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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
RR’vS Guaranteed. 
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 of 
regular customers will tell you, that you cannot duplicate these sturdy, 
healthy chicks elsewhere at 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. 
" - shipping methods and service are unexcelled. 
April 5, 1919 
Our 
Kerr Chicks Are Shipped Prepaid 
and We Guarantee Safe Delivery 
It will pnv yen to learn the facts be fore ordering chicles 
this season. Just ask .for free catalog. 
THE KERR CHICKERY 
Box 56 French town. New Jersey 
7 ry-em will get your full order next year 
l^IDUTTP’^ S. C. White LEGHORN CHICKS 
l^y TRAPNE8TEI) STOCK ONLY 
6,000 BABY CHICKS 1,000 “ S' 1 PI LI,UTS 
STRAIGHT AMERICAN STOCK that e ENGUSH r STOCK “does not always mean'the best stock. 
every hen in oiir breeding pens laid from 140 to 225 in pullet year and 
years Second. 1 hat eteo en u* 0 e „„ s pe H, 0I1 Third: Every code or cockerel in our 
SECT —5 
healthy live cliix delivered to you for eveiy one you paj foi. 
We absolutely take your word as to condition upon arrival and make settlement accordingly. 
*» 0 .ob per too *00.00 per 500 
I’rlcc of Bullets 
*00 0(1 per 500 $175.00 per 1.000 O HAA UlYI 
on application. 1,800 breeders on free range. 0,UUU VV LLIVL X 
0 V* I UIIOIB Vll •**»*'■ -- —v 
KIRKUP BROS. Mattituck, Long Island, New York 
GIBSON POULTRY-THE BIG MONEY MAKERS 
BABY CHICKS-ECGS—BREEDING STOCK 
Is. C. W. Leghorna - R. I. Reds - B. P. Rocks - W. Wyandotte* 
Gibson baby chick, are vigorous and livable, heavy laying flocks, headed by males from the I 
Flocki Producing the Highest Scoring Pens at the International Laying Contest ^ 
Hatchlna Enas from the tame tnRtings guaranteed eighty per cent, fertile. Gibson 
broader, are large, vigorous anil will make your flock more productive ami p 
able. Bate arrival guaranteed. Illustrated folder free, tv rite for it NOW. 
G.F. GIBSON, Galen Farm*. Box 1 OO. CLYDE. N. Y. 
Baby 
Chicks 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns 
R. & S. C. R. 1. Reds 
Park B. Rocks 
P UREBRED, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sod us, N. Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
BARRON STRAIN OF HEAVY WINTER LAVERS 
3 000 select Breeders on free farm range—the finest 
l ever owned. All breeders inoculated and free from 
lice. Eggs for hatching now ready in any Quantity. 
Now booking orders for Baby Chlcks-March and 
April delivery. Capacity. 10 to 12,000,weekly Order 
well in advance this year as there is only half the 
usual number of breeder* in the country. My book, 
•' Profits in Poultry Keepinu Solved, 1 free with all $10 or¬ 
der. Circular free. EDGAR BRIGGS. Boi 75. Ple»»»nl V.ll.y. N. V. 
MATTITUCK 
Wliite 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 lions. Bar¬ 
ron blood. Send for circular and price list. 
ARTHUR H. PENNY 
Mattituck White Leghern Farm, Mattituck, N.Y. 
FcrrisWhitcLcghorns 
A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 year*, rec¬ 
ords from 200 to ‘Mi oggH. Get our prices on pullets 
and yearling hens, breeding nudes, eggs for hatching, 
and day-old chicks. We ship <’. O. 1). and guarantee 
result' Catalog gives prices; describesstock. tells nil 
about well farm and methods; results you can get bv 
breeding this strain. Send for your copy now—il is 
free. GEORGE B. FERRIS, 835 Uni.n, Grand Rapids, Mich 
WHITE LECHORN POULTRY 
Baby Chick Capacity 
1000 Weekly 
Breeding Stock 
Hatching Eggs 
THE HOMESTEAD FARM 
G. O. & R. O. Knapp, Props. 
LITTLE BRITAIN, N. Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Severe culling during 1018 has produced superior 
bleeding stock. Sturdy Chicks from free range 
stock offered at the folio wing prices: 
March Chick., 25 cant, each; 
April Chicks - 20 cants each 
May Chick. - 15 cent, each 
Hutching Ecru, SO 0 ,, fortuity guaranteed, 510.00 nor bund. 
Order from this “ud.”—our business Is to sell ]treed 
ing Stock, Hatching Eggs and Chicks rather than 
expensive catalogues uud literature. 
THE HENYARD 
Chicks with Weak Feet 
Can you tell me what is the cause of 
chickens’ toes turning under so they can¬ 
not straighten them out? Then they die 
a little later. K. G. T. 
Tiadaghton, Ta. 
Perhaps these chicks are kept in over¬ 
heated brooders upon board floors; if so, 
get them out upon the ground as soon as 
possible and permit them to come in con¬ 
tact with mother earth. While giving 
them sufficient heat in their brooders, 
avoid overheating and too close confine¬ 
ment. It is difficult, to prevent such 
troubles in artificially hatched chicks that 
must be confined within doors for more 
than two weeks. Later hatching and 
outdoor runs are the best preventives. 
M. B. D. 
For Hatching and Eggs 
Day-Old Chicks S. C. W. LEGHORNS Exclusively 
Hutching eggs from 2-year-old hens and fully ma¬ 
tured pullets, carefully mated with 225 to 240 egg 
cocks. Heavy winter layers of large white eggs. 
Have your orders hooked for chicks well in ad¬ 
vance. Cockerels. *3 to <10 each. Hatching ages, 
<10 per 100. Day-old chicks. $20 per 100. 
OAK GROVE POULTRY FARM, Calverton. L. I„ N. Y. 
1 months old, $2 each 
Columbia Poultry Farm 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Our chicks ..re good is tha reason that every chick and 
liatchingeggH from Jan. 1st to April20th was sold mouths 
aliead, we will have 2,000 chicks a week after April 20th. 
Grade A hens with records, 176 to 217 mated to 200 cock¬ 
erels, Chicks Met*. Eggs 25ct*. Grade It October molting 
hens mated to cockerels from a hen with a 3 yr. record 
of (1X1 eggs. Chicks 20ct*. Kggs lOcts, 25% less after May 15th. 
E.OOO pullets fromGradeB,maturing for drlivoryJuno 16th, 
lo 
HILLPOT 
QUALITY 
Post Prepaid. 
up to 1200 miles. 
Concrete Henhouse; Ducks Without 
Water 
1. What are the disadvantages and ob¬ 
jections to a concrete henhouse, provided 
same were built mostly of ashes and stone, 
so as to be absorbent, and having an over¬ 
hang of about 12 inches f>f roof all around 
to keep rain from hitting sides and walls 
of building? I am planning to build a 
henhouse 10x40 feet, and am undecided as 
to building a frame or concrete structure. 
Would like advice, especially from some¬ 
one now using a concrete house. 2. What 
breeds of ducks can be successfuly raised 
on a place where no water for swimming 
is available? * H. s. 
Hawthorne, N. J. 
T. Don’t build a poultry house 10 feet 
in depth. A building 10x40 will require 
100 running feet of wall for 400 square 
feet of floor space. A building 20x20 
will give you the same floor area with 20 
less feet of wall to build. Deep buildings, 
up to 20 feet, are more comfortable for 
tin* fowls and more economical in cost 
than the old-fashioned, long, narrow ones. 
The chief objection to concrete for poul¬ 
try houses is its cost. Unless well ven¬ 
tilated, they seem more damp in cold 
weather because of the condensation of 
moisture upon the cold walls. This mois¬ 
ture does not come from the outside, how¬ 
ever. but chiefly from the bodies of the 
fowls. It condenses less readily upon 
walls of wood and is therefore not so 
much in evidence. Hollow wall construc¬ 
tion in concrete buildings and ample ven¬ 
tilation through open front window’s ob¬ 
viates this difficulty, hut frame buildings 
will probably continue to be preferred by 
most poultrymen because of lower first 
cost, if nothing more. 
2. Water for swimming is not needed 
h.v ducks, except, possibly, for the breed¬ 
ing pens. Raise I’ekins, Indian Runners, 
or any other variety that you prefer, on 
dry land, as is done on a large scale by 
those who make duck raising for market 
a business. M. B. D. 
Inspection Invited, no catalog. 
Tom’s River, N. J. 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
CERTIFIED WHITE LEGHORNS 
I)ay.ol<l (thicka, S5J5 per lOO 
Hatching Kggs, $15 per lOO 
This pen was selected from a large flock t>y an expert 
from Cornell University. 
I. DAVITT VILLAGE FARM POESTENKILL, N. Y. 
chick 
bread 
better. 
cent. 
% 
■■ | ft a jr Healthy chicks from Record Layers 
U n IU rV a ROCKS REDS LEGHORNS 
Safe delivery guaranteed 
W 
Book FREE 
F. HILLPOT. 
Box l. 
WYANDOTTES 
Frenchtown, N. J. 
Trouble with Young Chicks 
Two years ago T bought a hot water in¬ 
cubator, 850-egg size, and a coal-burning 
brooder. I had good success in hatching 
and got fine, hearty chicks, but after about 
three days trouble began. Some seemed 
to have bowel trouble of some sort; others 
just seemed to droop and die without ap¬ 
parent cause. These conditions would 
continue for about three weeks, when the 
remaining chicks would begin to thrive 
and grow. I had the little chicks on a 
cement floor, covered with dry, clean sand, 
with a half inch of fine cut straw. I 
cleaned up the floor twice a week. _ I 
tried a couple of brands of expensive- 
foods. but liked oatmeal, corntneal, 
crumbs, beef scrap and skim-milk 
Losses were about 60 to 65 per 
Breeds were White Leghorn and 
Barred Rocks. As soon sis possible the 
chicks were allowed to go in covered runs 
and were kept in a cement building where 
chickens had never been kept. My neigh¬ 
bors say the trouble comes from over¬ 
heating. 
Holland, Mich. 
Your description of the behavior of 
these chicks leads one to suspect that they 
were infected with true white diarrhoea of 
the bacillary type. If so, the only remedy 
is to obtain eggs or chicks from flocks free 
from this disease, not using the survivors 
of previous hatchings in the breeding pen. 
This i« a germ disease that is carried by 
the mother hens and transmitted by them 
to the chick through the egg. Infected 
chicks that live to grow up may continue 
the trouble for generations, making chick 
rearing impracticable until disease-free 
stock is obtained from some source. The 
disease is also transmissible through the 
droppings of sick chicks, and isolation of 
these, with cleanliness and disinfection of 
their quarters, is necessary to the eradica¬ 
tion of the trouble. 
The large brooder heaters that permit 
chicks to choose their own temperature, 
either near by or at a distance, are very 
satisfactory and should do away with tiie 
danger from over-heating. Your manage¬ 
ment of your chicks seems to have been 
good ; they should, of course, be given an 
outdoor run as soon as possible and should 
be fed soured skiin-milk from the time 
that they are taken from the incubator, 
making it by preference their very first 
food, and giving it in practically unlimit¬ 
ed quantities thereafter. It is not only a 
valuable food, but has in addition some 
little value as a preventive of diarrhmal 
troubles. A 1, B - J?., , 
Keep Setting Hens 
Free Irom Lice 
Put Dr. Hess Instant Louse 
Killer in the nests before add¬ 
ing the litter and eggs, then 
the brood will come off free 
from vermin. Put it in the 
dust bath —that’s always a 
good thing to do. All fowls 
will sift it into the feathers and the 
lice will be quickly killed. Just as 
good for animals as for poultry. 
With one hand stroke the hair the 
wrong way, with the other sift in 
Dr. Hess Instant Louse Killer. 
Especially good for lousy colts and 
calves right now. 
GUARANTEED 
The dealer who sells you Instant 
Louse Killer is - uthorized to refund 
your money if it does not do as 
claimed. 
1 lb. 30c, 2Valbs. 60c (except in Canada) 
Dr. BESS & CLARK 
Ashland Ohio 
DR.HESS Instant 
LOUSE KILLER 
Kills Lice 
SURPRISING INCURATOR 
Bargain 
ONLY 
’v.ti 
70$t\ All 
>Steel 
JBody 
GALVANIZED 
9 6M 
for the 
famous 
(liberty 
[Hatcher 
The greatea* in¬ 
cubator value at 
any price. Built 
round with a cen¬ 
tral heater: nocold 
corners which 
mean unhatched 
eggs. Perfect regulation of heat,ventilation and moisture, 
roomy chick nursery, visible egg chamber easily accessible, 
triple wall, water jacketed heat flume, eloping egg tray 
keeps small endB of eggs always downward-enables chicks 
to develop more perfectly. Keonomical to oper- fff* QC 
ate. So well-built it lasts a life-time. Pnceonly VVoru 
Order from this advertisement. Send check, money or 
express order, we ship at once, f. o. b. Quincy, Ill. For 
shipment by parcel post include postage for 21 lbs. weight. 
Jfvouaeen.uentir.- gQ DAYS’ TRIAL 
write us and we will refund all money you have paid. Wo 
arc responsible. In business in Chicago 46 years. Ask your 
banker. You also need our splendid ‘Liberty Hover. 70 
chick capacity,oil heated,self r«flrulntlng. Weighs 14 lb. S4.60f .o.b 
Quincy, III. For larger Incubators write today for ttpecial catalog 
B. F. Gump Co., 439 S. Clinton St., Chicago, HL 
Tom 
Thrift 
5ays; 
“A Maynard 
Incubator will 
make you independent of the 
‘settin’ hen’ and will mean 
more springers going to 
market in the early fall.” 
See Page 781 of “Your Bargain 
Book.” Here you will find a variety 
of incubators, one priced as low 
as $5.50. 
“Your Bargain Book" is FREE. 
Send today. 
The Charles William Stores 
247 Stone Building NawYotLCUy ' 
Save the Baby Chicks 
Our book. "CARE OF BABY CTTTCKS." and a. 
package of GEUilOZONB are the best lnouranco 
against chick losses. Those formerly losing mure than 
half they hatched now ralso better than 90 per cent. 
To you who liavo never tried GEItMOZONE, wo will 
sond postpaid, book and packaoe as above. You pay. 
If satisfied, 75c; CO days’ trial. Wo trust you. 
Prugglsta and seed dealers sell GERMOZONE, tha 
best poultry remedy iaml preventive. For old amt 
young, -bowel trouble, colds, roup, musty or spoiled 
food, limber neck, chicken pox, sour crop, skin disease, 
etc. Sick chinks can’t wait. Do it now. 
GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. 469, Omaha, Neb. 
SICK ANIMALS" 
“VET.” BOOK about Horaes, Cattle, 
Sheep, Dog* and Poultry, sent free. 
Humphrey*’ Veterinary Medicine*, 1J56 
William Street, New York. 
