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PUBLISHER'S .V >TICES 



PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



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'Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we'll do 

 more, Sempronius, we'll DESERVE IT. — Addison: (lato. 



Chickens for the Suburbanite. 



Everybody likes chickens and every 

 magazine devoted to suburbs and 

 country advocates the keeping of af. 

 leasl a few. All these periodicals us- 

 ually tell of the old hen's joys or of the 

 advantages of wholesale hatching in a 

 mi idem incubator. 



I firmly believe that the old hen is 

 too fussy and takes too long a time. 

 The incubator is far too expensive, oc- 

 cupies too much room, and demands 

 too much care to make it advantageous 

 for one who wishes to keep not more 

 than a hundred or a hundred and fifty 

 thickens. This is the day of modern 

 invention, progress and specialization. 

 The hen is too old-fashioned. The use 

 of the incubator belongs to the special- 

 ist. It is a tool that in its use requires 

 skill. The best incubator is the express- 

 man ; he requires little time and little 

 attention other than to sign his book 



and accept his package. Begin the 

 chicken business at the interesting 



point. There is plenty of detail in car- 

 ing for the little chickens in the 

 brooder. For several days they may 

 be kept in a large drygoods box cov- 

 ered with some convenient arrange- 

 ment of cloth, whereby the}' may be 

 kept warm and comfortable. You might 

 dispense with the brooder but it is better 

 to have one with a wire covered run. 

 and it preferably should be kept in- 

 doors. Keep the bottom of the 

 brooder covered with a shallow layer 

 of alfalfa, and you will have no end of 

 joy in watching the fluffy little pets. I 

 have heard of a small boy who, upon 

 receiving his first live pet, exclaimed, 

 in joy that he now had something bet- 

 ter than wooden toys, "At last, I am 

 the parent of a living creature." One 

 feels, in caring for chickens which 

 have been hatched out under the hen, 



"THE BEST INCUBATOR IS THE EXPRESSMAN." 

 "Sign his book and accept his package." 



