The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
671 
Ring Necked Pheasants 
Lay 40 to 50 eggs each per year. Why raise 
chickens to eat when these are much more 
profltable and raised as easily? Weigh 3 
pounds at six months, and bring $1.00 a 
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.half as much 
food. Are very hardy and not subject to 
disease. Best eating bird in America. Eggs 
guaranteed from vigorous, healthy unre¬ 
lated stock. $ 0.00 for 15 eggs. 
36.00 lor 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 they 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 
Buck’s Barred Rocks 
still lead the 40 pens in the American class at Vine- 
land Intel national Egg Laying anil Breeding contest 
at tlie end of the 120th week. Won special pivmium 
given by N T . J. State Dept, of Agriculture on old male 
for best utility bird in American class at New Jersey 
State Championship Show held at Trenton, January, 
1019. Eggs from old birds selected for heavy egg 
production mated to 272 and 278-egg cockerels, S4 
for 15; $20 per 100. Eggs from yearlings, same 
strain. $3 for 15; $15 100 . Nothing sold but what 
we raise on our owu farm. No baby chicks. 
GARRET W. BUCK. - Colts Neck, N. J. 
Park’s and Thompson B. R. Chix n £ nTtT/k*. 
Mar., 18c; Apr., 17c; May, 16c. S. C. R. I. Reds, Feb. 
and Mar., 20c; Apr., 18c; May, 17c. (English S. C. 
W. Leghorn, lac; Hatches weekly.) Parcel Dost me- 
pai 1. MAPLES WHITE LEGHORN FARM, R. F. 0., Telford. Pa. 
E <i O “ Pertectionllnrred Itoelcs (Kinglet- 
Pens carefully mated and guaranteed to produce birds of 
showroom quality: $5 per setting; 3 settings for $ 12 . From 
thoroughbred utility stock. $2 per setting; 3 settings for 
$5. Parcel postpaid: Cocktrcli. " Ringlets." at real bargain 
prices, *5. $7.50, $10 and $15. Or. GEO. T. HITMAN, Doylestawn. Pi 
Barred Roc k ^ Thompson’s Strain 
Ddrruu BUCRb Direct. Exhibition 
matings. Either light or dark. Eggs, 15—$5- 100— 
$20. Utility. 15— $3; 100—$15. I’arkes’ heavy-lay in" 
strain, 15—S3: 100-S15. I H BAC0RN Seroeantsville, N. J. 
BarredL H-OCliS 
Eggs for hatching. 58 per 100. 1 lay-old chicks. STB per 
00. A. C. JONES. Marvel Homestead Farm, Georgetown, Del. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Hatching eggs from trap nested hens bred for heavy 
laying. J. F. Fruncui-. Wc-thumpton lteac-h, V Y 
Buff Wyandottes 
Hatching eggs a specialty. One, two, or three dol¬ 
lars, settings of lifteeu. Folder. 
Mrs. Worthington Holcomb. New Hartford, Conn. 
HATRHINRFGGS Martins White Wyandottes, 
nAlblllHU CUUd Kinglet Haired Rocks, R. I. Reds! 
White Leghorns. Anconns. $8 per 100. Orders filled 
promptly. SUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM, Copper Hill. N. J. 
Tom Barron’s 2 I 8 T | 6 A # , E N fl 9 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. Day-old chicks. $15 
per 100. Hatching eggs. $6 per 100. .Safe delivery 
and satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 
PATTERSON POULTRY FARM, - Clayton , N. Y. 
S. C. Brown Leghorns 
bred to lay. Day-old chicks ami hutching eggs. 
HUGH PATTERSON, - Clayton, N. Y. 
ElmoraFarm S. C. White Leghorns 
Day-old chicks. Airedale puppies Circular free, 
Elmore Farm, R 3. Bax 116. Briilgeport, Conn. 
Single Comb While Leghorn Eggs 
for HATCH 1N11, from certified, pedigreed stock. 
M. J. QUACKEN151ISH, - Nutley, N. J. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns KwE. 1 *' 
strain. Eggs, $2 per 16. KKI NII «fc SON, Milton. Vermont 
simple type. A good grade of prepared 
roofing upon roofs of scant pitch is more 
satisfactory than shingles. The floor may 
be of dirt, boards or concrete, the latter 
being most durable and satisfactory. A 
center post will probably be required to 
support two-piece rafters for a building 
of this depth, but is not objectionable. 
2. If the expense does not forbid, a 
concrete pigpen should certainly be con¬ 
sidered desirable. For Summer use alone, 
however, a much more inexpensive 'build¬ 
ing of wood should serve the same pur¬ 
pose. M. B. D. 
Infertile Eggs 
fan you tell me what is the matter 
with a pen of 14 it. I. Reds whose eggs 
are infertile? Hens Avere bred in Fall 
of l!*l!l; rooster is a good one, bred 
Spring of 1917. I hatched from same 
hens last August and September with an¬ 
other rooster, and they hatched well. I 
am rather discouraged, as I mated them 
the middle of January and up to date 
have put 110 under hens and only 13 
were fertile. .j. q. a. H. 
Massachusetts. 
Some experiments have shown that 
eggs from three-year-old hens are su¬ 
perior to those from younger ones, from 
both standpoints of hatchability and 
vigor. Whether this holds generally true 
or for a later period than three years of 
age. I do not know. My own experience 
with hens over three years of age, while 
limited, has not been satisfactory. A 
small pen of such hens mated with a 
cockerel last season gave very poor re¬ 
sults. It is often a difficult matter to 
assess the responsibility for poor hatches 
to the proper factor, or factors. Your 
own observations are interesting and valu¬ 
able and I am not able to add anything 
to them. m. b. d. 
Electric Egg Tester 
In hatching several thousand chicks 
each Spring we have greatly shortened 
the work of testing the eggs by using an 
electric light. There are electric-light 
testers on the market, but ive have found 
one can make a tester which is many 
times cheaper and even more satisfactory. 
Take a piece of very heay opaque paper, 
hardly as heavy as cardboard, 12x12 
Testing Eggs with Electric Light 
inches, having one side finished pure 
\\ bite. Make this into a cone, white side 
in. with opening in the small end seven- 
eighths of an inch in diameter, and open¬ 
ing in large end five inches across. In¬ 
sert the electric light bulb into this cone 
and hold the cone in one hand.*passing 
the small end over the eggs, putting it 
down over large end of each egg, as it 
lies in the incubator egg-tray. In this 
way one candles from four to six eggs 
in time it takes to pick up one egg and 
hold up to a lamp. w. H. w 
Orland, Cal. 
rnin/C s - F. W. Leghorns, 1 
I H II M ^ Moiit-v i efundeii foriicm 
LHILIIJ „ A LAirvKlt, McJ 
S. C. W. Leghorns, lie.; Rocks, 14c. 
pad chicks. Cir. t ree. 
■All-tcrvlllc, l*a. 
Wy 
-Har Chicks s . B c f^ value 
Vhite Leghorns 
Trapnested stock. Kggs, chicks. 
WY-HAR POULTRY FARM, Denton, Md. 
S. C.W. Leghorn Chicks m.* ££KVi e l 
While Rock. $1-. Reds. $17. Mii v and June. Parcel post 
prepaid M API.ES WHITE I.KUIIOKN FA KM, R. F. D.. Telford, Pa. 
• ■ Prompt shipments by pnreel post prepaid 
(.flicks an< * safo delivery guaranteed. S. C. White 
wiiiviav UIll | |t,-own Leghorns and llarred P. Rocks 
Catalog Free. THE CYCLONE HATCHKHY, llillcrstoiTii, l'a. 
American Poultry Almanac ^’r E 1 E. cat Ho 0 w 
we breed the 300 egg hen. Plain scientific facts. 
Hotc we win medals at the tgg-lauing contests 
HOPEWELL FARMS, Box R. Hopewell, N. J. 
Rohu flhinLo 10.000 each weak; 20 varieties; utility and 
DdUj UllibKS e x H i b i t i o n stock ; list free; Toulouse 
Geese. Stamps appreciated. SPENCER HXTCHERT. Spenc.r, Ohi, 
200,000 CHICKS For 1919 
Seven varieties. Also Brooders—300 ;to 1,000 chick 
capacity—#14.50 to $130 each. Catalogue free. 
Keystone Hatchery, Dept. II, Richfield, Ta. 
Feeding Sugar to Bees 
T have a hive of bees that feel pretty 
light. I fed them a few days ago eight 
teacups of sugar dissolved iu water. How 
much more ought I to feed them? 
Holliday, Mo. w. s. j. 
The amount of syrup—equal parts by 
measure of granulated sugar and water— 
that this colony will need depends, of 
course, upon its size and the amount 
already within the hive. These I do not 
know, but you have probably fed about 
four pounds of sugar, or eight of syrup, 
and. if the season iu your locality is 
approaching that of honey flow, it. would 
seem as though that should be sufficient 
for any colony strong enough to winter 
thus far and take this syrup readily. 
Weak colouies may be stimulated iu the 
Spring and brought to full size by the 
time honey is coming in by feeding a 
little of this syrup, perhaps a half pint, 
each day by means of an entrance feeder. 
This steady supply of provisions, which 
should be kept up until natural stores 
can take its place, stimulates the queen 
to laying and encourages brood rearing, 
as a natural honey flow would do. It 
would not do, of course, to start brood 
raising in this way and then discontinue 
the needed supply of food before the 
nectar of the fields became available to 
the bees. m. b. d. 
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 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 
rrre For Hatching and 
tullJ Day-Old Chicks 
Hatching: eggs from fully matured, 
carefully mated farm raised birds, se¬ 
lected for their prolific laying 1 quali- 
ties and vigor. We can supply eggs in 
any quantity, in season, from ourmat- 
tng'S of, Single Comb White Leghorns, 
White and Barred Plymouth Rocks* 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
We can supply in any quantity from 
single CombWhite Leghorns; in limit¬ 
ed quantities from White and Barred 
Plymouth Rocks. 
Write for Price List 
BRANFORD FARMS, CROTON, CONN. 
MATTITUCK 
White Leghorn Farm 
One Object Only—To Produce 
Ue^vy-Luying 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 docks 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. 
Breeding Stock 
Hatching Eggs 
WHITE LEGHORN POULTRY 
Baby Chick Capacity 
1000 Weekly 
THE HOMESTEAD FARM 
G. O. & R. O. Knapp, Props. 
LITTLE BRITAIN, N. Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Severe culling during 1918 has produced superior 
breeding stock. Sturdy Chicks from free range 
stock offered at the folio wing prices; 
March Chicks. 25 cents each 
April Chicks - 20 cents each 
May Chicks - IS cents each 
Hatchms Esks, S0o„ fertility euaranteed. $10.00 per hand. 
Order from this “ad.”—our business is to sell Breed¬ 
ing Stock, Hatching Eggs and Chicks rather than 
expensive catalogues and literature. 
Single CombWhite Leghorns Exclusively 
BARRON STRAIN OF HEAVY WINTER LAYERS 
3,000 select Breeders on free farm ranee—the finest 
I ever owned. All breeders inoculated and free from 
lice. Eggs for hatching now ready in anv quantity. 
Now booking orders for Baby Chicks—March ami 
April delivery. Capacity. 10 to 12,000.weeklv. Order 
well in advance this year as there is only'half the 
usual, number of breeders in the country. My book, 
“ Profits in Poultry Keeping Salved," free with all $10 or¬ 
ders. Circular free. EDGAR BRIGGS. Box 75. Pleisint Valley. N. I. 
Ferris WhitcLcghorns 
A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17 year's, rec¬ 
ords from 200 to 264 eggs. Get our prices on pullets 
and yearling bens, breeding males, eggs for hatching, 
and day-old chicks. We ship C. O. 1). and guarantee 
result- Catalog gives prices; describes stock, tells all 
about uiir farm and methods; results you can get by 
breeding this strain. Send for your copy now—it is 
^ llt - GEORGE B. FERRIS, 935Union, Grand Rapids, Mich 
“Do you ever talk about things you 
don’t understand?’’ "Yes,” admitted Sen¬ 
ator Sorgum. “Might as well. No use 
putting in my life listening to other 
people talk about things they don’t under¬ 
stand.”—"Washington Star. 
Hickory Grove Leghorns 
Vigorous. Utility S. C. Whites of large size and heavy laying ability 
Farm bred, on free range; entire flock milk fed. 
Estss now bringing 2c. above quotations on open 
market iu New York City on account of size and 
color. Flock of 450 averaged $4.95 during 1918. Mat¬ 
ing* cockerels with yearling and two-.vear-old hens. 
Satisfaction guaranteed; references if desired. 
hatching; EGGS $7 PER hundred 
HICKORY GROVE FARM, - Rushville, N. Y. 
Eggs ft “JS S. C. W. Leghorns 
and an ^ kedi at Moderate Prices 
Our Leghorns ar e bred for egg production 
AL* I and deliver the goods. Safe deliver v and 
(.DICKS satisfaction guaranteed. Cir. tree. Write 
w today. C. M. L.nseaccker, lax 50, ElizikelhtOMn. Pa 
Tom Barron’s Leghorns JrfmUMK 
One of tire most intensive breeding plants in ti.-» 
country. Eggs—chicks. Write tor circular. WILLOW 
BROOK POULTRY FARM, Allen H. Bulkley. Prop., Odessa, N Y. 
99 
“LADY VICTORY 
f 1918 CHAMPION ^ 
Lays 304 Eggs per year 
In Egg Competition 
S. C. W. Leghorns White Wyandottes 
S. C. R. /. Reds 
“World’s Champion Layers” 
Our Certified Contest Records are PROOF 
Lady Victory, our S. C.W.Legliorn hen, wins High¬ 
est Honors in American Egg Laying Contest, at 
Leavenworth, Kansas. Average 25 eggs per month 
during coldest Winter known for98years. Figureout 
for yourself how layers like these will increase your 
profits. Together with her four sisters, her pen laid 
4133 eggs,winning three silver cups and high honors. 
Our entry of five Wyandotte hens in the preceding North 
American Egg Laying Competiti on. won First Prize and 
Three Sliver Cups. These hens laid 1165 eggs, having these 
high individual records; 294-267-221-220 eggs. Contest under 
government supervision. 
Our Champion Wyandotte hen ‘‘Liberty Bel!” laid 294 
eggrs, winning first prize and cup, and establishing World's 
Highest Official Wyandotte Record. Her sister laid 267 
eggs, winning third prize and cup against 500 competitors. 
Merely another proof of our success in breeding 200-egg 
layers. Other competition winnings: 
Reds— Highest awards, in their class, N. A. Contest, five 
hens laying 1043 eggs, an average of over 200 eggs per hen. 
Highest official Red Record known. 
HATCHING EGGS 
FINE COCKERELS 
BABY CHICKS 
BREEDING STOCK 
Write today for 
copy of “The 
Story of the 200- 
Egg Hen,” con¬ 
taining pictures of 
our competition winners, 
plans of trapnest, feeding 
formulas and other val¬ 
uable information that 
will increase your egg yield. 
Price 10c, deducted from your 
first order. 
THE PENNA. POULTRY FARM 
Box P, Lancaster. P a 
Most 
Profitable 
Poultry 
Known 
For Hatching and Eggs 
Day-Old Chicks S. C. W. LEGHORNS Exclusively 
Hatching eggs from 2-year-old hens and fully ma¬ 
tured pullets, carefully mated with 225 to 240 
cocks. Heavy winter layers of large white eggs" 
Have your orders booked for chicks well in ad¬ 
vance. Cockerels, $3 to $10 each. Hatching eggs' 
$10 per 100. Day-old chicks, $20 per 100. 
OAK GROVE POULTRY FARM, Calverton. L. t„ N. Y; 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
CERTIFIED WHITE LEGHORNS 
Day-old Chicks, $25 per LOO 
Hatching Eggs, $15 per 100 
This pen was selected from a large flock by an expert 
from Cornell University. 
I. DAVITT VILLAGE FARM POESTENXILl, ». V. 
QUEENSBURY WHITE LEGHORNS 
*4Sa . , 'Barron Foundation) 
<0 .9 High producing winter layers tnat will 
^ multiply your profits. We guarantee 87°b 
I ij J fertility in our eggs. Oureliicks arestrong 
t* V ? and easy to raise. Descriptive folder full of 
1 0) worth-while information free on request. 
OUEEMSBURT FARMS A, 
BARRON ENGLISH LEGHORNS 
Chicks at S14 per 100; S65 perSOO; future or imniedi- 
late special delivery. 5,000 each week. Order now 
High egg bred stock most profitatde and persistent 
layers. Laying Contests winners. Valuable catalogue 
free. Vale Leohorn Farm, Q. Devries, Owner. Zeeland, Mich 
Utility White LEGHORNS 
heavy.laying strain: line bred for the last 
eleven years for egg production, late moulting, size 
and vigor. Day-old chicks and hatching eggs 
forsale. Circular on request. 
liltOA 1> ISKOOK FARM. Bedford Hills, N.Y. 
Quality S. C. W.Leghorn Chicks 
year-old breeders that carry the blood of the famous 
Penna. Poultry Farm strain. These hens are handled 
•specialty to proiince strong, healthy chicks that 
five and grow 815 per 100 for April and May. 
Brook.Side Poultry Farm, Stockton, N. J 
Tom Barron S. C. W. Leghorn Hatching Eggs h f e r a °”; 
laying hens mated with high pedigree cockerels 
we . ek ' S2 P er > 5 - 85* guarantee. 
WRAIGIIT BROS., Cozycroft Poultry Farm, West M illington. Conn 
Stone’s Single Comb White Leghorns 
The strain that cauuot stop laying long enough to 
molt. iNow booking orders for June chicks Hatch¬ 
ing Lggs. ELMER R. STONE, Clyde, N. Y. 
Utility WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hatching Eggs, 810 per 100. Day-old chicks, $30 
per 100. March, April and May delivery, Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. W. AY. WALLACE, HOME- 
WOOD FARM, Pleasantville. Westcbester Co., N. Y 
HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORNS 
Day-Old Chicks and Eggs. Getmy free circular before you 
order chicks, tells why the Black Leghorn is the greatest 
layer.and most profit able breed on ear th,write today. Also 
W lute Leghorn chicks. A. E. HAMPTON, Bax R. Pittstawn, N. J 
White Leghorn Baby Chixs 
from our breeding stock, including Tom Barron 
strain. All farm raised on free range. Utility bred 
clucks, perfectly hatched, easy to raise and started 
right. Delivery guaranteed. Booking orders Cir¬ 
cular. HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, N.Y'. 
Trapnested S. C.W. Leghorns ay c “! 
result of 5 years trap-nesting and scientific breed¬ 
ing. 2 special matings of hens with records 2U1 up 
to 271, and high pedigreed males. All my breeding 
liens have records over 175. 
H. C. Bligh, West Willington, Conn. 
For Sale—S. C. W. LEGHORN-Oak Hill Strain 
Winners in the North American International Eg‘ r 
Laying Competition, 1918. Barron Contest Winners 
for foundation stock. Eggs, Baby (Mucks, Cockerels. 
I ullets. \\ rite your wants. Circular free. We shin to 
any part of the world. OAK HILL ESTATE, Uniontown, Pa 
Trap Nest 
Records 
YLfE have had printed 
’ on cardboard 1134 x 7 
neat and complete trap- 
n e s t record. Printed 
both sides—25 each side. 
Will sen,d 12 for 10c. 
W. F.W., care Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
