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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1913 



Sttje &al Estate itari 



FOR SALE 



Charming Colonial 

 Home in Exclusive 



Llewellyn Park, 

 Orange, New Jersey 



Unsurpassed view, overlooking 

 New York City. Twenty-seven 

 minutes' ride on Lackawanna 

 Railroad. Five minutes from station by automobile. Two and three-quarters acres 

 and large stable. Six Master's bed-rooms, three servants' bed-rooms, four bath-rooms 

 and two lavatories, large; billiard-room, library, dining room, reception room, recep- 

 tion hall and music room. Six open fire-places, three hand-carved mantels. All im- 

 provements. Very best Mott's plumbing. Polished hardwood floors throughout. Lib- 

 rary tapestry hung, mahogany beam ceiling and wainscoting. Dining room in velvet 

 and antique oak wainscoting. Everything in best of condition. An excellent op- 

 portunity in order to settle an estate. 



For further information, or ap- 

 pointment to inspect, call, write 

 or 'phone. 



Foster & Goetz 



Hudson Terminal Building 



50 Church Street 



NEW YORK 



'Phone Cortland, 2599 



FOR RENT— FURNISHED 



From April to November 



One of Summit's Most Attractive Homes 



House sets 500 feet back from highway amid beautiful shade trees and 

 well preserved lawns. The place consists of about 6 acres. Excellent 

 location in best residential section. Modern house— three baths. Fruit 

 trees, garden, regulation tennis court. Modern stable and other out 

 buildings. Within three miles of Baltusrol or Canoe Brook Clubs. 

 Apply to any real estate agent in Summit or to R. C. WILSON, 

 Tel. 853 Franklin 361 Broadway, New York 



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Dwarf 

 Apples 



Fruiting Sizes 



Send for Catalog. 

 The Elm City Nursery Co. 

 New Haven, Dept. M., Conn. 



For Sale 



high class hunting, sporting, watch and 

 set dogs ; puppies of all varieties a specialty. 

 On receipt of 1 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. 



CHAS. L. B. LANDIS 



Dept. 171 Reading, Pa. 



DoYou Want to PurchaseA Home? 



If among our Real Estate Advertisements yon do 

 not find just what you want — Address 



THE REAL ESTATE MART, 



Care of American Homes and Gardens 



361 BROADWAY. NEW YORK CITY. 



'«UP*V>-*5^ 



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. 



Dept. C 



MACKENSEN, Naturalist 



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" 



1 am the oldest established and largest exclusive 

 dealer in land and water birds in America and have 

 on hand the most extensive Stock in the United States. 

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



leaves the owner with but fifty pullets. So 

 we find that in order to renew a flock of 

 fifty pullets every season — and this should 

 be done — at least 200 eggs must be set. To 

 be really on the safe side, the number 

 should be increased by fifty. 



Now it is much more desirable to have 

 all the chicks of an age than to have them 

 stringing along in assorted sizes, and to ac- 

 complish this with setting hens means get- 

 ting together a lot of broody biddies, which 

 is not always easy, especially in sections 

 where the non-sitting breeds are in favor, 

 as around New York. So, many times, the 

 incubator comes to be hailed as a bene- 

 factor. 



In the establishing of mammoth hatch- 

 eries in various parts of the country an en- 

 tirely new twist has been given the poultry 

 industry. Thousands of eggs are set at one 

 time in these plants and chickens are 

 hatched by the wholesale, both in Spring 

 and Fall. Then they are expressed, when 

 a day old, to customers far and near. This 

 plan solves the problem of getting the 

 chicks without the bother incidental to 

 hatching them, but adds somewhat to the 

 cost and makes it impossible for a breeder 

 to develop a strain of his own. This latter 

 is an important point, for many breeders 

 have been able by careful selection to build 

 up a strain of fowls laying many more 

 eggs than the average hen of the breed. 

 To meet this difficulty, some owners of 

 large hatching plants have undertaken what 

 is termed custom hatching. They receive 

 eggs sent them by their customers, place 

 them in their machines and ship the chicks 

 that are hatched, charging a fee for the 

 work involved. It is interesting to note 

 that this is almost precisely the practice 

 which has orevailed in Egypt for thousands 

 of years, all the people in a locality taking 

 their eggs to a central hatching plant, leav- 

 ing them with the man in charge and com- 

 ing back at the end of three weeks for the 

 chicks. 



It will doubtless be a long time before 

 the majority of poultry raisers cease to 

 hatch their own chickens in this country 

 and the yearly sale of incubators is very 

 large. Incubators are of two types — hot 

 water and hot air. There are good and bad 

 examples of both. The amateur is foolish 

 to buy any but a high-grade machine. A 

 combination of circumstances may result in 

 a wonderfully good hatch with a cheap ma- 

 chine, so that the testimonials one reads 

 may be genuine, but as an investment an 

 incubator of the poorer class is to be 

 avoided. It will not stand up to the work 

 cut out for it year after year. Even the 

 best is none to good, truth to tell, but the 

 high-grade machines will not disappoint in 

 service and will require but a minimum of 

 attention. 



It hardly pays to use an incubator of 

 less capacity than 120 eggs, except for 

 special purposes, and if enough eggs to fill 

 a larger machine can be saved up without 

 having them too old, there will be an ad- 

 vantage or two in setting 200 or more at 

 once. It is practically as easy to care for 

 a large as for a small machine and more 

 chicks will be of an age. On the other 

 hand, if anything goes wrong, the loss will 

 be greater. 



It is not for me to say which type of ma- 

 chine is the better. Hot water and hot air 

 alike are capable of hatching a large per- 

 centage of hatchable eggs and the fact that 

 both are being used successfully seems to 

 indicate that there is little choice. It is 

 not a bad plan to write the nearest experi- 

 ment station and be guided somewhat by 

 the tests made there. 



Any writer who dogmatically lays down 



