lht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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The Henyard 
List of Poultry Questions 
1. Which is the best buy for one whose 
time is limited, chicks at 25 cents each 
or pullets, 10 weeks old at $1.50? 2. 
Up to what age does a chick require 
heat? 3.What is your opinion of a poul¬ 
try course by mail? Which would you 
recommend? 4. Is there any sure way 
of culling out the poor layers by judging 
the birds as to the time they go into 
their molt? 5. What size flock of 
White Leghorns must a person have to 
make the installation of electric lights 
pay? Not considering the conveniences 
that owner will have. According to 
Storrs instructions I have a number of 
birds that do not pay their board, but 
due to the lack of confidence in myself 
I hesitate to discard them. I understand 
that there is a sure way of telling which 
are worth keeping over by the time they 
go into their molt. S. W. 
Norwich, Conn. 
1. I am unable to say which would 
be the best buy for you, pullets at $1.50 
or chicks at 25c, as so much depends up¬ 
on the number you require and the ad¬ 
vantages and disadvantages of your local 
conditions. If you only want a few I 
should say buy the pullets. If you want 
a large number, say from 150 to 500 or 
more, and can spare tne time to give them 
the necessary care and attention, I 
would say buy the baby chicks from some 
reliable breeder, provided of course, that 
you have suitable houses and equipment 
and room to give the chicks free range 
during the growing season. 
2. There is no definite age at which 
heat can be discontinued for young 
chicks. It all depends upon the season 
of the year and weather conditions, vary¬ 
ing from about four weeks in very warm 
weather to eight weeks or more in cold 
weather, 
3. My opinion of a poultry course by 
mail is that it costs more than the same 
information would cost if procured in 
the form of books, papers and experience. 
4. Judging the laying quality of hens 
by the time and condition of the molt 
has become a generally recognized safe 
practice, although it cannot be called 
absolutely sure, as mistakes will some¬ 
times happen. Therefore the value of 
this method is largely determined by the 
knowledge and skill of the person who 
makes-the selections. 
5. If you do not have public service 
and would have to install a complete 
lighting system I would say that you 
should have from 600 to 1,000 hens to 
make it worth while. c. 8. GREENE. 
Dying Chicks 
I have 207 White Rock chickens two 
months old. I lost a dozen at first; 
drooping wings and white diarrhoea; 
after that trouble with sore eyes. I got 
them over that with peroxide of hydrogen. 
They then went along well until now at 
eight weeks they have been getting 
packed crops and lie around the hen¬ 
house and are losing weight every day. 
Massachusetts. j. k. 
If you are keeping these chicks upon 
old ground or in quarters previously 
used by fowls, there is the possibility, or 
probability, of infection by some of the 
parasites that chicks are apt to acquire. 
Among these, are those causing coccido- 
sis, the symptoms of which are very like 
those of white diarrhoea but which 
causes its greatest mortality at an older 
age, after three weeks. 
The way to avoid this, and other chick 
diseases is to rear the young stock upon 
new ground that has not become infested 
through long use. After the chicks show 
evident signs of disease, there is little or 
nothing to be done for them. The thrifty 
members of your flock may now be re¬ 
moved to new clean quarters, if they have 
previously been kept in probably contam¬ 
inated ones. M. B. D. 
Worms in Turkeys 
Will you advise me what to give tur¬ 
keys for worms? There are little white 
worms in their droppings. T. L. H. 
I doubt if you find it necessary to 
treat your turkeys for these little white 
worms, a moderate number of which do 
little harm. If present in sufficient num¬ 
bers to cause lack of thrift, however, the 
tobacco treatment may be as applicable 
to them as to hens. This is applied by 
steeping for two hours one pound of cut 
tobacco stems in water enough to cover, 
then mixing stems and liquid with about 
half the amount of mash ordinarily fed 
and giving it in the afternoon to fowls 
fasted since the previous day. A few 
hours later, Epsom salts, in the dosage 
of a small teaspoonful to each fowl, may 
be dissolved in a little water and mixed 
with a soft mash fed the birds. If fowls 
are allowed to pick up expelled worms 
or eggs with droppings, the treatment 
will, of course, not be of great value. 
One pound of tobacco stems is suffi¬ 
cient for 100 fowls. M. B. D. 
Wife : “Our rooms look perfectly dis¬ 
graceful and here are visitors coming.” 
Husband: “Let’s throw things around 
a little more and we can tell them we 
are house-cleaning.”—’Boston Transcript. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
layinr 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. AH 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 July 30, 1924: 
Week Total 
BARKED ROCK8 
Purdue University, Ind. 59 1577 
W. H. B. Kent, N. Y. 42 1362 
Ontario Agricultural College, Ont .... 44 1521 
Lewis Farms, R 1. 35 1025 
Jules F. Francais, L. 1. 36 1066 
Morris K. Bride, Conn. 36 1314 
Wobi rn Poultry Farm, Mass. 33 1193 
Miss Harriet .Smith, Mass. 29 1320 
Eugar Stoughton Conn. 39 1558 
Merritt M. Clark. Conn. 24 1367 
E, C. Foreman, Mich. 39 1339 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 41 1319 
J. V. Sheaf), Mich. 30 985 
The Ferguson Farms. Tenn.. 23 949 
Jasper E. Guptill, Maine. 33 1248 
Storrs Exp. Station, Conn. 55 933 
The Ramblers Farm, N.Y . 28 1127 
W. J, Arenholz, N.Y. 39 1196 
WHITE ROCK 8 
Monstone Farm, Mass. 22 871 
Ameling Farms, Mo. 27 1439 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 27 1023 
Davidson Bros., Mass.... . 27 1091 
Olias. E, Butler, Conn. 23 934 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 33 1185 
Harold F. Barber, Mass. 37 1565 
H. B.’Spangler, N, J. . 42 1063 
WHITE WYANDOTTK 8 
D. O. Witmer, Mo. 42 1547 
Obed (4, Knight, R, 1. 37 1218 
F. L. Weiland, Ky. 27 1154 
Frank P Matteson, R. I . 47 1413 
Hi-Quality Hennery, Vt. 34 1148 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 23 851 
Woodbridge Orchards, Conn. 18 867 
William E. Moran, Conn. 32 1404 
Albert W. Buckbee, N. Y. 52 1433 
H. V. Bierly, Pa. 29 1395 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn. 34 1409 
H. P. Doming, Conn. 40 1257 
Scott’s Red Farm, II. 29 1126 
Abbot M. Smith, Conn. 18 704 
Fellows Bros.. Conn. 13 1226 
E. Newton Searles, Conn. 26 1402 
Geo. R. Treadwell, Mass . 35 1322 
Sunset Poultry Farm, Mass. 36 1572 
John Z Labelle, Conn. 32 1397 
I. W. Mitchell, Conn. 29 1071 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 15 1054 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 24 1051 
Jas. E. Ewing, Vt. 30 1056 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm. Conn.... 34 1210 
Fernside Farm, Mass. 44 2042 
Dickinson Bros.. Mass. 51 1289 
Pmecrest Orchards, Mass. 45 1544 
Ed. A. Oelkuct, Conn. 35 1289 
W. A. Dickinson, Mass. 30 1109 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 18 1046 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 48 1421 
Red Mount Farm. Mass.. 52 1660 
Forest H. Clickner, N. J. 20 1328 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. 35 1174 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Roy H. Waite, Md. 52 1580 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn. 49 1304 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 51 1684 
S. G. McLean, Conn . 32 1351 
Leo A. Grouten, Conn. 31 1315 
E. H. Scott, Conn . 20 1244 
F. M. Johnson, Maine. 42 1691 
Hollywood Farm, Wash. 35 1264 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 40 1244 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 29 1374 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 38 1256 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn.•_ 34 1338 
Ernest W. Picker, N. J. 40 910 
Hanson’s Poultry Farm. Ore. 36 1618 
C. G. Reame, Pa. 37 1354 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm, L. 1. 27 1215 
Mountain Meadow Farm, Vt. 41 1616 
Ernest Craze, N. J. 39 1459 
Acrebridge Farm, Mass. 12 1119 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 56 1885 
St. John’s Poultry Farm. Mo. 46 1647 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. 56 1360 
C. T. Darby, N. J..... 54 1949 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn.... 41 1045 
R. C. Dunn, Mass. 29 990 
L. W. Steelman, Pa. 45 1584 
Barlow Leghorn Farm, Pa. 42 1353 
White Springs Farm, N. Y. 27 1225 
Meadowedge Farm, L. 1. 50 1406 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 50 1564 
Eigenraueh & DeWinter, N. J. 45 1335 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 36 1451 
Featherland Farm, Pa. 50 1340 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 38 1078 
Francis J. Hogan. Mass. 50 1233 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass.... .. 33 1335 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 38 1273 
Ruchles Sunnyside Farm, N.Y. 49 1568 
O. C. Chadwick, Vt. 35 1015 
George B. Ferris, Mich. 45 1507 
Total.. 3617 129838 
PULLETS 
Porter's Certified White Leghorns 
Thousands of excellent April hitched pullets now 
ready for delivery. Stock sold on a safe delivery, en¬ 
tire satisfaction, money back guarantee. Free booklet. 
Come and see one of the best modern plants, which is 
located on a hundred acre fruit farm. Free range. 
Cockerels and breeding stock. Distributor for Carboli- 
neum the best mite destroyer and preventive known. 
Only one application a year required. $1.75 a gal. 
$1.40 a gal. in 5 gallon cans. 
FARLEY PORTER Box W SOIHJ8, N. Y. 
PULLETS 
Immediate Delivery 
10 to 12-week old Pullets. Ready to lay 
Pullets. Breeding Cockerels from high 
producing matings. 
WENE FARMS. Vineland, N. J. 
COCKERELS 
Pure Hollywood strain. We purchased the pens that 
won the Storrs Egg Laying Contest Season of 1921-22, 
also 1922-23. Highest record pens ever entered at Storrs 
Contest, mated these to the highest record best male 
birds the Hollywood Farms had to offer from 304 312 and 
328 egg dams. We have cockerels hatched in Jan., Feb., 
Mar. and April, range raised, well-grown, price, $7.60, 
SI 0.00 and $4 5.00 each, according to selection and 
egg record of dam. Full pedigree furnished. Also have 
a few good breeding hens. Must please or money back. 
FIVE POINT LEGHORN FARM, MT. EPHRAIM, N. J. 
^ BABY CHICKS 
PerIOO Per 500 
Assorted Chicks.. .. $tS.50 $80.00 
8. C. White Leghorns. 7.00 82.50 
Barred Rocks. 8.50 40.00 
Buff Rocks. 9.50 45.00 
R. I. Reds. 9.50 '45.00 
8 L. Wyandottes a limited amount @ 12c each. 100?S 
safe arrival guaranteed, Parcel post paid. 
THE RICHFIELD HATCHERY Box 166 Richfield, Pa. 
CHICK PRICES SMASHED 
4 June, July, Aug. and Sept. $7 per 100 and up. 
' Hogan tested. White, Brown and Black Leghorns, 
100 —$8 ; Black Minorcas, Anconas, 100— $10 ; 
Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, 100—$11. lteds, 
100— $12. Broilers, 100—$7. 100* live delivery 
■ guaranteed. We ship anywhere by Parcel Post. 
Free Catalog. Reference: Ickesburg State Bank. 
Johnson's Hatchery Box 40 Ickesburg, Pa. 
CHICKS C. O. D. 
25 50 100 
S. C. R. I. Reds.*3.35 * 6.00 *1 1.00 
Barred Rocks. 3.00 5.50 10.00 
S. G. W. Leghorns.... 3.50 4.50 8.00 
100* Del. Guar. C. M. LflUVEH, Box 73, McAlisterville. Pa. 
HUSKY CHICKS that GROW 
and Sept. Deliveries. We are breeders of Quality Chicks. 
Once vou buy, again you will buy. We do not Bliip scrubs. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8c ; 300, $22 ; 500, $37. Barred Rocks, 
11c; 300, $30; 500, $53. Parks’ B. Rock Pullets, 10 to 
12 weeks, $1.00; 14 weeks $1.26. Express Collect Cash 
With all orderB. WILSON’S POULTRY FARM, Flemluglon, N. J. 
S.O.W. LEGHORNS 
About 1,000 farm range pullets, weighing from 1 to 2 lbs.; 
price 80c per lb. (5c per oz.), in lots of 26 or more. 
YATES FARMS - Orchard Park, N. Y. 
White Leghorn and Barred Rock Pullets ?ng° stock" 
This season’s pens. WALTER SUHEDLER, West Coxsackie, N. Y. 
WYCKOFF LEGHORNS 
Pullets, Cockerels and Yearling: Hens of quality at 
attractive prices. RJKIY-W-FAKM, Wolcott, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 80 ; B. P. Rocks, 9 o ; R. I. 
lteds, lOo; Mixed, 7e. Order from adv. 
VALLEY VIEW HATCHERY 
C. I. BENNER Box S3 Richfield, Pa. 
BABY 
CHICKS 
Mixed.$7 per 100 
S. C. W. Leghorns ... 8 per 100 
Barred Rocks. 9 per 100 
Reds .’..10 per 100 
Special prices on 500 lots, 100% live delivery 
guaranteed. Catalog free. 
C. P. LEISTER. McAlisterville, Pa 
ATiT 1 ClxiclkB Wow Go 
" Parks’ ” Bar Rock, “ Martin’s ” W. Wyandotte. 
Direct strains, None better. Mixed, 7c. 2-week- 
olds, ® 30c. Send cash order. Prompt del. Sat. 
guarunt'd. Bank. lief. S. W. KLINE, Middle Creek, Pa. 
TTJ^iT^O S. C. W. and Brown Leghorns, 
I I — I I f K S 7e; Barred Rocks, 9c; Reds, 
ioc, and Mixed, 7c each. 100# 
Guaranteed. Order from this adv. or write for circ. 
CHERRY HILL HATCHERY WM. NACE. Prop. 
McAlisterville, Pa 
CHICKS?/, 
HEALTHY 
FREE-RANGE STOCK 
S. C. Buff and W. Leg., $ 8 —100. Barred Rocks, 
*10—100. R. I. Reds, *10—100. White Rocks, 
*12—100. Lite Mixt, *7—100. Hevy Mixt, *8 
—100. Sat. guar.or money refunded. Circ. free. 
JACOB NIEMOND, McAlisterville, Pa. Bax 2 
CJ HICKS From Heavy-Laying Flocks 
Barred Rocks, 9c ; Reds, 9c and Mixed, 7c- 100* safe 
delivery. B. W. AMEY Cocolamus, Pa. 
600 M * R M CH *r ,L White LeghomPullets, Cockerels 
Same breeding as pen i5 leading New York State contest* 
Also 300 Marcb-April Rock Pullets, Cockerels. 
Jules F. Francais Westhampton Beach, L. I. N.Y. 
EAD Y TO LAY—$2 EACH 
PULLETS Nearly ready, SI.75, May hatch, 
H. L. GASK1LL 
$1.50 each. Ail 
horn, farm raised. 
R. 8 
S. C. W. Leg- 
Lockport, N. V. 
FOR 
SALE 
1,500 cTmI WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
Hatched April 3 and 28th. Free Range and no culls. 
CLEAR VIE W POULTRY FARM, Cooperstown, N. Y. 
Sale 500 .VtcVei S. G. White Leghorn Pullets S2 U 
veloped. *2.50 each. CHET0LA POULTRY FARM, Rock Creek, Ohio 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets “h n e d a A v p y * 1 * * * S. * * !???& 
Raised on free range. Dunrobin Farm, Katoiitown, N. J. 
Early Hatched White Leghorn 6t n a d teVsted°tto“k°iS: 
spection Invited. Hall Brothers Wallingford, Conn. 
White Wvanrlnltec ?;°° 0 , Cocks > Hens,Cockerels, Pullets. 
If IIllC II ydilUUllco Catalogue. Special price on Yearl¬ 
ing Hens, B0W0EN, Whits Wyandotte Specialist, Mansfield. Ohio 
THIS MEANS $$$ TO YOU 
PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Choice Breeders PRICE. Young Stock 
X matured Price. 16 page Stock Clrcu- 
ar Free. Large 80-page Catalog 25o. 
J. W. PARKS, Box Y, Altoona, Pa 
PARKS’ Barred Rocks 
Owen Farm's Reds, Martin's White Wyandottes. 
Yearling pullets, *3.50 each; pullets, 3 months, 
*3; 4 mouths, *3.35, 
RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Box 165, Riverdale. N. J. 
R. I. Reds, White Wyan- 
White Leghorn 
5-mos.-old,$2.50each; 4-mos.-old, $2.25each. Every 
bird to please you or you may ship back at once. 
T. R. THOMAS The Maples Bristol, Vermont 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES and ) SINGLE 
RHODE ISLAND RE DSjCOMB 
Trap-nested stock. Bred for Winter eggs. March 
and April pullets, *3 each. A few yearling .hens, 
*3 each. Cockerels, *3.50 to *5. 
O. 6. L. LEWIS ... Paoll, Pa. 
R I D„J C Cocks, Hens, Cockerels, Pullets. Fine quality 
.1. IVcUb Cheap. S. BOWDEN, Box 195, Mansliold, O 
R I H Pullote April hatch. $1.25 and $1,541. 
. I. n. lUlldlb A . CHUBB Randolph, N.Y. 
CHOICE COCKERELS 
March hatched, from imported Barron stock, with 
pedigrees of 272-314 eggs. Extra large, farm range grown 
birds from pure white egg stock. Price now $2.50 
each; 10 or more $2 each. R. T. EWING, Atlantic, Pa. 
The SCHLEIN’S Blue Ribbon Poultry 
Farm Inc of CENTER MORICHES,' L. I. 
If arm, IIIC., Offers for snle 
N. Y. 
500 April 1st Hatched PULLETS @. #3.00 each 
300 " 15th " “ 4*. 1.75 “ 
350 ” 25th “ “ @. 1.50 “ 
These birds are free-range stock. The offspring of 
a trapnested and heavy laying Tom Barron and 
Wyckoff strain. Must sacrifice these birds as we are 
overstocked. 
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EPSOM SALTS FOR POULTRY AND CATTLE 
SODIUM FLUORID FOR POULTRY LICE 
ASPHALT ROOF PAINT AND CEMENT 
DISINFECTANTS INSECTICIDES 
Any chemical used onthefarm in whatever quantity 
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S5 per 12 eggs, Postpaid. Prompt shipment. Fer¬ 
tility guaranteed. H. A. Souder, Seller sville. Pa. 
Single Comb Pure Blooded White Leghorn Pullets 
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