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In Six Months from 20 Hens 
To the average poultryman that would seem impossible, and when we tell you 
that we have actually done a $500.00 poultry business with 20 hens on a corner in 
the city garden 30 feet wide by 4o feet long, we are simply stating facts. 
It would not be possible to get such returns by any of the systems of poultry 
keeping recommended and practised by the American people, still it is an easy mat- 
THE PHILO SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ALL 
OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING POULTRY 
and in many respects is just the reverse, accomplishing things in poultry work that 
have always been considered impossible, and getting unheard-of results that are hard 
to believe without seeing. However, the facts remain the same, we can prove to you 
every word of the above statement. 
Two Pound Broilers in Eight Weeks 
are raised in a space of less than a square foot to the broiler without any loss, and the broil- 
ers are of the best quality, bringing here three cents per pound above the highest market 
price. ; 
The New System Covers All Chicken Feed at 15 Centsa Bushel VAULEY FALLS, NY. Sept.s, r907 
It was my privilege to spend a week 
Branches of the Work Nec= Our book tells how to make the best green food in Elmira during August, during which 
essary for Success 
with but little trouble and have a good supply any time I saw the practical working of 
from selecting the breeders to market- impossible to get a large egg yield without green and was surprised at the results ac- 
day in the year, winter or summer. It is just as the Philo System of Poultry Keeping, 
ing the product. It tells how to get 
eggs that will hatch, how to hatch 
nearly every egg and how to raise 
nearly all the chicks hatched. It gives 
complete plans in detail how to make 
everything necessary to run the busi- 
ness and at less than half the cost re- 
quired to handle the poultry business 
in any other manner. There is nothing 
complicated about the work, and any 
man or woman that can handle a saw 
and a hammer can do the work. 
Our Six Months Old Pullets 
Are Laying at the Rate of 
24 Eggs Each Per Month 
in a space of two square feet for each 
bird. No green cut bone of any de- 
scription is fed, and the food used is 
imexpensive as compared with food 
others are using. 
Our new book, the PHILO SYS- 
TEM OF PROGRESSIVE POUL- 
TRY KEEPING, gives full particu- 
lars regarding these wonderful discov- 
eries, with simpie, easy to understand 
directions that are right to the point, 
and 15 pages of illustrations showing 
all branches of the work from start to 
finish, 
Don’t Let the Chickens Die 
in the Shell 
One of our secrets of success is to 
save all the chickens that are fully de- 
veloped at hatching time, whether they 
can crack the shell or not. It is a sim- 
ple trick, and believed to be the secret 
of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese, 
which enable them to sell the chicks 
at 10 cents a dozen. 
Our New Brooder Saves 2 
Cents on Each Chicken 
No lamp required. No danger of 
chilling, overheating or burning up the 
chickens, as with brooders using lamps 
or any kind of fire. Theyalso keepall 
lice off the chicks automatically, or 
kill any that may be on when placed 
in the brooder. Our book gives full 
plans and the right to make and use 
them. One can easily be made in an 
hour, at a cost of 25 to 50 cents. 
food as to keep a cow without hay or fodder. 
Three-pound White Orpington roasters, ro weeks 
old, raised by the Philo System. Note the large, 
well-developed feet and legs and the width of the 
pullet showing the front view. 
complished in a small corner of a city 
yard. “‘Seeing is believing,’’ they say, 
and if I had not seen it would have 
been hard to believe that such results 
could have followed so small anoutlay 
of space, time and money. 
(REV.) W. W. COX. 
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
Your system of poultry keeping 
should appeal to all poultrymen. ‘he 
advantages of your system are many, 
and the quality of the large flock of 
poultry you have raised on your city lot 
is the best evidence of its success. 
GEO. L. HARDING. 
WINDSOR, Vt., March 8, 1908 
I consider the one doliar I invested 
in the Philo System, Poultry Review 
and American Poultry Advocate the 
best investment for the money I ever 
made. ROBERT L. PATRICK. 
JACOBS CREEK, Pa., Nov.25,1907 
I received the Philo System Book 
mailed tomy homeaddress, Beechtree, 
Pa. Iam highly pleased with it, and 
anxious to spread the good newsas far 
as I can. I ama preacher of the Gos- 
pel engaged by the Baptist Ass’n to 
do Evangelistic work. I am very much 
interested in the hen, and will do all 
I can to help the other fellow to know 
HOW, and to spread the good tidings 
received in the Philo System. 
(REV.) F. B. WILLIAMS., 
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FEEDING SWEET PEAS 
A. P. H., New Jersey.— The best fertilizer for sweet 
peas is well decayed barnyard manure which must be 
dug or plowed into the ground during the fall preceding 
planting. If this is not available, then use finely-ground 
pure, raw bone, well mixed with the soil before sowing 
the seed. If neither of these things has been done and 
the sweet peas need plant food, the easiest way will be to 
give manure water. 
SOIL AMELIORATION 
M. M., R. I. — Without having personal acquaintance 
with your soil, we conclude that what your land needs 
is still more manure. No advantage could possibly arise 
at this time from the use of land plaster (sulphate of lime 
or gypsum). This is a valuable addition to land which 
is already heavily manured in making available the already 
locked-up plant food. In your case, there may be a lack 
of plant food, and humus, more than anything else, is nec- 
essary. Cultivation will accomplish a great deal and will 
help to keep the crops growing by aérating the soil and 
conserving moisture. 
SUPPORT FOR VINES 
F. W. B., Wyo.— A heavy-weight chicken wire is the 
best generally available trellis for vines, and some such 
accessory means of support should be stretched over the 
part of the house where the vines are to be trained. It 1s 
essential that the supports be firm, and iron rods run at 
frequent intervals, to which the netting can be securely 
fastened, are much better than wooden boards. Be 
sure to get a good, heavy-weight wire, because the 
weight of the plants becomes a considerable item in the 
course of a year or two, and a light-grade of wire might 
give way under the strain. 
WHAT TO DO WITH THE BULBS 
E. C. A., New York. — Leave the bulbs of tulips, daffo- 
dils and narcissus which you planted last fall just where 
they are; do not touch them for two or three years anyhow. 
The only reason for taking up bulbs at all is that the 
ground is wanted for planting other things. Daffodils 
do better the second and third years and should not be 
moved until they become so crowded as to cause undue 
pressure on each other and consequent starving. Of 
éourse, the full-sized bulbs that flower this year will not 
flower again next year; they produce offsets. It is better 
to pick off the flowers (not the leaves) from bulbous 
plants. If the flower is allowed to form seed and to 
develop a seed pod, the bulb is being taxed to a totally 
unnecessary degree. Cut the flower stalk as soon as the 
petals fade. 
EARLY LIMA BEANS AND TOMATOES 
M. D., Mass. —For an early bush lima bean, plant 
Henderson’s Bush Lima. The earliest pole variety is 
the small lima, or Sieva, but this is of rather a poor quality. 
One of a much better quality and a week later 1s the 
Early Leviathan. Start these in a coldframe or hotbed 
in pots or on inverted sods about May ist or late in April. 
They cannot generally be started much earlier than that, 
because the growth would be so large that it would be 
difficult to handle. Plant in six-inch pots, putting about 
half a dozen seeds to a pot. When transplanting, be very 
careful not to break the roots. Knock the balls of earth 
out of the pots and plant in the ground intact. The 
earliest tomatoes are Earliana and Chalk’s Early Jewel. 
They may be started in a hotbed about the first of April 
and grown on in pots until planting-out time. Four-inch 
pots will probably be large enough. The plants must be 
hardened off before being planted out. 
