RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
Permanganate of Potash ; Tarred Paper. 
1 HAVE hens with colds; they will not 
drink water with permanganate of 
potash; it makes the water such a 
color. Js there something else that will 
do as well? 2. Will tarred paper hurt or 
affect hens in any way where it is close 
to their roosting place? It smells strong¬ 
ly of tar. F. s. p. 
New York. 
Hens will not often refuse to drink 
water with permanganate of potash in 
it if given no other water to drink. This 
solution should be freshly made and 
placed before the fowls in earthenware 
or wooden vessels and not in the ordin¬ 
ary iron or tin drinking fountains. If 
the hens persistently refuse to drink the 
solution, however, they may each be 
treated to a dose of kerosene; going 
along the perches at night, armed with a 
small oil can filled with kerosene, one may 
take each snuffling fowl from the perch 
and inject a drop or two of kerosene into 
each nostril and into the cleft in the 
roof of the mouth. Neither this nor any 
other treatment will do any good if the 
fowls are left in damp or drafty quarters 
without sufficient ventilation to keep the 
air dry and pure. 2. Tarred paper is 
harmless to fowls, despite its strong odor. 
It is a boon to poultrymen, as by its use 
old buildings can be made airtight 
wherever required at small expense. 
M. B. D. 
Winter Eggs in the Northwest. 
W HEN Eastern hens are on a strike, 
with eggs at 50 and 60 cents a doz¬ 
en, North Dakota hens are cackling 
merrily and turning out eggs by the bas¬ 
ketful, although the cash inducement is 
about half these figures. Eastern hens 
ought to be working overtime because of 
warm Winter, while North Dakota hens 
are digging around in the litter these 
zero mornings. The North Dakota Sta¬ 
tion says to secure Winter eggs depends 
a good deal on food supplied, and the 
following has afforded satisfactory re¬ 
sults : Morning feed, whole wheat. Noon, 
bran mash with meat scraps or house 
scraps and some green food as roots. 
Evening, corn and oats mixed. It is 
also important that the hens have some 
grit, as crushed granite, and crushed 
oyster shells to furnish lime for shell 
making. The housing is important too. 
The poultry house should be well lighted 
and well ventilated. 
Grain Crop in Chicken Yard. 
W IIAT is the best grain to sow in my 
chicken yard? It is the yard for 
small chickens. They did not do 
well last year, had roup. I think it best 
to plow. Do you think clover sowed 
broadcast, the chicks to run in it, would 
do best, or something else. s. D. o. 
Connecticut. 
The kind of grain sown is immaterial; 
if the yard is small and it is not desired 
to cultivate it, oats are as good as any¬ 
thing for this purpose. If, however, the 
yard is a large one and you desire a 
crop from it, corn may be planted and 
the chicks kept from it until it is large 
enough to be safe from their ravages. 
Its shade then makes a good resort for 
the chicks, cultivating the ground is 
good for it, and, finally, the crop is val¬ 
uable. M. B. D. 
Diphtheritic Roup. 
A BOUT four weeks since we noticed 
several hens sneezing, seeming stuffed 
up with a cold, and kept getting 
worse. Several have gone blind in one 
eye, not much swelling, and finally they 
stop eating and get very poor, and fre¬ 
quently cough out of their mouth chunks 
or strings of mucus, with a very offen¬ 
sive odor. Several have died on the 
roost. We bury all that we kill or die. 
We have had chickens that sneezed some 
Winters, but this seems different, as 
none died from it before. We think it 
is catarrh, but don’t know. What would 
you advise? They are fine chickens and 
voo(l_ - foyers. Would it be advis- 
■ from them this Spring? 
1 • ’ . Ivama. W. H. G. 
lour description is very suggestive of 
diphtheritic roup; a form of that disease 
in which false membrane forms in the 
nasal and other respiratory passages and 
gradually clogs them up, leading to diffi¬ 
cult breathing, exhaustion and death. 
This membrane may be coughed out in 
strings, and, in cases of long standing, 
may have decomposed so as to give out 
a very offensive odor. The disease be¬ 
gins with the ordinary symptoms of 
catarrhal colds but as it proceeds false 
membrane forms and the fatalities show 
that a more serious trouble is present. 
The treatment should be preventive; as 
the disease is highly contagious, sick 
birds should be promptly removed from 
the flock and those at all seriously af¬ 
fected should be killed and buried. The 
quarters of the flock should be thorough¬ 
ly cleaned up and whitewashed. Eating 
and drinking utensils should be disin¬ 
fected with a 5% solution of carbolic 
acid. These measures should be contin¬ 
ued until the disease has disappeared 
from the premises. Birds that have been 
sick should not be used as breeders; their 
vitality has been reduced and there is 
always the possibility of their carrying 
the germs of the contagion to healthy 
fowls even after apparent full recovery. 
It is still unsettled as to whether diph¬ 
theritic roup, or diphtheria, of fowls is 
the same disease as that affecting chil¬ 
dren but prudence requires that young 
children should not handle fowls so af¬ 
fected or come in contact with the dis¬ 
charges from them. It is a disease to be 
vigorously stamped out from a flock and 
kept out by cleanliness, disinfection, and 
avoidance of exposure to other fowls that 
may possibly carry the germs of the trou¬ 
ble though not sufficiently ill to show it. 
M. B. D. 
Developing an Egg Business. 
The Service that is given by the first 
The profit you make from this initial 
installation. 
"will be able to purchase this additional 
Hall Mammoth Equipment as a result of 
1 AM a beginner in the poultry business 
for eggs only. At present I have 30 
pullets; half were hatched last March 
and the other half last April. Thirty are 
S. C. White Leghorns, 30 Barred Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks and the remainder Black 
Minorcas. I receive from 11 to 14 eggs 
a day and feed according to the Cornell 
method. I have a small private egg trade 
and I sell from 20 to 30 dozen eggs a 
week at 60 cents a dozen. I am buying 
a case of from 20 to 30 dozen eggs a week 
from a farmer in Delaware County at 45 
cents a dozen and I only make 15 cents 
profit a dozen. I buy one dozen egg boxes 
and make deliveries every day. I sell on 
an average five to six dozen a day. Do 
you think I should receive the cases of 
eggs cheaper than 45 cents? I have room 
for 300 more chickens and do you think 
it better for me to increase my flock from 
00 to 300 layers? I keep first-class stock 
and pay $20 to $25 a hundred for the 
baby chicks. At present I am obliged to 
buy eggs from the farmer, but he never 
lets me know when prices are to drop, 
and my customers are asking when the 
eggs will be cheaper. I cannot give them 
a decided answer. Where can I get far¬ 
mers’ bulletins announcing the price of 
eggs wholesale and retail? We are now 
beginning to build up trade here, and it is 
increasing favorably. Where can I find 
farmers who are willing to sell cases of 
strictly fresh eggs in case lots? I would 
like to buy at 35 cents a dozen and sell 
to customers at 50 or 55. Do you think 
it more profitable for me to have the 
layers myself or buy from farmers? Do 
you advise me to build a hennery holding 
300 to 400 layers or buy the portable 
ones and put them together myself? 
Long Island. M. J. c. 
This again is a case where definite ad¬ 
vice as to details cannot be given by a 
stranger, so much depends upon the man 
behind the hen and the woman behind the 
man. For a start, you seem to be mak¬ 
ing good and as your business grows your 
own hard sense will enable you to work 
out the details and adapt them to your 
conditions. Fifteen cents a dozen is a 
liberal profit on eggs; country shippers 
being pleased with a profit of from one 
to three cents. You should have more, 
of course, as you retail and deliver. It 
seems to me that you may do well to in¬ 
crease your own flock up to the limit of 
your capacity properly to care for it and 
at the same time buy from farmers all 
that you can sell above your own produc¬ 
tion. This, in the Summer, will necessi¬ 
tate increased labor as you will have to 
candle all the eggs you purchase or run 
great risk of losing your customers by 
supplying them with stale eggs. 
There are no fixed retail and wholesale 
prices by which you can be absolutely 
guided. The New York dailies give the 
range of prices in their daily market re¬ 
ports, and sellers are guided by these. A 
farmer will not, of course, sell you eggs 
cheaper than the wholesale price that he 
can obtain for the grade which he has 
to dispose of; you should obtain as much 
as your customers would have to pay at 
retail in their locality, and if by reason 
of superior quality you can command a 
higher price you sh-^ld do so. Most 
housekeepers are guided as much by 
price as by quality in their purchases, 
however, and if you obtain more than 
local prices you will have to show them 
that it is to their advantage to buy from 
you. 
You are paying a rather high price for 
day-old chicks unless you are purchasing 
them in February and March; later than 
that they can be purchased more cheaper. 
If you have room for a hennery of from 
300 to 400 capacity, you should be able 
easily to care for that number of hens 
and take care of your retail trade; 
whether you can make them profitable or 
not can be demonstrated only by expe¬ 
rience ; it seems to me that you should. 
As you will probably have to purchase 
all feed, however, the margin of profit 
may not be what you hope for. By ad¬ 
vertising in the local papers near you or 
by personal investigation you should be 
able to find farmers who will sell you their 
pr< net in eggs at wholesale New York 
prices; you will not be able to depend 
upon their guarantee as to freshness, 
however, and will be obliged to candle 
all eggs purchased during the warm 
months. As to whether you should pur¬ 
chase a readymade poultry house or build 
one yourself, you should first decide upon 
the size and plan that you wish and 
then get estimates from some reliable 
local carpenter as to its cost; this may 
be compared with the price of a ready- 
built house and your decision made. Or¬ 
dinarily, I think that a homemade build¬ 
ing will prove more satisfactory than a 
purchased one. m. b. d. 
Why should I hatch my chicks fn a Hall Incubator?” Ask the practical poultryrr.an (the money¬ 
maker) the question and he will reply: “Because the Hall will hatch a higher percentage of healthy, 
vigorous chicks chicks that have the ‘will to live’— than incubators of any other make.” 
Hall is the ongtnal; Hall principles of design have successfully withstood the test of eighteen years' 
usage and give the operators of chicken and duck plants service and 
satisfaction everywhere. 
•This Book Will Show You Why 
Their utter reliability, their staunch sectional construction, their superior principles of deaiirn. 
their proven ability to sret bijtRrer results -- hatch more and better chicks >- are the main reaaona 
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The Hall has a larger sale and a wider use than any other Mammoth Incubator. 
And Now Conies Brooding Time / 
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Address Dept. 7-F 
HE U 'YORK 
Certified 
Layers 
BARRON and CAM 
English 200-Egg Strain 
—TRAPNESTED— 
S. C. W. Leghorns White Wyandottes V 
S. C. R. /. Reds Buff Orpingtons " 
“Most profitable poultry known ” 
Among our 1918-14 
Laying Competition Winners 
are the following sensational pens : 
White Leghorn*: —North American Internat. 
Competition:—Five birds laid 1139 eggs, 228 
average. Won seven medals and cup. 
S. C. Reds: —N. A. Competition:—Five birds 
laid 1043 eggs. 209 average. (Highest official 
Red record known.) Won three medals. 
White Wyandottes :—Missouri Competition: 
4 —Ten birds laid 2006 eggs, over 200 average 
■SI One layer made a record of 265 eggs. 
The above 20 birds, 
three breeds, aver¬ 
aged 209 eggs each. 
Four of them laid 250 
or better. 
FRFF “The Story of the 
r IVE>Ea 200-E*g Hen r ‘ 
1915 edition contains pictures 
of these winners and much 
valuable practical information 
IVrite today for your copy. 
Pennsylvania Poultry Farm 
Box P, Lancaster, Pa. 
BARRON HATCHING EGGS 
We have 1,200 two-year-old S. C. W. Leghorn hens 
that were selected carefully for heavy laying and 
white eggs. These hens have been mated with 75 
cockerels imported direct from Tom Barron, Cat- 
forth, England. Eggs, strictly from these matings, 
*8 per hundred; $70 per thousand: $1.50 per setting 
of 15. We are booking orders now. 
The Haven l.ake Kgs Farm, Milford, Del. 
HATCHING EGGS 
SETTIN8 of 13,- -91.00 
Por 100, --- - 0.00 
The “Prices that Live and Let Live” for Guaranteed 
70 , Fertile Eggs from fancy selected White Leghorns 
—8. C. Keds—Burred Itock», Mammoth Fokin 
I>licks, Peurl Guineas. Send your order NOW, 
w ith 25* Deposit. 
SUNNYMCAO FARMS (860 Acres), MILLSTONE, N.J. 
C. Drysdai.k Black, Director, 60 Bromlwny, N. Y. 
BARRON’S S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
IMPORTED DIRECT from his best-layingstock. 
AlsoWyckoff strain. All stock healthy and vigor¬ 
ous and bred to lay. Any number strong chicks or 
hatching eggs. Fully guaranteed. Choice Cocks 
and Cockerels. Prices reasonable. Circulars free. 
R. T. EWING, - - ATLANTIC, PA. 
Eggs for Hatching *Hel’KTc: 
W. Leghorn Hens, at 12 cents per dozen above N. 
Y. Best quotations. Free Range. No one has 
better utility Birds. Will meet train for Visitors 
who mean business. John P. Case & Sons, cisvur Mia,N.J. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Ezra C. Carter, 
Eggs 
Marathon, N. Y. 
Cockerels Chicks 
The kind that cackle the year round,” 
CAD CHI C—Am booking orders for Leghorn Day-Old 
■ wll uHLL Chicks for April delivery. All breeding 
stock tested free from white diarrhea by State Experi¬ 
ment Station. Custom hatching 4« per chick. 
MAPLEWOOD FARM, CHESHIRE, CONN. 
S n W 1 ft 0 'hnpn«- also Baby Chix, Hatch- 
■ Vi ff« LVg,IIUI I15» lngKggs, Free range. Old 
established business. I. R. Ducklings and eggs. 
Rocky Glen Poultry Farm, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 
If HD A U nillDlfC-S C. W. Leghorn and B. 
Illfilfwll VlllVIV® Rocks. The Early order 
gets the chick. ORDER at 
once. Also Leghorn cockerels J. L LEE, Carmel, N. Y. 
Fcrax fnr Hatrliina -From standard-bred S. C 
Eggs ior naicmng White Leghorns. $6 per ICO. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write your wants. 
FERRY BRIGGS. Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
White Leghorn Yearling Hens Y ^*. s s s f^; 
Seventy-five cents each. R. S. Clark, Dillsburu, Pa. 
HUDSON RIVER CHICK SHIPPING BOX 
Price per doz. 25 chick size, 90c. 50 chick size, $1.20. 
100 chick size, $1.70. Sample 15c postpaid. Reduc¬ 
tion on quantities. Circular free. STAATSBURG 
MANUFACTURING CO., Staatsburg, N. Y, 
DAY-OLD-CHICKS Extraordinary 
S. C. W hlte Leghorns 
Every Michigan Poultry Farm 
| chick for 1915 will be sired by a 
mala bird the ton af a ”200 egg" 
hen, trapnesied by the Missouri 
Stale Poultry Experiment Station. 
All records are guaranteed by 
Fret Quisenberry, who pronounees 
the birds the besteverbred. Chicks 
are tram our vigorous bred-to-loy fe¬ 
males mated la Ihesa splendid males, 
opportunity. Don't mis* it. Send for catalon. 
POULTRY FARM. BIO Willow St.. Lansing. Mich. 
w’atef WHITE LEGHORNS 
DAY OLD CHICKS—EQQS FOR HATCHINQ 
Wo are speciality breeders of S. C. White Leghorns 
of the highest utility standard. Wo guarantee 
safe delivery of chicks and fertility of eggs, also 
that a customer must be satisfied. Write for our 
new booklet which describes our methods, stock 
and plant. Book your order now for a positivo 
shipping date. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, N.J. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN 
Hatching Eggs and 
Baby Chicks 
From our Selected "Quality 
Strain” Breeders 
Write for Prices and Guarantees, 
^ TENACRE POULTRY FARM, PRINCETON, N. J. 
You are cordially invited to inspect our plant 
SEEING IS BELIEVING 
TOM BARRON HATCHING EGGS 
Pure Barron Trapnested W. Leghorn hens, mated 
to two Imported Barron cockerels, out of a 272-egg 
hen. Eggs, $3 per 15; $15 per 100. Imported Pen 
Barron W. Wyandottes (full sisters to his pen 
Storrs’ contest, 1914) mated to imported Barron cook. 
Pedigree: dam, 248; sire’s dam, 283. Eggs, $3 per io. 
C. W. TURNER. ■ West H artford, Conn. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS and eggs' 
healthy business kind. Including Barron’s strain 
that grow great layers. Delivery guaranteed Free 
circular. Write Hamilton Farm, Huntington, N.Y, 
I Kflfl SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
■ Hardened to Northern Vermont Winters. 
Open front houses. 40 acres free range, Guaran¬ 
teed no White Diarrhoea. Eggs for hatching and 
day-old chicks. Green Mountain Poultry Farm, Richford. Vt. 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels sS ^’each^m 
and 284-egg otrain. W. B. Stephens,' Montrose. Pat 
For Sale-Leghorn Cockerels 
Fine healthy birds. Young and Barron strain, $2.50 
each. Edwin Melvin, Smithtown Branch. Long Island 
Single Comb £j t p ; d Rhode Island Reds 
The cockerel heading Pen No. 1 is bred from a hen 
having a record of 248 Eggs in 301 consecutive days. 
Eggs from this pen $3 per 16; $5 per 30. Other pens, 
$2 per 15; $5 per 50; $8 per 100. Orders taken now 
for fall hens, pullets and cockerels. 
CHESTER COUNTY POULTRY FARM.Pottstown.Pa. 
DOURBON RED TURKEYS—Fonda—3 l’n, 2 2’s. Glovers- 
u ville—6 l’n. 1915. Oneida—6 i’s. 5 2’s, 2 3’s, 2 spec¬ 
ials: best tom. Albany—4 l’s. 1 2d. $6 up Yr. toms SIB. 
Utility runner ducks, »2 pr. DORR SHOEMAKER, Sprxkerv, N. T. 
40 Farm Raised Utility Sicilian Buttercup Pullets 
and 1 cock at $1.25 each. P. S. Doolittle, Cassville, N. Y. 
pnrnrn for hatching—Barred Rocks, White Orpingtons, 
‘■o5 d Rhode Island Reds, Fawn White Indian Run¬ 
ner ducks, circulars. Sunnysids Poultry Forms, Pittsville, Mil. 
Unrig *—Strictly choice young 
KBetrrtSU ■*» all(] yearling birds for 
sale. Write Geo. Greenwald, Hainesport, N. J. 
TOM BARRON’S WYANDOTTES-guaran- 
• teed, 8 for $22. Mrs. James Venable, Farmville, Va. 
DUMPLING DOLLARS BfgyiR? * 
last average of flock.—Figure your cash pi¬ 
nt 30 cents per dozen. Big;, husky Cockerels 
ready, also some good cocks, $3 each. Eggs for hf..„. 
iug, $2 per 15. Satisfaction positively guarantee 
MONTROSE POULTRY PRODUCTS 
R. R. Turner,Prop., 
The Plains, Va. 
I1UCKS—Indian Runners. GEESE—Prize Em- 
u dens. Locust Hill Poultry Farm, Julian, P«. 
