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Selling Old Hens. 
IIow is it best to market my old bens 
in the Fall? K. K. 
New Jersey. 
About the only way to dispose of any 
considerable number of old fowls seems 
to be to consign them to commission mer¬ 
chants in the larger cities, or to sell 
them to buyers who pick them up for the 
city markets. .Sometimes a few can be 
deposed of at a better price by dressing 
them and selling to local butchers or 
directly to families; possibly arrange¬ 
ment might be made to dispose of a con¬ 
siderable number to local hotels. Such di¬ 
rect trade always involves much extra 
labor, however, and is usually uncertain 
as to time and quantity. M. B. I). 
Canker. 
What is the cause of canker in hens? 
What is the best treatment? Is it con¬ 
tagious? Would you use pullets that had 
had canker as breeders next year? 
W. T. E. 
If by “canker” you mean the patches in 
the mouth caused by roup, there is no 
treatment worth while, and the fowls so 
affected should be killed and buried. It 
may be, however, that you have in mind 
some much less severe affection that need 
not condemn the fowl, and one cannot ad¬ 
vise intelligently without knowing more 
about the case. In general, hens that 
have been seriously sick with any disease 
should not be used later in the breeding 
pens. Even though they have recovered, 
they have lost something of the stamina 
so necessary in breeders, and there are 
some forms of disease that may be trans¬ 
mitted from hens to their progeny. 
m. B. n. 
Hens Jerk Their Heads. 
What is the matter with my hens? 
They look well, eat well, and lay pretty 
well, but they all jerk their heads. It 
seems to be catching. They are fed mixed 
grain with dry mash at all times, water 
and sour milk. J. H. 
New York. 
Your data is hardly sufficient to base 
any positive opinion upon; all fowls jerk 
their heads at times and probably for va¬ 
rious reasons. If the jerking were con¬ 
tinuous and marked I should suspect 
some nervous disturbance, very possibly 
connected with digestive trouble, perhaps 
by the irritation caused by intestinal 
worms. If any are seriously affected, the 
administration of a one-grain tablet of 
calomel, followed in a few hours by two 
teaspoonfuls of castor oil, would do no 
harm and might clear up the trouble. 
M. B. D. 
Lye as a Medicine. 
Would it be desirable to use a little 
concentrated lye in drinking water or 
mixed in mash, for chicks and fowls, for 
the prevention of white diarrhoea, roup, 
gapes, etc.? E. K. M. 
Ohio. 
I cannot imagine how concentrated lye 
fed to chicks could possibly cure roup, 
white diarrhoea, gapes, etc. Each of these 
diseases has a different cause, and in only 
one is the seat of the disturbance in the 
digestive tract where it would be reached 
by medicine in the food. Concentrated 
lye would seem to me about as unwhole¬ 
some a substance as could well be found 
for chicks or any other animals, and the 
idea that it might prove a panacea for the 
widely different disorders of fowls strikes 
me as fantastic, in the extreme. Still. I 
do not know that lye has been tried in 
these troubles, and one is at liberty to 
experiment if he bears in mind the fact 
that he is dealing with a powerful caustic 
poison. m. B. i). 
Yard for 100 Hens ; Storage Tank from 
Spring. 
1. How much land is necessary for 
hen yard for 100 hens? I have a new 
henhouse and space back of it 120 by 
50 feet. Would it be a good plan to di¬ 
vide it in two parks, and have hens run 
in one park while the other is plowed, 
and something planted to furnish hens 
with green food? If so, how often should 
it be plowed, and what ought to be 
planted? I would prefer to plow only 
old garden part each time. 2. The water 
which furnishes our house comes from 
up on a hill, and the spring is a partner¬ 
ship affair, the other half being owned 
by a neighbor nearby. Half way down 
the hill the water runs into a storage 
tank, a small barrel set in the ground. 
(One pipe so far.) From this barrel 
two pipes set at the same level run to the 
two houses. Could there be some other 
way to divide the water evenly ? The sur¬ 
face water runs in barrel when it rains, 
also lizards and frogs get in; it warms 
up and evaporates also. There would be 
bigger pressure if a continuous pipe ran 
from top of hill. Air sucks into pipe 
and makes trouble when spring is low. 
Could an airtight receptacle be made to 
divide the water? M. B. 
New York. 
1. There is no definite amount of land 
needed for 100 hens; the larger the park 
that they can have the better, but they 
can be kept on a very small plot. By di¬ 
viding this lot you can keep green stuff 
on it; sowing rye or wheat in the Fall 
for early Spring pasturage, or oats in 
the Spring, if you prefer to plow it then, 
and a small plot of Dwarf Essex rape, 
sowed in the Spring, will give you an 
abundance of green stuff if allowed to 
get a good start before the hens are 
turned into it. Mangels for Winter use 
will probably give you the greatest re¬ 
turns from a small plot of good ground, 
but they could not be pastured, of course. 
2. I see no reason why a concrete un¬ 
derground tank of moderate size could 
not be built on any part of the pipe line 
that you wish and the water for both 
houses taken from that. Such a tank 
would be tight, inexpensive, and ever¬ 
lasting. The nearer that you could place , 
this tank to your houses the less the ex- | 
pense for pipe, since there is only one i 
pipe from the spring to the reservoir. A 
manhole or slab cover to this reservoir 
would permit access to it for inspection 
or cleaning. m. b. n. 
“ Best Breed” for Broilers. 
I would like to start in the poultry 
business in a small way, and would like 
to raise broilers. What is the best breed 
for this, and what kind of a house would 
I need? Also, I would like to know the 
best kind of incubator and brooder to use. 
Maryland. B. c. ir. j 
White Wyandottes, bred somewhere 
near to Standard type, are the most popu- 1 
lar breed for broilers. They can be used 
either as squab broilers or as broilers 
weighing iy 2 to 2y 2 pounds in weight. 
Their round, plump, tliick-breasted bodies 
are especially fitted for this use. There ’ 
probably are other breeds that would be 
just as good for you, for there is no 
“best” in the chicken business. The same 
applies to bouses, incubators and brood¬ 
ers. There are any number of open-front 
houses that have been pictured in this 
paper, that would suit your needs for 
breeding birds. Look through your back 
numbers. For young birds use a colony | 
house, with any one of the more popular 
kinds of portable hovers, with lamp at¬ 
tached, so that it can all be picked up and 
moved. An incubator of small capacity, 
say 150 eggs or under, manufactured by 
any one of the concerns advertising in 
this paper, should be found satisfactory. 
Send for catalogues and choose the ma¬ 
chines you like the most. There is no 
“best.” 
White Diarrhoea; Crop-bound Duck. 
1. Several of my hens have what we think 
is tlie white diarrhoea. What can be 
done for same? 2. One of our ducks died, 
seemed like a cold at first; he would drink 
a great deal but not eat. His food could 
not pass from his crop to gizzard, had a 
iarge crop, was active but would not eat. 
Indiana. o. E. O. 
1. White diarrhoea is a disease of 
young chicks and not of old fowls; if the 
latter show symptoms of diarrhoea, they 
should be removed from the flock and the 
quarters of the latter cleaned up and 
whitewashed, while utensils are scalded 
in boiling water. The sick fowls may be 
given castor oil or salts sufficient to clean 
out their digestive tracts and then be fed 
upon soft, easily digested, food until re¬ 
covery. Investigation should be made to 
see that the flock is not getting access 
to spoiled food of any kind and that the 
food provided for them is of a whole¬ 
some nature. 
2. This duck was apparently crop 
bound, the administration of a litfile 
sweet, or castor, oil with gentle manipu¬ 
lation of the crop might have broken up 
its contents and allowed them to pass, 
or the crop might have been opened and 
the contents removed, after which the 
crop could have been sewed up with fine 
silk thread. If skillfully done, this op¬ 
eration is frequently successful. 
M. B. D. 
Permanganate of Potash. 
The druggist refused to sell perman¬ 
ganate of potash to me without a doctor’s 
prescription. I told him it was for chick¬ 
ens. There is a preparation on the mar¬ 
ket under the name of “- Preven¬ 
tive.” A neighbor uses it for colds and 
it has all the appearance of permangan¬ 
ate of potash, but I do not want to pay 
a fancy price for a common article un¬ 
der a fancy name. Can you suggest how 
one is to get this drug? M. A. C. 
New York. 
I do not understand why your drug¬ 
gist should refuse to sell you permangan¬ 
ate of potash without a physician’s pre¬ 
scription, unless there is some city ordin¬ 
ance classing this with poisonous drugs. 
There is no difficulty, ordinarily, in ob¬ 
taining it as it is not a poison, in the 
ordinary sense of the term, and is free¬ 
ly sold by druggists of my acquaintance. 
Many, if not most, “roup cures” contain 
this drug, as may be ascertained by not¬ 
ing the color of the water to which they 
are added. m. b. d. 
Dry Oats For Poultry. — I cannot 
agree with L. B. Crooker in regard to feed¬ 
ing dry oats to chickens. I find oats one 
of the best egg-producing feeds we have, 
also for developing young pullets for 
laying, along with a bean and wheat 
meal mash dampened with milk. I keep 
self feeders with pure oats before my 
hens and pullets all the time and see 
no bad results from it in the past three 
or four years, and never had them do bet¬ 
ter. I feed but little corn. t. b. 
What Cheer, Iowa. 
The best grain in the 
world isn’t worth 2 cents 
unless it digests easily. 
H-0 Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
is sure to digest. 
Its clean, sweet grains are 
steam-cooked at our mill. 
Your chicks get the added 
benefit of all its nutriment 
because it digests so easily. 
Write for free (ample, pricei and descriptive folder. 
The H-O Poultry Feeds meet the requirements of poultry 
in every s'aae of development: H-O Scratching Feed, 
H-O Poultry Feed, H-O Chick Feed, H-O Poultry 
Mash and H-O Steam-Cooked Chick Feed. 
The H-O Company 
Mills: 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
John J. Campbell 
General Sales Agent 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
Jiamtary. co/.y. portable 
^durable Open-air Iron!. removable, adjust¬ 
able floor Quickly convened into Breeding 
fPen. Brooder. Colony or Laying House Light 
land sunny. Cheaper and better than home-built 
Lasts a lifetime Same materials as our lartiou* 
silos Ck>ld. heat, rodent and lice-proof Send 
• lor illustrated literature and price list 
Boa C, UNADILLA SILO CO. 
Improved Parcel Post Egg Boxes 
SEND IS CENTS FOR SAMPLE 
New Flats and Fillers and Egg Gases 
CATALOGUE SENT FREE ON REQUEST 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Street, N. Y. 
EVERY POULTRY KEEPER EAST OF BUFFALO 
buying feed in 500 lb. lots or more and not using 
lJlue Ribbon Poultry Feeds to send for our 
special wholesale freight paid prices. We can save 
you money on feeds of quality. 
GLOBE ELEVATOR CO , 91 KENTUCKY ST.. BUFFALO. N Y. 
ISria C n e,e a b n r d a, Eno H ii S h PARTRIDGES 1, PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Babbits, I>eer, etc.., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Beautiful 
Swans, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, 
Squirrels, Ferrets, and all kinds of birds and 
animals. WM. J, MACKENS1CN, Natural¬ 
ist, Department TO, Yardley, Pa. 
PHD C A I C MONGOLIAN RING NECK PHEASANT EGGS 
rUri oMLL F. A. W. SHAW, Marlboro, Ulster Co ,N.Y. 
WHITE CORNISH 
FOWL —10 to 12 lb. males, 7 to 0. females. Good 
layers. Eggs, $8.00 setting 15. Guarantee 10 fertiles. 
Replacements Free. Catalog. 
Mountsville Farms, Duck Rd., Mountville, Ya. 
Mammoth Toulouse Geese Eggs 
For Sale, .35c each, delivered, anywhere in the U.S. Fine 
large birds, imported stock. Crandall Farms, Albion, N.Y. 
HATCHING EGGS OF QUALITY 
“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. HAYMAN. Box D48, Doylestown, Penna. 
BARRED ROCKS 
Eggs—$1 per 15; $3.50 per 100. Nonpariel strain. 
B. H. HENION, - Brockport, New York 
Pullets, Yearling Hens, Cocks & Cockerels 
in lots to suit purchasers at attractive prices. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS, - R. 24, Athens, Pa. 
B arred rock chicks of quality our 
specialty. Write your wants. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Booklet. BenAyr Poultry Farm, Warwick, N. X. 
MaHIaJ AnAAnoc Eggs for hatching, 75c, 15; $4, 100 
monied nnconas geo. k hop dish, Esperanee, n.y. 
IMDDnt/rn SILVER CAMPITTES Exclusively. 
IIYIl IIUWE-V Eggs $2 per 15. Short & Tripp, Cortland, N.T. 
Light Brahmas OnlyT^fS^fc 
teenth year. Selected eggs—100, $0: 50. $3.50; 13, $1. 
Haystack Mountain Farm, Norfolk, Conn. 
White Crested 
BLACK POLISH SILVER SPANGL¬ 
ED HAMBURGS. American 
Dominiques, Buff Orping¬ 
tons, Sicilian Buttercups, Aneonas and Barred 
Rock eggs, 5c each. A, JACKSON, Mineral Springs, N. Y. 
SHIPMENTS ON APPROVAL"^^ 
Chix, 10 cents each; 500 or more 9 cents each. 0 - 
weeks Pullets 50 cents each; 12-weeks, $1. JUST A 
L'OULTRY FARM, Southampton, New York 
HAMPTON’S le s gh c 6r b n la b c a k by CHICKS 
For Delivery May 26 and June. 100, $10.00; 50, $5.50; 25, $3.00 
The Black Leghorn has been proved best by every test. 
Greatest Layers, Hardiest, Healthiest. Chicks are easily 
raised, free from Diarrhoea. A great chance to get good 
stock at a low price. Every chick hatched from my own 
breeding stock. Also eggs for hatching—100, $5.00 ; 50, 
$3.00. Cannot ship C.O.D., but will guarantee safe delivery. 
Order at once. Circulars free. 
A. E, HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstown, N. J. 
Member S. C. Black Leghorn Club of America. 
MAY JUNE JULY 
SPECIAL 
Burnett’s 
Black Beauty Minorcas 
15 years’ selected stock. Try a setting. Only $1.00. Send 
your address for book and new circular on poultry. 
Coldenham Poultry Yards w ' L p?ep rnl ’" Montgomery, N. Y. 
May 29, 191.'.. 
Ba"by Cliiclis 
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. 
Your Money Back 
IF OUR STOCK DOESN’T SATISFY YOU 
With 8,000 lively bustling 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. 
White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. Young’s Strain 
3000 breeders on free farm range drinking from never-failing 
streams as Nature intended. Special bred for Winter egfex. 
Entire plant milk-fed. Egga $5 per 100, in any quantity. Order* 
filled on a day’s notice. Baby Chicks $10 per 100, after May 5th; 
8,000 a week ; a hatch every Tuesday ; the kind that live. For 
vigor, my birds have but few equalx. My book, “Profit* in 
Poultry Keeping Solved,” shows where the money in, free with 
all $10 orders. Circulars free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EGOS FOR HATCHING 
S. C. Biown Leghorns, Kulps Strain. S. C. 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 he had. 
We have 2,700 layers at this time on our farm. Wo 
are prepared to !i 11 all orders promptly. Our hatching 
capacity 10,000. Write for Price list. Visitors 
welcome. 
JOHN II. WAIiFEL * SON, Itolireratown, Pa. 
LINCOLN’S LEGHORNS 
Winners in the egg-laying contest. Hatching 
eggs, chicks and young cockerels for sale. 
FRANCIS F. LINCOLN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
EFFICIENCY PULLETS 
$50 to SCO per 100, eight to ten weeks old; yearling 
hens, 90 cents each or $80 per 100 , all future delivery. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHOKNS exclusively. 
DESK 3, COLUMBIA POULTRY FARM. Toms River. N. J. 
S W White I pfrknrnc-STRICTLYWYCKOFF STRAIN 
u. YY . VY nlTc Lcgnorns Eggs, $4 per 100; infertile 
eggs replaced. Stock Absolutely free from Diarr¬ 
hoea. ROBERT E. SMITH, Nassawadox, Va. 
Utility S. C. White Leghorns^hlc’k s! 
$8.50 per 100 and up. 3-months-old pullets. $1 each. 
Geo, Frost, - Levanna-on-Cayuga, N. Y. 
N one better s.g.white leghorns 
fully selected from free ranged raised birds. Eggs that 
hatch, 44.00 per hundred. Strong, vigorous chicks 
guaranteed to your Express Oflice, 10 cents each. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. SUMMIT POULTRY FARM, Ridgely. Maryland 
WIGHMOSS POULTRY FARM 
Guarantee safe delivery on properly-hatched. 
Healthy, vigorous chicks and ducklings. S. 0. W. 
Leghorns. $10.50 per 100. White Pekin Ducklings. *20 
per 100. ANDRESEN & AMMERMAN, Box 137. Demarest, N. J. 
Tom Barron’“srff 0 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. 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
3 months old. Also cockerels, including Barron 
strain. Hooking orders now Write your wants. 
HAMILTON FARM, - Huntington, N. Y. 
HATCHING EGGS: S.C.W.LEGKORNS 
Large size and heavy-laying strain. After May 1st, 
75c per 15, $3.00 per 100. J. M. CASE, Gilboa, N. V. 
6 and 8c lioraA^ 
hack for dead ones. Pam¬ 
phlet free. C.M.1.AUVE1! 
Box 78, ltichllcld. Pa. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGH0HNS 
250 egg strain, Baby Chicks, ten cents each for bal¬ 
ance of season. Ten-week-old Pullets, 50 cents each. 
Year-old hens, $1.25 each. A. R. GRAVES, Whitesvllle, N. V. 
CHICKS—SI 2per 100 ffi E R Wyandottes L K R T NS E 
$10 per 100. Pekin, Rouen and Runner Ducklings, 
25c. each; $20 per 1U0. Send for catalogue. 
Aldliam Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenixville. Pa. 
THE FARMERS’BUSINESS HEN Trapmested White 
Orpington Eggs and Chicks. Square deal guaranteed. 
CATALOG Frkk. KELlAltLK YAltDS, Culver Koad, Lyons, N.Y. 
M oney-making Dominiques 
Ibred for eggs and meat. ROOKS, MILLS, PA. 
GIANT BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, 
$1.00 per 15. Fawn R. Duck Eggs, $1.00 per 12. Shrop¬ 
shire Sheep. H. J. Van Dyke, Gettysburg, Pa. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS f ? r sa,e E( ? es 
three dollarsfor 
eleven. H. W. Anderson, Stewartstown, Pa. 
B RONZE TURKEY EGGS—twenty-five cents 
each. C. L. Wilson, R. 53, East Hampton, Conn. 
TffniYFV FCCC-M. Bronze, B. Reds, 
■ *Jnw Id W LUUtx Narragansett & W. 
Holland $3.50 per 12. Walter Bros., Powhatan Point. 0. 
6 Giant Bronze Turkey Hens It k once- 
CHEAP. H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
