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RURAL NEW.YORKER 
October 25, 1924 
For Laying Hens 
Feed Plenty of Minerals 
Feed FOS-FOR-US 
More than a third of 
the dry matter in an egg is 
mineral matter — chiefly 
lime of the shell. FOS- 
FOR-US contains 70% 
carbonate of lime. 
Phosphorus is another 
important element in pro¬ 
ducing eggs and building 
bone and nerve cells. It’s 
in FOS-FOR-US too. 
Supply grit and vital 
minerals at the same time 
—feed FOS-FOR-US. 
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 ^Agricultural Corporation 
COLUMBIA, TENTS. 
BRANCHES IN EIGHT CITIES 
Manufacturers of International Fertilizers 
International Agricultural Corporation 
Dept. R, Columbia, Tenn. 
Please send me free sample and literature. 
Quote me prices on_100 lb. bags 
Write \\ 'L 
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□ Coarse Q Medium □ Fine. 
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^.“SliS^Mra'DSPHATE 22*^ 
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COUJNIWA.TINN. .Ill 
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J SPROUTED 0ATS\ 
Oata sprouted (n warm vapor make^/^'. • _ r'% 
a most nutritious, delicious, and 
easily digested green feed that 
produces great egg yields. 
With the original well known. 
CLOSE-TO-NATURE 
GRAIN SPROUTER 
You get eggs all winter when 
trices are highest. The Sprouter 
is a money maker. Sizes 25 to 2,000 
hens. Free Bulletin, SproutedOat>^%«<^ > 
and Eggs." Ask for Incubator Catalog. Address 
CLOSE-TO-NATURE CO. 78 FroptSt..Cplfax.la. 
Poultry Advocate I™ 25 c 
Our 34th year. Helpful interesting articles each month 
by expert poultry writers of national reputation. Send 
25c today for year’s trial sub., or only tl for 4 full years. 
American Poultry Advocate. Dept. 8, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Strong , Sturdy Leghorn 
and Rhode Island Red 
CHICKS 
from tlie best strain in existence. No better 
at any price; parents raised on my own 
model farm. February March and April de¬ 
livery at #40 a 100. Limited number to be 
sold. 10% down; balance three days before 
delivery. Ol der now and be assured of some¬ 
thing better in chick line than you ever saw. 
Bank reference—inspection invited. 
HIRAM SOUTHGATE 
R. D. Long Branch, N. J. 
POULTRY LEG BANDS 
Band Pullets and good layers now. Seven colors. 
75 cents hundred, postpaid. Mention breed. 
COLONIAL ART CO. Westfield, Blass 
, 3.000 Cocks, Hens, Cockerels, Pullete- 
“11116 TtyallOOUcS Catalogue. Special price on Year!, 
ing Hens, BOWDEN, While Wyandotte Specialist, Mansfield, Ohii 
PARKS’ Barred Rocks 
Owen Farm’s Reds, Martin’s White Wyandottes. 
Yearling pullets, #2.50 each; pullets, 4 months, 
#2.25; 5 months, #2.50. 
RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Box 165, Riverdale, N. J. 
White Leghorn and Barred Rock Pullets fn ®, 0 stock’ 
This season’s pens. WALTER SCHEDLER, Ca(skill, N. Y. Ronte 1 
Leghorn Breeders, ATTENTION! 
Pure Hollywood pedigreed breeding cockerels from 
hens witl) records of 220 eggs or more, including the 
winning pens from Storrs laying contests seasons of 
1921-22 and 1922-23. Highest record pens ever entered 
at this contest, mated to pedigreed male birds from 
304. 342 and 328 egg dams. Price, $7.60; tlO.OO and $15.00 
each. Satisfaction or money back. Can furnish breed¬ 
ings liens, trios and pens of this breeding at reason¬ 
able prices ; pedigrees furnished. 
FIVE POINT LEGHORN FARM Mt. Ephraim, N. J. 
PULLETS FOR SALE 
Bred from 250-egg trapnested pedigreed stock. 
Rhode Island Red or Barred Plymouth Rocks, Mar. 
hatch, #2.50; April hatch, #2 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. 
R. I. Reds 
Cocks, Hens, Cockerels, Pullets. Fine quality. 
Cheap S. BOWDEN, Box 195, Mansfield, O. 
ton I..,., PnnL’U Pure Sheppard strain. $2.50each. 
1UU Ancona llOCK ISmt.KEMBLE Pout i ryForm,MarrnUwa,N.J. 
Dln/tL tllont Utility cockl’s. Earlybirds. $3.50 
Jersey Black biant and$4.so. ui.afvki.t, Hoinnui, n.j. 
3 ? U Xj t. e t s 
Bred for egg production from my contest'TN-GOLD ” 
strain, S. 0. W. Leghorn stock. Won 2nd place at 
Ottawa, 3rd at Storrs, 1921, Also other high show¬ 
ings. A postal for prices and description. 
OTSEGO LEGHORN FARM Hartwick Seminary, N.Y. 
White Chinese Geese Moe ar^i^ 1 , e s R0 ^ <! e^, own - 
Dory Niece 
U. D. No. 1 
Frenchtown, N. J. 
SPECIAL FALL PRICES ON TURKEYS 
915 per pair. Geese—(10 per pair. Also White Leg¬ 
horn pullets, April hatched, $204) per 100 ; $105 per 50. 
Catalog free. Order now and save money. 
Fairvievr Poultry Farm Telford, Pa. 
Pi?E DUCKS 
America’s Standard 
Strain. BREEDERS NOW. 
PARDEE’S PEKINS. ISLIP, N Y. 
Turkeys 
Special Discount on young and old breeders. 
Also ducks and geese. Write your wants. 
H. A Souder Box 29 Sellersvllle Pa. 
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on Thursday morning in order to 
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paper. Change of copy or notice 
to discontinue advertisement should 
reach us on Monday morning in 
order to prevent advertisement ap¬ 
pearing in following week’s paper. 
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Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
April and May Pallets “S'Jffig 1 ; SVtSd 
stock. #1.50 to #2.25, according to age and ma¬ 
turity. Penny & Gordon, Mattituck, L. I., N.Y. 
600 M *M CH *r PR,L White Leghorn Pullets, Cockerels 
Same breeding as pen 45 leading New York State contest. 
Also 300 March-April Rock Pullets, Cockerels. 
Jules F. Francals Wosthampton Beach, L. I. N.Y. 
Eft 1,500 cTm l b WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS 
Hatched April 3 and 28th. Free Range and no culls. 
CLEARVIEW POULTRY FARM, Cooparstewn, N. Y. 
Barron-Wyckoff Leghorn Pullets r“ng'e. ld Miik fed 6 
Dandies. $1.25 each. Wm. D. Seidel, Strawberry Ridre,Pa. 
For Sale coo White Leghorn Cockerels 
Tancreed Strain. From dams with records of 270 
to 297 eggs. Fine, strong, vigorous birds. Free range, 
Price. J2.50 to *5, J. F. & B. K. LOCKE 
Vineland, N. J. Phone 53 R. 3 
S fl While I orrhnrne For Sale. Hatched in March and 
• U* nllllB LognurnS April. Inspection cordially in¬ 
vited. BATVILLE FARMS Bayvillt. N. J. 
sai» 500 April Hatched S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
Well developed. From heavy laying strains. 
Tarboll Farms - Smithville Flats, N. Y. 
R. I. Reds, White Wyan- « 
dotte, White Leghorn I UIICIS 
5-mos.-old. S2 50 each: 4-mos.-old, S2.25 each. Every 
bird to please you or you may ship back at once. 
T. R. THOMAS The Maples Bristol, Vermont 
The Henyard 
Construction of Incubator 
Cellar 
How is an incubator cellar built, the 
light, ventilation, and stairway to go in, 
and door? Cellar will be about 12x12 ft., 
5 ft. below and 2 ft. above ground in 
front, 1 ft. in rear. What is tlie best 
material to use? How is hollow tile? 
Clifford, N. J. p. c. p. 
Your plan of building 5 ft. below and 
2 ft. above ground is, I think, a good one. 
An incubator cellar should be one that 
will keep a fairly uniform temperature 
and be capable of being well ventilated 
through windows above the ground level. 
As to materials, that becomes a choice as 
to expense. Ordinary stone or concrete 
walls will probably be less expensive than 
hollow tiles, though there could be no ob¬ 
jection to the use of the latter. Windows 
above ground on at least two sides will 
provide light and ventilation, ordinary 
cellar sash being used, and a convenient 
entrance door should be placed. Incuba¬ 
tor cellars are usually beneath buildings 
of some kind, these latter affording cover 
and needed storage facilities. I should 
not dig an incubator cellar of small size 
away from a building and be obliged to 
construct an expensive roof over it, un¬ 
less absolutely necessary. M. B. D. 
Straying Hens on Road 
My neighbor's chickens stay on the 
road when I go with my car. Is there 
any right to keep the chickens in road 
or must the driver stop to avoid killing 
them ? j. M. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
Better run slowly and not kill any 
that you can avoid. I suppose that chick¬ 
ens and geese have a right to the highway 
for the purpose of travel but that, when 
they use it for a playground, they do so 
at their own risk. It would probably be 
hard for an owner to recover damages for 
a fowl killed by a car upon the highway, 
for it would be difficult to prove that the 
bird was not guilty of “contributory negli¬ 
gence.” At the same time, no one wants 
to kill domestic animals unnecessarily, 
even if the animals themselves are to 
blame for their fate, and it is better to 
slow up and give them a chance to get 
out of the way. 
Annoying as they are, fowls are not as 
stupid as cattle while on the highway. It 
is a mystery what a cow thinks of when 
a car approaches. She doesn’t seem to 
think that it is anything that she need 
concern herself about in the least, and 
seldom shows even the mildest curiosity 
over it. The only thing to do is to slow 
down to a walk, worm your way through 
the herd, and try to avoid being run over 
and hurt. M. b. d. 
Pullets With Chronic 
Disease 
Chickens three to five months old were 
kept by themselves until two weeks ago, 
when they were put with old bens. Thei’e 
arc 50 old hens and 75 to 100 chickens 
in a coop 12x20 ft., and a park about 25 
ft. square. They are fed wheat in the 
bundle and all the green stuff (cabbage 
and weeds) that they will consume. There 
is running water in the pen at all times. 
I am losing many of the young birds, 
finding as many as 16 dead in the coop 
at once with empty crops. They do not 
die suddenly; appear to be dead long be¬ 
fore they are. Neighbors told me they 
would all die if I oo not give them all 
the sour .milk they will consume, e. h. 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Sour milk is an excellent food for 
; chickens, but I am afraid, from your de¬ 
scription. that it will not save the sick 
pullets in this flock. You do not give 
any description that would enable one to 
say what the disease affecting these 
young pullets is, but there are several 
that might wind up in the way that this 
is evidently doing. The young birds are 
probably affected with some such chronic 
disease as coccidiosis or tuberculosis, and 
the symptoms that you describe are sim¬ 
ply those of the final stage, when exhaus¬ 
tion and death close the scene. M. b. d. 
Ventilating a Damp House 
Our chicken-house is 30 ft. long and 
23 ft. wide. The roof is 7 ft. high at 
front and back 12 ft. high in center 
where it comes to peak. The roosts are 
in back of house with dropping boards 
below. There are four windows in front 
and one in each end, which all extend 
nearly to floor. Above the front win¬ 
dows which we keep closed all Winter, 
are openings about 3 ft. by 1 % ft. These 
can be closed by a wooden door, binged 
at the top. These openings are the only 
ventilation. We talked of opening the 
space right under the eaves in the back 
and facing the rafters with tight boards 
far enough up to keep the air off the 
roosts. The floor is of cement, and we 
have had trouble with it being damp, 
on account of lack of ventilation. What 
can you suggest as the cheapest way to 
fix this house properly? We want it to 
be satisfactory, but do not want to spend 
too much on it. f. C. m. 
Salem, Ohio. 
I think that you will get satisfactory 
results in ventilation by closing all open¬ 
ings in three walls of the building and 
depending upon opened windows in 
front for the admission of air. This will 
give you what is known as the open- 
front house. The openings above these 
front windows may be closed by their 
shutters and the sashes already there 
arranged to drop back at their tops for 
a foot or more into tlie building. The 
side openings thus made should be 
closed by Y-shaped boards cut to fit 
against the side rails of the sashes. Be¬ 
cause of their shape, these boards are 
called “hopper sides.” Entering air is 
thus forced to take an upward turn 
and direct drafts upon the floor are min¬ 
imized. It is not necessary to attach 
hinges to the bottoms of the sashes, as 
the hopper sides hold them in place when 
opened. Hinging the sashes at the top 
and swinging them outward is a method 
preferred by some, but the former prac¬ 
tice is more common. The idea is to have 
plenty of open space in the front wall, 
with all other walls airtight, so that no 
drafts can blow through the house. The 
danger is, not that too much open space 
will be had, but that, in cold weather, 
these windows will not be kept sufficient¬ 
ly wide open. In some types of poultry 
house, as in the Missouri type, there is 
a wide opening across the front, guarded 
only by poultry netting. This, of course, 
must remain open, regardless of low tem¬ 
peratures. M. B. D. 
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 October 1, 1924: 
B. P. ROCKS 
C. W. Brown, N. J. 
Garret Buck. N. J. 
A. C. Jones Poultry Farm, Del... 
W. H. B. Kent. N. Y. 
Lewis Farm. R. I... 
Kerr Chickeries, N. Y. 
L. E. Laferty, N. J. 
Ontario Anri. College, Can.. 
Cbas. T. Stran, N. J.. 
Navillus Rocks. N.J. 
Wm. U Schaff, N. J.. 
W. P. ROCKS 
W. C. Matthews. Del. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Oktusha Farm. Ohio. 
Walnut Crest Poultry Farm, Conn.... 
August Weiss. N.J. 
F. A. Woodward, N. J. 
8. C. R. 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. LEGHORN8 
Tangiewold Farm. N. Y. 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 
J. W, Bottcher. N. J. 
VVene 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. 
Oedarhurs’ 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. Clatiin, N.J. 
Marquis & Wagner, N. Y. 
Clyde-Nairn Farms. N.Y . 
Somerset Co. Poultry Ass’n. 
Harry N. Connor, N. J. 
Fairvie w 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. 
I), 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 Houten, N.J. 
New Brunswick Poultry Farm, N. J... 
Dr. J S. Nief, N. J... 
Old Orchard Farm N. J. 
Pine Hill Farm, N.J. 
8. C Price, Pa. 
Puritss Springs Poultry Farm, O. 
M. J. Quackenbusb N.J. 
Ailendle 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 
40 
2196 
78 
3163 
40 
2748 
73 
3388 
55 
2536 
93 
3114 
31 
2771 
35 
2711 
41 
2925 
55 
3145 
70 
3130 
38 
2794 
19 
2506 
43 
2277 
67 
3174 
51 
2567 
57 
2711 
36 
2432 
45 
2542 
52 
2087 
46 
2292 
59 
2587 
33 
2490 
33 
2191 
• 
1008 
20 
3081 
16 
3030 
11 
2875 
43 
2953 
30 
3176 
42 
3056 
50 
2992 
35 
3053 
17 
2698 
45 
3006 
20 
3350 
25 
2771 
51 
3322 
66 
3821 
29 
3029 
50 
3493 
20 
3590 
55 
3985 
28 
3435 
16 
2998 
28 
3070 
71 
4200 
37 
3538 
57 
3579 
32 
2811 
35 
3499 
25 
2479 
57 
3305 
33 
3266 
46 
2932 
69 
3968 
18 
2840 
34 
2443 
25 
3128 
47 
3108 
54 
3306 
40 
2958 
47 
3524 
47 
3286 
28 
3341 
19 
2914 
37 
2924 
41 
3035 
46 
3595 
29 
2647 
64 
3408 
24 
2900 
40 
3314 
24 
2968 
25 
2708 
41 
3392 
36 
2911 
51 
3545 
43 
2866 
<8 
3045 
27 
3148 
18 
2713 
31 
3036 
32 
3019 
21 
3001 
31 
3231 
58 
3444 
28 
2222 
68 
3593 
34 
2934 
42 
2891 
40 
2878 
41 
3349 
67 
3632 
13 
2237 
29 
2957 
49 
3006 
47 
3411 
35 
3037 
44 
2599 
. 4029 
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