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T H >£ RUKAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1915. 
THE HENYARD 
Quick Method of Egg Testing. 
Here is something that may bo of some 
help to the Rural family. The hatching 
season is now on, and the testing out of 
the eggs in the incubators is quite a job. 
We had the lamp testers, but to tost the 
eggs in 400-egg machines was too slow 
work, so I tried using the tubular flash 
lights. I took the tray and held half of 
it out from the table, and by holding the 
light below each egg could tell all the bad 
ones just as quick as I could move the 
light from egg to egg. It only takes 
about 10 minutes to test out a 400-cgg 
machine now. This idea may be used by 
others, but I haven’t heard of it, so send 
it in case it can be of use to anyone. 
Michigan. o. F. E. 
Feather Pulling. 
What is the matter with my poultry? 
The hens are picking the feathers out of 
the roosters and eating them (the feath¬ 
ers). I have 130 hens, am getting 70 
to 80 eggs a day with 11 setting; have 
been getting eggs all Winter. Flock paid 
409c. I am feeding two parts cracked 
corn, one part wheat, one part oats, 
with New Jersey State dry mash open 
all day. Feed grain in deep litter, one 
quart to 10 fowls per day, one-half in 
morning, one-half in evening. They have 
been pulling feathers about six weeks. I 
keep them yarded, house floor space about 
500 square feet and yard one-half acre. 
Breed Plymouth Rocks. o. h. b. 
New Jersey. 
Feather pulling is a vice that is likely 
to be acquired by closely confined fowls 
and may have one or more of several ex¬ 
citing causes. Indigestion from lack of 
grit, lack of sufficient meat food, lack 
of exercise, depraved appetite, a taste ac¬ 
quired by eating the soft quills of fresh¬ 
ly pulled feathers, and irritation from 
lice and mites are all adduced as being re¬ 
sponsible for the habit. If the fowls can 
be turned loose and given access to the 
ground, they are likely to forget the vice; 
if they must be confined, they will have 
to be watched and the offenders removed 
from the flock. Like most unnatural 
vices, this is encouraged by close confine¬ 
ment and idleness and is discouraged by 
the opposite conditions. M. b. n. 
Freshness in Eggs. 
How long will eggs keep fresh this time 
of the year when kept in an even cool 
temperature put up in paper box carton, 
one dozen each? I have had one rooster 
with my 110 pullets, White Leghorns, 
until recently. The 110 pullets laid in 
the last seven days 576 eggs; they are sup¬ 
posed to be White Leghorns, but I think 
they must be mixed with some other breed 
as many of them seem too large for White 
Leg horns. I read of the contest now go¬ 
ing on; how do my pullets compare with 
Leghorns in the contest? How many 
hens are kept in each coop in the contest? 
District of Columbia. w. V. A. 
Freshness in eggs is a hard thing to 
define; delicacy of palate has much to 
do with one’s idea of what constitutes 
a “fresh” egg. Some eggs are stale when 
laid, one instance quoted in literature is 
of a well-developed embryo in a newly- 
laid egg that had evidently been long re¬ 
tained in the hen’s oviduct. I should con¬ 
sider clean eggs, gathered daily and stored 
in a cold place at this time of the year, 
fresh after two weeks; others might ob¬ 
ject to using the term “fresh” in con¬ 
nection with such eggs. If males are 
kept from the flock, eggs will remain 
fresh longer than when they are fertilized 
and cleanliness of shell and temperature 
of storage have much to do with the keep¬ 
ing qualities of eggs. 
If you refer to the laying contest at 
Stores, there are 10 fowls in each pen. 
Your pullets are laying splendidly, and 
the fact that some of them are larger than 
most Leghorns does not prove that they 
are not of pure breeding; there is a con¬ 
siderable variation in the size of Leg¬ 
horns. If they are mixed in blood with 
some one of the heavy breeds, the fact 
will bo shown by the brown color of their 
eggs, though many pure-bred Leghorns lay 
tinted eggs at times, especially when pul¬ 
lets. M. B. D. 
Breeding Questions. 
I am thinking of trying to raise a 
small flock of White Wyandottes this 
season, by purchasing either eggs or 
chicks. Would it be advisable to save 
several of the cockerels to mate, with 
what would probably be their sisters or 
half sisters, or should the males be pro¬ 
cured from another source? As a gen¬ 
eral rule is it advisable to breed half- 
brother and sister together? If these pul¬ 
lets laid well all Winter, would it be 
wise to save their eggs for hatching next 
season, or would it be better to buy the 
eggs from mature hens? At what time 
is it best to have Wyandottes hatched 
for Winter layers? Why is it that wheat 
is considered one of the best grains for 
poultry and rye one of the poorest when 
the analyses are almost the same? 
Pennsylvania. F. z. 
Do not breed cockerels to their sisters 
or half sisters. In purchasing eggs or 
chicks get from different pens that are 
not too closely related, say pens A and 
B. Punch mark the chicks and breed 
cockerels from pen A to females from pen 
B, and cockerels from pen 1! to females 
from pen A. This will make the purchas¬ 
ing of males unnecessary. Hens make 
better breeders than pullets, yet if pul¬ 
lets are hatched very early, they are 
likely to molt in the Fall after having 
laid. This will make them practically as 
good breeders as yearling hens. Hood 
strong, active pullets that have laid a 
number of eggs through the Winter will 
also most likely give good chicks. White 
Wyandottes should be hatched from 
March 15 to April 1 to make Winter lay¬ 
ers. though later hatched chicks will ma¬ 
ture in time if well grown. It usually 
requires about seven months to fully ma¬ 
ture a pullet. Chickens will for some 
reason of their own. eat almost any other 
grain in preference to r- e. hence it is very 
rarely fed. Where unthrashed rye straw 
is used for litter, the hens will thrash it. 
eating all. If allowed to run in a field 
where rye has recently been cut, the birds 
seems to like it better and will generally 
clean a field of the grain. Though rye 
practically analyzes the same and looks 
not unlike wheat, hens know the differ¬ 
ence. Wheat on the other hand is great¬ 
ly relished by hens and can be fed alone 
with no detrimental effects. Together 
with corn, they are the most widely fed 
of all grains. The high price of wheat 
at the present time is causing people to 
try a substitute, barley being the most 
popular. M. 
Strong-flavored Eggs. 
What can we do for our hens that lay 
strong eggs? They are R. I. Reds and 
White Leghorns and are splendid layers, 
lay all Winter. Our feed consists of a 
hopper feed, made after the Ohio State 
University plan, a wet mash of bran, 
wheat and oats, and corn in the evening. 
They have grit, bone, oyster shell before 
them all the time, also water, and some 
scalded Alfalfa or apples for green food 
every day. Some of the eggs have such 
a strong odor we cannot use them es¬ 
pecially when boiled in the shell. We 
know they arc fresh, for we gather every 
egg twice a day. Hens do not have much 
range, but have good places to scratch 
and are very busy. We cannot think of 
anything to make the eggs so strong un¬ 
less it is the heavy feed and good laying 
all Winter. We would like to know if 
others have this trouble and how to cor¬ 
ivet it. M. J. B. 
Ohio. 
It is not always easy to account for 
strong eggs; the food eaten comes first 
under suspicion, of course, but where this 
is known to be sweet and wholesome, 
other causes must be found. Eggs may 
be retained within the oviduct sufficiently 
long for decomposition to begin and cer¬ 
tain bacteria which promote early decom¬ 
position may gain access to eggs within 
the oviduct. A newly-laid egg is not ne¬ 
cessarily a fresh egg, though, fortunately, 
it is usually one. 1 can only suggest 
maintaining cleanly conditions in your 
poultry quarters, seeing that the fowls 
have only wholesome, untainted food, and 
adding permanganate of potash to the 
drinking water in as large quantity as 
the fowls will partake of, in the hope 
of cheeking bacterial growth, and giving 
the fowls their liberty upon grass range 
as soon as possible. M. B. D. 
Replace your leaky, unsanitary, 
costly wooden trough with a 
clean, water-tight concrete 
trough that will last forever. 
Easy to build. The necessary 
sand and stone can be found 
on or near every farm, and 
FRENCH’S 
PORTLAND CEMENT 
our 
is less expensive than lumber. Write 
special service department re¬ 
garding directions for 
building troughs, and 
other uses of concrete 
on the farm. Ask your 
dealer for French’s 
Portland Cement. 
Every bag has this round trade mark 
in yellow and black. Look for it. 
SAMUEL H. FRENCH & CO. 
Dept. A, PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
Eatablished 1844. 
BABY CHICKS 
HATCHING EGGS 
FROM OUR OWN FREE RANGE 
HEAVY LAYING SELECTED 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
FREE FROM WHITE DIARRHOEA 
Folder on application 
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R00KDALE FARM 
REWSTER, NEW YORK 
E. SALINGER 
S.C.W. Leghorns 
BABY CHICKS ... $15 
EGGS For Hatching, $4.00 
BOOK YOUR ORDER NOW ! 
COCKERELS from our 
Record Pen 226 eggs, 
for $3.00. State Cham¬ 
pion Light BRAHMA 
COCKERELS, a few left 
at $3.00. Some very fine 
White WYANDOTTES, 
Cockerels $3.00 each. 
Order Direct from this 
a<l.—no time to lose to get some great bargains. Send 
for Mating- List and Free Offer, one to a town, First 
Come First Served. If CATALOGUE IS DESIRED, send 
4c. stamps for postage. It contains as much Practical 
Information as many books do that are sold for $1.00. 
The Actual Experience of a Successful Man who has 
made the Business Build one of the Most Complete 
Poultry Plants in the U. S., out of its Own Profits, by 
BREEDING ONE OF THE GREATEST 
LAYING STRAINS IN THE WORLD ! 
Bex R. N., The Underhill Farms, Fert Ann, N. Y. 
Your Money Back 
IF OUR CHICKS DON’T SATISFY YOU 
With 8.000 lively, hustling chicks in our brooders, 
with a loss of less than 10%, we can safely make this 
guarantee. 
Immediate shipment in any quantity. SIO per 100 
MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
Arthur H. Penny, Owner 
Mattituck, N. Y. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in the egg-laying contest. Hatching 
eggs, chicks, and pullets for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN. Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
Rhode Island Reds 
TRAPNESTED 
Splendid cherry to mahogany rich glowing red, 
thoroughbred, hen hatched, free range, opeu- 
front-eolony house, hardy stock. Scientifically 
line bred away from broodiness and for heaviest 
winter laying, on a strictly sanitary plant. 
Heaviest laying Reds in existence, laying 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 
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 U. 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. 
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 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. REDS 
Standard bred, high-record stock. Red to the skin. 
Reduced prices on eggs and chicks. Write for book¬ 
let. AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor. N. H. 
AUSTIN’S S. C. R. I. REDS 
200-egg strain. Chicks—$8 per 50; 115 per 100. Eggs 
-M-oO for 15: $2.50 for 30; $6 for 100; *10 for 200. 
ANNA M. .TONES, . HILLSDALE, N. Y. 
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds _ &?£* a ,”S 
birds. Best in Utility and Exhibition. Eggs and 
chicks. Send for Malinq List. A. E. Adams, Stony Creek, N.Y 
Trap* Nested S. C. ff.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, It. I. 
White Feather Poultry Yards f,f g e E g ^ at a nd 
Chix at a Discount for April and May. Write for 
Booklet. George A. Kastner, Hammond, 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. FRANKF0RU, DEL. 
Y OUNG STRAIN White Leghorn HATCH¬ 
ING EGGS— 15, 75c.; 100, *6: Day-old Chicks, 
$10 per hundred. S. Y. STOCKAMORE, Gloversville. N. Y. 
Barron Leghorn Eggs t\i&% fir‘is! 
Barron Farm, Box 554, Connellsville, Pa. 
CHICKS 
—8 and 10c. 8. C. Buff Leghorns. 
Money back for dead ones. 
JACOB NEIM0N0, RICHFIELD, PA. 
Black Leghorns H B a a Mg h Kw^ 
the kind that lay. A. E. HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
R. C. BROW* LEGHORN Sf Sl B fR?. k tt 
America. CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsdale, Mleh. 
Black Langshans 
Circular free. 
farm raised Cockerels, $3 
each. Eggs, good fertil- 
_ ity, 15, $2.00; 100, $10.00. 
ORCHARD HILL FARM, Guilford, Connceticnt 
THE FARMERS’BUSINESS HEN Trajvnested White 
Orpington Eggs and Chicks. Square deal guaranteed. 
CATALOG Free. llELIARLE YARDS, Culver Road, Lyons, N.Y, 
A DDII rHIY _1Iatclled f rom selected eggs 
** r *^ A *-' layed by bred-to-lay, fully 
matured stock. Delivered free at ten cents each. 
S. C. W. Leghorns only. Ready to ship April 22d. 
Write M. H. C. Holies, R. !>., Bloomville, N. Y. 
F or Sale— PIGEONS, MALTESE HENS— White, 
Black, Blue. Mated and working. Extra quality, 
$3 Pair; Carneauxs, same price; youngsters, $10 doz.; 
White Kings, $4 Pair. JOHN EMMELUTH, Vineland, N. J. 
B EST UTILITY W.WY ANHOTTE and HOU- 
I)AN EGGS now $5 per 100. Strong fertility. 
Cockerels, $3 up. Morse Farm, Unadilla, N. V. 
B arred rock fn All chicks guaran- 
ABY CHICKS v. **J teed to be the de- 
AC, - scendents of hens 
WeGairantee M, a ‘* with records of 200 
SAFE DELIVERY 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 forjcircular. 
C. E. BURGER, Route 50. ITHACA, N. Y. 
BARRED ROCKS 
BUSINESS RIRDS—210 EGGS FROM TEN 
PULLETS 28 days FEBRUARY. Write, folder 
and circular. “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 price dressed, get my strain. $1 per 
setting, $C per hundred. CHIX with lots of kick. 
April and May delivery. $15 per hundred. 
Wm. Anderson, Greendale Farm, Jamestown, R. I. 
Wilson’s White Rocks-^fo*" 1 "^ 
houses, large, husky, day-old chicks. Hatching 
eggs. Circular. WILSON’S POULTRY FARM, Hollis. N. H. 
HATCHING EGGSOFQUALITY 
‘ Perfection ” Barred Rocks bred from Thompson, 
Hawkins, Bradley, and Riley strains. Eggs from 
prize-winning pens, $3 per 15. Utility, $1 per 15: $5 
per 100. Dr. G. T. DAYMAN, Box D48, Doylestown, Penna. 
Pullets,bred of superior quality and heavy layers. F.ggs— 
exhibition matings, $3 and $5 per 16; utility, $7 per 100. 
MRS. K. SUTTON, R. D. West Nyack, N. Y. 
IjJJ M I Single Comb White Leg- 
D 1^1 I iV. horns, Anconas, Rhode 
Island Reds and Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 8th season. Get our 
catalogue before you place your order elsewhere. M. KEITH, Hornell, N. Y. 
TENACRE 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
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Pedigreed and Utility Stock 
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Bred for Quality and Heavy Egg Production 
Any Age Desired 
Catalogue Furnished on Request 
TENACRE POULTRY FARM, Cedar Grove, Princeton, N.J. 
^ OFFICE AND BROODER HOUSE 
Inspection of our plant solicited. 
S. C. White Leghorn Baby Chicks 
April deliveries, $12 per 100 May deliveries, $10 per 100 
Full count of live, strong cliicks must reach purchaser. Any shortage adjusted at once by 
refund or replacement, 
QUALITY -— SERVICE 
“Quality First.” Breeding stock kept under most natural conditions. Unlimited grass 
range, etc. 
Equipment of most modern type, of ample capacity to handle large orders, but not so 
much that owner cannot oversee every detail. Eighth season plant has been operated 
by present owner. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM. 
M. Van Wagner, Owner and Manager. Salt Point, Dutchess Co., New York 
