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JONES’ B £g«| D CHICKS 
Owing to the great demand for chicks, will 
start Incubator Nov. 17. Breeders strictly 
culled by State Board of Agriculture. This 
combined with New Incubator 150,000 eggs 
and 10 years experience in baby chick busi¬ 
ness puts me in a position to sell you Good 
Strong Pure Bred Chicks at reasonable 
prices. Pedigreed Certified Stock, Contest 
Records: 313. 288, 268, 251. Catalog. 
A. C. JONES GEORGETOWN, BEL,. 
Leghorn Breeders, ATTENTION! 
Pure Hollywood pedigreed breeding cockerels from 
hens with 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. 312 and328 egg dams. Price, $7.50; $10.00 and $15.00 
each. Satisfaction or money back. Can furnish breed¬ 
ings hen's, trios and pens of this breeding at reason¬ 
able prices ; pedigrees furnished. 
FIVE POINT LEGHORN FARM Mt. Ephraim, N. J. 
SINGLE COMB 
White LEGHORNS Exclusively 
3,000 breeders on free Farm Range. Pure Bar¬ 
ron English Strain, out of imported birds. 
200 Pullets ready to lay; 50Hens; 50 Cocks; 100 
Cockerels for sale. Now booking orders for 
baby chicks, Feb., March and April delivery. 
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EDGAR BRIGGS, SUNNY BROOK FARM 
Box 75 Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
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, 
Northern Grown r. i Red Chicks 
State Certified free from White Diarrhoea. Our hardy 
Jan. and Feb. hatched chicks are naturally adapted to 
Winter brooding- and pay big profits as early broilers. 
Catalog free. MapleHIIIFarms, Walpole,NewHampshlre 
Mattituck White Leghorn Farm 
April and May Pullets SSSt; 
stock, 81.50 to 82.35, according to age and ma¬ 
turity. Fenny & Gordon, Mattituck, JL. I., N.Y. 
500 May Hatched S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
from heavy laying stock. These birds have been 
reared on free range and are in good condition. 
Price, SI.50 to $2 each, according to size and age. 
KIRKUP BROS. Mattituck, L,. I., N.Y. 
Rose and Single Comb Reds 
The birds that are making Knick’s Reds famous. Big, 
husky, farm-raised Cockerels and Pullets, bred for 
vigor, large size, dark red color and heavy laying. 
Fair prices and a square deal always. Catalog free. 
RALPH KNICKERBOCKER. R. 36. PINE PLAINS, N. V. 
IS.O.Hrlu.I.IPULLETS 
March hatched. Free from disease. Tested for B, 
W. Diarrhoea. 83 up; Cockerels. 85. 
L. R. HARRIS Eambertville, N. J, 
RHODE ISLAND - \?U r HITES 1 SINGLE 
TRAPNESTED STOCK fCOMB 
Winners in the national contests. Pullets, April hatched, 
$8.50; May hatched, $8; yearling hens, $8.50; choice 
cockerels, $5, $7.50, $10. Show birds a matter of cor¬ 
respondence. Satf’n guarant’d. O. G. L. LEWIS, Paoll, Pa. 
D I D „ J e Cocks, Hens, CockerelB, Pullets. Fine quality. 
ft.I. IYCU5 Cheap. S. BOWDEN, Box 196, Mansfield. O. 
lersey Black Giants — Growing stock, pullets and cocker 
J els, $1.80 each and up. BR00KCRFST FARM, Cranial ry, N. J 
White Leghorn and Barred Rock Pullets ££ stock! 
This season's pens. WALTER SCHEDLER, Catskill, N. T. Ronle 1 
White Wvnnrlnffeo 3 ’ 000 Cockg,Hens,Cockerels,Pullets- 
fl llllc If ydllUOlieS Catalogue. Special price on Yearl. 
ing Hens, BOWDEN, While Wyandotte Speeielist, Mansfield, Okie 
Pullnte Wyandottes, Rocks, Brahmas, Minorcas, Legh’ns, 
rUIICla Orpingtons, $2.50. S.M. lUI.I., Box 77,Cannniliurg. P«, 
SPECIAL FALL PRICES ON TURKEYS 
$15 per pair. Geese — $10 per pair. Catalog free. Order 
now and save money. FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM, Telford, Pa. 
TOULOUSE GEESE 1 ®^ 
young birds from New York and Chicago winners. 
Selected breeders, ganders and geese, 810 each; 
three for 828. MAPLE FARM, R. F. 0.. Bordentown, N. J. 
"p 1 Special Discount on young and old breeders. 
1 UrKPVS Also ducks and geese. Write your wants. 
au* H A Souder Box 29 Sellersvillo Pa. 
flAROEE'S nilAlff* America's Standard 
Perfect 8111 La US Strain. Drakes Only 
1 ERIN ■* UV11V PARDEE’S PEKINS. ISLIP. N.Y. 
Large Stock Poultry.Turkeys, Geese d h u a r s es pi pu°ps s 
CHICKS, EGGS, low. Catalog. PIONEER FARMS, Telford,Pa! 
Squab Book FREE 
Squabs sellingat highest priceeeverknown. Greatest 
market for 20 years. Make money breeding them. 
\ Raisedinone month. We Bhip every where our fa- 
mousbreedingstockandsupplies. Established 
" L 24yrs. Writenowforbigillustratedfreebook, 
How to to Make Money Breeding Squabs. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO., 
205 H St., Melrose Highlands, Mass. 
For Sale-Fine Pure Bronze Turkeys to"*". 
W C Geese- Bre - ders ^ ’ 2 yr * old ' Females at * 4 eaci1 - 
Ed. Straw 
Columbus. N, J. 
260-Egg S bln LeghomChicks 
Moderately priced; finest to be had; parents home 
grown; cocks changed yearly; something better 
than you ever had before; limited number to be 
sold. Hatches—February—March—April. 
HIRAM SOUTHGATE R. D. Long Branch, N. J. 
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hlte Wy and ottos—Regal-Dorcas strain. Fine cocke’ls, 
Pullets, Hens—$3each. R. Hill, Seneca Falls, N.Y. 
S O Din aL, Minnmno Cocks, cockerels, breeding hens 
, U. OlaCK lYlinurCaS and pullets. Selected thorougn- 
br-edstock. Write for prices, willis NORTHROP, Prsttsburg.N.ir. 
T RAPNESTED BARRED ROCKS. Bred 15 years. Vigorous breed¬ 
ing c’k’ls, hens. Circ. free. A. L. SEARLES, Box N, Milford, N. H. 
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Edmond’s Poultry Account Book 
Price $1. For sale by The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
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THE HENYARD 
Decombing or Dubbing 
Leghorns 
We -have had no experience of the 
practice of decombing or “dubbing” as 
it is called, though we have heard of 
many farms where it is practiced. We 
should be inclined to wait till further 
and more exact knowledge of its results 
lias been worked out before trying it on 
our own flock of cockerels, as the comb 
has always been regarded as in some way 
a sex characteristic. It would certainly 
be a convenient and practical method of 
avoiding one of the main difficulties of 
Winter, if it turns out to be a harmless 
one. Under no circumstances, however, 
should we think of applying it to our 
pullets. MARQUIS & WAGNER. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
My experience in dubbing Leghorn 
cockerels in order to protect them from 
frost has been somewhat limited. I think 
I dubbed more than 20 males last Janu¬ 
ary. I could see no adverse results 
whatsoever. In fact, I had some male 
birds so badly frozen that they would 
neither eat nor drink, and I feel that I 
would have lost at least a few of them 
if I had not taken off their combs and 
wattles. Within a few hours after tak¬ 
ing off their combs and wattles they 
would eat and were soon in good health 
again. 
I have used a pair of tin-snips to per¬ 
form the operation, and then have im¬ 
mediately painted the wound with tinc¬ 
ture of iron. I would not care to at¬ 
tempt to dub pullets. The bad feature 
of dubbing males is that it is almost im¬ 
possible to sell the same for breeders 
after you have once operated on them. 
Michigan. w. c. eckard. 
I have not done any decombing on my 
fowls, and hardly believe it necessarv to 
follow this practice in this climate, as I 
do not believe the weather gets quite cold 
enough to have to resort to the practice. 
I have heard of a farm at Williamstown, 
Mass, where they have done some de¬ 
combing, also on their pullets, last year, 
and am informed there were no better re¬ 
sults through the decombing, as far as 
egg production was concerned. 
I do not believe it any more cruel than 
other operations necessary in live stock 
keeping, although naturally unsightly on 
account of large loss of blood involved, 
and do not think I would care to take up 
this practice because, I do not believe it 
necessary in our region. 
As far as having bad effect on egg pro¬ 
duction, I do not believe there is any¬ 
thing in this. If egg production is bred 
in a hen the mere clipping of the comb 
should not have any effect on egg laying. 
If the hen naturally has a strong, large 
comb, that is one of the signs of vigor 
and health, and I cannot see how just 
the cutting of the comb should affect the 
laying quality of the hen; in fact in 
climates where the temperature reaches 
say 20 to 40 degrees and more below 
zero, I would say that decombing would 
be an advantage, as we all know that a 
bird w T ith a frozen comb, when in that 
state, will lose its pep to a large extent 
and egg laying will be seriously affected. 
New Jersey. chas. beck. 
Indian Runner Ducks 
Six years ago this duck was well 
advertised as a good laying and paying 
bird. They are hardly advertised and 
heard of today as a paying duck for 
eggs. Would you give me information 
about these ducks? I would like to start 
an Indian Runner duck egg farm if they 
are still recommended as a paying bird 
for the egg business. H. R. 
Crisfield, Md. 
Eight or nine years ago, during the 
rage of the Indian Runner, I tried two 
varieties, the White and the Fawn and 
White. I had only a few of each, not 
more than 50 in all, and after two years 
I found that they laid fewer eggs in the 
same period than my own strain of Pe- 
kins, and that they being small and the 
market demand for a 5 to 6-lb. duckling, 
there was little or no sale for them, at 
least at the profit there was to be had 
out of Pekins. I believe I had as good 
Runners as were generally to be had and 
they were fed the same wet mash as the 
other ducks—Rouens, Orpingtons and 
Pekins. I never attempted to sell their 
eggs for eating, and am not at all fa¬ 
miliar with what happened in the mar¬ 
ket, but I assume, and you probably 
have done the same, that there were so 
many duck eggs shipped that could not 
be s d on account of the general public 
not being educated to eat duck eggs that 
the shippers soon found it unprofitable, 
and the bubble soon collapsed. At the 
time I enlisted. April 21, 1917, the boom 
was still on, as I remember it, and sail¬ 
ing for France as I did the first of Sep¬ 
tember, 1917, I soon lost track of all 
poultry matters, so it may be the war 
was the cause of the Runner running 
down— I cannot say. roy e. pardee. 
Long Island. ..-i 
Pert Young Thing : “Don’t you think 
there should be more clubs for women?” 
Grumpy Old Thing: “Oh, no! I should 
he inclined to try kindness first.”—Lon¬ 
don Opinion. 
FARMER-‘'We’ll 
have enough eggs this 
year to afford a car : 
I’ll get it next week. ” 
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Pratts regulator always speeds up 
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Hundreds report 50% increase in 
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Some farms have doubled egg pro¬ 
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Its minerals and vitamins will 
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Your hens may be well-fed and 
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