17B j. STECKXER SEED CO., I/fD., ALMANAC AND 



Eggf Packing Cases— For shipping Eggs or separating them, our cases are as neatly 

 and well made as an}? on the market. Will hold thirteen large size eggs. Made from 

 heavy paste board, is strong andneatly finished. Price 20c. each ; large size holding 3® 

 dozen. $1.00. 



Mann's New Green Bone Cutters — Nothing on earth will make hens lay like 

 Green Cut Bone. We have cutters in two sizes: 



No. i-B. with Balance Wheel $ 9 75 



No. i-B M. with Balance Wheel and Iron Stand 13 00 



No. 4-B. with Balance Wheel . 18 50 



No. 4.B-M. with Balance Wheel and Iron Stand 21 50 



Enterprise Bone, Shell and Corn Mills— Capacity \% bushels of corn per hour. 

 It is a well known fact that bone meal, ground shells, cracked corn, etc., are excellent for 

 poultry. These Mills are especially adapted to grinding Bones (when dry only), Shells 

 Corn, Roots, Bark, Grain, Chicken Feed, Salt, etc. When it is considered that bone mea. 

 is one of the best fertilizers, they will soon pay for themselves for that purpose alonel 

 These mills are not intended for grinding green bones. Green bones can only be shaved. 

 not ground. No. 750, §8.50. , 



EXTRA CLEANED BIRD SEED. 



We make a speciality to put up choice recleaned bird seed in cartoons holding one 

 pound. These cartoons contain a mixture of Sicily Canary, Hemp, German Rape 

 and German Millet, all recleaned and of best quality. 



Have also plain Canary put up in the same way, one pound cartoons; this is of the 

 very best quality and also recleaned. Price ioc per cartoon; 3 cartoons 25c. Have also 

 in bulk the above as well as Hemp, Rape and Millet. 



Cuttle Fish bone 5c apiece; 50c. a pound. 



Steckler's Prepared Pood for Mocking Birds, Thrushes, Nightingales, Robins, 

 Starlings, Sky I/nrks and all soft billed birds. Price per box 30c. 



Bird Gravel — Small sized box 5c, large sized box ioc. 



Red Bird Feed, ioc, per pound. 



THE BELGIAN HARE. 



jfj Fads About the Belgian Hare. — The Belgian Hare 



if/ industry has come into great prominence. They 

 were introduced in America some years ago and it 

 took but a short time for Eastern fanciers to recog- 

 nize their great worth. 



Their demand for breeders and dressed hares for 

 the city markets is so great that for years to come 

 the supply cannot touch the demand. The Belgian 

 Hare has not that rank flavor so common to the 

 ordinary rabbit. Their flesh is juicy, tender, white 

 and fine grained, and pronounced by epicures as 

 superior to chicken. 



A hare at the age of six months will dress from 

 four to six pounds, and bring from 15 to 25 cents 

 per pound, dressed. Some market the hares at 

 from 16 to 18 weeks of age, and the usual price has 

 been from 35 to 45 cents each, in the city markets. 

 The cost of these hares when ready for market would not exceed 10 cents each when 

 raised in a large open inclosure. A doe, if properly handled, will herself produce 40 to 

 50 young in a year; allowing one half of these to be does, which are bred at six months 

 of age, the progeny of one doe will reach from 100 to 150 in a single year. A person 

 can raise enough rabbits to supply meat for a family of six persons in an inclosure of 

 20 feet square. 



The Belgian Hare has all the good qualities of the other varieties without inheriting 

 thier weak points. 



Belgian Hare culture is a lucrative and desirable occupation and is an honest busi- 

 ness, for every purchaser gets value received for his money. They are not hard to keep, 

 as they will eat anything that a sheep or cow will eat, such as weeds, grass, hay, straw, 

 cabbage, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, spinach, beets, turnips, dandelion, milkweed, plan- 

 tain, dry bread and milk, corn bread boiled potatoes, raw onions, peas, pea pods, green 

 corn, oats, wheat, barley, corn, etc. They like salt, therefore a piece of rock salt should 

 be kept handy for them, if convenient. 



Their hutches, or runs, should be kept clean, which requires but little work. When 

 they are kept in hutches, some dry saw- dust should be sprinkled over the floor twice a 

 week after cleaning. A piece of hickory or oak wood should be placed in the hutch 



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