Tj you are planning to build, the Readers’ 
Service can often give helpjul suggestions 
THE GARDEN 
$200.00 
In Six Months from 20 Hens 
To the average poultryman that would seem impossible, and when we tell you 
that we have actually done a $500.00 poultry business with 20 hens on a corner in 
the city garden 30 feet wide by 4o feet long, we are simply stating facts. 
It would not be possible to get such returns by any of the systems of poultry 
keeping recommended and practised by the American people, still it is an easy mat- 
ter when the new Philo System is adopted. ~ 
THE PHILO SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ALL 
OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING POULTRY 
and in many respects is 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. However, the facts remain the same, we can prove to you 
every word of the above statement. 
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 broil- 
ers are of the best quality, bringing here three cents per pound above the highest market 
price. 
The New System Covers All 
Branches of the Work Nec- — 
essary for Success 
from selecting the breeders to market- 
ing 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 busi- 
ness and at less than half the cost re- 
quired to handle the poultry business 
in any other manner. There is nothing 
complicated about the work, and any 
man or woman that can handle a saw 
and a hammer can do the work. 
Our Six Months 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 de- 
scription is fed, and the food used is 
inexpensive as compared with food 
others are using. 
Our new book, the PHILO SYS- 
TEM OF PROGRESSIVE POUL- 
TRY KEEPING, gives full particu- 
lars regarding these wonderful discov- 
eries, with simpie, easy to understand 
directions that are right to the point, 
and 15 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 de- 
veloped at hatching time, whether they 
can crack the shell or not. It is a sim- 
ple trick, and believed to be the secret 
of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese, 
which enable them to sell the chicks 
at 10 cents a dozen. 
Our New Brooder Saves 2 
Cents on Each Chicken 
No lamp required. No danger of 
chilling, overheating or burning up the 
chickens, as with brooders using Jamps 
or any kind of fire. Theyalso keepall 
lice off the chicks automatically, or 
kill any that may be on when placed 
in the brooder. 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. 
Chicken Feed at 15 Centsa 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 to keep a cow without hay or fodder. 
Three-pound White Orpington roasters, ro weeks 
old, raised by the Philo System. Note the large, 
well-developed feet and legs and the width of the 
pullet showing the front view. 
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION OFFER 
VALLEY FALLS, N.Y.,Sept.s5, 1907 
It was my privilege to spend a week 
in Elmira during August, during which 
time I saw the practical working of 
the Philo System of Poultry Keeping, 
and was surprised at the results ac- 
complished 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 outlay 
of space, time and money. 
(REV.) W. W. COX. 
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
Your system of poultry keeping 
should appeal to all poultrymen. The 
advantages of your system are many, 
and the quality of the large flock of 
poultry you have raised on your city lot 
is the best evidence of its success. 
GEO. L. HARDING. 
WINDSOR, Vt., March 8, 1908 
I consider the one dollar I invested 
in the Philo System, Poultry Review 
and American Poultry Advocate the 
best investment for the money I ever 
made. ROBERT L. PATRICK. 
JACOBS CREEK, Pa., Nov.25,1907 
I received the Philo System Book 
mailed tomy homeaddress, Beechtree, 
Pa. Iam highly pleased with it, and 
anxious to spread the good newsas far 
as I can. I ama preacher of the Gos- 
pel engaged by the Baptist Ass’n to 
do Evangelistic work. I am very much 
interested in the hen, and will do all 
I can to help the other fellow to know 
HOW, and to spread the good tidings 
received in the Philo System. 
(REV.) F. B. WILLIAMS. 
By special ar= 
rangement 
we are able to give for only $1.00 the book with the right 
to use all plans. 
One year’s subscription to Poultry Review—a monthly paper 
for utility breeders; 
One year’s subscription to the American Poultry Advocate. 
Upon receipt of $1.00 you will get the book by return mail and 
your subscription will start at 
once. 
This offer is to old subscribers as well as new, and gives them 
a chance of extending their subscription for one year. 
Copy of the Philo System book and a year’s subscription to 
Poultry Review and the American Poultry Advocate, all 
for $1.00. 
American Poultry Advocate *3fc¢" Syracuse, N.Y. 
MAGAZINE 
AuvcusT, 1908 
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Fertilizers for Potatoes 
{ale advisability of using wood ashes 
or lime in any form on the potato 
field as recently advised by a writer in THE 
GaRDEN Macazine has been questioned. 
The ashes will, of course, induce a vigorous 
growth but some growers consider that the 
lime in the ashes—a ton containing some- 
thing like 700 pounds— sweetens the soil 
and causes conditions favorable to the 
development of the scab fungus. 
The common practice of composting hen 
manure with wood ashes is also condemned 
by some people who believe that a considera- 
ble part of the ammonia in the manure is 
set free and lost. One person asserts there is 
no danger of scabby potatoes even from very 
heavy dressings of fresh stable manure if ap- 
plied in the fall or during the winter; but ad- 
vises (if smooth potatoes are wanted), apply- 
ing fresh stable manure just before planting, 
although thoroughly rotted manure may be 
applied at planting time with perfect safety. 
Mr. Darlington, in his article on potatoes 
in the February, 1908, GARDEN MAGAZINE- 
FARMING, recommended a high-grade com- 
mercial fertilizer, but he tells us that from us- 
ing wood ashes and hen manure compost on 
well-drained soil he has grown smooth- 
skinned potatoes free from scab. He thinks 
the potash in the wood ashes in combination 
with the nitrogen of poultry droppings ~ 
makes a pretty well-balanced food ration for 
the plants, and while a small portion of 
the ammonia or nitrogen may escape in 
the composting, it may nearly all be caught 
and held .by the addition of one-third of 
fine dry soil and frequent turnings or work- 
ings of the heap. 
The fertilizing elements are partially 
digested by composting and this is the 
point in the fall spreading of manure and 
plowing it under—the manure becomes 
rotted and assimilated with the soil before 
planting time in the spring. Mr. Darling- 
ton thinks that in composting poultry 
droppings there is only a slight loss of a 
portion of the fertilizing elements and that 
the balance is made more available for the 
feeding of the plants. If the wood ashes 
are allowed to remain in the spot where the 
wood was burned they will probably cause 
trouble, for an excessive quantity of strength 
will leach into a limited area. 
It has also been recommended to use lime 
for the crop following potatoes in the rotation, 
thus having it as far away from the potato 
crop as possible; and by keeping the manure 
on the ground as long a time as possible 
before planting the potatoes, excellent results 
have been obtained. 
