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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds 
The best hens to lay ever introduced. As chickens and strawberries go well together 
and it will cost you but little to commence with either, you can spend lots of money if 
you want to, but it is not necessary. A few dry goods boxes, a hammer and nails, will 
make you a house you can start in. You can improve as you go along. If absolutely 
necessary you need not spend much money. You can buy incubator, brooder, self feeder 
and everything in that line, but if you have some old biddy hen that gets to dreaming 
of the future, buy her some eggs and let her dream on them and see what it will come 
to. Just let the old lady take care of them and see how willingly she will do It. 
I have the finest lot of Rhode Islands this year I ever had. I wish you could see them; 
not one of them with a crooked bill nor any kind of deformation this year; perfectly 
tine, healthy birds, proud and aristocratic. 
Their ancestors have all been first-class show birds, with high scoring records. There 
Is no hen that has a kinder disposition, while the cockerels are big, full fledged, soldierly 
looking fellows. 
The laying qualities of the Rhode Island is unsurpassed. You are always there with 
the eggs in winter time. You are well supplied at all times when eggs bring fancy prices. 
At maturity they weigh 5 to 7 pounds, a fine, meaty fowl. The feather on a Rhode 
Island Red is fully half down and makes fine pillows. We like them; their coat is so 
snug fitting that cold weather cannot penetrate them. We shipped eggs the past season 
to New Hampshire and all O. K. Let us get you started, or if already started send to 
us for new blood for your stock. We can please you. 
The price of our eggs will be reasonable this year. We will have mated trios, single 
pullets or cockerels for sale at all times. We have a few fancy cockerels now that are 
worth $25.00 to you to get your flock started. In addition to our Rhode Island Reds. 
I can quote you close figures on White Leghorns and White Wyandottes, both eggs 
and birds. 
Rhode Island eggs fill the requirements on weight. One dozen weigh plump 24 ounces. 
