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RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 2 r>, 1010 
Harrysbourg R Colony Hover 
America’s 
Leading Oil 
Burning Hover. 
Burner makes 
perfect Gas 
from common 
Kerosene Oil. 
HARRYSBOURG COLONY HOVER 
is the oldest and best Blue Flame Oil 
Burning Hover on the market. Our 
Sales last Season were ten times greater 
than the year before. Absolutely Wick¬ 
less, Heavy Metal Burner, which burns 
continually without cleaning. Con¬ 
sumes less Oil than any other Burner 
made. Our Automatic Valve, working 
like a Carburetor, feeds Oil continual¬ 
ly. Only Oil Burning Stove with Cast 
Metal Top and CastRim aroundCanopy 
Backed by a 
Written 
Guarantee. 
Burns 
continually 
without 
cleaning. 
Made in Two Sizes. 50-Inch Canopy, 
capacitv 100 to 600 Chicks, and 33-inch 
Canopy, capacity 50 to 200 Chicks. 
The Small Hover has Cast Metal 
Top and is equipped with smaller, 
heavy Wickless Burner. Built for the 
Poultryman who raises 200 or less 
Chicks. It’s the greatest small Hover 
to date, running three days on one 
gallon of Oil. We want you to send 
for our Circular matter before buying 
a Hover. We can interest you. 
Harrysbourg Poultry Farm, Inc., Dept. G, Dunkirk, N. Y. 
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will soon pay 
Automatic 
Self- 
Heating 
Poultry 
Fountains 
and Heaters 
Keeps water at the I 
right temperature I 
day and night in the [ 
- — _ : _ coldest weather and 
0 quires less than a quart of oil a week. Made of Galvan- 
»d Steel. A long felt want supplied. Every Hen-House 
ieda one. Price of 1 Heater and 2 gallon Automatic Foun- 
[in complete *1.75. Order NOW or write for Circular 
o. R ana testimonials 
Agents tan <ii*e Big Money. Write tor Oner. 
t^^ORGMWORKS^^^^^ARANACJIICJt^Aj^ 
RABBITS For Sale 
Flemish Giants 
New Zealand Reds 
Young and Matured Stock 
Pedigreed—Send Stamp for 
___ Reply. 
RALPH ROWE :: RAVEN A, N. Y. 
PARKS WINTER LAYING 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Won First Honors and Outlayed 
the 2600 birds in the Five Miss¬ 
ouri Laying Contests (Under 
Govt. Supervision) Including the 
Famous English Laying Strains. 
Also made the remarkable 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 stocking purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes. Storks. Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears, Foxes, Kac- 
coon, Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist, Dept. 10, Yardley, Pa 
DAY-OLD CHICKS and HATCHING EGGS 
S C WHITE LEGHORNS, BARRED PLYML fH ROCKS, RHODE 
ISLAND REDS. Guarantee safe delivery. Place orders 
now to insure prompt delivery. P A R A lt I 
POULTRY FARM, Box B, Paradise, Pepna, 
mm Bred to Lay. Blue Rib- 
f; |X fc. |_J bon Winners. Cocker- 
■ els for sale. 83.50 and 
S6 each 0ATAI.PA POULTRY FARM, R. 1). a, Gettysburg, Pa. 
S. O. R. I. Reds 
Vibert trap nested stock. Cockerels. $5 and $8. Hatching 
Eggs, 81 2 pel* 100; $35 for 300. ANNA M. JONES, Craryvillc. N.Y 
Rhode Island Whites Comb 
Strong, vigorous cockerels, $5 each. Pullets, ready 
to lay $3 each. All from pen of heavy winter 
layers. O. G. L. L E \V I S, Paoli, Peuna. 
|. Li n„l.. 16th year. Cockerels, S2.50 and 
Light Brahmas Unly * 3 . selected Eggs, 15 - 82 : &o-$s; 
100-*9. HAYSTACK MO UNTAIN FARM, MJIIKII.K. PO-MN . 
Light and Dark Brahmas, Barred Rocks,R. I.Reds 
W. Wyandoties ?$ r „£„ Cockerels FiSAS 
Catalog free. RiVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Box 1B5. Rivcrdale. H. J. 
S. C. Rhode Island Red COCKERELS 
bred from Harrison cocks and Vibert 200-egg liens. 
Fine, large dark birds from $5 to $8. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. 0. S. RHOADS, 96 Dempster St., Buffalo. N.Y. 
200,000 CHICKS For 1919 
Seven varieties. Also Brooders—300 to 1.000 chick 
capacity— 814.50 to 830 each. Catalogue free. 
Keystone Hatcher y, Dept. 11, Richfield, Pa. 
3 pair Carneaux Breed¬ 
ers, 1 pair White Hom¬ 
ers. Also Guinea Figs 
and Belgian Hares. 
R. 1, Houghton, N. Y. 
C OCKERELS—Missouri contest-winning Barron strain 8. C. 
While Leghorns. Mothers averaged 25 eggs during cold¬ 
est months. $3 up. Guaranteed. Nelson Dewey, Middlnport, N.Y. 
For Sale—Sunswick Strain Buff Orpington Cockerels 
$4 and $6 Each. OIHTIIIA I5AKM, Ntsnley, N. Y. 
Squabs 
ROBT. HAYNES, 1 
It’s Easy to Raise CHICKS 
With the Guaranteed 
EUREKA 
COLONY BROODER 
Make the test yourself at my risk. Use the 
brooder 30 days. If it proves unsatisfactory in any 
way ship it back at my expense and I .all mail 
you my check for your money at once. 
The EUREKA burns coal or natural gas. Is 
inexpensive and easy to operate, but 7 1 raises the 
chicks. If I did not know it will please you I 
would not dare give this unconditional guarantee. 
1 do know, because I designed it and build it 
complete, in my own big stove works. 
Order now to insure prompt delivery, 
time will soon be here. 
500 chick size, $19 ; 1000 
chick size, $23. 
Write today for Booklet 
J. R. WOTHERSPOON 
244 Norlh Front St. 
PHILADELPHIA .’. PA. 
THE HENYARD 
Lame Rooster 
I had a rooster that became lame; his 
appetite was good all the time. lie Kept 
growing thin, also lamer; finally he laid 
down all the time. One of his chicks, a 
rooster, now shows the same symptoms. 
I feed wet mash in the morning and whole 
corn at night; have sour milk by them all 
the time. What is the cause of it, and 
what should I give ailing bird to stop it t 
Vermont. II. V. M. 
This rooster’s apparent lameness may 
have been merely weakness from his wast¬ 
ing disease, which, of course, became more 
marked as the disease progressed. Fowls 
showing such symptoms should be re¬ 
moved from the flock in order that they 
may be less likely to infect others. T 
know of no medicine that would cure 
cases of this kind, very likely tubercu¬ 
losis. M - B - D - 
LIBERTY MARVEL 
OiFBurnin^ BROODER 
Blue Flame Wickless 
Oil Heated Colony Brooder 
Automatic Regulation 
The Liberty Marvel is de¬ 
signed to meet the emer¬ 
gency in the existing coal 
crisis. 
Change Your Coal 
Burner Into a 
Liberty Oil Brooder 
Big 
saving 
in 
operating 
1 expense. 
I Brooding 
50 
I to 
1000 
chicks 
for less than 6c per day. Perfect satis¬ 
faction guaranteed or money back. Send 
for circular on "Scientific Brooding. 
T *i . O a HOU Chestnut St.* 
Liberty Move to. Philadelphia, Pa.. 
Plastering Wooden Henhouse 
One of the difficulties connected with 
henhouses constructed of wood and cov¬ 
ered with roofing felt is that mice soon 
find their way between the wood and the 
felt, and then the destruction begins. It 
has occurred to me that possibly the roof- 
ing felt could be dispensed with, at least 
so far as the four walls are concerned, if 
concrete could be plastered on the out¬ 
side. Some form of material would be re¬ 
quired to be fastened to the wood to 
which the concrete would adhere, but as 
the layer of concrete would he rather 
tliiu it seems to me that it would also 
ikely be very porous and every rain¬ 
storm would accordingly wet the wood, 
with the result that decay would set m 
very speedily. Now, if it were possible 
so to plaster the walls and make the 
coating such as would be watertight it 
would seem as if such a building would 
last a very long time, and this would par¬ 
ticularly ‘he true if roof could also so he 
treated. Where I live, eastern shore of 
Maryland, there is much very windy 
weather, causing roofing felt to move 
more or less, and. in time, to pull loose 
from the nails. This is a constant source 
of leaks. Have any of your staff or your 
readers information on this subject? It 
has been suggested to use “metal lath 
direct on the studding and cover with 
concrete, but if concrete is porous, the 
lath will certainly soou rust away and 
then in turn the concrete will itself drop 
away. p - 
Maryland. 
It is common practice to plaster with 
concrete upon metal lath affixed to the 
wooden walls of buildings, “stucco” work 
of this kind being used over the ordinary 
clapboarding of old houses which it is de¬ 
sired to cover. “Expanded metal lath¬ 
ing is often used and wire poultry netting 
has been made to serve the same purpose. 
Metal embedded in concrete evidently does 
not rust out, though the latter is porous; 
if it did, the reinforcing of all sorts of 
concrete structures by the use of iron or 
steel wires or rods would fail of its pur¬ 
pose. 
KNIGHT’S Blue Ribbon Strain 
PEDIGREED WHITE WYANDOTTE 
Have made Records at Stores. Eggs and Chicks for sal.. 
Send for circular. O.O. KNIGHT, Kridgeton, !»• I« 
Cockerels 
Baby Chicks 
Eqqs horns!: K e t 
Beds. B. P. 
Rocks,W. Wyandot tes. 
Trapnesteil, farm 
range heavy laying 
stock that will multiply 
your poultry profits. 
Illustrated folder free. 
Write for it NOW. 
G. F. GIBSON 
Galen Farms, 
Box 100 Clyde, N, Y. 
March Baby Chix 
(S.C. Red and 
Barron Leghorn) 
Raise Early Broilers this 
year and make money. 
You can’t go wrong on 
our Chix, 
Price List ready 
FerrisWhiteLeghorns 
A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 y«ar*,rec- 
nn i s from 200 to 264 eggs. Get our prices on pullets 
and yearling hens, breeding males, eggs for hatching 
a dav-old Chicks. We ship O. O. D. and guarantee 
results. Catalog gives prices; describes stock, tells all 
about our farm and methods; results you can get by 
breeding this strain. Send for your copy now-it is 
free. GEORGE g, FERRIS, 935 Union. Grand Rapids, mien 
The Farm Flqck of Poultry 
ONE TURN of CRANK 
TURNS 
EVERY EGG 
Without opening incubator 
Bust Construction 
Simplest to Operate 
60—100—150 and 
200 Egg Sizes 
Write for Catalogue 
ROLLER TRAY INCUBATOR CO. 
300 Grant Ave., NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY 
iQi; Buys 140-Egg| 
1 Champion * 1 
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Belle City Incubator 
[Hot-Water, Copper Tank, Double users 
^. 8 &^40Vl£fe«cfer-bo^- 3 otly $15.95. 
Freight Prepaid roc. °b 
& allowed on express. Guaranteed. 
My Special Offers provide ways to 
icarn extra money. Order Now, or 
write for book. Hatching Facts. 
—It's Free and tellB all. Jim Ronan, I res. 
hcub.tor Co.. Box 48, Racine. Wis. 
1CA EGG INCUBATOR 
19U CHICK BROODER 
r$! 4 - 
Both are made of 
- Calif. Redwood. 
- Incubator is cov- - 
ered with asbestos and gal¬ 
vanized iron; has triple 
- walls, coppertank, nurs- 
I cry. egg tenter, thermometer, ready to 
I use. 3U DAYS’ TKlAI^-money beck If 
H une. SO SAKS 1 KlAlj money nn, 
I not O.K. Write foi FREE Cntaloe Now. . 
8 Ironclad Ineuhator Co.Box 10 1 Racine, WIS. 
Wo have from 250 to 300 hens, S. C. 
W. Leghorns, and have culled them out 
each year. We now have a flock of good, 
vigorous layers, not fancy show birds, but 
just a farmer’s flock which lay eggs, 
pick up all the grain which the binders 
shell, get all the grain that would other¬ 
wise ho wasted on the* farm around stacks, 
barns, etc. It is a fact that in Summer 
these lieus will practically get their o\vn 
feed by getting this otherwise lost grain, 
and turn it into good money, while in 
Winter, with an open-front house and a 
little care, it is not a hard thing to make 
them more than pay their board. Then 
when Summer comes they will go much 
beyond that, and it brings in checks that 
one may have all the year round. _ 
It is of course necessary that in \\ in¬ 
ter they have green feed, variety of grain, 
mash and good water; also meat scrap or 
milk. They will more than pay for these 
things if they have them all, where if 
they only have grains and water, as a 
good manv do, they will not pay for any¬ 
thing. We have a few stock beets or soft 
cabbage for green food. One can get the 
soft heads of cabbage left in the field very 
reasonably, and the hens eat all hut the 
hard stalks. Our dry mash, fed in a 
hopper, is only corn, barley and oats 
ground. The mixed grain is fed in a deep 
litter of wheat straw, and while this is all 
just plain farmers’ rationing, it gets the 
eggs. 
We like the open-front house, for it is 
very much healthier and is always dry. 
We consider the-farmers’ flock the best 
thing on the farm, and while, like every¬ 
thing else, they must have some attention, 
it is not very much, and very interesting, 
for with care they lay. and that means 
money. We had about 250 hens last year, 
and sold .$850 worth of eggs, shipped to 
New York. We eat from $7i» to $12o 
worth a year. We have 300 hens for 
1919 . We hatch 200 or 300 each year to 
keep the flock up, besides selling from 
1,000 to 3,000 chicks each Spring. There 
is nothing better on the average farm 
than a good-laying flock of hens. I ry it 
for a couple of years. harry white. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels 
Good,big,husky,range-raised birds,wBlipedigreeii 
from 240 to 284. We have over a hundred hmls to 
riioose from and will make yon a good selection. 
All stock sold subject to customers nppiovaL 
THE RIVERSIDE POULTRY F ARM, Cambridge Springs. Pa. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
BARRON STRAIN OF HEAVY LAYERS 
;j ooo Breeders on free Farm Range. Now RookIn- orders 
for Babv Chicks, 1910 delivery. Get yout oideis in eauy 
for March and April Delivery as there will be a great 
shortage of baby chicks for 1919. ®“®chmciB breeding 
cocks and cockerels @ S3 each while they last ttr.l ue. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Hox 75, Pleasant A alley, N. V. 
" 
Wyckoil S. C. VI. Leghorn Cockerels 
from best eggs, direct from his Grandview farm last 
spring. Price, $4.50 to $7.50. ShippedO.O. D., sub- 
jeot to approval. Also booking orders for eggs and 
chirks Straight Wyekoff strain also my strain). 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Fan give best otretcreme. 
SPRING BROOK P0ULYRY FARM, ROY S. RI0ER, Prep., Ballslon Spo. N.Y. 
White Leghorn Baby Chixs 
chicks, perfectly hatched, easy to raise and staited 
right Delivery guaranteed. Booking orders. Cur- 
cular. HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, N.Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
miners Hatching eggs, baby chicks. Choice breeding 
cockcVeisat light prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send 
for circular. GLENWOOD POULYRY FARM, John H.Weeil,Vineland, N. J. 
SUNNY 
CREST 
bay-old cnix I S. C. WHITE 
2,000 Breeding Ilona |leghorns 
20 0o"o Ecc capacity incubators. " SUGGESTION “—Buy where 
vour order will be tilled and avoid disappointment. Lot 
us book you early for eggs and chix. Send throe cents 
for 1919 catalogue. SONNY QUEST CO., lno., Foot Aurora, N.Y. 
Utility White LEGHORNS 
heaw-laying strain; line bred for the last 
eleven years for egg production, late moulting, size 
and vigor? Day-old chicks ami hatching eggs 
ilidife uilllUg n-ln-d Hill.. «. V. 
S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
Well grown, handsome birds. 200-284-egg stock. S3 to 
S10 each. Mattituck White Leghor n Farm, Mattituck, N. T. 
ForSale-WyckoI! Strain S. C. W. Leghorns 
Coc kerels direct. J. M. CASE.GIlboa, New York 
n j l „ | „„ f “ REGAL ' WHITE WYAND0TYES. Ordor 
Bred to L 3 V chicks now for ieb. & Mar. Deliv y. 
„ i i j n j „ I 25c. each. Also early hatched ckls. 
Selected breeders [MounlainView PH»- Fm..Hopi!wellJnel..N.V. 
Trap Nest 
Records 
WL 
„ have had printed 
on cardboard Il%x7 
neat and complete trap- 
n e s t record. Printed 
both sides—25 each side. 
Will send 12 for 10c. 
W F.W.. care Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street, New Yon; 
