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American Agriculturist, April 21,1923 
November Layers 
Make it ten weeks from peeps to 
broilers—two-pounderSt 
Bo it this way; 
Keep them healthy. 
Keep them hungry. 
Feed the old reliable 
Dr. Hess Poultry 
PAN-A-CE-A 
Never mind about indigestion, diarrhea, leg 
weakness and gapes. Pan-a-ce-a'takes care of 
all that. There will be wellness, cheer and 
good growth. 
PAN-A-CE-A your chicks—^then put them 
on the scales at ten weeks, set her at two 
pounds, and watch that beam come up! 
You will see a mighty difference in the 
feather growth, too, between your flock and 
a non-Pan-a-ce-a flock. 
Pan-a-ce-a will develop your pullets into 
early henhood—^fall and winter layers. 
Tell your dealer how many hens you have. 
There’s a right-size package for every flock. 
100 bens, the 12-Ib. pkg. 200 bens, the 25-Ib. pail 
60 bens, the 5-lb. pkg. 500 hens, the 100-lb. drum 
For fewer hens, there is a smaller package, 
GUARANTEED 
DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, O. 
/ epent SO 
years in perfeet- 
mg Pan-a-ce-a. 
Gilbert Hess 
L».V.S. 
Sciences Discovery 
Routs Chicken Lice 
Mineralized Water Gets Rid of Dusting or 
Spraying—Birds Delouse Themselves. 
Fine for Baby Chicks and All Poultry. 
A recent discovery promises to revolutionize 
all the commonly accepted methods for keeping 
poultry free from lice and mites. This won¬ 
derful product keeps the poultry always lice- 
free without the poultry raiser doing any work. 
It is the simplest, easiest, surest and best 
method ever discovered. 
Hick’s Lice-Go, which is the name of this re¬ 
markable lice remedy, is dropped in the chick¬ 
en’s drinking water. Taken into the system of 
the bird, it come,s out through the oil glands of 
the skin and every louse or mite leaves the 
body. It is guaranteed to help the hatchability 
of the eggs and cannot injure the flavor of the 
eggs or meat; is harmless to chicks and does 
not affect the plumage. A few days’ treatment 
at the start ^nd then a little added to the drink- 
, ing water each month is all that is necessary. 
Send No Money.—just your name and address 
to Chas. M. Hick & Company, Dept. 442, 1018 
So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. A card will do. 
Mr. Hick is so confident that Hick’s I.ice-Go 
will get rid of every louse or mite that he will 
send you two large double strength $1.00 pack¬ 
ages for the price of one. When they arrive, 
pay postman only $1.00 and postage. Sell one 
to your neighbor and get yours free. If you 
are not absolutely satisfied after 30 day,s’.trial, 
your money will be refunded. This offer is 
guaranteed by two big Chicago banks, who say 
that Mr. Hick will do exactly as he agrees with¬ 
out question or argument. Write today before 
this remarkable trial offer is withdrawn. 
Double Spring Profits 
You can raise from 9(1 to 95 per ] 
cent of your young hatches 
perhaps lUO per cent on 
Allen's Full-Nest Foods 
Buttermilk Starting Mash. 
Buttermilk Nutro Growing Mash 
Buttermilk Mash for Layers 
Nursery Chick Food. 
Growing Chick Food. 
Quality Scratch Food. 
H'rite for prices 
of Allen’s Giiuran- 
teed Foods arid 
interesting 
literature. 
ALLEN 
MILLING 
COMPANY 
BOX 544 
Niagara Falls, N. Y, 
Raise Your Chicks 
in Prairio State Brooders 
Have your chick-raising equipment ready 
before the chicks arrive —■ avoid the risk of 
heavy loss. Whether you grow 2.5 chicks or 
25,000 there are practical, depehdable, efficient 
Prairie State Brooders which will exactly meet 
your. ne(‘ds. Oil-burniiig hovers and coal-burn¬ 
ing stoves. Perfect in design—built on honor 
—tested and proved — preferred by successful 
poultry growers. 
"Prairie State” means efficiency in incuba¬ 
tors and brooders. 
Write for descriptive catalog and prices; 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR CO. 
46 Main Street Homer City, Pa. 
WHITE DIARRHEA 
again.‘;l loss. 
Kills millions of Chicks each season. THEY 
CAN BE SAVED by using “FADOIL”— 
a guaranteed remedy and preventive. $1 
per bottle. Postpaid. Enough to success¬ 
fully treat (150 Chicks. Your money cheer¬ 
fully refunded If not satisfactory. Bank 
iteference. You take no chances. Send 
your order TODAY and be INSURED 
(ffrculars Free. Dealers wanted everywhere. 
FADOIL REMEDY CO., Box 505, NORWALK, OHIO 
The King of the Barnyard 
Turkeys Still a Profitable Side Issue 
T he farm is preemi- By LEO J. 
nently the home of 
this lord of the poultry tribe; their 
broad acres form an ideal breeding 
ground, and provide an ideal environ¬ 
ment and an abundance of foods admir¬ 
ably suited to his needs. Since turkey 
raising is not a business for village 
back-lotters, the world must look to the 
farms and ranches for its supply of 
this holiday bird; and just so long as 
people of wealth and affluence demand 
this royal bird on their festal boards 
and holiday feasts, just so long will it 
pay to raise turkeys, for the demand is 
much in excess of the supply; then 
there is the business of supplying fancy 
stock for breeders and exhibition pur¬ 
poses, which is very fascinating and 
remunerative. 
Following is the method, in con¬ 
densed form, of a very successful Mam¬ 
moth Bronze turkey breeder, as given 
me, and is so good I am glad to pass it 
on to others: In early fall we select ten 
or twelve good hens and a nicely 
marked, large - framed, full - breasted 
Tom, unrelated. 
Flock Wot Too Large 
T his number gives us all the tur¬ 
keys we care to raise early, and we 
don’t fool with late ones, as they are 
hardly worth putting bn the market 
before next fall, and the extra expense 
of keeping more hens is more than over¬ 
come by having a fine bunch of early 
turkeys all ready for market at once. 
Then in the spring we put large bar¬ 
rels out, turned on the side, and plenty 
of burr oak leaves, or other large leaves 
in them, and before we made a three- 
acre pen We kept the hens near the 
house during laying time by feeding 
them a little if they started off, and this 
kept them near-by, and they all l^id 
in these barrels. 
When one gets ready to set, we give 
her 15 to 18 eggs in her own nest, and 
we have shutters made of poultry wire 
over a hoop to keep “varmints” out, 
and also if another hen is laying in the 
same nest it keeps her shut out, and 
she hunts another barrel. 
As fast as we can we set the eggs under 
chicken hens, nine to the hen and two 
hens at once, as the fresher they are set 
the better they hatch. And as quick 
as a turkey hen g'ets broody, we give 
her these eggs and give the chicken 
hens more. In this way we get them 
hatched earlier and give every hen lit¬ 
tle ones, as we like to have plenty of 
hens with the young ones; as we never 
pen ours in a small pen, but just let the 
mother hen come off when she gets 
ready, and as she can not get out of 
the three-acre pen, she cares for her 
own babies from the time she begins 
hatching. She selects her own roosting 
place at night. 
Lice the Worst Enemy 
I T must be remembered that lice are 
about the worst enemies the turkey 
raiser has to contend with. We give the 
hens a liberal dusting with sodium flu¬ 
oride, London Purple or some good 
insect powder when we set them and 
again in about ten days, and we treat 
the poults when hatched and often 
enough during the growing season to 
keep down all lice, though care must 
be used not to injure the tender young 
ones while warring on the vermin. 
Keep a sharp lookout for head lice; 
they are especially injurious. 
We do not feed the poults until at 
least 36 to 48 hours old; then we feed 
them curd or corn bread three times a 
day and keep plenty of clean water in 
shallow vessels, where they can get at 
it all the time. They also like a thick 
shade and should be provided some 
fine grit. 
We never confine them except during 
a rain or storm, as we find the mother 
hen can take better care of them when 
let alone, though we see that they have 
plenty to eat, so they will not have to 
rustle in the wet. We also feed the 
mother hens good to keep them con¬ 
tented. In this way we raise 95 per 
cent of all that hatch. 
A person of limited means can take 
one turkey hen, and if they only raise 
ten turkeys to the hen, it will pay more 
than a cow, as these ten turkeys should 
average $5 each by fall, if like the 
PET WAY past few years on the 
market, and the turkey 
is not the expense a cow would be, nor 
is the investment as great. 
Then the mother or the girls can 
raise the turkeys and have a nice pocket 
full of money by Christmas, and, too, 
they are sure of a market for them, and 
they can be kept where one is not al¬ 
lowed extra cows. 
If one is situated so he cannot raise 
a flock, he may be allowed a few hens, 
and there is always a ready market for 
the eggs at almost your own price. 
FAVUS OR DEPLUMING MITES 
I would like to ask the causd of my chick¬ 
ens losing their feathers? The house is just 
covered with feathers. The birds are young 
ones, hatched in April. At first they did 
not seem well, but they are doing nicely 
now. I have sold most of the roosters. They 
weighed from 2% to 3 pounds. I keep wheat 
and cracked corn in front of them all the 
time as well as bran, corn meal and other 
ground feeds. I feed them some poultry toule 
in their dry mash. They also have butter¬ 
milk and all the fresh water they wish to 
drink. They have the tree run of the range, 
and are only confined at night in the house 
which is well ventilated.—.1. A. Shui.len- 
BERGEii^ Mercer County, Pa. 
There are two factors which may be 
causing this condition in your birds. 
One possible cause may be the disease 
known as favus. The other may be 
due to what is known as the depluming 
mite. 
Favus is a skin disease which usu¬ 
ally begins about the eyes, soon spread¬ 
ing to the entire head. ^ Sometimes it 
extends to all feathered portions of 
the body. Affected portions become 
covered with small white or giay 
scales which contain the spores of the 
disease. 
It is caused by a fungus and may be 
communicated to other fowls. Affected 
birds should be removed from the flock 
and their quarters thoroughly disin¬ 
fected. Poultrymen find a satisfactory 
remedy in the use of an ointment made 
up of one part of sulphur, one part of 
kerosene and two parts of lard. This 
is applied to the affected parts after 
they have been gently rubbed with a 
blunt-edged instrument to dislodge the 
scales. Another good ointment consists 
of one part of calomel and eight pafts 
of vaseline. 
In ease the loss of feathers is caused 
by depluming mites, the birds should 
likewise be isolated. The sulphur oint¬ 
ment mentioned previously is found 
satisfactory by many poultrymen. An¬ 
other consists of a 2 per cent creosote 
solution, while another consists of one 
dram creolin, two ounces glycerin, 
one-half ounce alcohol and one-hall 
ounce water. This, painted on the af¬ 
fected parts, is found to be very satis¬ 
factory. Another good solution is one 
part of balsam of Peru mixed with 
three parts of alcohol. 
The depluming mites attack the 
feather at the base just where the 
feather enters the sheeth. The feath¬ 
ers are cut off at this point. Naturally 
the action of the mites irritates the 
birds, and they soo;i get in the habit 
of pulling at their feathers, sometimes 
pulling out the feathers of birds roost¬ 
ing beside them. 
IS “MOTHER OF VINEGAR” GOOD? 
I have lieard that ‘‘inolher of vinegar” 
wonderful as a moistener of dry poultry 
mashes and stops hens from eating 
eggs. Is this a fact?—VV. G. N., New York. 
Egg-eating is a habit that is usually 
started by the hen laying soft-shelled 
eggs due to improper feeding and in¬ 
sufficient exercise with an accumulation 
of hard fat in the abdomen. Right 
methods of feeding and nests partly 
secluded will usually prevent teis. 
Hens secrete almost no saliva in their 
mouth, hence do not like mash dry ns 
well as they do when it is moistened. 
Nevertheless experiments have shown 
that dry mash maintains better health 
and gives better egg production than 
it does when moistened. _ , 
Hens will readily eat any moist 
no matter what it is “moistened” with, 
but I doubt if they would eat mother oi 
vinegar if it was fed alone. Acids o 
this kind are also liable to cause inui“ 
gestion.—W. ,G. K. 
