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(CLEANINGS IN BEE CULIUKR 



Sept. 15 



THE BEST POULTRY-BOOK AND POULTRY-JOURNAL. 



While I am on this subject, the following 

 comes to hand: 



The A. I. Root Co. — What is the best book on poultry-raising? 

 and which is the best poultry-journal f Ask A. L Root how he 

 keeps the red mites out of nis hen-house. 



Walton, N. Y. H. C. McKenzib. 



Friend M., although 1 have a small library of 

 poultry-books, and nearly all the poultry-journals 

 coming every day, I can not answer your ques- 

 tion definitely. There is no book that I know 

 of, or poultry-journal either, that makes it a bus- 

 iness of exposing the frauds that are advertised in 

 almost every poultry-journal published. I am 

 pained and shamed to say this. Our agricultu- 

 ral periodicals in their poultry departments are 

 telling people what to buy and what not to buy; 

 but the poultry-journals, almost without excep- 

 tion, advertise every thing, and in their reading- 

 notices recommend every thing that their adver- 

 tisers offer. If I am doing some journal wrong, 

 will some good friend set me right.? 



In regard to red mites, they have not been on 

 my fowls, and I have never seen any, either in 

 Florida or here in Ohio; but for fear they might 

 come I have just had my new scratching- house 

 painted inside and out with carbolineum; and 

 this was done before putting on the outside build- 

 ing-paper. I did this because both the Rural 

 Ne^w -Yorker and x\\e Country Gentletnari recomend- 

 ed it to keep vermin out of the house. Prexen- 

 tion is better than cure, you know. This sub- 

 stance is also a preservative of wood, and it is 

 doubtless worth all it costs, aside from keeping 

 out insects and rats and mice. Below is what 

 one of the friends says of it: 



I see one man asks how to keep mice and rats away from hop- 

 pers. Have them write to Carbolineum Wood-preserving Co., 

 349 West Broadway. New Y'ork, and get Bulletin 26. All they 

 have to do is to piint the hopper and the vermin will stay away. 

 It will kill hen-lice, and one painting will last for two or three 

 years. It is fine to keep away ants as wall as many other things. 



Chatham, N. Y., Sept. 7. P. L. Callendbr. 



STILL ONE MORE "WONDERFUL SECRET." 



We copy the following from the advertising 

 department of the Poultry Reijievj: 



MV DISCOVERY OF A PRINCIPLE REGARDING BROODING 

 CONDITIONS WILL ENABLE YOU 



1. To convert something which you ate now throwing away, 

 and getting absolutely no benefit from, into profit. 



How can you stop this waste if you don't know about it? 



2. Make a brooder, without any cash outlay, and with only 

 about one-half hour of your time. Isn't it worth investigating.' 



3. Produce results which can never be appioach«"d in the num- 

 ber and quality of chicks raised by any o;her method. 



Is this not very desirab e? 



4. Raise them with less heat, time, space, labor, feed, money, 

 and worry. Why not " get next " to thisf 



IT IS NEW, ECONOMICAL, LUCRATIVE, AND PRACTICAL. 

 WHAT IT IS NOT. 



It is not merely a slight variation from the principles used in 

 other brooders, nor is it a diflerent method of applying the same 

 principles used in other brooders. Neither is it a " fireless 

 brooder." 



WHAT IS IT.' 



It is a principle very simple yet wonderful in its results. This 

 principle is a radical departure from that employed in any other 

 brooder. It is a principle which was never before thought of or 

 used in brooder constraction. 



I am asking only 50 cents for this discovery, which is a very 

 small fraction of its actual value to you. In view of ihe above 

 facts, it is folly fo' you to be without this great boon to the poul- 

 try-raiser; in fact, BUSINESS economy demmds that you know 

 it. This is YOUR opportunity. Grasp it now. I have no 

 fixtures to sell. Address 



Stanley Smith, Bloomington, Indiana. 



Most of our readers probably know that I have 

 been wasting money and throwing it away for 



years back in trying to get something really val- 

 uable that has been advertised to be sold as a se- 

 cret. I commenced first by buying recipes for 

 making artificial honey, and then I got a mania, 

 as you may know, for investing in all kinds of 

 secrets, from 2^ cents up to $10 00; but so far as 

 I can recollect just now 1 have never yet succeed- 

 ed in getting any thing new and valuable; but 

 each new advertisement like the above, for in- 

 stance, inspires me with new hope. I am of a 

 hopeful disposition, you know; and, besides, I 

 am just now greatly interested in all sorts of 

 brooders. Please notice the above advertisement 

 says, " It is a principle never before thought of or 

 used in brooder construction." 



Here is what I got for my 50 cents — a very 

 pooily piinted pamphlet containing three pages, 

 and no illustrations whatever; and after reading 

 it many times over I could not construct such a 

 brooder as he tries to describe for the life of me. 

 His " discovery," when boiled down, amounts to 

 this: When you make a brooder to be heated by 

 a lamp, instead of carefully carrying off the fumes 

 from the kerosene-lamp just carry the fumes, heat 

 and all, right on the chickens. It not only will 

 not hurt them, but it will do them good. The 

 carbon dioxide, a product of combustion, is just 

 what the chickens need This is what Mr. Stan- 

 ley Smith has discovered — that is, he clahns it is 

 his discovery. But in the proceedings of the 

 Poultry Institute, of Ontario, Canada, held last 

 February, there is quite a chapter on this carbon- 

 dioxide business, and I quote from page 9 of the 

 bulletin as follows: 



Lamn-fumes were applied to one machine in this way: We 

 set two machines, side by side, and from the lamp of one we led 

 a tube right into the egg-chamber of the otner so that all the 

 fumes that were formed trom the first machine were passed into 

 the egg-chamber of the second machine, and we got a great deal 

 of carbon dioxide in that way. 



This bulletin tells us that they got better re- 

 sults when the fumes of the lamp are run directly 

 into the incubator. They were induced to try 

 this because they found that a sitting hen gives 

 off from her body a considerable quantity of car- 

 bon dioxide. On page 11 we quote again: 



A Member. — Is carbon dioxide that comes from the fumes of 

 a lamp the same as comes from the hen? 



Prof. Hakcourt. — There can be only one kind of pure car- 

 bon dioxide. It is all the same. 



Furthermore, home-made brooders have been 

 warmed by kerosene-lamps for yeais past, by hun- 

 dreds of people; and to my knowledge a good 

 many have warmed up the chicks by letting the 

 top of the lamp chimney go right in among them. 

 In fact, I sent 50 cents some time ago for direc- 

 tions for making a home-made brooder; but I 

 never made any use of it because I did not like 

 the idea of warming the chicks diirectly with the 

 products of combustion. Experiments in On- 

 tario, however, as well as those of Mr Smith, 

 would indicate that we need not take the precau- 

 tion to get rid of the fumes from the lamp, either 

 for an incubator or a brooder; but so far as I am 

 concerned I think I prefer the fireless brooder 

 without any lamp at all, especially in a warm 

 climate or at a season of the year when we are 

 not having cold weather. 



Gleanings is a very valuable paper in all respects. The 

 first I read of e'ery number is the Temperance matter, Our 

 Homes, and then about bees, honey, etc. God bless our old 

 friend Root. 



Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 8. E. O. Teffre. 



