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THE KUD4.A.U NEW-YORKER 
THE HENYARD 
Potatoes as Chick Food. 
fa. B. I). in answering J. L. R., page 
GG8, and G. M. B., page 669, discour¬ 
ages the feeding of one of the best of 
poultry feeds and at a time when that 
feed is cheaper than anything else ob¬ 
tainable. G. M. B. need not grate the 
potatoes, simply running through a vege¬ 
table cutter or cutting with a knife into 
pieces size of a walnut, the 10-day-old 
chicks will grate them themselves and do 
well on them. J. L. R. will find the 
Cornell fattening ration, using common 
oats instead of hulled, or one-half oats 
and one-lialf barley in place of hulled 
oats, adding one-half the bulk of boiled 
potatoes, the best of fattening foods. 
For three-weeks-old chicks, or larger, we 
quarter the potatoes or run through the 
root cutter. The only reason why potatoes 
are not advocated more for poultry is be¬ 
cause they are more expensive usually thap 
other foods, but this season it is wrong 
to let the chance slip by to utilize this 
good feed. We have one flock of 775 
that are nine weeks old, and they are 
consuming a bushel of potatoes daily, cut 
in quarters, raw. 
BRIAR HILL POULTRY FARM. 
Massachusetts. 
Infertile Eggs. 
What is the cause of infertility of 
White Wyandotte eggs? They are from 
strong vigorous stock, both male and fe¬ 
male; the yolks of the eggs are almost 
white. They have been fed on the best 
of food, mash in the morning and scratch¬ 
ing food at night, and plenty of green 
food. I have an incubator that holds GO 
eggs; out of the GO eggs 52 were in¬ 
fertile. .T- H. M. 
New York. 
There are so many possible causes of 
infertility in eggs that no one can say 
where your trouble lies without knowing 
the conditions under which your fowls 
are kept. Close confinement with heavy 
laying through the Winter lessens fer¬ 
tility in the Spring. An excess of meat 
food or of green cut bone is reputed de¬ 
trimental to strong fertility, if but one 
male is kept with the Hock, he may be 
at fault, too many males in the flock, 
if confined, may result in infertility 
through jealous interference with each 
other, too few males for the number of 
liens and other less common causes of 
weak or lacking fertility may be present. 
Close confinement is probably the most 
common cause of infertility and this may 
be remedied by turning the breeding^ fowls 
loose upon free range early in the Spring 
if they have been confined all Winter. 
A few days of liberty to scratch in fresh 
ground and pick up such green stuff and 
as many worms as they can find will 
make a marked difference in a back yard 
flock and they may usually be given this 
liberty before gardens interfere with 
them. M. b. D. 
White Wyandottes and White P. Rocks. 
Do White Plymouth Rocks hatch true 
to color, and are. they pure white when 
hatched? Are White Wyandottes all 
rose-combed or is there a single comb va¬ 
riety. As a general rule are White P. 
Rocks considered as good layers as the 
other breeds of their class? B. ii. R. 
Meshoppen, Pa. 
White Plymouth Rocks, like White 
Leghorns, are not pure white when first 
hatched, except occasionally. The ma¬ 
jority are yellowish white, but when the 
feathers start to grow, they come in 
white. There is no single comb variety 
of White Wyandottes, recognized by the 
“Standard of Perfection,” hut there ought 
to he ,—for more or less single combs 
come every year in all the flocks of 
White Wyandottes 1 ever saw and these 
single comb Wyandottes are true Wyan¬ 
dotte shape and are excellent layers. 
There is just as much reason for single 
and rose comb White Wyandottes, as 
there is for single and rose comb Rhode 
Island Reds. 
As to the third question, “Are White 
Rocks as good layers as the other breeds 
of their class”; I had occasion some 
time ago, to call attention in my reports 
of the contest at Stores, to the fact that 
without exception the white varieties of 
every breed had outlaid their colored sis¬ 
ters of the same breed. What reason 
there is for this I cannot imagine, but 
the fact remains. I see that in the pres¬ 
ent contest at Storrs the Barred Rocks 
have averaged more eggs than the White 
Rocks up to date but that may be re¬ 
versed before the contest closes. The 
White Wyandottes have outlaid all the 
colored Wyandottes, and the White Leg¬ 
horns have beaten all the colored Leg¬ 
horns. There are no “White It. I. Reds ” 
(?) in the c utest to compare. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Hens With Skin Disease. 
I have a few hens that have a sort of 
a white scale on their heads. I saw in 
The It. N.-Y. description of the disease 
called “favus” and I am wondering if 
that is what ails my hens. They do not 
appear to be sick, but it may be that in 
the first stage of the disease. It seems 
to be contagious as there was only one at 
first and now four or five others are 
affected. Do you think it can be this? 
Can it be cured by isolating those affect¬ 
ed and treating with the calomel and vas¬ 
eline? I am also worrying about wheth¬ 
er the eggs from these hens are all right 
to use or not. None of the hens is badly 
affected; all except one seems to be just 
the beginning. F. I. s. 
New York. 
I cannot, of course, say whether you 
have favus in your flock or not, but you 
will be justified in assuming that some 
contagious skin affection is present, and 
treating the fowls accordingly. It will 
be best to remove the affected fowls and 
dress the scabs with some simple oint¬ 
ment like a mixture of lard and sulphur, 
about equal parts, or carbolized vaseline 
in five per cent, strength. The utensils 
used by the flock should also be cleaned 
in boiling water and the interior of their 
quarters whitewashed. There is no rea¬ 
son why the eggs from this flock should 
not be used, though there would be a 
possibility of conveying the infection to 
a healthy flock if the uncleaned eggs 
were sold for hatching. M. B. D. 
Loss of Plumage. 
A few of our hens and all of our cocks 
have been losing their neck feathers and 
the feathers at the base of the tail on the 
back. The fowls seem in good condition, 
combs red, appetite good. Our poultry 
have free range. Can you tell me what 
is the matter? S. R. H. 
Massachusetts. 
This is probably due to the ravages of 
the depluming mite, which burrows into 
the skin at the base of the feathers and 
causes considerable irritation and finally 
loss of feathers. These mites may be 
killed by rubbing some grease into the 
skin over the affected parts, an efficient 
one being vaseline or lard to which one- 
fourth its bulk of blue ointment has been 
added. M. b. d. 
Rickety Chicks. 
My incubator hatched out about 70 
chickens. I then put them in a brooder, 
and kept them in the kitchen. At the 
end of about three weeks nearly every 
chicken seemed to be stiff or rheumatic. 
A few died. About a dozen had their 
bills partly crossed. What was the mat¬ 
ter? I supposed it was over-feeding. 
Kentucky. n. w. w. 
Chicks cannot be kept indoors on 
board floors for much longer than two 
weeks without beginning to show such 
signs of lessening vitality as weak legs, 
droopy wings, lost appetite, crossed bills, 
etc. These chicks of yours should have 
been gotten out on the ground or, at 
least have been given access to the 
ground within a few days from hatching. 
If they were vigorous when hatched, they 
probably would have remained so, though, 
of course, over-heating in the brooder, 
over-feeding or other mismanagement 
might even then have caused the trouble 
that you speak of. M. b. d. 
Chicks on Board Floor. 
We have 45 R. I. Red chicks, hatched 
March 8. We are raising them for 
broilers. They have 12x4 space in a 
board floor poultry house, straw for lit¬ 
ter. We feed them dry mash, Cornell 
formula, cracked corn and wheat in litter, 
grit and charcoal. Also sprouted oats. 
They do not care much for the grain. 
Would they do better if they had the 
earth to dig in. even a small run? 
New York. E. G. P. 
You will probably find it very difficult 
to maintain your chicks in health unless 
you give them access to at least a small 
earth run. They may be confined for 
two or three weeks upon board floors but 
seldom do well after that time unless 
given earth to scratch in. Sods placed 
in their enclosure partially answer the 
purpose but it is better to get young 
chicks out of doors as soon as possible 
after the first week or two of their lives. 
M. B. D. 
MAKES HENS LAY 
MORE EGGS 
IT INCREASES THE CAPACITY OF 
GOOD HENS, AND MAKES EVEN 
A POOR HEN DOHER LEVEL BEST 
May 22, 1915. 
THE HILL SELF-FEEDING, SELF-REGULATING 
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Will Raise Your Chicks Better Than a Hen 
It is the only brooder equipped with safety magazine 
which absolutely prevents any gas from escaping in the house, 
and at the same time automatically feeds the fire, making 
it possible to maintain an even temperature of pure, warm air 
under all conditions which is positively necessary to success¬ 
ful brooding. It is fitted with Ransom Duplex Grate, the 
greatest grate known. The brooder is perfect in operation, 
simple in construction, will last a lifetime and fully 
guaranteed. 
Send lor circular and price list of the brooder that solves the brooding problem. 
Address, MERCER POULTRY FARM, TRENTON, N. J. 
ONE OF OUR PRIZE WINNERS 
TENACRE 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
PEDIGREED AND UTILITY STOCK 
BRED FOR QUALITY AND HEAVY EGG PRODUCTION 
ANY AGE DESIRED 
CATALOGUE FURNISHED ON REQUEST 
TENACRE POULTRY FARM, Cedar Grove, Princeton, N.J. 
Inspection of our plant solicited. 
■S.C.W. LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
KIRKUP’S 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
6-8 WEEKS OLD PULLETS 
Pullets ready April 15 to May 1st. Day-old Chicks ready May 1st 
PULLETS, C-8 weeks old, 100 or more, 60c.; 50-100, 70c.; less than 50, 75c. Prices on older pullets on application. 
REDUCED PRICES on Day-old Chicks, $10 per 100 in any quantity 
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Cheaper, safer, neater, more 
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eggs, fruit, live chicks, etc., 
direct to consumer without in¬ 
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riage charges. Saves sawing 
boards and pounding nails. 
II OH Parcel 
IT Ci U Post Boxes 
made of jute board. Perfect cushion for eggs and other 
fragile articles. Will stand jars that often break wood. 
Fold flat for storing. Many sizes for every purpose. 
CpCC “How to Pack for Parcel Post.” A book of 
• ntc valuable facts for farmers and other shippers. 
HINDE & DAUCH PAPER CO., 501 Water Street, Sandusky, 0. 
Improved Parcel Post Egg Boxes 
SEND IS CENTS FOR SAMPLE 
New Flats and Fillers and Egg Cases 
CATALOGUE SENT FREE ON REQUEST 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Street, N. Y. 
Tom Barron 
248-260-EGG 
STRAIN 
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. 
PHIPKQ *19 PFR 1 Bn—SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES 
umiiko, d i l rcn i uu s c WHITE leghorns. Eggs, 
$0 per 100. Pekin and ltouen Ducklings, 25c each; 
$20 per 100. Eggs $'.) per 100. Send for Catalogue. 
Aldham Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenixville, Pa. 
SHIPMENTS ON APPROVAL ^ii,", 
Chix, 10 cents each; 500 or more 9 cents each. 6- 
weeks Pullets 50 cents each; 12-weeks, $1. JII.STA 
POULTK1' FARM, Southampton, New York 
HATCHING EGGS: S.C.W.LEGH0RNS 
Large size and lieavv-laying strain. After May 1st, 
75c per 15, $0.00 per 100. J. M. CASE, Gilboa, N. Y. 
fnr llolokino from Selected Breeders. S. C. 
tggs TOr naicmng Blown and S.C. White Leghorns, 
$5.00 per 100 or $1.50 per 15, delivered to your express 
office. Also Rouen buck Eggs, $1.50 per 12, prepaid. 
Brakel View Poultry Farms, M. F. Bolt, Cincionatus, N.Y. 
WICHMOSS POULTRY FARM 
Guarantee safe |dellvery on properly-hatched, 
Healthy, vigorous chicks and ducklings. S. C. W. 
Leghorns. $10.50 per 100. White Pekin Ducklings. $20 
per 100. ANDRESEN 8 AMMERMAN, Box 137, Demarest, N. J. 
EFFICIENCY PULLETS 
$50 to $60 per 100, eight to ten weeks old; yearling 
hens, 91) cents each or $80 per 100, all future delivery. 
S. C. WIIITK LEGHORNS exclusively. 
DESK 3, COLUMBIA POULTRY FARM, Toms River, N. J. 
Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs 
from trap-nested, white diarhea-free stock. $8 per 
100. Chicks from same strain. May hatched, $10 per 
100. Glenview Poultry Farm, Rockville, Conn. 
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. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in the egg-laying contest. Hatching 
eggs, chicks and young cockerels for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
Utility S. C. White Leghorns"^ ick's*! 
$8.50 per 100 and up. 3-months-old pullets, $1 each. 
Geo. Frost, - Levanna-on-Cayuga, N\ Y. 
S W Win'll ecr1inrn<t- STRICTLYWYCK0FFSTRfllN 
O. YY . YV nue Legnorus Eggs, $4 perlUO; infertile 
eggs replaced. Stock Absolutely free from Diarr¬ 
hoea. ROBKIiT E. SMITH, Nassawadox, Va. 
N u U<- uli ii.li u.u.iiinii. Liviiuiuiv ers care¬ 
fully selected fromiree ranged raised birds. Eggs that 
hatch, ft.00 per hundred. Strong, vigorous chicks 
guaranteed to your Express Office, 10 cents each. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. SUMMIT POULTRY FARM, Ridgely, Maryland 
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.. Mountville, Va. 
|0NE BETTER S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS a " b, “ d - 
Your Money Back 
IF OUR STOCK DOESN’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 
Chicks - - - - $10 per 100 
Pullets, 6-8 weeks, $60 per 100 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
Arthur H. Penny, Owner 
Mattituck, N. Y. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S.C. Brown Leghorns, Kulps Strain, S.C.W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our breed¬ 
ers we have selected with great care for which wo 
claim are as fine a flock of breeders as can he had. 
We have 2,700 layers at this time on our farm. We 
are prepared to fill all orders promptly. Our hatching 
capacity lO.UOO. Write for Price list. Visitors 
welcome. 
JOHN II. WAHFEL A SON, Kohrcrstown, Pa. 
PULLETS AND BABY CHICKS 
FREE FROM WHITE DIARRHEA 
Certified by State Test. S. C. W. Leghorn I’ullets and 
Baby Chicks for May and June delivery. Quality and 
prices right. Circular. A. B. llall, Wallingford. Conn. 
White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. Young’s Strain 
3000 breeders oil free farm range drinking from never-failing 
streams as Nature intended. Special bred for Winter eggs. 
Entire plant milk-fed. Eggs $5 per 100, in any quantity. Orders 
filled on a day's notice. Baby Chicks $10 per 100, after May 6th; 
8,000 a week; a hatch every Tuesday ; the kind that live. For 
vigor, my birds have but few equals. My book, u Profits in 
Poultry Keeping 8olved,” shows where the money is, lice with 
all $10 orders. Circulars free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
Rflhv nhictR - Barron s - c - " • Leghorns. Strong 
DdUJ UIIILko chicks. $7 per5U: $12 per ICO; eggs $5 
per 100. Ransom Farm, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 
S ILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS —unsurpassed for eggs 
combining beauty. Eggs—$1.50, 15: $2.50. 30. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. H. H. Scott, Sinks Grove.WVa. 
B arred rock /t? All chicks guaran- 
ABY CHICKS -. S*')' teed . to . be tF ?? de ' 
^ ' r/ scendents of hens 
We Guarantee " 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 for circular. 
C. E. BURGER. Route 50. ITHACA, N.Y. 
BARRED ROCKS 
Eggs—$1 per 15; $3.50 per 100 
li. H. HENION, 
Nonpariel strain. 
Brockport, New York 
B arred rock chicks of quality our 
specialty. Write your wants. Satisfaction guar, 
anteed. Booklet. ltenAyr Poultry Farm, Warwick, .N. Y. 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in lots to suit purchasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS, - R. 24, Athens, Pa 
M oney-making Dominiques 
bred for eggs and meat. ROOKS, MILLS, PA. 
HATCHING EGGS0F QUALITY 
“Perfection ” Barred Roeks bred from Thompson, 
Hawkins, Bradley, and Riley strains. Eggs from 
prize-winning pens, $3 per 15. Utility. $1 per 15; $;> 
per 100. Dr. G. T. HAYMAN, Box 048, Doylestown, Penna. 
THE FARMERS’BUSINESS HEN Trap-nested White 
Orpington Eggs and Chicks. Square deal guaranteed. 
Catalog Free. KELlABLIT YAKDS, Culver Uoiul. Lyons, N.Y- 
Kfl VariptioQ chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys 
UU Vdllcllcb GUINEAS and HARES. Stock and eggs. 60 
page catalogue free. H. A. Souder, Box 29, Sellersville.Pa. 
BlackLeghorns i? a a tc l i n P h S*- 
the kind that lay. A. E HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstown. N. J- 
IMDDAUrn SILVER CAM PINES Exclusively. 
lIYIi nllVCU Eggs $2 per 15. Short & Tripp, Cortland, N.Y. 
rnn oai r Mongolian ring neck pheasant eggs 
lUn oALt F. A. W. SHAW, Marlboro. Ulster Co., N.Y. 
Mottled Anconas 
Eggs for hatching, 75c, 15; $i, lj>0 
GKO. K. BOW DISH, Espe ranee, N.Y. 
EGGS 
—African geese, White Muscovy 
ducks, Utility Reds. 
IIuse Farm, - Manchester, N H 
