March, 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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Poultry Secrets 



^Disclosed 



T^7"E offer to all poultry raisers the essential knowledge and 

 secret methods of many of the most successful poultrymen 

 in America. As a rule these secrets have been guarded with 

 extreme care, for it is on them that the great successes have 

 been built. They have cost years of labor and thousands of 

 dollars. They will cost YOU only a trifle and a few minutes 

 to write us. 



How We Obtained These Secrets 



Michael K. Boyer, our poultry editor, has had exceptional opportunities 

 and the closest friendship with poultrymen all over the country. They have 

 freely told him many of their most jealously treasured secrets, many others 

 we have bought, and this scattered material, together with several of Mr. 

 Boyer's own valued methods, has now been collected in book form. It must 

 be clearly understood that every secret printed has been obtained in an 

 honorable ivay. 



Dr. Woods' Egg Food Secret 



Dr. P. T. Woods authorizes the publication of his system for producing large quantities of 

 sterile eggs for market. Every . poultryman who raises eggs for market must know Dr. Woods' 

 method to be up with the times and every householder who supplies only his or her own table.will 

 appreciate an increased quantity of the hiphest quality eggs for table use. 



Secret of Fertile Eggs 



Boyer's secret of securing fertile eggs by alternating males we believe is worth $100 to any big 

 producer of eggs for hatching, either for his own incubators or selling to others for fancy stock. It 

 is something new, and the diagrammatic illustration furnished by Mr. Boyer makes the matter so 

 plain that the novice can easily understand it. This system is already practised or about to be 

 introduced in many of the largest poultry plants in the country. 



I. K. Felch's Mating Secret 



Many years ago Mr. Felch, one of the best known figures in the poultry world, published his 

 breeding chart, but later, realizing its great importance and value to him, he withdrew it, and 

 kept the information for himself. He has now given Mr. Boyer permission to use this system, and 

 it is included in this book. 



Is this cock properly held? 

 "Poultry Secrets" tells you 

 hew to carry fowls, and scores 

 of secrets far more impor- 

 tant and hitherto jeurevealed. 



Secret of Feed at 15c 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." 



So=Called "Systems" Explained 



A number of "systems" and secret recipes have been and are still sold at high prices. 

 Some are good, but not new; some are new but of little value. Some are worth the money paid 

 for them. Poultry Secrets gives the facts. 



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 quickly, without the aid of trap nests will put dollars in your pocket. Do not 

 keep on feeding the robber hens. 



Of course we cannot goto the length of saying that all the information in the book is new to 

 everyone. It is said there is nothing new under the sun, and the Egyptians were hatching eggs 

 by artificial heat centuries ago; but we do say that to the great majority of poultrymen these secrets 

 are unknown. 



H^re are a Few More of 

 the Secrets 



1 Secret of the Philo System. 



2 Woods' secret of laying food. 



3 Proctor's salt secret. 



4 Mendel's chart of heredity. 



5 Truslow's secret of high 



prices for ducks. 



6 Hunter's secret of success. 



7 Gowell's fattening secret. 



8 Burnham's system of mating" 



fowls. 



9 Brackenbury's secret of scald- 



ed oats. 



10 Secret recipes of chick feed; 



practically the same food as 

 is now sold on the market 

 at a high rate. 



11 Secret of 200 eggs per lien 



per year. 



12 "Woods' secret of saving weak 



incubator chicks. 



13 Secret of telling ageof poultry. 



14 Secret of preserving eggs — 



the only safe way. 



15 Secret of celery fed broilers. 



16 Secret of fattening turkeys. 



17 Incubator secrets. 



18 Broody hen secrets. 



19 An exposure of the methods 



employed by some fanciers 

 to kill the fertility ot hatch- 

 ing eggs. 

 There are scores of others 



We will pay $10.00 

 for any secret not in 



the bOOk Provided it is prac- 

 tical and valuable. 

 If it is something both good and new 

 a check for Ten Dollars will be sent 

 at once. In submitting secrets ad- 

 dress all communications to 



Is this cock 

 properly held ? 

 Poultry Secrets 

 tells. 



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. Besides this strong section, which of itself makes the paper valuable to 

 every chicken owner, itsother departments are ably conducted and widely quoted. It is the standard farm and home 

 paper of the country with already more than three million readers. It is clean, bright, intensely practical: boiled- 

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

 said it. It is for the gardener, fruit man, stockman, trucker, farmer, villager, suburbanite, the women folks, 

 the boys and girls. It is illustrated and well printed on good paper. It has not a medical or trashy advertisement 

 in it. Its more than half million subscribers pay five and ten years ahead — a very remarkable fact. We will 

 send you a copy of 



"Poultry Secrets" and Farm Journal 5 years, both for only $1.00 



or Farm Journal 2 years and Poultry Secrets, 50c. 



Send check, dollar note, stamps, coin or money order; the latter preferred. 



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