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2A* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11. 1924 
Healthy, Growing Birds 
Need Plenty of Minerals 
Feed FOS-FOR-US 
Phosphorus and Lime are 
necessary to grow strong, 
vigorous fowls — as well 
as to produce quality eggs 
at a profit. 
Cut your feed bills by 
feeding less meat scrap— 
a high priced feed — and 
substitute cheap vegetable 
meals plus minerals in the 
form of FOS-FOR-US. 
You can feed less oyster 
shell—because FOS-FOR- 
US contains 70% carbon¬ 
ate of lime. 
FOS-FOR-US 
The Phosphate'Lime Qrit 
contains 22% tri-calcium 
phosphate, 70% carbon¬ 
ate of lime. A hard, sharp 
soluble grit. Three sizes 
— coarse, medium, fine. 
Sold in 100 lb. bags. 
international Jlqricultural Corporation 
COLUMBIA, TENN. 
BRANCHES IN EIGHT CITIES 
Manufacturers of International Fertilizers 
International Agricultural Corporation 
Dept. R, Columbia, Term. 
Please send me free sample and literature. 
Quote me prices on_100 lb. bags 
□ Coarse Q] Medium □ Fine. 
Name_ 
Town. 
.State. 
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R. I. Reds, White Wyan- D.-lInt 0 
dotte, White Leghorn 1 UllClS 
POULTRY LEG BANDS 
Band Pullets and good layers now. Seven colors. 
75 cents hundred, postpaid. Mention breed. 
COLONIAL ART CO. Westfield, Mass. 
5-mos.-old, S2.50 each; 4-mos.-old, S2.25each. Every 
bird to please you or you may ship back at once. 
T. R. THOMAS The Maples Bristol, Vermont 
quab Book FREE 
Squabs sellingat highest priceseverknown. Greatest 
market for 20 years. Make money breeding them. 
Raisedinone month. We ship every whereourfa- 
mousbreeding stock and supplies. Established 
24yrs. Writenow for big illustrated free book, 
How to to Make Money Breeding Squabs. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO., 
205 H St., Melros# Highlands, Mass. 
Turkeys 
Special Discount on young and old breeders. 
Also ducks and geese. Write your wants. 
H. A Souder Box 39 Seller.ville Pa. 
P 
ARDEE’S 
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DUCKS 
America’s Standard 
Strain. BREEDERS NOW 
PARDEE’S PEKINS. ISLIP.N.Y. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITES and 1 SINGLE 
RHODE ISLAND RE DSfCOMB 
Trap nested stock. Bred for Winter eggs. March 
and April pullets, S3 each. A few yearling hens, 
S3 each. Cockerels, S3.50 to S5. 
O. G. L. LEWIS - - - Paoll. Pa. 
PARKS’ Barred Rocks 
Owen Farm's Reds, Martin’s White Wyandottes. 
Yearilng pullets, $2.50 each: pullets, 3 months, 
S2; 4 months, $2.25. 
RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM, Box 165, Riverdale, N. J. 
The “best buy” in building ma¬ 
terials. For, combined with just 
sand, stone or gravel and water, 
ALPHA CEMENT gives you the 
most enduring and substantial con¬ 
struction. Nothing to rot, rust, 
burn or require painting. 
Ask any good contractor. See 
the local ALPHA Dealer, He is 
a cement-service man. 
Alpha Portland Cement Company 
EASTON, PA. CHICAGO, ILL. 
New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore 
Pittsburgh St. Louis Ironton, Ohio 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
The Henyard 
Cost of Henkeeping 
1. I would like to know the cost of 
keeping and feeding one or 25 hens, one 
month or a year, and the average num¬ 
ber of eggs from them with good care. 
2. Does it pay to keep a cat in case one 
has to buy milk and meat to feed and 
care for one? 3. Will rate and mice 
stay in a place when there is nothing 
for them to eat and things are kept sani¬ 
tary in and out of doors? 4. What should 
be done with the leavings from the table, 
such as bones, particles of meat, bread, 
etc. ? 5. Should the husband or wife 
want to keep any kind of an animal on 
the farm or home when keeping such 
animal is repugnant and contrary to the 
other, this making a discord? Should 
one yield when one can derive some 
benefit, or a total loss? G. F. o. 
Lincoln Co., Me. 
1. As a Leghorn hen will consume 
about 85 lbs. of grain a year, if well 
fed, or 7 lbs. a month, it would cost 21 
cents to keep her a month, with grain 
at $3 per hundred. Where a small flock 
is kept, partly upon garden and house¬ 
hold wastes, this cost may be material¬ 
ly reduced. This same Leghorn ought 
to lay at least, a dozen eggs per month, 
but there is some uncertainty about that. 
2. We no sooner get out of cats at our 
house than we get another, an.l we some¬ 
times buy canned salmon for them too; 
can you beat that? 
3. No, but there is no such place, if 
people live upon the place. Care about 
leaving food exposed will help in keeping 
rats away. Cats and traps help also. 
4. There should be no bread, bite of 
meat, or other particles of food left from 
the table. Eat them. Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin said, “Wilful waste makes woeful 
want.” Bones may be fed to the dog, 
but a too exclusive diet of bones makes 
dogs bony. 
5. The wishes of the wife should be 
considered, unless she is keeping a bear 
about the place. In that case, the ani¬ 
mal should be disposed of, painlessly if 
possible. m. b. d. 
Excess of Male Birds 
Hatched 
I have reared a good many chicks this 
year. I ordered some of them and we 
hatched a good many from our own hens, 
our chicks seem to be more healthy than 
those we ordered, and we lost but very 
few r of our own hatch. We have Barred 
Rocks. Some pullets we roared last 
year, and the old hens we have had about 
three years; they were said to be old 
when we bought them, but most of them 
have been laying since last Winter, and 
are yet laying. The old ones are better 
than the pullets. We ordered a very 
nice cockerel that Spring. I set old hens’ 
eggs along with pullets, and they hatched 
very well, but each hen has mostly roost¬ 
ers. 8 or 10 roosters out of every dozen 
chicks hatched, and I would like to know 
the cause. Is it in the breeding, or what 
is the trouble? J. J. J. 
Masontown, Pa. 
The proportion of cockerels to pullets 
does not usually vary widely, though, of 
course, there are exceptional instances 
where one or the other sex predominates 
to a marked degree. I know of no expla¬ 
nation of this that has any real physio¬ 
logical basis, though explanations based 
upon methods of mating will be offered. 
At least an equal number of cockerels 
may be expected in any hatch, and 8 out 
of 12 does not greatly exceed the 50-50 
basis. M. B. D. 
Worms in Gizzard 
A small round worm about 1 to 1 Vn in. 
long and of the thickness of a small nee¬ 
dle is found in the gizzard of our five- 
month-old pullets, and seems to be eat¬ 
ing through the lining into the muscular 
part. The fowls affected become drowsy, 
soon eat little, eventually die. What is 
the trouble, the cause, and the cure? 
Bovina Center, N. Y. F. N. c. 
The authorities seem to have very lit¬ 
tle to say about treatment of fowls in¬ 
fested by these round worms that are 
found in gizzard, attached at one end to 
the lining, through which they may bur¬ 
row. Spirits of turpentine is usually 
recommended as a remedy. This may 
be given in teaspoonful doses, alone or 
mixed with an equal quantity of some 
bland oil. The tobacco treatment, as 
used for intestinal worms, might also be 
tried. Prevention of infestation by rais¬ 
ing chicks upon fresh ground that has not 
become contaminated by large numbers 
of the various kinds of worms that be¬ 
come parasites of poultry is probably 
more satisfactory than any remedial 
measures. M. b. d. 
Construction of Henhouse 
I have built a henhouse 50 ft. long and 
10 ft. wide, double boarded and sheathed 
on the inside, and a separate sleeping 
place from where they eat and run. It 
is banked all around and the roosts are 
2 ft. at the back and 7 in. at the front. 
What do you think about it? Is burlap 
satisfactory without window lights? 
There are four windows, and they are 
4 ft. long 22 in. wide and 3*4 ft. from 
the ground ; a dirt floor. l. f. p. 
Spring Creek, Pa. 
Poultry-houses are not now often 
built as narrow as 10 ft., a greater depth 
having advantages over the more narrow 
ones but, if there are separate roosting 
quarters, your building will probably 
prove very satisfactory. I do not like 
burlap over the window openings, as it 
shuts out both light and air. If your 
window openings are in one side of the 
building and the other three walls are 
airtight, these may be left entirely open 
both Winter and Summer, guarded only 
by wire poultry netting. In this way, 
the house should be dry in cold weather, 
as it will not be if you close it up with 
either burlap or glass. The cold air en¬ 
tering the scratching room will do the 
birds no harm. You should be careful, 
too, not to close the. roosting compart¬ 
ment until the fowls sleep in damp quar¬ 
ters. That would bring about sickness in 
the flock. The White Wyandottes are 
fine fowls; I know of none better in their 
class. Their brown eggs are, of course, 
an objection in localities where white 
eggs bring a better price. M. b. d. 
Purser Wilson : “Don’t you like the 
sea?” Tourist (at home a hairdresser) : 
“Not when it’s marcelled.”—The Times 
of Cuba. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Bergen County, N. J.. Egg Contest 
This contest is held at Emerson, N. J., under 
control of New Jersey State Experiment Station. 
There are 100 pens, each with 20 birds. 
Week ending September 10, 1924: 
B. P. KOOKS 
C. W. Brown, N. J. 
Garret Buck. N. J. 
A. C. Jones Poultry Farm, Del. . 
W. H. B. Kent. N. Y. 
Lewis Farm. K. I. 
' Kerr Chickeries, N. Y. 
L. E. Laferty, N. J.,. 
Ontario Agri. College, Can... 
Cbas. T. Stran, N. J. 
Navillus Rocks. N. J. 
Wni. H Sehaff, N. J. 
W. P. ROCKS 
W. C. Matthews, Del. 
WHITE WYANDOTTE8 
Oktusha B’arm. Ohio. 
Walnut Crest Poultry Farm, Conn.... 
August Weiss, N. J. 
F. A. Woodward, N. J. 
S. C. li. I. REDS 
Beacon Poultry Yards, N. J. 
C. C. Poultry Farm N. J. 
Cedar View Poultry Farm, Del. 
F. S. Chapin. Mass. 
Kerr Chickeries, Mass. 
Meadowdale Poultry Farm. N. J. 
Twin Oak Poultry Farm, N J. 
F. A, Woodward. N. J . 
Rosewood Plate, N, J. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Tanglewold Farm, N. Y. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
J . W. Bottcher, N. J. 
Wene Farms, N. J. 
Broad View Farm. N. J. 
A. L. Causse, Jr-, N. J. 
Marthe C. Conlin, N. J. 
Meadowdale Poultry Farm, N, J. 
Marcel Sassen, N. J. 
Cedar Grove Farms, N. J. 
Eigenrauch & De Winters, N. J. 
C. H, Chandler. N. J. 
Paul Madsen, N. J. 
Geo. B. Ferris. Mich. 
North Haledon Leghorn Club. N. J.... 
Arnold Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Ameling Farms, Mo . 
Wellward Farm, N.Y . 
Barlow Leghorn Farm, Pa. 
Barne’s Poultry Yards. N.Y. 
The Hoehn Farm. N. Y. 
L. C. Beall. Jr. Wash. 
Hollywood Poultry Farm. Wash. 
Bonnie Brae Farm. N. J. 
Brockman’s Poultry Farm,8. C.. . 
Windy Brow Farm. N. J. 
Cedarhurs' Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Robert O. Knapp, N. Y. 
Cedar View Poultry Farm, Del. 
Cherry Croft Farm, N. J. 
Circle (W) Farm, O. 
F. H. Clafiin. N. J. 
Marquis & Wagner, N. Y . 
Clyde-Nairn Farms. N.Y . 
Somerset Co. Poultry Ass’n. 
Harry N. Connor, N. J. 
Fairview Farm. N. J.. 
C. T. Darby. N. J . 
W. C. Eckard, Mich. 
S. Olsen, N. J. 
Evergreen Farm, N. J. 
B. S. Ellis, N. J. 
D, E. Evans, Pa. 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 
A. B. Faure, N. J . 
Associated Farms, Pa. 
Forsgate Farms, N. J. 
W. A. Foster. N. J. 
Foster Ave. Poultry Farm, N, J. 
H. C. Hancock, N. J. 
Richard C. Hixon N, J. 
Paul L. Holcombe. N. J. 
The Kerr Chickeries, N. J. 
Kirkup Bros.. N. Y . 
Magnolia Poultry Farm. N. J. 
Lewis Farms, R. I. . 
Ernest C Laudenberger. N. J. 
Navillus Leghorns. N. J. 
J. R. Van Ilouten. N. J. 
New Brunsw ck Poultry Farm, N. J . 
Dr. J S. Nief, N. J. 
Old Orchard Farm N. J. 
Pine Hill Farm, N. J. 
S. C. Price. Pa. 
Puritns Springs Poultry Farm. O. 
M. J. Quackenbush N. J. 
Ailendnle Poultry Farm, N. J. 
Alfred R. Scott, N. J. 
L. W Steelman Pa. 
Stockton Hatchery, N. J . 
Fred Warren. N J . 
Whitegg Farm. N. J. 
Le Roy Wilcox, N,Y. 
F. A. Woodward. N. J. 
Skylands Farm, N. Y. 
Total. 
Week 
Total 
43 
2074 
75 
2931 
54 
2620 
T6 
3165 
55 
2352 
60 
2850 
54 
2634 
53 
2592 
48 
2805 
63 
2946 
61 
2929 
53 
2670 
35 
2414 
44 
2144 
80 
2975 
68 
2387 
54 
2545 
36 
2335 
47 
2401 
19 
1955 
45 
2173 
50 
2408 
26 
2379 
42 
2095 
0 
1008 
53 
2999 
39 
2962 
37 
2829 
60 
2797 
62 
3049 
64 
2897 
62 
2852 
49 
2932 
54 
2622 
53 
2861 
69 
3254 
50 
2666 
70 
3159 
83 
3618 
41 
2931 
68 
3318 
71 
3487 
85 
3784 
31 
3343 
55 
2914 
58 
2943 
87 
3976 
55 
3404 
68 
3391 
65 
2632 
61 
3365 
50 
23* 
75 
3116 
61 
3140 
66 
2770 
85 
3753 
48 
2772 
55 
2322 
55 
3020 
52 
2953 
80 
3125 
72 
2810 
54 
3374 
52 
3138 
48 
3230 
51 
2825 
60 
2786 
65 
2887 
70 
3442 
53 
2543 
83 
3186 
36 
2816 
63 
3175 
51 
2876 
46 
2622 
73 
3238 
51 
2780 
70 
3361 
72 
2715 
73 
2891 
43 
3062 
49 
2628 
62 
2924 
60 
2904 
62 
2898 
57 
309S 
82 
3254 
38 
2120 
77 
3395 
61 
2807 
49 
2755 
49 
2755 
69 
3209 
71 
3428 
16 
2197 
52 
2828 
64 
2834 
72 
3258 
61 
2908 
70 
2439 
5702 
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