THE HENYARD 
Grain for Plymouth Rocks 
Will you give me a grain mixture for 
my Barred Plymouth Rocks, to give the 
best egg production? .1 have . on hand 
wheat, corn and sunflower seed. Would it 
be best to have the grain cracked? 
Virginia. w. H. n. 
Tlie wheat and corn may well be fed as 
“Scratch grain,” mixed in about any pro¬ 
portion that you wish. There is little dif¬ 
ference in the value of the two grains for 
poultry. Nothing is gained by cracking 
corn for older fowls except that the small¬ 
er pieces of the broken grain are not so 
readily picked up and each fowl has a bet¬ 
ter chance to obtain her share. A small 
amount of the sunflower seed may he 
mixed with the other grain as it is fed. 
In addition to these home-grown grains, 
you will need to feed ground grains in the 
form of “mash.” This mash is probably 
best fed dry, though some poultrymen 
prefer to moisten it with skim-milk or 
water. A good combination of ground 
grains and meat scrap can be made from 
equal parts (by weight) of cornmeal, 
ground oats, wheat bran, middlings, glu¬ 
ten feed and beef scrap, or the latter may 
be reduced in amount to form about one- 
seventh of the whole mixture. As the 
heavy breeds need to be encouraged to 
exercise for their food, it is best to feed 
the grains in deep litter and to give the 
mash dry in a hopper from which it can¬ 
not be scratched or thrown out. If you 
have skim-milk, that may at least partly 
replace the beef scrap in the ration, and 
should be given in as large amounts as 
the fowls will eat. M. b. d. 
Sour Milk for Chickens 
1. Is it better to give chickens plain sour 
milk or to boil it first? Is there any nu¬ 
triment in the water that separates from 
sour milk, either cooked or uncooked? 
Should sour milk be given by itself, or is 
it better to mix it with other food? My 
chickens are doing very uicely. Can one 
feed them too well, or do they by instinct 
know how much it is good for them to eat? 
I keep the roosters intended for the table 
by themselves, and feed them differently 
from the hens. I give the roosters cracked 
corn three times a day, mixed with table 
leavings and sour milk. To the bens I 
give a box of dry mash, sour milk, table 
leavings and mixed grains in the evening, 
and grass or vegetable foliage. Is that all 
right? I want to give them as much as is 
necessary. 2. Do you know of a publica¬ 
tion which teaches how to caponize little 
roosters? Veterinary surgeons do not 
know how to do it. whereas in Prance and 
in Italy peasant women know. M. A. 
New' York. 
1. Sour milk should be fed raw. and the 
whey which separates from the curd 
should not be discarded unless there is 
such an abundance that the least valuable 
part may be thrown away. This whey 
contains* considerable nutriment, though, 
of course, in a very diluted form. The 
solid curd may be separated by heating if 
desired and fed alone, though this would 
involve some waste. There is no danger 
of overfeeding upon sour milk, either 
alone or mixed with other foods, and it 
may be given in as large quantities as 
the* fowls will consume. As for other 
foods, hens that are given their liberty 
or are made to exercise for their food, 
should, in general, be given all that they 
will eat. If closely confined, however, 
and particularly if of the heavier breeds, 
it would not be difficult to overfeed them. 
2. You may obtain a bulletin upon 
capons and caponizing by addressing the 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C„ and asking for “Farmers’ Bulletin 
452.” With the instructions here given 
and practice upon dead cockerels you will 
doubtless be able to acquire the art. 
M. B. D. 
in fattening cockerels. Good mixtures 
may be made from such as are available, 
cornmeal. ground oats or barley, and 
wheat middlings being perhaps the most 
useful, and all being improved by the ad¬ 
dition of skim-milk to make a soft mash. 
Cockerels to be fattened should ’ be kept 
in small enclosures and fed /dr two or 
three wdeks upon as much of the well 
moistened mash as they will quickly clean 
up three or four times daily. m. b. d. 
Poultry Upstairs 
It has been claimed that hens confined 
to second floor of a building do not thrive 
and lay as well as if on ground floor in 
same building. Is this so? M. \V. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is not uncommon yet to see on old 
poultry plants buildings two stories in 
height, both stories designed to be used 
for the same purpose, the bousing of lay¬ 
ing fowls. Such buildings, however, have 
gone out of style, in spite of the evident 
economy in making one roof, the most ex¬ 
pensive part of a poultry house, cover two 
floors. The fact that they are not now 
being built is sufficient evidence that they 
were found undesirable for some reason, 
or reasons. .Tust why, I do not know; 
there is no obvious reason why a hen 
should not be as contented and thrive and 
lay as well on the second floor as on the 
first, all other conditions being the same, 
but the real test of desirability, actual use, 
seems to have consigned the two-story 
poultry house to the discard. M. B. D. 
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ADVERTISER, 5970, care Rural New-Yorker 
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Farm Help Wanted 
FARM HAND, capable of doing all kinds of farm 
work, wanted on large milk farm, equipped 
with all modern machinery, including milking 
machines; married man preferred; comfortable 
house and usual privileges; good opportunity for 
active man not afraid of work; give full par¬ 
ticulars. references and wages expected. AD¬ 
VERTISER 59.S3, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Poultry Feeding Questions 
Is there, any value in sweet skim-milk 
for poultrv? What grains do you advise 
for scratch feed for laying hens, and meth¬ 
od of feeding? I have corn, oats and 
wheat, what portion of these ground and 
'what else can be added to make a mash, 
and what method of feeding do you ad¬ 
vise? What is the best feed or mash for 
fattening Leghorn cockerels? f. l. m. 
New Jersey. 
Skim-milk, either sweet or sour, is one 
of the most valuable of poultry foods, 
and fortunate is the poultry-keeper who 
has it at his command. It should be fed 
freely to chicks aud older fowls, the only 
limit being the amount that they will con¬ 
sume. Corn, oats and wheat, mixed in 
any desired proportion, may be used for 
scratch food. Hens will not eat the oats 
as freely as they will the other grains, 
however, and these may be wasted if given 
in too great quantity. A good mash may 
be made by using equal parts of wheat 
middlings, bran, ground oats, cornmeal, 
gluten feed. Alfalfa meal and beef scrap. 
If Alfalfa meal is not available, it may 
be omitted, and the beef scrap reduced iu 
quantity proportionately. Most poultry- 
men feed the mash dry, keeping it iu hop¬ 
pers open to the fowls at all times. The 
scratch grains are fed in the litter morn¬ 
ing aud night, as much being given at a 
time as will be quickly cleaned up with¬ 
out waste. Corumeal. ground oats or bar¬ 
ley, buckwheat middlings, wheat mid¬ 
dlings, bran and meat scrap are all useful 
WANTED—First-class dry hand milkers; able 
to milk at least 30 cows twice daily; no other 
work; wages $07.50 per month, with board and 
room. WALKER-GORDON LABORATORY CO., 
1’luinsboro, X. J. 
WANTED—Married herdsman; no children; age 
about 40; wife to understand cooking and 
housekeeping: owner, single, lives in cottage 
part of the year: will occupy two rooms, which 
lie furnishes and furnish all eating provisions 
while in cottage and board herdsman and wife: 
balance of year herdsman has cottage to him¬ 
self: state nationality, experience, reference and 
wages. ADVERTISER 0019. care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FARMER (married man) for dairy forty miles 
up-State; must he good milker and general 
farmer: wag s seventy to seventy-five monthly, 
with good living quarters, garden and plenty of 
room to keep chickens; steady position and ad¬ 
vancement to right man. Address, particulars, 
FINSTT.VER, STILL MOSS. 225 Fifth Avenue, 
New York. 
WANTED—At once, capable assistant for our 
commercial poultry plant; must be willing to 
work and learn the business; wages $40 a month 
and hoard to start: references required. Applv 
to BROAD BROOK FARM, Bedford Hills. X. Y. 
WANTED—A working manager on a 400-acre 
farm in Central Delaware, on a salary and 
share of profits basis: farm specializing in 
dairying, hogs'and fruit: is iu good condition, 
well equipped, has productive soil and is ad¬ 
mirably located in reference to markets, schools 
and churches; only those with successful exper¬ 
ience and proven ability need apply: a most 
liberal proposition will lie made to the one who 
will put intc this enterprise the thought and 
energy essential to success. For further par¬ 
ticulars apply to II. HAYWARD, Newark. Del. 
WORKING crop forninn, married; must under¬ 
stand thoroughly corn and Alfalfa: wife to 
board help: state references and salary desired. 
ADVERTISER 6025, care Rural New-Yorker, 
WANTED—Men for cow testing association 
work; must have ’practical dairy experience 
and scientific training. J. W. BARTLETT, Ag¬ 
ricultural Experiment Station. New Brunswick, 
N. J. 
WANTED—Single man for general farming: $45 
and board. W. M. WEED, Noroton, Fairfield 1 
Co., Conn. 
RELIABLE farm hand wanted on Orleans Co. 
farm, in village; good home for willing 
worker; no smoker;, state age, weight and wages 
desired. ADVERTISER 6015, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
•TOR on truck farm for single man wishing to 
winter in Florida. Write E. M. MOORE, 
Miami, Fla.; Route B. 
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WANTED—-Farmer and wife to take charge of 
a sheep farm in the Berkshire Hills, on a 
profit-sharing basis only; all improvements; in 
A No. 1 condition; all modern conveniences in 
home; herd of one hundred sheep to start with, 
also good team and necessary farming imple¬ 
ments; location two miles from railroad station 
and public school; beautiful country; lonely from 
December to April: no expenses except gro¬ 
ceries. Answer ADVERTISER 6028, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Man or boy, having some knowledge 
of general farming, to learn chicken business; 
state wages with board, experience; send refer¬ 
ences. STATE LINE FARM, North Colebrook, 
Conn. 
WANTED—Single man as assistant in private 
Guernsey herd; good milker, with reference; 
$60 per month and board. Address ADVER¬ 
TISER 6023, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Man and wife or a middle-aged 
woman to take charge of small place, consisting 
of np-to-d’ate house and 3 acres ground: owner 
must stay in city during Winter months, and 
want someone to take care of place and serve 
as company for owner’s wife; excellent oppor¬ 
tunity for right party: references required. 
ADVERTISER 5963, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Single men as attendants in a State 
institution for the feeble-minded; salary $50 
per month and maintenance: state age when ap¬ 
plying. Apply to SUPERINTENDENT, Letch- 
worth Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
WANTED—Practical orchard man, familiar with 
modem orchard care and equipment, for good- 
sized orchard just coming into bearing; reliable 
man who ran produce proof of ability can find 
very (fesirable position with future; state in con¬ 
fidence experience, reference, age, nationality, 
number in family an<f salary desired. ADVER¬ 
TISER 6014, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Situations Wanted 
SINGLE. American, position on stock farm to 
milk and help care for stock: dry hand 
milker: good habits: can give reference of work, 
etc. ADVERTISER 6017, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
YOUNG couple with experience in farm book¬ 
keeping and farm management wish to locate 
by Nov. 1st: A-l references. ADVERTISER 
6016, care Rural New-Yorker. 
ORCHARDIST wants position, on salary and 
commission, for 1920; experienced 1 in all 
branches: American: married; good habits; give 
full information regarding size, equipment, pro¬ 
duction, etc. P. D. CREGO, Claverack, N. Y. 
LANDED gentleman wishing to develop quail 
preserve at small expense, address BOX 177, 
Canterbury, Conn. 
WANTED—Position as working farmer or herds¬ 
man liy married American: can furnish best 
of references. ADVERTISER, 6022, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED farmer, American, age 30, 
married, no children, just leaving home, de¬ 
sires position as foreman on general dairy farm; 
v-nild like furnished house if possible. WIL¬ 
LIAM SCORE. Newburgh, X. Y.; Route 4. 
POSITION WANTED—Working foreman on gen¬ 
tleman’s country estate: married and three 
children; understand general farming, but I pre¬ 
fer dairy work; am the best butter-maker; life¬ 
time experience; best reference furnished. AD¬ 
VERTISER 6018, care Rural New-Yorker. 
CAPABLE experienced shepherd (married) de¬ 
sires position; can take full charge of large 
flock of sheep: reference. FRANK RISTAN, 
Oaksville, N. Y. 
A COMPETENT poultryman, having life experi¬ 
ence in both poultry and game, wants oppor- 
tunty to develop poultry plant on modern lines: 
am well versed in English method's of breeding 
and selection of layers; expert on incubation and 
brooding, selection of birds for laying competi¬ 
tions. etc.: quantity and quality production eco¬ 
nomically obtained: open for interview: at pres¬ 
ent disengaged; age 34. ADVERTISER 6024, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION wanted by poultry manager of 10 
years’ practical experience who possesses the 
knowledge and executive ability either to man¬ 
age a paying proposition, place a non-paying 
business upon a profitable basis, or develop a 
new enterprise: references of the best: if really 
interested, address ADVERTISER 6026, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION wanted by agricultural expert with 
broad, practical and scientific training; espe¬ 
cially qualified by experience in the fruit belts 
of the country, and on his own farm, to handle 
successfully any orchard, hog-breeding or farm- 
roanagbig pronosltion: will go anywhere. AD¬ 
VERTISER 6000, care Rural New-Yorker. 
CAPABLE manager fruit farm wants position on 
salary and interest in business; experienced in 
i-roner production and marketing. ADVERTISER 
5932, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as caretaker of gentleman’s 
country home: near New York preferred 1 . 
ADVERTISER 6004, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager or super¬ 
intendent of private place: college training, 
with life experience; operate any farm machinery 
and gas engines, also make own repairs: can 
furnish two or three good farm hands if wanted; 
can take charge at once. ADVERTISER 6029, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 1 
MARRIED man, twenty-nine years old 1 , desires 
position as farm manager: am now in charge 
of 300-aere estate, with herd of thoroughbred 
cattle; wish to make change this Fall; good 
references. Address BOX 25, Oxford Depot, 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
FARM manager, at liberty January 1. 1920, 
wants permanent position; will furnish refer¬ 
ence; can handle labor; life experience: age 85 
venrs: state proposition iu first letter. Address 
ADVERTISER 6030. care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
WANTED—To rent, greenhouse, with the option 
to buy. ADVERTISER 0020, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
YOUNG man, witli seven years’ farm experience, 
would like to take farm on shares, provided 
farm is equipped; have had charge of 300-acre 
estate with thoroughbred herd. Address BOX 
25, Oxford Depot, N. Y. 
FOR RENT—On shares, estate farm of over 300 
acres on outskirts of Syracuse, N. Y.; 2 silos; 
100 acres in Alfalfa and Timothy; possession, 
any time from Oct. 1 to March 1, 1920. AD¬ 
VERTISER 5929, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Finest fully equipped up-to-date 
poultry plant in State of New Jersey; write 
for particulars. BOX 122, Spotswood, N. J. 
FOR SALE—100-acre fruit and dairy farm; 3,000 
fruit trees 8 years old; 10 minutes to R. R. 
station; $7,000; a bargain; old age cause for 
selling. E. I). HUFFMAN, Owner, R. D. 2, 
Marshalls Creek, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Substantial. 9-room country home 
on Lake Musconeteong. built and always occu¬ 
pied by present owner; in perfect repair; large, 
highly cultivated garden; small fruits, asparagus 
bed, fishing, boating and bathing; death of wife 
causes owner to offer at less than first cost of 
construction; should be seen to be appreciated. 
Address E. S. BALDWIN, 152 Market St;, Pat¬ 
erson, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Sixty acres of very productive, all 
t’l’ablf loam soil, located a little southwest of 
Westfield. Inquire of E. W. WALKER, West- 
field. X. Y.; Phone 163 F-24. 
FOR SALE—Three acres: modern house; poul¬ 
try equipment; fruit and garden; Vineland, N. 
J.; no agent. ADVERTISER 6021, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
436 ACRES of timber land: 5 acres under culti¬ 
vation: 4-room house; barn, 36x40; 1% miles 
from church and high school at Slatervllle 
Springs. N. Y.; 10 miles from Ithaca and Corn- 
nell University; price $3,300; 1/3 cash; balance 
on time. J. A. MEIER, 104 Garfield, Ave., 
Hamilton, O. 
FOR SALE—On easy terms, 40-acre dairy, poul* 
try and fruit farm, situated in Petersham, 
Mass.; hay, stock and tools. For particulars 
write A. L. BONDRY, Athol, Mass., R. F. D. 
No. 1. 
EIGHT acres, cleared, fenced, good soil; make 
fine poultry or truck farm; near Toms River, 
N. J.: $150 an acre; half cash; bargain. AD¬ 
VERTISER 6027, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Big productive 400-acre dairy and 
grain farm, situated in the County of Herki¬ 
mer, Central New York State, one mile from 
trolley and State road: best markets: five mod¬ 
ern buildings: pastures watered: Alfalfa grown; 
large level and rolling fields, tractor worked: 75 
acres of timber, both hard and soft wood: fiftv 
head stock; all crops in barns; big farm for 
large operations: fully equippe<r; price $50.00 
per acre for realty: personal property can be 
anpraised. For particulars write RALPH D. 
EARL, Owner, Herkimer, N. Y. 
WHO wants to buy a 50-acre farm with bees. 
stoek and tools, in good location and market? 
ADVERTISER 5998, care Rural New-Yorker. 
00-ACRE farm. Bergen County, N. J., 17 miles 
from New York: good for truck farming or 
dairying: price $16,000. ADVERTISER 6007, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Profitable poultry farm. 514 acres; 
about 700 chickens. Leghorns and Wyandottes; 
light sand'y soil: three laying houses, electric 
light in two: five colony houses, incubators, 
garage: some timber: good reasons for selling; 
five-room dwelling and sun parlor. ADVER¬ 
TISER 6012, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Poultry and vegetable farm; 37 
acres; new 4-room house; chicken houses for 
400 layers; cow, team and machinery; 114 miles 
from R. _R. station aiuf village: near’ Camp 
Upton: price $4,000. For full particulars write 
to H. M., Box 44. Moriches, L. I., N. Y. 
FOR SALE—91-acre farm: close to State road 
and trolley; all in machine-worked fields, ex¬ 
cept 6 acres of wood; $2,000 cash: balance easy 
terms; price $5,500. W. A. FOULTZ, Quaker- 
town, Pa. 
Miscellaneous 
FOR SALE—Several Cyphers portable hovers 
and 390-egg incubators: one 600-egg Buckeye 
machine; one silver-plated trumpet Bb cornet. 
F. M. DAVIS, Chase Poultry Farm, Cincinnatus, 
N. Y.; R. D. No. 1. 
FIVE 240-egg Prairie State incubators, $25 each; 
three Hall brooder stoves. $15 each: both only 
used one season: one Dandy green hone cutter, 
$10. A. PIEZ, Hammonton, N. J. 
WANTED—Double-barreled. 12-gauge shotgun; 
also 25-caliber repeating rifle; p.erfect condi¬ 
tion. State price and make. F. M. SMALL, 
Route. 4, Vineland 1 , N. J. 
WANTED—Wheat for poultry: send samples 
and price. P. O. BOX 37, Wyandanch, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Candee brooder system; 20 hovers 
and fittings, oversize heater, etc.; also Hi-in¬ 
wrought iron nipa for above system. E. J. 
SCHULER. Wyandanch, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Babcock facile tester, with equip¬ 
ment: nearly new. Address LOCK BOX 71, 
Otego, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—1,200-egg Newtown incubator: used 
one season: equipped with electric alarm and 
egg-turner: price, $100. THOS. GALLEY, Wal¬ 
ton, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Perfection milking machine (two 
double units): in good condition; going out of 
business. JOHN WIEBEL, Wantagh, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Pullford 1 tractor attachment. CLYDE 
HECK, Monroe, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Un-to-d’ato power cider press. WAL¬ 
TER D. JONES, East Setauket, L. I.. X. Y. 
40 SECOND-HAND 390-egg size Cvpher Company 
incubators wanted. SANDY KNOLL HATCH¬ 
ERY, McAlisterville, Pa. 
CTDER apples wanted: any quantity, from small 
lots up to carload lots: include all conditions 
in first letter, including price. JOHN F. WIL- 
KEXS. Peekskill. X. Y. Telephone Peekskill 
21-F-4. 
CAPE COD CRANBERRIES, the real sun kissed 
kind, for sale: 7 quarts for $1.00 by parcel 
post. 1st and 2d zone; 6 quarts in 3d zone; 
order now and can for the holidays before the 
price goes up. THE HOMESTEAD FARM, 
Yarmouthport. Mass. 
FOR SALE—International Mogul 8-16 tractor. 
with or without 2-bottom Oliver plow: also 
International one-horse pull power horizontal hav 
press. 14xl7-in. bale; all in good condition. 
MIDDLERROOK FARM. Asburv Park. N. J. 
WANTED—To buy carload or less of sugar beers 
or mangels; quote nricc. LIBERTY FARMS, 
1220 State Street. Erie, Pa. 
