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PACIFIC TREE AND VINE 



An egg coiUains sixty-four parts 

 water. The necessity for pure 

 water is very apparent. 



Remember that hens teeth are 

 scarce and see to it that they have 

 an amijie supply of grit. 



Give the hens the same variety of 

 food they would find on a large 

 range, or as near as you can do so. 



Disease, egg-eating, feather pull- 

 ing and lice are things which re- 

 duce the profits in the poultry busi- 

 ness. 



Never have a cock bird with lay- 

 ing hens unless you want eggs for 

 setting. Experiments have proven 

 that hens lay better and your feed 

 bill is reduced. 



It pays to have pure bred fowls if 

 are raising fancy stock, but if you 

 just want to make money the cross- 

 br d fowls get results. 



Never use an incubator until you 

 have succeeded in raising 500 

 chicks in one season by the good 

 old hen method. 



When you select to kill, always 

 pick the poorest. Do I'ot kill the 

 thrifty hens tliat work and hunt and 

 sing all day. These are the ones 

 that have the bright red comb and 

 wattles. Kdl the lazy fat hen. 



Feed a warm mash in the morn- 

 ing, composed of corn meal, mid- 

 dlings and alfalfa. The lattershould 

 form one-half the bulk. Cut the 

 alfalfa fine, .steam over night and 

 add to meal and mids while the 

 mash is warm. 



Can you pick out the layirs 

 from a flock of chicks? You can; 

 but you will never do it if you lie 

 in bed until six o'clock in the 

 morning. Get outearlyand notice 

 which chicks come out first in the 

 morning to hunt grubs. These 

 will make the best layers, as the 

 active hen is the laying hen 



It is just as well to leed mash in 

 the morniug and wheat enough to 

 last all day at the same time. This 

 is the plan followed by the Peia- 



luma poulterers who make money 

 and not slaves of themselves by 

 feeding from 3 to 8 times daily and 

 standing around twenty minutes 

 after each feed to remove any food 

 which has not been consumed. 



Oyster shell is not grit, and is a 

 very poor substitute for grit Oys- 

 ter shell in small quantities is dis- 

 solved by the acid juices ot the 

 crop, and supply lime for the phos- 

 phates needed for nourishing bones, 

 feathers, claws and egg shells, but 

 for grinding grain it is a failure. 



The two most common diseases, 

 roup and cholera, do not often occur 

 when the conditions are right; some 

 of the best poultry authorities are 

 now telling us that the first cause of 

 roup is not a cold, but the real cause 

 is further back; that it is a weak- 

 ness in the constitution of the fowl; 

 that it is hereditary, and that we 

 must depend upon well balanced 

 rations, comfortable quarters, pure 

 water, and never inbreeding, to pre- 

 vent it, and when these conditions 

 are complied with, there are few di- 

 seases that the poultryman needs to 

 fear. 



During cold weather see that all 

 water pans are empty at night so 

 that fowls will not have a chance to 

 fill their crop with cold water long 

 before you are up in the morning. 

 Then give them water and a warm 

 mash, and watch the results. The 

 effects of warm mash are entirely 

 lost if the fowls have access to cold 

 water. 



Incubators and breeders are the 

 greatest drawbacks to the poultry 

 business. Nearly everyone who 

 enters the poultry ranks believes it 

 necessary to purchase machinery 

 and assume the old hen responsi- 

 bility. Let the old hen do the work 

 until you have had some exper- 

 ience. By this plan you will raise 

 chicks and save the cost of a lot of 

 incubators, brooders and brooder 

 houses, which in the majority of 

 cases you will want to sell for about 

 25 cents on the dollar after one .sea- 

 sou. If at all convenient, set at 



least two hens at the same time. 

 Three or four would r>e better, so 

 that when unfertile eggs are re- 

 moved, the fertile ones can be 

 placed under one or more of the set- 

 ting hens and the others supplied 

 with fresh eggs. As soon as the 

 chicks are hatched, guard their com- 

 fort with exceeding care. Keep 

 them with the hen indoors, letting 

 them out late in the morning only 

 on warm days, and take them in 

 early in the evening when it gets 

 cold. 



FAIR OAKS DICK FARM 



(Hague's Climax Strains) 



Pekins, Aylesburys, Muscovie.-, Kouens, 

 Black Cayugas, (iray Calls, Indian Knn- 

 ners and Blue Swedish Ducks. At State 

 Fair, I'.iOl', won Sweepstakes and 24 

 I'remium Awards. At tlie Oakland 

 Poultry Show, 11102, won 4li prizes out of 

 4.S entries. At Koseburg, Oregon, Dec. 

 I'.t02, won ti first prizes, on (i entries. 

 Stock and egt;s for sale. 



JAMES HAGUE, Pr.)p. 



350 College Avenue, Oakland, Cal. 



BLACK MINORCAS 



A Grand Specialty. 



I liave one of the largest and finest col- 

 lections of BLACK MINORCAS on the Pa- 

 cific Coast. I have bred them especially 

 for E^g ProdmlioH, combined with Stand- 

 ard qualities. Have over 1,000 birds but 

 do not care to sell anv liens this season. 

 Have some FINE COCKERELS for sale at 

 very reasonable prices. Eggs from finest 

 hens, headed by pure Northup Males, at 

 %'l per setting of l.S. From other yards of 

 good thoroughbred stock, Incubator lots 

 of eggs at $5 per 100, or 75c for 13. 



Cedar Cottage Poultry Farm 



Mrs. A. II. Ladi) 



Modesto, Cal . 



RANCHO YAJOME. 



<r THREE GRAND VARIETIES jT 



The Noble Light Brahinas— \ve think we have 



the finest cullfction I.iglU Urahmas oti the coast 



The Money-Making White Wjandottes — we 



have bred White W'yatidottes, i > liuc tor 6 years. 

 t)ur show recoTd this past season in the hottest of 

 L-ompetitioa is lull of Kirsts and ftfixiALA. 



The Popular Barred Plymouth Rocks — our 



Ilarred I'lymovith Kocks are known AS WINNERS 

 at all the priucipal shows in California for five 

 VFARS I'AST. We have this season a grand lot of 

 birds 



Write for what you waut of above — except 

 White Wyandottes. uo more for sale at present. 



Address— 



F. FORBES, Napa, Cal. 



