ii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
August, 1912 
fouliry, Pet and Live Stork 
Directory 
ONE OF THE SIGHTS IN OUR PARK 
We carry the largest stock in America of 
ornamental birds andanimals. Nearly 60 acres 
of land entirely devoted to our business. 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, 
Cranes, Storks, Flamirgoes, Ostriches, Orna- 
mental Ducks and Ge ese, etc., for private parks 
and fanciers. Also Hungarian Partridges, 
Pheasants, Quail, Wild Ducks and Geese, Deer, 
Rabbits, etc., for stocking preserves. Good 
healthy stock at right prices. 
Write us what you want. 
WENZ & MACKENSEN 
Proprietors of Pennsylvania 
Pheasantry and Game Park 
Dept. “A. H.” Bucks County, Yardly, Pa. 
LOVER 
SADDLE 
KILLED BY SCIENCE 
DANYSZ VIRUS isa 
RA I Bacteriological Preparation 
AND NOT A POISON—Harmless to Animals other than mouse= 
like rodents. Rodents die in the open, For a small house, 1 tube, 
75c; ordinary dwelling, 3 tubes, $1.75; larger place—for each 5,000 
sq. ft. foor space, use 1 dozen, $6.00. Send now 
Independent Chemical Company 72 Front Street, New York 
A SAFE COMPANION 
For Your Children or For Yourself 
A Necessity for your Country Home 
A GOOD DOG 
Write to the advertisers in our columns for information 
about the dogs they handle. If they do not advertise 
what you want, write “ Poultry, Pet and Live Stock De- 
partment, American Homes and Gardens.” 
Poultry and Duck Farm for Sale 
In far-famed Dutchess County—the land of peaceful homes. Situated 
between the charming villages of Hyde Park and East Park. Thirty-four 
acres nearly level land. Ten-room house — with Telephone. Ample 
outbuildings, numerous poultry houses—together_ with stock of about 800 
hens and chickens, two cows, two heifers, pigs, ducks, incubator, 9 
brooders, wagons and farming tools, 
cozy home, and an ideal place for profitable poultry keeping 
Delightful location—splendid State Roads all about—romantic scenery. 
Only a few minutes from Hudson River R. R. and Boat Landing 
A beautiful, large mill-brook runs thru entire place—with fine fishing 
Two grand sites for dams — making picturesque lakes with abundant 
water power. Has advantages almost impossible to be duplicated Farm 
will be sold with entire stock and fixtures mentioned for $3,500—net cash. 
Possession given immediately. Address 
A.T. COOK (Seedsman), Agent, Hyde Park-on-the-Hudson,N.Y. 
OF THE MARVELOUSLY 
BEAUTIFUL 
HORSES 
for which Kentucky is World-famous, 
who desire to purchase animals for pleasure, 
riding or show purposes, and to acquire them 
at first hands under a responsible warranty, 
are invited to send description of the animal 
most suitable for their particular taste and 
purposes to the following address. 
Gor 
respondence promptly answered. 
H. J. KRUM 
ever brought out. 
plates. One dollar each. 
MUNN & CO., INC,, 
Cottage Desiqns 
By far the most complete collection of plans 
Illustrated with full-page 
Sold separately. 
361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
Lexington, Ky. 
No. 1. COTTAGE DESIGNS 
ASIEN, five designs, ranging in cost 
from $600 to $1,500. 
No. 2. LOW-COST HOUSES 
Upward of twenty-five designs, costing 
from $1,000 to $3,000. 
No. 3. MODERN DWELLINGS 
Twenty designs, a costs ranging from 
$2,800 to $7,000 
No. 4. SUBURBAN HOMES 
Twenty selected designs, Costing from 
about $3,000 upward. 
building for another foot underground. 
Twice a year an inch or more of the earth 
should be removed from the top of the floor 
and replaced with fresh, clean sand. 
It costs less to build a square house than 
a long and narrow one. Deep houses are 
coming into favor, especially for those of 
the open-front type. The sun’s rays, how- 
ever, will not reach the farther end of a 
deep house unless the front is made un- 
usually high, and to meet this difficulty the 
semi-monitor type of house is being advo- 
cated again, after being in disrepute for 
several years. Such a house has a double 
pitch roof, the rear section extending above 
the front part and carrying a row of win- 
dows by means of which a flood of light is 
admitted. A house of this type has been 
used with excellent results at the New Jer- 
sey state experiment station. 
The average amateur will hardly have a 
house deeper than ten or twelve feet, and 
such a house will receive sufficient light 
from the front. Ten by twelve is about 
the right proportions for a house to carry 
from twenty-five to thirty hens. If twice 
as many are to be kept, the house may be 
twelve by twenty. There is a growing 
tendency to keep the hens in larger flocks 
than formerly, so that fifty or sixty birds 
may be allowed to run together. This 
method greatly economizes labor and _ al- 
lows more crowding of the fowls. A hen 
feels that she has a greater degree of lib- 
erty when she is able to walk straight ahead 
for twenty feet before meeting an obstruc- 
tion, than when she finds something in her 
way after walking ten feet. 
The one point to be guarded against in an 
undivided long house is draughts, and the 
way to avoid this danger is to have all the 
openings in front. If there is a door at the 
end, it should be kept shut. Even when 
these precautions are taken, there is often 
a decided flow of air, and in order to pro- 
tect the birds from it at night, partitions 
at intervals of ten feet and extending a 
foot or two beyond the perches at the rear 
of the house may be constructed. Such 
partitions should be made of matched 
boards or wall board and are also useful in 
houses divided into small pens, where the 
divisions are made with poultry netting. In 
the latter case, there should also be boards 
at the bottom of the netting to a point 
higher than the heads of the birds in order 
to prevent quarreling as well as draughts. 
Many practical poultrymen are doing 
away with dropping boards, substituting an 
upright board in the floor far enough in 
front of the perches so that the droppings 
will be confined at the rear of the house. 
This plan saves much work, but the ama- 
teur with a few hens finds it tidier to have 
dropping boards and is able to handle the 
manure to better advantage when using it 
on his garden. Unless the dropping boards 
are cleaned every two or three days, though, 
it is better to dispense with them. 
The question of ventilation had vexed 
poultry keepers for years before the plan 
of using muslin instead of glass was ad- 
vocated. That solution of the problem has 
been adopted by poultry keepers every- 
where, and is no less effective because ex- 
tremely simple. Muslin admits air freely 
but prevents draughts, as well as rain. 
Hens do not mind cold nearly as much as 
draughts and dampness. When muslin is 
used in place of glass the fowls breath 
fresh air at all times, day and night; and 
fresh air is the one thing they need above 
all else. This innovation has relieved the 
poultry keeper of much of his work, for 
disease is much less prevalent. This is one 
reason why larger flocks are being kept 
together. Breeders are finding that this 
