The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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PROFIT 
Frnm ^00 linn* 17115 SAME RATE 
rrom ouu nens /$.09 7.10 per hen) 
on smaller florks. Amazing outline oi 
methods, formulas* facta, futures and 
©XpcrieneoH used by the fluceesnful | 
Riven in Hirnple, unable form in the now 
“Libe*-'y Manual of r^lokons." En¬ 
dorsed by Agricultural Commissioners. 
Mail just $1.00 to 
The Liberty Publishing 
Company, 1213 Granlto 
Uldg., Koch os tor, N. Y. 
RABBITS 
IT PAYS TO RAISE 
RufusRed Belgian Hares 
if you arc careful from whom you buy your Foundation 
Stock of any breed, out of six mi l ies in Boston Jan. 15, 
1919 I won three. Muncie, Indiana. Feb., 1919, two prize 
winners. First Sr. and First Jr. buck. 
Owner of Sheabaraclo, Registry No. 4655 
Who heat a English Prize Winning Buck, receiving First 
Prize at Syracuse, N. V. Slate Fair, Sept. 1918. 
Only Pedigreed Registered Stock • Prices Reasonable. 
JOSEPH BLANK, 428 Highland Ave.. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. 
The Delaware Valley Rabbit Farm 
Breeders of High-Grade 
Rufus Reds and New Zealands 
From Pi izo-Winning Registered I’ 
fjiinoi 
_. .. Parents. 
Every Sale Guaranteed to Pleifieor Money 
Back. Get our Juno Gists. 
Address THEO. S. M0ORE 
STOCKTON, N. J. 
ForSale-Belgian Hares-Rabbits 
ONLY FINE STOCK. G-wks old. $1; 2-mo.—3-mo., $2; 
5-mo., $3 each. Pairs not related. Also for sale 
my foundation stock. Does, $7; Bucks. $6—$5). 
RABBIT FARM. ELLING. West Cornwall, Conn. 
ForSale Belgian HARES "'oi' 0 7! 
bred from pedigreed buck. Three Months old, 32 each! 
Breeding age 55 each. TV. II. 0IE6SE, AniUjvflle, I,. 1., N.V. 
Belgian Hares, NewZealand Reds&Flemish Giants 
Young ami old stock at all time*. Pedigreed and utility. 
Stamp for prices* N. S P O O It, It a vena. New Y ork 
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POULTRY 
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Buck’s Barred Rocks 
still lend the 40 pens in Die American class at Vine- 
land International Egg Giying ami breeding contest 
at tile end of the 120tli week. Won special premium 
given hy N. J. State !>ept. of Agriculture on old mule 
for best utility bird in American class at New Jersey 
State Championship Show held at Trenton, January, 
1919. Eggs from old birds selected for heavy egg 
production mated' to 272 and 278-egg cockerels, S4 
for 15; 320 per 100. Eggs from yeai lings, nine 
strain. $3 for 15; SI 5 100 . Nothing sold hut what 
we raise on our own farm. N’o baby chicks. 
GARRET W. BUCK. 
Colls Neck. N. J. 
KG O W— 14 Perieetlon ” Itnrrcd Kook* (Kinglets) 
Pens carefully mated and guaranteed to produce birds of 
showroom quality ; J5 per setting; 3 settings for $ 12 . From 
thoroughbred utility stock. S2 per setting; 3 Bettings for 
S5. Parcel postpaid. Cocker, It, " Rin|ltt»," at real bargain 
prices, J5, 57.50. 510 and SIS. Or. 0E0. T. HAYMAN, Oo.lesionn.Pa 
Barred. R-OCliS 
Laying Hens for Sale. 
A. C. JONES, Marvel Homestead Farm, Georgetown. Delaware 
ori /toi c O nf'l/C Hatching eggs. Also few 
m: 1. dllCclld pens of nig n-r eco r d 
breeders at reduce price. 8 10-wks. cockerels from ped¬ 
igreed pens. JULES F. HU VIA IS, Hampton (leach, NY 
HATCHING 
$7 per 100 
EGGS 
Goodwill's Utility S. C. T) I DU 
White Leghorns. Heavy K d K I 
laying, v i g o r o u s, Free 11 ** * 
range slock. A souare deal $16 per 100 
to all. \ isitors \\ elcoine. munirn 
GOODWIN FARM 
R. D. No. 3. Torrlngton, Ct. 
CHICKS 
HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORNS 
Day-Old Chicks and Eggs. Get my free circular before you 
order chicks, tells why the Black Leghorn is the greatest 
layer,and most profitable breed on cai th,write today. Also 
White Leghorn chicks. A. K. IIOUTON, Box R. Pitistowu. H. J 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds 
and Bnff Wyandot let*. Eggs, 82—15. 
LEON SAGE Crown Point, New York 
Tom Barron’s Leghorns ^TmUeTim 
One of the most intensive breeding plants in the 
country. Eggs—chicks Write for circular. WIL10W 
BROOK POULTRY FARM. Allen H Bulkley. Prop . Odessa N Y, 
Rhode Island Whites 
HarveyA Drew's famous strain now owned byPequotPoultryFarm 
at the Mountain Grove. Mo., National Egg Baying 
contest in 1910-17, pen lit layed 1,130 eggs, every hen 
lay ing over 200. Ill 1917-18 pen 49 layed 1.125 eggs. 
Again every lien passed the 200 mark. ltose ami 
Single Comb. Mating list now ready. 
Pequot Poultry Farm. Southnort, Conn. 
S. C. R. I. R E D S 
Vlbort 231 lo 251-egg strain. Eggs, 58 per 100 ; Baby 
chicks. 525 per 100. 4 liens and 1 cock, $ I 6. 
ANNA M. JONES ■ CRARYVILLE. NEW YORK 
Mahogany REDS ttr.dnoVDark 
Colored Rhode Island Reds. Breeders selected many 
years for their persistent Fall and Winter lay¬ 
ing. EGGS. 52 50 for 15: S7 for 50; 512 for 100. Write 
for circular. C. QUACKENBUSH, Box 800, Darien, Conn. 
'1 P T 1 * TP W *—« •• Your 
XV. »-fcfj _l —9 71 —9 grand¬ 
father knows them ” for their meat and egg production. 
Eggs, $2.50 per 16. FRANK del CANTO, 8tonehou»c, N. Y. 
**• ■ | Prompt shipments by parcel post prepaid 
LHICKS um * f ‘"^ e delivery guaranteed. S. ('. White 
vmvn« and Brown I.eghorns and Barred P. Rocks. 
Catalog Free. THE CYt l.OM: lUTUlKKV, Mlllcrttonn, l-a. 
F^O’O’C for HafeGinir Barred P. Rocks, Black Minor- 
“bo 4 * lUf nalCning cns. iiigliest class eedilbition 
birds. 16 eggs, $2. ELITE STOCK FA KM, R. 1, Oneida, N. Y 
ParfriHofl Rnnltq Er,fiS AKD RAnY Cl,KKS - 
rdl II luge IlUl/KS Mrs. JESSIE CARLTON, Willismtiowu, Vermont 
Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L. Walls 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing ....... 2.00 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York 
THE HENYARD 
Poor Hatching 
I have had a good deal of trouble this 
year in getting my chicks to hatch in in¬ 
cubator. A largo per cent of them died in 
shell just at hatching time. I have been 
told by the manufacturers of my incu¬ 
bator never to apply water to eggs under 
any circumstance where the atmosphere 
is normal. On account of so many chicks 
failing to pip the shell when it is time 
for them to do so, and even a small per 
cent of them dying in the shell after they 
have pipped, I have wondered whether it 
would not be better to apply a little wa¬ 
ter. Tf so, when shall I apply it, and 
how often? w. S. 
Kentucky. 
Experiments made at the Storrs Ex¬ 
periment Station in 1918 indicated that 
the amount of moisture in the atmosphere 
under ordinary conditions was sufficient 
for the needs of the non-moisture hatch¬ 
ing machines. Machines using sand trays 
or other devices for supplying additional 
moisture, should, of course, he run in ac¬ 
cordance with the directions of their manu¬ 
facturers. These machines have ventilat- I 
ing systems that require the use of added 
moisture. Sprinkling the eggs twice daily 
from the sixteenth day until they begin to 
pip with warm water (100 degrees, at 
least), was thought in the experiments 
mentioned to moisten the shell and mem¬ 
branes and aid the chicks in getting out. 
Tt is common practice to keep the floor of 
the hatching room well wetted during the 
hatching period, this for the purpose of 
adding to tin* natural moisture content of 
the air; there is considerable question, 
however, as to the value of the practice. 
If your machines were run under or¬ 
dinary conditions of atmospheric moisture 
and in accordance with the directions of 
their manufacturers, I do not think it 
likely that lack of moisture was respon¬ 
sible for the poor results. Lack of vigor, 
and other untoward conditions, are fre¬ 
quently responsible for such deaths as you 
report. M. B. D. 
Boiled Potatoes for Chicks 
Is it advisable to feed boiled potatoes 
to mouth-old chickens? If so. how must 
they be prepared? I have a lot of small 
potatoes that I wish to feed, but am in 
doubt whether it is good feed for young 
birds. I have in the past used potatoes 
mixed with dry mash for fattening old 
birds and broilers with good results. 
Connecticut. e. j. 
We have often fed boiled potatoes to 
young stock from five days to three 
months old. and have never noticed any 
had effects from this practice, although 
my experience has been mostly Avitli 
chicks on n grass range. If the chicks 
are kept in small enclosures, with not 
much vegetation growing in the runs, 
there would be some danger of the ration 
containing too much starch for best re¬ 
sults. unless a very small quantity of the 
boiled potatoes were used. Potatoes for 
this purpose are usually boiled and al¬ 
lowed to cool before mixing with the 
dry mash. We do not mash the potatoes, 
hut simply cut them in two or three 
pieces. Our practice lias been to feed 
boiled potatoes to young chicks only in 
very limited quantities, as a sort of relish 
or appetizer* and not as an important 
part of the ration. c. s. greene. 
Spraying in Henyard 
In the yard for our chickens we have a 
cherry tree. Would it he dangerous for 
the chickens to spray the tree with some 
mixture, say Bordeaux? o. c. 
Brooklyn. N. Y. 
With a reasonable spraying with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture there would he little or no 
danger. , nine people drench the tree so 
that the drip from it is heavy. There 
would be some danger from that or where 
the spray mixture ran out of the hose 
on tlu* ground. We should keep the hens 
shut in for two days after spraying. 
Duck Eggs in Incubator 
Concerning the question by S. A. H„ 
page 7<‘>0, I would say that we have been 
quite successful in hatching duck eggs in 
the incubator, starting at 1012° for the 
first two weeks and gradually increasing 
the heat to 104° the last few days. To 
moisten the shells we begin sprinkling 
the eggs with lukewarm water once a day 
when turning on the fourteenth day. After 
the third week sprinkle twice a day. and 
also place a basin of water below the egg 
tray the last week or 10 days. There is 
also one point about the hatching which 
I would like to mention. Contrary to all 
advice I have ever seen or heard, I helped 
several of the late hatching ducks from 
the shells, working very carefully, of 
course, and taking care not to chill them. 
I have never known chickens to live 
hatched in this way, but am certain I 
saved several ducks and believe it is well 
worth trying. Out of 82 hatched at one 
time. 74 grew to maturity, and those lost 
all died from accident or injury, a. w. 
Every Drop is Yours 
/ T A HERE is a ready market for every pound 
A of butter fat you can produce, at a price 
so high that it is almost a crime to waste a 
single drop. Now, if ever, is the time to make 
that you are 
OT, I 
n 
sure 
getting all the cream 
your cows produce. 
Now is the time when 
a Primrose or Lily 
cream separator 
shows its true worth 
by giving you every 
drop of the butterfat, 
and every penny of 
the profit that is 
rightfully yours. 
Every farmer who 
buys a cream separa¬ 
tor today, should get 
for his money close 
skimming, long wear, 
easy adjustment and perfect sendee. Primrose and 
Lily separators give that kind of service. No more 
sanitary, satisfactory and serviceable cream separa¬ 
tors were ever designed to make dairying profitable every day 
in the year. They have every good separator feature and 
some that no other separators have. For instance, ask the 
local dealer to show you the two cream outlets, and the simple 
method of regulating the density of the cream, or write us for 
catalogues explaining these and many other features that 
Clean close skimming for years. 
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Other Farm Equipment 
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BIG STURDY CHICKS 
WHITE WYAND0TTES. MARTINS; 8ARRE0 ROCKS. E. B 
THOMPSON; R. I REDS. HALF HOPEWELL FARMS STRAIN; 
ANC0NAS. SHEPARDS; S C W LEGHORNS. EGLANTINE. 
Get my Prices on high-class stock that will improve y mi r | 
flocks. 1 invito you to inspect my flocks. Prices front 
SIS to $25 per P«>. 25 ami " lots same price per chick. 
SUNNY SIDE POULTRY FARM - Copper Hill. N. J. 
BLACK JERSEY GIANTS 
Greenish-black feathers; yellow skin; very hardy; 
fast growers; very large; best for back yard or 
farm. Eggs and chicks our specialty. Free des.-rip- 
tivecircular. Sussex Farm, Route 2, JGelmar, N.J. 
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 hn\eour price 
list of the most profitable chicks to buy. 
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TIFFANY’S 
SUPERIOR 
CHICKS 
SILVER AND WHITE WYAND0TTES WHITE. 
RUFF AND 8ARRE0 ROCKS, S CD I. 
REDS. WHITE L E G H 0 R N S PEKIN AN0 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKLINGS AND EGGS. 
Aldham Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenixville, Pa 
LIGHT AND DARK BRAHMAS BARRED TT* Cl Cl «L 
ROCKS. R I REDS W WYAND0TTES. „ zf Jr „ 
S. C W AND BROWN LEGHORNS C HICKS 
C £T RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Riverdale, N. J. 
(Sicilian BUTTERCUPS 
Hatching Eggs from unexcelled Layers and Beautys 
$3 per 15. OAKDALE FARMS, Port Jefferson Station, N. Y. 
SILVER CAMPINE EBGSgSSiVfrS 
heavy-laying hens. THE McPHERSON tUKM.Millington, V J. 
30 Selected PEARL GUINEAS 
at $3 en. h. SINCLAIR SMITH, 23 Jacob St . New York, N.Y. 
50,000 KERR’S CHICKS 
Prepaid by Parcel Post at Cut Prices 
Ready for Shipment 
and 4th 
too Chicks 
$15.00 
15.00 
20.00 
20.00 
25.00 
une 
S. C. Black Leghorns . 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Rhode Island Reds . . 
White Plymouth Rocks 
Terms Cash with order. Can not ship C. O. D., but will guarantee to deliver the chicks in first-class 
condition. 11 any are dead upon arrival will refund your money or replace them free of charge 
These chicks are from healthy, vigorous, pure bred stock, the kind that will produce eggs and olentv of 
To be sure of getting Kerr’s Top Notch Quality Chicks order now. Send for FREE Catalog No 4 
25 Chicks 
50 Chicks | 
$4.25 
$7.50 
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