397 
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Buff Wyandottes, 
Clark & Howland, Vt. 
W. P. Lalng, N. J. 
Mrs. C, B. Elliott. N J. 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J. 
H. W. Collingwood, N. J. 
Thomas W. Pawson, Pa. 
Ktion Poultry Farm, N, J. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Miss Adeline S. Macintosh, N. J_ 
T'nderhill Bros.. N. J.. 
tVoodland Poultry Yard, Pa. 
S. C. White Leghorns. 
.Vvalon Farms, Conn.. 
K. A. Ballard, Pa. 
tVlll Barron, England . 
Helle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J. 
Broad Brook Farm, N. Y. 
Corerlawn Farm, N. J. 
tv. J. Cocking, N. J. 
Jos. H. Cohen, N. J. 
J. S; Cray & Son, N. J. .. 
Chas. Daval, Jr., N. J. 
I. . S. & N. ti. Depue, N. J. 
R. F. & R. A. Earle, N. J. 
Harry G. Gardiner, N. J. 
C. S. Greene, N. J. 
Airedale Farm, Conn. 
P. Frank Grunzlg, N. J. 
Henry B. Heine. N. J. 
Richard Heine, N. J. 
Heigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 
Ilillview Farm, Mo. 
Holllston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.. 
Hugh J. Hoehn, N. Y. 
James F. Harrington, N. j. 
,Tohn R. Lauder, N. J. 
I. aywell Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Fred J. Mathews, N. J. 
Mercer Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
H. H. M.vers, N. J. 
Samuel Niece & Son, N. J. 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Oakland Farm, N. J. 
Miss Anna C. Parry, Pa. 
P. G. Platt. Pa. 
Blrerslde Egg Farm, N. Y. 
Joseph H, Ralston, N. J. 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
Sloan’s Egg Farm, N. J. 
Idnehurst Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Herman F. Sonder, N. J. 
A. E. Spear, N. J. 
Sunnybrook Farm, N. J. 
Tenacre Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Tom's Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Training School, N. J. 
J. Percy Van Eandt, N. J. 
Shurts & Voegtlen, N. J. 
Gustav Walters, N. J. 
White House Poultry Farm, N. J_ 
W. K. Wixson, Pa. 
Willanna Farm, N. J. 
Woodland Farms, N. J. 
S. C. Buff Leghorns. 
H. G. Richardson, N. J. 
Homy Singer, N. J. 
Monmouth Farms, N. J. 
S. C. Black Leghorns. 
A. R. Hampton, N. J. 
Fred C. Nixon, N. J. 
Sunny Acres, N. J. 
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Leghorn-Wyandotte Cross 
It iiiiiy interest O. A. II.. Long Island, 
luigo 2<!2, to hear iny results from thi.s 
(TOSS. I have bred the White Wyandotte 
for over 15 years, dipped into Brown Leg¬ 
horn, three settings once, only to sell the 
■‘.0 odd hens off the second year. Later, I 
got four settings of White Leghorn eggs, 
crossed these pullets with my White Wy¬ 
andotte cocks. Result was smaller fowls; 
not a bit of success in getting more eggs. 
The fowls were inclined to be vicious, at¬ 
tacking duckl.ngs, picking eyes of hatch¬ 
ing chicks and spoiling my flock, so they 
had to go. 
.Market buyers do not like to buy the 
la'ghorns, especially brown ones. My 
suggestion is to get the breed meeting 
your tastes and requirements and keep it 
intact, getting new cockerels of the best 
type each year or two at farthest. My 
birds beat the record of all the other 
breeds kept in an experience of 40 years, 
with the Plymouth Rock, Light Brahma, 
Buff Cochins, Downeys, Langshans and 
l.eghorns; They laid alarmingly well 
until in August last year, tapering off by 
degrees, and in November a feW days no 
eggs, but began the latter part of the 
month, and were promising when I had to 
go to York State to see to the sick, for 
live weeks. The poor things just could 
not lay, with the care they had. I cleaned 
their scratching shed, began using the 
great sacks of forest leaves I bagged be¬ 
fore my leave of absence, fed refuse apples 
and what few potato parings we have, and 
Avith only a wheat ration and access to 
beef scrap they “came to the scratch” with 
merry song and eggs, which have brought 
from 40 to 50c per dozen. I received them 
January 1 and it was not long ere I got 
18 to 20 eggs daily from a flock of 10 
.vearliugs, 4,8 pullets. 
I keep them up in snowy weather, 
which has obtained most of the time; 
have scratching shed (and nests) 8x12 
vestibule entry and leaf storage 5x8; 
roosting room, 12x8, and a large pigpen, 
after butchering, w-hich is attached, for 
them to rustle in. Exercise is essential. 
Even the potato peelings were thrown 
out while I was away, but the feed hop¬ 
pers kept full, and no litter. 
Ohio. MRS. HARRIET E. SHEEHAN. 
Poor Laying 
I started in the hen business last year 
with 50 very good R. I. Red yearlings. 
Ihey laid well all Smmer; bought 75 
more yearlings October 15. They laid 
perhaps 15 for a few weeks and both lots 
started molting, and we have got 18 or 
20 from both lots all Winter, ITow long 
does it take after starting to molt before 
they get to laying in good shape? I gave 
wheat .and oats till wheat got so high and 
thought 1 used enough oats in mash. 
Next house they h.ave 85 juillets, 05 old 
hens, and they get three and .814 dozen 
eggs a day; give stock feed, no“scraps. 
Lots of corn and barley. I do not think 
they feed as generously as I. Perhaps 
you can help me in the case. D. w. m. 
New Hampshire. 
You are evidently feeding your hens 
well and giving them good care. Old 
hens will not give as good a AVintei* egg 
production as pullets, and it is not 
strange that your neighor’s flock excels 
.vours at this season of the year. Y'our 
hens should_ begin laying again after their 
molt early in the new year, and increase 
gradually until in full production in the 
bpring, and should, of cour,se, lay well 
through the Summer. It is a question 
whether it will pay you to keep the old 
fowls over another year, and I would sug- 
gest replaci.ug them as far as possible 
with pullets raised this Summer, m. b. d. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, March 10. 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Ownership of Manure . . (leo 
Damage Done by Partridges .aco 
Prices for Sweet Corn ..qgo 
“rakes With Crab Grass;!! [seS 
Late-planted Potatoes . 07 . 
Alternating Corn and Potatoes ay 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings . .. 377 
Peddler and Motor Truck, Part II. ... ..s?'? ’aq'; 
Hope Farm Notes . ' aan 
Central New York Corn Tests . .aan 
A Rotation With Sweet Clover ...!...!!!!!!!!! ;392 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Cutting Out the Middleman . an? afiS 
Life in Butterfat ..369 
A Chance for the Dairymen’s League 383 
A Woman’s Argument for Holsteins . .asfi 
Some Virginia Sheep Notes .asB 
Purebred and Scrub Stock .a«R 
Satisfied With Sheep .!!!!'.!!!.’!.386 
Feeding for Butterfat: Lactometer Reading " ’"387 
Keeping Cream Cheese . '307 
Age for Breeding Heifer . i.!;;;. .as? 
Ration to Add Protein . .ass 
Ration for Jersey Heifer .•.; ii!!!!! ]’.!! 388 
Garget; Ration for Cow and Caif ..388 
Ill-flavored Cream .. . . . 388 
Milk Producers to Compare Notes .aaq 
Skinning Hogs .. 339 
A Hearing on the Dog Law . 339 
Milk Producers Aim Higher .. 392 
The Ayrshire for Alleqanv Co.. N. Y. .aoo 
Milk Notes . ....; .;;;;392 
THE HENYARD. 
Poultry as a Source of Meat, Part 1. 394 
Ventilation; Drinking Water . 395 
Size of Henhouse .!. ]. 395 
The Egg Contest ...!.. i . ;396 
HORTICULTURE. 
Big Beans . 359 
Value of Orchard Trees . !!.!.!.!!! ]. ;369 
The Culture of the Blueberry, Part ii. 370 
Song Birds and Cherries ..!. ;370 
Top-dressing a Lawn . ;.;;;;;37l 
The Everbearing Strawberry . 375 '375 
Cultivating the Apple Orchard, Part II. 379 
Intensive Garden Notes, Part II. 381 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 384 
Black Chocolate Cake . 384 
Pumpernickel .384 
The Rural Patterns .384 
Number Work for the Little Ones .i.”.. 385 
On a Homestead In Idaho . 385 
Embroidery Designs . 385 
Checker Cake Wanted .385 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Events of the Week . 372 
Rural Savings and Loan Association .;;;372 
Boston Produce Markets . 374 
Consolidated Schools .;;.;376 
Editorials .;..382 
A Hearing on the Wicks BUI . i!!;;. 383 
Investigation Provides No Food .383 
Notes from Department of Foods and Mar¬ 
kets .383, 391 
Publisher’s Desk . 398 
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FOR BIRDS FOUR 
WEEKS OLD 
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continued. 
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Dept. 38 BuHalo. N. ■■ 
EGGS for Hatching 
CLASS A SELECTED R. 1. REDS AND S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
JI;ihoeaiiy Colored Birds, bred for l.qyina. Lady 
Baron 308-eees, and Wyckoff and Cornell SlO-egg 
Leghorns. All well formed, strong, free-from-dis- 
ease birds. Range raised. Inspection invited. 
Relle-Ellcn StockFarm, J.L.Hamilton, Mgr., Sussex, N.J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Barron and Danish Strains crossed. Hatching eggs. 
$6 per 100. PHILIP DAWSON, R. No. 3. Alexandria, Virginia 
Barron Leghorn Eggs 
to cockerels with records <h 22.’» 
I>. J. MINAKO 
FOR HATCHING. He.avy 
laying strain mated 
‘ to 240. *6 per 100 
- Koute 4, Highland, N. Y‘ 
S. C. BLACK MINORCAS 
Eggsfor hatching,!S5—100; !#1—15. Excellent stock. 
G. C. MILLER . K. No. I, Oxford, N.J. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
per 50. L. A. COOK, Wakefield, llliode Island 
SingleComb RHODE ISLAND REDSbird” 
Best in utility and exhibition. Eggs and chicks. 
Send for mating list. A. E. ADAMS, Stony Creek, N. Y. 
'White Holland Turkeys 
Pure Bred, Large, Vigorous May and June batobed birds. 
Old hens, fourteen to eighteen pounds, si.x to ten dollars. 
Young hens, ten to eighteen pounds, live to ten dollars. 
Young toms, sixteen to twenty-eight pounds, seven to 
fifte en dollars. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
H, W. Anderson - Stewartstown, Pa. 
GiantBronzeTurkeyEggs ^^^.^ed ami vviufe K 
Kggs,#lperl5. SliropshiroSheep. H. J.Vin Dyke.Gallytliura.Pf. 
and some grade 
, - FLEMISH GIANT 
DOES for sale. L. D. Hardy, Wellington, Ohio 
HATCHING FRG.S f'oui Leghorns that are layers 
nAlunlllU COUo Barron Strain Imported Direct. 
Circular. W. E. Atkinson, Wallingford, Conn. 
Columbia n Wyandottes 
BARRON’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
I import direct; males, dams, 272 to 278 eggs; cock¬ 
erels for sale from hens with 255 to 268-egg records. 
Eggs for hatching. E. E. Lewis, Apalachin, N.Y. 
Tom Barron White Wyandottes Siye‘e':”^-t ..“If y 
cockerels,$2 ami$3. Hatcliingeegs,$7aiid$8..50 period. 
$1 and $1.50 per 13. Parkside Poultry Farm. Meriden, Conn. 
BUTTERCUPS 
THE PREMIER EGG PRODUCERS 
Give twice as much profit as 
the best Leghorns and are belt ev 
in every way. Not an experi¬ 
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proved during the past thirteen 
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and prices mailed free. 
CLOVER HILL FARM, Box K, Little Silver, N. J. 
BUTTERCUPS H ilg: *l:?g 
Also Bari'ed Rocks and White Leghorns. Booklet 
free. Hrookside Poultry Earm, Stockton, N. J. 
BARRON LEGHORN COCKERELS 
trade mark 
Vineland 
Pen 66 
REAL KKEEOERB OF VALLE 
Same pedigree as our contest birds. JIarch 
hatched. tS—fS. Booking orders for EBGS 
and CHIX from our heavy-laying trap- 
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Poultrymen our Specialty. 
LAYWELL POULTRY FARM. PlainviHe, Conn. 
Lansing’8 Laying Leghorns 
Farmers' Foundation Flock.«. E. 0. LANSING, RamAia. N. T. 
25 R. I. Red Cockerels 
Boston express. NEVYTON-PARKE FARM, Burlington. Mass. 
LADY BARRON WHITE LEGHORNS 
.SPECIAL. Direct Imported English trap-nested 
stock. 308-egg record pullet year; 289-egg recoi d sec¬ 
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setting; ST and #10 per 100, according to record. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. P. F. Rafferty, Morlbaro.MaBS. 
SILVER CAMPINES 
Oul' birds were not r’lnite prood enougrb to win at the 
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$2 . . 15 $3.50 . . 30 $4.50 . . 45 
The McPherson farms millincton. n. j. 
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W HY not purchase from an old breeder of stand 
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Stockton, New Jersey 
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