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Geo. H. Rea has turned his entire bee- 

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 May 1st: 



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Uentlom Bee Journal Trben ■vrritSmg, 



Poultry Secrets 



Disclosed 



POULTRY SECRETS. ,,J;:r^ -[: 



X tryman knows important facts he never tells. They 

 are peculiar secret methods and records of discov- 

 eries he has made in his wr»rk with chickens. Some of 

 these he does not retrard of sufficient importance to tell, 

 and others he guards with extreme care. They are the 

 foundation of his success and a valuable asset of his busi- 

 ness. 



We Will Tell You These Secrets 



There is no man in the United States who has more 

 friends among poultrymen than Michael K. Boyer. A 

 veteran chicken breeder himself, he knows the business 

 from A to Z, and through his great acquaintance and 

 friendship among poultrymen he has learned many of 

 their most jealously-treasured secrets. This scattered ma- 

 terial he has collected in book form, and we are offering 

 itto the poultry raisersof America in order thatthey 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 through the experience of 

 Mr Boyer himself. 



I. K. Fetch's Mating Secret 



One of the best known figures in the poul- 

 try world is I. K. Felch. Certainly success 

 has crowned his efforts as a breeder of 

 blooded stock. Manv vears aj^o 11 r. Felch 

 published his breeding chart, but later, 

 realizins: its value, he withdrew it and kept 

 the information for himself. He has now 

 eriven Mr. Hover permission to use this in- 

 formation, and it is included in this book. 



Is this rock properly held? 

 "Poultry J^ecrets" Ulls 

 you how to carry fowls, 

 ant/ .srorfs of secrets J'ttr 

 more i mportanl u/ui 

 hitherto unrevealed. 



Secret of Fertile F^^s 



Boyer's secret of securing fertile eeefs by 

 alternating- males we believe is worth glOO to 

 any bis:r producer of settintr eg-j^s. It is some- 

 thin^f new, and the diairrammatic illustration 

 furnished by .Mr. Boyer makes the matter so 

 plain that the novice can easily understand it. 



The Secret of Feed at 13 Cents a 

 Bushel 



An enterprisingr poultrvman has been ad- 

 vertising: this secret for S5 00 and pledgring- 

 those who buy it not to disclose it to any one 

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

 few poultrymen. .Mr Bover among them, 

 and the niethod has been fully explained in 

 "Poultry Secrets." 



Of course we 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 eggs by artificial heat centuries 

 ago; but we do say that to the great majority 

 of Poultrymen these secrets will be abso- 

 lutely new. 



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



Provided it is practical and valuable. The only condition we make is that Mr. Boyer. whose 

 standing and reputation for fair dealing are known to every large poultryman, must be the 

 sole ludge whether it is Practical and Valuable." If it is something good and new, a check 

 for Ten Dollars will be sent at once. 



Poultry Department of Farm Journal 



Farm JorRXAL for thirty years has conducted a poultry department known the country 

 over for the ability of its editors and the value of its contents. It is the standard farm and 

 S^^^P^^P^'" °^ ^"*^ country with three million readers. It is clean, bright, intensely practical- 

 boiled-down; cream, not skim-milk. Its contributors know what they are talking about, and 

 can quit when they have said it. Besides its unusually strong poultry sec- 

 tion, which of itself makes the paper valuable to everv chicken owner, its 

 other departments are ably conducted and widely quoted. It is for the 

 gardener fruit man. stockman, trucker, farmer, villager, suburbanite, the 

 1* 8"* » women folks, the boys and girls. It is worth far more than the price asked 



tor it and Poultry Secrets" together. Its more than half million sub- 

 scribers pay hve and ten years ahead— a remarkable tribute. 



We are Willing to Name Here 

 Some of the Secrets 



Burnham's secret of maiing (owts. 



Felch's method ot breeding from an original 



pair, producing thousands of chicks and three 



distinct strains. 

 Mendel's Chart of Heredity. 

 Secret of strong ierlility by alternating males. 

 Secret of knowing what to feed and liow to feed 



it. The secret of having green food in winter. 

 Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 



feeding. 

 Secret recipes for chick feed : practically the same 



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

 Secret of f.itling poultry economically so as to 



make the must profit out of the crop. 

 Secret of having healthy fowls without the use of 



drugs. 

 Secret of telling the laying hens of the flock. 

 Secret of detecting age in stock. 

 Secret of knowing how to judge dressed poultry. 

 The only safe way of preserving eggs. 

 A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 



quickly and w ith little tntuMe 

 The fancier's secret of preparing fowls for exhi- 

 bition. 

 An exposure of the methods employed by some 



fanciers to kill the fertility of the eggs. 

 The secret of celery-feeding to flavor the carcass 



in imitation of the canvas-back duck. 

 Scaly-leg treatment — a remedy that really cures. 

 The winter egg crop and how to get it. 

 How to create the ideal roasting fowls. 

 Fatting turkeys for market. 

 Hunter's Secret of Suo ess. 



There are Scores of Others 



MKCCJ1> 

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Our Offer 



Wo will send a copy of 

 "Poultry Secrets '".-ind 

 Faum .Tot'RNAL icir 5 yeais, 

 both for only 



$1.00 



And to every one who takes advantage ni this advertisement before 

 Pehruary 1st. we will send also a coi>y of the Lincoln Farm Alnianar, 

 Hlled with Lincrdn stones and valuable information for everybody for 190a. 



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