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j || | lap — extended shoulders top and ' 
bottom—less mortar exposed, bet- 
fell; ter settling of silage—less chance 
Bp| for frost, better looking silo, blocks 
|s23! uniform in shade. Stronger walls. 
S|!| Notched ends on blocks prevent 
mortar from slipping. Twistedsteel 
jgD|l reinforcing. Steel hip roof—steel 
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Dept. 329 , Lansing, Mich. 
Factories: New Brighton, Pa.; A%-M 
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With a Silo 
Well hatched, well bred, from best heavy 
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W. F. Hillpot, Box 1 Frenchtown, N. J, 
PENN-POST HOTEL and ANNEX 
304 30G W. 31st St., New York City. 5 minutes from 
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and shower baths. Transients, >1.50 up. Permanent, 48 
up. lteservations by wire or mail. Telephone5i4 Chelsea. 
Representative Local Agents Wanted 
in Unoccupied territory for New Jersey, New York 
and Central Pennsylvania. Communicate with 
Godfrey Fertilizer & Chemical Go., Newark, N.d. 
For Sale-Dairy, Fruit, Poultry and Boarding House 
Torino iu t,lc Catskills. Any size at the right, price. 
railllS HENRY RAUCH. S04 lllll.ld. iv«„ Jamah., I,. I., N. Y. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Other Advertisments of Subscribers’ 
Exchange will be found on page 99. 
FOK SALE—Finest white clover and basswood 
extracted honey, in f.O-lb. cans; packed two 
cans per ease: price f. o. I), my station $24.(X) 
per case. NOAH BORDNER, Holgate, 0. 
SAUSAGE, Homemade, for sale—30c lb., de¬ 
livered parcel post. ALLAN NORTON, Ash- 
ville, N. Y. 
WANTED—-Two 14-inch bottom tractor plow; 
one tandem disk harrow for 8-l(! traetor. 
A. J. MAHONEY, Box 8(>, North Norwich, N. Y. 
ALFALFA for sale; two cars green, leafy, sec¬ 
ond cutting; two cars mixed, half each Tim¬ 
othy. Alfalfa. W. A. WITHftOW, Route 4, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
WANTED—Cement blocking machine and con¬ 
crete mixer. JOSEPH BARTKE, Leeds, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—8-h.p. steam boiler, with engine 
and water pump; price $250. JOSEPH 
BARTKE, Leeds, N. Y. 
SALE or EXCHANGE—Eight-bottle enclosed 
Babcock tester; perfect condition; new value, 
over $20; no use; want honey extractor or offers. 
JESSE NEWELL, Girard, Ill. 
Any Demand for Poultry Crates 
We have a very good poultry crate of 
hardwood construction, and- as we are 
contemplating making it for the market 
would like to ask whether there is much 
demand for crates, and if so, at what 
source it is? It would hardly seem good 
business policy to make any number of 
these till we know more about the demand 
for them. We are able to make a good, 
strong crate that we can sell for about 
.$2.25, which we believe is somewhat be¬ 
low the present market price. We make 
them from left-over stock from our reg¬ 
ular line of work. N. c. B. 
Milford, N. II. 
I gather from the above that this in¬ 
quirer wishes to make the ordinary crates 
that live fowls are shipped in to the mar¬ 
kets of the big cities, and to learn where 
to sell them. Of course, the demand is 
from those who have live poultry to ship, 
and I know of no way to reach them ex¬ 
cept by advertising. The quantity of live 
poultry brought into the Now York mar¬ 
ket each week is astonishing. It aver¬ 
ages much more than 100 carloads a 
week. Last week it was 214 carloads. 
This takes a great many crates, but the. 
empty crates are returned to the ship¬ 
pers—at least mine always were—and 
the commercial crate is so stiffened with 
wires that it may be used many times. 
The big shippers usually send out teams 
into the country to collect the live poul¬ 
try- It seems to me it would be well to 
obtain from wholesale dealers in live 
poultry the names of the big shippers, 
then to send a salesman with sample and 
prices. After connection was once estab¬ 
lished, the goods and prices being satis¬ 
factory, the trade would be started. There 
would be quite a business in furnishing 
shipping coops for breeding stock, single 
birds, pairs, trios and half-dozen hens and 
cockerels. The sizes these coops must he 
obtained at express office. The agents 
are very, strict now against overcrowding 
the birds. george a. cosgrove. 
The 200-egg Duck 
We read much nowadays of 200, 250 
and 300-egg hens, hut little, if anything, 
about ducks that are record layers. Of 
course it is next to impossible to obtain 
individual records from ducks, because 
ducks cannot be trap-nested, but the duck 
man might steal a march on the hen man 
and, instead of attempting individual rec¬ 
ords, work for a flock record—a record, 
let ns say, to start with, of 200 eggs per 
year, per duck, flock average. Such a rec¬ 
ord is possible, because ducks are pro¬ 
lific layers, notwithstanding they are gen¬ 
erally denounced as such. Feed them as 
you feed your hens and it will be a neck 
and neck race which will shell out the 
most eggs in a year. The average duck 
won’t eat more food, either, than the av¬ 
erage hen, for all that ducks are such 
voracious eaters. 
Some years ago we kept a flock of In¬ 
dian Runners that averaged 103 2/3 eggs 
in exactly mouths. They were 
hatched July 25, started to lay February 
IS, and kept at it until October 3. They 
laid more eggs afterwards, bringing up 
the average to 100 5/9 by November 5, 
when the whole flock was sold. We are 
convinced that there were some ducks in 
CHESTNUT fence posts, any quantity or any 
size; round or split; sample of wood by mail. 
THOMAS W. RANDALL, River Edge, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Beernan garden traetor. $150; good 
second-hand; most tools that are needed for 
garden culture. J. F. GARRETSON, Bound 
Brook. N. J. " 
WANTED—Power sprayer, suitable for 20-aere 
orchard; Friend or Bean. BOX 092, Newtown, 
.Bucks Co., Pa. 
FOR SALE—Thrashers’ belt, 75 foot, made end¬ 
less, 0 inches wide, 4 ply; used to fill three 
silos: first check for $35 takes it. W. EDGAR 
WOODS, R. D. No. 3, Elizabeth, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Buckeye traction power ditcher; 
nearly new. Any individual or organization 
interested communicate with SENECA POWER 
DITCHER CO., Hall, N. Y. 
CHOICE ALFALFA for sale; buy now. IRVING 
HAWKINS, General Delivery, Syracuse, N. Y. 
WANTED—Brooder house man on a large duck 
farm; must he a careful, thorough workman, 
capable of handling large propositions; married 
man preferred; please give full particulars iu 
first letter. A. J. HALLOCK, Speonk, L. I., 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Big Bull traetor, excellent condi¬ 
tion, $225.00; J. I. Case 2-bottom plow, $60.00; 
tractor manure spreader, .nearly new, $100.00; 
Mann power bone grinder, little used, $25.00; 
Prairie State 390-egg incubator, $40.00, and 
Junior coal brooder, $20.00; Chalmers 3-ton 
truck. $150.00. MARVIN T. FORSTER, Hall, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—A water power gristmill, equipped 
for making wheat flour, roller process, buck¬ 
wheat flour and corn products; an exchange 
stock feed mill doing good business; an oppor¬ 
tunity for a miller; only those meaning business 
need apply. BOX 232, Hillsboro, Bel, 
that flock that easily could have over¬ 
reached their quota, if they had not al¬ 
ready done so in their 7*/j mouths of 
laying. 
These ducks were not bred to lay; 
their egg yield was not influenced by any 
inherited laying tendency. They laid so 
well because we fed them a forcing ra¬ 
tion, and because they could roam at will 
over swamps and meadow lands, and had 
constant access to a stream of running 
water. Their feed consisted of a wet 
mash once a day of bran, middlings, corn 
chop and beef scraps, and one meal per 
day of whole corn. Grit and green food 
they picked up on their range, except that 
they had a box of oyster shells in their 
night quarters. They were great forag¬ 
ers. but never failed to return home for 
their evening meal. The next year we 
kept a flock of Pekins. These began to 
lay on Christmas Day, and laid until the 
first week of the following December. We 
had duck eggs every month of the year 
The Pekins consumed more food than the 
Runners, hut, to compensate, thev laid 
almost as many eggs, and eggs, too, of 
far greater size. 
Two hundred eggs per year, flock aver¬ 
age, is after all not such a remote figure 
to work for. Food, environment and 
heredity are the factors determining its 
attainment, and all these are under the 
control of the owner of the flock. Our In¬ 
dian Runners, and perhaps the Pekins, 
would undoubtedly have reached tins 
mark if we had uot sold them until their 
first laying year was ended. Anyway 
they outstripped our hens and netted us 
more profit, too. S. I), BLANCH. 
Pennsylvania, 
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