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Th RURAL NEW.YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
Build Your Flock 
with 
KERR’S CHICKS 
K ERR’S Baby Clucks are hatched from 
hardy, farm-raised, pure-bred breed¬ 
ing stock and are vigorous and healthy. 
Our new Springfield, Mass., hatchery, 
established to supply our New England 
customers, doubles our capacity, making 
it one of the largest in the world. 
Send for beautiful 1920 catalog of 
Kerr’s Baby Chicks, 24 pages, 9 x 12 
inches, and full-color cover showing our 
several varieties as little chicks. Illustra¬ 
tions also of the adult fowls, descriptions 
of these breeds, how our eggs are raised 
and hatched, and the chicks shipped. If 
you are interested in fine chicks, at mod¬ 
erate prices, this catalog will be sent you, 
free of cost. Use address nearest you, 
but write now—then order early. 
The Kerr Chickery, Box 0 
Frenchtown, New Jersey 
Springfield, Massachusetts 
More Light—More Eggs 
A RTIFICIAL light for hen houses in¬ 
i' creases egg production. Knight 
300 C. P. Gasoline Lanterns and light¬ 
ing systems are safe, economical and 
nearest approach to sunlight known. 
Write tor special introductory 
offer A-l 
K. & G. Lighting Co. 
318 West 46th St. New York, N.Y 
iJ50 
EGG 
CHICK 
/Both 
for 
a 7- 
Rockies 
Incubator covered with 
asbestos and galvanized 
-- iron; triple walls.cop-^ 
per tank,nursery,egg tester,ther¬ 
mometer. 30 day,’ trial— money back _ 
if not O.K. Write for FREE catalog. __—- 
Ironclad Incubator Co. Box 101 Racino.Wis. 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm 
Breeder of Single Comb White Leghorns ex¬ 
clusively. Circular now ready for mailing. 
If you intend to buy eggs for setting, or 
chicks of this breed, it will more than pay 
you to get my circular. 
Remember I guarantee satisfaction 
ROY S. RIDER 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
Box 5 
HatchingEggs BabyGhicks 
Front a prolific, vigorous strain of S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns that are making good on my own plant and 
in the hands of hundreds of my customers and have 
been doing so for the past twelve years. Over one 
hundred choice cocks and cockerels for sale at *0 
to »10 each, Hatching eggs, »10 to »12 per hun¬ 
dred, ninety per cent, fertility guaranteed. Baby 
chicks $23 to $30 per hundred. Safe delivery guar¬ 
antees. Circular free. JOHN H. WEED, Vineland. N. J. 
Barron Leghorn Cockerels 
A choice lot of selected birds; the big, husky kind, 
bred from high producing parents, price $3.50-35 each. 
Good value at the price. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Send for circular. HARRY F. PALMER, Middleport, N.Y. 
Just Imported -Barron White Leghorn 
COCKERELS head part of our pure Barron matings 
this year. Big birds with highest pedigrees—280-288 
eggs. Our Sscond importation. Baby chicks, hatch¬ 
ing eggs. Safe arrival guaranteed. Choice cocker¬ 
els for sale. Write wants. R. T. EWING, Atlantic, Pa. 
50,000 Si !ft i C i7 l Leghorn Chicks Fu umfty 
American-English Leghorns. Long, deep-bodied, typical 
birds, bred exclusively for heavy egg production. Laying 
Ccntest winners. Send for prices and circular. UlUNIi- 
VIEIV STOCK FARM & HATCHERY, R. ho. 1, Zeeland, Michigan 
WINNING LEGHORN PEN VINELAND 1919 
Write for mating list and prices. 1,508 layers. 
F. J. MATHEWS - Lambertville, N. J. 
I Wantto Buy S. G.White Leghorn Pullets 
I want to sell pure bred bull calves, Pontiac-Koru- 
dyke and Iving-Segis strains. Make 
and alfalfa Hay wanted. STARLIGHT FARMS, 
Mongaup Valley, Y. HORACE V. BRUCE, Proprietor 
HOEHNS. C. W. Leghorns?::? 
booklet of our 288-egg strain. H0EHN POULTRY FARM, 
126 Dikeman St. . Brooklyn. N.Y. Farms at Bayville, N. J. 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS lor Sale 
from trapnesti d li ns. liecords and prices as follow*: 
180-200, $1; 200-210, *5 ; 210-220, $6 : 220-244, $7. No male 
usedlwbose dam laid leas than 218. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
teed. VALLEY EUG FARM. Little Volley, N. Y. 
Hampton’s Black LEGHORN CHICKS circular be¬ 
fore you order chicks. Tells why the Black Leghorn 
is the greatest layer and most profitable breed on 
earth. Write today. A. E. HAMPTON, Bax R. Pittstown, N. J. 
PEDIGREE LEGHORN COCKERELS 
GKEENDALE FARMS, Greendale, N. Y. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS and BATCHING EGGS 
S C WHITE LEGHORNS, BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, RHODE 
ISLAND REDS. Guarantee safe delivery. Place ordtirs 
now to insure prompt delivery P A R A IT X S E 
POULTRY FARM, liox IJ, raradise, Penna, 
Highest Individual Record 
at Storrs in 1919 
222, 221, 200, 188, 165,156 records of other birds in this pen, 
which is now mated to a male whose dam laid 281. Eggs 
from this mating $10 per setting. „„„„ 
S. G. McLEAN, So. Glastonbury, CONN. 
Big Sturdy Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs high 
egg producing sti'ains of Quality. Martin's AVhite Wyan- 
dottes. Ringlet Barred Rocks, Shepard Anconas, Eglan¬ 
tine White Leghorns. S. C. R. I. Reds. First hatch Feb. 
1st Older at once. SUNNY SIDE POULTRY FARM, Copper Hill, N. J. 
Fr-b 1 20 varieties. Order early. Write for price list 
aad'ordcv M ink. 1 <4E SPENCER 1UT01IBBY, Spsnter, Old# 
LADY PROFITEER 
h^L^-Whatisit? 
This Cornell certification guarantees that my hens reach 
the top notch of excellence in size, shape, plumage,vigor 
and above all, in consistent heavy laying throughout the 
year. 
On November 3rd ant) 5th, 1919 
et my plant, Cornell University 
Selected Seal-banded and Registered as Soecial Breeding 
Stock, the largest number of Hens and Cockerels that had 
ever been certified in any one flock in N. Y. State. These 
are all large Single Comb White Leghorns, weighing 4 to 
6 pounds each and more. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING from these record-producing 
hens. Place your order now for 1920 Pullets and Cockerels 
and have your own pedigreed stock. 
At the recent Rochester Flower City Show, I won 1st pre¬ 
mium oil a pen of Utility White Leghorns, which were 
udged by Professor Krum cf Cornell. 
Come and see one of the best plants. Send for Catalog- 
Maple Avenue Fruit an? Poultry Farm 
Farley Porter if SODUS, N.Y. 
Cockerels, Baby 
Chicks, Eggs 
S. C. W. Leghorns, R. I, 
Reds, B. 1'. Rocks, W. 
W ynndottes. Farm 
range heavy laying 
stock that will multiply 
your poultry profits. Il¬ 
lustrated folder free. 
Write for it NOW. 
G. F. GIBSON 
GALEN FARMS 
Box 100 CLYDE, N.Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
Barron Strain of Winter Layers. 3000 breeders on 
free farm range inoculated and free from lice. Eggs 
for hatching now readv in anv quanity. 150,000 baby 
chicks for 1920, 10 to '12.000 weekly. Now booking 
orders for March, April and May delivery. The kind 
of chicks that live if given have a chance. My book, 
Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved, free with all HO 
orders. Circular free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75, Pleasant Valley. N. Y 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs 
Pedigreed Breeding Cockerel* 
Large, handsome, robust cockerels from pedigreed 
stock— part Barron. $3.50-$5-$10 each. Send for circular, 
ARTHUR H. PENNY. Mattituck. N. Y. 
QUALITY 
S.C.W. LEGHORN CHICKS 
From selected stock backed by over ten years 
careful breeding for high egg production. Chicks 
every week after March 1st. Helpful chick book¬ 
let free with every order. 
Circular and Price List on Request 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM, STOCKTON. N.J. 
Tom Barron*s White Leghorns 
Largest importer in America 1916. No other strain. One 
of the most intensive breeding plants in the United 
States of pedigreed utility poultry. Watch our entry in 
the Advanced Registry Egg Laying Contest tit Corneq 
University. Bonk your orders early for eggs and chirks. 
Free circular. WILLOW brook POULTRY Farsi, odenu,X.V- 
Prof. KRUM of CORNELL 
awarded Leghorn pullets of Pedigree Poultry Farm. 
First prize in heavy laying, utility class at New York 
State Fair at Syracuse. BABY CHICK8, Now book¬ 
ing orders. Send for Circular. COCKERELS. 
SAM H. KOSLIN - New City, N.Y. 
COCKERELS-EGGS-CHICKS 
S. C WHITE LEGHORNS (Barron). Resultof six years trap- 
nesting and pedigree breeding for vigor and heavy 
production of large white eggs. Males, with pedi¬ 
grees, 200 up to 284, #5 to 8X5. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. H. C. 1JLIGH, West Willington, Couu, 
STONE’SS.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
Cornell certified. Line bred for size, vigor and egg 
production. Larger proportion of flock certified than 
any other in N. Y. State. Cockerels, Hatching Eggs 
and Baby Chicks. Cit cular. ELMER R. STONE, Clyde, N.Y. 
THE HENYARD 
P ft/vI/Amla Shepherd’s S. C. Anconas and S. C. B. Lejr- 
UOCKwIolo horns, $8 each. Harold Nichols.R. D. 6, PcnnYan, N.Y. 
MAP GOLDEN BUFF 
.ML ST LE gHORW PULLETS 
8 mos. old, laying, $2.50 each. Their eggs will soon pay 
their cost. 50 left. Hurry order. Need room. 
Dr. Prudhomme, Thurmont, Maryland 
D ark CORNISH PULLETS for sale at $3 caeli. 
E. J. Louxsbuuy - Springdale, Conn. 
rnlnmhlon It © C K8, R. 0. Black Minorca* and 
lUHlIillllall s. C. Brown Leghorns. Large, husky 
cockerels; fine type and color. C. J. SHELMIDINE, Lorraine, N.Y. 
White African Guinea FOWLS 
$3 per pair. E, W. PETTIT, Ransomville, New York 
PLANSFORPOULTRYHOUSES 
H ALE STYLES. 160 ILLUSTRATIONS. SEND 10 CENTS. 
INLAND POULTRY JOURNAL, Duyt, 50, Indittuapulla, lad 
Selecting an Incubator 
Will you advise me in regard to incu¬ 
bators? I have been studying catalogues. 
What would you select? I want one I 
can run in my sittiug-i'oom. MRS. F. 
New York. \ 
incubators have become pretty well 
standardized in design and manufac¬ 
ture. any of the well-known and tested 
makes should give satisfaction to those 
who learn to manage them properly. Good 
hatches are undoubtedly obtained from 
the cheaper machines, as well as from the 
most expensive, but the better the ma¬ 
chine the more easy it will be to control 
hatching conditions within it and the 
more satisfactory it is likely to prove in 
the long run. It would be unfair to com¬ 
mend one kind above another, as there; 
are many incubators upon the market 
that are entirely reliable and that de¬ 
pend for preference solely upon the indi¬ 
vidual choice of the user. Both hot air 
and hot water machines do their work 
well when properly managed, each kind 
having its advocates. The general prefer¬ 
ence. however, seems to be for the hot air 
machines in the smaller, portable sizes. 
If' a machine must be used in a room 
where fluctuations iii temperature are 
frequent and marked, it cannot be too 
well built and insulated, and cannot have 
a too reliable beat controlling mechanism 
_ M. B. D. 
Dressing Poultry; Hen Manure 
1. Is there any special process in the 
scalding and picking of chickens? After 
cooling and ready to ship I find at times 
some very badly discolored. 2. After 
cleaning drop-board of roost I always 
sprinkle with lime. Is the manure good 
or bad for the soil? W.B. 
Walden, N. Y. 
1. There is quite a knack in scalding 
and picking chickens so they will not be 
discolored after cooling. The water 
should not be too hot. but should be just 
hot enough to loosen the feathers without 
cooking the outer skin so it peels off with 
the feathers. To arrest the scalding 
process at just the right time it is ad¬ 
visable quickly to dip the bird in a tub 
of cool water just before picking, and 
then remove the feathers carefully with¬ 
out bruising the skin. 
2. Where lime is used on the droppings 
the manure is perfectly good for the 
soil; that is, the lime is usually bene¬ 
ficial and can do no harm to acid soils 
unless used in excessive quantities. The 
only disadvantage, however, in using 
lime is the fact that it liberates # the 
ammonia in the manure and allows it to 
pass off in the air. thus reducing the fer¬ 
tilizer value of the manure to a certain 
extent. For this reason we are usiug 
acid phosphate on the droppings hoards, 
which has a tendency to hold the am¬ 
monia instead of giving it off. While we 
are on this subject I would like to men¬ 
tion the fact that lime is a wonderful 
disinfectant in the poultry-house, t and 
serves this purpose well when used regu¬ 
larly on the droppings boards, especially 
in cold weather when liquid disinfectants 
would freeze. It is a question in my 
mind whether the beneficial results from 
the use of lime in this way do not exceed 
its damage to the manure. C. s. c. 
BROODER HEATER 
Equal to five Kerosene Heaters 
CORNELL 
GASOLINE 
I 
MORE EFFICIENT 
than 
A COAL HEATER 
PRICE COMPLETE 
$ 11.50 
Mixture for Scratch Feed 
Would you give formula for scratch 
feed for my liens? At present I am feed¬ 
ing equal parts eornmeal, wheat middlings, 
beef scraps and two parts of ground oats 
and bran, by weight, fed dry, before them 
at all times. I would like to mix my own 
scratch to go with this, and have to buy 
everything. I. O. V. 
Massachusetts. 
A mixture of the ordinary whole grains 
available, a little over half being corn and 
wheat 1 , or either alone, will make a good 
scratch grain mixture for these hens. 
With the corn or wheat as a basis, buck¬ 
wheat, oats and barley may he added if at 
hand. If not, the corn and wheat alone 
are all right, these grains containing all 
needed food elements not in the mash. 
Corn, some poultrymeu believe that hav¬ 
ing it cracked pays by adding to its ready 
availability as food, is the premier single 
grain for poultry; wheat is probably sec- 
ond, and the other grains add variety and 
frequently cheapen cost. A small amount 
of rye may readily he eaten, though it is 
apparently an inferior grain for egg pro¬ 
duction, and whole oats will usually he 
consumed to a limited extent. M. B. D. 
CAPACITY 
250 
CHICKS 
Saves Time. Labor, Feed 
and Fuel. 
Write for Catalog 
TREMAN, KING & CO, 
Dept. P. ITHACA, N Y 
Colony Poultry House 
I wish to build a colony house for 
chickens. It should be 16x20 ft. Would 
you give me a plan for it? L. s. 
New Jersey. 
You will he able to get more fully de¬ 
tailed plans for various types of poultry 
buildings than can he given in the space 
available here by addressing an inquiry to 
the State Agricultural College, New 
Brunswick, N. J., and asking for their 
bulletins upon poultry house construction. 
A similar inquiry addressed to the State 
Agricultural College, Ithaca, N. Y., will I 
probably bring you their bulletins upon 
the subject also. These bulleutins are 
free to all residents of the State, and are 
usually sent t<> non-residents 'also when a 
supply is available. M. b. d. 
More 
Healthier 
Chicks 
The answer lies in correct feeding. At the 
New Jersey Egg-Laying Contest they use 
M aurer’s “ Kwality ” 
Meat Scrap 
because it is sweet, sound and finely pul¬ 
verized so that it blends well in the mash. 
CDCC Farmer’s Almanac. Generous 
■ samples of “Kwality’’Product*. 
H'rlw Today 
MAURER MANUFACTURING CO. 
Oepl. 10 Nswark, Now Jersey 
ONE TURN of CRANK 
TURNS 
EVERY EGG 
Without opening Incubator 
Best Construction 
Simplest to opt rat» 
!60—100—150 and 
200 Egg Sizes 
Write for Catalogue 
ROLLER TRAY INCUBATOR CO. 
300 Grant Ave. 
NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY 
SOFT-HEAT 
I Greatest Incubator Discovery in 50 Years, 
\ Insures Strong, Healthy Chicks from 
^every good egg. Iron-Clad Guirantte# 
I Porter Soft-Heat Tubeless Incubator 
combines hot air and water. Auto¬ 
matic control of heat, moisture and 
ventilation.Oenterheat plan,round 
m-st. eKK» turn BPml-automatlcally wit :i- 
! out removing: trav,—savea time ami 
mon*y. simple. Sa*e, Sure. Express Prepaid. 
_ Write for Big New Fro* Book. 
PORTER INCUBATOR CO. Box 160. Blair,Nebraska 
^ Buys 140-Egg 
^ ^ Champion 
BelleCitylncubator. „„„ 
Prize Winning Model—Hot-Water, Copper 
Tank, Double Wall* Fibre Board. Celt Regulated. 
Thermometer Holder, Nursery. With $7.SS Hot- 
Water 140-Chick Brooder — Both only $18.50 
Freight Prepaid Towards Exprets 
With this Guaranteed Hatching Outfit ami my Guide Book 
for netting up and operating your success is sure. 
M y S peel a I Offer* 
provide ways to earn extra 
money. Save time—Order 
Now. or write for Free 
catalog, “Hatching Facts" 
—It tells all—Jim Rohan,Pres. 
Belle CitjTlncubator Co.. Box 43 Racine, Wis. 
^Brooder 
| If Ordered Together. Freight Paid 
J east of Rockies. Ilot wa 1 
1 ter copper tanks, double walls, 
I dead air space, double glass 
J doors, all set up complete, or 
1 180 Egg Incubator and Brooder $20.00 
FREE Catalogue describing them. Send 
I for it TODAY or order direct. (21 
l-Wisconsin Incubator Co.. Box 102 Racine, Wis.— J 
Chickens Sick?—UseGermozono 
Roup, colds, bowel troubles, sorehead. limber nock, etc. 
At dealers or postpaid75 cts. with G book Poultry Library, 
GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. F-50 OMAHA. NEEL 
