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In EVERY HEN 
If You Keep Chickens 
CUT THIS OUT 
“The great trouble with the poultry 
business has always been that the lay¬ 
ing life of a hen was too short” says 
Henry Trafford, International Poultry 
Expert and Breeder, for nearly eight¬ 
een years Editor of Poultry Success. 
The average pullet lays 150 eggs. If 
kept the second year, she may lay 100 
more. Then she goes to market. Yet, 
it has been scientifically established 
that every pullet is born or hatched 
with over one thousand minute egg 
germs in her system—and will lay them 
on a highly profitable basis over a period 
of four to six years’ time if given proper 
care. 
How to work to get 1,000 eggs from 
every hen; how to get pullets laying 
early; how to make the old hens lay 
like pullets; how to keep up heavy egg 
production all through cold winter 
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six winter months. These and many 
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Eggs should go to a dollar or more a 
dozen this winter. This means big 
profit to the poultry keeper who gets 
the eggs. Mr. Trafford tells how. If 
you keep chickens and want them to 
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A New Discovery 
Makes Hens Lay 
Any poultry raiser can easily and 
quickly double his profits by doubling 
his egg yield through the remarkable 
discovery of M. B. Smith, a Kansas 
City chemist. 
Working along 
entirely original 
lines, Mr. Smith 
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hens lay less in 
winter than in 
summer, and per¬ 
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Although different from anything you ever 
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So confident is Mr. Smith you can double 
or triple your egg yield, that he offers to 
send two large $1 packages of Ditto Egg 
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who will write for them. If you are satisfied 
they cost only $1 on this introductory offer, 
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Penn State Fund Grows 
As Grangersy Dairymen and Potato Growers Unite 
T he milk producers of the southeast¬ 
ern part of Pennsylvania, through 
the Interstate Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion, recently joined in the emergency 
building fund campaign of the Penn¬ 
sylvania State College by contributing 
the money equivalent of one day’s milk 
supply toward the erection of a student 
dormitory to be built by the live stock 
men of the State. The farmer milk 
producers in other parts of the State 
are undertaking movements in support 
of the Penn State $2,000,000 drive. 
Tioga Grange Gives $1000 
Scores of Granges throughout Penn¬ 
sylvania have pledged funds to the 
Pennsylvania State College emergency 
building campaign for $2,000,000 for 
student health and welfare buildings. 
One of the most recent of these pledges 
was for $1,000' from the Pomona 
Grange of Tioga County, where the 
members are all enthusiastic boosters 
for State College. The pledge is so far 
the largest on record from a Grange 
organization. 
Prominent Potato Grower Gives $3000 
“The Grand Old Man” of Pennsyl¬ 
vania’s rapidly growing potato-raising 
industry. Dr. D. D. Fritch, of Mecungie, 
Lehigh County, has given his approval 
to the welfare building campaign of 
the Pennsylvania State College, with a 
pledge of $3,000 toward the new stu¬ 
dent hospital. 
Announcement is expected shortly 
that the boy potato clubs of Butler, 
Beaver, Potter and Cumberland Coun¬ 
ties will have completed the raising of 
$15,000 toward the hospital fund, or 
one-tenth of the entire amount needed. 
PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY NOTES 
Clarion Co.—We are having very fine 
winter .weather. Up to the middle of 
December it had been very mild, with¬ 
out a great deal of rain. In fact, we 
have had a very excellent season, and 
farmers have been able to clear up 
their outside work very well. Some 
were rather late husking corn. Prices 
on farm products are low. Butter, 50c; 
eggs, 50c; corn, 40c; oats, 45c; wheat, 
$1; fresh grade cows, from $40 to $90; 
pure-breds from $100 to $300; horses 
are low in price and selling slowly.— 
C. Reyb.uck. 
Crawford Co.—Lots of fall plowing 
and work in general was cleaned up 
before snow comes. Our roads froze 
up quite smooth, so that traveling i-s 
not really bad. The temperature has 
been averaging from 10 to 20 degrees 
below zero. Many public sales are 
taking place, but things are not selling 
high. Most farmers are now hauling 
out manure and cutting wood. Eggs 
are bringing from 65 to 70c; butter, 
50c; dressed pork, 13c; live veals, 10c; 
chickens, 16 to 18c live weight; pota¬ 
toes, 75c; apples, $1 a bushel; buck¬ 
wheat, $2 a hundred.—J. F. S. 
CENTRAL NEW JERSEY NOTES 
Wheat of the present year is badly 
infested with weevil and much of it is 
unfit for fiour or seed. Poultrymen, 
however, are eager buyers, and there is 
an inadequate supply of grain for their 
use. Some of them who have invested 
all they have in large plants look with 
some fear on the rapid increase of large 
commercial plants. Two to four thou¬ 
sand layers is the usual thing. The long 
drought remained unbroken the second 
week in December and wheat has made 
a poor growth. There is a decreased 
acreage; early sown has a poor stand, 
while that sown late in October and 
Gsrly NovGUibct* has come up nicGly. 
The cold dry winds retarded growth. 
Many farmers are backward in husk¬ 
ing, and some fields were untouched in 
early December. The many public im¬ 
provements, state roads, new schools 
and buildings of many sorts, have 
drawn all laborers from the farms. 
Fhibi owners have, in many instances, 
postponed their own work to accept the 
attractive pay in their pursuits. Theie 
are several corn shows stacred foi this 
month, but it very doubtful that the 
splendid display of last year can be 
equaled. The apple crop has been more 
than abundant and prices have ruled 
low, but much better than in more 
remote localities. Losses have been 
large owing to unfavorable weather 
and lack of pickers. A great quantity 
of cider is being made and has a fair 
demand. Early pullets have been lay¬ 
ing steadily for several months and 
the condition of the fiocks is very favor¬ 
able. Pasturage has been prolonged 
later than usual notwithstanding the 
drought.—George E. Schwartz. 
Monmouth Co.—Practically all fall 
work has been completed. Potatoes 
have been fairly well cleaned up. No 
money was made last year. Undoubt¬ 
edly acreage will be curtailed this 
year by one-half. Farmers are arrang¬ 
ing for a greater variety of crops and 
vegetables. Corn, 50 cents a sheaf, rye, 
$17 a ton, hay, $18, com stalks, 3% 
cents a bundle. Milk in Trenton, 7 
cents.—C. W. H. 
Hunterdon Co.—Rains during the 
middle of December brought great re¬ 
lief to this part of the State. We have 
been suffering from drouth since Au¬ 
gust, and many small streams have 
been dried up. Corn husking was all 
done up to the middle of this month; 
farmers have been ready for heavy 
weather. Many farmers say that they 
have never known such conditions for 
fall work. The weather has been very 
dry, windy and cold. Much fodder was 
lost. Farmers are complaining that 
their cows are not doing well. In fact, 
everything seems to be going endwise. 
Everything the farmer has to buy is 
too high for what he has to sell. Eggs 
bringing 60c, butter, 55c; wheat, $1.10 
to $1.20; corn, 70c; oats, 50c. Apples 
are dull; hay, $18; pork, 13 to 14c.— 
J. R. F. 
CENTRAL OHIO FARM NOTES 
W. E. FARVER 
During .the past several weeks the 
weather has been quite changeable. 
Now the mercury is hovering around 
10 above and the frozen ground makes 
traveling difficult on the mud roads. 
Wheat has had a fair chance, although 
dry weather held it back somewhat. 
Springs and wells were very low all 
fall, but rains during past week or two 
have accelerated the flow of water, . 
Farmers are busy with seasonable 
activities; hauling manure, cutting and 
preparing firewood and butchering tak¬ 
ing lead at present. Butchering is 
mostly done, many hogs having been 
killed for home use. Stock went into 
winter in good shape. Some still run¬ 
ning on pastute by day at present, 
h^ever have we seen stock out so late in 
the season here. Considerable live 
stock being marketed and all in good 
condition. Prices have remained quite 
uniform all fall. 
Eggs are selling locally at 53 cents 
now—62 cents was highest here. Very 
few flocks were busy at the time prices 
were up. Late hatching resulted in a 
lot of immature pullets. This means 
spring eggs. For some reason or other 
many whose pullets were hatched early 
did not get anjy eggs. Not all can be 
laid to the feeding, for among these 
were good feeders. Seems as if some 
seasons are not conducive to late fall 
' and winter egg yields. 
Professor Vickers, of Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity, met with the flock record keep¬ 
ers at Millersburg, November 29, in 
an all-day session. Vickers is a live 
wire, and he kept the bunch awake and 
interested from beginning to end. All 
seasonable topics were touched, and the 
meeting ended with a mash hopper and 
baffle board ventilator construction 
demonstration on one of the demonstra¬ 
tion farms near Millersburg. 
Locate Wet Spots Now—The farmer 
would do well to inspect his field of 
corn at this time, noting all low, wet 
areas that' have failed to produce on 
a par w?th the rest of the field. Plans 
should be made now for draining 
these wet spot, after the crop has 
been harvested and before cold weather 
sets in. 
