tr/>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
953 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Connecticut Contest 
Following is the record at Storrs, 
Conn., for week ending July 24, and 
total to date: 
Barred Books, 
Merritt M. Clark, Conn. 
Michigan P. Farm, Mich. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Jules P. Francais, L. I. 
Hampton Institute, Va. 
Fairfields Poultry Farms, N. H. 
Norfolk Specialty Farms, Ontario,., 
Rodman Schaflf, N. H. 
Bock Rose Farm, N. T. 
White Bocks. 
Holliston Hill P. Farm, Mass. 
Bcnjamia F. Bow, N. H. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Buff Bocks. 
Koshaw Farms, Conn. 
A. A. Hall, Conn.. 
White Wyandottes. 
A. L. Mulloy, Conn. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
A. L. Vreeland, N. J. 
Grant Euler & Son, Pa. 
Joseph Moreau, R. I. 
Ohed G. Knight, R. I. 
Rrayman Farm, N. H. 
Beulah Farm, Ontario . 
Vine Hill Farm, Mass. 
Mrs. R. W. Stevens, N. Y. 
Everett E. Wheeler, Mass. 
J. E. Watson, Conn. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Harry Kendall, N. Y. 
Jay H. Ernisse, N. Y. 
Nybrook Farm, B. I. 
Buff Wyandottes, 
H. P. Cloyes & H. R. Sullivan, Conn. 
Hr. N. W. Sanborn, Mass. 
Rhode Island Beds. 
Frank E, Turner, Mass. 41 
Frank B Turner, Mass. 
Colonial Farm, N. H. 
A. B. Brundage, Conn. 
Hillvlew P. Farm, Vt. (R. 0.).. 
Homer P. Denilng, Conn. 
Charles O. Polhemus, N. Y. 
Pequot Poultry F'arm, Conn. 
Springdale Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Baurel Hill Farm, R. I. 
George W. Harris, Conn. 
Harry B. Cook, Conn. 
A, W. Rumery, N, H. 
F. M. Peasley, Conn. 
Allan’s Hardtobeat Reds, R. I. . 
Glenview Poultry Farm, Conn. .. 
Fatherland Farm, Mass. 
Jacob E. Jansen, Conn. 
Royal Farms, Conn. 
Conyers Farm, Conn. 
Plnecrest Orchards, Mass. 
White Orpingtons 
Obed C. Knight, R. I. 
Harry Paxton, N. Y. 
White Leghorns. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Jay II. Ernisse. N. Y. 
BroatT Brook Farm, N. Y. 
J. O. BeFevre, N. Y. 
Rollwood Poultry Farm, Conn. 32 
Wm. B. Gilbert Home, Conn. . 
Francis F. Bincoln, Conn. 
P. G. Platt. Pa. 
Koshaw Farms, Conn.. o3 
F. M. Peasley, Conn. 
Clias. Ileigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Will Barron, England . 
J. Collinson, England . 49 
Abel Batham, England . 61 
Bushkill Poultry Farm, Pa. ... 
A. P. Robinson, N. Y. 
Eglantine Farm, Md. 47 
Frank R. Hancock, Vt. _. 45 
Margareta P. F'arm, Ohio . 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn.. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 
N. W. Hendryx, Conn... 
Clifford I. Stoddard, Conn. 49 
George Phillips, Conn . 
Hampton Institute, Va. 
Toth Bros., Conn. 
White Beghorn Club, Ill. 
Oak Hill Estate, I’a. 
Geo. A. Stannard, Kansas . 
Jas. F. Harrington, N. J. 
H. W. Collingwood, N. J. 
Windsweep F^arm, Conn. 
Windsweep Farm, Conn. 
W. J. Cocking, N. J. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
Hr. E. P. Holmes, Maine . 
Ilillview Farm, Mo. 
Conyers F’arm, Conn. 
Hillside Farm, Conn. 
Silver Campines. 
Eugene Van Why, Conn. 
Uncowa Campine Yards, Conn, ., 
Totals. 
Week Total 
38 
1388 
43 
1331 
36 
1U20 
37 
1175 
29 
1010 
40 
1606 
81 
1122 
34 
1254 
» 
29 
1162 
31 
1360 
40 
873 
46 
1177 
47 
1202 
26 
933 
SO 
1190 
24- 
1460 
49 
1176 
48 
1215 
42 
1302 
34 
1299 
40 
1271 
38 
1142 
36 
1186 
40 
1260 
23 
1036 
31 
1095 
38 
1226 
31 
928 
31 
1276 
» 
37 
1058 
46 
1417 
39 
1213 
41 
1170 
39 
1262 
13 
1119 
40 
1125 
24 
1391 
36 
1123 
50 
1270 
43 
1335 
• 
27 
1192 
33 
1158 
43 
1381 
32 
1150 
34 
1331 
22 
1007 
• 
31 
1485 
31 
1094 
. 
21 
821 
89 
1366 
37 
948 
36 
I0B5 
37 
1315 
• 
30 
1304 
17 
1U61 
51 
1437 
62 
1428 
48 
1264 
42 
1211 
• 
47 
1642 
• 
32 
1063 
49 
1288 
51 
1231 
43 
1159 
63 
1280 
52 
1380 
40 
1104 
40 
971 
51 
1379 
49 
1282 
61 
1232 
. 
40 
1270 
• 
60 
1721 
• 
47 
1308 
• 
45 
1428 
• 
30 
1008 
51 
1315 
• 
53 
1419 
49 
1267 
39 
1539 
40 
1148 
49 
1428 
61 
1184 
40 
929 
23 
933 
36 
1300 
43 
11.S8 
, , 
48 
1392 
, . 
40 
1228 
, , 
49 
1230 
69 
1452 
56 
1507 
49 
1147 
. • 
62 
1253 
61 
1152 
42 
1150 
40 
1278 
41 
1256 
.. 
35 
103C 
26 
924 
3957 
122501 
were a week old have been feeding them 
the following mash : Three pounds bran, 
three pounds cornfheal, three pounds mid¬ 
dlings—or ground oats— 1^/^ fish meal 
and beef scraps; morning and even¬ 
ing fed” cracked wheat and corn, and a 
pint of charcoal and oyster shells (fine). 
These birds seem to be anmmic. In and 
around the heads they appear a yellow¬ 
ish-white hue, and combs look bloodless 
even before they die. Some of them roll 
their heads into the feathers until death 
ensues, others keep eyes closed and you 
can scarcely open them. When they 
were younger some had some kind of eye 
trouble, matter sometimes collecting over 
the eve and forming a hard lump which 
had to be forced out. Some begin to die 
with crops full and others^ empty. These 
chicks I purchased. I incubated and 
brought out the middle of March 2o0 
chicks and lost but 40, some killed acci¬ 
dentally, and in another hatch I placed 
86 birds under hover and lost but 10, 
The chicks I purchased got as good, if 
not better, care and the same feeding, 
but have not the same results. _ 
New Jersey. J- F. c. 
There is nothing in the food or care 
mentioned in your letter that would ac¬ 
count for the mortality among these 
chicks and I have little doubt that the 
trouble arises from an inherent weak¬ 
ness in the stock which it is impossible 
to successfully combat. If, there is no 
contagious disorder, like w’hite diarrhoea, 
present, there is evidently a low vitality 
which makes these chicks subject to other 
disorders that cause death in young stock 
of this kind. Very often •the parent birds 
are incapable of transmitting suiRcient 
vigor to their offspring to carry them 
through the period of infancy and late 
hatched chicks are specially apt to show 
this lack of vitality. The fact that a 
chick has been hatched with no apparent 
disease is no guarantee that it will sur¬ 
vive the first few weeks of life; to live 
it must possess an inherited vigor that 
will enable it to successfully combat the 
ever present ills of chickbood and this in- 
herited vigor will not be present in the 
offspring of fowls that have been closely 
confined and heavily fed for months or 
that have laid for so long a time that 
they have about exhaurted bodily vigor. 
To insure success in raising little 
begin with the parent birds and see that 
they are capable of transmitting not only 
life"^ but abundant liveability. M. B. D. 
Worms in Turkeys 
Can you give a remedy for worms in 
young turkeys? I lose them every year, 
they drop their feathers, but eat heartily 
until they die. The range is changed 
for them, plenty of ventilation in tbe 
house. The worms are flat, and come in 
clusters from the bowels, from three to 
four inches long. MRS. J. E. s. 
Wrginia. 
There is some question whether the 
deaths among your turkeys are due to 
the tapeworm that you observe, as these 
parasites are not apt to kill unless in 
excessive numbers. The treatment of 
worms in poultry is not very satisfactory 
owing to the difficulty in administering 
remedies to the individual fowls. Sal¬ 
mon recommends for tapeworms lu poul¬ 
try the giving of a teaspoonful of pow- 
dered pomegranate root bark, mixed in 
the feed, for every fifty birds. This is 
best followed by a purgative, like Lp- 
som salts or castor oil. Oil of turpen¬ 
tine is also one of the best remedies for 
worms of all kinds in poultry. It luay 
be given in dose of from one to two tea- 
spoonfuls administered through a rubber 
catheter passed down the gullet of the 
bird It is very difficult to prevent re¬ 
infection of birds with intestinal worms 
after they have been freed from them, 
but, fortunately, these parasites are not 
as dangerous as they are disgusting. 
M. B. D. 
Orange Co. Fair 
MIDDLETO’WN, N. Y. 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
now open to poultry raisers in the follow¬ 
ing counties; ORANGE, SULLIVAN, 
ULSTER, ROCKLAND. DUTCHESS, 
and PUTNAM, New building; new 
coops; liberal premiums; money sure. This 
department is run by poultrymen who 
understand. IVe want a good, big exhibit. 
Send your birds and come yourself. Send 
for premium list. 
Entries Close August 11th, 1917 
D. LINCOLN ORR, Director 
Box 8 • Orr’s Mills, N. Y. 
Yearliffig Hens for Sale 
Several Thousand 
White Plymouth Rocks 
and Single Comb White Leghorns 
Send for price-list with description of our 
stock and record in Egg-Laying Contest. 
Tbe demand will be great, and to avoid 
disappointment, order early. Address 
Branford Farms, Groton, Conn. 
Every ounce of food should count, overy 
ounce should have power for full speed ahead 
Our Special CHICK MASH 
has the power and evei-y ounce counts. Early mat¬ 
urity, big frame egg capacity all developed by our 
Chick Mash, made with the same care, s.ime high 
grade stock as formerly. We manufacture a full line 
of Poultry Feeds. Send ns a card telling your wants. 
Wm. Orr & Sons, Kox 8, Orrs Mills, N. Y. 
Carneau Pigeons 
Best Squ,vb Producers. Breeding Stock for Sale. 
4i.BHIDA FARM - Niantic, Conn. 
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I YEARLING WHITE LEG- I 
I HORN HENS $1 EACH § 
R. I. RED PULLETS, four | 
months old, $1.25 EACH | 
1 Best Laying Strains. Absolute Satisfaction. Inspec- I 
I tion inWed. OKCHAKH VIEW IMHTBTRY I 
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ONLY BRED TO LAY PULLETS 
WILL NOW SHOW A PROFIT 
Standard S. C. W. Leghorns 
and White Rocks 
Line-bred and trapnested. The blood 
of Storrs and Vineland winners. 
PULLETS for Sale to liegin laying 
from August to November. 
Cockerels and Hens 
EVERGREEN FARM, Chappaqua, N. Y. 
Ailing Chick; Oat Straw Bedding 
We have a little chicken which acts 
very queerly. It appears to_be strong 
and lively, but, when it walks, it holds its 
head to one side with its bill in the air, 
and quite often it goes around in a circle 
with its head up. It eats and drinks nor¬ 
mally. Can you tell me what is the 
trouble with it? 2. Why is oat straw 
not good for bedding pigs? B S. 
New York. 
1. Tills chicken may be suffering from 
the effect of intestinal worms; these act¬ 
ing us an irritant to the central nervous 
system. Give it a half teaspoonful of 
turpentine mixed with an equal amount 
of castor oil and repeat after a day or 
two if necessary. 
2. The skin of some animals is irri¬ 
tated by straw bedding; I know of no 
other objection to the use of oat straw for 
pigs and am not at all sure that the ob¬ 
jection is at all serious in this case. 
M. B. D. 
Mortality Among Chicks 
I am having very bad luck with 1,000 
chicks which are now seven weeks old. 
I have lost about 400 of them, and they 
are still dying. I have brooded them 
under three coal-burning brooders up to 
the time weather became warm, fed them 
sour milk first 10 days and since they 
Trouble With Incubator 
Could you give us advice regarding in¬ 
cubators? IVe have kept the tempeia- 
ture at 10.3 for the first two weeks, and 
other week at 104, and we hatched just 
one-quarter of them. The chickens were 
dead; some had already picked through 
the shell. 
Michigan. 
While any incubator should be run at 
the temperature advised by its makers, 
103 and 104 is a little higher temperature 
than is usually found best. For the first 
week, a temperature of between 102 and 
103 is general] V advised, and between 103 
and 104 for the rest of the period. Dur¬ 
ing the last few days the temperature 
will run up a degree or more without 
harm. Sprinkle the floor of the incubator 
i-oom daily to keep the air as moist as 
possible; cool the eggs once or twice 
daily, better' twice, hut do not allow them 
to become stone cold, and, most impor¬ 
tant of all, use only eggs from strong, 
vigorous stock that has not been closely 
confined during the Winter and forced 
for egg production. A chick may die at 
any stage of its growth, before as well 
as after hatching, and many do not pos¬ 
sess sufficient vigor to break the shell 
even after reaching full development. 
JI. B. H. 
LEGHORNS-BARRON-WYANDOTTES 
Now offering eggs from highest quality breed¬ 
ers. Our direct imported Pens A A, with rec¬ 
ords 278, 280, 281, 282, 282, and others, mated to 
sons of 650-egg hen in three years and 46C-hen In 
two years. Many other record breeders. Large 
breeding farms are our satisfied customers. 
THE BARRON FARM, R. F. D. No. 3, Connellsville, Pa 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
“Specially bred for heavy eao-production.’’ Bred formally 
generations from higli-record hens. 1,000 selected 
breeding hens and cockerels at $1 and $1.60 each. 
Must have room for growing stock. Buy early and 
save money. 0 . M. LONGENLOKKllt Box 50 , Ellzabetlitowii, Ta. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
6 hens of 248 to 260-egg stock, mated to cockerel (314- 
egg stock) fur $10. Pullets of same stock $2 each. 
K. CLAUDE JONES . CTaryville, N. Y. 
Chicks 
S. G. W. Leghorns. 6c. and up. Money 
refunded for dead chicks. Oir. free. 
W. A. LAUVER, McAlisterville, Pa. 
Evergreen Poultry Farm 
f.amous trap-nested strain S. C. White Leghorns. 
Hens and pullets at real sacrifice prices to make 
room. JOHN H. WEED, Morristown, N. J. 
LANSING’S LEGHORNS 
YELLOW LEGGED MOULTING HENS 
For fall and early winter laying 
$1.60 Each. E. O. BANSINO, Romulus, N.Y. 
100 Extra Fine March Pullets Strain 
SI.50 Each. April Pullets, $1.25 Each. 10 Pair Belgian 
OarneauxPigeons, $2.50 Pair. Rare Bargains. DEVINE. 
HUNTINGTON POULTRY YARDS, New YarkAve..Huntinatan.L.I. 
Baby Chicks and Eggs Engii8h*s.*c; 
White Leghorns am^ Anconas. From hens 
with records of 250 to 280. A few cockerels. Write 
for prices. HARTMAN POULTR'Y FARM, So. Columbus, Ohio 
Ped. S. C.W. Leghorn Cockerels 
e e 
months old. 
I'lxtra quality. @1.60 to 83, according to breeding. 
W. K. ATKINSON - Wallingford, Conn. 
LEGHORN CHICKS 
Kocks and Reds, 810.90 per 100. For a short 
time only. E. R. HUMMER & CO., R. 0. A. Frenclitown. N. J. 
SOO TEARLING I 
. '"‘‘Whilpl Males,St.5Qeacli 
LAY IN G II n lie LegnOrnS on approval. 
Riverdale Poultry Farm, Box 1G5, Riverdale, N. J. 
The “MOHEGANITE” Strain 
OP S, O. WHITE LEGHORNS—•'8 HENS IN 1” 
from trap-nested ancestry recording 180 to 260 eggs in pul- 
let.year. Pound pullets, Aii^, delivory. Yearlings, $3 to 
$350. MOUEGAN FARM, Box Y, Pecksklll, N. V. 
^|_||V S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS AND B. ROCKS, Etc.. 
up y.-ife Delivery Guaranteed. 
Jacob Neimontl, Hox 3, McAlisterville, l*a. 
HuskyMarchS.G. BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS 
$1.75 each. Honj. Tindall, Egg Harbor, N.J. 
Cn ITaoI Hraarlo tU'ickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Hares 
DUDCoIDrOcQS Dogs and Cavies. Stock and Eggs, 
Catalogue Five. 11. A. SOURER, Box 39, SelleriTnie,l’s. 
Pullets and Cockerels BluedRoc^ktm^^^^^ 
Wyandottes. R. I. Reds, Black Miuoicas and Silver 
Ciimpines. Maple Cove Poultry Yards, R. 2, Athens, Pa. 
^XTOcaL "FL oolS-St 
Breeiiers for sale. Eggs and chicks in season. 
A. C. JONES, Marvel Homestead Farm. Georoelawn, Delaware 
Uflilla Rnnlo From trap-nested stock. Record.s up 
nniTc nOCKS 264 eggs. Young Oockeiels half fall 
prices. Breeders, pullets. NOBSCOT EGG FARM, Nobscot, Mass 
f t 6 per too 
140 per 1,000 
SILVER, WHITE AND COLUMBIAN Polrin niirlflinO'C 
WYANDOTTES.S.C.R.I. REDS and • CMH UUUMill^d 
Aldham Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenixville, Pa. 
S.C. Rhode Island Reds w yo r'k I h o w s 
two consecutive years. High-grade utility liree<liiig 
stock, also eggs for hatching. Send for circnliir. 
MAPBEUKOFT FARMS, Box R, Pawliiig,N. Y. 
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Automobile 
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atlon, main¬ 
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on the 
construe - 
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gasoline 
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wbat to do and how to do it under all circum¬ 
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every part of tbo machine. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St.. N. Y. 
“You never think of the future. Have 
you made the slightest provision for a 
rainy day?” “I should say so. I’ve bor¬ 
rowed a silver-handled silk umbrella.”— 
Baltimore American. 
To Food Producers 
We are here to serve you, and through doing so to 
develop a better system of food distribution. We can 
do no miracles, but we can do for you what you could 
do for yourself if you were here with our information. 
We can inspect your shipments, no matter to whom 
sent for sale. We can look np returns; and if you do 
not get yoiir money we can look it up for yon. 
Some perishables are now selling low. We could 
only get the market price for them. Eggs and poul¬ 
try and high cptalify fruit bring good prices. We sell 
them for all we can get, and send an accurate report. 
Other sections are organizing to sell community 
products. New York must do the same or be at a 
disadvantage in the market. We can help make the 
organization. 
THE DEPARTMENT OF FOODS AND MARKETS 
204 Franklin Street, New York 
