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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



February, 19 13 



Sewage 

 Disposal 



FOR COUNTRY HOMES 



Without Sewers 



Health and self-respect demand that dangerous, repul- 

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 provide scientific and safe sewage disposal at moderate 

 cost. Write for illustrated Manual on Sewage Purifica- 

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We also provide Sewage Disposal for Institutions, 

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Ashley House-Sewage Disposal Co. 



115 Arm id a Avenue, Morgan Park, 111. 



Commonwealth Hotel 



Opposite State House, Boston, Mass. 



STORER F. CRAFTS, General Manager 



offers rooms with hot and cold water for $1 .00 

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 COMMONWEALTH HOTEL, Inc. 



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CYLINDERS, ETC. 

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HILL'S EVERGREENS 

 Make Homes Beautiful 



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A little money, wisely invested in 

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D. HILL NURSERY CO., Inc. 



Evergreen Specialists 

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or to use a board extending a foot or more 

 below the hoof and a short distance in 

 advance of the perches. In a shed-roof 

 house, you see, the warm air rising to the 

 top, follows the line of the roof to the 

 front, so that there is a constant flow of air 

 up and then forward. Breaking the roof line 

 in the way indicated helps to conserve the 

 warmer air for the benefit of the birds on 

 the perches. 



Egg-eating is a bad habit — on the part 

 of the hens, that is to say. Often it is 

 contracted as a result of eggs being broken 

 in the nests, and this breakage is very 

 likely to follow placing the nests on the 

 ground or locating several in a row with a 

 walk along the front. When the nests are 

 so arranged, the hens frequently quarrel 

 for possession, for it is a curious fact that 

 the nest which is occupied is the one 

 coveted by the hen seeking a place in which 

 to deposit her offering. If the nests are 

 elevated a foot or more and made without 

 a platform, the hens must either step in or 

 fly down. One successful breeder uses 

 large boxes open at one end and filled with 

 hay. The boxes are so large that each will 

 accommodate several hens at the same 

 time, and it is seldom that a broken egg 

 is found. 



Few amateurs care to bother with trap 

 nests and yet it is desirable to know which 

 hens are laying the eggs and which are the 

 drones. Now, as it happens, it is a safe 

 guess that the hen which goes to roost night 

 after night with a crop only partially full 

 is not a profitable bird. Let the owner of 

 a small flock step into his poultry house at 

 night and pass along in front of his birds, 

 feeling the crop of each as he walks along. 

 When he finds a hen with a partially empty 

 crop, while most of the others have crops 

 made tight with grain, let him place a band 

 on her leg. The whole operation will take 

 but a few moments and should be re- 

 peated the following week or even the next 

 night and at frequent intervals thereafter. 

 Then, when a hen with a band on her leg 

 is found night after night with crop un- 

 filled, the owner will be perfectly safe in 

 removing her from the flock. He may feel 

 certain that she is not laying. By using 

 bands of different colors or with numbers 

 on them, it is a simple matter to keep a 

 record of each bird which is marked. It is 

 not safe to say that a heavy feeder is cer- 

 tainly a heavy layer, but by eliminating the 

 hens which repeatedly go to roost with 

 crops only partially filled, one is reason- 

 ably certain to increase the efficiency of his 

 flock as a whole. 



Every year more people are buying their 

 chickens from the big hatching plants in- 

 stead of raising their own . This is an ad- 

 mirable plan for a suburbanite with onlv a 

 little land, for he has no occasion to bother 

 with sitting hens and young chickens. It 

 is a plan, indeed, which makes it possible 

 for people to keep poultry who formerly 

 supposed they did not have enough land for 

 the purpose available. Tf pullets are pur- 

 chased in the Fall and the hens sold or 

 eaten the next Summer, early enough to 

 allow the house to be thoroughly cleaned 

 out before a new lot of pullets is installed, 

 hens enough to provide eggs in abundance 

 for the family table may be kept without 

 having any outside runs whatever, the birds 

 being confined to their houses all the time. 

 Many people are finding this no-yard plan 

 a real short cut to a generous egg supply 

 with but little work, but hens kept in this 

 intensive way should not be used to breed 

 from, and preferably should not be kept a 

 second season. Also, a deep litter should 

 be kept in the house at all times and the 

 whole or cracked grain thrown into this 



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Bob White Quail 

 Partridges and Pheasants 



Capercailzies. Black Game. Wild Turkeys. Quails, Rabbits. Deer etc, 

 for stocking purposes Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, 

 Cranes, Storks, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes. Squirrels. 

 Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 



WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 

 Dept. C YARDLEY. PA. 



G. D. TILLEY 



Naturalist 



Beautiful Swans, Fancy 

 Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, 

 Storks, Ornamental Ducks and 

 Geese, Flamingoes, Game and 

 Cage Birds. 



''Everything in the bird line from a 

 Canary to an Ostrich" 



I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 

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 on hand the most extensive Stock in the United States. 

 G. D. TILLEY Box A, Darien, Conn. 



For Sale 



high class huntina, sporting, watch and 

 set dogs ; puppies of all varieties a specialty. 

 On receipt of 10 cents we mail highly 

 descriptive illustrated catalogue, which gives full information of 42 

 breed of dogs, several breeds of cattle, sheep, swine, birds, 

 rabbits, ferrets ; price list of poultry and pigeons. 



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Dept. 171 Reading, Pa. 



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