"Keep chickens," 



says the FARM JOURNAL, 



and live better ^^ 

 at less cost. 



THOUSANDS of families, in city and country, have found this the easy way to 

 IMPROVE their standard of living, and at the same time lower the cost. 

 With chickens you always have delicious food, for the family or for "com- 

 pany." Their eggs supply you with ready money or ready food. They are pets that pay their board. 

 By Iceeping chickens, boys and girls can earn money, and also get an excellent training. Some- 

 times the bacli-yard plant grows into a large business, like those of Corning, Curtiss, and 

 Foster, who make many thousands of dollars a year. 



Raising chickens pay.s if you know how, whether you keep a dozen hens, or run a large poultry- 

 farm; but you need the best guides. Many get from their chickens less than half as much as 

 they might get with the guidance of any of these three splendid modern poultry-books, which tell 

 the experience and methods of the most successful modern poultry-raisers. 



These methods have all been tested by actual experience and proved succes<ful. The Farm Journal stands back of 

 them, for It has investigated them and knows. They can be used with si* hens or six thousand. Of the Corning Egg- 

 Book'alone, OVER 1 00,000 COPIES were sold in one year. Many are using these methods with splendid BuccesB and 

 profit. 



rpi i~'^^.,/.-ni-nn. TP/ti-i 'Ri-»/-»'b- 1^ ^^^ great guide-book for back-jard chicken-raisers. It tells how two 



1 nC \_OJr nillg I_igg~DOOK. city men in poor health, with no experience, starting with thirty hens, 

 built up in tour years an egg business which in one year, with 196S hens, made an average profit of $6.41 a year per 

 hen. These men learned how to make hens lay Iho most eggs !■ winter, vihen they get 60 and 70 cents a dozen. Ihis 

 book tells how they found the best breed, why they raise only white-shelled, sterile eggs, how they keep hens LAYING 

 ALL WINTER when they hatch chicks to do their best laying in January, how to mix the feed that produces most eggs, 

 and how their whole system works to that one end— eggs, eggs, EGGS. It gives photographs and complete working 

 plans of their buildings, which you can build in sections, large or small as needed. 



f~t 1. "D..-viil4-».Tr "R/^^-vli- *^"^ ^^"^ ^°y Curtiss, a farmer's boy, starling with a few neglected hens, 

 X^UrLlSS X OU1X.I y OOOK. has bullt up at Niagara Farm one of the best-paying poultry plants in the 

 world. Roy agreed that if his father would furnish feed he (Roy) would supply eggs and chickens for the farm table, 

 and all left over were to belong to him. In two years Roy was using so much feed that his father had to cry quits, but 

 the boy kept right on. His brother joined him. and the business grew and grew. But they had no guidance, and had to 

 learn by their own mistakes. Such a guide as the Curtiss Poultry Book would have saved them thousands of dollars 

 This capital book was written right at Niagara Farm by the veteran poultryman. Michael K. Boyer. He says he never 

 saw a general poultry plant so well managed. Every day shipments go off, e\ ery day money comes In. Their percent- 

 age of fertile eggs, of live strong chickens hatched, of day-old chicks shipped without loss, is really wonderful. This 

 book gives all thelr'methods and feed formulas, tested and Improved by years of experience. Many pictures. Whether 

 you raise chickens, ducks, or eggs, have a dozen fowls or thousands, jou will find in this book help that you can get in 

 no other way. 



tt-n ll.„_. C.^.«-M.^I-« " is a remarkable collection of successful "wrinkles" in poultry-raising, secured and 



X^OUllry OcCl CLS edited by Michael K. Boykr (known to poultrymen as "Uncle Mike"). Many of 

 these were treasured secrets of famous poultrymen, guarded with jealous care because of their great value. We paid 

 hundreds of dollars for them. This is the eleventh edition, and thousands are using these methods with great profit. 

 W. R. Curtiss tells his successful method of hatching 50 per cent more pullets than cockerels; the Phllo System 

 Is described and explained; the "16-cent8-a bushel" and "8-cents-a-bu8hel" green feed secrets; secrets of the Angell, 

 Palmer and Hogan Systems ; Boyer's method of absolutely insuring fertility of eggs for hatching; Townsend's System 

 for preventing death of ehleks In the shell; Felch's famous mating chart, suppressed for many years; feeding and fat- 

 tening secrets; and many other priceless secrets, are here disclosed for the first time. 



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Vct-wm T<-kii*'T^«»l Is the standard paper for everyone who grows rr wants to grow fruit, 

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 more valuable than most poultry papers. It is a favorite paper with housekeepers. Clean, clever, 

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