ii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
ouliry, Pet and Live Stock 
Directory 
THE HALSTEAD FARM, SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN 
Airedale Terriers, Puppies, and Grown Dogs For Sale 
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WYNDHILL ROMEO 
One of the finest American Bred Airedale Terriers. Grand bone, straight front, best of black and tan coat with 
an ideal head, small well set ears, long neck and strong muzzle. 
dog. During 1910 won in the east 27 firsts and specials, including three firsts in N. Y. 
us 
Fee $15.00 
Dark well set eyes. A large, but not a coarse 
Bear, Deer and Wolf Hounds broken and trained. 
Bloodhounds, Foxhounds. 
for 4-cent stamp. 
40-page illustrated catalog 
Rookwood Kennels, Lexington, Ky. 
A Shetland Pony 
Delight the 
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f a of pleasure. A safe and 
7 E) ideal playmate. Makes 
the child strong and of 
robust health, Inexpensive 
to buy and keep. Highest 
© types here. Complete outfits. 
» Entire satisfaction. Write 
for illustrated catalog. 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Dept. 7 Markham, Va. 
ONE OF THE SIGHTS IN OUR PARK 
i 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, Peafow], 
Cranes, Storks, Flamingoes, Ostriches, Orna- 
mental Ducks and Geese, ete., for private parks 
and fanciers. Also Hungarian Partridges, 
Pheasants, Quail, Wild Ducks and Geese, Deer, 
Rabbits, ete., 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. 
AMERICAN KENNEL COMPANY 
Toy Silk Poodles. the real small kind, $15. Toy 
Spaniels, English Bulls, Boston Terriers, French Bulls, 
Foxterriers, Bullterriers, Scotch Collies, St. Bernards, 
Newfoundlands, etc. 
113 East 9th Street 
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New York City 
Killed by Science 
DANYSZ 
Send for particulars. 1 tube 75c., 
3 tubes $1.75, per dozen $6.00 VIRUS 
INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL COMPANY, 72 FRONT ST., NEW YORK 
JUST PUBLISHED 
TWO FAMILY @ 
TWIN HOUSES 
ONSISTING of a variety of 
designs contributed by leading ar- 
chitects in all parts of the country, 
showing the latest ideas in planning this 
class of dwellings in city, village and sub- 
urbs, together with very complete de- 
scriptions covering all the latest improve- 
ments in sanitation, heating, lighting, etc. 
In presenting this collection of designs the 
editor has had in mind the large demand 
for improved house accommodations 
on comparatively small lot areas, and 
has endeavored to collate designs from 
all parts of the country, representing 
the handling of the subject by practis- 
ing architects in their efforts to meet 
the needs of their clients in this respect. 
Two Detailed Specifications and 
Sixty Designs 
Elaborately illustrated and accompanied by full 
Size, 8x10 inches, bound in 
Price, $2.00, Postpaid. 
361 Broadway, New York 
descriptive text. 
illustrated board. 
MUNN & CO., Inc., 
November, 1911 
set of records must be kept, and the hens 
must be liberated after they have deposited 
their eggs in the nests. A trapnest is so ar- 
ranged that a hen may enter it with ease, 
but is unable to get out again until released. 
At the same time, no other hens are able to 
enter after the trap door has dropped. Such 
a nest can be built at home, if the poultry- 
keeper is at all ingenious. The Kansas Ex- 
periment Station issues a bulletin telling how 
to make a trapnest of a common soapbox 
with but little labor. A slatted trap door 
drops into place when a wire fastener is re- 
leased, which occurs when the body of the 
hen presses against a wire loop as she en- 
ters the box. The nest itself is at the back 
of the box, so that the hen may step out of 
it after she has laid her egg, to wait until 
liberated. 
When trapnests are used, each hen must 
be marked, either by an aluminum band on 
her leg or by having the skin between her 
toes punched with a marker for that pur- 
pose. Such a device is easily used on young 
chickens and a complete record of their 
careers kept, a box or card index being used, 
with a page or card for each bird. 
Trapnests involve too much labor for use 
with a large flock. The best plan is to ex- 
clude all hens which obviously are not can- 
didates for the breeding pen, using the 
nests in a house containing the pick of the 
flock. 
There are variations of the trapnest plan 
which decreases the amount of labor re- 
quired. For instance, two adjoining yards 
may be used, with a number of nests set into 
the partition between them. The hens may 
be placed in one pen in the morning and 
traps set on that side of each nest, the 
other sides being open. Then, after the 
hens have laid, they will pass into pen 
Number Two, where their numbers may be 
taken after they have gone to roost at night. 
The hens remaining in the first pen obvi- 
ously will not have laid that day. After 
this proceedure has been followed for sev- 
eral days, it becomes an easy matter to spot 
the hens which have been derelict in their 
duty. It is quite possible for the amateur 
to follow this plan with a small flock, even 
when the birds are not banded or otherwise 
marked, for he will be able to tell by obser- 
vation which birds have failed to make a 
frequent transition from one pen to another. 
It is altogether worth while for the poul- 
try-keeper to make some effort to distin- 
guish between those hens that are good 
layers and those that lay few eggs or none 
at all. It will pay him to do this, if he must 
count the pennies, for he will find that some 
hens are being kept at a real loss. Such 
hens not only fail to pay for their keep, but 
they occupy the space which might be filled 
by more profitable fowls. If the matter of 
money doesn’t count, still there is no satis- 
faction in housing hens that lay no eggs. 
Culling is an important part of successful 
poultry-keeping, and it can only be done 
when one is able to decide, with a certain 
degree of accuracy, which are the laying 
hens. 
TOOL HARDENING BY GAS 
HE use of the gas furnace for forg- 
ing, tempering and hardening steel 
is spreading among the workshops where 
cutlery and tools are made. The old 
“hearths” are disappearing, replaced by 
small, clean gas furnaces, which are not 
only economical in space and cost of run- 
ning, and comparatively clean and neat, but 
furnish a uniform temperature of any de- 
sired degree, thus avoiding damage to the 
steel through “burning” or irregularity of 
temperature. 
