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8.  C.W.L.EGHORN  BULLETS 
175  fine,  heavy,  free  range  farm-raised  pullets,  hatched 
from  hens  of  heavy-laying  stock.  Ferris  and  Wyckoff 
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and  May  20th  hatches  Prices  $1,75  and  $2,  respectively. 
J.  NEWELL  DAVIS  -  Cranbury,  N.  J. 
Mattituck  White  Leghorn  Farm 
Cockerels  from  certified  stock  from  $2.50  to  $10,  Some 
certified.  Very  handeome  and  well  bred. 
PENNY  &  GORDON  -  Mattituck,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. 
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Rock  Cockerels.  Pine  Hurst  Poultry  Farm,  Port  Koysl,  Pa. 
50  Selected  S.  G.  White  Leghorn  Cockerels 
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ill  certification  work  LAWIIKNOE  W.  Mil, I. Ml,  Aryyle,  N  Y. 
WANTED-500S.  C.  White  Leghorn 
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Lord  Farma  Strain.  92*50  and  S3. 
E.  W.  DAY  -  Lakeville,  Conn. 
For  Sale-Forty-five  Yearling  Hens  Ht™med 
certified  hen’s  eggs.  L.  F.  Torsleff,  Union  Springs,  N.Y. 
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Riverdale  Poultry  Farm  -  Rlverdale,  N.  J. 
THE  HENYARD 
Feeding  Questions 
1.  Would  you  advise  me  as  to  the  kind 
of  grit  best  suited  to  Leghorns?  Here 
we  are  offered  limestone,  one  white  grit 
which  resembles  crushed  marble,  and  a 
dark  sharp  stone  which  has  a  flaky  sub¬ 
stance  included,  which  some  claim  is  in¬ 
jurious  to  hens.  The  limestone  is  uot  the 
least  bit  sharp,  but  rather  round  in  form. 
2.  Are  sprouted  oats  intended  to  take  the 
place  of  the  oat  part  of  the  grain  ration 
— T  mean  the  scratch  grain?  3.  In  using 
lights,  which  is  the  proper  method?  I  in¬ 
tend  using  lights  from  six  o’clock  in  the 
morning  until  daylight,  and  from  4:30  or 
five  o’clock  to  seven  in  the  evening. 
Should  the  scratch  feed  be  fed  at  the  fore 
part  of  the  evening  so  they  can  eat  by 
natural  light,  or  fed  at  five  or  six  o’clock 
by  artificial  light?  I  will  use  gasoline 
lanterns.  I  understand  that  lighting  is 
intended  to  increase  the  food  time,  but 
whether  it  means  dry  mash  or  scratch  I 
cannot  figure  out.  4.  My  April  hatched 
pullets  are  laying  about  20  per  cent,  with 
about  12  per  cent  of  meat  in  mash  and  a 
little  sour  milk.  Is  this  too  much? 
Newark,  N.  Y.  w.  j.  p. 
1.  The  , grits  that  you  mention  are 
probably  ordinary  limestones,  crushed 
marble  and  quartz,  with  flakes  of  mica. 
I  do  not  know  that  one  form  of  grit  is 
particularly  superior  to  another!  though 
grit  with  sharp  edges  is  said  to  be  better 
than  rounded  pebbles,  the  idea  being  that 
grit  is  grinding  machinery  and  that  it 
needs  sharp  grinding  surfaces.  This  may 
or  may  not  be  true.  It  is  probable  that 
the  lime  from  any  one  of  these  forms  of 
mineral  substances  is  used  in  part  as 
shell-making  material,  but  sufficient,  lime 
should  be  available  in  the  form  of  crushed 
oyster  shells  where  a  flock  is  confined.  I 
should  ilse  the  grit  that  I  could  purchase 
most  cheaply.  If  you  live  where  they  are 
building  macadam  roads,  you  may  be 
able  to  get  finely  crushed  limestone  with¬ 
out  cost. 
2.  Sprouted  oats  will  replace  the  oafs 
in  the  scratch  grain,  but  the  chief  reason 
for  sprouting  this  grain  is  to  render  it 
more  palatable  and  to  furnish  green  stuff 
in  the  Winter. 
3.  Artificial  lighting  is  for  the  purpose 
of  working  in  an  extra  meal  and  keeping 
the  hens  from  going  with  empty  crops  for 
several  hours  of  the  early  morning.  This 
meal  should  be  of  scratch  grains  and  may 
be  given  in  the  evening,  about  eight 
o’clock,  or  before  daylight  in  the  morn¬ 
ing.  No  need  for  lighting  both  night  and 
morning.  Try  to  make  the  fowls’  work¬ 
ing  days  of  about  13  hours’  length  by 
clipping  off  one  end  or  the  other  of  the 
long  Winter  night. 
Twelve  per  cent  of  meat  in  the  mash 
is  none  too  much  ;  as  high  as  20  per  cent 
is  given  in  the  dry  mash.  Sour  milk  will 
replace  part  of  it.  M.  b.  d. 
S.  C.  RHODE  ISLAND  RED  COCKERELS 
Fiue  farm-raised  birds  of  Mahogany  strain.  $5  each. 
Pocanilco  Hills  Poultry  Farm  Pocantlco  Hills,  N.  Y. 
Rhode  Island  Red  Pullets.  1  lb.,  &Oc;  Di-lb.,  ?Oc. 
A.  CHUBB  •  Randolph,  Now  York 
Dul Into  Beds,  Rocks.  3  lbs.,  40c  lb.;  3 H>. 
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Blood  Spots  in  Eggs 
I  have  100  year-old  White  Leghorns. 
They  started  to  lay  last  November,  and 
have  done  well  until  now.  I  get  about 
12  to  14  eggs  a  day  but  several  have 
blood  spots  in  them.  I  trap-nest  them, 
and  found  one  hen  that  laid  such  eggs, 
and  got  rid  of  it,  but  find  I  now  have 
more  of  the  same.  These  hens  have  not 
started  to  molt  bad  as  yet,  and  are  some 
of  my  best  layers.  Can  you  tell  me  the 
pause  and  what  I  can  do  for  them?  I 
wanted  to  breed  from  them  next  Spring. 
Do  you  think  they  are  run  down  and 
need  a  tonic.  I  feed  Cornell  mash  and 
cracked  corn  and  wheat  for  scratch. 
Whippany,  N.  *T.  mrs.  d.  l.  b. 
Blood  spots  in  eggs  are  caused  by  the 
breaking  of  a  small  blood  vessel  of  the 
oviduct  or  ovary  and  the  inculslon  with¬ 
in  the  egg  of  the  blood  clot  thus  formed. 
There  is  no  way  of  preventing  the  acci¬ 
dent,  which  is  harmless  save  for  the  dam¬ 
age  it  does  the  egg.  Possibly  overfat  or 
heavily  laying  hens  are  more  apt  to  lay 
eggs  with  these  blood  clots,  just  as  a 
plethoric  person  is  more  likely  to  suffer 
from  nose  bleed  than  an  anemic  one — 
granting  that  this  popular  idea  is  founded 
upon  fact— -but  it  is  “not  worth  while  to 
starve  a  hen  in  order  to  prevent  the  lay¬ 
ing  of  eggs  with  blood  spots  inside.  If 
a  hen  that  does  this  habitually  can  be 
found,  it  would  be  well  to  dispose  of  her 
but  such  eggs  are  easily  detected  before 
the  candle  and, candling  must  ordinarily 
he  depended  upon  to  keep  them  out  of 
the  market.  Give  the  egg  a  quick  twirl 
before  the  candle  and  the  blood  spot  will 
come  to  light.  ,  ;  m.  b.  d. 
Barley  for  Poultry 
IIow  should  I  feed  barley,  thrashed, 
leaving  long  stems,  to  chickens?  Would 
it  be  all  right  to  feed  it  with  oats,  corn 
and  buckwheat  as  a  scratch  feed  to  take 
the  place  of  ground  oats  in  mash?  My 
neighbor  said  it  would  kill  them.  a.  h. 
Gloversville,  N.  Y. 
Barley  is  good  food  for  fowls,  either 
ground  as  part  of  the  mash  or  given 
whole  as  part  of  the  scratch  grain.  There 
may  be  some  objection  to  feeding  the 
bearded  variety  unthrashed,  but,  as  the 
beards  are  practically  ail  broken  off  in 
thrashing,  I  can  see  no  reason  why  the 
thrashed  grain  should  not  be  given  whole. 
Its  feeding  value  is  about  the  same  as 
that  of  corn,  oats  or  wheat,  and  it  is 
much  used  in  poultry  rations,  m.  b.  d. 
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