Potter Sanitary Poultry Fixtures 
You can buy Sanitary Roost¬ 
ing and Nesting Fixtures, Coops, 
Hoppers, etc., cheaper than 
you can build. Used over 
ten years by thousands of suc¬ 
cessful poultry keepers. Pot¬ 
ter Complete Hennery Outfits, 
$3 up. Portable houses, all 
sizes, $16 up. Start right. 
Get the worlds best poultry 
equipment at lowest prices.^ Get rid of your makeshift, 
unsanitary fixtures. Send 4 cents in stamps for postage 
on 100-page catalog. 
POTTER & CO., 37 Forest Ave., Downers Grove, III. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
“Everything in the Bird Line 
from a Canary to an Ostrich” 
Birds for the House and Porch 
Birds for the Ornamental Waterway 
Birds for the Garden, Pool and Aviary 
Birds for the Game Preserve and Park 
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 
What Do You Want to Know 
About Poultry? 
Do you desire reliable information regarding 
the best breed of fowl to suit your purpose? 
Are you in doubt about the kind of poultry 
house to buy or build? 
Are you getting the most from your chickens 
— can their laying qualities be improved? 
Do you want to know where clean, healthy 
stock can be obtained? 
If we can help you by answering 
these or any other poultry questions , 
we offer you our services. Write to the 
Manager of Poultry Dept. 
HOUSE & GARDEN 
440 Fourth Avenue 
NEW YORK 
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breed from under any circumstances. 
Some people think it pays to keep small 
flocks of two distinct breeds, crosses from 
them being used for egg production. Cor¬ 
nish fowls, for example, crossed with 
Plymouth Rocks make good layers as well 
as excellent table birds, but it is a great 
mistake to breed from such nondescript 
fowls. 
People who live where but very little 
space is available may adopt the plan of 
using no-yard houses. Such houses have 
very large window spaces covered only in 
very bad weather and the occupants are 
not allowed out from the time they are 
purchased in the fall until they are sold 
alive the next summer. Hens confined as 
closely as this are not in condition to 
breed from, but they lay well through 
the winter and are easy to care for. No 
male bird should be kept with them, partly 
for the sake of the neighbors and partly 
because he is quite unnecessary. This no¬ 
yard plan has been followed even on 
plants where there are several thousand 
birds, but it is important to have a deep 
litter for the fowls to scratch in and to 
keep them busy hunting for their grain. 
Sometimes the chickens are very slow 
learning to roost and persist in crowding 
into the corners. This is likely to be es¬ 
pecially true of the late-hatched chickens. 
When a considerable number of chickens 
crowd in this manner those which com¬ 
pose the inside layers are pretty certain 
to get very much heated, and it is not at 
all unusual for colds to appear, often run¬ 
ning through a whole flock in a few days, 
and not infrequently developing into roup, 
which may result in a heavy loss. It may 
be necessary to put the chickens on the 
roost by hand several nights in succession, 
but the introduction of one or two hens 
or older pullets may be sufficient, as the 
youngsters will learn from them. If 
signs of colds are seen, enough perman¬ 
ganate of potash from the drug store 
should be added to the drinking water 
each day to give it a light pink tint. Birds 
with bad colds are best removed to sepa¬ 
rate quarters. 
Considerable coaxing may be needed to 
keep up the egg supply from the old hens, 
which must be depended upon until the 
pullets begin to lay. Many times it helps 
to cut down the scratch feed somewhat. 
u Homestead” Silver Campines 
The Vigorous Strain 
Win at Boston 1915, thirteen regular prizes, including 
four firsts, specials for best display, best cock, hen, 
cockerel and best pen. Three firsts and many regular 
prizes at Springfield, 1914, also at other shows our 
winnings were equally good. In addition to their blue 
ribbon reputation our VIGOROUS STRAIN has an 
established reputation for stamina, vigor, early maturity 
and heavy laying that makes them most desirable. We can 
furnish stock that should win at any show in the country. 
Our aim is full value, quality and satisjaction. 
HOMESTEAD CAMPINE FARM, Box H G, Wayland, Mass. 
Brooder 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
No. 3 Poultry House—2 units Setting Coop 
BROODER can be operated out-of-doors in zero weather with little attention or expense. 50 to 100 chicks. 
No. 3 POULTRY HOUSE—Fitted complete for 60 hens— 8 x 20 feet. $110.00. First pen, $60.00 ; additional 
pens, $50.00 each. Red Cedar, vermin-proof. 
SETTING COOP to set a hen in and brood her chicks. $3.00. 
All neatly painted and quickly bolted together. Send for illustrated catalogue. 
/Room 326, 116 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON/MASS. - ) Address all corre- 
ItJ spondence to Boston 
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