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N. A. Egg-Laying Contest Winners 
£|fK« $8, $5 and $8 per Ifi ; #12 nnd IIS per 100 ; 
•*f.50 per 250; $50 per 500; $80 per IOOO. 
Large dark red Cockerels $5, $7 and $10 each. Hens 
and Pullets $3.50. $5 and $8 each. Catalogue Free. 
CHESTER COUNTY POULTRY FARM 
ft. I>. No. 8 Box HO PottutowD, Pa. 
PINE TREE HATCHERY 
Pure Bred Baby Chicks 
Our thirty years of hatching and shipping pure bred 
baby clucks ought to convince you of our square 
business methods as well as to the high standard of our 
stock. AH chicks are strictly high in Quality and are 
sure to please. Safe arrival and Full count guaranteed. 
. CATALOG FREE 
Immediate April l»ellverle«_l ;,500 rhlck« Weekly 
SPECIAL KEDUCEU PRICES ON Al l, CHICKS 
S. M I1ITE LEGHORNS.$18.00 $10.00 $6 25 
BARKED HOCKS. 19.00 10.00 5.75 
KIIODE ISLAND REDS. 18.00 10.00 5.75 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 21.00 10.50 6.00 
All chicks shipped prepaid. Safe arrival guaranteed 
THE PINE 
Jos. D. Wilson 
TREE 
HATCHERY 
Stockton, N. 
J. 
^Vancrest Poultry Farm=^ 
Single Comb Wbite Leghorn Baby Chicks from old liens 
selected for size, type and laying qualities, 
mated to cockerels obtained from one of the 
laying contest winners. Strong healthy chicks 
that will develop into early layers. 
Price *17 pev 100 for May. Delivered free. 
Send for circular. 
Frank Van Wagner Hyde Park, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. While Leghorns and R. I. Reds 
I am booking orders for April and May. 15 years 
shipper of day-old chicks. Safe arrival guaran- 
teed. All chicks shipped Parcel Post prepaid. 
Hatch every week. Write for prices and free circular. 
Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
If We own the famous Sanborn thick of 
L£ ■■ U ■■ S. ('. If. I. Reds, every breeder with 
[JM II I a trapnest record. They are known 
■ from coast to coast for their wonder- 
■■ a mm Gil egg-laying abilities, fourteen 
■ ■ i i ■ •# years of selective breeding behind 
■ a VS ■ J& them place them in the front row as 
■■ ■ M\ money earners. Our Leghorns are of 
the same grand quality, free catalog. 
West Mansfield Poultry Farm, Box 1 50, Attleboro, Mass. 
S.C.R.I.RED Day-Old CHICKS--HATCHING EGGS 
Trapnested utility stock. White diarrhea tested. Storm 
(Conn.) Egg Laying Contest winners. Eggs $16 per 100. 
Chicks for May delivery, $80 per hundred. Remaining 
10 bleeding cockerels, best matings, $5.00 each. 
Ileor Brook Poultry Fiirm, Bee 34. Short Fulls, N.II. 
BABY CHICKS 
8. C. White Leghorns. May $16; June $14 per 100. 
Place Orders Early. Quality the Best. 
ARTHUR I,. POOR ANT KIM. N. 11. 
DADV pi||Y Barred Rocks, Reds, White Leghornsand 
e*nW I VIIMl Broilers, lie and up. Safe delivery guar¬ 
anteed. Pamphlet Free. J.8. RACE, R. 0.. McAliitcrville P» 
Barron White Wyandottes wKnliS':!' 
ARTHUR «. SMITH - Norfolk, Conn; 
Buff Rock FIKLD O0kerel8 - .^g S forHia,.hing. 
S.C. Ancona Hatching Eggs 
Ders. Stock for sale. M. N. (1 a«E A SON, Silver Creek, N.Y. 
RED PYLE LEGHORNS 
the best laying Leghorn. Eggs, §2 per 13: by mail, 
Oeo. K. Howell, Spruce Farm, llouell*, N. V. 
HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORN CHICKS 
My Free circular tells why the BLACK LEGHORN is the 
greatest layer and most profitable breed on earth, 
and why HAMPTON’S BLACK LEGHORN CHICKS are the 
chicks for you. Write today. 
A. E. HAMPTON, Box R, Pittstowu, N. J. 
Hatching Eggs for Sale R 0 ck T RZgK’ 8 $ B * ar f^ 
13; $14 per 100. NELSON VARNEY, Huntingtuu Station, N.|Y. 
0 1 A1X1 Y RAlillEll KIK'KH—Babv Chicks $20 pel 1 
100. Hatcning eggs $8 per 100. Satisfaction guaran- 
teed. 'GEORGE HENSOUEN, Washington, N. J. 
For Sale or Exchange— I have 50 White Leghorn liens 
Laving. Farm raised. One line Hlnck Gelding, 17 hands 
high. 7 years old, sound; will sell or exchange for young 
Guernsey cattle or pigs. H. T. MULLEN, R8, York. Po. 
BARRED ROCK EGGS, from Jules Francais winning strain 
Storrs Contest. M. E. Armshy, Petersburg, N.Y. 
Rose and Single Comb White Leghorns, chicks 
«4c each by hundred. 284 - Egg Hen’s headed by 
Barron’s Males. ANDREW R. BECKER, Scheharie. N.Y. 
MINORCAS Hogan test. 
Mr.. L. 
RABBITS 
Rufus Reds and New Zealands 
We probably have the finest herd of New Zealand Keds 
to be found within many hundred miles of New York 
City. Why not breed winners? You can doit just as 
well as raise " Muts,” and the returns are out of all cmn 
parison. All you need is the right foundation. We can 
supply them and at prices you can well afford. 
THE DELAWARE VALLEY RABBITRIES, Thto. S. Moore, Stockton, N.J. 
Rohhiic A)l prominent Species 
ndUUIIS Exhibition and Breed¬ 
ing stock. Illustrated Catalogue 
10c. Pamphlets on all Species 25o 
each. Breeding and Care of Bab 
bits 50c. Department ft. JOSEPH BLANK 
421 Highland Alt, Mount Vetnou, N. Y. 
FLEMISH sums, young and matured, from pedigreed and 
r»g. stock. Prices reasonable. H. a. TEH etch, fenirrit!*. a. t 
Hatching and Care of Geese 
1. What breed of geese would you rec¬ 
ommend to a man who wants to make his 
living in it, for market and private trade? 
2. I am very well acquainted with incu¬ 
bators and brooders. I hatched ducklings 
with 90 per cent, and I raised them un¬ 
der a brooder with very good success, and 
only lost a few. Can the same be done 
with geese, or is it better to let the goose 
sit herself, or a sitting lien? .3. What is 
the best feed for young ducklings, from 
the first day to the time when they are 
independent of the mother hen or the 
brooder? 4. How many geese to a gan¬ 
der? Can they be kept together in a 
large flock, or do they have to be sepa¬ 
rated into small flocks? 5. What is the 
best food rations for laying geese, with 
and without good pasture? i>. p. 
New York. 
1. I believe you would find the White 
Chinese the most profitable geese, as they 
lay about twice as many eggs as the 
larger breeds, and people write me that 
the smaller goose sells better for family 
use. The feathers will also bring more 
than colored or mixed ones. 
2. You had unusually good success 
hatching duck eggs in an incubator, as 
duck or goose eggs are better hatched un¬ 
der a lien. I think you might hatch the 
goose eggs in the incubator if plenty of 
moisture is given, but do not believe you 
will have good success in raising them in 
a brooder, unless they can be on the 
ground every day. If kept long on a board 
floor the little legs will spread out and 
they will always be more or less crippled. 
3. The best feed for little geese is bread 
and milk, with plenty of grass or weeds. 
Little ducks will do well with johnny 
cake or gems softened with milk or water. 
Feed five times a day at first, gradually 
lessening the feed until by the time they 
are about two months old the two feeds 
will do for the geese. Ducks require 
much more feed than geese, as the goslings 
will often eat almost nothing except grass 
He very careful that they do not miss a 
feed. 
4. We keep one gander to about four 
geese. They run all in one flock, but we 
have found that if the birds do not have 
free range the eggs will not be fertile. 
5. Laying geese should have a mash of 
bran and middlings and ground oats, 
about, equal parts, mixed with milk or 
buttermilk if possible, or water will do 
very well. We feed this in the morning, 
with corn at night. Clover or Alfalfa hay 
is also a great help, and they will eat ail 
except, the stems. If you have chaff, mix 
with the grain in the mash. You can use 
as much as half of the chaff. If they do 
not have pasture they must have plenty of 
vegetables, chopped line, or fruit par¬ 
ings. CLAUDIA BETTS. 
Michigan. 
Why Does a Hen Cackle? 
Why does a hen cackle after laying? 
Why don’t other birds? k. g. 
Newark, N. J. 
Question No. 1 is respectfully referred 
to the biologists who know these things. 
They usually explain animal characteris¬ 
tics on the ground of inheritance of traits 
that were once necessary to the preserva¬ 
tion of the race. Animals and birds are 
colored to resemble surrounding foliage or 
the ground; this to hide them from their 
natural enemies. Wing feathers of birds 
are molted uniformly upon both sides, 
and never all at once; this to enable 
them always to fly from their natural 
enemies. Fven shapes are sometimes 
made to resemble the shapes of other 
natural objects. The insect called the 
“walking-stick” closely resembles the 
twig from a tree, and has to be looked 
closely at to be observed. But hens, 
when they have laid an egg that is eager¬ 
ly sought for food by many enemies in 
It he dfowl’s natural state-, immediately 
climb upon a brush heap and loudly ad¬ 
vertise the fact. Tf they kept quiet 
about it. very likely the snake and the 
fox would never find the nest; hut no, 
they must summon all the hungry ani¬ 
mals within reach of Their voice to the 
feast. Why didn’t the early progenitors 
of the race of domestic fowls quickly be¬ 
come extinct because of their bragging 
propensities. Mr. Naturalist? Come now, 
wo want to know. 
Question No. 2. That’s easy. Birds 
don’t cackle after they have laid their 
eggs because nature has very wisely 
taught them that to do so would only 
attract other beasts to their nests and 
result in the destruction of their progeny 
before it had hatched. See reply to 
question No. 1, above. M. B. D. 
EXCELSIOR 
CASE CUSHIONS 
THEY 1'AY FOR THEMSELVES 
Write for circular and particulars. 
Boiton Excelsior Co., 300 11th Are., New York City 
s. c. white n in vpiJIPI/O 
LEGHORN DAD I UnlUKo 
HikIi quality stuck of the best laying strains at reduced 
prices. Gond service. Price $15 per 100 ; $140 per 1000. 
Parcels post paid. Safe arrival guaranteed. 
IVrite for circular 
BARRY F. PALMER, Middleport, W. », 
Per 100 
Per 50 
” Per 25 
$19.00 
$10.00 
$5.00 
22.00 
11.00 
6.00 
23.00 
12.00 
6.25 
28.00 
14.00 
7.50 
No change except in price—and that to your advantage. The same big, 
husky healthy chicks from the wonderful pure-bred, big-laying Rosemont 
breeding flocks. And shipped to you in April and early Ma}', the season 
when chicks must grow. , 
Hatches April 20-27, May 4-11-18 
_ Per 100 
White Leghorns . $19.00 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. 22.00 
Rhode Island Reds. 
White Rocks, White Wyandottes, Anconas. 28.00 
(Cannot ship Leghorns until first tcee.Jc in Mag) 
Parcel Post Prepaid Safe Delivery Guaranteed 
Remember, these are the Eastern-bred and Eastern-hatched chicks that 
for years have been the choice of successful poultrymen. Shipped direct from 
Rosemont incubators to you—sure to reach you in finest condition. 
Order direct from this advertisement, enclosing remittance, or send for 
complete catalog. 
ROSEMONT POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY 
Drawer 4, Rosemont, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey 
Fnrflannnc l ' aise Jersey Black Giants (yellow skin.) The 
1 Ul uafJUIIo most popular breed in America today. 
Hatching eggs. T. II. Wettler. Fast Millstone, N.J. 
MfHITB WYANDOTTES. Regal-Dorcas stock direct. Eggs. 
If Grand matings. $1.75 —15: $9—100. R Hill, Seneca Falls, R.f. 
Ringneck PHEASANTS 
eggs now. BRUSHY NECK PHEASANTRY. SpeonK, L. |„ N.Y. 
EGGS-WHITE ROCKS-CHICKS 
F.ggs from highest quality pedigreed stock. $3 per 15. 
Baby chicks. 32c each. Get your order in early. Circular 
ready. THEO. L. POOLE, JAMESVILLE, NEW YORK 
Onke Chicl/c Kulp strain. S.C. White Leghorns 
V.H1LKS at $10 per 100, Parcel Post paid. 
FRANK BLUM New Washington, Ohio 
Baby Chicks Reduced BEOO N K e?s T o D n E P F a ARW 
Silver Campine Eggs L'T 
strain. $2 for 15. MacPHERSON FARM, Millington, N.J. 
Progressive Light Brahma 
from'prize stock. Hatching eggs for sale; $3.50 for In. 
Stock for sale Sept. 1. HENRY ft. HEDGES, fireeuport, I,.l., N.Y. 
Pure Bred Hatching Eggs 
per 13; $14 per 100. NAMliKI, T. Kill, Elizabethtown, l’a. 
miftfC Broilers, Leghorns, Rocks nnd Reds. 12cts. 
UULIVO , " l ‘ 1 u l>- Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular 
free. W. A. LAUVER. McAlisterville. Pa, 
D C.| BR. LEGHORN EGGS. $1.50—16; $8—100. 
n« MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS, HILI.SDALR, Michigan 
HATCHING FCiCi*i S. C. White Leghorn.»Cornell 
lift 1 LffffivJ certified males. $10 per 
hundred. BESTWOKTI1 POULTRY FARM, Valley Cottage, N.Y. 
Fnr^alo Eggs and Stock, White Leghorns. 
I Ul Odiu alex. Davidson - Ui.en Campbell, Pa. 
Ill wo ok Pulloio Pullets. Thoroughbred Hogan test 
IU ween lUI ISIS stork. FOREST EAIUI. Kocltanay. Y J. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
Single Comb Eggs from strain of famous winter 
layers. Mid-winter records run as high as 211 to 28 
Eggs in 30 days. $5 per 15. 0. fi. L. LEWIS. Paoli, Pa. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS ONLY 
Eggs — Setting SSU.OO; 50 SG.OO; 100 $10.00. 
HAYSTACK MT. FARM, Norfolk, Conn. 
C p O | 5 “ Certified ” hens in Cornell 
d- Va, 1\. 1. IVLl/j Advanced Registry Test win 
1st pen, 3rd and 10th liens for 1st two inos. of test. Eggs 
and cockerels for sale. L. ARTHUR SHELDON, R. 7. Oswego, N. X. 
Sale of hundred Laying Puliets and Yearlings 
Nice stock, at $2.26 and up. FOREST Farm, Kocltawaj, N. J. 
CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS 
Anconas, S. C. Keds. Also White and Brown Leghorns 
from pure bred, heavy la.ting. farm raised breeders. 
Safe delivery guaranteed. ADRIAN lleNEEF, Sotlui, N. Y. 
Hatching Eggs K „ y miu* 1- *'w. v. 
IT atchiug £2s-g,-is 
from pure-bred S. C. W. Leghorns. Ten Pollan* n hundred. 
Baby chicks, Twanty-live Dollar* a hundred. 
Hummcrlield Poultry Farm, R. 0. 1. Washington, Ji. J. 
White Wyandotte Kjcjc* for hatching-, from free range 
ww fowl; pure English cockerels. 100 Eggs, $8: 50 Eggs, 
$4.50 No Parcel Post. FRANK M. EDWARDS, Water Hill, N.Y. 
Columbia n Wyandottes young 
isou Square, Jan., 1921. Exhibition matings. Eggs, $5 per 
15, prepaid. S. S. NEWTON, Fast High St., Balintou Spa, N. Y 
Fancy Mammoth Pekin Ducks iUTu 
winners. Stock for sale. E. 11. ANDERSON, .Moeresvlllc, Iud. 
“College Queen’s” Record “ow leading 
Setting eggs for sale. Day old chicks for stile. 
O. G. KNIGHT - Bridgeton, K. I. 
Finn Rrnorlc Poultry, Turkeys. Geese, Ducks. Guineas 
rillt; Dl UCUa Hsntams, H.tres, Pigeons, Dogs, Stock 
Eggs, reasonable. Catalog free. PIONEER FARM, Ttllard, Pi 
PER 
YEAR 
OVER 300 EGGS 
Are your hens laying EGGS 
like Keystone Maid ? ^eKr" 306 Eggs 
or Lady Victory ? 304 Eggs 
or Liberty Belle ? 294 Eggs 
or Red Rose ? - - s ,ij J er ‘ yea R r ed 254 Eggs 
Nft? Then your egg yield can be improved, your poul- 
ITV . try put on a reaf profit basis, if you order now some 
Hatching Eggs and Day-Old Chicks 
FROM OUK STRAINS 
that Official Contest Rec¬ 
ords—like those above— 
have proved to be the 
World’s Champion Layers 
Decide now—assure yourself 
hi K euK increase next Fad I and 
Winter. Handsome illustrated 
catalog, “The Story of the 
Fkk Hen,” price 10c deducted 
trom first order. WRITE FOR IT. 
PENNSYLVANIA POULTRY FARM 
Box R Lancaster, Pa. 
HUBERT HATCHERY 
Send for your copy of our free illus¬ 
trated circular describing our big, 
sturdy BABY CHICKS. 
FOUR POPULAR BREEDS 
Per 100 
S. C. White Leghorns . $18.00 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds 18.00 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 18.00 
White Wyandottes .... 20.00 
ALL CHICKS SENT POSTPAID 
lUOf; DELIVERY GUARANTEED 
HUBERT HATCHERY, Stockton, New Jersey 
Per 50 
Per 26 
$9.50 
$5.00 
9.50 
5.00 
9.50 
5.00 
10.50 
5.50 
S.C. Black Minorca 2STMS- ?0ekerels ’ * 4 
15—$2; 100—$S. 
Hiul $5; Hens, $3.50. Eggs, 
THOMAS t. F.KEKSOI.E, Carrollton, Ohio 
IMPROVE 
the laying qualities of your (lock with stock from 
Cornell Certified S. C. W. Leghorns 
STATE FAIR AWARD—CHIX AND EGGS 
STEWART L. PURDIE, Dept. A, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Half to Full Wyckoff Strain 
Day-old chicks $18 per 100. 8-week PULLETS 
ready Alay Bth, ($1.50 each 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Half to Full Parks Strain 
Day-old chicks, ($545 per 100. 8.week PULLETS 
ready May Otb, $‘4.00 each. 
J. GlIY LESHER, Northumberland, Pa. 
White Rock Barred Rock CHICKS 
Fisliel uud Park strain,-$22 per 100. Eggs, 84 per 15 ; 
$10 per 100. white Ribbon Poultry Farm, Flshkill. N. Y. 
L°l£ HATCHING EGGS $10 p z 
from thoroughbred S. C. White Leghorns and Trapnest 
Cockerels. OFKYONIIA FARMS, Lambertville, N«tv Jersey 
Big Bronze, $9 per setting of 9. 
. f deliveries by messen* 
omit Kisco, N. Y. 
TURKEY EGGS 
* gel'. I.. 1{. WILSON, M 
STOCKTON HATCHERY’S SflS BABY CHICKS 
APRIL 5th. 6th, 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th Deliveries at Special Prices 
If you want purebred, hearty chicks that will develop rapidly ; if you want early broilers ; if you want 
choice Fall pullets that will develop into early heavy layers, now is the time to buy Stockton llatchery chicks 
S C. WHITE LEGHORNS.. 
BARRED ROCKS.. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES..... 
ANCONAS. BL. MINORCAS. 
TERMS—cash with order for prompt shipment. Full count and safe delivery guaranteed. All chicks 
shipped prepaid. Write for special pi ices 1000 or more. 
THE STOCKTON HATCHERY, Emmert R. Wilson, Prop., 
Per 10U 
Per 50 
Per 25 
*19.00 
*10.00 
$5.50 
11.00 
11.00 
6 00 
11.00 
11.00 
6.00 
24.00 
12.00 
6.50 
20.00 
15.00 
8.00 
STOCKTON, N. J. 
