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Brooder 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 TOULTRY HOUSE—Fitted complete for 60 hens—8x20 
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 illus¬ 
trated catalogue. 
Hnnr.qnN cn Room 326 ’ 116 WASHINGTON st.. boston, mass. 
nc/uuotjn craftsman bldg.. 6 east 39th st., new york. 
(Address all correspondence to Boston) 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
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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 rib¬ 
bon reputation our VIGOROUS 
STRAIN has an established reputa¬ 
tion for stamina, vigor, early ma¬ 
turity and heavy laying that makes 
them most desirable. We can fur¬ 
nish stock that should win at any 
show in the country. 
We have many fine youngsters. All in 
excellent form at prices worth considering. 
If you are interested we shall be glad to 
send you our catalogue. 
Our aim is full value, quality and satisfaction 
HOMESTEAD CAMPINE FARM, Box HG, Wayland, Mass. 
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HOMESTEMl CAE!PINE EARN WAVI.AND 
BOB WHITE QUAIL 
PARTRIDGES and PHEASANTS 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Tur¬ 
keys, Quails, Rabbits, Deer, etc., for 
stocking purposes. Fancy Theasants, 
Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Ducks. Foxes, Squir¬ 
rels, Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds 
and animals. 
William J. Mackensen, Na'oralist, Dept. C, Yardley, Pa. 
“Homestead” [Silver Campines 
THE VIGOROUS STRAIN 
G.D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
4 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 larg¬ 
est 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 
October Poultry Work 
If the chickens have been allowed 
to roost in the trees, the owner will 
have rather an interesting time this 
month getting them into their houses 
at night. I have plucked Anconas, 
which fly high, out of the top 
branches with a fruit picker before 
this, but it is much better to teach 
the youngsters to go inside at night 
while they are small. Some people 
believe that sleeping outdoors makes 
sturdy chickens, but in any event 
every bird on the place, chicken, old 
hen and rooster, should be in winter 
quarters early this month. Moreover, 
these quarters should be ready to re¬ 
ceive them, clean, in good repair and 
with fresh sand on the floor. 
Naturally enough, the fowls will 
be able to run outside in the day¬ 
time until the ground freezes or wet 
weather comes, but when they are 
confined, it is important that an 
abundance of litter for them to 
scratch in be provided. A sudden 
change from an active to a sedentary 
life would not be at all favorable to 
egg production. Exercise in plenty 
seems to be desirable at all times if 
the pullets are to be kept in prime 
condition, and physical fitness is the 
first requirement. The litter may 
consist of leaves, straw, hay, chopped 
corn stalks or the commercial prod¬ 
uct made from peat, which is especi¬ 
ally sanitary and easy to handle, but 
rather expensive as to first cost, al¬ 
though it lasts a long time. From 4" 
to 6" is about the right depth of 
litter, the larger breeds needing more 
than those that are small. As the 
litter is broken up by the industrious 
scratching of the hens, more may be 
added. 
It is poor policy to crowd the 
poultry, and 4 sq. ft. of floor space 
to each bird is none too much, al¬ 
though less may be given safely in 
a large house. In a very small coop, 
considerable more space per hen is 
needed. One hen in a pen with but 
4 sq. ft. to move around in would be 
very closely confined indeed. It is 
not well to keep old and young birds 
together, and uniformity in all ways 
is at least desirable. On one large 
plant, all the pullets are weighed in 
the fall and then divided, so that no 
house contains birds varying more 
than half a pound in weight. This 
practice is not advocated, but the 
owner of the commercial plant men¬ 
tioned thinks that it is worth while. 
There is no more reason for shut¬ 
ting up the poultry houses at night 
now than there has been all summer. 
Pullets and cockerels that have been 
submitted to the fresh air treatment 
will need no extra protection until 
the mercury drops close to the zero 
mark. Indeed, the mistaken policy 
of shutting up the poultry houses 
tightly at night after the birds have 
gone into the winter quarters may 
be the cause of serious trouble. 
Pullets that lay abnormally early 
are to be shunned, but it pays to keep 
tabs on those which start laying early 
this month. If these pullets are also 
well developed and well marked, they 
should be honored with bands on 
their legs. If kept over a second 
season, they will be valuable as breed¬ 
ers, and the bands, which may be of 
aluminum or celluloid, will make 
their identification easy later. 
Colds and roup are common 
sources of loss and trouble this 
month. No one should expect such 
difficulties, and they may be avoided 
by keeping the pullets from trailing 
through wet grass and reposing 
under dripping bushes and from 
crowding in their pens at night. It 
is well to keep the birds confined to 
yards in the morning until the grass 
dries off and to provide ample roost¬ 
ing facilities. If signs of colds do 
appear, permanganate of potash may 
be used in the drinking water as a 
disinfectant. It can be bought in the 
form of crystals at the drug stores, 
and enough should be used to color 
the water a light pink. Very sick 
birds should be quarantined. 
Heavy feeding should be the rule 
from now on, grain being scattered 
in the litter and a dry mash kept be¬ 
fore the birds. A variety of grain 
will be appreciated, but a daily ration 
consisting of two parts corn, one part 
wheat and one part oats will give 
good results, if supplemented with a 
dry mash and green food. Cracked 
corn may be used to advantage, be¬ 
cause the birds have to do more 
work in order to get their fill, but it 
is well to feed some whole corn at 
night to make sure that the pullets 
cram their crops to the limit of their 
capacity before they go to roost It 
it a long time to breakfast at this 
season of the year. 
Of course, green food may be had 
at any season by sprouting oats or 
soaking alfalfa in boiling water. 
