Agriculturist, March 3,1923 
197 
CATTLE BKEEDERS 
l^A FARM GUERNSEYS 
Bach of our three recent advertisements in the 
Agriculturist has sold a Guernsey. Oniy three 
animals left. A 4-months-old heifer at $140 ; 
a bull ready for service at $125 and a hand¬ 
some bull calf at $60. All three are rich in the 
blood of Ne Plus Ultra. Herd accredited. Write 
for pedigree and photographs. 
RALPH E. & FLOYD S. BARLOW 
COOPERSTOWN, N. Y._ 
Holstein Cows For Sale 
Two carioads of fancy, large grade Hol- 
steins that are just fresh or due to fresher^ 
soon. 
60 cows that are bred to freshen during 
February, March aud April. All young, 
large and heavy producers. 
A. F. SAUNDERS 
I Telephone 1476 CORTLAND, N. Y. 
LARGE YORKSHIRE BOARS 
FOR SALE 
Well-grown for their age and vigor¬ 
ous. Ready for immediate service. 
Priced at farmers’ prices. 
HEART’S DELIGHT FARM, Chazy, N. Y. 
H b L S T EI NS~ 
wo car loads high-class grade springers. The 
ind that please. One car load registered females. 
Veil bred, strictly high-class. Several registered 
ervice bulls. J. A. LEACH. CORTLAND. N. Y. 
HIGH-GRADE HOLSIEIN COWS 
resh and close by large and heavy producers. 
Pure bred registered Holsteins all ages ; your 
inquiry will receive our best attention. 
Jrowncroft Farm McGRAW New York 
JULL and HEIFER CALVES .Attiartive prices. The 
)ld reliable Orclmrd Grove herd milking shoi tliorn. 
Hotchkiss, West Springfield, Erie Co., Pa. 
SWINE BREEDERS 
REG. DUROCS — 
From prize-winniiiff herd. Pre- 
iiiimns from 10 fairs fall 1922. 
Orion Cherry King and Top Col. strain. 
J. W. COX & SON. R. 5 . NEW CASTLE, PA. 
0.1. Cs. VIEWMONT FARM, MAINVILLE, PA. 
Now ready, choice fall pisrs from School Master Callaway Edd and 
Wildwood blood lines. Pairs not related. Good encash to ship 
anywhere C. O. D._ 
boars, sows and pigs 
for sale, good ones, iovf 
G. S. HALL. FARMDALE, OHIO. 
Big Type Polands 
prices. Write me. 
THF'sTFR WHITFS Type Grand 
\..llljJlLI\ VVllllLiij Cliampion liloodllnes. Pigs, 
$10 each, prepaid. GEO. F. GRIFFIE, Newville, Pa. 
7FrKTFRFn 0 I f Chester white pigs. 
dLUlJlHiIVLU U. 1. U. K. p. HiKiERS, WAYVn.I.K, N. Y. 
KITSELMAH FENCE 
“I Saved $95.18,” says John W. 
Kemp, Alton, Ind. You, too, can save. 
Wo Pay fhe Freight. "Wrlte for Free 
Catalog of Farm, Poultry, I.awn Fence. 
KITSELMAN BROS. Dept. 203M!JiNCIu, IND. 
Free Catalog 
in colors explains 
how' you can save 
money on Farm Truck or Road 
Wagons, also steel or wood wheels to fit 
any running 
gear. Send for 
it today. 
ElectricWltes! Co. 
2 bJm 
U I? A \/ E? ^ >3 your own horse afflicted? 
V E. 3 Use 2 laiee cans. Cost $2.50. 
Money back if not satisfactory 
ONE can at $1.25 often suffleient. In powder form. 
Most for cost f,|EW TON’S 
A veterinary’s compound for 
Horses, Cattle and Hogs. 
Beaves. Coughs, Distemper, 
Indigestion. Worm expeller. 
~ J* , “ Conditioner. At dealers’ or 
30 years’sale hv pairel post. 
THE NEWTON PEM^DY CO., Toledo, OhiB 
KM 200 Rats 
At One Baiting 
Dog, Ferret and Traps Failed—Amazing 
Virus Quickly Killed Them All. 
Not a Poison 
“1 was over-run with rats,” writes 15. O. 
Stenfert of Redford, Mich. "Seemed to be sev- 
hi’al hundred of them. Dog, Ferret and Traps 
failed. Was discouraged. Tried Imperial Virus 
and was rid of them all in a short time. Have 
found rat skeletons, large aud small, all over 
the farm. 
^ "The year previous Rats killed 200 out of 
^00 baby chicks. Last year saved them all. 
Will send for 10 bottles for neighbors, aud we 
will clean up the whole neighborhood.” 
Rats, Mice. Go¬ 
phers, ill fact all 
Rodents, greedily 
eat Imperial Vi¬ 
rus on bait. Sets 
up burn'ng fever. 
Pests die outside 
hunting air and 
water. Harmless to humans, poultry, pets, 
stock, etc. Economical to use. Indorsed by 
Bureau Experts and large, nationally 
ttnown institutions everywhere. 
You Can Get Yours Free 
tnnS^?, AIONEY. Write today to Imperial Labo 
1003. Kansas City, Mo., and tiiey will n: 
51.00 bottles of Imperial Virus (dou 
oil 3 1 ’i postman only $1.00 and few cents post; 
Bse one yourself and sell the other tc 
as .*^03 getting yours free. Readers risk no men 
iniperial Laboratories are fiill.v responsible and v 
......m your SI.00 on request any time within oO days. 
about 9 X 12 ft. and placed so that when 
the chicks are let out on warm days 
they will have a nice, clean grass range 
where no other chicks or fowls can 
interfere with their liberty and hap¬ 
piness. 
Feeding the Third Factor 
Most people seem to think that the 
feed is the principal part in raising 
young chicks, but it is really only 
one of three important factors—good 
chicks, comfortable quarters and proper 
feed—all three being of practically 
equal importance. A few years ago 
■ we were taught to fix up all sorts of 
mixtures as first feeds for young 
chicks, such as custard and johnny cake 
and boiled eggs and cracker and bread 
crumbs chopped up, and many things 
which make extra work just at a season 
of the year when poultrymen are busy 
and must economize time as much as 
possible. All of these nicknacks have 
therefore been discontinued, and we use 
a very simple ration which contains all 
the ingredients and nutrients which 
young chicks require for their proper 
growth and development, and which, 
for the most part, can be compounded 
and mixed in quantities so as to be 
.easily accessible when required. 
The chicks are left in the incubator 
until the morning of the 22d day, when 
they are removed to the brooder. No 
food is given until the chicks are about 
48 hours old, or until they show signs 
of being real hungry. This is usually 
the afternoon of the same day that 
they are placed in the brooder, as many 
of the chicks are hatched on the 20th 
day and are therefore ready for their 
rations at this time. The first feed is 
simply oat flakes, such as are commonly 
sold for table use. Only one very light 
feed is given on the first day, and this 
is sprinkled on a shingle or paper 
where the chicks can get it easily, to¬ 
gether with a mixture of fine grit, oys¬ 
ter shells and charcoal. 
Milk Vital in the Ration 
Milk in some form should be given 
the chicks as soon as. they are placed 
in_ the brooders. We prefer skimmed 
milk direct from the separator and fed 
sweet in regular water fountains so 
the chicks cannot get wet. If sweet 
milk is not available, moderately sour 
milk is the next best, but whichever 
is used at first should be continued 
instead of changing from one to the 
other, and the fountains should be 
washed and scalded every day. 
For dry mash, we use a good chick¬ 
starting feed with buttermilk. There 
are several good commercial mixtures 
on the market at the present time. This 
is kept before the chicks in small hop¬ 
pers or troughs until they are six or 
eight weeks old, when the mash is grad¬ 
ually changed" to the following mixture: 
200 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. white wheat 
middlings, 100 lbs. corn meal, 100 lbs. 
oat flake, ground fine, 25 lbs. fine beef 
scrap, 25 lbs. dried buttermilk, 25 lbs. 
bone meal, 10 lbs. fine charcoal. This 
will make a suitable mash for the 
chicks until they are four months old 
or more and ready to take nearly the 
same rations as the laying stock. 
We start feeding fine scratch feed 
about the end of the third day, and no 
definite rule is followed for this except 
to feed just enough to keep the chicks 
fairly busy most of the time during the 
day, while the heaviest feed is always 
given at night about an hour before 
dark. This scratch feed is the common 
commercial mixture of finely cracked 
grains. Where large quantities are used 
it is sometimes desirable to make a 
home-made mixture of equal parts 
cracked wheat, pinhead oat meal and 
finely cracked corn. This mixture is 
fed twice or three times a day until the 
chicks are old enough to eat whole 
wheat and larger cracked corn, when 
they are changed very gradually to an 
intermediate sci-atch feed. 
Green feed should be supplied regu¬ 
larly. Nothing is better than a clover 
or alfalfa range in summer, but in cold 
weather we have found nothing better 
than sprouted oats, beginning to feed 
them the sixth or seventh day. During 
warm weather, some shade is neces¬ 
sary, and for this purpose a cornfield 
near the colony houses furnishes almost 
ideal conditions. White Leghorn chicks 
raised by this method should be ready 
for broilers at nine weeks of, age, aver¬ 
aging about three pounds per pair, 
while the pullets should start laying at 
about five months of age and return a 
good profit on the investment. 
DE LAVAL 
CREAM SEPARATOR 
PRICES 
A word about De Laval Cream Separator prices to 
prospective 1923 purchasers is pertinent at this time. 
De Laval prices were reduced last year to practi¬ 
cally the pre-war level, allowing for increased capacity 
and other improvements made meanwhile. 
This reduction was made in anticipation of a fur¬ 
ther reduction in labor and material costs. The reverse 
has happened. Labor and material costs are going up 
rather than down. 
If they continue to do so De Laval prices will have 
to be advanced. They are now too low. The economies 
possible through greatly increased production can 
alone permit of their remaining so. 
In any event, De Laval prices cannot be re-- 
duced. They may easily have to be advanced at 
any time. The safe thing to do is to buy now 
and take no chances. 
This is the more so by reason of the fact that 1923 
De Laval machines are even better than ever before, 
that dairying was never more profitable, and that no 
one having use for a cream separator could ever less 
afford to be without the best or to continue the use of 
an inferior or half-worn-out machine. 
Why not see your local De Laval agent at once or 
write us direct at the nearest address given below? 
The De Laval Separator Company 
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 
165 Broadway 29 E. Madison St. 61 Beale Street 
IkeUDDER 
-Keep it Healthy 
I T’S the little sores and udder hurts that keep a cow nervous 
and irritable and make her hold back on the milk flow. Any 
form of injury or abnormal condition of the udder tissues makes 
a full yield impossible. 
To avoid milk losses and make the milking easy, keep on hand 
always a package of BAG BALM—the great healing ointment, 
in the big 10-ounce package. For bruises, cuts, chaps, congested 
or hardened tissue, inflammation, etc., no other application can 
so quickly penetrate to the injured part and promote the healing 
process. Splendid for the treatment of Caked Bag, also valu 
able in cases of Bunches and Cow Pox. 
A 60c package of Bafr Balm groes a long way and is easy and pleasant 
to nse. Sold by feed dealers, general stores and druggists. Sent direct if 
your dealer is not supplied. 
Send the coupon below at once. Give your dealer’s name ,and we will’ 
mail you a sample of Bag Balm, worth 15c, absolutely free. 
DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., 
Ten Ounce 
Package 60c* 
Dept. N Lsmdonville, Vt. 
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