HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 
1914 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested 
in poultry. The manager will gladly answer any troublesome 
questions. Address ** Poultry Department 99 and enclose a self- 
addressed envelope. 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Section Pouitry House— 
10x50 It. 
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. 
No. 0 Colony Laying House— 
fnr 19 hpn« Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
IUI lu ileus anc j f ee( j 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, 10x4 ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
$ 20 — 
E. F. HODGSON CO., 
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G. D. TILLEY 
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on hand the most extensive stock in the United States 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
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High-class yearling breeders at reduced 
prices to make room for young stock. 
Send for Circular of Stock and Eggs. 
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What a Poultry Yard Should Be 
A NEW venture always seems fraught 
with danger until a bolder spirit 
comes forth, tries and succeeds brilliant¬ 
ly, when the responsibilities seem light 
and the end sure. Thus a few years 
ago a man of affairs (whose grounds 
had a frontage of some 75 and a depth 
of 200 feet) determined to achieve suc¬ 
cess with chickens and supply the house¬ 
hold with fresh eggs, broilers, roasters, 
and incidentally pocket a few blue rib¬ 
bons at the local poultry shows; yet all 
this, in spite of the skillful railing against 
such an idea by discouraging friends. 
However, this amateur confidently 
looked for success, and achieved it, by 
first finding out the best methods and 
breeds for his purpose, and then starting 
in on the right tack, but it is with his 
well-thought-out plan of arrangement 
that we are chiefly interested, and the 
skillful way in which he made his modest 
acreage answer his purpose. The narrow 
way of the property faced east and west; 
the first 100 feet of the east end being 
given over to the house, garage, lawns, 
etc., while the balance, 100 by 75 feet, 
was laid out in a vegetable and flower 
garden, and it was from this part that 
the poultry yard was taken. And here 
let it be understood that one of the 
notable features of this experiment was 
the well-kept look of the yard, with its 
fine fencing and hedge of sunflowers, 
which added, rather than detracted, from 
the general appearance of the whole gar¬ 
den. In selecting the special breed of 
bird to be kept, the ornamental as well 
as the useful was kept in view, and Sil¬ 
ver Wyandottes were purchased for their 
practical and ornamental qualities, the 
hens being yearlings and the cockerels 
about eight months old. 
The plan was to keep two pens of 
twelve hens and a cock each, and a plot 
50 feet long by 25 feet wide was selected 
just inside the garden gate on the north 
side of the walk. This sight was chosen 
as being not too far from the house, 
therefore giving protection to the fowls 
against chicken thieves, etc. A six-foot 
woven-wire fence, with anchor iron posts 
enclosed the entire yard, and a similar 
fence was run lengthwise through the 
middle. Across these two yards, mid¬ 
way their length, were hung two port¬ 
able wire panels, each 12 feet wide, which 
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