5906. 
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CAPE CURE 
It’s Gape that kills off the big: hatches 
and spoils poultry success. 
DONKEY’S GAPE CURE 
> cure and prevent or your money back, 
j. Dealers or druggists or by mail, post¬ 
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on poultry diseases FREE. Send 4c to pay postage. 
G. E. CONKEY & CO., Ho. 321 0it«wa Bldg., Cleveland, 9. 
Write for a copy of my book 
which describes the profit¬ 
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Broiler, and Roaster Farms. 
It gives the prices paid for eggs and poultry 
week by week for the past three years, it 
tells how and when a natch taken off each 
week in the year could be most profitably 
marketed. It shows how you can make $2.00 on 
a large winter roaster. It tells what profits 
can be made with each of the popular breeds, 
and the costs of production. 
I have helped thousands to make money with 
poultry. My Model Incubators and Brooders 
are used on the money-making farms. It Is my 
business to teach those who use them to do so 
profitably. Whether your needs are small or 
large, I will furnish, without charge, esti¬ 
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that will insure success without your spend¬ 
ing a dollar uselessly. 
Send for my complete literature. 
CHAS. A. CYPHERS 
3943 Henry Street' Buffalo, N. Y. 
is FREE for the asking. Drop 
us a postal today and learn the 
difference between the ERTEL 
machine and the cheap kind. 
The Book tel Is facts you 
ought to know if you are think¬ 
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—• chicken raising—big profits in 
Rucks—large returns on incubator 
hatched turkeys. Let us start you 
■right. Don't waste eggs, oil, and 
time on a poor machine. Get the 
ibenefit of our 39 years exper¬ 
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In our book. Write for it today. 
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STAR 
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& BROODERS 
Guaranteed to suit or no sale. 
Big hatches and broods prove 
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Write for new FREE catalog. 
STAR INCUBATOR CO., 626 
Church St., Bound Brook, N, J 
40, 60 or 90 Days Trial on 
Old Trusty” 
The Easy Machine to Operate. 
You run no risk. Five year guar 
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care—less oil—most profit. Don’t 
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sell direct. Big 1906 Book Free. 
Johnson Co., Clay Center. Web. 
$ I 0.80 For 
I mm 200 Egg 
INCUBATOR 
Perfect In construction and 
action. Hatches every fertile 
egg. Write for catalog to-day. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, 111. 
Make Your Own Brooders 
with the Universal Hover and a 
Piano Box 
any form of Colony 
House, or small poul¬ 
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5 Frti Books on Artificial 
Poultry Production 
1st—Standard Incuba¬ 
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Universal Hover and Colony Brooders. 4th— 
f eeding and rearing chicks. 5th—What users 
are doing. Other books to follow. Getonou* 
list and get them as fast as published. 
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you to get samples and complete 
proofs of quality from the oldest mak¬ 
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originated the roll of roofing ready to lay 
with fixtures packed in the center.) 
Our concern was 
Founded in 1817 
We can show you why "Paroid” 
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most in repairs. Drop us a postal to-day. 
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East Walpole, Mass. 
New York, Washington, Chicago, 
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W. M. Ostrander, the real estate agent 
and promoter of Philadelphia, Pa., has a 
new proposition for the farmers who paid 
him an advance fee for listing their farms 
for sale. In a three-page letter to T. S. 
Casey he tells of a client who has made 
application for a Virginia property simi¬ 
lar to Mr. Casey’s. This client is very 
much interested, but his money is at 
present tied up in a real estate develop¬ 
ment company in the suburbs of New 
York City. This client has $ 19,900 now 
invested in this company, with the privi¬ 
lege of taking his choice at any time of 
lots to that amount anywhere in the lands 
controlled by the realty company. Mr. 
Ostrander suggested to the client to trade 
a portion of this holding in the realty 
company for the Virginia farm. This he 
refused to do, but is willing to trade his 
entire holding of $ 19 , 900 , provided Mr. 
Casey will pay the balance in cash, and 
be quick about it, as Mr. Ostrander has 
other Virginia property to offer this gen¬ 
tleman. It is a condition that Mr. Casey 
turn over his farm free and clear from 
mortgages and other incumbrances. 
Possibly some other farmer has received 
a similar letter. There certainly must be 
other investors in this realty improvement 
company who would like to get a good 
farm on terms of their own making. The 
plan certainly is suggestive of liberal 
profits, and if successful ought to find imi¬ 
tators. All you need to do is to buy up 
vacant land in the suburb of a city. Print¬ 
ing is cheap, and you can make stock and 
bond securities fast and cheap. Trade 
these for farms free and clear, always 
making sure to get back cash enough to 
pay for any value there may happen to 
be in the securities. A scheme of this 
kind ought to appeal to farmers who 
bought farms with a mortgage and 
worked hard for years to pay it off. You 
must not, of course, think for a moment 
that we are putting any such construction 
as this on Mr. Ostrander’s proposition. 
We do not. But of course, there is no law 
against you forming your own conclu¬ 
sions, He says that Mr. Casey paid him 
an advance fee for selling the farm. It 
has not been sold. He wants to earn his 
fee, and if Mr. Casey is willing to put 
up a little more cash and a free and clear 
farm, he can have a piece of printed pa¬ 
per representing shares in a developing 
company in New Jersey. Of course the 
New Jersey investor will have to pay part 
of the money he gets from Mr. Casey over 
to Mr. Ostrander for commissions on the 
sale of the stock. Mr. Casey will also 
need to retain enough cash to pay Mr. 
Ostrander a commission for sale of the 
farm. You cannot expect promoters or 
speculators to put up cash. But cash is 
necessary, and why should the farmer ob¬ 
ject to putti-ng it up? Mr. Ostrander says 
he would not recommend this deal, if he 
did not believe it to be a good thing. That 
is all right for this particular proposition, 
provided Mr. Ostrander’s judgment is 
good and not over-anxious to earn his ad¬ 
vance fee, but don’t bite on the imitators. 
The following is a letter to which we 
want to call attention. It has just come 
in from Connecticut. 
Please discontinue your paper to m.v ad¬ 
dress. I have no use for a paper that ad¬ 
vertises such men as —•---. They 
are not reliable. s. s. e. 
Connecticut. 
We have withheld the name of the 
house referred to. It is absolutely one of 
the best and most reliable nursery houses 
in the country. They have advertised 
longer than we can now remember. We 
do not think that we ever heard of an¬ 
other complaint of them. No doubt this 
farmer has had some real or imaginary 
cause of complaint. The chances are that 
he has not written the firm about it. We 
simply give this as an example of the way 
not to do it. If you have cause for com¬ 
plaint. write the house a plain statement, 
in mild and reasonable language. Don’t 
scold, and don’t threaten. Treat them as 
if you knew they wanted to do the right 
thing, and expected them to correct the 
error. It is time enough to use positive 
language after they have refused a rea¬ 
sonable settlement. 
Our subscription returns for January 
were the best we ever had. Excepting 
the first day of the month every day was 
an increase over last year. The in 
crease for the whole month was 24.3 per 
cent. “The Farmer’s Garden” went out 
every day in cartloads. They are going 
out every day now, and we want to thank 
heartily the old subscribers who are send¬ 
ing in new names for neighbors. The 
book goes to them, too. If you have 
not received your book yet, you should 
have it now soon. It will go the day 
your renewal comes in. 
Darling’s Beef Meal 
is a protein feed—what the hens must have to make eggs come. Our special concentrated food 
for just that purpose. It goes to make up the egg. That’s why hens are such great worm and 
bug catchers. In winter you must 
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Our Beef Meal and Beef Scraps run high in protein and low in fat. We also handle and manu¬ 
facture a full line of Poultry Foods and Supplies. Among them are Laying Food 82.00, Chick 
Feed 82.50, Scratching Food 82.00, Forcing Food 82.00, Oyster Shells 60c, Mica Crystal Grit 65c. 
F. O. B. Chicago or New York, cash with order. You need our Poultry Supply Catalogue. Also 
our pamphlet, “Fill the Egg Basket.” Both free. 
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the greatest value of a building 
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. Flintkote, as shown on the building in this 
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Rex Flintkote 
ROOFING 
guard against temperature, acid, alkali, rot, and 
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an absolute 
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Any farm-hand can lay it perfectly.. Cover your poultry 
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you get a book showing all kinds 
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COUNTY 
AGRICULTURAL 
SPRINGFIELD^ 
£f, OHIO -5£i 
Mrs. Lowry tells the way 
She made $ 223. 28 on Chickens' 
Suns Hatch Incubator Co., 
Olay Center. Nebr. 
Gentlemen: — I own two of your 100 egg 
machines. Have had good success. 
I raised 674 chicks out of 616 fertile eggs. 
8old the last a week ago. 50 chickens. 
Have made $223.28. I call this good. 
Early broilers are the birds that bring In 
the gold. 
I used “Snre-Hntch” Chick Feed and found 
it a grand food for the little chicks. 
Mrs. G. W. Lowry, 
West Salem, Ohio. 
H OW’S that for a woman? 
You can do the same, If you get a 
Sure Hatch Incubator. 
Now don’t take our say so for this, but 
let us prove it to you. 
Send for our big 100-page FREE Cat¬ 
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best and let us ship it to you on 60 days’ 
trial. 
We will pay the freight and let you use 
the Incubator two months at our risk. 
If it isn’t all we claim, send it back at our 
ixpense and you are out nothing. 
Our big FREE Catalog tells why. It is 
full of facts worth dollars to every poultry 
raiser. It contains Poultry House Plans and 
Illustrations, data on hatching and feeding, 
and valuable 
suggestions 
about rais¬ 
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try. It’s in¬ 
formation 
will put more 
money in 
your pocket. 
Send for it 
today. A 
postcard bearing your name 
and address brings it with prices from S7.50 to 
S17.50 on Sure Hatch Incubators and brooders 
holding from 75 to 200 eggs at a time. 
SURE HATCH INCUBATOR. CO., 
Box D 44 , Clay Center, Neb., 
or De pt. D 14»Indianapolis, Ind. 
IG PROFITS In Farm Poultry 
klf you raise it right. Mark the "U” and let ns start 
you right with a new 1906-Pattern 
standard Cyphers Incubator 
“the sensation of the poultry worldguaranteed to hatch 
more and healthier chicks with lees oil than any other or 
_ your money book. We mean it. 90 days trial. Complete 
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Thc Natural 
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is the incubator of right air con¬ 
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compressed paper hoard, (such as is used for 
car-wheels) making the lightest, strongest, most 
durable incubator in the world. Walls CAN¬ 
NOT WARP. CRACK NOR SPLIT, as all oth¬ 
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no supplied moisture required. 
WE PAY THE FREIGHT 
to all points east of the Mississippi. Don’t buy 
an incubator until you get out Free Catalog. 
Perpetual Hen Co., M.nufao- Incubators 4k Brooders, 
ZIEmchorSt., *uur»of ^ Trenton, N. 4. . 
The Racine 
Incubator 
Built by the man 
who devoted 24 
years to its 
present perfect 
development. 
Can be operated by any¬ 
one, anywhere. Auto¬ 
matic regulator, copper tank, white pine case, 
dou.ole walled, nursery. Built to last 20 years. 
Don’t buy until you read our remarkable 
Incubator Book, written by the man who 
made the Racine. When you learn what he 
knows, you will want his machine, we think. 
The book is free. Write for it. Address 
Racine Hatcher Co. Box 87, Racine, WLs. 
Warehouses: Buffalo, Kansas City, St. Paul. 
We pay 
the freight 
METAL MOTHERS 
Complete fire-proof hatching and 
brooding plant for $7.50. 2 qts. oil 
hatches 50 eggs and raises chicks. 
Catalogue free. CYCLE HATCH¬ 
ER 00., Box 292, Salem, Hew York, 
LIFE PRODUCERS 
SUCCESSFUL INCUBATORS. 
LIFE PRESERVERS 
SUCCESSFUL BROODERS. 
’The only machines that rival the moth** 
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FREE. Booklet, “Proper Care and Feeding 8 mall Chicks, 
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DES MOINES INCUBATOR COMPANY, 
Department BO Dei Moines, lear®. 
Take Your Choice. 
Guaranteed Self Regulating Incubators 
PPIIT at $1 and $2 per month. Let 
1 rent pay for it. We pay freight. 
Buy on 40 Days Trlel or buy parts and 
plans and build one. Prices, ready to 
use: $5.00 up. Free catalog—tells all. 
ATOR CO., Box S3, Springfield, O. 
BANTA 
Incubators & Brooders 
Backed by 14 Years 
of Successful Use by 
poultrymen all over the world. 
No guesswork. They are auto¬ 
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YOU satisfaction. Send for 
free book. BA'WTA-BENDER 
MFG. CO., Dept. 46, Ligonier, Ind. 
ONE YET 
That’s what you get when you buy a 
CLIMAX INCUBATOR 
Sold on 60 days’Free Trial. New cat¬ 
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The Climax Incubator and Brooder Co.» 
.Box 807, Castorland, N 
GLOBE INCUBATORS. 
Hatch chickens No experience necessary 
Our large new Illustrated Catalogue of In¬ 
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C.C. SHOEMAKER 
Box 650 Freeport, IUs. 
