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write me again and tell me anything you think I ought to know. I am 

 always ready and willing to learn. When I read of your success, I wondered 

 how you managed your incubator for such good results, but when I read 

 your instructions, how easy it was for me to operate my incubator. I wish 

 I could sell my incubator; it is almost too large for me since I can hatch so 

 many chicks at once. It is a good machine and if a person will follow your 

 instructions they can hatch more chicks than they can take care of. As I 

 know how to operate an incubator now, a smaller one will do me just as 

 well or better, than a large one. My family is small, only my husband and 

 myself, but I want to raise at least 500 hens for next year. I think it is the 

 duty of every woman to do all she can to help make a livelihood, don't you? 

 And they can help more by raising poultry than any other way. It is a 

 work I dearly love. I would like to meet you and have a talk with you. 

 Thanking you again for your kindness, I remain 



Yours very respectfuUp, 



Mrs. Ed. Day. 



Colo, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1905. — My Bear Mrs. Johnson: Please send me 

 another fifty cents worth of your Poultry Compound. We have hatched 

 at least one-fourth more chicks since you showed us how to put those extra 

 ventilators in our incubator. I do, indeed, feel grateful to you. Your 

 book is certainly a wonderful help to chicken raisers, no more so than your 

 Compound. I am glad there is some one coming to the front to help us 

 women in poultry raising, for men have so much help in their stock raising 

 and one is just as essential as the other, don't you think so? We have had 

 good success with our poultry this summer. Please send the Compound 

 by return mail and oblige, 



Yours respectfully, 



Mrs. John Connoly. 



Kalona, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1905. — Mrs. D. C. Johnson, Maxwell, Iowa: 

 Kind Friend — Well, I will at last write and let you know that I received 

 the money all right. I simply put off writing from one day to the next, and 

 so time went. I had a letter from my daughter, telling me that she saw 

 you at the fair. She also sent me your card and the price of your poultry 

 tonic. You please send me a package for the stamps enclosed. We have 

 sold enough young chickens to pay all our expenses and have about 200 

 young chickens left for clear profit. My success is all due to you and your 

 valuable instruction book, I am well pleased with the incubators I bought 

 of you. Of course, we have not the numbers you are used to raising, but I 

 am proud of my success as a beginner with an incubator. Have you the 

 pure bred Plymouth Rock cockerels, and if so what are your prices? I did 



