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ATLANTIC EXCELSIOR MFG. CO. 
507 West 30th Street New York 
S. C. White Leghorns 
EXCLUSIVELY 
Cornell Certified Cockerels 
mated to selected hens produce 
the kind of chicks we are proud 
to sell! A few not yet booked 
for May delivery. $20 per hun¬ 
dred, $19 in lots of five hundred 
or more. Prepaid by express or 
parcel post. 97% live arrival 
guaranteed. 
In July over a hundred certi¬ 
fied cockerels for sale. Write 
your wants. 
R. B. MEAD 
College Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Jersey Black Giants 
Again the sensation at Madison Square Gar¬ 
den; the world’s greatest poultry show. The 
giant of poultrydom. If given free range will 
find the larger part of it’s own living. For de¬ 
scriptive foider and price liston hatching eggs, 
write MARCY FARMS, Matawan, N. J. 
Black Jersey Giants 
(The Super Hen.) 
Black Feathers. Yellow Skin. Grow faster and larger and 
lay more and larger eggs on less feed. Free descriptive 
ir. Dexter I*. iTpliam, R. F. 0. No. 
circular. 
. i, llelmar. N. J. 
For CAPONS raise Jersey Black Giants 
(yellow skin) the mostpopular and profitable breed 
in America today. Eggs for hatching from year¬ 
ling hens. T. H, Mettler, East Millstone, N. J. 
M ammoth Pekin Ducks. Eggs, $5 per 13: $5.60 per 
26 ; *20 per 100. GKO. V. WII.UAMSO.N, Flanders, X. 1. 
TURKEY EGGS S 
*ger. L. II. IV11,1 
TIFFANY’S Superior 
Ducklings 
LhlCkS Wyandottes, Beds, Rocks. 
Leghorns, Anoonas,Pekin.' 
Rouen and Runner. Aldham Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phssnixvilla, Pa. 
Bourbon Red Turkey Eggs fiorYhom.m.'' ».*. 
For Sale WILD MALLARD EGGS, $3 per dozen, 
White Pekin $2.50, Toulouse geese 35 cents per 
egg. Six weeks old Mulefoot Pigs $5 apiece. 
Kilsyth Farm, Box 36, Huntington, L,. I. 
Uonparell Strain Barred Bocks. $1.15 per 15. By 
II mail Post paid. J. F. Carta, ft. D. 1, Bbockpokt N.Y. 
Big Bronze. $9 per setting of 9. 
". Y. City deliveries by me.-sen- 
SON, Mount Kisco, N. V. 
PEj ducks 
EGGS AND DUCKLINGS NOW 
PRICE LIST FREE. 
PARDEE'S PEKINS ISLIP. N Y 
White Holland Turkey Eggs for Hatching 
Mrs. NII.ES GROVKi!, South New Berlin. N.Y. 
Gold Back Mammoth Bronze Turkey uf&hfng 
None bettei. THOMAS E’EiLY, C hilton ville . Plymouth. Mass. 
linvrv r~ fi s% A From our fa m o u » 
1 (1 K n L T r" i] j] h M. Bronze andNnr- 
■ " 11 II k 1 k. u M v raganaett S t o <• L. 
Largest and hardiest breeds known. 85 for 6; 89 
for 12, sent prepaid. Instructions how to raise 90% 
of all flocks put off sent free with each order. All 
orders filled promptly. Strictly fresh eyes. 
WALTER BROS., Powhatan Point, Ohio 
TOULOUSE GOSLINGS S. C. W. LEGHORN CHICKS 
SMS: MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKLINGS 
Attractive Prices. NEAUAND0T DUCK RANCH, Sag Harkar, L. I..N-T. 
Ringneck PHEASANTS 
eggs now. BRUSHY NECK PHEASANTRY. Speonk, L. 1.. N.Y. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS ONLY 
Eggs —Setting 82.00; 50 86.00; 100 $10.00. 
HAYSTACK MT. FARM, Norfolk, Conn. 
White ’Wyandotte F.gga for hatching, from free range 
ft fowl; pure English cockerels. 100 Eggs. $N : 50 Eggs, 
*1.60 No Parcel Post. FRANK M. EDWARDS. Water Mill, N.Y. 
White Rock-Barred Rock CHICKS 
Kish el and Park strain. $82 per 100. Eggs, $2 per 15 ; 
$10 per 100. White Ribbon Poultry Farm, Fishkill, N. Y. 
CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS 
Anconas, S. C. Keds. Also White and Brown Leprhorns 
from pure bred, heavy laying:, farm-raised breeders. 
Safe delivery guaranteed. ADRIAN DeNEEK, Soda*. N. V. 
Sale of hundred Laying Pullets and Yearlings 
Nice stock, at $2.25 and up. FOIIEST FARM, Kockanay, N. J. 
Progressive Light Brahma 
from prize stock. Hatching eggs for sale; *3.50 for 13. 
Stock for sale Sept. 1. HENRY A. HEDGES, Grssnport, I,. 1., N.Y, 
MAHOGANY STRAIN SiSJfS&l 
For years the persistent Fall and Winter layers re¬ 
tained for breeders, having type and deep Mahogany 
color. Eggs, $3 for 15; 818 for 100. Write for cir¬ 
cular. B. QUACKENBUSH, Darien, Conn. Box 800, Phone 140 
S.C.R.I.RED Day-Old CHICKS-HATCHING EGGS 
Trapnested utility stock. White diarrhea tested. Storrs 
(Conn.) Egg Laying Contest winners. Eggs $15 per 100. 
Chicks for May delivery, $itO per hundred. Iteniaining 
10 breeding cockerels, best matings, $5.00 each. 
Deer Brook Poultry Form, Box 34, Short Fnlls, N.ll. 
S. C. R. 1. R E D S 
Vibert’s 231 to 289-egg strain. Eggs, 810 per 100: 
$85 per 300. Baby Chicks, $25 per 100. 6 liens ami 
cock for 820. Anna M. Jones, Craryville, N.Y. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES 
Single Comb Eggs from strain of famous winter 
layers. Mid-winter records run as high as 23 to 28 
Eggs in 30 days. $5 per 15. 0. G. L. LEWIS, Paoli, Pa. 
Rose and Single Comb Reds rtoKT&id 
for eggs and color, 15 for $2.25; 100— $10. Cliix, 100—$26. 
parcel post prepaid. NEMiIE RUSSKM, >Toodbury t Conn, 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. Regal-Doreas stock direct. Eggs, 
ft Grand matings. $1.75—15; $!»— 100. N. Hill. Seneca Falli, N.T. 
Barron White Wyandottes ^form^iis!: 
ARTHUR 1>. SMITH . Norfolk, Conn. 
“College Queen’s” Record p e 8 n a now Lading! 
Setting eggs for sale. Day-old chicks for sale. 
O. G. KNIGHT - Bridgeton, R. I. 
C f* HI acHY/finnrri Great layers. Cockerels, *» 
a 3. l_#l aCK Ivil M OlUd and $5 ; Hens, $3.50. Egfprs. 
15—$2; 100—$8, THOMAS E. EKKltSOLK. Carrollton, Ohio 
Barron’s White Wyandottes “?\mtcwTromst?fki 
imported direct. Records 262 to 289. E. E. LEWIS, Apalachin, N.Y. 
Oliver Tftced Wyandottes. Egffrs, $2 per 15; $3-50 per 
O 30 ; $5 per 60. GEO. WILLIAMSON, Flanders, N. J. 
SINGLE COMB ANCONAS 
Wonderful Layers. Sittings, *2.60, postpaid. Cir. Free. 
Lambert’s Poultry Fnrins, Apponaug, It. 1. 
FRANCAIS BARRED ROCKS 
forsale. Winners Storrscontest 1918-19X9. First and second 
pen 1919-1920. Also 3 highest hens, 282-281-273 eggs. No 
chicks. Jules F. Frnncais, Weathnmptou Heath, New York 
Barred Rocks 
Bred to lay. Notice our Pen No, 2, Storrs Contest. 
Eggs, chicks, cockerels. Cornell certified stock. 
Circular. Kent Poultry Farm, Cttzenovia, N.Y. 
4fl ui a ah Dull .4. Pullets. Thoroughbred Hogan test 
1 U-TYBBK rll 1 IBIS Stock. FOKFS’f FARM, lioekanaj, N. J. 
mirVQ Broilers. Leghorn., Rock, and Reds, 12cts. 
LnlLIVo end U P- Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular 
free. W. A. LAUVER, McAlistcrville, Pa, 
/'Y n S. C. R. I. Reds. B. I>. Rocks, S. C. White and 
Brown Leg. Anconas and Black Minorcas. 
JLi vl VJ $5 per 100; $16 per 360-egg case. Best strains. 
/"■t UT/"* XT O mixed. *11; Leg., $12 to$13: Bar. 
rl 1 •, ^ Rock and R. I. Red. $1«: White 
Rock,$T6 to $20. May delivery. 
MAPLES WHITE LEGHORN FARM Telford, Pa. 
BigSturdy Baby Chicks "1 
Wyandottes, Ringlet Bai l ed Rocks, Eglantine White Leg¬ 
horns, Anconas, S. C. Reds. Catalogue free. Chicks Feb. 
15th every week. SUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM, Copper Hill. H. J. 
/3TJI C B a,Te d P. Rock, Leghorns and Mixed. 
lOcandup, for June. Alsoafewfor 
May. Safe delivery guaranteed. Cir. 
cular free. The Cyclone Hatchery, Millerstown, 1‘ennu, 
Fina Rronrlc Poultry, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Guineas 
I IIIC UICCUO Bantams. Hares, Pigeons. Dogs, Stock 
Eggs, reasonable. Catalog free. PIONEER FARM, Tellird, P» 
RABBITS 
Rufus Reds and New Zealands 
We probably have the finest herd of New Zealand Reds 
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 com¬ 
parison. All yon need is the right foundation. We can 
supply them and at prices you can well afford. 
THE DELAWARE VALLEY RABB1TR1ES, Theo. S. Moore, Slockton, N.J. 
Rabbits 
All prominent Species 
ing stock. Illustrated Catalogue 
10c. Pamphlets on all Species 25c 
each. Breeding and Care of Rab¬ 
bits 50c. Department A, JOSEPH BLANK 
421 Highland Ave-. Maunt Yemen, N. T- 
FLEMISH GIANTS, young and matured, from pedigreed and 
reg. stock. Prices reasonable. H. 8. TEN ETCK, Somerville, N. J. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
p- - - - 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
laying contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held 1 at Storrs post office in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. AH the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the num¬ 
ber of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets en¬ 
tered for tlie next year. 
Record at Storrs, Conn., for week ending April 
10, 1921: 
Week Total 
BARRED ROCKS 
Rock Rose Farm, N. Y. 
W. H. B. Kent, N.Y.. 
Ernest W. Picker, N. J. 
Oregon Ag. College, Ore. 
Jules F. Francais, L. I. 
E. C. Foreman, Out... 
WHITE ROCKS 
James F. Macdonald, Mass. 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Chickatawbut Farm, Mass. 
F. R. Pember, R. I.. 
William H. Bassett, Conn. 
Appleerest Farm Co., N. H. 
Vineland Training School. N. J. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Obed G. Knight, R, I. 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 
Mrs. R. W. Stevens, N. Y... 
Harry D. Emmons, Conn.... 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
Hollis P. Cloyes.Conn... 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Charles D. Peirce. R. I. 
Henry P. Walker, Mass. 
Appleerest Farm Co., N. H. 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 
Glen Wright, Conn. 
The Orchards, Mass. 
Obed G. Knight, R. 1 . 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 
Old Town Farm, N. H. 
Norman M. Mistier, N.Y. 
Mrs. C. O. Polhemns, N. Y. 
E. 1'. Usher, Jr., Mass. 
H. S. Bickford, N. H. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Jacob E. Jansen, Conn. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn.. 
H. P. Deming. Conn. 
W. H. Card, Conn. 
C. P. Scott. Ill. 
Prospect Farms, N. J. 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 
Harold Tompkins, Mass. 
Mirimiehi Poultry F arm, Mass. 
I). S. Vaughn, R. I. 
H. E. Nichols, N. Y. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS 
Winsor Farm, Mass. 
ORKGONS 
Oregon ’Ag. College. Ore. 
BLACK LEGHORNS 
A. E. Hampton, N. J. 
BUFF LEGHORNS 
E. A. Vosburg, N. J. 
WHITE-LEGHORNS 
John K. Roessner, N. J. 
Tangle wold Farm, L. I. 
George B. Ferris, Mich. 
Richard Allen, Conn. 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. 
Kirkup Bros., N. Y. . 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter, N. J. 
James O. LeFevre, N. Y. ... 
Shadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
Small's Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
Goshen Poultry Club, Conn. 
Leo A. Grouten, Conn. 
Max Axelrod, Mass. 
Lawrence W. Miller, N. Y. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
Bonnie Brook Farm, N. Y. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J.. 
Mountain View Poultry Faim.’Vt.... 
A. P. Robinson, N. Y. 
Lion Head Poultry Farm. N. J. 
Imperial Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Emil Klein, L. I.. 
Jack Trevethan, N. J. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 
J. Frank Dubois. Mass. 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. 
George Phillips, Conn. 
Riverside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Orchard Hill Farm, N. Y. 
Mrs. J. L. Thuescn, Conn. 
W. W. Wood, Ohio. 
White Springs Farm, N. Y. 
J. T. Ramage, Texas.... . . 
Ernest H. Scott, Conn. 
Burchell & Janson, B. C. 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
August Degen, Conn.*. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
The Yates Farm, N. Y. 
L. E. Ingoldsby, N. Y.. y . 
Exmoor Farm, Pa .. 
Willana Farm, N. J. 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn. 
F. William Rosenau. Conn. 
Total. 
51 773 
52 847 
56 727 
39 579 
54 636 
40 526 
49 635 
49 547 
44 523 
46 436 
49 494 
46 438 
56 444 
40 443 
57 956 
45 538 
27 443 
42 544 
41 771 
55 589 
52 791 
49 £75 
54 732 
44 405 
57 729 
50 616 
45 861 
45 676 
58 524 
47 691 
46 613 
59 873 
53 624 
52 694 
87 790 
35 912 
43 673 
49 629 
42 383 
54 585 
42 399 
40 683 
43 486 
45 360 
56 491 
52 663 
17 425 
II 520 
»1 621 
42 490 
50 239 
51 541 
37 414 
42 629 
56 579 
50 715 
46 605 
53 690 
48 570 
48 863 
50 596 
40 667 
50 630 
50 674 
55 661 
47 723 
51 636 
54 796 
47 583 
49 564 
48 648 
52 724 
50 836 
43 776 
51 701 
61 578 
47 766 
55 774 
38 511 
47 403 
52 686 
50 465 
50 746 
49 564 
57 595 
55 525 
44 387 
54 607 
54 538 
52 778 
51 729 
19 355 
52 692 
42 537 
49 388 
55 808 
52 575 
49 538 
43 606 
46 512 
4824 61053 
Medicine in Drinking Water 
What is it that you put in drinking 
water for incubator chickens when they 
are small? A. D. 
Jobstown, N. J. 
You probably have reference to per¬ 
manganate of potash, which has been 
used by many poultrymen in the belief 
that it acted favorably in preventing 
bowel troubles and other disorders. 
Enough of the crystals to color the water 
a wine red are usually used. If you will 
give your little chicks all the sour ekim- 
milk, or milk iu any form, that they will 
drink, however, you will find this superior 
to any drug that you can use in promot¬ 
ing growth and healthfuluess ia the flock. 
April 30, 1921 
Angleworms Cause Gapes in Chickens 
Where the gapeworms that get into the 
windpipes of so many young chicks and 
cause such distress in breathing com© 
from has been a matter of some uncer¬ 
tainty. The part played by common 
earthworms in transmitting these pests 
from one chick to another has been par¬ 
ticularly open to dispute. To settle the 
matter the poultry department of tha 
Maryland College of Agriculture under¬ 
took a series of experiments and has pub¬ 
lished its conclusions in Bulletin 234. 
These experiments seem to have estab¬ 
lished the fact that earthworms are the 
most important means of transmission of 
gapes, and that they also carry the dis¬ 
ease over from one season to another. 
I he way it is done is this; Earthworms, 
in their burrowing through the soil, swal¬ 
low the dirt ahead of them, taking in 
with it the small particles of animal and 
vegetable matter that become their food. 
II living in soil which contains the eggs 
and embryos of gapeworms they swallow 
these also. These eggs and embryos may 
be digested in the intestinal tract of the 
earthworm, or the latter many find itself 
clutched by the scruff of the neck and 
hauled unceremoniously from its burrow 
by some husky chick before it has had 
time to digest its own meal. In that case 
the worm js destroyed in the chick’s stom¬ 
ach and the gapeworm embryos are lib¬ 
erated. Just why these gapeworm em¬ 
bryos are not digested by the chick, along 
with the earthworm, the authorities do 
us. In fact, they sidestep that 
little detail. 
Having been liberated in the chick’s di¬ 
gestive tract, these embryo gapeworms 
rind their way to their host’s windpipe 
Their exact route there has not vet been 
mapped out for us; another detail for the 
students of the subject to look into. But, 
at any rate, the young gapeworms find 
their way to the chick’s windpipe and at¬ 
tach themselves to its lining membrane 
Here they reach maturity and the females 
become distended with eggs. They do not 
ay these eggs, but burst and die, thus 
liberating their eggs all at once. 
In the chick’s frantic efforts to clear its 
windpipe it coughs up loose gapeworms, 
embryos and eggs together. These fall to 
the ground and may be picked up by other 
chicks, or the embryos may become food 
tor other earthworms. The experiments 
made rather indicate that coughedMip 
worms do not carry the disease to other 
chicks, even when swallowed bv them. It 
seems rather necessary that the embryo 
gapeworms pass through another host be¬ 
fore being able to infect healthy chicks, 
and this intermediate host, commonly, at 
least, is the angleworm. Another most 
excellent reason, by the way, why these 
earthworms should be carefully dug up 
in the Spring, carried to the creek in tin 
cans and drowned there. So far as known 
fish are not subject to gapes. 
The practical teaching of all this i» 
that young chicks should not be allowed 
to eat earthworms from soil on which 
gape-infected fowls have run. To keep 
chicks from getting these worms it may 
be necessary to raise them upon new 
ground, discarding old runs until they 
have become free from the parasites. It 
is believed that infected ground will clear 
itself in three years. It is well also to 
confine young chicks during Summer rains 
and while the morning dew is on. It is 
at these times that the earthworms come 
to the surface to find out w'hat is going 
on in the outside world, with the result, 
in too many cases, that they get only in¬ 
side information. M. b. D. 
Feeding Baby Chicks 
Will you tell me what is the best feed 
to feed baby chicks or how much should 
be fed? a. r. 
There is a difference of opinion as to 
the “best” foods for baby chicks. My own 
opinion is that finely cracked corn, wheat 
and oatmeal, either of the pinhead va¬ 
riety or oat flake, constitute the best 
foods for chicks up to au age at which 
they can eat larger grains. A good mix¬ 
ture may be made as follows: One part 
pinhead oatmeal (steel cut), two parts 
cracked wheat and three parts finely 
cracked corn. If this, or a similar mix¬ 
ture, is fed for the first two weeks at 
least, and all moist or sloppy food mix¬ 
tures are withheld, the danger of bowel 
troubles is greatly decreased. At five or 
six. weeks, or even earlier, whole wheat 
may be substituted for cracked wheat 
and larger particles of cracked corn may 
be used. The oatmeal may then he omit¬ 
ted if it. becomes too expensive, though it 
is a very valuable chick food. A dry 
mash consisting of equal parts by weight 
of cornmeal, wheat bran, middlings and 
sifted beef scrap may be fed after two 
weeks, or even earlier, if desired. Milk 
is the best single article of food, and 
should be given in some form from the 
very start in addition to the grains men¬ 
tioned. There can be no definite amount 
of food prescribed for each 100 chicks. 
Feed hard grains from three to five times 
daily, giving at each feeding only what 
will be quickly cleaned up. The dry mash 
may be kept constantly before the chicks. 
Feed tender green stuff also, feed often 
and in small amounts and then—let your 
wife feed the baby chicks. M. b. d. 
