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U>>« RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R 
March 3, 1917. 
I Improve Your Stock Now | 
I by introducing blood of the i 
I FAMOUS TOM BARRON EGG PRODUCERS | 
IS. C. W. Leghorns | 
i We have for sale 100 Pure Bred Tom Barron Cock- i 
I erels. Pedigree guaranteed. These birds wei-e I 
i hatched from the Tom Barron Prize Pen which led | 
1 all leghorns in the Storrs competition 1914-16, with a I 
i record of 2001 eggsiii oneyear.I’rlec. eneli. A few = 
i extrasat <>10. Also bookingordei'sfor hatcliingeggs. | 
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I HELMCOTE FARM - Farmington, Conn. | 
I M. Tosoan Beknktt, Owner Myron A, Uarkis, Mgr. f 
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Pedigreed 6 lbs. Cockerels 
I’edlgrec Blrc iind Pam with each Cockerel. 
200-S50egg hens, i^.C. W. I.eghorns^M, $10 each 
4 lb. liens, 4 lb. Pullets <><{ each. 
Contest Pens Storrs, Conn. Vineland, N. J. 
Hatching Eggs 
100-199 egg hens, 100 eggs #«.00, 1000 ORA-OO 
S00-860cgg hens, 15 eggs 9S.OO, 100 SIO.OO 
Mated to 6 lbs. Pedigreed Cockerels, from 214-2.50 egg bens. 
Vigorous, Splendid Ey®8- Biced for Eggs. 
Snorinl Pati Sired by Proven Cock'Bird “Trouble.” 
aipcciai 1 cu produced 200 egg Pullets from 160 
egg hens. Mated to 206-239 egg liens. 16 eggs 8.5.00. 
S5 percent FerllHty Guaranteed. All Pent Mated. 
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HOKNS/rhoronghly Acclimated and Americanized 
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Danish White Leghorn 8 .^?«H^s^\fu’^a“c^^^^^ 
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LEGHORNS 
V U K K B R B 1) 
We IMPORTEOdircct 
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Erin, N. Y. 
Lansing’s Laying Leghorns S2.5(b"'F^°r 
Farmers’ Foundation Flocks. E. 0- LANSING, Romulut, N. 1. 
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White Holland Turkeys 
Pure Bred, l.ai-go, Vigorous May and Junehatclied biixls. 
Old hens, fourteen to eighteen pounds, six to ten dollars. 
Young hens, ten to eighteen pounds, nvo to ten dollars. 
Young toms, sixteen to twenty-eight pounds, seven to 
fifteen dollais. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H. W. Anderson - Stewartstown, Pa. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkey*, Pheasants, Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stocklntr purposes. 
Fancy FheJisants, Peafowl. Oi aiies, Storks, Swans 
Orniimental Ducks and (^eese, Bears. Foxes, Rae! 
coon. .Squirrels, and all kimis of iiirds and animals 
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For Sale-Five Pure Bred Toulouse Geese 
$4.50 each. Kosecrest Farm, Ramsey, N. J. 
M OTTI.F.D AMCOIYAS, Blue-Bell strain. Baby chicks 
and hatching eggs. GEO. K. BOlVDISII, Espcrnoce, A.Y. 
P EKIN AN1> ni'FF ORPINGTOIV 1>I:CK8 AN» 
IIRAKEB. ICeasxiisble. Write GEO.WILUAMSON.FIanders.N.J. 
Champion HeavyweightDarkCornish bi®®fd^ w^l^te 
for mating list. E. K. SCOTT, Dansville, N. Y. 
F or sale—beautiful white Holland Gobblers. 
i^rice $8 auu $10. Mrs, Geo. Davidson, Annapolis, Md. 
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Breeders *25 a dozen. Cockerels 13. 10-days-old chick^ 
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P RIZE WINNING 8, C.WHITE LEGHORN COCK¬ 
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Eggs 10 cents. Cockerels and chicks. Catalog free. 
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The Lenox Strain of White Wyandottes 
Pen 8, headed by Crystal. Grand dam of this bird 
liiid over 240 egg.s. Dam, over 180. Eight females in 
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Poultry and Live Stock 
“^Wildness” and Leghorns 
Who was it said that Leghorn fowls 
are wild as hawks? Find him, and let 
him come and look at the picture .shown 
on this page. There certainly is no wild- 
nc.ss alxHit the.se birds, for they tiro as 
tame tis they well can be. 
Th(>se Leghorns are owned by J. F. 
Hubois of Miissachiisetts and about the 
only wildness they show is their desire to 
fall in and get it liite of apple. After 
all, however, wildness in birds or other 
animals dejiends very much on the char¬ 
acter of their keeiier. He can turn them 
into hiiwks or into jilain hens, just 
about as he ctires to. through the treat¬ 
ment he gives them. Not long ago we 
had a letter from a tvoman who found 
serious fault with a certain breeder of 
Leghorns because, she .said, instead of 
,sending her Brown Leghorns, he had 
sent her stune wild bird, something like 
ferret in the holes and watch the rats 
until they come out. We then have dogs 
to kill the rats. Some people shoot 
them, others kill them with clubs. We 
have at times when there was a snow on 
the ground thrown a ferret in a building 
and left it there during the night. If the 
feiTct happened to ramble or wander 
away we tracked it next morning and re- 
oiptured it. I remember one instance 
when we did this and recaptured the fer¬ 
ret about mile from home. b. f. t. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, March 3, 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Champion Peddler and His Motor Truck 313, 352 
Small Potatoes for Seed.316. 352 
Corn for Canning Factories .323 
Destroying Quack Grass .^323 
Hen Manure on Corn .330 
Hope Farm Notes .334, 343 
Double Cropping in lUinois .342 
A Bunch of Tame Massachusetts Leghorns 
a large quail. She received u .‘netting of 
eggs from this brtH*d and hatched them 
out under a hen, but when they got of 
reasonable size, they left the hen tind 
settled down in a swamp and she had 
found herself unable to get near them, 
therefore, they were wild birds! In¬ 
vestigation showed that this woman had 
been in the habit of running out of 
doors when the chickens got in her gar¬ 
den and shaking her aprem at them. This 
action on the part of an energetic wom¬ 
an of considerable size was enough to 
put wildness into the heart of almost 
anything, from the man of the hou.se 
down, and these Brown Tveghorn chick- 
en.s evidently could not understand what 
terrible creature was approaching them 
when thiit apron moved about like a 
flag, so they took to the woods and re¬ 
mained there. The contrast between 
these wild Ijeghorns and the birds 
shown in this picture is certainly re¬ 
markable. Probably if this woman had 
tiiken those little birds up inta her apron 
and petted them a little, in.stead of 
shaking the apron at them, there would 
have been fewer birds ttt take to the 
Transplanting Alfalfa Root* . 
The Rent Payer . 
Postscripts . 
Cover Crops to Discourage Weeds. 
Two Potato Crops In Succession. 
Onions Following Club-rooted Cabbage.. 
Tomatoes on Limed Soil . 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
How to Make the Butter Come . 
Combination Silage Crop .. 
Mercurial Ointment for Cattle . 
White on Purebred Airedale . 
Price of Butterfat . 
Keeping Cream Cheese . 
Gasoline and Hogs . 
Milk Notes . 
Silo for Six Cows . 
Statistics of a Dairy County .. 
Raising Brood Sows . 
Feeding Idle Horse . 
Ration tor Jersey Feeding . 
Cow Peas and Rye for Pigs . 
Improving Dairy Ration . 
Increasing Butterfat . 
Another Dairy Ration . 
A Narrow Ration .!!!!!!! 
Food Value of Skim-miik . 
Knuckling . 
Dark Urine . 
Impaction .!!!!!”. 
Scurfy Pig ..!.!'!!. 
Lymphangitis; Abortion ..!!!!!!!!!!]!!! 
Sorghum for Brood Maro .i.’ 
Swelling . 
Black Teeth . 
Necrotic Stomatites . 
Nasal Gleet . 
Questions About Ferrets .. 
THE HENYARD. 
Diseased Fowls . 
Line Breeding . 
Fowls With Bowel Trouble . 
Care of Geese .” ' 
Hen-hatched Chicks . 
“Wildness” and Leghorns .!! 
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woods. 
Questions About Ferrets 
No. 1. If .uii untrained ferret was put 
into a box aud fed would it come hack to 
a box the same as a cat if it were given 
its liberty? If the ferret was given liberty 
it would not come back to the box very 
often. I have had ferrets (old ferrets) 
that were as tame as they could he, get 
out of the pens and wander away and 
later be killed by dogs or people who did 
not know what they were. A ferret is on 
the order of a skunk. It is their nature 
to wander, although neither of these ani¬ 
mals can travel very fast, their gait is 
about the same as the natural walk of a 
person. It is very easy to catch a ferret 
while at liberty. 
No. 2. Is there much trouble with fer- 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Spraying Problem .311,335 
The Everbearing Strawberry .312, 324 
Carnation Growing .312, 326, 327 
Cultivating the Apple Orchard .313, 329 
The Pruning of Peach Trees Previous to Plant¬ 
ing in the Orchard .314, 323, 332 
The Culture of the Blueberry .314, 330 
Plant Only Quality Apples .315, 332 
Tractors tor Orchard Work .315. 350 
The Bear Tree ...315 
A Strong-growing Chinese Peach .!...3I6 
Curious Grafting Results .316 
Trees from the Nursery .317 
Making Bordeaux Mixture .317 
Harvesting New Jersey Apples .317 
New Fruits .313 
Methods of Grafting ..319 
Blackberries; Cabbage; Pears .319, 320 
Garden Preparedness .320 
Intensive Garden Notes .!32l 
The Codling Moth .324 
Steam Sterilization of Soil .325 
The Wonderful Papaya .326 
The Chayote—A New Vegetable .326 
A Fruit Growers’ Travels, Part II.329 
Cauliflower Falls to Head; Trumpet Vine from 
Seed .330 
Value of Apple Trees .332 
A Few Notes on Apple Varieties .332 
The Tomato-Potato Graft .335 
Six Middlemen Handle Apples .336 
Tractors for Orchard Use .342, 343 
Head Lettuce, in Summer .348 
A September Cauliflower .348 
Fertilizer Mulched Hill Orchards .360 
rets killing chickens after they are left 
at liberty? 
A ferret cannot catch a chicken in a 
yard, as the ferret is a very slow traveler, 
A chicken, if in a large yard or iu ti 
large pen, will get out of the road of a 
ferret. If the roosts are a few feet above 
the floor in the hen house, the ferret can¬ 
not climb to where the chickens are roost¬ 
ing. 
AVheu we want to run rats we put the 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.338 
Seen in New York Shops .338, 339 
The Rural Patterns .338 
Some Unskilled Gardening .339 
Embroidery Designs .339 
Glen House Flannel Cakes .339 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The ‘‘Split Rock” Power of Growth.316 
Editorials .336 
Overcharging by Express .337 
The Wicks Committee Bill .337 
Notes from Department of Foods and Markets..337 
Concrete and Boulder Fountain .342 
A New England Storage House .345 
Silencing a Pump .345 
Publisher’s Desk ."TI 
