1324 
lb- RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ring Neck Pheasants 
We can now make shipments of our 
birds. They will lay next spring—are 
easy to raise and do not eat one half 
as much as chickens. These birds are 
not subject to disease—are hardyand 
unrelated. You can sell their young 
and eggs at good prices—they are 
much more profitable than chickens. 
Single Pheasants S 6.00 Each 
5 Hens, 1 Cock (pen) 30.00 
Genuine Wild Mallard Ducks 
Guaranteed to be from nothing but genuine 
Wild Trapped stock—not the coarse semi¬ 
wild strain. Will lay next spring. Fine 
eating—good decoys—and money makers. 
Single Ducks or Drakes $ 5.00 Each 
5 Ducks, 1 Drake (pen) 25.00 
Bloomfield Giant 
Bronze Turkeys 
We have some of the young for sale, from 
our wonderful 55 pound tom " BLOOM¬ 
FIELD KING.” Why not buy one of our 
fine extra toms and improve your flock. 
Pullets...... $15.00 Each 
Cockerels.. 20.00 to $35.00 Each 
Hens. 20.00 Each 
Toms. 35.00 to $50.00 Each 
We are accepting orders now for eggs from ourPheas- 
ants. Wild Mallard Ducks, Turkeys and 
Single Comb Rhode Island Red Chickens 
for spring delivery. Orders will be tilled 
In the rotation that they are received. 
Bloomfield Farms 
America's Largest Came Farm 
1 722 Penobscot Bldg. 
Detroit, Michigan 
Get your order in early and % 
send check with it. Send forJ y ,;' 
free dose riptive booklet of ^ 
instructions. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants, Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stocking Durposes, 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl. Cranes, Storks. Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears, Foxes. Rac¬ 
coon, Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM.J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist. Dept. 10, Vardley, Pa 
For Sale-25 S.C.BlackMinorcas 
hens and three cock birds, and also 20 S. C. White 
Leghorns—Pure bred stock. 
EAEL L. MARTIN, - Oxford, N.J. 
CHICKS AND bucklings. wyandottes 
AND ROCKS, PEKIN, ROUEN AND 
RUNNER DUCKS. 3 mos. old Cockerels and Pullets. 
ALDHAM POULTRY FARM, R. 34, Phoenixville, Pa. 
30 W. Wyandotte Yearling HENS 
still laying, also 3 cock birds all for $>150.00 
H. F. SONUER TOMS RIVER, N. J. 
White Wyandottes CliAS. G. RHOADS, Donglassvlile, l'a. 
Thompson Barred Rock EL Briton' FARM. Darlington, Md. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Hens, Cocks and Cockerels 
Buy your breeders now for next year. My strain 
are money makers. L. M. ADAMS, Eagle Bridge, N. Y. 
White Leghorn Pullets FOREST'faUM, Rockaway, N.J. 
Single Comb White Leghorn Cockerels 
A-mos.-old. Hall strain. $1 each. B. G. ELLIS, Fair Haven, VI. 
600 White Leghorn Pullets Black Leghorn Cocker¬ 
els. Nonh Sergey REKGEY, I* A. 
w 
hitc LF.GHOKN PULLETS, $1.50—$2.50;yearlings, 
over 200 egg record, $2. EL BRITON FARM, Darlington, Md. 
WANTED—THE ADDRESS of one who has 
MANX CATS For Sale 
W. E. Kemp - Beaver Falls, Pa. 
PRODUCTS^POULTRf 
More. 
Eggs!, 
And Healthy 
Chicks ! 
Feed your poultry wiTtC^C**^ 
Maurer'S "Kwality” 
Meat Scrap 
Used at New Jersey Laying Contest, 
l?f*AA/l 3 i 3 Farmers Almanac 
m . a w<, Samples of 
oductsi 
j Generous _ 
v Kwality” Prd 
WRITE TO-DAY. 
MAURER MANUFACTURING CO. 
Dept 365. 
^Newark. 
Jebse; 
PRODUCTIVE POULTRY HUSBANDRY, 
by Harry R. Lewi*; $2. A popular Poultry 
work. For »ale by Rural New-Yorker 
For Use - 
On Your Poultry] 
Seize the hen and dust Instant 
Louse Killer into the feathers. 
The handy sifting top can 
makes it convenient to use. 
Sprinkle it in the nests, on the 
roosts and floors. Put Instant 
Louse Killer in the dust bath 
| occasionally—your hens will 
do the rest. This means 
louse prevention. 
FOR STOCK 
With one hand stroke the hair 
the wrong way, with the other 
sift in the Louse Killer. 
Especially good for lousy colts. 
( GUARANTEED. The dealer 
will refund your money if it i 
’does not do as claimed. 
11 lb. SOc. 2‘/z lbs. 60c {except in Canada) 
Dr. HESS & CLARK 
Ashland Ohio 1 
FOR SALE 
lOth and 
One 
Price 
16 th. 
,1 
$15 per 1OO 
Breeds BABY CHICKS 
FOR DELIVERY September 
S. C White Leghorns 
S. C. Black Leghorns . _ 
Barred Plymouth Rocks . _ _ ^ 
Rooks) $8.00 per 50 $4.25 per 25 
Shipped Prepaid. Safe Delivery Guaranteed 
{Send Cash With Order, We Cannot Ship C. O. V.) 
There is only one grade of Kerr Chicks. That is THE BEST Bradley strain 
Barred Rocks. Eglantine and Tom Barren Strain White Leghorns. 
There is still time to grow a fine 
most favorable. But don't lose time, 
anteed “Ready Made” Chicks 
Bo: 
flock of poultry this year. The season ig 
Rush in your order NOW lor Kerr's Guar- 
They will satisfy you. 
Pronoht o wn, KTew Jersey 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Record 308 Eggs at Storrs 
Knight’s Pedigreed Wyandottes Breeding Stock for 
sale. Cockerels from high roeord hens. 
Send for Circular 
O. G. KNIGHT BRIDGETON, R. I. 
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 egrs (5 birds) 
in Jan. Over 22 lbs. of favorable 
reports from customers. Gen’! Cir. 
FREE. Most instructive catalog so 
far printed 25c, it is returnable. 
). W. PARKS, BoxY ALTOONA, PA. 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels 
We are offering a very choice lot of early hatched cocker¬ 
els, bred from carefully selected liens, all trapnested, 
many of them with records of 200 and bettor. Our price is 
$,->. $10 and $l5eneh. according to pedigree and quality. 
All stock guaranteed to be as represented or money re¬ 
funded. jug RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM, Cambridge Springs, Pa. 
Breeding Stock S. C. White Leghorns 
Yearling liens, $2. Two-year old hens, $1.75. 
April hatched cockerels, $2 each. Barron and 
Penna. Poultry Farm strain. The best stock ob¬ 
tainable. The Brookside Poultry Farm STOCKTUN, N. J. 
S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
E OR SALE 
GOODWIN’S QUALITY 
March, April and May hatched. Strong, vigorous 
birds from high producing stock. Now is the time 
to buy. $13.50, $1.50 ami $>5.50 each. 
Gooflwiu Farm, R. D. No. 3, Torriugton, Conn. 
100 year-old S. C. W. 
Leghorn hens.Wyckoff 
Strain, $1.50 each. j. M. CASE, Gilboa, N. Y. 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It. is held? at Storrs post office in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses nre all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the num¬ 
ber of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of Inst November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets en¬ 
tered for the next year. 
Record at Storrs. Conn., for week ending 
August 21, 1919: 
BARRED ROCKS V 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
Samuel M. Monks, Conn. 
Gleribope Farm. Mass. 
Jules F. Francais, L. I. 
Laurel Poultry Farm,Quebec . 
Fairlield Poultry Farms, N. II. 
Norfolk Specialty Farm. Ontnrio. 
Mich. Agricultural College. Mich. 
Rock Rose Farm. N. Y. 
J. II. Wilson. Methuen. Mass. 
Joseph M. Rothschild, N. Y. 
Ingleside Farm, N. Y. 
Ore. Agricultural College, Oregon. 
R. L.-Smith, Maine .'..'. 
H. E.Wallace. Jr.. Mass . 
WHITE ROCKS 
S. Bradford Allyn. Mass. 
Albert T. Lenzen, 5> ss;v.. 
Chickatawbut Farms Mass. 
1). S. Vaughn, R. I. 
II; A Wilson. N. H....... 
Holllston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass.... 
BUFF ROCKS 
A. A. Hall, Conn..— 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Beulah Farm. Ontario. 
W. Bradley, Victoria, B. O. 
Herbert L Warren, Que., Canada — 
Mrs R. W. Stevens, N. Y.. 
Laurel Hill Farm. R. I. . 
Obed G. Knight, HI.....;: . 
Merrythought Farm,Conn. 
O. L. Magrey, Conn.'.. 
ShadowbrooK Farm, Conn. 
Patrick F. SullivJui, Conn. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 
Cook & Porter, Mass. 
E. Terry Smith, Conn.. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Chas. H. Lane, Mass... 
Etjon Poultry Farm, N.J. 
Homer P. Dernlng, Conn. 
Hopewell Farms, N. J. 
Pleusantville Farms. N. Y. 
Laurel Hill Farm. R. I.-. 
Natick Farm; It. I.. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Jacob K. Jansen,Conn.. —. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. U. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
Harvev A. Drew, N. J. 
F, W. Cumpstone, Conn. 
BLACK RHINELANDERS 
A. Schwarz, Cal...•. 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS 
Blue AndaluslanClub of America,N.Y. 
OREGONS 
Agricultural College. Corvallls.Ore.... 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. H. Penny, N, Y. 
Robt. C, Ogle. N.Y. 
8. U. McLean, Conn. 
Glenhope Farm, Mass. 
Edward T. Tonissen. N.Y. 
Meadowedge Farm. L. I. 
Kirkup Bros, N. Y. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Exrnore Farms, Pa... 
James O LeFevre, N. Y. 
Shadowbrook Farm. Conn. 
Wm.L. Gilbert Home,Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Sunny Crest Corporation, N. Y.. 
L. K. lngoldsby, N.Y. 
B S. Ells, N. J...V. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
Bonnie Brook Farm, N. Y. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm. N.J. 
Westwood Farm.-N. Y. 
A. P. Robinson. N.Y. 
C. Rasmussen, N. J.... 
Sunny Side Poultry Farm, N.J. 
Gustav Waltefs, N. J . 
R. Lindsey Ireland, Ky... 
E. A. Ballard. Pa. 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards. Conn. 
J. Frank Dubois, Mass. 
Clifford I. Stoddard. Conn. 
George Phillips, Conn. 
J W. Welch, Neb. 
M. T. Lindsay, N.Y. 
Mrs. J. L. Thuesen. Conn. 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Bert Horsfall, Quebec. 
Tarbell Farms, N. Y... 
Locust Grove Farm, N. J. 
Hopewell Farms, N.J.... 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
D. Tancred, Wash. 
51. J. Quackenbush, N.J. 
The Yates FarnLN. Y. 
Herbert O. Maxham. R. I. ... 
W. B. Kleft, Ill.... 
Ellwood Newton. Conn. 
C. S Green, N.J .. 
Coleman Miles, Ill.... 
Total. 
'eel: 
Total 
28 
1238 
2U 
1223 
35 
1439 
39 
1312 
34 
1575 
IT 
1242 
23 
1069 
36 
"1376 
33, 
1264 
37 
946 
25 
1221 
46 
1441 
22 
999 
17 
1011 
25 
1150 
21 . 
1170 
31 
1199 
31 
1388 
10 
853 
31 
1072 
12 
1101 
20 
959 
26 
1175 
30 
1393 
22 
1140 
I'J 
1121 
16 
1149 
12 
1372 
31 
1214 
26 
960 
14 
959 
25 
1204 
16 
956 
8 
765 
28 
1079 
34 
1394 
16 
1004 
20 
1151 
15 
826 
22 
997 
23 
1551 
27 
1310 
34 
1247 
31 
1140 
50 
1444 
26 
1346 
15 
1053 
7 
690 
23 
1148 
8 
934 
31 
1196 
42 
1218 
38 
1412 
37 
1246 
40 
1207 
50 
1279 
49 
1475 
41 
1246 
25 
1271 
36 
1449 
14 
1158 
42 
1253 
39 
1355 
37 
1428 
25 
1001 
30 
1281 
36 
1421 
31 
1126 
17 
1243 
20 
1347 
45 
1308 
38 
1229 
16 
1411 
19 
1322 
41 
1171 
40 
1259 
47 
1409 
45 
1273 
49 
1450 
47 
1554 
49 
1498 
37 
1112 
39 
1279 
34 
1147 
24 
1003 
52 
1369 
42 
1360 
48 
1230 
29 
1026 
33 
1171 
43 
1219 
48 
1349 
47 
1431 
36 
1210 
34 
933 
40 
1277 
12 
1075 
10 
1111 
28 
956 
33 
1167 
2995 
121194 
Ailing Chicks 
Septemlier 6, 1919 
the ration that you are now using and 
will enable you to cut down the propor¬ 
tion of meat scrap. At present prices, 
this probably should be done anyway. 
Next, get these chicks out upon a grass 
run and change the latter sufficiently 
often to keep it reasonably fresh. This 
may require some little effort and ex¬ 
pense. but it is the best possible insurance 
against further, and perhaps serious, 
trouble in your large flock. Giving sods 
to pick at will not replace giving an out¬ 
door run upon clean grass. Hard is the 
lot of the poultryman who cannot com¬ 
mand a wide expanse of sod for his little 
chicks. Chicks can be reared upon dirty 
soil without grass, but it is like trying to 
raise healthy children in an East Side tene¬ 
ment. Of course, you will remove all ail¬ 
ing chicks from the flock and practice 
strict cleanliness in caring for their quar¬ 
ters. but the grass run is the thing; get 
it. if you have to commandeer the front 
lawn for a few weeks. M. b. i>. 
Leg Weakness in Turkeys 
On page HOG of The R. N.-Y. I note 
an inquiry about leg-weakness in young 
turkeys, and I would suggest that it may 
he caused by keeping them on a board 
floor. We have kept turkeys iu a small 
way for a number of years with excellent 
success, and one of the first things we 
learned was to keep them on the ground. 
We put our first brood iu a coop with a 
floor, thinking that they would he Safer 
from rats, etc., but iu a few days the lien 
turkey began to lose the use of her legs 
and would slip and sprawl on the 
floor; when she was transferred 
bottomless coop she soon recovered 
we have never used floors since and 
lost very few by rats, or otherwise.' 
present season hatched 64 poults 
SO eggs, and they are all with 
being from four to eight weeks 
hard 
to a 
and 
have 
The 
from 
us yet, 
old at 
the present time. Our success is due. we 
believe, to the plentiful feeding of cottage 
cheese, which is their chief article of diet 
for the first two or three weeks, and to 
constant care and watchfulness. We have 
the White Hollands and are well satisfied 
with them. F. w. p. 
New York. 
10 
10 
of 
or 
Balancing a Chick Ration 
IIow can I make a balanced ration for 
chickens from cornmeal. ground oats, 
wheat bran and meat scraps? I cannot 
get middlings. I am using equal parts of 
the grain and one-sixth of meat scraps. 
Is there a better ration? What would 
be the ration for hens from the same 
•feeds? Is gluten feed of any benefit? 
For a time I fed just cornmeal, bran and 
scraps, equal parts of the grain. Was 
that right? C. b. 
Rhode Island. 
Your feed mixtures are all right, hut 
perhaps the following would be better and 
at no increase in price: Wheat feed. 40 
lbs.; cornmeal. 10 lbs.; gluteu feed, 
lbs.; ground oats, 10 lbs.; meat scraps, 
lbs. For hard grains, a mixture 
fine cracked corn. GO lbs., and steel-cut. 
pinhead oats. 20 lbs. If you have wheat, 
it will make a good addition to the hard 
grains as soon as the chicks can eat it. or 
it may be cracked for chicks under five or 
six weeks of age. The above mash will 
also be excellent for laying hens. If you 
have plenty of skim-milk or buttermilk 
for either chicks or hens, you can decrease 
the amount of meat scraps, or even omit 
it altogether. Don’t forget to give the 
chicks all the tender green stuff that they 
want. 
There cau be no fixed rules for feeding 
chicks; I now have 96, three weeks old, 
out of an incubator hatch of 101. 
Hatched after the middle of June, they 
were rather weak and unpromising. Fear¬ 
ing bowel troubles if given mashes or 
moist foods, I have fed them nothing but 
cracked corn and pinhead oats, perhaps a 
third part of the latter in the mixture, 
and all of the green stuff, chiefly lettuce 
that they would eat. They have been 
kept in a 3x6 ft. brooder without artificial 
heat since they were taken from the in¬ 
cubator, having, of course, a run attached. 
A little later I shall add a dry mash with 
beef scrap to their i-ation, as I have no 
milk for them. No digestive or other 
troubles have appeared in the flock, and l 
hope to raise over 90 per eeut of it. 
51. B. L>. 
I am feeding my chicks (1,000) with 
equal parts by weight of dry mash con¬ 
sisting of the following: cornmeal, mid¬ 
dlings. beef scrap, bran; mixed with char¬ 
coal. grit and oyster shell. There is also 
about 15 lbs. of scratch feed, twice a day, 
fed to the chicks, and the drinking water 
is made up of one ounce to a gallon of 
a medicinal mixture, and about one good 
teaspoonful of Venetian red to three gal¬ 
lons of water. They are also given sod 
to pick on. The chicks are now seven 
weeks old: have been doing very well, 
up until the past day or two. A number 
of them have died, and upon opening their 
crop I find no solid substance, only a 
slimy, yellow fluid with a very • offensive 
odor, i have allowed them to run about 
through the day in a very clean runway. 
What is the trouble? R. B. 
New Jersey. 
In the first place. I should cut out the 
dope and feed the chicks upon pure food 
and water. If you can get sour skim- 
milk, it would be a valuable addition to 
Intestinal Worms in Turkeys 
I had 10 fine turkeys hatched by a hen. 
They are now five weeks old and doing 
well, hut I noticed one looked droopy, so 
gave him a small chili pepper. He passed 
two large tapeworms iu the droppings, 
and I would like to know what to do for 
this. d. N, G. 
One of the best remedies for intestinal 
worms iu poultry is turpentine, one to 
three teaspoonsful as a dose, administered 
through a soft rubber catheter passed 
carefully down into the fowl's crop. Fo. 
tapeworms Salmon recommends a tea- 
spoonful of powdered pomegranate root 
mixed with sufficient soft food for 50 
fowls. Unless these worms are present 
in large numbers they seem to do little 
harm to their hosts, hut individual or 
flock treatment may be administered as 
above if desired. M. B. D. 
Smai.i. Edward was spending the after¬ 
noon with liis aunt in the suburbs. After 
he had been at play for a time he said : 
“Aunt Beatrice, mamma said I wasn’t to 
ask you for a piece of cake, but she didn’t 
tell me not to take it if you offered it ti 
me." —Buffalo Commercial. 
