HOUGHTON FARM 
Has 300 good Single-Comb White Leghorns to 
spare. Pen of 6 Hens and Cockerel, ?J0: pen of 
12 Hens and Cockerel, SIS. Also 100 pure Barron’s 
S. C. White Leghorns_ to spare. Choice pen of 6 
1 lens and Cockerel, £15. Single Cockerels, S3 to 515. 
S. R. LEWIS, Manager, MOUNTAINVILLE, N. Y. 
200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators: 12.000 
chicks per week after February lath; 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, Mothuen, Mass. 
BARRON’S S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
I IMPORTED DIRECT from bis best-layiiigstoclc. 
Also Wyc.koff strain. All stock healthy and vigor¬ 
ous and bred to lay. Any number strong chicks or 
hatching eggs, bully guaranteed. Choice Cocks 
and Cockerels. Prices reasonable. Circulars free. 
It, T. EWING, - - ATLANTIC, PA. 
TOM BARRON HATCHING EGGS 
I’ure Barron Trapnested W. Leghorn hens, mated 
to two imported Barron cockerels, out of a 272-egg 
lien. Eggs. $3 per 15: $15 per 100. Imported Pen 
Barron W. Wyandottes (full sisters to his pen 
Storrs’ contest, 19U)mated to imported Barron cock. 
Pedigree: dam. 248; sire's dam, 283. Eggs. $3 per io. 
C. W. TURNER, - West Hartford, Conn. 
BARRON S. C. White Leghorn Chicks 
Also R. 1 Reds and White Wyandottes, $15 per 100. 
American Leghorns, $13 per 100. All hatching eggs, 
$6 por 100. Early delivery. Send for illustrated 
catalogue. WINSOR FARM, It. F. D., No. 
3, Acuahnet Station, New lied ford, Mass. 
P OULTRYMEN, ATTENTION- S. C. W LEGHORN CHICKS FREE 
FROM WHITE DIARRHEA. One-half blood Barron 
cockerels, descendents of 258 and 2tI0-egg Barron 
cooks, mated with high-producing hens: no pullets 
used. Sisters of cockerels have averaged over 50% 
WINTER EGG PRODUCTION. Safe delivery guaranteed. 
Cockerels,$3. Circular free. A. B. Hall.Wallinoforil, Conn. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in tiro egg-laying contest,. Hatching 
eggs, chicks, cockerels, and pullets for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
DAY OLD CHECKS 
Single Comb White Leghorns, free range stock 
$12 per hundred. .Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Bellmoss Poultry Farm, Hudson, Mass. 
S, C. W. LEGHORN EGGS f 2 r y 0 r m 0 s l e o l h e e c ns te on d 
RANGE. Mated separately with mature cockerels 
from Voting's and Barron's best stock. Eggs guar¬ 
anteed satisfactory in appearance and size, and 90% 
t'-rtile. $7 a 100: $i)(l a 1.000. Inspection invited. 
The Nissequogue Farm, St. Janies P. 0., L. I., N. Y. 
TomBarron’s ISIxEi 
Hatching eggs. 248-record Barron cockerels and 
half Barrons. Stock guaranteed. Jay II. Ernisse, 
Hudson and Titus Ave., lrondequoit, N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS and eggs, 
healthy business kind, including Barron’s strain 
that grow great layers. Delivery guaranteed. Free 
circular. WriteH a Mil ,tux Farm, Huntin gton, N.Y. 
G E T C r* WIlifA I prrhnrn hatching eggs and 
your VYnite Legnorn ,, abv ch f c ks from a 
vigorous, heavy-laying strain. Bred for years. 
" nte 101 Pope Poultry Farm i r ^ n - au ’ 
THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
423 
prices. 
J. 
Barron S. C. W. Leghorns, Wyandottes 
hatching eggs, day-old chicks from stock out of di¬ 
rect importation from the world's best-laying 
strain. Brookfield Poultry Farm, R. F. D. 3, Versailles, Ohio 
Lady 
Cornell Strain 8 - C ~ W- . Leghorns 
eggs for hatching. Flock 
headed bygra ndsons of Lady Cornell, whose Official 
record was 257 eegs. Eggs. $5. 100: $1. 15. Cliix 
after May 15. $12.100. S. L. Pur die, Genoa, N. Y. 
THE HEN THAT LAYS % 
S. C. White and Brown Leghorns. Also Rouen 
Duck Eggs for hatching. Send for catalogue. 
M. F. BOLT, - C'incinnatus, New York 
TRAP-NESTED LEGHORNS 
My )ien leads nil contestants’at the great Missouri 
I 'ontest. Write fot prices on hatching eggs. 
P. G. Platt, - . Wallingford, Pa. 
Tom Barron Strain, White Leghorns 
from 258-egg parentage. Eggs, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. 
Chicks, $12 per 100. 
Lewis Selleu, - - Genoa, N. Y. 
A. i. COLGATE’S S. C. W. Leghorn 
Strong vigorous layers, raised on free range. Send 
for catalogue. A. 15. Colgate, Vineland, N.J, 
MADAU ftUIABf C~ s - C. W. Leghorn and B. 
rT8t4ll VII VlllVlVv Rocks. The Early order 
gets the chick. ORDER at 
'•nee. Also Leghorn cockerels, J. L. LEE, Carmel, N.Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
avers. Eggs. $5—100. Chicks a specialty. lOcts. each. 
Sunshine Poultry Farm, R D. No. 1, Ridgely Md. 
Cockerels-S.C.W.Leghorns 
large and heavy-laying strain $1 and up. 
J. M. CASE, - - Gil boa, N. Y 
Tom Barron’s I pp-hnrns~ IU| i ,orte(1 direct - 243-200- 
luiil UdllUII 8 LegllUini CKIl strain Four pullets 
■ayilig) and cockerel, $15. Eggs, $8 per 100. Chicks. 
$15 per 100. E. Claude Jones, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
Q P W ! Offhnrnc-also Ruby Chix, Hateh- 
Oi u* Hi vC^nUillS lngEggs. Free range. Old 
established business. I. K. Ducklings and eggs. 
Rocky Glen Poultry Farm, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
S. G. White Leghorn Day-Old Chicks and Eggs 
for hatching, from large, vigorous stock, bred for 
egg production. C. M. W00LVER. Richfield Sprinus, N. Y. 
F.octc fnr Hafrliin j—TT om standard-bred 8. O. 
E-e.gS ior naicmng white leghorns. $5 per 100. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write your wants. 
PERKY BRIGGS, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
Fifteen Tom Barron English White Leghorn Eggs 
or hatching, $1. LISK, Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
poll SALE-150 DANISH S. C. WHITE 
‘ UiGHOItN COCKERELS. $2 to $3 each. 
THE W. H. SCHROM MODEL POULTRY FARM. Berwyn, Md. 
Baby Chicks—White 1 Leghorns, 12c. each. 
(Wyandottes, 15c. each. 
MOUNTAIN VIEW POULTRY FARM, Hopewell Jet., N. Y. 
Ailing Pullet. 
Early May hatched Wyandotte pullet 
started laying November 21 and laid per¬ 
sistently until about two weeks ago; 
showed symptoms of trouble with vent 
as though trying to pass something. I 
found her one night unable to stand; 
gave her two teaspoonfuls of castor oil 
and injected olive oil into her vent, 
which helped her. although she has never 
fully recovered. This morning I found 
her off the roost and staggering around 
almost helpless; repeated the dose as 
formerly. As to her condition otherwise, 
her comb is red, eyes bright, eats fairly 
well, and yesterday was singing as 
though she wanted to lay No inflamma¬ 
tion of vent. e. ir. t. 
New York. 
This pullet is suffering from a more or 
less inflamed condition of the oviduct, 
due, undoubtedly, to heavy laying under 
conditions of unnatural confinement and 
heavy feeding. Your local treatment has 
been good and about all that you can do. 
else is to relieve her from something of 
the strain that has been put upon her 
physical organism by lighter feeding, 
with less meat, or other stimulating 
foods, and by giving her as much liberty 
as possible. Better feed her by herself 
for a time, giving soft food without meat, 
plenty of green food and no condiments. 
As she does not possess the ability to 
stand up under heavy laying, I should 
not use her in the breeding pen. 
M. B. D. 
Laying Records. 
I have just finished reading the egg 
contest report in your issue of February 
G. During the twelfth week 440 Leghorns 
laid 765 eggs; one would lay 1.739; GOO 
would lay 1,043.4; my GOO laid 1,290 
eggs, or 247 more than the contest hens 
(if there were 600 in the contest). Last 
week’s report was about the same. Here’s 
my flock all in one big open front house, 
and all in one pen (no partitions). The 
contest Leghorns are the choice 10 birds 
out of 44 flocks. Mine are GOO carefully 
culled birds just as they came in off 
the range last Fall. I know my birds 
cannot be as well bred (for eggs) as the 
contest birds, so I am left to wonder if 
my system of feeding is not better than 
theirs. How do you account for it? 
New York. a. ii, s. 
I don’t. There are some things about 
the behavior of liens for which I can 
offer an excuse, but for which I cannot 
account. One of these is why one flock 
will sometimes lay more eggs than an¬ 
other under apparently comparatively ad¬ 
verse circumstances. We are apt, in such 
a case, to seize upon one feature in the 
care or feeding which differs in the two 
flocks and say here is the occasion of the 
difference, blit subsequent observation is 
very likely to compel us to alter our 
opinion and admit again that we are at 
sea. The most interesting and suggestive 
thing about your record is that your 600 
birds are all in one flock. This will come 
as quite a shock to some who have al¬ 
ways believed that hens must be divided 
into small flocks if they are to do good 
work. A striking feature in the evolution 
of the poultry industry is the growing 
ability to rear large flocks of young chicks 
and get good results from lax-ge flocks of 
mature fowls. m. b. d. 
Nests for Ducks. 
There is very little in farm papers 
about ducks and suitable nests, or con¬ 
veniences for their egg laying. 
Ilightstown, N. ,T. v. b. h. 
The question of providing nests for 
ducks usually arises with the beginner. 
In the case of the most commonly kept 
breeds (lie question may he answered by 
"Don t.” Pekins have had the nesting 
and sitting instincts bred out of them to 
such an extent that the ducks usually 
drop their eggs wherever they happen to 
be. The other breeds usually select a low 
place, preferably in a corner. A low box 
over which the ducks might stumble is 
more of a danger than a help. A box 
too high to stumble over with an open¬ 
ing in the side would obviate any danger 
and would be useful if the ducks chose 
to occupy it. Muscovy ducks, which like 
to roost like hens, are partial to boxes 
some distance above the ground, but will 
use the ground if they can't get higher. 
W. II. II. 
Damaged Wheat for Hens, 
Has the stuff sold as damaged wheat 
sufficient value as a feed to make it ad¬ 
visable to feed it to hens, considering it 
can be bought for a little over half the 
price of good wheat? Has this damaged 
wheat any bad effects on the poultry 
aside fi'om any difference in feeding 
value? A . k. 
New York. 
The value of damaged wheat depends 
entirely upon how badly it is damaged, 
and of this it is difficult to judge from 
mere inspection. As a rule, I think that 
such wheat is apt to be offered at a price 
out of proportion to its real value and 
sound wheat would better be purchased 
instead. Moldy or musty grain of any 
kind should, of coux\se, not be used, but 
if wheat has been injured only by weevils 
or by scorching and can be purchased at 
a price proportionate to its value there 
is no reason why it should not be fed. 
On the whole, however, I think the pur¬ 
chase of damaged wheat for fowls a 
doubtful economy. m. b. d. 
---- -Op- - 
Gibson Poultry Lays an d Pays 
White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes 
VV u A j k spec,al ' sts "? Stan ^ ard UtlI, ‘y btrdfc, having devoted many years of careful, practical 
’ breeding toward making these four popular varieties leaders in egg production and as show 
birds. I hey are large size, healthy birds with vigorous constitutions, trap-nested, and line-bred to lay 
heavily during the winter months. The individual (owls in our 1915 breeding pens have shown annua! 
laying records as high as 2s3 eggs in their pullet year. 
Baby Chicks Eggs for Hatching Breeding Stock 
r^IBSON Baby Chicks are lively, hardy, and will mature quickly. They are shipped in strong 
wel1 ventilated boxes, every chick guaranteed to reach you safely. Our large incubator capacity 
assures prompt shipment. Gibson Lggs for Hatching are guaranteed highly fertile and will give big 
f!i urdy c u ck j Glbson Breedmg Birds arc prim healthy, vigorous specimens that will 
with heavy layers b °° d y ° ur ° Ck ' We makc 3 specialty of «°cking farms and country estates 
Book your order early, it GALEN FARMe^ ^ ° UI handsomely illustrated I 
will enable us to give GALEN. FARMS booklet is FREE. Write 
you better service. i>raw« C CLYDE, N.Y. f or _TO-DAY 
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, fartn-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 alter 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 
DAY-OLD CHICKS We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
Kocks and^ Single JLomb White Leghorns. Day-Old 
Ducklings we can supply in limited quantities. 
BRANFORD FARMS, 
WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES 
GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
‘•MOHKGAN Killll 
8TIUIV’ 
.V“°™S!"L US ® REEDERS ’ 8RED F0R eggs-modern open front laying houses-12,000 hall incubator capacity-10 ooo brooo- 
ING CAPACITY. " "."".l' 1 " .‘i’'Wivery "t Hatching Eggs. Baby Chix aa.l 3 nionllis Pullets. " • were compelled to decline inapt 
S. C. Wliite Leghorns 
oc corn rnn rppp unorntt nnru ... ... 1 y 
Baby Cliiclis 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R. 
I. REDS, B. 
ROCKS 
Thoroughbred, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Sa fe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL. 
Sodus, N. Y. 
HOFF’S BABY CHICKS 
For over a quarter of a century 
the original "VITALITY” 
Day-old Chicks of QUALITY. 
Others imitate my advertising, 
but for the genuine “ VITAL¬ 
ITY ”-Q UALITY Chicks, 
order of the originator, 
8. €. WHITE LEGHORNS 
and It II OOF. ISLAND it EDS. 
Bred for heavy egg production, 
quick maturing, strong stamina and vitality. All 
hatching done under perfectly sanitary conditions, 
modern incubator cellars, highest grade of incuba¬ 
tors used. I guarantee to ship Properly Hatched, 
Healthy, Vigorous Day-old Chicks. Thousands of chicks 
hatching weekly. $15.90 I>cr 100, *8.00 per 50: $4.25 per 28. 
Full count and safe arrival guaranteed, illustrated book¬ 
let free. You need it before you buy Day-old chicks. It 
tells how 1 produce chicks free of White Diarrhoea. If 
you are interested in brooders, ask me for information. 
D. C. R. HOFF, Lock Box 115, Neshanic Station, N. J. 
SingleComb White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. YOUNG’S STRAIN 
3,000 Breeders, on free farm range, drinking from 
MATTITIICK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
Hatching Eggs—Baby Chicks-8 weeks old 
Pullets—Barron-Young Strain 
Heavy-laying, healthy, vigorous stock. 
Not only do we guarantee Safe Delivery, but we 
go one step further and assumelresponsibility for 
delivery of chicks, etc., in satisfactory condition. 
Any sized order filled promptly on time. 
Send for illustrated circular and price list.! 
ARTHUR H. PENNY, Mattituck, N. Y- 
DAY-OLD-CHICKS Extraordinary 
S. C’, W liltc Leghorns 
Every Michigan Poultry Farm 
chick for 1915 will be sired by a 
male bird the son of a "200 egg" 
Hen, trapnested by the Missouri 
' State Poultry Experiment Stotion. 
AH records are guaranteed by 
Prof. Quisenbcrry, wbo pronounces 
Ike birds the bestever bred. Chicks 
are front our vigorous bred to lay le- 
males mated to these splendid inales, 
wonderlul opportunity. Don't miss it. Send lor cafalon 
MICHIGAN POULTRY FARM. 610 Willow St.. Lansing, M^b! 
S. C. W. LEGHORN 
, Hatching Eggs and 
Baby Chicks 
From our Selected "Quality 
Strain” Breeders 
Write for Prices and Guarantees, 
___ TENACRE POULTRY FARM, PRINCETON, *. J. 
You are cordially invited to inspect our plant 
_ SEEING IS 1IKI.IKVING 
quantity, @ $6 per 100. No order too large. After 
March 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 tnonev is. Circulars free. 
Edgar Griggs, Hox 75, Pleasant Valley, N.Y, 
from the famous LAURF.L- 
TON I.A YERS— pure bred 
S. ('. White Leghorn yearling 
hens—thousands of them—of 
great size, beauty and vigor. 
Eggs guaranteed 85 per cent 
| fertile. Chicks guaranteed to arrive safe and in full 
count. Our 18,000 egg incubators are bringing off 
hatches twice a week. Low prices. Dig supply; 'but 
also big demand—so order early. Send postal today." 
Eggs and 
Chicks 
Box H. 
LAURELTON FARMS 
Lakewood, N. J. 
Day-old Chicks 
from large white eggs laid by healthy, se¬ 
lected 8. C. white leghorns, bred right,’ kept 
right, and fed right on our 100-aere farm. 
Fifty chicks or less. 20e. each: one hundred, 
$15; five hundred*. $02.50; one thousand. $125. 
Safe arrival guaranteed. Place order NOW. 
FREE BOOKLET—••BUTTER CHICKENS.” 
describing how to breed, feed and keep them. 
Send for it today. 
KIRKTJP BROS., Dept. R, Mattituck, N. Y. 
« WHITE LEGHORNS 
OAY OLD CHICKS—EGGS FOR HATCHING 
We are speciality breeders of 8. C. White Leghorns 
of the highest utility standard. We 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 positive 
shipping date. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, N.J. 
CHICKS 
—8 and 10c. S. [C. Buff Leghorns 
Money back for dead ones. 
JACOB NEiMOND, 
RICHFIELD, PA. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 12c.; Eggs, 5c. 
Circular. Warn ken Poultry Farm, Salt Point, N. Y. 
i What Are “Efficiency” Chicks? 
i Lb-t our s. C. White Leghorn Baby Chicks with efficiency 
back of them, and your success is assured, because— 
First, they are endorsed as the best by inexperienced 
and experienced alike. 
Second, you receive full count of vital chicks—our 
guarantee. 
Third by winter you own a lovely JlocJc of ••profit" 
pullets, layers of “Snow-white Gems.” 
Prices $9.00 to $1 8.00 per 1 OO. Special low prices > u 
200 or over. Write for hutching dates. This is votir 
opportunity—don’t miss it. 
COLUMBIA POU LTRY FARM. Desk 3, Toms River, N. J. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns 
Exhibition and utility; the farmer’s kind. Large 
birds, good winter layers. Reasonable prices for 
stock, eggs and chicks. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Circular. WARD W. 0ASEY, Box 55. FRANKFORD. DEL. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Send for Mating List ami FREE Offer. First 
come. First served. Only one in each town. EGG 
RECORD. 236. Record Pen. 226. Average flock. 170 
THE UND ERHILL FARMS, BOX R-N, FORT ANN, NEW YORK 
C. C. W. Leqliorns— Young’s & Cornell strains. Raised 
“ on free range a nd hea vy layers. Kggs for hatching 
and pedigreed stock for sale, alvey HORine, Myeisviilc, mj. 
S G Whiff? LpP’hnrtlRM 8 ’ Rb°d0 Island Reds. 
O, W. nilllo Lcgnuino Heavy winter layers. Eggs 
for hatching. Baby Chicks. Wy-Har Farm. Denton. Md. 
