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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



i POULTRY DEPT. i 



W Conducted by % 



fl S. Short, Ottawa f 



The question is frequently asked, "Is there 

 money to be made raising fowls as a sole means 

 of making a living?" To this my answer is, 1 

 have known several try it, some intelligent men, 

 and they have, after two or three years, branched 

 out into some other business as a main issue, and 

 continued to keep fowl as a minor branch. 

 There are in this province men who make money 

 with poultry, but they are fanciers and ex- 

 hibitors — men who are experts in judging 

 specimens of the different breeds which they buy, 

 sometimes at a very cheap figure, from someone 

 who does not know an exhibition fowl. They 

 then exhibit and sell the birds again at a high 

 price. I am doubtful though, if these men 

 make much more than from $300 to $600 a year. 

 Very few of them do that. Again there are 

 fanciers who attend the leading shows, and buy 

 the prize-winners in the breeds that they handle, 

 frequently paying from $50 to $75 a bird. 



Creighlon Poultry Yards 



High Grade Stock possessing 

 utility and exhibition qualities 



Barred Plymouth Rocks 

 and White Wyandottes 



Cockerels of either breed, $2.00 each 



S. SHORT, PROP. OTTAWA, ONT. 



Mt-iiti'iii Till- i,';iii.'i»liaii llortlfultdrist when writing 



IF YOU HAVE APPLES 

 OR POULTRY TO CONSIGN 



we can handle them for you to 

 advantage. If apples are in car 

 lots, write us and we can sell 

 them for you f.o.b. your station 



THE DAWSON COMMISSION CO. 



Cor. West Market and Colborne St. 



TORONTO 



ONTARIO 



DOMINION NURSERIES 



f^y y-' "■ ESTABLISHED 1860 ^Z:'~Z~J 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees 

 Shrubs and Vines 



WE HAVE NO AGENTS ! 



WE SELL DIRECT ! 



Catalogue for 1907, just out, mailed on 

 application 



The Smith & Reed Co., 



ST. CATHARINES 



ONTARIO 



They often advertise extensively the fact that 

 they have these birds in their breeding J^ens 

 and have eggs to sell from $3 to $5 a setting. 

 Money is made in that way, but only as an ad- 

 dition to an income earned mainly from some 

 other source. 



1 do not know one person who has made a 

 living raising poultry and eggs for the everyday 

 market. While I make this statement, I do not 

 say that it cannot be done. The market of to- 

 day is totally different to that of 2 years ago. 

 Then, in the cheapest season, June, fresh eggs, 

 choice, could be purchased for 15 cts ; this 

 year the same article sold for 22 cts., and in some 

 cases 25 cts. a dozen. In Dec, also, fresh eggs 

 were 9 to 10 cts. a doz. more than they were two 

 years previous. The main increase is notice- 

 able in dressed fowl. This increase in selling 

 price is somewhat offset by the cost of feeding 

 material, but not altogether. It may be, that 



now better prices prevail for poultry jjroducts, 

 money could be made in this way, but I would 

 advise that poultry raising should be engaged in, 

 in conjunction with some other industry, say, 

 market gardening, fruit raising, bee keeping, 

 or dairying. With either of the iirst 3 industries, 

 most of the work is in the summer time, when 

 the fowls need or can get along with the least 

 attention, leaving the winter months free to look 

 after the fowl when eggs are the highest price. 



With proper arrangements the fowls can use 

 for runs during several months of the summer the 

 orchards and berry patches and will destroy 

 injurious insects and caterpillars. In this way, 

 one has 2 chances of getting a living. Should 

 the crops fail, the fowl would perliajis come to 

 the rescue, and vice versa. In any event, to any 

 one who has an inclination for work of this kind 

 there are few occupations so healthful or inter- 

 esting as poultry keeping. 



Mention The Horticulturist when writing 



TilE BISSELL STEEL ROLLER 



With Three Drums and Strong Rigid Frame. 

 Some improvements are: Heavy Steel Axle, Thick 

 Heavy Steel Plate. Drums Riveted up to stand 

 any strain. Roller Bearings. Kuns lilcc a bird. 

 Full particulars free by mail, or aslc your dealer. 

 None genuine without the name *' BISSELL." 

 Look out for it. Address 



T. E. BISSELL - ELORA, ONT. 



Write for Booklet '* K ' 



Let Me Sell You a 



Chatham Incubator 



On Time 





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Do you know there is big money in raising poultry? Do 

 you know there is more money in running a good incubator 

 than in almost anything else you can do for the amount of 

 time and trouble it talies? Do you know my incubator will 

 pay you a biirj<er profit than any other thing you can have 

 on your place? ' 



Well, all these things are true, and I can prove it. 

 Thousands of people all over Canada have proved it every 

 year for the last five years. 



I want to quote you a price on my Chatham Incubator, 

 -sold ON TIME. I want to send you my Chatham book. 

 ■ This incubator book is free — I'll send it to you for just a 

 postal card. It tells )'ou a lot you ought to know about the 

 Poultry business — it tolls you how to make money out of 

 chickens— it tells you how my Chatham Incubator will make 

 )you viore money than you can make with hens — far more, 

 and with less trouble. 

 This book tells you how my Incubators are made— why they are 

 the best ever invented — and why I sell them ON TIME and on a 

 S-Year Guarantee. 



My Company has been in business in Canada for over 50 years. 

 We are one of the largest wood-working factories in the country. 

 We also operate a large factory at Detroit, Mich. We have the In- 

 cubator and Brooder business down to a science. 



Chatham Incubators and Brooders will make you money, for a 

 Chatham Incubator will hatch a live, healthy chicken out of every 

 fertile egg put into it, in 21 days. 

 Will you write for my book 

 today? Do it now while you think 

 of it. Just say on a postal "Please 

 send me your Incubator Book" — 

 tUat'sall. Address me personally. 



Manson Campbell 



President 

 The Man»on Campbell Co., Ltd. 



Dept. F59 , Chatham, Ont. 



NOTE — I carry large stocks and 

 ship promptly from branch houses at 

 Caleary.Alta., Montreal, Que.; Bran 

 don, Man.; Halifax. N. S , Victoria, 

 B. C, and factory at Chatham. 



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