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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



F E BEUAET , 19 10 



A Living; From Poultry 



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$1,500.00 From 60 Hens in Ten Months 

 On a City Lot 40 Feet Square 



TO the average poultryman that would 

 seem impossible and when we tell you 

 that we have actually done a $1,500 

 poultry business 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 is 

 an easy matter when the new 



Philo System 



is 



adopted. 



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 breeders to marketing the product. It tells how to get 

 eggs 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 

 everything 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 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 of any description 

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

 Our new book, the Philo System of Poultry Keeping, gives full 

 particulars regarding these wonderful discoveries, with simple, easy-to- 

 understand directions that are right to the point, and IS pages of illustrations 

 showing all branches of the work from start to finish. 



Don't Let the Chickens 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 the chicks at 10 cents a dozen. 



Chicken Feed at 15 Cents a Bushel 



Our book 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 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 all the 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 take 

 and use them. One can easily be made in an hour at a cost of 25 to SO cents. 



TESTIMONIALS 



Mr. E. R. Philo. Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1009. 



Dear Sir: — I feel that T, more than any person who ever embarked in the 

 poultry business, have much to be thankful for. For many years my health 

 was of the poorest. I had always been a great lover of poultry and 1 decided 

 to devote all my time to the chickens. I afterwards became acquainted with 

 Mr. Philo and studied up the Philo System. I could make a little money 

 upon our limited space of ground. I began to look at the $ side of the busi- 

 ness and I made up my mind that in the Philo System I could find profit as 

 well as pleasure. From 1st of January, 1908, to June 16th of the same year 

 I cleared $200 from 24 hens. This I did without advertising. The merits 

 of the birds raised by the Philo System sold all my surplus stock right at home. 



This season from January ist, 1909, to November 1st, 1909, the sales from 

 my plant have reached the $600 mark and I have at least $300 worth of stock 

 on hand. 



I think the Philo System so far superior to all other systems of raising 1 

 poultry that I have given up experimenting and am following it exclusively. 

 Very truly yours, Mrs. Fred Wilcox. 



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. Our first year's work is now nearly com- 

 pleted. It has given us an income of over $500.00 from six pedigree hens and 

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



year's experience, we could easily have made S1000.00 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 with the results, and expect to do better the coming year. 



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

 Mr. E. R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. South Britain, Conn., Apr. 14, 1909. 



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

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

 is it. The first experience I had with your system was last 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 averaged 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. 

 Valley Falls, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1909. 



My Dear Mr. Philo: — I want to tell you how pleased I am with my u^ebf 

 the Philo System during the past year. The fowls laid exceptionally well in 

 the new Economy C"op, much better in proportion than those in my old 

 style house. The fireless brooder has solved the problem for me nf raising 

 extra early chicks. I am going into your methods more extensively this com- 

 ing year. 



Wishing you success, I am, Sincerely yours, (Rev.) E. B. Templer. 



Three Pound Roaster Ten Weeks Old 



Send $1*00 direct to the publisher and a copy of the latest 

 revised edition of the book will be sent you by return mail 



E. R. PHILO, Publisher, 560 Third Street, ELMIRA, N. Y. 



