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POULTRY SECRETS DISCLOSED 



We offer to all poultry raisers the essential knowledge and secret methods of many of the most successful 

 poultrymen of 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, Associate Editor American Poultry Advocate, 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, hss now been collected in book form. It must be clearly understood that 

 every secret printed has been obtained in an honorable way. 



"POULTRY SECRETS" 



First published in 1908, this collection of the carefully guarded secrets of famous poultrymen created a sensation 

 in poultry circles. It has run through thirteen editions, and is still selling at a lively rate. 



CONTENTS 



SECRETS OF FOWL BREEDING— Burnham's Secret of Breeding. Felch's 

 Mating Secret. Mendel's Secret of Heredity. Secret of Alter- 

 nating Males for Fertility. Secret of the Philo System. The 

 Grundy Method. Curtiss' Secret of Hatching More Pullets than 

 Cockerels. Davis' Secret of Raising Every Chick. Babcock s 

 Secret of Developing the Spike on a Rose Combed Fowl. 



SECRETS OF FEEDING— Secret of Feeding Grains. Dr. Woods' Laying 

 Food Secret. Feeding Linseed Meal. Feeding Meat and Salt. 

 Proctor's Salt Secret. Brackenbury's Secret of Scalded Oats. 

 Feeding Charcoal, Grit and Oyster Shells. Secret of Green Feed. 

 Secret of Feed at Fifteen Cents per Bushel. Sprouted Barley Se- 

 cret. Smith's Secret of Preserving Vegetation in Poultry Runs. 

 Important Feeding Secret. Miscellaneous Feed Pointers. Chick 

 Feed Secrets. Seely's Secret of Dry Bran Feeding. Gowell's Fat- 

 tening Secret. Gray's Fattening Secret. Greiner's Corn Feeding 

 Secrets. McGrew's Secret of Feeding During Moulting. 



SECRETS OF HOUSING AND CARE— Secret of Successful Yarding. Se- 

 cret of Telling the Laying Hen. Secret of 200 Eggs per Hen per 

 Year. Lawney's Secret of Insect Killers. Secret of Successful 

 Moulting. Zimmers' Secret of Securing Foster Mothers. Broody 

 Hen Secrets. John Robinson's Secret. Secret of Chicks Dying in 

 Shell. Secret of Scaly Leg Cure. Secret of How to Hold a Fowl. 

 Blanchard's Secret of Stopping Cocks from Crowing at flight. 



EGG SECRETS— Brown's Secret of Preserving Eggs. Secret of Killing 

 the Fertility of Eggs. Secret of Obtaining Winter Eggs. Secret of 

 the Angell System. Secret of Eggs All the Year. Secret of Having 

 Perfect Eggs. Kohr's Secret of Selecting Layers. Kulp's Secret 

 of Producing Great Layers. Professor Rice's Fat Hen Secret. 

 Crane's Secret of Holding Eggs for Hatching. Boswell's Secret of 

 Testing Eggs, Dr. Woods' Egg Hatching Secret. 



MARKET SECRETS— Judging the Age of Dressed Poultry. Secret of 

 Dressing Fowls. Secret of Celery-Fed Broilers. Secret of High 

 Priced Stock. Truslow's Secret of High Prices for Ducks. 



SECRETS OF EXHIBITING— Drevenstedt's Secret of Exhibition Fowls. 

 Heimlich's Secret of Exhibition Fowls. Zimmer's Secret of Line 

 Breeding. Rigg's Secret of Uniform Markings. Marshall's Secret 

 of Training Show Birds. Lambert's Method of Growing Good 

 Tails. Heck's Secret of Adding Exhibition Weight. Fishel's Secret 

 of Preparing Fowls for Early Fall Shows. 



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READ WHAT PURCHASERS SAY 



I received Farm Journal and "Poultry Secrets," 

 and am very much pleased with both. The secrets are 

 worth their weight in gold. Why, I paid S5.00 for the 

 sprouted oat method. You certainly give a fellow 

 over his money's worth. 



Andrew F. G. Morey, Utica, N. Y. 



I purchased a copy of "Poultry Secrets" and find 

 many helpful ideas in it, especially Dr. Woods' Egg 

 Hatching Secret. 



Mrs. F. T. Darnell, Westfield, Ind. 



By putting within our reach these "Poultry Secrets," 

 you are doing a more philanthropic work than giving 

 alms or endowing hospitals, for you make it possible 

 for us to make both ends meet. 



L. Boyce, Milwaukee, Wis. 



14th EDITION 



NOW READY. 

 Revised and up-to-date. 



Received your book of "Poultry Secrets." It's an 

 exceptionally instructive work, and worth Sio to any 

 progressive poultryman. I would not care to take 

 that for my copy if I could not get another. 



Robt. F. Kingsland, Montville, N. J. 



The Farm Journal came to hand, and later "Poultry 

 Secrets" also arrived, all of which I was very glad to 

 receive and have been greatly interested in reading 

 same, and think you are doing a glorious work in 

 diffusing such valuable knowledge for so little money. 

 F. B. Meade, Boston, Mass. 



As to "Poultry Secrets," I will say, I have lectured 

 on this subject over the greater portion of this state for 

 the past fifteen years, and have about every book that 

 is published on this subject in my library, and I con- 

 sider this book of yours the most valuable I know, by 

 far, for the general public. 



L. A. Richardson. Marine, 111. 



Profusely illustrated, with many fine drawings and diagrams. 64 pages. 



HAVE YOU USE FOR SUCH A BOOK ? THEN READ THE OFFER BELOW. 



The POULTRY SECRETS BOOK is sold in combination with the Farm Journal, Philadelphia. 



The FARM JOURNAL is the standard paper for everyone who lives in or near the country, or ever has, or ever expects to. A particularly fine poultry 

 department, more valuable than most poultry papers. 33 years old, 750,000 subscribers and more. Goes everywhere. Clean, clever, cheerful, amusing, intensely 

 practical. Cut to fit everybody, young or old, village, suburbs, or rural routes. Unlike any other paper and always has been. 



AMERICAN POULTRY ADVOCATE, the great New York State paper, published at Syracuse, and full of good reading matter, is always welcomed by 

 the subscriber. Now in its 19th year. It is conceded to be one of the best poultry papers published in the United States. Well edited by recognized authorities 

 on the subject of practical poultry raising. Has a guaranteed circulation of 45,000 copies per month. 



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