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I'HK KURA U NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1915. 
HOFFS 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 U A L I T Y Chicks, 
order of the originator, 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
and ItIIOI>K ISLAND REDS. 
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 Pay-old Chicks. Thousands of chicks 
hatching weekly. $15.00 per 100; $8.00 per DO; $1.25 per 25. 
Full count and safe arrival guaranteed. Illustrated books 
let free. You need it before you buy Pay-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. 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. &S. C. R. 
I. REDS 
Purebred. 
Strong. Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL, 
Sodus, N. Y. 
DAY-OLD-CHICKS Extraordinary 
8. C. White Leghorns 
Every Michigan Poultry Farm 
chick for 1915 will be sired by a 
male bird the son o! a "200 egg" 
hen, trapnested by the Missouri 
State 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. Oon’t miss it. Send tor catalog. 
MICHIGAN POULTRY FARM, 610 Willow St., Lansing, Mich. 
8K& 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 be satisfied. Write lor our 
new' booklet which describes our methods, stock 
and plant. Book your order now for a positive 
shipping date. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, K. J. 
Eggs and 
Chicks 
from the famous LA UR EL¬ 
TON LA KERN—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 18,000 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 
1 
PULLETS 
6 to 8 weeks old 
75c. eacli 
$65.00 per TOO 
8*000.00 per lOOO 
Every pullet satisfactory. No culls— 
no weaklings. 
ARTHUR H. PENNY 
Mattituck While Leghorn Farm Mattituck, N- V. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S. O. Brown Leghorns, Kulps Strain, S.G. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our breed¬ 
ers we have selected with great care for which we 
claim are as fine a flock of breeders as can be had. 
We have 2,71)0 layers at this time on our farm. We 
are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Our hatching 
capacity 10,000. Write for Price list. Visitor* 
welcome. _ 
JOHN II. WARFKL A- SON, Kohrerstown, Pa. 
S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs ff fl T^‘CTfe„rS 
range, mated with cockerels from Cyphers 
best layers. 
EGGS GUARANTEED 856 FERTILE 
$5.00 per hundred. $40.00 per thousand 
White Springs Farm, Geneva, N. Y. 
200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1015. 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, Methuen, Mass. 
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 
Barron W. Wyandottes (full sisters to his pen 
Storrs’ contest, 1014) mated to imported Barron cock. 
Pedigree: darn, 248; sire’s dam, 283. Kggs, $3 per io. 
C. W. TURNER, - West Hartford, Conn. 
Tom Barron 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 free 
Patterson Poultry Farm, - Clayton, N. Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Single Comb White Leghorns, free range stock 
$12 per hundred. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Bellmoss Poultry Farm, Hudson, Mass. 
THE HENYARD 
Wheat Substitute in Poultry Ration ; Shipping 
Cows. 
I F I feed my chickens the Cornell ra¬ 
tion, is there any substitute foi 
wheat? 2. Do the authorities let any 
cows into New York City from up-State? 
3. Do I need a permit to keep a cow for 
my own use? c. G. 
New York. 
1. Yes, barley may be substituted in 
part for wheat and the proportion of corn 
may be increased. At the present price 
of wheat, it must be practically elim¬ 
inated from the poultry rations and poul- 
trymen will learn to get along with much 
less, or none at all. 2. Except from such 
portions of the State as may be under 
quarantine because of foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease, cows may be shipped into New York 
City, though I understand that local or¬ 
dinances require a tuberculin test for 
milch cows to be kept in the city. 
With regard to this, and to your third 
question, you should consult the city 
Board of Health since their ordinances 
change from time to time. M. B. D. 
I have beeu feeding wheat, in reduced 
amounts, up to the present, and have 
been feeding more corn and oats. My 
fowls eat a large quantity of oats, both 
whole and ground, and I am a great be¬ 
liever in them; probably because I am 
half Scotch and like them myself. By 
cutting down or omitting cormneal from 
the dry mash I have been able to feed 
more corn in the scratch feed. Where 
fowls have plenty of exercise I think that 
they stand the corn fairly well. I find 
the bran is no higher and middlings have 
not gone up much, so I am trying to give 
the wheat products in the mash. I have 
never fed barley, but have ordered some, 
and expect to use a mixture of one-fourth 
wheat and three-fourths barley where I 
formerly used wheat. Kaffir corn can be 
used to some extent to take the place of 
wheat. Its protein and carbohydrate 
contents are about the same as wheat 
and chickens will eat it readily. As the 
digestion experiments with poultry made 
at the Maine Agricultural Experiment 
Station show that the digestion co¬ 
efficient of wheat is lower than of corn, 
oats and barley, and as the price of 
wheat is nearly prohibitive, I think that 
the time has come to find a suitable and 
cheaper substitute. I would like to learn 
the views of more experienced poultry- 
men. J. C. DINGMAN. 
Hens Reject Cracked Corn. 
• 
Will you give me your opinion on the 
following question? I have 60 odd White 
Wyandotte pullets, splendid layers. I 
keep dry mash before them all of the time 
and give them a good standard scratch¬ 
ing grain in their litter at night, about 
one quart to 10 hens. The grain is first- 
class in every particular, but they will 
eat but little of the cracked corn, but 
eat up every vestige of the other grains. 
We have tried to make them eat it all by 
reducing the quantity of feed, but they 
still leave the corn. Would you recom¬ 
mend mixing my own scratching grain 
and using something else in place of the 
corn or reducing the quantity of corn? 
They like the whole corn and I might 
use the whole corn instead of any 
cracked corn, or else use wheat. The 
scratching grain which I use contains, 
cracked corn, wheat, barley, buckwheat, 
Kaffir corn, oats and millet; I should say 
fully 50 per cent, cracked corn. The 
birds are doing well and are healthy but 
I want to eliminate waste. L. s. H. 
Massachusets. 
There is absolutely no need for crack¬ 
ing corn for mature fowls, and if any 
prefer their corn whole, why not save the 
miller's fee for cracking it? It is un¬ 
usual for hens to refuse corn and eat 
barley, but hens sometimes do unusual 
things. I should dislike to cut corn out 
of the rations at the present prices for 
other grains. Why not feed a little mixed 
grain in the morning and whole corn 
alone at night; and aren’t you feeding a 
little heavily of whole grains anyway? 
A quart to 10 fowls seems to me like a 
pretty heavy dose; I shouldn’t expect 
them to eat much dry mash if they ate 
all that whole grain. Each flock is a 
law unto itself, however, and the feeder 
should know best. In general, a flock 
should eat about half as much dry mash, 
by weight, as whole grain and this can 
be largely regulated by increasing or 
diminishing the amount of the more pala¬ 
table whole grain fed. M. B. D. 
Idle Hens. 
What is the cause of chickens picking 
one another’s heads? They have no lice. 
I feed milk and beef scraps. B. F. P. 
Close confinement and idleness, usual¬ 
ly. Satan finds mischief for idle hens 
to do, and the best way to keep them 
from acquiring bad habits is to keep them 
busy. Great temptation to moralize from 
this, but I refrain. Feed the fowls in 
deep litter and make them scratch hard 
for what they get in the way of grain; 
give them all the liberty possible, too. and 
if they are properly fed and not lousy 
they should not injure each other with 
their caresses. m. b. 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 laving 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 
nAY-OI FY rHiri^q Wecan supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
i wll; '-niuNJ Rocks and Sjngle Co ^ b White Leghorns D ; y . 0 id 
Ducklings wecan supply in limited quantities. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES. 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
“ bo 8“« s "“ S. C. wmte Legnorns 
1.500 VIGOROUS BREEDERS, BREI1 FOR EGGS—MODERN OPEN FRONT LATING HOUSES—12,000 HALL INCUBATOR CAPACITT—10 000 BROOD¬ 
ING CAPACITY. We Rnaraiiti e safe delivery of Hatching Eggi, Bah, Chii and 3 months Pullets We were rnmpelled to decline many 
orders last Beason because they were received too late. We doubled our incubator capacity this Fall and will Increase to 2.1,000 
next year. If you want out products Tor Sprlns or Summer delivery —ORDER NOW. Visitors Invited—Send 
for Booklets. MOIIEGAN FARM Poultry Plant, Mohegnn I.nkc. New York. (Phone ?1I Peeksklll.) 
Owned and operated by Chaa. II. ltaker. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
6-8 WEEKS OLD PULLETS 
Pullets read, April 15 to Ma, 1st. Day-old Chicks read, Ma, 1st 
PULLETS. 6 8 weeks old. 100 or more, 60 c.; 50-100, 70c.; less than 50, 75c. Prices on older pullets on application. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS. 1.000. *125.00; 500. $62.50; 100. $15.00; less than 50, 20c. each. 
FREE BOOKLET. “Better Chickens,” describing Kirkup’s stock and how to breed, feed and keep them. Full 
count and safe arrival in A-I condition guaranteed. ORDER NOW! KIRKUP BROS., Mattituck, N. T 
KIRKUP’S 
SingleCombWhiteLeghornsExclusively 
D. W. Young’s Strain 
3000 breed era on free farm range drinking from never-failing 
reams as Natureiutended. S|*ecially bred for winter eggs. 200- 
egg atrain egga for hatching iu any quantity at $6 per 100 and $5 
per 100 in lots of 200 or more. Orders filled on ft day’s notice. 
Baby chicks $12 per 100 a hatch every Monday. 12,000 chicks a 
week: no waiting this year. Let your orders come. Entire plant 
milk fed. For vigor ray birds have but few equals. My tx>ok, 
“ Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved," shows where the money is, 
free w ith all $10 orders. Circulars free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
TOM BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
Imported Direct. 248-260 egg; strain. Eggs 
8*1.50, 15; 8*7, lOO. Orders booked now, 25 per 
cent, deposit. Eggs from S. C. Leghorn hens (Ran- 
cocas strain) mated to full blood Barron cockerels, 
*1,50—setting; $5—100. 
S. W. JONES, - - Hillsdale, N.Y. 
Tom Barron’s Leghorns 
Farm raised, healthy, vigorous stock. Hatching 
eggs, $5 per hundred; $45 per thousand. 
EDWA11I11’OLKEK, _ Bergenfield, N. J. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Hatching Eggs 
1 set 185-200-laying strain. $1 00 
1 set 200-225-laying strain. 2.00 
1 set 225-254-laying strain.3.00 
BA0BA POULTRY FARM. A. L. Hintze. Prop., Glen Eyre. Pa. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS and eggs, 
** healthy business kind, including Barron'sstrain 
that grow great layers. Delivery guaranteed. Free 
circular. Write Hamilton Farm, Huntington, N.Y. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
IMPORTED DIRECT. 24K-2G0 Egg Strain. Hatching E gg., 
$7. per 100. Bal>y Chicks. $15. per 100. 4 Pullets and 
Cockerel, $15. E. CLAUDE JONES. Hillsdale. N.Y. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Winners at Storrs and Missouri. Trap-nested 20 
years. 282-egg strain. Pure blood, main and fe¬ 
males. Eggs. $1 per setting; *7 per 100. Special 
pens, $2. I*. F. RAFFERTV, Dlarlboro, Mass. 
“WICHMOSS POULTRY FARM” ® t ua r r eas e on°a * * S b h ^ 
prices. Properly Hatched, 11 ealthy. Vigorous Day- 
old Chicks and Ducklings. Bred for heavy egg pro¬ 
duction. 8. C. XV. Leghorns. Wh. Wyandottes. R. I. 
Reds. B. Rocks and Wh. Pekin Ducks. ANDRESEN 8 
AMMERMAN, Demarest, N. J. Box 137. 
S fi W Lp0’hnrii«i~ also Bab y chix. Hatch- 
■ ■ UBgllUrila lngEggs. Free range. Old 
established business. I. R. Ducklings and eggs. 
Rocky Glen Poultry Farm, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Fifteen Tom Barron English White Leghorn Eggs 
for hatching, $1. RISK, Glifton Springs, N. 1. 
MAY CHICKS HORN W and LK< B. 
ROCK. March and April chicks all sold. Order 
May CHICKS Now, J. L. FEE. Carmel, N.Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorns-gS*^ 
Circular. FERNW00D POULTRY FARM. Salt Point. New York 
BARRON COCKERELS- b “r o i'KrS:;jr,“;; 
which we have mated to our best, bred-to-lay S. C. 
White Leghorns, we can supply hatching eggs, guar¬ 
anteeing 87*2% fertility, at the following price*;—15 
Eggs for *1.50; 100 Eggs for *6; 1000 Eggs for $55. Ad¬ 
dress, LIME RIDGE FARM, Pouohquag, Dutchess Co., N. V. 
Tom Barron’s 
Hatching eggs. 218-record Barron cockerels and 
half Barrons. Stock guaranteed. Jay II. Ernisse, 
Hudson and Titus Ave., lrondequoit, N. Y. 
YOUNG’S STRAIN S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Beet mating*. 15 Eggs, $2 Few Cockerels. $2; good value. 
My heavy-laying strain White Wyandottes, la Eggs, $ 2 . 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Ill'BERT KI.TING, Highland, N.Y. 
Eggs for Hatching-S.C.W. Leghorn 
Selected and packed to insure your Satisfaction not 
only when unpacked but on Hutching Day. 85# 
Fertility guaranteed. $1.50 per 15; $6 per 100; $50 
per 1000- Our Hatching Eggs HATCH. Our Day-Old 
Chix GROW OLDER. Justa Poultry Farm, Southampton, N.Y. 
BARRED and WHITE 
IZ ni^lfC ROCKS, REI»S, and 
IllVnO S. C. W. LEGHORNS. 
Leading Utility, 200-Egg Strains. 8*12.50 
to 8*15 per hundred. 100 alive guaranteed at 
your ex. office. Hatched by experts. Booklet free. 
BIRCHWOOD HATCHERY, Berlin, Mass. 
Day-Old Chix-S, C. W. Leghorn 
Our Chix are the result of attention to Details of 
Selection, Breeding, Hatching and Packing. They 
have VITALITY. That’s why they stand long and Make 
Good. You Need birds that go one better than “Pay 
their Board." 100, *15; 250, *35; 500. *62.50; 1000. $120- 
We guarantee Count, Arrival, ami "A Square Deal.” 
Justa Poultry Farm, - Southampton, 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. FRANKF0R0. DEL 
Black Leghorns 
the kind that lay. /IE. HAMPTON, B 
—Baby Chicks. 
' Hatching Kggs— 
Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
THE HEN THAT LAYS & JVR ™V”? : 
S. C. White and Brown Leghorns. Also Rouen 
Duck Kggs for hatching. Send for catalogue. 
M. F. BOLT, - Cincinnatus, New York 
I VHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
Liens selected for high production, long life and 
vigor. $0 per hundred: $50 per thousand. Eggs 
that fail to hatch replaced at half price. 
Aiken Farm, - R. 1). 2, Ithaca, N. Y. 
EFFICIENCY CHICKS 
Guaranteed so vital that you raise at least 75%. Ma¬ 
jority of customers raise 90%. Prices for May. $10.50 
per 100, in any quantity. Prices for June, $9 per 100, 
in any quantity. Splendid hatching eggs at $5 per 
100: $45 per 1000. Dnk 3, COLUMBIA POULTRY FARM. Toms River, R. J. 
TRAP-NESTED LEGHORNS 
My pen leads all contestants' at the great Missouri 
Contest. Write for prices on hatching eggs. 
P. G. Platt, - - Wallingford, Pa. 
—Day-old 
s, 
Utility S. C. White Leghorns c k 
$8.50 per 100 and up. 3-months-old pullets, *1 each 
Geo. Frost, - Levanna-on-Cayuga, N. Y. 
BARRON HATCHING EGGS and Baby Chicks 
From tested 2-year-old S. C. W. Leghorn breeding 
hens. Eggs, *5 per 100; *40 per 1,000, express paid. 
Ransom Farm, - Chagrin Falls, Ohio 
BARRONS. 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. L>.. No. 
3, Acushnet Station, New Bedford, Mass. 
None Better-S, C.White Leghorns 
Vigorous, range-raised, and trap-nested. Egg re¬ 
cords over 200. Eggs, 95% fertile. $1 for 15 or *6 for 
100. Chicks, lusty and strong. 13 cents each or $12 
per 100. Summit Poultry Farm, Ridoely. Maryland 
Barron S. C. W. Leghorns, Wyandottes 
hatching eggs, day-old chicks from stock out of di¬ 
rect importation from the world’s best-laving 
strain. Brookfield Poultry Farm, R. F. D. 3, Versailles Ohio 
1 julv Pefncll Strain C. W. Leghorns 
Laay uorneii oirain eggs for hatching Flock 
headed by grandsons of Lady Cornell, whose official 
record was 257 eggs. Eggs. $5. 100; $1, 15. Chix 
after May 15, *12,100. S. L. Purdle, Genoa, N. Y. 
Baby Chicks, Eggs ™$w^ba*i«i1 
ROCKS and YOUNG'S WHITE LEGHORNS. Chicks, $15.00, 
$1S 50, $ 10.00 hundred. Write today—Catalogue Free. 
SHADY HILL POULTRY FARM, Bolton, Mags. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Circular. WARNKEH POULTRY FI KM, SALT POINT, It. V 
Barron Leghorn EggslVttes°$b 
Barron Farm, Box 554, Connellsville, Pa. 
S . C- W. Leghorns—Young's & Cornell strains. Raised 
on free range and heavy layers. Kggs for hatching 
and pedigreed stock for sale. ALVET H0RINE, Myerniile, Md. 
U ARRINGTON STRAINS C.W. LEGHORNS Catalogue free, 
n James F. Harrington, Hamilton ton, N. J. 
S fi R r nwn | prrhnrno R-1. Red*. F,ss», $l.*s per setting, 
.0. orunfl Legnorns, prepaid. 0. A. GOOD, Remington, Va. 
B uff, WHITE LEGHORNS, S. C. K. I. RF.DS—Egga, 90c. per 
Id; $1.50 per 30. Mottled Anconas, Bl. Minorcas, Egga, $1.00 
par 15; $1.75 par SO. Catalogue free. John A, Rath. Quakertown, Pa. 
Baby 
Strain. *12 per hundred. Big, husky chicks. Satis¬ 
faction. L. E. Ingoldsby, Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. 
Q C White I pohortr DAY0L0 CHICKS and eggs 
O. L. W nue Legnorn for hatching at Farmers’ 
prices. Cecil Guernsey, East Cobleskill, New York 
THE FARMERS’ BUSINESS HEN TrapSSted White 
Orpington Eggs and Chicks. Square deal guaranteed. 
CATALOG Free. KKLIARLF YARDS, Culver Road, Lyons, N.Y. 
R. C. BROWN LEGHORN 
America. CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsdale, Mich. 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
MAPLE COVE 
suit pu 
POULTRY 
YARDS, 
R. 24, Athens, P". 
