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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in poultry. All inquiries will receive careful at- 
tention. When an immediate reply is desired enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 
“World’s Best While Wyandottes” 
Has been our 
motto for years. 
We have bred 
fancy poultry all 
our lifetime, but 
years ago the 
superiority of the 
White Wyan¬ 
dotte caused us 
to devote our¬ 
selves exclusive¬ 
ly to this mag¬ 
nificent breed. 
A Fishel Type We ship stock 
and eggs all over the world. 
SEND 10c. for our new catalog. 50 
pages of poultry lore, beautifully illus¬ 
trated, that will appeal to every lover of 
poultry. 
J. C. FISHEL & SON, Box G, Hope, Ind. 
NUGGET 
BUFF PLY¬ 
MOUTH ROCKS 
f America’s leading strain of UTILITY and EX- 
HI BITION birds. Bred everywhere, both for eggs 
and meat and for the show-room, they are the 
SUPREME ALL-AROUND fowl. 
IT BUFF is the common-sense plumage for any lo¬ 
cation-town or farm. The PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
have been the favorite fowl in this country for dec¬ 
ades. Consequently BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
have a large following. And the 
NUGGETS are the ORIGINAL 
STRAIN. IT 1000 old and young 
Stock for sale. 
Standard Plymouth Rock 
Farms, constantia, n. y. 
QUEEN of the 
NUGGETS. 
The most valu¬ 
able Buff Rock hen alive—herself a noted 
prize-winner and the dam of our 1st N. Y. 
cockerel and 2d. N. Y. cock. 
BUFF ORPINGTONS 
Catalog with actual 
photos on request 
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 
South Norwalk, Conn., R. F. 0. 37 
116 East 28th Street, New York 
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. Y, 
LEGHORNS 
150 acres devoted to standard 
bred S. C. W. Leghorns for 
Winter Egg Production. 
1,500 Breeders for Sale 
1,000 Early Pullets for Sale 
WILSON FARM, Morristown, N. J. 
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, Providence, R.l. 
\. F. GRAHAM 
BEAUTIFUL WILD 
GAME FOWLS 
Have lived in jungle till flesh 
rivals that of pheasant. Mag¬ 
nificent plumage. Superb form. 
Desperately game. Free illustra¬ 
ted circular describing many 
strains. 
Moultrie, Ga. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Rare Land and 
Water Birds 
Swans, Geese, Ducks, Peafowl, Cranes, 
Pheasants, etc. I am the oldest established 
and largest exclusive dealer in ornamental 
birds in America. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
DARIEN, CONNECTICUT 
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 l ouse. 
We now make the complete line of PORTABLE (K. D.) HOUSES, BROOD COOPS, PIGEON LOFTS, 
etc., formerly made by the Morgan Sanitary House .Co., of Lemont, Ill. 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. 
ini I or se d your laying hens: use the POTTER SYSTEM and pick out the layers from 
LfvJll 1 IVILiLi the loafers and keep only healthy laying hens. The Potter System is the greatest <Iis- 
covory of the century in the poultry world and is used by over 25,000 poultry keepers. You can save dollars 
every 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 today. 
~ T - F - P0TTE R & CO., Box 77, Downers Grove, Illinois 
The Moulting Hen 
by M. Roberts Conover 
A FOWL moults during its second year, 
usually when from sixteen to eigh¬ 
teen months old, and once a year thereafter 
during the remainder of its life. The ma¬ 
jority of fowls moult in late summer. 
Many poultrymen do not keep their pul¬ 
lets beyond the moult, but sell them and 
procure others for laying. Although old 
hens are not profitable as layers, the hen 
that goes through her first moult quickly 
and is ready for business in the fall, may 
still be counted valuable enough by the 
average man to be held for one more sea¬ 
son of laying. 
Hens that make of it a deliberate process 
lasting for three months, during which 
they suspend their egg-laying functions, 
will not be profitable to their owners. 
Such birds are usually in a debilitated 
After the moulting season give the flock a 
free range if possible 
state, the system lacking the feather-pro¬ 
ducing elements. 
A preliminary of moulting is the 
loss of feathers, caused by the diminution 
of nourishment to the old quill. The 
forming feather within the follicle crowds 
the old one out. In warm weather the 
shedding is not injurious to the bird, but 
the real tax upon the system is the for¬ 
mation of the new feathers. Vigor is, of 
course, conducive to a quick moult and 
a speedy return to egg-laying. Among 
normal fowls, there should not be undue 
raggedness of plumage, the new feathers 
soon replacing the old. The moulting 
should be completed in from four to six 
weeks. Its requisites are moderate ex¬ 
ercise, right food, cleanliness and free¬ 
dom from the weakness of inbreeding. 
There must exist the proper conditions 
for weeks beforehand, not a belated delv¬ 
ing after rules for feed rations when the 
flock has assumed that distressing half- 
plucked appearance often seen among 
neglected flocks. 
As soon as the feathers begin falling, 
confine the flock in a good-sized pen 
where there is a good stand of grass or 
clover. This will furnish the necessary 
green food. Stop working for eggs. 
Some hens will lay during the moult, but 
usually a hen does but one thing well at 
one time and in moulting time she should 
grow feathers. The aim is to get them 
through the process quickly by lessening 
all other drains. Fattening foods are not 
required. There must be nitrogenous 
material in plenty. Linseed meal, oat- 
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