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SUCCESS WITH POULTRY 



overything complete. This apparatus is put together in our 

 shop before shipment, and the different sections are marked 

 in accordance with a diagram, with instructions for erect- 

 ing, which we furnish the purchaser, thereby enabling him 



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to set it up correctly and thus avoid the expense of a special 

 mechanic for that work. We will specially prepare this 

 heating apparatus for any size house desired. For prices 

 of other lengths than here quoted, write us. 



We positively guarantee that these heaters will heat the 

 brooder houses for which they are designed in the coldest 

 weather. 



In houses 40 feet or smaller we run pipes only one way 

 from heater, but in houses 50 feet and longer we run pipes 

 both ways, unless ordered different, thus bringing farthest 

 end of piping much nearer to the source of heat, as shown 

 in drawing; and the system is so arranged that if only one 



end of the brpoder is needed the heat can be shut ofE from 

 the end not in use without interfering with the working of 

 the end in use, thus saving one-half the fuel. 



THE RELIABLE STOCK FOOD OOOKEB AND WATER 



HEATER COMBINED. 



Cooked Food. 



A large majority of the successful stock-raisers of the 

 country need not be told of the advantage of cooking all 



stack food, for food cook- 

 ers are fixtures on their 

 farms, and they would not 

 do wi'thout them. It is 

 just the thing for the mar- 

 ket poultryman who raises 

 chickens for early market 

 to cook their food. It is' 

 necessary to obtain the 

 best results; Breeders of 

 thoroughbred poultry who 

 raise several hundred head 

 each season, and who carry 

 severals pens of breeders 

 through the year will like- 

 wise find it to their ad- 

 vantage; They will obtain quick growth and greater size 

 in their stock, and be enabled to get tkem ready for earlier 

 sales or for exhibition at the early shows, and the stock 

 itself will be more productive. The males can be disposed 

 of earlier and the pullets will begin to lay earlier. All 

 cooked food should be fed sufficiently dry so that it will 

 crumble. This can be insured by mixing it with bran or 

 with the Reliable Pood described elsewhere in these pages. 



Largest Thoroughbred Poultry Farm in the World 



One Hundred and Thirty-five Pens of Standard-bred Poultry— Over $8,000 in Buildings— A 

 Farm Where You May Obtain Show Birds or Breeders. 



THE Reliable Incubator and Brooder Company now 

 owns and controls about 7,400 thoroughbred fowls. 

 On their large farm, located on the boulevard, in 

 the beautiful suburbs of Quincy, there are to be seen 

 no less than 135 pens of high-grade thoroughbred poultry, 

 mated for breeding. Heretofore this company had 11(J pen&, 

 but cDuld not near supply the demand, and hence recently 

 they have again enlarged their poultry plant, increasing 

 the outlay in buildings -to upwards of $8,000. Included in 

 the above is a new brooding house and two-story packing 

 and shipping house, 120x20 feet in dimensions, this brooding 

 house having a capacity of 3,000 chicks. See the illustra- 

 tions of farm and buildings, reproduced from photographs. 

 They are breeders of fancy poultry in the right sense 

 of the words. They are not amateurs. They have con- 

 ducted the breeding of fine poultry for over twenty years 

 and have spared neither time nor money to perfect their 

 birds and bring them to as near standard requirements as 

 possible. Every fowl in their yards is bred on practical 

 and scientific principles, and they are pleased to state that 

 this part of their business has proved pleasant and renum- 

 erative; in fact, out of this industry was developed their 

 extensive incubator establishment. They have exhibited 

 their stock at Chicago, Peoria, Jacksonville, Bloomington, 

 Springfield, Danville, Quincy, and other leading poultry ex- 



hibitions, and the high honors which ha'\^e been awarded 

 them is evidence of the high standard of their stock. The 

 Reliable Incubator and Brooder Company is the only incu- 

 bator firm in this western territory conducting its own 

 poultry farm on a large and perfected scale. 



In the foregoing pages will be found life-like illustra- 

 tions of the diffirent varieties they breed, with descriptions 

 of same. They are the most valuable and, therefore, the 

 most popular of all varieties. By breeding in large num- 

 bers, aided by a complete system and a strictly modern 

 plant, they are able to not only produce "as good as the 

 best," but to sell choice stock and eggs at unusually low 

 prices, quality considered. Under no circumstances will 

 they send out disqualified or worthless stock, nor eggs from 

 inferior stock. This they positively guarantee. 



The list of average prices quoted in their catalogue is 

 for guaranteed, pure-bred stock, bred to the requirements 

 of the American Standard of Perfection— in other words, 

 these prices are for good, strong, vigorous, highly produc- 

 tive THOROUGHBRED breeding stock, stock that will 

 reproduce itself, true to shape, feather and prolific. Where 

 fowls are wanted for eggs or meat, to breed for pleasure, 

 or profit, or both, they can do as well or better by you 

 than any firm or individual, with whom you may correspond. 



