HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 19 ii 
KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those inter¬ 
ested in dogs. The manager will gladly answer any troublesome 
questions. Address “Kennel Department’’ and enclose a self- 
addressed envelope. 
f FOR HOUSE DOGS ^ 
There is nothing better than Champion Dog Biscuit. 
They are adapted to this class of dogs, and nearly 
every one can afford to keep them for the pet of the 
family. 
We manufacture them of flour, meat cracklings 
and other ingredients thoroughly mixed by machinery. 
They will regulate the bowels, help to make sound 
teeth and will produce a soft, glossy coat. They are 
clean and easy to handle when feeding. 
Send for Sample and Booklet G. 
ST. PAUL BREAD COMPANY 
558 View Street St. Paul, Minn. 
TOY WHITE FRENCH POODLES, young 
and grown stock. Pedigreed. Prices reason¬ 
able. Also Toy Spitz Pomeranian pups. 
Write your wants. 
MRS. G. C. ROHDE. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
Pointers and Setters tor Sale 
None better bred or more thoroughly trained 
on Quail, Pheasants and other game 
Our dogs are bred second to none and trained in the 
best Quail section of the United States. We have both 
dogs and bitches. Why not enjoy the fall shooting over 
a dog that is thoroughly trained and one that knows his 
Business in the held? Prices from $50.00 up to $200.00. 
Please state your wants. 
The C. S. FREEL KENNELS, Drawer H, Loogootee, Ind. 
EIe S ant high- 
V-'UlllcS quality Collie 
puppies, sable and white, from 
best strains of blood; have been 
carefully raised, are in perfect 
health. Eligible to registration 
American Kennel Club Stud Book. 
Ready for delivery, shipped on re¬ 
ceipt of price. We take great care 
in selecting each puppy. We will 
please you. Males $20 each; fe¬ 
males $15 each. 
Nice grown male Collie S50. 
Our booklet sent on receipt of stamp. 
address Pine Grove Collie Kennels, Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, N. Y- 
FOR SALE 
English Toy Spaniels, Pomeranians, French 
Bulls, Irish Terriers, Champion Pedigreed Stocks* 
Reasonable. 
P. J. CLANCY, ill Ford Street, Bronx, N. Y. 
BLUE DRAGON 
KENNELS 
I 4 Miles from New York 
GREAT NECK, L. I. 
Offer for sale a fine lot of 
puppies by their celebrated 
Champion Chinese Chum 
Winner of many championships. Also winner of cup for 
Best Dog in Show of All Breeds at Cedarhurst, L I., 1908 
Address Manager 
Walescott Kennels 
Scottish Terriers 
Have at present the best collection to 
be found in any kennel in the world. 
Puppies from $35 for females to $250 for Males 
Welsh Terriers 
Airedale in color. Fox Terrier in size. 
Large enough for watch dog, small enough 
for the house. Game little companions. 
Puppies from $25 for females to $75 for Males 
BERNARDSVILLE, N. J. 
AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE 
T^HE Breeders register in the Gazette has proved of great 
value, in view of the constant demand at the American 
Kennel Club for names and addresses of breeders. Write 
for rates. 
AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB 
1 Liberty Street NEW YORK CITY 
ontlis old- 550 lbs 
JERSEY RED PIGS HITTHI 
TT’S “Pounds that count.” Buy 
A Jersey Red Pigs—the rapid grow¬ 
ers. Strong, vigorous, small- 
boned, long-bodied. Nine 
months pipes often dress 350 
I raa lbs. Buy a pair now. Get 
Quick profits. Circular free. 
A, J. COLLINS, Box Y, Moorestown, N. J. 
RABBITS AND PET STOCK 
Unrivalled Flemish Giant, Angora, Tan and Folish Rab¬ 
bits — Peruvian and Smooth Cavies for fancy or pets. 
Some Good Youngsters now for sale, $1.00 up 
ELM COVE RABBITRY, Great Neck, L: I. 
THE “JOE-PYE” BOOK 
Is an Annual—ready to mail Feb, 1st, 
Th e coo.lt bird that 
has won first at Mad¬ 
ison Square Garden, 
N. Y., last year and 
this is but one of many 
fine birds in my pens. 
But lO settings will 
be sold from liis mat¬ 
ing at $3.00 per egg. 
Other prices $3.00, 
$5.00 and $1 0.00 per 
settin^oful5 eg£s. 
and prices higher, yet there are scattered 
over the land the wrecks of small for¬ 
tunes that were invested in the chicken 
business, and the lugubrious faces of the 
luckless investors bear eloquent testimony 
to the folly of putting one’s money into 
the business to learn the business. 
On the other hand, there are flourish¬ 
ing poultry plants from which the owners 
are making comfortable fortunes, but in¬ 
variably these owners had learned to 
know hens before expanding. 
If you are new to the business and have 
three hundred dollars to invest in it, put 
it in the safest place you know of and go 
to work under some man who is making 
it pay. Or, set to work with a dozen hens 
of your own and try to make them pay 
you a profit. At the end of the year you 
will have your money and the knowledge 
wherewith to make the best use of it. 
These remarks are not meant to dis¬ 
courage you. It costs a trifle over one- 
quarter of a cent each day to provide a 
hen with laying food, and less than fifty 
cents to raise her to the laying age. 
Fresh eggs bring high prices of late years 
and, therefore, according to the theory of 
all and the practice of the successful few, 
poultry raising is a profitable means of 
livelihood. But some hens lay two hun¬ 
dred and fifty eggs a year, others fifty, 
and still others none at all. Then in¬ 
vested capital can go by way of weak, de¬ 
bilitated stock, unsanitary conditions, dis¬ 
ease, etc. These are the hindrances that 
one must study to eliminate before he can 
realize a profit and these can be studied 
under some one else as well as at your own 
risk. 
When you have acquired the knowledge, 
there are two ways of starting: One is 
to buy year-old hens and cockerels, realize 
what you can from eggs, select the best 
layers as breeders and hatch your stock 
from their eggs. This method requires 
more capital than the succeeding method 
and is best adapted to fall. The other is 
to start with eggs and incubators in the 
spring. This necessitates brooding the 
young chicks. 
With a capital of three hundred dollars 
you can expend fifty dollars for a house, 
fifty dollars for two incubators, each of 
two-hundred-egg capacity, and seventeen 
dollars for one brooder of four-hundred- 
ehick capacity. (A four-hundred-egg in¬ 
cubator is cheaper to heat than two smaller 
ones, but if anything goes amiss the whole 
hatch is jeopardized.) Forty dollars more 
for eggs, leaves a balance to be expended 
for feed and later incidentals. 
By starting the incubators about March 
ioth, you will have a hatching about 
March 31st, and if you start them again 
about April 2d, by April 23d there should 
be a satisfactory total of young chicks as 
a beginning. 
If from this you have, say, six hundred 
chicks, about half will be cockerels which 
should be sold as broilers at six weeks, 
netting you over fifty dollars. Of your 
three hundred pullets you would have an 
excellent laying stock. 
Now as to housing; the object is to get 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
