Manhattan, Kans., July 8, 1906. 



Mrs. D. C. Johnson— Enclosed you will find stamps for which you will 

 please send me trial package of Poultry Compound. I have tried to raise 

 a good many chickens this summer and have not had very good success. 

 Was informed that your Poultry Compound was very good and would like 

 to try it. Mrs. Annie E. Howenstinb. 



901 Kearney Street. 



Lamoile, Iowa, July 9, 1906. 

 Mrs. D. C. Johnson, Maxwell, Iowa — Dear Madam: I saw your ad. 

 in the Western Poultry Journal. Enclosed will find one dollar order for 

 your book. We are running two incubators. I visited Mrs. Vader to see 

 her chicks. She spoke about your book as a valuable aid to beginners. 

 Please send to my address and oblige. Isaac H. Pile. 



Sioux City, Iowa, July 7, 1906. 



Dear Mrs. Johnson— I will send 81.00 by mail. Please send me two 

 packages of Poultry Compound at once for I am out of it. It is the best 

 stuff I ever gave to chicks. I am also giving it to my old hens. So please 

 oblige me. Mrs. Herman Klingebiel. 



Hinton, Iowa. 



Saffordville, Kans., July 12, 1906. 

 Mrs. Johnson — I have heard your medicine praised so much that I 

 would like to try it if you will send us the free sample before we buy any. 



Yours truly. 



Flora Klatt. 



Iowa's Poultry Queen 



Mrs. D. C. Johnson, of Maxwell, Iowa, who last year established the 

 phenomenal record of over a thousand chicks at a single hatching, started 

 out this season with the determination to break her own record. Some 

 time ago announcement was made that on July 21st she would bring oflf a 

 brood of 2,000 chicks. 



Mrs. E. C. Nienaber, of Durant, who has been in correspondence with 

 Mrs. Johnson and a close student of her methods since first her advertise- 

 ment appeared in the Star, took occasion to go to Maxwell to witness this 

 phenomenal hatch. Mrs. Nienaber says: 



"July 21st was certainly an eventful day, not in Mrs. Johnson's life 

 alone, but in the history of the art of artificial incubation. 



In response to the advertisement in her home papers that on this day 

 she would, at one hatching, take 2,000 chicks from the incubators, a large 

 crowd assembled. But by actual count — in which the writer had a hand — 



