HOUSE AND GARDEN 
404 
May, 1911 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in 
poultry. The manager will gladly answer any troublesome questions. 
Address “Poultry Department’’ and enclose a self-addressed envelope. 
WATER FOWL 
Ornamental Birds of Every Descrip¬ 
tion. Monkeys and Show Animals. 
LOUIS RUHE 
248 Grand Street NEW YORK 
Oldest Import House in the U. S. 
Fancy and Ornamental 
Poultry tor Country Estates 
and Gentlemen’s Farms 
I specialize in breeding White Crested Black Polish, 
Silver Bearded Polish and Fancy Pigeons. Also 
have eggs in season for sale. 
White Crested Black Polish Eggs $3 and $5 per setting. 
Silver Bearded Polish Eggs $3 and $5 per setting. 
S. C. Black Orpington and Barred Plymouth Rock 
Eggs $2 per setting. 
Address 
LEONTINE LINCOLN, Jr. 
289 BANK STREET, FALL RIVER, MASS. 
1st Prize Hen 
Washington Show 
ORPINGTONS White EXHIBITION 
Kellers!rass or Cook Black ^ STRAIN 
EGGS, $3. $5. (13,. Trios, $15. Chicks, 50c., 
$1. World's greatest layers. Beautiful plum¬ 
age for lawn. Five prize-winning males. I 
am the physician who breeds Orpingtons. 
You can win, too, and make money, or breed 
for pleasure. 85 per cent, fertility. Booklet 
“Why 1 Breed Orpingtons." Hens $3.50, 
June delivered. Cut prices stock,eggs, chiefs 
to close out any fancy fowl ; 
Wh.Wy’dotte, Minorca (Wh.Bl.) \ Trio, $10 
Leghorn (Bf,, Br., Wh.), Reds J Hggs,$2.50 
Col’b Wy’dottes, Lt. Brahma, \ Trio, $12 
Houdan, Polish, RocksCW. Bar, Bf) / Eggs, $3 
Baby Chicks, all varieties 
Dr. Thos. Die trick, Box N, Washington, N. J. 
RABBITS AND PET STOCK 
Unrivalled Flemish Giant, Angora, Tan and Polish 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. 
A USEFUL LITTLE BOOK IS YOURS 
if you will send us the names and addresses of 25 peo¬ 
ple who would be apt to be interested in House S’ 
Garden and to whom we may send our circulation 
literature. 
“Low Cost Suburban Homes” abounds in helpful 
hints and suggestions for anyone interested in build¬ 
ing a country home anywhere. In its 62 pages it 
shows attractive houses of many widely different 
types, giving the floor plans and in many instances the 
prices, varying from $1,000 to $7,000, at which they 
have been built. It is also full of pictures of interiors 
and suggestions for arrangement of the gardens and 
home grounds. Attractively illustrated and printed on 
coated paper. 
Send us 25 names and addresses and the book will 
be sent postpaid. Address Circulation Department 
HOUSE & GARDEN, 449 Fourth Avenue, New York 
My WHITE WYANDOTTES 
have won many ist and 2nd prizes af 
New York, World’s Fair, Boston, and 
have bred more winners for the leading 
shows of the U. S. and Canada than any 
other breeder. Have scores of letters to 
prove it. Send for circular. Eggs from 
limited number selected hens, $5.00 set¬ 
ting, 3 settings $12.00. Farm raised, 
kept in open front coops, strong and 
hardy, and also great layers. 
Second Prize Cockeiel j, H. Jackson L. Box 67 Hudson, Mass, 
at Madison Square, 1910 
“ Faultless ” Houdans 
FASHION’S PROUDEST BIRDS 
They won every blue ribbon at New 
York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia 
shows for years. They average 250 eggs 
a year. 
Send 10c for largest Illustrated Poultry Catalog 
ever printed; 
E. F. McAVOY 
Sec’y Houdan Club 
CAMBRIDGE, N. Y. 
Guaranteed Mated Homers 
We can furnish the Best Grade Work¬ 
ing Homers, guaranteed mated, in 
quantities this Spring. 
Send one cent stamp for our leaflet. 
MT. PLEASANT FARMS, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
to be going into a decline.” “Get a worm 
medicine." 1 advised. A few weeks later I 
met her "Oh,” she said again, this time with 
tears in her eyes, “my dear little puppy is 
dead." “Did you give him the worm medi¬ 
cine," I asked. “N-o," she replied. “I neg¬ 
lected to get it. But he didn’t die of 
worms, he died of convulsions." Foolish 
woman ! Capricious appetite, emaciation, 
convulsions, paralysis,—they are all the 
work of the noxious worm. A good ver¬ 
mifuge is of more value, often, than a Blue 
Ribbon. 
There are dogs and dogs. Canines vary 
as much as humans. A litter of puppies 
will be as different as a family of children. 
Recognize your particular dog's limitations, 
independent of your neighbor’s, and be 
lenient. Equally recognize his capabilities, 
and give credit. When all is said, he is 
less than human in so little, and above the 
average human in so much, — loyalty, faith¬ 
fulness, unselfish devotion, that, striking 
an average, we will find ourselves honored 
hv his friendship (beware of him whom no 
dog likes) and blessed in his affection. So 
that, if we are possessed of conscience and 
sensibility, we will come to bestow as much 
though upon what our dog thinks of us, as 
what we think of him. When we reach 
that point, then, and not before, are we 
worthy to really own a dog. 
Eileen Moretta 
The Floor of the Poultry Flouse 
f I TIE floor of the poultry house sustains 
as important a relation to the health 
of the fowls as any other part of the build¬ 
ing. A cold, drafty floor is a constant men¬ 
ace, inducing catarrhal affections, and a 
damp floor with its constant evaporation 
of unwholesome moisture is equally un¬ 
favorable. 
The floor of the building hears a close 
relation to the foundation ; indeed, its char¬ 
acter is actually determined by the kind of 
foundation used. From this relation have 
developed three distinct styles of flooring: 
An earth floor lower than the outside surface 
is cold and damp 
The earth or cement floor with the brick 
or stone foundations; the board floor with 
a foundation, and the board floor without 
a foundation, the structure being supported 
on posts. 
Any one of these can he made a success 
if its peculiar requirements are complied 
with. 
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