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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 12, 1921 
KERR'S breeding birds are pure-bred, but selected for vitality 
rather than show qualities. 
KERR service is the result of years of experience. Expert incu¬ 
bator operators hatch KERR chicks. 
Whether you buy a small or large quantity the same KERR .service 
is giveu. 
KERR Clii'ckeries, Inc., is one of the largest in the world, with 
hatcheries at Frenchtown, N. .1.. and Springfield, Mass. Send to the 
nearest one for your chicks. KERR chicks are guaranteed. 
Send to Box O for illustrated circular. 
THE KERR CHICK ERIE S, INC. 
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. FRENCHTOWN , N.J. 
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Stockton Hatchery’s Chicks j 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS ANCONAS BLACK MINORCAS 
RHODE ISLAND REDS BARRED ROCKS WHITE WYANDOTTES 
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Stockton Hatchery’s chicks are reliable, they are hatched from farm-ranged, heavy 
laying, pure-bred stock. Every chick a guaranteed product. We are booking orders = 
for March and April deliveries. Our chicks have the vigor and quality. 
Send (or our 24-page Catalog giving you interesting valuable facta about chick* and poultry. FREE for the asking. — 
All orders shipped prepaid. Safe delivery and full count guaranteed. 
The early orders receive early shipments. Better Write at once. S 
THE STOCKTON HATCHERY, Box R " STOCKTON, N. J. § 
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i THE SPRING BROOK | 
| POULTRY FARM | 
— will be known hereafter at the — 
| Lone Elm Leghorn Farm I 
“ Owing to the large amount of business of the “ 
— past year, have increased incubator capacity — 
— 10,000 eggs. also have located nearer shipping ~ 
— facilities. Fortyjper cent, of my output of day- — 
— old chicks have been booked for the coming — 
— season. A good share of these cliicks have been _ 
sold to customers of last year. In many instances — 
— where I sold one hundred or more chicks, custo- — 
— iners have increased orders to one thousand. — 
This speaks f<>r itself. Am booking orders now, — 
— for chicks and hatching eggs. Send forcircular. — 
= ROY S. RIDER, Ballston Spa, N.Y. | 
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EGGS for HATCHING and i 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
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Hatching eggs from fully matured, carefully 1 
mated farm raised birds, selected for their ! 
prolific laying qualities and vigor. We can • 
supply eggs in any quantity, in season, ! 
from our matings of 
S. C. White White & Barred j 
Leghorns Plymouth Rocks j 
Day-old chicks we can supply in any quantity • 
from our White and Barred Plymouth Rocks : 
and S. C. White Leghorns. 
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Write for Price Lint 
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Branford Farms Groton, Conn. ■ 
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FALK“* LEGHORN FARMS 
STELTON, N. J. 
Have hatching eggs to sell from t heir t vear obi 
trapueated White Leghorns. Kell Breeze 
Strain at 
$12 per 100 to April 15th 
$10 per 100 after April 15th 
Baby CHICKS 
from High Record Sires 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Illustrated Circular 
MARVIN T. FORSTER, Hall, N.Y. 
CERTIFIED LEGHORNS 
THE DAY OF THE REGISTERED 
HEN HAS ARRIVED 
EGGS FOR HATCHING from OFFICIALLY CERTI¬ 
FIED and REGISTERED Single Comb 
White Leghorns 
These are business hens. They are heavy producers 
of large, chalk-white eggs. Our breeders are offici¬ 
ally registered and certified as meetbigthe top notch 
of excellence in size, shape, type and vigor, and 
above all, for consistent heavy laying throughout 
the year. These are the great layers that commer¬ 
cial pouitrymen have needed and are buying. 
PEDIGREED COCKERELS FOR SALE, 
INCREASE YOUR EGG PRODUCTION by 
introducing our line of great males. Rend for 
catalogue and come and see one of the best plants. 
FARLEY PORTER Box IV Sodus, N.Y. 
The Pine Tree Hatchery 
12,000 CHICKS SHIPPED WEEKLY 
BEGINNING MARCH 16 
We Specialize on S. C. White Leghorns, Barred Rocks, 
R. I. Reds, White Wyandotte*, Black Minorca* 
Buy your chicks from the Oldest Established Hatchery in the U. S 
Our 30 years of hatching and shipping baby-chicks 
ought to convince you of our square business 
methods as well as to the High Quality of our stock. 
Some customers have purchased chicks of ns for the 
past 22 years. We are now hooking March and April 
deliveries. 
1921 Catalog and Price List FREE for the asking. 
All chicksshipped prepaid parcel-post. 
Safe arrival guaranteed. 
THE PINE TREE HATCHERY, Stockton, N. J. 
JOS. D. WILSON 
Certified com I White Leghorns 
We have a pen of 170 certified yearling liens, mated 
to eight certified males, from which we offer eggs 
at $35 per hundred, cliicks at $45 per hundred. 
Also a pen of 170 yearling Leghorn liens, not certi¬ 
fied, from which we offer eggs at $13 per hundred, 
cliicks at $35 per hundred. We have been in the 
business 20 years. While we carryover 1,000 pullets 
we do not breed from pullets, nor do we use lights. 
“V” CORNERS POULTRY FARM. L. J.Weed 
8 Son, Proprietors, Rallston Spa, New York 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Exclusively. 3,000 breeders on free farm" range’ inoculated 
and free from lice. Buttermilk ted, which meansgreatviger. 
Barron strain. All males heading my breeding pens out of 
imported birds. Specially bred for high egg production. 
Eggs forhatehing now ready in any quantity. 85% fertility 
guaranteed. Now booking orders for baby chicks. March, 
April and May delivery. The kind that live if given half 
a chance. lO,000 baby cliicks a week. Order well in 
advance, demand enormous this Spring. Mr new book 
‘‘Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved" free with all $10.00 
orders. Circulars free. EDGAR BRIGGS, Buz 75. Pleisanl Valley, R.r 
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PROPERLY HATCHED, MATURE EARLY, LAY HEAVILY 
Gibson Chicks are sturdy little fellows from farm range stock bred 
twenty years for high laying and they do lay ‘My pullets out- 
laved the same number at the laying contest” writes an old cus¬ 
tomer HATCHING EGGS AND BREEDING STOCK Prices moderate Safe arrival 
guaranteed. Illustrated folder free. Write for it N0 W 
S. C. W LEGHORNS. R l REDS. B P ROCKS 
G. F GIBSON. Galen Farms Box 100 CLYDE, N. Y 
THE HENYARD 
R ing Broilers 
I intend to raise broilers this year for 
the Summer hotel and boarder trade. 
Will you advise me as to what is the best 
breed of hen fw broilers? What is the 
best ration for is growing and fatten¬ 
ing? When should I set eggs aud how 
large should the broilers be before mar¬ 
keting? E. ir. n. 
Milford, Conn. 
The prospective broiler raiser should 
fiud out just what his proposed market 
demands as to size, color, time of deliv¬ 
ery, etc., and make his plans accordingly. 
Squab broilers weigh about % lb. each 
and command a very limited market. Me¬ 
dium broilers weigh from a pound to a 
pound and a half, and the market finds 
a large part of its supply in Leghorn 
cockerels that have reached that size dur- 
The answer lies in correct feeding. At the 
New Jersey Egg-Laying Contest they use 
M aurer’s “Kwality” 
Meat Scrap 
because it is sweet, sound and finely pul¬ 
verized so that it blends well in the mash. 
PUCE Farmer’s Almanac. Generous 
I nkL samples of “Kwality” Products. 
Write Today 
MAURER MANUFACTURING CO. 
Dept. 10 Nswark, Now Jersey 
ing June and early July. Large broilers 
weigh about two pounds each, aud are 
usually from the heavier breeds. The 
general market pays best prices from Feb¬ 
ruary to June. Prices are lower later 
and larger broilers are wanted. Chicks 
must be hatched, of course, to correspond 
with the time that it is desired to market 
the birds. 
The early maturing breeds, having 
light pin feathers and yellow skins, are 
best suited to broiler production. White 
Leghorns make very desirable squab and 
medium-sized broilers, though, for the 
medium and large sizes, such broods as 
the White Wvandottes, R. I. Reds and 
Plymouth Rocks are usually used. The 
Winter broilers produced in Gloucester 
Co., N. .T.. are largely produced by cross¬ 
ing the Light Brahmas and ‘White Wyan- 
dotttes. 
Chicks raised for broilers are fed early 
as other chicks are to produce frame and 
size, being fed during the last few weeks 
of age upon the most fattening foods, such 
as eornmeal, ground oats, barley meal, 
ground buckwheat, skim-milk and meat 
scrap. . M. b. d. 
Broody Red Hens 
I try to overcome broodiness by breed¬ 
ing my cockerel from hens with a heavy 
egg record, as they are the ones that get 
broody the least, and this can only be 
obtained by trap-nesting the hens. Then, 
of course, I pick out those that don’t get 
broody and breed from them. Most of 
the farmers around here do not use in¬ 
cubators, so of course they want the 
broody hen for hatching, as they make 
fine motherly hens. I hardly ever have 
a broody hen before along in the Rum¬ 
mer. As I only keep the Reds, I am not 
able to answer for any other breed, but 
by careful breeding I don’t, think a Red 
hen will brood more than any other hen. 
On the other hand, if the hens get broody 
in the Summer they more than make up 
for it in the Winter. 
Connecticut. JACOB E. JANSEN. 
Dipping Fowls for Lice 
I find my chickens troubled with lice, 
therefore they do not lay. I have tried 
heretofore lice powders, dusting the chick¬ 
ens, etc., but always without satisfactory 
results. I remember seeing, some months 
ago. a recipe or prescription for making 
a dip for baptizing, as it* were, the poul¬ 
try in. Do you recommend such a rem¬ 
edy, and if so, can you prescribe what to 
use, as I failed to keep the oue I saw? 
Waldorf, Md. I. G. M. 
Fowls may be dipped iu one of the coal 
tar dips nsed for ridding cattle of ver¬ 
min, but it is not a popular practice 
among pouitrymen and I am not pre¬ 
pared to recommend it. There are two 
modern methods of ridding fowls of lice 
that seem to leave little to be desired in 
the way of treatment. One is to smear 
a bit of “blue ointment” over the skin 
just beneath the vent, using a piece about 
the size of a pea. This will kill both ma¬ 
ture lice and those newly hatching and 
the effect will last for months. A stifi 
later practice, recommended by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, is to sprinkle 
about a half teaspoonful of a powder 
known as fluoride of sodium upon the 
fowl and work it down into the plumage. 
One application of this is said to he even 
more lasting in its effects than the blue 
ointment treatment. 
Dipping fowls into a liquid of any kind 
is not a very practicable method of treat¬ 
ing them. Hens seem to need to be kept 
dry and ducks do their own dipping. 
M. B. D. 
Hens with Colds 
If J. V., Granville, N. Y., will put some 
kerosene on the drinking water for his 
hens he will see their cold disappear as 
if by magic. If they are very bad pick 
them up and pour the kerosene on the 
sores. I have seen them cured when there 
were great white canker sores. Also for 
bowel trouble in liens put a teaspoonful 
of carbolic acid in a large pail of water 
for them to drink, stirring it in well. I 
don’t know that I every tried it for 
chicks, but it couldn’t do any harm, as 
that is not very strong. L. J. 
Vermont. 
BUTTERMILK 
for Hogs and Poultry 
Experienced feeders know that there is 
no better feed for growing hogs and poul¬ 
try than buttermilk. A regular supply, 
•however, has been difficult or impossible 
to obtain and feeders have had to do with¬ 
out it. A process has now been worked out 
for putting this valuable feed on the 
market in a condensed form, called SEMI-SOLID 
BUTTERMILK. By simply adding wafer you get 
real, genuine buttermilk with all its great feed 
value. 
Semi-Solid Buttermilk, like fresh buttermilk, is an 
appetizer and tonic, as well as a feed, and 
keeps hoas in prime condition. 
The hogs consume it eagerly and thrive on It. 
It is a wonderful tonic and conditioner as well as 
a most valuable feed. Readers of this paper in¬ 
terested in getting rapid growth and good, 
healthy stock should feed SEMI-SOLID BUTTER¬ 
MILK. For free sample and information about 
Semi-Solid Buttermilk and feeding bogs and 
poultry for greater profit, write I. II. Nester & 
Co., Dept. 3040, No. 3 Chestnut St., Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa., or CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTS CO.. 
Dept. 3040, Lincoln, Neb. 
EUREKA 
Colony Brooder 
Use it 30 days at our expense. You 
take no risk. Burns coal or natural 
gas. Easy to operate. 
Write for booklet 
and prices. 
JAMES R. WOTHERSPOON 
Inc. 
Box 244, Sinking Spring, Pa. 
(Agents wanted.) 
7 s 
DRY FRONT 
Poultry House 
Note the features of the overhung roof, abso¬ 
lutely rainproof; also, ventilator above the swing¬ 
ing window. Made in all sizes. Write for free 
booklet, showing forty different cuts. E. C. 
YOUNG CO., 1G Depot Street. Randolph, Mass, 
$|C95Buys 140-Egg Champion 
19 Belle City Incubator | 
Hot-Water, Copper Tank, Double Walls 
Fibre Board, Self-Regulated, c n nr 
*9.95 buys 140-Chick Hot- 0/ 
Water Brood.r. Or both for only ft. W 
Freight Prepaid I •over 
East of Rockies and 1 
allowed on Express. users 
Guaranteed. Order now. Share In 
ray $1,000 In Prizes, or write for 
Free Rook. “Hatching Facts.” It 
tellseverytbinar. *^im Rohan. Pres. 
Co., Box 48 Racine, Wis. 
150 
EGG 
CHICK/ 
FREIGHT 
PAID 
East of the 
Rockies 
Both 
for 
19 
Incubator covered with 
asbestos and galvanized 
I iron; triple walls.cop-^ 
per tank,nursery.egg tester.ther- 
mometer. 3C days’trial —money back 
ifnotO.K. Write for FREE catalog. 
Ironclad Incubator Co. Box89 Racine. Wis. 
California f 
If Ordered Together. Freight Paid 
j east of Rockies. Hot wa- 
I ter copper tanks, double walla, 
dead air space, double glass 
J doors, all set up complete, or 
180 Egg Incubator and Brooder $23.50 
FREE Catalogue describing them. Send 
for it TODAY or order direct. (2) 
-Wisconsin Incubator Co.. Box 102 Racine. Wis.' 1 
