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THE HENYARD 
Formula for Mash. 
Wo are feeding a mash of 1200 pounds 
wheat bran; 200 pounds middlings; 200 
pounds ground oats; 100 pounds corn- 
meal ; 50 pounds charcoal: 100 pounds 
Alfalfa; 100 pounds gluten; 100 pounds 
beef scrap. 1 am told 1 do not feed 
enough beef scrap to this amount of other 
grains. If not can you inform me as 
to how much more to put in? Of course 
<>ur hoppers are open all day and night. 
New jersey. H. E. 
This mash contains less than one-tenth 
part beef scrap and would be improved 
by the addition of a greater amount. 
< ine-fifth is not too much for laying hens, 
and more is often given. The amount of 
beef scrap that can be economically fed 
depends greatly upon the other ingre¬ 
dients of the fowls’ rations and cannot 
well be definitely stated without taking 
many other things into consideration. 
M. It. I). 
Homemade Brooder. 
How can I improvise a brooder for BOO 
to 500 chicks from a small coal stove and 
have an even temperature maintained? 
I propose using a part of a new henhouse 
for the chicks. Will dry beach sand 
answer for a floor, as I prefer it to ce¬ 
ment later for hens? If I build my house 
IS or 20 feet deep how long should it be 
to accommodate 250 to 300 hens? I ex¬ 
pect to have my chicks custom-hatched. 
Would any good purchased brooder be 
preferable in the long run to the im¬ 
provised coal stove? H. c. F. 
New York. 
A neighbor of mine has improvised a 
coal-stove brooder by placing a small coal 
stove in one end of his large henhouse 
and making a hood of the customary style 
out of old metal roofing. It isn’t very 
pretty, but it did good work last season, 
and he expects to use it this. It isn’t 
necessary to maintain an even tempera¬ 
ture under the hood if it is kept warm 
enough. When too warm, the chicks can 
A Coal Stove IIboodkil 
go a little farther from the stove. l>ry 
sand should make a good floor for the 
brooder compartment. The house should 
be long enough to give each fowl from 
three to four square feet of floor 
space. If you are accustomed to car¬ 
ing for chicks, I know of no reason 
why a coal stove brooder should not be 
as satisfactory as any other kind; it 
would be my preference. M-. b. n. 
My homemade brooder is shown loaded 
upon the wheel-barrow ready to be taken 
to the brooder house. The door of the 
hover is open to show how one may easily 
get to the stove to remove ashes or to 
regulate draft. The hover is five feet in 
diameter, and was made by a local tinner 
at a cost of $2.50. The stove is a small 
cannon heater, purchased from a mail¬ 
order house at a cost of about $4. This 
brooder has no regulator. When the 
•hicks want to get warm they get closer 
to the hover, and when too warm they 
spread out away from it. It does not 
take them long to learn this. Sometimes 
one will find the chicks in a compact mass 
about the stove, and again when it gets 
a little too warm there for them they will 
spread out in a great circle outside the 
hover and lie flat upon the floor and go 
to sleep, while the hover, in imitation of 
the hen, deflects the heat down upon 
their backs. 
There is a lid in the top of the stove 
through which it is most convenient to 
feed the fuel. I use soft coal or short 
blocks of green waste from the sawmill. 
Some have improved upon the brooder 
shown in the picture by putting a gal¬ 
vanized tube in the fire pot, thus en¬ 
abling them to burn hard coal as well as 
soft. Besides this hard coal magazine 
some have attached a regulator which 
operates a common pipe damper. While 
this lessens the amount of attention nec¬ 
essary it is not essential, as the chicks 
are pretty good judges of how much heat 
they require, and, as stated above, regu¬ 
late this part by staying at the proper 
distance from the source of heat. 
The brooder shown will handle any 
number from 100 to 1,500. The latter 
number is the capacity claimed for this 
sized machine by manufacturers of simi¬ 
lar high-priced machines, but for one not 
used to handling small chicks in large 
numbers the former number would be 
safer, though the number that may be 
successfully brooded with one of these 
outfits depends almost wholly upon the 
skill of the attendant. That these are 
satisfactory brooders is evidenced by the 
large number that are being installed by 
those who saw the few in use last year. 
The brooder house (my house is 10x10 
feet) should be perfectly air-tight on 
three sides and on the fourth side for 
some distance up from the floor. A satis¬ 
factory type of house is shown on page 
295. Except on warm sunny days the 
muslin curtain is kept closed, while the 
chicks are small. Some claim more satis¬ 
factory results with the brooder when they 
use a curtain to the hover for chicks 
right from the incubator. This curtain 
reaches from the edge of the hover to the 
floor as in the ordinary brooder. 
Ohio. J. P. l’RICKETT. 
Laying Troubles. 
1. I have two hens that at times ex¬ 
perience some difficulty in laying, utter¬ 
ing a cry and having every appearance 
of distress. Can I make any helpful 
change in their diet? I am feeding the 
Cornell rations for layers and also give 
green food in the form of cabbage, sprout¬ 
ed oats, boiled potatoes, etc. One of 
these hens produces regularly a faulty 
shelled egg it is speckled with white, 
and yet it is not an abnormally thin 
shell. Would these deviations from the 
normal—(he poor color shell, and diffi¬ 
culty in laying—disqualify these hens for 
breeding purposes? I have been counting 
upon them for they averaged a record of 
five eggs each a week during December, 
and I am breeding for performance. 2. 
A neighbor recently discovered that one 
of her hens was unusually slow in action, 
though apparently normal otherwise. 
Failing to discover an effective remedy 
for this, she killed the fowl and found 
both crop and gizzard absolutely with¬ 
out grit. Can you assign a reason for 
this where a hen is on free range? 
New York. A. M. H. 
1. There is probably some irritation 
of the oviduct which makes the extrusion 
of these eggs difficult and painful; a 
little vaseline inserted upon the finger 
might relieve the hen when you find her 
in distress. This trouble and faulty eggs 
would ordinarily disqualify a hen for the 
breeding pen, but if she is particularly 
valuable as a layer, you may decide that 
her demerits are overcome by her merits 
and so use her. 2. A hen’s crop and giz¬ 
zard might be temporarily free from grit, 
even if she were on free range, and grit 
that is of suitable size and attractive to 
fowls is not always found on free range. 
Hens will ordinarily supply themselves 
with something of that nature, however, 
if it is attainable. M. B. J>. 
Oats for Hens. 
What is the matter with with my hens? 
1 have been feeding oats and wheat; the 
oats grow in the crop. I found the trou¬ 
ble when I killed one. Are oats good for 
laying hens? J. i>. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
Oats are excellent for laying hens to 
the extent that they will be eaten ; they 
are not particularly palatable and are 
likely to be refused if such grains as 
wheat and corn are given with them in 
sufficient quantity to satisfy the appetites 
of the fowls. When fowls can be in¬ 
duced to eat them, however, and some¬ 
times they give no trouble, oats should 
form a part of the whole grain ration. I 
have never known them to cause trouble 
in a healthy crop, and, if grit is supplied 
the fowls, there need be no fear on this 
account. m. b. d. 
Teacher: “A train leaves London tra¬ 
velling 30 miles an hour. It is followed 
thirty minutes later by a train traveling 
60 miles an hour. At what point will the 
second train run into the first?” Boy: 
“At the hind end of the rear car.”—• 
Melbourne Australasian. 
G.D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
“ Everything in the 
Bird Line from a 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
Birds for the House and Porch 
Birds for the Ornamental Waterway 
Birds for the Harden, Pool and Aviary 
Birds for the Game Preserve and Park 
1 am the oldest established and largest ex¬ 
clusive dealer In land and water birds in Amer¬ 
ica and have on hand the most extensive stock 
in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
Box N, Darien, Conn. 
PARTRIDGES!, PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, ami all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM. .J. MAUKKNSEN, Natural¬ 
ist. Department lO, \ardley, Pa. 
Black Langshans 
$ 2 . 00 ; 100 , $ 10 . 00 . 
raised Cockerels, $5 ej 
F.trgs, good fertility. 
Oltciunu HIM, FA KM, Guilford, V, 
CLEARVIEW FARM- 5 Wellb P d * ,oult 'y- 
iHnlYl Geese. Oavies. interesting 
Catalog and Folder. E. B. SOUDER, SOUDERTON, PA, 
Eggs For Hatching Utility Barred Rocks 
$1.00 per 15; $4.00 per 100. S. H. MILLER, HAGUE, N. Y. 
E GGS from tlioroURhhred Kocks, Wyamlottes, Leghorns, Reds. 
Orpingtons, Ilralmias, Min..p. as, Houdans, Hambimrs, Anemi¬ 
as,JO, $2. 20 varieties. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quskerlown, Pa, 
April 1 :> i 
TRADE MARK 
WHITE WYANDOTTE HATCHING EGGS This Seasons Prize Winners 
Very hardy strain. Raised “near the clouds,” under the most sanitary conditions. Hessinn 
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 
TOM BARRON’S 
WINNING WYANDOTTE HENS 
PA. CONTESTS WINNERS In «SE. nnd Talon; 
aver. 236. “Baroness V M laid 282 eggs : others, 274, 252. 
CON*. CONTEST: WINNERS In value; aver. 
208t-£ ; 2nd 1’rize In eggs. 
MISSOURI CONTI ST: 2nd PRIZE, likely; 
aver, 210. Barron Leghorns, 284; Buff Boeki, 242? 
Tiber! Beds, 257. Prize Kouens. Big Toulouse (jeese. 
MORRIS-FARM, R, 4, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 
-n t REDS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, Light 
and Dark Rrahmas, Barred Rocks , S C. 
W hite anti Brown Leghorns. Show nnd utility 
quality. Bargain list Breeders free. Hatching Eggs 
ami Chix. RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Riverdale. N. J. 
mil QniJ'P WHITS WYANDOTTES— Are they not wh*» 
Tr I LOU n 0 you need ? “Made In America.” Also 8. C. Buff 
Leghorns. Lech ami Chicka; orders should be booked now. Ill. 
Cir. Our 14th Year Ownlond Farm, Box 497, So. Hammond, N.Y. 
M/HITE WYANDOTTE and S C. White Leohorn Day-Old Chicks 
*• from heavy-Dying hens. Oircnl.tr. M IDDLF.RKOOK 
POULTRY FARM, Miss Marion I. Moork, Hamburg, N.Y. 
Golden Wyandottes 
DOSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS and WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
H Great laying strains. ED. HAMILTON, Otego, N T. 
B ARRED ROCK /T7- All chicks guaran- 
ABY CilICKS A) *£££„*; 
We Guarantee .(L,vv ' with records of 2C0 
SAFE DELIVERY to 236 eggs in their 
pullet year, and from hardy, vigorous stock. Buy 
chicks that make layers,,—chick9 bred from layers. 
Also a few WHITE ROCKS of same quality. 
Immediate delivery. Write for circular. 
C. E. BURGER, Route 50. ITHACA, N.Y. 
BARRED ROCKS 
Business birds; bred to lay, nnd they do it. Size, 
type, color, layers; a combination you can’t beat. 
Hatching eggs. Write for folder. 
“ FOUR ACRES,” - Nutley, N. J. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
EGGS from my fine utility, free range, flock. If 
you want all-year-round layers or birds that com¬ 
mand the top pr ee dressed, get my strain. $1 per 
setting, $6 per hundred. CIIIX with lots of kick. 
April ami May delivery. $15 per hundred. 
Win. Anderson, Greendale Farm, Jamestown, R. I. 
BARRED ROCKS 
Egcs—$1 per 15: $3.50 per 100. Nonpariel strain. 
B. H. HESTON, - Hrockport, New York 
“Perfection”Barred RockEggs 
from Thompson, Hawkins, Bradley and Kiley 
strains. Pens headed by prize winners. $3 per 15. 
Utility. $1.50 per 15; $8 per 100. Transportation paid 
on all orders of $5 and over. Dr. Hayman. Doylestown, Pa. 
ings. Hatching eggs, $1.50 per 15. *3.50 per 50; 
100 eggs. RUMFORO POULTRY YARDS, Rumford, 
FIELD'S BUFF ROCKS, Somers, Conn. Madison Square 
* Garden—Boston winners. Cockerels and Eggs. 
Wilson’s White Rooks-„ t, ‘K;'5S , "iS 
houses, large, husky, day-old chicks. Hatching 
eggs. Circular. WILSON’S POULTRY FARM, Hollis, N. H. 
White Rocks Exclusively-® $^ r an h dtKer a J 
from winners Stato Fair, buffalo and Rochester, 
1911. Halty chicks ready soon. Mating list free. 
HIAWATHA POULTRY FARM. Dept. R. T. L Poole, OeWitt, N Y. 
n_J Reds, Leghorns, Ducks, Geese 
Darrea IXOCKS and Turkeys. stock and Egga. 
Valuable catalog FREE. L. F. Hastings, Pittsville Md, 
S ILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS-unsurnassed for eggs 
combining beauty. Eggs—$1 50, 15; $2.50, 30. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. H. H. Scott, Sinks Grove,W.Va. 
Rhode Island Reds 
TRAPNESTED 
Splendid cherry to mahogany rich glowing red, 
thoroughbred, hen hatched, free range, open- 
frout-colony house, hardy stock. Scientifically 
line bred 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 
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delivery guaranteed. White diarrhcea absolutely 
unknown. FINE BREEDING COCKERELS, early 
hatched, large, hardy, vigorous breeders, great 
stamina; long backs, low tails, short legs well 
spread; brilliant rich glowing red and out of 
trapnested hens. BREEDING HENS, pullets, 
mated trios and breeding pens. Satisfaction or 
money returned. 
We ship all over IT. S.. Canada, and abroad as 
far as Australia, and sell eggs and stock to 
States and the U. S. Government. Courteous, 
straightforward dealings. Spring egg orders 
now booking. 
Mating booklet on request. 
VIBERT RED FARM. Box 1. WESTON, N, J. 
R. O. R. I.Reds 
The best winter layers on earth: Bushman nnd 
Pierce strains. Eggs for hatching, $2 for 15: $8 per 
hundred. Geo. L. Gillingham, Moorestown, N. J. 
Pullets,bred of superior quality and heavy layers. Eggs— 
exhibition matings, $3 and $;> per 15; utility', $7 per 100. 
MRS. K. SUT TON, R. D. West Nyack, N. Y. 
Anconas & R. I. Reds 
Very Best Strains 
Illustrated Catalogue Free 
Silverton Poultry Farm 
Box 1 E. Syracuse, N. Y 
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 
Beds have made good in 46 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. 
DCI1C—Standard bred high record stock, red to the 
skin. Eggs, $150 to $5.00 (15). Util it.'. 
$7.50 (100). Safe delivery and 90# fertility gurirnr 
teed: Husky, well grown cockerels, $3.00 to $5.01'. 
Chicks. Book'et. Austin's Poultry firm. Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H 
Eggs for Hatching R. C. R. I. REDS 
75c. per 15; $3 per 100. B. H. Owen, Rhinebeck, N.IY. 
15 Red Eggs Fo r $1.50. 
They will lay for yon. Show 
birds, utility stock nnd eggs. 
Mrs. K. A. Hawkins 
3456 Harrauansett Ave., Chicago 
nnill TOYMEN—Send stamp for large folder 
ruuunimcn east oonegal pigeon, poultry 
AND GUINEA PIG YAR0S. Frank McMullen, Marietta, Pa 
60 Varieties SR, 
DUCKS, GEESE, TURKEYS. 
GUINEAS and HARES Stock and eggs. 60 
page catalogue free. H A. Souder. Box 29, Sellersville.Pa 
SOUDER’S 
II.LUS, POULTRY, 
CATALOG FREE. 
HARE AND DOG 
Hatching Eggs a 
Specialty. Edwin Souder, Dept. It, Telford, Pa. 
PURE BREED BOURBON RED TURKEY 
EGGS from Prize-Laving Hens. Delivery guaranteed. 
Settings, $t.W>. FLONA HORNING, ULYSSES, FA. 
GIANT BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, TWedVggs: 
$1.00 per 15. Fawn R. Duck Eggs, $1.00 per 12. Shrop¬ 
shire Sheep. H. J. Van Dyke, Gettysburg, Pa. 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in lots to suit purchasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS. - R. 24, Athens, Pa. 
THE HEN THAT LAYS ^ T e HE h H ^e THfl t T b P e fl L s : 
S. C. White and Brown Leghorns. Also Itouen 
Duck Eggs for hatching. Send for catalogue. 
M. F. liOl.T, - Cincinuatus, New York 
Wild & Bronze Turkey Eggs ““ 
catalog 2c stamp, showing pun 1 wild trohbler from the 
mountain. Y ALLEY VIEW POULT ICY FARM, Belleville, Pa. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS-^^S! 
ing birds for sale. Satisfaction Guaranteed. White 
Wyandottes, Pekin Ducks. Early orders for best 
prices. Also buyer wanted for strictly fresh white 
and brown eggs. H. W. ANDERSON, Stewartstown, Pa 
Black Leghomsii B „tf,ing h Egg S s - 
the kind that lay. A- E HAMPTON. Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
R. C. BROWN LEGHORN 
America. UI.AUBIA BETTS, Hillsdale, Mich. 
WHITE CORNISH 
FOWL—10 to 12 lb. males, 7 to 9. females. Good 
layers. Eggs, $3.00 setting 15. Guarantee 10 fertiles. 
Replacements Free. Catalog. 
Mountsville Farms, Duck Rd.. Monntville, Va. 
BurnettTurkeys 
Madison Square, s915, Gold 
Special: 1st. 2nd, 3rd Prizes on 
Cockerels; 1st on Pullet; 2nd and 3rd on Toms; Rhode 
Island Reds and Minorcas: hatching eggs, only $5 and $7 
per hundred. New Book just published. Write 
W. L. BURNETT, - Montgomery, N. Y. 
DR HEY EGGS 
I n d Ttrt 
-M. Bronze, B. Reds 
Narragnnsett & W 
Uf>iUa* D rn • Dnisifioton Point fl 
CfifiC REDUCED PRICE. 35 varieties best Chickens, 
L U U O j) uc ] ;S( Geese. Turkovs. Big Illustrated 
Circular Free. JOHN E. HEATW0LE, Harrisonburg, Va. 
Eggs, Chicks and Ducklings~ T e ^ r %^; 
Laced Wyandottes, Mammoth Pekin Ducks and Gi¬ 
ant Houen Ducks, Winners at America’s Greatest 
Shows. ALDHAM POULTRY FARM. R. 34, Phoenixville, Pa. 
f f42f£4 a / CajHO# I-ggs that Hatch, from 
CJKJffly rzr&c White Cornish and Pekin 
Ducks. First Prize Winners at Madison[Square 
Garden. Also fine Bronze Turkeys and White 
Guineas. R1DGELEIGH F. & P. FARM, Huntington, N.Y. 
White Holland Turkeys 
-Mrs. ROBERT DAVIS 
Cumberland, Virginia 
WHITE EMDEN GEESE^HXX, 
now. Maple Cove Poultry Yards, R.24, Athens, Pa. 
Mammoth Toulouse Geese Eggs 
For Sale, S5c each, delivered, anywhere in the U.S. l ine 
large birds, imported stock, Crandall Farms, Albion, N.Y. 
—Fawn, Indian Runners and Mam 
DUG1VO moth Pekin. Prizewinners. Eggs, $1 
per 13 and $3.50 per 50. Satisfaction guarantee!. 
Geo. E. Williamson, Box 160, Elautlers, M.J. 
