AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1913 



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orders for eggs of a 

 great variety of pheasants and wild ducks for Spring and early 

 Summer delivery, including eggs of the Genuine English Gray 

 Call Ducks. 



fl I also manufacture a full line of foods for the successful raising of 

 young pheasants and wild ducks and for feeding the old birds in the 

 pens all the year round. You really cannot afford to pass through 

 another breeding season without these foods. 



Nearly Every Failure With These Birds I raise more pheas- 

 Can Be Traced To Mis- Feeding. ants and real wid 



9 ducks in captivity 



every year than alt of the breeders in the United States 

 put together. There must be a reason why 1 am able to do this. 

 Write for price-lists, information, etc. Address Dept. A. 



WALLACE EVANS 



Game Propagating Farm, 



OAK PARK, ILL. 



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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 

 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. 



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 R.C.WILSON, (Owner), Summit, N. J. 



of sight. When a brooder is used, the 

 operator must depend upon his own intel- 

 ligence. In some instances, it seems to be 

 less than that of the hen. 



When infertile eggs have been tested out 

 of an incubator, they may be boiled hard, 

 then crumbled without removing the shell, 

 and given as the first feeding, to be con- 

 tinued two or three days, with the addition 

 of granulated or pinhead oats or of rolled 

 oats. The egg is bv no means indispens- 

 able, however ; the oats make an excellent 

 first feed alone. After a few days finely 

 cracked corn and cracked wheat may be 

 fed. 



The most common and perhaps the best 

 plan is to feed a good commercial chick 

 food after the first week, or even at the 

 start, without any preliminaries. At the 

 end of a week or ten days a dry mash 

 may be kept before the chickens at all 

 times. It may take the form of a commer- 

 cial growing feed or it may be simply wheat 

 bran with ten per cent, of beef scraps. It 

 is surprising to see the results sometimes 

 achieved with cracked corn, a very little 

 wheat, beef scraps and bran. To many 

 peoole such a simple feeding system seems 

 too easy to be dependable. One poultry- 

 man on my list feeds with a mash which 

 contains some twenty ingredients, but I 

 fail to obsrve that his birds are any stronger 

 or hardier than those of other breeders. 



Fine, sharp grit and fresh water should 

 be ready by the time the first meal is 

 served. At least, that is the commonly ac- 

 cepted theory. Some iconoclasts give no 

 water for a week ; others dip the beak of 

 each chick into the water basin when it is 

 taken from the incubator. In any case, 

 the water receptacle should be so construc- 

 ted that the chickens cannot climb into it 

 and get a ducking before they get their 

 feathers. Some people use a saucer and 

 place a stone in the middle. There are chick 

 fountains in variety. The ten-cent stores 

 sell an excellent glass fountain for a dime. 



It would be a pleasant thing if there 

 were no occasion to talk about lice, but 

 with thousands of chicks succumbing each 

 season to the ravages of these pests, the 

 subject is not one to be avoided. There 

 are several kinds of lice, all bad, but some 

 worse than others. Worst of all is the 

 kind which sticks to the head and is not 

 killed by the powder which will keep the 

 other kinds in subjection. A little lard or 

 vaseline — a wee bit, as Harry Lauder 

 would say— is the remedy to use for this 

 villain, being applied to the head of the 

 chick. Of course, incubator-hatched chicks 

 have no vermin at first. After a time they 

 seem to come, almost spontaneously. 



Tainted ground means ground on which 

 poultry has been kept for several years and 

 which has not been properly renovated by 

 growing crops. It is the bane of the poultry 

 business. It has wrecked the hopes of 

 hundreds of amateurs, and scores of big 

 commercial plants have been driven to ruin 

 by it. By all means get the chicks onto 

 fresh ground — grass, if possible. 



In some sections many chickens are lost 

 through the depredations of sharp-eyed 

 hawks. White chickens are somewhat at 

 a disadvantage on range because they are 

 easier for the hawks to spot. Heaps of 

 brush scattered about, in which the young- 

 sters may seek refuge when they see the 

 shadow of the big bird, help a little. 

 When there is a yard, wires or netting may 

 be stretched over it at intervals to inter- 

 cept the hawk when it makes its low sweep. 

 Guinea hens are valuable in the country, 

 for they are certain to give loud-voiced 

 warning when a hawk appears in sight. 

 After the season is somewhat advanced, 



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