HOUSE AND GARDEN 
270 
November, 
1914 
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Conducted by E. 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. 
DON’T BUILD 
You can buy better, cheaper, more com¬ 
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 
houses 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. 
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. 
Hens. Use the POT 
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< 
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 
Cotwl fnv* Hilt* Din F ol *jI Ami D containing 132 pages and over 150 illustrations 
t3£llu 1UI "III DllJ L/dldlUyllU 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. 
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, III. 
Swatting the Rooster 
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, N. Y. 
BoxG. 
P RACTICAL farmers are beginning to 
awake to the fact that roosters are 
an uneconomical factor in the barnyard. 
The amateur with the small brood might 
do well to consider the matter in his 
smaller plant. I f he figures it up he will 
be surprised. Of course, roosters must be 
kept for breeding season, but they are not 
needed at any other time. 
“At the price roosters bring,” says a re¬ 
cent contributor to “Successful Farming,” 
“there is no valid reason for keeping the 
ordinary farm stock, even if pure-bred. 
For the price old ones will bring buy early 
hatched young cockerels of as good grade 
as the old cocks, and they will be equally 
Valuable and you will get new blood intro¬ 
duced. Better yet, you could buy a setting 
of high-grade eggs and raise something 
much better than your old stock, probably. 
“Some farmers look upon this agitation 
as foolish, but if they will just experiment 
a few times they will understand all it 
means to them. I took a dozen infertile 
eggs and kept them in a warm room, and 
after two weeks I began to crack them one 
at a time every day or two. 1 cracked the 
last nearly a month after it was laid. The 
yolks were perfectly intact. The only dif¬ 
ference I could notice between them and 
the fresh eggs was that the old eggs would 
flatten out just a trifle; nothing like a fer¬ 
tile egg three or four days old, though. 
There was no bad taste and no housewife 
would have hesitated to use it as willingly 
as the fresh. I have cracked fertile eggs 
gathered at once and kept three days that 
showed decided incubation, the germ be¬ 
ing plainly visible, and often fine blood ves¬ 
sels had begun to form. The yolk would 
break at once, and no housewife would 
have used them under any consideration. 
Try them if you have your doubts. 
“It should interest you to read what the 
immense loss has been in the United States 
from keeping the roosters, and you can no 
doubt get the figures for your own State, 
but few of us give much attention to these 
things when treated in such a general man¬ 
ner and in figures that are meaningless to 
us when taken in connection with their 
scope. What interests us is what comes 
right home to 11s, and it is easy to bring this 
right home to our own flock. See what it 
costs you and then get busy. Swat the 
rooster!” 
WHAT BREED OF CHICKENS DO YOU KEEP? 
Write to us for information on the best breeds for your purpose, whether it be for 
laying or breeding. We are glad to suggest or help in any way. 
Manager POULTRY DEPARTMENT, House & Garden, 31 E. 17th St, New York, 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Section Poultry House— 
10x50 ft. 
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— 
(np 19 hone Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
IUI la IICII3 an( j f eec 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, 10x4ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
E. F. HODGSON CO 
First Section 
$75.00 
Additional 
Sections 
$60.00 
Each 
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