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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, igo8 



CHAS. A. CYPHERS' 



Model Incubators 

 and Brooders 



On my Model Poultry Farm I now have 

 poultry numbering 80,000 hatched and 

 brooded in my famous Model Incubators 

 and Brooders. Buy- 

 ing your incubators 

 and brooders of a 

 man who knows 

 nothing (or next 

 to nothing) about 

 hatching and raising 

 poultry is running a 

 useless risk. Don't 

 doit. 



I not only sell you 

 a Model Incubator or Brooder, but 1 add 

 to them the valuable experience of years 

 as shown in their construction. Model 

 Incubators show excellent hatches, hatch 

 every hatchable egg. The Model Brooder 

 grow sturdy chicks. 



Send your order in to-day, and get in 

 line with the profit getters. 



Free catalogue for everyone. 



THE MODEL INCUBATOR CO. 

 196-200 River Street TORONTO, ONT. 



POULTjRY ^DEPT 



Conducted by S. Short.IOttawa 



Eggs for Hatching 



February and March issues of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist contained articles on in- 

 cubation by machine and artificial rearing 

 of the chicks by brooders. It was thought 

 seasonable to say something this month on 

 how to obtain fertile eggs and when to 

 get them. If eggs are purchased — and it 

 is taken for granted that, if they are, they 

 will be from high-grade stock and there- 

 fore expensive — on no account order them 

 for immediate delivery. Wait until spring 

 is sufficiently advanced, that to your certain 

 knowledge, the fowl in the pen from which 

 your eggs are to be supplied have been run- 

 ning outdoors for at least a fortnight, that 

 is, if you wish to get a good hatch. It is 

 the exception to get even a fair hatch from 



eggs laid at the end of March and begin- 

 ning of April. 



There are several reasons advanced for 

 this fact. The hens are run down from 

 their long confinement and while the egg 

 is fertile, that is, it contains a germ of 

 life, the germ is too weak to live through 

 the three weeks of incubation, and rotten 

 eggs are usually the result. The lime and 

 egg shell material supplied the fowls does 

 not in many cases enable some of the hens 

 to lay eggs with strong shells so that a 

 great many breakages occur if the eggs 

 are set under hens. 



Whatever the reason, the fact remains 

 that eggs as a rule do not hatch well untiT 

 after the hens have been outdoors. For all 

 practical purposes, chickens hatched froE 

 eggs set from the middle to the end of Aprij 

 are plenty early enough to furnish layers 

 for the following winter, if the chicks ar^ 

 properly fed and housed. 



Of course, if the breeder has breedino 

 pens of his own and plenty of eggs h^ 

 may be willing to lose a large percentagj 

 of the eg'gs to get a few very early chick| 

 for exhibition at the fall fairs. If he is ui 

 successful, the loss is his own. It is 

 other matter where the beginner pays frori 

 $2 to $5 per setting and only gets one oi 



MANSON CAMPBELL 



President 



The Manson Campbell 



Company, Limited. 



I want 

 to send 

 you my 

 special 

 price 

 and 

 special 

 terms 

 to-day. 

 Will you 

 write for 

 them ? 



Let me send you the proof of the 

 big money you can make raising 

 chickens with a Chatham Incubator 



. 



I HAVE the proof from all parts of Can- 

 ada and the United States, which shows 

 emphatically that the Chatham Incu- 

 bator is making good profits for its users. 



Some people who "just kept" hens as a 

 side issue are now making big money 

 raising poultry with a Chatham Incubator. 



Others who were raising poultry with other 

 makes are now making bigger profits with a 

 Chatham Incubator. 



You know it doesn't do to put all your 

 eggs in one basket. The year comes along 

 when crops are not so goi.„. The farm 

 does'nt pay as much as it should. Then 

 don't you think you will appreciate the sure 

 and certain profit that you get from poultry 

 raising with a Chatham Incubator? 



Better still ; the price I can sell you a 

 Chatham Incubator for and the terms I can 

 sell it on, mean that you will be making 

 a profit out of it before you have paid me 

 one cent. 



I practically start you In n profitable poul- 

 try business — which really only takes a small 

 part of your time, or vo'ir wife's or daugh- 

 ter's — and it doesn't cost you one cent until 

 you are making a profit out of it. 



Now, I want you to write me to-day — a 

 post card will do. Then I will send you 

 my 1908 Booklet, which tells all about the 

 Chatham Incubator, how it is made — the 

 five-year guarantee we sell it on. How strong 

 and successful a company is back of this 



guarantee. It tells all this 

 and also of the way the Chat- 

 ham Incubator works, how it 

 has made money for others, 

 how it can make money for 

 you. 



Write me to-day and let me 

 send you all this information 

 aboutpoultry raising.and I will 

 also give you my special price 

 and special easy-payment plan. 



To save time address my 

 nearest office — do it now 

 while you think of it. 



The Manson Campbell Co., Limited. 



Brandon, Man. 

 The Manson Campbell Co.. Limited, 



Calgary, Alta. 

 D. Hammond. Box 194, Victoria, B.C. 

 Cote & Co., 6 St. Peter St., Montreal, 

 Que. 



MANSON CAMPBELL 



President 



The Mtnson Campbell Co., Ltd. 

 Dept. 83 Chathmn, Ontario 



I also have a shipping warehou.se at 

 Halifax, N.S. 



