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Poultry, Pet 
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ONE OF THE SIGHTS IN OUR PARK 
We carry the largest stock in America of 
ornamental birds and animals. Nearly 60 
acres of land entirely devoted to our busi- 
ness. 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheasants, Pea- 
fowl, Cranes, Storks, Flamingoes, Ostriches, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, etc., for pri- 
vate 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 
Department C. Bucks County, Yardly, Pa: 
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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 Ostric 
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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A Necessity for your Country Home 
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is too deep for the fowls, much of the grain 
will be wasted. 
There are two ways of feeding grain in 
litter and the one to be adopted is the one 
which appeals to the man who is going to 
do the work. In one case, the grain is 
mixed and scattered in the litter once a day, 
preferably in the afternoon, and if neces- 
sary forked into the straw so that all of it 
will be covered. This is the easiest method, 
and when followed, the fowls are never led 
to expect a regular feeding hour, but are 
sure of finding food in the litter any time 
they are willing to scratch for it. The 
feeder must make sure that his hens are get- 
ting enough, which is easily ascertained by 
opening up the litter to see if grain can be 
found at the bottom and by feeling of the 
crops of the fowls after they have gone to 
roost. 
The other plan is to feed a mixture of 
oats, wheat and buckwheat (in the propor- 
tions given above) in the morning and a 
ration of corn at night, working the former 
into the litter, but throwing the corn on top, 
so that the birds can clean it up promptly 
and go to roost with a full crop. Which- 
ever plan is followed, the “extras” like mil- 
let and sunflower seeds may be scattered in 
the litter at occasional intervals. 
Along with the ration of whole or ground 
grain should go a mash, to be fed either wet 
or dry. Dry mash is now in very general 
use, because it is easy to feed, while giving 
excellent results, although it has been pretty 
well established that a wet mash will in- 
duce the production of a few more eggs. A 
satisfactory dry mash may be made with 
the following ingredients: Twelve pounds 
of corn meal, six pounds of wheat bran, 
twelve pounds of wheat middlings, ten 
pounds of beef scraps, two pounds of oil 
meal and four pounds of alfalfa. This mix- 
ture should be kept in a hopper before the 
birds at all times. Some good poultry keep- 
ers feed a mash consisting only of bran with 
ten per cent. of beef scraps added. Others 
find it easier and not much more expensive 
to buy a ready-mixed mash at the poultry 
supply stores. 
Table scraps may be chopped into small 
pieces or run through a meat grinder and 
mixed with bran and water so as to make 
a mash which will crumble in the hand. 
Such a mash fed perhaps three times a week 
will do much to stimulate the appetites of 
the birds and to keep them in good spirits. 
It is a mistake to throw a lot of table scraps 
into the pen or yard without knowing 
whether the hens will eat them or not. 
They make dirty houses. It is an excellent 
plan to keep a kettle simmering on the back 
of the kitchen range and to throw into it 
such scraps as may be fit for the poultry. 
The mash may be fed to advantage about 
two hours before dusk falls. After they 
have finished it, the birds will still be able 
to eat considerable corn before thew go to 
roost. 
It is of great importance that the hens 
have an abundance of green food, and yet 
they should not be allowed to make a full 
meal on it, or they will eat too little grain. 
Mangels, cabbages, dried lawn clippings, cut 
clover which has been placed in a pail of 
hot water and allowed to steam for an hour 
or two, and sprouted oats help to constitute 
a complete bill of fare. Mangels may be 
spiked to a board after being cut in halves, 
cabbages suspended from strings and lawn 
clippings rolled up in a two-inch-mesh poul- 
try netting hung to a nail on the wall, to 
prevent waste. The latter plan is a good 
one, and is recommended to amateurs who 
have been far-sighted enough to save the 
valuable clippings from the lawn. The net- 
ting is laid on the ground, clippings placed 
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