February, 191 1. 



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"Keep chickens," 



says the FARM JOURNAL, 



and live better 

 at less cost. 



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THOUSANDS of families, in city and country, have found this 

 the easy way to niPROVE their standard of hving, and at the same time 



LOWER THE COST. With chickcns you always have delicious food, for the family or for 

 ■'company." Their eggs supply you with ready money or ready food. They are pets that 

 J>tn' their board. By keeping chickens, boys and girls can earn money, and also get an excel- 

 lent training. .Sometimes the back-yard plant grows into a large business, like those of 

 CuRTiss, and Foster, who make many thousands of dollars a year. 



Raising chickens pays if you know how, whether you keep a dozen hens, or run a large 

 poultry-farm; but you need the best guides. Many get from their chickens less than half 

 as much as they might get with the guidance of any of these three splendid modern poultry- 

 books, which tell the experience and methods of the most successful modern poultry-raisers. 



These methods have all been tested by actual experience and proved successful. The F.\rm Journal 

 stands back of them, for it has investigated them and know s. They can be used with six hens or six 

 thousand. Many are using- these methods with splendid success and profit. 



The Million Egg Farm l^ 



lie great guitle-book for iiack-yard chicken-raisers. It tells 

 jw J. M. Foster is running an egg farm in the heart of the 

 New Jersey pine belt that brought his concern a profit of a little more than $19,000 last year. This was 

 made from sales of commercial eggs, some stock, and dayold chicks. Foster has nearly 20,000 laving hens now, and will 

 market this year between 2.000.000 and 3.000,000 eggs. 



Anyone who "raises eggs," either for market or the home table, should of course know all about the system used in 

 this huge business. "The Million Egg Farm" gives the whole story: How the stock is raised, how the hens are fed, all 

 about the "Rancocas Unit" (which is one of the most interesting features to owners of a few chickens), how Foster started 

 and the mistakes he made, how novices should start, and what to avoid. \ really wonderful story of success. 



Gurtiss Poultry Book 



Iclls iiow Roy L'urtiss, a farmer's boy, starting" with a few 



neglected hens, has built up at Niagara Farm one of the bost-paying' 



poultry plants in tlio world. Roy agreed that if his father would furnish the feed, he (Roy) would supply eggs and 



chickens for the farm tahU\ ami all left over were to belong to him. In two years Roy was using so much feed that his father had to cry quits, but the 

 hoy kept nt'ht on. His In-other joined him. and the business Krcw and grew. But they had no guidance, and ind to learn by their own mistakes. Such 

 a guide as the Cnrti-^s Poultry liook would have saved them thousands of dollars. This capital book was written right at Niagara Farm by the 

 veteran poiiltryman. Miflif^el K. IJoyer. He says he never saw a general poultry plant o well managed. Kvery day shipments go off. every day 

 money comes in. Their percentage of fertile eggs, of live, strong chickens hatched, of day-oid chicks shipped without loss, is really wonderful. This 

 book gives all their methods and feed formulas, tested and improved by years of experience. ^lany pictures. Whether you raise chickens, ducks, or 

 egirs. have a do7:cn f"-.\ !s or thous.inds, you will find in tliis book help that you can get in no other way. 



'Toultry Secrets" i! 



IS a remarkable collection of successful wrinkles" in poultry-raising^, 

 secured and edited by Michael K. Bovf.r (known to poultrymcn as "Uncle Mike"). 

 Many of these were treasured secrets of famous poultrymen, guarded with jealous care because of their great value. We 

 paid hundrcrls of dollars for them. This is the eleventh edition, and thousands arc iisinc these methods with ercrit infitn. 



\V. R. Curtiss tells his successful method of hatchine 50 iifr cent, more pullets than cockerels; the Philo -ystem is described and explained: 

 the "LS-ccnts-a-buvhel" and "8-cents-a-bushel" green feed secrets; secrets of the -AnKeli, Palmer, and Ilocan .Systems; Uoyer's method of absolutely 

 insuring fertility of eees for hatching; Townscnd's system for preventing death of chicks in the shell; l*"elch*s famous mating chart, suppressed for 

 many years; feeding an.l fattenitig secrets; and many other priceless sec rets, arc here disclosed for the first time. 



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 tln^ I''arm .fournal for three 

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lie surr In say plainly which book or books you want. 



Pnfrn T^lllt*nill '* ^''^ standard paper for everyone who grows or wants to g-row fruit, ves^^eta- 

 i a.V in sjyJVXV liai f^,p^_ poultry, or stock of any kind. It is 33 years old, and has over 800,000 

 subscribers, in all parts of the country. "Judge Riggle" and "Peter Tumbledown" are characters far 

 better known to many than Hamlet or Micawher. It has a fine poultry department, more valuable than 

 most poultry papers. It is a favorite paper with housekeepers. Clean, clever, cheerful, amusing, intensely 

 practical. Cut to fit everybody, young or old, village, suburbs, or rural routes. Unlike any other paper 

 and always has been. 



FARM JOURNAL. 101 Clifton Street, Philadelphia. 



