NORTH HADLEY, MASS. 
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■^POULTRY.*- 
No rural home seems 
complete without a few 
fowls about to fill their 
place in the hearts of the 
cook and the flower bed. 
For whatever reason one 
desires to keep hens it is 
just as well to keep val- 
uable stock as to have a 
lot of scrubs about. There 
is no lack of different 
breeds to meet the re- 
quirements of all. I have 
a few pens of nice stock, 
obtained from several of 
the best sources in the 
county, and can spare a 
few sittings this spring at 
$1.50 per sitting, of 13 
eggs, or two sittings to 
same address for $2.50. 
My varieties are Plym- 
outh Rock, Light Brah- 
ma, Brown Leghorn, and 
White Wyandotte. 
I have other varieties 
but probably cannot spare 
any eggs from them this 
season. 
I like Plymouth Rock 
about as well as any breed 
for an all-around-fowl. 
Each breed has its cham- 
pion and is perhaps supe- 
rior to other kinds in 
some particular thing. 
Great care will be exer- 
cised to produce fertile 
eggs that will hatch well 
and give vigorous chicks. 
NOTICE THE ADDRESS ON THE WRAPPER. 
As I may wish to mail you other printed matter at some time I wish you would notice the 
address on the wrapper inclosing this Manual to see if it is correct in all details. If it is, that is 
enough; but if it is not, please drop a postal, stating how it appears and then how it should be. 
This may insure to you the receipt of further communications that you my be glad to receive. 
If you are not at all interested in this Manual and don’t ever intend to become a patron of 
mine, it will be a great favor if you drop me a postal to that effect. This will save me much 
useless expense. 
ORDER POTATOES EARLY. 
The importance of ordering your seed potatoes early is especially applicable to this season. 
I have a lirger stock on hand this year than ever before, and yet owing to the scarcity of good 
stock I expect to be sold short of many varieties very early. I can quote the prices herein only 
so long as my own stock lasts. If I can procure reliable stock after my own is sold, at no addi- 
tional cost, I will do so if the customer so desires. Further, a reason for ordering early, is, that 
as the price of potatoes in the common market « so high that I shall dispose-early of any sur- 
plus I seem liable to have of any particular variety, rather than run the risk of loss in holding 
till early potatoes commence to arrive from the South. 
