HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1913 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Secfiion Poultry House— 
10x50 fit. 
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— 
19 hpnc Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
*"* and feed trough. Sanitary — easily 
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, 10 x 4 ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
$20 
00 
E. F. HODGSON CO., Room 
Send for catalogue. 
{ 26 , 116 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
Bob White Quail, Partridges and Pheasants 
Capercailzie*, Black Game, Wild Turkey*, Quail*, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., tor stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Stork*, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Duck*, Foxes, Squirrel*, Ferret*, 
•to., and *11 kind* of bird* and animal*. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Nature 
Dept. Y. Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA. 
G. D.TILLEY 
ZNjaturalist 
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 
MAPLECROFT S. C. RHODE ISLANDREDS 
Our Pullet, Palace Queen, won ist at both New York Shows, Shape and Color Special, ign. Our Pullet, 
Red Princess, won ist at both New York Shows, Shape and Color Special, 1912-13; both birds bred and 
owned by Maplecroft Farms. 
We also own PAPRIKA, ist Cockerel, New York, 1912, one of the best birds ever bred. 
STOCK and EGGS FOR SALE from choice Matings. Send for Circular 
MAPLECROFT FARMS - Pawling, N. Y. 
KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
A FLUFFY KITTEN 
makes a joyous Christmas Gift. 
Write for beautifully illustrated 
catalogue and sales lists. 
ALL COLORS AND AGES. 
Well bred ‘'Domestics” and rare 
foreign varieties. 
Ideal Summer and Winter board 
for Cats, Dogs and Birds. 
BLACK SHORT HAIRED CATTERY 
Oradell, N. J. 
N. Y. Office, 112 Carnegie Hall. 
Delight the children with a 
Shetland Pony 
—an unceasing source of pleas¬ 
ure, a safe and ideal playmate. 
Makes the child strong and ro¬ 
bust. Inexpensive to buy and 
keep. Highest types here. Com¬ 
plete outfits. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Write for illustrated 
catalogue. 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Box 8 Markham, Vju 
THE BEST DOG 
for a companion or watchdog is the Collie. 
Alert, intelligent, faithful, handsome; he 
meets every requirement. We have some 
fine specimens to sell at low prices. Send for copy of 
"Training the Collie,” price 25c. We are selling many 
fine dogs. 
FRANK R. CLARK, Sunnybrae Kennels, Bloomington, Ills. 
AMERICAN KENNELS 
Toy white silk Poodles; little beauties, 
pedigreed, $15.00; Toy Pomeranians, 
$20.00 up; Toy Foxterriers, small Eng¬ 
lish specimen, $5.00 up; English Bulls, 
Boston Terriers, French Bulls, Bull 
Terriers, St. Bernards, New Found- 
lands, Scotch Collies, Toy Dogs, 
every variety. State wants. 
Dept. H., 113 East 9th St., New York City 
!V|X The Home Poultry Book 
U|. y By E. I. FARRINGTON 
Here is just the book for the beginner who wants to keep a 
f ew hens to supply fresh eggs for the table. No elaborate 
systems or expensive fixtures are advocated. Good, sound common-sense is the 
key-note of every chapter, Detailed plans and photographs of successful small 
houses are given, together with specific information covering every phase of poultry 
keeping. It is not too much to say that this is the most practical book for the 
beginner ever written. 
Illustrated $1.00 net; Postage 10 cents. 
Your bookseller can supply you. Send for catalogue. 
McBRIDE, NAST © CO., Publishers, Union Square, New York City 
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lot of work in building and prevents the 
usual cracks and crevices in dropping- 
boards and roosts where lice and mites and 
other vermin can hide. The litter of the 
floor can be renewed as often as desired. 
For summer use I use gravel on the floors, 
and during settled weather the birds are 
persuaded to roost under shrubs set out 
in the yards, on a little A-shaped roosting 
rack. This saves a lot of cleaning. Then 
when the yards are turned under, the 
ground becomes purified. After a breed¬ 
ing season is over, let the females all out 
on range together, if possible, and sow the 
yards to dwarf rape or oats or rye. Rye 
is best, as it will stay green till along in 
the spring. It makes excellent forage for 
the birds. 
If the doors throughout such a house 
are of the double-acting kind, a piece can 
be fitted across the bottom of them, just 
where the wheelbarrow wheel strikes, and 
a barrow used to clean and carry litter 
from one end to another. Doors could 
be put into both ends of such a continuous 
house to make it easier of access. There 
can be windows placed in each pen on the 
south side of this house. I used windows 
for years, but since the advent of the cur¬ 
tain or muslin front, I use no glass what¬ 
ever, and am pleased to note a great im¬ 
provement in the health of the birds. In 
my houses there is a three and a half foot 
opening running right across the front or 
the south side, which is covered with 
muslin of a heavy unbleached sort, this 
tacked to the outside of the house on 
strips that set over the edge of the shin¬ 
gles for that purpose. Tacks with large 
heads hold the muslin in place. They will 
not hold in the shingles. This muslin- 
covered opening is two and a half feet 
from the floor, then extending upward. 
Above it is placed a series of long doors, 
or ventilators, more properly speaking, 
which are set into a simple frame and 
open outward. Stay hooks can be fastened 
inside to hold them in place when open 
and when closed. These ventilators will 
let out surplus heat during the summer. 
They will admit direct rays of the sun 
during warm winter days. Have them 
ten inches wide and let them run the full 
length of each pen. Below the opening, 
and entering each yard attached to such 
a house should be a small door for the 
fowls to enter and go out. Make this of a 
sliding- style and have it tight. It will be 
handy to the doors that run through the 
house from pen to pen. 
My pens are eight feet long, and as the 
house is twelve feet wide, each pen will ac¬ 
commodate twenty layers throughout the 
winter. I have crowded thirty into them 
on a pinch and had good results. The 
more birds in each pen, the more com¬ 
fortable they will be. I have never had 
a comb frosted in this house with the in¬ 
side muslin front, tacked to the sheeting 
and the two by fours at sides of each pen, 
these forming the partition. This makes 
a double covering of muslin that always 
admits plenty of light and an abundance 
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