The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Breeding will tell 
You cannot afford to take chances 
with chicks of poor parentage 
any more than a farmer can af¬ 
ford to gamble with seeds that 
come from “mongrel” plants. 
“Blood will tell” every time. 
Kerr’s Lively Chicks, from our 
special matings, are especially 
suited to the egg farmer. They 
are sired by full brothers of the 
pullets that are making out¬ 
standing records at the Vine- 
land Third International Egg 
Laying and Breeding Competi¬ 
tion. Their dams are in care¬ 
fully culled, farm raised, free 
range flocks sired by males 
from trap-nested hens. Natu¬ 
rally chicks themselves are 
sturdy and vigorous. 
We have a most attractive propo¬ 
sition to offer the egg farmer 
in our strain of Hollywood 
White Leghorns, Park and 
Norfolk Specialty Barred 
Rocks, Fishel White Rocks, 
Sked Brothers Rhode Island 
Reds and Martin Wyandottes. 
Send to-day for your Kerr Chick 
Book. It includes some of our 
records in the 1923 Interna¬ 
tional Laying Contest. 
THE KERR CHICKERIES, Inc. 
(Member International Baby Chick Attn.) 
Newark, N. J. 
Box No. 9 
Frencktown, N. J. 
Box No. 9 
Springfield, Mast. 
Box No. 9 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Box No. 9 
Member International Baby Chick Asso. 
Make Your Flock Good Producers 
By raising some of our 
pure-bred chicks and saving 
the pullets and a few cock¬ 
erels the egg production of 
your flock next Kali will be 
| greatly increased. Our chick* 
I come from vigorous high egg- 
producing stock. Our 31! years’ 
experience assures you sturdy 
healthy chicks free from 
White Diarrhea or other 
chick ailments. 
Beautiful Illuitrated Book 
on Request 
Order Now for Early Delivery 
R. I. Red* 
White Wyandottes 
White Orpingtons 
Buff Orpingtons 
Barred Rocks 
White Rocks 
Aneonas 
Black Minorcas 
White Leghorns 
Brown Leghorns 
You Pay 100%—You Receive lOOf* 
Mansfield Hatchery 
EST. 1888 
1203 SCHOOL ST.. MANSFIELD, Mass. PHONE 132 
CERTIFIED CHICKS 
of the four leading varietie*, Hollywood! 
and Barron Strain S C. White Leghorns, S.l 
C. Br. Leghorns, Sheppards Strain S. C. An-| 
conas and Parks’ Strain Barred Hocks. All! 
strong, sturdy, supel-hatched chicks from| 
milk fed flocks certified by the Michigan 
Baby Chick Assn, as to th.ir purity of breed, 
health, feeding, etc. ICO per cent live delivery 
guaranteed. Prompt shipment. Large Catalog Free. 
TOWNLINE POULTRY FARM Dtp!. R Zeeland, Mich. 
is '» 
per 100 
and up. Heavy laying strain. Hogan tested. 
White. Brown and Black Leghorns, 100—$12; 
500—$56. Black Minorcas, Aneonas, 100—914; 
500—a<>6. Barred Hocks, White Wyandottes, 
100—916; 500—$70. Reds, 100-916. 500—976. 
Mixed chicks, 100—$9; 600—946. Guarantee 100% deliv¬ 
ered to your door. Free Catalog. Ref: Ickesburg State 
Bank. Johnson's Hatchery, Box 40. Ickesburg, Pa. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
hatching eggsfor sale from 900selected breeders. Pullets 
now laying from 00% to 60%. $6 and $7 a 100. 
CROOKSIOE POULTRY FARM Nassau, N. Y. 
W. L. Baby Chicks From Hollywood Sires recognized 
strains. Circular. OLIVER BROS., B»x 1, Clark's Corner, tonn. 
g C. Buff Leghorn Ileus, 11.60 and $8 each, 
Greenford Poultry Farm 
Silver Crook, N Y. 
CHICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
and S. C. R. I. Reds 
of real quality from prolific stock. Breeders of poul¬ 
try over fifteen years Free circular. 
MAPLECREST POULTRY FARM Stockton, N. J. 
S.C.R.I.RED COCKERELS 
Vibert’s 289-egg strain. 96. 98 and $10 each. Hatching 
eggs, 910 per 100. Baby chicks $26 per 100; $18 per 50. 
ANSA M. JONES - Craryville, N. Y . 
Barron’s While Wyandottes KeM e f5rb n ae& al t% 
sale from stock I imported direct. Records, 262 to 
289 eggs. E. E. LEWIS Apalachin, N. Y. 
OLDEST BREEDER ol Jersey Black Giants 
Winning 3rd, pen 1st heaviest male, Madison Square Gar¬ 
den, 19*24. Stock and eggs for sale. 
Mas T. C. BUNTING CAOISWICkS, H. J. 
THE HENYARD 
Heating Poultry House 
I have a henhouse lGxGO ft. front, 7 ft. 
high, 5 ft. rear, and no concrete floor— 
only ground; no ventilation on roof; only 
windows open. I had about 300 hens and 
lost about 100 and still am losing some. 
They have electricity and I am burning a 
stove. p. t. 
New York. 
You should be able to keep the air in¬ 
side this poultry-house dry by opening the 
windows in front and having all other 
sides of the building airtight, so as to 
prevent drafts. Roof ventilators are not 
needed. If you are running a stove in 
the building to keep it warm, you are 
probably doing so at a loss. Artificial 
heating of poultry-houses has not proven 
successful from the standpoint of egg pro¬ 
duction and healthfulness of the flock. A 
concrete floor would be more easily cared 
for and kept clean than one of dirt. It 
would also be rat proof, but it would not 
necessarily make any difference in the 
healthfulness of the flock. m. b. d. 
Feeding Young Turkeys and Pheasants 
I read an article in last week’s It. N.-Y. 
in answer to feeding turkeys and 
pheasants. 
It is all right for the first 10 days to 
feed pheasants as you state, but dry feed 
is not suitable for young birds. If the 
feed was scalded it would be better. In 
the wild state they will always find seeds 
as well as insects, but the seeds are soft. 
I have had 41 years raising pheasants 
and other wild game and I have found 
corn not a suitable food for pheasants 
before they are 10 or 12 weeks old. I 
have always when using only a small 
quantity of corn or corn meal, had a loss 
from enlarged liver and gall, and when 
the corn was not used I have not had this 
trouble. They certainly like corn. Chick 
grain without corn, composed of wheat, 
rice, oats, peas and other grains, is good. 
I raise around 10,000 pheasants and this 
is the principal food after 2 weeks scalded 
with a little crissel and pheasant meal 
until 8 weeks old. I also raise about 100 
wild turkeys yearly and feed exactly the 
same except the turkeys get sour milk 
from the first day and no water until 
they are 10 or 12 weeks old. I have 
raised to maturity for 2 years over 90 
per cent of turkeys hatched out. 
TOM NASH. 
Feeding Young Chicks 
Would you tell me how and what to 
feed chicks? j. h. s. 
New Jersey. 
Young chicks should have hard grain, 
and a mixture of finely cracked corn, 
cracked wheat and pinhead oatmeal, the 
latter forming about one-fifth part of the 
whole, is good. Good commercial chick 
grains may also be used, if it is not de¬ 
sired to compound one’s own mixture. 
In addition, to be fed after a few days, 
a dry mash should be used. This may 
be made from 2 parts wheat bran and 
one part each of wheat middlings, corn 
meal, sifted ground oats and sifted beef 
scrap. You may observe that this mix¬ 
ture can be made from the so-called “Cor¬ 
nell laying mash” by sifting the coarse 
oat hulls and larger parts of the meat 
scrap out and adding 20 pounds of wheat 
bran to 100 of the mash. The advantage 
of this procedure in ihe case of one 
already feeding the above mash is that 
it simplifies feeding formulas, which are 
usually made needlessly complicated. 
Feed the hard fine cracked grains five 
times daily for a few days, then add the 
dry mash, which may be kept before the 
chicks in shallow boxes with hardware 
cloth cut to fit inside and to rest di¬ 
rectly upon the contents. Feed milk in 
some form from the start, all that the 
chicks want, tender greens of some kind 
in the same way, give a little fine chick 
grit and, with it all, do not overfeed. 
Give little and often and keep the chicks 
active. M. b. d. 
“I understand that some of your cred¬ 
itors are pressing you.” “I arranged 
that,” answered Senator Sorghum. “In 
this era of investigation I want it made 
perfectly, clear that I haven’t more than 
enough money for my current expenses.” 
—Washington Star. 
0 Si 
asy 
T HOUSANDS of poultry keepers put from 
300 to 600 chicks in a Hall Colony Brooder 
and care for them all in a single easy operation. 
The Hall Colony Brooder has been in success¬ 
ful use for more than fourteen years. Burns 
hard coal—requires attention only twice a day. 
Automatic regulator controls the heat. Hover 
can be raised out of the way when cleaning the 
brooder floor, yet the fire can be tended without 
disturbing the chicks. The stove is extra heavy 
and the hover is strongly braced. The Hall will 
give years and years of satisfactory service. 
The first successful coal-burning Mammoth 
Incubator was a Hall. It is now made in 
VjPjO Single, Double and Triple-Deck styles. 
Capacities, 1,200, 2,400, 3,600 eggs and up. 
Write for particulars and prices. 
Improve Your Incubator 
With Hall Turning Trays 
After installing Hall Turning Trays in his incubator 
at Riverdale, N. J., F. M. Prescott writes: “Our Hall 
Turners hatch ten to eighteen per cent more chicks 
from the same eggs than the old trays. The extra 
chicks hatched after that, and the big item of time 
saved, is all pure velvet.” 
You can install Hall Turning Trays in your present 
incubator, if of the level-tray type, and get better 
results. Send us your tray measurements. We’ll quote 
you a reasonable price on made-to-measure Trays. 
Write today. Hatch more chicks with less labor. 
The Hall Mammoth Incubator Co. 
184-R Southern Ave. Little Falls. N. Y. 
Original Makers of Mammoth Poultry Equipment 
Hall Turning 
Trays filled 
with hatching 
eggs. 
HALLpoultry equipment 
PINEWOOD FARMS 
BREEDERS OF HIGHEST GRADE PEDIGREED 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
In other advertisements of ours we have stated that the Pinewood Strain of S. C. White Leg- 
horns was made a number of years ago by purchasing the best stock obtainable from the most 
noted breeders in America (C.,11. WyekolTand D. TaDcred). Strains that have from 20 to 40 years 
of continuous breeding for high egg production. 
Equipped with the most famous stock of 8 . C. White Leghorns in America. We have by 
continuous trapnesting selected those that the trapnest proved had the size, vitality and ability 
to lay large numbers of large White Eggs for our Breeders. 
Has 
OUR REPUTATION 
Been Built Upon the 
100 
.500 
1000 
Upon the Stock We Have Sold 
REMEMBER that ail our breeding stock is pure bred, trapnested, pedigreed and line bred 
Ail stock vaccinated with Avian Mixed Baeterin and blood tested by well known Bacteriologist by 
*&« Agglutination test for Bacillary White Diarrhea. Thus assuring you of strong, healthy 
Chlx that will live and grow. 
BABY CHICKS fo s™Sk on HATCHING EGGS 
EGGS “SPECIAL” $3.00 SETTING 15 EGGS. 
.aOElggs.$ 8.50 25 Chicks..$ 8 50 
16.00 60 “ . 10 00 
75.00 100 “ .•/. 28.00 
140.00 500 “ .. 140.00 
We guarantee a good, satisfactory hatch on all eggs. We guarantee 86 per cent fertility 
and will replace the eggs or refund the money for all eggs that fall below our guarantee. Kggs 
must be tested the 7tb day after they are set (an infertile egg is perfectly clear) and your test 
must be reported within ,0 days after shipping date. We take special pains to pack all eggs 
securely. However, from some cause or other, poor hatches sometimes occur, but if you will re¬ 
port to us promptly, advising what in your opinion caused the trouble, we will adjust matters to 
your complete satisfaction. 
Baby Chicks. We guarantee safe delivery, a full count and ship via Parcel Post or 
Express, charges prepaid. 
Breeding Cockerels, Hens, Pairs, Trios and Pens Properly Mated 
Prices are a matter of correspondence. We do not issue catalogues, lists or other printed 
matter. VVeareuot aPurm or Commercial Hatchery, we sell only what stock and euus as we 
ourselves produce. 
PINEWOOD FARMS n. y. 
RURAL POULTRY FARM 
PRODUCERS OF HI-GRADE CERTIFIED CHICKS 
From CERTIFIED 260-290 Egg Pedigreed Hollywood and Barron Eng¬ 
lish White Leghorns. RURAL S. C. Brown Leghorns, Aneonas and 
Barred Rocks. Pullet* reported laying at 4 months. Fine, instructive 
catalog FREE, showing pictures of our birds, breeding establishment, etc. 
If you want the most for your money, investigate. 
RURAL POULTRY FARM, Dept. 112, R No. 1 
ZEELAND, MICH. 
S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORN 
C H 1 X 
Strong ohix from my own two, three, 
four ami five-year old Hens, selected for 
VIGOR AND HIGH PRODUCTION 
HARRY B. COOK Orange, Conn. 
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS 
b tom oui own flock. Pure-bred free range stock. Deliv- 
ery and xatisf n guar. Circ. GIEHroho farm, lioomsbury. N j. 
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Stockton is more than just a hatchery; it is a breeding 
institution as well. V\ e introduce fresh blood every year 
fiorn the leading specialists in the various breeds We 
employ a noted poultry judge to cull and mate the flocks 
Horn which we get hatching eggs. Through long experi¬ 
ence and study, we have devised methods of'hatching 
which assure Chicks of unusual vigor. Stockton Chicks 
are ea.sy to raise and we guarantee their safe arrival at 
your place. Order them now—for delivery when wanted. 
Write today for Catalog and Price List 
STOCKTON HATCHERY 
Box Y Stockton, New Jersey 
s£™£/ Baby Chicks 
