Jan. 1, 1912 



The Best Poultry -Book! 



"The Dollar Hen" 

 Tells About— 



The Hen's Ancestors, 

 Chinese Poultry Culture, 

 Fertility of Eggs, 

 The Future of Incubation, 

 Buying Eggs by Weight, 

 How Eggs are Marketed, 

 Wisdom of the Egyptians, 

 Principles of Incubation, 

 Moisture and Evaporation, 

 How Eggs are Spoiled, 

 Breeding for Egg Production 

 A Big Business ; Growing 



Bigger, and over 100 other 



subjects. 



EVERY few days the friends write me, asking 

 what poultry-book they had better purchase 

 — which one I would recommend above all 

 others, etc. Well, to get right down to it there is 

 no best poultry-book. There are many good ones, 

 but no one book contains all this good. The one 

 that is most emphatic against humbugs and frauds, 

 especially costly medicines for dosing chickens, etc, 

 is the one I have frequently referred to, "The Dol- 

 lar Hen." Now, while this is an excellent book — 

 one of the very best ever published, perhaps — there 

 are many valuable things to be found in other books 

 that, this book hardly touches on. As we have been 

 offering it at a low price, clubbed with Gleanings, 

 we have been several times out of stock, and at one 

 time we thought we could not get any more, and so 

 it was taken out of our book-list. We have now a 

 good supply, however, and can furnish you the book 

 for $1.00 postpaid. But if you renew your subscrip- 

 tion to Gleanings at the same time, we will furnish 

 the book and Gleanings for $1.50. — A. I. Root. 



How to MAKE Money Raising 

 Poultry, and Not how to Lose It 



"The Dollar Hen" is not a boom poultry-book. It tells 

 as much about what NOT TO DO as what TO DO. It 

 thoroughly discusses every phase of the poultry business 

 and tells how money ean be made or may be lost. It 

 gives a full account of all methods and systems of poul- 

 try-raising, as taught by private individuals. Mr. Hastings does not advocate compli- 

 cated and expensive methods; in fact, he found such to be universal money-losers. 



As a Government Expert 



As a Government expert, Mr. Hastings investigated all the various private systems, pat- 

 ent feeds, and so-called poultry secrets. He visited the great successful poultry-farming 

 districts of Petaluma, Little Compton, Watertown, the South Shore, and other regions — 

 some wholly unknown to the poultry press— and gathered from all these sources the best 

 ideas and most profitable practices. From his long practical experience on farm, poultry- 

 plant, with State Experiment Station work, and Federal service, and with his unprece- 

 dented opportunity to get at the actual facts of the poultry industry, Mr. Hastings has 

 laid out a typical money-making poultry-plant, called THE DOLLAR-HEN FARM, 



and has described tlie various necessary adaptions for different 



localities and conditions. 



THE DOLLAR HEN 



is a real book, substantially bound — not a paper-bound 

 pamphlet of "System," "Secrets," or "Methods," but 

 a book worth several dollars of any poultryman's money. 

 "The Dollar Hen" as a vast fund of valuable information 

 that required much time, expense, and effort. And think 

 of it ! You can have this authoritative and complete guide to 

 profitable poultry, postpaid, for only $1.00. 



In connection with a year's subscription to "Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture," we make a special combination price of $1.50. A 

 two-dollar value for $1.50 Take This Combination 



Extra postage on "Gleanings in Bee Culture" to foreign 

 countries, 60 cts. ; to Canada, 30 cts. 



MILO jr. HASTINGS 



THE A. I. ROOT CO , 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



