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ability by conditioninsT your breeding 
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£ne cbicks. Coafa bat Jc. a hen per ] 
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B. Rocks 
pUREBRED. 
^ Strong-, Livable. 
From heavy - laying, 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sod us, N. Y. 
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start you right in profit¬ 
able poultry raising. 
Strong, sturdy, -well hatch¬ 
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S. C. W, Leglioriui 
Barred Rocks 
R. I. Reds 
Wyanclottes 
W. F. IIII.H'O'J' 
Box 1 , Frenchtowii.N.,!. 
45% in November 
Our S. C. REDS led first i vvoek.s of N. A.Contest(Dela- 
ware ofticial) with *5% prodtiotion against 13^ 
average for the 100 pens. We hn-ed liens fiirogg-tyiio 
as dairymen breed cows for milk. Our S. C. White 
w wi /V n mr are uumatched. Pen “A ” 
I rlvHlllllllS headed hv son of SH-egg 
MjIj It V tiLlI ij hen, “If* by grandsons. 
Hatching eggs LEGHORNS or REDS— Pelt A. liens25U 
to 280 egg-t.vi>e, $5 for 1.5, t25for lOU. Pen B, hens 200 to 
2.‘i0 egg-tyjio, $3 for 15j »15 for lOO. I’eii C, hens 1.50 to 
20U oBK-tyi>e, $10 for 100. The best Is the cheapest. Cataloi/. 
HOPEWELL FARMS, - Box 161-R, Hopewell, N. J. 
HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORN CHICKS 
-.500 for delivery every Tuesday in April at $IG per 
lOU: $8.50 per 50; $4.50 per 25. Also 2,000 White Leg¬ 
horn chix weekly. $14 per 100; $7..50per 50; $4per25. 
I iriier now and get yotir chicks quick; safe delivery 
guaranteed. My free circular *ells why the BLACK LEG¬ 
HORN is the greatest layer and most profitable breed 
Oiiearth. Write today, a. E. IUMI*TON,Box It,l'llutoiTii,!«. J. 
White Leghorn Pullets and Yearling Hens 
spl.aS each. FOREST FARM.Ropkaway, N. J. 
Stop! Look!! Read!!! 
Shortage of labor and feed forces us to sacrifice 
500 Lincoln Leghorn Pullets and 
250 WyckoII Leghorn Breeders 
Well wintered. Not forced. Now laying strong. 
Prleect to go. 
JEWETT BROS„ SKANEATELES, N, Y. 
All YSu.Hatch" 
Give them a strong start, prevent losses 
and disease, by feeding for first three 
weeks 
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'*A baby food for baby chick*.” Then oso 
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. keep them growing. Chick Book 
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Chicago ,ii 
Torouto 
Mattituck ^ar m™ 
Eggs and chicks from selected breeders—one and 
two years old, on free range-the result of 3 yrs. 
trap-nesting and selective breeding—mated to cock¬ 
erels bred from 200 to 2,52-egg hens and 200 to 288-egg 
cocks. We have 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. 
Arthur H. Penny, Box Y, Mattituck, N.Y 
Exclu¬ 
sively 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
YOUNG AND BARRON STRAINS, WITH EGG 
RECORDS UP TO 274 EGGS IN ONE YEAR. 
3.000 breeder.-! on free farm range. Inoculated and free 
from lice, the finest lot I ever owned. Now booking or¬ 
ders for Baby Chicks, March and April delivery. Capa¬ 
city, 10 to 12.000 weekly. Eggs for hatching now ready in 
any quantity. Order well in edvaiice this year as demand 
will far exceed the supply. My Book “Protils in Poultry Hoop¬ 
ing Solvod," free with all 810 orders. Circulars free. 
RIlUAR BKI008, Box 75, IMeneaiit Valley, N. T. 
EGGS WHITE LEGHORNS CHICKS 
Do you want the best for your foundation stock, 
or new blood for your flock? Then order from an 
Old Established Breeder. We are not a Hatchery. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS ONLY. 
Our prices are as low as can consistently be 
named under present conditions. 
Spring Water Poultry Farm, R. F. D. No. 1 Stockton, N. J. 
LINCOLN LEGHORNS 
STAND FOR EQGS 
at Storrs 1913-1914 tliey won the egg-luying contest, 
ten hens laying 2088 eggs. At Storrs 1915-1916—lead¬ 
ing lieghorn pen—2034 eggs. At Vineland 1916-1917 
the Shiirts ami Voegtlen pen direct from me were 
third with 2115 eggs. This is the stock U want. 
Il.-itching eggs, chicks ami stock for sale. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
^LEGHORN BREEDERS'^ 
“With The Lay Bred in Them” 
We olfei- White Leghorn males and females at 
iiiodei-ate prices. Carefully .selected birds from 
om- strain of exceptionally heavy layers. Many 
fully pedigreed. 11 eal thy^v ig or o u s—produc¬ 
tive. J'h'ci ‘11 bint brerl <ind reared by us. Satislac- 
tioii assured. Write your wants. Circular free. 
SPRECHER BROS., Box 40, Rohrerstown, Pa. 
S. C. W. Leghorn EGGS 
FROM TRAPNESTED HENS 
■with records of 1.50 up to 284 eggs. All males have ped¬ 
igrees, 200 up to 284. 5 Pedigreed cock liirds for sale. 
(Missl FRANCES H. MERSEREAU.West Willington, Ct. 
S.C.Buff Leghorns 
Winners at 1917 National All-Leghorn Show. Stock 
or eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed. Cinnilars free. 
Eggs from utility pen, $1.50 per 15; $9 per 
WALTER V. Olney, R D. No. 7 , Naples, 14. Y. 
y T — X- _T_ : _^ 17 From our large size, 
1-la.tCtllIlS txggS high prodneing 
White Leghorns. They are mateii both for Prolific 
laying and Vigor. We can supply in any quantity 
at reasonable prices. WEWAPPO FA RM, Midvale, N J. 
CirirRrod WHITE LEGHORNS. PEDIGREED COCKERELS with 
egg DlBD i-ecords 205 to 265 used in matings. Lliick^s 
and Eggs. Catalog. Lovell Gordon, Esperance, N.T. 
BABY 
CHIX 
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From a Heavy Laying Strain of 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
Bred^r size, vigor and heavy egg production, and liave record-breaking 
record.s for heavy winter laying. Average,47?l during winter months. 1 rrzes 
won wherever .shown. LARGE CAPACITY 
enables me to ship all orders promptly and you get the chicks when ymt 
want them. Safe arrival guaranteed. Do not iilace aii order for chicks elsewhere before senaing 
for our catalog. Bahy Chicks, $9 per 50; $16 per 100; $1;50 per 1.000. , • , ^ i. 
HATCHING EOGS—$3.50 per 50; $7 per 100; $65 per 1,000. Also furnish chicks for bioileis. 
A few choice cork birds for sale. Send lor our catalog. 
LOCUST CORNER POULTRY FARM Archer W. Davis, Pr^ MOUNT SINAI, L. I., N. Y. 
■IMM I 
Eggs for Hatching and Day-Old Chicks 
Hatcbing eggs from fully matured, carefully mated farm raised birds, selected 
for their pi-olific layiiig iiualities and vigor. We cau supply eggs iu any quantity, 
in season, from our matings of 
Single Comb White Leghorns, White Plymouth Rocks and 
Mammoth Pekin Ducks, Day-Old Chicks 
We can supplv iu any quantity from our White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorns; Day-Old Ducklings we can supply iu limited quantities. 
Price List BRANFORD FARMS, Groton, Conn. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Stores post office in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November Ist. There are lo 
pullets in each pen. All the birds receive uni¬ 
form treatment. The houses are all alike, and 
the feed is the same for all. The contest con¬ 
tinues for one year. The weekly records cover 
the number of eggs laid for each pen in the 
current, week, and also the total number of 
eggs laid since the first of last November. The 
contest will end November 1st, at which time 
these birds will be removed, and another set of 
pullets entered for the next year. 
Record at Storrs, Conn., for week ending 
March 20: 
BARRED ROCKS Week Total 
MerrlttM. Clark. Conn. 47 397 
Hairy H. Ober, N J. 38 396 
Richard Allen. Mas.s. 53 589 
Jules IT. Francais. L. I. •5<> 659 
Tom J. Adamson, Canada. 51 61-3 
Fairflelds Poultry Farms. N. 11. 37 4(U 
Norfolk Specialty Farm. Ontario. 39 364 
Hodman Schaff. N. H. 38 5W 
Rock Rose Farm. N. Y. 43 w7 
John C. Philips. Mass. 55 468 
Joseph M. Rothschild, N. Y. 44 5^ 
Ingleslcle Farm.N. Y. 52 4il 
Agricultural College, Oregon. 43 40- 
WHITE ROCKS 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 41 150 
Holliston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.... 46 408 
S. Bradford Allyn. Mass. 41 366 
Manomet Farm, Mass. 34 262 
BUFF ROCKS 
A. A. Hall, Conn. 25 327 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Merrythought Farm.Conn. 38 4.34 
Obed (4. Knight. It. 1. 47 740 
IJrayman Farm. N. 11. 48 616 
Beulah Farm, Ontario. 38 5.0 
Vine Hill Farm. Mass. 26 361 
Mrs R. W. Stevens. N. Y. 47 542 
Woodland Poultry Yard, Pa. 30 44.) 
F \V. Harris. N. Y. 50 606 
l.aurel Hill Fa m. H. 1. 45 518 
J. Frank Dubois, Mass. 38 608 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
Fred Rockwood. N. U.-50 415 
Cook & Porter. .Mass.49 657 
J. J. Haiisro, Vt. 25 SbS 
J)r. N. \V. Sanborn. Mass. 38 44 .t 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 42 .5i0 
H. R. Sullivan, Conn. 47 4ai 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Conyers Farm Conn... 37 305 
Chas. H. Dan.-, Mass. 55 .558 
Fllntstone Farm. Mass. 29 3.56 
Homer P. Doming, Conn. 42 330 
Charles O. Poihemus, N. Y. 46 329 
Pequot Poultry Farm, Conn. 46 4:t9 
Stiringdale Poultry Farm, Conn. 44 3^ 
Natick Farm, R. 1. 23 IM 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 40 597 
Richard Allen, Mass. .53 678 
A. W. Rumery. N. H. 38 373 
Archie it. Colburn. N. n. 33 224 
Allan's Hardtobeat Ueds.H. 1. 45 542 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm. N. H. 45 437 
W. Mansfield Poultry Farm, Mass. 33 408 
Jacob K. Jansen.Conn.. 47 5OT 
Ktjon Poultry Farm, N. J. 45 344 
BUTTERCUPS 
Hiddenhurst Buttercup Yds., N. Y. 41 173 
OREGONS 
AgrlculturalCollege, Corvallis,Ore.... 40 667 
ORLOFFS 
W. H. Bassett, Cheshire. Conn. 46 344 
WHITE ORPINGTONS 
Harry Paxton, N. Y. 38 462 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS 
K. D. Bird, Conn. 40 429 
Blue Aud'aluslanClub of Aiuerica.N.Y. 37 324 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. B. Hall. Conn. 33 446 
Braeside I'oultry Farm, Pa. 44 61.) 
J. O. LeFevre. N. T. 48 W6 
Uermon E While. N J. 30 434 
Will. L. Gilbert Home.Conn. 29 2i8 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 45 421 
P.O Platt. Pa. 33 282 
Greend:ile Farms. N. Y. 46 44- 
Dautrieh Bros.,Conn. 35 40-2 
B. 8. Ells, N. J. 43 496 
llollywood Farm, Wash. 42 570 
Will Barron, England. 36 393 
Tom Barron, England. 40 41.) 
Miss N. H. Bell, England. 50 4<7 
Bushkill Poultry F;.rin, Pa. 36 414 
A. P. Robinson. N. Y. 53 60.5 
Eglantine Farm, Md.7. 35 476 
Bayville Farms, N. J. 47 4M 
Margareta Poultry Farm. Ohio. 42 442 
Lovell Gordon, N.T. 34 339 
E A. Ballard, Pa. 25 414 
W. E. Atkinson. Conn. 48 03.t 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 44 476 
J Frank Dubois, Mass. 40 Ml 
Cliflord 1. Stoddard. Conn. 41 435 
(ieorge Phillips. Conn........ 52 4w 
J. F. Crowley, Mass. 36 3^ 
M. T. Lindsay. N. Y. 43 3^ 
H. K. Gates, Conn. 32 313 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 45 M3 
Royal Farms. Inc., Conn. 42 344 
Jas. F. Harrington, N. J. 20 297 
W. K. Robinson. Ill. 45 347 
Wln-isweep Farm. Conn . 39 343 
Prescott’s Poultry L’lace, Conn. 37 400 
W. J. Cocking. N. J. 44 272 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 42 ol3 
Fredonla Farm. Conn... -44 -61 
HillviewFarm, Mo. 48 346 
Conyers Farm. Conn. 45 338 
Frances H. Mersereau, Conn. 41 360 
Lakewood Leghorn Farm, N. J. 41 352 
Henry B. Heine, N. J. 47 300 
Total. 4117 43648 
April f), 1918 
the agreement that will make liim liable 
for half the cost of the feed, iu view of 
the fact that you liavc to cook ‘the 
chicken, I believe that you will come 
out well ahead of the game. As for buy¬ 
ing the feed for mouths ahead. I .shouldn’t 
do it. Hand to mouth buying is about 
all that any of us dare indulge iu now, 
unless opportunity offers to buy some 
grain at an obviously low price. No one 
knows, of course, what grain prices will 
be iu the comiug months, but they are 
high enough now to make gambling upon 
their going higher undesirable, at least, 
iu my opinion. 
The New York market for broilera 
early in the season is a good one. though 
you may find a local outlet for yours at 
better luices. Early hatched tdiicks that 
could he sold as broilers before July 
first have usually been jirofitable. After 
that time the price drops rapidly and it 
has been merely a matter of getting out 
of the broilers then on hand tit as little 
loss a.s possible. m. b. d. 
Sour Milk for Chicks 
I have noticed article.s where .sour milk 
Wits g<K)d for young chicks. Is it true 
that sour milk will prevent white diar¬ 
rhea? When and how should it be fed? 
Which Is best for the chicks, sour or 
clabbered or sweet? li. C. 
New Jersey. 
Sour milk will not prevent true white 
diarrhea, or any other disease, so far as 
we know. It is. however, one of the best 
foods for growing chicks that we ctua 
provide them with, and, by increttsing 
their strength and vigor, will render them 
more resistant to any disease liable t» 
attack them. It has been thought that 
the lactic acid in sour milk had disease 
preventive properties not possessed by 
other foods, and it is po.ssible that it may; 
at any rate, it is quite certain that milk 
in any form, soured, clabbered or sweeto 
is a most valuable help in raising chicka. 
My own preference is for soured milk, 
and for clabbered milk when I hare 
enough of it so that I feel that I can 
afford to throw away the whey. Whey, 
however, has considerable food value and 
.should not he discarded as Morthless. 
M. B. D. 
A Balanced Poultry Ration 
In a back number of No^'ember or De¬ 
cember, 1917, you gave a list of different 
poultry feeds with the equivalent of yolks 
and whites produced from each feed. Is 
the following ration well balanced? Dry 
mash—Ground oats, CO lbs.; cornmeal, 80 
lbs.: middlings, 20 lbs.; bran. 10 lbs.; 
meat scraps or tankage, 30 lbs.; table 
salt, 2 pounds; ground charcoal, 4 lbs. 
Dry mash before them all the time; 
scratch grain fed afternoons. Scratch 
grain—Cracked corn. 50 lbs.; oats, 200 
lbs.; wheat, 50 lbs. They clean up whole 
ration at same time; 100 hens, in about 
five weeks. Am I feeding them enough, or 
too much? MBS. c. M. G. 
Ontai'io, Canada. 
Your ration computes as follows: 
Yolks. Whites. 
Ground oats. 60 lbs. . . . 
.. 117 
93 
Cornmeal, 30 lbs. 
.. 78 
40.5 
Middlings, 20 Ih.s. 
41 
42.4 
Bran, 10 lbs. 
15.5 
20.5 
251.5 
196.4 
Beef scrap.s, 30 lbs.... 
.31.8 
332.1 
283.3 
528.5 
The tibove is the total egg elements in 
your dry mash. 
Scratch Feed— 
Cracked corn, 50 lbs... 127.5 07 
t>ats, 200 lbs. 300 310 
Wheat, 50 lbs. 121.5 91 
Adding the dry mash we 
hax^e . 
A Beginner with Poultry 
I have just started in the chicken busi¬ 
ness ; my husband hits turned the mtiu- 
agement’of the chickens over to me, with 
the use of the incubator, brooder, etc., 
and I am to have all I make. All I have 
to do, for the use of these things, is to 
furnish our family of three with eggs 
and chickens for the table. As I have to 
buv all the feed, I want to buy it to 
the verv best advantage. I believe we 
have about 50 or OO hens now, and I 
have 70 little chicks, about two weeks 
old, with more hatching. I would like 
to buy enough feed to last several mouths 
if I wuld save by doing this. I expect 
to sell these first chicks as broilers'. 
What is your advice? MRS. A. s. v. 
New York. 
I am not sure that your husband is not 
getting the best of the bargain,^ particu¬ 
larly if he is quite fond of chicken for 
dinner. If you will insert a clause lU 
639 468 
283.3 528.5 
Total. 922.3 996.5 
There is an excess of whites; by reduc¬ 
ing your beef scrap to 23 lbs. you will 
have almost a perfectly balanced ration. 
What puzzles me iu the above, is how 
yon get your hens to eat so many oats, 
drg. I found it easy enough when I 
boiled the oats and fed them warm and 
wet; the very last one would be eaten. 
But if fed dry there would always be a 
lot left on the ground uneaten. Perhaps 
you have a better quality of oats than 
can be bought here. Of course, this as¬ 
sumes that plenty of grit and ground 
oyster shells are provided; they are a 
very important part of a hen’s ration. 
Also, as an appetizer and to keep hens in 
good health, some sort of succulent food, 
like mangel beets, cabbage, sprouted oats 
or beet pulp should be provided. The 
beet pulp will be eaten better if soaked 
and fed wet. geo. a. Cosgrove. 
Hatching Brown and White Eggs Togethe 
The method of hatcjiiug brown and 
white eggs together in an incubator 
given by E. F. of Ohio, will interest 
those wiio have had trouble with mixed 
hatches. Brown eggs, having thicker 
shells, may need a little longer time m 
the incubator than the white ones. E- 
p.’s plan is as follows: Mix the colors 
iu the travs until the eighteenth day; 
then place'the brown ones in the back 
part of the machine. When the hatch 
is about one-half 05’er, remove what 
chicks can be easily and quickly reached 
and promptly close the door; then turn 
