April, 1917 
13 
POULTRY 
YARD 
The Rockwood Farm’s 
“Bainbow” Partridge Plymouth Books win 
for beauty of sliaiie and featlier at New 
York, Atlanta. Boston and Panama-Paciflo 
Exposition. Win as Layers at Egg Lay¬ 
ing Contest. 
CataJog 76, describing breed, building and 
feeding method. lOo. 
THE ROCKWOOD FARM 
Box 1119 Norwalk, Ohio 
Lester Tompkins’ Rhode Island Reds 
The originator of this, the greatest laying 
strain on earth. 
Also win in the strongest competition wher¬ 
ever shown. 
Send for mating list—stock and eggs. 
LESTER TOMPKINS, CONCORD, MASS. 
Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
of fine poultry for 1917. 67 breeds described and illus¬ 
trated, some in natural colors. Tells how to make 
hens lay. grow chicks, avoid brooder losses, build 
liouses, prevent and cure diseases. Very low prices on 
breeding stock, brooding stock, hatching eggs and 
poultry supplies. Illustrates famous Greider Incubators 
and Brooders. This noted book, from largest poultry 
farm in Pa., a perfect guide to poultry raisers, only 
10c. In business 25 years. 
B. H. GREIDER - Box 2S Rheems, Pa. 
RAI SE PICEONS 
It's lots of fun and keeps you in pocket 
money. Our Jumbo pigeons are the en\'y of 
everyone. Send for large free illustrated, 
instructive book. 
Providence Squab Co. Dept. S, Providence, R. I. 
PHEASANTS 
Golden, Silver and Amherst Pheasant 
Eggs for Setting. To assure early de¬ 
livery order Promptly. 
GEORGE R. FORD 
c/o Belmont Farm Perrysburg, Ohio 
Anchor Post 
Poultry Run Fences 
These Modern Fences are used and 
endorsed by a large number of the 
foremost poultry raisers, who recog¬ 
nize their marked superiority to any 
ordinary form of fence. They are 
practically indestructible, may he 
made rat and vermin-proof, and make 
it easier to keep the birds in a healthy 
condition. 
H^rife for our Catalogue No» 4, describing 
them in detail, 
ANCHOR POST IRON WORKS 
11 Cortlandt St., (13th floor) New York 
c 
ONFORMING to our cus¬ 
tomary policy of co-operation, 
we have recently inaugurated 
this new department for your con¬ 
venience. 
On file in this office there are many 
desirable properties of every con¬ 
ceivable description. Acting in the 
capacity of “Central,” we will com¬ 
municate your especial requirements 
to that party having a property cor¬ 
responding to your needs. 
Write us, describing as briefly as pos¬ 
sible, your wishes. 
All have a property at South Norwalk, Con¬ 
necticut. It contains six rooms, living room 
and dining room in one, three family bed¬ 
rooms, one maid’s room with toilet, kitchen 
and one bath. 
There is a large fireplace in the living room. 
There are good closets, separate shelves for 
linen, front porch and back porch, windows 
screened and curtained, good wash tubs, sink, 
dresser, coal range and refrigerator. There 
is an attic for storing trunks, rough finished 
wood work, stained grey floors finished for 
rugs, electric light, telephone. 
The property is directly on the water, with 
good sailing, fishing and bathing. The roads 
are fine. The property is well wooded, ir¬ 
regular plot with one hundred ninety feet 
on shore by one hundred fifty-eight on the 
road. Nice neighbors. About one and a half 
miles from South Norwalk, a mile from 
trolley and one hour and five minutes from 
South Norwalk station to Grand Central 
terminal. 
The price is $4000—mortgage of $750. Will 
sell furniture if desired. 
A 2 For Sale, an admirably situated tract of 
1554 acres, one-half woodland on high eleva¬ 
tion. Only 54 of a mile from Scarsdale 
Station and 19 miles from New York City— 
express train service. 
A 3 For Sale, a farm in Loudoun County, Vir¬ 
ginia, Piedrnont section, just at the foot of 
the Blue Ridge. It consists of 390 acres. 
A mile from the railroad station at Blueniont, 
on the Washington & Old Dominion Railway, 
56 miles west of Washington. 
About 30 acres are in woodland and the 
remainder in cultivation. The soil produces 
good crops of wheat, corn and hay, and other 
crops of this section. 
The house, a frame structure, contains ten 
rooms and there are numerous outbuildings 
on the property. By an expenditure of a 
very moderate amount, this property can be 
made into an ideal country home. The price 
is $90 per acre. 
The Real Estate Mart—House & Garden 
445 Fourth Avenue New York. N. Y. 
Homestead Silver Campines 
First Prize Cock, Palace 
Show, 1916 
The Vigorous Strain 
HOMESTEAD — The 
Word that DOMI¬ 
NATES in the world 
of Campines. 
Our beautiful new cata¬ 
logue will give you full de¬ 
scription and history of 
this remarkable breed of 
fowl. Price, 15 cents. 
Homestead Campine Farms 
Box H-G Wayland, Mass. 
TRAPNESTED STOCK 
BREEDING COCKERELS, early hatched, free range 
birds from record winter layers. Large, hardy, hen- 
hatched. Long backs, short wide-set legs, low tails. 
Brilliant glowing deep red. BREEDING PENS, trios. 
PRIME YOUNG BREEDING HENS;EARLY HATCHED 
PULLETS. Heaviest winter laying Reds in America. 
Laying rates 211 to 279 eggs. NON-BROODY. Upright 
dealings, safe delivery, prime stock. Hatching eggs. 
Booklet. 
From a New York State Customer: 
Finest birds I ever saw. 1 GET EGGS WHILE MY NEIGHBORS 
GET NONE. (Signed) P. R. L. 
VIBERT RED FARM Box 14, Weston, N. J. 
W E are now hooking orders for 
eggs for Spring delivery on 
following varieties of pheas¬ 
ants: Silver, Golden, Ringneck, Lady 
Amherst, China, White, Mongolian, 
Swinhoe, Versicolor, Elliott, Im- 
peyan, Manchurian Eared, Melano- 
tus. Also in Wild Turkeys, Japanese 
■Silky Bantams and Longtails, Blue, 
White and Pied peafowl, as well 
as Wild Mallards and other fancy 
ducks. 
Send fifty cents in stamps for colortype catalogue of 
pheasants and how to raise, together with our new 
supplement. 
CHILES & COMPANY Mt. Sterling, Ky. 
If The Don’t Hatch We Make Good 
THE MARTLING SILVER CAMPINE 
is a most economical breed of fowl. They are stronp, sturdy 
and viKorous, and mature quicker than any others. They cost 
considerably less to feed than any others. Their eggs are im- 
usually large and absolutely chalk-white. Authorities class 
them as 200 egg strain. They are also the greatest prize-win¬ 
ning strain in America. They are giving satisfaction every¬ 
where. Send for our guarantee and price list. 
THE MARTLING HENNERY. P. 0. Box 186Y. Ridgefield, N. J. 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
This sanitary poultry house is an egg record breaker for 12 hens. Tlie setting coops keep the hens 
by themselves while setting. The pigeon house (vrith its flight cage) is fitted complete for 10 nests. 
Hodgson poultry and pet stock houses are the most scientiflcally constructed on the market. Made of 
painted sections that can be easily bolted together by anyone. Send for illustrated catalog. 
E. F. HODGSON COMPANY, 
Room 326, 116 Washington St.. Boston, Mass. 
6 East 39th Street, New York City 
