HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 
OH 
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Dog Kennel 
No. 4 Poultry House—5 units 
No. 3 Poultry House—1 unit 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
KENNEL—Sanitary, neat, durable. $10.00. 
No. 4 POULTRY HOUSE—10x50 feet; in 5 pens ; complete for 200 hens. Cedar, vermin-proof. First pen, 
$75.00 ; additional pens, $60.00 each. 
No. 3 POULTRY HOUSE—8x10 feet; complete for 30 hens. $60.00 ; additional pens, $50.00 each. Cedar, 
vermin-proof. 
Neatly painted. Quickly bolted together by anyone. Send for illustrated catalogue. 
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G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
“Everything in the Bird Line 
fromaCanary to an Ostrich” 
Birds for the House and Porch 
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I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
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on hand the most extensive stock in the United States 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
35 Hen 
Complete Potter I 
Outfit $6.60 
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Poultry Work for August 
I T is a lucky poultry keeper who gets a 
full egg basket in August. Many 
hens are molting, some are still broody 
and others apparently are just resting. 
Altogether, it is an off month. 
On the other hand, there is no month 
in which the hens require more attention. 
Young stock, too, must be kept growing 
and not allowed to suffer from lack of 
shade or water. Also, this is a very good 
time to plan new poultry houses and to 
make improvements in those already built. 
August is really a busier month for the 
poultry keeper than for the poultry. 
Molti ng is an operation which has never 
been standardized. Some hens drop al¬ 
most all their feathers in a few days and 
stand around naked, if not ashamed, until 
the new feathers come; others make the 
transition so gradually that it is hardly 
noticeable. Some shift their coats in a 
few weeks; others require months. Oc¬ 
casionally a hen will lay right through the 
molting period, but usually the egg yield 
is greatly diminished, even if it does not 
cease entirely. It is doubtful if anything 
is gained by having the hens lay intermit¬ 
tently when molting, for when that hap¬ 
pens they usually take more time to get 
their new feathers. Several rules for 
hastening the molt have been laid down, 
but experience shows that nothing is 
gained in the total egg yield by following 
them. Of course, the hens which molt 
early will be more likely to lay well in the 
early winter months than those which are- 
late in molting, but experiments seem to, 
show that the late-molting hens will give 
the largest total in the course of the full 1 
year. 
The amateur who raises a new lot of 
layers each season is probably better off 
when his birds molt late, for then they 
will continue to produce eggs until it is- 
almost time for the pullets to begin. Per¬ 
haps he will carry over a number of yearly 
hens to use for breeding pens the next 
spring, but as it would not be advisable 1 
tc force these hens for winter laying in 
any event, nothing is lost by having them' 
molt late. And to fix the habit of late- 
laying, the hens which lay late should be 
selected, as a matter of course, for the 
breeders. 
It is common and reasonable advice to, 
sell off the old hens when they become* 
broody, but the amateur must pause be- 
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