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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



i POULTRY DEPT. i 



% Oonducted by T^ 



J S. SKort, Otta-wa ^ 



While, perhaps, rather early to begin hatching 

 operations, it is not too soon to think over and 

 plan the methods to be used in breeding in the 

 coming spring. The hatching season is the 

 most important time of the year to all inter- 

 ested in poultry. The veteran fancier has his 

 pens mated up, and is looking forward to 

 hatching and rearing stock that will win the 

 highest honors in the show-room and thereby 

 prove the owner's skill and judgment as a 

 breeder. The beginner also looks around with 

 a view to starting into the poultry business, 

 his main idea being to hatch a large number 

 of chickens. In fact, in a month or two, all of 

 us will want lots of chicks, and the problem is 

 how to get them with the least trouble and 

 expense. The solution of that problem is this: 

 Get an incubator. 



P'^"^ INCUBATION 



UpTto last year experts agreed that if over 

 100 chicks were to be hatched an incubator 

 should be used; if under that number, hens 

 would be the most satisfactory. I have now 

 no hesitation in saying that if 50 chicks are 

 to beJhatched.T thejincubator is the better 



method for many reasons. Incubators are 

 now made so perfectly that eggs that will 

 hatch under a hen will hatch in the incubator. 

 The machine can be kept in the basement or 

 in an unused attic, or in any room free from 

 draughts and excessive cold. Of course, the 

 colder the room, the more oil will be used to 

 keep the temperature up. With all machines, 

 the fullest and most complete directions are 

 sent; and it is not unusual for beginners to 

 have larger hatches than others, simply from 

 the fact that they follow the printed directions 

 more carefully than those who, by having ex- 

 perience, feel that they fully understand the 

 care of the machine. 



There is one point that I have heard several 

 experts agree upon: on the last day of hatching 

 the temperature should be 104, or even 105 

 degrees, rather than 103, which is the tempera- 

 ture recommended by most manufacturers. The 

 chief complaint against the incubator is that 

 too great a percentage of chicks die in the 

 shell the last day. By raising the temperature 

 to 104 better hatches have resulted. The only 

 smell from the machine is from the lamp, which 

 can be almost entirely overcome by trimming 

 frequently and using the best oil. ^ t- F * 



THE SITTING HEN "^ ' f 



The most aggravating and sometimes one 

 of the dirtiest of creatures is the sitting hen. 

 When hens are used for hatching they need a 

 pen all to themselves. They have to be coaxed 

 to sit in any place but that to which they are 



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Let Me Sen You a 



Chatham Incubator 



n Time 



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 takes? Do you know my incubator will 

 pay you a bigger 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 you a lot you ought to know about the 

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

 chickens— it tells you how my Chatham Incubator will make 

 .) you more 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 

 5-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" — 

 that's all. Address me personally. 



Manson Campbell 



President 

 The Manson Campbell Co., Ltd. 



Dept. F59 , Chatham, Onl. 



NOTE — I carry large stocks and 

 ship promptlyfrom branch houses at 

 Caleary, Alta.. Montreal, Que.; Bran 

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

 B. C, and factory at Chatham. 



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accustomed. If they do not break an egg or 

 foul their nests, it is the exception, not the 

 rule ; and there is no more disagreeable or dis- 

 gusting work than to have to wash the eggs 

 and prepare a clean nest. After the chicks are 

 hatched, the mother frequently kills from one 

 to three by stepping on them in the nest. If 

 vermin destroyer has not been used freely 

 during the time of sitting, the chicks are in- 

 fested with lice from the mother and have to 

 be carefully treated for that pest or they will 

 not thrive. Some hens sit on their eggs for 

 10 days or so and then desert them. All this 

 can be avoided by using an incubator. 



Perhaps a word of advice as to where to buy 

 the machine may not be out of place. Of 

 course there are a great many incubators of 

 different makes on the market, both Canadian 

 and American, and all claiming special merits. 

 There may be poultry keepers in your neigh- 

 borhood who are using incubators, and it might 

 be best to profit by their advice; but I know 

 quite a number that have ordered machines 

 from American firms, direct from the makers, 

 and invariably they (the buyers) have had to 

 wait an unnecessarily long time before getting 

 their machine, especially if ordered during the 

 hatching season. The machine is usually ship- 

 ped by freight, so that time will be saved by 

 buying in Canada and near home, where you 

 can reach the makers by mail in a day and get 

 just as good an article. You also have the 

 satisfaction of patronizing home industry. 



Just a word to intending purchasers. Breed- 

 ers at this season are glad to dispose of their 

 ,siu-plus stock at fair prices, which means that 

 good birds can be bought now for about half 

 the price of what they will cost next March. 



BooKs that Interest 



It is interesting to note the manner in which 

 the readers of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 take advantage of our book department. Sub- 

 scribers who want to establish a small, but prac- 

 tical, library for themselves are securing com- 

 plete sets of books on their particular hobby. 



Many of our readers, however, already pos- 

 sess comfortable libraries. These are adding 

 complete departments to their library by secur- 

 ing books on horticultural subjects listed in our 

 catalog. 



If you are a member of a horticultural society 

 it is to your advantage that you have books on 

 your reading table that treat gardening and 

 floral matters in a sound, practical manner. 

 Such books as "Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters 

 and Live Fences," 50 cents; "Home Flori- 

 culture," $1.00; "Garden Making," $1.00; 

 "Plant Culture," $1.00; "The Window Flower 

 Garden," 50 cents, and similar works should be 

 in the homes of every gardener and flower lover. 



Fruit growers would find the following books 

 indispensable if once they obtained them: 

 "Fruit Harvesting, Storing, Marketing, etc.," 

 $1.00; "Principles of Fruit Growing," $1,25; 

 "Successful Fruit Culture," $1.00. These are 

 but a few of the valuable books we have listed 

 in our free catalog. Send for it. We will send 

 any of the above books on receipt of price. 



Crei^hton Poullry Yards 



High Grade Stock possessinjj 

 utility and exhibition qualities 



Barred Plymoutli Rocks 

 and White Wyandottes 



Cockerels of eitlier breed, $2.00 each 



S. SHORT, Prop. OTTAWA, ONT. 



M.'iiticiii Tl[.> Caiiii<ll:iii ll.>i'tirultiiri«l wln'ii wrilint; 



