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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1910 



Poultry, Kennel and Live 5tock Directory LtS '°" '''°"' **"' 



dogs, poultry and live stock will be gladly given. Address INFORMATION 

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



or care of 

 DEPARTMENT, 



A LIVING FROM POULTRY 



$1,500.00 from 60 Hens in Ten Months on a City 



Lot 40 Feet Square 



nrO the average poultry- 

 man that would seem 

 impossible, and when we tell 

 you that we have actually 

 done a $1300 poultry bus- 

 iness with 60 hens on a 

 corner in the city garden 40 

 feet wide by 40 feet long, 

 we are simply stating facts. 

 It would not be possible to 

 get such returns by any one 

 of the systems of poultry 

 keeping recommended and 

 practiced by the American 

 people, still it can be ac- 

 complished by the 



PHILO 

 S YST E M 



THE PHILO SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ALL OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING 

 POULTRY 



and in many respects 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. 



THE NEW SYSTEM COVERS ALL BRANCHES OF THE WORK 

 NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS 



from selecting: the bree.lers to marketing the product. It tells how to get eg?s 

 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 everythmg 

 necessary to run the business and at less than half the cost required to handle 

 the poultry business in any other manner. 



TWO-POUND BROILERS IN EIGHT WEEKS 



are raised in a space of less than a square foot to the broiler, and the broilers 

 are of the very best quality, bringing here 3 cents a pound above the highest 

 market price. 



OUR SIX-MONTH-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 descrip- 

 tion is fed, and the food used is inexpensive as compared with food others 

 are using. 



Our new book, THE PUILO SVS'l'EM OK I'OULTRY KEEPING, gives full 

 particulars 'egarding these wonderful discoveries, with simple, easy-to 

 understand directions that are right to the point, and 15 pages of illustra- 

 tions showing all branches of the work from start to finish. 



DON'T LET THE CHICKS DIE IN THE SHELL 



One of the 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 

 simple trick, and believed to be the secret of the ancient Egyptians and 

 Chinese which enabled them to sell the chicks at 10 cents a dozen. 



CHICKEN FEED AT FIFTEEN CENTS A BUSHEL 



Ourbook 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 



Note the condition of these three months old pnllett. These pnllets and their ancestors for seven 

 generations have never been allowed to run outside the coops, 



impossible to get a large egg yield without green food as it is to keep a cow 

 without hay or fodder. 



OUR NEW BROODER SAVES 2 CENTS ON EACH CHICKEN 



No lamp required. No danger of chilling, over-heating or burning up the 

 chickens as with brooders using lamps or any kind of fire. They also keep the 

 lice off the chickens automatically or kill any that may be on them when 

 placed in the biooder. 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. 



TESTIMONIALS 



My Dear Mr. Philo:— Valley Falls, N. Y., Oct. i, 1910. 



After another year's work with your System of Poultry Keeping (making 

 three years in all) 1 am thoroughly convinced of its practicability. I raised 

 all my chicks in your Brooder-Coops containing your Fireless Brooders, and 

 kept them there until they were nearly matured, decreasing the number in 

 each coop, however, as they grew in size. Those who have visited my plant 

 have been unanimous in their praise of my birds raised by this System . 



Sincerely yours, (Rev.) E. B.* Templer. 



Mr. E, R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. Elmira, N. Y.. Oct. 30, 1909. 



Dear Sir: — No doubt you will be interested to learn of our success in keep- 

 ing poultry by the Philo System, Oar first year's work is now nearly com- 

 pleted. It has given us an income of over $i;oo.oo from six pedigree hens and 

 one cockerel. Had we imderstood the work as well as we now do after a 

 year's experience, we could easily have made over $1000.00 from the six hens. 

 In addition to the profits from the sale of pedigree chicks we have cleared 

 over $960.00, running our Hatchery plant, consisting of 56 Cycle Hatchers. 

 We are pleased witii the results, and expect to do better the coming year. 

 With best wishes, we are. Very truly yours, (Mrs.) C. P. Goodrich 



Mr. E. R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. South Britain. Conn., April 19. 1909. 



Dear Sir: — I have followed your System as close as I could ; the result is a 

 complete success. If ihere can be any improvement on nature, your brooder 

 is it. The first experience I had with your System was l;ist December. I 

 hatched 17 chicks under two hens, put them as soon as hatched in one of 

 your brooders out of doors, and at the age of three months I sold them at 35c. 

 a pound. They then avei aged 2% lbs. each, and the man I sold them to said 

 they were the finest he ever saw, and he wants all I can spare this season. 



Yours truly. A, E. Nelson. 



SPECIAL OFFER 



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Photojrapli Showing a Portion ofthePliilo Niitionnl Ponltry InslStule PonKry Pliint, Where 

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i E. R. PHILO, Publisher 



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You can double your egg; yield by feeding fresh-cut, raw bone. It contains over four times 

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Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees. By 



George Massee, Assistant Keeper of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. Tlie Macmillan 

 Company, New York. Price $i.7S. 



This book gives technical descriptions of the 

 most important fungi that cause plant diseases 

 in- Europe. Many of these are also destructive 

 in America. Other subjects treated are: Primary 

 and secondary causes of disease; wounds; drought, 

 frost and hail; injury by smoke, acid fumes, and 

 gas; bacteriology of the soil; fungicides; spray- 

 ing; lichens; bacteria; mites; eelworms; spraying 

 formulas. 



Dutch Bulbs and Gardens. By Una Silberrad 



and Sophie Lyall. Imported by the Macmillan 

 Company, 1909; pp. 176; 24 color plates. Price, 

 $2.00 net. 



An appreciative description of the great bulb 

 farms of Holland, with suggestions as to how and 

 when best to see them, and numerous notes about 

 culture. There are also many notes concerning 

 the history of the chief flowers mentioned. The 

 color illustrations, from paintings by Mima Nixon, 

 are finely expressive of Holland's gorgeous flower 

 farms. 



A History of Gardening in England. By the 



Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (the Hon. Alicia Amherst). 

 Third and enlarged edition with illustrations. New 

 York, E. P. Button & Co., 1910. Price, $3-S0 net. 



No one else has tried to review consecutively 

 the changes which have taken place and the fashions 

 which have prevailed, or to follow the process of 

 development which has gradually led up to the 

 modern garden, and this volume remains the only 

 work of reference on the subject. 



The chapter on gardening in the nineteenth 

 century has been rewritten. This and the new 

 chapter on gardening in the twentieth century 

 are flashlights that reveal many tendencies which 

 most of us have only half understood or missed 

 altogether. The book is invaluable to every 

 conscientious student of horticulture. 



The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise, Its 



Habitat and Its Time of Growth, with 500 photo- 

 graphic illustrations of nearly all the common spe- 

 cies. By M. E. Hard, M.A., Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Kirkwood, Mo. Mushroom Pub- 

 lishing Co., Columbus, O., 1908; 624 pages. Price 

 ^4.75 to $7.50, according to binding. 



This is by far the most complete book on mush- 

 rooms, and completeness in this subject is very 

 desirable. For every beginner is almost sure to 

 find a large quantity of attractive mushrooms 

 of some species that he cannot identify with the 

 aid of the other popular works. Moreover, 

 ninety-nine people out of a hundred will not take 

 the trouble to use keys; they demand pictures. 

 This book illustrates the extraordinary number 

 of 500 species and the photographs are of the very 

 best — far more practical than colored plates, as 

 the amateur mushroom hunter soon finds out. 

 JMushroom clubs and veteran collectors will 

 probably value this book more than any other, 

 because it enables them to identify more species 

 in less time and with less trouble than any other 

 work. The average person after an afternoon's 

 forage in wood or field brings in a basketful_ of 

 mushrooms containing twelve to twenty species, 

 and is unable to identify more than one or two 

 with the aid of ordinary works. 



