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‘[he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Performance Proves 
Cletrac Merit 
Farmers everywhere are enthusiastic over 
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powerful little tank-type Cletrac. 
In all tillage operations the Cletrac pulls 
steadily and easily over rough ground, fresh- 
plowed earth or soft-seedbeds. 
The firm, sure grip of the bro^d metal 
tracks turns practically all ’ . power into 
direct draw-bar pull. 
The Cletrac doesn’t p ‘'dig-in” or form 
hard-pan. Its weight only 4^ pounds per 
square inch of tractive surface. 
Even during the dustiest operations the 
new air-washer feeds clean most air to the 
Cletrac motor. 
Talk with the Cletrac dealer near you. Or 
write fora copy of “SelectingYour Tractor.” 
Wheels on a track —the 
Cletrac way -take less power 
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•Tune 12. 1020 1 
Poultry Keeping in a Box 
Perhaps a detailed history of a venture 
in chickens raised and kept on a space 
6x3 feet will be of interest to many of 
your readers. On May 27. 1919. I went 
to a public hatchery and bought 20 White 
Leghorn and five Plymouth Rock day-old 
chicks, paying therefor $4. On my ar¬ 
rival home we prepared a box about one 
foot and a half square by 10 inches deep 
by putting in some lawn clippings, well 
dried in the sun, and in the center stood 
a half-gallon jug three-anarters full of 
warm water, and wrapped with a woolen 
cloth, covering all with a cotton cloth laid 
double. The little chicks took to the 
‘‘mother’’ like ducks to water. 
As soon as they were housed we started 
feeding them with a buttermilk food, 
giving it dry on a saucer about every two 
hours for the first two weeks, and paying 
particular attention that they had plenty 
of clean water. In a few days we lost 
one chick, and some of the others were 
drooping, but an appeal to the State Poul¬ 
try Farm at New Brunswick, N. J., 
brought advice which we at once followed 
with success. At the end of the tenth 
day we had 21 chicks and raised all of 
them without mishap. During the third 
week I got. a box about 15x15x30 in. long, 
made a three-sided run 15x15 in.. 6 ft. 
long, covered with poultry wire. In this 
they were raised until the 11 pullets start¬ 
ed to lay. The cockerels, when about 
one month old, were put iu a similar en¬ 
closure and eaten as they matured. 
On November 1 we got our first egg. 
and by using a borrowed trap-nest we 
were able to mark the first six pullets to 
lay. and put them into the little house 
6x3 I had made. We intended eating the 
others, but as they had started laying, a 
neighbor said it would be a shame to 
kill them, and lent us a box 2%x2 1 / (> ft., 
and about five fe t long, raised off the 
ground by two wooden “horses.” Into 
this we i r.t three Leghorn pullets, two 
Plymouth Rock pullets and two White 
Leghorn hens that had laid eggs for u- 
during the year 1919. With this equip¬ 
ment and plenty of feed they started to 
produce eggs, as follows; 
November, 1919. eggs laid. 90 
December, 1919, eggs laid. 154 
January, 1920. eggs laid. 184 
February. 1920, eggs laid. 207 
March. 1920. eggs laid. 28C> 
April. 1920. eggs laid. 291 
Total eggs laid.1212 
Or 101 doz. eggs. 
To feed each hen a day cost .till cents. 
Each dozen of eggs cost .301-5 cents. 
The Box Poultry House 
Early in February one of the pullets 
was destroyed on account of an injury. 
A few days later the two old hens finished 
moulting and started to lay. 
Statement of expenditures and receipts : 
EXPENDITURES. 
May 27. 1919, paid for 20 
Leghorn chicks at 15c. $3.00 
May 27. 1919, paid for 5 
Plymouth Rocks at 20c 1.00 $4.00 
Up to Dec. 31. 1919. feed 
and utensils . 29.60 
Jan.. 1920, feed and uten¬ 
sils . 3.89 
Feb., 1920, feed and uten¬ 
sils . 0.04 
Mar., 1920, feed and uten¬ 
sils . 
4.6!* 
Apr.. 1920, feed and uten¬ 
sils . 5.31— $49.53 
Tut a l 
$53.53 
RECEIPTS. 
Up to Oct. 31, 1919. 7 
Leghorn cockerels at 
60c each. $4.20 
Dec. 24. 1919. 5 P. II. 
cockerels. 22U> lbs., at 
50c per lb. . . 11.25— $15.45 
Dee. 31. 1919, cash for 
eggs. Nov. and Dec.. . . 21.51 
Jan. 31. 1920, cash for 
eggs during month.... 17.68 • 
Feb. 29. 1920, cash for 
eggs during month.... 16.33 
Mar. 31. 1920, cash for 
eggs during month.... 16.04 
April 30. 1920, cash for 
eggs during month.... 11.00— $82.51 
Up to April 30 we used 
156 e»ws, 13 doz.. at. 
say. '"0c a doz.. which 
was less than we sold 
any for . $9.10 
12 hens for which we had 
an offer of $25. 34.10—$182.06 
Tn starting to keep a few hens for profir 
and pleasure, we availed ourselves of the 
information and advice of the State Bu¬ 
reau of Poultry, bought and read publi¬ 
cations like The It. N.-Y. and poultry 
journals, and make a faithful effort to 
live up to the advice we therby acquired 
In feeding and care we in no way tried to 
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