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For  Rent:  Choice  DAIRY  FARM 
capable  of  carrying  25  to  30  cows;  in  high  state  of 
cultivation;  good  buildings:  modern  equipment,  in¬ 
cluding  silos.  Apply  ARTHUR  DANK.S,  Mgr., 
Allamuchy,  N.  J.  T»l ;  8R3,  Hackettstown 
For  Sale:  Dairy  and  Potato  Farm 
about  75  acres;  all  under  cultivation;  capable  of 
carrying  20  cows.  Water  in  house  and  barn.  Ample 
silo,  good  roads  and  convenient  to  Railroad  and 
Creamery.  Apply  ARTHUR  OANKS,  Mar.,  Allamuchy,  N.  J. 
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ORANGES-GRAPEFRUIT— Tree  ripened,  direct 
from  grower;  packed  in  grove;  bushel  boxes 
mixed,  $2.50;  send  check  with  order.  E.  K. 
WALKER,  JR.,  Wauchula,  Fla. 
ALFALFA  AND  TIMOTHY  HAY— Several  cars 
mixed  and  straight  Alfalfa  for  sale;  also  clear 
Timothy  and  straw.  W.  A.  WITHROW,  Route 
4,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
FOR  SALE — Pure  extracted  buckwheat  honey, 
in  pails,  5  lbs.  net;  price  80c,  postpaid  in  sec¬ 
ond  zone.  EDWIN  RICKARD,  Schoharie,  N.  Y. 
HONEY— Quart,  80c;  gallon,  $2.50;  delivered 
third  zone.  RICHARD  D.  BARCLAY,  River¬ 
ton,  N.  J. 
HONEY — Pure  extracted,  postpaid  first  three 
zones;  clover,  5  lbs.,  $1.25;  10  lbs.,  $2.15; 
buckwheat,  5  lbs.,  $1;  10  lbs.,  $1.90;  satisfac¬ 
tion  guaranteed.  WALNUT  ORCHARD  FARM, 
Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
WHITE  RICE  POPCORN  (old);  fine  popping 
guaranteed;  10  lbs.,  shelled,  $1;  send  postage 
extra;  100  lbs.,  $7,  f.  o.  b.  Guilford.  BISHOP 
BROS.,  Guilford,  Conn. 
HONEY — Finest  quality  extracted  clover-bass¬ 
wood,  5  lbs.,  $1.20;  10  lbs.,  $2.05;  buckwheat, 
$1  and  $1.80;  postpaid  within  third  zone;  (50-lb. 
can  buckwheat,  $6  here.  H.  F.  WILLIAMS, 
Romulus,  N.  Y. 
PURE  HONEY— Circular  free.  ROSCOE  F. 
WIXSON,  Dept.  G,  Dundee,  N.  Y. 
FOR  SALE  —  Finest  white  clover  extracted 
honey;  5-lb.  pail,  $1.10;  10-lb.  pail,  $2.15; 
delivered  to  3d  postal  zone.  NOAH  BORDNER, 
Holgate,  O. 
WANT  Mammoth  Candee  incubator,  from  5,000 
to  10,000-egg  capacity;  state  condition  and 
price.  M.  KOSENKO,  Plainville,  Conn. 
WANTED — Old  one-wheel  combined  mower  and 
reaper,  Kirby,  Hussey,  Dorsey,  Maury  or  New 
Yorker,  manufactured  before  1880.  Address 
BOX  35,  Newark  Valley,  N.  Y. 
PURE  MAPLE  SYRUP  —  Satisfaction  guaran¬ 
teed;  $2.25  per  gallon,  f.  o.  b.  SIGNOR  & 
EADIE,  De  Lancey,  N.  Y. 
STRAW  FLOWERS  for  Winter  bouquets,  50c 
per  bunch,  prepaid.  H.  HILLS,  Bristol,  Ind. 
MILK  CHOCOLATE— Made  at  oar  dairy;  the 
best  you  ever  tasted;  box  of  120  pieces,  2  lbs. 
net,  postpaid,  for  $1;  stores  sell  this  at  $1.75; 
thousands  of  Rural  New-Yorker  readers  among 
my  well  satisfied  customers.  Are  you  one  of 
them?  Please  send  remittance  with  order.  R. 
W.  WIND,  Babylon,  L.  I„  N,  Y. 
FOR  SALE — Baldwin  A  Grade  214-inch;  will 
sell  for  ungraded,  $4,  delivered.  ADVER¬ 
TISER  2287,  care  Rural  New-Yorker. 
HONEY — Extracted  clover-basswood,  60-lb.  can 
at  our  station,  $7.80;  buckwheat,  $6.30;  10 
lbs.,  delivered  in  third  postal  zone,  $2.05;  buck¬ 
wheat,  $1.80.  RAY  C.  WILCOX,  Odessa,  N.  Y. 
CLOVER  HONEY — Five-pound  pail,  $1,  post¬ 
paid  into  third  zone.  JOHN  MOSHER, 
Moravia,  N.  Y. 
ALFALFA — Several  cars  first  and  second  cut¬ 
ting  mixed  Alfalfa,  containing  small  amount 
of  fine  grass;  $15;  good  horse  or  cow  hay. 
LESTER  W.  BENNETT,  Victor,  N.  Y. 
PURE,  wholesome,  delicious  home-made  plain 
taffies,  3  lbs.  for  $1;  walnut  and  English  taffy 
and  caramel,  214  lbs.  for  $1;  postpaid  Into  3d 
zone;  send  cash  or  P.  O.  money  order,  please. 
MRS.  R.  0.  MacKLEY,  Brogueville,  Pa. 
HONEY— 67  lbs.  (net),  extra  clover,  in  useful, 
heavy  army  milk  can,  $6,75  f.  o.  b.  here;  am¬ 
ber  clover  in  60-lb.  regular  cans,  $6;  10-lb. 
clover  prepaid,  $2;  satisfaction  and  purity  guar¬ 
anteed.  F.  W.  LESSER,  Fayettville,  N.  Y. 
SUNNY  BROOK  FARM  pure  pork  sausage,  made 
from  our  own  pigs  on  our  own  farm;  3  lbs. 
for  $1,  postpaid.  SUNNY  BROOK  FARM,  Win- 
terton,  Sullivan  Co.,  N.  Y, 
WANTED — Any  part  of  300  bushels  good 
wheat;  will  furnish  bags;  send  sample  and 
price.  SPRING  BROOK  POULTRY  FARM,  De- 
wittville,  N.  Y. 
WANTED — Witte  log  and  branch  saw;  also 
honey  extractor,  two  or  four-frame,  good  con¬ 
dition.  LINN  MOWRY,  Oxford,  N.  Y. 
FOR  SALE — Grimm  3-pan  sap  evaporator,  250- 
tree  size;  also  100  buckets,  spiggots,  ther¬ 
mometer,  etc.;  practically  new;  bargain;  $95 
cash,  f.  0.  b.  ADVERTISER  2316,  care  Rural 
New-Yorker. 
TIMOTHY  HAY  and  oat  straw  for  sale.  GLENN 
T.  CARTER,  Marathon,  N.  Y. 
CHOICE  MAPLE  SYRUP— $2.25  per  gallon; 
$1.25  per  one-half  gallon;  60c  per  quart;  f.  o. 
b.  Rupert,  Vt. ;  remit  with  order.  JAY  T. 
SMITH,  Rupert,  Vt. 
WANTED — Star  well  drill,  No.  32,  in  good  con¬ 
dition;  state  particulars.  C.  L.  WRIGHT, 
Hamden,  Conn. 
A  DELIGHTFUL  gift  for  sweethearts  and 
friends — Sweet  scented  and  soothing,  picked 
fresh,  Aunt  Hannah’s  genuine  Adirondack  bal¬ 
sam  pillow,  3  lbs.,  $1.25;  check  with  order. 
HANNAH  PAYNE,  Raquette  Lake,  N.  Y. 
CYPHERS  244-egg  incubator,  in  first-class  con¬ 
dition,  $20,  crated.  CHARLES  BROCKWAY, 
Moravia,  N.  Y. 
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THE  HENYARD 
Ipecac  for  Turkeys 
I  note  you  ask  for  experience  in  giving 
ipecac  treatment  for  blackhead  in  tur¬ 
keys.  Well,  after  20  or  25  head  of  ours 
had  turned  up  their  toes,  we  bought  a 
dime’s  worth  of  powdered  ipecac  and  laid 
it  up  handy  for  the  next  sick  one.  We 
could  hardly  give  it  in  drinking  water 
without  making  greater  changes  in  their 
quarters  than  we  cared  to  make,  and  the 
next  one  to  take  sick  caught  me  busy 
about  something  else,  and  I  neglected  it, 
:  and  it  died  promptly.  Another  got  so 
sick  it  could  not  get  away,  and  I  caught 
,  it  and  gave  it  a  dose  about  half  the  size 
of  a  small  pea,  each  night  and  morning. 
The  third  day  it  had  improved  enough  to 
keep  out  of  my  way.  This  operation  has 
been  repeated  with  others  seven  or  eight 
times ;  only  one  or  two  required  only  two 
doses.  Not  a  single  failure. 
Missouri.  D.  B.  THOMAS. 
Feeding  for  Eggs 
Are  boiled  oats  figured  by  dry  weight 
in  making  up  the  feed  ration?  Four 
pounds  of  dry  oats,  boiled,  nearly  fill  a 
12-quart  pail,  after  draining.  I  feed  half 
in  morning,  half  at  noon,  to  100  pullets, 
with  dry  mash  of  equal  parts  (by  weight) 
bran,  white  middlings,  cornmeal  (mostly 
siftings  from  cracked  corn ) ,  good  grade 
beef  scrap,  ground  charcoal  and  salt.  The 
local  ground  oats  are  not  very  good.  In 
the  evening,  9  to  10  p.  m.,  the  pullets  do 
not  seem  hungry.  About  two-thirds  come 
off  roosts  and  seldom  clean  up  4  lbs.  of 
cracked  corn,  being  about  8  lbs.  per  day 
of  grain,  in  place  of  12  to  15  lbs.  The 
finding  of  cracked  corn  in  litter  of  pul¬ 
lets’  house  prompted  the  above  question. 
Hens  fed  the  same  cracked  corn  in  next 
building  are  crazy  for  corn.  The  pullets 
are  indifferent.  liens  not  laying ;  pullets 
lay  better  than  40  per  cent  for  month, 
November  20  to  December  20.  For  green 
stuff  I  am  using  fine  grass,  cut  up  short, 
soaked  in  warm  water  and  hung  up  in 
nets.  Hens  are  indifferent,  pullets  go 
wild.  Beets  do  not  seem  in  favor  at  all. 
There  is  the  usual  attention  of  clean 
buildings,  plenty  of  wheat,  straw  litter, 
shell,  grit,  coarse  charcoal,  dust  boxes, 
ventilators,  etc.  Have  used  soaked  or 
boiled  oats  all  Summer,  with  grain  in 
self-feeders  always  open;  no  change  in 
mashes,  always  open.  After  feeding  grain 
in  litter  for  six  weeks  the  above  question 
develops,  and  unless  there  is  a  difference 
in  feeding  value  of  boiled  oats  from  dry, 
am  due  for  a  breakdown  on  pullets’  pro¬ 
duction,  or  must  change  methods  of  feed¬ 
ing.  Can  you  advise  me  in  any  way? 
Vermont.  ,  m.  m.  a. 
The  food  value  of  oats  is  not  changed 
by  boiling  or  sprouting;  the  grain  is 
simply  made  more  palatable  by  these 
measures  and,  in  the  case  of  sprouted 
oats,  the  grain  becomes  “greens,”  or  of 
a  succulent  nature.  If  oats  are  eaten  to 
the.  exclusion  of  other  grains,  I  should 
limit  the  quantity  fed,  though  an  egg 
yield  of  40  per  cent  in  December  does  not 
indicate  anything  materially  wrong  with 
your  method  of  feeding.  Fowls’  appe¬ 
tites  vary  with  conditions ;  those  laying 
will  eat  more  food  than  those  that  are 
idle,  and  will  require  more  of  their  food 
in  the  form  of  ground  grains.  Grain 
should  be  fed  by  the  requirements  and  ap¬ 
petites  of  the  fowls,  not  by  weight.  If 
grain  is  being  left  in  the  litter,  the  fowls 
are  being  fed  too  much,  though  a  surplus 
of  grain  at  night  may  be  given,  so  that 
there  may  be  some  in  the  litter  for  the 
early  birds  of  the  following  morning. 
Watch  the  fowls ;  feed  lightly  of  whole 
grains  in  the  morning,  to  encourage  ac¬ 
tivity  and  consumption  of  mash,  but  give 
all  that  will  be  eaten  at  the  last  feeding 
for  the  day,  but  don’t  tie  up  to  “pounds 
per  day.”  m.  b.  d. 
Pumpkins  for  Hens 
I  would  like  information  relative  to 
feeding  pumpkins  to  hens.  Does  it  do 
any  harm  to  let  the  hens  have  the  seeds? 
My  neighbor,  who  has  several  hundred 
hens,  and  more  experience  than  I,  cau¬ 
tions  against  the  seeds.  My  hens  eat 
pumpkins  with  much  relish.  If  ripened 
and  harvested  before  hard  frost  they  may 
be  kept  until  late  in  Winter,  and  it  seems 
to  me  they  make  a  good  succulent  food, 
and  a  cheap  substitute  for  such  as  cab¬ 
bages,  beets  or  sprouted  oats,  though  I 
always  plan  to  feed  cabbages  and  beets, 
too,  if  I  can  manage  to  raise  enough,  in 
spite  of  the  woodchucks,  etc.  M.  L.  B. 
New  York. 
I  have  fed  pumpkins  in  limited  quan¬ 
tities  to  laying  hens  and  have  not  re¬ 
moved  the  seeds — the  hens  attend  to  that. 
If  there  is  any  reason  why  they  should 
not  be  fed  in  reasonable  amount  to  fowls 
I  do  not  know  of  it.  Hens  like  them, 
and  the  seeds  have  some  little  value  as  j 
intestinal  worm  removers.  Your  neigh-  < 
bor  may  have  some  good  reason  for  be-  ' 
lieving  pumpkin  seeds  to  be  injurious  to 
fowls,  or,  like  the  rest  of  us,  he  may  have 
taken  someone’s  statement  without  verify¬ 
ing  it.  If  kept  in  a  dry,  cool  place,  pump¬ 
kins  may  be  preserved  for  a  long  time  ; 
we  make  pies  in  April  from  pumpkins  and 
squashes  kept  by  the  smoke  pipe  of  the 
house  furnace  “upstairs.”  Here,  they 
are  kept  at  a  very  uniform  and  moder¬ 
ate  temperature,  never  getting  either  very 
warm  or  very  cold,  and  they  dry  down 
rather  than  decay.  In  the  cellar  they 
would  keep  but  a  very  short  time. 
M.  b.  D. 
Which  Kind  Grows 
on  Your  Farm? 
Tl^ORE  sound,  plump  grains  per  head — and  more 
A  ▼  *  heads  per  acre !  That’s  the  aim  of  every  farmer. 
A  good  harvest  depends  primarily  upon  good  seeding 
— the  proper  deposit  of  every  grain  in  the  soil — at 
exactly  the  right  depth — and  exactly  the  right  dis¬ 
tance  from  its  neighbor 
_  erior 
Grain  Drills 
For  Team  or  any  Tractor 
give  your  grain  “the  right  start  in  life.”  Even  spacing, 
uniform  depth  and  every  seed  covered  properly  —  these 
vitally  important  requisites  of  successful  seeding  are  abso¬ 
lutely  assured  with  the  Superior  Grain  Drill. 
For  over  fifty  years  Superior  seeding  has  meant  better 
seeding.  The  purchase  of  a  Superior  is  the  best  investment 
any  farmer  can  make. 
The  American  Seeding-Machine  Company 
Springfield,  Ohio,  U.  S.  A. 
:  \  - 
V-  if- 
Here’s  the  “runt”  head— 
the  kind  that  spells  LOSS 
Here’s  the  full,  plump  head 
that  puts  money  in  the  bank 
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