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Three-pound White Orpington Rooster. Te 

 Weeks Old, Raised by the Philo System 



$200 



00 



In Six Months From 

 20 Hens 



To the average poultryman that would >eem impostible, and 

 when we tell tou that we have actually done a $500 poultry bujl- 

 ness with 20 hens on a corner In the city garden, 30 feet wide by 

 40 feet lone, we are simply stating facts. It will not be possible 

 to get such returns by any one of the systems of poultry-keeping 

 recommended and practiced by the American people, still it is an 

 easy matter when the new Philo System is adopted. 



The Philo System is unlike all other ways of keeping poultry, 

 and in many respects is just the reverse, accomplishing things in 

 poultry work that have always been considered impossible, and get- 

 ting unheard of results that are hard to believe without seeing; 

 however, the facts remain the same, and we can prove to you every 

 word of the above statement. 



The New System Covers all Branches of 

 the Work Necessary for Success 



from selecting the breeders to marketing the product. It tells how 

 to get eggs that will hatch, how to hatch nearly every egg, and how 

 to raise nearly all the chicks hatched. It gives complete plans in 

 detail how to make every thing necessary to run the business and at 

 less than half the cost required to handle the poultry business in any 

 other manner. There is nothing complicated about the work, and 

 any man or woman that can handle a saw and hammer can do the 

 work. 



TWO-POUND BROILERS IN EIGHT WEEKS 



are raised in space of less than a square foot to the broiler, without 

 any loss, and the broilers are of the very best quality, bringing here 

 three cents per pound above the highest market price. 



Our Six-Months-Old Pullets are Laying at the 

 Rate of 24 Eggs Each Per Month 



in a space of two square feet for each bird. No green-cut bone ol 

 any description is fed, and the food used is inexpensive as compared 

 with food others are using. 



Our new book, the Philo System of Progressive Poultry Keeping, 

 gives full particulars regarding these wonderful discoveries with 

 simple, easy-to-understand directions that are right to the point, and 

 15 pages of illustrations showing all branches of the work from start 

 to finish. 



Don't Let the Chicks Die in the Shell 



One of our secrets of success is to save all the chickens that are 

 fally developed at hatching time, whether they can crack the shell or 

 not. It's a simple trick and believed to be the secret of the Anciant 

 Egyptians and Chinese, which enabled them to sell the chicks at 10 

 cents a dozen. 



Chicken Feed at 1 5 Cents a Bushel 



Our book tells how to make the best green food with but little 

 trouble and have a good supply any day in the year, winter or sum- 

 mer. It is just as impossible to get a large egg yield without green 

 food as it is to keep a cow without hay or fodder. 



Our New Brooder Saves Two Cents on Each 

 Chicken 



No lamp required. No danger of chilling, overheating, or burning 

 up the chickens as with brooders using lamps or any kind of fire. 

 They also keep all the lice off the chickens automatically, or kill any 

 that may be on when placed in the brooder. Our book gives full 

 plans and the right to make and use them. One can be easily made 

 in an boor at a cost of 25 to 50 cents. 



Send $1 direct to the publisher, and a copy of the latest revised edi- 

 tion of the book will be sent you by return mail. 



E. R. PHILO, Publisher 



23 THIRD STREET ELMIRA, N. Y. 



A Few Testimonials 



Valley Falls, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1907. 

 It was my privilege to spend a week in Elmira dur- 

 ing August, during which time I saw the practical 

 working of the Philo System of Keeping Poultry, and 

 was surprised at the results accomplished in a small 

 corner of a city yarr . "Seeing is believing," they 

 say; and if I had not seen, it would have been hard to 

 believe that such results could have followed so small an 

 outlayof space, time, and money. (Rev.) W.W.Cox. 



Oct. 22, 190«. 

 P. S. — A year's observation, and some experience 

 of my own, confirm me in what I wrote Sept. 5, 1907. 

 The System has been tried so long and by so many, 

 that there can be no doubt as to its worth and adapt- 

 ability. )t is especially valuable to parties having 

 but a small place for chickens; seven feet square is 

 plenty for a flock of seven. (Rev.) W. W. Cox. 



Ransomville, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1907. 

 Dear Sir: — Last spring we purchased your book en- 

 titled the " Philo System " and used your heatless 

 brooders last spring and summer. The same has been 

 a great help te ns in raising the chix in the health 

 and mortality, the chix being stronger and healthier 

 than those raised in the brooders with supplied heat. 

 We believe this brooder is the best thing out yet for 

 raising chix successfully. We put 25,000 chix through 

 yonr heatless brooders this last season, and expect to 

 nse it more completely this coming season. We have 

 had some of the most noted poultrymen from all over 

 the U. S. here, also a large number of visitors who 

 come daily to our plant, and without any exception 

 they pronounce our stock the finest and healthiest they 

 have seen anywhere this year. 



Respectfully yours, W. R. Curtiss & Co. 



Skankatelbs, N. Y., May 5, 1908. 

 One article ol the Philo System entitled "A Trick 

 of the Trade " has been worth three times the amount 

 the book cost. I saved on my last batch fifty chicks 

 which are doing nicely. W. B. Rbasb. 



