1721 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Vineland, N. J. 
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 15, 1920 
The table shows the number of eggs 
iaid during week named above and total 
number of eggs laid by each pen to date. 
In this contest, beginning November 1, 
each pen contains 20 birds (pullets). 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Wk.Totl 
Garret W. Buck. N. J. 41 2854 
Edward T. Biddle. Pa. 66 3007 
S. S. Chamberlain, N. J. 17 2794 
.1 U. Kolkit & Son. N, J. 15 2372 
Glenlyn Farms. Pa. 49 2805 
Norfolk Specialty Farms, Ont. 35 2928 
Harry H. Ol>er. N. J. 58 3291 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 88 3172 
Chlcatawbur Farm Mass. 34 3259 
Chester P. Dodge. Mass. 39 2721 
Kosewood Kox. N. J. 41 2940 
Irving K. Taylor. Mass.••.... 28 2341 
The Training School, N. J. 42 3014 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
T. Townr Bates. N J. 30 2850 
K. C. Condict & Son, N. .1. 42 2800 
Deptfor I Poultry Farms, N, J. 31 2811 
Carroll 11. Hoagland, N. J. 33 2097 
O. G. Knight. K. 1. 22 2174 
John F Stringer. N. J. 31 316* 
Mrs H. H, Suter, N. J. 7 1 3245 
Acme Poultry Farm, N. .1. 52 2454 
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
j. S. Armitage, N. J.. 
Cream Uidge Poultry Vards, N. J. 
H. W. Colllngwood. N. J. 
ii Poultry Farm. N. J. 
C Heed Ferguson, N. J. 
Mrs. Wm L Hundertmark. N, J... . 
Bj more Farm. Mass. 
Howard G. Taylor, N. J. 
Underhill Bros.. N. J. 
Henry P. Walker, Mass ... 
Maple Farm. N. J. 
David IS, Warner, R. 1. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
K N. Allen, N. ,T. 
E. A Ballard, Pa. 
J. Bayer & Son, N. J. 
Berk Egg Farm, N J. 
J W. B jttcher, N. J. . 
Gregory Brundage & Son, N. Y. 
Broad Acres Farm. Conn. 
Broad View Farm. N. J. 
Broad Brook Farm. N. Y. 
Frank Carpenter, Pa. 
Cleft Rock Farm. Conn. 
J. Cray & Son, N. J. 
C. T. Darby, N. J. 
Chas. Duvall, Jr.. N. J . 
Chas.L. Ebell, N. J. 
Eigenrauch & De Winter, Inc.. N. J. 
B. S. Ells, N. J. 
Mattie H. Appele, N. J. 
hurra hill Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Forsgate Farms, N. J. 
J G. Freeman. N. J. 
J. 8. Gabriel. N. J. 
A. H. Gilbert. N. J. 
Glenwood Poultry Farm. N. J. 
Greendale Farms, N. Y . 
C. S. Green, N. J . 
Leo A. Grouten. Conn. 
James F. Harrington. N. J. 
Heigl’s Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
Henry E. Heine, N. J. 
The Hoehn Farm. N. Y. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
Conrad W. Jones. N. J. 
C Korfmann.N.S. 
W. H. Leslie, N. J. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
Harold W. Lyle, N. J. 
Fred J. Mathews. N. J. 
Sunnv Crest. N. Y. 
Mt Hope Farm. Mass. . 
Frederick B. Naylor. N. J. 
Samuel Niece & -on, N. J. 
Thomas Peterson Jr , N. J. . 
George Phillips, Conn. 
Spring Lake Farm. N. J. 
Queensbury Farm. N J. 
Rapps Leghorn Farm, Inc.. N. J. 
Lion Head Poultry Farni.N.JJ. 
Columbian Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Wenanna Yard, N. J. 
John G. Simmonds. N. J. 
Herman F. Sender N. J. 
A. E. Spear, N. J. 
Matthew Stothart, Jr.. N. J. 
Tom’s Poultry Farm, N. ,1 . 
The Training Schqpl, N. J. 
Levi J. Troth. N. J. 
Pleasant View Farm. It. I.. . 
Farm Colony Kansas. . 
Peter P Van Nuys, N, F. 
W. C. Voegtlen. N. J. 
Gustav Walters. N. J. 
Westwood Poultry Farm, N. J. 
A. G. Whetsel, N J. 
Ue won E. White. N. J. 
WUlanna Farm. N. J . 
Woodland Farms, N J...7. 
51 2864 
15 2462 
20 2157 
45 3090 
31 3365 
50 2944 
27 2590 
56 3466 
47 2598 
58 4174 
48 3140 
43 2724 
23 2947 
28 3509 
25 3294 
22 3348 
23 3957 
24 2951 
40 3111 
28 3583 
30 3391 
43 3632 
44 2898 
36 3276 
49 3316 
.. 1.348 
12 3044 
35 3188 
59 3552 
33 3374 
47 3885 
15 2762 
44 3368 
24 3718 
43 3524 
27 2896 
29 3574 
7 2013 
14 3592 
65 3586 
31 2305 
22 29S4 
36 3004 
71 4052 
36 3661 
25 3221 
47 3292 
40 3722 
26 3787 
33 3893 
15 2698 
23 3199 
22 3210 
24 3181 
19 3321 
52 3573 
15 3228 
48 8042 
37 3500 
34 3834 
49 3543 
31 2749 
24 2889 
24 2998 
31 3577 
29 3599 
24 2693 
38 2766 
28 3 33 
30 3)38 
33 3325 
12 3207 
18 3138 
28 3382 
31 3746 
16 2667 
14 2927 
14 3033 
21 3388 
Total 
3362 311966 
Starting a Large Poultry Plant 
" hat type of laying house would you 
suggest for 1,000 layers, in Northern New 
Jersey or Connecticut? What size and 
style of brooder houses would be best, in 
your opinion, for a plant say, to be built 
for 1.000 layers, but expected to be in¬ 
creased in due time to 2,000 or 3,000 lay- 
'; rs • What size of incubator should be 
installed at first, for, say, 3,000 chicks, 
but later for 12.000 to 15,000 chicks, and 
"hat size and style incubator cellar 
would you suggest? What size and style 
colony coops would you suggest, and how 
m «ny. say for 2,000 chicks? A man 
wants me to enter bis employ, in a sort 
of partnership, be to furnish capital to 
build the plant (on his farm) ; I to give 
niy labor and experience. I have never 
dad an offer of this kind and am at a loss 
how to make a proposition. I do know, 
however, that no clear profit could be 
earned the first year and a half ( on an 
entirely new plant). The plant to pro- 
duee fancy eggs, broilers and baby chicks. 
" bat would be a fair proposition for me 
fo make, and what is your advice to me? 
i have been working with poultry for 
nearly i!(> years, mostly on private es- 
<atos\ but carried the plant on a eelf-pay- 
>ng basis, from laborer to foreman, and 
: , im ! ‘t present drawing .$100 per month, 
nouse, fuel, light and milk; also vege¬ 
tables and fruit when plenty, k. l. h. 
I should build the standard type of shed 
!" double pitch roofed poultry house, hav¬ 
ing the windows in front so arranged as 
‘Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
to drop hack at the tops for ventilation. 
Before embarking upon an enterprise of 
the size you plan you can well afford to 
visit a number of modern poultry plants 
and learn their methods of housing. It 
will pay you also to write the State Ag¬ 
ricultural colleges at Ithaca, N. Y., New 
Brunswick, N. .T.. and Storrs, Conn., ask¬ 
ing for their bulletins upon poultry and 
brooder houses. For the latter, I should 
advise the portable type of colony brooder 
house, such as you will find described in 
bulletins from the New York State Col¬ 
lege iit Ithaca. A mammoth incubator 
that can he erected in sections and so 
made capable of expansion later would 
be most suitable for a large plant. This 
could be erected in any suitable cellar 
upon the premises, or in one dug for the 
purpose. 
If you have had no experience in keep¬ 
ing poultry upon a large scale you will 
have much to learn, and the more that 
you can learn by observation of going 
plants before your employer’s money is 
invested in buildings, etc., the less heart¬ 
breaking your losses are likely to he. It 
will not be time and money wasted, but 
well spent, if you spend some weeks in 
visiting some of the successful poultry 
plants in your vicinity .before attempting 
to build a plant of your own. m. b. n. 
Cornell Mash 
Will you give me the formula for the 
Cornell mash? Is there any law against 
mixing if and soiling to customers, as we 
are in the feed business and have some 
call for it ? h. m. T. 
The laying mash at present recommend¬ 
ed at the Cornell Experiment Station is 
composed of equal parts, by weight, of 
common!, wheat bran, middlings, ground 
oats and beef scrap. Three pounds of 
salt are added to each 500 lbs. of mash. 
There is no objection to your making up 
this mash for your customers, so far as 
the agricultural station is concerned, 
there being no copyright or patent upon 
the results of the work of a publicly sup¬ 
ported institution. The feeds law, how¬ 
ever. requires that manufacturers of 
mixed feeds secure a license and print 
upon the container of the feint a guaran¬ 
teed analysts of its contents. To keep a 
quantity of mixed feed of your own com¬ 
pounding in stock for sale would he at. 
least a technical violation of this law. 
You are at liberty to mix up any feed 
upon order from a customer, and it would 
not be difficult to have orders on hand if 
an inspector should inquire into the pres¬ 
ence of a small quantity of mixed feed in 
stock. Tt is a great convenience to cus¬ 
tomers. as well as to the dealer, to have 
a mixture of this kind on hand. 
M. B. D. 
Formula for Mixed Chicken Feed 
How can I prepare a good mixture of 
chicken feed? I have corn, wheat, oats, 
millet and sunflowers. f. h. 
Ileus and pullets need both, whole and 
ground grains in their ration, and skim- 
milk or meat scrap should bo added to 
supply additional and animal protein. A 
mixture of corn, wheat and oats, with a 
little millet and sunflower seed added, 
will make a good whole grain ration, but 
you will need a mash in addition. A good 
formula for this is equal parts by weight 
of corn meal, wheat bran, middlings, 
ground oats and beef scrap. Gluten feed 
may be added to this in the same pro¬ 
portion that the other ingredients are 
used, though this will give a rather low 
proportion of meat scrap for best results. 
Skim-milk will at least partially replace 
meat scrap if it can be had in quantity. 
Whole oiits will not be eaten as readily 
as will the other grains, and they should 
not be so fed as to be wasted. Sunflower 
seeds are rich in oil and need to be fed 
in limited quantity. K. b. d. 
Limberneck 
What ails my chickens? They get 
somewhat blind, then eyes close and heads 
hang down if on roost; no discharge from 
eyes nor bowels. They seem perfectly all 
right one day and the next I find a few 
affected. Two hens I found on the nest 
had laid, but were asleep. Would eating 
nightshade berries affect them thus? 
Where can I get a hook on diseases of 
fowls? L. c. w. 
The symptoms that you describe resem¬ 
ble those of “limberneck,” a disease sup¬ 
posed to be caused by eating decayed 
meat or other poisonous substances. 
Fowls sometimes gain access to dead rats, 
woodchucks or other carrion about the 
premises, and this source of poisoning 
should be looked for In such cases. Night¬ 
shade berries have a popular reputation 
for poisonous properties that does not 
seem to have much foundation. If the 
plant is poisonous at all, the poisonous 
properties are probably slight. This plant 
is confounded in thought with the deadly 
nightshade of Europe, the source of our 
common poisonous drugs, belladonna and 
atropine, and it is not unlikely that this 
is the reason for its unenviable reputa¬ 
tion . 
Farmers’ Bulletin 530, which may be 
obtained upon application to the United 
States Department of Agriculture at 
Washington. D. C., treats of the com¬ 
mon poultry diseases, while a more com¬ 
plete description may be found in “Dis¬ 
eases of Poultry” by Salmon. The Maine 
Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Orouo. Me., has also published a valuable 
pamphlet upon “Poultry Diseases and 
Their Treatment,” which, if still iu print, 
may probably be purchased from that sta¬ 
tion. 51. B. D. 
Along the 
Seaboard 
the south's newest great railway- 
Productive prairie land along the Sea¬ 
board, with pasturage every month, can 
often be bought for but little more than 
interest Western farmers pay on mort¬ 
gages. 
Soy beans, velvet beans and peanuts fur¬ 
nish an abundance of rich home-grown con¬ 
centrates. Instead of housing cattle for 
months and feeding them hay, silage and con¬ 
centrates, they are turned into velvet bean 
pastures and rapidly get into market condi¬ 
tion. Wonderful gains are made and splen¬ 
did flavored meat. In the “Black Belt” of 
Alabama and in Georgia alfalfa flourishes. 
Shoats hog down the peanuts, making big 
gains at lowest cost per pound, one acre of 
peanuts equalling two of corn. 
Ewes in Florida and other States drop lambs 
from November to January. Early pastures 
are provided by sowing oats, rye and rape, 
and the .farmers have a well-grown fat 65 lb. 
by April — get “hot-house’’ prices for 
pastured lambs. 
Stock-raising,_ general farming, fruit and 
vegetable growing are paying big probts. 
Write me for booklet and information. Ad¬ 
vise kind of farming in which interested. 
J. M. Jones, General Development Agent 
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY 
Room 152, Royster Building, Norfolk, Va. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier, 
profits larger. 
MANN’S USSR Bone Cutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. lO Days’ Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today for Free Booh 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mass. I 
HERE’S YOUR CHANCE 
To Get PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK 
NOTICE 
Stock advertised the past two weeks is 
all sold 
LONG RIVER FARMS, West Willington, Conn. 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
Exclusively all raised on free farm range. 
Barron Strain, milk fed. 200 choice cocks 
and cockerels for sale. lOO yearling cocks 
bred from certified layers. Price 85 each. 
In lots of 10 or more S3 each. Bargains 
while they last. Circular free. Now book¬ 
ing orders for baby chicks. 1921 Delivery. 
EDGAR BRIGGS. Box 75. PLEASANT VALLEY, N.Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
Late March and early May hatches. All are well de¬ 
veloped birds, bred from exceptionally fine slock. Selling 
a few hundred only because of inability to house. I •rices 
$2 to 93. Pinewood Poultry Farm, Toms River, N. J. 
sale 32 Brown Leghorn Pullets $ U 2 e EACH 
65 White Leghorn May hatch Pullets, some laying. S3 
each. \\ hue Wyandotte Pullets, May hatch S3 each. 
White Wyandotte and Brown Lfg’horn Cockerels, 33 
each. BERT PRESCOTT, Ene.t junction, Vermont 
B arron leghorn cockerels 
log, husky range raised cockerels bred front care¬ 
fully selectedjtrapncstedlbreeders with egg records 
over 200. All stock guaranteed to be as represent. d. 
THE RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM, Cambridge tpringi. Pa. 
PULLETS-iK' White leghorns 
Bred for egg production at 92 to S3 >-ach. Our birds aro 
baokt d by official records—high as 232 eggs each Satis¬ 
faction. Clearview Poultry 1- arm, Cooperstowu. 5. T. 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS- Wyckoff Strain 
April and llay hatch. Long and broad ba. ks. All have 
the lop comb. Now laying. Yearlings 92 up. All birds 
Guaranteed. FOREST FARM, Rockaway, N. J. 
Pure Barron COCKERELS 
sons of directly imported stock with pedigree of 280-288 
i eggs. Big. husky range grown fellows, equal to the best 
as utility breeders. Shipped on approval. 
It. T. KWINCi. - - ATLANTIC, PA. 
5o°m r a r S H ttcHED S G. While Leghorn Pullets'«;»!! 
Certified stock, S1.50 each. H DRY G0RLEY. Route 2. Peekxkill, N.Y. 
Foa°R™tsu.to While Leghorn Yearlings SSL***? 
great w inter layers. BERY PRESCOTT. Else, .unction, Vermont 
BARRON’S White Wyandottes 
Cockerels. Pullets and Hens for sale from stock 1 import¬ 
ed. Records, 262 to 283. E. E. Lewis Apalaehin, .Now York 
MATTITUCK White Leghorn Farm 
Late May and early June pullets. Bred from select¬ 
ed, heavy-laying stock—part Barron—grown on free 
range. Not culls or diseased stock. 81.75 and 82 
each, according to age and development. Circular. 
A. H. I’ENMf - Mattituck, New York 
LANS FOR POULTRY HOUSES 
All Styles. 150 illustration*. Als^copy of‘‘The Full 
Egfr Basket-.*’ These will surely please you—send 
25c- INLAN0 POULTRY JOURNAL. Dept. 41. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
LIVE—CAPONS—LIVE 
YOUNG — EA ELY HATCHED — GROWING 
11 Best poultry meat in the world 
I I Cheapest and easiest to grow 
II Order at once for fall delivery 
11 Direct from farm to you via express 
DEXTER P. UPHAM, BELMAR, N\ J. 
Rhode Island Reds S S 
An exceptional lot of strong, vigorous Cockerels at 
85 and 87.50 each. Same birds will cost from $10 
to $15 in the spring. Also about twenty April 
hatched pullets at 83 each. All from large uniform- 
ally dark red stock and bred for winter eggs. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. O. G. L. Lewis, Paoli, Pa. 
S. C. R. I.REDS 
5 ibert’s 231 to 289-egg strain. 4 yearling hens and 1 cock, 
*20. Cockerels, to *10. ANNA M. JONES, CraryvUle. X. Y. 
Youngsters and Old Stock at Special Prices during 
our Surplus Stock Sale. America’s Oble-t and 
Greatest Laying Strain now celebrating their 31st 
Anniversary. Circular Free. Large Catalog 25c. 
J W. PARKS, Box Y. ALTOONA, PA. 
Wliite FlOcKs 
Choice yearling hens and pullets for sale. Early 
la'ing strain, 83 each, Wentworth Lodge 
Poultry Co., Derry Village, New Hampshire 
ECKHART’S BARRED ROCKS 
We have choice Cockerels and Cocks for sale at rea¬ 
sonable prices. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money 
refunded. Folder Free. C.W. & H. J. Eckhart, Shohola. Pa. 
FRANCAIS ROCKS 
Breeding pens 930 up ; coekerels—cocks, 97.50 up ; pul¬ 
lets. $60 per doz. and up. Won last Starrs c mtest. Leading 
this year contest. JULES F. FRANCAIS, Wtsthampton Beach. L. I.. N.Y. 
Imperial Ringlet Barred Rock Cockerels 
fine stock, $10 value, our price, S5 each. S. C. 
Brown Leghorn Cockerels, 83 each. Barred Rock. 
White, Brown and Black Leghorn Pullets, Game 
Cockerels and Pullets. £. R. HUMMER 9 CO.. Frenchtawn. N. J. 
COCKERELS-Barred P. Rocks 
from trap-nested, bred-to-lay stock. Hnsky, farm 
raised stock at $5 to $lO each. Guaranteed. 
G. A. WILLIAMS, Box 494. Warwick, N.Y. 
Barred Plymouth Rock Pullets and Cockerels 
from Ithio Ribbon Winners for sale. Price $3 and up. 
J. P. OKKIVEI.HINDER, p. 0. Box 93, Highland Ave-, Emerson, N. J. 
F OK SaI.K—R umm Leghorn Coekerels from trap- 
nested stock. O. W. Sherman, r. f. d. 1, Mahovac, N.Y 
F OHS4I.F:—Silver Coek Pheasant and 2 liens. $50 
forthethree. - IFOUlFEItA, l’lttstown, N. J. 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS 
At New York State Fair. Hanover and Allentown, 
Pa., Trenton, N. J., and Hagerstown. Md., they 
attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands. 
Fifty-two prizes and silver cup on capon for best 
meat type in show. Booking orders for batching egg 
chicks and olderstock. Write for folder with cuts to 
MARCY FARM :: MATA WAN. N. J. 
Bourbon Red Turkeys st rain.' Breed¬ 
ing stock ready for shipment. FIONA HORNING, Owb|o, N. Y. 
Mammoth Til D If C V ^ 20 1b. Toms *15; 12-14-lb. hens *10. 
Bionze I UIIIXL I w Copper bronze, white edges. 
Order before Nov. 18, MRS. DEO. (S. KOYCE, D.paj.ter, .N.Y. 
Mammoth Toulouse Geese SUS^*7bi?dt 
Priced moderately. Dto. K. BHANDS, Stroudibujg, Pa. 
W IIITK WYANDOTTES—Pullets and Cockerels. Earlv May 
hatch. Pure Barron strain. Splendid mdhiduals, 
$3.50 Each. Ultra Poultry Farm. Apalachin. N Y. 
Special Fall Prices on TURKEYS, DUCKS, GEESE 
Also Best Bre ds chickens. Write Your wants. Catalog 
j ^ Fee. //. A. SOUDER* Box 29, SellersviUe. Pa. 
For Sale-Large 2 and 3-Yr.-0ld Toulouse Geese 
Fine breeders. $25 per trio. The MicPherson Firm. Millingien, N. J. 
For Sale-p u, e e Silver Campine Cockerels Marding 
Stock. $5 each. TUB Maci’IIEKSO.N FARM. MillinffUa, N. J. 
White Wyandottes 
Trap nested. Pedigreed. The kind that Pavs to 
breed. HENS, COCKS, COCKEKELS $3.50 up 
R^\V. STEVENS, Schuylerville, N. Y. 
F.I. BRITON F.\RM, R. 1. Hudson, N. Y: 
Martin s White Wyandottes 
orels, $5 each . Eggs. MT. ROTlL FARM, inherit, Virginia 
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