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Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PANACEA 
starts both pullets and 
moulted hens to laying 
Are your moulted hens back on 
the egg job? 
Are your pullets laying? 
Is their feed going to flesh or 
eggs—which ? 
What you want is to start the 
feed the egg way. 
Do it with Dr. Hess Poultry 
Pan-a-ce-a. 
Pan-a-ce-a is a tonic that puts 
the dormant egg organs to work. 
That’s when^you get the eggs. 
Add Pan-a-ce-a to the ration 
once a day and your hens will give 
a good account of themselves in 
the egg basket. 
Costs Little to Use Pan-a-ce-a 
The price of just one egg pays 
for all the Pan-a-ce-a a hen will 
eat in six months. 
There’s a right-size package for 
every flock. 
100 hens the 12-lb. pkg. 
60 hens the S-lb. pkg. 
200 hens the 25-lb. pail 
500 hens the 100-lb. drum 
JFor 25 hens there is a smaller package 
REMEMBER —When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our 
responsibility does not end until you are satisfied that 
your investment is a profitable one. Otherwise, return the 
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DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc., Ashland, Ohio 
Dr.Hess Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice 
Choice Cockerels 
from directly imported Barron Strain. S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORNS, with pedicrees of 272-314. Barge, husky, 
farm range grown birds. March hatched, #* to 
each. 10 first choice, #30. Shipped on Approval. 
R. T. EWING - Atlantic, Pa. 
CHICKS 
15c. Rocks and Wyandottes. 
Mixed, 12c; Hens, #3.50. 
S. W. KLINE Middlecreek, Pa. 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS 
Selling my entire flock, both Exhibition and Utility 
stock. State your wantsand get my price before you buy 
elsewhere. CedarHill PoultryFarm.NorthO.riniiot.wn.N.T. 
CHICKS, 12c 
s. AV. KLINE 
Rocks or Wyandottes. 
Mixed, l«c; Hens, «8.50. 
IHiiitllecreek, Pa. 
White Wyandottes Sj00 ° - Cocks ’ ? ens '. c .°® k ® rel8 - 
ing Hens, BOWOEN, 
Catalogue. Special price on Yearl. 
While Wyandotte Specialist, Mansfield, Ohio 
PULLETS FOR SALE 
Bred from 250-egg trapnested pedigreed stock. 
Rhode Island Red or Barred Plymouth Rocks, Mar. 
hatch, #3.50; April hatch, #3 each. These pul¬ 
lets 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. 
saVe^ot Barred Rock Pullets 
Wonderful values at reduced prices. FIRE destroyed 
our laying house, forcing us to sell our entire year s 
bargain°prfces*f tS PIONEER C ORCHARDS. Hancock, Maryland 
ROSE AND SINGLE COMB REDS 
Big, liusky, farm raised cockerels and pullets bred for 
vigor, large size, dark red color and heavy laying. Re¬ 
duced prices to November 1st. Catalog free. 
RALPH KNICKERBOCKER R. 36 Pine Plains, N.Y. 
For Sale-175 R. I. Reds-Pullets range. 
E. F. Peacock It- F. D. 4 Mlddlobury, Vermont 
White Leghorn and Barred Rock Pullets 
This season’s pens, WALTER SCHEDLER, West Coxsxckie, H. If. 
If yon keep only ten or a 
dozen liens, there will be 
Satisfaction and Profit in 
knowing just how the 
account stands. This Liook 
will tell the whole story. 
The account may be begun 
at any time, and the balance 
struck at any time. Simple 
and Practical. 
For sale by 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York 
EDMONDS’ 
POULTRY 
ACCOUNT 
BOOK 
Price, $1.00 
To Canada. $1.25 
T IGHT your hen house a lew hours 
L eac h night and morning with the 
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House Lantern. More feeding hours 
increase egg production. 
f oleman 
Poultr y l antern 
Extra Large fount holds '8 
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More light than 20 old style oil 
lanterns. Makes and burns Its 
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WICHITA PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 
_ LOS ANGELES TORONTO, CANADA 
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October 11. 1924 
New York State Egg-laying 
Contest 
This contest is conducted at the New York 
State Institute of Applied Agriculture, Farming- 
dale, L. I. Each pen contains 10 birds. 
First column of figures represents total for 
week; last column, total to September 24, 1924: 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
Meadowedge Fm, N. Y. 
Lakes’ Pltry Fm, N. Y.. 
H. F. Hendrickson, N. Y. ... 
Hill View' Fm, N. Y. 
Eusner’s Pltry Fm, N. Y. ... 
Hill Top Fm, N. Y. 
D. A. Williams, N. Y. 
Otto L. Flad, N. Y. 
New & Pockman, N. Y. 
C. A. Sever, N. Y. 
Bellmore Pltry Fm, N T . Y. .. 
Bellmore Pltry Fm, N. Y. 
G. W. Stoll, N. Y.. 
Mankasset I’m, N. Y. 
Kirkup’s Pltry Fm, N. Y. .. 
Ivirkup’s Pltry Pm, N. Y. .. 
Deerfield Fms, N. Y. 
E. E. Champlin, N. Y. 
Homstead Fm, N. Y. 
Wellward Fm, N. Y. 
A. It. Scott, N. J. 
E. & D. Chicken Fm. N. Y. 
Pussy Willow' Egg Fm, N. Y 
Fluhrer Fm, N. Y. 
Paul H. Leniker, Conn. 28 
Tanglewold Fm, N. Y. 24 
John Boskler, N. Y. 31 
Benjamin Brower, N. Y. 12 
White Springs Fm, N. Y. 27 
Egner’s Pltry Fm, N. Y. 
Stewart L. Purdie, N. Y. 
Herbert A. Weikert, N. Y 
The Mungrasteesee, Pa. . 
The Mungrasteesee, Pa. . 
C. L. Placeus, Pa. 
F. J. Loveland, N. Y. . .. 
Hollywood Pltry Fm, Wash. 50 
Homeland Fm, N. Y. 21 
Geo. B. Ferris, Mieli. 49 
30 
O 
41 
34 
28 
37 
23 
16 
21 
29 
10 
26 
35 
31 
30 
30 
25 
23 
34 
42 
41 
34 
29 
28 
31 
33 
33 
28 
28 
24 
17 
1699 
997 
1651 
1(>47 
1716 
1767 
1407 
1320 
1569 
1(523 
908 
1463 
1505 
1799 
1(575 
1645 
1432 
1242 
1600 
1720 
1898 
1770 
1730 
1423 
1826 
1338 
1703 
1256 
1540 
1439 
1203 
1483 
1604 
1709 
1872 
1516 
1813 
1292 
1970 
1419 
1556 
1848 
1730 
1530 
1996 
1367 
1518 
1199 
1526 
1630 
1605 
1438 
1496 
1487 
1601 
1633 
they become very ragged, and it becomes 
hard for them to eat. The appetite keeps 
good and the ones that were killed were 
normal internally, as near as we could 
tell. Will you advise wdiat to do and, if 
possible, what this may 'be? c. L. M. 
I do not know what this disease is, un¬ 
less it is chiekenpox in a very severe 
form. This disease ordinarily shows the 
scab as you describe, though usually upon 
the head and face first, and does not, ex¬ 
cept in severe cases, invade the feathered 
portions of the bird’s body. Such scabs 
may, in very severe cases, however, spread 
to the neck and other parts of the fowl’s 
body and coalesce, forming large areas of 
diseased tissue. In any event, all affected 
•birds should be very promptly removed 
from the flock and isolated until full re¬ 
covery, or death. The utensils used should 
then be cleaned with boiling water, and 
the quarters cleaned up from soiled litter 
and droppings and, if possible, white¬ 
washed. As such diseases are very con¬ 
tagious and are spread by contact and by 
contaminated food or soiled utensils, the 
method of preventing spread is obviously 
quarantine and disinfection. The more 
thoroughly you can carry these measures 
out the safer the other members of the 
flock will be. I know of no medicine that 
can be given internally that will be of 
benefit, though the application of such 
germicidal remedies as formaldehyde oint¬ 
ment or tincture of iodine to the scabs 
may destroy the organism responsible for 
the trouble. m. b. d. 
28 
15 
19 
32 
33 
Edgar Briggs, N. Y. ...... 29 
LeFevre & Petersen, N. Y. 3- 
P. D. Zimmerman, Pa... 29 
Downs Grove Fm, N. Y.. 33 
Half Hollows Fm, N. Y. 22 
Jules F. Francals, N. Y. 31 
John Bullen, N. Y. 34 
Melville Pltry Fm, N. Y. 34 
Mnttituck W. L. Pm. N. Y. 22 
Lone Oak Pltry Fm, N. Y. 26 
Lone Oak Pltry Fm, N. Y. 39 
Kehoe-Smith, N. Y. 27 
Rara Avis Fm, N. Y. 12 
Cross Roads Fm, N. Y.• ••■ 34 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Htcksville, 
N. Y.. 11 
John J. Byrne, N. Y. 3- 
Robert R. Decormier, N. Y. 2a 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Moriches, 
N. Y. 27 1574 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Rocky 
Point, N. Y. 20 123*. 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Hauppauge 
N. Y. 
Oak Hill Fm, N. Y. 
R, C. W. Leghorns 
Ulster Pltry Fm, N. Y. 
Valley Fm, N. Y.-. 
S. C. R. I. Reds 
Downs Grove Fm, N. Y.». 
C. O. Hayden, Conn. 15 
W E. Whitson. N. Y. 19 
J. E. Everitt. N. Y. 19 
West Neck Fm, N. Y. 49 
Robert Seamon, N. Y. 22 
Andrexv Ibsen, Conn. 18 
Deer Brook Pltry Fm, N. H. 38 
B, Andalusians 
George W. Allen, N. Y. 
George W. Allen, N. Y. 
S. C. B. Minorcas 
Yama Pms, N. Y. 
The Holmstead Fm, N. Y. 
S. C. R. I. Whites 
0. G. L. Lewis, Pa. 47 1509 
White Wyandottes 
Member L. J. Pltry Assn, Medford, 
N. Y. 
Dr. Elw'ood A. Curtis, N. Y. 
Lakeside Fm, N. Y. 
Wal-Ruth Pltry Fm, N. Y. 
Harvey V. Byerl.v, Pa. 
W. Plymouth Rooks 
Walter Jennings, N. Y. 
Walter Jennings. N. Y. 
Lebert’s Pltry F'm, N. Y. 
Lebert’s Pltry Fm, N. Y. 
Ellen Day Ranken, N. Y. 
Davidson Bros., Mass. 23 
B. Plymouth Rocks 
The Paddocks, N. Y. 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Moriches, 
N. Y. 
Walter B. Pike, N. Y. 
Member L. I. Pltry Assn, Roslyn, 
N. Y. 25 
Fire Place Fm, N. Y. 36 
Jules F. Francals. N. Y. 28 
Mabel L. Nute, N. Y. 32 
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10 
28 
31 
12 
1438 
1278 
1356 
1308 
1474 
1224 
1148 
1549 
1814 
1321 
825 
1443 
1191 
1220 
1480 
1052 
30 
13 
40 
36 
36 
4 
15 
29 
30 
24 
1497 
745 
1480 
1514 
1571 
1001 
1180 
1626 
1539 
1608 
1469 
Poisoned Hens 
I am having trouble with my chickens, 
have lost 28 so far, from what I think 
a poison. I have examined the intes¬ 
tines and crop of the fowls, and find that 
in the crop there is a very strong odor 
of sulphur, much the same as .wet 
matches would smell. Also when I stired 
the contents around a bright blue light 
would appear and a vapor or gas would 
arise and I could smell the odor of sul¬ 
phur, or some sort of an acid. They seem 
to drink very much and the bowels are 
very loose and watery. They die in the 
course of five hours, the heart turns very 
black or a dark purple. The droppings 
are a greenish color. There is no signs 
of the passages or other parts of the 
body that look as if they were out of 
order. It all seems to be in the crop. I 
have been feeding the bens scratch feed 
of a high grade, with a few table scraps, 
fresh water every day, and weeds that I 
pull from the garden. These hens are 
enclosed all the time, with a new coop 
and surroundings are kept clean. This 
has happened once before in the winter, 
and I lost 15 in two days. Could there 
be in the grain that I am feeding any¬ 
thing that would form an acid, or is it 
possible that I am not feeding them just 
the right things. What compound are 
matches made of and are they of a poi¬ 
sonous mixture? What would cause the 
blue light to appear when I stired the 
contents of the crop around ? I- R. 
You give a very excellent description 
of the symptons of phosphorous poison¬ 
ing and there seems to me little doubt 
that your fowls have obtained access to 
this substance, very possibly in some of 
tlie rat poisons, of which it forms the ac¬ 
tive ingredient. Possibly a box of 
matches may have been dropped in the 
henhouse and eaten by the hens. These 
the two common sources of phos- 
It is doubtless phos- 
■smell 
38 1510 
13 
5 
you 
■are 
pkorus poisoning, 
pkorus, not sulphur, that 
and the fumes of it that you observed 
iPf arising from the contents of the crops. 
M. B. D. 
Ontario Agr. College. Canada . 37 
Tanglewold Fm, N. Y. 30 
Lewis Fms, R. 1. 22 
Clifford C. Downs, Conn. 24 
A. C. Jones, Del. 31 
Howard A. Wells, N. Y. 32 
W. H. B. Kent, N. Y. 24 
1487 
1028 
1623 
1338 
1522 
1316 
1434 
1534 
1711 
1454 
1093 
Total . 2724 148906 
Diseased Hens 
I have 90 W. Leghorn pullets 10 weeks 
old, that weigh about 2 lbs. apiece. They 
have 'been separated from the roosters a 
month. They have been fed on the Cor¬ 
nell ration as near as possible, having 
omitted part of the beef scrap, but using 
the sour milk. Just recently four of 
them have a sore starting on the back of 
the neck and running the length of the 
backbone and spreading all over the body 
as the disease gets worse. I have killed 
two that were the worst, and have two 
more that I have separated from the 
flock. The sore starts in the form of a 
dry, hard scab on the neck, and grows 
larger until it is % in. in thickness, hard 
on the outside, but when removed is full 
of vellow pus underneath, and keeps eat¬ 
ing deeper into the neck, causing the neck 
to be carried stiff. The affected ones be¬ 
gin to molt as soon as the disease starts 
on the neck, and as the disease spreads 
Lights to Prevent Molt 
I have heard that if lights are turned 
on hens in September they will lay until 
New Year’s without molting. Do you 
know if this is so? What is the best 
time for turning lights on pullets, and 
should the light be turned on gradually. 
Ontario, Canada. p - °- A - 
I think it very questionable whether 
you can prevent Fall molting by using 
lights upon mature hens in September, 
though I have never tried it. For liens 
to be used as breeders the following 
Spring, lights should not be turned on 
until about the middle of January, after 
molting and recuperation have been com¬ 
pleted. . 
Lights may be turned on m the pul¬ 
let pens when the days become short in 
late Fall, in this latitude, about the first 
of November, probably earlier in yours, 
’l ie object of lighting is to make a day 
and night of about equal length for the 
fowls, or to feed’ so late in the day or 
early in the morning that there will not 
be a long interval, with empty crops, be¬ 
tween the supper and breakfast of the 
birds. This is accomplished by late eve¬ 
ning or early morning feeding. Lighting 
should be discontinued gradually in the 
Spring, in order that there may be no 
sudden change in the feeding habits of 
the birds. 
