American Agriculturist, Jum 
Paint 
American Agriculturist, June 14, 1924 
$1.25 
Per 
Gallon 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as 
you want of good quality red or brown 
Barn Paint 
upon receipt of remittance. We are paint specialists 
and can supply you with paint for any purpose. Tell 
us your wants and let us quote you low prices. .We 
can save you money by shipping direct from our 
factory. Satisfaction Guaranteed. On orders for 
thirty gallons or over we will prepay the freight 
within a radius of three hundred miles. 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 374 WAYNE ST. JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
WITTE TREE Saw 
Cuts down trees and saws them up FAST— one man 
does the work of 10—saws 10 to 25 cords a day. 
Makes ties. A one-man outfit. Easy to run and trouble- 
proof. Thousands in use. Powerful engine runs all 
other farm machinery. Uses all low priced fuels, 
fa C1/ Pay only a 
„ ' . few dollars 
Payments down and 
takeayear for balance of low 
price. Make your own terms. 
Cppp Just send name for 
rllbb full details, pictures ~, rrr - 
andlowprices. Noobligation ' I 
by writing. WITTE ENGINE WORKS 
6807 Wttte Building, Kansas City, Mo. 
6807 Empire Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Raise Silver Foxes 
Easy to raise. Very large 
profits. Stands strictest in¬ 
vestigation. Recommended 
by Government. 4 different 
plans. One will suit you. 
Complete description free. 
Send today. 
C. T. DRYZ, Box 1015, EAGLE RIVER, WIS. 
300-Acre Village Farm 
Handy City; 12 Cows and 
Horses, machinery, tools, etc., included If taken now; on 
main road, all village conveniences, good markets; pro¬ 
ductive fields, spring-watered pasture, large herd; wire 
fences; wood, timber; choice fruit, berries; attractive 8- 
room house, maple shade; large barn, horse barn, granary, 
poultry house. Because of other business low price 
$4,500, part cash. Details and picture page 25 big illus. 
Bargain Catalog money-making farms. Copy free. 
STROUT FARM AGENCY, 150R Nassau St., New 
York City. 
BABY <pjCHICKS 
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: 
r . Varieties Prices: 
S. C. White and Brown Leghorns _ 
Barred and Buff Rocks. 12c 
S. C. R. I. Reds. 14c 
S. C. Black Mincoras. 12c 
Mixed or Assorted. 9c 
Scientifically hatched by experienced operators in 
highest type of modern incubators. Full count, 100% 
live delivery guaranteed, prepaid to your door. Order a 
shipment direct from ad. and reap big profits. Catalog 
free. Ref. The Richfield State Bank. 
The Valley Hatchery, Box 20, R. No. 1, Richfield, Pa. 
Each 
Per 100 
500 
10c 
$10.00 
$50.00 
12c 
12.00 
60.00 
14c 
14.00 
70.00 
12c 
12.00 
60.00 
9c 
9.00 
45.00 
BABY CHICKS 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
$9.00 per 100 
S. C. White Leghorns 
$7.00 per 100 
Lite Delivery Guaranteed. 
Rhode Island Reds 
$10.00 per 100 
Prompt Shipment. 
NITTANY VALLEY HATCHERY 
Box 102 Bellefonte, Penna. 
BABY CHICKS, 
Super-Quality June Chicks 
HATCHES JULY 1, 8, IS, and 32 
Strickler’* Tancred-Barron Large Type 
ENGLISH S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
| Pens headed by Tancred 285-egg line cock¬ 
erels and Lady Storrs 271-egg line cocks and 
' cockerels, mated to hens bred for extra 
heavy egg production. PRICES: 88.00 
_ per 100; $38.00 per 500; $75.00 per 1000 by 
Special Delivery Parcel Post Prepaid. 100% live delivery 
guaranteed. 10% books order. 
LEONARD F. STRICKLER SHERIDAN. PA. 
that are hatched 
to grow. Barred 
Rocks 15c, Buff 
Rocks 17c, Reds 16c, S. G. White and Brown Leg¬ 
horns 13c, Mixed 10c. Prepaid 100% live deliv¬ 
ery guaranteed to your door. For quick service 
order direct from this ad. or write for circular. 
J. W. KIRK, Box 55, McAlisterville, Pa. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
Leghorns. S. C. Brown Leghorns and S. C. Black 
Minorcas. Assorted Sc each—$75.00 per 1000. Mixed 
Chicks crossed stock, 7c each, $60.00 per 1000—our 14th 
year. Catalogue free. 
THE KEYSTONE HATCHERY, Box 108, RICHFIELD, PA. 
D ARY PHIPIfQ _Barred Rocks, 9c: R. X. Reds, 
I LillLIVJ 10c; White Leghorns, 8e; Mixed, 
7c; 100% live delivery guaranteed; postpaid. Reduced on 
500 lots. Order from ad or write for free circulars. 
F. B. LEISTER. _ Box 49, _ McAlisterville, Pa. 
Barred PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
A strain with official record of 313 eggs. Sell nothing but 
our own breeding. Baby chicks for May and June 12 'Ac. 
MARVEL P OULTRY FARM Georgetown, Delaware 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8c; Mixed, 
7c. Special price on large lots. 
100% guaranteed. All free range stock. Circular free. 
F - B. FRYMOYER, Box 20, McALlSTERVILLE, PA. 
PUIY Barred Rocks, 10c; Reds, 11c; White Leghorns, 8c; 
viiiA mixed, 7c. Reduced on 500 lots. 100% guaranteed. 
Order from advertisement. Circular. Twin Hatchery, McAlisterville, Pa. 
CHICKS 
June in the Poultry Yard 
Movable Shelters Gape Control—Outdoor Roosts 
569 
/^\NE of the main things that the 
young stock on the range need, at 
all times, is fresh and cool drinking water. 
Where there is no natural shade for the 
birds the next best is artificial shade. 
In the picture you have a practical 
water and feed shade, designed and built 
by the writer. Of course one has to have 
running water but the pipe can be laid 
in a furrow made by a plow just low 
enough so no harm can come from driving 
over with a wagon. As this system is 
only used from May until October or No¬ 
vember, there is no danger of freezing, 
and it can be taken up and changed to 
new ground without much trouble. 
If your colony houses are in rows, locate 
the water shade between the rows of 
A Practical Water and Feed Shade 
colony houses, and one shade will take 
care of four colony houses. 
It is very simple and easy to build and 
not expensive. The shade is eight feet 
wide and ten feet long, the sills are 2x6, 
stood on edge.: There are three 2x4 posts 
on each side, three feet long. The plates 
are single, 2x4, ten feet long, and the raft¬ 
ers are 2x4, six feet six inches long. There 
are four rafters on each side and they are 
notched out of 24 of an inch on the heel 
where they rest on the plate. 
The distance from sill to ridge is five 
feet, being tall enough so one does not 
have to bend down very much to fill up 
the mash hoppers. 
There is a hang over of two feet on each 
side and one foot hang over on the ends, 
this helps to keep the rain out when the 
wind blows hard, and also gives more 
shade space. 
The roof is covered with regular roofing 
paper, making it water tight. 
Two eight-inch boards are nailed on 
the inside of the 2x4 posts to hang the 
mash hoppers on, and also helps to keep 
the rain out. 
Let the water pipe stand up about 
eighteen inches above the ground and drip 
in a barrel which has been cut off about 
seven inches tall. The drip is regulated 
by a valve, and regulate it so that the 
birds will drink it about as fast as it drips, 
you will not waste much water if regu¬ 
lated right. 
The mash hoppers are hung on the sides 
making it very handy for the birds. 
Here is a list of the material needed: 
2 pieces 2x6 8 ft. long sills. 
2 pieces 2x6 10 ft. long sills. 
2 pieces 2x4 10 ft. long posts. 
4 pieces 2x4 14 ft. long rafters. 
2 pieces 2x4 10 ft long plates. 
22 pieces 1x8 12 ft. long roofers. T. & G. 
4 pieces 1x8 10 ft. long boards on inside of 
2x4. 
2 pieces 1x3 14 ft. long facing boards. 
3 rolls of 2 ply roofing. R A Steele. 
Gapes in Young Chicks 
Elmer Whittaker 
A WET season in the spring of the year 
such as we have experienced this 
year, is the time when gapes are trouble¬ 
some, if they trouble at all. They are 
found almost entirely upon heavy clay 
soils, for the reason that such soils are 
suited to their propagation. The trouble 
is indicated by an apparent gaping, which, 
in reality is a gasping for breath, caused 
by a clump of small worms lodged in the 
windpipe, and clinging to it, sucking 
blood at the same time. These worms 
are about the size of coarse No. 30 thread, 
and from to % of an inch long. 
Infection may take place by the 
swallowing of the worms or their eggs in 
food or water. Their eggs have been 
found in earth worms, and are supposed 
to infest the soil or litter of yards, old 
woodpiles, and trash. The infection is 
much more common and troublesome 
upon places where chickens have been 
raised for years and years, without the 
soil having been turned, or anything 
raised upon it. It most generally comes 
on when chicks are from four to eight 
years old, and takes the weaker ones 
first. Many of the stronger ones are, no 
doubt, infested, but have the strength 
to throw the attack off, and outgrow it. 
Removing the Worms 
To remove the worms from the wind¬ 
pipe is a delicate operation, and requires 
deft, nimble fingers to do it successfully, 
for it must be done quickly when once 
commenced. A stiff hair from the tail 
of a horse should be provided, doubled, 
and twisted, leaving a small loop at end 
just large enough to pass down the open¬ 
ing of the windpipe. Hold the mouth 
open with the fingers so you can readily 
see the upper end of the windpipe, and 
when it opens, insert your loop and run 
it down the pipe, at the same time giving 
it a twist, and removing it. This will 
generally entangle the worms and bring 
them out in a clump. 
Another, and wholesale plan for the 
work, is to place the affected chicks in a 
small box, covering it with loosely woven 
burlap, and sprinkling air-slaked lime on 
the cloth. This dust is drawn in the 
trachea, suffocating the worms and causing 
them to loosen their hold. Then the 
sneezing of the chick throws them out. 
Prevention Is Best 
Prevention is, however, the best and 
that consists in thoroughly spading or 
plowing all the runs or places over which 
the chicks work. The growing of a crop 
on the ground is a good thing too- 
Preventing Roosting Habits 
Orin Crooker 
A RATHER unique method is used 
by Mr. L. B. Stearns of Kane 
County, Illinois, in preventing his growing 
fowls from forming the habit of roosting 
in orchard trees and almost any other 
place on the premises save the poultry 
house. He provides a special shelter 
which is illustrated above, with low 
down roosts in the immediate vicinity 
of the coops and runways in which the 
chicks spend their first few weeks. The 
birds become “wonted” to the immediate 
surroundings and it is comparatively easy 
to accustom them to seeking these roosts 
through the summer and early fall. The 
older fowls, through habit, find their way 
to their roosts in the poultry house aqd 
the young birds are not harassed by the 
older ones during their earlier efforts at 
spending their nights on perchcj;. Late 
in the fall when the air grows nippy the 
young birds are transferred to the poultry 
house. A few days breaks them of seek¬ 
ing the open air roosts. As will be seen 
from the photograph the low perches are 
housed in an open front shelter that is 
provided with a concrete floor. The 
roosts are pivoted at the back and can be 
swung up out of the way for cleaning. ‘ 
BABY CHICKS 1 
More and Better Chicks 
200,000 Large Husky Baby Chicks lor 
May, June, July and August Delivery 
Hatched by expert In large Blue Hen Mammoth Incuba¬ 
tors with Eleven years’ experience. Customers report our 
chicks grow taster than hen hatched chicks. A satisfied 
customer my best advertisement. Order at once and get 
DGLter cnicKs. 
S. c. WHITE or BROWN LEGHORN. . 9c each 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK .... 12c each 
broilers or mixed . ®ach 
Catalogue free'for^the 6 asking? ry Guaranteed - Valuable 
H. C. HOUSE WORTH, Port Trevorton, Penna* 
Baby Chicks at Reduced Prices 
S. C. W. Leghorns 
Barred Rocks 
R. I. Reds 
50 
$5.50 
100 
$ 10.00 
500 
$47.50 
$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 front the best of 
free range stock. I pay parcel post and guarantee 
s a fe delivery. Excellent hatches make these prices 
possible. Order yours today. Special prices on 
larger quantities. 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM 
E. C. Brown, Prop,, Sergeantgv ille, N. J. Box N 
~BABY CHICKS 
Price List Prepaid to You 
100 
Purebred Stock 
Wh. & Br. Leghorns. $io 00 
Buff & Bl. Leghorns . -- 
Anconas . . 
S. C. Bl. Minorcas. 
Barred Rocks. 
S. C. & R. C. Reds. 
Buff & Wh. Rocks. 
Wh. & S. L. Wyandottes. . . 
Buff Orpingtons . 
Black Langshans. 
S. C. Wh. Minorcas . 
Light Brahmas . 
Ail absolutely first class pure bred "stock. Prompt shhv 
ments made. Mail orders to 
JAMES KREJCI, 2165 E. 86th St., CLEVELAND, O, 
10.00 
12.00 
12.00 
12.00 
12.00 
12.00 
13.00 
13.00 
15.00 
15.00 
18.00 
60 
$5.50 
5.50 
6.50 
6.50 
6.50 
6.50 
6.50 
7.00 
7.00 
8.00 
8.00 
9.50 
26 
$3.00 
3.00 
3.50 
3.50 
3.50 
3.50 
3.50 
3.75 
3.75 
4.25 
4.25 
5.00 
FREE RANGE STOCK 
Mixed Stock_ $8 per 100 
S. C. W. Leghorns $9 per 100 
Barred Rocks.... $10 per 100 
Postage Paid. Live Arrival 
_ Guaranteed. 
JUNIATA POULTRY FARM, RICHFIELD, PA. 
BABY CHICKS 
Hatched by the best 
system of incubation 
—- from high-class bred- 
to-Iay stock. Prices after June ist. Barred and 
l Anconas, Black Minorcas, 12 c 
each; White, Brown, Buff Leghorns, ioc each; 
Broiler chicks, 7 c each. Safe delivery guaranteed by 
prepaid parcel-post. Pullets 10 to 12 weeks for sale. 
NUNDA POULTRY FARM, -NUNDA, N. Y. 
18,000 Chicks Weekly 
« A’ w^? ed r an ? shipped just right. 
c - White Leghorns, 10c 100, 9 He 
S00- S. C. Barred Rook, White Rock, 
Rhode Island Reds, 11c 100, 10 He 
500, 10c 1000; Heavy Broilers, 9c. I0O, 
8!4c 500, 8c 1000. 100% live arrival 
guaranteed. Order direct from this' 
ad lor quick shipment. 
L. R. WALCK 
R. R. No. 3 GREENCASTLE, PAi 
Chicks 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds, 11 Cta. 
Barred Rocks, 10 Cts. 
S. C. W. Leghorns 8 Cts. 
Mixed or Off Color Chicks, 7 Cts. 
These chicks are all hatched from free range 
stock. Safe delivery and satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Descriptive booklet free. 
w. a. lauver, McAlisterville, pa. 
LONG’S GUARANTEED CHICKS 
Rocks, 11c; Wyandottes, 12c; Leg¬ 
horns, 8c; Mixed, 7c. Reductions 
on large amounts. Good, lively 
Free Range CHICKS, carefully 
selected. Delivery guaranteed. 
Catalog 1 
LONG’S RELIABLE HATCHERY 
R. D. Long, Mgr., Box 12, MILLERSTOWN, PA. 
Chick Price Smashed 
Order from this Ad. 
Mixed and Assorted, 100, S7 I S. C. W. Leghorns, 100, $8 
S. C. B. Rocks.100, S10 I S. C. R. I. Reds. .100, $10 
Live arrival guaranteed. Delivery free. 
TROUP BROS., R. D. No. 3, MILLERSTOWN, PA. 
CERTIFIED S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Every tiird in our flock inspected by experts from 
N. Y. State College and clucks shipped under the 
seal of the State Co-operative Poultry Certification 
Assn. You Know What You Are Getting. Care¬ 
ful breeding plus inspection insures results. Get 
circular giving full description, also price list. 
H. L. ROBINSON Box 103 CASTILE, N. Y. 
LOOK! Baby | 9 a _ 1 . 0 ,° n an ^ u p- 
Free FEED with order. 
CHICKS! Postage paid. Live ar¬ 
rival guaranteed. 300 egg 
1 stock - Quality supreme. Catalog free. 
Nabob Hatcheries, Ave. 19, Gambier, Ohio 
Member Int. Baby Chick Ass’n. 
CHICKS 
S.C. Buff and White Leghorns, $10 per 10C 
Barred Rocks, $11 per 100; White Rocks, $1 
- per 100; Reds, $12 per 100. Light mixed, $; 
P®r lOf); h eavy, $10 per 100. All good chicks. Circular fret 
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