1200 
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September 11924 
Lamps and Lanterns 
4, The Sunshine of the Night'* 
1. Make and Burn Their Own Gas From 
Common Motor Gasoline. 
2. Give 800 Candle Power of Brilliant Pure 
White Light. No Glare—No Flicker. 
3 More Light than 20 Old Style Oil Lamps 
or Lanterns. 
4. LightWithCommonMatches—NoTorch 
Needed. 
5. No Wicks to Trim or Chimneys to Wash. 
6. Can’t Spill or Explode Even If Tipped 
Over. Can’t Be Filled While 
Lighted. 
7. Cost to Use Less Than 15 
Cents a Week. 
8. Solidly Built of Heavily 
Nickeled Brass. Will last 
a Life Time. 
9. Lamp 13 Handsomely 
Designed — Equipped 
With Universal Shade 
Holder. 
10 Lantern has Mica Globe 
With Reflector—Can’t 
Blow Out In AnyWind. 
Rain-proof,Bug-proof. 
11. Sold by 30,000 Deal¬ 
ers. If yours can’t sup¬ 
ply you write nearest 
factory branch, Dept 
R. Y .-21 K. 
The Coleman 
Lamp Company 
Wichita, Kansas 
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Canadian Factory: Toronto 
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Saves a Man and Team 
Operated 
by the man 
en the load. 
Operated with ™ 
gasoline 
engine. 
Drum holds 
240 ft. ot rope. 
Ireland Hay Hoist 
A powerful machine that saves time and labor in 
storing hay and in other hoisting. Used in con¬ 
nection with harpoon fork or sling. Attach it to 
yourownengine. Safe and easy to operate. Instant 
control. Pulley to suit your engine. Guaranteed 
as represented. Write for circular and prices. 
IRELAND MACHINE ft FOUNDRY CO., Inc. 
H State Street, Norwich, New York. 
We Manufacture 
Saw and Shingle Mllla.Wood and Drag Saw Machinal 
Collapsible Sanitary Nests 
SURE TRIP TRAPS— 3 for SI, Postpaid. FREE Catalog of 
the best system of Trapping, Nesting and Record mg. 
CHAS. A. PARFREY Box 237 Richland Center, Wls. 
WHITE pm I rTC 
LEGHORN i U JLiLiJLi 1 kJ 
15 weeks to 5 mos. old 
Healthy, well-developed, from Certified Cock¬ 
erels and Selected Hens, stock certified three 
years. Free range, milk-fed birds. Inspection 
welcomed. 81.25 to 81.75, according to 
age and development. Immediate delivery. 
Crating cost allowed if taken at farm. 
SAKDANONAH FARM, Windham, N. Y. 
YEARLING HENS and PULLETS 
S C. WHITE LEGHORN 
Price, $1 each. High quality stock of the best laying 
strains. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for circular. 
Harry F. Palmer Middleport. N.Y. 
PULLETS FOR SALE 
Bred from 250-egg trapnested pedigreed stock 
Rhode Island Red or Barred Plymouth Rocks. April 
hatch, 82 each. These pullets will prove layers 
and not boarders. Will ship any amount from 1 to 
100, C. O. D. on approval. 
Dr. P. F. WALLINGFORD Box 51 Waltham. Mass, 
S. C. Reds, 10c. B. P. 
Hocks, 9c. S. C W. Leg¬ 
horns. 8c., and Mixed chicks, 
?e. These chicks are all from 
free range stock. Safe deliv¬ 
ery and satisfaction guaranteed. Booklet free. C. O. D. 
W. A. LAUVER McAlisterville, Pa. 
Pullets and Cockerels 
Wyckoff, S. C. W. Leghorns. Trap-nested free range 
stock. If not satisfactory, return them. Write for Prices. 
SUNNYBR00K POULTRY FARM Eliiaville. N. Y. 
KENT BARRED ROCKS 
Contest records-Storrs 270, Michigan 264, Vineland 
251, Breeding liens, cocks, cockerels. Catalogue. 
W. H. 11. KENT Cazenovia, New York 
Wanted-Z?/ac &Minorca PULLETS 
Write, stating price, Stuart Granite Springs, N. Y. 
PULLETS 
Bonnis Brook Farm 
EARLY HATCHER, $2.50 each 
W. Leghorn, B. Rock, W. Wyandotte 
Whllo Crook, New York 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
• Large, vigorous pullets, $2 each. NEIL MORTON, Groton, N.Y. 
Edmond’s Poultry Account Book 
Price $1. For sale by The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
The Henyard 
Making Tender Chicken 
Meat 
I saw on page 1121 a question by .T. 
G. M., Millneek, N. Y.,regarding confin¬ 
ing broilers in order to make the meat 
tender. I have raised Barred Plymouth 
Rocks for 25 years, selling broilers and 
fryers to both local customers and to com¬ 
mission merchants in the neighboring 
city. It has been a matter of pride with 
me to establish a reputation for especially 
tender meat, and I have had the satisfac¬ 
tion of having customers call upon me re¬ 
peatedly in the Spring for “more of those 
plump, tender fryers like we got here be¬ 
fore.” My chickens run at large all the 
time except when the ground is cold and 
covered with snow. But a few rules 1 
keep to every year, and attribute my suc¬ 
cess to that. 
1. I keep dry feed by the young chick¬ 
ens from the day they come off the nest 
till they go to the customer; chick feed, 
pinhead oats, wheat and fine cracked corn 
when they are very small; not all of 
these, but whatever is cheapest and most 
easily obtained. When they get to a 
couple of pounds, corn on the cob is where 
they can get it at all times. 
2. I keep the grown chickens out of the 
run for the young chickens at all times. 
Tuberculosis, or consumption, is one of 
them and coccidiosis another very com¬ 
mon one. This latter disease usually shows 
itself after the chicks have reached an 
age of several weeks and may continue 
to cause losses indefinitely. It is caused 
by an organism picked up with food and 
drink on the ground that has become in¬ 
fected by long use for poultry keeping, 
and is to be avoided by changing the loca¬ 
tion of quarters used in chick rearing. 
There is no effective remedy after the 
chicks show evidence of the disease. 
M. B. D. 
Hens With Lockjaw 
Noticing a hen whose comb seemed to 
he pale, I found that she was very eager 
to eat and always picking and busy, but 
she was unable to open her hill. Upon 
examination I found 'that the upper beak 
had become longer then the lower and 
was down over the lower, as if she had 
bent it. I broke off the obstruction and 
then 'found that' her jaws would not 
open. I pried them open about a half 
inch she squealed as if it were painful. I 
inserted some bread soaked in hen grease 
which she eagerly tried to swallow and 
did so after some difficulty. This morning 
her jaws were closed again although she 
Young chickens which have to grab and 
run with every bite they eat will not be 
fat and tender. They like to come in a 
few at a time and eat in quiet, sit around 
in a shady spot where they will not be 
molested for a while, and then go out for 
a run after bugs and seeds. Moreover, I 
do not let the oldest and the youngest 
chicks scramble together for their feed. 
There is a coop of close wire into which 
the little fellows can dodge and eat in 
peace. Running at large does not neces¬ 
sarily make tough meat, but having to 
run their legs off to get a decent meal 
and having to keep on running to escape 
the blows of older chickens will make 
tough meat, no matter how much feed is 
given. 
3. I think the larger breeds, which are 
also the quieter and less inclined to wan¬ 
der, wiill make the most tender meat. 
Plymouth Rocks will forage quite satis¬ 
factorily. but are not inveterate wander¬ 
ers, as the Leghorns and other lighter 
breeds. 
Confining chickens to fatten does not 
always produce the desired results. 
Chickens confined to small space will fight 
and pick at each other and fret unless 
kept so well fed that they are sleepy and 
lazy. I have found it unwise to keep 
young chickens confined for fattening 
ionger than a week or 10 days at a time. 
In hot weather it is necessary to make 
the fattening quarters as comfortable and 
clean as possible, for lice breed fast, and 
a couple of sick chickens will lose you 
more than the others take on in extra 
weight. OHIO READER. 
Birds “Going Light” 
Will you tell me what ails my chicks? 
I have heard of “going light” among 
fowls. Is that what ails mine, is it the 
same as “consumption”? My chicks were 
about four or six weeks old when I 
bought them. They did well for quite 
a while, lost none, for about six or eight 
weeks. Their combs would turn pale, 
they eat very little at times; other times 
would eat as long as they could see. but 
all went to nothing: so light they would 
fall over, and if I helped them up they 
would travel again for a while. I have 
lost quite a few : all act the same way. 
We feed scratch feed. mash, and have grit 
and charcoal all the time before them; 
keep coops clean, use lime, kerosene and 
disinfectant. Is there any cure beside the 
ax? A. M. T. 
Perkasie, Pa. 
There are several diseases popularly 
known as “going light” because of the 
wasting away which accompanies them. 
eagerly tried to eat and I think succeeded 
a littie. I pried her jaws open again 
with less difficulty and the same condition 
existed. Please advise what the difficul¬ 
ty is and what I can do to remedy it and 
its cause. The hen seems very well an l 
active although of eouse has no crop. 
Kingston, N. J. A. p. E. 
This seems to be a true case of lock 
jaw, ‘but I am at a loss to account for it. 
There is evidently some trouble with 
either the joints or muscles concerned in 
the opening of the beak and an examina¬ 
tion of these joints, after killing the bird 
and opening them, might reveal the 
source of the trouble. Possibly you may 
find the chalky deposits found in gout of 
leg joints. As the hen cannot get enough 
food to satisify hunger, the most merci¬ 
ful disposition of the case would be to 
kill her. M. b. d. 
Chickens With Sore Heads 
What can I do for sore-headed chick¬ 
ens, J, C. 
Wauchula, Fla. 
“Sore-heaad” in chickens usually refers 
to chiekenpox, a contagious disease that is 
spread by contact, and is more prevalent 
and serious in the South than in the 
North. Chiekenpox, bird diphtheria and 
roup are believed by some investigators 
to be manifestations of the same dis¬ 
ease caused by the same organisms, and 
differing chiefly in that they attack differ- 
ene parts of the birds’ body. Chiekenpox 
appears as scabs upon the external sur¬ 
face of the head and body, while diph¬ 
theria and roup attack the membranes 
lining 'the mouth and eye cavities and 
those connecting with these. M. B. D. 
Sour Evaporated Milk for 
Feeding 
Would you advise me regarding the 
feeding qualities of sour evaporated milk, 
same to be used in feeding chicks, hens 
and young pigs? What feeds would you 
recommend using in conjunction with this 
sour milk to obtain the best results? This 
sour evaporated milk is put up in pint 
cans, and is known as leakers and swells. 
It is obtainable at a local condensery. for 
5 cents per dozen pint cans; perhaps 
cheaper in quantities. J. J. B. 
Potter Co., Pa. 
Soured evaporated milk is a product 
with which I am not acquainted, but if it 
is merely sour milk, changed by the lactic 
acid fermentation common to the process 
when it occurs naturally, I see no reason 
why it should not be used in stock feeding 
as any other sour milk would be; iu the 
case of poultry given as a drink and, if 
desired, as wetting for mash. Sour milk 
is an excellent food for poultry and pigs, 
fed with the grains commonly used. 
Where it is fed to poultry in considerable 
quantities, part or all of the meat in the 
ration may be omitted. 
The manufacturers of this condensed 
milk can doubtless tell you whether there 
is any form of deterioration other than 
lactic acid souring in the “leakers and 
swells” that would make it unfit for ani¬ 
mal food. Milk may “rot” from the ac¬ 
tion of certain bacteria after souring has 
been prevented by sterilizing, and so be¬ 
come unfit for .food, but if such changes 
have taken place iu the product the man¬ 
ufacturers must be aware of it, and it 
does not seem likely that they would in¬ 
cur the responsibility of selling it for 
feeding purposes under such circum¬ 
stances. M. B. D. 
Starting in the Poultry 
Business 
I am considering going into the poul¬ 
try business. Can 1,000 hens be kept- 
successfully in a single flock? Would a 
house built long north and south with 
windows in east and west sides, and a 
roosting room in the north end. be prac¬ 
tical? On page 1042 I notice C. V. Gar¬ 
rison says lie never lets hens out of build¬ 
ing. Does he mean during Winter, or for 
the whole year? If it is practical to keep 
them ip all the time I would like to do so, 
as I expect to do some gardening in con¬ 
nection, and it would save land and also 
help to keep the fertilizer where I could 
use it. I have kept hens more or less for 
30 years, and built several henhouse«, 
but have not had any experience with 
very large flocks. G. w. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Y r ee, 1,000 or more hens are often kept 
in a single flock, though where numbers 
are increased difficulties and dangers mul¬ 
tiply. It requires far more skill and ex¬ 
perience to successfully manage a flock 
of 1,000.than one of 100. 
A building extending in a north and 
soutli direction is practical, though one 
that can have a greater exposure to the 
south or southeast is to be preferred. This 
give« better opportunity for the admission 
of sunlight and, in most places, the ex¬ 
clusion of storms. 
Mr. Garrison probably confines his 
hens during the entire year. This is prac¬ 
tical where sufficient care is taken and 
there is some range for raising young 
stock. You will note that he does not at¬ 
tempt to hatch from those confined birds, 
and the matter of vigorous fertility does 
not disturb him. m. b. d. 
Will Raise More Guineas 
Recent market conditions indicate that 
the guinea will prove to be a source of 
considerable profit in the very near fu¬ 
ture to the poultryman and farmer who 
rases the birds on a larger scale than 
heretofore. In the Middle West and 
South the fowls have been kept on the 
average farm as a means of protection 
against hawks and other birds of prey 
accustomed to seize the other birds of 
the chicken yard. The guinea rooster, 
with his screeching challenge, has ever 
proven a capable sentinel in announcing 
the approach of danger from the air to 
the domestic fowls. The average flock of 
guineas on Middle AVest and Southern 
farms rarely numbers more than 25 birds 
at any one time. The farmers in these 
sections of the country are beginning to 
encourage guinea production, since there 
is an increased Eastern demand for the 
birds as substitutes for wild game. The 
flesh of the guinea has a decidedly game 
flavor, and its coloration is dark and sim¬ 
ilar to that of other game birds. 
The raising of guineas as a rule must 
be left to the birds themselves. An at¬ 
tempt at artificial incubation or the use 
of other domestic fowls obtains poor re¬ 
sults. The young guineas when hatched 
are like quail in their inclinations, and 
stick to their inherited wild tendencies. 
The average guinea hen will lay from 20 
to 30 eggs before she becomes broody. 
If the eggs are removed from her nest 
when she reaches the brooding stage, she 
will resume laying, and if this method is 
continued she will lay as many as 100 
eggs in a season. Arthur thatcher. 
Illinois. 
Too Fattening Foods 
My hens are very fat. I feed them 
about all they will eat of corn and barley. 
Would you advise to reduce the feed and 
would it cut egg production? D. a. 
New Jersey. 
Hens that are fed all that they will 
eat of corn and barley can hardly help 
being very fat. though not necessarily 
too fat to lay well. It would be better 
to add some of the less fattening foods 
to the ration and reduce the amount of 
the whole grain. Any of the standard 
formulas for laying mashes may well be 
used, giving the fowls part of their ra¬ 
tion in one of these, preferably fed dry. 
This should increase egg production. 
M. B. D. 
