The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many (inestions about tliis egg- 
taying contest, the following facts are given: 
It ia 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 are 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 last 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 
September 4, 1919: 
BARRED ROCKS 
Merritt M. Clark, Conn.. 
Samuel M. Monks, Conn. 
(ilenhope Farm, Mass. 
.lutes F. Francais, L. 1. 
Laurel Poultry h arm. Quebec . 
Fairfield Poultry Farms, N. U. 
Norfolk Specialty Farm. Ontario... 
Mich. Agricultural College, Mich... 
Uoclc Hose Farm, N. Y. 
.1. II. Wilson. Methuen. Mass. 
.loseph M. Rothschild, N. V. 
Ingleside Farm. N. Y.. 
Ore. Agricultural College, Oregon ., 
K. Ij. Smith. Maine . 
II. IS. Wallace, Jr., Mass . 
WHITE ROCKS 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Albert T. Lenzen, At ss. 
Chickatawbut Farms Mass. 
1). S. Vaughn, R. I. 
II. A Wilson. N. II. 
llolliston Hill Poultry Farm, Mass... 
BUFF ROCKS 
A. A. Ilall, Conn. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Beulah Farm. Ontario. 
W. Bradley, Victoria, B. C. 
Herbert I, Warren. Que., Canada ... 
Mrs It. W. Stevens, N. Y. 
Laurel Hill Farm. K. I. 
Obed G. Knight, It. I.. 
Merrythought Farm,Conn. 
O. L. Magrey, Conn. 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
Patrick F. Sullivan, Conn. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
H. P. Cloyes, Conn. 
Cook & Porter. Mass. 
K. Terry Smith, Conn. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Chas. II. Lane, Mass. 
ictjon Poultry Farm, N.J. 
Homer P. Dealing, Conn. 
Hopewell Farms, N.J. . 
Pleasantville Farms. N. Y. 
Laurel Hill Farm, It. I. . 
Natick Farm, It. 1. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass...,. 
Jacob K.Jansen,Conn. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. 11. 
Harvey A. Drew, N. J. 
F, W. Cumpstone. Conn. 
BLACK RHINELANDERS 
A, Schwarz, Cal. 
BLUE ANDALUSIANS 
Blue AndalusianClub of America, N.Y 
OREGONS 
Agricultural College, Corvallls.Ore... 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
A. H. Penny, N. Y. 
ltobt. C, Ogle, N.Y. 
S. G. McLean, Conn. 
Glenhope Farm, Mass. 
Edward T. Tonissen, N. Y. 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. 
lv ilk up Bros, N. Y. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
15x more Farms, Pa. 
James O LeFevre, N. Y. 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
W m. L. Gilbert Home,Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
P. G Platt, Pa. 
Sunny Crest Corporation, N. Y. 
L. K. lngoldsby, N.Y. 
B S. 1C I Is, N. J. 
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 Walters, N. J . 
it. 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. 
1'arbeU Farms. N. Y. . 
Locust Grove Farm, N.J. 
Hopewell Farms, N.J. 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N.J. 
1). Tailored, Wash. 
M. J. Quackenbusli, N.J. 
The Yates Farm, N. Y. 
Herbert 0. Maxham. R. j. 
VV. B. lvleft, 111. 
Kllwood Newton, Ceun. 
C. S Green, N.J . 
Coleman Miles, Ill. 
Total. 
Week 
Total 
39 
1316 
24 
1268 
46 
1523 
45 
1697 
44 
1663 
35 
1301 
36 
1134 
39 
1449 
37 
1341 
12 
992 
23 
1269 
42 
1524 
37 
1069 
18 
1045 
32 
1210 
34 
1228 
35 
1268 
31 
1453 
17 
879 
36 
1146 
18 
1143 
26 
1015 
21 
1223 
36 
1458 
49 
1228 
23 
1172 
28 
1196 
15 
1398 
41 
1296 
81 
1022 
87 
1032 
24 
1253 
19 
995 
14 
792 
15 
1119 
49 
1485 
7 
1019 
29 
1205 
23 
869 
20 
1029 
30 
1600 
40 
1396 
44 
1330 
35 
1217 
38 
2 
1531 
3 
22 
1386 
19 
1091 
» 
9 
71 
28 
1204 
5 
945 
29 
1255 
32 
1290 
37 
1483 
34 
1312 
44 
1289 
47 
1873 
46 
1569 
41 
1330 
15 
l.'ill 
33 
1514 
20 
1189 
43 
1342 
27 
1410 
28 
1488 
24 
1043 
29 
1339 
26 
1479 
25 
1176 
20 
1280 
25 
1393 
41 
1392 
34 
1295 
17 
1444 
21 
1354 
25 
1228 
36 
1335 
43 
1497 
39 
1358 
38 
1533 
47 
1647 
65 
1607 
39 
1188 
38 
1351 
38 
1219 
28 
It) 6 
54 
1474 
43 
1447 
40 
13i4 
21 
1078 
29 
1236 
44 
1309 
53 
1451 
46 
1523 
40 
1290 
‘28 
992 
37 
1349 
6 
1086 
5 
1126 
27 
1009 
36 
1243 
3130 
127431 
Mash or Grain for Small Chicks 
Will M. B. D. give his opinion about 
enclosed article on chick feeding, as to 
bran and middlings, chicks and toxic 
poison? This statement of the 
but 
all 
there may 
writer is 
be some- 
P. J. 
rather startling 
thing to it after 
Connecticut. 
The article referred to is by a writer 
in New England Farms who has reached 
the conclusion that excessive losses of 
chicks under six weeks of age are often 
caused by the feeding of dry mashes con¬ 
taining wheat bran and middlings. This 
writer believes that these two wheat prod¬ 
ucts contain a “toxic poison” harmful, 
and often fatal, to young chicks. Ilis 
language is not very clear. As toxic 
meiu. . poisonous, a “toxic poison” would 
he a poisonous poison. Most poisons are 
poisonous, and this redundant term is ap¬ 
parently used in a not very happy effort 
to dearly define a rather hazy conception 
in the writer’s mind. 
But, laying aside the belief that wheat 
bran and middlings are, in themselves, 
poisonous to young chicks, the fact re¬ 
mains that this poultryniau of experience 
and intelligence has been able to reduce 
the mortality of his flocks by discarding 
mash foods. An observation certainly of 
great importance, if veritied. In my own 
opinion, he is right, so far as the possible 
effects of feeding a mash to chicks kept 
in confinement is concerned. There is no 
question in my mind that hard grains are 
safer than mashes of any kind, ami far 
safer than wet mashes, particularly for 
the first few weeks. I believe, however, 
that mashes are less safe, not because of 
any poisonous properties that they con¬ 
tain, but because of the facilities which 
they offer young chicks for stuffing them¬ 
selves with highly concentrated food. A 
food which is entirely wholesome if taken 
in suitable quantities may indeed become 
toxic if consumed in excess of the animal’s 
needs. We have taken all domestic ani¬ 
mals a long way from their natural habits 
in obtaining food. Our aim in feeding 
is to crowd all the food possible into the 
animal for the purpose of obtaining quick 
and profitable growth in the young, and, 
from the mature animal, a surplus of its 
body products that we may sell. We arc 
forcing the animal machinery to its limit, 
for our own profit. 
But, instead of cutting out the dry 
mash, I should endeavor to increase the 
chick’s ability to consume it wtihout harm 
by encouraging greater activity upon the 
part of the chick and by giving in ad¬ 
dition such “correctives” as sour milk and 
grass. There is more truth in the state¬ 
ment that all flesh is grass than most 
people realize, and turning out to grass 
is a hygienic measure the value of which 
is not fully appreciated. I do not believe 
f hat sour milk can become a complete 
substitute for grass, as the writer above 
quoted suggests, but rather that they both 
have corrective properties when fed in 
addition to the highly concentrated pro¬ 
tein foods usually given in the form of 
mashes. 
To sum up. I believe that if chicks 
must be closely confined, a hard grain 
ration is less likely to induce those di¬ 
gestive disturbances that carry off so 
many chicks than is one containing 
mashes. On the other hand. I believe 
that the latter are sufficiently valuable as 
promoters of rapid growth and quick 
maturity to make their use advisable un¬ 
der the conditions of range and access to 
preen foods, which all poultry men should 
strive to obtain for their flocks, m. b. p. 
WILL WINDSOR 
ColliePups > 
NELSON BROS. 
Onanuock, Virginia 
Grove City, Pa. 
Ihnt nive satisfaction. Any size. White 
or brown. I guarantee safe arrival. 
Insti action book atnl price list free. 
LEVI FARNSWORTH - New London Ohio 
FERRETS 
HORSES 
50 Head Shetland POXIFS 
new price list. 
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 hardy and 
unrelated. You can sell their young 
and eggs at good prices—they are 
much more profitable than chickens. 
Single Pheasants $ 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 am accepting orders now for eggs from our Pheas¬ 
ants. Wild Mallard Docks, Turkeys and 
Single Comb Rhode Island Red Chickens 
for spring delivery. Orders will he filled 
in the rotation that they are received. 
Bloomfield Farms 
America's Largest Game Farm 
1 722 Penobscot Bldg. 
Detroit, Michigan 
/ 
Get your order tn early and „ 
send check with it. Send f« r 
free de sc r i p 1 1 v e booklet o w 
instructions. 
Record 308 Eggs at Storrs 
White Diarrhoea 
My baby chicks. Barred Rocks, are 
dying from white diarrhoea. I have lost 
16 out of 50 in the two weeks I have 
had them. They are incubator chicks, 
and I am a beginner in the chicken busi¬ 
ness. I have used a proprietary remedy, 
but may have waited too long. They 
appear strong and active one day and 
the next mopy and sleepy, and then die. 
Can you tell me anything that will pre¬ 
vent a recurrence of this in a new batch? 
I bought them from a reliable firm, and 
feed them on food I bought there also. 
Long Branch. N. J. j. p. 
There is no known cure for true white 
darrhcea, though there are diarrhoeas due 
to improper brooding, feeding, etc., that 
may be avoided by correcting the condi¬ 
tions producing them. If true bacillary 
white diarrhoea is present in the flock, 
as it is likely to be when the conditions 
you describe show themselves at from one 
to three weeks of age, the sick chicks 
should be promptly isolated from the rest 
and the quarters should be cleaned and 
disinfected. Survivors should not be re¬ 
tained as breeders, as the disease is trans¬ 
mitted from such hens to their progeny 
through the eggs laid at maturity. In 
your case it would probably be best to 
dispose of the entire flock and start again 
with stock from disease free flocks ; it is 
better to avoid the infection of one’s 
premises than to try to eradicate it. and 
chicks once infected are not as likely to 
prove profitable in later life as those that 
are healthy. The early and continuous 
feeding of sour milk is believed to be 
valuable in preventing this disease, not 
only because of the action of the acids of 
the milk, but because of the stimulating 
to rapid aud healthy growth to which 
milk conduces. M. B. D. 
DOGS and FERRETS 
AIREDALES 
from Champion and hunting stock. 8 weeks old. 
Prices reasonable. F. M. Swart, Margaretville, N.Y. 
Airedales, Collies, and Old English Shepherd Dogs 
Trained male dogs and brood matrons; pups all ages. 
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PEDIGREED AIREDALE PUPS for September shipment 
at very reasonable prW». Red Raven strain. Papers fur¬ 
nished free. BRAN0RETH LAKE FARM. Brandreth, N Y. 
ForSale—WhiteCoiliePups SSji.lJtSynslSJh: 
Knight’s Pedigreed Wvandottes Breeding Stock for 
sale. Cockerels from high record liens. 
Send for Circular 
O. G. KNIGHT BRIDGETON, It. 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 eggs (5 birds) 
in Jan. Over 22 lbs. of favorable 
reports from customers. Gen'lCir. 
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Black JERSEY GIANTS 
Free descriptive circular. 
SUSSEX FARM R. R. 2 ltelmar, N.J. 
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4 mos., 25c. Experience not necessary if you have 
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POULTRY ITEM, Box 25, SellersvOle, Pa. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants,Quail, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stocking purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, (banes. Storks. Swans, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears. Foxes. Rac¬ 
coon. Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN. Naturalist. Dept. 10. Yardley, Ta 
IT O R S A. L B 
yearling and 
2 yr i' Hens 
o I d 
S.C.WhiteLeghom 
heavy layers, $1.50 and $2 each. 
HARRY SMITH - Montgomery, N. Y. 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels 
We are offering a very choice lot of early hatched cocker¬ 
els, bred from carefully selected hens, all trapnested, 
many of them with records ot 200 and better. Our price is 
$5, $10 and $15 each, according to pedigree and quality. 
All stock guaranteed to be us represented or money re- 
funded. THE riverside POULTRY FARM. Cambridge Springs. Pa. 
Hampton’sBIack Leghorns 
Nicest lot of Young Cockerels I ever had, for 
-ale. Write your wants. 
A. E. Hampton - Pittstown. N. J. 
rAD CAT r 100 year-old S. C. W. 
* " “■ ijULti Leghorn liens,Wyckoff 
j Strain, $2.00 each. j. M. CASE, Gilboa, N. Y. 
White Leghorn Pullets £Srkst 
T FARM, Rockaway, N.J. 
While Leghorn Pullets " ESI.KV ilEEH.NLli, an ford’, Uri’. 
For Sale-White Leghorns«,»„? «w K yc^-om hens, 
$2 each. ‘I’ETEK J. TVAt.NEK, North Branch, Sullivan Co., N.Y. 
RABBITS 
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. 
Tom Barron's While Leghorn Cockerels 
Individually pedigreed from dams with records 200-27S 
eggs. Flock hatched from dams with records 160-198 
eggs. Circular. WILLOW BROOK P0ULTRT FARM. Odessa, R. 1 , 
PULLETS 
April Hatch S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Weil Developed and healthy. S3.50 each. 
J. Guy Lesher, Northumberland. Pa. 
ANl) FOWLS. 
BELMAR, N. J. 
U/--1.J LEGHORN PULLETS 
naiiieu e. bigelow 
Vineland Contest Pen 66 
CCDDETQ Cav C * 1 a Exterminate your rats and 
rCnn&LIO TUI Odlc save your grain. Price 
list free. Catalogue 10c. 0. II. KEEKKK A CO., Greenwich, Ohio 
ages and colors. Semi stamp feu* 
THE SHENANGO PONY FARMS, Dept. 0. Espyville. Pa. 
Shetland Ponies ffit 
herd in biggest Shellaud Producing County In U. S 
DELAWARE VALLEY RABBIT FARM 
We are specializing iu Rufus Reds and New Zea¬ 
land*. At this time lot of nice Rufus Red Breeding 
Does, priced to move. Will breed to registered buck*. 
Write me. TIIKO. S. MOORE, Stockton, N.J. 
BELGIAN HARES Flemish Giants and 
guinea pips. Young aud breeding: stock. Price list and 
circulars for stamp. N. SPOOR. Ravena, New York 
For Sale—Rufus Red Belgian Hares 
pedigreed buck, #3.50. Also one American checkered 
giant buck for sale. W. 
Also one American 
H. GIESSE, Aiuitjville, L. 1 
, N. V. 
FOR 
SALE 
lO Barron Leghorn Pullets 
Record at the end of 43rd week. 2016 eggs. Nine 
weeks to go. Price, $300. COCKERELS, sired 
by the sire of this pen, $3 each. Buy your breeders 
now for next Spring. 
LAYWELL POULTRY FARM. Plainville. Conn. 
R P QlioU Minnroi Ancona and Columbian Rock 
■ u. DldbK IlllllUlba, cockerels of high quality and 
line type, C, J. SHK1.M IlHNiE. Lorraine, New York 
$2 Buys Mighty Good Cockerels 
Wide-legged, full breast, long back with plenty of cap¬ 
acity aud thin pelvic bones. April 10 Fellows. Barron 
Leghorns arc kept by thousands because of their great 
laying. I will please you or buck conics your money 
A. L. WRIGHT, Breeder of Barron Leghorns, WAYLAND, N.Y. 
White Wyandotte &Houdon Cockerels Mo&theavy 
laying strains. #2 to #5. E. C. MOORE, Sussex, N. J. 
Wanted— A Trio of Brown African Geese 
3-year-old preferred. Address A. Aqua. Wrcutham, Muss. 
Rufus 
Red 
and 
Belgians, Flemish Gants, English and Dutch Hares Registered 
You can buy your Foundation for a trifle more than Common Stock from 
First Prize Winners of this Country and England 
Boston. Jan. 1919. Three. Muncie, Inu*. Feb. 1919, Two. Grand Rapids. Mich.. Apr 1919, Nine Prize Winners 
The offspring of this quality is more likely to produce quality than the offspring of poor stock. 
I Guarantee Satisfaction aud Safe Delivery, anywhere iu America, or Money Refunded. 
JOSEPH BLANK Dept. A, 428 Highland Ave. MT. VERNON, NEW YORK 
