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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



Poultry Secrets Disclosed 



This heaping bushel of 

 winter egg-prodacing 

 green feed cost n cts. 

 "Poultry Secrets" ex- 

 plains fully this secret 

 and many others. 



Every successful poultryman knows important 

 facts he never tells. They are peculiar secret meth- 

 ods and discoveries he has made in his work with 

 chickens. As a rule he guards these with extreme 

 care for they are the foundation of his success and a 

 valuable asset of his business. He is not to be 

 blamed for keeping them to himself. 



We Will Tell You These Secrets 



Which have cost poultrymen years of labor and thousands of 

 dollars. They will cost YOU only a trifle and a few minutes time 

 to write us. 



There is no man in the United States who has more friends 

 among poultrymen than Michael K. Boykr. A veteran chick- 

 en breeder himcelf, he knows the business from A to Z, and 

 through his wide acquaintance and friendship he has learned 

 many of their most jealously treasured secrets. This scattered 

 material he has collected in book form, and we are offering it 

 to the poultry raisers of America that they may share in the knowledge which 

 these successful men have acquired by long years of study and bitter experience 

 Every secret printed in this book has been obtained In an honorable way. either by 

 permission of the owner or through Mr. 

 Boyer's own experience. 



I. K. Fetch's Mating Secret 



One of the best-known fig-ures in the poul- 

 try world is I. K. Felch. Many years ago 

 Mr. Felch published his breeding chart, 

 but later, realizing its value, he withdrew 

 it and kept the information for himself. 

 He has now given Mr. Boyer permission 

 to use this information, and it is included 

 in this book. 



Secret of Fertile E^^s 



Boyer's secret of securing fertile eggs by 

 alternating males we believe is worth SlOO to 

 any big producer of setting eggs. It is some- 

 thing new, and the diagrammatic illustration 

 furnished by Mr. Boyer makes the matter so 

 plain that the novice can easily understand it- 

 The Secret of Feed at 15 Cents a 

 Bushel 



An enterprising poultryman has been ad- 

 vertising this secret for S5.00 and pledging 

 those who buy it not to disclose it to any one 

 else; it has, however, long been known to a 

 few poultrymen, Mr. Boyer among them, 

 and the method is fully explained in "Poultry 

 Secrets." 



Selecting the Laying Hens. 



Since the production of eggs is the very basis of the poultry industry, the ability to 

 tell the laying hens in the flock without the aid of trapnests will put dollars in your pocket. 

 Do not keep on feeding the robber hens. It is well known that some hens never lay an egg, 

 while others often not as good looking produce 



200 E^^s a Year. 



Of course we cannot go to the length of saying that all the information in the book is new 

 to every one. It is said there is nothing new under the sun, and the Egyptians were hatching 

 eggs by artificial heat centuries ago; but we do say that to the great majority of poultrymen 

 these secrets are absolutely unknown. 



We Will Pay $10 For Any Secret Not in the Book 



Provided it is practical and valuable. If it is something both good and new, a check for Ten 

 Dollars will be sent at once. In submitting secrets address all communications to the 



Poultry Department o£ Farm Journal 



Farm Journal for thirty years has conducted a poultry department known thecountrj' over 

 for the abihty of its editors and the value of its contents. 1 1 is the standard farm and home paper of 

 the country, with three million readers. It is clean, bright, intensely practical ; boiled down ; cream, 

 not skim-milk. Its contributors know what they are talking about, and can quit when thev have 

 saidit. Besides its unusuallystrouij poultry section, which of itself makes the paper valuable to 

 every chicken owner, its other departments are ably conducted and widely quoted. It is for the 

 gardener, fruit man, stockman, trucker, farmer, villager, suburbanite, the women folks, the boys 

 and girls. It is worth far more than the price asked for it and "Poultry Secrets" together. Its 

 more than half million subscribers pay five and ten ears ahead— a very remarkable fact. 



We are Willing to Name Here 

 Some of the Secrets 



1 Bumham*s secret of mating fowls. 



2 Felch's method of breeding from an original 



pair, producing thousands of chicks and three 

 distinct strains. 



3 Mendel's Chart of Heredity. 



4 Secret of strong fertility by alternating males. 



5 Secret of knowing what to feed and how to feed 



it. The secret of having green food in winter. 



6 Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 



feeding. 



7 Secret recipes for chick feed : practically the same 



feed is now sold on the market at a high rale. 



8 Secret of fatting poultry economically so as to 



make the most profit out of the crop. 



9 Secret of telling the laying hens of the fiock. 



10 Secret of detecting age in stock. 



11 Secret of knowing how to judge dressed poultry. 



12 The only safe way of preserving eggs. 



13 A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 



quickly and thoroughly. 



14 An exposure of the methods employed by some 



fanciers to kill the fertility of tfie eggs. 



15 The winter egg crop and how to get it. 



16 Fatting turkeys for market. 



17 Hunter's Secret of Success. 



18 Secret of the Philo System. 



There are Scores of Others 



We will send a copy of "Poultry Secrets" and 

 Farm Journal for five years, both for only 



Or Farm Journal 2 years and "Poultry Secrets" for 50 cts. 



$1.00 



jr 50 cts. 



WILMER ATKINSON CO., 84i Race st, Philadelphia, Pa. 



