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THE KUKAL NKW-VOKKEK 
April 24, U*lo. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING and DAY-OLD CHICKS 
Jhe Kind That Hatch, Live and Grow 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
We are now booking orders for batching 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 
D A V n rJ-UPk^ We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth 
*-''■**■ * V>Tllv>rN.O anc ) Single Comb White Leghorns. Day-Old 
Ducklings we can supply in limited quantities. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR WITH PRICES. 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONNECTICUT 
THE HENYARD 
Broody Hens at Egg Contest. 
Will you give the method of handling 
broody liens at the egg-laying contest? 
Addy, Wash. G. s. L. 
A small coop made of lath is hung on 
the wall and .he broody hens put in it. 
As a hen when getting broody plucks the 
feathers off her breast (and lines her 
nest with them) so that her bare skin 
can come in contact with the eggs, this 
open slat coop lets the air “cool her off.” 
liens break up very easily in such a coop. 
GEO. A. COSGKOVE. 
Weak Chicks. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in the egg-laying contest. Hatching 
eggs, chicks, and pullets for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
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, FRANKFORO, DEL 
R. C. BROWN LEGHORN 
America. CLACDIA BETTS. Hillsdale, Mich. 
Tom Barron H S , E » C6 COCKERELS 
are mated to all my bred-to-lay S. C. White Leg¬ 
horns this season. 25,000 Rah.v Chicks and hatching 
eggs for sale at farmer’s prices. Circular free 
Patterson Poultry Farm, . Clayton, N. V. 
Gibson Poultry Lays and Pays 
White Leghorns..R. I. Reds..Barred Rocks..White Wyandottes 
We are specialists in Utility Birds. Carefully and practically bred, huge 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, 
anteeil. Gibson Eggs for Hatching guaranteed highly fertile. Healthy.vigorous breed 
ing birds that will infuse valuable blood into your llocks. We make a specialty of stock' 
ing farms and estates with heavy layers. Book your orders early, It will enable us to 
give you better service. 
Oitr handsomely illustrated booklet is FHEE. II rite for it to day. 
G. F. GIBSON, Galen Farms, Drawer C. Clyde, New York 
S. C. Wliite Legliorns 
1,500 VIGOROUS BREEOERS, BRED FOR EGGS—MODERN OPEN FRONT LAYING HOUSES—12,000 HALL INCUBATOR CAPACITY—10,000 BROOD- 
ING CAPACITY. We guarantee haIc delivery ol Hatching Eggs, Baby Chix and 3 months Pullets. We were compelled to decline many 
order* )h* t Reason because they were received too late. We doubled our Incubator capacity this Fall and will increase to 2*>,000 
next year. If you want oin products for spring or Summer delivery— ORDER NOW. Visitors Invited—Send 
for Booklets. MOIIKGAN FARM Poultry Plant, Moltcjrun Lake. New York. (Phone til Peekaklll.) 
Owned and operated by Chap* II Baker- 
Your Money Back 
IF OUR CHICKS DON’T SATISFY YOU 
With 8,000 lively, hustling chicks in our brooders, 
with » loss of less than 10?o, we cun safely make this 
guarantee. 
Immediate shipment hi any quantity. #10 per 100 
MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
Arthur H. Penny, Owner 
Mattituck, N. Y. 
K 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 for our 
new book 1 '-' which describes our methods, stock 
and plant Book your order now for a positive 
shipping date. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, N.J. 
SingleCombWhiteLeghornsExclusively 
D. W. Young’s Strain 
8000 breeders on free farm range drinking from never-lulling 
streams as Nature intended. Specially bred for winter eggs. 200- 
egg attain eggs for hatching in any quantity at $6 per 100 and *5 
per loo in lots of 200 or more. Orders tilled on a day’s notice 
Baby chicks >12 per 100 a hatch every Monday. 12,000 chick# a 
Week; no waiting this year Let your orders come. Kntire plant 
milk fed. For vigor my birds have but lew equals. My book, 
<* Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved,” shows where the money is, 
free with ail >10 orders. Circulars free, 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S. 0. iirown Leghorns, Kulps Strain S. 0. 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 lie had. 
We have 2,700 layers at this time on our farm. We 
are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Our hatching 
capacity 10,000. Write for Price list Visitors 
welcome. 
JOHN II. WABFK1. A SON, Itolircrstuw n. I*u. 
Chicks 
|{.\ K It MI) and WHITE 
HOOKS. HKDS, and 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS. 
Leading Utility, 200-Egg Strains. #1*2.50 
to #15 per hundred. 100 alive guaranteed at 
your ex. office. Hatched by experts. Booklet free. 
B1HCHAVOOD 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 
(food. You Need birds that go one better than “Pay 
their Board.’’ 100,815; 250,835 ; 500. $02 f>0: 1000.8120. 
We guarantee (lonnt, A rrival, and “A Square 1 >eal." 
Justa Poultry Farm, - Southampton, N. V. 
WHITE LEG HO RIM EGGS 
Hens selected for high production, long lile and 
rigor. $0 per hundred; $50 per thousand. Eggs 
that fail to hatch replaced at half price. 
Aiken Farm, - K. D. 2, Ithaca, N. Y. 
“WICHMOSS POULTRY FARM” at Ua r r ea?on°ab h le 
prices. Properly Hutched, Healthy, Vigorous Hay- 
old Chicks and Ducklings. Bred for heavy egg pro¬ 
duction. S. C. W. Leghorns. Wh. Wyandottes. R. I. 
Reds. R. Rocks and Wh. Pekin Ducks. ANDRESEN 8 
AMMERMAN, Demarest, N. J. Box 137. 
None Better-S. C.White Leghorns 
Vigorous, range-raised, and trap-nested. Egg re¬ 
cords over 200. Eggs, 93% fertile. $1 for 15 or $6 for 
100- Chicks, lusty and strong 13 cents each or $12 
per 100- Summit Poultry Farm, Ridoely, Maryland 
S p 1 ¥ _ „t __Pens headed by Barron 
. v^. W. Leghorns Cock ‘Is. Kggs, $1 per 
13, SC ptr 1(H). t . .in Duck Egg*, t '* 'J- Berkshire 
Swine D' 1RENZE FARMS. A> VNDRIA. PA. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS and eggs, 
** healthy business kind, including Barron’s strain 
that grow great layers. Delivery guaranteed. Free 
circular. Write Hamilton Farm. Huntington, N'.Y. 
Eggs for Hatching&Baby Chicks 
From best-laying strains of S. C. Reds, Barred 
Rocks, and S C. White Leghorns. 
D. EVERETT JONES, - Hillsdale. N. Y. 
THE PINE TREE 
HATCHERY 
It is where the 
Day-old Chick 
Business ” origin¬ 
ated 23 years ago. 
Over iOU.UOO egg 
capacity Un¬ 
doubtedly more 
“ Day-old Chicks" 
have been shipped 
by me than by 
any other man in 
America. 
Our Free Book¬ 
let gives low 
prices on Barred 
Rocks, R. 1. Reds, 
White, Butt and 
Brown Leghorns, 
Wyandottes, Or¬ 
pington Chicks that have a good egg record, 
Indian Runner Ducklings and other things you 
should know. Our guarantee is asgood as gold. 
Address Box 00 
JOS. D. WILSON, Stockton, N. J. 
BABY CHICKS HATCHING EGGS 
FROM OUR OWN FREE RANGE 
HEAVY LAYING SELECTED 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
FREE l-ROM WHITE DIARRHOEA 
Fol ' r on application 
R00KDALE FARM 
REWSTER, NEW YORK 
E. SALINGER 
BaToy Cliiclvs 
s. c. w. 
LEGHORNS 
R. & S. C. R. 
I. REDS 
I'ii rebred, 
.strong. Livable. 
From heavy-laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
WESLEY GRINNELL, 
Sodus. N. Y. 
HOFF’S BABY CHICKS 
For over a quarter of a century 
the original “VITALITY” 
Day-old Chicksof QUALITY. 
Others imitate my advertising, 
but for the genuine “ VITAL¬ 
ITY ”-Q UALI T Y Chicks, 
order of the originator, 
S. C. WHITE I.EGHOI’NS 
and RHODE ISLAND I^KDH. 
Bred for heavy egg production, 
quick maturing, strong stamina and vitality. All 
hatching done tinder perfectly sanitary conditions, 
modern incubator cellars, highest grade of incuba¬ 
tors used. I guarantee to ship Properly Hatched. 
Healthy, Vigorous Day-old Chicks. Thousnn.Is of chicks 
hatching weekly. $15.00 per 100; $8.00 per 50; $1.25 per 25. 
Full count and safe arrival guaranteed Illustrated hooks 
let free. You 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. 
EGGS FOR SETTING! 
WHITE LEGHORNS, Young strain. $1.50 per setting. 
PLYMOUTH ROOK, choice matings by a prominent 
judge. $2.50 per setting RHODE ISLAND REDS, 
Tompkins birds, $2 per setting. Fertility Guaranteed. 
SIDEWAYS FARM, R. F. D. No. I, BRIGHTON, 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, $15 per 1000 Desk 3. C010MBI* P0UITRT FARM. Toms River. H J 
I have 12 Rhode Island Red chicks, 
three weeks old to date. Their legs are 
beginning to weaken. What causes this 
and what can be done? They are in a 
brooder. I feed ground oatmeal and stale 
bread mixed with egg for the first two 
weeks, gradually omitting the egg and 
adding a high grade beef scrap. I feed 
sprouted oats daily, a good chick scratch 
feed and the chicks weigh five to six 
ounces apiece. c. L. 
New York. 
One of the most essential things with 
little chicks is to net them out on the 
ground. Do this if it is so cold they can’t 
stay there but a minute; do it. if you have 
to take a broon and sweep the snow away 
to make a place for them. I have seen 
a lot of chicks in a beautiful long brood¬ 
er house, with a board floor, staggering 
around like drunken men, some of them 
too weak to .stand up; put out doors on 
the ground, and in one week no one 
would believe they were the same chicks. 
They were running around as lively and 
vigorous as any chicks. If there is an 
earth floor in your brooder house, hoe 
the earth up into a heap, wet it down 
well with a sprinkling pot, sprinkle the 
scratch grain all through the heap and 
make the chicks scratch in the damp 
earth. They need a dry place to sleep 
in at night, but the natural damp earth 
is needed more in the day time. 
GKO. A. COSGROVE. 
These English Wyandottes. 
The excellent performance of the White 
Wyandottes entered by Edward Cam of 
England at the egg-laying contest has 
drawn nut milch inquiry from our lead¬ 
ers. People want to know if these Wyan¬ 
dottes are much the same as the Barron 
stock. We understand that they are 
somewhat different from Barron’s birds. 
They are smaller than the American 
Wyandottes, and possess the same energy 
and snap which Barron’s birds do. On 
the whole their comb seem to be a little 
smoother and smaller, so that the head 
and the general shape of the bird seems 
to be more natty and neat. They have 
certainly proved themselves quite wonder¬ 
ful layers, but Barron’s birds are now 
coming on and may pass them. The sur¬ 
prise, however, at the egg-laying contest 
this-year, is tin* great performance of the. 
pen of Rhode Island Reds from Vermont. 
These birds have certainly given a great 
performance, and are still keeping up 
their pace. It seems to become more and 
more evident that the ability to select 
laying pullets is about half the battle in 
one of these contests. One would think 
that the great majority ol those who en¬ 
ter the birds do not know exactly how 
to select the sure layers. It is more or 
less guesswork with them apparently. 
They pick out a pen to begin with from 
the best standard they have and generally 
find that four or more of these birds are 
of ordinary performance, the great pro¬ 
portion of the eggs being laid by five or 
six extra good birds. Then these breed¬ 
ers select these superior layers and mate 
them with the male bird of an acknowl¬ 
edged egg pedigree. They will come back 
year after year with the result of this 
mating. It will be interesting to see 
whether they can improve their records 
through this form of selection. 
“Non-Sitting” Hens.—W e notice that 
some of the English breeders give as 
evidence of the value of their stock the 
fact that they have won gold medals for 
“non-sitters.” At first, we were unable 
to understand just what this means, but 
it appears that at these English contests, 
prizes are given for those pens in which 
the largest number of birds refuse to be¬ 
come broody all through the contest. It 
is of course considered an advantage that 
a hen should not want to sit, as this ten¬ 
dency naturally interferes with her laying. 
In the last egg contest, at Storrs, the 
leading pen of Rhode Islands Reds con¬ 
tained six birds out of LvJ that never of¬ 
fered to sit during the entire year. This 
was a remarkable performance, when we 
understand the chief objection made the 
Reds, is the claim that they want to sit 
half the time. Generally speaking, the 
light breeds such as Leghorns, Minorcas, 
Campines, etc., are considered non-sitters. 
There are of course, individuals of these 
breeds which do become broody now and 
then, but as a rule the breeds which lay 
white eggs may be regarded as non-sit¬ 
ters. Those breeds which lay a brown 
egg usually become broociy and may be 
called “the sitting breeds,” just as is the 
case with the non-sitters. However, 
some of these brown egg hens will not 
offer to brood at all; as we see in the 
case of this pen of Rhode Island Reds. 
Tom Barron’s White Leghorns 
Winners at Storrs and Missouri. Trap-nested 20 
years. 282-egg strain. Pure Mood, male and fe¬ 
males Kegs, $1 -per netting: $7 per 100, Special 
pens,$2. P. F. RAFFERTY, Marlboro, Mass. 
i urn ucirruii s 
W li i t e Leg- 
.J. H. ERMSNK, Hud. 
IKOMIEqi'OlT, N. Y. 
horns. Hatching Eggs. 
son and Titus Ave. 
Eggs for Hatching S. C. W. Leghorn 
Selected and packed to insure your Satisfaction not 
only xvlieu unpacked lint on Hatching Day. 85 
Fertility guaranteed. $1.50 per 15: $(i per 100; $50 
per 1000- Our Hatching Eggs HATCH. < Mir Day-Old 
Chix GROW OLDER. Justa Poultry Farm, Southampton, N Y. 
RARR0N CfiCKFRFI S-Hiu'ing imported a mun- 
Dttnnun OvURLIiLLa |, erof Barron Cockerels. 
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 prices15 
Eggs for $1 50: 100 Eggs for$0: 1000 Eggs for$55. Ad¬ 
dress, LIME RIDGE FARM, Pountiqiiao, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
imported direct. 248-260 egg strain. Eggs $0.00 
per 100. $10 per 200; Chicks $8 per 50. $15 per 100. 
K. CLAUDE JONES, HILLSDALE, N. Y. 
Utility S. C. White Leghorns c ftIf 
$8.50 per 100 and up. 3-months-old pullets, $1 each 
Geo. Frost, - Levanna.on-Cayuga, N. V. 
THE HEN THAT LAYS 
S. C. W bite and Brown Leghorns. A Iso limieti 
Duck Kggs lor hatching. Send for catalogue. 
M. F. BOLT, - Cincinnutus, New York 
TRAP-NESTED LEGHORNS 
My pen leads nil contestants at the great Missouri 
Contest Write for prices on hatching eggs. 
P. <i. Platt, - . WallinT||;ford, Pa. 
MAY CHICKS 
and April chicks all sold. Order May CHICKS 
Now. - J. L. LEE, Carmel, New York 
8. C W. 
ilOKNS. 
LEG - 
Ma rdi 
Baby Chicks"gi,^i7 eS's’A™ 
Strain. $12 per hundred. Big. husky chirks. Satis¬ 
faction. L. K. Jngoldsby, Hartwick Seminary. N. Y 
Baby Chicks, Eggs 
—Selected farm - raised 
nrnflt payinpr lUliltEM 
ItOCKS find YOI NU’S WHITE LMIIIOItNS. Chirks, Slj.Oti, 
$12 .'»<>. $10.00 hundred. Write todny—Catalogue Fre< 
SHADY HILL POULTRY FARM, Bolton, Mass. 
—8 and 10c. 8. C. Buff Leghorns. 
M o n e y back for dead o n e s 
JACOB NEIM0ND. RICHFIELD, PA 
Fifteen Tom Barron English White Leghorn Eggs 
lor hatching, $1. LISK, Clifton Springs, N. V 
200,000 S. C. W. LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS 
for 1915. Seven Hall Mammoth Incubators,- 12.lid" 
chicks per week alter February 15th; only No l.higb 
class chicks shipped; New England's most profitnb • 
breed, the famous "Everlay Strain.” Reas- nab 
prices: prompt service. 60-page catalog on requesi 
THE EVERLAY FARM, - Box 240-E, Methuen, Mass. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Baby Chicks 
Barron Strain, imported direct. Also Famous American 
Bred Layers. I guarantee sate arrival of strong, properly 
hatched chicks. Can supply in thousand lots on three 
weeks’ notice. 8 CENTS EACH and up. HATCHING 
EGGS shipped promptly. WRITE FOR CIRCULARS 
R. T. EWING, ATLANTIC, PA. 
BARRON S. C. White Leghorn Chicks 
Also R. I Reds and White Wyandottes, $15 per 1UU 
American Leghorns, $13 per 100. All hatching egg- 
$6 per 100. E-irlv delivery. Send for illustrated 
catalogue WINSOK FARM, K. F I)., No. 
3, Acushnet Station, New Bedford, Mass. 
HATCHING EGGS I.VTl, N oV , ,s - *i:SS 
The ‘Prices that Live and Let Live" for Guaranteed 
70-, Fertile Kggs from fancy selected White Leghorn- 
— S. <-. Beds—Burred Bock*. Mammoth I’cLin 
Ducks, l*eurl Guineas. Send your order NO". 
with 255, Deposit 
SUNNYMEAD FARMS (850 Acres), MILLSTONE, N.J. 
<- Dkysdale Black. Ilirei-tm-, 60 Broad why. X. V 
Single Comb White Leghorns Only 
Baby chicks and hatching eggs from our selected heavy 
laying strain of winter layers; also hatching egg- lroni 
sons and daughters of the champion pen (Tom Barron - 
of the Missouri laying contest 1912-1913, Send for eireuliu 
Ramapo Poultry & Fruit Farm, Spring Valley, N.Y. 
S. C. Brown Leghorns : $7 pm-m 
Mrs. Win. Gent, It. 1, . Clyde, N. Y. 
O UR SPECIALTY-WINTER LAYING SINGLE COMB WHITE 
LEGHORNS, hatching eggs, or baby chicks from our 
farm, will start you right. Prices Reasonable. 
Bingham Egg Farm, Nortii Bingham, 1 a. 
90% FERTILITY GUARANTEED"?;,i"; 
large yearling hens mated to Lincoln and Barron Cockerel# ' e»f>* 
$1.00 per 13. Other pen* headed by Kvei lav Farm Cocke:els, 
eggs *1.00 pet 100. ASHCROFT POULTRY FARM, Marlboro. Mass. 
S INGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN CHIX, 
$10 par 100. Eggs for hatching. $4 per 100. Ol der 
now. Juniata Poultry Yards, MiUliiilown. r3. 
Single Comb Buff Leghorns _ | T i K sTocK 
bred for business. Bargains in eggs Also IIutuples* 
Fowls Eggs. EMPIRE POULTRY YARDS, Fort Plain, N. Y 
