[ March, 1912 
Raising Poultry for Profit 
S O much is printed about “the wooden 
hen” nowadays that the amateur is 
likely to be discouraged at the outset and 
form the opinion that he cannot raise 
chickens at all without incubators and 
brooders littered all over the place. 
Now, in point of fact, the old-reliable 
hen is doing business at the same old stand, 
and is just as anxious as she ever was, 
when springtime approaches, to be per¬ 
mitted to mother a brood of chickens. She 
can do it, too; for I believe that the 
females of some of our newer breeds 
really excel the old Brahmas and Plymouth 
Rocks as mothers of families. They seem 
to have more sense, which isn’t a great 
deal, to be sure, but enough for us to util¬ 
ize. 
Any able-bodied person who is strong 
enough to carry a peck of corn or a bucket 
of water and who has an hour to spare in 
the morning and another hour to spare be¬ 
fore sundown, should be able to care for 
fifty hens, and to raise from them any 
number from fifty to two hundred chick¬ 
ens, between the first day of March and 
the last day of May, with no help from 
brooders or incubators, and with no fancy 
coops or expensive outfit. I have done it 
myself more than once, and I refuse to 
believe that my strength or intelligence is 
at all above the average. 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in 
poultry. The manager will gladly answer any troublesome questions. 
Address “Poultry Department’’ and enclose a self-addressed envelope. 
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LEONTINE LINCOLN, JR. 
BREEDER of white crested black polish, silver 
bearded polish. Owens Farms, S. C., White Orping¬ 
tons and fancy pigeons; a few cockerels in above va¬ 
rieties for sale at reasonable prices; eggs for hatch¬ 
ing in season; I have 9 Black Orpington pullets and 2 
cockerels. Owens Farms stock, $20 for the flock. 289 
Bank St., Fall River, Mass. 
Columbia WYANDOTTES White 
ORPINGTONS—WHITE 
Exhibition qualities with record of 197 Eggs 
Watch my birds at Egg Contest. 
CHICKS- EGGS—STOCK 
Walter R. Rich, 651 Clark St., Westfield, N.J. 
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still in the lead. We are breeders of the best strain of Single 
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BONNIE BRAE POOL TR Y FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Kennel Department 
If you have no stock of hens on hand, 
it is best to wait until about the first of 
March to buy them. The reason for this is 
simple enough. Many persons who have 
kept a small flock of hens—twenty to 
thirty—move about the first of March to 
some place where they cannot keep them 
and consequently they wish to sell out. 
Such a flock has been carefully tended, is 
free from disease, is usually well bred and 
desirable. Since the sale is a forced one, 
the price is usually low, anywhere from 
fifty cents to a dollar apiece. Such a flock 
will be composed largely of last season’s 
pullets, and is well worth buying. 
With a flock of forty-five or fifty hens, 
you should have two good, well-marked, 
well-bred cockerels. They will fight, of 
course, but not often nor for long. They 
wdll keep their respective places when once 
they have settled the question of suprem¬ 
acy. If you have to buy new cockerels do 
not set any eggs until they have been with 
the flock for at least two weeks. 
Do not set any hen until you have more 
than one wanting to sit. and try them on 
china nest eggs before giving them the real 
article. The plan for sitting hens which 
has proved successful with me is very sim¬ 
ple and easily followed. 
One end of my long coop is partitioned 
off from the rest by lathing. The width 
of the coop, fifteen feet, makes its length. 
It is six feet wide. It contains one window 
and a door opening into the main coop. 
This compartment is used as a place of re¬ 
tirement for sitting hens while they are in 
process of being “broken up.” During 
the spring all the hens are encouraged to 
sit, and I use this for their sitting room. 
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