HOUSE AND GARDEN 
134 
September, 
1910 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in poultry. All inqi 
ion. When an immediate reply is desired enclose a se If-addressed, stamped envelope. 
All inquiries will receive careful at- 
‘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. 
Onondaga Minorca Poultry Yard 
Excelsior Strain 
S.C. Black Minorcas 
Prize winners at all the lead- 
ins 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. 
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS 
1 have 50 of these youngsters, April and May hatch. 
All from stock that I imported direct from Coats, England, this 
year. Lots of blue ribbon candidates here. 
Dr. J. B. LEWIS 
BOX 15 
BUCYRUS 
OHIO 
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. 
NUGGET 
BUFF PLY= 
MOUTH ROCKS 
H America’s leading strain of UTILITY and EX¬ 
HIBITION birds. Bred everywhere, both for eggs 
and meat and for the show-room, they are the 
SUPREME ALL-AROUND fowl. 
T 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 QUEEN of the 
STRAIN. H 1000 old and young NUGGETS, 
stock for sale. The most valu- 
Standard Plymouth Rock 
Farms, constantia. n. y. 
able Buff Rock lien alive—herself a noted 
prize-winner and the dam of our IstN. Y. 
ckerel and 2 d. N. Y. cock. 
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. 
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 
\ f. craham 
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. 
Learn this immensely nen business! 
we teach you; easy work at home; [ 
everybody succeeds. Start with our' 
Jumbo Homer Pigeons and your success is assured. 
Send for large Illustrated Book. Providence 
Squab Company, Providence, Rhode Island. 
DON’T BUILD 
that new hen house or fix up the old one until you get our large new 100 pp. catalog (over 100 illustrations) 
telling all about the Potter Poultry House Fixures, Perfection Feed Hoppers, Simplex Trap Nests, feeds and 
supplies of all kinds. I otter 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 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 diderent 
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. * y 
DON’T KII I Sf S ? n ? our la Y\ n £ hen , s: L use A he P0TTER - SYSTEM and pick out the layers from 
. the loafers and keep only healthy laying hens. The Potter System is the greatest dis¬ 
covery 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 laving and non-lavinjr hY*n<; anrl *rrrr 
Send iwo'iSd stamps to'cove^posta^^on ^ Pe ° P ‘ e ' “ d ‘ f y ° U “ ^ ^ou^c^will write today. 
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What to Do with the Cockerels 
BY A. G. Symonds 
/"NNE of the greatest problems that con- 
fronts the keeper of poultry is what 
to do with the cockerels. As soon as they 
reach a certain development they are sure 
to annoy the pullets, and at all ages they 
crowd hack the pullets at the feed trough 
and hamper their growth by getting the 
lion's share of food. For this reason it is 
generally agreed upon by poultrymen that 
cockerels should be separated from the 
pullets at an early age, or as soon as they 
can be distinguished. 
Some poultrymen make a practice of 
killing the cockerels as fast as they can 
be distinguished. They do not reckon on 
any profit to be derived from this source 
and believe that in this way the pullets 
will be given every chance for rapid 
growth and development. 
Others believe that a good margin is 
to be made by keeping the cockerels until 
large enough to market as broilers. They 
can be sold alive or dressed, as one pre¬ 
fers. If hatched early, good prices are 
assured. 
MARK THE BEST BRED COCKERELS 
If one is breeding thoroughbreds and 
desires to keep a number of choice cock¬ 
erels for fancy trade, it is not necessary 
to keep every cockerel until fully grown 
in order to select the best specimens. Any 
one following a scientific method of 
breeding and a system of marking the 
chicks from choice matings, needs only to 
keep such cockerels as are thus marked 
and pedigreed. The cockerel from the 
ordinary matings need not be saved but 
may be disposed of at the market price. 
Some prefer to keep the males until 
nearly fully grown and sell them as roast¬ 
ers. They usually command a good price 
as such, and if one has ample room and 
capital this is not a bad way to dispose 
of the cockerels. 
SELLING THE SURPLUS COCKERELS 
ALIVE 
Live poultry markets purchase fowls 
at all ages from broiler size up, and offer 
the easiest way in which to market the 
surplus cockerels. It is an open question 
whether as much profit is made in selling 
them in this way as in other ways. It 
certainly eliminates the time and labor 
that would be necessary in killing and 
dressing the cockerels for market. 
The cockerels that are to be kept for 
exhibition, breeding purposes, or for 
fancy trade, should receive as good at¬ 
tention as the pullets. Everything condu¬ 
cive to their proper growth should be 
done, and as they near their full develop¬ 
ment care should be exercised that they 
do not mar or injure their appearance by 
fighting. It may be necessary to give each 
bird quarters by himself. It is a fact, 
however, that a number of males kept to¬ 
gether during the growing period are less 
apt to quarrel when full grown unless a 
strange fowl comes in contact with them. 
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