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THE HENYARD 
Eye Disease in Turkey 
A hen turkey, coining three years old, 
a good hreedei', has between her eyes and 
nostrils a swelling about the size of a 
hickory nut. Her eyes often get foamy; 
she will turn her headi to her back and 
rub. Do you think it should be lanced? 
I have occasionally a hen or pullet that 
will have a swelling in the eye and lose 
it. What can I do to prevent it? My 
place is kept clean and dry. l. s. 
Connecticut. 
This trouble is due to inflammation of 
the lining membrane of the eye, the bunch 
forming by hardening of the secretion in 
a small sac composing part of the lachry¬ 
mal apparatus. Where this secretion has 
permanently hardened it is necessary to 
remove it through an incision through the 
skin. There is no danger in making an 
incision of sufficient length to remove the 
mass if a sharp and absolutely clean blade 
is used. After turning out the hardened 
mass, dust the wound thoroughly with 
some antiseptic powder like iodoform or 
boric acid and keep the turkey in a clean 
place for a few days until the wound is 
healed. The hens may have a similar 
trouble that has not advanced to the 
stage of hardening and tumor formation. 
Technically it is called catarrhal con¬ 
junctivitis; in simple language, inffamraa- 
tion of the mucous membrane lining of 
the eyeball socket and extending to the 
nostril openings. It ordinarily subsides 
without treatment. M. B. D. 
Connecticut Poultry Rations 
What quantity of mixed scratch feed 
composed of sunffower seed, buckwheat, 
cracked corn, wheat or other mixtures for 
600 White Leghorns per head per week? 
Will you give me the full rations of 
scratch feed as well as dry mash for the 
above quantity of chickens as they ^eed 
at Storrs egg-laying contest, with the 
names of the mixtures for both dry mash 
and scratch feed and quantity fed per 
day per head or week? T. 8. 
Virginia. 
They did not feed the hens in the laying 
competition at Storrs any definite quan¬ 
tity per head, and it is not the practice 
among good poultrymen to weigh or meas¬ 
ure out grain or mash according to the 
number of fowls. At the Storrs contest, 
dry mash was kept before the fowls in 
the pens in open earthenware containers 
covered by a wire grid which prevented 
waste through scratching out the feed, 
and the mixed whole grains were fed 
morning and night in the litter, more be¬ 
ing given at night than in the morning. 
The hens ate all they wished of the mash 
and the whole grain was given in 
varying quantities according to their 
appetites. In the fifth contest the whole 
grain mixture consisted of equal parts by 
weight of cracked corn and wheat, and 
the mash of equal parts of cornmeal, 
ground oats, wheat bran, flour middlings 
and meat scrap. 
In the fourth contest there were 1,000 
birds and they consumed during the year 
20 tons of dry mash, over 21 tons of grain 
and about 10 tons of mangel beets. From 
thes<^ figures you can easily ascertain 
about what 600 hens would eat under 
like conditions; that is, dry mash before 
the fowls all the time and all the whole 
grains they will eat, fed twice daily in 
the litter. M. r. d. 
Charcoal for White Diarrhoea 
I think it advisable to tell you about a 
remedy or palliative for “white diai’- 
rhoea” in chicks which has proven itself, 
with me, at least, very effective. I take a 
tablespoonful of powdered sulphur and 
mix it with four tablespooufuls of wil¬ 
low charcoal (pulverized). Be sure to 
get the fine powder, which is usually 
known as “double bolted.” Mix it to¬ 
gether thoroughly, ami then mix enough 
of the mixture with whatever baby chick 
food you are using to color it a dark gray. 
I start wnth the first feed that the chicks 
get, which with me is the usual hard- 
boiled egg, chopped, shell and all. Since 
I am using it have had no trouble to speak 
of with the disease, and, as the ingredients 
can do no harm, would like others to try 
it and report results. B. K. 
Ephrata, Pa. 
Charcoal has “corrective” properties, 
whatever they are, for young chicks, and 
has long been considered a valuable addi¬ 
tion to their ration. I know of no func¬ 
tion, however, that the sulphur could 
serve. Suppose you try giving the char¬ 
coal alone and see if you do not get fully 
ns good results as with the mixture. 
True white diarrhma, caused by the spe¬ 
cific germ (bacterium pollorum), which is 
responsible for that disease, would not 
be checked by your mixture, but the va¬ 
rious diarrhoeal troubles to which chicks 
are subject, and which, too, are charac¬ 
terized by a whitish discharge, would be 
benefited by charcoal in the food. 
M. B. n. 
_ Church : “I see by the paper that 
girls in Eastport, Me., are earning as 
high as .$52 a week packing sardines.” 
Gotham: “Bet you a new hat they’ll have 
those girls over in New Yoi’k before long, 
working as conductors in the subway 
cars.”—^Yonkers Statesman. 
Vfje RURAL NEW.YORK£R 
Uncle Sam’s food administration has decreed: 
“Use more chicken and egg dishes of all kinds.” 
HOUSEKEEPERS are heeding this 
advice. Restaurants are en¬ 
forcing this rule. Daily, new 
thousands resolve to eat more 
chicken, to use more eggs. 
So it becomes the plain duty of 
the little man-chicks to grow up 
to eating size. And of the little 
lady-chicks to mature to laying 
age. It becomes good business 
and good patriotism for you to 
help them. 
And here is how you ca?i reduce 
your chick death-rate. 
‘ ‘ Raise your cli ichs on II- O Steam- 
Coolced Cli ich FeedR 
You know, of course, that about 
of the chick deaths are caused 
by indigestion. You will admit 
then, that if H-O Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed is more digestible it 
will actually raise more chicks. 
Won’t you ? 
Well, it is more digestible. 
And here is why. 
Into H-O Steam-Cooked Chick 
Feed go clean, sweet grains—oat¬ 
meal and other selected grains cut 
to pin-point fineness. 
These grains are then steam- 
cooked by our exclusive process. 
Such steam-cooking dextrinizes 
part of the grain-starches and re¬ 
duces moisture. Results? Quicker 
digestion! Easier assimilation! 
TRY H-O Steam-Cooked Chick 
Feed. Notice that it builds chicks 
faster and raises more of them. 
Notice how chicks thrive on its 
high protein, low fibre content. 
As against home-mixed feeds 
see if it doesn’t save time, save 
worry, save money. And save 
lives. 
See if you don’t agree with the 
many successful breeders who find 
that H-O Steam-Cooked Chick 
Feed actually helps them to make 
more money. 
Raised on H-O 
Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed 
Write for free samples ^ prices and descriptive folder 
JOHN J. CAMPBELL, Eastern Sales Agent 
Hso’tford, Conn. 
THE H-O COMPANY, Feed Dept., Buffalo, N.Y 
Members U. S. Food Administration, License No. G 12,996 
Hatching Eggs 
Vibert strain Ross Comb Reds and Parks’ strain 
Barred Rocks, $2 per 15; $8 per 100. 
I). EVERETT JONES, - HiUsdale, N.Y. 
I- rtods 
Vibert 231 to S&l-egg strain. 6 hens and cockerel for tl6. 
Eggs, *2.60 per 15; $8 per 100. Chicks, $25 per 100. 
ANNA M. JONES, - Craryville, N. Y. 
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds ?iU8ed'^*b’i?da 
Best in Utility and Exhibition. Eggs and chicks. Send 
for mating list. A. E. AUAMH, Btony Creek, N.Y. 
S. C. R. 1. Red Eggs for Hatching W i": 
quire E.T. CHAMBERLAIN,Oranaeburg. N.Y. Tel.Piermont 337 
Rhode Island Whitesc®!>”mb 
Eggs from pen of famous layers. Mid-winter records 
23 to 28 eggs in 30 days. $2 per 15. 0. G.L. Lewis, Paoli,Pa. 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys if? 
Eggs, 50c each. Pekin Dnck Eggs, 12 for $1.50. 
DICKERSON POULTRY FARM, South Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
Guinea and Turkey Eggs?" 
Write today for yours. EDWI.N A. 
Large catalog free. 
SOUDF.R, Telford, Pa. 
Giant Bronze Turkey 
Shropshire Slieep. H. J. 
•A ^3 per 10. 
K. C. KKI> 
$8 per 15, 
DYKE, Gettysbuko, Pa. 
Bourbon Red Turkey Eggs Heming 
50 Cento Each Egg Record Flock Genesee, Pa. 
White Holland Turkeys For Sale 
30 lb. young Toms. Choice females. Eggs 50 cants 
Each ; $5 a Doz. 
PEACH RIOGE STOCK FARM, R. F. 0. No. 4. Newburgh. N.Y. 
Barron W. Wyandottes 
We have a pen of 22 pullets and 3 cockerels raised 
from a pen of Tom Barron’s highest pedigreed VVy- 
andottes, imported from him January, 1917. Price, 
SIOO. Cockerels, same stock, 85 each. 
THE DELAWARE EGG FARM. Milford, Del. 
White Wyandotte Eggs X'-oWarun’s best, loo- 
$10; 50-$6; 15-12. 
from vigorous farm “ Re- 
gals’ 
Li. O. <Juig:Iey, Goshen, N.Y. 
BRED TO LAY 
SELECTED BREEDERS , 
MOUNTAIN VIEW POULTRY FARM, Hopewell Jcl 
) “Regal” W. Wyandottes, chicks 25c 
f Barred P. Rocks “ 20c 
, N.Y. 
ChoiceLot of White HollandTurkeysLie 
Eggs, 35c. each. H. W. ANDERSON, Stewaristown, Pa. 
BUTTERCUPS 
EGGS FOR HATCHING. ir> eggs, 30 eggs, 
$3..iO. Also Barron strain Leghorns and 
Barred Rocks. Circular free. 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM. 
Slocklon, N. J. 
25 Best Breeds Poultry 
Stock and Eggs. Low price. Big 
new illustrated circular Free. See it. 
John E. Heatwole, Harrisonburg, Va. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
HATCHING EGGS FROM THE BRED-TO-LAY KIND. 
F. W HARRIS. - MELROSE. N. Y. 
aprIlu? Whife Wyandotte HATCHING EGGS 
from trap-nested HENS with records from 160-21«, $| 0 100. 
Same stock as our Storrs pen. Better orrier yours today, 
BRAYMAN FARM, • Westvillb, N. H. 
Belvedere White Wyandottes 
TRAP-NESTED HIGH PRODUCERS 
Your opportunity to buy the same kind of stock 
that will go in our houses next Pall. We have 
spent years breeding up a flock that will pay 
a profit under present conditions. Yon can’t 
afford to feed " just ’’ hens this year. A limited 
qu.antity of eggs and chicks from 225 to 2!)0-egg 
hens, mated to males from 250-egg mothers. 
BELVEDERE EABMS, Westerly, R. I. 
Knight’s Laymg Strain 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Pen 20 at Storrs 6th contest laid 2,2«6 eggs—the highest 
record ever made by a pen of 10 hens. Pen 20 at Storrs 
6 tli contest won 1st prize in the Wyandotte class, laying 
1,865 eggs. Pen 20 at Storrs present contest is the leading 
pen and bird No. 195 is the leading individual. She has 
laid 93 eggs in 16 weeks. All male birds used in breeding 
are from hens with records of 247, 270, 281, 264, and 300. 
Eggs very reasonable. Guaranteed 76% fertile. 
O. G. Knight, - Bridgeton, B. I. 
WhiteWyandottesS^ 
Eggs for hatching from this world’s famous stand¬ 
ard-bred utility strain from very choice farm range 
breeders at $10 per 100—$0 per 5G—$2 per 15, As the 
supply is less than the demand place your order at 
once. E. I. UNDERHILL,'* Old Orehird Firm," Poughkicpsit, N. Y. 
Firiniiinrfnhlpkv Utility Bred White Plymouth 
CggsanUunibKS Rocks and White Leghorns. Send 
for circular. Oakwood Farm, Yaphank, L. I., N. Y. 
Whifp R Aolrc PfSHEL DIRECT. Selected yearlings. 
Tlllllt. nULliS Eggs, $2 per 15; 39 per 100. Chicks, 
20c. each. A. SCOFIELD, Green linven. New York 
Brilliant Strain of Choice Barred Rocks egg^^r 
hatching, $8 por 100. H. C. HAND. Aminaisctl, New York 
