Poultry Culture from Topeka, Kansas • 13

POULTRY CULTURE EXPERIENCES Br igS? AND judge's sake, don't use bands like thill A 11)729. If you do don't wonder why the other fellow bird won. I'm' the smaller numbers if possible and have them plain. I do not know whether this is proper or not, but I put I he hand on wit the top of the figures towards the hen's foot so that she. and not 1, will have to stand on her head when I want to see her band number.

Ilaltie Weld-Andrews. SERVATIONS PJB By Mrs. lalitk Weld-Andrews Sunnyridge Poultry Farm J. W. VAN WYE, Manager Ekkh for hatching.

White Wyandottes, R. I. Roda, ,8. C. White Leghorn, P-kln DucKh.

Have been wlnnem wherever Hhown. Promptness in filling orders. Write for prices. Mention Poultry Culture. R.R.

No. 3 Kansas City, Missouri S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS 1st pullet Madison Square Gurden, 1908-00. Stock hatchcu from same pen as 1st pullet for sale.

Eggs from exhibition stock, $20 per setting. M. B. RICHARDSON, LIME ROCK. CONN.

for one pen inside right inside left for another pen you can mark all birds you raise each year and tell which pen they are from. Or if both you and your neighbor raise the same variety of turkeys just punch yours. Some of the holes will get torn out but the web will always show the mark. Leg-Bands. Now in keeping parentage record, if you keep the same male two years and want to use the same mark for his chicks the second year, why, just put leg bands on the last year chicks, and you are all right.

Now you will have to do a little bookkeeping. I keep mine like this: When I pick up that hen and see her band number 1 turn to my book and can tell her parentage on both sides and her age at a glance. I really like the sealed leg band best, (hough they cost a little more, for. they are like marriage rings should be, "on for life." My second choice is the "double clinch." These seldom lose off if they are well put on, and if you want to market any of the chickens the bands can be removed (and the record destroyed) and band used again. Some buy a different make of band each year and save the trouble of dates each year in their records but I am so "set" that onlv one style of bands will do.

If you are going to exhibit, for the TABBING THE FLOCK. Th our grandmother's time liens liad a happier time than now. 'They lived to see their children and their 'children's children even to the third and fourth generation. A lien's age was reckoned bv the length pf her spur. If the spur was less than half an inch lorig the hen was young, too young to market, and kept as a layer.

It has been but a few years, comparatively speaking, since some genius invented a method by which the age of each hen oould be told, and not only her age but her parent-age as well. And this new iriventici filled another long-felt want. All can remember if in the fall there was a particular fine flock of turkeys roaming over the neighborhood, what a surprising number of people had hatched and therefore owned that flock; aril then this neighbor sided with that one and another with another until well there were hot times. Hut our inventor came into the world. I know of history that mentions his name; I know of no society donating him thousands and a peacemaker medal.

Rut he was great in mind and left posterity a legacy the leg-band and the toe-punch. We will discuss the last first, according to scripture. The first question asked in this commercial age is, "price." These punches or markers cost from 25 cents Sire Dam 1008 Rand No. 54 WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 30 larpe cockerels for sale. My birds are all line bred for eggs and fancy points.

At the Newton show, Dec. 6th to ltth, 1909, received 1st and 2nd premiums on hen, 1st and 2nd pullet, 1st cockerel, 1st pen. Also have some fine Pekin Drakes for sale. The old Drake scored 98 points. If you want cockerels or Drakes that are fine and well bred, write me.

Whitewater, Kansas J. T. WELCH, FORD'S MASTER STRAIN OF BUFF WYANDOTTES Wo First Cook for Three Yearn at Nebraskn State Fair. Also, won first and second Cock, first and third Hen at late show last September. Heavy winners at State and Central Nebraska Shows.

A few fine exhibition Cockerels and Hens for sale. Eggs in season, $4.00 straight. One Black Cochin Bantam Cock and 5 Hens, good birds, $15; score cards with birds. N. DWIGHT FORD, Box 9, Annlcy, Neb.

State Vice President American Buff Wyandotte Club. QUICK SALE OFFER ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS 40 females, only $1 each; 40 female, only $2 each; 20 females, only $3 each; 20 cockerels, only $1 each; 20 cockerels, $2.50 to $10 each. Here is your chance to get into the Reds winnings for only a few dollars. These prices are good for a few days only. N.

P. TODD, Rinehart, Missouri 10 ou cenis and win last a lite time. It you are jnsl keeping a farm flock and just want to keep track of the age of your hens so as to be sure you are selling, the oldest each year begin this year and punch a hole web of right foot between outside toe and middle toe. Next year punch same foot between middle toe and inside toe. The year after take the left foot.

It will give you mark places for two more years, and no one wants to keep a hen over four years unless she be a valuable breeder. The best time to do the marking is wiien the chicks are 3 to 5 days old. Punch web (as they used to do our ears when they were punched) and press the punch through with, a quick firm pressure so as to cut the hole all round. If the flesh hangs, cut it off and fill the hole with vaseline. This prevents soreness and lessens danger of hole growing up.

I try to do the punching in the evening, thinking it won't hurt them so badly while they sleep. Or if you wish to line breed, your birds must be toe marked. Although there are only two webs in each foot yet by combining as right foot and outside left foot" Make Your Hens Lay More Eggs trial I have perfected a method and poultry tonic that simply makes hens lay the whole year, as in spring, at a cost of only 3 cents per 50 hens. A trial will convince you. "Write for it.

Enclose stamp. N. L- WEBB, Lamasco, Texas Illustrating How to Mark Chicks A small hole is punched in the web between different toes. Fifteen "marks" can thus be used. Colorado's Famous Climate produces the Grandest BUFF Birds in the world.

Some yearling breeders to sell. Young stock to win at the fairs for sale in August. Correspondence solicited J. R. WALTZ SON, 941 Olive "Montclair" Denver, Colorado Buff Orpingtons 1 DROP OF PREVENTION WORTH 1 QUART OF CURE P)0 not wait till your fowls have a cold or go moping and sneezing about, or until you can hear them rattle at the throat at night, or they swell up about the face and eyes and can hardly breathe.

In short, don't wait till they start to contract Roup, but act today. December is a Roupy Month. One of the worst months in the year for Roup and Cholera is December and early January. "Vermicide" is put up in tablet form and we send it post paid in small paste board boxes. A trial box for 50c.

This is plenty to last you all winter. Place a small tablet in the drinking water, it will kill all germs and we guarantee it to cure the worst cases of Roup or Cholera. If it fails, we will gladly refund your money. Follow directions is all we MITES ask. Has been used by the larger breeders for over twelve in your poultry house is not only inhuman bul is a money losing proposition for you years.

rlaced in the drinking water tor your laying 11 1' .1 Ml I 1 1 and breeding siock win help prevent White VERMINOLE chick: anc diarrhoea in little young turkeys. "The Great Insecticide" 50cts. TRIAL BOX 50cts. I cut this from Poultry Culture. According to your ad you are to send me post paid a box of "Vermicide," your Roup and Cholera Cure It is understood that these tablets placed in di inking water will make barrel of prevention or 6 gallons of cure.

"Keep has been the standard mite and lice killer used by poultry men all over the United States for over twelve years. It is a liquid lice killer. It can be used by sponging the roosts and houses, painting the nests, etc. It can also be used in connection with any patent roost. One application of Verminole lice killing paint placed on the roosts and in the nest boxes once a month will keep the fowls free from lice and mites.

G. H. Smith of Ruskin, writes, 'We cannot get along without T. H. Roach of Black well.

Old writes, "We have used it three years and know there is nothing better." Verminole is put up in one, two and three quart cans. If your dealer does not handle it write us direct. We will thank you to mention Poultry Culture. FAIRMONT REMEDY CO. Box 2 Fairmont, Nebraska the breeding stock and houses free Name of lice and healthy chicks can be hatched." Add ress.