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PARKS WINTER LAYING 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Won First Honors and Outlayed 
the 2600 birds in the Five Miss¬ 
ouri Laying^ Contests (Under 
Govt. Su^rvision) Including the 
Famous English Laying Strains. 
Also made the remarkab'e^winter 
month record of 134 eggs in Jan. 
Cir. Free. Large Catalog a dime. 
J. W. PARKS. Box Y ALTOONA, PA. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stockin^r dox^ms. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Sw.ins, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geess, Bears, Foxes, Kac- 
coon. Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist, Dept. 10, Yardlcy, Pa 
Laying Pullets for Sale 
Selected few to spare; 260 and 23fi.egg strains—$1.26— 
ssrh. - W. A. DORREN, Grottoes, Virginia 
TOM BARRON 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
From Imported pen of Hens with over 
!i50 eg:g; records and cock 283. Pedigreed 
Pullets and Cockerels For Sale. $.% Each 
with Pedigree. F. L. MAT, R. No. 4, Elmira, N. Y. 
White Wyandottes 
Bred for heavy-laying, quick growth, great vigor. 
Trapnested. Pedigreed. Cocks.Cockerels .and liens. 
A. L. Vreeland, . Nutley, N. J. 
A Few Silver Spangled Hamburgs ^reiUa 
Black Polish, Silver and Golden Campines, at 
each and upwards. A- JACKSON, Mincraf Springs, N. Y, 
Giant Bronze TURKEYS 
Hens, $6; Toms, 812. Order before Nov. 20th. 
Mrs. 0£0. O. KOYCE, Depuyster, N. ¥. 
PuraBredWhiiaHoilandTurkeys Rodman,New YoKK 
Tiirlrove OUCKS. GEESE at Special Prices during fall 
I Ul RUJ3 months. Write your wants. Alsocavies and 
hares. H. A. Souder, Bos 29, Sellersville, Fa. 
SAI^ Pure Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
Enormouobone and frame, Tomf»,$10; Hens, $6. 
FRANK ROSEBROUGH. “The Locosta.” BROCKPORT.N.T. 
200 Light Brahma Pulleta For Sale Reasonable 
Kiverdale Poultry Farm, Box 165, Riverdsle, N. J. 
r<)H'BREEu»f«—Wliite Pekin Ducks GEESE ^nd 
MALLAUU PCOKB. W. C. WHIPrU, Optir Fana. PURCHXSE, N. 1 . 
, ONE- 
' TEXR 
Bourbon-RedToms FLONA li0^*Iir0,°grMalwtpfc 
Giant BronzaTurkeys o.^d.'kaIn^*! rosm^'^n.'i^ 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
40-1 and 2-year-old Pakin Ducks FARMS, Vlindcrs, H. J, 
S.C. Rhode Island Reds 
TRAP-NESTED—200 EGG STRAIN 
We are now taking orders for COCKERELS, 
HENS and PULLETS from our trap-nested reds 
of quality. By careful breeding we have bred a 
strain of Beds that we can satisfy our customers 
and bold them from yev to year. Wo have entered 
a few of reds In the North American Contest this 
year beginning Nov. 1st, 1917. Prices of Cockerels, 
15, $8, and llo each. Write for prlcei of Bene and Pullete, 
Chester County Poultry Farm, Pottetown, Pa. 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds ^^w y o?k s h ^w s 
two consecutive years. High-grade utility breeding 
stock, also eggs for hatching. Send for circular. 
MAPLECKOFT FARMS, Box R. Pawling,N.Y. 
Best Red Ever Trap-Nested cofn^Ti 
Lady Pinecrest, 260-eggs, has produced some fine 
cockerels. These and other big, range-raised, bred- 
to-lay cockerels for sale. Your satisfaction guaran¬ 
teed. Poultry MinigeriPINECREST ORCHARDS,Groton, Mass. 
XOVEMllER S, 1917 
Eggs. —Fanoy hennery white?:. TOo to 
S2c; fancy hennery browns, to OOc; 
nearby gathered whites and mixed, Htic 
to 70c; white pullets. 50c to 5Sc. Candle 
yonr eggs before shipping, and do not 
pack cracked eggs. Use new cases, with 
No. 1 flats and fillers, placing excelsior 
on top and bottom. 
Butter. —Market steady. Best West¬ 
ern creamery, 45i/4e to 45%c: prime to 
fancy, 42l^c to 44e; fancy Eastern dhiry, 
lie to -44c; Eastern dairy in mixed pack¬ 
ages, 40c to 43c. 
Lm: Poultry. —^Market dull, fowls. 20c 
to 22c: chickens, 21 e to 22c; State ducks, 
20c: old roosters, 17c; live rabbits, 22c 
to 23c; Geese, 20c; turkeys, 25c. 
EMPTY COOPS 
All empty coops ai’e turned over to 
the express companies promptly'after ar¬ 
rival. We obtain a receipt for them. We 
are exerting every effort to have the ex¬ 
press companies return them to the ship¬ 
per promptly. Shippers who do not re¬ 
ceive the coops promptly should write 
us for a copy of the express receipt and 
have the local agent trace the shipment, 
or as a last resort file claim with their 
local express agent for their loss. 
Live Calves and Hogs. —Market 
steady, prime calves. Ii5%c to IGc; fair 
to good, 14i/4e to 15''^e; common, -114c 
to 1414c; buttermilks, 8c to 9e; live hogs, 
171/20. 
Dressed Calves and Dressed Pork. 
—choice veals, 21e to 22e; prime, 20c to 
2014c; common, 17c to 18c; buttermilks. 
1.3c to 14c; dres.sed pigs, (12 to 20 
pounds), 24c to 28c; dressed pork, 22c to 
27c; dressed hothou.se lambs, 24c to 28c. 
Pears. —Kiefl’ers selling slowly, fancy, 
.$2 to $2..50; ordinary, $1 to .$2; Seckels, 
.Its to .$10; Anjou. ,$3 to $6; Bose, $4 to 
.$8; Clairgeau, .$4 to $7. 
Quinces. —Fancy large, $4..50 to .$5; 
No. 1, .$3 to .$4. Little demand for quinces 
on account of sugar shortage. 
Apples. —Fancy apples in good de¬ 
mand ; ungraded stock dragging. McIn¬ 
tosh, $3 to $7; Jonathan, .$.3 to $7; 
Wealthy, $3 to $6; Snow, $3 to $5.50; 
Spy, .$4 to $5; Baldwin, $3.50 to $5; 
Greening, $3.50 to $6.50. 
Maple Products and Honey. —Sugar 
light per pound, 15c to IGc; syrup per 
gallon, $1.25 to $1,50; clover white ex¬ 
tracted, 14e to 16e; buckwheat extracted, 
12c to 14c; clover comb, lOc to 20c. 
Potatoes. —State, 180 pounds bulk. $4 
to $4.50: State, 165 pound bags, $3.75 to 
.$4.25; State, 150 pound bags, $3.25 to 
.$3.i)0; Maine, 180 pounds bulk, $4..50 to 
.$4.75; Maine, 165 pound bags, $4 to 
.$4.50; Long Island, 180 pounds bulk, 
.$4.25 to $5 ; Long Island, 165 pound bags, 
.$4..50 to $4.75. The demand is fairly 
good for choice stock. Many potatoes 
lack quality. Most stock is small, and 
more or less damaged by frost, and selling 
slowly. 
Onions. —Market lower, trading quiet. 
State white, 100 pound bag, $2.50 to 
$3.75; State yellow, $2.50 to $3.25; 
State red, .$2 to $3; Conn. Valley yellows, 
,$2.50 to $3. 
Beans. —Marrow, 15e to 16%e; pjia, 
L5c to lo^^c; red kidney, 14e to 15c; 
white kidney, 13^c to 14c. Good demand 
supply short. 
Good cows, from $60 to .$125; 2-yei:T- 
olds, for beef, from $55 to $70; for feed¬ 
ing, ,$35 to $40. Sheep from $12 to $14 
per head: lambs, 10 to 12c per lb., live 
weight. Poultry, live, 16 to 18c per lb. 
Eggs. .52c; apples. No. Spys, hand-picked, 
$1.25 per bn. Cabbage, 2c per lb. Hay, 
Timothy, loose. .$12 per ton; straw, oat, 
$7. Onions. $1.50 per bu.. poor quality. 
Pigs, 4 weeks old, $.5 each; veal calves, 
hog-dressed, 20c per lb. Milk, retail, 10c 
per qt. Cheese, wholesale, 26c; retail, 
32c. Farm horses, $75 to .$150, as to 
quality. Manual labor, farm work. $2.25 
and board. Wood for domestic purposes, 
.$2.50 per cord. Natural gas, 30c per 
1,000 cu. ft. m.l. 
Potter Co., Pa. 
FOR SALE-300 Thorougli. I nifliAmHlillC 
bred BufILegbem and White IxvgDUnillvnv 
1916 stock. 81.60 each. Alto 700 thoronghbred 
Buff Leghorn and White Leghorn pullets. 1917 stock, 
83 each. Only reason for selling li that capable 
man in charge was 
Dr.H. W. Woodborry, 18 W.34lh Si.. Hew Torh City 
BarronLeghoms 
Choice Cockerels 
Pedigrees 227 to "78 
$3—$4 and $5 
High Pedigreed Pullets $2 and $3 
LXYWEU. FOCLTBT FARM, Pliinvilit, Ctnn. 
WYCKOFF P P 
STRAIN O.ll. 
hens for sale. Satisfaction 
W.LeghornCockerels 
LCtion Guaranteed. J. M. CX 
and a few 
yearling 
CASE, Oilbos,N.Y 
to-buy-I 00 V/hiieLeghornPullets 
fully JOHN NELSON. Prospect Ave., West Orange, N. J 
ForSale-Pure-Breed Toulouse Geese Spencer, N. T. 
Thoroughbred Buff Cochin MS®’ 
Maple Lawn Bantam Yards, Sergeantsvilte, N. J. 
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You simply fill the COLT generator with Carbide and 
water—then, without attention, it furnishes the whitest 
and most beautiful light for your house and barns — and 
gas fuel to your kitchen. For eighteen years we have 
been building—improving and marketing COLT PLANTS 
in constantly increasing numbers. 
The reputation built by all of these plants now serving thousands of 
country homes in this district is our biggest asset, a reputation for depend¬ 
able, efficient service (without repair expense). 
Good light and gas cooking fuel are two cenveniences 
which every city home has found indispensable. 
Carbide Lighting and Cooking Plant 
has made both conveniences easily available and indis¬ 
pensable to the country home: 
Write us today for our handsomely illustrated advertising literature — and, 
if you wish, a free estimate of cost — tell us hotv many rooms you have 
in your house and the number of lights you would want in your barns. 
J. B. Colt Company^ 4-2iici Street Building 
NEW YORK CITY 
SEVEN HUNDRED PULLETS 
S. C. W. LEGHORN 
APRIL HATCH 
Many about to Lay 
All wellbred and strictly healthy 
$ 1.75 and $ 1.50 each 
Your money back if you wish” 
Tom Barron’s While Leghorns 
No other itraiii. All birds trap-nested. Indivldn- 
illy pedigreed cockerels for sale. Booklet. WILLOW 
' POULTRY FARM. Allen H. Bulkley, Prop., Odessa,(LV. 
200 TO 282.EGG STRAIN 
Pure S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
Shipped on money-back cnar.intee at $3, $5 and 
$7.50 each. HIDRI VIEW FARM, Box 50, Mt. Bethel, Pa. 
For Salo-WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
nested stock. Also some very good Rhode Island 
Red pnllets. THE TRAINING SCHOOL AT VINELAND. N. J. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier . 
proUts larger. 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
High-class stock bred for heavy egg production. <'er- 
tltied Official Records. M. j. QUACKENBUSH. Nutley, N. J. 
Leghorns-Banon-WyandotteSeT'"M“8®i-effimed‘ 
Pullets and cockerels from imported stock, records 200 to 
282. Imported hens with records over 260, very reasonable. 
Tested yearling cocks. The Barren Farm, R. 3, ConnelUville, Ps. 
WHITE UBHOIoi Yearling Hens, Pullefs and Cockerels 
Choice heavy .laying stock. HXRHT SMITH, Montgomery,R.Y. 
50MayHafchedPullets^i--?"-«-'^- »*"ttituck white 
LEGHORN FARM. Mattituck, N.Y. 
B rown Leghorn oockerelb, each. 
Tormohlen Laying.strain. EDSON T0UN6, Warrtnsburi, N.T. 
THOROUBHBREOUlLJlol oirlinMi Piillar* readytolay. Price 
SIRGLE C 0 M B 0 6 ITS LegnOm r U l leis 9*3 each. Sold on ap¬ 
proval. RAYMOND HONE, CHERRY Valusy, Nkw York 
WhiteWyandotteCockerels STRAIN’^ 
for immediate shipment at 85 each. Birds worth 
doable the money. E. B. UNDERHILL, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
Ours Lay 
and Pay 
Stock fob Sals reasonable. 
B. W. STEVENS, - StiUwater, N. Y. 
White Wyandottes 
MANN’S Bone Cutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. 10 Days’ Fra# Trial. 
No money In advance. 
Send Today lor Free Book. 
EW* liNann Co., Box 18, Milford, MassJ 
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Improved Parcel 
Post Egg Boxes 
New Flats and Fillers 
New Egg Cases 
Leg Bands -O ats Sprouters 
Catalog Free on Request 
B. K. BRUNNER. 45 Harrison Street, New York 
“ Gonsisfently Good for Many Years ” 
says a subsoriber. The Poultry Item is a big aid 
in care imd management of poultry for profit. 
62 to UO pages monthly, finely illustrated. 3 jr». 
$1, 6 mo». iSt. Free copy of breed special with 
every order. Mention your favorite breed. 
THE POULTRY ITEM, 25 Maple Xve., Ssllarsville, Pa. 
Breeders for sale. Eggs and chicks in season. 
A. C. JONES, Marvel Homestead Farm, Georgetown, Delaware 
T H O M F 8 O N ’ S 
ojrrcu fluent ringlets direct 
C hoice Cockerels, S3 and $5; Pullets. S2.50 and S3. 
Also P.arks’ heavy-laying strain crossed with 
Thompson’s, at same prices. Must please or moiiyr 
refunded. 1. H. BACORN, Sergeantaville, N. J. 
Rose Comb R.L White Cockerels 
from good layers, $3.00 each. 
J. BENNING Clyde. N. V. 
yearly average of our pen in Storrs contest just 
closed. "We breed, not buy, 200-egg hens.” Pedi¬ 
gree cockerels for sale: alsohen.s. Send for booklet. 
WindBweep Farm, Box 43, Redding Ridge, Connecticut 
PULLETS: 
March and April hatch. 
MARY £. ADAMS, 
S. C, Rhode Island Reds 
Good stock, $1.75 each. 
. Canaan, Conn. 
White Wyandotte Cockerels Wo^rsttnutlm/a?N."'! 
StACeFair, Middlcbrook Poultry Farm,MiisMArionl.Moare.Himburg.N.Y. 
