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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 12, 1924 
175 MILLION CHICKS 
a year are hatched 
in Buckeye Incubators 
Yes —and ISO Mil¬ 
lion Chicks are raised 
every year by the 
Buckeye System of 
Colony Brooding 
THE HENYARD 
Crippled Pullets 
Rhode Island Red pullets suffer as fol¬ 
lows : First they limp, then the toes be¬ 
come cramped, and finally they squat 
down, losing full control of their legs. 
They remain this way for about three 
weeks, eating and drinking during this 
period, and finally they become disabled 
and lie on one side with the legs stretched 
out straight, unable to use them in any 
way. If there is any possible cure, please 
advise me. W. B. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Thousands upon thousands of Buck¬ 
eye users have discarded other ma¬ 
chines of various makes — actually 
thrown them away and replaced 
them with Buckeyes. For Buckeye 
has restored their faith in poultry 
raising as a safe, sound, profitable 
business. 
It has taken the gamble out. 
Buckeye Incubators hatch every 
hatchable egg — every time, hatch 
after hatch, year after year —and 
bring forth the finest, strongest 
chicks you ever saw. 
Buckeye Colony Brooders raise every 
raisable chick, saving millions of 
chicks yearly for Buckeye owners, at 
half the labor and expense. 
More Buckeyes are sold yearly than 
the combined total of the next three 
leading manufacturers. More Buck¬ 
eyes are exported toforeigncountries 
than the total of all other manufac¬ 
turers. Almost everyone of the great 
agricultural colleges use Buckeye 
equipment. 
“How can I save my chicks from dying 
in the shell? How can I prevent the 
frightful mortality due to faulty brood¬ 
ers?” The Buckeye “Reason Why” 
Catalog answers these vital questions 
and many more. It tells why Buckeye 
Incubatorshatcheveryhatchableegg 
and loAyBuckeyeBroodersraisethem 
all to maturity. Send for it today. 
The Buckeye Incubator Company 
World’s Largest Manufacturer of 
Incubators and Brooders 
901 Euclid Ave., Springfield, Ohio, U. S. A. 
Magic Brooder 
Tiie only brooder with a gas chamber. Famous 
for high-grade construction; large coal capa¬ 
city; non-clinker grate; top and bottom draft 
regulation; improved thermostats; slide for 
cleaning smoke flue. The Magic is positively 
chill-proof, flre-proof, gas-proof and depend¬ 
able. Grows chicks at a profit. Sold on 30 days 
guarantee. Write for free catalogue. 
AGENTS WAMf.li 
Write for particulars about our new roof pipe. 
A wonderful invention. Catches all condensa¬ 
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UNITED BROODER COMPANY, 301 Pennington Ave., TRENTON, N. J. 
6 Feed Troughs 
3 Chick Fountains 
ROYAL 
FREE! 
Brooder 
STOVE 
$0^.50 
No. 65-1000 Chick 
Capacity with FREE 
Troughs and Foun¬ 
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Freight prepaid East 
of Rockies on all 
orders fo r t wo or 
more. HEJ 
LATEST IMPROVED TYPE 
Larger and heavier. 23 inches high, 1314-inch 
base. 914-inch grate, 52-inch canopy. Weight, 
110 lbs. Semi-magazine type fire pot (greater 
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or soft coal or coke. Double draft. Check draft 
and the direct draft to the fire are automatically 
regulated by the two thermostat wafers. Large 
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up hover, wire hound. Well crated. Complete 
with ash pan, cable, pulleys, etc., with 6 FREE 
Troughs and 3 FREE Fountains for only $26.50. 
500 Chick Capacity with 4 FREE Troughs and 
2 FREE Fountains for $21.50. 
Act Quickly, offer good only for a short time. 
Order todav. Money back if not as represented. 
ROYAL MFG. CO., Dept. 1114, Toledo. O. 
Poultry Supply Folder Sent Free on Request 
Hatches a 
Chick 
From Every 
Fertile Egg 
Rockies and 
allowed to 
points beyond 
The DETROIT is scientifi¬ 
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hatches of lusty, fast grow¬ 
ing chicks. 
Temperature is automat¬ 
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type trip burner that acts 
directly on the flame. Heat 
is held in and cold kept out 
by double walls having dead 
dr spaces between them. 
Every part of the hatching 
^2) 
Made of California 
Redwood, covered 
with galvanized 
iron, double wails, ai 
space between, built 
to last for years; deep^ 
chick nursery, hot water heat, 
copper tanks. Shipped complete, 
set up, ready to run, freight paid. - 
140 EGG INCUBATOR WITH BROODER $19.75 
260 EGG INCUBATOR, ALONE, ONLY . 23.50 
260 EGG INCUBATOR, WITH BROODER 32.90 
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•POULTRY 
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Keeps 140 Chicks comfortable 
and warm. Insures maturity 
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Detroit Incubator. The most 
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Detroit-Alliance Incubator Co. 
Dept. 31 Alliance, Ohio 
lift ^Incubator $ 1025 
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-tells all about chickens—care, feeding and raisin 
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I. W. MILLER CO., Box 68* Rockford, 121. 
Unless some cause can be found for 
this condition in disease of the internal 
organs discoverable upon autopsy, or 
heavy infestation by intestinal worms. 1 
cannot account for the symptoms. Ap¬ 
parent paralysis of the legs is a common 
trouble, often observed in growing pul¬ 
lets and cockerels, particularly of the 
heavier breeds, and it has not, to my 
knowledge, been satisfactorily explained, 
though intestinal worms, “rheumatism,’ 
over feeding, etc., have been invoked to 
account for it. If you will open one of 
the dead birds and examine the internal 
organs carefully, including the intestinal 
tract, slit open for inspection, you may 
find some abnormality that will give a 
clue to the cause of the trouble. Examine 
also the joints of the legs,, looking for 
enlargement and tenderness in the living 
fowl and the chalky deposits of uric acid 
in those opened. If the pullets are close¬ 
ly confined and heavily fed, give more 
green food and decrease or cut out the 
meat scrap for a time. .Gout of the joints 
may follow a diet too rich in animal pro¬ 
tein. with lack of exercise and heavy 
feeding. M. B. d. 
chamber is evenly heated-— 
the hollow square hot water 
tank has rounded elbows 
that prevent cold corners. 
These are only a few of 
the features that make the 
Detroit such a big hatching 
incubator. Write for cata¬ 
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almost unbelievable bargain 
price. 
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Complete satisfaction or 
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Can Wo Feed for Spring Molt? 
What feed can be used to cause hens 
to molt in the Spring of the year instead 
of the Fall, or how retard them in such a 
way as to delay to that period, and thus 
have laying hens during Winter? How 
delay heavy Summer laying for late Fall 
and'Winter, so as to have their rest pe¬ 
riod come during the warm months? 
Big Flats, N. Y. • o. M. v. 
If there is any method of reversing the 
usual habit of hens to lay during Spring 
and Summer and rest during Fall and 
early Winter, I do not know of it. AN in¬ 
ter laying may be encouraged by proper 
feeding and care, and, particularly, by 
the use of artificial lighting after about 
the first of November, but molting will, 
or should, not occur then in the following 
Spring. This method of care does not 
materially change the number of eggs 
produced during the year, but secures 
more of them during the cold months. 
Molting may be brought about artificial¬ 
ly, at least in a measure, by quickly 
changing from full feeding to a starvation 
ration, then returning to ample food sup¬ 
ply again. Attempts to change the nat¬ 
ural habits of laying fowls in this way, 
however, have not resulted in increased 
production or to the advantage of the 
owner of the flock. If is better to let 
nature take her accustomed course in the 
matter of molting, securing better egg 
production through selection in breeding, 
approved methods of feeding and care and 
the use of artificial methods of making 
Winter and Summer days of approxi 
mately the same length. M. b. d. 
Medicines for Hens 
1. How much salts should I give liens, 
and how often; also copperas? How 
much of each to put in 10 quarts of 
water? Do you believe in poultry regu¬ 
lators? 2 Are the thermos drinking foun¬ 
tains practical? 3. I have two hens that 
are ailing; they start to walk, and their 
heads go down first and go right over like 
a somersault. What disease have they, 
and is it contagious? Two others breathe 
with their mouths open, but do not have 
any discharge at the nose or eyes. What 
call be the matter with these two? I 
have some molting hens that seem to he 
slow in starting laying; they laid 50 per 
cent last Winter. How can I get them 
started faster? e. E. s. 
Yantic, Conn. 
1. About 1 lb. of Epsom salts to each 
100 fowls is the customary dose as a 
physic. I should give neither salts nor 
copperas except as medicine and when 
needed. I do not believe in drugs as 
poultry “regulators” ; regulate by proper 
feeding and care. 
2. We have good reports from users, of 
the “thermos” style of poultry drinking 
fountains. 
3. This trouble is probably due to some 
disturbance of nerve centers. It may be 
from intestinal worms or digestive dis¬ 
orders. Treat the affected birds by giv¬ 
ing a dose of physic, a teaspoon of salts 
dissolved in a little water or one to two 
teaspoons of castor oil. The disease is 
not contagious, though several birds in a 
flock may be affected. These bens may 
have “coids” or more serious obstruction 
to breathing. They should be removed 
from the flock till recovery. Feed and 
care for the molting hens well; you can¬ 
not hurry egg production by any other 
method. 11 • B - 
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If your dealer doesn’t 
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