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I Perfect Egg Shipping Boxes

- FOR PARCEL POST AND EXPRESS SHIPMENTS.

■EE Manufactured to meet the requirements of Parcel Post and Express (new ruling, when gross weight of
5j± box and contents does not exceed 25 pounds.)

Have been on the Market for 12 years and are Used and Recommended by Thousands of Poultrymen and
• Experiment Poultry Farms.

A Complete 1 5-Egg Size

Note Place for Customer's Address

OUR GUARANTEE

is that Perfect Egg Boxes
are the best constructed
and most up-to-date boxes
for the safe shipment of
fancy hatching eggs by
parcel post or express or
MONEY REFUNDED.

Eggs may be shipped
thousands of miles with-
out breakage or danger
from heat or cold.

Construction and Prices of Perfect Egg Shipping Boxes

Are made of strong corrugated paper, with double faced
corrugated paper partitions which have cushion effect, which
protects each egg. Shipped knocked down flat and take low-
est express or freight rate. Box when set up looks like pic-
ture. The top, bottom and sides are double lined, with
double wall of corrugated paper, the top flap fits in place and

covers the eggs, and fits into the square tube, making a 4-
wall cushion protection, thus preventing any chance of eggs
being broken or chilled in shipment. A glance at box ought
to convince you that it is made on the right principle. Can
be packed ready for shipment in one minute.

— ■ Prices and Weights, Perfect Egg Boxes, F. O. B. Factory, Southern Illinois.

1 to 9 dz. 10 to 24 dz.
of 1 size of 1 size

25 to 99 dz. Wt. 1st and 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

of 1 size per dz. Zone Zone Zone Zone Zone

§1.65 dz. $1.50 dz. 15 1b. $1.95 $2.15 $2.40 $2.70 $3.00

2.40 dz. 2.25 dz. 231b. 2.80 3.15 3.50 3.95

3.25 dz. 3.15 dz. 35 1b. 3.90 4.25 4.95 5.65

5.25 dz. 5.00 dz.

No. 110 — 100 egg size, is too large to mail.
Special Notice. — The boxes are packed in one dozen lots in cardboard containers. We do not break packages. Sample
one- setting box, postpaid, 50 cents. We ship egg boxes by parcel post only when sufficient postage is remitted with order.

No. 70 — 1 setting, 15 egg size.... $1.75 dz.

No. 80 — 2 setting, 30 egg size 2.50 dz.

No. 90 — 50 egg size 3.45 dz.

No. 110 — 100 egg size 5.50 dz.

Prices per dozen, Postpaid.

1 Improved 'Sav-AlP —

J CORRECTLY VENTILATED

— Day Old Chick Boxes

NON-CROWDING

Manufactured to meet requirements of Parcel Post and Express Ruling, when gross wt. of box and con-
tents does not exceed 25 lbs.

For Cold, Hot, Mild or Warm Weather Parcel Post or Express Shipments.

' — ^ Construction. "Sav-All" Boxes are constructed of heavy, tough, corrugated

card board and can be given the required ventilation needed during cold, hot, mild
fdfl||HHHR£.''V». or warm weather, without danger of the chicks being smothered or chilled. The

box dividers are held in place with wire clips. Sides and bottom is made of one
piece and folds together and is clamped with wire clips, no cracks in bottom, cover
is separate and fits over top. The cover is made of one piece, which is neatly
printed, with space for your name and address, as well as customer's. Note
one dividing partition being one-half inch lower permits indirect ventilation in
all parts of box.

"Sav-AH" Chick Boxes have met the approval of the International Baby Chick
Association, which is a guarantee that chicks shipped in them are well protected.
The Strongest, Neatest and Best Constructed Box Made for Shipment of Day Old
Chicks by Mail or Express. Our Guarantee — Money Returned if boxes are other
than we claim.

Beware of the Higher Cost of the Lower Price of Inferior Constructed Boxes

V/e Do Not Claim to Make the Cheapest Chick or Egg Boxes,

but we do claim and prove by customers using "Sav-All"
Boxes that they prove the cheapest, as chicks and eggs ship-
ped in them arrive in a better condition than if shipped in
an inferior made box.

We ship boxes by pai'cel post only when sufficient postage
is remitted with order. Your postmaster can give you in-
formation as to zone and charges.

All Prices F. O. B. Factory, Southern Illinois.

1 to 9 dz. 10 to 24 dz. Wt. per
of 1 size of 1 size dz.

No. 25 — 25 Chick Size $1.25 dz. $1.10 dz. 16 1b.

No. 50 — 50 Chick Size 1.75 dz. 1.55 dz. 24 lb.

No. 100 — 100 Chick Size 2.40 dz. 2.15 dz. 40 lb.

All px-iees quoted are subject to change. Packed in bundles
of 1 dozen each. We do not break bundles. Sample 25 chick
size box, postpaid, 50c, furnished upon request.

Address all orders and remittances to

Send your order TODAY

Eureka Supply House, 3 Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, 111.

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A JOURNAL FOR
EVERYONE
I KITE R EST ED

KEEPER

I N M A K I N G
POULTRY
PAY

Vol. XXXIX

APRIL, 1922

No. 1

Poultry Building On The Farm

By F. RAYMOND BENSON

Each year the farmer had prom-
ised his wife that he would build her
a suitable place in which to keep her
flock but each year he had put it
off for one reason or another. So
we are going to give the good wife
a few pointers in the hope that she
can influence friend husband to put
up that poultry house this year.

First of all a house should be built
with an idea to the end for which it
is to be used. The commercial egg
plants needs a different house than
the broiler plant. Of course one may
make an old granary over into a
poultry house but it is always best
to build it according to the best ideas
of those who have had experience
along this line. Above all, the house
must be dry. Dampness is absolutely
a danger to poultry and the house
must be so constructed and located
that it will be dry at all times of
the year, especially during the cold
winter days, when the frost wants to
collect on the walls. It should have
an abundance of light and sunshine
for the laying of eggs is determined
in no small degree by the length of
day, and a dark house means a short
day and fewer eggs. Plenty of sun-
shine has a tendancy to prevent di-
sease as it is a well known fact that
many germs turn up on their back
when a ray of sunshine gets hold of
them. Like many other things in
life they cannot stand light. Venti-
lation is essential to success. Madam
hen must keep up her vigor in order
to keep shelling out the eggs and a
hen needs more fresh air than most
other animals. Fresh air is very im-
portant. The house should be so
constructed that it can easily be kept
clean. Cleanliness is a factor in egg
production winter or summer. The
house must be free from drafts and
not subject to sudden changes in
temperature. To sum it all up in a
word, a poultry house must be com-
fortable. If the hen feels at ease
and has her every wish gratified —
then eggs will come in abundance
and after all that is the aim that
the average farmer is keeping poul-
try for and the reason for a new

poultry house — to obtain more eggs.
As we have just said it is often true
that it seems best to convert an old
building over into a poultry house
and in that case the best that can
be done is to keep these ideas in
mind and do the best you can. It
may be possible to produce a quite
satisfactory house but as a general
rule built-over buildings are not very
satisfactory. If a new building can
be constructed, it is by all means the
best thing to do.

Many a poultry farmer has failed
and if he but knew the reason it
might be summed up in one word.
Location of the poultry house. The
location of the house is almost as
important as any fact with which the
would-be builder has to contend. The
house should be placed on a well-
drained piece of ground and often
the slope of a hill is better than a flat
plot. Water from rains must drain
off from around the house and leave
the yards dry. Moisture is not at all
desirable and never loose sight of
the fact that a dry house is of the
utmost importance. In locating a
poultry house it is always well to
place it conveniently near the other

buildings as it saves time and in bad
weather is quite an advantage. It
should be placed far enough away
so that in case of fire that it will
not be in danger. Always face the
house to the south so that the
amount of winter sunshine may he
as great as possible. A southern ex-
posure is so well nigh universal that
we need but suggest it. A windy
place is not advisable owing to the
fact that cold winter winds will have
to be contended with but if there
seems to be no alternative — then
plant trees about the house and give
it as much protection as possible. We
have seen this done and really it is
surprising how much wind a few
trees can break.

There are two general ideas in this
housing problem. One may adopt
the colony or separate flock house or
the long or continuous house. Then
again the colony house is divided in-
to two plans — the portable and non-
portable. The portable has runners
and can be drawn about the farm
from one place to another by a team
of horses. This plan permits the
houses to be drawn into the fields
and much feed will be eaten by the

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fowls which is found on the ground
and which would otherwise be lost,
so in reality it saves quite a bit of
feed. It also gives the fowls access
to the insects and this is a valuable
addition to the ration of any flock.
Being moved about so often the
ground about the house is unusually
fresh and free from contamination
and this results in less sickness and
disease. Its greatest draw-back is
the added cost of construction and
the extra work needed to go about
caring for the fowls. During the sum-
mer the coops are in the fields but
during the winter it is usual to draw
them up near the other buildings.
This makes the care of the fowls
much easier and saves many an ex-
tra step. The non-portable is a great
deal the same as the portable but
has a fixed place of location.

The long or continuous house has
found many friends owing to the fact
that the first cost to build is much
lower than the colony coop. The
amount of labor in caring for the
fowls is greatly lessened and no one
can fail to appreciate this feature on
a stormy winter day. But is seems
that no housing plan is perfect and
each has its short-comings. The con-
tinuous house increases the danger
from disease. It also increases bad
habits such as egg eating and feather
pulling. Almost all long houses have
bad drafts and solid partitions must
be built at regular intervals in order
to overcome this trouble. Given prop-
er care in the biulding this style
house makes quite a satisfactory
coop.

No matter what style house you
may adopt as best fitting your indi-
vidual needs, it is imperative that
you make some arrangement to se-
cure proper ventilation. Fresh air
is as important as proper food and
you cannot hope for success in the
poultry business unless you supply
an abundance of good, clean, fresh
air to the fowls. No draft should be
allowed under any circumstances.
The fowls must be protected from
cold winds laden with snow. Venti-
lation does not mean to open up a
window and let it go at that. Such
a procedure would result in a damp
house where proper ventilation will
give the opposite result. There are
really three means of ventilation.
One of the oldest ways to get foul
air out of a house and pure air in.

is by the use of a ventilator. This
may be made of metal or wood but
the idea is the same — to change the
air in the house. This has met with
success in some places and then again
it has proven a flat failure, so we do
not feel justified in saying that it
will prove entirely satisfactorily. The
muslin curtain in place of a window
has gone a long way in helping solve
this difficult problem but the cloth
must be swept off occasionally to
admit a maximum amount of air,
otherwise it fails to change the air
as per the plan. When a curtain is
working properly it takes about one
square foot of curtain to eacn fifteen
square feet of floor space. During
the last few weeks a new means of
ventilation has appeared whic.u seems
to give quite satisfactorily results.
We say it is a new idea and yet that
is hardly a fact for it is fashioned
after the old style wooden shutter.
Being made of lath it is cheaply con-
structed and it really is quite an im-
provement. No doubt you have seen
them and know what tney are. It
is usually best to allow about one
square foot of baffler to twenty
square feet of floor space.

The modern "window is indeed a
great help to civilization but perhaps
it is fully as beneficial to our poul-
try. We need light and plenty of it.
Allow one square foot of window
space to each ten or twelve square

feet of floor space. We recommend
that all glass be uniform in size so
that replacement may be simplified.
S"xlO" or 10"xl2" are the sizes most
used. It would be an excellent plan
to use the same sizes in all farm
buildings so far as possible. The
windows should be rbout two feet
from the floor and perhaps a foot
from the plate, depending somewhat
on the size and style of the house.
All windows should be made to open
easily and if they open down from
the top it will prevent drafts to quite
an extent. It would be well to cover
window space with fine wire to keep
out sparrows and other pests. Be
sure to clean the glass occasionally
so as to give the full benefit of the
windows.

One of the questions most asked
is, "What size house should I build?"
That can be answered by finding the
number of fowls which will be kept
in the house. The main thing is not
to crowd the birds. For a flock of
fifty fowls we would suggest that
each fowl should be given four
square feet of floor space. It is
better to give a little too much rath-
er than too little room. As the flock
decreases in size the amount of floor
space needed per bird must increase.
On many farms where the poultry
has a free run, the size of the house
is not so important in tne summer
but when winter comes be sure the
house is not crowded. A wide house
is usually cheaper to build than a
narrow one. Fourteen feet deep
should be the minimum and sixteen
feet would be better.

There are four styles of roofs in
common use and it seems that dif-
ferent parts of the country are par-
tial to different roofs. Perhaps the
shed roof is the most common and
easiest to build. It has the advant-
age of being cheap and this must be
taken into consideration. It turns
all the water to the north, away from
the south yards and gives a warm
coop. It has so many advantages
that it will continue to be used as
long as poultry is kept. The combi-
nation roof is a cross between a shed
and a gable roof. It is used quite
largely in wide houses, the gable be-
ing built one-third of the way back
from the front. It is quite warm and
a very good roof for houses fourteen
or more feet wide. The gable roof,

commonly known as the peak roof is
not as popular now as it was years
ago. The plate must be too high to
admit sunshine, resulting in a cold
house. The best plan is to ceil such
a house at the plate, placing the
boards about one inch apart and then
place a foot of straw on top of these
boards. This will remedy dampness
and make it warmer. A window cut
in each gable end will help to keep
the straw dry. Much has been said
of the semi-monitor style roof and
it certainly has many advantages. It
reduces the air space, admits sun-
shine to the rear of the house and
is warmer. But for the long house
it is too low in front to be entirely
satisfactory. It is difficult to clean
and expensive to build. Modifica-
tions of it have been used and quite
successfully.

For the foundation nothing equals
a good cement wall. It should be
well built and be at least one foot
above the surrounding ground. This
will insure drainage. By all means
make it rat proof.

Fowls enjoy dirt floors but they
must be higher than the surrounding
ground to make them dry. The lit-
ter will need to be changed often to
keep it sanitary. Board floors are
dry and quite satisfactory except
they allow a nice place for rats. Ce-
ment is durable but cold and must
be covered with sand and litter.

The walls are constructed with the
idea of keeping the rain, snow and
cold winds away from the fowls. Ce-
ment or cement blocks are usually
too costly and often are damp. Drop
siding seems to be about the best ma-
terial available. Some houses are
constructed of rough lumber and
covered with tar paper but in the
end we think this is penny wise and
pound foolish.

Roofing paper is used for roofs as
they are usually rather flat. On
roofs of good slope composition
shingles are better but cost more.
Wooden shingles are not recom-
mended.

Partitions should be made solid for
about two feet from the floor, this
will prevent the males fighting. The
upper part may be made of wire.
Solid partitions should be construct-
ed at intervals in long houses to pre-
vent drafts. Doors in the partitions

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should be in a straight line and dou-
ble action hinges permit the doors
to swing either way which is a de-
cided advantage to the one who cares
for the flock. The roosts should be
on the level and placed in the warm
est part of the house, which is usu-
ally the back side. If they are re-
movable, so much the better. For
small fowls six inches of roosting
space is allowed for each fowl but
with the larger breeds it is best to
alow eight inches to each bird. The
roosts should be placed about four-
teen inches from the back wall to
prevent damaging the plumage. It
is also a good plan to place the roosts
about twelve to fourteen inches apart
for the same reason. A dropping
board is placed under the roosts and
should be so arranged that it may
be easily cleaned. Some poultrymen
hinge the dropping boards and let
them drop down out of the way dur-
ing the day. Nests must be of easy
access, dark and about twelve to
fourteen inches square with fourteen
inches of head room. Provide one
nest to each three or four hens.

Economy is usually the watch-
word in poultry house construction
on the farm and that is well, but
see to it that none of the essentials
are overlooked. The house must be
comfortable for the fowls and yet
convenient to the caretaker. It must
not be elaborate or a waste of money
would result and yet it must have
all the facilities for caring for the
needs of the fowls. In the end it is
poor economy to buy poor lumber or
for that matter anything which en-
ters into a poultry house. Buy good
material, build it as well as you
know how, without any of the frills
and you will find in the years to
come that it will be a real saving.

Lumber and all materials enter-
ing into the construction of a poul-
try house are much cheaper now than
they have been for some time.
Whether they will go lower we can-
not say but the fact remains that
they are getting down so much near-
er the normal figure that should you
be really in need of a poultry house,
we doubt the wisaom of delaying its
construction longer. It will be worth
much to you to have the use of a
good poultry house.

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ILLINOIS STATE FAIR

The next Illinois State Fair will
be held a month later than last year,
the dates being September 16th to
2 3rd. We want to make it a quality
show clear through. Due to the lim-
ited amount of floor space in the
poultry building, a rule has been
adopted restricting the entering of
poultry by any exhibitor to 3 varie-
ties. You can enter as many speci-
mens as you desire in each variety
of the 3 you wish, but no more.
This rule does not apply to Turkeys,
Waterfowls, Bantams or Rabbits, but
entries for poultry for more than 3
varieties from any exhibitor will not
be accepted. This will eliminate the
carload man but it cannot be helped
as it is impossible to build a suitable
poultry building at present. We have
no doubt we will get it in the future
and then we will be able to lift the
rule. The Illinois State Poultry As-
sociation would like to have all live
specialty clubs in Illinois to hold their
summer meeting at this fair, they
can get their members to send their
best specimens and at their meeting
can have the judges go over the win-
ners with the club. It will help both
the members and the judges. Lots
of good was accomplished at the last
State fair by the Red club along the
above lines and we believe it will help
all clubs the same way.

The enormous number of people
visiting the poultry building makes
it an ideal place to start your fall
showing and we doubt if a better
place to sell your surplus males and
females exists in Illinois.

Get in touch with your club secre-
tary and have him get up a rousing-
meeting of your members at the
State fair.

We hope to have the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
C, send there full poultry display to
the fair and the newly created De-
partment of Poultry Husbandry of
the Department of Agriculture will
have their bulletins and want to meet
all breeders of poultry if possible.

Put September 16 to 2 3 or your
lists and make up your mind to show
a few real good ones there. — A. D.
Smith, Sec, Quincy, 111.

T „„ „,„„„.. ,,„, v( . the ECtoherv on the Halhvorthv Poultry Farm. Box 105, Elyria, Ohio. Mr. H. H. Hall, the proprietor, is making a specialty of

nnt^ Z e t^^Z,,^i S C White Leghorn baby chicks, ' although he also furnishes all of the better known varieties. Descriptive catalog of
this plant will be mafled to all who are interested without obligation.

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POULTRY INTEREST IN THE
SOUTHLAND

We feel greatly gratified when we
hear so many glowing reports from
the South. The good news is com-
ing constantly and it indicates that
our good Southern friends appreciate
the value of poultry more and more
and we predict that ten years from
now will see many wonderful poultry
plants in the South.

In many parts of this section the
soil and climate are almost ideal for
poultry. In fact one of the draw-
backs has been the ease with which
poultry could be raised. But educa-
tion and experience have done much
to overcome this and the South is
being dotted with successful poultry
plants.

We believe in time that early broil-
ers will be largely shipped to our
Northern markets from Southern
poultry farms and this makes a spec-
ialty well worthy of careful investi-
gation. Fowls for our early fall
shows will also be reared in the
South. This is done to some extent
at present.

The future of the South is ex-
tremely promising and we are glad
to see our friends are meeting the
problem with much interest.

THE ODD BREEDS

Almost every week we receive a
request for the address of a breeder
of some odd breed. Last week it
was a lady who wanted Buff Cochins
and this week it was Black Turkeys.
We call these odd breeds because
they are not bred so extensively.

Those of our readers who breed
these out-of-the-ordinary breeds will
do well to run an ad in POULTRY
KEEPER. If you have but a limited
amount of stock to sell, use a classi-
fied ad. The main idea is to place
your name before our readers and
keep it before them.

How are folks to know that you
raise Gray Call Ducks or Buttercups

it you don't tell them? Don't fool
yourself into thinking that a reader
is going to hunt through a lot of
back numbers to find your ad. He
will write to someone whose ad he
sees. If he writes to us we will
give him the name of our advertisers
but suppose you have never adver-
tised — how can we give him your
name?

A real opportunity is present and
the cost of a classified ad for a year
won't break you and it will probably
bring you many a good order. Profit
comes from sales and sales result
from advertising.

Don't lay this aside but write out
your ad and mail it today. Get in
the game and get your share of busi-
ness.

BEES ARE PROFIT MAKERS

It was a number of years ago when
the writer was about ten years of age
that he went with father to see a
neighbor who kept bees. Well, as
youngsters will, we got mixed up
with the bees and we certainly broke
all speed records that day. But in
the back of the buggy (autos were
not used then) we took home some
honey and in spite of our experiences
with the bees we did our full duty
to that honey. What is nicer than
a cake of clear honey, made right at
home and at small cost?

While you poultrymen keep an eye
open for profits on your poultry, yet
you are missing something, if you
don't keep bees. They are a source
of real profit. With all the facilities
and knowledge that we have today
it is not as risky as when we were
young.

If you have fruit it is imperative
that you keep bees. Don't forget that
next winter when the snow is deep
and the wind is howling that this
honey will taste mighty good.

THE PRICE OF EGGS

Many of our readers have written
to inquire why the bottom seemed to
drop out of the egg market. To all
appearances there was no reason for
this sudden drop.

As near as we can ascertain there
was an immense quantity of Chinese
eggs placed on sale in Chicago.

You cannot produce eggs as cheap-
ly as these eggs were for the simple
reason that no self-respecting Amer-
ican citizen would allow such condi-
tions to exist and someone probably
made some money out of the deal at
the expense of our poultrymen.

This condition gives you a taste of
what is going to happen unless Con-
gress does something to protect the
poultry industry. We have mentioned
before the lack of sanitation in
China and either we must stop these
eggs from coming into this country
or you will have to produce eggs at
a lower cost.

It has been suggested that it would
be an excellent idea to compel res-
taurants to display a notice to the
effect that they used Chinese eggs.
If this were done it would place the
domestic egg and the imported egg
in two separate classes — it would re-
move competition.

This whole proposition is very
vital and you should do all possible
to secure such laws as will protect
our poultrymen. Self preservation
is our first law.

Dr. David Roberts
Poultry Tablets

A combination of sulphocarbolates of
calcium.sodium and zinc for the treat-
ment and prevention of White Diar-
rhea and all intestinal infections of
baby chicks, as well as poultry in all
stages of life and productivity. Drink-
ing water for poultry should be medi-
cated to overcome and prevent disease.
The annual poultry loss by disease is
stupendous---over 50 per cent.

Save Your Chicks

Serve in fresh water. Aids digestion.
Permits food to nourishthem through
their babyhood, the non-productive
period when hardy bone and strong
muscle is needed to give them a good
start in their race for the laying period.
They will reward you manyfold later
on. Give them proper protection and
you will find there is big money in
poultry. Sold in tablet form.

50 Tablets 50 Cents

Poultry will drink when too sicktoeat.
Baby chick organs are peculiarly sensi-
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Page Number 7

SUNSHINE WILL KILL
GERMS

HATCH EARLY FALL WIN-
NERS NOW

Many problems of disease which
come from poultry keepers have
their start in the presence of germs.
Disease comes as a result of these
germs being in the intestines or per-
haps the throat. The problem is to
remove these germs and keep the
premises free from them.

Spraying the hen house with zen-
oleuin of any other good disinfectant
is an effective means to this end,
especially when a dangerous disease
gets started but spraying the coop be-
fore the ferms get busy is locking
the barn before instead of after the
attempted robbery.

The spraying of the coop is very
useful and the cost is not heavy and
yet poultrymen are searching for a
more effective means of fighting di-
sease. Often while we search in for-
eign lands for a remedy, we have
one right at hand. So it is in this
particular case.

Sunshine is a most potent remedy
for disease. Germs are killed by its
piercing rays and if poultrymen
would only let more of this so easily
procured remedy into their poultry
houses, how much less disease there
would be. What a loss would be
saved and how much more profit
would be made. Sunshine is the ene-
my of disease and we should use it
more freely. Perhaps its very cheap-
ness has been one of the reasons we
have neglected it. But wise men
know that nature's means of destroy-
ing germs is after all the best. So
let us have light and sunshine, more
and more.

WATER AND EGGS

An egg is composed of a large
amount of water. This can be prov-
en in any High School Chemistry
class. If the egg is so largely com-
posed of water, then it follows that
water is absolutely necessary in or-
der to produce eggs. This is exactly
the case and we heard D. E. Hale
tell how he was able to detect the
cause of a laying slump in the low
consumption of water by the hens.

A hen to be a heavy layer must be
a heavy drinker. She must drink
large quantities of water. Men like
Hale who delve into the whys and
wherefores of things have proven
this.

A constant supply of water easily
available is of utmost importance. If
the water is always near at hand, a
hen will take a few sips often and in
the end will have consumed a large
quantity of water. Not only must
the water be easily secured but it
must be clean and pure. A hen does
not like to drink dirty water but
from necessity she is often forced to
do so. Warm water in winter and
cool water in summer will induce a
hen to drink more. An abundance
of water of the right temperature
will do much to increase the egg pro-
duction. It may require a little ex-
tra time to attend to this matter but
the extra number of eggs you will
get will more than repay you for the
trouble.

This is the time of the year when
the winners at the early fall shows
will be hatched. Your pens have
been mated with all the skill you
possess and now it is up to you to
hatch as many chicks as possible, so
that your chance of raising as many
winners as possible will be better.
With the American breeds the early
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month and the Mediterraneans will
have to be gotten out not later than
next month. Of course the later
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don't forget that the early chicks are
wanted this month without fail.

Look to their care the first few
weeks and above all things keep
them growing. A stunted bird is
about the worst proposition of all.
Keep them growing at all costs.

It pays to welcome newcomers,
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Month of February
AT MLRPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS

Five Highest Pens in Mediterranean Class.

Owner Address Variety Eggs

Ward L. Hull, Roodhouse, Illinois, White Leghorns 9 5

Northland Farms, Grand Rapids, Mich., White Leghorns 89

Theo. Mallinckrodt, Marthasvilie, Mo., Brown Leghorns 86

Johnson & Bowyer, Murphysboro, 111., Black Leghorns 7 9

Sweet Briar Farms, Ontarioville, 111., Anconas 7 9

L. E. Warren, Webster Groves, Mo., White Leghorns 77

G. F. Kramper, St. Libory, 111., Blue Andalusians 77

Five Highest lndividvnls in Mediterranean Class.

Ward L. Hull Roodhouse, Illinois, White Leghorns . 2 7

Ora Hanna, Murphysboro, 111., Brown Leghorns 23

Sweet Briar Farms, Ontarioville, 111., Anconas 21

Northland Farms, Grand Rapids, Mich., White Leghorns 2 0

Grand View Farm, Zeeland, Mich., White Leghorns 20

Sweet Briar Farms, Ontarioville, 111., Anconas 20

G. F. Kramper, St. Libory, 111., Blue Andalusians 20

Theo. Mallinckrodt, Marthasvilie, Mo., Brown Leghorn 20

Theo. Mallinckrodt, Marthasvilie, Mo., Brown Leghorn 2 0

Ward L. Hull, Roodhouse, 111., White Leghorn 20

Northland Farms, Grand Rapids, Mich., White Leghorn 19

Johnson & Bowyer, Murphysboro, 111., Black Leghorn 19

H. E. Errett, Nevada, Missouri, Ancona- 19

H. E. Errett, Nevada, Missouri, Ancona 19

Muster & Graves, Murphysboro, 111., White Leghorn 19

Sweet Briar Farm, Ontarioville, 111., White Leghorn 19

Funk Egg Farm, Bloomington, 111., White Leghorn 19

Corn Belt Poultry Farm, Forrest, 111., White Leghorns 19

Egyptian Poultry Farm, DuBois, 111., White Leghorn 19

Five Highest Pens in American and English Classes.

Paul W. Arndt, Murphysboro, 111., White Rocks 104

Floyd Dauer, Murphysboro, 111., Buff Orpingtons 9 6

John N. Braun, Red Bud, Illinois, Barred Rocks 9 6

Miss Pearce, Springfield, 111., Rhode Island Reds 89

Jules Francois, Westhampton Beach, Barred Rocks 89

W. M. Denney, Murphysboro, 111., Rhode Island Reds 86

Kenneth Pautler, Murphysboro, 111., Rhode Island Reds 84

Tip Top Poultry Farm, Sullivan, 111.. White Wyandottes 84

Five Highest Individuals in American and English Classes.

Paul W. Arndt, Murphysboro, 111., White Rocks 2 4

Mrs. P. W. Warner, Salem, 111., Barred Rock 24

Paul W. Arndt, Murphysboro, 111., White Rock 2 3

Leo Baumann, Highland, 111., White Wyandottes 2 3

Jules Francois, Westhampton Beach, Barred Rock 2 3

Harlem Graeff & Son, Murphysboro, 111., Barred Rock 2 3

Rev. Sam Hensi.Higginsville, Mo., White Rock. 2 3

J. W. Bilderback, Carbondale, 111., White Wyandotte 2 2

Jules Francois, Westhampton Beach, Barred Rock 2 2

John M. Braun, Red Bud, 111., Barred Rock 22

Whistlecote Annex, Burksville, 111., White Rock 22

Floyd Dauer, Murphysboro, 111., Buff Orpington — 22

Prairie View Farm, St. Peters, 111.,. Rhode Island Red 22

R. J. McElvain & Son. Murphysboro, 111., Rhode Island Red 22

Miss Pearce, Springfield, 111., Rhode Island Red , — 21

W. P. Skinner, Murphysboro, 111., Barred Rock 21

Whistlecote Annex, Burksville, 111., White Rock 21

Floyd Dauer, Murphysboro, 111., Buff Orpington — 21

C. I. Wadkins, Carterville, 111., Barred Rock 21

Mrs. R. N. Nesbit, Girard, 111., Buff Wyandotte 21

W. M. Denney, Murphysboro, 111., Rhode Island Red 20

W. J. Esger, Verona, 111., Rhode Island Red 20

Leo Baumann, Highland. 111., White Wyandotte 20

Tip Top Poultry Farm, Sullivan, 111., White Wyandotte 20

Jules Francois, West Hampton Beach, Barred Rock 20

John M. Braun, Red Bud. 111., Barred Rock 20

John M. Braun, Red Bud, 111., Barred Rock - 20

Rev. Sam Hensi, Higginsville, Mo., White Rock 20

Paul W. Arndt, Murphysboro, 111., White Rock 20

Floyd Dauer, Murphysboro, 111., Buff Orpington 2 0

Francis Schilling, Waterloo, 111., Rhode Island White 2 0

Prairie View Farm, St. Peters, 111., Rhode Island Red 20

Kenneth Paulter, Murphysboro, 111., Rhode Island Red . 2 0

QCI3VCY REPORT OF WINNERS
Five Highest Pens in Mediterranean Class.

Owner Address Variety Eggs

John J. Nyenhuis, Hudsonville, Mich., White Leghorns 99

Martin Rodstrom, Holdridge, Neb., White Leghorns 9 9

F. W. Rubensaal, Rockford, 111., White Leghorns 97

H. E. Heine, Lakewood, N. J., White Leghorns 9 6

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

4 Northland Leghorn Farm, Grand Rapids, Mich., White Leghorns

4 Harold Barclay, Wheaton, 111., White Leghorns

5 Davidson W. L. Farm, West Alexander, Pa., White Leghorns

Five Highest Individuals in Mediterranean Class.

1 A. E. Davidson, Mt. Sterling, 111., White Leghorn

2 Northland Leghorn Farm, Grand Rapids, Mich, White Leghorn

3 Koyer Bros., Quincy, 111., White Leghorn

4 Davidson W. L. Farm, West Alexander, Pa., White Leghorn

4 Geo. Ghostley, Anoka, Minn., White Leghorn

4 Martin Rodstrom, Holdredge, Neb., White Leghorn

4 John J. Nyenhuis, Hudsonville, Mich., White Leghorn

5 S. C. Price, Hazelton, Pa., White Leghorn

5 C. A. Hettama, Midland Park, N. J., White Leghorn

5 C. H. Dear, Mayfield, Kansas, Buff Leghorn

5 A. Ter Haar, Hudsonville, Mich, White Leghorn

5 Grand View Farm, Zeeland, Mich., White Leghorn

5 E. T. Fox, Watseka, 111., White Leghorn ,

5 Davidson W. L. Farm, West Alexander, Pa., White Leghorn

5 Geo. Ghostley, Anoka, Minn., White Leghorn , ,

Jan. — Band No. 257 Davidson W. L. Farm, W. Alexander, P., W. Leg.

Five Highest Pens in American and English Classes.

1 Mrs. F. M. Robinson, Metamora, 111., Rhode Island Reds

2 J. W. Wellman, Quincy, 111., Rhode Island Reds

2 C. P. Scott, Peoria, 111., Rhode Island Reds

2 A. B. Blevins, Kincaid, 111., Black Minorcas

3 W. J. Jones, Bader, 111., Buff Orpingtons

4 Kent Poultry Farm, Cazenovia, N. Y., Barred Rocks

4 Fernside Farm, Foxboro, Mass, Rhode Island Reds

5 Matthew Lepper, Quincy, 111., Barred Rocks

Five Highest Individuals in American and English Classes.

1 Fernside Farm, Foxboro, Mass., Rhode Island Red

2 Mrs. F. M. Robinson, Metamora, 111., Rhode Island Red

3 Fernside Farm, Foxboro, Mass., Rhode Island Red

3 Hoppe Poultry Farm, Cullom, 111., Barred Rock

3 O. P. Scott, Peoria, 111., Rhode Island Red

4 John Rogers, Peoria, 111., Rhode Island Red

4 H. E. Stockhausen, Peoria, 111., Rhode Island Red

4 C. D. Knott, Worcester, Mass., Rhode Island Red

4 W. J. Jones, Bader, 111., Buff Orpington _

4 J. W. Wellman, Quincy, 111., Rhode Island Red

5 H. E. Stockhausen, Peoria, 111., Rhode Island Red

5 W. J. Jones, Bader, 111., Buff Orpington

5 Mrs. F. M. Robinson, Metamora, 111., Rhode Island Red

5 Kent Poultry Farm, Cazenovia, N. Y., Barred Rock

5 Matthew Lepper, Quincy, 111., Barred Rock

5 P. W. Ballard, Galesburg, 111., White Rock

5 Wm. E. Bean, Anoka, Minn., White Wyandotte

5 Nichols & Smith, Havana, 111., Rhode Island Red

5 F. W. Boulware. Hatton, Mo., Barred Rock .

The total number of eggs laid in
Quincy during the month of Febru-
ary was 7,095 and in January 6,371
showing an increase of 72 4 eggs in
2 8 days or 4 8 eggs a day, the aver-
age productin of the contest being
4 5 per cent, 9 per cent over the
month of January. The total num-
ber of eggs laid in Murphysboro dur-
ing the month of February was 4,411
an increase of 1,707 over January,
making the average production 4 5
per cent, 20 per cent higher than
that of January.

Our contests are being run on the
same scale and the birds in each con-
test given the same care and feed.
They are being fed prepared stand-
ard scratch feed and mash, varied
with various green foods. The lights
are turned on in the morning at five
and off at seven. The average
amount of mash consumed by each
individual runs about 2.5 lbs. of
scratch feed and 3.2 lbs. of mash.
The birds are kept busy in a deep
litter of straw to furnish them plenty
of exercise and each one is carefully
trapnested. Silver cups are sent
each month to the prize winner in
each class at each contest.

Look over your breeding stock
this time of the year. Lack of egg
laying ability, a disqualification or
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self so firmly in your flock that it
will take years to overcome bad ef-
fects of same. Hatch now for ma-
tured pullets for the egg laying con-
test, which will start November 1st,
1922.

You should have all your pens se-
lected and mated by this time, and
beginning to hatch at least a few
early chicks. More depends upon se-
lection and breeding than any other
one thing. When you go into your
yard and select your matings, you
should not be afraid to eliminate
disqualifications and serious defects.
Follow the standard as closely as
possible. You should also give at
least equal consideration to the gen-
eral health, vigor and egg laying
qualities of your bird. In selection
for egg production, you will not go
far wrong if you haven't trap nest
records to depend upon, to follow the
chart and directions for culling, as
printed in Bulletin No. 301, Depart-
ment of Agriculture of Illinois. Be-
fore your breeding yards are com-
pleted take one more look and be
satisfied that your selections for
breeders are the very best you have.
Keep the pullets which matured
quickly and started laying first. Keep
the late moulters and the birds with
rather large, plump combs and watt-
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Incubator and Brooder Inventions of the H. M. Sheer Co.

Sol-Hot Colony Brooders.

The Sol-Hot Coiony Brooder is a
Canopy Brooder heated with the new-
Super Sol-Hot Heater. With this it
is claimed that to raise young chicks
one does not have to worry over the
heater going out at night or whether
it is adjusted right so it won't smoke.
The same steady heat can always be
depended on. It is absolutely auto-
matic. There are no valves or oil
adjustments to make, no wicks to
trim, no fumes, no smoke. If the
supply tank has plenty of oil you
can leave the rest to the Sol-Hot
Heater, for it maintains an even heat
under changing weather conditions.
The canopy is made of heavy gal-
vanized rust-proof material, which is
very durable and should last indefi-
nitely. It rests on a strong base sup-
ported like a heating stove on four
legs. This canopy is easily moved,
when one wants to light the burner,
by a metal handle that folds down
onto canopy.

A metal screen prevents the chicks
from scratching litter into the burner
to start a fire and also prevents the
chicks from getting too near the
flame. This screen, made of heavy
metal, extends from floor to top of
canopy. Just below the burner is a
heavy galvanized pan which is partly
filled with sand. This should be satu-
rated with water occasionally to give
off sufficient moisture to keep the
heat from being too dry for the
chicks. These canopies come in
three sizes, varying from 32 to 52
inches in diameter. These are shipped
in strong wooden crates to insure
from dents and jams. This knock-
down feature is covered by Sheer pa-
tents. It takes only a few minutes
to put together the canopy, and the
crate is convenient again at the end
of the season for storing the canopy.
The "Baby" Brooder.
The Sol-Hot Brooder is designed
for small lots of chicks. The canopy
is 32 inches wide, of one piece, and
the oil reservoir is smaller than in

the larger brooders. Both heater and
canopy are shipped in one package.
Giant Sol-Hot Heaters.
These are especially designed for
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and are made on the principle of the
regulator heaters, only much larger.
They do away with the ashes, gasses,
and other cares of coal heaters. They
fit into the base of coal burning
stoves. The only care necessary is
to replenish the oil supply as needed.

Gas Valve for Cutting Gas Incubator
and Brooder Cost.
The Acme Automatic Gas Valve is
a Sheer invention that greatly re-
duces the cost of gas when used for
incubators and brooders. An adjust-
ing screw may be set to either burn
full flame or reduce the flame to a
minimum. The size of the flame may
be automatically controlled by con-
necting up with the regulator which
raises or lowers the level of the gas
valve. The valve is furnished com-
plete, including burner, tip, chimney
flange, wall bracket and hose coup-
ling, ready to be connected with gas
service.

Acme Wafer Thermostats.

The action of expansion and con-
traction of the thermostate with heat
or cold is the motive power that oper-
ates the incubator regulator, thereby
controlling the heat in the incubator

or brooder. A patented valve is the
keynote to the efficiency of the Acme
Wafer Thermostats making them un-
iformity accurate and sensitive.

These thermostats are made single,
compound and tandem double com-
pound. Mr. Sheer designed the tan-
dem double compound to supply
greater power and more positive ac-
tion than given by the less sensitive
devices. This improved device is
now used by many of the manufac-
turers of high grade colony brooder
stoves. This tandem thermostate may
be instantly attached to any style of
regulator now using a wafer ther-
mostat. All necessary attachments
are furnished if name of incubator
is given when ordering.

Acme Automatic Regulators.

Acme Regulators are made by the
Sheer Company in three styles.
Style E enters side of incubator,
leaving top free of all obstructions.
Style D is located on top of incubator
and its action is transmitted to damp-
er lever by a direct upward thrust or
push. Style C is also located on top,
but action is transmitted to the lever
by a downward pull.

Miulti-Dek-Sectional Incubators.

The Sheer Multi-Dek Sectional
Baby Mammoth incubator is built in
units of 250-egg capacity each. One
can start his plant with one section
and add as many more as are needed
wnen desired. One heater will op-
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sections of 1500-egg capacity. One
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I am getting POULTRY KEEPER and think
it an excellent paper for anybody interested
in poultry raising. Please answer the follow-
ing questions in your next issue.

1. Do you think it necessary to clean out
your chickens with Epsom salts every month?

2. What chick feed do you recommend to
start baby clucks?

E. A. A., Pennsylvania.
Thank you for your kind words.
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making POULTRY KEEPER as in-
teresting and instructive as possible.

1. As a general rule we do not
believe in doping the fowls. Once
in awhile it does seem necessary to
give the birds a dose of Epsom salts
but as a general rule we would not
do it. Feed a more laxative diet and
depend on the food given to keep the
bowels in good order. Green food
and charcoal will go a long way
towards keeping the fowls in good
shape.

2. We could hardly recommend
any particular brand of feed through
this Department. Almost any of the
veil known brands are satisfactory.

Feeding Problems

1. I have 130 pullets, one-third White Wy-
andottes and two- third White Leghorns and I
teed wheat in the morning, sprouted oats at
noon and scratch feed at night. Can you tell
ine how much feed to give each meal?

2. I am getting four and one-half dozen
eggs per day and wonder if that is a fair
average?

3. Do you know any way I could improve the
egg yield?

P. J. D., Maryland.

1. A general rule a handful of
grain is given each fowl at a feed-
ing. As for green food it is a good
rule to give them what they will
clean up within a few minutes, ex-
cept such food as beets which they
will pick at for some time. You will
find that the Wyandottes will de-
mand more food than the Leghorns
and that is one reason that I do not
believe in keeping them together.

2. You are not getting a big egg
yield. We usually figure that a flock
should produce at least fifty per cent
and that would be 65 eggs per day

F. Raymond Benson
for your bunch of birds.

3. It looks as if you were mak-
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Before a chick passes the danger
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The first period is a continuation
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During the first period the chick
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The chicks should be left in the in-
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care being taken to prevent the food
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equal parts of wheat, corn, and oat-
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pens to be their own droppings.
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and the chicks are put back in the
brooder to await the next feed two
hours later.

We have found it advisable to
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If they receive a chill diarrhoea is
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If milk cannot be supplied, beef
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cent of other food. Green food is
necessary. We feed sprouted oats
the chicks being very fond of them.
The third period comes in about the
seventh or tenth day or when the

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

chick has developed its natural in-
stinct and becomes selective of its
own feed. From this time on we
keep hoppers of grit , fine oyster
shell, charcoal, beef scraps, and bran
as well as a mixture of other grains
before them all the time if they can
run outside. If they are confined in-
side we scatter the grain in litter to
compel the chicks to exercise. An
occasional feed of green cut bone is
beneficial. At six weeks of age the
cracked grains may be discontinued
and whole grains fed.

HERE ARE RATIONS FOR FEED-
ING BABY CHICKS

D. C. Kennard, poultryman at the
Ohio Experiment Station, has found
the following rations to be effective
in growing chicks and also to prevent
loss from feeding troubles.

For the first six weeks the chicks
receive a ration composed of ground
corn, five, bran or middlings, four,
and meatscraps or tankage, one, parts
by weight.

The scratch grain consists of equal
parts by weight of fine cracked corn,
cracked wheat, pinhead oats. In ad-
dition all the skimmilk or butter-
milk the chicks will drink is provid-
ed. No water is given.

All the green feed the chicks will
eat is provided after the first week.
Grit and oyster shells are also kept
in hoppers.

The scratch grain is fed five times
daily and the dry mash kept before
the chicks in open feeders.

After the sixth week the scratch
grain consists of three parts cracked
corn, one part whole wheat by
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The mash is then made up of
ground corn, four, bran or middlings,
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All the green feed the chicks will
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milk is not available, or involves too
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ILLINOIS EGG LAYING CONTEST

(Continued from Page 9)

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^ Diarrhea

Success in raising the chicks you hatch
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(Continued from page 11)

Hatching Egg Problems

1. Do you think that eggs hatch better by
not testing them out? It would reduce hand-
ling them.

2. Do you think it best to air the eggs or
turn them and put right back into the machine?

3. Do you believe in feeding little chicks
hard boiled eggs? A neighbor told me it was
cruel to do so.

4. Can you tell the sex of Barred Rock or
Rhode Island Red day old chicks?

5. Send me your ideas on feeding day old
chicks.

J. E. ., Tennessee.
A stamped envelope was not en-
closed so you will receive the answer
in this Department. We cannot ans-
swer unless a stamp is sent.

1. By alls means test out the in-
fertile eggs. Also test out the eggs
where the germs were weak and they
have died. This gives the other egg's
more room, prevents impure air in
the machine and reduces the amount
of labor.

2. Eggs must be aired unless you
have some patent device such as some
of the big machines have adopted.
Follow the directions of the manu-
facturer of your machine.

3. We have done so for many
years but we mixed bread crumbs
and oat meal with the boiled eggs.
It has always proven a good starter
for us and we do not believe it is
cruel.

4. No.

5. We cannot go into feeding
chicks in this Department as the
room is limited. We believe in feed-
inch the eggs, crumbs and oat meal
to start with and then feed grain and
dry mash. We also use sour milk
and we loose as few chicks as any-
one. We can give you more complete
directions if a stamp is sent.

Needs the Standard

1. Will you please tell me if a pure Buff
Orpington should have black tail feathers?

2. Should the ear-lobes be white or red?

O. F., Kentucky.

j-. Black is to be avoided as is
white in any section.

2. The ear-lobes should be red.
It would be well for your to buy a
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I wish to know how to construct a trapnest
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A. H. , Tennessee.
It would be much better if you had
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is to arrange a hinged door with a

Don't Let It Get a Start 1

' White Diarrhea is a germ disease,
causing irritation which brings on an .
J inflamed condition of the intestines, result- 1
ling in a rapid breaking: down of the tissues.^
FUnless soon relieved, it will kill the chick.

(78)

I tends to destroy the germs that cause the
i trouble and to allay the feverish condi-
j tion prevailing throughout the intestinal ,
1 tract.

i Put it inthe Drinking Waler and the chickens
1 do the rest. It is readily soluble and
1 quickly reaches the seat of the trouble.
1 Also use it as a preventive,
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trigger and when the hen goes into
the nest to lay she sets off this trig-
ger and it shuts the door. As a rule
the door drops down as that
makes it more simple. You had bet-
ter buy the book "Poultry House and
Fixtures". You can get it from Mr.
A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, Illinois, for
$1.00 postpaid. You will find sev-
eral trapnest plans in this book.

A Round Incubator

1. What variety of ducks do you advise
for eggs and meat?

2. Do you think that a round incubator
with a lamp in the center is better than a
square one ?

3. To keep lice out of the nests, put a small
onion in the nest.

C. A., Michigan.

1. Personally we like the Pekin
duck the best when everything is con-
sidered. The Rouen duck is quite pop-
ular but the Pekin has white feathers
and this is an item worth consider-
ation. Some are enthusiastic about
the Indian Runner but we believe it
pays to raise a large duck. They
may not lay quite as many eggs as
the Indian Runner but as a general
purpose duck they have stood the
test of time.

2. That would depend on the con-
struction of the incubator. We have
used one round metal incubator
which gave good results but some
machines are so cheaply made that
they do not give good results. As a
rule they are economical machines
to run. Before we would buy any
machine we would want to know that
it was well constructed.

3. We thank you for this idea of
the onion in the nest and pass it on
to the readers to experiment with if
they wish. We wish all our readers
would show the same spirit in giv-
ing this Department help.

American and English Leghorns

Will you kindly explain the difference be-
tween the English and American White Leg-
horns? I do not understand the distinction
and am sure that there are many others in
the same, position.

H. C. S., Indiana.

The Standard of Perfection does
not recognize the English Leghorn
but so many have taken up the
breeding of them for egg production
that it seems as if we must give
them some recognition. In a word
they are larger, have a big comb and
are more on the order of our White
Minorca. The egg laying trait is bred
into them very strongly and they do
very well for this purpose. Not be-
ing so trim and neat as our own
Leghorns we doubt if they will ever
be considered seriously in the show-
room.

Are They Cured.

Last summer and fall I had roup among my
fowls. I liave doctored them and can see no
signs of sickness now. Do you suppose this
fact would cause trouble among the chicks?

Mrs. P. H., Colorado.

In the first place I do not believe
in breeding from fowls which have
been very sick. Vigor is more im-
portant than anything else. Without
it your flock will soon go to pieces
and anything which tends to weaken
the vigor of your flock tears down.
I doubt if you had roup, even if you
think it was present. It is not easily
cured and often breaks out time and
again. As the matter stands I would
keep the yards and houses well dis-
infected. Feed a well balanced ra-
tion with plenty of green food and
keep the birds as near par as possi-

THE POULTRY KEEPER

ble. Discard these birds which seem
weak and breed from the strongest.

The Campines.

Will you kindly tell me how many different
kinds of Campines there are in our Standard?

J". 0. J., niinois.

There are two — the silver and the
Golden Campines. Glad to know that
you are interested in this fowl as it

Page Number 15

should be more generally bred here
in the middle west.

Preserving Meat.

Do you know of any practical method of pre-
serving meat or making meat scraps? I can
occasionally get broken down horses or animals
from trapping and wish to make my meat
scrap for the summer.

R. R. IS.., South Dakota.

(Continued on Page 18)

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Page Number 16

THE POULTRY KEEPER

An Interesting History of Mr. J. W. Myers,

President, Reliable Incubator & Brooder Co.

In January, 1876, when fif-
teen years old Mr. J. W. Myers,
started what was known at that
time as the Soldiers Home Poul-
try Yards with his older broth-
er. This was just forty-six
years ago last January. They
were breeding Silver Laced Wy-
andottes, Barred and White
Plymouth Rocks, Light Brah-
mas and rabbits.

In 1879 and 1880 Mr. Myers
had been experimenting on arti-
ficial incubators, thinking there
was some manner in which
chickens could be hatched with-
out taking up the time of his
valuable hens, and during these
two years their experimenting
as to hatching chickens was a
grand success, and in August, 1880, he applied for
a patent and the patent was allowed on an incu-
bator for artificial hatching on chickens.

In 1881 Mr. Myers began advertising and manu-
facturing for sale an incubator under the name of
the Leader Incubator & Brooder Company, and in
1885 they secured a patent on another incubator
and brooder and changed their name from the
Soldiers Home Poultry Farm to the Reliable Poul-
try Farm and since that time to the Reliable In-
cubator & Brooder Company.

Mr. J. W. Myers was president and has been
since the first of the old Soldiers Home Poultry
Yards and has made many wonderful improve-
ments and has gotten out patents from year to
year, and in another place of this paper you will
find one of the most notable Blue Flame Oil Heat-
ed Colony Hovers, which Mr. Myers has been
studying and figuring for several years until he
has gotten it to perfection and offered it to the
trade in 1917, and guarantees it positively success-
ful in your hands or money refunded.

Mr. Myers was not satisfied alone with the ad-
vertising through the press of his incubators and
brooders, but during the World's Fair at Chicago,
he put on a most notable exhibit and took the
highest honors, he spread out from that time on
and during the next twelve years exhibited his in-
cubators in Inter-
national State
Expositions,
State shows, etc.,
etc., going from
the Chicago
World's Fair to
the International
Exposition at At-
lanta, Georgia,
Omaha, Nebras-
ka ; St. Louis,
Missouri; Dallas,
Texas, Brussels,
Belgium; Staven-
ger, Norway ;
C hrist church,
New Zeal and ;

Naples, Italy; Lima, Peru, and
in Paris, France he built his own
building to exhibit in. He also
exhibited at several points in
Canada and a great many other
places too numerous to take up
space.

Mr. Myers started to manu-
facture goods in a barn, from
there he rented the first floor
of an old dilapidated store room.

From there he moved to another lo-
cation of three stories and a base-
ment 50x80 dimensions on each
floor and as business grew larger he
moved to other quarters with about
twice the amount of space of the old
place. One of the venerable citizens
/ j * of- Quincy built a building for him
, leased it to him for 12 years. Mr.
Myers thinking this building would
be sufficient for all his lifetime ,and
when the ten years came around they did not have room
enough to do business and he moved out at the edge of
the city of Quincy, where they had plenty of'land, and
purchased two and one-half acres and built an all stone
factory building. After eight years in this location he
had outgrown this plant and is now located in a two
story building which he built himself on a five acre
track and is one of the most notable and roomy incu-
bator factories in the world, all made of stone, and is a
monument for any city. They have been located in this
new modern factory a little over four years. Their en-
tire factory is operated by electricity. The business so
far this year has far exceeded any previous year and is
now taxing their large new foundry to its full extent,
working full force, fifteen hours each day.

They make a full line of poultry equipment from a leg
band or poultry punch up to a 1,100 Egg Capacity In-
cubator. They manufactured the famous Blue Flame
Wickless Oil Heated Colony Hover since 1917; also the
Coal Burning Colony Brooder, which burns soft coal
equally as well as hard coal and with perfect satisfaction
They have equipped a great number of poultry farms
and baby chick hatcheries with their incubators, Blue
Flame "Wickless Hovers and Coal Brooders.

Mr. Myers was very emphatic in his. remarks that they
would not manufacture an article that he had not tested,
and that he was positive it would give satisfaction, and
that quality was his motto, First, Last and Always. His
company, the Reliable Incubator & Brooder Company,
watches every point for the benefit of their customers
and their interest.

Mr. Myers is a life member of the American Poultry
Association, and has done a great deal for the up-lifting
of thorough-bred poultry. He is active in the interests

of his own town, be-
longs to nearly all
of the mercantile
clubs, etc., etc., and
is working for the
good of his custom-
ers. If you will ex-
amine the wonder-
ful inventions that
he has made and
send for the printed
matter, you will
find something far
in excess of any-
thing that has ever
been offered.

A postal card ad-
dressed to the Reli-
able Incubator &
Brooder Company,
Quincy, Illinois, will
bring their catalog.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 17

TIMELY TOPICS

Readers are asked to co-operate in making this Department
interesting by sending in suitable items to, F. Raymond
Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

A. Slogan.
Bite off more than you can chew,

Then chew it.
Plan for more than you can do,

Then do it.
Hitch your wagon to a star,
Keep your seat, and there you are!
— Pittsburgh Christian Advocate.

"We heard the other day that Hen-
ry Ford predicted synthetic eggs. We

wonder if they will have tin shells.

* * *

Arthur C. Chapin, specialist in
poultry extension work with the
Agriculture College, University of
Kentucky, Lexington, has resigned
and taken up poultry work at the
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute,
Cookeville, Tenn.

* * *

The Chinese egg question is up to
Congress and if you don't get busy
and tell your Congressman and Sen-
ator what you think about it — well
don't kick if you don't get what you
want. Action is needed at once.

* * *

T. J. Enslin, secretary of the Co-
lumbian Plymouth Rock Club, Hack-
ettstown, N. J., has severed his busi-
ness connection and is going to de-
vote his time to poultry and the Club.

Science Discovers Greatest
Lice Killer

Changes Olid Methods. No Dusting or Spraying.
Birds Delouse Themselves. Gives Lasting Relief.

A recent discovery promises to revolutionize
all the methods accepted up to now for keep-
ing the poultry free from lice and mites.
This wonderful lice killer keeps the birds al-
ways lioe free without the poultry raiser doing
any work. It is the simplest, easiest, surest
and best method ever discovered.

Credit for this marvelous discovery goes to
Chas. M. Hick, a Chicago chemist. Mr. Hick
is already favorably known to the poultry
world as the inventor of the famous Hick's
Egg-Lay TabLets that make the hens lay.

Hick's Licekill which is the name of this
sensational Uce kUler is a liquid that is added
to the drinking water (or the feed can be
soaked in a solution of it). The medicine taken
into the system of the bird comes out through
the pores and every louse or mite dies or
leaves the body. It does not injure the flavor
of the eggs or meat and is harmless. A few
days treatment at the start and then a little
in the drinking water one or two days a month.

So confident is Sir. Hick that this wonderful
liquid wilL rid your flock of every louse or
mite that he is offering every reader of this
paper Ihe opportunity of trying it out with-
out any risk. Send no monev, just your name
and address to Chas. M. Hick & Co., 1018 So.
Wabash Ave., Dept. 373. Chicago, 111., and two
full size $1.00 bottles of this supreme lice re-
mover will be sent you. Furthermore, as an
exceptional offer, Mr. Hick will send you, at
no additional cost, a regular $1.00 box of
Hick's Egg-Lay Tablets used by thousands of
poultry men. On delivery deposit with the
postman $1.00 and postage. If after a two
weeks trial you are not absolutely satisfied,
write Mr. Hicks and your money will be im-
mediately refunded.

He has faith in the future of poultry
and he ought to know.

* * *

It has been said that M. M. John-
son the founder of the M. M. John-
son Company, maker of the Old
Trusty Incubators, started on a capi-
tal of sixty-five cents. Today the
company is one of the largest if not
the largest in the world. There is a
reason.

* * *

At the Hanover, Pennsylvania
Fair, for the last three years, classes
have been provided for boys' poul-
try club display. We understand
that this club has a membership of
700 in a town of ten thousand. They
are going at it right and it would be
a good idea for the rest of us to
wake up. The boys of today will be
the fanciers of tomorrow and if we
get them started right, the chances

are they will keep going right.

* * *

Brother B. E. Adams has taken
over the poultry department of Por-
ter Military Academy near Charles-
ton and is building up a real poultry
farm. He is capable, thoroughly
posted and with his enthusiasm
things are sure to happen down that
way.

The Southeastern Fair Association
of Atlanta, Georgia is going after the
next meeting of the Southern District
Rhode Island Red Club. It would
only be right that Atlanta get this
meeting and it goes without saying
that she would show everyone a good
time.

* * * ,

We understand that the Belle City
Incubator Company now pays the ex-
press on all shipments east of the
Rockies. That will mean a consid-
erable saving to their customers and
will mean quicker delivery.

* %

Three well known breeders of
Rhode Island Reds have entered their
fowls in the contest for 1922 at
Storrs Agriculture College. They are
Harold Tompkins, Owen Farms and
Prospect Farms. This means a lot
to the average breeder as we are
proving that fine feathers can go
with heavy production.

The Hall Mammoth Incubator
Company is out with an automatic
egg turner. This should make the
Hall even more popular.

Mr. A. F. Rolf, the efficient secre-
tary of the National Single Comb
White Leghorn Club is a candidate
for Vice-President of the American
Poultry Association. He has many
friends and will make a strong
showing.

It is said that John I. Selden,
Principal of the Bristol, Vermont
High School has added a poultry
study class to the Agriculture Course.
Other schools should follow this ex-
ample.

(ontinued on Page 20)

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

The Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea is caused by the
bacillus Bacterium Pullorum trans-
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Dear Sir: Last spring my .first incu-
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never lost a single chick after the
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Rhoades, Shenandoah, la.

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(Continued from Page 18)
I know of no way in which this
meat may be preserved. The process
of making meat scraps is by far too
complicated and expensive to use on
a small scale. If any of our readers
have had experience along this line
we will be glad to hear and pass
their help along to R. R. M.
Meat Scraps vs. Lard Cracklings.

I have one of your books on feeding for eggs
and note that it talks so well of meat scraps.
I cannot get them but can get lard cracklings.
Will it take the place of meat scraps?

Mrs. S. J. G., Oklahoma.

Lard cracklings will not exactly
take the place of meat scraps as they
are more fattening but we have used
them and find that they will help
out when meat scrap is hard to get.
We especially like lard cracklings to
put in the mash to fatten fowls and
there is another idea for you to put
down in your note book.

The Germ in an Egg.

Here is a question T would like to see an-
swered in POULTRY KEEPER for the benefit
of ignorant people like myself. I like POUL-
TRY KEEPER better all the time. Is the
little light circle on the yolk of the egg the
germ or is it not?

C. H. L., Missouri.

The little white spot to which you
refer is the resting place of the germ
"but the germ is so small it cannot
be seen with out the help of a high
powered glass and while the white
spot is present, yet there is no as-
surance that the germ is present un-
less it can be seen under a glass.
So the presence of this little white
disc does not prove the presence or
absence of the germ which makes
the egg capable of producing a chick.
Do Chickens Pay.

I would like to know whether chickens as
usually kept on the back lot really pay for
their feed, not to say anything about the work
cif earing for them. Will you or your readers
tell me?

J. E. B., niinois.

We have said Quite a little on this
subject heretofore and we wish to
put the answer squarely up to our
readers. Will you write the Editor
of this Department and tell us just
what you have done? Give us facts
and figures and we will put them up
to J. E. B. and any others who may
doubt that poultry pays. Will you
help us?

HATCHING AND REARING BABY
CHICKS

This is a new buletin just issued
by the Division of Poultry Husbandry
in Illinois and which will prove very
valuable to poultry breeders. It
gives special attention to the brood-
ing and care of baby chicxs. Also
special attention to their diseases
such as White Diarrhea and Leg
Weakness. It also has a chapter on
Turke5 r raising and illustrates easily
built brooder houses. One complete
chapter is devoted to the "Feeds for
Young Chicks." This bulletin is
known as No. 309 and will be sent
free of charge to all poultry raisers
in the State of Illinois. Outside of
Illinois it will be sent upon receipt
of 6c to pay postage. — C. P. Scott,
Chief Poultryman, Springfield, 111.

The best care to give a setting hen
is to leave her alone — she knows her
business better than most men know
it.

WIPE OUT EVERY
RAT AND MOUSE

G. H. Williamson, A Country Mer-
chant, Tells How He Saved
Hundreds of Dollars.

"There isn't a rat or mouse in the store
since I put out Imperial Rat Virus. It cer-
tainly does the work. It is so simple and
inexpensive that I tell my neighbors there Is
no excuse for being bothered any longer by
these pests. I wiped them out of my store
easily and quickly."

Mr. Williamson goes on to say that lie had
given up in dispair, after bein? incessantly
bothered by these pests in the past, and hav-
ing tried every known rat poison and appli-
ance for the destruction or rats and mice.
They only seemed to increase in numbers and
were literally over-running his premises, when,
one day Imperial Rat Virus was called to his
attention, he decided that one more dollar
should go into the purchase of something that
offered a promise to solve the problem. "I
want to tell you I was surprised and de-
lighted with the work accomplished by this
simple method," writes Mr. Williamson. "You
can take my word for it, I have not seen a
rat or mouse in my store since I put out Im-
perial Rat Virus.

EASY TO GET EVERY ONE

IMPERIAL RAT VIRUS is the new discovery
used by Mr. Williamson. It is not a poison
and is absolutely harmless to humans, do-
mestic animals, poultry, stock and household
pets. It can be used anywhere with abso-
lute safety. It is deadly only to rats, mice,
gophers, ground squirrels, or any member of
the rodent family. It is greedily eaten by
them on bait, and sets up a burning fever,
giving them a fatal disease which is trans-
mitted to others through their cannibalistic
habits; thus the entire colony- — root and branch
— is soon exterminated. They die outside of
the buildings, hunting air and water.

YOU CAN GET YOURS FREE

You are invited to write today, as Mr. AVill-
iamson did, to the Imperial Laboratories, who
are making a special Introductory Offer of two
big regular, full-sized "double strength" $1.00
lx>ttles for the price of one. Use one bottle
to rid your own premises of these pests, and
sell the other to a neighbor, thus getting yours
free. Send only $1.00 (currency, money order
or check-) and the two full-sized bottles of
Imperial Rat Virus will be sent you postpaid.

If more convenient, do not send any money,
just your name and address, to the Imperial
Laboratories, Dcpt .S0G, 2110 Grand Ave.. Kansas
City. Mo., and pay the postman $1.00 and a
few cents postage when the package arrives.
It costs nothing if it does not do the work.
The Imperial Lalx>ratories positively guarantee
to refund your $1.00 within thirty days, if
you are not satisfied with results.

JERSEY
B LAC K
GIANTS

AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, 1 9 2 2,

In biggest classes ever shown, Marey Farms won 29 regular and many special prizes on single comb and pea
comb Giants. At Newark — the Club meet — we won 14 regular prizes and many specials on single combs. This
proves we have the world's greatest flock of this wonderful breed. Circular and price-list FREE. Catalog
with illustrations and full description of the breed, 10 cents in silver.

MARCY FARMS,

Box K,

Matawan, New Jersey

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 19

Rid Hens & Chicks
of Lice and Mites

A Few Drops of Wonderful New
Remedy in Drinking Water Does
It. No Dusting, Spraying
or Greasing.

At this season of the year lice and
mites cause many poor hatches. Set-
ting hens infested with them will of-
ten desert their nests at the most
critical time. They sap the strength
and vitality of baby chicks. Many dusts, sprays
and dips are so strong that they often make
eggs unhatchable. Greasing setting hens or
baby chicks is disagreeable and unsanitary.

A wonderful new dis-
covery has recently
been developed which
makes it easy to keep
the whole flock, es-
pecially setting hens
end baby chicks, ab-
solutely free from all
lice and mites. Just a
few drops of Imperial
Lice and Mite Remedy,
given occasionally to
fowls In drinking wa-
ter, keeps them entire-
ly free from all ver-
min. It is a simple
remedy in highly concentrated form and is
guaranteed not to affect eggs or flesh of fowls
in any way, Lioe, mites, ticks and other ver-
min will not stay on any fowl when this re-
markable remedy is used In their drinking wa-
ter. It is also a splendid spring tonic and blood
purifier for the entire flock.

White Diarrhoea Remedy Free

The manufacturers of Imperial Lice and Mite
Remedy, in order to get it quickly established
and widely used, are making a special intro-
ductory offer; In connection with your order
for a regular full size (double strength) $1.00
bottle enough, to eliminate all lice and mites
from the average flock and keep them free from
this vermin, they wiU include free to you as an
outright gift, your choice of either a regular
si. 00 package of Imperial White Diarrhoea Rem-
edy (the standard time tested remedy), or a
large size $1.00 package of Imperial Egg Tonic,
the guaranteed egg producer. In ordering, send
only $1.00 (check, M. O. or currency) and state
your selection. Both remedies sent postpaid.

If more convenient, you. need send no money,
.iust your name and address to the Imperial
Laboratories, Dept 557, 2110 Grand Ave., Kansas
City, Mo., and pay the postman $1.00 and a few
cents postage when the package containing the
two remedies arrives. As this offer may not
appear again you should act at once, or clip for
future reference. You need not hesitate in or-
dering, as you risk no money. The manufac-
turers guarantee to refund the cost any time
within 30 days if you are not entirely satisfied.

Royal Strain

BUFF ORPINGTONS

Hatching eggs $1.50, $3.00, $5.00, per 15.
Every egg guaranteed fertile. My birds
are consistent winners at state fair and
Quincy. Order from this ad.

K. W. HUEHNE
311 South 10th St. Quincy, Illinois

RICH BROTHERS
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS

Eggs, Baby Chicks. High Quality
Stock at a very reasonable price.
Send for information.

RICH BROTHERS
R. P. D. 2, Elkhart, Ind.

Cedar Ridge Poultry Farm

The Home of The CHAMPIONS.

Rose and Single Comb Rhode Island
Whites, Single Comb Rhode Island
Reds and Madagascar Bare-Necks.
Write for Mating List.

MRS. E. ALPHONSO & SON,
Box 54, Union, Mo.

FIGHT THE RAT-

No other animal or insect is so
dangerous and persistent an enemy,
or inflicts so much damage upon
humanity, as the common brown or
gray rat. He destroys and injures
vast quantities of grain, destroys
young chicks, fruits, vegetables and
flowers. He causes enormous losses
in warehouses and freight terminals,
is a menace both in cities and farm
districts.

The United States Department of
Agriculture places the value of food
and property destroyed yearly by
each rat at $2. As the rat popula-
tion easily equals the human popula-
tion, the loss, due to rats, in this
country alone, averages over $200,-
000,000 annually.

A frequenter of all places filthy
aDd loathsome, the rat is also a con-
stant menace to public healtn. He
is a most efficient germ carrier; is
not one bit particular where he
places his disease-contaminated foot
or snout. The germs of the dreaded
"black death," which have killed
more human things than all wars in
the world's history, may be intro-
duced into the human system by the
bite of the rat flea. The bubonic
plague, typhus, and other terrible di-
seases are directly traceable to the
rat.

Thus, from the standpoint of pub-
lic health, as well as from the necess-
ity of preventing heavy drains upon
the public purse, every good citizen
should take part in the nation-wide
campaign now under way to exterm-
inate the rate. It pays to fight the
rat.

SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS

Walter H. Goessling, Quincy, 111.,
is advertising eggs at a splendid
price in his ad which appears con-
tinually in our classified columns.
Mr. Goessling has been breeding
Single Comb Buff Orpingtons for
many years and stands back of his
birds in every way. He has just
published a new mating list which he
will be glad to send free of charge
to any of our readers who are in-
terested in S. C. Buff Orpingtons.
His birds were big winners at the
Adams County Fair and also winners
at the Quincy Quality Show.

If Ruptured
Try This Free

Apply it to Any Rupture, Old or
Recent, Large or Small and You
are on the Road That Has
Convinced Thousands.

Sent Free to Prove This

Anyone ruptured, man, woman or child,
should write at once to W. S. Bice, 479A
Maine St., Adams, N. Y., for a free trial
of his wonderful stimulating application.
Just put it on the rupture and the muscles
begin to tighten; they begin to bind to-
gether so that the opening closes naturally
and the need of a support or truss is then
done away with. Don't neglect to send
for this free trial. Even if your rupture
doesn't bother you what is the use of wear-
ing a support all your life? Why suffer
this nuisance? Why run the risk of gang-
rene and such dangers from a small and
innocent little rupture, and the kind that
has thrown thousands on the operating ta-
ble? A host of men and women are daily
running such risk just because their rup-
tures do not hurt nor prevent them from
getting around. Write at once for this
free trial, as it is certainly a wonderful
thing and has aided in the cure of ruptures
that were as big as a man's two fists.
Try and write at once, using the coupon
below.

Free For Rupture

W. S. Eice, Inc.,

479A Main St., Adams, N. Y.
You may send me entirely free a
Sample Treatment of your stimulating
application for Rupture.

Name _ _

Address

State

CHIC

Hatched from pure bred se-
lected heavy laying hens on
free range and kept under
proper conditions. The lead-
ing popular varieties sent you
right from the Incubator safe-
ly by prepaid parcel post any-
where and 100% live ar-
rival guaranteed. We have
been at it thirteen years.
Write at once for our FREE
ILLUSTRATED CATALOG
describing our farm and con-
taining much information that will prove of
value to you.

WECKEL BROS., Box 391K, Moline, Illinois

20 varieties pure bred baby chicks bred
for heavy egg production. Customers
report pullets laying at 4 months, regu-
lar egg machines, etc. 1,000,000 Miller
chicks for delivery March, April, May
and June via prepaid parcel post, 97%
live delivery guaranteed. Satisfied
customers in every state. 19th season,
32-page catalog free.

MILLER POULTRY FARMS

BOX EESH LANCASTER, MISSOURI

Page Number 20

THE POULTRY KEEPER

TIMELY TOPICS

(Continued from Page 17)

Mr. C. S. Phelps, Homer, New
York, has purchased a new farm con-
sisting of 100 acres of fine gravel
loam. Mr. Phelps will have more
room now to raise his excellent Sing-
el Comb White Leghorns.

Mr. C. P. Scott, Peoria, Illinois,
has informed his friends that he will
not be a candidate for president of
the American Poultry Association, at
this time. Mr. Scott is a very able
man and should he decide to make
the run at some future period, we
have no doubt that he would make
a strong race.

The Fourteenth Annual Purdue
Egg Show will be held at Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana
on May 1, 2, 3, 4.

The American Poultry Advocate
which has been so ably published for
over thirty years by Clarence C. De-
Puy, has been disposed of and will
in the future be published by Will-
iam H. Baigrie and Francher L. Mil-
ler. We extend our best wishes to
the new owners.

It may surprise our readers to
know that Harry M. Lamon, Senior
Poultryman, Bureau of Animal In-
dustry, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, has resigned his position and
gone to the Oakdale Farms. There
is no man better fitted to carry on.
the work for Oakdale Farms and
they are to be congratulated on se-
curing his services. Mr. Lamon will
find a warm welcome out here in the
Middle West. It begins to look as
if the poultry business were shifting
to this section.

Thos. F. Rigg, President of the
American Poultry Association has
called a meeting of the Standard Re-
vision Committee and they will be-
gin the task of revision. This is
indeed a difficult work but much
needed.

Funk's International Strain Heavy
Laying S. C. W. Leghorns

Order hatching eggs or baby chicks now. My strain will save you
4 to 5 years breeding. Pullets begin laying at five months and give
profitable egg yields throughout the year. Hatching eggs $3.00 for 15,
$15.00 per 100; $70.00 for 500; $125.00 for 1000. Baby chicks,
$35.00 per 100; $30.00 per 100 in lots of 500; $27.00 per 100 in
lots of 1000 or more.

EXTRA large full blood Toulouse breeding Ganders $7.50 each. A
few good $7.00, Grade A cockerels left.

Send for my free catalog and 1922 price list,
on all orders or money refunded.

Satisfaction guaranteed

FUNK EGG FARM

Lyle W. Funk, Sole Owner,

Box 500,

Bloomington, Illinois

Fire swept the poultry plant of
Mr. C. S. Besuden, the bantam
breeder, completely destroying build-
ings and stock. The loss of the
buildings alone was $4,000 and the
value of the 300 head of stock can-
not be estimated. We regret to hear
of this loss.

Frank C. Hare who has been in
the poultry development work for
War Department has now gone into
business for himself. He is selling

poultry supplies.

* » *

Fred W. Smith has taken a posi-
tion with Wm. Shands, Little Rock,
Missouri and we expect to see some-
thing doing down that way.

TURKEYS: THEIR CARE AND MANAGEMENT

Some of the most successful breeders and com-
mercial growers in the country tell of the
methods by which they have accomplished their
successes, and what they hare done others also
can do. If you raise turkeys in any number,
this book will be worth many times its price
to you.

Beautifully illustrated, one color plate, 96
pages, 9 by 12 inches. Price 75c postpaid.
Address Poultry Keeper. Quincy. Illinois.

Planet Jr.

Keep the kitchen
garden growing

When plowing, planting - and early harvesting- are press-
ing-, a Planet Jr. No. 17 Sing-le Wheel Hoe is a. life-saver
for the kitchen garden. Half-an-hour a day with this lig"ht,
strong-, quick-working- hoe and cultivator keeps your veg-
etable patch flourishing and free of weeds. When man-
labor can't be spared, a woman or boy can easily
do all the garden work with a No. 17, so easily
and lightly does it run. Soon pays for itself in
just the labor it saves.

Write for your copy of the Planet Jr. catalog, showing
more than 55 Planet Jr. seeders, wheel
hoes, one-horse and riding cultivators, etc.

S. L. ALLEN & CO., Inc.

Dept. 96

5th & Glenwood Avenue PHILA.

No. 17

RAISE RH00E ISLAND REDS

-HE B ES T A L L P U R P 0 S E BREED

Your name and address will bring free
educational literatureonRhode Island
Reds and information why they are
the greatest money-making' poultry
breed; also catalogs and circulars from
leading Red breeders. For full informa-
tion address *"
RHODE ISLAND RFI> CXUB of AMERICA
W. IT.Card, Sec, Box 914 , Manchester. Conn.
This ad paid for by C. P. Scott, Peoria, HI.

Poultry Leg Bands

THE "BEST YET"- ALUM 'NUM.
Not colored. Will stay on. i.2 20c
26. 30c: 50. 50c: 100. 90.J. State
breed.

CELLULOID SPIRAL BANDS.
Red. Green, Amber. Pink. Black,
White. Yellow, Purple, Light Blue.
Dark Blue. Ruby, Cerise.

12 25 50 100 250

Baby Chicks. Pigeons.. $.10 $.20 $.35 $ .60 $1.35 $2.25

Growing Chicks 15

Leghorns, Anconas . . .20 .35 .50 .90

Hocks. Reds, etc. . . .20 .40 .60 1.00

Asiatics 25 .45 .75 1.20

Turkeys. Geese 30 .50 .85 1.40

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FOR THOSE WHO CAN USE HAM-
MER AND SAW

Huilt and Used by Poulti •ymeim
Is a 96-page book; paper bound; con-
tains 108 illustrations, fully describ-
ing \arious styles of poultry houses
for the large farm, as well as the
back yard. Poultry house equipment,
including roosts, trap-nests, food box-
es and hoppers, drinking founts, fenc-
es, both permanent and moveable;
metal fence posts, brooders, both
fireless and heated; brood-coops,
covered chick yards, poultry catchers,
the popular stove-pipe hopper, and
many other useful appliances that
can be made at home and money
saved. For the man who enjoys
making his own' poultry appliances,
building his own coops, houses, etc.,
this book is of especial value. La-
bor-saving and money-saving devices
are fully explained and illustrated
so that the man who can use a ham-
mer and saw can make any of them.
Price 50 cents. Address Poultry
Keeper, Qnincy, Illinois.

MAKE UP A CLUE

etub of your own, choosing the
you want to take. Write
quote a special cut price. I can
save yon considerable money on your subscrip-
tion*.' A. Dl is Arnold. Quinc y, Illinois.

.\lnk.' up
jmpers or magazines
and let m

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 21

A WORD FROM PRESIDENT RICJG

Fort Wayne, Ind., March 1±, 1922.
To the Members of the American
Poutry Association:

I am a candidate for re-election
for President of the American Poul-
try Association. Since my inaugura-
tion last August I have given my en-
tire time and attention to the busi-
ness of the Association. I am at my
desk here at head-quarters every
day serving as best I can the men
and women who are interested in the
breeding, selling, and showing of
Standard-Bred fowls, and promoting
the interest of the Association and
safe-guarding its welfare. This is
without cost whatever to the Associ-
ation.

The conduct of affairs of the
American Poultry Association is a
business proposition pure and sim-
ple, and is of such magnitude and
importance that it demands the en-
tire time and attention and the best
efforts of the Association's respons-
ible head.

Bear in mind that I have been in
office but seven short months. That
is far too short a time in which to
bring out all the important and need-
ful changes. However much has been
accomplished for all concerned.

I stand squarely upon the plat-
form as set forth in my inaugural
address. I have no further promises
to ask. Not one, I would like to be
given the opportunity to carry to con-
clusion the policies I have inaugu-
rated. I ask that as a matter of
justice and fairness I be given the
chance to do this. The very large
majority given me in the nominating
ballot is conclusive evidence that the
members of the Association believe
in the principle of the square deal.
I ask the privilege of further serving
you to the best of my ability.

Theo P. Rigg.

HOW TO TELL THE LAYERS

"OCULUM" users quickly locate
the "none-layers". "OCULUM"
makes the "non-layer" fat as butter
in short order, and makes the layer
shell out the eggs. For 15 years
"OCULUM" has given satisfaction to
its users all over the United States.

Send the "OCULUM" Co., Salem,
Va., 10c and get a sample — They'll
treat you right.

SUCCESSFUL BACK-YARD POULTRY
KEEPING

A new one just off the_ press. Tells every-
thing you need to know about poultry keeping
on a small scale to insure success. The largest,
most, complete and down-to-date hook on the
subject ever published. Will turn failure into
success and is an invaluable guide to any be-
ginner.

Every person who is keeping fowls on a
small scale or is planning to do so — everyone
who wants to learn about the latest practical
methods adapted to back-yard conditions — will
want this big, truly helpful book. Every im-
portant phase of the subject is covered in the
seventeen chapters contained within its pages,
from the laying out of the plant to the use of
artificial illumination — the new method that
positively doubles and more than doubles fall
and winter production. Whether you are in-
terested in poultry keeping simply to produce
a supply of eggs for home use or as a money-
making side line, you need this practical down-
to-date book.

"Successful Back-Yard Poultry Keeping"
contains 104 pages, 8% by 12 inches, over 100
Illustrations and a beautiful three-color art cover
by Schilling. Price $1.00, postpaid. Address,
Poultry Keeper, Quincy, Illinois.

"THE LAYERS WIN AND THE WIN NERS LAY"

REGAL DORCAS
WHITE WYANDOTTES

are the most popular strain of this popu-
lar breed in America today, because they
combine beauty and usefulness to such a
marked degree.

Regal Dorcas White Wyandottes are
the typical American White Wyandottes,
not the slim-bodied, high-tailed, beefy-
combed kind that are Wyandottes in
name only. My birds are the modern
kind with low, close-fitting combs, deep
bay eyes, rich yellow legs, broad backs,
low well-spread tails and chalk white
plumage.

In the laying contests they are invari-
ably near the top while in the show
room they acknowledge no superiors.
They hold their record for best display at Boston with a score of 72
points.

At Madison Square Garden, 1919, they won best display with a
score of 68 points — 40 points more than all my competitors combined,

At the National White Wyandotte Club Meet held in Kansas City,
Nov., 192 0, the Regals won 43 ribbons on 43 entries — the most won-
derful winning in the history of the breed.

In the American Laying contest at Leavenworth, Kansas, my birds
won first over all the heavy weight varieties, eight of my pullets mak-
ing a combined record of 1,761 an average of over 220 per bird.

If you are not getting good results in fertility or egg production,
if your birds are weak in constitution, why not make a fresh start
with the Regal Dorcas line? My matings for 1922 are a wonderful
success and the 2,000 early chicks in my brooder house give, ample
proof of this. Do not delay, but reserve your eggs before it is too late.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

Dorcas Matings — £5.00 per 15,
$15.00 per" 50, $27.00 per
100'.

Special Matings (Exhibition or
Dorcas) — $10.00 per 15,
$18.00 per 30, $25.00 per 45,
$50.00 per 100.

All-Star Mati"gs-
$25.00 per 15.

-$20.00 and

Utility

100.

Matings — $15.00 per

Special Utility Matings-
per 100.

520.00

1000 SURPLUS MALES
AND FEMALES FOR
IMMEDIATE SALE AT
BARGAIN PRICES

Special Value Breeding Pens,

(Male and five females) —
$40.00, $50.00, $75.00, and
$100.00.

Choice Breeding Cockerels —

$8.00, $10.00, $15.00,
$20.00, and $25.00.

Hens and Pullets — $5.00,

.$8.00, and $10.00.
Utility Cockerels — $5.00 each.

FREE — Send for 2 0-Page Cata-
logue, fully illustrated, telling
all about my 192 2 Matings.

Send 10c for copy of the Regal
White Wyandotte Book — the
information it contains will be
of great value to you.

Jonn S. Martin, BOX 408 Port Dover, Ont., Can.

Page Number 22

THE POULTRY KEEPER

SPRING VALLEY BUFF ORPINGTONS

Blue Ribbon Winners:

R. D. HERLEMAN,

Illinois State Show,
State Fair and Illinois
Egg Laying Contest.

R. 4,

REDUCTION ON THESE PRICES AFTER APRIL 15TH.

$10, $7.50; $5 per 15. Every egg guaranteed fertile. Range
eggs $20 per 200, $12 per 100, $2.50 per 15. Limited number
baby chicks. Order early.

Box P. K., Quincy, Illinois

Eggs-

f^onkeus

y TRAOE MARK ^^^f

The Original

Buttermilk s « s

It prevents the big losses due to weak-
ness and disease and gives your chicks that
quick start that insures early broilers and
layers.

It helps to prevent White Diarrhea, as the

lactic acid in the buttermilk acts as an "intestinal
broom," helping to sweep away unfriendly bacterial
disease germs in the digestive tract.

Conkey's is the only Buttermilk Starting
Feed made by the original Conkey process that has
bsen so successful. We use Semi-Solid Buttermilk
only. Low in 6bre and ju3t right in protein. Clean,
sweet and genuine. No mill ends, shriveled or un-
sound grain, weed seed or mill sweepings used— only
the best and purest grain. Yet it costs so little for
those first 8 weeks no poultryman can afford to be
without it.

Don't Break the Conkey Chain of Butter-
milk Feeds — one each for Starting, Growing and
Laying. .

Be sure to get Conkey's Feeds and Remedies m the
original packages. Sold by dealers. Big Poultry
Book for 6c stamps. (77)

The G. E. Conkey Co. «8SifiB!ftHio

MAKING EGGS IS

WILMOT'S

W. LEGHORN'S TRADE

They are just like a man who has learned
a trade he seldom does anything else, that
is the way with our S. C. White Leghorns
they seldom do anything but lay those big,
white eggs.

TRAP NESTED BRED-TO-LAY

females that will bring profits to everyone
who keeps them, they are workers, every
one doing her share in keeping the egg bas-
ket full.

BABY CHICKS AND

HATCHING EGGS

from birds that work 14 hours a day at
their trade. Send for circular which de-
scribes them.

Wilmot's AVhite Leghorn Farm,

Box K. Elyria, Ohio

BARRED ROCK BABY CHICKS

j White Wyandottes

I of Exhibition quality. Eggs to
spare from 4 grand pens. Satis-
faction guaranteed.

Fred Berlin, Allen, Mich.

LEE'S LICE KILLER

Kills lice, mites, bed bags. etc... affecting poultry. Spray or
paint on roosts, etc. Gets body lice on chickens, too. W?rU3
while they sleep. No dusting, dipping, greasing or handling.
Saves lot of unpleasant work. At most towns, at stores handling
Lee Poultry Supplies. Writ© for information and FREE Book.
GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. P20. OMAHA, NEBR.

SKS WEDDING RING

names of your neighbors and ten cents
to pay postage &c.

Cem City Supply Co., QUINCY, ILL.

We want to call particular atten-
tion of our Barred Rock breeders to
the ad of Fred S. Yunker, Dakota,
Illinois, which appears in this issue.
He is making a special announcement
on Barred Rock Baby Chicks and
guarantees his customers that they
will be more than pleased with any
purchase they make from him. We
know Mr. Yunker is absolutely re-
liable and Barred Rock breeders will
make no mistake in consulting him.

LEGHORNS AND RHODE ISLAND
REDS

Breeders of S. C. White Leghorns
and S. C. Rhode Island Reds who are
looking for new blood will do well
to read the ad of A. J. Baumann,
Proprietor High View Poultry Farm
Quincy, Illinois, which appears in this
issue. Mr. Baumann has a splendid
flock that has made quite a reputa-
tion for egg laying. He is offering
eggs for hatching at very attractive
prices and will send his mating list
free to any reader who is interested.

SAVE EVERY CHICK

Now is the time to guard against
the loss o'f little chicks through
White Diarrhoea. In many flocks
this disease gets started and practic-
ally destroys the entire brood before
any effect can be made to stop it.
Many poultry men keep a bottle of
GERMICIL on hand for use in such
cases and GERMICIL has proven
effective not only for diarrhoea but
also for Roup, Limberneck and other
poultry diseases. The formula em-
braces the finest tonics, laxatives,
blood purifiers and bowel regulators
known to medicine. GERMICIL is
a liquid which may be used in the
drinking water. This makes is es-
pecially desirable for young chicks.
Price, 1 bottle $1.00; 3 bottles $2.50,
postpaid. American Supply Co.,
Dept. P. K., Quincy, 111.

Sick Baby Chicks?

Germozone operates just as these people say.
It is preventive as well as curative, and satis-
faction is absolutely guaranteed. Twenty years
on the market. Sold by drug and seed stores
at most towns.

Wm. E. Shepherd, Scranton, Pa., wrote: "Two
weeks after we started last spring we were a
might}- discouraged pair. Every day from three
to six chicks dead. A neighbor put us next to
Germozone and we are now sure if we had had
it at the start we would not have lost a single
chick." Ralph Wurst, Erie, Pa., — "Not a case
of white diarrhoea in three years." C. O. Pe-
train, Moline, 111. — "I never had a sick chick
all last season." Mrs. Wm. Christiana, OUve
Ridge, N. Y. — "Have 800 chicks now 5 weeks
old and not a single case of bowel trouble."
fr'Fl'R'IvTOZONE is a wonder worker for
uxjxvj.uvuvj.ixj chiekS) chickens, pigeons.

cats, dogs, rabbits or other pet or domestic stock
— for roup, bowel trouble, snuffles, gleet, cank-
er, swelled head, sore head, sores, wounds, loss
of fur or feathers.

If no dealer, order by card. Postma.i M ill col-
lect. No extra charge. Handy as 'phoning. 73c
and $1.50 pkgs. Baby chick Book FREE.

Geo. H. Lee Co., Dept. P-20 Omaha, Neb.

Barred Rock

Baby Chicks

And AU Other Standard Varieties.

I make a specialty of Barred Rock chicks and
I can guarantee my customers that they will
be more than satisfied if they order chix from
me, as I keep nothing but the choicest of
birds in my flocks, and they are culled each
year for high egg production. Every customer
ordering from me must be satisfied or money
will be cheerfully refunded. Barred Rock
chicks §16.50 per hundred.

FRED YUNKER, Dakota, Illinois

STORMONT'S BARRED ROCKS
—DEFEAT ALL BREEDS-

in First Illinois Laying Contest, by winning
first pen, first, third and fifth highest layers.
These facts speak volumes for my strain. Write
for mating list.

Rev. A. C. Stomiont, Auxvasse, Mo.

Chick Bands

latest, best, can't
cut legs, green, yel-
low, black, white,
red, blue, 100-95c,
Adult spirals 100-95c
LIBERTY BAND CO., Box £, Belleville, III.

Holemeyer's S. C. White Leghorns

Order your eggs for hatching early from my heavy layers and prize win-
ners. Won 15 prizes at 3 shows including 5 firsts. Eggs $2.50 for 15,
$4.00 for 30, $6.00 per 50, $10.00 per 100. Mating list free.
WHITE ROSE POULTRY FARM, R. R. No. 4, Box 31, Quincy, 111.

Why Not Get REAL TOM BARRON Leghorn Chicks and Eggs

from a firm that has imported direct each year since 1915, at prices but
little higher than the Commercial Hatcheries charge for common stock.
Chicks $20.00 per 100, $16.00 per 100 after June 1st. Eggs $12.00 per 100
with free replacement of all non fertiles. Orders filled promptly from this
ad or send for descriptive list to

COLEMAN MILES EGG FARM, Importers. Box N, Mt. Carroll, 111.

750,000 for 1922. All best Quality stock, lowest prices.

Best Leghorn laying stock. Assorted, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Reds, An-
conas, Minorcas, White Wyandottes. Buff Orpingtons of pure bred stork. We
pay postage and ship annvhere. 95% alive delivery guaranteed. FREE CATA-
LOG and price list. WRITE US TODAY.

UNIVERSAL BABY CHICK CO.

Peoria, Illinois

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 2 3

STORMONT'S BARRED ROOKS

FOR THOSE WHO CAN USE HAMMER AND
SAW

The fame achieved by the Barred
Rocks of A. C. Stormont, Auxvasse,
Mo., in last year's Illinois Egg Lay-
ing contest is certainly wide spread.
The wonderful record made by his
birds has brought him an unusually
large trade. Naturally any Barred
Rock breeder that want to get blood
from a strain that can win first in
the Illinois Egg Laying contest will
do well to get in touch with Mr.
Stormont.

WILMOT'S WHITE LEGHORNS

In another column of this issue
will be found the advertising of the
Wilmot White Leghorn Farm. This
is successor to the "Star-light Poul-
try Farm." Mr. Wilmot's Leghorns
are trapnested and bred to lay. It
is the hen that lays that makes the
profit and in buying Leghorns that
is the one thing that must receive
careful attention. Mr. Wilmot is of-
fering baby chicks and eggs for
hatching at very reasonable prices.
He will be glad to send circular free
on request from any of our readers.

RHODE ISLAND WHITES

Elsewhere in this issue appears
the ad of Mrs. E. Alphonso, Union,
Mo., who is advertising Rhode Island
Whites. She is manager of the Ce-
dar Ridge Poultry Farm and Secre-
tary of the Rhode Island White Club
of America. She is a real live boost-
er of Rhode Island Whites and those
who desire to get a start with this
really worth while breed should
write her at once.

Uncle Ab says: There's one laugh
that hurts the face, and that's at
the misfortunes of others.

Next year's farm income tax will
be simplified by the use of farm ac-
count books. Your county agent
has 'em.

THE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

By William C. Denny

This complete breed book explains standard
requirements and tells how to select, mate and
exhibit winners in all varieties. Subjects of
special importance to Plymouth Rock breeders,
such as how to get correct barring in Barred
Rocks, "Stay-white" plumage in White Rocks,
correct, uniform color in Buffs, double mating,
line breeding, strain building, etc., all are
plainly and fully treated.

Well illustrated, including three color plates,
144 pages, 9 by 12 inches. Price $1.00 postpaid.
Address Poultry Keeper, Quincy, Illinois.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

The World's GREATEST Layers

Biggest money makers on earth Leg-
horn eggs bring highest market price,
gullets begin laying sooner, hens con-
tinue laying longer than any other
breed. Only 20% go broody. Profitable 5
years.then make choice delicious meat.
Most beautiful, most popular fowl on
earth. Ideal for farm or city lot. or
commercial poultryman or farmer.

The Leghorn World ? n n & 0 rid r de a -

voted exclusively to Leghorns. Tells
u w to maho b 'B money with them
. —how to buy, sell, get greatest pleas-
ure, most profit-everything you want to know about
Leghorns. Published monthly, 50c yr.— 3yrs. $1.
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fllh^w^U ^-t,'HX°''J™*S" th S year subscription to
Leghorn World at $1.00. Send dollar bill today

THE LEGHORN WORLD. 6114 Bremer Ave.. Wwcrfy, Iowa

Built and Used by Poultry-men

Is a 9G-page book; paper bound; contains 108
Illustrations, fully describing various styles of
poultry houses for the large farm, as well as
the back yard. Poultry house equipment, In-
cluding roosts; trapnests, food boxes and hop-
pers; drinking founts; fences, both permanent
and movable; metal fence posts; brooders both
fireless and heated; broodcoops; covered chick
yards; poultry catchers, the popular stove-pipe
hopper, and many othe useful appliances that
can be made at home and money saved. For
the man who enjoyes making his own poultry
appliances, building his own coops, houses, etc.,
this book Is of especial value. Labor-saving and
money-saving devices are fully explained and
Illustrated so that the man who can use a ham-
mer and saw can make any of them. Price 50
cents. Address Poultry Keeper, Quincy, IMnola.

LEG BANDS

All guaranteed-Any size h
ALUMINUM BANDS r
with raised figures, z
price postpaid, 10-15c,;f>
25-25c, 50-35C, 100-60C. 1
ECONOMY colored

celluloid with

aluminum back.

Any color, two large black num-
bers In each band, prices 12-30c,
25-50c, 50-80C, 100-?1.50,
Makers of 25 different styles of
of LEG & WING bands.
The National Poultry Band Co.
Send for catalog. Newport, Ky.

Free-ConAeys Poultrq Book

80 pages chock full of information about the feeding and
rearing of chicks, culling of hens, etc. Tells how to keep
chickens healthy and how to make them pay. Whether
a beginner or a professional, Conkey's Book is worth
dollars to yon. Sent for 6 cents in stamps to pay postage.
THE C. E. CONKEY CO. 6542 BroadKII, UtxtUti. Obit

wh jT s CAPON $!? ?

A book that explains why Capons are the most profitable part of the poultry business and everything
you will ever want to know about CAPONS. 50 pictures from life that show each step in the
operation. List of Capon Dealers' addresses. Tells how to prevent "Slips," where to get the
best and cheapest capon tools. Capons are immense eating. Big profits realized. Get wise". This
book tells how. Copyrighted new and revised edition. Regular 50c copy, prepaid to your address
(a short time only) for a Dime in coin or stamps.

GEORGE BEUOY, R. R. 17, CEDAR VALE, KANSAS.

EGGS — S. C. White Leghorns &S. C. Rhode Island Reds— EGGS

We are offering hatching eggs from birds that have proven show winners
last year and every one of which has a high egg laying record. We are mak-
ing attractive prices and will go the limit to see that you get satisfactory
service. Our mating list is free. Write for a copy at once.

HIGHVIEW POULTRY YARDS,
A. J. Bauman, Prop. 628 Jackson St., Quincy, Illinois

Melrose Farm Reds

Won 2nd place in Minois Egg Laying Contest in February and with their winning records in the
show rooms of Illinois and elsewhere should convince you, that we have what you want in
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs from the same blood lines as the winners at the
Egg Laying Contest at $8.00 per 100. Order from this ad.

JOE WELLMAN,

R. R, 4,

Quincy, Illinois

CHICKS

English Strain heavy laying S.
C. W. Leghorns, $19.00 per 100.
American Strain, $15.00 per 100.
Parks Strain heavy laying Barred
Rocks, $19 per 100. Select heavy laying Barred Rocks, $15
per 100. ORDER NOW, RIGHT FROM THIS AD. Circular
Free.

DALLENBACH POULTRY FARM, Box K, Bondville, 111.

The "OLD RELIABLE

Ohio Hatchery.

W E A RE
PIONEERS

In the business of Hatching and Selling Chicks. For 22 Years we
have been furnishing the public with High Class Chicks which have
proven So Satisfactory that 60 per cent of our business Is now from
old customers. Uhl Hatchery Chicks are produced from select, heavy
laying hens on free range and are strong and vigorous.
Reasonable Prices, 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed.
By Prepaid Parcel Post. Leading Varieties. Get our 1922 Catalog
before buying Chicks.

The Uhl Hatchery, Box K, New Washington, Ohio

ScottsSX.Reds

WIN BEST DISPLAY

Illinois State Poultry Show, Freeport, HI., Jan 5, to 8. They
have made many good wins in the hands of customers.

'TIS A MARK OF DISTINCTION to breed Scott's Reds. Four
females in egg laying contest, Storrs, Conneticut, layed 840
eggs in one year, an average of 210 eggs each. If Interested
write for mating list.

C. P. SCOTT,

Box M,

PEORIA, ELL.

Page Number 24

THE POULTRY KEEPER

COUND business principles demand
that you raise every raisable chick
you hatch. The brooder that does this is the one that makes your real profits.

Hundreds of thousands all over the world have learned by experience to
place their reliance on

They perform to perfection, preventing crowding, overheating and chilling.
They have revolutionized the Taising of chicks, saving many thousands every
year. Success is sure to follow their use.

Supplied for coal, gas or oil under a guarantee of absolute satisfaction cr
the money back. Buckeye Lamp-heated Brooders care for the smaller lots.

The reasons for this unqualified success are found in our new booklet. "The Revolution
in Chick Raising." Any Buckeye dealer will be glad to supply this, or we will mail a copy
free from any of our offices. Ask for it today.

The Buckeye Incubator Company

615 Euclid Avenue, ^ ^£j %Z!Z ? « Springfield, Ohio

Foreign Offices: Herblay. S.& O., France. York Road, King's Cross. N. 1.
London. England. P. O, Box 907, Durban, South Africa.

Winners at Chicago, Memphis, Illinois State Show.

At Illinois State Fair in August, I entered 3 cockerels in a class of 4 6 and
won First and Third.

30 FINE EXHIBITION COCKERELS

that will win at good shows for sale. Also Exhibition Pullets
and Hens. For over 25 years I have bred and shown Barred
Rocks and for 20 years I have judged them In some of the best shows of the country. I know
what good Rocks are and I have them. Satisfaction guaranteed. JTTLITJS J. KLEIN, Macon, 111.

Iowa's Leading Hatchery

^ H B ^ IC ^ From High Class, Heavy Laying parents, kept on free range
wrllWlVO and in the best health in

ROCKS, REDS, WYANDOTTES, LEGHORNS, ETC.

Shipped safely anywhere. 100% live arrival guaranteed. Get our FREE IL
LUSTRATED CATALOG FOR 1922 which gives prices and full particulars and

tells you HOW TO RAISE THEM.

Get your orders In early and avoid the rush which ALWAYS comes later In
the season. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

KING HATCHERY, Box R, Iowa City, la.

BRED TO WIN AND LAY

HORNER'S PEDIGREED S. C. REDS

Cockerels for Sale. We can furnish you with Show birds, or strong fine breeders, $5.00 and
np. At Illinois State Fair, 1st Pen, in a hot class of 17 pens, also 2nd Pullet in a class
of 47. Adams County Fair, Cockerels, 1, 3, 4, 5; Pullets, 1, 2, 3, 4,; and Pens 1, 2; Champion
Pen; Champion Pullet. Pen mated. Write for matting list.

ERNEST G. HORNER, R. R. 7. Quincy, Illinois

In Browtr's Sa»e-«ll Chick and Egg Boies. (Formerly Called Rlppley)
Made of strong corragated card board. Stand
weight of 6ve men. Sold in Dozen Lots Only

EGG BOXES-size 15-egg, $1 75; 30-egg. $2.60; 60-egg.
$3.45: 100-egg. $5.60 doz. CHICK BOXES-25-size,
$1.25; 60-size, $1.75; 100-Bize, $2 40 doz. Sample
16-egg or 25-chick box. SSc. Postpaid. Save
delay — order from adv. Write for Catalog of
Poultry Supplies Special discounts on large orders.
BR0WER MANUFACTURING CO., Box 160 GRAFTON, ILL.

THE POULTRY BREEDER'S GOAL

There are styles in poultry breed-
ing just as there are styles in men's
clothing, or in farming implements.
This changing of style has been go-
ing on with a rapidity during the last
twenty years that is almost bewild-
ering.

Those of you who remember the
high-backed and high-tailed fowls of
twenty years ago cannot fail to ap-
preciate the truth of this statement
when you compare them with the
low-tailed compact farm hen of to-
day. Fifteen years ago today the
mongrel hen seemed to be more of
a favorite than the purebred hen,
judging by the number with which
they were kept. Today it is the un-
common thing to find a mongrel
flock, the pure bred flock is the gen-
eral rule.

Those who are watching the trend
in poultry breeding, as all who are
interested in the profits from the
flock should, are no doubt wondering
where the matter is going to end.
.What is the goal of the present-day
breeding of poultry? Is it to end in
a hopeless fad, as did the breeding of
fowls two generations ago, or is it
going to result in something of dis-
tinct worth to the farmer and his
needs?

The government poultry investiga-
tors and experts are answering that
question today, for they have, thanks
to their sworn interest in the farm
hen, so anchored poultry breeding in
utility and farm values that they
have kept the drift from running
amuck in the dangerous shoals of
faddism.

For years there has admittedly
been two camps among poultry
breeders; those who were breeding
for fine feathers, or fanciers, and
those who didn't care a rap about
the feathers but were after eggs or
meat, or utility cranks, as they were
called.

Some of the utility breeders, in
their anxiety to get high producing
egg-flocks paid absolutely no atten-
tion to the Standard of Perfection
as adopted by the American Poultry
Association and took any old hen
that happened to have a good trap-
nest record and bred from her. The
result was that, from the standpoint
of the fancier, most utility flocks
were nothing but a flock of culls or
mongrels, irrespective of the fact
that they might all have the pure
blood of a single breed in their veins.

The utility men, on their side,
were likewise disgusted at the fad-
dish traits of the fancier who foolish-
ly were after feathers and appear-
ance and didn't seem to give a con-
tinental whether their hens laid eggs
or not so long as they pulled down
the ribbons at the shows each year.

This spirit of bitterness between
the two camps was naturally more
of a blow to poultry progressiveness
than it was an aid, for it tended to
split the two factions wide open and
there seemed to be no opportunity of
the real poultry breeders ever uniting
them all to a common purpose, name-
ly, the production of a breed of hens
that would hold their own in the
show room and in the trap-nest
equally well.

The gap has been bridged by the
federal government poultry experts

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 25

working at the Maryland farm, where
they are producing a truly general
purpose fowl from the show room
stock and the utility stock that is
firing the hearts and ambitions of
all who have been trying to produce
a hen characteristic of the demands
of the modern farmer.

The farmer has always had a tend-
ency to hold the show room hen in
disdain and to doubt whether such a
hen could ever be brought to a high
egg production. There has grown up
a popular belief that the show room
hen is a delicate fowl requiring
special treatment to make her a suc-
cess, something so great that no
farmer can afford to "monkey" with
her.

D. W. Young, the famous White
Leghorn breeder, who is now retired,
first proved that this idea is all
wrong, when he produced hens that
won the highest prizes at the best
shows in the world and which had
trap-nest records in excess of two
hundred eggs per hen.

The Rhode Island Red breeders
have lately demonstrated the same
thing, while a prominent White Rock
breeder has a number of blue-ribbon
winners which have enviable egg rec-
ords to their credit.

Mr. Young, particularly, has by his
experience proved that as soon as
the breed characteristics have been
firmly implanted in the strain, ac-
cording to the Standard of Perfec-
tion, that egg laying ability is more
apt to be in the well-bred hen than
in the hen of haphazard breeding. It
is exactly the same reasoning which
tells you that the purebred hen is
better than the mongrel hen.

The hen of tomorrow is not going
to be an egg-producer alone or a
fancy fowl. She is going to be a
hen that is as true to the standard
as possible and still be a heavy lay-
er. The poultry breeders of today
are following that theory and they
are breeding to the standard as well
as for eggs. — C. S.

FOR THOSE WHO CAN USE HAM-
MER AXD SAW

Built and Used by Poultrynien

Is a 9 6-page book; paper bound;
contains 108 illustrations, fully de-
scribing various styles of poultry
houses for the large farm, as well as
the back yard. Poultry house equip-
ment, including roosts; trap-nests,
food boxes and hoppers; drinking
founts; fences, both permanent and
movable; metal fence posts; brood-
ers both firefess and heated; brood-
coops; covered chick yards; poultry
catchers, the popular stove-pipe hop-
per, and many other useful appli-
ances that can be made at home and
money saved. For the man who en-
joys making his own poultry appli-
ances, building his own coops,
houses, etc., this book is of especial
value. Labor-saving and money-
saving devices are fully explained
and illustrated so that the man who
can use a hammer and saw can make
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Page Number 2 6

THE POULTRY KEEPER

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$500 to $700 per acre growing strawberries from Keith's big, healthy,
new land plants is not an uncommon yield. Some yield much better.
This is proof positive that strawberries are a paying crop. Especially
is it so when you plant Keith's vigorous, heavily rooted plants for the
home garden or commercial purposes. They are grown on rich, new,
sandy loam, an ideal soil for plant production, making them big profit
winners. Every plant sure to grow.
Our MoneV Back You don't take chances in setting Keith's plants.

. „ . £ TrrrE0-$8.50, 100-$12.00. Mrs. Henry Newcomer, Mt.
Morris, 111.

DUCK EGGS — Fawn and White Indian Runners,
12-$1.25. Mrs. E. F. Sands, Malta, Ohio.

BIG TYPE, HIGH QUALITY MAMMOTH

Toulouse Geese, eggs $3.50 setting of seven.
A,. M. Stouffer, Waddams Grave, 111.

LARGE TOULOUSE GEESE— Eggs 40 cents each
prepaid. John Cerny, Cobden, 111.

BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS— Eggs $1.75 per
dozen. Postpaid 5th zone. John Eyer, Fort
Jennings, Ohio. 3-3

EGGS— Mammoth Pekin 50-$5.00, 100-$8.00.
White Holland also Bourbon Red Turkeys 10-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

3-4

DUCKS — Rouens, Pekins, Runners, Muscovy,
Wild Mallards. Geese: Toulouse, African, China,
Emden. John Hass, Bettendorf, Iowa. 2-3

BUFF ORPINGTON DUCK EGGS— $2-15, post-
paid, insured, In three zones. Rauch's Poultry
Yard, Jenera, Ohio. 2-4

HORTON'S HIGH QUALITY FAWN AND

White Indian Runner duck eggs for hatching.
Sylvan View Poultry Farm, Curryville, Mo. 2-5

SILKIES

WHITE SILKIE EGGS — $2.. 00 per 13. Cockerels.
Arthur Worthington, R. 3, Two Rivers, Wis.

3-3

FAV0R0LLES

WHITE FAVEROLLES— Foremost utility fowls.
Greatest winter layers. Develop quickly. Eggs
and chicks from prize winners. Pixley, R. 2,
Wayne, Mich. 3-4

GUINEAS

ONE FIFTY FIFTEEN WHITE GUINEA EGGS,

postpaid. L. Leavitt, Sniithfield, 111.

HOUDANS

DARK HOUDAN STOCK FOR SALE— Range
eggs $5.00 per hundred. M. Stephenson, Welton.
Iowa. 4-2

HAMBURGS

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS— Setting eggs
$3 per 15. Mrs. Otto Hanne, St. Joseph, Mo.,
Route 3. 3-2

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS BABY

Chicks. High quality. Reasonable prices.
Catalogue Free. South Kenton Poultry Farm,
Kenton, Ohio.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURG COCKERELS

and eggs. Frank Heilman, Knox, Ind. 3-3

WHITE LANGSHANS

WHITE LANGSHAN BABY CHICKS— High
quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free.
Soutli Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

WHITE LANGSHAN EGGS FOR HATCHING—

Prize stock, 46 pullets layed 927 eggs in Dec.
Pen 1, $2.00 per 15; Pen 2, $1.00. Baby chicks.
Mrs. H. S. Brown, Salem, Iowa. 3-3

BLACK LANGSHANS

BLACK LANGSHAN BABY CHICKS— High
quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue free.
South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

BIG BLACK LANGSHANS— Setting $2.50, 100-
$10.00. 100 Chix $25.00. Ella Whitwood, Hud-
son, HI.

SPLENDID BLACK LANGSHANS — Eggs from
high scoring pen reduced to $2.00 for 15, and
$10 per 100. Utility pen $1.00 per 15, $5.00
per 100. Viola Smith, Salem, Iowa.

LARGE, "HOGAN TESTED" BLACK LANG-

shans, eggs $7.00-100. Chicks 20c each. Chas.
Knight, Lerna, Illinois. 2-3

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LEGHORNS

300 SINGLE COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG-

horns, 1 year hens, cockerels, pullets. Hatching
eggs. A. Schroeder, St. Peter, 111. 12-12

SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 19— Rich Brothers, R.
F. D. No. 2, Box 70, Elkhart, Ind.

THE LEGHORN WORLD only journal in World
devoted exclusively to Leghorns. Tells how to
make big money with them — how to buy, sell,
get greatest pleasure, most profit — everything
you want to know about Leghorns. Published
monthly, 50c year — 3 years $1.00. "Everything
About S. C. White Leghorns", remarkable book
tells how to mate, judge, feed, cull, prepare
for show, sell, advertise, etc. Given free with
3 year subscription at $1.00. Send dollar bill
today. The Leghorn World, Box 6314, Waver-
ly, Iowa.

WHITE LEGHORNS

PULLETS. BABY CHICKS— If you want Leg-
horns of Superior Quality, Kuhn has them at
let live prices. Be wise and write Kuhn be-
fore you buy. H. M. Kuhn, Sycamore, Ohio. 4-3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCH-

ing, $2.00 per 15. Pen 1, $5.00 per 50. Mrs.
Ellen E. Omans, Frazee, Minn.

HUNDRED WINNERS, SINGLE COMB WHITE

Leghorns. Young's (282 egg.) -Fifteen eggs
$2.50, fifty, $6.00, hundred $10.50. Fifty chicks
$12, hundred $19. Pen headed by winner Silver
Cup best male state show. 15 eggs $5, fifty
$12. Fifty chicks $19. Meadow Farm, Coulter -
ville, 111.

S. C. W. LEGHORNS— Ferris strain, heavy
layers. Eggs 15-$1, 100-$5. Mrs. John Pearcy,
Martinsville, Indiana. 4-2

PURE SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS —

Eggs $3.00-30, $7.75-100. Chix $4.50-2-5, $8.00-
50, $15.00-100. Extra good quality, satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Chas Quiram, Waterville,
Minn.

S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS — Winter layers,
$2.00 per 15 prepaid. Mrs. L. Malmborg, R. 1,
Ishpeming, Mich. 4-2

FERRIS SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN

hatching eggs 15 eggs $1.00, 30-$1.75, 50-$2.50,
100-$4.50, prepaid. Also Registered : Holstein
cattle, either sex. Leo Kulii & Son, Hazel
Green, Wisconsin. 4-2

LARGE PUREBRED S. C, WHITE LEG-

horns. Farm range, Hoganized, heavy winter
layers. Eggs $1.25 per 15, $6.00 per 100.
Chicks 15c each. Mrs. G. B. Cultice, Union
City, Indiana, R. 7.

BARRON SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS,

15 eggs 75 cents, 100-$4.75. 20 years breeder.
Geo. E. Adams, Green Bay, Wis., R. 7. 4-2

CL0VERDALE LEGHORN FARM AND HATCH-

ery. Breeders of S. C. White Leghorns. Youngs
foundation stock. Eggs and baby clucks. Cir-
culars free. Aurora, Mo. 3-3

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR

Hatching from 290 egg strain at $1.35 per 15,
$5.50 per 100. Parcel Post prepaid. Safe ar-
rival guaranteed. Our flock was culled by the
County Agent especially for egg production.
Henry Kerstiens, Ferdinand, Ind., R. 2. 3-2

KOEPSELL'S 230-300 EGG-BRED SINGLE

Comb White Leghorns. Chicks and eggs at
prepaid prices. Catalog Free. Koepsell Leghorn
Farm, Sta. E., Mayville, Wise.

ENGLISH— Yesterlaid Strain White Leghorns.
Eggs, 100-$5.00. Henry New, Streator, 111. 3-2

WHITE LEGHORN EGGS — Thornburg's, Ferris
world's greatest layers. Eggs, 15-$1.50, 100-
$6.00, delivered. Valley Egg and Dairy Farm,
Campbell, Mo., R. 4. 3-3

EGGS AND CHICKS FROM THE BIG KIND

English White Leghorns. Selected matings. All
high record stock. No more stock for sale.
Chas. W. Johnson, Linton, Ind. 3-2

1000 TRAPNESTED WHITE LEGHORNS —

Pedigreed stock, eggs and chicks. Circular T
free. C. T. Patterson, R. 4, Springfield, Mo^

THE T. F. LANGABEER S. C. WHITE LEG-

horn plant offers eggs from 12 pens of trap
nested stock. (Eleven years use of trap nests.)
3 best pens, 15 et* i £*t Postpaid

The small holes in the top pan prevent the chicks from getting into the feed or water— prevent them from crowding
too clo=e around the feeder and prevent dirt and droppings from polluting the contents. There is absolutely nothing
in the construction of these pans to become loose or broken— they overcome every objection to the ordinary Mason Jar

pan and are the most desirable of all feeding and watering devices. Order them today. Sold and guaranteed by

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World's Oldest, Lareest and Best Poultry Paper, 1 year 15c: 2 yrs. $1.00: 5 yrs. $ - i.O(>
or $1.00 Buy-. 15 Pans and American Poultry Journal Four Moutlis.

STOP
WHITE
DIARRHEA

BY KILLING THE CAUSE

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produces satisfactory results in either pre-

Ivention or treatment or TOUR MONET
■WILL BE REFUNDED. 51.00 per package
. — postpaid. Sufficient for 12% gallons of
material. Simple yet effective. Used by
*, the largest hatcheries. Supplied by the pro-
ducers of A. S. L. Avian Mixed Bacterin.
Let us tell you what vaccination will do in
the prevention and treatment of Eoup, Cank-
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etc. Ask for FREE Booklet on Vaccination
and the Prevention of Fowl Diseases.

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157 West Kinzie St., Dept. D-23 Chicago. Illinois

Will Pay for Itself

The extra chicks
you will hatch
and raise with
Oliver Incubators
and B r o o d e rs
will soon pay for
the entire equip-
ment. Oliver In-
cubators are sold
on a money back
guarantee. Let us tell you all about
them before you buy an Incubator.

OLIVER IXCUBATOR CO.,
Paris. Illinois

KILLS MITES IN HEN-HOUSES

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Guaranteed and highly recom-
mended. Write for Circulars

Carbolineum Wood PreservingCo.
Dept. 154 Milwaukee, Wis.

GOOD SERVICE

Mr. H. L. Adair, Clayton. 111., is
advertising eggs for- hatching from
his splendid strain of White Rocks.
He just submitted a couple of let-
ters from his customers which we
Quote only in part.

George Bomfay, Pensacola, Fla.,
writes: Dear Mr. Adair: "Birds
received this morning and will say
that I was more than satisfied. They
had a long trip but came through in
fine shape."

Messrs. Joe Tremmel & Sons, High-
land, 111., writes: Dear Mr. Adair:
"Just came from the station. Re-
ceived birds in fine condition and I
am well pleased with them. They
are much better than I expected."

Mr. Adair prides himself upon his
excellent service that he gives with
his birds. He wants every customer
satisfied. The same is true of his
eggs for hatching. He gives personal
attention to every order and his stock
is of such a quality that customers
seem invariably to be well pleased.

MAKE UP A CLUB

Make up a club of your own, choosing the
papers or magazines you want to take. Write
and let me quote a special cut price. I can
save you considerable money on your subscrip-
tions." A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, Dllnois.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 29

THE BEST «

AND
SURE WAY

Protect your fowls from the powerful and insidious
lice and mites that suck the life-blood of your birds.

These parasites allowed to run
rampant in a hen house will suck
more blood, more vitality over night
than fowls can replace by the assimi-
lation of large quantities of food dur-
ing the day— think this over.

Extra care must be taken that not
only the birds are kept clean, but
every crack and crevice as well.

K/7/s Lice

No dusting — No dipping — No painting
— Just hang up the bottle

— and in a few days your entire flock and hen house will be rid or
every louse and mite. Licecil leaves the bottle in powerful
evaporating vapors which descend in a misty form, penetrating
feathers, cracks, and crevices everywhere. Lice and mites have
no lungs. They breathe through the pores of the body. The
vapors from Licecil will quickly kill them. They cannot stand
the odor of Licecil, and its presence in your hen house will rid
you of these pests.

How to Use Licecil

Simply put a few drops in the nest and on the roosts, hang the
uncovered bottle in coop or hen house. The powerful evapora-
ing vapors which leave the bottle descending in mist form
penetrate cracks, crevices, everywhere. Lice, mites, chiggers,
roaches, bed bugs, ants, etc., will be destroyed by Licecil vapors.
Will not injure chicks.

GIVE IT A FAIR TRIAL

If you prefer to fight poultry pests in the old way — it is certainly
your privilege to do so. But your own best interest, and the suc-
cess others are having, will lead you to give Licecil a fair, honest
trial at the earliest opportunity.

1 Bottle, $1.00; 3 Bottles, $2.50; 12 Bottles, $9.00— All Postpaid.

American Supply Company, Dept. P K Quincy, Illinois

Chicken Mites Filled
With the Life Blood
of Faithful Hens.

Evidence!

KEEPS ON USING LICECIL.

Please find chacks for $5 for which
send me six bottles of Licecil. I
have been using Licecil and find it
O. K. This is the third order, which
speaks for itself.

J. D. ALLEN, Lynchburg, Va..

WANTS MORE.
I am sending for some more
Licecil. It is the best preparation
to rid the place of lice I have ever
found. Send as quick as possible,
because I am all out now.
JOHN HOLTRAP, Lynden, Wash.

KEEPS ON USING IT.
Pind enclosed money order for
Licecil. I was well pleased with
results from the other bottle I
bought. Have over 200 birds and
when I use Licecil lice are a very
scarce article with me.

J. E. PLATT, Maywood, 111.

LITTLE WORRY OR WORK.

Please send me three bottles of
Licecil. Like it very much. With
Licecil there is little worry or v/ork.
Enclosed find money order for $2.50
for the three bottles.

BERNARD F. OSTERFIELD.

Dayton, Ohio.

SEND MORE.

Please send me three bottles of
Licecil. I received the one bottle
ordered recently, and have had splen-
did results. There is one thing sure,
no lice or mites will stay on the
chickens with the odor of Licecil
about. L. G. STAYNOS.

Sherman, Texas.

. AMERICAN SUPPLY COMPANY

Department P KQUINCY, ILLINOIS

Gentlemen: Enclosed please find $ for which send me

bottles of Licecil as soon as possible.

Name

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

BREEDER'S CARDS.

WHITE LEGHORNS

S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS— from good laying
stock. Farm range. Maude Davis, Sabula, la.

3-3

BARRON- YOUNG SINGLE COMB WHITE LEG-

horas. Eggs $4 a hundred. A. Behl, Palmer,
111. 2-2

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR

hatching. Flock 1— $2.00 per 15; $10.00 per
100. Flock 2—11.25 per 15; $5.00 per 100. J.
R. Frew, Eustis, Nebr.

WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS — American
or English from selected heavy producers. Cir-
cular. Frank Heinz, Box 12, Comstock Park,
Mich.

FERRIS WHITE LEGHORNS— direct. Eggs,
Special Matings (205-300 Males mated 200-265
Females) §3.00 per 15 prepaid. Other matings
$2.00; $1.50. Sunnyside Yards, Bos 591-K,
Saranac Lake, N. Y. 1-4

BROWN LEGHORNS

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS — Light and dark-
great layers. Surplus stock and eggs very
reasonable. Henry Tushaus, 1000 Vine St.,
Quincy, 111. 2-4

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS —

Heavy layers. $1.50 per 15; $7.00 per 100.
Blanche Dorsey, Dresden, O. 2-3

W. W. KULP, BOX 30, POTTSTOWN, PA. —

The leaders in size and contest winners. Cata-
log. Both combs.

S. C. DARK BROWN LEGHORNS— Eggs for
hatching from pen one, $2.50 per 15. Pen 2
$1.75 per 15. No reduction for larger quan-
tities. Willis Fairbanks. Mora, Minn. 4-12

BLACK LEGHORNS

DIMOND BLACK LEGHORNS— My 28 hens
laid 74 eggs in 3 days. Eggs $2.00 per 15,
$5.00 per 50. H. C. Hunt, Delavan, HI.

100 BLACK LEGHORN CHIX $20.00; 600,

$95.00. Ella Whitwood, Hudson, Hi.

BLACK LEGHORN BABY CHICKS — High qual-
ity. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free. South
Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

BUFF LEGHORNS

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS— Solid buff.
Heavy lavers. Eggs from special pens $1.25
per 15, $6.00 per 100. Arthur Wortliington,
Two Rivers, Wis.

SPECIALLY BRED MANY GENERATIONS —

for stamina, large yield of big eggs, and beauty.
I have the goods. Both combs. Eggs, hens and
pens reasonable. Catalog. Joseph Benedict,
Chevy Chase, Maryland.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS— Hoganized,
testing 140 to 280 eggs. Stock, Eggs, Chicks.
Theo Jeschke, R. 1. K, Troy Kansas.

ROSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS— Madison
Square winners. Charles Schroth, Cabot, Pa.

2-3

MINORCAS

BLACK MINORCAS. BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Eggs. Ten varieties baby chicks. Frank A.
Agnew, Southside, Omaha, Nebr. 3-4

VIGOROUS S. C. BLACK MINORCAS— Wonder-
full egg producers. Eggs $1.50 per 15. John
Rodtke, 717 LaCrosse Street, La Crosse, Wis-
consin.

MAMMOTH S. C. BLACK MIN0RCAS--S1 per

15 eggs. Zula Edwards, Van Wert, Ohio. 4-2

GIANT SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS—

Setting $3.00; 100-$12.00. Ella Whitwood, Hud-
son, 111.

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCA EGGS— Winter
layers, prize winners. Jay Folfer Beswick,
Berea, Ohio. 3-3

HATCHING EGGS — Pape's direct, fine layers,
prize winners. Selected matings $3.00 per 15.
Guy Threlkeld, Golconda, HI. 3-2

ROSE COMB WHITE MINORCAS— 30 eggs, pre-
paid, $4. H. L. Carson, Middleport, Ohio. 3-5

SINGLE COMB WHITE MINORCA EGGS—

Standard bred. Mrs. Walter Raypole, Churu-
busco, Ind.

BREEDER'S CARDS

BLUE ORPINGTONS

LOOK — Royal Blue Orpingtons. Winners. John
Dnangst, 1214 Prairie Ave., Freeport, 111. 3-12

WHITE ORPINGTONS

WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS AND STOCK FOR

Sale — Real bargains — from great layers and
prize winners. Utility breeding or exhibition
quality — fourteen of my birds under the rib-
bons at Chicago National Poultry Show Jan-
uary, 1922. Don't place your order until you
get my illustrated catalog and mating list.
Save money — get better quality. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Write today. Edgar F. Alden,
Linden and Willow Road, Dept P. K. 5, Win-
netka, Hlinois.

WHITE ORPINGTONS — Cook-Morris strains.
My trapnested winter layers are money makers.
Eggs $2 per 15, $5 per 50, postpaid. E. H.
Wisen, Malcolm, Nebr.

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS— Heavy lay-
ers, $1.50 per 15; $7.00 per 100. Elva CantweU,
Bucklin, Mo. 3-4

ONE PEN PRIZE-WINNING, PURE-BRED S.

C. White Orpingtons. Big type, very white,
great layers. Eggs for hatching $3.00 for 15.
Harry P. Long, Thornville, Ohio. 3-2

FINE SINGLE COMB WHITE ORPINGTON

eggs for hatching at $2.00 a setting. Ed Dierk-
ing, Bixley, Minn., R. No. 5, Box 28. 3-2

BUFF ORPINGTONS

BUFF ORPINGTONS— Byer's direct. Winter
layers, prize winners. Eggs from select mat-
ings $3.00 per 15. Guy Threlkeld, Golconda, HI.

3-2

BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS FOR SALE — $1.50
per 15. Walter E. Vogel, Strasburg, HI., 3-2

BUFF ORPINGTONS— Eggs from our prize win-
ners l$-$5.00, from other pens $2.50. These are
excellent layers. Adolph Campbell, Princeton,
Tnd., Route 2. 3-2

BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS— From heavy winter
laying strain. Pen headed with cockerel direct
from Wm. Cook & Sons Yard. $2.00 and $3.00
per 15, parcel post prepaid. Phil G. Wurtz,
704 Ohio, Quincy, HI. 2-3

BUFF ORPINGTON HATCHING EGGS from my
Quincy and Adams County Fair winners. Ex-
hibition matings $3.00, $3.50, and $5.00 per 15
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed. Utility, $1.50
per 15; $9.00 per 100. Order from this ad or
write for mating list. Also a few good breed-
ing cockerels. Walter Goessling, 930 Jefferson
St., Quincy, HI. 1-4

PHEASANTS

RINGNECK PHEASANT EGGS— $5 for 15, post
paid. Charles Knecht, 1715 N. 13th St., Kansas
City, Kans. 3-4

PIGEONS

I OFFER— mated Homers. $2.00 pair. Beautl-
White Homers, $3.00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux, Maltese Hens. Free book-
let, Sqnab Mannual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert,
2210 Almond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 10-6

RABBITS

THREE DOLLARS PAIR — Four months Bel-
gian Hares. Luther Leavitt, Smithfield, El.

RAISING RABBITS — Is profitable for meat,
fur and breeding. Succeed booklet 10c. Breed-
ers for sale $1.50. Maikranz Babbitry, New r
Bethlehem, Pa.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS-
SI. 00 per 15, $6.00 per 100. Bred to lay. Mrs.
Joe Walz, Glen Haven, Wis. 4-3

REDS THAT LAY! The strain that pays.
Rose Comb. Eggs. Circular. Albert Bern-
hardt, Mt. Healthy, Ohio.

SINGLE ALSO ROSE COMB REDS — Setting
$1.50, 100-$7.00. 100 chix $20.00. Ella Whit-
wood, Hudson, m.

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS— Baby
Chicks, from choice matings. Splendid winter
layers, large fine type and color. Mrs. L. J.
Stahl, Washington, El. 3-2

ROSE COMB REDS— Blue ribbon winners nii-
nois State Fair, Adams County Fair, Quincy
Poultry Show. Eggs $2 and $3 per 15, parcel
post paid. W. H. Rueter, 1023 Washington St.,
Quincy, 111. 3-2

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RHODE ISLAND REDS

LISTEN — Rose Comb Reds. Choice matings.
Eggs and stock. V. E. Ray, Albion, Indiana.

3-2

ROSE COMB REDS— Bean strain. Exhibition
quality. Trapnested ten years, yearly records
to 306 eggs. Three pens, eggs 25, 20, 15 cents
each. Jos. Forge, Burlington, Wise.

ROSE COMB RED EGGS — From prize winners
and record layers. (Bean strain.) Mating list.
Daugherty's Poultry Farm, Metcalf, HI. 3-2

ROSE COMB REDS— Large dark stock, excel-
lent layers, eggs $2.50-30, $6-100. Geo. Fisher,
Coatsburg, Dl. 2-3

ROSE COMB R. I. REDS— Eggs for hatching.
Carver and Bean strain. Eggs $4.00 per 15,
3 pens mated. John W. Searigct, Granger,
Mo. 2-3

RHODE ISLAND RED JOURNAL only Journal
in World devoted exclusively to Rhode Island
Reds. Tells how to make big money with them
— how to buy, sell, get greatest pleasure, most
profit — everything you want to know about
Rhode Island Reds. Published monthly 50c
year — 3 years $1.00. "Blue Ribbon Beds", re-
markable book tells how to judge, mate, cull,
feed, prepare for show, linebreed, etc. Given
free with 3-year subscription at $1.00. Send
dollar bill today. Rhode Island Red Journal,
Box 5314, Waverly, Iowa.

RHODE ISLAND WHITES

HATCHING EGGS FROM PURE ROSE COMB

Rhode Island Whites, laying and show birds,
bred from G-enoway & Alphonso strains, write
for prices. J. J. Halter, Perryville, Mo.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND WHITES AND REDS

from Madison Square and St. Louis winners,
mating list. Runell's Poultry Farm, Findlay,
O.

CHOICE HEAVY-LAYING RHODE ISLAND

White Pullets, $2.00. Baby chicks, 25-$7.00.
Eggs, 15-$1.50; 100-$8.00. Large Toulouse goose
eggs 35c. Mrs. Elza Jones, Route 5, Memphis,
Missouri. 3-2

PARTRIDGE ROCKS

EGG RECORD PARTRIDGE ROCKS— National
and Coliseum winners. Eggs, chicks, stock.
Riley Smith, Albion, Ind. 3-3

PARTRIDGE ROCKS — Selected trapnested
hatching eggs from heavy producers. Pen
headed by son of prize cockerel Madison Square
Garden. Fifteen for $5. Glen Toalson, Osceola,
Missouri. 2-3

WHITE ROCKS

SNYDER'S WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS— Eggs
$2.00 a setting from No. 1 Pens. Dellwood
Poultry Yards, A. S. Snyder, Dellwood, N. Y.

4-3

LARGE PURE BRED WHITE ROCKS— Hatch-
ing eggs from prize winners and splendid laying
strain. Fishel direct at $2.00 per 15. A satis-
factory hatch guaranteed. H. L. Adair, Clay-
ton, HI.

EGGS — Prize Winning White Rocks. Thomason
and Poorman's 200 egg strain. First pen $5.00,
second $3.50, farm range $1.50. None finer.
Mrs. G. G. Carman, R. 1, Sedalia, Kentucky,
Oak Dale Poultry Farm.

BARRED ROCKS

TESTED BARRED ROCK EGGS — From Park's
strain $3.00 per 15: $5.50 per 30. Eg-gs from
utility stock $7.00 per hindred. Mrs. A. Rev-
ell, Central City, Iowa.

BARRED ROCK EGGS— SI. 00-15. $6.00-100.
Nicely barred, size, shape, rigor, good layers.
Eugene Wood, Mt. Carroll, HI.

PARK'S STRAIN BARRED ROCK CHICKS

and Selected eggs. Priced right. Eva Bojar,
Saint Bernard, Ohio. 3-3

BARRED ROCKS — Hatching eggs, sixty cents
per setting. Mrs. E. E. Mark. Stronghurst,
Hlinois. 3-3

EXHIBITION BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS —

Dark mating. Eggs and stock for sale, from
one of the largest breeders in the middle west.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Ed Haddenhorst, 319
N. 11th, Qnincy. HI.

"CACKLERS" ARE PUREBRED BRED-TO-LAY

Barred Rocks. Trapnested by Geo. W. Pratt,
Crnpsev. 111. 18 eggs S2.50: 36-$4.50. 72-S8.00.
ino-sio.00, prepaid. Circular free. Stock all
sold. 2-12

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 31

BREEDER'S CARDS

BARBED BOCKS

BARRED BOCK EGGS — Range $6.00-100, Pen
Holteniian $4.00-13. Floyd Friedow, Kanawha,
Iowa. 4-2

BRADLEY STRAIN— Eggs $1.50-$10.00. S. H.
Phelps, Monmouth, 111. 2-4

MY VICT0BY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS —

Won at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4th, 1921.
3, 4, 5, Ex Cock; 2 Ex Cockerel; 1, 2, Ex Hen;
3 Ex Pullet; 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock; 2 Cock-
erel Bred Pen; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club Shape and Color Specials.
Illustrated circular Free. J. T. French, 838
West Grove Place, Toledo, Ohio.

PARKS ROCKS— Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, Box 30, Pottstown, Pa.

BARRED ROCK HATCHING EGGS — $1.50, 15;
$7.00, 100. Cockerels, $3.00, $5.00. Brookside
Farm, St. Peter, 111. 1-4

SUSSEX

SPECKLED SUSSEX EGGS — 15-$2; 45-$5; 100-
$10. Maple Dell Poultry Farm, Sugar Creek, O.

SEVERAL VARIETIES

LOOK! LOOK! — Eggs $1.00 per 15, $5.50 hun-
dred. 25 breeds greatest special price list free.
Fleming Bros., Shelbyvllle, Illinois. 4-2

HAMBURG AND DARK CORNISH HATCHING

eggs from purebred stock. Carl Kullberg, Ells-
worth, Iowa.

PURE BRED SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURG

and Single Comb Brown Leghorn cockerels,
$1,50 each. Single Comb Brown Leghorn eggs
$1.50 per 15. Magnus Mathison, Princeton,
Minnesota.

EGGS FOR HATCHING — Black Javas and Red-
Caps $J3 per 15. William Halin, Spades, Bid.

BUFF ORPINGTON AND ANC0NA EGGS

from exhibition stock. Exceedingly heavy egg
laying strains. Roup and Son, Ames, Iowa. 4-2

SINGLE COMB ANCONAS AND BUFF 0R-

pintons. Eggs $1.50' per 15. Mrs. Jake Tuma,
Lesneur Center, Minnesota, B. No. 3.

EGGS — Single Comb Buff and Brown Leghorns,
White Guineas and other varieties, 15 eggs
$2.00: Viola Woods, Albion, Illinois. 4-2

SINGLE COMB REDS $1.50 SETTING— Exhibi-
tion S. C. White Leghorns $1.50 setting. Wild
Mallards $3 setting. English Callers $5 set-
ting. Prepaid. O. Robey, Maryville, Mo. 3-4

WHITE ROCK COCKERELS $3— Eggs from
special pen. Pekin ducks. Embden geese, Hol-
land Turkeys. Circular. Mrs. Frank Spitler,
Kentland, Ind. 3-2

HARRY SWINBURNE, DELHI, IOWA OF-

fers 137 varieties poultry, pheasants, ducks,
geese, eggs. 3-4

FOR SALE — Houdan eggs $3.00 per 15. Bearded
Golden Polish $4.00 per 15 eggs. Mrs. Theo
Sutphen, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Box 250.

3-3

EGGS — Brahmas, Langshans, Rocks, Reds. Orp-
ingtons, Wydts., $1.50 per 15 prep'd. Ducks,
geese. Catalogue free. M. H. Myers, Edom, Va.

3-4

PRICE LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF GENER-

al valuable breeds free in America's leading
strains. Low prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Humphrey Marshall, R. 1, Sadieville, Ky.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS, BUFF OR-

pingtons, and Ringlet Barred Rocks. Extra
quality. Hogan tested. 15 eggs $1.75, prepaid.
C. R. Ward, Hartford, Ky., Route 4.

PORTERS POULTRY PLACE, BUTLER, IND. —

Extra nice Toulouse geese, White Leghorns,
White Rocks, White crested Black Polish, White
African Guineas, also pedigreed Chester White
Swine, up-to-date blood lines. Stock and eggs.

EGGS — From pure bred stock. Sheppard's 331
egg strain Anconas 15-$3.00; 100-$15.00. Park's
bred-to-lay Barred Rocks, 15-$1.50: 100-$7.50.
White Orpingtons, 15-$1.50; 100-$7.50. 10 other
breeds, 15-$1.50, 100-$7.50. Free catalog on
chicks and eggs. Can furnish eggs in 500 and
1000 lots. Get my prices. Mid-Oak Poultry
Farm, R. 4, Box 500, Bloomington, Dl. 3-3

50 BRED TO LAY BARRED ROCK C0CKER-

els. 10 R. C. Ancona Cockerels. Write Mrs.
T. i R. Tilton, Lake Crystal, Minn, R. No. 1.

1-4

BREEDER'S CARDS

SEVERAL VARIETIES

SHEPPARD S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

vania S. C. W. Leghorn eggs for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Middleburg, Pa.

90 BREEDS— Poultry, Eggs, Chicks, Dogs, Pig-
eons, Hares, Ferrets, Parrots. Bargain list
free. Bergey's Farm, Telford, Pa. 2-3

BARRED AND BUFF ROCKS, WHITE WY-

andottes. Stock and eggs for sale. Jacob
Bower, Barberton, Ohio. 2r3

60 VARIETIES— Prize winning Geese, Ducks,
Turkeys, Chickens, Stock, Eggs, cheap. F.
Damann, Farmington, Minn. 2-4

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED COCK-

erels, pullets, eggs for hatching. Heavy lay-
ers. Prices right. Wild Mallard Duck eggs.
Hattie Harper, Potomac, 111.

BARGAINS IN COCKERELS— Parks Rocks,
Barron Wyandottes, Ferris Leghorns $7.50 up.
Half price if taken now. Alex Davidson, Glen
Campbell, Pa. 1-4

FANCY POULTRY FOR SALE— 30 Varieties
catalogue free. Herman Blumer, Berger, Mis-
souri. 12-6

TURKEYS

BOURBON RED EGGS— $4.00 per dozen, post-
paid. Mathews Moore, Sparta, Ky.

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY

Eggs. Merrill Tucker, Merrynook, , New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey. 4-2

LARGE WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS,

45c each, $10.50 for 25 postpaid. Mrs. Chas.
Mills. , Plainyille, Kans.

BRONZE GOBBLERS $10— Eggs 10 for $6.00,
prepaid. Order now. Aaron J. Felthouse,
Goshen, Ind. 2-6

SIEVED LACED WYANDOTTES

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE BABY CHICKS,

High quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue
Free. South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton,
Ohio.

SIEVED LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS— 15-$1.50
prepaid. E. A. York, McNabb, til. 3-3

CERNEY'S FAMOUS SILVER LACED WYAN-

dottes— Eggs 15-$1.50, 100-$8.00 prepaid. John
Cerney, Cobden, 111.

SILVER WYANDOTTES— Eggs from quality
stock only. $1.50 per 15, $7.00 per 100. Lura
Rivers, Charles City, Iowa. 3-2

PUREBRED SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE

and Partridge Rock eggs $1.50 setting, post-
paid. Winnie Mc Conachie, Perryville, Mo.,
R. 3. » 2-2

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES — Blue Ribbon
Winners. Eggs $3.00 per 15. Baby Chix, 35c
each, all prepaid. W. H. Riggle, Murray, Iowa

2-3

BUFF WYANDOTTES

BUFF WYANDOTTES— Standard bred, farm
raised, healthy and vigorous. Stock culled by
state expert. Stock and eggs at moderate prices.
No. chicks. Willis Brown, Highland Farm,
Slippery Rock, Pa. 3-2

WHITE WYANDOTTES

WHITE WYANDOTTES — 255 egg strain. Won
six first 1922. Prices low. Circular free. Nick
Fleck, Plymouth, Indiana. 4-2

EGGS — 2 pens White Wyandottes. Bred from
$35.00 Keeler male bird, $3.00-15, $2.00-15.
Farm range $1.00-15, $6.00-100. Cockerels $3.00
each, 2-$5.00. Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, Grafton, Dl.

KEELER STRAIN WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS

$1.50 per 15, $3 per 30, $10 per 100. Mrs.
Andreas I/Oge, Spades, Did.

WHITE WYANDOTTES — Eggs 15-$1.25, 50-
$3.50, 100-$6.00. Orchard Poultry Farm, St.
Peter, Dl., Box 9S.

WHITE WYANDOTTES — Trapnested heavy lay-
ers, 250 eggers. State show winners and club
specials. Circular. Eggs $3, $5, $7.50. H.
G. Kavanaugh, R. 7, Peoria, Dl.

BREEDER'S CARDS

WHITE WYANDOTTES

EGGS FOR HATCHING— from Martins strain,
White Wyandottes, culled and tested, vigorous
fouls, heavy layers, $1.25 for 15. Neuman
Ellestad, Spring Grove, Minn. 2-2

SUPREME QUALITY WHITE WYANDOTTES,

Regals. Eggs $1.50 up from winners. Mating
list. W. E. Lunstrum, 2826 Schoal, Terre
Haute, Ind.

WHITE WYANDOTTES— Choice, selected hatch-
ing eggs from healthy, winter layers. $1.50
per 15, prepaid. H. C. Johnson, Knox, Pa.
Route 3. 3-2

WHITE WYANDOTTES— Exhibition and Heavy
Egg Laying strain combined. Mating list free.
T. C. Rafferty, Canton, Illinois. 2-3

WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS— from healthy,
winter layers. $2.00-15, $8.00-100, prepaid.
Aden Sager. Parkersburg, niinois. 2-3

PUREBRED WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS —

$1.25-15, $7.00-100, prepaid. W. O. Ketchum,
Downing, Mo. 3-2

"AMERICA'S BEST" WHITE WYANDOTTES—

The year around layers. Eggs for hatching,
$2.00 per 15. J. E. Jackson, Avon, Dlinois.

POULTRY TONIC

EGOTONE MAKES LAYERS OUT OF LOAF-

ers. Don't keep unprofitable hens. Make them
lay or chop their heads off. Egotone increases
egg production in a natural way. I guarantee
that it will double or treble ordinary egg yield.
Helps hens during moult. Send $1 for package
prepaid. M. W. Kriman, Box 624, South Fork,
Pa.

POULTRY SHOW

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SHOW— Buyer's
Guide (list of exhibitors) free. Official Marked
Catalog 75 cents. Both books very valuable.
Send for them. Address D. Lincoln Orr, Sec'y,
Box 23, Orr's Mills — Cornwall, N. Y.

POULTRY REMEDIES

DORAN'S GAPE REMEDY CURES GAPES OR

money back. 25c post paid. W. H. Doran,
Brandenburg, Ky. 2-4

REAL ESTATE

WANT TO HEAR FROM OWNER HAVING

poultry farm or other property for sale. State
cash price and particulars. John J. Black,
278th St., Chippewa Falls, Wis.

$8250.00 BUYS "RIVERSIDE" TEN ACRES.

Ideal for Poultry. Box 181, Nora-Springs, la.

MISCELLANEOUS

SQUABS $13 PER DOZEN IN N. Y. MARKET.

Pay better than poultry. The Standard Squab
book. Most complete up-to-date and practical
Pigeon and Squab raising book ever published.
Over 400 pages. 200 illustrations. Cloth $2,
post paid. Rabbit, Milk Goat and Beekeeping
books, free circular. V. M. Couch, Ithaca, N. Y.

PRINTING

PRINTING — 1000 Letterheads or Envelopes,

$3.25; 500, $2.00. Get price list. Seliger's,

959 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 3-2

250 ENVELOPES $1.10; 500, $1.75 POSTPAID.

Womble Press, Bearcreck, N. C. 3-2

PRINTING OF THE BETTER KIND FOR PAR-

ticular poultry breeders. Highest quality, low-
est prices, prompt service. Free cut service.
Each job carries a distinctive, individual touch.
Price list and samples free. Prompt Print
Shop, Box 2114, Waverly, Iowa. 2-3

QUALITY PRINTING PAYS— Samples for
stamp. Cuts furnished. Ideal Press, D-324
Julian, Denver, Colo. 1-4

BETTER POULTRY PRINTING— Prepaid every-
where for half what others charge. Being
specialists we invariably please our 5000 satis-
fled customers. 'When disgusted, try us. Every
order filled under our guaranteed quality ser-
vice. Latest cuts. Interesting samples, special
bargain sheet for stamp. Model Printing Com-
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1,000 20-tt>. HAMMERMILL BOND LETTER-

heads $3.75; 5,000, $15.00. Distinctive display,
highest quality workmanship and prompt ser-
vice guaranteed. AVaverly Publishing Co., Box
2014. Waverly, Iowa. 2-8

Feeding
Your Chicks
for Quick Results

ONE pound of nourishing, well-balanced feed now while
chicks are little builds them up faster than twice as
much will later.

Start your chicks on Globe Chick Mash. They like it;
every particle digests easily, and its body-building prop-
erties hurry along the time when you'll have young
cockerels to eat or sell, and early laying pullets.

Encourage exercise by scattering Globe Chick Scratch
Feed in the litter — make them work hard to get it. This
hustling activity strengthens muscles and stirs up a
hearty appetite for more Globe Chick Mash, and keeps the
digestive organs in good condition.

The variety of cereal, animal and vegetable protein in
this mash is just what chicks need to make growth at a
time when every little mouthful pays you 100% returns
in added weight, strength and vigor.

DICK ( N SON'S

Globe Chick Mash

w WITH DRIED BUTTERMILK

From hungry chicks to money-making flocks

There is a special Dickinson feed for every age from
the three-day chick to the heavy-laying hen. From
Globe Chick Mash they step right up to Globe Growing
Mash, which keeps them growing when growth can be
cheaply made. A little setback in development at this
time is never made up. Don't waste your time and
money experimenting — insist on Globe Brand Poultry
Feeds.

1 our dealer sells Globe Poultry
Feeds or will get them if you
insist. There is no substitute.

THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO.
CHICAGO

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„ guaranteed analysis

are dis-
cussing them as being unworthy of
the honor they seek.

Some have investigated the Rhode
Island Whites thoroughly, and have
frankly favored their admittance if
they meet the necessary require-
ments; others, not having time or
caring to make this investigation,,
have grudgingly favored their ad-
mittance if they merited it, at the
same time giving the impression that
they had no merit; and the rest can-
not "see" the Whites under any con-
ditions and are stubbornly opposed to
their admission to the Standard.

I have read these articles from
time to time, but as I am very busy,
have not answered any writer speci-
fically. In this article I am going
to answer some of their arguments
briefly as I see it, and to touch
briefly on the Rhode Island Whites
as being especially profitable to the
small breeder or fancier, or "back-
lotter" as he is called. Without them
there would be no large shows, little
incentive for the laying contests, very
few poultry journals, a smaller A.
P. A. — in fact — the whole industry

would suffer. And any variety that
is profitable to this class of breeders
should be in the Standard of Per-
fection.

The most important objection, as
given by most writers, and which
does not appear reasonable, is that
there are too many varieties in the
Standard at present. No worthy
variety that is popular, and has dis-
tinct type, should be opposed. There
are a great many varieties in the
Standard that are no longer popular
as judged by the number of exhibits
at the shows in all parts of the
country, and were it a question of
making room, some of these varieties
that have lost their popularity could
be taken out of the Standard. This
would be foolish, however, as all
these varieties have their champions
who favor them, and it would be a
blow to the breeding of Standard var-
ieties. This is true likewise of the
new breeds that are popular and are
seeding admission. There should al-
ways be room in the Standard for
another popular variety, providing it
has distinct type. Rhode Island
Whites are popular. This is proven
by their entry at the leading shows
which oftentimes is larger than that
of some of the Standard varieties
that are pupular today. And the
number of breeders is increasing
every day.

Some say the Rhode Island Whites
are not a distinct type, but resemble
the White Wyandottes and White
Rocks. This is absurd in the case
of the former. Wyandottes are a
bird of curves — are nearer a circle
in shape — while the Rhode Island
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REGAL DORCAS EGGS-HALF PRICE

More Regal Dorcas Prize-Winning Cockerels are hatched in May than in
any other month of the year.

"Why?" Because these Regal Dorcas White Wyandotte cockerels are so
vigorous, so thrifty, and make such remarkable growth that many of them are
fully matured in six months.

At the Heart of America Show, Thanksgiving Week, 1920, I showed
twelve cockerels in the single class and three in young pen class, all of my
own breeding. Five of these cockerels were hatched in March and April, ten
of them in May.

As the season is so advanced, I have decided to reduce egg prices earlier
than usual. You can now get eggs from the same identical birds that pro-
duced these marvelous prize winners last season, for half price.

AFTER MAY 8TH, EGG PRICES WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:

Pens 1-10 (Exhibition Matings) — $5.00 per 15, $15.00 per 50, $25.00
per 100.

Pens 11-20— $3.00 per 15, $9.00 per 50, $17.00 per 100.

Pens 21-40 (Dorcas)— $2.50 per 15, $7.50 per 50, $13.50 per 100.

Pens 25-32 (Special Dorcas)— $5.00 per 15, $15.00 per 50, $25.00 per 100.

Ail-Star Matings— $10.00 and $12.00 per 15.

Utility Matings— $10.00 per 100.

All eggs guaranteed 75 per cent or over strongly fertilized. These remarkably low prices will make a
very heavy demand for the balance of the season. Rush your order from this ad, and produce some of Amer-
ica's Finest White Wyandottes.

Free — Send for Catalogue and Summer Sale List Ready May 1st.

JOHN S. MARTIN Box 408 PORT DOVER, ONT., CANADA

Page Number 6

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PRESERVE EGGS NOW

Each year many of our readers
"put down eggs" in water glass for
use the coming winter. Eggs are
low in price now and it is a fine time
to put them down. As the price be-
gins to climb we all feel like send-
ing them to market so it is usually
a good plan to get them put away
before June.

Another reason for putting them
down now is that the quality will
probably be much better than it will
after the hot weather sets in. So
get at this now if you have not al-
ready done so.

Water Glass may be purchased at
any drug store and to those of our
readers who have never used it we
might say — boil some water, and let
it cool. Then put one part of water
glass with nine or ten parts of the
water. Put eggs in earthen crock
and pour this over them, putting-
saucer on eggs and stone on saucer
to keep all the eggs submerged. Some
tie a paper over the top to keep air
and dust out. Place crock in cool
dry place. Use only clean eggs.

These eggs may be used all winter
but of course readers of POULTRY
KEEPER would never attempt to
sell them.

THE EARLY MOLTERS

In the average flock some hens be-
gin the moult early in the season and
some of our experimental stations
have told us that such hens were un-
profitable fowls to keep. rerhaps
that may be so but did you ever stop
to think that perhaps the feeding and
care had anything to do with the
molt? Most hens will continue to
lay as long as the ration is properly
balanced — they cannot help it. Scanty
or inferior rations throw them into
the molt. We admit there are ex-
ceptions to this rule but many a
bird has been classed as a low pro-
ducer when the owner was to blame.

Induce the hens to eat all the mash

possible. The more they eat, the
more they' will lay and the later they
will molt. Cut down on the amount
of grain and let the hens have plenty
of mash. Six pounds of grain per
day should be enough for 100 hens
during hot weather.

It is profitable to keep the hens
laying and when she does molt let
her do so in as short a time as pos-
sible. You can shorten the molt from
four to ten weeks by proper feeding.

STUDY YOUR BREED

Altogether too often a would-be
poultryman goes to a show and im-
mediately selects a breed of poultry
as just suiting him. In the course of
a few months he finds that this par-
ticular breed has many faults and it
will depend largely on how he stud-
ies the breed whether he will make a
success or failure of the breed he
has selected.

As a general rule a breed is no
better than the poultryman who
keeps it. Two men may raise Black
Minorcas, one may win at Madison
Square Garden while the other could
not be placed at the smallest show
in the country.

If the poultryman will spend time
to study the breed he keeps, if he
will master the details of improving
his fowls — then he will find much
less cause to change breeds or dis-
continue poultry keeping. The best
strain in America will regenerate un-
less it has the guiding hand of a
thoughtful poultryman to mate and
rear it. No man can conduct a poul-
try business in a haphazard way and
make a success. Study your breed
and plan to keep improvement con-
stantly in your mind.

WHEN THE FOWL IS SICK

When the fowls are healthy and
they are shelling out the eggs, we
do not think about sickness and yet
it is always well to be on the look-
out for any signs which will give
you an indication of disease. Always
watch for the purplish tinge to the
comb. Sometimes a white comb tells
you that trouble is present. When
the fowl appears sluggish, droopy
and it has a desire to lie around you
may rest assured it is not well. Keep
watch for yellow-green or red drop-
pings as a sure indicator of sickness.
Occasional sneezing or a rattling in
the throat is a danger signal and
should demand your immediate at-
tention. If the birds stay on the
roost something is wrong. When a
hen goes lame, look for the cause.

When you notice anything the mat-
ter with your fowls, separate them
from the flock and write our Mr.
Benson, of the Question and Answer
Department. If you require a per-
sonal reply he will be glad to write
you fully, if a stamped envelope is
enclosed with your inquiry. If you
want the answer to appear in POUL-
TRY KEEPER, no stamp need be
sent. Remember however that we
make up our forms for the paper a
month in advance and in urgent cases
a personal reply is much to be de-
sired.

We are proud of our Question and
Answer Department for we believe it
to be one of the best in the country.

We invite our readers to take advant-
age of the service v hich it renders
and to write Mr. Benson as occasion
may require. Remember that there
is no charge for advice of this kind.
We furnish this service free to all
readers and it is but one of our ideas
of giving the reader good value for
his money.

WASHED EGGS ARE IN-
FERIOR

The demand for clean eggs has be-
come such a univerpal requirement
that we find many poultrymen who
make a practice of washin? the eggs
which are dirty. This is detrimental
to the keeping qualities of the eggs
unless it is properly done.

Covering the egg is a gelantinous
substance which seals the pores.
When the egg is dipped in a pail of
water and scrubed as we have seen
it done, this coating is removed, the
pores of the shell opened and decom-
position soon begins.

Dirty eggs should not be sent to
market but all dirt should be re-
moved. When the egg is extremely
dirty it is usually best to use such
eggs at home but a small amount of
dirt may be removed with a woolen
rag which has been slightly damp-
ened with water. If the egg is badly
stained, this can usually be removed
with a little cider vinegar.

Clean nests will do much to over-
come dirty eggs and the nesting ma-
terial should be replaced often
enough to keep it clean and fresh.
Excelsior has been known to stain
eggs so we recommend straw as be-
ing the best all around nesting ma-
terial.

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KEEPING UP-TO-DATE

A chance acquaintance told us a
story of a back woods poultry farm-
er of Northern Wisconsin Avhich is
well worth repeating.

It seems that a college president
had been camping 35 miles from no-
where back in the woods. Being in-
terested in poultry to some extent
he took notice of a nice flock of
White Leghorns owned by a near-by
farmer. The more he saw of the
flock the more he became convinced
that it would be a great surprise to
the good wife to take home a case
of eggs. So one day he approached
the farmer, regarding the purchase
of the eggs. Nothing was said as to
price and on the day of the depar-
ture the educator asked if the eggs
were ready. He was assured they
were packed and in readiness.

"How much are they?" asked the
president.

"Let me see," returned the farmer
as he hurried off to the house. In
a few moments he was back with a
newspaper and glancing down the
quotations, stopped at the New York
market report. "72 cents per dozen
in New York. That makes $21.60
for the thirty dozen."

The college man stood aghast.
Eggs were selling in the nearest town
for 40 cents per dozen.

This was told to the writer by the
president himself and he remarked
that if we could make all our readers
keep as up to date on prices as this
farmer, there would be more money
in the poultry business. We would
hardly be willing to urge our read-
ers to ask prices which were con-
sidered high and yet we do believe
that they can get about what they
ask. When you begin to cut prices,
then you begin to loose money. Stick
for a price which will give you a
good margin of profit and get it.

KAZMEIER TO EDIT "OK"
POULTRY JOURNAL

F, W. Kazmeier, who for several
years has been Poultry Husbandman
with the Extension Service of the
Texas A. & M. College has resigned
his position and beginning in April
will take over the editorial work on
The "OK" Poultry Journal of
Mounds, Oklahoma in additional to
his private business interests. Mr.
Kazmeier will make his home at
that Mr. Kazmeier has had such a
wide experience in the poultry work
in Texas and thruout the South and
is so well versed on conditions con-
fronting the southern poultrymen
The "OK" Poultry Journal is fortun-
ate in securing his services as its
editor.

NEW EXPRESS RULES AND
REGULATIONS

Some time ago the American Rail-
way Express Company gave notice
that it would file with the Interstate
Commerce Commission a new traffic
rate on poultry shipped to and from
exhibition roofs and upon Standard-
Bred Poultry shipped for breeding
purposes. The information was giv-
en out that the new rate would be
increased double the first class rate.
I immediately took the matter up

with Mr. R. S. Wheeler, Traffic Man-
ager of the Express Company, notify-
ing the breeders and shippers of this
country trrough the poultry press,
and by letter and wire of the pro-
posed increase in rate. Mr. Wheeler
promised to withhold issuing the or-
der for the new rate until he con-
ferred with the executive head of
the American Poultry Association. I
have gone into the matter in detail
with Mr. Wheeler. The new tariff
will be effective June 1st, 1922.

Changes in the classification and
rates are entirely by way of more
accurate statement of the present
regulations under which shippers
have been accustomed to get the rate
on market poultry for shipment of
poultry for exhibition purposes. The
only increase in rates made is by
making rules in regard to declaration
of value so strict as to prevent put-
ting a market value on poultry act-
ually having greater value and not
intended for market.

The one actual change in rate is a
reduction giving the rate of 1 1-2
times the regular first-class rate to
"fancy" poultry shipped in straw-
board or fireboard coops. Under the
old and present rate they paid double

the first-class rate the same as in
cloth covered coops. This is a con-
cession and a reduction in rates.

Mr. Wheeler, representing the
American Express Co. met the repre-
sentative of the American Poultry
Association upon a business basis.
The matter was discussed in detail
and every phase and detail of same
duly considered, the intent and de-
sire of all being to make the rates
fair alike to the shippers of Standard-
Bred Poultry and the Express Com-
pany. — American Poultry Associa-
tion, Thos. F. Rigg, President.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSTIP, MANAGE-
MENT, CIRCULATION, ETC.

Of the Poultry Keeper published monthly at
Quincy. Illinois, required by the Aact of August
24, 1912.

Publisher, A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, 111.

Editor, A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, III.

Managing Editor, A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, 111.

Business Manager, A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, 111.

Owner, A. Otis Arnold, Quincy. 111.

Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other se-
curity holders, holding one per cent or more of
the total amount of bonds, mortgages or other
security.

NONE.

(Signed) A. OTIS ARNOLD.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4th
day of April, 1922.

C. R. WARREN.

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My commission expires May 18, 1924.

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As a subscriber to POULTRY KEEPER I
wish you would answer a question for me and
help me out. I bought some cockerels of a
well known breeder and brought them home.
Not wishing to mate my pens yet I put them
in with a cockerel of mine but I was afraid
they would kill him. Instead he scared them
so that they would not come down off the
roosts. "Would this mean that they were poor
breeders ?

Mrs. M. E. R., Michigan.

Personally we would rather have
cockerels that had plenty of fight in
them but just the same I would not
discard them for lack of it and no
other reason. Vigor is usually shown
by pep or the fighting spirit in cock-
erels but sometimes they develop this
as they grow older.

Loosing Feathers

I have some chickens that are losing the
feathers on top of their heads and they soon
look bald. Could you tell me what causes this
condition.

H. V. B., Md.

If the males are affected as well
as the hens I would say that it was
caused by the depluming mite but
if the hens alone are affected we
believe that you will find that it is
caused by the males. Often an over
attentive male will pull the feathers
from the head of the hens. The best
remedy is to rub carbolated vaseline
into the bald place and keep the
males separate for a little while.

Two Breeds of Barred Rocks

Can yau advise me whether there are two
breeds of Barred Rocks, the medium size and
the big boned?

C. J. C, Nebraska.
There has been quite a discussion
regarding the light and dark Barred
Rocks but so far as we know there
is no small and large breeds. The
Standard of Perfection is the only

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thing we have to guide us and it
gives but one weight. Is someone
trying to sell you undersized birds
and telling you the above stuff?

To 3Iake a Capon Set

I have some capons and wish you would tell
me how to make them set and care for baby
chicks.

E. F. J., Iowa.

We have never had any personal
experience trying to make a capon
set and if any of our readers have
they will oblige us by passing the
good news along. As to giving them
chicks this can easily be done. We
have seen a few chicks placed under
them at night and the next morning
you would think they had a million
chicks to see them fuss around. Pos-
sibly they may be alright for brood-
ing chicks but still we feel that a
good brooder has them beat and will
be more economical.

Preserve Eggs

Please tell me if you know of anything bet-
ter to preserve eggs in than water glass.

3Irs. K. H., Illinois.

We believe that water ^glass is by
far the best thing that has been
found. We have kept eggs for two
years and they were in good condi-
tion when used. However a year or
eight months is about the longest
you should keep them. Some folks
use salt and others oats and there
are dozens of ways to put down eggs
for winter but if you will use water
glass one year we feel sure you will
prefer it to the other methods.

Poultry Droppings

Can you give me the composition of poultry
droppings or tell me how to mix it so as to
have a good fertilizer. I like POULTRY
KEEPER better every issue.

J. J. P., Illinois.

The composition of poultry drop-
pings is as follows: Water 57.00,
Nitrogen 1.15, Phosphoric acid .9 6,
Potash .39. When bone meal or
phosphate rock is used in connection
with poultry droppings you have a
very effective fertilizer.

Not Yet

Have the Rhode Island Whites been admitted
to the Standard yet? When wiU they be ad-
mitted?

E. J. C, New York.

They have not been admitted yet
but we presume that the question
will come up at the annual meeting
this summer. We understand that
the Revision Committee have voted
against admitting the breed, at their
recent meeting. We cannot see why
this breed should be kept out when
there is so much dead timber in the
Standard. If the American Poultry
Association ever hopes to regain the
ground it has lost it has got to have
a different program.

Clucks Die in Shell

I wonder if you can tell me what causes
the chicks to die in the shell. I keep the
temperature at 103 degrees but out of 1GO
eggs I have from 100 to 120 with dead chicks
in them. If you can help me out on this
proposition I will be much obliged.

W. K.j Missouri.

There may be many reasons for
this condition. A lack of moisture
may cause it. We suggest that a

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

hygrometer be used. Weak breeding
stock may cause it. Uneven tem-
perature may be to blame. There are
so many possible causes that we
could hardly guess at your particu-
lar problem. However we would
venture to ring out a rag in warm
water and spread over the eggs just
before they hatch and see if that
would help. If we had more par-
ticulars, perhaps we might help you
out.

Leg Weakness

I want to ask you a question. I have seventy
Buff Orpington baby chicks and they seem to
• row like weeds but are going down on their
shanks. Is this leg weakness and if so what
is the remedy? They are growing so well it
seems a shame to loose them.

H. S., Illinois.

This is leg weakness without a
doubt. Usually a lack of bone form-
ing material in the food will cause
the trouble. Hard floors is another
cause. Put sand on the floor and
hay chaff on the sand. Feed grain
in this litter to induce exercise.
Remedy ration and do not run the
temperature too high. Get the chicks
out on the ground as soon as you
can or if this is impossible try put-
ting a piece of grass sod, dirt side
up, in the brooder and let the little
fellows dig at it. We believe there
is a mineral element in the dirt which
the chicks need for growth and
health.

yard with a cover in solving such a
problem. We dislike to cut the
wing feathers.

Blood Spots in Eggs

Will you tell me what causes blood spots in
eggs and the remedy?

O. M. , Wyoming.

This inquiry received a personal
reply because a stamp was inclosed
but the complaint seems so general
that we will answer in this column.
Blood spots which appear in eggs is
due to a rupture of a small blood
vessel during the formation of the
egg. This rupture may be caused by
laying a very large egg or being over-
fat. Some hens seem to be so con-
stituted that they lay this kind of
eggs continually. As a general rule
the best plan is to dispose of such
hens. Sometimes if the feed is re-
duced and the hen gets back to norm-
al weight the trouble will cease but
we know of no treatment which will
prove satisfactory. Such eggs must
not be sent to market as they are
sure to cause complaint.

Roup Weakens Breeding Stock

My chickens had the roup last winter and
I doctored them and they got better but now
it is breaking out again. Would this hurt them
as breeders?

N. K. X. Oklahoma.

Regular readers of this column
know that the editor is a regular
crank on vigor of breeding stock.
We put health at the head of the
list of our requirements. Roup weak-
ens any fowl and we very much doubt
if it ever pays to doctor a fowl which
has it. And under no circumstances
would we put a fowl in the breeding
pen which we had to doctor all
winter.

Her Leghorns Fly

Will you please tell me how to crop my
Leghorn's wings so they can't fly over the
fence.

Mrs. C. H. J., Kansas.

Cut the primary and secondary
feathers of ONE wing. Do not cut
the feathers of both wings. We pre-
fer to put a wire along the top of
the fence so that the fowls will hit
it in flying over. After much exper-
imenting we have adopted a low

Speckled Sussex

1. Does the Standard of Perfection describe
the Speckled Sussex?

2. What do you think of this breed?

Mrs. H. E. P., Kentucky

1. Yes.

2. This breed has never been
pushed for its egg production and
as a result has never been very pop-
ular. It is a good sized fowl, hence
is a good market bird but in this
country we must have eggs and lots
of them. The plumage of this breed
is against it ever being as popular
as many of our other breeds. We
have stood by them at the shows and
heard would be poultrymen pass
them by with the remarks that they
were mongrels. The variety of their
plumage does not give the appear-
ance of thorough breds and they will
not be largely bred by beginners for
this reason. There is no question
but they are good fowls but we em-
phasize egg production and looks in
this country.

Rhode Island Reds

1. Are the Rhode Island Reds a large or
small breed?

2. Are they good layers?

3. Do they breed true to Standard require-
ments ?

4. Would you breed them if you were in my
place ?

5. What would a setting of good eggs be
worth ?

13. J. L., Illinois.

1. They belong to the American
class and are considered as being me-
dium in size, compared with the Leg-
horn and Brahma. They are larger
than in years gone by and we see
cockerels now which are as large
as Rocks.

2. They are good layers of brown
eggs.

3. This has been the one big
draw back of the Reds. They breed
much truer now than they did ten
years ago and one can easily produce
good birds now.

4. We bred them for ten years
and if we had the room would put
in a pen today. We like them first
class.

5. Depends on what you mean by
the wbrd good. Not less than $5
should buy you a start. We would
pay $10 or $15 and get some better
stock. Remember you can buy qual-
ity cheaper than you can take years
to breed it up.

Produces Infertile Eggs

I have a White Leghorn which produces
infertile eggs. I know because I trap nest her.
Could I ever hope to get fertile eggs from her?

A. J. A., Wisconsin.

You might try mating her to
another male and feeding more oats
and less corn. Also increase the
beef scraps to some extent. Perhaps
if she had more range it would help.
There are hens which never produce
fertile eggs and we recall experiment-
ing with such a hen a number of
years ago and she never produced a
single fertile egg. When you locate
such a hen we would just put her
into the egg pen or ship her to
market.

Who Said Egg Factory-.

I would like to know if the expression "Egg
Factory" is properly used. My friends say it
is highly improper. On the other hand I think
it is proper.

H. M.. New York.

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

THE HOME OF GLOBE FEEDS

The Albert Dickinson Company, Chicago, Illinois

The picture of the immense feed plant shown
herewith will give the reader a fairly good idea of
the immensity of the feed business, and will show
what proportions the poultry business and its ad-
juncts can be developed by putting out a strictly
quality product, backed by fair treatment.

The Albert Dickinson Company, Chicago, 111., is
a pioneer in the manufacturing of a mixed poultry
ration. Twenty-one years ago they made their
first poultry feed. Right from the start the
Albert Dickinson Co., has been an advocate of
quality feeds. They made feeds to produce cer-
tain results and never put a feed on the market
until they knew just what it would do. With a
definite object in view, namely, produce results,
there is no wonder that their business has devel-
oped to the immense proportions it enjoys today.
There is a difference between making feeds to
produce results and making feeds to utilize some
by-product.

The same man, Mr. Harold A. Abbott, that
started to make the Albert Dickinson Company's
Globe Feed twenty-one years ago is still on the
job and has charge of that important part of their
business. His life work has been to study feeds
and make Globe Feeds the best that could be
made. He has not let sliding markets, cheap in-
gredients, etc., swerve him from his purpose.
Globe Feeds must be the best and must produce
results. That has been the star to which his
cart was hitched. The very best of scientific and
practical men have always been sought to help
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GLOBE FEEDS. There is not a poultry man rais-
ing chickens today but what has known of GLOBE
FEEDS ever since there has been such a thing as
a manufactured feed, and these same poultry rais-

ers know that GLOBE FEEDS have always been
a quality product.

Today the Albert Dickinson Company's milling
plant and warehouses cover acres of ground. They
can load and unload 200 cars of grains and feed
in one day. To take care of this immense business
requires an office that is a city block long, 420
feet. This office is a model of efficiency and it is
but to make one wonder, to go through it and see
how modern business is conducted these days.

It is the business of the up-to-date feed manufacturer
to know just what his feed will do, besides having a
correct chemical knowledge of it. To know just how
GLOBE FEEDS act and work under normal conditions
the Albert Dickinson Co., has its own poultry farm right
in their own back yard. Here they raise about 800
chicks per annum and keep 300 to 400 pullets and hens
on trap nest records the year around. Effects of the
feed and conditions are carefully noted and the knowl-
edge obtained for the benefit of their customers.

Realizing that there are so many practical things that
the poultry raiser must do or the best feed in the world
would not give satisfactory results, they orgainzed what
is known as The Globe Poultry Service Club. This is
probably the laregst poultry club in the world today.
The members not only receive very practical bulletins
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in their poultry problems and they are given the best
attention of the poultry experts in charge of this de-
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the advice sent out by this Globe Service Club. It is
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The experiement plant can carry on its experiments
and disseminate its knowledge without prejudice, which
is not always the case with the experiment stations run
under Government or State supervision.

The editor of this paper is always glad to tell its
readers of anything that will help them, and we do not
hesitate to say that GLOBE FEEDS and the Globe Ser-
vise Club are two things every reader ought to have. If
you wish to join the Globe Club just drop them a line,
tell them you would like to join the Globe Poultry Club
and you might mention the fact that you read about it
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Page Number 11

TIMELY TOPICS

Readers are asked to co-operate in making this Department
interesting by sending in suitable items to, F. Raymond
Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

Poultry auction sales are being
held weekly by the Chamber of Com-
merce at Dublin, Georgia.

We hear that $800 was paid at
Madison Square Garden Show for one
Jersey Black Giant. That looks as
if business was picking up.

Live pigeon shooting in New Zea-
land has been made unlawful by a
bill that has passed the legislative
council. This sport, if it may be
called such, has never been very pop-
ular in the United States.

The Ladies Aid Society of the First
Methodist Church, Elgin, Illinois,
took up a collection of eggs and sent
them to the Wesley Memorial Hospi-
tal, of Chicago at Easter time. This
is an excellent idea.

# =fc

Dean Davenport of the College of
Agriculture and director of the agri-
culture experiment station at the
University of Illinois has resigned
his position. He has been connected
with the University for a number of
years and many will regret to see
him leave his post. We have not
learned his future plans.

"John, John," whispered the
alarmed wife, "Wake up John! There
are buglars in the house and I be-
lieve they are frying those eggs I
had in the pantry." "Well, what do
we care," mumbled John, rolling
over, "They are Chinese eggs and if
the burglars don't die in the house,
we will be lucky."

# # *

The United States Department of
Agriculture has released a film on
"Bees, How They Live and Work."
This should be a real source of in-
formation and no doubt will do much
to stimulate interest in bee keeping.

# * *

The editor of this department
would be glad to get hold of some
Cochin Bantams for experimental
purposes and if you have any, write
him as per above address.

Mr. Harvey C. Wood, of Bound
Brook, N. J., has been elected a
member of the Board of Directors of
the National Poultry Institute. Mr.
Wood is a well known poultryman
and breeds Light Brahmas of nation-
al repute.

# * #

The Illinois Ancona Club is get-
ting well under way under the presi-
dent Irwin J. Berlin, Princeton, Illi-
nois. Apparently this club is meet-
ing with enthusiasm from the breed-
ers of Anconas.

The "Lamona," the new white egg-
laying, general-purpose, fowl which
is being developed by the United
States Department of Agriculture
made its bow at Madison Square Gar-

den Show last winter. We have had
several letters relative to this breed
but understand that there is no breed-
ing stock available for the public, as

yet.

* * #

We understand that the Govern-
ment wishes to change the Parcel
Post Laws and Regulations in regard
to shipping eggs, in such a way as
tc be detrimental to poultrymen. This
should not be done. Poultrymen
should be encouraged to ship by Par-
cel Post.

# * *

The joys of hunting eggs laid by
one's own hens is real, unadulterated
pleasure which will not soon be for-
gotten.

Mr. C. J. Yoder, Grantsville, Mary-
land, breeder of White Indian Run-
ner Ducks is building a fine new
duck house, 20x40 feet and two
stories high. He will make a special-
ty of baby ducks and hatching eggs.
This is certainly a good testimonial
for friend duck.

Smart City Visitor — (Showing a
chestnut burr) — "Say, Rube, what
d'ye call this?"

Rube — "You dern fool, that's a
porcupine's egg."

* * *

We understand that Mr. George B.
Ferris, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the
well known breeder of Single Comb
White Leghorns, is prepaying the ex-
press on fowls. So far as we know
this is the first large breeder to do
this and no doubt it will increase his
business to even larger proportions.

Mr. H. H. Verdery is now con-
nected with the poultry department
of the Henry F. Mitchell Seed Com-
pany, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Verdery has been well known

WORTH MILLIONS TO POULTRY

Thirteen years ago, I lost 3,800
fowls in three weeks from Roup,
Cholera and White Diarrhea when a
Scientist in a few days — by a newly
discovered formula turned my PEST
RIDDEN Fowls into the prettiest
flock I ever saw. I bought his form-
ula and named it "OCULUM". Now,
Disease has no horrors for me, I have
cured fowls by the thousand.

As a test, I put sick fowls with a
well flock and "OCULUM" healed the
sick and kept the well ones well.

"OCULUM" makes hens lay and
retards setting. I do not have 2 set-
ting hens in 5 all summer. My fowls
moult quickly and often lay during
moult. Some hens lay while raising
their brood. Roosters keep PRIME
and broilers grow big and fat.

My "OCULUM" takes the place of
ALL TONICS AND REMEDIES, and
has spread to 5 continents. Journals,
Experiment Stations and Fanciers
praise it. This Journal O. K's it.

Bradley Bros., Lee, Mass. of world
wide fame say, "OCULUM" has NO
EQUAL." xhey have used it for 10
years.

The Baltimore Sun says "OCU-
LUM" is a wonderful remedy and
highly recommended."

H. C. Miller, Judge A. r. Assn,
Akron, O. says, "OCULUM" made 48
hens jump from 8 to 42 eggs a day."

It is cheap and harmless. Feed only
one drop a day per hen in the feed.
When fowl is sick, you inject it.

Sample xOc, Bottles 50c and $1,
postpaid. Booklet free.
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Poultry Leg Bands

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25. 30c: 50. 60c; 100, 90c. State
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CELLULOID SPIRAL BANDS.
Red, Green, Amber, Pink, Black,
White, Yellow. Purple. Light Blue.
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Size/or

100

250

500

Baby Chicks, Pigeons

..$.10

S.20

$.35

? .60

S1.25

S2.25

30.

.40

.75

1.75

3.00

Leghorns, Anconas .

. .20

.35

.50

.90

2.00

3.50

Rocks. Reds. etc. . .

.20

.40

.60

1.00

2.25

4.00

Asiatics . . .

.25

.45

.75

1.20

2.75

5.00

Turkeys, Geese. - .

.30

.50

.85

1.40

3.25

6.00

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Now Is Your Chance to Get Eggs and Chicks at Half Price
FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST LAYERS

We could not supply the demand for Eggs and Chicks for March and April

delivery. The demand for Puritas Spring Chicks, Eggs and Stock has been greater this year than
ever before. If you could come and see our Breeding Stock you sure would want some of their off-
spring. June and July Chicks will be laying before Christmas if you give them special care. Send
for our reduced price list on Eggs and Baby Chicks. Please mention if you have our 1922 Instructive
Catalog. If you do not care to raise Baby Chicks, get 8 to 12 weeks old Pullets. We have a
grand lot of them. Get our 8 to 12 weeks old Cockerels. It is the best way to introduce new blood.

SCHENK. Owner-Mgr.
of Berea, Ohio

Puritas Springs Poultry Farm, Box P-111, Avon Lake, Ohio|;4 e s r ?y

Page Number 12

THE POULTRY KEEPER

How to Grow Big
Husky Chicks

EVERYBODY interested in sav-
ing every chick, growing husky
stock, and enjoying biggest
poultry profits, may have a copy of
this new free 9 6-page book, "Dol-
lars and Sense in the Poultry Busi-
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by Prof. T. E.
Q u i s e nberry,
one of Ameri-
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authorities o n
hatching, feed-
ing and brood-
i n g problems.
It points the
way to your
success with
chicks, and
among other
things, out-
lines:

How to Prevent Bowel Trouble
and White Diarrhea.

How to Grow Chicks and Save
Feed.

How to Prevent Chick Lice and
Mites.

How to Develop Chicks to Early
Layers.

How, When and What to Feed.
How to Grow Chicks for Market.
How to Brood Chicks Correctly.
How to Prevent Summer Com-
plaint.

Write xoday. A post card will
do, but send at once for this valu-
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gone. They are going fast and are
arousing tremendous interest every-
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School, Dept. 4016, Kansas City, Mo.

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Our bred-to lay and exhibition
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FOOD

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M. E. JACOBUS. Box 5-K. Eidgefield, N. J.

throughout the south and especially
the state of Georgia and his many
friends will wish him much success
in his new position.

Word just reaches us that Frank
H. Clement died at Palm Beach,
Florida, February 18th. Captain
Clement was an ardent supported of
poultry in general but especially the
Cornish Club and will be greatly
missed. * * *

Mr. D. A. Milmot has purchased
the Star-Light Farm, located about
two miles north of Elyria, Ohio and
in the future this farm will be known
as Wilmot's White Leghorn Farm.

The "Chanticleer" did not appear
at the Boston Show or Madison
SQuare Garden. Can someone tell
us WHY this breed is allowed in our
standard of Perfection? Is not the
Rhode Island White a more deserving
breed?

In Westfield, Massachusetts they
have a poultry club of boys who are
learning poultry keeping and hope to
become full fledged poultrymen when
they grow older.

Wisconsin is right up and coming
in the poultry game. This state has
between 11,000,000 and 12,000,000
chickens on the farms and this
speaks well for the interest through-
out the state. Let other states watch
Wisconsin.

Plan to visit the Illinois State Fair
this coming fall and enter a few
birds if you can do so. Don't let
Wisconsin get all the enthusiasm.
Fair will be held September 16 to 23.

Walter C. Young, Dayton, Ohio,
has gone into the poultry supply bus-
iness. We have no doubt that he will
build up a worthwhile business.

Clarence C. DuPuy, founder and
for many years publisher of the
American Poultry Advocate has
passed away. We regret the passing
of this kindly man for we always
felt indebted for many good ideas
which we obtained from his paper
years ago. Behold, how swiftly the
sands run, and how rapidly our lives
are drawing to a close.

Governor J. A. O. Preus of Min-
nesota set aside the week of March
13 to 16 as Standardbred Poultry
Week. This will lend much encour-
agement to poultrymen and it would
be an excellent idea if other execu-
tives would follow this plan.

Funk's

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and eggs guaranteed.

FUNK EGG FARM

LYLE W. FUNK, Sole Owner,

Box 500,

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.

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spreads and quickly destroys all the rats and
mice. There is no smell or odor for they run
outside for water and die away from the
building.

A Trial Costs You Nothing

Mr. Hick is offering everyone troubled with
these pests .the chance to get rid of them
at no cost to themselves. He will send tliree
large double strength, one dollar bottles for
the price of one. You. keep one for yourself:
the other two you sell to your neighbors at
one dollar each, thus getting your own free
and in addition making a dollar profit. Send
S1.00 todav (currency, money order, check,
etc.) to Chas. M. Hick & Co., Dept 1304.
1018 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, HI. If you
prefer, send no money, just your name and
address and pay postman $1.00 and postage
on delivery. If after two weeks trial you
are not absolutely satisfied, write Mr. Hick
and your money will be refunded.

LEE'S LICE KILLER

Kills lice, mites, bed bugs. etc.. affecting poultry. Spray or
paint on roosts, etc. Gets body fice on chickens, too. WirUs
while they sleep. No dusting, dipping, greasing or handling.
Saves lot of unpleasant work. At most towns,, at stores ivuidhng
Lee Poultry Supplies. Write for information and h RE.- Hiics.
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Chick Bands

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When taxation becomes a burden,
it becomes a menace.

We have learned of the marriage
of Thos. F. Rigg, president of the
American Poultry Association and
Mrs. E. B. Campbell, secretary of the
same Association. We wish them
many years of married bliss.

# * #

Mr. John I. Wyant, of Altoona,
Pennsylvania has been appointed
state secretary of the Rhode Island
Red Club and is going to re-organize
the membership of the state. If you
breed Rhode Island Reds and live in
Pennsylvania, get in touch with Mr.
Wyant.

The Rhode Island Red Club of
America starts a membership contest
May 15th. This Club is certainly
very much awake and should be an
inspiration to other such Clubs.

We believe in capital punishment
for mongrel and useless roosters.
Do you?

Every dead ear of corn means 900
stalks missing from the field. Test
seed.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

Royal Strain

BUFF ORPINGTONS

15 hens and 3 cockerels for sale. Hens 3
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Eggs half price, 75c, $1.50, $2.50 per 15.
Order from this ad.

K. W. HUEHNE
211 South 10th St. Quincy, Illinois

free-Co/iAeifs Poultry Book

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SKIMMILK, GREENFEEDS WILL
SAVE BABY CHICKS

By the use of skimmilk or butter-
milk and an abundance of green feed
many of the troubles affecting young
chicks may be prevented, according
to D. C. Kennard, poultrynian at the
Ohio Experiment Station.

Giving the chicks a good ration
with all the skimmilk or buttermilk
they will drink during the first six
or eight weeks is regarded to be the
most effective treatment for white
diarrhea.

The feeding of skimmilk or butter-
milk is also a good treatment for
cocidiosis, a highly contagious dis-
ease, which may break out when the
chicks are from four to eight weeks
of age. With this disease the chicks
usually become droopy and listless.

For leg weakness an abundance of
finely-cut succulent green feed with
plenty of exercise is helpful.

Intestinal worms, which are re-
sponsible for many immature and in-
ferior pullets in the flock, may be
eradictated by feeding two pounds of
tobacco dust in each 100 pounds of
dry mash. The medicated mash is
fed for four weeks.

KEEP YOUR POULTRY HEALTHY

During the lifetime of the average
person experiences become varied, in-
creasing wisdom and confidence in
proportion to the interest we take
in the things we come in contact
with. That is particularly true with
the poultry business. The one great
problem confronting the poultryman
today is How can I keep my poultry
healthy? The common poultry di-
seases are Cholera, Roup, Diphther-
ia, White Diarrhea in chicks, etc.,
etc.

This same life experience enables
one to become familiar with the ac-
tion of certain medicines for poul-
try — iron for the blood, digitalis for
the heart, strychnine for the nerves
and capsicum to stimulate digestion.

These medicines to do their work

most effectively must be properly
proportioned, carefully and scientific-
ally compounded, in order to obtain
the best results when administered
to poultry afflicted with any of these
common diseases. It is safest to rely
upon the highest authority in mat-
ters involving such great conse-
quences.

Dr. David Roberts, President of
the Dr. David Roberts Veterinary
Co., a graduate veterinarian of Wau-
kesha, Wisconsin, spent a number of
years studying the action of veteri-
nary medicines and the nature of
animal diseases, including poultry.
He has had more than a quarter of
a century's experience in the actual
breeding and the handling of do-
mestic animals and poultry and in
treating their ailments.

The Dr. David Roberts Veterinary
Co. put out a full line of poultry
preperations, including one of great
merit for white diarrhea in chicks.
This remedy has been tried, tested
and recommended by the highest
poultry authorities as a preventative
and a successful treatment for white
diarrhea.

A Live Stock and Poultry Bureau
is maintained by this Company for
free information and advice. It lies
within the power of every poultry
raiser in America to prevent and
overcome to a very great extent the
poultry diseases that are now costing
the breeders of the United States
millions of dollars annually.

A special introductory offer is
announced in their advertisement on
another page, relating to their Poul-
try Tablets. This is done in order
that a thorough test of those who
are not familiar with the merits of
these tablets be given. It is a pre-
vention of white diarrhea in chicks.
When writing them mention this pa-
per. Our readers should avail them-
selves of this opportunity of secur-
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reduced price.

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best method ever discovered.

Hick's Lice Kill, which is the name of this
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ing water. The medicine taken into the sys-
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and every louse or mite dies or leaves the
body. It does not injure the hatehability or
flavor of the eggs or meat ; is harmless to
chicks and does not affect the plumage. A
few days treatment at the start and then a
little in the drinking water each month.

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So confident is Sir. Hicks that Hick's Lice
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STORMONT'S BARRED ROCKS
— DEFEAT ALL BREEDS

in First Illinois Laying Contest, by winning
first pen, first, third and fifth highest layers.
These facts speak volumes for my strain. Write
for mating list.

Rev. A. C. Stormont, Auxvasse, Mo.

W. G. MERADITH,

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Page Number 14

THE POULTRY KEEPER

The Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea is caused by the ba-
cillus Bacterium Pullorum transmit-
ted through the yolk. There is scarce-
ly a hatch without some infected
chicks. The germs multiply very rap-
idly and one infected chick may in-
fect the entire brood. The germs can
be killed by the use of preventives.
Intestinal Antiseptics to kill the
germs should be given as soon as the
chicks are out of the shell. It is
much easier to prevent than it is to
cure.

How to Prevent White Diarrhea

Dear Sir: I have raised poultry for
years and have lost my share of little
chicks from White Diarrhea. Finally
I learned of Walker's Walko Remedy
for this disease, so sent for two 50c
packages to the Walker Remedy Co.,
Dept. 27 6, Waterloo, Iowa. I raised
over 500 chicks and never lost a sing-
le one from White Diarrhea. Walko
not only prevents White Diarrhea,
but it gives the chicks strength and
vigor — they develop quicker and
feather earlier. I have found this
company thoroughly reliable and al-
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Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, Ind.

Don't Wait

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ILLINOIS POULTRY AND EGG
SHIPPERS' ASSOCIATION

Address before the Illinois Poultry
and Egg Shipper's Association,
March 3rd. 1922., By C. jr. Scott,
Chief Poultryman.
It is with pleasure I come before

you this afternoon to give you a

talk on the subject:

Poultry Husbandry in the State of

Illinois under the management of

the State Board of Agriculture, B.

M. Davison, Director.

This department was established

through the efforts of the State

Poultry Association, after many

years.

Until last July, Illinois ranked the
3 6th state in the Union in giving
assistance to the $85,000,. uO indus-
try. Our state has a population of
2u, 000, 000 hens and grows 30,000,-
000 chickens a year.

It ranks second in the United
States in poultry production, and
Poultry Husbandry work in Illinois
affords a big field of opportunity.

In Governor Small, the pouitrymen
found a real friend. He is the first
governor we have had who has recog-
nized the possibility of developing a
poultry husbandry department, and
B. M. Davison, Director of Agricul-
ture, who is striving to improve all
farm conditions, to add greater
wealth to Illinois, was willing to
father the cause, and it is functioned
today under his department.

Many friends of poultry in the
legislature, appreciating the magni-
tude of the work in this field, made
an appropriation to carry on the ex-
perimental work of two egg-laying
contests, one of which is located at
Murphysboro, 111., and the other at
Quincy.

At each station, we have an expert
poultryman as station manager, and
one helper. At Murphysboro, we
have 70 pens, at Quincy, we have
114 pens. Each pen consists of five
pullets, making a total of 92 0 pullets
at both contests. They are entered
at the contest for one year, starting
November 1, 1921, the year closing
October 31, 1922.

Only Standard bred poultry is ad-
mitted, for it has been proved that
if constitutional vigor, stamina, and
size, were to be maintained in the
useful breeds, which liberally con-
tribute to the egg basket, and the
market as well, the methods of

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We are encouraging the economic
qualities by selective breeding, and
the utility breeder must closely study
the points of excellence which, dis-
tinguish and characterize the breeds
of our standard.

Nothing is more beautiful to look
upon, or adds to the attractiveness of
a farm flock, then many of our stand-
ard bred varieties. Assorted sizes
and colors of mixed breed mongrels
are a "waste of time. A heavy layer
is a good hen to own, and if pure
bred of some standard variety, her
prepotency may be established with
improvements from year to year.

There are exceptional layers, de-
pendable profit payers, in practically
every standard breed. A little ob-
servation with intelligent culling,
will increase the production and
quality in our farm flocks 100 per
cent.

Poultry today, is known to be one
of the big factors of farm products.

Determining what are the best
methods to pursue along constructive
work is the purpose of the Depart-
ment of Poultry Husbandry, recently
established in this state.

The need for planning and count-
ing the cost of poultry products re-
quires the analysis of an expert, and
there are many angles diverging
from a common center, which will
take a lot of hard work, as well as
united co-operation, to solve. It is
our intention to treat the problem
as a whole, rather than run off on a

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 15

single track and dear with one phase
only.

Every farm and even the small
back yard poultrymen presents con-
ditions and opportunities, which our
department expects to assist as far
as possible with the means we have.

If in time, we can be the means
of securing better poultry, and pro-
ducing a fowl that measures up to
all the demands of the consumer,
that carries a uniform grade quality,
that has a mark of distinction wher-
ever sold, we will cut out a great
waste, and show an increased profit
for the producer. We are not ex-
pecting to attain all the ideals we
have in mind in a few short years,
but each year, hope to make ad-
vancement.

Now, the analysis of the field, as
I see it, is about as follows:

Make poultry more profitable to
the producer by better productive
methods.

Establish Standard bred poultry in
every flock. The laws of supply and
demand require the studying of mar-
ket conditions, the knowledge of
grading, and the proper feeding for
the market, that, when they arrive,
they may top the market in price.

The brooding and rearing of
chicks, sanitary housing.

The knowledge of being able to
cull out the drones at all seasons of
the year.

There is a great waste in the hand-
ling of eggs by the producer. Eggs
should be graded before sent to the
market.

Infertile eggs should be produced
during the hot summer months,
should be gathered daily, and placed
in clean containers in a temperature
of about 40 degrees until marketed.
Grading the eggs for storage could
be practised by all producers. Only
the dealers who handle the eggs
when received can tell the per cent
of the enormous loss. This, of
course, is charged by the dealer to
overhead expense, and is paid by the
producer or consumer. If these care-
less methods were carefully guarded
and watched, the loss would be di-
minished, and he would receive an
increased price for his product.

Haphazard methods in caring for
stock, chicks, eggs, etc. are result-
ing in a large annual loss to the
farmer.

" After the breeding season, all male
birds should be taken from the flock

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of laying hens. Only infertile eggs
should be produced; yet, it is more
common than otherwise, that males
are permitted to run with flocks the
year round.

Capons are very profitable, and
can be marketed any time between
December 1st and March 1st, at a
good price. A capon is a desexed
male, the operation being performed
when they weigh two and one-half
pounds. No particular attention
other than good care, such as is
given the flock in general, is necess-
ary. They grow faster than the
average male. As they mature, they
take on a feminine appearance, and
have a very docile disposition, are
quiet and a little sluggish; easy to
keep within bounds, do not crow.
The comb and wattles cease to grow,
which causes the head to appear
small. The hackle and back feath-
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The demand for capons is most
appreciated in large cities where they
command a good price. There is al-
ways a ready market for them. The
quality of the meat, when roasted,
is superior to that of the ordinary
fowl.

The larger breeds are best for this
purpose.

In conclusion, I might state that
our egg-laying contests are open to
the world, but if proper interest were
taken by the breeders of poultry, all
our pens would be filled by Illinois
breeders. Each female is trap-nested
daily, and her entire record is avail-
able at all times. Feed is weighed
carefully. Temperature is taken
daily. Moult periods are noted. At
the end of the year, a summary re-
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which will be available to anyone
interested. Records are being made,
and a great educational work is be-
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I make a specialty of Barred Rock chicks and
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Page Number 16

THE POULTRY KEEPER

LICE?

With their scissor-like jaws they bite constantly
—thousands of them at one time— irritating the
fowl almost beyond endurance, robbing it of blood
and rest, cutting down its vitality and rendering
it an easy prey to disease. No wonder lousy chick-
ens never do well for themselves or their owner.
When a fowl seems restless and picks at itself,
look for lice.

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ARE RHODE ISLAND WHITES
WORTHY OF A PLACE IN
THE STANDARD?

(Continued from Page 5)

Whites are oblong, shaped like a
brick. That they have type was
clearly demonstrated at the recent
Boston and Madison Square Garden
shows at which many doubters were
convinced that the Rhode Island
Whites really have the Rhode Island
type. The Whites are a pound light-
er in weight than the Rocks, and are
a different shape. Compare the Reds,
and the Rocks in the Standard. And
the Whites have the same type as
the Reds. Of course, unscrupulous
persons might substitute a White
Rock for a single comb Rhode Island
White; in fact, there are other breeds
that might be substituted for each
other, also, and they are Standard.
So why keep the single comb Rhode
Island Whites out of the Stadard for
tnat reason.

Another writer asks the question
"Why have Rhode Island Whites
when we have R. I. Reds for type and
the Wyandottes and Rocks for
color?" That same question could
have been asked when the White
Rocks were admitted, for we already
had the Barred Rocks. But someone
wanted the Rock type, but not the
barred effect — the result was White
Rocks. So it is with the Rhode
Island Whites. We like the Rhode
Island type — it is the business type
— but do not like the color, red, so
have selected the R. I. Whites. And
can we not make the choice without
being told to take some other variety
or breed. If there is ever a variety
called the R. I. Blacks or Blues, as
some fear there will be if the Whites
are made Standard, and they become
popular, and have type, they should
be admitted. Any new variety that
has distinct type or color and is popu-
lar should be admitted to Standard
if it meets the A. P. A. requirements.

I cannot understand why such op-
position should exist against the R.
I. Whites. Unless some breeders of
the White Rocks and Wyandottes,
remembering how popular the Reds
became, are afraid the R. I. Whites
might do the same to their disad-
vantage. What they look for is fair
competition, they say. So do we.
Rhode Island Whites have been bred
several years and have not injured
the White Rocks. And I do not
think that if they are admitted to the

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Standard they will put the White
Rocks out of business — neither will
the Rhode Island Whites be put out
of business if they are turned down.
Every show of any consequence has
a class for them, and that their popu-
larity is spreading is manifested in
several ways, one of which is the in-
creased entries at the shows, and
another is by the growth of the R. I.
White Club — the specialty club that
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or wishing more information on this
popular variety, should write Mrs. E.
Alphonso, Union, Mo. A copy of the
1922 year book just published can
be had for the small sum of 25c.

As previously stated, it is the
small fancier or "backlotter" that is
the real factor, and determines
whether a breed is to be popular.
R. I. Whites are specially adapted to
meet the needs of the small breeders,
and give wonderful results under all
conditions. I am constantly receiv-
ing reports from this class, and give
one below that just came in. Note
that these chickens were raised in a
small wire enclosure, moved around
the lawn, and at present are kept in
a four by six coop, probably without

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 17

ventilation, etc., and are not given
any special care. The writer admits
he knows little about chickens. The
person making this report lives in
Warrensburg, N. Y., in the Adiron-
dack Mts., a section of extreme cold
and continuous snow. Chickens have
to have Quality to make a record like
this in that section.

"It is an old saying that "one good
turn deserves another" and it is in
keeping with this that I now en-
deavor to give you some kind of a
report on the R. I. Whites which I
purchased from you last April.

"The forty-two day old chicks ar-
rived in good condition. Three were
killed by the chicks crowding in the
first two or three days. One pullet
at the age of six months, ruptured
the egg duct and one cockerel died
shortly afterward from an unknown
cause. That was all the birds I lost.

"I got my first egg Sept. 14, when
the birds were five months and four
days old. They skipped the next day
and have missed but one since (Nov.
11). In September I got 25 eggs, in
October 102, in November lz4, and
in December 177. During the five
days of this month I have received
29 eggs. At that rate they will lay
180 eggs this month (January).

"Cornell states that good pullets
should lay 6 eggs each during De-
cember. My fourteen pullets have
averaged 12 9-14 for that time. In
the figures which I give later I have
valued the eggs at the lowest price
the stores here have charged (and
they were not strictly fresh either.)

"I sold no broilers but at the age
of four and a half month my cock-
erels brought me $1.65 each. They
weighed five and a half pounds each
and brought thirty cents a pound.
The buyer came and got them so I
was put to no trouble. The birds
we have used I have valued around
twenty cents a pound so you see I
have given them no benefit of the
doubt.

"Of the original forty-two five
have died. I have sold or used 21,
and have fourteen pullets and two
cockerels left. They never have been
sick nor have they ever been lousy.
They grew so fast that they were
crowded before I got my hen house
built and ready for them. I am not
using lights and they have in no way
been forced. Experienced poultry
raisers who have seen them have
pronounced them second to none.

"At the end of the year they stood
me as follows:

Value of eggs $25.33

Value of birds sold

and used 30.50

Total income

Original cost of birds $20.00
Cost of grain, etc 28.75

Total expense

$55.88

48.75

Net profits $ 7.13

"You will note that they paid me
back what I paid for them, paid their
keep and left me a net profit of $7.13
to say nothing of the value of the
sixteen birds I still have.

"I have 30 lbs. of G-. L. F. grain
on hand which I did not charge
against them as I did not open it un-
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

of the old grain in the bin at the
time I opened the new you will see
that I have my birds and the grain
on hand and am still even up on the
cash end of it.

"I think the record my birds have
made is one to be proud of and I
freely admit that I know very little
about chickens. They had to have
quality in them to make their record.

"The investment I made with you
will never be regretted and if you
find any "Doubting Thomases"
among your customers you have my
permission to refer them to me and
I will set them right.

I will add that this report was un-
solicited and is from a customer of
a friend of mine. This is the usual
stunt of the Whites and once kept
they are a fixture, whether it be on
a commercial farm or a "backlot".
And fair minded persons can see they
are profitable: for the market from
their description — for eggs from
their record at the laying contests
and for the fancier because of their
beauty. And as they have type is
there really any good reason why this
profitable variety should not be ad-
mitted to the Standard of Perfection.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(Continued from Page 9)

We can see no reason why a plant
where eggs are produced on a busi-
ness basis, like any other product,
should not be called an "egg fac-
tory." We have seen this term used
by others and we are willing to ad-
mit that we have used it in many
of our articles. We talk about "egg
machines" and this is certainly in the
same class with "egg factory." If
you are wrong, then you will have
plenty of company. But we feel you
are perfectly right in this matter.

Several readers of this Department
asked for a personal reply and for-
got to enclose the little red postage
stamp. We wish we could write you
without this but the number of let-
ters we answer make it imperative
that a stamp be inclosed. Really, it
makes very cheap advice for you at
that. Remember a stamp gets a per-
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will appear in this Department.

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Elsewhere in this issue will be
found advertisement of eggs for
hatching by Mrs. E. Seacoy, Brain-
erd, Minn. Mrs. Seacoy's birds have
been uniformity prize winners. At
the Poultry Show at Brainerd, her
Light Brahma Hen was placed as
champion hen of the show, all breeds
competing with 259 birds on exhibi-
tion. This sweepstake hen was also
prize hen at Duluth and Superior. In
addition Mrs. Seacoy won first on
pen and 1st and 2nd on cockerels.
Her birds have also won at Minne-
apolis and Milwaukee. She is offer-
ing eggs for hatching at $3.00 per
15. If you are interested in Light
Brahmas we suggest that you look
up her ad.

From Great layers. Full-blooded slock.

as ^ One o( Ihe Largest
'^Sgl'^^ and Best Equipped
Hatcheries in the
WORLD.

Over 50,000 Chii Weekly.

Postpaid to your door, and
guaranteed 95^ alive delivery.
Customers report hens as laying 280
eggs a year from our stock.

Get our famous blood lines of
Leghorns, Anconas, Rocks. Reds,
Orpingtons, Wyandoltcs,
Mlnorcas.

Get our low prices first, before ordering.
We save you money.
Large instructive catalog free.

FARR0W-BIRSB CO., PEORIA, ILL

Poultry Leg Bands

Colored Leader Adjustable, fit

anything from bantam to goose,
numbered consecutively, Red, Elue,
Green, Yellow, Pin!:.

100, $1.50; 50, $1.00; 25, 60c.

Heavy Aluminum, numbered
consecutively, large raised figures,
millions have been sold, adjustable
for any size bird, will stay on.
100, 60c; 50. 35c; 25, 20c.
Celluloid Spiral, 10 colors,
Red, Green, Garnet, Black,
White, Pink, Yellow, Purple,
Light Blue and Dark Blue.

25 60 100 250 600
No. 1 Brahmas Giants etc.. .$.45 $.7S $1.20 J2.7S J5.00

No. 2 Rocks, Reds, etc .40 .60 1.00 2.2S 4.00

No. 3 Leghorns, Anconas, etc. . .35 .50 .90 2.00 3.50
Prices are postpaid. State color and breed.

Eureka Supply House Box K, Mount Morris, III.

A piece of twine or fine wire will
make a clean cut through a cake of
laundry soap.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 19

FEEDING DUCKLINGS

We give our ducklings their first
feed on the second day after hatch-
ing, and this usually consists of stale
bread soaked in sweet milk. Some-
times we add hard-boiled, infertile
eggs and chop them up fine. After
a few days we add ground corn and
oats with the coarse hulls sifted out,
with a little middlings and wheat
bran. After about ten days we be-
gin to add a little good beef scrap.
We feed five times a day for the
first week or ten days, gradually
dropping to four, then three, after
they are well grown. By this time
the beef scraps may be increased to
ten per cent. We also add a little
fine charcoal occasionally.

We give plenty of water from the
start in a fountain deep enough for
the ducklings to get their heads in,
but not so that they can wet their
feathers. For green stuff we feed
lettuce or cabbage leaves or any sim-
ilar succulence that the ducklings
will eat. Sprouted oats are always
good. After the ducks are a month
or so old we add steamed or soaked
cut alfalfa or clover hay to the mash.
— R. B. S.

PREVENTING CHICKEN GAPES

The ravages of the deadly gape
worm go on from year to year with
but little arrest. Its origin is com-
paratively unknown and the various
remedies to control it appear of little
avail, so the only hope is in preven-
tion of its gaining a foothold.

I raised fowls upon the same run
for 20 years without a single care of
gapes. The next place to mine was
taken by a farmer who brought a
large flock of hens with him. He said
their former premises had been badly
infested with gapes. Our chickens
roamed about the same range as his
and the next year fully half my
chicks were infected with the
scourge, with considerable loss. The
following year the loss was much
greater, although I tried almost
every remedy suggested by experts
along that line. The next year I
decided to raise but few chickens.

They were placed in pens with
board floors, never being allowed to
come in contact with the ground un-
til they were six weeks old. At that
age I opened the pens after all dew
was dried up, and let them run in-
side a small, clean enclosure.

When two months old they had
full liberty of the whole range. I fed
them the usual food, supplied them
with plenty of gritty sand and greens
and gave them good care and atten-
tion. Not a single chick was affected
by the slightest ailment. Strong and
sturdy they plainly showed a gain in
size and appearance over the output
of previous years. — Mary L. Ray-
mond.

QUALITY BABY CHICKS

LARGE PRODUCTION enables us to sell quality
chicks at price of common hatchery product

INCUBATOR CAPACITY 10,000 eggs each day,
all eggs used are from these flocks.

Our 32-page illustrated catalogue is free, and gives
valuable information on care of chicks and poultry.

Hatching eggs in season at very reasonable prices.
Chicks shipped by parcel post prepaid, live arrival
guaranteed.

MISSOURI POULTRY FARMS,

Columbia, Mo.

THE ASIATICS
Only Book On This Subject
The largest and best Illustrated book Issued
to date on mating, breeding, selecting and ex-
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and Black Langshans. Special articles by fore-
most breeders, whose accumulated experience
and knowledge is thus made available at nominal
cost.

Two color plates and numerous black-and-white
illustrations. 96 pages, 9 by 12 Inches. Price
50c, postpaid. Address Poultry Keeper, Qulncy,
Illinois.

ScottsS.CReds

WIN BEST DISPLAY

Illinois State Poultry Show, Freeport, 111., Jan 5, to 8. They
have made many good wins in the hands of customers.

'TIS A MARK OF DISTINCTION to breed Scott's Beds. Four
females in egg laying contest, Storrs, Conneticut, layed 840
eggs in one year, an average of 210 eggs each. If Interested
write for mating list.

C. P. SCOTT.

Box M,

PEORIA, ILL.

BABY CHICKS WITH THE STAMP OF QUALITY

Yes, and They Are Hoganized, Too!

We hatch the following: Rocks, Reds, Leghorns, Anconas, Andalusians,
Orpingtons, Wyandottes, Langshans, Cornish, Hamburgs.
Our 4 0 page catalogue free.

Brooders, Poultry supplies. We can save you money.

The Sauth Kenton Poultry Farm, Box 115, Kenton, Ohio

CHAS. W. WYLIE, Supt. GEO. W. COX, Prop.

BRED TO WIN AND LAY

HORNER'S PEDIGREED S. C. REDS

Cockerels for Sale. We can furnish you with Show birds, or strong fine breeders, $5.00 and

up. At niinois State Fair, 1st Pen,
of 47. Adams County Fair, Cockerels,
Pen; Champion Pullet. Pen mated.

ERNEST G. HORNER,

in a hot class of 17 pens, also 2nd Pullet In a class
1, 3, 4, 5; Pullets, 1, 2, 3, 4,; and Pens 1, 2; Champion
Write for matting list.

R. R. 7,

Quincy, Illinois

WH A AT ' S CAPON WHY?

A book that explains whv Capons are the most profitable part of the poultry business and everything
you will ever want to know about CAPONS. 50 pictures from life that show each step in the
operation List of Capon Dealers' addresses. Tells how to prevent "Slips," where to get the
best and cheapest capon tools. Capons are immense eating. Big profits realized. Get wise. This
book tells how. Copyrighted new and revised edition. Regular 50c copy, prepaid to your address
(a short time only) for a Dime in coin or stamps.

1 " GEORGE BEUOY, K. B. 17, CEDAB VALE, KANSAS.

le "OLD RELIABLE"

Ohio Hatchery, pioneers

In the business of Hatching and Selling Chicks. For 28 Tears we
have been furnishing the public with High Class Chicks which have
proven So Satisfactory that 60 per cent of our business Is now from
old customers. T/hl Hatchery Chicks are produced from select, heavy
laying hens on free range and are strong and vigorous.
Reasonable Prices, 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed.
By Prepaid Parcel Post. Leading Varieties. Get our 1922 Catalog
before buying Chicks.

The Uhl Hatchery, Box K, New Washington, Ohio

Page Number 20

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Kills Hatching

Many fanciers now use Egg-O-Latum, the great
egg preserver, on all egga for the market. It
not only keeps them fresh but prevents hatching,
thus protecting against the pirates who watch
to obtain high grade hatching stock at market-
prices. Rub on — wipe off — does not show — Eggs
will never hatch but keep fresh longer.

55 ^. ax ^ odorless, tasteless,

harmless. Applied by simply coating palms of
the hands, then rubbing on eggs; a dozen a min-
ute. Keeps eggs fresh one year. A 50c jar
enough for 50 dozen eggs, .$1 jar for 200 dozen.
If no dealer, order by card. Postman will col-
lect. No extra charge. Handy as 'phoning.
Geo. H. Lee Co., Dept. P-20 Omaha, Neb.

265fo313Eqqs per Year!
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at AMAZING
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Never before has the
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1922 Catalog Free

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Get this catalog and in-
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GEORGE B. FERRIS
Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Best Laying

Hen at the big
Chicago Poultry
Show December
1921 this Ferris
hen won over
all breeds in
the egg laying
class. O n e of
many Ferris
National Win-

T^owest
Prices on
chicks, eggs,
pullets.hens and
f males. English or
lAmerican type.
(Quick shipment.
\No delay. Send
for catalog
now.

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A UNIQUE COMBINATION

nnw'T SELL YOUR

UUil I EGGS NOW

Put Them Down In K. & G. Egg Pre-
servative. Get High Winter Prices
for Cheap Summer Eggs

Why sell eggs for only 20c a dozen or less?
Preserve them now in K. &. G. Next winter,
when eg* are 60c a dozen or more, you will
have plenty of egss to eat ami to sell. Fresh,
new-laid eggs put down in K. & G. remain
fresh a whole year, and come out of the so-
lution just like new-laid eggs.

Kg f The PERFECT EGG
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K. &. G. Egg Preservative
keeps eggs 100% perfect.
Guaranteed to preserve all
fresh eggs perfectly for one
year. No change whatever
takes place. No foul odor,
strong, or stale taste is
Imparted to egss. Eggs can
he used for all purposes;
yolks do not break down;
whites whip perfectly. Fresh,
new-laid eggs remain fresh
a whole year — come out of
solution just like new-laid
eggs.

K. & G. Egg Preservative
is not liquid glass or any
other slimy solution. It

comes in powder form.
Makes clear, clean, cool, pleasant solution to
put eggs in or take out. Cleanest, most per-
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50c Package Preserves 25 Dozen

Adds $10 to Value of Eggs

Stud your order today for all the K. & G. you
need. Put down 20c eggs and take them out
when worth 60c. They will be just like new-
laid eggs. K. & G. is easy to use. Just add
50c pkg. to 3 gallons water in jar or crock.
That's all. Package preserves 25 dozen eggs.
50c postpaid. Order one or more packages now.

EUREKA SUPPLY HOUSE, Distributors
3 Wesley Avenue MOUNT MORRIS, ILL.

The farm flock of poultry and the
farm asparagus patch may be com-
bined during the greater part of the
year to the advantage of both, but
to the special benefit of the latter.
Asparagus requires soil that is rich
in nitrogen, the principal fertilizing
element in poultry droppings. For
the successful culture of asparagus
the ground must be kept free from
grass and weeds, and the fowls will
do this work without injury to the
plants.

Early in the spring before the
shoots appear the hens may be
turned in and as the soil is — or at
least should be — very rich in humus
they will give it a thorough surface
cultivation while scratching for
grubs and worms. Although they
will do very little damage to the
plant unless absolutely starved to it,
it is best to keep them out during
the cutting season, or at least to al-
low them in only now and then for a
day if grass or weeds become trou-
blesome.

After the cutting season is over
the patch may be used as range for
growing chicks or old fowls, and un-
less the area is too large neither
grass nor weeds will be in evidence.
The added cultivation and fertilizer
thus secured will materially increase
the size of the asparagus crop. — C. N.
Whittaker, Van Buren Co., Mich.

RAISING TURKEYS

I keep the turkey eggs till the
first turkey hen wants to sit. Keep
the eggs near the same temperature
and turn every day, then put about
15 under the turkey hen and the rest
under chicken hens. Break up the
other hens and let them lay second
laying.

As soon as turks hatch take from
hen until all are hatched, then put
20 or 25 with turkey hen and the
rest with chicken hens, in large airy
coops, near together so that they may
come out and feed together after a
few days.

I find the greatest trouble is keep-
ing the little turks free from lice.
I have tried different kinds of louse
killers but find nothing so effectual
as clean lard. Just a little rubbed
on top of head the first week. Then
on top of wings and vent every week
till they are 5 or 6 weeks old.

I never feed anything but curd
from the creamery milk (as we pa-
tronize the creamery) and I give
them all the milk they want and
clean water to drink until they are 5
or 6 weeks old. Then let mothers
out of coops for first time (of course
I feed the mothers whole grain and
plenty of grit). At this time they
are large enough to begin to rustle
for themselves, but will never fail to
come up for their feed and will all
follow the turkey hen. Feed them
wheat or chopped feed with curd for
a while and soon they can eat grain
altogether.

By following this plan I have never
failed in my 20 years turkey raising
to raise a good sized flock of tur-
keys. And with prices as they have
been the past few years, I think the
pin money question is solved for
farmers' wives. — Mrs. John Williams,
111.

Feed Baby Chicks
Soon As Hatched

Prevent White Diarrhea

Baby chicks, when hatched, must be given
a preventive against white diarrhea, which is
responsible for 90 per cent of the loss to
poultry raisers.

Dr. E. J. Netherton. a veterinarian of 30
years' experience, has prepared a feeding
which is to be given as soon as hatched.
Chicks and turkeys fed this the first thing do
not get white diarrhea, and thus you save 90
per cent of every hatch.

Dr. Netherton is so confident that he will
send a dollar package to any honest person.
Send no money; do not pay the postman; but
if satisfied with results, after fair trial, re-
mit one dollar. If not pleased you owe
nothing.

Take advantage of this liberal offer today.
Simplv send name to Dr. Netherton, N-&-H
Co., 382 N. Seventh St., Kansas City, Kan.

MILLER'S

THE OLD RELIABLE ILLINOIS HATCHERY.

Select Chicks from Heavy Laying Hens.

White and Brown Leg-
horns, 50-$7, 100-513,
500-SG2.50. Barred Rocks
and S. C. Reds, 50-$8,
100-$15, 500-$72.50. W.
Wyandottes, W. Rocks,
R. C. Reds, 50-S8.50,
100 -$16., 500 -$77.50.
Black Langshan, Buff
Orpington, Parks Barred
Rocks, 50-S9, 100-S17,
500-S82.50. S. C. An-
conas, 331 Egg Strain,
50-$9.50, 100-$18, 500-$87.50. Buff Rocks, 50-
l?9.50, 100-818.00, 50O-$87.50. White Orpingtons,
50-S10.50, 100-S20.00. 100 per cent Live Delivery
Guaranteed. Prepaid Parcel Post. Order Now
From This Ad and Save Time. Reference,
State Bank. Catalogue Free.
MILLER HATCHERY, Box K, Heyworth, HI.

Cured Her

Rheumatism

Knowing from terrible experience the suf-
fering caused by rheumatism, Sirs. J. E. Hurst,
who lives at 508 E. Olive St., B 6, Blooming-
ton, 111., is so thankful at having cured her-
self that out of pure gratitude she is an-
xious to tell all other sufferers just how to
get rid of their torture by a simple way at
home.

Mrs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merely cut
out this notice, mail it to her with your
own name and address, and she will gladly
send you this valuable information entirely
free. Write her at once before you forget.

BABY CHICKS

Bred Right. Hatched
Right, from Free Range
Stock of select quality.
97% Live Delivery Guar-
anteed by parcel post di-
rect from hatchery. We
hatch Barred, White

C Rocks Reds, White, Gold-
•X^yJfl* en Wyandottes, White,

Brown Leghorns, Anconas,
. V-ir-^ Broiler Chicks. Writ* for

our *Tee Illustrated Catalog. NEW WASHING-
TON HATCHERY, Dept. K. New Washington, 0

LEG BANDS

All guaranteed-Any 8ize-fc]j
ALUMINUM BANDS fj
with raised figures, z
price postpaid, 10-1 5c, ,5
25-25c, 50-35C, 100-60C. l "*
ECONOMY colored

celluloid with

aluminum back.

Any color, two large black num-
bers in each band, prices 12-30c,
25-50C, 50-SOe. 1OO-S1.50
Makers of 25 different styles of

of LEG & WING hands.
The National Poultry Band Co.
Send for catalog. Newport, Ky.

LOOK c B „?c B K Y s $9.50 a 100

10 varieties. World's greatest laying strains,
rullets. egas. stock, seeds, feed. etc. Write to
HOTJCK'S LEGHORN FARM. Box 81. Tiffin, O.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 21

SURE QUICK
DEATH FOR
RATS AND MICE

Remarkable Triple Strength
Virus Kills Every One
Not A Poison

MARVELOUS FRENCH DISCOVERY

Eats are your enemies. They destroy your
buildings, eat your grain, kill your poultry,
start fires and spread disease In every com-
munity. You need no longer suffer these
losses — You can now in a week's time easily
kill every rat, mouse or gopher with Bat
Virus, the great French discovery. Our triple
strength virus is the most powerful concen-
trated deadly virus known, the only sure, safe
rodent destroyer.

Triple Strength Virus is absolutely safe to
use anywhere — positively not a poison. No
danger to chickens, horses, cattle, hogs or
dogs. Harmless to children or grown persons.
Affects only rodents.

BACK YARD POULTRY PAIS

Triple Strength Virus Is prepared in a scien-
tific laboratory and contains only Virus germs
deadly to rodents. The bottle and corks are
sterilized and sealed air tight, so that all other
germs are excluded. This is why Triple Strength
Virus is so deadly. It is tested on rats, mice
and gophers before shipment — It cannot fail.

Rats Die Outside

Triple Strength Rat Virus is easy to use.
Simple directions show how. A single rat eat-
ing the virus gets sick with a contagious
plague disease that affects and kills all rats
and mice in the immediate vicinity. Eats flee
because they become infected with a plague
that affects the heart, blood vessels, and lungs,
destroying the blood corpuscles and causing
suffocation. The rats rush outside where they
get fresh air and water. 'When the diseased
rats get outside, they never get back for the
disease is then so far gone it kills them. No
odor, no dead rats to handle, no live rats to kill.

Special Introductory Offer

We want to prove to you our claim that
Triple Strength Eat Virus is the most potent,
most powerful — yet non-poisonous and abso-
lutely safe — rat virus on the market. It is a
TRIPLE STEENGTH Virus. Contains more
living rat virus germs than any other rat killer
made and will go one-third to one-half farther.
To introduce this powerful Triple Strength
Eat Virus, we will make every reader of this
paper — for short time only — a special offer of
a regular $2.50 bottle for only $1.00 postpaid.
This $2.50 bottle Triple Strength Eat Virus
is enough to clear a big poultry house, barn or
yard of rats and mice.

Money Back Guarantee

Your money back if it fails. Take no chances
this year with traps or rat poisons. Only
Triple Strength Eat Virus will positively kill
rats, mice and gophers and be absolutely safe
and sure. Give it according to directions — if
after 30 days' trial you find any rats or mice —
we will refund your money without question.
Send $1 bill today sure.

If not convenient to send $1 today — just send
your name and address, a postal will do — pay
postman $1 and a few cents postage on arrival
for regular $2.50 bottle. Eemember it costs
you nothing if it does not do all we claim.

Agents Wanted in every community,
GOLD SEAL LABORATORIES
3842 W. Lake, Dept 325, Chicago, 111.

Editor Poultry Keeper:

In your April number 1 see that
J. E. R., Illinois, wants to know if
back yard poultry pays.

I will give my experience in the
raising ot poultry on a city lot
5 4x1 a 6 with a house 30x34 setting
back 25 ft. from the curb.

I bulit a poultry house 12x40 at
a cost of material, sand and cement
for foundation, lumber and rubber-
oid roofing, nails, sash glass and
paint for $65.57, I done all the work
myself, $8.00 for eggs, $17.00 for an
incubator. A total of $92.57.

I hatched out and raised 37 pullets
and 28 cockerels.

I sold 6 cockerels for $12.00, saved
4 and eat the rest.

The pullets began laying in Novem-
ber and I began to sell eggs in De-
cember, and sold as follows:

December $16.26

January 19.46

February 18.25

March 12.25

April, (to date, 20) .... 8.75

$74.97

Cockerels 12.00

Total $86.97

This is above the eggs that I used
in my home, with a family of 9. The
cost of my feed was $49.50 and I
have enough to last me until May
15 th.

I never had any experience with
poutly before, and took advice from
others, and some I trusted to luck,
but I went into it with a lot of "pep"
and stuck with it. I fed my little
chicks on Wayne growing mash and
scratch feed and gave them all they
could eat at all times with plenty
of fresh water, charcoal and grit be-
fore them all the time.

I have the Ancona breed, and have
200 or more chicks in the brooder
and will build more house making
over all 30x40.

I think a back yard flock pays, if
you put a lot of work and pep be-
hind it.

You see that from an investment
of $142.07 I got a return of $86.97
and have my incubator and house
for this season, and my little flock
of yearling hens.- — G. W. J., Indiana.

'OLD RELIABLE" HATCHERY

On page 19 of this issue will be
found the advertisement of Uhl
Hatchery, Box K, New Washington,
Ohio, familiarly known throughout
the middle west as the "Old Relia-
ble" Hatchery. For 22 years this
hatchery has been furnishing high
grade chicks on which they guaran-
tee 100 per cent live delivery. They
have all the leading varieties and will
take pleasure in sending a copy of
their 1922 catalogue free to prospec-
tive buyers of baby chicks. We can
recommend this company very highly
indeed and urge our readers to writ
them for catalogue and prices.

MAKE OP A CLUB

Make up a club of your own, choosing the
papers or magazines you want to take. Write
and let me quote a special cut price. I can
save you considerable money on your subscrip-
tions. A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, 111.

$1 Q££ Buys 1 40-Egg Champion I

10 Belle City Incubator!

Hot- Water.Copper Tank, Double Walls
Fibre Board, Self Regulated, causae
S7.9S buyB 140-Chick Hot-V|^ 5 ' ^
Water Brooder. Or both for only ' ** ™ ™"

Express Prepaid

East of Rockies and -
allowed to points West, ilsors
Guaranteed. Order now. Share
'in in? $1 OOO In Prizes, or write
fprFree Book "HatchingFacts."
It tells everything. Jim Rohan, Pre*

Bene City Incubator Co.,bo» 145 Racine, Wis.

Watchlm

Success in raising the chicks you hate!
depends most largely on feed and care
in the first 10 days.

F.P.G. Ohaefc Manna

For Chicks, Turkeys, Pheasants

proved its wonderful merit in 1884. Since
then we have watched Quality, Quality,
QUALITY, — regardless of cost. Only best
cereals, animal food, etc. : no seconds.
Wholesome as your own food.

F. P. C. Chick Manna is not the cheap-
est feed; it can't he. But it will save
the chicks. At dealers or write us. Satis-
faction or money back.

F. P.

Box 30

CASSEL'S SON

Lansdale, Pa.

Our big Free Flower
Circular tells you
howbeginners make
S100 to S500. spare
timein onesummer
raising flowers on a
very small patch of
ground, back-yard.
Learn this easy and
delightful business.

FOR BIG PROFITS

Send your name and get Big
Flower Circular Free by return

mail. American Horticulture Co.
.Department 55 Des Moines. Iowa

QUALITY BABY CHICKS

Missouri Poultry Farms, Columbia,
Mo., is giving special attention to
the quality of baby chicks produced
in their hatchery. They have 20,000
breeders, bred exclusively for high
egg production and standard quality.
All of their breeders are selected by
the Hogan Test with the result that
baby chicks sold by them should
prove exceptional values in the hands
of their customers. They have a
32-page catalogue which will be sent
free to readers of Poultry Keeper.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

The classified advertisers In POTJLT H Y
KEEPER are coining money fast this year.
It pays to keep your announcement before
the people. That Is the way to establish
a reputation for your business. Why nnt
go after the people, get good prices, and
make more money this year!

BATES

Bates for Ads. Classified under proper
Headings are as follows:

1 month _ 6c per word

2 months 11c per word

3 months _ 16c per word

4 months 20c per word

1 year 50c per word

ANCONAS

S. C. ANCONA— Iowa State Fair Blue Bibbon
Winners. Heavy laying strain Baby Chix.
$15.00 per 100. Eggs $1.50 per 15, $6.00 per
100. John J. Schwartz, Ottumwa, Iowa. 3-3

SINGLE COMB ANCONAS— Few large, dark,
vigorous, heavy laying hens for sale at $3.00
apiece. Shipped on approval. Satisfaction
guaranteed. No hatching eggs this year. F.
Baymond Benson, Elgin, Dl.

SINGLE COMB ANCONAS— Eggs from four star
matings. Mating list. Keiran & Baab, Fond
du Lac, Wis. 4-2

ANCONA HATCHING EGGS— Both combs at
reduced price. Geo. Hecker, Earlvllle, Iowa.

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ANCONAS

S. C. ANCONA EGGS FOB HATCHING— from

selected stock $3.00 per 15. From range flock
$2.00. Fine stock for sale reasonable. Joseph
A. Triplett, Egg Harbor City, N. J. 3-4

SHATTO'S SINGLE COMB ANCONAS — Baby
chicks from winners. Hoganized layers. Vac-
cinated against disease. Ten years breeding
Anconas. Satisfied customers everywhere. Gny
H. Shatto, Dunkirk, Ind. 3-4

EOSE COMB ANCONA STOCK FOB SALE —

Cheap for quality. Eggs 52.25, $5.00, $10.00 for
15. 100-$9.00. Chicks 20c, 100-$18.00. Mrs. E.
J. Crawford, Owatonna, Minn.

EGGS FEOM FABM-EANGE S. C. ANCONAS,

Excellent utlity stock, 30-$2.75, 60-$5.00, 100-
$8.00. Mrs. Henry Newcomer, Mt. Morris, 111.

SINGLE COMB ANCONAS— 100 selected hatch-
ing eggs $6.00. 2 settings $2.50. Joseph
Partsch, Humphrey, Nebr. 2-4

BLUE ANDALUSIANS

BLUE ANDALUSIANS BABY CHICKS— High
quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free.
South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

BLUE ANDALUSIAN EGGS— Pen one 15-$3.00;
Pen two 15-$2.00, prepaid. John Cerny, Cob-
den, 111.

BUTTEECUPS

BUTTERCUPS — Blue Ribbon Winners; great
layers, delicious meat. Sheppard's Anconas.
Chicks, eggs. A. Wermeiskirehen, Hokah, Minn.

BABY CHICKS

BABY CHICKS FOR SALE — S. C. Anconas,
AVhite Minorcas, $7.50 per 50; $15.00 per 100.
Mrs. Joe Price, Dow City, la.

10,000 CHICKS EACH WEEK — May prices,
Grade A $18, Grade B $15. June and later all
grades Clucks at $10 per 100, Eggs $6. Pedi-
greed, Trap-nested, Imported Barron stock with
no hen under 248-egg record in six years
breeding. Also D. W. Young S. C. White Leg-
horns, direct, separate. Our customers say we
have Best stock in America. Catalog. 8,000
early pullets, $1.50 each. Brownstown Poultry
Farm, Brownstown, Indiana. 5-3

BABY CHICKS— from Hoganized, standard bred
flocks, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, R. I. Reds,
White Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons, Anconas
and White Leghorns, $10.50 up. Send for Cata-
log. Sieb's Hatchery, Lincoln, 111.

500,000 — Day-old to four weeks chicks. Single
combed White and Brown Leghorns, Barred
Rocks. Hatching eggs. Failing Poultry Farm,
Lafargeville, N. Y. 4-3

DAY OLD CHICKS OF QUALITY — from Free
Range Flocks at low prices. White and Brown
Leghorns, R. I. Reds, Barred and White Rocks,
Buff Orpingtons, Silver AVyandottes, Black
Spanish and Anconas. Prices free. Blanchester
Hatchery, Blanchester, Ohio. 3-4

21 STAND ABD-BBED VAEIETIES— heavy egg-
laying strains. Prices adsolutely right. Hatch-
eries in five states. Prompt prepaid shipment
any time. Safe arrival guaranteed. Catalog
free. Schaefer Hatchery, 2915 Grand Ave., Mil-
waukee, Wis. 3-3

CHICKS— C. O. D. Parcel Post. 2000 miles.
Pay on arrival at your Post Office. Bargain
prices. My 17th year. Literature free. C. M.
Lauver, Box 68, McAlisterville, Pa. 3-6

BABY CHICKS — White and Brown Leghorns,
Anconas, Barred, Buff and White Rocks, Reds
and White Wyandottes. Price llBt free. Oak-
Wood Poultry Farm, Box 37B, Yellow Springs,
Ohio. 2-4

BABY CHICKS— Nine varieties; lowest prices;
Illustrated catalog free, telling how to raise
them. Judson Hatchery, Galesburg, Illinois. 2-4

CUSTOM HATCHING— Write for our method
of hatching to order. Free circular. Custom
Hatchery, Dept. O, Box 303, Riverside, N. J.

2-4

LOOK (100,000 12c AND UP) CHICKS— Best
bred-to-lay, profit paying kind only. 20 varieties.
Hatching eggs. Ducklings. Catalog. Beckman
Hatchery, 26 E. Lyon, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2-5

BABY CHICKS— Ten leading varieties from pure
bred, large range, properly culled utility Btock.
Prices right. Circular free. Modern Hatchery,
Mt. Blanchard, Ohio. 1-6

BREEDER'S CARDS

BABY CHICKS

BABY CHICKS — Half Million for 1922. Twelve
leading pure breeds from heavy egg producing
strains. Alive delivery guaranteed. Catalog.
Smith Brothers Hatcheries, Mexico, Mo. 1-9

BABY CHICKS— Capacity 100,000. Headquar-
ters for Rocks, Leghorns, Minorcas, Reds, W.
Wyandottes and Broilers, 11c up. Order early.
Catalogue free, postage prepaid. Sunnyslde
Hatchery, Liverpool, Pa., C. J. Strawser, Prop.

1- 6

BANTAMS

BANTAMS — Black Tailed Japanese Cockerels for
sale. A. D. Davis, Britton, Mich. 3-2

BANTAMS AND EGGS — 22 Varieties . 2c stamp
for circular. Fenn Bantam Yards, (Desk 77),
Delavan, Wis.

BBAHMAS

LIGHT BEAHMAS — Hatching eggs, Pen 1,
$2.50; Pen 2, $2.00 per 15. Solum Bros., Wood-
ville, Wis. 5-2

LIGHT BEAHMA'S HATCHING EGGS — $3.00
per 15, prepaid and insured. Mrs. Burchell,
Eossmoyne, Ohio.

DABK BEAHMA HATCHING EGGS — $3.00-15,
$5.00-30, Bose Comb White Wyandotte eggs,
$2.00-15, $3.50-30 postpaid. Carl Roske, Bar-
rett, Minnesota. 4-2

LIGHT BBAHMAS — Consistent Coliseum win-
ners, with size, type and color. Eggs $7.50
per 13. Oscar Grow, Waterloo, la. 3-2

LIGHT BEAHMA BABY CHICKS— High qual-
ity. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free. South
Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

LIGHT BEAHMA EGGS— Pen 1— $3.00. Pen
2— $2.00 per setting 15. N. E. Murdy, Green-
field, Iowa. 2-4

LIGHT BBAHMAS — Cavey Farm, Elkhorn, Wis

12-12

COENISH

DABK COENISH BABY CHICKS— High qual-
ity. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free. South
Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

COCHINS

NINTZEL'S NOTED PAETBIDGE COCHINS—

Stock and eags. Nintzel Bros., Oshkosh, Wis.

2- 3

DUCKS AND GEESE

MAMMOTH PEKIN EGGS — Forty §5.00; 100-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

5-4

WHITE PEKIN DUCKS — Large stock. 13 eggs
two dollars, 100 ten dollars. Baby Ducklings.
Postpaid and insured. W. E. Metcalf, Hunting-
ton, Didiana. 4-2

PUKE-BEED MAMMOTH EOUEN DUCK EGGS

from prize-winning stock. 12-$2.00, 30-$4.50,
60-$8.50, 100-$12.00. Mrs. Henry Newcomer, Mt.
Morris, Dl.

LAEGE TOULOUSE GEESE— Eggs 40 cents each
prepaid. John Cerny, Cobden, 111.

BUFF OEPINGTON DUCKS — Ezgs $1.75 per
dozen. Postpaid 5th zone. John Eyer, Fort
Jennings, Ohio. 3-3

EGGS— Mammoth Pekin 50-$5.00, 100-$8.00.
White Holland also Bourbon Red Turkeys 10-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

8-4

BUFF OEPINGTON DUCK EGGS — $2-15. post-
paid. Insured, In three zones. Rauch's Poultry
Yard, Jenera, Ohio. 2-4

HOETON'S HIGH QUALITY FAWN AND

White Indian Bunner duck eggs for hatching.
Sylvan View Poultry Farm, Curryvllle, Mo. 2-5

SILKIES

WHITE SILKIE EGGS— $2-00 per 13. Cockerels.
Arthur Worthington, B. 3, Two Elvers, Wis.

8-3

FAVOEOLLES

WHITE FAVEBOLLES— Foremost utility fowls.
Greatest winter layers. Develop quickly. Eggs
and chicks from prize winners. Pixley, R. 2,
Wayne, Mich. 3-4

GUINEAS

ONE FIFTY FIFTEEN WHITE GUINEA EGGS,
postpaid. L. Leavitt, Smithfield, Dl.

BREEDER'S CARDS

HOUDANS

DABK HOUDAN STOCK FOE SALE— Range
eggs $5.00 per hundred. M. Stephenson, Welton,
Iowa. 4-2

HAMBUEGS

SELVES SPANGLED HAMBUEGS BABY

Chicks. High quality. Reasonable prices.
Catalogue Free. South Kenton Poultry Farm,
Kenton, Ohio.

SILVEB SPANGLED HAMBUBG COCKEBELS

and eggs. Frank Heilman, Knox, Did. 3-3

WHITE LANGSHANS

WHITE LANGSHAN BABY CHICKS— High
quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free.
South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

WHITE LANGSHAN EGGS FOB HATCHING —

Prize stock, 46 pullets layed 927 eggs in Dec.
Pen 1, $2.00 per 15; Pen 2, $1.00. Baby chicks.
Mrs. H. S. Brown, Salem, Iowa. 3-3

BLACK LANGSHANS

BLACK LANGSHAN BABY CHICKS — High
quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue free.
South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

BIG BLACK LANGSHANS — Setting $2.50, 100-
$10.00. 100 Chlx $25.00. Ella Whltwood, Hud-
son, HI.

LEGHORNS

300 SINGLE COMB WHITE AND BEOWN LEG-

horns, 1 year hens, cockerels, pullets. Hatching
eggs. A. Schroeder, St. Peter, 111. 12-12

WHITE LEGHOENS

BAEEON'S BIG WHITE LEGHOENS— All high
record stock. Reduced prices on eggs, chicks
and breeding stock. Booking 8 weeks pullets
and cockerels. Chas. W. Johnson, Linton, Ind.

WE ARE PEEPABED TO MAKE IMMEDIATE

shipment of Single Comb White Leghorn English
strain hatching eggs from stock whose records
run from 210 to 300 eggs per year, $2.50 per
15, $10.00 per hundred, all eggs carefully se-
lected and candled. Prompt shipment "guar-
ranteed. Lewis A. Daily, McLeansboro, Dl. 5-2

GUAEANTEED PUEE-BRED S. C. W. LEG-

horn eggs. Ferris 265-300 strain direct, $6.00
per 100 prepaid. Mrs. Roy Appleton, Edge-
wood, la.

PULLETS, BABY CHICKS— If you want Leg-
horns of Superior Quality, Kuhu has them at
let live prices. Be wise and write Kuhn be-
fore you buy. H. M. Kuhn, Sycamore, Ohio. 4-3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOB HATCH-

ing, $2.00 per 15. Pen 1, $5.00 per 50. Mrs.
Ellen E. Omans, Frazee, Minn.

S. C. W. LEGHOENS — Ferris strain, heavy
layers. Eggs 15-$1, 100-$5. Mrs. John Pearcy,
Martinsville, Indiana. 4-2

S. C. W. LEGHOEN EGGS— Winter layers.
$2.00 per 15 prepaid. Mrs. L. Malmborg, R. 1,
Ishpeming, Mich. 4-2

FEEEIS SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHOEN

hatching eggs 15 eggs $1.00, 30-$1.75, 50-$2.50,
100-$4.50, prepaid. Also Registered Holstein
cattle, either sex. Leo Kuhl & Son, Hazel
Green, Wisconsin. 4-2

BAEEON SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHOENS,

15 eggs 75 cents, 100-$4.75. 20 years breeder.
Geo. E. Adams, Green Bay, Wis.," R. 7. 4-2

CLOVEBDALE LEGHOEN FAEM AND HATCH-

ery. Breeders of S. C. White Leghorns. Youngs
foundation stock. Eggs and baby chicks. Cir-
culars free. Aurora, Mo. 3-3

KOEPSELL'S 230-300 EGG-BEED SINGLE

Comb White Leghorns. Chicks and eggs at
prepaid prices. Catalog Free. Koepsell Leghorn
Farm, Sta. E., Mayville, Wise. 3-3

WHITE LEGHOEN EGGS — Thornburg's, FerrlB
world's greatest layers. Eggs, 15-$1.50, 100-
$6.00, delivered. Valley Egg and Dairy Farm.
Campbell, Mo., R. 4. 3-3

THE T. F. LANGABEEE S. C. WHITE LEG-

horn plant offers eggs from 12 pens of trap
nested stock. (Eleven years use of trap nests.)
3 best pens, 15 e?es $5.00; 9 pens, 15 eggs
$2.00, 100 eggs, $8.00. Cockerels $3.00 each.
508 W. Oak St., Falrbury, Dl.

S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS— from good laying
stock. Farm range. Maude Davis, Sabula, la.

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WHITE LEGHORNS

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR

hatching. Flock 1 — 52.00 per 15; $10.00 per
100. Flock 2— $1.25 per 15; $5.00 per 100. J.
R. Frew, Eustis, Nebr.

WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS — American
or English from selected heavy producers. Cir-
cular. Frank Heinz, Bos 12, Comstock Park,
Jlich.

BROWN LEGHORNS

S. C. DARK BROWN LEGHORNS — Eggs only.
Cc each delivered. Willis Fairbanks, Mora,
Minn.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS— Light and dark-
great layers. Surplus stock and eggs very
reasonable. Henry Tushaus, 1000 Vine St.,
Quincy, 111. 2-4

W. W. KTTLP, BOX 30, POTTSTOWN, PA.—

The leaders In size and contest winners. Cata-
log. Both combs.

BLACK LEGHORNS

100 BLACK LEGHORN CHIX $20.00; 600,
$95.00. Ella Whitwood, Hudson, 111.

BLACK LEGHORN BABY CHICKS— High qual-
ity. Reasonable prices. Catalogue Free. South
Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton, Ohio.

BUFF LEGHORNS

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS— Solid buff.
Heavy layers. Eggs from special pens $1.25
per 15, $6.00 per 100. Arthur Worthlngton,
Two Rivers, Wis.

SPECIALLY BRED MANY GENERATIONS—

for stamina, large yield of big eggs, and beauty.
I have the goods. Both combs. Eggs, hens and
pens reasonable. Catalog. Joseph Benedict,
Chevy Chase, Maryland.

MINORCAS

BLACK MINORCAS. BUFF ORPINGTONS,

Eggs. Ten varieties baby chicks. Frank A.
Agnew, Southside, Omaha, Nebr. 3-4

WHITE AND BLACK MINORCAS — Both Combs.
Blue ribbon winners Chicago National and Illi-
nois State Show. Eggs $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00.
A. Kuchemann, Galena, 111.

MAMMOTH S. C. BLACK MINORCAS— $1 per
15 eggs. Zula Edwards, Van Wert, Ohio. 4-2

GIANT SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS—

Setting $3.00; 100-$12.00. Ella Whitwood, Hud-
son, HI.

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCA EGGS — Winter
layers, prize winners. Jay Folfer Beswlck,
Berea, Ohio. 3-3

ROSE COMB WHITE MINORCAS— 30 eggs, pre-
paid, $4. H. L. Carson, Middleport, Ohio. 3-5

BLUE ORPINGTONS

LOOK — Royal Blue Orpingtons. Winners. John
Unangst, 1214 Prairie Ave., Freeport, m. 3-12

WHITE ORPINGTONS

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS— Heavy lay-
ers, $1.50 per 15; $7.00 per 100. Elva Cantwell.
Bucklln, Mo. 3-4

BUFF ORPINGTONS

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON HATCHING EGGS

from good laying strain 15-$1.50, 100-$6.' Ed.
Scheffers, Monroe, la.

BUFF ORPINGTON HATCHING EGGS — Re-
duced prices. Write for free mating list.
Walter Goessling, 930 Jefferson St., Quincy, 111.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

ROSE COMB REDS — Show quality, noted for
color. Eggs $2.50 per 15. John Allen, Nobles-
ville, Ind.

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS —

$1.00 per 15, $6.00 per 100. Bred to lay. Mrs.
Joe Walz, Glen Haven, Wis. 4-3

REDS THAT LAY! The strain that pays.
Rose Comb. Eggs. Circular. Albert Bern-
hardt, Mt. Healthy, Ohio.

SINGLE ALSO ROSE COMB REDS — Setting
$1.50, 100-$7.00. 100 chix $20.00. Ella Whit-
wood, Hudson, HI.

ROSE COMB RED EGGS — From prize winners
and record layers. (Bean strain.) Mating list.
Daugherty's Poultry Farm, Metcalf, HI. 8-2

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RHODE ISLAND REDS

ROSE COMB BEDS— Bean strain. Exhibition
quality. Trapnested ten years, yearly records
to 306 eggs. Three pens, eggs 25, 20, 15 cents
each. Jos. Forge, Burlington, Wise.

PHEASANTS

RINGNECK PHEASANT EGGS— $5 for 15, post
paid. Charles Knecht, 1715 N. 13th St., Kansas
City, Kans. 3-4

PIGEONS

I OFFER — mated Homers. $2.00 pair. Beauti-
White Homers, $3.00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux, Maltese Hens. Free book-
let. Squab Mannual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert,
2210 Almond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 10-6

RABBITS

THREE DOLLARS PAIR — Four months Belgian
Hares. Luther Leavitt, Smithfreld, 111.

PARTRIDGE ROCKS

EGG RECORD PARTRIDGE ROCKS— National
and Coliseum winners. Eggs, chicks, stock.
Riley Smith, Albion, Ind. 3-3

WHITE ROCKS

SNYDER'S WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS — Eggs
$2.00 a setting from No. 1 Pens. Dellwood
Poultry Yards, A. S. Snyder, Dellwood, N. Y.

4-3

LARGE PURE BRED WHITE ROCKS — Hatch-
ing eggs from prize winners and splendid laying
strain. Fishel direct at $2.00 per 15. A satis-
factory hatch guaranteed. H. L. Adair, Clay-
ton, HI.

BARRED ROCKS

BARRED ROCK EGGS — Park's strain $1.50-15,
$5.00-100. Mrs. A. Revell, Central City, Iowa.

PARKS BARRED ROCKS — Fifteen fertile eggs
$2, hundred $8. Eight week old pullets $15
dozen. Eva Bojar, St. Bernard, Ohio.

BARRED ROCKS — Hatching eggs, sixty cents
per setting. Mrs. E. E. Mark, Stronghurst,
Hlinois. 3-3

"CACKLERS" ARE PUREBRED BRED-TO-LAY

Barred Rocks. Trapnested bv Geo. W. Pratt.
Cropsey. HI. 18 eggs $2.50: 36-$4.50, 72-$8.00.
100-$10.00, prepaid. Circular free. Stock all
sold. 2-12

PARKS ROCKS— Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, Box 30, Pottstown. Pa.

BARRED ROCK EGGS — Range $6.00-100, Pen
Holterman $4.00-15. Floyd Friedow, Kanawha.
Iowa. 4-2

BRADLEY STRAIN— Eggs $1.50-$10.00. S. M.
Phelps. Monmouth, HI. 2-4

MY VICTORY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS—

AVon at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4th, 1921.
3, 4, 5. Ex Cock: 2 Ex Cockerel: 1. 2, Ex Hen;»
3 Ex Pullet: 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock: 2 Cock-
erel Bred Pen; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club shape and color specials.
Send for photo of my winning birds. J. T.
French, 838 West Grove Place, Toledo. Ohio.

PARK'S STRAIN BARRED ROCK CHICKS

and Selected eggs. Priced right. Eva Bojar,
Saint Bernard, Ohio. 3-3

SEVERAL VARIETIES

LOOK! LOOK!— Eggs $1.00 per 15. $5.50 hun-
dred. 25 breeds greatest special price list free.
Fleming Bros., Shelbyville, Illinois. 4-2

BUFF ORPINGTON AND ANCONA EGGS

from exhibition stock. Exceedingly heavy egg
laying strains. Roup and Son, Ames, Iowa. 4-2

EGGS — Single Comb Buff and Brown Leehorns,
White (Guineas and other varieties, 15 eggs
$2.00. Viola Woods, Albion, Hlinois. 4-2

SINGLE COMB REDS $1.50 SETTING— Exhibi-
tion S. C. White Leghorns SI .50 setting. Wild
Mallards $3 setting. English Callers $5 set-
ting. Prepaid. O. Robey, MaryvlIIe, Mo. 3-4

SHEPPARD S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

vnnia S. C. W. Leghorn eirers for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Mlddlebnrg, Pa.

EGGS— From pure bred stock. Sheppnrd's 831
eeg strain Anconas 15-$3.00: J00-$15.00. Park's
bred-to-lav Barred Rocks. 15-S1.50: 100-$7.50.
White Orpingtons, 1B-S1.R0: 100-S7.50. 10 other
breeds, 15-$1.50, 100-$7.50. Free catalog on
chicks and eggs. Can furnish eggs In 500 and
1000 lota. Get my prices. Mid-Oak Poultry
Farm, B. '4. Box 800. Bloomlnstcm, HI. 3-3

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SEVERAL VARIETIES

HARRY SWINBURNE, DELHI, IOWA 0F-

fers 137 varieties poultry, pheasants, ducks,
geese, eggs. 3-4

FOR SALE — Houdan eggs $3.00 per 15. Bearded
Golden Polish $4.00 per 15 eggs. Mrs. Theo
Sutphen, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Box 250.

3-3

EGGS — Brahmas, Langshans, Rocks, Reds, Orp-
ingtons, Wydts., $1.50 per 15 prep'd. Ducks,
geese. Catalogue free. M. H. Myers, Edom, Va.

3-4

60 VARIETIES— Prize winning Geese, Ducks,
Turkeys, Chickens, Stock, Eggs, cheap. F.
Damann, Fannington, Minn. 2-4

FANCY POULTRY FOR SALE— 30 Varieties
catalogue free. Herman Blumer, Berger, Mis-
souri. 12-6

TURKEYS

EGGS FROM HIGH CLASS OLD STOCK— Mam-
otli White Holland, Mamoth Bronze and Bour-
bon Red. Ten $8.00; Twenty $15.00; Thirty
S19.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, III.

5-4

BRONZE GOBBLERS $10— Eggs 10 for $6.00,
prepaid. Order now. Aaron J. Felthouse,
Goshen, Ind. 2-6

GOLDEN LACED WYANDOTTES

GOLDENS — Winners, layers. Eggs 7c up. An-
drew DeSmidt, Racine, Wis., Route 4K.

SIEVED LACED WYANDOTTES

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE BABY CHICKS,

High quality. Reasonable prices. Catalogue
Free. South Kenton Poultry Farm, Kenton,
Ohio.

SILVED LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS— 15-$1.50
prepaid. E. A. York, McNabb, 111. 3-3

CERNEY'S FAMOUS SILVER LACED WYAN-

dottes— Eggs 15-$1.50, 100-$8.00 prepaid. John
Cerney, Cobden, HI.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

EGGS — From White Wyandottes that stay white.
$2.00 per 15: $4.00 per 50. Clay Hill Poultry
Farm, Fulton. Iowa. 5-2

WHITE WYANDOTTES— 255 egg strain. Won
six first 1922. Prices low. Circular free. Nick
Fleck, Plymouth, Indiana. 4-2

POULTRY SHOW

POULTRY REMEDIES

DORAN'S GAPE REMEDY CURES GAPES OR

money back. 25c post paid. W. H. Doran,
Brandenburg, Ky. 2-4

REAL ESTATE

WANT TO HEAR FROM OWNER HAVING

poultry farm or other property for sale. State
cash price and particulars. John J. Black,
278th St.. Chippewa Falls. Wis.

MISCELLANEOUS

SQUABS $13 PER DOZEN IN N. Y. MARKET.

PRINTING

250 ENVELOPES. $1.10; 500-$1.75, POSTPAID.

Womble Press, Bearcreok, N. C. 5-2

BETTER POULTRY PRINTING— Prepaid every-
where for half what others charge. Being
specialists we Invariably please our 5000 satis-
fied customers. When disgusted, try us. Every
order filled under our guaranteed quality ser-
vice. Latest cuts. Interesting samples, special -
bargain sheet for stamp. Model Printing Com-
rony, Manchester. Iowa. 8-13

Do they seem to be
all appetite?

HELP them grow! Feedfthem right! Give
them a variety of goolty palatable, easily
digested proteins. A hard gtfain mixture is not
sufficient and makes you pav too much for the
slow resulting gains in weight. To develop
young chicks quickly, safelyl-and cheaply, feed
GLOBE CHICK MASH witlfbried Buttermilk.

Every element in this balanced mash is in-
cluded for a special purpose determined by
extensive experiments on our poultry farm — on
our chicks, not on yours. GLOBE CHICK
MASH is easily digested and readily assimilated.
The quality is always dependable.

GLOBE CHICK SCRATCH scattered in the litter
gives chicks the exercise they must have to keep healthy
and to stimulate their appetites.

DICKINSON'S

obe Chick Mash

WITH DRIED BUTTERMILK

Now they are started — keep them growing

Feed vour growing young birds |n GLOBE
GROWING MASH. It builds them- up at low
cost. Improper feeding now may set your flock
back several weeks and keep you fsom getting
top prices for your broilers and fryefs.

GLOBE GROWING MASH will clWelop your
cockerels for market and your pullets for early
egg production without the slightest injury to
vitality. It promotes thrifty growth.

Insist upon getting GLOBE POULTRY FEEDS for
every stage from baby chicks to heavy-laying hens.
Your dealer has them or can get them quickly,

THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO.
CHICAGO

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Remove The Lice and Tneij Will

IT IS the healthy hen that lays a good egg and lays it regularly. Hens full
of vitality and vigor can keep up a heavy egg production. Hens free from
lice and mites — they put money in your pocket. A hen worried to death with lice cannot
lay if she wants to. Feeding high priced feed to lousy chickens is a dead loss. Don't do it.
Use the new way to kill lice and use LICECIL. No dusting, no dipping, no painting. Hang
up the original open bottle. It acts like magic. It will help to put a few drops in nests
and on roosts. Then uncork the bottle, hang it up in coop or hen house and the powerful
evaporating vapors which leave the bottle will do the rest.

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Protect your fowls from the powerful and insidious
lice and mites that suck the life blood of your birds.
These parasites allowed to run rampant in a hen
house will suck more blood, more vitality every night
than fowls can replace by the assimilation of large
quantities of food during the day. This is a money-
making and a money-saving proposition. Think it over. Extra care must
betaken that not only the birds are kept clean, but every crack and crevice
should be purified as well. Use LICECIL as indicated and in a few days
your entire flock and hen house will be rid of every louse and mite.

How to use LICECIL

Simply put a few drops in the nest and on the roosts, hang the uncovered
bottle in coop or hen house. The powerful evaporating vapors which leave
the bottle descending in mist form penetrate feathers, cracks, crevices
j everywhere. Lice, mites, chiggers, roaches, bed bugs, ants, etc., have no
lungs. They breathe through the pores of the body and are destroyed
by LICECIL vapors. Will not injure chicks. Testimonials from
every State int he Union tell of wonderful results from its use.

Give it a Fair Trial

If you prefer to fight poultry pests in the old way— it Is cer-
tainly your privilege to do so. But your own best interest,
^and the success others are having, will lead you to give
LICECILafair, honest trial at the earliestopportunity.

1 Bottle, $1.00 — 3 Bottles $2.50
12 Bottles $9.00 — All Postpaid

AMERICAN SUPPLY CO.
DEPT. P. K.

Quincy, Illinois

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American Supply Co.,
Quincy, IU.,
Dear Sirs:

Enclosed please find $2.50 for 3
bottles of the Licecil. With great
success I have used it and am more
than pleased with it.

I have no more trouble with lice.
It is the first thing I have got that
I could and would gladly recommend
it to any person.

MBS. P. L. KARNS,

Riverside Dr.

Madrid, Nebr., Mar. 15, 1922.
American Supply Co.,
Quincy, 111.
Dear Sirs:

Find enclosed check for four dol-
lars ($4.00) for which send me one
gallon of Licecil.

I used 3 bottles of Licecil last
summer, and think it is the best louse
and mite killer I ever us-'d.
Yours truly,

EMIL BENSON,
R. F. D. No. 2. Madrid, Nebr.

Chicken Mites Filled
With the Life Blood THE END
of Fahhful Hens. "

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Vol. XXXIX

JUNE, 1922

No. 3

Marketing Eggs by Parcel Post

There are many who are so lo-
cated that they simply cannot afford
to sell their eggs to the corner
grocery and let him deal them out
and make a profit of from two to
five cents on each dozen. Where
one has to take out in trade, the
price of the eggs, he often buys
things which he does not need or
want and he would be money ahead
in every way if he were to sell the
eggs direct to the consumer. This
is a regular bug-bear with some but
with most wide awake breeders they
find that after they once get a trade
worked up that it is money in their
pocket. If you are so placed that
you have a large supply of eggs and
cannot get a decent price otherwise
— then try out marketing them by
parcel post, direct to the consumer.
We really believe that you will find
this method so satisfactory that you
will never consider going back to the
old plan.

We all know that good breeding
and proper feeding are essential if
we are to get the maximum of eggs
from our flock. That conclusion was
reached a long time ago and we have
been studying how to reach this goal
of perfection in breeding and feeding.
Suppose we do get a large supply of
eggs. Unless our marketing of these
eggs is right we will find the profits
on the wrong side of the ledger. Good
marketing is fully as important as
good breeding. We must not only
know how to market but we must be
able to really sell our product to the
very best advantage. To some poul-
trymen the margin of difference may
be slight but even this may be the
difference between success and fail-
ure. Usually the margin of gain is
by far greater when eggs are shipped
by parcel post and that is the main
reason for doing it. In large con-
cerns they watch every fraction of
profit and nothing is lost which it
is able to save. Being so well man-
aged they are able to sell on a small
margin, make money and yet give
their customers a first class article.
So it should be with the commercial
egg farm. The poultryman should

By F. RAYMOND BENSON

watch every nook and corner for
profits and let not one jot escape his
Watchful eye. Make everything
count.

The commercial egg farmer should
really live within fifty or one hun-
dred miles of his market. This is
not absolutely imperative but if he
has this advantage he will find as
the years pass that it has a real foun-
dation in fact. Being close to his
customers he can get the eggs to
them while they are still fresh. This
is an important item. Eggs may be
shipped the same day they are laid
if it seems best. This would give
one an excellent argument. Then
the cost of transportation would be
extremely low if one lived but fifty
miles from the market.

There is absolutely no excuse for
selling just a common fresh egg by
parcel post. There is neither money
in it or any satisfaction from carry-
ing on such a business. If you are
going to sell eggs by parcel post you
should make up your mind to sell
the very highest grade eggs which
your skill will enable you to pro-
duce. The quality should be far
above the average egg. Have your
eggs so good that the difference will
be noticable. It follows that with
such high quality you will expect, a
high price for your eggs. In fact
you must insist that they are worth
it and demand a good price for your
product. You should cater to the
customer who wants a high grade
article and can afford to pay for it.
If he can afford to pay for it you
can afford to take the necessary ex-
tra care to see that he gets what he
is willing to pay for. It will cost
more to produce extra grade eggs.
The fowls must be kept in clean
houses. This requires better houses
and more labor to keep them clean
and sanitary. The fowls must also
be fed clean, hard, sweet grain.
Greater care must be taken to see
that nothing shall enter into the ra-
tion which will affect the flavor of
the eggs to their detriment, such as
onions or garlic. Sometimes one is
tempted to buy some second grade

feed because of the saving but in
the end it will be found by far the
best rule to buy good grain no mat-
ter what the price. You simply can-
not produce high grade eggs from
second grade feeds. The eggs should
be laid in clean nests and never ship
an egg which is stained or discolored
in any way. Often such eggs may
be washed but sometimes the dis-
coloration will not come out and the
only thing to do is to use the eggs
at home. You should not have many
such eggs but in case you do it might
be possible to dispose of them to
bakers at reduced prices. Excelsior
sometimes stains eggs and we have
found that clean straw is about the
best nest material after all. Change
it often enough so that it may al-
ways be clean and fresh. Eggs should
be gathered at least twice a day and
usually four times a day is better.
During cold weather they must not
be allowed to freeze and in the heat
of summer they will start to incu-
bate very soon if left for any length
of time. After gathering them take
them to the basement and grade
them. Always ship as soon as pos-
sible. Many customers demand a
large egg and see to it that all eggs
are of the same size and color. Eggs
of different colored shells make a
very unattractive appearance and al-
most all poultrymen have learned
the advantage of sorting eggs for
color. Usually it would be well to
candle them to make sure that they
are alright and pack carefully so
that they may reach the customer
not later than the second day after
they are laid. Customers who are
willing to pay a good price for eggs
usually know what good quality is
and require that the eggs. must be
delivered before they have an oppor-
tunity to become stale. The sooner
they can be shipped after being laid
the better.

The true egg farmer will have
pride in the quality of his product.
He will use diligence to see that
nothing leaves his farm which is not
strictly in accord with his rules and
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PRODUCE INFERTILE EGGS
IN SUMMER

The farmer looses a tidy sum each
summer by way of spoiled eggs. Per-
haps if he actually knew just how
this came about he might be more
willing to remedy the matter.

What causes an egg to rot?

In each fertile egg there is the
germ - of life in a dormant state.
When the temperature of the egg is
raised to 95 degrees, incubation
starts and the germ begins to devel-
ope. When the temperature later
falls below 95 degrees for any
length of time, the germ dies. It
becomes a dead embroye. The pro-
cessess of putrefaction set in or in
other words, it rots. One hot sum-
mer day will start incubation or a
hen setting twelve hours will give
the same results. Unless such eggs
are used immediately they will be-
come unfit for human consumption.

The remedy appears to be simply
in not allowing the eggs to become
overheated. This is easily said but
the farmer knows that it is almost
an impossibility.

The next solution is to produce
eggs in which the germ is absent or
in other words, infertile eggs. After
the breeding season no male is need-
ed and his presence is a detriment
to the eggs produced. Dispose of the
rooster and produce eggs which will
keep, during the hot weather.

DOES IT PAY TO BUY
PULLETS

Each year many breeders advertise
pullets of two to three months, for
sale. A question which confronts
many is whether it really pays to buy
such pullets or to raise them at
home.

There are two view points in this
matter. Let us suppose you wish
pullets for early fall and winter lay-
ing. Perhaps you do not care much

as to the exhibition qualities of the
fowls but you wish healthy, quick
maturing layers. If such be your
demands and you are handicapped for
facilities or time to raise them, then
the pullets can be purchased from
some large grower who has large
range and makes a specialty of this
business of starting pullets. Perhaps
such a pullet producer may have
such excellent facilities that he may
be able to produce and sell these
pullets for less than you could raise
them. If you can buy them for less
than you can raise them it is to your
advantage to buy them.

Should you aspire to a show record
you will hardly want to buy pullets
from the commercial grower. He can-
not give sufficient time to the mating
of his fowls to assure you of quality
which would warrant showing. We
believe the person who wishes to win
the blue will continue to raise his
own pullets.

The commercial pullet grower is
coming to the front. He is a special-
ist and as such can do his work bet-
ter and cheaper than the average
poultryman. This line will make a
fine opportunity for one to try his
ability.

IT PAYS TO READ

Those who are priviledged to know
successful poultrymen — the men who
do business on a large scale, will tell
you that one of the fundamental re-
quirements is a knowledge of the
poultry industry as viewed by our
Experiment Stations and leading au-
thorities. In other words it is nec-
essary to study and keep abreast
with conditions as they present them-
selves.

Every poultryman should own and
read the best books he can secure.
It is a lamentable fact that very few
of our public libraries have suitable
books on the subject of poultry. This
is largely due to the fact that those
who purchase the books are ignorant
of the needs of the poultryman. Each
poultryman must buy his own books
and it is well to obtain the assistance
of some experienced poultryman to
aid in their selection. Some feel that
they cannot afford to put a lot of
money in books but we strongly
recommend that they purchase one
or two books each year and not try
to buy a whole library at once. A
few dollars spent in this manner will
bring the biggest dividends you ever
had and you will find your interests
growing constantly.

In choosing your reading matter
do not loose sight of the poultry
journals. They give you the best in-
formation obtainable. It is given in
consise form and boiled down. One
of the greatest advantages of the
poultry journals is that they give you
advance information. More than one
poultryman has been successful be-
cause he was the constant reader of
a good poultry journal.

The advantage of the Question and
Answer Department such as is found
in POULTRY KEEPER is of untold
value to breeders. It gives the best
and most reliable information to any
reader on any subject pertaining to
poultry.

Remember that you can buy in-

formation cheaper than you can gain
it by the hard road of experience.

YES SIR, THEY NEED SHADE

Last summer we dropped in to see
a friend who had some chicks which
were not doing well. "Lack of
shade," we told him. We saw a
sneer come over his face. "But it
isn't that hot," he replied.

Just then a tire on his car which
had been standing close by, blowed
up with a report which startled both
of us.

He looked at the tire, then at us.
Not a word was said but the explo-
sion of that tire convinced him that
it "was that hot."

When the sun is beating down hot
and you realize that summer is here
in dead earnest, don't forget that
your chicks need protection or some
day you will realize that your little
fellows are not doing well. Put
yourself in the place of your chicks
and see how you would like to stay
out in the boiling sun all day.
. Feed sacks can be stretched in
such a manner so that shade can be
provided. Sunflowers help or even
corn will make shade. Almost any
kind of bush will help or if you want
to plant trees, the most popular is
the plum tree.

Protection from the sun is neces-
sary during the summer and the ol-
der fowls will enjoy it fully as much
as the chicks.

A VACATION HELPS

We have seen men who did not be-
lieve in vacations. They kept plug-
ging away and then one day the
break came and — well maybe the un-
dertaker got a job.

We believe in work. It is better
than a tonic and it keeps the world
moving but we all need to relax
once in awhile. Some people take
too many vacations. Some try to
make life a continuous vacation. It
is best not to go to extremes but
one feels tired, take a day off and
gc-t things out of your system. Often
farmers, who have boys of their own,
make a mistake in keeping them on
the job continually. Give them a day
off now and then and let them know
that you expect them to enjoy the
rest, but of course do not encourage
them to have the wrong attitude
towards it.

Work on a poultry farm is espec-
ially trying and every poultryman
should plan a vacation occasionally.
A pouitryman must do the same work
day after day. He gets little variety
and the sameness causes fatigue.

Try giving the men a vacation now
end then and see if they do not do
better work, more of it and with a
better spirit. Remember that you
are entitled to a vacation as much as
anyone. The boss needs a rest along
with the rest of the workers. A
tired body or mind will not work as
well as one that is fresh and full of
pep.

A GOOD DOG NECESSARY

We picked up the daily paper to-
day and learn that a poultryman west
of town lost 35 pullets and 5 cock-

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Page Number 5

rerels in one night. Someone broke
into the poultry house and helped
Themselves to the fowls. This is be-
ing duplicated all over the land and
could be prevented to a large extent
by using due precaution.

There are many methods of lock-
ing the poultry coop and some use
electric bells to inform them of the
presence of chicken thieves. All
these schemes are useful and find
their uses but one of the best and
most reliable alarms is a good watch
dog.

There are good dogs, indifferent
dogs and curs. If you are so unfor-
tunate as to own a cur — well you
will not be a very enthusiastic sup-
porter of the dog. Buy a good dog
and train him properly and you may
rest assured that no one will attempt
to rob your chicken coop. We pre-
fer giving the dog his freedom. Let
him have his run so in case anyone
does come around he can get at them.

Personally we very much admire
a fine dog but we warn our readers
not to be influenced by stories which
run in popular magazines. These
stories may be good reading but may
not be founded on fact. No one
breed is superior. All have their
good points.

A WATERING SYSTEM
SAVES LABOR

A few weeks ago the writer broke
away from his labors, (you see we
take a vacation once in awhile) and
run out to visit a nearby commercial
egg farm. Among the many features
which attracted our attention was the
watering system. We spoke to the
owner of it and he repiled, "If I had
to run this plant without my present
watering system, I would quite. I
simply could not carry water for all
these birds and give them proper
care."

His system was original but has
proven so useful that we will describe
it. To start with he has a pressure
tank in the basement of the resi-
dence. This tank supplies the house
with water as well as the poultry
house. Being piped into each pen a
faucet is provided which can be
turned on so that a constant supply
of water is kept in the drinking dish.
In case too much water is turned on
and the dish becomes full, an over-
flow pipe is provided and the sur-
plus is carried to a sewer and thus
away from the house. The cost of
installation is much reduced when
one can do the work himself and the
labor it saves will soon pay for it.

If you keep quite a number of
fowls we feel sure that such a sys-
tem may be used to advantage. If
the pressure system does not seem
best a tank may be placed in the
wind mill tower. The main idea is
to give the fowls a constant and am-
ple supply of fresh water with as lit-
tle labor as possible.

RHODE ISLAND REDS
By D. E. Hale

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Fully illustrated, inclndine a fine color plate
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Rose or Single Comb?

1. Does the Single Comb Rhode Island Red
lay better than the Rose Comb?

2. How about the Brown Leghorns? Is
there any difference in the Rose and Single
Combs?

H. M., "Wisconsin.

1. There is not supposed to be
any difference between the Single
and Rose Comb but in the far north
or where it gets real cold in winter
I believe the Rose Combs would have
the best of it. We found the Rose
Comb could resist more cold weather
and of course you know what hap-
pens to a frozen comb and the egg
yield.

2. The same would apply to the
Brown Leghorn except that I believe
the Single Comb has been bred for
egg production more than the Rose
Comb. ;

Scaly Legs Come Back Again

Will you please tell me the cause of scaly >
legs on chickens and what to do for it?

G. G-., Jr., Florida.

Scaly legs are caused by a small j
rascal which burrows under the
scales on the legs of fowls and I be-
lieve that he gets his first start in
conditions which are not sanitary
about the poultry house and yard.
Clean up everything and spray and
keep things sanitary. Any fowls
which show a bad case of scaly legs
can be helped by washing the legs
in soap and water. Take a tooth pick
and clean under the scales. Just
clean the legs up as good as you
know how. Then dip the whole shank
into kerosene being very careful not
to get any on the skin or feathers.
We prefer to treat fowls in the
morning. You may have to treat
several times but it will stop the
trouble. After you have it coming
alright, apply vaseline and keep
shanks well greased for sometime.

„ Remedy for Egg Eaters

Miss E. V. of Maine kindly sends
the following note for which we wish
to thank her and we pass it on to
our readers knowing that they will
be glad to know a remedy for egg
eaters.

"Yours received last eve and please
accept nsy thanks for your kindness.
I have a cure for hens that eat eggs,
Give a little vinegar in the wet mash.
One feed will stop them."

Broken Egg in Hen

We would like your advice as to what causes
our hens to die. We loose on an average of one
a month. An egg seems to break in the oviduct
and the hen dies. We like POULTRY KEEPER
fine. Lots of advice in it.

W. P. B., Dlinois.

A broken egg in a hen will cause
death usually unless means are taken
to remove the egg. This can be done
by injecting sweet of olive oil. Then
oil the finger and gently remove
broken shell. This demands care for
injury will result in death. I pre-
sume the cause of this is that your
hens are too fat. Corn should be
reduced in the ration at this time of
the year. Sometimes hens lay so
heavily that'tliey weaken the organs

F. Raymond Benson

so that the shell is extremely thin
or perhaps not enough oyster shell is
provided to make the shells.

Tomatoes and Eggs

1. Please be so kind as to let me know In
your next issue if ripe tomatoes are harmful
to egg production.

2. What causes crooked breasts in my

roosters?

J. E. W., New Jersey.

1. We have fed ripe tomatoes to
poultry for years and never knew
that it harmed them in any way. We
have nothing in our files to indicate
otherwise. Have any of our readers
had any experience along this line?

2.. Lack of bone forming material
and roosting too young will cause
this trouble. It is easily remedied.
Use a wide roost, don't let them go
to roosting too early and feed plenty
of bone forming material. Come
again when you need our help.

Indigestion and Remedy

My flock seems to be having trouble with
indigestion and I wonder if you could give me
a remedy through the Question and Answer De-
partment of POULTRY KEEPER? Our whole
family "enjoys reading your good articles.

E. B., Illinois.

Correct ration first and then give

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Prevention ia better than cure. Keep
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 7

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charcoal in hopper so that fowls may
have all that they need. We think
charcoal a great help in keeping the
digestive machine in good order. If
constipation is present a half tea-
spoonful of Epsom salts in water will
remedy. This dose is for each fowl.
No doubt your ration is sadly at fault
and perhaps you are over feeding.

How Long to Hatch

Will you kindly tell us through the POULTRY
KEEPER just how long a hen has to set before
she hatches ? You see we are quite green in
the chicken business.

A. D. L., Iowa.

It takes three weeks to incubate
chicken eggs. Sometimes they will
hatch the 19th or 20th day but that
is only a sign that the hen set well
and the eggs were strongly fertile.
Weak germed eggs may run over a
day. Drop us a line on any question
and we will help you out. You are
a beginner and not green at all. We
all have to learn sometime. Come
again.

Several Questions

1. If it is necessary to air eggs why is it
that if j r ou feed a sitting hen on the nest she
will not come off?

2. Why is it that pigeons who do not cover
their eggs, take turns, the male and female
covering the eggs?

3. If necessary to air, why do geese bury
their eggs when they leave the nest?

4. If necessary to air why is it that the
hen which spends the least time off the nest,
makes the best hatch?

5. Why should the young of poultry be aired
any more than the young of beast?

6. Why is it that one hen builds her nest
under a barn in the damp and another in the
gabel of a barn and' both bring off equally
good hatches?

7. Last spring I had two machines of the
same principle and in one I sprinkled the eggs
while the other I did not, yet the hatch was
about the same.

8. A. man -told me a Kantam. hen which
stole her nest in the boiler room and laid near
the boiler. The lien being killed and the eggs
being in a place where they could not get them
they were left and soon hatched out five chicks.
Whv is this if the eggs need much turning-?

L. C. L., Ohio.

1. If you let nature take its course
the hen will get off and eat. If you
entice her to stay on the nest by
feeding her while she is on the nest
you are aborting nature's plans.

2. The pigeon may be called a
fowl of the air while the hen is dif-
ferent. Many birds take turns in set-
ting on the eggs. Perhaps the roost-
er did in its wild jungle state, of
that we cannot say, but certain it is
he would have a busy time if he tried
to do so under present conditions.

3. Any fowl which covers up the
eggs while it leaves the nest does so
more for protection than from the
desire to keep the eggs warm or not
wanting to air them.

4. It is not true the hen which
spends the least time off the nest
brings forth the best hatch. Much
depends on the eggs, weather and
general conditions so that we have
seen a hen hatch well which seemed
to be shirking the task before her.

5. I do not know that we have
advocated that the chicks be aired
as you call it. We advocate fresh air
as a healthful proposition. It is not
fair to compare a fowl and a beast,
they belong to different families.

6. Again we do not believe that
this is a fair statement. The hen
which builds her nest on the ground
will usually hatch the best but one
must take into consideration the gen-
eral conditions. In damp weather
the hen in the hay mow might hatch
well while in dry weather she might
not.

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Page Number 8

THE POULTRY KEEPER

SELL YOUR
EGGS NOW

Put Them Down In K. & G. Egg Pre-
servative. Get High Winter Prices
for Cheap Summer Eggs

Why sell egfrs for onlj 20c a dozen or less?
Preserve them now in K. & G. Next winter,
when eggs are 60o a dozen or more, you will
have plenty of eggs to eat ana to sell. Fresh,
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Reasonable Reduced Pi-ices for June.

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Wants Chick Feed

1. Will you please tell me how to mix a
good chick feed? I know you like the com-
mercial feed the best but they want almost
S4.00 per 100 pounds.

'2. How many hens should I have with one
rooster ?

3. Are pullet eggs or two year old Jien eggs
the best for hatching ?

G. H. G.

1. Sorry you did not give your
state so we could tell more what kind
of a ration you need. As it is we
can only guess. We will give you the
New Jersey Ration. For scratch
they suggest fine cracked corn 4 0
pounds and rolled oats 20 pounds.
For a dry mash, wheat bran 50
pounds, gluten feed 10 pounds, corn
meal 10 pounds, ground oats 10
pounds, meat scrap 10 pounds and
granulated bone 10 pounds. Of course
grit, charcoal and water will be be-
fore them at all times.

2. You did not mention the breed
you keep so we cannot help you.

3. We prefer the eggs from two
year old breeders as they are more
apt to be fertile and hatch stronger
chicks.

White Campines

What arc the White Campines like. I never
saw anv.

E. J. R., New York.

Personally I think they are just
about White Leghorns and I doubt if
they ever get into the Standard.

Cabbage for Poultry

Do you believe in feeding cabbage to poultry?

P. I*. J., niinois.

Cabbage makes an excellent feed

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

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for poultry and we would feed it
quite extensively but it is so high to
buy and we do not have the room
to grow it. If you can produce it
yourself we believe it would be well
to put some away for winter use.

Trapnest in Spring

Would it be of any value for me to trap-
nest my fowls in the early spring?

A. A. K. , AVisconsin.

If you could trapnest during the
winter and early spring you could lo-
cate the hens which were winter pro-
ducers and it would be a good plan
to use them as breeders. We do not
believe in using the non-producers in
the breeding pens.

How Long to Pei-fect Strain

advertises the

Ktrain and I personally know that he has only
been a breeder for three years. How can he
advertise this way. How long does it take to
perfect a Strain?

B. H. F., Illinois.

I saw this same ad and wondered
at it for I too knew the advertiser
had not been breeding poultry over
three years. A strain cannot be pro-
duced in a day. It takes years to
stamp certain features upon the
breeding stock so that they will re-
produce these features. It is unfair
to advertise a Strain unless a breeder
has such and the time will come
when such advertising will be looked
into and refused.

MISSOURI STATE FAIR

The State Fairs will soon be here
again and it's high time to begin
bringing some of your birds around
at the right time as the winnings
are worth while and every breeder
in their respective states should have
pride enough in their State Fairs to
make an exhibit.

Missouri will hold its State Fair
on August 19th to 2 6th. Don't for-
get the dates. There is no better

balanced pure-bred poultry state in
the Union than Missouri. For this
reason the Missouri State Fair held
at Sedalia always brings out a large
entry of choice birds, bred by the
best breeders in Missouri and sur-
rounding states.

Judge V. O. Hobbs has again been
drafted to Superintend the Poultry
Department. It has been said of
Judge Hobbs, by his intimate friends,
that he never asks for any position,
but that he is lucky and these places
of honor just strike him. However,
Judge Hobbs is recognized, not only
in his community as a man of ability,
but he truly is a man of rare intel-
lectual attainments and extensive
business experience. The Missouri
Fair Board claimed that the Poultry
Department was the best conducted
of any Department of the Fair last
year and were unanimously all in
one when Judge Hobbs was men-
tioned for Superintendent of the
Poultry Department for this year.

We are not informed at this time
who the Judges and Assistants will
be, but you can rest assured that the
State Fair in Missouri will be a suc-
cess in every way, let it be few or
many birds as no job is too big for
the management of this Great State
Institution.

Let's hope we may meet you at
the Missouri State Fair.

With their BCissor-like jaws they bite constantly
— thousands of them at one time— irritating the
fowl almost beyond endurance, robbing it of blood
and rest, cutting down its vitality and rendering
1 1 an easy prey todisease. No wonder lousy chick-
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When a fowl seems restless and picks at itself,
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Page Number 10

THE POULTRY KEEPER

KILL THEM ALL

Every Rat and Mouse easily des-
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Absolute freedom from rats and mice is now
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MARKETING EGGS BY PARCEL
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(Continued from Page 3)

Hick's Rat Killer Kills every rat or mouse
on your place. Most wonderful of all it does
not harm anything but rats, mice, gophers
and other rodents. It is harmless to children,
pets, poultry and all kinds of stock. It can
be spread anywhere and will kill only rats
and mice. This death bringing disease rapidly
spreads and quickly destroys all the rats and
mice. There is no smell or odor for they run
outside for water and die away from the
building.

A Trial Costs You Nothing

Mr. Hick is offering everyone troubled with
these pests the chance to get rid of them
at no cost to themselves. He will send three
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the price of one. You, keep one for yourself;
the other two you sell to your neighbors at
one dollar each, thus getting your own free
and in addition making a dollar profit. Send
$1.00 today (currency, money order, check,
etc.) to Chas. H. Hick & Co., Dept. 1305,
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Barred Rock

Baby Chicks

And AR Other Standard Varieties.

I make a specialty of Barred Rock chicks and
I can guarantee my customers that they will
be more than satisfied if they order chlx from
me, as I keep nothing but the choicest of
birds in my flocks, and they are culled each
year for high egg production. Every customer
ordering from me must be satisfied or money
will be cheerfully refunded. Barred Rock
chicks $16.50 per hundred.

FRED YUNKER, Dakota, Illinois

regulations governing the same and
of course knowing that his eggs are
high grade he will feel it a duty to
keep his reputation as spotless and
free from questionable dealings as
possible. Sometimes you may feel
compelled to purchase eggs from
neighbors to fill out orders but re-
member your reputation and never
for an instant loose sight of the fact
that one dozen poor eggs may ruin
thousands of dollars worth of bus-
iness for you and besides your repu-
tation will be on trial.

When you know that the quality
of your product is the best you know
how to produce, then and not until
then should you attempt to find a
parcel post market. Often poultry-
men fail simply because they go out
and hunt up a market and are not
able to supply this market with the
quality of eggs which it requires.
That means a loss of customers and
when you do get where you can pro-
duce a good article you will find it
difficult to secure another market.
The question is just how to get in
touch with the class of trade which
you wish to encourage. One good
way is to go to a high grade ladies
tailor and try to make a proposition
to him which will enable you to cir-
culize his list of customers. For that
matter you could use the list of any
high grade merchant. The daily pa-
pers may also be used to acquaint
the public with what you have to sell.
After you have a list of names write
personal letters and explain in detail
the safe-guards you are using to in-
sure perfectly fresh, clean, sanitary
eggs and solicite their orders on the
basis of having a superior article.
Urge the point that you are using the
finest, hard, clean grain and purest
water and it follows that only the
best quality can be produced under
such conditions. Invite inspection and
when any visitors come, be sure to
show them every attention and con-
stantly call their attention to the san-
itary coops, the sweet, clean feeds
and the guarantee that the eggs are

FEED FOR QUICK GROWTH

MARTIN'S REGALS

HALF PRICE EGG SALE

For the balance of the season all eggs
will be sold at half price as follows:

Pens 1-10 (Exhibi-
tion M a t i n g s)
$5.00 per 15,
$14.00 per 50,
$25.00 per 100.

Pens 11-20 — $3.00
per 15, $9.00 per
50, $17.00 per 100.
Pens 21-40 (Dor-
cas) $2.50 per 15,
$7.50 per 50,
$13.50 per 100.

All eggs guaranteed 75% or over strongly fertilized. These remark-
ably low prices wil make a very heavvy demand for the balance of the
season. Rush your order direct from this ad, and produce some of
AMERICA'S FINEST WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Free — Send for Catalogue and Slimmer Sale List, ready now.

JOHN S. MARTIN, Box 408, Port Dover, Ont., Can.

Pens 25-32 (Special
Dorcas) $5.00 _per
15, $14.00 per 50,
$25.00 per 100.

All-Star Matings —
$10.00 and $12.50
per 15.

Utility Matings as
they run — $10.00
per 100.

Save Feed — Prevent Lice and Mites

This is the time of the year every
poultry raiser should look ahead to
plan for big profits for next fall and
winter. It is the early fall and win-
ter eggs that make best poultry prof-
its. A little time taken now to ap-
ply tested methods means many dol-
lars later. Best methods should be
used to feed for quick growth and
save feed. Even at the present low
grain prices, feeds should not be
wasted. Don't
lose money ex-
p e r imenting.
Take advant-
age of what
others have
proven by
years of costly
effort. Every
poultry raiser
should read
"Dollars and
Sense in the
Poultry Busi-
ness" by Prof.
T. E. Quisen-
herry, one of
America's foremost poultry authori-
ties. This new 9 6 page book will be
sent free to any reader of this paper.
This free book outlines methods:
How to prevent lice and mites.
How to treat chick diseases.
How to develop chicks to early
layers.

How to grow chicks quickly and
save feed.

And hundreds of other useful poul-
try secrets and methods.

Write today. A post card will
bring you this valuable free book at
once. Just send your name and ad-
dress to the American Poultry
School, Dept. 4017, Kansas City,
Missouri.

the best that your skill can produce.
The first few customers is a problem.
After you get a few customers they
will tell their friends and the result
will be that you will soon have a
waiting list. One poultryman played
up the waiting list in such a manner
that prospective customers felt they
were priviledged when they were
placed on the list of regular cus-
tomers.

The next problem which confronts
you is the kind of a shipping box to
use. There are many boxes on the
market, good, bad and indifferent.
For permanent customers the metal
box has proven quite satisfactory- Of
course you want such boxes returned
and as they have a reversible address
card it makes this easy. These boxes
may be used for years and while the
first cost is greater than the common
box, yet the service they give makes
them the cheapest in the end. If the
customer does not want to bother to
return the box or is not reliable so
that you care to ship in the metal
box, you might use the corrugated
paper boxes which do quite well. The
packages should reach the customer
in a satisfactory condition, no eggs
should be broken and that should be
the first aim. The second should be
the appearance of the eggs. No
slouchy package should be sent out.
Make the package look attractive and

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 11

Science Discovers
Greatest Lice Killer

Changes Old Methods. No Dusting or Spraying.
Birds Delouse Themselves. Gives Lasting Relief.

A recent discovery promises to revolutionize
all the methods accepted up to now for keep-
ing poultry free from lice and mites. This
wonderful lice killer keeps the birds always
lice free without the poultry raiser doing any
work. It is the simplest, easiest, surest and
best method ever discovered.

Hick's Lice Kill, which is the name of this
sensational lice killer, is added to the chunk-
ing water. The medicine taken into the sys-
tem of the bird comes out through the pores
and every louse or mite dies or leaves the
body. It does not injure the hatchability or
flavor of the eggs or meat; is harmless to
chicks and does not affect the plumage. A
few days treatment at the start and then a
little in the drinking water each .month.

A Trial Costs You Nothing

So confident is Mr. Hicks that Hick's Lice
Kill will kill every louse or mite, that lie is
making a special guaranteed offer of two
regular full sized, double strength, $1.00 bot-
tles and a regular $1.00 package of Hick's
Egg-Lay Tablets all for $1.00. Use one bot-
tle yourself and sell the other at one dollar,
thus getting your own free. Send $1.00 today
(currency, money order, check, etc) to Chas.
M. Hick & Co., Dept 375, 1018 S. Wabash
Ave., Chicago, 111. If you prefer, send no
money just your name and address, and pay
postman $1.00 and postage on delivery. If
after two weeks trial you are not absolutely
satisfied, write Mr. Hick and your money will
be refunded.

neat. The appearance may not make
the eggs any better but it is certain
to give the customer a good impres-
sion and it will go a long way toward
keeping him.

Many otherwise successful egg
farms fail when it comes to the busi-
ness end or in other words the keep-
ing of records. It is quite true that
this takes some time but if you ex-
pect to make collections you must
send out statements promptly on the
first of the month. This requires
that records be kept so that the state-
ments may be sent regularly. A large
percentage of your customers will be
business men and nothing will make
them angry sooner than to find a
fellow is lax in his business meth-
ods. Your eggs may suit him exact-
ly but he must have the statements
in a business like manner. Some
seem to think that the keeping of
records is a difficult task. Such is
not the case at all. In fact the hard-
est part of it is the getting at it.
We recommend a memorandum book
in which the transactions of the day
are jotted down. At night these are
put in the journal and then posted to
a ledger. Probably five or ten min-
utes at night will attend to all this
matter and perhaps the good wife
would be willing to do this work for
you. Some keep a three column
journal, putting sales in the first
column, purchases in the second and
net profit in the third column. In
this way you know at a glance just
how you stand with the world.

The selling of eggs is a business
and should be conducted on that bas-
is. If you supply a superior article
and put it up in attractive form, you

will eventually find that you will
have more customers than you can
handle. This has been the case with
many others and there is every rea-
son to believe that it will be dupli-
cated in your case.

QUALITY BABY CHICKS

We are sure our readers would
value very highly the splendid 32
page illustrated catologue which is
sent free for the asking by the Mis-
souri Poultry Farms, Columbia, Mo.
These people have 20,000 breeders
bred exclusively for high egg pro-
duction, each selected by the Hogan
test and including the popular var-
ieties of Leghorns, Rocks, Reds, Or-
pingtons, Wyandottes. and Anconas.
They have an incubator capacity of
10,000 eggs per day. They guaran-
tee live arrival and will be glad to
hear from any of our readers who
care for a copy of their catalogue.

BUFF ORPINGTONS

Lewis Clevenger, Linneus, Mo., is
offering some of his breeding stock
at remarkably low prices at this time.
This will be a splendid opportunity
for Orpington breeders to secure
some splendid breeders of the single
comb variety. Look up his ad in
another part of this issue.

MAKE UP A CLUB

Make up a club of your own,
choosing the papers or magazines you
want to take. Write and let me
quote a special price. I can save you
considerable money on your subscrip-
tions. A. Otis Arnold. Quincy, 111.

SUPER SOL-HOT
Heater for Canopy
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The Super Sol-Hot is the only heater on the mar-
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the time. Acquaint yourself with the Super Sol-Hot
before next sea-on. Write now for free descriptive
folder. We'll alsosend you folder telling all about my

Sectional Incubator

The Multi-dek "add a section as you need it" idea
]u=t exactly fits hi with the average poultry raisers'
requirements, 250 to 3000 egg capacitv, furnished
complete, ready to set up, or vou can build it your-
self from set of plans we furnish free. A big winner.
Write for tree folde

H. M. SHEER CO.
Dept. 28 QUINCY, ILL

When "writing advertisers please mention
tliis paper.

QUALITY BABY CHICKS

LARGE PRODUCTION enables us to sell quality
chicks at price of common hatchery product

INCUBATOR CAPACITY 10,000 eggs each day,
all eggs used are from these flocks.

Our 32-page illustrated catalogue is free, and gives
valuable information on care of chicks and poultry.

Hatching eggs in season at very reasonable prices.
Chicks shipped by parcel post prepaid, live arrival
guaranteed.

MISSOURI POULTRY FARMS,

Columbia, Mo.

Lady Layer

Laid 326 Efcfes
in One
i Year

HALF PRICES
on Eggs and Chicks

from PURITAS SPRINGS
WORLD'S GREATEST

Trapnested Winter- Laying Strain of

S, G. White Leghorns

THEY LAY IN WINTER You want a laying strain of Single Comb White Leghorns. They
^— — ^ — — ^ are the most profitable. Puritas Springs Leghorns are known
the world over for their heavy laying. They lay in Winter as well as in summer. They lay large
white eggs, which bring highest market prices. Get our eggs and chicks now at half price. We
Will make prompt delivery. 8 to 12 weeks old pullets are also good buy. We have a grand lot of
them, hundreds of them are sold but we have thousands. But remember, they sell like hot cakes.
Puritas Springs Leghorns have been trapnested for 10 years without missing one day. Is it any
wonder that they lay? Our catalog tells all about them. Send for our half-price list on eggs and
day old chicks. Please mention if you have our catalog.

Puritas Springs Poultry Farm, Box P-111, Avon Lake, Ohio l;^ r ^ E f f K, B 0 ( ^ , > r - ] gSi

Page Number 12

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Wipe Out Every
Rat and Mouse

Amazing Xew Discovery Quickly Kills
Them All. Not a Poison.

Rats, Jliee, Gophers — in fact all Rodents can
now be wiped out easily and quickly. Imperial
Virus will do it. This new discovery, is a
fluid, true A'irus. Entirely harmless to hu-
mans, poultry, stock, pets, etc-.

Infects Rodents only. Greedily eaten on bait.
Sets up burning fever. The pests communicate
it to others, and all die outside, hunting air
and water. Imperial Virus is put up in sealed
bottles, thus insuring full strength and potency.
Only- safe, sanitary method to overcome these
pests. Protect your Poultry, especially Baby
Chicks and Egg Hatches.

YOU CAN GET YOURS FREE

Hi-re's how! Send $1.00 today (currency,
it. O. Checks, etc) and we will give you
by return mail, postpaid. two regular, full
sized I double strength) $1.00 bottles of Im-
perial Virus. Use one to - rid your place of
these pests, and sell the other to a neighbor,
thus getting yours free. Special inducement to
represent us.

If more convenient, send no money. just
your name and address to Imperial " Labora-
tories, Dept 8-11, 2110 Grand Are., Kansas
City, Mo., Pay postman si. 00 and few cents
postage when two bottles arrive. Guaranteed
to do the work to your entire satisfaction
within 30 days or your SI. 00 will be cheer-
fully refunded.

Oat Sprouter $2.49

For .$2.49, including heater, you can make the
best oat sprouter on earth. Plans for building. 10c
I. PUTNAM, Route 624-0, ELMIRA. N. Y.

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Customers report hens as laying 280
eggs a year from our stock.

Get our famous blood lines of
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Get our low prices first, before ordering.
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JUNE. JULY, AUGUST PRICES.

Assorted _ .? 9.00 — 100

"White and Brown Leghorns 11.00 — 100

Anconas _ 12.00—100

Barred Rocks _ 13.00—100

S. C. Reds _ _ 13.00 — 100

R. C. Reds 14.00—100

White Rocks 15.00—100

White Wyandottes 16.00—100

Black Minorcas _ 16.00 — 100

Buff Orpingtons _ 17.00 — 100

TIMELY TOPICS

Readers are asked to co-operate in making this Department
interesting by sending in suitable items to, F. Raymond
Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

Xo Brains

The shades of night were falling fast,.
The fool "stepped on it" and rushed
past.

A crash — he died without a sound;
They opened up his head and found
Excelsior!

— Boston Transcript.

* • ■ •

A year book has been issued by the
National Utility Poultry Association
of England. As the book contains
seine 2 98 pages it shows that inter-
est in this cause is not lagging across
the big pond.

* • *

The Blue Orpington Club has been
formed with Percy A. Cook, Scotch
Plains, New Jersey as Secretary. A
large number of names have already
been put on the list of members and
if you breed Blue Orpingtons, get in
touch with Mr. Cook.

* * *

Out in Kansas we understood that
a smooth-talking fellow comes along
and agrees to cull the farm flock for
one cent per head, taking the culled
birds to market. The result is that
he gets the layers and the farmer
gets the non-producers. Don't let
any such "expert' cull your flock.

Of course you plan to attend the
Illinois State Fair to be held Septem-
ber 16-2 3.

D. E. Hale is authority for the
statement that Frank De Lancy will
be a candidate for the presidency of
the American Poultry Association in
1923.

* * *

Editor Grant M. Curtis has been
sticking around the west for some
months. We don't wonder for the
climate is certainly great and the
people are still better. Why can't
folks everywhere be as congenial?

The next National Show in Chicago
will be held January 17-23- 1923.
This is always a good show and one
that many of our readers will want

to make note of the date.

* * *

The Annual Convention of the In-
ternational Baby Chick Association
will be held August 1, 2, 3, and 4,
1922, at Cedar Point, Sandusky,
Ohio. No doubt there will be a good
attendance and an instructive pro-
gram.

ScotfsS.C.Reds

WIN BEST DISPLAY

Illinois State Poultry Show, Freeport, 111., Jan 5, to 8. They
have made many good wins in the hands of customers.

'TIS A MARK OF DISTINCTION to breed Scott's Reds. Four
females in egg laying contest, Storrs, Conneticut, layed 840
eggs in one year, an average of 210 eggs each. If intererted
write for mating list.

C. P. SCOTT,

Box M,

PEORIA, ILL.

Have you tried "Licecil" yet? Al-
most time you did isn't it?

We understand that the National
White Wyandotte Club has given
away eggs for setting to worthy boys
and girls. This is an excellent way
to interest the young people in good
stock and at the same time give them
a start in such a popular variety as
this breed. We predict other clubs
will follow this example.

The Poultry Producers of Ontario
is the name of a new organization,
up in Canada and when we see a man
like John S. Martin back of it we
know that it is going to be a winner.

Mr. H. R. Jackson has been se-
cured for extension poultry work in
the University of Kentucky, taking
the position left by Mr. A. S. Chapin.

Mr. C. H. King, Madison, Wiscon-
sin had a fire last February which de-
troyed stock and buildings but as
luck was with him, he had a lot of
hatching eggs on hand and is thus
able to save his strain of S. C. White
Leghorns. We look to see him back
in 192 3, stronger than ever.

William L. Deemer has purchased
a place at Danboro, Pennsylvania and
expects to establish a large poultry
plant in the near future. Mr. Deem-
er has had ample experience in this
line and no doubt will make a suc-
cess of the venture.

* » *

Judge J. T. Baldwin of Philadel-
phia has been selling out his Light
Brahmas because of other pressing
duties. Breeders will be sorry to
learn of this because he had a most
excellent strain.

We regret to learn of the death
of Mr. Frank P. Wirbach, a promi-
nent breeder of Rhode Island Whites.
This breed can ill afford to loose
him at the present moment and the
poultry industry always feels the loss
of such a man.

We hear that W. C. Carl of Read-
ing, Pennsylvania has sold his New
Zealand Red Rabbits to the Joloris
Rabbitry, of Maspeth, L. I. The deal
included many winners and is one of
the most important lately recorded.

The American Buff Plymouth Rock
Club has elected officers and all
breeders should get in touch with the
Secretary, Mr. I. M. Asbjeld, Alcester,
South Dakota. This club needs your
support.

The Western Poultry Journal
which was founded by the late E.
E. Richards, has been taken over by
the Poultry Breeders Publishing
Company of Waverly, Iowa. We are
glad to see this journal fall into such
good hand for we know that it will
be ably published. Our best wishes
to you, brothers.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

3,500 Chicks Sent Our Recently From Our Fa
10,000 Chicks Each AVeek And Raising 20,000
TRY FARM, BROWNSTOWN, INDIANA.

rm In One Lot Shipment. We Are Hatching
For Our Own Farm. BROWNSTOWN POUL-

Mr. L. E. Heifner, Des Moines,
Iowa has been appointed State Sec-
retary of the National White Wyan-
dotte Club and would like to get m
touch with all breeders of White Wy-
andottes in Iowa.

t * *

The Omaha Show will be held
Thanksgiving week this year and this
notice will give you plenty of time
to get your birds ready. Mr. Henry
Knudsen is secretary and will be glad
to hear from you if you intend to
enter some birds.

The American Poultry Association
will be at Knoxville, August 8-12 so
you better pack your grip. There's
going to be something doing every
minute.

* * *

When a man is down in the mouth
he is down and out.

The Keipper Cooping Company has
established a warehouse at Jackson-
ville, Florida. This is another proof
that poultry interest in the South is

on the upgra* 1 "

* * *

Mr. R. E. Sandy, Stuarts Draft,
Virginia, the well know White Or-
pington breeder is going to move to
a new farm where he will be better
able to carry on his poultry business.
We notice a number of breeders seem
to be needing larger farms. And yea

some folks say that poultry don't pay.

* * *

The American White Orpington
Club is making progress under the
able secretary Mr. J. I. Lytle. 1200
West 7th St., Plainfield, New Jersey.
Breeders of this breed should get in-
to this Club and help boost.

* * #

Where can you buy so much as
when you send in a dollar for a
three year subscription for POUL-
TRY KEEPER?

* * *

Secretary Fred H. Bohrer, of Utica,
New York has sent out another fine
issue of the Club Book of the Amer-
ican Cornish Club. This volume is a
credit to the Club and will be read
with much interest by members and
also non-members. But why non-
members, why not join in the bunch?

Speaking of Club Books reminds
us that the United Ancona Club has
just sent us a copy of their Year
Book and it is very nicely gotten up
and speaks well for the work of the
Secretary Mr. Roy W. VanHoesen,
Franklinville, New York. This Club
is doing a host towards helping An-
ccnas and if you breed them we sug-
gest that you write the genial secre-
tary and get in with a real bunch of
good fellows.

* * *

The Great Allentown Fair which is
known the country over has branched
out and purchased a new tract of
ground. This is a move in the right
direction although it will be several
years before they can occupy the new
ground. We look to see an even
Greater Allentown Fair and wish the
management every success.

* * *

Theo. Hewes says that Mr. H. L.
Mapes will judge the Rhode Island
Reds at the next Coliseum Show in
Chicago. This will prove quite satis-
factory to the many Red breeders
who will enter their birds at this
show. The show will be held Decem-
ber 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

PRESERVE EGGS NOW

for use or vale when prices highest. EGG-O-LATUM keeps «ers
perfectly one year, at cost of 1 ct. per do*. No odor: poach, boit.
whip like fresn Kept in ordinary carton or case in cellar. Easily
*pplte-i. At dealers, or by mail postpaid, 60c and $1 .00 stint.

CiEO. N. LEE CO., Dept. P-20 OMAHA, NEBRt

MINERALIZED WATER
ROUTS CHICKEN LICE

Tablets Dropped into Drinking Founts
Banish Vermin, Make Fowls Grow
Faster and Increase Egg Yield.

Any poultry raiser can easily rid his flock
of lice and mites, make chickens grow faster
and increase their egg yield by simply add-
ing minerals to the fowls' drinking water.
This does away with all bother, such as dust-
ing, greasing, dipping and spraying. The
necessary minerals can now be obtained in
convenient tablets, known as Paratabs. Soon>
after the fowls drink the mineralized water,

all lice and mites leave them. The tablets
also act as a tonic conditioner. The health
of the fowls quickly improves, they grow
faster and the egg yield frequently is
doubled. Little chicks that drink freely of
the .water never will be bothered bv mites or
lies.

The method is especially recommended for
raisers of purebred stock, as there is no risk
of soiling- the plumage. The tablets are
warranted to impart no flavor or odor to the
eggs and meat. This remarkable conditioner,
egg tonic and lice remedy costs eniy a trifle
and is sold under an absolute guarantee.
The tablets are scientifically prepared, per-
fectly safe, and dissolve readily in water.

Any reader of this paper may try them
without risk. The laboratories producing
Pari'.tabs are so confident of good results
that to introduce them to every poultry
raiser they offer two big $1 packages for
only ?1. Send no money, just your name and
address — a card will do — to the Paratab
Laboratories, Dept. 814, 1100 Coca Cola
Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., and the two $1 pack-
ages, enough for 100 gallons of water, will be
mailed. Pay the postman !fl and postage on
deUvery, and if you are not delighted with
results in 10 days — if your chickens are not
healthier, laying more eggs and entirely free
from lice and mites — your money will be
promptly refunded. Don't hesitate to accept
this trial offer as you are fully protected by
this guarantee.

Poultry Leg Bands

THE "BEST YET" ALUMINUM.
Not colored. Will stay on. 12.20c:
25. 30o; 50. 50c: 100. 90c. State
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CELLULOID SPIRAL BANDS.
Red, Green, Amber, Pink. Black.
White, Yellow. Purple. Light Blue.
Dark Blue. Ruby, Cerise.

Sizefor 12 25 50 100 250 500

BabyChicks. Pigeons. .$.10 $.20 $.35 f .60 $1.25 $2.25

Growing Chicks 15 30. .40 .75 1.75 3.00

Leghorns. Anconaa . . .20 .35 .50 .90 2.00 3.60

Rocks. Reds, etc .20 .40 .60 1.00 2.25 4.00

Asiatics .25 .45 .75 1.20 2.75 5.00

Turkeys. Geese 30 .50 .85 1.40 3.25 6.00

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Page Number 14

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Feed Baby Chicks
Soon As Hatched

Prevent White Diarrhea

"Baby chicks, when hatched, must be given
a preventive against white diarrhea, which is
responsible for 00 per i cent" of the lo'ss' to
poultry raisers.

Dr. E. J. Netherton, a veterinarian .of 30,
years' experience, has prepared a feeding
which is to be given as soon as hatched.
Chicks and turkeys fed this the first thing do
not get white diarrhea, and thus you save 00
per cent of every hatch.

Dr. Xetherton is so confident that he will
send a dollar package to any honest person.
Send no money; do not pay the postman; but
if satisfied with results, after fair trial, re-
mit one dollar. If not pleased you owe
nothing.

Take advantage of this liberal offer today.
Simply send name to Dr. Netherton, N-&-H
Co., 3S2 N. Seventh St., Kansas City, Kan.

RAISE RHODE ISLAND REDS

'HE B E S f A L L P UUP 0 S E BREED

Your name and address w ill bring free
educational literatureonRhode Island
Reds and information why they are
the greatest money-making poultry
breed; also catalogs and circulars from
leadintr Red breeders. For full informa-
tion address

RHODE ISLAND RFD CLUB of AMERICA
W. H. Card. Sec.,Box 914 , Manchester, Conn.
This ad paid for by C. P. Scott, Peoria, 111.

Thickens Sick 9

Hens Notr Laying £

There's no excuse for roup, cold?, canker, sole head, chicken
pox, skin dis-nriicre , ■■■h^k-ra, iriuiKestion, bowel trouble and such
ailments. GEHMOZONE positively will rid y»ur chickens of dis-
ease— and keep them healthy. For over 30 years the di-pendable
remedy and preventive. Get Germozone and Lee's FREE BOOK-
LETS, whicn explain proper feeding and care and how to keep
buns layingTeEtilarly the year round. At drug or seed stores. If
nodealer, i-rder hycard. 75c and 3 l .50 sized. Send no money—
Postman will collect. No extra ciiarpre.

GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. p_20

Omaha, Neb.

SAVES
FOOD

Catch tray A, collects
waste and returns it
when inverted to close
hopper against rats and
mice at night. (See dot-
ted lines). If your deal-
er can not supply you send for circular and
order direct.

M. R. JACOBUS, Box 5-K. Ridgefield, N. J.

Cured Her

Rheumatism

Knowing from terrible experience the suf-
fering caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. E. Hurst,
who lives at 508 E. Olive St., B 6, Blooming-
ton, HI., is so thankful at having cured her-
self that out of pure gratitude she . is an-
xious to tell all other sufferers just how to
get rid of their torture by a simple way at
home.

Sirs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merely cut
out this notice, mail it to her with your
own name and address, and she will gladly
send you this valuable information entirely
free. "Write her at once before you forget.

You Can Cure
Your Rupture

Capt. Collings Will Send You
Free His Plan by Which
He Cured Himself.

Merely send vour name and address to Capt.
W. A. Collings, Inc., Box 561F, AVatertown, N.
Y. It won't cost you a cent and may be worth
a fortune. Hundreds have already cured them-
selves by just this free information.

BABY CHICKS WITH THE STAMP OF QUALITY

Yes, and They Are Hoganized, Too!

We hatch the following: Rocks, Reds, Leghorns, Anconas, Andalua*ans,
Orpingtons, Wyandottes, Langshans, Cornish, Hamburgs.
Our 4 0 page catalogue free.

Brooders, Poultry supplies. We can save you money.

The South Kenton Poultry Farm,

CHAS. W. WYLTE, Supt.

Box 115, Kenton, Ohio

GEO. W. COX, Prop.

A new organization has been com-
pleted under the name of the Ameri-
con Old English Game Bantam Club
and anyone interested should write
Dr. N. L. May, Butler, Pennsylvania.

V * * *

We just learn that owing to sick-
ness in the family Mr. C. L. Pre
Fontaine of Fon du Lac, Wisconsin
feels it necessary to dispose of his
entire flock of Single Comb Rhode
Island Reds. This flock won at the
Chicago National Show and it is too
bad Mr. Pre Fontaine has to sell out
but we trust he will soon be back
iii the poultry game.

We thank those who have so kind-
ly sent in items for this column and
wish to extend the priviledge to every
reader. We want Timely Topics and
none other.

POULTRY MADE PROFITABLE

"OCULUM" the Great Poultry
Germicide is making the Poultry man
happy. It turns his diseased birds
into layers and" his frowns into
smiles.

For 15 years "OCULM" has given
satisfaction all over the U. S. and
many foreign lands. Send 10c to the
"OCULUM" Co., Salem, Va., for a
sample.

AXXIAL ELECTION AMERICAN
POULTRY ASSOCIATION

Results as shown by the report of
the Election Commissioner:

President, Thomas F. Rigg, Ft.
Wayne, Ind.

Vice President, H. A. Nourse, St.
Paul Minn.

Board of Directors:

District No. 2, F. W. Delancey,
York Pa.

District No. 4, B. E. Adams.
Charleston, S. C.

District No. 6, V. O. Hobbs, Kan-
sas City, Mo.

District No. 8, J. Will Blackman,
Los Angeles, Calif.

District No. 9, H. H. Collier, S.
Tacoma, Wash.

District No. 10, John S. Martin,
Port Dover, Ont., Canada.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

The classified advertisers In P'>n.TRY
KEEPER are coining money fast this year.
It pays to keep your announcement before
the people. That is the way to establish
a reputation for your business. Why not
go after the people, get good prices, and
make more money this year?

BATES

Rates for Ads. Classified under proper
Headings are as follows:

1 month _ 6c per word

2 months -. 11 c per word

3 months 16c per word

4 months 20c per word

1 year - 50c per word

Watch!;

Success in raising the chicks you
depends most largely on feed and car
in the first 10 days.

F.P.G. Chick Manna

For Chicks, Turkeys, Pheasants

proved its wonderful merit in 1884. Since
then we have watched quality. Quality*
QUALITY, — regardless of cost. Only best
cereals, animal food, etc. ; no seconds.
Wholesome as your own food.

F. P. C. Chick Manna is not the cheap-
est feed; it can't be. But it will sava
the chicks. At dealers or write us. Satis-
faction or money back.

Box 30

F. P. CASSEL'S SON

Lansdale, Pa.

HEMSTITCHING

and picoting attach-
ment Avorlcs on any
sewing machine, easily adjusted. Trice $2.50
with full instructions.

ORIENTAL NOVELTY CO.,
Box 11. Corpus Christi, Texas

BREEDER'S CARDS.

ANCONAS

SING-LE COMB ANCONAS— Few large, dark,
vigorous, heavy laying hens for sale at $3.00
apiece. Shipped on approval. Satisfaction
guaranteed. No hatching eggs this year. F.
Raymond Benson, Elgin, HI.

S. C. ANCONA EGGS FOR HATCHING— from

selected stock $3.00 per 15. From range flock
$2.00. Fine stock for sale reasonable. Joseph
A. Triplett. Egg Harbor City, N. J. 3-4

SHATTO'S SINGLE COMB ANCONAS— Baby
chicks from winners. Hoganized layers. Vac-
cinated against disease. Ten years breeding
Anconas. Satisfied customers everywhere. Guy
H. Shatto, Dunkirk, Ind. 3-4

ROSE COMB ANCONA STOCK FOR SALE—

Cheap for quality. Eggs $2.25, $5.00. $10.00 for
15. 100-$9.00. Chicks 20c, 100-$18.00. Mrs. E.
J. Crawford, Owatonna, Minn.

BUTTERCUPS

BUTTERCUPS— Blue Ribbon Winners: great
layers, delicious meat. Sheppard's Anconas.
Chicks, eggs. A. Wermerskirchen, Hokah, Minn.

BABY CHICKS

BABY CHICKS — from Hoganized. standard bred
flocks, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, R. I. Reds,
White Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons. Anconas
and White Leghorns, $10.50 up. Send for Cata-
log. Sieb's Hatchery, Lincoln, 111.

500,000 — Day-old to four weeks chicks. Single
combed White and Brown Leghorns. Barred
Rocks. Hatching eggs. Failing Poultry Farm,
Lafargeville, N. Y. 4-3

CHICKS— C. O. D. Parcel Post. 2000 miles.
Pay on arrival at your Post Office. Bargain
prices. My 17th year. Literature free. C. M.
Lauver, Box 68, McAlisterville. Pa. 3-6

LOOK (100,000 12c AND UP) CHICKS— Best
bred-to-lay, profit paying kind only. 20 varieties.
Hatching eggs. Ducklings. Catalog. Beckman
Hatchery. 26 E. Lvon, Grand Rapids. Mich. 2-5

BABY CHICKS — Ten leading varieties from pure
bred, large range, properly culled utility stock.
Prices right. Circular free. Modern HatcbTv
Mt. Blanchard, Ohio. 1-6

BABY CHICKS— Capacity 100.000. Headquar-
ters for Rocks. T-eghorns, Minorcas. R*'ds, W.
Wyandottes and Broilers, 11c up. Order early.
Catalogue free, postage prepaid. SUnnyslde
Hatchery, Liverpool, Pa., C. J. Strawser, Prop.

1-6

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 15

BREEDER'S CARDS

BABY CHICKS

BABY CHICKS— Half Million for 1922. TwelTe
leading pure breeds from heavy egg producing
strains. Alive delivery guaranteed. Catalog.
Smith Brothers Hatcheries, Mexico, Mo. 1-9

BANTAMS

BANTAMS AND EGGS— 22 Varieties . 2c stamp
for circular. Fenn Bantam Yards, (Desk 77),
Uelavan, Wis.

BEAHMAS

LIGHT BRAHMAS— Hatching eggs, Pen 1,
.$2.50; Pen 2, $2.00 per 15. Solum Bros., Wood-
ville, Wis. 5-2

LIGHT BRAHMA'S HATCHING EGGS— $3.00
per 15, prepaid and insured. Mrs. Burchell,
Rossnioyne, Ohio.

LIGHT BEAHMAS— Cavey Farm, Elkhorn, Wis

12-12

CANAEIES

CANARIES — Beautiful Roller Singers $7.00.
Females $3.00, Breeding cages $6.00. Parrots,
Finches. Monkeys. Fei-d. Sudow, 1026 West 24th,
Los Angeles, Calif. 0-3

DUCKS AND GEESE

MAMMOTH PEKIN EGGS— Forty $5.00; 100-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

5-1

HORTON'S HIGH QUALITY FAWN AND

■White Indian Runner duck eggs for hatching.
Sylvan View Poultry Farm, Curryvllle, Mo. 2-5

EGGS— Mammoth Pekin 50-$o.00, 100-$8.00.
■White Holland also Bourbon Red Turkeys 10-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

8-4

FAVOEOLLES

WHITE FAVEEOLLES — Foremost utility fowls.
Greatest winter layers. Develop quickly. Eggs
and chicks from prize winners. Pixley, R. 2,
Wayne, Mich. 3-4

BLACK LANGSHANS

BIG BLACK LANGSHANS — Setting $2.50, 100-
$10.00. 100 Chix $25.00. Ella Whitwood, Hud-
son, 111.

LEGHORNS

300 SINGLE COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG-

horns. 1 year hens, cockerels, pullets. Hatching
eggs. A. ' Schroeder, St. Peter, 111. 12-12

WHITE LEGHORNS

PURE BARRON S. C. W. LEGHORNS— 290 egg
strain. Egas 4c each, Chicks 12%c, 8-weeks
cockerels $1.00. Mrs. F>. E. Nail, Lewistown,
Mo.

10,000 CHICKS EACH WEEK— May prices,
Grade A $18, Grade B $15. June and later all
grades Chicks at $10 per 100, Eggs $6. Pedi-
greed, Trap-nested, Imported Barron stock with
no hen under 248-egg record in six years
breeding. Also D. W. Young S. C. White Leg-
horns, direct, separate. Our customers say we
have Best stock in America. Catalog. 8,000
early pullets, $1.50 each. Brownstown Poultry
Farm, Brownstown, Indiana. 5-3

WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE IMMEDIATE

shipment of Single Comb White Leghorn English
strain hatching eggs from stock whose records
run from 210 to 300 eggs per year, $2.50 per
15, $1.00 per hundred, all eggs carefully se-
lected and candled. Prompt shipment guar-
anteed. Lewis A. Daily, McLeansboro, 111. 5-2

PULLETS, BABY CHICKS— If you want Leg-
horns of Superior Quality, Kuhn has them at
let live prices. Be wise and write Kuhn be-
fore you buy. H. M. Kuhn, Sycamore, Ohio. 4-3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCH-

ing, $2.00 per 15. Pen 1, $5.00 per 50. Mrs.
Ellen E. Omans, Frazee, Minn.

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR

hatching. Flock 1— $2.00 per 15; $10.00 per
100. Flock 2—51.25 per 15; $5.00 per 100. J.
R. Frew, Eustls, Nebr.

BEOWN LEGHOENS

S. C. DARK BROWN LEGHORNS — Eggs only.
6c each delivered. Willis Fairbanks, Mora,
Minn.

W. W. KULP, BOX 30, POTTSTOWN, PA

The leaders In size and contest winners. Cata-
log. Both combs.

| BREEDER'S CARDS |
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BLACK LEGHOENS

100 BLACK LEGHOEN CHIX $20.00; 500,
$95.00. Ella Whitwood, Hudson, HI,

BUFF LEGHOENS

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHOENS— Solid buff.
Heavy layers. Eggs from special pens $1.25
per 15, $6.00 per 100. Arthur Worthington,
Two Rivers, Wis.

SPECIALLY BRED MANY GENERATIONS —

for stamina, large yield of big eggs, and beauty.
1 have the goods. Both combs. Eggs, hens and
pens reasonable. Catalog. Joseph Benedict,
Chevy Chase, Maryland.

MINOECAS

BLACK MINOECAS. BUFF OEPINGTONS.

Eggs. Ten varieties baby chicks. Frank A.
Agnew, Southside, Omaha, Nebr. 3-4

GIANT SINGLE COMB BLACK MINOECAS —

Setting $3.00; 100-$L2.00. Ella Whitwood, Hud-
son, HI.

EOSE COMB WHITE MINOECAS— 30 eggs, pre-
paid, $4. H. L. Carson, Middleport, Ohio. 3-5

BLUE OEPINGTONS

LOOK — Royal Bine Orpingtons. Winners. John
Unangst, 1214 Prairie Ave., Freeport, m. 3-12

WHITE ORPINGTONS

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS — Heavy lay-
ers, $1.50 per 15; $7.00 per 100. Elva Cantwell,
Bucklin, Mo. 3-4

BUFF OEPINGTONS

BUFF ORPINGTON HATCHING EGGS — Re-
duced prices. Write for free mating list.
Walter Goessling, 930 Jefferson St., Quincy, 111.

5-2

EHODE ISLAND EEDS

EOSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS —

$1.00 per 15, $6.00 per 100. Bred to lay. Mrs.
Joe Walz, Glen Haven, Wis. 4-3

REDS THAT LAY! The strain that pays.
Rose Comb. Eggs. Circular. Albert Bern-
hardt, Mt. Healthy, Ohio.

SINGLE ALSO EOSE COMB EEDS— Setting
$1.50, 100-$7.00. 100 chix $20.00. Ella Whit-
wood, Hudson, HI.

EOSE COMB EED EGGS — From prize winners
and record layers. (Bean strain.) Mating list.
Daugherty's Poultry Farm, Metcalf. HI. 8-2

EOSE COMB EEDS— Bean strain. Exhibition
quality. Trapnested ten years, yearly records
to 306 eggs. Three pens, eggs 25, 20, 15 cents
each. Jos. Forge, Burlington, Wise.

PHEASANTS

$9.00 PER POUND for pheasants. Easy raised.
Great demand. Complete book breeding 36 var-
ieties: Pheasants. Peafowl. Illustrated natural
colors $1.00. Colored catalog: 400 varieties 30c.
Bargains. Lowest prices. All kinds Wild Game,
Turkeys, Quail, Peafowl, Pigeons, Pet Stock,
Poultry, Waterfowl. Eggs for hatching. Ex-
changes made. (1000 Pheasants. Eggs — want-
ed.) U. Pheasantrv, 1026 West 24th, Los
Angeles, Calif. 6-3

RINGNECK PHEASANT EGGS— $5 for 15, post
paid. Charles Knecht, 1715 N. 13th St., Kansas
City, Kans. 3-4

PIGEONS

OFFER — mated Homers, $2.00 pair. Beauti-
White Homers, $3.00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux, Maltese Hens. Free book-
let. Squab Mannual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert,
2210 Almond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 10-6

WHITE EOCKS

SNYDEE'S WHITE PLYMOUTH EOCKS— Eggs
$2.00 a setting from No. 1 Pens. Dellwood
Poultry Yards, A. S. Snyder, Dellwood, N. Y.

4-3

BAEEED EOCKS

"CACKLEES" AEE PUEEBEED BEED-TO-LAY

Barred Rocks. Trapnested by Geo. W. Pratt,
Cropsey, HI. 18 eggs $2.50; 36-S4.50, 72-$8.00,
100-$10.00, prepaid. Circular free. Stock all
sold. 2-12

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BAEEED ROCKS

PARKS ROCKS— Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, Box 30, Pottstown, Pa.

MY VICTORY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS—

Won at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4th, 1921.
3, 4, 5, Ex Cock; 2 Ex Cockerel; 1, 2, Ex Hen;
3 Ex Pullet; 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock; 2 Cock-
erel Bred Pen; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club shape and color specials.
Send for photo of my winning birds. J. T.
French, 838 West Grove Place, Toledo, Ohio.

SEVERAL VARIETIES

57 VARIETIES — Purebred and prize winning
Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Pheasants, Fox
Terrier Pups, Stock, Eggs. Reasonable prices.
Write your wants. Peter Bros., Randolph,
Minn. ■

450 VARIETIES: Wild Game, Peafowl, Pig-
eons, Pheasants, Rabbits, Wild Turkeys, Ban-
tams, Poultry, Quail, Deer, Wild Geese. Col-
ored Price Catalog 50c. TJ. Pheasantry, 1026
AVest 24th, Los Angeles, Calif. 6-3

SINGLE COMB REDS $1.50 SETTING— Exhibi-
tion S. O. White Leghorns $1.50 setting. Wild
Mallards $3 setting. English Callers $5 set-
ting. Prepaid. O. Robey, Maryrille, Mo. 3-4

SHEPPAED S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

vania S. C. W. Leghorn eggs for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Middleburg, Pa.

HAEEY SWINBUENE, DELHI, IOWA OF-

fers 137 varieties poultry, pheasants, ducks,
geese, eggs. 3-4

EGGS — Brahmas, Langshans, Rocks, Reds. Orp-
ingtons, Wydts., $1.50 per 15 prep'd. Ducks,
geese. Catalogue free. M. H. Myers, Edom, Va.

3-4

TURKEYS

WILD TURKEYS. $28.50 pair. S4.75 setting.
Bronze, Holland. Burbon S4.00 setting. Ferd.
Sudow, 102G West 24th, Los Angeles, Calif. 6-3

EGGS FROM HIGH CLASS OLD STOCK— Mam-
oth AVhite Holland, Mamoth Bronze and Bour-
bon- Red. Ten $S.00: Twenty $15.00; Thirty
$19.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, ni.

5-4

BRONZE GOBBLERS $10— Eggs 10 for $6.00,
prepaid. Order now. Aaron J. Felthouse,
Goshen, Ind. 2-6

WHITE WYANDOTTES

EGGS — From White Wvandottes that stav white.
$2.00 per 15; $4.00 per 50. Clay Hill Poultry
Farm, Fulton, Iowa. 5-2

POULTRY SHOW

MADISON SQUARE GAEDEN SHOW— Buyer's
Guide (list of exhibitors) free. Official Marked
Catalog 75 cents. Both books very valuable.
Send for them. Address D. Lincoln Orr, Sec'y,
Box 23, Orr's Mills — Cornwall, N. Y.

EEAL ESTATE

WANT TO HEAE FEOM OWNEE HAVING

poultry farm or other property for sale. State
cash price and particulars. John J. Black,
278th St., Chippewa Falls, Wis.

POULTRYMAN WANTED

WANTED: Experienced Poultryroan; single
man preferred; steady employment; good wages;
board, room and laundry furnished. Address, Mt.
Pleasant State Hospital, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

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Growing Profits

\7"0U never worry a bit about the healthy appetites of your
chicks when they are growing rapidly. You know you will
get your money back. It is the slow-growing birds that eat
holes in your pocket-book. Rapid growth at low cost is always
the result of proper feeding — and for the half -grown chick,

that means

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and readily assimilated. Contains nourishing animal,
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Whether you keep ten or ten thousand chicks, you will find GLOBE
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perfect health of your flock. The rapid development of the flock with the
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Feed Globe Growing Mash in a hopper; let young fowls have access to it
at all times. With vigorous exercise they will require much nourishment to
keep up constant growth, but they will not overfeed. Be sure they exercise.
That can be induced by scattering Globe Developing
Scratch in the litter twice daily. They will work for it
and strengthen their bodies to resist disease.

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Wipe Out Every
Rat and Mouse

Smaller Capacity Incubator Added to
Famous Buckeye Mammoth Line.

The remarkable success of the
"vertical type" Mammoth Incubators
brought out by The Buckeye Incu-
bator Company four years ago, be-
wail with their famous 10,368 egg
machine.

This type of incubator was a radi-
cal departure from former practice,
not only from the standpoint of gen-
eral design, the arrangement of the
trays and the unique and efficient
egg-turning device but also from the
ability to maintain precisely the
same temperature throughout the in-
terior of the incubator with perfect
ventilation, doing away entirely with
the operation of cooling the eggs.

Later it was recognized that some
hatcheries required a machine of less
height than that needed for the No.
7, for which a ten-foot ceiling is
necessary. This led to the develop-
ment of the Buckeye No. 8, a 4608-
egg incubator, worked out on pre-
cisely the same principles.

These machines have proven so ad-
vantageous, both in the matter of
high average hatching and in the
high quality of chicks that a new
model, No. 9, with 2304-egg capacity
has just been brought out, adapted
particularly to the needs of smaller
hatcheries and specialty breeders.

One of the prinicpal features of
this vertical type of Mammoth incu-
bators is the space-saving advantage.
This new No. 9 machine is eight feet
long, three and a half feet wide and
five feet, eight inches high. Even
the large machine only occupies a
space eight and a half feet square.

One great advantage of this in-
cubator is that the operator may
place eggs in this machine at any
time that suits his convenience. The

specialty breeders who may desire to
set his eggs every day and up to
once a week will find this incubator
particular desirable as it enables
him to set his eggs while they are
perfectly fresh and separate the eggs
and chicks from each specially-mated
pen.

The general principles of the ver-
tical design are exactly the same as
those of the larger machines.

The illustration shows the new No.
9, Buckeye Incubator with the doors
open at one end. Both ends are pre-
cisely alike in construction and ca-
pacity. The eggs are held in twenty-
four turning trays, each holding
ninety-six eggs. In addition there
are eight hatching trays. Note that
all trays are equipped with record-
card holders. The entire operation
of turning the eggs in this machine
will require less than three minutes.

The cold-rolled copper boiler and
cast-iron radiator used in this ma-
chine are of the same quality used
in the larger units. The tempera-
ture, ventilation and moisture are
maintained at exact balance by the
perfect operation of the thermostat
and two specially designed, horizon-
tal electric fans.

For further particulars address
The Buckeye Incubator Company of
Springfield, Ohio.

TT/EKEYS: THEIE CAEE AND MANAGEMENT

Some of tlie most successful breeders and com-
mercial growers In the Country tell of the
methods by which they have accomplished their
successes, and what they have done others also
can do. If you raise turkeys in any number,
this book wiil be worth many times its price
to you.

Beautifully illustrated, one color plate, PR
pages, 9 by 12 Inches. Price 7no. postpaid.
Address Poultry Kepper. Onlncy. Illinois.

Amazing New Discovery Quickly Kills
Them All. Not a Poison.

Rats, Mice, Gophers— in fact all Rodents can
now be wiped out easily and quickly. Imperial
Virus will do it. This new discovery, is a
fluid, true Virus. Entirely harmless to hu-
mans, poultry, stock, pets, etc.

Infects Rodents only. Greedily eaten on bait
Sets up burning fever. The pests communicate
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Vol. XXXIX

JULY, 1922

No. 4

The Most Profitable Breed

Each year the writer receives
hundreds of questions pertaining to
the keeping of poultry and no ques-
tion is asked so often as, "What is
the most profitable breed of poul-
try for me to keep?" This question
is sometimes looked upon as sort of
a joke but to the beginner it is a
very serious matter and one which
should be answered as carefully as
possible. Many times the future suc-
cess of a young breeder is deter-
mined by the breed which he selects
and undertakes to keep. Should he
make a mistake in his selection, he
may lay the foundation for a dismal
failure and eventually he will become
one of that army of knockers which
says that "chickens don't pay."

In order to fully understand this
question we must divide the breeds
into three sections. First we will
have the Egg Breeds consisting of
the smaller breeds such as the Medi-
terraneans, second we will have the
General Purpose Breeds such as the
American Class and some of the Eng-
lish Class and lastly the Asiatic
Class. The Asiatic Class being large-
ly a meat proposition, we will not
consider it in the present article and
yet we do not want to be understood
as saying that it is not a profitable
proposition. The majority of our
readers are not in the poultry busi-
ness for the meat side of the ques-
tion so we will leave that for some
future discussion. Some excellent
writers and well known breeders
have taken sides on the question as
to which breed is the most profitable
and have emphasized either one side
or the other so strongly that they
have entirely overlooked fairness to
their brother breeders and have real-
ly done nothing to help the cause of
better poultry.. Above all we must
not lose sight of the fact that abso-
lute fairness should always be upper-
most in our minds in dealing with
this subject and we will try to give
you as broad a view of the matter
as possible.

No breed is perfect. It sometimes
seems when we read the advertise-
ments or mating lists that the acme

By F. RAYMOND BENSON

of perfection has been reached but
that time has not yet been reached
and we will never see the absolutely
perfect bird. As we improve and
reach out towards our Standard, we
move the requirements ahead' of us
so that Ave are constantly striving to
produce a better fowl. Thus it ever
will be. Let us lay aside our whims
and see what about the cost of feed,
housing and labor will be and then
look to the amount received for com-
mercial eggs, or hatching eggs and
market fowls. This will be the test
by which we will judge the different
breeds and we can then determine
which breed will pay us the greatest
dividends for after all that is the su-
preme test of any breed. We all
know in a general way that a Leg-
horn which will represent the Egg
Breeds, will eat less than a Rock
which stands for the General Pur-
pose Breeds. It goes without an ar-
gument that a four pound hen will
not need as much for bodily upkeep
as a seven pound hen. We believe
we are safe in saying that the feed
for the Egg Breeds will be about
twenty-five per cent less than the bill
for eats for the General Purpose
Breeds. This will include the cost
to grow as well as the needs to main-
tain a fowl. This is indeed quite a
difference and for those who find it
necessary to confine their fowls to
small quarters and to buy all their
feed, it becomes quite an item. Ar-
gue as we may this fact is staring
us in the face at all times and we
must admit it.

The cost of housing is another
item which must be solved and here
again it seems as if the smaller
breeds had the best of the argument.
The writer believes that four square
feet is sufficient for each Leghorn
when kept in flocks of say one hun-
dred fowls. The smaller number you
keep the greater must be the floor
space per fowl. The larger breeds
do better when given an extra
foot of space and this runs up
the cost of housing considerably. You
can keep one hundred Leghorns in a
house where but seventy-five or

eighty Rocks would get along.

Now we come to the question of
caring for the flock. Of course in
the back-yard flock this is not a
very serious matter but the big-
breeder finds that labor is an im-
portant item and must be figured
closely. It will take no more labor
to care for a large fowl than it will
for a small bird but the fact that
larger houses are required for larg-
er breeds means more steps will be
taken and while it is not a big item,
yet it does count up if the poultry
farm is doing business on a big scale.

In the beginning of any business
venture we want to know what it
will be necessary to invest in order
to give the business a good start and
we find in this case that larger hous-
es mean a larger investment of capi-
tal. If it costs say $1500 for a house
for our Leghorns, it will cost about
$2000 for a house for the same num-
ber of Rocks. The initial outlay
for buildings will be less with the
smaller breeds. So it is with the
fowls themselves, should we purch-
ase them we will find the larger
birds will cost more to buy them.

Up to this point we presume that
the advocate of the smaller breeds
has been smiling to himself and
thinking that it was all clear sailing.
However in order to be perfectly
fair in this matter we must state the
facts and we must admit that while
the small breeds have the best of
the, matter so far, yet it will be a
different story from now on. Did
you ever notice that you can buy
a bunch of White Leghorns chicks
for less than you can Barred Rock
chicks? Why is this and how will
it affect our discussion? In the
first place we believe this is due to
the high fertility of the Leghorn
eggs. This is a point in their favor
apparently but on the other hand the
fact that the chicks are cheaper is a
decided point against them. We like
to see high fertility but when the
chicks will not command a good
price it becomes a question after all
whether this high fertility is not a
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SUMMER SALES

Almost every breeder plans to sell
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the old stock out of the way and
thereby make room for the young
birds which are coming along. Dur-
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new blood. It is reasonable to sup-
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additional buildings and even if he
had the money it is probably a
money making proposition to cut the
price and get some of the fowls out
of the way.

Should you contemplate the purch-
ase of breeding stock before next
spring we suggest that you make in-
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While the desire to save is to be
lauded, yet do not make the fatal
mistake of expecting something for
nothing. No breeder can give you
that and should you expect it, you
will be greatly disappointed.

PLAN YOUR ADVERTISING
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This is the time to plan your fall
advertising campaign, if you have
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with our large and growing circula-
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Some breeders do not plan their
advertising with the result that the
other fellow gets most of the orders.
Successful breeders plan their busi-
ness months ahead and eliminate
guess work and uncertaintity as
largely as possible. Even the small
breeder who has but a limited
amount of money to spend on ad-
vertising will find it wisdom to lay
out their appropriations with care
and we sometimes feel that if any-
one needs to use judgement in this
matter it is the small advertiser.

Advertising is the heart of the
poultry business and no matter
whether you have a dozen or a
thousand fowls to dispose of, you
must advertise to sell them. It is
not always the large ad which gets
the best results but taken in a gener-
al way it pays to carry as large an ad
as you can. But above all things
keep the ad running and keep pound-
ing away with it. Just because you
don't get a dozen orders a day don't
stop the\ ad. Rather look and see
what is the matter with the ad that
it does not interest the readers and
get the inquiry desired.

THE REVISION COMMITTEE

At a meeting of the Revision Com-
mittee it was decided that the Rhode
Island Whites, the Black Jersey
Giants and the Rose Comb Barred
Rocks be not recommended for ad-
mission into the Standard of Perfec-
tion. We believe that the Committee
acted in good faith but we doubt its

wisdom. There are thousands of
breeders of the above mentioned
breeds who feel that their particular
breed has fully as much right to
recognition as the Chanticleer and it
certainly looks as if they had a
mighty good argument to say the
least.

Personally the writer is not inter-
ested in this beyond the fact that we
want every breed to get a square
deal. We cannot see the logic or
fairness in keeping some of the dead
timber in the Standard which is now
present and refusing as popular and
worthy a breed as the Rhode Island
Whites. We have heard objections
such as the fact that the Rhode Is-
land Whites are too near the shape
of the White Rocks. As we under-
stand the shape of a Red and Rock
there is quite a difference and all
we have to say is that if a man can-
not tell them apart, then he better
study the Standard shapes a little.

This matter will come up at the
American Poultry Association Con-
vention and we believe that this
meeting will give every breed a fair
and square deal. We urge breeders
to trust the Association to do this
until it has been proven that it will
not do so. Reserve judgement until
the Association is given a chance to
make good. The majority of breed-
ers are level headed but a few wish
to do something rash and we be-
speak thoughtfulness and careful-
ness at this time or perhaps the As-
sociation may crumble under our
very eyes.

THE BROODY HEN

A very common mistake is to pun-
ish the broody hen which one wishes
to break off the inclination to set.
Water is sometimes refused and food
is often kept away from them. This
is inhuman and far from the best
method. We remember having a
neighbor who used to almost drown
the hen in her attempt to stop her
setting. If one treatment did not
do the trick she would repeat the
abuse several times. Such methods
are wrong. They injure the hen
physically and do not gain the de-
sired result. Put the hen in a coop
which has a slatted floor and is
raised off the ground, so that when
it attempts to warm something it will
meet with failure. She will soon
give up the job and be back to lay-
ing. Food and water is given and
especially green food such as weeds
from the garden or lawn clippings.
Place the box in the shade under a
tree and treat her well and you will
not lower her vitality and conse-
quently she will be in good shape for
her duty at the nest. It is a good
plan to confine a hen the day she
shows her first inclination to set.
Break her at the start. In all
events treat her well and do not
abuse her.

MISSIONARY WORK

Poultrymen are too prone to ex-
pect immediate returns from their
labors. We want to see dollars and
cents coming out of every investment
but we are going to tell you of an
investment from which you may not

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receive any money but which will
pay other dividends and perhaps
they are greater than money can buy.

We have a little neighbor girl who
is greatly interested in our poultry
and the few pigeons we keep for
pleasure. She is too small to go to
school and wanted to spend all her
time watching our feathered fowls.
In fact, she has spent about all the
time her mother will allow her to
spend, among our birds. Yesterday
we offered her a pair of pigeons on
condition that her father would
build a suitable place for them. Her
joy was unconfined and today her
father is staying home from his la-
bors in the Windy City, in order that
his little girl may have the pigeons
and a place for them. Past exper-
ience tells us that this little girl will
not soon forget but will become even
more interested and who can say but
what as the years pass she may be-
come a successful poultrywoman A
Pair of pigeons, a couple of "Ban-
ties" or even some larger fowls—
what would that mean to you and
yet it means a world to the small
child and may be the beginning of
another poultry breeder and we can
well afford to do this missionary
work with the positive assurance
tnat the seed is well sown.

ILLINOIS POULTRY BREEDERS

Entry blanks for the next Illinois
i^gg Laying Contest at Quincy Illi-
nois and Murphysboro, Illinois will
be ready for mailing shortly after
July 1st. We are in hopes that the
breeders of poultry in Illinois will
take advantage of this opportunity
to show the world that Illinois birds
have their share of utility values
The leading pen in the contest today
is well over the 200 eggs per year
average, and we sincerely hope that
the records at the end of the year
will surprise the breeders. With two
years experience, we hope to even
better the records of this year and
no better advertising can be gotten
than to win at these contests. Win-
ners of even Fifth monthly prize re-
port the sale of as many as 2500
baby chicks in one order and the
same holds good with all winners
We will distribute beautiful silver
cups to the winners of highest pen
prizes each month, and every bird or
pen as low as fifth prize will receive
certificates of awards. Better get
your name in to C. P. Scott, Chief
Poultryman, Division of Poultry
Husbandry, Dept. of Agriculture,
Springfield, 111., or if you desire you
may send a check for ten dollars
payable to C. P. Scott for a pen. No
one will be allowed to enter more
than 2 pens of anyone variety at
either Quincy or Murphysboro. Get
busy, Illinois breeders and see that
our state is well represented. — A D
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Liver Trouble.

I have a flock of Rhode Island Reds and have
lost a few of them. They seem alright, eat well
and are fat, but upon opening them I found
the liver was full of hard, yellow spots the
size of corn. The liver was quite soft. Can
yon teU me what to do for this trouble?

A. C, Michigan.

Overfatness sometimes takes this
form but it has some of the indica-
tions of tuberculosis. We would not
doctor fowls which were afflicted
with tuberculosis but would kill and
burn them. For common liver trou-
bles you might give a half teaspoon-
ful of Epsom salts in water and re-
duce the fat forming element in the
ration. Give more green food.

Clucks are Crippled.

Can you tell me through the columns of
POULTRY KEEPER why it is that my chicks
are crippled when hatched in the incubator?
They are unable to handle their legs.

Mrs. L. J. H., Tennessee.

This might be caused by too high
a temperature in the egg chamber or
weak parent stock might be to
blame. It would be quite impossible
for me to name the exact cause with-
out knowing more details about the
matter.

Will They Cross.

My boy has some Banties and I would like
to know if they will cross with." my Black Leg-
horns if I let them run together.

E. J. K., Wisconsin.

They will cross. Make a small coop
for the Bantams and provide a yard
and keep them separate from the
balance of your flock. Do not dis-
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Sour Crop.

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We suggest that you add a pinch
of baking soda to the drinking wa-
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fowls are normal. We would keep
charcoal before the birds at all times.
Perhaps you feed rather heavily for
this time of the year or do not give
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Water for Ducks.

I have heard it said that one could not raise
ducks unless they had water for the ducks to
swim in and wonder if that can be true. Can
you tell me?

C. G. F.. Ohio.

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ers have only water for drinking
purposes and we do not believe that
you need to worry about having wa-
ter for the ducks to swin in. The
fact of the matter is that you may
be able to manage them better with
out the pond. We all know that
ducks will swim if given a chance
but that does not mean that it is
essential to their welfare.

Epilepsy.

I have a few Brown Leghorns and one of
them was taken in an unusual manner. She
would be as still as a mouse in a sugar barrel
and then would squeal and fall with her feet
up and would act queer and then get up and
feel better untill she had another spell. She
seemed crazy to me. Can you help me solve
this trouble?

G. M., Mississippi.

This trouble is probably epilepsy.
It may be of a nervous origin due
to too close inbreeding, breeding
from debilitated birds, or the cause
may be entirely reflex caused by irri-
tation of the intestinal tract. If the
bird continued to have the attacks
we would not breed from her and
really the best thing would be to kill
her. Treatment at best would be
but an experiment.

Buff vs. Wliite Leghorns

Do you believe the Buff Leghorns are as prof-
itable as the White Leghorns, taking every-
thing into consideration?

E. E. K., Indiana.

Yes. The greatest objection is
that the buff color is very hard to
breed and you might have more culls
than you would have with the white
but good specimens sell for a round
figure. We believe the Buffs are
more inclined to lay a tinted egg
than the Whites and this is a draw-
back. The Buffs have a good run-
ning chance and personally we would
rather start with them than to fight
the competition of the White breed-
ers.

Sheet Iron House.

I am thinking of building a sheet iron house
but before doing so want your advice. Would
vou say such a house would make a good one?

E. D. T., Illinois.

A sheet iron house might be al-

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Page Number 7

right but I am inclined to believe
that the cost would be much too
high. You would have to make it
tight to guard against the cold win-
ter winds. I had such a house
which was used as a brood coop and
it did very well but it cost too much
to become anything like a popular
proposition.

REASONS FOR FEED AND CARE

Why Not Orpingtons?

I see but little from your pen about the Or-
pingtons and as I breed them and know they
are a worthy fowl I would like to know why
vou do not boost them?

W. J. F., New York.
We have nothing personal against
the Orpingtons but our American
markets prefer a yellow skinned and
yellow shank fowl and as our Amer-
ican Class fills this requirement and
the Orpingtons do not, we have
found that the latter were never as
popular. I should be very glad to
join you or any other breeder in
boosting the Orpingtons but of
course public needs and require-
ments cannot be altered to any great
extent.

Rye as Poultry Feed.

I have a considerable amount of rye and
haTe been trying to get my hens to eat it and
somehow they don't like it and am sending- you
a sample to see if you can tell me whether
it is alright.

L. M., Indiana.

Poultry does not like rye as a gen-
eral rule. You might try pouring
boiling water over it and see if this
would help matters but really we
think it would be better to stick to
wheat, corn and oats and sell the
rye.

Fertilizing the Eggs.

A discussion has arisen among a few of lis
as to whether the service of a male makes sev-
eral eggs fertile or does it require a separate
service for each egg?

One service fertilizes several eggs
when the hen is laying right along.
Otherwise the vitality would become
exhausted and each egg might re-
quire a service.

Ask Him, Not Us

Why is it that E. B. Thompson did not show
at Madison Square Garden last winter?

We cannot answer this question
and refer you to Mr. Thompson for
an answer. A breeder who can clean
up things the way he can is not
afraid of other breeders beating him,
that much is sure. We believe he
just wanted to add a little of the un-
expected to the show and this gives
more enthusiasm to all.

Black Anconas

Will you please tell me all about the Black
Anconas. I have a neighbor who has them and
he says they are great layers.

V. L. V., Michigan.

The Standard does not recognize
such a breed and we do not believe
any poultry authority would do so
either. The so-called Black Anconas
are nothing but Anconas in which
the white is missing and appear to
be very much like the Black Leghorn
and we would not be surprised if this
was what your neighbor had. They
may lay well but we do not believe
they will ever meet with any great
reception because of the fact that the
Leghorn is so much the same.

We often discuss the necessity for
proper feeding of baby chicks and
and proper care without realizing
just why it is necessary to be so
correct in procedure. Here is one
reason quoted from an experiment
station bulletin on baby chick feed-
ing:

"One of the most striking char-
acteristics of chicks, as compared
with other farm animals, is the rap-
pidity with which they grow. A chick
weighing one and one-half ounces
when hatched can be made to weigh
4 0 ounces when 12 weeks of age.
This weight is slightly more than 2 6
times the original weight of the
chick. If a Holstein calf weighing
100 pounds at birth could be made
to grow relatively as fast as a chick,
it would weigh approximately 2,600
pounds when three months old."

Sounds logical, doesn't it? And it
accounts for the necessity of having
a ration that supplies all the nec-
essities for building up the body, and
at the same time is easily digestible
and palatable.

It must also be noted that chicks
are unusually active for their size
and must be supplied with energy
for the activity. Then again, the
body temperature is high, and heat
elements are necessary in the feed
in addition to physical care in re-
gard to chilling.

BROODY HENS AGAIN

There are two kinds of hens on
every farm at this time of year,
broody hens and laying hens, and it
costs 18 to 20 cents a month to feed
each. The broody hen lays no eggs
and therefore cuts down the flock's
production, the laying hen will aver-
age 18 eggs a month and brings a
return on her keep even during low
egg prices.

A good system to follow in break-
ing up broody hens, says W. H. Allen,
of the New Jersey Agricultural Col-
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night and put in the broody crop all
hens found on the nests. Confine
these birds to the coop for 72 hours
and feed them nothing besides lay-
ing mash, green feed and plenty of
water. For best results the broody
coop should be roomy and located
in a cool place.

A good system to follow in regard
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time they go broody. Some poultry-
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finding out to their surprise that a
few of their birds are doing practic-
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broody several times during the seas-
on, while other hens of the same
breed and strain do not go broody
at all. When a bird appears at the
end of the laying season with four or
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to say that it should never be used
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(Continued from Page 3)
decided point against the breed.

One of the big items of income
from the large flock is from the sale
of commercial eggs. During the past
the demand around Xew York and
some other points has been for a
white egg and this has always helped
the Leghorns and Anconas but of
late we see that this requirement is
passing away and we .predict in the
course of ten years that the brown
egg will come back into its own. It
is said that the Leghorn will lay
more eggs and stand confinement
better than the larger breeds and
that is the reason for their populari-
ty but we believe that the demand
in the past for white shelled eggs
has done much to boost this breed.
Perhaps they may hot be so popular
when the egg market adjusts itself
to the brown egg.

We have just mentioned that the
price of day old chicks of the heavy
breeds come higher in price than the
light weight breeds and that means
nothing if it does not mean a greater
revenue. It is largely the same with
hatching eggs. The price of Leghorn
eggs are almost always less than
with the other breeds. Some of our
fancy breeders may object to this
statement but we are not talking
about high priced eggs but taking
the average run of prices. Good
breeding stock of any breed will
produce eggs of high price. With
the average run of stock we find it
more difficult to dispose of the small
breeds than we.-do with the larger
fowls. You might buy a Leghorn
cockerel for say three dollars but if
you wanted to buy a Rock you
wouldn't get much for anywhere
near that price. The small breeds
are at a disadvantage in this matter
and there is no getting around it.

When we come to the market fowl
side of the poultry business we find
that the heavy breeds have it about
all their own way. In the first
place the four pound hen cannot
hope to compete with a seven pound
hen. A fowl weighing almost twice
as much would bring almost twice
as much when sent to market, other
things being equal. But they are
not equal. The Leghorn is at a dis-
advantage on the market, in fact
some markets cut the price on the
carcass of them. The breeders of
some fowls, especially the Leghorns
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duct ion that they have lost sight of
the market side of their fowls with
the result that today they are not
sought after as a market fowl. It
is high time that they awoke to this
fact and took some action to over-
come the existing conditions. This
can be accomplished by breeding a
better market fowl. We admit that
it costs more to raise a Rock and
the investment is greater but the in-
come from the carcass is so much
greater in proportion than the ini-
tial cost that it proves to be a money
making proposition after all.

If we were to sum up the matter
we would say that under proper con-
ditions one breed will pay just about
as much revenue as another. Unless
the conditions are right the income
is sure to be affected. Take the mat-
ter of climate for an example. It
is possible to keep Leghorns in the
extreme north and they do well bur
a thinly clad fowl is a native of the
south and should be bred there. His
big, husky brother who has an
abundance of feathers will keep
warm in the rigors of the north-
woods winter and thrive. Tne big
idea is to select a breed which will
do well under your immediate condi-
tions.

To those who have limited ground
and who must practice intensive
poultry keeping. We recommend the
smaller breeds. They require less
house room, small yards and con-
sume less feed. When they are past
their usefulness they may be sold
around the neighborhood for eatinu
and in this way may be disposed of.
To those who have plenty of space,
we suggest the larger breeds. We
must remember that the farmer, is
after all the main stay of the poul-
try business and it is to him that
we must sell breeding stock. He
will demand a heavy fowl nine times
out of ten and it is perfectly proper
he should because he has the range
for them to grow and develope and
as he produces his feed on the farm
it is an easy matter to rear them to
full size at a reasonable figure. To
him the smaller breeds do not seem
to meet his individual needs and we
should take due notice and see that
he gets what his needs demand and
what he wants. Let the city breed-
er take the smaller breeds and push
them for egg production and get all
he can out of them but let the farm-
er raise a breed which is sufficiently
large so that he may send it to mar-
ket and command a premium for a
choice table fowl.

There is a profit in every breed
of poultry but we must use this
breed under the conditions which
permit it to return the greatest prof-
it. If this is done we will find thai
each man may have his own breed
and yet make a good return in a fi-
nancial way. Some breeders may be
so narrow that they cannot, or shall
we say will not, admit that any
breed is valuable but the one which
they keep, xhis is a selfish view of
the matter and no fair-minded breed-
er will ever be guilty of such a view
point. Study your conditions and
then select the breed which will do
the best under those condtions and
you will have no cause to say that
poultry does not pay, for it will pay
and pay you well.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

SUCCESS MEANS WORK

Editor Poultry Keeper:

"We are subscribers to "Poultry
Keeper" and think it a great little
paper. We have derived much bene-
fit from it. I keep every issue so I
can refer to them whenever I want
to.

"You wanted some of your readers
to give their views on "Does Poultry
Pay." If we just keep some hens,
any kind and keep crossing them
with any thing that comes along,
feed them some corn and pay no
attention to our poultry houses or
drinking founts, then I would preach
from the house-top, 'it does not pay
to raise poultry under such condi-
tions and these conditions exist in
far too many poultry yards.

"If you don't believe it, take a
trip through the country and see for
yourselves. I had a lady come to my
house the other evening, just after
I had gathered my eggs. She ex-
claimed: "O what lovely big eggs.
How many hens have you?" I told
her 58. "And how many eggs do
you get?" I told her from 37 to 40
per day and seven hens setting. "Oh!
I surely want to get some of your
eggs to set." I asked her how many
hens she kept. "I have 85," was her
answer, "and I only get one and
one-half dozen eggs per day."

"I was shocked. I asked her what
kind she had. "Oh! I have black
ones, white ones and barred rocks."
In short, every old chicken, I laugh-
ingly said. She said: "Yes. What
kind have you?" "Buff Orpingtons
and we wouldn't think of crossing
them with any other chicks," I in-
formed her. "Well perhaps there is
something in that." She had never
given that a thought and she is a
woman 60 years of age, always lived
on a farm, yet had let her poultry
just take care of themselves. They
feed straight corn. Corn is a great
feed but it needs wheat and other
grains, especially sprouted oats, to
make up a good ration. We also
feed a good mash. This is before
our hens at all times. We cleared
S21.37 during the month of March.
We got 85 dozen eggs that month.

"We send to Chicago, buy 12 doz-
en cases and get 38c per dozen for
our eggs instead of 21c, our local
store gives us. But if we would
have sold locally we would have no
more than have paid our feed bill
of ?9.00. It pays to express your
eggs. We select them, that is, we
pick out all small eggs, and use them
at home. A small egg means noth-
ing to us, but a great deal to the
man who must buy. We have a
drinking fount that holds five gal-
lons of water, keeps it warm in win-
ter, clean and cool in summer.

"It takes study and plenty of work
to make the poultry pay.

"I hope my letter is not too long
and let us squeal so hard to our
senators and congressmen that they
will be glad to kill the Chinese egg
market here.

"Yours for more success.

Mrs. R. L. Hamilton. (Wis.)

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you are pretty well up on each of
these details, your chicken gold is
not going to pan-out to your satis-
faction.

We get many good ideas from both
old-timers and pioneers in poultry in-
dustry. They are continually being
passed down the line. Here are some
to be considered.

Breeding.

Much depends upon the hatching
egg. Good stock is the first thing
to be considered. Know your eggs!
Only the eggs of hardy hens are
worth the effort it will take to hatch
them. Only first-class chickens are
worth raising.

Pure bred fowls have the consti-
tutional vigor to pull through to ma-
turity with small loss. , They develop
quickly, their flesh is solid, they be-
come heavy-weights; they are sleek
and glossy feathered, attractive, and
if marketed, bring good prices. With
prime stock you can raise a large
per cent of the chickens hatched and
make a fair profit on every bird.

Breeding is the first and most im-
portant step. You should be a keen
observer of what is going on in your
breeding pens. Your success next
season and perhaps for many sea-
sons, depends upon your present mat-
ing.

In one season you can easily de-
stroy all the beauty of your flock,
all the symmetry and markings, and
all the inherited egg-laying charac-
teristics, or you may by giving the
proper attention and thought to your
matings, make considerable progress
toward perfecting your strain and
fixing more firmly those qualities of
beauty, productiveness and stamina
which the poultry fancier desires to
establish.

A person who is careless about his
mating and who does not studv the

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Page Number 11

good and bad points of the males
and females from which he is to
breed, can never build a permanent
business in pure-bred poultry; the
only kind of poultry that's profitable.

.-ome understanding of the laws
of evolution is required. The sur-
vival of the fittist applies to generat-
ing all kinds of stock, the growing of
fruit and plant life. Also it applies
to :he human family, but the devel-
oping of mankind evidently doesn't
matter. It has been given the least
consideration.

Select your breeding stock before
the birds are fully matured. You
ought to be able to cull out the weak
from the strong at a glance. The
look and action of a fowl is usually
an index to its physical condition.
A weak bird is apt to be inactive,
droopy and sleepy-eyed. It does not
scratch or forage sprightly. Bright
red comb and wattles, clear eyes,
smooth, shiney feathers, good appe-
tite, large crop, nimble legged —
that's the kind to be chosen for your
breeding pens.

Do not use pullets and immature
male birds for breeding purposes.
It ias been demonstrated that the
chicks from hens' eggs are larger
when hatched, and that they mature
quicker and produce stronger and
better specimens than those hatched
from pullets. A half-grown cockerel
should never be used in your breed-
ing yards.

Forcing fowls to lay by continually
feeding heavy, rich food, and a large
egg yield, tells upon the health of the
females and often injures their
bl eeding qualities.

The breeding yard should be large
enough to give the chickens free
range, and they should be forced to
scratch for their feed. Crowding and
lack of exercise is always harmful.

Eggs for hatching are sometimes
kept in places that are too cool, or
too hot. Provide clean nests, gather
the eggs daily and keep them in a
temperature of from 50 to 60 de-
grees, and do not hold them more
than two weeks before being set.
Incubation.

Select an incubator in size suit-
able to your needs; one that has been
time-tried and test-proven — that can
be regulated with absolute certainty
and has proper provision for both
ventilation and moisture.

There are many good incubators
on the market, properly built and
scientifically equipped, but the best
incubator manufactured will not
make an infertile egg fertile, neith-
er will it make a weak-germed egg
hatch. You may have made a poor
mating, or you may be obliged to
change males in some of your pens.
Before the real hatching season
comes on, it's a good idea to make
a trial hatch and avoid chances.

The same process of elimination
you employed in the breeding pens
must be continued in the incubator.
It is safe to assume that the first
half of the chickens which hatch in
the incubator will be the most profit-
able. The last half may not pay, if
kept to maturity. The first half
hatched usually grow more rapidly;
mature quicker; lay first and lay
most eggs. The last half hatched
are chicks lower in vitality, and a
menace to the flock.

The fact that a chick grows rapidly
in the shell and makes good use of
the food which nature has placed
there for its use during the first
20 days of its growth and develop-
ment, and then hatches and beats
another chick out of the shell from
6 to 2 4 hours, is almost a sure sign
that the first will beat the last ten
in the race of life and at every stage
of its existance.

Brooding.

Select a brooder with the same
care that you did the incubator. If
you have been successful in operat-
ing your incubator, you have the
skill to manipulate your brooder.

The tireless brooder is good under
some conditions, but the most prac-
tical hoover is the one which em-
ployes a heating system that provides
abundant warmth in the coldest
weather. The heat should be regu-
lated and controlled just as in the
incubator. A proper and uniform
temperature is especially important
during the first two weeks of the
chicken's life.

The brooder should be started
when the chicks begin to hatch. The
temperature in the brooder should
not be more than four or five de-
grees lower than that of the incu-
bator. As the chicks grow older the
temperature should be gradually
lowered until they are old enough to
do without heat altogether.

If the chicks stand with their
mouths open, they are too hot. If
they huddle together, you can depend
upon it, they are too cold. A little
too much heat is better than not
enough. A variation of a few de-
grees is not a matter of grave im-
portance, but a chilled chick is a
dead one, nine times out of ten.

As the chicks grow and feather
out, they both generate and conserve
an increasingly larger amount of
heat. Keep them comfortable, yet
reduce the artificial heat as rapidly
as possible.

The proper type of brooder de-
livers a constant and abundant sup-
ply of warm fresh air to the chicks
while they are hovering. There must
be a cool apartment provided. Few
if any chicks would survive if they
were constantly subjected to a tem-
perature as high as that under the
hover. The cooler apartments tough-
ens them, makes them stronger and
helps to prepare them for the time

(Continued on Page 13)

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Any poultry raiser can easily rid his flock
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and increase their egg yield by simply add-
ing minerals to the fowls' drinking water.
This does away with all bother, such as dust-
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necessary minerals can now be obtained in
convenient tablets, known as Paratabs. Soon
after the fowls drink the mineralized water.

all lice and mites leave them. The tablets
also act as a tonic conditioner. The health
of the fowls quickly improves, they grow
faster and the egg- yield frequently is
doubled. Little chicks that drink freely of
the water never will be bothered by mites or
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The method is especially recommended for
raisers of purebred stock, as there is no iisk
of soiling the plumage. The tablets are
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Any reader of this paper may try them
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Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

Herbert W. Mumford, professor of
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of agriculture. Prof. Mumford suc-
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* * *

The Hilltop Farm, Morristown,
New Jersey had a destructive fire
and have been greatly hindered
thereby. However Ave are glad to re-
port that they will soon be in shape
again. Tne fire menace has been do-
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try farms all over the country.

* * *

The Northern Illinois Poultry As-
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hold their thirty-fifth consecutive
show January 9-14, 1923. This is
indeed a very good record and should
stimulate other associations to a
greater effort. Joseph Dagle will
judge the show.

* * *

The Twenty-Sixth annual exhibi-
tion of the Wisconsin State Poultry
Association will be held at Oshkosh,
February 2-5, 1923. We expect that
many of our readers will want to
show some birds and will be glad to
know the date.

S * *

Mr. J. M. Chase, Wallkill, New
York is Secretary of the Rose Comb
White Leghorn Club and breeders
are invited to write him for applica-
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* * *

Mr. Joseph G. Kren, Syracuse,
New York has been breeding Single
Comb Black Minorcas for twenty-five
years and yet some people say that

poultry is just a fad.

* * *

It is reported that out in Cali-
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Rhode Island Red hen which has
laid 345 eggs in her first laying year
and 416 eggs in 454 days. This is
a fine record and should stir up

breeders of other breeds.

* * *

Mr. E. C. Branch, Chairman of the
Standard Revision Committee, met
with an accident recently and we un-
derstand that several ribs were brok-
en. We trust that he will rapidly
recover and be able to attend the
meeting of the American Poultry
Association.

* * *

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* * *

A. C. Robertson, proprietor of the
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* * *

William E. Langshaw has been en-
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The State Summer Meet of Wis-
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* * *

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There were 820 entries of eggs in
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* * *

We understand that there are
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* * *

We regret very much to learn of
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85 years old. Mr. Stoddard was a
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influence was largely felt and he did
much to put Standard poultry on a
firm basis.

The Iowa Ancona Club has beeti
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J. Kremer, Dyersville, Iowa, and we
look to see interest in this state

show an increase.

* * *

Mr. A. G. Studier has assumed the
editor's chair of Western Poultry
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Beginners Department. This combi-
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when they will have to get along
without artificial heat.

Feeding.

Next to being well hatched and
comfortable quartered is the pro-
vision for feeding. Chicks should
not be fed for twenty-four to forty-
eight hours after they are hatched.
Xature has already provided the
chick with sufficient nourishment
for that length of time.

Sprinkle over the floor of the
brooder a little clover, fine cut
straw, or clean litter free from dust
or mould. Good clean earth should
be kept in one corner or over a
portion of the brooder floor. The
chicks enjoy working in the earth;
it absorbs the dampness from the
droppings and is a good disinfectant.

It is well to provide a small foun-
tain of sour milk or butter milk for
the first half of the day and water
for the . last half. The acid of the
milk aids digestion, kills and pre-
vents the growth of bacteria and has
an appetizing effect.

Begin by feeding a mixture of
boiled eggs, cut very fine, and bread
crumbs and continue this diet for
two or three days, or feed two-thirds
rolled oats and one-third wheat bran
mixed with a small amount of pow-
dered charcoal. Oatmeal is an ex-
cellent food for young chicks. There
are also some good commercial feeds
on the market, but only a few of
them are compounded by competent
poultry feed experts. But if they are
made from good pure unspoiled
grains and properly balanced, then
they are perfectly safe.

The feed should be placed on a
clean board or paper four or five
times a day, and only in small quan-
tities each time. Remove the feed-
in- board after the chicks have had
enough.

Clean sand should be given about
the time of the first meal. If the
sand is not obtainable, use fine com-
mercial grit.

After the chicks are four or five
days old you can add to the rolled
oats and bran, a little commercial
chick feed; gradually increasing this
until the rolled oats and bran are
eliminated from the first or grain
feed. If the commercial chick feed
is thrown into the litter it compels
the little fellows to scratch for it,
which gives them the needed exer-
cise.

After the first week begin a feed
of dry mash. A good mixture is
compounded of two parts wheat
bran, one part shorts, one part corn
meal and one-half part rolled oats
or oatmeal. This may be improved
by adding one-half pound of very
fine salt to each hundred pounds of
the mixture, and also by adding a
handful of powdered charcoal and a
handful of bone meal. If you can
secure a high grade manufactured
mash made from first-class ingredi-
ents, then this will be all right.
However, don't give your chicks just
any old feed you can buy on the mar-
ket as the best is none too good.

If the chicks are on a free range
and get plenty of bugs and worms,
they will make better growing pro-

THE POULTRY KEEPER

gress. It is advisable to give chicks-
all the sour milk or butter milk they
want from the time they are hatched
until fully matured, if it can be sup-
plied.

Housing.

Small and poorly constructed
houses often accounts for the lack of
vitality or weakened condition found
in many flocks. One of the chief
causes of disease and death in poul-
try is the over-crowding and unsan-
itary condition of roosting quarters.

Insufficient sunshine and ventila-
tion in chicken houses causes the air
to become laden with moisture and
impurities. Sunshine and fresh air
are the enemies of disease and ver-
min.

Care should be taken to see that
mites and lice do not gain a foot-
hold in your flocks. Scrutinize your
coops and houses to see if you you
can discover evidences of these par-
asites.

As a precaution, the inside and
cracks and crevises and roosts should
be painted with solution of three gal-
lons of coal oil to one gallon of crude
carbolic acid.

Chicken houses of modern type
have many windows for the admis-
sion of sunlight, and various schemes
for the circulation of fresh air.

The shutter or non-draught ven-
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on the same principle as the shutter
cupolas seen on barns, and may be
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The idea of a draught, wind, rain
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This house was adopted by the Mis-
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Poultry correctly bred, properly
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6c each delivered. Willis Fairbanks, Mora,
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ROSE COMB RED EGGS— From prize winners
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POLISH

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Golden $2.00. Eleanor Jeffers, 1st Ave. West.
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Angeles, Calif. 6-3

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OFFER— mated Homers, $2.00 pair. Beautl-
White Homers, $3.00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux, Maltese Hens. Free book-
let, Squab Mannual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert,
2210 Almond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 10-6

WHITE ROCKS

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for sale. Eggs, $2.00 per setting. A. E. Sny-
der, Dellwood Poultry Yards, Dellwood, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS

"CACKLERS" . ARE PUREBRED BRED-TO-

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Pratt, Cropsey, III. Bargain prices on either
young or old stock. Unrelated pens. Write
wants plainly. Circular free.

PARKS ROCKS — Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, Box 30, Pottstown, Pa.

MY VICTORY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS—

Won at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4th, 1921.
3, 4, 5, Ex Cock; 2 Ex Cockerel; 1, 2, Ex Hen;
3 Ex Pullet; 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock; 2 Cock-
erel Bred Pen; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club shape and color specials.
Send for photo of my winning birds. J. T.
French, 838 West Grove Place, Toledo, Ohio.

SEVERAL VARIETIES

GOLDEN PHEASANT EGGS $3.50 SETTING.

Black Siberian Rabbits $4.25 pair. Guinea pigs
$1.75 pair. Squirrels $5.00 pair. Roller Canar-
ies $5.50. Parrots $8.00. F. Sudow, Los An-
geles, California.

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poultry and pets. Write your wants. Peter
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SHEPPARD S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

vania S. C. W. Leghorn eggs for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Middleburg, Pa.

450 VARIETIES: Wild Game, Peafowl, Pig-
eons, Pheasants, Rabbits, Wild Turkeys, Ban-
tams, Poultry, Quail, Deer, Geese. Colored cata-
log, 20c. U. Pheasantry. Los Angeles, Cal.

TURKEYS

WILD TURKEYS. $28.50 pair. $4.75 setting.
Bronze, Holland, Burbon $4.00 setting. Ferd.
Sudow, 1026 West 24th, Los Angeles, Calif. 0-3

EGGS FROM HIGH CLASS OLD STOCK— Mam-
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$19.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

5-4

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prepaid. Order now. Aaron J. Felthouse,
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Let The Hens

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your entire flock and hen house will be rid of every louse and mite.

How to use LICECIL

Simply put a few drops in the nest and on the roosts, hang the uncovered
bottle in coop or hen house. The powerful evaporating vapors which leave
the bottle descending in mist form penetrate feathers, cracks, crevices
everywhere. Lice, mites, chiggers, roaches, bed bugs, ants, etc., have no
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Give it a Fair Trial

If you prefer to fight poultry pests in the old way— it is cer-
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t and the success others are having, will lead you to give
LICECILafair, honest trial at the earliestopportunity.

1 Bottle, $1.00 — 3 Bottles $2.50
12 Bottles $9.00 — All Postpaid

AMERICAN SUPPLY CO.
DEPT. P. K.

Quincy, Illinois

Evidence 2

American Supply Co.,
Quincy, 111.,
Dear Sirs:

Enclosed please find $2.50 for 3
bottles of the Licecil. With great
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I have no more trouble with lice.
It is the first thing I have got that
I could and would gladly recommend
it to any person.

MBS. F. L. KABNS,

Riverside Dr.

Madrid, Nebr.. Mar. 15, 1922.
American Supply Co.,
Quincy, 111.
Dear Sirs:

Find enclosed check for four dol-
lars ($4.00) for which send me one
gallon of Licecil.

I used 3 bottles of Licecil last
summer, and think it is the best louse
and mite killer I ever usid.
Yours truly.

EMIL BENSON,
R. F. D. No. 2. Madrid. Nebr.

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Vol. XXXIX

AUGUST, 1922

No. 5

How To Handle Pullets

By F. RAYMOND BENSON

The season of the year is at hand
when it seems necessary to round
out the pullets into proper form and
as many of our readers have never
had much experience along that line
of endeavor we will attempt to ex-
plain a few of the necessary require-
ments.

Perhaps the first requirement is
I hat the chicks be well hatched and
from healthy, vigorous stock. It is
almost next to impossible to mature
a pullet in good shape unless she has
an abundance of vigor and is well
hatched. If the parent stock shows
any weakness it is sure to crop out
in the young stock and when you be-
gin to round out the pullets you will
suddenly awake to the fact that you
made a mistake when you kept that
cock bird as head of your breeding
pen which had the roup a year ago.
Perhaps it was a bunch of hens
which were overfat and the fertility
was low and those which did hatch
did not show much pep. Whatever
may have been the cause the result
is evident at this time. Then again
perhaps you were careless in airing
ihe eggs or turning them while they
were in the incubator or the tem-
perature went too high on several
occasions. Rest assured that if the
strongest egg was not properly
hatched — well the pullets will show
it now. Even after the little chicks
were hatched they had to be carried
through the danger period and that
is far from a small task. The feed
must be balanced just right and the
exercise of the little fellows must
not have been overlooked. They must
have been brought up to the present
age with as nearly a perfect physi-
cal development as possible. One
great trouble is that after the little
chicks get well started the caretaker
sets careless and as a result they get
mighty poor care. They may go
without water for half a day at a
time and even get lousy. Then all
at once the discovery is made that
something is wrong and of course
the mistake is corrected but the

damage done cannot be overcome
entirely. When the little fellow
once gets stunted — well you may do
all that you can think of and yet
the matter cannot be rectified. It
can be helped but like a disease it
is apt to leave minute traces here
and there through the system.

One of the most prevelent mis-
takes is the crowding of the chicks
either when small or after they be-
gin to grow. Growing chicks need
plenty of room and you simply can-

not crowd them without ill effects.
Close confinement in small yards or
on board floors causes many a poul-
tryman to become discouraged with
the results. Mistreatment of various
kinds tend to weaken the vigor of
your pullets and in after weeks it
shows up to their disadvantage.

Another serious mistake is to
allow the chicks to be exposed tc the
intense heat of the summer sun with
no shade. Shade must be provided
(Continued on page 8)

First Prize Cock Bird

Chicago National Show.Jan.1922
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THE POULTRYWOMAN

Often the writer receives letters
from women who are in the poultry
business and they seem to find en-
joyment in their work. Without ex-
ception these women look upon the
labor connected with the business as
a means to an end, as a privilege
if you wish to state it that way. With
the right attitude of mind it is not
at all surprising that they make suc-
cessful poultry keepers.

We are indeed very sorry to say
that some women do not look at the
matter in the proper spirit. Take
the case of neighbor Brown who
finds it necessary to leave home be-
fore daylight, most of the year and
return late at night in his search for
the wherewithal to buy food and
clothing for his family. Mrs. Brown
might have risen to the task of car-
ing for the family flock but instead
she let the hens die one by one of
utter neglect. This may seem an ex-
treme case but it illustrates the re-
sult when a woman thinks that car-
ing for poultry is degrading.

The writer does not believe that
there is a single reader of POULTRY
KEEPER who would have done as
did Mrs. Brown. Under the condi-
tions we feel sure they would have
been glad to care for the chickens.
When a man or woman feels that
poultry keeping is degrading it is
high time to put them on your "not
at home list." Poultry keeping is
honorable and worthy of one's best
efforts and many of our noblest men
and women have considered it a
pleasure and a privilege to care for
a flock of poultry.

PURCHASE NEW BLOOD
NOW

During the summer months when
breeders are making low prices on
choice stock it presents a fine time
for one to secure new blood at a

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real saving in money. We know
many breeders who wait until these
summer sales are in swing and then
purchase what new stock they will
need.

Personally we like to introduce
new blood through the female line
and purchase at least two new hens
when possible. The greatest fault to
find with this plan is that one must
take a chance on their coming
through the molt in good color, but
there is more chance of a two year
old hen holding her color than a
younger bird.

As a general rule a saving of from
twenty to fifty per cent can be made
by a purchase now and this mens
quite a bit when good fowls are
purchased. Really it pays to buy
just as good stock as one can afford.

Buy new blood now and let them
rest until late fall and they will go
through the winter and be ready for
the breeding pens next spring.

DO WE APPRECIATE IT

When we were a youngster we
used to hear about "not missing the
water till the well ran dry." You
know how it is for all young folks
get such things poked at them. But
just the same the one which we have
just quoted is mighty true. We sel-
dom appreciate a thing until it is
taken from us.

Health seems a minor matter in
our lives until we stand face to face
with sickness. This brings to mind
the question as to whether we ap-
preciate the value of poultry keep-
ing as a health giver. Thousands of
people have found health by going
into the poultry business. We do
not recommend this business for one
who has contracted tuberculosis as
we believe the fowls might become
afflicted but there are many other
diseases which can be helped by go-
ing into the poultry game.

There is a hazy impression that
poultry keeping is a health giving
occupation but we doubt if many ap-
preciate its real meaning unless they
have faced the matter squarely.

Health is far more valuable than
wealth or position and let us realize
that this much sought after health
may be prolonged or retained and
many times regained by work out of
doors in God's sunshine, such as
poultrymen enjoy.

ANCONAS ARE GAINING

As a general rule one can figure
that a breed which has a boom will
slump after a few years and some
other breed will take its turn on the
upgrade. This has not been true of
a number of breeds but it does not
seem to be the rule with Anconas,
This breed seems to be growing in
popularity when many a wise man
had said they were headed for the
rocks. We cannot predict what the
future holds for Anconas but we do
feel sure that they will make a good
accunt of themselves.

The United Ancona Club has had
much to do with the popularity of
this breed. Each year they have
published a year book and in other
ways tried to acquaint the public
with the merits of the breed. That

they have been successful is evident
and perhaps at this time the genial
secretary Mr. Roy W. Van Hoesen,
Franklinville, New York, should be
given much of the credit. Mr. Van
Hoesen has a hobby in Anconas and
the Club and is always ready to lend
a hand to boost both.

CLIMATE AND EGG PRO-
DUCTION

One of our readers wrote us a
short time ago and asked if it were
true that the climate had much to
with the production of eggs. We
thought this subject was settled a
number of years ago but it seems
that new breeders are springing up
constantly and they may not have
known of the discussion.

For the sake of an illustration let
us take the poultry on the Pacific
coast. We have it on good authority
that the average hen there will lay
forty more eggs in a year than they
will on the Atlantic coast. That be-
ing- the case the profit is quite a bit
greater. It is true that much of the
grain fed on the Pacific coast must
be shipped in but were it not true
that the hens lay more, this could
not be done and the eggs sent to the
Atlantic coast and a profit made.
The hens do lay more in a warm
climate. Cold, damp and bleak
weather will cause a slump in egg
production. This is one reason why
the writer has said several times dur-
ing the past few months that the
future of poultry in the Southland
was so promising. We predict that
when the poultry keepers of the
southern part of our country realize
what an opportunity there is before
them that there will be few eggs
come east from the western coast.
We believe a large share of the win-
ter eggs will come from the South.
In the northern climate it is neces-
sary to build warm houses to keep
out the bad weather and the cost is
too great when our transportation
facilities will permit rapid transit
to our Northern markets from poul-
try farms in the South where such
houses are not necessary.

A FLOCK FOR EVERY HOME

Those who reside in the rural dis-
tricts or even in the small towns
take the family flock as a matter of
course and do not give it much
thought. Where plenty of ground is
available a flock may be kept at
slight cost. The ham and eggs for
breakfast and the Sunday fry comes
as a matter to be expected.

To the inhabitant of the city where
ground is counted by feet and per-
haps inches, the matter is an entirely
different proposition. Fresh eggs
are a luxury to him and yet he can
have a small flock if he will study
his facilities and govern himself ac-
cordingly.

We believe that every home
should have a flock of poultry, even
if it be but a small one. Many times
the cost of a hen house seems pro-
hibitive but for the small flock a
dry goods box or a piano box serves
very well. For the person who rents,
a portable house and yard is desir-
able. It need not be large but it

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4 trofitable hatch at the
Continental Hatcheries,
Polo, Illinois

From Coast to Coast
Best Chicks and Most!

is an advantage to be easily moved.

There is a great advantage in hav-
ing your own flock. They will con-
sume the table scraps and produce
fresh eggs of known quality. Eggs
are excellent food and tend to keep
the family health at par. The labor
of caring for the flock is indeed a
small matter and it takes one out of
doors and this also means better
health.

With the prospect of a hard winter
coming on, the present is an excel-
lent time to start a flock with the
positive assurance that it will not
only pay you but you will have the
opportunity to relax in caring for
them and this means much to the
person who has found it necessary
to labor during the day.

Start right by buying stock now
while it may be had at reasonable
prices.

IMPORTANT REQUEST FOR
CHANGE IN MARKET QUO-
TATION TERM

Abount two years ago the term
"Leghorns" came into use in Poultry
quotations in pricing undersized hens
and broilers. The term is a mis-
nomer and an injustice to the breed-
ers of Leghorns of which they are
more in the United States than of
any other breed.

Some of the leading produce men
have agreed that the term "Unders"
would be more appropriate as a term
to describe this grade of fowls.
Since the term "Leghorns" is already
in use it will be largely up to you
and your fellow market editors to
right this wrong by properly editing
your market quotations and insert-
ing the term "Unders" instead of
Leghorns.

For your information I might
state that there are a number of
breeds of poultry as light or lighter
in weight than Leghorns and that
there are many strains of Leghorns
which weigh as much as the so called
heavy breeds.

As an act of justice to the rank
and file of your farm and suburban
subscribers all of whom raise poul-
try, and on behalf of the members of
the American Poultry Association
who breed Leghorns, I appeal to you
to see to it that the term "Unders"
is used in your quotations from now
on.

Very truly yours,
American Poultry Association,
Thos. F. Rigg, Pres.

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1 000- Egg Queens

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large Queen Incubators shows that it is more
profitable and satisfactory to build up large hatch-
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by installing one large unit. It makes it much
less expensive to start in business, and you can
add to capacity gradually as desired. Cost of in-
stallation and operation is less by the Queen
method . The Queens may be stacked in three tiers,
the two upper rows being equipped with stub legs.

Larger Hatches

Hatching with 1000-egg Queen9 also results in
larger hatches, as proven by records. Queens are
wonderful hatchers — we have sold as many as
275 of these large Queens to one poultryman.
Queen Air Release Tube is a feature not found in other
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Just Starting.

I am a subscriber to POULTRY KEEPER
and wish to ask you a few questions.

1. Which breed do you recommend for Min-
nesota for layers and market purposes?

2. What age chicken is best to sell to
hotels?

3. Would you pen or allow free range?

4. How many chickens can I raise on two
and a quarter acres?

A. H. E., Minnesota.

1. From your letter I take it that
you want a general purpose fowl and
suggest the White Wyandotte as first
choice. The Rhode Island Red and
Rock are also good. We suggest the
Wyandotte because of the rose
comb and white feathers which
means much on a big plant.

2. Look up the particular market
to which you expect to ship your
fowls.

3. Would prefer limited range to
start and then pen. Perhaps it would
be best to crate fatten them.

4. Consider quality before quan-
tity. A few well raised would be
better than many poorly raised. We
could not venture a guess as to how
many you could raise without more
details as to your equipment.

A Xature Faker.

I like the POULTRY KEEPER just fine as
one gets such good information by reading it.

1. I have a hen which goes on the nest in
the usual manner but never lays. Can you
tell me the cause of this?

2. Should I keep a male related to the
flock or buy a new one?

3. How many hens should be mated with a
Rhode Island Red male?

Mrs. J. E. C, Arkansas.

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1. This hen is either egg bound
or a nature faker. It probably would
be about as well to have her for a
Sunday dinner. A disease of the egg
organs would mean long drawn out
treatment with no assurance of a
cure.

2. We would prefer to buy new
blood rather than to inbreed. By all
means keep the flock pure.

3. Much depends on the vigor of
the male. About eight or ten fe-
males would be right.

Chicks Die.

I changed my chicks the other day from one
house to another and now they pass blood in
the droppings. Can vou tell me the cause?

H. E. S., Ohio.

-Without knowing anything of the
ration I would say that the chicks
had been receiving an excessive
amount of meat scrap. It is quite
possible the diet has been too stimu-
lating. More data would better en-
able us to suggest a remedy.

Starting in Poultry Business.

I am a subscriber to POULTRY KEEPER and
would like advice.

1. I want to start in the poultry business
in a small way and would like to know whether
it is best to purchase eggs or stock.

2. What breed do you prefer?

Mrs. H. M., New York.

1. Starting with eggs, is cheaper
but takes longer and more uncertain.
Starting with pullets is more expen-
sive.

2. Depends on the purpose for
which you will keep poultry. The
general purpose breeds such as Reds.
Rocks and Wyandottes make a very
good showing.

Wants a Cock.

I am raising some Barred Plymouth Rock
pullets and want to mate them up to a male
next spring and wonder what kind of a male

to use.

R. M. D., Michigan.

We prefere two year old hens as
breeders but have used pullets in a
pinch. We would mate a cock bird
with the pullets, using a large, vigor-
ous bird.

Wants to Round Out Pullets.

1. What ration would you advise te feed
to pullets in the early fall?

2. How long can I keep a rooster and not

inbreed?

3. Should one buy a new rooster each year?

Mrs. C. H. L., Missouri.

1. Read our article "How to
Handle Pullets" in this issue.

2. Using a male on his progeny
is inbreeded.

3. We would prefer to purchase
new blood each year or at most every
two years.

A Xew One on Us.

Please send me one of your catalogs and d<>
vou sell anv American Flag Bantams?

H. S., Oklahoma.

We have never heard of this breed
of Bantams and know of none. If
any of our readers can give us any
information along this line we would
be pleased to hear. The Standard
of Perfection does not list such a
breed.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 7

Wants Farm in Illinois.

A reader of this Department from
Maine would like to get back to her
home state, Illinois. She wants a
small poultry farm and any reader
who has a place which he believes
will fill this need may take the mat-
ter up with the editor of this De-
partment and he will put you in
touch.

Having Bad L/uck.

1. My Buff Orpingtons had chicken pox this
spring and I would like to know if they will
lie alright for breeders next spring.

2. Some of my chicks died in the shell this
year. What was the cause of that?

3. I got some Black Minorca chicks and
they die two and tliree each day. They appear
alright but die in a few minutes.

4. I found two big hens dead this spring.
They looked alright but just dropped over dead.
What was the cause?

Mrs. C. A., New Hampshire.

1. Personally we do not believe
in using a fowl in the breeding pens
which has been sick enough to af-
fect its vigor. We put health ahead
of everything else.

2. Weak parent stock, close in-
breeding, too high a temperature in
the incubator, in fact a dozen more
causes might do this.

3. Not sufficient information is
given to enable us to give you ad-
vice on this matter.

4. Looks like a case of over fat
fowls and a ruptured blood vessel in
the brain.

Incubator Room.

I have an incubator house 12x12 but it is
too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
What could I do to remedy this matter?

F. F., Texas.

As you will not incubate much in
the winter you could remedy that
end of the problem by installing a
small stove. As for the summer you
might put in ventilator or even an
electric fan if you have electricity.
If the house was lined it would help.
We prefer to run the incubator in
the basement of the residence if
other suitable place cannot be found.
Be careful to see that sufficient
fresh air is provided.

Crooked Bi'east Bones.

I hare trouble each year in having a number
of crooked breast bones among my chicks. Can
you tell me the cause and remedy?

E. K. X, Illinois.

Roosting too early and the use of
too narrow a roost also lack of bone
forming material. For a roost we
believe that it is best to use one at
least four inches wide.

Intensive Poultry Keeping.

Why don't you give us an article on In-
tensive PouLtry Keeping instead of such gen-
eral purpose articles. We want results.

H. S., Indiana.

We expect to have just such an
article ready for the September is-
sue of POULTRY KEEPER. It is
quite impossible to furnish one kind
of article all the time for we must
meet the requirements of thousands
of poultrymen and poultrywomen
who take our paper but you may rest
assured that we will always strive
to. give you results and not theories.

Thank You.

Some time ago I wrote you and asked for
Hie name of some firm in Chicago to whom
1 could ship my eggs and you gave me the
address of a hotel with whom we have been
dealing for several months now and I want
to say that you gave us a big helping in this
matter and we have found the hotel prompt in
i.nyment of bills and satisfactory in every way.
Tt is such sen-ice that makes us like POUL-
TRY KEEPER and we will back you every
' ime.

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Do you know of anyone who has developed
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One would have to persistently breed
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1 make a specialty of Barred Rock chicks and
1 can guarantee my customers that they will
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me, as I keep nothing but the choicest of
Ijirds in my flocks, and they are culled each
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

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CHICK to CHICKEN
in Shortest Time

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Globe Scratch Feed in the litter provides exercise.

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HOW TO HANDLE PTTLLETS

(Continued from page 3)

DR. HESS

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in some form or other and if they
do not have access to the shade trees
you can plant sunflowers or even
corn will help. Artificial shade made
from boards or cloth is a great help.
Shade should be provided in some
shape or form.

Improper rations were once the
bugbear of the poultryman but now
days a balanced ration may be pur-
chased in the form of a commercial
feed and we strongly recommend
this procedure. You can mix your
own feeds but as a general rule a big
feed concern with efficient machin-
ery can do this better if not cheaper
than you can. There is an added
satisfaction in the fact that it re-
moves from your shoulders the prob-
lem of mixing your feeds and it is
well worth buying the feed for this
if for no other reason.

Wholesome drinking water will
often cause sickness. Do not allow
dirty dishes to be used for this pur-
pose. Take them to the house often
and scald them out and clean them
up. Give the young stock clean,
pure water as it comes from the weil.

Lack of cleanliness is a real men-
ace at this time of the year as it is
so conductive to lice and all kinds
of disease. It takes a little time to
keep the house clean but if the
young stock are worth raising they
are worth raising well, so see to it
that the houses are cleaned and
sprayed with some good disinfectant
at frequent intervals.

We have dwelt upon the care of
the young stock to some extent for
a house is no stronger than its
foundation and if the pullets have
not been properly reared you will
experience difficulty in rounding
them out as you hope to do.

One great drawback is to allow the
cockerels and pullets to run together.
As soon as the sexes can be deter-

mined it is well to separate them.
The cockerels will do better and
e»tryone knows that the pullets will
de^ elope into better specimens when
cooped alone. Provision should be
made for this in ad^ ance.

One item that not one in a dozen
poultrymen seem to think serious is
the ventilation of the colony coop or
whatever place you may have the
pullets during the hot weather.
Fresh air is just as important as the
pullets become older and the fact of
the matter is we sometimes think ir
is of more importance for they keep
growing and~ need more air and un-
less we give this matter some study,
the first thing we know we will be
laying the foundation for all kinds
of fall colds and catarrhal troubles.
Often breeders will write us about
fail colds when the whole matter is
due to carelessness about fresh air
for them while out in the colony
coops. " Many times roup gets a good
start from no other cause and for
this reason we emphasize very
strongly the need of ventilation dur-
ing the summer and early fall.
Plenty of fresh air can easily be pro-
vided and yet drafts are to be
avoided.

At this time the pullets need as
varied a ration as possible. We have
seen poultrymen who would feed
cracked corn almost exclusively and
because the pullets did not eat much
of it they figured they were saving
money. This is a blunder, pure and
simple. They need a mixture of
grains. The more variety you can
give in the way of grains, the better.
A mash should be kept before them
at all times. Should they get lazy
and eat of the mash almost exclu-
sively just keep the hopper closed
until noon. They must be made to
rustle around and yet the more
mash you can get them to eat the
better. This mash should contain
from twenty to twenty-five per cent
of meat scrap. We usually figure
from one-quarter to one-half ounce
of meat scrap per fowl daily. Of
course when they are out on range
and get bugs and grasshoppers, they
can get along with a smaller amount.
Sometimes the pullets begin to show
signs of early laying. Often this is
not desired for an early laying pullet
will sometimes go into fall molt and
this will retard their winter period
of production and materially reduce
their total production. So as a rule
early laying is to be discouraged.
We seldom like to see pullets begin
laying before October. If they start
in September they are apt to molt.
If they show signs of laying you can
move them to another house and this
may check them. You can also re-
tard maturity by feeding more oats.
It is usually best to soak tnem in
water or to boil them. Give more
barley and wheat and reduce the
amount of corn. Also reduce the
amount of meat scrap in the mash.
While we recommend the reduction
of some of these feeds yet we do
not wish to be understood as sug-
gesting the limitation of the t^tal
amount of feed given. Give the pul-
lets plenty of feed but have it less
stimulating. Never limit them on
the amount of their ration. Let them
eat heartily. If they appear back-
ward and you wish to hurry them
along it is best to move them to

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number

their winter quarters early. Usually
October 1st should see them m their
winter home but if they are a little
show in maturing, just move them
early and then increase the amount
of beef scrap and corn given.

We firmly believe , in one person
caring for the pullets. The idea of
having every Tom, Dick and Harry
running into the coop is not accord-
ing to our ideals. One man should
care for a flock and he should al-
ways give some sign before entering
the coop so that they may know that
he is coming and not be alarmed by
his entrance. A whistle or Hullo
or anything which they can hear and
in time come to associate with his
entrance will save many a hen from
hysterics. We also believe that the
keeper should move about his duties
without more ado than necessary.
Don't yell and kick at the birds but
rather make them tame and get on
friendly terms with them. It will
mean more eggs in the long run and
besides you will have the satisfaction
of showing your friends that you
have the friendship of your birds.
Right here we want to discourage
the general rule of visitors. Strange
faces do no good and quite often the
hens become quite upset by the visit
of two or three strange forms. Often
disease of various sorts is carried on
shoes and if you get an outbreak of
chicken pox, roup or some other di-
sease after visitors — well just re-
member that disease can be carried
on the shoes.

PRACTICAL METHODS FOR
GROWING YOUNG
STOCK

Beginning with the month of Aug-
ust one may forget the many hard-
ships which have perhaps been felt
during the previous months. With in-
cubation and Brooding long forgot-
ten our attention can once more
turn toward the special care of the
layers and the needed attention of
the pullets on the range. Although
the past season has been very much
in favor of the growing stock, due
largely to the plentiful rain fall
which has caused a good growth of
grain on the range, we are apt to
be confronted with a much different
condition during the month of Aug-
ust and September. However, with
this excellent growth at the begin-
ning, one should feel thankful, as
the pullets are now well under way
and should complete the season with
a wonderful growth.

In planning the range work and
housing the flock one should keep
in mind a few of the most important
dangers such as the best size flock
for the best growths. Without doubt
this is a factor of very great impor-
tance. It is a good practice to keep
the flock as small as possible. By
so doing one is sure to not only have
less trouble with sanitary conditions,
but is sure of having a more uniform
flock at the end of the growing seas-
on. Where pullets are housed in
very large flocks one cannot help
but experience a greater number of
culls as well as a great number of
pullets not fully matured; due large-
ly to the crowded housing as well
as crowded ranges.

Another great problem is the rear-

Through Molting Quickly —

LAYING AGAIN!

Big Egg Records and Big Profits are made by
the hens that take few vacations. Globe Egg
Mash contains everything needed for growing
new feathers. Keep it before them all the time
and they will molt evenly and as quick as nature
will let them. Some hens, when fed Globe Egg
Mash, lay right through their molt.

DICKINSON'S

GLOBE EGG MASH

should be supplemented with Globe Scratch, fed in a deep
litter, to induce exercise and furnish fats and carbohydrates.

All live dealers sell Dickinson's Globe Poultry
Feeds or will procure them on request.

THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO.
licago, 111., U. S. A.

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<>E p!"1 T EED ANALYSIS

'■wir-

ing of good breeding cockerels for
the coming season. Due to excess
pep these young fellows are contin-
ually looking for a scrap, and be-
cause of this a large number of these
strong vigorous birds are cowed
down and later killed by the many
on-lookers always waiting for an op-
portunity to get in on such a scrap.
Because of such actions it is well to
house in the smallest flocks possible,
say twenty-five to forty, if same can
be conveniently arranged. By so do-
ing it is often possible to raise a
much larger percent of these valu-
able fellows with much less loss. It
is often a profitable practice to have
one or two old cock birds in each
pen of young cockerels. They will
keep them walking pretty straight
and eliminate a great deal of fight-
ing.

One need not have an expensive
house in order to house the cock-
erels. This alone will help make it
possible to run smaller flocks. It is
really only necessary to have a good
roof and back with wire sides and
front and the building is complete.
This will afford plenty of shelter
from storms and night prowlers and
at the same time give the birds ideal
roosting quarters. ■

Plenty of fresh water is of very
great importance to the growing
stock, therefore some means of shade
should be provided in order that the
watering place will be convenient
and refreshing, as hot water not pro-
tected from the sun rays will not
only be harmful to the birds but will
cause them to consume much smaller
quantities. Feeding of plenty of
hard grain such as equal parts wheat
and cracked corn will give the flock
the much desired growth.

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Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

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John L. Brown of Anderson, In-
diana has purchased the entire flock
of Single Comb Black Minorcas of
the Prospect Farms, Newark, New
Jersey. The purchase includes many,
winners at Madison Square Garden.

Captain Guy Hollinger the new
postmaster at Hanover, Pennsylvania
is a chicken man and finds much
pleasure in breeding Partridge Wy-
andottes. Poultry is a fine means of
relaxation for the busy business

The baby chick business has been
the best ever and it begins to look
as if it were going into a year round
business.

Russel F. Palmer is back in the
publishing game again with "Poultry

Farmer." Success to you.

* * *

The Allentown Fair is to be held
September 18-23 and many of our
readers will want to be there with
their birds.

The National Meet of the Rhode
Island Red Club of America will be

held at Denver the coming season.

* * *

Mr. George Diehl, St. Louis, Mis-
souri has made a good addition to
his Single Comb Rhode Island Reds

by buying out the Unike Farms.

* * *

We hear there is some talk of
raising the membership dues of the
Rhode Island Red Club of America.
This is a very serious proposition
and should be carefully considered.

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H. R. Showalter has accepted the
position of western manager of the
Keipper Cooping Co., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and we understand he is
located at Kansas City, Missouri,
where a branch office is being put
up. This company is expanding these
days.

An Exchange tells the story of a
pigeon which tried to incubate a
couple of hens eggs. At the end of
two weeks the owner discovered the
situation and took the eggs away
from the pigeon and placed them un-
der a hen with the result that one
egg hatched. No doubt the pigeon
would have had a shock had she
hatched the chicks.

* * *

Charles A Ream is now manager
of the Pennsylvania Poultry Farm,
Lancaster. Penna.

* * *

J. H. Robinson a well known Red
breeder of Eastern Pennsylvania has
sold his flock and quit the business.

* ft *

Charles T. Corman, a former poul-
try writer and editor who is now
Extension Specialist in Poultry for
the University of Nebraska at Lin-
coln- -has created a great deal of
poultry interest in the state. We un-
derstand they had an "Egg Show" in
June.

Albert Angell, Jr., who made Full-
o-Pep famous has accepted a position
with Rosenbaum Bros., of Chicago
and will try his hand at their busi-
ness. Mr. Angell is a wide awake
poultry authority and we expect him
to make a success in his new loca-
tion.

Mr. M. R. Knox, Downers Grove,
Illinois passed away suddenly. Mr.
Knox was a lover of Blue Andalus-

ians and will be missed greatly.

* * *

D. Lincoln Orr who is Secretary
of the Madison Square Garden Show
will have full management of the
New Orleans, La., show.

D. H. Richards, son of the late
E. E. Richards has been retained as
traveling representative of the Poul-
try Breeders Publishing Company

and will make the leading shows.

* * *

Mr. F. B. Williams has secured
eleven acres near Plain ville, Conn.,
and is building an up-to-date poultry
farm.

* * *

A boy five years of age plunged
through a skylight in Chicago the
other day and landed in a box of
chicken feed unhurt. This is a new
use for poultry feed but we presume
it will not meet with universal ap-
proval.

For Sale — Two thoroughbred blue
Antedeluvian roosters. W. J. T. — .
Classified Ad in Tribune — Republi-
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 11

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The Nebraska Experiment Station
has been greatly enlarged to meet
the insistent needs.

* * *

White Leghorn breeders must
arouse themselves to the action tak-
en against their breed as a market
fowl in Chicago.

GOOD ADVICE

Editor Poultry Keeper:

"I am enclosing P. O. money order
for |1.00 for the Poultry Keeper for
three years.

"I was much pleased by what you
said in a recent issue in regard to
buying good stock instead of spend-
ing years building up a good strain.

"We purchased some dark Brah-
mas from a breeder whose ad ap-
peared in P. K., paying five dollars
each for them. They are excellent
fowls in every respect — healthy,
docile and while the Brahmas are
not supposed to be one of the egg
breeds, ours lay well both winter
and summer. We consider them a
good investment and well worth the
purchase price.

"My renewal to the P. K., shows
my appreciation of the paper which
I wish every success yours.

Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, Minn.

SOME BOARDERS NEVER PAY

The breed or strain of poultry
which contains not a single poor lay-
er has not yet been developed and it
will most likely forever remain a
hope rather than an accomplished
fact. Therefore it follows that there
is perhaps no flock which cannot be
improved in some measure at least
by diligent culling. It is remarkable
how accurately production can be
estimated after very slight exper-
ience by thoro application of culling
methods. I recall a group meeting
in which an expert gave instruction
in culling in which several of the
farm women culled over three-
fourths the proved non-layers from,
a flock of some fifty hens used as
a practice flock. If this can be done
after a short discussion one after-
noon, it is reasonable to suppose that
only a little more experience will be
necessary to enable even more thoro
culling. Furthermore, you who are
interested in culling your flocks will
have the added advantage of being
on the ground all the time.

Just the way a hen acts and the
way she carries herself are important
factors in estimating her value to the
flock. Poor layers as a rule are
lazy, inactive, showing their dislike
of work by spending as much time
as they can on their perches. "Early
to bed, early to rise" applies pretty
well to hens, except that they ought
not to be too early about that "early
to bed" part. When a hen is laying
at a good rate she naturally has to be
pretty busy picking up the where-
withal to make those eggs, and she
cannot do it in anything less than
a sun to sun day. And then those
bashful hens, the ones that seem
ashamed to be seen picking up their
feed before people, the chances are
don't earn the feed they eat. I have
owned one super-hen, that would lay
for weeks at a time five and six eggs
a week, and this hen was a revela-
tion.

She was first of all a good healthy,

lively rustler, on the job at every
feeding time, up to her ears in the
litter scratching the rest of the
time and always tight under the feed
bucket when it was brot in the yard.
She sang, hen fashion to be sure, but
it sounded good, and it showed she
was happy. A flock like her would
pay dividends, and only thru selec-
tion and culling is it possible to weed
out the others.

The poor layer will have a small
abdomen, covered with dry thick
meaty skin, a small, dry, puckered,
yellow vent. The vent of the good
layer is open, large and moist. Her
abdomen will be full, and the skin
will be soft, pliable, thin and smooth.

The pubic bone test is a well-
known one. The good layer is indi-
cated by thin, flexible pubic bones,
at least two fingers apart. If the
hen is of a yellow shanked and yel-
low necked breed, the color will be
reduced in the heavy layer. If a hen
has a yellow beak and shanks, any
time in June, July or August she
has undoubtedly been a poor layer,
and had as well be disposed of. A
point to remember in this regard is,
while a sick hen may show lack of
color in beak, shanks, vent and eye
rings, there are enough other char-
acteristics, or perhaps lack of them
to throw her out. A laying hen is
usually in good condition, always
lively, and always has an appetite.

As for the profits in culling, it is
just about the difference in the feed
bill for all the boarders, the labor in
taking care of them, and the inter-
est in the investment that has been
put into them and their housing. In
a way, it may be even more. A hun-
dred hens making a profit are better
than three times as many or any
times as many breaking even.

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IMPROVING THE FARM FLOCK.

"During the past year or so there
seems to be a revived interest among
farmers in keeping better stock and
if they do not overdo the matter in
the way of keeping more poultry
than they can house and take care
of in a profitable way it is sure to
be a profitable part of their work.
It is a mistake to start and raise
from four or five hundred chickens
the first year. Better if only enough
is raised so as to have forty or fifty
to carry through the first winter,
then increase from these. Much
trouble and money failures result
from getting beyond your experience
and over your capacity.

Investing in high-priced poultry
when raising and keeping hens for
eggs and meat alone is useless.
Neither would I invest or keep mon-
grels. I have kept poultry for many
years, in all ways and for all pur-
poses and I have never found any
use for a mongrel or scrub fowl.
Pure and standard bred poultry is"
the kind to raise and handle and it
is not necessary to pay any fancy
prices to secure good laying strains
of this class of poultry. The advan-
tages in keeping pure bred poultry
are many. It seems to be a hard
matter to get some people to look
at it in this way but it is a fact and
the mongrel is fast loosing ground.

Farmers, as well as others, make
a mistake in keeping, year after
year, everything and anything which
happens to raise. Careful and
thorough culling and selection is
one very important point in poultry
keeping. Being able to select the
best and most promising layers in
the flock is knowledge that is worth
a good deal to any poultry man.
Special attention is being given to
this part of poultry work in many
sections of the country today and is
sure to bring about a marked im-
provement in the egg producing stock
throughout the country. A good
many have an idea that getting eggs
in winter depends altogether on the
housing, feed and care, and the lat-
ter certainly does have much to do
with it, but not all by any means.
If the laying qualities are not in
a hen she will not be a profitable
egg producer no matter how she is
handled.

"If every farmer, large or small,
who keeps hens for eggs will give
this matter of selection careful
thought and attention, keeping the
best every time and all the time, in-
stead of selling off and retaining by
guess, he will soon be in shape to
get more fall and winter eggs, bet-
ter and stronger birds and the stock
will grow better and better each
year. Many farmers in this country,
who keep poultry to much extent are
now having their flocks looked over
by specialists in culling and selec-

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tion of layers and wonderful im-
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GOOD RATION ASSISTS IN EGG
PRODUCTION

How the profits in poultry-keeping
are influenced by feeding a good ra-
tion is shown by records of 200 well-
matured White Leghorn pullets at
the Ohio Experiment Station.

During November and December
these birds laid 4,805 eggs, which
sold for $240.25; they consumed
2,745 pounds of feed, which cost
$44.03. They returned $196.22 over
feed cost.

The dry mash for the most produc-
tive lot of fowls consisted of ground
corn, two parts; middlings, one part;
ground oats, one part; meatscraps,
one part, by weight. In addition, a
grain mixture of three parts corn,
one of wheat and one of oats was
fed.

Grain and mash were fed in equal
parts; the grain was fed in troughs
in the evening so all the birds would
go to roost well-fed. The small
amount of grain left in the troughs
was scattered in the litter for the fol-
lowing morning. This method of
feeding grain induced the birds to eat
more mash.

Mash was kept before the birds in
open feeders, five feet of eating space
being provided for each fifty birds.

Oyster shell and grit were fur-
nished in hoppers. The green feed
consisted of one pound of dry oats
daily to 50 birds fed when the
sprouts were one to two inches long.

LIFE FROM LIME

Every poultry raiser knows the
leading part that lime takes in the
successful operation of his business.
Show such a man chronically weak
chickens; show him losses due to
soft-shelled eggs broken in transit,
and he will invariably ask why lime
has not been included in the bill-of-
fare of the roosts. Proofs are not
needed to show that lime is an es-
sential article in the diet of a fowl.
Experience and research have dem-
onstrated beyond question the truth
of this statement.

The obstacle that has hitherto
stood in the way of the provision of
the lime has been the apparent lack
of sources whence this necessity
could be derived. Each year the
ever-growing poultry industry de-
manded more lime. Laboratory pro-
ducts could not be obtained in suf-
ficient quantities. The same trouble
was encountered in salvaging the
oyster-shells from restaurants and
hotels. It was then that a great
natural source of lime was found.

Off the coast of Louisiana there
is a great reef five and a half miles
long. Composed entirely of oyster-
shells, this deposit has proved to be
the biggest source of lime of which
the poultry business boasts. It is
estimated that there are 5,000,000
tons of pure oyster-shell in that im-
mense barrier. This shell when
washed and crushed has been found
to contain 98 per cent pure lime food
for poultry.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

TEN RULES FOR POULTRY
KEEPERS

Hatch all heavy breeds before
May 1.

Clean and disinfect the brooder
house and equipment.

Feed milk in some form all sum-
mer.

Feed no other liquid than milk for
six weeks.

Feed a dry mash containing animal
protein from first week until maturi-
ty.

Move colony house or brooder coop
to fresh ground before chicks are
turned out.

Keep growing chicks and laying
hens separate throughout the sum-
mer.

Separate the sexes at 8 weeks old,
or as soon as sex can be determined.

Sell surplus cockerels as soon as
marketable.

House pullets not later than Oc-
tober 1.

FOR CLEANER EGGS

Dirty eggs cost the producer
money. The taste of an egg may not
be affected by the amount of dirt,
but the selling value is directly af-
fected. The poultry extension de-
partment of one University puts out
the following suggestions for the pro-
duction of clean eggs. They might
do the work for you, if you try them
out.

Keep hens housed until 3 in the
afternoon when the' ground is soft.
Gather the eggs when the flock is
turned out.

Have at least one nest for each six
hens. Keep plenty of straw in the
nests.

Have a good litter of straw on the
floor. Hens wipe their feet if they
have a "door-mat" to scratch in.

Gather the eggs at 10 in the morn-
ing to prevent tramping through the
day.

Keep the dropping boards clean
and nail chicken wire under the
roosts so that the hens cannot get
on the dropping boards.

Wash dirty eggs every day, and
tnen market them as soon as pos-
sible. Washed eggs should be sold
for immediate consumption.

Store eggs in cool, moist place
free from mustiness or odor. A clean
cellar is generally satisfactory.

Avoid handling eggs unnecessar-
ily. Keep them covered. Don't move
them from a cool room to a warm
one, as this causes them to sweat,
and injures them.

ILLINOIS STATE FAIR

The catalogs of the next Illinois
State Fair are now ready for mailing
and we hope every breeder of poul-
try in Illinois will seriously consider
showing at least, a few of his best
specimens. On account of lack of

room a rule has been put in force
allowing a breeder to exhibit in only
three varieties. That is, you can en-
ter in Barred Rocks, White Rocks
and Buff Rocks or any other three
varieties you are interested in and
no more. This eliminates the car-
load man but it cannot be helped.
The above rule, however, does not
apply to Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Pig-
eons or Rabbits as suitable places
for housing them have been secured.
As the dates are Sept. 19th to 26th,
it is late enough to give all breeders
ample time to mature their birds.The
National Convention of the Amer-
ican Poultry Association will be over
and a full report of the convention
will be read at the summer meeting
of the Illinois State Poultry Asso-
ciation which will be held on
Wednesday of the Fair. The Judges
so far assigned are O. L. McCord, D.
E, Hale, F. S. Tarbill and D. T.
Heimlich, and for the rabbits, C. S.
Gibson, will hang the ribbons. The
Officers of the State Association feel
that it would be a mighty good idea
for all specialty clubs to have a sum-
mer meeting at the fair, and after
the classes are judged to go over the
class with the Judges and come to
closer understanding about their
birds. The enormous number of
people who attend this State Fair
and see your birds make it an ideal
place to start your fall showing. If
you are unable to attend the Fair do
not let that interfere with you en-
tering. For the men we have to
care for your birds will give them
every attention. They are like your-
self, experienced poultrymen and
want to see your birds in the pink
of condition. If you have not al-
ready received a catalog write W. W.
Lindley, General Manager, State Fair
Springfield, Illinois, and a copy of
same will be sent you. Let's make
this the greatest poultry show ever
held at the Illinois State Fair.

Sincerely yours,

A. D. Smith.

THE WYANDOTTES

By J. H. Drevenstedt

The standard qualities of all varieties of Wj-
andottP9 are fully described and complete In-
formation given on how to mate and breed, how
to exhibit and judge them. Thousands of dol-
lars were spent In research work, copy making,
oil paintings, etc. No matter what variety of
Wyandottes you breed you will find in this book
Just the information yon need to bring success.

Attractively illustrated, three color plates,
160 pages. 9 by 12 inches. Price SI .00, post-
paid. Address Poultry Keeper, O'i'ncy. Illinois.

TURKEYS: THEIR CARE AND MANAGEMENT

Some of the most successful breeders and com-
mercial growers in the country tell of the
methods by which they have accomplished their
successes, and what they have done others also
can do. If you raise turkeys in any number,
this book wiil be worth many times Its price
to you.

Beautifully illustrated, one color plate, 96
pages, 9 by 12 inches. Price 75c. postpaid.
Address Poultry Keeper, Ouincy, Illinois.

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Page Number 14

THE POULTRY KEEPER

OUIJL OUT THE LOAFER HEN

Don't Kill the Layer. Market the
Culls and Save Feed.

Nearly fifty per cent of the hens
in every flock do not lay a sufficient
number of eggs to pay for the cost
of their feed alone. Nearly fifty per
cent »f the male birds in every flock
are not worth breeding from. There-
fore, one-half of the poultry owned
by the average poultryman consumes
the profit that he makes on the other
half of this flock.

The most important thing that
should be known by every poultry-
man is to tell how to select his good
layers, how to cull out his non-pro-
ducers, how to pick the birds that
consume feed but do not lay and how
to pick the birds that should be held
over as breeders.

During the next few weeks is the
important time to cull out these
loafer hens. Hens that have ceased
to lay eggs should be disposed of at
once. By culling out these hens now
you will not only save feed but you
will get a higher market price for
the culled out hens. The longer you
keep these hens, the lower the price
will be on the market.

Cull them out and sell them as
soon as they cease egg production.
Keep the hens that lay late in the
summer and into the fall months. It
is easy and simple to tell these hens
if you have the plain method and
secrets given in "The Call of the
Hen." A new revised edition of this
book, by Walter Hogan. gives all the
latest information on culling out the
non-layers, selecting for heavy egg
producers, breeding for egg produc-
tion, culling, etc. Hundreds of thous-
ands of copies of earlier editions of
this book have been sold and gave
entire satisfaction.

The new revised edition is strictly
down-to-the-minute in selecting by
color changes, bodily changes, pig-
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the latest authorative information, as
worked out by state experiment sta-
tions, poultry investigators and lead-
ing poultrymen.

Endorsed by leading authoritives
-^Government and State, county
agents, farm bureaus, poultry clubs
and experienced poultrymen every-
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feed our Egg Mash and Scratch feed.
Egg Mash, $2.60 per cwt. Scratch
feed, $2.10 cwt.

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m ^ PURITAS SPRINGS
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We trapnest every day of every year.

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Year

Reduced Prices

ON 8 TO 12 WEEKS OLD PULLETS, COCKERELS AND BREEDING STOCK

Puritas Springs Leghorns are world wonders. They shell out eggs regardless of weather condi-
tions. They are also beautiful birds. The large white eggs they lay bring highest market
prices. Thousands of our customers will hare no other strain of Leghorns; after trying other
strains they found Puritas Springs Leghorns always lay the most eggs in winter as well as
summer. The demand was so great this year that we were forced to refuse hundreds of orders
for hatching eggs and baby chicks. If you once have Puritas Springs Leghorns you will want
no others: you'll be the proud owner of the world's very best. Send for reduced Price List
and mention if you have our large free instructive catalog. We are fair and square and guar-
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showing just how to cull out loafers,
how to tell good producers without
trap nests, how to select the breeders
to keep over, etc.

It will prove worth ten times what
you pay for it on a single season.
Even if you raise but a few hens on
your back lot, you need this book.
The method is so simple that a child
can apply it.

Guaranteed absolutely to please
you or money back. Send $2.00 for
a copy, postage prepaid. Address all
orders to Poultry Keeper, Quincy, 111.

WHEN YOU BUY FOWLS

If you want to buy new birds to
increase the size of your flock or to
infuse new blood into it you will find
fall the best season in which to buy.
Breeders that have birds to sell pre-
fer to dispose of them now and can
afford to sell them at a lower rate
than they can next spring after they
have been put to the bother and ex-
pense of carrying the fowls thru the
winter.

Another reason for buying now is
that the birds will be on hand for
mating when desired and will have
in advance several months' time to
become accustomed to your methods
of housing, feeding, etc. A further
reason is that if the birds are ship-
ped now while the weather is mild
they are not likely to acquire colds,
out of which may later develop roup
or other serious ailments.

The man that is going to put in a
flock of purebred layers should se-
cure the birds now. It frequently
happens that for laying purposes
breeders can be induced to part with
low-scoring birds at a price little
above what the birds would bring for
dressed poultry. There are many
such birds in the flocks of specialty
breeders and fanciers. They are not
fit to be used as breeders of show
stock but for egg production they
are as good as the prize winners.

For example, a breeder of Brown
Leghorns said to the writer: "I have
some good birds that I will sell you
if you only want layers, but I do

BALLARD'S SUPREME WHITE ROCKS

Have mated some fine pens for the eg
P. \V. BALLARD,

trade from my Champion winners. Mating list on request.

GALESBURG, ILL.

not want to let anyone know that I
sold them to you. Some people come
and buy these knowing that they are
off in points and then complain be-
cause they can't take them to shows
and win prizes on them. Also they
tell people they bought them of me
and don't say that they bought them
as layers only. The people that see
them say that if they are representa-
tive specimens of my birds they do
not want any. This is not giving the
fancier a square deal."

It is not an honorable thing to
buy low-scoring birds at bargain
prices and then show them of as
high-quality birds from so-and-so.
On account of such treatment some
breeders will not sell their low-scor-
ing birds alive, but market them as
dressed poultry. — R.S.

LIKES P. K.

"I am very much interested in
poultry, and therefore am always
waiting for my next issue of Poultn
Keeper. I have taken, a while back,
three poultry magazines, but am
down to one — P. K. — its the best
R. A. Noble, Calif.

ILLINOIS STATE SHOW

The next Illinois State Show will
be held in Danville, Illinois, Jan. 3rd
to 7th, 1923, at the new Stale
Armory, undoubtedly the finest show
room for poultry in Illinois. We
want every Specialty Club in Illin-
ois to meet with us and we will give
the club twenty per cent of the
entree fee back to use as they see
fit and if the club shows one hun-
dred specimen birds in the pen
counting as two birds give a twenty-
six piece of Community Silverware
in a mahogany chest for the best
display.

We believe there will be more
beautiful Silver Cups and Trophies
awarded at Danville than anv State
Show ever held and we hope it will
be the largest ever held. The Judges
will be the best we can secure and
the same square and honest treat-
ment accorded every exhibitor at the
past State Shows will be yours if
you enter there. Place Jan. Srd to
7th, in your mind as one place you
are going to show. You wont regret

it .

A. D. Smith, Secy.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 15

I'A'I SMITH TO ACT AS ASSIST-
ANT SUPERINTENDENT AT
CHICAGO COLLISEUM

The readers of the Poultry Keeper,
especially the Illinois breeders, will
be interested to know that Pat Smith
of Quincy, Illinois, has been selected
as one of the Superintendents for
the Colliseum show, December 5-10.

It is doubtful if there is another
man in the state of Illinois that is
better known to the breeders, or if
there is another man that is as well
qualified to handle the National Ex-
hibition. He has had lots of exper-
ience in local and state shows, also
at the State Fairs, and the Colliseum
management congratulate themsel-
ves in having secured Mr. Smith's
services.

With Mr. Smith and Mr. Chas. G.
Pape on the job, every breeder^in
the country can rest assured that
this department will be looked after
as it should be. With the world's
greatest judges, this combination
cannot be duplicated by any other
show in this country.

It might be well now to make note
of the dates, Dec. 5th. to 10th. Prem-
ium lists November 1st. Entries
closed November 15th. Owing to the
uncertainity of mail, it is always best
to write for a Premium list. I will
be on my Arkansas farm, Crystal
Route, Hot Springs, Arkansas, until
August 3rd, but after the Conven-
tion at Knoxville will be at my home
address, 25 W. Washington St., In-
dianapolis, Indiana. — Theo. Hewes,
Secretary.

ANCONAS

R. C. ANCONA COCKERELS— Early hatched
— cheap. Mrs. E. .!. Crawford. Owatonna, Minn.

BABY CHICKS

CHICKS— C. 0. D. Parcel Post. 2000 miles.
Pay on arrival at your Post Office. Bargain
prices. My 17th year. Literature free. C. M.
La liver. Box 68, McAlisterville, Pa. 8-6

BABY CHICKS — Half Million for 1922. Twelve
leading pure breeds from heavy egg producing
strains. Alive delivery guaranteed. Catalog.
Smith Brothers Hatcheries, Mexico, Mo. 1-9

BANTAMS

BANTAMS AND EGGS— 22 Varieties . 2c stamp
for circular. Fenn Bantam Yards, (Desk 77),
I'clavan. Wis.

BRAHMAS

LIGHT BRAHMA HATCHING EGGS — $1.50 per
15 prepaid. Mrs. A. Burcheil. Rossmoyne, Ohio.

LIGHT BRAHMAS— Cavey Farm, Elkhorn, Wis

12-12

DOGS

RABBIT HOUNDS, FOXHOUNDS. COON,

Opossum. Skunk. Squirrel. Wolf. Groundhog
dogs. Setters, Airedales. Circular 10c. Brown's
Kennels, York Pa. 7-6

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DUCKS AND GEESE

EGGS— Mammoth Pekin 50-$5.00, 100-$8.00.
White Holland also Bourbon Red Turkeys 10-
$8.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

8-4

LEGHORNS

300 SINGLE COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG-

horns. 1 year hens, cockerels, pullets. Hatching
eggs. A. Schroeder, St. Peter, 111. 12-12

WHITE LEGHORNS

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS FOR

Sale — 12 weeks old, $1.50; 16 weeks old, $2.00;
200 weeks old, $2.50, of D. W. Young and
Barron strains. Robert Thompson, Walnut
Grove, Minn.

PULLETS — 75c each and up; Chicks, $10; Eggs,
$6; Hens, $1.50 each, Pedigreed Cockerels, $3
to $5 each, Others, $1 each; Cock Birds, $5
each. Imported Barron and Young strains S.
C. White Leghorns, raised separately. No hen
under 248-egg record in six years breeding. Trap
Nested, Pedigreed. Reduced prices. Circular.
Brownstown Poultry Farm, Brownstown, Ind.

BROWN LEGHORNS

S. C. DARK BROWN LEGHORNS— Eggs only.
6c each delivered. Willis Fairbanks, Mora,
Minn.

W. W. KULP, BOX 30, POTTSTOWN, PA. —

The leaders In size and contest winners. Cata-
log. Both combs.

BUFF LEGHORNS

BUSINESS BEAUTY BUFF LEGHORNS — High
record layers, large eggs. This year breeders
$24.00 per dozen. Joseph Benedict, Chevy
Chase, Md.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN YEARLING

hens $2.00 each. Eggs and breeding pens. Ar-
thur Worthington, R. 3, Two Rivers, Wis. 7-2

BLACK MINORCAS

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS — Early
hatched pullets, Cockerels. Also few breeders
winter layers. Table Egg Farm, Lookout, Penn.

BLUE ORPINGTONS

LOOK — Royal Blue Orpingtons. Winners. John
Dnangst, 1214 Prairie Ave., Freeport, HI. 8-12

BUFF ORPINGTONS

SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTON COCKER-

els. February hatched. Also several • good
yearling pens. Walter Goessling, 930 Jeffer-
son, St., Quincy, 111.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

REDS THAT LAY! The strain that pays.
Rose Comb. Eggs. Circular. Albert Bern-
hardt, Mt. Healthy, Ohio.

ROSE COMB RED EGGS— From prize winners
and record layers. (Bean strain.) Mating list.
Daugherty's Poultry Farm, Metcalf. 111. 8-2

PIGEONS

OFFER— mated Homers. $2.00 pair. Beautl-
White Homers, $3.00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux. Maltese Hens. Free book-
let. Squab Mannual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert.
2210 Almond St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 10-6

WHITE ROCKS

SNYDER'S WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS— Stock
for sale. Eggs. $2.00 per setting. A. E. Sny-
der, Dellwood Poultry Yards, Dellwood, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS

"CACKLERS" ..ARE PUREBRED BRED-TO-

Lay Barred Rocks. Trapnested by Geo. W.
Pratt, Cropsey, 111. Bargain prices on either
young or old stock. Unrelated pens. Write
wants plainly. Circular free.

PARKS ROCKS— Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, Box 30, Pottstown, Pa.

MY VICTORY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS—

Won at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4th, 1921.
3, 4, 5. Ex Cock; 2 Ex Cockerel; 1, 2, Ex Hen;
3 Ex Pullet; 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock; 2 Cock-
erel Bred Pen; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club shape and color specials.
Send for photo of my winning birds. J. T.
French, 838 West Grove Place, Toledo, Ohio.

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PHEASANTS

$9.00 PER POUND for pheasants. Easy raised.
Great demand. Complete book breeding 3G var-
ieties: Pheasants, Peafowl. Illustrated natural
colors $1.00. Colored catalog: 400 varieties 20c.
Bargains. Lowest prices. All kinds Wild Game,
Turkeys, Quail, Peafowl, Pigeons, Pet Stock,
Poultry, Waterfowl. Eggs for hatching. Ex-
changes made. (1000 Pheasants. Eggs — want-
ed.) U. Pheasantry, 1026 West 24th, Los
Angeles, Calif. 6-3

SEVERAL VARIETIES

ALL KINDS OF PUREBRED PRIZEWINNING

poultry and pets. Prices reasonable. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Peter Bros., Randolph,
Minn.

FOR SALE — Pure bred last year's hens at one
dollar each. White Orpington, Shepherd An-
oona, English White Leghorn, extra good.
Henry Mearns, Louisville, 111.

APRIL HATCHED PULLETS OR COCKERELS

— From Parks pedigreed stock direct. Also
(Woods) Light Brahmas, $2 each; $22 dozen.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Eva Bojar, St. Be-
nard, Ohio. 8-3

GOLDEN PHEASANT EGGS $3.50 SETTING.

Black Siberian Rabbits $4.25 pair. Guinea pigs
$1.75 pair. Squirrels $5.00 pair. Roller Canar-
ies $5.50. Parrots $8.00. F. Sudow, Los An-
geles, California.

SHEPPARD S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

vania S. C. W. Leghorn eggs for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Middleburg, Pa.

450 VARIETIES: Wild Game, Peafowl, Pig-
eons, Pheasants, Rabbits, Wild Turkeys, Ban-
tams, Poultry, Quail, Deer, Geese. Colored cata-
log, 20c. U. Pheasantry, Los Angeles, Cal.

TURKEYS

WILD TURKEYS. $28.50 pair. $4.75 setting.
Bronze, Holland, Burbon $4.00 setting. Ferd.
Sudow, 102G West 24th, Los Angeles, Calif. 6-3

EGGS FROM HIGH CLASS OLD STOCK— Mam-
oth White Holland, Mamoth Bronze and Bour-
bon Red. Ten $8.00; Twenty $15.00; Thirty
$19.00. Mrs. Frank Spurling, Forest Park, 111.

5-4

SILVER WYANDOTTES

SILVER WYANDOTTE COCKS— $3.00 ..each.
Rosetta Ralston, Locust Grove, Okla.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

WHITE WYANDOTTE HENS — Two cocks and
five young cockerels. Pair New Zeland Red
Rabbits. Homer and Carneaux Pigeons. Lew
H. Stewart, Route 4, Sioux City, Iowa.

POULTRY SHOW

MISCELLANEOUS

ONE HUNDRED EGG PRAIRIE STATE IN-

cubator and 50 chick Hover to trade for chick-
ens and eggs. E. L. Hiatt, 2700 Scioto Trail,
Portsmouth, O.

WANTED— To buy farm from owner. Give
price, description. Jas. Houck, Box 104, Tif-
fin, Ohio.

FOR SALE — Check protector, adding machine,
parcel-post scales, cornet, caponizing outfit,
hygrometer, Sure Hatch Incubator. Write for
description and price. Want to buy Laken-
velders. F. Raymond Benson, Elgin, 111.

PRINTING

PRINTING SPECIALS— During June, July.
August. 100 sheets linen finish note paper and
100 envelopes both printed with your three line
advertisement $1.25, 200 note paper and 100 en-
velopes SI. 50 postpaid. Summer sale list brist-
ling with bargains, for stamp only. Model
Printing Company. Manchester, Iowa.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

The classified advertisers In POULTRY
KKIOPER are coining money fast this year,
it pays to keep your announcement before
the people. That Is the way to establish
u reputation for your business. Why not
go after the people, get good prices, and
make more money this year?

BATES

Rules for Ads. Classified under proper

Headings are as follows:
! month 6c per wor«

2 months He per word

3 months 16c per word

4 months 20c per word

1 yi-ar 50c per word

Let The Hens Lag

Remove The Lice and TheijWiU

IT IS the healthy hen that lays a good egg and lays it regularly. Hens full
of vitality and vigor can keep up a heavy egg production. Hens free from
lice and mites — they put money in your pocket. A hen worried to death with lice cannot
lay if she wants to. Feeding high priced feed to lousy chickens is a dead loss. Don't do it.
Use the new way to kill lice and use LICECIL. No dusting, no dipping, no painting. Hang
up the original open bottle. It acts like magic. It will help to put a few drops in nests
and on roosts. Then uncork the bottle, hang it up in coop or hen -house and the powerful
evaporating vapors which leave the bottle will do the rest.

Ki//SL/ce

Protect your fowls from the powerful and insidious
lice and mites that suck the life blood of your birds.
These parasites allowed to run rampant in a hen
house will suck more blood, more vitality every night
than fowls can replace by the assimilation of large
quantities of food during the day. This is a money-
making and a money-saving proposition. Think it over. Extra care must
be taken thatnot only the birds are kept clean, but every crack and crevice
should be purified as well. Use LICECIL as indicated and in a few days
your entire flock and hen house will be rid of every louse and mite.

How to use LICECIL

Simply put a few drops in the nest and on the roosts, hang the uncovered
bottle in coop or hen house. The powerful evaporating vapors which leave
the bottle descending in mist form penetrate feathers, cracks, crevices
everywhere. Lice, mites, chiggers, roaches, bed bugs, ants, etc., have no
lungs. They breathe through the pores of the body and are destroyed
by LICECIL vapors. Will not injure chicks. Testimonials from
every Stateinths Union tell of wonderful results from its use.

Give it a Fair Trial

If you prefer to fight poultry pesta in the old way— it is cer-
tainly your privilege to do so. But your own best interest,
and the success others are having, will lead you to give
UCECILafair, honest trial at the earliestopportunity.

1 Bottle, $1.00 — 3 Bottles $2.50
12 Bottles $9.00 — All Postpaid

AMERICAN SUPPLY CO.
DEPT. P. K.

Quincy, Illinois

Evidence !

American Supply Co.,
Quincy. 111.,
Dear Sirs:

Enclosed please find $2.50 for 3
bottles of the Licecil. With great
success I have used it and am more
than pleased with It.

I have no more trouble with lice.
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No. 6

Intensive Poultry Keeping

By F. RAYMOND BENSON

When we jotted down the above
title, our mind involuntarily went
back to the time we discovered the
Back-Lotter in these pages. Inten-
sive poultry keeping does not nec-
essarily mean the keeping of poultry
on the back lot and while this is of-
ten the case, yet many times we see
it practiced on larger pieces of
ground. While perhaps it is espec-
ially adapted to the— small lander yet
the subject will prove of especial in-
terest to all poultrymen due to the
fact that we all feel the trend to-
wards smaller and smaller parcels of
land. After all just what is inten-
sive poultry keeping? A friend says
"hat it is the growing of two chick-
ens where one can hardly make a
go of life. That is not exactly true
for it gives a wrong impression. In-
tensive poultry keeping means that
we concentrate our efforts to the
keeping as many fowls in a given
amount of space as possible, keeping
the vigor and productiveness up to
par. It is the opposite of extensive
poultry keeping. Looking over the
poultry keepers we know we find
that many of them practice inten-
sive poultry keeping in various de-
grees.

Intensive poultry keeping seems
to be very popular and it might be
well for us to look into its advan-
tages and disadvantages so that we
may judge whether it would be ad-
vantageous for us to attempt it.

Perhaps one of the biggest advan-
tages is that only a small amount of
capital is required to make a start.
Where wide ranges are used the
cost is almost prohibitive but with
the intensive method Ave need but a
small plot of ground, small house
and we are ready for business. One
has the advantage of adapting such
a plant to his pocket book and many
times this is very important when
work is scarce and money is none
too plentiful. So we find that the
intensive method appeals to the be-
ginner or small investor as best fit-
ted to his immediate ability to build
and equip.

We have already made mention of
the fact that any available land can
be used for an intensive poultry
plant. It is not necessary to buy
many acres which might be located
far from ones place of business. On
the other hand a city lot is often
the means of a good start along this
line and sometimes even the part of
the back of the residence is made use
of for - the beginning. It is usually
best to use the ground available in-
stead of trying to locate in new
places as the initial investment is
smaller.

Another fine feature is that the
intensive poultry keeper is able to
concentrate on one feature of the
business such as egg production and
giving his exclusive attention to this
is able to do more effective work.
The extensive poultry keeper has so
many branches of his business that
it takes all his time to watch the
different ends of his business and
unless he is a mighty good business
man he may loose out while with the
intensive poultryman he has but one
yoal and he works unceasingly to-
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FALL WORK

As fall approaches we are remind-
ed that hot weather is leaving us
again and we must look about our
coops and see that everything is in
order for cold weather. Perhaps it
may seem a little early to think of
winter but observation has convinced
us that it is a wise policy to prepare
for winter as early as September and
October.

See that the doors and windows
are tight and all broken glass re-
placed. Look to the roof and make
it waterproof so that it may shed
hard storms. Perhaps an addition to
the poultry house is needed in which
case it should be built at once.
The floors, dropping boards and
nests should be carefully inspected
and repairs made.

Make no mistake, winter is com-
ing and should you delay in this mat-
ter you will probably have the un-
pleasant experience of having a visit
from roup, chicken pox or some oth-
er serious disease. Each year hun-
dreds of poultrymen experience many
difficulties which could have been
avoided had foresight been used
and it would be well for us to learn
our lesson by example rather than
by experience.

Let us make ready for the coming
of winter so that the flow of eggs
may not be reduced and thereby
keep the income from the flock as
great as possible.

PASS IT ON

The writer receives many, many
letters from poultrymen and poultry-
women all over the world and there-
by has untold opportunities to do
favors for these poultry friends. The
most encouraging thing is the way
so many of these friends respond to
our help and advice. It is no un-
common thing for them to go to
some inconvenience in order that we

may extend the bounds of our ser-
vice.

The world is certainly growing
better all the time. We believe this
thoroughly. Once in awhile some
sour livered pessimist comes across
the way and tries to make us think
that everything is headed for the
bow-wows but we know the world is
right and things are not as bad as
they seem so let the grouch rave if
it comforts him.

Pass on the good things. Keep the
the world bright. Do your neighbor
a favor and prove yourself a brother
to mankind. We all like the sunny
fellow who is anxious to keep every-
body happy and it would be a fine
thing if every reader of POULTRY
KEEPER would adopt the motto of
passing on a favor or kindness.
It makes all feel better and the world
would be a much better place in
which to live.

SELL SURPLUS STOCK

If you have not already done so we
suggest that you sell surplus stock at
once. Do not' make the mistake of
keeping more fowls than you have
room for — in other words do not
crowd. Often some ambitious breed-
er will raise more fowls than he
should and then when fall comes he
will crowd them into small quarters,
thinking it poor policy to cut prices
in order to sell surplus birds. Us-
ually it will be found the best policy
to keep only such fowls as can be
handled properly and the balance
should be sold even if the price must
be shaded to some extent.

Many years ago the writer had a
fine bunch of surplus birds at this
time of the year and crowded them
into a small house expecting to sell
them along towards spring at good
prices. The winter was unusually
severe and we did not ship many and
those which were sold had their
combs frozen and the experience
proved very unsatisfactory. In the
end we sold them for just about
enough to break even. It is far bet-
ter to sell your fowls in the fall un-
less you have plenty of room in
which to house them.

SPECIALTY CLUBS

For the sake of an argument let
us suppose that the reader is a breed-
er of Rhode Island Reds. No doubt
he finds a ready sale for all his sur-
plus fowls of good quality. It being
a well known fact that a good Red
will command a good price we follow
on to the conclusion that the poultry-
man is making money. Did you ever
stop to consider why a good Red
commands a high price? Various
reasons may enter into this matter
but the demand for good stock has
more to do with the price than any
other one item. What causes this
demand? Back East in New Eng-
land there lives a man by the name
of Card who is Secretary of the
Rhode Island Red Club of America
and Mr. Card and the hundreds of
members of this Club are boosting
Reds 365 days of each year. That
is the reason Reds are worth more
money.

So it is with all breeds. No breed
can long prosper without having a

Specialty Club back of it to boost
it and advertise it.

Your duty in this matter is per-
fectly plain. You should join and
support the Club back of your breed
of poultry. Perhaps there may be a
little of the selfish motive back of
this but no red-blooded man wants
to lay down on the job and let others
carry all the burden. Let us have
a large support of the Specialty
Clubs.

LET US CALL A HALT

Some weeks ago the authorities
arrested 100 men near Springfield,
Mass., and stopped a cock fighting
derby. The same day near Roches-
ter, New York 132 arrests were made
for the same reason.

Men who pride themselves on their
ability their efficiency and their pow-
ers still appear to loose all control
of themselves when they will be pres-
ent at or encourage a cocking main.
We cannot understand how a man
can find pleasure or recreation in
such cruel and heartless past time
as fighting cocks. Perhaps the un-
educated and uncouth members of
civilization of foreign countries
might find pleasure in such sport, if
it may be so called but surely no in-
telligent and upright American
would want to encourage the game.
We believe those arrested in the
above instances must have been for-
eigners who have not yet caught the
spirit of American fairness.

Let us call a halt in the past time
and bend our energies to the greater
and better aim of producing food or
beauty of feather and form. This
is far more noble and more in keep-
ing with American ideals. We trust
that every reader of POULTRY
KEEPER will use their influence to
further this matter.

HOW ABOUT WINTER
GREEN FOOD?

So much has been said of late
years about the value of green food
for poultry that the majority of
poultry keepers make an attempt to
supply it in some form.

As fall approaches it is well that
we face the problem again and make
some provision to meet the need.
Should you be so fortunate as to
have a surplus of beets, mangles,
cabbage or other like green stuff,
your solution is at hand but most
poultrymen find that it is necessary
to sprout oats for their fowls. Per-
haps this is a very lucky thing for
sprouted oats do much to keep the
flock in good health and we know
that health is very essential.

It is possible to sprout oats with
home made contrivances but it pays
to purchase a well made sprouter.
They work so much more efficiently
and with less labor and are quite
satisfactory.

Perhaps it would be a good plan
to look up an oat sprouter now so
as to have it when you need it. Don't
make the mistake of buying a sprout-
er simply because it is cheap but
rather purchase one which will meet
your requirements even should it
cost a little more.

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to 164000

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No. 7 Capacity . . 10,368 eggs
No. 8 Capacity . . 4,608 eggs
No. 6 Capacity . . 2,440 eggs

Egg- Capacity in Four Years

INDICATIONS OF DISEASE

A short 'time ago we stopped to see
a young poultryman and found he
was having trouble with his poultry.
Investigating the droppings we found
a clew to the trouble but the owner
was much surprised that we should
look to the droppings in our search
for the cause of the sickness.

Perhaps some of our readers may
not know that one of the best indi-
cators of fowl's health is the drop-
pings. The droppings should be of
sufficient consistency to hold their
shape, but not too hard. In color
they should be dark, shading off into
grayish white. If the droppings are
soft or pasty and of a brownish or
yellowish color, it indicates too much
carbohydrates or a lack of meat
scraps. If on the other hand they
appear watery and dark, with splash-
es of red mucus in them, it indicates
too much meat. A greenish watery
diarrhoea usually indicates unsani-
tary conditions.

Successful poultrymen watch the
dropping board each morning and
are thus warned of any change and
able to remedy the trouble. It pays
to look after this matter with more
than usual interest.

NEW FEATURES OF KANSAS
CITY SHOW

The Annual Heart of America
Poultry Show will be held in Con-
vention Hall at Kansas City on Jan.
2nd to 7th. The show is about four
weeks later than usual, but it will
come right at the time when poultry
raisers want cockerels, breeders,
hatching eggs, baby chicks and poul-
try supplies. Judges of National rep-
utation have been employed.

One of the interesting features of
the show will be an egg laying con-
test. Another will be a demonstra-
tion and display of all kinds of foods
made from poultry and eggs. It is
stated that eight hundred different
dishes can be made by the use of
eggs. The actual preparation will
be demonstrated during the show for
the purpose of creating a greater de-
mand for the consumption of eggs.
There will be of course an educa-
tional program during the week.

In addition to the wonderful dis-
play of standard bred poultry which
has always been seen at this show a
new feature will be a display of la-
dies hats made entirely of poultry
feathers or trimmed with feathers
from poultry.

A square deal will be guaranteed
to every exhibitor. Write to T. E.
Quisenberry, Sec'y-, for a premium
list. This association solicits your
birds and your hearty cooperation.

The great New York State Fair
is to be held September 11-16. This
will be some show and you better
hitch up your auto and attend.

The loss and damage to egg ship-
ments has been greatly decreased
during the past year, in fact during
1920 the loss amounted to $1,267,-
229.87 while during 1921 only $375,-
000 was charged up to this item.
Poultrymen are learning to pack eggs
better for shipment.

Another amazing instance of
rapid and sound growth, due to
real business methods and the
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Improper Feeding'

I bought a cockerel and when I got him home
I noticed that he had bowel trouble. The
droppings were a rich yellow. In about a
week my whole flock was affected and the
egg yield dropped from 27 to as low as 3 eggs.
Give me a cure if possible.

A. W"., Alaska.

Without other data we would say
that improper feeding was the cause
of this trouble. A lack of carbohy-
drates or perhaps too little meat
scraps might have caused it. Again
it might have come from a dozen
causes but it is evident that the ra-
tion was at fault and then it de-
veloped into more serious things. A
change in the rations and the feed-
ing of charcoal would be of great
help. We would look well to the
quality of the feed as it might be
moldy or unfit for use.

Cliicks Die

I have started to raise some chickens and I
bought 50 day old chicks and they seem alright
but when I turn them out in the morning I
have from one to two dead each morning. Can
you tell me what to do as we are young in
the business ?

Mrs. F. A. S.. New Jersey.

It is quite impossible for us to
give you much help as you did not
give us any details. Lice might
make the trouble or perhaps it is
bowel trouble caused by improper
feeding. If you will give us data
as to feeding and care we will be
very glad to help you in every way
possible. We are especially glad to

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Mating Problem

Will you please tell me in the next POULTRY
KEEPER if it is alright to mate March puUets
with a May rooster. I have White Leghorns.

Mrs. B. K., Oregon.

We prefer two year old hens as
breeders but if pullets must be used
we rather have a two year old male
to head the pen. We might mate
them as you suggest but certainly
not from the same pen, even though
they were hatched at different times.
We advocate out crossing as beins;
the greatest aid in keeping up the
vigor of the flock.

They Are Not

Do you consider the White Leghorn a good
market fowl? A. B. C. Illinois.

We would not class them but of
course there is much in knowing how
to get them in good condition. Some
markets now cut the price on Leg-
horns and all small breeds and while
this is unfair yet it shows that the
breeders have got to get busy and
furnish a better market fowl or loose
their market. We have given atten-
tion to egg production and now we
must look to the meat side of the
problem.

Rhode Island Red Bantams

I have been thinking some of trying to pro-
duce a Rhode Island Red Bantam but want to
know first if there are anv bred now.

J. I. J., Ohio.

The Rhode Island Bantam has
been bred in a small sort of a way
for some years. I believe that they
were bred in Oberlin in your state
the first that I heard of them but
for some reason they have never be-
come very popular. They can be
produced and with proper advertis-
ing would become quite extensively
bred.

Chicks Shed Feathers

I have some White Leghorn chicks which are
shedding their feathers. Every morning th°
floor is covered. My Brown Leghorns do not
shed that way. What causes this and a rem-
edy? S. P. S., Missouri.

All chicks shed or molt to a more
or less extent. Unless the amount
of feathers was excessive we would
not be alarmed at all but should
they become naked we would change
the ration. No doubt a ration which
is too stimulating has been used or
perhaps too much feather forming
material is contained in the ration.
Do you give the chicks plenty of
green food?

Several Questions

1. Are White Wyandottes good layers.?

2. Are thev as good as the other Wyan-
dottes?

3. How much per pound will they bring on
the market?

4. Do they need free range?

5. Are they better than the Rhode Island

Reds?

O.Do you think they would do well in Min-
nesota?' M. P.. Minnesota.

1. If you get a laying strain they
make excellent records but it is the
same as with every other breed, you
must know what strain you are buy-
ing.

2. The Whites have been more

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Page Number 7

extensively bred and are fully as
good in every way as any of the oth-
er 'Dottes. We would not say they
are any better. This' is speaking in
a general way and having no partic-
ular strain in mind.

3. That depends on the price be-
ing paid at time of delivery. The
only way you could determine what
they would bring would be to get
the price of your market which will
change often.

4. No more so than any of the
Standard breeds.

5. We would not say so. It is
difficult to compare two breeds as
both have their good and bad points.

6. Yes.

Still More Questions

1. Why are thicks hatched in incubators
smaller than those hatched under hens?

2. Will incubators hatch goose, turkey and
duck eggs equally as well as hens eggs?

3. My turkeys are eight weeks old and I
feed them one pint of curd mixed with one
pound of sand to 13 turkeys three times a day.
I also feed ground corn meal about twice a
weelc. They have free range but they die.
What is the cause?

4. To 45 ducks nine weeks old I feed five
quarts of bran mixed with half pint of sand
and a pint of mill gTound corn meal and yet
there are a number of small ones who don't
seem to grow and die off. What must I do
for this?

5. What must I do for chiggers on my lit-
tle Chicles?

G. My goslings are nine weeks old but they
v^try from one pound to three pounds. Why
do they vary so in size?

Miss 0. M.. Missouri.

1. Your statement is not a fact.
Chicks hatched in incubators are ful-
ly as large as those hatched under
hens, all things being equal. Much
depends on the parent stock and the
way the machine is run.

2. Yes. Follow the instructions
which come with machine.

3. Improper feeding causes this.
We suggest that you buy the book
"Turkeys: Their Care and Manage-
ment" and study it with care. You
can get this book of POULTRY
KEEPER for 75c.

4. Here again your ration is sad-
ly incomplete.

5. A two per cent ointment of
creolin and lard will help. You
might dip them if fairly well grown
using ten quarts of water of about
100 degrees and add six ounces of
creolin and mix well. Use when
cool as a dip.

6. Improper ration will cause
this.

Vent Gleet

I have a male which has an inflamation of
the vent with a whitish discharge with bad
ft of disinfection and let its have it in
POULTRY KEEPER? I am sure many readers

would be grateful for it as they must he for
the many good ideas which you have passed
on to us in the past. Thank you.

E. T., Illinois.

In an early issue you will find
just such an article as we have pre-

pared one during the summer
months. We are glad to have this
subject brought up as it is a highly
important one.

(Continued on page 11)

Page Number 8

THE POULTRY KEEPER

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Write for prices.

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Make sure of a big
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Bargain prices on
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YEARLING MALES

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that were not for sale at
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Poultry Leg Bands

Colored Leader, Adjustable, fit

anything from bantam to goose,
numbered consecutively, 5 colors:
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink.
100, $1.50; 50, $1.00; 25, 60c.

Heavy Aluminum, numbered con-
secutively, large raised figures, mil-
lions sold, adjustable, will stay on.
100, 60c; 50, 35c; 25, 20c.

Celluloid Spiral, 5 colors,
Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Yellow;
••an be easily distinguished.

12 25 50 100 250 500

No. 1 Asiatics $.25 .45 ».75 $1 20 $2.75 $5.00

No. 2 Rocks, Reds. etc. .20 .40 .60 1.00 2.25 4.00
No. 3 Leghorns, etc. . . .20 .35 .50 .90 2.00 3.50

Prices are postpaid. State color and breed.
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INTENSIVE POULTRY KEEPING
By F. Raymond Benson

(Continued from page 3)

wards this end and as a result be-
comes an expert along this one line
and success comes.

Another feature which it is well
to consider is that with the inten-
sive plant the exposure to the ele-
ments is reduced to a minimum and
this is well worth thinking about if
one is none too strong physically. It
is very important that the fowls re-
ceive proper care winter and sum-
mer, during storms and in sunshine
and the intensive plant allows one
to give this attention to his fowls
without becoming wet and cold and
withal disagreeable. The poultry-
man should be willing to suffer from
storms in order to care for his flock
but many take up poultry keeping to
gain back their health and to those
who are delicate the rigors of winter
must be avoided as much as possible.

Many times a man would be glad
to take up the keeping of poultry
but it would take his wife away from
her social and society life in the
city and his children would not have
the opportunity for school or recre-
ations, not to mention the wish of
the man to be near his lodge or
church. With the intensive plan one
can locate so close to the city or in
fact within the city and need not
deprive his family or himself of any
of these privileges. Today we think
much of our social life and it takes
a lot of grit to throw this ali to the
winds and move intp the _. country.
Perhaps it might be as well for us
if we did not give so much attention
to this side of our lives but the fact
remains that we as a nation are
growing into it rather than away
from it and facts are stuborn things.
We know of a mayor of a city of
moderate size who felt that his
health demanded that he retire from
politics and go into the poultry bus-
iness. What did he do but build a
modern intensive plant right in the
heart of his city and to this day he
can be seen working about his poul-
try yards and it goes without saying
that he found much pleasure and
health in so doing. His family have
been able to carry on their social
life as of old.

These, then are a few of the ad-
vantages but for fear that some of
our readers may become over en-
thusiastic and jump into the game,
let us briefly touch on a few of the
disadvantages so that we may know
both sides of the question.

One of the chief disadvantages is
the high cost of feed under this plan.
Every kernel must be purchased that

To produce vapor-bath sprouts with their diastase, grape sugar, and vita-
mines that bring the eggs; to cut down feed bill and run up egg yield;
| AS? 1 4 f .1«.IHWPW£!I j to change 1 bu. grain into 2 to 3 bu. egg-producing green feed; g«-t a

wo t r: n bath"SPR0UTER

Makes your dry lots profitable in summer and brings the eggs all
winter. We are the originators of the Grain Sprouter and'make all
kinds and sizes from a few hens to 1,000. Free circular on "Sprouted
Oats and Eggs." Ask for catalog on Incubators, Brooder Stoves,
Brooders, Feeders, etc.

CLOSE-TO-NATURE COMPANY
20 Front Street Colfax, Iowa

is fed to the fowls. Nothing is raised
and the fowls being confined to
small quarters do not have 'the op-
portunity to range and obtain any
food in this way. The cost of feed-
ing a hen is greatly higher than
when the hen is on free range. In
like manner the cost of labor in car-
ing for them is higher. When the
fowls have ample run one can use
large hoppers and all kinds of feed-
ing devices and we know poultrymen
who had schemes of feeding that
would enable them to make but one
visit to the coops each day with food
and water. Intensive poultry keep-
ing increases the cost of labor and
really this should be figured in just
as if you hired a man. You may do
the work yourself but the labor
should be charged up to the business
just the same.

Another feature which means
quite a bit to anyone whose working
capital is limited, is the risk you
take in going into one feature of the
game. Suppose for example that you
were in the commercial egg business
and the bottom was knocked out of
prices as it was the past spring. It
would hit you pretty hard. The man
who has several sources of income
would have the best of you in such
an event. But on the other hand
when eggs go to a dollar a dozen
you have the best of the argument.
You should so plan it to get as many
eggs as possible during the highest
price period and when they go down
you need not worry for you have
made your profit.

(Continued next month)

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that are taking your poultry or
your money returned. Price GOc. Anthony
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LIGHT AND DARK RRAHMAS

Show birds and choice breeders in old
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Free-ConAeys Poultry Book

30 pages chock full of information about the feeding and
rearing of chicks, culling of hens, etc. Tells how to keep
chickens healthy and how to make them pay. Whether
a beginner or a professional, Conkey's Book is worth
dollars to yon. Sent for 6 cents in stamps to paypostage.
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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

ILLINOIS EGG LAYING CONTEST

The report of Mr. C. P. Scott, Chief of the Department of Poultry Hus-
bandry on the Illinois Egg Laying Contest for June as follows
Five Highest Pens in the Mediterranean Class

Owner

Address

Variety

Eggs

-1

George B. Ferris

Grand Rapids, Mich.

White Leghorns

116

Northland Farms

Grand Rapids, Mich.

E. D. Lewis

Jackson, Mich.

o
6.

Harold Barclay

Wheaton, 111

Sweet Briar Farm

Ontarioville, 111.

Anconas

ti. hj. Heine

Lakewood, N. J.

White Leghorns

Funk Egg Farm

Bloomington, 111.

Five Highest

Pens in the American English Classes

Owner

Address

Variety

Eggs

M. W. Klemm

Lincoln, 111.

Barred Rocks

o
L.

F. W. Boulware

Hatton, Mo.

7 4

o
L.

Fernside Farm

Foxboro, Mass

S. C. Reds

1 A

i 4

o
o.

Kent Poultry Farm

Cazenovia, N. Y.

Barred Rocks

7 6

o
o.

Mrs. F. M. Robinson

Metamora, 111.

S. C. Reds

1 6

E. G. Horner

Quincy, 111.

C ft

bit

tr
0.

Geo. W. Pratt

Cropsey, 111.

Barred Rocks

a o
DO

tr
0.

C. P. Scott

Peoria, 111.
AT MURPHYSBORO

S. C. Reds

c o
06

Five Highest Pens in the Mediterranean Class

Owner

Address

Variety

TP rv rv f.

-CjggS

Ward L. Hull

Roodhouse, 111.

White Leghorns

Wm. E. Clarke

Mt. Vernon, 111.

107

o
o.

F. A. Millard

Kingsville, Mo.

1 ft o

E. T. Fox

Watseka, 111.

ft ft

9 9

r
0.

Egyptian Poultry Farm

DuBois, 111.

ft A

Five Highest Pens in the American English Classes

Owner

Address

Variety

Ji'goS

Geo. W. Pratt

Cropsey, 111.

Barred Rocks

Kenneth Pautler

Murphysboro, 111.

S. C. Reds

C. Braxton

Galesburg, 111.

W. Wyandottes

Mrs.M. R. Walters

Areola, 111.

Barred Rocks

Shaw's Pharmacy

Murphysboro, 111.

George Niebruegge

Valmeyer, 111.

White Rocks

John Swain

Belleville, 111.

White Wyandottes

QUINCY CONTEST

The standing of the five highest pens and the five highest individuals
at the Quincy Contest will be of interest to our readers. The years contest
is fast drawing to a close and the final winners will be reported soon.

Highest Pens, Mediterranean Class
1. Geo. B. Ferris, Grand Rapids, Mich., 872 eggs. 2. Harold Barclay,
Wheaton, 111., 766 eggs. 3. S. C. Price, Hazelton, Pa., 754 eggs. 4. John
J. Nyenhuis, Hudsonville, Mich., 72 6 eggs. 5. Geo. Ghost ley, Anoka, Minn.
720 eggs.

Highest Individuals to date are: 1. Harold Barclay, Band No. 187, 191
eggs. 2. Geo. B. Ferris, Grand Rapids, Band No. 419, 190 eggs. 2. John
J. Nyenhuis, Band No. 57, 190 eggs. 3. A. E. Davidson, Mt. Sterling, 111.,
Band No. 205, 189 eggs. 3 E. D. Lewis, Jackson, Mich., Band No. 143, 189
eggs. 4. C. G. Ream, Lancaster, Pa, Band No. 10, 182 eggs. 5. Northland
Leghorn Farm, Grand Rapids, Mich., Band No. 14, 179 eggs.

Highest Pens American and English Classes

1. Kent Poultry Farm, Cazenovia, N. Y., Barred Rocks, 733 eggs. 2.
A. B. Blevins, Litchfield, 111., Minorcas, 682 eggs. 3. Mrs. F. W. Robinson,
Metamora, 111., S. C. Reds, 632 eggs. 4. Frank Pifer, Sullivan, 111., W. Wyan-
dottes, 631 eggs. 5. Lawrence Rasmussen, Highland, 111., W. Wyandottes,
561 eggs.

Highest Individuals to date: 1. Kent Poultry Farm, Band No. 452, 170
eggs. 2. C. P. Scott, S. C. Reds, Band No. 288, 167 eggs. 3. Kent Poultry
Farm, Band No 451, 166 eggs. 4. Frank Pifer, Band No. 81, 15 6 eggs 5.
F. W. Boulware, Hatton, Mo., Barred Rocks, Band No. 552, 152 eggs.

For Use,
On Your Poultry J

Seize the hen and dust Instant
Louse Killer into the feathers.
The handy sifting top can
makes it convenient to use.
Sprinkle it in the nests, on the
roosts and floors. Put Instant
Louse Killer in the dust bath
occasionally — your hens v/ill
do the rest. This means
louse prevention.

FOR STOCK

With one hand stroke the hair
the wrong way, with the other
sift in the Louse Killer.
Especially good for lousy colts.

GUARANTEED. The dealer
will refund your money if it
does not do as claimed.

1 lb., 25c; 2»/ 2 lbs., 50c
( Except in the far West and Canada )

Dr. HESS & CLARK
Ashland Ohio

8 to 12
WEEK OLD

PULLETS

from heavy laying Hogan tested stock. Rocks,
ttcds, Wyandottes and Leghorns at new low
prices. WECKEL BEOS., Box 391K, Molina, 111.

* Poultry Leg Bands

rajOIIIII THE "BEST YET" ALUMINUM.

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Red, Green, Amber, Pink, Black.
White. Yellow. Purple. Light Blue.
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Size/or 12 25 50 100 250 500

Baby Chicks, Pigeons.. $.10 S.20 $.35 f .60 $1.25 $2.25

Crowing Chicks 15 30. .40 .75 1.75 3.00

Leghorns. Anconas . . .20 .35 .50 .90 2.00 3.50

Hocks. Reds. etc. ... .20 .40 .60 1.00 2.25 4.00

Asiatics 25 .45 .75 1.20 2.75 5.00

Turkeys. Geese. . . . .30 .50 .85 1.40 3.25 6.00
Aluminum Marker Work*. Dept. 13 Beaver Falls. Pa.

PROFITABLE CULLING AND SELECTIVE
FLOCK BREEDING

One-fourth to one-half of the hens In the
overage flock are non producers, or practically
so, for six months in the year. These "slacker"
hens eat up the profits faster than the good
layers in the flock can earn them. If you
keep poultry for profit, whether you have a
commercial or backyard flock, you cannot af-
ford to feed these idle hens. Get rid of them
by adopting simple, easily applied culling
methods.

"Profitable Culling" describes every known
method of selecting layers that is of recognized
value. You can readily follow the plan and
easily understood descriptions in this book,
which are fully illustrated with several dozen
black-and-white and three-color photographic re-
productions of live, plucked and dissected good
iayers, non-layers, and poor producers. By prop-
er culling you can secure largest profits and
protect your feed bin and bank account by
keeping the egg production of your flock up to
or about fifty per cent yield throughout the
laying year or season — in fact until early Sep-
tember.

Size of book Is 9x12 inches. It contains 120
pages with atractive Sewell art cover; is printed
on super-calendered half-tone book paper and
profusely illustrated. Compiled at a cost of
more than $4,000. Price postpaid, $1.50. Ad-
dress Poultry Keeper, Quincy, Illinois.

LADY PURITAS

PURITAS SPRINGS
S. C. W. LEGHORNS

The World's Greatest Layers

Lady Layer

Leid 326 Efefea /~v
On: / A

Trapnested for over 10 years without missing
one day. Every nest on our farm is a trapnest.
We trapnest every day of every year.

Reduced Prices

ON 8 TO 12 WEEKS OLD PULLETS, COCKERELS AND BREEDING STOCK

Puritas Springs Leghorns are world wonders. They shell out eggs regardless of weather condi-
tions. They are also beautiful birds. The large white eggs they lay bring highest market
prices. Thousands of our customers will have no other strain of Leghorns; after trying other
strains they found Puritas Springs Leghorns always lay the most eggs in winter as well as
summer. The demand was so great this year that we were forced to refuse hundreds of orders
for hatching eggs and baby chicks. If you once have Puritas Springs Leghorns you will want
no others; you'll be the proud owner of the world's very best. Send for reduced Price List
and mention if you have our large free instructive catalog. We are fair and square and guar-
antee satisfaction in every way. We have hundreds of letters to prove it.

Puritas Springs Poultry Farm, Box Pill, Avon Lake, Ohio S^U^r

Page Number 10

THE POULTRY KEEPER

SUPER SOL-HOT
Heater for Canopy
Brooders and
Incubators-.

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Positive Oil Control

The Super Sol-Hot is the only heater on the mar-
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stant oil level— it's automatic — burns even flame alt
the time. Acquaint yourself with the Super Sol-Hot
before next season. Write now for free descriptive
folder. We'll alsosend vou folder telling all about my

MULTI-DEK

Sectional Incubator

The Multi-dek "add a section as you need it" idea
."■ust exactly fits in with the average poultry raisers'
requirements, 250 to 3000 egg capacity, furnished
complete, ready to set up, or you can build it your-
self from set of plans we furnish free. A big winner.
Write for free folder.

H. M. SHEER CO.

Dept. 28 QUINGY, ILL

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do hard, heavy
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ENGINE BOOK FREE— Write today.
OTTAWA MANUFACTURING CO.
721-0 King St., Ottawa. Kansas.

Gasoline
Engine Prices

2 H-P.S33.30
2 .H-P. 45.57
3HiH-P. 59.50
4 H-P. 75 95

5.7.10.12.1o.22
HP& All Ker-
osene Engines
at Proportion-
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S. G. White, Brown and Buff
LE6B0BN PULLETS
$1.00 Each

Yearling hens. Cock birds. We have
over 10,000 head of High Class
stock. Catalogue. 25 Standard va-
rieties.

The South Kenton Poultry Farm,
Kenton, Ohio

Chas. W. Wyllie, Supt. Geo. W. Cox, Prop.

TIMELY TOPICS

Readers are asked to co-operate in making this Department
interesting by sending in suitable items to, F. Raymond
Benson, 915 Augusta Ave., Elgin, Illinois.

The International Rose Comb
White Minorca Club has reorganized
and is planning a new feature. The
secretary is L. L. Reed, Middleport,
Ohio, and every breeder would do
well to get in touch with him.

The Annual meeting of the Rhode
Island Red Club of America will be
held in Denver, Colorado, January
16, 1923. All Red breeders should
make a note of this and attend if
possible. This club is growing all
the time and shows what can be done
when everyone pulls together.

We understand that Canada has
reduced the duty on incubators and
brooders going into that country to
1 5 per cent. If this is the case it
should stimulate business among our
brothers to the north and help them
get an even better start in poultry.
Let us do all we can to give them
a lift for as a matter of fact our
interests are the same.

The Jersey Black Giant Club held
an open air meeting at Crosswicks,
New Jersey, on July 11th and accord-
ing to reports they had a regular
meeting. This club is wide awake
and boosting 365 days a year.

Melvin F. Uphoff, Secretary of
the National Golden Wyandotte Club
will judge the Goldens at the New
York State Fair and this is a guar-
antee that it will take quality to win.

Dr. O. B. Kent, who was formerly
with the poultry department of Cor-
nell University has accepted a posi-
tion as director of the Poultry De-
partment of the Quaker Oats Com-
pany. We wish Dr. Kent every suc-
cess in his new position.

The First Western District Meet
of the Silver Laced Wyandotte Club
of America will be held at Des
Moines December 6-10.

White Hill Farms, Little Blue,
Missouri, has been incorporated for
$150,000. Wm. Shands has built up
this business and has been elected
president of the new corporation.
This is another proof that there is
money in the poultry business.

Stormont's Barred Rocks Bring Home the Bacon, Note!

In National Illinois Eg-g Laying Contest, my strain of Barred Rocks made the following
winnings: Grand Champion Pen, Majority 200 eggs; Grand Champion Layer, 27!) eggs in
eleven months, Third Highest Layer and Fifth Highest Layer. Sly pen was recognized with the
following prizes: 28 Certificates of Award, 15 Ribbons, 7 Silver Cups and .$2.s.0O in cash. This
greatest of all BARRED ROCK RECORD made over 100 pens and 500 layers all breeds com-
peting. Mr. A. D.Smith, Sec. of Contest said: "I DO NOT HESITATE TO RECOMMEND
YOUR BIRDS IN CONTEST AS EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY LAYERS. THEIR RECORD IN
THE CONTEST SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SATISFY ANYONE." I am book-
ing orders for cockerels of this same blood for Oct. delivery- Write for circular and prices.

REV. A. C. STORMONT,

R. F. D

WARRENSBI RG, MO.

(Formerly of Auxvasse, Mo)

The Interstate Fair Association is
erecting a new building at Lynch-
burg, Virginia, which will be 100 by
50 feet. This will help greatly in
giving poultry a better opportunity
and no doubt poultrymen will ap-
preciate it and show their gratitude
by bringing more birds.

C. A. Finsterbusch of Santiago,
Chile, has started the first poultry
paper in the country under the title
of "Chile Avicola." We have no
doubt but that this paper will prove
of great worth in this fertile field
and we regret our inability to fol-
low its progress as ye editor only
reads good old U. S. A.

FEED MOULTING HENS
DICKINSONS

GLOBE EGG MASH

Help them molt evenly and quickly.
Your Dealer Can Supply You.

SUPERIOR LEG BANDS

Aluminum

Spiral •

Sure

Clinch

Celluloid

12 -

S .15

12 - $ .15

25 -

.25

25 - .30

50 -

.35

50 - .50

100 -

.65

10O - .95

250 -

1.50

250 - 2.00

500 -

2.50

500 - 3.25

Also, colored number bands. Baby
chick bauds. State breed and sex. Postpaid. Cat. free:
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$4Q95 Buys 140-Egg Champion

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price postpaid, 10-lBc, <5
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Any color, two large black num-
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25-oOc, 60-80C. 100-11.50.
Makers of 25 different styles of

of LEG * WING bands.
The National Poultry Band Co.
Send for catalog. Newport, Ky.

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 11

Pat Smith of Quincy, Illinois, is to
act as assistant superintendent of
the Coliseum Show in Chicago the
coming winter. Don't forget the
date is December 5-10. Plan to at-
tend and enter a few birds if you can.

W. R. Schrader for some time Sup-
erintendent of the Greater St. Louis
Poultry Show has passed on to his
reword. This will be sad news to
his many friends.

* * *

The large hatchery located at
Cushing, Nebraska, owned by Mrs.
Paul Anderson has been destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated better
than $25,000 with only $7,000 in-
surance. We have not learned Mrs.
Anderson's plans but trust she will
resume business again.

* * 5i:

Out in Iowa the other day they
sent a man down for four years for
stealing chickens. This will be good
news to our readers and perhaps we
will hear more of it in the future.
If more were sentenced for chicken
stealing there would be few roosts
raided.

* * *'

The Texas State Fair will be held
October 6-15 this fall and we under-
stand that the awards are quite lib-
eral.

* * :j:

The Oklahoma State Fair is to be
held September 23 to Oct. 1, They
have -a new poultry building there
anci are justly proud of it.

* * *

How about trying "Kilamite" and
starting the fall right?

Mr. Charles V. Keller of Winmac,
Indiana, has been quite ill but is re-
ported at this writing to be on the
road to recovery Mr. Keeler has
many friends who will wish him
rapid progress to health again.

Mr. G. M. DeMent has launched
the "Southern Poultry Journal" up-
on the rough seas of poult it journal-
ism. The South is a rich field and
we wish the newcomer every success.

Remember the Illinois State Fair
is September 16 to 23 and reserve
time to give it the once over.

Out in Petaluma, California, they
have a regular Egg Day Carnival
once a year. They have a chicken
parade, an egg scramble, egg bar-
becue, egg games and rooster races.
They also elect an Egg Day Queen.
The Petaluma Chamber of Commerce
is back of this and it has proven a
great help to the poultry industry.

The Greater St. Louis Coliseum
Show will be held December 2 8 to
January 1. 'Tis going to be some
show" boys.

Over in Australia they hold poul-
try shows that would make Link Orr
gasp. The Royal Centenary Show
has .11,000 exhibits and 100 judges.
How's that?

The editor is always glad to re-
ceive items which will prove useful
for this department.

NEW SPECKLED SUSSEX CLUB

A new Club has been formed to
be known as the National Speckled
Sussex Club with the following of-
ficers: President, E. R. Fields, Sand-
wich, 111.; Vice president, W. J.
Smith, New Hampton, Iowa; Secre-
tary ,-treasurer, E. H. Hoffman, La
Crosse, Wis. Directors, Mrs. C. L.
Constable, Goodland, Ind.; H. L.
Bradford, Bailey, Tenn.; C. E. Lewis,
Wells, Vt. This club has been or-
ganized to promote the breeding and
exhibiting of this variety and all
breeders of Speckled Sussex are in-
vited to join and write the secretary.

RHODE ISLAND BEDS

By D. E. Hale

Experience breeders and beginners alike will
find the information contained In this Instruc-
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times the price. Learn from it how to select
and mate birds for the breeding pen, how to
feed, judge and exhibit successfully.

Fully Illustrated, including a fine color plate
by Sewell, 88 pages. 9 by 12 Inches. Price 75c,
postpaid. Address Poultry Keeper, Quincy, 111.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(Continued from page 7)

Purple Comb

I have a good rooster that gets a purple
comb about every week. He looks well and
eats and drinks but I know this comb isn't
right but being a beginner I don't know what
to do. H. L. L., Minnesota.

This is nothing serious but might
lead to trouble unless you attend to
it. Separate the fowl from the bal-
ance of the flock and give one half
teaspoonful of Epson salts in water.
Feed lightly and be sure to give more
green food in the ration hereafter.
Charcoal should be kept before the
flock at all times.

Broken Shank

I had a valuable cock break his shank a
short time ago and wish- you would give me
suggestions as to treatment that 1 may know
better what do do next time such a thing oc-
curs. D. S., Indiana.

Perhaps a few splints and set
broken bones and bind with cotton.
Then wrap well and sew with thread.
We sometimes have used auto tire
tape over the bandage during damp
weather. Feed well and keep .fowl
quiet for about two weeks when
bandage may be removed. Keep
bowels active with castor oil or
Epsom salts.

Get More Eggs
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HEN

Page Nmmbei- 12

THE POULTRY KEEPER

(000-Egg Queens

(52)

Larger Hatches

Hatching with 1000-egg Queens also results in
larger hatches, as proven by records. Queens are
wonderful hatchers — we have sold as many as
275 of these large Queens to one poultryman.
Queen Air Release Tube is a feature not found in other
machines. It makes it impossible for air pockets to form
in the tank, insures uniform heating and provides ideal
hot water vapor heat. There are many other advantages
■which we shall be glad to explain to anyone interested.
Write us about your needs. Queen Incubators are made
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Is "OCULUM." the Egg maker . It
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FOLLOW NATURE— FEED
PLENTY OF SPROUTED
OATS

The Best Green Feed

After many years of close study,
poultry breeders in all parts of the
country have come to the conclusion
that nothing contributes more to in-
crease the egg yield and put the birds
in good condition than a plentiful
supply of sweet, tender blades of
grass or succulent food.

Did you ever notice how eagerly
the young grass is devoured by the
fowls, young and old, during the
spring months, when the grass is of
the finest quality and how quickly
the egg yield increases? Many peo-
ple heretofore believed and no doubt
many do yet, that this increase in
the number of eggs laid is principal-
ly due to warmer weather, while in
fact the green food thus supplied by
nature in addition to the ration given
by the breeder is entirely responsi-
ble for it.

The nearest we can come to imi-
tate nature in this respect after the
fall supply is exhausted is in sup-
plying sprouted grain, especially in
form of oats, which can be. so easily
and cheaply produced in a modern
sprouter.

Observations during past seasons
with sprouted grain in hot weather
when the grass is tough and fibrous
shows that too little attention is of-
ten given to succulents in the ration.
Of course, one cannot do without
grain or its by-products, especially
animal protein, but one can waste a
lot of money feeding grain alone
without succulents in the ration.

If a considerable portion of the
grain fed during hot weather is giv-
en in a sprouted form to growing
stock they mature much quicker and
at less expense. .The older birds pass
through the moult more quickly and
in better condition when kept sup-
plied with an ample quantity of suc-
culent sprouted grain. The result
is that the hens come back into lay-
ing condition earlier in the winter
and lay more consistently through
the cold winter months. — M. C.

POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES

Complete, New, Down to Date

This book goes right to the bottom of the
subject of poultry house construction. It tells
how to plan houses In order to save lumber.
What grades to buy and how to buy to good
advantage. There Is not an Important detail,
from locating the house to painting the complet-
ed building, that is not fully and clearly treated.
Plans and bills of materials are given for houses
to meet every practical need. Also tells how
to equip the house with labor-saving conven-
iences.

Size of book, 8% by 12 Inches, 112 pages,
printed on supercalendered book paper, with
235 helpful illustrations. Price $1.00 postpaid.
Address Poultry Keeper, Quincy, Illinois.

f AI TTTfifV* Any Bone Cutter claimed to be MANN'S without F. W. MANN CO. cast on
» * i^Jl^. jts surface, is an imitation. The genuine MANN'S is made onlj in Milford.

Make Your Hens Lay

You can douuk- your ep:g yield bv feediupr fresh-cut. raw bone. It *f /

egg yield by feeding fresh-cut. raw bone. It
contains over lour times as much e^g-making materialas irrain and
takes tue place of bugs and wo-ms in fowls diet. That's why
gives more egps. greater fertility, stronger chicks, larger fowls.

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Cured Her

Rheumatism

Knowing from terrible experience the
suffering caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J.
E. Hurst, who lives at 508 E. Olive St.,
13223, Bloomington, HI., is so thankful at
having cured herself that out of pure
gratitude she is anxious to tell all other
sufferers just how to get rid of their tor-
ture by a simple way at home.

Sirs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merely
cut out this notice, mail it to her with
your own name and address, and she
will gladly send you this valuable infor-
mation entirely free. Write her at once
before you forget.

Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk
several years ago. Doctors said my only hope
of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no
good. Finally I got hold of something that
quickly and completely cured me. Years have
passed and the rupture has never returned,
although I am doing hard work as a carpenter.
There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble.
I have nothing to sell, but will give full infor-
mation about now you may find a complete
cure without operation, if you write to me.
Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 1G-J, Marcellus
Avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this
notice and show it to any others who are rup
tured — you may save a life or at least stop
the misery of rupture and the worry and danger
of an operation.

Egge Brings More Eggs

When eggs
are selling at from
60 cents to 51.00 a
dozen, is when you
make the most
money. Nothing so
helpful as Egge. It
is a marvelous egg-
builder, helps to
keep the fowls in
perfect health and
solves the problem
of making hens lay
in cold weather.

EGGE IS COM-
POSED OF: Egg

and shell forming
materials, kidney,
liver and bowel reg-
ulators, blood solvent
and purifiers, appe-
tizers and feed as-
similators. It con-
tains medicinal in-
gredients that stim-
ulate the whole di-

gestive tract from crop through gizzard to
ovaries, shell forming organs and circulation.

READ THE EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS

Mrs. Carrie Powell, "Please send me 12
packages of your poultry remedy. Everyone
that uses it likes it, and my neighbors say that
they would not be without it. They do not
have any trouble getting eggs when feeding
your remedy."

Mrs. A. J. Whitlook, When I began using
Egge my chickens were badly afflicted
with roup, and I was only getting six and eight
eggs per day. Now I am getting eighteen and
twenty eggs per day, and my chickens are
healthy and thrifty.

Miss Mary Robinson, "Enclosed is a $4.00
P. O. order for Egge. I can fully say that I
am more than pleased with the good results
from my 200 hens in the laying qualities.

Wm. Geers, says, "I have used Egge and
find same a great remedy for poultry, not only
as a health producer, but It is also very valu-
able in winter time for hens. While feeding
your remedy, I got more eggs than I ever did
before."

J. H. Kohlmeyer, says: "Egge has no equal.
The cost is practically nothing compared with
the results I got, and I cannot recommend It
too highly."

EGGE SAVES SICK CHICKENS

You see from testimonials and contents, Egge
is not alone an egg tonic but contains ingredi-
ents that make it a remedy for relieving cholera,
roup, canker, limberneck, gapes, pip, etc. Send
for a package today. It will help your hens
through the molt and get them to laying again.
PRICES — Large Package 50c; 25 lb. Pail, $5.00.
All prepaid, money back if it fails.

AMERICAN SUPPLY CO.
Dept. P. K. Quincy, III.

When writing advertisers please mention
this paper.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

Reliable Mammoth Incubator

To think of a Mammoth Incubator
is to immediately associate the
achievement with J. W. Myers, Pres-
ident of the Reliable Incubator &
Brooder Company of Quincy, Illinois.
You would no more fail to do this
than you would fail to associate the
discovery of lightning with Franklin,
the discovery of the law of gravity
with Newton, or the discovery of
America with Columbus. Mammoth
Incubators and J. W. Myers are in-
separable.

The construction of the Mammoth
embodies all the underlaying princi-
ples subject to service, durability, ef-
fiency and it is scientifically econ-
omical. The Mammoth is well
packed and insulated between the
double wood walls to prevent the loss
of a single egg, no matter how se-
verely the atmospheric changes may
prove to be during the period of
hatching. These changes cannot
penetrate the egg chamber. The
build of the Mammoth is identical
with the smaller Standard Reliable.
An advantage of the Mammoth is
the additional partition in the center,
dividing it into two sections, each
having an independent and separate
regulating device and heater. It po-
sesses the same double heating and
ventilating system which has made
the Reliable Standard Incubator
THE WORLD'S GREATEST
HATCHER. The construction is
suCh that the maximum egg capacity

is secured with the minimum oil con-
sumption. The heater is encased in
the end of the machine, and utilizes
all the heat given off and none
wasted, thereby enabling users to
operate the Mammoth on a third to
one half less oil than used by any
other incubator of like size.

The best way to measure the use-
fulness of a Mammoth is to try one
and in that way you may easily trace
the history of the egg from the nest
to the bank. Almost anyone can cut
prices, but Mr. Myers believes in
producing a better article for the
money, this takes brains and the ac-
curacy of the rule is herewith dem-
onstrated. Only through the suc-
cess of satisfied customers does J. W.
Myers, President of the Reliable In-
cubator and Brooder Co., of Quincy,
Illinois, claim any success of his
own.

TURKEYS: THEIR CARE AND MANAGEMENT

Beautifully illustrated, one color plate, 96
pages. 9 by 12 inches. Price 75c postpaid.
Address Poultry Keeper. Quincy, Illinois.

MAKE UP A CLUB

1000 Eggs

in Every Hen

New System of Poultry Keeping —
Get Dollar A Dozen Eggs — Fa-
mous Poultryman

TELLS HOW

"The great, trouble with the poultry business
has always been that the laying life of a hen
was too short," says Henry Trafford, Inter-
national Poultry Expert and Breeder, for nearly
eighteen years Editor of Poultry Success.

The average pullet lays 150 eggs. If kept the
second year, she may lay 100 more. Then she
goes to market. Yet, it has been scientifically
established that every pullet is born or hatched
with over one thousand minute egg germs in
her system — and will lay them on a highly
profitable basis over a period of four to six
years' time if given proper care.

How to work to get 1,000 eggs from every
hen; how to get pullets laying early; how to
make the old hens lay like pullets; how to
keep up heavy egg production all through
cold winter months when eggs are highest-
triple^ egg production; make slacker hens hus-
tle; $5.00 profit from every hen in six winter
months. These and many other money making
poultry secrets are contained in Mr. Traffords
"1,000 EGG HEN" system of poultry raising,
one copy of which will be sent absolutely free
to any reader of this paper who keeps six hens
or more. Eggs should go to a dollar or more
a dozen this winter. This means big profit
to the poultry keeper who gets the eggs. Mr
Trafford tells how, if you keep chickens and
want them to make money for you, cut out
this ad and send it with your name and ad-
dress to Henry Trafford, Suite 1090P, Herald
Bldg., Binghamton, N. Y., and a free copy of
"THE 1,000 EGG HEN" will be sent by re-
turn mail.

h KNOWN FROM
jfl COAST TO COAST
"iM C.P.SCOTT

PEORIA. ILL
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Barred Rock

Baby Chicks

And All Other Standard Varieties.

I make a specialty of Barred Rock chicks and
I can guarantee my customers that they will
be more than satisfied if they order chli from
me, as I keep nothing but the choicest of
birds in my flocks, and they are culled each
year for high egg production. Every customer
ordering from me must be satisfied or money
will be cheerfully refunded. Barred Rock
chicks $16.50 per hundred.

FRED YTJNKER, Dakota, Illinois

JOHN 1 S. MARTIN,

REGALS — "The Ideal Fowl"

Regal Dorcas White Wyandottes have stood the test and may rightly be named the All-purpose
fowl. They are splendid layers of large brown eggs and have made wonderful records in the Official
Laying Contests. They are a superb table fowl and mature much sooner than most other strains.
Canadian winters are severe but the Regals thrive and keep right on laying with the mercury 20 to
30 below. I raise, as a rule, between one and two thousand January and February chicks with prac-
tically no losses.

As an Exhibition fowl the Regals lead all others. Xo strain has a greater record of winnings.
.My unoroken record of fifteen victories at the New York State Fair has not been equaled by any other
strain.

WHY SEEK FL'RTHER? If you are thinking about starting in the Poultry Business your success
or failure will largely depend on your choice of a breed. If you are already breeding White Wyan-
dottes and are not satisfied witli your flock, give the Regals a trial. They have made money for me
and they will do the same for you. Book your order at once to make sure of delivery when you
want them.

200 Acres Devoted to White Wyandottes. Free — Send for 20 Page Catalog and Summer Sale List,
giving description of over 1,000 breeders that I am offering for sale.

Box 408

PORT DOA ER, ONT., CAN*.

Page Number 14

THE POULTRY KEEPER

This

SAMPLE

Hakes 2

Pip and Disinfectant^

We want you to try this new and better Coal
Tar Disinfectant— the only one made in solid
form—

CoMegb NOX

Solidified Disinfectant

Just dissolve one little cube of Conkey's
Nox in a gallon of warm water and you have
a gallon of Disinfecting Solution all ready
for use. You pay nothing for bottles, barrels
or cans; pay no freight on heavy liquid; you
have no leaking or breaking.

Destroys Lice, Mites, Ticks

In combating poultry mites and similar uses,
Conkey's Nox is undoubtedly the most efficient
coal tar preparation known to science at the
present time. It should be used constantly for
cleansing and disinfecting coops, nests, roosts,
incubators, brooders, fountains, etc.
Use Conkey's Nox once and you will prefer it
to any other form of Disinfectant, Extermina-
tor or Germicide. Send 10c, coin or stamps,
for sample package containing 2 cubes, for
making 2 gallons. Circular free.

THE C. E. CONK EY CO.
6542 Broadway Cleveland, Ohio

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STORMOXT MOVES

Rev. A. C. Storm.ont, owner of
pen 53 Barred Plymouth Rocks
which won the championship at the
Illinois Egg Laying Contest last year
has moved from Auxvasse, Missouri,
to Warrensburg, Missouri, as you
will see from his ad elsewhere in
this issue. In regard to moving Rev.
Stormont writes: "I am moving to
Warrensburg, Mo., where I have pur-
chased a five acre tract just inside
the city limits. The winning in Ill-
inois Contest, and the returns from
my ad in the POULTRY KEEPER

REV. A. C. STORMOXT

has made my business so big that I
must seek larger quarters. I cc-uid
not begin to fill the orders that your
paper brought last spring for eggs
and stock. I shipped into most every
state. I am now booking orders for
cockerels to be delivered in October.
I have a wonderful lot of cockerels,
running over with the same blood
that made the great record in- the
Illinois Contest."

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you.

FOE THOSE WHO CAN USE HAMMEB AND
SAW

Built and Used by Poultrymen

Is a »fi-page book; paper bound: contains 108
Illustrations, fully describing various styles it
poultry houses for the large farm, as well as
the back yard. Poultry house equipment, In-
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pers; drinking founts; fences, both permanent
and movable; metal fence posts; brooders both
tireless and heated; broodcoops; covered chick
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this book Is of especial value. Labor-saving and
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SUCCESSFUL BACK-YAED POULTEY
KEEPING

A new one just off the press. Tells every-
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Every person who is keeping fowls on a
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who wants to learn about the latest practical
methods adapted to back-yard conditions — will
want this big, truly helpful book. Every im-
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Vol. XXXIX

OCTOBER, 1922

No. 7

Raising Chickens vs. Poultry Culture

By D WIGHT E. HALE

This is the first of a series of Six
Articles that will appear in Poultry
Keeper from the pen of Judge Hale.
Any one of these articles will be
well worth the price of a year's sub-
scription. Do not let your subscrip-
tion expire and you might get your
friend and neighbor to subscribe
and get this valuable series. — Edi-
tor,

We have often asked, and been
asked the question, "where does
raising chickens leave off and poul-
try culture begin. The word "cul-
ture" means to cultivate and culti-
vate, according to Webster, means,
"to bestow care and labor upon, with
a view to ultimate returns." There-
fore, in order to appreciate modern
poultry culture, the great improve-
ments that have been made, and the
improvements that can and ought
to be made, let us investigate some
of the methods in vogue by those
wlho just "keep chickens."

The fact that some people still
"keep chickens" instead of applying
the up-to-date methods of poultry
culture, was brought to mind at one
of our recent state fairs. We write
a great many advertisements and
realize that advertising is scientific,
mail-order salesmanship. Therefore,
we like to know the kind of people
we must make our advertisements
■talk to and we also like to know the
class of people that read the articles.
Being thus interested we stood in
the poultry building watching one
of the subscription agents at work.
A rartJher rural looking gentleman
came along and was accosted with
the usual question: "do you keep
chickens?" "Nay," replied the far-
mer, "they's a bunch running 'round
the place. They set themselves,
raise themselves, roost in the trees
and on the machinery, eat 'round ith'
grain stacks, and when we want one
to eat we just go out and shoot it."
This case, while seemingly exagger-
ated, is not uncommon on many
farms.but as this class of farmer does
not subscribe for poultry papers or

attend farmers institutes, there lis no
use in our discussing him here.

There is another class of farmer,
however, who reads poultry papers,
farm papers, daily papers, attends
farmers institutes, — who will have
nothing but pure-bred hogs, cattle,
horses sheep or dogs on his farm, but
he tolerates the chickens merely for
the women's sake. He wants the
best of stock, follows the stock mar-
ket reports, reads up on breeding,
stock, silos and cribs for his grain,
but he forces the fowls to seek the
shelter of the machine shed or barn,
and then abuses them liberally for
dirtying the harness and machinery.
The poor birds are forced to hunt for
their feed around the grain stacks,
cribs and mangers, and to drink the
filth of the barnyard pools. When
we see such conditions, see how the
fowls exist by right of hustling and
the survival of the fittest, we cease
to wonder at the vitality and stamina
of the much abused barn yard scrub.

When a nest of eggs is found un-
der the barn, in the hay loft, under
the feed box in the manger or else-
wihere, the eggs are carried in tri-
umph to the house where the women
folks place them in a pan on the
top shelf in the pantry until the
next trip to town. No matter how
old the eggs are, how long they have
been incubated by the various hens
sitting on them; no matter that the
heat rises and it'hat top shelf regis-
ters 100 or more degrees, they rep-
resent so much pin money for the
women when taken to the village
grocery. This is too common a
method of keeping chickens on many
general farms.

No need to take our word for the
fact that the loss from improper
handling of farm eggs amounts to
millions of dollars annually. Several
years ago the U. S. Department of
Agriculture sent one of its best men
out in the Mississippi valley to in-
vestigate these conditions and try
and ascertain what the loss was
from improper handling of eggs, and
how to overcome it. The investiga-

tion was carried on mostly in Kan-
sas, though the same verdict would
have been found in any other state.
After spending more than one year
in his investigation. Mr. Harry L&-
mon, at that time Senior Poultry
Husbandman of the Poultry Dep't.,
wrote in part, as follows:

"The annual loss resulting from
these sources (delays in handling
the product) in the egg trade of the
country totals about 15% of the
value of the product, or $45,000,000.
In the state of Kansas alone, where
the investigations have been princi-
pally carried on, the annual loss is
estimated at more than .$1,000,000.

"The farmer gathers the eggs
whenever convenient, sometimes
each day, sometimes two or three
times a week. The eggs are brought
to ithe house and kept until the far-
mer makes a trip to the vilage for
some other purpose and takes the
eggs along. No particular attention
is given to the conditions under
which the eggs are kept in the mean-
time. They may be kept in the pan-
try or cupboard of the kitchen or
they may be placed in the cellar
with ithe idea of keeping them cool,
but there is the likelyhood that the
cellar may be damp, and the eggs in
consequence moldy. Likewise, no
particular effort is made to obtain
clean eggs by proper attention to
the nests and by frequent gathering,
or to separate the clean from the
soiled eggs when taken to market."

Mr. Lamon goes on, with pages,
showing how ithe village grocer takes
these eggs in trade, case count, (just
as they run) because he is afraid to
offend the farmer or his wife and,
perhaps, lose their trade. He also
tells how the grocer holds them until
he has a real shipment, then sends
them to the city commission man
who sorts, selects, candles, grades,
etc., and pays for the good ones. The
result is an extremely low price to
the farmer for the eggs and it is the
result of just "keeping chickens."

Just think of iit, forty-five million
dollars lost each year in this country

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

because people just keep chickens in-
stead of applying a little poultry cul-
ture, "the bestowing of care upon
with a view of greater returns."

The farmer .is not the only person
who just "raises chickens." We find
him in every city, town and village.
He or his wife likes fresh eggs for
home consumption and the side mon-
ey they bring in. Perhaps a crude
shelter called a poultry house has
been built where the birds live midst
filth and squallor, scratching in the
litter (if there is any) damp and
foul, for the scraps that are thrown
to them. In every community you
find people who are just raising
chickens and keep them midst just
such surroundings.

Poultry Culture

We have explained to you how
some people "raise chickens" and
the amount of money lost by such
haphazard methods. Let us now see
what can be gained by applying a
little scientific care or poultry cul-
ture.

"The bestowing of care and labor
upon" is hardly the definition for
poultry culture most of us would
have given, had we been asked the
question. The tendancy of today is
to get the greatest results possible
with the least amount of labor, and
it is hardly to be expected that the
type of farmer we first mentioned
will take kindly to any suggestion
that calls for more care and labor.
However, we have found that this
type of man is, as a rule, willing to
allow the women folks what little
revenue is to be had from the chick-
ens, consequently ought to have ho
objection to anything that will tend
to increase that revenue. Therefore,
we hope that some of the following
suggestions will fall on fertile
ground, not because we do not rea-
lize that none of Poultry Keeper
readers are to be classed with the
first mentioned farmer, but because
we believe you are looking for in-
formation that will increase your
profits.

Even though the man of the house
is willing to just raise chickens, the
women folks might really be inter-
ested in bestowing a little care and
labor upon the fowls, if they were
where they could. This brings us to
the question of poultry houses, a
subject that has received a great deal
of attention the past few years, and
a line of work along which some ex-
cellent results have been obtained.

A few years ago it was the com-
mon idea that a poultry house, to
give satisfactory results, must be
built like a refrigerator; double
walls, air-tight, and artificially
heated in winter. Today we find
the best results are obtained in what
are known as fresh-air or open front
houses. The same principle is be-
ing applied to humans. Fresh air
has been found to be of great aid in
curing ills. Half the air is night
air and ought to be used.

In the early days the old straw
shed, the kind made by making a
rough framework of poles and cov-
ering them with straw gave better
results than some of the latter, bet-
ter looking, but poorly ventilated
buildings. The cattle, hogs and
chickens all gave better results when
sheltered in the old straw shed or

straw stack because they had plenty
of fresh air. We used to say they
got toughened to It, but whatever we
called it, they had hardiness and
stamina that imparted vigor to their
offspring and we heard less about
tuberculosis and other diseases
caused by poor ventilation.

Chickens will stand a great deal
of cold, provided it is a dry cold and
not accompanied by drafts. Why,
way up in northwestern Canada they
are using the open-front house and
not frosting any combs. I can re-
member when I was a boy and even
up to the age of 16 or 17 I thought
it was pretty hard if I did not have
a warm room in winter, and we were
afraid to open the windows. As a
result I was anaemic, had sitomach
trouble and catarrh. Today our win_
dows are opened winter and summer
and I am healthy, ruddy and strong.

A modern house does not need to
be elaborate or costly. A new poul-
try house, modern in every partic-
ular, can be built for approximately
$2 per head, and often cheaper, de-
pending on where you live, price of
material, etc. Many farmers and
others have old barns, machine sheds
and other outbuildings that can be
easily made into modern fresh-air
houses. The main thing to remem-
ber in using an open-front house is
that it be at least 14 feet from front
to back, and 18 to 2 0 feet would be
better. This is because the roosts
are generally placed in the rear of
the house and if nearer than 14 feet
there is more danger of frosting
combs. The open-front should face
the south or southeast so as to get
the greatest benefit of the sun on
long winter days.

We have seen many farm build-
ings converted into model fresh-air
houses by merely cutting an opening
in the south side or end and stop-
ping up all cracks. These openings
come within about two feet of the
floor and within a foot or so of the
eaves. They should be covered with
a fine mesh wire to keep the fowl
in and prowlers out. It also keeps
the snow from blowing in. It is also
generally advisable to have these
openings fitted with a frame that is
covered with muslin, hinged at the
top so they can be swung in, up and
out of the way during the day, and
hurriedly and easily closed at night
or when a storm comes up that blows
directly into the house.

The interior equipment is very
simple, consisting merely of a drop-
pings board, with roosts above and
nests underneath.

If your house is less than 14 feet
it might be well to have a muslin or
burlap curtain hung directly in front
of the roosts and this to be let down
at night. However, it has the dis-
advantage that it will make it much
warmer behind this roosting curtain
and the difference in temperature
on extremely cold mornings is apt to
frost a comb when the bird comes off
the roost and before it has exercised
and got the circulation going good.

As mites, the dread of all poultry
raisers, seek refuge in the cracks of
the wall and come forth at night to
suck their fill of the fowls' blood, it
is well to have your roosting equip-
ment in the form of a table so that
it will stand out away from the wall.

Oil is sure death to these pests, so
if they do bother, just wrap a wick
or soft cloth around the legs of the
table and keep soaked with oil. The
easiest and beat way is to keep the
house and nests well sprayed or
painted with a good liquid lice kill-
er. You will find several insecti-
cides advertised in this paper.

The nests should be dark because
the hen prefers a dark nest and is
not so apt to form the bad habit of
eating eggs. Have the nesta ar-
ranged so the fowls can enter from
the rear and have the front hinged
so it can be easily let down, thus
making it easy to gather the eggs
and clean the nests.

The only other necessary equip-
ment is a drinking fount, feed, grit
and shell hoppers. Like the house
the equipment need not be elaborate
or expensive.

Now, with proper shelter for our
fowls, we come to feeds and feeding.

This subject will be covered in
more detail in a later article so we
will merely say here that the simp-
lest way to use a good commercial
egg mash kept in a hopper at all
times, along with grit, shell and
charcoal. Feed a good commercial
scratch feed in a deep litter morning
and night to induce exercise and fur-
nish the fat and carbonhydrates nec-
cessary to balance the ration. Fur-
nish plenty of fresh water and one
feed of some good, juicy, green feed
at noon. This is bestowing care and
labor upon them, but it is the kind
that pays and puts your poultry
keeping business into the class of
poultry culture. This poultry cul-
ture pays and pays well, and in the
articles to follow we will take up in
detail some of the many side lights
that will show you how to get the
biggest possible returns.

SPROUTED OATS KEEP YOUR
EGG FACTORY GOING

It has always been a mystery t°
me why so many poultry raisers are
shutting down their egg factory dur-
ing the fall and winter months or
just at the time when they should
"cash in" on their flock.

Years ago, or before we knew
"what was what" in poultrydom.
fowls laid only to any extent
during the spring months when pro-
vided by nature with the necessary
ingredients to manufacture eggs
from.

Times have changed however, and
in no branch of farming or food
production have more changes and
advances been made than in that of
the production of poultry and eggs.
Times were when a hen with 120
eggs in twelve months to her record
was a little wonder; after a while the
144 eggs hen and then the 200 egs
hen was widely heralded, while now
the 300 egg hen is the hero of the
day.

While of course scientific breeding
and selecting has had a lot to do
with securing such wonderful pro-
ductive specimens, no less credit
must be given to the investigators
and experimenters of correct feeding
systems and formulas. The fowls
must be provided with the proper
raw materials to manufacture eggs
from.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 5

Without calling things by their
scientific names every successful
breeder knows that it takes a variety
of grains, animal protein food and
green feed to make 'em lay, besides
grit, shells, mash feed and clean
drinking water. Give these articles
regularly every day plus plenty of
exercise and you have the whole
thing in a nutshell to keep the hens
happy and laying all through the
colder months as well.

All these food items can be se-
cured at any time of ithe year with
the exception of the proper green
food, which is of such vital impor-
tance to supply the hens with suc-
culence and to serve them as a food
assimdlator.

Here again the intensive genius
of man has come to ithe rescue of
the poultry raisers by placing before
him the up-to-date oat sprouter en-
abling him to grow his own sweet,
tender greens in any locality and at
any time of the year.

With one of these modern sprout-
ers it takes so little time and it is so
easy to produce sprouted oats — hy
far the best green feed ever placed
before the fowls — that it is really a
wonder every poultry raiser is not
in posession of one of them.

Sprouted oats not only serves as
food assimikitor, but also contains
a lot of grape sugar and vegetable
milk which is so very helpful to the
hens in the formation of eggs.

I would not think Qf trying to se-
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THE OLD GUARD IS
PASSING

As the years pass along yvg have
impressed upon our minds the fact
that slowly the "Old Guard" is pass-
ing away. Each year some of them
answer the roll call and we loose
their advice and encouragement. We
cannot stop the grim reaper and all
things are for the best.

We wish, however, that those
members of the old fraternity who
are still with us would impart to us
some of the choice bits of wisdom
which have become theirs by reason
of hard experience. Many prob-
lems might be solved if they would
turn back the leaves of time and give
us a heart to heart talk. We of the
younger school are doing all that it
is possible to do to assist poultry to a
higher level but pioneers with white
locks and wrinkled visage have wis-
dom which comes only to those who
hiaze the trail.

All honor to these poultrymen who
ere now resting within the shadow.
We know that they will leave us a
Zieritage of experience which will
prove a monument greater than any
human hands can carve, a place of
honor and their name shall appear
as a member of the "Old Guard."

WHAT'S THE LIMIT?

One of the great questions con-
fronting poultrymen is the limit of
production of our domesticated hen.
Some years ago it was thought that
the 200 egg hen was a brain storm.
Tu due time breeders produced her
and no one considers the 2 00 egger
impossible today. In fact unless you
can produce her you will have ito
take a back seat. Then came the
goal of 250 eggs per year and that
being reached they started out after
the 300 mark. This has been at-
tained to a remarkable degree and
now we hear of the 32 0 and 335
hen as possible — in fact specimens

has reached this number of eggs in
one year.

The question naturally arises —
What's the limit? Shall we say that
325 is impossible. In view of past
events we feel justified in believing
that we may have 32 5 before long.
But — What's the limit?

We cannot say where our hen will
break down and thus warn us that
we have reached the dividing line be-
tween sane and insane breeding. How
far man may carry his scientific
knowledge is yet to be determined
but it is safe to say that we still
have a wonderful future ahead and
who can say but that we may make
even greater strides in the future
that we have in the past. We are
not contented to believe that the
limit has been reached or will be
reached for years to come. The 350
egger may be in the immediate fu-
ture for all that we know. What's
the limit?

LET US HAVE FACTS

A friend has called our attention
to a writer in New York daily paper
from which we learn that, "There is
not a single poultry farm in the East
selling its product at market prices
that is paying now or ever has paid."

The above quotation is quite
strong language to use and in view
of the fact that it is so far from
the truth in the matter we consider
it worthy of contradiction. To any-
one who has kept in touch with poul-
try progress it is evident that as the
years pass the business as a whole
has reached a higher level of effici-
ency. It is true that there have been
failures in the poultry business but
these were usually due to inexper-
ience and ignorance. So far as the
matter is concerned, can anyone show
us a single business of national pro-
portions in which there have never
been failures? Failures don't prove
anything against a business. We all
know that there is a demand for eggs
and market fowls and the fact of
the matter is that there are many,
many farms in the East, West, North
and South which return to their own-
er a tidy sum each year.

There is money in poultry as we
proved in our article "Intensive Poul-
try Keeping." It takes knowledge,
ability and energy to make a suc-
cess of this business and if we lack
these qualities we should not get
mad and knock the whole business.
Let us have facts.

INTEREST IN THE MILK
GOAT GROWING

We believe that it was about sev_
en teen years ago that the first im-
portation of milk goats was made in-
to this country. The interest in this
humble animal has grown to en-
thusiasm and we find record of a
sale at Delevan Lake, Wisconsin,
June 24th when twenty-nine high
grade goats sold at auction for $25,-
000. This seems quite a sum of
money to pay for that number of
animals but it proves that men of
wealth have turned their attention to
the goat.

The day of the goat is dawning
and perhaps no class should be more

interested in them than the poultry-
men. Many a man who keeps poul-
try will invest in two or three goats
(not the high priced kind just men-
tioned) in order that his family may
have milk of unquestionable quality.
With milk, eggs, honey and an oc-
casional fowl to eat and a good gar-
den in summer — well what more
could one want? The goat will solve
the problem of fresh milk and poul-
trymen will find them satisfactory.

IN FAIRNESS TO THE
JUDGES

Let us quote from a paper which
came to our desk.

"When judges of national reputa-
tion become so steeped in crime that
they can no longer be trusted to ren-
der unbiased decisions, the exhibi-
tors should have some sort of re-
dress."

When such a condition as above
described exists, then it is high time
_ that something be done and done
quickly.

But does anyone believe that such
a condition does exist?

In fairness to our poultry judges
we do not believe they should be
branded as criminals until so proven
and instead of generalities let us
have definite charges so that action
may be taken. Such a charge may
or may not be true of some individ-
ual judge but should all judges be
condemned? We know many judges
who are just and upright men in
their several stations before God and
man who never deviate from the
minutest principle of justice. To
bring such a charge against them is
wrong.

We fear that the motive back of
this charge is not for the uplift of
poultry keeping. Nothing is gained
and much may be lost by such tac-
tics. It would be far better to be
generous and on the square and not
call all judges crooks.

BUY THE INCUBATOR
EARLY

Some people are habitually late.
They always manage to be late in
everything. They never do a thing
today which they can put off until
tomorrow. In some things this may
not be a very serious matter but if
one plans to install one or more in-
cubators next season, it is none too
early to get busy. Often when one
waits until the season is well ad-
vanced he will find that the incuba-
tor factory is so rushed with orders
that it may be weeks behind in their
shipments. Again there is quite a
possibility that transportation com-
panies may not be very prompt with
the result that the incubator may not
reach you when you need it most. It
really is best to place your order well
in advance of the time you will need
it. Suppose it does arrive a
month ahead of the time you wish
to start it, you will at least have the
satisfaction of knowing that you have
it and will not be delayed.

Look over the advertisements and
write for catalogs now and place
your order so that you will not be
hindered and perhaps loose a hatch
or two. Last year a poultryman told

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 7

us he lost $200 by delay in receiving
incubators. It goes without saying
that this year he will place his or-
der early. In fact his order is al-
ready in the hands of the manufac-
turers.

SHALL WE HAVE ANOTHER
ASSOCIATION

After events at the lasit American
Poultry Association convention it is
evident that utility breeders cannot
expect much from this organization.
The old wheel-horses claim that the
organization was started for the ex-
hibition end of the game. It is quite
true that they admitted an egg stand-
ard but unless we miss our guess
they are going to stop and fight
hard to a finish. Perhaps their
finish.

If the American Poultry Associa-
tion does not care to recognize util-
ity poultry another organization will
be formed which will set up stand-
ards which meet the requirements
and then we will have the very un-
happy condition of two associations
which from the very nature of things
will not get along very harmoniously.

The writer is not a utility crank
but can see the drift of things and
wishes it were possible that the
American Poultry Association might
see its way clear to bring about unity
among poultrymen instead of seem-
ing to assume an indifferent attitude.

ARE YOU A GOOD SPORT?

The show season is always a good
time to test one's sportsmanship. If
you can loose and smile you are a
real sport, but if you get a grouch
on when you loose — well it would be
better had you left your birds at
home.

Now days we see more real sports-
men in the show room. Once in a-
while we run across a crabby looser
and it is all the more noticeable be-
cause there are so few of them. Last
winter we met such a fellow and he
explained with extraordinary ferver
just what he though about the judge
and the show management. We did
not ask his name but passed on, no-
ting that he was taking no orders
for eggs. His neighbor exhibitor
told us that he too had lost a cov-
eted prize but he smiled — and too
order. He said he had sold fifteen
sets that day. He was a real sport.

A cheery word and a smile will
draw trade while a snarl is repulsive.
Let us be good sports or keep our
birds at home.

DO YOU READ THE ADS?

When we receive a paper or mag-
azine and have the time we read it
through, ads and all. We find that
it pays to do this and have formed
a habit of so doing. A short time
ago a reader of POULTRY KEEP-
ER wanted to purchase a pen of
fowls and wrote us regarding it. To
our surprise we found that just that
month an advertiser had offered just
such a pen. We wrote the inquirer

stating the case and within a couple
of weeks received a second letter
from him stating that he was just
too late to get the pen, it having
been sold. Had he read the ad and
wrote the breeder instead of writing
us first, he would have gotten the
pen. As it is he had to pay consid-

erable more for a pen from another
breeder. "Me for the reading of the
ads after this," he writes and it
would be a good motto for us all.

Read the ads every month for you
cannot tell when something will be
offered that will just meet your
needs.

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Here's the way: Give them the tonic
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Wants to Join Cat Club

I have heard of the Beresford Cat Club of
America but don't know where to get in touch
with it and want to join. Can you help me
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Soft Shelled Egss

I seem to be getting' a lot of soft shelled
eggs of late and wonder if you can tell me
the cause. I feed egg shells and good grain
and it seems to me that this ought to be
enough. H. H., "Wisconsin.

You must include grit, oystershell
and charcoal in your ration if you ex-
pect to keep your fowls in normal
health. The soft shelled eggs will
no doubt be remedied by keeping
oyster shells in the hopper at all
times. A tonic might not be a bad
thing to give the ones which seem to
be ran down. A better ration is
suggested as follows: For scratch
feed give 1 part wheat, 1 part oats
and two parts cracked corn. For
mash give equal parts of bran, shorts,
corn meal and meat scraps. All to
be by weight.

That Sounds Like Faking.

I have some birds which are brassy and I
want to bleach them out so as to enter them
in our local show. Can you give me the name
of a good bleach for this purpose.

E. L. L., New York.

As we understand the Standard of
Perfection that would be faking and
and Tve don't believe in that and of
course would not care to tell you
how to do it. Very sorry about this
and feel sure that after you under-
stand the situation that you will look
at At the same way that we do.

The Leghorn Question

I see in the last issue of POULTRY KEEPER
that you answer A. B. C. , Illinois and say
that Leghorns are not a market fowl. Now I
must disagree with you on that point al-
though in general I think you conduct the best
"Question and Answer" department in the
country. Now don't get puffed up but just
give us good common sense in the future as
you have in the past. But tell the world
that Leghorns are good eating.

C. C, New York.

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We were asked by A. B. C, wheth-
er we would consider the Leghorn
a good market fowl. As we under-
stood it he wished to start in raising
a fowl for the marked. With that
in view we would not start with Leg-
horns and no doubt you have bred
Leghorns long enough to know that
what we state is a fact. But note
that we add that if one knows how
he can make even the Leghorn a
much better market fowL We don't
want you to assume for one moment
that we have any fight coming on
the Leghorns. They are a good
fowl but are better egg producers
than market fowl. But Leghorn
breeders must awake and breed bet-
ter market fowls. lit is alright to
cater to the egg side of the game
but if you carry it too far you will
loose your market for the table
fowl.

Liver Trouble

ity chickens get dark combs and damp
around and act sick and I am coming to you
for help as you did so well for us before when
the chickens were sick. B. J. K., Ohio.

We would begin treatment by-
giving about a half-tablespoonful of
Epsom salts to each fowl or perhaps
a pound to the drinking water of
each 100 fowls. This will cleanse
the bowels. Then add charcoal to
the hopper and keep it before the
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Regal Quality] Still Advances—New York state Fair

Syracuse, N. Y., September 12, 1922
For the seventeenth time Regal-Dorcas White Wyandottes prove their
matchless superiority ait America's greatest early exhibition by making a clean
sweep of every prize competed for.

Under Charles Nixon of Washington, N. J., they made the phenomenal win-
ning of

Cocks, 1st, 2nd, 3d, 4th, 5th; Cockerels, 1st, 2nd 3d 4th 5th.

Hens, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th; Pullets, 1st, 2nd 3d 4th 5th.

Pens (young) 1st, 2nd, 3d. Pens (old) 1st, 2nd, 3d.

National W. W. Club specials for best Cock, Hen, Cockerel and Pullet.

State Fair Commission Gold Special for Best Display.

After placing the awards Judge Nixon's comment was: "A marvelous
string of White Wyandottes; in quality, condition and development fully equal
to the keenest winter competition."

These magnificent birds should be seen to be
appreciated. Cocks and hens in full feather, Cock-
erels and pullets fully matured, up to weight and ab-
solutely uniform in shape, color and head points.

Not only as exhibition birds but also as producers
Regal Dorcas White Wyandottes have won public

JOHN S. MARTIN,

approval and no strain of any breed has a stronger
following of friends. Thousands of birds of tie same
breeding as the winners are at your service. 200
acres devoted to the one breed.

Free — Send for illustrated catalogues telling all
about the Regal Dorcas Strain.

Box 408 PORT DOVER CANADA

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 13

KILL THEM ALL

Every Rat and Moose easily Des-
troyed by New Discovery
Not a Poison.

Absolnte freedom from rats and mice is now
assured everyone. No more trapping and
poisoning jost a few. Clean out the whole
bunch, old, yonng, big and little.

Kick's Hat Killer kills every rat or mouse
on your place. Most wonderful of all it does
not harm anything but rats, mic-e, gophers, and
other rodents. It is harmless to children, pets,
poultry and all kinds of stock. It can be
spread anywhere and will kill only rats and
.nice. This death bringing disease rapidly
spreads and quickly destroys all the rats anil
mice. There is no smell or odor for they rim
outside for water and die away from the
building^

A Trial Costs You Nothing

Mr. Hicks is offering everyone troubled with
these pests the chance to get rid of them at
no cost to themselves. He will send two large
double strength, one dollar bottles for the
price of one. You keep one for yourself; the
other you sell to your neighbor at one dollar,
thus getting your own free. Send $1.00 today
(curren

PURITAS SPRINGS
S. C. W. LEGHORNS

The World's Greatest Layers

Trapnested for over 10 years without missing
one day. Every nest on our farm is a trapnest.
We trapnest every day of every year.

Reduced Prices

END OCTOBER 31st

ON 8 TO 12 WEEKS OLD PULLETS, COCKERELS AND BEEEDING STOCK

Puritas Springs Leghorns are world wonders. They shell out eggs regardless of weather condi-
tions. They are also beautiful birds. The large white eggs they lay bring highest market
prices. Thousands of our customers will have no other strain of Leghorns; after trying other
strains they found Puritas Springs Leghorns always lay the most eggs in winter as well as
summer. The demand was so great this year that we were forced to refuse hundreds of orders
for hatching eggs and baby chicks. If you once have Puritas Springs Leghorns you will want
no others: you'll be the proud owner of the world's very best. Send for reduced Price List
and mention if you have our large free instructive catalog. We are fair and square and guar-
antee satisfaction in every way. We have hundreds of letters to prove it.

Puritas Springs Poultry Farm, Box P 111, Avon Lake, Ohio ^fURb™.'^

Put a Homestead fence on your farm
this winter. Sink the posts and stretch
the galvanized woven wire on the posts.
You will have a fence which will last for
generations, and the cost of your fence
will be surprisingly reasonable.

The Homestead knot, shown in circle
below, is a protection to your stock for it
does not scratch or tear.

Send for catalog and prices. You will
find the exact fence to suit your needs, for
a large assortment of fences is shown.

HOMESTEAD FENCE COMPANY

219 Front St., Hannibal, Mo.

KITSELMAN FENCE

"Saved at Least
40 Per Cent,"

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Poultry Farm, Waaswn, O.
Cut your own fence costs
to the bone by buying direct
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We Pay the Freight.
' Write today for Free 100-page Catalog of
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KITSELMAN BROS. Dept 229 MUNCIE IND.

America's Oldest Fence Manufacturers.

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4. White Leghorn, Alfred Ter
Haar 21

5. White Leghorn, Grand View-
Farm 20

5. White Leghorn, A. C. Stor-

mont _ z©

5. White Leghorn, A. J. BaiL.

man _ 20

5. White Leghorn, Popular

Heights Farm ~ 20

5. White Leghorn, Martin

Rodston ...„ _ — . 20

5. Ancona, Dilts Bros 20

5. Ancona, Sweet Brier Farm.. 20
Five Highest Pens in American anjd

English Class.
Variety Owner Eggs

1. Rhode Island Whites Fran-
cis Schilling _ 84

2. Barred Rocks, Mrs. M. R.
Walters — - 82

3. White Rocks, Geo. Neibru-
egge _ _. 81

4. White Wyandottes, Jo-hn
Swain , 78

5. White Wyandottes, Tip Top
Poultry Farm — 74

Five Highest bidividuals in American

and English Classes
Variety Owner Eggs
1. Barred Rocks, Jules Fran-
cois 24

1. Barred Rock, Geo. Pratt ....'24

2. White Rock, Wm. Holliday.. 22
2. S. C. Reds, L. E. Rauch........ 22

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 15

3., White Rock, Geo. Niebrueg-

ge 21

3. White Rock, Whlstlecote

. Farm Annex 21

3. White Rock, Samuel Hens!.. 21
3. White Wyandotte, John

Swain 21

3. S. C. Red, Kenneth Pautler.. 21
3. R. I. White, Francis Schill-
ing 21

3. H, I. White, Francis Schill-
ing 21

4. White Rock, Geo. Neibrueg-

ge ... 20

4. Buff Wyandotte, Mrs. R. N\
Nesbit 2 0

5. Barred Rock, Mrs. M. R.
Walters , 19

5. Barred Rock, W. P. Skinner 19
5. Barred Rock, John Braun.... 19
5. White Wyandotte, Tip Top

Poultry Farm 19

5. R. I. White, Francis Schill-
ing 19

Five Highest Pens in Mediterranean
Class

Variety Owner Eggs

1. White Leghorns, Ward L.
Hull 97

2. Whinte Leghorns, E. T. Fox 89

3. White Leghorns, E. T. Fox 86

4. White Leghorns, Win. E.
Clark 84

5. Anconas, H. E. Errettt 80

Mve Highest Individuals in Mediter-
ranean Class

Variety Owner Eggs

1. Black Leghorn, Johnson &
Bowyer 2 4

2. White Leghorn, Ward L.
Hull 2 3

2. White Leghorn, E. T. Fox.... 2 3
2. White Leghorn, Cornbelt

Poultry Farm 2 3

2. White Leghorn, Mrs. Frank
Pifer 2 3

3. White Leghorn, Arthur
Trockenbrodt 22

3. White Leghorn, Northland
Farms 22

3. White Leghorn, Homer Col_

lins 22

3. White Leghorn, E. T. Fox.... 22

3. White Leghorn, Ward T.

Hull 22

3. Ancona, H. E. Errett 22

4. White Leghorn, Francis
Fitzsimmons 21

4. White Leghorn, Wm. E.

Clark 21

4. Whiite Leghorn, Mrs. Frank

Pifer , 21

4. Whiite Leghorn, Cornbelt

Poultry Farm 21

4. White Leghorn, Cornbelt

Poultry Farm 21

4. White Leghorn, J. J. Peters 21
4. White Leghorn, Ward L.

Hull 21

4. Ancona, H. E. Errett 21

4. Blue Andalusian, G. F.
Kramper 21

5. White Leghorn, Arthur
Trockenbrodt — . 2 0

5. White Leghorn, Grand View
Farm 20

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'A Hatch

October Chicks for Winter Meat and High -Priced Broilers

GREAT MONEY IN BROILERS FROM OCTOBER CHICKS

We pay the postage, guarantee 95 per cent live arrival
and send FEED FREE with each order.

S. C. White, S. C. Brown, S. C. Buff, and R. C. Brown Leghorns, 50 for $7.50; 100 for .$14.00; 50»
for $85. Barred and White Rocks, R. C. and S. C. R. I. Reds, Buff Orpingtons, S. C. Black Min-
orcas, Anconas, 50 for $9; 100, $17; 500 for %S0. Silver Laced Wyandottes, $10 for 50; $19 a 100.
White Wyandottes, $10 for 50; $19 a 300; $85 for 500. Light Brahmas, $11 for 50; $21 a 100.
Broiler chicks same as Leghorns. Catalogue free.

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5. White Leghorn, Wm. E.

Clark 20

5. White Leghorn, Homer Col-
lins 20

5. White Leghorn, E. T. Fox.... 20
5. White Leghorn, E. T. Fox.... 20
5. White Leghorn, Adolph

Rezniek 20

5. White Leghorn, L. E. War-
en 20

5. Brown Leghorn, A. F.

Eisenhauer 20

5. Ancona, E. R. Post 20

We want to call the attention of
all contestants who haven't sent in
their entry for the coming 1922-23
Contest that entries are coming in
and that we cannot hold pens for
any individuals any longer. Our
conning contests will be better in
many ways than the one closing in
that we will give you publicity of
the highest order. The winners of
the 5 highest individuals and also
pens will be published monthly in
the American Poultry Journal along

IT 8 A f ITiriN' A "y Bone Cutter claimed to be MANN'S withoot F. W. MANN CO. cast on
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Make Your Hens Lay

. Tou can double your egg yield by feeding fresh-cut. raw bone. It v
contains over lour times as much egg-making material as grain and
takes the place of bugs and worms in fowls' diet. That's why i
gives mure eggs, greater fertility, stronger chicks, larger fowls.

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"OCULUM" The Egg Maker has stood
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where they got 1.

"OCULUM" made 48 hens jump from
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H. C. Miller, Judge N. P. Ass'n.

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Page Nnmber 16

THE POULTRY KEEPER

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with pictures of same. This adver-
tising you will get free but if you
had to pay for it it would run in a
good sized sum each month. Also
each contestant beside the report
each month, will receive a monthly
record showing the daily production
of his or her fowls. This we believe
will be a big help and will please
you. That we are able to give your
birds proper care is proven by the
number of 200 egg individuals now
in both contests and they still have
two more months to go. Get your
entry in by return mail if you have
not already done so. We want to
make records for you and believe
we will be able to do so. Practically
all birds in tihe contests are molting
or finishing their molt which ac-
counts for the above seemingly low
record.

INTENSIVE POULTRY
KEEPING

F. Raymond Benson
(Continued from last issue)

The danger from disease is great
on the intensive poultry plant and is
always a factor which needs serious
reflection. At no time should the
watchful eye fail to detect any sign
of sickness and at the first symptom,
should be taken to check and eradi-
cate the trouble. Prompt action is
always necessary and no case of
sickness should be allowed to exist
among the flock for a moment after
discovery. A hospital is a good
thing and it should be away from
the other buildings and ailing fowls
should be hustled to this place as
soon as it is discovered that they are
sick. Notwithstanding that the ut-
most care be exercised it will happen
that some loss will occur. As a gen-
eral rule the loss on an intensive
plant will be greater than on a free
range plan. However, if you will
study sickness and disease and use
your knowledge to overcome sickness
you can accomplish wonders. We re-
call keeping six hens in one old Philo
coops and by keeping the coop
clean and watching diligently for
disease we were able to make the
pen pay well, in fact better than some
of the other and more roomy pens

We had to watch very closely that
no sickness developed for the closer
the quarters the more difficult it is
to fight disease, once it gets started.

The last disadvantage we will
mention has never had a personal
application but observation has prov-
en it to be perhaps the most potent
and fatal reason for so many fail-
ures in the poultry business, either
extensive or intensive. We refer to
the monotony of the work. How
true it is that would-be poulitrymen
rush into this business after a few
months of problems and perplexities
they decide that it is not suited to
them and they rush out again. They
may never dream that they are not
suited to the poultry business. Poul-
try has always had to take the blame.
Very funny that it is never the man.
Once in awhile some fellow comes
along and delves into the whys and
wherefores and finds that this fickle-
minded, would-be poultryman just
got tired of the grind of doing one
chore after another and so threw up
the whole thing. A successful poul-
tryman must have that staying and
sticking quality which will enable
him to stand up and face problems
every day, which will enable him to
keep plugging away no matter what
occurs and to stay by the job even

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The average pullet lays 150 eggs. If kept
the second year, she may lay 100 more. Then
she goes to market. Yet, It has been scienti-
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Mr. Trafford tells how. If you keep chickens
and want them to make money for you, cut
out this ad and send it with your name and
address to Henry Trafford. Suite 1000 R, Herald
Bldg. , Blnghamton. N. T., and a free copy
of "The 1,000 EGG HEN" will be sent by
return mail.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 17

With Cheap Incubators

It's a shame to waste your time and eggs hatch-
ing weak, wobbly chicks in cheap incubators,
when everyone knows that

Queen Incubators

Hatch Strong, Healthy Chicks—
That live and Grow!

A good incubator is the start to profitable poul-
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One dealer who has sold Queen machines for 9
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of stronger chicks and almost perfect hatches
with the Queen."

You, too, will hatch better chicks with a Queen
Incubator and raise more of them with the
Queen Brooder. Ask about the remarkable
Queen Brooder Stove. If your dealer doesn't
sell Queens, write ns. Catalog free. (54)

QUEEN INCUBATOR CO.
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if it would seem much more pleasant
to quit. The poultry business is no
place for a quitter. If you have that
staying quality and can tide over the
discouragements which come during
the first year or two, the chances are
that you will begin to see the pleas-
ure which comes from real results
and will be able to enjoy these same
problems which at first were very
discouraging.

If you can stick it out for three
years there is hope for you. But we
warn you never to loose sight of the
fact that poultry keeping is not all
pleasure, not until you become a
real, dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast and
then you would stay in the game
anyway.

Assuming that you will locate your
intensive plant we wish to explain
a few points which will be useful in
deciding where it is best to locate.
In the first place unless you expect
to develop a large plant we suggest
that you locate as near to your mar-
ket as possible. Suppose that you
are producing eggs and could locate
your plant so that customers would
call for the eggs. That would be a
saving well worth your considera-
tion. If you are going to fatten
fowls this will apply just as well.
The closer you are to your market
the better.

In choosing a site for your plant
look well to the soil. It should be
loose and a sandy loam is desirable.
Above all things see that it is well
drained. The soil should be dry. It
is also an excellent idea to avoid the
prevailing cold winds of winter, if
possible.

(Continued November issue)

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SPLENDID LEGBANDS

We call the attention of our read-
ers to the Spiral Legbands adver-
tised in this issue by the Liberty
Band Company, Box E, Belleville,
Ilinois. Many people prefer colored
bands and we can recommend the
Liberty Band Company most heartily
to our readers.

SUCCESSFUL BACK-YARD POULTRY
KEEPING

A new one yust off the press. Tells every-
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on n small scale to insure success. The largest,
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seventeen chapters contained within Its pages,
from the laying out of the plant to the use of
artificial Illumination — the new method that
positively doubles and more than doubles fall
and winter production. Whether you are In-
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HOW TO GET LOTS OF EGGS

"OCULUM" has no equal as an
egg producer, so its users say. It
takes the place of Remedies and Ton-
ics. Journals and Experiment Sta-
tions praise it. A trial tells all.
Mail 10c /to the "OCULUM" Co.,
Salem, Va. You will be pleased with
results.

John Murry, 'the Single Comb
Rhode Island Red breeder of Stan-
berry, Missouri, has moved to a
larger place and he will be able to
raise many more Reds to furnish his
ever increasing number of customers.

Mr. O. R. Hoffman of Kansas City,
Kansas, has just completed a new
poultry plant. They will keep grow-
ing. Must pay, don't you think?

MAKE TIP A CLUB

Make up a club of your own, choosing the
papers or magazines you want to take. Write
and let me quote a special cut price. I can
save yon considerable money on your subscrip-
tions. A. Otis Arnold, Quiney, Illinois.

ANCONAS

BARGAIN PKICES — SHEPPARD STRAIN S.

C. Anoouas. Pullets, yearling hens and cock-
erels. Am leaving farm must sell by Nov 1st.
Write Omer D. Snyder, Stewartvllle, Minn.

SINGLE COMB ANCONAS — SHEPPARD

Strain. Hens, pullets, .$2.50, $3.50; cockerels

SI. 50 to $5.00 each. Ella Whitewood, Hudson.

111. 10-3

R. C. ANCONA COCKERELS— Early hatched
— cheap. Mrs. E. J. Crawford, Owatonna, Minn.

BANTAMS

BANTAMS AND EGGS— 22 Varieties . 2c stamp
for circular. Fenn Bantam Tarda, (Desk 77),

IMavan. Wis.

BRAHMAS

QUALITY LIGHT BRAHMAS— MRS. BURCH-

ell, Rossmoyne, Ohio.

L. BRAHMA COCKERELS, PURE BRED,

satisfaction guaranteed, S3. 00. Alois Funke.
Breese, HI.

LIGHT BRAHMAS— COCKERELS, $5.00; PUL-

lets, $4.00; hens, $3.00. Only the best sent
out. E. 8. Soanes Poultry Yards, 1611 Broad-
way, Bay City, Mich.

LIGHT BRAHMAS— Cavey Farm, Elkhorn, Wis

12-12

DOGS

RABBIT HOUNDS, FOXHOUNDS. COON.

Opossum. Skunk. Squirrel. Wolf. Groundhog
dogs, Setters. Airedales. Circular 10c. Brown's
Kennels. York Pa. 7-G

DUCKS AND GEESE

BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS, TRIOS, $5.00.

Pens, $8.00. Rauch's Poultry Yard, .Tenera,
Ohio. 10-2

LARGE WHITE PEKIN DUCKS; DRAKES,

$2.00: duck. $1.50 if taken at once. Mrs. Marv
A. Ranev, Walton, Dl.

PURE WILD MALLARD AND COLORED MUS-

covey Dnrl.-s for sale. Oliver H. Ridgeway,
Oxford. Maryland.

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FERRETS

FERRETS FOR SALE— BROWN OR WHITE,

large or small, either sex; only the best stock.
W. A. Peck, New London, Ohio. 9-4

JERSEY GIANTS

JERSEY GIANTS FOR SALE. CIRCULAR

free. E. Benson, Randall, Iowa.

LEGHORNS

500 SINGLE COMB WHITE AND BROWN

Leghorn 1 year hens, cockerels and pullets.
A. Schroeder, St. Peter, 111.

WHITE LEGHORNS

ENGLISH COCKS FROM IMPORTED PEN.

Cockerels, hens, and pullets from high record
stock. Large and full of vigor. None better.
Chas. W. Johnson, Linton, Ind.

WHITE LEGHORNS— BARRON'S ANDERSONS

Cockerels, $1.50. Wm. Yearly, Granite Falls,
Minn.

PURE BRED FERRIS WHITE LEGHORN.

Choice young hens, 265-300 egg strain. Hogan
tested, $1.50 each, no reduction. April cock-
erels, $1-00. Mrs. Roy Appleton. Edgewood,
Iowa.

ATTENTION! BARGAIN! BOTT'S MONEY

Maker English Single Comb White Leghorns.
306 to 289 e?~ strain. Cockerels at reduced
rices for October sale. A few mated pens.
Ernestine Bott, Box E, Brighton, HI.

WE OFFER NOW FOR IMMEDIATE SALE $5

and $10 quality Pedigreed Cockerels at $2 and
$3 each; Cock birds $5. 25,000 chicks each
week 1923. Imported Barron and Young
strains S. C. White Leghorns, raised separately.
No lien under 248-egg record in six years breed-
ing. Tray nested. Pedigreed. Reduced prices.
Circular. Brownstown Poultry Farm, Browns-
town, Ind.

BROWN LEGHORNS

KULP'S COCKERELS, $1.60; BOTH COMBS.

Wm. Yearly, Granite Falls, Minn.

S. C. DARK BROWN LEGHORNS— Eggs only.
6c each delivered. Willis Fairbanks, Mora,
Minn.

v7. W. KULP, BOX 30, POTTSTOWN, PA

The leaders In size and contest winners. Cata-

'ng. Both combs.

BLACK MINORCAS

MINORCA COCKERELS— S. C. PURE BRED,

satisfaction guaranteed, $3.00. Alois Funke,
Breese, IU.

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS— Early
hatched pullets, Cockerels. Also few breeders
winter layers. Table Egg Farm, Lookout, Penn.

BLUE ORPINGTONS

LOOK — Royal Bine Orpingtons. Winners. John
Dnangst, 1214 Prairie Ave., Free port, m. 8-12

BUFF ORPINGTONS

SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTON COCKER-

els. February hatched. Also several good
yearling pens. Walter Goessling, 930 Jeffer-
son. St., Quincy, 111.

PIGEONS

PIGEONS— ALL VARIETIES FANCY PIGEONS

Importer and breeder. J. Rybak, 939 No. Lock-
wood Ave., Chicago, HI. 10-12

OFFER— MATED HOMERS, $2.00 PALR. BEAU-

tiful White Homers, S3. 00 pair. Get my prices
on Runts, Carneaux, Maltese Hens. Free book-
let. Squab manual 50c. Charles B. Gilbert.
2210 Almond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 10-6

RHODE ISLAND REDS

VIGOROUS COCKERELS FROM REDS THAT

lay! Rose comb. Prices reasonable. Circular.
Albert Bernhardt, Mt. Healthy, Ohio.

ROSE COMB RED EGGS — From prize winners
ind record layers. (Bean strain.) Mating list.
Daugherty's Poultry Farm. Metcalf. HI. 8-2

PRINTING

BETTER POULTRY PRINTING— Prepaid every-
where for half for what others charge. Being
specialists we invariably please our thousands
of satisfied customers. Special — 150 either
cards, envelopes noteheads. tags, labels. SI. 00
prepaid. Latest cuts. Interesting samples,
snecial bargain sheet for stamp only. Mnd"l
Printing Company. Manchester. Iowa. 9-12

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BARRED ROCKS

"CACKLERS" .ARE PUREBRED BEED-TO-

Lay Barred Rocks. Trapnested by Geo. W.
Pratt, Cropsey, III. Bargain prices on either
young or old stock. Unrelated pens. Write
wants plainly. Ciicular free.

PARKS ROCKS— Eggs that will hatch. Cata-
log. W. W. Kulp, "Box 30, Pottstown, Pa.

MY VICTORY STRAIN OF BARRED ROCKS—

Won at Toledo, O., Nov. 29th to Dec. 4tli, 1921.
3, 4, 5. Ex Cock; 2 Ex Cockerel; 1, 2, Ex Hen;
3 Ex Pullet; 1, 2, Pullet Bred Cock; 2 Cock-
erel Bred Ten; Silver Medal for Best Display.
Barred Rock Club shape and color specials.
Send for photo of my winning birds. J. T.
French, 838 West Grove Place, Toledo, Oliio.

SEVERAL VARIETIES

FOR SALE— COCKERELS AND COCK BIRDS

from prize winning Single Comb Reds and
Thompson's Barred Rocks; $3 and $5 each.
Mrs. Louis Morris, Buckner, Mo. 10-2

BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS— ROSE COMB AN-

conas, 3 for $5.00. John Byer, Kalida, Ohio.

10-2

WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS $3 AND

$3 each. Eggs for hatching from first prize
winners. White Wvandottes R. C. R. Island
Reds, Indian Runner Ducks, $2.00 pr 15. Car-
neaux Pigeons, $3 pair. Lew H. Stewart, Route
4, Sioux City, Iowa, 10-3

ALL KINDS OF PUREBRED PRIZEWTNNLNG

poultry and pets. Prices reasonable. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Peter Bros., Randolph,
Minn.

APRIL HATCHED PULLETS OR COCKERELS

— From Parks pedigreed stock direct. Also
(Woods) Light Brahmas, $2 each; $22 dozen.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Eva Bojar, St. Be-
nard, Ohio. 8-3

SHEPPARD S. C. ANCONA AND PENNSYL-

variia S. C. W. Leghorn eggs for hatching,
$2.50 per 15. H. E. Ritter, Middleburg. Pa.

BUFF WYAND 0 TTES

BUFF WYANDOTTES— CHOICE COCKS, HENS,

cockerels and pullets reasonable. Jess Stros-
nider, Mt. Washington, Ohio, 10-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES

WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS AND

Pullets for sale. Bred 16 years for show and
heavy egg production. Robert Fetrow, Etters,
Pa.

AGENTS

AGENTS — Sell guaranteed egg producing poul-
try tonic, money back agreement, agents pro-
tected, special inducement " to dealers. Mack
Products, 29 Times Plaza, Brooklyn, N, Y.

POULTRY SHOW

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SHOW— Bnyer's
Guide (list of exhibitors) free. Official Marked
Catalog 75 cents. Both books very valuable.
Send for them. Address D. Lincoln Orr, Seo'y.
Box 23, Orr*s Mills— Cornwall, N. Y.

REAL ESTATE

WANT TO HEAR FROM OWNER HAVING

poultry farm or other property for sale. State
cash price and particulars. John 3. Black,
278th St.. Chippewa Falls, Wis.

MISCELLANEOUS

FOR RENT— GOOD POULTRY FARM WELL

located near town electric and steam car ser-
vice. Amos Hougland, Underwood, Ind.

PLANS FOR POULTRY HOUSES! ALL

styles 150 illustrations; secret of getting win-
ter eggs, and copy of "The Full Egg Basket."
Send 25c. Inland Poultry Journal, Dept. 69.
Indianapolis, Ind. 10-5

FOR SALE — Check protector, adding machine,
parcel-post scales, comet, caponizing outfit,
hygrometer, Sure Hatch Incubator. Write for
description and price. Want to buy Lnken-
velders. F. Raymond Benson, Elgin, 111.

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KEEPER are coining money fast this year.
It pays to keep your announcement before
the people. That Is the way to establish
a reputation for your business. Why not
go after the people, get good prices, and
make more money this year?

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Bates for Ads. Classified under proper
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1 month 6c per word

2 months 11c per word

8 months 16c per word

4 months _ 20c per word

1 year 60c per word

10% Water

Heavy Drinkers Are Heavy Layers:

Water is a natural tonic just as important as
feed. Get full value from high priced feeds.
Increase egg production and profits by keeping
warm water before your hens all the time.

Eureka s»SSn S Fountain

KEEPS WATER WARM 24 HOURS
No lamp, no Are, no danger. No upkeep. No
trouble. Only up-to-date Sanitary Fountain.

Drinking cup does not project beyond outer can.
No possible chance to catch litter or filth. No
contamination. Water always warm, clean and
pure. Made of heavy galvanized iron. Built
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Simply fill every evening with hot water — that's
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water early in the morning just when they want
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EUREKA SUPPLY HOUSE

3 Wesley Avenue Mount Morris, Illinois

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advertisers please mention

HAWK SET

Guaranteed to catch all hawks
that are taking your poultry or
your money returned. Price GOc. Anthony
Henak, Oxford Junction, Iowa.

LIGHT AND DARK BRAHMA S

Show birds and choice breeders in old
and young stock for sale reasonable.

MILLER POULTRY FARMS
Lancaster, - - Mo.

Quality Chicks

9c Up.

From best laying strains, 12
varieties. Breeding stock liens
$1.50 up. Cocks and cockerels.

Free 32-page catalog and reduced price list.
Missouri Poultry. Farms, Columbia, Mo.

Why Not Get REAL TOM BARRON Leghorn Chicks and Eggs

from a firm that has imported direct each year since 1915, at prices but
little higher than the Commercial Hatcheries charge for common stock.
Chicks $15. Ou per 100, $13.50 per 100 after June 1st. Eggs $8.00 per 100
with free replacement for all non fertiles. Orders filled promptly from this
ad or send for descriptive list to

COLEMAN MILES EGG FARM, Importers. Box N. Mt. Carroll. 111.

BALLARD'S SUPREME WHITE ROCKS

Have mated some fine pens for the eg
T. VV. BALLARD,

trade from my Champion winners. Mating list on request.

GALESBURG, ILL.

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GEORGE BEUOY, B. E. 17, CEDAB VALE, KANSAS.

HORNER'S PEDIGREED S. C. REDS

We are now ready to furnish you with blue ribbon cockerels

and pullets for early show.
ERNEST G. HORNER, R. 7, Box 30, QUINCY. ILL.

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POULTRY KEEPER has not profited during the War by shoot-
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Vol. XXXIX

November, 1922

THE BEST

AND
SURE WAY

Protect your fowls from the powerful and insidious ^|
lice and mites that suck the life-blood of

Extra care must be taken that not
only the birds are kept clean, but
every crack and crevice as well.

Licemist

[formerly called Licecil]

No dusting—No clipping— No painting
— Just hang up the bottle

— and in a few days your entire flock and hen house will he
rid of every louse and mite. Licemist leaves the bottle in
powerful evaporating vapors which descend in a misty form,
penetrating feathers, cracks, and crevices everywhere. Lice
and mites have no lungs. They breathe through the pores
of the body. The vapors from Licemist will quickly kill
them. They cannot stand the odor of Licemist, and its
presence in your hen house will rid you of these pests.

How To Use LICEMIST

GIVE IT A FAIR TRIAL

If you prefer to fight poultry pests in the old way — it is
certainly your privilege to do so. But your own best in-
terest, and the success others are having, will lead you to
give Licemist a fair, honest trial at the earliest opportunity.

J Bottle, $1.00; 3 Bottles, $2.50; 12 Bottles, $9.00— All Postpaid.

American Supply Company, Dept. P K Quincy, Illinois

Chicken Mites Filled
With the Life Blood
of Faithful Hens.

Evidence!

KEEPS ON USING LICECIL.

Please find chacks for $5 for which
send me six bottles of Licecil. I
have been using Licecil and find it
O. K. This is the third order, which
speaks for itself.

J. D. ALLEN, Lynchburg, Va..

WANTS MORE.
I am sending for some more
Licecil. It is the best preparation
to rid the place of lice I have ever
found. Send as quick as possible,
because I am all out now.
JOHN HOLTRAP, Lynden, Wash.

KEEPS ON USING IT.
Find enclosed money order for
Licecil. I was well pleased with
results from the other bottle I
bought. Have over 200 birds and
when I use Licecil lice are a very
scarce article with me.

J. E. PLATT, Maywood, 111.

LITTLE WORRY OR WORK.
Please send me three bottles of
Licecil. Like it very much. With
Licecil there is little worry or work.
Enclosed find money order for $2.50
for the three bottles.

BERNARD F. OSTERFIELD,

Dayton, Ohio.

SEND MORE.
Please send me three bottles of
Licecil. I received the one bottle
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no lice or mites will stay on the
chickens with the odor of Licecil
about. L. G. STAYNOS,

Sherman, Texas.

AMERICAN SUPPLY COMPANY

Department P K QUINCY, ILLINOIS
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find $ for which send me

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Vol. XXXIX

NOVEMBER, 1922

No. 8

Producing a Top-Notch Article

By DWIGHT E. HALE

People are more particular than
they used to be. They have been
catered to so much in recent years,
and (have been so prosperous, that
nothing but the best will satisfy
them. If that is so, there is only
one thing ito do and that is to give
them what they want as long as they
are willing to pay for it.

Take eggs for example. Some peo-
ple prefer a white shell egg, some a
brown shell and some are not par-
ticular as to color of the shell, buft
they all want a strictly fresh egg.

Realizing not only the above men-
tioned facts, but also that 24 ounces
is (the Standard weight for a dozen
of eggs, it is up to the producer to
see that his eggs are at least up to
standard. Eggs smaller than 2 4
ounces to the dozen are docked and
also those that run too heavy, like
eggs that run as much as 30 and 32
ounces to the dozen. The reason for
docking the large is that in this
country we have but one standard
size egg crate filler and the extra
large eggs cause a greater breakage.
We rave and tear our hair about the
Chinese and the eggs they produce,
but they go much farther than we
Americans in sorting their eggs as too
size, color, shape, etc., and they have
several different size egg crate fill-
ers to fit the eggs they are sending
to market. There is one case where
we can learn something from the
Chinese.

A few cents per dozen does not
seem like much, but if you are pro-
ducing eggs for market purposes and
selling very many, it makes a big
sum in the end and is well worth
going after.

Eggs are also sorted as to color,
shape, fresh, strictly fresh, dirties,
etc., and it behooves the producer to
produce an egg that will grade A-l
if he expects to get the top price for
them.

First we must get our eggs to
standard size and as uniform as pos-
sible. To do this we would start
with our breeding stock by selecting
those that not only lay a great many

eggs, but also those that lay the kind
of an egg we want; those that begin
laying early, that is mature quickly,
and breed from that kind of stock.
This would soon standardize your
flock so that in a very few years you
could have a flock that was laying
a uniform egg as to size, shape and
color, and thus save a lot of time in
grading and also have money by get-
ting top prices.

There is no excuse for selling stale,
cracked and dirty eggs. This is a
matter of gathering the eggs prompt-
ly, keeping them in a cool place un-
til ready to ship and in keeping the
nests clean so that the eggs will not
get dirty. Losses from these causes
can be easily eliminated and they
must be attended to if you are out to
produce the best to be had in eggs.

There are a few instances where
doctors have certain patients that
need certain mineral or chemicals
along with eggs, and it can be put
into the eggs by feeding the hens.
For example hens that have plenty
of iron in the drinking water will
produce an egg that analyzes heavy
in iron and this is often very de-
sirable for certain patients and they
are glad to pay the extra price for
them.

There are certain people who like
a strongly flavored egg and eggs for
such a trade can be flavored to suit
the customer. Feed your hens garlic,
for instance, and you can produce a
very strong tasting egg. There are
certain customers willing to pay the
price for them and if you have any
such on your list, cater to them and
give them what they are willing to
pay for.

If you are raising any of the Med-
iterranean breeds like the Leghorns,
Minorcas, Blue Andalusians or An-
conas that lay a white shell egg you
will, of course, seek a market that
pays a premium for a white egg. New
York heads the list as a market pre-
ferring the White egg, and Boston
prefers a brown egg and each will
pay a small premium to get wlhat
they want. There are many cities
where there is no distinction, but in

those cities individuals that are par-
ticular and who will pay the price to
get What they want.

Nearly everybody likes to eat
chicken in some form or other, and
after they get their fill of same they
become more particular. In such
cases find out what they want and
cater to them,. Too many fries are
dumped on the market without any
special conditioning. Many breeders
claim it does not pay to fatten them.
It does. There are probably more
Leghorn cockerels put on the mar-
ket than any other breed. It is hard
rtio fatten a Leghorn. They will not
stand crate feeding like those of a
heavier breed as they are of a more
or less nervous disposition and if
confined in a crate seem to fret off
the weight faster than one can feed
it on. The best way to condition
them for market is to confine them
in a small enclosure that is large
enough to admit their moving about
a little and then feed three times a
day, just what they will clean up in
fifteen minutes, a good fattening ra-
tion mixed with milk, or one that
contains the dried milk. In this
manner you can put on the market
a milk-fed chick that will not only
carry more weight and a softer, bet-
ter finish, but one that will bring
more money per pound.

In conditioning any of the heavier
breeds such as Orpingtons, Brahmas,
Rocks, Wyandottes, R. I. Reds, etc.,
it is best to confine them in a crate
so they cannot move about. Keep
these crates rather dark. Feed three
times a day a good milk ration, just
what they will clean up in fifteen
minutes. If any remains after that
time, remove it or they will gorge
themselves and not be hungry for
the next feed. Follow this line of
feeding for two weeks or' a little less,
and you will be surprised at the
gains in weight and improvement in
the meat.

The close confinement breaks
down the muscular tissue and it is
replaced with tender, juicy meat and
fat that makes them the finest ar-
ticle of meat that can be put on the

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table and people will pay the price
for it.

This crate fattening applies to
poultry at any stage of growth you
wish to market them, and the im-
provement is probably more notice-
able in old birds than in (the real
voung ones.

One branch of the business that
many poultry raisers are overlook-
ing is that of caponizing. If you have
the room to carry over any surplus
males, caponize them and hold them
until about February or March and
then crate fatten them and put on
the market. They ought to bring
you around 55c a pound and of
course will weigh more. We say
hold until February or March as the
holiday market generally uses up the
supply of fowls in cold storage and
also those that are shipped in from
the farms during that season. They
are scarce, the demand is good and
the price high for them. Do not
get the idea that a capon must be
a great big bird. Most of the city
families run not more than four or
five people and they want a fowl
that dresses around 7 or 8 pounds.
The larger birds will find a market
perhaps at some of the restaurants,
hotels, clubs, etc., but are not in
such good demand as a family fowl.
All these little extra attentions pay.
It is the extra quarter of a pound
here and there and the little extra
price per pound that make the real
profits. It is this extra finish and
price that puts your goods a little
above the ordinary and creates a de-
mand for them.

If you are more interested in the
baby chick business or the breed-
ing of fancy fowls than you are in
the market end of the business.you
will find many little special things
that can be done that will bring you
an extra price.

Speaking of baby chicks, in our
opinion, the business has grown so
fast and everybody wanting or sell-
ing baby chicks that many have be-
come a little careless as to the grade
of chicks they send out. From now
on it is the hatchery that produces
the best chicks that is going to do
the big business.

The State of Wisconsin has made
a great move in puttng on State In-
spectors. These inspectors visit
flocks, cull them as to egg produc-
ing qualities, health, stamina, con-
ditions, etc. The hatchery that can
advertise chicks from an inspected
flock is going to have a big advan-
tage over the one that is just sell-
ing chicks.

More care is going to be taken
of the breeding flock that produces
the eggs for the hatcheries and it
is going to result in stronger, better
chicks. Many large hatcheries that
buy their eggs from various flocks
are engaging experienced breeders
whose duty it is to visit these flocks
and do the mating for them.

Were I in the baby chick business
I would surely make it a point to
see that the breeding flocks that
supplied the eggs for my hatchery
were in good condition, mated cor-
rectly and properly taken care of. I
could get more for my chicks be-
cause they would be found to be
better and there would be a greater
demand for them.

As for the fancy end of the bus-
iness. The American people like to
buy from a winner. In starting I
would start with a pair or trio, the
best I could buy, rather than to try
and start with a large flock. I would
study the standard requirements of
them and cull closely making my
matings so as to produce as close to
the Standard as possible. Then when
I got them good, I would show them
at the poultry shows and make a
show record and then let people
know about it. I would strive all
the time to produce a little better
bird than my competitor and when
you have done that you will find a
demand for your stock and eggs that
will bring you a little extra price.

Again we say it is the little extras
here and there that make the big
profits in the end. Also it is the
attention to the little extra neces-
sities that make these extra prices
and profits.

Breeders are prone to slack up
during the hot weather. They let
the half grown stock shift for itself.
The result is a set back; stock does'
not develop as it should ; it costs
more to mature them and they are
not as good when they are n\atured.
In the market end of the business,
the birds should be pushed for all
they will stand so as to get them on
the market with the least work and
in the shortest time. The man who
has broilers or garden truck a week
ahead of his competitors gets the top
prices.

Lice and mites like warm weather
and multiply rapidly. A chick can-
not support a lot of lice and mites
and keep growing as it should.

It is the little things that make
big profits — do not forget that nor
neglect them.

Next month we shall tell you
something about finding a market
for your goods.

"SMOKE 'EM"

Over two hundred thousand poul-
trymen and farmers scattered
throughout the United States and
Canada now use and recommend
"SMOKE EM," canned smoke the
GUARANTEED ROUP CURE, the
most scientific DRUGLESS ROUP
CURE ever discovered.

This preparation is easy and safe
to use. Eliminates catching and
handling each individual fowl. The
cost is approximately 1-4 cent per
fowl.

A severe and prolonged cold is us-
ually the beginning of roup, canker,
diptheria, and chickenpox. Like in
human beings a severe cold will in
time develop into pneumonia. But a
human being can expel mucous gath-
ered from a cold, thereby elimina-
ting any chance of accumulation
which is dangerous and if this
mucous is not expelled will bring
about a quinzy sore throat. With
poultry it is quite different. The
poor fowls cannot blow their nose
like a human being can in order to
dislodge and discharge this mucous
which occurs when they catch cold.
This results in an accumulation of
mucous Which becomes hard and
forms a cheesy-like substance, ac-
companied with high temperature

and hard lumps form under the eyes
and patches of canker in the mouth
and wind-pipe. When the nostrils
become clogged the tear socket which
connects with the eyes and nostrils,
become inflamed and this mucous is
carried to the eyes. Then after the
eyes fill up the mouth and wind pipe
become filled with canker and death
is usually caused by strangulation.

It is indeed a pitiful sight for one
to see his valued birds affected with
this deadly contagious disease and
through his love for poultry and to
eliminate the great financial loss,
Mr. H. M. Spahr, President of the
H. M. Spahr, Breeding Estate, of
Thurmont, Maryland, who is one of
the most determined men I ever
knew, instructed the manager of his
poultry department on his large
breeding estate where he breeds reg-
istered Holstein cattle, Berkshire
hogs and his famous Nonesuch Trap-
nested Leghorn chickens and also
engaged one of the best known chem-
ists in New York City to assist him
in the discovery of a genuine reli-
able roup cure.

For several years they worked and
spent large sums of money, before
they invented "SMOKE EM." As
the name applies, "SMOKE EM." As
a scientific process of smoke, and
when this smoke is administered to
fowls in large volumes it is impos-
sible for a human being to Stay in
the poultry house unless they have
a cold. I would advise anyone hav-
ing a cold, to have a handkerchief
ready, for he will surely need it, if
he stays in the poultry house when
"SMOKE EM" is being used.

Now I am not going to try to ex-
plain the action and the way
"SMOKE EM" produces a positive
cure in medical terms or high-brow
language, for Mr. Spahr is a believer
of plain words. As previously ex-
plained a chicken cannot blow its
nose without the use of "SMOKE
EM." But it is absolutely necessary
for a chicken to breathe and, it will
breathe the natural way through its
nostrils if nothing interferes, there-
fore "SMOKE EM" should be ad-
ministered.

Here is the beginning of roup. A
cold develops. The nostrils gradually
become clogged, forcing the mucous
from the nostrils down the windpipe
forming canker, and also forcing the
mucous between the tear-socket and
eye.

When the fumes of "SMOKE EM"
are inhaled, these fumes find their
way into the nostrils and wind-pipe,
mouth and tear-socket and to the
eyes, directly where medical atten-
tion is needed. It will leave a dark
deposit of its medical proprieties on
the diseased parts, healing the af-
fected parts and disinfecting as well
as killing the diseased germs, not
only on the fowls, but, in every nooK
and corner in the entire poultry
building. After these germs are
killed they are harmless and easily
expelled by the fowls themselves.

"SMOKE EM," should be used
once a month as a preventative. This
truly wonderful roup cure and pre-
ventative is simple and easily used.
An entire flock regardless of size can
be treated in thirty to forty min-
ues.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 5

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Stockton, N. J., June 20, 1922

The Country Gentleman,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen: We take this opportunity of expressing our appreciation of
the satisfactory manner in which you handled our ads this season. We also
wish to state that this Hatchery has advertised in all leading farm and poultry
magazines during the past thirty years, and we have yet to find a more powerful
and satisfactory advertising medium than The Country Gentleman.
We shall increase our order next season.

Yours respectfully,
THE PINE TREE HATCHERY,

( Signed) Jos. D. Wilson, Prop.

For more than thirty years Mr. Wilson has been hatching Baby Chicks and advertising
them in all the leading farm and poultry journals, but, to use Mr. Wilson's own words, he
"has yet to find a more powerful and satisfactory advertising medium than THE COUN-
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What The Country Gentleman has done for Mr. Wilson it can do for other
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THANKSGIVING COMES
AGAIN

Thanksgiving comes but once each
year and to many it is simply a time
-when the table groans with good
things to eat but we are glad to
note that to the majority it has
a deeper meaning. Thanksgiving
should mean much to us as individ-
uals and as a people.

With the close of the World War
many thought that we had especial
cause to be thankful but in these
trying days we learn that we still
have even more reason to give
thanks for. Stop and think of the
hunger and want, the hate and dis-
trust, the desire for revenge and the
destruction which is present in other
parts of the world, we must show a
greater thanksgiving for the real
brotherhood which is present in
America.

Thanksgiving may mean a well
laden table but above all let us
strive to continue the friendship and
brotherly love which we have and
let us leave no stone unturned which
will prove a means to that end.
America is not perfect but it is so
far ahead of the rest of the world
that we have just cause to celebrate
a very happy Thanksgiving for 1922.

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

Back a few years or perhaps a few
months ago we heard a great deal
regarding the value of artificial
lights when used in the laying house.
Personally we never lost much sleep
over this end of the game and we
now see many poultrymen who

while enthusiastic about lights at
the start, admit that they now use
them with moderation.

We believe that artificial lights
are a help but we refuse to be carried
away by over enthusiastic reports.

Lights can be used to advantage
and this is an excellent time to see
that ithey are installed for the short
days which are to come, for if you
contemplate using them at all you
will want them soon.

When used in moderation and
with the proper degree of judgment
lights can be made to return a good
profit but never loose sight of the
fact that it may become a mere fad
and perhaps become a detriment to
your flock. Some writers would al-
most make you believe that artificial
lights is a late discovery. The writer
has personal knowledge of their hav-
ing been used ait least twenty years
ago. They proved useful then as
they will now when judgment is the
rule and guide of your life.

CROSSING BREEDS DOES
NOT PAY

A very large per cent of those who
keep poultry today raise only
thoroughbred stock. They know
from experience that the best pays
more in a financial way and also in
the satisfaction which comes from
owning carefully bred birds.

Occasionally some amateur will
break forth with a cross of two
Standard breeds and try to improve
on what has taken a life time to
produce. Success may seem to re-
ward his efforts during the first gen-
eration but the second year always
finds a witness for his folly. Cross-
ing breeds is a certain road to ruin
and you will loose both good breeds.
Many experienced poultrymen have
found the foolishness of crossing
breeds and surely those of limited
experience cannot hope to accomplish
what our foremost breeders fail to
do.

There is no such thing as luck in
crossing of different -breeds. Failure
is waiting up the road and you can-
not afford to flirt with such a fellow
as failure.

Let us stick to our time and test-
ed breeds and not experiment with
the crossing of breeds.

IT PAYS TO GET
ADVICE

In the city of Chicago there lived
a man Who dreamed of an acre out
in the country where his family
could brealthe air free from dust and
smoke, where the garden would
flourish and the hens would supply
the family with fresh eggs.

As far as the dream was concerned
it was excellent and then one day
the happy man began to construct a
poultry house out in the country and
then he made a fatal mistake. He
buillt the house facing west instead
of south. Had he been a reader of
POULTRY KEEPER he would have
known of our Question and Answer
Department and could have obtained
advice which would have put him
right on this matter. He has fought
failure for several years and does
not even yet realize that his venture
is doomed. Probably he will go back
to the city a discouraged man when

had he known of the help we could
have given he might have been suc-
cessful.

It pays to get good advice and
follow it. Every reader of POUL-
TRY KEEPER has the privilege of
asking questions of our Question and
Answer Department and you owe it
to yourself to get the best and most
reliable help possible.

Tell your friends about the advice
we offer and don't let any of your
friends make a mistake in the poul-
try business. Our Mr. Benson is
kept busy answering questions but
he always has time to study your
problem and will tell you frankly
just what is best.

EDUCATING JUDGES

The poultry fraternity may well
congratulate itself on the high stand-
ard of the men who have acted as
poultry judges in the past. As a
whole they have been honest, liberal,
high-minded men with a broad vis-
ion of their profession. It has been
fortunate that such was the case but
it has been more the result of acci-
dent than anything else.

What does the future hold in
store ?

We admit that we have been lucky
in the past but shall we go on trust-
ing to luck? Does such a program
seem in keeping with American ef-
ficiency? Just because we have had
luck in the past is no reason to ex-
pect it in the future.

Judges must have a certain
amount of knowledge in order to
make a success and why should not
the American Poultry Association
provide a school to impart this
knowledge? The haphazard way of
the past will not do for the future.
We must have thoroughly efficient
judges and our breeders are getting
the poultry business down to such
fine points that we must have better
judges. Will the American Poultry
Association supply these judges or
will we go to other quarters for
them?

BUY A POULTRY FARM

The writer has been encouraging
the Little Lander, the Back Lotter,
in fact all who have shown a real
desire to get away from the drudg-
ery of city life, to buy a farm. We
have found many pleasant exper-
iences as a result and many requests
for advice regarding the venture, if
it may be called such.

We strongly recommend that a
man who contemplates moving on a
small poultry farm, should keep
sone chickens, even if in a small
way, before making such a change.
It is imperative that one have some
practical experience with poultry.
Perhaps the labor necessary may not
be at all congenial and it is much
better to learn this fact before going
out upon a farm.

We assume that practically all the
readers of POULTRY KEEPER are
now keeping poultry in a limited way
and wish to branch out where there
is room and opportunity to conduct
a real business.

Farms in most localities can now
be purchased at reasonable figures
and we predict that poultry products

THE POULTRY KEEPER

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will go higher, so that it seems a
very good time to buy a poultry
farm. But don't go in blind. Simp-
ly because a smooth talking, velvet
tongued salesman tells you he has
the best buy — don't bite. Look over
the advantages and disadvantages —
know the whole matter. Many items
enter into the purchase of a farm
and you must be well posted to buy
with intelligence.

LOCATION IS IMPORTANT

During these days of rapid trans-
portation it would seem that one
could locate a poultry farm at some
distance from the city and yet the
reverse is the case. Fifty to one
hundred miles is considered far
enough as freight and express is also
to be considered.

Assuming that one desires to ship
to some large market he will no
doubt use express service. However
should he plan to sell to a local trade
he must see to it that the roads are
in good condition at all times of the
year. An auto will prove much more
useful than a horse and wagon as it
will save so much in time, but it re-
quires that the roads be kept in good
shape. Speaking of an auto brings
to mind the opportunity of selling
eggs directly to the customer. This
involves extra expense but is wortn
considering.

If the road is in good repair one
will find many autos will pass and
repass the premises. If a suitable
sign be placed near the road it will
be the means of bringing much trade
for eggs.

In the purchase of a farm bear in
mind these different points as lo-
cation is often the turning point be-
tween success and failure.

Do not forget to secure a location
where the family may find pleasant
relations with the neighbors. While
we must be practical in the selection
of a farm yet we must remember
that one cannot live by bread alone.
Companionship has much in our way
of living and we must have neigh-
bors who are pleasant and agreeable.

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The need of pure water is appar-
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.40 .60 1.00 2.25 4.00

.45 .75 1.20 2.75 5.00

10 .85 1.40 3.25 6.00

Growing Chicks 15

Leghorns, Anconas. . .20

Rocks, Reds, etc 20

Asiatics 25

Turkeys, Geese. . . . . . .30

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Page Number 8

THE POULTRY KEEPER

ROUP

It's choking to death thousands
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COURTESY U.S. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY

gg showing "blood ring" — before
the candle and out of the shell.

Cracked egg invaded by mold — be-
fore the candle and out of the shell.

COURTESY U.S. BUREAU Of CHEMISTRY

White rot or addled egg — before the
candle and out of the shell.

CLASSIFIED DESCRIPTION
OF EGGS

Eg*

white a green white — before the
candle and out of the shell.

The different types of eggs found
in commerce may be classified ac-
cording to edibility and possibility
of detection by candling as follows:
Fresh Egg — Before Candle

Air space: Not enlarged; less than
three-sixteen/th inch in depth.

White: Firm, clear. Yolk: Dimly
seen through white as shadowy ob-
ject indistinct in outline. Chick
spot not visible.

Distinguishing characteristics: No
shrinkage and general firm condition
of white and yolk.

Out of Shell. White: Firm, thick;
opalescent; reflects light.

Yolk: Spherical, firm; chick spot
small, no sign of hatching. Color
uniform for entire yolk, but varies
from light yellow to deep orange,
and is occasionally olive green.

Distinguishing characteristics: Gen-
eral firm condition of white and
yolk. White, opalescent.

Illustrations furnished for this article through courtesy of Marketing Bulletin of the
State Marketing- Bureau of Missouri.

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 9

A fresh egg before the candle and Slightly stale egg showing incuba-
and out of the shell. tion — before the candle and

out of the shell.

Stale egg showing a settled, flat-
tened yolk with a thin white — before
the candle and out of shell.

Slightly Stale Egg — Before
the Candle.

Air cell: Fairly enlarged, distinct
separation of membranes.

than in fresh

White : Less firm
egg, but not thin.

Yolk: Movable
tated before light.

Distinguishing
Slightly enlarged air cell,
some thinness of white.

when egg is ro-
slightly flattened,
characteristics :
showing

Egg with yolk beginning to adhere
to shell — before the candle and out
of the shell.

Out of the Shell: White: Shows
some weakness, but slightly reflects
light. Yolk: Somewhat flattened but
usually clear.

Distinguishing characteristics:

Fairly thin white, somewhat flat-
tened yolk.

Stale Egg — Before Candle.
Air space: Enlarged; lower wall may
be movable in outline.
White: Thin, clear.

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THE POULTRY KEEPER

Yolk: Definite in outline; some-
times weak, may occasionally have
dark, mottled areas.

Distinguishing characteristics.
Enlarged air cell and increased con-
trast between white and yolk as com-
pared with fresh egg. Edible.

Occurance: Among eggs not
marked promptly.

Out of Shell. White: Thin; no
opalescence; does not reflect light as
much as does fresh egg.

Yolk: Flattened and occasionally
may have light mottled areas.

Distinguishing characteristics:
Thin white and flattened yolk.
Yolk Slightly Stuck to Shell —
Before Candle.

Air space: Enlarged; lower wall
may be movable in outline.

White: Thin may be streaked with
yellow if yolk sac is ruptured.

Yolk: Attached to shell by small
area of yolk sac; waves when egg is
turned; as yolk sac is weak, it fre-
quently may be found to be ruptured
with contents flowing into white, or
twisting during candling may tear
yolk from shell, when appearance
before candle will be similar to that
of a mixed rot. Occasionally if yolk
has begun to stick to shell turning
egg in front of candle may free yolk
without breaking its sac, when it is
graded as a good egg.

Distinguishing characteristic:
The sticking of the yolk by a small
area so that it sways easilv when

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egg is turned. Inedible.

Occurance: Very common in sum-
mer and autumn.

Out of Shell. White: Thin, clear
or may be streaked with yellow if
yolk is broken.

Yolk: If whole in shell it is
broken when egg is opened, leav-
ing a yellow mark on the shell at
place of contact. If yolk was both
struck and broken in shell it will
have appearance of a mixed rot when
removed from shell. If yolk was
very lightly struck it might drop out
of shell without breaking in which
case egg would be classed as good.

Distinguishing characteristic :
A broken yolk and a yellow mark
on shell where yolk is stuck.
Egg With Blood Ring —
Before Candle.

Air space: Large or small.

White: Thin and clear.

Yolk: A distinct reddish glow on
one side of the yolk in which is seen
a blood ring or portion of ring.

Distinguishing characteristic :

Presence of blood in region show-
ing reddish glow. Inedible.

Occurance: During warm weather
or hatching season.

Out of Shell. White: Thin and
clear.

Yolk: Germinal spot enlarged and
surrounded by complete or partial
blood ring; yolk flattened and often
very weak.

Distinguishing characteristics:

Blood ring on yolk.
Moldy Egg — Before Candle.

Air space: Enlarged; lower out-
line may be movable.

White and yolk: Mold shows as
black or grayish area inside shell.
If egg is damaged the growth follows
the line of the crack. The growth
may be confined to the shell, in
which case the contents of the egg
will appear normal ; or it may be in
the air cell or the white, in which
case its presence is detected by dark-
colored patches; or it may extend to
the yolk, which in this stage is
heavily attached to the shell and
covered with dark spots. In an ad-
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whole egg may appear black.

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Page Number 11

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How Large a Farm.

I am going to get into the poultry game and
would like to know how many acres I will
need to make a good living for my family,
consisting of wife, two children and myself?
Can vou advise me regarding this matter?

J. P., Illinois.

The question of the size of a poul-
try farm depends on the number of
fowls kept and that depends on how
much you can make them pay per
head. So after all the whole mat-
ter resolves into the personal fitness.
Some breeders have trouble making
one dollar per head while others
seem to make five dollars with ease.
I would buy sufficient ground to al-
low for growth. Being cramped for
room is a decided drawback. If you
will go into details as to your plans
and where you expect to locate we
might be able to give you more help.

Bruised Fruit.

Will wind fall fruit do alright for poultry?
We have a lot and thought maybe we could
feed it to advantage.

G. K. L. , Xew York.

The fowls might survive the eating
of such fruit but it is not to be
recommended. Fresh fruit would be
alright but bruised fruit which has
entered into the process of decay is
not very good food for poultry.

Wants Oat Sprouter.

I have seen an ad of the

Oat

Sprouter and would like to know if you con-
sider it a good one? Would you buv it?

E. E. T., Ohio.

The Oat Sprouter you speak of is
alright and we would not hesitate
to buy one if we needed it. It is
made by a reliable firm.

Several Questions.

1. Do you think the Anconas are as good
layers as the White Leghorns?

2. Which will cost the least to feed?

3. How about house room needed? How do
they compare?

4. Are the Camplnes in the same class?

5. What about this talk that Leghorns are
hard to sell as market fowls? Is it true?

6. Which breed would you suggest I start
with having in mind that my space is lim-
ited and yet I want to get the maximum out of
the birds. Keep In mind I am after eggs
more than fancy.

E. S. ., Wisconsin.

1. There are some Anconas that
are very good layers but as a whole
they have not been pushed as hard
as the Leghorns and as a result are
not as well known as layers. Either
breed will lay well if you get a lay-
ing strain and feed properly.

2. I doubt if there is much dif-
ference on this point. Either one
will eat much less than the Rocks,
Reds or 'Dottes.

3. The Leghorn and Ancona are
about the same in this respect.

4. I assume that you refer to the
cost of feed and house room needed
and would say that they are nearly
the same as (the Leghorns and An-
conas in this matter.

5. There is some truth in the
matter but the commission merch-

ants are quite likely to blame as
they buy the small fowls cheaper but
do not sell them again at a corres-
ponding price. This condition has
not made for friendship among the
breeders of small fowls as one can
readily see. The Leghorn breeders
are getting aroused and we antici-
pate that they will breed a fowl
which will be such a good market
fowl that they will bring a premium
in years to come.

6. Personally we believe you
would find a more ready sale for
the Leghorns or Anconas. I believe
the Anconas can be raised with much
more ease than the Leghorns but
this may be because I have handled
them more. The smaller breeds are
suitable for the Back Lotter and Lit-
tle Lander, especially where eggs is
the main product desired.

To Change Roosters.

Is it advisable for me to keep the roosters
of my own flock or to change? I keep Ehode
Island Reds. D. S., Tennessee.

The danger in keeping your own
roosters would be that you would be
inbreeding and eventually it would
have a tendency to ruin the flock
vigor. Personally I like to change
often enough to keep the health and
vitality up to par. Butt always make
sure that the males you get are
healthy, strong and full of pep. It

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is the strong male which keeps the
flock up to par.

Crooked Bill.

I have a young Rhode Island cockerel which
is alright except that he has a crooked bill.
Would you advise breeding from him or not?

G. W. M., New Jersey.

I do not think that this cockerel
would transmit this deformity but
probably he is weak in some other
section which is not so noticeable.
There is a grave danger that he
would not be able to eait properliy,
hence would not get the proper nour-
ishment and could not keep up the
vigor needed to head a breeding
pen. I would not use such a fowl.

Liver Trouble.

I have about 159 Barred Rock pullets and
they have teen laying and seemed alright. A
few days ago one got sick and died and now
another is sick. I opened the one and found
the liver much enlarged and soft. I liave
given as a mash 10O pounds each of bran,
middlings, mill and meat scraps. As a scratch
I have used cracked corn and oats. Can you
tell me what is the matter and a remedy?

In the first place I would give the
flock a treatment of Epsom salts at
the rate of one pound to each 100
fowls. Give it in the drinking wa-
ter. Then give the affected fowls
a good tonic. If you have nothing
better at hand you might give ten
drops of nux vomica in a pint of
drinking water. Change your ration
to the following: For scratch feed
use one part of wheat, oats and two
parts of cracked corn, fed in deep
litter to induce exercise. For mash
use equal parts of bran, shorts, corn
meal and meat scraps. All to be by
weight. Charcoal does much towards
keeping the digestion in good shape
and we suggest that you provide it
in hoppers.

Roofing or Shingles.

I am about to build a new poultry house
and wish to know if roofing is as good as
shingles. E. R. M., Illinois.

Roofing is cheaper and usually
considered satisfactory. We have
found that roofing is better than
shingles on a flat roof but for a roof
with much pitch the composition
shingles are the best, if price is no
consideration.

Heating the Poultry House.

I live in the North where the winters get
mighty cold. It gets so blooming cold that
the hens go on a strike (which is quite popular
now days) and refuse to lay. Once in awhile
they freeze to death and I have been wondering
about heating the hen house and trying to
overcome all this trouble. AVhat do you say
about such a proposition?

E. K. L., North Dakota.

Any one who figures that he can
afford to heat a hen house at the
price of coal, must be a very rich
man indeed. We do not think you
can afford to do it. Try providing
more ventilation and deeper litter
We would give whole corn just be-
fore roosting time. We have had
letters from those who have it thirty
and forty below zero and they report
good results, without artificial heat.

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When to Cull.

We hear a lot about culling: but so far I
have never heard anyone say just what time
of the year was the be6t time to cull the
flock. Will you tell us and other readers
what you think Is the best time to cull?

F. G. H., Wisconsin.

The best time to cull is when you
see a fowl which should be taken
from the flock. It matters but lit-
tle what time of the year it may be,
the main thing is to get rid of the
fowl the moment you notice that it
is a cull. Usually farm flocks are
culled in the fall, after the young
stock has matured but we favor sell-
ing all surplus birds after the breed-
ing season is over and then to cull
the flock of youngsters in the fall.
The main thing is to cull and cull

hard.

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I seen the Water Fountain is

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to know if it is alright. Will it keep the
water from freezing? A. D., Iowa.

It will keep the water warm and
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would prove a good investment for
you. It is wonderful how such a
fountain will increase the egg yield.
Warm water is quite essential in win-
ter and such a fountain provides it
with no danger as it does not have
a lamp. We have experimented with
this idea in a fountain and never had
any trouble in zero weather and that
is a good test.

I have been trying to buy a cockerel and
thought that $15 ought to buy a good one.
What do you think about it? Can you tell
me where I can buy a good Rhode Island Red
bird? T. J. H., Missouri.

Wants a Cockerel

You should get a good breeding
bird for $15. You will not get a
show specimen but just a good av-
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addresses through these columns.
Send a stamp and I will give you
names of breeders.

Ready Built Hen House.

What is your idea of the ready built hen
houses that we see advertised? Are they
really good buildings?

U. K. L., Kentucky.

There are good and bad ready
built hen houses just the same as
is the case with every article on the
market. If you buy from a reliable
concern you will get a good house
but be sure thai it is of a size and
so arranged to meet your needs.
Many of the houses on the market
are not well adapted to general
needs. We may see more of these
houses in use as time passes owing
to the extremely high prices which
the lumber concerns are getting for
their materials. It would almost
seem as if the Government should
take steps to regulate the price of
such a basic material as lumber and
if the prices remain high we may see
just such an event.

What Is Peat Litter

Will you tell us what peat litter Is and
whether It is any good?

E. R. C, Wisconsin.

Peat litter is peat. That is the
sum and size of the matter. It is
said to be very useful but most poul-
trymen have found it cheaper to use
good, clean straw. Peat is said to
absorb much moisture and odors and
proves useful in that way but we
trust that the price will soon be down
to a place where the matter may be
given a general trial by the poultry
fraternity.

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It is seldom that one is bothered
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Light, sandy soil is preferable to
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Intensive Poultry Keeping

By F. Raymond Benson
(Continued from last issue)

Each year we receive dozens of
letters asking if intensive poultry
keeping really pays. The best proof
that we can give is some actual ex-
periences and we have decided to
quote from a few letters of readers
of POULTRY KEEPER and you can
judge for yourself whether there is
anything to the poultry business. Mr.
O. C. Shalley, of Pennsylvania will
be the first witness. Let us hear his
testimony. Mr. Shalley has a coop
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feet and 7 feet in front. He has no
run at all and if this is not intensive
we never saw such. Beginning with
November 1st he kept a record of 13
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"These pullets laid 2406 eggs from
November 1st 1919 to October 31,
1920. These pullets consumed feed
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year and you will agree that feed
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settings for which I received $12 and
$115.92 for the market eggs. My
receipts for the year were $143.92
and expenses $76.52 leaving a gain
of $67.40 or a profit of $5.18 per
hen. Of course the cost of the fowls
should be considered and they cost
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they laid 204 6 eggs which brought
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$30.23. I sold them for about what
they cost me so the profit is net."
Who says that a few hens will not
pay? These men have proven they
will return profits. The next wit-
ness will be from Chicago and any-
one who has been to the Windy City
knows what this man is up against
for room and feed. Here is what
Mr. R. E. Matson of Chicago has to
say: "I will give my first year's ex-
perience from my back yard flock
that has a run 20x10. From Jan.
1st, 1921 to Sept. 16th, 1921 I re-
ceived from six pullets 85 V 2 dozen
eggs. Then I bought six more hens
making a total of 12 hens and from
September 17th to December 31st,
1921 I received 17% dozen eggs,
making a total of 103 dozen for the
year. My 12 hens and one rooster
cost me $23.42 and the feed was
$33.13 making a total outlay of
$56.55. I sold eggs to the amount
of $61.80, sold pullets for $31.68.
My total income was $93.48 and
when you deduct the cost I still have
$36.93 profit." This is a profit of
a trifle more than $3 per hen and
we would like to know where you
can invest money which will do bet-
ter. We hope Mr. Matson will favor
us with a report again next year. A
few months ago a reader of POUL-
TRY KEEPER wrote to the writer
for advice using the Question and
Answer Department. We found him
to be a kindly gentleman and asked
him to give us a report of his flock
for a month or two and he has done
so. This man was Mr. L. H. Grason
of Illinois. "Received your reply to
my letter and thank you very much
for the information contained there-
in. As per my promise I will give
an extract from the records of my
chickens for the months of March
and April. For March I received
102 5 eggs from 4 8 hens. Sold at
25c per dozen and received $21.35
My feed cost $8.55 leaving a profit
of $12.70 or approximately 27c per
bird. For April I received 1023 eggs
from 4 6 hens which brought me
$21.25. My feed bill was $10.80
but I still have enough feed for a
week or so. My profit for this
month was $10.40. I feel rather
good that you think my record war-
rants recognition." This makes a
profit for the two months of $23.10.
If Mr. Grason could keep up this
record for the balance of the year
it would net him about $138.60 for
the year. But owing to the fact that
the lean months are to come he can
hardly expect to meet that amount.
However he is keeping his flock at
a good profit and is getting a lot of
fun out of it on the side. As we
were writing this article M. R. M.
Weston of Minnesota sent us his re-
port and it is good enough that we
are going to put it in right here. We
take it that this is Mr. Weston's
first year. He had ten hens to start
1921 with and here is what he did:
"The hens laid a total of 1971 eggs
during the year. Eggs averaged
41 1-3 cents per dozen and feed was
high. The eggs brought me $67.38
and deducting the feed bill of $16.75
I have a net profit of $50.63.
Scratch feed in morning, mash all
the time, potato pealings and bran.
Charcoal, oyster shell and grit before
fowls at all times. Only a small

THE POULTRY KEEPER

Page Number 17

yard and coop. Coop -white-washed
inside and roosts painted with creo-
sote." This is certainly an excellent
report and still some sour-livered
pessimist will tell you that poultry
doesn't pay. Poultry does pay and
the above testimonials from honest
readers of POULTRY KEEPER like
all of us tell us in plain figures what
it pays in dollars and cents.

Many start intensive poultry keep-
ing with a small poultry house as
did Mr. Shalley. Gradually it can
be enlarged as the flock is increased.
This plan involves less expense to
start with and allows the poultry to
build its own house, so to speak.
There is a great opportunity for the
intensive poultry farmer. The busi-
ness will pay but it is necessary to
have a small plot of ground, to know
something about the business and
to have a willingness to apply your-
self. You may make more money
than these gentlemen, perhaps it
will be less but the main point is
that it will pay you a profit and you
can gradually let it grow under your
fingers and in time it - will develop
into a mighty good side line, one
which will take you out of doors in-
to the air and sunshine and pay you
well in the end.

THE BEST POULTRY NESTS

When first in the poultry business
we thought that nests made of scrap
lumber or small boxes were satis-
factory. Now we believe that the
nests should be of smooth matched
lumber with as few cracks and crev-
ices as possible. They must never be
nailed to the sides of the wall or
beneath the dropping boards, but
built in portable sections, so they
can be easily carried from the house
for sunning and spraying.

When we used open nests in some
of the houses the birds were con-
stantly roosting on them or bother-
ing the hens while they were laying.
After several eggs had been laid in
a nest another hen might decide to
scratch around in the litter in the
nest. This resulted in broken eggs
and then it was only a short step to
the egg eating habit.

The best nests are built with a
small track at the rear where the
hens can enter. The eggs are re-
moved by lowering a hinged door in
front. These nests are slightly
darkened and the hens hardly see
the eggs that are laid. There is not
much scratching in the litter in a
darkened nest. If a soft shelled egg
is laid and broken the danger of the
hen eating it is reduced.

The egg eating habit probably
causes as much loss and discourage-
ment as any habit or disease which
troubles poultry keepers. The rem-
edy is largely in prevention and this
consists in building the right kind
of nests. — R. G. K., Ind.

THE WTAKD 0TTE3
By J. H. Drevenstedt

The standard qualities of all varieties of Wy-
andottes are fully described and complete In-
formation given on how to mate and breed, how
to exhibit and judge them. Thousands of dol-
lars were spent in research work, copy making,
oil paintings, etc. No matter what variety of
Wyandottes you breed you will find in this book
Just the information yon need to bring success.

Attractively illustrated, three color plates,
160 pages, 9 by 13 Inches. Price $1.00, post-
paid. Address Poultry Keeper, Qulncy, Illinois.

Start

-Your ..
Pulbts and
Moulted Hens
to Laying

You have had your summer's poultry-
cares.

Now is the time for you to cash in on
eggs.

Go after those dormant egg organs
that moulting threw out of gear.
Go after them with the "Old Reliable"

Dr. Hess Poultry

PAN-A-CE-A

Pan-a-ce-a puts the egg organs to work.

It starts the feed the egg way.

Feed Pan-a-ce-a — then you will see red
combs and red wattles.

It brings back the song and scratch and
cackle.

It gives hens pep.

It makes music in your poultry yard,
That's when the eggs come.

Tell your dealer how many hens you have.

There's a right-size package for every flock.

100 hens, the 12-lb. pkg. 200 hens, the 25-lb. pail
60 hens, the 5-lb. pkg. 500 hens, the 100-lb. drum
For fewer hens, there is a smaller package.

GUARANTEED

DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, O.

Dr.Hess Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice

/ spent SO
years in perfect*
ing Pan-a-ce-a.
Gilbert Hess
MJ>., D.V.S,

Lady Puritas

Lady LayehT

Laid 326 Efe&s

PURITAS SPRINGS
S. C. W. LEGHORNS

The World's Greatest Layers

Trapreested for over 10 years without missing
one day. Every nest on. the farm is a trap-
nest. We trapnest every day of every year.

Reduced Prices Extended Until Not. 30
START RIGHT— IT MEANS "SUCCESS''

If you are going to buy stock, get the best — then you can keep on going ahead. You can
hatch a good many clucks next season from a small flock of heavy layers. See that your
foundation stock is of the best and the offspring will be likewise. 'We have a grand lot of
early hatched pedigreed Cockerels and Beady- to-Lay Pullets; they are beautiful birds and bred
from heavy winter layers; also pedigreed hens. Alsu a fine lot of cockerels, Hens and Ready -
to-Lay Pullets not individually pedigreed. WiU be glad to send you our instructive catalog
and reduced price list. You will succeed with Puritas Springs stock.

Puritas Springs Poultry Farm, Box Pill, Avon Lake, Ohio SUR&'i"*

Page Number 18

THE POULTRY KEEPER

$g*52 per HEN

— Official
NET PROFIT!

This is the exact record of
the Ferris Pen at New Jersey
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profits with the White Leg-
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at such National Egg Contests
as Illinois, Ark., Neb., Calif., Texas, Conn., Mich.,
etc. Get the benefit of 22 years breeding for eggs.

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LAYING HENS

Thousands of
yearling hens from
our choicest matings
can now be spared
at lowest prices in years.

MATURE

COCKERELS

Get your breeding
cockerels now. You
can save nearly half
and get first choice
of thousands of our fin-
est pedigreed cockerels.

JUNE PULLETS

Will lay in Nov. or
Dec. and pay for
themselves before
spring. Our fall sale
means a saving of
40 per cent to you.
Write for prices.

EE GET THIS CATALOG

A Post Card brings it—
FREE. Get our special
low prices. Increase
your income. Make
sure of a big winter
egg-yield. Write today.

GEO. 8. FERRIS

909 Union Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich.

LAYING PULLETS

Make sure of a big
winter egg-yield.
Bargain prices on
thousands of the fin-
est ever raised.

YEARLING MALES

Now selling the
males that have
headed our best
pens. Astonishing
bargains on males
that were not for sale at
any price last spring.

EGGS and CHICKS

Big discounts on
orders placed now
for shipment next
spring. We can also
ship tall eggs and
chicks from our
southern farm.

ILLINOIS STATE SHOW

QUIXCY SHOW

The 29th Annual State Show will
be held in the brand new Armory
at Danville, Illinois, on January 3
to 7th, 1923. We believe it will
offer more to the Poultry Breeder
than any Show in Illinois. The list
of prize cups will be large, and the
Governor's Cup donated by Governor
Small, one of the first presidents of
our State Association, will be the
most beautiful cup given away in
many a day. It will be given for
Best Display of the Show, all vari-
eties competing and points to count.
To compete for this fine prize, 10
birds must be entered, one cock, one
hen, one cockerel, one pullet and
one pen. We will also give a 2 6
Piece Set of Community Silver in a
Mahogany Chest for Best Display in
every variety that shows fifty speci-
mens, birds in pen classes counting
as two birds. We will charge no ad-
mittance at the door, and will dis-
tribute free, Official and Marked
Catalogues. The Cornish, Buff, Or-
pington, Ancona, Brown Leghorn,
and the Rhode Island Red Club will
have their State Meets there, and
more clubs are figuring on meeting
with us. The judges so far engaged
are D. E. Hale, O. L. McCord, George
A. Heyl, D. T. Heimlich, Jerome Le-
land, W. G. Warnock and P. W.
Ballard and more will be engaged if
entries justify it. Catalogue will be
ready by December first, write us at
Quincy for same.

A. D. SMITH, Sec'y.

You Can Get More Eggs

iilOver 90%
of the Egg Is
WATER

Little Putnam Stove keeps water unfrozen— not hot.

Give your fowls all the pure un-
chilled water they can drink, and
watch them shell out the eggs.
One of my Little Putnam Stoves

will keep enough water unfrozen to supply
30 or 40 fowls, even in the coldest weather.
This Stove holds 3 pints of oil — requires no
attention except a monthly filling, due to
my patented burner. It's fireproof and
non-explosive — can be operated anywhere.
You canrunitallwinteratacostof from 20
to 30 cents. You'll get enough more eggs
the first month to pay for it.

Little PUTNAM Stove

^ 0 0 can a ^ s0 ^ e use d as a heating unit for an easy-to-

* make and easy-to-operate Oat Sprouter. Full

P # - directions for making the Sprouter are packed
O S 1 13 ci 1 Cl w 'th every Little Putnam Stove, or I will mail
a set free and promptly if you will request it,
and send your dealer's name.

GUARANTEE— I guarantee the Little Putnam Stove to give
satisfaction, or it may be returned in ten days

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