358 
What is a fair rental for a given 
property? Ask the Readers’ Service TH E G ARDEN M A G A Le I N E 
Jury, 1908 
$200.00 
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 returrs by any of the systems of poultry 
keeping recommended and practised by the American people, still it is an easy mat- 
ter when the new Philo System is adopted. 
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 
Branches of the Work Nec- 
essary for Success 
from selecting the breeders to market- 
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. Thereis 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 
inexpensive 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 asim- 
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. 
- 
Chicken Feed at 15 Centsa Bushel 
Our book tells how to make the best green food 
with but little trouble and have a good supply any 
day in the year, winter or summer. It is just as 
impossible to get a large egg yield without green 
food as to keep a cow without hay or fodder. 
Three-pound White Orpington roasters, 10 weeks 
old, raised by the Philo System. Note the large, 
well-developed feet and legs and the width of the 
pullet showmg the front view. 
VALLEY FALLS, N.Y.,Sept.s5, 1907 
It was my privilege to spend a week 
in Elmira during August, during which 
time I saw the practical working of 
the Philo System of Poultry Keeping, 
and was surprised at the results ac- 
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 an outlay 
of space, time and money. 
(REV.) W. W. COX. 
BINGHAMTON, N\ Y. 
Your system of poultry keeping 
should appeal to all poultrymen. ‘The 
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 ef its success. 
GEO. L. HARDING. 
WINDSOR, Vt., March 8, 1908 
I consider the one dollar 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 home address, 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. 
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION OFFER r2.2ement 
we are able to give for only $1.00 the book with the right 
to use all plans. 
One year’s subscription to Poultry Review—a monthly paper 
for utility breeders; 
One year’s subscription to the American Poultry Advocate. 
Upon receipt of $1.00 you will get the book by return mail and 
your subscription will start at 
once. 
This offer is to old subscribers as well as new, and gives them 
a chance of extending their subscription for one year. 
Copy of the Philo System book and a year’s subscription to 
Poultry Review and the American Poultry Advocate, all 
for $1.00. 
American Poultry Advocate #°2%&" Syracuse, N.Y. 
Raspberry Vinegar 
Gh eee delicious and refreshing drink 
for hot weather is made from half 
a gill of raspberry vinegar in a glass of cold 
water. The vinegar is exceedingly easy to 
prepare and the surplus berries from the 
berry patch may be utilized in this way. 
After carefully picking over the berries 
place them in a stone jar (not earthenware) 
and pour into the jar enough vinegar of a 
good quality to just cover the berries. Let 
this stand for twenty-four hours, then strain 
through a cloth. To each pint of juice add 
one pound of sugar and boil gently for half 
an hour, removing the scum. When cold, 
bottle and seal, and if this is done correctly, 
the vinegar will keep for two years. 
If the vinegar is very strong it must be 
diluted with water before being added to the 
fruit or else the vinegar flavor will over- 
balance that of the berries. Three quarts 
of berries usually require about one quart 
of liquid to cover them and will make about 
four pints of juice after straining; with the 
addition of the sugar and after boiling there 
will be about five pints to bottle. We use 
what is left of the berries to make three pints 
of a second grade of vinegar which is good 
enough for immediate use. 
Even when the berries had to be bought 
we made five pints of the first grade of vinegar 
and three pints of the second grade for a 
total of eighty-seven cents, which included 
forty-eight cents for berries, thirty-two cents 
for sugar and seven cents for vinegar. Other 
berries may be utilized in this way, but the 
raspberry is the most satisfactory, giving 
the richest flavor. 
New York. I. M. ANGELL. 
New Things Worth Knowing 
ie IS now possible to have those two 
gorgeous and extremely popular lilies, 
auratum and speciosum, in bloom at Christ- 
mas time. “Retarded bulbs” will be pro- 
curable for the first time in quantity this 
July. They have been kept in cold storage 
since last November. The bulbs should 
be potted about the end of July and kept 
in a shed until growth starts. Then they 
should be removed to a cool greenhouse. 
The experiment was tried last year and 
proved a success. Everybody who has 
a greenhouse should try this, for what we 
want in flowers at Christmas is color — not 
white, as we do at Easter. Hitherto the 
only lily available for Christmas has been 
the Bermuda-grown Harrisii. There has n’t 
been half enough imagination about decor- 
ations for Christmas. That is the time 
when we want novelty and cheer, if ever. 
This month you will have an opportunity 
of seeing the new hardy hydrangeas which 
some consider the most important shrub 
novelty of many years. The tedious con- 
troversy over the name of this plant has been 
settled by Professor Sargent and all parties 
have agreed to abide by his decision. Hence- 
forth it will be called Hydrangea arborescens, 
var. grandiflora. Enthusiasts claim that 
it will bloom from June to October. It is 
a double-flowered variety of a native species. 
