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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  29,  1923 
Official  Record 
313  Eggs 
A.  C.  Jones’  Barred  Rocks. 
Winter  Chicks,  Breeding  Stock. 
Send  for  Prices. 
A.  C.  Jones’  Poultry  Farm 
Dept.  A  Georgetown,  Del. 
CRAIG’S  ROCKS 
100  B.'Rock  Cockerels,  ♦  6-$7  .60.  I.ate  Bergen  Co.  Con¬ 
test.  First  yeer— high  individual.  Third  year— high  pen 
Rock  class.  Pedigree  males  used  from  Prof.  Harry  Lewis. 
A  few  pullets  at  #9  25  each  Satisfaction  Guaranteed. 
J.  A.  CK  AM*  It.  I>.  Freehold,  N.  J. 
KENT  BARRED  ROCKS 
Pens  in  all  leading  contests.  Sweepstake  winners 
Cornell  Show  and  N.  Y.  State  Pair,  Syracuse.  Pedi¬ 
greed,  certified  breeding  Cocks,  Cockerels,  Hens. 
Baby  Chicks  and  Hatching  Eggs. 
XV.  H.  IS.  K  ENT  -  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 
ZEHRANCAIS’  BARRED  B.OCKS 
Pedigreed  Cockerels,  Cocks,  Pullets,  free  range 
stock,  from  hens  with  records  up  to  282-eggs.  Book¬ 
ing  orders  for  eggs,  chicks.  Hocus  and  Leghorn,  S3. 
White  Leghorn  pullets,  laying,  S250  per  100. 
Jules  F.  Francais,Westhampton  IJeach.N.Y. 
BARRED  ROCKS 
Rivordalo  Poultry  Farm 
White  Wyandottes,  R.  I.  Reds, 
March  pullets,  ♦2.75.  Year¬ 
lings  of  above  breeds,  $2.50. 
Itox  165  Rivordalo,  N.  J. 
Rorrori  Pnnl/Pullolo  Cockerels,  hens  for  sale.  Heavy 
DallcU  nuUKiUllclo  laying  strain.  First-second  pre¬ 
miums  Mineola  Fair.  The  Ramblers  Farm,  Homey,  N.  Y. 
DIRECT  IMPORTERS  OF 
TOM  BARRON 
White  Leghorn  Cockerels 
for  January  delivery.  Write  for  PRICE  and  description 
ROLLWOOD  FARM  -  Guilford,  Conn. 
S  White  Leghorns 
EXCLUSIVELY 
Pure  Barron  Strain.  3,000  breeders  on  free  farm  range. 
200  cocks  and  cockerels  for  sale  out  of  Imported  birds 
♦  5.00  each,  five  or  more,  ♦A. OO  each.  Now  booking 
orders  for  Baby  Chicks,  February,  March  and  April 
shipments.  My  Book,  “Profits  In  Poultry  Keeping 
Solved”,  $1,  or  free  with  all  glO  orders.  Circular  Free. 
EDGAR  BRIGGS.  Box  75.  PLEASANT  VALLEY.  N.  Y 
LEGHORN  BREEDERS-ATTENTION! 
THE  BEST  BUY  OE  THE  SEASON 
Early  hatched,  free  ranged,  well  grown,  pedigreed 
cockerels.  Pure  Hollywood  strain,  direct  from  Hol¬ 
lywood  Farms,  from  hens  with  records  of  220  eggs 
or  more.  Sire’s  dam,  275  eggs.  Some  ancestors  in 
pedigree,  over  300  eggers.  Price,  S5,  S7.50  and 
SSIO  each,  with  full  pedigree  furnished,  Must 
please  yon  in  every  way  or  your  money  back. 
FIVE  POINT  LEGHORN  FARM  Mt.  Ephraim.  N.  J. 
200  XUOZ.  EGCS 
Layed  by  80  Danish  White  Leghorns,  Jan.-Feb., 
1920.  7  Cocks,  S5  each;  15  Cockerels,  S3 ;  4  for 
SSIO.  Also  50  Buff  Leghorn  hens,  SI. 25  each,  or 
the  lot  for  S50.  Chas.  YV.  Gilbert,  Tully,  N.Y. 
Baby  Chicks  &  Hatching  Eggs 
S.  C.  White  Leghorn  Chicks  and  Eggs  from  heavy  pro¬ 
ducers  of  pure  White  eggs.  The  world’s  best  laying 
strain.  Imitated  by  many  and  equaled  by  none.  Satis¬ 
faction  guaranteed.  WHITE  LEGHORN  POULTRY  FARM,  Laurel.  Del. 
CEDARHURST  POULTRY  FARM 
High  Grrade  S.  C.  Anconas— S.  C.  W.  Leghorns 
RAHWAY  -  NEW  JERSEY 
Pure  Barron  White  Leghorns 
out  of  sires  whose  dams  have  records  of  272  to  289  eggs 
in  pullet  year,  $3.50  and  $5,  pure  Parks’ strain  Baried 
Rock  Cockerels.  Pine  Hurst  Poultry  Farm,  Port  Royal,  Ps. 
Buff  Leghorn  Cockerels  tonftnBaicnfor,eed  Washington; 
Buffalo  blue  ribbon  winners.  Breeding  hens,  S2. 
Orecniord  Poultry  Farm  Silver  Creek,  N.  Y. 
BreedingCockerels 
the  Pa.  State  Co|lege. 
Wyokoff’s  strain  S.  C.  W.  Leg¬ 
horns.  Selected  by  Specialists  of 
Paul  Anthony,  East  Berlin,  Pa. 
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$1^95  Champion 
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140  Egg  Incubator 
Hot-Water,  Copper  Tank,  Double 
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230  Size  Incubator  and  Brooder  $29.95 
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Belle  City  Incubator  Co.  Box  08  Racine, Wis. 
SPROUTED  OATS 
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their  diastase,  grape  sugar,  and  vita- 
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Iowa 
Mayroyd  Poultry  Farm 
BREEDERS  OF  SINGLE  COMB  WHITE  LEGHORNS  AND  BARRED 
PLYMOUTH  ROCKS  ”  THAT  LAY  AND  PAY." 
NEW  DORP  HEIGHTS  Box  B  Staten  Island.  N.Y. 
SC.  Brown  mid  Eng.  XV,  l.egliornR.  Hens,  pullets. 
•  Fed.  $1  to  $3.  Cut.  Vera  Fulton,  B  9B,  Oallipolis,  Ohio 
RHODE  ISLAND  RED 
SINGLES  ROSE  COMB 
Lester  Tompkins.  Also  Owen  Farm  strain.  Each  strain 
kept  separate.  My  flock  dark  red,  extra  good  layers. 
Won  First  on  Young  Farm  Flock  at  New  York  State 
Fair,  1923.  Buby  chicks— February  to  June. 
Mrs.  C.  D.  VAN  ALSTINE  -  Weedsport,  N.  Y. 
UVEA  HOG  ANY  STRAIN 
S.  C.  Rhode  Island  Reds,  Cockerels.  Early  hatched^ 
S5  each.  Hatching  eggs,  $12  per  100.  Breeding  stock. 
Circular.  B.  Quackenbush  Darien,  Conn. 
H.  TOMPKINS  AND  Q  D  C  C  DCnC 
PAYNE  BROS  STRAIN  **  O.V*.  HC-UO 
Big,  husky  farm  raised  cock’rls  and  pullets,  bred  for  vigor, 
large  size,  dark  red  color  and  heavy  laying.  20  p.  cat.  free. 
Ralph  Knickerbocker,  R.  D.  36,  Pine  Plains,  N.  Y. 
RHODEISLAND  REDS)  Single 
RHODE  ISLAND  WHITES /Comb 
Choice  Cockerels,  Bred  for  eggs  and  color,  lion- 
brooding  strain,  #5,  87.50  and  810. 
O.  G.  L.  LEWIS  -  PAOLI,  PA. 
S.C.R.I.RED  COCKERELS 
Prom  289-egg  stock.  85,  88  and  810  each. 
Anna  M.  Jones  -  Craryville,  N.  Y. 
S.  C.  R.  I .  R  ED— Production  Bred  Cockerels 
From  "certified  "  hens  by  sons  of  Advanced  Regis¬ 
try  hen,  84  each.  Certified,  81 0  each, 
L.  Arthur  Sheldon  R.  7  Oswego,  N.Y, 
Production  Bred  Poultry  Pays  Bigger  Profits 
New  York  State  Co-operative  Poultry  Certification  Association,  Inc. 
Members  of  this  Association  have  for  sale  the  following: 
2,000  Certified  hens;  100  Certified  Cocks ;  1,000  Certified  cockerels; 
1,400  selected  cockerels  and  4,000  pullets.  Write  for  sales  list. 
M.  C.  PORTER,  Secretary  Box  110  RODMAN,  N.  Y. 
THE  MAGIC  COAL 
BURNING  BROODER 
has  stood  the  test  when  other  makes  have  failed.  It  is 
constructed  to  regulate  the  heat  without  attention  during 
the  night.  The  top  and  bottom  drafts  work  automatically 
by  two  sensitive  thermostats  which  causes  an  even 
temperature  of  heat— necessary  for  brooding  young  chicks. 
Do  not  think  of  purchasing  elsewhere  before  you  send 
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I 
EGG-LAYING  CONTEST 
In  answer  to  many  questions  about  this  egg- 
laying  contest,  the  following  facts  are  given: 
It  is  held  at  Storrs  Postoffice  in  connection 
with  the  Connecticut  Agricultural  College.  The 
contest  begins  Nov  mber  1.  There  are  10  pul¬ 
lets  in  each  pen.  All  the  birds  receive  uniform 
treatment.  The  houses  are  all  alike,  and  the 
feed  is  the  same  for  all.  The  contest  continues 
for  one  year.  The  weekly  records  cover  the 
number  of  eggs  laid  for  each  pen  in  the  current 
week,  and  also  the  total  number  of  eggs  laid 
since  the  first  of  last  November.  The  contest 
will  end  November  1,  at  which  time  these  birds 
will  be  removed,  and  another  set  of  pullets 
entered  for  the  next  year. 
Week  ending  December  5,  1923. 
Week  Total 
BARKED  ROCK 8 
Purdue  University,  Ind .  41  148 
W.  H.  B.  Kent,  N.  Y . s. .  24  82 
Ontario  Agricultural  College,  Ont  ....  39  74 
Lewis  Farms,  K  1 .  15  83 
Jules  P.  Francais,  L.  1 .  17  54 
Morris  E.  Bride,  Conn .  27  132 
Wob  rn  Poultry  Farm,  Mass .  26  93 
Miss  Harriet  Smith,  Mass .  32  118 
Edgar  Stoughton  Conn..,. .  24  85 
Merritt  M.  Clark.  Conn .  28  107 
E,  C.  E’oreman.  Mich .  12  35 
Keewaydin  Farm.  Conn .  27  6* * 
J.  V.  Sheap,  Mich .  11  35 
The  Ferguson  Farms,  Tenn .  30  76 
Jasper  E.  Guptill,  Maine .  34  94 
Storrs  Exp.  Station.  Conn .  14  46 
The  Ramblers  Farm.  N.Y  .  5  10 
W.  J,  Arenholz,  N.Y .  4  34 
WHITE  ROCKS 
Monstone  Farm,  Mass .  10  30 
Ameling  Farms,  Mo .  39  122 
S.  Bradford  Allyn,  Mass .  33  104 
Davidson  Bros.,  Mass .  15  60 
Chas.  E,  Butler,  Conn .  24  69 
Albert  T.  Lenzen,  Mass .  0  8 
Harold  F.  Barber.  Mass .  19  52 
U.  B, ’.Spangler,  N,  J .  2  20 
WHITE;, W  YANDOTTES 
D.  O.  Witmer,  Mo .  33  108 
Obed  G,  Knight,  K.  1 .  22  125 
F.  L.  Weiland,  Ky .  23  100 
Frank  P  Matteson,  K.  I  .  41  207 
Hi-Quality  Hennery,  Vt .  .  6  43 
Clemens  J.  Diemand,  Conn .  40  206 
Woodbridge  Orchards,  C»nn .  27  123 
William  E.  Moran,  Conn .  15  46 
Albert  W.  Buckbee,  N.  Y .  36  139 
H.  V.  Bierly,  Pa .  23  76 
KHODE  ISLAND  BEDS 
Sunnyfields  Farm,  Conn .  39  206 
H.  P.  Demiiig,  Conn .  0  0 
Scott’s  Bed  Farm,  II .  17  27 
Abbot  M.  Smith,  Conn .  0  0 
Fellows  Bros..  Conn .  22  123 
K.  Newton  Searles,  Conn .  42  209 
Geo.  R.  Treadwell,  Mass  .  32  125 
Sunset  Poultry  Farm,  Mass .  40  188 
John  Z.  Labelle.  Conn .  29  178 
I.  W.  Mitchell,  Conn .  0  24 
F.  S.  Chapin,  Mass .  8  50 
F..  H.  Sampson.  Mass .  9  22 
Jas.  E.  Ewing,  Vt .  24  97 
Spring  Brook  Poultry  Farm,  Conn....  19  127 
Fernside  Farm,  Mass .  52  186 
Dickinson  Bros..  Mass .  24  114 
Pinecrest  Orchards,  Mass .  43  129 
Ed.  A.  Oelkuct,  Conn .  0  o 
W.  A.  Dickinson,  Mass .  10  15 
Maurice  F.  Delano,  Mass .  17  64 
Deer  Brook  Poultry  Farm,  N.  H  ...  26  87 
Red  Mount  Farm.  Mass .  37  118 
Forest  H.  Clickner.  N.  J .  46  183 
Charles  H.  Lane.  Mass .  20  40 
WHITE  LEGHORNS 
Roy  H.  Waite,  Md .  47  26$ 
Small’s  Poultry  Farm,  Conn .  32  173 
Francis  F.  Lincoln,  Conn .  51  253 
S.  G.  McLean,  Conn  .  24  143 
Ljeo  A.  Gronten,  Conn .  47  206 
E.  H.  Scott,  Conn  .  40  196 
F.  M.  Johnson,  Maine .  51  224 
Hollywood  Farm,  Wash .  35  176 
A.  B.  Hall,  Conn .  15  96 
W.  E.  Atkinson,  Conn .  35  109 
Beck  Egg  Farm,  N.  J .  35  164 
Edgar  Stoughton,  Conn . 30  124 
Ernest  W.  Picker,  N.  J .  30  70 
Hanson's  Poultry  Farm.  Ore .  38  233 
C.  G.  Reame,  Pa .  25  123 
Pussy  Willow  Egg  Farm,  L.  1 .  27  50 
Mountain  Meadow  Farm,  Vt .  38  122 
Ernest  Craze,  N.  J .  27  55 
Acrebrldge  Farm,  Mass. .. .- .  48  238 
Hilltop  Farm,  Conn .  56  271 
St.  John’s  Poultry  Farm.  Mo .  42  222 
Andrew  L.  Ohr,  Conn .  21  129 
C.  T.  Darby,  N.  J . 41  196 
Spring  Brook  Poultry  Farm,  Conn -  27  157 
R.  C.  Dunn,  Mass .  25  122 
L.  W.  Steelman,  Pa .  40  178 
Barlow  Leghorn  Farm,  Pa .  15  143 
White  Springs  Farm,  N.  Y .  28  95 
Meado wedge  Farm,  L.  1 .  37  187 
Emory  H.  Bartlett,  Mass .  34  217 
Eigenrauch  &  DeWinter,  N.  J .  31  124 
Rapp's  Leghorn  Farm,  N.  J .  45  178 
Featherland  Farm,  Pa .  26  114 
M.  J.  Quackenbush,  N.  J .  26  129 
Francis  J.  Hogan.  Mass  .  22  40 
Mount  Hope  Farm,  Mass .  48  225 
Exmoor  Farm,  Pa  .  25  45 
Ruchles  Sunnyside  Farm,  N.Y .  38  181 
O.  C.  Chadwick,  Vt .  23  10$ 
George  B.  Ferris,  Mich...., .  24  47 
Total .  2723  11392 
Feeding  for  Hatching  Eggs 
How  would  you  feed  Wyandotte  hens 
to  give  best  fertility  in  hatching  eggs? 
Last  year  I  had  rather  poor  fertility.  The 
hens  were  confined  to  small  yards.  This 
year  the  hens  have  free  range  and  I  want 
to  go  in  for  hatching  eggs.  w.  G.  M. 
Media,  Pa. 
You  cannot  feed  fertility  into  fowls. 
Fertility  of  eggs  is  not  the  result  of  any 
particular  kind  of  food  or  method  of 
feeding;  it  is  the  result  of  a  combination 
of  those  conditions  which  conduce  to 
vigor  in  the  fowl.  Feeding,  housing, 
range  and  care.  If  I  wished  good  fer¬ 
tility  in  the  Spring,  I  should  not  crowd 
the  fowls  for  heavy  egg  production 
through  the  Winter  and  I  should  avoid 
keeping  them  under  hot-house  conditions. 
Give  them  range,  comfortable  quarters, 
protection  from  disease  and  a  ration  that 
is  not  calculated  to  stimulate  the  repro¬ 
ductive  organs  by  its  high  protein  con¬ 
tent  and  ready  digestibility.  In  other 
wTords.  let  the  birds  “rough  it”  to  a  cer¬ 
tain  extent.  You  will  thus  cut  down 
Winter  egg  production,  but  you  wdll  per¬ 
mit  the  fowls  to  store  an  extra  amount 
of  vigor  for  the  heavy  laying  of  the  hatch¬ 
ing  season,  when  you  wrant,  not  only  eggs, 
but  hatchajde  eggs.  Modern  methods  of 
intensive  culture  are  not  promotive  of 
vigorous  fertility  in  animals,  though  they 
produce  good  production  records.  It  is 
to  some  degree,  a  matter  of  choice  be¬ 
tween  high  records  and  fertility,  though 
a  reasonable  compromise  may  be  effected 
by  which  neither  need  be  wholly  sacri¬ 
ficed.  M.  B.  D. 
Head-shaking  Hens 
N.  B.’s  hens,  page  1432,  have  head  lice, 
and  that  is  the  real  reason  for  their  shak¬ 
ing  of  the  head.  Take  a  frying-pan  and 
slice  half  a  dozen  onions  in  lard,  and  just 
so  much  of  lard  that  it  covers  the  onions. 
Cover  it  airtight,  as  much  as  possible, 
and  fry  until  black,  then  cool,  and  use 
the  lard  by  rubbing  it.  on  the  heads  of  the 
fowls,  also  under  both  wings  and  tail 
roots.  Lightly  rub  it,  and  then  see  that 
they  will  not  shake  their  heads  any  more. 
The  fow'ls  should  have  free  access  to  dust 
baths,  and  then  they  clean  themselves. 
Most  closely  inclosed  poultry  and  hen- 
hatched  chickens  are  affected  with  head 
lice,  and  it  saps  their  vitality.  c.  J. 
West  Milford,  N.  J. 
Whether  these  fowls  shake  their  heads 
because  of  the  presence  of  head  lice,  or 
simply  to  express  their  feeling  over  the 
outlook  for  the  poultry  industry,  there  is 
no  question  that  head,  and  all  other  lice 
should  be  eradicated.  I  think,  however, 
that  the  lard  will  prove  as  effective  if 
onions  are  not  combined  with  it.  Any 
kind  of  grease  will  kill  any  kind  of  louse. 
Lard  applied  to  the  head  is  very  effective 
This  picture  shows  little  Catherine  Car- 
lucci  of  Connecticut.  It  is  easy  to  see 
that  she  is  interested  in  poultry,  and  the 
good-natured  Rhode  Island  Reds,  a  true 
home-loving  breed,  will  make  very  good 
pets  for  such  a  little  girl.  In  almost 
every  large  family  there  will  be  found  at 
least  one  child  taking  more  than  ordinary 
interest  in  poultry  or  some  other  line  of 
live  stock,  and  it  is  a  good  thing  to  en¬ 
courage  this  liking  for  farm  animals 
whenever  it  is  possible  to  do  so. 
against  head  lice.  It  is  the  “old-fash¬ 
ioned”  remedy  for  head  lice  upon  young 
chicks.  Sodium  fluoride,  a  pinch  worked 
in  among  the  feathers  of  the  head,  is  a 
more  modern  treatment,  and  probably 
equally  or  more  effectice,  but  sodium  flu¬ 
oride  is  not  always  easily  obtainable, 
while  lard  is.  m.  b.  d. 
Syracuse  Market;  Death  of  Pullet 
1.  I  read  on  page  1382  where  the  Syra¬ 
cuse  public  market  offers  higher  prices 
than  the  ordinary  markets.  Can  you  give 
me  references  concerning  this  market? 
Are  they  reliable  or  not?  2.  I  had  a  nice 
White  Leghorn  pullet  I  lost  today.  She 
was  taken  sick  and  her  comb  turned  all 
purple.  The  hens  broke  a  window  in  the 
pen ;  is  there  any  possibility  that  she 
would  eat  any  glass  and,,  if  so,  what  ef¬ 
fect  would  it  have?  She  was  sick  about 
36  hours.  J.c.  b. 
Winthrop,  Me. 
1.  The  prices  quoted  from  the  public 
markets  are  those  received  by  producers 
who  take  their  produce  to  these  markets 
on  market  days.  They  cannot  represent 
all  sales,  since  prices  must  fluctuate  from 
time  to  time,  but  show  the  prevailing  fig¬ 
ures  at  the  time  of  obtaining  them.  In 
the  case  of  the  large  Johnson  City-Endi- 
cott  market,  they  represent  the  maximum 
price  which  producers  are  allowed  to 
charge.  Sales  may  be  made  below  these 
figures. 
2.  I  do  not  think  that  eating  glass  was 
the  probable  cause  of  the  death  of  this 
pullet,  though  only  an  autopsy  would 
show  whether  or  not  glass  had  been  swal¬ 
lowed.  As  to  the  effect  of  broken  glass. 
I  have  never  known  of  its  being  assigned 
as  a  cause  of  death,  though  I  can  see  no 
reason  why  a  sharp  bit  of  glass  might 
not  cut  the  walls  of  the  proventrieulus  or 
gizzard  before  it  had  lost  its  points  or 
keen  edges.  M.  b.  d. 
