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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Make Oat; 
Sprouter 
$ 249 . 
JcYou can make a better sprouter than you can 
^ buy. This sprouter was made in one evening 
by a 14 year old boy with a saw and hammer. 
The cost, with heater, was $2.49. Thousands in 
use. All say it is the best and handiest made. 
Make Layers Out of Loafers 
To make hens lay their best, in winter, growing green food, 
rich in vitamins, must be fed. Sprouted oats are best. 
The Putnam Home Made Sprouter yields the best and 
sweetest sprouts and with the least work. I will send, 
free, plans for making this sprouter with description of Little 
Putnam Stove to heat it. Also instructions for use of stove 
to keep fowls* drinking water unfrozen. Stove holds three 
pints of oil. Burns a month without trimming or filling. 
Patented burner. Nothing like it. Ask your dealer, or send 
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From high-laying, pure¬ 
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Oalen FarniB, Clyde, N. Y. 
Single Comb WHITE LEGHORNS MESS 
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some fifteen years ago. They are sull making good 
in the hands of hundreds of pleased customers. Over 
two hundred choice breeding males (one previous 
customer is buying sixty) eight to ten dollars 
each. Limited number select pullets. Hatching eggs 
after Jan. 1st. Baby chicks. Feb. 15th. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Send for circular. JOHN II. WEED 
tll.nn.od Poultry Perm VINELAND, N. J, 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN MALES 
We have some exceptionally good males this 
Fall. The breeding and type is right for an 
improvement in your flock. 
BABY CHICKS THAT GIVE SATISFACTION 
We are getting more inquiries forehicks than 
ever before at this time of the year. We advise 
our customers to place their orders early with 
the largest producers of S. C. W. Leghorns in 
the East. LORI) FARMS, Methuen, Mass. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
3000 BREEDERS ON FREE FARM RANGE 
BARRON STRAIN 
800 cocks and cockerels for sale, out of imported birds 
grown on free farm range: buttermilk fed. Birds of 
grand size and greet vigor from wonderful layers. The 
kind that will improve your stock. JTIee, §5 each. 5 for 
820, and 10 or more S'* each. Now booking orders for 
baby chicks, February, March and April delivery, 1922 
from the finest breeders I ever owned. Circulars free. 
My book, “ Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved,” §1 or 
free with all *10 orders.- E1IUAK KKIGGS, Box To, 
IHcuHiint Valley, N. V. 
DIRECTLY IMPORTED 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORN cocks and cockerels, 
head pari, of our pure Barron Strain matings 
this Season. Pedigrees 272-288. Our Third 
importation. Strong chicks and fertile eggs 
from these and other Leghorn matings, at. low 
prices. Fully guaranteed. Choice males for 
sale. Write. R. T. EWING, Atlantic, Pa. 
YOU WILL IMPROVElhe Egg Production 
ot Your S. C. White Leghorns 
by hsingcockerela from our trap-nested liens. Prices 
•ind records as follows : 180-200-eggs, 1B4 ; 200-210, 
985; 210-220. 986: 220-244, sired by males whose dams 
recoids were not less than 250. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Valley Egg Farm, Little Valley, N.Y, 
EVERLAY 
BRO WN 
LEGHORNS 
The beautiful business hen! Wonderful winter lay-, 
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can Kuk Contest! Greatest winner* New York- 
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EVERLAY FARM Box 28 Portland, Ind. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
1921 customer bought 2.800 chicks, raised over 1,000 pul¬ 
lets. Same customer lies 4,000 order for Jan.-Feh., 1922. 
Place vour order now for early deliveries. »6o per 
hundred MOUNTAIN VIEW POULTRY FARM, Hopewell Junction, N T. 
While Leghorn Cockerels "Si 
each: 5 for 820. Must please or money returned. 
THE GILBERT HOME - Winsted, Conn. 
XT 
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Bergen County, N. J.. Egg Contest 
This contest is held at Emerson. N. J.. under 
control of New Jersey State Experiment Station. 
There are 100 pens, each with 12 birds. This 
is the second (yearling) year of this contest. 
Following is the record of week ending Decem¬ 
ber 5 (fourth week): 
B. P. ROCKS 
J.. 
i” 
C. W. Brown. N. J. 
J. A. Craig, N. .1. 
Etjon Poultry Farm. N. 
Harry II Ober, N. J_ 
Pleasant View Farm. R. 
ltoselawn Farm, N. J ... 
W. P. ROCKS 
S. Bradford AUyn. Mass. 
Roy M. I.yncb, N. J. 
James F. MacDonald. Mass. 
Week Total 
58 
51 
6 
7 
& 
7 
27 
5 
15 
9 
2 
WHITE WTANDOTTErt 
Barr’s Knobby Stone, Pa. u 
Central Poultry Farm. N. J. 17 
E. 0. Condict A Son, N. J. || 
August Weiss. N. J. H 
R. C. R. I. REDS 
The Hoola Farm, N. J. 36 
S. C R. I. REDS 
H. W. Colllngwood. N. J... 16 
Henry P. Walker, Mass. 25 
39 
38 
142 
50 
65 
4 
18 
1 
96 
03 
82 
132 
to stimulate your pullets somewhat. One- 
fifth part of meat scrap would not be too 
much ; in fact, that amount is preferred 
by many poultrymen. If your Leghorn 
pullets were hatched as early as May 
and have been well fed and cared for 
from the time that they were hatched, not 
kept upon insufficient rations until near 
maturity, they should be laying by the 
time they are between five and six months 
of age. Unusually precocious ones may 
lay at four months, even, 'but this is not 
to be expected or desired. 
2. These warts may be the eruptions of 
chicken pox. Remove the pullet from the 
flock until cured, as the disease is highly 
contagious, and paint the eruption with 
tincture of iodine, being careful not to 
get the liquid into the bird’s eyes. 
M. B. D. 
Amount of Grain 
12 
C. Reed Ferguson, N. .1 
Fred C. Nixon. N. J. 
Howard (4. Taylor. N. J. 
R. VV. Tracy. N. .1.1. 
Underhill Brothers, N. J , 
CAMPINES 
Mrs. B. W. Bralnard. N. Y. 
ANOONAS 
,lust-A-Mere Poultry Farm, N J. 
E. Dittmar, N. .1 . u 
Solomon Klchman, N. J. 
LEUHORNS 
Tanglewold Farm. N. Y. 
Beck Egg Farm. N. J. 
J. W. BottChcr. N. J. 
Broad Acres Farm, Conn. 
Broad View Farm, N. J. 
A. L. Causse, Jr., N. J. 
Cranberry Brook Farm. N. J . . 
J. S. Cray & Son. N. J. 
Harold W. Davis. N. J. 
Alex Eichenhaum, N. J. 
Kigenraueh & De Winters. N. J .. 
Pinehurgt Poultry Farm, N. J.. 
Mattie H. Eppele. N. J. 
Geo. B. Ferris. Mich. ly 
Richard Franke. N, J. 
Greendale Farm. N. Y. 
Chas E. Grove, Del. 
Leo A. Grouten, Conn. 
Henry E. Heine. N. J. 
John J. Heerdt, N, J. 
The Hoebn Farm, N. Y. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
Frank L. Hugus. N. J. 
Sami. Johnston, N. J.. 
George C. Johnson. N. J. 
The Ohio Poultry Farm, Ohio. 
Robert O. Knapp, N. Y.!.. 
Jay D. Lester, N. Y. 
Francis F Lincoln, Conn. 
Lion Head Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Harold W, Lyle, N. J. 
Marquis & Wagner, N.Y . 
Herbert O. Maxhum. R I . 
Meadowedge Farm. N. Y. 
Mercer Poultry Farm, N. J.” 
Fred J, Mathews, N. J .. 
Oakdale Poultry Farm. N. j .1. 
Samuel Niece & Son, N. J. 
S. Olsen. N. J. 
Plnewood Poultry h arm, N. J. 
Manning Potts, N. J. . 
Queensbury Farm. N. J. 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm. N. J __ " 
Columbian Poultry Farm, N. J . 
John K. Koessner. N. J. 
Rosehlll Farm. N. .1.. . 
Rosewood Leghorns, N. J.! 
J. W. Sohreib, N. Y. 
Sbadowbrook Farm, Conn. 
A. K. Spear, N. J. 
Spring Lake Farm, N. J. 
John G. Sitnmonds, N. J . 
Matthew Stothart, Jr.. N, J . 
Willis E. Stryker. N. J. 
Sun View Farm, N, J . 
Wallace S. Suydam. N. J. 
Tom's Poultry Farm, N. J. 
J. R. Van ilouten. N. J. 
Gustav Walters, N ,J . 
John F. Wehrell, N. J. 
Westwood Poultry Farm N. J. 
James Whetsel, N. J. 
White Cloud Farms. N.Y. . 
Wilburtha Poultry Farm, N. J. 
8. C.W. LEGHORN N. J. A 
Atlantic Co. M.P. A. 
8 C W LEGHORN E.N'TK 
Bergen Co Poultry Assn. 
It 1. REDS 
Bergen Co, Poultry Assn. 
S C WLEGHORN 
Burlington Co. Poultry Assn. 
R. 1. REDS 
Burlington Co. Poultry Assn. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN 
llammontoii Poultry Kaisers' Assn., 
Hunterdon Co. Poultry Assn. 
Middlesex Co. Poultry Assn. 
Ocean Co, Poultry Assn .. 
Vineland Poultry Assu .’ 
Total . 678 
82 
151 
51 
49 
59 
25 
66 
28 
56 
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14 
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77 
17 
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6 
36 
5 
84 
9 
3 
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74 
2 
2 
13 
45 
4 
31 
4 
21 
19 
67 
5 
5 
9 
26 
5 
14 
7 
69 
0 
8 
1 
3 
$ 
6 
0 
0 
0 
0 
9 
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5 
17 
16 
42 
19 
59 
5 
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3 
49 
5 
29 
13 
53 
4 
37 
9 
9 
9 
0 
3 
19 
3 
14 
2 
3 
9 
9 
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11 
9 
9 
5 
5 
3 
18 
4 
21 
9 
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29 
5 
26 
8 
21 
5 
19 
9 
9 
13 
41 
2 
29 
Ju 
46 
II 
9 
4 
27 
9 
44 
4 
32 
8 
58 
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14 
IN. 
3 
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30 
0 
9 
20 
25 
6 
46 
11 
50 
5 
25 
18 
58 
5 
22 
6 
24 
9 
24 
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Leghorn 
old. and 
I am not 
H I W. I.T.dllORNS and WHITE WVANDOTTES at *2 SO and 
ti lt Place your order for Baby Chicks now. Leading 
varieties Circular free. F.. J. Thiel, Millers, N. Y. 
S P UUkllol iwrtnrne 12 Coekerels, April Hatch, for 
, Vl. If ll116 Lognorns sale. Good laying stock. $4 each, 
cash with order. M. C. PALMEK, Monorvllle, N.Y. 
Laying Ration 
1. I have 120 S. C. White 
pullets which are five months 
cannot find out the reason why 
getting any eggs. 1 feed them scratch 
feed in the morning at seven o’clock, and 
in afternoon at half-past four, as much as 
they can eat, and they also have the dry 
mash before them at all times. The mash 
consists of equals parts wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, ground oats, gluten feed, meat 
scrap and cornmeal. and also grit and 
oyster shells. Are they getting the right 
ration? Can you suggest a better one for 
egg production? 2. I have discovered 
that a pullet has warts on the evelids 
which completely closed the eve. I washed 
with warm water, but it did not do much 
good. Could you give a remedy for it? 
F. G. 
1. Leghorn pullets do not often begin 
to lay until after they have reached the 
age of five months, and you are probably 
expecting too much of yours. The mash 
you are using is as good as any mixture 
that T know of, though you may use a 
little more meat scrap in' it if you wish 
I read an article on poultry rations on 
page 1286. Will you give me the quan¬ 
tity required of the grains, also the mash 
per 100 chickens? j. h. 
Bloomsbury, N. J. 
Laying hens will eat from eight to 10 
quarts per day of whole grains when a 
dry mash is kept constantly before them ; 
this amount per 100 fowls. They would 
eat more whole grain and less mash if 
given opportunity, but greater consump¬ 
tion of the mash is encouraged if too 
much whole grain is not fed. Fowls of 
the larger varieties will consume more 
than this. Poultrymen like to have their 
hens consume about equal quantities by 
weight of whole grain and mash and to 
stimulate consumption of the latter late 
in the season when egg production is fall¬ 
ing off. To this end one feeding daily of 
moist mash is often given in addition to 
the dry ground grains always -before the 
fowls. Rules for feeding cannot be fixed 
accurately per 100 fowls. Hens and 
growing pullets should have all that thev 
will eat, but the above are approximate 
amounts ordinarily consumed, m. b. i>. 
Income from 12 Hens 
Oil page 1356 the Hope Farm man 
gave the record of his 12 Red hens at the 
Vineland contest. They laid a total of 
2,430 eggs in two years. This means 
202% dozen for two-year-old hens. If we 
allow 40 cents a dozen through the entire 
period we have $81 as the income for the 
12 hens for two years. With prices for 
feed and “overhead” expenses there would 
be little left out of this. 
Mr. .Tames F. Harrington had a pen of 
Leghorns in this contest, and he gives 
their two-year record as follows: 
1st Yr. 
2d Yr. 
Total 
No. 1 
221 
153 
374 
No. 2 
240 
168 
417 
No. 3 
106 
105 
301 
No. 4 
223 
173 
306 
No. 5 
230 
186 
416 
No. 6 
241 
165 
406 
No. 7 
232 
180 
412 
No. 8 
208 
104 
402 
No. 0 
221 
105 
416 
No. 10 
244 
215 
450 
No. 11 
218 
160 
387 
No. 12 
217 
151 
368 
53 eggs laid on 
12 died before 
is. these 12 hens 
4.844 
(53 
4,897 
the floor, 
the year 
laid 408 
There were 
and hen No. 
ended. As it 
dozen eggs, which at an average of 40 
eents represent an ineoine of $103.20. 
There is evidently a difference between 
hens and hens. 
The Cost of Raising a Chicken 
Last Spring, just before I purchased or 
hatched any chicks, I determined to keep 
their account separate for at least six 
months, so that I might know the cost of 
my pullets at about laying age, and the 
following has been the result: 
800 day-old chicks bought.$216 
450 from my own eggs, including cost 
of incubating and value of eggs.. 48 
Feed . 381 
Then 1 are about 400 pullets. The 
cockerels sold for $308, leaving as the 
cost $353. or about 88c each, November 1. 
The 800 chicks purchased were R. I. Reds, 
in two lots of 400 each, one May 2. the 
other May 10. My own were hatched 
April 30. 
The cost of the pullets would have been 
materially lessened hut for an abnormal 
loss in the second lot of Reds purchased— 
326 out of the 400. Out of the first lot 
of 400 T lost 68, and out of my own lot 
of 453 I lost only 48. I would like right 
here to warn beginners not to put too 
many little chicks under a hover, aline 
are all large-size coal burners, 'but if I 
had a sufficient number of them and plenty 
of room. 300 would he the limit, and 200 
would he better still. Of course, with 
coal at $15 to $17 per ton, the cost of 
brooding would be greatly euhanced. but 
December 24, 1921 
I think it would pay, even at that. Re¬ 
turning to the cost of my pullets. 88c 
each, and contrasting it with the $2 to $5 
that is being asked for pullets, seems to 
suggest a good margin of profit is being 
sought by those who have them to sell 
Last Fall I paid $2.25 and $2.50 each for 
100 pullets, and I did not find a good 
layer in the whole bunch. With me a 
good layer must reach at least an output 
of 150 eggs. Those figures. 150. remind 
me that a White Leghorn hen that will he 
seven years old next April laid just that 
number this year. This completes her 
sixth year of laying. Her production the 
first year was 253. This year and the 
first are the only ones in which she was 
trapped the full year, and in those two 
years she produced 403 eggs. I believe 
hen has produced nearly or quite 
1.000 eggs. I have another that is of 
same age that produced a larger number 
the first year, but not so many this year. 
I also have several others hatched same 
day. hut they have never done as well as 
these two. They are all well and rugged, 
and as young as the pullets in all but 
years. I have thoroughly enjoyed trap- 
ping my hens, and thereby have learned a 
lot the other fellow doesn’t know. 
F. E. HODGE. 
Orpingtons as Layers 
Are Buff Orpingtons good layers? 
Very few people seem to keep them. Is 
it because they are not profitable? I 
have a few, but do not seem to get re¬ 
sults I think I should, although I feed 
them according to rules. What hens do 
you think are good other than Leghorn, 
as they are such poor fowls for market? 
is it a good plan not to feed hens in 
breaking them up from sitting? 
Hartwick, N. Y. c. a. w. 
The Orpingtons are favorites with 
some, and are considered very good layers 
, , _ °/ the heavy class. None of 
is not their 
fowls 
heavy 'breeds can compete with the 
machines” in production, and that 
r +i • Purpose. They may be kept 
fm their value as producers of meat for 
the table alone or for their value as egg 
producers and table fowls combined, hut 
in either case it is useless to expect, them 
to excel m egg production the smaller 
breeds that have been bred for manv 
years with practically the sole object of 
getting the largest possible number of 
t'KKs Excellent breeds for “general rnir- 
pose, that is, for the production of both 
meat and eggs, are the R. I. Reds, the 
\\ yandottes and the Plymouth Rooks 
Others may be equally good, hut these 
are old standbys, and a good strain of 
them can be depended upon to give as 
good results as fowls in that class can. 
I' 01 } .?, xpect >. however, to find a breed 
that will provide a heavy carcass for the 
table, while at the same time it excels in 
egg production. That breed liasn’t yet 
produced. M . B . D< 
been 
Ration for Pullets; Death of Fowl 
w?-! ia «r 140 f rowin S P u,le ts and cockerels, 
\\ lute V yandottes, and I am not sure how 
much I should feed them to get the best 
results. I am giving them mixed grain 
night and morning and a mash at noon 
< an you tell me how much grain I should 
feed them at each meal? Some of them are 
dying, without any apparent reason. To¬ 
day I went over to feed them at noon and 
one of them began to flop around as if it 
had its head cut off, flew up in the air 
and came down dead. They all seem to 
be healthy and growing well. They are 
all from five to six months old. To my 
knowledge they have never had auv dis¬ 
ease of any kind. They have large, com¬ 
fortable quarters, plenty of range and the 
best of care. j F c 
.A flo ? k . of Pullets getting ready for 
W inter laying should be fed all that they 
will the only limit being tlieir appe¬ 
tites. This does not mean, however, that 
some judgment in preparing their rations 
should not be used. A moist mash is 
more palatable than a dry one and may 
be eaten in excess and to the exclusion of 
other needed foods if improperly fed. 
Because of its greater convenience and 
lessened danger of overfeeding upon it. a 
dry mash is preferred by the great major¬ 
ity of poultrymen. This may be kept‘be¬ 
fore the fowls fill of the time and affords 
them an opportunity to fully satisfy their 
appetites, while it does not tempt them 
to gorging and neglect of whole grains. 
If a moist mash is preferred, however, it 
should he made just crumbly and fed in 
the amount that the fowls will promptly 
dean up without waste. From eight to 
10 quarts of whole grains per 100 fowls 
is the amount usually fed daily, in addi¬ 
tion to the mash. This is an approximate 
amount and may he increased or dimin¬ 
ished as the fowls require. A little less 
than half of the amount needed is fed in 
the. morning and the balance at night, 
giving enough then to send them to roost 
with full crops. Tf they are not quite 
fully fed on grain in the morning they 
will consume more dry mash through the 
day. and it is desirable that they should 
consume about equal amounts of grain 
and mash, though when laying heavily 
they will need a little more mash than 
whole grain. Those who feed dry mash 
frequently add -a daily feeding of moist 
late in the season when egg production 
begins to lag, the object being to hold up 
production by inducing an increased con¬ 
sumption of food. 
This pullet may have had a stroke of 
apoplexy, an accident which could not 
have been foreseen or avoided, m. b. d. 
