American Agriculturist, April 14,1923 
341 
Let These Men Teach You 
The Secrets of Successful 
Poultry Raising 
Leain from experience of fa¬ 
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Breeding, Mating, Incubation, 
Brooding, Feeding, Caponlzing. 
Most complete and practical course 
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STATE POULTRY SCHOOL, Hept. 230-C, 
Upper Darby P. 0., Philadelphia, Pa. 
BABY CHICKS 
Youll Profit. 
By. 
MOSSS CHICKS 
IN THE WORLD/" 
- 
PURE BRED 
iPer 25 Per 50 
Chicks Chicks 
Whit^and Black } $4.25 $8.50 
Per 100 
Chicks 
$16.00 
Leghorns 1 
Brown and Buff > 
Barred Rooks ) 
• $4.75 
1 
$9.00 
$18.00 
Rhode Island Reds 
$5.00 
$9.50 
$19.00 
White Wyandottes i 
White Rooks 1 
Buff Rocks j 
Anconas J 
|> $5.50 
$10.50 
$20.00 
Black Minorcas 1 
Buff and White 
Orpingtons j 
■ $6.00 
$11.50 
$22.00 
Light Brahmas 
$10.00 
$19.00 
$35.00 
Famous Marcy’s 
Jersey Black 1 
Giants i 
1 
[>$14.00 
$27.00 
$50.00 
Pens E, P, G and H i 
1 
May chicks Ic, June, July and August 2o lower.' 
Prompt Delivery 
Whether your order is large or small it will have 
the same careful attention. 
Order Now Avoid Disappointment 
ANTHONY H. MOSS Morris Plains, N. J. 
HI-GRADE CHICKS 
VARIETY 25 50 100 
8. C. White Leghorns. $3.50 $7.00 $13.00 
S. C. Buff Leghorns. 3.50 7.00 13.00 
S. C. and R. C. Leghorns. 3.50 7.00 13.00 
S. C. and R. C. Rhode Isid. Reds. 4.25 8.25 16.00 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. 4.25 8.25 16.00 
S. C. Anconas. 4.25 8.25 16.00 
S. C. Black Minorcas. 4.75 9.25 18.00 
S. C. Buff Orpingtons. 4.75 9.25 18.00 
S. C. White Plymouth Rocks. 4.75 9.25 18.00 
R. C. White Wyandottes. 4.75 9.25 18.00 
S. C. Black Langshangs. 5.25 10.25 20.00 
I guarantee 100% safe arrival and to bo from 
standard-bred flocks. Order direct from ad and 
save time, money and disappointment. Refer¬ 
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J. W. BROWN, ASHLAND, OHIO 
HOUGH’S BABY CHICKS 
Eight leading varieties, egg-laying 
strains, vigorous chicks 
tha,t mature early. 
12 to 20 cents each, 
sent postpaid. 100 % 
delivery guaranteed. 
Our 18th year. Over 
65 per cent, of orders go to former 
customers. Ask, for catalog, it’s free. 
THE HOUGH HATCHERY, CANISTEO, N. Y. 
HILLPOT- 
WethBred From Record Layers. Each chick with its sterling, 
robust vitality is a living illustration of our quality Idea. 
Leghorns, Reds, Rocks, Wyandottes 
S^o arrival of full count guaranteed anywhere within 1200 
muea. Catalogue and Price List Free. 
W. F. HILLPOT 
Box 29 
Frenchtown, N. J. 
—BABY CHICK 
Price List Prepaid to you Pure bred Stock 
100 60 26 
White and Brovv'n Leghorns - - - $ 13.00 $7.00 $3.76 
Buff and Black Leghorns. - - • . 13.00 7.00 3.76 
Anconas. 14,00 7.60 4.00 
Minorcas 15,00 8.00 4.35 
Rhode Island Reds ....... 16.00 8.00 4.26 
Barred Kocks 16.00 8.00 4.35 
Buff and White Rocks ...... 16,00 8.60 4.50 
White and Silver Lacad Wyandottes 16,00 8.60 4.60 
Buff Orpingtons lO.OO 8.50 4.50 
Langshans .......... ig.oo 9.60 6.00 
Brahmas ........... 20.00 10.50 6,50 
All absolutely first class, pure bred stock. Prompt 
shipments made. Mall orders to 
J. KREJCI, 296 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
QUALITY BABY CHICKS 
Barron S. C. W. Leghorns, Barred Rocks, and R. I. Reds, 
15 cents each and up. Hatches every week. Satisfaction 
kuaranteed. Catalogue free. 
M. LORGENECKER, Box 40, Elizabethtown, Pa. 
From good selected heavy laying flock 
Rocks, Reds, Minorcas and Leg. K 
hve delivery guaranteed. Bank 
BUNNYBIDE HATCHERY LIVERPOOL, 
it a rule to keep the young chicks in 
coops until the morning wet is dried 
off. This is one of the greatest helps. 
LEG WEAKNESS IN BABY CHICKS 
There are a number of factors which 
can cause this leg weakness in chicks, 
which is so very common among the 
early broods, and very often among 
what appears to be the strongest chicks. 
Leg weakness may be inherited. The 
constitutional vigor of the parent stock 
may not have been such to impart 
rugged constitutions to the baby chicks, 
which during the unsettled and cooler 
weather of early spring give way to 
constitutional inability to fight the 
hardships under which they live. If it 
is apparent that this is the factor caus¬ 
ing leg weakness, the only 'hing to do 
is care for and feed the ch .ks as well 
as possible and use them for layers or 
market stock rather than for breeding 
purposes another season. 
Leg weakness may also be caused by 
malnutrition, especially if the ration 
lacks bone-making food. The feeding 
of skim milk is an excellent idea, as 
it not only furnishes food for the chicks, 
but is a regulation for the digestive 
system and lactic acid property of skim 
milk, is a tonic, and an important one, 
to prevent the very common white 
diarrhcea. 
Danger in too Long Confinement in 
Warm Quarters 
Perhaps one of the chief causes of 
leg weakness is confinement of the 
chicks to a warm, dry floor for too 
long a period, and, other conditiones be¬ 
ing equal, this is probably the cause 
for the trouble. During a warm spring 
such as has been the case this year, 
great care must be taken with a coal¬ 
burning hover to prevent too high a 
temperature. 
The chicks, after a week old, should 
run out of the brooder for a few hours 
on available clear day, even though the 
ground may still be cold and frozen. 
The chicks will seldom catch cold while 
moving about. They should not be 
allowed to stand out of doors, but must 
be kept moving until they learn to go 
back to the warmth of the hover when 
they feel cold. 
Best regulated brooders are so con¬ 
structed that the heat reaches the 
chicks from above and not through the 
floor. Sometimes chicks will roost on 
the hot water pipes and heat conduc¬ 
tors and protective measures must be 
made to prevent this. 
BUILDING A GOOSE SHED 
ELMER WHITTAKER, MASSACHUSETTS 
Geese do not require much protection 
from cold, but they need a dry and 
weather-proof shed for a resting place. 
A flock of geese will often swim in a 
pond when the ice forms all over the 
pond, except on the spot where they 
are swimming, where they keep it from 
freezing by keeping the water moving, 
and will suffer no damage; but if their 
quarters are wet, or even damp, trouble 
will follow. 
A shed allowing five or six square 
feet of floor space to each goose to be 
housed, is large enough if the geese 
can run out whenever they wish. It 
may be made of cheap boards on a sub¬ 
stantial frame and covered with tar 
paper to keep the water out. Glass 
windows are not necessary (though 
they are to be advised), but there must 
be sufficient open space in the south 
side to admit light and air, so that the 
sun will dry out the building readily, 
and this space should have a curtain, 
or burlap, or loosely woven cotton cloth, 
to keep out rain and snow. On fair 
days it must be opened. 
The place should be on a well-drained 
place, and it is best to fill in with sand 
a few inches above the surrounding 
ground, to do away with any tendency 
toward dampness. A thick bed of 
straw, leaves, cornstalks, or something 
of the kind should always cover the 
floor, and should be removed, and a 
new supply put in as soon as it becomes 
damp. _ 
Make the Pullets Scratch.—Pullets 
should be made to scratch for the grain 
given them as the exercise is necessary 
to retain good health. If any signs of 
slackness are apparent, a little epsom 
salts should be given either in their 
drinking water or in their mash. 
150 
HEALTH-GUARANTEED 
Foundation-Quality Holsteins 
150 
TO BE] SOLD IN 
THE 1923 SALE 
N. Y. State Fair Ground, Syracuse, April 17-18 
COMMENCING AT 10 A. M. EACH DAY 
THE CONSIGNMENTS i 
Wheatfield Farms Herd 
of 50 head. Complete dispersal of the 
remarkable herd that has developed 
2l,000-lb. to 25,000-lb. yearly record 3-yr-olds and cows with 
records up to 33,000-lb. milk in a year, also year’s butter pro¬ 
ducers with 1090 to 1211-lb. to their credit. One of the greatest 
living May Echo Proven Sires is in the sale with fifteen of his 
daughters—heifers of true foundation quality. 
H. A. Moyer’s Milking HerdTf® 
cows of show quality, bred 
to the 33-lb. sire, Empire Segis. 
No other sale of the season can show a finer consignment. 
Brock & Jenks’ Herd, 
a herd that has developed some of the 
greatest producers in the Eastern States. 
This offering consists mainly of daughters of A. R. O. dams with 
records up to 25 and 26-lb. butter in a week and year’s milk records 
up to 21,000-lb. at 3 years old. 
IN ADDITION select consignments arc included from the herds 
of a number of representative breeders. 
The three herds named s^re all on the Federal and State 
Accredited Plan and like the other consignments have all 
passed a clean test. We offer in this one sale all the advant¬ 
ages of three separate high-class herd dispersals with the best 
that could be selected from other quality establishments. This 
will be a sale of Holsteins bred for heavy milk and butter 
production. The 60-day health guarantee applies to every 
consignment. 
E. M. HASTINGS, Sale Manager, Pulaski, N. Y. 
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