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American Agriculturist, May 31, 1924 
CATTLE 
Louis Merry raan’sSemi-annual 
“ GUERNSEY SALE 
Thursday, June 12th, 1924 
AT 
TIMONIUM, MARYLAND 
9 X TV/T standard 
A. lVl. TIME 
The day after the Devon sale. Map in front of 
catalogue shows best route from Philadelphia. 
ONE HUNDRED 
HEAD 
11 Bulls: three old enough for service. These bulls 
represent the best known families of the breed and all are 
from great cows:—two from Langwater. 
60 cows in milk: fresh or close springers. (While the 
breeding of many is fashionable including two daughters 
of Procris Ultra King). We have as in our previous sales 
tried to select animals that have been raised under Farm 
conditions and whose future is before them. 
10 BRED H EIFERS : 
19 open heifers: We have made an especial effort to 
make the heifer calves the feature of this sale. “Fathers” 
who wish their sons to lead prize-winning heifers should 
look over this offering; they are the kind from which to 
build a herd. 
100 
FOR CATALOGUE, sent 
only on request, write 
Louis McL. Merryman 
Sparks, Maryland 
100 
m 
6. Thirty 
r States produce 9596'' 
r of America’s condensed' 1 
r and evaporated milk; 1 
' 84.99b of creamery butter; 1 
959b factory cheese; 879b of <■ 
|farm cheese. Holsteins> 
average over 579b of alii 
dairy cattle in these statesW 
America’s most pros-\ 
k perous dairy regions. 
Write for Literature 
Extension Service 
HOLSTEINP^FRIEStAN 
Association of America 
»230 EAST OHIO STREET.CHICAGO.ILL.—— 
17 C GRADE HOLSTEINS P C l 
11 J AND GUERNSEYS "OF UcUG 
30 head ready to freshen, 100 head due to 
freshen during March, April and May. All 
large, young, fine individuals that are heavy 
producers. Price right. Will tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N.Y. 
L| ¥ CTriMC Extra fine lot registered 
*1C/ GJ A 1 —,lllO cows fresh [or soon due. 
10 registered heifers soon due. 20 registered heifers 
ready to breed. 4 high record service bulls. 
J. A. LEACH CORTLAND, N. Y. 
ONE of our two-year-old Lucky Farce Reg. Jersey heifers 
has just made over 60 lb. fat, 30 days, official test. We 
have others just as good at $100 to.$150. Yearling bull, 
same breeding. Federal tested. 
S. B. Hunt, Hunt, N. Y. 
SWINE 
185— Pigs for Sale—185 
Yorkshire and Chester cross, Berkshire and Chester 
cross, 8 to 9 weeks old $ 5.50 each; 7 weeks old $5 
each. These pigs are all raised from large stock and 
"'ill make heavy hogs. I will ship any amount C. O. D. 
on approval. No charge for crating. 
A. M. LUX 
206 Washington St., Woburn, Mass. 
PIGS FOR SALE 
Yorkshire and Chester cross, Berkshire and Chester cross 
pigs, 7 weeks old $5.50 each; 8 weeks old $6 each. Pure 
bred Yorkshire boars or sows, Berkshire boars or sows, 
Chester White boars or sows,—any of these pure bred I 
ship at 6 to 8 weeks old, price $7 each. I will ship from 1 
to 50 on approval. No charge for crating. All good size, 
yjjality pigs that are bred to make pork in little time or to 
ffjted from. I guarantee safe delivery. 
WALTER LUX, 388 Salem St., Woburn, Mass. 
Telephone 0086 Woburn 
large berkshires at highwood 
Grand champion breeding:. Largest herd in America. Free booklet. 
harpending box 10 Dundee, n. y. 
Registered O. I. C. and Chester White pigs. 
Eugene P. Rogers, Wayville, N. Y. 
WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS 
** BE SURE TO MENTION THE ^ 
American Agriculturist 
Farm Women Talk Turkey 
They Raise and Sell Them and Other Fowl 
W ITH many farm women expressing 
themselves as much discouraged 
trying to raise turkeys, here and there 
are found those who are so successful at 
it, that turkey money annually helps out 
big on the family checking account. 
Mostly, farm women are agreed that there 
is good money in turkeys at the high 
prices of recent years, if you can raise 
them—but how to do it? There’s the 
rub. 
How she does it was asked of Mrs. 
Frank Colvin, a neighboring farm woman, 
who year after year raises from 50 to 150 
of the birds without apparent difficulty, 
and with small losses from rain, heat, 
disease and the variety of other causes to 
which are attributed the large percentages 
of loss commonly sustained by turkey 
raisers. 
In answer to the question, Mrs. Colvin 
said, “I don’t think it is so much what 
we do, as it is the kind of environment we 
have for them.” 
Natural Turkey Haunts 
The Colvin farm is located in the valley 
of a small river, a branch of which flows 
directly through the pastures. Timbered 
hills protect and give warmth to the 
valley, and a fine range extends up gentle 
slopes from the river to the timber. 
“Turkeys need a big range,” says Mrs. 
Colvin, “and plenty of water. They 
like to roam. Everybody knows that, 
some to their sorrow. But give them the 
kind of a range they fancy on your own 
farm, and they’ll do their roaming there. 
A creek of clear, flowing water, is almost 
as good for turkeys as it is for geese and 
ducks. Wild turkeys lived in the stream 
valleys, and domestic turkeys like the 
same kind of a place. The timber and the 
hills they like too, because they can go 
up there where it is dryer in wet times.” 
Give turkeys the right kind of range, 
then let them alone is Mrs. Colvin’s 
theory. It’s not good to pet them up 
much. She has found the less yon fuss 
over them the better, and she also has 
learned to feed them light. Just enough 
feeding to keep the turkeys tame and to 
make them come back to the farmyard 
at night time, is her policy. When they 
are small she gives them chick feed and 
the curd of cooked sour milk. After they 
have grown to be about the size of a 
quail she begins feeding them wheat. 
She gives them no corn, and has found 
that of ^11 grain feeds wheat is the best. 
Curd a Desirable Food 
A little of it each day, and curd as 
often as she has it is all the feed she gives 
them through the growing season. She 
believes if one could have curd for them 
every day, it would be the finest kind of 
feed. When it comes time to fatten her 
flock for market, she turns them into the 
corn fields and lets them fatten them¬ 
selves. They are never shut up the year 
round, except in storms in winter, ranging 
until the day they go to the block. 
Other things Mrs. Colvin believes 
have much to do with success in turkey 
raising are proper handling of them at 
laying and hatching times and to keep 
them free of lice. She thinks lice cause 
far more loss with turkeys than is gen¬ 
erally realized. She has found treating 
them with a weakened sheep dip gives 
best results. She prepares a little swab, 
spread the wings and brushes them ver 
with the dip lightly, so it sprays down 
through. The dip is put on the head, 
neck and back of the turkey in the same 
way. 
Berry Patch for a Hatchery 
A berry patch near the house which 
has been allowed to grow wild and has a 
hog tight fence around it is Mrs. Colvin’s 
turkey hatchery. She puts the turkey 
hens in this at laying times, having 
previously set boxes and barrels in the 
brush. She doesn’t make the nests, but 
just puts in the straw, and lets the hens 
do their own nest building. It is the 
nature of the birds to hide their eggs, 
and the boxes under the brush satisfy 
this instinct. After the first eggs have 
been laid, -she lets both chicken and 
turkey hens sit on the eggs, but always 
gives the baby turkeys to the turkey hens 
to care for. 
Before Mrs. Colvin had her berry patch, 
she used to have the same trouble that 
many turkey raisers have. Her hens 
used to make nests off in the hills, and 
it was work to find them and keep from 
losing the young ones. Now she has 
found that after they make their first 
laying in the berry brush, they will go 
back there for the second and third lay¬ 
ings. She keeps the turkey hens and the 
little turkeys in the patch for a while 
before turning them out to range. 
Mrs. Colvin! always has pure-bred 
turkeys, and of late has kept only the 
Narragansett strain, preferring them be¬ 
cause they grow so large. An indication 
of her success with turkeys is the local 
demands which are arising for her toms 
and hens for breeding stock. Last season 
she sold a number for fancy prices. 
Markets Stock Fresh Killed 
Her market for her flock as a whole is a 
firm in a nearby city to whom she has 
shipped all her poultry—chickens, geese, 
ducks, and turkeys—for fourteen years. 
The fowls are killed and dressed on the 
farm, packed in boxes and barrels and 
shipped direct. She has found it more 
profitable to ship turkeys for the Christ¬ 
mas trade rather than for Thanksgiving. 
Dressing and packing them for shipment 
instead of marketing them locally is 
more work of course, she says, but she 
has found she gets sometimes as high as 
ten cents more a. pound for them, by 
keeping the middleman’s profits in her 
own pocket.—F. L. Clark. 
A Turkey “Pool” That Women 
Formed 
NE fall seven or eight years ago two 
or three farmers’ wives went to 
spend the day with another one. They 
talked over things in general, inciden¬ 
tally their turkeys. The year before they 
had each had a small flock, had tended 
them with watchful care, had sent them 
to market—and had received nine cents a 
pound for them! 
These women were reasonably sensible 
and they knew there was something 
wrong somewhere. One of them said she 
had about decided to quit turkey raising; 
she could not afford to bother with them 
for what she got out of them. But a keen, 
black-eyed, little woman spoke up to say 
that she was not going to quit; she liked 
to raise turkeys, she had a big flock this 
year. Everybody liked to eat turkey, so 
she meant to raise them—and get a decent 
price for them. 
Of course they wanted to know how she 
meant to go about it so she explained her 
plan. They woyld all go in together and 
set a price on their turkeys. The firm 
that came nearest to giving it would get 
the crop. 
Right then and there the Cerulean 
(Kentucky) Turkey Pool was organized, 
though the women would have been sur¬ 
prised to have heard it so denominated. 
Organization by Passing the Word 
They passed the word around and 
added several more flocks so that by sel¬ 
ling time they had 300 or 400 birds—and 
they were paid a better price. 
So they have kept on with the pool, and 
the idea has spread until almost every 
community in this section of the State 
has, or means to have, its pool. Instead 
of selling to dealers for whatever they are 
offered, they keep in touch with the big 
produce companies, for which the local 
dealers buy, and the turkeys no longer 
sell for a song. 
Last year when the day for marketing 
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BABY £5CHICKS 
CHICKS-5,000 Weekly 
for June, July and August delivery at rock bottom 
prices. Due to Increased incubator capacity, we are in a 
position to furnish 5,000 Big, Husky, day-old Chicks 
weekly. Bred from healthy, vigorous, free range stock of 
good type and color in the following breeds: 
Varieties Prices: Each Per 100 500 
S. G. White and Brown Leghorns 10c $10.00 $50.00 
Barred and Buff Rocks . 12 c 12.00 60.00 
|-C. R.I. Reds. 14c 14.00 70.00 
S. C. Black Mincoras . 12c 12.00 60.00 
Mixed or Assarted . 09c 9.00 45.00 
Scientifically hatched by experienced operators in 
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The Valley Hatchery, Box 20, R. No. 1, Richfield, Pa- 
Baby Chicks at Reduced Prices 
50 100 500 
S. C. W. Leghorns $5.50 $10.00 $47.50 
R ar i ed Reds CkS } $ 6 - 50 $12.00 $55.00 
Assorted Chicks $4.00 $ 8.00 
For shipment any Tues. Wed. or Thur. after May 
17th. Every chick guaranteed from the best of 
free range stock. I pay parcel post and guarantee 
safe delivery. Excellent hatches make these prices 
possible. Order yours today. Special prices on 
larger quantities. 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM 
E. C. Brown, Prop., Sergeantsville, N. J. Box N 
Single Comb White Leghorns 
Exclusively Pure Barron English Strain, out of im¬ 
ported birds with egg records up to 314 eggs in a year. 
3000 breeders on free farm range. Vaccinated. Butter¬ 
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for March, April, May and June delivery. Capacity 
12,000 chicks a week. My book "Profits In Poultry Keeping 
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EDGAR BRIGGS 
Box 41 PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y. 
BATTLEFIELD CHICKS OF QUALITY 
We offer superior chicks from all popular 
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/ ■ ’Ay asaresult of 15yearscarefulbreedingand 
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jL&.t Our chicks will please you and make money for 
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FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM & HATCHERY 
~ 14 Fairview Road Gettysburg Pa. 
PRICES SLASHED ON 
FULL BLOODED “AMERICAN” QUALITY CHICKS 
_ _ Varieties Prices On 100 .500 1000 
S. C. White Leghorns- $10.50 $50.00 $95.00 
Barred Rocks. .. 12.00 57.50 110.00 
Rhode Island Reds. 13.00 62.50 120.00 
White Wyandottes. 15.00 72.50 140.00 
Our chicks will grow, lay well, pay weH. No Better 
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The American Chickery, Box 214, Grampian, Pa. 
RARY PUiPI/e Barred Plymouth Rocks 
DAD I umlmo $ 10.00 per 100 
Rhode Island Reds S. C. White Leghorns 
$10.00 per 100 $8.50 per 100 
Prompt Shipment. Live Delivery Guaranteed. 
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Box 102 Bellefonte, Penna. 
LONG’S GUARANTEED CHICKS 
Rocks, 11c; Wyandottes, 12c; Leg- 
Yj-.'t-JL horns, 8c; Mixed, 7c. Reductions 
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R. D. Long, Mgr., Box 12, MILLERSTOWN, PA. 
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FROM 200-EGG HENS 
^ Chicks from winter laying, farm raised, mature stock. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds, Barred Rocks, White 
Orpingtons, Anconas, Black Jersey Giants, White Wyan¬ 
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Parcels Post prepaid. Hatching eggs, $8 per 100. 
■ Circular free. 
Glen Rock Nursery and Stock Farm, Ridgewood, N. J. 
Meadow Brook Chicks 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS ONLY 
l5 7c 
tSaT This low price for deliveries after MAY 17. 
Safe delivery guaranteed and postage prepaid. 
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BOX A, STOCKTON, N. J. 
ra A T>V that are hatched 
BABY CHICKS, Rocks"l5u a BuH 
Rocks 17c, Reds 16c, S. C. White and Brown Leg¬ 
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CERTIFIED S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
fSk Every bird in our flock inspected by experts from 
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