The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
633 
THE HENYARD 
Soft-shelled Eggs 
I have about !)0 hens this Winter, 15 
S. C. White Leghorns, about 50 R. I. 
Reds (pullets) and remainder of flock 
mixed pullets and yearlings. I am both¬ 
ered very much with thin shells; scarcely 
a day but some are broken in handling. 
I cannot take them to market without 
finding broken ones. They are fed cracked 
corn and buckwheat, equal parts, quite 
some oats, and some mixed feed (ground) 
as a dry mash ; are fed mangel beets 
every day. always oyster shells and grit 
before them. They have had also plenty 
of meat (horse meat) through the Win¬ 
ter. They are not laying very well. 20 
to 25 daily. I put 150 dozen or more in 
water-glass every Spring, but they are 
hardly fit for that. w. j. s. 
Catskill. X. Y. 
liens will sometimes lay soft-shelled 
eggs in spite of the fact that they have 
unlimited amounts of lime in available 
form before them. This is evidently due 
to some disturbance of function hot con¬ 
nected with the lime supply in their food. 
Close confinement, with heavy feeding, 
may be responsible in your case and you 
will probably find the trouble diminishing 
as soon as the fowls get out upon range. 
If you have clover or Alfalfa hay avail¬ 
able you should put a forkful of that 
into their pen each day as a “tonic.’' 
“appetizer,” “blood purifier,” “shell 
maker.” and anything else that you like 
to call it. while the hens are profiting by 
your thoughtfulness. M. B. n. 
Mixed Poultry; Transferring Bees 
1. T have Brown Leghorns and White 
Wyandottes. Is there any loss in utility 
as egg layers in the resultant mixed 
breeds if they are left together? If so. 
why? 2. I have three hives of bees, 
hived in old boxes. I wish to transfer 
them to new standard hives. How must 
I do it? o. k. 
Muirkirk. Md. 
1. Xo one could say what the actual 
effect upon egg production of this par¬ 
ticular flock would be if these breeds 
were crossed, but the resultant progeny 
would be a nondescript type inferior 
in many ways to either breed kept pure. 
They would lack the size and uniformity 
of type of the Wyandottes and would lay 
brown or tinted eggs inferior in appear¬ 
ance and market value to those of the 
Leghorns. As in other crosses, the re¬ 
sults of many years of painstaking labor 
in breeding would be destroyed in one 
generation. They would be egg-laying 
fowls, however, and their flesh would be 
quite as wholesome for food as that of 
any bird. 
2. The following method of transfer¬ 
ring bees from one hive or box to an¬ 
other is known as the Heddon short 
method; it is simple and practicable. 
For it you will need to make a shallow 
bee carrying box. without cover, that will 
just fit over the old box hive after the 
cover of that is removed. If your three 
box hives are of different size, make a 
box to fit the smallest and use strips of 
wood to fill the open spaces when “drum¬ 
ming” the others. This box will re¬ 
semble an ordinary super fitted with a 
bottom. Whenever honey is coming in. 
preferably during the fruit bloom of 
Spring, set the old box hive to be emp¬ 
tied of its bees off from its stand and 
replace it. with the new hive fitted up 
with frames and foundation. Face en¬ 
trance of new hive same way. After 
lightly smoking the bees in the old box 
hive, remove all or a portion of its cover 
and invert your carrying box over it. 
Now drum upon the sides of the old hive 
until nearly all of the bees have gone up 
into your carrying box. Take this to the 
new hive on the old stand and dump the 
bees in front of its entrance. You may 
drum the old hive again for more bees, 
if necessary, but your success will de¬ 
pend upon your getting the queen into 
the new hive with her bees. T’nless she 
goes with them they will not stay. Set 
the old box with its remaining bees a 
little way away from its original stand 
and face its entrance in another direction 
from that which it originally had. After 
three weeks the brood in this old box 
will have hatched nut in care of what 
bees remained in it .and these may be 
drummed out in like manner and carried 
to reinforce the new hive. Smoke both 
lightly before making this addition and 
put a queen excluder in front of the en¬ 
trance of the new hive if you do not wish 
any newly-hatched queens to enter with 
the second lot of bees to dispute possess¬ 
ion of the hive with their mother. Any 
newly-hatched queens remaining outside I 
the excluder may be used in other swarms 
or destroyed. If this work is done while | 
the bees are at work in the fields, these 
jt broad will return to the new hive upon 
the stand from which their old one was 
removed and. if they find their queen 
there, will stay. As said, the success of 
the method depends upon getting the 
queen into the new hive with her bees 
and. if you wish to make sure that you 
have done it. you can place a queen ex¬ 
cluder before the entrance of the new 
hive before drumming and then watch to 
see that the queen is there after all. or 
nearly all. of the other bees have entered i 
their new quarters. If your eyesight is 1 
keen, you may see her enter without de¬ 
laying her by the use of an excluder. 
M. B. D. 
Starting in the Poultry Business 
I am going to start in the poultry busi¬ 
ness. Could you give me a plan for a 
henhouse for 1,0(10 hens and 200 turkeys? 
I want to build at moderate expense. 
How much land does it require for 1.000 
birds? I have one 70-egg incubator, and I 
am going to purchase one larger. Could 
you give me a figure of how much T could 
clear, net profit, annually? How much 
help will it require to take care of this? 
Is it better to have stove in the henhouse? 
Does it. require light? Shall I keep all 
the birds in the same building? Does it 
require a floor? Can I keep 200 turkeys 
with hens? Could I ship my eggs and 
birds to a distant market without license? 
.X. B. 
For a person wholly unacquainted with 
the poultry business, the only sensible 
plan is to content one’s self with a very 
moderate sized flock until he has learned 
to handle that profitably. To build and 
equip a plant for 1.000 fowls would re¬ 
quire a great deal of money, and. after¬ 
ward. the most expert management, to 
prevent financial ruin. This is something 
that no one should attempt until years of 
experience have taught him the business. 
It is perfectly safe to say that there will 
be no “net profits,” but only disastrous 
loss, if you attempt to launch into the 
poultry business upon the scale which 
your letter suggests. If you will attempt, 
for the first year, to raise from 100 to 200 
pullets, requiring the hatching of from 
200 to 500 chicks, you will find your 
hands full, and the necessary expense 
probably all that you will care to undergo. 
Turkeys are not reared with hens, and 
you will be unusually fortunate if you 
can raise 20 instead of 200. The disease 
known as blackhead has made the rearing 
of large flocks of turkeys upon Easterrt* 
farms almost an impossibility in recent 
years. Until some method of overcoming 
this is found, large flocks are out of the 
question. M. b. d. 
How Did the Turkey Move the Eggs? 
I was deeply interested in the answers 
in The R. N.-Y. as to how rats move 
eggs, after the great naturalist. John 
Burroughs, had given up the answer. I 
have another question I should like to 
have answered, if yon please. 
Years ago. about 1871. my mother had 
a turkey hen sitting on the ground on a 
setting of turkey eggs near the barn, when 
one night a hard rain caused a stream of 
water to overflow the eggs a number of 
inches. Xext morning the turkey stood 
in the water over the eggs. My mother 
then placed a box about IS inches deep 
with straw in it for a nest, about a rod 
away from the old location, and placed 
the eggs in the new nest, and the turkey 
on top of them. The turkey at first seemed 
content and sat still. The box was blocked 
up off the damp ground about six inches. 
But when mother went out again in four 
or five hours the turkey had moved all the 
eggs out of the box back to her old nest 
and was standing over them. How could 
she move these eggs out of this high box 
without breaking one? And another mys¬ 
tery was that each egg hatched later! 
Who can tell me how turkeys move eggs? 
Maryland. i„ j. beacuy. 
Sour Milk for Sick Hens 
I noticed recently, under the heading 
“Hens with Diarrhoea,” Mrs. L. E. C. 
says her liens do not eat. stand around 
and die. I have had a number of hens 
like this, and the only cure I found is to 
pen up separate and feed billing but 
clabbered milk, good and sour. Hens af¬ 
fected like above will not eat. but will 
drink their fill of sour milk. I have seen 
hens ready to die—combs dark purple— 
and in one day better again. A. E. E. 
Amsterdam, N. Y. 
Belgian Hares 
Bank Teller: "I’m sorry, but I can- 
tno cash this check until you are identi¬ 
fied. Is there any one nearby whom you 
know?” The Lady: “Certainly. I’ve 
got the baby out in front in the goeart. 
I'll bring him right in."—Judge. 
~ RABBITS 
IT PAYS TO RAISE 
Rufus Red Belgian Hares 
If you nre careful from whom you buy your Foundation 
stock of any breed, out of six entries'll! Boston Jan. 16 , 
11*19 I won three. Mancie, Indiana. Feb.. 1919, two prize 
winners. First Sr. and First Jr. Ruck 
Owner of Sheabarado, Registry No. 4655 
Who beat a English Prize Winning Buck, receiving First 
Prize at Syracuse. N. Y. State Fair. Sept. 1918. 
Only Pedigreed Registered Stock. Prices Reasonable. 
JOSEPH BLANK, 428 Highland Ave., MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. 
For Sale- FLEMISH GIANT HARES 
a trio. 2 Does, 1 Buck. Order front this adv. 
F. A. MILLER. Box 62. Plates. Erie Co., Pa. 
New Zealand Reds 
and Flemish Giants 
Gray, steel gray and Blacks. Young and old stock, 
both utility and pedigreed. English envies, broken 
and solid colors. Send for prices. N. SPOOR. Ravena, N Y. 
Belgian Hares For Salefe"*^ 
Breeding Does, $5 each. H. SC1IFLTZ, Jr.. Uann.nn ille, N.Y. 
Thoroughbred Belgian Hares r. y 
BABY CHICKS and 
HATCHING EGGS 
fr 
o m 
Park & Til ford’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 booking 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 
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 
E lease. They come from pure- 
red 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 
Anconas .... 25.00 
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. 
Barron’s Leghorn Chicks 
Strong, livable chaps from a flock of 250 breeders 
that averaged better than 160 eggs and up to 210 
eggs in their pullet year. I sell year after year to 
the same customers. 818 per 100. Also R. I. Reds 
8‘~0 per 100. Safe delivery guaranteed. Place your 
order now. WM. IV. KETCH, Cohocton, N.Y. 
Eggs K!"S.C.W.Leghorns 
and 
Laying Strains i 
and R.C. R.I. Reds at Moderate Prices 
Our Leghorns are bred for egg production 
*( • ■ and deliver the goods. Safe delivery and 
IiHICKS satisfaction guaranteed. Cir. free. Write 
w nw today. C. M. Longenecker, Box SO, Elizabethtown. Pa 
Tom Barron’s 2 | 8 T i 6 A # i E # 9 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. Day-old chicks. S15 
per 100. Hatching eggs, $6 per 100. Safe delivery 
and satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 
PATTERSON POULTRY FARM, - Clayton . N. Y. 
WELL WORTH THEIR COST ARE OUR 
S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs for Hatching 
at $8 and baby chix at $15 per hundred. They a e 
from mature stock, the result of thorough selection 
for years, and entirely disease-free. Satisfaction 
guaranteed you. r. r. RaTHBUN, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
Hickory Grove Leghorns 
Vigorous, Utility S. C. Whites of large size and heavy laying ability 
Farm bred, on free range: entire flock milk fed. 
Eggs now bringing 2c. above quotations on open 
market in New York City on account of size and 
color. Flock of 450 averaged $4.95 during 1918. Mat¬ 
ings cockerels with yearling and two-year-old hens. 
Satisfaction guaranteed: references if desired. 
HATCHING EGGS 97 PER HUNDRED 
HICKORY GROVE FARM. - Rushville. N. Y. 
White Leghorn Baby Chixs 
from our breeding stock, including Tom Barron 
strain. AH farm raised on free range. Utility bred 
chicks, perfectly handled, easy to raise and started 
right. Delivery guaranteed. Booking orders. Cir¬ 
cular. HAMILTON FAH.M, Huntington, N.Y. 
S.C. White LEGHORN CHIX 
and hatching eggs from selected heavy laying lions 
mated to vigorous cockerels bred from 200-260-egg 
dams. Barron strain. Prices very reasonable. Sa:e 
delivery guaranteed. Send for circular. 
HARRY F. PALMER, Middleport, N. Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorn & W. P. Rock Chicks 
Book vour order now for a positive shipping date any 
time after April 28th. Weekly hatches. Can furnish up 
to 1.000 Leghorn chicks at a time. C. G. SCHRYVER. OMAR, N.Y. 
Rhode Island Whites 
HarveyA Drew's famous strain now owned by Pequot Poultry Farm 
at the Mountain Grove. Mo., National Egg Laying 
contest in 1916-17. pen 19 layed 1,130 eggs, every hen 
layine over 200. In 1917-18 pen 49 layed 1,125 egg*. 
Again every lien passed the 200 mark. Rose and 
Single Comb. Mating list now ready. 
Pequot Poultry Farm. Southport, Conn. 
S. O. R. I. Reds 
\ ibcrt’s 231 to 251-egg strain. Eggs, SIO per 100; Baby 
chicks. $25 per 100. circular with terms and guarantee. 
ANNA M. JONES, - Craryville, New York 
Tnmnkin*?’ S R RpH eggs 82 peris. 
IUIII(JKin& 0. U. nea CASPER G. CLARK, Marlboro, N.Y 
Buff Plymouth Rock Eggs 
Single and Rose Comb White Minorcas 
Eggs for hatching. S2.25 for 13, sent parcel post. 
ItURHETTE SMITH, Box 848, Hartford, Conn. 
SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES— Eggs,*2-15 
pare strain. TRIO PURE BREE0 Belgian Rabbits. 
3 months: $6. T. H. STEWARD, Enfllishtown, N. J. 
BITE WYANDOTTE KGGK-"R e9a ls." From vigor- 
ous. selected, farm-range breeders of John S. Martin's 
best. 15—#2: 60— $fi: 100— $10. L. O. OLIOLEY, Gosbcn, \.Y. 
Pure Barron Wyandottes 
World's best utility breed. 275-egg strain. Eggs. 15 
—S2; 50-SB; 100—SIO. ARTHUR 0. SMITH Norfolk, Conn. 
Choice Breeding. $1.50 per 15. 
G. E. BRUMBLET, 3. Salisbury, Md. 
Barred Plymouth RockEgys 
for hatching. 81 per 15: 85 per 100. 
J. I. HERETER, R. 4, Gettysburg, Pa. 
E G 6 S—“ Perfection ” Barred Itoeks (Ringlet-' 
Fens carefully mated and guaranteed to produce birds of 
showroom quality; SSpersetting; 3 settings for Siz. From 
thoroughbred utility stock, $2 per se’ting; 3 settings for 
$5. Parcel postpaid. Cockerels. “ Ringlets," atrenl bargain 
prices. $5, $7.50, $10 and $15. Dr. GEO. T. HAYMAN, Doylesfcwn, ?z 
HUMMER’S Famous Winter-Laying Varieties 
ROCKS. REDS, WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS, ANCONAS. 
FIRST PRIZE PEN, THIRD PULLET PHILADELPHIA POULTRY 
SHOW. 1,500 reasons why you should haveour price 
list of the most profitable chicks to buy. 
E. II. HUMMER A CO., K. I). A, Erenelitown. S. J. 
LIGHT ANDDARK BRAHMAS BARRED r 1 1 rrrc 
R0CKS, R.I. REDS.W WYANDOTTES, tOCKerelS ru.rv^ 
S. C. W. AND BROWN LEGHORNS, CHICKS 
c ^l 0K RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM, Riverdale, N. J. 
TEN COCKERELS for S25 
vigorous, healthy birds. (S. C. White Leghorns, from 
heavy-laving hens. C. A. STEYEXS. IUNsomville, N. Y. 
Beautiful Single Comb Sheppard ANCONAS 
bred to lav, from prize-winniM# birds. 15 ep:gs, 82. 
MAPLE SIlADE KAKM, Ed. Hollenbeck, BUEESrOKT, N.Y. 
SX.BUFFO RPINGTONS 
Sunswiek strain. Farm raised and bred for Winter 
layers. Hatching eggs. 83 per setting: 815 per 100. 
Sirs. Frank E. Martin, . Hatfield, Penn. 
R os e Go mb Brown Leghorns 
strain. Eggs, $2 per 15. BRUSH .fc SON, Milton, V.'rniout 
Elmore Farm S. C. White Leghorns 
Day-old chicks. Airedale puppies Circular free. 
Elmore Farm, R 3. Box 116, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Ualnhinrr Errtro Imported Barron Strain Leghorns. Cir- 
ndlLHirigCgga cular. W.E. ATKINSON, Wa llingford. Conn. 
SINGLE COMB REDS) Separate farms 
BARON WYANDOTTES! Winter layers 
Eggs—$1 50 per 15: S7.5Q per 100. 
I,. Arthur Sheldon, Route 7, Oswego. N. Y’. 
CHICKS ,AND HATCHING EGGS 
S.C. White Leghorns. R.I.Reds, Barred Rocks. 3000Chicks. 
4500 Eggs, w eekly. Circular: A. B. HALL, WeMinglord. Coon 
l-f atrViincx Ecrcr* Miss O° ri contest winning 
naicning J-.ggS Barron strain S. C. White 
Leghorns. Trap-nested mothers averaged 25 
eggs during the coldest winter months. Every¬ 
thing guaranteed. NELSON DEWEY. Middleport, N. Y. 
BUFF ROCKS 
POLLY GOLD DUST 
Bred to lay. 1st Prize Pens Fulton Fair, 1918. $1.50 
dozen. N. WATT, R. 4, Fulton, New York 
Whitp P nnlt P.ni'ltprplc ,tr * ,n ? * 5 * e kes, $2 per is ; 
nniiei.OCKUOCKerBIS soper 100 . 90* fertile. Chicks. 
$20 per 100. A. G. SCOFIELD, Green Haven. N. Y. 
om 
e e 
Hatching Ftroc utility stock White Leghorns, 
ndlbillllg tsgo 88 per hundred. Nine years 
in imsinees. C. CHRISSOS EGG FARM, Box 5, Groton . Conn. 
For Sale- White Eggs Only ^ 
range stock. Single Comb Black Minorcas. 15 for 
$ 2 50, prepaid: 100 for $10, VERN BEYEA, Dundee. N. Y. 
S. C. BLACK MINORCA Eggs for Hatching 
$1.50-15; 98—100, G. C. Miller, R, Wo. 1, Oxfo rd, N. J. 
Hatehintr Free Farm Range Birds. Rocks. Reds. 
Ilallflllllg Wyandottes, Leghorns. H a m b u r g s, Aneo- 
nas. Bralnnas. etc. Also Turkeys. Ducks, Geese and Bel¬ 
gian Hares. Catalog Free. H. A. SDU0ER. Box 29. Sellersdlle, Pj. 
HATCHING EGGS 
from lioot-Barron Single Comb White Leghorns at 
$« per 100. ROOT'S POULTRY FARM, Rider s Mills. N. Y. 
S. C. Brown Leghorns 
SILVER CAMPINE EGGS SSVNWa 
heavy-laying hens. THE kfePIIERSON Ka KM. JliUincton. N. J. 
BUFF ROCKS—Stock—Eggs. FIELD Somers, Ct. 
Geese-Fine African Ganders For Sale, S8 
W AGER-SMITH, - Upper Darby. Pa. 
Bourbon Red Turkey Eggs FL»HA*tU>UMXti, Onego, N.Y 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs * r 5 10 
R. C. Red and B. P. R. Eggs, S3 per 15. Shropshire 
Sheep. H. ,1. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Penn. 
For Sale-HATCHING EGGS 
from prize-winning Giant Mammoth Bronze Stock, 
safely packed, 50c. each. 
Mrs. C. 31. COLE, - Eastport, Long Island 
For Sale White Holland Turkey Eggs ® fi 10 
PEACH RIDGE STO CK FARM, R. F. D. No. «, Newburpb, N. Y. 
White Chinese Goose EGGS 
40c each by express. Nothing sent by Parcel Post. 
GEO. E % HOWELL, Spruce Farm, Howells, N. Y. 
irrynoek 
N. J. 
moth White Holland Turkey Eggs 
Toulouse Geese 
EGGS 50o each. 
REGER FRUIT FARMS, Flanders, N. J 
bred to lay. Day-old chicks and 
HUGH PATTERSON, 
hatching eggs. 
Clayton, N. Y. 
MAKE MONEY Raising Rabbits 
Pedigreed Flemish giants. New Zealand reds and Belgian 
hares, rui Itll.Mli lUliHITIIT. lu.i Auroi«. New York 
Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs 
for HATCHING, from certified, pedigioed stoek. 
M. J. OUACKENBUSH, . Nutley, N. J. 
White CORNISH 
Eggs. $3 per 15; $5 per 30. L. J. SMITH. Deep Sixer. Com., 
Light Brahmas Only i2£-ttVSSS! 
100—88. lUl-T.uk ilUt.Nli.15 UliH, JiOUFOLK, CO NX. 
