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lht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
June 14, 1924 
KERR QUALITY BABY CHICKS 
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plants. 
Utility Prices Special Matings Prices 
White Leghorns. 
cents 
each 
14 
cents 
each 
Barred Rocks . 
12 
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17 
R. I. Reds. 
. . 13 
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18 
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White Rocks. 
.16 
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White Wyandottes .. 
16 
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Send in your order today. 100% delivery, alive and 
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PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
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Records up to 325 esgs a year. Prize 
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^ net profit $8.09 per hen. Mr. Carr, 
Indian Head, Md„ made over $800 profit h°"> 53hen*. 
16 page Cir. FREE. Large Catalog Booklet 25 cts. 
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BARRED ROCKS—Whit* Leghorn, Breeders, Eggs 
Chicks at reduced prices. lO-^wks.-old White Leghorn 
pullets, ready May 10th. Circular. 
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S.C.R.I. Red Baby Chicks 
KoBlKuTABM M»... 
S. C. R. I. Red Chicks reducId 
Ung e he'ns^ 8 (iMck 8 s t , r ^2Wi>eH\w ln Hatcl^'ng*egg^,|sB^m• 
100. A. H. FINGAR, Suimybrook Poultry Farm, Elizaville. N T. 
June S. C. RED CHICKS Grow Fast 
Ituy from Vermont certified accredited dark red birds. 
Price, SOc. From hatches June 26 ami 30 300 foi #*>0, 
600 for $5>0. Circular. ASCUTNEY FARMS. K10. Hartland. Vermont 
H 
ORNINQ'S BOURBON REDS I Baby tui ks each 
I LONA IIOKNINU, Oweeo, N.Y. | Efcrgs oOc each. 
Jersey Black Giant Hatching Eggs $l8 - ?0p ^ hun - 
hundred in case lots. 
. _ 0 „„ died. *12 per 
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crnev Black Giant stock. Hatching eggs,baby 
chicks. HLALVELT - llolmdel, ,\. J. 
Chicks, #14— 100 , up. Eggs, * 6 - 
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Highest market ever known. Breeders shipped 
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S5 per 12 eggs. Postpaid, Prompt shipment. Fer¬ 
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r~„ pl.„|. Fine Poultry, Turkeys, Beese, l»uck g . 
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ammoth Pokln Duck Hatching Eggs, *t_5« for 12. 90% 
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_ . n J T I 50« apiece. BERTHA WEHNER 
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rr , r and Mammoth Itronze Turkey 
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Hampton’s Black Leghorn Chicks 
For delivery after June 10 and Julv, at *3.50 for 25, *6.50 
for 50, *12.00 for 100. *55.00 for 500, *100.00 per 1,000 The 
famous Hampton Black Leghorn chick will please and 
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you ever had. Order now with cash or 25% of order for 
early delivery. Safe Delivery Guaranteed anywhere East 
of tiie Mississippi ltiver. Circular free. 
A. E. HAMPTON, llox K, Pittstown, N. J. 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns, 
UilUVd White Rocks - 
K. I. K e d s 
Big, sturdy chicks bred for business at 12c for May; 
June, 10c. Discount on large orders. Hatches 
every week. Satisfaction guaranteed.Catalogue free. 
C. M. LONGENECKER Box 50 Elizabethtown. Pa. 
300,000 LARGE HUSKY BABY 
CHICKS FOR 1924 
Hatches due every Tuesday. S. C. White 
and Brown Leghorn, 10c; Barred Hocks, 
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H. C. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN CHICKS 
from imported Barron stock with records of 272 to 
314 eggs. Extra large breeders, buttermilk fed. 
Best grade chicks eacli week in June, only lOc and 
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f Hlf KS 0F HEALTHY 
V/ Ill V, II J FREE-RANGE STOCK 
S. C. Buff and W. Leg..* 9 — 10 ( 1 . Barred Hocks, 
*11—100. R. I. Hods, *12—100. White Hocks, 
*18—100. Lite Mixt, *5—100. Hevy Mixt, *9 
—100. Sat. guar, or money refunded. Circ. free. 
JACOB NIEMOND, McAlisterville, Pa. Boi 2 
- BABY CHICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8 c ; B. P. Rocks, 11c : R. I. 
Reds, 11c; Mixed, 7o. Order from adv. 
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C. I. BENNER Box 83 Richfield,Pu. 
CHICK PRICES SMASHED 
June, July, Aug. and Sept. *7 per 100 and up. 
Hogan tested. White, Brown and Black Leghorns, 
/L)' ) 100— * 8 ; Black Minorcas, Anconas, 100— *10; 
“ ‘ Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, 100— *11. Reds, 
100— *18. Broilers, 100—$?. 100% live delivery 
guaranteed. We ship anywhere by Parcel Post. 
Free Catalog. Reference; Ickesburg State Batik. 
Johnson's Hatchery Box 40 Ickesburg, Pa. 
w v ^ w w S. C. Reds, 11c. B. P. 
f ’I I If 1 IX ^ Rocks, lOe. S.O.W.Leg- 
IV horns, 8 c, and Mixed 
iiVjlVk/ chicks 7c. These chicks are 
all from free range stock. 
Safe delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. Booklet free. 
W. A. LAUVER McAlisterville, Pa. 
D A R V Mixed or Broilers.$7 per 100 
■ S. C. W. Leghorn. 8 per 100 
C U| Y Barred Rocks. 10 per 100 
n 1 yv S. C. R. I. Reds.. lO per 100 
Special prices on 500 lots. 100%live del. guaranteed. Post¬ 
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Mayroyd Poultry Farm 
BREEDERS OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS AND BARRED 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS " THAT LAY AND PAY." 
NEW DORP HEIGHTS Box B Staten Island, N.Y. 
O R 1 | 1# QS, C.W. Leghorns, Sc; 
ll I IV O Mixed, 7c. Special prices 
on 500 and 1,000 lota. 100% guaranteed. Ail free-range 
stock. Circular free. F. B.FKYMOYER, McAlisterville, t's. 
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, S*1 
and up, according to age. FISHER BROS., Atlantic, Pa. 
EIGHT-WEEK LEGHORN PULLETS 
We trlve our WORD that every BIRD 
Will SATISFY the most critical EYE. 
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Illust’d Catalog. JUSTA P0ULTRT FARM. Bo> R, Southampton, N.Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 8 ow k " 
pullets, May, June, July delivery, iM.l*> each, in lots of 
100, #1 each. Cedarhurst Poultry Farm, Rahway, N. J. 
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CHAS. IT. CREGO Claverack, N.Y. 
T.innr^klnl/o at Reduced Prices. White and Brown 
JUneUiniCKS Leghorns, 80 ; Reds, lOe ; Broilers. 5 c, 
Postpaid Frank ltluni. New Washington, Ohio 
F or Sale—White Leghorn Pullets. 10 weeks old, $t 
apiece. William Major - Solesbury, Pa. 
"•‘.fTW. Leghorn Chickens ?SSS3~£SSS: 
The Henyard 
Blood Clots in Eggs; Feeding Chicks; 
Sprouting Oats 
1. I have been feeding Leghorn Lens 
heavily for eggs all Winter, and they 
have produced around 80 per cent up un¬ 
til six weeks ago, but I got scared and 
cut down their feed until I am now get¬ 
ting 40 per cent. Some of them are lay¬ 
ing eggs with a lot of blood in them, and 
I have been told this is caused by rup¬ 
ture, the result of their producing too 
heavily. I also had trouble with some of 
them bleeding at the vent, so .serious that 
they would die in two days, but since 
cutting down the feed I do not seem to 
have any more trouble of this kind. 2. 
I have had a little trouble this year also 
with my baby chicks; they were doing 
well for the first week, but I started 
keeping feed before them all the time 
after this time (one week) and they 
would have a big crop, but on feeling 
same and holding chick upside down and 
pressing crop at the same time, a bunch 
of water would come out of their mouths, 
and those affected would die. Can you 
tell me what was the trouble with these 
chicks? On cleaning coal ashes out of 
brooder stove the young chicks seem to 
fight one another to get some of these 
ashes. Will these ashes do young chicks 
any harm, as they seem crazy after them? 
3. On sprouting oats, how many times 
can the sprouts be cut back before the 
oats should be thrown out to old hens? 
If the oats are too wet it causes mildew, 
which I am „ afraid to feed to chicks. 
Should oats be soaked for any length of 
time in hot or cold water before putting 
in sprouter? W. s. N. 
Hammonton, N. J. 
1 . I think that most poultr.vmen would 
be frightened if they got an 80 per cent 
egg yield through the Winter, but per¬ 
haps you cut down your ration too rad¬ 
ically. Blood -in eggs is caused by the 
rupture of some small blood vessel of the 
ovary or oviduct and the inclusion of 
the small clot of blood within the shell as 
the egg is formed. Heavy feeding may or 
may not have anything to do with it; 
probably, however, it has something to do 
with disorders of the oviduct, shown by 
inflammation, bleeding and perhaps ever¬ 
sion. 
2. Give the little chicks less mash and 
more hard grain ; keep sour skim or but¬ 
termilk before them also. Diluted semi¬ 
solid buttermilk is excellent where skim- 
milk is not to be had in sufficient quan¬ 
tity. Add tender green stuff also as soon 
as possible. It is a lot of trouble to keep 
little chicks out of the ash pit when car¬ 
ing for a brooder stove, but I do not 
think that they will eat enough of the 
ashes to do them any harm. Probably 
more curiosity than hunger involved. 
3. Sprouted oats are usually fed oats 
and all; I do not know how many times 
the sprouts can be cut off for little 
chicks; they should be cut up for baby 
chicks. Oats may be kept from molding 
by adding a teaspoon of formalin to each 
six quarts of water used in wetting them 
before placing in trays. Use lukewarm 
water and soak over night, then keep 
them thoroughly moistened and in a suf¬ 
ficiently warm and light place to make 
them sprout quickly. If necessary to 
prevent molds from forming, disinfect 
trays after emptying with a 5 per cent 
solution of formalin, as well as using it 
in the water in which the oats are soaked, 
as suggested. Slow sprouting, from too 
little moisture and heat, favor molding. 
M. B. D. 
Trouble from Spoiled Food 
Can you tell me what is the trouble 
with my hens? I have about 25. I have 
lost a number of them ; sickness seems to 
come on suddenly. Some get lame, others 
go with their heads on one side; most 
all go blind. The tops of their combs turn 
white; inside the mouth seems to be of 
a bluish color. They lay till they get 
sick and they sing all the time, but droop 
around some go sideways; some act 
crazy. I am feeding scratch feed and 
dry 'mash. Last Fall we got some field 
corn for our hogs that was old and moldy 
and the hens could get-to.it and eat all 
they wanted. Do you think that could 
do ' any hurt? I thought it might be 
worms, so treated them for worms, but 
they do not seem much better, mr. f. j. 
Stephentown, N. Y. 
Corn eaten last Fall could hardly af¬ 
fect the hens now, but some of the symp¬ 
toms that you describe indicate the eat¬ 
ing of spoiled food of some kind and. if 
the fowls are still getting this moldy 
corn, the trouble is very likely due to 
that. See to it also that they cannot find 
any other decayed or moldy food about 
the premises, carcasses of dead animals 
or other poisonous material. It would 
probably be a good thing to administer 
a physic to these hens and Epsom salts, 
in the proportion of 1 lb. to each 100 
hens, may be dissolved in what drinking 
water the flock will consume during the 
day, all other drink being withheld, or 
the same amount may be dissolved in a 
little water and made into a moist mash 
that is so fed that each bird will get its 
share. M. b. d. 
Roup and Chicken Pox 
I have 275 White Leghorn pullets. An 
eye disease has broken out among them. 
I separated the sick birds front- the heal¬ 
thy, but every day I take two or three 
out from the flock. Generally only one 
eye is affected; it starts with a watery 
discharge and gradually gets sore. Some 
of them recovered, but I had to kill five, 
their eyes being so sore and swollen. The 
rest do not seem to get any better. I take 
care of them as best I can. I wash the 
eye with boric acid, rather strong. Do 
you know of a better remedy? What can 
I do for them? Also, some of those that 
have sore eyes have warts, so they seem 
to me, for they are hard, round sores. 
Some of the healthy also have these sores. 
They have them at the base of the beak, 
some on the crest and wattles, some 
around the eyes. I paint these with 
iodine. At first I thought it to be chick¬ 
en pox, but the birds are lively, have a 
good appetite, and always about, and lay. 
I paint the sores with idoine. Is it 
right? Will it be good to put an antisep¬ 
tic in the drinking water, if so, what can 
I use? I have used, until now, carbolic 
acid, 10 drops to a quart of water. 
Hackensack, N. J. j. g. 
These birds have roup, with the erup¬ 
tion of chicken pox, both of these dis¬ 
eases, together with contagious catarrh 
and diphtheria, being now considered by 
some investigators as having a common 
cause and being only different manifesta¬ 
tions of the same disease. As to treat¬ 
ment, I could tell you of at least a dozen 
different methods, each of them sworn to 
as unquestionably effectual by its advo¬ 
cates, and none of them sufficiently ef¬ 
fective to have attained any standing in 
general practice. You have been giving 
good treatment; you may vary it by dip¬ 
ping the affected birds’ heads for a few 
seconds in much stronger antiseptics than 
boric acid, a 5 per cent solution of creo- 
lin, for example, or you may spray the 
flock with such solutions as are recom¬ 
mended for that purpose, or you may 
fumigate it with “medicated” smoke, or 
you may vaccinate -the flock, sick and 
well, with the vaccines prepared for that 
purpose. Personally I do not know of 
any cure for roup, though I am bombard¬ 
ed by “sure cures,” the advocates of 
which have tried them out and found by 
actual experience that they will save the 
balance of a flock after half or more have 
died of roup in its most malignant form. 
Strange that these sure cures do not 
prove sufficiently effectual in continued 
use to gain a place in practice that other 
remedies for disease hold. Personally, I 
am getting sick and disgusted with trying 
to tell people how to cure roup—I don’t 
know. M. b. B. 
Catarrh of Crop 
I have one flock of chicks about six 
weeks old. They did well for the first 
two or three weeks, and then they com¬ 
menced to look very droopy. Soon I be¬ 
gan to find dead ones. I notice they 
have a craving for water and upon catch¬ 
ing them and holding them head down¬ 
ward they throw up a shiny watery stuff. 
I feed them starting feed and a little 
scratch grain. I have never had this ex¬ 
perience before. I also keep the brooder 
cleaned and disinfected every week, and 
the chicks have a good range of new 
ground as soon as they are old enough. 
Milford, Mass. L. V. s. 
These chicks seem to be affected with 
catarrh of the crop, in which disease 
there is an accumulation of sour, slimy 
fluid, which may run from the mouth 
when the bird is held head downward. 
This trouble may accompany some in¬ 
fectious disease or be the result of im¬ 
proper feeding. I can only .suggest that 
you look carefully after the quality of 
rhe food given and hold an autopsy upon 
one of the dead chicks to find any dis¬ 
coverable evidence of other disease. Keep¬ 
ing the chicks without solid food for a 
day or two, giving only sour milk, may 
heip. The droopiness mentioned may, of 
course, accompany any weakening disease 
and is not, in itself, a symptom of any 
particular one. M. b. d. 
