A Living From Poultry 



$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 AH 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 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 

 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 50 cents. 



TESTIMONIALS 



Mr. E. R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. Bellefontaine, Ohio, June 7 , 1909. 

 Dear Sir: — I just want to tell you o{ the success I have had with 

 the Philo System. In January, iqog, I purchased one of your Philo 

 System books and I commenced to hatch chickens. On ihe third day 

 of February, rgcg, I succeeded in hatching ten chicks. I put them in 

 one of your nreless brooders and we had zero weaiher. We succeeded 

 in bringing through nine — one got killed by accident. On J me i.one 

 ol the pullets laid her first egg and Ihe most remarkable thing- is she 

 has laid every day since up to the present time. 



Yours truly, R. S. LaRue. 



205 S. Clinton St., Baltimore, M. D., May 28, 1909. 

 Mr. E. R. Philo, Publisher, Elmira, N. Y. 



Dear Sir:— I have embarked in the poultry'business on a small 

 scale (Philo System) and am having the best of success so far, sixty- 

 eight per cent, of eggs hatched by hens, all chicks alive and healthy 

 at this writing; they are now three weeks old. Mr. Philo is a public 

 benefactor and I don't believe his system can be improved upon, and 

 so I am now looking for more yard room, having but 50x30 where I 

 am now. Yours truly, C. H. Leach. 



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 2M 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. 

 Mr. E.R. Philo, Elmira, N.Y. Osakis, Minn., June 7.1909- 



Dear Sir: — Yuu certainly have the greatest system the world has 

 ever known. I have had experience with poultry, but I know you have 

 the system that brings the real profits. Yours, Jesse Underwood. 



Mr. E R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y. Brockport, N . Y., Sept. 12, 1908. 



Dear Sir: — I have had perfect success brooding chickens your way. 



I think yourmethod will raise stronger, healthier chicks than the 



old way of using lamps and besides it saves so much work and risk. 



Yours respectfully, M. S. Gooding. 



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, 221 Third Street, ELMIRA, N. Y. 



