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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Juue 12, 1920 
“Back up Biddy” 
with Malox 
Keep your Hens Happy and Laying 
Are your hens comfortable at night? Or 
do mites swarm out of cracks and crevices by 
thousands to suck their life blood, lower 
their vitality and reduce egg production? 
Mite6, unlike lice, hide by day. Spray the hen¬ 
house thoroughly with Malox and your birds will be 
free from mites and can lay better. It mixes instantly 
with cold water. One quart makes four gallons of 
spray. Sticks for several months until it wears off. 
Hens can’t scratch mites and lay eggs at the same time. 
Back up Biddy with MALOX and get more eggs. Write 
today for name of nearest dealer, and we will also send you 
our large illustrated book “PROTOX for Poultry.” It is 
worth having. 
The American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
Boston, Mass., Rutland. Vt„ New York City, Buffalo, 
Baltimore, Philadelphia. Detroit 
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HIS CAN OF lllalox 
MAKES SIXTEEN GALLONS 
OF SPHA'f SOLUTION 
HILLPOT 
QUALITY 
CHICKS 
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Reduced 
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ON OUR Pure-bred, 
Farm-Range Chicks 
from Record-Laying 
Strains. 
.Time hutched chicks run higher percentage of pullets, 
thrive well—and make early Winter layers. Scan these 
husky chicks. We can take splendid care of 
White Leahorns. 
Black Leghorns. 
Brown Leghorns. 
Barred or Buff Rocks 
R I Reds .. 
White Rocks or Wyandottes. 
Black Minorcas.. 
Special Matings. Leghorns, Rocks, Reds 
Order now. Prompt deliveries. Terms cash with order. 
Cannot send C. O. 1). Safe delivery guaranteed. 
W. F. HILLPOT 
Box 1 Frenchtown, N. J. 
Capacity Over a Million Chicks Per Year 
They grow quickly-— 
low prices on our big, 
your i 
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s week. 
25 
50 
too 
1000 
$5.00 
$0.25 
$18.00 
$170.00 
5.00 
9.25 
18.00 
170.00 
5.25 
10.25 
20.00 
5.00 
9.25 
18.00 
170.00 
5.25 
10.25 
20.00 
190.00 
7.00 
12.50 
25.00 
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240.00 
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REDUCED PRICES 
Be Sure ol Winter Eggs |^ re It'/ b om 
Chicks. 8-weeks old Pullets and Cockerels or Breeding 
Stock from 
Consistent 
Contest Winners 
Only on Oflieial 
Certified Contest 
Records d o we 
base our claim 
that we have the 
WORLD’S 
CHAMPION LAYERS _ 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
White Wyandottes 
S. C. R. I. Reds 
Write for our illustrated 
Cutalof?, “The Story of the 
300 -Err Hen." Price 10c, 
deducted from first order. 
PENNSYLVANIA POULTRY FARM 
Bo* P Lancaster, Pa. 
Most 
Profitable 
Poultry 
Known 
QUALITY 
S.C.W.LEGHORN CHICKS 
From selected s'oek backed by over ten years careful 
breeding for high egg production. 3,000 chicks every 
week. Helpful chick booklet free with every order. 
June, July and August chicks 16 cents each postpaid. 
Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular free. 
Brookside Poultry Farm. E. C. Brown, Prop. Stockton, N. J. 
Kirkup S. C. White Leghorns 
2d Place in Leghorn Class at Storrs 1919 Contest 
Straight American Stock—assuring you of 
large white eggs. 
Capacity—4.000 weekly—90% our output for 
March and April are booked. 
Per too 
In IsOta of 
Reduction 
On 
$25.00 
22.50 
100 or less 
400 or over 
15 °/o 
25% 
May 10-28 
June Chicks 
Order now—If not your full order, place a 
lew of them in your brooder—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. 
KIRKUP BROS. Mattituck,L.I.N.Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C.W.Leghorns 
by prepaid par¬ 
cel post at O 
cents each, live delivery fruarantced. Our stock is bred 
for size and high epfGf production. One of our birds in last 
Storrs contest laid 283—another 310. You will be pleased 
with the results from our birds. Order from this ad. 
Clear view Poultry Farm 
Coopers town. New York 
- THE STOCKTON HATCHERY - 
RHODE ISLAND REDS ) $20 per lOO Chicks 
BARRED ROCKS . . . f $ 1OO per 500 Chicks 
Order from this ad. IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES. All clucks strictly pure-bred. You canno 
buy bettor stock at any price. We guarantee safe delivery. Postage Prepaid. 
ORDER IMOW, IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES 
White Wyandottes, White Kocks. »25 per lOO chicks. #120 per 500. 
White Leghorns, $20 per lOO chicks. $180 per lOOO, delivered. 
THE STOCKTON HATCHERY STOCKTON, N. J. 
i 
Poultry Keeping in a Box 
(Continued from page 1086) 
experiment (that is what New Brunswick 
Station is for), and the results have been 
satisfactory. 
To sum up for the beginner would say 
start feeding for eggs when the chicks 
are about two days old: get the best 
quality of food and feed plenty of it, late 
and early ; furnish lots of green stuff, dan¬ 
delions. lettuce leaves, cabbage and grass 
clippings, and. above all things, plenty of 
fresh, cool water in clean vessels. You 
will'then have healthy fowls growing into 
maturity every minute of the 24-hour 
day. When they grow up remember a 
fowl needs sufficient food to keep it 
healthy and strong; then enough more to 
make it lay eggs without impairing its 
maximum strength and vitality. The re¬ 
sult will be eggs and more eggs. During 
cold weather we kept plenty of water, 
preferably warm, when supplied, before 
them. An egg is largely water, so you 
can see the necessity for it. The little 
house can ho kept during the Winter 
months near the back door (two people 
can easily carry it about). You will 
never grudge or miss the time it takes to 
give them the needed care, and the pride, 
pleasure and profit, will he all your own. 
Wo spend no more than 15 minutes a day 
feeding them and cleaning their house. 
You can't eat in 15 minutes the eggs they 
lay each day. and such eggs! Those hens 
were in no way selected, but just what we 
bought at the hatchery, and all we got. 
Bergen County, N. ,T. m. 
Profit in Broilers 
How much grain does it take to feed a 
broiler up to 3 or 4 lbs.? Which breed 
matures the fastest up to that weight? 
What is the approximate cost of feed, 
buying all feed on rite market? The idea 
is to find out is it more profitable to hatch 
all eggs the year round or sell the eggs 
I have been reading an article by Prof. 
Corbett, and he shows the possibility of 
making .$500 per year by hatching all the 
eggs from 12 hens and selling as broilers. 
If this is so. I am extremely interested. 
New Jersey. e. r. 
Some studies conducted by the Storrs 
IConn.) Experiment Station in 1918 
showed that Leghorn pullets at 21 weeks 
of age, with a normal weight of 2 lbs. 
each, had consumed 19.4 lbs. of food since 
hatching. B. T. Red pullets weighing 3 
lhs. each at 16 weeks of age lmd con¬ 
sumed 13.6 lbs. of food, and those weigh¬ 
ing 4 Ills, at 22 weeks had eaten 28.7 lbs. 
Experiments at the Purdue (Ind.) Ex¬ 
periment Station, based upon four sea¬ 
sons’ work, showed that Leghorn chicks 
at 12 weeks had consumed 5.69 lbs. of 
grain and mash and 5.07 lhs. of milk; at 
this age they should weigh a little more 
than a pound and a half and sell as 
medium-sized broilers. Two-pound White 
Plymouth Rock broilers at 9 to 10 weeks 
of age had consumed from 4.8 to 5.6 lbs. 
of grain and 6.5 to 8.5 lbs. of skim-milk. 
Other interesting deductions from these 
studies, published in 1916. were that the 
time of hatching greatly influenced the 
rate of growth, net cost of growing and 
price of broilers. Early hatched cocker¬ 
els were sold at a profit: May-hatched 
broilers sold at a loss; 1.83 eggs were 
required to hatch each Leghorn chick, and 
4.57 eggs had to he set for each Leghorn 
pullet reared to maturity. From the 
above figures you will be able to compute 
the cost of food at prevailing rates, but 
a multitude of other factors will need to 
bo considered before profits are figured. 
Computing a $500 profit from 12 hens 
must have been interesting mental exer¬ 
cise. M. B. D. 
Stale Bread for Chicks 
I want to thank you for your article 
on little chickens in answer to my ques¬ 
tions. What you say of leaving the chicks 
with their mother without giving them 
food until she begins to look for it is 
what. T call “nature’s way.” People had 
told me that they had to be taken away 
from the mother for 48 hours, hence my 
dilemma and my questions. Is dry bread 
good for little chickens? T mean old, dry 
bread ; of course, not moldy. I have it. 
made European fashion, sim+dy with 
yeast, flour and water are well baked. I 
have pleutv of sour milk for (lie chickens. 
I generally boil it. as I have been told 
that unboiled it is too laxative. Should I 
give the bread in dry crumbs or made into 
a mash in the milk? F. A. 
New York. 
Dry bread is a suitable food for young 
chicks, though it should not constitute (lie 
whole of the ration. Dry grains, finely 
cracked for the very young chicks, should 
be fed in addition, and a ground grain 
“mash” is also needed for best results. 
Bread may be fed squeezed nearly dry 
after dipping into milk, bread and milk, 
or milk alone. Milk is one of the best 
foods obtainable for chicks or old fowls. 
It should bo given in unlimited quantity 
as a drink from the time that, the chicks 
are first, fed. if available. Boiling would 
only injure the milk as food, and it should 
bo fed raw. It apparently makes little 
difference whether milk is fed sweet or 
sour, as whole milk, skim-milk or butter¬ 
milk. but it is probably best not to make 
frequent, changes from sweet to sour, or 
vice versa. m. b. d. 
A hoy was visiting another boy, and as 
they were going to bed the little host knelt 
to say his prayers. “I never say my 
prayers when I am at borne.” said the 
visitor. “That’s all right,” said the other 
boy. “You better say them here. This is 
a folding bed.”—Melbourne Australasian. 
LICE? 
THE MASSACHUSETTS 
AGRICULTURAL 
5ays; COLLEGE 
* March 22. 1920 
I found the Graylawn Louse-chase to be very 
satisfactory and am enclosing order for one dozen 
cans. (Signed) 
„ E. J. MONTAGUE. 
Farm Superintendent. Mass. Agricultural College, 
Amherst. Mass. 
$1.00 Package 
Guaranteed to Clear 
Lice and Nits from Ten 
Animals. 
ouse-Chase 
Is entirely harmless to 
the animal, easy to 
apply, and remarkably 
inexpensive. Tt will ab¬ 
solutely remove lice 
from cattle, horses, 
dogs, swine and poul¬ 
try: also ticks on sheep. 
From using LOUSE- 
CHASE in our own 
herd of pure-bred ITol- 
steins, a widespread 
demand for the remedy 
has resulted, and as 
fast as possible drug¬ 
gists and general stores 
are being supplied. If 
your dealer does not 
yet- have LOUSE- 
CHASE on hand, give 
us his name and 
send us the coupon be¬ 
low. with remittance, 
and we will mail, pre¬ 
paid. the desired num¬ 
ber of packages of 
LOUSE-CHASE. If. it 
your opinion, the rem¬ 
edy fails in the slight¬ 
est degree, your money 
will be refunded. 
■■■■■IIMAIL COUPON TODAYiMMl 
Graylawn Farms, Inc., Box H-9. Waterbury. Vt. 
Please send me .... packages LOUSE-CHASE. 
for which \ enclose $_ I am ordering this 
with the understanding that you agree to refund 
purchase price if in nty opinion the remedy does 
not make good. 
My dealer’s name is... 
Address . 
My name. 
Address . 
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BLACK FLAG 
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Scatter Black Flag powder on floors,' 
under rugs, in bed clothes and in cloth¬ 
ing to kill fleas. Blow into fur of dogs 
and cats with powder gun. Kills by inha¬ 
lation. Bug* don’t eat it—they breathe it, 
and die. Destroys flies, fleas, ants, mosqui¬ 
toes, bedbugs, roaches, some moths, and 
lice on animals, birds or plants. Harmless 
to people and animals. Look for the BLACK 
FLAG trademark and thered-and-yellow wrapper. 
At drug, department, grocery and hardware stores, 
or direct by mail on receipt of price. 
U. S. Gov't (Bulletin 771, Agri. Dept .) shows 
that glass containers leeft insect powde-s fresh 
longest time. Buy Black Flag in the SEALED 
GLASS BOTTLE instead of “insect powder" 
in paper hags or boxes. Three sizes: 15c, 40c, 75c, 
(except west of Rockies). 
BLACK FLAG, Baltimore, Ma, 
Good Hold Farm Co. 
$0 Head ol Imported WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hen 7J4 to 8U. Great Layers, and meat combine 
Black Leghorns,"Halt's Barred Kocks, old strain that lias 
proved good layers. Kennedy strain of White Leghorns 
lion to 5 lbs.; Cock 6k- to li lbs. I have bred this 
strain over 30 years. Good Hold Reds, they are large 
and good layers, line color, some lighter than the R. I. 
Reds that are seen at your shows. 1 welcome inspection 
i of this great farm stock of 995-A at any time. Eggs 
and stuck for sale. LUIN P. KENNEDY, Mentor, Ohio. 
S. C. WHITE DADV mime 
LEGHORN Diiul LfllUliJ 
Delivered to your door by prepaid parcel post 
Our chicks are all from trap-nested breeders with 
trap-nest records front 144 to ‘.’OO. all our breeding 
males are bred from liens with trap-nest records 
over :ioo. If interested in high olass agg bred 
stock write for our free circular. 
THE RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM 
Dept. 30 Cambridge Springs, Pa. 
Single Comb While Leghorns Exclusively 
Barron Strain of Winter Layers, 3000 breeders on 
free farm range inoculated and free from lice. Kprgs 
for hatching now ready in any quauity. 150,000 baby 
chicks 'for 1030. 10 to 13.000 weekly. Now booking 
orders for Juno and Julv delivery. The kind 
of chicks that live if driven have a chance. Mv book, 
Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved, free with all $10 
orders. Circular free. 
EDGAR BRIGGS, Box 75. Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
Forster Farm Baby Chicks 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
I oiler about three thousand for June delivery a* 
Twenty Dollars per hundred, booked. Nearly 
full until June sixtii. This is range stock. Satisfac¬ 
tion is guaranteed. Marvin T. Forster. Hall. N. T. 
HOMESTEAD FARM CHIX 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
Lale April—S20 100 ; May-118 100; June-$15 100 
Little Britain - New York 
8-Wks. S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets^'!'ySSSE 
1 up. William Jnndu. It. K. I). 1. Iluntiiietuii. I.. I.« B. *• 
Reds. be«t laying strains. 82S per 100 . 30e 
each. Booklets on raising ducks or turkeys, 
2 Sc each. SILVERUKE POULTRY FIRM, TUtoo, S. H. 
