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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE HENYARD 
Lime-sulphur to Destroy Mites. 
What do you know about spraying hen¬ 
house with lime-sulphur to kill lioe and 
mites, or will lime whitewash be suffi¬ 
cient? I have a chicken coop alive with 
mites. w. K. 
New Hampshire. 
I know nothing of this, personally, 
though it has been tried and favorably 
reported upon. Lime whitewash alone, 
or combined with crude carbolic acid, 
four ounces to the gallon, is very effi¬ 
cient, as is also kerosene to which one- 
fourth its volume of crude carbolic acid 
has been added. M. B. D. 
Sitting Hens Eat Eggs. 
I would like to know what is wrong 
with my sitting hens, they eat three or 
four eggs. They have fresh water every 
day. also food, can come off the nest 
whenever they like, and have dust baths. 
They are good sitters. I had a similar 
case some time ago. b. f. 
Connecticut. 
This is a trouble with which I have 
had no experience and can suggest no 
remedy other than replacing such hens 
by others that have not contracted the 
habit. It is taken for granted that you 
keep food and water constantly within 
reach of your sitting hens and that you 
also provide them with some grit and lime 
in the form of crushed oyster shells or 
old mortar. If they have these things 
and still persist in eating their eggs, their 
case is hopeless, so far as I know. 
M. B. I). 
Gape Worm. 
1. I put 275 little chicks fresh from 
an incubator into a large room on a 
board floor in a tenant house on my farm, 
and when they were only five days old 
half a dozen of them showed signs of the 
“gapes.” I understand they were never 
near any ground at all. also we boiled 
and disinfected everything used in con¬ 
nection with the care of them. We have 
discovered that by giving them coal oil 
we can help them a lot. We give a drop 
to the little ones, and increase the dose 
a little to the older ones. 2. I have no¬ 
ticed that some of my pullets have a 
hard time laying their eggs; also that 
some blood comes with it. Do you think 
this comes from feeding too much meat? 
We feed about six quarts of fresh ground 
meat daily to 200 hens. n. E. c. 
Maryland. 
1. It is difficult to explain how these 
chicks became infected with gape worms 
under the circumstances which you de¬ 
scribe. Earth worms often carry the 
eggs and embryos of the gape worm and 
may infect chickens if fed to them ; food 
and drink may also contain the eggs of 
gape worms if exposed to infected fowls. 
2. It is not uncommon for pullets to 
become more or less egg bound, especially 
during the months of heavy laying. Very 
large eggs may be extruded with difficul¬ 
ty and cause bleeding. Anything that 
overstimulates the egg laying organs 
would predispose to this trouble and the 
overfeeding of meat or cut bone should 
be avoided. M. B. 1). 
Enteritis. 
Will you suggest a remedy for a mild 
or severe case of enteritis in poultry, 
that may be administered to a Hock as a 
whole and not by individuals? 
Michigan. P. E. M. 
Enteritis is a rather loose term in its 
application to poultry diseases; it com¬ 
monly means diarrhoea, and diarrhoeas 
have a number of widely different causes. 
The first step in all is to find and remove 
the cause. If due to spoiled food, putrid 
drinking water, decayed carcasses of dead 
animals, chemical poisons about the 
premises, salt, paint skins, or other de¬ 
leterious substances which may have been 
eaten, find and remove them. If prob¬ 
ably due to infection of the digestive 
tract by disease germs, clean up and dis¬ 
infect all utensils used by the flock, 
whitewash their quarters, isolate prompt¬ 
ly all sick birds and treat them individ¬ 
ually, if you wish. For medicinal treat¬ 
ment, a sick fowl may well have a quick¬ 
ly acting purge to clean out the intestin¬ 
al tract. A teaspoonful of Epsom salts 
to each fowl dissolved in water and used 
to moisten the mash may be given, or a 
teaspoonful or more of castor oil may be 
given each sick bird. Add as much per¬ 
manganate of potash to the drinking 
water as the fowls will accept, a tea¬ 
spoonful or more to the gallon, and give 
no other water to drink. Feed for a 
time upon soft, easily digested food and 
bury deeply all carcasses of birds dying 
of the disease. M. b. d. 
Feeding Chicks in Large Flocks. 
I have about 600 chicks now. about 
two weeks old. They are being brooded 
with a large brooder stove, which they 
say will take care of 1.500. but I find that 
this GOO, the way I have been used to 
feeding in small lots, does not seem to 
work ail right with so many. I have 
always red for the first two weeks five 
times a day the following ration : First 
days bran one part and oat flakes two 
parts, and from fourth day until two 
weeks fed twe bounds bran, two pounds 
cornmeal, two bounds wheat middlings, 
two pounds oat flakes. 1*4 pounds beef 
scrap, with Alfalfa steamed and put in. 
I find that in giving this mash to such a 
big crowd of hungry chicks they crowd 
and pile up and kill a great many. Is 
this feed too heavy for the first two 
weeks? What method is used in feeding 
such large flocks? They are housed and 
on board floors. Do you think if I should 
leave hoppers opened to them at all times 
would they not gorge themselves? If 
they were running out all the time it 
would be different. Should beef scrap be 
fed when sour milk is before them a half 
a day every day? H. E. 
New Jersey. 
I think it best to keep dry mash al¬ 
ways before little chicks and to feed 
moist mash and cracked grain also, giv¬ 
ing the latter two at regular intervals. 
While the chicks will work industrious¬ 
ly at the dry mash and eat a large 
quantity of it, they have to eat so slowly 
as apparently never to get too much; in 
fact, they need some moist mash as well 
if they are to do their best. The dry 
mash may be fed from hoppers or from 
shallow boxes. The boxes should have 
half inch mesh wire netting cut to fit 
the inside dimensions and so to rest di¬ 
rectly upon the feed; this netting keeps 
the chicks from scratching the feed out 
and follows it down as it is eaten. By 
spreading boards or papers in a circle 
about your heater and placing the moist 
mash upon them, you will probably be 
able to feed this without the loss of 
chicks from crowding. Make the moist 
mash crumbly but never wet enough to 
be sloppy. Your mixture is all right and 
the beef scrap should be used, even 
though sour milk is fed in addition. 
M. B. D. 
Poor Laying. 
Can you give me some advice on feed¬ 
ing hens? I have 150 White I/eghorn 
pullets that have not laid during the 
Winter at all, laid about 25% in Feb¬ 
ruary. 50% in March, 00% in April; 
now they stand at ”0%. I feed six quarts 
grain in the morning; 2*4 quarts of 
wheat, 2 1 /> of barley, one quart of oats; 
at night, 5*4 quarts of corn and 2^4 
quarts of oats. I feed meat scrap in pen 
hopper and give for a dry mash one part 
by weight bran, middlings and ground 
oats. The roosts and nests are free from 
lice; have free range and keep grit and 
shell and good clean water before them 
at all times. j. G. 
New York. 
Since your hens are not doing well on 
their present ration, why not try one of 
the standard mixtures recommended by 
the State experiment stations? That of 
the Cornell station is good and has the 
advantage of giving the fowls a consid¬ 
erable variety of grains. It is GO pounds 
cornmeal, GO pounds wheat middlings, 80 
pounds wheat bran, 10 pounds Alfalfa 
meal. 10 pounds oil meal. 50 pounds meat 
scrap and one pound of salt- Keep this, 
dry, in hoppers open to the fowls at all 
times. For whole grains feed a mix¬ 
ture of 60 pounds wheat, GO pounds corn, 
and 80 pounds of oats. The fowls should 
eat about half as much mash, by weight, 
as whole grain and the proportions are 
regulated by giving a light feeding of 
grain in the morning and about all that 
they will clean up at night. At Cornell 
they leave the dry mash hopper open 
afternoons only. I should keep dry mash 
before the fowls at all times but would 
feed the beef scrap in this instead of 
separately; both methods have their ad¬ 
vocates, however. m. b. d. 
Chicks With Diarrhoea; Lice. 
1. What is the trouble with my chicks, 
and what can I do for them? They are 
smart when first hatched, but in a few 
days they commence to die off. They 
seem to have a white watery diarrhoea 
that bakes on them. 2. Also let me know 
what to do to rid my poultry house of 
lice. e. S. s. 
New York. 
1. l r our chicks may have diarrhoea due 
to lack of vitality, for which lack their 
parents may, or may not, be responsible, 
or the diarrhoea may be due to faulty 
brooding or feeding, or it may be due to 
an infectious disease known as bacillary 
white diarrhoea. Only full knowledge of 
all the conditions present would enable 
one to say with any confidence what the 
trouble is. Without knowing, about all 
that you can do is to look carefully after 
the sanitary conditions surrounding the 
chicks; clean up and disinfect their 
brooders, using kerosene and carbolic 
acid (crude) as a spray or paint for the 
interiors, boiling water for the eating 
and drinking utensils, and deep burying 
for all dead chicks, the latter to include 
all that are evidently ailing as soon as 
discovered. Keep the brooders well sup¬ 
plied with fresh clean litter and give the 
chicks access to the ground. Don’t over¬ 
heat, don’t overfeed, and don’t try to cure 
a sick chick in the flock; remove it 
promptly, kill and bury it. As a preven¬ 
tive to some extent, feed soured skim- 
milk to all the chicks, giving all that they 
will drink. 2. Thorough whitewashing 
of the interior of the henhouse accom¬ 
panied by spraying or painting the perch¬ 
es with a mixture of kerosene and crude 
carbolic acid, three-fourths kerosene and 
one-fourth part crude carbolic acid, be¬ 
ing sure to get into all cracks and behind 
ali loose boards, nests boxes, etc., should 
rid your hen house of the greater part of 
the lice therein. m. b. d. 
Higher Pri ces 
If n / 
^ to town over bad roads. 
Stop banding commission 
men profits you may as 
■well have yourself. Let 
Uncle Sam be your 
delivery boy. 
You can easily make 
you r farm pay you more ‘ 
when you reach customers 
direct and get ALL that the 
consumer pays for your crops. 
The market is waiting, the profits are larger. 
The big objection has been the trouble and 
expense of paeking in cumbersome wooden 
boxes. Tills is done away with when you use 
H O n Parcel 
■ Gt U m Post 
Made of jute, with stronx arched comixation* like 
the arctiea of bridges. Theee boxes stand the racket of 
hard usage in the matt. Meet the government postal 
re <jid rein e nta. 
Made in all sires and shapes for every purpose. For 
eggs, poultry, live chirks, butter, berries, fruit, etc. No 
nailing or sawlug. .Inst pack the H. A I). box and tie 
it. It will go round the world without breaking. 
Write for Free Book. This book tells all about 
It. U D. Boxes. Illustrates and describes many of 
our standard styles. Shows how these hexes can hs 
profitably used on your 
farm. Wills 
THE HINDE & 
DAUCH PAPER CO. 
Boxes 
501 Water St. 
Sandusky 
Ohio 
PILLING 
PON 
TOOLS 
Capons bring 
30c per lb. 
Roosters 15c 
G. P. 
MORE THAN 00UBLE 
YOUR COCKEREL PROFITS 
Capons grow twice as large on the same 
amount of feed and bring twice the 
price per pound. 
Complete set of reliable, prac¬ 
tical, easy-to-use c* r— 
Capon Tools . . gb^,OU 
—full. Illustrated instructions in¬ 
cluded. Parcel Post prepaid. 
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Send for FREE Capon Book 
Sanitary, cosy, portable, 
^Liable Open-air Iron!. removable, adjuii- 
Kblc flooi Quickly converted inio Breeding 
■Pen. Brooder, Colony or Uyme House Light 
land sunny. Cheaper and better than home-bull! 
f Lasts a (detune Same materials ai our lamouj 
Liiloa Cold. heat, rodent and hcc-proot. Send 
for illuttmcJ literature and pnee tat. 
“ Box C, UNA.DILLA S1LOCO. 
Improved Parcel Post Egg Boxes 
SEND 15 CENTS FOR SAMPLE 
New Flats and Fillers and Egg Gases 
CATALOGUE SENT FREE ON REQUEST 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Street, N. Y. 
PARTRIDGES I PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Kaobits, Beer, 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. MACKKNSKN, Natural¬ 
ist, Department lo, Yardley, Pa. 
— A limited nuniberof 3-BAND 
ITA LI AN' QUEENS. Queens 
are large, vigorous, and pro¬ 
lific, producing bees that are 
gentle, hardy and industrious. Untested, $1.00; 
tested after .nine 1, $1.50. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
W. K. ROCKWELL, . Bloom field, Conn. 
Dl APONQ —Maltese, Mated Pairs, $3. 
• I 'SI 111 O Carneaux, Mated and Work¬ 
ing, $3.50; youngsters, $8 doz. Whito Kings, Mated, 
$4: youngsters, $10 doz. JOHN EMMELUTH, Vineland, N. J. 
IMPROVED SILVER CAMPINES Exclusively 
Eggs$l per 15 or $5 per 100. SHORT £ TRIPP, Cortland. N Y. 
SILVER CAMPINES FOWLS'^, e E i!^ 
machine of chalk white eggs. The kind that lays, 
pays and wins. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 12. deliv¬ 
ered anywhere in U. S. by parcel post. Address 
LLOYD M. HALLENBECK, Poultry Judge. Sreendale, N. Y. 
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., Mouutville, Va. 
Money-making 0ominique8- H , 5 £ &g£, s Mi ns?p.. 
Mottled Anconas 
HATCHING EGGS OF QUALITY 
"Perfection ’’ Barred Rocks bred from Thompson, 
Hawkins, Bradley, and Riley strains. liggs from 
prize-winning pens, $3 per 15. Utility, $1 per 15; $5 
per 100. Or. G. T. HAYMAN, Box D48, Ooylestowu, Penna. 
TITRKFY FffS -4 breeds $2.50 per 12 special 
IUIVIYLiI Luuj price on our breeding stock 
of turkey hens. WALTER BROS., Powhatan Point, Ohio 
B RONZE TURKEY KGGS-twmty-five cents 
each. C. L. Wilsou, R. 53, East Hampton, Conn. 
Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs 
BARRED ROCKS 
Eggs—$1 per 15: $3.50 per 100. Nonpariel strain. 
B. H. HENTON, - Brockport, New York 
WIGHMOSS POULTRY FARM 
Guarantee safe delivery on properly-hatched, 
Healthy, vigorous chicks and ducklings. S. C. W. 
Leghorns. $10.5(1 per 100. White Pekin Ducklings. $20 
per 100. AN0RESEN £ AMMERMAN, Box 137. Oemarest, H. J. 
June 12, 1915. 
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, 
BARRON COCKERELS 
We will have some very choice S. C. White Leghorn 
Cockerels for sale, the result of a cross of Cockerels 
purchased direct from Thomas Barron, Catforth, 
England, with our two-year-old hens which have 
been bred for heavy laying and white eggs. 
These Cockerels are March and April hatch. The 
price for selected birds will be $1.00 each, ten to 
twelve weeks old. We will also have 500 yearling 
hens and 1000 2-year-old heavy-laying S. C. White 
Leghorn hens for sale. 
Yearling Hens at . . $1.00 each 
Two-year-old Hens at ■ .75 each 
THE HAVEN LAKE EGG FARM, Milford, Delaware 
White Leghorns Exclusively 
D. W. Young’s Strain 
3.000 breeders on free farm-range, drinking from never- 
fuiling streams, ns nature intended. Special Bred-for- 
Wintercggs. Entire Plant Buttermilk fed, which means 
Vigor and great Vitality. Eggs, $4 per 100. Balance of 
season orders filled on a day’s notice. Baby chicks in any 
quantity, $9 per 100 for June. A hatch every Tuesday. 
My book, ‘'Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved,” free with 
fill $9 orders Circulars Free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
ELIZABETH POULTRY FARM 
DAY-OLD CHICKS AND EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S. C. Brown Leghorns, Kulps Strain, S. O. W. 
Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our breed¬ 
ers we have selected with great care for which we 
claim are as fine a dock of breeders as can be 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. lVAliFEL * SON, Bolircrstown, Pa. 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
6-8-weeks-old pullets . $ 60 per ICO 
3-mont Us-old “ _ lOO per lOO 
All stock delivered in satisfactory con¬ 
dition or your money returned. 
A. II. PENNY, . Mattituck, N. Y. 
Ketch Chix 
Are hustlers. Strong, vigorous, easy-to-raise, day- 
old chaps from “ HIGH CLASS," Bred-To-Lay stock. 
S. O. W. Leghorns, $10 per 100. R. I. Reds $12 hun¬ 
dred, delivered. Live arrival guaranteed. Order NOW 
Froe circular. WM. W. KETCH, R. D. 1, Cohocton. N Y, 
WHITE LEGHORN 
BABY CHICKS-$9, 100 
casli with order; ship every Wednesday. We 
positively guarantee safe delivery of strong, 
healthy chicks. Eight-Weeks-old pullets. 
A. B. HALL, - Wallingford, Conti. 
Barron’s 248 260 egg strain, 8 to 10 weeks old—$1 each. 
Baby clucks—$11 per 100; $20 for 200. 
E. tLAl’DK JONES, - . Hillsdale, N. Y. 
SHIPMENTS ON APPROVAL!;^ 
Chix, 10 cents each: 500 or more 9 cents each. 6- 
weeks Pullets 50 cents each: 12-weeks, $1. JUSTA 
POULTRY FARM, Southampton, New York 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
3 months old. Also cockerels, including Barron 
strain. Booking orders now. Write your wants. 
HAMILTON FARM, - Huntington, N. Y. 
6 and 8c LmAo^' 
back for dead ones. Pam¬ 
phlet free. <•. M. I.Al VKIt 
Box 78, Richfield, Pa. 
rj I! I n If O—6 and 8c. S. C. Buff Leghorns. 
I ■ H II ■ K A Money back for dead ones. 
U II I U l\ U j flC0B NEIMONU, RICHFIELD. PA . 
CHICKS 30,000 CHICKS 
WONDERFUL LOW PRICE—UNEXCELLED UTILITY STOCK—FREE RANGE 
25 50 100 lots 
S. C. W. Leghorns - S3.35 $4.25 $ 8.00 
Barred Rock - 3.00 5.50 10.00 
Broiler Chick - 1.80 3.50 7.00 
I guarantee safe arrival. 
B. I. FRONTZ, R. No. 2, McAllisterville, Pa. 
No Red Tape—No Lost Express Charges 
IV e satisfy you or refund your money—all you advanced. 
2-oz. and over perfect Leghorn I'.gga. 90$ fertile, 5c. 
Chicks from these eggs, 11c.; 2 wks. old. 20c. 6 ivks. 
pullets, 00c.; 16 wks., $1.50. Barron crosses same prices. 
WHITMAN FARM, Shelburne Falls, Mass. 
THE FARMERS’BUSINESS HEN Trap-nested White 
Orpington Eggs and Chicks. Square deal guaranteed. 
CATALOG FECK!. KKI.lAlil.K YAKl>K, Culver Koad, I,yam, ,\.Y. 
ROSE COMB*BROWN* LEGHORNS 
Fine one and two-year-old breeding hens 
at $1 each ; also cockerels, $1. Circular. 
Ward W. Dasey, Box 55, Frankford, Del. 
GARDEN AND FARM 
BOOKS 
Vegetable Gardening, Watts . 
.$1.75 
Productive Vegetable Growing, 
Lloyd 1.50 
Garden Farming, Corbett .... 
.2.00 
Manures and Fertilizers, Wheeler... 1.60 
Farm Manures, Thorne . 
. 1.50 
Farm Management, Warren .. 
. 1.75 
Irrigation and Drainage, King 
For sale by THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER, 333 W. 30th St., New York. 
