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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



O V EMBER, 1909 



$400,000,000 WORTH OF EGGS ! ! ! 



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Mr. Poultryman: — Uncle Sam says that the annual Egg crop is worth $400,000,000! And that the 

 value of Poultry and Eggs produced last year exceeds $700,000,000 ! ! Did you get your full share 

 of this money? If not, why not? 



Milo M. Hastings, until recently the Commercial Poultry Expert for the United States Government, has 



written a Poultry Book: "The Dollar Hen." This book is a complete, thorough and concise work of 222 pages, con- 

 taining over 106,000 words, also several charts, maps, etc. The purpose of this book is to tell the reader: 



HOW TO MAKE MONEY RAISING POULTRY 



and NOT HOW TO LOSE IT 



"The Dollar Hen" is not a "boom" poultry book. It tells as much about what not to do as what to do. It thoroughly discusses 

 even' phase of the poultry business, and tells how money can be made or may be lost. It gives a full account of all methods and 



systems of poultry raising as taught by private individuals 

 in fact, he found such to be universal money losers 

 As a Government Expert 

 As a Government Expert Mr. Hastings investigated all 

 the various private systems, patent feeds, and so-called poultry 

 secrets. He visited the great successful poultry farming 

 districts of Petaluma, Little Compton,\Vatertown, the South 

 Shore and other regions — some wholly unknown to the poultry 

 press — and gathered from all these sources the best ideas and 

 most profitable practices. 



From his long, practical experience on farm, poultry plant, 

 with State Experiment Station work and Federal service, and 

 with his unprecedented opportunity to get at the actual facts 

 of the poultry industry, Mr. Hastings has laid out a typical 

 money-making poultry plant, called 



THE DOLLAR HEN FARM 



and has described the various necessary adaptations for different localities 

 and conditions. 



THE DOLLAR HEN TELLS ABOUT! 



The Hen's Ancestors, 

 Chinese Poultry Culture, 

 Fertility of Eggs, 

 The Future of Incubation 

 Buying Eggs by Weight 

 How Eggs are Marketed 



The Wisdom of the Egyptians, 

 Principles of Incubation, 

 Moisture and Evaporation, 

 How Eggs are Spoiled, 

 Breeding for Egg Production 

 A Big Business, Growing Bigger 

 and over 100 other subjects 



It is the best book for the beginner that has lately appeared because it 



Mr. Hastings does not advocate complicated and expensive methods; 



Expenses Cut in Half! 



Why spend several dollars per hen for housing when 

 Mr. Hastings teaches you the construction of a system of 

 housing that has been eminendy successful and costs only 

 thirty cents per hen ? 



Why pay high prices for theoretically "balanced rations" 

 when a practical food chemist who has personally inves- 

 tigated the work of a score of experiment stations has 

 found the most profitable poultry rations to be as simple 

 as the com and alfalfa diet of a K.ansas steer? 



Why invest money in patent "systems," patent feeds, 

 plans, remedies, etc., of little or no value, or capable of 

 only local application, when a Government Expert, who 

 has investigated the industry throughout the United States 

 and Canada, has proven the worth or worthlessness of these things, 

 and tells you how to apply this knowledge to your particular circum- 

 stances and climate? 



Why waste money and time experimenting with poultry when for 

 a very small sum you can buy a guide to profitable poultry produc- 

 tion? Why not make money at some one else's expense? "The Dollar 

 Hen" tells you how in plain, simple language, and proves every state- 

 ment made. Remember you are getting facts and figures that cost the 

 United States Government thousands of dollars to secure. 



Poultry Press Endorses "The Dollar Hen" 

 There are no exaggerated get-rich-quick schemes discussed. It is 

 plain, common-sense from cover to cover, and is well worth reading by 

 any one that wants to learn the facts about the poultry business. — 

 Inland Poultry Journal. 



deals in straight facts without theorizing. What it says has been worked 

 out in the poultry yard. Miller Purvis, Editor of Poultry. 



"The Dollar Hen" brings out some ideas that are novel and valuable to all poultrymen. — American Poultry Advocate. 



In "The Dollar Hen" Mr. Hastings has certainly reached the very top-notch of poultry literature. It is the best book on Poultry Raising 

 I have read, and I have read Poultry lore, and raised poultry, for ten years. — E. C. Linde, Greenville, N. J., Sept. 27, 1909. 



My opinion is that "The Dollar Hen" is not only the best book on Poultry we have at the present time, but it is pretty nearly worth as much 

 as all the rest together. — A. I. Root, " Gleanings-in-Bee-Culture," Sept. 15, 1909. 

 THE DOLLAR HEN is a real book, substantially bound — not a paper-bound pamphlet of "Systems," "Secrets," or "Methods," but a book worth 

 several dollars of any poultryman's money. The Dollar Hen has a vast fund of valuable information that required much time, expense and effort. And think of it! 

 author tative and complete guide to profitable poultry, postpaid, for only Si .00. And if you'll order now, mentioning this publication, we will include the Poultry Digest 

 n.ember, we guarantee The Dollar Hen to give entire satisfaction. Order to-day. POULTRY DIGEST PUB. CO., 57-M, Ann Street, NEW 



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