tShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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BEE-KEEPING 
Do You Know its Possibilities? 
Do you know of its pleasures and profits? Do you 
know bow it has been improved and made easy? Do 
you know of the patriotic call for more bee-keeping in 
these days of great sugar shortage? Do you know that 
less than one-fifth of the honey is produced in this 
country that might be produced? Do you know that 
bees in your back lot or orchard or garden, or on 
your lawn, can gather a crop of honey? Write today 
for our free booklet, “A Look-in on Bee-keeping”—a 
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and also for a book on Bee Supplies. 
THE A. I. ROOT CO., MEDINA, 0. 
POULTRY 
Mattiluck'S^SS™ 
Eecs and chicks from selected breeders—one and 
two years old, on free range-the result of 3 yrs. 
tran-nesting and selective breeding—mated to cock¬ 
erels bred from 200 to 252-egg hens and 200 to 288-egg 
cocks We h.-ive 1,800 hens of our own breeding. 
“We positively do not sell any eggs or chicks which are not 
produced by our own stock on our own farm. Circular. 
ARTHURH. Penny, Box Y. Mattituck. N.Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
EXCLUSIVELY — onl FREE RaiVCE 
Rav-old chicks—Eggs for hatching, from selected 
liens on free grass range, mated with Tom Barron 
males from 283-egg hens. Eggs and chicks guaran¬ 
teed satisfactory to you on arrival. Candee incu¬ 
bator operated personally by prop.; 36 acres de¬ 
voted to S. C. \V. Leghorns. Mating list and in¬ 
formation on reauest. 
TUORD WHITE LEGHORN FARM 
W. F. DROUT, Prop., Box 296, St. James, L. I., N.Y. 
GEORGE’S WHITE LEGHORUS^Voo 
fAfe delivery Jiiostly “prancl chicks of 
)nv ‘213-ci!g coiitest hen. Send $1 now, iialance C. O. D. 
Special mating of best A. P. Robinson hens 
WONDERFUL LAYERS 
and iny best cockerel; chicks 70o. each, eggs, 35c. 
CIEORGE PHILLIPS, R26, Seymour, Conn. 
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tglantineUOCkerelS pi.ews. M.atedto Hanon and 
None- Better Strains. High Records. Chicks, S13. 
Eggs, S7 per 100. Circul.ars and photograph. 40 .yrs. 
experience. Maplehurst Poultry Farms, Hobbs, Maryland 
White PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Bred 20 years for high production of eggs and meat. 
Hatching eggsSIOper 100. Day-old ehicksSZZ per 100. 
Wilson’s Poultry Farm, Hollis, N. H. 
FiftyBuff RocksforSale andLyers 
FREIY WEHBAGE, K. F. D. 3, Medina, N.Y. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
« OCKS, COCK Ell EES ANI> PULLETS 
Big, strong, vigorous birds; good type and color. 
A. L. VltEELANO, - NUTI.EY, J. 
Healthy, 
Q P R I HpHu E ggs, $8—160: $1.50—1.5. 
0. U. fi. It ncus vigorous, utility liens—no pullets. 
E. R. JOHNSON. - Center Bridge, Pa. 
Single Comb RHODE ISLAND RED COCKERELS 
Laige, vig.>rous, veiy d:ivk red. farm-vaise<l bii-ds. 
$3 to $5 each. A. E, Adams, Stony Creek,N.Y. 
White Wyandottes 
COCKERELS, PULLETS 
AND COCKS 
Strong, vigorous breeders, bred from trap-nested 
stock, A. L. YllEELANU, NU'XLEY, N, d. 
Buff Wyandottes 
test record 248. 
Eggs, S3 per setting from Pedi¬ 
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H K. Sullivan, Box 1321, Hartford, Conn. 
WhiteWyandotieCockerel8i;'^^ex"tri’e^^^^^ 
raised birds whose dams were sired by .Tolin S. 
Martin's champion " Sensation,” at 85 eacli. 
L. O. OUIGLEY, - Goshen, New York 
Pure Bred White Holland Turkeys Rodman, New York 
For Sale-PureBred Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
from prize-winning stock. Large frame: good bone: 
beautiful plumage. Miss IDA CHUMBLEY. Draper,Virginia 
Pl.-l DT..ftE xcellent R r e k i> i n o .Stock. 
Slant Bronze turkeys c. o. kam;, ko^-ic, >. v. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
THE HENYARD 
Why Barron’s Birds Failed 
I liiivp been much intorostod in watoh- 
injj the record of the egg-layins contest. 
Also the building up of egg-laying strains. 
Now I have looked at our friend Tom 
llarron as having it down to a science, 
and I would like to know the. reason, if 
there is any, why both his Leghorns and 
Wyandottes should have made ouch a poor 
showing the last contest in comparison 
with their previous records. R. M. c. 
^Ir. Barron’s Leghorns arrived here in 
very bad condition. The bag of corn 
attached to the coop had not been opened 
and was still filled with corn. Mr. Barron 
usually pays the butcher on the ship to 
feed and water the birds during the week 
they are on the way over. Possibly the 
birds were not fed at all; possibly they 
were fed on table scraps containing salty 
stuff not in sufficient quantity to kill, but 
enough "to throw them out of condition. 
Instead of starting off laying heavily, as 
heretofore, they laid only 11 eggs the first 
week, six the second week, four the third, 
one the fourth week and none the fifth. 
Out of the 10 birds only one bird laid for 
the next three weeks. Ilis Wyandottes, 
also—probably shipped on the same 
steamer—did not start off as usual, only 
one of the birds laying during the first 
month. 
Whether lack of care while on ship- 
hoard is the only reason for the i)Oor lay¬ 
ing of course cannot be known; it is 
reasonable to siqjpose that it is one 
reason. As it was, one of Mr. Barron’s 
Wyandottes outlayed every hen in her 
class, and was tlie second best hen in the 
whole contest, her score of 20.’’, eggs being 
exceeded only by the Barred Bock that 
layed 277. 
In the Newark, Del., conte.st Mr. Bar¬ 
ron’s "Wyandottes were third, the pen 
avei-ages per bird for the thn'o leading 
pens being 2.S.‘1.2. 2.”.”,. 2.">1.n, or less than 
two eggs difference in a whole year’s 
laying. The totals were I.IOG, 1.105, 
1,158—five birds in e:K‘h pen. 
OEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Feeding Questions 
My oldest 1017 pullets, hatched April 
20. commenced to lay. two or three per 
day, December 1. at present getting eight 
to 12; rest of young stock I am 'afraid 
will not lay for two months. I have tried 
to feed as usual as far as I could get 
grain. I was feeding till last Summer for 
hard grains about one-half cracked corn 
and one-half barley ; at present oats. Dry 
mash—six lbs. bran, three lbs. meal, three 
Ihs. middlings, throe lbs. ground oats, five 
to six lbs. beef serap.s. charcoal and lin- 
.seed meal. At present T am feeding same 
mash. I thouglit perhaps I was giving 
rather too nuieh hard grain in morning 
and not enough mash. Ought one to feed 
fully as mneh mash per day to get a good 
balanced ration’? Is it not very essential 
to give them all the water they will drink 
so they will economize all tlie mash pos¬ 
sible? I try to keep plenty of hay in 
scratching slieds by renewing frequently. 
I have often asked the hen men about 
here if one onglit to use grit beside oyster 
shells. I am taking care of a few hens 
neai’by where they have a cement floor 
and plenty of sand on it: mine don’t have 
a chance to get much grit. D. w. M. 
Massachusett.s. 
Yes. water should always he before 
hens that have their mash in dry form, 
ekse they cannot well eat enough of it to 
supply their needs. It takes quite a little 
water to wash down dry ground i i iins 
As for grit, in addition to oyster shells, 
I believe that it is needed. Without it, 
hens will consume more shell and at cor¬ 
respondingly greater expense for food. 
Good, heavy whole oats are valuable as 
poultry food, in any proportion that they 
will be eaten without waste. They are 
not as palatable as corn and wheat, have 
a considerable proportion of waste in their 
hulls, and should not be made the whole 
grain ration. M. b. d. 
Capons for Brooding 
I saw a letter in The B. N.-Y. ask¬ 
ing if capons could he iisi'd for brooding. 
I had 42 chicks hatched in an incubator, 
brought them home, gave them to a capon, 
and that night he covered the whole 42. 
When I first started I put him in a coop 
away from the other chickens for two or 
three days and then let him run with a 
hen that had nine chicks for a while be¬ 
fore I gave him any chicks alone. lie 
had four diffei’cnt lots of chicks last 
Summer. w. B, R. 
Bellvale, N, Y. 
“Wiiat’s the matter with your wrist 
watch?” ‘‘One of the cows kicked it in 
the face.” ‘‘What for?” “Well, you see, 
I was milking her. and the tick annoyed 
her, so the poor tiling wouldn’t stand for 
it.”—Toronto Sun. 
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