1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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covered recently that will thrive in that 

 State. Have any of the Florida friends 

 succeeded in growing eucalyptus ? Florida, 

 like other places, will \ ery soon need to be 

 thinking of growing trees for lumber, fuel, 

 etc. 



POULTRY SECRETS, ETC". 



One of the saddest things about the "se- 

 cret" business is that even women have 

 been tempted to go into it. I have several 

 times written up the Missouri woman who 

 sells a secret for picking out the fertile eggs 

 before they go into the incubator, etc. — ^the 

 woman who gets a dollar for the secret and 

 then insists on 50 cents more for a very poor 

 common 10-ct. egg-tester. Well, this other 

 woman also hails from Missouri. Below are 

 some clippings from one of her advertise- 

 ments: 



MRS. LITHA ALLEY'S NEW POITLTKY METHOD; HOW 



TO MAKE ONE HUNDRED HENS LAY EIGHTY 



EGG.S A day: I WILL TELL YOU. 



My method has beeu obtained and perfected Iroiii 

 my long study and experience with chickens, and I 

 believe tliat I have at last discovered the true secret 

 of successful poultry-raising. There is one thing 

 sure, 1 certainly know how to make hens lay from 

 10 to 50 times as many eggs in winter. You can't 

 keep them from it when my method Is followed. I 

 have the proof In eggs. Half of my chickens have 

 laid every day during the worst weather we have 

 had this winter, and it has been so cold that the eggs 

 would freeze and burst before I gathered them up 

 every evening. Your hens will do the same for you 

 if you follow my method. 



OFFER NO. 1. 



This Is my first and original grand oflfer of my new 

 poultry method, " Mow to Make Hens Lay More 

 Eggs, Winter and Summer." 1 will send my poultry 

 method free, wfth the necessary amount of food in- 

 gredients, with full directions, postpaid for S2.00. 

 OFFER NO. 2. 



1 will send all ingredients necessary, my methods 

 with full instructions and directions, for one-half of 

 the eggs produced while you are using the food In- 

 gredients I send. 



OFFER NO. 3. 

 In this oflfer I send my new poultry method, al- 

 ready described, with my recipe Instead of the In- 

 gredients, all complete, just as described, postpaid, 

 for only $1.00. It is all yours then for life. I am will- 

 ing to accept orders on this oflfer. 1 do not advise 

 it; however, be sure to take some one of them. I 

 want every woman in the United States to have the 

 benefit of my discovery and poultry method. My 

 reason for not advising the acceptance of offer No. 

 3 is that some ijeople may not be able to secure all 

 seven of the different ingredients my recipe calls 

 for, or the druggist may substitute something else, 

 thinking it would make no difference fn a chicken 

 remedy, and thereby bad results may be produced. 



THE WAY' TO MAKE CHICKENS FAY— SEND FOR MY 

 NEW METHOD TO-DAY. 



There are only two things necessary to make eve- 

 ry hen you have lay every day, and that is my meth- 

 od, and — the hens. Mrs. Litha Alley, 



New Madrid, Mo. 



Please notice offer No. 2. Out of the kind- 

 ness of her heart she sends you full instruc- 

 tions for half the eggs the hens lay while 

 they have this wonderful food. There is 

 nothing said about keeping account of how 

 many eggs are laid before the experiment. 

 Whether they will lay any more eggs or just 

 the same, you are to give her half. While 

 reading it I began to wonder how she was to 

 get her half — probably by "parcels post " or 

 some such way. Well, here is the wonderful 

 secret. If it is worth a dollar apiece to all 



of our ;!5,000 subscribers, just think what a 

 fof of good our poultry dejjartment is doing. 



lielow is given my short method, " How to make 

 hens lay more eggs." While It is a brief method it 

 embraces the main or principal features contained 

 ill my complete method, which I have developed 

 and perfected from my eighteen years of study, ob- 

 servation, and experience with chickens, and for 

 producing bushels of eggs and frying-sized chickens 

 for market. 



My short method to make hens lay more eggs this 

 winter, which contains all information that is nec- 

 essary at present and will meet the needs fully at 

 this time is as follows: 



Take of pulverized copperas. fi ounces: 



'[ capsicum, 5 



gentian, 5 



fenugreek, 11 

 ginger, 6 



Venetian red, 10 

 willow charcoal. 5 " 

 Add 2 lbs. of ground shells if obtainable. Mix all 

 together, and then add the other ingredients as di- 

 rected below. 



Mix the above with 11 pounds of wheat bran and 

 8 pounds of linseed meal. If you can not get linseed 

 meal you can use cotton-.seed meal or ground alfal- 

 fa Instead. The linseed is best if you can possibly 

 get it, of course. If none of them can be obtained 

 you can use all-wheat bran. It is not so good, how- 

 ever. 



FOR FEEDING. 



Give to each 24 hens about one quart or more once 

 per day in a shallow box. Keep it before them all 

 the time they will eat it. whenever they like. When 

 cliickens refuse to eat it altogether, stop their regu- 

 lar feed for a day or so and they will then eat It. 



By the way, the recipe is written on a 

 typewriter. It is not only poor writing for 

 a typewriter, but poor si)elling, and some of 

 the letters we had to guess at. Now, then, 

 friends, do you believe it is really true that 

 she spent eighteen years in deciding just 

 what stuff to get at tlie drugstore, and to de- 

 termine that 5 oz. of one, 6 oz. of another, 

 11 oz. of a third, etc., was just the very best 

 proportion? In real scientific work, tor in- 

 stance at our experiment stations, they do 

 actually make exhaustive and expensive 

 tests to determine not only the ingredients 

 needed, but about the proper amount requir- 

 etl of each. Now, fhia is real science and 

 sound common sense; but the stuff some con- 

 coct to make hens lay, to cure poultry dis- 

 eases, and, in fact, to cure human beings, 

 is certainly a lot of arrant nonsense and 

 humbug. As an illustration, I went into a 

 drugstore and told the drug man I wanted 

 something to kill sticktight tleas. He pour- 

 ed something out of ever so many bottles. 

 I thought once he was going to make a mix- 

 ture of every thing he had in the store. He 

 handed it back, saying, "There, that will 

 knock, them out, sure." Price '25 cents. 

 But his compounded stuff did not do as 

 much good as common kerosene right out 

 of the can; and we afterward decided that 

 plain sal-soda alone, that costs only o cts. 

 per lb., is better than any of the advertised 

 nostrums. Let us now go back to the sub- 

 ject of "making hens lay." 



Possibly the above mixture tviU have some 

 influence on their laying, but I doubt it. 

 Along with the secret come certain directions 

 about giving the fowls food and water, san- 

 itary housing, etc., that would of itself, with- 

 out any drugs, probably increase the egg- 

 yield; and last, but by no means least, if I 



