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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Section Poultry House— 
10x50 ft. 
Sanitary, durable, up-to-date—made of red cedar, clap- 
boarded outside, interior sheathed. Made in 10-ft sec¬ 
tions, each fitted with roosts, nests and fountain. Open 
fronts, with canvas-covered frames. You can add sec¬ 
tions at any time. Easily erected. 
IV « >, First Section 
$75.00 
Additional 
Sections 
$60.00 
Each 
No. 0 Colony Laying House— 
fftr 19 hpnc Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
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cleaned. One man can easily care for several hundred 
birds. Nicely painted—set up in fifteen minutes. A 
comfortable year-round house. In 
stormy weather the run may be 
covered, giving: a protected 
scratching room. Size, 10x4 ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
$2022 
Send for catalogue. 
E. F. HODGSON CO., Room 326, 116 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
Bob White Quail, Partridges and Pheasants 
r<.n»r<villEl.(, Black Oame. Wild Turkey,, Quail,, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Duck,, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferrets, 
etc., and all kinds ,f birds and animals. 
WlLLIAvl J. MACKENSEN, Natural* 
Dept. 1. Pueasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA. 
G. D.TILLEY 
INjaturaJist 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
ants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
Flamingoes,Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from 
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 
YAMA MINORCA 
EGGS are 
W Ys lain 
A 
than the so-called large first-class eggs 
in the NewYork market — they are infer¬ 
tile and are produced under modem 
sanitary conditions and shipped in 
sealed packages practically the hour laid. 
P 
YAMA FARMS 
Napanoch New York 
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KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
AMERICAN KENNELS 
Toy white silk Poodles; little beauties, 
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m THE BEST DOG 
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FRANK R. CLARK, Sunnybrae Kennels. Bloomington, Ills. 
A SHETLAND PONY 
1b an unceasing source of 
pleasure. A safe and ideal 
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strong and of robust health. 
Highest type—complete out¬ 
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A Child's Delight 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Box 3 Markham, Va* 
A house built Ho ^ ow Tile Building Blocks 
throughout of 1 j s thoroughly fire-proof, and is 
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Dept. Y Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
EVERYTHING for the HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, Deciduous, Shade and Weeping Trees. Flow*»rins 
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The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Company 
Established 1848 New Canaan, Conn. Incorporated 1908 
September, 
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from the pullets and given a run by them¬ 
selves under the trees, while the pullets 
are placed in a similar pen, for by this time 
the garden is up and the chicks must stay 
in bounds. 
At eight weeks the older cockerels are 
placed in slatted coops to be fattened for 
the table. The operation takes three 
weeks, and each pair killed is replaced by 
another, so that there are always several 
pairs in preparation. 
In the spring when some of the hens 
are sitting and caring for chicks and the 
price of eggs is down, the family begins 
to eat the hens, and as the chicks grow 
and demand more room the old hens de¬ 
crease in number to give them room. 
In June, all the hens that are left are 
sold in the market, for eggs are cheap and 
the young cockerels are ready for the 
table. The young pullets are ready to 
commence laying by the time fresh eggs 
begin to go up in price. 
The kitchen scraps, waste vegetables 
and fruits go a long way towards keeping 
the hens in winter, the little chicks pick¬ 
ing up much of their feed from grass, 
bugs and worms until penned in May. 
Lawn clippings are carefully saved to be 
scalded for the hens in winter. 
My neighbor bought his first start of 
pullets from a man having a trap-nested, 
record laying flock, purchasing them as 
eight-weeks-old chicks in June, and rear¬ 
ing them from that age on according to 
the latest approved methods for early 
laying pullets. 
In the garden, early onions, radishes, 
peas, beets and lettuce were grown, with 
later vegetables, such as tomatoes, cab¬ 
bage, corn, cucumbers and string beans 
taking the places where the earlier ones 
were removed. The pole beans, toma¬ 
toes, cucumbers and summer squashes 
were trained on wire netting, along the 
borders, to save ground space. 
The poultry droppings are all forked 
into the garden ground in spring or sum¬ 
mer and spread upon the lawn in autumn 
and winter. 
The young pullets are placed in the big 
house as soon as all the old hens have 
been disposed of, and after the young 
cockerels have been eaten, they have the 
benefit of both the portable runs till they 
are needed next spring for young stock 
again. 
The pullets have always been laying by 
the first of October, and supply a family 
of five with all the eggs they can use dur¬ 
ing the winter, with now and then a dozen 
to sell at fifty cents a dozen. In spring 
they are laying so heavily that even with 
the number being gradually reduced by 
brooding - hens and an occasional chicken 
dinner, they continue to keep up the table 
eggs till June, when the final clearing out 
of old hens takes place. 
The doctor’s whole family find an inter¬ 
esting and healthful diversion in caring 
for their garden and poultry, besides the 
enjoyment of their own chickens, eggs and 
vegetables at meal time. 
Jennie E. Stewart 
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