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Marcli 20, 
YOUNG S STRAIN 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
I HAVE NO OTHER BREEDS 
My winnings at the late 
Boston Show. Jan. 12th to lGth, 
1915. were as follows:— 
Five Firsts, four 'Seconds, 
three Thirds, three Fourths, 
four Fifths, and every Special 
offered. 
Young’s strain is acknowl¬ 
edged the world over as being 
the Standard for all the Leg¬ 
horns of all America and the 
leading struin of heavy lay* 
ers. There has not been a 
show from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific for the past fifteen years where they have 
not shown their supremacy. In fact, they are the 
only original line bred strain of Leghorns in 
America today. 
Hundreds of Grand Cockerels for sale that will 
improve your stock both in exhibition 
and laying qualities. 
MATING LIST FREE 
D. W. YOUNG, Monroe, New York 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R. 
I. REDS, B. 
ROCKS 
Thoroughbred, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-layinn 
hea thy, free rang 
stock. Sale atrivti 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY CRINNELL, 
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 UAL I T Y Chicks, 
order of the originator, 
S. O. WHITE LEGHORNS 
and RHODE ISLAND REVS. 
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. 1 guarantee to ship Properly Hatched, 
Healthy, Vigorous I'ay-old chicks. Thousan Is of chicks 
hatching weekly. S15.00 per 100. $8.00 per 60; St-26 per 25. 
Full count and safe arrival guaranteed. Illustrated book¬ 
let free. Yon need it before you buy Day-old chicks. It 
tells how I 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. 
MATTITUCK 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, hut we 
go one step further and assume responsibility 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. 
SingleComb White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. YOUNG’S STRAIN 
3,000 Breeders, on free farm range, drinking from 
never-failing streams, ns nature intended. Special 
hi ed for Winter eggs—2u0-egg strain. 125,000 baby 
chicks for 1015. Eggs for hatching now ready in any 
quantity, & $0 p>u - 100. No order too large. After 
March 1st $50 per 1.000. Baity chicks, $12 per 100. 
Now booking orders for March, April and Slay de¬ 
livery. My Book, "Profits in Poultry Keeping 
Solved,” free with all $10 orders. 5th edition 
shows where the nione is. Circulars free. 
Edgar Briggs, Box 76, Pleasant Valley, N.Y, 
DAY-OLD-CHICKS Extraordinary 
8. t’, W hitc Leghorns 
Every Michigan Poultry Perm 
chick tor 1915 will be sired by a 
mala bird the son of a “200 egg" 
hen, trapnested by the Missouri 
State Poultry Experiment Station. 
All records are guaranteed by 
Prof. Quisenberry, who pronounces 
the birds the besteverbred. Chicks 
ere 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, Mich. 
Eggs and 
Chicks 
from the famous LA UREL- 
TON LAYERS— pure bred 
S. C. 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 48,000 egg incubators are bringing off 
hatches twice a week. Low prices. Big supply; but 
also big demand—so order early. Send postal today. 
All eggs and chicks from our own stock. 
LAURELTON FARMS, Box H, Lakewood, N. J. 
Day-old Chicks 
from large white eggs laid by healthy, se¬ 
lected S. 0. white leghorns, bred right, kept 
right, and fed right on our 100-acre farm. 
Fifty chicks or less, 20c. each; one hundred, 
.si5; five hundre<r, $02.r>0; one thousand, $125. 
Safe arrival guaranteed. Place order NOW. 
FREE BOOKLET—"BETTER CHICKENS,” 
describing liow to breed, feed and keep them. 
Send for it today. 
KIRKUP BROS., Dept. R, Mattituck, N. Y. 
TRAP-NESTED LEGHORNS 
My pen leads all contestants* at the great Missouri 
Contest. Write for prices on hatching eggs. 
1’. G. Platt, - - AVallingford, Pa. 
The Henyard. 
Damp Henhouse. 
Although my henhouse is built well 
it is damp. The house is 10x20, five feet 
high at the back and eight in front, two 
windows four feet square; above each 
window there is a muslin window 2x4 
feet, just common factory cloth, no 
other ventilation. The henhouse gets 
damp and cold nights it is frosty on the 
roof and sides. The roof boards are 
close together and the roof is two-ply 
rubber roofing. House is up from the 
ground, the floor is dry. I have a muslin 
curtain in front of the hens; it is not 
ceiled. My hens are not doing well. 
Could you tell me what you think is the 
trouble? f. s. p. 
Oneonta, N. Y. 
The dampness in your lienliouse is 
caused by lack of ventilation, the cloth 
windows not permitting a sufficient inter¬ 
change of air with the outdoors. When 
cloth becomes covered with dust, as it 
soon does in poultry houses, it is of 
very slight value as a ventilator. If you 
will remove the windows from your 
poultry house, covering the openings with 
wire poultry netting and arranging cloth 
curtains to drop over them on very cold ; 
nights or in stormy weather, I think that j 
you will soon see a marked difference in 
the dryness of the building and comfort 
of the fowls. Cold, dry air docs not hurt 
fowls: warm, moist air does. M. B. D. 
Prepotency of Male. 
I have been having a discussion with 
two poultrymen of this section. I claim 
that a rooster or male bird is more than 
half the flock, while they claim he is 
just half in breeding. Does he not in¬ 
fluence his qualities to such an extent 
as to make him more than half of his 
house? Will not one half or over of the 
llock have his characteristics? j. R. N. 
This question is not so easy to answer 
as it looks. While it is true that a male 
bird might mark his characteristics on 
nearly all of his progeny, to the appar¬ 
ent exclusion of the female’s characteris¬ 
tics, due to the fact that he was of an 
old pureblooded stock, and she from some 
new-made breed, his characteristics being 
“dominant” and hers “recessive,” yet 
still it would be true that the chicks were 
half his blood and half hers. In line 
breeding, a selected male and female are 
bred together. The progeny is half of 
each. Mating the male with his pullets, 
the progeny are three-fourths male blood, 
and if he is used the third year with his 
granddaughters the progeny will he seven- 
eighths the male blood. Mating the 
mother with one of her sons, the female 
line in the same way may be bred away 
from the male line, so that without going 
out of your own yard, you have two al¬ 
most unrelated strains. Take an opposite 
case, where the female was from the 
dominant blood; there might be in the 
chicks very little of the male’s appear¬ 
ance, yet they would be half his blood. 
So the answer depends on what is meant 
by “half the flock,” whether it is blood 
or looks. GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Shrink in Laying. 
I have 160 S. C. White Leghorn pul¬ 
lets in apartments 8x12, with windows 
three feet square and ventilators two feet 
square, one in each part. Fresh water, 
shells and grit before them all the time. 
I have been feeding each 25 hens one 
quart, equal parts, of wheat, buckwheat 
and oats in the morning and all the warm 
mash they will eat up at noon, composed 
of equal parts meat scrap, Alfalfa, gluten, 
middlings, bran, ground oats and corn, 
and one cabbage or mangel every day 
and about one quart whole corn at night. 
They have been laying all Winter from 
25 to 33 eggs a day till about 10 days 
ago. I changed the wet mash to dry, 
composed of the same grain, fed in hop¬ 
pers open all the time. They ate it 
ravenously and the next few days had 
the diarrhea very badly; stopped eating 
almost entirely, dropped down in egg 
production to five and six. They have 
not eaten very well since. Do you think 
it was the change from wet to dry mash, 
or have I been feeding too heavily? How 
much whole grain should I feed them 
a day when I feed warm mash at noon? 
New York. B. B. 
It is hard to say just what caused this 
trouble, ordinarily, hens will not eat as 
much dry mash as moist, though it is 
possible that having it before them all 
day they ate too much in this case. The 
proportion of beef scrap in your mash 
is moderate, but I wonder if in making 
up a new mash you did not get hold of 
some beef scrap or other material that 
was spoiled. If cabbages or mangels are 
fed in excess, they will cause diarrhoea, 
but I take it that you made no change 
in this respect. Your feeding of whole 
grain was not heavy and the fact that 
the hens ate ravenously of the dry mash 
would indicate that it may not have been 
quite sufficient. Hens should eat about 
half as much mash as whole grain and 
the amount of the more palatable whole 
grain given them will govern to a great 
extent the amount of mash that they will 
eat. Hens should have as much whole 
grain as they will eat up readily and be 
satisfied with; more than that is wasted 
and less is not sufficient. The exact 
amount for any pen can be told only by 
the feeder; it is quickly learned by a 
little observation. m. r. d. 
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 Embden Geese 
T~\ A \/ H PI—We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
I -WLiL' V_sIll\w<rvG? Rocks an d Single Comb White Leghorns. Day-Old 
Ducklings we can supply in limited quantities. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES. 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
Gibson Poultry Lays and Pays 
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 
Hardy, livable, baby chicks shipped in strong, well ventilated boxes, safe delivery guar¬ 
anteed. Gibson Kggs for Hatching guaranteed highly fertile. Healthy,vigorous breed¬ 
ing birds that will infuse valuable blood Into your flocks. V e make a speciulty of stock¬ 
ing 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 
B. C. Wliite Legliorns 
1,500 VIGOROUS BREEDERS, BRED FOR EGGS—MODERN OPEN FRONT LAYING HOUSES—12,000 HALL INCUBATOR CAPACITY—10,000 BROOD 
ING CAPACITY. We guarantee Hale delivery of Hatching Eggs, Baby Chw and 3 months Pullets. We were compelled to decline many 
order* hint heaaon l»ecause they were received too late. We doubled onr Incubator capacity thlrtFall and will increase to 25,000 
next year. If you want on? product" for Spring or Summer delivery— ORDER NOW. Visitors Invited—Send 
for Booklets. MOJIEiiAN FARM Poultry Plant, Moliegnn Lake* New York. (Phone Til 1’eekftklll.) 
Owned and operated by t’hua. il. linker. 
What Are “Efficiency” Chicks? 
Get our S. C. Whits 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 flock of “ profit ” 
pullets, layers of “Snow-white Gems.” 
Price, S9.00 to 91 8.00 per 10O. Speoiallow prices on 
200 or over. Write for hatching dates. This is your 
opportunity—don’t miss it. 
COLUMBIA POULTRY FARM, Desk 3, Toms River, N. J. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EQOS FOR HATCHING 
8. C. Blown Leghorns, Kulps Strain, IS. O. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our breed¬ 
ers we have selected witli great care for which we 
c'alni nre as fine a flock 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 
canncity 10,000. Write for Price list. Visitors 
welcome. 
JOHN II. WAHFEL & SON, ICohrerstown, Pn. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
DAY OLD CHICKS—EGOS 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 oustomer 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. 
Tom Barron ”s?K M COCKERELS 
are mated to all my bred-to-lay S. C. White Leg¬ 
horns this season. 25,000 Baby Chicks and hatching 
eggs for sale at farmer’s prices. Circular froe. 
Patterson Poultry Farm, - Clayton, N. Y* 
WHITE CORNISH 
FOWL—10 to 12 lb. males, 7 to 9. females. Good 
layers. Kggs, $3.00 setting 15. Guarantee 10 fertiles. 
Replacements Free. Catalog. 
IMountsville Farms, Duck Rd., Mountville, Va. 
TOM BARRON HATCHING EGGS 
Pure Barron Trapnested W. Leghorn hens, mated 
to two imported Barron eookerels. 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 cock 
Pedigree: dam, 248; sire’s dam, 283. Eggs, $3 per it>, 
C. W. TURNER. - West Hartford, Conn. 
HATCHING EGGS '?•: : s l°o°o 
The ‘Prices that Live and let Live” for Guaranteed 
70 , Fertile Eggs from fancy selected White leghorns 
—8. C. Red*—Barred Rock*, Mammoth Pekin 
Itucks, Pearl Guinea*. Bend your order NOW, 
with 25% Deposit 
SUNNYMEAO FARMS (850 Acr„), MILLSTONE, N.J. 
C. Drysda-lk Black. Director, 60 Broad way, N. V. 
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
liens selected for high production, long life and 
vigor. $6 per hundred; $50 per thousand. Eggs 
that fail to batch replaced at half price. 
Alkeu Farm, - K. I). 2, Ithaca, N. Y. 
BARRON HATCHING EGGS and Baby Chicks 
From tested 2-year-old 8 C. W. Leghorn breeding 
hens. Kggs, $5 per 100; $40 per 1,000, express paid. 
Choice pullets and yearling hens to offer. Write, 
Kansorn Farm, - Chagrin Falls, Ohio 
TomBarron’s uSSSS 
Hatching eggs. 248-record Barron cockerels and 
half Barrons. 8tock guaranteed. Jay H. Erniaae, 
Hudson and Titus Ave., lrondequoit, N. Y. 
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. DASEY, Box 55. FRANKF0RD, DEL. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS &To\ e o 1 h e e c ns te o5 
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: $00 a 1.000. Inspection Invited. 
The Niasequogue Farm, St. James P. 0., L. I., N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS and eggs, 
* healthy business kind,Including Barron’s strain 
that grow great layers. Delivery guaranteed. Free 
circular. WrltellAMii.TON Farm. Huntington.N.Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS ViVtfrtfK 
layer*. F.gg*. ’AO. Chicks a specialty, lftets. each. 
Sunshine Poultry Farm, R. 0. No. 1. Ridgely Md. 
S OW! fto , hnrn«- also Bab f Chix, Hatch- 
■ Un fin LBYIlUlllo ing Eggs. Free range. Old 
established business. I. B. Ducklings and eggs. 
Kocky Glen Poultry Farm, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Day-Old Chicks and Eggs 
for baiehing, from large, vigorous stock, bred lor 
egg production. C. M. W00LVER. Richfield Springs, N- Y. 
I srlv Cornell Strain of 8 - w - Leghorns 
L.aay uorneii oirain effgs for hatching. Flock 
headed by grandsons of Lady Cornell, whose official 
record was 257 eggs. Eggs. $5. 1'0: $1.15. Chix 
after Muy 15. $'2, 103. S. L. Purdie, Genoa, N. Y. 
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. 0. 3, Versailles, Uhio 
S . C. W. Leghorns—Young’s & Cornell strains. Raised 
on free range and heavy layers. Fggsfor hatching 
and pedigreed stock for sale. ALVEY H0RINE, Myersville, Md. 
Q [1 Whifp I Pffhnrn 9 ~ s> Bhode Island Reds. 
0. U. nnue Legnorns Heavy winter layers. Kggs 
for hatching. Baby Chicks. Wy-Har Farm, Denton, Md. 
Black Leghorn si] S ^gY- 
tlie 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. 
CHICKS 
—8 and 10c. S. fC. Buff Leghorns 
Money hack for dead ones. 
JACOB NEIM0ND, RICHFIELD, PA. 
liflDAU AIIIAIf c W. Leghorn and B. 
lYlrln Vll Vlll V WO Bocks. The Early order 
gets the chick. ORDER at 
once. Also Leghorn cockerels J. L. LEE, Carmel, N. Y. 
BARRON STRAIN TO*KB % 
buy. Fertile eggs, $150 per 15; $8 per 100. Chicks. 
$15 per 100. -6-weoks-old pullets. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. W. E. Gather, Box 175, Winchester, Va. 
S. C. White Leghorn Eggs 
Farmers’ prices. Sunny Side Poultry Farm, Freehold. N. J. 
Whitn Darke * nd Pose Comb Whitt Leghorns of supe¬ 
rs mic nubKs riorquallty and heavy layers. Eggs— 
exhibition matings, $2 & $3 per 15: utility,$1 per 15; 
$0. 1UU. Anson Henry, Little Rock Pl'ty Farms, Flanders, N. J. 
UARRINGT0N STRAIN S. C. W. LEGHORNS Catalogue free. 
■* James F, Harrington, Hammontou, N. J. 
B uff, whitk i.koiiorxs, s. o. it. i. rkds—R xn. »oc. P . r 
16; $1.60 1 -rr 30. Mottled Anconal, HI. Minorcan, Bxxn, $1.06 
p»r 16; $1.75 icr 30. Catalogue free. John A, Rath, Qunhtrtnwa. Pa. 
B AKRON LEGHORN ANI) WYANDOTTK 
eggs and chicks. Breeders have high trnp-nest 
records. C. D. Baer, Box 554, Connellsvllle, Pa. 
Fifteen Tom Barron English White Leghorn Eggs 
for hutchlug, $1. L.ISK, Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
Business Eggs at Business Prices 
8. C. W. Leghorns, 16 for $1; 50 for $3; 100 for $5 50. 
Special matings a little higher Oro Farm, Congers, N.Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Single Comb White Leghorns, free range stock 
$12 per hundred. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Bellmoss Poultry Farm, Hudson, Mass. 
“WICHMOSS POULTRY FARM” 
prices. Properly Hatched, Healthy, Vigorous Day- 
old Chicks and Ducklings. Bred for heavy egg pro¬ 
duction. 8. C. W. Leghorns, Wh. Wyandottes, R. I. 
Beds, B. Rocks and Wh. Pekin Ducks. ANUNESEN 4 
AMMERMAN. Demurest, N. J. Box 137. 
B ABY CHICKS—F12 per hundred. Cornell Exp. Sta. 
Strain of 8. 0. W. Leghorns, Good Layers. Cock 
Birds, $3 to $8. L. E. Ingoldsby, Hartwick Sem'y, N. Y 
THE HEN THAT LAYS 
S. C. White aud Brown Leghorns. Also Bouen 
Duck Eggs for hatching. Send for catalogue. 
M. F. HOLT, • Cincinnatus, New York 
60 Varieties SR 
BUCKS, GEESE. TURKEYS, 
GUINEAS and HARES. Stock and eggs. GO 
page catalogue free. H. A. Souder, Box 29, Sellersville.Pa. 
FIVE BREEDS 
On 45 ACRES 
FREE RANGE 
Write for Circulars. 
YOU CANNOT BUY 
STRONGER VITAL¬ 
ITY. Eggs for hatching. 
Day old chicks. 
Shohola Fruit and Poultry Farm 
Shohola, Pennsylvania 
