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SiOc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 9, 1917. 
This Rugged Car 
Has Twice the Needed Strength 
John W. Bate, in the past three years, has doubled our margins of safety. 
Now every important part in Mitchells has 100 per cent over-strength. 
This means better steel. It means larger parts. In these times it 
means much added cost. But it also means a lifetime car. It means a 
safe, economical car. A car which has proved that it can run 200,000 
miles. That means 40 years of ordinary service. 
Millions in Extras 
There are also 31 features in Mitchells 
which nearly all cars omit. Things like 
a power tire pump, for instance. 
There is 24 per cent greater luxury 
than in any other car in its class. 
These extras will cost us on this year's 
output about $4,000,000. That is, for 
this over-strength, these extra features 
and this added beauty. 
All Free to You 
But all this added value costs you no 
extra price. Note that Mitchell prices, for 
either size, are below most fine-car prices. 
We save in our factory cost. This mam¬ 
moth plant has been built and equipped 
to produce this one type economically. 
John W. Bate, the efficiency expert, has 
cut our factory cost in two. Even the 
Mitchell bodies are built here, under these 
up-to-date methods. 
That saving pays for these extras. We 
save all waste, and spend that saving on 
a superlative car. 
Please see that car. See how it differs 
from other cars you know. Note its 
many unique attractions. You should 
know these things before you buy a car. 
If you do not know the nearest Mitchell 
dealer, ask us for his name. 
MITCHELL MOTORS COMPANY, Inc. 
Racine, Wis., U. S. A. 
THE HENYARD • l| 
Leg Weakness in Chicks 
There is something the matter with my 
baby chickens. They were as lively as 
could be at first. They have plenty of 
fresh water, grit, bran and sods before 
them all the time. They are fed baby 
chick feed three times a day. On cold 
days I have a coal fire in their house, 
which is 16x23 feet. There were 50 
chicks in the beginning, with five hens. 
I have lost eight and several more are 
ailing. They are first lame, then after 
limping a day or so, can hardly stand 
at all. They have no bowel trouble. 
I have rai.sed hundreds of chicks 
and never had this trouble before. Can 
you advise me what to do? m. c. ii. 
Massachusetts. 
I do not understand why you have a 
coal fire in the brooder house if these 
chicks are with hens; it is possible that 
you ai’e trying to be too good to them. 
Leg weakness in young chicks is fre¬ 
quently caused by keeping them in ov'er- 
heated brooders and upon board floors. 
While not knowing the conditions under 
which these chicks are kept, further than 
those mentioned in your letter, I suspect 
that their greatest need is to get out 
upon the ground; in fact, that is the one 
great need of all baby chicks after they 
are a few days old. If these chicks are 
still with the mother Lens, I should pro¬ 
vide them with facilities for running out¬ 
side upon clean grass and give them no 
artificial heat. The hens will provide 
them with sufiicient warmth and con¬ 
tact with the earth will prove the great¬ 
est tonic that can be administered. 
M. B. D. 
Muscovy Ducks 
Can you tell me of any reliable place 
where I can get good Brazilian ducks and 
drakes? They are very highly spoken 
of in the Philadelphia Public Ledger of 
April 1. I would like to raise them on 
my fruit farm near Hammonton, N. .T. 
Philadelphia, Pa. K. m. 
The Brazilian ducks referred to must 
be Muscovy ducks. They are sometimes, 
very rarely, called by that name. I 
know of no others. I have a small fleck 
of them. I have no birds to sell at pre.s- 
ent. I am offering eggs at two dollars 
per dozen, but I really wouldn’t advise 
sending so far for ducks’ eggs. Besides. 
Muscovy ducks* eggs do not do so well 
under hens as they do under the ducks 
themselves. It requires five weeks to 
incubate them and the mother Muscovy 
knows jmst how to do it. She will re¬ 
main off so long that the novice will con¬ 
clude that the eggs are spoiled. They 
will hatch, however. I am inclined to 
think that a hen is too warm and per¬ 
haps sticks to her job more closely than 
is necessary. w. H. H. 
Dropsical Fowls 
I have lost two hens and another is 
affected the same way. They have an 
enlargement of the abdomen. I opened 
those that died and found that the aMo- 
men was filled with a yellowish watery 
fluid. What can be done, and is it con¬ 
tagious? F. J. z. 
There is no evidence of contagious dis¬ 
ease in this dropsical condition that you 
have observed, though I cannot tell the 
cause of it from your description. There 
are a number of diseases which might 
cause enlargement of the abdomen, but 
this affliction is not of a contagious na¬ 
ture. There is probably nothing that you 
can do to prevent an occasional loss of 
this kind. M. B. D. 
Rice for Poultry 
We have about 1,500 chickens. The price 
of wheat is so high that it has been sug¬ 
gested to us to try to find a substitute 
which might in a measure reduce the 
quantity of wheat now being fed with¬ 
out reducing the nutrition. Rice has 
been suggested to me as being cheaper as 
well as equally nutritious. What is your 
opinion? C. w. Ii. 
New York. 
While the price of wheat is very high 
other cereals are foHowing closely so that 
in feeding young chicks the cost of the 
ration, or any ingredient which it con¬ 
tains, should not prevent the use of the 
most efficient ration that it is possible to 
compound for this purpose. Rice will not 
take the place of wheat. Hulled oats would 
be better, but the cost is also high. After 
the chicks are six weeks old, by sowing 
oats on the range every few days and 
letting them sprout where the chicks can- 
help themselves, they form an excellent 
addition to a corn ration, and the ab¬ 
sence of wheat will not cause much loss. 
A small amount of w'heat, say 10 per cent, 
of the ration, should be used, however, if 
the best results are expected. The high 
price of grain is preventing to a great 
extent the production of poultry in tlie 
East, and the prices of eggs and poultry 
meat must advance accordingly if this 
condition continues. c. s. o. 
Mitchell 
—a roomy, 7-passeneer SJ*. 
with 127-inch wheelbase and 
a highly developed 48-horse¬ 
power motor. 
$1460 
F. O. B. Racine 
Mitchell Junior 
—a 5-passenger Six on similar 
lines, with 120-inch wheel¬ 
base and a 40-horsepower 
motor. K-inch smaller bore. 
$1195 
F. O. B. Racine 
Four-Passenger Roadster, $1495—Sedan, $2175—Cabriolet, $1895—Coupe, $1995—Also Town Car and Limousine. 
The STOCKTON 
HATCHERY 
We are the producers of specially strong, 
healthy baby chicks—strictly thoroughbred 
and guaranteed quality that is above the 
ordinary. If you desire to improve your 
flocks, we have the chicks that will do it. 
W'e give extras and complete satisfaction 
every time. We are the originators of 
"Chicks That Pay from Stock That Lay.” 
PRICES—May and later deliveries Chicks 
S. C. White Leghorns . . . $10.00 per 100 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds . . 14.50 “ 100 
Barred Rocks.14.50 “ 100 
No White Wyandottes until last of May. 
These prices are very reasonable consider¬ 
ing the Quality of stock from which you 
purchase chicks. 
Special Prices on Chicks in lots of 500 and more. 
The STOCKTON HATCHERY, 
Box E 
Stockton, N. J« 
Hampton’s Baby Chicks 
2,000 Hampton’s Famous Black Leghorn baby chicks for 
deii very evary week in June and July, at only $12 per 100; 
$,'>.50 per 60; $S per 26. The Black Leghorns have led all 
other breeds in egg production to date nt Vineland con¬ 
test with 60.9%, and offer the greatest future prospects of 
anything in the poultry world today. Chicks are very 
liardy, easily raised, and dress yellow. Also 2,600 finest 
quality WHITE IjEOHORN chicks weekly. $9 per 100 ; $6 
per 50; $8 per 26. Order from this Ad. and get your 
chicks quick. Terms, cash with order. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. Circulars free. A. E. HAMPTON, Box R, Piltsiown, M. J 
Two Large, Handsome, Young Bronze Gobblers 
810 each. A show pair and bred in the purple. 
CHAS. C. DAVIS - Concord, Mass. 
Eggs for Hatching and Day-Old Chicks 
Hatching eggs from full}’ matured, carefully mated farm raised 
birds, selected for their prolific laying qualities and vigor. We can 
supply eggs in any quantity, in season, from our matings of 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
White Plymouth Rocks and Mammoth Pekin Ducks 
Day-Old Chicks 
W'e can supply in any quantity from our White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorns; Day-Old Ducklings, we can supply in limited quantities. 
Write for Price-list, BRANFORD FARMS, Groton, Conn. 
’Special Announcement 
i DT TT T irnPC % Barron, Flock Average of Dams 
i D vJvJ 1 168, Sired by Full Barron Cockerels 
ALL FROM DAMS 200 UP TO 260 
Delivered at 5 months of age, ready to lay. Price $2.00 each, any quantity. 
March hatch delivery in AUGUST. Catalog on request, look up Class C. 
“UTILITY LEGHORNS” 
8-lO-weeks old, $1 lO a hundred. $1.25 each in less quantities 
BAYVILLE FARMS, Box R, Bayville, OCEAN COUNTY, N. J. 
