262 
^ha RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Utility Leghoras 
High 
Record 
Conscientiously trapnestod everyday In the 
year. We invite you to compare our stock 
and prices vrith any reliable breeders, bar 
none. Full blooded Barron’s imported 
direct, records 240 to 2(10. Three-gnarters 
Barron and lull American stock, records 
ItiO to 200 bred by us. 
Eggs for Hatching, Chicks, Pullets, 
Cockerels, and Pedigreed Breeders 
All sold on the basis of COHI PI^KTK 
.SAT1.SKACTI<)N or pUiciiase prow* re- 
iuncled. A postal brings our Dooklet of facts. 
EAYVILLE 
5. C. 
LEGHORN BREEDERS 
FARMS 
Box R, Bayville, 
Ocean Co., N. J. 
ACT NOW! 
Pedigreed eM*. Cockerels 
5 to 
6 lb*. 
I'edlirreo Sire and Dam with each Cockerel. 
iOO-liCtO cKif heiiH. 8.C. W. l.cirhoriiH ijiu, $K,SIO oarh 
4 lb. licnii, 4 lb. PiiIletH cucli. 
Contest I’en* Storrs, Conn, v muland, N. J. 
Hatching Eggs 
16<>-1!M> eirsr hciiK, ItM) esreH $0.00. 1000 ^50.00 
eoo-siooctcir hciis, i& cirarH 91 ^. 00 , ioo $ 10.00 
Mated to 6 lbs. I'edlprroerl CociceraUjfrom 214-si.M) esrff nens. 
Vifforous, Splendid Kyes. Bi oeU tor ICgKs- 
Snprial Ppn Rirodbv Proven Cock'Rird “Troulilc.” 
ci-iai 1 cu produced 200 egg Pullets from 160 
egg bens. Mated to 20.6-2.SS egg hens. 15 eggs $5.00. 
SS percent fertility Guaranteed. All Pens Mated. 
JAMES F. HARRINGTON, Hammonton, N. J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
EXCLUSIVELY—ON FREE RANGE 
Eggtand Chicks, from selected 2-year old hens — 
Mated with Barron ckls. from best imported 
stock <220-245 egg hens, .sired liy cockerel from 283 
egg hen)—full brothers of pullets with pen average 
of 21 eggs (68%) through December. Eggs guaran¬ 
teed satisfactory to you in appearance and size,and 
90% fertile. Condcc hatched Chicks—strong livable 
birds from stock that has been kept under natural 
conditions. I'ull count and safe delivery guaran¬ 
teed. 36 acres and 25 years’ experience devoted 
to S. C. W. Leglmrns. Eggs, $7 a 100. Chicks, $15 
a 100. Mating list and information on request. 
THE NISSEQUOGUE FARM 
E. T. SMITH, Owner & Mgr. ST. JAMES P. 0., L. L. N. Y. 
Chicks-BABY-Chicks 
Wl 
HY not purch.nf’e from an old breeder of stand- 
mgl You prollt by his yeai-s of experieiioe. Wo 
h'l’Ve spared no expense to peifect our sti-ain of 8. 
C. M bite I.eghurnH. We have no other breed. 
We guarantee Chicks and Kggs for Hatching to be 
from our own bro< dors. Also safe delivery and a 
satisfied customer. 8end us your order. Booklet free. 
Spring Water Poultry Farm 
Stockton, New .Jersey 
BOOK YOUR ORDER EARLY 
English 200-Egg Strain 
’I 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
S. C. R. 1. Reds 
White Wyandottes 
Butt Orpingtons 
World’s Champion Layers 
Our Certified Contest Records are PROOF 
Leghorns—Highest Award North Ainoricaii egg lay¬ 
ing contest, five hens laying 1159 eggs, as follows: 
251, 250, 224 , 222, 192 eggs, iDO pens competing. RCAD 
THIS:—The Ivywood Poiiltry Farm, Avandale. Pa., writes: *‘We 
wtah 10 mention the tact that our pen ot S, C. W. Leghorns entered 
in the 19IS-8 North Amer'can Lpg Laying Contest, just ended, made 
the good record ot 1037, ZOf-egg average. The three gullets 
which made the highest records—252. 242 and 238 eggs—were 
bred trom eggs purchased trom yon. We cannot say enough about 
your birdi." If .you want Leghorns that lay, if oflicial 
reconis mean anything to you, you will secure our 
stiaiii. Reds—Highest bward in their class. N. A. Contest, 
five hens laying 1043 eggs, 209 average, highest ofll- 
cial lied record known. While Wyandottes —Mo. Con¬ 
test:—Ten birds laid 2006 eggs, over 200 average. One 
layer made a record of 260 eggs. 
HATCHING EGGS 
Breeding Stock 
BABY CHICKS 
Write tod.iy for 
co|>y of "The 
Story el the 200- 
Erj Hen," con. 
Uiiningpiciurcs 
of our comireti- 
tion winners, plans of 
trap-nest, feeilingfor- 
miihusand other valu- 
al)le Information that 
will increase your 
yield. I’riee 10c. deducted 
from first order. 
The Penna. Poultry Farm 
Box P, Lancaster, Pa. 
- ^ 
Most 
Profitable 
Poultry 
Known 
GIBSON POULTRY 
THE BiC MONEY MAKERS 
’baby chicks, eggs 
BREEDING STOCK 
S. C. W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds, 
B. P. Rocks, W. Wyandottes 
Oibson baby chicks are vigorous and livable, 
fro II trapnesled farm range. ho:ivy hiylng flocks, 
headed hy males Iroin the floeks producing the 
highest scorino pons at the last international 
laying contoat. Hatching Egga from tho saiiio 
matings guai nnteed elgiity per^ 
cent fertile, (iihson broedera 
are largo, vigorous and will 
make your flock more lu oduc- 
tive and prolltahle. Safe ar- 
rivil guaranteed. Illustra¬ 
ted folder free, write for 
it NOW. 
G. F. GIBSON, Galen Farms 
Box 100, Clyde. N. Y. 
BARRON LEGHORNS 
248-282-666 strain bahv chicks and hatohine eees. 
Circular free. PAHERSON POULTRY FARM, Clayton. N.Y. 
liiiiiin 
THE KELLS FARMS—S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
The Bird that Lays is the Breed that Pays 
Are you interested in securing a breed that pays ? Kells Farms 
Leghorns are bred for profitable production of large white eggs. They 
are bred to perpetuate a strain of layers. But in considering the value of 
this feature, we have not sacrificed vitality, size or beauty. The Kells 
Standard demands breeders that score high on all these points. The 
Kells Strain is the result and W'e guarantee that they will please you. 
Eggs for Hatching, $6.00, $8.00 and $10,00 per hundred 
Day Old Chicks, $14,00, $18.00 and $24.00 per hundred 
Catalog on Application 
THE KELLS FARMS, Poultry Dept., New Paltz, N. Y. 
Eggs for Hatching and Day-Old Chicks 
Hatching eggs from fully matured, carefully mated farm raised 
birds, selected for their prolific laying qualities and vigor. We can 
supply eggs in any quantity, in season, from our matings of' 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
White Plymouth Rocks and Mammoth Pekin Ducks 
Day-Old Chicks 
We can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorns; Day-Old Ducklings, we can supply in limited quantities. 
Write for Price-list, BRANFORD FARMS, Groton, Conn. 
The Largest White Leghorn Farm 
Incubator Capacity, 48,000 Eggs 
The demand for our hatching egg.s and baby chicks is so great that or¬ 
ders must be placed at once in tirder that W’e may be able to guarantee 
deliveries 
Our Single Comb White Leghorn Breeders will weigh four pounds and 
upwards. These birds are bred to produce Large, Marketable White 
Eggs, the entire supjily of which is sold by BARK & TILFOIID’S 
STORES in New York. - 
This pliuit is a commerdial success. 
Correspondence solicited. Visitors are cordially invited. 
Send today for liooklet and Price List 
LAURELTON FARMS, Inc., Box H, LAKEWOOD, N. J. 
THE HENYARD 
When to Buy Chicks 
I would like to purchase some baby 
Leghorn chicks this Spring to raise for 
Winter layers. When will be the proper 
time to purchase .same? They tell me if 
I get them too early in the Spring that 
they will only lay a few eggs in the Fall 
and then they will start to molt. 
New Jersey. D. A. p. 
While an experienced poultry man can 
delay somewhat his early birds and also 
force his later hatches, yet it is much 
better for one just starting in the busi¬ 
ness to have chicks hatched the latter 
hiilf of April. If hatched earlier they 
may make a partial molt and are hard 
to get started laying again; while, if 
hatched much later, they may be caught 
by cold weather before starting to lay 
and are unprofitable. One coal stove 
brooder would care for 300 chicks nicely. 
New York. f. q. w. 
Leghorn-Wyandotte Cross 
I am thinking of crossing a White 
Tveghorn cockerel with White Wyan¬ 
dotte hens. I want to get a new strain. 
I have a nice flock of 57 Rhode Island 
Reds. In November and December they 
iaid 102 dozen eggs. Some of the pul¬ 
lets wanted to sit, but I broke them in 
three or four days and they went to lay¬ 
ing. What was the cause? o. A. ir. 
Jvong Island. 
There can he no objection to the ci’oss 
you propose if you wish to make it. I 
do not see, however, what you will gain. 
The result will he a fowl of le&*s value 
for meat than the Wyandotte and less 
valuiihle as a layer thtin the Leghorn. 
’'J''he eggs cannot be sold as white egg.s, 
and there is no reason to believe that 
tliere will be more of them, thus making 
ni) the difference in price. Cro.ssing tw’O 
pure breeds will not give you a new 
“strain,” hut simply a mongrel mixture. 
It is continually done and the results 
may be seen in any mixed farm flock. 
There seems to be ti notion among those 
not actpiaijited with the princijilcs of 
breeding that the good qualities of dif¬ 
ferent breeds iiuiy he combined in one 
breed hy cros.sing them; so Jerseys are 
crosstM with llolstein.s, Pereliei’ons with 
Arabs. Plymouth Rocks with Leghorms, 
etc. The result in each case is ti mix¬ 
ture of 3Andely varying types that can 
produce desirable progeny only by 
chance; and the chance is loo .smtill to 
make the effort worth while. 
It is not' unusual for pullets or hens 
that liave laid well to have broody spoils 
out of setison. M. B. l). 
Digestive Trouble 
I have White Legliorns and Rarred 
Plymouth Rocks. Occasiontilly the tlrop- 
pings are a yellow with air bubbles in 
it. with offensive odor. I give scrtitch 
feed night and morning, :i mtish at noon 
or green food, cabbage; water often in 
cold Aveather. I have shells before them 
all the time, give charcoal once or twice 
a week. What is the trouble? 
Connecticut. A. :5r. k. 
Perhaps an overindnlgeiice in cabbage, 
or other green food. »See to it, jilso, that 
none of their other food is musty or 
spoiled in any way. Fowls, like other 
tinimals are subject to temporary dis¬ 
turbances of the digestive orgtins. par¬ 
ticularly if being heavily fed and if meat 
in some form is being given. You do not 
mention the lattei’, but you may ho giv¬ 
ing ttw much meat, or some that is taint¬ 
ed. Ix)ok out for that_ when the drop¬ 
pings show digestive disorders. 
M. B. D. 
Poor Egg Yield 
For a small flock of poultry, with a 
small run in city, what is the feeding 
value of small pottitoes at 25e per 
bushel, boiled and stale bread at 3e per 
loaf, made into a mash for breakfast? 
Wheat scattered in litter, corn and oats 
in evening. Meat scraps twice a week 
from butcher."-. Meat is boiled, grit 
and oyster shell, with fresh 3vater, quar¬ 
ters wiirm and comfoi-table. I get hut 
very few eggs, some without shell. What 
is wrong with the above? w. i). 
West Virginia. 
You .should first take into considera¬ 
tion the fact that October, November 
and December are the three hardest 
months in which to produce eggs, and 
that if you are to expect eggs in paying 
quantities viuring these months it is first 
neces.sary to have good early-hatched pul¬ 
lets which liavc been well cared for dur¬ 
ing their entire period of growth. They 
also must have had plenty of room dur¬ 
ing this period and not kept confined in 
a small ytird. An orchard or cornfield 
furnishes almost ideal conditions for 
raising the pullets which arc to become 
Fall and Winter layers. Old liens molt 
during the fall and early Winter months 
and do not, as a rule, lay many eggs 
until January. 
Your method of feeding can be im¬ 
proved somewhat without any extra 
trouble or expense. To begin with, you 
are feeding a mash for breakfast, when 
it sliould be fed for luncli. When fowls 
are fed a moist mash early in the morn¬ 
ing they are very hungry and eat to 
excess before they get exercise enough 
, February 17. 1917. 
SPECIAL NQTICE 
"We believe every advertiser In our Poultry 
Pepartiiient Is honest and reliable. We stand 
hack of the.se classified advertisements with our 
“S<iuare Deal Guarantee,” as we do the display 
advertisements. Those purchasing eggs for 
hatching and baby chicks must understand that 
they are assuming some risk when ordering from 
a distance. For the most part eggs and chicks 
carry safely, but sometimes rough handling by 
the express companies or exposure to heat and 
cold causes damage. That eggs fail to hatch or 
chicks die is not conclusive evidence of bad 
faith on the part of the seller, and we shall not 
consider claims on that basis. To avoid contro¬ 
versy buyer and seller should have a definite un¬ 
derstanding as to the responsibility assumed in 
case of dissatisfaction. 
—- Cocks and Cockerels — 
BABY CHICKS and HATCHING EGGS 
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. 
a WHITE LEGHORNS Exclusively 
YOUNG AND BARRON STRAINS 
Three Thousand Breeders on free farm range Inoculated 
and free from lice. Milk Fed. Special bred for great 
AVintcr laying. Kggs for hatching now ready in any 
quantity at $6 per 100. Now booking orders for BABY 
CHICKS March and April delivery @ $12 per 100. Cap¬ 
acity 10 to 12,000 weekly. My book Profits in Poultry 
Keeping Solved, FR EE with all $10 orders. 
1917 ClRCUhAItS NOW READY. 
EDGAR BRIGGS. Box 75, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
pEglanllnc Cockerels $5—i 
Vigorous White Leghorns from the breeders o£ the world’s 
most famous layer— 
;;LA1>Y KGLANTINK’*—314 EGG RECOIID. 
Queen Caroline** her sister laid 510 eggs in 24 con¬ 
secutive montlis. 49 Eglantine pulleu laid 11,007 eggs in 
one year, 2'14 average. 
Double youT egg yield^the male is the chief 
Bgluntine stock is bests Cockerel list frees 
EGLANTINE EA.RIVIS 
Box R Greenstyoro, IVlaryland 
Barron-Eglantine Strain 
of S. C. W hite Leshorns 
the strain witli the record beliind it. Eggs, chicks 
and cockerels. S.C. Rhode Island Reds. Large, dark 
birds. lleavy.l!iyers. Prices reasonable. Catalogue. 
Wy-Hae. Parm - R. 1, Denton, Md. 
Barron S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks and Eggs 
from diiectly imported pedigreed stock. Also Amer¬ 
ican bred record layers of large, white eggs. Breed¬ 
ers liave free range and selected for heavy laying, 
vigor and size. Any number, strong, properly- 
liatched chicks. Safe arrival g'.iaraiiteed. Prices 
low. Circular free. R. X. Ewing:, Atlantic, Pa. 
BARRON LEGHORNS 
Our iireeders arc from high record Imported stock. 
Cliicks, $12.00 per lOOj Eggs, $6.00 per hundred; $1,50 per 
15; fertility guaranteed. We have been in business for 
forty-live years and produce our stock on three hundr^ 
acres of range, insuring healtli and vigor. 
JCAKTKKiS SHORE NURSERIES. IJcnton, Md. 
LEGHORNS-BARRON WYANDOTTES 
Now offering eggs from highest quality breed¬ 
ers. Our direct imported Pens AA, witli rec¬ 
ords 278. 280. 281, 282, 282, and otliers, mated to 
sons of 650-egg hen in three years and 460-hen in 
two years. Many other record breeders. Large 
breeding farms are our satisfied customers. 
THE BARRON FARM, R. F. D. No. 3. ConnellsvlIIe, Pa. 
CHASE POULTRY FARM 
F. M. DAVIS, R.D. No. 1, Cincinnatus, N.Y. 
Breeder Utility S. O. W. Logh'irns of the best 
strains. Write for Pree Catalog. 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
Baby chicks. Hatching eggs, Cockerels. Choice 
Honey and .Majile Syrup. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
.Just-a-Mere Parm, Box B, Columbia Cross Roads, Pa. 
Baby Chicks and Eggs En”gTi»i®s.®c; 
White tieghorns an<l Anconas. From hen* 
with records of 2.50 to 280. A few cockerels. Write 
for prices. HARTMAN POULTRY FARM, So. Columbus. Ubio 
Bred-lo-Lay Single Comb White Leghorns 
Baby chick, March and April delivery, $12 per 100. 
Hatching eggs, now ready, $6 per 100. Safe Deliv- 
er.v. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 
PERKY KKIGGS - Pleasant Valley, N. V. 
Baby Chicks S- C. White Leghorns J^ron™ 
■ ' r healthy, vigorous layers, th* 
kind that make profits. Al.so Hatching Eggs. Write 
at once for p.articiilars. Horton's Point Poultry 
Farm, R. F. 1). No. 37, Southold, New York 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
DAY-OLD CHICKS siWoo 
HATCHINC EGGS 
BECK EQQ FARM • WOODCLIFF LAKE. N. J. 
BABY CHIX-HATCHING EGGS-BREEDERS 
Whilg Wyindolles, R. I. Rtdi, Birrnd Roekt, T.ight and Dark Brah¬ 
mas, S. C. W. and B. Leghorns. Utility and show quality. 
Liglit Brahma cockerels, $2.60 each. Catalogue free. 
Kiverdale Poultry Farm, Box IBS. Riverdale, N. J. 
S INGl.E COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCK- 
EKEI.S. Good, vigorous stock. 9‘4.50 each. 
In lots of five. $2 each. W. S. HARRIS, Mansfield, Mass. 
Sunshine Strain Iom'’b WhiteLeghorns 
Twelve hundred breeders. Records up to 258. 2,500 
chicks every week. Write for circular. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Sunshine Poultry Farm, Ridgely.Md. 
Gilbert Farm Schoolg Georgetown, Conn. 
S. C. Whitk Lkohorns. Eggs fob Hatching. 
nRV.niHnhlV from our heavy-laylng trap-nest bred 
UdJ UlUUniA S. C.W. Leghorns, $12 per 100. Strong, 
vigorous. Safe delivery guaranteed. F-iiie breeding 
Cockerels for sale. Prices, $2 to $5. Mlllbrook 
Farm, M. L PALMER, Prop., Alfred Station, N. Y. 
Hampton’s Black Leghorns 
I’en 98 at VINELAND. Now is the time to book your or 
der for my famous Black Leghorn day-old cliicks and 
eggs. Circular free. A. E. Hamptan, Box R, Pittstowii.N.J. 
