C»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
569 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
(Continued from page 567) 
Buff Wyandottea. 
Clark & Howland, Vt. 
W. P. Laing, N. J. 
Mrs. C. B. Elliott, N 3 . 
S. C. Bhode Island Reds. 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J. 
n. W. Collingwood, N. J. 
Thomas W. Dawson, Pa... 
Etjon Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Miss Adeline S. Macintosh, N. J..., 
Underhill Bros., N. J. 
Woodland Poultry Yard, Pa. 
S. C. White Leghorns. 
Avalon Farms, Conn. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
Will Barron, England . 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J. 
Broad Brook Farm, N. Y. 
Coverlawn Farm, N. J. 
W. J. Cocking, N. J. 
Jos. 11. Cohen, N. J. 
J. S. Cray & Son, N. J. 
Chas. Daval, Jr., N. J. 
Jj. S. & N. L. Depue, N. J. 
R. F. & R. A. Earle, N. J. 
Harry O. Gardiner, N. J. 
C. S. Greene, N. J. 
Airedale Farm, Conn. 
B. Frank Grunzig, N. J. 
Henry B. Heine, N. J. 
Richard Heine, N. J. 
Heigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 
Hlllvlew Farm, Mo. 
Holllston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.. 
Hugh .T. Hoehn, N. Y. 
Janies F. Harrington, N. J.. 
John R. Lauder, N. J. 
Laywell 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. 
Riverside Egg Farm, N. Y. 
Joseph H, Ralston, N. J. 
Shaiiowbrook Farm, Conn. 
Sloan’s Egg Farm, N, J. 
I'inehurst I’oultry Farm, Pu. 
Herman P. Sender, N. J. 
A. E. Spear, N, J. 
Snnnybrook Farm, N. J. 
Tenacre Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Tom's Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Training School, N. J. 
J. Percy Van Zandt, N. J. 
Shurts & Voegtlen, N. J. 
Gustav Walters, N, J. 
White House Poultry Farm, N, J_ 
W. K. Wlxson, Pa. 
Willanna Farm, N. J. 
Woodland Farms, N. J. 
S. C. Buff Leghorns. 
H. G. Richardson, N. J. 
Roiny Singer, N. J. 
Monmouth B’arms, N. J. 
S. C. Black Leghorns. 
A. E. Hampton, N. J. 
Fred 0. Nixon, N. J. 
Sunny Acres, N, J. 
Totals . 
50 
671 
43 
253 
49 
373 
41 
659 
40 
675 
52 
497 
43 
600 
39 
605 
.53 
734 
59 
918 
37 
445 
52 
743 
47 
889 
55 
812 
51 
430 
48 
767 
45 
651 
61 
()l'4 
43 
6*8 
53 
686 
53 
603 
.50 
7 9 
48 
6:d 
49 
683 
48 
752 
49 
681 
52 
432 
44 
651 
50 
667 
53 
561 
48 
819 
38 
479 
51 
824 
50 
504 
43 
694 
67 
727 
47 
707 
fO 
720 
52 
620 
47 
731 
61 
680 
50 
686 
67 
660 
at 
411 
60 
587 
47 
499 
55 
769 
49 
725 
40 
665 
62 
674 
60 
522 
51 
47 
721 
62 
644 
43 
420 
40 
491 
4>J 
728 
47 
679 
63 
973 
52 
860 
52 
679 
41 
670 
60 
768 
68 
623 
o3 
766 
33 
614 
41 
464 
50 
539 
48 
719 
.47 
701 
48 
777 
480*2 
6:1102 
Three-horse Hitches 
I .saw an inquiry in regard to a three- 
horse evener. I send, Tough sketch, ii.s I 
am an old carriage-maker. Lay the 
strip.s together on floor or bench before 
imrchased for .$2.20 complete. 
New Jersey. w. freeland. 
P.elow is the •'hitch Ave use for three 
horses. What I like of it is thsit it is 
a short hitch and can be made by any 
farmer able to handle the saw to some 
extent. JAS. P. MOIik. 
I*enn.sylvania. 
The simplest et’ener for three horses 
is made as shown. It has a clevLs at 
each end, to which the two whifflietree.s 
are attached in the usual manner by 
clevises. These whiffletrees are furnished 
with others attached to them at one- 
third the distance from the outer ends, 
leaving two-thirds inside for the middle 
horse to draw upon, thus giving him 
twice the length of each whiffletree that 
the other horses have. This evens the 
draft. If this rigging is used in a 
wagon it will be necessax’y to have two 
poles or a pair of shafts for the middle 
horse. .T. B. bkyant. 
Maine. 
Water-glass Eggs 
Eggs begin to fall in price. At the 
Connecticut egg-laying contest last year 
the average price Avas cents a dozen. 
During April and May the price fell to 25 
cents—rising to 59 in October and 60 in 
November, The time to save eggs there¬ 
fore is noAV at hand. The best method for 
home use is the Avater-glass plan. This is 
described as folloAvs in a recent Connect¬ 
icut bulletin: 
“Mix 1^4 quarts of commercial Avater- 
gla.ss with 18 quarts of boiled or distilled 
Avater. 8tir thoroughly. The resulting 
solution Avill be sufficient for .SO dozen 
eggs. Place the eggs in a .stone jar and 
pour the solution OA’er them. If preserv¬ 
ing the eggs from a small flock Avhere 
only a fcAv eggs are available each day, 
put the liquid in the jar first and add the 
eggs each day as collected. For best re¬ 
sults preserve only fresh, clean, infertile, 
unwashed eggs. Use the liquid only once. 
A ncAv solution is much cheaper than a 
case of spoiled eggs.” 
We have followed this plan for some 
years and found the eggs very suitable for 
household use. Ily preserving eggs laid 
in April and May Ave may use them in 
the Fall Avhen fresh eggs are truly angels’ 
or millionaires’ food ! This process is for 
home use only. Those Avho tiw to Avork 
off these water-glass eggs in the usual 
market will have trouble. 
, My Experience With Nests 
My first were made of boards for ends, 
then a 4-inch strip on each side. Measure 
up 14 inches from bottom and nail board 
between sides, place 14-inch boards at 
each 12 inches, which divides the nests. 
After using these nests several years and 
almost Avearing my patience out by scrap¬ 
ing the bottom of nests clean of broken 
eggs and dirt. I next tried the wire hang¬ 
ing nests. I lost a number of hens that 
got their feet caught. in the wire and 
Avould hang dead from the nests. Next I 
tried to place them under the I’oo.sts, 
made them of four-inch strips 72 inches 
long for each side, 12 inches Avide, hang¬ 
ing up burlap for front curtain. This 
year I discarded them because it deprived 
the hens of the ground space, making it 
dark four feet back of nests. Now I 
have had nests built, pattern like first, ex¬ 
cept there is wire across the bottom of 
each row of nests and tier of three each; 
next is 12x14 in., and 14-in. high dividing 
hoards. I believe these will prove satis¬ 
factory as no vermin can possibly stay in 
them; no dirt to sci*ape out, easily 
sprayed, fastened to sides of building. I 
use excelsior for nests; it is tougher than 
straAv. M. A. 
Feeding for Milk and Eggs 
1. Wliat is the best to grow on a farm 
to produce milk? We feed our cows on 
bran, corn and cobmeal and grains twice 
a day, fodder twice inside, and a little 
fodder in the barnyard; Avhen we bring 
them in after dinnei’, Ave feed good clover 
hay. We got .$2.20 for milk per 100 lbs. 
in .Tanuary. Feed goes up in price and 
milk comes down. You can buy hardly 
any feed under .$40 per ton. I hardly 
think it pays to grow coav peas, as seed 
is high and yon cannot ge' the quantity 
oft’ an acre to do you any good. By 
cutting out any of the feed and buying 
cow pea hay would we get better re¬ 
sults? We can buy cow pea hay for 
about .$25 per ton, that includes freight. 
Beets are a good thing when we have 
them but they do not last all Winter. 
2. ITow can I feed poultry to make them 
lay and get results? My fowls have 
(lone nothing much since October. They 
eat more than they are Avorth. I feed 
corn, morning hopper feed bran, mid- 
(Tling.s, sometimes bran and cornmeal. If 
the hoppers are full of meal, sometimes I 
cut corn out of a morning as I thought 
they Avore getting too fat; beef scraps, 
grit, oyster shell, corn at night. R. s. 
1. Much depends upon the farm and 
the farmer as well as upon the locality. 
If g()od clover hay can be produced in 
sufficient quantity for the milch cows, or 
Alfalfa can be profitably grown, the next 
requisite for profitable milk pi’oduction 
is good silage, and silage that combines 
corn and Soy beans is far superior to 
that made from corn alone. I believe 
that Soy b<‘aus are being successfully 
grown in your locality and ensiled Avith 
corn, A request directed to State Col¬ 
lege, Pa., will bring you information 
upon this matter from those who are ac¬ 
quainted with the conditions in your 
section. Even Avith good silage and clo¬ 
ver or Alfalfa hay some feed Avould have 
to he purchased to balance the ration 
for milch coavs, 
2. You are evidently feeding your fowls 
chiefly upou corn and cornmeal. This 
will not produce eggs out of the natural 
laying season. Tlie mash should con¬ 
tain Avheat bran and middlings, ground 
oats, gluten feed and beef scrap, or other 
similar foods rich in protein. There are 
many good formulas, but a simple one is 
cornme,al, bran, middlings, gluten feed 
and beef scrap in equal parts by weigh);. 
A mixture of whole grain.*? should re¬ 
place corn alone as scratch feed. 
M. B. D. 
Your best guarantee of power is a set of 
McQUAY-NORRIS 
PISTON RINGS 
So carefully made, so exactly adjusted they stop 
compression leakage and get every ounce of energy 
out of the gasoline, keep down surplus oil and 
reduce carbon. So strong and enduringly elastic 
they will outlast all other piston rings. 
Get the Genuine. All garage and repair men can 
give you immediate service on them. I f you have 
any difficulty getting them, write us. We’ll see 
you are supplied. 
Book on Compression—Free 
“To Have and to Hold Po'wer’’—the standard handbook 
on gas engine compression. Every farmer who runs 
an automobile, engine, tractor, etc., ought to have it. 
Manufactured by 
McQuay-Norris Manufacturing Company 
2878 Locust Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. 
10,000 CHICKS TO ONE FARM 
in it* 6th consecutive year of buying chick* from 
MATTITUCK WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
No evidence could be more convincinf? as to the 
quality of thi» vijforous, heavy-laying stock 
Five hundred hens trsp-nested annually. Individual records up 
to 263 eaas; pen records up to 224 eairs per hen. Mated to cock¬ 
erels from 200-284 era hens. 
Baby Chicks 
$15 to $30 per 100 
Hatching Eggs 
$8 to $1S per 100 
8*weeks old pullets 
85c each or $75 per lOO 
Send for descriptive circular to 
ARTHUR H. PENNY 
Box Y Mattitucka N. Y 
LOOK! CHICKS ^8 R 100 up 
Live delivery guaranteed. Odds and 
Ends $8 a 100. Leghorns $9.50 a 100. Barred Rocks $11 a 
100. White Rocks, White Wyandottes, Aneonas, Black 
Minorcas, Biiflf Orpingtons, Light Brahmas $12 a 100. 
Reds $11.60 a 100. AVhite Orpingtons $16 a 100. Black Or¬ 
pingtons, Campines, Buttercups $20 a lOO. Exhibition 
grades in any of the above $30 a 100 Eggs $7 a 100 up. 
10-day old S. C. White Leghorns, 60 for $10. Pound size 
chicks. Catalogue Free. Stamps appreciated. 
NABOB HATCHERIES • GAMBIER, OHIO 
S. C. W. Leghorns, from Corning 
stock originally. Pretty near per¬ 
petual layers. Many of them laid 
through moulting last year. 
Hatched seventy-five per cent. 
Eggs from hens, not pullets. Five 
dollars per hundred, March and 
April. Frank Hyde, Peekskill, N.Y. 
rEGGS AND CHICKS^ 
S. C. ,W. LEGHORNS 
Trapnest Record 160-199 .*,... $6—100 $65—1000 
** ** 200-260 . 2—16 10—100 
Headed by pedigreed Cockerels frumSlien's with trapnest 
record 214 to 260. Chicks, $15—100. 
CDCAIAI DPH Headed by Trouble, proven cock bird 
twIHL ibil* mated to ten hens. TYapnest record 
206 to 260. 16 eggs, $6. 00 per cent fertility. 
BARRED ROCKS. Traonest record 186 to 236. Eggs, 10c 
each. Chick, 20c each. 
JAMES F. HARRINGTON HAMMONTON* N. J. 
Pullets and CockerelsB"';if&.j£f« 
WyaiidotUs, H. I. Reds, Black Minoi-cas and Silver 
Oiimpines. Maple Cove Poultry Yards, R. 2, Athens, Pa. 
Crrrre.} C/v/roI M.Bronze.B.Red.NaiTagansett.W.Hollaiid. 
tggS, tggS, 7 Breeds (Jhlckeiis. Don’t fail to get our 
prices. Eastek.n Ohio Poultuy F.tRM, Bkaixsville, Ohio 
CRRC from best 20 varieties thoroughbred poultry 
COOO 50—S3; 100-86.50. Good stock. 
Catalogue free. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, Pa. 
Barred Rock Eggs 
From a heavy-laying strain and good enough to win 
tile blue at New York and Boston tliis winter. Write 
for.Mating list. A. h. Vreeland, Nutley, N. J. 
R n R I Rorl F(T(to si I'’’! P^*' Good 
. U. K. I. nea tgg3 jayi„K strain. Free range. 
B. U. OWEN . Bhiuebeck, New York 
8 72 
WHITE ROCKS T;fp^ 
EGGS .State tested for w. diarrhea. Bred for 
From one hen Eggs Cockerels. Hatching Eggs.Chicks, 
in 1 years. Circular. HOBSCOT EGG FARM, Nobscol, Mass. 
BUTTERCUPS 
Also Barred Rocks and White Leghorns. Booklet 
free. Brooksuie Poultry Farm, Stockton, N. J. 
BARRON’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
I import direct; males, dams, 272 to 278 eggs; cock¬ 
erels for sale from hens with 2.55 to 2(i8-egg records. 
Eggs for hatching. E, E. Lewis, Apalachin, N.Y. 
Champion Heavyweight Dark Cornish biood^'EgS 
$3, $6 per 15. Infertiles replaced. E. R. SCOTT, Oansville, N.r! 
ForSale-American Dominiques chkks'^a®f(i eggs! 
Selected layers. Beech Haven Farm, Wycombe, Pa. 
Carneau Pigeons 
Best Squab Producers. Breeding Stock for Sale. 
ALBIDA FAKM . Niantic, Conii. 
GiantBronzeTurkeyEggs Aife Rodi 
Eg:p:8,$t per 15. Shropshire Sheep. H. J.VanOyke.Gettysburg.Pa. 
Best in Bronze Turkeys bi:?ds‘wiVirvrg''o.^”tiua 
tells. Eggs, 40c. each. E. B. Scott, Dansville, N.Y. 
30^trvtWhite Holland Turkeys 
Toms, twenty-five to thirty lbs., twelve to fifteen 
dollars; hens, fourteen to sixteen lbs., five, six, 
eight dollars. Sati.sfaetion ;;iiaranteed. 
H. W. Anderson - Stewartstown, Pa. 
BRONZE, NARRflGANSETT, BOURBON 
RED, AND WHITE HOLLAND 1 UrKCytl.ggS 
From the finest flocks. Will replace all broken 
eggs. Write at once for prices. F. A. CLARK, Freeport, D. 
Ppkin Diirlf Foo« SO for 85. 
rCKin UUCK Eggs reqER fruit farms, Flanders, N. j' 
Wild M AllardDlioltq for deemys, breeders and pets, 
niiamaiiarUUUCKS $3,,erpair. Eggs, $1.50 per ten. 
1). TKA.SS . niadlsou, Ohio 
Hatrbinor F<r<y« BARRON 
narcning ILggS leghorns, imported 
Direct. Circular. W. F. ATKINSON. Wallingford, Conn. 
Ring Neck Pheasants ^ht.^^^!:mtreh■.ted 
stock. Show Pheasantry, Marlborough, N. Y. 
Ppitin niirlrQ AndflmlreQ $'l.o0 each; $10 a trio and 
rBKinUUCKS anauraKeS $ 10 .;,Oa pen of five. Bnff 
Orpington drakes, $2..50 each. Eggs, $2 per 12. 
GEO. F, WILLIAMSpN - Flandere, N, J. 
Mnttipd strain, the great egg 
fflOTTieOAnCOnaS i„.eed. Eggs for hatching, $ 1 - 15 ; 
$5—100. GKO. K. BOWDISH, Espkkance, N. Y. 
Stock andEggsforSalB & 
T.J.Morphy,17 46t h St., East Elmhurst, L.l 
Rfl Ro«I Rroode Gliickeus. Ducks,Geese, Turkeys,Hares 
DUucolDICCUS Dogs and Cavies. Stock and Eggs 
Catalogue Free. II. A. SOUIlKJt, Box 29, Sellernllle, I'». 
White Orpington Eggs, Chicks and Gockerefs 
Stevens Reliable Yards, Culver Road, LYONS. N. Y. 
G uinea pigs. High class stock for sale. Reason¬ 
able. MoDEBX’GVl.S’EA Pl« FARM, TKL'.MDAUEKSVILLE, Pa. 
SingleComb RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Best in utility and exhibition. Egg* and chicks! 
Send for mating list. A. E. ADAMS, Stony Creek, N. Y. 
R. C. UTILITY R. I. REDS 
High in laying qualities. Eggs for liatciiing—$9 per 
100 or $1..50 per 15. Mrs. E. S. MARLATT, Port Murray, N. J. 
RED HATCHING EGGS f t EgGlRfoN^Ug^c^n^^ 
S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for Hatching 
Rice—Barron—Voniig. Farm range. $I for 15; J.', 
per 100. JACfJUES FARM, Millerton, N. Y_ 
PERSIAN CATS !!!?" 
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Animal Breeding, Shaw.1.50 
Breeding Farm Animals, Marshall.. 1.50 
Principles of Breeding, Davenport.. 2.50 
Cheeese Making Decker....1.76 
Business of Dairying, Lane.1.25 
Clean Milk, Winslow.3.25 
Dairy Chemistry, Snyder. 1.00 
Dairy Farming, Michels. 1.00 
Handbook for Dairymen, Woll.1.50 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
