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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
Abundant Power 
Demands a Tractor Magneto 
j'Vbundant power means complete ignition of any grade of 
fuel securing the full force of 'the explosion at the instant 
(when the piston is at the top of the power stroke. 
The New Hart Parr gets its abundant power for threes 
plows from the intense, hot spark delivered by a K-W 
Magneto. 
This magneto is designed specially for tractor service— 
ito produce a sure spark at low speeds—to stand the severe 
conditions of farm work—to give reliable service without 
expert attention. 
The longer a firm has built tractors the more certain you 
are to find them using K-W Magnetos. 
When you’re looking for power in a tractor see that the 
magneto bears the K-W trade mark. 
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ALVIN V. 
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President* 
March 20, 1920 
Heatless Brooders 
Do you think a heatless brooder is prac¬ 
tical or not? I intend to incubate 50 
eggs in March and must brood the chicks 
artificially, as I have only Leghorn hens 
this year. If chicks can be raised that 
way, I thought it would be less trouble 
than a heated brooder. If they cannot, 
would a hover be satisfactory for a 
small number of chicks? > This is the 
third year I have been keeping chicks, but 
I am green about brooders, because I have 
always used hens before. n. s. 
New York. 
Heatless brooders are entirely practi¬ 
cable after the beginning of warm weather 
and for small numbers of chicks. They 
require more attention and more skill in 
their management than heated ones, how¬ 
ever, and are not suited to those who must 
leave their chicks to themselves over long 
periods of time. The small, lamp-heated 
hovers are also very satisfactory for flocks 
of from 50 to 300 chicks and are, per¬ 
haps. safer in ordinary hands than the 
fireless brooders. The writer has reared 
many hundred chicks without artificial 
heat, keepiug as many as 100 or more in 
a single flock, but he cannot recommend 
the practice unreservedly to the novice 
who has not learned how. A semi-heat¬ 
less brooder, or one in which a jug of hot 
water is made to furnish the desired 
warmth, is also entirely feasible for such 
a flock as you propose to raise. This jug 
may be filled with hot water once or twice 
daily and at night, and opportunity given 
the chicks t:<> huddle about it in an en¬ 
closed box with outside run. To one ac 
customed to raising chicks, there should 
be no serious difficulty in caring for a 
flock of 50 without any other artificial 
beat. M. b. D. 
Co-operation for Selling Eggs 
Several of my neighbors and myself, if 
we put our flocks together, would have 
around 10.000 laying hens, all White Leg¬ 
horns. We ship all our eggs to New York 
commission men, and. of course, frequent¬ 
ly have trouble about proper returns. 
Wouldn't, it be more profitable for us if 
we put our shipments together and ship 
direct to some hotel or large restaurant, 
as we could make a contract to furnish a 
large number of eggs at a time? In this 
way we could save the 5 per cent com 
mission. Could you advise us how to go 
about making such an agreement, and how 
we could get the names of t-.mic reliable 
people who would buy our eggs the year 
around? Would it he profitable to pack 
eggs in dozen cartons and ship to a whole¬ 
sale grocer? How much more would we 
have to get for eggs done up this way 
over highest wholesale quotations in order 
to pay for the extra labor and cartons? 
Delaware. wesley HEEBXER. 
The chief advantage of co-operation 
among farmers is being able to buy and 
sell in quantities, and in having a stand¬ 
ard grade for their products. In this ease 
it would be necessary to have their eggs 
graded and tested, and every member un¬ 
derstand the requirements of “fancy 
white.” which is the grade that brings the 
highest price. 
Hotel trade is very exacting, and not 
always satisfactory even as near by as we 
are. and if in Delaware, I think I would 
prefer one of the big milk distributors, 
who maintain branch stores all over the 
city, to hotel or commission dealers. They 
will pay a small premium if sure of the 
mark. It is much more important to he 
able to guarantee quality than it is quan¬ 
tity. With all the best trade it is neces¬ 
sary to have electric light now to control 
production and furnish your supply in 
the Fall and early Winter. 
I doubt if you can find anyone willing 
to pay the extra two cents that it would 
cost each dozen to pack in cartons, be¬ 
sides, most of those using cartons have 
their own name on them. Write to Cor¬ 
nell University ' for information as to 
forming the co-operative association, as 
Prof. Rice has been out to the Pacific 
Coast recently and studied their associa¬ 
tions which are able to give their mem¬ 
bers tiie top market of New York City 
over 3.000 miles away. To hold their 
market after they get it. it takes continual 
effort in testing, grading and packing. 
FLOYD Q. WLIITE. 
Egg-eating Hens 
What is a good remedy for chickens 
that eat their eggs? E. B. 
New York. 
See that the chickens have plenty of 
crushed oyster shells before them and 
clover or Alfalfa hay, if available, so 
that the shells may be strong and resist¬ 
ant to slight pecks from the hens’ beaks. 
See to it, also, that they have animal 
food, such as beef scrap, in their ration 
in sufficient amount, about 20 per cent 
of mash food given, feed a variety of 
foods, including fresh vegetable or green 
stuff, and give the birds all the opportu¬ 
nity for range and exercise possible, to 
the extent, if necessary, of turning them 
loose from their poultry-house to get them 
interested in something besides their eggs. 
Other measures are to darken the nests 
and so arrange them that the hens can¬ 
not sit upon the edges and peck at the 
eggs already laid. Occasionally nests 
have to be so constructed with slopiug 
floors that the eggs roll out of sight be¬ 
neath a projecting ledge at one side as 
soon as they are pecked at. M. u. d. 
