HOUSE AND GARDEN 
M 
A V, 1912 
Poultry Department 
Baby Chicks of Quality 
Guaranteed to reach 
you in good condition 
You can’t count your chickens before they are hatched; 
so why bother with setting hens and incubators? Let me 
assume all the risk. I will send you by express, healthy 
sturdy Fishel Strain White Plymouth Rock Baby Chicks, 
utility or exhibition; also Fishel White Indian Runner 
Baby Ducks. Order now, as winter hatchings are the 
most vigorous. Prices reasonable and satisfaction as¬ 
sured. Send 6 cents for my splendid chick catalog. 
R. C. CALDWELL 
Box 1030, Lyndon, Ross Co., Ohio 
Established 1875 
SWANS 
PHEASANTS, CRANES 
(FANCY DUCKS 
Poultry and Supplies 
William SSartrlH (Ha. 
Now 160 Greenwich St., N. Y. 
After May 1st, 42-44 Cortlandt 
Maplecroft S. C. Rhode Island Reds 
Won New York 1911,5th Cock, 4th Cockerel, 
4th and 5th Pens and ist, 4th, 5th 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, 
Belgian Silver Campine 
PRETTIEST, GREATEST LAYERS 
of large, white eggs. Most attractive, prac¬ 
tical fowl in the World. Just coming in 
vogue. Large flock, every one imported, 
eggs $5 for 6. 
ORPINGTONS. White. Black or Buff. 
(Cook K'strass), $5, $4, sitting; $12, 100; 
imported flock, $b for 6. 1st Cock Indian¬ 
apolis, 2 cups, 2 shows, same date. 1st prize 
egg contest. $10,000 Peggy’s grandson. I sell 
show birds, guaranteed. Any fancy eggs, $10, 
100. Get “Why I Breed Orpingtons and 
Silver Campines.” 
Dr. Thos. Dietrick, Box H, Washington, N. 
SILVER CAMPINES 
ing: from prize winning pen. Ss per 15; 
replaced free. 
Limited number 
of eggs for batch- 
all infertile eggs 
C. H. TUTTLE 
7 Smith Street BRISTOL, R. 1. 
HEADQUARTERS 
For the Celebrated Hungarian and English 
Partfid^b and Pbeasanb 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, Rab¬ 
bits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks 
Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferrets, 
etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
(Send 4c. for descriptive circulars) 
WENZ & MACKENSEN 
Dept. Y, Pheasantry and Game Park, Yardley, Penna. 
White Orpingtons 
They lay like slot machines. 
My birds have won at Madison 
Square, Pittsburg, Cleveland, 
Buffalo, Chicago and other large 
shows. New catalog free. 
Lawrence Jackson 
Harsville, Allegheny Co., Pe, 
Columbia WYANDOTTES White 
ORPINGTONS—WHITE 
Exhibition qualities with record of 197 Eggs 
Wa tch m y birds at Egg Contests at Storrs, Conn. 
■CHICKS—EGGS—STOCK 
Walter R. Rich, 651 Clark St., Westfield, N. J. 
P ETS. Pets. If it is a pet you desire, we have 
them—Singing Canaries, Talking Parrots, Fancy 
Cage Birds of every clime. Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, 
Ferrets, White Mice and Rats, Fancy Pigeons, Gold 
Fish, Aquariums, etc., Dogs and Puppies of all breeds. 
Angora Cats and Kittens. Catalogue for the asking. 
Hope’s Leading Pet Shop, 31 North 9th street, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
25 CHICKS and METAL BROODER $6 
start right with COOLEY DAY-OLD CHICKS THAT GROW 
— prize-winning stock— White Leghorns, B. Rocks or R. I. 
Reds. Most practical Fireless Brood¬ 
er—raises chicks In any weather. 
Don’t worry with incubators and 
poor hatches. CHICK BOOKLET, 
prices on chicks in quantities, and 
cn Hatching Eggs—Free. 
S. E. COOLEY, Frenchtown, N. J. 
G. D.TILLEY 
tMjaturalist 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
ants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
Flamingoes,Game and CageBirds, 
“Everything in the bird line from a 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have on 
hand the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
np HE POULTRY DEPARTMENT offers to the 
-j- readers of HOUSE AND GARDEN a re¬ 
liable source from which they may obtain infor¬ 
mation regarding CHOICE—SELECTION—CARE 
OF POULTRY. HAsk us when you want to know. 
Poultry Department B. F. 
HOUSE y GARDEN 
31 E. 17th St. New York 
^‘THE GREATEST CHICKEN IN 
THE WORLD^^ 
Bar none ! The Sussex Fowl of England 
CONRAD & BRATT 
Breeders and Importers Hackensack, N. J. 
Fencing In the Small Flock. 
P ERMANENT fences make it difficult 
to keep the ground in the poultry 
yard free from taint, but temporal y ones 
made of poultry wire stretched from posts 
driven into the ground only far enough to 
sustain the weight are better, because they 
can be removed once or twice a year and 
the ground ploughed. Yet many people 
are so situated that a permanent yard for 
their hens must be built. In that case, it 
becomes necessary to spade up the ground 
several times each season, getting as close 
to the fence as possible. It is an excellent 
plan to use alternate yards, if possible. 
While the fowls are running in one yard, 
the other can be sowed to oats, rye or rape. 
The permanent poultry yard for a small 
flock should have a fence of two-inch poul¬ 
try netting with boards along the bottom 
two feet high. No railing should be placed 
along the top, or the hens will fly out, as it 
gives them a secure support to rest upon. 
Eor the smaller breeds the fence should be 
six feet high. Such a fence will confine the 
American breeds like the Wyandottes and 
Plymouth Rocks, while the heavier fowls 
like the Langshans and Brahmas will sel¬ 
dom fly over a four-foot fence. On the 
other hand, it is often difficult to confine 
the light breeds like the Leghorns by a 
fence even six feet high. If the yard is 
small enough it may be entirely covered 
with poultry netting, but a less expensive 
plan is to nail cleats to the tops of the 
posts and extending a foot into the yard 
space. One or two wires or a strip of poul¬ 
try netting may then be stretched on these 
cleats so that when the hens fly up they 
will be forced back into the pens. When 
breeds like the Houdans and the Polish, 
which have large topknots, are kept, there 
will be little need of a high fence, although 
these birds are of the lighter varieties; 
their crests prevent them from looking 
upward easily, so that they are not often 
troublesome. In the case of all breeds, 
much depends upon the early training. If 
the chickens are yarded where there are 
trees with low branches or other (bjects 
upon which they can easily fly, they often 
acquire a habit which persists as they grow 
to maturity, whereas birds which never 
become accustomed to flying, occasion lit¬ 
tle trouble in this respect at any time. Of 
course, the larger the yards, the less likeli¬ 
hood is there of the hens seeking to escape. 
If they have roomy yards, with an abund¬ 
ance of green food, they have less tempta¬ 
tion to wander. 
It is a curious fact that when a single 
hen escapes, she immediately finds that she 
wants to get back into the yard with the 
other birds. Some poultrymen make this 
easy by placing a small gate in the fence, 
so arranged that it will swing inward only, 
being closed by means of a light spring or 
its own weight. As the hen moves along 
the fence she finds a small opening and 
tries to get through. The pressure which 
she exerts causes the gate to open, and the 
hen finds herself back in the yard again. 
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