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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 1924 
Heavy- 
Li eying' 
SNOW-FLECKED 
Beauties 
Sheppard’s Famous Anconas hold the egg 
production record for flock and single bird. 
Noted winter layers. Eggs are large and 
white. These beautiful, practical chickens 
also win highest prizes. Send for 
illustrated book that tells all 
about them. Free. Address — 
H. Cecil Sheppard, Pretident International 
Ancona Club, Box S-357, Berea, Ohio 
PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
America’s Greatest Laying Strain. 
Records up to 325 eggs a year. Prize 
winners at National Shows. Cham¬ 
pions at Egg Laying Contests. Mrs. 
Miller’s flock averaged 210 eggs, made 
net profit $8.09 per hen. Mr. Carr, 
Indian Head, Md., made over $800 
profit from 53 hens. Booking EGG and 
CHICK orders now. 16 page Circular FREE. Large 
Catalog Booklet 25c. Member Int. Baby Chick Ass’n. 
J. W. PARKS Box Y Altoona, Pa. 
Worlds Official Record-313 Eggs 
A.C. JONES' Barred Rocks 
CHICKS EGGS-BREEDING-STOCK 
Send for Catalog. 
A C. JONES’ POULTRY FARM 
Georgetown Dept. A Delaware 
Barred Rocks 
HIGHEST QUALITY UTILITY STOCK 
$17.50 per 100 
Parcel Post prepaid anywhere in 3rd 
zone. Discount of St .00 per 100 when ordered in lots 
of 500 or more. Free Circular. 
E. T. JONES 
SEA FORD _ DELAWARE 
Barred PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
The winning strain at laying contest. Batty chicks 
from our own strain. Hatching eggs. 
MARVEL POULTRY FARM Georgetown, Delaware 
$2.50 per 
Plymouth Rocks 
r 15; $10 per 100. I) 
Parks’ and Francais Bred-to- 
Lay Strains. Hatching eggs, 
EVERETT JONES, Hillsdale. N T. 
FRAN C AIS’ ROCKS- Twice Winners at Storrs 
Pedigreed cockerels. Pnllets, breeders, hatching eggs 
and chicks, Rocks and Leghorn. Circular. 
Jules F. Francais - Westhampton Beach, N. Y 
Parks’Strain Bred-to-Lay BARRED ROCKS 
Chicksand Hatching eggs. J.TR01*EAN0,Sp»rionbii»h,N.Y. 
White Plymouth Rocks i 
Hatching Eip 
I Day-Old Chicks 
From officially trap-nested stock. Over 200 eggs per 
bird at Storrs and N. J. Chicks shipped every Wed¬ 
nesday. For mating list and prices address 
S. B. ALLYN R. F. D. No. 1 Holliston, Mass, 
Rose Comb Rhode Island Whites ner Ducks, Bourbon 
Red Turkeys, Eggs,Chicks,Ducklings, Poults. Reas’n’ble. 
Safe del. guar. Mrs. Alice Trammell, Prl«ee»s Anne, Md. 
S.C.R.I. RED COCKERELS 
Vibert's 289-egg strain, $t>, #8 and $10 each. Hatching 
eggs, #10 per 100. Baby chicks $25 per 100; $18 per 59. 
ANNA M. JONES - Craryville, N. If. 
S.C.R. I. RED BABY CHICKS 
Pedigreed and trapnested. We can honestly say 
there are no better chicks in the country, Catalog 
free. UEDB1KD FARM, Wrentham, Mass. 
JVtAHOGANY STRAIN 
S. O. Rhode Island Reds, Cockerels. Early hatched 
$5 each. Hatching eggs. $12 per 100. Breeding stock. 
Circular. It. Quackenbush Darien, Conn. 
Jersey Black Giants 
The most profitable breed of poultry today. Start right 
with good strain. Hutching Eggs and Chicks from 
STATE CERTIFIED FLOCK 
BROOKCREST FARM 
Cranbury, N. J. 
JERSEY Black GIANTS 
Ckls., $10; 15 Eggs, $8; Ex. Mating, $4; 100 Chicks, *4$. 
David F. Johnson Glenr««d Farm Bloomsbury, N. J. 
Jersey Black Giants Hatching eggs, Growing, 
< . M. PAGE A- SONS 
•eeding and Show stock. 
Box 199 Belmar, N. J. 
Jersey Black Giants 
Hatching Eggs— Crowing and Breeding Stock. 
CEDAR HILL POULTRY FARM Box 6 N Germantown, M Y. 
OLDEST BREEDER ol Jersey Black Giants 
Winning 3rd, pen 1st heaviest male, Madison Square Gar¬ 
den, 1924. Stock and eggs for sale. 
Mrs. T. C. BUNTING Crosswicks, N. J. 
J ersey Hlnek Giant stock. Hatching eggs,baby 
chicks. ItLArVELT - Ilolmdcl, N, J. 
U/UUn UfuandnUo Chicks, $14—100, up. Eggs, $£—100, 
wnite wyanuone up. Bred for eggs and exhibition. 
31st year. Buy from a specialist—it pays. Illustrated Cata¬ 
log Free. Bowden, W. Wyandotte Specialist, Mansfield, O. 
U/i ;i_ li/,,»„ from a heavy-laying strain now 
White Wyenoottes ready. Chicks Eggs, Cockerels and 
Pens at a reasonable price. BYRON PEPPER, Georgetown, lie 
W 
s. c. White Leghorn Chicks Only 
Once You Try Them You'll Always Buy Them 
Place your order for chicks with one who is interest¬ 
ed in S. C. W. Leghorns only. Our breeders are 
carefully selected and produce sturdy, livable 
chicks. We guarantee safe delivery and prepay 
postage. Send for circular and price list. 
Meadow Brook Poultry Farm and Hatchery 
Stockton, N. J. 
PRODUCTION BRED 
LEGHORN 
At 1922-23 Contests 
4th at Storrs, 2116 
Eggs. 
3rd at Canadian, 
2083 Eggs 
Notice our pens at Farmingdale, Storrs and 
Canadian Contests. 
MEADOWEDGE FARM, Cedarhurst, L. I. 
Chicks 
Hollywood Strain Direct 
A few fine breeding cockerels left at #5, $7.50 and $li* 
eaoli, all from better than 220 egg dams. Sires dam 279 
eggs. Full pedigree with each cockerel. Also hatching 
eggs from high record pedigreed hens including the win¬ 
ning pen at Storrs Contest, mated to highest record 
male the Hollywood Farms would part with. Must please 
you or money back. 
Five Point Leghorn Farm Ml. Ephraim, N. J. 
hlte Wyandotte®. Repral-Doroas strain. Kg'S* from A-l 
Layers of large eggs.$S—15; f 10—100. R. Hill, Scnaca Falls, N. Y. 
s. c. 
White 
LEGHORN 
Day-old 
Chicks 
Sired by imported Tom Barron Cock¬ 
erels and trap-nested hens—For Feb¬ 
ruary, March and May hatches. 
Price 25c each 
ROLLWOOD FARM GUILFORD, CONN. 
Single Comb White Leghorns “Sly 
Pure Barron English Strain out of imported birds 
with egg records up to 314 eggs in a year. 3.000 
breeders on free farm range. Vaccinated. Butter¬ 
milk fed. Now Booking orders for eggs and baby 
chicks for February, March, April and May delivery. 
< 'apacity. 12.000 a week. First hatch, Feb. 11. My 
Book, Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved, $1 or sent 
with all $10 orders. Circulars Free. 
SUNNYBROOK FARM, Pleasant Valley, N.Y. Box 75 
Chicks T VWEEK 
__ “Parks” Barred Bocks now 1 3c. 
Martin’s” WhiteWyandottes 16c each; Mixed, 
12c. “Marcv’s” best Black Giants, 60c. Direct strains. 
None better. Fully guaranteed. Send cash order. Prompt 
delivery. Bank Ref. 8. W. Kline, Mlddlecreek, Pa. 
Sunset White Leghorn Chicks “prices LOW. 8 
CHAS. MILLS - North Haven, Conn. 
w 
ders, 
hlte Leghorn*. D. Tancred’s Trapnested Strain 
pedigreed males. Most profitable layers. Booking or- 
s, chicks, eggs. Circular. HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, N.Y. 
Cedar Grove Farm S. C. W. Leghorns 
Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs. Bred from the very 
best stock. Prices on request. KlINTZ BROS., Stockton, H. J. 
Flaccus White Leghornsl^T^ 
50 Tancred-Holly wood eggs or 25 chicks, $10. Try qual¬ 
ity instead of quantity. CHAS. FLACCU8, «lenili»w. Pa. 
C White, Buff, Black Minorca* Exclusively. Chicks, 
• stock. Gregg’s Matchless Minorcas, Sycamore, Ohio 
S C. Hr. & Eng. W. Leghorns. 332-egg, pedigreed, trap 
• nested stock. Eggs. Catalog. VERA FULTON.B. 98. Callipolis. 0 
al- Wyckoff Strain Leghorns. Our free-range culled 
Unix Stock. Prices. EDWIN GOODNOW, Oxford, N. J. 
c C WHITF Strong chix from my own two, three, 
" _ ' four and five-year old Hens, selected for 
LEGHORN VIGOR AND high production 
CHIX HARRY B. COOK Orange, Conn. 
Day-Old Chicks-KK S. C. While Leghorn From ,ny 
Write for price list. 
_ own Hock. 
Martin B. Search, Baptistown, N. J. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 
Now Booking orders for chicks and hatching eggs. Send 
for mating list. CEDARHURST POULTRY FARM. Hallway, N. J. 
“TIFFANY’S SUPERIOR CHICKS THAT LIVE” 
WYAN00TTES, REDS ROCKS AND LEGHORNS 
MAMMOTH PKK IN \ r\ I T n U T T\TpC 
INDIAN KUNNEK/UU UlVLliNVja 
Aldhain Poultry Farm,R.34 Phoenixvllle, Pa. 
F OR SALE—Purebred White Holland Toms 
(Jhari/es H. Jackson, Islip, Long Island, N- Y 
I ariri Qi.-b Fine Poultry, Turkey*,Geese, Duck*, 
Laigo uIOCK Guinea*, Bantam*, 1’tgeon*, Cottle*. 
Stock and eggs. Catalog. I’lO.NEER FARMS, Telford, l*a 
BREEDERS AND HATCHING EGGS 
Turkeys, Chickens, Geese, Ducks, Guineas. Catalog free. 
H. A. SOUDER Box 29 Sellersville, Pa. 
D AY-OLD Pekins of giant frame for rapid 
growth. Indian Runners of best 
UCKLINGS laying strain. Catalog free. 
WA YNE CO. DUCK FARM Clyde. N. Y. 
pgg DUCKLINGS 
Eggs and Drakes 
Prick List Free 
PARDEE'S PEKINS. Islip. N T. 
Brookcrest 
Farm 
PEKIN 
Ducklings 
Hatching Eggs 
Price list free. 
CRANBURY N. J. 
Tn.Lhua Mammoth Bronze Champion “Goldbank.” Sire, 
lUlKBjS 1st prize Mad. Sq.Gard. Miti Idi Chumklty.Ortptr.Vi. 
White Holland Toms « 10 - Mrs ’ ROBKRT UAV18 
Cumberland 
Virginia 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants,QuaiI, Rabbits, Deer, etc. 
for stocking purposes, 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl. Cranes, Storks. Swans. 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese. Bears. Foxes. Rac¬ 
coon. Squirrels, and all kinds of birds and animals, 
WM.J. MACKENSEN. Naturalist. Dept. 10. Yardley, Ps 
HATCHING EGGS v ^ ft .r s 
known EMIO’8 strain S. C. W. Leerliorns, from stock 
never under lights. EMIG'S POULTBY FiJtAf. Vineland, N. J, 
White Holland Turkeys vtMuC 
covy Drakes, $». Mr*. H. W. ANDE1180N, Stewartsi o wn. Pa. 
S. C. ANCONAS-Sheppard Strain 
S, C. White Leghorns, Cornell-Tancred Strain. 
Baby Chicks, S18 per 100, Postpaid 
COLMAN E. DAILOR Stanley, N. Y. 
EVERLAY LEGHORNS 
The beautiful busineae hen! Wonderful winter lay¬ 
ers. Big white egge. World Record layer, Ameri¬ 
can Eirsr Contest! Greatest winner. New York- 
Chlcazo. Hardy, vigorous money makers. Stock 
Eg00. Chicks, shipped aafely. Catalog free. 
EVERLAY FARM Box 28 Portland, Ind. 
Certified LEGHORN CHICKS 
World’s Great Famous Snowden Ene- 
w . a. • Hsh and Tancred Whitel 
Laying Strains Leghorn*. Official 250 4 
291 Egg Records. Guaranteed strong, 
healthy chicks. Fertile hatching eggs. 
Pullet*. Stock. REAL MONET MAKERS. Beau¬ 
tiful circular FREE. Frank A. Van Bree 
Box 33 Zeeland, Michigan 
The Henyard 
Damp Henhouse 
Oan you advise me about my hen¬ 
house? It is 30 by 16 ft., double roof, 
8-ft. posts, covered with matched lumber 
and sealed on sides and overhead with the 
same; five windows on the south, and 
one on the east. Three of them are kept 
lowered at top, only in extreme cold 
weather. Cement walls and floor. Floor 
well covered with straw; have 150 hens 
in same. The trouble is dampness; walls 
and ceilings wet and dripping. I have 
put in an oil stove at different times to 
dry it out. Is there any way, and the 
best way, that I can ventilate, to do away 
with so mlich dampness? Would it be 
practical to put on a cupola, and run 
square tubes with about 6-in. inside, to 
this cupola, taking them down within 2 
ft. or so from the floor? Can you sug¬ 
gest any better way? Hens are laying 
well, hut I know these conditions are not 
right. F. H. B. 
Yes, a better way to ventilate is to 
open your front windows. Your house is 
damp because you are not allowing the 
air, filled with moisture from the hens’ 
bodies, to escape freely and to he re¬ 
placed by the dry air outside. Arrange 
each sash in these front windows to drop 
back at the top into the buildings, per¬ 
haps a foot. Then cut V-shaped boards 
of sufficient width to close the side open¬ 
ings thus made, and set them against the 
side rails of the sashes. These “hopper 
sides” force all the air entering to pass 
over the tops of the sashes and direct it 
toward the roof, rather than the floor. 
A strip of wood along the inner edge will 
serve as a stop for the sash when it is 
dropped back, and pegs may be placed 
where they will permit graduated open¬ 
ings, if desired. It is not nesessary to 
hinge the sash at the bottom, the hopper 
sides holding it in place when open. 
The test of ventilation is dryness of 
the interior. When moisture collects upon 
walls and ceilings, ventilation is de¬ 
ficient and windows must be opened until 
this does not occur, even if you have to 
take them out entirely. Freeze combs, 
sometimes? Yes, blit better let them 
freeze than have the flock die of roup. 
M. B. D. 
Questions About Feeding 
I have been feeding the Cornell formula 
for mash, but find hens do not eat readily 
if they get all the scratch grains they 
will eat. M. B. D. says give them all the 
scratch grains they will clean up at 
night; others say 12 lbs. to 100 birds, 
and some 10 lbs. Will M. B. D. tell me 
if he thinks 100 lbs. of gluten would be 
just as good, or take the place of the 
ground oats? Also, would fishmeal and 
bonemeal be better or as good to replace 
park of the beef scrap? My April- 
hatched Leghorns laid quite well in No¬ 
vember and December and then went in 
a molt and out of condition ; yellow and 
soft droppings and a few lame in one leg; 
one with its wing hanging down to floor, 
and two or three could hardly walk at all. 
I examined for worms and found six 
about 4 in. long, sharp at both ends and 
thick in the center. Others had none. I 
have been feeding poultry regulator, and 
their droppings are much better. They 
eat a lot of charcoal, oyster shells, grit 
and charcoal continually before them; 
also fresh water. I fed all the cabbage 
they would eat first of Winter, and after 
that was gone fed mangel beets at noon 
for green feed. My beef scrap is 55 per 
cent protein. Do you think there was 
too much protein or scrap to the mix¬ 
ture? They are laying about 25 eggs per 
day now from 155 pullets (Leghorns) ; 
this is very poor. I have fed about 14 
qts. scratch grains to 160 pullets. They 
would, eat more; fed the grain all at 
night, about 4 p. m. I have large hop¬ 
pers for the mash, so cannot tell how 
much they eat a day of that. F. c. 
No, hens will not eat as much dry 
mash as they should if given all the grain 
that they want, for the latter is evidently 
more palatable, and they fill up on it. 
It is the effort of the feeder to induce 
consumption of mash by regulating the 
amount of grain fed, giving a light feed¬ 
ing in the morning, perhaps not more 
than one-fourth of the day’s total supply, 
and the balance at night. At the latter 
time, however, the birds should go to 
roost with full crops and should have all 
that they will eat, regardless of quarts or 
pounds. If the mash is fed in large 
hoppers, one cannot tell how much is 
eaten; it is considered better practice by 
many to feed the mash in troughs daily, 
so that the amount eaten can be known. 
Then the fowls should be induced to eat 
as much, or, when laying heavily, a little 
more mash than whole grain. If too lit¬ 
tle mash is being consumed, the morning 
feed of grain is scrimped to stimulate 
the appetities of the fowls. Here is 
where the greatest skill in feeding is 
shown, and definite rules, stated in 
pounds and quarts, cannot be laid down. 
The feeder must know what his flock is 
doing, and hand feed accordingly. About 
8 qts. of whole grain fed daily per 100 
birds is an average amount perhaps for 
midwinter, where a sufficient amount of 
mash is also eaten. As the heavier lay¬ 
ing season approaches, more mash and a 
little less grain will be needed by the 
birds, for it is from the mash particularly 
that the fowls get their egg-making sup¬ 
plies. The laying contests have shown a 
greater consumption of mash than whole 
grain by the heavy laying pens. 
Gluten feed is a good addition to the 
mash, but it does not exactly take the 
place of ground oats, being a higher pro¬ 
tein feed. Equal parts of cornmeal, 
wheat bran, middlings, ground oats, glu¬ 
ten feed and beef scrap make an excel¬ 
lent mash mixture. Fishmeal or scrap 
may be substituted in part for meat 
scrap, though it is not generally thought 
to be equal to beef scrap as a source of 
animal protein for hens. The fact that 
your pullets went into a molt after lay¬ 
ing well in early Winter may have been 
due to some sudden change in their ra¬ 
tion or method of feeding. It is quite 
necessary that a flock of laying pullets 
shall not have their nervous system up¬ 
set by any quick and marked change in 
feeding or care, and one may easily get 
into trouble by attempting some improve¬ 
ment that involves a more or less radical 
change in ration. When such changes 
are to be made, either in quality or quan¬ 
tity,’ make them gradually, taking a little 
time to go from the old to the new. I 
should not feed all the grain at night; 
give perhaps one-fourth of it in the morn¬ 
ing in the litter. To keep the birds 
active through the day, a little grain may 
be scattered in the litter at noon. 
M. B. D. 
Poultry Management 
1. Would you advise buying baby 
chicks March 1 or April 1? Is March 1 
too cold? 2. Is it better to feed them 
with home-mixed feed or readymade, and 
if either, will you give quantity needed 
for 1,000 chicks and 200 laying hens? 3. 
How many square feet of floor space must 
be allotted each laying hen, and what 
size brooder-house should be made for 500 
chicks? 4. What is the best litter to use 
for laying hens, or for chicks? How 
deep should it be? 5. 'How can I make 
a trap-nest? a. a. h. 
1. I should prefer the chicks on April 
1, or any time in that month. Early 
May is a good time to hatch chicks, and 
for a beginner a safer time by far than 
March. 
2. There are good commercial chick 
and poultry foods upon the n arket, the 
choice between them and home-mixed 
rations being largely one of comparative 
cost and convenience. I prefer to mix 
my own. You do not say for how long a 
period you wish a sufficient quantity for 
chicks and hens, but you will not find it 
necessary to purchase any large quantity 
at any one time. 
3. From 2 to 3 sq. ft. of floor space is 
usually recommended for each fowl in a 
laying house; 8x12 ft. is a standard size 
for a portable brooder house, being about 
as large as can well be moved by a team. 
A larger house is better, however, where 
a coal-burning brooder stove is used, and 
there need be no limit to the size, since 
only as much of the space as wanted need 
be used. 
4. Any dry, clean stuff, free from mold 
and mustiness, may be used for litter. 
Straw, hay, cut cornstalks, leaves, etc. 
For little chicks, the sweepings from be¬ 
neath a hay mow, containing bits of 
clover leaves, seeds and the like, make 
good litter. Do not use any that is not 
dry and free from mustiness, then change 
often enough to keep the litter sweet and 
clean. An inch or two in depth will do 
for little chicks, 
5. Plans for a trap-nest will be pub¬ 
lished later, there having been several in¬ 
quiries for them. M. b. d. 
