April, 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



135 



A Good Living From Poultry on a City Lot 



$1,500.00 



in Ten Months 



From a City 



Lot Only 



Forty Feet 



Square 



On This Lot 



About 60 



Breeding Hens 



Are Kept and 



an Average of 



250 Chickens 



The Philo System 



Is Especially Valuable to the Farmer as Well as the City or Village Fancier and is 

 Adapted to all Climates, all Breeds and all People 



The Philo System is Unlike All Other 

 Ways of Keeping Poultry 



and in many respects it is just the reverse, accomplishing things in poultry work that 

 have been always considered impossible and getting unheard of results that are hard to 

 believe without seeing. However, the facts remain the same, and we can prove to you 

 every word of the above statement. 



The New System Covers All Branches of the Work 

 Necessary for Success 

 From selecting the breeders to marketing the product. It tells how to get eggs th t 

 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 business and at less than half the cost required to handle the poultry business in 

 any other manner. There is nothing complicated about the work and any man, woman 

 or child that can handle a saw and hammer can do the work. 



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 

 broilers are of the very best quality, bringing, here, three cents per pound above the 

 highest market price. 



Our Six=Months=01d 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 or meat of any descrip- 

 tion is fed, and the food is inexpensive as compared with food others are using. 



Our new book, The Philo System of Progressive Poultry Keeping, 



gives full particulars regarding these wonderful discoveries, with simple, easy-to-under- 

 stand directions that are right to the point, and fifteen pages of illustrations showing all 

 branches of the work from start to finish. 



It also tells how to make a brooder for twenty-five cents that will automatically 

 keep all lice off the chickens or kill any that may be on them when in the brooders. 

 Our New Brooder Saves Two Cents on Each Chicken 



No lamp is required. No danger of chilling, overheating or burning up the 

 chickens as with brooders using lamps or any kind of fire. They also keep all lice off 

 the chickens automatically, or kill any that may be on them when placed in the brooder. 

 Our book gives full plans and the right to make and use them. One can be easily 

 made in an hour at a cost of from 25 to 50 cents. 



A Few Testimonials 



Valley Falls, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1908. 

 It was my privilege to spend a week in Elmira during August, during which time I saw 

 th? practical working of the Philo System of Keeping Poultry and was surprised at the result 

 accomplished 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 out- 

 lay of space, time and money. (Rev.) W. W. Cox. 



October 22, 1908. 



P. S. — A year's observation, and some experience of my own, confirm me in what I wrote 

 Sept. 5, 1907. The System has been tried so long and by so many, that there can be no doubt 

 as to its worth and adaptability. It is especially valuable to parties having but a small place 

 for chickens; seven feet square is plenty for a flock of seven. (Rev.) W. W. Cox. 



Ransomville, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1908 



Dear Sir: — Last Spring we purchased your book entitled the "Philo System" and used 

 your heatless brooders last Spring and Summer. The same has been a great help to us in 

 raising the chix in the health and mortality. The chix being stronger and healthier than those 

 raised in the brooders with supplied heat. We believe this brooder is the best thing out yet 

 for raising chix successfully. We put 25,000 chix through your heatless brooders this last 

 season and expect to use it more completely this coming season. We have had some of the 

 most noted poultrymen from all over the U. S. here, also a large amount of visitors who come 

 daily to our plant and without any exception they pronounce our stock the finest and healthiest 

 they have seen anywhere this year. Respectfully yours. 



W. R. Curtiss & Company. 



ARE THEY WORTH SAVING? 



Don't Let the Chicks Die in the Shell. 



One of our secrets of success is to save all the chickens that are fully developed at 

 hatching time, whether they can crack the shell or not. It is a simple trick, and 

 believed to be the secret of the Ancient Egyptians and Chinese which enabled them to 

 sell their chicks at 10 cents a dozen. It takes but a minute to save a chick and no 

 skill required. 



Note What Others Say of This "Trick of the Trade." 



Ringwood, Ont., Can., May 6, igo8 

 Dear Sir: — Some time ago I got the Philo System and must say it is the best book I ever 

 read on Poultry. I have tried the "Trick of the Trade" and saved twenty-two chickens which 

 otherwise would have died. Yours truly, Roy Moyer. 



Bethlehem, Pa., April 25, 1908. 

 Dear Sir: — Your book safely to hand, and have derived great benefit from it, especially 

 "A Trick of the Trade." Respectfully yours, G.JH. Staniforth. 



Potomac, III., May, 1908. 

 Dear Sir: — I am using your System of Progressive Poultry Keeping and consider it the best 

 work on Poultry Raising I ever read. In my last hatch I saved twenty-three chickens by fol- 

 lowing the article "A Trick of the Trade." Yours truly, Fred Janison. 



Send $1.00 and a copy of the latest revised edition of the book will be sent you by return mail. 



Address, E. R. PHILO, Publisher 



601 Third Street, Elmira, N. Y. 



