1915, 
THIC RURAL NEW-VOKKER 
3ir 
- BARRED ROCKS - 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS,WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Eggs for hatching from heavy laying, trap nested birds, 
bred for egg production and utility, prolific producers, pens 
contain nothing but vigorous, healthy, high scoring birds 
t f tested and proven quality and mated to produce results. 
PureYoung and Barron Leghorns. Thompsons. Hawkins 
and Pittsfield Rocks. 200-egg strain Wyandottes. 
Eggs, $2.00 for 15—$3.50 f«r 30 
200 purebred Young and Barron pullets, hatched in 
April and May. Splendid, large, healthy, strong speci¬ 
mens. Would make grand breeders. A bargain at 
$2.00 each. Address— 
TERRA NOVIA FARM, R.F.D. No. 2, ROME, N. Y. 
TRAP NESTED WHITE LEGHORNS 
A limited number laying pullets, $1.50 
each. Baby cliioks. Hatching: egrgfs, 
and 12 weeks pullets from our heavy 
winter laying strain of utility birds. 
Postal brings price list. 
HILLSIDE POULTRY FARM 
Box C Canisteo, N. Y. 
BARRON HATCHING EGGS 
We have 1.200 two-year-old S. O. W. Leghorn hens 
i hat were selected carefully for heavy laying and 
white eggs. These hens have been mated with 75 
cockerels imported direct from Tom Barron. Cat- 
l orth. England. Eggs, strictly from these matings, 
st per hundred: $70 per thousand: $1.50 per setting 
,.f 15. We are booking orders now. 
The Haven Lake Egg Farm, Milford, Del, 
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 
i’.arron W. Wyandottes (full sisters to his pen 
Storrs’ contest, 11)14) mated to imported Barron cock. 
Pedigree: dam, 248: sire's dam, 283. Eggs, $3 per io, 
C. W. TURNER, - West Hartford, Conn. 
HATCHING EGGS ^ T T5, N o G °' 13 - :*;:S8 
The “Prices that Live and Lot Live” for Guaranteed 
70., Fertile Kggs from fancy selected White Leghorns 
-s. C. 1 {o<1h—I lnrrod Kooks, M 11 iiiniotIt Pekin 
I (inks, J’earl Guineas. Send your order NOW, 
with 2o<* Deposit. 
SUNNYMEAO FARMS (850 Acros\ MILLSTONE, N.J. 
i 1 Ui ysuai.k Black, Director, 60 Broadway, N~. Y. 
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Poultry Rations; Heatipg Laying Houses. 
W ILL you compound a ration for S. 
C. \V. Leghorns for Winter layers, 
using cornmeal and meat scrap as 
principal constituents, also ground wheat 
and bran, and without ground wheat? I 
propose to use wheat and corn as a 
scratch feed. 2. Has anyone found that 
it pays to heat laying house of Leghorns 
in Winter in latitude of Pittsburg, Pa.? 
Pennsylvania. r. r. b. 
1. I would not advise grinding whole 
wheat for poultry; the hens will do the 
grinding cheaper than the miller. The 
bran and middlings are more valuable for 
hens than the flour and the latter might 
better be sifted out. and sold for human 
consumption: in other words, the whole 
Avheat should be sold and the proceeds 
invested in its two chief by-products. A 
good Winter dry mash may bo composed 
of equal parts by weight of wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, cornmeal. gluten feed 
and beef scrap. In this buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings (without hulls) may be substi¬ 
tuted for the gluten feed, or buckwheat 
feed (hulls ground in) for the wheat 
middlings. Oats may well be added to the 
scratch feed if the hens will eat them, 
and buckwheat also in the Winter. The 
Cornell Winter whole grain ration is com¬ 
posed of 00 pounds corn, 00 pounds wheat, 
.‘>0 pounds oats and 30 pounds buckwheat. 
Their dry mash consists of 00 pounds 
cornmeal, 00 pounds wheat middlings, 30 
pounds wheat bran, 10 pounds Alfalfa 
meal, 10 pounds oil meal. 50 pounds beef 
scrap and one pound salt. 2. f?o far as 
I know, artificial heating of poultry 
houses has never been found satisfactory 
and all such attempts have been aband¬ 
oned. M. B. D. 
FIVE BREEDS 
On 45 ACRES 
FREE RANGE 
Write for Circulars. 
YOU CANNOT BUY 
STRONGER VITAL¬ 
ITY. Eggs for hatching. 
Day old chick*. 
Shohola Fruit and Poultry Farm 
Shohola, Pennsylvania 
P OULTRYMEN, ATTENTION—S. C. W. LEGHORN CHICKS FREE 
FROM WHITE DIARRHEA. One-half blood Barron 
cockerels, descendants of 258 and 280-egg Barron 
cocks, mated with high-producing hens; no pullets 
used. Sisters of cockerels have averaged over 50°b 
WINTER EGG PRODUCTION. Safe delivery guaranteed. 
Cockerels,$3. Circular free. A, B, Hall,Wallingford, Conn. 
BARRON S. C. White Leghorn Chicks 
Also R. I. Reds and White Wyandottes, $15 per 100. 
American Leghorns, $13 per 100. All hatching eggs, 
$6 per 100. Early delivery. Send for illustrated 
catalogue W1NSOR FARM, R. F. D., No. 
3, Acuslinet Station, Neiv Bedford, Mass. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Ezra C. Carter, - Marathon, N. Y. 
Eggs Cockerels Chicks 
“ The kind that cackle the year round.” 
Money Making Poultry 
Ourspecialty. Leading varieties pure-bred chick¬ 
ens, turkeys, ducks and geese. Prize winners. 
Best stock and eggs. Lowest prices; oldest 
farm. Fine 30th Anniversary catalog FREE. 
H. M. JONES CO., Box 163, Des Moines, Iowa 
rnn CAI C—Am booking orders for Leghorn Day-Old 
rUII OHLL Chicks for April delivery. AH breeding 
-took tested free from white diarrhea by State Experi¬ 
ment Station. Custom hatching 4o per chick. 
MAPLEWOOD FARM, CHESHIRE, CONN. 
Tom Ba r ron’s M 
Hatching eggs. 2IS-record Barron cockerels and 
half Barrons. Stock guaranteed. Jay H. Krnisse, 
Hudson and Titus Ave., Iroudequoit, N. Y. 
I arlv f nrnpll Strain of s - c - w - Leghorns 
Lady uorneil Olid lil ef ,g S for hatching. Flock 
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. l’urdie, Genoa, N. Y. 
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. 
Gockerels-S.C.W.Leghorns 
large and heavy -laying strain $1 atul up. 
J. M. CASE, - - Gilboa, N. Y 
S. G. White Leghorn Day-Old Chicks and Eggs 
for hatching, from large, vigorous stock, bred for 
egg production. C. M. WOOLVER. Richfield Springs, N. Y. 
DD rn Xrt I A Y~ s * c - White Leghorns 
iv L, u 1 v L n l American and Barron 
trains. Hatching eggs from pedigree stock. A 
few cockerels left. P. G. Platt, Wallingford, Pa. 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in lots to suit purchasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS, - R. 24, Athens, Pa. 
Foot tor Hatrliina~ From standard-bred S. C. 
Lggs ior naicnmg Wh i te Leghorns. $5 per 100. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write your wants. 
PERRY BRIGGS, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
April and May hatched, S. G. WHITE LEGHORN 
■lay-old chicks, 410.00 per 100. Stature free range breeders. I red 
for egg production. Harry Parker, Ednieston, X. Y. 
i4IADAUft|ilfl|f C-S. C. W. Leghorn and B. 
iYlHlfVll vnlvivo Rocks. The Early order 
gets the chick. ORDER at 
once. Also Leghorn cockerels. J. L. LEE, Carmel, N. Y. 
Torn Barron's 1 pirhnrns—imported direct. 2 is- 260 - 
iuiii Ddiiun s Legnorns egg stra j n . Four pullets 
(.aying) and cockerel. $15. Eggs, $8 per 100. Chicks, 
$15 per 100. E. Claude Jones, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
S R W I oo , hnrn«- also Bab x Chix, Hatch- 
■ be I* ■ legnurns i ng Eggs, Free range. Old 
established business. I. It. Ducklings and eggs 
Rocky Glen Poultry Farm, Poughkeepsie, N. V. 
Black Leghorns 
< he kind that lay. A- E HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 12c.; Eggs, 5c. 
Circular. Warnken Poultry Farm, Salt Point, N. Y. 
Fat Hens; Exterminating Weasels. 
I AM much interested in utility stock, 
and always hail with pleasure any in¬ 
formation in regard to poultry. I 
am always on the look-out for drones, and 
when a bird comes under suspicion of not 
contributing towards the egg basket, its 
days are numbered. Upon examination, 
my surmises always prove correct; in 
each instance, no ova were present, at 
least none that could be plainly seen. 
These birds were with few exceptions 
pronounced gluttons, and tended to over- 
fatness. One, a splendid looking ben, 18 
to 20 months old, who in her pullet year 
laid exceedingly well until her premature 
molt, began laying some eggs before 
Thanksgiving, then stopped. This bird 
was always around, snapping up the 
choicest bits at feeding time, then after¬ 
wards would stand around ip a listless 
manner. Just for an experiment she was 
put in the fattening pen for two weeks 
and then disposed of. Examination re¬ 
veals the same old story. Does over- 
fatness tend to atrophy of the egg-organs, 
and how could a hen laying nice large 
eggs, even if but a few, after an interval 
of say six weeks, have no visible signs of 
ova? 2. What are the best methods to 
exterminate weasels? B. G. 
Topshum, Me. 
1. This question “does over-fatness 
tend to atrophy the egg organs?’’ I would 
answer, no; it does not. Many times in 
the last 20 years I have killed “over-fat” 
hens, and I think about nine times out 
of ten would find a full-shelled egg that 
would have been laid that day if I had lot 
her alone. As to there being “no signs 
of ova" in a hen; I doubt if there ever 
was such a hen. The ovaries of a hen 
consist of some 3,000 “ova”; true some 
are too small to he seen by the naked 
eye, but hundreds can be counted with¬ 
out any aid to the sight. The “ova” are 
the yolks of eggs, and a good layer will 
have a string of them grading down from 
the full-sized yolk ready to be shed into 
the oviduct, all the way to the invisible 
ones. When a hen has been molting for 
two or three months, the largest ova may 
not be bigger than a pea, and the prob¬ 
lem of the poultryman is, how to stimu¬ 
late those ova to growing, instead of 
having the hen turn her food into fat. 
When that problem is satisfactorily 
solved, Winter eggs will no longer com¬ 
mand the price they do now. All wild 
animals take on fat at the approach of 
Winter, and nature furnishes nuts and 
berries, bugs and seeds galore for that 
Winter overcoat. So in preventing the 
hen from putting on fat at that season 
we are lighting nature herself. There is 
more I want to say, but the editor has 
got *o answer 50.000 questions this year 
and he must have “room.” 
2. Weasels are easily caught in steel 
traps. Close the coop, cut a small hole, 
say 2 Yj inches in diameter, near the 
ground, and put a steel trap close to the 
hole; the weasel will walk right into it 
when he tries to get into the coop. Take 
the trap away in the day. If a rat gets 
into it first, the weasel will eat the rat. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
“What does this sentence mean?” 
asked the teacher. “Man proposes, but 
God disposes.” A small boy in the back 
of the room waved his hand frantically. 
“Well, Thomas,” said the teacher, “what 
does it mean?” “It means.” answered 
Thomas, with conscious pride, “that a 
man might ask a woman to marry him, 
but only the Lord knows whether she 
will or not.”—Melbourne Leader. 
Gibson Poultry Lays and Pays 
White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes 
WE ARE specialists in Standard Utility birds, having devoted many years of careful, practical 
’ v breeding toward making these four popular varieties leaders in egg production and as show 
birds. They arc large size, healthy birds with vigorous constitutions, trap-nested, and line-bred to lay 
heavily during the winter months. The individual fowls in our 1915 breeding pens have shown annual 
laying records as high as 253 eggs in their pullet year. 
Baby Chicks Eggs for Hatching Breeding Stock 
^~MBSON Baby Chicks are lively, hardy, and will mature quickly. They are shipped in strong, 
YJ well ventilated boxes, every chick guaranteed to reach you safely. Our large incubator capacity 
assures prompt shipment. Gibson Eggs for Hatching are guaranteed higlily fertile and will give big 
hatches of sturdy chicks. Gibson Breeding Birds are prim, healthy, vigorous specimens that will 
infuse valuable new blood into your flock. We make a specialty of stocking farms and country estates 
with heavy layers. 
.... G. F. GIBSON 
MARK 
WHITE WYANDOTTE HATCHING EGGS This Seasons Prize Winners 
Very hardy strain. Raised "near the clouds,” umTer the most sanitary conditions. Hessian 
Hill Farm is situated on one of America’s greatest natural observatories—overlooking four 
States. Eggs $1.00 per doz., shipped carefully. Send check or money order—with order. 
Hessian Hill Farm, Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y, 
NEW YORK OFFICE, 208 Center Street, New York 
EGGS FOR HATCHING and DAY-OLD CHICKS 
The Kind That Hatch, Live and Grow 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
We arc now booking orders (or 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 Embden Geese 
P) A AA.OT TT mirk: Cl We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
i UL u ^rii^rvo Rocks and Single Comb White Leghorns D ; y _oid 
Ducklings we can supply in limited quantities. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES. 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
DAY-OLD-CHICKS Extraordinary 
j S. C. White Leghorn* 
Every Michigan Poultry Farm 
j. ___ chick for 1915 will be sired by a 
j y , male bird the son of a "200 ego" 
r %. Mfz' hen, trapnested by the Missouri 
Wl iuf S la,e Poultry Experiment Station. 
All records are guaranteed by 
Prof. Quisenberry, who pronounces 
the birds the bestever bred. Chicks 
are from our vigorous bred-to-lay fe¬ 
males mated to these splendid males. 
Wonderful opportunity. Don’t miss it. Send for catalog. 
MICHIGAN POULTRY FARM, 610 Willow St., Lansing, Micb. 
wTatcr WHITE LEGHORNS 
DAY OLD CHICKS—EGGS FOR HATCHING 
We are speciality breeders of S. C. White Leghorns 
of the highest utility standard. We guarantee 
safe delivery of chicks and fertility of eggs, also 
that a customer must he satisfied. Write for our 
new booklet which describes onr methods, stock 
and plant. Book your order now for a positive 
shipping date. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, N.J. 
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 
March 1st $50 per 1,000. Baby chicks, $12 per 100. 
Xow booking orders for March, April and May de¬ 
livery. My Book, “Profits in Poultry Keeping 
Solved," free witli all $10 orders, 5th edition 
shows where the uionev is. Circulars froe. 
Edgar Briggs, Box 7Pleasant Yalley, N.Y, 
WHAT ARE 
“Efficiency” Chicks? 
We’are making a specialty of large, high vitality 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS with EFFICIENCY 
back of them. Quality considered, the price is 
just right. Guarantee of full count, safe delivery 
and protit-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 
Day-old Chicks 
from large white eggs laid by healthy, se¬ 
lected S. O. white leghorns, bred right, kept 
right, and fed right on our 100-acre farm. 
Fifty chicks or less, 20e. each; one hundred. 
$15; five hundred 1 , $62.50; one thousand, $125. 
Safe arrival guaranteed. Place order NOW. 
FREE BOOKLET—"BETTER CHICKENS.” 
describing how to breed, feed and keep them. 
Send for it today. 
KIRKUP BROS., Dept. R, Mattituck, N. Y. 
TOM 
BARRON’S 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
IMPORTED DIRECT from his best-layingstock. 
Also Wyckoff strain. All stock healthy and vigor¬ 
ous and bred to lay. Any number stresig chicks or 
hatching eggs. Fully guaranteed. (Moire Cocks 
and Cockerels. Prices reasonable. Circulars free. 
K. T. EWING, - - ATLANTIC, PA. 
S. C. W. Leghorns-^ggs^’.'lc 
Circular. FERNW000 POULTRY FARM. Salt Point, New York 
Hoff’s “VITALITY” Day-Old 
Chicks of Quality 
S.C. White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds and Barred P.Rocks 
Bred for heavy egg production, quick maturing, strong 
stamina and vitality. The results of over a quarter of a 
century experience. I guarantee to ship ProperlyTlaielied, 
Healthy, Vigorous Day-old Chicks, the kind that will im¬ 
prove your lloek or start you right in the Poultry business. 
Book your orders NOW. Send forniy illustrated booklet 
and reasonable prices. Also Eggs for Hatching. Custom 
Hatching. 
D. C. R. HOFF, Lock Box 115, Neshanic Sta., N. J. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHIOKS AND EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S.C. Brown Leghorns, Kulps Strain, S.C. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our breed¬ 
ers we have selected witli great care for which we 
claim are as fine a Hock of breeders as can be had. 
We have 2,700 layers at this time on our farm. We 
are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Onr hatching 
capacity 10,000. Write for Price list. Visitors 
welcome. 
JOHN II. WAltFEL «fc SON, llohrcrstown, Pn. 
200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators; 12,000 
chicks per week al terFebruary 15th; only No. 1.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, • Box 240-E, Methuen, Mass. 
FROM SELECTED 
2-YR. OLD HENS ON 
RANGE. Mated separately with mature cockerels 
from Young's and Barron’s best stock. Eggs guar¬ 
anteed satisfactory in appearance and size, and 90% 
fertile. $7 a 100: $60 a 1.000. Inspection invited. 
The Nissequogue Farm, St- James P. 0., 1. I., N. Y. 
S.C.W. LEGHORN EGGS 
I enn SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
*) vvU 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, VI. 
S . C. W. Leghorns— Young’s & Cornell strains. Raised 
on free range and heavy layers. Eggs for hatching 
and pedigreed stock for sale. ALVEY HORINE, Myerwille, Md. 
CHICKS 
—8 and 10c. S. fC. Buff Leghorns 
Money back for dead ones. 
JACOB NEIMOND, RICHUILD, PA. 
“■"Say**" S. C. Wlaitc Lesliora» 
1.500 VIGOROUS BREE0ERS, BRED FOR EGGS— MODERN OPEN FRONT LAYING HOUSES—12.000 HALL INCUBATOR CAPACITY—10,000 BROOD 
ING CAPACITY. We guarantee safe delivery of Hatching Eggs, Baby Chix and 3 months Pullets. Wo 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 yon want oui products for Spring or Summer delivery— ORDER NOW. Visitors Invited—Send 
for Booklets. MOIIEGA^N FA KM Poultry Plant, Mohejran Luke, New York. ( 1*110110 711 Peekt*klll. 
Owned and operated by ( has. II- Kaktr. 
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