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HOUSE & GARDEN 
The Trenton Potteries Co. 
Bath Rooms of Character 
\TL 7"HAT adds more distinction 
* ’ to a house than a bathroom, 
arranged with taste, the fixtures 
gleaming smooth and white; and 
a closet that is silent ? 
A noisy closet strikes a harsh, 
jarring note in the most beau¬ 
tiful bathroom. 
The Trenton Potteries Company 
SI-wel-cio 
Silent Closet 
The Si-vvel-clo closet, which cannot be heard 
beyond a closed door, is the final touch of intelli¬ 
gent, gentle taste in bathroom fittings. 
The Si-wel-clo closet and lavatories, bath tubs 
and sitz baths made by The Trenton Potteries 
Company are vitreous china or porcelain. Their 
highly glazed surfaces will not stain, chip nor peel. 
They are always bright, rich-looking, pride-inspiring. 
Needless to say, they are extremely sanitary. 
Even your kitchen sinks and laundry tubs if made by 
The Trenton Potteries Co. will have that smooth table- 
china surface that only solid porcelain construction will 
permit. Barring the most severe accident they will last 
as long as your house and always look new—with never 
a rust spot or peel to mar their glisten of cleanliness. 
Booklet M-8 
“Bathrooms of Character,” 
free on request, pictures model bathroom 
arrangements showing what you can do with 
the floor space at your disposal and estimates 
how much a bathroom of the kind you want 
will cost you. 
The Trenton Potteries Company - Trenton, N. J. 
The Largest Makers of 
Sanitary Pottery j 
in U. S. A. 
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Poultry Work for January 
Order the new incubator this month. 
Investigate the new colony brooders. 
Make up the breeding pens as soon as possible. 
Gather the eggs several times a day or they may freeze. 
Don’t close the house too tightly. Hens must have fresh air. 
Keep sand, loam or ashes on the dropping boards to prevent 
odors. 
Feed at least an hour before the hens go to roost or they will 
not eat enough. 
Give fresh water at least twice a day in freezing weather or the 
hens will suffer. 
Admit as much sunlight as possible every day, even if you have 
to wash the tvindows. : 
Hang burlap or muslin curtains in front of the perches on ex¬ 
tremely cold nights, but at no other time. 
Orders for incubators and brood¬ 
ers should be placed this month to 
make sure of early delivery, but it 
is important to consider the merits 
of the different machines carefully 
and to get the advice, if possible, of 
an experienced poultrvman. Many 
times a request to the director of the 
state experiment station will bring 
much useful information, as these 
stations try out all kinds of ma¬ 
chines. Incubators holding as few as 
fifty eggs are on the market, but as 
a rule, it is hardly worth while run¬ 
ning a machine for less than 120 
eggs. Gas is being used to an in¬ 
creasing extent for heating incuba¬ 
tors, and in sections where the cur¬ 
rent is not too expensive, electric in¬ 
cubators are very convenient and 
easy to handle. 
Of course, many amateurs have 
given up hatching, as they find it 
preferable to buy day-old chicks or 
been laying heavily for several 
months they are not in the best of 
condition for breeding, and if they 
have not been laying heavily, of 
course, no one would want to breed 
from them. 
If it is possible to select a dozen 
yearling hens that laid well the first 
season and were late in moulting, 
they should be used for the breeding 
pen, provided, of course, that they 
are in good physical condition and 
of average size. 
Often it is found desirable to have 
two males, alternating them at regu¬ 
lar intervals. If the amateur has only 
a small flock and cannot very well 
carry over yearling hens, he will 
usually get fair results by mating a 
yearling cock with the pullets. 
It is always advisable to use a 
male bird, as well as females, from 
a heavy laying strain, but people who 
expect to get 200-egg pullets because 
The eastern entrance to the Homestead Campine Farms Poultry Yards, 
showing the houses for the young stock. The birds remain in these 
houses with wire runs until they are about six weeks old, when they 
have free range until they are brought in for their winter quarters 
else send their eggs to a custom 
hatchery. Even some commercial 
poultry keepers have adopted this 
practice, but the brooding of the 
chickens still remains. The colony 
brooder, under which several hun¬ 
dred chickens may be hovered at one 
time, is making rapid strides in popu¬ 
lar favor and is worth investigating 
now, although actual work may not 
be commenced for several months. 
It is time for the amateur to make 
up his breeding pens and this is a 
matter which deserves more atten¬ 
tion than it commonly receives, even 
though birds are wanted only for egg 
production. Probably better results 
follow when a cockerel is mated with 
yearling hens than when pullets are 
used, especially if the hens have not 
been forced for egg production the 
second winter. When pullets have 
they purchased a setting of eggs 
from somebody’s record-breaking 
flock are likely to be disappointed. 
The daughters of prize layers are 
seldom heavy egg producers. It pays 
to select the best layers for breeding, 
but there is a limit in this direction 
and it is quickly reached. One point, 
though, is of the greatest impor¬ 
tance, the breeding stock must have 
stamina, good size and vigor. 
When extremely cold weather 
comes, it may be necessary to set 
muslin-covered frames into the win¬ 
dow openings and to draw a muslin 
or burlap curtain in front of the 
roosts. This is to be done only 
when the temperature drops close 
to zero, when the houses are 10' 
deep or more. Birds with long 
combs need more protection than 
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