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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 9, 1921 
Chicks $7.50 
per lOO 
\rtfi W Hatches due July 6, 12, 19 and 26. 
Postpaid to your door—100 per cent 
live delivory guaranteed. 
Utility Stock 
100 
or 
Less. 
BOO or More 
Mixed 
Chicks . 
. 7%c 
ea. 
7c ea. 
H. C. 
White Leghorns... 
9 
c 
ea. 
8c 
ea. 
H. C. 
Brown Leghorns.. 
9 
c 
ea. 
8c 
ea. 
8. C. 
Black Minorcas. . 
12 
c 
ea. 
11c 
ea. 
S. C. 
R. Isi. Reds. 
12 
c 
ea. 
11c 
ea. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. 
10 
c 
ea. 
9c 
ea. 
8. C. 
Mottled Anconas. 
15 
c 
ea. 
14c 
ea. 
I. 1 ),000 Chicks weekly—-Thousands of satisfied 
customers everywhere. Order soon. Catalog free. 
THE KEYSTONE HATCHERY, Richfield, Pa. 
(The Old Reliable Plant) 
HUMMER’S FAMOUS CHICKS 
Barred Rocks, $12.50*per 100. R. I. Reds, $18.50 per 
100. Ancona, #18 psr 100. 8. C. Brown Leghorn, 812 per 
100. 25 or 50 lot at 100 rate. S. C. Barron White Leghorn, 
#9 per 100, June delivery. July #9 per 100. Shipments 
forwarded sach week by prepaid parcel post Live arriv¬ 
al. Place your order at once and get fine chicks at this 
low price. E. It. Hummer & Co., French!own, N. J. 
S. G. WHITE LEGHORN LAYERS 
13 months old. Have about 1,000 for sale. 02 each. 
Also White Leehorn and Rhode Island Red cocker¬ 
els. 10 weeks, for breeding, 81 each. Pullets, 10 
weeks, at 81.50 each. Our best laying stock. 
BIRCH HILL FARM Katonali, New York 
Big Sturdy Baby Chicks 
July 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, Aug. 2nd 
Martin's Dorcas White Wyandottes, $18 per 100; 
Ringlet Barred Rocks, Quality S. C. Reds, $15 per 
100. Eglantine White Leghorns, 812 per 100. Safe 
arrival guaranteed. Postage prepaid. Order now. 
SUNNY SIDE POULTRY FARM Copper Hill, N. J. 
CHICKS $7.50 per 100 
Mixed. Rsds, 12c; Rocks, IOc; Leghorns, 9e; Minorcas, 
12c; Anconas, 16c each. 600 lots le per chick less, ex¬ 
cept mixed, which are 7c each. 100% live delivery guar¬ 
anteed. Prepaid to your door. Ourllth year. Cata. free. 
15,000 chicks weekly. KEYSTONE HATCHERY, Richfield, P». 
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JERSEY BLACK GIANTS 
MamiFarm* won more prizes than all other Giant 
aibjidiiiis breeders combined. Orders booked 
for July and later shipments. Pullets ami Cocker¬ 
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Garden and Boston Winners on request. Reduced 
prices on hatching eggs . MARCY FARMS. Matnwan, N. J 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS BREEDING STOCK 
^V r o have thousands of these wonderful chickens now on 
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Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkey*, Phea*ant*,Quail, Rabbit*, Deer, etc. 
for stocking purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes. Storks. Swans. 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears. Foxes, Rac¬ 
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P ARDEE'S 
ERFECT 
EKIN 
DUCKS 
America’s Standard 
Strain. BREEDERS NOW. 
PARDEE'S PEKINS. ISLIP.N.Y. 
r- 1 ■' ' 
8 to 10-Weeks-01d 
PULLETS 
Wc have 15,000 now on the range ready 
for shipment this month and next. We 
have had good luck with them and we be¬ 
lieve them to be the healthiest and most 
vigorous large flock of young pullets in 
the East today. They are all on new Land 
and in new buildings and are being 
raised on unlimited range. 
These pullets were hatched from ourchoic- 
est breeding pens we have this year and are 
the cream of our best egg breed blood. 
Every shipment is guaranteed to be 100% 
satisfactory at the time of sale. Write and 
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date of delivery you wish and we will 
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LORD FARMS 
METHUEN MASS. 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
Bred Right end Raised Right 
9 to 10 weeks old, delivery at once, 81.50 each 
4Jmonths old, delivery from July 15 on, 2.00 each 
5 months old, delivery from Aug. 15 on, 2.50 eaeh 
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HARDIMONT POULTRY FARM 
Washington Street Toms River, N. J. 
S.C. White Leghorn 
PULLETS 
6-8 weeks old, $1.50 each, in lots of 85. 
Write for prices on larger orders. 
25,000 Chicks Sold to Old Customers this year 
| KIRKUP BROS., Mattituck, L. I., N. Y. 
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CHICKS S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
vlIlvIVO Specially bred lor heavy egg production 
Our Leghorns will please because they deliver the 
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will tell you that you cannot duplicate these sturdy 
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C. HI. Longenecker, Box 50, Elizabethtown, Pa. 
Bred to Lay-Single Comb Wh ite Leghorn 
PULLETS-To Lay Aug. 1st 
100 February hatch, 260-egg strain, S. C. W. Leghorn Pul¬ 
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for breeders. Fall eggs pay hotter than Winter eggs and 
cost less. Standard White typical birds. 
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S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
500 Choice Farm Range Pullets l'or Sale in 
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The Henyard 
Feeding Nux Vomica to Chickens 
A few years ago several articles ap¬ 
peared in TriE R. N.-Y. regarding feeding 
something to young chicks to repel crows 
and hawks. The crows in my neighbor¬ 
hood are undoing a lot. of hard work. 
Franklinville, N. Y. g. r. r. 
A number of our Southern readers 
have told us that they used nux vomica 
for killing hawks and crows. At first 
we thought that they made a paste of this 
drug and smeared it over the live chick¬ 
ens. then putting the chicken in a box at 
the top of a polo. Our Southern readers 
insist, however, that they feed the nux 
vomica to the live chickens without injur¬ 
ing them. The drug is mixed with ground 
grain, and then fed as a mash. The 
theory is that the chicken is immune to 
the effects of this drug, while it is death 
to hawks and crows. Thus after con¬ 
tinued feeding, the flesh of the chicken 
becomes impregnated with the poison, so 
that when eaten by the hawk or crow it 
causes death. Several Southern readers 
have told us that this same plan is used 
with pigs. In parts of the South there 
is great trouble from the colored people, 
who will run down pigs in the woods, 
kill them and eat the meat. Our people 
state that they feed nux vomica to these 
pigs, and that after a week or two the 
flesh of the pig is well .stocked with 
poison. Many a colored man has been 
found sick from what to him was some 
strange disease. It was really the effect 
of eating some of this stolen pork from 
these hogs that were fed on nux vomica. 
These stories are repeated to us again 
and again, and reputable people vouch 
for them. On the other hand, the expert* 
and scientific men are inclined to doubt 
the idea of destroying crows and hawks 
in this way. They say there is no ac¬ 
tual proof that this vermin is killed by 
eating these chickens. They seem to ad¬ 
mit that the chickens can eat quantities 
of nux vomica without danger, but they 
will not accept the evidence until they 
can feed a chicken thus described, then 
let a hawk or crow eat this chicken, and 
if he dies, examine the vermin to tell 
whether he was poisoned or not. Of 
course, this is the scientist’s way of set¬ 
tling the matter, but these Southern peo¬ 
ple do not wait for that, but go on feed¬ 
ing the nux vomica as we have told. We 
have never tried the plan ourselves, and 
should hardly care to eat a chicken that 
was strong enough in poison to kill a 
crow or a hawk. 
Feeding Raw Potatoes to Chicks 
On page 578 C. W. S. C. inquires about 
feeding potatoes to baby chicks. For 
several years I fed raw potatoes to chicks 
without noticing any ill results. I com¬ 
menced when the chicks were two weeks 
old. The chicks were hatched before I 
could grow green stuff iu their small runs, 
and before I could grow lettuce, etc., in 
the garden. I would slice the potatoes on 
a kitchen vegetable slicer, using the side 
that cut them about as large around as 
vermicelli. I continued until I let the 
chicks out in the large runs. There is no 
doubt about the chicks liking the pota^ 
toes. G . F . s . 
Stafford Springs, Conn. 
Poor Hatches 
I bought 50 chicks. Barred Rocks, from 
high egg record hens, last June. On No¬ 
vember 28 they started to lay. I had 
raised 17 pullets and one cockerel for 
myself. They were all nice-looking birds, 
the cockerel especially being a beauty. 
They have lived up to the claims made 
for them, as all through December, Jan¬ 
uary, February and March the 17 aver¬ 
aged 12 and 13 eggs a day. December 
and March they averaged 12, and in Jan¬ 
uary and February they averaged 13. 
Since then they have all wanted to sit. 
I let neighbors have four settings of eggs. 
Each setting brought off two chicks. I 
tried a setting myself, and only two eggs 
were fertile. The flock had free range 
up to April 1. They have a warm, sani¬ 
tary coop, about 24x20. I feed them a 
good grade of scratch feed morning and 
night, and at noon u mash made of bran, 
cornmeal, meat scrap and odds and ends 
from the table. Can you tell me why the 
eggs are not fertile? Since starting to 
use the eggs to hatch I have had 15 pul¬ 
lets with the male bird, as I was setting 
two and they have only just left their 
chicks. MRS. F. S. 
Orangeburg, N. Y. 
From the fact that none of these pul¬ 
lets produce hatchable eggs, or practically 
none. I should suspect the male bird be¬ 
ing at fault, and try the flock with an¬ 
other male. There are many pullets and 
hens that do not produce strongly fertile 
eggs at any time in their lives, and a few 
in a flock will give poor results in hatch¬ 
ing, but it. is not usual for a whole flock 
to prove deficient iu this way. I would 
suggest introducing another male, and 
after two weeks trying another hatch or 
two. This will at least indicate whether 
or not the present male with the flock is 
responsible for the trouble. M. B. d. 
Hatching Ducks 
On page 794 Mrs. B. S. writes about 
trouble in hatching ducks. I think the 
whole trouble is caused by sprinkling the 
eggs. No matter what anybody says, 
don’t sprinkle them. Treat them the 
same as hens’ eggs, and they will batch 
all right. I am 80 years of age. and have 
been used to setting duck eggs since I was 
a small boy, and no one of my acquaint¬ 
ances ever sprinkled eggs. They don’t 
need any outside moisture. They have 
all they require inside. The eggs have 
to evaporate to allow the duck or chick 
room to work itself out, and if you wet 
the eggs it stops evaporation. w. j. R. 
WKlmington, Del. 
Gapes; Care of Ducklings and Goslings 
1. Will you tell me a method of quick 
relief for chickens (young) that have the 
gapes? I have tried everything, but can 
find no cure. 2. Also tell me how to 
fed and care for little ducks and goslings 
when the rose bugs are around. 3. How 
long should goose eggs run over time 
(after time to hatch) ? It has been three 
days and only three goslings have ar¬ 
rived. I can hear the others in the shells. 
Barclay, M'd. m. m. b. 
1. I know of no quicker relief for young 
chicks suffering from the presence of 
gapeworms in their windpipes than to 
run the tip of a feather, or a double horse¬ 
hair with a knot tied at the end, care¬ 
fully down the windpipe and then to 
withdraw it with a twisting motion that 
loosens the worms and permits them to 
he coughed up. Chicks should be guarded 
from gapeworms by raising them on 
ground that has not become infected, 
and. if necessary, by confining them dur¬ 
ing rains and while the dew is on in the 
morning. It is at these times that earth¬ 
worms are most numerous upon the sur¬ 
face of the ground, and it is from in¬ 
fected earthworms that young chicks 
get the greater number of their gape- 
worms. 
2. Keep the young birds confined, or, 
at least, away from rose bushes, grape¬ 
vines, fields of daisies and other plants 
upon which rose chafers congregate in 
great numbers during their season. I 
know of no other way of protecting them. 
These chafers appear in such great num¬ 
bers, and so suddenly at times that they 
cannot be destroyed, but they disappear 
as quickly as they come, and temporary 
protection will save the birds. 
3. Perhaps you are hurrying these 
eggs; give them 30 days to hatch, and 
a day or two over if they need it. Cer¬ 
tain conditions may delay hatching a 
little. M. B. D. 
Diarrhoea in Baby Chicks 
Will you tell me how to avoid diar¬ 
rhoea in'baby chicks? Chicks are lively 
as can be. have plenty of grass and room 
to run, and in the morning I find one 
dead; every day another. I have read 
in a magazine that, black pepper mixed in 
a mash is good. Do you advise it? 
New Jersey. MRS. J. s. 
If diarrhopa were a disease, perhaps 
we should know how to cure it, and that 
would be all that there is to it. But 
diarrhoea is only a symptom of something 
wrong with the digestive organs, and that 
something wrong may result from many 
different things. It may he improper 
feeding or improper brooding, or intesti¬ 
nal disease, or disease of some other or¬ 
gan, or organs of the body. And until 
we know the cause in any particular 
case, it is impossible to prescribe a rem¬ 
edy. As to mixing pepper, or any other 
dope, with the food to cheek diarrhoea. I 
can see no value in it. If the cause is 
not removed, any checking of the diar¬ 
rhoea would be harmful, even if pepper 
or other stuff would check it, and that, I 
think, is very doubtful. If true bacillary 
white diarrhoea is present, nothing will 
cure it. This form must be gotten rid 
of by hatching from disease-free stock 
and avoiding subsequent infection. If, as 
in most cases, the diarrhoea is due to im¬ 
proper feeding, the remedy is to feed 
properly, and I would suggest that you 
feed only hard, finely cracked grains for 
the first two weeks and give as both food 
and drink all the skim-milk that the 
chicks will consume. Add to this ration, 
however, all the finely cut and tender 
green stuff the chicks want; anything 
from garden lettuce to young, tender bur¬ 
dock leaves. Later, add a suitable dry 
mash, and after the chicks have passed 
the danger stage, about four weeks, feed 
the same mash once daily in moistened 
form, as well as keep it. before the flock 
dry. There are various successful meth¬ 
ods of feeding young chicks; no hard and 
fast rules can be laid down; but this 
plan will avoid much trouble from diar¬ 
rhoea due to digestive disturbances. 
M. B. D. 
