Poultry Department 
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See liow little money it takes to get a 
Potter Portable Fresh-Air House; 
ready-made coops, hoppers, fountains, 
vermin-proof roosting and nesting dz* 
tures. Houses made of Red Cypress 
aooriiig. painted two coats complete 
with all fixtures. See house and fix¬ 
ture illustrated above. Book mailed for 
two red stamps. 
Poller & Company, Box E 1 3, Downers Grove, III. 
S WANS 
Stately Royal Birds 
I sell only ADULT 
Royal Swans of 
England, of breed¬ 
ing age, which will 
breed. I do not 
handle the inferior 
continental birds, 
of immature age, 
and most of which 
have been canon¬ 
ized to render them 
infertile, unknown 
to the buyer, lean 
refer in tending pur¬ 
chasers to gentle¬ 
men who have procured birds from roe in the past and who have 
begged me to BUY THEM B.ACK becaase thei' have been OVPJR- 
RUN WITH THE PROGENY. 
DR. CECIL FRENCH, Zoologist, Washington, D. C. 
DAY-OLD CHICKS 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Hoff's Day-Old Chicks Are Hatched Brim Full of 
Vitality, and Are Bound to Live and Grow. 
My stock is bred for big egg production, as well as 
exhibition type, and is noted for heavy laying of 
large, white eggs that bring top prices. I have had 
more than 20 years’ experience in artificial incuba¬ 
tion, and by closely studying the breeding and hatch¬ 
ing, under the most sanitary conditions, I am able to 
produce 
Chicks Free from White Diarrhoea 
I also have S. C. White Leghorn eggs for hatching, 
write for my reasonable prices on chicks and eggs. 
D, C. R. HOFF, Lock Box 152, Neshanic Station, N. J. 
¥ 
Greidcr’s Fine Catalogue 
Book and Calendar for 1912 contains 200 pages. 72 
varieties pure bred, 62 colored plates. Many other illus¬ 
trations. descriptions. Incubators and brooders. Low 
prices on all stock and eggs. How to raise and make 
hens lay. Get my plans. All say it’s great — this book — 
only I5c. Price list free. 
B- H, GREIDER, - - Box 70, Rheems, Pa. 
Maplecroft S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
Won New York 1911 , 5 th Cock, 4 th Cockerel, 
4 th and 5 th Pens and ist, 4 th, 5 th PULLET, 
also Shape Special on Pullet, High class util¬ 
ity layers and choice breeding stock for sale. 
J. G. Dutcher, Prop. For circular, address: 
Maplecroft Farms. Pawling, N. Y, 
Established 1875 
SWANS 
PHEASANTS, CRANES 
FANCY DUCKS 
Poultry and Supplies 
tlUam lartrla (!In. 
Now 160 Greenwich St., N. Y.. 
After May 1st, 42-44 Cortlandt 
Do you want to produce 
on your farm the largest 
hen’s eggs known? 
jV 
Yama Black Minorcas ^ 
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will do it 
From a photograph of an average Yama Black Minorca Egg. 
34 ounces to the dozen. 
From a photograph of the average first-cla s egg. 
24 ounces to the dozen. 
S OME YEARS AGO WE WERE PERHAPS WHERE YOU ARE 
TODAY — what kind of chickens to keep — and where to get a 
start with the right kind. We have tested seven varieties, have 
had our experiences — and for eggs Black Minorca. They have all the 
good qualities of the egg laying varieties of chickens (non-setters, etc.) 
and the size of the birds themselves makes them more desirable for 
the table than the usual small egg layers. They have one of the 
longest breasts of any variety, which insures an extra amount of 
white meat. 
Yama Black Minorcas are the Aristocrats 
of the Poultry World 
We have a thousand females—every one a beauty—and for our breeding pens we 
have selected about two hundred, including all our prize winners. Last season we 
did not care to sell eggs from our prize stock—now we are ready to give you the very 
best to be had in Minorca blood. $10 for a setting of 15 eggs. Carefully packed. 
Infertile eggs replaced. 
WE NEVER BRED A HEN THAT WAS WORTH $10,000.00 and never expect to 
— BUT — we do win first prizes wherever shown. 
Twice we have exhibited our Minorcas in Madison Square Garden, New York, 
and won — 
In 1910—FIRST PEN. 
In 1911—FIRST PEN — FIRST COCK—SECOND HEN—THIRD PULLET—FIFTH 
and SIXTH COCKERELS-and the competition there is the keenest, you know. 
Send for Mating List. 
YAMA FARMS Yama-no-uchi, Napanoch, N. Y. 
NEWTON COSH, Manager Poultry Department 
References: Security Bank* New York; First National Bank* Ellenville, N. Y. 
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