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Well hatched chicks—stur¬ 
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laying strains of Rocks, 
Reds and Leghorns, etc. 
Easy to grow early broilers 
and big layers from Hi II pot 
chicks. Prices moderate. 
Get our FREE BOOK. 
W. F. HILLPOT 
Box 1, Frencbtown, N. J. 
CHICKS 
CHASE POULTRY FARM 
F. M. DAVIS, R.D. N». 1, Cincinnatus, N.Y. 
Breeder Utility S. C. W. Leghorns of the best 
strains. Write for Free Catalog. 
AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND-ENGLAND’S 
Greatest Laying Strains. S. C. WHITE LEG. 
HOKNS,Thoroughly Acclimated and Americanized 
(impor-ted before the w:ir began). EGGandCHICK 
Circular and Precise Catalog (Utility Facts) sent 
Free. OLD HICKORY LEGHORN YARDS. Box 2,Altoona, Pa 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
Baby chicks, Hatching eggs, Cockerels, Choice 
Honey and .Maple Syrup. Sutisf.action guaranteed. 
Just-a-Mere Farm, Box B, Columbia Cross Roads, Pa. 
Bred-to-Lay Single Comb White Leghorns JoUSSsu.ta 
Baby chick, Marcli and April delivery, $12 per 100. 
Hatching eggs, now ready, 16 per 100. Safe Deliv¬ 
ery. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 
PERKY BRIGGS - Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
S.C.W.LEGHORNSi'^tril; 
Eggs for Hatching from mature birds. We have 
been breeding for 20 years for vigor and heavy lav¬ 
ing. FLOYD Q. WHITE, Yorktown, New York 
Oingle Comb White Leghorns. Barron Strain- 
^ Eggs for hatching. Pens contain certified breed, 
era. Stock for sale. M. J. QUACKENBUSH, Nutley, N. J. 
rikv.nift Rhiy ftom our heavy-laying trap-nest bred 
Udj UIQumIa ,s. C.W. Leghorns, $12 per 100. Strong, 
vigorous. Safe delivery guaranteed. Mlllbrook 
Farm, M. L PALMER, Prop., Alfred Station, N.Y. 
Hampton’s Black Leghorns 
Are proving their wovtli at Vineland. Get started 
right with the best breed on earth. Btiby Cliicks 
and Eggs. Circular free. 
A. E. Hampton, Box B,, Pittstown, N. J. 
Baby Chicks S- C. White Leghorns 
'' liealthy, vigorous layers, the 
kind that make profits. Also Hatching Eggs. Write 
at once f<>r pjirticulavs. Horton’s Point Poultry 
Farm, R. F. D. No. 37, Southold, New York 
WHITE LEGHORNS ’’re®*’-200- 
nnilC Lcununno egg hens. Eggs, *8 hun¬ 
dred. Chicks, .$15 hundred, lieduced after May 1,6. 
Circular. WINDSWEEP FARM, Reddino Ridne, Conn. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Barron and Danish Strains crossed. Hatching eggs, 
$6 per 100. PHILIP DAWSON, R. No. 3. Alexandria. Viroinia 
Barron Leghorn Egss SS 
to cockerels with records of 22.6 to 240. $6 per 100 
D. J. MINARD . Route 4, Highland, N. Y| 
HITE LEGHORNS hogan 
nil t A.E.UITVni10 test -200 to 265 eggs. 
Large PREPOTENCY. Stock, Eggs, and 
Chicks. GRANVIEW POULTRY FARM, Geneva, Ohio 
CHICKS AND EGGS 
Circular. E. R. HUMMER & CO., R. D. A. Freiichtown, N. J. 
Baby Chicks and Eggs 
White Leghorns and Anconas. From liens 
with records of 2.60 to 280. A few cockerels. Write 
for prices. HARTMAN POULTRY FARM, So. Columbus. Ohio 
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ARADISE Breeders of Heavy Laying Poultry. Trap Hested 
r>lll TDV fi G WHITE LEGHORNS 
\/UUIKT 9m \^m RHODE ISLAND REDS 
FARM ROCKS, 200-Ege Strain 
Day-OJUi Chicks. Hatching Eggs and Stock 
far Free. B, PARADISE, PA. 
for'Salo. Our 1917 Circular BVee. 
S. C. W. L E G H O R N S 
FROM CORNINa STOCK ORIGINALLY. PRETTY NEAR 
PERPETUAL LAYERS. MANY OF THEM DAID THROUGH 
MOULTING LAST YEAR. HATCHED SEVENTY-FIVE 
PERCENT. ECGS FROM HENS, NOT PULLETS. FIVE 
DOLLARS PER HUNDRED, MARCH AND APRIL. 
FRANK HYDE - PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK 
TheROGERS LEGHORN 
THE AMERICAN KINO, A heavy winter-laying strain— 
eggsnow testing95% fertile. Hatching eggs from hens 
mated with pedigree males, $7.50 per 100. Chicks, $18 
per 100. Write for prices on large orders; also for 
May and June prices. C. A. Rogers, Bergen, N. Y. 
BARRON 
FOUNDATION 
S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORNS 
Elggs per setting.$2 up 
Pullets, CockereLs, Breed¬ 
ing Stock .priced right, ac¬ 
cording to age and breed¬ 
ing. Circular Free, 
Oak Hill Estate, Uniontown, Pa. 
BARRON LEGHORNS 
248 to 284-egg strain. 50 liens ® $2 eaclr or 20 for $30 
Hatching eggs. $7 per 100; chicks, $15 per 100. Om 
pen is headed by i.ord Eglantine (son of the 314-eg( 
hen.) 85% fertility. White Wyandottes, 200-egc 
stock. Eggs. $7 per 100; chicks, $18 per inO. 
E. CLAlfbE JONES ' - ... 
Craryvllle, N. Y 
HATCHING EGGS 
Trapnest record-160-199. $8—100 $85—1000 
„ , " -200-260.$2— 16 $10— 1OO 
Pedigreed Cockerels from 214-219-226-232 and 260 Ti-ap- 
nest recor 1 hens. 
90% Fertility. Trapnest Cliicks—$16—100 
Contest Pens—Storrs, Conn., Vineland, JV. J. 
James F. Harrington, Hammonton, N. J. 
Great Layers checkmate High Grain prices 
UTILITY LFfiHORNS ''reiTto direct strain 
UllLl l I Tom Barron cockerels, 
imported 1914-15. Sotting, $1; 100, $.6. 9i)% fertility. 
Eggmont Poultry Yards, Center Mirsbiield, Mass. 
Can You Beat It? White Leghorn 
English-American, bred entirely from str;dns tha 
have won firsts in tlm laying contests. Cockerel? 
Eggs, 8c. V. E. Sparklin, Federalsburg, Mii 
LEGHORN EGGS AND CHICKS 
Te^^thTn g VSg.N^NYR?^%g.t 
Rhode Island Whites STRAW 
* grimdest breed. Great layers of near! 
^owls and pnactically noii 
I’ 60 f®Y,®*'°‘®® for Sale, $5 pair. Eggs 
season’s breeders. Buff Ply 
mouth Rocks. W. D, PARKER, Mayville, N.Y 
ioda in Iht; year. We all know that a 
severely cold snap will check egg pro- 
dnction and that there is a natural vari¬ 
ation due to age and season but there are 
other variations without apparent cau.se 
and for which it is hard to find an ex¬ 
planation. Your pullets will undoubted¬ 
ly gain promptly in egg yield after a 
short period of rest; pullet egg produc¬ 
tion is apt to come in waves, the period 
of low production corresponding to a 
temporary exhaustion of reproductive 
power. ir. b. d. 
Ventilation for Henhouse 
Oiir 14x100 ft. poultry house rests on 
posts 12 to 18 inches above well-drained 
ground. We have used the house four 
years and it is always very damp In 
Winter. Of course, I know it is lack of 
proper ventilation, but we live in a very 
stormy section of Oswego County, get¬ 
ting all the storms that sweep across 
Lake Ontario, and on this account can¬ 
not keep front open as much as we 
.should. Building face.s south, and has 
curt.ain front with exception of three 
openings of glass. A man who lives in 
another part of the State has just told 
me that his house, which is same size 
and shape as ours, was always damp in 
Winter until he put in an 8xS-inch air 
shaft about every 10 feet along the In¬ 
side front wall, commencing about 14 
inches from the floor and extending up 
through roof about 12 inches, with a 
shanty cap on top to keep out storms. 
Does this sound reasonable to you? If 
so, how many shafts would you advise 
putting in a 100-foot house? Our hens 
keep in fine health but we lose consid¬ 
erable in eggs each Winter from damp¬ 
ness, which means a frosty house in very 
cold weather. If we were to change lit¬ 
ter every week we would not have a dry 
J. E. Y. 
New York. 
It does not seem to me that these air 
shafts in combination with a more or 
less open front would be of much ser¬ 
vice as ventilators; in fact, air shafts 
in poultry-houses have never become pop¬ 
ular as a means of ventilation. In a 
tight, warm building, like a well-built 
cow stable, air shafts extending from 
n(iar the floor to above the roof, and 
with proper sized openings for the ad¬ 
mission of fresh air near the ceiling, 
constitute the well-known King system 
of ventilation, and are very practical. 
For some reason, however, this system 
does not seem to be well adapted to poul¬ 
try houses, perhaps because there is not 
enough bodily heat given off from the 
fowls to warm the interior air sufficient¬ 
ly to induce a good circulation between 
interior and outside air. The wind baf¬ 
flers designed at the Cornell Experiment 
Station are well spoken of by those using 
them, and deserve your attention if your 
present system of ventilation is faulty. 
Of course the air in your buildings can¬ 
not be drier than that outside, if no ar¬ 
tificial heat is used, and the problem of 
keeping interiors dry during stormy 
weather is a serious one. m. b. d. 
Damp Henhouse 
I have just built a new poultry-house, 
and it is very damp. It is 16 ft. wide, 
96 ft. long and divided into four pens, 
each pen being 16x24 ft. It is sided by 
lx6-inch cypress dressed and matched. 
Roof is Lx6-ineh dressed and matched, 
covered by three-ply roofing paper. The 
back is 5 ft. and front 8 ft. high. Front 
is fitted up with windows and wind baf¬ 
flers according to Cornell plans and spe¬ 
cifications ; has ground floor, sandy soil. 
It is built on edge of a bank, back wall 
is lined with tar paper on inside of 
studding, also the roqf over the perches. 
I am only using two pens this Winter. 
One contains 100, the other 150 birds. 
The wind bafflers let in lots of fresh air. 
and sometimes I think too much. A good 
deal of frost accumulates on walls and 
roof. Would the King system of ven¬ 
tilation give satisfaction in a building 
of this kind? What would you suggest 
as a remedy for this dampness? Is a 
cement floor a good floor for a hen¬ 
house? H. L. s. 
New York. 
In considering the subject of dampness 
in henhouses it should be borne in mind 
that the troublesome moisture comes 
from two sources, first and most import¬ 
ant, from the bodies of the fowls them¬ 
selves, second, from the natural moist¬ 
ure of the atmosphere in that place and 
at that season of the year. It will be 
seen, then, that lining the interior of a 
building can have no effect upon the 
moi.sture content of the air save as it in¬ 
fluences ventilation. By securing a suf¬ 
ficiently rapid interchange between in¬ 
side and outside air the moisture from 
the fowls’ bodies is carried away and 
^ly that of the outside air alone is left. 
To secure this interchange without in¬ 
jurious drafts is the object of ventilation. 
The King system is well adapted to dairy 
barns but has not, so far as I know, been 
found successful in poultry houses. The 
open front, or some modification of it, 
is in general use in poultry homses and 
seems to be best adapted to these build¬ 
ings. Concrete floors are well liked by 
those who use them, though they will 
not keep out moisture from beneath un¬ 
less insulated by embedding a heavy lay¬ 
er of tarred paper while they are being 
constructed. If used, they should be 
well drained underneath to prevent water 
from seeping through. m. b. d 
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