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7Jhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Don’t be satisfied— 
just to keep chicks alive 
It costs just as much to keep 
undersized chicks as healthy 
vigorous ones. You must de¬ 
velop chicks—and the faster 
the better—to save profits. 
And proper feed will help 
more than anything else. 
H-O Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
is a halancefl combination of bone and tissue 
bui)<lint? elements. Steam-cooked for easy 
digestion and speedv Jissimilation. Write for 
free sample, jtriees tind descriptive folder. 
TheH-0 Company 
Mills: 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
John J. Campbell, 
General Sales Agent 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
They DelivetThe Goods! 
T he Martling Silver Campines lay an abundant 
supply of large, absolutely chalk-white eggs, at one- 
ihird less cost of feeding, than any other breed of 
fowl. They do this in ui/n/er and summer. They are 
the greatest Prize-winning strain in America. “Cham¬ 
pionship" at Panama-Pacific Exposition. First prize for 
largest and whitest eggs, wherever shown. Hatching 
Eggs for sale—we positively guarantee a satisfactory 
hatch. Let us send our Price-list and guarantee. 
THE MARTLING HENNERY. P. 0. Box. 4. Ridoefield. N. J. 
freeBook 
tells how to make more 
money from poultry. Shows 
ttie most prolitahle baby 
chicks to buy —pure broil, 
well hutched, from heavy-egg 
strains. Over a million ayetir. 
Prices low. 
W. F. HILLPOT 
Box 1, Frenchtown, N. J. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkey*, Pheasants,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for Btockinwr piirposo-s. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks. Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Pears, Foxes, Rac¬ 
coon. Sanirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN. Naturalist, Dept. 10, Yardley, Pa. 
AMERICAN DOMINIQUES 
GOLDEN WYANDOTTES 
W. H. Adkins _Swoope, Va. 
Barred Plpouth Rocks 
Bred from heavy-laying hens and winners of theblne 
at New York, Boston and N. .1. .State shows this 
winter. Kememher the time is at hand when the 
show bird and the utility fowl will ho bred into one. 
I have them now. Clioice breeding hinls for sale. 
A. L. VRJEELAND - Nutley, N. J; 
BARRED ROCKS—WHITE ROCKS 
W. OIJI'INGTON’S K. 1. KKI»R-U VANl»OTTE8 
Havln»r lil#**! to upednllzi* on Hurrun w«» offer Htcck 
chfi Uo and fiTJafl Ii*"**' above meiitlonetl bivcd.s at aarijnce 
privefl. KASTKILN HIIOKB NUUSKU1F8, Denton, 31(1 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Bred l.'i years for high production of eggs and meat. 
H.-itidiing eggs that are showing fertile, !S 8 per 
100, !S75 per 1,000. Day-old chicks, ISIO per .SO, »18 
per IIIO; per 1,000. Free cireniar. Write for it. 
Wilson’s Poultry Farm. Hollis, N. H. 
8 7 2 
, p Nested. 
K <; <« K state tested for w. iliai rhea. Bred for 
From one lieu Kggs.Cockerels. IlnteliiiiK lOggs. Chicks. 
In i years. Circular. NOBSCOT EGG FARM, Nobicol, Mass. 
Utility BARRED ROCKS 
Cockerels from hens with records of 203 to 235 iu 
Fourth Storrs Contest, $3 each. Hatching eggs. 
MerrittM. Clark,Brookfield Center.Conn. 
White Rocks—R. I. Reds 
M M.KS FlKiM mini PRODUORUS 
EGGS, $7; CHIX, $18 per hundred 
SPKI'lAb M.VTINGS AND I'KmiiKKKI) COCKKUKt-S 
Perry Farm. B- F. D., Rockland, Mass. 
FRED H. CANN, Mgr. 
Barred Rocks-Eggs fe ^er^oo 
Dav-Old Chicks. 112 per 100. COCKERELS, S5 each. 
A. C. Jones, Marvel Homestead Farm, Georoetown, Del. 
‘‘Perfection” Barred Rocks(Ringlefs) 
SPECIAL FOR BALANCE OF YEAR. $10 cockerels, $5. $5 
cockerels. $3. Best we ever raised. Jloney back if 
not nleased. A few pullets and exhibition stock rea¬ 
sonable. Dr. GEO. T. HAYMAN, Box 20, Doylestown, Pa. 
White Orpington Eggs, Chicks and Cockerels 
Stevens Keliable Yards, Culver Road, LYONS, N. Y. 
D„k.,PU!nl/o (Barron Leghorns) $15 for 100. Cireniar 
BaDyUniCKS fj-ee. Elmore Farm, R. 3, Bridoeport, Conn. 
lJUFF KOCK COCKKKELS. FIELD, Somers. Ci. 
DCn PUIPI/C THAT LIVE. *18 PER lOO 
nCU UniliKu K. S. Kijukuton, Roi kvii.i.k, Conk. 
» »l(I licnn, lOUriOlfU lO (‘IKUltSCll puitiuin. ns-v LW t/x^Tis 
Youiij^ Ihuxs*, ten to oij^hteon pouiuls. tlve to ten dollars. 
Voinijif toms, sixteen to t\veuty*ci| 2 :ht jiounds, seven to 
Jifieen dollars. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H. W. Anderson - Stewartstown, Pa. 
Both Hens and Gobblers bred 
1 UrKeysrOrdaie fvomWlId and Bronze stock. 
Prices right. Address E. A. Pugli, Oxford, Pa. 
en D.aoHo Fine Catalog free. Tells about ('hick- 
HU DIBBUS g„g Dneks. Geese. Turkeys, Guineas, 
Bantams, Dogs. Belg. Hares and Cavies. Stock tind 
Hatching Eggs aSpecialty. EUWl.N A.JSOt'UElt, 'rtlford, !■», 
to .start their blood nicely to circu¬ 
lating. After their appetites are sat¬ 
isfied they have no incentive to work, so 
stand around like a lazy man until the 
next feeding time. A lazy hen is not 
very valuable as a layer. Boiled pota- 
toe.s and stale bread are both good feeds 
and no doubt are worth the price you 
pay. but they are both very fattening, 
and great care must be taken not to 
overfeed, especially when feeding a small 
flock. You will also got better results 
by feeding the moat scraps every day in¬ 
stead of twice a week. Again, you do 
not state that you are feeding any 
ground grains in your mash. From one- 
half to three-fourths of the mash should 
be composed of cornmeal, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings and ground oats, equal 
parts mixed into a crumbly mash with 
the boiled potatoes, stale bread and meat 
serap. The scratch feed to be fed morn¬ 
ing and evening may he mixed equal 
parts craeked corn, whole wheat and 
clipped oiits. c. S. G. 
Limits of Line Breeding 
One of the two cockerels I bought for 
my breeding pen is sick. I have a fine 
one of my own stock. Can I breed him 
to yearling hens, alternating every week 
witli the well cockerel? I also have a 
fine, healthy rooster. Can I breed him 
to his pullets? Is tliLs line breeding? 
Ilow many pullets should be put with 
the rooster, and how many hens with 
the cockerels? Can I breed from thes-e 
two strains next year? I do not quite 
understand the limits of line breeding. 
Connecticut. E. F. n. 
T do not know that “line breeding” 
lia.s any limits, other than to avoid mat¬ 
ing defective birds, and particularly 
those having defects in common. Thei-e 
is no reason why yon should not mate a 
good bird to his own progeny, hearing 
in mind the caution suggested above. 
Do not n.se a sick bird iu the breeding 
lien, either part or the whole of the time, 
fl’lie vigor of a stock is hard enough to 
nmintain at he.st. A good rooster or 
cockerel may he mated with from 30 to 
40 hens or pullets of the lighter breeds. 
Breeding pens of the heavy breeds 
should not be quite as large, perhaps 20 
to 2.0 females with one male. _ Breeding 
fowls to their own progeny is line brood¬ 
ing and also inbreeding. The distinction 
het.wt'eii these terms does not seem to 
lijivc any well-marked basis or to he 
made on generally accepted lines. 
M. B. I). 
Sprouted Oats for Breeding Fowls 
We have occasionally read, and been 
told that sprotited oats fed to breeders, 
especiiilly in the late Winter montL.s, for 
ciirly breeding, when the birds are either 
confined, or if on range, when it is prac- 
ficiilly barren, will increase the percent¬ 
age of fertility in the eggs, other condi¬ 
tions being satisfactory. Do you know 
wliether this has been proven by oxperi- 
mmit? B. Ii. 
New Y’ork. 
I know of no official record of experi¬ 
ments with sprouted oats being fed to lay¬ 
ing hens for the purpose of i^proasing the 
pm-centage of fertility in the eggs, hut it 
i.s a niiitter of common knowledge among 
jiractical poultrymen thtit sprouted oiits 
imike an ideal feed for this purpo.se and 
iiolp to produce Summer conditions during 
the early breeding season. C. s. c. 
A Poultry Building Problem 
T have a yetirling Black Langshan hen 
which was st'parate, so that I <‘ould get 
her individual egg record from Septemlwr 
B) to November 10, when she stopped 
laying to Complete her molt. During 
tiiese 5.3 days site laid 45 very large 
eggs. I believe lier yearly record would 
pass the 200 mtirk. I am anxious to get 
enough pullets from tliis hen so that I 
eau spare a pen for au egg-laying con¬ 
test, and w'lmld like to ii.sk your advice 
on mating her to the best re.sults. 3'lie 
sire of this hen wiis a .son of a first- 
prize pullet at Wadison Sqmtre Garden 
severiil years ago,_ which wiis also 'an 
unusually line Winter layer. But he 
met with an accident hist Snmmer, .so 
that I hiul to kill him. I have, however, 
a full hruthcr of the above hen from the 
same sire. AVonld you advise me to 
mate these two birds for this one season? 
Both are strong, vigorous, active birds 
and in the pink of health. Or would you 
advise me to get a mtile from auoth<>r 
good laying strain and risk the “nick¬ 
ing” of the two strains? For years T 
liiive line-bred my stock, selecting good 
layers for breeders. K. w. H. 
('onnecticut. 
'I'lie generally accepted doctrine of 
traii.smission of productivity nowadays is 
Hmt this characteristic is transmitted 
through the sire and represents the abil¬ 
ity of his female anct'stry. 3Tiis being 
tli(‘ <'ase, sons of high producers are 
chosen for the breeding pens and the 
longer the rt'eord of high productivity 
hchind the sire the more likely, of course, 
that he will he prepotent in this respect 
and able to transmit the character to his 
jirogeny. According to this conceiition. 
the brother of the hen, having a different 
niitternal ancestry from that of his sire, 
cannot be expected to possess the same 
iiliility to tiansmit productive power, 
lie has, however, his sire’s blood and 
should be able to transmit other desirable 
characteristics of that sire. I should use 
him in preference to another mtile of un¬ 
known ability iu tiny line. M. H. u. 
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The big brooder at the little price 
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MamifiU'tiirors of 
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ii 
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$50 PROFIT-125 CHICKS HATCHED 
•‘Having fine luck with the brootler, and have my 
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all expense.'* Geo. W. Thomas, 
April 29, 1916 Klmberton, Pa. 
CAN DEE COLONY BROODER 
Broods up to 5U0 chicks fn one fiock. 
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Improved Parcel 
Post Egg Boxes 
New Flats and Fillers 
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Leg Bands -O ata Sprouters 
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K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison Sireet, New York 
BREHM’S Beef Scrap and Bone 
Tliin sti.i‘k isHclected from sweet, clean beefernek- 
liiig.s witil viuiugli souiul bone to build up growing 
elilcIcH and form egg.s. The percentage of protein 
Is not ni tiliriiilly raised by using otfnl that slionid 
go into fertilizer. 
Our Works are Independent of Trust Dictation 
Wo inalco wliat iioultryinea wuiit, and put years 
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II. F. ItRKllM - WATEKI.OO. N. Y. 
125,000 CHICKS for 1917 
8. C. WHITE. BROWN, AND BUFF LEGHORNS. B. P. ROCKS. 
W. WYANDOTTES, B. MINORCAS AND BROILER CHICKS 
Our large capacity enables us to sell at low prices. Safe 
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KEYSTONE HATCHERY, Dopt. 24, RICHFIELD, PA. 
P 
ARADISE Breeders of Heavy LayinQ Poultry. Trap Heated 
/Mil TDV Q WHITE LEGHORNS 
(/ULbIKT 9m RHODE ISLAND REDS 
FA P M ROCKS, 200-EgK Strain 
Day-Old Chlcka. Hatching Egga and Stock 
fortSale. Our 1917 CIrcufar Free. BoX B, PARADISE. PA. 
CRCC from best 20 varieties tbovouglibred poultry, 
CUUO ] 5 _!tsl; 50-S3; 100-»5.50. Good stock. 
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CHICKS AND EGGS 
Circular. E. R. HUMMER S CO., R. 0. A, Frenchtown, N. J. 
Utility Leghorn Eggs ^ 
back. EGGMONT POULTRY YARDS, Center Marshfield, Mass. 
OurS.C.WhiteleghornChicks 
10,000 hatehed from 1,000—4 to 5-lb. yearlings, 
whieh are Fed aud Bred for Size and Egg 
Produetioii, Straight American and l.incoln- 
Barron Strains. Circular. 
ORCHARD VIEW POULTRY FARM. (Est. 16 yn.) Acushnet, Mass. 
Tiffany’s Superior Chicks That Live 
silver White aiul Columbian Wyandottes, S. 
C. It. 1. Ked.s, !Si18 per lOO, !#1«5 per 1,000. 
Mareli delivery. I’ekiu and Kouen Diicklingg, 
iS'.i.'i per TOO. Bred and Hatehed Right. 
ALDHAM POULTRY FARM, R. 34, Phoonixville, Pa. 
Eggs for Hatching,8 cts. each 
CLASS A SELECTED R. I. REDS 
See report of our pen, Vinel.and Gontest. .Also from 
Iiady Baron, 308 eggs, and Wyckoff Beghorns. 
Range raised. All well formed. Strong, free from 
disease birds. Inspection invited. 
Bclle-Ellen Stock Farm, J. L. Hamilton, Mgr., Sussex, N. J. 
60 BOSt Broods T^urkeyB, Hares 
Dogs and (’aviea. Stock and Eg 
Catalogue Fn c. II. A, l80Ll>Eli, Uox 2!), SelUrtvllle, 
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