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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 1919 
RR’S Guaranteed. 
THE HENYARD 
For ten consecutive years Kerr’s Guaranteed Chicks have been the quality- 
value standard. They are better than ever this year, the result of rigid 
selection of our great breeding flocks and improvement in our equipment. 
We specialize in the leading money-making breeds and lay special stress 
upon health, vigor and real business ability. 
High Quality—Moderate Price—Big Value 
are concentrated in Kerr’s Chicks. We believe, and our thousands oi 
regular customers will tell you, that you cannot duplicate- these sturdy, 
healthy chicks elsewhere aV the same price. 
Our breeding birds are selected upon a basis of profitable performance and 
uniform appearance. They have the benefit of unrestricted farm range, 
which insures vigor in their youngsters. Our hatchery, one of the 
largest in the world, is modern and complete and is manned by experts. 
Our shipping methods and service are unexcelled. 
Kerr Chicks Are Shipped Prepaid 
and We Guarantee Safe Delivery 
It will pay l /on to learn the facts before ordering chicks 
this season. Just ask for free catalog. 
THE KERR CHICKERY 
Box 56 French town. New Jersey 
The Pine Tree 
HATCHERY 
This Hatchery is the oldest and 
one of the largest in the U. S. 
We have hatched and shipped 
baby-chicks for over a quarter of 
a century. Our chicks are sure to 
please. They come from pure¬ 
bred stock, and are properly 
hatched and priced. 
S. C. White Leghorns, $16.00 
Barred Rocks . . . 20.00 
R. I. Reds .... 20.00 
White Wyandottes . 26.00 
Per 
100 
Chicks 
We Guarantee full count of live 
chicks upon arrival. Our Catalog 
and Price List FREE. 
THE PINE TREE HATCHERY 
Box R Stockton, N. J. 
Baby 
Chicks 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns 
R. & S. C. R. L Reds 
Park B. Rocks 
P UREBRED, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sod us, N. Y. 
FerrisWhiteLegliorns 
A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 years, rec¬ 
ords from 200 to 264 eggs. Get our prices on pullets 
and yearling hens, breeding males, eggs for hatching, 
and day-old chicks. We ship C. O. 11. and guarantee 
results Catalog gives prices; describesstock, tells all 
about wor farm and methods; results you can get by 
breeding this strain. Send for your copy now—it is 
£ree - GEORGE B. FERRIS, 935 Union. Grand Rapids, Mich 
Utility White LEGHORNS 
heavy-laying strain; line bred for the last 
eleven years for egg production, late moulting, size 
and vigor. I>ay-old chicks and hatching eggs 
for sale. Circular on request. . „ ,, 
It liOA It It KWOK FARM, Bedford Hills, NA. 
S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORNS 
SUNNY I DAY-OLD C1IIX 
£JJ|7]5T 2,000 Breeding lien* 
20,000 Egg capacity incubators. " SUGGESTION "—Buy where 
j oin- order will be filled and avoid disappointment. I.et 
us book you early for eggs and cliix. ‘ ' 
for 1910 catalogue. SUNNV CKKSTCO., 
BABY CHICKS and 
HATCHING EGGS 
from 
Park & Tilford’s 
Laurelton Farms, Lakewood, N. J. 
Suburban dwellers should keep poultry 
to cut the high cost of living. Table 
waste would partially feed the birds. 
A small investment, in Laurelton Farms 
Large Type Baby Chicks or Hatch¬ 
ing Eggs will give quick returns. We 
are placing before our customers and 
the public all the advantages that 
years of experience and careful breed¬ 
ing can offer. Years of trapnesting 
and breeding under the careful super¬ 
vision of recognized experts have built 
up for the Laurelton Farms the largest 
and most vigorous strain of Heavy 
Egg-Laying S. O. White Leghorns. Our 
breeding females weigh four pounds 
and upwards, and were bred to pro¬ 
duce Large, Marketable White Eggs for 
Park & Tilford Stores in New York. 
We are now hooking orders for 
Hatching Eggs and Baby Chicks, and 
in placing your orders several weeks 
in advance you may select your date 
of shipment. 
LAURELTON FARMS 
Lakewood :: :: New Jersey 
MATTITUCK 
White Leghorn Farm 
One Object Only—To Produce 
Heavy-Laying Leghorns 
Baby chicks and hatching eggs are guar¬ 
anteed to be from our own flocks, produced 
on our own farm. Trap-nests used for past 
five years. All pullets now trap-nested. 
Mature flocks carefully selected. None 
but vigorous late moulting hens kept. 
Mated to cockerels from 200-egg hens. Bar¬ 
ron blood. Send for circular and price list. 
ARTHUR H. PENNY 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm, Mattituck, N.Y. 
Send three cents 
Inc., Kant Aurora,N.Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
WHITE LEGHORN POULTRY 
Brooding Stock 
Hatching Eggs 
Baby Chick Capacity 
1000 Woekly 
Woekly 
THE HOMESTEAD FARM 
G. O. & R. 0. KNArr, Props. 
LITTLE BRITAIN, N. Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Severe culling during 1918 1ms produced superior 
bleeding slock. Sturdy Chicks from free range 
stock ottered at the folio wing prices: 
March Chicks, 2S cents each 
April Chicks - 20 cents each 
May Chicks - IS cents each 
Hatching Eggs, 801, fertility guaranteed, S10.00 per hund. 
Order from this "ad.”—our business Is to sell breed¬ 
ing Stock, Hatching Eggs and Chicks rather than 
expensive catalogues and literature. 
Brooder Stove for Heating Greenhouse 
How would a coal-burning brooder 
stove be for heating a small greenhouse 
10x12 feet for starting vegetable plants? 
The brooder stove referred to is rated as 
a 500-chiek size. My location is on the 
New York line and would be started 
about March first. R. E. J. 
Though having no experience in this 
kind of work myself, I am told by a 
practical greenhouse man that the plan 
you propose is hardly practicable. With 
any coal heater placed within the vege¬ 
table enclosure there is danger from coal 
fumes, and a very small heater cannot be 
depended upon to keep an even heat 
during the night and through cold snaps. 
Even if large enough to heat the en¬ 
closure, a small brooder stove would 
probably require too constant attention 
to make its use feasible. A larger stove 
in which a water coil can be installed, 
and that connected with pipes running 
through the house or in the beds, might 
be used for a small installation. 
M. B. D. 
100, $18. Eggs, ton cents each, any quantity. 
311 Allow BltOOK KAIIM, • Gilbertsvfll®, Pennsylvania 
Utility WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs, *10 per i"1. Day-old chicks, $20 
per 100. March, April anu-May delivery. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. W. W. WALLACE, HOME- 
WOOD FARM, Pleasantville. Westchester Co., N. Y 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
Barron (English) Strain of Heavy Winter Layers 
cprm AI COR MARCH 8.000 baby chicks a week from two 
iuid three year obi Breeders with records up to 274 Eggs 
a year. March chicks live better, make a more rapid 
growth and broilers bring more than those hatched in 
nnv other month. March chicks make the great Winter 
layers Order your chicks at once for March delivery. 
{*20 per 100 by Parcel Post prepaid, safe arrival guaran¬ 
teed. ’A hatch every Monday. Circular* Free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, Pleasant Valley, N. Y, 
GIBSON POULTRY-THE BIG MONEY MAKERS 
BABY CHICKS EGGS—BREEDING STOCK 
Is. C. W. Leghorns — R. I. Reds — B. P. Rocks — W. Wyandottes] 
Gibson baby chicks are vigorous and livable, from trapnested farm range, heavy laying 
blocks, headed by males from the Hooks producing the highest scoring pons st tho 
international laying contest- Hatching Eggs from the lame mat: 
teed eighty per cent, fertile. Gibson broodors are large, vigorous and will make 
your flock more productive and profitable. Safe arrival guaranteed. Illustrated 
folder free. Write for it NOW- 
C. F. GIBSON. Galen Farms. Box lOO. CLYDE. N. Y. 
Oil-burning Brooders 
Will you give me advice on oil-burning 
hovers, as described on page 345? I 
have a brooder which has given perfect 
satisfaction, but is small for my needs. 
I have a brooder stove and do not have 
any success with it. The grate clogs and 
is hard to clean, and keeps one busy 
building a fire in it. I have 161 White 
Wyandottes and have had fine success 
with them; got 116% dozen eggs last 
month. J. n. w. 
I have never seen any of these oil¬ 
burning colony brooder stoves in action, 
but know of no reason why they should 
not be practicable; in fact. I have seen 
a very similar homemade apparatus, con¬ 
sisting of an ordinary portable oil heater, 
such as are used to heat isolated rooms 
or hath rooms of houses, surmounted by 
a tin, umbrella-like hood, that gave rea¬ 
sonable satisfaction. A specially designed 
oil burner, with canopy, should, it seems 
to me, be a very practical way of supply¬ 
ing heat. The coal-burning brooder stoves 
are generally considered entirely satis¬ 
factory. and I presume that your trouble 
came from an inferior quality of coal, 
rather than from faulty design of the 
stove. There is no question hut that the 
coal of these days is of a ver; inferior 
quality to that formerly supplied the pub¬ 
lic. Who gets the good coal is a mystery 
to most of us; it would seem os though 
it must still be mined. M. B. D. 
Ailing Fowls 
I have several sick hens; they have a 
foam in their eyes which blinds them on 
that side. The roosters catch it more 
than the hens. They have little yellow 
pimples on their combs and foam in their 
eyes also. They act lively and eat well, 
but in a week they die; the hens get 
over it, I seldom lose any hens. 
Massachusetts. w. n. n. 
The combination of catarrhal inflam¬ 
mation of the eyes and yellow pimples 
upon the combs suggests chicken pox, 
though this disease is not usually fatal 
to robust fowls. All sick birds should 
be isolated, as this disease is very con¬ 
tagious, and the sores upon the head may 
be painted with tincture of iodine. With 
isolation, proper care and treatment as 
above suggested, there should be little 
loss unless the disease is a more serious 
one than the symptoms you describe in¬ 
dicate. M. B. D. 
Damage by Pigeons 
Can I be held liable if I kill, by shoot¬ 
ing or otherwise, a man’s pigeons while 
they are in the act of eating young veg¬ 
etable sprouts or “digging” out the seeds 
from my garden? The owner of the pig¬ 
eons lives several doors away,, hut liis 
birds are kept in the yard of his friend, 
whose yards adjoin mine. The coop is 
practically on my backyard fence. Last 
year I was caused no end of trouble all 
season, and lost by the scratching out of 
seeds and eating of lettuce, beets, tur¬ 
nips, snap beans, as they came up, etc. 
Some things did get ahead of them while 
they were confined for a time. It was 
on the strength of a promise to keep the 
birds confined that I made new plantings, 
hut the owner did not keep them con¬ 
fined. This year I have ordered my seed 
and do not intend to have my garden 
spoiled. I do not know just how to deal 
with this fellow. When the proposition 
is put up to him to keep his pigeons off, 
or if told what damage they have done, he 
grins over it. L. w. s. 
If the owner will not keep these birds 
confined after a fair request to do so, 
you will have no protection except to 
shoot into the flock or trap them. No 
one likes to take such harsh measures, but 
there seems no other way when the owner 
will not do his share. He has no more 
right to let these pigeons out to damage 
your garden than he has to turn in his 
horse or cow. He can merely sue you for 
the value of the pigeons, and you can sue 
him for the damage to the garden. It all 
seems like a foolish and useless thing to 
have such trouble, aud is entirely the fault 
of the man who will not keep the birds 
confined when he knows they are a mil- 
nance. 
Ring Necked Pheasants 
Lay 40 to 50 eggs each per year. Why raise 
clrikens to "at when these are much more 
profitable a raised as easily? Weigh 3 
pounds at six months, and bring $1.00 n 
pound in the market. Set the eggs under 
chickens—feed and care for the young the 
way you would chickens. Are economical as 
they only require one-lialf as much 
food. Are very hardy and not subject to 
disease. Best eating bird in America. Kgg* 
guaranteed from vigorous, healthy unre¬ 
lated stock. $ G.00 for 15 eggs. 
35.00 for 100 eggs. 
Genuine Wild Mallard Ducks 
Lay 50 to 60 eggs per year. We guarantee 
our breeding stock to be the best in the 
country as thev are entirely wild trapped 
Mallards and’ not the coarse semi-wild 
strain. $ 5.00 for 15 eggs 
25.00 for 100 eggs 
Giant Bronze Turkeys 
Have a wonderful flock, headed by prize¬ 
winning 55 lb. tom. 
$1.50 per egg. 
Bloomfield S. C. Rhode Island 
Red Chickens 
Fine laying strain of prize birds. 
$5.00 for 15 eggs. 
25.00 for 100 eggs. 
Get order in early and send 
check with it. Send for free 
booklet and instructions. 
Bloomfield Farms 
1 722 Penobscot Bldg. 
Detroit, Michigan 
Baby Chicks and 
Hatching Eggs 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds andSiugle Comb While Leg¬ 
horns. We own the famous Sanborn flock of Reds; 
every breeder with a trapueit record. Place your 
order for Baby Cliix at once. A few more high record 
breeding males for sale. Send for freo catalogue. 
West Mansfield Poultry Farm, Box 50. Attleboro. Mass. 
S.C.BUFF leghorns;: 
Winners al N. Y. S. Fiir. 1918; Rochester, 1913. No baby cbieks lor sale 
Heavy egg-laying strain, tired for 9 years. Prices of 
cockerels ranging from $3 to $10. Utility pens,$lO. 
Booking orders for hatching eggs. Utility, 15 tor 
$1.50; 100 for *8. Quality guaranteed. Circular 
and Mating List for stamp. Walter V. Olney, Naples, N V. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Result of 12 years breeding to produce the best in 
genuine egg producers. Hundreds of satisfied cus¬ 
tomers. Hatching eggs, baby chicks. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Send forclrcular. 
GIENW00D POULTRY FARM, John H. Weed. Vineland, H. J 
Stone’s S. C. While Leghorns 
breeders, selected for size, vitality and egg produc¬ 
tion according to Cornell methods. Baby chicks. 
Cockerels. Hatching Eggs. ELMER R. STONE, Clyde, N.Y. 
HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORNS 
Day-Old Chicks and Eggs. Get my free circular before you 
order chicks, tells why the Black Leghorn is the greatest 
layer,and most profitable breed on earth,write today. Also 
White Leghorn chicks. A. E. HAMPTON, Box R. Pittstown, N. J. 
WHITE LEGHORN g.yjfe™ 
RED. Chicks—S20. Eggs—$10 per 100. 
Custom Hatching 
Phone 134-2—SNOW WHITE FARM. Westport. Conn. 
American Poultry Almanac f're'r^how 
wo Ill-end the 300 egg hen. Plain scientific facts. 
How we win medals at the ego-laving contest*. 
HOPEWELL FARMS, Box R, Hopewell, N. J. 
Tom Barron’s Leghorns 
We offer a few choice cockerels 
from a superior laying (train. 
EMMADINE FARMS, Hopewell Junction. New York 
Tom Barron’s Leghorns ^TmlrlWoi" 
One of the most intensive breeding plants in the 
country. Eggs—chicks. Write for circular. WILLOW 
BROOK POULTRY FARM, Allen H. Bulkley. Prop . Odessa. N Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs 
for HATCHING, from certified, pedigreed stock. 
M. J. (JUACKENBUSH, - Nutley, N. J. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS and HATCHING EGGS 
S. C WHITE LEGHORNS. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. RHODE 
ISLAND REDS. Guarantee safe delivery. Place orders 
now to insure prompt delivery. PARADISE 
POULTRY FARM, Box B, Paradise, Penns. 
sau Single Comb White Leghorn Cockerels J"r.w ! » 
Also Hatching Eggs. Wit. 91ECIIKI.KK, Wallklll. N.w York 
TICCAUV’C SILVER AND WHITE WYANDOTTES. WHITE. 
TlrrANY o buff and barred rocks, s. c. r i 
CIIDPRinn REDS. WHITE LE G H 0 R N S, PEKIN AND 
durtniun | N0IAN runner ducklings and eggs. 
CHICKS Aldiiam Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenixville. Pa, 
QUEENSBURY LEGHORNS 
..o (Barron Foundation) 
Trap nesti-d winter layers that are'hatcn- 
e d right, raised right and sold at reason- 
Z) » able prices. Dependable utility birds that 
Cl // "v are guaranteed to please you. COCKERELS, 
1 (n hatching eggs, baby chicks. Write to-day. 
^ QUEENSBURY FARMS «" N . S J: 
SPECIAL NOTICE 
Those purchasing eggs for hatching and baby 
chicks must understand that they are assuming 
some risk when ordering from a distance. For the 
most part eggs and chicks carry safely, but some¬ 
times rough handling by the express companies 
or exposure to heat and cold causes damage. 
That eggs fail to hatch or chicks die is not con¬ 
clusive evidence of bad faith on the part of the 
seller, and we shall not consider claims on that 
basis. To avoid controversy buyer and seller 
should have a definite understanding as to the 
responsibility assumed in case of dissatisfaction. 
