HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1910 
BUFF ORPINGTONS 
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Breeding Stock for 
Sale—Bargains. 
The best utility bird and 
nothing fancier—a feature 
to consider in the land¬ 
scape garden effect. As 
a table fowl there are 
none better. 
JOE-PYE 
Catalog with actual 
photos on request 
South Norwalk, Conn., R. F. 0. 37 
116 East 28th Street, New York 
TOO LATE! TOO LATE! 
to buy Eggs or Little Chicks if you wish Winter 
Layers. 
We make a specialty of selling pullets. Let us 
tell you about our famous White Diamond Strain 
of S. C. W. Leghorns. 
PULLETS 
also 1000 yearlings and 500 two year old breeders. 
THE VILLAGE POULTRY YARDS, Wilson, N. Y. 
PRIZE POULTRY, PIGEONS, HARES 
20 eggs $1.00. Leading varieties. Booklet Free. Send 10 cts. 
for my large illustrated and descriptive catalogue. Address 
PROGRESSIVE POULTRY YARDS 
F. G. WILE. Prop. TELFORD. PA. 
W’l 
LEONTINE LINCOLN, JR. 
Breeder of 
White Crested Black Polish and Fancy Pigeons 
BBS! Bsg 
mkmwi. ' pSffj 
Eggs for Hatching in season, $3.00 Stock always for sale 
Member of American Polish Club, Crested Fowl Breeders’ Association of America. 
289 Bank St., P. 0. Box 4 FALL RIVER, Mass. 
Mountain Eagle Games 
Originated by me. On Top as Pit Winners 
The thriftiest and most beautiful pit game birds on earth to¬ 
day. 48-page catalogue illustrated with more than 40 half¬ 
tone pictures free for the asking. 
W. S. CHURCH, Summit, N. C. 
150 Acres 
devoted exclusively to the rearing of 
SINGLE COMB 
White Leghorns 
to supply hatching eggs and breeding 
stock produced by unrelated cockerels 
and hens. 
Eggs— $8.00 per 100 $70.00 per 1000 
Wilson Farm Morristown, N.J. 
WHY not have the 
vv neatest looking and 
most successful and 
profitable Poultry 
Mouse yet evolved by 
following the Wittman 
Curtain Front, Fresh A : r 
House plan? .Low cost in 
building, too. Plan printed in 
boiled-down pamphlet form, 
fully illustrated, price 50 cents. 
VV. Thad. Wittman 
Allentown, Pa. 
JUMBO 
Are La 
SQUAB BREEDERS 
Are Largest and Fastest Breeders. Every pair 
guaranteed mated and banded. Money-makers 
everywhere. If you wish to be successful, start 
with Our “JUMBO HOMERS.” Send 4 cents 
in stamps for our large ILLUSTRATED BOOK 
‘How to make MONEY with SQUABS’ 
PROVIDENCE SQUAB Co, 772 Hope St, P ovidente R.l . 
Onondaga Minorca Poultry Yard 
Excelsior Strain 
S. C. Black Minorcas 
Prize winners at all the lead¬ 
ing shows. A fine lot of stock 
for sale. Eggs at half price. 
Send for price list and matter 
for 1910. 
Joseph G. Krenn, Prop. 
114 Beecher St , Syracuse, N, V, 
PHEASANTS, SWANS 
DUCKS, PEAFOWL 
and all kinds of ornamental land and water fowl 
FAIRVIEW FARM ON HUDSON 
Game Park & Pheasantiy, HIGHLAND, N. Y. 
DON’T BUILD 
that new hen house or fix up the old one until you get our large new ioo pp. catalog (over ioo illustrations) 
telling all about the Potter Poultry House Fixures, Perfection Feed Hoppers, Simplex Trap Nests, feeds and 
supplies of all kinds. Potter Fixtures have been on the market over 8 years and are used by thousands of 
poultry keepers. They are complete, convenient and sanitary; made in 3 styles and 12 sizes to fit any hen house. 
We now make the complete line of PORTABLF: (K. D.) HOUSES, BROOD COOPS, PIGEON LOFTS, 
etc., formerly made by the Morgan Sanitary House Co., of Lemont, 111 . These are made in 20 different 
styles and sizes, and if you want a complete, up-to-date and cheap house or coop of any kind you should not 
fail to send for large illustrated catalog telling all about these goods. 
nON’T KTI I or sell your laying hens: use the POTTER SYSTEM and pick out the lavers from 
1 iVlJLLi the loafers and keeponlv healthy laying hens. The Potter System is the greatest dis¬ 
covery of the century in the poultry world and is used by o er 25,000 poultry keepers. You can save dollars 
evcrv year by using our system, because you keep only layers. Our new 100 pp. book entitled “Don’t Kill 
the Laying Hen'’ is a revelation to poultry raisers on the subject of laying and non-laying hens and egg production 
Potter Poultry Products are for Particular Poultry People, and if you are particular and want to make more money on your flock you will write todav 
Send two red stamps to cover postage cm T -r. pattvi? xv nn r>_ t. ^ . 
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Poultry Enemies 
by M. Roberts Conover 
V\7’HILE vermin are the natural result 
of unsanitary conditions, quarters 
which receive the most fastidious care may 
become infested by the introduction of af¬ 
flicted fowls. Whatever their origin, they 
must not be tolerated, since they are a 
direct menace to the health and profit of 
the fowls. Strange birds should be exam¬ 
ined and. if necessary, treated before their 
admission to clean quarters. 
Lice, mites and the gape worm are the 
most common forms of poultry vermin, 
and since they may appear ere the owner 
is aware and breed rapidly in the warm 
weather, it is well to make a midsummer 
cleaning of the house and pens. The pres¬ 
ence of lice is a constant source of irrita¬ 
tion to fowls, and the bird usually shows 
a ruffled, untidy condition of plumage and 
a drooping, despondent air. By lifting 
the wings, or examining beneath the soft 
feathers, the lice may be seen moving 
about upon the skin. Flour of sulphur 
should be dusted through the feathers 
three or four times a week. Lice are fre¬ 
quently fatal to young chicks, as their ten¬ 
der bodies cannot stand the irritation. 
The mites are not so dangerous as the 
lice, since they do not live continually upon 
the bodies of the fowls, but remain upon 
the perches and walls of the building dur¬ 
ing the day. The perch mite is a tiny red 
spider and directs its attacks along the legs 
Local applications of kerosene and melted 
lard ointment should cure “scaly leg” 
of the fowls producing an unsightly 
roughness called “scaly leg.” An effectual 
local treatment is the application of an 
ointment made by adding equal parts of 
kerosene and melted lard. This should be 
brushed over the legs and feet with a 
small brush, at least once a week until 
the parks regain their natural appearance. 
All local applications are of no lasting 
value, however, unless the surroundings 
are overhauled. 
Remove all nests and perches and 
burn flour of sulphur or sulphur candles 
in the building. Wash the perches with 
strong soap suds containing one-half pint 
of kerosene to every pail of suds. Burn 
all nesting straw. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
