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Marcus, Iowa, January 19, 1907. 



Mrs. D. C. Johnson Dear Friend: I write you these few lines to 

 inquire the price of 200 chick brooder, am thinking of getting one this 

 spring. I have an incubator and brooder, but one brooder is not enough. 

 Would you advise setting the incubator before the first of March? I 

 was thinking of setting next month, but don't know whether or not, but 

 will take your advice in the matter. What is the lowest price you will 

 place incubators and brooders at? You wrote me last fall you would 

 make prices for me in order to place one in this locality. Please write 

 and let me know as soon as possible. MRS. THOS. MEEHAM. 



P. S. Last summer I put ventilators in incubators as you directed 

 and hatched almost as many more chicks as I did in previous hatches. 

 MRS. T. M. 



Nodaway, Missouri, May 12, 1906. 



Dear Mrs. Johnson The sample of your Poultry Compound re- 

 ceived and used as directed for both old fowls and brooder chicks. The 

 latter was what I wanted it especially for. I haven't lost one from 

 bowel trouble since giving your compound and that is doing well for 

 me for I always lose more or less every year and I think it is the best 

 remedy for chicks. I will send 50 cents for a package and as soon as I 

 can afford it will send for your book, which I know must be good. I 

 used to live at Cambridge and it seems like writing back near our old 

 town. Yours truly, MRS. MYRTLE FICKLE. 



Corydon, Iowa, May 16, 1906. 



Mrs. Johnson Dear Friend: I take the liberty to write you a few 

 lines, I having heard of you through Mrs. O. G. Gibbs, a neighbor of 

 mine. I like her incubator she bought of you so well and she seemed to 

 have such good success with it that I have concluded to get me an in- 

 cubator of some kind, would you please send me your summer prices 

 on the 240 egg size and I will be very much obliged to you. MRS. S. A. 

 CARLSON. 



IOWA,S POULTRY QUEEN 



Mrs. D. C. Johnson, of Maxwell, Iowa, who last year established 

 the phenomenal record of over a thousand chicks at a single hatching, 

 started out this season with the determination to break her own re- 

 cord. Some time ago announcement was made that on July 21st she 

 would bring off a brood of 2,000 chicks. 



Mrs. E. C. Nienaber, of Durant, who has been in correspondence 

 with Mrs. Johnson and a close student of her methods, took occasion 

 to go to Maxwell to witness this phenomenal hatch. Mrs. Nienaber 

 says: 



"July 21st was certainly an eventful day, not in Mrs. Johnson's life 

 alone, but in the history of the art of artificial incubation. 



In response to the advertisement in her home papers that on this 

 day she would, at one hatching, take 2,000 chicks from the incubators, 

 a large crowd assembled. But by actual count in which the writer had 

 a hand she took 2,330 chicks from her incubators, leaving the small 

 number of 140 unhatched. Mrs. Johnson's danger alarm was a wonder- 



