THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard. 
STOVE-HEATED BROODER. 
I X answer to E. F. TV., New Hamp¬ 
shire. I will tell my experience in 
using a stove to heat a brooder-house 
for small chickens. I have used a stove 
for heating my brooder-house for the last 
three years with good success. My brood¬ 
er house is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, 
and is situated on a sandy hill sloping 
to the south. It is walled np under the 
sills with rough stone, and filled in the 
center with sand. In one end of this 
house I dug down in the gravel deep 
enough so I could set in a large parlor 
nr heating stove; then I ran the pipe 
from this stove along about three feet 
front the back of the house and out 
through the * end, where I had set up 
sever: 1 lengths of glazed tile pipe eight 
jnelie:. in size and run the stovepipe in 
ihis. In this stovepipe I put a damper 
near the tile pipe to control the draft. 
Beginning near the stove I made divis¬ 
ions about every four feet and had them 
connect with the wall in the back of the 
house, and come out in about two feet 
toward the front of the house. In these 
divisions I cut a large square opening for 
the pipe tc go through, and in those open¬ 
ings I pu a piece of tin or sheet iron 
with an opening large enough to take a 
six-inch pipe, common stovepipe is what 
I use. This pipe takes a gradual rise 
from the time it leaves the stove until it 
goes in the tile pipe. I put a good wide 
board along in front of those divisions 
to keep them in place, and over the top 
of the pipe I put a cover to cover down 
about a foot from the pipe, which makes 
those hovers nice and warm. In this 
house I can brood 600 chicks at one time 
until I can tell the cockerels. I use a 
large stove and have burned wood the 
last year. The diagram gives the plan. 
Massachusetts. J. w. R. 
Permanganate of Potash; Homemade Brooder 
R ECENTLY you advised as a prescrip¬ 
tion for colds, etc., in poultry, one 
teaspoonful of permanganate of pot¬ 
ash to one quart of water. As this is a 
poison, a physician informs me such a 
large dose would be deadly to a whole 
flock, and quantity half size ot a pea 
would be strong. Is this statement cor- 
•ect or not? 2. Would you give us a 
design for a homemade brooder? The 
price of these machines is altogether out 
of proportion to their initial cost. A 
handy man could construct one, if the 
heating point was properly shown, with 
the aid of a tinner to make the pipe con¬ 
nections to a drum, heated by the ordin¬ 
ary incubator lamps. None of the rural 
papers so far have given this subject a 
clear explanation, and this is an oppor¬ 
tune season. c. L. w. 
East Hampton, Conn. 
1. Permanganate of potash is not a 
poison though it is somewhat irritating 
to the stomach when taken internally. 
The size of the dose in drinking water is 
to be regulated more by the strength of 
the solution that the fowls will drink 
than anything else. A reader has ob¬ 
jected to the dose mentioned upon the 
ground that fowls will not drink the solu¬ 
tion unless kept unjustifiably long with¬ 
out water; if this proves to be the case, 
the solutio.ii will have to be weakened, of 
course, though the drug possesses but 
mild antiseptic properties whea brought 
into contact with organic matter, even in 
strong solution. 
2. I agree with you that any man 
handy with tools can make his own brood¬ 
ers cheaper than he can buy them, if he 
has the time. The best plan is to exam¬ 
ine and measure a brooder already built, 
this being easier than to attempt to fol¬ 
low drawings. Any tinsmith can make 
the heating drum, though a drum is not 
needed. By carrying a hot air pipe, 
made from ordinary rain water conduc¬ 
tor pipe, through the brooding compart¬ 
ment and back, keeping it several inches 
from the floor and giving it a slight up¬ 
ward pitch throughout its length, a drum 
can be dispensed with. A wooden cover 
with oilcloth curtain above this pipe 
will retain the heat and make a brood¬ 
ing chamber. The principle can be easi¬ 
ly seen by examining any “store brood¬ 
er.” M. B. P. 
Pullets Do Not Lay. 
I N regard to G. L. B. as to why his 
pullets failed to lay. I should say that 
. he fed too much green bone and too 
much green stuff, lie not only had beef 
scraps and Alfalfa in his mash, but was 
also giving two cabbages and two pounds 
green bone every day, and my experience 
has been that green cut bone should nev¬ 
er be fed more than three times a week 
on account of its forcing qualities. Also 
he has too many hens in each coop, not 
over 45 or 4S should have been in either 
one. allowing fi ur square feet to every 
hen. I should feed about three or four 
quarts of whole or cracked corn at night 
instead of mixed grains if they were mine. 
In regards to the question of A. B. 
Roberts as to why his cows shrink, I 
should say his ration was short in carbo¬ 
hydrates in place of putting one part 
middlings to two parts union grain, I 
should have used meal. The ration in 
November that he used surely should 
have meal in it. 
Have there been any extended experi¬ 
ments carried on in which the cockerels 
were killed off as soon as the pullets 
could be recognized, which would be five 
or six weeks of age? I figure it, one only 
gets his money back for the grain used 
when sold at broiler or roaster size. I 
keep R. I. Reds and Barred Rocks. 
Massachusetts. n. A. K. 
I know of no experiments to determine 
the comparative returns from killing cock¬ 
erels as soon as they can be recognized 
and marketing them as broilers or roast¬ 
ers. I think that most poultrymen 
would agree, however, that if kept until 
they can be separated from the pullets 
with certainty they should at least be 
raised to broiler size. If the sex could 
be determined within a few days of hatch¬ 
ing, it would probably pay most poultry 
keeoers to kill the males; if the chicks 
are hatched sufficiently early to permit 1 
of their being sold as broilers by the first 
of July, they should pay a profit. 
M. B. D. 
Loss of Eggs. 
I have a flock of chickens that have 
not laid any eggs since last October. 
About a week ago I have found an egg 
and left it till the next day. I could 
not find it the next day. Some neighbors 
told me that the chickens eat them. Is 
it true? J. S. 
Aurora, Ohio. 
I do not know whether one of the 
chickens ate that egg or not, but the 
flock certainly laid itself open to suspi¬ 
cion and you will be justified in treating 
them as possible criminals until they 
have laid some more eggs and left them 
in the nests. It is not likely that many 
eggs have been laid and eaten without 
your having discovered traces of that 
l»en’s effort to become self-supporting. If 
liens are at all closely watched they will 
be seen dragging pieces of broken shells 
about or nests or litter will be found 
soiled by the contents of broken eggs 
when the habit is once established. An 
egg that is left on the floor is apt to be 
kicked about until broken and is then 
eaten, of course. If the fowls have 
plenty to eat,’ they are not very apt to 
acquire the habit, however, unless closely ] 
confined and idle. I have not hesitated 
to throw broken eggs to my hens for 
several years and have had no trouble 
from the vice of egg eating. m. b. d. 
Lousy Poultry Can’t Pay 
Lice-infested poultry are a con¬ 
stant loss to the poultryman. Lice 
suck the rich lifeblood from poul¬ 
try, stunt the growth of young 
chicks and rob you of veur well 
earned dollars. Thesey _,£.ts re¬ 
duce the hens’ laying ability. 
Buy an effective louse killer and 
use it liberally. 
DR. HESS 
INSTANT LOUSE KILLER 
Kills Lice Instantly. Sprinkle 
it thoroughly on lousy hens, rub 
it well under the wings and neck, 
put it in the dust bath, in the 
nests, roosts and cracks. Instant 
Louse Killer also kills lice on farm 
stock, bugs on cucumber, squash 
and melon vines, cab¬ 
bage worms, slugs on 
rose bushes. Comes in 
handy sifting-top cans. 
1 lb. 25c; 3 lbs. 60c; except 
in Canada and far West. 
If not at your dealer’s, write— 
DR. HESS & CLARK 
Ashland, Ohio 
HATCHING EGGS 
S. C. White Leghorns 
A large and heavy-laying strain—the ones that 
fill the basket with large white eggs 
$1.00 per 15 $5.00 per 100 
J. M. CASE, Gilboa, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES Oltl'lM.TOWS’ KcIlerJlrM* 
'Irain. E(J(JS for HATCHING. HabvChicks, Indian Runner Duck 
E.W.Higby, Ronnie YUw Poultry Farm, Montgomery, N.Y\ 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
ICrod to lay am] do lay. Free range insures fertile eggs for 
h.-itehfng. BABY CHICKS; also a few CO< KKBF.T.s ot .*•». 
I! I i.i i Friofi-in Cattle, a. w. bitki'.i k. wivm.K. \ 
World’s 
Champion Layers 
S. C. White Leghorns, White 
Wyandottes, S. C. R. I. Reds, 
Buff Orpingtons. 
EGG COMPETITION WINNERS 
Leghorns—Highest award No. American 
egg-laying contest; 5 hens laying 1139 eggs 
as follows: 251, 250, 224, 222, 192 eggs. 
Reds—Highest award in their class; N. A. 
contest, 5 hens laying 1043 eggs, 209 average; 
highest official Red record known. 
Wyandottes —Mo. contest, 10 hens lay 2006 
eggs, one hen laying 
Most Profitable 
Poultry Known. 
EGGS-STOCK’ 
Write today for 
full information 
and our copy 
of “The 
200-Egg Hen.' 
Full of valuable 
information 
about heavy 
layers. 
PENNA 
POULTRY FARM 
Box P, Lancaster, Pa. 
265 eggs. 
Ngl 
S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs fey 
range, mated with cockerels from Cyphers 
best layers. 
EGGS GUARANTEED 85 i FERTILE 
$5.00 per hundred. $40.00 per thousand 
White Springs Farm, Geneva, N. Y. 
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 Lake Farm, Milford, Del. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Only 
Baby chicks and hatching eggs from our selected heavy 
. ’ ’ * ■ ■ ;gs from 
larron's) 
_ „ circular. 
Ramapo Poultry & Fruit Farm, Spring Valley, N.Y. 
S. C. W. leghorn Eggs'?" SroXiVi 
your hatching eggs for April and May shipments. 
All March eggs engaged. Write for prices. FLOYD 
Q. WHITE, YORKTOWN, N. Y. Successor to WHITE & RICE 
FOR 
SALE 
Fine? healthy bi 
each. EDWIN 
LERHORN COCKERELS 
-S. Young 
MELVIN 
and Barron strain 82.50 
Smithtown Branch, Long Island 
HA-HA-HO-HO 
Babv Chicks by the thousand after 25th March at 15c per 
chick. Stock are milk fed, making for strong chicks. 
C. A. TYLER, SALISBURY MILLS, N.Y. 
-C n I O K S — EGGS. 
LINDSAY, Cntchogue, L.I. 
Barron Cockerels 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guai'antee editorial page. 
Rhode Island Reds 
TRAPNESTED 
Splendid cherry to mahogany rich glowing red, 
thoroughbred, hen hatched, free range, opon- 
front-eolony house, hardy stock. Scientifically 
line bred 1 away from broodiness and for heaviest 
winter laying, on a strictly sanitary plant. 
Heaviest laying Reds in existence, laving rates 
211 to 267 eggs. HATCHING EGGS from mag¬ 
nificent, large, hardy, glowing 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 daily, 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 
sp ead; brilliant rich glowing reef 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 IT. S. Government. Courteous, 
straightforward dealings. Spring egg orders 
now booking. 
Mating booklet on request. 
VIBERT RED FARM. Box 1, WESTON, N. J. 
PARTRIDGES I PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Beantifu) 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM, J. MACKKNSKN, Natural¬ 
ist, Department 1 O, Yardley, l’». 
EVERY POULTRY KEEPER EAST OF BUFFALO 
buying feed in 500 lb. lots or more and not using 
Blue Ribbon Poultry Feeds to send for our 
special wholesale freight paid prices. We can save 
you money on feeds of quality. 
GLOBE ELEVATOR CO., 91 KENTUCKY ST.. BUFFALO. N. V. 
COLONIAL REDS 
We solicit the custom of anyone desiring eggs for 
hatching or day old chix from a genuine pedigreed 
strain of trap nested Reds, single comb. Our 
Reds have made good in 4t> States of the Union. 
Watch their position in International Egg Laying 
Contest, given in this paper. The Rhode Island 
State College is a recent customer. Write for 
mating list. We guarantee satisfaction to every 
customer. COLONIAL FARM. Temple, New Hampshire 
AUSTIN’S 200 Egg Strain S. C. R. I. 
BFIl?—Standard bred high record stock, red to the 
skin. Eggs, $150 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, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. II. 
AUSTIN’S S. C. R. I. REDS 
200-egg strain. Hatching eggs, $6 per 100; $10 for 
200. Ba by chicks. $15 per 1U0. Cockerels, $2 each. 
ANNA M. JONES, • Hillsdale, N. V. 
Trap-Nested S• C . f?.f. Reds 
yearly records as high as 258 eggs. All breeding 
males from over 200-egg hens. Prices reasonable. 
Catalogue free. A. Allan, Jr., Newport, K. 1. 
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds - ?^™™! 
birds. Best in Utility and Exhibition. Eggs and 
chicks. Send for Mating List. A. E. Adams, Stony Creek, N.Y. 
Utility S. C. White Leghorns^hic’ks^ 
$8 50 per 100 and up. 3-months-old pullets, $1 each. 
Geo. Frost, - Levanna-on-Cayuga, N. Y. 
I enn SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
l,«JUU Hardened to Northern Vermont Winters. 
Open front bouses. 40 acres free range. Guaran¬ 
teed no White Diarrhoea. Eggs for hatching and 
day-old chicks. Green Mountain Poultry Farm, Richford.Vt. 
Ofinn s. C. W. LEGHORN DAY-OLO CHICKS, between 
4UUU March 23 and April 15; raised from selected 
venrling nnd two-year old stock, at 12 cents each. 
RICH, POULTRY FARM, - HOBART, N. Y. 
GET C f Wliifo I poVmrn batching eggs and 
YOUR YY niie Lcgnorn j m by chicks from a 
vigorous, heavy-laying strain. Bred for years. 
w prices fm Pope Poultry Farm Fr 5 n j au ’ 
TOM BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
Imported Direct. 348-260 egg strain. Eggs 
#1.50, 15; #7, IOC. Orders booked now. 25 per 
cent, deposit. S. W. JONES, Hillsdale, N.Y. 
Meyer's Wyandottes 
And Hatching: Ekct* trom heavy-laying White Wyandottes 
tested by Storrs Station and found tree from White DiarrlKua. 
Guaranteed 7f» per cent, fertile. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write 
for prices. E. ALAN MEYER, Woat Willington, Conn. 
FOR SALE--50 COCKERELS 
Buff Wyandottes. June Hatch 
Commercial Stock, S2 00 and S3.00; Fancy S5.00 to S10.00. 
Also 80 Pullets from Prize Slock, S3.00 up. All these birds 
from genuine Warren Lord Strain. 
C. H. PIERCE, care of H. W Gordinier & Sons Co., Troy, N. Y 
BRED TO LAY-BARRED ROCKS 
0 PULLETS and COCKEREL. 810; COCKERELS, 
*3 EACH. CARPENTER, Hillsdale, N. Y. 
IS ILVER CAMPINES 
Write your wants to: 
H. 0. SCHERMERHORN, SO. HAMMOND, N. Y. 
L ARGE, handsome CO( KERELS and 
HATCHING EGGS from a laying, 
paying strain of BARRED PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS. Prices Right. 
QUALITY FARM, Ludlow, Mass. 
Chicks 
HARKED and WHITE 
ROCKS, REDS, and 
S. C. TV. LEGHORNS. 
Leading Utility, SOO-Egg Strains, *12.50 
to *15 per hundred. HU alive guaranteed at 
your ex. office. Hatched by experts. Booklet free. 
BIRCHVi OOD HATCHERY, Rerlin, Mass. 
EGGS 
for H ATCH ING from best strains 
of S. C. Anconas and Sicilian 
Buttercups. $1 per 15. Also Baby 
Chicks. Charles Rising, Rupert. Vt. 
BARRON 
chicks, juc. up. .'Mx-weeKs-o’d puhets. 
Fred Householder, Chepacliet, R. 1. 
B arred rock 
ABY CHICKS 
We Guarantee 
SAFE DELIVERY 
All chicks guaran¬ 
teed to be the de- 
scendents of hens 
with records of 200 
5= to 236 eggs in their 
pullet year, and from hardy, vigorous stock. Buy 
chicks that make layers,—chicks bred from layers. 
Also a few WHITE ROCKS of same quality. 
Immediate delivery. Write for circular. 
C. E. BURGER, Route 50. ITHACA, N. Y. 
S ILVER Spangled Hmnbnrgs, Sicilian Unttcn-rp 
and White Crested Black Polish COCK LULLS, 
$1.00 each and upwards. 
AUSTIN JACKSON, Mineral Springs. N. Y. 
Excellent Layers 
SINGLE-COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS, 
SINGLE-COMB BROWN LEGHORNS, 15 
for *1.00. M. FRITCH, Thomaston, Conn. 
Anconas & R. I. Reds 
Very Best Strains 
Illustrated Catalogue Free 
Silverton Poultry Farm 
Box 1 * E. Syracuse, N. Y. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in the egg-laying contest. Hatching 
eggs, chicks, cockerels, and pullets for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
TOM BARRON STRAIN T,'™'Si 
White Wyandotte. WE IMPORTED DIRECT. Order yonv 
eggs early. Mapledale Egg Farm, Erin, N. Y. 
Wild & Bronze Turkey Eggs 
catalog 2c stamp, showing pure wild grobbler *froin the 
mountain. VALLEY VIEW FOILTKY FARM, Belleville, Fa. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Imported direct. 3d season. 280-egg strain. Pnre 
males and females. Fertile eggs. $1 and $2 per set; 
$7 per 100. P. F. Rafferty, Marlboro, Mass. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
IMPORTED DIRECT. 248-260 Egg Strain. Hatching Eggx, 
$7. per 100. Baby Chicks. $15. per 100. 4 Pullets and 
Cockerel, $15. E. CLAUDE JONES, HllUdule, N.Y. 
CHICK a n d EGG Ship chicks or eggs safely in “H & D” Boxes, 
e Wipes'! pnvrc Chicks cannot smother or sweat. Eggs will not break, 
affilr't uLvvi DUALS Waterproof, sanitary, compact — handy to use. 
Strong but light. Made of double faced, corrugated jute board. Cut down 
ycur express bills — guarantee safe arrival of contents. 
"H & D” PARCEL POST SHIPPING BOXES 
We make up boxes and cartons for any purpose. Write us what your 
products weigh, and size package you wish, for special prices. Send 
for free booklet, “ How to Pack It for Parcel Post.” Also write 
for free booklet of “ H & D ” Fireless Brooder. 
THE HINDE & DAUCH PAPER CO., Dept. E, C?rtdusky, Ohio. 
