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sulphur ointment, to which has been added S per cent 

 of creoHn. 



Where birds have had serious troubles there is only 

 one way to disinfect a coop. Clean out and spray with 

 carbolic and crude oil. Then get two granite dishes, in 

 one burn one-fourth pound of sulphur, using something 

 to keep it away from the floor. In the other one pour 

 one pint of solution formaldehyde. Place this over an 

 alcohol stove (operated very cheaply with wood alcohol) 

 so that it will boil. Close down your curtains and leave 



coop closed for four hours at least. Open up and air 

 three or four hours before replacing stock. This refers 

 to coop 12x16. 



To those who are interested in well-bred stock and 

 not conversant with its treatment, I would suggest they 

 secure a copy of Reliable Poultry Remedies, issued by 

 R. P. J., and at intervals spend a half hour or so ac- 

 quainting themselves with the most prevalent diseases 

 of poultry. It may save you some very distressing ex- 

 periences — which others have had. 



The Campine Fowl 



The Utility Qnalities of English and Continental Breeds are Attracting the Attention of American Breeders 



— Early History of One Strain of the Golden Caraipines — One Distinction of the Campine is 



Their Hxtreme Tameness — While Early Eggs Do Not Run Fertile 



the Late Hatched Birds Make Up by Fast Growing 



By Au«. D. Arnold, Dillsbitr^, Pa. 



THOSE who have bred the Campine fowl for a few 

 years cannot help but be in love with it and the 

 question will naturally come to such persons why it 

 is that the Campine with all its good qualities has been 

 bred for hundreds of years and yet never was taken up by 

 English and American breeders until only a few years 

 ago. The chief reason may possibly be that fanciers 

 have not recognized' the utility qualities and only the 

 fancy part of the Campine was considered, and it was 

 only after the plumage of the Campine was pleasing 

 to the fancier of England and America that this breed 

 was taken in hand by them, and we may say right here 

 that while the fancy part of the great poultry industry 

 has many adherents, it is a fact that the utility side is 

 on the move as it never has been before. Americans 

 are getting into this country the best utility fowls to 

 be found in England, France and Belgium, and a very 

 marked interest is taking hold of poultrymen of Amer- 

 ica, and the American Poultry Association is taking 

 notice of this fact and acting accordingly. 



While the Campine is also a good table fowl, the 

 chief quality claimed for them is their great laying 

 qualities, laying a white egg of good size and plenty of 

 them, and their beauty as a show bird is being admired 

 more and more as they improve in plumage as they 

 do from year to year. This they are doing at a very 

 rapid pace and especially is this true of the Goldens. 

 It is not over three years ago that the first Goldens 

 were put on exhibition at the Palace Show in England 

 and Madison Square, New York. Since their first ap- 

 pearance in the show room they have had many ad- 

 mirers and the. improvement in this variety has been 

 simply wonderful. 



While the Silvers have been bred for hen-feathered 

 males for ten or twelve years, and the Goldens for only 

 two or three years, yet it is a fact that the Goldens are 

 ahead of them in all fancy points and lead them in 

 hardiness, and as utility fowls they are in every way the 

 equal of the Silvers. 



There is a bit of history connected with the intro- 

 duction of the Golden Campine into this country that is 

 not known even by our leading breeders of Campines. 

 The Golden Campine was brought into this country at 

 least two or three years before the Rev. Mr. Jones ex- 

 hibited them while on his visit to America. We refer 



to his exhibit at Madison Square Garden, December, 

 1911. 



The first Golden Campines were brought to this 

 country by Mr. White of Frederick, Md. Mr. White be- 

 ing a dealer of Belgian horses, made a number of trips 

 to Belgium and while attending a horse show in Bel- 

 gium on one of these visits, he was presented with a 

 pen of Golden Campines by the King of Belgium. Mr. 

 White bred these birds for a few years, giving stock 

 and eggs to his neighbors, as they proved to be very 

 great layers of large white eggs. He also gave a setting 

 of these eggs to a Mr. Hawkins of Pennsylvania. While 

 we were looking over Mr. Jones' pen of Goldens at 

 Madison Square Garden, Mr. Theo. Wittman of Allen- 

 towUj Pa., came up to the coop, and after looking at 

 them, he told us that he knew a man in the country in 

 which we lived who had Golden Campines for several 

 years, stating that he had seen them (these being the 

 birds Mr. Hawkins owned). We thought at the time that 

 Mr. Wittman was surely mistaken, but on our return 

 from the New York Show we at once wrote Mr. Hawk- 

 ins, and in answer he wrote that he had received a 

 setting of eggs from Mr. White of Frederick, Md., and 

 raised the fowls, and stated since he had no male, he 

 wouM sell the birds to me. I at once ordered them. 

 Mr. Hawkins wrote me they were wonderful layers. 

 Through Mr. Hawkins I got the address of Mr. White 

 and bought twenty-five females, then we imported a 

 male from an English breeder, also had Mr. Kennedy, 

 of Birch Cliff, Ont., Canada, order one pen from the 

 Rev. Mr. Jones for us. 



This cross has given us a strain no other breeder 

 owns, giving vigor and stamina that could not be pro- 

 cured in any other way. Mr. White did not know that 

 these birds were Campines until sometime after we 

 bought them from him. While these birds were not bred 

 fi-om clear Braekel males, yet the females came in good 

 markings and at least three of the leading breeders of 

 Golden Campines in America have females in their 

 yards that came from our flock, so it will be seen that 

 the Golden Campine reached America before they were 

 shown at any show in England. 



One of the most notable characteristics of the Cam- 

 pine that is so different from all small varieties of fowls, 

 is their extreme tameness. They are real pets. An- 



