il AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Reval tate Mart 
Crows’ Nest 
This Beautiful Colonial 
Country Residence for Sale 
@ Situated on Second Watchung 
Mountain, on principal Avenue 
of New Jersey Suburb less than 
one hour from New York. 
@ The house commandsa magnificent 
panorama of mountains, valley, 
plain, and New York City and Bay. 
q Eighteen rooms and four baths. 
All modern improvements. Three 
porches, besides Sun Room and 
Outdoor Room. Spacious Grounds 
For particulars, address Box 773 
“American Homes and Gardens” 
361 Broadway, New York 
COME TO 
THE BERKSHIRE HILLS 
LIFES WORTH LIVING UP HERE 
High altitude, dry air, good water, and a 
beautiful country. I sell Farms, Estates, 
Homes and Manufacturing Sites. All 
kinds and prices. Let me know what kind 
of property you are looking for. 
LP ll send illustrated booklet. 
GEO. H. COOPER, Pittsfield, Mass. 
Room 206, Agricultural Bank Building 
Ocean Beach, Fire Island 
Stucco Cement Bungalow, 4 Rooms, $600 
Think It Over 
We sell the things that improve the health 
and increase the wealth of human happiness. 
What are they>—Good air, pure water, surf 
bathing, still-water bathing, fishing, shooting, 
boating, cool refreshing ocean breezes and 
Seashore Lots at Ocean Beach, Fire 
Island. Price, $150 per fot and upward. 
Furnished cottages and bungalows to rent. 
Illustrated descriptive booklet free. Write 
us to-day. Ocean Beach Improvement 
Co., John A. Wilbur, President, 334 
Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 
Surf Bathing at Ocean Beach - 
South Gable, showing Sun Room and Outdoor Room, 
with Rockery and Private Road in the foreground. 
Houliry, Pet 
and Live Stork 
Directory 
“‘SHETLAND AND WELSH PONIES” 
A. K. QUICK, MEDFORD, MASS. 
KILLED BY 
RAT SCIENCE 
By the woasetnl bacteriological preparation, discovered and prepared by 
Dr. Danysz, of Pasteur Institute, Paris. Used with striking success for 
years in the United States, England, France and Russia, 
DANYSZ VIRUS 
contains the germs of a disease peculiar to rats and mice only and is abso- 
lutely harmless to birds, human beings and other animals. 
The rodents always die in the open, because of feverish condition. The 
disease is also contagious to them. Easily prepared and applied. 
How much to use.—A small house, one tube. Ordinary dwelling, 
three tubes (if rats are numerous, not less than 6 tubes). One or two dozen 
for large stable with hay loft and yard or 5000 sq. ft. floor space in build- 
ings. Price; One tube, 75c; 3 tubes, $1.75; 6 tubes, $3.25; one doz, $6 
INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL CO., 72 Front St., New York 
Best and Cheapest BIRD HOUSES 
Close imitations of the Natural homes of cavity and 
box-nesting birds. 75c. to $4.50. _Send for booklet 
“Our Songsters and How to Attract Them.” Its Free. 
MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, HOWES HILL 
Stamford, Connecticut 
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May, 1912 
worms. Indeed, range-grown chicks will 
do very well if fed only a simple grain 
ration, but many breeders keep a hopper of 
bran where they can have free access to 
it. The mixed mash is better for brooder 
chicks and those closely confined. 
After the birds are five weeks old, they 
need not be fed oftener than three times a 
day, and the commercial chick feed may be 
gradually given up, if motives of economy 
prevail, fine corn and wheat being relied 
upon, in addition to the mash. As the 
chicks grow older, oats and barley may be 
added and larger-sized grain used. It will 
be understood, of course, that this is the 
kind of feeding to be practiced when the 
birds are being grown in a normal way to 
produce layers the following Winter. A 
different plan is followed when broilers are 
being grown, for then they must be forced 
and fattened quickly. 
The feeding of growing chicks may be 
made a very simple matter. The coddling 
often given them is not necessary. The 
main purpose should be to give them 
enough wholesome, palatable food to keep 
them growing steadily. There is no secret 
about the matter and one system often 
gives quite as satisfactory results as an- 
other. The old plan of giving wet mashes 
should, however, be avoided. There is no 
objection to giving a light mash once a 
day if it is made dry enough so that it will 
crumble in the hand when squeezed, es- 
pecially if it can be mixed with milk. A 
soggy mash must never be given, in spite 
of what grandmother may say. Milk is 
excellent for chicks. Skim milk can hardly 
be used to better advantage and sour milk 
tends to produce rapid growth. Less meat 
is required 1f milk is fed. 
Water in abundance is a necessity from 
the start, but it should be given in a foun- 
tain so arranged that the chicks cannot 
get into it and so wet their feathers. The 
sand will answer for grit at the beginning, 
but after that a box or hopper of fine grit 
should be always accessible and it is a good 
plan to have charcoal where the little birds 
can help themselves at any time. Fed in 
this way the work is not arduous. If the 
weather is very cold, it is well to warm 
the grain and the water, and when a brooder 
is used, the feeding place should be close to 
the sheiter, so that the chicks will not be 
tempted to linger away from the heat until 
they get chilled—one of the things to be 
most carefully avoided. 
Perhaps the very best plan is to buy a 
house large enough to shelter from fifteen 
to thirty adult birds and place the brooder 
in that, no matter whether it be of the fire- 
less or the heated type. Then, when the 
chicks have matured and the cockerels have 
been disposed of, the pullets which are to 
constitute the next season’s layers may be 
kept through the winter in the same house. 
That plan is an economical one, for heated 
brooders of the indoor kind are not as ex- 
pensive as the outdoor type and no addi- 
tional coops or houses for the chicks need 
to be secured. Some of the best indoor 
brooders are really only covers, are port- 
able and can be set up in a short time any- 
where, and when the chicks are large 
enough may be removed, leaving the house 
for the birds to grow up in. Of course, if 
a number of laying hens have been pur- 
chased at the same time by the beginner, 
it will be necessary to have two houses. A 
very good portable house which will ac- 
commodate from fifteen to twenty mature 
hens may be bought for fifteen dollars and 
some three dollars more will be needed to 
cover it with roofing paper. These port- 
able houses have a number of distinctive 
