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“A Dog on Good Scale.” 
You Can Save From $30. to $50. 
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No Pit to Dig. 8 Inches Over All. Steel Frame. 
This Scale is complete when It leaves our 
factory, with the exception of floor planks. 
WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE. 
NATIONAL PITLESS SCALE CO., 
Dept. Z 5 Kansas City, Mo. Branch, Dayton, 0. 
UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE 
A Fence—Not a Netting 
We make our own wire, galvanize 
and weave it into fence, using nothing 
but highest grade material. 
Users of Union Lock Fence say that 
it wears better than any other fence 
or netting and is easier and cheaper 
to put up. 
It not only keeps in chickens young 
and old, hut its strength gives abso¬ 
lute protection to them. 
It may be stretched tight without 
buckling or sagging in any part, and 
conforms to irregularities of the 
ground without cutting. 
Made in widths from 12 to 84 inches. 
Sol d by the rod—not by the square foot 
—in rolls of 10 and 20 rods. 50 rods or 
more delivered F. O. B. nearest depot. 
Catalogue D and 
“ A Short Story 
for Poultry 
Salters ” mailed 
free on applica¬ 
tion. 
This Trade-Mark in Colors appears 
on Every Koll. 
Union Fence Company, 
114 Liberty Street, New York City. 
MILLS AT 
New Haven, Conn.; DeKalb, Ill Oakland,Cal. 
$1 
j A- OO For A 
IOmachine 
That will weave fence at 
cost of wire only. Saves 
money. 125 buys enough 
Coiled Hard Steel Wire 
for 100rodsol'fence. Agents 
wanted. Catalogue free. 
CARTER WIRE FENCE 
MACHINE CO. 
Box 225 Mt. Sterling, Ohio. 
8 Years 9 Test 
given the Frost Fence by standard R. R. Cos. has 
proven to them that it is the best and cheapest fence 
to erect. Our new lock will make it doubly so. Send 
for sample of new lock and 1005 catalogue. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, Ohio 
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JHeavieatFence Made. AllNo. 9 Steel Wire i 
J.5 to 35 CENTS PER ROD DELIVERED 
We also sell direct to farmers at wholesale prices, 
^ Coiled Spring. Barb and Soft Galvanized wire. 
. Write for Fence Book showing no styles. 
: BROWN FENCE & WIRE CO. 
Cleveland. Ohio 
CHAIN 
HANGING 
STANCHION 
WARRINER'S 
HOLDS THE 
ANIMALS AS 
FIRMLY 
AS RIGID 
STANCHIONS. 
W. B. CRUMB, 73 Main St.. Foreatvllle, Conn 
The Only Post Tested By Time. 
Go slow on new seeds, new fruits and new In¬ 
ventions. After ten years trial Bond Steel 
Poets are more popular than ever. Used by 
the Government in every State In the Union. 
By leading railroads, cities, parks, cemeter¬ 
ies, etc., and local agents for all kinds of wire 
fence Increase sales of fence by supplying 
these posts, some using carloads every sea¬ 
son. Every local fence agent should write us. 
Bond Steel Post Co., Adrian, Michigan. 
INCUBATOR EXPERIENCE. 
About four years ago I bought a 120 - 
egg iroubator, and started my first ex¬ 
perience in artificial hatching. To have 
the outside temperature as even as possi¬ 
ble 1 put the machine in my cellar, which 
has two windows on south side, is rea¬ 
sonably dry, and never freezes anything. 
This incubator is furnished with a hanging 
thermometer, which suspends the bulb 
one-half to three-fourths of an inch above 
the eggs. I was very particular to keep 
the temperature at 103 degrees, but when 
the three weeks had expired not a chick 
was to be seen. The twenty-second day 
three or four chicks were out, more on 
the twenty-third day and the hatch was 
not concluded until the twenty-fourth 
day, bringing out, if I remember right, 
54 chicks from 120 eggs. Having had 
experience with delayed hatches from 
hens leaving nests, etc., I saw that the 
heat had not been high enough; so the 
next lot of eggs put in were kept at 
105 degrees, resulting in a hatch of G7 
cl icks. Then I sent for another make 
of incubator, tested the thermometer, 
which stands upright, the bulb resting on 
the eggs. To my astonishment I found 
that when the thermometer on the eggs 
stood at 103 degrees the hanging ther¬ 
mometer marked 107. 1 placed the hang¬ 
ing one on the eggs to see if they were 
graded differently, but found that it also 
registered 103 when on the eggs. In 
each case I w'as very particular to have 
the thermometers rest only on good fer¬ 
tile eggs. This is very important, es¬ 
pecially after the second week, when the 
difference will be from two or more de¬ 
grees between eggs in which the chick 
is developing properly and those with 
dead germs, etc. 1 am inclined to think 
that the hanging thermometer is best for 
the novice after he has learned at what 
degree to run it to keep the eggs at 103 . 
I like to have the hatch commence 
early on the twentieth day, and he en¬ 
tirely finished on the twenty-first. Chicks 
that hatch out after that are generally 
weak, and will usually die, and if they 
do not you will wish they had. This, of 
course, doesn't apply to delayed hatches, 
where the heat has not been kept, up; 
as for instance, where the incubator door 
was not closed, or the lamp went out. 
1 have had hens shut out accidentally for 
half a day in cold weather, the eggs 
“stone coldput the hen on again and 
the eggs would hatch a half-day later. 
I have set a lot of hens in a house by 
themselves, and had one persist in leaving 
her eggs to get on a nest with another 
hen; find her eggs cold time after time, 
but finally hatch a good lot of chicks 
two days after the others had finished. 
My experience is that nothing short of 
freezing will kill a good vigorous chick- 
in the shell, especially after the second 
week. 
Chicks dying in the shell are one of the 
most common faults of incubators, and in 
my opinion lack of fresh air in sufficient 
quantity is the main reason. Of course, 
chicks die in the shell sometimes when 
set under hens, and then it is probably 
owing to lack of vitality in the chick on 
account of prenatal influences. But if 
incubators hatch only from the most 
vigorous germs are they not, then, doing 
something to keep up the stock? As 
to airing the eggs, I think it is good 
practice during the last week of incuba¬ 
tion to air a room thoroughly, then heat 
it to 75 or .80 degrees rapidly, take eggs 
out of the incubators and leave them in 
the 100 m for one to two hours at a time, 
but not letting the eggs go below 70 
degrees; and if this dries out the eggs 
too much as will he shown by increase 
in size of air chamber, then put shallow 
pans of wa f er in incubator. 
W'-at is the objection to making an 
incubator, with, say, a three-inch diame¬ 
ter hole opening from the eggs chamber, 
right up through the top of the machine, 
and the dampe- operating over that in¬ 
stead of over the* lamp? With four one- 
inch holes near the four corners, covered 
with the finest screens, to make the intake 
slew, every time the damper raised to let 
the hot air out of the big hole, fresh 
air would be drawn in at the corners, to 
supply its place; and this might happen 
100 times a day. I think several places 
for the escape of the foul air should be 
left in or near the bottom of the incu¬ 
bator. If experiments have been made 
along this line, and they have failed, I 
would like to know it, and why. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
"The Resister 11 
DVisx 3Xmtkote 
ROOFING 
RESISTS WATER 
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An Unfair Test 
Water under high pressure is an 
unfair test of any roofing—yet Rex 
Flintkote perfectly withstands it. 
REX FLINTKOTE is the ideal roofing for farm- 
buildings and all houses in the country, where severe 
storms—both rain and snow—are common, and where the 
houses are exposed to the full strength of the elements 
Melting snow, which has brought many a shingle and 
tin roof to grief, rolls off REX EL1NTKOTE as harmlessly 
as water off a duck's back. 
An absolutely water-ti^ht roof may be 
laid by any ordinary careful laborer 
with REX FLINTKOTE, quickly and at small expense. 
Laying outfit (except hammer) and directions in each roll. 
This roofing resists fire, heat, cold, snow and wear, and 
affords perfect protection to the dwelling house as well as the 
stock barns and poultry houses. 
May We Send You Samples? 
Our handsome booklet together with photos of REX 
FLINTKOTE buildings, will be gladly sem on 
request. Beware of substitutes, "Look for the 
jMABKlk. Boy" on every roll. Send us your name to-day. 
3. A. & W. BIRD & CO. 
TO India St., Boston. Mass. 
ANCHOR FENCE 
HKST FOR THE FARM 
An honest fence made from 
honest material, In an honest 
■way—gives honest satisfaction. 
Send to-day for Catalogue D." 
Vnclior Fence & Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 
IWANS’ Post Hole an a d u& e r ll 
For Fence and TeUphone Ib*t Hole*, WtlU, Prospecting, «tc. A man 
can do three time* the work with an Wan Auger than with any other. 
Blxei 3 t 0 10 Inch, 
Used by U. 8. Gov’t. \ >L __ 12.50 *ach; 12 Inch. 
fG.00; 14 Inch. 18.00 
Inquire of your hard¬ 
ware or implement 
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circulars of our tools you need on the farm. 8ample at special price to 
Introduce. I wan Brothers, Dept. No, i, Btreator, Ill. 
If You Want a FENCE 
SEE THAT TWIST!!! 
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That is mado from thebest High Carbon Steel Wire. 
That lslli-a'lly Galvanized to prevent rustorcorrosion. 
That is COILED to provide for contraction and expansion, 
That is Strong Enough to turn the most vicious animal, 
That is Woven Closely to turn chickens and small pigs, 
That staples to the posts as you would nail a board, 
That easily adjusts itself to all uneven surfaces, 
That is woven in such a manner that compels every wire 
to bear its portion of strain, 
That you can Buy Direct from the firm that makes it, with 
I Freight Prepaid to your nearest railroad station, 
'That you can examine at your railroad station and re¬ 
turn if it displeases you in any particular, 
That you can erect and Use for Thirty Da; b, and if unsat¬ 
isfactory return at our expense and get your money, 
Write for Free Catalog giving full information, Address, 
’KITSELMAN BROS, Bo* 230 MUNCIE, INDIANA. 
Stands Like a Stone Wall 
Turns Cattle, Horses, Hogs—Is Practically Indestructable. 
AMERICAN FENCE 
When you buy fence for present needs, are yon thinking of ten—yes, twenty—years 
hence? It pays to think ahead—to study the fence question. The fence of greatest 
weight per running rod is American. 
It is the product of the greatest fence concern in the world. Scientifically woven, 
thoroughly galvanized, and with every strand and cable guaranteed by its makers, it is 
pre-eminently the fence for the far-sighted farmer, stockman or ranchman to buy. 
There’s a dealer in your town who sells 
American Fence—Look Him Up. 
Spend a cent for a postal card and get our free Fence Book, which is brimful of 
interesting information on everything pertaining to fences. 
AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE CO., Dept. 40, Chicago, New York, Denver, San Francisco 
