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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1914 
Conducted by 1C K. Parkinson 
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** and enclose a self- 
addressed envelope. 
A $36 HOUSE 
No. 5, style “D” 8xl0-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. S36. 
Painted 2 coats. 
TER SYSTEM and pick out the lay¬ 
ers from the loafers and diseased hens. 
Keep only healthy laying hens. The 
POTTER SYSTEM is a secret and 
the greatest discovery of the century 
in the poultry world on the subject of 1 
Egg Producing Hens. Used by over 
50,000 satisfied poultry keepers, who 
are saving dollars every year. Our 
new 100-page Potter System book— 
“DON’T KILL THE LAYING HEN,” contains the secret and knowledge about laying 
and nonlaying hens. It’s a revelation to poultry keepers, and you will learn how you can 
use the Potter System on your flock, keep less hens, get more eggs and make more money 
using it. Write to-day, sending two red stamps to cover postage on our large catalog and 
circular telling all about Potter Poultry Products made for particular Poultry People. If 
you are particular and want to make more money on your flock, you will write us to-day 
C on H Ann Din T«itolAmio containing 132 pages and over 150 illustrations 
3cIIU IUI UUI DljJ showing Potter Portable Houses, coops, hennery 
outfits, feed hoppers, brooders, hovers, feeds, etc.—in fact, everything the poultry keeper 
needs to insure the greatest success. Catalogue mailed for two red stamps to cover postage. 
D A]W>T DUT V T| You can buy better, cheaper, more com- 
v l^i m. DU 1L KW plete, ready (factory) made hen-houses,roost- 
ing and nesting fixtures, coops, etc., from Potter & Co., because they buy lumber 
in carloads, cut and fit all parts perfectly and deliver the house, coop or fixture 
you need in convenient sections all ready to set up. 
POTTER POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES 
Portable, Sanitary, Inexpensive 
Have been on the market for over ten years and are used and recommended 
by thousands of poultry keepers who want the best and buy the best in poultry 
ihouses and equpment. You start right when you buy a Potter portable with 
complete outfit of roosts, drop board and nests. A clean, sanitary house means 
'healthy hens and lots of eggs. The fresh air, sanitary house shown here is only 
one of the twenty styles of houses and coops we make, ranging in price from 
S3.50 up and everything we make is ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED. 
ItftN’T 1/11 I Or Sell Your Laying 
UlIN 1 IULL Hens Use the POT- 
No.19, style “A” 6-ft. 3-perch 
complete Potter hennery outfit for 
36 hens. This same style made in 
12 sizes. 
Write for it to-day and save money. 
POTTER & CO. 
Box E-18 
Downers Grove, Ill. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, FancyPheasants, 
Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Ducks and Geese, Flam¬ 
ingoes, 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 
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
High-class yearling breeders at reduced 
prices to make room for young stock. 
Send for Circular of Stock and Eggs. 
MAPLECROFT FARMS, PAWLING, Y. N. 
BoxG. 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Section Poultry 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. 
E. F. HODGSON CO., 
First Section 
$75.00 
Additional 
Sections 
$60.00 
Each 
Send for catalogue. 
Visit onr /ROOM 326, lit WASHINGTON ST , BOSTON, MASS.l 
BhowroomB /CRAFTSMAN BLDG., 6 EAST 39TH ST., NEW YORK/ 
$2022 
Address all 
correspondence 
to Boston 
No. 0 Colony Laying House— 
fnr 19 hpIK Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
mui irc.ua an( j f ee d 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. 
THE LATEST WORD ON A VITAL SUBJECT 
Perfect Health for Women and Children 
By ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER 
Authority states that one-fifth of the babies die of preventable diseases before they reach the age of five years. In this 
book the way to perfect health is shown to women, both for themselves and their children. The book is one that must 
command attention from every thoughtful person. $1.35 net; postage, 12c. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers, Union Square, New York City 
Tabulating the Breeds 
I V H K average layman who may find 
A classifying the breeds of poultry a 
complicated matter will be helped were he 
to tabulate the more popular breeds under 
the three general racial classes: Asiatic, 
Mediterranean and Game. The first in¬ 
cludes Brahmas, dark and light; Cochins, 
white, black and buff; Langshans, white, 
black and blue; and, in addition, some that 
are generally known as American breeds—- 
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds and 
Orpingtons. These are the largest of our 
breeds, are heavily feathered and conse- 
quently can stand much cold and require 
the least space in the yard to maintain a 
maximum of health. They are the setting 
breeds and lay brown eggs. 
The egg-machines are the Mediter¬ 
ranean breeds, of which the greatest are 
the Leghorns, white black, brown, buff, 
single comb and white and brown rose 
combs. To them must be added the An- 
conas, which are close rivals, the Minor- 
cas, black and white; Andalusians, and 
White Face Black Spanish. This class are 
non-setters and lay white eggs. To distin¬ 
guish between the two great subdivisions, 
it is best to remember that the Minorcas is 
a larger bird than the Leghorn and is a 
bird of angles, whereas the Leghorn is a 
bird of curves. The former lays the lar¬ 
ger eggs which, when weighed, almost 
equal the Leghorn’s prolific output. 
There are more of the above breeds that 
are really popular, both at home in Amer¬ 
ica and in England, than there are of any 
of the other classes of breeds. This claim 
applies to the dififerent varieties of Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks, the Barred, white and huff, 
and the different varieties of Wyandottes, 
the Silver, Golden, White and buff, the 
Partridge or Golden Penciled Wyandotte, 
which is certain to become very ex¬ 
tensively bred and popular, as well as the 
Silver Penciled Wyandotte. The Colum¬ 
bian Wyandotte does not yet appear to 
appeal to our fancies like the other varie¬ 
ties. The Black Wyandotte is another 
variety that has comparatively few ad¬ 
mirers. Yet all are of the same breed, "As 
shape makes a breed, color, a variety,” and 
all varieties of Wyandottes should have 
the same shape, the weight clause the 
same, the same comb, eyes, etc., with color 
the only distinction. 
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