F. B. MAGILL'S POULTRY FARM, WITH STRAWBERRT GROOVING IN CONNECTION, AT PIQUA, O. 
" It Is with much pleasure that I write you expressing my entire satisfaction with strawberry grow- 
ing in connection with poultry raising. As you are aware. I have been breeding the purest strain of White 
"Wyandotts for heavy egg production by selection with wonderful success, as letters of testimony will bear 
me out; the big results obtained along this line gave me faith in your methods of plant breeding by 
Belection, so my potato patch was plowed up and set to your thoroughbred pedigree plants, and the way 
those plants grew and built up crowns astonished the old time berry growers of this section. Each year my 
potatoes are planted in new ground and the patch of the previous year is set to your strawberry plants. 
I shall not grow any more grain for my Wyandotts, but shall put all my available ground In strawberries 
and buy grain, as the difference In profit much more than pays for the extra labor. Strawberry growing is 
a profitable business In connection with poultry, and 1 shall increase my acreage considerably next spring. 
One hundred hcna furnish enough manure for one acre of berries on fair ground. My boy takes great in- 
terest in both chickens and berries and enjoys getting out with them and watching the chickens work 
among the plants. A bug or Insect of any kind lias no .show on my grounds and the Wyandotts pay me 
handsomely for the privilege of working among the plants. Very truly yours, 
F. B. MAGILL. 
CHICKENS AND STRAWBERRIES. 
There are no two industries that yield a 
higher profit on the investment and which 
may be conducted together to more advantage 
than growing strawberries and keeping poul- 
try. Any man or woman with good business 
tact and determined energy, and who will be 
painstaking and quick to take advantage of 
business opportunities, can find no more de- 
lightful or reliable work. These two indus- 
tries together will bring a steady income a 
greater part of the year and there will scarcely 
be a dull season when it is all outgo and no 
income. 
It is considered best not to have "the eggs 
all in one basket," but to diversify enough to 
break up the monotony and at the same time 
steady, undivided attention is essential to suc- 
cess in this and all undertakings. 
Woe to the grasshopper, bug or worm 
where a flock of chickens have range; and in 
this particular the flocks are as valuable as 
the spray pump, for they keep incessantly at 
work, and about the only time they need to be 
kept out of the strawberry field is during the 
fruiting season. Bone meal and meat trim- 
mings are grand fertilizers for the strawberry 
plant, and the digestive organs of the chicken 
are admirably adapted to changing these into 
plant food. The meat markets will furnish 
the raw material at a small cost, which the 
chickens will rapidly manufacture into eggs 
and fertilizer, and we would as soon fertilize 
our grounds from the chicken coop as from 
any other source. Compost the droppings 
with at least four' times their bulk of dry, 
loamy soil, and this is easily done by scatter- 
ing the soil under the roosts to absorb the 
moisture and odors. A little close attention 
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