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^/>e RURAL. ?^EW-YORKER 
Rhode Island Reds 
TRAPNESTED 
Solendid cherry to mahogany rich glowing red, thor 
oughbred, hen hatched, free rahge, open-front colony 
house hardy stock. Scientifically line bred away from 
brood'inesa and for heaviest winter laying, on a strictly 
sanitary plant. Heaviest laying Reds in existence, lay- 
Uie rates Jll to 279 eggs. FINE BREEDING COCK¬ 
ERELS early hatched, large, hardy, vigorous breeders, 
great stamina; long backs, low tails, short legs well 
spread; brilliant rich glowing mahogany red and out 
ffiipii^ated hens. BREEDING HENS, pullets, mated 
trios and breeding pens. HAXCHING EGGS from mag¬ 
nificent, large, hardy, glowing red rose and single comb 
hens, not pullets, mated to splendid, large, vigorous, 
burning red males, themselves out of trapnested hens. 
Fertile, strong, hatchable, large, unblemished eggs, gath¬ 
ered hourly, shipped daily, .safe delivery guaranteed. 
White diarrhoea absolutely unknown. . 
We ship all over U. S., Canada, South America, Cuba, 
and abroad as far as Australia. Courteous, straiglifor- 
ward dealings. Safe delivery. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
FROM A FLORIDA CUSTOMER 
Dear Sir:— 
The birds I got of you are PHENOMENAL LAYERS 
Trapnerted them all and everyone showing better than 
200 eggs. FOUR OF THEM IN THE 260 CLASS. 
(Signed) Dr. W. E. A. W. 
1917 mating booklet on reguest. 
VIBERT RED FARM Box 1, WESTON. N. J, 
25 
COLONIAL REDS 
Year after year our birds make a strong showing 
in Storrs contest. Our Reds hold a record excelled 
by none. For period of five years there our 
contest birds averaged 170 eggs, each hen. 
Consistent good laying, year after year, should 
count for more than one high year. Colonial blood 
is in many of leading flocks. We offer splendid 
pedigreed cockerels, fine breeding yearlings, and 
pullets. Three State colleges have ordered our stock. 
I'rices very reasonable and gladly quoted for stock, 
for hatchingandchlx. Honorabletreatmentgiiaraiiteed. 
COLONIAL FARM. Box O, TEMPLE. N. H. 
OAKLAND FARMS 
S. C. Rhode hland Reds Exclusively 
E arly breediko cockerels and* pullets 
now on sale. We are booking orders for Day-Old 
Chicks, for delivery, any time after Januai-y 16th. 
All from Heavy-weight, Healthy, Vigorous, Heavy 
Winter Laying Stock, combining Beauty and Utility, the 
result of years of careful selection, and that have been 
raised on Free Clover Range, and housed in Open-Front 
Houses, under the most sanitary conditions. 
"Absolute Satisfaction Guaranteed." 
OAKLAND FAKU8, -t- Oakland, New Jersey 
Rhode Island Reds 
Day-old chicks from some of the world’s heaviest-laying 
strains. All stock raised on free range and scientifically 
bred from large, well colored and shapely birds of great 
stamina. High class utility birds combined with show 
quality is a combination hard to beat. Book your orders 
now for delivery after February 1st. Safe delivery and 
full count guaranteed. Chicks, $18 per 100. 20% deposit 
required with all orders. 
OVERBROOK POULTRY FARM. Marlborough, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain S. C. R. I. Reds 
Stand.ard bred high record stock, red to the skin. 
Old and young stock. On approval. Booklet. 
POULTRY- ■ ■■ - 
AUSTIN'S 
FARM. Box 17. 
HARBOR. N. H. 
R. I. RED COCKERELS 
from trap-nested stock; records, 180 eggs or better. 
Brice, $5 to $12 each. A. ALLAN, Jr., Newport, R. I. 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds f o r k s h X‘s 
two consecutive years. High-grade utility breeding 
stock, also eggs for batching. Send for circular. 
MAPLECKOFT FARMS, Box R, Pawllug.N.Y. 
erels @ $.1. Also pullets, yearlings and exhibition 
stock. R. ^uackenbush, Box 333, Darien. Conn. 
LIGHT BRAHMA and n 1 T 
ROSE COMB RED Cockerels 
$3 each. - L. Miller, Higrhland, N. Y. 
-Cocks and Cockerels- 
$5.00-$7.50-$10.00 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Barred and White Recks 
Elxtra good utility birds from heavy laying stock 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
TYWACANA FARMS, Inc. 
Box 68, Farmingdale, L. I., N. Y. 
White Wyandottes 
From high record, trap-nested hens. 
A. li. Vreeland - Nutley, N. J. 
Hampton’s Black LegHorns 
I’en 98 at VINELAND. Now is the time to book your or¬ 
der for my famous Black Ijeghorn day-old chick* and 
eggs. Circularfree. A. E. Hampton, Box R, Pittstown.N.J. 
BRONZE, NARRAGANSEH, WHITE HOLLAND, TuvL-zx-ro 
BOURBON RED, BLACK AND SLATE BREEDING * urKeyS 
From the finest flocks in America. Prize winners at 
the leading show*. Special prices. Write at once. 
F. A. CLARK _ Freeport, Ohio 
TURKEYS p"-----®---’ * 
I BOURBON RED and BRONZE. $5 Up Sp6Cidl 
Golden campine cockerels, $2; Speckled Susse.x 
cockerels, $5, Registered Shropshire Rams ex¬ 
changed for Ewei of any breed. 
D. R. Shoemaker - Fort Plain,N. Y. 
ForSale-Mammoth Bronze Turkeys ib^vtoms 20 
to 25 lbs., 88. Mrs. JOSEPH E. JANNEY, Brookeville, Md. 
PureBreJLightBrahniaCockereb.'fcfi.'!,!.?, 
Mammoth EmdenGeaaa "'“if'i: 
Ked, Campines, Minorcas. Leghorns, Wyandottes. 
Maple Cove Poultry Yards, R. Athens, Pa. 
GianfBronzeToni8,S7-R.C. Red Cockerels, $ 1.50 
Shroprtjire Sheep. H. J. VAN DYKE. Gettysburp, Pa 
White Holland Tarkeys 
Barred Rock Cockerels 
direct at $3. Ska to 4 lb. pullets, $24 per dozen; 
selected, $30. Will pay express one way if returned. 
1. H, HACOKN . Sergeantsville, N. J. 
Sturdy White Leghorn Cockerels S7oTuTu ‘ 
Bargains at $2 now. EBER MESSNER, Barberton. Ohio 
THE HENYARD 
Winter Care of Geese 
How can I carry geese through the 
Winter so as to l.ave the birds in the hest 
condition to get good sti^-iig fertile eggs 
in the Spring? What should be fed and 
how much? I have a small flock of Em- 
dens. T. o. 
Maine. 
(icese need little in the way of housing 
in Winter except protection from wind 
iuid snow. The floor of their pen should 
be dry. They should have at least a 
.s'liall yard in which to exercise. They 
will eat almost anything in the line of 
grain, but too much corn should be 
avoided. An exclusive corn diet will 
produce too much fat and infertile eggs 
will be the result. Unsalable apples will 
furnish a welcome variation in their diet. 
Table scraps not needed for hens or hogs 
may be given them. An occa.sional mash 
containing a small amount of meat scraps 
is good for them. It is not easy to siieoify 
just how much should be given at a feed- 
I usually judge b.v the amount that they 
will clean up readily. w. ii. ii. 
Leg Weakness 
A number of my pullets have died. 
They first stand around, then lose the 
power of one leg, so that they limp. Then 
they lose the power of both and cannot 
get up at all. I feed a good grade of 
scratch feed and dry mash, grit, oyster 
shells, charcoal and meat scraps, accord¬ 
ing to the Cornell feeding plan. I have 
cleaned houses and sprayed them with all 
kinds of disinfectant. The houses and 
runs have been used for chickens for 20 
years or more, but this is the first show 
of any disease. l, s. 
New York. 
Leg weakness, or paralysis, is fre- 
(piently seen in young, growing stock, 
though the males seem to be more prone 
to it than the females. Various reasons 
have been suggested to account for it, but 
the real cause is not known. Forcing for 
rapid development probably at least pre¬ 
disposes to it. It does not usually alfect 
many in the flock and losses from it are 
not apt to be heavy. 'Idiere is some rea¬ 
son to think that it may he due to a spe¬ 
cific virus such as that causing infantile 
paralysis in children. It would not be 
surprising if future investigation estab¬ 
lished some causative relation between 
these two diseases. m. b, d. 
Feeding Pullets and Chicks 
I have lOO Rhode Island Red pullets 
and would like to kno- how much corn 
should be fed to a meal; also what and 
how much to feed .“lO White Oriiington 
chicks three months’ old. ji. G. 
Feed these pullets and chicks all that 
tliey want and let your own observation 
teach you how much that is. (’orn alone 
will not give the hest results in feeding, 
tliough the fowls might tlirive on it. Add 
other grains, such a.s you have, to the 
wliole grain ration, and give also a mash, 
moist_ or dry, containing wheat bran, 
middlings, gluten feed, ground oats and 
beef scrap. A mixture of all these in 
equal parts by weight would make a suit¬ 
able ma.sh. If the mash is kept before 
the fowls in open hoppers, allowing them 
to eat of it at will, they should have a lit¬ 
tle less of the whole grain mixture in the 
morning than they will readily clean up, 
iiiid all that they will eat liefore going to 
roost at night. By hand feeding a few 
times you will readily learn liow mucli 
grain it takes to satisfy the youngstu’-s. 
M. B. D. 
Ground Oats and Beef Scraps 
Would it be practicable to balance 
ground oats with beef scrap, for ii mash 
for leghorn pullets to which I am feed¬ 
ing a good scratch grain mixture, with 
green food, etc. I have oats which I can 
grind and would like, if possible, to feed 
the ground oats for a mash, adding beef 
scrap. I believe they used ground oats 
and beef scrap as a laying mash very suc¬ 
cessfully with several contest pens a year 
or so ago at the Missouri contest. 
PeniTsylvania. j. r. s. 
It would be practicable to feed ground 
oats and beef scrsip alone as mash for 
poultry, but it would not be economical. 
Roth oats and beef scrap are high in 
price and it would be to your advantage 
to exchange a portion of your oats for the 
wheat by-products and perhaps some such 
high protein feed as gluten feed or meal. 
Wheat bran, middlings, gluten feed and 
other mill pi-oducts cost le.ss than oats and 
contain more protein. Their use, there¬ 
fore. saves not only in tl’.e expen.se of 
grain food but iu the amount of high- 
jiriced beef scrap needed to balance the 
ration. Oats rank with corn in fattening 
constituents and iirotein content; they 
iK’cd, therefore, to be combined with less 
fattening foods like the wheat feeds. A 
mixture of ground oats, wheat bran, 
wdieat middlings, gluten feed and beef 
scrap will cost less than an e<iually well- 
balanced mixture of ground oats )ind beef 
scrap and will be better as an egg pro¬ 
ducer. Probably any miller within your 
reach will be glad to exchange other 
feeds for your oats and save you money 
on your poultry ration. M. B. D. 
Blue Hen 
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1917 
‘Tglantine” White 
Leghorn Cockerels 
Big, healthy birds that will surely produce 
heavy-laying daughters. From the strain 
that produced “(jueen Caroline,” with a 
record of 510 eggs in 24 consecutive 
months, and the holder of the world’s 
official record— 
“Lady Eglantine” 
314 Eggs in 365 Days 
49 Eglantine pullets laid 11,007 egg* in one 
year, an average of 224 each. 
At little cost you can put this bred-to-lay 
blood in your flock through the male, the 
most effective way. 
Matings based upon accurate trap-nest 
records—our standards are exacting. 
Eglantine Cockerels will please you in 
every way. 
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Box R Greensboro, Maryland 
W.LEGHORNS 
W. WYANDOTTES 
SUNNYMEDE LAYERS 
EGGS 
BABY CHICKS 
We offer, at modest prices, fertile hatching 
eggs and husky Ijaby chicks from our great 
flocks of heavy-laying l.eghorns and VVyan- 
dottes. The blood of the well-known Sunny- 
mede strain has _been combined with that of 
the famous I'om’ Barron, Will Barron and 
Eglantine strains. We have laying competition 
record birds, imported stock and young bred 
from these. 
Our birds are attractive in appearance and 
‘‘deliver the goods” too. Learn about them 
before placing your orders this Spring. 
Postal reguest brings free circular 
SUNNYMEDE POULTRY FARM 
Route 2-E Princeton. N. J. 
“Utility' Leghorns 
In every sense of the word, fowl that give 
record egg yield, consistently. Every bird 
trap-nested every day in the year. Our 
stock will increa.se your egg yield and that 
means profit, ilarron’s, all witli records 
from 210 up to 252. Barron’s 165 to 180. 
Our males are iill pedigreed from hens 
with records from 200 up to 288. DAY-OLD 
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COCKERELS AND PENS. CATALOG on request. 
BAYVILLE FARMS 
Bayville “ BREEDERS” Ocean Ce., N. J. 
ARADISE Breeder) of Heavy Laying Poultry. Trap Mealed 
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OUUTKT O. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
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Live deliver.v guaranteo<l. Leg¬ 
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Drpiiigtons, Bi-nliinas, $12 a 100. Odds and End.s, $10 a 
100. Eggs for hatcliing, $7 a 100. 12 yearling breeders 
and a cockerel for $18. Laying Pullets $18 a dozen ii mi a 
cockerel free with eacli dozen. Some in Canipines$20 for 
the i:i. Fine cockerels, $2.50 eacli, 5 for $10. Host Brooder 
Stove, $14. Catalogue free. Stamps appreciated. 
Nabob Hatcheries - Gambier, Ohio 
Improved Parcel 
Post Egg Boxes 
New Flats and Fillers 
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Leg Bands -O ats Sprouters 
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is the most economical and best meat feed on the 
market and proves it by testimonial letters from the 
most successful poultrymen. We guarantee Meat 
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broilers, heavier fowls, bigger profits. 
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Saves time, labor and chicks. 
The Cornell Brooder Heater 
is the greatest advance in 
poultry raising. Will burn 
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“The Cornell Gasoline 
Brooder is the best yet 
for the free range poultry , 
farm. 1 have raised 95% 
of all chicks hatched 
during March and April 
fortlie last three years.” 
B. F. Eliason. 
R HEATER 
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Manufticturers of 
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