February 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service will gladly assist 

 in selecting decorations lor the home 



Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory 



Information about the selection or care of dogs, 

 poultry and live stock will be gladly given. Ad- 

 dress INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, The Garden Magazine, 133 East 16th Street, New York. 



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 more fertile, vigorous chicks, earlier broilers, 

 heavier fowls, bigger profits. 



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cuts all kinds of bone, with adhering meat and gristle, easy, fast 



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MANN'S fcSSI 



EGGS ALL WINTER 



Sure of getting plenty of eggs in cold weather if 

 you house your chickens comfortably and feed them 

 right. "Vigor" Foods and Beef Scrap make hens 

 lay and keep them healthy. They're profit makers. 



Send for my free Illustrated Poultry Supply Book. 

 Tells everything you want to know about poultry. 

 Illustrates, too, the Model Incubators, manufactured 

 by Chas. A. Cyphers. 



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Large Berkshire Swine 



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 45 VARIETIES, pure-bred Poultry. Beautiful, hardy 

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I Build Your Own Incubators and Brooders 



nd save half the purchase price. Any one can do it. I furnish 

 mechanical parts. Tank, Lamp, Regulator, etc., at low prices, 

 Over 25,000 in use, not one failure. LAMPLESS BROODER 

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RHODE ISLAND REDS 



Practical facts on housing-, feeding and atten 

 Hon when sick. Where the Reds came from, 

 why they are the best business hens, etc. 



REAL COLOR PICTURES 



Fine pictures. Two by the wonderful new 

 French color photography — a typical bird 

 of each sex absolutely tri le to life. Send 10 

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Is this cock properly held? 

 ''Poultry Secrets" tells you 

 how to carry fowls, and 

 scores of secrets far more 

 important ana 1 hitherto un- 

 revealed. 



Poultry Secrets 



Disclosed 



Every successful poultryman knows important facts he never 

 tells. They are peculiar secret methods and discoveries he has made 

 in his work with chickens. As a rule he guards these with extreme 

 care, for they are the foundation of his success and a valuable asset 

 of his business. He is not to be blamed for keeping them to himself. 



We Will Tell You These Secrets 



Which have cost poultrymen years of labor and thousands of dollars. They 

 will cost You only a trifle and a few minutes' time to write us. 



There is no man in the United States who has more friends among the poul- 

 trymen than Michael K. Boyer. A veteran chicken breeder himself, he knows 

 the business from A to Z, and through his wide acquaintance and friendship he 

 has learned many of their most jealously-treasured secrets. This scattered mate- 

 rial he has collected in book form, and we are offering it to the poultry raisers of 

 America that they may share in the knowledge which these successful men have 

 acquired by long years of study and bitter experience. 



Every Secret printed in this book has been ob= 

 tained in an honorable way, either by permission of 

 the owner or through Mr. Boyer's own experience. 



I. K. Felch's Mating Secret 



One of the best-known figures in the poultry world is 

 I. K. Felch. Many years ago Mr. Felch published his 

 breeding chart, but later, realizing its value, he withdrew it 

 and kept the information for himself. He has now given Mr. 

 Boyer permission to use this information, and it is included 

 in this book. 



Secret of Fertile Eggs 



Boyer's secret of securing fertile eggs by alternating 

 males we believe is worth $100 to any big producer of setting 

 eggs. It is something new, and the diagrammatic illustra- 

 tion furnished by Mr.. Boyer makes the matter so plain that 

 the novice can easily understand it. 



The Secret of Feed at 1 5 Cents a Bushel 



An enterprising poultryman has been advertising this 

 secret for $5.00 and pledging those who buy it not to disclose 

 it to anyone else; it has, however, long been known to a few 

 poultrymen, Mr. Boyer among them, and the method is fully 

 explained in " Poultry Secrets." 



Selecting the Laying Hens 



Since the production of eggs is the very basis of the poultry industry, the ability to tell the laying 

 hens in the flock without the aid of trap nests will put dollars in your pocket. Do not keep on feeding the rob- 

 ber hens. It is well known that some hens never lay an egg, while others, often not as good looking, produce 



200 Eggs a Year 



Of course we cannot go to the length of saying that all the information in this book is new to every one. 

 It is said there is nothing new under the sun, and the Egyptians were hatching eggs by artificial heat cen- 

 turies ago; but we do say that to the great majority of poultrymen these secrets are absolutely unknown. 



We Will Pay $10 For Any Secret Not in the Book 



Provided it is practical and valuable. If it is something both good and new, a check for Ten Dollars 

 will be sent at once. In submitting secrets address all communications to the 



Poultry Department of Farm Journal 



FARM JOURNAL for thirty years has conducted a poultry department known the country over for the ability of its editors and the 

 value of its contents. It is the standard farm and home paper of the country with three million readers. It is clean, bright, intensely 

 practical: boiled down: cream, not skim-milk. Its contributors know what they are talking about, and can quit when they have said 

 it. Besides its unusually strong poultry section, which of itself makes the paper valuable to every chicken owner, its other depart- 

 ments are ably conducted and widely quoted. It is for the gardener, fruit man, stockman, trucker, farmer, villager, 

 suburbanite, the women folks, the boys and girls. It is worth far more than the price asked for it and "Poultry 

 Secrets" together. Its mure than half million subscribers pay five and ten years ahead — a very remarkable fact. 



We are Willing to Name Here 

 Some of the Secrets 



r Burnham's secret of mating fowls. 



2 Felch's method of breeding from an original 

 pair, producing thousands of chicks and three 

 distinct strains. 



3 Mendel's Chart of Heredity. 



4 Secret of strong fertility by alternating males. 



5 Secret of knowing what to feed and how to feed 



it. The secret of having green food in winter. 



6 Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 

 feeding. 



7 Secret recipes for chick feed; practically the same 



feed is now sold on the market at a high rate. 

 S Secret of fatting poultry economically so as to 



make the most profit out of the crop, 

 g Secret of telling the laying hens of the flock 

 to Secret of detecting age in flock. 

 ii Secret of knowing how to jud^e dressed poultry, 



12 The only safe way of preserving eggs. 



13 A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 



quickly and thoroughly. 



14 An exposure of the methods employed by some 



fanciers to kill the fertility of the eggs. 



15 The winter egg crop and how to get it. 



16 Fatting turkeys for market 



17 Hunter's secret of success. 



18 Secret of the Philo System. 



There are Scores of Others 



We will send you a copy of "Poultry Secrets" and 

 FARM JOURNAL for 5 years, both for only 



$1.00 



or Farm Journal 2 years and Poultry Secrets for 50c 



WILMER ATKINSON CO., 826 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



