ 
horn Eggs, ft! per 100. Fawn Indian Runner Duck 
Eggs,$8 per 100. All stock in splendid condition. Ad¬ 
dress, A. Underwsed, Supt., Hill Crest Farm, Purchase, N.Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING and DAY-OLD CHICKS 
The Kind That Hatch, Live and Grow 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
We are now booking orders for hatching eggs from fully matured, carefully mated, farm-raised 
birds, selected for their prolific laying qualities, vigor and standard requirements. They are the 
pick of a flock of many thousand birds. WE GUARANTEE 75% fertility after March 1st. 
We can supply eggs in any quantity from these matings of our 
Single Comb White Leghorns Mammoth Pekin Ducks 
White Plymouth Rocks Eaabden Geese 
DAY-OI D CT-IICIC S We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
Rocks and Single Comb White Leghorns. Day-Old 
Ducklings we can supply in limited quantities. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES. 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
Gibson Strains Lay and Pay 
White Leghorns..R. I. Reds..Barred Rocks.,White Wyandottes 
We are specialists in Utility Birds. Carefully and practically bred, large in 
size, Gibson fowls excel in egg production and as show birds 
Baby Chicks . • Eggs for Hatching .. Breeding Stock 
, - - , , , , , ... - -specialty <- 
mg farms and estates with heavy layers. Book your orders early, it will enable us to 
give you better service. 
Our handsomely illustrated booklet is FREE. Write for it to-day. 
G. F. GIBSON, Galen Farms, Drawer C. Clyde, New York 
SingleComb White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. YOUNG’S STRAIN 
3,000 Breeders, on free farm range, drinking from 
never-failing streams, as nature intended. Special 
bred for Winter eggs—200-egg strain. 125,000 baby 
chicks for 1915. Eggs for hatching now ready in any 
quantity, ® $6 per 100. No order too large. After 
51arch 1st $50 per 1,000. Baby chicks, $12 per 100. 
Now booking orders for March, April and May de¬ 
livery. My Book, "Profits in Poultry Keeping 
Solved,” free with all $10 orders. 5th edition 
shows where the money is. Circulars free. 
Edgar Briggs, Box 75, Pleasant Valley, N.Y, 
Day-old Chicks 
from large white eggs laid by healthy, se¬ 
lected S. C. white leghorns, bred right, kept 
right, and fed right on our 100-acre farm. 
Fifty chicks or less, 20c. each; one hundred, 
$10; five hundred, $62.50; one thousand, $125. 
Safe arrival guaranteed. Place order NOW. 
FBEE BOOKLET—‘‘BETTER CHICKENS,” 
describing bow to breed, feed and keep them. 
Send for it today. 
KIB.KTTP BROS., Dept, R, Mattituck, N. Y. 
WHAT ARE 
“Efficiency” Chicks? 
We are making a specialty of large, high'vltality 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS with EFFICIENCY 
back of them. Quality considered, the Jprice is 
just right. Guarantee of full count, safe delivery 
and profit-paying pullets. WRITE AT ONCE for our 
illustrated catalog and hatching dates. DON'T DELAY 
—the quantity is limited. 
Columbia Poultry Farm, D esk 3, Toms River, NJ 
Hoff’s “VITALITY” Day-Old 
Chicks of Quality 
S. C.White Leohorns. Rhode Island Reds and Barred P.Rocks 
Bred for heavy egg production, quick maturing, strong 
stamina and vitality. Tlie results of over a quarter of a 
century experience. I guarantee to ship Properly Hatched, 
Healthy, Vigorous Day-old Chicks, the kind that will im¬ 
prove yonr llock or start you right in the Poultry business. 
Book your orders NOW. Send for my illustrated booklet 
and reasonable prices. Also Eggs for Hatcliing. Custom 
Hatching. 
D. C. R. HOFF, Lock Box 118, Neshanlc Sta., N. J. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EQQS FOR HATCHING 
S. C. Brown Leghorns, Knlps Strain, S. C. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Onr breed¬ 
ers we have selected with great care for which we 
claim are as fine a flock of Breeders as can be had. 
We have 2.700 layers at this time on onr farm. We 
are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Our hatching 
capacity 10,000. Write for Price list. Visitor* 
welcome. 
JOHN U. WARFKL A SON, Kohrerstown, Pa. 
Burnett’s Poultry 
Have attracted people at shows 
for 15 years. We raise our poul¬ 
try on large iurms. Can sell 
eggs cheaper than big advertisers. Money back to any 
who are not pleased with our dealings. 
Send for our new book at once. 
W, L. BURNETT, Prop. Celdenh&m Poultry Yards 
Montgomery, N. Y. 
200,000 S. C.W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators; 12,000 
ehieks per week after February 15th; only No. j. high- 
class chicks shipped; New England’s most profitable 
breed, the famous “Everlay Strain.” Reasonable 
prices; prompt service. 60-page catalog on request. 
THE EVERLAY FARM, - Bex 240-E, Methuen. Meee. 
DOULTRYMEN, ATTENTION—S. C. W LEGHORN CHICKS FREE 
* FROM WHITE DIARRHEA. One-half blood Barron 
cockerels, desccndents of 258 and 260-egg Barron 
cocks, mated with high-producing hens; no pullets 
used. Sisters of cockerels have averaged over 66% 
WINTER EGG PRODUCTION. 8afe delivery guaranteed. 
Cockerels,$3. Circular free. A. B. HaU,Wallingford, Conn. 
S. C.W. LEGHORN EGGS f A 0 r m o\ e d l h e e c ns te on d 
RANGE. Mated separately with mature cockerels 
from Young’s and Barron’s best stock. Eggs guar¬ 
anteed satisfactory in appearance and sire, and 90% 
fertile. $7 a 100: $00 a 1.000. Inspection invited. 
The Nissequogue Farm, St. James P. 0.. L. I., N. T. 
BARRON S. C. White Leghorn Chicks 
<To I 
[ Money Making Poultry 
Our specialty. Leading varieties pure-bred chick¬ 
ens. turkeys, ducks and geese. Prize winners. 
_[Best stock and eggs. Lowest prices; oidcsl 
farm. Fine 30th Anniversary catalog FREE. 
H. M. JONES CO. t Box 163, Dea Moines, Io-wa 
TomBarron’s SiKtSSSs; 
Hatching egg.. 248-record Barron cockerels and 
half Barrons. 8tock guaranteed. Jay H Krnisse, 
Hudson and Titus Ave., lrondequoit, N. Y. 
Lady Cornell Strain % g X?ha%i>ini* g in T ocZ 
headed by grandsons of Lady Cornell, whose official 
record was 257 eggs. Eggs. $5, 100; $1. 15. Chix 
after May 15. $12,100. S. L. Purdie, Genoa, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Day-Old Chicks and Eggs 
for hatching, from Urea, vigorous stock, bred for 
•gg production, C. M. W00LVER. Ric hfield Springs, N. T. 
C W StiPFwnod’q I? eav Y laying strnin S. C.W. 
V. YY. OIierWOCKl S L pnllet«aiid500 bread¬ 
ths hens. Hatching eggs and day old chick, from 
February 1st. C. W. SHERWOOD. Saybreok Point, Conn. 
C ock erels-S.C. W.Leghorns 
, ,J ar .K e . and heavy-laying strain $1 and up. 
J. M. CASE, - . GUboa, N. Y 
BRFD TO I A Y“ s - c - White Leghorns 
D IV E, Lr IV LAI American and Barron 
strains. Hatching eggs from pedigree stock. A 
few cockerels left. P. G. Platt, Wallingford, Pa. 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in. a lo r ts >B to .ffit^uMshasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE 
YARDS. 
R. 24, Athens, P* 
FOR SALE _SINGIECOMB white 
' Jr. LEGHORN YEARLING 
AND TWO-YEAR.OLD HENS. $1 each. 
GEO. L. FERRIS & SON, • Atwaters, N. Y. 
30 000 Chirk* 1915—Leghorns, Wyan- 
JU,UUU V/I1ICKS dottes, Reds and Rocks, at 
reasonable prices. Safe delivery guaranteed. Book- 
let free. Reliable Hatchery, Route No. 2, McAlislerville. Pa. 
fJOCKERELS. Tom Rarron Strain. White 
** Leghorns and White Wyandottes. Imported 
Stock, Mapledale Egg Farm, Erin, N. Y. 
S C Whits LsD'hornR* - ^’ Rhode Island Reds. 
nine LBgnornS Heavy winter layers. Eggs 
for hatching. Baby Chicks. Wy-Har Farm. Denton. Md. 
C. C.W. Leghorns-Young’s & Cornell strains. Raised 
w 9 n f 5® e ran * e and heavy layers Kggs for hatching 
and pedigreed stock for s ale. SLVEY H0RINE. Myersville. MS. 
fid Varipfip<? chickens ducks, geese, turkeys 
DU YaiieilUb GUINEAS and HARES Stock and eggs. 60 
page catalogue free. H. A . Souder, Box 29, Sellersville.Pa. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 12c.; Eggs, 5c. 
Circular. Warnken Poultry Farm, Salt Point, N. Y. 
CHICKS 
Also R. I. Reds and White Wyandottes, $15 per 100. 
American Leghorns, $13 per 100. All hatching eggs, 
$6 per 100. Surly delivery. Send for illustrated 
catalogue WINSOR FARM, R. F. 1>., No. 
3, Acushnet Station, New Bedford, Mass. 
BlackLeghorns , n K h 
the kind that lay. A- E. HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
—8 and 10c. S. !0. Buff Leghorns 
Money back for dead ones. 
JACOB HEIMOND, RICHFIELD, PA. 
DARRON LEGHORN AND WYANDOTTE 
eggs and chicks. Breeders have high trap-nest 
record*. C. D. Baer, Bax 554, Coimellsville, Pa 
207 Eggs a Year 
AVERAGE from a flock of 21 pullets of 
Hawkins Barred Rocks, winners at the world’s 
greatest shows; big calalog with valuable 
poultry information free. 
A. C. HAWKINS, Box 14, Lancaster, Mass. 
BARRED ROCKS 
bred to lay well and look well. We have an extra 
fine lot of husky, vigorous cockerels at $3 to $5 each 
GEO. FALCONER. R. F. D . Mil. 
Eggs in season. 
dilford, N. H 
BARRED ROCKS IpnOVCDCI C 
ROSE COMB REDSi UUUfVCnCLO 
Big, husky, vigorous specimens. Business birds 
bred from business hens. FOUR ACRES, Nutley, N. J. 
CHAMPION, 1 !;™ 1 
each. Eggs, $3 and $5 sitting. Buv «>f the origina¬ 
tor’s son, L. J. UPHAM, WEBSTER, MASS. 
Wilson’s White Rocks-^ y 0 s ^ ln ^ e n t 
houses, large, husky, day-old chicks. Hatching 
eggs. Circular. WILSON'S POULTRY FARM. Hollis. N. H. 
E GGS from thoroughbred Rocks, Wyandottes, Leghorns, Reds, 
Orpingtons, Brahmas, Minorcan, Houdans, Hamburg's, Ancon- 
as, 15, $1; -10, $2. 20 varieties. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown. Pi. 
“"SSif,!*” S. o. White Leghorns 
1,500 VIGOROUS BREEDERS, OREO FOR EGGS—MODERN OPEN FRONT LAYING HOUSES—12,000 HALL INCUBATOR CAPACITY—10.C00 BROOD¬ 
ING CAPACITY. We guarantee safe delivery of Hatching Egps, Baby Chix amt 3 months Pullets. We were compelled to decline many 
orders last season because they were received too late. We doubled our Incubator capacity this Fall and will increase to 25,000 
next year. If you want out products for Spring or Summer delivery —ORDER NOW. Visitors Invited—Send 
lor Booklets. MOHKGAN FARM Poultry Plant, Mohegnn Lake. New York, (Phone 711 PeeksklXl.) 
Owned and operated by t hus II. linker. 
