Vte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 17, 1919 
8C''. 
The tale of 
a dead chick 
The old saying that dead 
men tell no tales does not apply 
to chicks. Dead chicks usually 
tell an unmistakable tale of 
wrong feeding. 
H-O 
Steam-Cooked Chick Feed 
has built its success on the 
knowledge that baby chicks 
have only a fighting chance 
for life when given a diet of 
raw feed. 
Many a successful poultry- 
raiser thanks H-0 Steam- 
Cooked Chick Feed for the 
i important part it has played 
in bringing chicks to maturity. 
It builds large frames and 
makes vigorous, lively chicks— 
because the nutriment can be 
assimilated from the third day. 
We claim for this feed noth¬ 
ing except that it works with 
Nature instead of against her. 
And now H-0 Steam-Cooked 
Chick Feed comes in a new, handy 
5-lb. carton. Durable, space-sav¬ 
ing and just the right size to feed 
with. Look for the blight yellow 
5-lb. package. 
Your dealer can get it for you. 
Write for free sample, 
prices and descriptive folder. 
THE H-O COMPANY 
FEED DEPARTMENT 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Members U. S. Food Administration 
License No. G-12996 
John J. Campbell. Eastern Sales Agent, Hartford,Conn. 
FOR SICK CHICKENS 
Preventativo nnd curative of colds, roup, canker, swelled 
ys: "Haveused Germoz.pne l?yrs. for chickens and could 
not net along without it," Goo. F. Vickerman, Rockdale, 
N. Y., says: Have used Gcrmozono 12 years; the best for 
bowel troubles I ever found." Frank Sluka, Chicago. Ill., 
—"* k ——*'—* ’ — : - 1 - u: - 1 -j in tne3yrs. 
Moline, Ill.; 
_ _ _ Bernard Horn- 
Ipg, Kirksville, Mo., Bays: "Cured my puniest chicks this 
f pnngr." 1 Ralph Worst, Erie. Pa , say?: "Nota case of 
phite diarrhoea i n 3 yrs. I raise over a thousand a year. ’ ’ 
Good also for rabbits, birds, pet stock, 
GERMOZONE is Bold generally at drug and seed stores. 
Don't risk a substitute. Wemail from Omaha postpaidlin 
new 23c, 75c andfl.COsizes. Poultry books free. 
CEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. «»3 _ OMAHA, WEB- 
Giant Bronze Turkey Eggs p ® r ® 0 
R. (1. Red and B. P. R. Eggs, S3 per 15. Shropshire 
Sheep. H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, l’enii. 
Pearl Guinea Eggs T,ll - ty 
L. O. QUIGLEY, 
_ * 3 
Goshen, N. Y. 
30 Selected PEARL GUINEAS 
at $3 each. SINCLAIR SMITH, 23 Jacob St . New York. N.Y. 
White Chinese Goose EGGS 
40c each by express. Nothing sent by Parcel Post. 
GEO. E. HOWELL, Spruce Farm, Howells, N. Y r . 
HUMMER S Famous Winter-Laying Varieties 
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list of the most profitable chicks to buy. 
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now to insure prompt delivery. PARADISE 
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TIFFANY’S 
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CHICKS 
SILVER AND WHITE WYAN00TTES, WHITE. 
BUFF AND BARRED ROCKS, S C R I. 
REDS. WHITE LEGHORNS PEKIN AND 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKLINGS AND EGGS. 
Aldharn Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoeniiville, Pa 
ChlfilrC *«(l cafe delivery guaranteed. S. C. White 
wlllvno , lI1( j Brown leghorns and Barred 1’. Rooks. 
Catalog Free. THE CYCLONE IliTCHEKY, Hilloritowu, l‘». 
The Henyard 
Profits from a Small Flock 
When I decided to leave the farm and 
go to live with my daughter in the city, 
ns I had bred and cared for live stock of 
all kinds. I felt that I would be lost with¬ 
out something to care for. Poultry 
seemed to be the only thing possible, so I 
built an SxlO-ft. house and a run 10x12 
ft, and brought a few It. I. Reds with me. 
They lmd to be kept confined most of the 
time, and as they did so much better than 
I expected the first year, and as a great 
many were quitting on account of the 
high price of feed, l thought 1 would keep 
a strict account with them last year. I 
found that although feed of all kinds was 
excessively high they have returned a neat 
profit. We sold a few eggs for hatching 
at 10c each, hut the hens were credited 
with the market price only. I have made 
no charge for the time spent in caring for 
them, as the pleasure of having eggs that 
we knew were perfectly fresh at any time 
we wanted them, and chicken dinners 
whenever desired, was sufficient pay for 
the care. 
We had a good supply of lawn clippings 
and some green stuff from the garden dur¬ 
ing the Summer, and after the few rows 
of potatoes were dug we raked in some 
Dwarf Essex rape seed which furnished a 
good supply of green feed during the Fall 
and early Winter. The account stands 
like this: The hens were inventoried at 
$1.50 each on January 1. 1018 which was 
their market value at that time. The 
cockerel we got from one of the best- 
laying flocks in the country at a cost of 
$4. and as we are using him again this 
year he is listed at the same price. The 
hens are appraised January 1. 1010. at $2 
each, as they were worth that price in 
the market this Winter. The cockerel is 
listed at $3; would not bring that in the 
market, but he is a very fine one, and 
would readily sell for that price. We set 
two liens in May and hatched 20 chicks. 
They were all put in the care of one lien, 
and she raised 18 of them. She was out 
of the laying flock about three months. 
We commenced killing some of the broody 
liens in June, so we only averaged 15 
hens in the laying flock for the entire year 
and got an average of 145 eggs per hen. 
We find that the entire 18 made an aver¬ 
age net profit of .$3.63 per hen : 
JANUARY 1, 4018 
18 hens and pullets. 
1 cockerel . 
i on/i iLo 
.. 4.00 
102 lbs. clover. 2.75 
115 lbs straw. 1.05 
30 lbs. grit. -40 
24 leg bands.20 
Interest on investment (poultry 
.$31; bouse, .$26 1 . 3.42 
'T’ot-il . 
JANUARY 1. 1010 
18 bens and pullets. 
.. .$36.00 
1 cockerel ..... 
. . 3.00 
. 
0 cockerels sold. 
1 load of manure. 
.. 8.75 
1.00 
qvxfui . .. # . . . . 
80.82 
No eggs were sold for less than 40e per 
doz.. and from that up to 72c per doz. 
These figures surely show that hens can 
he kept on a city lot at profit. 
Chemung Co., N. Y. A. xi. PRINCE. 
Up-to-date Henhouse 
I am anticipating building a chicken 
house. I low should I build the latest, 
most up-to-date house? J. T * 
The following specifications for a build¬ 
ing to house from 200 to 250 fowls are as 
up-to-date as I know how to make them. 
Utility and economy are of first con¬ 
sideration. This building will be 1Sx40 
ft. in size. Eight feet in front: 5 ft. in 
the rear. It will face the southeast. The 
ends and rear wall will be windtight, and 
preferably of matched stuff placed ver¬ 
tically. The floor will be of concrete. On 
a good sub-base, it needn’t be thick. There 
will he hut one pen. About one-third of 
the front will he in glass. The windows 
will reach from within two feet of the 
floor pretty nearly to the. plate. The 
sashes will be simply set in place and 
will drop back a few inches from the 
top for ventilation. V-shaped “hopper 
sides” will force the air to enter over 
the top of the sash. In warm weather, 
the entire indow will he removed. The 
roof will be either single or double slope: 
if the latter, the short span will he in 
front. The roof boards will be covered 
with n good grade of prepared roofing. 
The perches will be in the rear of tin* 
building and there will be no droppings 
boards. A wide board set on edge well 
in front of tin* perches and upon the con¬ 
crete floor will keep the litter from being 
scratched hack into the droppings beneath 
the perches. Interior fittings will all be 
removable and will be as few and simple 
as possible. Large galvanized water pails 
set in orange crates upon the floor will 
hold the drinking water. Other crates, 
covered, with the upper front slat left off 
for entrance, and tacked to the walls, will 
serve as nests. m. b. d. 
Clipping White Leghorn Chicks 
Ts it advisable to clip wing feathers on 
White Leghorn chicks when growing, 
from eight to 10 weeks old? I am told 
that clipping their feathers will promote 
bodily growth and development. j. ii. 
My experience has been that if flic 
chicken is properly taken care of and has 
the correct amount of feed, properly bal¬ 
anced. its body will grow fast enough for 
its feathers. A chick that is sickly will 
grow wing feathers faster than its’ body, 
but I see no advantage in trimming them. 
New Jersey j. l. Hamilton. 
I have never clipped the wing feathers 
of a Leghorn chick. The cause of droopy 
wings is not an overgrowth of wing, but 
an undergrowth of chick. The best treat¬ 
ment is preventive, i. e.. grow the chicks 
properly and there will he no trouble. To 
the best of my knowledge no Leghorn 
breeders who raise large flocks year after 
year resort to clipping the chicks’ wings. 
I cannot give you any information as to 
its value in promoting growth of chicks 
that are lagging., lmt 1 thing that correct 
feeding, plenty oj range to exercise in, 
shade, and care that prevents crowding 
at night before the chicks learn to roost, 
and plenty of roosting space afterward, 
would do far more than wing clipping in 
raising sturdy Leghorns. 
Connecticut. FRANCIS F. LINCOLN. 
I have never followed the plan of clip¬ 
ping the wing feathers of young Leghorn 
chicks. 1 remember there being consid¬ 
erable discussion regarding the matter in 
some of the papers several years ago. I 
gave up the breeding of White Leghorns 
three years ago, as I found under my 
conditions, all things considered, the Ply¬ 
mouth Rock to be much the more profit¬ 
able fowl. MERRITT M. CLARK. 
Connecticut. 
We do not clip the wing of growing 
Leghorn chicks to promote body growth. 
Judging from nine years’ experience of 
tin 1 writer, who has brooded from 8,000 
to 30,000 Leghorn chicks each season for 
the past seven years, there is hut one way 
to develop the body of a chick, and that 
is by proper brooding and feeding the 
first six weeks of its life. As you know, 
a chick feathers twice, and the clipping 
of the wing feathers does not throw the 
growth to the body like the pruning of a 
tree. A good many people raising Leg¬ 
horn chicks fail to have the body develop 
with the wings. Perhaps this is your cor¬ 
respondent’s trouble. If so. the "little 
but often” feeding method and lots of 
exercise in litter with the aid <>f a well- 
balanced growing mash after they are a 
week old should produce Leghorn chicks 
that hold the wings up to the body and 
the proper development of the body. Start 
with plain rolled oats and skim-milk, be¬ 
ginning with chick grain tin* third day. 
in light litter, increasing depth of litter 
from day to day—cut straw, chaff, or any 
suitable light material not harmful to 
chicks will do, lko a. grouter. , 
Connecticut. 
Hatching Troubles 
Can you give me an idea of what was 
probably the trouble with my last hatch 
of eggs in my incubator? I handled the 
machine (240-egg) just ns during the pre¬ 
vious hatch, when I had excellent success, 
except that I did not test about the eigh¬ 
teenth day. I took out but 46 live chicks 
and left about 35 or 40 dead, and fully 
three-fourths of the rest of the eggs had 
pipped very well. The live chicks were in 
the nursery trays and those in the hatch¬ 
ing trays had just stretched out and died. 
It was not the fault of the eggs, as I had 
good luck with 350 other similar eggs 
hatched in a mammoth machine in a near¬ 
by town to which I shipped the eggs. I'y 
incubator is located in my cellar, which 
has been in no way different from before, 
and as far as I know, the heat, moisture, 
etc., was correct. It looked as though 
some poisonous gas or so etliing similar 
suddenly killed the chicks in the eggs, 
trays, and all chicks which had just start¬ 
ed to get their hills out of the shells. 
West Cornwall, Conn. E. b. s. 
One guess is that the action of the ther¬ 
mostat was interfered with in some way 
so that lhi‘ temperature suddenly rose to 
a great height at the level of the trays, 
but not sufficiently high in (lie nursery 
chamber to kill (lie chicks there. Before 
using the machine again an examination 
should also be made of the heat conduct¬ 
ing pipes, to see that no opening admit¬ 
ting lamp fumes to the egg chamber had 
formed. If the thermostat of a ma¬ 
chine hangs close to the eggs it is pos¬ 
sible to get one so crowded under it when 
shoving a tray into place that it cannot 
expand properly. This, of course, would 
permit of a fatal rise in temperature in 
the machine. M. is. n. 
“If I draw my own will I’ll do you out 
of a fee. I suppose?” "Not at all.” said 
the lawyer; “not at all. When the con¬ 
test comes my fee will be 10 times as 
much.”—Kansas City Journal. 
Ring Necked Pheasants 
Lay 40 to 50 eggs each per year. Wh- raise 
chickens to eat when these are much more 
profitable and raised as easily? Weigh 3 
pounds at six months, and bring .JH*;:. a 
pound in the market. Set the eggs under 
chickens—feed and care for the young ttie 
way you would chickens. Are economical as 
they only require one-lmlf as much 
food. Are very hardy and not subject to 
disease. Best eating bird in America. Tfiggss- 
guaranteed from vigorous, healthy unre¬ 
lated stock. $ 6.00 for 15 eggs 
35.00 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 seuii-wild 
strain. $ ft.OO for 15 eggs 
25.00 lor 100 eggs 
Giant Bronze Turkeys 
Have a wonderful flock, headed by prize- 
winning 65 lb. torn 
$1.50 per egg. 
Bloomfield S. C. Rhode Island 
Red Chickens 
Fine laying strain of prize birds. 
$5.oo for 15 eggs. 
25.00 for 100 eggs. 
Get order in early and send 
check witli it. Send for free 
booklet and Instructions 
Bloomfield Farms 
1722 Penobscot Bldg. 
Detroit Michigan 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for ntocklngr purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes. Storks, Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks nnd Geese, Bears, Foxes, Knc- 
coon, Squirrels, nnd all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM.J. MACKENSEN. Naturalist. Dept. 10, Yardlcy. Pa 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns 
R. & S. C. R. I. Reds 
Park B. Rocks 
PUREBRED, 
-*■ Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sodus, N. Y. 
Baby 
Chicks 
Buck’s Barred Rocks 
•till lend the 40 pens in the American class at Vino- 
land International Egg Laying and Breeding contest 
at the end of the 120th week. Won special premium 
given by N. 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, 
1010. Eggs from old birds selected for heavy egg 
production mated to 272 and 278-egg cockerels, $4 
for 15; S20 per loo. Eggs from yearlings, same 
strain, S3 for 15; 918 too. Nothing sold but what 
wo raise on our own farm. No baby chicks. 
GARRET W. BUCK. - Colts Neck. N. J. 
PARKS WINTER LAYING 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Won at Storrs. Northern American. 
Canadian and Missouri Laying Con¬ 
tests. Made the remarkable winter 
contest record of 134 eggs (5 birds) 
in Jan. Over 22 lbs. of favorable 
reports from customers. Gen’ICir. 
FREE. Most instructive catalog so 
far printed 25c, it is returnable. 
I. W. PARKS. Box V ALTOONA, PA. 
K 6 O 6—“ Perfect Ion ” Itnrreil Keeks (Kinglets) 
Pens carefully mated and guaranteed to produce birds of 
show room quality; $5 per setting; 3 settings for 513. From 
thoroughbred utility stock, 52 per setting; 3 settings for 
$5. Parcel post paid. Cockerels, “ Ringlets," at real bargain 
prices. 55,57.50. 510 and SIS. Or. 0£0.T. HITMAN. Ooylcstonn,Pi. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Hatching eg as from trap nested liens bred for heavy 
laying. J. F. Franculs, Weatliunipton ltcnch, N.Y. 
Rhode Island Whites 
HarveyA Drew's famous strain now owned by Pequol PoultryFarm 
at the Mountain Grove, Mo., National Egg Laying 
contest in 1916-17, pen 19 layed 1,130 eggs, every lion 
laving over 200. In 1917-18 pen 49 layed 1,125 eggs. 
Again every hen passed the 2t)0 mark. Rose and 
Single Comb. Mating list now ready. 
Pequot Poultry Farm Southport, Conn. 
S. C. R. I. REDS 
Vibert 231 to 251-egg strain. Egg-*. $10 per 100; Baby 
chicks, $25 per luo. Circular. 4 hens and 1 cock, •1.5. 
ANNA M. JONES. Craryville. New York 
irl. I- JHL 111 H> S grande 
father knows them” for their meat and egg production. 
Eggs, $2.40 per 16. FRANK del CANTO, Btonehouae, N. Y. 
Mahogany REDS* B f MKlf|| 
Colored Rhode Island Reds. Breeders selected many 
years for their persistent Fall and Winter lay¬ 
ing. EGGS. 52 50 for 15; S7 for 50; $12 for 100. Write 
for circular. C. QtlACKENBUSH, Ban 800, Oarien. Conn. 
CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS 
S.f. White Leghorns, It [.Reds, Barred Rooks. 3000Chicks. 
4.500 Eggs, weekly, (’ileulm A. a. H«U, Wallingford. Cons 
P oo»c for Malekinrr Ihirred P- Rooks, Black Minor- 
c 6b s TOT naicnmg Highest Class exhibition 
birds. 15 eggs. $2. El,LIT. STOCK FARM, R I, Oneida, N. V 
Single and Rose Comb White Minorcas 
Eggs for hatching. $2 25 for 12. sent parcel post 
BU KDKTTK SMITH, Bo* 848. Hurt ford, Conn. 
