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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 25, 1919 
wooden silos Great Hog Fronts 
Tanks—Oak or Cvnress 10'x14' and 14'xlfl 1 and 13'* ^ 
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Tanks—Oak or Cypress 10'xl4' and 14'xlO 1 and 13'x 
12' closed. Cypress tanks 8'x9' open, other small tanks, 
tubs, rubber hose, piping galvanized and wrought. Brewery 
being dismantled—all for sale cheap. Three team bob¬ 
sleds $15 each, f. o. b. cars. Address 
A. M. Stadler, % Manilla Anchor Brewery 
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Salesman on job all day 
For Sain OOlINTItY HOME. 32 Acres, liipli 
r Ul ualO ground, near Newburgh, N. Y.: 16-room dwell¬ 
ing; improvements. FRANK SMITH, 64 Sscnnil SI., Newburgh, N.T. 
VERMONT FARMS 
64—515,000 buys 37 cows. 2 horses, 1.200 sugar trees 
rigged, some lumber, modern buildings and tools, 
will run 45 cows. 
253—43,750 buys 10 cows. 1 000 sugar trees rigged, esti¬ 
mated half enough lumber to pay for farm. 
66—200 acres, 700 sugar trees rigged, extra good 
buildings, lot of lumber. 24 cows, young stock, all 
tools, borders summer lake, 510.000. 
63—168 acres, 1,400 sugar trees rigged, 25 cows, 2 
horses, all tools, good buildings, $85,000. 
All well located near R R. and flood market. Ask about them 
WHITCHER & COBB, HARDWICK. VERMONT 
100 BOND LETTERHEADS Si: 
all prepaid, $1.55. THE SALES MART, Wliltneyvllle, Conic 
POULTRY 
HUMMER S Famous Winter-Laying Varieties 
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SHOW 1,500 reasons why you should have our price 
list of the most profitable chicks to buy. 
K. I». IIIT31 MER ,fc CO., II. H. A, Frenclitown, N. ,J, 
S.C. White LEGHORN CHIX 
and hatching eggs from selected heavy laying hens 
mated to vigorous cockerels tired from 200-260-egg 
dams. Barron strain. Prices very reasonable. Sate 
delivery guaranteed. Send for circular. 
HARRY F. PALMER, Bliddleport, N. Y. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns 
strain. Eggs, *2 per 16. BRUSH A SON, Milton, T.rimmt 
BARRON’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
EGGS FOR 
_ „ HATCHING 
Pullets tor sale from stock imported direct with 
records. E, E. LEWIS, Apalachin, New York 
Single and Rose Comb White Minorcas 
Eggs for hatching. 52.25 for 13, sent parcel post 
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WHITE ROCKS Only 
Pens headed by pedigreed males. Eggs, $2 and $3 
per fifteen. Baby chicks. 25 cents. 
THEO. POOLE, Dept. R, jamesville, N. V. 
Eggs and Baby Chicks. 
Mrs. JESSIE CARLTON, Williamstown, Vermont 
Partridge Rocks 
Unlchinir Ciriro Missouri contest winning Barron strain 
ndiunmg eggs S. O. White Leghorns. Trapnested 
mothers lay 25 eggs during the coldest wintei 
. Hi 
Future deliveries $.">.50 Per 
NELSOM DEWEY, 
mom lis. 
undred. Quality guaranteed. 
Micldleport, New York 
GALLON 
f HusJIes Heavy Hogs lo Market 
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Guaranteed Trial Offer 
barrel, or a barrel Take 30 days — feed half to your 
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Op a riullnn ForfeedingrmixonepartMHkoline 
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1/tnfWs, Ppnfit W.H.Graham,Middleton,Mo.. 
v V /oil UIII writes that lie got an extra $420 
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10 Gals, at Creamery $1.25 per gal.$12.50 
32 “ “ " 1.00 per gal. 32.00 
65 ** .90 per gal.49.50 
No charge for kegs or barrels. 
THE MILKOLINE MFG. CO. 
347 Creamery Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 
Distributors : 
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Campbell, Morrell & Co., Passaic, N. J. 
Frank S. Jones, Lanvale Sta., Baltimore, Md. 
Pure Barron Wyandottes 
World’s best utility breed. 275-egg strain. Eggs, 15 
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Calf Scours 
Save every Calf. High meat and milk 
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Scouring calves indicate a germ infection 
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B-K may be given freely in milk and drink¬ 
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The B-K plan is simple and practical. It is 
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ton F. 0.1!. Baltimore in 
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Quotations on Hardware upon application. 
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91 KIRKIIP’S s - c - White LEGHORN CHICKS 
^ TRAPNESTED STOCK ONLY 
1,000 »-”,r PULLETS 
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STRAIGHT AMERICAN STOCK JBfelSVfaiS 2^SM2S 
WE ?L°T AMP 1 , t0 il? ve all 200-egg liens or stock that were nil bred from 200-ogg hens. 
” E DO CLA IM—* irst: That we have trapnested all stock in their pullet year for 4 full 
years. Second: That every hen in our breeding pens laid from 140 to 225 in piillet year and 
that the average would be well above 150 eggs per hen. Third: Every cock or cockerel in our 
breeding yards were bred from a pen containing breeders with records running from 175 to 225 
eggs per hen, headed by a cock-bird from a 265-egg lien. Fourth: We guarantee a strong 
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We absolutely take your word as to condition upon arrival and make settlement accordingly. 
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KIRKUP BROS. Mattituck, Long Island, New York 
My Experience Preserving Eggs in Liquid 
Glass 
The custom of preserving eggs in liquid 
glass is fast becoming more general. It 
should continue until nearly every family 
lays by eggs for Winter use in this way. 
These eggs, to my mind, are far preferable 
, to cold storage eggs. I have followed the 
custom each season for about, five years 
past and I do not remember that I ever 
had even one egg spoil. It is convenient 
always to have eggs for cooking and bak¬ 
ing purposes. The lack of eggs never 
prevents me, at any time of year, from 
using any recipe I may desire. I often 
serve custards, puddings, ice cream and 
many other dishes at times when I could 
not afford to do so were it not for my 
eggs stored in liquid glass. 
Liquid glass is a colorless, thick fluid 
which may he bought at the drug store. 
One and one-half quarts should preserve 
nearly 30 dozen of eggs. Boil pure water, 
allow it to cool, then pour sii quarts of 
the water to one pint of the liquid glass 
into a stone jar and stir thoroughly with 
a spoon. Place in the cellar where eggs 
may be dropped carefully into the mixture 
iit any time. The top layer of eggs should 
be entirely covered by the liquid. Recipes 
vary as to proportion. I have used one 
quart of liquid glass to nine quarts of 
sterile water; also one to 12. Perhaps 
a ratio of one quart to 10 quarts is as good 
as any. Contact with the solution will 
not injure a spoon nor even one’s hands. 
There is no chemical action upon the eggs 
to cause anyone to fear that they might be 
harmful to eat. 
I have used a tin sap bucket with a 
loosely-fitting tin cover, but the dampness 
of the cellar will rust tin, so I now use 
three-gallon earthen jars with covers to 
fit. It is said that an eight-gallon jar 
may he filled with eggs without the weight 
should he turned twice each day at regu¬ 
lar periods. Introduce a pan of water 
from the fifteenth to the twenty-second 
day, no matter what the location of the 
machine, whether in a damp cellar or in 
a dry room overhead, in a moist atmos¬ 
phere near the seashore or in a dry one 
at an altitude in the country. The tem¬ 
perature may go as high as 104 just pre¬ 
vious to and while hatching, without in¬ 
jury.’ A veteran breeder of ducks upon 
Long Island, .Tames Rankin, in a treatise 
11 pun duck raising, said that he placed a 
moisture pan in the incubator at about 
the eighteenth day. Any incubator should 
be run at the temperatures recommended 
by its manufacturers, as they vary some¬ 
what in construction and the position of 
their thermometers, but 102 degrees for 
the first weeks with hens’ cgg.s has been 
tound best in some carefully conducted 
tests at the Connecticut Agricultural 
penment Station. M< B 
Ex- 
D. 
of the eggs breaking the shells in the bot¬ 
tom. I do not know, but I do know that 
the three-gallon jar is safe. 
Some recipes say eggs, especially if 
fertile, should not be more than two days 
old before preserving them. This require¬ 
ment is neither practical nor necessary. 
Producers cannot market eggs each day, 
but they can and should gather eggs each 
day and store them in a cool, dry place. 
If this is done, eggs ought to be in good 
condition to preserve when they are seven 
days, or even 10 days old. Of course, the 
sooner it can be done the better. If an 
egg sinks in clear water it is fresh enough. 
Another test is to place an egg closely up 
to one end of a cylindrical tube made with 
a piece of cardboard. Then place the egg 
near a lighted lamp or flashlight. If the 
egg looked at through the other end of 
the tube appears light and clear, it is 
fresh. If it is dark it is a stale egg. 
Several times I have preserved eggs 
that 1 have cleaned with a damp cloth. 1 
never put down those which require scour¬ 
ing and washing, but I believe even those 
would keep a long time. If we pre¬ 
served only the eggs which are perfectly 
clean when gathered I fear there would he 
comparatively only a few eggs preserved. 
Our eggs which I have always pre¬ 
served were all fertile. It would he hard 
to secure eggs, especially during the 
hatching season, which are infertile. Any¬ 
one who keeps a flock of hens generally 
keeps cockerels to insure fertilization of 
the eggs for hatching purposes. I have 
preserved eggs in the Spring months, 
and also as late as October, and I could 
see no difference in their keeping. Both 
were satisfactory. The shells should be 
hard, and examined to know they are not 
cracked. 
Recipes given are not always practical to 
follow. A city woman, having read pre¬ 
serving directions, decided to try some 
eggs in liquid glass. She gave her order 
accordingly to a farmer for eggs. Being 
unacquainted with farm conditions, not 
knowing the extra work necessary which 
should demand an extra price, and inex¬ 
perienced. she could not be blamed for the 
order she gave. The order was, “Please 
bring me 20 dozens of eggs, not more than 
two days old. I desire them to hi 1 per¬ 
fectly clean without being washed. I sup¬ 
pose you sell them as cheap as I can get 
them at the grocery? Also, please select 
for me the infertile eggs.” 
New r York. stella m. trapp. 
Duck Eggs in Incubator 
I have had duck eggs in the incubator 
one week with temperature at 103 de¬ 
grees. When should I put moisture in 
the incubator? I have been successful 
with hens’ eggs in incubator, but this is 
my first experience with duck eggs. 
New Jersey. s. a. it. 
I have had no experience with incuba¬ 
tor hatching of ducklings, but quote the 
following from a Department of Agricul¬ 
ture publication : “The machines should 
be run at 102 degrees for the first three 
weeks and 103 the last week. The eggs 
40 
in 
How Turkeys Carry Eggs 
Regarding the inquiry of L. .T. Beachv. 
Maryland, page 633, as a lad of 10. neari.v 
years ago, I used to help mv mother 
the rearing of a flock of turkevs on our 
farm. I have seen “setting” hen turkeys 
mu Ve * 10ir nes ^ s many rods on occasion 
1 he instance cited by Mr. Beachv is not 
uncommon in my knowledge of turkey 
rearage. I have watched them frequently 
transport a nest of 10 or a dozen eggs by 
tucking them closely under their “chin” 
with their heads curled down toward the 
ground. They ruffle up their feathers ou 
the neck, and make a fairly secure pocket 
for the egg. which is held more or less 
firmly by their head. Of course, thev only 
take one egg at a time. They usually do 
tin'll- “moving” just at the close of day • 
or that has been my observation of the 
matter. p. m. tyleb. 
New- York. 
Cannibal Chicks 
I have about 400 White and Brown 
Leghorns, divided in two compartments, 
10x10; age three to five weeks. Their 
living quarters are good; cement floor, 
three to four inches fine sand and Alfalfa 
strewn on it, windows on all sides, plenty 
to eat, with grit and charcoal nearby. 
Lut nevertheless they attack each other, 
and often in tho morning when opening 
the brooder houses I would find them busy 
engaged in. picking the meat off their 
nightly victims. In daytime, when I no¬ 
tice one bleeding I can save it by keeping 
if under a wire cover. Y\ ill von give me 
some advice about it. Are Leghorns dif¬ 
ferent from other chickens to raise? 
Connecticut. MRS. L. p. s. 
. Ton are up against one of the most try¬ 
ing of the problems that little chicks can 
Place before their caretakers. The cun¬ 
ning little innocents hide the most fiendish 
brutality beneath their soft coats of down, 
and it takes only a taste of fresh blood to 
turn them info creatures that would make 
the most hardened shark blush for the rep¬ 
utation of his kind. I have read that a 
piece of salt pork, lning where the chicks 
could pick at it, would satisfy their crav¬ 
ing for blood and prevent cannibalism, 
hut I have never tried that remedy. I 
have, however, been obliged to separate 
chicks into smaller flocks and give them 
an outdoor range before I could stop their 
bloodthirsty attacks upon each other. 
Confinement within doors is the source of 
a thousand ills in chick raising, and get¬ 
ting them out upon sod the most potent 
remedy for a large part of them. My ad¬ 
vice to amateurs is not to hatch chicks 
until tin 1 season will permit of their being 
given an outdoor run before they are two 
weeks old, and then, if possible, to raise 
them upon grass. There is saving grace 
in grass, hut all the imps of ehiekdom 
gather in a dosed brooder house where 
any large number of youngsters are con¬ 
fined. Mature fowls frequently manifest 
the same determination to kill and devour 
each other, and can be deterred only by 
being turned loose in all outdoors. 
M. b. n. 
A Case of Adoption 
In the Summer of 1!)17 a Barred Rock 
hen hatched a fine brood of little ones. 
Before they were 10 days old I went out 
one morning to find the mother hen stone 
dead in her coop. The motherless chicks 
were setting up a great howl, and I was 
in a quandary as to what to do. The 
wired-in runs of the laying pens were 
only a rod or two distant from the coop 
where the little chicks were making such 
a pitiful noise. Behind the wire there 
was another Plymouth Rock hen that was 
greatly concerned at the screeching of the 
chicks. She ran hither and thither, back 
and forth, making a feeble attempt to 
answer the call of the little ones, who 
knew not her “voice.” I noticed her ac¬ 
tions and immediately opened the gate of 
the run and liberated her to watch pro¬ 
ceedings. She ran straight to the mother¬ 
less chicks, answering their call as plainly 
as if human, and took them in charge and 
retired them successfully, and continued 
producing an egg a day during most of 
her “motherhood.” Some people are in¬ 
clined to the belief that chickens have no 
brains ; my experience with them has he 
different many times. p. m t 
Buffalo. N. Y. 
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