1021 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Vineland, N. J. 
Below is record of the Vineland, N. 
J., egg-laying contest for week ending 
August 14, and total number of eggs to 
date. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. 
Week Total 
Garret W. Buck, N. J. 22 1739 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 21 1202 
Otto C. Luhrs, N. J. 19 1324 
O. N. Myers, Pa. 10 1410 
Harry H. Ober, N. J. 13 1228 
Orerlook Farm, N. J. 22 962 
George C. Ward, Me. 24 11S2 
Woodside Farm, R. 1. 15 1506 
White Plymouth Rocks. 
Chester P. Hodge, Mass. 
Holilston Hilt Poultry Farm, Mass.. 
Edward E. Murray, N. Y. 
Victor S. Reiclienbach, Pa. 
Overlook Farm, N. .T. 
Wilburtha Poultry F’arni, N. J. 
Columbian Plymouth Rocks 
Deptford Poultry Farm, N. J. 
T. J. Enslin, N. J. 
J, M. Jones, N. J. 
White Wyandottes. 
Thomas Coates, N. J. 
A. H. Faulkner, N. J. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Oablewood Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Eusscroft Farm, N. J. 
E. C. Moore, N. J. 
T. H. Matteson .fe Son, R. I. 
Sunnybrook Farm, N. J. 
H. S. Tuthill, N. J. 
Columbian Wyandottes. 
Hake Farm, R. I.. 
Sunnybrook Farm, N. J., 
Wilburtha Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
Clark & Howland, Vt. 
W. P. Laing. N. J. 
Mrs. 0. B. Elliott, N J. 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
Belle Ellen Stock Farm, N. J. 
H. W. Collingwood, N. J. 
Thomas W. Dawson, Pa. 
Etjon Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Thomas Henry, Pa. 
Miss Adeline S. Macintosh, N. J..., 
T'ndcrbill 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. T. 
Coverlawn Farm, N, J. 
W. J. Cocking, N, J. 
Jos. H. Cohen, N. J.. 
J. S. Cray & Son, N, J. 
Chas. Daval, Jr., N. J. 
L. S. & N. ii. Depue, N. J. 
R. F. & R. A. Earle, N. J. 
Harry G. Gardiner, N. J. 
C. S. Greene, N. J. 
Airedale Farm, Conn. 
B. Frank Grunzig, N. J. 
Henry E. Heine. N. J. 
Richard Heine, N. J.‘. 
Hcigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 
Hillview Farm, Mo. 
Holliston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.. 
Hugh J. Hoehn, N, Y. 
James F. Harrington, N. J. 
.John R. Lauder, N. J. 
I. aywell Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Fred J. Mathews, N. J. 
Mercer Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
H. H. Myers, 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. 
Sliadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
.Sloan’s Egg F'arm, N. J. 
Pinehurst Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Herman F. Sender, 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 Zandt, 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. 
n. G. Richardson, N. J. 
Romy Singer, N. J. 
Monmouth Farms, N. J. 
S. C. Black Leghorns. 
A. E. Hampton, N. J. 
Fred 0. Nixon, N. J. 
Sunny Acres, N. J. 
29 
36 
21 
14 
19 
18 
32 
3.4 
26 
20 
25 
16 
16 
35 
34 
25 
18 
31 
18 
19 
13 
1( 
32 
29 
25 
19 
34 
•28 
18 
•22 
40 
22 
44 
33 
39 
30 
34 
41 
33 
48 
38 
43 
22 
33 
32 
33 
29 
18 
39 
81 
33 
35 
39 
45 
21 
42 
46 
43 
29 
31 
32 
42 
45 
82 
19 
40 
31 
47 
87 
38 
39 
47 
35 
46 
21 
33 
12 
23 
22 
39 
46 
41 
32 
88 
45 
38 
38 
22 
19 
30 
30 
28 
1351 
1685 
1426 
965 
1191 
IRO 
1264 
114? 
1571 
1230 
1219 
1131 
Pies 
1447 
1335 
1286 
1264 
1120 
1317 
1165 
1669 
1294 
572 
1064 
1235 
1211 
1221 
1183 
1240 
1442 
1610 
368 
1733 
1642 
1750 
1288 
1583 
1502 
1.519 
1534 
1476 
1572 
1600 
1472 
1595 
1663 
1478 
1212 
1445 
1391 
1354 
1564 
1305 
1831 
1244 
1462 
1668 
1690 
1570 
1455 
1486 
1642 
1562 
1424 
1029 
1470 
1405 
1845 
1610 
1505 
1488 
14.52 
1645 
1629 
14S1 
1194 
1188 
1577 
1413 
1941 
1823 
1609 
1234 
1637 
1657 
1720 
1257 
997 
1241 
1501 
1612 
1591 
Totals 
2998 141158 
Sore Eyes in Chicks 
Can you give me a remedy for sore 
pyes in young chicks? Chicks seven 
weeks old. 'I have now Ipsrt nearly 
2,000. I have used every known remedy, 
such a potash, kerosene, boracic acid, 
witch hazel and various dips. Witch 
hazel and boracic acid were used as an 
eye-wash once a day. Potash and kero¬ 
sene in their di-inking water. The other 
disinfectants were used as a spray. I 
have fumigated houses with sulphur can- 
K. s. 
Aew Jersey. 
If the sore eyes of your chicks are 
caused by true roup, as seems likely from 
the great mortality, I know of no spe¬ 
cific remedy. The disinfectants that you 
have used are all right in their place, 
though fumigation of a large brooder 
house by burning two sulphur candles 
would amount to nothing, in fact, fumi¬ 
gation is a very inefficient method of dis¬ 
infection, anyway. True roup is so hard 
•®*’^<iicate that it seems hardly worth 
while to treat fowls affected by it. It 
is usually best to dispose of roupy stock 
entirely and then to guard carefully 
against reintroduction of the contagion. 
C75<e RURAL N 
Cleanliness of utensils, made sure of by 
the use of boiling water, and whitewash¬ 
ing of interiors .with freshly made lime 
whitewash are the practical, efficient dis¬ 
infectants for poultrymen, though the 
chemical disinfectants have their place. 
M, B. D. 
Soft-shelled Eggs 
Will you advise me how to stop my 
hens from laying soft-shelled eggs? I 
feed Cornell rations, leaving mash box 
open all day. They have oyster shell be¬ 
fore them at all times. a. m. c. 
New York. 
I do not know that it is possible en¬ 
tirely to stop the laying of soft-shelled 
eggs, but these should form a very small 
proportion of the whole number laid, 
(live green food of some kind in addi¬ 
tion to the grain and make that green 
food clover or Alfalfa if either is avail¬ 
able. During the Winter, give clover 
hay in addition to vegetables. An occa¬ 
sional soft-shelled egg is to be expected 
buT: too frequent products of this kind 
indicate some disturbance of the hen’s 
internal economy quite likely to be cor¬ 
rected by proper green food and the ob¬ 
servance of the rules of hen hygiene. 
M. B. D. 
Ailing Chicks 
My chicks are dying off with .swollen 
heads; nearly nine weeks old, and some 
with bowel trouble; blood passes them. 
What is good for white diarrhoea? We 
changed feed from the baby to medium 
when six weeks old but now changed 
back to the baby food. m, p. 
New York. 
The swollen heads would indicate that* 
these chicks are afflicted with some roup¬ 
like disease rather than dying from im¬ 
proper feeding, though more information 
than is given would be necessary to en¬ 
able one to say positively. Y^onr chicks 
should be able to eat whole wheat and 
cracked corn at their present age and 
may have a mash compo.sed of equal parts 
of wheat brau, wheat middling.s, cornmeal 
and beef scrap. This to be fed both dry 
and moistened with skim-milk or water. 
The proportions are by weight. Use only 
the best quality of beef scrap in the mash 
and supply chick grit with the cracked 
grains. m. b. d. 
Enlarged Liver 
I have a few Barred Plymouth Rock 
hens. Lately I have lost three of my 
last year’s pullets, and find they have en¬ 
largement of the liver. When they begin 
to come down with it, they act like chicks 
with the gapes. Their combs stay red 
and they lay right up until they die. 
Two years ago I bred from a rooster, out 
of the same flock I raised my hens from. 
Would inbreeding cause this and is there 
a remedy for it? j. g. p. 
New York. 
Inbreeding would have nothing to do 
with this trouble, of which enlargement 
of the liver is only a symptom. This en¬ 
largement may result from one of several 
causes, it being impossible to say from 
the mere fact of enlargement what the ac¬ 
tive cause in any case is. Many well-fed 
fowls die in this way and only an 
autopsy by an expert would disclose the 
cause of death. m. b. d. 
Suspected Roup 
What is the trouble with my hens? I 
think it must be roup. Eyes swell shut; 
some get better and some do not. They 
have got dry coop, free run, and are fed 
whole mixed gi’ain. m. a. t. 
New York. 
This may be roup, or merely a catar¬ 
rhal inflammation of the eyes in which 
the germs of true roup are not present. 
If roup the symptoms a.e much more 
severe, there is apt to be a foul odor to 
the discharge, the hen presents a weak, 
dejected appearance arly ip the case and 
soon becomes evidently seriously ill. 
Isolate any cases of po.ssible roup; clean 
up and disinfect utensils and quarters; 
do not return any sick fowls to the flock 
unless unmistakably cured, and take all 
such precautions^ against conditions tend¬ 
ing to ill health in the flock as your good 
sense dictates. Cases of catarrhal infec¬ 
tion of moderate severity recover. Those 
that do not recover promptly should not 
be permitted to remain where they may 
spread their contagion to others. 
M, B. D. 
Brooder Lamp; Caponizing 
tell me the safest brooder 
(lamp) to use and are they sanctioned 
by the insurance companies? 2. Where 
can I learn to caponize? Could I pick 
it up myself without seeing it done? 
A. L. C. 
1. Insurance companies will not permit 
the use of incubator or brooder lamps 
within insured buildings until a special 
permit has been obtained and paid for. 
I cannot recommend any particular style 
of lamp, as any of the standard makes 
are probably as safe as an oil lamp can 
be expected to be; that is, they are not 
entirely safe under any conditions, and 
should not be operated within or close to 
valuable buildings that are not fully in¬ 
sured. Brooders are frequently burned, 
even w’ith the best of care. 
2. By practice upon dead birds you 
EW-YO R K E R 
could probably learn to caponize success¬ 
fully from the printed dii’ections coming 
with caponizing sets, or frequently print¬ 
ed in poultry journals, t is not a dif¬ 
ficult, operation, once the knack is learned. 
M. b. d. 
Changing the Hen Ration 
Many of the poultry experts are hard 
at work trying to figure out some new 
poultry ration, in order to cut down the 
fearful cost of feed. • They all seem to 
agree that the quantity of food should be 
kept up but a change made in order to 
reduce the cost. The first thing they 
turn to in order to do this is chopped 
clover or Alfalfa. The Cornell people 
say that cornmeal and clover in equal 
parts may be used as a partial substi¬ 
tute for wheat bran. The leaves and 
chaff of dover hay may be fed dry as a 
mash, or cut up and steamed over night, 
and then fed in a trough. This is one of 
the best substitutes for the more expen¬ 
sive protein feeds. Kens like gluten meal 
as a rule, and this may be used to re¬ 
place part pf the wheat middlings. In 
the place of Avheat barley proves a good 
substitute, and it often happens that a 
good bargain may be made in shrunken 
wheat. ^ When it comes to a practical 
proposition, however, good, well-cured 
c.over or Alfalfa, either fed alone, or as 
part of the dry mash, will offer the most 
promising substitute for more expensive 
feeds, and it will soon bo so that Alfalfa 
properly handled will proA’O as nece.ssary 
for the chicken man as for the dairy man. 
where the transplanted roots of 
Alfalfa will come in to help the hen man. 
It might not pay yet to attempt trans¬ 
planting on a large acreage scale, but the 
fact remains that 400 or 500 plants of 
( ossack Alfalfa will provide a large pro¬ 
portion of the protein needed by 250 
hens. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 86. 
1917. ’ 
FARM TOPICS. 
An Old Hay Tedder.1002 
Killing” Frosts in Maine.1002 
Wartime Plowing in France.1004 
A Crop of Millet Hay...1004 
Crops and Farm Notes.1004 
Storing Cabbage . 1005 
Improving a Root Cellar.!!!!!l005 
Moth Damage to Stored Food.!l005 
Storing Potatoes in Pits.1005 
Heat from Water.!!!!!l005 
Crops and Farm Notes.1007 
Hope Farm Notes.ilOOS 
Storing Beans in Stack.!.!!l008 
Seed Balls on Potatoes.1008 
The Hard Grain Situation.loll 
The State and the Farmer.lon 
Transplanted Alfalfa in Wisconsin.1018 
Millet in the Silo.. 
Green Corn for Market..'.".,1020 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Horse Feed from Wheat.1011 
Swine in Massachusetts.1016 
Letting Sho«p on Shares.i.1016 
Starting with Sheep.!l016 
Weak Horse . , 1016 
.!.!'.'.!!.'.',!i016 
Skin Disease . 1016 
Indigestion . !..!!!!! 1016 
Who Pays for the Heifer.1017 
Foot Rot .1017 
Testing Cream . !!!!.!.! 1018 
Milk and Apples for Children.1018 
Ration for Young Pigs.ioi8 
Slime in Separator..1018 
The Milk Test in Butter Making.1018 
Corn and Cob Meal for Horse.1018 
Shrink in Milk.1018 
Diseased Udder . !!!!!!l018 
Abnormal Milk . , 1018 
Buckwheat for Pigs .!!!!.1018 
Coughing Cow .. 
THE HENYARD. 
A Safe Chicken Coop.1020 
Egg-laying Contest .!il021 
Sore Eyes in Chicks .1021 
Soft-shelled Eggs .!l021 
Ailing Chicks . 1021 
Enlarged Liver .'.'.1021 
Suspected Roup .1021 
Brooder Lamp; Caponizing.1021 
HORTICULTURE. 
Ammonia Bordeaux for Cucumber Blight.. .1003 
Summer Meeting of the New York Fruit 
Growers .1007 
“Valuation” in Currant Culture.i.'lOOS 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.1009 
Everbearing Strawberries .1009 
Verdun—a “New” Vegetable.1009 
Wormy Raspberries .1009 
Chinese Cabbage .1009 
Covering a Steep Bank.1009 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.1014 
The Rural Patterns.1016 
Canning Corn and Tomatoes; Salting Swiss 
Chard .1015 
Tennessee Com Notes, Part 1.1015 
Shell Lace .1015 
A Farmer’s Wife on Food Conservation.1016 
Embroidery Designs .1016 
Apple Symp from Windfalls. 1016 
Canned Grapes .1016 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The New York State Dog Law.1001, 1008 
Boston Markets .1004 
Mud Houses and California Bees.1003 
The Well Cover.1003 
Events of the Week.1006 
Ownership of Bees.1008 
Editorials .1010 
An “Organization” and a “Cat’s-paw”..1011 
The Food Bill Fight at Albany.1011 
They Oppose the Food Bill.1011 
Notes from Department of Foods and Mar¬ 
kets .1017 
Buffalo Markets .1019 
Philadelphia Markets .1019 
Water Tank from Old Silo Staves..1020 
Pumping with Compressed Air.1020 
A Woman Farmer’s Hay.1020 
Disposal of Property by Will.1020 
Foreclosure of Mortgage; Dower Rights in 
Entailed Property .1020 
Ownership of Dog. 1020 
Property in Wife’s Maiden Name.1020 
Publisher’s Desk .1022 
Humorous .1024 
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Standard S. C. VU. Leghorns 
and White Rocks 
Line-bred and trapnested. The blood 
of Stoirs and Vineland winners. 
PULLETS for Sale to begin laying 
from August to November. 
Cockerels and Hens 
EVERGREEN FARM, Chappaqua, N. Y. 
rLEGHORN BREEDERS^ 
“With The Lay Bred in Them” 
We otter White Leghorn males and females at 
moderate prices. Carefully selected birds from 
our strain of exceptionally heavy layers. Alany 
fully pedigreed. Healthy—vigorous—produc¬ 
tive. Eeeru bird bred and reared by ns. Satisfac¬ 
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SPRECHER BROS., Box 40, Rehrerstown,Pa. 
l-bGHORNS 
6 hens of 248 to 260-egK itoek. mated to cockerel 7314- 
6 E 2 stock) for $10 Pullets of same etoek $2 each. 
111. CLAUDE JONES - Craryville, n! Y. 
•xV^/ ww liiLC Jr w JL4JLi4£4 a O rOi 0210 
Early hatch—prime duality—5S1.25 each this 
month only. Mobegun D'ariu, JFeekskill, N. Y. 
Chicks 
S. 0. W. Ijcchorns. #c. and up. Jloiiey 
refunded for dead chicks. Cir. free. 
W. A. LACVER, McAIisterville, Pa. 
Pullets and Csckerels B'l^dMoo’kfwS 
Wyandottes, R. I. Reds, Bl.ack Alinorcas and Silver 
Campines. Maole Cavs Poultry Yards, R. 2, Athens. Pa. 
II 5 per lOO 
SILVER, WHITE AND COLUMBIAN 
WYANDOTTES.S.C.R.I. REDS and r GKin UUCKIingS 
Aldbam Poultry Farm, R. 34. Phoenixville. Pa. 
WyckoffStrainS.C. W Leghorns 
Satisfaction guaranteed. J. 51. CASE. Gilboa.N.Y. 
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REYNOLD’S FARM. 
FOR SALE. April White Leg- 
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R. F. D.. Annandaok. New Jersey 
White Leghorn April Pullets 
^ 5 
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Leghorns-Barron-WyandolteSeia’"pSs educed: 
Pullets and cockerels from inipoi-ted stock, records 200 to 
282. Iniportedhens with records over 250, very reasonable. 
Tested yearJing cocks, the Birron Fjnn. R. 3. Connellsville P«. 
500 VEARLING i 
L A n H s ti imc LOgiiui 113 Shipped'on", p'p r oV"aT 
Biverdale Poultry Farm. Box 165 Riverdale, N. J. 
White Leghorns ® Wales.SI.SO each 
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OUDOSlOreeUS Pogs and Cavies. Stock and Eggs, 
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A, C. JONES. Marvel Homestead Farm. Georoetown, Delaware 
100 White Plymouth Rock Hens 
One year old. Large, vigorous and healthy birds. 
Price, $1.50 each. IRVING P. FA VOR, Jr.. Kyserike, N. Y. 
;.''JlliceBarreJRQcliCockerels‘„*ii?,r£;„;-.;:Y‘i: 
WILD GEESE Saia 
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Fine, vigoroua birds, from heaviest laying stock. 
Pnee, $15 per dozen. Rans om Farm, Geneva, Ohio 
For Sale—700 S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
5 to 6 hundred yearlingWhite Leghorn hens. Price, 
SI to S1.50. Pullets, SI to Sl.iiS. 
C. H. WEBB, _-_ Geneseo, New York 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
“Specially bred for heavy eop-praduction." Bred for many 
generations from high-record hens. 1,000 selected 
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Must have room for growing stock. Buy early and 
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Barron’s White Wyandottes Kierf 
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hens with 255 to 273-egg records. Males, cockerels, 
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