February^ 1909. 



American Hee Journal 



LEWIS BEEWARE 



A Full Stock at Factory Prices 



Our excellent location and facilities en- 

 able us to (five 



SOUTHERN BEE-KEEPERS 



prompt service and best prices. Write for 

 our BiK Catalog of Bee-Supplies, Seeds and 

 Poultry Foods. 



Otto Schwill & Co., 



Seedsmen Established 1869 



Box 73, Memphis, Tennessee ,a:u 



Mention Bee Journal when vrxltlns. 



Apiary for Sale 



Owing to my husband's death, I wish to 

 dispose of his apiary of about 75 colonies of 

 good Italian bees, in new 10-frame dove- 

 tailed hives, with supers and extracting 

 frames. I will sell for $4 per hive. Also 4- 

 frame Cowan Honey-Extractor, which has 

 been used only 3 seasons— for $10. 



The above will include the following 

 books: "Langstroth on the Honey-Bee. 

 Root's " A B C of Bee-Culture," Dr. Miller's 

 " Forty Years Among the Bees," Doolittle's 

 "Scientific Queen-Rearing;" also 2 or 3 

 years' numbers of American Bee Journal, 

 Gleanings, and Review. Address. 



MRS. ALFRED B.SEWELL, Niles, Mic4i. 



FOR SALE 



Bees and Bee-Supplies 



I will sell at a reasonable price 88 colonies 

 of bees, not diseased, all in fine, strong con- 

 dition in the fall, having plenty of stores, in 

 modern hives. Also material for brood- 

 frames, and a large number of brood-frames 

 with foundation in them. Prospective buy- 

 ers will please write rae soon, 



MRS. AUG. JOSEPHSON, 



Box 181, Granville, III. 



Queens on Approval 



If not satisfactory leave in Post-Oflfice for 

 return mail. Orders booked now for May 

 delivery. A very hardy strain of Queens 

 purely mated. 



I Queen $1.00 



6 Queens _ 5.00 



12 Queens 9.00 



Two-frame nucleus and Queen 2.00 



Full colony and Queen in 8-frame 



hive 7.00 



Give me a trial order for Supplies. I can 

 please you in price and quality. 15 years' 

 experience. Order from any standard cata- 

 log. 2A8t 

 A. M. APPLEGATE. KeynoicIsTllle, Pa. 



Southern Bee-Keepers! 



I have a new and complete stock of 



LEWIS BEEWARE 



and would be glad to quote you prices on 

 what you may need. 



I can furnish a limited number of Cau- 

 casian and Italian Bees and Queens. 



"Southern Bee Culture" 



contains 150 pages of practical information 

 along all lines of bee-keeping. Written by 

 progressive bee-keepers scattered over the 

 South. Price, 50 cts., postpaid. 2A3t 



J. J. WILDER, Cordele, Ga. 



^O— leading varieties of pure bred 

 ^Jchlcliene, Ducks. Geese. Turkeys; 

 also Hols teln cattle. Prize winning stock. 

 Oldest and largest poultry farm In the 

 Dortbwest. Btoclc, eggs and Incubators 

 atlowprtcee. Send 4 cents for catalog. 

 Larkln& Her8berg.Eox2l,Mankato.Mlnn. 



UcBtloB Bee Joantal whca wrlttay. 



Poultry Secrets 



Disclosed 



Every successful poultryman knows important 

 facts he never tells. They are peculiar secret meth- 

 ods and discoveries he has made in his work with 

 chickens. As a rule he guards these with extreme 

 care for they are the foundation of his success and a 

 valuable asset of his business. He is not to be 

 blamed for keeping them to himself. 



We Will Tell You These Secrets 



Which have cost poultrymen years of labor and thousands of 

 dollars. They will cost YOU only a trifle and a few minutes time 

 to write us. 



There is no man in the United States who has more friends 

 among poultrymen than Michael K. Boyer. A veteran chick- 

 en breeder himself, he knows the business from A to Z, and 

 through his wide acquaintance and friendship he has learned 

 many of their most jealously treasured secrets. This scattered 

 material he has collected in book form, and we are offering it 

 to the poultry raisers of America that they may share in the knowledge which 

 these successful men have acquired by long years of study and bitter experience 

 Every secret printed in this book has been obtained In an honorable way. either by 

 permission of the owner or throtlgh Mr. 

 Boyer's own experience. 



I. K. Felch's Mating Secret 



One of the best-known figures in the poul- 

 try world is I. K. Felch. Many years ago 

 Mr. Felch published his breeding chart, 

 but later, realizing its value, he withdrew 

 it and kept the information for himself. 

 He has now given Mr. Boyer permission 

 to use this information, and it is included 

 in this book. 



770$ heaping bushel of 

 ujinter egg-prod ucing 

 green feed cost 17 cts. 

 ^'Potdtri/ Secrets" ex- 

 plains Jidly tkistecret 

 and many others. 



We are Willing to Name Here 

 Some of the Secrets 



1 Bumham's secret ol mating fowls. 



2 Felch's method oE breeding from an Original 

 pair, producing thousands oi chicks and Uiiee 

 distinct strains. 



3 Mendel's Chart of Heredity, 



4 Secret of strong fertility by alternating males, 



5 Secret of knowing what to feed and how to feed 

 it. The secret of having green food in winter. 



6 Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 

 feeding, 



7 Secret recipes for chick feed; practically the same 

 feed is now sold on the market at a high rate. 



S Secret of fatting poultry economically so as to 



make the most profit out of the crop. 

 9 Secret of telling the laying hens of the flock. 



10 Secret of detecting age in stock. 



11 Secret of knowing how to judge dressed poultry. 



12 The only safe way of preserving eggs. 



13 A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 

 quickly and thoroughly. 



14 An exposure of the methods employed by Some 

 fanciers to kill the fertility of the eggs, 



15 The winter egg crop and bow to get it. 



16 Fatting turkeys for market. 

 Hunter's Secret of Success. 



18 Secret of the Philo System. 



There are Scores of Others 



Secret of Fertile E^^s 



Boyer's secret of securing: fertile egrgrs by 

 alternatina: males we believe is worth SlOO to 

 any big: producer of settingr egrgs. It is some- 

 thing new. and the diagrammatic illustration 

 furnished by Mr. Boyer makes the matter so 

 plain that the novice can easily understand it- 

 The Secret of Feed at 15 Cents a 

 Bushel 

 An enterprising poultryman has been ad- 

 vertising this secret for 55 00 and pledging 

 those who buy it not to disclose it to any one 

 else; it has, however, long been known to a 

 few poultrymen, Mr. Boyer among them, 

 and the method is fully explained in "Poultry 

 Secrets." 



Selecting the Laying Hens. 

 * „^J?^®,*^^ production of eggs is the very basis of the poultry industry, the ability to 

 tell the laying hens m the tlock without the aid of trap nests will put dollars in your pocket 

 JJo not keep on feedmg the robber hens. It is well known that some hens never lav an e^e-* 

 while others often not as good looking produce 



200 E^^s a Year. 



Of coursewe cannot go to the length of saying that all the information in the book is new 



to every one It is said there is nothing new under the sun. and the Egyptians were hatching 



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We Will Pay $10 For Any Secret Not in the Book 



Provided it is practical and valuable. If it is somethinirboth eooA and new, a check for Ten 

 UoUars wiU be sent at once. In submitting secrets address all communications to the 



Poultry Department of Farm Journal 



< F'^RM. Journal for thiny years has conducted a poultry department known the country over 

 for the ab.hty of ,ts editors and the value of its contents. 1 1 is the standard farm and home paper of 

 Die country, with three million readers. It is clean, bright, intensely pracHcal ; boiled down-cieam 

 notskim-milk. Its contributors know what they are talking about, and can quit when they have 

 saidit. Besides its unusuallystronj poultry section, which of itself makes the paper valuable to 

 every chicken owner, its other departments are ably conducted and widely quoted. It is for the 

 gardener, fruit man. stockman, trutker. farmer, villager, suburbanite, the women folks, the boys 

 .in. 1 girls. It is worth far morethan the price asked for it and "Poultry Secrets" together. Its 

 more than half million subscribers pay five and ten ears ahead— a very remarkable fact. 



We will send a copy of "Poultry Secrets" and ffi-j f\f\ 

 Farm Journal for five years, both for only M>1»VJ" 



Or Farm Journal 2 years and "Poultry Secrets" for 50 cts. 



WILMER ATKINSON CO., 834 Race St., Philadelphia. Pa. 



FARM SEEDS 



Choicest varieties of Seeti Oats, Wh.at. Spr]:-.^' Kv--. 

 Speltz. Barley. Cane. Seed Corn, levari i;=-\ R r-'. 

 Potatoes and all kinds of field, grass and garden seeis. 

 Large illustrated catalogueof great value to fanners tree* 

 if you mention this paper. 



IOWA SEED CO., DES MOIMES, I A. 



