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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 29, 192-1 
A Cure 
for 
Leg Weakness 
The Connecticut and Wisconsin Experiment Stations 
have shown that Tested Cod Liver Oil—rich in Vitamines 
A and D—added in small amounts to the daily dry mash, pre¬ 
vents or cures leg weakness in young chicks— 
PROVIDED THE OIL CONTAINS VITAMINES A and D 
TESTED 
COD LIVER OIL-HARRIS 
ESPECIALLY FOR POULTRY 
Is the original and only brand of Cod Liver Oil containing a definite 
and known amount of Vitamines A and D. This oil was used m many 
of the original Experiment Station Tests and is guaranteed to cure leg 
weakness in baby chicks. 
This is the Brand of Oil the Doctors Are Using 
AVOID UNTESTED OILS AND MIXTURES! 
Recent tests at the Storrs (Conn.) Experiment Station have shown 
that when Cod Liver Oil is mixed with starchy feeds, it soon becomes 
rancid, loses its Vitamine content and fails to cure leg weakness. 
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! 
They advise using fresh, Tested Cod Liver Oil, mixed in small 
amounts, frequently. 
Tested Cod Liver Oil-Harris is sold in— 
One Pint bottles.$ .75 each 
One Gallon cans. 3.50 each 
Five Gallon cans. 15.00 each 
Delivered anywhere, EXPRESS Paid, cash or C.O.D. 
WRITE lor FREE BULLETINS 
COUPON 
Return this coupon, with the names and addresses of 25 poultry 
breeders and Three Dollars, and we will send you one full gallon of 
Tested Cod Liver Oil-Harris—PREPAID. 
THE HARRIS LABORATORIES 
TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK 
THE HENYARD 
More Egg-eating Hens 
Will you tell me how to stop a flock of 
hens that have started to eat their eggs? 
They are Bai’red Plymouth Rocks. There 
are 26 hens and they have three pens SxS 
ft. to exercise in while in the house. We 
let them out when snow is not too deep. 
Do you think it safe to breed from these 
hens? Is it wise to breed from a rooster 
that always runs from another? J. K. 
It will be safe to breed from these hens. 
provided that you can save enough eggs 
for hatching purposes. Egg eating is not 
an inherited vice, though that is about all 
that can be said in its extenuation. If 
watching the flock and removing tempor¬ 
arily any hen caught pecking at eggs or 
going about with a yellow streak on her 
face, together with darkening the nests 
and gathering the eggs frequently, will 
not avail. I know of nothing that you can 
do except to turn the flock loose to roam 
out of doors and busy itself with other 
matters than egg eating. The snow will 
not harm hens used to wading in it, 
though it is probably not best to keep the 
flock in part of the time and let it out the 
rest. Flocks that have free outside Tange 
all Winter frequently beat their confined 
sisters at laying. A rooster that runs all 
the time from another displays a lack of 
vigor that does not augur well for his 
usefulness as a breeder. I should prefer 
the other male as head of the flock, pro¬ 
vided that he is equally good otherwise. 
M. B. I). 
Newtown Brooders 
Coal Burning 
Self-regulating; coal 
capacity for 24 to 
36 hours; powerful 
metal bar regulator; 
four convenient 
sizes. Ask for Cir¬ 
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Oil Burning 
New. Improved. Lights with match; willnotflare up. goout 
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l\ew. improved* likuio wuu — — — - 
or overflow; broods up to 500 chicks, oee Circular 
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Incubators 75 eggs capacity to 36.000. Write today. 
NEWTOWN GIANT INCUBATOR CORP. 
60 Warsaw St„ Harrisonburg, Virginia 
A helpful, brand new cata- 
^ log that tells how healthy, 
strong, peppy Baby Chicks 
are successfully hatched and raised 
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Petaluma, California 15634] 
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Name 
Address 
Jim Rohan’s Latest Bulletin 
For smaller capacity get my 80-egg Champion Belle 
City Incubator for $9.95; my 80-chick Hot Water 
Belle City Brooder for $4.95; or both ordered together 
for only $12.9 5-Express Prepaid East oj Rockies. 
Rid Your Poultry of Worms! 
TTNIFORM Brand Pulverized Tobacco Powder is the 
most efficient preparation on the market for ridding 
poultry of large and small Round Worms. It has a 
uniform nicotine content of which tests have 
shown to be most effective. Given to your fowls by 
the flock-feeding method, it will treat the advanced 
- cases and check the early stages. Each bird gets an 
equal dose. This preparation is highly endorsed by experts as a remedy 
for Worms. It is also effective in ridding poultry of lice and other vermin. 
100 lb. bag $4.00 F. O. B. Lancaster 2000 lbs. $60.00 F O. B. Lancaster 
10 lb. sample delivered for $1,00 
Send money -with order. Complete information will be furnished on request. No obligation. 
F. & I. TOBACC O PRODUCT S C O., Dept. R. , Lancaster, Pa. 
Basement Henhouse 
We have a wagon-house 60 ft. long. 24 
ft. wide, 12 ft. high at southeast end. 
Could this be made into a house for chick¬ 
ens by building out an extension for more 
light and sun, or would it be too damp for 
health, it being basement. What kind of 
floor would be best, as in rainy season 
water runs there? j. f. h. 
Beaver Dam, N. Y. 
if this basement has an exposed wall 
upon at least one side, into which win¬ 
dows for light and ventilation can be 
placed, it may make a very desirable place 
for poultry, though it will have to be 
drained by some means to keep the floor 
dry, if water runs into it at times. A 
concrete floor would probably be the only 
practicable one for the place and, as said, 
this should be under-drained if need be. 
If you can make this basement light and 
airy and dry, it will be all right. A cel¬ 
lar, however, is not a suitable place for 
poultry. Many basements have one or 
more walls from the ground level to the 
sills of the building supported of suffi¬ 
cient height to hold windows that will ad¬ 
mit plenty of light and air. These may 
be converted into poultry-houses. Others 
are more like pits dug into the ground, 
and afford no opportunity to provide for 
healthful conditions. A poultry-house 
must not be damp, and it must have light 
and air ; you are the best judge whether 
this particular basement can be made to 
fulfill these conditions. M. R. n. 
13-. 
Champion 
Belle City 
140 Egg Incubator 
Hot-Water, Copper Tank, Double 
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$6.95 buys 140-Chick; $9.95-230-Chick 
Hot-Water Brooder. Save $ 1.95 .Order Both 
140 Size Incubator and Brooder $18.95 
230 Slzo Incubator and Brooder $29.95 
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- - —3 East of Rockies and Allowed West. 
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r for Free Hook “Hatching Facts. 
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OUR 
15th. 
YEAR 
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lift Itylncubator 
IW 30 Dags Trial IJ 
Freight Paid east of the 
- Rockies, Hot water, cop 
per tanks—doable walls—dead 
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—a real bargain at $13.26. 
Shipped complete, set up ready to use. 
140 Egg Incubator and Brooder *$17.75 
180 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 15.75 
180 Egg Incubator and Brooder - 22.00 
250 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 22.75 
250 Egg Incubator and Brooder • 31.00 
Made of California Redwood. Positively the best value 
oo the market. Order direct from this ad. 80 days trial 
—money back if not pleased. If not ready to order now, 
don’t buy until you get our 1924 catalog which shows 
larger sizes up to 1000 eggs. 
WISCONSIN INCUBATOR CO. D«Pt. *36 Racine, Wis. 
Shenandoah Valley Chick s 
(§) 
m 
quality. Personally se- 
that enjoy free range; ^ 
r Buv Direct front the Producer lected breeders tliat enjoy free range; 
' closelv culled selected for true breed characteristics, and full of VIM, VIGOR ami VITALITY insures 
chicks that inherit that superior business quality—egg- laying—and will .live, growUand make a profit as 
well as be a pleasure for their owners. 
Are You Getting Your Chicks When You Want Them ? 
Our large hatching plant, said to be the finest equipped in the world.^convenlently located in .the 
Rhlnandoah Valley of Virginia, produces 50,000 chicks weekly and makes it possible to ship when our 
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C desired, and be sure of shipment when you want them. Member International Baby Chick Ass 
Massanutten Farms Hatchery, Inc. 
Harrisonburg, Virginia 
Baby Chicks from the Famous Picturesque Farm 
professional men years in producing, both for egg pr^uction and exhibition P n > N j ersev Experimental 
We have a number of Jersey Black Giants that have been culled by men r om om . e . i 
Station, for certification. This gives you Ml opportunity for some of the best J. B. G.ants t n 
BVrrVd'piymouth Rocks Whit! WyandTtes Mixed ami Assorted 
Chicks ready for immediate delivery. Send for price hit. mating list. etc. _ 
PICTURESQUE POULTRY FARM, - Box 7l*Bi Trenton Junction, IN. J. 
Hatching for Broilers 
I am expecting to buy a 250-egg incu¬ 
bator ; also a colony brooder stove, all to 
cost me about $75. I expect to hatch 
about 600 chicks, the first hatch coming 
off March 10. I shall have to buy all the 
feed for them, but T have all the skim- 
milk they could drink. Would it be bet¬ 
ter to sell them as broilers when they 
weight 2 to 3 lbs., or keep them till Fall? 
Would you consider this work a gain or 
a loss in the end. and how much, of 
either? M. o. 
Jermyn, Pa. 
It is as impossible to say whether such 
a venture would be profitable or not as it 
would be to make a similar prediction 
with regard to entering the grocery busi¬ 
ness. Early hatched broilers bring good 
prices, these rapidly falling, however, 
after the latter part of June. The gen¬ 
eral poultryman has surplus cockerels to 
dispose of as broilers, and he, of course, 
becomes a serious competitor of the spe¬ 
cialist, for he must sell his product, re¬ 
gardless of market price. Taking it is a 
rule, where special markets or facilities 
are not at hand, I do not think that broil- 
* er raising as a business is one to be ex¬ 
ploited. There is usually a good market 
for purebred, well-developed pullets in 
the Fall, and if one can raise them at 
comparatively small cost, as he might on 
a farm where there was good range and 
some homegrown feeds to use, that often 
proves a profitable venture. M. b. d. 
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Reg. U. S. Pat. Office 
COAL STOVE BROODERS 
Hard or Soft Coal 
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Five sizes for small¬ 
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Write for illnstrat- -'j-i 
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300 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, 
Made of Cali¬ 
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with galvanized iron, double 
walls, air space between, 
built to last for years; deep chick 
nursery,hot water heat, copper tanks. 
BATOR WITH BROODER $19.75 
BATOR, ALONE, ONLY * 23.50 
260 EGG INCUBATOR, WITH BROODER 32.90 
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_ iXDl # _ 
east of Rockies. 
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45 Main St., Homer City, Pa. 
