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"Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
LEGHORNS 
j), 
\ \3 “With The Lay Bred In Tliein’ 
Health—Vigor—Productiveness—Beauty 
These important characteristics are stronsrly inbred hi 
our flocks. Come and see. Or ask our customers. Our 
Ucgrhorns will please you b^use they deliver the goods. 
Cockerels—Idne specimens, the sons of record layers, 
bred and priced right. 
llatchio^ Efirg«—Big white ones, highly fertile, from 
real layers. None bett^^r. 
llaby Chicks—The “livable,** profitable kind. Full 
count and safe delivery assured. 
We produce on our own farm everything 
we eell, ThaHs why we please 
every purchaser. Write for 
FREJ2 catalog now, 
SPPTlCHER BROS. 
Box 40 , Rohrerstown. Pa. 
L'rli Utility’ Leghorns 
Conscientiously trapnested everyday in the 
year. We invite you to compare our stock 
and prices with any reliable breeders, bar 
none. Full blooded Barron’s imported 
direct, records 240 to 2tK). Three-quarters 
Barron and full American stock, records 
UiO to 200 bred by us. 
Eggs for Hatching, Chicks, Pullets, 
Cockerels, and Pedigreed Breeders 
All sold on the basis of COMPL.KTE 
SATISFACTION or purchase price re¬ 
funded. A postal brings our booklet of facts. 
BAYVILLE FARMS 
S. C WHITE Box R. Bayville, 
LEGHORN BREEDERS Ocean Co.. N. J. 
ACT NOW! 
f BOOK YOUR ORDER EARLY 
English 200-Egg Strain 
S. C. W. Leghorns White Wyandottes 
S. C. R. I. Reds Buff Orpingtons 
World’s Champion Layers 
Our Certified Contest Records are PROOF 
Leghorns—Highest Award North Ameilcan egg lay 
iiig ci-jii€-st, live bens la>iiig 11.S9 eggs, as follows: 
2al. 250. 221, 222, 192 eggs. I' O pens competing. READ 
THIS:—The Ivywood Poultry Farm. Avondale, Pi., writes: "We 
wish to mention the (act that onr pen el S. C. W Leghorns entered 
in the 1915-6 North American Egg Laying Contest, just ended, mode 
the good record of 1037, 2D7-egg averege. The three pullets 
which made the highest records—252, 242 and 238 eggs—were 
bred from eggs purchased from you. We cannot say enough about 
your birds." it you want Leghorns tliat lay. if official 
iecoiii.s mean anytliing to yon, you will secure our 
sti ain. Reds—Highest Award in theirclass. N. A Contest, 
five liens laying 1043 -eg-gs^ 209 average, highest offi¬ 
cial Red record known. While Wyandottes— Mo. Con¬ 
test:—Ten birds laid 2006 eggs, over 200 average. One 
layer made a record of 265 eggs. 
HATCHING EGGS 
Breeding Slock “ofltahle 
BABY CHICKS Poultry 
Write today for Known 
copy of "The 
Story of the 200- 
Egg Hen,” con- 
Iiiiniiigpicturesi 
of our eomiieti- 
I ion winners, plans of 
I rap-nest, feeding for- 
inniiusand other valu- 
alde information that 
will increase your egg 
yield. I’rice 10c. deducted \ E f 4 
from first order. \ Wa 
The Penna. Poultry Farm I 
Box P, Lancaster, Pa. fe 'STss. i' 
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SO 
rios 
FREE 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs and Chicks, from selected 2-year old hens 
—On Free Range-Mated with Barron Cocker¬ 
els from Best Imported Stock. 
I have 500 breeders on free range, the pick of my 
last year’s laying stock—birds selected for size, 
type and vigor—bred for the past five years from 
cockerels from high producing (trap-nest record) 
hens. They are mated this year with Tom Barron 
Cockerels from 220-245 egg hens, sired by a cocke¬ 
rel from a 283 egg hen. Full brothers of pullets 
with pen average of 21 eggs (68^) through 
December. 
Esrss guaranteed aatlafactory to you !n api>earance and size, and 
90 p.c. fertile, $7 per 100. Candoo hatched Chicks after March Ist 
$15 per 100. Mating list and information upon request. 
THE NISSEQUOGUE FARM 
E. T. SMITH, Owner & Mgr. ST. JAMES P. 0.. L. I.. N. Y. 
BREEDING COCKERELS 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
on,/S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
from our liigh producing hens 
for Sale. Birds of exceptional 
quality, ofgood size and points, 
who will produce pullets of 
great egg-laying ability. 
Write for Prices 
BRANFORD FARMS, GROTON, CONN. 
LORD FARMS 
S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
Amer.CJin Leghorn? that lay good eggs—no English 
blood. We expect to ship more day-old chicks next 
spring than any other breeder east of the Mississip¬ 
pi River. We couldn’t do such a business unless 
the stock was proving more satisfactor.T to custom¬ 
ers than they are getting elsewhere. We do more 
trap-nesting on our farm than any Laying Contest 
in the country. We are breeding the kind of Leg¬ 
horns the progressive breeder is looking for. and 
they are the kind you want. High record hi ed niiiles 
in itll our pens this year. Only one breed and one 
strain. Nlove than 75.000 hatching capacity. Order 
Peiirnary. March, and April chicks now. Address 
THE LORD FARMS, or THE EVERLAY FARM. Bex 240-F, Methuen, Mass. 
Pedigreed Selected Cockerels 
»00-S50 egg hene, S. C. W. Leghorns, $5.00 each. 
Contest Pens Storrs, Conn. Vineland, N. 3. 
Hatching Eggs 
160-199 egg hens. 100 eggs $6,00,1000 $55.00 
SOO-350 egg hens, 16 eggs $8.00, 100 eggs $10.00 
M.ated to I’edigrced Cockerels, from 214-250 egg hens. 
Extra Large, Vigorous, Good Eyes. Breed for Kgg.<, 
C •«! D__ Sired bv proven Cock bird “Trouble” 
OpCClSll r Cn Mated to 205-239 egg hens. 
1 ttuarantec this mating. 15 eggs $5.00. Exgi after Jan. 15. 
JAMES F. HARRINGTON, Hammonton, N. J. 
Comb WHITE LEGHORNS Exclusively 
YOUNG AND BARRON STRAINS 
Tl 
am 
Winter 
qunntit’ 
CHICKS March and April _ . . _ . . 
acity 10 to 12 000 weekly. Fifty good breeding COCKS 
and COCKEKELS @82 e leh. My liook Profits in Poultry 
Keeping Solved FREE with all $10 orders. 
1917 CIBCUI.ARS KOW READY. 
EDGAR BRIGGS. Box 75. Ple«s.nt Valley. N. V. 
BARRON LEGHORNS 
Our lireeders are from high record imported stock. 
Cliicks, $12.00 pel' 100; Eggs, $6.00 per hundred; $1.50 jier 
15; fertility guaranteed. We have been in husines.s for 
forty-live years ami produce our stock on tliree imndred 
acres of range, insiii-ing lienlth and vitor. 
EASTKRJi SHORE A UR8EKIES, Denton, Md, 
rhroe Thousand Breeders on free farm range Inoculated 
ind free from lice. Milk Fed. Special bred for gre.it 
THE KELLS FARMS—S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
This farm is founded on modern business principles. We have 
stock that will make good or we will. If you want to develop 
a profitable strain and need new blood to raise the productivity 
of your flock you need our birds. Vigor, stamina and health is 
the foundation upon which a superstructure of exceptional egg 
records has been built. And these birds have been developed 
along American lines, not forgetting the balance between beauty 
and utility. If this is the kind of blood you need, write us. 
Prices on hatching eggs and baby chicks are reasonable. Catalog on application. 
THE KELLS FARMS, Poultry Dept., New Paltz, N. Y. 
FARMS 
The Largest White Leghorn Farm 
Incubator Capacuy, 48,000 Eggs 
The dem<qnd for our luitchiiig egg.s and baby chicks is so great tbjit or¬ 
ders must be placed at once in order that we may be able to guiirtintee 
deliveries 
Our Single Comb White Ixegborn Breeders will weigh four pounds and 
upwards. These birds are bred to produce I.arge. Marketable White 
Eggs, the entire supply of which is sold by PARK & TliiFORD'S 
STORES in New York. - 
This plant is a commercial success. 
Correspondence solicited. Visitors are cordially invited. 
Send today for Booklet and Price List 
LAURELTON FARMS, Inc., Box H, LAKEWOOD, N. J. 
THE HENYARD 
Improving Laying Qualities 
IIow many eggs do you think I should 
get from 150 S. C. W. Leghorn pullets 
per day for the months of January, Feb¬ 
ruary, also December. These pullets 
were hatched May 4. Do you think that 
it is absolutely necessary to have trap- 
nested stock? What is your idea of 
forcing chickens to lay? Do you feed 
hot wet mash and what time of the | 
day would you feed it? Is it necessary ! 
to trap-nest? Why is it? I have kept 
about 500 S. C. W. Leghorns during 
the past five years. Every year at the 
end of the season I sell off all of the 
earl}’ molters. What are left of the 
hems are kept for breeders for the fol¬ 
lowing Spring. Also I try to raise about 
250 jiullets. The stock is strengthened 
by getting new blood every year. Do 
you think I could make it pay by going 
on this way or is it necessary to trap- 
nest? The trap-nesting is _'a terrible 
nuisance; if I could avoid it I would 
like to. I have fed pullets a forcing 
mash at 11 a. m. with good results. I 
have been asked to try Tom Barron’s 
way of forcing by feeding the wet mash 
at night just hot. The results are very I 
poor and the chickens will not work 
much during the cold day.s. Which time 
do you think the best? G. 0. 
l ain glad that you give me the liberty 
to answer “as well as I can” for your j 
questions hardly admit of categorical re¬ 
plies and I do not like to attempt the 
impossible. If you get from 25% to 
50% egg yield during the Winter months, 
I should think that you were doing well. 
I do not think it “absolutely necessary” 
to have trap-nested stock, or even prac¬ 
ticable, unless one can devote his time to 
his flocks and make a business of breed¬ 
ing. Unless poultry raising can be made 
profitable with ordinary intelligent care 
and a reasonable amount of time de¬ 
voted to it, it would better be aband¬ 
oned for more lucrative pursuits. Bar¬ 
ron’s stock is not so “bred to lay” that 
it will “lay or bust.” In order to get 
good results from Barron’s stock, it 
must be cared for with all the skill that 
any other good strain needs. ^ Barron’s 
success in the laying contests is not due 
alone to his methods of breeding anti 
feeding, but possibly quite as much to his 
exceptional skill in the selection of lay¬ 
ers and the rejection of non-layers from 
a flock. Neither can pullets be “forced to 
lay” by feeding a hot mash at any par¬ 
ticular time of the day ; in fact, I think 
that most practical poultrymen would 
question the wisdom of feeding a hot, 
wet mash at any time of the day. I do 
not feed wet mash, but, If I were to do 
it. I should feed it in the middle of the 
d:iy. and moi.st rather than wet. The 
feeds that you mention are certainly suf¬ 
ficient for good results, though other good 
foods need net be rejected; there are 
fads in poultry foods as well as in those 
for humans. Barley is a good grtiin. rye 
will be eaten by many flocks, gluten 
feed is a valuable addition to the mash 
and Alfalfa meal is excellent. There is 
no sense, however, in trying to .stuff a 
lien with all the varieties of food that 
she ctin he induced to eat. A simple, 
well-balanced ration containing the es¬ 
sential food ingredients in palatable form 
will produce as good results as the most 
complicated mixture possible to devise. 
Yon do well to discard the early molters, 
1 hough there are other points to be 
noted in the selection of the best layers 
from a flock. Early laying, as well as 
bite molting, is an indication'of prolific¬ 
acy. and pale, rough shanks in the Fall, 
with the color laid out of them and out 
of the ear lobes, and a velvety comb, 
bright eye, active nature and wide apart 
pelvic bones all show that the pullet has 
been busy through the season. If you 
mark the pullets that begin laying first 
jind select from them those that show 
the above mentioned evidences of hard 
work in late Fall or early Winter, you 
will Imve the best hiyers without trap¬ 
nesting. though, of course, records can 
only he obtiiined through the use of the 
trap-nest. Mtiles should be i elected 
largely from the performance of their 
ancestors on the female sifle, and here 
only the trap-nest record can be de¬ 
pended upon. With males thus .selected, 
it is not necessary to go outside the 
flock each year for new blood; in fact, 
such practice is detrimental. New blood 
is not necessarily better blood, and unless 
based upon intelligent selection, is quite 
apt to be inferior blood. Good flocks 
are not built up by going outside. 
M. B. I). 
January 27, 191T. 
IMPROVE YOUR STOCK NOW 
by introduci ng blood of the 
FAMOUS TOM BARRON C f W [ FEHORN 
EGG PRODUCERS "• 
We have for ?:ile 100 Pure Bred Tom Barron Cock¬ 
erels. Pedigree guaranteed. These liirds -were 
hatched from the Tom Barron Prize Pen which led 
all Leghorns in the Storrs competition 1914-15, with 
.1 record of 2061 eggs in one year. Price, S5 each. 
A few extras at SIO. Aiso hooking ordei's for hatch¬ 
ing eggs Heimeote Farm, Farmington, Conn. 
M. Toscan Bennett, Owner. Mitron A. Harris, Mrc. 
A. B. Hall’s S. C. W. Leghorns 
PHIPIUI fHELD 4th POSITION among 34 Legliorn en- 
un luAO j ti-ies in last Storrs Contest. March 
2.0 0 Ot c h i c k s, $15—100. C o c k e r el s, $3 to $5. 
per week t Barred Rock cockerels, $3. 1917 Circular. 
A. 11. HALL - Wallingford, Conn. 
BabyChicks andEggs 
White Leghorns and Anconas. From liens 
ivitli records nf 250 to 280. A few cockerels. Write 
for prices. HARTMAN POULTRY FARM. So. Coluinbus, Ohio 
BARRON’S LEGH0RNS’^lS,|t:5';S£: 
erel, $10. HatcliiiiK 
eggs, $7 per 100. Btiby chicks, $15 i>er lot). One pen is 
headed by Lord Egltintine (sou of the 314-egg hen.) 
E. CLAUDE JONES - Craryville, N. Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorns “-k”” 
Baby chicks, Hatcliiiig eggs, Cockerels. Clioice 
Honey and .Maple Syiup. Stitisfaction gn.aranteed. 
Just-a-Alere Farm, Box B, Columbia Cross Roads, Pa. 
World s Champion Layers w "Leghorns ®Aifd 
Wliite Wyandottes, Cockerels, Pullets and Cock 
Binis. Imported direct frnm England. 
IJrookfield Poultry Farm, R. 3, Versailles, Ohio 
Dou niH niilv from onr heavy-laying trap-nest bred 
Uaj-UIQ ulliA .s. C.W. Ljeghorns, $12 per 100. Strong, 
vigorous. Safe delivery guaranteed. Fine breeding 
Cockerels for sale. Prices, $2 to $5 Millbrook 
Farm, M. L PALMER. Prop , Alfred Station, N. Y. 
SunshineStrain®'"®"" 
COMB White Leghorns 
Twelve hundred lireeders. Records np to 2,^. 2,500 
cliicks every week. Write for circular. Satisf action 
gn.iranteed. Sunshine Poultry Farm. Ridgely, Md. 
UATPUlUR CRRQ from Ixeghorns tliat are layers. 
nAluninU lUUu Barron Strain Impovtot Hirect. 
Circular. W. E. Atkinson, Wallingford, Conn. 
Gi bert Farm School, Georgetown, Conn. 
S. C. White Leohoehs. Eggs foe Hatching. 
BARRON LEGHORNS 
248-282-egg strain baby cliicks and hatching egga. 
Circular free. PAHERSON POULTRY FARM, Clayton. N.T. 
Buff Leghorns, etc. 7c. and 
,ip Money Back for Bead ones. 
Jacob Neimond, Box 2, McAlisterville, Pa. 
LOOK! JANUARY 
^ delivery gnai-anteed. IxCg- 
horns, Rocks. Reds, Wyandottes. Minorens. Anconas, 
Orpingtons, Brahmas, $12 a 100. Odds and Ends, $10 a 
lOO. Eggs for hatching, $7 a 100. 12 yearling breeders 
and a cockerel for $18. lAying Pullets $18 a dozen and a 
cockerel free with each dozen. Satne in (;ainpines $20 for 
the IS. Fine cockerels, $2.60 each. 5 for MO. Pest Brooder 
Stove, $14. Catalogue free. Stumps appreciated. 
Nabob Hatcheries - Gambler, Ohio 
Doku PkinLo (B.arron Ijeghorns) $1.5 for lOn. Circular 
OdUy UniCKo free. Elmore Farm, R. 3, Brideeport, ConiT. 
“REGAL 
STRAIN’* 
Chicken Pox in Chickens 
Toll I. F.. page 1520. that the f’ali- 
forniii Experiment Station, Berkeley, 
ChiL, has issued a cii'cular (No. 145) 
on ohicken pox, with full iustructions 
for the use of chickenpox vaccine. The 
station sells vaccine to residents of Cali¬ 
fornia at cost, but as it is necessary to 
use it freshly made it is doubtful if it 
would lie very successful shipped so far. 
Ilowever, the circular referred to gives 
full information for preparing the vac¬ 
cine from chickenpox scabs, and the vac¬ 
cine could be prepared by almost any 
pharmacist with these directions at hancl, 
or by a careful student at a liigh school 
laboratory. F. s. N. 
White Wyandottes 
I have a beautiful lot of birds this season of this 
World’s Famous Standard bred Utility Strain, and 
pan sufiply Eggs for liatching at $2 per 15, $4..50 per 
50, $8 per 100. $7 per 100 in lots of 500 ormqre. With 
eveiy order I shall endenvor to give satisfaction. 
E. B. UNDERHILL. ‘‘Old Orchard Farm,” Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
FOR SALE—WHITE WYANDOHE COCKERELS 
from hens witli records over 200 eggs, $6.00 each: from 
liens under 200 eggs, $8.00each. Have some pure Barron 
fi'i.m hens tiji to 267 eggs from male, dani.s record 282 eggs. 
A. J. FELL, Best I’oint, I’E.N N SY UV A N lA 
Danish White Leghorns—White Wyandottes 
('oci.erels for breed itig. Hatching eggs beginning in 
Feliruniy; the Wyandotte eggs from liens from Bar¬ 
ron stock. OAKHURST FARM, R. F. 0. 2, Doyleilown, Pi. R. F- Aeery 
BARRON’S White Wyandottes 
Males and females I imported direct. Cockerels 
from hens with 255 to 268-egg records. A few pullets. 
E. E. LEW'IS - Apalachln, N. Y. 
Barron Contest Wyandotte Strain ron® leb- 
HORNS, 284 egg strain. Cockerels, puilet< eggs; priees 
reasonable. Mating list. W. E. CATHER. Winchester, V*. 
Cor Qolo WHITE WYANDOHES, GOIDEN WYANDOHES. 
j roroaie WHITE crested black, polish 
I Write for catalogue. Dr. T. PAUL PEERY, Tazewell, Va. 
1 - - - - ■ -- 
j White Wyandotte Cockerels p ?rir$5 
iiiul $10. Middicbrook Poultry Farm, Miss Marion I.Moore, Hamburg,N.T 
^nrrcDEi c s. c. w. leghorns, r. i. reds 
^UtlVLKE.Lo B. P. ROCKS,WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Noiv is the time to mate up your iiens. These are fine, 
vigorous liirds from f;irm riiiige, lieavy laying parent¬ 
age of the well known GIBSON STRAIN. Circular free. 
G. F. GIBSON, Galen Farms, Drawer C, CLYDE, N. Y. 
White Wyandotte Cockerels and Pullets „ e’^s’tTd 
stock; M.ircli • hatched; range - r.-iised; mature. 
H. 'ilcliing eggs from year-old bens, American Leg- 
iiorns and Wyandottes. LUSSCROFT FARM, Sussex, N.J. 
125,000 CHICKS for 1917 
S C WHITE, BROWN. AND BUFF LEGHORNS. B P. ROCKS. 
W. WYANDOTTES. B. MINORCAS AND BROILER CHICKS 
Our large capacity enables us to sell nt lo-w prices. Safe 
delivery guaranteed. Booklet free. 
KEYSTONE HATCHERY, Dept. 24, RICHFIELD, PA. 
K" C I? IT ¥ Q KEAIIY FOR 
VJ ^-xlVUilvllil-iOsEKVlCE 
S. (’. W. and Brown 1 .eghonis, $1..50. Light and Dark 
i'raliinas, REDS and Barred Hocks. $2..5ll eaoli. CHICK 
catalogue free. RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM, Riverilale.N.J. 
BUFF ROCK COCKERELS. FIELD. Somers. Cf. 
30 Best Breeds Poultry 
Stock and Eggs. Lo-w price. Big 
new illustrated circular Free. See it. 
John E. Heatwole, Harrisonburg, Va. 
P ARADISE Breeders of Heavy Laying Poultry. Trap NealeA 
T-DV C C WHITE LEGHORNS 
OULTRT O. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
PARM BUFFPLY. ROCKS, 200-Egg Strain 
" * Day-Old Chicks. Hatching Eggs and Stock 
for Sale. Our 1917 Circufar Free. fioX B, PARADISE, PA. 
I irrhlRrolimae ONLY. Cockerels,$2..50Eacli Hens,$2. 
LlgRT DrHninaS ii'ggs for hatching after .Tauuary Ist 
H.-VYSTAOK MOUXTAINPARM.Nokfolk.Conn 
