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Always Take 
Mother’s Advice’’ 
“Little one, there’s nothing that 
will make you grow and develop 
so as to lay lots of eggs, as quickly 
as International Poultry Food 
Tonic.” 
Thirty years of successful use by 
thousands upon thousands of poultry 
raisers proves it to be thoroughly de- 
E endable. If you want the biggest 
roilers and earliest layers use 
INTERNATIONAL 
Poultry Food Tonic 
Helps chicks to develop remarkably 
fast. Helps to invigorate the digestive 
organs of all kinds of poultry, to supply 
material for bone, feathers and muscle 
—and to make hens lay more eggs. 
Helped Her Chicks Grow Faster 
I am sure that International Poultry 
Food Tonic made my young chicks 
healthier and grow faster. 
—Mrs. Herbert Elliot, Gladbrook, la. 
Successful With Incubator Chicks 
We gave International Poultry Food 
Tonic all spring to the little chicks and 
hardly lost one, although they were all 
incubator chicks I am well pleased, 
and will buy more soon. 
•—Fred J. Happel, Pender, Neb. 
Got Fiv« Times More Eggs 
Before using International Poultry 
Food Tonic I was getting one and two 
eggs a day, but now am getting eight 
and ten. 
•—Solomon Walters, Marengo, Ohio. 
ASK YOUR DEALER 
for International Poultry Preparations. 
Then use them as per directions and 
you can't help but be successful. 
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Minneapolis, Minn. Toronto, Canada 
Kirkup S. C. White Leghorns 
2d Place in Leghorn Class at Storrs 1919 Contest 
Straight American Stock—assuring you of 
large whitd eggs. 
Capacity—4,000 weekly—90% our output for 
March and April are booked. 
Per 100 
In Ixfts of 
Red ur tion 
On 
$25.00 
22.50 
100 or less 
400 or over 
15% 
25% 
May 10-28 
JuneChicks 
Order now—If not your full order, place a 
few of them in your breeder—you can 
then judge best where to place your 
order for 1921. 
Guarantee: Full count of strong chicks 
delivered. You alone judge them. No 
opening of boxes at express office. 
Ymi want ^ ol how many chicks for a dollar tl„,• M .. 
But chicks worth a dollar for a dollar sour "*otto 
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BARRON 
S. C. W. Leghorn Cockerel: 
* = ^ t° 265 hens, mated to males from 297-hens 
hens, mated to male from 297-hen 
»7 o(). 280 to 288 hens, mated to male from 291 
hen, $10. A Iso other matings. 
Frisbie W ard - Poultney^Vermon 
George’s White Leghorr 
Chicks from Good Layer* 
My ten birds in the Connecticut Contest lai< 
‘‘ Nov. 1st to March 12th, exceeded lv 
only two pens. My 20 birds in the New Jerse : 
Contest for the same time laid 1,358 eggs 
® x ceedecl only by one pen. 
Baby Chicks for May delivery, $28 per 100 
u ordered now, closely related to the birds ii 
j contest pens. Chicks like these pay man' 
tunes more profit than average chicks. Ever' 
..tti, i! 1 ' 1 ,’ 1 , ollt is of t,1 ‘ > same quality as ever; 
m.rL,' , as " oar , ® 8 , Practicable. Safe deliver; 
SPml ,,or 10 °- balance one wee] 
nreaa 6 8l ' , . , ' ment - 1 pay postage, but not ex 
Stlsnk Shl P“ ent ®. every Wednesday. Eggs 
100. Circular Free. 
GEORGE PHILLIPS, R25, SEYMOUR, CONN 
W"^¥ C a Mammoth l’ekin Eggs, $8 pel 
12 ! * 5 ' 50 Per 24. Pawn am 
g ‘-b pc- 
Pedigreed S. C. R. I. Red 
m record henshead ourpens. Hatching eggs, «: 
up. Cockerel s, $4, THE '‘ISLAND HOAD NF0S"FARM, R.nu.y M J 
R*C.R.I.RFDS-FGCVi tor Hatching. *9 p., 
Vigorous Stock v ,, UU:5 15 = *«" per hundred 
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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Determining Sex of Eggs and Chicks 
Is thorp any truth in the various theo¬ 
ries about determining the sex of eggs 
or of day-old chicks? Some of the “pro¬ 
moters” claim that they can even tell 
from the egg before it is put into the in¬ 
cubator. j. b. 
The only kind of which the sex can be 
determined while young is the Barred 
Hock. In these the male chicks will he 
found to have a pure yellow beak and 
legs, while the female will have dark 
color on the beak and legs. I have found 
this to hold good in nearly every case, 
and do not hesitate to say that it will 
prove correct in fully 90 per cent of cases. 
I found the above in a poultry journal, 
and have tested it out. c. v. B. 
Michigan. 
If there is any way to determine the 
sex of eggs I have yet to learn it. I 
understand that the egg itself does not 
know whether it is to produce a male or 
female; or, in other words, the germ up 
to several days of ineuhation is exactly 
the same for both sexes. Something, 
causes or conditions yet unknown to us. 
determines which sex the little chick shall 
be, and who knows hut the one gaining 
supremacy has to crowd the other sex out 
of its chance of trying life here? As a 
rule, we get around the same number of 
male as female chicks, when hatches are 
normal. When they are poor, more males 
are the result. I have been offered the 
secret if I would pay the price, and one 
man gave me his. hut we find cockerels 
fully as profitable to sell as pullets, so 
we set the eggs as they run. 
Rhode Island. rt. j. Lambert. 
Promoting Bone Growth in Fowls 
I am trying to improve the bone in m.v 
fowls. Which is better, ground fish bone 
or commercial ground bone. In what 
quantities and how should it be fed to 
fowls, and in what quantities and how 
should it he fed to chicks? I have a 
friend in Georgia who breeds splendid 
bone, and attributes it to the fact that 
his fowls are fed ground local granite 
rock as they will eat it: all fowls having 
free range in his locality are noted for 
fine bone substance. They pick up this 
rock. Do you think there is something 
in this? A. G. H. 
New York. 
I do not think it worth while to feed 
especially for bone production, unless the 
fowls are lacking in material for frame¬ 
work. All good rations contain bone- 
forming material sufficient for the needs 
of growing or mature fowls, and an ex¬ 
cess would simply he discarded rather 
than utilized. Such foods as wheat bran, 
clover and Alfalfa, meat and bone scrap, 
crushed oyster shells are rich in bone¬ 
forming material, and few if any com¬ 
monly used foods are entirely lacking in 
them. Any well-balanced ration will con¬ 
tain these or other foods with sufficient 
mineral matter for the needs of the fowl’s 
body, and if a ration does not they should 
be added. I should not attribute good 
bone formation to the use of crushed 
granite as grit or food, though the lime in 
any form of limestone so used would 
probably be at least partially utilized. 
Like other characters, heavy bone forma¬ 
tion may he increased by breeding. It 
may be retarded, of course, by depriving 
the fowls of the mineral and other hone¬ 
forming elements in their food. I should 
prefer fresh cut bone to the commercial 
product if fed while it is still fresh. One- 
half ounce to one ounce per bird should 
have correspondingly smaller amounts. 
Commerical beef scrap contains large 
quantities of bone and is one of the chief 
ingredients of nearly all poultry rations. 
M. B. D. 
Removing a Rooster’s Spurs 
I have among several a very vicious 
Light Brahma cock, possessed of real 
business-like spurs. Today he used those 
spurs on my mother-in-law’s arm. result¬ 
ing in an ugly cut. Esteeming my 
mother-in-law much more than mothers- 
iu-law are popularly supposed to he re¬ 
garded. I want tc know if there is a way 
to remove those spurs without injury to 
the bird, whose value for breeding pur¬ 
poses more than offsets our grudge against 
him for past offenses. E. o. D. 
East Aurora, N. Y. 
I should not hesitate to deprive this 
bird of his spurs by any method that 
seemed humane and effectual. A pair 
of tinner’s snips ought to do the job, or 
perhaps some veterinarian’s dehorning 
shears used up on cattle may be available. 
Lacking any of these, a sharp hatchet, 
a hard wood block, a good eye and steady 
hand might reduce the war-like beast to 
submission. I should not cut close 
enough to the shank to endanger the 
fowl’s legs, but should remove enough of 
the spur to place him in the fighting class 
with lambs and turtle doves. There 
really is no more reason a domestic cock 
should carry long, sharp spurs than there 
is for a bull to become a menace because 
of death-dealing horns. In the course 
of time, uuder domestication, all of these 
natural weapons will doubtless be lost, 
but as we can hardly await the eons of 
time required by nature to effect such 
changes through the process of evolution, 
the more speedly method of artificial dis¬ 
arming will have to be adopted to make 
our barnyards safe. m. b. n. 
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UP 
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