The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Keeps Hens Laying 
If properly nourished, 
hens don’t need to stop 
laying. EGATINE so 
completely nourishes lay¬ 
ing hens that they keep 
producing when most 
other hens have stopped. 
This is the time when 
fresh eggs bring the highest 
prices and the extra eggs 
produced make big profits. 
But, don’t take our word 
for this, you can prove it for 
yourself by feeding EGA¬ 
TINE to your own hens. 
If your dealer doesn’t 
have EGATINE advise us 
and we will see that you 
are supplied. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Box D, Waverly, N. Y. 
Send for Free Folder on Struven’s 
For Poultry, Hogs and Stock 
STRUVEN’S FISH MEAI, will give the perfect 
balance to better feeding of your poultry, 
hogs and stock. It is rich in proteins and 
minerals so essential for good health. Made 
from fresh, whole fish, finely ground. Send 
for free feeding instructions and iree samples. 
CHARLES M. STRUVEN & CO., 
114-0 S. Frederick St., Baltimore, Md. 
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bahychicks 
Peppy and Strong 
are hatched in our 
Petaluma Electric and 
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raised easier because healthier and hardier; big¬ 
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make. Petaluma Electticand Hot Water 
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chicks grow faster, stronger, become more vigor¬ 
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Petaluma, California ( 5607 ) 
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Name 
Address 
Shipped complete, 
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east of Rockies. 
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140 EGG INCUS 
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# walla, air space between, 
built to last for years; deep chick 
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BATOR WITH BROODER $19.75 
BATOR, ALONE, ONLY . 23.50 
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Ironclad lncubatorCo.,Box 95 Racine.Wis. 
incubator $1245 
- 140-Egg Size _ 
Has double walls, copper tank,full size nursery, 
automatic regulation thermometer held so 
chicks cannot break It when 
hatching. Detroit Brooders, 
too. Write today for special 
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Dept. 31_Alliance, Ohio 
I 
BROODERS 
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Inter-State Sales Co. 
373 Ash St-. Tipton.Inj. 
MAKE 
twice as many eggs by feeu 
ing green cut bone. 
HENS Msnn’s fo-DayFreefrial 
No money in advance. Get 
free hook. F. W. MANN CO., 
Box | g Milford, Mass. 
For $1 postpaid. Edmonds’ Poultry 
A c c o u n t Book. The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
THE HENYARD 
Turkeys and Goats 
1. How many hen turkeys can I mate 
with one gobbler? I am planning to keep 
10 hens and one tom. How can I best 
take care of them at laying time, and 
the young turkeys next Summer? 2. I 
would like to know something about goats. 
Does the milk smell and taste strong? 
Is goat’s milk better than cows milk for 
children? If so how is it fed to infants? 
Will it be necessary to dilute? Would 
you advise me to buy a purebred, and 
which are best for milk? H. P. 
Stony Creek, N. Y. 
1. One male should be sufficient for 
the 10 hens that you plan to keep, more 
being often mated in one flock. It is 
best to give them the range of your farm, 
both at laying time and while rearing the 
young, few, if any, having found it prac¬ 
ticable to raise turkeys in confinement; 
in fact, few have found it possible to 
raise any great number in any way. 
2. Goat’s milk does not smell or taste 
strong if the animal and her milk are 
kept in a clean way. Goat's milk has a 
slightly sweeter taste than has that from 
the cow but, otherwise, is difficult to dis¬ 
tinguish from it. Some infants do better 
upon goat’s milk than upon cow’s; some 
do not. There is no invariable rule. It 
is diluted and fed as cow’s milk is. 
The Saanen and Toggenburg are the 
two most common varieties of purebred 
goats in this country, though Nubians and 
several other varieties are found in 
smaller numbers. These have been bred 1 
for milk production and are in favor as 
milk goats. Occasionally "native” goats j 
are found that are good milk producers. 
The name of the breed is no more a guar¬ 
antee of productivity than it is in the 
case of cows, but, if one wishes to breed 
and sell stock, purebreds would doubtless 
serves his purpose better than grades. 
M. B. D. 
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Construction of Henhouse 
Wilt you tell me as to size of a hen¬ 
house for 35 hens, that is, the height, 
length and width? H. G. S, 
West Albany, N. Y. 
Thirty-five hens would not require a 
very large building. One 10 x 15 ft. in 
size would give them ample floor space, 
though a building 15vft. square would be 
better proportion, being deeper, and af¬ 
fording the occupants greater opportunity 
to keep away from the opened windows in 
front. The front of such a building should 
be 8 ft. in height, the rear 4 y 2 or 5 ft. 
All sides but the front should be airtight 
and the front, facing South, Southeast 
or East, should contain the door and two 
large windows reaching from within 2 
ft. of the floor to the plate. The door, 
if preferred, might be placed in one end. 
Windows, whether of single or double 
sash, should be arranged to drop back 
into the building at the tops for a few 
inches to permit air to enter over them. 
If double sash windows are used, both 
sashes should be so arranged. The side 
openings thus made should be closed by 
Y-shaped boards cut to fit against the 
side rails of the opened sashes, ‘‘hopper 
sides.” Concrete or wood may be used 
for the floor, the former being preferred 
by most poultrymen. m. b. d. 
Circular Brooder House 
I am thinking of building a brooder 
house to care for 500 chicks. Would a 
round house, built after the pattern of a 
silo be satisfactory and economical? I 
have some 6 ft. staves left from a silo 
which I intended to use. What should 
the dimensions be for a building to house 
500 chicks? m. r. 
It seems to me that a circular building 
should be ideal for a brooder house, aside 
from difficulty in building it with windows 
for light and ventilation and a door for 
entrance. If you think that you can get 
away from these difficulties satisfactorily, 
you will also avoid the menace of corners 
in which chicks are so apt to huddle and 
smother. A brooder stove could be placed i 
in the center of the building and all points 
upon the floor would receive equal 
amounts of heat, theoretically, at least. 
A circular building 11 ft. in diameter 
would contain practically the game 
amount of floor space that a rectangular 
one 8 x 12 ft. does, and the latter is a 
popular size for a portable brooder house. 
m. b. p. 
The Two-egg-a-day Hen 
Three weeks ago we had brief mention 
about a pullet owned by F. .7. DeHart, 
which was claimed to lav two eggs' a day 
'■n several occasions. On Feb. 3 Mr. 
DeHart sent us a continuation of her rec¬ 
ord. lie says that un to Feb. 3 the bird 
had laid 69 eggs in 67 days. She 5 lbs. 
o lbs. 5 oz. on Feb. 3. and lost 3 oz. in 
January. Mr. DeHart says that she is 
a very heavy eater and a constant work¬ 
er. On Feb. 1 the report is that she 
broke an egg inside, seemed a little sick 
for a time, but soon began to eat and 
pick or dig in the litter. On. Feb. 3 lhe 
pullet again laid two perfect eggs and 
seems ro he in good health. This report 
is authenticated by a representative of 
Cornell. 
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will help 
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you raise 
more of 
your Chicks 
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A New Discovery that 
Prevents Leg Weak¬ 
ness and Reduces Death 
Losses of Baby Chicks 
For years the leg weakness scourge of 
early and late hatched chicks has been the 
thing that has robbed poultry raisers of a 
big share of their profits. 
For more than 50 years scientists have 
been working on this problem—at last 
it has been solved! They have discover¬ 
ed that Cod Liver Oil, being extremely 
rich in A and D Vitamines, when com¬ 
bined with other health giving ingredi¬ 
ents overcomes leg weakness and pro¬ 
duces such strong bones and healthy, 
vigorous growth that chick death losses are greatly reduced. They 
also found that Cod Liver Oil had the same effect as May sunshine 
on chicks that were raised indoors—in short Cod Liver Oil proved to 
be "Bottled Sunshine” for baby chicks, making it possible to raise 
chicks in the early and late cold months as in May or June. After 
the discovery of this valuable aid to baby chick raising, we developed 
a method of including this wonderful life-giving element in Ful-O- 
Pep Chick Starter, which can now be had at any feed d«aler’s store. 
We’ve taken Cod Liver Oil and combined it with other health giv¬ 
ing ingredients and are now offering to poultrymen in Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter a feed 
that our research department has proved reduces death losses to the minimum and 
makes chicks grow and thrive in the cold winter and spring months just as if they 
were out of doors in the warm May sunshine with all the bugs and tender grasses 
I hey could eat. The Cod Liver Oil is so thouroughly mixed by our own process that it is completely 
absorbed by other ingredients.. Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter is perfectly dry —■ not oily or gummy. 
Feed Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter to your chicks this year—it will cut down your death losses by elim¬ 
inating leg weakness. It will make your chicks grow this season as they never grew before. You 
will never know how much this latest gift of science means to you until you give it a trial. Your 
dealer can supply you with Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter. 
Write for This FREE Folder Today 
Write today for big illustrated circular telling all about this new and im¬ 
portant discovery — how and why it will greatly reduce your baby chick 
losses. Just send name and this valuable circular will be sent to you free. 
The Quaker Oafs Company 
Poultry Service Dept. 
1620 Ry. Exchange Bldg. Address Chicago, U. S. A. 
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How much 
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Do you know that millions of chicks 
are saved every year by 
Buckeye Incubators and Brooders? 
—chicks that would otherwise be lost, die in 
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In sending for this catalog state whether 
particularly interested in incubators, coal¬ 
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THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR COMPANY 
World's Largest Manufacturer of Incubators and brooders 
903 Euclid Avenue, Springfield, Ohio, U. S. A. 
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