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tffte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 28, 1924 
KERR QUALITY BABY CHICKS 
at greatly reduced prices Trade Mark^Refj. 
Don’t take a chance on chicks of Kerr’s Guaranteed Lively Chicks 
unknown parentage! Eliminate come from a long line of heavy 
the uncertainty and trouble of egg producers. They are bred 
hatching your own chicks. Buy under the supervision of our own 
Kerr’s Lively Chicks. You know experts. They are hatched in 
you are getting what you want— our own incubators—at our own 
exactly when you want them. plants. 
Utility Prices Special Matings Prices 
White Leghorns. 9 cents each 14 cents each 
Barred Rocks .12 “ “ 17 “ “ 
R. I. Reds.13 “ “ 18 “ “ 
White Rocks.16 “ “ 21 “ “ 
White Wyandottes.16 “ “ 21 “ “ 
Send in your order today. 100% delivery, alive and 
healthy, guaranteed. Ask for the 1924 Kerr Chick Book 
THE KERR CHICKERIES, Inc. 
(Member International Baby Chick Association) 
Newark, N. J., Box No. 9 Syracuse, N, Y., Box No. 9 
French town, N. J„ Box No. 9 Springfield, Mass., Box No. 9 
IOOOOOO 1924 
SPECIAL SUMMER PRICES-BY PARCEL POST PREPAID 
Don’t fail to take advantage of these prices for they will include our number one chicks and 
specials. Our stock is bred for quality and heavy egg production. Flocks culled by experts and 
they will be money makers. Will ship any number chicks from 25 on up. 
S. C. Anconas, S. 0. White and Brown Leghorns ..10c Silver Laced and Columbian Wyandottes 15c 
It. C. and S. C. Reds, Barred and White Rocks ...12c S. 0. Black Minorcas .13c 
S. C. Buff Orpingtons and White Wyandottes... .14c Odds and Ends .10c 
S. 0. White Minorcas and Light Brahmas.40c 
Order direct from this ad. Attractive catalogue free. With every order for 100 or more chicks 
we furnish you a valuable book on how to raise chicks and poultry. 
HUBER’S RELIABLE HATCHERY Main Street, Fostoria, Ohio 
3000 WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
Feb and March hatched, from Connecticut State Tested Stock. Ideal foundation stock; reared on 
clover range. Ready to lay pullets. #3.00; four months’ pullets, #2.50; three months pullets, #3.00. 
"Our honesty is your protection” HALL BROTHERS, Wallingford, Conn. 
H. C. 
300,000 LARGE HUSKY BABY 
CHICKS FOR 1924 
Hatches due every Tuesday. S. C. White 
and Brown Leghorn, 10c; Barred Rocks, 
14c; Mixed Broilers, Uhjc, 100% live deliv¬ 
ery guaranteed. Write for catalog. 
HOUSEWORTH Port Trevorton. Penna 
HOLLYWOOD STRAIN 
10-weeks Pullets, April Hatched, #1.35 each. 
Choice 10-weeks cockerels #2 each. 
B. BENSON Orchard Park, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. W. Reghorns, 8« ; B. P. Hocks, lie ; R. I. 
Reds, He; Mixed, Je. Order from adv. 
VALLEY VIEW HATCHERY 
C. I. BENNER Box Sit Richfield, P». 
C UirifCOF HEALTHY 
n i E n a free-range stock 
S. C. Buff and W. Leg., *8—100. Barred Rocks, 
*9—100. R. I. Reds, *10—100. White Rocks, 
*12—100. Lite Mixt, *6—100. Hevy Mixt, *7.50 
—100. Sat. guar, or money refunded. Circ. free. 
JACOB NIEMOND, McAlisterville, Pa. Box 2 
R A R V Mixed or Broilers.$ 7 per 100 
BHDI S. 0. W. Leghorn. 8 per 100 
e Ul Y Barred Rocks.lO per 100 
n 1 ^ S. C. R. I. Reds. lO per 100 
Special prices on 500 lots. 100*live del. guaranteed. Post¬ 
age paid to your door. FRINK NICE. MeAllst«rvUle,ra, R. 0. 2 
EIGHT-WEEK LEGHORN PULLETS 
We flrlve our WORD that every BIRD 
Will SATISFY the most critical EYE. 
Delivery each week after May 1st. $1.16 each; $100per 100. 
lllust’d Catalog. JUSTA POULTRY FARM. Bex R. Southampton, N.Y. 
ir/-ii 7 n S. C. W. and Brown Leghorns, 
T f—J 11 |v ^ 8c; Barred Rocks, lOc; Reds, 
HV/AVtJ He, and Mixed. 7c each. 100% 
Guaranteed. Older from this adv. or write for circ. 
CHERRY HILL HATCHERY WM. NACE, Prop. 
McAlisterville, Pa 
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively 
pullets, May, June, July delivery, *1.15 each, in lots of 
100, *1 each. Cedarhursl Poultry Farm, Rahway, N. J. 
S. C.W.XiEGHORN FULLETS 
8-10-wks.-old, Bred from Tom Barron’s selected 
stock. Raised on Free Range. Vineyard Poul¬ 
try Farm, Inc., Vineyard Road, Metuchen, N. J. 
Tel. No.—32J Metuchen 
BABY C HICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8c; Barred Rock, 10c; Red, 10c; 
Mixed, 7c. Special prices on large lots. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. C. I’. Leister McAlisterville, Pa. 
BABYCHICKS 0 * 
horns, SB—100. B. Rocks, $10. R. I. Reds. $10. Mixed, 
$7. Live arrival guaranteed. Delivered free. 
FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM R. 0. 3 Millerstown, Pa. 
Tn.aPliUl/ii at Reduced Prices. White and Brown 
Jlinei^niCKS Leghorns, Sc; Reds, 10 c; Broilers. 7c, 
Postpaid. Frank Blum, New Washington. Ohio 
W hite I. e g h o r n s. D. Tancred’s Trapnested Strain 
pedigreed males. Most profitable layers. Booking or¬ 
ders, chicks, eggs. Circular. HAMILTON FARM, Huntington, N T. 
/if,2 S. C. W. Leghorns, 8o each ; per 500, $87,50. 
(.nir,K\ S. C. Barred Rocks, 9c each ; per 500, $42.50, 
V1UVUU g c R J ReciSj |0c each . per 500, $47.50, 
Mixed Chicks, 7c each; per 600, $32.50. 100J6 live delivery. 
Postpaid. Order from this adv. or write for free circular. 
F. B. LEISTER McAlistervUle, Pa. 
PULLETS 
We have thousands of splendid, sturdy, White 
Leghorn youngsters with generations of high 
producing ancestors back of their breeding, 
racing over our extensive green ranges. Care¬ 
fully fed and raised by experienced poultrymen 
to make vigorous, heavy layers that will be hard 
to equal. 
Available about as follows: 
8-10 weeks . . July 
12 weeks 
4-5 months . 
Ready to Lay 
1 — July 31 
Aug. 1 — Aug, 31 
Aug. 1 — Oct. 15 
Aug. 1 — Nov. 1 
HIGHEST 
QUALITY 
CIRCULARS 
FREE 
LOW 
PRICES 
AUTHORIZED BREEDERS ASS’N 
Box F Toms River New Jersey 
BABY CHICKS 
AT 
REDUCED 
50 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
Barred Rocks 
R. I. Reds 
Assorted Chicks 
$5.50 
6.50 
PRICES 
100 
$10.00 
12.00 
8.00 
500 
$47.50 
55.00 
4.00 
For shipment any Toes., Wed. or Thur. after May 17th 
Every chick guaranteed from the best of free range 
stock. 1 pay parcel post and guarantee safe delivery. 
Excellent hatches make these prices possible. Order 
yours today. Special prices on larger quantities. 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM 
E. C. Brown, Prop. Sergeantsville, N. J. 
POULTRY PROFITS INCREASED 
By use of CARBOLINEUM 
Carbolineum applied ONCE A YEAR positively kills and 
prevents all mites and lice in poultry houses. The best 
mite killer and preventive known. Recommended by 
Agricultural Colleges. Guaranteed, or your money 
back. Poultry keepers cannot afford to be without it. 
Apply once a year and your mite troubles are ended. 
$1.75 a gallon. *1.40 per gallon in 5-gallon cans. 
Order direct from this'_ad. 
PULLETS, S. C. W. Leghorns, April hatched, now ready for delivery 
FARLEY PORTER, Box N, SODUS, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
Assorted Chicks. 7c each 
White Leghorns.. . 8c 
Brown Leghorns. 8c 
Barred Rocks.10c 
Buff Rocks..1 Oc 
R. I. Reds.10c 
Silver Laced Wyandottes. 12c 
Special Prices on 500 and 1,000 
100% Delivery Guaranteed 
THE RICHFIELD HATCHERY. Box 166, Richfield, Pa. 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
EXCLUSIVELY 
3 ADD breeders on free farm range. Pure Barron 
i""" English Strain out of imported birds with 
egg records up to 3X4 eggs. Baby Chicks balance 
of season to July 15, last hatch out of select matings, 
headed by certified cocks, * 12.00 per 100, in any 
quantity. Circulars Free. 
SUNNYBR00K FARM, Pleasant VaUey. N. Y. Boi 75 
The Henyard 
A Successful Turkey Plant 
[We have several times referred to the 
methods of raising turkeys used by Mrs. 
Geo. C. Bennett of Rhode Island. In 
answer to many questions, details of her 
methods are given below.] 
This is the method that I have used for 
a great many years. Gather your turkey 
eggs daily and keep in a moderately 
warm place. I turn them over every two 
or three days until ready to set. If you 
use common barnyard hens, as I do, for 
mothers, powder them well when you set 
them and two or three days before the 
eggs are ready to hatch. Do not feed 
the young poults the first day they are 
hatched. 
When the young poults are well off the 
nest give them some clean dandelion 
leaves chopped fine. The next day give 
hard-boiled egg and shell chopped, crack¬ 
er crumbs and chopped greens—mix and 
moisten with a little milk. Continue this 
for two or three days. Give a little sour 
milk also. Follow this diet with one cup 
of hominy or meal, one heaping teaspoon 
beef scraps and a tablespoon or more of 
fine “baby” grit. Scald well with boiling 
water, add cup of sour milk, not too sour 
at first, and put enough wheat bran in 
this mixture to make it light—not sticky. 
A hard-boiled egg chopped and added to 
the mixture often helps the poults to 
learn to eat the mixture if at first they do 
not take to it. 
As the turkeys grow, larger quantities 
are needed, but the proportions are kept 
about the same. Feed five times daily un¬ 
til the birds are three weeks old, then 
three times. I use the above mash for 
my turkeys until they are several months 
old, then I give whole oats for one meal 
and rolled oats are thi’own out for them 
when they seem to want something be¬ 
tween meals. My poults are usually four 
months old before I give them whole oats, 
and I give no corn until they are six 
months old. Keep grit and sour milk 
before the poults all the time. I give 
very little water. 
Look between the wing quills for lice. 
When the little ones are a week old lice 
may be found on them, so powder the 
poults and the hen mother. Do this once 
a week until they are four or five weeks 
old, for lice will surely kill them. 
Have the coops raised from the ground 
3 in. to insure dry floors. Keep houses 
well cleaned and sprinkle occasionally 
with lime. Do not allow crowding at 
night. Keep the turkeys away from the 
henyards and on as clean gi’ound as pos¬ 
sible. 
When my turkeys are three weeks old 
I give each of them about five drops of 
oil of turpentine. I put it in a little of 
their mash and when they eat that. I give 
them the rest of their breakfast. I do 
this once a week until they are three or 
four months old, increasing the dose a 
drop or two each week as the turkeys 
grow. 
If a turkey three or four months old or 
older has the blackhead, give it one- 
fourth of a teaspoon of turpentine in 
three of castor oil; mix and give it to 
him, being cax-eful not to hurt him in 
handling, as he is full of abscesses. 
Do not use pasteurized milk, as that 
will not sour, hut become putrid and will 
kill the turkeys. 
Death of Chicks 
When my chickens are six to eight 
weeks old they commence to have a black 
diarrhoea and their combs turn black; 
they droop ai’ound and die in a day or 
two. I lose from 10 to 15 a day. It does 
not make any difference what time I 
hatch them ; they have it just the same. 
I have been breeding chickens about 20 
years, and this started about four years 
ago. I lose as high as 150 out of 500 
chicks. They are not bothered with white 
diarrhoea. I give them sour milk to drink 
until they are about four weeks old, and 
that seeme to do away with that. e. f. 
Thei’e are too many causes of death in 
young chicks to make it possible to say 
which one is operative in your case, judg¬ 
ing only from the symptoms that you 
mention. Where chicks reach the age of 
several weeks without the ordinary symp¬ 
toms of white diarrhoea, an<t tnen com¬ 
mence to di’oop around and die in consid¬ 
erable numbers, coccidosis is always to be 
thought of. This is a disease that is 
caused by picking up an organism in food 
and drink and with di'oppings of other 
diseased birds or vermin that is respon¬ 
sible for the trouble. It is very preval¬ 
ent among young poults, that and black¬ 
head being responsible for the heavy loss¬ 
es usually experienced by would-be turkey 
raisei’s. Iu coccidiosis the intestines be¬ 
come inflamed and the blind guts, or 
caeca, may be found distended by a pasty, 
perhaps yellowish mass. In advanced 
cases yellow spots may be found in the 
liver. The mici’oscope will make the di¬ 
agnosis certain through finding the or¬ 
ganisms in the intestines. When this 
disease becomes prevalent, the rearing of 
chicks must be taken to new ground, free 
from infection, and pains must be taken 
to hatch from disease-free stock, for it is 
by no means certain that the oi’ganisms 
may not be transmitted through infected 
eggs. There is no worth while treatment 
for young chicks affected with coccidosis ; 
when they begin to droop around and re¬ 
fuse to eat and perhaps display a watery 
diarrhoea, sometimes bloody in very acute 
cases, they are in an advanced stage of 
the disease and beyond help. M. b. d. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
lay in;; contest, the following facts are given: 
It is held at Storrs Postoffice in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the 
number of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets 
entered for the next year. 
Week ending June 4, 1924. 
BARRED ROCK8 
Purdue University, Ind. 
W. H. B. Kent. N. Y. 
Ontario Agricultural College, Ont .... 
Lewis Farms, R I. 
Jules F. Francais, L. I. 
Morris E. Bride, Conn. 
Woburn Poultry Farm, Mass. 
Miss Harriet Smith, Mass. 
Edgar Stoughton Conn. 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 
E, C. Foreman, Mich. 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 
J. V. Sheap, Mich... 
The Ferguson Farms. Tenn. 
Jasper E. Guptill, Maine. 
Storrs Exp. Station, Conn. 
The Ramblers Farm, N.Y . 
W. J, Arenholz, N.Y.. 
WHITE ROCKS 
Monstone'Farm, Mass. 
Ameling Farms, Mo. 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 
Davidson Bros., Mass. 
Chas. E, Butler, Conn. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Harold F. Barber, Mass. 
H. B,[Spangler, N, J. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
D. O. Witmer, Mo. 
Obed G, Knight, R. I. 
F. L. Weiland. Ky.. 
Frank P Matteson, R. I. 
Hi-Quality Hennery, Vt. 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 
Woodbridge Orchards, Conn. 
William E. Moran, Conn. 
Albert W. Ruckbee, N.Y. 
H. V. Bierly, Pa. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn. 
H. P. Doming, Conn. 
Scott’s Red Farm. II. 
Abbot M. Smith, Conn. 
Fellows Bros.. Conn. 
E. Newton Searles, Conn. 
Geo. R. Treadwell, Mass . 
Sunset Poultry Farm. Mass. 
John Z. Labelle. Conn. 
I. W. Mitchell, Conn. 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 
Jas. E. Ewing, Vt. 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn.... 
Fernside Farm, Mass. 
Dickinson Bros.. Mass. 
Pinecrest Orchards, Mass. 
Ed. A. Oelkuct, Conn. 
W. A. Dickinson, Mass. 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 
Red Mount Farm, Mass. 
Forest H. Clickner, N. J. 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Roy H. Waite, Md. 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 
S. G. McLean, Conn . 
Leo A. Grouten, Conn. 
E. H. Scott, Conn . 
F. M. Johnson, Maine. 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn.’.... 
Ernest W. Picker, N. J. 
Hanson's Poultry Farm. Ore. 
C. G. Reame, Pa. 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm, I,. I. 
Mountain Meadow Farm, Vt. 
Ernest Craze. N. J. 
Acrebridge Farm, Mass. 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 
St. John’s Poultry Farm, Mo. 
Andrew L. Olir, Conn. 
C. T. Darby, N. J. 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn.... 
R.. C. Dunn, Mass. 
L. W. Steelman, Pa. 
Barlow Leghorn Farm, Pa. 
White Springs Farm, N. Y . 
Meadowedge Farm. L. I. 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter, N. J. 
Rapp’s Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
Featherland Farm, Pa. 
M. J. Quaekenbush, N. J. 
Francis J. Hogan. Mass. 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 
Ruchles Sunnys.ide Farm, N.Y. 
O. C. Chadwick, Vt. 
George B. Ferris, Mich... 
Total 
Week 
Total 
44 
1176 
41 
975 
48 
1152 
33 
746 
50 
764 
43 
1010 
39 
902 
31 
1028 
44 
1206 
30 
1088 
47 
980 
51 
942 
40 
784 
22 
772 
28 
1036 
19 
651 
26 
876 
38 
903 
21 
687 
37 
1200 
25 
824 
37 
878 
17 
741 
23 
936 
37 
1204 
23 
808 
42 
1270 
38 
946 
25 
884 
37 
1089 
33 
906 
16 
710 
13 
741 
46 
1107 
41 
1130 
38 
1076 
50 
1061 
44 
904 
30 
905 
31 
520 
29 
952 
23 
1187 
27 
1044 
34 
1245 
34 
1112 
32 
817 
11 
868 
11 
939 
27 
852 
40 
916 
57 
1643 
48 
973 
66 
1223 
54 
965 
35 
828 
26 
828 
34 
1130 
54 
1255 
30 
1082 
39 
919 
48 
1212 
42 
943 
41 
1348 
41 
1064 
41 
1096 
27 
1082 
49 
1322 
31 
975 
39 
926 
32 
1125 
37 
926 
45 
984 
32 
595 
40 
1244 
40 
1034 
25 
912 
53 
1277 
41 
1154 
34 
952 
54 
1468 
50 
1281 
47 
955 
44 
1548 
35 
729 
28 
752 
34 
1209 
43 
977 
44 
977 
27 
1036 
50 
1178 
30 
997 
32 
1099 
50 
954 
27 
797 
50 
857 
29 
1086 
48 
939 
47 
1188 
36 
659 
46 
1125 
3668 
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