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W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1924 
BANKER —"You must have found a buyer for your poultry farm." 
DEPOSITOR—“ Nope—but I did find a <way to make it pay." 
Twenty for One 
It’s the people who make poultry and eggs a business who are 
strongest for the use of regulator. There are pocketbook rea¬ 
sons why everyone should use it; means strong, healthy birds, 
and very much heavier laying. 
Don’t think Pratts poultry regulator a fad. It is bound to 
pay you a profit—of at least twenty dollars for every dollar 
the regulator costs—that’s guaranteed. No feed has the rare 
seeds, herbs, roots, and a dozen other things that regulator 
gives your hens for egg-making material. For egg money use 
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Pullets and Cockerels 
Range raised, Tested for B. W, Diarrhoea. Park's 
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For Sale comb White Leghorn Cockerels 
Tancreed Strain. From dams with records of 270 
to 297 eggs. Fine, strong, vigorous birds. Free range, 
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300 Tancred Leghorn Pullets s %Ta^^r al - 
CHAS. FLACCUS , Sharpsburfl, Pa. 
The Croft Strain S. C. White Leghorn Tested hens, 312 
eggs; large type. $5, $7 and $10. J. o. Crofl, Burl, N.Y. 
Din aL Pinnlo Pullets—Cockerels. March hatched. S3 
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290 W. Leghorn Pullets Healthy and ' ready 
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Wanted-30-50,000 White L. I. Ducklings 
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DARBY’S 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Are Great Layers 
FIRST PEN, STORKS 1924 
Breaking All Previous Records at 
the Greatest American Contest 
Third Pen. Vineland 1923 
Third Pen, Vineland 1922 
First Pen, Vineland 1921 
Breeding Cockerels 
Chicks and Hatching Eggs 
After February First 
C. T. DARBY North Branch, N. J. 
SPECIAL FALL PRICES ON TURKEYS 
915 per pair. Geese— $10 per pair. Catalog free. Order 
now andjsave money. FJURVIEW P0ULTRT FARM. Teir.rd, Pa. 
The Henyard 
Breeding Buff Leghorns; 
Coccidiosis 
1. I bought some exhibition quality 
Buff Leghorn chicks last Spring, and I 
find the cockerels have different shades, 
mostly light buff with some real dark 
buff or slightly reddish. Which cockerels 
would be the best to keep to mate back 
to the pullets, the light or dark ones? 
What are the Buff Leghorns derived 
from? Are the dark-colored ones marked 
from back generations? 2. What is the 
matter with eight-weeks-old chicks that 
show no sign of any disease, only mope, 
and in a week or so die? They seem to 
have a good appetite, but the food does 
not seem to do them any good. They 
simply grow light and die. w. H. G. 
Delaware. 
1. I am not sufficiently well acquainted 
with the methods of the exhibition Buff 
Leghorn breeders to advise you as to mat¬ 
ings. Buff-colored fowls are produced by 
mating the breed whose color it is desired 
to change with buff-colored fowls of some 
other breed that has this color fixed, then 
by breeding back to the original variety, 
gradually weeding out the undesired char¬ 
acters produced by the cross, but keeping 
the desired buff color. I do not know 
what out-cross was used in producing the 
Buff Leghorn. 
2. Coccidiosis is probably the most fre¬ 
quent cause of deaths such as you de¬ 
scribe in eight-weeks-old chicks The rem¬ 
edy is to raise the chicks from disease 
free flocks and upon ground that has not 
been so long used as to become infested 
by the organisms that cause the disease. 
M. B. D. 
Pumping Water to Brooder 
House 
T wish to pump water 150 ft. away to 
my brooder house next Spring. Depth 
of well. 20 ft. ; would have to raise the 
water 12 ft. more before it would be on 
level with (brooder 'house. Then would 
have to go 150 ft. to reach the building. 
I have a deep-well pump. Could I use 
it to pump the water into a storage 
tank 12 ft. high, then let it run to a 
tank, or could I pump the water to 
brooder house with pitcher pump? If I 
used force pump like the one in well, 
would I have to use the front or back 
of pump? S. B. 
It would seem that the best plan for 
you to follow will be to use the deep- 
well pump that you already have in¬ 
stalled, forcing the water directly to the 
brooder house. The pipe line for carry¬ 
ing this water can be taken out from 
the opening at the back of the spout 
which is now fitted with a plug, leaving 
the spout for regular use. If to he used 
during freezing weather it should lie 
laid to a uniform grade preventing the 
formation of pockets and fitted with a 
valve at the lower end to permit drain¬ 
age. If used to pump water into a tank 
at the brooder house the pipe can be led 
up over the top of the tank, which will 
relieve the necessity of a valve at this 
point when it is wished to drain the line. 
The line should also (be fitted with a gate 
valve at the pump to permit, pumping 
from the spout under pressure if desired, 
and the spout would have to be fitted 
with some means of closing while water 
was being pumped through the line. Many 
farm pipe lines are placed on top of poles 
where they are given sufficient slant to 
cause drainage in cold weather. For a 
permanent installation, however, the best 
method is to lay the pipe in a ditch out 
of sight. If this is done a force pump 
fitted with a two-way cock just at the 
lower end of the set length will be found 
best suited to your needs. Due to the 
distance that the water has to be pumped 
and the vertical height to which it is lift¬ 
ed, the pitcher pump referred to would 
he unsatisfactory. 
Electricity to Keep Water 
from Freezing 
1. I am interested in keeping water 
in pails in my hen house from freezing 
this Winter by the use of electricity in 
some wav. I am sure that I have seen 
an article in The R. N.-Y. telling how 
to do it, but I am unable fco find it. Can 
you tell me how it is done with an elec¬ 
tric bulb? I have extra line run to hen 
house for this and connections for drop- 
light above pails. 2. How heavily can 
corn he fed safely to pullets? Wheat is 
very high? I feed a commercial mash, 
cracked corn and wheat and germinated 
oats. w. A. D. 
1. If you keep water before your fowls 
in onen pails, a simple method of keeping 
it from freezing by the use of an elec¬ 
tric bulb is to bore a hole in a light block 
of wood and insert the neck of the bulb, 
using by preference a waterproof socket. 
This block is then floated, bulb down, 
upon the surface of the water. It is bet¬ 
ter to have such bulbs upon a separate 
circuit from the lights. Use old style 
carbon filament bulbs if you can get them. 
2. Corn may be safely fed to pullets as 
the exclusive scratch grain, though most 
poultrymen nrefer a mixture of grains, 
in which wheat is used. It is largely a 
matter of comparative cost. m. b. d. 
Meeting of New York 
Extension Workers 
The State College of Agriculture now 
has a practical monopoly of the exten¬ 
sion work of the State and a very com¬ 
plete check on the Farm Bureau and 
Home Bureau managers. My under¬ 
standing is that there is a tendency to 
limit all extension work to college peo¬ 
ple, and the influence of the college is 
being extended to a very considerable de¬ 
gree. A conference of these extension 
people with the Bureau agents and col¬ 
lege authorities is held each year. Such 
a conference has recently been held at 
Cornell. The program is particularly 
good and the speakers are able. 
Dr. G. F. Warren has recently re¬ 
turned from a European trip made for 
the study of agricultural conditions in the 
countries he visited. He finds the farm¬ 
ers there suffering less from economic 
conditions than in this country. Further 
than that, he does not believe they will 
have the relative depression there that 
we are having here. That is due to the 
fact that transportation costs and han¬ 
dling are high, so that any exports of 
ours are much higher than in America. 
The situation in Europe is a money ques¬ 
tion, not so much a question of supply 
and demand. The loan to Germany may 
be of a slight advantage to some export 
trade, hut not great. Our exports are 
slowly falling off, although not down to 
the years just preceding the war. Th # e 
money of the more prominent European 
countries is slowly coming to a parity 
with ours. 
Speaking of conditions in this country, 
he thinks that the agricultural depression 
may continue for a time, with changes 
for better and worse at intervals, but 
that later there will be some reaction. It 
is a good time to buy a farm now, al¬ 
though there may be a better time later. 
The reaction may he in five years or it 
may be at some other time. At another 
hour Dr. Warren spoke of the price level, 
and suggested that next Spring it is 
likely to be higher than now. Later in 
the year, or perhaps the following year, 
we may see even a worse depression than 
now. The demand for and the price of 
gold lias much to do with the price level. 
Gold lias fluctuated considerably. It 
went high in 1890. causing low prices 
and political agitation. Soon new sources 
of gold were discovered and commodi¬ 
ties advanced in value. The price of 
gold is now turning upward a little and 
the general effect will be to depress 
prices. However, combinations of condi¬ 
tions are likely to advance the price of 
milk this Winter, and the price of hogs 
is pretty sure to go up next year. The 
important upward tendency in beef 
prices may be delayed until six or eight 
years. The city building boom is a big 
one. and is in for a big “bust.” 
The G. L. F. Exchange is a buying as¬ 
sociation, said Manager H. E. Babcock. 
The directors get $10 a day and meet 
six or eight times a year. There are nine 
directors. The business lias grown from 
$3,000,000 a year to an $8,000,000 busi¬ 
ness in the last 10 months. There are 
four departments, each acting separately. 
The president has a salary about like 
that of a Farm Bureau agent. The man¬ 
ager and the heads of departments have 
salaries that average about $0,500 a 
year. A credit corporation is being ar¬ 
ranged under the recent federal law that 
will make farmers’ credit available. 
Quality of commodity was what brought 
the association into being, and now qual¬ 
ity is available. There will be some sav¬ 
ing on costs and ali’ead.v this has been 
apparent. One dividend has been paid 
on the stock and some profits are now in 
the reserve. To put the association on 
a firmer financial basis certain assets 
may he reduced on the books by the use 
of a portion of the reserve. 
High quality seed is now served, known 
fertilizer is sold and feed of a known 
composition and digestibility is furnished. 
It is believed that these things have had 
a marked influence on the goods of the 
regular dealers, although there may he 
some way to go yet. 
The Atlantic Coast Producer’s associa¬ 
tion has been formed to market poultry 
products. Mr. Cooley, the new manager, 
made a brief report of the aims of the 
organization. They hope to get closer to 
the retailers, and to establish a reputa¬ 
tion for quality and grading. He thinks 
they will be of greater service to own¬ 
ers of farm flocks of perhaps 400 to 1,000 
birds than to those who own large flocks 
and are in the poultry business exclus¬ 
ively. Their working fund is now low. 
but they hope to build this up. Another 
problem is to get local groups established. 
With a larger membership, lower selling 
costs will result. Local shipments by 
producers will be permitted. 
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