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Ihe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 31. 1924 
BABY CHICKS 
Booking orders for June and July Delivery 
White and Brown Leghorns . ® S 9.00—100 
Barred and Buff Rocks. @ 10.00 — 100 
R. 1. Reds.. @ 11.00 — 100 
Silver Laced Wyandottes. @ 12.00 — 100 
Assorted Chicks.. @ 7.00 100 
100% Delivery Guaranteed 
THE RICHFIELD HATCHERY 
Box 166 Richfield. Pa. 
/r* PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
n EGGS-CHICKS 
Stock Now Half Price 
America’s Greatest Laying Strain. 
Records up to 325 eggs a year. Prize 
Ji. fyryjecjZ winners at National Shows. Cham- 
pions at Egg Laying Contests. Mrs. 
/ Miller’s flock averaged 210 eggs, made 
AJ ne t profit $8.09 per hen, Mr. Carr, 
Indian Head, Md„ made over $800 profit from 53 hens. 
16 page Cir. FREE. Large Catalog Booklet 25 cts. 
J. W. PARKS Box Y Altoona, Pa. 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns, 
UlIlKj Barred^and White Rocks, 
Big, sturdy chicks bred for business at 12c for May ; 
June, lOc. Discount on large orders. Hatches 
every week. Satisfaction guaranteed.Catalogue free. 
C. M. LONGENECKER Box 50 Elizabethtown, Pa. 
KENT BARRED ROCKS 
Pens in leading egg laying contests. Hatching eggs 
half price after May 10. Chicks half price after June 1. 
Breeding liens and cocks at greatly reduced prices dur¬ 
ing June, July and August. Catalogue free. 
W. H. B. KENT • Cazenovla, N.Y. 
CHICKS From Heavy Laying Flocks 
Barred Rocks. 12c; Reds, 13c. and Mixed. 9c, Safe 
delivery guar. Circ. free. B. W. AMEY.Cocolamus, Pa. 
Barred PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
The winning strain at laying contest. Baby chicks 
from our own strain. Hatching eggs. 
MARVEL POULTRY FARM Georoetown, Delaware 
CHICKS From Our Own Breeders 
Single Comb White and Brown Leghorns. Also Reds and 
Anconas. Pure bred, strong, vigorous stock that will 
live and grow. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular. 
ADRIAN DeNEEF Sodus. N. Y. 
BARRED ROCKS-Whit# Leghorn, Breeders, Eggs 
Chicks at reduced prices. 10-12 wks.-old White Leghorn 
pullets, ready May 10th. Circular. 
Jules F. Francals Westhampton Beach, N. Y. 
ftL’ L- from Heavy-Laying Flocks. Barred Rocks, lie 
DIIICKS Mixed, 8c. 100% guarantee. Pamphlet. Post¬ 
age prepaid. R. J. Ehrl.man McAllstervllle, Pa. 
MAHOGANY STRAIN 
S. C. Rhode Island Beds. Eggs. $2.50— 15; $7-50: 
$12-100. Circular. B. Quackenbush, Darien. Conn, 
S. C. White Leghorn Chicks Exclusively 
from free range breeding farm. 889 per hundred. 
FREE RANGE POULTRY FARM. R. D. 2, Box 84. Richfield, Pa. 
S. C. R. 1. Red Baby Chicks 
Pedigreed, tiapnested, finest in the world. Even 
our competitors have admitted that Redbird Farm s 
stock is unsurpassed, Catalog free, 
URDRIRD FARM Wrentham, Mass. 
PULLETS—Pure Bred Single Comb White Leghorns 
10-12-14 and 16 weeks old. Also ready-to-lay Free- 
Range birds from selected breeders. Priced, SI 
and up, according to age. FISHER BROS., Atlantic, Pa. 
UORNING’S BOURBON REDS Baby turks $1.25 each 
n KLONA HOKNINIi, Onego, N.T. Eggs reduced May 15th 
JERSEY SLACK C3HANTS 
REDUCED 
40c apiece in one hundred lots. Black Giants are the most 
profitable chickens you could raise—and these are the 
sturdiest black giants you can buy. America's heaviest 
weight chickens. Mature early and lay extremely large eggs. 
Splendid winter layers. Finest market fowl. We sell 
chicks and eggs—by buying chicks you are sure of 100% 
chickens. Prices: 25 chicks $11. 50 chicks $21. 
1 OO chicks $40. Send for booklet or, to avoid delay, 
order from ad. GOODFLOX POULTRY FARMS. 
Hatchery, 111 Nellson St., New Brunswick, N. J. 
Ptandard Bred S. C. R. 1. Rods. Eggs, $2 and $3—15 ; 
0 $8 and $12—100. Carlyle Alexander, Jamesvllle, N.Y. 
BABY OHICKS 
From DAVIS STRAIN of CERTIFIED S. C. W. Leghorns 
For 16 years have culled and bred for size, vigor and 
heavy egg production. Strong chicks which develop into 
prolific layers of large, white eggs. Parent stock, 250 to 
315-egg strain. No better chicks. Write for prices. r Or¬ 
der early. Archer W, Jlnvls, Mt. Sinai, L. I., N. Y. 
Jersey Black Giant Hatching Eggs 
hundred in case lots. Brookcrest Farm, Cranbury, N. J. 
Hampton’s Black Leghorn Chicks 
For delivery after June 10 and July, at $3.50 for 25, $0.50 
for 50, $12.00 for 100, $55.00 for 500, $100.00 per 1,000 The 
famous Hampton Black Leghorn chick will please and 
satisfy vou and grow into the best layer of large white eggs 
you ever had. Order now with cash or 25% of order for 
early delivery. Safe Delivery Guaranteed anywhere East 
of the Mississippi Hiver. Circular free. 
A. K. HAMPTON, Box K, Pittstown, N. J. 
DlnnL Finnic TVhite Rocks. Eggs *2—15; $10— 
Jersey BlaCK UiantS 100 . Wilburtha strain. Stock for 
sale. H. J. KEMPF - Fronchtown, N. J 
leraey Black Giant stock. Hatching: eggs, baby 
J chicks. BLAUVELT * llolindel* N. J. 
ni. | “Martin’s” White Wyandottes, 12c each; Mixed 
1 hirlfC 9e. Fnlly guar. Send cash order. Bank Ref. 
VIIIVIIO Box K James E. Ulsh, Beaver Springs, Pa. 
ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Frost-proof combs. Heavy egg producers. Baby 
chicks and hatching eggs. 
J. M. CHASE Box G Wallkill, N.Y. 
I,.,»ri,l.L al Reduced Prices. White and Brown 
JUnei^niCKS Leghorns, Sc; Reds, 10c ; Broilers. 7c, 
Postpaid Frank Ilium, New Washington, Ohio 
lkllilte Leghorns. D. Taucred’s Tiapnested Strain 
II pedigreed males. Most profitable layers. Booking or¬ 
ders, chicks, eggs. Circular. HAMILTON FARM. Huntington, N T 
BABY CHICKS ° a ^ v ei & om ^‘ s 
horns, $8—100. B. Rocks, $11. R. I. Reds. $12. Mixed. 
$7. Live arrival guaranteed. Delivered free. 
FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM R. 0. 3 Millerstown, Pa. 
Mayroyd Poultry Farm 
BREEDERS OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LFGII0RNS AND BARRED 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS " THAT LAY AND PAY." 
NEW DORP HEIGHTS Box B Staten Island, N.Y. 
CHICKS SI r l o e c°k hor " He 
from free range farm flocks each Wednesday. Laid at 6 
months. Guaranteed. Must please. Catalogue free. 
Seibert Bros. Box R Elizabethtown, Pa. 
“North Country” S. G. Brown Leghorns T "?dnd tter 
Chicks $11 per 100. Ownland Farm, Box497, Hammond, N.Y. 
White Wyandotte 
Marfcin-Dorcas Direct. Prices Reduced. Write for 
price list at once. A. B. CARD, Boonton, N. J. R. F. 0. No. 1 
Thorobred CHICKS-S15 Per 100 
Tom Barron strain White Leghorns hatched from 
our own flock of 2,200 layers. Largest poultry farm 
in central Pennsylvania. Visitors welcome. 
Universal Poultry Farm Middleburg, Pa. 
ujL Chicks, $14-100, up. Eggs, $6—100, 
White Wyandotte up. Bred for eggs and exhibition. 
Slst year. Buy from a specialist—it pays. Illustrated Cata¬ 
log Free. Bowden, W. Wyandotte Specialist. Mansfield, O. 
OHICKS THAT ARE OHICKS 
Wyekoff Hollywood .8. C. W. Leghorns, A grade, 16c; Mar¬ 
tin’s White Wyandottes, 16o ; Barred Rooks. R. I. Reds, 
14o; Pekin Ducklings, 25c. Hatches, May 28th, June 4th. 
11th. 18th. Sunny Side Poultry Farm, Copper Hill, N. J, 
Itfhlte Wyandottes. Itega I- Dorcas strain. Eggs from A-l 
if Layers of large eggs.$1.50-15;S7—100.R. Hill,Seneca Falls. H.f. 
III r 17 C Of HEALTHY 
^ IllC II 3 FREE-RANGE STOCK 
AW S. C. Buff and W. Leghorns, $12—100. Barred 
I..TK. H Rock and R. I. Reds, $14— 100. White Rocks, 
$15—100. Lite Mixt, $9—100. Hevy Mixt, $11 
11 —100. Sat. guar, or money refunded. Circ. free. 
JACOB NIEM0ND, McAlisterville, Pa. Box 2 
uiL !i. from a heavy-laying strain. May 
Whlt8 WyehUOtteS chicks, 15o each: June chicks, 18c 
each. Byron Pepper Georgetown, Delaware 
O f« 1 _ $18 per 100, Baker’s strain. Pure 
u. O, AnCOn* UNIX bred—my own flock. Also White 
Leghorns, $9. Barred Rocks, $11. Safe arrival guaran¬ 
teed. O. A. OARI.IN MeAUstervllle, Pa. 
nurvo Pure Barron White Leghorns, 18c; Barred 
Lilli,l\0 Rocks, lie; Reds, 13c; White Leghorns, 9e; 
vu u u Mixed chicks. 8e each. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Turkey Ridge Hatchery, Millerstown, Pa. 
MI1I1TK CHINESE GOOSE EGGS, 40c. 
If Lemlie Brundage - Salisbury Mills, N. V. 
DUCKLINGS 
1 KK1N ^ ’ v,k ^P»RDE£’SPEKINS,lilip.N.r. 
PL* 1 Purebred Barron Trap-nested stock and 
t niCKS Graded S. C. White Leghorns. Barred P. 
Rocks and Heavy Mixed. Book tree. 
Safe ayrival and satisfaction guaranteed. 
THE CYCLONE HATCHERY Millerstown, Pa. 
3VEAMMOTH IBRONZE TURKEYS 
$5 per 12 eggs, Postpaid. Prompt shipment. Fer¬ 
tility guaranteed. H. A. Souder. Sellersville. Pa. 
rrre From Choice Stock. JERSEY BLACK GIANTS. 
$1.50—15; $2.50—30; $4—50. Indian Runner 
Ducks, $1.50-setting; $2.50—two settings; $4—50. 
W. C. Geese, 30c each; $2.50—10. 
R. P CAMPBELL Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
nOUKIION KEI» TURKEY’ EGGS, 50c apiece. 
D Miss Bertha Wohner, Pori Jervis, N.Y. K. F. i>. No. 2 
Mammoth Bronxe Turkey Eggs, $5 per 10 eggs, from 
III good stock. Miss Annie Wilhelm, Wrentham, Mass. 
EIGHT-WEEK LEGHORN PULLETS 
We give our WORD that every BIRD 
Will SATISFY the most critical EYE. 
Delivery each week after May 1st. $l.if> each ; $100 per 100. 
Illust'd Catalog. JUSTA POULTRY FARM. Box R, Southampton, N.Y. 
BEAUANDOT n „L1;„ „„ are unexcelled. Liberal guarantee 
MAMMOTH Ducklings Bred right Hatched right. Shipped 
PEKIN right. BEAUANDOT DUCK RANCH. Sag Harbor. L. 1.. H. ». 
1 Fine Poultry, Turkeys,Geese, l>ucks. 
LflTgB otOCK Guineas, Bantams, Pigeons, Collies, 
Stock and eggs. Catalog. PIONEER FARMS, Telford, Pa 
\i/l;i„ | ntvl,Arn PIiIaLo $10al00 WhiteWyandotte,$l 4. 
VYllltO LBgnOm UllICKS Heavy mixed 60 % Barred Hocks 
$9. Free and Safe delivery guaranteed. Hundreds of 
satisfied customers. ULSH POULTRY FARM, Port Trevorton. Pa 
T 1 and M a m m o t h ltronze Turkey 
I oulouse uCCSC Eggs. $5 prr doz. Order from this adv. 
H. 11. FREED - Telford, Pa. 
f —-4 a 1 ■ 1/ Q S. C. W. L eghorns, 10c; 
li 1 IV O Mixed, 8c. Special prices 
on 500 and 1,000 lots. 100 % guaranteed. All free-range 
Stock. Circular free. F. B. FRYMOYER, MoAllsterville, I’a. 
TIFFANY’S SUPERIOR DUCKLINGS 
MAMMOTH PEKIN f 
GIANT KOUEN II 11 CKllIHIS 
INDIAN RUNNER 1 ^Kivxxxxxiyrj 
ALDHAM POULTRY FARM R. 34 Phoenixville, Pa. 
BABY CHICKSffirt; 
Barred Rocks, 10c; Reds, lOc; White Leghorns, 
8c; Broilers, 7c. Live arrival guaranteed, Del. 
free RELIABLE POULTRY FARM. Millerstown, Pa. R. 2 
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rt A ft A A From the best laying strains. Rocks, 
O V j V w w Reds, $12; Minorcas, $1 2.50; Leg- 
DADV ftUICI7C horns, $9; Mixed, $8- Order direct 
DHu I blllbRv from ad. or write for catalogue. 
FOR JUNE Sunnyslde Hatchery, Liverpool, Pa. 
pr; Bar Rocks, He : Reds, 12o ; W. Leghorns, 8a; 
VxTIlX Mixed, 7e. 100% arrival guaranteed. Order 
from adv. or circular. TW IN HATCHERY, MeAlutorrllle, Pa. 
SSQ U A B S-I* 1 G E O N S-JS QUABS 
FOR 8ALF.— A Hundred Pigeons. Good squab breed¬ 
ers, consisting of Florentine Homer crosses, Homers, 
Runt, King and Hungarian crosses. All healthy and good 
breeders for squab. Will sell the lot very reasonable. 
Yama Farms Napanoch, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
MAKE MONEY RAISING SQUABS! 
Highest market ever known. Breeders shipped 
x, everywhere. Homers.Carneaux. White Kings 
ft specialty. All otherbreeds.Write forPrices 
Allstan Squab Ce., allston| C iv!ass! 
The Henyard 
Feeding Young Chicks 
I expect to get 400 day-old chicks short¬ 
ly. I bought a brooder stove and received 
with it a schedule for feeding baby chicks. 
This schedule calls for hard-boiled eggs to 
be fed daily for six weeks. I have to buy 
eggs that I use. Is it necessary to feed 
eggs after the first feeding to make them 
grow successfully? Would a buttermilk 
mash, fed once a day. take the place of 
the eggs and liquid buttermilk or sour 
milk? I am unable to buy either in any 
quantity. Does powdered buttermilk, 
mixed with water, do as well for them as 
the genuine buttermilk? M. M. 
Lebanon, N. J.. 
It is not necessary to feed hard-boiled 
eggs to young chicks, though that is a 
good method of utilizing infertile eggs 
taken from the incubator within the first 
few days. A good chick mash may be 
fed after the first few days, they having 
previously been fed five times daily upon 
small amounts of bread crumbs, rolled 
oats, hard-boiled eggs, if at hand, or one 
of the prepared chick grain rations. One 
A Business Wyandotte 
part pinhead oatmeal, two parts cracked 
wheat and three parts finely cracked corn 
will make a good chick grain ration for 
early feeding. A buttermilk mash is sim¬ 
ply a mash containing dry buttermilk. 
If well made, it is good, but sour skim- 
milk or buttermilk should be given as 
drink, and food, from the start. This is 
better than to depend upon dried skim 
or buttermilk. If you can't get either of 
these, perhaps you can procure the semi- 
solid buttermilk sold commercially for 
chick feeding. This, diluted with seven 
parts of water, makes buttermilk. Skim 
or buttermilk should be fed for the first 
few weeks, at least, at almost any cost. 
A good chick mash may be made by mix¬ 
ing two parts wheat bran, and one part 
each of cornmeal, wheat middlings, sift¬ 
ed ground oats, sifted beef scrap. After 
a few weeks the hulls do not need to be 
sifted from the ground oats. These parts 
are by weight. If more convenient, a 
commercial chick mash may be fed, there 
being a number of good ones upon the 
market. M. B. D. 
Is This the Record 
The accompanying picture shows a 
White Wyandotte pullet, bred by me, 
which laid' 48 eggs in 48 days, from Feb. 
21 to April 8, inclusive ; missed the 0th, 
laid again on April 10. up to and includ¬ 
ing April 26 (17 eggs) ; missed the 27th, 
laid again on 28th of April, up to and 
including this date (May 8), 11 eggs. I 
have not seen anything to beat this in the 
poultry journals lately. I just have a 
backyard flock, but I trap-nest them all, 
and have started to pedigree them this 
year. guy r. young. 
Pennsylvania. 
Who presents a better record? We 
had a R. I. Red hen in one of the poultry 
contests which, we think, laid an egg each 
day for 42 consecutive days. 
Cod-liver Oil for Chicks 
I have coop 10 ft. wide, 20 ft. long. I 
wish to put partitions for two-colony 
house, to be heated with coal-burner 
brooder stoves. Would fine chicken wire 
be all right for partition, with 10-in. 
board at bottom? Would wheat bran be 
all right to give young chicks to eat, dry, 
and let them have it at all times? Do you 
advise cod liver oil to be fed to baby 
chicks? K. 
North Rose, N. Y. 
One-inch mesh poultry netting, with 
board at bottom, would make a good par¬ 
tition. Leghorn chicks will not go 
through this after they become a few 
days of age. Wheat bran is a good food 
for little chicks, but I should not keep it 
before them all of the time, and I should 
not feed it alone. A good chick mash 
containing it may be made by mixing two 
parts of wheat bran with one part each 
of sifted ground oats, cornmeal or hom¬ 
iny, flour middlings and sifted beef scrap. 
After the chicks are about five weeks old 
the ground oats and meat scraps need not 
be sifted. Cod liver oil is an excellent 
addition to the baby chick ration, up to 
eight weeks. It certainly seems to pro¬ 
mote sturdy growth. Give two teaspoons 
per 100 chicks each day during the first 
week, three teaspoons per day during the 
second and third weeks, and four tea¬ 
spoons from • the fourth to eighth week. 
Mix with a slightly moistened mash and 
distribute so that each chick will get its 
proper share. M. b. d. 
The Cause of Leg Weakness in Chicks 
Sometime ago I sent an article to The 
R. N.-Y. on the subject named above, in 
which was mentioned some experiments 
by the I’. S. Department of Agriculture 
in feeding cod liver oil to chicks as a 
preventive of leg weakness. 
In my article the importance of getting 
chicks on the ground, contact with the 
earth, was strongly emphasized as the one 
necessary thing to do. Time after time 
I have seen little chicks in a brooder 
house too weak to stand, recover then- 
strength and become strong and vigorous 
in a few days after they were put out 
on the ground. So naturally it was sup¬ 
posed that there was some virtue in mere 
contact of the chicks’ feet with the 
ground. 
But recent scientific discoveries have 
shown what the real cause of the benefit 
was. It was not contact with the earth, 
but the ultra-violet rays of sunlight, 
which window glass does not transmit, 
but excludes. It has been found that in 
the absence of the ultra-violet rays, cal¬ 
cium and phosphorus salts are not ab¬ 
sorbed in sufficient quantity, hence rickets 
in children and—what is practically the 
same thing—leg weakness in young chicks. 
We all know what a change takes 
place in the plants that have been raised 
under glass when we transplant them out 
doors, how strong and sturdy they be¬ 
come, because now with nothing to ex¬ 
clude the ultra-violet ray, they absorb 
the calcium and phosphorus salts neces¬ 
sary to strong and vigorous growth. 
It is the same with animal and human 
life. Autopsies performed on the bodies 
of children born in Autumn and who died 
in the Spring, showed many times as 
many troubles with, or deficiency in the 
bones, as there were in children who were 
born in the Spring and died in the Fall; 
because the latter had been outdoors hi 
the Summer, exposed to the clear sun¬ 
light. The percentage of difference is al¬ 
most unbelievable. 
But now science has produced a glass 
so pure and clear that it does not hinder 
the passage of the ultra-violet rays. E. R. 
Berry after ten years of experimentation 
at the research laboratory of the General 
Electric Co. at West Lynn, Mass., has 
produced a glass of fused quartz which 
has most astonishing qualities. Light will 
pass through a rod or bar of it a yard 
long, with a loss of only eight per cent. 
The loss in the best optical glass is 
per cent, in common window glass it is 
55 per cent. Another wonderful quality 
of this glass is its lack of change; it mav 
be heated to incandescence—beyond the 
melting point of gold or platinum—then 
plunged into ice water, and it neither 
cracks under the change nor melts under 
the heat, as would ordinary glass. Also 
it does not expand or contract under dif¬ 
ferences of temperature. Platinum has 
held the record for years in this respect, 
but this glass shows only one-sixteenth 
of the expansion or contraction under 
heat and cold that platinum does. It will 
become the world’s standard for measure¬ 
ments. 
But health is the supreme thing. Think 
what is will mean to mothers when, with 
this glass in the windows of the playroom 
their children can have in Winter all the 
benefits of the sunlight that are now ex¬ 
cluded by window glass. 
Mr. Berry is now turning his atten¬ 
tion to the curing and disease-preventing 
properties of his invention, and has en¬ 
listed the services of these two scientists. 
Dr. C. C. Little, president of the Uni¬ 
versity of Maine, at Orono, Me., and Dr. 
W. T. Bovee, professor of bio-physics at 
Harvard Medical School, and the institu¬ 
tions with which they are connected. 
Other scientists and institutions, includ¬ 
ing a hospital, which will build a sun- 
room lighted by this new glass, are fol¬ 
lowing developments with intense in¬ 
terest. 
Now, to get back to the caption of this 
article, it was not contact with the earth, 
as we old poultrymen supposed, that re¬ 
stored strength to the legs of our. chick¬ 
ens, but the undiluted sunlight with the 
ultra-violet rays which stiffened them, as 
it does the bodies of plants. 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Hostess ; “Must you be going, Mr. 
Dugan?” Absent-minded Radio Announ¬ 
cer: “Er, yes, goodnight. WZOK sign¬ 
ing off at 11:15 p. m.”—Brown Jug. 
