April, 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
233 
A $36.00 HOUSE 
No. 5, style “D” 8x10 ft. Potter portable open front, 
fresh air, scratch shed house, equipped with No. 17, style 
“A" 5 ft. 3-perch complete hennery outfit for 30 hens. 
Price of complete house, $36. Painted two coats. 
Potter Portable “Readybuilt” Poultry Houses 
and hennery outfits and supplies give satisfaction to thou¬ 
sands who have bought them in the last 12 years. Don’t 
Build or Buy until you get our 100-page catalog, mailed 
for 4c to pay postage. Start right. Save money and get the 
world’s best, high-grade, time tried poultry equipment. 
POTTER & CO., 37 Forest Ave., Downers Grove, III. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
is fastened to the wall well above the door, 
where the broody hens are imprisoned. 
Properly handled, these hens ought to be 
laying again in from ten to fifteen days. 
It is important, though, to take them fro m 
the nests as soon as they are found to be 
setting. The longer they set, the more 
stubborn they become. 
It is a good thing to get the newly 
hatched chickens out on the ground as 
soon as possible. There is something 
about contact with Mother Earth which 
seems to be of the greatest benefit to all 
poultrykind. 
When the chicks first come from the 
brooders to view the world they are pretty 
likely to get lost, and if they remain away 
from the heat they become chilled, after 
which they take sudden leave of the world 
of which they have just caught a glimpse. 
There is no better plan than to make a 
little yard in the form of a half circle, 
using inch-mesh poultry netting. There 
are no corners in such a yard, of course, 
and the chicken that forgets the way back 
to the heat will simply follow along the 
wire until it presently finds itself under 
the hover again. 
When the modern portable hovers are 
used it is rather desirable to make a little 
fence of boards or of canvas to break the 
draughts for the first week or two, as well 
as to confine the chickens. Special wire 
cages are made to fit over the hovers, and 
are not expensive, while they protect the 
chicks from rats, which do not even wait 
until the birds have reached the squab 
broiler stage of development before they 
dine on them. Every year thousands of 
chickens are carried away by rats, and 
when a new brooder house is built it pays 
to spend a little extra money to make it 
rat-proof by putting in concrete founda¬ 
tion walls which go two feet below the 
surface. When the animals are already 
on hand, the only satisfactory way to get 
rid of them seems to be by the use of one 
of the poisons sold for the purpose, and 
which can be given in a box with a small 
opening so placed that the fowls cannot 
reach the poisoned bait. 
When poultry keeping is to be entered 
upon by the simple process of buying a 
few dozen day-old chicks, this is a good 
month to begin. Day-old chicks may be 
sent safely by express many hundred miles 
if properly ventilated boxes are used. It 
is well, however, to have the journey as 
short as possible and very important to 
“ Every thing in the Bird Line 
from a Canary to an Ostrich” 
Birds for the House and Porch 
Birds for the Ornamental Waterway 
Birds for the Garden, Pool and Aviary 
Birds for the Game Preserve and Park 
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 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Beauty and Utility Strain 
Are beautiful birds, lay lots of 
eggs, make the very best of table 
poultry. Choice breeding stock 
for sale. (I do not sell eggs for 
hatching or baby chicks). 
Box HG 
Lancaster, Mass, 
C. H. Latham. 
a BETTER- C'l-lir'K'C 
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11 Pure Bred Varieties 
Safe Delivery Guaranteed 
Incubator Capacity, 100,000 
Eggs. Chick Book and 
Prices FREE. 
THE CO-OPERATIVE 
BREEDING AND HATCHING CO. 
Box H, Tiro, Ohio 
THE MODERN ARMY IN ACTION 
By Major=General John F. O’Ryan 
Commanding the National Guard of the State o 
New York, Graduate of the U. S. War College and 
Capt. W. D. A. Anderson, U. S. A. 
U. S. Corps of ^Engineers, formerly 
Instructor of Military Art at West Point 
8vo. SI.50 net 
Postage 14. cents 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers 
31 Union Square North New York 
This book enables the 
layman to easily follow 
the movements of the 
great armies, tells how 
the soldiers are mobil¬ 
ized, how they are fed 
and how they are 
transported to the 
scene of conflict. It 
will also be of interest 
to the officers and men 
of the National Guard, 
who have no leisure to 
study or digest an ad¬ 
vanced technical study 
of strategy. 
Poultry House 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
Club House 
Garden House 
Artistically designed and finished, made of the most durable materials and 
practical at any time of the year in any climate. Made for innumerable 
purposes. Erection of buildings extremely simple, and can be done by 
Unskilled labor in a few hours’ time. Send for illustrated catalogue. 
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PHOENIX FOWL 
Pheasant-like beauty, gentle, hardy and prolific. 
Stock and Eggs 
Dr. C. A. Shore, Raleigh, N. C. 
B. 
and calendar of pure bred poultry; 70 
varieties illustrated and described, many 
shown in natural colors. Perfect guide to 
poultry raisers—full of facts. Low prices 
on stock and eggs for hatching. Incubators 
and brooders. 22 years in business. You 
need this noted book. Send 10c for it-today. 
H. GREIDER, Box 26, Rheems, Pa. 
I SELL PEAFOWLS 
ALSO PHEASANT EGGS FOR HATCHING 
I HANDLE NOTHING BUT 
PURE, NON-RELATED STOCK 
JOHN W. TALBOT, South Bend, Ind. 
GREIDER’S FINE CATALOGUE 
