Title: Poultry fancier, vol. 14

Place of Publication: Chicago,

Copyright Date: 1910

Master Negative Storage Number: MNS# PSt SNPaAg122A.2

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EXCLUSIVELY. R^j^al Hliie is the name. Bred in line for
1) years and orij^inally from the best blood lines in the world

Show TiRfr^if .tn f ^*»<^''e unequalled record of five first-premiums at Mich. Slate

Show, Detroit, st 11 remains for some one to duplicate. No room to tell vou of hundreds of other

bi?ds o'f rarUFtSni P^'^V'^'-^-l?^'" "°" ^^°''"' 'l^f'''^ '''^'^'- ' "orha?e in nw anls ?hm
birds ot rarest type and color with narrow, deep and distinct barring aI.so breeding stock thai

r otXxne '«^?LT'^ r^""^ l^T^^- "^^^"'^ °^^7^"^ remember I^io not require v?u to pavS
nu%?!r ^^Pf"^'^'e advertising, but ship you as good as can be found at reasonable prices. 'The
?, o^ .- ^! ^' ^X^'^K'^Jl^ increa.sing demand warrants me in advancing the price of eges(for hatch-
iua) t(),>,4 per 15. Address A. L. EMp:RSON INKSTER, MICH U"r naicn

FOR SALE

I offer Stock and Eggs for Hatcliing from
the following: Single Comb White Leg-
horns, Brown Leghorns, Black Minorcas,
Buff Orpingtons, Light Brahmas, White Rocks, Wliite Wyandottes Columbian
Wyandottes also day old Chicks, get my prices. My stock is of the best strain's
and will please the most particular buyers. I have over 700 head of birds that
must be sold at once to make room and they will go at bargain prices.

JOS. M. FAY, - 808 Howard Ave., ALTOONA, PA.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

IMating list on request. Stock for sale.
E. M. LONG Box P. F. Osceola, Ind.

Raise chicks EVENTUALLY Always one story,
just nature's Always warm and

way. Always CLOUGH'S dry; fits all sizes
dry from chick chicks or fowls,

heat and perfect LAMPLESS |< dozen to 200
ventilation. En- size, only $5.

dorsed by all that BROODE»S! Principle and
use them, even ex-
perimental stations. WHY NOT
A perfect remedy for
all chick diseases. To NOW?

be used out or indoors.

It will not make ash piles of the home or the chicks.
50 per cent, better than the average mother hen.
Free literature. Address

CLOUGH'S LAIWPLESS BROODER, Aurora, ML

results are
right; raises
95 to 100
per cent of
the hatch.

"HAL

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AawuMUHin

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me Jh'^t^u^^'^f ^^ ^"r^^nfr" '^!Jr' ^^^^ "' ^'^'''''°" ^° '^'""'"S y^^"" ^"er year, birds purchased from
ine or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show
after show, where my b.rds have won the BEST PRIZES but I honestly believe this honor belongs to
me purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will pmblish your winnings
as mine For the season of igro I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating li.st, which describes niv
pens and contams pictures of "LEADER" my ist CHICAGO COCKEREL and other famous Wrdr A
choice lot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, WaterforXwis^

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SWEEP

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
3rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DO

DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulon.se Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS. S. D. LAPHAM. prop., Box P, Dearborn, Mich,

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CHICAGO, ILL, JANUARY, 1910

No. I

Amusing, Interesting and Instru

C 1 I VP

A Talk About Past and Present Advertising. It
Ought to Interest All Fanciers and Especially
Advertisers, Big and Little

By C. E. PETERSEN

ANY pe()])le assume that advertising is
an institution entirely of modern ori-
.i^in, possibly because the encycloped-
ist has given little attention to the
subject, and as time begets difficulties
in research, we are almost driven to
regard the first advertisement with which we are
accjuaintcd as the actual inaugurator of a system
which now has hardly any bounds. Advertising
has, of course, within the last fifty years developed
entirely new courses and has become an institution
of So great importance that it would hardly be pos-
sible to conduct any kind of business without it.
Henry Sampson in his "ffistory of Advertising,"
from which I will quote frcfiuently, says that inves-
tigation shows that advertisements were pul)lished
in (ireece and Rome in reference to the gladiatorial
exhibitions, so important a feature of the ancient
(lays of those once great countries. That these ad-
vertisements took the form of what is now generally
known as "billing" seems most probable, and from
the way the excavated walls of Pompey look, giving
pictures of the gladiators and times of exhibition,
Rome must have often looked like a modern country
town, when the advent of a circus or other traveling
company is first made known. Both the Greeks
and the Romans had on their houses a piece of the
wall whitened to receive inscrij)tions relative to
their affairs. To give an idea of their style of ad-
vertising I will (|note one or two taken from the
walls of P(»mpe\ and written 2,()()() vears airo.

"X. FESTI AMPLIATl
I'aniilia ( iladiatoria. Pugna iterum
Pugna XVI. K. Jvn. Venat. Vela."

That is **The troop of Gladiators of the C^dil will

tight (,n the 31st of May. There will be fights with
wild animals, and an awning to keep off the sun."
r.anuim could not have done much better than that.

Here is another: ''Traveler go from here to the
Twelfth Tower, there Sarinus keeps a Tavern. This
is to request you to enter. Farewell."

Mediaeval advertising was done by "criers," who
would walk through the streets proclaiming the
news of the day, and where different kinds of com-
modities were to be found.

After the inventing of the i)rinting press adver-
tising by hand bills became the custom, but no
newspaper was in existence before the reign of
Queen I<:iizal)eth, supposed to be issued by Chris-
topher Barker, Her Highness' printer, 1583. This
l)aper was said to be started for the prevention of
tile fulmination of the false rei)orts, but it was more
like a succession of extraordinary gazettes, and had
by no means the ai)pearance of a regular journal,
as we understand the term. Periodicals and papers
really first came into general use during the civil
wars of Charles the First, and from that period rapid
jH-ogress was made in journalism and advertising.
The first newspaper acixertisement was found ac-
cording to "Notes and (Jueries," in Mercurius
l^lencticus of October, 1(;4S. Boston was the first
city in America that published a local paper; this
was done in 1681).

Advertising, derived from the Patin word adver-
tere, to turn the nu'nd to, to notice, is not an exjieri-
mental luxury, but a necessary adjunct and invalu-
able assistant, to be paid for as logically as any other
legitimate exi)ense, not a new thing,* either,' but a
nieans by which the producer of commodities has
disseminated information regarding them from the
earliest beginnings of history, though here as every-
where else the advancement of progress and science
has given enlarged opp<^rtunities for the seller who
before the invention i^ the printing press was lim-
ited ^o his vocal organs, and it was a matter of who
could cry the loudest, who got the most attention
from the purchasing pnblic.

America is par excellence the countrv of the ad-

Barred Rocks

EXCLUSIVELY. R"j4.il Hliie is the name. Hied in line for
1) years and originally from the best blood lines in the world
Shnur Twr^if ..ill ." ' li^^e Unequal led record of five first-premiums at Mich . State

reirnT^r «n^ «L^i remains tor some one to duplicate. No room to tell you of hundreds of other
b!?ds of r«i«f fS.fi prizes they have won at other leading shows. I now have in my yards show
wi'l n?er^f ^hin^.^^. ? ^f""' "^/^'^ "arrow deep and distinct barring. Also breeding stock that
r ^f ^f 1 ^!^ approval of any fancier. When ordering remember I do not require you to pay for

m^m,;^f^^"T^^''^Y-''''"^-'"^f"f'y°"''^^"«^^ ^•'^'^«" ^^*^ fo""^l at reasonable prices. The
cjuaiityot my stock and nicreasmer demand warrants me in advancing the price of eggs (for hatch-
ui«) to ^4 per 15. Address A. L. EM^RSPN INKSTER. MICH. o e^gs ^roi narcn

FOR SALE

I offer Stock and Eggs for Hatching from
the following: Single Comb White Leg-
horns, Brown Leghorns, Black Minorcas,
Buff Orpingtons, Light Brahmas, White Rocks, White Wyandottes Columbian
Wyandottes also day old Chicks, get my prices. My stock is of the best strain's
and will please the most particular buyers. I have over 700 head of birds that
must be sold at once to make room and they will go at bargain prices.

JOS. M. FAY, . 808 Howard Ave., ALTOONA, PA.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

Mating list on request. Stock for sale.
E. M. LONG Box P. R Osceola, Ind.

Raise chicks EVENTUALLY Always one story.

just nature's Always warm and

way. Always CLOUGH'S dry; fits all sizes

dry from chick chicks or fowls.

heat and perfect LAMPLESS K dozen to 200

ventilation. En- size, only $5.

dorsed by all that BROODErtS! Principle and

use them, even ex- results are

perimental stations. WHY NOT

A perfect remedy for

all chick diseases. To NOW?

be used out or indoors.

It will not make ash piles of the home or the chicks.

50 per cent, better than the average mother hen.

Free literature. Address

CLOUGH'S LAMPLESS BROODER, Aurora, III.

right; raises

95 to 100
per cent of
the hatch.

HALBACH'S WHITE ROCKS"

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me n7h^ JhTh'^ ^^ ' pfe'^r" ^.T^"' *^^' '" ^'^'"''°" ^° ^''""'"^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ y«=*^- ^rds purchased from
me or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show

tW^cTa;;: %^'"\'"'^' '^T "f " Vn ^^^"^ PRIZES but I honestly believe this honor bZgst"
me purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will publish your winnings
as mme For the season of igro I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list, which describes mv
?hoL'"lntTh"" '/"'"'r^ "LEADER" my ist CHICAGO COCKEREL an^d other famous biSn
choice lot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Haibach, Box 7, Waterford, Wis.

A CLEAN SWEEP

LAPHAM^S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
5rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulonse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, prop.. Box P, Dearborn, Mich.

INTENTIONAL 2ND EXPOSURE

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Vol. XIV

CHICAGO. ILL. JANUARY, 1910

No. 1

Amusing, Interesting and Instructive

A Talk About Past and Present Advertising. It
Ought to Interest All Fanciers and Especially
Advertisers, Big and Little

By C. E. PETERSEN

ANY people as.sume that advertising is
an institution entirely of modern ori-
gin, possibly because the encycloped-
ist has given little attention to the
subject, and as time begets difficulties
in research, we are almost driven to
regard the first advertisement with which we are
acquainted as the actual inaugurator of a system
which now has hardly any bounds. Advertising
has, of course, within the last fifty years developed
entirely new courses and has become an institution
of so great importance that it would hardly be pos-
sible to conduct any kind of business without it.
Henr}^ Sampson in his ''History of Advertising,"
from which I will quote frequently, says that inves-
tigation shows that advertisements were published
in Greece and Rome in reference to the gladiatorial
exhibitions, so important a feature of the ancient
days of those once great countries. That these ad-
vertisements took the form of what is now generally
known as ''billing" seems most i)robable, and from
the way the excavated walls of Pompey look, giving
pictures of the gladiators and times of exhibition,
Rome must have often looked like a modern country
town, when the advent of a circus or other traveling
company is first made known. Both the Greeks
and the Romans had on their houses a piece of the
wall whitened to receive inscriptions relative to
their affairs. To give an idea of their style of ad-
vertising r will quote one or two taken from the
walls of Pompey and written 2,000 years ago.

"N. FESTI AMPLTATI
Familia Gladiatoria. Pugna iterum
Pugna XVI. K. Jvn. Venat. Vela."

That is "The troop of Gladiators of the Odil will

fight on the 31st of May. There will be fights with
wild animals, and an awning to keep off the sun."
Barnum could not have done much better than that.

Here is another: "Traveler go from here to the
Twelfth Tower, there Sarinus keeps a Tavern. This
is to request you to enter. Farewell."

Mediaeval advertising was done by "criers," who
would walk through the streets proclaiming the
news of the day, and where different kinds of com-
modities were to be found.

After the inventing of the printing press adver-
tising by hand bills became the custom, but no
newspaper was in existence before the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, supposed to be issued by Chris-
topher Barker, Her Highness' printer, 1583. This
paper was said to be started for the prevention of
the fulmination of the false reports, but it was more
like a succession of extraordinary gazettes, and had
by no means the appearance of a regular journal,
as we understand the term. Periodicals and papers
really first came into general use during the civil
wars of Charles the First, and from that period rapid
progress was made in journalism and advertising.
The first newspaper advertisement was found ac-
cording to "Notes and Queries," in Mercurius
Elencticus of October, 1648. Boston was the first
city in America that published a local paper; this
was done in 1689.

Advertising, derived from the Latin word adver-
tere, to turn the mind to, to notice, is not an experi-
mental luxury, but a necessary adjunct and invalu-
able assistant, to be paid for as logically as any other
legitimate expense, not a new thing, either, but a
means by which the producer of commodities has
disseminated information regarding them from the
earliest beginnings of history, though here as every-
where else the advancement of progress and science
has given enlarged opportunities for the seller who
before the invention of the printing press was lim-
ited to his vocal organs, and it was a matter of who
could cry the loudest, who got the most attention
from the purchasing public.

America is par excellence the country of the ad-

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vertiser. In the colonial papers, advertisements
furnish material for history, telling of new goods
just imported from England, coffee, slave sales, run-
away slaves and servants, or lost cattle.

Advertising has grown with the newspapers. In
1795 there were 200 newspapers in the United
States ; in 1850, 2,526, and in 1895, 20,217.

Newspaper advertising on a large scale dates
from the establishment of the New York Sun in
1833, followed shortly by the New York Herald, the
Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York
Tribune.

Estimates on the amount annually spent on ad-
vertising in the United States are as high as $500,-
000,000, which goes to show the great importance
of advertising in the commercial world, employing
the keenest brains, the most talented men and
women, as business men begin to appreciate that ad-
vertising is no more incident of competition, but
frequently the most important department, upon
whose skilfull management the growth and success

A PEN OF S. C. WTTITE T^EGHORN WINNERS.
This pen and others equally Rood are owned by Naumburg &
Booth, 1532 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, O. They are selling eggs
from these birds at reasonable prices.

of the business depends entirely. Business certainly
seems to be king today, but except you want to have
it dethroned, advertising must be resorted to, for
without it anything in the way of pre-eminence can-
not be established ; good goods and well worded,
persistent advertising, will in the end bring success.

If you have got the goods and you ram home the
selling points through some good medium, business
cannot help coming to you sooner or later.

In writing an advertisement tell the truth ; then
if you cannot think of anything else, repeat it.

A man is known not only by his advertisement,
but by the way he backs it up — good stock keeps on
talking business.

Show your birds and win the ribbons, then make
your ad dance to their whistle.

There are just four foundation principles to good
advertising. The first is display it well, then tell
the merit, tell the merit, tell the merit — these are
the other three.

Be original ; don't follow in anyone's steps. Say
what you have to say ; say it in the same way you
would say it to the man if he was face to face with
you. Never mind how your ad looks to the other
fellow — if it brings results keep right on in the same
way ; don't get off the track as long as it leads to
results.

You cannot run an incubator on last year's heat,

neither can you run your business successfully on
last year's advertising.

I have known a number of men who persistently
refused to advertise and depended on their winnings
to do the business; they had won reputation at
show after show, and expected that this would sell
their stock for all times. Other men bred the same
kind of birds and did advertising, and the time
came when the former men ceased to sell and pur-
chasers came to the latter.

It is no use to depend on the notice given in a
show report — this will not successfully advertise a
man's stock but for a little while.

If a man should buy a fine pen of fowls and then
board up the yard in which he kept them so no one
could see them, this would be very foolish indeed ;
yet that is exactly what a man does who has plenty
of fine stock for sale, but refuses to advertise.

Don't expect your advertisement to do miracles
for you ; it takes time to build up a good trade, but
once it is built up it stays as long as the buyers are
satisfied.

Don't stop advertising during the dull months,
but push business with all your might; when the
other fellows are taking a rest, you work.

Find a good field, then sow your ad — and you
will reap a harvest of customers in due season.

It has been most beautifully stated that ''the ad
is the bud of promise, and inquiry the blossom of
hope, and the order is the fragrant fruit."

It is always best to answer every inquiry you re-
ceive, whether you have the stock inquired for or
not ; you may have it some other time, and it is
even possible that the prospective customer may
wait.

It is poor business to pay out good money for
advertising and then spoil your own ad by a poorly
written reply, and on stationery of poor quality.
Have a printed letterhead and a return envelope; it
gives confidence in your business capacity. The
other was is a free ad of slovenliness and confidence
is destroyed.

It is not enough to tell people that your stock
is the "best in the world" — the buyers are wearv of
such threadbare publicity.

It is absolutely necessary to prove that your stock
is either the best, or has some special qualities that
make it an important factor in the other man's
breeding yard, and taking everything into consid-
eration as to quality, style and productiveness, is
cheaper than any other stock he could get, even if
the i)rice is much more than the other inan offers
the same birds for. When you can do this you are
on the right side of successful publicity.

Wit alone won't do it, as a cleverly put ad may
draw attention, but in itself is not enough.

To shake a man's faith in the breed in which he
is interested, or in the strain from which he got his
stock, strong arguments are needed— smooth,
plausible talk will not do it; nothing but facts and
figures will, and so in answering any inquiry state
plainly and honestly where your birds are superior
to others, give their winnings, if any, and make your
letter so convincing, because it breathes the spirit
of truth, that it will shake your inquirer's belief
in his present connections, appeal to his reasoning
powers, and it won't be long before you have an-
other customer on your books.

A good photographic illustration of your stock is
one of the best means to follow your ad; it tells
more in a glance than the words you could use in

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the description of one or more specimens, but let
me repeat "a good photograph," as a poor one, will
si>oil an otherwise good ad.

And in conclusion let me record a few hints on
advertising that I have picked up from a number
of sources and that will be of value to the readers
of Poultry Fancier, as well as they have been to me
and others that become acquainted with them:

You cannot keep up steam without a continuous
supply of fuel. Advertising is the recognized force
which drives the engines of industry, but it must
not be expected that the advertising of today will
keep the wheels turning in a year from now.

Some ads scream and others whisper, some throw
dust in your eyes and some perform vaudeville.
Make your ad talk like a man to a man.

"A man must keep his mouth open a long time
before a roast pigeon will fly into it," says a Danish

How to Mate Col

One of the Originators of this Variety Tells What
It Should Be and How to Produce Birds that
Will Win Under the New Standard.

By T. REID PARRISH

N offering to the Columbian breeders
an article on the mating of this breed,
I do so feeling that it is possible I
may save to some breeder several
years of experimental work and prob-
ably cause others to continue with the
breed that would otherwise give up, declaring that
the Standard and Poultry Judges were too exacting
in small matters, or at least in things that appeared
to them non-essential.

As an excuse for offering these ideas I would
state that I have brought the Columbian direct from
the Light Brahma and White Wyandotte cross,
thereby being in a position from experience to know
\ ery nearly the results from the crossing of any two
birds that have the appearance of Columbian Wy-
andotte.

The next Standard published will require for the
female the same flight feathers as in the males, a
solid black primary. The judges now are very ex-
acting in this matter and in the next few years will
be even more so. The problem in the female will
therefore be the production of these solid black pri-
maries. In the male bird we are confronted with
something that is just as difificult to produce; a back
absolutely free from straw or creaminess, and now
and possibly for another year, a male bird good in
color and shape although decidedly creamy has a
fair chance of winning in a class with birds having
white backs, but this will not be the case two years
hence, for by the time of the show season of 1912 a
Columbian showing creaminess in the back would
not be given any more consideration than a White
Rock or White Orpington or a White Wyandotte
showing the same defect. This breed must have a
better back than was ever produced in the Brahma.
In view of these facts it is well for the Columbian
breeders to start now with matings to improve the,
back or rather to perfect the back of the male bird
and to do this we must look to the female for we

proverb. And a man, nowadays, stands as poor
chance of getting things without advertising as
the seeker of roast pigeon in the proverb.

The man who went out to milk and sat down on
a boulder in the middle of the pasture and waited
for the cow to back up, was a brother to the man
who kept a store and wouldn't advertise because
he reasoned that the purchasing public would back
up to his place of business when it wanted some-
thing. A cow's tail has a limited circulation, but
it reaches the fly.

These few selections, out of many, tell a tale
worth listening to, so as the time is now here, get
before the public with what you have, and with a
little money judiciously expended you will find, like
hundreds of others have found out, the money in-
vested in advertising is a paying investment.

Bridgton, Maine.

umt)ian

van

ottes

cannot breed on and on with the male line that
shows brassiness and expect an improvement un-
less we know the type of female that will bring
about the desired results.

We have in the female line two very distinct and
different whites, one a pearl white, the other a bluish
vvdiite and it is from this bluish white female that
we must look for this improvement in the male. If
you have in your flock some birds like this female,
you will find that the undercolor is very slatey, and
while this is a defect according to the Revised
Standard, yet it will never be looked on as such by
most judges.

If you have one or a dozen females that show
bluish white on the surface, I would advise that you
immediately proceed to mate these birds to the
very best male you have or can procure with solid
black primaries. Of course the better the wings in
the female the larger per cent of good birds would
be the result and if you have one or several with
good black wings that have considerable black
showing on the surface, do not be at all afraid of
this bird: she will throw you manv culls, but the
chances are that there wifl be sorne exceptionally
nice males as a result. You cannot expect from a
single season to produce males with white backs. In
using the words "white backs" I have reference to
backs free from creaminess. A little black, low
down on the cape and saddle feathers heavily ticked,
I would consider an advantage rather than other-
wise, for a male so marked is sure to prove a strong
breeder, while one with no ticking in saddle feathers
has not the strength to produce the color, if you
haven't females that will answer this description.
I am sure there are many breeders who have not, as
the tendency has been to breed from a female line
of pearl white birds. Many breeders I am sure have
killed off as culls very dark specimens that would
have been valuable in a mating of this kind and
some very prominent breeders believe that there has
been too much stress placed on dark matings. I
would now and always have preferred that my culls
be birds too dark rather than too light and 'if you
have bred the other way, all I can say that would
Iielp you is to select a few of the very darkest speci-
mens you have and mate them this season that you
may be in position next year to make a mating that

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will start you in a way to produce the male bird
that it will take to win in 1912.

In selecting- the male bird for a mating of this
kind there are some very essential points that should
not be overlooked. It is necessary in high class Co-
lumbians that you should have strong- color in legs
and good combs and if in selecting a male bird you
neglect these two points you have accomplished
very little in making the improvements along the
other line. I would especially warn you against
extra large combs in males. You should of course

have the best eyes possible, but I would not turn
down a bird meeting the other requirements unless
the eye was a decided gray. In the neck of this
breed you have that part that will have all or very
nearly all in making the Columbian the most pop-
ular and extensively bred fowl and you must not at
any time lose sight of this fact.

In next month's issue of Poultry Fancier I will
describe several matings that can be made with
birds having very bad hackles that will produce
good well laced feathers.' Nashville, Tcnn.

ects of Environment

A Suggested Explanation for the Variation in Type
of Fowls of the Same Variety in Different Sections
of the Country.

By H. S. BABCOCK

HE United States government is a
great institution. It not only attends
to the strict duties of government, the
making, interpretating and the en-
forcement of laws, but it investigates
all kinds of subjtcts which may be
helpful to its millions of citizens. It has made spec-
ial studies of the injurious sparrow, the helpful
swallow, the useful hawk, the destructive rat, the
industrious hen, the fur-bearing fox, the mild-eyed
cow, the gentle sheep, the progressive goat, the spir-
ited horse, and the noblest animal of them all, honto
sapiens. That it believes with Pope that 'The proper
study of mankind is man," appears evident from the
following sent out from Washington, D. C, under
the date of December 16, 1909.' I quote from a
prominent daily paper:

^ That the physical form as well as the habits of
living and ways of thinking of the descendants of
foreigners who immigrate to America is different
from that of their ancestors, is the conclusion of the
Immigration Commission as embodied in the pre-
liminary report of that body which today was pre-
sented to Congress.

The discovery is regarded as of importance in
anthropological science as indicating the develop-
ment of a distinct American physical type in persons
of European descent.

The investigation which has brought this fact to
the surface was undertaken soon after the appoint-
ment of the commission and it was conducted in a
scientific manner by the comparison of measure-
ments of the bodies of such immigrants and their
descendants at different ages and under differino-
circumstances. '"^

The investigation was placed in the hands of
a committee composed of members of the com-
mission and Prof. Frank Poaz of Columbia Uni-
versity was engaged as expert.

The inquiry was confined to New York City and
so far^ as the present report shows was restricted
to Sicilians and Fast European Hebrews. A later
report will give the details of the investigation
among Bohemians, Hungarians and Scotch.

The report indicates that the descendant of the
European immigrant changes his type, even in the
first generation, almost entirely. Children born

even a few years after the arrival of the immigrant
])arents in America develop in such a way that they
differ in type essentially from their foreign-born
parents.

These differences seem to develop during the
earlier childhood and persist throughout life. Every
part of the body is influenced in this way and even
the form of the head, which has always been con-
sidered as one of the most permanent hereditary
features, undergoes considerable changes.

In an official synopsis of the commission's report
attention is called to the fact that even the most
stable racial characteristics seem to have changed
under the new environment, and this fact is com-
mented upon as follows:

'This would indicate the conclusion that racial,
physical characteristics do not survive under the
new social and climate environments of America.
The adaptability of the various races coming to-
gether on our shores seems, if these indications shall
be fully borne out in later studv, to be much greater
than had been anticipated, tf the American en-
vironment can bring about an assimilation of the
head forms in the first generation, m.av it not be
that other characteristics may be as easily modified
and that there may be a rapid assimilation of wide-
jy varymg nationalities and races to somethino- that
may well be called an American type?" ^

The commission feels that it is 'too early to pro-
nounce absolutely upon this question and says:

"The investigation is bv no means complete and
moreover, considering the importance of the sub-
ject, it should clearly be conducted on a larger scale
and in different surroundings in various parts of the
country and perhaps also be checked up by certain
investiirations made upon the same races else-
where.

Among other results noted, it is shown that the
American-born children of the long-headed Sicilians
and those of the round-headed East European He-
brews liave very nearlv the same intermediate head
form. The children of the long-headed Sicilians are
more round-headed, the children of the round-head-
ed Hebrew are more long-headed than their parents
Similar changes are traced in the development of
the faces of these types.

The amalgamation is most rapid durino- the
period immediately following the arrival of the im-
mio-rants.

The difference in type between parents and chil-
dren manifests itself almost immediatelv after their
arrival here.

Among individuals born a long time after the
arrival of the parents in America" the difference is

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increased, but only slightly as compared to the
great difference that develops at once.

Up to this time the investigations have not been
carried so far as to determine what happens in the
second generation of immigrants; but it seems like-
ly that the influences at work among the first gen-
eration born in America will be still further accen-
tuated.

The commission lias also made the discovery that
as a rule there is a falling off in the size of families
after their arrival in the United States and coinci-
dent with this discovery has come the more im-
portant revelation that as the number of children
decreases, the size of the individual increases. This
fact is discoverable among the children of the well-
to-do as well as those of the poor.

Another result of the investigation is the de-
velopment of the fact that while removal from
Europe to Xew York has had a beneficial effect
upon the physique of East European Hebrews, the
result has been just the opposite upon the Sicilian,
the conclusion being that bad as they are, the sur-
rounding's in Xew York are better for the Jews
than in their city homes in the Old World, while
the cramped (piarters which the Sicilians occupy in
New York City are not so desirable as their rural
surroundim^s in southern Italy.

What This Has to Do With Poultry.

lUit what has all this to do with poultry do you
ask? Much, in every way. If environment can
effect so great and so profound physical changes in
man, it can make great and profound physical
changes in fowls. If further investigations should
confirm those already made, and it seems quite
probable that they would, we can easily understand
why fowls imported from foreign countries into
the United States should in a few generations differ

I'ARTRIDGE PLYMOTTfr ROOK.
Second prize cook at Missouri State
Show. St. r.ouis, 1!»0!>. Hwd and owned
by i'aul La Fromboisc. Mt. Pleasant,
Midi.

not a little in type from their ancestors; we can
understand, too, why different sections of our own
country should have, or tend to have, different
types of the same breed of fowls; why there should
be an luistern and a Western type, a Northern and
Southern type of IJrahmas, Plymouth Rocks,
Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds, as well as of
other breeds; we can further understand why one

type of fowl may be better fitted for one section
and another type for another section of the coun-
try, because it is in greater harmony with its en-
vironment.

The results of this investigation teach us the
imperative necessity of selection if we would, in dif-

Winner of
and owned b.v

BARRED ROCK PULLET.

first at Dearborn, Mich., December,
A. L. Emerson, Inkster, Midi.

1909.

Bred

ferent parts of the country, preserve any given
type of fowl. The tendency of the environment to
modify must be overcome by the skill of the breeder
in selecting and mating his stock. These results
also emphasize the need of a common standard if
the type of a given breed is to remain uniform un-
der differing environments. The work of the Amer-
ican Poultry Association is not a useless work.
Without a common standard, with such forces in
operation, it would be practically impossible to keep
our breeds uniform in type.

We are to learn, also, from such results the neces-
sity of providing the best and most suitable en-
vironment for the fowls which we keep. The en-
vironment may not only hinder but help us in the
development of our fowls. We can make it a breed-
ing instrument, if we will but study how best to
do so, instead of an obstacle to be overcome in our
efforts to perfect our varieties.

Perhaps we knew all these things long before
the Immigration Commission began its labors. lUit
if we did, the report of the commission will remind
us of what we may have forgotten to apply. Every
breeder needs to have his memory jogged at times.
It is not so much what we know as it is what j<nowl-
edge we put to practical application which helps us
to succeed. And success is our object. We may
therefore be thankful for this reminder, even if we
do not feel that it has enlarged our knowledge.

East Providence, R. I.

Get your birds in the best possible condition for
the show and see that they are well cooped in good,
clean coops. Look after their wants and don't ask
the secretary to feed and water them for vou on
the plea that you will be too busy to get there be-
fore the ribbons are uj), but after, if you have won a
blue ribbon, you will have time to be there all day
and point to your winnings.

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Mr. Robinson is Looking for Trouble

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The circulation of Pouhry Fancier is national
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who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
bon of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

January, 1910

There is no excuse for any one
failinfi: to take his birds to the shows.
A breeder who takes his birds to a
show and is defeated, is entitled to
much more credit than the one who
is afraid and stays at home. If one
does his best it is no disgrace to lose
in any undertakinj?, but it is a dis-
grace to never try and to be afraid
to meet your rival in honorable com-
petition. If he wins over you once,
the chances are that he cannot do it
next time and he is compelled to give
you the second opportunity to com-
pete with him or the tables are turned
and he becomes the one to be cen-
sured for cowardice. It is foolish to
make yourself believe that the buying
public will have any faith in your
statements regarding the quality of
your stock unless you can back them
up with evidence in the shape of show
records. And after you get the rec-
ord, if you keep quiet about it, you
are almost as bad off as though you
did not have it, but that leads up to
the question of advertising, and it is
not our desire to discuss that here.
The two absolute necessities for finan-

Birds intended for exhibition should
be handled and made tame. The
judge cannot do justice to a wild or
frightened specimen.

Don't attempt to carry a lot of
weakly or stunted chickens through
the winter. Get rid of them right at
the start.

"Please bear these things in mind,
brethren of the press, and don't be
too hard on our own rascals unless
you are sure you've no faults of your

own.

The above words were written by
Editor Robinson of Farm Poultry and
appeared upon the editorial page of
his November number. They con-
cluded a lengthy dissertation, includ-
ing quotations from Scripture, upon
the injustice and inconsistency of con-
demning one's fellowman for the
same faults which the accuser him-
self possesses. We quote the above
to show Mr. Robinson's hypocrisy.
Upon the same page containing the
article above referred to there ap-
peared an attack upon the editor of
Poultry Fancier for publishing the
book, ''Secrets of Expert Exhibitors
and Easy Lessons in Judging," which
book exposes the methods of fakers
and enables honest breeders to pro-
tect themselves. Mr. Robinson says
that we are educating the people to
fake. If that be true, Mr. Robinson
IS guilty of the same offense, and
herein is the evidence of the revenge-
ful malice which prompted his attack
and of his brazen nerve and hypoc-
risy in posing as a techer of the
Scriptures in precept and action. In
the December number of Successful
Poultry Journal we replied to his ac-
cusations and pointed out numerous
instances where prominent editors and
member.s of the American Poultry
Association had published informa-
tion of a like character as contained
in the book referred to.

We should have no more to say
regarding the matter were it not for
the fact that in the Januarv number
of Farm Poultry Mr. Robinson will-
fully misrepresents conditions and
employs methods of deceit which no
honorable opponent would adopt. He
has the egotistical audacity to assume
the self-appointed position of censor
and prosecutor of those who. in his
prejudiced opinion. are offenders
against the code of morals adopted
by poultrymen and the American
Poultry Association. He says. "We
have a case against them (the book
and its author) * * * ^y^^ would
much rather we hadn't (imagine the
tears in his eyes as he wrote that)
* * * but the fact that the writer
and Mr. Heck have been personally
friendly, and so far as the writer is
concerned will continue so, docs not
obligate us to leave Mr. Heck unmo-
lested. * * * I'll buy a copy of
his book. * * * I'll use it as a
basis of charges which will make it
necessary for the American Poultry
Association to expel Mr. Heck or to
take the position that faking is crim-
inal, but teaching how to fake is not."
This, from Mr. Pharisee Robinson,
the quoter of Scripture, the self-satis-
fied model of perfection and the au-
thor of the first paragraph at the
beginning of these remarks. If he is
idiotic enough to carry out his threat
the writer is ^oing to have a lot of
good company when the time comes.

We made the assertion that Mr.
Robinson has published, in his paper,
methods of faking. He dodges the
issue and says that he didn't write
them. The authorship makes no dif-
ference. Mr. Robinson published
them and is responsible for their ap-
pearance. He acknowledges that he
has published many such articles, but
he denies that they teach faking.
Here are a few extracts from the
one on page 95 of his March issue,
1909, to which we called his attention:
"Bleaching the sap and creaminess
from plumage is usually done either
with bluing or peroxide. I have used
both. * * * If ^ve are exhibiting
a bird before the sap leaves the
feather, why not remove it if possible
and put the bird in the best present-
able condition? * * *" In a recent
issue of the Stock-keeper Drev. tells
us bleaching with peroxide is faking
and that the suggestion of using per-
oxide without what per cent solution
to use is liable to lead tlie amateur
mto trouble. Now, if Drev. had
really washed a few we might take
it more serious. "T want to say I
use the pure quill, the l)est T can buy
and never saw any injurious effects
on the plumage. * * * Repeated
applications might cause this or might
mjure the plumage. * * * j^ ,nay
take precious little per- or di-oxide
to remove a suspicion of sap from
such birds, but there are others that
a pretty henlthy dose of the bleach
mg fluid will hardly make an impres-
sion; and such birds are often
overdosed with this stuff or the oxalic
acid preparations some breeders use
with obvious results." The above
quotations are sufficient. Mr. Robin-
son lets his readers know that they
can fake white birds by bleaching
them with peroxide or oxalic acid and
that the quantity to use depends upon
the extent of the defect. The first
thought to enter the mind of the
breeder who wishes to try the prepa-
rations would be to experiment with
different birds and perhaps get a few
pointers, if possible, from the drug-
gist who sells him the chemicals.

There are numerous cases where
poultry journal publishers and edi-
tors have published methods of fak-
ing and we mentioned some of them
in our answer to Mr. Robinson in
December Successful Poultry Jour-
nal They will be taken up in detail
and in greater number when the oc-
casion arises, if it does. Poultrymen
who are familiar with the poultry
press know that Mr. Robinson has
many times attacked us on various
pretenses, and his present outburst is
^vlthout foundation except as a con-
tinuance of his antagonistic policy.
1 hore IS no reason why we should be
picked out of the crowd, including
himself, and be used as the goat No
man ever did anything out of the or-
dinary or adopted an aggressive pol-
icy without making enemies. Mr
Kobinson may gain the support of a
few others occupying the same posi-
tion toward us that he does, but the

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court and jury whose rulings must be
respected are not made up of a man's
competitors and rivals in business,
althouL^h there is a goodly number
with whom we would be willing to
rest our case. Mr. Robinson is the
black sheep of the poultry publish-
ers and editors. He is constantly

Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

So Secretary Crawford's standing
offer of ten dollars did not bring to
light a single case of faking. Of
course not. We all know that every-
thing at the New York show is al-
ways on the Square— Madison Square.

•se- ^

Says the Cock to the Hen, as he bade

her adieu,
"I'm off to the Show; but betwixt me

and you.
When the Judge looks me over, If I'm

not mistaken.
He'll say I'm a shining example of

fakin'."

Says the Hen to the Cock: "Why,

what a confession!
Don't talk about faking,— that horrid

expression; —
You mean 'preparation': you've yet to

be taught
That nothing is faking until you get

caught."

THUMB-NAIL BIOGROPHIES.

King Kellerstrass.

Once there was something ahap-
pening in the West and in Missoury
in particular. I'll be goshdinged if
there had ever happened anything
that was like it in the West before,
so we stuck our ears up to catch all
that was doing. In doing so we took
a chance in having them knocked off
by the sound waves, for these carried
news of import, heavy with meaning.

It was this way:

Ernest Kellerstrass decided to go
into the chicken business. He was
some time making up his mind about
it. He quietly went about the coun-
try, crossed the Rig Wet and looked
about, visited all the fanciers who
would be able to give him much in-
formation of value, and gathered
facts from first hand. Nobody's word
but his own was good enough for
him. He had an idea in mind and
wanted to cast about to see if it was
practical.

After a short time he discovered a
fact that was to be of more value to
him than the stock he founded his
Crystals upon. It was really a great
discovery. The hen-fever germ he
knew had been working inside his
cosmos was accompanied by another
germ of still greater magnitude, and
today we can see it without the aid
of a microscopical apparatus. The
discovery was that he had latent in
himself the making of a true fancier.
He appreciated values in chickens and
in White Orpingtons in particular. It
must ever be thus if a fancier is to
be evolved from a common, every-
day species of hen-crank.

Then he began to collect a few of

POULTRY FANCIER

criticising his contemporaries and he
has had a much greater number of
controversies and attacked many more
of his editorial brethren than has any
other individual connected with the
poultry press. Mr. Robinson is look-
ing for trouble and the indications
are he is going to find it.

the best birds that were not tied up
with the bonds of love that might
have been wrapped about them. He
was shrewd and builded a founda-
tion that was to have a stout super-
structure erected thereon. When he
bought a bird to add to his little flock
he knew exactly what that bird would
do for him before he decided to buy.
His first breeding seasons were suc-
cessful, so his flock grew in nropor-
tions, and he culled closely, that the
quality might improve from year to
year.

When he went out to show he made
winnings that set the old heads all
by the ears. They had thought that
a new man getting into the fancy
must take all the hurdles in their or-
der and gradually get trained to the
point where he could show among
them without getting scared. They
found that Ernest Kellerstrass was
never scared. Then they began to
get a little weak in the knees them-
selves. Here was a fancier who took
all the hurdles at a single leap and
whose war helmet was right in the
thick of the fight, just as was the
white rose badge of the House of
York in the battles of the war of the

roses, the latter half of the fifteenth
century. But enough of bloody his-
tory!

Kellerstrass the worker, Keller-
strass the fancier. Kellerstrass the
breeder. Kellerstrass the advertiser,
Kellerstrass the producer of good
White Orpingtons has arrived — all by
his own efforts, proving to the fancy
that he has the right to be one of
them-— one of the first Hentown citi-
zens. The men who are putting their
time into the Orpington game know
that he has done more than his share
to push the breed, to say nothin- of
the Whites, to the plane of promi-
nence they now move forward upon.
Breeders acknowledge him as King
Kellerstrass— there is no division
against him. With one acclaim he is
championed by them all.

And truly they arc right.

LEGHORNS - HOUDANS - ROCKS

I^eghorns to Dec. 4th 2 Total 1425
Rock.s • - 30th 11 •' 1506

Houdans for Dec. 2 to date 926

H. E. ROGERS ^29 miss street

LACROSSE, WIS.

?,^F S. C. R. I. RED COCK-
ERELS FOR SALE "?* <" '?*■"

D • . ?r kjj-Ks^i^, winner Qf jg^

Prize at Central Wisconsin Poultry Show
If Pfce'^I^er. Eggs in season. Al^ a few
Barred Rock Pullets.

T. E. LEE MARSHFIELD, WIS.

THE PRETTIEST CHICKS OF ALL

No matter whether they are day -old, week-old or month-old, are
those of the Polish variety. To see a flock of the cunning Polish Chicks
IS to be lost in admiration and as for matured Polish, well — real fanciers
know they are the most stylish and handsome of all fowls—the real
Aristocrats of Poultrydom —

We can supply day-old or month-old chicks from our Polish
varieties where advance orders are received— as well a« matured stock
and eggs arid you can rest assured that such chicks will come from the
largest selection of prize winners at the largest shows that can be found
in any Polish breeders yards in the United States.

In White Crested Black Polish, our first pen is headed by the First
Cock at the Chicago, 1909 show and contains 1st pullet, Chicago, 1908,

!?i^"l^"j ^*'" ^""^ ^^^ P""^*' ^*' ^°""' '^^' '»^ ^^"' Memphis.
1909, besides other prize winners at these shows.

In Silver Bearded Polish our first pen is headed by Ist cockerel.
New York, 1908 and contains Ist hen Chicago 1908. Ist pullet Chicago
1909. Ist hen St. Louis 1909. Ist hen Memphis 1909. 2nd pullet Boston
1909 besides other prize winners at these shows.

In White Bearded Polish our first pen is headed by Ist cock Chicago
1908 and contains Ist hen Boston 1909 Ist and 2nd hen Chicago 1908
1st pullet St. Louis 1909, 1st hen Memphis 1909. I st hen Chicago 1909^
besides other other prize winners at these shows.

In Golden Bearded Polish our first pen is headed by 1st Cock Chi-
cago 1908. which won Ist at St. Louis 1909 and contains Ist pullet
Chicago 1909. Ist pullet St. Louis 1909, 3rd pullet Boston 1909. besides
other prize winners at these shows.

It is unnecessary to say that these are the finest pens of Polish birds
in the country They could not win these prizes unless they were.

H?

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January. '10

TERS FROM READERS •

This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would Hke to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

REPLY TO A STIFF PROTEST.

lulitor Poultry 1^'ancier:

Your issue of December contained
an article from a breeder of Asiatics,
in which he states that he breeds Dark-
Bra h mas and Partridire Cochins, but
that there is no longer any sale or
demand for them. Thirty years ago
he states they were verj^ ')opnlar and
sold like red lemonade at a country
show, and he might have added the
purchaser received just about as luuch
for iiis money as did the fellow who
bought the red lemonade. After prais-
ing his favorite breeds and "roasting"
the popular varieties, he takes a turn
at the Poultry Journal editors and
shies a few bricks at them because
they pay so little attention to the
poor and forsaken Asiatics and winds
up his article with a frantic appeal t:i
i. K. Felch and Dr. Ballard to come
to the rescue and write them up and
see if something cannot be done to
restore them once more to popular
favor. He says he doesn't advertise,
as it is no use as the other fellow
don't want them. Truly, this is de-
plorable. What a task to impose on
good old "Uncle" Isaac and Dr. Bal-
lard. And then he calls the popular
breeds "Monirrels." Pray, what are
the Dark Brahmas; are they not the
result of a cross or series of crosses.
And Partridge Wyandotte — is not the
name synonymous? Does it not smack
of a mingling of several varieties?
['Asiatics," indeed. No. my good man,
it will take more than the combined
efforts of Dr. Ballard and Uncle
Isaac to bring them to the iiead of
the procession. As the tragedian says
in the show. ".Mas. too late, nic bov,
too late, too late."

The "ATongrels" are all on the band
wagon, and to be serious, why? Is it
not because they have luerit? Have
they not made good? They passed
the "fad season" long ago. and have
become fixtures simi^ly because they
are the goods. Xow. don't waste your
time Brother Breeder, monrning over
the departed: come in out of the rain.
select some one of the popular varie-
ties and advertise, for you must ad-
vertise (even with Asiatics), and yon
will never regret it. We have been
breeding "Mongrels" (so-called) for
thirty odd years, twelve of which have
been with the Reds, and always fmd
a good sale for birds and eggs, at
fair prices. Turn your back on the
"good old has-beens" and be a good
winner instead of a bad loser.
Yours for the "Mongrels,"

John E. Davis.
Marblehead. Mass.

A WORD TO THE POULTRY
ASSOCIATIONS.

Kditor Poultry Fancier:

One of the great needs of our poul-
try exhibitions is more competent
attendants in the show room. There

is altogether too nuich carelessness,
nicompetency and lack of knowledge
on the part of attendants who care
for the birds cooped for exhibition.
In some cases they are overfed and
perhaps lack water: in other cases,
they are not fed enough and neither
do they get sufficient water. In very
few instances are they fed and wa-
tered properly. In some exhibitions
the bedding is allowed to get foul and
damp and this condition is not con-
ducive to good attendance. Neither
is it healthful for the birds or the
patrons.

One of the first duties of the super-
intendent of a poultrv show should
be to instruct attendants as to the
feeding^ watering and l)edding of the
birds. They should have an abundance
of food until the weighing is done.
Then it is well to cut the feed down
to a handful to each bird twice each
day and they shonld have water be-

PARTRIDGK PLYMOTTH ROCK.

First prize lien at Mis.soiiri State Show
St. I.ouis. liXiH. Bred and owned bv I'ani
I.a Fromhois'\ Mt. Plea.«jnu. '\\\ch.'

fore them at all times. Birds that go
into a show are usually in prime con-
dition and carry (jnite an amount of
lat. The cooping in warm (piarters.
overfeeding and lack of care are lia-
ble to produce digestive troubles
which will ruin the birds as breeders
even if it does not bring on disease
that will result fatally. Many times
they come out of a show in such a
condition that it re(|uires a month or
two to get them back where they can
be depended on to produce fertile

There is another feature which is
sometimes overlooked in the care of
the birds after the show is over. Most
poultry exhibitions close Saturday
evening and the birds remain in the
show room until Moiu.ay. Sometimes
they are cared for, but more often,
I would judge from exi)erience, they
get no feed or water at all froin the

time the show closes until they are
received by their owners. This is a
condition that shonld be improved.
All birds should have the best of care
until delivered to the transportation
companies or to their owners.

When the returning of the exhibi-
tion stock is in order, the superin-
tendent should personally see that all
birds are crated properly in the crates
in which they were received, and if
the exhibitor furnishes his own coop-
ing, as is usually the case in local
shows, these coops usually being con-
structed of canvas, care should be
taken to have the curtain securely fas-
tened, thus protecting the stock from
drafts and inclement weather. The
change from the show room to the
cold air outside is very decided, and
nothing should be neglected at this
stage that will add to the comfort
and safety of the stock to be returned.
Express companies and other trans-
portation companies should be cau-
tioned not to allow the birds to stand
outside of their warehouses and not
removed to trains until necessary for
loading.

These instructions, if followed, will

save niany a good bird that would

otherwise be exposed to unnecessary

risk, and as the exhibitor usually pays

good money in entrance fees, every

show management should feel it their

duty to protect their patrons to the

greatest possible extent. Such care

and treatment on their part will mean

many friends to the association and

another entry for the following sea-

sf^'i- E. M. Long.

Osceola, Ind.

S. C. W. Leghorns and W. Wyan-

dotteS ri'^T'"^ qualify. Winners wherever shown.
Our b rds are famous for shape, color and layins.
,eo« ,., NAUMBURG AND BOOTH
1532 W. BANCROFT ST. . TOLEDO. O.

Greider's Fine Catalogue

of pure bred poultry for 1910 is biKKer
and better than ever, 200 pages, hand-
somely Illustrated, 150 engravincs
photos, m fine colored plates, de-
scribes 65 leading varieties of land
and water fowls. Gives low prices of
stock and eggs, also incubators, poultrv
supplies, etc Calendar for each month. Tells

Th^ nHn«''^J''»''v,P''l!'*7'.»'^''"« f'>» *>etail3.

WHte^f!fr'itfo-i^'^ '°°'^ '^ "'">' '« -"*-
B. H. CREIDER. Box 101

Rheems, Pa.

Barred PlymoutH

IvOCKS ^^"'l^y'« Kinglets ire
^1 ,, . •■■**^ Rood Rocks. Won 1st
iSiQ^' w* • ^^*^" ^l'i^^'^«t Nebraska Stare Fair
1909 Write me for stock and e^^K u«cr
$1.50and $2r,0for l.'i ^^ "^ ""''^ "^^^^ Kgg>

CHAS. MT. MVJLI.OY
BOX lO. FRCMONT, NEBR

F. L. POULTRY FARM
REDS I/Vu ""^ "^'^ ^'"'^ y°" ^'i*'»-e so"'e

„„ » of ^.^e prize winners at Chicae.)

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limes. Kggs in .season. Sati.sfaction tnu.,
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January. '10

A BOOM FOR POLISH FOWLS.

The Various Varieties of this Breed

Are Growing Wonderfully in

Popularity and They Possess

Merit to Justify It.

By Burt Williams.

That there i.s a growing revival of
interest in the Polish breed of fowls
is being brought very forcibly to the
. minds of the poultry public with
the annual meeting of the American
Polish Ckib held on Jan. 12 at Bos-
ton, and the organization there of an-
other new specialty club, including
many of the prominent breeders of
Polish fowls, to be called the Crested
Fowl Breeders of America.

The American Polish Club has just
closed by all odds the most success-
ful year in the club's history. Secre-
tary Caldwell of Lisbon, O., reports
that not only is the membership at
the present time by far larger than
at any previous time in the club's
history, but the new members the
past year have been greater than any
previous year. The club's member-
ship is scattered over every part of
the United States and Canada, and its
very rapid growth, particularly the
past two years in itself shows the new
and increased interest being taken in
Polish fowls, which, as a breed, rank
among the oldest and purest of all
breeds. The new organization which
was formed in Boston, is to include the
breeders of all crested fowls, but its
most active members are Polish
breeders, the temporary secretary be-
ing John A. Gough, the well known
Polish breeder of Meriden, Conn.,
who was the superintendent of crest-
ed fowls at the Boston show, and
with the stimulus of these new clubs
it is expected that the coming year
will show a revival of interest in the
Polish breeds that will make a record
for specialty clubs,

7^he increased interest in 'Polish
fowls is also indicated by the efforts
that are being made by show secre-
taries to secure exhibits of Polish
birds. As is well known, the Polish
breed of fowls ranks as the most
handsome and stylish of all breeds,
and to the true fancier they are de-
cidedly attractive. To the person who
is not actively in touch w^ith various
breeds of fowls there are no varie-
ties that he is more attracted to than
T'olish fowls, and in the show room
it has been found that Polish exhibits
are decidedly the most attractive to
the people who frequent such gath-
erings.

In cjuite a number of the leading
shows of the countrv some remark-
able efforts have been made to bring
out large exhibits of Polish fowls on
account of their beauty and general
attractiveness.

At the great Hagerstown. Md.. fair
this year the exhibit of ]\)lish fowls
was one of the finest which has ever
been gathered together and attracted
the admiration of every fancier pres-
ent, lor the management exercised
every possible effort to make the Pol-
ish display a varied and attractive
one.

At the Boston show thi.^ month the
list of prizes far surpasses those of
almost any other breed to be exhibit-

POULTRY FANCIER-

ed at that show. In addition to the
various cash prizes offered directly
by the Boston show itself, the Ameri-
can Polish Club offered unusual cash
prizes besides very handsome badges,
while the Crested Fowl Breeders' As-
sociation entered the lists with many
special cash prizes.

In addition to these, twelve of the
most prominent Polish breeders in
America offered attractive prizes eith-
er in cash or gold and silver cups,
making the array of prizes altogether
one that clearly indicates the high es-
timation in which show managers
hold exhibits of these handsome
fowls.

Not only are these efforts being
made at the largest shows like Bos-
ton, but in the smaller shows the
same results are found in securing
Polish exhibits.

At the Wisconsin state show, which
was held in Oshkosh this month, not

these cups being, of course, in addi-
tion to the various cash prizes and
specials offered. At Goshen, Ind.,
there was offered a beautiful silver
cup, besides several specials, in addi-
tion to the usual cash prizes for
Polish.

I could enumerate many other in-
stances like these, but I simply men-
tion the above shows in order to
show how highly officials of poultry
shows value exhibits of Polish fowls
as an attraction,

Tt was only two or three years ago
when it was almost impossible to find
any specials at all listed for Polish
fowls outside of one or two of the
largest shows in the country, and now
to find that so generally handsome
silver and gold cups and gold prizes
and many specials are bing offered
to bring out large exhibits, shows that
the poultry fraternity generally is
awakening to the fact that these

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only did the show managers offer the
same cash prizes as were given on
other fowls, but in addition gave spe-
cial gold cash prizes for the best ex-
hibits of parti-colored Polish, solid
colored Polish, and Polish bantams.
In addition to these, an exceptionally
handsome cuj) was given by the show
management for the best display of
Polish, An opi)ortunity was also
given Polish breeders to compete for
silver and gold cups for the highest
scoring pen and the highest scoring
trio, and a number of specials were
offered on Polish exhibits at this
show.

At the Southern Wisconsin Poultry
show at Janesville this month an im-
ported tankard was given the highest
scoring j)en in Polish varieties, and
at the Vo\\(\ du Lac, Wis., show a
thirty dollar silver cup was given.

".Aristocrats of Poultrydom" are be-
coming decidedly popular with the
l)ublic generally,

T have just had returned about a
score of my Polish fowls that have
made a trip to Chicago. St. Louis,
Oconomowoc, Wis,, and LaCrosse,
Wis., and 1 have received the
most gratifying letters from the
show secretaries regarding them.
The secretary of the West Wis-
consin show at LaCrosse wrote
me a personal letter after the
show was over, stating that my ex-
hibit of various kinds of Polish fowls
made the hit of their entire show, and
they gave the birds the principal lo-
cation in the center of the show-
room. This is the sentiment expressed
by other secretaries, and it shows
that the iniblic who patronize the
shows and who enables them to be

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kept open are certainly looking upon
Polish exhibits with a great deal of
interest and admiration.

Among many letters I have received
from show secretaries is one from
the secretary of the Minneapolis
show, one of the oldest and greatest
m the country, urging me to make an
exhibit there, and stating that it is
their intention to give the Polish ex-
hibits the choicest location in the cen-
ter of their main floor, certainly a
high tribute to this breed.

It is a noticeable fact that the re-
porters on daily newspapers, in writ-
ing up poultry shows, invariably pick
out the Polish fowls for special men-
tion, they apparently being attracted
by their handsome appearance above
that of almost any other breed, and
wide-awake show secretaries are cer-
tainly beginning to realize these facts.
With such a strife for every kind
of new breed that can be imagined,
it is surely gratifying to see an old
established breed like the Polish
fowls, whose history in this country
dates back to the very earliest of do-
mestic fowls, so rapidlv coming to
the front.

As a rule the Polish fowls are in
the hands of men and women who
not only value them highly for their
utility purposes as egg layers, but
%vho also admire them especially for
their handsome appearance, and who
take pleasure at all times in striving
to breed them with the highest de-
gree of care and attention.
Ashland. Wis.

POULTRY FANCIER

.^gVJJV -A" iV^.VA"-^' A^'.i> h\'i.V f.

Polish Prize Winners.

1 M^'\?^*?-'^' Polish Poultry Yards of Ash-
land, \Vis.. have just mad« a wonderful
series of winnings on their Polisli fowls
at various poultry shows during Decem-
ber, and they have manv of their bird«^
entered at the leading .Januarv shows at
various points. Their winnings during
DecemJier. 1909. were: week of December
b. at Chicago, four firsts, two seconds,
two thirds; and at St. T.ouis, six firsts
four seconds, one third and one fourth"
week of December 13. at Oconomowoc"
^^ is., quality show, ten firsts, four sec-
onds, and one third, including manv sp«^-
cials and prize for the highest parti-col-
ored bird on exhibition: week of December
20, at Western Wisconsin Poultrv Asso-
f^iation. La Cro.sse. eleven* firsts four
seconds and one third. Our readers who
are interested in Polish fowls and who
expect to purchase stock or eggs foj-
hatching should write to the Royal Polish
>ards for prices.

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F. U Ober. R. F. D. No. 1. Veiona. Pa
won third pullet and fifth hen in the R C
Red cla.ss at the Chicago show this sea-
son. This is an excellent testimonial of
the quality of Mr. Ober's stock as the
Rhode Island Red Class contained bird^?
from the leading eastern and western
yards. At the big M(K"espr,rt. Pa., show
he won first and third cockerel, first and
third hen. second and fourth cockerels
second and fourth pullets and first pen hi
the Rose Comb class. He also won fourth
cockerel, fifth cockerel, third pullet and
first pen in the Single Comb Class and
Sliver (.up for best displav of Ro.se Combs
He has some grand birds for sale as weli
as eggs from his choicest ma tings.

A. L. Emerson of Inkster. Mich, can
please our readers who send Iiim tlu'ir or-
ders. The breeding of Barred Rocks is
no side issue with him; he has made a
specialty of the business and we believe
produce's each year as good stock as can
be found in the country. At the Michigan
state fair September, 1909, he exhibited
young stock only and won first, second
cockerel; first, second and third, pullet
At Dearborn, Mich., December. 1909. h<^
won second cockerel: first, second and
third hens; second, third and fourth cock-
erels; first, second, fourth pullets, and
first pen.

January. '10

Awards at Urbana, Ohio

Llcf ^f rr^kik.'f^..^ BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

ISl or CXniDllOrS organ: 1, ck; 1. 2. hen; 4, pul. Black:

Acker, J. B.. libana O. 1- -• 3. 4. ckl; 2. 3, pul; 1, pen.

Barr. Dr. F. P V. .'.'. V. . I^ancaster, O. WHITK WYANDOTTES.

Bell, John Urbana, O. Berry & Son: 1, 2, ck ; 1, 4. hen; 1, ckl;

Berry & Son. J. P Urbana, O. 1, pul; 1, pen. Steinberger: 2, hen; 3, 4,

Black, C. B Cable, O. ckl; 2, 4, pul; 2, pen. Barr: 3, hen; 2

Burnham, P. D Machanicsburg, O. ckl; 3, pen.

Creamer, L. H Mechanicsburg. O. GOLDEN LACED WYANDOTTES.

De Long Jacob Lancaster. O. Acker: 1, 2, 3. 4. hen; 2. ck ; 3, ckl; 2.

Feather. R B West Liberty, O. pen. Wilson: 1, ck; 2, 4, ckl; 2, 3, 4, pul;

Flaugher. J- W . Urbana. O. i^ pen. Owen: 1, ckl; 1. pul.

Hoppersett. C. H Urbana, O. ^-_ „„„ ^ /^r^^n «rvAXT.»*»rr,p»,u

Hill. Jno. R ITrbana O SILVER LACED WYANDOITES.

Huston, J. E' . Urbana' o' Lehne: 1, 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen.

Kendrick. Wm ' Urbana ' O. Weiser: 3. 4, hen; 4, pul.

Lehne, Adolph Mechanicsburg O. PAKTKIDGE WYANDOTTES.

Long. Mrs. W- T Urbana' O. All to Schrubb.

Organ. C. F Urbana', O. SINGLE COMB BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Owen, T. B Urbana, O. All to Hoppersett.

So!;^^' i" ^T V; 7^^^' 9.- SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Racer. T. M Urbana, O. aU to Burnham

Robinson Bros Plain Citv O ^ „

Russell, G. M Urbana O ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Salts. Noah .'Catawba' O Creamer: 1. ck; 2, ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul; 1.

Schrubb. Jas Urbana* O. P®^- Berry & Son: 1, ckl; 4, pul.

Steinberger, I. P West Liberty,' O. LIGHT BRAHJ>IAS.

Wamper, M. M Dayton, O. All to Bell.

wfll^on' p' n tJ'"?^"^' S- SINGLE COMB WHITE LE(iHORNS.

Wilson. F. C Urbana, O. Feather: 1. ck ; 1, 2. hen; 3. ckl; 1. pen.

L- . r A 1 T. Racer: 1, 4, ck) : 1, 4. pul; 2, pen.

1st OI /\ wards Robinson Bros.: 2, ckl: 2, 3, pul; 3, pen.

BARRED PLYMOUTH KOC KS. ^^f^.'^^^u^^^^ BI40WN LE(;HOHNS.

Kendrick: 1, 3. ck; 1. 3, 4. hen; 1, pen. ^° ^'"■

De Long: 2. 4, ck; 2. hen; 2, ckl: 2. pen. ROSE CO.MB BUACK MINORCAS.

Salts: 1. 2. 3. 4, pul. Wamper: 1, 3 4 ckl. Russell: 1, ck; 3, hen. P^laugher: 1, hen;

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 2. ckl; 1, pul.

J. H. Race: 1. ck; 1. 2, hen; 1, 2, ckl; TOCUOl SE <;EESE.

1. 3, 4. pul: 1. pen. T. M. Racer: 2. pul. All to Long.

January, *10

POULTRY FANCIER

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Reliable Breeders'
Directory.

SEVERAL BREEDS.
Mva. C. R. Thompson, Box 23, Randall,
la.

M. Jj. Musselman, Bethlehem, Pa
Jos. M. Fay, 808 Howard Ave., Altoona,
Pa.

Thos. M. Stubbl«^field. R. r,. Jackson-
ville, 111.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS
J. W. Bell, Box H. Chetek Wis
Chas. Spangler, Kentland, Ind.
INIrs. Minnie McConoushv. Martelle, la
Dr. F. A. Shuffelton, Saint Marvs, O.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
S. P. Kvan.s, 3838 E. TSlli St.. Cleve-
land. O,

A. L. Mrl.aiis:hlin. Spnrland 111

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
The Buff Rock Poultry P^arrn, Jeffer-
sonville, O.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
C. N. Hoslottfr. Alaiili'ini 1 'a

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES
J. Reepmeyer, Craig- N V

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.
Ralph Woodward, Hex S2, Grafton
Ma.s.s.

O. R. Eddy. 0(-onomo^^•o^ Wis

ORPINGTONS.
}Vm. Cook & Sons. Box C. Scotcli
Plams, N. J.
Jas. C. Olson, Harlan, la
Alice C. Morriss. Big Rock. Til.
Mrs. H. Wcdderspoon. Cooperstown
N. Y.

P. J. Armstrong, 118 E. 20th St., Chi-
cago, 111,

W. J. Scliinitt. Donnollson. Tm

RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Valley Farm, 9] E. Main St.. Amherst,
Mass.
Davis Crows, Hanna City, 111
Mrs. fl. T.. Alsop, Sylvia, la.'
Isaac H, Painter, Chrisnev, Ind.
C. I. W, Adkisson. G'Mlatia, Til.
J. B. Garber, Ho]>odaU'. III.
F. C. Eldridgo S: Son, l^.onrno Ma^^s

BLACK LANGSHANS.
Mrs. Frank Canicici-. Gazette :^To
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. ■
E. H. 01.«.on. R. 1, Thor. la.
Beaver Dam F\)ultry Farm. Montgom-
ery, N. Y.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
H. M. Moyci-. \l L'. [•.(•(•lit(>ls\iIlo Pa

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
W. Hipkiss, Scott. iai.- Pa

BUFF LEGHORNS.
Sunnyside Poultry F;nm, C. C Gla.sgo
T.ondonville, O.

Dr. C. E. Hoover. Edgoiton. D

BLACK LEGHORNS.
H, C. Hunt. D.Iavan. Ill

BLACK MINORCAS.
Frank Mc(irarin, Lancaster. Pa.
Oscar F. Sampson, Franklin, N. Y.
I, Allison. Florence, Neb.

H. A. Bratlin, Brazil. Ind.
G. A. Clark, Sevmour, Ind.

HOUDANS.
.1. D. Payne, Waterloo, Ind.

POLISH.
Warren W. Dickens. Box 9.',, Middle-
\ille, N. Y

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
Simon C. Kuij). Mattuld, J^a

BANTAMS.
Dale Arnold, Newton III.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Davis iV I>.\ti<s. Zi(.iis\ illc ind

WILD MALLARD DUCKS.
H. W. Fahali. Iowa (Mtv, la

BABY CHICKS.
E. & D. Hatcherv, Yardle\ . Pa

TURKEYS.
Mrs. Mary S('lHM>nniai<<r. K 1 Meshop-
pen. I 'a,

PETS AND BIRDS OF ALL KINDS.

O. W. Zeigler. Ilarni.uiy. I'a .

D. E. Lee of Marshfield. Wis., is a
breeder of S. C. R. t. Rods exclusivelv.
He has exhildtion (|ualitv and utility rec-
ords. At tile recent Central Wisconsin
show at Marslifield, lie secured manv of
the best prizes, including first cockerel
and first pullet. He Iia.s cockerels of the
same breeding and (juality to spare which
he offers at very reasonable prices. Mr.
Lee was superintendent of the show at
Marshfield. He is a very pleasant gen-
tleman to meet and possesses the reputa-
tion of being strictly honorable in all his
dealmgs. Judge Hackett writes us that
he vouches for the «iuality of Mr. Lee's
stock and he recommends him to those
wishing stock or eggs for hatcliing of his
cho.sen variety. See his ad. in this issue

Located in the iioitliern part of Wis-
consin on beautiful Fiiterprise Lake near
the town of Elcho in Lanprlade countv,
IS a progressive and quite extensive poul-
trv farm owned and opeiated bv R P
Guptil.

Mr. Guptil is a gentleman whose ac-
quaintance it is a ple.asuK' to make and
whose honor and iute^ritv is plainly
marked with his ])ersonality

Single romh R. L Reds are raised on
thus farm exclusively and are doing a
paying business producing eggs and
broilers for which there is a readv mar-
ket in that section. But not alone from
a utility standpoint do Mr. Guptils birds
excel for they possess the exhibiti«m
(lualities that mnke tliem winners where-
ever they are shown. At the recent cen-
tral Wisconsin slu.w whet- IJcmIs were the
leadmg class and c(uni)et ition verv warm
Mr. Guptil carried off more prizes than
all cou.petitors. We cheerfullv recom-
mend Mr. (Juptil and Ids stock to those
looking for good (luality in this popular
variety of fowls, and who nppreciate a
square deal." The above conu>]imentarv
notice has been sent us bv .ludge George
W. Hackett, Nortli Fi.-e.lom. wig/"'"'^^''

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Awards at the New York SI

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[1 DECEMBER 27, 1909, TO JANUARY 1, 1910

List of Exhibitors

Adair, C. E Elma Center N. Y.

Adams, Jas Rfd. 2. Poughkeepsie, N Y

Adams, Newton. 1092 Oneida St., Utica N Y
Albers. Wm. F

300 Rochester Ave., Brooklyn! NY

Alden, R. F '......

... .25 Roosevelt Ave., Binghaniton, n' y.

Allen, Hattie E

. Great Hills. Staten Island,' N."y.

Allen, Sidney C Orchard Park, N. Y

Almendinger, A. F

. 42 Orton PI.. BufTaloVN.' Y.

Alter, O. T. & C. M Pittsburg, Pa.

Anderson. Adolph E

35 Bellevue Ave.. Bristol. Conn

Ander-son, Annesley M Morton, Pa

Anderson, Louis Bloomsburg, N J

Andrews, E. B

^ • • 9 W. 17th St.. New York City

Andrus.s, Dr. C. J Canandaigua, N. Y.

Annandale Farm Mt Kisco, N. Y

Arnol, J. E Spring Valley, N. Y

Arthur, B. H Gloversville, N Y

Astoria Leg. Yds "

• • 240 Jamaica Ave.. Astoria N Y

Backus, Frank Rensselaer Falls, n" Y

Bailey, A. S Cobalt, Conn."

Bailey, C. K Bethel, Conn.

Batch & Brown Manchester, Conn.

Ball, Geo... 24 E. Milton Aye., Rahway, N J

Ballard, E. A Chestnut Hill, Pa!

Ballygungs Farm .. .Oyster Bay, L. I. N Y
Bartlett, M. A.. 508 Lincoln Ave.. Canton o!

Barton, Wesley B Dalton. Mass

Banner Poul. Yds Meadowbrook. Pa.

Bean, F. G Collegeyille. Pa.

Bean, Irving W

115 Plain St.. So. Braintree! Mass.

Beattie, Geo. B Caldwell, N. J.

Becker, Mrs. M. M

S4 Penna. Ave.. Dover, N J

Benerlein, B. S Mt. Morris, N Y

Bennett. A. G

59 Hollywood Ave.. E. Orange, N. J.

Bennett, Henry Brown, W. Va.

Bent. Myron H Antwerp. N Y

Benton. H. Stacy So. Norwalk Conn

Beresford. E. A

65 Broadway, New York City

Besson, Geo. E Mansfield, Mass.

Best, C. W

„ 411 N. Church St., Charlotte,* N. ' C.

Betz, John... 23 Quitman St., Newark, N. J.

Bidgood Bros Dover, N J

Bird, Geo. R.85 Valley Rd., W. Orange N J

Bird Bros Meyersdale, Pa!

Black Diamond Orpington Farm

„,• • • Scranton, Pa.

Blackstone, Shed Merchantville. N J

Black & White Poul. Farm .' .

D,T";,VV Basking Ridge, 'n.* J.

Blake, W. J Burnside, Conn

Blodgett & Drake Windsor, Conn.

Bloshke, Alfred H '.

,^ 23 Orchard St., Bloomfield, N. J

Bogert. E. W Pt. Washington, N. Y.

Bohman, H. H..32 Davis St., Danbury, Conn

Bonfoey, A. L Higganum, Conn.

Bowden, Jno.. Box 20, Ridgetown, Ont Can
Bowers, W. R

16 W. Saratoga St., Baltimore, Md.

Braine, H. S New Brighton, Pa.

Brett. John New City, N. Y.

Bright, L. L

1923 N. Main Ave., Scranton! Pa.

Brinkerhoff, Geo. C Rutherford, N. J.

Britton, Harry W Moorestown, N. J.

Brokaw, H. L ;..

97 E. Main St., Somerville, N. ' J.

Brookside Poul. Farm Bloomsbury Pa

Brown, C. A Sayvllle. L. I., N. y'

Brubaker. E. E Bird in Hand. Pa.

Brundage, Chas. H Danbury, Conn.

Brusie Nelson Salisbury Mills. N. Y

Buck, H. C

151 Montclair Ave., Montclair, N. J.

Bunk, H. W Germantown, N. Y.

Burch, Jas. S Millbrook, N. Y.

Burgott, Glenn H Eden Center, N. Y.

Cameron, John

26 Beech St., New Bedford, Mass.

Campbell, W. D Bloomfield, N. J.

Carpenter. Harry M Ossining, N. Y.

Carrick, J. B

514 Kosciusko St., Brooklyn. N. Y.

Carter, A. G Freeport, Me.

Carter, Ezra E Rfd. 1, Marathon, N. Y.

Case, C. W Rochester, Mich.

Catlin, L 539 1st St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Central Bantam Yds

25 Central Ave., Dover, N. J.

Chaffee, Geo. B..16 S. Main St., Rutland, Vt.

Chalker, R. S Higganum, Conn.

Chalmers, F. G Valley Stream, N. Y.

Cheesebrough, H. E Greenwich, N. Y.

<:hestnut Hill Poul. Yds

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.

Clark, G. A Seymour, Ind.

Clark, J. W Cainsville, Ont., Can.

Clinton, C. E

221 S. Division, Peekskill.N.' Y.

Cobb, B. & R Brewster, N. Y.

Coffin, M. H Whitensville. Mass.

Coles, F. A Glen Cove, N. Y.

Collins & Son, E. R

Baker Ave., Dunton, Richmond Hill^ N. Y.

Congdon, W. H Oak Lawn, R. I.

Conner, W. J... 621 Main St., Coatesville, Pa.

Conniscliffe Poul. Farm Tenafly N. J.

Conrad & Bratt Hackensack, N. J.

Cook, Jr., C. S

70 Valentine St., W. Newton, Mass.

Cook, Fred H Beaver, Pa

Cook & Sons, Wm Scotch Plains, N. J.

Corey, M. J

900 Summer Ave., Springfield, Mass.

Cornforth. E. O Slatersville, R. I.

Cornish, Edw. D Naples, N. Y.

Council, V. H Box 114, Warrenton, Va.

Cox, A. B

211 Glenwood Ave., Rochester, N. T.

Craig & Mapes

914 Empire Bldg.. Pittsburg! Pa.

Crawford, Jas Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Cressman, B. F

370 N. Main St., Sellersviile, Pa.

Crevolserat, Wm. E

95 S. Main St., Freeport, N. Y.

Crosby, Howard Del

Breezemont, Riverside, Conn.

Cruttenden, Tyler

\ . 117 Cliff St., Norwich! Conn.

Curry, Thomas Anderson, Ind.

Dary, Jacob 12 Clover St., Yonkers, N. Y.

Davenport. Wm. H Cobrain, Mass.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL POULTRY RAISING FOUND AT LAST

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. . . Mid vale, Pa.
Bradford. N. Y.
.Franklin, N. Y.

Ossininj?. N. Y.
Lancaster, Pa.

Dayhoff. L. s

Decker, Dr., B. E

De Gray, Good win

Demins, Jr., Richard...

So. His:hland Ave.,

Demmy, Bros Hfd. ;">

Dodds, Frank J

398 Riverdale Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.

Doll, Paul W White Plain, N. Y.

Dumars, Cokefair & Churchill

64 CMinton Rd., Glen Rid^e, N. J.

Dune Alpin Puul Farm

East Hampton, L. 1., N. Y.

Dunne. Henry

1492 Queen St, W., Toronto, Can.

Dunrobin Farm Chatham, X. J.

Dutcher, J. G Pawling, N. Y.

Duval, Hanson R East Islip, L. I., N. Y.

Dysart Bros Belmont, O.

Eddy & Young- Pleasant Vallev, N. Y.

Edgar, Wm . . . . Rfd. 1', So. Pethlehem Pa.
Edwards. F. L.21S Blake St., VVestville, Conn.

Ehle & Greenhaigh Catasauqua, I>a.

Elkins Park Poul. Farm. . . Elkins Park, Pa.

Ellen wood Faim Hatboro, Pa.

Ellison, W. A Elkland, Pa.

Elm Poul. Yds Hartford, Conn.

Elmhurst Poul. Yds

Riverside on Hudson, N. Y.

Englewood Bristol, N. H.

Evansward Farm Fayetteville N. Y.

Evelyn Heights Farm '. . . .Catle'tt, Va!

Fairfield Poul. Farm Fairton, N. J

Faust Edward

STj Oceanview Ave., Woodlawn, N. Y.

Fell, A. J West Point, Pa.

Fernwood Farm Litchfield, Conn.

Felkin, John

Broad and Watchung Ave., Bloomfield, N.
J.

Fike. H. L Meyersdale. I'a.

Fincke & Thornton Vineland N. J.

Fisher, C. E McConnellsv'ille, O.

Fisk, Howard J

Cor. Work and Mason Sts., Falconer, N. Y.

Fiske. Harlo J Sterlington, N. Y.

Foulke, J. Stewart

.Sanford Ave. and 2.Tth St.. Flushing, N. Y.

Foxhurst Farm Lime Rock, Conn.

Fraleigh, Howard Forest, Ont., Can.

Franklin, H. C Townsend. Vt.

Frasier, F. S..46 Waldo St., Brockton, Mass.
Freeburn, Wm. B....Box 88, Sparkill, N. Y.
Frelinghuysen. P. H. B . . . . Morristown. N. J.

Frost. Harry B Paterson. N. J.

Fry. Jas. S Nazareth, Pa.

Fuller. Jas. M Warwick. N. Y.

Furman. C. C Bloom.sburg. Pa.

Galleher. R. F Mt. Gilead, O.

Gardner. M. S Palmvra. N. Y.

Gates, Harry M Mt. Moiris, N. Y.

Bebhard, Louis

300 r.th St., Phillipsburg. k.'j.

George, E. A Henvelton, N. Y.

GiflPord, W. E..l]l Genesee St., I'tica N. Y.

Gibb. H. Elmer

Sus.^ex Ave., Morristown. N. J.

Goetz. Wm. J. H

11;">0 Cadillac .Ave.. Detroit, Mich.

<;ould, Howard

Box 29."), Port Washington. N. Y.

Gould, J. Nelson

238 Van Wyck Ave.. Dunton,' N. Y.

Grannis Bros La Grangeville, N. Y.

Green. Mrs. C. S

Sailors Snug Harbor, New Brighton! NY

Green, Ralph C Savville. N " Y*

Greenberry Farm Poul. Yds. . Annapolis Afd

Greene. Geo. A Medwav. Mass.

Greener. N. N Elizabethtown. Pa

Greyst(»ne Poul. Farm Yonkers N Y

Grove Hill Poul. Yds Waltham.' Mass!

(.rover. J. D New Berlin. N. Y.

Hales. Henry Ridgewof.d. N. J.

Hallock, J. H Saranac Lake. N Y.

Halsey, Chas. D Remsen N J

Hampden F'oul. Yds Cbic<»pee Mas«

Hanna. ('. S West H.brc.n. N. y!

Hanna. Mi.s. C. S West Hebron. N. Y

Hariies. Fred Fernlea. Elmsford. N. Y

Harrington. Nftrman

1" Myrtle Ave.. Holvoke Mass

Harter. S. H Nesc.)pe(k pa

Hatch, Leonard F Vineland. N .1.

Havemeyer. Horace Stamfor<l Conn

Havemeyer TJros Mahwah. N. J.

Hawkins, A. C Lancaster. Mass

Hawkins, Harry Dover. N. J.

Haynor, Jonas .. Li^•ing^.^t on N. Y

Haywood, Albert Waterloci. N Y

Hazleton. W. W Hudson N Y

Easton. Pa.

Hell, Wm. H R .V,

Hellyer, A. W. E

68 Belmont Ave., Ottawa, Gnt., Can.

Hearsfleld. Wm. H. . . . Woodmere, L T., N. Y
Hewke, T. S.261 Main St., Middletown, N Y.
HlJlcrest Farms

„ • • • Nishaning Falls, Oakford. Pa.

Hilldorfer, Jos. P., Chester ave.

,, • ; • Pittsburg, Pa.

Hillson. Geo. W Hyde I'ark. N Y

Hills. Edwin H Plainville, Conn

HInes, John. 4812 Snyder ave.Brooklvn N Y

Hollis. John F.. Box 81 '.

„ ■, No. Abington. Mass.

Holmhurst poul Yds Whitby, Ont., Can.

Homeyer. John F.. Cornwall ave

„ Hollis. N.- Y.

Hooker, Henrietta E So. Hadley, Mass.

Houseman, Peter Warwick N Y

Howell. L. D Mineola,' N.' y!

Howie, Geo. W Fordham N. Y

Howland. Stuart A., Bx 415 . .Granville. N. Y.
Hoyt. Geo. D Plttsfleld. Mass.

POULTRY FANCIER

Hubbard. B. W., 49 Lafayette St

New Haven. ( 'onn.

Hubbard, .Jr., Eliot, Orchard St. . Millis. Mass.

Huey. H. A Ronie City, Ind.

Humphrey, H. E Greenwich, N. Y.

Hungerfoid, A Bav Shore, N Y.

Inchef, Mr.s. Geo. B No. Grafton, Mass

Inglesand I'oul. Yds Flushing, N. Y.

Irwin. .Jno. H., 2:5;-) Front St., New York City

Ivins, M. Harvey Langhorne, Pa.

Jackson, J, H., Bx 8.5 Hudson. Mass.

Jackson, Lawrence Havsville, I'a.

Jacobus, M. R Ridgetield, N. J.

Jannson, F. B Pennington, N. J.

Jefferis, Leslie .. Norristown, Bridgeport, Pa.

Jensen, C. S' Dover, N J.

Jessel, Arthur E.. 56 Asylum St

, ; Bridgeport. ( \\nn.

Johnson, Wm. R Gartesford. I'a.

Joidan, Dr. H. M Hicksville. O.

Josenhaus, Arthur A, 204 E. 202d St.. Bed-

ford Park New York City

Ivahle. Chas. A.. 163 Branch Ave

, , Red Bank, N. J.

Kautmann & WMndham Nutley N J.

Keating. .J. p Westboio,' Mass.

Keator, Isaac, 20 N. 1st St., Jamaica, N. Y.

Keck, Otto Milton, N. Y.

Kellerstrass. Ernest, R. 1 .. Kansas City, Mo.

Kendall ik Langley Greenwich, N. Y.

Kennedy, W. Hugh Red Bank, N J.

Kentgen, Wm. A., Iserholn Farm ".

,,; •.•,•. New York City

Kichlme, Geo. F., oOi5 Northampton St...

,,. Easton, Pa.

Kienzle, F. X., 428 Nisquehoning St

,,.• • • • • • Easton. Pa.

Kmg, Clarence W Romulus, N. Y.

Kingston, Jr., H. H., R. F. D. 1

Rochester. N Y.

Kmney. Webster A. J Seneca Falls, N. Y.

Kirk & Speakman, Bx 223. Wilmington, Del.

Klee Bros Blauvelt, N. Y.

Knapp, Dr Milleiton, N Y.

Knapp, Rodney A., R. ;i, Binghamton N. Y.

Koons Farm Freichler, Pa.

Krenn, Jos. G.. 114 Beecher St

,, Syracuse, N. Y.

Kreutter, Albert J Seneca Falls. N. Y.

January. '10

'2E.

^■Au.

Lamson, H. S

Lance, S. D

Langfoid, Frank.. R. R.
Landers, M. J

133 Hampden

Latham, C. H

Leach, Arthur H

10 Frank St

Lee. C. G

Lichenwalter, E. H....
Liddell &. Sons, W T. . .

Little. Geo. R

Little. Sara A

Lincoln Poultiy Yards. .

398 Lincoln

Cameron, N. Y.

Troy, O.

10, Nashville, Tenn.

St., (^hicopee, Mass.
. . . .Lancaster, Mass.

, Middleboi-o, Mass.
. . .Walworth. N. Y.

Girard. Pa.

...Greenwich, N. Y.
Schaghticoke, N. Y
Clyde, N. Y.

Ave., Newark, N. J.

THK MOnKl. PORTA BI.K HENNF:RV

Liiidstrom, J. .A Morris l^lains, N. J.

Linton. Geo. T

Branch Ave., Red Bank, N. .1.

Livingston, Mrs. R. C Islip, L. I., N. Y.

Llangollen Farm Great Neck, N. V.

I..oesing, Jr., Leo

E. 2;Jd St., Sheepshead Bay, N. Y.

Lott, Dr. S Hellona, N. Y.

Lovett, J. E Little Silver, N. J.

Luce & Hill R. 1, Vestal, N. Y.

McCaulley. Emma

.42 Helen St., Highwood, Conn.

McClave. Chas New London, O.

McGrann, Frank Box 417, Lancaster

McKittrick, T. A Hudson, N. Y.

McMillan. R. D

8 Harrison St., Cortland. N. Y.

Manis, Frank W Morris Plains, N. .1.

Maple Hill Farm

R. 1, Frenchtown. N. J.

Marsh, Stephen

s I.,enox Ave., Ridgewood, N. J.

Marshall, S. I

130 Smith St.. Port (Miestcr. N. Y.

Martin, Frank . Charles Point, Peekskill, N. Y.

Masten, W. P Pleasant Valley, N. Y.

Mayer, Jr., Mrs. Jno

39 Franklin St., Morristown, N. J.

Megargee ik C\j.. F. O

1600 Jefferson Ave., Scrantoa, Pa.

Megargee, M. B Wyncote, Pa.

Meiere, Ernest Flushing. N. Y.

Mellor, D. Howard Springhouse, Pa.

Memann. Ed. D

Fail-ground, Huntington, N. Y.

Merihevv, L. E Marathon. N. Y.

Meyer, H. C Box 68, Saugerties, N. Y.

Miers, C. O. . . . «)72 S. Main St., Bangor, Pa.

Millard, J. K Guelph, Ont.. Can.

Millei-. Harry B Clarks Summit, Pa.

Miller, Jno. A Nazareth, Pa.

Minard. Ed Elyria, Lorain, O.

Mintuin & Son, W. Q Warwick, N. Y.

Mitchell, Geo. W

3.") Believue Ave.. Bristol, Conn.

Moffett, ,Ias. ..;{G8 Wash St., Brooklyn. N. Y.

Mole, 1. W Roosevelt, N. Y.

Monmouth Poultiy Farm . . . Frenean, N. Y.

Moore Bros Moscow N. Y.

Morgan^ Harry S '

8.'{ Smith St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Morgan. Wm. L

1"'3 Grove St. So., E. Orange, N.' J.

Morris. Edwin H Sparkill, N. Y.

Morrow. \\. A

1029 Lehigh St., Easton! Pa.

Moss, Geo. H Burkes Garden, Va.

Mount joy, B. J

.1:52 Mt. Pleasant Ave., London. Ont.. Can.
Mountain Vi.-w Farm .... South Kent Conn

Moyer, Ralph W

W. Market St., Orwigsburg Pa.

Mt. Pleasant Farm Brvn Mawr. Pa.

Mudge Si Son.. 75 Cross St., Westeilv R I.

The Model Portable Hennery /^'^^

thing for the city man, the breeder and for
keeping fowls on the colony plan, a complete
henhouse. Kcoiiomy Trap-Nest. Simplest
and most economical ou the market, never
will get out of order and always work, made
both In wood and metal. Model Brood
Coops. Made of galvanized Iron, eolIapnal.)e.
mite and vermin proof, easily cleaned, by
drawing two hooks bottom drops out. Mod-
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.lust what you want when the hatching season
comes on again, you can also use It as a brood
coop. Write at once, catalogue free, mention
you saw my iid In Poultry Fancier. Nieiiinnn
H'os. Mfir. Co, Box 377, Mt. Olive, II

60 Years *' lir "^ I. K. Felch & Son

Si;f J^.H^"'^ BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.

WHY^Jnnm '^^ ?^'^ ^^^ the money paid.

WHY SHOULD THEY NOT. when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

WIN AND BRE:ED ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons winnings to their advantage.

From Sept I to May 1 5, Brahmas $3.50 to $1 0 for females; $5 to $20
or males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes. $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all, $4 for I 5, $7 for 30 $9
for 45. and $15 for 105 eggs From May 15 to Sept.). all yearlings before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars address

I. K. FELCH & SON. Box 1 ?6, NATICK. MASS.

1

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January. '10

Myers, Arthur

„ • • • Mill Place, Hartford ' Mills. N.Y.

Nathans J. A White Plains. N. Y.

Nesbit, Edw. J •

-^, Locust Hall, Pouffhkee'ps'ie.' n' ' Y

SLwT' A^*'"'^;;-; Washington, n! J."

o2l .•,M'fi <v I-Walbrook, Baltimore. Md.

Oak 11,1 Poultry Yards Ben Avon. Pa.

Oakland Poultry Yards Trenton N J

Oakley Bert A Brooklyn. Pa."

Oak Nest Farm

^.•••••;; I.ibrary PI.. Allegheny, Pa.

Oke & Murray London. Ont.. Can.

Old Acres Wrentham. Mas.s.

Only. A.. Farm Poultry Yards

_ Box B. Morristown N J.

K^Ji' ^^ I-'ncoln Orrs Mills, n! Y.

Otte. Fred W Peekskill. N. Y.

Owen Farms Vineyard Haven, Mass

Oyster. Edw Strawberry Ridge, Pa.

Paine. Jr.. Robt. Treat

^ Ifi State St., Boston, Mass.

Payne. Oscar W

_. t^larks Summit. Scranton, Pa.

Peapack Farm Peapack N. J.

Pen.syl, R. G Bloomsburg, Pa.

Phillips. Thos. H Dover N J

Pine Top Poultry Farm Hartwood ' N." Y

Plummer, J. Russell R. .5. Easton Pa

Poley, .John W Royersford. Pa.

Pope, r. H

-^9 N. Warren Ave.. Brocitton. Mass.

r orter. Horace Ridgefield. Conn

I'ratt. (^has. W

, SO'^ Bedford St., No. Abington. Mass.

Prescott. Henry B Derry Village N H

I'rescott, Mrs. Henry B.. Derry Village N h'

Preston, A. O .5.5 Hall St.. Concord' N. H

Pritchlynn. Sophia C '

• •1104 6th St.. N. W.. Washington, ' i)' "C.

Puder, Chas. L ' _

104 Orange St.. Irvington. N J

Pullins Bros Rensselaer. Ind.

I'ure Strain P^arms Scottsville, N. Y

I'uivis, Harold Butler Pa

Quackenbush. R. B Darien. Conn.'

Rake. J. D Monroe. N. Y

Rankin. James R. 7, Schnectadv N Y

Rapelye, W. W Hempstead" N Y.'

Raschke, C. A .'...'.

-0 Shufeldt St., Kingston, x! " Y.

POULTRY FAN CI

Read. Frank D

Red Feather Farm .. Tiverton 4 Corners, R. I.
Reepmeyer. Jr., J .... Aqueduct, Craig. N. Y.

Reider R. D R. 2, Middletown. Pa.

Renner, A. T Coshocton. O.

Reynolds. Edwin G

1181 Grand St., Brooklyn. N. Y.

Rice, Irving P Cortland. N. Y

Richardson, Jr., M. B Lime Rock. (.\)nn.

Ricketts. F. H Coshocton O.

Ridge View Farm Willoughby' O.

Riggs, F. F

423 S. Broadway, Elmira N. Y.

Riggs. Mr. & Mrs. P. S Pelham, N. Y.

Riley, Henry D Strafford, Pa.

River Home Poultry Yards. .. Perrysburg, O
Riverview Poultry Yards

80 Van Wort Ave., Tarrvtown, N Y

Roberts. E' Chester. N." Y.

Robertson. R. A Warehouse Point. Conn.

•• 3282 N. Main. Phillipsburg, N. J.

Rockandotte Farm Southboro, Mass.

Rock Hill I>oultry Farm Ossining. N. Y.

Roecker, B. C

39 S. Main St.. Phillipsburg N. J.

Rogers & Packard

41 Howard St., Montello, Mass.

Rogge. J. C. L

3071 Perry Ave.. Bronx, N Y.

Rose Court Poultry Yards

Westhampton Beach. N. Y

Rose, Hugh A Welland. Ont.. Can.

Rose. J. A Matthews Ave.. Scranton, Pa.

Rose. Zebulon Thiells. N Y.

Rosemary Farm Huntington, k'. Y.

Rosemount Poultry Yards Esopus, N Y.

Rothget Bros Milford, 111.

Royal Farms Little Silver. N. J.

Russell, A. L Washington, N. J

Ryan, T. J

358 VVoodside Ave., Newark N. .1.

.Sanborn, Dr. N. VV Holden,' Mass

Sander, Wm ..Albion PI., Paterson, N. J.
Saupe, Ernest F

18 Clayton St., Newark. N. J.

Sayre, J. L Vineland, N. J.

Schall. Dr. J. H., 115 St. Marks Ave

^, ^ • • : • • • • Brooklyn, N. Y.

Schambacher, E. G

183 N. 19th St., E. Or'a'n'ge," 'n.' J.

Scheib, J. H. & T> Newark N J

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry As.sociation. Member Buif Rock

^i^«' IZ^^lV^'^^XlTJ''^''^''''^^''^'''''' P"''^*^ ^^°""8: and sell you high class stock and
eggs. KIV-HLAND, IOWA.

BOGARDUS^ ORPINGTONS

S. C. BUFF AND S. C. BLACK

have the finest lot of cockerels and pullets I ever raised,
prices, I can and will please you.

O. A. BOGARDUS,

First prize winners
a t Chicago, 111.,
Hagerstown, M d .
Cincinnati, Ohio;
Nashville. Tenn. I
Show birds that will win. Get my

BOX A, WARSAW, KY.

PAR.TRIDGE, BUFF
AND BLACK X : i

BUFF-LACKD Yir^v YCZ^V^
AND GOLDEN JriJLrl^O

DR. H. F. BALLARD,

COCHINS

W^ H I T E ,
BLACK,

Stock for sale and eggs in season.
Prize winners 27 years .

CHENOA, ILL.

WHITE ROCKS

"■""""■"""■"■"■"—"""■"■"■""-"■"" are Dig, wnire, D€

WHITE WYANDOTTES

BERWYN POULTRY YARDS,

Stock for sale that will win in the show
room and fill the egg basket. Our birds
are big. White, beauties, strong in good

points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at
"~~— — — liveng prices.
BOX P., BERWYN, ILL,

L. H. JOSTES, Rte. 2, MACON, ILL.

BREEDS HIGH CLASS

Lt. BRAHMAS and S. C. Brown LEGHORNS

Some fine youngsters for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. Also utility
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, and some grand young MAMMOTH BRONZE
TURKEY TOMS. I am ready to book orders for eggs. Write me for
prices.

SehillinK. A. & B

443 Central Pk., Rochester, N. Y.

Schoff Farms Campville, N. Y.

Scho.«kie, J. M Rochelle Park, N. J.

Schran, Louis B

60 Hamilton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Schriever. Hiram W Chester, N. Y

Schroeder, • A

25 Oakland St.. Red Bank, N. J.

Schwenker, Carl F Red Bank, N. J.

Scott. H. B

110 W. Newell St.. Syracuse, N. Y.

Scott, J. Alvah Passaic, N. J.

Seaman. Frank P Mineola, L. I.. N. Y.

Sechler, R. C

526 Wash St., Allentown. Pa.

Seeley & Son, Geo Chester. N. Y.

Seeley & Son. Jas. C. ...R. .5. Geneva, N. Y.

SeiRfried, LeRoy W Waterloo, N. Y.

Shaw & Mcintosh Forest. Ont., Can.

Shaylor. C. H Lee. Mass.

Shea, Dennis Fabins. N. Y.

Sheppard, H. Cecil Berea, O.

Simmons Bros Stockton. 111.

Sites. Frank C No. Dover. O.

Sites, Eugene Elyria, O.

Skerritt & Son. Dr

51 Columbia St.. Utica, N. Y.

Skylands Sterlington N. Y.

Smith, Dr. Alf K

74 W. 103d St., New York City

Smith. Frank L Lexington. Ky.

Smith & Son. J. J

269 Madison Ave.. Wilkes-Barre Pa.

Smith. Sinclair .' . .

59 Frankfort, New York City

Smith. Wm. A Brookline, Mass.

Smith. Wm. F Salem, O.

Smithers. C. F. & Co Henvelton. N. Y.

Snead. C. E 4th Ave., Freedam. Pa.

Springmann. Henrv

1019 E. '3d St., Williamsport, Pa.

Springs, W. Lee

633 Stokes Ave., Collingswood, N. J.

Stern. Moses Valhalla. N. Y.

Stevens. Carlton G Manchester, N. H.

Stickles. J. H Claverack. N Y.

Stockel Bros

961 Wheeler Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Story, Rowland

187 Arlington Ave.. Brooklyn. N. Y

Stowe. F. D. B B"a<tleboro. Vt.

Stratton. W. W Norfolk. Ma.ss.

Strong. Herbert Chatham. N. J.

Strubb. P. D Bascom, O.

Sturges, Mrs. Agnes Pleasanton. N. Y.

Success Farm

S. Pleasant Ave.. Rldgew^ood. N. .1.

Sunnybrook Farm W. Orange, N. .1.

Sunswick Poultry Farm . . S. Plainfleld. N. J.

Swayck. John

No. Hackansack, Englewood. N. J.

Tabor. F. C Worcester. N. Y.

Tannenbaum Farms Willoughby, O.

Tccktonius. F. \ Racine. Wis.

Tcttz. Harvey J . . . R. 1. Gloversville. N. Y.

Templeton. W. S Dakota. 111.

Terwilleger. Clinton

1 Gould Ave., Paterson, N. J.

The Columbian Poultrv Yards

E. Williston. N. Y.

The Gale Poultry Place.. New Haven, (^onn.

Tillev. G. D Darien. Conn.

Titus. Wm. W E. Williston. N. Y.

Todd. Jr.. J. H. L Fanwood, N. J.

Todd. W. S Greenwood, Del.

Tompkins. Lester Concord. Mass.

Top Notch Farm Water Mill. N. Y.

Trethaway, Arthur

45 Parrlsh St.. Wilkes Barre. Pa.

Tulloch, Walter C

213 E. 202d St.. New York Citv

Tygert. .1. F Rutherford. N. .1.

rnderhill. Mrs. L. C

Lincoln Ave.. Mineola. N. Y.

I'rban. Jr., Geo

Pine Ridge, Buffalo. N. Y.

Van .Msfyne. J. F Nlverville, N. Y.

\"an Brunt, Geo. A Red Bank. N. J.

Van Sire. J. W

Syosset. Woodburv, N Y.

Vass. C. B Washington. X. .F.

Waddell. J. L Decatur Ml.

Walker. Wm. F Stamford. N. Y

Wall. Ernest F R. 8. Lakeview, Erie. Pa.

Walters. W. C Blairstown. N. J.

Wampler. Ray S Timberville, Pa.

Warner. Austin G....New York Mills. N. Y.

Wasson, Jas. S

....30 Genesee Ave.. Grand Rapids. Mji-h.

Watson. W. N Sunburv. Pa.

Watt. Miss Grace Hartsdale. N. Y.

Watt. J. L Hartsdale. N. Y.

Watt. Miss N Hartsdale, N. Y.

Watt, .Jr., T. L Hartsdale. N. Y.

W«bster. C. F Girard. Pa.

Webster. Dr. B. E Woodhull. X. Y.

Weed. Geo. W East Lee, Mass.

Welch, J. Hart Douglaston. N. Y.

Welles. Chas. H Stratford. Conn.

West fall, Watson Sayre, Pa.

Westbrook Farm B. Norwich, N. Y.

West Mountain Poultry Yards

Naugatuck. Conn.

Whiting Farms Holyoke, Mass.

Wieners. Miss Selma. .. .College Point. N. Y.

Wild Goose Farm Copeagne, N. Y.

Wilhelmina Poultry Farm

Morganvllle. N. .1.

Willes. Edw. A Brockton. M ss.

Williams, W. C. & H. B Chatham. N. J.

William.son. C. M

Grand View, Nyack, N. Y.

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Wllmarth J. E Amity villo. X. Y.

W n^'H*^';^ Ja«. F Athol Mass.

WiSkle',; ^^^'''^^' L Chambersburg. Pa.

wAhI'ii' ' i\: '^^ Hawthorne, Rutherford, N." J.
Wofpo ; ^il^'^-l^'* Broadway. New York City

A\ olcott H . R White Plains. N. Y.

\V oodruff. Fred Florida N. Y.

Ym,nt "t^^^ J'arm Wi^sted Conn.

Young. D. W Monroe. N. Y

Itoung, Jos. B

450 Union Ave., Irvington, N. J.

List of Awardi

BAKKKD PLYMOUTH KOCKS.

,.nV.'''^i" Farms; 3, ck; 4, 6. 8, hen; :>, ckl; S,

}^^'n 'v}' P*"?; ^'"^ '^'"P ^0"1- Farm: 6,
<-K, 7, hen. Hawkins: 4. 5. ck- ' 4 ckl •
6. pen. Welle.s: 7. ok; r>, hen; 3. '8. ckl; 1. 5.
6. pul; 4. pen. Grove Hill Poul. Yds.: 1. 2

f' '> 'hlu^^.J''./' ^'J' ^•'': 3, pen. Latham:

' ,-• „^"= '^' •^' P"J; -. 5, pul. Hayner: 4

pul; 7. pen. HiUson: 7. pul '^^"er. 4,

in. WM'TE PLYMOUTH KOCKS.

•? V ^L^" .' u^' ^' "' *''^"; '^ 'P«"- Chalker:
iicii, -., CKl, J, J, 0, pul: 1 ."). Den rir^v-
|tone Poul. Farm: 1. ?k; ' 1, ' 5 ' h^en "^ 1. puT;
2 4. 6. pen. Elm Poul. Yds.: 3, henT 5
pul. Landens: 4. hen; 3, 4 ckl. Dow: 6
ckl. Russell: 4, pul.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Poley: 1. ck; 1, -, hen; 2, 5, pul; 1 3

o^'^r- ^,^^= 5' J^«": 4, ckl; 2, pen. Marsh:

2. ck. Corey: 5, ck. Armer: 4, hen- 4
pen. Goetz: 3. hen. Harter: 1 ckl-' 1
pul. Mmard: 3, ckl. Englewood: 2 'ckl

^'"n'SIf^ .^' ^■^'- -^'^"^^^ *• P"'- WaddeH:
o, pul. Morgan: o, pen

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

..uf^ """"v^' Farms: 1, 2. ck ; 1, 3, hen; 1. 2.
okl; 1 3 pul; 1, 2, pen. lonis: 3. ck ; 2
hen; 4, ckl; 4, pul; 3. pen. Ehle & Green-
haigh: 4. ck; 3, ckl; 2, pul
.SIL\TQR PENCILED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Halsey: 4, ck; 3. 5, hen; 4. ckl; 4, pul;

3. o pen. Rock Hill Poul. Farm: 1 "
^k; 1. 2, hen; 1, 2. ckl; 1. 2, pul; 1, 2. pen!
Bowers: 5. ck; 3, ckl. Van Brunt: 3, ck -
Rhi^ i Hillcrcst Farms; 4. hen; 4. pen'.

^S,-,^.^^^^"^^^^*^: i^. ckl; 3, pul

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

l'i.^^ ^- r.^/'^'^r^ll Farms: 2. ck; 4.h;n; 2
oKl. 3. pul; 1. 3, pen. Otte: 1, ck. An-
drews: 1, 2. hen; 2. pul. Sites: 3 hen 1
pul. Bean: 3. ckl. Allen: 1. ckl; 4. pul' '
WHITE VVYANDOTTES. '
Fell: 1 ck; 1, hen; 6, ckl; 3, pul. Hav-
meyer: 2 ck; 2, 4, hen; 3, ckl! 1. pul? 2
■». pen. Rockandotte Farm; 4. 5 ckl- r,

f^^riuf: "i^^- ?'''^," ^^'''"«= 3,' ck; 3-. 6 hen;'
4. ckl; 2. pul; 1, 4. pen. Hollis: i;. rk
Jack.son: 2 ckl. Rock Hill Poul. Farm: I
Ckl; 4 pul; 6, pen. West Mountain Poul."
Yds.: 5, pul; 3 pen. Wagenblatt: U. pul.
BUFF WYANDOTTES.

4 nu- 9 h ^v!"- H^^l^s: 2, ck. Howland:

iui ' o*^^"- Etl^ar: 2, 4, ckl. Hewke: 1.
ckl .3. pen. Pensy] : r,. ckl. Howell: :'.,
4. pul, 1. pen. Smithers & ('o. : 2. pul
Bell: 5. pul; 2. pen. (JrifTiths: 4 pen
GOLDEN WYANDOTTES.
van Sire: 5, ck. Brundage: 1. 2. 3 4
ok; 1 2. 3. 4. hen; 1. 4. 5, ckl; 1. 2 4 I'
pul; 1. pen. Simmons Bros.: 2 ckl- 3 nul"
Mmturn & Son: 3, ckl • «^ki. .,, pui.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

Doll: 1. ck. Oak Lawn Farm: 2, 4. 5. ck :
1. ;. 4. hen; 2, 4 5. ckl; 3. 4. 5, pul. Colvln:
j, ck, 1. pen. Van Sire: 5. hen. Siegfried;
i\ nen; 1, ckl. Fernwood Farm: 3, ckl.
Morris: 1. 2. pul. Van Alstvne: 2. 3 pen
Reepmeyer, Jr. : 4 pen ' . , ^ .

r, «. I'ARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

o °,?"'r.^\ ^^' 1- ^e": •^- ckl. .Johnson:
v' ?^\ ^0^^^^= ''• ^'^^ ^' hen. Bird Bros.;
■{. 4, ck; 2. 3, 4, hen; 1. 4. 5. ckl; 2. 3 4 .".
P"'^j Rogers & Packard: 2. ckl. Clinton:

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES

Wasson: 1. ck : 1, hen. Smith & Son'- "
ck. Shea: 5, ck ; 4, hen. Warner: 4 ck-
n. hen Oyster: 3, ck; 2. ckl. Woodruff!
-. 3, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul. Fuller: 3, ckl
1, pul.

COLl.MBIAN WYANDOTTKS.

Orr: 1. ck; 1, 4. ckl; 3. pen. Porter:
3. 5, ck. Keating: 2, 4. ck ; 2, hen: 2 3
ckl; 2, pen. Sunnybrook Farm: 3, 4. hen '
3, pul; 1. pen. Campbell: 5, hen. Andruss:
• ,hen. Coles: 5, ckl; 4, pul. Miller: 2.
pul. Alden: 5. pul. Tannenbaum Farms:
J. pul. Van Alstyne: 5. pen. Hilllunst
Farm: 4, pen.

CUCKOO WYANDOTTES.

Wilhelmina J'oui. Farm: 1 pen
BLACK WYANDOTTES.

Brown: 3. ck; 1, hen; .5, ckl. Sites: 2
ck; 3. 4. hen: 4. ckl; \, 2, pul. Grev.stone
Poul. Farm: 2. ckl. Weed: 1, 3, ck.
BUCKEYES.
All to Robertson.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.
Cook & Sons: 5, ck. Owen Farms: 2. ck :
2, hen; 3, ckl; ?>, pul; 4. pen. Ingle'sand
Foul. Yds.: 4, ck. Clark: 6, ck; 3. hen;

1, ckl. Hooker: 1. 3. ck; 6. hen; 2. ckl;

2, 3, pen. Sunswick Poul. Farm: 1. 4. 5
hen. Walker: .'>, ckl. Richardson: 4 ckl
Besson: fi, ckl. Dunrobln Farm: 1 ' pul

POULTRY FANCIER*

Howie: L pul. Hellyer: 3, pul. KiiigstoJi.
.n. : 2. pul. Elm Poul. Yds.: G, pen. Craig
A: Mapes: 5. pen.

R. C. BUFF ORPINCiTONS.

Wm. Cook & Sons: 3, ck ; 3, hen; L ckl;
4, pul; 1, pen. Owen Farms: 2, ck. Roe-
eker: 1, ck ; 1. hen; ;{. ckl; 3, pul. Lance:
-, 4, hen; 2, 4. ckl. Williams; 1. 2, pul.
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Foxhurst Farm: 1, 6, ck; 3, hen; 2, 3. (J,
ckl; 1. pen. Sunswick Poul. Farm: 3 ck •
y, ckl; 4, pul; 4, pen. Knapp: 2, ck; 2,
hen. Mountain View Farm: 4, ck; 4. hen;
1, pul. Craig & Mapes: 5. ck; 6. hen; 2.
pen. Cook & Sons: 5, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul;
.i, b, pen. Black Diamond Orp. Farm: 1,
hen; 4, ckl; 5, pul. Prescott: 3, pul. Howie-
b, pul. Elm Poul. Yds.; 5. pen.

R. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

All to Cook & Sons.

8. C. WHITE ORI»INGTONS.

Kellerstrass; I, 4, 5, ckT 4. 6, hen; 2. 3.
t;kl: 1, 3, pul; 2, 4, pen. Sunswick: 3, ck;
4. ckl. Owen Farms: 1, 2, ck; 1, 2, hen;
1. o, ckl. Elm Poul. Yds.: 5 hen; 6 pen
Jackson: 3, hen; 2, pul. Cook & Sons: 4,
pul; 3, u, pen. Foxhurst Farm; 6, pul
Wall: o, pul. Harries; 1. pen

R. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

All to Couk & Sons

SPANGLED ORPIN(;tONS.

Cook & Sons; 1, pen

DIAJVIOND JUBILEE ORPINGTONS.

Cook & Sons: I, ck; 1. hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul;
1. pon. Prescott; 2. 3. hen. Elm Poul.
Ids.; 4. hen. Webster; 1 ckl

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

lompkins: 1, 5, ck; 1, 2, 4. hen; 1. ckl;
.5, 4. pul; 1, pen. Read: 2, ck; 5, hen; 2.
ckl; J, pen. Gardner: 3, ck; 1. 5, pul. Pure
^tram Farms: 4. ck. Terwilleger: 3 hen
Rankin: 4, ckl; 2, pul; 3. pen. Lee Smith:
i. ckl. Rose: 5, ckl. Arthur: 4. pen.
Hazleton: .j, pen.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
_ Kaufmann A: Windham: 1, 3, ck; 4, puT
•>, pen. Oak Nest Farm; :!. ck. Smith- '
<k; 4. hen; .-,. pul. Pure Strain Farms:" 4'.
• •k. Skylands; .■.. hen. B^an: 3, hen- 1 "

j;^2:*fcf5^5»w««,M«f-fta»flw».-vin

January. '10

3, ckl; 1, pul; 2 ,3, pen. Bogert: 2, hen.
Red Feather Farm: 1, ckl; 4. pen. Strong:
5, ckl. Anderson: 4, ckl; 2, pul; 1, pen.
Hazleton: 3, pul.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.
Balch & Brown: 1, 2, 3. ck; 4, 5, hen;

3, 4, 5, ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4. pul; 1, 2, pen. Klee
Bros.; 4, 5, ck; 2. hen. River Home Poul.
Yds.: 1, 3. hen; 2 ,ckl; 5, pul; 3, pen. F.
Smith: 1, ckl.

DARK BRAHMAS.
Leach: 4, ck; 5. ckl. Lott: 5, ck; 3, hen;

4. pul. Adams: 3, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, 3,
cki; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Arnol: 1. 2, ck;
u, hen; 2, 4. ckl; 3, 5, pul. Minturn &
Son: 4, hen.

BUFF COCHINS.
Curry: 3, 5, ck ; 3, hen; 2, 5, ckl; 3, 5,
pul; 1. pen. Holmhurst Poul. Yds.: 4 ck-
4, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Ball: 2. ck; 2, ' hen!
Case: 1, ck; 1, 5, hen; 4, ckl; 2, pul; 2.
pen. North: 3, ckl; 4, pul.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.
Mitchell: 1. ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul- 1
pen. Rose: 2, ckl.

WHITE COCHINS.
Anderson: 2, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul; 1
pen. Rose: 1, ck ; 2. hen; 2, ckl; 1, pul. '
BLACK LANGSHANS.

T,,^*^,!; ^' ?^= ,"*• ^' ^^^'' 1' ^' ckl; 1, 2, pul.
Bloshke: 4, ck. Freeburn: 2, ck ; 3, hen •

2, ckl. Elm Poul. Yds.: 3. ckl; 2 ,hen; 2,
pen. Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 1, hen- l
pen. Urban: 5, ckl; 3, 4, pul. Payne': 4^
ckl; WMnkler: 5, pul.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Myers: 4, ck. Brinkerhoff: 3, ck. Grove
Hill Poul. Yds.: 1, 2, ck; 5, hen; L 3,
ckl; 1, pen. Hubbard: 3, hen; 2, 5, pul
Moyer: 1, hen. Hearsfield: 4, hen; 3 pen
Pritchlynn: 2. hen; 1, 3, pul; 2, pen. Braine!
%' ckl. Bowers: 4, ckl. Miers: .5, ckl
Cook, Jr.: 4, 6, pul. Astoria Poul. Yds •
;>, pen. Puder: 4, pen

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

The Gale Poul. Place; 1, ck; L 3. 5, hen;

3, Ckl; 3, pul; 1, pen. Inches: 2. 4. ck-

4, pul. Crawford: 3. ck; 2. ckl; 2, 5, pul'
2, pen. Lamsoii; .-,. ek, Oakley; 2, hen;

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS ^°" ^^^^'^y p"^^ *" '^^'^ <^'^^

on ^.^ QQ K ou 11 w ^^ Kenosha, Dec. 1909, .scoring

90 to 93 by bhellabarger. I have Cockerels of the same high quality for sale. Prices right and
satisfaction guaranteed. ^ *°°

J- H. RYAN, KenosHa, \¥is.

WHITE WYANDOTTES. ^ ^'" oflfenng at bargain prices Males

. , „ , ^ r- . — ■— — — — ii^-B. and Females of excellent quality both

old and young Can furn..h score cards with many of th.m. I guarantee satisfaction in e«ry

sale. Write me.

ELIZABETH DVPQNS, KenosHa, Wis.

PETERSON'S HOUDANS

Rev. C. E. Petersen, President American Houdan Club VM) to 1907 i-oi>iage oi cents

■ . ' ^•^' oridgton, Maine

The Undefeated Champion
Strain of America.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS. ^^ ^^"^^ ^^^^ *^^'" *^ t^*^ ^ig Missouri

iJL state Show, St. I^ouis, Dec, 1909. 1st, 2d

;M Pen in a class of 148 R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

Cup for best Male and Female, special for

Pullet; Ist. 3d Cockerel; 2d, 5th Hen; 4th, r)th Cock
Also R. I. Red (State Cup) the fourth year in succession
best Cockerel. Some good stock to spare yet.

CLASS »^« C> K, L REDS

strong competition Exhibition cockerels for sale. Kggs in season
MOTTO.^^^' "SATISFACTION GU ARTANTEED ^ OR YOUR

FRANK CHALUPA.

VIRCIL BLAKEMORE. Fayette. Mo.

My wnnnuK.^ i^» itiu.».t.e .... loiiow.-,: i ..^^ ,. .....

Iowa Nov. 17-20. 1st cockerel, l.st and 3rd pullet

and 1st pen. Richland. Iowa, Dec. 14-17 l«!t and

2nd cockerel 2nd, 3rd. 4th and pullet 1st pen in

Eggs in season. Score cards bv Ru.ssell and

MONEY BACK," IS MY

PLEASANT PLAIN, IOWA

ROSE COMB RHODF f^^^^l^^l^'oi youngsters iors^l^, bred.
*^^^'^*-' V^V^ITIU 1X1 IVfJ^lJ from the best winning and laying strain

in America. They are red to the quill and possess the
length of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typi-
cal Red. We solicit your orders and guarantee satisfaction
LUMBERTON POULTRY CO. JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.. ANTIGO.

ISLAND REDS

C. F. LIVINGSTONE,

WIS

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEG-
HORN SPECIALIST

Only a few of the.se fine pullet line bred breeders left at $1 60 and tl 75 each Next r»t, tum
hst some choice exhibition cockerel-bred cockerels for the show season The kind that make them
selves heard wherever shown. Write for prices. ^^^a"". t- nc itma mat make them-

C. F. LIVINGSTONE,

Member American S. C. Brown I^eghorn Club

CARPENTERSVILLE. ILL.

for sale. Young.slers from pen headed
by winner of A. P. A Sweepstake
Medal at Minneapolis, January, 1909.

BUFF WYANDOTTES

c I I rA-. 1 . . ivjruai ai ivimneapous, lanuarv. iy(W

Females in f«„ :Kor«i 92 and betlcr. 1 won at LaCros»e, December, 1908, Tucker, ludse 1.1 cockerel'
Ist pullet. 2d pen. Al«, Am. BufI Wyandotte Club Ribbon, m North Freedom. W , ,T„ IW My
vcjung .tock ,. «,ll better ,h.. year and wU win m the hottest classes. 11 you wakt wir;ner,. Zt me'^
w. a. HAKt, . , . , ELROY-WIS

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1. ckl. Llddell & Son: 4, hen; 4, 5, ckl.
Tabor: 1, pul.

8. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Young: 1. 2 4. 5, ck; 1. 5 hen; 1, 2. 3. 4.
6 ckl; 4, pul; 2. pen. Whiting Farms: 3,
ck; 2, 3, hen. Elm Poul. Yds: 4. hen; 5,

SINGLE COMB BROWN
LEGHORNS exclusively

^ ^ Bred for size, to lay,

to win. One and two-year-old males and fe-
males for sale cheap. Some of my high

scorers.

IRA FORD. LA GRANGE. INDIANA

S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C.

Rlarlc Minnrrac ^'^^y exhibition and
DldCK minorcaS breeding cockerels for
sale. Bred from high scoring, prize winning
stock. Also yearling stock both male and
female. My birds score to 95 and win the
blue wherever shown.
G. A. GAGE, LA GRANGE. IND.

I still have a few fine yearling BARRED
ROCK breeders to sell and 200 of the best
chicks I ever owned. Order now and get
your pick. Prices right.

E. F. PEIRCE
RTE. 1. PORT CLINTON. OHIO

Breeder of Prize Winning Barred Rocks

Single Comb Brown S^if^^ia^?!^^

I Pahnf n« CHAMPIONS «bow8 in 20 years
LegnOrnS ^f^^,^ yve.t Kecord unequall-
ed. Klght color
and size with yellow lejjs. I have a few breeding
hens to spare, good ones. Will let them go at
•1.50 each to make room for my young stock.
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at most reasonable prices.

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RTE. 58; NEW HAVEN, CONN.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

Argonatits :
Phoenix Fowls

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

: $5.00 per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general piir-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - E*«t Providence, R. I.

POULTRY FANCIER-

pen. Pine Top Poul. Farm: 5. ckl; 5. 6, pul;
1, pen. Oakland Poul. Yds: 3, pul. Rock
Hill Poul. Farm: 2, pul; 4, 6, pen. Blake:
1, pul. Rice: 3. pen.

R. C. WHITK LEGHORNS.

Burch: 2, ck; 3, ckl; 3, pul; 2. pen.
Black & White Poul. Farm: 1, ck; 1, 2,
hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Decker:
4, ckl.

8. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.

Knapp: 2. 4. ck; 1. 3, hen; 1, 3, ckl; 4,
pul. Royal Farms: 5, ck; 5, pul; 3, pen.
Benerlein: 3, ck ; 3, pul. Cox: 1, ck; 5,
pen. Hell: 4. hen; 1, pul. Cornish: 2,
hen. Roberts: 5, hen; 2, pen. Monmouth
Poul. Farms: ,5. ckl; 2. pul; 1, pen, Cre-
voi.serat: 4, ckl. Campbell: 2, ckl. Meri-
hew: 4, pen.

R. C. BUFF I^GHORNS.

Almendinger: 1. ck ; 2, ckl. Flsk ; 1, hen;
1, ckl; 1, pul. Crosby: 3, ckl.

S. C. BLACK LEGHORNS.
All to Black & White Poul. Farm.

ANCONAS.
Sheppard: 1, 2, 4, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, 3, 4,
ckl; 2, 3, 4, pul; 1, pen. Mains: 3, ck;

3, 5, hen; 2, 5, ckl; 1, 5, pul. Ellison:

4, hen.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Story: 5, ck. Smith: 1, ck; 3, 5, hen; 3,
ckl. Stevens: 4, ck. Hilldorfer; 3, ck; 2,
ckl; 5, pul; 1, pen. Dunne; 2, ck; 1, hen;

1, 4, pul. Wilson: 4, hen. Armstrong:

2, hen. Greenberry Farms: 4, ckl 2, pen.
Top Notch Farms: 5, ckl; 2, pul; 4, pen.
Greener: 1, ckl. Harrington: 3, pul. Schoff
Farms: 5, pen. Thethaway: 3, pen.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Collins & Son: 5 ck; 1, hen. Grover: 2,
ck; 2, pul. Story: 4, ck. Samuels: 1, ck;

3, hen; 3, ckl; 1, 4, pul. Mountjoy: 3, ck.
Clark: 4, 5. hen; 5, ckl; 5, pul; 1, pen.
Bent: 2, hen; 2, pen. McKittrick: 1, 2,

4, ckl.

S. C. WHITE MINORCAS.
Raschke: 2, ck; 2, hen; 3, ckl; 3, pul.
Teetz: 1. 3. ck; 1, 3. hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2,
pul. Wingerd: 4, hen.

R. C. WHITE MINORCAS.
All to Adair.

BUFF MINORCAS.
All to Luce & Hill.

BLUE AND.4LUSIANS.
Banner Poul. Yd.s. : 3, 4, ck; 1, ;?. hen;

5, ckl; 4, h, pul; 2, pen. Llangollen Farm:

1, 2, ck; 4, 5, hen; 1, 4, ckl: 1. 2, pul; 1,
pen. Alter: 2, ck. Councill: 3, ckl; 3, pul.

BLACK SPANISH.
All to Kennedy.

WHITE CRESTED BL.\CK POLISH.
Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 2, ck; 3, hen; 2,
ckl; 2. pul; 1, pen. Mayer: 1. ck ; 1, 2,
hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul.

GOLDEN POLISH.
All to Rose Court Poul. Yds.

SILVER POLISH.
Shriever: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2. ckl: 1. pul; 1.
pen Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 1, ckl.

GOLDEN BEARDED POLISH.
All to Schriever.

BUFF LACED POLISH.
All to T^langollen Farm.
HOUDANS.
Beresford: 1. 4, 5, ck; 1, 2. 4. hen; 1. 3.
5, ckl; 1, 2. 3, 4, pul; 1, pen. Crosby: 3.
ck. Springmann: 2, ck. Rose Court Poul.
Yds.: 5, hen; 4. ckl. Llangollen Farm: 3,
hen; 5. pul; 2, pen. Ballard: 2. ckl. Schoff
Farms: .'>. pen. Arnold: 4. pen. Shove:
3. pen.

LA FLECHE.
All to Elm Poul. Yds.

SALMON FAVEROI.LES.
Xeck: 1. 2. ck; 2. 3. hen; 1. 2. pul. Han-
na: 1, 4. hen; 1, pen. Annandale Farm:

2, pen.

LAKENVELDERS.
Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 2. 5. ck ; 2. hen.
Green: 1. 3. r,. ck; 1. 3. 4, hen; L 2, 3.
ckl: 1, 2. 3, pul; 1. pen. Cobb: 4, ckl;

''" ■ AMERICAN DOMINIQUES.

Skerritt & Son: 2. 3. 4. ck; 2. 3. hen; 4.
r. ckl; 1. n. pul. Davenport: 1. ck : 1, hen:
1.' 3, ckl: 2. 4. pul; 1, pen. Carter: 2, ckl:

3^ pul.

WHITK DOKKINGS.

All to Hales.

SILVER GREY DOKKINGS.

Jacobus: 3. 4. ck; 1, 3, r,. hen; 2. 4. ckl:
3 4. f). pul: L pen. Westfall; L 2. ck ;
2'. 4. hen; 1. ckl: 1. pul. Hales 5, ck ;

3, ekl: 2. pul.

GOLDEN SPAN(iLED HAMBURGS.
All to Oke .St Murray.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBl KGS.
I^aine: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul. Oke
1^' Murrav: 2. ck; 2. hen: 2. ckl; 3. pul.
Rlvervlew Poul. Yds.: 3. hen; 3. ckl. Llang-
ollen Farm: 2. pul.

GOLDEN PENCILED HAMBURGS.
Oke <fe Murray: 1. ck : 1. hen: 1, ckl; 1,
l)Ul. .Tarobus: 2, hen. Rose Court Poul.
Yds.: 3. hen.

8IL\T5R PENCILED HAMBURGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

BLACK HAMBURGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

EXHIBITION GAMES.
Morrow: 2, ck ; 4. hen. Bennett: 1. ck; 2.
hen. Hubley Schall: 3 5, hen; 4, ckl; 4, pul.
Mudge & Son: 1. hen; 2. ckl. Tllley: 5.
ckl; 3. pul. GIfford: 1, ckl; 1. pul. Frost:
3. ckl; 2. pul.

INDIAN GAMES.

Schaff Farms: 5, ck; 5, hen; 5, pul; 3,
pen. Huey: 2, ck; 3, hen. Hearsfield: 4,
ck; 4, ckl; 3, pul. Templeton: 1. 3, ck;

1, 2. hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2. pul. Bird: 4,
hen. Wampler: 3, ckl. Miller: 5, ckl; 4,
pul. Reider: 2, pen. Carpenter: 1, pen.

WHITE INDIAN GAMES.
Rosemary Farm: 3, 4, 5, ck; 1, 3, hen;

4, 5, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Megargee: 1,

2, ck; 2, 4, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 3, 4, pul. Mil-
ler: 3, ckl; 5, pul.

BI^CK OR BROWN RED PIT GAMES.

Schambacher: 1, ck; 2, hen. Wodell: 3,
ck; 4, ckl; 1, pen. Coplin: 2, ck. Freling-
huysen: 4, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 3, pul. Beat-
tie; 5, ck. Top Notch Farms; 3, hen; 1, 2,
pul. Memann: 4, hen. Nathans: 2, ckl.
Green: 5, ckl.

SILV*:R or GOLDEN DUCKWING PIT

GAMES.

Blackstone: 4, ck. Dumars, Cokefair &
Churchill; 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Green: 2, ck; 1, hen. Hubbard: 3, ck.
ANY OTHER COLOR PIT GAMES.

Deming: 4. ck Dumars, Cokefair &

Churchill: 2, ck ; 2, hen; 2, 4. ckl. Beattie:
1, 5, ck; 2, pen. Hubbard: 3, ck. Bennett:

1. hen. Nathans: 5, hen. Chaffee: 3, hen;

5, pul. Memann: 4, hen. Top Notch Farms:
5. ckl. Frelinghuysen: 1, ckl. Buck: 3,
ckl. Morgan: 1, pul; 1, pen. Mt. Pleasant
Farms: 2, 3, pul. Green: 4, pul. Hallock:
4, pen. Dodds: 5, pen. Roach: 3 pen.

SILVER CAMPINES.
All to- Jacobus.

ANY OTHER VARIETY POULTRY.

Howell: 1, 2, ck ; 1, 2, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2,

pul. Wilhelmina Poul. Farm: 3. ck; 4, hen;

?), ckl; 5. pul. Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 3,

hen. Adams; .5, hen; 4, ckl; 3, pul. Lovett :

3, ckl; 4, pul.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BAN-
TAMS.
Fllkin: 1, 4, ck; 5, ckl. Congdon; 5, ck ;

3, hen. Havemeyer Bros.: 2, ck; 1, 2. hen;

2. 3, 4, ckl; 2, 3, 4, pul; 1, pen. Fincke
& Thornton: 3, ck. ; 4, hen; 5, pul.
Schwenker: 5. hen. Wild Goose Farm; 1,
ckl. Kienzle; 1, pul.

BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS.
Kohle: 1, ck; 4. .^. ckl; 3. pul. Congdon:

4, ck; 4, hen. Havemeyer Bros.: 3, ck; 2,
hen; 1, ckl; 1, 2, pul. Fincke & Thornton:
2 ck; 1. hen; 2, ckl: 4, pul. Schwenker;
5'. hen; 3, ckl; 5, pul. Wild Goose Farm:

GOLDEN DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.

Wild Goose Farm: 2. ck ; 1, hen; 4, ckl;

5, pul. Congdon: 3, ck; 4, hen; 2, ckl; 2,
pul, Havemeyer Bros.: 1, ck; 2, 3, hen; 3,

4, pul. Kienzle: 1, ckl; 1. pul. Schwen-

Ic P T* * '? C It 1

SILVER bl CKWING GAME BANTAMS.

All to Havemeyer Bros. .^,^.„^
RED PYLE GAME BANTAMS.

Schwenker: 1, ck; 3. hen. Havemeyer
Bros.: 3, ck; 4. hen; 1. 2. 3. 4. ckl; 1, 2, 4,
pul- 1. pen. Fincke & Thornton: 2. ck; 5,
hen- 5. ckl; 5. pul. Wild Goose Farm: 1.
hen; 3, pul. Filkin: 2, ben.

BIRCHEN GAMES.

Schwenker: 4, ck; 4. hen. Congdon: 2.
ck- 5 pul. Havemeyer Bros.: 1. ck; 2. hen;
1 cki; 2. pul; 1. pen. Fincke & Thornton:
.3 ck; 3. hen; 4. ckl; 3. pul. Wild Goose
Farm: r.. hen. Kahle: 1. hen; 4. pul.
Stowe: 3, ckl: 1. pul. Cook: 2. ckl.
WHITE GAME BANTAMS.

Havemeyer Bros.: 1, 2. ck: }-^^l'^^l^'
1. 2. 3, ckl; 1. 2. 3. pul; 1. pen. Wild Goose

'^'''^"' WHEATON GAME BANTAMS.

All to Klckler.

SILKIES.

Ro«e: 1. ck: 4. hen; 3. 5. ckl; 2. pul.
Peapack Farm: 2. 3. ck ; 1. 2, hen; 1. 2,
ckl- 1 3, pul. Llangollen Farm: 4. 5. ck .
", '1 lien: .'> pul. Tullock: 4. ckl: 4. pul.
GOLDEN SE ABRIGHT BANTAMS.

Duval: 1. 3. ck; 1. 2. hen: 1. 2. 4 ckl;
1 4 T), pul. Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 4. ck.
Oke'& Murray: 2. ck ; 3. hen: 3. pul. Hun-
gerford: .'.. hen; 1, ckl. Eddy & Young:
4 hen. Rose: 3. ckl: 2. pul,

SILVER SEABRIGHT BANTAMS.

Demmv Bros.: 2. ck : 5. hen; 2, ckl; 4.
t)ul. Hungerford: 3. ckl: 2. r>. pul. Foulke:
4 ck; 2. 3. hen. Oke & Murray; 1. ck; 1,
ben- 4. ckl; 1 pul. Manls: 4, hen. Duval:

3. ckl. Rose Court Poul Yds.: 1 ckl. Rose:

5, ckl; 3. pul.

R. C. BLACK BANTAMS.
Tilley: 1. 2, ck : 1. 4. ben; 1. ckl: 1. 2.
3. pul:" 1. pen. Wieners: .'>. ck ; 3. hen: 4.
pul. Oke & Murray: 4, ck ; 5. hen: 5. ckl.
Grove Hill Poul. Yds.: 3. ck. Wild Goose
Farm: 2. hen; 1. 3, ckl; 5. pul. Carrlck:

R. C. WHITE BANTAMS.

Wild Goose Farm: 1. 3, ck ; 2, 3. hen; 2. 3.
pul. Oke .S: Murray: 2. ck: 1. hen; 1. ckl;
1. pul. Eddv * Young: 4. ben: 4. pul.
ANY VARIETY BOOTED BANTAMS.
All to Oke <Sr Murray.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
Collins & Son: 1, 2. ck ; 2, 3. hen; .""i, ckl.
Schilling: 3. 4. ck ; 1, 4. hen: 1, 2. ckl; 1. 2.
pul; 1, pen. Faust: fj, ck. Rock Hill Poul.
Farm: 5. hen; 3, ckl; 2. pen. Megargee &
Co.: 4. ckl; 3, 5, pul. Homeyer: 4. pul; 3.
pen,

WHITK COCHIN BANTAMS.
Jessel: 2, hen. Megargee: 1, 4. hen; 1,

r

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WHITK ANO SILVKK LACEIJ WYAN-
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guaranteed. Get prices.

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Pens, single Birds

Prices right. O. L. PROUTY

Box 115, New Lothrop, Mich

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN, PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
room. 30 years a poultryman.

Donaghey's S. C. Reds S^^^^'r^Z^rtf

hrst prizes, silver cups and other specials at Wis-
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S. C BROWIN
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for several years. Cock-
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Excellent layers Prices reasonable.
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T. CADWALLADER. Dox 960, Salem, Ohio

t'kl; 1. 2, pul. Rose Court Poul. Yds.: 1,
hen. Hungerford: 2, ckl. Reynolds: 1, 2,
pen.

BLACK rOC'HIN BANTAMS.

Collins & Son: :i, ck; 1, hen; 4, pul. Con-
ner: 1, ok; 1. fkl; 1, pul. Me^arRee & Co.:

2, ek. Watt: 4, ck; :i, ckl. Fraleigh : ."), ok;
:i, hen; 2, ckl; 5, pul. Josenhous: 2, ',. hen;

3, pul. Bowers: 4, hen; 4, ckl; 2, pul.
Memann: 2, ckl.

r.^RTRIDOE rO( HIN BANTA.MS.

-Ml to Mtg^arg^ee.

LIGHT BKAHM.V BANTAMS.

Shaw & Mcintosh: 1, 3. ck; 3. 5, hen;
1. 2, ckl; I, 2, pul. Central Bantam Yd.:

4, ck. Welch; 2, 5, ck ; 1. 2, 4, hen; 3, 4,
ckl; 3. 4. pul. Fry: 1. pen.

DAKK BKAH.>L\ B.ANTA3IS.

Stockel Bros.: 1, ck ; 1, 2, hen. Wilson:
3, hen.

SPECKLKI) SUSSEX.
Conrad .SL- Bratt: 1, 3, pen. Scoskie: 2,
]>en.

WHITE JAPANESE BANT.AMS.
Alber.s: 1, ck; 1, hen. Oke Xr Murray:
3, ck; 2. hen; 1. pul. Eddv ^' YounR: 2, c-k.
BLACK JAPANESE BANTAMS.
All to Oke <fc Murray.
BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.
Tilley: 2, ck ; 4, 5, pul. Otte: 1, ck; 3,
pul. Oke & Murray; 3, ck : 3. hen; 1, ckl;
2, pul. Albers: 1, hen; 1, pul. Becker:

2, hen.

.ANY OTHER VARIETY JAI'ANESE BAN-
TAMS.
Alber.s: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 1, pul. Gould: 3,
ck. Oke & Murray: 2, ck; 2. hen; 2, i)ul.
Otte: 1, ckl; 3, pul.

ANY VARIETY POLISH BANTAMS.
Rose: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1. 2. pul.
Oke & Murray: 2, ck : 2, hen. Rose Court
Poul Yds.: 3. hen. Schreiver: 2, ckl.
BRONZE TIRKEYS.
Kreutter: 4. ck. Kenny: 2, ck; 1, pul.
liiid Bros.: 1, 3, .'>, ck; 1, 3, ."., hen; 1, 2,

3. 4, ckl; 2. 4. pul. George: 2, hen. Ken-
dall & I.,angley: 4, hen; 3, pul. Pullins
liios. : r>, ckl ; 't, pul.

BOLRBON REI> Tl RKEYS.
Sunny Brook Farm: 2, ck ; 2, hen. Dysart
Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen.

WHITE TLRKEYS.
Kreutter: 2. ck; 1, 2, hen: 1, 3, ckl; 2, 3,
pul. Royal Farms: 3, ck. Hun^erford: 5,
ck. Harries: 4, ck; 4. hen. Moss: 1, ck;
3, hen. Linton: H, hen. Stickles: 2 ckl; 1,
pul.

NARAGANSETT T I RKEYS.
All to Sunnvbrook Faiin.

SLATE Tl RKEYS.
Little: 1. ck; 1. hen. Sunn.\- Brook

I''arm: 2, ck; 2, hen.

BL.ACK Tl RKEYS.
Seele.N- <Sr Son; 1, ek; 1, hen. Sunny Bro(d<
Farm: 2, ck ; 2, hen.

MALLARD DICKS.
.\nnandale Farm: 1, jien. Ro^Re: 2, i)en.

PEKIN Dl < KS.
Westlook Fai-m: 1. r)ld diake; 1, old
(luck; 2, youuR drake; 3, young duck; 1,
l)en. Samuels: 2. old drake; 5, old duck;

3, young drake; 1, young duck. Evelvn
Heights Farm: 3, n, old drake; 2, 4. old
• luck; 1. young drake; 2. young duc-k. Sites:

4. old drake; 3. old du(k

ROl EN DKKS.
Skylands: 3, old drake; 3. old duck; 3,
young drake; 3. young duck. Schiann: 1,
4. old drake; 1, 2, old duck; 2, voung
drake; 4, young duck. Seeley ^^e Son: .".,
old drake; o. old «luck. Wyleyhurst Farm:
2. old drake; 4. old duck. Brett: 1. voung
drake: 2, young duck; 1. pen. .Morris: 4,
young diake; 1, young duck. Kreutter: 2^

I)en.

MlSiOVEY DICKS.

-All to Carpenter.

WHITE (RESTED DICKS.

Wyleyhurst Farm: 2. drake; 2, du(k.
Sehreivei-; 1. drake; 1. duek

SWEDISH Dr( KS.
.Ml lo Morris.

AYLESBIRI Dl ( KS.
Morris: 1. old drake; 1. old duck; 1.
.voung drake; 1. young duck. Wyleyhurst
l-'aiiii: 1. old drake.

INDIAN Rl NNER DICKS.

Tilley: 4, 5, old drake; 4, .">. old duck; 2,

.voung drake; 4, .">. young duck; 2, pen.

Westlook Farm: 3. old drake; 3, old duck.

Galleher: 2, old drak«>; 2. young duck. Sites;

1. (dd drake; 1, 2, old duck; 3, 4, voung
<lrake; 1. :{. young duck; 1. pen. Success
Farm; ."). young drake: :?. ]>rn. Moiiis- 1
young drake.

EAST INDIAN DICKS.
Morris: 1. old duck; .'■>. young duck. Til-
ley: 1, 2, 3. 4, i), young drake; 1, 2. 3, 4.
young duck; 1, pen.

BIFF ORPIN(iTON DK KS.
Sturgess: 3, .^), drake; 3. duck. Cook \-
Son; 4, drake; 4, duck. Dunroliin Farm; 1
drake; 1. duck; 1. i)en. Morris; 2, drake;

WHITE CALL DICKS.

Rake: I, diake. Tillev: 1, pc-n
(iRAY CALL DICKS.

Tilley: 1. jxri.

TOLOisE <;eese.

Kenny: 4, <dd gandei- 1. 2. old goo.se ;

2. young gander; 2, young goose; 1, i)en.
McOraw: .•">, old uander; ,".. old goose King"

1, old gander; 3. rdd goose. Seelev iVt Son •

2. 3, old gander; 4, old goo.se; 3, young
gander; 3. young goo.se; 2, pen. Kc-ndall

& Langtdey: 1, young gander; 1, young
goose. Westlook Farm: 3, pen.
EM B DEN CJEESE.
Stickles: 2, old gander; 3, young gander.
King: 3, old gander; 2, old goose; 2, young
goose. Sites: 1, old gander; 1. old goose;

2, young gander; 1, young goose. I^ittle:
1, young gander.

BROWN CHINESE C;EESE.
Seeley: 1, gander; 2, goose. McC^Iave: 2,
gander; 1. goose.

WHITE C HINESE CiEESE.

Rake: 2, gander; 4, goose. Masten : 1, 4,
gander; 1, 2, goose. McClave: 3. gander;

3, goose.

AFRICAN CEESE.
Sunny Brook Farm: 2, gander; 2, goose.
McClave: 1, gander; 1, goose.

ANY OTHER VARIETY GEESE.
Tilley: 2. 3, gander; 1. 2, goose. Westlook
I'^'arni : 1 , gander.

Jos. M. Fay, 808 Howard Ave., Altoona,
Pa., is offering a lot of 700 birds for sale
at rock bottom prices if taken at once.
He breeds several varieties of fowls, as
will be noted b.v referring to his ad in
tills issue. He guarantees the (luality of
his stock and says that lie can please
any one who will jdace their order with
liim. This is an opportunity for our read-
ers to get some really good stock at low
prices.

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Tlie attention of Bai'red Plymoutli Rock
breeders is called to the ad of Earnest
Wagoner whicli appeals in tlii.s isstie of
the P'ancier. Mr. Wagoner has bred
Barred Rocks for a good many years and
Ills birds have won honors wherever
sliown. At the Kendallville, Ind.. show,
iield January 4 to 8, Tuck<^r, judge, in as
strong a class as was ever shown In
nortliein Indiana, Mr. Wagoner won
third, fourth cockerel, second pen. At
La Grange, Ind., he won tirst cock, first
hen, second pullet. His ])irds have also
won tile blue ribl)ons at Butler and Wa-
terloo. Ind,, in stron.g competition. Cus-
tomers buying eitlier stock or eggs from
Mr. Wagoner will not only be treated
riglit but will receive full vaue for every
dolliir sent liim.

We are starting an ad in tliis number
for Frank Clialupa of Pleasant Plain.
Iowa. .Judge Dagle writes us tliat he lias
been at Mr. Chalupa's farm and scored
some tine cockerels and pullets for him
ami has also liaiidled his birds in tlie
show room. He advises us that Mr. Clia-
lupa lias some tine S. C. R. I. Reds and
any one wanting stock or eggs will make
no mistake in placing their order with
Mr. Clialu|)a.

Naumburg ^ Booth. 1532 West Bancroft
St., Toledo. ().. repoi-t the following win-
nings this season: At Itliaca. Mich., on
S. VVliite Legliorns, second cock*^rel, third
cockerel, tirst and third hens, third ]>ul-
iet. first lien and tie for the higliest scor-
ing bird in the show. On White Wyan-
dottes they won first cockerel, third hen
and third pullet. At Wapakoneta. O., on
Wliile Wyandottes they won first cock-
erel, first and second liens, first and sec-
ond inillets. first pen. At Sylvania, O.,
on White Wyandottes. thev won first
cockered, first cock, first ' and second
hens, first, second and third pullets and
first ])en. Tiiis firm is a leader in their
two varieties and can please tiieir cus-
tomers both in <iuality and price.

Thos. M. Stubbletiidd. Rout- »;, Green-
field, 111., can supnly our readers witii
extra choice S. (\ Wliit,. Legliorns. Barred
Koeks and White Holland turkevs and his
])rices are reasonable. He also has eggs
lor hatching and can mak-.^ promjit siiit)-
ments. At the Fit tslicdd. III., sliovv this
season on 1<; entries he won eight first
prizes, fiv seconds and two thirds At
Greenfield on seven entries he won ftnii-
first ])i'izes.

Breeders of Huff Plymouth Rocks who
are lo(»king for a place to send tlieir or-
ders tor eggs the coming spring will do
well to look up the ad of Harrv Sower
Rome City. Ind.. which ai)pears in this
is-ue of the Fancier. Mr. Sow*'r is a
man of honor and will treat his custom-
er.s right, besides he will give vou full
value in Ins eggs. His sto(d< is A No 1
At the great Kendallville. Ind.. show. Jan-
uary 4 to 8. a show which Judge Tucke'-
sa.vs was ecjual in (|uality to the largest
shows. Mr. Sower won f,n his Huff Rocks
first, second. third and fourth hens'
fourth cockerel, first and third pullets
and second iH>n.

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POULTRY FANClERr

Answers to Questions

ReacJers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question.— Why is not a high scoring
prize winning bird as good for a breeder
as its condition indicates?

Answer.— It may be a chance good
specimen from poor parents, in which
case it could not be depended upon to
reproduce its equal.

Question. — How can eggs for hatching
be .safely packed for shipment?

Answer. — Fse common splint baskets
such as can be purchased from the grocer
at about .'J.5 cents per dozen. Line the
bottom and sides with excelsior about
an inch thick. Take a small quantitv
and shap«^ it about like a bird's nest and
in it, after which close the
over the egg, making it
ball Prepare each egg in
pack them in the basket,
la.ver of excelsior on top.

place an egg
opening well
round like a
this manner,
place a thick

is against the rules of the American
Poultry Association.

Question. — Is the rose comb on the Wy-
andotte as easy to breed as the single
comb on the Plymouth Rock?

Answ^ei\ — There is about the same p<^r-
centage of good combs found in each
breed, but in say 50 birds of equal qual-
ity of each breed selected at random the
single combs as a lot would approach
nearer perfection than the rose combs.

Question. — Is it reasonable to expect
cockerels and pullets to reach standard
nine months of age?
-Only a portion of any flock
and generally not more than 25

weight at

Answer
will do it
per cent.

two dollars to several hundred dollars
eacli.

Question. — I want to raise pedigreed
birds this season, and do not know how
to mark the young chicks. Will you
please tell me how to go about it? How
can I tell one from another when hatched
by a hen, and how can I mark them
when too small to use leg bands?

Answer.— The only plan is to use a toe
punch and punch a hole in the web be-
tween tlie toes, as for instance a hole
in the right web of the right foot wall
indicate chicks from a certain mating; a
hole in the right web of the left foot
will indicate another. Many different
combinations can thus be made. The
eggs should be marked with the band
number of the hen when they are taken
from the nest and then closely watched
when liatching. The best method is to
set all of one hen's eggs under the same
hen (not necessarily the hen that lays
them), and then there will be no mistake
in marking the chicks at the time of
hatchiniT. If a record is desired only
from certain pens and not from individ-
ual hens, the inatter is much more sim-
ple, as eggs from several hens may be
set together and all the chicks marked
alike when hatched.

and cover with a piece of muslin, sewing
the edges down through the sides of the
basket with a h'^avy darning needle and
twine. There are other methods, but this
one insures absolute safety if properly
done. Kg:^ boxes and patent carriers art-
less troulil^, but are much less protection
to the eggs and are responsible for many
poor hatches.

Question. — Can fancy eggs for hatching
be packed in any way that will secure safe
transportation by mail?

Answer. — They might reacli their d^s-

■Jf -Sf

tination unbroken,
handled too roughly
good hatch.

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but they would be
en route to insure a

Question. — What are some of the first
points of excellence a breeder should con-
sider w^hen mating his breeding birds?

Answ^er.— First of all, they should be
healthy, vigorous and of fair size. Pav
particular attention to shape of back, tail
and breast, and color of wings and tail.

Question. — Is it customary, when weigh-
ing birds in the show room, to give them
the advantage of one-fourth or one-half
pound?

Answer. — It is sometimes done, but it is
an injustice to the exiiibitors who have
their birds up to weight, and the practice

Qu*-stion.— Is it not possible for a fowl
to show^ white in the ear lobes tempor-
arily?

Answer.— Yes. There is a difference,
however, in the white resulting from sick-
ness or poor condition and the enamel
white which, in some breeds, disqualifies.

Question. — Can you or any of your read-
ers tell me the name and address of the
Secretary of the Int«^rnational Water Fowl
Club?

Answer. — We are unable to learn anv-
thing regarding such a club, and we do
not know whether or not it exists. The
Water Fowl Club of America is an active
organization, and the secretary is P^dwin
H. Morris, Sparkill. N. Y.

Question.— Kindly give me a description
of Barred Plymouth Rocks weight and
value.

Answer. — Your request is too indefinite.
We do not understand just what you
want. The Standard of Perfection is the
only iilace where .you can get the exact
description of shape and color of all sec-
tions of this variety. The w^eights are:
Cock, 1)1/2 lbs.; cockerel 8 lbs.; hen. 714
lbs.; pullet. 61/2 bs. The new Standard
will specify (> lbs. for pullets. The value
of specimens of this variety ranges from

Waterproof Roofing.

Most people think that a material
which is called a roofing is of course
waterproof. As a matter of fact ordinary
ready roofings are only waterproof for a
little while, and do not really become
roofs at all until they are painted. Most
ready roofings when new have a coat of
paint which has been applied at the fac-
tory, and when the paint wears out it
must be promptly renewed or the manu-
facturers' guarantee will not hold.

An up-to-date roofing like Amatite. has
a surface of pitch and mineral matter
which, is absolutely proof against water.
The pitch in Amatite Roofing is in two
good thick layers. On account of the
oily nature of pitch water has no effect
upon it. and accordingly Amatite Roofing
needs no paint whatever and can be left
out in rain and snow and sun year after
.vear without any attention or care.

Despite this peculiar surface, .\matlte
is just as easy to lay as any other roofing
and does not cost any more.

A sample of Amatite can be obtained
free on request to nearest ofnc<^ of the
Barrett Mfg. Co., New York. Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston, St. Ix)uis, Cleve-
land. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Kansas City,
Minneapolis. New Orleans.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

12 for 16c ; 26— 26c; 60— 40c ; 100—750.
SHjnpIo Jiand Mailed for 8o .StJiinp.

Frinl Myers, Mfr. B0168, Frasport.lJI,

BARRED ROCKS,

RHODE ISLAND REDS, Both Combs

BUFF TURKEYS,

We have a fine lot of cockerels and pullets to offer our customers at prices ranging
from $1 50 to $25.00 each. Before placing your order write us describing what you
want and receive our catalog, which will be sent without charge. We guarantee every-
thing as represented and all orders are shipped subject to approval. Our pens will
be mated up early in December. Our new incubator house with twenty large
machines will be ready for use in a few weeks. When you get ready for eggs or
day-old chicks from first class stock, write us. Address,

WILLIAM OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM,

BOX P, MORRIS, ILLINOIS

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POULTRY FANCIERe

Ads will be inserted in this department under the following conditions : The size
shall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column- Each
advertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year.^ Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

^rysui White Orpington fS?'

cockerels
sale,
Kellerstrass strain. Also choice White Wy-
andotte and White Rock* cockerels. Get
prices now D. A. WEDGE

215 GALENA STREET, AURORA. ILL.

C. Buff Orpingtons and Barred

Rocks of Quality.

We won four silver cups this season, two
with each variety. Eight fine yards mated
for this season's egg trade. Eggs from best
matings $3 per 15. Stock for sale, send for
circular. A. S. & E. Hileman. Monessen, Pa.

COLUMBIAN WYAN
DOTTES

Bred from the
money can buy

Strain. Satisfaction gauranteed.

and 13 00 per .setting.

LOUIS WESTFALL, R. 3 WAVERLY. N.Y

best stock
(Keating's
Kggs $2.00

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Rf^rlft None better. 40 first and second
IXCUO. prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. J. IILISS. Carthace, Mo.

Anrnnae EXCLUSIVELY.
i%llCUU<t5 years. Hundreds

l^eaiiers for 12"
years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our •ustomers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover,
6115 Station St.. East End, Pittsburg. Pa.

President Ancona Club of America

PEACH GROVE STOCK '"''

won
the blue

ribbons at New York. Syracuse and Rochester
for three years. Grand young Houdan and
BuflF Wyandotte stock at right prices. Write
me.
MRS. R. Y. BOWDEN. Clifton Springs. N. Y.

lammol
Turkeys

bronze

Moseley has the
largest and best
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys,
noted for superior size of frame,
bone, vigor and color. Especially pure white
Edgings. Produced 48 to 50 lb toms. Score to
98. Money refunded if not satisfied. Honesty
guaranteed. R^S. Moseley. Cambridsre.N.Y

RKED'S ROSE COMH BKOWN LE(i-
HORNS. Have the record of wiimliiK nearly
every first prize at ChlenKO and other flbows the
past five years. Can spare some nice hreedlDK
cockerels fit to exhibit at the local shows. Also
have some extra fine bred pullet breeding cock-
erels. Fit to head any pullet matlnjr.
I>R. F. IVf. RKEI>, WYANKT, ILT,.

For ten dollars you can buv four hens. 1
cock B»rr«d PlysnoutH R.ocks.

I won 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, also 2 Special
Prizes at Decatur, 111., January 1909.

J. J. HACKETT
BOX 81, - TUSCOLA, ILI^.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
$3 per 15, $5 per 30. I will more than please yon.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

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Fuller's Barred Rocks f;f J'^^o'st

strains of prize winners in America. I^ine
bred for size, shape and color. Good breeders
for sale, either sex. Early hatched youngsters
ready. Write your wants. No trouble to an-
swer, A. F..FULLER, Box C, Mattoon. ill.

Few choice n J CtxAit^w'tAQ^ Sired by
Single Comb '^Ca ^OCKereiS pirst and

Special cockerel of Decatur, 111. in a class 75.

Also Rose Comb Reds. Beck strain direct.

Score cards furnished after November 27th.

Prices $2 00 up

FERD. W. OERTEL, BRIGHTON. ILL

SILVER WYAN DOTTES
BEST STRAINS

Special for the next month. Promising
cockerels at |2 00. Stock and eggs.

C. G. LOEBER
482 11th Av<>., Milwaukee, Wis.

YOU SHOULD MAKK A WILL. Read
"Make your awn will" under classified
advertisements In this Issue of "Poultry Fancier"
The time to make a will Is when you are in
sound health.

MOFFETT'S WILT. FORMS
Dept. F., 894 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Big ^Wliite Bea^&ties

If you want White Rocks that are white, grand
In shape and good lavers, dont fall to write me.
First prize winners at Milwaukee and other
strons; shows. They win for me and my
customers. Eggs from my best birds at living
prices. Prompt shipment and saMsfactlon guar-
anteed. Mrs. L. ShultH, "The Oaks" Rlo,Wl8.

I^INE BR.ED FOR 20 YEARS

Exhibiton and breeding stock for sale.
Dscribe wants for prices — "Do it now."

E. W. BUECHLY, Box 10, Greenville, 0.

BARRED ROCK COCK-

17 DC* I C Best I ever raised. Guaranteed
i:«I\.IJ1^0 to please. $;^ 00 to $5.00 each .

GEO. O. ANDERSON
R. 5, BOX 0022, RUSHVILLE. IND.

S, C> Rhode Island Reds,

Over 400 youngsters coming on for the fall
trade.

J. E. SCHUTTE, LEBANON, SO. DAK.

Silver L.a«;e<l Wyaiuiot ten, Whit*- <'reHt«'d
Itlark PoUmIi and Barred I'lyniouth
BockH. Direct desceudantH from Madison square;
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eight regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, ,Ian.
4-!>. JHOfl, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale,. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
\Vm. Neiers. Prop., I., It. 45, Cascade, la.

BARRED ROCKS AND WHITE
ORPINGTONS For Sale. ^^r. '"'

A. J, Waldschmidt, Washington, Iowa

t:'j:/ai73firirfA^'-WrVfV'V/-^'-3>.?f,ii>g

January. '10

White Wyandottes jreX^sTt mo'

and Kans. State shows. 1908. First pen at
Mo. State Fair, Oct. 1909. Young or old stock
$2.00. $3.00 and $5 00 Two fine show cocks
$10 00 and 51.".. (X). Free circular.
S. G. WHIPRECHT, Box H, Sedalia. Mo.

EffSTH for Hatching: after Feb. 15, from .S. C.
Black and AVhite Minorcas, S, C. Brown
Lefirhorns both cockerel and pullet line. A few
cockerels for sale from above breeds. Also one
year old Leghorn hens $1 up. Good breeding
stock. Extra choice pullet breeding Leghorn ckls.
C.JACKSON, - BUCHTKL, OHIO
Member A. S. C. Brown Leghorn Club

CORNISH INDIANS

Blood of the best
Imported and do-
mestic prize winners. Fine cockerels for breed-
ing and exhibition and a few cocks for sale. I
can help you. Prices right.

T. 1>. MOORE
BOX 93, . HOPKINSVILLE, KY.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH I'::' It^.'^^S.

D|^/^I/'C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION, IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE LSLAND REOS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire '"Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, line combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggK write
Dr. E. B, CRAMBLIT, AMES, lO^WA

Choice Collie Puppies h"i,!dsomtlu1

as I make a specialty of Whites. I do not place
as high a value on the colored ones that come
along with them and so offer them at low
prices. SERVOSS COLLIE KENNELS
BOX 220. - EDISON PARK. ILL.

IJarred Rock, White Wyandottes, W kite
Orpinsrtons, Maiumuth Bronze Turkeys.

Hens, cockerels and pulletH for sale, grand birds.
Prize winners wherever shown, excellent layers,
leading strains. Give me an order. My motto, to
please. Prompt shipment and satisfaction guar-
anteed. Prices reasonable One % wild, ^ bronze
Tom for sale. Miss Clara Smith, Croxton. Va.

<'<)C1HNS IIO.MK. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Hrabmas. First prlz'^
and sllvercup winners aiJWiuuepeg, Can., Seattle
A.Y.P., Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N.Y. Get my pricee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, ,3.'», Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKS I ^,,

u n g

o c

Also yearlings.

sired by a 95 point male.
Special prices for short time.
A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

WATSONS •=*'^^T'"' REDS I °„" ,?

grand-sons for sale from Golden Princess

that layed 291 eggs in a year. Also yearling

IRA P. WATSON, FREDONI A, N. Y.

(N>himbian Plymouth KockH (Sweet's
Strtiln.) Hlack-talled -Japanese and BulT Cochin
Bantams, Harred Rocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book vour
order early for eggs from my choicest matings
at 1:5. (H» per 15. 1.5.00 per 30. Bantam eggs at 12 ."JO
per 15, |i4.()Oper30. ^^ '

K. B. IIOBKKTS C VN.ASTOTA, N. V

le Comb Reds f,?S^^«,'.„X.^p'-\

has the Nicest Ueds here In Hrlghton why He
cause nriy Strain comes from Hennett's famous
prize-winners scoring from •>(; to 94. Kecelvod '5
prizes lately. # Write fon.rlces of eggn. Mat'lnir
list ready F6b. ir,. Satisfaction gauranteed
.1 V. I,Htnpert, . Hrij^hton, 111

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POULTRY FANCIER^

Columbian Wyandottes ? * "= "^ ' ? J < ^- •"• ROCKS & s. c. w. leghorns

S

Strain are prize winners. They win fo? me^
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale prSes
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Leeseville. Mich. Station 23. Detroit Mich*

S. C. Rhode Island Reds and ^^•^

Win.

on

Barred Plymouth Rocks STd'^'bEd

ing stock for sale. Write us for description
and prices *^

E. H. DOWNS, RTE. 20, IDAVILLE, IND.

America's Foremost Strains '.^^^HT'

Direct *°^,\<^.^^s^ prices on S. C. Reds, S.
1^11 cut. c. White I^eghorns, Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February l.'ith, .') eggs free.
K.Qh?LHvZie«enfua«,_ Box Z. Bethlehem. Pa.

i Crawford's R. C. Brown Yo'k^'sut" ^

T Aahnrnc ^^^^' Syracuse. N.Y.,l pen young
L.egn0rnS i cockerel, 1 and 3 pullet. Exhr
bition cockerels and pullets that can win at
any show. 50 yearling breeders, 50 cockerels
for sale cheap to make room All high cla«s
stockCircular Jas. Crawford. Cameron Mills. N V

Trap-Nested, Standard-bred,

Rhode Island REDS

Dr. Holmes'

Single

Comb

Famous blood, vigor, vitality, heavy layers
Stock and eggs in season.

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. - EVANSTON, ILL.

Barred Plymouth ^rrs'T'lZl'^s

R nr!r« EXCLUSIVELY leading shows in
IXULKb 1(08-1909. Also their layingqualities
cannot be excelled. L,ast years breeding stock
also cockerels and pullets for .sale. Write us
for prices. S R. Patterson. CentervUle. Iowa

TOULOUSE GEESE

that win. Also
White Chinese
Geese and Fawn Headed Indian Runner
Drakes for sale. Breeder and shipper of fancy
land and water fowls. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER, Box F. Lancaster, Mo.

P FILE'S CATALOCiUK glvcH
prlccH of all the leading? varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and ckKS in season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFILE
Freport, 111, Dept. A

Quality Strain WARKEI> ROCKS have
been lino bred for 1(» years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matings
for sale, from these winners or bred In line.

C. C. DRAKE & SON,
liock Box asa. La Harpe, 111.

At INDIANAPOLIS February 1906, my

RArrikrl Rnrlrc ^°" ^^^ cockerel, 2d cock.
Oarrea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908, 1st
cock, ist cockerel; Sept. 1909, Ist and 3d cock.s,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with cjuality for
sale. W, W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN. IND

BtJifr RocKs, Btxte and Sil-v«r
Lo a c « d W jr a n di o 1 1 €» •* an&d
V(rHit« Holland TvttrHmym, choice
Cockerels for .sale from prize wiiitiing stock.
Egg orders booked now, prices reasonable.

L. C. VOGT. LYONS, IXriS.

Egg orders booked now from my !i(X)-ei?e
strains. Trap nests used. I know Just what I am
doing Birds scoring 91 to 95 with a famous eetr
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT.-F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Golden Wyandottes ?S?ca#o" D^ec "V"

12, 1909. 66 in class, won 5th cock, 4th cockerel
3rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show St'
Louis Dec. 6-11, 1809, 64 in class, won 2d cock
3d cockerel. 4th pullet, with 5 birds.
J. S. Penninffton, Box F, Plainfield. III.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-
Shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7. Box 15. Winchester, Ky.

SILVKR LACED and WHITE WYAN-
DOTTES FOR SALE. Utility and Exhibi-
tion block tijat has pleased others and they will
please you If you will give us a trial. Eggs In
season from prize winning stock. Every Bird In
breeding pens a high scorer. FOUR SISTERS
POULTRY FARM, li. 8, Box A.

Will P„ Yetter, Prop.. New Bavaria, O.

LAKE SHORE POULTRY FARM

Breeders of

High ClaHs Silver Laced W^yandottes
Exclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BERGNER, Pres. HENRY MAU, Mgr.
South Chicago. Ills. R.F.D. No .S4, Kenosha, Wis.

Reichert's Farm Raised White Rocks and R.
C. White Leghorns of good shape and white plum-
age. Some choice W. Rock cockerels and a few
breeding pens yet for sale. Orders tor eggs booked
now. A limited number of eggs from our Barred
Rocks. Eggs «2 per 15. 85 per cent fertility guar-
anteed.
E, H, REICHERT. - VIRDEN, ILL.

BUFF 'WYANDOTTES Cxclta-
siveljr. Ideal shape, solid buflf color.
Guaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT,
EDEN CENTER. - N, Y.

•i

Faultless" Hottdans, 287
£i(^ StraixA. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105, Kansas. Ills.

R.in[^let Barred PlymoutH
RocHs won all firsts at Oshko.sh, 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels |1 .50 up.
Kggs, best matings |3.50 per \h. |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock ll.^O. Lakk Vikvv Poultry Farm.

T. \V. Crltchette. MarkeHan, Wis.

ColumtMan KockH, Columbian Wyan-
uotteH, K. C. IJuttLegrhornH, bred from New
\ork, Buffalo and Rochester winners, 5 firsts 2
seconds on 7 entries at Rochester show Dee 19(W
Cockerels «8 to tlo pullets «2 to «6, Trios »7 topis'.

pen with eHch$ 10 order. Stock suaranfeeed.
F, A CAMPRELT. HONKOVE, N. Y.

ORPINGTONS 1909 also several at Ocon-
yixi iiiviiv/llkl omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
F:ggs from pen No. 1 $5 per 15 : pen No. 2 $2
per 1.5 Dora James Pick Fall Rirer, Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Rpf1« ^^^^^ Winners. Eggs from 1st pen,
i\cu» setting 1.5 e^gs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen, setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland. 111.

S. L. ANIi W. WVANDOTTKS. K C
KHOI>E ISLAND RKDS Winners at the
biK CentervUle, Iowa and St.Louls shows Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace
JOBN KEARSE, R. 1, CoatHville, Mo,

THE BEnT is none IOO CiOOD. High
scoring cockerels of White Rocku ri up Bred
In line for 16 years - score cards. White Holland
Turkeys-the best grown, Hens f,3. one .S-year-old
ton, 33 lbs. »7.50, Embden Geese 1H-2() lbs., $2 50 to
f^i 30. Eggs from all nhove, prices reasonable
Sqiiare deal to all. WHITE PLUME FARM
J. C. Raker Prop. R. i . Plainville III.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

l8t cock, 1-2-.3 cockerel. 1 2-3 hen. 1-2-3-4 5 pullet
at Fond du-Lac. 1st pen scores 94% to 95')^. Also
S C. W. and S. C. Br Leghorns, winners of firsts.
Birds pure white, excellent layers Kggs pent. #2
pen 2, 11. Booking orders now; also, have cock-
erels and trios for sale. I>l«t. Atty. Philli|>
Lehner, I*ri n<et«»n. Wis.

WHITE PLYMOUTH

Cockerels and
«^^^^.> . pullets for

ROCIC ^*^^- ^*^^® ^^°^^ fro«i 94K to 9(5
^^^^*^ and will improve your flock
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON. IND.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Twenty years a Breeder
Twelve Extra Cockerels for Sale now.
JNO. F. WOODS
Utility Farm. R. 19. Owentville, Ind

100 Barred Plymouth Rocks 100 <; $ FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

from prize winning stock which 1 am going to
sell at reasonable prices. If you want healthy
vigorous 8to<'k write. SatlHfactlon guarautov^d.

Chaa. F. Schlueter. - Box K, Reynolds, III.

TURKEYS

sired by my great prize
winner and d i p 1 o ma
Tom. Finest stock to be found. Al.so S . I,
Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN,

WYANDOTTES AND I.AN<;.Sll A N.S.

Winners at St. Louis Show, 19()!». also two •25.o<)
HJlvercupsat big Perry county 19U9 show In hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and Huff Wyandottes #2 per 1.5. 3 setting for f5.
Black Langshans 1..5() per 15. Buffs Bred by K B.
Schlndler, Partridge and Langshans bred by .John
Allen. Allen & Schlndler i»erryville. Mo-

Philips Strain of S. C. Blacit

Mi

noted for shape, size and
color. Write for prices and

imorcas

full particulars.

TliOS. IT. riTTT,T.TPS, Dover, N. J.

I If! HT EXCLUSIVELY 1 2 years a breed
■-'*^^* * * *r My stock is excellent, high
BRAHMAS sconng. great layers.
"^^^^^ i^^M,^\,0 ^iH please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Kggs, .single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE NOW IN
Black and White Langshans, Light Brah-
mas. White and Brown Leghorns and W. C.
Black and Golden Polish. Address Caton
Poultry Yards, Zanesville, O. 3-9-12

FOR SALE — BREEDING PENS BAliRED
Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes,
also Plymouth Rock cockerels. Eggs for
setting $5 per 100. $1 for 13. Bohemia Villa
Poultry Farm. Absecon, N. J. 2-09-12

DON'T PASS THIS AD.— AM CLOSING OUT
my White Rocks. Have three pens of breed-
ers, some scoring as high as 95, also a fine
lot of young stock. 4 pens of S. C. White
Leghorns scoring 90 to 96. These birds will
surprise you at the low price I will ask. Be
sure and write me. Mrs, Laura McKee, Deep
River. la. ^_^ 2-9-12

THIS WAY FOR YOUR HIGH CLASS S. C.
Black Minorcas and Partridge Cochins. Birds
have good shape and are fine in all points.
Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per 13, Mention
this paper. H. S. Fegley, Gilbertsville, Pa.

12-3

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH WHITE
Plymouth Rocks, Houdans and Java cock-
erels and trios for salo. The very best
strains. Eggs in season, Theodore A.
Moritz. 569 St. Georges Avenue, Rahway, N.
£ 12-4

BUFF WYANDOTTES. ORPINGTONS AND
Rocks. Solid Buflf cockerels and pullets that
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, blocky, golden
beauties, strong in all points. Write Buff
Poultry Farm, F. A. Poertner, Prop., Berea,
O. ■ 3-9-12

SPECIALTY BREEDER FOR YEARS OF
S'. S. Hamburga and Buff Turkeys. The
quality of my birds is the very best and I
have hundreds to select from. Can please
you all. A hunch of fine show birds;
cheap. Hnrry PiMintv, rumhorlnnrl O. 11-3

S. S. HAMBURG AND BARKED liOCK
cockerels for sale. Biids fine in all i)<)int.s.
If you could see them I know I would get
your order. Be sure and get my prices.
Correspondence answered promptly. Egg
orders hooked. Mrs. C. R. Thompson, B(jx
23. Han<lall. Iowa. 1-3

ST. LOUIS AND STAT1-: FAIR SHOW
birds. Won, 1st cockerel. 2nd pullet. 1st
pen. Black Leghorns and Black Javas.
Birds. $2 to $5. Eggs. $2 per 15. Also
choice White W.vandottes. Try a specialist.
H. C. Hunt, i:)elavan. 111. 1-3

FRENCH SALMON F.\ \' EROLLES, SKIL-
ian Buttercups and Indian Runner Ducks.
Non-setting hens. Booking orders now for
spring delivery. Eggs per setting, hens .$1
per 13 eggs. Ducks. $1 to |2 per setting
12 eggs. Send order now. Davis «fe lJ)ynes.
R. 30, ZIonsville, Ind.. Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. 1-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. MclNTOSH
strain. Eggs. $1.50 per 15. White. Golden
and Buff VVyandottes, Rose and Single (^omlt
Brown Leghorns. Kulp'.'s strain. From prize
winning stock. Eggs, $1 per 15. Circular
Jiee. M. L. Musselman. Bethlehem. Pa. 1-3

EGGS AND STOCK FOR SALE. BUFF
and White Leghorns. Rocks. Silver Ham-
burgs,. Partridge Cochins. Pearl Guineas.
Toulouse GtM'se, Pekin Ducks, English Phea-
sants, Belgian Hares, White Rabbits, Canary
Birds. O. W. Zeigier. Harnicmy. Pr. 1-3

FOR SALE. I OFFER STOCK AND EGGS
for hatching from the following: S. C
White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns. Black
Minorcas. Buff Orpingtons. Light Firahmas.
White Rocks, White and (Columbian W.van-
dottes. Also day old chicks. Get my prices.
Jos. M. Fay. 808 Howard Ave., Altoona. Pa.

1-3

LOOK! HERE WE ARE BETTER THAN
ever. We have some Partridge Cochin
cockerels and pullets, also some fine S. C.
Buff Orpington cockerels for sale. We
have some very fancy birds. Write for
prices. S. E. Speerg. Cooksville. III. 11-3

BUFF AND PARTRIDGE ROCKS. NO
better stock bred. Limited number of eggs,
so book your order early. Birds are good
in all points and will please. Prices right.
R. J. Gaines, 4820 Capital Ave., Omaha.
Nebr. 2-9-12

SEND MIO YOUR ORDER FOR A COCK-
erel. Can please you if you give me a
chance. Grand Barred Rocks. S. C. Reds'
and Columbian Wyandottes, also Mammoth
Bronze Turkeys. Old Tom weighs 40 lbs.,
scores 96V4. Get prices. Mrs. Chas. Howell,
Rockford, Iowa. 11-3

FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM HAS A
fine bunch of high scoring cockerels for sale
at a low price, $2.50 to $5. White and
BulT Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds and
Buff and Barred Rocks. A square deal and
your money's worth. F. J. Unland, Mere-
dosia. 111. 11-3

DOOLITTLE STRAIN PARTRIDGE WYAN-
dotte pullets and yearling hens, $1 to $1.50
to quick buyers, his is your chance for a
bargain. Limited number of very choice
White Wyandotte cockerels cheap. Satis-
faction guaranteed. J. W. Deach, Nora
Springs, Iowa. 11-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS— THE KIND YOU
are looliing for. Shipped C. O. D. to be
returned if not satisfactory. They win
wherever shown. Our records prove it.
Also Barred and Buff Plymouth Rocks,
same quality. Cold Brook Farm, C. E.
Hul)bell. Prop., Westmoreland. N. Y. 11-3

WANT A PRIZE WINNER FOR THE
next show? Have some choice Dark Brahmas
and Buff and Partridge Cochins, also Rouen
Ducks. Winners of first prizes at State
Fairs. Let me quote you prices. John Con-
rad. Rte. 15, West AUis, Wis. 11-3

LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED AND BUFF
Rock, Black Langshan and Buff Cochin
cocks, cockerels, hens and pullets for sale.
Winners at Indianapolis, Lafayette, Frank-
fort. Crawfordsville and other big shows.
Write for prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. E. Coen, Box 110. Wingate. Ind. 11 -3

IF YOU WANT CHOICE BRAHMAS. CO-
chins, Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, Orping-
tons. Houdans, Minorcas. Spanish. Red Caps,
Hamburgs or Leghorns, we have them.
Special discount on Leghorns to those who
order early. Eggs in season. Send for
catalog. Ervin & J. W. Trettin, Grafton.
Iowa. 11-3

FAIRVIEW POULTRY YARDS. PART-
ridge Rocks, Barred Rocks. Rhode Island
Reds. Silver Wyandottes, Silver Hamburgs.
Brown Leghorns, Black Minorcas. Canadian
Wild Geese and Decoys. Cockerels. Breed-
ing stock or show birds for sale. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Mrs. J. E. Mielke,
Poultry Judge. Basco. Wis. 11-3

qiALITY K. r. JiUOWN LEGIiUiiNS.
Ivulp & Gale strain. Greens Curgh and
Uniontown winners, 1st pens, 1st cock, 2nd
ckl., 1st. 2d pullet. 1st. 3rd hens. Eggs
both matings. Closing out R. C. W. Leg-
horns. Show birds, first prize winners at
bargain prices. Write me. W. HIpklss.
Scottdale, Pa. 1-:?

YOUNG STOCK OI^' C^UALITY l<'OR SALE.
4 firsts on 7 entries at Greenfield. III., Nov.
15-20, 1909; 8 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds
on 16 entries at Pittsfteld, III., Dec. 15-lK,
1909. S. C. W. Leghorns, B. I». Rocks and
White Holland Turkeys. Write your wants
to Thos. M. Stubblefleld, R. 6, Jacksonville.

I AM READY TO RECEIVE ORDERS
for all leading varieties of thoroughbred
poultry and eggs. Write Frank McMullen,
Marietta, Pa. 11-3

i HIS WAY FOR STOCK AND EGGS.
Choice Houdan and Bradley strain Barred
Rock cockerels at prices to move them
• luick. Book your egg orders now. First
pen $3 for 15, balance $2. S. M. Crosby,
Leechburg. Pa. 11-3

FOR SALE— SOME CHOICE BARRED AND
White Rock cockerels, Bradley and Fishel
strain, $3 to $10 each; also forty Rose
Comb Brown Leghorn pullets and cockerels,
$2 each while they last. Randolph Poultry
Farm. Randolph. N. Y. 11-3

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE
Orpingtons, Houdans, Silver Spangled Ham-
burgs, Single Comb Buff, White and Brown
Leghorns. Our birds have won first prizes
in strong competition wherever shown in
the past 4 years. Young and old stock
for sale at special low prices. F. C. Mit-
chell. Crookston. Minn. 11-3

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS,
Buff Rocks. Extra large size, fine points.
Toms $5, hens $3, until January 1; after
that Toms $7.50, hens $3.50. Buff Rock
cockerels, choice ones. Rock eggs for sale.
Mrs. .1. W. Warren. Paris. Mo. 11-3

SINGLE AND ROSE COMB RHODE
Island Reds and Black Orpington cockerels
for sale. These birds are bred from win-
neis at different shows. Prices $1 to $5.
Eggs in season. F. H. Kopp, Rte. 1, Janes-
ville. Wis. 11-3

FINE. YOUNG MAMMOTH BRONZE TUR-
key hens $4, toms $6. Large Imperial Pe-
kin Ducks $3 each. These will make prize
winners. A few choice Barred Plymouth
Rock cockerels $1.50 to $3 each, Rosalie
Newberry, Argyle, Lee County, Iowa. Box
5. 11-3

FITZPATRICK POULTRY FARM. BRED
to lay hens that will lay 240 eggs a year.
Light Brahmas. S. C. Rhode Island Reds,
S. C. White Leghorns. Embden Geese and
White Holland Turkeys. Eggs in season.
Mrs. Effie Fitzpatrick. Rte. 5, Paris. Mo. 11-3

BARRED I'LYMOUTH ROCKS, YOUNG
and old stock, from my fine show birds.
Toulouse Geese from imported stock. Im-
perial Pekin Ducks. Book your orders
early for eggs. Gus A. Lengfelder, R. 5,
Box 36, Mt. Vernon, 111. 11.3

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON AND HOUDAN
cockerels. Can furnish you some that will
please you at a very reasonable price; also
Pekin Ducks for sale or exchange for Hou-
dan or Buff, Black or White Orpington pul-
lets. A. E. Larson, Delaware, Iowa. 11-3

BRU(^E AND CROW'S WYANDOTTES,
buff and white, are the kind that win
and lay. Wonderful show record for twelve
years. Show birds and choice breeders
re.Tsonnblc. No. ]\, Wooster. O. II-3

PULLETS ALL SOLD; HAVE ONLY COCK-
erels to sell; very large White and Black
Orpingtons and enormous crested handsome
Houdans. Call at Palos Park or write Hat-
tie P. Franks. Worth. 111. 5-9-12

111.

6-9-12

DON'T DELAY ABOUT SENDING IN
your egg orders. Now is the time to raise
yotjr prize winners. Let me fill your order
and get In the winning line. Have Barred
Rocks and Brown Chinese Geese. Eggs at
living prices. M. C. Flagg. Boylston.
^^^^j 3-9-12

COCKS AND COCKERELS CHF.AP—
Houdans, Minorcas. R. C. R. I, Reds and
Spanish. Also eggs In reason — 60 for $3 15
for $1. 25 varieties. 28 years as breeders.
Circular free. Whitney & Son, Triangle,
N. Y. 12.3

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RINGLET BARRED ROCKS. CRYSTAL
White Orpingtons. Pure strain, prize win-
ners direct. Eggs $2 and $3 per 15. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Write for list. Jno. Had-
den, Norwich, O. 2-9-12

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND Co-
lumbian Wyandottes. No one has better
stock. Winners wherever shown. Eggs and
stock in season. Frederick Pfaff, Anadarko.
Cykla. 7-9-12

PENS, TRIOS AND COCKERELS OF 32
varieties poultry, including Wyandottes
Brahmas, Cochins, Rocks. Polish, Reds, Ham-
burgs, Leghorn. Andalusians, Houdans and
Minorcas. Booking egg orders now for spring
delivery. Stamp for catalogue. Simon C.
Kulp, Box S'. S., Hatfield, Pa. 1-3

THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS FOR SALE
for 1910. Silver Wyandotte, Barred Rock
cockerels and Toulouse geese. Winners at
all Austin Shows and Fairs. Eggs for sale
in season at reasonable rices. Write Mrs.
F. H. Pike, Austin, Minn., Pinedale Poultry
Farm. 12-3

LIGHT BRAHMAS, COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dottes and Black Tailed Japanese Bantams.
Egg orders booked now. At TrI-State Show,
Keokuk, Iowa, in November, won 1st cock,
1st hen on Brahmas; 1st cockerel, 1st, 2nd,
3rd pullet. Few cockerels. Edw. Miller.
Donnellson, Towa. 12-3

HOUDANS P^OR SALE, BOTH YOUNG
and old birds, some with score cards. Fine
big birds, great layers. Place egg orders
now for Barred Rocks or Houdans. If you
could see my birds I know I would get
your order. T.,et me hear from vou. Elmer
J. Johnson, R. 2. Box 26, Argyle, Wis.

12-3

FINE COCKERELS — WHITE' WYAN-
dottes. Barred Rocks, S. C. Reds, White
Leghorns, Black Minorcas. Pure stock, own
raising. Big quality; little ad — save you
money. Many of these would be prize win-
ners in show room. Ernest Haynes. Prairie
du Rocher, 111. 12-3

BARGAIN SALE OF COCKS AND COCK-
erels. Single Comb Rhode Island Reds.
White and Buff Rocks, Orpingtons, An-
conas. Langshans. I.,eghorns, Minorcas and
others. See my large circular. Illustrated
in colors. 3? breeds bred for laying. Eggs
for hatching. .John E Heatwole, Hnrri.KJon-
burg. Va. 12-3

BREEZE LAWN POULTRY YARDS'. MRS.
Clara Reichenbach. prop., Coopersburg. Pa.,
offers 500 yearling hens, pullets and cock-
erels, from Reds. Rocks. Wyandottes. Brah-
mas. Games. Cochin and Polisli. Prices
$1.50 up. Show birds a matter of corre-
spondence. Eggs, $5 per 100, $1 per 13.

12-3

COCKERELS FOR SALE -- DTTSTON

White Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds
("both combs), at $1.25 eacli and up. Or-
ders booked now for eggs and baby chicks.
Cash 10 days prior to shipment. Forrest-
dale Poultry Farm, R. 2, Forrest. 111. 12-3

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. BALD-
wln's Barred Beauties. Exhibition and
breeding stock for sale. Free catalog. Matt
W. Baldwin. Sioux City. Towa. 11-3

BARRED ROCKS AT CLOSE PRICES.
Either cockerel or pullet bred. Satisfaction
guaianteed on all stock or eggs shipped.
Eggs in season from fine pens, mated for
best results. Have some good exhibition
birds. J. W. Freeman. R. 4, Benton Har-
bor. Mich. 12-3

BARRED ROCKS. FAMOUS LATHAM
and Thompson strains. Winners of 9 prizes
(more than all competitors combined) at
Lancaster. O.. show, January, 1909. In
placing your order don't overlook us. Qual-
ity that counts. Eggs $3 per 15, booked
now. Samuel Friend. Rushville. O. 11-3

EDGEWOOD BARRED ROCKS. BRED
for exhibition and utility; heavy laying
strain. Bred from Latham. Brights. Haw-
kins. Females $2.50 to $5. cockerels $5 to
$10. Eggs from my choicest matings $3.
Orders booktMl now, 25 per cent with order.
Frank A. Simons, R. F. D.. Thompsonvllle.
Conn^ 11-3

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS AND PUL-
lets bred fiom first prize winners at Spring-
field. Birds are good in all points and will
please. Place egg orders now. Plymouth
Rock Homer Pigeons, fine ones at right
prices. Write Wm R. Rollston, R. 9, Box
21. Sprincfield. Mo. 12--^

WATSON'S BARRED ROCKS HAVE NEV-
er been defeated, and are better this year
than ever. Have been breeding this strain
rthe Roval Blue) for 14 years. My matings
for 1910 will be very fine. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Geo. W. Watson. Eldorado.
III. 12-3

POULTRY FANCIER

UTILITY BARRED ROCKS. FINE LAY-

ers. Pullets, $1.50 to $3. Yearling hens,
$2. Eggs any time after the first of Feb-
ruary. Book your orders early. Eggs,
$1.50 per 1.".. Samuel Wickham, Palmyra.
Micii. i2-3

BARRED ROCKS. THIRTEEN PREMI-

ums here this September. Strong competi-
tion. Won all firsts. Refused $25 for young
pullet. Good stock, $2 and up. L. C. Ober-
dorf, Waverly. la. 2-9-12

GET MY CIRCULAR ON BARRED ROCKS.
Have some fine ones for sale at prices tliat
will surprise you. considering the quality.
Let's get in touch with each other. I know
I can plea.se you. Egg orders booked. J.
W. Bell, Box H.. Chetek, Wis. 1-3

liARRED ROCKS, HIGHEST QUALITY.
Eggs from special prize matings, $1 and $2
per 15; $5 per 100; utility flocks, $1 per 26;
$3.50 per 100. Choice cockerels, $2 and $3
each. Circular free. Chas. Spangler, Kent-
land. Ind. 1-3

BARRED ROCKS. O. C K. STRAIN.
Something grand in either cockerel or pullet
matings. A few good exhibition cockerels
and pullets. Prices reasonal>le for quality.
Eggs. $3 per 15; $5 per 30. Write for mat-
ing list. Mrs. Minnie McConaughy, Martelle,
Iowa. 1-3

SPECIAL BARRED ROCK SALE. ON Ac-
count of lack of time I will dispose of 2
very good darli cocks, one pullet breeding
cock, 25 cockerel bred hens and pullets and
15 cockerels. Get prices now. Dr. F. A.
Shuffelton, Saint Marys, O.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

WHITE ROCKS— LARGE BONED, GREAT
layers. Pens contain first prize winners of
many Ohio shows. A few extra good cocks
and cockerels for sale. Chas. Bristol, Up-
per Sandusky. O. 2-9-12

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. UTILITY
and exhibition quality. Grand size and
shape. Choice cockerels, pullets and yeai-
ling hens for sale. Prices reasonable. Sat-
isfaction or your money back. Wm. C.
Goodwin. Chillicothe, 111. 11-3

QUALITY WHITE ROCKS. STANDARD
bred, white, hardy and vigorous. They
will improve your flock and raise you win-
ners. Improved each year for fifteen years.
Book vonr orders for eggs now. Stock for
sale. Mrs. C A. Brown. Tolucn, 111. 12-3

WHITE PLYMOT'TH ROCKS WITH PURE
white quills, bay eyes and yellow shanks.
Stock scoring 96 V4 in show room. Kansas
City and state show winners. Scored stock
for sale; prices right, quality considered.
Mrs L. L Tliggins. R. 1. Sheldon, Mo. 12-3

WHITE ROCKS, PRIZE WINNING STOCK.
Snow white cockerels, $2.50 up. One year-
ling cock, few hens and pullets, trapnested.
Fishel strain. Excellent layens. Three pens.
Eggs, 15 for $3, $2 and $1. Send egg or-
ders now. Rev James A. Slack, Yorktown.

Ta_ 12-^

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS— BREEDERS
and exhibition birds for sale at reasonable
prices. They have the size, shape and can
win In the' strongest class. Write P. F.
Carr. Kenton. O. 12-3

WHITE ROCKS. HEAVY WINTER LAY-
ers. Pullets from this stock laying at 5 V2
months this season without forcing. Not
one dissatisfied customer last season. Book-
ing egg orders, $2 per 15. S. P. Evans, 3838
E. TSth Street. Cleveland, O.

FISHEL STRAIN WHITE ROCKS EXCLU-
slvely. Eggs from first pen, $2 for 15; sec-
ond "pen, $1.50 per 15. 10 cockerels for sale,
$2 to $5 each; pullets. $1.50 to $5 eacii.
Order early. A. L. McLaughlin. S"parland.

Til.

1-3

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHY NOT GET THE BEST? I HAVE
it In Buff Rocks and you can get It at
prices usually asked for much lower qual-
ity. A breeding bird or a few eggs from
my yards will put you on top. Write
me. Phil Fell. Buff Rock Specialist and
Poultry Judge. Canal Dover. O. 3-09-12

ONE HTTNDRED BUFF ROCK COCKE'R-
els or pullets at half price. Exhibition and
1)reeding birds. The world's best strain.
Fifteen years exclusive breeding means
quality. Highest honors. World's Fair.
New York, Boston, clean sweep at three
exhibition this fall. Sliipments on ap-
proval. Edgewood Farm, Ballston Lake.
N. T. 11-3

RUSH IN YOUR OTRDER FOR ONE OF
my early hatched cockerels. Prices |2 to
$10, and they will please anyone. A fine
large flock of Buff Rocks to select from.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded
and express charges paid. W. P. Garth-
wait, Gas City, Ind. 11-3

BUFF ROCKS. THE FARMER'S FRIEND.
Prize winners. 1st cockerel, 2d pullet, at
Jeffersonville, Ohio, Poultry Show, Dec.
1909. Eggs, $2.50 the 15. The Buff Rock
Poultry Farm, Jeffersonville. O. 1-3

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. WIN-
ners at Boston 1909. Young stock for ex-
hibition that are able to win in the strong-
est competition; also first-class breeding
stock. Eggs for hatching in season. Cir-
cular. J. H. Woodhead, Pleasant Poultry
Yards. Leicester, Mass. 11-3

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? SEND ME YOUR
order for Partridge Plymouth Rocks and
you are sure of the best. Don't take my
word for It. Look at my show record at
Chicago. Detroit and other strong shows,
consider the competition and you will see
who has the quality. Some choice breeders
at reduced prices and young stock that will
please. Paul LaFrombolse. Mt. Pleasant
^'^^ 4-9-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

BARGAIN PRICES ON 18 CHOICE BREED-
ers. My White Wyandottes are pure white,
correct In shape, and are prize winners.
Need room for young stock so must close out
at once. Don't fail to get prices. Can please
the most exacting. Miss S. L. Putsch, Wi-
nona. Minn. 2-9-12

MILLER'S WHITE WYANDOTTES WON
more than any other strain In Pa. last sea-
son. Prize cocks and hens to sell. A. A.
Miller. McKeesport. Pa. 2-9-12

WHITE WYANDOTTE'S EXCLUSIVEL,Y
for 10 years — Prize winners at state fair and
others. 50 choice cockerels for sale at
prices that will move them quick. Deer
Creek Stock i^ Poultry Farm, John A. Behr-
f^ns. Ft. Dodge. Ta. 2-9-12

HEABLER'S WHITE WYANDOTTES— 200
choice birds from my best breeding pens.
Eggs in season, $2 per 15, $3.50 per 30.
Orders booked now. I devote my whole
time to this one breed. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. K. J. Heabler, Box 204 W, Attica
O. 11-3

MODEL WHITE WYANDOTTES — NOT
only white but also winners of shape. St>e-
cial stock, old or young, from $1 to $5
each. Value for money. Guaranteed as
represented. Eggs In season, $3 per 15
Exhibition mating. F. G. Paul, Marshall-
town. Ta. 11-3

FOR SALE— THOROUOHBRED WHITE
W^yandotte cockerels. Fishel and Corey
strains. Prices $3 to $5 If taken at once.
Grand birds for the money. Eggs In sea-
son. Mrs. Joseph Taylor, Maple Grove
Farm. Edinboro, Pa. 11-3

WHITE' WYANDOTTES. DT'STON'S
Hawkins' strains. Barred Rocks
world's best blood,
sale at right prices,
for 15. $3.50 for 30,
dleton. Tnd.

AND

the

Eggs and fowls for

None better. Eggs $2

W. H. Bollnger. Pen-

11-3

WHITE WYANDOTTES. NOTED PRE-
mier strain. Farm raised, blocky. white,
unexcelled layers. vigorous constitutions.
Line bred cockerels. $5 to $10; cocks $5 to
$10; pullets, $2 to $3; hens. $2 to $3; eggs
$3 to $10. W. H. Humiston. Cleveland!
Ohio. 12-3

BUSINESS WHITE WYANDOTTES. OTTRS
are great layers, have farm privileges, essen-
tial to success. We aim above all to please
customers. Write your wants. Stock, $3
to $5 each. Eggs. $1.50 per setting. C.
N". TTostetter, Manlielm. Pa 1-3

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

THTMSEN. BUFF WYANDOTTE SPECIAL-
Ist — My Buffs win at the leading shows. I
can furnish you winners, as well as breeders.
I have the size, shape and color. Two hun-
dred March and April youngsters at $1.50
and up. T guarantee satisfaction. F. P.
Thimsen. Blooming Prairie. Minn. 5-9-12

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTEsT"

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES EXCLU-
slvely. Line bred. Have never shown
birds without winning my share of prizes.
Scored birds that will please the inost par-
ticular. Males $2 up. females f1.50 up.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Egg orders booked,
$2.50 per 15. H. Kerl, Lenexa, Kans. 11-3

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REEPMEYER'S SILVER LACED WYAN-
clottes in good competition won 6 firsts 6
seconds. 3 thirds. $10 special and Presi-
dent's Silver Cup. Best display, all varieties
competing- at Schenectady. N. Y., bis show.
Breeders or show birds for sale. J. Reep-
meyer. Crai- Schdy. Co.. N. Y. 1-3

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

MY PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES ARE CHI-
eajro and Milwauliee winners and ray two
jjrand pens contain these winners and raanv
others of the same blood lines. Egrjrs $3 per
per 30. Orders filled promptly. Aur.

2-09-12

Rlopse. Jeflferson Park. 111.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVE-
ly. The fowl of both beauty and utility. My
winnin.er whereyer- shown proves the .•superi-
ority of my stock. Start right. It will pay
you to buy the best. M. N. Cecil, Elm Grove,
W. Va. 11.3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. LOOKING
for good blocky shaped ones, nicely laced
tails, clean hackles? Farm raised from New
York and Boston winners. Great vigor. Egg.s
very fertile. You must be satisfied or its
no sale. Address Ralph Woodward, Box 82,
Grafton, Mass. 1-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. SOME FINE
well marked birds for sale. Watch my show
record this season. O. R. Eddy, Oconomo-
woc. Wis. 5-9-12

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. FIRST PRIZE
winners at Toledo. Sprinprfleld. Troy and Mid-
dletown. Five grand pens, superb in neck and
tail lacing. Eggs, only $1.50 per 15. R. P.
RiifRneton. Sprlnefield. O. 2-9^2

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES EXCLU-

sively. None better than mine and their
record proves it. Won Silver Cup at Pen-
acook, Dec, 1908, for the highest scoring
cock, ckl.. hen and pullet in the Wyandotte
class; at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 1909 on 4
entries 2 firsts. 1 second; at St. Joh'nsburv.
Vt., on 4 entries 2 firsts. 1 second; at
White River Jet., Vt., 1st pen chicks, 2nd
and 5th pullet, 3d, 4th ckl., 5th hen. In a
hot class. Both old and young stock for
.sale. Trios $6 up. A. L. Cook, West Con-
cord, N. H. 11-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES, THE GREAT
coming variety. A few trios and pens for
sale. Birds .scoring 90 to 93 H. Will furnish
.score cards if preferred. Book orders now
for eggs and baby chicks. Jacob Gerig,
Noble, la. l''-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES A SPECIAL-
ty. Prize winners and good layers. Mv
pens this year are better than ever, headed
by finely marked cockerels. I am now ready
to book orders for eggs. Prices reasonable.
Cockerels for sale. J. A. Roscoe, Norwalk.
Q. 12-3

BUFF COLUMBIANS.

BUFF COLUMBIANS — GRAND BEAUTY
and utility breed. Hand.somest. largest, most
vigorous of Columbians. The coming buff.
Be first in your locality. Finest flock in the
West. Edward Cone, Muskegon, Mich.
10-8-12

START NOW WITH A RISING BREED.
Buff Columbians are the coming buffs. No
finer birds anywhere than In my "Origina-
tor's Strain." E^xtra setting free to first
1910 customer from each state. Correspond-
ence will do you good. Edwin Cone, Mus-
kegon. Mich. 12-3

ORPINGTONS.

BREEDER OF THOROUGHBRED PRIZE
winning Black Orpingtons. Old and young
Ptock for sale. Inquire Frank McMullen.
Marietta. Pa. 11-3

SQUARE DE.AL OBPINGTON YARDS— S.
C. Buff. Black and White (Kellerstron's
strain) Orpingtons. Black and white stock
for sale. Buff stork all sold. Eggs In
season. Prices right. Let me fill an order
for you. Annie McKee, Edgar. Neb. 11-3

THIS WAY FOR COCKEREL BARGAINS
in S. C. Buff Ornlngtons. Fine, large,
strong, vigorous birds, true Orpington type
and fine color, bred from a prize winning
strain. Get prices. Can please you. Five
choice pens mated for eggs. Place orders.
"^'■. T. Harrington. Brunswick. O. 12-3

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
])remacy.; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati, O. 12-10

POULTRY FANCIER:

ORPINGTONS. SINGLE COMB BUFF.
Choice cockerels and pullets for sale. $2, $3
and $5 each. Large early hatched birds.
Eggs for sale after Feb. 1 from six pens at
$2 per 15, $10 per 100. B. S. Long, Little
Sioux, la. 12-3

1.^)0 S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS AT PRICES
that will satisfy, quality considered. Have
j)leased many. Let us show you. Get our
egg circular after Feb. 1 and place your
order early. Major Griffin. R. 27, Glenwood,
Tnd. 12-3

.'=5. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. EVERY ONE
a show bird, winners in the leading shows
of Northern New York. Cockerels. $5 and
up. Orders booked for eggs at $2 and $3
per 15. Day old chicks. 25 cts. each.
Brook View Stock Farms, Rte, 3, Pulaski,
N. Y. 12-4

KELLERSTRASS STRAIN CRYSTAL

White Orpingtons. Breeders first prize win-
ners direct from Kellerstrass. Fine cocker-
els and pullets for sale. Get my prices on
eggs and stock. W. D. Barrett. Shelton,
Neb. 2-9-12

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS', ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
^ 1-10-12

12 FINE S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON COCK-
erels, $2.r)0 to $6, according to score. These
birds will put new vigor in your flocks.
Have mated some extra fine pens, eggs, $3
per 15; 30 for $5. You will be sure to be
pleased if you send me your order. .las.
r. Olson, Harlan, Iowa. 1-3

SINGLE COMB HUFF AND KEI.LER-
strass White Orpingtons. Eggs from 3 pens
Buffs correctly mated. $2, $3 and $5 per 15.
Limited number eggs from 2 pens extra
fine Wliites $5 and $10 per 15. Circular
free. Alice J. Morriss, Big Rock. 111. 1-3

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. OWEN BROS,
strain. Fine stock for sale from prize win-
ners. Eggs from choice mated pens. Prices
within reach of all. Mrs. H. Wedderspoon.
Cooperstown, N. Y., Perthmoose Farms.

1-:

BLACK ORPINGTON (WRRY THE

world's record for best winter layers. Eggs
for hatching in season. Scored cockerels for
sale. Write me for prices. W. J. Schmitt.
D'ltipr'iisdn. Iowa. I-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED COCK-
erels and pullets for sale from high scor-
ing birds, after Nov. 16. Scored by Heim-
lich. Free from smut, good color, combs
and eyes. Eggs in season. Mrs. C. H.
"U'est. FarinR. Fayette County. Ill 11 -3

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS THAT
are right. Prize winners at leading Missouri
shows. Can please the most exacting. Cor-
respondence answered promptly. Place e^p:
orders now. Grand pens mated, headed by
cockerels from first prize pen at Trenton
show. Day old chicks. Write Arthur S.
f^'lTPP, T'nionville, Mo. i2-3

BE IN THE FASHION AND RAISE
Rhode Island Reds. Some choice Rose Comb
cockerels and pullets at prices that will suit
you. Let me fill your order. Eggs when
you want them. Place order now. Wllber
Bellows, li. Box 405, Anoka. Minn. 12-3

25 R. C. RED COCKERELS, $2 TO $3
each, according to quality. Some dandles
among the lot. Get your pick. All fine big
birds. Eggs, $1 per 15. Book your orders
now. Red and White Poultry Farm, Colts
Neck. N. .1. 12-3

R. C. AND S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED
cocks and cockerels. Have good color and
shape, descendants of Buffalo and Boston
winners: some have score cards. My birds
were winners at Oconomowoc. Milwaukee
and Waukesha. Prices reasonable. Egg or-
ders booked now. Chas. G. Wheeler, Dous-
ninn. Wis. ' 12-3

S. r. R. I. REDS. SELECT COCKERELS
for sale. Healthy, vigorous, good color and
free from smut. My stock has won the
blue ribbons In strongest competition for
seven years. Write for description. Eggs
for sale. V. Hlbnor. Aurora. 111. 12-3

MEADOW LAWN POULTRY YARDS'
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds exclusively.
Some nice, large cockerels for sale from
])rlze winners at leading shows. Eggs from
choice matings In season. Send for mating
list. Gorrespondence solicited. H. J. Mil-
ler, Albert Lea. Minn, 12-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS. SINGLE COMB.
Eggs In season. Good stock at right price.
Describe what you seek ^\hen writing and
address E. O. Uhllg, Holdrege, Neb. 11-3

1 January. *10 T;

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E. S. BECKER, PROP. GLEN VIEW
Poultry Farm, Route 3, Elmira, N. Y.,
ofTers fine bargains in high scoring S. C.
Rhode Island Reds. Book orders now for
eggs and day old chicks. Several fine cock-
erels for sale. Correspondence solicited.

12-3

SOME EARLY CHOICE ROSE COMB RET)
pullets and cockerels. Lester Tompkins
strain. Cockerels expectlonally good. Place
egg orders early. First pen $2.50 per 15
eggs, $4 per 30. Fertility guaranteed. Dr.
W. G. Bradshaw, Ogden. Iowa. 11-3

MY ROSE AND SINGLE rOMB RHODE
Island Reds are first prize winners wherever
shown. Won the lion's share at Springfield
and Holyoke. Can send you birds that will
improve your flock. Eggs. $3 per setting.
Valley Farm, 94 East Main St., Amherst,
Mass. 1-3

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Exclusively. I showed 6 pullets and 4 cock-
erels at Peoria, 111., Dec, 1909, and won 8
prizes. I showed no old birds. Will sell
the four cockerels. Also eggs in season.
Write for prices and matings. Davis Crows,
Hanna City. 111.

S. C. R. I. RED COCKERELS FOR SALE.
Fine birds at reasonable prices. Eggs from
best matings at $2 per 15. Free range
stock. $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Mrs. H. L.
Alsop, Sylvia, Iowa. 1-3

HIGH CLASS S. C. R. I. REDS FOR SALE.
Original birds direct from Lester Tompkins.
Scoring 91 to 93. E'ggs from pens 1, 2, 3,
$1, $2, and $3 per 15. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Isaac IT Painter. Ghrisnev, Tnd
' 1-3

LIBERAL POULTRY YARD. SINGLE

Gomb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs: First

$2.50 per 15

pen, $1.50

other pens,

per 100. C.

; second pen, $2 per 15;

per 15. Incubator eggs

$4 per 100; farm range,

I. W. Adkisson, Galatla,

1-4

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS. WON
first at Pef)iia. Dec. 14 to IS, 1909; first
at I>incoln, Dec. 14 to 17, 1909. Eggs, $3,
$2 and $1 per 15. Utility, $5 per 100. J.
B. Garber, Hopedale, 111. 1.3

'I'O BREEDERS OF S. C. U. J. REDS. I
have a limited number of egj:;s to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eld ridge fi- Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

BUCKEYES.

BUCKEYE REDS. UNEQUALLED FOR
os;g: production and market qualities. Get
acquainted with this grand new breed, the
handsomest of reds and wonderful winter
layers. Limited quantity of stock for sale.
A few fine colored cockerels at a bargain.
Address Fred A. Woodmansee. Galesburg
111.. member of National Red Feather
11-3

LIGHT BRAHMAS.

Club.

LIGHT BRAHMAS. BOTH OLD AND
young stock for sale. Have first premiums
from London and Guelph. Canada, Cedar
Rapids. Waterloo and Waverlv Ta Write
for circular. Chas. Hunt. Box' 14, Clarks-
vllle. Ta. 2-9-12

PRIZE WINNING LIGHT BRAHMAS.
Winners at leading western shows. Grand
cockerels for sale. Great big fellows, good
In all points. Get prices now. as they won't
last loner. Letters answered promptly. Burt
Giirtls. .MUson. Iowa. " tj.«^

LIGHT BRAHMAS. PT'RE' FELCH STRAIN
line bred for sixty years. Greatest winter
layers of large, brown eggs. Fine young
stock for sale. Including a few birds direct
from Felcb's best eges. Prices reasonable
W. W. Took University Heights. Madison'
11-3

BLACK LANGSHANS.

wis.

BREEDER OF THOROT^niTBRFD PRIZE
winning Black Langshans. Fine voung stock
for sale. Inquire Frank McMullen Mari-
etta. Pa. ' ^^^^_^

TWELVE YEARS A BREEDER OF BLACK
Tiangshans exclusively. Some nice cockerels
bred from prize winners for sale Ee-trs after
March 1. 1910. at $1.50 nor 15. Write your
wants to Mrs. L, A. McGracken. Bonaparte
Iowa. 1'>-3

THE QTTALITY OF MY BLAGK LANG-
«bnns is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds T
now have for sale. Scores to 95 lA in
show room. Prices ritrht. Eggs in" season.
U rite me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette
Mo. i.g

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January. *10

21 YEARS A BREEDER OF THE BEST
Black langshans. Have a show record un-
der leading Judges unequaled by any other
breeder. Male birds each season score to
951/^, females 96 1/^. Buy where you know
that you will get the highest quality at
reasonable prices. Have some grand cocks
and cockerels to spare, scoring from 94
to 951/^; also some extra choice hens. Made
a clean sweep at the Eastern Wisconsin
show this season and won silver cup for
best pen in the show three years, all breeds
competing, score 191%. A. Stransky, Pres.
Eastern Wis. Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton
VV'«- 11-9-12

WHITE LANGSHANS.

WHITE DIAMOND STRAIN WHITE
Langshans. Winners at Illinois State Fair,
St. Louis and many other prominent shows.
Our strain originated from the oldest and
best black Langshans in America and the
world. Best winter layers. Stock for sale
at all prices. T. J. Usselmann, St. Libory,
111- 11-3

BUTF COCHINS.

OUR BUFF COCHINS HAVE FOR YEARS
been acknowledged leaders. Their record at
the largest shows has placed them In the
front rank. My birds have been given the
highest possible scores by many of Ameri-
ca's leading Judges. They are clear buff,
true to type and grandly feathered. My
Buff Bantams are equally as good. Eggs
$3 and $5 per 15. Leslie Parlin, 19 Phalen
Ave.. St. Paul, Minn. 3-9-12

SOME' DANDY BUFF COCHIN COCKER-
els for sale. Hanchett strain, good buff
color. Only a limited to dispose. Write
quick if you want one. Correspondence an-
swered promptly. C. J. L. Ware, 551 Marl-
boro St., Keene, N. H. 12-3

BUFP^ COCHIN SPECIALIST TEN YEARS.
Have two finest pens mated for the egg
trade in the United States, bred from the
world's best winners at leading shows. Val-
uable illustrated catalogue for stamp, show-
ing prices and winnings. S. Berger, Pleasant
Hill. O. 12-3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS. EX-
tra good ones. Good combs, white lobes,
red eyes, snow-white plumage, correct in
back and tail. Prize winners wherever
shown. Satisfaction guaranteed. Cockerels
$1 and $1.50 each. E. G. Judy, Potomac,
111. 11-3

BERWICK WHITE LEGHORN POULTRY
Yards. Breeder of Blanchard strain. Have
several cockerels for sale. Price $2 and
more. Cocks scoring 93 to 93%, $5 and
more. Eggs in season, $2 per 15, $5 per
100. Now booking orders for delivery In
season. Fred Prue, Prop., Box 315, Ber-
wick, Me. 11-3

SUNCREST SINGLE COMB WHITE LBG-
horns. Line bred ten years. We have
pleased hundreds of customers. Can please
you. Write for catalogue. Suncrest Poultry
Farm, R. 1, Box F, Grand Rapids, Mich.
_^ 3-9-12

S. G. WHITE LEGHORNS THAT HAVE
size, shape and color. Bred from my win-
ners at Hartford, Meriden, Manchester,
Springfield. Holyoke and Boston. Eggs, $2
per setting. W. J. Blake, Burnside, Conn.
8-9-12

BIG BARGAIN IN S. C. WHITE LEG-
horns. Don't overlook this chance. Our
pens are so crowded that we must sell at
once a large number of birds, including
extra choice specimens. Our birds score
from 93 to 96 1^ by Judge Heck and the
leading Judges. Not a poor bird In our
flock. Our birds have many first prizes,
cups and sweepstake prizes at good shows.
Have a special lot of cockerels at $3 to $5.
Be sure to write us. Address S. C. White
Leghorn Plant, 1030 Central Ave., Wilmette,
IlK 12-2

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR
hatching after Feb. 1, from heavy laying
standard bred stock, at $1 per 15, $4 per 100.
Fertility and satisfaction guaranteed. C H.
Zurburg, R. 1.. Topeka, 111. 12-3

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS FOR
sale from loading prize winning strains.
Good shape and color cocks, $1.50; hens
and pullets, $1 each. I am selling out
my entire stock of Leghorns, therefore will
make these low prices, E. H. Olson, R. 1,
Thor, Iowa. \'^

SINGLE (T)MB WHITE LEGHORNS.
Choice stock for sale. We make a spec-
ialty of supplying breeders with foimdation
stock. Prices from $2 to $1 for pullets
and cockerels, according to merit. Eggs
for hatching, $2 per 15; $5 per 50. Beaver
Dam Poultry Farm, Montgomery, N. Y. 1-3

POULTRY FANCIER^

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

DR. DOMBART, EVANS CITY, PA., HAS
Rose Comb White Leghorns that won 16
ttists, 11 seconds. 8 thirds, 8 fourths and 3
silver cups at Pittsburg, New Castle and
Evans City shows. Write me. 11-3

I OFFER YOU THE HIGHEST QUALITY
in R. C. White Leghorns at prices you can
afford to pay. My birds are first prize
Chicago winners. They will win for you
and breed winners. Stock for sale, in-
cluding some special cockerels and hens.
Mrs. W. Jones Williams, Maywood, 111. 11-3

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS
Bought part of David Kehm's (Wittman's
strain) prize winners. Limited number pul-
let bred cockerels, $3 to $5. Eggs for
batching, $4, $3 and $2 per 15. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Send orders in early.
R. C. Sechler, 526 Washington, Allentown,
Pa. 11-3

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S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Pullet
bred cockerels, the finest show and laying
breeders in existence, cheap. H. M. Moyer,
R. 2, Bechtelsville, Pa. 11-9-12

liO CHOICE S. C. BROWN LEGHORN
cockerels at special prices to close out. De-
scribe Just what you want. I know I can
please you. Egg orders booked now, either
Brown or Buff Leghorns. Prices right. O.
R. Rice, Delavan, Wis. 12-3

INVINCIBLE SINGLE COMB BROWN
Leghorn cockerels — both lines. Cockerel-
bred females, $2 up. Pens and trios mated
scientifically. Photos of show birds on re-
quest. Correspondence solicited. Harry T.
Trainer, Carpenter, O. 5-9-12

PRAY'S POULTRY FARM. PRAY'S S. C.
Brown Leghorns have been bred for show
purposes and heavy egg production. Have
free range and are fine. Show birds, $5
each; breeding cockerels, $2; eggs, $1.50 to
$3 for 15, $6 per 100. Geo. L. Pray, Ovid
St., So. Elsie. Mich^ 12-3

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape and color and laying qualities. Tills
line of females won first prize at New
York, Boston, Chicago, Hagerstown, Allen-
town, Reading, Williamsport, Penna. State
Fair, etc. One of my pullets was one of
the best that was ever exhibited at Hagers-
town. I have had also the best pullet this
year at Allentown, Reading and Williams-
port, etc., the only shows I exhibited this
season. I have the genuine WMttman's
strain and have 100 pullet-bred cockrels
of above blood for sale. Price of two-thirds
full grown, $1.50; larger, $3. I guarantee
satisfaction and safe arrival. Order from
this advertisement, as they must be sold
quick. The above is not half what they
are worth. H. M. Moyer, R. 2, Bechtels-
ville, Pa. 1-1

BUFF LEGHORNS.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS. 1ST CKL PHILA-
delphia, 1909, will head my pen. Eggs $3 per
13. Book orders early as this is my only pen.
Harper W. Blyler. Lebanon, Pa. 2-9-12

EGGS AND STOCK FROM S. O. DECKER'S
prize winning, trap nested S. C. Buff Leg-
horns. Write me for prices and winnings. Cor-
respondence a pleasure. S. O. Decker, R. 12.
Box 18., Defiance. O. 2-9-12

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2,
$3 and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock,
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs, $2 per
13. F. D. Kemp. Sparta. Wis. 12-4

ROSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. OUR
birds are good layers, large and healthy
with good combs and good buff color. Just
tbe kind you want. Eggs, $1 for 15, $5 for
100. No stock for sale. Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. « '. (\ Glasgo. Loudonville, O. 1-3

HUFF LEGHORNS, SINGLE COMB. BRED
from Chicago winners. Two pens mated.
Produce show specimens only. I^ow, well
spread tails guaranteed. Elegant, golden,
even buff. Eggs, $3 per 15, produce speci-
mens cfiualing the best. Dr. C. E. Hoover,
Edgerton, O. 1-3

BLACK LEGHORNS.

BREED'S BLACK LEGHORNS ARE WIN-
ners and layers. They have proven their
abilities to many and will to you. Grand
.stock for sale. Let us book your order
now for eggs or day-old chicks. S. Mat-
thew Breed, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 11-3

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BLACK MINORCAS.

BLACK ROSE COMB MINORCAS FOR
sale, Campbell-MIshler-Clark strain. Pul-
lets $2 each, cockerels $3 each. Eggs in
season. Book orders now. Also Indian
Runner Ducks for sale at $1.50 each. Mrs.
Geo. Webster, R. 2, Columbia, Tenn. 11-3

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCA STOCK
and eggs for sale. Northup strain. All
stock sold with score card. Heidemann &
Co., Brighton, 111. 11.3

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. STOCK
for sale; cockerels $2 to $5. hens and pul-
lets $2 to $4. Eggs $2 and $2.50 per 15
from first prize winners Chicago, Cleveland
and Cincinnati. J. M. Glass, Sta. A.. Cin-
cinnati, O. ii_3

10 SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCA
cockerels. Fine head points, low tails, big
bone, fine color. Your chance to get some
fine ones for shows. Also 1 Rose Comb
Cock, fine show bird, D. C. Huggett, Grand
Ledge, Mich. 11-3

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. EXHI-

bition and breeding cockerels, $2 up. Pure
Northup strain. Grand large birds. Every
one a bargain. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Circulars. Eggs, $2 for 15. Book your or-
ders now. James F. Gleason, Michigan City
l^ 12-3

PURE ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS.
A few choice cockerels for sale, bred from
winnmg stock at the leading shows in this
state. Book your egg orders early from
three choice pens. Dr. E. H. Drews, Madi-
son. Wis. 12-3

NOW IS THE TIME TO PURCHASE A
cockerel if you desire to introduce some
new blood in your stock next season. I
have a fine lot of them for sale at rea-
sonable prices. Remember, I am the largest
exclusive breeder of S. C. Black Minorcas
m the United States or Canada. Give me
a trial and I am confident 1 can please
you. Cannot spare any cocks, hens or
pullets. Write for catalog. Frank Mc-
Grann, prop. Whatglen Farm, Box 417 P. F.,
Lancaster, Pa. i_i

MUST SELL AT ONCE. FEW VERY FINE
a. C. Black cockerels from my noted "Oul-
cout" Minorca. Booking egg orders. Blacks
and whites. Pullet record, 27 eggs In
Jan., 1909. Six ribbons on 7 entries 1909.
Oscar F. Sampson, Franklin, N. Y. 1-3

1 BREED FOR QUALITY AND SIZE. S.
C. Black Minorca eggs, $2 per 13. Cockerels
tor sale. I. Allison, Florence, Neb. 1-4

SINGLE COAIB BLACK MINORCAS, Ex-
clusive winners of 5 firsts at Shelbyville,
Lebanon and Sheridan poultry shows.
Scores, 93 to 94 1/^, by Judges McCracken,
Kummer and Greer. Eggs, $1.50 and $2
per 15. Fertility guaranteed. H. A. Brat-
lin, Brazil, Ind. 1.3

ROSE COMB BLACK AND ROSE COMB
White Minorcas. First prize winners at
New Y'ork, Chicago, St. Louis and all large
shows. Breeding stock and eggs for hatch-
ing guaranteed. Large stock. Great layers
Catalog mailed free. G. A. Clark, Sey-
mour Ind. ' j^_3

ANCONAS.

MOTTLED ANCONAS. MARVELOUS EGG
producers! i won every first and second
but one at great Minnesota and Wisconsin
state shows. Fine exhibition birds, both
comb.s. Magnificent yellow-legged Rose
Combs. Free circular. Dr. Guy Blencoe,
Vice President American Ancona Club, Al-
ma Center, Wis. 11-3

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS, STAN-
dard bred. Lot of fine cockerels, some few
choice pullets, for sale. Great layers. Egg
orders booked now for spring delivery.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Denton Warehelm,
Lineboro. Md. 11.4

FOR SALE— LINE BRED SILVER SPANG-
led Hamburgs. Winners 17 ribbons one
show. Also highest scoring eight birds.
Will dispose of cocks, hens, cockerels, pul-
lets. Eggs In season. None better for
breeding and eggs. Write Wauconda Poul-
try Farm. Benton Harbor. Mich. 12-3

FAVEROLLES.

BREED SALMON FAVEROLLES. CAN
send you some fine ones, all bred from
first prize winners at leading shows. This
popular breed of French fowls is unexcelled
for utility and fancy. Egg orders booked
for spring delivery. C. P. McAndrew, Ells-
worth, Wis. 11-8

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CORNISH

12 YEARS A BREEDER OF CORNISH
and we have better birds this year than
ever. All bred from prize winners at
leading shows Old birds for sale scoring
to 93 1/^. Young stock to be scored Nov. 20.
Describe what you want. Customers always
pleased. Egg orders booked. Mrs. S. A.
Hawk. R. 3. Chariton, Iowa. 11-3

CORNISH FOWL,. MADISON SC^UARE,
Jamestown Exposition. Allentown, Trenton,
Hagerstown, Philadelphia winners. Old and
young stock for sale. Egg orders booked
now. Circular free. R. D. Reider, Middle-
town, Pa. 12-3

POLISH,

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH, LINE
bred for 25 years. Winners at World's Fair,
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale; eggs in season. Chas. L.. Seely,
Pres. Am. Polish Club, Afion, N. Y. 5-9-12

W. C. B. I'Oi^iSH. A FEW CHOICE
cockerels for sale. Bred from wmneis at
Herkimer, Utica, Rochester and Buffalo.
Birds are sure to please. Eggs after Feb.
15. Don't fail to get my prices. Warren
W. Dickens, Box ^3, Middlfvilk", N. V. 1-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOEDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Baniam.s. High-
est honors New York. 60U birds. I'ruper &
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Birds scoring 93 to 95%. Won at
Newton, 111., in lively competition, first cock,
first and second cockerel, llrst, second and
third pullet. Eggs after March 1, .•$3 per
Sftting. Dale Arnold, Newton, 111. i-i

HOUDANS.

HOUDANS— BLUE RIBBONS AND SILVEK
cup winners. Write me for prices on eggs.
Laura B. Relff. Idaville, lud. 2-0«-12

HOUDANS. WINNERS WHEREVER

shown. 1st at Phila., Allentown, Norris-
town. Pa.. 1908, Phila., 1909, lifteen rib-
bons with ten entries. Stock and eggs for
sale. J. Emlen Smith, Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia. Pa. 3-9-12

CHOICE HOUDANS. Cocks, cockerels, hens
and pullets to close out at reasonable prices.
Write, stating just what you want. Supply
limited. Order at once if you want a bar-
gain. Birds are good in all points and will
b'ive satisfaction. J. B. Belknap, R. 3,
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 12-3

llOUDAN EGGS FROM McAVOY'S AND
Dr. Taylors .strain. Have raised them 3
years. Have 50 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 15, or $7 per 100. J. D. Payne, Water-
loo, Ind. 1-3

GAMES.

GAMES — INDIAN GAMES, WINNERS
wherever shown. If you want a show bird
or breeder write me. I have the goods.
Grand lot cockerels; also 30 pit game cocks
and stags. 18 years a breeder and exhibitor.
Eggs In season. J. Boyce, Summitville,
N. Y. 12-3

DOMINIQUES.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every first prize of-
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds.
Write for circulars and prices. W. H. Dav-
enport. Coleraine, Mass. 5-9-12

BABY CHICKS.

FINE BABY CHICKS, 8 CENTS EACH;
shipped safely anywhere. Partly grown
chicks, 30 cents each. Eggs for hatching,
%i per 100. Place your spring orders now
before prices advance. Write for booklet
and remember that we are pioneers in low
prices for fine poultry. Culver Poultry
Farm, 501 Fifth Ave., Benson, Neb. 11-3

E. AND D. HATCHEIIV, YARDLEV. 1>A.,
shippers of day-old chicks and eggs from
high grade stock of the leading varieties.
Expres.s paid and safe arrival guaranteed
east of the Missi.'^sippi river. VViite for
ll.st of varieties and prices. I-3

PHEASANTS.

ENGLISH RINGNECK PHEASANTS $5 A
pair. China Rlngneck Pheasants. $7.50 a
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomlngton,

POULTRY FANClERr

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
I'heasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich industry. 75 cents a copy by mail
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsie, New
York. 9-08-tf

AMllEliST, GOLDEN, SILVER, REEV1<:,
Mongolian, Elliot versicolor, English, Pied
and Swinhoe Pheasants, i'ure bred, healthy
birds. No duty on i^heasants. Price list
free. John Downham, Strathioy, Ont.,
Canada. 11-3

TURKEYS.

BRONZE TURKEiS. First cockerel, sec-
"nu, imrd, fouiiii pullei, hrst pen ai Illi-
nois state show 1909; first cockerel, first
i»ullet at I'eoria. 1908. William Ringhouse,
a. 2, Box Y, Havana, 111. 3-9-12

FOR SALE MAMMOTH BltONZE TUR-
Keys. A fine strain of good layers, large
bone and frame, and nicely marked; bred
from prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early. Prices rea-
sonable considering quality. Mrs. Mary
Schoonmaker, R. 1, Me-shoppon, Pa. 1 1

Jii;oNZl<: TURKEY i'ZGGS, $2 PER 10, ANu
genuine Wild ivialiard Duck eggs, $1..)0
per 10. Order eany. Will snip when
wanted. H, W. Fairali, Iowa City, lowa.

1-4

DUCKS AND GEESE.

EXTliA LARGE TOULOUSE Gii^ESE FOR
sale at right prices. Write me before
placing your order elsewhere. Can send
you buds that will give satisfaction. Edw.
J. liess, Itie. 14, Caledonia, Wis. II-3

iHOROUGHBRED TOULOUSE GEESE,
•no and $12 per pair. My geese are prize
winners. Fancy White Rocks and Rouen
Ducks. Eggs in season from each variety.
Mrs. L. L. S win ford, Oakland, HI. 12-3

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. IMPORTED
Slock, Magnificent exhibition strain. Flock
average 2U4 eggs each per year. We are
booking egg orders from tlie best stock in
the entire country at only $2 per 11. Hill-
crest Duck Farm, G. W. Maglott, Manager,
Bellville. O. 11.3

BLACK CAYUGA DUCKS AND WHITE
Holland Turkeys for sale. Also a few Afri-
can Geese (females only). Let me book
your orders now for eggs from the above
varieties. Satisfactory hatches guaranteed.
Correspondence solicited. Floyd S. Beau-
mont, R. 15. Kansasville, Wis. 12-3

PIGEONS.

1 OFFER GUARANTEED
in any quantity, at $1.00 _ ^_..,
lenge squab companies or dealers
better stock at twice this price.
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert,

MATED HOMERS

a pair, and chal-

to produce

Beautiful

my prices

Hens, and

1563 East

Montgomery Ave.^ Philadelphia. Pa. 8-9-12

WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Highest
prices paid for Guinea Fowls, Live Rabbits
and Guinea Pigs. S. Gilbert. 1128 Palmer
St., I'hiladelphia, Pa. 12-5

FERRETS.

4,000 FERRETS.
They hustle rats
dium and large
color. Prices and
Knapp. Rochester,

SOME ARE TRAINED,
and rabbits. Small, me-

size. Light and dark
book mailed free. N. A.

O. 11-3

MISCELLANEOUS.

•WANTED"— PIGEON DUNG. WRITE

Pfistor & Vogel Leather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for prices, etc. 10-3

A FINE 160- ACRE FARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas, 19 miles from Abilene,
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being used for pasture;,
good wire fence, good water the year round.
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns it and
has no use for it. Some improvements.
Address K. F., care Poultry Fancier, 357
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

I CAN SEND YOU WHITE ROCKS THAT
are right. Birds score from 93 to 95%
and are first prize winners. Will improve
your flock and win for you. Eggs. $2, $3,
$5 per 15. Send me your order now. Robt.
Walker, 233 Porter St., Now Castle, Pa. 1-3

SINGLE COMB lillODIO ISLAND REDS.
Fggs in season from excellent laying strain.
Pen No. 1, $2 per 15; pen No.
15. Utility flock, $1 per 15
hundred. Mrs. Harvey Truitt,
Ington, 111.

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January. *10

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

K. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS FOR SALE,
Cooli's strain, $1.50 up. Orders booked for
eggs and early chicks. Orpington and Light
Brahmas. B^ull line of Incubators and
Brooders equipped with flame controlling
device. You can't burn up the eggs with
this incubator. Rebuilt and second-hand
incubators, guaranteed to give satisfaction
or money refunded. 10 per cent discount
given on all orders received up to Jan. 15.

Geo. Boyer. Spencerville, O.

11-3

PROF. JOHN EVANS' REMEDIES FOR
roup, rattling in throat, canker, chicken-
pox, scaly legs and frozen combs has no
equal. I^rice 50 cents per box. Send for
free .sample. 500 Columbian Wyandottes
and Rocks from my New York and Boston
winners. Cranston. R. L 11-3

'lOKD— PRICE PER 100
$2.75, meat and bone
$2.25, hen scratching
scratching grains

.•52,

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LBS.

$2.25,

grains

poultr,v

alfalfa

shells

crystal

I'OULTUV 1

Beef scraps

ground bom*

$LSr,, chick

mash $1.S0. pigeon grain $2.2

clover meal $1.50, crushed oyster

65c. crushed clam shells 60c, mica

grit 65c, pearl grit 60c. medicated charcoal

$1.50. The meat and bone, shells, grit

and charcoal in both hen and chick size.

Give us a trial order. J. G. Hermann &

Co., Iiuiianapoli.s, Ind. 11-6

TWO INCUBATORS FOR SALE ClllOAI'.
Good as new. Have had 90 per cent hatches
with tliem. 50 and 120 egg sizes; be quick.
Isaac L. Snllais. Washington C. H., O. 1-1

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

Wilkinson's White Rocks

anrl I4rfeiir1»n« ^^^ P"^^ winners.

ana nouaans pine lot of puiiets

and cockerels for sale at $2. 50 to $10.00. Write
me your wants.

W. T. WILKINSON

Box 15 G, East Des Moines, lowa

S. C. R. I. REDS

Business Birds
— of Quality —

Vigorous range bred birds from heavy winter
laying Strain. They win Silver Cups too

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM
R. P. GUPTILL, prop. ELCHO, WIS.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING—

Secrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessons in Judging— By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac«
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION ~ BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what

chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and

' thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that lire not known

to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking

as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

How to Straighten Lopped Spikes op Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and

Watties.
How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear

Lobes.
How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the

Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.
How to Clean the Plumage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Barring.
How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.

How to Add Lustre to Plumaqe of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from thg Edrjes of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing or
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Pi eventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls in Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy,
How to Prevent Light Colored Lens.
How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A cood Stimulant and Preventive of Colds in Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Bird§ are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers in Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.
What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.
Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb, Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room,
Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemically

Bleaching White Birds.
How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

Have you ever bought a poultry book on general topics or disclosing some system or so-called secrets,
and upon receipt of it had your expectations drop with a dull thud of disappointment? Well! this isn't that
kind of a book.

THE PRICE OF THE BOOK IS $2 AND IT IS WORTH THE PRICE.

BiCH PURCHASER AGREES TO NOT DIVULGE TEE SECRETS OF THE BOOK EXCEPT TO MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.

DON'T PUT OFF SENDING YOUR ORDER. YOU NEED THE BOOK NOW. ADDRESS

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355 DEARBORN SL, CHICAGO, ILL

CORNISH

1-' YEARS A LJKEEDEU OF COKNISH
and we have better birds this year than
ever. All bred from prize winners n'.
leading sliows Old birds tor sale scoring
to y3l-. Young stock to be scored Nov. 20.
Descril>e what you want. Customers always
pleased. Egg orders booked. Mrs. S. A.
Hawk. R. ;i. Chariton. Iowa. 11-3

<'<»1:.\1SH I'OW 1.. ,MADlSU-\ SC^UAltK,
Jame.slown Exposition. Allentown. Ticnlou.
llagcrstown, I'hiladelphia winners. Old and
young stock lor sale. Egg orders booked
now. Circular free. It. D. Reider, Middle-
town, I'a. IL'-;;

POLISH.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK i'Oi.ISll, LINE
bred lor 2b years. Winners at Worlds Fair,
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale, eggs m season. Chas. L,. Seely,
I'res. Am. Polish Club, Afton, X. Y. 5-9-1 L'

\v. C. Ji. ia)i.l.Sll. A I'IJnx < llUKl-:
cockerels for sale. Jircd liom wmiieis at
Herkimer, Utica, Rochestei' and HuiTmIo.
liirtls are sure to please. iOggs alter l\l..
1.'.. Don't fail to get my prices. Warnn
W. I>i.-k.iis, II.ix :•;;. Middl.x illc, X. ^•. 1 :;

BANTAMS.

i:.\KK HARGA1X.S, cui^DEx amj .sil\i:u

Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, itose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Banianis. High-
est honors New York. bi){> birds. Proper tVc
«'o.. ."^I'lKdia lie, N. V. &-',•-] :j

COLDION .SEAi;i:j(HiT PAN'l'AAiS |()i:
sale. liirds scoring ;tj l(j 'J.>'-U- \\'<>n ai
Newton, 111., in li\ii.\ competition, liisi vxrk.
tivsi and second cocl\(;rcl, lust, sec.. ml and
third i)ullel. Eggs after March 1, s;; jht
Setting. Dale Aiii.dd. Xcwioii, 111. i-i

HOUDANS.

HUL DANS— BLUE KlKiJUNS AND
cup winners. Write me fur prices
l^ura B. Ueiff. Iduville. Ind.

SH.VEU

on eggs.

2-0y-]2

HOUDANS. WINNERS WHEREVER

shown. 1st at Phila.. Allentown. Norris-
town. Pa., lyus. Phila., VJQi). lifteen rib-
bons with ten entries. Stuck and eggs for
sale. J. Emlen Smith. Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia. Pa. 3-9-12

CHOICE HOI 'DANS. Cocks, cockerels, hens
and pullets to close out at reasonable prices.
Write. Slating just what ycju want. .supply
limited. Older at once if you want a bar-
gain. Birds are good in all points and will
«ivo satisfaction. J. B. Belknap, li. 3.
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 12-3

ii(»rDAN i:<;<;s from m.a\oy's .vnd

Dr. Taylors strain. Ha\ e raised them 3
years. Ha\e .')0 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 1.".. or $7 per loo. J. D. Payne, Water-
loo, Ind. 1-3

GAMES.

tJAMES — INDIAN GAMES, WINNERS
wherever shown. If you want a show l>ird
or breeder write me. I have the goods.
Grand lot cockerels; also 30 pit game cocks
and stags. 18 years a breeder and exhibitor.
lOggs in season. J. Boyce, Summitville,
N. Y. 12-3

DOMINIQUES.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every ftrst prize of-
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds.
Write for circulars and prices. W. H. Dav-
enport. Coleraine, Mass. 5-9-12

BABY CHICKS.

FINE BABY CHICKS, S CENTS EACH;
shipped safely anywhere. Partly grown
chicks, 30 cents eacli. Eggs for hatching,
$4 per 100. I'lace your spring orders now
before prices advance. Write for booklet
and remember that we are pioneers in low
prices for Jine poultry. Culver Poultry

Farm, 501 Fifth Ave., Benson, Neb.

11-

I': AXD 1), ll.\T(•lll•:K^ , v.\kdli:n, i-a..

shipi>ers oi day-old chicks and eggs Irom
high grade stock of the leading \aiieiies.
I':xi»ress i)aid and .safe ;iiii\al guaranteed
east of the Mississi|)pi liver. Write for
list of varieties and ]tiicf!s. i-;{

PHEASANTS.

ENGLISH RINGNECK PHEASANTS. $5 A
pair. China Ringneck Pheasants. $7.50 a
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomington.
III. 9.6

POULTRY FANCl EivC^^ry

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PER
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
i'heasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich industry. 75 cents a copy by mail
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsie, New
Y^ork. 9-08-tf

.\-Miii:UST, GOLDEN, SILNLK, i:EE\E,
Mongolian, Elliot versicolor, English, Pied
and .Swiiihoe Pheasants. Pure bred, healthy
bii\ls. No duly on I'heasaius. I'rice list
free. John Dowuliam, Slralhroy, Out.,
Canada. ii-;{

TURKEYS.

JUCONZ1-. TLlilvEiS. First cockerel, see-
"iiu, uiiid, loiuiii j.uilei, ijisL pell ai Illi-
nois state show I'Jii'J; lirst cockerel, hrst
i)uliet at I'eoria. 1L»0S. William liinghouse,
R. 2, Box Y, Havana, 111. 3-9-12

FC>ii i^.WA-: .MAM.MoTJl LlUJXZi-: TUR-
Jiejs. A line slraiii uf good la.\eis, large
hone and frame, and nii-ely maiked; lued
from prize winning slock from JNladison
Square Garden. order early. Prii-es rea-
sonable considering quality. Mrs. Mary
.*-;<• iioonmaker, J:. 1, :\l<sho])j)eii. I'a. 1-1

j.ia )Nzi-:

.genu i He

Jier ju.
W .-I hied.

I'UJiKEV ]■:<;(

Wild .Mali.iid

Oltler eii . I\ .
M. \\ . h'.lil;iM,

S. .^_' i'l']!: it), AXiJ

Dliek e.i4gs, S1...IJ
Will Si I I J) U llell

1 1 >\\ a « 'il .\ , I o\\ a.

1-1

DUCKS AND GEESE.

I'^XTiiA i^AliGE TULLOUSf: GEESii. FOi:
sale at right prices. Write me before
plaiing your order elsewlieie. Can send
you birtls that will gi\e salisiaciion. Edw.
.). i less, liie. J I. <'ale(loiHa, Wis. 11-3

J horolghbi:ed toueouse geese,

••^lO and $12 per pair. My geese are priz<-
winner.s. Fancy White liocks and Itouen
Ducks. Eggs in season from each variety.
jMis. E. L. Swinfoid. Oakland, 111. li'-3

IXDIAN KUNXER DUCKS. IMi'UliTED
Slock. Magniiicent exhibition strain. Flock
average 2uf eggs each per year. We are
liooking egg orders from the best stock in
the entire country at only $2 per 11. Hill-
crest Duck l'"aini. G. W. Magloit. Manager,
l!ell\ille, O. ll-;j

iii.ACK CAYUGA DUCKS AND Wiii'lE
Holland Turkeys lor sale. Also a few Afri-
can Geese (females only). Bet me book
\(>ur orders now for eggs from the above
\arieties. Satisfactory hatches guaranteed,
t'orrespondence solicited. Floyd S. Beau-
mont. R. 15. Kansasville, \\'is. 12-:;

PIGEONS.

1 OFFEli GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.U0 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Bt;autitul
White Homers. $1..')0 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.^ Philadelphia, Pa. 8-9-12

WANTED 5,000 COMMOX OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Highest
l>iices paid for Guinea Fowls, Live liabbits
and Guinea Pigs. S. Gilbert, 1128 Palmer
St., I'hiladejphia, Pa. 12-.")

FERRETS.

■1,01)0 FEliRETS.
They hustle rats
dium and large
color. Prices and
Kiiapp, Rochester,

SOME ARE TRAINED,
and rabbits. Small, me-

size. Eight and dark
book mailed free. N. A.

O. 11-3

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED"— PIGEON DUNG. WRIT 10

1 'lister & Vogel Eoather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for ))iices, etc. 10-3

Will s.
I ernis.
has no
Add fcss

])olow the niaiket
.\on-iesidont widow
use for it. .^onie
K. F., <ai(! poultry
Dearboin St., C^hlcago, 111.

on reasonable

owns it and

improvements.

Fnnciei-, :!.', 7

1 fA.N si;xD you wiirif: liocKs that

are right. I^iitls score from 1)3 to 951/2
and are tirst prize winn<rs. Will imi)rove
.\our Hock ;ind win for you. Eggs, $2, $3,
*:. i)er 15. Send me youi- ordf?r now. Robt.
Wiilker, 2:;.T Porter St., New Castle, Pa. 1-3

SI.VGLF. <'oMI! RIIODI'; ISLAND REDS.
lOggs in Season frctm excellent laying strain
P. 11 No. 1. $2 per 15: pen No. 2, $1.50 per
15. TTtilily flock, •$! per 15 or $5 per
hundred. Mrs. Harvey Truitt, R. 1, Farm-
ington, 111. i_3

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

R. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS FOR SALE,
t'ook's strain, $1.50 uj). Orders booked for
eggs and early chicks, Orpington and Light
Hrahmas. Full line of Incubators and
Brooders equipped with llame controlling
device. You can't burn up the eggs with
this incubator. Rebuilt and second-hand
iiieubatois, guaranteed to give satisfaction
or money refunded. 10 per cent discount
given on all orders received up to Jan. 15.
<;en. l?o\er. .Spencei-\ill<', O. 11-3

i't)ii/nLN- fi:i:d i-kicio 1'i:k dmi mis.

lieeT serajis .■^2.75. imat and boiie .'<2.25,
Ki'ouml b.uie -Si'. 25. hell scratching grains
$l.'^5. cliiii< scratching grains .S2. jmultr.N-
mash .i^l.sii. p.igeon i^iain .'i;2.25. alfalfa
elovcr ipeal $1.5(1. cinshed o>ster sludls
i;5c. eiuslied ejani shells (iuc. mica ci\\slal
f^iil •i5c. |)earl grit tiiic. medicated charcoal
•'1.5(1. 'I'lie ineiil and Imiie. slndls, gi-il
and eliarcnal in both hen and chick size.
Ci\e lis .1 Ilia! order. .1. G. Hermann it
' 'o.. Iin! ia iiajiolis. Ind. 1 1 -C

TWt» I x» 'ii:at( >Ks j.'oi: SAi.f: «'iii.:Ai'.

<iood as new. lla\e had DO per c<-iit hatches
with them. 50 and 1_'") egg sizes; be <iuick.
ls;i;i<- L. Sollars. Washington C. II., (). 1-1

PRINTING.

1 'HINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-

heads, en\eloi)es, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
posli)aid. Ciicuhirs, everything. Finest en-
gra\ings. Jieauliful samples for stamp.
Mod( 1 Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

Wilkinson's White Rocks
and Houdans

are prize winners.
Fine lot of pullets

and cockerels for sale at $2.50 to $10.00. Write
me your wants.

W. T. WILKINSON
Box 15 G, East Des Moines, Iowa

S. C. R. I. REDS

Business Birds
— of Quality —

Vig[orous range bred birds from heavv winter
laying Strain. They win Silver Cups too

TCP NOTCH POULTRY FARM
R. P. GUPTILL, prop. ELCHO, WIS.

TRAP NEST

lUii'le In .1 few niiiiiiteH
\ er simple ami fellahle
coiniiletc piniis H) cents.
(•■ o. silrdhant. r,.»\ S,
Sbeboygan KhIIh. Wis.

i|l|U]lllMl^ili]_liL

"'"i:';'i":ii' iini

POULTRY FeNCf

STOCK STRONG— RUST PROOF

iSIadcofextraheax \<l()ul)]cgalvani/e(l wires.

No lop or bottom ho.irds recmired.
Chick tight— Ixjttom wires onh 1 in ai^art

COSTS NO MORE THAN NHTTING

BROWN FENCE & WIRE CO. DEPT 94. CLEVELAND,0.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING—

Secrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessons in Judging— By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac-
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION — BOTH LAID BARE,

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

How to Straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out tfie Briglit Red Color of Combs, Face and
Wattles.

Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear

IS

"Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the
Nicer Curve to the Back,
umage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show

How Small

Lobes.
How Back Plumage

Tail and Give a
How to Clean the P

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Earring.
How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.
How to Add Lustre to Plumage of Dark Colored Fowls.
How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.
Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.
How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.
How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.
How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock

Plumage.

Stubs Pulled from Legs,
is Removed from thg Edqes of Large

are Removed from the Quill of White

Removing Traces of

How Foreign Color
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing or
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.

How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In

Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Le-^s.
How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A rjood Stimulant and Preventive of Colds in Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Bird^ are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers in Parti-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.

What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite in Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb. Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.

Complete Detailed Instruction fop Washing and Chemically

Bleaching White Birds.
How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

Have you ever bought a poultry book on general topics or disclosing some system or so-called secrets,
and upon receipt of it had your expectations drop with a dull thud of disappointment? Well! this isn't that
kind of a book.

THE PRICE OF THE BOOK IS $2 AND IT IS WORTH THE PRICE.

EiCH PURCHASER AGREES TO NOT DIVULGE THE SECRETS OF THE BOOK EXCEPT TO MEMBERS OP HIS FAMILY.

DON'T PUT OFF SENDING YOUR ORDER. YOU NEED THE BOOK NOW. ADDRESS

SUCCESSFUL POULTRY JOURNAL ^Rank^heck 355 OEARBORN ST., CHICAGO. ILL

4

TENTIONAL 2ND

a^sBo^m

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SIBLEY'S

are in the lead
and will hold
it. At the Big

Rw-l w^ ^ Indiana State Fair this season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most coveted prize, Ist pen. Also
r^ I 3 |3 1st and 3rd cocks, 2nd cockerel and many of the other winners were decended from our flock.

They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows. At

Detroit January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 11 others. At
Chicago, December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September
1908, 11 prizes including 5 firsts.

Our winnings at Detroit, January, 1909, in one of the strongest classes of Reds ever
gotten together were: first, second, third and fourth on cocks, first, second, third
and fourth on hens; first, second, third and fourth on cockerels; first and fifth on
pullets; first and second on pens. T^^e four club specials for color and shape.
The silver loving cup (valued at |25.00) offered by the Mayor of Detroit for the
best display of either Rose or Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. The silver loving
cup (valued at $20.00) offered by the Hotel Normandie for the best display of rose
comb Rhode Island Reds and other valuable specials.

THE SIBLEY REDS HAVE ALWAYS WON EAST AND WEST

2000 BIRDS RAISED DURING THE PAST SEASON FROM WINNERS

Some of the cream of this year's production is still in
our yards and if you are looking for a choice bird or two
we can more than please you at right prices.

We will have ten grand pens mated for the egg trade. Book your orders
early. Prices $3.00, $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, $20.00 and $25 00 per setting. Send
for catalogue describing our matings and telling all about the Sibley Reds.

Irving A. and Frank Churchill Sibley, South Bend, Ind.

MIN-NE-HA-HA 1st prize winner, Chicago,
Dec. 16-19, 1908. Detroit, Jan. 9-14, 1909.

THE FAMOUS HEN, "PEGGY."

VAL.UE $10,000. First prize winner at Jamestown
Exposition, Madison Square Garden, New York, and every-
where else she has been shown. The reason we value the
above hen at Ten Thousand Dollars Is becansa we refused
$2,500 for her after we sold five of her chicks for I7,S00: and
we Avill Kive $10,000 for a "Crystal" White
Orpincton Hon that will equal her in every way.

KELLER8TRASS FARM, KANSAS CITY, MO.

• • RELLERSTR ASS * *

White Orping'tons

ARE THE BIGGEST PAYERS

Because they have proven to be

THE BIGGEST WINTER LAYERS

KELLERSTRASS < « ^ T^ V ^ TT A T "

White Orping'tons

Are the GRANDEST UTILITY birds on record today, an«J aft tO
their FANCY QUALITY they won first at Madison Square Garden,
New York 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908; also at Crystal Palace, London,
England, Chicago and Boston. If you need some birds to IMPROVE
YOUR STOCK or for the SHOW ROOM write us. We have thefll,
and the KIND THAT WINS, as our past record shows. STOCK
and EGGS for sale at all times. Remember, we are the ORIGINA-
TORS of " CRYSTAL" White Orpingtons, and breed only thdiSDft
kind. We devote our whole time to this one breed.

SEND FOR OUR CATAl,OGUE

I^ife Members American White Orpinfrton Club and the American Poultry

helle:rstrass farm

ERNBST KELLERSTRASS, Proprietor

Originators of Cr^'stal White Orpingtor^s
R. r. D. No. 1 KANSAS CITY, MO.

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Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively LONG S ORPINGTONS

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize

wmners m my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Matin^i list on re (juest. Stock for .'^ale.

E.M.LONG

Box P. F. Osceola, Ind.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS

Winners of 1st, 2nd. 3rd and 4th pullets,
2iid pen in a strong class at the big
Baraboo Valley Show, January 1910.

Acr-r.ob-^r^i loof o^„c« u . . -. , ^ , Pen headed by 1st cock at above show.

ThrfemXVi^ t^t « H^ '^''f'\\^S^^ ^ Wisconsin State Association Show.

i^^, /,o? ° ^X y»''^«/'"«^ f"il of quality, bred from the best blood lines in America I will supplv

my customers with eggs from these without reserve at $3 per 15, |5 per 30. Thev will produce winners

JAS. McGUAN,

BARABOO, WIS. I

Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White I^eghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong healthy
chick in each specimen. I guarantee this
aud also safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can afford to

C. E. KYLE,

Rocky River, Ohio

hatch them
R. F. D. No. 1

Barred Rocks

EXCLUSIVELY. R-^gnl Blue is the name. Bied in line for
jU) years and originally from the best blood lines in the world.

Show Uftrr,u «fin .•««,o4.,of There unequalled record of five first-premiums at Mich State

snow, Detroit st 11 remains for some one to duplicate. No room to tell vou of hundreds of other

Mfds o'f rarelf Wni FnArn^'n'''uS''^ "°" ^!,°^*^"^ ^I^^^"^ ^^°-«- I "ow ha^e in m^yar^^^^ show
birds or rarest type and color with narrow, deep and distinct barring. Al.so breeding stock that

w 11 merit the approval of any fancier. When ordering remember I do not requfre yfu to pay f^^
o.^iu^'^P^^'r^^'^''^''-*''"'^ ^"^^^'Py°"^-^&ood as can be found at reasohabTe^pricer The
?^f^l^ fl ""^ li''''^^"/ increasing demand warrants me in advancing the price of eggs [for hatch!
ing> to $4 per 15. Address A. L. EM^IRSON INKSTER MICH P it.c oi egg.s ^lor naicn

EGGS

Book
your
o r ders
now. Pens headed by Prize Winners.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

T, E. LEE, Marshfield. Wis.

"H

CH'S WHITE ROCKS

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BESl DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY. 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me oywr.H'l ^^ ^%f^nl^ r° ^T^' ^^^^ '" ^'^'''''°" ^° ^^'""'"^ ^^^ ^"^^ y^"' ^irds purchased from

Xr i I, ^u^} I '°''^ ^^""^ '^°° ^' "'' '^^^^■'^' '^'°'^^ '" t'^e <^°"'>try- I could mention show

after show, where my b.rds have won the BEST PRIZES but I honestly believe this honor belongs to

the purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will p.blish your winnings
as mme For the season of 19,0 1 have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list, which describes my
?how"i .T K '"'/"'"'■'? °^ "LEADER" my ist CHICAGO COCKEREL and other famous biVds A
choice lot of breedmg cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford, Wis.

A CLEAN SWEEP

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
Srd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulonse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS. S. D. LAPHAM. prop., Box P. Dearborn, Mich.

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No. 2

Doubl

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How to Get Pure White Birds and Standard Shape
in Backs and Tails of Male Birds.

By S. G. WHIPRECHT

HE secret ui i)r()(hicino- high clas.s cx-
liibition .specimen.^ h'es in the propcr
niating ol the breech'ng binl.s jind this
knowledge is gained only b\ years of
experience and a very close sttidy of
one breed. One mav coinnienc'e bv
bu\ing high chiss breeding or exhibition stock and if
properly mated bv the breeder from whom he buvs,
and the blood lines are right, the otTs])ring will show
an improvement over the original birds and he may be
al)le to select a few to show and win with. The next
season lie finds it np to him.self to mate his birds,
using his own ideas and judgment and depending
mostly on the scores of the birds. He raises all he
can each season for a few years and winds up onh-
to find tliat his birds are not as good in shape as they
were, and the color has al^o disappeared. I laving
spent a good sum of money and a few vears of time
he gives it up in di.'^gust a.^' hundreds do each sea.son.
I am more than convinced if the l)reeders over the
country would explain their method of mating through
the journals instead of arguing faking, the new begin-
ner would get along faster.' Instead of this they
generally drift along from year to year until thev
have learned it themselves. Shape can be understood
])retly well by studving good cuts made from win-
uers. but color nuist be seen to be learned, even in the
white varieties, as some birds are chalk white and
others a creamy white.

As to mating, an experienced breeder needs no
score cards for a guide. Tie keeps records of his
birds, he knows how he mated the year bef(-)re to hold
what he had while he is overcoming a small defect,
also how much improvement can be expected both in
shape and color. A high score of a male or female
is almost worthless as a breeder if not properlv mated
with something almost its equal. Take the \\'hite

W \andottes for example. One is almost compelled to
run two hues for the verv best results, one for cock-
erels, the other for imllets, mostlv for the ^hape of
l)ack and tail, as tin males are dili'erent in <hape in
these two sections than the females, (iood shaped
backs, short, wide tails and full round breasts are
ihe hardest sections to get just right in the males
•or a mating for cockerels, the secret lies in the hen
Without a fine female it is almost impossible to pro-
duce a iine male. Select a large, round, deep-breasted
blocky hen up to weight and over, with broad back
and heavy cushion, with no break in front of tail
which should be short and wide, carried a little hio-h'
a heavy well outlined fhilt, short li-ht-colored legs'
white or bluish skin witli the whitest of plumage The
male to mate with this female need not be a wonder
in shape, Imt a lairly good bird and must have the
curve of back in front of tail instead of a sharp break •
good color, tail carried upright, white or bluish skin'
nistead of yellow. Such a bird would probablv have
a leg ot lemon color. A mating like this will give
you the best results in back and tail shape and a color
that will need no bleaching of plumage for the shows
as their pin leathers and voung plumage will come
pmk or bluish pink and are alwavs readv for the earlv
shows. With good head points, etc., and other things
I)ciiig equal, you have a natural bred bird t^t to show
Ihe pullets from this mating will show cockerel bred
back.^ and tails in shape and are valuable for cockerel
l)reeders another sea.son.

The females for the pullet line should show backs
ami tails about what the Standard calls for in shape
which shows a gradual rise from shoulder to tip of
tail. A male showing the .^ame slope of back with
tail carried a little low for this mating will give the
best results. The two lines should be bred separatelv
and not cross them back and forth as it would onlv
tear down what was gained the vear before.

By knowing the sire and dam and keeping records
of one's birds, one can gain more real valuable breed-
mg knowledge in five years than could be learned in
ten by any other method.
Sedalia. AFo.

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively LONG'S ORPINGTONS

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize

winners m my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Mritinji list on request. Stock for sale.

E. M. LONG

Box P. F. Osceola, Ind.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS

As cockerel last season he won 1st at I,a Crosse and i,. «l tuc Wisconsin siaie asso(

mv r.,..?Jfr!,!frc" ffl yardsare full of quality, bred from the best blood lines in America, i win suppiv

my customers with eggs from these without reserve at $3 per 15, $5 per 30. They will produce winners

Winners of 1st, 2nd. 3rd and 4th pullets,
2nd pen in a strong class at the big

^_^^^_^^^^ Baraboo Valley Show. January 1910
Pen headed by 1st cock at above show.

1st at the Wisconsin State Association Show.

I will suppiv

JAS. McGUAN,

BARABOO, WIS.

Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White l^eghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong healthy
chick in each specimen. I guarantee this
aud also safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can affora to
hatch them. q g KYLE,

R. F. D. No. 1 Rocky River. Ohio

Barred Rocks

EXCLUSIVELY. R^gnl Blue is the name. Bied in line for
1.J years and originally from the best blood lines in the world.

cHnw Tl^frr^if ..ill t '^"<^^e ""equalled record of five first-premiums at Mich State

Show. Detroit st 11 remains for some one to duplicate. No room to tell you of hundreds of other
regular and special prizes they have won at other leading show.s. I now hav4 in my yards show
birds of rarest type and color with narrow, deep and distinct barring. Al.so breed hfg^stocktha^
r ot ofTvt!!^ approval of any fancier. When ordering remember I do not require v?u to pay foJ
n, fm ^^^"S'^V'^vertising. but .ship you as good as can be found at reasonable prices The
cjuality of my stock and mcreasing demand warrants me in advancing the price of eggs (for hatch-
ing) to $4 per 15. Address A. L. EMERSON INKSTER. MICH. ce o eggs ^lor naicn

EGGS

Book
your
o r ders
now. Pens headed by Prize Winners.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

T. E. LEE, Marshfield. Wis.

ALBACH'S WHITE ROCKS"

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Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

m. J^^^T",''^ ^^ ^'i!;£l'|^ *° ^1T' ''"^^ '" ^'^^"'°" *° winning year after year, birds purchased from
me or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show
after show, where my birds have won the BEST PRIZES but I honestly believe this honor belongs to
the purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will pmblish your winnings
as mine For the season of 19.0 I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list, which describes niv
?hof/°A^Tl^'"!,?'''"''"? °^ "LEADER" my ,st CHICAGO COCKEREL and other famous ted^ A
choice lot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford, Wis.

A CLEAN SWEEP

LAPHAM^S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a ckss of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
5rd pullets. 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TODAY

20 young Toulonse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
price*. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, prop., Box P, Dearborn, Mich.

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No. 2

Double Mating White Wyandottes

How to Get Pure White Birds and Standard Shape
in Backs and Tails of Male Birds.

By S. G. WHIPRECHT

HE secret of prodncinor high class ex-
hibition specimens lies in the proper
mating of the breeding birds and this
knowledge is gained only bv years of
experience and a very close study of
one breed. One may commence bv
buymg high class breeding or exhibition stock and if
properly mated by the breeder from whom he buvs,
and the blood lines are right, the offspring will show
an improvement over the original birds and he may be
able to select a few to show and win with. The next
season he finds it up to himself to mate his birds,
using his own ideas and judgment and depending
mostly on the scores of the birds. He raises all he
can each season for a few years and winds up only
to find that his birds are not as good in shape as they
were, and the color has also disappeared. Having
spent a good sum of money and a few vears of time
he gives it up in disgust as hundreds do each season.
I am more than convinced if the breeders over the
country would explain their method of mating through
the journals instead of arguing faking, the new begin-
ner would get along faster. Instead of this they
generally drift along from year to year until they
have learned it themselves. Shape can be understood
pretty well by studving good cuts made from win-
ners, but color must be seen to be learned, even in the
white varieties, as some birds are chalk white and
others a creamy white.

As to mating, an experienced breeder needs no
score cards for a guide. He keeps records of his
birds, he knows how he mated the year before to hold
what he had while he is overcoming a small defect,
also how much improvement can be expected both in
shape and color. A high score of a male or female
is almost worthless as a breeder if not properly mated
with something almost its equal. Take the White

W yandottes for example. One is almost compelled to
run two hues for the very best results, one for cock-
erels, the other for pullets, mostly for the shape of
back and tail, as the males are different in shape in
these two sections than the females. Good shaped
backs, short, wide tails and full round breasts are
the hardest sections to get just right in the males
Iw a matmg for cockerels, the secret Hes in the hen
Without a fine female it is almost impossible to pro-
duce a fine male. Select a large, round, deep-breasted,
blocky hen up to weight and over, with broad back
and heavy cushion, with no break in front of tail
which should be short and wide, carried a little high'
a heavy well outlined fluff, short lidU-colored legs'
white or bluish skin with the whitest of plumage The
male to mate with this female need not be a wonder
in shape, but a fairly good bird and must have the
curve of back in front of tail instead of a sharp break •
good color, tail carried upright, white or bluish skin'
instead of yellow. Such a bird would probablv have
a leg of lemon color. A mating like this will give
you the best results in back and tail shape and a color
that will need no bleaching of plumage for the shows
as their pin feathers and young plumage will come
pink or bluish pink and are always readv for tue earlv
shows. With good head points, etc., and other things
being equal, you have a natural bred bird fit to show
J he pullets from this mating will show cockerel bred
backs and tails in shape and are valuable for cockerel
breeders another season.

The females for the pullet line shoui I show backs
and tails about what the Standard calls for in shape
which shows a gradual rise from shoulder to tip of
tail. A male showing the same slope of back with
tail carried a little low for this mating will give the
best results. The two lines should be bred separately
and not cross them back and forth as it would only
tear down what was gained the year before.

By knowing the sire and dam and keeping records
of one's birds, one can gain more real valuable breed-
ing knowledge in five years than could be learned in
ten by any other method.

Sedalia. Mo.

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Stock

Thousands of Dollars in Unnecessary Express Charges
are Paid by Buyers. Many Breeders Injure Their
Business by Ignoring the Interest of Customers.

By W. W. SAWYER

HE manner and condition in which
fancy poultry for bree(Hng- and show
purposes is bein^ shipped, is neglected
and sliii^hted by the majority of breed-
ers. I have been in the poultry busi-
ness for a number of years, and have
received and shipped lots of stock. I have found that
not one breeder out of seven shows any regard for his
customers as to the looks and condition of the stock
shipped. While I have often found the stock as good
as represented, and well w^orth the ])rice, it is dis-
gusting to see the kind of coons in which some of our

supposed-to-be fancy poultry breeders ship fowls,
to ship anything better than some old box. This is
right w^heii the stock is shipped in that way, but on
the other hand, if birds are shippped in light, at-
tractive coops and the stock proves to be as repre-
sented, nine times out of ten the buyer or his friends
will send to you again when in need of aiiy thing in
your line. I don't by any means intend to say that all
l3reeders and ship})ers send out their stock in rough,
mean coops, for they do not. There are some who
have enough enterprise about their business to furnish
neat coops. Some breeders ask for the return of
the coops. Above every thing else, don't ask a cus-
tomer to return a coop ; he feels that the price you
ask and the express on the coop is enough that he
should have it beside the stock. If he has not paid
you enough for the stock that you demand the rettirn
of the coop or have to shi]) in a patched-up box to
kee]) even, better add a few cents more to the first
price, which will allow you to furnish a neat coop.

Home-made coops sucli as are used l,.v W. M. Sawyer. I.ai.cusier. Mo., and described by him in accompanying article.

Actually I have bought fine poultry from breeders that
from the looks of the coops, they had surely gone out
in the back yard and used up their old fencing boards
to make coops. Just think of the added express
charges that have to be paid on these rough, heavy
coops, and besides, the customer is ashamed for his
friends to see him hauling home his fine birds in such
unsightly coops.

We don't stop to think how much this is hurting
our trade and the business in general. We should
work to the interests of our customers and encourage
and push the business along. When the new begin-
ner customer gets disappointed and ''bit" at the start,
it is like the saying "once bit, twice afraid," and he is
slow to take hold and start again if he ever does.

A majority of breeders seem to think that when
they have succeeded in making a sale, they are done
with that customer, — that he will probably never send
for anything again and that it is a waste of money

The stock gets through its journey in nice condition,
the customer is pleased, and it is a o-ood ad for your
business. It shows that you care something for the
comfort of your birds. If they are stuck down in
some old box (perhaps too small for them) they come
out with plumage dirty and broken, and are not a
very pleasing sight to the eyes of their new owner.
I am not advertising shipping coops for sale for I
have nothing to offer in that line, neither do I say
that there is only one kind to use. There are several
kinds that are good. Avoid the use of canvas on
coops (unless ordered shipped in canvas) for this
doubles up the express charges. T have a plan of
shippmg coop of my own which I have made at the
farm to suit any size shipment ordered, suitable for
any kind of weather. In hot weather a wide piece of
one-inch poultry netting is used on each side of the
coop which gives them plenty of air. In cold weather
a narrow strip of netting- is used on only one side of

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the coop. A water and feed cup are tacked in corners
next to the wire front. This gives a chance to fill up
with water and feed while on their trip, and also al-
lows the express agent and the parties who receive
them to see the birds in the coop and their condition

without handling them. For Indian Runner ducks
and chickens, I have coops 1() inches high; for cock-
erels and geese, coops are made 22 inches high, as
shown in the accompanying illustration.
Lancaster, Mo.

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If Not, Read This and Learn the Reason. Then
Get Busy and Win a Place in the Front Rank.

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

WO letters recently appearing in the
Poultry Fancier have suggested this
article.

Mr. \Vm. F. Wright writes rather
discouragingly about the Asiatics, at
the same time saving he "expects to
breed them as long as he lives.'" As he savs, most
of the new breeds get a lot of their good qualities
from Asiatics. The ambition of many would-be
originators of new varieties has been to produce
some kind of a combination which will catch the
fancy of the American poultry breeders and make
them think they have someth'ing better than their
neighbors. As soon as he gets them so they will
not throw more than 75 per cent of culls, he springs
his new conglomeration on a gullible public, and
the said public proceeds to throw its money at him
in handfuls and his reputation is mountain high
— f(^r awhile.

Take the Orpington for an example: probably
one of the best of that class of fowls. First it is a
large fowd ; gets its size from the Asiatic blood in
It. Rut I do not believe it is one whit better than
the Plymouth Rock, which was manufactured in
much the same way fifty years ago. Now T have
never bred the Orp'ington, and I have no objection
to it whatever. Raise all you can of them and make
all the money out of them possible ; they are a big
meat fowl, no better than die Brahma or Cochin,
however. There is no meat fowl ever lived that is
any better.

But do not try to make everybody believe that
they are efrg fowls. I have bred Cochins, Brahmas,
Plyim)uth Rocks, Langshans, Wyandottes, Leg-
horns and Polish side by side, and in small pens,
and with identically the same treatment the
Cochins laid as many eggs as any of them. Out
on the wider range, I presume, the'Wyandottes and
Leghorns would beat them for three or four
months in the summer, but not in winter. My
Cochin hens have been laying all winter this year.
Through the coldest weather they have never
stopped a day.

I do not believe a single one of the new varieties
is in any way any better than the old ones. Making
windy assertions without proof may stuff some
people, but when they learn by experience they
will know better. I have a neighbor who started
in with Barred Rocks. They did not come up to
the boomlet that had got into his bonnet; so he
tried White Wyandottes; soon tired of them and
bought Houdans. I saw him a few days ago and
he had traded them all off for Orpingtons. He has

not kept any of them long enough to give them a
fair trial. I still stick to my old assertion that a
])erson can make a success of any variety in the
Standard if they will stick to it and manage them
right. You see 1 am not kicking the new varieties
so much as this continual flopi)ing around from one
variety to another. And the great number of new-
fangled varieties make the fiopping so much more
common. 1 know l)reeders who have tried about
every new variety that has been advertised, and I
presume, will continue to do so as long as new
mixtures are brought out.

Of course, the greatest value in Asiatics is their
good size and qualities as meat producers, and their
unequaled characteristics as mothers and brooders.
There is no variety that can equal them in these
respects. The only objection that can be brought
against them at all is in regard to egg production,
and when we consider their good quality as winter
egg layers, it brings them uj) to almost the equal
yearly value of any breed ; and their egg (pialities
are governed almost entirely by the way in which
they are fed. If they are suftVd with corn all win-
ter, as the majority of farm chickens usually are.
they will stop laying.

I disagree with Mr. \\'right entirely on his advertis-
ing ideas. He says he does not advertise his Brahmas
and Cochins because the other fellow does not want
ihem. I have been raising Partridge Cochins for near-
ly 2S years, and I find the demand for them is about
as good as it ever was, and from the number of letters
] receive I want to say there are many more people
interested in them than a man who does not advertise
would have any idea about. There are just two things
to do to get people interested in Asiatics or any other
variety, and the men who are booming the new varie-
ties are "on to the job." First, show them. Second,
advertise. Of course, you ought to have good stock,
but even with their "two or three kinds of combs." as
Mr. Wright says, the new breeders succeed in creating
a demand by their everlasting and persistent blowing
about them. Then let us do the same thing. Raise
good Asiatics; send or take them to the shows in
droves ; then blow, blow, blow, till our outlandish crow-
ing will make such a racket that the amateurs will
have to take notice. There is no family of fowls in
the standard that can attract the attention in the exhi-
bition hall that the Asiatics can, when they are
properly bred and magnificently shown.

As to Mr. John F. Davis' tirade against Asiatics, it
needs no answer. All the argument he brings up is
that the new varieties ''are the goods," "have made
good," ''have merit," and so forth. We are willing
for them to have all the merit, and all the value they
are entitled to, the same as any variety, but it is not
necessary to tear down the foundation that built them
up, and to try to kill off one of the leading families
of pure bred poultry, just beeaus^ he hapfx^ns to b^ in-
terested iri something else. Let hihi breed Rhode
Islatid Reds, or Georgia Shawl Necks or Massachu-

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setts Browns, or anything that any other state in the
union can make, but some of us who know how to
succeed where somebody else has failed, do not pro-
pose to give up our good things to try some one's else
new patent. No matter what your variety is, laud it
?to the skies, but don't be so everlastingly ready to
jump on to some one else who is attending quietly to
Ihis own business. I saw at the Illinois State Fair three
■exhibits that would boom any variety. One man had
about 25 or 30 Partridge Wyandottes, another had a

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exhibit to make a fine showing if no one else had shown
these varieties and they were all fine ones. No won-
der they are successful. Asiatic breeders can do the
same if they try; don't go to the show with a pair or a
trio or even one pen. Send a long string of them, all
you have that are up to show quality. Then advertise
what you win, and if the orders don't come in the
first time, try again; keep at it. That is the way the
other fellows do, and that is all there is to their suc-
cess. Their varieties are no better than yours.
Chenoa, 111.

Vital

Stock

Some of the Secrets of Proper Selection and an Ex-
planation of Conditions Which are Overlooked by
the Great Majority of Breeders. New Theories
Advanced.

By REV. C. E. PETERSON

N the selection of breeding stock, the
individuals that have developed most
strongly the primary characters of their
sex" should always be given the prefer-
ence, but as this matter of strong sex
individuality is not always taken into
consideration by the average breeder he, in many cases,
works against his own success because success in full
aiieasure can never be attained except this matter is
fullv understood and bred for, just as is done for any
other characteristics of the breed.

There are effeminate males and masculine females —
those in which the characters of the opposite sex are
unusually developed and it is needless to say that such
birds do not make the best ])arents from which to
breed.

In the selection of the male bird, none but a fully
matured bird should be used to perpetuate his kind,
and by a fully matured bird we mean a bird which
has developed all his secondary sexual characteristics
as near to perfection as is possible.

Nature has some laws that cannot lightly be trilled
with and this is one of them ; for, though it is true
that an immature bird may be bred from, yet this
same bird under more natural conditions would never
find enough mates to do much damage to the type
of the breed.

The older bird is better furnished with means of de-
fense, and the younger bird is routed from the breed-
ing preserves, and until by means of successful battle
he can maintain his position as sire of the flock in
the natural state, his chances are very slender for
propagation.

In fact, this state of things can be observed in al-
most any farm yard where fowls are left to themselves,
for here it is invariably the male bird with the most
vigor and the most fullv matured sexual characteris-
tics that becomes what is commonly called "the cock
of the walk."

Where birds are bred for certain desirable features,
such as plumage and other Standard requirements,
things take on an entirely different aspect, because
natural selection and the survival of the fittest are set
aside, supplanted by artificial selection which may, as
we all know, work an entire change in a species for

better or worse, as the requirements of the fancy may
dictate.

Now, a male bird may be strong and active and in
good physical health, and yet be a poor breeder, lie
is, rather, an eater; he puts on flesh, is a glutton, a
hanger-on, that first and foremost attends to his own
needs in preference to those of his consorts with which
he is mated. He would in case of encroachment of
another male, not show fight more than a minute, run,
hide his head in a corner and utter sounds very much
like a hen in distress, wings hanging, tail dragging —
a coward and efifeminate all through, that never for
a moment could sustain his sireship of the pen if it
had to be fought for.

On the other hand, a male may be in poor health and
yet be a strong breeder. He knows, or nature knows,
that his time is limited and so he gives up reluctantly
to the encroachment of other males on his premises
and it is only for sheer lack of strength that he is
vanquished, and never for lack of courage.

Now\ either one of these males should be avoided.
It should be the purnose of the breeder to encourage
every atom of the sexual instinct in his sires and
make it a strong point in his matingfs never to use,
if it can possibly be avoided— and it must be avoideci
— any male of the above description.

1 have seen males at noted shows, fine in feather,
much lauded bv their owners, but birds that would
never fertilize another egg— passe in every sense of
the word, and I have also seen birds of the other de-
scription that were too weak to keep on their feet,
birds that would take considerable nursing to keep
through the winter and that only the summer season
would make of use, but only to perpetuate a very un-
desirable line of breeding.

A fit breeding male should be a fully matured
male; a male that is well spurred, that spoils for a
fight, that will fight to a finish and if defeated crow
his spite against his antagonist, dying.

Such stuff as this makes the right kind of a breeder
He IS ever on the alert, watchingi guarding, calling the
females, and would starve first before he would satis-
fy his own hunger as long as he could get one of
tlie females to eat the last morsel.

A strong crower, which means good, strong lungs,
which in turn means less liable to disease, last on the
roost at night and first off it in the morning, comb
blood-red and eyes bright, full of the spirit of animal
hte, clapping his wings incessantlv, dancing before
the females, spreading his wing and displaying his
beauty to the ladies of his harem. This is the stroncr
physical breeding characteristics of a male fit to per-
petuate a race of hardy, healthy stock.

The hackles should be long and flowing and an

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abundance of them ; the saddle feathers and furnish-
njgs aboundant, and nothing so detracts from the ap-
pearance of a male as scanty tail furnishings. Let
the tail be well furnished, sickles long and flowing,
and with the spread of legs that looks so well and
bespeaks the confidence of his own powers to main-
tain the supremacy over his flock.

Scanty furnishing, knock-kneed, and awkward, un-

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A pair of prize winnins Wliite Wvandotte hetis \nva and owned
by S. G. Wliipreclii.Secialia. Mo.

gainly looking males should be avoided. There is a
natural grace in a male that should in every way be
encouraged.

ScantA^ tail furnishings is the cause of manv a high-
tailed bird. He has only a few feathers and tliev
stand up straight; not enough of them to maintain
the tail at the proper angle.

The breeding from immature males is largely to blame
for the lack of proper furnishings, as it stilftrue that,
"like begets like," and when immature males are used
generation after generation no better result can be
expected.

The furnishings of a male is his badge of matur-
ity; they show him to be fitted to breed from and no
male bird is as handsome and as fit to breed from as
in his second year, and it is about the same with all
the dififerent species of the Galinaceous birds.

The females should be selected with the same care
regarding their secondary sexual characters, as it is
just as bad to use a ''cocky" hen in the breeding vard
as it is to use a "henny" 'cock ; both of them will be
of little use in the perpetuation of their species.

There are many females that show a pronounced
tendency in this direction, and as the bird grows older
this perverted sexual character grows stronger, until
in some cases she will change her plumage into that
of the male bird, which has been observed by our-
selves as well as by others.

It is, however, not with the rare cases we are
dealing now, however interesting the progress of this
change from the feminine to the masculine might be,
but with the commonly observed masculine tendencies
in the inmates of our breeding yards.

Hens that begin as pullets to show signs of devel-
oping spurs very rarely make good layers; they will
be found slow to come to the laying age, and their
eggs will not be very numerous, nor, as a general
thing, will they prove very fertile.

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She will very often resent any advances made by the
male in her second year, if permitted to live out her
existence, this tendency will be still more pronounced.

She is generally the female in the pen that the male
takes a dislike to; the one that generally causes a
disturbance whenever she has the opportunity, and
she very frequently makes the opportunity herself if
it is not otherwise to be obtained.

On examination of her internal organs it will be
found that her ovaries are small, in many cases rudi-
mentary, and in one sterile hen examined, they were
shrivelled and atrophied.

Now, it can be readily seen from this that it is of
the utmost importance to look after the female that
in every sense of the word stands out prominently
a type of her own sex, and that however good her
fancy points may be, a female showing strong ten-
dencies to partake of the male characteristics should
be used with a great deal of hesitancy, if at all, for it
must be admitted that, to encourage the perpetuation
of such characteristics, will in the end prove disastrous
to all the hopes of the breeder by becoming their own
extinction, which, with one breed, has taken place
several time until males with more pronounced male
'characteristics were introduced to rejuvenate the
strain.

After a great deal of experimenting we have not yet
'irrivcd at any conclusion, as to how much the sepaVa-
j'on of the different sexes may or may not induce con-
ditions similar to the ones described.

We have, of course, noticed, as have many other
i*f;breeders. that when cockerels are separated from the
V pullets that the cockerels as they grow older will
force some of the v/eaker ones into a state of femi-

Prize winning Wliite Plymoutli Rook Cockerel, bred and
owned by Allen Tucker. Mineral Point. Wis.

ninity that sometimes will utterly ruin and demoralize
the flock, and, if not make them entirely useless, cre-
ate habits that are very hard to break them of in
later life.

Bridgeton, Maine.

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The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
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lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

February, 1910

To Succeed You Must Know
Your Breed

Breeders of Standard bred fowls
would rind success much easier to at-
tain if they would make more earnest
effort to learn just wliat is required in
the variet}^ they ore attempting to
breed. It is astonishing to what ex-
tent the average breeder depends
upon chance matings and a meager
knowledge of the characteristics of
his fowls.

A little study of the Standard will
enable any one to gain a fair idea of
what is required in the different vari-
eties, and this is esi)ecially true as re-
gards shape of the fowls. The pic-
tures contained in tlie book are as
accurate as skill can well make them
and they show in profile the typical
shape of the birds as it should be in
the liviiig specimens. The word de-
scription of both color and shape is
complete and a careful study of same
in connection with the birds them-
selves will give the breeder a foun-
dation uj)on which to work and
which with actual cxiieriencc in mat-
ing and breeding will make it possible
for him to i)r()(lue the higli grade
fowls which bring the greatest pleas-
ure and financial success. Now is the
most important time of the year for
the breeder for the reason that he has
his birds mated and the result has a
direct bearing upon his success for
the entire year until another breeding

season comes around and gives him
another opportunity to correct his
errors.

The birds which comprise the
breeding pens should be carefully
gone over and the good and bad
points fully considered. The breeder
should know as nearly as possible the
value and importance of each defect
in order that he may iliscard such
specimens as are clearU' a detriment
to progress. One bird seriously de-
fective in some section and used in
the breeding pen may be the means
of transmitting and perpetuating a
disqualifying defect in the entire
flock. We should learn tli:it quality
is what counts and that success at
next season's shows depends not upon
how many chicks we hatch, l)ut upon
h(nv good those are that we do get
out. Most breeders would make
greater progress if they would cut out
ai)out half the birds in tlieir pens and
make smaller matings of only the
choicest specimens. Perhaps no one
appreciates the loss and disappoint-
ment caused by ignorance or care-
lessness in mating the breeding birds
as do the judges. The writer has
l)een compelled to disqualify scores
of birds at this season's shows Avhich
without the disqualifying defect would
reach from OD to 05 points. It seems
a shame that breeders would mate
birds of this kind wb.en they know,
or should know, the certain results of
so doing. Study your Standard and
study your fowls and go through your
breeding pens right now and throw
out all specimens that have any de-
fects whicl^ tend toward disqualilica-
tions. Above all. do not tolerate
squirrel tails, side springs on comb,
off-colored ear lobes, wry tails, vul-
ture hocks, black in white birds, white
in black birds, lopped combs, absence
of spike in rose comb varieties and
stubs of feathers on the legs of clean-
legged varieties.

Why Not Go in to Win?

The amount of pleasure and profit
which we derive from the breeding
of Standard bred poultry depends
altogether upon the amount of energy
and enthusiasm which we put into
the work. Without these two things,
failure will be the result. And if
the i)oultrymen does not have some-
thing of the fancier in his make-up,
he will not be able to scare up much
energy and enthusiasm, all of which
is equivalent to saying that if you
don't like chickens you had better not
try to keep them. The successful
breeders in any branch of live stock
raising are the ones who are in love
with the work. There are many peo-
ple who do have a love for fowls who
are killing it by careless methods and
lack of a little study of the needs of
their featherefl charges.

It is to this class of breeders we
want to speak and upon whom we
want to urge the necessity for a little
intelligent study of the conditions
under which the greatest success is
obtained. Very few people can ad-
niire a lot of scrub chickens and there
is certainly very little in them to ex-

cite admiration on the part of anyone.
Therefore, good stock is the founda-
tion upon which to build. Standard
bred stock means birds of uniform
size, color and general appearance.
Culls, cripples, runts and all other
undesirable birds in any flock should
1)e killed or (nherwise disposed of,
and in this way one of the prime
causes of failure will be removed, be-
cause the harboring of such specimens
is ofteii the means of the breeder un-
consciously becoming disgusted with
his flock.

Then, again, the surroundings in
which llie fowls are kept have much
to do with the measure of success
achieved. If the breeder has unlim-
ited range for his stock, there is not
so much opportunity for failure by
reason of filthy and unsanitary houses
and yards, but where the birds are
kept in confinement and especially on
the average town lot. these things
have much to do with the matter.
Dirty, tumi^le-down houses, ill-smell-
ing, filled with vermin, overcrowded
and wholly unsuitable for any living
thing, are often found as the only
shelter provided for the fowls. Yards
that are in the sair.e class are gener-
ally found in connection with such
houses.

From the standpoint of financial
profit it is absurd to expect results
from such a condition of affairs. The
hens wdl never lay enough eggs to
pay for their keeping and as for pro-
ducing sho\\- birds under such sur-
roundings it is time mole than wasted.
And yet, many people wonder why
they fail. One of the first reciuisites
for creating an interest in the work is
a clean, well-arranged poultry house,
with yards of proper size and kept in
a sanitary condition, and all details
necessary for the comfort of the fowls
properly looked after. The next is a
flock of birds, every one of which is
a creditable specimen of the variety
it represents, and a Hock not too large
for the available house and yard room

Then there must be an earnest de-
sire to accomplish results above the
average and there must be sufficient
energy to back up this desire with
action. First of all, know at what
you are aiming and then keep i)lug-
ging awav till results come. The
poultryman has no business becom-
ing easily discouraged, and he should
not expect to accomplish wonders in
a day. He should make uj) his mind
that what others have done he can
also do. and that he will learn from
his own or others' experience just
where the pitfalls are and avoid them.
The idea is that there is no good
reason lor ging into the matter half
hearterl. There is plenty of room at
the top. The breeder who can pro-
diice fowls that will win the prizes
at the hundreds of poultry shows each
season is assured of linancial success
as a reward for his labor, and he also
secures what to many is more to be
desired, namely, the admiration of his
competitors and the public acknowl-
edgment of his superior skill as a
breeder. Then why not go in to
w in?

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Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

It's as plain as the nose on your face
is.

Though the reason us somewhat

amazes,
If you want to know when
To set the old hen.
You must study the Moon and her

phases.

'Tis a wonderful tale this of Swavs-
good.

Who declares he can make all he says

good;
The next thing you know
He'll be able to show
How to fix every hen so she lays

good.

Mr. J. R., solo: "By ginger! I'll
get after that man. Heck. What right
lias he to write a book and sell it? I
guess I know a few secrets about ex-
pert exhibitors, and now he has gone
and done it. skimmed off the cream
and only left the skim-milk for me.
What'll my readers think when they
know I've slept at my post and al-
lowed another to beat me holler? Gee I
but it makes me mad!

^T'm looking for the man who wrote

That book on fixing fowl;
And like a cat upon the fence
I'll make him madly yowl.
When the A. P. A. I'm telling
The secrets he is selling,
I'm looking for the man who wTOte
That book on fixing fowl.

*T'm looking for the man who wrote

That book on fixing fowl;
And when I find the faking chap.
I'll make him dance and howl,
He'll never write another.
He'll bawl for home and mother,
I'm looking for the man who wrote

That book on fixing fowl."
— With acknowledgments to the Na-
tional Phonograph Co.

"I'm looking for trouble, am I! Well,
I reckon I'm only fulfilling the Scrip-
tures if I am. Dont we read in Jol),
"'Man is born unto trouble, as the
sparks ii\y upward'? Do you suppose
I'm not going to help the Almighty to
make this statement true so far as it
concerns ME? Of course I am going
to help, and T feel bound to carry a
chip on my shoulder all the time and
knock it off if you dare.

"Mean to peach on a brother Edi-
tor? Why, my dear hearer, the pro-
fession of tale-bearer is a very ancient
■one. You will find it mentioned in
one of the oldest books in the world,
the Old Testament. Strife may cease
if there be no one to bear tales, but
what a world this would be if there
were no strife. One lady was say-
ing the other day to another: "ATy
husband and I have lived together
for twenty years, and in all that time
we have never spoken a cross word
to each other." "Very delightful."
her friend replied: "but haven't you
found it just a bit — ah! — monoton-
ous?" There'll be no monotony when
J. R. is arounrl."

"The American Poultry Association
won't trouble him? Well, we will
see about that. You wait till I've got

POULTRY FANCIER:

through with my speech against him
and his book! You just wait. Didn't
they praise my paper before the an-
nual meeting? Well, I'll make 'em
praise me again and condemn that
condemned Heck and his condemned
book, condemn me if I don't.

The American Poultry Association
ought not to trouble him? Oh, you
poor, benighted fakir! Haven't I
already said that I have a case against
him and his book? How dare you,
sir; how dare you assert that the asso-
ciation ought not to trouble him when
I say that 1 have a case against him!
Don't you know your Shakespeare?
Did you ever read:

"I am Sir Oracle,
And when T ope my lips let no dog
bark!"

Those words, sir, are not history,
but prophecy, and in me you see their
fulfillment. How dare you! Oh! how
dare you.

"Gee whiz! There will be ructions
when the spirit of Donnybrook Fair
breaks loose in the A. P. A. after T
get in my work. If you see a head hit
it — that's the true way to promote
good feeling and keep up the interest.
I'm enjoying myself in anticipation.
What do you mean by telling me that
old story about the Irishman and the
bull. He had a right to laugh when

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he thought how funny it would seem
to grab the bull by the horns and rub
his nose in the dirt. And he had a
right to say "Begorra! I'm glad I had
my laugh first," when the bull tossed
him over the fence and he fell bruised
into the mud of the street. If you
can't find a story with a point you
ought not to tell one. The true phi-
losophy of life is to get your laugh,,
when you can, and as soon as you
can. "He laughs best who laughs
last," is a mighty poor proverb. The
only true rendering is, "He laughs
best who laughs first." for don't you
see if he don't laugh first, perhaps he
never will have a chance to laugh at
all. Of course, I don't care what the
A. P. A. may do. What T do care
about is to frighten Heck and blame
him, he don't scare worth a cent.
But I'll think up something more
frightful. If this bogey-man won't do
the biz, perhaps another bogey-man
will."

S. C. White Leghorns

The right type and color. Line bred
for years. Winners at Yonngstown
and Warren, O. Stock eggs for sale.

RCDTrnilT 336 WIRT STREET.
DC.I\1 LULL, YOUNGSTOWN. O.

HAKE BUFF WYANDOT

Ai^ain ^Mrinners of tHe blu« at La Cross€» and Barahoo
Snecialtv <;»!#» fKU mnnfK breeding pens and trios. I have a number of
specially Saie cms mOntn cockerels scored by Roberts and Shellabarger. which I
will mate with scored and utiscored pullets at $ft to $20 for the trios and $7 to $25 for the pens. Send
for mating list. Pen 1. will he again headed by rav grand old prize winner 'Hlroy B6y." scored 95^
by Hale, and winner of medal as highest scoring cockerel at Minneapolis in 1908. Six'pullets in this
pen all scoring 91% to 94 ^X- $3 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS.

White WvandotteS S- C- ^^^f^ ^' C. Brown and R. C. White

,„^,. J , vr*.*.v»aj At the recent Baraboo Valley show I won nine firsts, six

"■. "•' "'j"^^ '" »»"iic vvy«uuuiLcs> inciuuing ciuD specials. At Maaison, January 191i
nine birds and secured nine prizes on White Wyandottes and R. C. Brown I^eghorn.'
Club Medal on best W Wyandotte hen. My winners are in my breeding pens. mate(

s, including

. Tf J - . • -' ray breeding pens, mated to produce

winners. It you order eggs you will get the best without reserve at $2.00 per 15 Some choice stock
for sale Satistaction gunranteed. Highland Poultry Yard., C. Capener. Prop. RF.D. Baraboo. Wis

have again made
a record break-
ing Winning at

the B a r a h o o

Raven Rock Poultry Farm

Valley Show, January 1910. We won on BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS,' 1st
cock, 3d and 4th hens, 1st and 4[h cockerels, 1st pen, best display and B. P. R.
Club Cup on best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet— 54 entries in the class. On
S. C. Black Orpingtons we won 1st, 2nd cocks. 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th hens, 1st
cockerel, 1st pen, English Class Cup and 1 10.00 Gold Sweepstake for best dis-
play, open to all classes. In Columbian Wyandottes we entered only seven
birds winning 3 firsts and 5 other prizes, also cash special for best pen of Wyan-
dottes all varieties competing.

This record is but a repitition of our winnings in former years and our winners were produced
in our own yards. They, with others of equal merit compose our breeding pens for this sea-
son from which we will supply our egg trade without re.serve. We have used trap-nests for
years and retain nothing for breeders, but tho.se that make good records at laying Choice
stock always for sale. Eggs $3 per 15 $5 per 30 from one or all pens. Satisfaction guaranteed
GEO W. HACKETT. Prop. BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM. WIS.

HARDY HOUDANvS

A Merger of THree Famous Strains

No Weakened Constitutions Through Inbreedinff

Blue Ribbon Winners Wherever Ls^a'Senerill

Shown ^*'''*y Fowl, and may be btetl profitably for either
. ** pounds of meat or dozens of eggs. Naturally tame, it

IS contented, and will thrive in a small enclosure. This pecu-
liarly qualifies it as a "Town Chicken." Heavily Feathered, it is
impervious to extremes of heat and cold, and is essentially a Winter
Layer.

THE HILLCREST ROOKERIES

FRANK WICKIZER, Mgr. ST. JOSEPH. MICH.

No comb to freeze.

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. February, '10

FROM READERS

This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

A GOOD STIFF PROTEST-
TINUED.

-CON-

Editor Poultry Fancier: —

I wish to express a few random
thoughts upon an article which ap-
peared in the December number of
the Fancier as well as upon the reply
which appeared in the January issue.
Some of the statements in the latter
were rather vague and contained a
little of the spirit of ridicule. In. re-
gard to purchasers of Dark Brahmas
and Partridge Cochins of thirty years
ago receiving so little value for their
money. I would like to ask why the
makers of new varieties have elected
to infuse some of that same value
into those varieties. Where is the
American breed, except the old Dom-
inique, that does not contain some
Asiatic or kindred blood?

I call to mind some of the first Sil-
ver Laced Wyandottes I ever saw and
which it was my duty to pass upon as
judge at one of our large fairs in the
early 70's. They showed unmistak-
able signs of Dark Brahma blood:
some showing pea combs, feathered
legs, and a slight mixture of gray.
Then later when the Wvandotte
breeders coveted the color markings
of the Dark Brahma, I contributed
some birds to aid them in getting the
color and penciling. I also aided in
giving color and markings to the Par-
tridge Wyandotte by furnishing cock-
in blood.

This correspondent then says:
"Pray what arc the Dark Brahmas?
Are they not the result of a cross or
a series of crosses? I think not. T
remember having seen in the early
50s at one of our Agricultural Fairs
as good colored Dark Brahmas as we
see today. These had sprung directly
from the early importations of
Asiatics. Tn those days systematic
crossing had not yet been resorted to.

The fancy is 'continually looking
after something new, and ever ready
to accept the theory that "Time's no-
blest offspring is the last."

It was my good fortune for the past
two seasons to have a seat at the
banquet given to the Veteran Fan-
ciers by the Boston Poultry Associa-
tion. This was composed of men who
have had very much to do in placing
the poultry industry where it is to-
day, and I found all of these adher-
ing to the same varieties and types of
birds that they began with in their
boyhood days. T mav mention the
venerable Henry Hales, the Dorking
man. Seeley the W. C. Black Polish
breeder, Houdlette, who helped cre-
ate and who named the Wyandotte,
as well as Felch, Loring, McNeil and
others who were present and who
have failed to get upon the band wag-
on or to act the part of the "small boy
who tags on behind." All honor to
these veterans! While others mav
ridicule they are certainly worthy of
the respect of all true fanciers. These
are the men who were born fanciers.

and are into it for the love of what is
beautiful in nature, and for a desire
to add to that beauty by their own
efforts. Would you advise them to
turn their backs upon the "good old
has beens"? There is too much of
that spirit abroad. We see it in a
great share of the numerous poultry
shows which are springing up and
which place nearly all iheir specials
upon the newer creations. Even our
great New York State Agricultural So-
ciety last season, ignoring all the oth-
er varieties, offered a single silver cup
for Rhode Island Reds. Are we to
follow their teaching, drop everything
else that we may have a chance to
win a cup?

Dr. S. Lott.
Bellona, N. Y.

SOME REFLECTIONS OF A
BARRED ROCK BREEDER.

Editor Poultry Fancier: —

In a recent number of a poultry
journal, I noticed an article by a
prominent Barred Rock breeder who
holds the idea that pullet bred cock-
erels and cockerel bred pullets should
be recognized in our poultry shows.

A Barred Rock cockerol bred and
owned by E. M. Ruechlv, Greenvile O
and typiral of the excellent birds raised
by bim.

This would really mean the changing
of the Standard or the enlarging of
it to cover one more variety. In my
mind it would be far better to make
a separate Standard for P.arred Rock
males, making their color several
shades lighter than the females as
nature intended them to be. In other
words, make a Standard under which
a high scoring male could be mated
to a prize winning female with the

chance of producing something worth
while instead of birds that look like
;{0 cents, as the writer puts it. This
idea is opposed by many breeders
who claim, that it would enable us to
produce high grade birds with much
greater ease and in greater quantity.
I do not believe that there would be
anything to fear along this line, as
there is always opportunity to breed
more perfect specimens. Such a Stan-
dard would greatly simplify the breed-
ing of Barred Rocks and would reduce
the expense of yards and stock to-
:ibout one-half what is necessary now.
Another desirable point, is that breed-
ers would not always have to explain-
to the novice the mysteries of the
double mating system. Many farmers
and amateur breeders when they learn-
of the complex nature of the double
mating system, they immediately go-
off after some other breed or variety
where mating is more simple. Only
a few days ago, I met a gentleman
a former Barred Rock patron of mine
who had discarded the breed and had
taken up another because he was
not prepared to keep several yards
and unless he did this, he could not
expect to raise choice specimens. This
is only one instance from among hun-
dreds of similar ones where the dou-
l)le matiiig system is doing the variety
a great injury. I am practicing dou-
ble mating but am obliged to do so as
long as the present Standard laws
work against nature's laws instead of
working in harmony with her. T be-
lieve that a change in the Standard as
above suggested would be for the up-
lift and greater popularizing of our
favorites among both fancy and utility
breeders.

E. M. Buechly.
Greenville, O.

Geo. W. Hackett. Box 111. North Free-
dom, Wi.s., has aprain demonstrated bv bis
show room record this season that his
birds are leaders and that his customers
for both stock and eggs can feel assured
of s-ettin.i? the hiprhest quality. Mr.
Hacktlt h;is be<>n a successful breeder for
many years and hi.s favorites are Barred
Ttocks. S. C. Black Oriiinf,nons and Colum-
bian Wyandottes. Ili.^ winnin^.s this sea-
son constitute a remarkable record, as he-
secured tlie bulk of the first prizes and
specinls wherever he has shown. Our
leadcis who ine interested in his varieties
should not fail to read his ad in this is-
sue and make a note of his address for
future use if they do not need stock or
«'K-ss at the present time. His ad con-
tams a partial list of prizes won by him
in .strong competition. Mr. Hackett is one
of the newer .judgres who have entered the
hehl ,luiin^- {ho past few years and he
has made sood at some large shows He
is familiar Avith all breeds of fowls and is
a competent .lud^e of all varieties He
has a few open dates left for next sea-

S. C. Brown Leghorns '^°" ^'^ '^'^

cock, 2d cock

Exclusivelv •' *",',' ^^^ -'^- *^'' '^^"s- 1st, 2d

s nJ if'^u^T^- ^'i- 2d l^en. 1st. 2d pullet.
1st pen at Richmond on K entries. Kjfes
trom these winners cheap.

IRA FORD, LA GRANGE, IND.

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Awards at the Boston Show

EXHIBITORS AT BOSTON, MASS.

Adams, Chester T. . . . .Kennebunkport, Me.

Adams, Wm. T^ Saxonville, Mass.

Albers, Wm. F Brooklyn, N. Y.

Allen, E. H Reading, Pa.

Allen, Sydney C Orchard Park, N. Y.

Allen, W. L. Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Almy, F. W. C, Tiverton Four Corners, R. I.

Andrews, Edgar L Ithaca, N. Y.

Andrews, J. W Dighton, Mass.

Appleton, Royal C Brockton, Mass.

Atherton, W. B Randolph, Mass.

Atwood, F. E Athol, Mass.

Auckland, Wm Winsted, Conn.

Austin, I.. A Plt*.sfleld. Mass.

Babson, E. C Danlelson, Conn.

Bacon, .Jordan H Reading, Mass.

Baerman. F. D Dunnellen, N. J.

.Bailey, A. S Cobalt, Conn.

Bailey, H. H Waverly, Mass.

Baker, Edw. D Norwood, Mass.

Batch & Brown ... Manchester, Conn.

Ballantine, Miss Etta I Mansfield, Mass.

Baxter, J. B. Milton, Mass.

Baylies, Walter C Taunton, Mass.

Bean, Irving W S. Braintree, Mass.

Bennis. W. L Brockton, Mass.

Benson, Elmer F Whitman, Mass.

Benway, L. N Salem, Mass.

Berry, B. F N. Brewster, Mass.

Berry, Jas. B. Pawtucket, R. I.

Bessom, Geo. E Mansfield, Mass.

Birch, Geo. F Milford, Mass.

Bisbee, Mrs. C. M Mattapan, Mass.

Black & Son. O. F Newton. Mass.

Bliss, J. E Clinton. Conn.

Blodgett & Drake, Windsor. Conn.

Blood. Wm. E Townshend, Vt.

Boothby, W. B Westbrook. Me.

Brayton, Milan A Fall River, Mass.

Brooks. W. W Berwick, Me.

Brookside Poul. T..ds. . .West Hartford, Conn.

Brown, C. Allen Waverly. Mass.

Brown, Frank Marblehead, Mass,

Brown, Lewis R Salem, Mass.

Brown. I^oren H Lunenburg, Mass.

Bugbee, S. D Concord, N. H.

Burbank, Frank C Sandwich, Mass.

Cain, M. J Lynnfield, Mass.

Cameron. John New Bedford, Mass.

Campbell. J. B Concord, N. H.

Capen Bros Bloomfield, Conn.

Oapewell, L. C Winsted, Conn.

Carpenter, H. L Woonsocket, R. I.

Carrier, W. H Glastonbury, Conn.

Carter, Arthur B N. Attleboro, Mass.

Carter, A. G Freeport, M.

Chalker, R. S Higganum. Conn.

Challis. H. E S. Danville, N. H.

Champagne. A. E Claremont, N. H.

Chapin. Albert E Springfield, Mass.

Chapman, Frank F. B. . .Winchester, Mass.

Chapman, M. L. Wethersfleld, Conn.

<'hase, O. P Andover. Mass.

Chase Bros Newburyport, Mass.

< Mark, F. H Chelsea, Mass.

Clark, G. H Northampton. Mass.

Clarke, Dr. H. P Indianapolis, Ind.

Clark, L. M. Mattapan. Mass.

<'"obb, Fred W. . .Newton Upper Falls. Mass.

Cobb, W. A S. Portland. Me.

Cobine, Mrs. W. L "...Oneonta. N. Y.

Coffin, H. I. Freeport, Me.

<'otfln, M. H Whltinsvllle, Mass.

<'ole. John M Williamstown, Mass.

<'olprit. J. H Arlington Heights, Mass.

Cook. Jr., C. S W. Newton. Mass.

Cook, E. W. Forestdale, R. I.

Coombs. E. T.. Wilmington. Mass.

Corey, M. J. Springfield. Mass.

Cornforth. E. O Slatersvlile. I{. I.

<:regar, H Forrest Park, 111.

Cruttonflen. T.vler Norwich. Conn.

Cuddahy. Thos Manche.slei-. N. H.

Dabney, .S. R Dedliam. Mass.

Danif'ls. W. .1 Whitman. Mass.

Darling, 13. E Natiok. Mass.

Davis. Gorham IT Arlington, Mass.

Davis & Bro., Jno. E Marblehead, Mass.

Daval Bros Whitman, Mass.

Day, Walter H Falrhaven, Mass.

Decker, Dr. B. E Bradford, N. Y.

Dellmuth, Julius C E. Dedham, Mass.

Dillon, C. H Cincinnati. O.

Doehr, Albert Wallingford, Conn.

Drew, Elmer O. Middleboro, Mass.

Duclos, B. N Lenox, Mass.

Dunn, Jno. S Gardner, Mass.

Duston, A. G S. Farmington, Mass.

Earl, Mrs. G. O West Qulncy, Mass

Eastman, Geo. F Granbv, Mass.'

Eaton. Sumner H Brocton, Mass.

Elm Poul. Yds Hartford, Conn.

de I'Etoile. Wilfred Westwood, Mass.

Evans, Jr., Wilmot R Everett, Mass.

Evergreen Place W. Hartford. Conn.

Exmoor Farm Lebanon, Pa.

Fairfield Farm Wenham, Ma.ss.

Fairview Poul. Farm S. Portland, Me.

Fall. Jr., Melvin Berwick, Me.

Faulds. T. A London, Ont., Can.

Fay, H. J. W Westboro, Mass.

Felton, G. W Cliftondale. Mass.

Fessenden, S. H Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Fiske, Chas. L Middletown, Conn.

Fiske. Ja.s. A Cliftondale, Mass.

Fletcher, Geo. V Belmont, Mass

Forbes, Ralph E Milton, Mass.

Ford & Farrar

945 Wash St., Whitman, Wash.

Foss, H. C Freeport, Me.

Foster, Daniel P Beverly, Mass.

Foster, W. D W. Brookfield. Mass.

Four Oaks Farm Brockton, Mass.

Fox, Dr. Wm. Y Taunton, Mass.

Fraleigh, Howard Forest, Can

Frasier, F. S Brocton, Mass.

Gale Poul. Place New Haven, Conn.

Garriepy, F. A Stillwater, R. I.

Gibson. Ellsworth T Nashua, N. H.

Gies, R. J. Albany County, N. Y.

Gilbert, Frank H N. Attleboro. Mass.

Gillert, Frank H N. Attleboro, Mass.

Gluck, F. C Kenne, N. H.

Goodhue, Edw. J E. Bramtree. Mass.

Gough, Jno. A Merldan. Conn.

Gould, Howard Pt. Washington, N. Y.

Grannis Bros La Grangeville, N. Y.

Grant, Howard Marshall. Mich.

Greene, Jas. A. Woonsocket, R. I.

Greene, Ralph C. . Sayville, N. Y.

Greenwood, O. S Topsfield, Ma.ss.

Grimm, Henry A Windsor, Conn.

Grove Hill Poul. Yds Waltham, Mass.

Gunning, John Sherbrooke, Que., Can.

Hales, Henry RIdgewood, N. J.

Hall, David Beverly, Mass.

Hall, Richard W Needham, Mass.

Hanes, Oren s. Colton, N. Y.

Harris. F. B Woburn, Mass.

Harris. W. S. Mansfield, Mass

Harwood, R. G Littleton. Mass.

Hathaway, A. L Arlington, Mass.

Haupt, J. S Easton. Pa.

Havemeyer. Bros Mahwah. N. J.

Havemeyer, Horace Stamford. Conn.

Hawkins. A. C Lancaster. Mass.

Hawkins, I>incoln Sharon. Mass.

Hayden, Warren Hartford, Conn.

Ilickford, Ira S

168 Boston St., I^ynn, Mass.

Hill. David Beverly. Mass.

Hillcrest Farm Randolph, Mass.

Hillhurst Farm Orchard Park. N. Y.

Hillside Bantam Yds Shirley. Mass.

Hills. Wm. C Antrim, N. H

llolbrook, A. H S. Braintree, Mass.

Holcomb, F. L Meridan, Conn.

HoUis, Jno. F N. Abington. Mass.

Holmes. Lincoln C Sanford, Me.

Hooker. Henrietta E S. Hadley, Mass.

Horte. Robt. F S. Braintee. Mass.

Hnsley. Mrs. F Gill, Mass.

Houghton. Jno. w W. Brookfield, Mass.

Howe.«. A. F Sheffield, Mass.

Hubbard. Jr.. Eliot Millls, Mass.

"MAJESTIC I."

5th Cockerel. Chicaero Dec 'OH

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND
ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack.^
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, III.. 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910.
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

Hubbard, Helen F Boston, Mass.

Huckins Farm Berlin, Mass.

Hunt, Wm N. Middleboro. Mass.

Hurt. Peter S Thorntown, Ind.

Hutchinson. N. V N. Abington. Mass.

Ives. Paul P Guilford, Conn.

Inches, Mrs. Geo. B N. Grafton, Mass.

Inches, Mr.s. Geo. B N. Frafton, Mass.

Jacobus, M. R Ridgefleld, N. J.

Jefferies, E Toronto, Can.

Job, Mrs. S. G S. Walpole, Mass.

Jodrey, J. C Danvers, Mass.

Jordan, Mrs. H. E Dorchester, Mass.

Kaufmann «Sr Windham Nutley, N. J.

Keating, J. P Westboro, Mass.

Kelleher, J. T Springfield. Mass.

Kendall, Geo Newburyport, Mass.

Kennard, Waldo S. Hingham. Mass.

Kenney. Chas. F Danbury, Conn.

Kiley, T. J London, Ont., Can.

King & Whiting Plalnville. Mass.

Knapp. Dr Millerton. N. Y.

Knowles. Samuel Lexington. Mass.

Lane & Burns Taunton, Mass.

Latham, C. H Lancaster. Mass.

Leach, Arthur H Middleboro, Mass.

Leach. Jos. W Methuen, Mass.

Lee. C. G Walworth. N. Y.

I..ee. Calvin H Hyde Park, Mass.

Lee, Francis W Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Le Febre, D. P West Berlin, Vt.

Lincoln, Jr., Leontine ....Fall River, Mass.

Lingard, Jas Everett, Mass.

LIppitt, Henry F Manville, R. I.

Little, Harold S Newburyport, Mass.

Little, Jr., J. Lovell Boston, Mass.

Lochman, G. H Winchester, Mass.

Lord, Jas. E Stonington, Conn.

I..oring, C. Carroll Dedham, Mass.

T-iOtt, Dr. S Bellona. N. Y.

Lowell, John Chestnut Hill, Mass.

I.iucier, Mozart Providence, R. I.

Lunt & Curtis Freeport, Me.

Lynch, Thomas C N. Abington, Mass.

McAndrew, R. G E. Milton, Mass.

McCaffrey. W". J Newport, Vt.

McDougall, Jno Pawtucket. R. I.

McDougall, Wm. A Newton. Mass.

McEwan, Chas. B Albany, N. Y.

McGee. Jr. Chas Marblehead. Mass.

McNeil. Wm London, Ont.. Can.

MacNear. Chas. W Ashland, Mass.

Macomber, Alice Taunton, Mass.

Macomber, Horace W., N. Middleboro, Mass.

Mann. Geo. E Dover, Mass.

Maplewood Farm Adams, Mass.

Marshall. C. E Rowley, Mass.

Martin, Geo Marblehead, Mass.

Martin, Jno. S Fori Dover. Can,

Mathews, Armstrong A Co.. Norwich. Conn.

Mattison & Toel S. Shaftsbury. Vt.

Maxwell, Jr.. Geo Newton Centre, Mass.,

Merrill, H. C Maiden. Mass.

Miner & Walker Brattleboro. Vt.

Mitchell. Wesley H. ..New Hampton. N. H.
Monadnork View Poul Farm. Athol. Mass.

Monmouth Poul. Farms Freeman. N. J.

Moodv. A. M Newburyport. Mass.

Moodv. Geo. F Lynn. Mass.

Moody. Wm. D Freeport. Me.

Morehouse. A. C Beverly. Mass.

Morse, J. E Tanuton, Mass.

Morse. Jr.. Jno. T Boston. Mass.

Morton. V. C Freeport, Me.

Mountjoy. B. J London. Ont., Can..

Munroe. Howard M I..exlngton. Mass.

Nichols. Leon A Barrlngton. R. T.

Nicholson, Haldle Leonminster. Mass.

Nickerson, F. H Natick. Mass.

Northrup, Jr., Jno. H... Apponanmg. R. I.

Noyes, Geo. E Newburyport. Mass.

Noyes, P. W New T.>ondon. Conn.

Xuttirig. Frank J Plalnfleld. Vt.

Oflicer. Robt N. Grafton. Mass.

()ke «!t Murray T.,ondon. Ont., Can.

Old Acres Wrentham, Mass.

Owen Farms Vineyaid Haven. Mass.

Paine. Amasa I .Whitman. Mass.

I'aine, Jr., Robeit T Boston, Mass.

Patterson, Robt Walpole, Mass.

Pearson, Alonzo C Peabody. Mass.

Peck, Fred W N. Plymouth, Mass.

Perkins. Jas. E N. Stoughton, Mass.

Peterson. C. F reatG Harrington, Mass.

Pfonts, P. R Crawford County, (^hin.

I'holan. H. L Brockton, Mass.

I'hinney, H. Chester. Monmouth Beach. Mass.

Piersori. Wallace R Cromwell, Conn.

Pine Top Poul. Farm . . . . Hartwood. N. Y.

Pittstield Poul. Farm Pittsfleld. Me.

Pleasant Hill Poul. Yds Athol, Mass.

Poch Bros Walpole. Mass.

Pope. C. H Brockton, Mass.

Porter, C. Harold Brockton, Mass.

Porter, Horace Ridgefleld, Conn.

Porter. R. S Ridgefield, Conn.

Powers &• Son.. C. R Randolph. Mass.

Pratt. Chas. W N. Abington, Mass.

Prescott. Mrs. H. B. ..Derry Village, N. H.

Prescott. Heni-y B Derry Village, N. H.

Preston, A. O. Concord. N. H.

Princeton Bantam Yds Princeton, Mass.

Pyne. W. H Milford. Mass.

Qtiinn, W. D. & W. W Westneld, Mass.

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Raddin. J. A Cllftondale. Mans.

Ranker, L. W Tiffin. Ohio,

Rankin Robert Sanford, Me.

Ranney. W. F Westminster. Vt.

Read. Frank D Fall Kiver. Mass.

Reed. A. B Everett. Mass.

Reel. Sam Canaan, conn.

Klce & Sears Boston, Mass.

Richardson & Son. C. W Apponaup, R. I

Richardson. Waldo Wollaston. Mass.

R. I. Red Poul. Yds Klnderhook. N. Y

Roberts. T. B Norway. Me.'

Robertson, R. A. ..Warehouse Point. Conn.
Robinson, Mrs. E. J Lakevllle. Mass.

Kockandotte Farm Southboro, Mass

Rogers & Packard Montello. Mass.

Rose. HuRh A Welland. Ont., Can.

RunnelKs. Edw. G., Concord, N H.

Russell, Joseph Toronto, Ont., Can.

Saltonstall. End. P Chestnut Hill. Mass.

Sanborn, Dr. N. W Holden, Mass.

Sargrent, Arthur H S. Hamilton, Mass

sawyer. Frank H Woburn. Mass.

Schriver. H. W Chester. N. Y.

Scott. Harry L Worcester. Mass.

Scott. W. Edw Woodsford. Me

Sedgwick Bros. Lenox Dale Mass'

Seely, Chas. I Alton. N. Y.

Shaffer, Ed M Somerset. Pa.

oi ^^ ' ^' ^ Adams. Mass

Shaw. J. W Brockton, Mas.«i.

Shay or. C. H Lee. Mass.

Shaylor, W. M Dalton. Mass.

Sheldon, Geo. H Wakefield. R. I.

Shepard Bros Alton. R. I.

Shepherd & Son.. J. H. Ashland, Mas.«s.

Snipman, Jno. N Randolph, ATass

Shove, D. P Fan River, Mass.

Silloway. Frank E Newburvport Mass

Simmons Bro.s . Stockton, 111

Sitterly. Dr. A. T Schenectady. N Y

S atton. W. W Norfolk, Mass'

Slessor, W. J London, Ont., Can.'

Smith. Alex New Rochelle N Y'

Smith. Mr.s. C. O Woonsocket R l'

Snider & Warner Napanee Ont., Can

Staples, E. W Taunton, Mass

Statia. F. J Granville. N. Y.

Stephen.s. Wm. C Foxboro. Mass.

Stokes, Warren J West Roxburv. Mass

Stoney Brook Farm Bedford, Mass'

Stowe. F. D. E Brattleboro. Vt

Sunny Brook Farm West Orange N T

Swartwout. M. C Groton." N ' Y

Tabor, F. C Worcester, N. Y

l\^^^[\ ^.^^ Darien, Conn.

Tirrell, Wm. W N. Ablngton, Mass

Thompkins, Lester Concord Mass'

Tower. C. A Franklin. Mass.

Ju'Z'^'^l'^'J'y^- ^ Rutland. Vt.

Little Robt. C Hartford, Conn.

;\ an Alstyne. J. F Niverville N Y

T\ade. Wm E Rockland. Mass!

w n"",' '^''41'"!: Rockvllle. Mass.

^akley. PA Hlgganum. Conn.

^A^ard. E. E Marlboro. N H

^J.«';''i'?^t«"' J- H Ontario, Can!

A^^aterhouse. Chas. E. . . Swampscott Mass

TVatson. R. C. Milton. Mass!

\J^eeks, Harry W Framingham, Ma.ss.

V;. rl^' ^''anklin C Ballston Spa N Y

S:: f. ^T ^- T Readvllle, Mass!

5^ I ' J."''- ^"^ Melro.se. Mass.

\Vert. Elmer E Gloversville N Y

Westfall. Wat.son savre Pa

Weston, W. P HancoS N h'

Whee er, Chas. A Natick Mass!

AA heeler, Robt. K. ..Great Barrlngton, Mass.

^'mT.^^'i Wm J Worcester. Mass.

S^u r ^'""^^ P""'- Farm. Bridgewater. Mass
wril"S^i^^"^ E Plalnville, Mass!

w fi" n '^ ^^ Natick, Ma.ss.

\\ d Goose Farm Copfagne. N. Y.

5m h"' * S''"^^- ^ Natick. Ma...s.

w ''"'''• 2; 2 ""^'-'-^^ Mass.

W r"^- ^- ^. Vr Whitman. Ma.s.s.

T\ ills. Fremont H Brockton, Mass

5 .'"""' J'-- ^as^ F Athol. Mass.

J\lnchester, E. P .Lamaica Plain, Mass

S-^' • /^^''^^ Top.sfield. Mass.

w^ !,K* F''^*^"^an Fitchburg. Mass.

S."":^^"'^:- -^""^^ rornish. Me.

TVoodhead, .T. H Leicester. Mass.

AWARDS AT BOSTOX, MASS.

BARRED PIA-^IOUTH ROCKS.

Latham: r,. ck: 1. fi. hen; 1 2 pul
Copen Bros.: 2, ck ; 3. ckl. Shavlor: 4 ck •
3. pul Pittsfleld Poul. Farms': 1. ck; 2
hen: 5, ckl. Pine Top Poul. Farm.s- 3 ck*
fi, hen: 4. 6. ckl. Shaffer: 3, ck. Brook-
side Poul. Yds.: 4, hen: 6, pul. Nicholson:

1, ckl. Ovxon Farms: 2. ckl; 4 ."^ pul

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Porter: 5. ck. Knowlrs: 4. ck. Walkley:

3. ck. Owen Farms: 1, 2. ck ; 1. 2. 3, hen;

2. 6, ckl. Chalker: 4, fi. hen; n. ckl; 3 fi
pul. Wade: .''). hen. McCaffrev: 4 ckl
Rockandotte Farm: 1. 3, ckl. Chapman-

4, pul. Tilley: L 2, pul. Elm Poul. Yds •

5, pul.

BUFF PI.Y.MOI TH ROCKS.

Four Oaks Farm: f). ck ; 4, jiul. Corey:
2, ck; .'">, fi. hen; 4. 6. ckl; 6. pul. Frasle'r:

6. ck; 4, hen; 1. 3. ckl; 6. pul. Fall: 4 ck
Duclos: L 3. 6, ck : 2, 3, 6. hen; 6. 'ckl;
2. 5. pul. Adams: L hen. Noves: 6 hen
Carpenter: .''>. fi, ckl. Kelleher: 6, ckl Bliss-
2, ckl. Cobb: 1, 3. 6. pul.

POULTRY FANCIER:

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Alden: I, ck; 1, 3. hen. Brown: 2. ck;
2. hen; 3. ckl; 2, pul. Wheeler: 2. ckl; 3,
pul.
SILVER PENCILED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Peterson: 2. ck ; 1. pul. Gilbert: 1, ck ;
2. pul. Ballantine: 2, 3, hen; 2. ckl; 4, 5,
pul.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Munroe: 1. ck ; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, 2. pul.
Allen: 3. ck ; 2. hen; 2. ckl; 5. pul. Wood-
head: 5. 6, ckl; 3, pul. Lee: 3. 4, ckl;
4. (3. pul.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Powers &' Son: 1, ck. Martin: 3, 4, 6. ck;
4. hen; ."i. ckl; 2, 3. 4. pul. Russell: 5, ck;
4, ckl. Owen Farms: 2. ck; 2. 6, hen; 3,
:?kl; 5. pul. Hollis: 3, hen; 6, pul. An-
drews: 5, hen; 1. 2. 6 ckl.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Foster: 5, ck. Smith: 3, ck. Sanborn:
4, 6, ck; 3. 6. hen; 3, ckl; 6, pul. Mat-
tison & Toel: 1. 2, 6, ck ; 1, 2, 4, 6, hen;
1. 4, 5. ckl; 1, 2. 3. 4. pul. Willis: 5, hen.
Hrooks: 6, ckl. Dunn: 2. ckl. Greene- 6
ckl. Phinney: fi. pul. Foss: f, pul
GOLDEN WYANDOTTES. '
Ben way: 4. ck. Brown: 2. ck- 9 3 4
fi hen; 6 ckl; 1. 3. 4, .'"., pul. Chase: 5', 6,'
ck;_ o ckl. Wood & Freeman: 1. 3, ck:
1.0. hen; 1. 2 3. ckl; 2. pul Dillon: 4
ckl. Simmons Bros. : 6 pul

„..,^.'I^VER LACED WYANDOTTES.
TNilliams: 2, 6. ck ; 1, 2. 4, ckl- 9 6
?u Q ^f^'^J^"--- I' ^k. Wood & Freeman": 1,
Ck 3, 4, o, 6, hen; 4. f). pul. Jodrev: 3. ck-

cic "' Jh"i'^ ^' ^'^ '■'''= ^' P"'- Kennard: 6.
Whiting ^'l%^u..'' ^'- ^-^'-^= 6. ckl.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

Coffin: 1. 2, 4. ck: 1. 2. 4, hen; l.V 3, 4^

f»^l. 1. 2. 4, pul. Atwood: 6, ck. Have-

meyer: 3. 5. ck; 5, 6. hen- r, ckl- 3 r ?

pul. Hall: 3, hen. Birch 6 ckl ' ' '

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES

Hathaway: 1. 2. 5, ck; 1, hen- 1 2 3

Pope-S^k- t'r^e^^'^^ 5, hen;'6.%ki:

M^se VJ:enf'.\l^i.^^,,^-Y^L-i'
pul. Robers g, Packard: 1 3 4 duI

cobb^^^^^'^'^^ wyand6ttes"

Hillhurst Farm- 4 nUi -^'^'i«r. 0, cKl.

Eastman: 2. puV. ^Robirlson? T'^Sf '' ^"'•
AH to ^I'anf '^ ^^^^^^"OTTES.

r-u ,,.^- ^- '^^'f^I' ORPINGTONS

Chains: 4, ck ; 5. hen; 4, ckli 5, pul
ck. Hooker: 1 3 ck • «> ■? c
•>. okl; 1. pul. Doehr- 6 ck- 3 cvV
Owen Farms: 2, ck ; 1. 4. hen: 1 2* ckl :
-. 3. 4. 6. pul. Goodhue: fi. ck\ ' ^•

Roothb'^::^i.«.\7^^ferr''^^?- .
Haupt: 2. hen; 2 ckL ' '''''= ^' P"'-

8 C. BLACK ORPINGTONS

Prescott: 4 ck • ", b..r>- /'^"•y-^'^-

.^.^ L- „• S^- ■' l\»'n. •1. ckl. Mathews.

'. ck; 1, 2. hen.

Prescott: ;>.
hen: r^. cki

Armstrong & Co

1. ck; 1 hen- '-."cui AT -^r "' Knapp:
r'cl-i~ '% ^- ^^^^nS:n:V^J:

Prescott^ fi^^'I'^^A^^^^'^^'TONS.

Owen Farms 1 ok- 1 3 ho«' ''i"' ^- ^'^'-
1 o o J - '• '*^' 1. -i. hen; 1 9 piri •

6. hen.

Adams: .5. ckl" *""• '^'^P-'^fi^l^^

R. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS

Haupt: 2 ck ■ •> hf.n '',;"'"'7'^-
Farms: l ck 1 h"en 1 Wi' 1 ^'"'- ^^^'^^
ardson: 2, cki; 2 pul' ' ^- P"'" ^^^h"

ANY OTHER VARIETY ORPINGTONS

Morse: 1. 2 ck • ■> 4 hc.r^■^^\!'
Prescott: L 2. hen ;- 2. 'ck^ ' ' '^'= '' P"'"
S. r. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Railey: i. ck. Read: 3 ck- 1 hen- 'i

'-'"'• 1.,^^''^'" "'''^•'^ ^«"'- Farm: 4 'e" "ok:
■.. ckl. Tompkins: 2, r., ck; 3 4 hen- 4*

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February,J10

ckl; 3, 6. pul. Prince: 2, hen. Weston: 5^
hen. Coinforth: 6. hen. Coblne: 2, ckl.
Pierson: 6. ckl; 2, pul. Garriepy: 3, ckl.
Chapin: 1, ckl: L pul. Ward: 4. pul.
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Coblne: 2, ck. Bean: 3. ck ; 2, hen; 1»
ckl; 1. pul. Kaufman &- Windham: 4. ck^
4, pul. Tuttle: 1, ck; 1. 5. 6. hen; 2. 5,
ckl; 2. T). 6. pul. Almy: .^). ck; 4, hen. Cof-
fin: 3. hen. Davis & Bro. : 6. ckl; 3. puL
Pleasant Hill Poul. Yds.: 3, ckl. Win-
chester: 4, pul.

BUCKEYES.
Hills: 3. ck; 3, 4, hen; .">, ckl; 5. pul.
Miller: 4, ck; 3, 4, ckl. Robertson: 1, ck;
2, ckl; 1. 2, pul. Wheeler: 2, ck ; 2. hen.
Earl: 5, ck; 5. hen. Harris: 1. hen; 1, ckl.
Andrews: 3. 5. pul.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.
Darling: 2. ck ; 6. hen. Shaw: 1, 3, 5,
ck; 1. 3, 4. r., hen; 1. 2. 3. 4. ckl; 1. 3. 4. 5,
pul. Fairview: 4. ck; 2. hen; 6, ckl; 6, pul.
Blodgett & Drake: f^, ckl: 2, pul.
DARK BRAHMAS.
Lott: 4. ck; 1, hen; 6. ckl. Lane &
Burns: 2. 3, ck ; 4, .'1. hen; 2. 3. ckl; 1, 2. 4,
6. pu' Leach: 1, ck; 2, 3, hen; 1, ckl; 3, 5,
pul.

BUFF COCHINS.
All to Rose.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.
Silloway: 3. ck ; 3. pul. Bavlies: 1, 2. ck;
1. 2. 3. 6. hen; 2. 3, ckl; 2. 4. 5, 6. pul.
Rose: 4. ck; 5, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul. Wells:
u, ck; 4, hen.

BLACK COCHINS.
Williams: 2. 3, ck ; 1. 2. 3, 4, hen; 1, 2, 3,.
4, ckl; 1, 2. 3, 4, pul. Elm Poul. Yds.: 1,
ck; 5, hen.

WHITE COCHINS.
All to Rose.

BLACK LANGSHANS.
Colprit: 3. ck ; 4. hen; 2, pul. Gibson:
1. 2. ck; 1. 2. 3. 5, hen; 4. .'), ckl; 1, 5, 6,
pul. Hickford: 6, hen; 2, ckl. Bisbee: 1^
ckl. Ives: 3. fi. ckl: 4. pul. Lee: 3, pul.
WHITE LANGSHANS.
All to Ives

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
Weeks: 2, hen; 3. ckl; f,. j.ul. Brown: 1,
hen; 1. pul. Exmoor Farm: 3, hen. Pres-
ton: f), ckl. Runnells: 14. ckl. Kennard: 2.
ckl. Cook, Jr.: 2. 3, 4, fi pul

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
Mrs. Inches: 1. 3. 4. .">. ck ; ." G hen; 6,.
ckl; .5, 6. pul. Gale Poultrv Piace: 2, ck;
1. 2. 3. 4. hen; 3, ckl; 1, 2. 3, 4, pul. Peck:
4, ckl. Tabor, 1. 2. :", ckl

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS
Waterhouse: 2. ck ; .". hen; .".. pul. Pine
Top Poultry Farm: 1, 4. .".. ck ; L 2 4. hen-

1. 3, 4, ckl; 1, 3. 4, pul. Elm Poultrv Yards:
3. ck; 3. hen; 2, ckl; 2. pul. Holmes:
;i, ckl.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Ranney: i, ck; 1, hen; 1. 2. ckl; 1, pul.
Docker: 3. 4, ckl.

BUFF LEGHORNS.
JefTeries: 3. ck ; fi. hen; 1. ckl; 1 pul
Monmouth Poultrv Farms- " 4 ck - 1 *> 4
hen:_ 2 4. fi, ckl; 2. 3. ',. pul.' Ranker":' 1,'
ck; ;.. hen; 3, ckl. Hurt: H. ck. Swartwout:
3, hen; r,, ckl. Cregar: 4. fi ],ul
BLACK LEGHORNS.
Baxter: 1, ck; 2, pul. Bab.'^on: 4. puL
McAndrew: 1. 3. pul.

.ANCONAS.

All to Quinn.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

All to Faulds

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Mount.ioy: 1, ck. Faulds: ' 3 4 ck • 1
3. hen; L 2. 4. ckl; 2. 3. 4. .-,. pul. 'Bailey:

2. hen. Lee: 3, r,. ckl; 1. pul

BH E ANDALUSIANS.
Gunning: 1. ck; 3, hen; :,, ckl; 1. pul.
Morse: 3. :,. ck ; r>. fi. hen; 1, 3 ckl; 2 4

3 . .^ Vu^' "' ^' "^'- ^' -■ ■*■ '^^"= 2 4/-kf:

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH.

(aiier .>,. ck; fi. hen; .-,. pul. .lob- 2 4

ck^ l'- 0^*^"= r J^' *•, ^^'- Warrington:' 1,
iK. 1. 2. 3. 4. hen: 1. ckl: 1-^34 nul

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH

Seely: ;i, ck : fi, hen; 2, ckl- 4 -, fi nnl.
Tlolbrook: f5. ck. Andrewsro' V 4 ek^ 2

4. hen; 3, ckl; 2, pul. McNeil, l". ck: 1. 3,'

Lt. BRAHMAS and S. C. Brown LEGHORNS

mi/"'"'"^' ''j^'l,?'^^'* ??"'='' '" <^^ery particular. Winners for years Record
hs season at llhno.s State Show and at Decatur. 7 firsts. 10 seconds 4

Brahmas '"'' """ '""'""'• '"^'"'""« '«^'*' "shaped male !nd?cm^it

Light Brahmii Eggs from Winners. $5 and $3 per 15
bingle Comb Brown Leghorns, $3 and $2 per 1 5

hi«hfr,X"'' R;.f $r^er''lT'^ *' "*-'■" '''■ ^'"""•"*" »-"- Turkeys
I absolutely guarantee satisfaction and can more than please you.

L H. JOSTES, Rte. 2, MACON. ILL.

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hen,- 4, 5, ckl; 1, 3, pul. Lincoln, Jr.:

^, Civ 1.

PLAIN GOLDEN POLISH.

Holbrook: 6. ck. McNeil. 1, 3 ck; 1 2

^''^\\ h S!*'- ^' 2. 5. pul. Holcomb: 2,'
ck; 3, 4, 5. hen; 3. 4, ckl; 3, 5. pul. Hall:
b, hen; 5, ckl.

SILVER POLISH.

Holbrook: 1. ck; 2, hen. McNeil: 2 3-

^l }' ^' J' ^^"' 1' 2, ckl; 1. 2, 4, 'pui
Schriver: 3. ckl; 3, pul . . , p »

PLAIN WHITE POLISH.

All to McNeil.

BEARDED GOLDEN POLISH.

Holbrok: 1. ck. McNeil: 2. 3, ck; 1 2 3

hen; 1. 2, ckl; l, 2, 3, pul. Schriver:' 4,'

pul. '

BEARDED SILVER POLISH.

All to McNeil.

BEARDED WHITE POLISH.

McNeil: 1, 2. ck; 1. 2. hen; 1. 2. ckl;

1, 2, pul. Schriver: 3, ck. Holbrook: 3.
pul. '

BUIT LACED POLISH.

H. Hubbard: 3, ck; 2. hen; 1, 5. 6. ckl;
4, 5, 6, pul. Holbrook: 1 3, hen McNeil-

i^ ^ K^' !• ^V «• h*^": 2,' 3, ckl; 1, 2. pul!
E. Hubbard. Jr.: 4, ckl

HOUDANS.

Marshall: 1, ck.

SALMON FAVEROLLES.

Nichols: 1. ck; 2. 3. hen. Waite: 1, hen
LAKENVELDERS.

Mitchell: 2, ck; 2. hen; 1. 2. ckl; 2, 3,
pul. Green: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 3, ckl; 1. pul.
WHITE DORKINGS.
Harrington: 2. ck ; 2. hen; 1. ckl; 1 pul.
Hales: 1. ck : 1, hen.

SILVER GREY DORKINGS.
Inches: 1. ck ; 4, hen; 4, ckl; 4, 5. 6, pul.
Jacobus: 5, ck; 3. 5, hen; 6, ckl. Officer:
4, 6. ck; 6. hen. Westfall: 1. 3. ck ; 2 hen-

2, 3, 5. ckl; 1, pul. Weld: 1, hen; 1. ckl;

2, 3, pul.

COLORED DORKINGS.

Inches: 1. ck; 1, 2, 3. 4, hen. Warring-
ton: 31. ck.

GOLDEN SPANGLED HA3IBrRGS.

T^owell: 1, 2. ck; 1. 2, 3, 4, hen; 1. 3,
ckl; 1, 3, pul. Fessenden: 3 4 ck - 5 6
hen; 2, 4, 6. ckl; 2, 5, 6, pul. Oke & Mur-
ray: {3. ckl; 4. pul.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

Lowell: 3, ck ; 2. 5, hen; 1, 3, ckl; 3, pul
Lee: 5 ck. Weld: 2. ck; 6, ckl. Allen:'
6._ck; 5. 6. pul. Paine: 2. ck ; 1, 4, 6, hen;
2o, ckl; 1, 2, 4. pul. Oke & Murray; 4. ck-

3, hen: 4. ckl.

GOLDEN PENCILED HAMBURGS.
Fes.senden: 3. ck ; 1. 3. hen; 3, ckl; 3 4
pul. Jacobus: 2, ck : .^, hen. Oke & Mur-
ray: 1, ck; 2. 4. hen: 1, 2, ckl; 1 " nnl
SILVER PENCILED HAMBURGS.
Lowell: 1. ck. Oke & Murray 2 ck- 1 2
hen; 1, ckl: 1. 2. pul.

WHITE HAMBURGS.

All to Lowell.

BLACK HAMBURGS.

Lowell: 1, ck ; 1. 3. hen; 3. ckl. Fessen-
den: 5, ck; 6. ckl; 3, pul. Saltonstall:
6, ck; 6, hen; 2, ckl; 5, 6. pul. Forbes:

4, ck; 5, ckl; 1, 4, pul. Lovell: 2. ck; 2, 5,
hen; 1. ckl. Oke & Murray: 3, ck ; 4, hen;
4, ckl; 2. pul.

CAMPINES.

All to Jacobus.

A.MERICAN DOMINIQI^ES.

Carter: 2, ck ; 2, hen! 1, 2, ckl; 1. 2 pul
Austin: 1. ck ; 3. hen. Atherton: 1 hen;
4, pul. Moody: 3. ckl; 3, pul.

BLA( K BREASTED RED G.AMES.
Horte: 1, ck ; 1. hen. Wheeler: 2 ck-
2, hen; 1. ckl; 2, pul. Lingard: 1,' pul.'
BROWN RED GAMES.
All to Wheeler.

GOLDEN DUCKWING GAMES.
Wheeler: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 2. ckl; 2. pul.
Lingard: 1. ckl; 1. pul.

SILVER DUCKWING GA3IES.

All to Wheeler.

RED PYLE GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BIR( HEN GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BLACK GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

.^ CORNISH INDIANS.

„,f^"wn: 1, ck; 1. hen; 2. ckl; 2, pul.
Wheeler: 2. ck ; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul.
WHITE C ORNISH.
Brown: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 1. ckl; t. pul.
Wheeler: 2, ck ; 2. hen; 2, ckl; 4. pul. Ma-
comber: 3, 4, ckl: 2. 3, pul. Gav: ;'. ckl.
WHITE LACED RED CORNISH.
All to rJurbank.
BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BAN-
TAMS.
Berry: 1. 3, ck ; 5, 6. hen. Stonv Brook
Farm: 4, ck ; 3, 4, hen; 4, T->, 6, ckl; 3, 4.
5, pul. Havemeyer Bros.: 1. ck; 1. hen;
2. ckl; 1, pul. Wild Goose Farm: 5, ck;

2. hen; 1. 3. ckl; 2, pul.

BROWN RED (J.\ME BANT.\MS.

Havemeyer Bros: 1. ck ; 1. ckl; 1, pul.
Stowe: 1. hen; 2. pul.
GOLDEN DUCKWING GAME BANTA:\IS.

Havemeyer Bros.: 1. ck; 2. hen; 2, pul.
Wild Gose Farm: 2, ck ; 1, hen; 1. pul.
Stowe: 1. ckl. Miner & Walker: 3. pul.
SILVER DUCKinNG GAME BANTAMS.

Havemeyer Bros.: 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1. pul.
Stowe: 2, 3, ckl; 2. pul. Miner & Walker.

3, pul.

POULTRY FANCIER

RED PYLE BANTAMS.

Havemeyer Bros.: 1, ck ; 2. hen; 1, ckl;
1, pul: Wild Goose Farm: 1, hen; 2, pul.
Princeton Bantam Yds.: 2. ckl

BIRCHEN GAME BANTAMS.

Cook: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2. ckl; 2, pul. Have-
meyer Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Stowe: 3, ckl > ^ . v

WHITE GAME BANTAMS.

All to Havemeyer Bros.

BLACK GAME BANTAMS.

Wheeler: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, pul. Horte:
1. ckl.

a:<y other variety game bantams.

w^?""^'^""-..^' ^*^; 1. h^": 2, ckl; 2, pul.
Wild Gose Farm: 1, ckl; 1. pul.

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.

Oke & Murray: 1. ck; 1. 2. 3. 4. hen;

1, 4, ckl; 2, 3, 4, 5, pul. Rose: 3. ckl; 1,
pul. D^bney: 5, ckl. Wild Goose Farm:

2, ckl.

SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.

Oke & Murray: 1, ck ; 1, 2. 4. 5 hen-

1, 3. ckl; 1, 2, 4, 5, pul. Sitterly: '4. ck!

Fl.ske: 2. ck. Dabney: 5, ck; 3, hen. Wild

Goose Farm: 3, ck. Rose: 2. ckl; 3. pul

R. C. BLACK BANTAMS.

Porer: 4, ck; 5, pul. Tilley: 1. 2. ck; 1.
4 hen; 2, 4. ckl; 2, 3. pul. Dabney: 5,
ck. Grove Hill Poul. Yds.: 3, ck; 2, hen
Oke & Murray: 5. hen; 5. ckl; 1, pul. Wild
Goose Farm: ?. hen; 1. 3, ckl; 4, pul
R. C. WHITE BANTAMS.

Oke & Murray: 1. 2, ck ; 1, 3, 4, 5. hen;
1, 2, ckl; 1. 2. 3. 4, pul. Wild Goose Farm:

3, ck; 2, hen.

BOOTED WHITE BANTAMS
Kiley: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl: 1. 2. pul.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
Rose: 2. ck; 2, hen; 3. ckl. Wild Goose
Farm: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 2. ckl; 1, pul. Max-
well: 4. ckl; 3 pul. S. Reel: 1. ckl; 2, pul.
PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Staples: 1. ck; 2, ckl; 1. pul. Morse: 2,
ck; 2. hen; 1. ckl; 3, pul. Hillside Ban-
tam Yd.«!. : 1. 3, hen; 2 pul.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Eaton: 3, ck ; 3. 4. hen; 1. ckl; 1, 2. pul.
Fox: 2, ck; 1, hen. Wild Goose Farm:
1. ck; 2. hen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.
Poch Bros.: 4, r>, ck ; 1, 2, hen. Fox:
1. ck; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Slessoe: 3, ck: 3, hen;
3, ckl; 2. pul. Fraleigh: 2, ck; 4. ckl; 4. 5,
pul. Paine: 4, hen; 5. ckl. Flske: 5, hen.
Wild Goose Farm: 2. ckl; 3. pul.

LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAMS.
Hayden: 1, ck ; Ty, hen; 1, 2. ckl; 1, 2,
pul. Watson: 2. 3. 4, hen. Wild Goose
Farm: 1. hen.

DARK BRAHMA BANTAMS.
All to Wilson.
JAPANESE BLACK TAILED BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 2, ck ; 1. 2, 4, .">. hen;
1, 2, ckl; 2, 3. pul. Albers: 3, ck ; 3, hen;
1, pul. Tilley: 1. ck.

BLACK JAPANESE BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1,
pul. Wild Goose Farm: 1, hen; 2, pul.
WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 1, ck; 2. hen; 1, ckl; 1,
pul. Wild Goose Farm: 1. hen; 2, pul.
WHITE J.^PANESE BANTAMS.
Oke <Sr Murray: 2, ck ; 2. hen; 2. pul.
Albers: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, pul. Daniels: 1,
ck; 3. pul.

ANY OTHER VARIETY BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 2, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 2,
pul. Hales: 4. ck; 4. hen. Wild Goose
Farm: 1. ck ; 2. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Dan-
iels: 3, ck; 3. hen.

POLISH BANTAMS.
Wild Goose P'arm : 2, ck ; 1. 2, hen; 1,
pul. Kiley: 1, 3, ck; 3. 4. 5, hen; 1, 2, ckl;
2. 3, 4. pul.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK B.4NT.4M8.
All to Shaylor.

ANY OTHER VARIETY BANTAMS.
All to Wild Goose Farm.

PEKIN DUCKS.
Cobb: 1, old drake; 2. old duck; 1. young
drake; 1, young duck. Ranney: 2, old
drake; 1, old duck. I^ippitt: 2. young drake;
2. young duck.

ROUEN DUCKS.
Baerman: 1. old drake; 1. old duck; 1,
young drake; 1, young duck. liippitt: 3,
young drake; 3. young duck. Weld: 2,
young drake; 2, young duck.

GRAY CALL I>ITCK.
All to Tilley.

WHITE (ALL DUCKS.
All to Tilley.

WOOD DUCKS.
All to Tilley.

EAST INDIAN DUCKS.
All to Tilley.

CRESTED Dl CKS.
AH to Hawkins.

COLORED MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
All to Job.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Tilley: 1. 2. old drake; 1. 2. 3, old duck;

1. 2, young drake; 1. 2. young duck. Mun-
roe: 3, old drake; 4. old duck.

ANY OTHER VARIETY ORNAMENTAL

Dl'CKS.
All to Tlllev

ANY VARIETY WILD DUCKS.
Harwood: 4. old drake; r>, old duck; 3,
young drake. Tilley: 1. 2. 3, old drake;

2, 3, 4, old duck. Ford & Farrar: 5, old
drake; 2, young drake: 1, young duck.
Inches: 1. old duck; 1, young drake.

All to

3, old
der; 1,
5, old
goose ;

Shepard
der. Cain:
ANY

Inches:
ley: 1, 3,
gander; 2,
gander; 1,

All

All

All

All

All
ANY

All to

MANDARIN DUCKS.

Tilley.

TOULOUSE GEESE.

Cobb: 1. old gander; 1, 3, old goose; 2,

young gander; 2, young goose. Ranney: 2»

gander; 2. old goose; 1, young gan-

young goose. Shove: 5, old gander;

goose. Cain: 4, old gander; 4. old

3, young gander.

EMBDEN GEESE.
Ranney: 2. old gander. Shove: 1, 3, old
gander; 1, old goose. Cain: 4, old gander;
2. 3, old goose.

BROWN CHINESE GEESE.
Cain: 2, old gander; 1, old goose. Lit-
tle: 1, old gander; 2. old goose
AFRICAN GEESE.
Bros.: 1, old goose; 2 young gan-

1. young gander.
OTHER VARIETY GEESE.
2. old gander; 2, old goose. Til-
old gander; 1. 3, goose; 2, young
young goose. Little: 1, young
young goose.
BRONZIC TURKEYS.
to Lord.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
to Macomber.

BLACK TURKEYS.
to Shepard Bros.

NARRAtJANSETT TURKEYS.
to Shepard Bros.

BOURBON RED TURKEYS.
to Shepard Bro.s.

OTHER VARIETY TURKEYS.
Shepard Bros.

EXHIBITION PENS.
Light Bramas — Hutchinson, 4; Balch &
Brown. 1; Fletcher, 2, 3. Chicks— Shaw. 3;
Hutchin.son, 2; Balch & Brown, 1; Fletcher,
4, 5.

Dark Brahma.s — 1.

Black I^angshnns — Elm Poul. Yds. — 1.

Silver Gray Dorking.s — Jacobus. 1.

Barred Plymouth Rocks — Latham, 1; Owen
Farm. 2; Pittsfleld Poul. Farm, 3. Chicks —
Capen Bros.. 3; Shaylor, 2; Pittsfleld Poul.
Farms, 1; Pyne, 4; Pine Top Poul. Farm. 5.

BufC Plymouth Rocks — Adams. 1. Chicks
— Cobb, 1 ; Lunt & Curtis. 2.

Columbian Plymouth Rocks — Woodhead,
1; Munroe, 2; Allen. 3.

White Plymouth Rocks, Chicks — Owen
Farms. 1; Knowles. 2; Lynch, 4; Chapman,
5; Tilley. 1.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks — Smith. 1.

White Wyandottes — Fairfield Farm, 4;
Powers & Son, 3; Foster, 5; Wilgus & Son,
2; Hutckins Farm, 6; Owen Farms. 1.
Chicks — Mann, 3; Owen Farms, 2; Martin,
4.

Silver Wyandottes- — Van Alstyne. 1.

Columbian Wyandottes — Black & Son, 4:
Sunnybrook Farm, 2; Hillhurst
Brayton, 1. Chicks — Robinson,
brook Farm, 4; Van Alstyne, 5;
Farm. 6; Doehr, 1. 3.

Buff Wyandottes — Mattison & Foel
Chicks— King & Whiting. 4. 5; Mattison
Foel. 1, 2. 3.

Golden Wyandottes — Brown, 1.

Buff Laced Polish — Hubbard. 1.

White Crested Black Polish — Seeley, 1,
Andrews, 2. Chicks — Andrews. 1.

Partridge Wyandottes — Coffin 1;
3; Kendall. 2. Chicks — CofTin,
meyer. 2; Job, 3.

S. C. Rhode Island Reds — Old
Chicks--PIerson, 2; Old Acres,

Farm, 3
2; Sunny-
Hillhurst

1.

Fletcher,
1 ; Have-
Acres, 1.
5; White

I. Red Poul. Yds.

Chicks —
3; Almy,

Poul.

Birch Poul. Farm, 6; R
4; Tompkins, 1; Read. 5.

R. C. Rhode Island— Harris. 1.
Bean. 4; Kaufman «fc Windham.
2; Tuttle. 1.

S. C. White Leghorn.s — Pine Top PouL
Farm, 1 ; Elm Poul. Yds., 2. Chicks— Mon-
mouth Poul. Farm, 1.

S. C. BufC Leghorns — Monmouth
Farm. 1.

R C. Black Minorcas — Moody, 1.
Blue Andalusians — Cuddahy, 1.
Silver Spangled Hamburgs — Paine.
White Faced Black Spanish — Job.
Brown Breasted Red Pet Games — Hill, 1.
R. C. White Orpingtons — Chicks — Richard-
ardson, 1.

S. C. White Orpingstons — Jordan, 3; Elm
Poul. Yds.. 2; Owen Farms, 1. Chicks —
Chains, 2; Shepard & Son, 3; Carrier, 6;
Bessom, 5; Owen Farms, 1; Prescott, 4.

S. C. Black Orpington.s — Knapp, 2; Elm
Poul. Yds., 1. Chicks — Owen, 1; Crutten-
den.

Ducks — Baerman, 1.
Runner Ducks — Munroe. 1.
Black liantams — Grove ' Hill Poul.
Tillev 1. rhlck.s — Tillev. 1.

Jr.,
1.

Rouen
Indian
R. C.

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Eja:gs guaranteed. Elizabeth Dupons,

Kenosha, Wis.

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POULTRY FANCIER-

Awards at Enid, Okla.

EXHIBITORS AT ENID. OKLA.

Alfred, S. W Sharon. Kas.

Allison. J. W Stillwater. Okla.

Anderson. J. F Waldron. Ark.

Arnote, Mrs. E. R Isabella. Okla.

Athey, Chas Goltry, Okla.

Bailey. Dr. C H Wynnewood. Okla.

Baty, W Medford. Okla.

Beamer. F. P Guthrie, Okla.

Behmer, Geo Cherrydale. Kan.

Bickerdike. C. L Wakita. Okla.

Bonifleld, Wm Okemah, Okla.

Borders, W. B Wichita. Kas.

Brady, M. S Richards, Mo.

Bretz, Robert Ei Reno. Okla.

Bretz, W. J El Reno, Okla.

Brewer. E. E Stillwater, Okla.

Bridges. J. P Douglas. Kas.

Brown. Mrs. Rachel Enid, Okla.

Bruce. J. W Arnett. Okla.

Brunker, J. H Jefferson, Okla.

Brunner, Henry L. Newton, Kas.

Buck Bros Guthrie, Okla.

Bury, T. J Enid, Okla.

Butler, A. M Wichita, Kas.

Campbell, Jessie B Kingfisher, Okla.

Chestnut. H. W Centralia, Kas.

Clark, Hanford Enid Okla

Collier, J. W Enid, Okla.

Cooper. H Guthrie, Okla.

Crane, Chas Enid. Okla.

Crane., E. V Waukomis. Okla.

Crow. Otis H Hutchison. Kas.

Cullum. Mrs. V Earlsboro. Okla.

Curnutt. Alice Montserratt Mo.

Darling. Mrs. C. L Enid, Okla.

Davids, H. C Oswego. Kas.

Davids. R. L Oswego, Kas.

Davis. Will T Oklahoma Citv. Okla.

Dunphy, T. N Nevada. Mo.

Eckhardt, Mrs. L Waukomis. Okla.

Edmonson. Ed Clinton. Okla.

Edwards. Chas. D Perrv. Okla.

Elgin. Mrs. W. D Enid.' Okla.

Enos. Mrs. L, Enid. Okla.

Eyansmayd Farm Chandler. Okla.

Faatz, F. H Maramec, Olcla.

Fair, Chas. C . Sharon. Kas.

Field. D. M Willis. Tex.

Fife. S Pawnee. Okla.

Friedley. G. A Guthrie. Okla.

Gregg. Geo. T Ames, Okla.

Gregory, Wm Guthrie. Okla.

Grimes. O. T Hunter. Okla.

Guthrie, H. C Oklahoma Citv. Okla.

Hall. F. C Lone Wolf Okla.

Hangartner. Cha« Garber. Okla.

Harris. W. J Mangum. Okla.

Harrisburger. L. J Enid. Okla.

Hawk, C. C Shawnee, Okla.

Henderson. Mrs. C. C Solomon. Kas.

Hill, C. B Guthrie Okla.

Hinton. Mrs. H. P Lockney. Tex.

Hoag. C. C Woodward, Okla.

Hobson. W. H Britton, Okla.

Hodson. J. W Edmonds. Okla

Holden, W. S Douglas. Kas!

Holderman. C. E Pawnee Okla.

Horner. Mrs. H. N Enid.' Okla.

Horton. A. B Cashion. Okla.

Hudson, Frank Pawnee Okla.

Hughes. G. W Pawnee. Okla.

Jarrett, A. J Mangum. Okla.

Jones, Mrs, D. V Shawnee, Okla.

Kester. H. J Enid. Okla.

Kremer. F Manchester. Okla.

Lamport. A. B Mangum. Okla.

Langford. Dr. W. M Wynnewood Okla.

Lindamood. C. C Walton. Kas.

McAllister. C. H Carmen, Okla

McHarg. Sam Wakita. Okla.

^f,!;*'"-, ^^- ^ Shawnee. Okla.

Mill. Glenn R Enid Okla.

^"•- J. R- • Enid. Okla.

Moon. D. N Guthrie. Okla.

Moon. J. D Guthrie. Okla.

Moon, R. E Guthrie. Okla.

Morris. J. T Comanche. Okla.

Morris. Lloyd Guthrie. Okla.

^ay. Geo. M Enid. Okla.

Noland. Mary Hennessey Okla.

O^f^'l- A Pond Creek, Okla.

Owen Bro.«3 Oklahoma Citv. Okla.

Parnell. E. R Douglas's. Okla.

Potter. John H Stillwater, Okla.

Preston. C. O Chilocco. Okla.

Ragsdale, Russell W.. Oklahoma City Okla.

Rainey. W. T No. Enid. Okla.

Regier, Isaac Enid, Okla.

Rehkopf. F. D Topeka, Kas.

Reynolds, H. C Stratford. Okla.

Roderick, Mrs. W Topeka Kas.

Roe. Mrs. J. B Shawnee, Okla.

Rogers, S. A Dover. Okla.

Rnrk. Mr Lalioma. Okla.

Rouse, Fred C Waukomis, Okla.

Rueb. T>. S Perry. Okla.

Rusmissel, A. T Drummond. Okla.

Rusmissel, Guy Drummond, Okla.

Scott. R. L Ardmore. Okl;i.

Schultz. C. F Enid, Okla.

Spalding Stock Farm No. Enid, Okla.

Stone. ,Iohn Medicine Lodge. Kas.

Scott. Wm Abilene, Kas.

Sinclair. Grover Stillwater. Okla.

Stearn. Willie Enid. Okla.

Sanborn, C. I^ Gainesville. Tex.

Smalley. W. P Shawnee, Okla.

PTianaleffer, S Douglas, Kas.

Searl, Mrs. Lulu H Sedan,

Shoop, L. G Perry.

Scherick. Mrs. I. W Enid,

Success Poultry Farm Orange,

Stowe. E. J Wynnewood,

Taggart, J. A Waukomis,

Taggart, S. E Waukomis,

Tallant, Wm. C Edmond,

Taylor, Thomas Stillwater,

Thomas, Geo. H Britton,

Thompson, Alberta Enid.

Thompson, L Enid,

Thompson, Milton Okarche,

Thompson. Mrs. V Enid,

Trice, T. H Sharon,

Trimble, K. S Oklahoma City,

Tucker, W. A Clinton,

Tyer, R. L Perry,

Tyner, H. C Waukomis,

Tyner, M. E Waukomis,

Waddell, H. A Wichita,

Wallis, S. M Shattuck.

Ward, L. E Wichita,

Watkins. M. A Enid,

Watkins, Mrs. M. A Enid,

Wheeler, J. N Wynnewood,

Wheeler Poultry Farm Marshall,

Wilson, T. A Kingfisher,

Yeokum, Geo.
Yeoman. Mrs.
Yoder, B. C. .

Oklahoma City,

M. A Enid,

Ringwood,

Kas.
Okla.
Okla.

Tex.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Olcla.

Kas.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.

Kas.
Okla.

Kas.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.

Tex.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.
Okla.

AWARDS AT ENID, OKLA.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Hall: 1, ck; 3, hen. McAlister: 2, ok; 1,
pul; 2, pen. Buck Bros: 1, ck; 1, 2, 3, hen;
3, ckl; 1, pen; specials for best shaped hen
and cockerel, best colored pullet and cock-
erel. First 10 highest scoring birds in class.
Anderson: L ckl. Bretz: 2, ckl. Mrs. Roe:
2, pul. Second 10 highest scoring birds of
class. Regier: 3, pul; four best pullets.

WHITE PLY^IOUTH ROCKS.

Beamer: 1. ck ; 3. pul; 3. pen; White Ply.
Rock Club Badge on cock. Hughes: 2. ck.
Pair: 3 ek ; 1, 3. cRl ; 1. pul; 1. pen; special
for best male and female. Noland: 1. 2.
hen: White Ply. Rock Club Badge on hen.
Preston; 3, hen; 2. ckl; 2, pul; 2. pen; White
Ply. Rock Club Badge for cockerel and pul-
let; Hudson special for best male head.

BLFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Gregory: 1. ck; 2. 3, hen; 1, ckl; 2. pul;

1. pen; special for best surface coloi-. Fried-
ley: 2. ck; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1. pul; 2. pen.
Rueb: 2. ckl; 3, pul; 3, pen.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Morris: 1, ck; 3. pen. Smalley: 2. ck; 1,

2. 3. hen: 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, 3, pen; 1. 2, pen;
Special of $20; A. P. A. Gold Medal. Kes-
ter: 3, ckl.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Hill: 1. ck; 1, i', hen; 2. ckl; 1, 3. pul;

1, 2, pen; Special for best female and best
colored female. Stone: 2, ck ; 3. hen; Club
Ribbons for best shaped cock. Reynolds-

3. ck; 1, 3, ckl; 2, pul; 3, pen; Special for
best female.

GOLDEN LACED WY.AXDOTTES.

Plr'ii".'"?-,^' ^'.~\''' ^^"' •" l''^"- Buck

Bros.: 2. 3, ck; 1. hen; 2, pen. Shoop: 1,
ckl; 13, pul; 1, pen. Crane: 2, ckl; 2, pul.
Reynolds: 3, ckl.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE.S.

Schultz: 1, 3, ck; 2, ckl; 2, pen. Alfred;

2, ck; 1. 2. hen; 1. ckl; 2. pul; 1. 3, pen.
Harrisberger: 3, hen. Reynolds: 3. ckl
Mrs. Henderson: 3. pul. Guthrie- 1 nul

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

All to Hill.

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES

All to Buck Bros.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

All to Holden.

S. C. BUFF ORPIN(irONS.

Borders: 1. ck; 1. 2, 3. hen; ], 2. ckl; 1,

-, 3, pul; 1, 2, 3, pen; Silver Cup from club

tor each best cock, cockerel, hen and pul

House: 2, ck. Tyre: 3. ck. Parnell: 3, ckl!

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Morris: 1. ck; 2. 3. hen; 2. pul; 2. pen.
Mrs. Roe: 2. ck ; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1. 3. pul-
1, pen. *^ •

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Hodson: 1. ck; 1. 2. hen; 1, 2. ckl; 1, 2. 3
l)ul; 1, pen. Setter: 2, ck ; 3, hen. Horton'

3, ckl.

BUCKEYES.

Mrs. Hinton: 1, pul.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Bonifield: 1, ck. Lampert: 2 ck Tag-
gert: 3. ck; 3, hen; 2, ckl; :!. pul; 2, pen
Special lor shape male and best colored male
and female. Beamer: 1. hen. Stowe- '>
hen; 1, ckl; 1, pen. Clark: 3, ckl. Bretz'
1, pul; Special for highest scoring pen in
show, and highest scoring pen in American
class, and Special for best shaped female
Tallant: 2, pul. Brewer: 3, pen

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Searle: 1. ck; 2, hen; 3, ckl; 3. pen. Reh-
kopf: 2. ck. Bretz: 3. ck ; 2. ckl; 1 2 3
pul; 1, pen. Roderick: 1. hen. ' Rogers'
3. hen. Grimes: 1. ckl; 2. pen
LIGHT BR.AHMAS.

All to Kester.

DARK BRAHMAS.

All to Wheeler Poul. Farm.

February, '10

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Davis :

BUFF COCHINS.

1. ck; 1, 2, 3, hen; 1.

ckl • 1 "^

pul; 1. pen; Cup on best cock, hen, cock-
erel and pul. Wallis: 2, ckl; 3, pul; 2, pen.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.

Tyner: 1, ck; 1, 2, 3, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 2, 3,
pul. Buck Bros.: 2, ck; 1, pul.

BLACK LANGSHAN8.

Bruce: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen; 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul;

2, pen; Kennedy Cup for best pen in Asiatic
class. Taylor: 2, ck. Watkins: 3, hen; 1,

3, ckl; 3, pul; 1, 3, pen.

WHITE ^.ANGSHANS.

Buck Bros.: 1, 2, hen. Arnote: 3, hen;
1, 2, pul.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Moon: 1, ck; 2, 3, hen; 1, ckl; 1, 2, 3,
pul; 1, 2, pen; Knower Cup for best pen in
Mediterranean class. Buck Bros.: 2, ck;

1, hen; 3, ckl. Elgin: 3 ck. Horner: 2, ckl.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Buck Bros.: 1, ck; 1, 3, hen; 2, ckl; 1,
pul; 1, pen. Crow: 2, 3. ck; 2, hen; 1, 3,
ckl; 3, pul;2, 3, pen. Tyer: 2, pul.
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Langford: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 2, pen. Moon: 2,
ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul; 1, pen. Mor-
ris: 3, ck. Crow: 3. hen; 3, ckl; 2, pul.
Rainey: 2, ckl. Bickerdike: 3, pul.
R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
All to Crow.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
Crow: 1. 2, 3, ck; 2, 3, hen; 2, 3, ckl;

2, 3, pul; 2, 3, pen. Kremer: 1, hen; 1, ckl;

1, pul; 1, pen.

R. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
All to Crow.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.
All to Crow.

SILVER DUCKWING LEGHORNS.
Buck Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, pen. Crow:

2, 3, ck; 2, 3, hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1 ,2, 3, pul;

1, 3, pen.

MOTTLED ANCONAS.
All to Crow.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Sanborn: 1, ck; 3, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 2. pen.
Crow: 2, 3, ck ; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 3, pul; 1,
pen. Buck Bros.: 2, hen. Owen Bros.; 3,
hen; 2, ckl; 3, pen.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Buck Bros.: 1, 3, ck; 2, hen; 2, pen.
Crow: 2. ck; 1, 3. hen; 2, 3, ckl; 3, pul; 1,

3, pen. Davids: 1, ckl; 1, 2. pul.

S. C. WHITE MINORCAS.
All to Crow.

BLUE ANDALUSIANS.

All to Crow.

RED CAPS.

Crow; 1. ck; 2, 3. hen; 1. 2. 3. ckl; 1. 2.
3. pul; 1, 2. 3, pen. Buck Bros.: 2, ckl;

WHITE F.4CE BLACK SPANISH.

Buck Bros.: 1, ck. Crow: 2, 3 ck- " 3
hen; 3. pul; 3, pen. Chestnut: 'l, hen";' 1.'
ckl; 1. 2. pul.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.

All to Buck Bros.

C;OLDEN BEARDED POLISH

All to Buck Bros.

SILVER BEARDED POLISH.

All to iiuck Bros

PLAIN GOLDEN POLISH.

All to Buck Bros.

BUFF LACED POLISH.

All to Buck Bros.

^ , HOUDANS.

Buck Bros.: 1, ck; 1. ckl; 1. pul. Yoder:

2, 3, ck;l. 2. hen; 2. ckl

LAK EN V ELDERS.

All to Yoeman.

SILVER SP.ANGLED HAMBUR<iS.

Hawk: 1 ck. Thomas: 2. ck ; 1. 2. ckl;
1. -'. 3. pul; 1. pen. Yeokum: 3. ck.
BLACK H.AMBURGS.

All to Crow.

CORNLSH INDLAN (JAMES.

Evansmayde Farm: ]. 2. ck ; 1. 2. 3. hen;

fAv"'K ^r • ; -','■'' P"'= '• -• P^'n; Special
roi best cockerel in show room. Spalding
^tock Farm: 3. ck ; 3. ckl

WHITE LACED CORNISH.

All to HoldermaTi.

SILVER GRAY DORKINCi.

All to (row.

^M . ''AI'ANESE PHOENIX.

All to ^ ooinMii

M. . ^XI«K« ^N imMIMQUES.

All to Crow.

PIT GAME8.

nn?"'i ^^''^^L,!' Ck; 2, hen: 2, .!, ckl; 1, 3.
h-h'^o ,"""•, ?"''y- 2. 3. ck: 1. ckl; 2, pen
Edwards: 1, hen. Bailey: 3, hen. Harris:
-. pul; .!. pen.

,,, , \Y"*TE INDIAN GAMES.

All to Buck Bros.

^n , ^l^^^^ SUMATRA GAMES.

All to Buck Bros.

M, . r, '**^'* '*^^^^ GAMES.

All 1o Buck Bi-os.

.,, V**'vP^^\'*^^^'^^^>^« GAMES.

All to Buck Bros

xn ,'^"^VER DUCKWIN(; (iAMKS.

All to Buck Bios.

BROWN RED GAMES.

All to Buck Bros.

BIRCHEN (iA.MES.

All to Buck Bros.

WHITE GAMES.

All to Tiuck Bros.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES.

Edwards: L ck ; 1, 3, hen; 1. l- puL 1

pen Ruck Bros.: 2. ck; 2. hen; 1*. ckl'; 3,'
pul; 2, pen.

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February, '10

RED PYLE GAME BANTAMS.

Rouse: 1, 2, ck; 1, hen; 1, pul. Buck
Bros.: 2, 3, hen.

BIRCHEN GAME BANTAMS.
Buci< Bros.: 1, ck; 1, 3, ckl; 1, pul. Rouse:
2.,«i. ck; 2. pul. Taggart: 2, ckl.
SILVER DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
All to Buck Bros.
GOLDEN DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
All to Buck Bros.
BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BAN-
TAMS
Rouse: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2.
3, pul; 1, pen. Buck Bros.: 2, ck.

BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS.
Buck Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen. Taggart: 2.
hen ■ 2 ckl

WHITE GAME BANTAMS.
Taggart: 1, ck; 1 hen. Buck Bros.: 1,
ckl.

R. C. BLACK BANTAMS.
Smalley: 1, 2, ck; 1, hen; 1, pul; 1, pen.
Clark: 2, hen; 1, ckl; 2, 3, pul. Crow: 3,
hen.

BOOTED BANTAMS.

All to Buck Bros.

LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAMS.

All to Ragsdale.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

Moon: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul; 1,
3, pen. Crow: 2, hen; 1, 3. ckl; 1, 3, pul;
2, pen. Hoag: 3, hen,

PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Rouse: 1, ck; 1, hen. Buck Bros.: 2,
ck; 2, hen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Watkins: 1, ck; 1, hen; 3, pul; 1, pen.
Buck Bros.: 2, ck; 3, hen; 1, pul. Crow:
2, hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 2, pul; 2, pen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.
Buck Bros.: 1, 2, ck; 3, hen; 1, 2, ckl.
Yeokum: 3, ck; 1, 2, hen.
BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.
Buck Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, pen. Tag-

POULTRY FANCIER:

gart: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2, pen. Chestnut: 3,
hen; 1, ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul.

WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.

All to Stearns.

(iOLDEN SEBRI(;HT BANTAMS.

All to Allison.

SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.

All to Buck Bros.

BRONZE TURKEYS.

Brown: 1, ck; 2, hen. Watkins: 1, hen.
Darling: 1, ckl; 1, pul.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

Arnote: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 1, pul. Wat-
kins; 1, 3, ckl; 2, 3, pul; 1, pen.
PEKIN DUCKS.
Darling: 1, 2. 3, ck. Watkins; 1. 2. 3.
hen; 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1. 2, pen. Buck
Bros.; 1, ckl; 3, pul. Hinton; 3, ckl.
ROUEN DUCKS.
All to Allison.

GRAY CALL DUCKS.
All to Buck Bros.

EAST INDIA DUCKS.
Ail to Buck Bros.

WHITE MUSCOVY DUCKS.
Allison: 1, ck; 2,3, hen; 1, ckl; 1, 3, pul.
Buck Bros.: 1, hen; 2, pul.

COLORED MUSCOVY DUCKS.
All to Buck Bros.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Buck Bros.: 1, ck. Davids: 2, ck ; 1, 2,
hen; 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Wilson; 1,
ckl; 3, pul; 2, pen.

TOULOUSE GEESE.
Watkins: 1, ck; 1, hen. Arnote: 2, ck ;
2. hen.

EMBDEN GEESE.
All to Wallis.

WHITE CHINESE GEESE.
All to Buck Bros.

BROWN CHINESE GEESE.
All to Buck Bros.

Awards at Scranton, Pa-

EXHIBITORS AT SCRANTON, PA.

Alexander. Edgar L Chinchilla, Pa.

Aukuzinas, Anthony Scranon. Pa.

Asiaic Bantam Yards Horeheads, N. Y.

Atkinson, Walt E Glyndon, Md.

Aherton, H. F Moosic, Pa.

Ackerson, H. W Washington, N J.

Bright, Thomas Scranton, Pa

Burgess, David Olyphant, Pa.

Bell, Wm. C Binghamton. N. Y.

Bryan, Ed Olyphant. Pa.

Burd. Howard J Washington. N. J.

Brown, J. W., and wife Scranton, Pa.

Belmonte. Wm Pittson, Pa.

Bissell, Mrs. Clara S Montrose. Pa.

Biesecker, S. & Sons Elmhurst, Pa.

Budwesky, Otto Pittston. Pa.

Black Diamond Orpington Farms

Scranton. Pa.

Benjamin. Wm. F Tavlor, Pa.

Buff Leghorn Poultry Yards. .Annville, Pa.

Bower, Arthur W Dunmore, Pa.

Bickel, M. B AUentown. Pa.

Barton, Jas. P Scranton. Pa.

Bower, E. Zeigler Scranton, Pa.

Brown, Wm Philadelphia. Pa.

Bailey, Thomas, & Son Scranton, Pa.

Blowers, John I Scranton. Pa.

Brown. Thos. & Sons Scranton. Pa.

Canterbury. Joseph Scranton. Pa.

Close, A. W Dunmore, Pa.

Clancey. J. P Syracuse, N. Y.

Coburn, Robt Rendham, Pa.

Clarke, John A Pittston, Pa.

Cooper, A. J. and wife Duryea, Pa.

Cohen. Arthur K Scranton, Pa.

Collins. John. & Son Scranton, Pa.

Dunlap, E. B Clark's Summit. Pa.

Drumheller, Howard Hazleton, Pa.

Dence, J. H. & Son Gloversville, N. Y.

Dence. Mrs. Geo. . Gloversville, N. Y.

Davis. Thomas Mill City. Pa.

Dunn. David lermyn. Pa.

Davles. D. B Taylor, Pa.

Doidge &■ McNeill London, Can.

Davies, H. R Scranton, Pa.

DIx, D. N Mill City, Pa.

Edwards. Dr. Geo. B Lacevville, Pa

Elliott, Harry Olyphant, Pa.

Erk, Russell Seelvville, Pa.

Easterle, Geo. H Scranton, Pa.

Evans, James M Scranton, Pa.

Fltzpatrirk, Wm. A Scranton Pa

Fowler, G. A Carbondale, Pa.

Forster, Sylvester Scranton. Pa.

Furman, C. C Bloomsburg, Pa.

Falrbank. Dr. S. J West Utlca. N. Y.

Freeburn, Wm. B Sparkhlll. N. Y.

Frost. H. B.. Jr Wyckoff, N. J.

Griffiths. E Scranton, Pa.

Gelatt, E. L Jermyn, l»a.

Geisshardt, Mis. Anna Scranton, Pa.

Grau, Cha.s. C Crone, L. I.. N. Y.

Gerbig. Carl W Archibald. Pa.

Gates. Harry H Mt. Morris. N. Y.

Hodgson, Thomas C I'eckville, Pa.

Hughes, T. W Mos5cow, Pa.

Howe, Wm Hudson, Pa.

Hillcrest Farms Oakford, Pa.

Hughes, W. H Scranton, Pa.

Heft, E. G Wyoming, Pa.

Harris, L. H Scranton, Pa.

Heil & Weibel Scranton, Pa.

Hazel Poultry Yards Hazleton, Pa.

Hagen, W. H Scranton, Pa.

Hagen & Welsch Scranton, Pa.

Jones, Henry J Carbondale, Pa.

Jones. Wm. J Pleasant Mt., Pa.

Jones, Wm Old Forge, Pa.

Jones, Alf Taylor, Pa.

Keith, W , Brooklynville. Md.

Kummer, Wm Scranton, Pa.

Kinnane, E Pittston. Pa.

Kime & Williams Scranton, Pa.

Keller, Claude E Larksville, Pa.

Lof tus, E. J Scranton, Pa.

Lawrence, A. D New Albany, Pa.

Llewellyn, D. J Scranton, Pa.

McWade. F. M Moscow, Pa.

McDonnell, John Scranton, Pa.

Megargee, F. O. & Co Scranton, Pa.

Meredith, Reese Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

May, Wm Plymouth, Pa.

Morse. E. D Scranton. Pa.

Morris, Clarence Scranton. Pa

Miller. H. B Clark's Summit, Pa.

Miner & Faun Scranton, Pa.

Meter. E. B. S Cellarville, Pa.

Munn, Arthur W Scranton, Pa.

Overhill Farm Pittston. Pa.

Oyster. Edward Strawberry Ridge, Pa.

Osterhout. B. M Scranton. Pa.

Philbin. .las. P Scranton. Pa.

Proctor. Harry Carbondale. Pa.

Powell & Sons, J. B Taylor, Pa.

Pearson, Abraham Scranton. Pa

Payne, Donald & Robt .. Clark's Summit, Pa.

Payne, O. W Scranton. Pa.

Powell. Bennie Avoca. Pa.

Porter. C. Harold Brockton. Mass

Pier, Wm. F Avoca. Pa.

Pier, W. B. and wife Elmhurst. Pa.

Partington, Peter Taylor, Pa

Pendred. Geo lermvn. Pa

Phillips. J. T Jermyn. Pa.

Rippon, C. W Olyphant. Pa.

Roy, J. A Netcong, N. Y.

Rogers, W. J Dickson City. Pa.

Relder. R. D Middletown. Pa.

Rhoades. H. A, and wife.. .Wilkes-Barre. Pa.

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REDS

Rose, J. A Scranton, Pa.

Ree.se, J. B Peckville, Pa.

Reed & S(m, N. E Scranton, Pa.

Rodham, Thos. B Scranton, Pa.

Ricker, E. C Scranton, Pa.

Shire.s, Elsie G La Plume. Pa.

Speece, C. J Scranton, Pa.

Schwenker, Carl F Red Bank, N. J.

Sitterly, A. T Schenectady, N. Y.

Swartz., Mrs. and Sons Lake Ariel, Pa

Snaieth & Von Bergen Scranton, Pa.

Snvder. J. H Burns, N. Y.

Stephens, Joseph White Mills, Pa.

Seidel, Wm. D Washingtonville, Pa.

Sophia, W. S New Milford, Pa.

Smith. J. J. & Son Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Spare, John E Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Shamrock, Joseph Scranton, Pa.

Snaith. Wm.. Jr Scranton, Pa.

Scheible, Jr.. Mrs. J. W Duryea, Pa.

Stephens, John T Peckville. Pa.

Savage, C. P Dunmore. Pa.

Stoeckel Bros Scranton. Pa.

Schwenk. Robt. E Scranton, Pa.

Sprandle. Chas. J Scranton. Pa.

Seamans. Earl Factoryville. Pa.

Schroeder, Philip G Scranton. Pa.

Snyder, Dr. M. D Dunmore. Pa.

Samuels. R. & N Nanticoke, Pa-
Tinner, .John Sugar Notch, Pa.

Tyson, Edward Olyphant, Pa.

Tuthill, Marion T Dunmore, Pa.-

Tidd, Howard Taylor, Pa..

Tidd, S. J Taylor, Pa .

Turner, John Old Forge, Pa.

Thurston, J. R Factoryville, Pa.

Teeple, I. E Feindale. Pa.

Tiffany, E. J Brooklvn. Pa.

Tobey & Son, C. E Scranton, Pa.

Teeter, George S Hawley, Pa.

Von Storch, C. H Scranton, Pa.

Vallamont Poultry Yards. .Williamsport, Pa.
Wide Awake Poultry Farm. Lake Ariel. Pa.

Wintermute. Wm. J Moosic. Pa.

Wilson. T. W Moscow, Pa

Wallace, N. A Clark's Summit, Pa.

Wilkinson. H Miff linburg. Pa.

"Wnikins. R. L Afton, N. Y.

Wilkins. C. Alton Afton. N. Y.

Willman. Elmer J .Ashley. Pa.

AVhite. Wm Moosic. Pa.

Watts. R. D Moscow. Pa.

Williams. Enoch and wife Taylor. Pa.

Wheeler. R. E Clark's Summit. Pa.

Watson, W. H Sunburv. Pa.

Widdowfield. W. H Clark's Green. Pa.

Ware, B. B Bridgeton, N. J.

AWARDS AT SCRANTON, PA.

BARRED PLY.MOUTH ROCKS.

Hillcrest Farm: 1, 2. ck; 2, 3. hen; 1. ?,
4. ckl; 1. 3. pul; 1. pen. Cooper and Wife:

3. ck; 4, .'.. hen; 5, ckl; 2. 4. pul. Tiffany:

4, ck. McWade: 1. hen. Speece: 3, ckl.
White: 5, pul. Seamans: 2, pen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Wide Awake Poul. l^'arm ; 2. ck ; L 2.
hen; 1. 2. ckl; 1. 2. pul; 1. pen. Reed &
Son: 1. ck; 3. hen; 2. pen. Keller; 3. ck;
4. hen.

BUFF PLY.'MOUTH ROCKS.
Keller; 1, ck ; 1. hen. Reese; 2. ckl; I„
inil; Hodgon; 2. jnil.

SILVER PENCILED PLY.MOUTH ROCKSv
Hillcrest Farm: 1. ck ; 2, hen; 1. ckl; 2.
pul. Osterhout; 1, 3. hen; 1, 3. pul.

PARTRIDGE PLY.MOUTH ROCKS.
Atkinson: 1. ckl.

COLl .MBL4N PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Swarts i\L- Sons: 1, ck ; 2. 3. hen; 2. ckl;
2, 3. pul. Wilson; 1, hen; 1, pul. Forster:
1. ckl; 4. i)ul.

BLACK PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Brown iSL- Wife; 2. pul.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Tuthill; 4. ck. Loftus; 3. ck; 2. ckl.
Rhoades & Wife; 1, ck ; 3. hen; f.. ckl; 2, 3.
pul. Furman; 2. ck ; 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1.
pul. Burd; .">. hen. Biesecker & Sons; 4.
hen. Blowers; 2. hen: 3, ckl. Wheeler:
4, ckl; 4. pul. Jones; .'>. pul. Davis; 1,
pen.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Griffiths; 1. 2. ck ; 2. hen; 1. ckl; 4, pul.
Clancy: 3, .5. ck ; 1. 3. 4. hen: 2 4. ckl-
1, 2. pul; 1. pen. Wheeler; 4. ck ; 3. ckl'
'.. pul. Widdowfield; 3. pul.

<.OLDEN WYANDOTTES.
Rogers; 1. 2, hen; 2. ckl; 1. 2. pul. May:
1. ckl.

SILVER WY.\NDOTTES.
.Jone.s; 1. hen; 2, 3. ckl; 1. 2, pul. .Spran-
del: 1, ckl.

P.4RTRIIHJE WYANIH)TTES.
Hagen & Welch: 2, ck ; 2. 3. hen; 12 3
ckl: 3. 5. pul. Gates; 3. ck; 1. hen;' 4.'
ckl; 4, pul. Burge.ss: 5. hen. Snyder: 4
hen; 1. 2. pul. Wilkins: .'',. ckl. Bright'
1, pen. '

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.
Smith & Son: 1. ck; 2. ckl; 3. pul. Oya-

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ter: 2, 3. ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, 3, ckl; 1. 2,
pul.

COLUMBIAN WVANDOTTES.

Close: 2, 3, ck ; 1, 2. hen; 3, pul; 1, pen.
Miller: 1. ck; 3. 4, hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1, 2, 4,
pul; 3, pen. Shires: o, ck ; 5, pul; 2, pen.
Brown «SL' Son: 4, ck. Stephens: 4, 5, ckl.
Pier: 4, pen.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Edwards: 2, ck; 3, ckl; 4, pul. Dence &
Son: 1, ck; 2, hen. Rodham: 3, ck; 4, ckl.
Ackerson: 4. ck; 3. 5, hen. Black Dia-
mond Orpinjjton Farm: 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl;
1, 3, 5, pul. Thurston: 4, hen. McDonnell:
5. ckl; 2, pul; 1, pen.

S. C. WHITE OKriNCiTONS.

Wilkins: 1, ik, 1, hen; 3, ckl; 4, 5, pul.
Gerbig: 2, hen; 1, pul. Brown & Son:

3, hen; 3, pul. Roy: 4, ckl. Turner: 2,
ckl; 2, pul. Seidel: 1, ckl. Dence & Son:
5. ckl. Jones: 1, pen.

S. C, BIFF ORPINGTONS.
Fitzpatrick: 1, 2, hen; 3, ckl; 3, pul.
Shamrock: 3, hen. Howe: 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul.
Partington: 1, ckl. Hughes: 4, ckl.
R. C. Bl FF ORPINGTONS.
Shamrock: 1, hen. Hughes: 1, ckl; 1,
pul.

s. c. jiBiLEE orpin<;tons.

Dunn: 1, ck; 2, hen. Atherton: 1, hen;

1, 2, ckl; 1, pul. Partington: 2, pul.

8. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Rose: 2, 3, ck; 1, 4. hen; 3, ckl; 2, 3, 4,
pul. Spare: 5, ck. Teeper: 1, ck. Dix:

4, ck. Rippon: 2, hen. Daris: o, hen; 1,
ckl; 5, pul. Harris: 3, hen; 2, pen. Tidd:

5, ckl; 1, pul. Coburn: 4. ckl. Pier & Wife:

2, ckl. Kumnicr: 1, pen.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Sophia: 1. 2. 3. ck; 2. hen; 4, ckl; 1, 5,
pul; 1, pen. Gelatt: 1, ckl: Phillips: 2, 3,
■ckl; 2. 3, 4, pul.

LKiHT BRAHMAS.
Bell: 1, ck; 1. 4, hen. Over Hill Farm:

2, ck; 2. 3, hen.

BUFF COCHINS.
Watson: 1, hen.

WHITE COCHINS.
"Watson: 1. pul. Schroeder: 1. ck; 1, hen.

PARTRIDCiE COCHINS.
^Vllklnson: 1, 2, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, ckl;
1. pul.

BLACK LANGSHANS.
Snaith Von Bergen: 1, ck; 3. hen; 2, 3,
ckl; 1, pul; 1, pen. Snaith, Jr.: 3. ck; 5,
hen; 2, pul. Bower: 2, ck ; 1, hen. Free-
burn: 5, ck. Payne: 4, ck; 1. ckl. Bel-
monte: 2. hen. Williams & Wife: 4, hen;
5, ckl. Aukuzinas: 4, ckl; 4, pul. Steph-
ens: 3, pul. Collins & Son: '>, pul.
WHITE LANGSHANS.
Belmonte: 1, ck; 2, hen; 2. ckl; 2, pul.
Powell & Sons: 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Lawrence: 2, ck; 1, 2, hen. Kime & Wil-
liams: 1, ck; 4, ckl. Reed & Son: 3, ck;

3, 4, hen; 2, 3. pul; 1, 2. pen. Davies: 5,
hen; 1, 3. ckl; 1, pul. Snyder: 2, ckl; 4,
pul.

R. C. WHITE LE(i HORNS.
Gerbig: 1. ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Jones: 1, hen.

S. C. BROWN LE(; HORNS.
Wintermute: 2, ck. Drumueller: 4, ck.
Heft: 3, ck; 2, hen; 2, pul. Vallamont Poul
Yds.: 1, ck; 2. ckl. McWade: 1, hen. Watts:

4, ckl. Kimo & Williams: 3, ckl. Snyder:
1. ckl; 1, pul; 1. i>en.

R. C. BROWN LECiHORNS.
Bissell: 1, ck. Osterhout: 2, ck. Fowler:
1, ckl.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS,
Buff Leghorn Poul. Farm: 2. ck ; 1, hen;

2. 3, ckl; 1, 3, pul; 1, pen. Watson: 1. ck;

3, hen; 1. ckl; 2, 4, pul. Brown & Wife:
3, ck; 2. hen. Kime & Williams: 5, pul.

S. C. BLACK LEGHORNS.

Brown & Wife: 2, hen. Von Storch : 1,
pen.

ANY OTHER COLOR LE(iHORNS.

All to Bailey.

8. C. GOLDEN DUCKWING LECiHORNS.

All to Dunn.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Elliott: 2, hen; 1, ckl. Pearson: 1; hen.
Jones: 2. ckl.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Pearson: 4, ck. Tobey: 1, 2, 3, ck; 1, 2, 3,
hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1. pul.

8. C. WHITE 3IINORC AS.
All to Beiijaniin

R. C. WHITE MINORCAS.
All to Benjamin.

MOTTLED ANCONAS.
Bower: 1, ckl.

SALMON FAYEROLLE8.
All to Hughes.

HOUDANS.
Canterbury: 2. ck ; 1, pen. Partington:
3. ck. Tiffany: 1, ck; 3, hen; 4, ckl; 1, pul.
Proctor: 2, hen; 4, pul. Ware: 1, hen;
2. ckl; 5, pul. Wilkinson: 1, 3, ckl; 2, 3,
pul.

SILVER (JRAY DORKINGS.
All to Dunlap.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
Budwesky: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2,
pul. Gi-ay: 2, hen; 3, ckl.

CORNISH INDIAN GAMES.
E\ans: 1, ck; 3, hen; 2, ckl; 3, pul. Will-
man: 2, ck ; 2, hen. Bryan: 1, hen; 1, ckl.
Tinner: 1. 2. pul. Reider: 2. pen.
WHITE INDIAN G.\MES.
Pow(>ll & Sons: 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES.
Clarke: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Fair-
bank: 3, ckl; 2, pul. Frost: 2. ckl.
BROWN RED GAMES,
All to Clarke.

RED PYLE STANDARD GAMES.
All to Clarke.

BLACK BREASTED RED PIT GA3IES.
Barton: 2, ck; 3, hen; 1, ckl. Teeter:
1, 3, ck. Wallace: 1, 2, hen. Miner &
Finn: 2, ckl.

CiOLD OR SILVER DUCKWING PIT

G.AMES.

Barton: 1. ck ; 1, ckl. Teeter: 2, 3, ck.

ANY OTHER COLOR PIT GAMES.

Meter: 1. ck: Teeter: 2. 3, ck; 1, 2, hen.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
Megargee & Co.: 2, ck; 2. hen; 1, 3, ckl;
1. 3. pul; 1, pen. Doedge & McNeill: 1,
ck; 1. hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul; 2, pen. Cohen:
4, pul.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Megargee & Co.: 4, ck; 1. 3, 4, hen; 3, 5,
ckl; 3. 5, pul. Smith & Son: 3, ck ; 5, hen.
Doidge «fe McNeill: 1, 2, ck; 2, hen; 1, 2,
ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Samuels: n. ck; 4,
pul.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.
Megargee & Co.: 1, ck; 1, 2. 3, hen; 2, 3,
ckl; 2. 3. pul. Doidge & McNeill: 2, ck; 4,
hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul; 1, pen. Bickel : 4. ck;
.'), hen. Tyson: 3. ck. Tiffany: 5, ck. Hazel
Poul. Yds.: ;"), ckl; 5, pul; 2, pen.

PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Megargee & Co.: 4, ck ; 4. hen; 1, ckl;
1, 2, pul Asiatic Bantam Yds.: 1, ck; 3.
hen; 1, pen. Doidge & McNeil: 2, ck; 2,
hen; 2, ckl. Bickel: 3, ck; 5, hen. Rippon:
1, hen.

CiOLDEN SEBRIGHT B.\NTAMS.
Megargee & Co.: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2, pul.

Bickel: 1. ck ; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul. Bar-
ton: 3, ck. Portei-: 3, hen; 3, pul.

SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.

Tidd: 4. ck ; 2, hen; 1. 2, 3. pul. Bickel:
2, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 4, pul. Sitterly: 1, 3,
ck; 3, 4. r>, hen; 2, 3, ckl; 1, pen. Porter:
5, ckl. Samuels; 4, ckl; 5, pul.

R. C. BLACK BANTAMS.

Porter: 1, ck; 2, pul. May: 3, 5, ck ; 3,
hen; 2, ckl; 1, pul. Tiffany: 4, ck; 1, hen.
Hagen: 2, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 3, pul. Bickel:

' ^^ R. C. WHITE BANTAMS.

All to Porter.

WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.

Samuels: 1, ck; 1, hen. Tiffany: 2, ck;

2, hen.

BOOTED WHITE BANTAMS.
All to Bickel.
BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTA3IS.
Bickel: 1, ck; 1. hen. Samuels: 2, hen;
1. ckl.
WHITE BEARDED POLISH BANTAMS.
All to Bickel.

WHITE SILKIE BANTA3IS.
All to Bick.-l.

BIRCHEN BANTAMS.
All to Brown.

LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAMS.
Asiatic Bantam Yds.: 3, ck; 3, hen; 2,
ckl; 4, pul. Geisshardt: 1, ck ; 1, pul. Bick-
el: 2, ck; 2, hen. Schwenk: 1, 4, 5, hen;

1, ckl; 2. 3, pul.

DARK BRAHMA BANT.VMS.
A.siatic Bantam Yds.: 1, ck; 4, hen; 1,
ckl; 1, pul. Bickel: 2, ck; 5, hen. Stoeckel
Bros.: 3. ck ; 1, 2, 3. hen.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BAN-
TAMS.
Dunn: 1. ck; 1, hen; 4, pul. Fairbank:

3. ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul. Ricker: 2, ck;
3, hen; 2, ckl; 1, pul; 1, pen. Brown &.
Son: 4. hen. Wm. Brown: 3, pul. Schwen-
ker: 2, pen.

BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS.
Wm. Brown: 1, ck ; 1, 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1,
Di'.I.

RED PYLE (iA.ME BANTAMS.
Heil cSt Weibel: 2, ck; 2, hen; 5.
ckl; 2 pul. Schwenker: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl;
3, pul. Brown & Son: 3. hen; 4, ckl. Ren-
dered: 3, ckl; 4, pul. Fairbank: 1, ckl; 1,
pul.

<iOLDEN DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
Ricker: 1. ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Brown: 2, ckl.
SILVER I>UCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
Ricker: 1, ck; 1. hen; 1, 3, pul. Dunn:

2. ckl; 2. pul. Wm. Brown: 1. ckl.

OLD ENGLISH SPANGLED (JAME BAN-
TAMS.
Morris: 2. ck; 2, hen. Dunn: 1, ck; 1,
hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.

CORNISH INDIAN GAME BANTAMS.
Bickel: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul.
Doidge «& McNeil: 2. 3. hen; 2. ckl; 1, pul.
BRONZE TURKEYS.
Schiebel: 3, ck ; 2, hen; 2, pul. Easterle:
2, ck. Tiffany: 1, ck; 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.
WHITE TURKEYS.
All to Easterle.

WHITE PEKIN DUCKS.
Tiffany: 1. ck; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul.
K<^ller: 2. ckl; 1. pul.

TOULOUSE GEESE.

All to 1 iffanv.

BARRED ROCKS,

RHODE ISLAND REDS, Both Combs

BUFF TURKEYS,

We have a fine lot of cockerels and pullets to offer our customers at prices ranging
from $1.50 to $25.00 each. Before placing your order write us describing what you
want and receive our catalog, which will be sent without charge. We guarantee every-
thing as represented and all orders are shipped subject to approval. Our pens will
be mated up early in December. Our new incubator house with twenty large
machines will be ready for use in a few weeks. When you get ready for eggs or
day-old chicks from first class stock, write us. Addre.ss,

WfllJAM OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM,

BOX P, MORRIS, ILLINOIS

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POULTRY FANCIER

Awards at Minneapolis, Minn.

EXHIBITORS AT MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.

inn'"' ^""'V. • • V; Marshall. Minn.

Andenson. Dr. F. E Red Wing. Minn.

Anderson, M. A. 3204 22nd Ave. S

.'\ • ; Minneapolis. Minn.

Andenson. Wm. E. Rock Creek, Rush City
Anderson, Wm. E . '

.,••/• ;„V ^^^^ Creek. Rush" City,' Minn.

Au.stinson. Theo Tyler Minn

§o L''"''A '^t.T- ^^; Hutchinson! Minn!

S^ff ".V^^f ^'- ^ Preston. Minn.

Bean. W. M Anoka. Minn.

Behrman. Wm Norwood. Minn.

Benjamin, H. H Hutchinson. Minn

Ben.son, M. O. ...Blooming Prairie. Minn!

Blenc(>e Dr. Guy Alma Center, Wis

Boll. Edw

•1632 Grand St. N. E., MinneapolVs.Minn
Bond, Dr. Thos. P

.. 212 Flynn Bldg., Des Moines." " Iowa.

-Buckanana, G. E Montevideo, Minn

Burrill. W. T

ISS Arthur Ave. S. E., Minneapolis.' 'Minn.
Buskovich Bros

-D ; • V; • • • --^ledford. Clinton' 'Falls,' 'Minn.

Bryant. C. M sauk Center. Minn.

±jyi-ne. C. A

^ 4648 Blaisdell. Minneapolis, "Minn.

<:avanaug:h, T. J Hutchin.son. Minn.

Cedardale Poul. Farm Owatonna, Minn

•Cedarstrom, J. A Winthrop. Minn'

•Clay. Mrs. F^ M. . . . .R. 4. Winnebago, Minn.

Cox. Harry G. St. Charles, Minn.

Crowley, Ja.s. C

..3052 15th Ave. So., Minneapolis," "Minn

-Crowley. Jno. A Crookston. Minn.

Darr. R C. Lakefleld. Minn.

Davis. Chas Porter. Minn.

^^,',J^' "\^old Sleepy Eye. Minn.

S ?U^V, '^''^- ^ Amboy. Minn.

Doliff Roger P Redwood Falls. Minn.

Dymoke, H

..4932 31st Ave. So., Minneapolis. "Minn

Sn- '!l"^?' '^- -^ Rushrnore. Minn.

^ w ' o J Moorhead, Iowa

Ellison & Son. Mrs. M. E

^ • •.• • • • • St. Anthony Park.' Minn.

Endion Farm

....... .506 Pallades Bldg., Duiuth. "Minn.

Fertig. S. E.. 467 Fuller Ave.. St. Paul. Minn

Flesland, M. O New London. Minn.

Gladys Poul. Yards ....Stevens Point Wis

•Goebel. Mary R. i. Rush Cltv. Minn

Graham. Dr. C Rochester. Minn.

praham & Son. J. R. Roberts. Wis

Hales. Jas. A

TT ■ ■ •.;: ^^^•'' Baldwin St., St. Paul," "Minn.

Hamilton, B. L

..3451 Fremont No.. Minneapoli.s Minn

Hanna. Geo. A Stockton. Minn.

Martin, Mrs. Geo. F

... 3S59 6th" St. N.. MinneapoHs.' "Minn.

Haskm.s & Son, A Jesup, Iowa.

Hausman Poul. Farm Hillsboro N D

Haynes, R. C '...;.

•'^248 Grand Ave., Minneapolis, Minn

Hebbel. Henry Windom. Minn.

Hennlng. H. A

...246 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. Minn.

Henry, Earl Albert Lea, Minn.

Hermanson, H

3115 E. 51st St.. Minneapolis. Minn.

Hess. Henry Winona. Minn

Heynen. Archllle

4205 Aldrlch So., Minneapolis, Minn.

Hill. W. W

,,. 146 W. 4Sth St.. Mlnnea'poris." 'Minn.

Hlntermister. J. H

TT \' ■ ■; ■ •^' •; Highwood, St. Paul, Minn.

Hobart. Paul Dickey. N. D.

Holloway. Mrs. E

. .1893 Waltham Av.. Merrlam Park, Minn

Hoodecheck. Frank Hutchinson. Minn.

Houghton, Geo. N

. .520 University S. E., MinneapoHs." "Minn".
Hove. Peter Stanhope, Iowa.

YJ'u^' ^l^^^'' L«-ke City. Minn.

Jackson. S. E

^ 2800 Como S. E., Minneapolis. 'Minn

Jenness. Robt. B Windom Minn!

Johnson. Chas. O

T :-^-^l Colfax Ave. N., Minneapolis," "Minn.

Johnson, Donald

^ • -357 Carter Ave., St. Paul. Minn

Johnson F W '. . . Luther fowS:

Kapphahn. Chas. J Alexandria. Minn

K^t^n.^S;:' I- .^:.;;«P:'ng valley.- Minn.'

Kln'g's'i;y;^Geo^* .^.^.'!*^.^*- ^*""^aPO»i«- Minn.

r^ir.W • ^^r^^-^ ^^^ ^^'- ^■' Mi'nneapol'is." "Minn,
■ivipp, \v . ti

^,/ • : Bradley St. Sta.. St. "pavil "Minn

KIrchers, Jr.. J. E . .

^ J • • ; • • -822 Hood St., La Crosse", " Wis.

Knapp, M. V Aurora. Iowa.

^"fPP- <-^?- • • Winona, Minn.

Kollman. J W Mankato. Minn.

Kroening. Miss M R.7. Stillwater. Minn.

Kruse. John

T' u, ^"L ^"ssell N., Minneapolis. 'Minn.

Kuhlmann Sisters Winona. Minn.

Ladysmith Poul. Co Lady.smith, Wis.

Law. Mrs. J. W.

..... .3515 Fremont N., Minneapolis! Minn

Ligday. Jas. G Winona, Minn."

Lockhart, J. L _

.^4434 Blalsdale Ave., MinneaipolLs. "Minn

^■- --^t^^ Harriett. Minneapolis, Minn.

McCrea, E. E. Alexandria. Minn.

McCrea. Geo. M

..... 4026 Park Boul., MInne"a'p"o"lls.' 'Minn.
Mclntyre. H. J

.^ 617 University Ave., St. Paul. Minn.

McKesson. J. H.

A^ W,;?^"^.."^''^^^" ^*- Mlnneapol'i's." "Minn.
McMillan, G. & D

-■ 2116 Bryant S.. Minneapolis. Minn.

McPherson^ J. s. Stillwater. Minn.

Madison. Geo. C

...167 Bedford E. E., Minneapolis. "Minn
Martin, Wm. A

3S01 5th Ave. S.. Minneapolis. Minn

Mathew.s Maude I Larimore. N. D.

Michener. Harvey L

3801 5th Ave. S'., Minneapolis, Minn.

Milne Bros. Brandon, Man.. Can.

Nelson. A. D Windom. Minn.

Nekon Poul. Co Montlcello. Minn.

New. Arthur

2109 Broyant N., Minneapolis, Minn.

BENDER'S

COLUMBIAN
WYANDOTTES

BRED TO WIN AND LAY. STOCK AND
EGGS FOR SALE. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH

Address A. M. BENDER, 1231 WALTON A^'E., FT. WAYNE. IND.

.WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCKS

Allen Tucker's
WHITE ROCKS
again made good
this season by winning every Bine competed for;
also silver cup winners. Three grand pens com-
posed of these prize winners mated for this season's
egg trade. A limited number of choice cockerels and pullets tor sale
at reasonable prices.
ALLEN TUCKER - - MINERAL POINT, WIS.

THK I»fOT>Kf. FORTABI.K HKNNKKV

The Model Portable Hennery ^-^^'^^

thluKforttie city man, the breeder and for
keeping fowls on the colony plan, a complete
henhouse. Kcononiy Trap-Nest. Blmplest
and most ecouomlcal on the market, nev»'r
will j<et out of order and always work, made
both la wood and metal. Model KroocI
CoopH. Made of Kalvanlzed Iron, collapsaMe.
mite and vermin proof, easily cleaned, hy
drawing two hooks bottom drops out. Mod-
el Setting: CoopH. Made of galvanized iron
Just what you want when the hatching season
comes on again, you can also use It as a brood
coop. Write at once, catalogue free, mention
you saw my ad In Poultry Fancier. NieiiiRiin
llros. M fir. Co.. Hox;J77.Mt.OHv«-, II

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Page 39 U-5-

Ortman, A. A

^ 1^23 Oliver N., Minneapolis. Minn.

O.smundson. Jno Nearstrand, Minn.

Patch Frank B Rochester, Minn.

Pletsch W H Lake City. Minn.

Snii^W^A ^- X. Winona. Minn.

RetslofC. A. H Wabasha, Minn.

Roberts. E. G Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Rogers H. E. ..929 Miss St., LaCrosse, Wis.

« "/ V Vxr^- A ^ebb, Iowa.

Schutz, Wm A Mapleton. Minn.

Shamp, H. B

. .1!>14 Jackson N. E.. Minneapolis.' Minn.

i"ke.'J.'^^ ^:. . : : : : : v.: : : : : : ;^":':'!'°"'. .""'""•

..1710 Jeffer.son N. E., Minneapolis.' Minn.
Solomonson. A. J

3127 Morgan Ave. N.. ' Minneapolis." Minn.
Stellwagen. M. F

e. ■ iV ; • ;x^^^ Logan N., Minneapolik.' 'Minn.

^tolte. I.. H Waterloo, Iowa.

feuecess Poul. Yds Chatfield. Minn.

Swaggart. Wm. M Wayzata. Minn.

1^'^*^"^>'' ^i:- C. A Owatonna. Minn.

p^^jmes. c. ii. Blooming Prairie. Minn.

Thimsen F. P. . .Blooming Prairie, Minn.

Vansant!"R "W.""-. . ^ ; ; '. " " ^'^^'^-'-^''^^^' Minn.

Wailerius.''j*^F'^ ^.^''.'''^: .^.'.""l^^^^^"^' '^'^""•

1203 Main St. N. E.. Minneapolik.* "Minn.
\\ aters. A. E

ix'i.;v:' ■ ■; • "^^^ ^^^ ^^•' Minneapolis, Minn.

W estby. A. C Porter Minn

White. J ] [ .... *^'""-

... . . . 252 E. Howard St., 'wi'nona," Minn.

wiVpf ""o* ^^""^ Ashland, Wis.

u olfe, Oscar

..2347 Upton St. No., Mi"n'n'eapolis,"Minn.
Young, B. A

3425 Aldrlch St.. Minneapolis. 'Minn.

A^I'ARDS AT MINNEAPOLIS, 3nNN.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Johnson: 1, ck. Osmundson: 2. ckl Goe-
bel: 1 hen. McPherson: 2, ck. Irvine: 3 4

;!:,« kv,"- ^^"i, ^' '^' ^- ^"': 1- pen. display
cup. Shamp: 3, ck ; 4. hen; 1. ckl; 4 pul; 2,
pen. Dyinokf: 3. pul > f , i.,

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Endion Farm: 2. ck. Kendrick: 4, pul

br.T.Ti,^- ""^^'h ^' ^' ^"': - P^"- Lock-'
".^'^t: 2. hen; 3. ck. Hoodecheck: 1. ck; 1 2
ckl; 1. hen; 1. pul; 1. pen display and sil-
ver CUD. Holloway: 3. 4. hen; 4, ckl; 5, pul;
3, pen. ' • *- .

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Bassett: 1. 4. ckl: 2. 3. 4. pul; 1. hen;
1 uen. Ellison & Son: 1. ck; 3. hen; 3,
Ckl. 3, pen. Bean: 4. hen. Success Poul.
>ds.: 4. ck; 5, ckl; 2. hen; 1. pul; 2. pen;
Sweepstakes Rock class, display and silver
cup. Hove: 3. .5. ck. Elliott: 2 ck- 2 ckl"
;>, pul; 5. pen. ' ' '

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Benjamin: 1. 4, ck : 3, 4. hen; 12 3
ckl; 12. pul; 1. pen. display and' .silver
cup. Wallerius: 5, hen. Cedardale Poul.
Farm: 5. ck; 5. pul; 3. pen. Dr. Bond:

1. 2. hen: 4. pul; 2. pen. Solomonson: 2.
ck. Symes: 3. ck: 4. ckl; 3. pul. White:
5, ckl.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Thimsen: 2. 4 ck ; 4. hen; 2. pul; 2. pen.
Gladys Poul. Yds.: 5. pul. Barrie: 5. ckl.
Hess: 1. 3, ck; 3. hen: 1. 2. 3. ckl- 1 3
pul; 1 pen, display and silver cup. Bean'
:>. ck. Success Poul. Yds.: 4. ck- 1 2 ^
hen; 4, pul; 3, pen ' '

PARTRIDE WYANDOTTES.

Henry: 2, ck ; 2. 3, hen: 1. ckl: 3. 4. 5.
pul; 1. pen. Ehrisman: 2, ckl. Jackson': 5*
ck; 4, 5. ckl. Hoodecheck: 3. ckl; 1 hen-'

2. pul: 2, pen. Crowley: 1. ck; 4 ^ hen-

3. pen. Stellwaggen: 3. 4, ck; 1,' 3.' 4, 5*,

GOLDEN A^TfANDOTTES.
Osmundson: 1. 2. ck : 2. ckl; 2. hen; 2 3

4. pul; 1, pen. Jackson: 3. ck : 3 4 .=5 o'kl'
^>. pul: 2. pen. Solke: 5. ck; 1. 's. ' 4, s'
hen. Knopp: 4. ck; 1, ckl; 1. pul.

SILVER WYANDOTTES

Dethloff: 3. 4. ck; 2. 3. 5. ckl; 1. 4, hen;
1. 2. 5. pul; 1. pen, Sweepstakes Wvandotte
elass, di.splay and silver cup. Swaggart •
1. 4. ckl: 2. ck: 2. hen; 3. pul; 3. pen. Mc'
Andrews: 1. 5. ck; 3, 5. hen: 4. pul; 2 pen
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

I^adysmith Poul. Co.: 4. ck; 5. ckl; 1, 3,
-1. hen: 5. pul : 3. pen. Kersten: 2. hen
Success Poul. Yds.: 3, ck; 2. 3, ckl; 5,'
hen; 2. pul; 2. pen. Cavanaugh : 1, ckl;
1. 3. 4, pul; 1. pen. Fertig: 4, ckl.
8. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Nelson: 4. ckl; 2. 4. pul; 2. pen. Mathews:
1. hen. Kruse: 2. ck; 4. hen; 3. 5. pul. Gra-
ham: 1. ck; 1. 2. 3. .5. ckl; 2. 3. .^, hen;
1. i)ul; 1, 3. pen. Sweepstakes English class;
Display and silver cup.

R. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Young: 2. ckl; 2. hen; 2. 4 T^ pul.
Symes. 3. ck; 1, ckl; 1, 3, hen; 1. 3, pul.
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Schultz: 4. ckl. Anderson: 2, 3. 4. ck;
1. hen. Graham: 1. ck; 1. 2. ckl; 2. 4. ii.
hen; 1. 3. 4. pul; 12. pen. Hasklns & Son;
3. 5. ckl; 3. hen: 2. r>. pul; 3. ppn.
S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Tubbs: 3. ck; 3. hen. Plet.^ch: 1. ckl.
Retsloflf: 1. 2. hen; .<>. pul; 1, ck; 3. 4. ckl;
1. pen. Blencoe. 4. 5, hen; 8, pul; 3, pen.

POULTRY FANClER-'-^J^^siio^

i^}-,K'irrxu.v^yw.'.,^<^'J-'-.')>%^^'f

POULTRY F.

Graham: 2. ck ; 2. 5. ckl; 1, 2, 4, pul; 2,
pen.

8. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Buskovick Bros.: 1, ckl; 2, ck; 2, hen;
A. P. A. Grand Silver Medal. Haynes: 1,
3. ck: 2, ckl; 1, 3, hen; 2, pul; 1, pen.
Haskins & Son: 3. 5. ckl; 3, 5, pul; 2, pen.
Westby: 4. ckl. Fertig: 1, 4, pul.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Hartin: 1, hen; 2, ck. McKesson: 4,
ckl. Flesland: 3, ckl; 4, pul; 3, pen. Bry-
ant: 1, pul. Hebbel: 2, ckl; 5, hen; 5, pul;

2, pen; Special for highest scoring cockerel
in R. C. Red class. Houghton: 2, 3, pul;

1, ckl; 2. 3, hen; 1, 3. ck. Ortamn: 4, 5,
ck ; 4, hen. Fertig: 5. ckl.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.
Kersten: 1, 2, ck; 2, 3, ckl; 1. 2. 3. 4,
hen; 2, 3. pul; 1. pen. Davis: 1, ckl; 1, 4,
pul. New: 4, ckl; 5, pul.

BUFF BRAHMAS.
All to Bean.

BUFF COCHINS.
All to Clay.

BLACK LANGSHANS.
AH to Heynen.

BUFF LANGSHANS.
All to Bean.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
Vansant: 4. ck; 1. 3. 4, 5, ckl; 1. hen;

3, pul; 2. pen. Johnson: 5, pul; 3, pen.
Ball: 3 ck. McCall: 1, ck; 2, ckl; 2, 3, 4, 5,
hen; 1, 2, 4, pul; 1, pen display, and silver
cup. Hobart, 2 ck.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
All to Rogers.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Hinterminster: 1, 4, 5, ck; 2. 3. 5, ckl; 1,

2, 4, 5, hen; 2, 4, 5. pul; 1, 2, pen. Hans-
mann Poultry Farm: 3, hen; f), ckl. Cox: 1;
elk; 1, 3, pul.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Acker: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, 2, pul. Ander-
son: 2. ck: 3. 4. 5. hen; 1. 2. ckl; 3. 4. 5,
pul.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
Jenness: 1, ckl; 3, pul; 1, pen. DolifC:
1, 4. pul. Bean: 1, ck; 2. 3, 4, ckl; 1. 2, 3.
hen; 2, 5, pul; 2, pen. Sweepstakes Leghorn
class.

R. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
All to Bean.

S. C. BLACK LEGHORNS.
All to Rogers.

MOTTLED ANCONAS.
Cedarstrom: 1, ckl; 1. 3. 4, 5, pul; 1, pen.
Rogers: 2, pn).

S. C. BLACK ^nNORCAS.
Hales: 2. ck: 2. 3. 5. hen; 4, ckl; 2. pen.
Martin: 1. ck: 1. 4. hen; 1. 2. 3, ckl; 1. 2, 3,
4, pul: 1, pen.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
All to Waters.

BUFF MINORCAS.
All to Bean,

S. C. WHITE MINORCAS.
All to Hanna.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.

Ligday: 1. ck; 1. hen. 'Willianis: 2. ck;
1. 2. 3, ckl: 1, 2, pul: 4. hon. Roberts: 3.
rk; 2. 3, hen.

SILVER BEARDED POLISH.

Williams: 3. ok; 2, hen; 1. pul. Roberts,

1. 2. ck: I, ;;, hen: 2, pul.

GOLDEN BE.\RDED POLISH.

Williams, 2. ok: 1. ckl; 3. hen; 1. pul.
Roberts, 1, .'?, ck : 1, li. hen; 2. pul.

WHITE BEARDED POLISH.
William: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, pul. Roberts:

2. ck; 3, 4. hen

PLAIN WHITE POLISH.
All to Roberts,

PLAIN SILVER POLISH.
All to Roberts.

PLAIN GOLDEN POLISH.
All to Roberts.

BUFF LACED POLISH.
Roberts: 1, 2, ck; 1. 2. hen: 1, pul. Bean:

3. ck; 3. hen.

HOUDANS.
Rust: 4. ck ; 1. 3. pul: .'>. hen; 3, pen.
Rogers: 3. ck. Wolfe, 1, ck; 1, 2, 4, ckl; 4.
hen; 4, pul; 2. pen. McCrea, 2, 5, ck: 1, 2.
3. hen: 3. .'>. ckl; 2, .">. pul; 1, pen. Sweep-
stakes: Display and silver cup.
All to McAndrews

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
All to Kirchers.

GOLDEN PENCILED HAMBURGS.
All to Roberts.

SILVER PENCILED HAMBURGS.
All to Roberts.

RUMPY GAME BANTAMS.
All to Crowley.

BROWN-RED GAME BANTAMS.
All to Milne Bros.

GOLDEN DUCKWING BANTAMS.
.Ml to Milne Bro.«i.

BLACK AFRICAN BANTAMS.
All to Kingsley.

BLACK BREASTED RED BANTAMS.
MrMillen: 2. rk ; 2. 3. hen. Dymoke: 1.
ck. Milne Bros.: 1, ckl; 1. hen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.
Roberts: 3, 4, .^. hen; 2, ckl; 1, pen.
Kirchera. .Jr.: 3, 4, ck : 1, 3. ckl; 2, 3, 4, 5.
pul; 2. pen. Milne Bros.: 1, 2, ck; 1. 2,
ck; 1, 2, hen; 1. pul.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
Milne Bros.: 1. ckl. Klpp, 2. ckl; 5, pul.

Stole: 4. 5. ckl; 1, 2. pul; 2, pen. Roberts:
1, hen; 3, ckl; 3, 4, pul; 1, pen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Kipp: 1. ckl; 2, 3, pul. Milne Bros.: 1,
ck; 1, 2, hen; 1, pul.

R. C. RHOI>E ISLAND RED BANT.AMS.
All to Roberts.

PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
All to Roberts.
BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.
All to Roberts.

WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.
All to Roberts.

CORNISH FOWLS.
Johnson: 2, ck; 2. 3. ckl; 1. 2. 4. hen; 1,
pul; 1, pen. Hales: 1. 4, ckl; 2, 3, pul.
Kellman: 1. ck; 3. 5, hen; 2, pen.

BRONZE TURKEYS.

All to Kapphahn.

BUFF INDIANS.
All to Bean.

BUFF SILKIES.
All to Bean.

R. C. BUFF WONDERS.
All to Bean.

WHITE PEKIN DUCKS.
All to Milne.

BLACK CAYUGA DUCKS.
All to Kingsley.

.VFRICAN GEESE.
All to Behrman.

BUFF GEESE.
All to Bean.

Awards at Remington, Ind.

EXHIBITORS AT REMINGTON, IND. WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Barnes, C. E Idaville, Ind. Peck: 1, ck ; 1, 2, 3, 4, hen; 1. pu).

Bartee, Mrs. Geo Remington, Ind. Phelps: 1, 2, pul. Mayhew: 1, 2, 3, 4, ckl;

Bickel, Mrs. D. A Remington, Ind. 3, 4, pul.

Brenner, B. L Rensselaer, Ind. BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Broadie, Max Remington, Ind. Broadie: 2, ck; 1, 3, ckl; 1, hen; 1. 2. 3,

Cowgill, A, B Remington, Ind. 4. pul; 1, pen. Gilbert: 2, ckl; 2, pen.

Fell. Chas. J Remington, Ind. Mullen: 4, ckl.

Geier W^ R. Remington, Ind. PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

Gilbert. Lowell Rem ngton, Ind. Barnes: 2, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1. 2. pul; ?,

Hackley, Robt. . . .\ Remmgton, Ind. ,,^

Hogeland, Jim Remington, Ind. j^ f, WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Lambert, H. A Remmgton, Ind. ^,, ,,, j.ambert.

Lehe, Peter Remington, Ind.

Lock, A. V Remington. Ind. S. <"'• RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Mayhew, Arthur Rensselaer, Ind. -^H to Cowgill.

Mullen, Sam Remington, Ind. R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Peck, Geo Remington, Ind. Peck: 1, ckl; 4, pul. Shand : 3. ckl; 1,

Peck, J. I Remington, Ind. 2, 3, pul. Bartel: 3, ckl; 2, pen.

Peck, W. E Remington, Ind. LIGHT BRAHMAS.

Phelps, Henry Remington, Ind. Hogeland: 1, ck; 1, hen.

Reed, T. E Remington, Ind. S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Shand, Frank Remington, Ind. All to Lehe.

.Shuster, Burt Remington. Ind. S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Stokes & Son, M. O Remington, Ind. All to Fell.

Tyler, Simeon Remington, Ind. WHITE BANTAMS.

All to Phelps.

AWARDS AT REMINGTON, IND. LEGHORN BANTAMS.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. All to I»eck

Bickel: 2. ck ; 2. 3, 4, ckl: 1. 2. 3, 4, BRONZE TURKEYS.

pul; 1, hen; 2, pen. Tyler: 2, hen. All to Hackley.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. PEKIN DUCKS

All to Geier. All to Reed.

BUFF PLYTWOUTH ROCKS. GREY CALL DUCKS.

Stokes & Son: 4. ck ; 1, ckl; 1. 2. hen; All to Shuster.

2. 3. pul; 1, pen. Brenner: 1. 3, ck; 2, 3, TOULOUSE GEESE.

ckl; 3, hen; 1, 4, pul; 2, pen. All to Hacklev.

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WHITE ROCKS GRAVES STRAIN fall winnings

1st Pen. 1st Hen. 1st Cockerel, also special for best cockerel in show. 1st, tid, 3<1
Pullets, also special for best Pullet in show. Eggs $1.00, $2.a) and J3. 00 per 15.

T. A. CONNERY,

VINELAND, N. J.

S. C 17. /. REOS '^^^s ^"o o^^

OLD CHICKS

If you
..,,,. -——want

etfgs or chicks from birds that lay eggs the vear round, I have them. They are RED too Write
for free mating list. "--■*

■BUSIHESS BIRDS OF QUALITYz

Ton Notch Poultry Farm, R. P. GugMtUI, Profit, Elcho, Wis,

60 Years *^ IIT-^ I. K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.
Every PATRON has been satisfied with the stock for the money paid.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT, when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

v^riN AND bre:e:d on

m the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons* winnings to their advantage.

From Sept. 1 to May 15. Brahmas $3.50 to $10 for females; $5 to $20
for males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $15 for males. Eggs from all, $4 for 15, $7 for 30 $9
for 45, and $ 1 5 for 1 05 eggs. From May I 5 to Sept. 1 , all yearlings before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars address

I. K. FELCH & SON. Box I ?6. NATICK. MASS.

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Awards al Danville, Ind.

T^.Ji^^V^F^^^ ^^ I)ANV1I.LE. IND. BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Ror^i?.V.. H u ■^- ^^anville. ina. Cooper: 1. pen; 1, ck; 3. pul. Wynant: 1.

.Bario\v, 11 11 Brownsburg, Ind. hen. Talbert: 2, 4, hen; 2. ck Dooley: 1, 2,

«arlo\v, H. M BrownsburK, Ind. ckl; 1, 4, pul. Ragan: 4, ckl; 2, pul. Smiley:

Brown, I.. H Danville, Ind 3. hen.

Bunten, Elbert Danville, Ind. GOLDEN Wi'.4NDOTTES.

Burnsides, J. J Judson, Ind Ensminger & Rudd: 1, 2, hen. Smiley: 1.

Carter, Benj Danville. Ind ^'^'> !> 2, pul.

Cassety, A. D n. .Salem. Ind! SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

Collins, Joe C Hainbridge. Ind. Hadley: 1, 2. pen; 1, ckl; 2, ck; 1. 2. pul;

Cooper, H. W Danville, Ind. 1. 4, hen. Masten: 1, ck ; 3, 4. ckl; 4. pul.

Cornwell. Geo. W Carbon, Ind Barlow: 3, hen. Ensminger & Rudd: 2,

Cox, Howard Danville, Ind. hen; 3, ck. Smiley: 2, ckl; 3, pul.

Crane, Mary' Danville, Ind. PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

Davis. C. D. .^ Bridgeport, Ind. Miars: 3. pul; 3, 4, hen. Ensminger &

Davis, E. van B Danville, Ind. Rudd: 1, ck. Smiley: 1, hen; 2, ck. New-
Davis, O. D Bridgeport, Ind. man: 1, ckl; 1, 2, pul.

SJf.^frT^a^''^- ^ ^ Danville, Ind. SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.

S,^2^;^? Danville. Ind. Barlow: 1, hen. Smiley: 1 ckl; 1. pul.

Dye Bros. •••^•••- Danville, Ind. BLACK WYANDOTTES.

Ensminger & Rudd Danville, Ind. Smiley: 1 hen

Ferree, Earl Danville. Ind. S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Gentry, M. O. Danville. Ind. Barlow: 2, pen; 3. hen; 3 ckl. Burn-

Hadley. H. K Danville. Ind. sides: 2, ckl. Porter: 4, pul; 1, hen. Gar-

Hadley, Wilbur Danville. Ind. tf^r: 1, ckl; 1. 2. 3. pul; 1. pen.

Hammock, Tilfred Danville, Ind. S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Harlan, Albert Amo Ind Burnsides: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen.

Harshbarger, Mrs. Wm Shaveland', Ind.' R- C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Hays. Earl Danville Ind Smiley: 1, ck.

Hubble. Mrs Nora Danville Ind BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Jones, D. R Danville' Ind Burnsides: 1. ck.

Jones. M. E Danville' Ind ^ »A ^'- RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Kurtz, Oscar Danville, Ind! , ^^^^v^T i 1,/^'' ^' ^' P"^' ^'^^'"^^'^Jl •

MaSTBr'^r ^^ ^' ^IT.V'^' I"^" " »•' C. MODE ISLAND REDS.

Masten Cvrus A^^o'In^' Hubble: 1, pen. Stanley: 2. ckl; 3. 4.

M?rrft ■ Oliver J^.r.^i^2' J"t P"'" Wicker: 1, 2, pul. Baker: 1, ckl.

Merritt, uii\ei Danville, Ind. LIGHT BRAHMAS

^ull^' F%^^^ ^^i'^PF'^ri' J"'i- Barlow: 1, ckl; 1, pul. Temi)lin : 2, pen.

JJ 1 t' ,,• ?V •;•• Plalnfleld, Ind. McCoun : 1, pen; 1, ck; 1, ckl; 2, hen; 2. 4,

Mitchell. Martin Danville. Ind. pul. Burn.sides: 2. ck; 3 ckl; 3, pul.

Montgomery, James Danville, Ind. DARK BRAHMAS.

Neal, Tarner Brownsburg. Ind. All to Smiley

Newman, J. A Danville, Ind. BUFF COCHINS,

NIckerson. John Danville, Ind. Davis: 2. 3, 4, hen; 2, ckl; 2, 3, pul.

Porter, I>ela Danville. Ind. Burnsides: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1. pul; 1, hen.

Ragan. Chas Danville. Ind. PARTRIDGE COCHINS.

Ross, A. A Danville, Ind ^'^ to Smiley.

Ruston. Walter E t^layton, Ind BLACK COCHINS.

Sheets, H. F N. .Salem Ind ^^^ ^^ Burnsides.

Smiley. Chas; Judson. iSS; .„. « .WHITE COCHINS.

Soper, Fred B Danville, Ind. ^" *^ nJ^'lV-K- t Ai^^«mx*^«

Stanley. Erwin Mooresville Ind. i, . BLAC K LANGSHANS.

Stanley, Jno. W Mooresville InS pk?."";'^"i,. '•'. ^he^ 4 ^nP^rf"" SnnPr'^^= Ln-'

rpniKr^..* o c! 13 x. T j cKi, z, CK, 2, Men, 4, pcn. Soper: 1, pen;

?pmnin wm Brownsburg, Ind. j, 4, „en; 4. ckl; 4, put. Burnsides: 4. ck

?b?.^ V.^H ^^"^'^ ^> "^- WHITE LANGSHANS.

Tharp, Jacob Danville. Ind. \ii to Smiley

Wi<-l<er. Simon Amo, Ind. ' g. c. BUFF LEGHORNS.

Wright, Mrs. Ida J. Balnbridge, Ind. Miles: 1. ckl; 1, hen; 1, pul. Burnsides:

Wynant, Chas Danville. Ind. ]. ck ; 2. ckl; 2. hen.

AWARDS AT DANVILLE, IND. ^11 to^Smile?"^^^ LEGHORNS.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Cox: 3, 4. hen. Neal: 1, 2, 4. pen; 2, ckl; 1, Burnsldos: 1. ckl; 3, pen. Barlow: 2,

2, pul; 2, hen. Davis: 1, ckl; 1. hen. Har- pen; 1, 2. ck ; 4. ckl. Jones: 3, ck; 2, 3,

Ian: 3, 4. ckl; 1. 3. ck. Barlow: 4. pul. ckl; 1, 2, :!. hon; 1. 2, 4, pul; 1, pen. Cooper:

Centry: 3, pen. Collins: 2. ck ; 3, pul. 3. pul.

NIckersfm: 4. ck R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. All to Smiley.

Cassety: 1. ckl; 1, 2, pul; 3, pen. Wright: S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.

2, hen; 3. pul. Mitchell: 1, pen. Barlow: Ragan: 2, ck ; 1. 2. ckl; 1, 3, hen; 1,

1, ck; 1. hen; 2, pen. Thorp: 2, ckl; 4, pen. Smiley: 1. ck; 2. hen.

pul. MOTTLED ANCONAS.

BUFF PLl^MOUTH ROCKS. All to Burnsides.

Jones: 1. ck ; 1.2. pul; 1. 3. hen; 3, ckl. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Kurtz: 1. 2, 4. ckl; 2. hen; 3, 4. pul. Mont- All to Smiley,

gomery: 1. pen. Smiley: 2. ck : 4. hen. WHITE MINORCAS.

PARTRIIXiE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. All to Burnsides.

Hadley: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 2, ckl; 2. pul. BLUE ANDALUSLVNS.

Stanley; 1. 3. ckl; 1. 3. pul. All to Smiley.

WHITE WY.\NDOTTES. BLACK J.\V.\S.

Sheets: 3, 4. hen; 3. ck; 3. ckl. Ham- All to Burnsides

mock: 1, 2. pul; 1. 3. ckl; 1, pen. Ensminger AMERICAN DOMINKJUES.

& Rudd: 2, ck; 2. hen. Barlow: 4. pul. All to Smiley.

Bunten: 2. pen; 3. pul; 4. ck ; 4, ckl. Burn- WHITE FACED BL.YCK SPANISH.

sides: 1, ck; 1, hen. All to Burnsides.

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WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.

Miles: 1, pul; 2, ckl. Itoss: 1, pen. Burn-
sides: 1, ckl; 1. hen; 2, pul.

GOLDEN POLISH.

Burnsides: 1, ck; 1, hen. Miles: 1, pul.

SILVER BEARDED POLISH.

Burnsides: 1, hen. Dickerson: 1, pen.
Barlow: 1, ck; 1. hen. Smiley: 1. 2, ckl;
1, pul; 2, hen.

HOUDANS.

Miles: 1, pul. Burnsides: 1, ck; 1, 2,
hen.

PIT GAMES.

Ragan: 1, ckl; 1. ck; 1, 2, hen. Smiley:
1, pul; 3, hen.

WHITE GAMES.

Burnsides: 2, hen.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES.

All to Smiley.

RED PYLE GA.MES.

Barlow: 1, ckl; 1, hen. Smiley: 1, ck.

CORNISH INDIAN GA3IE8.
Barlow: 2, pul; 2, ckl. Smiley: 1, pul;

1. hen; 1, ckl.

WHITE FRIZZLES.

All to Smiley.

BLACK FRIZZLES.

All to Burnsides.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

Ensminger & Rudd: 3, ck; 2, ckl; 2, hen;

2, 4, pul. Burnsides: 3, ckl. Gentry: 1,
ckl: 2, ck; 1. 3. hen. Smiley: 1, ck; 1, hen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Barlow: 2, ck; 1. hen; 1. ckl. Smiley:

1. ck; 2. hen.

R. C. WHITE BANTAMS.
All to Crane.

GOLDEN DUCKWING BANTAMS.
All to Smiley.

SILVER DUCKWING BANTAMS.
All to Smilev.

BROWN RED BANTAMS.
Smiley: 1, hen

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
Barlow: 1, pul; 2, hen. Smiley: 1, ck;

2, pul: 1, hen.

SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
Barlow: 1. ckl; 1, pul. Smiley: 1, hen.

RED PYLE GAME BANTAMS.
Barlow: 1. ckl; 3, hen. Smiley: 1, hen;

2 CK

BL.4CK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.

Barlow: 1, ckl

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Smiley.

BRONZE TURKEY.

All to Mahan Bros.

NARAGANSETT TURKEYS.

All to Gentry.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

Davis: 1, ck; 3. ckl; 1, 2. hen; 2, 4, pul.
Wright: 1, 3, pul; 1. 2, ckl.

WHITE EMBDEN GEESE.
Jones: 1, old; 2, young pair. Wright: 2,
old pair. Barlow: 1, young; 4, old pair.
Smiley: 3, old pair.

CANADIAN GEESE.
All to Brown.

WHITE CHINESE GEESE.
Barlow: 1, 2, young pair. Smiley: 1, old
pair.

AFRICAN GEESE.
All to Smiley.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Ross: 1, 2, 4, old pair; 1, young pair.
Barlow: 4, young; 4, old pair. Harshbarger:
2 3, young pair.

WHITE CALL DUCKS.
Allto Burnsides.

ROUEN DUCKS.
All to Barlow.

AYLESBURY DUCKS.
All to Smiley.

PEKIN DUCKS.
Hays: 4. young pair. Burnsides: 1, old;
2, young nair. Stanley: 1. young; 2, old
pair. Merritt: 3, old pair. Barlow: 3,
young; 4. old pair.

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POULTRY FANCIER

February, '10

Awards at Ft. Wayne, Ind.

4, pul.
1 2

Boughton: 4,
ck; 1, 3, hen;

KXHIBITORS AT TT. WAYNE, IND.

Baker W C Bluffton, Ind

Belle Poul. Yds., W. H. Didier, Prop

^ • • Ft. Wayne,

Bender, A. M pt. Wayne,

Boughton, W. E Huntington.

Bowser, O. J Ft. Wayne,

Brunner, W. O Ft. Wayne,

U,\ "^-^P Ft. Wayne,

Clark, Oliver Ft. Wayne.

Crise, J. W Greensburg.

^,^f "• \\- Ft. Wayne.

Dillon, i.dgar S Huntington,

Eckhart, H. A Ft Wavne,

Eckhart. H. A Ft Wayne

Ford. Geo Ft. ' Wayne,"

Forest Park Poul. Yds Ft. Wayne

Foster & Johnson Ft

Frash & Son.s

Gable. Geo. F Ft. Wayne,

Heckman. Otto Ft. Wayne,

Hills. L. W Ft. Wayne.

Hoetzer, Otto Ft. Wayne,

Hoover, G. Earl Mathews,

Wayne.
John Huntington,

Jauch. Albert Ft.

Johnson. Will Ft

Klinkle, W. M Ft

Koehlinger, Philip

Koons. George

Kucker, T. J

Lindenberg & Bro.. W. F

Logan. J. H ',

Longfield Poul. Farm....
Mailin, J

Wayne,
Wayne,
Wayne,
.Ft. Wayne.
.Ft. Wayne.
. Ft. Wayne.
. .Ft. Wayne,
• Ft. Wayne.
. . . .Blultton,
Ft. Wayne.

Meising Bros Ft. Wayne,

^^^' '"' '■ Columbia City.

Ohki. Chusuki
Pape. Chas. G. .
Phelps. Chas. A.

Pool, L. R

Powers, A V. . . .
Puddy, Chas. . . .
Reckewegg. Fred.
Roberts, G. A. . .
Rodewald, F. ...
Ryan, Jas. A. . . .

Ft. Wayne.
.Ft. Wayne.
.Ft. Wayne,
. .Ft. Wayne,
. .Ft. Wayne.
. .Ft. Wayne.

Warren,

.Ft. Wayne,
Ft. Wayne,

^^' Reading,

Sage. J

Stoner, Chas. R Peabody

Suter, Albert Roanoke.

Terry. J. John Ft Wayne

Towne «S: Stapleford Ft' Wayne'

Tuttle. Morton Huntington.'

Wiese, Carl G New Haven.

"Wise & Son.s, J. J Ft. Wavne

Witte. F. H.
Wolf, Herbert
Y'eagle, Clyde
Young, H. A.

T.
J.

Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.

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Ind.

Ind.

Ind.
Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

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Ind.

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Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

Ind.

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Ind.
Ind.

Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
IndT

Ind
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Mich.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.

. Hoagland,
.Ft. Wayne.
. .Sturgis, Mich.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.

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4,

3.

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o

AWARDS AT FORT W.WNE, IND.
BARRED PIA'MOITH ROCKS.

Hoover: 1, ck; 1. 2. ckl; 1. 2. hen: 1.

3, pul; 1, pen. Dillon: 3. ckl. WItte:
ckl. Rodewald: 5. ckl.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Sage: 1, ck ; 1. 2. pul. Young: 3. ckl;

4, 5, pul.
BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Carl: 1. ck; 1, 2. ckl; 1. hen; 4, pul.
Johnson: 1. 2, 3. 5 pul

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Bowser: 5. ck; 1. 4. 5. hen. Hoetzer: 1,
; 1. ckl; 5. hen; 4, pul; 1, pen. Ehrmann:
ck: 1, 3. 5. pul. Ohki: 4, ck. Tonne &
Stapleford: 3. ck; 2, ckl; 2, hen; 2. pul
Wie.se: 3. ckl. ^ '

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Yeagle: 1. ck; 1, 2. hen; 1. 2, pul.

f J OLDEN WYANDOTTES.
All to Wiese.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.
Bender: 3. ckl; 1. 2. pul; Koehlinger: 1,
ck; 1. 2. rkl: 1. 2. 3, hen; 3. 4. 5. pul
PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.
All to Roberts.

BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Pool: 2. ck; 2, 3. hen; 1. 2. pul. Terry:

3, 5, ck; 5, pul. Phelps: 5. hen; .-.. pul; 1.
pen. Wi.se & Sons: 4, ck; 1. 2. ckl; 1 4
hen; 3. 4. pnl. MaiHn: 3. ckl.

WHITE ORPINGTONS.
Poole: 3. .^.. ckl; 2, hen; 3. pul. Suter:
1. hen. Brunner: 3, 4, ckl; 1 pul
BLACK ORPIN(iTONS.
Tuttle: 5, pul. Phelps: 3, 4. ck; 2, ckl;
1. 4, 5. hen; 2. pen. Frash & Sons: 3 ft.
ckl; 3. hen; 1, 2. .5. pul. Foster & Johnson:
1, 2. ck; 1, 4. rkl; 2, hen; 3. 4. pul; 1, pen.
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Longfield Poultrv Farm: 1. 2, ck ; 1. 2. 3
ckl; 2. 3. 4. hen; 1. 2, 3, pul; 1. pen. Stoner:

4, ckl; 5, hen; f), pul. Gable: .^. ckl.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS
Longfield Poultry Farm: 1. 3. ckl; 1 2.
3. 4. pul: 1. pen. Wiese: 4. 5. ckl; 1, hen;

5, pul. Kucher: 3. ckl. Hills: 1, 2, ck; 2,
ckl. Rerkeweg: 3. ck.

BLACK LANGSH.4NS.
Baker: 3, ckl; 4, 5, hen; 3. 4. r>, pul;
pen. Crise: 1. 2, ckl; 1, 2. pul; 1, 2,
hen; 1. 2. pul; 1. pen.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.
All to Clark.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
Rodewald: 4. ckl. Puddv: 4. n, pul.
Meislng Bros.: 1, 2, 3. ckl; 1, 2, hen; 2,
3, pul.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Logan: 2. ok; 1, ckl: 1. 3. r^, hen; 1, 2.
5. pul. Dean: 1. 3. ck; 2. 4. hen; 3. 4,
pul.

2,
3,

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.

Ford: 3, ck; 1, ckl; 3. hen; 1. 2, pul.
Boughton: 2, ck; 2, hen. Lindenberg &
Bro.: 2, ckl; 1. hen; 3. 4. pul.

R. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
Belle Poul. Yds.: 1. 2, ckl; 1 '
S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.'
Heckman: 3, ckl. Pape: 1, ck;
1. 2. 3, hen; 2. pul; 1, pen. Rvan :
4, pul. Lindenberg & Bro.: 2, ck;
4, 5, hen; 1, 3, 5, pul; 2, pen.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Wolf: 3, ckl; 4, lien; 1, 2, pul. Jauch

pul.

1,
4.
2.

ckl;
ckl;
ckl;

3, ck; 2. ckl; 2. hen;
ckl; 3, pul. Eckhart:
5, pul.

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH.

All to Forest Park Poul. Yds.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.

ck; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1, 2, 3,
1. pen.

HOUDANS.

All to Powers.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Carl.

R. C. BLACK

Dean: 1, ckl; 1. pul.
pul.

Kemkle:
hen; 1. 3.

1,
pul;

4.

BANTAMS.

Koons: 2.

ckl;

Awards at Baltimore, Md.

EXHIBITORS AT BALTIMORE. MD.

Adams. Robt. P Lynchburg, Va.

Alsenborn Farm Pikesville. Mass.

Andrus. Dr. J. C Canandaigua, N. Y.

Ankeny. D. R Clear Spring,

Arbuckel, M. D. J. A Elkins, W

Atkinson, Walter E Glyndon,

Bacon, H. A Bianchville

Bailey & Spahr

Ballard, E. A

Beahan, J. Sheridan
Bienstein, Fred C. .

Bird Bros

Bixler, W. O

Black, Jr., Van Lear

Blanton,

Boileau,

Boquet,

Bossert,

Bowers,

Bowers,

R
W. G

F. G

S. S

Wm. R..
Mrs. Wm

Brace. Wm. F. . . .

Braner, Albert C.

Breitigan, Jas. H

Brish Bros

Brown, Irwin M.

Brown, Ray

Buck, Walter

Buff Cochi

. . Hagerstown.
Chestnut Hill.

Clearfield,

. . .Baltimore,
. . . .Me.verdale,
. . .Glen Roclc,
. . . .Baltimore.

L Richmond.

Middletown,
. . Owego, N.
Spring City,

Md.

Va.
Md.
Md.
Md.

Pa.

Pa.
Md.

Pa.

Pa.
Md.

Va.

Md.

Y.

Pa.

Devries, H. A Pikesville,

Diffenderffer, C. M Baltimore

Diffenderffer, W. O Baltimore,'

Dodd, W. J Baltimore,

Dowling. Jas. M Belair.

Drager, W. C Boiling Springs.

Dudley. T. N Middleburg,

Early Francis M Roslyn '

Early, Jno. D Roslyn'.

Dallastown,
.Belair.

E^berly. Jacob

Edeler, W. H. . . .
Eisinger, Robt...
Ellenwood Poultry
Engle, Milton T. .
Enterprise Poultry

Farm,
Yards,

Baltimore. Md.

R....Owings Mills. Md.

Victor. N. Y.

Belair. Md.

Lititz, Pa.

Frederick, Md.

Garrison, Md.

S' Allentown, Pa.

H Baltimore, Md.

Everhart & Ragers Keyser

Eyler. Ed. J "^

Farrall, Jas. J

Fillman, Wm

Pincke & Thornton...

Fix. C. F

Foos, Miss Gertrude E.

Ford. H. M

Forthman. W. M

Baltimore.

. . . Halboro,

.Frederick.

Yoe,

W.

Waynesboro,

. . . Halethorpe,

Red Hill.

. . . Vineland. N
. . . .Dallastown,
Baltimore Co.,
. . . .Baltimore.
Sykesville,

Md.

Md.

Md.

Md.

Md.

Pa.

Va.

Md.

Md.

Pa.

Md.

Md.

Pa.

Md.

Pa.

Va.

Pa.

Md.

Pa.

J.

Pa.

Md.

Md.

S ^^i ^^L "^Vt ^ Sykesville. Md.

^raleigh. Howard Forest. Canada

G^bb ^^-' ^"-' Nazareth. Pa.

n Poultry- Farm °''' ^''- n^^\ ^^°- .^ Stewartstown? Pa

m i-ouiiry i^ arni . . . . . . Goldsborough. A. T Weshington b C

-•■;•• Roland Park. N. Y. Goodwin, Wm. D P kesvn'le Md

Burnside P
Busick, Harry
Byrnes, T. C O
Carroll. Mrs. Chas.
Catlett. Mrs. L. C
Cedar Cove Poultry Farm

Charmsbury. Dr. T. H

Chestnut Hill I'oultry Yard

Chestnut

Hagerstown.

.Ellicott City.

Gloucester.

.Roiiinson.

Hanover,

Jas.
B. .

Clark, Jr.,
Clark. Jas.
Clungston,
Coffman. J. N
Conner, W. J. . . .
Cook & Sons. Wm
Corkins. D. W. . .

Council, V. H

Cregan. Wm. P. . .
Crisp. Miss M. E.
Crocker. E. M. . . .
Cromwell. Jr.
Davis. Amos
Davis, B. S.
Davis. F. W.
Davis, M. D..
Davis. .1. Jos
Dayhoff, L.
Defandorf. J.

Hill,
. . Baltimore.
Ellicott City,

G.^ E Chambersburg,

E'denburg.

Carlisle.

.Scotch Plains. N
Riverdale,

Warrenton,

Riders,

. .Howard Park,

...Roland Park,
. . .Lake Roland.
.... Hagerstown,
.Rockingham, N.

Keyser. W.

. . .Pleasantville,
Pikesville.

Mid vale.

. .Garrett Park,

M. J,

F.

Geo. W,

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S

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'pa.
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Pa.
Pa.
Pa.

J.
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Va.
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Md.

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Md.

,^ _ , Augusta.

Gwyn, Jr., Lawrence S Baltimoie

Haggin, Louis Lee Lexington,

Arlington,

Arlington.
Baltimore.

B.

B

Hall, A. B

Hall, Robt. S. .

Hart. Mrs. Geo.

Hayner. Jonas. .

Heagy, J. M. . . .

Heffner, Geo. R.

Hennighausen. L. T. . . .

Henmann, Karl L

Hicks. Calvin

Hillen, Mr.s. T. O'Donnell

Hoch & Frederick

Hodge & Son. D. J

Hoen. Berthold Mt.

Holland, Mrs. R. w

Hoopes, W. P

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Mr. & Mrs. G. D.

H. A

Stuart S

Baker

Ga.
Md.
Ky.
Md.
Md.
Md.
Y.
Md.
Md.
Md.
Md.
Md.
Md.
Pa.
Va.

Hopper,
Ide. M.
Iverson.
.Taeger,
.Janney,
.Johnson
Kart. Geo. L
Kaston. Chas
K.en. H. C. .

• Livingston. N.

Rockville.

Overlea,

Govans.

. . . .Baltimore.
. . . .Rockville.

Eccleston.

Chambersburg.
Lincoln, . „.

Washington, Md.

Belair. Md

Forest Hill,

York,

.Woodstock.

. .Baltimore,

. .Baltimore,

. . .Garrison,

. .Lewiston,

Carlisle,

• Baltimore,

Belair.

Md.

Pa.
Md.
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Md.

Pa.
Md.
Md.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Pullet; l.st. 3d Cockerel; 2d. .5th Hen; 4th, 5th Cock: 3d
Also R. I, Red (State Cup) the fourth year in .succession,
best Cockerel. Some good stock to spare yet.

My Red.s lead again at the big Missouri
State Show, St. Louis, Dec, 1909. 1st, 2d
Pen in a class of 148 R. C. Rhode Island Reds.
Cup for best Male and Female, special for

•

VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. Fayetie, M

O.

HIGH
CLASS

S. C. R. I. REDS

strong competition.
Daglf Judges. *
MOTTO.

FRANK CHALUPA,

Hxhihition cockerels for sale.

SATISFACTION GUARTANTEED OR YOUR

My winnings for 1909 are as follows : Packwwud
Iowa Nov. 17-20. 1st cockerel, 1st and 3rd pullet
and 1st pen. Kichland Iowa. Dec, 14-17 l>t and
3rd. 4th and pullet 1st pen in
Score cards bv Russell and
MONEY BACK." IS MY

2nd cockerel 2nd
Hge^s in season.

ROSE COMB RHODE

quill and possess the

in America. They are red to the _
length of body and symmetry of form so de,«irable in a typi-
cal Red. We solicit your orders and guarantee satisfaction.
LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B

PLEASANT PLAIN, IOWA

A choice lot of youngsters for sale, breds
from the best winning and laying strain

ISLAND REDS

DEUTSCH, Mgr., ANTIGO. WIS

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, . . CHARLOTTE, MICH:

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

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iJs^;^Siy,;^ltPOVUniY FANCIER

i^-7ii^?'lr

Kellerstrasij, Ernest Kansas City. Mo.

Kelly, B. Frank Bishopville. S'. C.

Kllpatrick. M. C Valencia. Pa.

Kinloch Farm Cockeysville, Md.

Klnsell. W. D Hanover, Pa.

Klsling:, Norman L Belair, Md.

Klemm, Emil J Howard Park, Md.

Knapp. A. M Catonsville. Md.

Knisely, R. J York, Pa.

Koon.s Farm Treichler. Pa.

Kress, Edw Baltimore. Md.

Kuepper, B. H Clear Spring Md.

Kuhn, P. T Frederick, Md.

Linder. Geo. H Baltimore, Md.

Lineweaver. P. L Baltimore. Md.

Little. Frank Frederick, Md.

Loetz. H. E Ellicott City, Md.

Low. D. W. A Catonsville. Md.

McCormick, J. L. & J. M Belair, Md.

McCulloch, Rev. Duncan Glencoe, Md.

McDonald. Bruce Imwood. W. Va.

McDowell. T. K Rising Sun, Md.

McLane, Miss F. K Garrison, Md.

MacGill. Lloyd T Frederick. Md.

Mann. Howard Catonsville, Md.

Markell. V. X. S Glen Rock, Pa.

Matsinger, Chas. A Baltimore. Md.

Matthews. Dr. Robt. M Gambrills. Md.

Metcalfe, Arley C Baltimore, Md.

Minnich. Wm. G Carlisle Pa.

Mitchell, J. S. & J. M.... Ellicott City! Md.

Morris. E. M Fawn Grove, Pa.

Moyer, Ralph W Orwigsburg. Pa.

iviyei , IViJs.s Al. J Roslyn, Md.

Negley, Mrs. M. D Baltimore. Md.

Nelson. Jno. E Baltimore, Md.

Nelson, Will Neuse. X. C.

Nevins. J. D Philadelphia. Pa.

Newell. Harry S Brookland. D. C.

Noll, Adam F Allentown. Pa.

North. Miss Gladys L Walbrook. Pa.

North, Mrs. Cora I Walbrook, Pa.

Oke & Murray London, Can.

Oelko, Jno. G Raspburg. Md.

Orangeville Poultry Yards. . .Baltimore, Md.
latrifeu. John Waters Pikesville, Md.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

: $f>.(^0 per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., • Elast Providence, R. I.

SMITHES
WHITE
ROCKS

We win wherever we
show, includmg Madi-
son Square, New York
1908-09. Why not
place your order where
you know you can and
will gel the best. Write
me for mating list and
■^"^■■■"■■■■■■■■^ photos of male birds
heading my breeding pens. I want to build
up a big business with Poultry Fancier read-
ers and I'll give you the very highest quality
at most reasonable prices.

CHAS. L. SMITH
RTE. 58; NEW HAVEN, CONN.

POULTRY FENCE

jl STOCK STRONG— RUST PROOF

Made ofextra heavy double galvanized wires.

No top or bottom boards required.
Chick tight — bottom wires only 1 in. apart.

COSTS NO MORE THAN NETTINQ

yet will last five times as lonj:.

Send for catalog: — we have

too st^'les and

can save you

money.
Write today

"-Wf PAYTHt

BROWN FENCE & WIRE CO. DEPT. 94. CLEVaAND.OJ

Pattison, Saml. W Baltimore, Md.

Peterson, C Baltimore, Md.

Phipps, Joseph Towson, Md.

Pierce. Wm. E Dulaneys Valley. Md.

Pike. Wm. S Catonsville. Md.

Placide, S Baltimore. Md.

Pleasants. Mrs. A. W Cockeysville, Md.

de Potestad, Mrs. Robt. ... Ellicott City, Md.

Price, Mrs. D. T Belcamp, Md.

Price, J. McD Belcamp, Md.

Raab. H. M .• Dallastown, Pa.

Rehmeyer, W. H Shrewsbury, Pa.

Reich, Miss Nannie Monrovia. Md.

Reider, R. D Middletown, Pa.

Reiff. Jos Fayetteville, Pa.

Relp & Aires Laurel, Md.

Remsen, O. E Annapolis, Md.

Ridenour. O. Fred Middletown. Md.

Ridgely of H.. Mrs. J Towson. Md.

Rlggs, Jesse B Catonsburg Md.

Riley, Henry D Strafford, Pa.

Ritter. E. Frank Woodlawn, Md.

Rockland Farm . Benson, Md.

Rosenstock, S. H Frederick, Md.

Rumbold. Jno Baltimore. Md.

Sauter, Chas. C Ellicott City. Md.

Scarff, J. E Mt. Washington. Md.

Schrade. Geo Skyesville. Md.

Schriver, Hiram W Chester. N. Y.

Seeley, Gay lord B .Chester, N. Y.

Seitz Allen M Glen Rock, Pa.

Shanabrook & Spltal Chambersburg, Pa.

Sharpe, Edw. H Frederick, Md.

Shirk, Chas. S Hanover, Pa.

Shriver, Chas. M Pikesville, Md.

Shriver, Jr.. Geo. M Pikesville. Md.

5- ilver Brook Wyandotte Farm

Allentown, Pa

Smith. B. Alton Sta. F, Baltimore, Md.

Smith, J. Emlen Philadelphia. Pa.

Smith. Wm. A Metuchen, N. J.

Smith, J. W Dallastown. Pa.

Smith, Nathan R Brookiandville, Md.

Spease, Frank Carlisle, Pa.

Spencer, Mrs. W. D.Waverly. Baltimore. Md.

Sprecher, Dan'l B Skyesville, Md.

Springer, Paul G Bridgeton, N. J.

Strober, Geo. M Woodlawn. Md.

Sunswick Poultry Farm .. So. Plainfleld, N. J.

Swartz. Geo Baltimore, Md.

Sweeting. Geo. W Sharon, Md.

Taylor, Geo. Winship Catonsville, Md.

Theobald, F. De Wolf Baltimore, Md.

Thiele F Arlington, Md.

Thomas, Martin Delto. Pa.

Thompson. Lignon Ellicott City, Md.

Tiffany. S. E Elkins. W. Va.

Todd, David Relay. Md.

Turner. Mrs. Thos Baltimore, Md.

Verdery, H. H Augusta, Ga.

Wack. Henry E Baltimore, Md

Walden, R. J Middleburg, Md.

Walker, Henry M Owings Mills. Md.

Warner & Son. A. E Baltimore, Md.

Warner. Mrs. J. H Owings Mills, Md.

Warner. N. B Hamilton, Va.

Weldner, H. E Allentown, Pa.

Weyler, Jno. F Baltimore, Md.

Wheeler & Son. Geo Penn Yard. N. Y.

Whyte Bros Ruxton, Md.

Wiggers. Mrs. Chas. F Fallston, Md.

Wolfe. Dr. J. S Bloomfleld, N. J.

Wyleyhurst Farm Winsted, Conn.

Yoder, Albert Munhall, Pa.

Yingllng. Edgar C Westminster. Md.

Young, Newton J Hagerstown, Md.

Zimmerman, F. G Lime Kiln. Md.

AWARDS AT BALTIMORE. MD.

BAKKKI) l*LVMOLTH KOC KS,

Chestnut Hill Poultry Yards: 2. 3. ck;
1. 3. ckl; 1. 2, .^i. pul; 2. pen. Boileau; 5.
ck; 4. hen; 2. ckl; 3, pen. Riley: 4, ck;
1. 2. hen; 5. ckl; 3. 4. pul; 1, pen. Clark:
1. ck; f), hen; 4. ckl; 4. pen. Kelly: 3,
lien. Kuhn: 5. pen.

WHITE PLY.MOUTH ROCKS.

Kllpatrick: f>, ck; 4, .'), hen. Hall: 4. ck ;
4. '). pen. Walker: 1. ck. Defandorf: 2,
ck ; 1, 3, hen; 3, 4, pul; 2, pen. Springer:
:?, ck; 2. hen; 1. ckl. Early: 3. ckl; 5, pul;
1. pen. Rosenstock: 2. 5, ckl; 1, 2, pul.
Hoper: 5. ckl. Heffner: 3, pen.

BUFF PLYMOl^H RO€KS.

Busick: 4. ck ; 3, ckl. Kuepper: 1. 2, 3,
ck; 1. 2, 3. hen; 1, 2. ckl; 1. 2, 4. pul; 1, 3.
pen. Bowers: 5, ck; 5. hen. Brlsh Bros.:
4, hen. Ridenour: 3, 5, pul. DayhoflC: 2,
pen.

PARTRIIKJE ri>YMOlITH ROCKS.

Matsinger: 1, 2. 3, ck; 1, 2, 5, hen; 1, 2.
3, 4. ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pul; 1, pen. Drager:

3. 4, hen; 5. ckl.

SHAVER PENCILED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Negley: 2. ck; 5. hen; 4, ckl; 3. pul.
Bowers: 1. 4. ck ; 1. 2, hen; 2. 3, ckl; 4.
.'). pul; 1. pen. Breitigan: 3, ck ; 3, 4. hen;
."). ckl; 2. pul; 2, pen. Atkinson: 1. ckl;
1, pul.

WTIITE WYANDOTTES.

Llndec* 3, ck; 4, hen; 4, ckl; 1, pul; 5,
pen. Remsen: 1, 4, ck; 3, hen; 1. ckl; 1,
pen. Farrall: 2, ck; 3, pen. Guess: 5. ck;

1, 2, hen; 5. ckl; 3. .pul. Turner: .'i. hen;

4, 5, pul; 2, pen. Kinloch Farm; 2, 3, ckl;

2, pul. Riggs: 4, pen.

BITFF WYANDOTTES.
Raab: 1, f>, ck; 5 hen; 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul;

2, pen. Morris: 3. ck; 1, 2, hen; 3, 4. .'>.
ckl; 4. r». pul. Hicks: 2, 4, ck; 3, hen; 1, ckl;

3. pul: 1, pen. Byrnes: 4, hen. Brish
Bros: 3. pen.

GOLDEN WYANDOTTES.
Everhart & Rogers: 1, ck; 2, 4, hen; 4.

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ckl; 5. pul. Ritter: 2. ck; 1. hen; 2. ckl;
1. pul. Sliver Brook Wyandotte Farm: 3, 4.
ck; 3. r,, hen; 1, 5, ckl; 3, 4, pul. Little:
3. ckl; 1', pul.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Bacon: 5, ck. Sbirk: 1. ck; 2. hen; 1,
ckl; 1, pul. Verdery: 4, ck; 5, hen. Klnsell:
3, ck; 4, 5, pul. McDowell: 2, ck; 2 ckl;
3, pul; 2, pen. Goldsborough: 1, hen.
Charmsbury: 3, hen; 4, ckl. Fix: 4. hen.
Tiffany: 3, ckl; 2. pul. Silver Brook Wyan-
dotte Farm: 5, ckl. S*trober: 3. pen. Turner:
1, pen.

PARTRIDGE U'YANDOTTES.

Enterprise Poultry Yards: 5. ck; 4, hen;

3, ckl; 1. pul; 1, 2, pen. Silver Brook Wyan-
dotte Farm; 4, ck ; 5, pul. Bird Bros.:

1, 2, 3 ck; 1, 2. 3. hen; 1, 2. ckl; 3, 4. pul.
Arbuckel: 5, hen; 4, .5. ckl; 2, pul.

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.
All to Silver Brook Wyandotte Farm.

COLUMBIAN W\'.ANDOTTE.S.
Tiffany: 2, 4, 5, ck; 2. 4, 5. hen; 2, 3,
ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, 2, pen. Andrus: 1, ck; 1.
hen; 1, ckl; 5, pul. Guess: 3, ck; 4, ckl.
Beahan: 3, hen. Turner: 5, ckl; 3, pul.
Smith: 4, pul; 3. pen.

BLACK WYANDOTTES.
Silver Brook Wyandotte Farm:

2, 3. hen. Sharpe: 1, hen.

SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Cook & Sons: 1, ck; 2, ckl; 1, pen. Suns-
wick Poultry Farm: 2. ck; 1, 2, hen; 4 5,
ckl; 3. pul. Brish Bros.: 3, ck; 1, pul.
Knisley: 4, 5. ck; 3, 4, hen; 1, 3, ckl; 2 4.
o, pul. Carroll: 5, hen. Sweeting: 3, pen.
Scarff: 5, pen. Griffith: 4, pen. Davis: 2,
pen.

ROSE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS.

All to Cook & Sons.

SINGLE COMB BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Sunswick Poultry Farm: 2, 4, 5, ck; 3,
hen; 4. 5. ckl; 1. 3, pul; 3. pen. Davis. 3,
ck: 4, pen. Brown: 1, ck; 2, hen; 5, pul.
Cook & .Sons: 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl; a pen.
Griffith: 5. hen; 5, pen. McCormick: 4.
hen. Knisley: 3. ckl; 1. pen. Burnside
Poultry Farm: 4. pul. Clark: 2, pul

ROSE COMB BLACK ORPINGTONS.

All to Cook & Sons.

SINGLE COMB WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Sunswick Poultry Farm: 2, 5, ck; 4. hen;

4. pul; 4. pen. Kellerstrass: 3. 4. 5, ck;

1, ck;

3.

hen; 1, 2. 5. ckl; 1, 5, pul; 1. 2,

pen: Cook & Sons: 2, hen; 3. 4, ckl; 3 pul;
3, pen. Haggin: 2, pul. Griffith: .'>, pen.
DIAMOND JUBILEE ORPINGTONS.

All to Cook & Sons.
ANY OTHER VARIETY ORPINGTONS.

All to Davis.

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Davis: 2, ck. Griffith; 1, 4, ck. Riggs:
3, ck; 3, 5. hen; 4, pul; 3. pen. Ellenwood
Poultry Farm: 5, ck; 1, 4, hen; 1. 2. ckl;
1. 2, pul; 1, pen. Rehmeyer: 2, hen; 2,
pen. Devries: 4, 5, ckl; 5. pen. Kart: 3,
ckl. Sweeting: 5. pul. Atkinson: 3, pul.
Pike: 4, pen.

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.

McCulloch: 3. 4, ck; 4. '>, hen; 3. ckl; 3.
5. pul; 2, pen. Ellenwood Poultry Farm:
1, 2, 5. ck: 1. 3. hen; 1, 2. 4. ckl; 1, 2, pul;
1. pen. Brlsh Bros.: 2, hen. Henmann: 5,
ckl. Aukeny: 4, pul. Creagan: 3, pen.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.

Davis: 1. ck; 1. hen; 2. pul. Rumbold:

3. ck; 4. 5. hen; 2, ckl. Nevins: 2. ck; 2,
hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul; 1, pen. Todd: 4, ck.
Iverson: 3, hen.

DARK BRAHMAS.

All to Mlnnlch.

BUFF COCHINS.

North: 1, 2. ck; 1. 2. 3, 4. hen; 1. ckl;
1. 2, pul. Minnich: 3, ck; 5, hen.
P.ART RIDGE COCHINS.
Burnside Poultry Farms: 2, 3, hen. Min-
nich: 1, hen.

BLACK COCHINS.
Mlnnlch: 1. hen; 1, pul.

WHITE COCHINS.

All to Minnich.

BLACK LANGSHANS.

Walker: 4. ck; 5, hen; 2, 3, ckl; 3. pul.
Weldner: 3. ck ; 4. hen; 1. ckl; 1, 5. pul.
Hodge & Son: 1. 2. ck; 1. 2. hen; 4. 5, ckl;

4, pul; 2, pen. Holland: 3, hen; 2, pul; 1 2,
pen.

WHITE LANGSHANS.
Minnich: 1, ck. Bailey & Spahr: 1. 2, hen;
1, pul.

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS.

Relff: 2, ck; 2, hen. Eyler: 5. ck; 3, hen;
Wheeler & Son: 1. 3. 4, ck; 1. 4, 5, hen;

1. 3. 5. ckl; 1, 4. 5, hen; 1, 3. 5. ckl; 1. 4,
pul; 1, 2. pen. Dayhoff: 4, ckl; 2, 5, pul.
Klsling: 2. ckl. Griffith: 3. pul.

ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS.

Clugston: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1. pul. Relff:

2, ck: 2, hen.

SINGLE COMB BROWN LFX1HORN8.
Brace: 1, ck ; 2. hen; 1, 5, ckl; 2, 4, 5,
pul; 2. pen. Bowers: 2. ck; 1, hen; 2, 4,
ckl; 1. 3. pul: 1, pen. Yoder: 3. rkl.
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS.
All to Yoder.

SINGLE COMB BLACK LEGHORNS.
Cart: 1, 2. ck; 1, 3, 4. hen; 5, ckl; 1. 5,
pul. Noll: 3, 4, ck; 2, 5, hen; 1, 2, 3, 4, ckl;
2, 3, 4. pul; 1. pen.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.
Adams: 1, 2. ck ; 2. 4, 5, hen; 4. ckl. Coff-
man: 3, hen: 5, ckl; 5. pul. Edeler: 1. hen;

1. pul. Dayhoff: 1, 2. 3. ckl; 3, 4, pul; 1,

2, pen.

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SINGLE COMB DKKVVlNCi LKGHOKNS.

All to Spease.

ANCONAS.
All to Todd.

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINOKCAS

Remsen: 5, ck; 2, 3. hen; 3, 4, ckl; 3. 4.
pul; 2, pen. Kress: 4, ck. Smith: 1, 2, 3,
ck; 1, 4, 5. hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2. 5, pul; 1.
pen. Brish Bros.: 5. ckl. Hillen: 4 pen.
Early: 3, pen.

ROSE COMB BLACK MINOKCAS.

Brish Bros.: 2, ck; 3. hen; 3. pul. Rock-
land Farm: 1, 3, ck; 4, 5, hen. Reip &
Aires: 1, hen; 4, pul. Thomas: 2, hen; 2,
ckl. Smith: 1, 3, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen.
WHITE MINOKCAS.

Peterson: 2, ck; 2. 3, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, pul.
Smith: 1, ck ; 1, 4. hen; 3, ckl; 2, pul; 1.

r., ckl; 3, 4, 5, pul. Eyler:

pen. Swartz:
4 ckl.

BLUE ANDALUSIANS.

Bailey & Spahr: 1, ck; 2, hen; 3, pul.
Council: 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul. Warner:
2, 4. pul.

WHITE CKESTED BLACK POLISH.
All to Yingling.

SILVEK POLISH.
All to Schriver.

WHITE POLISH.
All to S'eelv.

HOUDANS.
Metcalfe: 3, ck; 5, ckl; 4. pul; 5, pen.
Smith: 2. ck; 3, hen; 3, ckl; 5, pul; 1, pen.
Reider: 1, ck; 3, pen. Spencer: 5, ck ; 2,

Ballard: 4, ck; 1, hen;
pen. Hoopes: 2. ckl;

4, 5, hen; 4, ckl
1. ckl; 1. 2, pul;
3, pul; 4, pen.

SALMON FAVEKOLLES.
Potestad: 2, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1. 2, 3, 4.
pul. Orangeville: 1, ck ; 2, hen.

GOLDEN SPANGLED HAMBLKGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

SILVEK SPANGLED HAMHBLKGS.
Wolfe: 1, 3, 4, ck ; 2. 3, 4, a, hen; 2. 3. 4,

5, ckl; 1, 3, 4, 5, pul; 1, 2. pen. Oke &
Murray: 2, ck ; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 2. pul

GOLDEN PENCILED HAMBUKGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

SILVER PENCILED HAMBUKGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

BLACK HAMBUKGS.
All to Oke & Murray.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES.
Bofjuet: 1, ck; 1. hen; 1, pul. (Iwin
ckl; 2. 3, pul.

BROWN KED GAMES.
All to Boquet.

SILVER DUCK WING GAMES.
All to Boquet.

1.

RED PVLE GAMES.

All to Boquet.

BIRCHEN GAMES.

All to Boquet.

CORNISH INDIAN GAMES.

Dowling: 2. ck ; 1, 2. ckl. Riggs: 1. ck ;
2. hen; 3, ckl; 4, pul. Sauter: 5, hen; 1,
pul. Young: 3, 4, hen; 5, pul. Low: 1, hen;

4, o, ckl. Fowble: 2, 3, pul.

CORNISH WHITE INDIANS.
All to Eberly.

BLACK SUMATRA.
All to W^arner.

PIT GAMES.
Mann: 2. ck ; 5, hen; 3. pul. Thoobold:

5, ckl; 2. 3, ckl; 4, 5, pul. Dodd; 3. 4, ck;
2, 3, 4, hen; 1, 4, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1. pen.
Cart: 1. ck; 1, hen.

ANY OTHER VARIETY FOWLS.
All to Kaston.
BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BANT.V.>IS
Fincke & Thornton: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl:
1. 2, pul. Dudley: 2, 3, ck ; 2, hen; 3. pul.
Bo\yers: 3, hen; 3, ckl.

BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS.
All to Fincke & Thornton.
SILVER DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
All to Cromwell.

RED PYLE GAME BANT.\3IS.
All to Fincke & Thornton.

BIRCHEN GAME BANTAMS.
All to Fincke & Thornton.

ANY OTHER GAME BANTAM
All to Fincke & Thornton.

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 1.
pul. Diffenderffer: 2, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul.
SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
Oke & Murray: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 2,
pul. Diffenderffer: 2. hen; 1, ckl; 1 pul.
ROSE COMB BLACK BANTAMS.
Diffenderffer: 1, 4, ck ; 2, henj ], f), ckl;

1. pul. Eberly: 3, ck; 1, hen. Oke &
Murray: 2, ck ; 3, hen; 2, ckl; 3, pul.
Hall: 3, ckl; 2, 4, pul; 1, pen. Bowers;
4. ckl; 5, pul.

ROSE COMB U HITE BANTA3IS.
Diffenderffer: 2, ck : 2, 3. hen; 1. 3, ckl;

2, pul. Oke & Muiray: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2.
ckl; 1, pul.

BOOTED BANTA3IS.
All to Oke & Murray.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

Mrs. C. I. North: 3, ck ; 3, hen; ?,, rkl;

".. pul. Diffenderffer: 1, 2, ck ; 1. 2, hen;

2. ckl; 1, pul. Miss G. L. North: 4'. hen;

4, f), ckl; 3. 4. pul. Fillman; 1. ckl; 2. pul.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Diffenderffer.

February, *10

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

Diffenderffer: 2, ck; 1, hen; 5, ckl; 2. pul;
1. pen. Fraleigh: 1, ck; 3, 5, hen; 2, ckl;

3, 5, pul. Bowers: 3, ck; 2, hen; 3, ckl; 1,
pul; 2. pen. Parrish : 4, hen; 1, ckl. Conner:

4, ckl; 4, pul.

PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Early: 2, ck ; 3, pul. Diffenderffer: 1. ck;
1. hen; 1, ck ; 1, pul; 1, pen. Shriver: 2^
ckl ; 2, pul.

WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.
DilTenderffer: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 2,
pul. Oke & Murray: 2, ck; 2, hen; 1, pul.
Markell: 3, hen; 3. pul.

BLACK JAPANESE BANTAMS.
DiffenderfTer: 2, ck; 1. hen; 2, ckl; 2,
pul. Oke & Murray: 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl;
1. pul.

BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.
All to Oke & Murray.
ANY OTHER VARIETY" JAPANESE
BANTAMS.
All to Oke & Murray.

BEARDED WHITE POLISH BANTAMS.
Diffenderffer: 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Oke & Murray: 2, ck ; 1. hen.

LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAMS.
Fry: 1, pen.

PEKIN DUCKS.
Dayhoff: 1. 3, old drake; 1, 2, old duck;

1, young drake; 3, 5, youner duck; 1, pen.
Springer: 2, 4, old drake; 1, 4, old duck;

3. 4, 5, young drake; 1, 4, young duck; 2,
pen. Alsenborn Farm: 5, old drake; 5 old
duck. Orangeville Poultry Farm: 2, young
drake; 2, young duck. Price: 3, pen.

ROUEN DUCKS.
Wyleyhurst Farm: 1, old drake; 1. young
<luck.

MUSCOVY DUCKS.

Eisinger: 1, old drake; 3, old duck.

Brown: 2, 3, old drake; 1, 2, old duck; 2. 3,

young drake; 2. 3, 4, young duck; 1, pen.

Pleasants: 3, young drake; 1, young duck;

2, pen.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
All lo Orangeyille Poultry Farm.

BRONZE TURKEYS.
Zimmerman: 3, 4, ck; 5, ckl; 2, 3, pul.
Bird Bros.: 1, 2, 5. ck; 1, 2. 3, hen; 1, 3,

4. ckl; 1, 4, 5, pul. Rehmeyer: 4, 5, hen.
Hoopes: 2, ckl.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
Dayhoff: 1, 2. 3, 4. ck; 2. 3. 4, 5. hen.
Zimmerman: 1 hen.

BOURBON RED TURKEYS.
All to De Potestad.

WTLD TURKEYS.
All to Blanton.

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Awards at Providence, R. I.

KXHIBITOHS AT PKOVII>ENrK, K I

Adams, Darius M . . . . East Providence R I

Alden. A. E West Brldgewater,' Mas.^!

Alden. Frank H Foxloro, Mass.

Almy, F. S West Wrentham, Mass.

Andrews, Frank L Fall River, Mass

Anthony. Stephen B Riverside, R I

ArmstroniE:, Dwight H Woonsocket R I

Armstrong. Helen Lakewood,' R I

Armstrong. Joe Lakewood, R I

Arnold. C. O Woonsocket, r' I

Auburndale Poultry Yards .'.

Providence, R. I.

Austin, O. R Providence, R. I.

Baker, Earle North Attleboro, Mass

Bemis. Robt. H Spencer. Mass

Benson. Elmer F Whitman. Mass

Berry, J. B Pawtucket. R. I

Bessom. Geo. E Man.sfield. Mass

Bi.shop. R. w Guilford, Conn.

Blaokmar, Oscar R South Scituate, R I

Booth. Star L Bristol, R. I

Boothby. W. B Westbrooke, Me.

Bradbury, Jas. H Fall River. Mass

Brown, C. Allen Waverly Mass.

Brown, C. M Mlllburv," Mass.

Browning, Cha.s. A Opponong R I

Bufflngton. H. C Swansea, Mass.

Bufflngton. H. C Somerset. Mass

Burns. Fred G Taunton, Mass.

Carter, Arthur B.... North Attleboro. Mass.

Caswell. .John. Jr Prides Crossing, Mass

■Caswell. Phillip Newport, R I

Cedar Spring Farm Wickford, R. I

Chalker, R. S Higganum. Conn.

-Chapman. H. L Westerlv R I.

Clift Poultry Yards Yantlc. Conn.

Coffin, Chas. E Olneyvllle, R. I

Coffin, Melvin, H Whitinsville. Mass.

Cole, A. R .m. Georgiaville. R. I.

•Cole. W. L Providence. R. I.

Colvin, F. E Danielson, Conn.

Congdon, Wm. H Oak Lawn, R. T.

Cook. C. S.. Jr West Newton, Mass.

•Cook, E. W Forestdale, R. T.

Corbett. Harry L Revere. Mass.

Cornforth. E. O Slatersville. R. I

Covell. Arthur F Barrington. R. T

Coyle, Leo Pawtucket. R. I.

Crockford. J. E. & O. F Bristol, R T

Croome, S. J Providence, R.I.

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Cruttenden, Tyler Norwich. Conn.

Daniels. W. J Whitman. Mass.

Darling, B. E Natick. Mass.

Davol, Chauncey M Whitman, Mass.

Doehr. A Wallingford, Conn.

Doehr, Emil R Wallingford, Conn.

Draper, Fred Z North Attleboro, Mass.

Dunlap Schwind Co Chatham, N. Y.

Eaton, S. H Brockton, Mass.

Eddy, F. R Providence. R. I.

T. C. Eldredge & Son Bourne. Mass.

Evans. John Cranston. R. I.

Fanning Bros Greenville. R.I.

Fisher, Chester. E Plainville, Mass.

Fitton. W. H Worcester, Mass.

Frasier. F. S Montello. Mass.

Frost. Morton F Rumford. R. I.

Gardiner. H. G Providence, R.I.

Garriepy, F. A Stillwater. R. I.

Gay. C. Herbert Knightsville. R. T.

Gluck, T. C Keene. N. H.

Handy, Russell H Manville, R. T.

Harris, Gilbert Stoughton, Mas.-^.

Harris & Tolman Stoughton, Ma.ss.

Harwood. R. G Littleton, Ma.ss.

Havemeyer. Horace Stamford. Conn.

Hawes. A. S Riverside. R. I.

Hawes. Howard H Riverside, R.I.

Hawes. Rus.sell Riverside, R. I.

Houghton. J. W West Brookfield, Mass.

Hyde. Wm Pawtucket. R. T.

Inches, Mrs. Geo. B... North Grafton, Mass.

Jowett. J. Willie Granitevllle. R.I.

Keeling, Ernest West T.ynn. Mass.

Kenyon. John F Pawtucket, R. I.

Knowles. Leroy W W«»st Kingston. R.I.

Knowles. Samuel Lexington. Mass.

Kriegel. F Foxboro. Mass

Kusterer. Clark Myricks. Mass.

Lamb, Geo. A . . .Spencer. Mass

Lamberts Poultry Farm.. Apponong. R. T.

Lawrence. W. A Portsmouth. R.I,

Lewis. Albert H Attleboro. ' Mas<5.

Lillibridge. H. R Apponaug. R. I.

Loveland. E Barrington Centre. R. T.

Lucier. Mozart Providence. R. I.

McDougall. John Pawtuckett. R. I.

McGrath. Mrs. P. H Natick. Mass.

Mcintosh, Nelson Providence. R.I

McMurray. Jas Brookline. Mass.

McNulty Bro New Bedford. Mass.

Macomber. Alice Taunton Mass.

Magee. Miss E. W Holliston. Mass.

Martin, Wm. A Warren R. I

Mason. M. F Attleboro. Mass.

Metcalfe. Harry C.rey stone. R. I.

Milan. A. Brayton «fe Son. Fall River, Mass.

Miller. Mrs. J. W Pawtucket. R.I.

Miller. Jr.. J. W Pawtucket, R.I.

Morse, J. E Taunton, Mass.

Moulton. Lewis E Somerset. Mass.

Moulton. Willard C Somerset. Ma.ss.

Mt. Vernon Polish Yards. .Braintree. Mass.

Munger. B. B East River. Conn.

Nichols, I.,eon A Barrington. R.I.

Nobb.s Wm. H Davisville, R. I.

Northrup, J. H. Jr Apponaug. R. I.

Noyes. P. W New London, Conn.

Perkins. James E....West Stoughton, Mass.

Perry. R. H Lakeport, N. H.

Peter.sen. Peter Arlington R.I.

Poch. Bros Walpole. Mass.

Porter. C. Harold Brockton. Mass.

Pratt. Chas. W North Ablngton. Mass.

Pratt. H. Arthur West Harrington. R. I.

I'rinceton Bantam Yards ..Princeton. Mass.

H.'UKlnll. Chas. H Foxboro. Mass.

Uatcliffo. Harriet Auburn. R.I.

Red Feather Farm. Twertonv Corners. R. I.

Reinhardt. Wm. O Edgewood. R. I.

Remington. John S Greenville. R. T.

Remington. Wm Natick. R.I.

Rhodes, Fred M T'nlonviile. Mass.

Richardson. W Wollaston. Mass.

Richardson & Son. C. W. .. Apponaug, R.I.

Robinson. Mrs. E. J I^kevlUo. Mass.

Rodman. S. I.,yman Gould. P. I.

Schurman. F. R Riverside. R.I.

Sliarp, Herbert Centredale. R. T.

Shepard Bros Alton. R.I.

Shonfleld. J. W West Lvnn. Mass.

Shool. Daniel P Fall River. Mass.

Sknnberg. A. G Norwood, R. I.

Spargo. A. E Westerly. R. I.

Smith. Chas. W Fall River. Mass.

Smith. Fred Manton, R. I.

Smith. John J Somerset, Mass.

Smith. Jesse P Taunton. Mass.

Sweeney, E. .T Providence. R. 1.

Sweet. Fred O Thorntown. R. I.

Tnbbener. Thos Commlcutt. R. I.

Tnrment, .Tohn H Foxboro, ' Mass.

Thompson, Goo. D Hop©. R. I.

Tilley. E M East Greenwich. R.I.

Tlrrell. Wm. W North Arlington, Mass.

Tucker, Geo. E Greenville. R.I.

Washburn. Harry T Tauton. Mas-.

Weeks. Chas. H Providence. R. I

Weeks. Clifton F Bourne. Mas'*

Welcome, F. E New Haven, Conn.

Wheeler, W. J Worcester. Mas^.

Whltcomb Farm Riverside. R. I.

White. Wm. J Boston. Mass.

Whiting. Frank E Plnlnvllle. Mas*.

Wilbur. Edw. R Limerock. R. T.

Wilcox, Amos E Riverside. R.I.

Williams. W. S Whitman. Mass.

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Willis. Freemont H Brockton. Mass.

Wilson. J. C Somerset, Mass.

Woodward. Clifford N Taunton, Mass.

AWARDS AT PROVIDKNC'E, R. I.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Browning: 4, ck; 3, hen. Whltcomb

Farm: 1, 2. 3. ck; 1, 4, hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1,

2, pul; 1. 2, pen. Arnold: 2, hen; 4, ckl; 8,

pul. Smith: 4, pul; 4, pen. Magee: 3, pen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Chalker: 1. ck. Northrup: 4, ck; 2, 3,
hen; 2, pul; 1, pen. Davol: 3, ck; Lewis:

2, ck; 4, hen; 4. ckl. Auburndale Poultry
Yards: 1. hen; 3, pul; 3. pen. Lucier: 1,
ckl. Rhodes: 3, ckl; 4, pul. Smith: 2, ckl.
Knowles: 1, pul; 2, pen. Dunlap Schwind
Co.: 4. pen.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Coffin: 3, ck; 3. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Fra-
sier: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2, pul. Noyes: 1, 4, ck;
1, 4. hen; 2, ckl. Tarment: 4, ckl. Spargo:

3. ckl. Cole: 3. 4, pul; 1, pen. Hyde: 2,
pen. Anthony: 3, pen.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
All to Evans.

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Washburn: 1, ck; 1, hen. Randall: 2,
ckl; 1, pul. Tarment: 1. ckl; 2, pul.
WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Havemeyer: 1, 2, ck; 1, 2, 3, 4, hen; 1, 2.

3. ckl; 2, 4, pul; 1, pen. Tirrell: 4. ck; 4,
ckl; 3. pul. Brown: 3, ck. Richardson &
Son: 1, pul; 4, pen. Cedar Spring Farm:
'_'. 3, pen.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Booth: 1, ck; 3. 4. hen; 2, 3, pul. Pratt:
.'}, ck; 1, hen; 3. ckl; 1, pul; 2, pen. Coffin:
L', ck; 2. hen; 1. ckl; 4. pul; 1, pen. Willis:

4, ckl. Rodman: 2, ckl.

BLUE WYANDOTTES.
All to Smith.

GOLDEN WYANDOTTES.
Kenyon: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul.
Whiting: 1. ckl; 1. pul.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Robinson: 2, ck; 1. 3, hen; 3. 4. pul. Lil-
libridge: 1. ck; 1.' hen. Whiting: 2, ckl;
1. 2, pul.

PARTRID<;E WYANDOTTES.
Coffin: 1, ck; 1, 2. hen; 1. ckl; 1, 2, pul;
1, pen. Robinson: 2, ck. Alden: 3. pul.
SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.
Robinson: 1, ck; 2. 3, hen; 2, ckl. Morse:

1. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

Robinson: 3, ck ; 3, 4, hen; 2, ckl; 1, 3.
pul; 2. pen. Gardiner: 1, ck. Harris A
Tolman: 3. ck. Brayton & Son: 2. ck; 2,
hen. Doehr: 1, hen; 4. ckl; 4, pen. Per-
kins: 1. 3. ckl; 4, pul. Benson: 2, pul; 3,
pen. Evans: 1. pen.

SINGLE COMB BL.\CK ORPINGTONS.

Houghton: 1, ck ; 2. ckl. Remington: 2,
hen: 1, ckl; 2. pen. Cruttenden: 1. 3, hen;
3, ckl; 2, 3, pul; 3. pen. Wilson: 4. ckl.
McGrath: 1. 4. pull; 1. pen.

ROSE (OMB BLACK ORPINGTONS.

-Ml to Houghton.

SINGLE COMB WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Doehr: 1. ck ; 2, hen; 3. 4. ckl. Darling:

2. ck; 1. hen; 1. ckl; 2. pul. Moulton: 3.
hen: 4, pul. Petersen: 2. ckl; 1, pul. Rich-
ardson Si Son: 3, pul; 1, pen.

ROSE COMB WHITE ORPINGTONS.

All to W. Richardson.
SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPFNGTONS.

Doehr: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 2, 4. ckl. McMur-
ray: 3, ck; 3. 4, hen; 3. pul. Bessom: 2.
ck; 2. hen; 1. 3. ckl; 1. 2, pul; 1. pen.
Cruttenden: 4. ck.

ROSE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Ail to Poothbv.
SINGLE COMB RHODE ISL.\ND REDS.

Caswell: 1. 3, ck. Bradbury: 4. ck. Corn-
forth: 2, ck; 3, hen; 3, ckl; 2. pul; 1, pen.
Gorriepy: 1. 2. 4, hen; 4. pul; 3, pen. El-
dredge 8i Son: 1, 2. 4. ckl; 3, pul: 4. pen.
Munger: 1. pul. Blackmar: 2. pen.

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Harris: 2, ck : 1. pul. Ca«!well: 4. ck ; 3.
pul; 2. pen. Red Feather Farm: 3. ck : 1.
f. hon; 1. ckl: 2. 4. pul; 1. pen. Knowles:

1. ck ; 3. 4. hen; 3. pen. Alden: 3. ckl.
Bradbury: 4. ckl. Mxinger: 2. ckl.

LKJIIT BRAHMAS.
Wilcox: 1. 4. ck; 1. hen. Nobbs: 3. ck :

3. hen; 3. ckl; 2. pul. Darling: 2, ck : 2,
hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul; 1. pen.

DARK BRAHM.AS.
Burns: 1. rk ; 1. hen: 1. ckl; 2. pul.
A\'ashburn: 2. ckl: 1. nul

BUFF COCHINS.
Coffin: 1. ck; 2, hen. Andrews: \. hen;

2. ckl; 1. 2. rul.

BLACK COCHINS.
All to Wi'linms.

BLACK LANGSHANS.
rorbctt: 4. ck ; 3. hen; 1. ckl; 1. pul: 2.
pen. Remington: 1. 2. 3. ck ; 1, 2. hen; ?.

3. 4. ckl; 2. 3. 4. pul; 1. pen. Bishop: 4.
hen

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS.

Allen: 1, ck; 1. hen; I, ckl; 2, pul.
Haw(^s: 2. ck. Croome: 2, ckl. Cook: 1.
pul.

ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS.

Inches: 2. ck ; 1. lun; 4. ckl; 1. pul. John-
son: 1 r-k ; 1, 2. ckl. Tucker: 3. ckl; 2,
pul. T^ndnian: 3 pul.

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS.

Glnck: 1. ck : 3, hen. Covle: 2. ck : 2.

\

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hen; 3. ckl. McDougrall: 3, ck; 1, 4. hen;

1, 2, ckl; 1. pul. Knowles: 4, ckl: 2, pul;
3, pen. Croome: 1, pen. Dunlop Schwind
Co.: 2, pen.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.

All to Keeling:.

ROSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.

All to Adams.

COLUMBIAN LEGHORNS.

All to Evans.

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCA8.

Evans: 1, ck ; 1. hen. Smith: 2. 3. ok.

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCA8.
All to Rodman.

BLUE ANDALUSIANS.
All to Shepard Bros.

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH.
All to Carter.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.

All to Andrews.

SILVER POLISH.

AJl to McNulty Bros.

GOLDEN BEARDED POLISH.

Mt. Vernon Polish Yards: 1, 3, 4, ck; 1,

2. 3. 4. hen; 1, 2, 3. 4. ckl; 1. 2, 3. 4, pul.
Gardiner: 2. ck.

BUFF LACED POLISH.
All to McNulty Bros.

HOUDANS.
Wilcox: 1. ck; 2. hen. Shove: 2, ck; 1,
hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.

FAVEROLLES.
Woodward: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2, pul. Nich-
ola: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.

FAVORDOTTES.

All to Nichols.

LAKENVELDERS.

All to Shonfield.

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS.

Inches: 1, ck; 1, hen. Cedar Spring Farm:
1, pen.

COLORED I>ORKINGS.

All to Inchp.s.

CORNISH INDIAN GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BROWN RED GAMES.

All to Whef'ler.

GOLDEN DUCK\\1NG GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

SILVER DUCKWING GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

RED PYLE GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

WHITE GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BLACK GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BIRCHEN GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

WHITE INDIAN GAMES.

Wheeler: 1, ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl; 3, pul.
Macomber: 1. 3. ck; 1, 2, 4. pul.

BLACK RED MALAY GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

BLACK SUMATRA GAMES.

All to Wheeler.

PIT GAMES.

Wheeler: 1. ck; 1. hen; 2. ckl; 1. pul.
Hawes: 2. hen; 3. ckl; 3, pul. Metcalf: 1.
ckl; 2. pul.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAME
BANTAMS.

Welcome: 3. ck; 4, hen; Weeks: 4, ck; 3.
pul. Berry: 1. 2. ck ; 1. 2. hen; 1. pul
Conpdon: 3, hen; 1. 2. 3. ckl; 2. pul. Arm-
strong: 4, ckl. Mcintosh: 4, pul

BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS.

All to ConK^don.

GOLDEN DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.

Armstrong: 1. rk ; 3. hen; 2. pul. Fitton-

2, hen; 2, ckl. Congdon: 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1,

SILVER DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.

Armstrong: 2. ck; 1, hen; 2. pul. Cong-
don: 1. ck: 2. hen; 1. ckl; 3. pul. Weeks:

3, hen; 2. ckl; 1, pul.

RED PYLE GAME BANTAMS.

Cook: 2. ck. Mcintosh: 3. ck ; 4. hen
Congdon: 1, 4. ck; 1. 2. 3. hen; 3, ckl; 1, 2.

3, 4, pul. Princeton Bantam Yards: 1 2
ckl. '

WHITE GAME BANTAMS.

Congdon: 1. ck : 1. hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul.
Wheeler: 2, ck : 2. hen

BLACK GAME BANTAMS.
Congdon: 2. ck ; 2. hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.
Wheeler: 1, ck ; 1 hen

BIRCHEN GAME BANTAMS.
Congdon: 1. 2. ck ; 1. 3. hen; 1. 2. ckl; 1.

4, pul; 1. pen. Cook: 3, 4. ck ; 2, 3 hen-
3, 4. ckl: 2. 3, pul.

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS.

All to Porter.

SILVER SEABRIGHT BANTAMS.

Congrlon: 1, ck ; 1, hen. Porter- 2 ck'
2, hen: 1. ckl; 1. pui. Daniels: 2, pul'.
ROSE COMB BLACK Ii.\NTAMS.

All to Porter.

ROSE COMB WHITE BANTAMS.

All to Porter.

BOOTKD WHITE BANTAMS.

All to Congdon.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

Jewett: 1. ck ; 1. pul. Congdon: 1. hen.
Armstrong: 2. pen.

PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Congdon: 2. ck ; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Morse: 1. ck; 2, hen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Eaton: 1. ck ; 1, 2. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul; 1,

POULTRY FANCIER

pen. Kriegel: 3. ck; 3, hen. Congdon: 2,
ck; 1, hen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

Poch Bros.: 1, 2, ck; 1, 2. hen; 1. ckl; 1,
pul; 1, pen. Perry: 2, ckl; 2, 3, pul. Gay:
2. pen.

LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAMS.

Congdon: 1, ck ; 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.
Harwood: 2, ck ; 2, hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul.

DARK BRAHMA BANTAMS.

All to Congdon.

BLACK TAILED JAPANESE BANTAMS.

Daniels: 1, ck; 1, hen. Auburndale Poul
Yds: 2, ck; 2, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.

BLACK JAPANESE BANTAMS.

All to Daniels.

WHITE JAPANESE BANTAMS.

All to Congdon.

BUFF JAPANESE BANTAMS.

All to Daniels.

POLISH \VHITE CRESTED WHITE
BANTAMS.

All to Congdon.
BUFF LACED POLISH BANTAMS.

All to Ratcliffe.

ROSE COMB BUFF BANTAMS.
All to Congdon.
CORNISH INDIAN GAME BANTAMS.

All to Congdon.
BLACK RED MALAY GAME BANTAMS.

Congdon: 1, ck; 2, hen; 2, ckl. Wheeler:
2. ck; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul.

COLUMBIAN BANTAMS.
Evans: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul.
Sweeney: 2. ckl; 2. 3. pul.

RHODE ISLAND BANTAMS.
All to Ratclifife.

ANY OTHER VARIETY BANTAMS.
Cook: 1, ck. Berry: 1. hen.

BRONZE TURKEYS.
Shepard Bros.: 1, ck; 1, hen. Sweet: 2,
hen.

NARRAGANSETT TURKEYS.
All to Shepard Bros.

SLATE TURKEYS.
All to Shepard Bros.

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WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

Cedar Spring Farm: 1, ck. Shepard Bros.:

2, ck ; 1, hen.

BLACK TURKEYS.
All to Shepard Bros.

BOURBON RED TURKEYS.
All to Shepard Bros.

WHITE PEKIN DUCKS.
All to Knowles.

ROUEN DUCKS.
All to Wheeler.

CAYUGA DUCKS.
All to Wheeler.

GRAY CALL DUCKS.
All to Wheeler.

WHITE CALL DUCKS.
All to Wheeler.

BLACK EAST INDIAN DUCKS.
All to Wheeler.

COLORED MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
Miller: 2, old drake; 2, old duck. Frost:

3, old drake; 3, 4, old duck. Wheeler: 1,
old drake; 1. old duck.

WHITE MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
Miller: 2, old drake; 2, old duck; 1, young
drake; 1, young duck. Wheeler: 1, old
drake; 1, old duck.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Wheeler: 3, old drake; 1, old duck. Shep-
ard Bros.: 2, old drake. Lambert's Poultry
Farm; 1, old drake; 1, young drake; 1,
^oung duck. Kusterer: 4, old drake; 3,
young drake; 2, 4, young duck. Crockford:
2. young drake; 3, young duck. Wilbur, 1
pen.

WILD DUCKS.
Austin: 2, old drake; 2, old duck. Har-
wood: 1, old drake; 1, old duck. Shepardl
Bros.: 3, old duck; 1, young drake.
TOULOUSE GEESE.
Lamberts Poultry Farm: 1, old gander;
1, old goose. Richardson & Son: 1, young
gander; 1, young goose.

EMBDEN GEESE.
Richardson X- Son; 2, old gander; 3, old
goose. Shepard Bros.: 3, old gander; 2, old
goose. Shove: 1, old gander; 1, old goose.
AFRICAN GEESE.
All to Shepard Bros.

Awards at Parsons, Kas.

EXHIBITORS AT PARSONS, KAN. R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Bausman. A. C Parsons, Kas. Lant: 1, 2, ckl; 1, ck ; 1. 2, 3, 4, hen;

Bernardin, E. P Parsons, Kas. 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, pul; 1, pen. Wokott: 3. ckl.

Blaker. A. E Parsons. Kas. DARK BRAHMAS.

Braunsdorf, A. C Parsons, Kas. All to Carson.

Brow nlee, Ralph Parsons, Kas. BUFF COCHINS.

Brunson, C. T Parsons, Kas. All to Dunn.

Carson, Cleveland Mound Valley, Kas. BLACK LANGSHANS.

Castle, R. L Parsons, Kas, Humphrey: 3, pul; 5, ckl. Castle: 1. 2,

Castleberry, M McCune, Kas. ck ; 1, ckl; 2, 4, hen; 4, 5, pul; 2. 3, pen.

Davis, A Parsons, Kas. Castleberry: 1, 2, 4, pul; 1, 3. 5, hen; 2, 3,

Dunn. J. A Parsons, Kas. ckl; 1, pen.

Elder, J. W Parsons, Kas. S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Fritz Bros Chanute, Kas. Inman: 1. 2, ckl; l'. ck ; 1, pen. Brunson:

Hess. Wm. A Humboldt, Kas. 1, ck ; 3, 4, ckl; 1, 2. 3, .o. hen; 5, pul; 2,

Humphrey. Harry A.... Mound Valley, Kas. pen. Braunsdorf: 1, 2, 3, 4, pul; 3, ck ;

Inman, Fred H Dewey, Okla. 5, ckl; 4. hen; 3. pen.

Kincaid. W. E Galena, Kas. CORNISH INDIAN GAMES.

Lant, E. F Parsons, Kas. All to Massey.

Laqua, F Pittsburg. Kas. GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS,

McDown. J, P Parsons, Kas. Thurston: 1. 2, 3. hen; 2, ckl. Bernardin:

Maloney, Robert Parsons, Kas. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, pul; 1, ckl; 1, pen.

Massey, G. R Parsons. Kas. BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

Taylor, J. M McCune, Kas. All to Malonev.

Thurston. Wayne Parsons. Kas. BRONZE TURKEYS.

Ward. J. S Parsons, Kas. All to Braunsdorf.

Wayman, L Parsons, Kas. PEKIN DUCKS.

Wick, E. A Parsons, Kas. All to Braunsdorf.

Wolcott, W. H Parsons, Kas.

Wyble Bros. Chanute, Kas. ~ "^ ' '

^'^^^^ pSV,^rT'i^'^RO?iS: ^"^ ^'•'^^f EVENTUALLY Alway, one story.

Laqua: 3, ckl; 4, pen. Taylor: i. pen; J"'* natures Always warm and

I. 2. ckl; 3. 4, pul Blaker: 1. 4. ',. ck ; way. Always CLOUGH'S dry fits all sizes

I, 2, 3, 5, hen; 5, ckl; 3, pen. Braunsdorf: i ( / , ('. , *"*>"»

I, pul; 4. ckl; 3. ck; 4, hen; 2. pen. Baus- «"y "om chick chicks or fowls.

man: 5. pen. Spicer & Son: 2. ck; 2, 5, pul. heat and oerfect LAMPLESS i/ Ar.-,^r, » 9nn

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS neai ana perieci UMmrLtdd ^ dozen to 200

All to Davis. * ventilation. En- si2e only $5

All to'^Hel ^'^^^^^'I'M ^">^K8. dorsed by all that BROODERS! Principle and

WHITE WYANDOT TES. u»e them, even ex- r e s u 1 1 s are

^^■"^^'■'^y^.^ls\'{!-^;TUl perimenul ,.a,io„.. WHY NOT nKh,;,.„«

hen; 2, pen. Ward: 2, 3, ck ; 2, hen; 4, pul; A perfect remedy for 95 to 100

4, 5, ckl: 3, pen. Laqua: 1. pul; 2, ckl. ' all rhirlt rli«5/»aM.« T« MnU/'> . t

SILVER LACED WVANDOTTES. ail cmcK diseases, lo NOW? percent of

McDown: 3, pul; Elder: 1, 2. ckl; 1, 2, be used out or indoors. the hatch.

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS. 't will not m^ke ash piles of the home of the chicks.

All to^ca^rso^^^^^ ORPINGTONS l^ ^y '^"'' b^»" than the average mother hen.

All to Wick. ■ rree literature. Address

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS /^. #«..»..,» . .-

All to woieott. ^ CLOUGH'S LAMPLESS BROODER. Aurora, III.

JOSEPH DAGLE. Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member Aniencan Poultry A.ssociation. Member Buff Rock
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Awards at West Haven, Conn.

EXHIBITORS AT WEST HAVEN,

Auchincloss. E. S Darien

Bailey. A. S Cobalt,'

Barnum, E. S Bridgeport

Beebe, H. E Waterford,

Bishop, F. W Guilford.

Bishop, R. W Guilford.

Bolinder, Alfred. Meriden

Booza, W. T WallinKford.

Bottamly Bros Glenbrook

Brundage. Bur Danbury'

Burrall, Anna L Union City

Capen Bros Bloomfield,'

Catlin, H. H Shelton,

Chovets, A. M Wallingford.

Clark. A. J New Haven,

Clark, C. H Cobalt,

Clark, E. B West Haven,

Clark, M. T West Haven,

Coggins & Rossbach Meriden,

Copes Poultry Farm Meriden

::uttenden. J. J Waterford.

Davis. N. Evan Mlddletown,

Doehr, Emil R Wallingford,

Duning. H. P Robertsville.

Emmerson, A West Haven

Even. C. W Hartford,

Farnsworth, H. W New Haven,

Felsmere Farm Branford]

Foster, J. W Seymour,

Fowler, F. E Meriden.

Gale Poultry Place New Haven

Gilbert. W. A

Grimm, Henry A. . .

Hart. R. H

Hastings, Mrs. T. S'

Hays. Mis.s Mary Manchester,'

Hillside Bantam Yards Shirley,

Hofacker, W. C New Haven,

House, Clarence Southlngton,

Howard, H. S New Haven.

Howes, A. F Sheffield,

tves. Paul P Guilford,

Kiernan. J. P Derby,

Klatt, E. A Seymour,

Knecht, J. E Mt. Carmel,

Lamb, Merton J Plainville,

Langbein, J. F New Haven,

Livandu.ski, J. T Rockfall,

Maher. W. J West Haven.

Munger, B. B East River.

Vettleton, Geo. H New Haven,

Oelkuct, Ed Burnside,

O'Neil. Jos Holyoke.

Pattison, R. T Mlddletown,

Payne Bros Portland,

Peck, C. A West Haven,

Penfield, H. E Newington Jet.,

Pratt. J. F Meriden,

Quackenbush, A. & B Darien.

Roberts, H, C Shelton.

5choenfield. W. A Meriden.

Shute. Joshua Meriden,

Smith, J. B New Haven,

Stevens, F. F Canaan.

Sutterlin, S. E Meriden,

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I .still have a few fine yearling BARRED
ROCK breeders to sell and 200 of the best
chicks I ever owned. Order now and get
your pick. Prices right.

E. F. PEIRCE

RTE. 1, PORT CUNTON. OHIO

Breeder of Prize Winning Barred Rocks

LEGHORNS, HOUDANS

ROCKS

Houdans for January 3,
to date 929. Send for my
show record for 1909-10.

HF DOrFPQ 929 MISS STREET
. C. IVUUi:.lViJ, LA CROSSE. WIS.

C* \ C L D^ Over S'K) prlzeH

omgie tomb Brown won at large

I orrk^rnc CHAMPIONS HbowH in 2o yearB
t> or me west p^, nij^ht color

and size with yellow legs. 1 have a fnw breeding
hens lo spare, good ones Will let them go at
^l.-W each to make room for my young stock
Clrrulnr free.
O. F. and J. I..anGr, La CroKHe, Win.

S. C- Rhode Island Reds

Some fine cockerels %\ each. Eggs
from birds scoring 90 to 93, |1.50 per
15. One cock and 6 hens. Partridge
Wyandottes for sale cheap.
D. E. MILLER, ROME CITY, IND.

Swift, W. T West Haven. Conn.

Talmage, S. L West Haven, Conn.

Thayer, Mrs East Haven, Conn.

Warrinn, M. A Bridgeport, Conn.

Welcome, F. E West Haven, Conn,

Whiting. E. H Meriden. Conn.

Wilbur. M. E New Haven, Conn.

Wilkinson, J. H Mlddletown, Conn.

Wilson, A. J Manchester, Conn.

Zwick, F. S Seymour, Conn.

AWARDS AT WKST HAVEN, CONN.
BARKED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Bishop: 4. ckl. Bottomly Bros.: 2, 3, hen;
2 ckl; 2, pen. Clark: 1, 2, 3, pul. Capen
Bros.: 1, 2, ck; 1. 4, hen; 1, 3. ckl; 4. pul;

1, pen. Auchincloss: 3, ck; 3, pen. Emmer-
son: 4, pul. Swift: 4, ck.

\%TIITE PLYMOUTH ROCK.
,„Grimm: 1. ckl.; 1, pul. Smith: 1, ck.;
13, hen; 2, ckl. Swift, 2. ck. Maher: 1, ck. ;

2, hen; 34, ckl.; 2, pul.; 1, pen.

Bl FF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Foster: 1, ck. ; 2, ckl.; 2, pul. Zwick:
2, ck. ; 1. 2, 3, hen; 3, 4, ckl.; 1. 3, 4. pul.;
1, pen. Doehr: 1, ckl.

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH BOCKS.
All to Klatt.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Clark: 1, hen. Talmage: 4, pul. Nettle-
ton: 1, ck; 2, hen; 4, ckl: Gould: 3, ck;
4. hen; 3, 4, pen. A. & B. Farm: 3, hen.
Quackenbush: 2, pen. Farnsworth: 2, 4,
ck; 3, ckl; 2, 3. pul. Wilbur: 1. 2, ckl; 1,
pul; 1, pen,

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Penfield: 1, 2, pul. G'Niel: 1, ck; 1, hen;
1, ckl; 3, pul; 1, pen.

GOLDEN WYANDOTTES.
All to Penfield.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
All to Barnum.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.
Clark: 1, ck ; 1, 2, 3. hen; 1, 3, ckl; 2, 3.
4, pul; 1, pen. Oelkuct: 2, ckl; 1, pul.
Clark: 4, hen.

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.
All to Levanduski.

COLUMBIAN A^TANDOTTES.
Doehr: 1, 3, pul. Auchincloss: 1, ck; 3,
hen; 1. 2, ckl; 2. 4, pul; 1, pen. Knecht:

1, 2, 4, hen; 3. 4, ckl.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.
Shute: 4, ck; 1, hen; 1, 3, ck; 1, 2, pul.
Howes: 1, ck. Cruttenden: 4, pul. Doehr:

2, 3. ck; 2. 3, hen; 2. ckl; 1, 2, pen. Pratt:
4, ckl; 3, pul. Hastings: 4. hen.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.
Cruttenden: 2, ck; 2, hpn; 1, ckl. Doehr:

1, ck; 1, hen; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Whiting:

3, ck; 2, ckl; 3, 4. pul.

R. S. BLACK ORPINGTONS.
All to Cruttenden.

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.
Johnson: 3, pul. Doehr: 1, 2, ck; 1, hen;

2, 3, ckl; 2, pul; 2, pen. Pratt: 2. hen; 1,

4, ckl; 1, 4, pul; 1, pen.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Dunning: 1, 4, ck; 1, hen; 4, ckl; 2, 3, 4,
pul; 3. pen. Davis: 4, pen. Munger: 1,
pen. Smith: 2, ck. Swift: 3, ck. Bailey:
2. 3, 4, hen; 1. 2, 3. ckl; 1, pul; 2, pen.
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Howard: 3, pul. Payne Bros: 1, 3, ck;
1, 2. hen; 1, 3, 4, ckl; 1, 2, 4, pul; 1, 2, pen.
W^ilkinson: 2, ck; 2, ckl.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.

Burrall: 1, pen.

BLACK LANGSHANS.

Ives: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1,2, ckl; 1, pul; 1,
pen. Bishop: 2, ck; 2, hen.

WHITE LANGSHANS.

All to Ives.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Warrinn: 1, ck; 1, 2, pul. Chovets: 1, ckl.

8. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Stevens: 3, ck; 2, hen. Gale Poultry Place:

2, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Felamere
Farm: 1, ck; 2, ckl.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Coggins & Rossbach: 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl;

3, pul; 1, pen. Clark: 2, ck ; 2, pen. Thayer:
3, pen. Gale Poultry Place: 1, 3, hen; 1, 2,
pul. Hart: 2, ckl; 4, pul.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.

All to Pattison.

R. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.

All to Zwick.

ANCONAS.

Catlin: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, 3, ckl; 3, 4, pul;
1. pen. Beebe: 3, ck; 4, hen; 2, pul. Even:
3, hen; 4, ckl. Kiernan: 2, ck; 2, hen; 2,
ckl; 1, pul.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Sutterlin: 1 2, ck 1, 2, hen; 1. ckl; 1,
pul. Gilbert: 1, pen.

DOMINIQUES.

All to Fowler.

PLAIN SILVER POLISH.

Copes Poultry Farm: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen;
1, ckl; 1, pul. House: 2. ck; 2, pul.
GOLDEN POLISH.
Bolinder: 2, ckl; 2, pul. Schoenfeld: 2, ck;
3, ckl; 3, pul. Copes Poultry Farm: 1, ck;
I, hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul; 2, pen. Felsmere
Farm: 1, pen.

WHITE CRE.STED BLACK POLISH.
Roberts: 2. ck; 2, hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul.
Copes Poultry Farm: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl;
1, pul.

PLAIN WHITE POLISH.
All to House.

HOUDANS.
Hays: 3, 4. ck; Langbein: 1, 2, ck; 1, ckl;
1, pul.

CORNISH.
All to Lamb.

W. L. RED CORNISH.
All to Wilson.

BLACK BREASTED RED GAME
BANTAMS.
Booza: 2. ck. Welcome: 1, ck; 1, hen;
1, ckl; 1, pul.
SILVER DUCKWING GAME BANTAMS.
All to Welcome.

RED PYLE GAME BANTAMS.
All to Booza.

SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
All to Hofacker.

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
All to Hofacker.

BUFF COCHIN BANT.\3IS.
Peck: 2, hen; 4, pul. Hillside Bantam
Yards: 1, ck; 3, hen; 3, ckl; 3, pul. Brun-
dage: 2, ck; 1, 4, hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul;
1, pen.

WTOTE COCHIN BANTAMS.
Peck: 1, 2, hen. Hofacker: 1, ck ; 3, hen.
Lamb: 1, ckl; 1. pul.

COLORED MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
All to Clark.

BRONZE TURKEYS.
All to Auchincloss.

Awards at Lamont, Mo.

EXHIBITORS AT LAMONTE. MO.

Bell. W. L Lamonte. Mo.

Buckley, T. J Lamonte, Mo.

Buckley, Mrs. T. J Lamonte, Mo.

Connor, S'. C Lamonte, Mo.

De Jarnett, Mrs. J Sedalia, Mo.

Doffing, Mrs. M Lamonte, Mo.

Hon. Edward Deepwater, Mo.

Hurlbut, W. E Sedalia, Mo.

Johnson. Mrs. W. C Hughesville, Mo.

Johnston. John W Lamonte, Mo.

Kemp. Mrs. Henry Dresden, Mo.

Landes, Lester Hughesville, Mo.

McGruder, Mrs, H. L Lamonte, Mo.

McNair, D. E Lamonte. Mo.

Meuschke, Harry Sedalia, Mo.

Scheerer. Mrs. Fred Hughesville, Mo.

Sims. D. W Lamonte. Mo.

Staples, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. ... Lamonte, Mo.

Staples. J. F Lamonte, Mo.

Staples, Mrs. J. L Lamonte, Mo.

Staples, Lucille Lamonte, Mo.

Wheaton, W. F Dresden, Mo.

AWARDS AT LAMONTE, MO.

BARRED PLYMOUTH RO<KS.

Wheaton: 2, ck; 2, 3, hen; 3, ckl; 1, 2. 3.

pul; 1. pen. Mrs. Doffing: 1, ckl; 2. pen.
Hon: 3. pen.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Johnston: 1, ck; 1. 2. 3. hen; 1, 2, 3, pul;
1, 2, 3, ckl.

SILVER LACEI> WYANDOTTES.

All to Connor.

COLUMBIAN WYANI>(>TT»S.

All to Staples.

8. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Landes: 2, ck ; 2, hen. Staples: 3. ck;
3, hen. Johnson: 1, 2, ckl; 3, pul. McNair:
3. ckl. Hurlbut: 1, 2, pul.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Staples: 1. 2, ckl; 1. pul. Kemp: 3, ckl;
3, pul. Buckley: 2, pul.

R. S. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

hen; 1, 2. 3, ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul; 1, 2, pen.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

All to McGruder.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Staples.

BRONZE TURKEYS.

Buckley: 1, ck; 1, ckl. Sims: 2, ck; 2. 3,
ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1. 2, 3. pul. Wheaton: 3,

BLACK TURKEYS.

All to Bell.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

All to De Jarnett.

BOURBON RED TURKEYS.

Scheerer: 1, ck; 2, hen. Connor: 2, ck;
1, hen.

Scheerer: 1. ck; 1. 2, hen; 2, 3, ckl; 1, 2,
3, pul.

BLACK LANGSHANS.

Plainview Poultry Yards: 1. 2. 3. ck ; 1,2,

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Awards at Bridgeton, N. J.

EXHIBITORS AT BKIDdKTON, N. J. 2. pul ; 1. pen. Wright: 4. hen; 5. pul;

Ballard, E. A Chestnut Hill. Pa. 3. pen

Barker, W. F Woodstown, N. J. BUFF PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

Barker. W. T Bridgeton. N. J. All to Rlchman.

Batty, Herman L Sewell. N. J. WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Belmar Poultry Farm SchwenksviUe, Pa. Sayre: 1, ck; 3, 4, hen; 1, 2. ckl; 3.

^ethel, W. S Millville, N. J. pul. Deptford Poultry Farm: 2, 4. ck;

Bonham, E R Bridgeton, N. J. Stout: 3, ck; 1. 2, hen; 1. pul. Barker:

Carman & Simon Bridgeton. N. J. 5. hen; 2. pul. Hagerman: 3. ckl. Husted:

Carpenter, B. S Dunellen, N. J. i, ckl. Kille; 5. ckl. Lewis: 5. pul.

^f-JJ' .peo. . Lakehurst. N. J. SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

Clitt, Jos. B Sewell. N. J. Siekler: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen; 2, pul. Carman:

Cooper, B W.... Moorestown, N. J. 2, ckl; 4, pul. Wright: 1, 5, pul. John-

Danner. Wilson H Butztown, Pa. son. 3. pul.

Deptford Poultry Farm Sewell, N. J. PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

Fairfield Poultry Farm Fairton, N. J. Carpenter: 1. ck; 4. pul; 3. pen. liamlyn:

Fisher, John D Bridgeton, N. J. 5, ck; 2, hen. Holmes: 3. 5. ck; 1. 3, hen;

Fogg. Jos..... Shiloh, N. .T. 1, 3, 4, ckl; 1, 2. pul; 1. pen. Johnson:

Fralinger. R A... Bridgeton. N. J. 4. ck; 5, pul. Smith: 4. hen. Belmar

Frederick. Geo. E Wenonah, N. J. Poultry Farm: 5, hen. Sowden : 2, ckl;

Gangler, Wm. L Limerick. Pa. Ware: 5, ckl. Woodside, 3 pul. Carpenter:

Hagerman. John Toms River, N. J. 4, pul. Fralinger: '^ pen

Hamlyn, Geo. F Bridgeton, N. J. COLU3IBIAN WYANDOTTES.

Hatch, L. F.... Vineland, N. J. Deptford Poultry Farm: 1, ckl; 3. pul.

Homes, Chas. t . . . . Bridgeton, N. J. Barker: 2, ckl; 1, pul. Cooper: 3, ckl;

Holmes, Mrs, Wm. B Bridgeton, N. J. 2. pul. Clift: 4 ckl

Husted. Geo Bridgeton. N. J. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Husted. Spencer A ^...Shiloh. N. J. Cole: 1. ck ; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1. 2, pul.

Johnson, Lewis S Bridgeton. N. J. Bonham: 3, pul. Batty: 4. pul.

A prize-winning Houdan, bred and owned l,.v \V. H. Pippin, Newton, 111., who has a

large flot k of excellent birds.

Kllle. Jos. A Clavton.

Lewis. Edgar C Merchant vi lie.

ii*e.sc»i. J. Wm Trenton,

Meickelbach. Fred Bridgeton.

Minch Bros Bridgeton

Moore. Daniel R Bridgeton.

Mooris. Wm. L Greenwood

Ogden Elmer D Bridgeton,

Richman, Ewald Bridgeton.

Rosenow. Chas. F Vineland

Sayre, j. l Vineland.'

Slckler. Wm. B Salem.

Smith, J. Emlen Chestnut Hil

Smith, St. Clair Southold

Souder. Daniel Bridgeton

Sowden. Wm. H Wenonah.'

Springer. Paul G Bridgeton.

Stout. Harry S Trenton.

Todd. W. C Greenwood

Wallace. Walter T Millville

Ware. B. B Bridgeton,'

Ware. Elsmore Bridgeton.

Ware, Thuma.<=! Bridgeton.

Woodside. Noah Salem.

Wright. D. Watson Greenwich

Wright. Wm. C WInslow Jet..'

AWARDS AT BRID<.ETON. N. J.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Morris: 1. ck; 1. 2, 3, hen. 4 ckl; 1, pul.
Ware: 2. ck; 5. hen; 1, 2. 3. ckl; 4. pul;
I. 2, pen. Rosenow: 4. hen; 5, ckl; 5,
pul. Danner: 2, 3. pul

WIUTE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Fairfield Poultry Farm: 1, 4. ck; 2. 5.
hen; 1, 2, 3. ckl; 1. 3, 4. pul; 2. pen.
Springer: 2. 3. 5. ck; 1, 3. hen; 4. 5. ckl;

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R. C. RHODE 1SL.4ND REDS.

Cole: 1, ck; 1. 3, hen; 3. 4. ckl; 1. 2.

pul; 1, pen. Todd: 2, hen; 1. ckl. Mickel-

bach: 2, ckl; 3. pul. Frederick: 4, 5, pul.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.

Holmes: 1. ck; i;, hen. Souder: 2, ck ;

1, hen; 1, pul.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.
Moore: 1, ck : 3. lien; 4, ckl; 3. pul;
1. pen. Minch Bros.: 2, ck; 1. 2, 4. hen;
1. 2. 3, ckl; 1, 2. 4, pul; 2. pen.

S. C. WHITE LE(i HORNS.
Hatch: 1, ck; 1. 2, 3. 4, hen; 1. 2, 4,
ckl; 1, 2, 3, 5. pul; 1. 2. pen. Carr: 2. ck.
('arman & Simon: 3. ck; 5, hen; 3. pen.
Clift: :{. ckl; 4. pul.

R. C. WHITE LECiHORNS.
All to Batty.

ANCONAS.
All to Fogg.

R. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Mickelhach: 1. ck; 1. pen. Hughes: 2.
ck; 1. 2. hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1. 2, pul; 2, pen
SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
Husted: 1. 4, ck; 3. 5. hen; 1. 2. 3, 4.
ckl; 1. 3. 4, r>, pul; 1, 2, pen. Carr: 2.
3. ck; 1. 2. hen. Wallace: 4, hen; 5. ckl;
-', pul.

HOUDANS.
Gangler: 1, ck. Ware: 2, ck. Odgen-
3, ck: 3. hen; 1. ckl; 3, 4, pul. Ballard:

4, rk;

hen;

5, pul; 3, pen. Smith:

ck; 1, 2. hen; 2, ckl; 1, pul; 1. pen!
Fisher: 4, hen.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Fairfield Poultry Farm.

February, *10

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Liesch.

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.

All to Ware.

PEKIN DUCKS.

Springer: 1, 2. 4, old drake; 1. 2. 3. old
duck; 1. 2. young drake; 1, 2. young duck.
Danner: 3, old drake; 4. old duck.
TOULOUSE GEESE.

All to Bethel.

I^. H. Jostes, Route 2, Macon, 111., is en-
titled special consideration from Poultry
Fancier readers who expect to purchase
stock or eggs in his varieties. He breeds
Light Brahmas and S. C. Brown Leghorns
and has for years been winning the lion's
share of the prizes wherever he exhibits.
He not only has the very highest quality
of stock, but he knows how to breed the
best and how to select stock that will best
suit the needs of his customers. At the
Illinois State Show at Springfield this sea-
son he won the specials for best shaped
male and female in the Light Brahma
class and also 2nd cock, 2nd hen, 4th pul-
let, 4th cockerel and 2nd pen. He won 1st
pullet and 3rd cockerel in S. C. Brown
Leghorn class on three entries. He won
at Decatur, 111,, on Light Brahmas every
first, second, third and fourth prize on
cockerels, pullets and hens, also 1st, 2nd
cockerel, 1st, 2nd pen in strong competi-
tion. He won on S. C, Brown Leghorns 1st
cockerel. 2nd, 4th pullets and 2nd pen with
eight exhibitors in the class. Look up his
ad on another page and write him for
prices on what you may want.

O. L. Prouty, Box 115, New Lothrop,
Mich., who is one of the acknowledged
leaders in Partridge Plymouth Rocks,
writes us that he is selling eggs from his
best pens this season at $3 per setting and
prepays express. He has a special bargain
at the present time in a trio of good birds
which he offers for $8 if taken at once,

F, L. Ober, Route 1, Verona, Pa., made
the following wlnning.s on his Rhode
Island Reds at the big Butler, Pa., show
this season: On Rose Combs 1. 2; cocks.

1, 2; hens, 1, 2; cockerels. 1. 2, 3; pullets.
1; pen. On Single Combs. 1; cockerel, 1,

2, 3. 4; pullets, 1; pen. No old birds en-
tered. He won the silver cup for the best
display of Rose Comb Reds, also the
shape and color specials offered by the R,
[. Red Club of America and National Rose
Comb Club, in addition to eight other
special prizes. Mr. Ober can please anv of
our readers who are looking for extra
quality in Reds and his prices are reason-
able.

SP RRnWM Choice cockerels
. V^. DIXV^VVl^ for sale. Bred in line

imi-IOPMQ f"'" several years. Cock-
LilliVftinvyiXl^O erel bred females to spare
Kxcellf^nt lavers Prices reasonabie.
H. E MAROUARDT. WAUSAU. WIS.

PRIZE WINNING BARRED PLY-
MOUTH ROCKS oTb^;?id?rVa^.fd

young stock.

HARRY W. PRICE. RTE 2. LA GRANGE. IND.

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN, PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry, Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
room, 30 years a poultryman.

BIG BROWN BEAUTIES

Rkrs from peti scoring 188'/4 hy Shellaberger
Oiilv li»Tiited number of orders taken. Jl^ to $5
p*-rl5. Pullet or cockerel mating Brown I^eghorn
Pnultrv Farm T H Rvan Prop., Kenosha, Wis.

Prouty's Partridge Plymouth Rocks

Good trio for $« if taken at once, are worth nioie
but I must have the room. Eggs |3 per .setting,
express prepaid. O I.,. PROUTY,

Box )lf) New Lothrop, Mich.

R. C. R. I. REUS ac tsui-h PlYMOUI H ROCKS

A tew grand red cockerels for sale at rea.sonable
prices. My birds have won manv prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. ' rCggs now for
$2 00 perl.'i fiom pens tnaied to produce iiigli cla^s
exhihnion stnrk Harry Sower. Rome City. Ind.

WHITE ANI> SILVKR LACED WYAN-
IM)TTE COCKERELS. HOIDAN COCK-
ERELS. Hred from noted Htrnlns. Satlfactlon
guaranteed. Get prices.

B. H. BACON, R. F. D., Elroy, Wis.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING—

Secrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessons in Judging— By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

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special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
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cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
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Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
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How to Straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.

How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and
Watties.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear
Lobes.

How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the
Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.

How to Clean the Plumage of Partl-Colored fowls for Show
Without Washing.

Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.

Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple
Barring,

How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.

How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose In the Show
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How to* Add Lustre to Plumage of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks,

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from the Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing or
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

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How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

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A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

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How to Prevent Light Colored Le^s.
How to increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds,
A nood Stimulant and Preventive of Colds In Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers In Partl-Colored

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How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

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What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.
Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

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Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come In Contact

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How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb. Wattles, etc., when injured In the

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Answers to Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question.— I have two Buff Orpington
cockerels and wish to exhibit one of
them the latter part of February, but do
not know whicli to select. One has an
extra srood 5 point comb and shows a lit-
tle white in the ear lobe. The other
has a g^ood ear lobe but has 6 points on
his comb. Which one had T better send*'
The quality is about equal in other ways.
About what is the usual cut for white
in ear lobes in Buff Orping-tons?

Answer.— It is hardlv possible for us
to give you reliable information without
having an opportunity to examine the
birds, and you will therefore have to
make allowances in that respect. The
extra point on the comb would be cut
one-half point, in addition to the other
comb defects. A very little white in
ear lobes should be cut one-half point
The cut ranges from one-half to one and
one-half. If the lobe is more than one-
third white, the bird would have to be
disoualifled.

The impression gained from the de-
serir)tion of the two birds is that the
cuts on head points would be iust about
the same.

Question.— In buff fowls, which is the
most objectionable, black or white?

Answer.— The Standard of Perfection
attaches the same importance to each of

these defects. Itut nearly all experienced
breeders consider white the most objec-
tionable.

Question. — When introducing new blood
into a fiock is it better to do it through
a male than a female?

Answer. — Using a male
and is usually best, but
lished line-bred flock it
a female.

Question. — In breeding for fancy pur-
poses is it advisable to nut birds in the
breeding pen that score less than 90
points?

Answer. -
fects are
such that
breeding.

is much quicker
in a long estab-
is better to use

—No, unless some of the de-

the result of accidents or are

are not transmissible through

•3f ^

Does one parent have more
the .size of the progeny than

Question. -
influence on
the other?

Answer. — It is believed bv manv ex-
perienced breeders that the female influ-
ences size and the male, color.

Question. — What would be the score of
a pen of birds in the show room if each
bird in the pen was perfect?

Answer. — 200 ooints.

Nis^-ws or

POULTRY SHOWS (Si,
SPECIALTY CLUBS

Notices sent to us by secretaries wifl be pub-
lished in this department v^ithout charge

AMERICAN WHITE WYANDOTTE
CLUB.

The American White Wyandotte Club
numbers among its members some of the
leading breeders in the country. Its
membership is not as large as that of
some other specialty clubs, but what it
lacks in numbers is made up in enthusi-
asm and character of its members. The
officers are: President, Horace Havemey-
er, Stamford, Conn.; vice-president, F W
Corey, Ossining, N. Y. ; secretary-treas-
urer, Geo. W. Dakin, Roxbury Crossing,
Mass. The executive committee is com-
posed of Wm. Barry Owen, Arthur G.
Duston and C. F. Titus. The next annual
meetmg will be held at Boston show and
valuable prizes will be offered. The mem-
bership fee is $5.00, which includes the
first year's dues. The secretary will be
glad to answer all inquiries regarding the
club.

NATIONAL S. C. BLACK ORPINQTON

CLUB.

The annual meeting of the club took
place at Chicago Dec. 8 at 3 p. m., in
connection with the Chicago show.

The secretary-treasurer's report showed
an increase of over 100 per cent in mem-
bership during the year and for the first
time In the club's history a substantial
sum in the treasury. St. Louis was fa-
vored as the place for the next annual
meeting and members will vote on the
mat*' ■• l"»er.

Numerr us prizes were voted for the eev-
eral shows next year. A goodly sura wag

also set aside as an advertising fund to
adyertise the breed.

A club emblem was decided upon and
will be for sale to members for their own
use only.

A committee was appointed to recora-
m.®"^ , c-ertain changes in the Standard.
Ihe clul) catalog goes to press Jan. 1.

All old officers were renominated except
the vice president and ballots will shortly
bo sent to all members for their choice of
onicers.

Milton W. Brown, Sec,

Cincinnati, O.

INTERNATIONAL ANCONA CLUB.

The interest being manifested in this
Club by breeders of Anconas is far be-
yond the expectations of any of its pro-
moters. It seems that the Ancona breed-
ers have been waiting for just such an
opportunity as the International Club of-
fers them, to place their fowls forward
into pul)licity, and I wish to say to every
breeder of Anconas, come with u.s and
lend us your co-operation and l)y so do-
ing secure benefits for yourself that will
bring you better birds, better prices and
advantages that you cannot secure as in-
dividuals. MembershiT) feos and dues $1
per year. We are daily mailing Club rib-
bons to members who have won them at
shows in November :ind December Our
Annual Meeting will ])o held in connection
with Cleveland show, .Tanuary 24 to 29
where a large lot of specials will bo of-
fered—something for everybody If vou
can bo with us do so, if not. tlien join at
once and let th-? Club assist vou in vour

February, '10

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local shows. If interested in the least,
write for Club catalogue, free.

W. P. McNary, Sec'y-Treasurer.
Bannock, Ohio.

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCK CLUB.

At the meeting of the Partridge Ply-
mouth Rock Club held at the New York
show this season the following officers
were elected: J. A. Hageman, president,
Charlotte, Mich.; R. A. Johnston, vice-
president. Ottawa, Can.; M. Harvey Goins.
secretary, Langhome, Pa. Executive Com-
mittee. Edw. G. Noonan, Alex. Smith,
Wm. F. Potterall and the president and
secretary. The aim of the club is to
l)ooin the Partridge Plymouth Rocks and
to benefit every breeder of them. All
who are interested should write to the sec-
retary for information.

AMERICAN BUFF COCHIN CLUB.

The seventh annual meeting of the
American BulT Cochin Club was held in
Madison Square Garden. New York. N. Y.
Thursday. Dec. 30. 1909. The following
officers were elected for one year: Presi-
dent, Dr. J. J. Hare, Whitby. Ont. ; first
vice-president. H. J. Jenner, Pocahontas,
111.; second yice-])resident. Dr. A. W.
Bell. Winnipeg. Can.; third vice-presi-
dent, Thomas Curry, Anderson. Ind.;
fourth vice-president, C. W. Coolige. Bris-
tol. N. H. ; secretary and treasurer, C. W.
Case, Rochester, Mich.; assistant secre-
tary, C. W. Best, Charlotte. N. C. Ex-
ecutive Committee: H. N. Hanchett.
ackson, Mich.; T. A. Heffner. Cedar Rap-
ids, la.; Hugh Wyatt. London. Can.; F.
C. Hare. Quincv. 111.: C. M. Atwood. Den-
ver, Colo.; D. C. Peoples, Urichsville, O.;
A. Sprankle. Lima. O. ; Mrs. Cora I.
North. Wallbrook, Md. The next meet-
ing of the Club will be held at Buffalo.
N. J.. January. 1911.

This Club deserves the support of
every Cochin breeder in America, as it
is a great benefit to them and their
breed. The membershin fee is only one
dollar. Send to C. W. Case. Secy.-Treas.,
Rochester. Mich.

AMERICAN BLACK MINORCA CLUB.

The fifteenth annual meeting of the
American Black Minorca Club was held
January 1. 1910, at Madison Square Gar-
den, New York. The following ofi[icer&-
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Hon. J. P. Hilldorfer, AUeghanv.
Pa.; vice-president, R. H. Armstrong.
Richmond Hil' L. I., N. Y. ; secretary
and treasurer. Frank McGrann. Lancas-
ter, Pa. Directors: W. F. Lindenberg,
Ft. Wavne. Ind.; P. S. Klee. Blauvolt.
N. Y. ; Henry Dunne. Toronto, Cknada;
O. E. Remsen. Annapolis, Md.

A large list of new members were
elected and the affairs of the club are In
excellent condition.

MISSOURI STATE SHOW AT KANSAS

CITY.

The Missouri State Poultry Show has
been located at Kansas Citv and will be
held in Convention Hall. November 2S-
December 3. 1910. Ernest Kellerstrass.
the Great White Orpington breeder, of-
fered to furnish the hall to the State
Poultry Board and decorate it as no show
room was ever decorated before. The
show will be cooned with Empire Coops,
and you can begin now to get ready for
one of the best shows ever held in the
world. Kellerstrass savs ho wants tbe
Missouri Poultry Board to eclipse any
show ever held in anv nlaco at anv time.
T. E. Qiiisenborry. Secy.
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NOTICE TO BREEDERS OF R,
BLACK MINORCAS.

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The sixth annual meeting of the In-
ternational Rose Comb Black Minorca
Club was held December 29. 1909 In
Madison Square Garden. New York The
meeting was well attended. The secre-
tary's report showed a gain of thlrtv-
seven new members during the past year
and the affairs of the clul) are in good
conditon. The present show season has
seen great advancement in the number of
entries of Rose Comb Black Minorcas
classes of fifty or more being nuite com-
mon. The club offered specials at over
400 shows the nast season.

Mr. Geo. H. North rup. who has served
as secretary and treasurer of the club

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since it was organized, has announced
that he would decline to serve the elSb
in his capacity longer on account of his
retiring from the Minorca business
Hence the election of officers was looked

^ T^^^/"J?.':^?^ ^".d. resulted as follows
T. A. McKittrick, Hudson N Y- ores!
dent; T A Faulds. London. 'Ont'., vfce-"
president: Llo.vd C. Mishler, North Man-
chester Ind. secretary-treasurer. Mem-
bers of the Board of Directors were an -
pointed as follows: Thomas C. Samuels
Manticoke Pa.; H. A. Keister. Bangor
Micli.; J. G. Yates, Spickard. Mo.; Dr L
P Holbrook. Olympia Wash

The mejnbership fee and first year's
dues are $2. Members received novv win
be credited with dues to July. 1911 Send
to the secretary for application blank and
a copy of the club catalogue.

Of Interest to Langshan Breeders.

The National Langshan Year Book, the
^'^'■''^^^'■f^^^ome of The National Lang-
shan Club, will be shortly issued, the cofy
for the same being at date of this writ-
ing (Jan 5. 1910) in the hands of the
printer. This book will be mailed free to
the members of the club and to others
making application who will send 10c to
coyer postage, etc. The book con ain2
valuable information, including articles
on breeding, qualities, etc., from such

olhlrs'" if ni "^^ ^^.^^^ ^- M- Black ami
others. It al.so contains the club stand-
ard, constitution, and rules for the state
championship contest for the splendid
bronze medals given away each year
Every one interested either as fancier or
utilit.y raiser of either Black or White
Langshans should send for this book for
this club aims to interest the brogders of
both varieties and for both purposes. In
this connection it should be remembered
that this is the club which causTd the
revival of interest in the "best all round
breed on earth," and is now in the field
June""!'- ."^Jf^.^^^oin^r^clumng dues o
June 1. 1911, is but $1. Every breeder
having the interest of this breed at heart
shoud join. Poultry show secretaHes

thrl^}L^ ""^^ ^"'" ^''^ ^^^^^b"" i-Jshts for their
•snow s.

Personaly I will be glad to answer any

L vl"',i^f: f/''' r'"^ ^^"^® I ^^^as unable to
give my attention to the needs of the

anri .,«"{ TT ^ """^ ^" ^^'^ harness again,
and as I belieye most thoroughly in this
breed intend to do all that I can to put
it where I. K Felch says it belongs, ^'^n
the front ranks.

«?r.rir,c,fi 11 ^^r^'^" Aldrich, Scc-Trcas.
bpringfield, Mass.

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American Black Wyandotte Club.

iQ^'n^^ annual meeting held December .31,
iv : i^^ J-^^^ ^^^ York Poultry Show
elected Frank C. Sites, North Doven

?o^''''t4'''';^''^'-'"^= ^^^- "• ^oyd, Wa.shing-
S • t ^•' y^^ president; A. .L Fisher.
Riverhead. L. L, treasurer; Edwin H
^nV'^r, ''^I^''^''™' N. Y., secretary, who',
with Ihomas Flanagan, C. H. Nesbitt and

rp, • ^^iTiith form tho executive board.

the treasurer's report shovyed a balance
On hand.

Edwin H. Morris, Sec'y.

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National Partridge Wyandotte Club.

The first annual meeting of the Na-
tional Partridge Wyandotte Club was held
in connection with the Chicago show, De-
cember 10. 19(19.

A motion was made and unanimously
carried that the secretary-treasurer com-
municate with the .secretary of both the
New York and the WLsconsin State Part-
ridge Wyandotte Club, urging their con-
solidation with the national club; as a
special induc<^ment. the members of said
clubs to be admitted to membership into
the National Partridge Wyandotte Club,
upon tlie payment of $1 each, which will
include the annual dues for the ensuing
year.

W. A. Doolittle suggested that a spe-
cia fund be raised by a subscription of-
fering of the members present, said fund
to lie used at the discretion of the sec-
retary-treasurer, for the purpose of con-
tinuously advertising the club by circu-
lars, etc.. same to be furnished to each
member, who will bo kindly asked to fa-
vor the club liy enclosing said circulars
with their personal correspondence per-
taining to their poultry business, such as
their annual mating list, catalogs, etc.,
as a means b.v which to increase the club
membership, also adding prestige to their

FANCIER

personal standing in the poultry fra-
ternity; the suggestion was well taken
and a fund of $50 was subscribed by the
members present.
. C. E. George and W. A. Doolittle were
tied, on a $5 prize, as a settlement, they
jointly donatod same to be used as a spe-
cial premium at the next club show.

A motion was made and unanimously
carried that a club cup be offered at
every state show in each state where
the club membership was ten or more.

Water Fowl Club of America.

The annual meeting was held Decem-
ber 30, 1909, at the New York Poultry
Show, electing Eugene Sites, North
Dover, Ohio, president; John C Kriner
Stettlersyille, Pa., vice president; Edwin
H. Morris, Sparkili, N. Y., secretary-
treasurer, and 14 state vice presidents.

The treasurer's report showed a bal-
ance on hand. Provision was made for
cups and ribbons to be ottered at the
principal show of each state.

Edwin H. Morris, Sec'y.

How About Your Fences?

No mistake among the poultry raisers
IS as common or more expensive than
that of buying light weight, cheap poul-
try fence. In fact most of the so called
"poultry fence" is not a fence at all, be-
ing little better than ordinary netting
made of cheap wire that cannot be ex-
pected to give protection nor to last.
Don't make that mistake. A good fence
costs much less in the long run Send
to the Brown Fence & Wire Co., Dept 94
Cleveland. Ohio, for President Brown's
eye-opening book on this fence question
He manufactures fence of all kinds but
seems to take especial pride in the fence
lie makes for poultry raisers. While so
closely woven as to answer every purpose
of the poultry fence, they are heavy
enough and substantial enough to be used
as a general farm fence. At the bottom
the wires are run one inch apart The
top or border wires are male of No 914
hard high carbon steel so that they re-
quire no boards or rails with them.

The substantial construction of the
fence enables you to set your posts farth-
er apart than is required by the ordinary
poultry fencing, so that you can erect a
real Brown fence strong enough to turn
any animal on your place for less money
than it would cost you to put up cheap
poultry netting.

Another feature which must not be
overlooked is the extra heavy galvanizing
of the Brown fences. In recent years
much of the f^nce on the market has
rusted out in a short time, owing to the
poor galvanizing. The Brown fence is
treated by a process which amounts to
double galvanizing and easily doubles the
life of the wire.

Y^ou are certainly interested in this
fencing (piestion. Got Brown's book and
get down to the root of the matter It
will pay you to investigate.

In the report of the New York Show
which appeared in the January number
A. A. Winkler. Rutherford. N. J. was
given credit for winning ,5th on pullet in
the Black Langshan class. This was an
error, as Mr. Winkler was awarded 2nd
His birds are of the highest quality and
they win for him and his customers in
the strongest competition.

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Readers who are interested in Partridge
Plymouth Rocks should write to Paul
Lafromboise, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., for
prices on stock and eggs. His excellent
record at such shows as Chicago. St.
Ijouis and Detroit is convincing evidence
of the quality of his birds. He makes a
specialty of this handsome variety of
fowls and has bred his strain to the high-
est point of excellence. His prices for
stock and eggs are reasonable and buy-
ers who send him their orders are as-
sured of getting the right nuality at the
right price, as he guarantees to please
his customers.

Mrs. W. Jones Williams May wood. 111.,
is one of the R. C. White Leghorn breed-
ers who can supply customers with the
very highest quality in this variety. Her
birds have won first prizes at Chicago
and in other strong conetltion and there
is no question about the superiority of
her strain of R. C. White I.,eghorns. Her
prices aie reasonable and we take pleas-
ure in recommending her to our readers.

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ABOUT SOME P. F. ADVERTISERS.

Notes by Judge Hackett.

We wish to call the attention of Fan-
cier readers to the ad of Mr. Jas. Mc-
Guan of Baraboo, Wis., who is a suc-
cessful l)reeder of S. C. Black Orpingtons.
Mr. McGuan has in his breeding pens
this season some of the best blood lines
in this country, and are full of quality.
His best pen is headed by a cock bird
which won first prize at the Baraboo
Valley Show in January, and was first
cockerel at La Crosse and at the Wis-
consin Poultry Show at Stoughton. 1909,
and is a grand bird. Mr. McGuan is a
very conscientious fancier who has
spared no expense to secure the best,
and those who entrust their egg orders
to him will not be disappointed. Look
up his ad and write him.

The ad of W. R. Abbott, Ft. Atkinson,
appears in this issue of Poultry Fancier.
Mr. Abbott has some most excellent speci-
mens of Standard White Plymouth Rocks
which he raises exclusively. He won at
the recent Milwaukee show 1st Pullet,
3rd Cock. 4th Cockerel and 7th Hen on
four birds entered. At the Ft. Atkinson
show January. 1910, he won all firsts,
several minor prizes and the "Gold Spe-
cial" for best display in the American
class. Mr. Abbott has two pens mated
for the breeding season. 1st pen headed
by 3rd cock at Milwaukee will contain 1st
^Milwaukee pullet and five other puHets of
equal quality. 2nd Pen headed by 4th

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First prize Houdan cockerel at Kansas
City, 1910. Owned and exhibited b.v
Frank Wickizer, St. Joseph. Mo.

Milwaukee cockerel and contains five ex-
cellent hens, including Milwaukee and
Ft. Atkinson winners.

A limited number of eggs will be sold
from these choice matings. and those de-
siring to start right or improve their
present stock will do well to secure eggs
from Mr. Abbott. We can cheerfully
recommend Mr. Abbott and his stock.

Mr. F. W. Catlin, whose ad. will be
found elsewhere in this issue, has some
of the finest S. C. Buff Leghorns we have
seen this winter. Mr. Catlin is strictly
reliable and vyill give his customers a
square deal every time. You will make
no mistake in dealing with him if in
need of S. C. Buff Leghorns.

Clifford Capener. proprietor of Highland
Poultry Farm at Baraboo. Wis., made a
fine showing of over forty birds at the
Baraboo show, winning most of the prizes
offered in White Wyanodttes and R. C.
Brown I^eghorns. He also made a good
winning with S. C. Buff Leghorns and
R. C. White Legliorns. He also made
good at the Madison show, where he
showed White Wyandottes and R. C.
Brown Leghorns. Mr. Capener is a very
conscientious and enthusiastic young
man. and those who trust their orders to
him will not be disappointed with the
results. Write him for anything you
need in his line. Look up his ad. in this
issue.

North Freedom, Wis.

THE EMERSON KIND.

Cement. Texas. January 31st. 1910.
A. L. Emerson, Inkster. Mich..

Dear Sir: — The Cockerel pen of "Regal
Blue" Barred Rocks have been received
and are a wonder in shape, color and
barring. Had I paid $100 for this pen. I
would not have expected better qu.ility:
I know that I now have the finest pen
of Barred Rocks in the State of Texas.
Thanking you for the prompt and careful
manner in which you shipped this pen,
believe me. very sincerely vours,

Frank H. Keller.

Cement. Texas.

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POULTRY FANCIER:»*C>ei;^^^'l5

.li»lfb« JTnlfirJ"**'*!! ** !i" ***" department under the following condition. : The size
IdvertSer t« t^ .'k ^ *** occupying three-quarter, of an inch .ingle column Each
advertuer to UM the same .pace each month. Ad. may be changed everv three

"iTpVr ye1Sr"%^;vmen^**r H *^^ ^**'J*" than twelve mSnfh.*! The^co^irU

LVdreYc^ptiora'irfow on Vhr.';:c:ortr"- "** «-'»*-»• *» *»»- -«- ^he pnce i.

REICHERrs FARM RAISED
White Rocks and R C. White Leghorn.

the kind the new standard calls for. Of Hi
entries won 6 firsts and 4 seconds. Pens
headed by these grand cocks and cockerels.
Eggs from these pens by the setting or hun-
dred. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write your
wants. E. H. Reichert , Virdin. III.

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mill., N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-brrd,

I'iSt Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in .sea.son. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
We.t Main Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I wren all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce wlaners.
•3 per 15. $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Mar.halltown. Iowa

COLUMBIAN WYAN-

DOTTF^ Bred from the best stock
*^^ * A X-.IJ money can buy (Keating's
Strain Satisfaction gauranteed. Kges $2 00
and 13 00 per .setting.
LOUIS WESTFALL, R. 3 WAVERLY. N Y.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Da^Io None better. 40 first and second
*^^'^*» prizes at at Sedalia and Kan.sas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. J. HLISK. Carthasre, Mo.

Anrnna c EXCLUSIVELY. Leaders For 12"
/^ucuuas yeans. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our austomers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders. W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St., East End. Pitt.burg. Pa.

President Aticoiia Club of America

won
blue

PEACH GROVE STOCK T. ..„

ribbons at New York. Syracuse and Rochester
for three years. Grand young Houdan and
BuflF Wyandotte stock at right prices. Write
me.

MRS. R. Y. BOWDEN. Clifton Spring.. N. Y.

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Kelleratrass and Cook Strain of

S. C. White Orpingtons

Kggs 12.00 per Ifi. al.so extra fine Barred Ply-
mouth Rock eggs $1.50 per !.•). Satisfaction
guaranteed. A. J. WALDSCHMIDT.

Washington, lowi

i LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS >

( Some very fine cockerels for sale. Kggs at S
} right prices. Illustrated circular free. (

5 E. M. BUECHLY, Box 10, Greenville. Ohio 5

Single Comb White Leghorns

Greatest utility strain known. Noted for
.size {i}4 to 7 lb. hens) color, typical shape,
deep bay eyes, great vigor and greatest pos-
sible egg producers. Eggs |1.25 per 15; $5 00
per 100. Honesty guaranteed. if

R. S. MOSELEY. CambridRe. N. Y.. Poultry Judge

fi^n^ifct^'bRed Cockerels ^&\^,^„l

Special cockerel of Decatur, 111. in a class 75.
Al.so Rose Comb Reds. Beck strain direct.
Score cards furnished after November 27th.
Prices|2 00up.

FERD. W. OERTEL, BRIGHTON. ILL

sinole: comb t

BUFF ORPINGTONS

Eggs from exhibition and utility stock Send
for Mating List. A few breeding cockerels
for sale. H BREVOOR7 ZABRISKIE.

17 Elm St., Woburn. Mass.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood
hatching. Have bred Cornish
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore. Box 92, Hopkinsville. Ky

Eggs for
18 years.

K. C. White Leghorns. Won 1st at great'Mil-
waukee show. Won every place at Fond du
Lac. & $60 cup for highest scoring collection
of birds in the show. 1st pens cores UV. to
95^. Also S. C. W. & S. C. Brown Leghorns
winners of firsts. Write for circular. Booking
orders now. Also cockerels & trios for sale
4^;^t^,.AtrvPhmpL^^

White Plume Farm P^^'^uces

ff uuc 1 luiuc rarin you „eed to buiid

up your flock. All prize winners White

Tx ?'^°V,'^,^°il^• ^^*^^ African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed
J. C. BAKER. Pron^Rt. 1, Plainville. Ill

BARRED ROCK COCK-

pPpf C Best I ever rai.sed. Guaranteed
M^A^M^M^^ to please. $.3 00 to $.'5.00 each .

GEO. O. ANDERSON
R. 5. BOX 0022. RUSHVILLE. IND.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

SilverLace*! WyaiulutteH, White Cre8t«-d
Itlack Polish and Itarred Plymouth
UockH. Direct desceudantH from Madison Square
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eight regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, .Jan.
4-!>. 1H09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
Wm. Neiera. Prop., L, 11.45, Cascade, la.

IVCCU O R c. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago.Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my de.scrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M . REED.

Wyanet. Til

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LisHt Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. ^ Females score from 92K ^o •>'>•
.3d prize ck. score 92^ and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Ed. Bartlett lfi9i/i OnkSt Newcastle V;i

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
.sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora. III.

S. C. R. L REDS

Kggs for hatching from some grand pens

$5.00 and $3.00 per 15

J. E. SCHUTTE, Lebanon, So. Dak.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^l'^' %«„rbVt'

DQr^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices

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OSCAR E. WOOD

UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from \ew
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggH write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

Choice Collie Puppies SSS^oml.rt

as I make a .specialty of Whites. I do not place
as high a value on the colored ones that come
along with them and so offer them at low
prices. SERVOSS COLLIE KENNELS
BOX 220. - EDISON PARK, ILL.

Barred Rock, AVhite Wyandottes, AVhite
OrpiDfiTtuns. Mammoth Bronze Turkeys

Hens, cockerels and pullelH for sale, grand birds*
Prize winners wherever shown, excellent layers
leading strains. Give me an order. My motto to
please. Prompt shipment and satisfaction guar
anteed. Prices reasonable One ^ wild. H bronze
Tom for sale. Miss Clara Smith, Cro.xton, Va

COCHINS HOME. Ileadqunrters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brabmas First priz *
andsllvcrcup wlnnerHailWinnepeg. Can., Sea't'e
A.Y.P.. Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, I>undee, Minn

BUFF ROCKS Yo ,

. o t o c k

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.
Speciai prices for short time.
A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

Columbian riymouth RockH (Sweets
Strain.) Hla<'.k-tall»Ml .Japanese and Hufif Cochin
Bantams. Barred liocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for eggs from my choicest matings

Si.*'f' .!!';w>^''^' •o)?^ ^'^^ ^^- Bantam eggs at 12.50
per 1.*), 14. (K) per 30.

K. B. ROBKRT.S CANASTOT\ N Y

Single Comb Reds fi^f^^-ysTvELY

has the Nicest Ueds here In Rrlgbton whv-^ny.^
cause niy Strain comes from Bennett's famous
pr zewlnners scoring from !X; to 94. Kecel ed ?
prizes lately. | Write forprh-es of eggd. Matlne
Ifsr^ready Feb. 15. Satisfaction gaurJnteed '^
.T. P. Lamport, Brighton. Ill

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Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's

o^ • . - Royal

Strain are prize winners. They win for me
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for .sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Leeseville, Mich. Station 23, Detroit. Mich'

S. C. Rhode Island Reds and ^^»*

win.

Barred Plymouth Rocks fud'hl'eeS-

ing stock for sale

and prices

E. H. DOWNS.

Write us for description
RTE. 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

America's Foremost Strains Jufu t y

Hirprf *"^ lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
UllVi,l C. White Leghorns, Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th, ,5 eggs free.
Chas H. Ziegenfuss. Box Z. Bethlehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES Jid'sfi^e"

Cups at Mo. and Kas. State shows. '08. First
pen Mo. State Fair Oct. 09. First pen (>
straight years at Sedalia .shows. Sweepstake
pen Dec. '09. over all breeds. Males 95^.
females to 9(1 Be«t eggs $2 50 per 1.5.
S. G. WHIPRECHT, Box H, .Sedalia, Mo.

Barred Plymouth STlo^i"^

RftnLc EXCLUSIVELY leading shows in
I\UCK» ltK)8-1909 . Also their layingqualities
cannot be excelled. Last years breeding stock
also cockerels and pullets for .sale. Write us
for prices. S R. Patterson. Centerville, Iowa

"THE LITTLE RED HEIN"
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Originators of Manataug Strain.

If you are looking for red birds without smut,
write us. •

John E. Davis Sc Bro. Marblehead, Mass.

TOULOUSE GEESE

that win. Al.so
White Chinese
Geese and Fawn Headed Indian Runner
Drakes for sale. Breeder and shipper of fancy
land and water fowls. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER. Box F, Lancaster. Mo.

PFILE'.S CATALOGUE gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. J'arm raised
stock for sale and egge in season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFILE
Freport, IIL Dept. A

Quality Strain I$AKKEI> ROCKS have
been line bred for Itt years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matings
for sale, from these winners or bred in line.

C. C. DRAKE & SON,
Lock Box »3'4, La Harpe, IIL

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190*;, my
Rfk^v-A^l Da/«L<. won 1st cockerel, 2d cock.
Darrea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908, Ist
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 1909, Ist and .3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too .Stcn k with <]nalitv for
sale. W. W. ZIKE. MORRLSTOWN. IND

Btiff RocKs, Boff ar^a Silver
L« a c « d AV y A n di o 1 1 e s* and
lVHit« Hollarkd TtirKey^s, choice
Cockerels for .sale from prize winning stock.
Egg orders booked now. prices reasonable.

L. C. VOGT. LYONS, WIS.

POULTRY FANClEReC"^^^

^2^SE,

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders booked now from my 200-egg
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know Just what I am
doing. BlrdH scoring 91 to i>.'j with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT.— F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Golden Wyandottes ?S?caS" D^eV'V"

12. 1909. 66 in class, won .5th cock, 4th cockerel
8rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show St!
Louis. Dec. 6-11, 1809. 64 in cla.ss. won 2d cock
M cockerel, 4th pullet, with 5 birds.

S. Penninston, Box F. Plainfield, III.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-

Shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2..W each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleo a J. Barnes
R. D. 7. Box 16. Winchester. Ky.

LAKE 8HOKK I»<)1;LTRY FARM

lireedei'H of

Hiarh Class Silver Laced Wyandottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers hooked now.

H. F. BKRGNEIi. Pres. HENRY MAU, Mgr.
South Chicago. Ills. R.F.D. No :14, Kenosha. Wis.

100 Barred Plymouth Rocks 100

from prize winning stock which I am going to
5h11 at reasonahle prlres. If you want healthy
\ I>,'«)rou8 stock write. Satisfaction jiuarauLek'd.

Chas. F. Schlueter. - Box K. Reynolds. III.

S. C. BlacK and MTKit* Minor*

cae bred for size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for .sale in .season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. StnitH (Sb Sot%

Box 4i"»4 North Baltimore, O.

;

SILVKR LACKI) and AVHITE WYAN-
J>OTTKS FOR SALE. Utility and Exhibi-
tion Stock that has pleased others and they will
please you If you will Klve us a trial. Eggs In
season from prize winning stock. Every Bird In
breeding pens a high scorer. FOUR SISTERS
POULTRY FARM. K. 8, Box A,

Will P Yetter. Prop., New Bavaria. O.

BIJFF "WYANDOTTES Exclu-

sivelx. Ideal .shape, solid buff color.
Guaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT,
EDEN CENTER. - N, Y

Faultless" Hotidans. 287
£^|^ Strains. Five caiefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
.<<cended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
.\ few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105. Kansas. Ills.

R.iniflet Barr«d PlymoutH
Rochs won all brsts at Oshkosh, 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 50 up.
Kggs, be.st matings f.3..50 per \^ |.5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1 .')p. LAKK ViKW POI'LTRY FARM.

T. W. Critchette, Markesan, Wis.

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Minorcas

and R C R I Rpdft Bggs for hatch-
dUU I\. V. I\. 1. IVeaS ing from prize

winners at $1.50 per 15. Incubator eggs
$5.00 per 100. *

H. S. WENTZ, OUAKERTOWN. PA.

Columbian Kocks, Columbian Wyan-
dotteH, K. C. Kutt'LesrhornH, bred from New
lork. Buffalo and Rochester winners, 5 firsts 2
seconds on 7 entries at Rochester show Dec 1909
Cockerels i;^ totlU pullets 12 to »6, Trios $7 toils.
Eggs t3 per IS, 15 per 30. Free setting from best
pen with ench $10 order. Stock puaranteeed
F, A CAMPIJELL HONKOYE, N. Y.

S. C. BLACK

ORPINGTONS

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show
1909 also several at Ocon-
omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for .sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 $') per 15 : pen No. 2 $2
per L5. Dora James Pick Fall River, Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Ra#1c ^''i^e Winners Eggs from 1st pen,
l\CUa setting 15 eggs $2.50 Eggs from 2nd
pen. setting L5 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed .satis-
faction William Kenney. Sparland. HI.

S. L. ANL> W. WYANI>OTTE.S, K. C.
RHODE ISLAND RI^D.S Winners at the
big Centerville. Iowa and St.Louls shows Write
for cataloj?ue descrlblijg the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matlDfTS a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KEARSE, R. 1, Coatsville. Mo.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^^fflTs To^

ROPIC ^*'^- Birds score from 94% to 96
*^^*-'^-'*^ and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Twenty years a Breeder
Twelve Extra Cockerels for .Sale now.
JNO. F. WOODS
Utility Farm. R. 19. Owen»viIIe, Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

Tl IRICPY^ sired by my great prize

* ^ IxIVU I III? winner and d i p I o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S. L.

Wyandottes C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA, MINN,

WYANL)OTTE.S AND LANG.SHAN.S.

Winners at St. Louis Show. 19()9. also two $25.tKj
silver cups at big Perry county 19(>9 show In hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and Huff Wyandottes $2 per 1.5. 8 setting for f5.
lllack Langshans l.-W per 15. Buffs Bred by R- B.
Schlndler, Partridge and Langshans bred by.Iohn
Allen. Allen & .Schindler I»erryvill«. Mo-

I inHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
*^*^^* * * cr. My stock is excellent, high
RR AHMA^ scoring, great layers.
DlV/^iniVI/^O will please the mo.st
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

s. c. BUFF LEGHORNS Siftrirt::

1910. Pen headed by Madison Square winner. Some fine scored cockerels for sale, reasonable. Egg
$3 pel 15. $5 per 30. Satisfaction guaranteed. F. W. CATLIN, BAR A BOO, WIS.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Winners at Miiwaukee. January
1910, 1st pullet, Srd cock. 4th cock-

,, c J V J ^'■^' ^"d ^thi hen. At Ft. Atkinson.

wron all hnsts and Uold Special tor best display in American class. Two grand pens tnated for
tlie egg trade headed by and including these winners with other females of equal quality Eggs
from these matings at $.3 00 per !.■>. without reserve. A few choice cockerels and pullets lor sale
.Satisfaction guaranteed.

QUAUTY WHITE ROCK POULTRY YARDS, W. R. ABBOTT. Prop.. Fl Atkinson. Wis.

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE NOW IN
Black and White Langshans, IJght Brah-
mas. White and Brown Leghorns and W. C.
Black and Golden Polish. Address Caton
Poultry Yards. Zane^ville, O. 3-9-12

THIS WAY FOR YOUR HIGH CLASS S. C.
Black Minorcas and Partridge Cochins. Birds
have good shape and are fine in all "points.
Stock for sale. Eggs $1,50 per 13, Mention
this paper. H. S. Fegley, Gilbertsville, Pa.
__^ 12-3

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH WHITE
Plymouth Rocks, Houdans and Java cock-
erels and trios for sale. The very best
strains. Eggs in season, Theodore A.
Moritz, 569 St. Georges Avenue, Rahway, N.
J. 12-4

BUFF WYANDOTTES. ORPINGTONS AND
Rocks. Solid Buff cockerels and pullets that
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, blocky, golden
beauties, strong in all points. Write Buff
Poultry Farm, F, A. Poertner, Prop.. Berea,
2. ••^-9-12

S. S. HAMBURG AND BARRED ROCK
cockerels for sale. Birds fine in all points.
If you could see the m I know I would get
your order. Be sure and get my prices.
Correspondence answered promptlv. Egg
orders booked. Mrs. C, R. Thompson, Box
23, Randall, Iowa. 1.3

ST. LOUIS AND STATE FAIR SHOW
birds. Won, l.st cockerel, 2n(l pullet. 1st
pen. Black Leghorns and Black Javas.
Birds, $2 to $5. Eggs. .$2 per 15. Also
choice White Wyandottes. Trv a specialist.
H. C. Hunt, Dclavan. 111. 1.3

FRENCH SALMON FAVEROLLES. SICIL-
ian Buttercups and Indian Runner Ducks.
Non-setting hens. Booking orders now for
spring delivery. Eggs per setting, hens $1
per 13 eggs. Ducks. .$1 to $2 per setting
12 eggs. Send order now. Davis & Dvnes.
R, 30, Zionsville, Ind., Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. i.'^

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. McINTOSH
strain. Eggs. $1.50 per 15. White. Golden
and Buff Wyandottes. Rose and Single Comb
Brown Leghorns, Kulp's strain. From prize
winning stock. Eggs, $1 per 15. Circular
free. M. L. Musselman. Bethlehem. Pa. 1-3

EGGS AND STOCK FOR SALE. BUFF
and White Leghorns, Rocks, Silver Ham-
burgs,. Partridge Cochins, Pearl Guineas,
Toulouse Geese, Pekin Ducks, English Phea-
sants, Belgian Hares, White Rabbits, Canary
Birds. a. W. Zoigler, Harmony. Pa. 1-3

FOR SALE. I OFFER STOCK AND EGGS
for hatching from the following: S. C.
White Leghorn.^. Brown Leghorns, Black
Minorcas, Buff Orpingtons. Light Brahmas,
White Rocks, White and Columbian Wyan-
dottes. Also day old chicks. Get my prices.
Jos. M. Fay, 808 Howard Ave., Altoona, Pa.
1-3

DON'T DELAY ABOUT SENDING IN
your egg orders. Now is the time to raise
your prize winners. Let me fill your order
and get In the winning line. Have Barred
Rocks and Brown Chinese Geese. Eggs at
living prices. M. C. Flagg, Boylston,
Mass. S-9-12

QUALITY R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS,
Kulp & Gale strain. Greens Curgh and
Unlontown winners. 1st pens, 1st cock, 2nd
ckl., 1st, 2d pullet, Ist, 3rd hens. Eggs
both matings. Closing out R. C. W. Leg-
horns. Show birds, first prize winners at
bargain prices. Write me. W. Hipkiss,
Scottdale, Pa. I-3

RINGLET BARRED ROCKS. CRYSTAL.
White Orpingtons, Pure strain, prize win-
ners direct. BggB $2 and $3 per 16. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Write for list. Jno. Had-
den. Norwich, O. 2-9-12

COCKS AND COCKERELS CHEAP—
Houdans, Minorcas, R. C, R. I. Reds and
Spanish. Also eggs in afiason — 60 for $3, 15
for $1. 25 varieties. 28 ^ ears as breeders,
<Mrcular free. Whitney & Son, Triangle,
N. Y. 12-3

YOUNG STOCK OF QUALITY^ FOR SALE,
4 firsts on 7 entries at Greenfield, 111., Nov.
15-20. 1909: 8 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds
on 16 entries at Pittsfield, 111.. Dec. 15-18.
1909. S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks and
White Holland Turkeys. Write your wants
to Thos. M. Stubblefleld, R. fi, .Tack.sonville,
111- 6-9-12

PENS, TRIOS AND COCKERELS OF 32
varieties poultry, including Wyandottes
Brahmas, Cochins, Rocks, Polish, Reds, Ham-
burgs. I^eghorn. Andalusians, Houdans and
Minorcas. Booking egg orders now for spring
delivery. Stamp for catalogue. Simon C.
Kulp. Box S'. S.. Hatfield. Pa. 1-3

THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS FOR SALE
for 1910, Silver Wyandotte, Barred Rock
cockerels and Toulouse geese. Winnei-s at
all Austin Shows and Fairs. Eggs for sale
in season at reasonable rices. Write Mrs.
F. H. Pike, Austin, Minn., Pinedale Poultrv
Farm. 12-3

I>IGHT BRAHMAS. COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dottes and Black Tailed .lapanese Bantams.
Egg orders booked now. At Trl-State Show,
Keokuk, Iowa, in November, won 1st cock!
1st hen on Brahmas: 1st cockerel, 1st, 2nd.
3rd pullet. Few cockei-els. Edw. Miller.
Donnellson. Town. 12-3

HOUDANS FOR SALE, BOTH YOUNG
and old birds, some with score cards. Fine
big birds, great layers. Place egg orders
now for Barred Rocks or Houdans. If you
could see my birds I know I would get
your order. Let me hear from you. Elmer
.1, Johnson, R. 2, Box 26, Argvle, Wis,

12-3

FINE COCKERELS — WHITE WYAN-
dottes. Barred Rocks. S. C. Reds, White
Leghorns, Black Minorcas. Pure stock, own
raising. Big quality: little ad — save you
money. Many of these would be prize win-
ners in show room. Ernest Haynes, Prairie
du Rocher. 111. ' 12-3

BARGAIN SALE OF COCKS AND COCK-
erels. Single Comb Rhode Island Reds,
White and Buff Rocks. Orpingtons, An-
conas. Langshans, Leghorns, Minorcas and
others. See my large circular, illustrated
in colors. 3? breeds bred for laying. Eggs
for hatching. John E, Heatwole. Harrison-
burg. Va. 12-3

COCKERELS FOR SALE — DUSTON

White Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds
(both combs), at $1.25 each and up. Or-
ders booked now for eggs and baby chicks.
Cash 10 days prior to shipment. Forrest-
dnlo Poultry Farm, R. 2, Forrest, 111. 12-3

liEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER GET
my prices on eggs and stock. S. C. Buff
Orpingtons. Barred Rocks, Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys and Indian Runner Duck.^s. Birds
have farm range and are strong and healthv.
Mrs. Higgs, R. 1, Henry, 111. 2-4

BOURBON RED TURKEYS AND R. C.
Brown I..eghorns our specialty. We also
raise White Wyandottes, Tnilian Runner
Ducks and Pearl Guineas. Eggs for hatch-
ing at right prices. Mr. and Mrs, G. W.
Price. Belmont, O. 2-3

BLACK AND WHITE LANGSHANS EGGS
for sale at $1,50 setting. Birds score 90 to
94. Cockerels $3. pullets $2; pair $4: trios
$5. My birds win wherever T take them.
John fi: Gust Shonk. Lancaster, Ohio. 2-3

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eggs $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
638, Anadarko, Okla. 7-9-12

EGGS $2 PER 13, 3 SETTINGS $5 FROM
Kellerstrass Yhite Orpingtons and Brown
& Coleman's Black Orpingtons. Black
Minorca eggs 10 cents each, any quantity,
Alson Indian Jiunncr Ducks of finest quality.
Berry & Sawyer strain. J. A. Dickson, 42-
Division St.. Ashtal>ula. O. ' 2-4

CLAY HILL POl'LTRY FARM, FULTON.
Iowa., .lay Bi-eeden, Piop. Breeder of Black
Langshans. White and Silver Laced Wyan-
dottes. Eggs from pens scoring ninety-five,
$3 pel- 15; pens scoring ninety. $2. Cock-
erels ff.r sale cheap. My bli-ds are prize
winners. o.^

FINE HOURHOX MFA) TUIiKEV EGGS, $3
per ten. Rhode Island Red eggs. $1 per
1'; $5 uer hundred. Orders given prompt
attention. Send me ytiuis. Mrs. A, G. Friesz
Keytcsvill<\ Mo. ' 0.4

BREEZE L,\WN POULTRY YARDS. MRS.
Clara Reichenbach, prop., Coopersburg, Pa,,
offers 500 yearling hens, pullets and cock-
erels, from Reds. Rocks, Wyandottes,
mas. Games. Cochin and Polish.
$1.50 up. Show birds a matter of
spondence. Eggs, $5 per 100, $1 per

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

BARRED ROCKS AT ('LOSE PRICES.
Either cockerel or pullet bred. Satisfaction
guaranteed on all stock or eggs shipped.
Eggs in season from fine pens, mated for
best results. Have some good exhibition
birds, J. W. Freeman, R. 4, Benton Har-
fior. Mich. 12-3

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS AND PUL-
lets bred from first prize winners at Spring-
field, Birds are good in all points and will
please. Place egg orders now. Plymouth
Rock Homer Pigeons, fine ones at right
prices. Write Wm. R, Rollston. R. 9, Box
24. Springfield. Mo. \2-3

WATSON'S BARRED ROCKS HAVE NEV-
er been defeated, and are better this year
than ever. Have been breeding this strain
ahe Royal Blue) for 14 years. My matings
for 1910 will be very fine. Satisfaction
guaranteed, Geo, W Watson Eldorado
111; _ 12-3

UTILITY BARRED ROCKS. FINE LAY-
ers. Pullets. $1.50 to $3. Yearling hens,
$2. Eggs any time after the first of Feb-
ruary. Book your orders early. Eggs,
$1.50 per 15. Samuel Wickham, Palmyra,
Mich. i2-3

GET MY CIRCULAR ON BARRED ROCKS.
Have some fine ones for sale at prices that
will surprise you, considering the quality.
Let's get in touch with each other. I know
I can please you. Egg orders booked. J.
W. Bell, Box H.. Chetek. Wi.'^. 1-3

BARRED ROCKS, HIGHEST QUALITY,
Eggs from special prize matings, $1 and $2
per 15; $5 per 100; utility flocks, $1 per 26;
$3.50 per 100. Choice cockerels, $2 and $3
each. Circular free. Chas. Spangler, Kent-
land, Ind. 1-3

BARRED ROCKS. O. C. K. STRAIN.
Something grand In either cockerel or pullet
matings. A few good exhibition cockerels
and pullets. Prices reasonable for quality.
Eggs, $3 per 15; $5 per 30. Write for mat-
ing list. Mrs. Minnie McConaughy, Martelle,
Iowa. 1.3

"PEERLESS" BARRED ROCKS. BREED-
ing Barred Rocks our exclusive business.
Our manager a poultry expert. Breed only
line bred stock. Announcement 1910 sent
free. Fifty-cent booklet. "Incubation anr!
Brooding," sent for 20 cents during Febru-
ary, March and .-Vprll to all who mention
this "ad." Our show record almost clean
sweep in hot competition. We can please
you. Peerless Poultry Plant, Inc., Clinton.
Wis, 2-4

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l[ February, '10

SPECIAL BARRED ROCK SALE. ON Ac-
count of lack of time I will dispose of 2
very good dark cocks, one pullet breeding
cock, 25 cockerel bred hens and pullets and
15 cockerels. Get prices now. Dr. F. A.
Shuffelton, Saint Marys, O.

BARRED ROCKS, KNOXDALE STRAIN.
Well barred and very strong in vitality,
good size and splendid layers. Stock pro-
duced from careful mating with the double
mating system. Eggs, $2 per setting; $S
jier hundred. Orders given prompt atten-
tion, C. W. Coleman, 200 Jeffras Ave., Find-
hiy. <). 2-4

THE FAMOl'S ORCHARD STRAIN BAR-
red Plymouth Rocks, l)red for vitality and
pi-odu<'tiveness. Eggs, $2 per 15. Send for
booklet, "Starting with I^oultry." Orchard
Poultry Farms, Doyiestown. Pa. (Hatching
1 ).l)artment. ) 2-4

RINGLET BARRED ROCKS. E. B. THOMP-
SON strain. Nicely barred, good yellow
legs, fine layers. 13 eggs $1, 26 for $1.50.
Honorable dealing. Orders promptly filled.
E. H. Harden. North East, Pa. 2-3

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong In all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

QUALITY WHITE ROCKS. STANDARD
bred, white, hardy and vigorous. They
will improve your flock and raise you win-
ners. Improved each year for fifteen years.
Book vour orders for eggs now. Stock for
sale. Mrs. C. .\. Brown. Toluca. Til. 12-3

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS WITH PURE
white quills, bay eyes and yellow shanks.
Stock scoring 961/^ in show room. Kansas
City and state show winners. Scored stock
for sale; prices right, quality considered.
Mrs. L. L. Higgins. R. 1. Sheldon, Mo. 12-3

WHITE' ROCKS, PRIZE WINNING STOCK,
Snow white cockerels. $2.50 up. One year-
ling cock, few hens and pullets, trapnested.
Fishel strain. Excellent layers. Three pens.
Eggs, 15 for $3, $2 and $1. Send esg or-
ders now. Rev. James A, Slack, Yorktown.

la.

12-3

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS— BREEDERS
and exhibition birds for sale at reasonable
prices. They have the size, shape and can
win in the strongest class. Write F. F
Carr. Kenton. O^ ^j^'-^

WHITE ROCKS. HEAVY WINTER LAY-
ers. Pullets from this stock laying at 5 Va
months this season without forcing. Not
one dis.satlsfied customer last season. Book-
ing e^R orders, $2 per 15. S. P. Evans. 3838
E. TSth Street. Cleveland. O. _«__

FISHEL STRAIN WHITE ROCKS EXCLU-
sivelv. Eggs from first pen, $2 for 15; sec-
ond pen. $1.50 per 15, 10 cockerels for sale,
$2 to $5 each; pullets. $1.50 to $5 each.
Order early. A. L. McLaughlin, Sparland,

111. . hi

WHITE R()(^KS EXCLUSIVELY. "FISHEL
Strain." Eggs from large, snow white farm
raised birds, 15 $1.50, 30 $2.50, 100 $6.
Special pen of high scoring exhibition birds,
(Russell. Judge,) $2.50 per 15. Jes.se C
Brabazon, Route 4. Box E^ Delavan, Wis. --4

WHITE ROCKS, FISHEL STRAIN, CHALK
white, grand shape. My birds are as good
as the best. Eggs only $2 per 15. Satis-
faction guaranteed. W. R. Greer. Auburn.

Ind, . „ ."-1

WALKER'S WHITE ROCKS AT NEW
Castle won In a class of 63, 1st cock, 1st
cockerel: 1st, 2d. 3d hen; 1st. 2d, 4th Pull/^t;
1st, 2d hen. Eggs $3 and $5 Per 15. Bob

Walker. 233 Porter St.. New Lastle. Pa. I-^

WHITE PLYMOUTH RO(^KS, WINNERS
at Peoria. Ottawa, Galesburg. etc. Three
vards, headed by exhibition and prize win-
ning males. Eggs, $2 per 15. From good
utility stock on range. $1 per 15, $3 per bO.
Wm. C. Goodwin, Chillicothe, 111. J-^

BUFF PLYMOUTH BOOKS.

BUFF COCKS. ORDER EGCiS FROM
(lualitv birds. Eggs from pen headed by
New York and St. Louis winners. $5 per 15;
others, $1, $2 and $3, John D Wilklns
Pocahontas, 111. ^'^

BUFF ROCKS. THE FARMER'S FRIEND.
Prize winners 1st cockerel, 2d pullet, at
Jeffersonvllle, Ohio, Poultry Show, Dec,
1909. Eggs. $2.50 the 15. The Buff Rock
Poultrv Farm, Jeffersonvllle. O,

1-3

GOLDEN BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Large, golden, glittering buffs. Heavy layers
of big, brown eggs. First prize winners at
Chicago and other bigr shows. Eggs from
prize winners. $3 per setting. Catalog free.
P. C. Jungels, Box 1, Lemont, HI.

POULTRY FANCIER

WHY NOT GET THE BEST? I HAVE
it In Buff Rocks and you can get It at
prices usually asked for much lower qual-
ity. A breeding bird or a few eggs from
my yards will put you on top. Write
me. Phil Fell, Buff Rock Specialist and
Poultry Judge, Canal Dover. O. 3-09-12

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? SEND ME YOUR
order for Partridge Plymouth Rocks and
you are sure of the best. Don't take my
word for it. Look at my show record at
Chicago, Detroit and other strong shows,
consider the competition and you will see
who has the quality. Some choice breeders
at reduced prices and young stock that will
please, Paul LaFromboise, Mt. Pleasant,
Mich 4.<)_i2

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

WHITE WYANDOTTES, NOTED PRE-
mler strain. Farm raised, blocky, white,
unexcelled layers, vigorous constitutions,
l^lne bred cockerels, $5 to $10; cocks. $5 to
$10; pullets, $2 to $3; hens. $2 to $3; eggs,
$3 to $10. W. H, Humlston, Cleveland,
Ohio. 12-3

BUSINESS WHITE WYANDOTTES. OURS
are great layers, have farm privileges, essen-
tial to success. We aim above all to please
customers. Write your wants. Stock, $3
to $5 each. Eggs, $1.50 per setting. C.
N'. Hostetter, Manheim. Pa. 1-3

SUTTON'S WHITE WYANDOTTES WIN
again. On an entry of sixteen birds I won
1st cock. 3rd cockerel, 2nd hen, 1st, 3id
pens, 1st, 2nd pullets, silver cup, best dis-
play, best cock hen, cockerel, pullet and
pen. More prizes, than all competitors.
Eggs $10 antl $5 per 15. F. D. Sutton. 68
St. Louis .\ve., Voungstown. Ohio. 2 4

WHITE WYANDOTTES — EGGS FOR SALE
from choice m.atings. Strong, vigorous stock,
l)iire wliite and good shape. Write for circu-
lar containing prices and description. Men-
tion this paper. Richard Bloom, Fulton,
Mo. 2-4

EGGS PROM MORROW'S PRIZE WINNING
White Wyandotes. At Montezuma. la., I
won 1st pen, first, second sweepstakes. Eggs
from exhibition matings, $3 per 15; other
grand matings, $2 per 15. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Address Frank Morrow, Barnes
City, Iowa, 2-4

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

BUFF WYANDOTTES. HAVE BRF:D THEM
since 1805. making me the oldest breeder
of this variety In Ohio. Y''oung stock from
my Chicago and Cleveland winners. Eggs
fi-om the l)est matings I ever had, $3 per 15.
\'. Crabtree. Tiffin, (::)hi(\ 2-4

THIMSEN. BUFF WYANDOTTE SPECIAL-
1st. Eggs from Buff Wyandottes that win in
the strongest competition. Eggs from pen,
1, $3 per 15; pen 2 and 3, $2 per 15. If
you are in the market for stock or eggs I
/ can please you. F. P. Thimsen, Blooming
Prairie, Minn. 5-9-12

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

REE'PMEYER'S SILVER LACED WYAN-
dottes in good competition won 6 firsts, 6
seconds. 3 thirds, $10 special and Presi-
dent's Silver Cup. Best display, all varieties
competing at Schenectady, N. Y., big show.
Breeders or show birds for sale. J. Reep-
meyer. Crai- Schdy. Co., N. Y. 1-3

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. A SPEC-
ialty. My pens are line-bred and prize win-
ners, scoring 91 to 93 V^, They are bred to
lay, weigh and win. Eggs for hatching, $2
per 15, or $3 per 30. Try a setting. 1
guarantee satisfaction. Peter J. Becker,
Geneseo. 111. 2-4

NELLIS' SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES,
I'rize winners wherever shown. Score at the
big show of The Western Connecticut Poul-
try Association held at Wlnsted, Conn., 1907-
1909: 911^, 92, 92, 92%, 94 »4; pen. 184 1/^.
First and third pullet, third cock. Eggs
for setting, $3 for 13. Orders booked now.
E. A. Nellis, Wlnsted, Conn. 2-3

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

I'ARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES, WINNERS
at Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Shelbyvllle and
Greensburg. Stock and eggs for sale. Stock
$2 to $25. Eggs $3.50 per 15. Walter Rob-
bins, R. 6, Greensburg, Ind, 2-1

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. LOOKING
for good blocky shaped ones, nicely laced
tails, clean hackles? Farm raised from New
York and Boston winners. Great vigor. Eggs
very fertile. You must be satisfied or Its
no sale. Address Ralph Woodward, Box 82,
Grafton, Mass. 1-3

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COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES A SPECIAL-
ty. Prize winners and good layers. My
pens this year are better than ever, headed
by finely marked cockerels. I am now ready
to book orders for eggs. Prices reasonable.
Cockerels for sale, J, A. Roscoe, Norwalk,
O^ 12-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES, THE GREAT
coming variety. A few trios and pens for
sale. Birds scoring 90 to 93^4. Will furnish
score cards if preferred. Book orders now
for eggs and baby chicks. Jacob Gerig,
Noble, la, 12-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. EGGS FROM
choice matings, the same that I use to pro-
duce my prize winners, $3 per setting. Fine
trios. $7 to $10. O. R. Eddy, Box F. Ocono-
niowoe. Wis. .t-9-12

BUFF COLUMBIANS.

START NOW WITH A RISING BREED.
Buff Columbians are the coming buffs. No
finer birds anywhere than In my "Origina-
tor's Strain." E^tra setting free to first
1910 customer from each state. Correspond-
ence will do you good. Edwin Cone, Mus-
kegon. Mich. 12-3

ORPINGTONS.

THIS WAY FOR COCKEREL BARGAINS
In S. C, Buff Orpingtons, Fine, large,
strong, vigorous birds, true Orpington type
and fine color, bred from a prize winning
strain. Get prices. Can please you. Five
choice pens mated for eggs. Place orders,
W. I. Harrington, Brunswick. O. 12-3

150 S. C, BUFF ORPINGTONS AT PRICES
that will satisfy, quality considered. Have
pleased many. Let us show you. Get our
egg circular after Feb. 1 and place your
order early. Major Griffin, R. 27, Glenwood,
Ind, 12-3

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

ORPINGTONS. SINGLE COMB BUFF,
Choice cockerels and pullets for sale, $2, $3
and $5 each. Large early hatched birds.
Eggs for sale after Feb. 1 from six pens at
$2 per 15, $10 per 100. B, S, Long, Little
Sioux, la. 12-3

S, C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. EVERY ONE
a show bird, winners in the leading shows
of Northern New York, Cockerels, $5 and
up. Orders booked for eggs at $2 and $3
per 15. Day old chicks, 25 cts. each.
Brook View Stock Farms, Rte, 3, Pulaski,
N, Y. 12-4

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS'. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C., Scotch Plains. N. J.
1-10-12

12 FINE S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON COCK-
erels, $2.50 to $6, according to score. These
birds will put new vigor in your flocks.
Have mated some extra fine pens. eggs. $3
per 15; 30 for $5. You will be sure to be
pleased If you send me your order. Jas.
C. Olson, Harlan, Iowa. 1-3

SINGLE COMB BUFF AND KELLER-
strass White Orpingtons. Eggs from 3 pens
Buffs correctly mated. $2, $3 and $5 per 15.
I..imlted number eggs from 2 pens extra
fine Whites $5 and $10 per 15, Circular
free. Alice J. Morrlss. Big Rock. 111. 1-3

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. OWEN BROS',
strain. Pine stock for sale from prize win-
ners. Eggs from choice mated pens. Prices
within reach of all. Mrs. H, Wedderspoon,
Cooperstown, N. Y., Perthmoose Farms.
1-3

BLACK ORPINGTON CARRY THE

world's record for best winter layers. Eggs
for hatching in season. Scored cockerels for
sale. Write me for prices. W. J. Schmltt,
Donnellson, Iowa. 1-3

(^LEAN SWEEP ON S. C. BUFF ORPING-
tons at Omaha and Lincoln. Neb., winning
1st cockerel, 1st pullet and Ist pen at each
show, besides other prizes and specials, plac-
ing our Buffs unquestionably In advance of
competition In the middle west. Ask for
free 1910 mating list. Prewltt, Box W.
Onawa, Iowa. 2-3

S. C. WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA-
mond .Tubllee Orpington eggs, $2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers,
Wis. 2-5

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S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS FROM CIITCA-
go. New York and Canadian winners. Will
have but one very choice pen of rich, even
colored birds. Sound in hacltle and saddle.
Bggs $10 per 15. Few cockerels to spare.
V. Crabtree. Tfffln. O. 0-4

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS. Mv
the size, shape and that deep.'
color. Every breeding pen headed
first prize bird. Egrgs $3 per setting,
for circular. Club member. H. A.
Kinsman. O.

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RHODE ISLAND REDS.

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS THAT
are right. Prize winners at leading Missouri
shows. Can please the most exacting. Cor-
respondence answered promptly. Place esE
orders now. Grand pens mated, headed by
cockerels from first prize pen at Trenton
f5how. Day old chicks. Write Arthur S.
Clapp. T"^nionville. Mo. 12-."^

BE IN THE FASHION AND RAISE
Rhode Island Reds. Some choice Rose Comb
cockerels and pullets at prices that will suit
you. Let me fill your order. Eggs when
you want them. Place order now. Wiiber
Bellows. L. Box 405. Anoka, Minn. 12-3

25 R. C. RED COCKERELS'. $2 TO $3
each, according to quality. Some dandles
among the lot. Get your pick. All fine big
birds. Eggs, .$1 per 15. Book your orders
now. Red and White Poultrv Farm, Colts
Neck. N. J. 12-3

R. C. AND S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED
cocks and cockerels. Have good color and
shape, descendants of Buffalo and Boston
winners: some have score cards. My birds
were winners at Oconomowoc, Milwaukee
and Waukesha. Prices reasonable. Egg or-
ders booked now. Chas. G. Wheeler, Dous-
man. Wis. 12-3

S. C. R. I. REDS. SELECT COCKERELS
for sale. Healthy, vigorous, good color and
free from smut. My stock has won the
blue ribbons in strongest competition for
seven years. Write for description. Eggs
for sale. V. Hlbner. Aurora, 111. 12-3

MEADOW LAWN POULTRY YARDS.
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds exclusively.
Some nice, large cockerels for sale from
prize winners at leading shows. Eggs from
choice matings In season. Send for mating
list. Correspondence solicited. H. .1. Mil-
ler. Albert T.,ea. Minn. 12-3

E. S. BECKER. PROP. GLEN VIEW
Poultry Farm, Route 3, Elmira, N. Y..
offers fine bargains in high scoring S. C
Rhode Island Reds. Book orders now for
eggs and day old chicks. Several fine cock-
erels for sale. Correspondence solicited.

12-3

MY ROSE AND SINGLE COMB RHODE
Island Reds are first prize winners wherever
shown. Won the lion's share at Sprlngflelrl
and Holyoke. Can send you birds that will
improve your flock. Eggs. $3 per setting.
Valley Farm, 94 East Main St., Amherst.
Mass. 1-3

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Exclusively. I showed 6 pullets and 4 cock-
erels at Peoria. 111., Dec, 1909, and won 8
prizes. I showed no old birds. Will sell
the four cockerels. Also eggs In season.
Write for prices and matings. Davis Crows.
Hanna City. 111.

S. C. R. I. RED COCKERELS FOR SALE.
Fine birds at reasonable prices. Eggs from
best matings at $2 per 15. Free range
stock, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Mrs. H. L.
Alsop. Sylvia. Iowa. 1-3

HIGH CLAS^ S. C. R. I. REDS FOR SALE.
Original birds direct from Lester Tompkins.
Scoring 91 to 93. Eggs from pens 1, 2. 3,
$1, $2. and $3 per 15. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Isaac H. Painter, Chrisney. Ind.

1-3

LIBERAL POULTRY YARD. SINGLE

Comb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs: First
pen, $2.50 per 15; second pen, $2 per 15;
third pen, $1.50 per 15. Incubator eggs
from other pens, $4 per 100; farm range,
$2.50 per 100. C. I. W. Adkisson. Galatla,
111. 1-4

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS. WON
first at Peoria. Dec. 14 to 18. 1909; first
at Lincoln, Dec. 14 to 17, 1909. Eggs. $3.
$2 and $1 per 15. Utility, $5 per 100. .7
B. Garber, Hopedale. 111. 1-3

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldridge & Son, Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Eggs In season from excellent laying strain.
Pen No. 1, $2 per 15; pen No. 2, $1.50 per
15. Utility flock. $1 per 15 or $5 per
hundred. Mrs. Harvey Trultt, R. 1, Farm-
Ington, 111. 1-3

H.VVE YOU DECIDED WHERE YOU ARE
going to place your order for S. C. R. I.
Red, stock of eggs. If not, write a postal
to U. S. A Poultry Yards, Antwerp, O., for
their catalog. Six years exclusive breeding.
2-4

CHOICE fiJNGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND
Reil cockerel.s for sale. Eggs In season, all
frcm excellent sock. Maple Grove College
Poultry Yards. Miss Minnie Alston. R. 3.
Coulrcrville. III. 2-\

ROSE COMB REDS. AFTER FIVE YEARS
careful mating for eggs, size, shape and
color, (uir Keds lay Hive T..eghorns, and grow
like IMymouth Rocks, with female plumage,
that pure deep red. First time to offer
( ,i?gs from these grand Reds. Prize win-
ners in fM'ery pen. Eggs $2 per lu; $3 per
30. Sample feathers. Ernest E. Lienard,
Route S. Box 21. Lancaster, O. 2-1

LANGSHANS.

TWELVE YEARS A BREEDER OP BLACK
Langshans exclusively. Some nice cockerels
bred from prize winners for sale. Eggs after
March 1, I'JIO, at $1.50 per 15. Write your
wants to Mrs. L. A. McCracken, Bonaparte,
Iowa. 12-3

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95 M; In
show room. Prices right. Eggs in season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
Mo. 1-6

L'l YEARS A BREEDER OF THE BEST
Black Langshans. Have a show record un-
der leading judges unequaled by any other
l)reeder. Male birds each season score to
!>5^. females 96 1/2- Buy where you know
that you will get the highest quality at
reasonable prices. Have some grand cocks
and cockerels to spare, scoring from 94
to 9514; also some extra choice hens. Made
a clean sweep at the Eastern Wisconsin
show this season and won silver cup for
best pen in the show three years, all breeds
competing, score 191%. A. Stranskv. Pres.
Eastern Wis. Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton.
yi^- 11-9-lL'

i'RIZE WINNING BLACK AND WHITE
Lang.shan eggs, .'52 per setting from pens
headed by blue ribbon winning male birds
W. H. Hefner. R3. Columbia City. Ind. 2-4

I AM THE WHITE LANGSHAN MAN.
liirds fine as silk. Eggs for setting, 3
from each of five pens at $2 ner sotting.
Kirst premium winners at the largest show
in the west. R. S. Messner. C. No. 18. Rock-
ford, 111. 'y,2

BUFF COCHINS.

OUR BUFF COCHINS HAVE FOR YEARS
been acknowledged leaders. Their record at
the largest shows has placed them in the
front rank. My birds have been given the
highest possible scores by many of Ameri-
ca's leading Judges. They are clear buff
true to type and grandly feathered. My
Buff Bantams are equally as good. Eggs
$3 and $5 per 15. Leslie Parlin, 19 Phalen
Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 3-9-12

SOME DANDY BUFF COCHIN COCKER-
els for sale. Hanchett strain, good buff
color. Only a limited to dispose. Write
quick if you want one. Correspondence an-
swered promptly. C. J. L. Ware, 551 Marl-
boro St.. Keene, N. H. 12-3

BUFF COCHIN SPECIALIST TEN YEARS.
Have two finest pens mated for the egg
trade in the United States, bred from the
world's best winners at leading shows. Val-
uable illustrated catalogue for stamp, show-
ing prices and winnings. S. Berger, Pleasant
Hill. O. 12-3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

SUNCREST SINGLE COMB WHITE LEG-
horns. Line bred ten years. We have
pleased hundreds of customers. Can please
you. Write for catalogue. Suncrest Poultry
Farm, R. 1. Box F. Grand Rapids, Mich.
3-9-12

«^ C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS' FO^
hatching after Feb. 1, from heavy laying
standard bred stock, at $1 per 15, $4 per 100
Fertility and .satisfaction guaranteed. C. H
Zurburg, R. 1.. Topeka. 111. 12-3

BUFF COCHINS FOR SALE, HENS, PUL-
lets or trios. My stock Is first class. Won
27 prizes In 1909. Send In your order now
lor eggs. Win ship when you want them.
.J. C. Baughman. Topeka, Kan. 2-3

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen and 3d
cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, New
York., I made 3 entries, winning 1st pullet
Egg.s $2 per setting. W. J. Blake. Burn-
side. Conn, 2-10-13

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS FOR
sale from leading prize winning strains.
Good shape and color cocks, $1.50; hens
and pullets, $1 each. I am selling out
my entire stock of Leghorns, therefore will
make these low prices. E. H. Olson, R. 1.
Thor, Iowa. 1-2

BARGAINS IN S. C. WHITE LEGHORN
cockerels $1 and $2 each for dandy birds.
Order now and get your pick. Eggs $1
and $2 per 1"., according to quality. Either
mated pen or range flock. Reasonat)ie hatch
guaranteed. .James Keegan. R. 1, Box 72.
Thor. Iowa. 2-4

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS.
Choice stock for sale. We make a spec-
ialty of supplying breeders with foundation
stock. Prices from $2 to $10 for pullets
and cockerel.s. according to merit. Eggs
for liatching. $2 per 15; %'> per 50. Boavor
Dam Poultry Farm. Montgomery. .V. Y. 2-r;

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

I OFFER Y'OU THE HIGHEST QUALITY
in R. C. White Leghorns, both in stock and
eggs and my prices are reasonable. Some
choice trios for sale. Eggs from my Chi-
cago first prize pen shipped promptly. My
l>irds are first prize winners at Chicago In
competition with the best in the west. Mrs.
W. Jones Williams, The Maples, Mavwood.
Til. ' 2-4

liOSE COMi: WIIITIO F.EGHORNS, THE
woiid's record for best layers. Have bred
Leghorns for nineteen years. Get the best —
"Phillips Strain." Eggs $3 per 15; stock
for sale. Write for catalog. Rockv Vallev
Poultry Co.. No. 66 "The Oaks." Deerfield,
TH. 2-3

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Pullet
bred cockerels, the finest show and laying
breeders in existence, cheap. H. M. Moyer.
R. 2, Bechtelsville, Pa. 11-9-12

20 CHOICE S. C. BROWN LEGHORN
cockerels at special prices to close out. De-
scribe just what you want. I know I can
please you. Egg orders booked now, either
Brown or Buff Leghorns. Prices right. O.
R. Rice, Delavan, Wis. 12-3

PRAY'S POULTRY FARM. PRAY'S S. C.
Brown Leghorns have been bred for show
purposes and heavy e^E production. Have
free range and are fine. Show birds, $5
each; breeding cockerels, $2; eggs, $1.50 to
$3 for 15, $6 per 100. Geo. L. Pray, Ovid
St.. So. Elsie. Mich. 12-3

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four fii-sts, Athens. 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 91, pen 180%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T, Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. u-!»-12

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORN (242-EGG
strain), female line, eggs and stock for .sale
reasonable, according to quality. I won the
highest honors on all that I entered at
last Schenectady show. Correspondence
licited. Wm. Gaffey, South Worcester,

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BUFF LEGHORNS.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2.
$3 and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock.
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs, $2 per
15. F. D. Kemp, Sparta, Wis. 12-4

ROSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. OUR
birds are good layers, large and healthy
with good combs and good buff color. Just
the kind you want. Eggs, $1 for 15, $5 for
100. No stock for sale. Sunnyside Poultrv
Farm, C. C. Glasgo, Loudonville. O. 1-3

BUFF LEGHORNS, SINGLE COMB. BRED
from Chicago winners. Two pens mated.
Produce show specimens only. Low, well
spread tails guaranteed. Elegant, golden
even buff. Eggs, $3 per 15, produce speci-
mens equaling the best. Dr. C. E. Hoover,
i'ldgerton. O. 1.3

BLACK MINORCAS.

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. EXHI-
bition and breeding cockerels, $2 up. Pure
Northup strain. Grand large birds. EVery
one a bargain. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Circulars. Eggs, $2 for 15. Book your or-
ders now. James F. Gleason, Michigan City
I"<1- __^^^^ ^2-3

PURE ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS.
A few choice cockerels for sale, bred from
winning stock at the leading shows In this
state. Book your egg orders early from
three choice pens. Dr. E. H. Drews", Madi-
son, Wis. 12-3

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MUST SELL AT ONCE. FEW VERY FINE
K. C. Black cockerels from my noted "Oul-
cout" Minorca. Booking egg orders. Blacks
and whites. Pullet record, 27 eggs In
Jan., 1909. Six ribbons on 7 entries 1909
Oscar F. Sampson, Franklin, N. Y. 1-3

I BREED FOR QUALITY AND SIZE. S
C. Black Minorca eggs, $2 per 13. Cockerels
for sale. I. Allison, Florence, Neb. 1-4

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS, Ex-
clusive winners of 5 firsts at Shelbyvllle
Lebanon and Sheridan poultry shows.
Scores, 93 to 94^, by Judges McCracken,
Kummer and Greer. Eggs, $1.50 and $2
per 15. Fertility guaranteed. H, A. Brat-
lin, Brazil, Ind. ^.3

S-^?.^ ^^^^ BLACK AND ROSE COMB
\\hite Minorcas. First prize winners at
New Yoiii. Chicago, St. Louis and all large
shows. Breeding stock and eggs for hatch-
ing guaranteed. Large stock. Great layers
Catalog mailed free. G. A. Clark, Sey-
mour Ind. ' j^3

BLACK MINORCAS, ROSE AND SINGLE
^"^h ^?'*^at size and shape. Pens headed
by Madison Square and Rochester winners
Stock and eggs. Circular. M V AIIpo'
Ovid, N. Y. 2-1

GLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS. ROSE
Comb Black Minorcas exclusively. Clean
sweep at Peoria with one single exception
which resulted in a tie. Stock and eggs
guaranteed. $2.50 per 15; $6 per 50- JIO
per 100. Charles White. Route 36. Peoria

ilL 2-4

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. WIN-
ners of 7 first and 3 cups at AUantown,
Wiiiamsport and Scranton this season!
Judge T. F. McGrew, In reporting Scranton's

?^^}lZ ^^''^' ^^y""'- '•M''- Tobey has on
exhibition a:n number of specimens of such
remarkable quality as to call for the high-
est praise; anyone who can rear Black Min-
orcas and show them In such beautiful con-
dition, has the right to claim the honor of
being an expert with poultry." C E Tobev
Scranton, Pa. ' 2-3

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS. STAN-
dard bred. Lot of fine cockerels, some few
choice pullets, for sale. Great layers. Egg
orders booked now for spring delivery.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Denton Wareheim
T.iincboro. Md. 11-i

FOR SALE— LINE BRET) SILVER SPANG-
led Hamburgs. Winners 17 ribbons one
?l^?.y-.. ^^®° highest scoring eight birds,
vv 111 dispose of cocks, hens, cockerels pul-
lets. Eggs in season. None better for
breeding and eggs. Write Wauconda Poul-
try Farm, Benton Harbor, Mich. 12-3

FAVEROLLES.

BREED SALMON FAVEROLLES. CAN
send you some fine ones, all bred from
first prize winners at leading shows. This
popular breed of French fowls is unexcelled
for utility and fancy. Egg orders booked
for spring delivery. C. P. McAndrew, Ells-
worth, Wis, 11-8

CORNISH

CORNISH FOWL. MADISON SQUARE,
Jamestown Exposition. Allentown, Trenton,
Hagerstown, Philadelphia winners. Old and
young stock for sale. Egg orders booked
now. Circular free. R. D, Reider, Middle-
town, Pa. 12-3

POLISH.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH. LINE
bred for 26 years. Winners at World's Fair,
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale; eggs In season. Chaa. L. Seely,
Pres. Am. Polish Club, Afton, N. Y. 5-9-12

W. C. B. POLISH. A FEW CHOICE
cockerels for sale. Bred from winneis at
Herkimer, Utica, Rochester and Buffalo.
Birds are sure to please. Eggs after Feb.
15. Don't fall to get my prices. Warren
W. Dickens, l^ox 93, Middleville, N Y. 1-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVFIR
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Birds scoring 93 to 96%. Won at
Newton, 111., in lively competition, first cock,
first and second cockerel, first, second and
third pullet. Eggs after March 1, |3 per
setting. Dale Arnold, Newton, 111. 1-4

GOLDEN & SILVER SEABRIGHTS' EGG8
for sale from pens scoring from 93 V^ to 96
The best in the west. $2 per 15. Middle
West Bantamry, Lock Box 23, Rolfe, Iowa.

HOUDANS.

HOUDANS. WINNERS WHEREVER

shown. Ist at Phila.. Allentown. Norrls-
town. Pa.. 1908. Phila., 1909, fifteen rib-
bons with ten entries. Stock and eggs for
^* ®-u4 *^- JF^^en Smith. Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, Pa. 3-9-12

CHOICE HOUDANS. Cocks, cockerels, hens
and pullets to close out at reasonable prices.
Write, stating just what you want. Supply
limited. Order at once If you want a bar-
gain. Birds are good in all points and will
give satisfaction. J. B. Belknap, R. 3,
Council Bluffs. Iowa. 12-3

HOUDAN EGGS FROM McAVOY'S AND
Dr. Taylor's strain. Have raised them 3
years. Have 50 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 15, or $7 per 100. J. D. Payne, Water-
loo, Ind. i_3

IT IS A RECOGNIZED FACT THAT "Q &
B." Houdans are "the best." If you start
with "the best" you will save time, money
and annoyance. If you want a flock of prize
winners and record layers, demand "Q &
B." Houdans. Write for our beautiful de-
scriptive catalog; It is free. Eggs, $2.50,
$5 and $10 per 15; ten chicks guaranteed to
hatch. Quimby & Brown, 109-U High St.,
Ipswich, Mass. 2-4

HOUDANS — MY BREEDERS ARE TRAP-
nested and bred for eggs; also have some
fine show birds. Won all flrstp and 2
seconds on 6 entries. Eggs pen 1 $2 per 11
pen 2 $1.50 per 15; guarantee 10 fertile or
replace setting free. John C. Meyer. R 9
Oconto Falls. Wis. 2-4

LARGE CRESTED, HEAVY LAYING HOU-
dans. Eggs from four grand pens. Ten
.Vears a breeder. Guarantee good hatch. My
first year with Orpingtons, Whites and
Blacks. Hattie P. Franks. Worth, 111. 5-9-12

LABLENVELDERS.

LAKENVELDER'S. FOUND AT LAST

what this paper is dedicated to: "The
most beautiful in fowls." Exhibition stock
Eggs in season. Anson van Voorhees Mar-
shall, Mich. ' 2-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Camplne advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield. N. J. ' 3-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize
whitest dozen eggs in show, Boston, 1910.

§?dgeLid:T j':""'"^' "^ ^- ^^*^«^"«' ^-p«'

GAJVIES.

CrAMES — INDIAN GAMES, WINNERS
wherever shown. If you want a show bird
or breeder write me. I have the goods.
Grand lot cockerels; also 30 pit game cocks
and stags. 18 years a breeder and exhibitor
l^ggs in season. J. Boyce. Summitville!
^- y- 12-3

DOMINIQUES.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every first prize of-
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds
Write for circulars and prices. W. H. Dav-
enport. Coleraine, Mass. 5-9-12

BABY CHICKS.

E AND D. HATCHERY, YARDLEY. PA.
shippers of day-old chicks and egg.s from
high grade stock of the leading varieties
Express paid and safe arrival guaranteed
east of the Mississippi river. Write for
list of varieties and prices 1.3

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 P»R
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants ar« worth from $26.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
I'heasarit Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mail
from A. V. M«»rsch, Poughkeepsle. New
York. 9-08-tf

ENGLISH RINGNECK PHEASANTS, $5 A
pair. China Ringneck Pheasants, $7.50 a
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomington.

Ill

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TURKEYS.

BRONZE TURKEYS. First cockerel, sec-
ond, third, fourth pullet, first pen at Illi-
nois state show 1909; first cockerel, first
pullet at Peoria. 1908. William Ringhouse,
R. 2, Box Y. Havana. 111. 3-9-12

FOR SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TUR-
keys. A fine strain of good layers, large
bone and frame, and nicely marked; bred
from prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early. Prices rea-
sonable considering quality. Mrs. Mary
Schoonmaker. R. 1, Meshoppen, Pa. 1-4

BRONZE TURKEY EGGS. $2 PER 10, AND
genuine Wild Mallard Duck eggs, $1.50
per 10. Order early. Will ship when
wanted. H. W. Fairall, Iowa City, Iowa.

1-4

" - ■ -

DUCKS AND GEESE.

THOROUGHBRED TOULOUSE GEESE'.
$10 and $12 per pair. My geese are prize
winners. Fancy White Rocks and Rouen
Ducks. Eggs in season from each variety.
Mrs. L. L. Swinford. Oakland. 111. 12-3

BLACK CAYUGA DUCKS AND WHITE
Holland Turkeys for sale. Also a few Afri-
can Geese (females only). Let me book
your orders now for eggs from the above
varieties. Satisfactory hatches guaranteed.
Correspondence solicited. Floyd S. Beau-
mont. R. 15. Kansasville, Wis. 12-3

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab corapaaies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. 8-9-121

WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Higliest
prices paid for Guinea Fowls. Live Rabbits
and Guinea Pigs. S. Gilbert, 1128 Palmer
St., Philadelphia, Pa. 12-5

MISCELLANEOUS.

•WANTED"-- -PIGEON DUNG. WRITE

Pflster & Vogel Leather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for prices, etc. 10-3

A FINE 160-ACRE FARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas. 19 miles from Abilene,
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being used for pasture,
good wire fence, good water the year round.
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns it and
has no use for it. Some improvements.
Address K. F., care Poultry Fancier, 357
Dearborn St., Chicago. 111.

"WANTED" — PIGEON DUNG. WRITE
Pflster & Vogel Leather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for prices, etc. 1-3

POULTBY SUPPLIES.

POULTRY P^EED — PRICE PER 100 LBS.
Beef scraps $2.75, meat and bone $2.25,
ground bone $2.25, hen scratching grains
$1.85, chick scratching grains $2, poultry
mash $1.80, pigeon grain $2.25, alfalfa
clover meal $1.50, crushed oyster shells
65c, crushed clam shells 60c, mica crystal
grit 65c, pearl grit 60c, medicated charcoal
$1.50. The meat and bone, shells, grit
and charcoal In both hen and chick size.
Give us a trial order. J. G. Hermann &
Co.. Indianapolis. Ind. 11-6

PRINTING.

PRINTING — POULTRY. GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful saraple.s for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

TRAP NEST

inailo In a few inhmtos
verv Hlinple and relia»>le
complete plan» 10 centH.
Geo. StlrdlvRut, Box 8,
Sheboygan Falls. Wis.

Page'56

^■POULTRY FAN C I E IVf F^bruaryTiO^^

S. C. P,T'FF ORPINOTOXS FROM rilTCA-
STO, New York and ranadian winiifrs, AVill
ha\e but one very choice pen of rich, even
eoloreil birds. Sound in hackle and saddb^.
Egps $10 per 1.".. Few cockeiels to spaie.
V. Crab tree. TiHin, O 0.4

S. (\ VAVh' ORPTXCJTOXS. .My birds ha\e
tlio size, sliape and that deep." rich under
• •'ibu-. E\ery brtedinpr pen headed
liisr pri/.f' l)ird. Fg-gs $.1 per settlnir.
for circular. Ciu]> member. TT. A.
Kinsrn.'xn. ().

hv a
Writ<-

Sisley.
2-1

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TiOSE rOMH RHODE ISLAND REDS THAT
iire jjght. Prize winners at leadinpr Missouri
shows. Can please the most exaetinp. Cor-
respondence answered promptly. Place cRpr
orders now. Grand pens mated, lieadod by
cockeiels from first prize pen at Trenton
show. Day old chicks. Wiite Arthur S.
• Mniip. T"!iiipn\illi'. Mo. 12-:'.

BE IN THE FASHION AND RAISE
Rhode Island Reds. Some choice Rose Comb
cockerels and pullets at prices that will suit
you. Let me fill your order. E^^sjs when
you want them. Place order now. Wilber
P.i-llows. L. Pox 40.^,. Anoka, ATinii. ^2 ?,

L'ij R. C. RED
each, according
anions' the lot.
birds. EiTUs, %\
now. Red and
Nock. N .1.

COCKERELS'. $2 TO $.*?

to quality. Some dandles

Get your pick. .All fine bi.cr

per ir>. Book your orders

White Poultry Farm. Colts

12-R

R. C. AND S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED
eocks and cockerels. Have fjood color and
shape, descendants of Buffalo and Boston
winners: some have score cards. My birds
were winnei's at Oconomowoc, Milwaukee
and Waukesha. Prices reasonable. Eprer or-
ders 1>ooked now. Chas. G. Wheeler. Dous-
man. Wis. ^2-?,

S. C\ R. 1. I^EDS. SET>Er'T COCKERELS
for sale. Healthy, vigorous, pood color and
free from smut. My stock has won the
blue ribbons in strongest competition for
seven years. Write for description. Eggs
for sale. V. Hlbner. Aurora, 111. 12-.T

ME.VDOW

T-AWN POI'LTRY

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Some nice, large cockerels for
prize winners at leading shows,
choice matings in season. Send
list. Correspondence solicited,
ler. .Albert Lea. Minn.

YARDS

exclusively.

sale from

Eggs from

for mating

H. .1. Mil-

E. S. BECKER. PROP. GLEN VIEW
Poultry Farm, Route ?,. Elmira. N. Y..
offers fine bargains in high scoring S. C.
Rhode Island Reds. Book orders now for
eggs and day old chicks. Several fine cock-
erels for sale. Correspondence solicited.

MY HOSE AND SINGLE <'(>MH RHODE
Island Reds are first prize winners wherever
shown. Won the lion's share at Springfield
Can send you birds that will
fiock. Egg«. $3 per setting.
94 East Main St., Amherst,

1-:^

and Holyoke.
improve your
A'alley Farm.
ATass.

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Exclusively. I showed 6 pullets and 4 cock-
erels at Peoria, 111.. Dec. 1900. and won ^
prizes. I showed no old birds Will sell
the four cockerels. Also eggs in season.
Write for prices and matings. Davis Crows.
Hanna City, 111.

S. C. R. I. RED COCKERELS
Fine birds at reasonable priees.
best matings at $2 per L'.
stock. ?1 per L'. : $5 per TOO
.\1snp. Sylvia. Iowa.

FOR SALE.

Eggs from

Free range

Mrs. II. L.

1-::

pen.

$2..'0 per L'j; second

third

pen, $1.50 per l.'j.

from

other pens. $4 per

$2.r.o

per 100. C. I. W. .

111.

HIGH CLASS S. C. R. I. REDS FOR SALE.
Oiiginal birds direct from Lester Tompkins.
Scoring 91 to 9.*?. Eggs from pens 1, 2. :?.
?1. $2. and %?, per Iri. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Isaac H. Painter. Chrisncy. Ind,

1-S

LIBERAL POULTRY YARD. SINGI>E

Comb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs: First

pen, $2 per 15;

Incubator eggs

100; farm range.

Adkisson, Galatia,

1-4

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND liEDS. WON
first at Peoria. Dec. 14 to 1,S, 1909: first
at Lincoln, Dec. 14 to 17. 1909. Eggs. $.''.,
$2 and $1 per 15. Utility, $5 per 100. .1
B. G;irber, Ilopedale. 111. 1-3

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldridge ,^' Son, Bourne, Mass, 9-9-12

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Eggs in season from excellent laying strain.
Pen No. 1, $2 per 15; pen No. 2, $1.50 per

15. Utility nock. $1
hundred. Mrs. Harvey
Ington, 111.

per 15 or $.'
Trultt. R. 1.

per
Farm-
1-3

liAAE YOr DECIDED \\ilEi:E YOl' ARE
«oing to idacu your order for S. C. R. I.
Red, stock of eggs. If not. write a postal
to U. S. A I'oultr> Y'ards, Antwern, O.. for
thcii- e.'italiig. Six years exclusive lueeding.

2-4

• HOlCi: SlNCi,!-: fo.Mi; J{li(jDi-: LSLAND
l\et; cockerels for sale. Eggs In season, all
fi-om fxccllent sock. Maple Grove College
l"oii!tr,\ Aiuds. Miss :Minnie Alston. R. 3.

< V.Ullerville. III. -J-l

liOSE (O.MH liEDS. AFTER FIVIO YEARS
eaif.ful mating for eggs, size, shape and
eolor. our Rods lay like Leghorns, and grow
like I'lyiiiouth Rocks, with female plumage,
that jHire drei> i-ed. First time to offer

< ggs fn u) these grand Reds. Prize Avin-
in >-vov\ pen. lOggs $2 ])er L". ; $3 per
Sample fealheis. Ernest E. TJenard,

2-1

ners
.".0.

Ixoute s. Box 21. Lancastei'. fV

LANGSHANS.

TWELVE YEARS A BREEDER OF BLACK

Langshans exclusively. Some nice cockerels
bred from prize winners for sale. Eg,gs after
March 1, IMIO, at $1.50 per 15. Write your
wants to Mrs. L. A. McCraeken, Bonaparte,

ii>\v;i. 12-:;

oi-der

I

your

Hock

now

1 1 a \ e

show

loom

Writ(

• ine.

.Mo.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG
shans is proved b.v their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
• an start you right oi- improve
with some of the grand birds I
for sale. Scores to 95 '-f. in
Prices right. Eggs in season.
Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
1"^

21 YEARS A JiREEDER OF THE BEST
Black I..angshans. Have a show record un-
d<r leading judges unequaled by any other
breeder. Male birds each season score to
!»5 1L., females 9GVL'. Buy where you know
that you will get the highest quality at

Have some grand cocks

spare, scoring from 94

extia choice hens. Made

the Easteiii Wisconsin

and won silver cup for

reasonable prices.

and cockerels to

to 9514; also some

a clean sweei> at

show this season

best pen in the show three years, all breeds

eompeting, score 191 1^. A. Stransky. Pres.

I'lastern Wis. Poultry ,V: P .«;. Assn., Chilton.

Wis. 11-9-12

I'Li/h: winning; black and whiti-:

Lai,g;;lian i^ixv^is, .'«2 per setting from pens
headed by blue ribbon winning male birds
W. H. Hefner. ii;>. Columbia City. Tnd. 2-1

! AM THIO \VHITE LANG SHAN MAN.
Hirds fill., as silk. Eggs for getting, ?,
fi-om eai.li of li\c j)ens at $2 nor setting,
'•'iist itreiiiium wiiinci-s at the largest show
in th.' west. R. S. Messner. C. No. IS, Rock
ford. 111. o.',

BUFF COCHINS.

OUR BUFF COCHINS HAVE FOR YEARS
been acknowledged leaders. Their record at
the largest shows has placed them in the
front rank. My birds have been given the
highest possible scores by many of Ameri-
ca's leading judges. They are clear buff
true to type and grandly feathered. My
Buff Bantams are equally as good. Eggs
$3 and $5 per 15. Leslie Parlin. 19 Phalen
Ave.. St. Paul. Minn. 3-9-12

SOME DANDY BUFF COCHIN COCKER-
els for sale. Hanchett strain, good buff
eolor. Only a limited to dispose. Write
quick if you want one. Correspondence an-
swered promptly. C. J. L. Ware. 551 Marl-
boro St.. Keene, N. H. 12-3

nri'i

Have
t lade
woild
uable

<'OCHIN SPECIALIST TE.V YEARS,
two finest pens mated for the egg
in the United States, bred from the
s best winners at leading shows. Val-
illustrated catalogue for stamp, show-
ing prices and winnings. S. Berger, Pleasant
Hill, O.

12-

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

SUNCREST SINGLE COMB WHITE LEG-
horns. Line bred ten years. We have
pleased hundreds of customers. Can please
you. Write for catalogue. Suncrest Poultry
Farm, R. 1. Box F. Grand Rapids, Mich.

3-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR
hatching after Feb. 1, from heavy laying
standard bred stock, at $1 per 15. $4 per 100.
l-'ertility and satisfaction guaranteed. C. H
/.urburg. R. 1.. Topeka, 111. \2-i

HilM' COCHINS FOR SALE, HENS, I'UL-
lets or trios. My stock Is first class. Won
27 prizes in 1909. Send in your order now
r.)r eggs. Will ship when you want them.
.1. c. T'.nughman, Topek.T, JCaii. •■>-:•

P.LAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield, 1st cock, 1st hen and 3d
cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, New
York., I made 3 entries, winning 1st pullet.

Eggs .$2 per
side, Conn.

setting. \V. .1 Blake

Burn-
-10-13

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS FOR
sale from leading prize winning strains.
Good shape and color cocks, $1.50; hens
and pullets. $1 each. 1 am selling out
my entire stock of I.,eghorns, therefore will
make these low prices. E. H. Olson, R. 1,
Tlior. Iowa. 1-2

BARlLAINS

cockerels .^1
Order now
.ind $2 ))er I
mated pen 01
guaranteed.
Tbor, Iowa.

L\ S. C. WHITE LEGH()R.\

.mil ^2 eaeli for dandy l)irds.

;iiul get your pick. Eggs $1

". according to iiuality. Eithei-

range llock. Reasonable hatch

.lames Keegan, i!. I. Box 72.

2-4

SLXGLE COMB WHI'l'l-: LEGHoRXS.

<"'hoice stock for sale. We make a spec-
ialt\ of sui)iilyin.g breeders with foundation
stock, I'riees from $2 to $10 for imllets
and eockeiels, according ti» merit. I'^ggs
fi'i- lialehing. S2 i)er 1 ." : %'< \>o\- .",(i. Reaver
l>aiu riiiillr.v I'-arin, Mi pii t i;i>iMei\ . .V. Y. 2-3

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

I OFFER YOU THE HIGHEST QUALITY
in R. C. White Leghorns, both in stock and
e.ggs and my i>iices are reasonable. Some
ehoice trios for sale. lO.ugs from my Chi-
• ago first ))rize i>on shipped ])romptl.v. My

winners at Chieago in
best in the west. Mrs,
■^riie Mai)les, Mavwood.

2-4

birds are first nrize
competition with the
W. .loncs William;
111.

R<>si-: c»).Mi; wiin-i-: i.i'.chor.ns. -i-hi-:

worlds record for best la.vers. Have bred
Leghorns for nineteen years. Get the best — •
•■i'hilli{)s Strain." l-^ggs %?> i»er 15; stock
for sale. Write for calaU>g. Rockv Vallev
Poultry Co.. No. CG "The (^aks," Decrfield,
111. 2-3

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

S. C. brown LEGHORNS. BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Pullet
bred cockerels, the finest show and laying
breeders in existence, clieap. H. M. Moyer.
R. 2, Beehtelsville, Pa. 11-9-12

20 CHOICE S. i\ BROWN LEGHORN
<'Ockerels at special prices to close out. De-
.scribe just what you want. I know I can
please you. Egg oiders booked now, either
P.rown or Buff Leghorns. Prices right. O.
R. Rice, Delavan, Wis. 12-:!

PRAY'S POULTRY FARM. RRAY'S S. C.
I^rown I.,eghorns have been bred for show
purjjoscs and heavy e^^ production. Have
free range and are line. Show birds, $5
each; breeding cockerels, $2; eggs, $1.50 to

$3 for 15, $6
St.. So. Elsie.

per 100.
Mich.

Geo, L. I'ray,

Ovid

12-3

IXNIXCIBLI-:

v.on I'liiir lirsis

C. iiRoWN LEGHOliNS

-Mhens, l;tlt>. « 'ock scoring

»:;•■',. ItUllets !t|. pen ist'.-'s. Eggs. $2 tn %z.

Hariy T. Trainer,
u-t»-12

.Mating list r»ady soo!i,
<.'arp<'nter, Ohio.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

R. C. BliOWN LEGHORN (242-EGG
strain), feiualt! line, eggs and stock for sale
reasonable, ac<-ording to quality. I won the
liighost honors on all that I entered at
last Schenei'tady show. < 'orresr>ondence
licited. Wm. Gaffev, South Worcester
V.

the

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2-4

BUFF LEGHORNS.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2,
$3 and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock.
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs, $2 per
15. F. D. Kemp. Sparta. Wis. 12-4

Ko.m.; COMB JiUFF LEGHOKXS. oLK
birds are good layers, large and healthy
with good combs and good buff cobtr, .Just
till- kind you want. Eggs. $1 for 15. $5 for
100, No stock for sale. Sunnyside Poultry
l-'aiin. C. C. Glasgo. Loudonville, O 1-3

P.LFF Li:<aiOKXS, S1X<H.E COMl^. BRED

fi-om Chicago winners. Two

Produce show specimens

spread tails guaranteed.

even buff. Eggs, ,$3 per

mens equaling the best.

I'dgerton. O.

l)ens mated.

only. Low, well

Elegatit, golden,

15, produce specl-

Dr. C. E. Hoover,

1-3

BLACK MINORCAS.

liOSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. EXHT-
bition and breeding cockerels, $2 up. Pure
Northup strain. Grand large birds. Every
one a bargain. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Circulars. Eggs, $2 for 15. Book vour or-
ders now. .Tames F. Gleason, Michigan City,
Ind, 1 2 - ,3

PURE ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS.
A few choice cockerels for sale, bred from
winning stock at the leading shows in this
state. Book your egg orders earlv from
three choice pens. Dr. E. H. Drews", Madi-
son, Wis. 12-3

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MUST SELL AT ONCE. FEW VERY FINE
K. C. Black cockerels from my noted "Oul-
Minorca. Booking egg orders. Blacks
whites. Pullet record, 2 7 eggs in
1909. Six ribbons on 7 entries 1909
F. Sampson, Franklin, N. Y. 1-3

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and
Jan.,
Oscai

I BREED FOR QUALITY AND SIZE. S
C. Black Minorca eggs, $2 per 13. Cockerels
for sale. I. Allison, Florence, Neb 1-4

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS, Ex-
clusive winners of 5 firsts at ShelbyviUe.
Lebanon and Sheridan poultry shows
Scores. 93 to 94 1^, by Judges McCraeken.
Rummer and Greer. Eggs, $1.50 and $2
per la. Fertility guaranteed. H. A. Brat-
lin, Brazil, Ind. 1 3

ROSE
White

COMB
Minorcas

New York, Chicago, St.
shows. Breeding stock
ing guaranteed. Large
Catalog mailed free,
mour Ind.

BLACK AND ROSE COMB
First prize winners at

Louis and all large
and eggs for hatch-
stock. Great layers.

G. A. Clark, Sey-
1-3

BLACK MINORCAS, ROSE AND SINGLE
^*^ ,; ^^'•■'^at size and shape. Pens headed
by Madison Square and Rochester
Stock and eggs. Circular. M
Ovid, N. Y,

winners.

V. Allen.

2-1

GLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS. ROSE
Comb Black Minorcas exclusively. Clean
sweep at Peoria with one single exception
which resulted in a tie. Stock and eggs
guaranteed. $2.50 per 15; $6 per 50- $10
per 100. Charles White, Route 36. Peoria.
■^'^- 2-4

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. WIN-
ners of 7 first and 3 cups at AUantown,
A\illiamsport and Scranton this season.
Judge T. F. McGrew, in reporting Scranton's
Quality show, says: '.Mr. Tobey has on
exhibition an number of specimens of such
remarkable quality as to call for the high-
est praise; anyone who can rear Black Min-
orcas and show them in such beautiful con-
dition, has the right to claim the honor of
being an expert with poultry." C E Tobev
Scranton. Pa, ' o «
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SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS, STAN-

dard bred. Lot of fine cockerels, some few

choice pullets, for sale. Great layers. Egg

orders booked now for

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Lineboro. Md. 11-4

FOR SALE— LINE BRED SILVER SPANG-
led Hamburgs. Winners 17 ribbons one
show. Also highest scoring eight birds.
Will dispose of cocks, hens, cockerels, pul-
lets. Eggs in season. None better for
breeding and eggs. Write Wauconda Poul-
try Farm. Benton Harbor, Mich. 12-3

FAVEROLLES.

spring delivery.
Denton Warehelm.

BREED SALMON FAVEROLLES. CAN
send you some fine ones, all bred from
first prize winners at leading shows. This
popular breed of French fowls is unexcelled
for utility and fancy. Egg orders booked
for spring delivery. C. P. McAndrew, Ells-
worth. Wis. 11-3

CORNISH

CORNISH FOWL. MADISON SQUARE,
Jamestown Exposition. Allentown, Trenton,
Hagerstown, Philadelphia winners. Old and
young stock for sale. Egg orders booked
now. Circular free. R. D. Reider, Middle-
town. Pa. 12-3

POLISH.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH, LINE
bred for 26 years. Winners at World's Fair,
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale; egga In season. Chas. L. Seely,
Pres. Am. Polish Club, Afton, N. Y. 5-9-12

W. C. B. POLISH. A FEW CHOICE
cockerels for sale. Bred from winners at
Herkimer, Utica, Rochester and Buffalo.
Birds are sure to please. Eggs after Feb.
15. Don't fail to get my prices. Warren
\X. Dickens, Box 93. MIddleville, N Y. 1-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Birds scoring 93 to 96%. Won at
Newton, 111,, in lively competition, first cock,
first and second cockerel, first, second and
third pullet. Eggs after March 1, $3 per
setting. Dale Arnold, Newton, 111. 1-4

GOLDEN & SILVER SEABRIGHTS' EGGS
for sale from pens scoring from 93 V^ to 96.
The best in the west. $2 per 15. Middle
West Bantamry, Lock Box 23, Rolfe, Iowa.

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HOUDANS.

HOUDANS. WINNERS WHEREVER

shown. 1st at Phlla., Allentown. Norrls-
town, Pa., 1908. Phlla., 1909, fifteen rib-
bons with ten entries. Stock and eggs for
sale. J. Bmlen Smith, Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, Pa, 3-9-12

CHOICE HOUDANS. Cocks, cockerels, hens
and pullets to close out at reasonable prices.
Write, stating just what you want. Supply
limited. Order at once if you want a bar-
gain. Birds are good in all points and will
give satisfaction. J. B. Belknap, R. 3,
Council Bluffs. Iowa. 12-3

HOUDAN EGGS FROM McAVOY'S AND
Dr. Taylor's strain. Have raised them 3
years. Have 50 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 15. or $7 per 100. J. D. Payne, Water-
loo, Ind. 1.3

IT IS A RECOGNIZED FACT THAT "Q. &
B." Houdans are "the best." If you start
with "the best" you will save time, money
and annoyance. If you want a flock of prize
winners and record layers, demand "Q &
B." Houdans. Write for our beautiful de-
scriptive catalog; it is free. Eggs, $2.50,
$5 and $10 per 15; ten chicks guaranteed to
hatch. Quimby & Brown, 109-U High St..
Ijiswich, Mass. 2-4

HOUDANS — MY BREEDERS ARE TRAP-
hested and bred for eggs; also have some
fine show birds. Won all first.« and 2
seconds on 6 entries. Eggs pen 1 $2 per 11,
pen 2 $1.50 per 15; guarantee 10 fertile or
replace setting free. John C. Meyer, R. 9
Oconto Falls, Wis. 9.4

LARGE CRESTED, HEAVY LAYING HOU-
dans. Eggs from four grand pens. Ten
.tears a breeder. Guarantee good hatch. My
first year with Orpingtons, Whites and
Blacks. Hattie P, Franks. Worth, 111. 5-9-12

LAKENVELDERS.

LAKENVELDER'S. FOUND AT LAST

what this paper is dedicated to: "The
most beautiful in fowls." Exhibition stock.
Eggs in season. Anson van Voorhees, Mar-
shall. Mich. ' 0.4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield. N. J. 2-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize
whitest dozen eggs in show. Boston, 191o!
^^■'7^Z Giove Farm, M. R. Jacobus. Prop..
Ridgefield. N. J, o.g

GAJiCES.

GAMES — INDIAN GAMES, WINNERS
wherever shown. If you want a show bird
or breeder write me. I have the goods.
Grand lot cockerels; also 30 pit game cocks
and stags. 18 years a breeder and exhibitor
Eggs in season. J. Boyce. SummltvlUei
^- ^ 12-3

DOMINIQUES.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every first prize of-
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds.
Write for circulars and prices. W. H. Dav-
enport. Coleraine, Mass. 5-9-12

BABY CHICKS.

E. AND D. HATCHERY. YARDLEY. PA.,
shippers of day-old chicks and eggs from
high grade stock of the leading varieties
Express paid and safe arrival guaranteed
east of the Mississippi river. Write for
list of varieties and prices. 1.3

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants ar« worth from |26.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
I'heasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Me«rsch, Poughkeepsie. New
York. 9-08-tf

ENGLISH RINGNECK PHEASANTS. $5 A
pair, China Ringneck Pheasants, |7.50 a
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomlngton,
}}}^ f-f

TURKEYS.

BRONZE TURKEYS. First cockerel, sec-
ond, third, fourth pullet, first pen at Illi-
nois state show 1909; first cockerel, first
pullet at Peoria. 1908. William Ringhouse,
R. 2. Box Y. Havana. 111. 3-9-12

FOR SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TUR-
keys. A fine strain of good layers, large
bone and frame, and nicely marked; bred
from prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early. Prices rea-
sonable considering quality. Mrs. Mary
Schoonmaker, R, 1, Meshoppen, Pa. 1-4

BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, $2 PER 10, AND
genuine Wild Mallard Duck eggs, $1.50
per 10. Order early. Will ship when
wanted. H. W. Fairall, Iowa City, Iowa.

1-4

DUCKS AND GEESE.

THOROUGHBRED TOULOUSE GEESE'.
$10 and $12 per pair. My geese are prize
winners. Fancy White Rocks and Rouen
Ducks. Eggs in season from each variety.
Mrs. L. L. Swinford. Oakland. 111. 12-3

BLACK CAYUGA DUCKS AND WHITE
Holland Turkeys for sale. Also a few Afri-
can Geese (females only). Let me book
your orders now for eggs from the above
varieties. Satisfactory hatches guaranteed.
Correspondence solicited. Floyd S. Beau-
mont. R. 15. Kansasville. Wis. 12-3

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab compaaies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers, $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. 8-9-12

WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Highest
prices paid for Guinea Fowls, Live Rabbits
and Guinea Pigs. S. Gilbert, 1128 Palmer
St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 12-5

MISCELLANEOUS,

"WANTED"— PIGEON DUNG. WRITE

Pfister & Vogel Leather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for prices, etc. 10-3

A FINE 160-ACRE FARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas, 19 miles from Abilene,
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being used for pasture,
good wire fence, good water the year round.
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns it and
has no use for it. Some improvements.
Address K. F., care Poultry Fancier, 357
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

"WANTED" — PIGEON DUNG. WRITE
Pfister & Vogel Leather Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., for prices, etc. 1-3

POULTRY SUPPI1IE8.

POULTRY FEED— PRICE PER 100 LBS.
Beef scraps $2.75, meat and bone $2.25,
ground bone $2.25, hen scratching grains
$1.85, chick scratching grains $2, poultry
mash $1.80, pigeon grain $2.25, alfalfa
clover meal $1.50, crushed oyster shells
65c, crushed clam shells 60c, mica crystal
grit 65c, pearl grit 60c, medicated charcoal
$1.50. The meat and bone, shells, grit
and charcoal in both hen and chick size.
Give us a trial order. J. G. Hermann &
Co.. Indianapolis. Ind. 11-6

PRINTING.

PRINTING — POULTRY, GENERAL. NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

TRAP NEST

made in a few minutes
verv simple and reliable
complete plans 10 cents.
(*»o. Stlrdlvant. Box 8,
Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

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are in the lead
and will hold
it. At th. B.H

Indiana Slate Fair this season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most coveted prize, I oi pea. ALso
1st and 3rd cocks, 2nd cockerel and many of the othcj unuj. rs .vrr. iti mlti from our flock.
They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows. At

Detroit January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 11 others. At
Chicago, December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September
1908, 11 prizes including 5 firsts.

Our winnings at Detroit, January, 1909, in one of the strongest classes of Reds ever
gotten together were: first, second, third and fourth on cocks, first, second, third
and fourth on hens; first, second, third and fourth on cockerels; first and fifth on
pullets; first and second on pens. The four club specials for color and shape.
The silver loving cup (valued at #25.00) offered by the Mayor of Detroit for the
best display of either Rose or vSingle Comb Rhode Island Reds. The silver loving
cup (valued at $20.00) offered by the Hotel Normandie for the best display of rose
comb Rhode Island Reds and other valuable specials.

THE SIBLEY REDS

r -U WAYS W(JN I- AS I ANr» WEST

2000 BIRDS RAISED DURING THE PAST SEASON FROM WINNERS

wemaammiMimmjii

MIN-NE-HA-HA Ul prize winner, Chicago,
Dec. 16-19, 1908. Detroit. Jan. 9-14, 1909.

for catalogue describing our matings and telling all about the Sibley Reds.

iSome ot the cream of this year's production is still in
our yards and if you are looking for a choice bird or two
we can more than please you at right prices.

We will have ten grand pens mated for the egg trade. Rook your orders
early. Prices f3 00, |5.0(3, ^10.00, |15.00, ^0.00 and |25 00 per setting. Send

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ARE THE BIGGEST PAYERS
THE BIGGEST WINTER LAYERS

"CRYSTAL"

KELLERSTRASS

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Are the GRAM>i:ST UTl

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VALUE $10,000. l'ir«t {»il/e wluuer at Jamestown
Exposition, Madison Square Ctarden, New York, and every-
where else she has been shown. The rea-son we value the
above hen at Ten Thousand Dollars Is because we refused
•2.5(X) for her after we sold five of her chicks for |7,5»X>; nnd
we will Klve 910,000 for a "Crystal'* White
Orplnsrtoii H: n that will cnnnl hor in fV«ry iv.iv.

Hi liA i'lSl H.^^S I i%Km., HAHSAS ill 1 Y . mti

their FANCY QUALITY they u on inst .u MaJi>on Square Garden
New York 1905. 1906,1907. IMO.S; also .,t c rvst.,1 Palace London'
England, Chicago and Boston If vu ,,^1 x.nu liirds to niPKOVF
VOIR ^Vrrn-K M fnrtlu snow KOOM unt. us. \Vc have th^,
.x'.vA the \\\\\) lf!\r W l\>. .ts nur it.ist treuul s!)(.ws. STOCK
and EGGS for ,s.uc al ail iinus. I^cnuiuiu!, we .lu the ORIGINA-
TORS of "CRYSTAL" While Orpiu^tous. .uu! iiueU only the »Iin0
kind. We devote our who'e time to this one breed.

SEND FOR OUR CATAI^OGUE

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ERNKST KKTJ.ERSTi, \S !V(,prift,.,
Onjjfiiatoib ut Cii'hta! W !u!e Oipuijitous

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Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
wmners m my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.
ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Winners at Dearborn, Mich.,
_ _ December, 1909. 1st and 4ih

t%\T'V'' \'''?'>S class of birds. Have 4 pens lieadeTby'c:c'keJ:i?:corin";' 92"'
Thf^'ri ^T^'^' '" "T^ P^"= ^'■^ '''Sh class birds scoring 91 to 93 under Tuck r'
A « Si'i^ ^°^^ "^^"^ '° ^''°^- "^^"'^ ^""^ P"<=es on eggs
A. J. MATTHEWS WAYNS. MICHIGAN

Barred Rocks

Crown Bone Cutter

Hens fed cut green l)oue lay I
r more epjts. (Jet 11 Crown Boue
^rutter. Send to-<lay for CHtlllo^'ue.
WiUon Bros., Box >S22» KsHton, I'a.

BEST MADE

Lowest
in Price

BUFF ROCK5

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Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White I^eghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong healthy
chick in each specimen. I guarantee this
aud also safe delivery and the price is only f
^«„fc= «o^>. Cheaper than you can afford to

C. E. KYLE,

Rocky River. Ohio

cents each,
hatch them.

R. F. D. No. 1

EXCLUSIVELY. Regal Blue is the name. Bred in line for
Li years and originally from the best blood lines in the world
cv,^,„ T^ ♦ •. .11 ^ "^^^ ""^quailt^d record of five Srst-uremiums at Mich Sini*»

^il^^^r o^H°'^- •'^?' *-eraam.s tor .some one to duplicate. No room to tell you Sfiidre'^^^^^^^ other
nt^Hc f ^""^ ''Pf'''^^ prize.s they have won at other leading show.s. I now have imvvlrds show
liul^lj^T^ ^yP^ ^"'? ^?^°'' ^;^'^ '.'^^'■°^- ^^^P ^"d distinct bar;i„g Ilso breedii^e stocV n?a^
will merit the approval of any fancier. When ordering remember I do not remdre v?u to oav foJ
n, ?m ^f P^"^'''^^'^''^''-^*''"^^- but .ship you as good a.s can be found at reaso^ab?e^^^^^^
quality of my stock and increasing demand warrants me in advancing the DriceSeLf [for ii«toh
nig) to $i per 1.5. Address A. L. EMERSON INKSTER j^^j^'^ij"' "'^ ^^^ P"*^^ ^^ ^ggs (for hatch-

MAKE YOUR HENS LAY

PRICE PER 100 LBS.

Heef Scraps - - ,«!'.•. 7 0

Meat and Hone - - •_».■_» 5

(".round Kone - . '2.'lo

Alfalfa Clover Meal - 1.50

Medicated Charcoal . l.JiO

Hroken Oyster Shells - .05

Mica Crystal Grit - - .(',5

Pearl Grit - - - .Ol)
J. G. HERMANN & CO.. Indianapolis, Ind.

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BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907

R^cJ Sl^^f-^^ ^"T CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me o^hatZdlrom F^^^^'° mT' "'"' '" "''f "f" *° ^'""'"^ ^^^^ '"^'^^ y^^'' bi^ds purchased from
Xr «h!,„ i u^^ I '°''^ ^^""'^ "'°° ^' t'^- '^''^«^' «'^°^^'« in "le country. I could mention show

fh^J u' "^^ c ™y b-'-ds have won the BEST PRIZES but I honestly believe this hmior bdon^sto

Is m'^ne For- tlfe°sel ^ 7" '"^ ^''^' ''""'V ^^^ "^^'^ '^°' ''^ ^^-'^ that I will p.blish your wimdngs
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Wm all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10 1909
Wmnmg ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ,st. 2d and 3d pullet'
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, 'ist and
3rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 04
by Tucker. ^^

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulouse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, prop., Box P. Dearborn, Mich.

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CHICAGO, ILL, MARCH, 1910

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Kinds of Nests

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Many Poor Hatches are the Result of Improperly
Setting the Hen. An Experiment to Show at
What Period Exposure of Eggs Results in Great-
est Loss.

By C. E. PETERSEN.

Ale III.\(i with hens is the one .sure
niclhod oni])l(.yc(l by hnn(h-c(ls and
thousands of pouhrvnicn all o\er the
world, and there is really little t(» he
said re.i^ardiuM ilu' matter of hatchin--
in- as the hen will attend to thaU
hut there is soinethino- that needs i(. he said re-
i-ardin- the niakin«^- of the nest and the plaein- <.f
n and the carin- h .r the lien <o that even under
natural eondiiioiis results, perfect as far as p( .s-
sihle. may he secured.

All hirds like secrecy in ilieir nests, and even the
coiinnon lien will not ])roceed with her construction
when watched, so that it is neces.sary to use a little
strata.i^em to i^ei near enough to see her at work.
Mie seats herself < m the i;round, and, loosening;- the
earth with her strong- claws, she keeps tuniin-
around as she i)lace< sticks, weeds, or straws, in a
circle around her. In turning;- around her hreast-
I'one moves the loosened eartli from the center, and
leaves ii in a rid^e around the nest, under the \ e,ne-
lahle coxerin-. at exactly the ri-ht distance t(» kec'p
'he eLj,i;s in and the cold riir out.

The diameter of the ne^t is thus measured hv
the leui^th of her hreasthone, and the bottom of the
nest is Hat like the bottom of a ])late, not cur\ ini;
like the bott(.ni «.f a saucer; S(i tha.l whil.si e\ ery
c,--.-- is ke])t in the nest by the outside rim, the out'-
side e,L;i^-s do iK.i press nn the center ones. .\(.w it
may be asked why is this of so much consecpience ?
Is iK.l a iKsi a nest, and why will not aiiv S(piare
l)o.\ answer.-' h. answer this (|uestion it is a^ain
necessary to watch the iieii while settin- outlier
e.i^.ns t<. kiK.w what she does when not watched,
lake the e^.i;s from under a (piiet hen that has been

sittin.i^- tor a lew days, and number them, not with
•<ne fio-ure only, but with .six nr seven fi-ures on
each e-- so that the fi-ures will reach around the
whole e-o-, and show you its number in anv ix.sition
I'nt the e--s back a-ain. with the numbers ,me
and two in the middle, and the other e--s in numer-
ical order on the outside. Lonk at them a-ain in
three hours time, and vou will find that tlie two
vou placed in the middle, have been moved to the
ontside, and two ..f the out.sule numjjers have taken
ilieir place.

Make a plan of the e-i^s as thev are then arran-ed
by pultiii- down the numbers in a circle on a juece
<•! paper, and Inok a-ain in another three hours, and
you will hnd the center e.i^-s a-ain chan-ed. ' Re-
peat the inspection as ol'ten as you i)lease, and y..u
\yill lind that the e--s are not nierelv turned but
that they are constantly travelin- about the ne^l
and especially that the ..ame e-i^s are not allowed
to remain very l..n.- in the center of the nest.

Xow make a nest, as most persons .i^enerallv do
make it for a hen, with a saucer-shaped bot'tom,
and each outside e-- pressin- hard on the center
ones, and then see how difficult and dancrerous it is
to make an e-- travel alxait in such a nest ; and yoit
will .see at once frecpient cause of e.i^-.i^s bcin- broken
and the hatch spoiled, but the hen -cts the blame,
and not the person wh.» made a ne.st which was sci
laulty m construction thai either the hen could not
move the e--s or in makin- an attempt to do it,
breaks some ot them.

riie hen's way of makn- a nest is onlv possible
betore any e--s are in it. She cannot (jo it after
the e.--s are there, and she rarelv attempts to do
>o. b<.r tjiis reason it is wise io place the hen on
the nest tor se\ eral days bet'ore the e.i;-,i;s are put
nnder her, for durin- tin's time she win'^shape the
nest to suit the si/e and shai)e of her bodv. I^nos
lor incubation should be well selected, whatever
ben they come from, no c\--s are lit for settin-
unless the shells are slron-. smooth and re-iilar and
"I the usual si/e laid hv the hen. \'erv old hens

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Many Poor Hatches are the Result of Improperly
Setting the Hen. An Experiment to Show at
What Period Exposure of Eggs Results in Great-
est Loss.

By C. E. PETERSEN.

AlXHINCi >vith hens is the one sure
method employed l)y hundreds and
thousands of poultrymen all over the
world, and there is 'really little to be
said re.t^rardiiiiT the matter of hatchin^r
ino- as the hen will attend to that,
]>ut there is somethin<r that needs to be said re-
pirdint;- the makin^- of the nest and the placing- of
it and the carini^- for the hen so that even under
natural conditions results, perfect as far as pos-
sible, may l)e secured.

All birds like secrecy in their nests, and even the
common hen will not i)roceed with her construction
when watched, so that it is necessary to use a little
strataj^em to get near enouo^h to see her at work.
She seats herself on the "ground, and, loosening; the
earth with her strong claws, she keeps turning
around as she places sticks, weeds, or straws, in a
circle around her. In turning around her breast-
bone moves the loosened earth from the center, and
leaves it in a ridge around the nest, under the vege-
table covering, at exactly the right distance to keep
the eggs in and the cold air out.

11ie diameter of the nest is thus measured by
the length of her breastbone, and the bottom of the
nest is flat like the bottom of a i)late, not curving
hke the l)ottom of a saucer; so that whilst every
egg is kept in the nest by the outside rim, the out-
side eggs do not press on the center ones. Now it
may l)e asked why is this of so much consequence?
Is not a nest a nest, and why will n(n any scpiare

])ox answer? To answer this (|uestit)n it is again
necessary to watch the lien while setting on her
eggs to know what she does Vv^hen not watched.
Take the eggs from under a quiet hen that has been

sitting for a few days, and number them, not with
one figure only, but with six or seven figures on
each egg, so that the figures will reach around the
whole egg, and show you its number in any position.
Put the eggs back again, with the numbers one
and two in the middle, and the other eggs in numer-
ical order on the outside. Look at them again in
three hours' time, and you will find that the two
you placed in the middle, have been moved to the
outside, and two of the outside numbers have taken
their place.

Make a plan of the eggs as they are then arranged,
by putting down the numbers in a circle on a piece
of paper, and look again in another three hours, and
you will find the center eggs again changed. ' Re-
peat the inspection as often as you please, and you
v/ill find that the eggs are not merely turned, but
that they are constantly traveling about the nest
and especially that the same eggs are not allowed
to remain very long in the center of the nest.

Now make a nest, as most persons generally do
make it for a hen, with a saucer-shaped bot'tom,
and each outside egg pressing hard on the center
ones, and then see how difficult and dangerous it is
to make an egg travel about in such a nest ; and yoil
wdl see at once frequent cause of eggs being broken
and the hatch spoiled, but the hen gets the Wame,
and not the person who made a nest which was so
laulty in construction that either the hen could not
move the eggs or in making an attempt to do it,
breaks some of them.

The hen's way of makng a nest is only possible
before any eggs are in it. She cannot do it after
the eggs are there, and she rarely attempts to do
so. For this reason it is wise to "place the hen on
the nest for several days before the eggs are put
under her, for during this time she will shape the
nest to suit the size and shape of her body. Eggs
for incubation should be well selected, whatever
hen they come from, no eggs are fit for setting
unless the shells are strong, .smooth and regular, and
of the usual size laid by the hen. Very old hens

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often lay roiig-h and ill-shaped cfygs: fat hens g-ener-
ally lay thin shelled and often double yolked eggs.
The badly shaped eggs seldom hatch ; the thin
shells will endanger the whole brood, and perhaps
teach the setting hen to eat eggs; the double yolk
has two chickens it it, whch are generally too en-
tangled to get out of the shell, and if they do get out

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are neither fine nor strong, nor the result of a con-
stitutional habit that it is desirable to perpetuate
Kggs laid by yearling and two-year-old hens hatch
larger chickens which w^ill grow into much finer
fowls than those laid by immature pullets. They
are strong growers, more vigorous and much easier
to raise to the age of maturity.

The moment that cockerels and pullets are mated
and their eggs used for breeding purposes, that
moment degeneration of the stock begins; so for
this reason always, select your best hens for breed-
ers. When an egg has been broken, and its con-
tents discharged in the nest, it will be fatal to all
the rest unless at once attended to. It varnishes the
shells and prevents the necessary passage of air
through them; it makes them adhere to the feath-
ers of the hen and causes a repetition of the acci-
dent; it makes the eggs adhere to each other and to
the nest, so that the hen cannot properly turn and
move them around, and it soon does that which is
still worse, poisons the air contained in the nest so
necessary to the development of the embryo chick.
When such an accident happens the eggs must
be removed from the nest, washed in clean water
of a hundred degrees and wiped dry. The hen
should be cleaned as well as the eggs, and a new
nest made for her, and it is possible that the damage
done may have been repaired or at least materially
lessened. Sometimes a hen will leave her nest-
eggs are found cold and hopes are not very bright
for a successful hatch. If the eggs are valuable it
makes matters worse, but it is always wise to con-
tinue the hatch to the end, for eggs at some periods

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of incubation will stand a good deal more abuse than
we realize. The first thing to do is to immediately
cover the eggs with a heavy shawl or quilt that has
been heated over the stove and as soon as possible,
get another hen and put her on the eggs, warm
water of the proper degree is an efficient means of
restoring the lost heat to the embryo.

I have had eggs that the hen left during the last
week of incubation, for many hours, hatch a fair
percentage of chickens, and if it is during the sum-
mer season, a whole day's absence from the nest
might not injure the eggs if in the last stages of de-
velopment. Some very interesting experiments
made in this direction will perhaps be a help to
very many poultrymen and will conclude this article
in a fititng manner. In order to make it perfectly
plain we will relate in detail the methods of the ex-
perimenter.

''W^e set ten hens on ten eggs each, in the fc^llow-
ing manner. On the first morning at six, we put
four eggs under number one hen all marked No. 20.
On the next morning we put four more under her
marking them 19. On the third morning we put
two more under her, marking them with a circle;
and at the same time we put four under number two
lien marked 18. W^e repeated this with all the hens
until number ten had been set on four number two
on the nineteenth, and four number one on the
twentieth morning. On the evening of the twentieth
day, at six, we took eight eggs away from each hen
and put them them on a carpenter's bench standing-
in the open air, and left them there until six the
next morning, when we put them back under their

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respective hens. On the night uf the exposure there

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ature o the night was not below 411 degrees

hen eJnotVT- "'".*, ^' ^^^' *^° ^^^^^^ ^"^<^' each
I en exposed being tiie two niari<ed with a circle

Ihese we left as proof-eggs to show if anythin' 1 ui
gone wrong with the setting "^ "

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young vigorous cross bred fowls, running on a
arge free range, with a large proportion of cocks ;
the hens being a cross between Dorkings and Lan^-
shans, and the cocks Houdans. Indeed, every e4
was as certainly fertilized as those of wild birds,
llie result of this experiment was as follow^ •
Hours of Incubation Number of Chicks

I^revious to Exposure. From Four Eggs.

1^ 4

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60 4

84 "2

108 ;;:::;:::::: 2

132 3

156 :::;:;:;:; 2

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A Dissertation on Rhode Island Red Breeding in
General and White in Plumage in Particular.

By M. E. SERVOSS.

IX years ago when 1 had only been
breeding Rose Comb R. 1. Reds for
two years, after mating up my breed-
ing pens. I found that 1 had some
very good utility stock on hand; too
good for market eggs and not quite
good enough to sell chicks or setting eggs from, so I
mated them up and thought I would give some of
the neighbors a start and help myself a bit at the
same time. They were to take several settings of
eggs each in time to get the chicks out before \m ay
1st and in September were to bring me the best
three pullets from each setting of eggs from which
I was to make a further selection of one for each
setting. In this way, I would get a farm raised
early hatched utilitv bird for winter layino; for
each setting of eggs, with a possibility of a few
good breeders.

Among those brought in from one farm was a
beautiful pullet, large and good in quality but on
one hip about two inches forward and a little to
the right of the tail there were three pure white
feathers; otherwise she was so good that I kei)t
her, pulled out the white feathers, supposing them
to have come from a slight injury and put' her in
with my breeders. I thought no further of the
matter until that fall after the old hens had ccmi-
pleted their molt, when 1 noticed that T had three
hens with just those three white feathers in exactly
the same place. Examining them closer, 1 found by
the band, that one was the hen I had pulled the
three white feathers from a year before and the
other two were early pullets that looked so exactly
like her that there was no cpiestion but they were her
offspring. Well, they all went into the market egg
pen, white feathers and all, that I might not think
some of my good birds had jumped the high fence,
and this ended the matter as far as they were con-
cerned.

Remembering that the White Leghorn is among

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This experiment goes to show what we have al-
ready maintained, that the first few days of incu-
bation is the critical period, and that later on when
the chicken is formed, absence from the nest is
less fatal to successful results, and results would of
course have been entirely different if the night tem-
perature had been lower and the eggs with less
vigorous vitality in them.

the varied ancestry of the Reds, I am confident that
there is entirely too much indifference to this mat-
ter. In all probability, white in the plumage of
young growing chicks, sometimes comes from im-
proper feeding and perhaps occasionally from an ac-
cident, but are not breeders all too readv to ''jump
at conclusions" and claim that such was the, case
with theirs because it was proved to have been so
with others? Proved to be by trap-nesting and care-
Uil records. In other words, is it not too' much like
the cockerel who cut the spike off the end of his
comb by getting it fast in a wire fence? One
breeder listed a cockerel of this kind and then it
was decidedly amusing to see how many other
breeders had, according to their sales list, each had
a cockerel get his head fast in a wire fence and pull
the spike off his comb.

When conclusions are jumped at it does more
more harm than one at first thinks, because it makes
the breeder careless and in the end seriouslv dam-
ages his entire flock. Now it is niv private opin-
ion, publicly expressed that in most cases the show-
mg of white feathers in R. I. Reds, like white in ear
lobes is simply a reversion to the Leghorn ancestry
and that, consequently, great care should be used
in keeping such specimens for breeders. It should
always be remembered that three generations fixes a
characteristic, and it is a fact that white feathers
in the young of high bred Reds is becoming alarfn-
ingly common. One well known breeder told me
recently that his winning cockerel at a big show
had as a cock developed white in both sickle and
wing feathers. The discussion came up because
of a cockerel I had purchased of him who had de-
veloped white in wing and tail, and while he still
looked alright, siring birds that were worthless be-
cause of the white in plumage.

] also purchased some years ago a claimed Kan-
sas State winner who also sired birds worthless
because of v/hite in plumage. These things
were laid in each case to some injury the male
had received and in each case T could not resist the
temptation to iiKpiire if they had sired birds with
white in plumage because oi" some injury, they were
going to receive some months later? It is needless
to state that my inquiry received no reply. So I

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had to clear out the whole batch and be^in over
again, as far as those two males and their "get"
were concerned.

If some little runt of a chicken shows white feath-
ers, it is not to be wondered at but when a fine,
large, vigorous male throws white feathers, as he
reaches his second year, I believe it is due to revert-

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SILVER WYANDOTTE COCK.

First prize bird at Chicago and the kind bred by Clare E.
Hoffman, Allegan, Mich.

ing and is all the more dangerous l)ccause all of his
"get" of the ])receding spring have been more or
less affected. I also believe lie showed white as a
chick. I also note that these birds all showed white
in ear lobe. A\'hat is the remedy ? Greater care and
less parrot like excuses. When an occasional chick
shows a white feather or two in its winiis, if it is
not a strong, vigorous bird, eat it: if it is otherwise
a promising specimen, i)ull out the feathers, care
for the stock properly and if they grow in white
again, never use it for a breeder, even if in the full
bloom of its first perfect molt it should show no
white, for it is too risky, and never on any account
use a male that has at any time shown white in
l)lumage, if his sire also had the same defect. Stamp
it out first as we did the feathered legs, which was
a reverting to the Cochin.

It is not many years since ten ])er cent of the
Reds hatched had a trace of leg featherimr, while
now I doubt if there are two or three to a thous-
and. There is no di faculty in stamping out any
fault of this kind, so that we do stamp it out and
not begin to cover it up with excuses. Any breed
made up of so many different breeds will occas-
ionally revert to one or another- It is not a result of
improper mating or of one out-cross but simplv of
reverting that is to be occasionally expected in a
made-up breed, i)ut when they do come and the
])ird is half grown and an otherwise good specimen,

pull them out and if they come in white again, use
the old hatchet cure. It is the safest, the surest and
the most honest, both to ourselves and to our cus-
tomers. Even if causing some loss now, it will
pay best in the end and I believe do much toward
eliminating the white in ear lobes. And don't, I
beg of you, let each and every one of us have our
best stub combed cockerel to have lost his spike by
wav of a wire fence, or ruin the future of the beau-
tiful and wonderful Rhode Island Red by making
too many excuses for white in plumage just to have
a few dollars now. Again I sound the breeders
warning: Three generations fixes a characteristic.
Edison Park, 111.

Some people are just ''chicken raisers"; others are
poultry breeders. The one takes w^hat he can get for
Iiis ])roduct, the other sets his price. Which class do
you belong to?

Xo one would think of condemning the grocery or
dry goods or any other mercantile Inisiness, because
])eople are failing every day in them, but with ])oultrv
raising it seems to be different. When you find a fail-
ure in the poultry business, people are quick to con-

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demn the business instead of the man, and the man,
of course, is looking for an excuse for his failure and
the business gets the hot end of things both coming
and going.

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A Breeder and Admirer of Crested Fowls Defends
His Favorites Against the Prejudice Which is so
Commonly Held in Connection with Crested Va-
rieties.

By FRANK WICKIZER.

HERE is an old fable which tells of a
stag contemplating his reflection in a
forest pool. ''How majestic are my
antlers !" he cried, "but my legs— how
poor and scrawny and altogether un-
lovely r Just then a wolf (or it may
have been a panther; 1 do not profess to quote
literally) broke cover, and the stag ran. It was an
uneven race. The stag easily distanced his pur-
suer, but alas! In plunging through a chaparral,
his antlers became entangled in the branches; he
was a prisoner, and, as he awaited the attack of the
beast, he had a brief interval in which to lament
his folly "My legs," he moaned, '^which but now
I scorned, would have carried me to safety but for
niy antlers, of which I was over-proud."

In the world of the poultry fancier we have two
schools one (infinitely the larger) wedded to comb
and wattles, the other to crest and beard. And the
greater school says to the lesser: "We admire you'
Jn many respects you are superb; but alas, your
crest and beard ! Can't you see how much superior
are comb and wattles? But for this one unpardon-
able sin, we would take you to our bosom as a long
lost brother!" ^

But let us see if the greater school is not in the
class with the foolish stag, that scorned the mem-
bers which, in the crucial test, did him such heroic
service.

The vermiform appendix in the human anatomy
IS without a known function, unless it be to corral
the truant grape-seed, and pave the way to appen-
dicitis. So with comb and wattles of the domestic
lowl. Their only office is to lure the frost-bite
and serve as a mark for the militant spur This
much will be admitted even by the most uncom-
promising of the g. s. A popular dictionary thus
-defines the comb: "The naked, fleshy caruncle on
the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or
other bird ; it is usually red. (b) One of a pair of
organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions "
i hats about all that can be said of it, save that
vyhen serving as anchorage of side-sprigs, it tempts
the fancier to dark and secret ways.

As to the crest, it performs much the same service
lor the bird as does a head of hair for the man so
fortunate as to have one. If a comb grew there in
lieu of hair, a man might glory in the depth of its
yarmine ot the regularity of its spikes, but he would
hardly count on it to ward oft* pneumonia, neuralgia
toothache or grip. He would have 10 provide an
artificial scalp protector. Rut the crested bird is
bald only through accident. Crest and beard to-
gether form a rational protection to the organs of
head throat, reduce the terrors of roup to a tra-

dition, and go far toward disclosing the secret of
vvhy certain of the crested breeds are winter layers.
\ bird with a frozen comb will not lay. The man
^vho knows that much of the game should be
able to give the answer to the winter-laying prob-
lem in something less than three guesses.

So much for utility. Beauty remains to be con-
sidered. It may be contended that this is not a
proper field for argument, since whether the
head of a fowl looks better with crest or with comb
is a matter of individual taste. But I am going
to refer the question to the arbitrament of Mother
Nature. When she sets her hand to accomplishing
something really fine in the way of birds, does she
cap the head ot her masterpiece with a comb or
with a crest? We mav find our answer in 'the
graceful aigret of the heron, in the orange-and-
black plume of the golden pheasant, in the peacock
headdress of the king lady, in the pompadour of the
European jay, in the fan-shaped crest of the hoopoe
111 the thistle-down tuft of the quetzal, and in the
chaste coiflfure of the lyre bird. Dame Nature has
excellent judgment in these matters. In the decora-
tion of her feathered creatures of jungle and bush
she IS no more prone to blunder than in the tinting
of the rose or the painting of a sunset.

Yet the stubborn fact remains that there is quite
a general prejudice in this country (not in France
and England) against crested fowls— or perhaps it
IS not so much prejudice as scepticism, doubt It
may have its origin far back in the pioneer days,
when hawks, owls, weasels and other enemies of the
domestic fowl infested the poultry yards, and when
the ability to see in all directions at once was es-
sential to protection. It is conceivable that in such
a contingency the crest might prove a handicap
While the "normal" crest— that is, one conforming
to Standard, and not too large— in no wise hampers
the fowl in feeding, or in quest of grasshoppers
bugs and worms, the crested bird cannot look
straight up or backward without turning its head
even as you or I. To such satisfaction as the
greater school can derive from that admission it is
welcome. But the day when it was necessary for
the domestic fowl to have eyes in the back of its
head has long since passed into history. Times
have changed for the hen, as for the cow, which
once needed horns for self-protection, but now is
bred without them.

Or the prejudice may be due to a lack of dis-
crimination—to a popular impression that all
crested birds are shaken out of the same sack, and
because some are weak layers and deficient in meat-
producing qualities, all share in these defects— in
short, that nothing good can come out of Israel.
Or again, it may be due to the fallacy that Nature
is niggardly of her virtues, and seldom entrusts
more than one or two to the same individual.

In throwing out these few humble suggestions I
trust I haven't started something I can't stop. And
if we should have more to the same (or rather op-
posite) purpose, from another source, I trust' the
discussion may prove instructive and amiable.
St. Joseph, Mo.

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The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
m character. It is the only poultry journal pub-
lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
fr*o" *»o^ to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

March, 1910

The Penalty of Wilful Igno-
rance.

IVIany breeders who have meagre
success with their fowls do not de-
serve any more than they get. We
might also add that they will never
get any more than they deserve,
which in few words means that they
will never succeed. Some folks in
this world are too tirea mentally to
think of ambition much less to ac-
tually possess it. The people who
move things in business affairs or in
any other direction in this life are
the ones who are dead in earnest,
who have some special aims and who
use all their talents to accomplish
their purpose. And, after all. why
should any of us spend our time and
efforts doing things in a half-hearted
manner. No one should be censured
for inability to reach certain heights.
We cannot all possess wealth or
fame or social position or manv other
things that most of us covet, but we
can, all of us. make the most of our
opportunities and put forth the best
efforts of which we are capable so
that the things we do undertake to
do will be done in such manner as
to represent the fullest measure of
our ability. Anything short of this
i.s not justifiable no matter from what
viewpoint it be considered. It mat-
ters not how menial the work or how
lowly the position, the world is ready

uith unstinted praise and due reward
if the work is done well or the posi-
tion creditably tilled.

The breeding of Standard-bred
fowls is an occupation possessing
many features peculiar to itself. The
people interested in it represent all
classes and conditions of men and
women in -AX walks of life. Many
peojik- who use excellent judgment
in other affairs seem to lay all of it
aside in their work with their towls.
We feel somthing of a personal in-
terest in every one of the thousands
of people who have paid twenty-five
cents for a year's subscription to
Poultry Fancier. They must have
expected to learn something from it
or they would not have spent their
money for it. We want the paper to
be a genuine help to them and we
want to aid them in raising better
birds. Those who are in the work
merely for pleasure and recreation
are usually deeply interested in pro-
ducing bids as near to the require-
ments of the Standad of Perfection
as possible and those who are mak-
ing a business of the work most as-
suredly need to produce such birds.
Success comes in just such measure
as one's knowledge of the work war-
rants. If we make little effort we re-
ceive little reward and some of us
seem to be content with both. The
penalty of ignorance in poultry rais-
ing, is failure. Failure is never ex-
cusable. Tt can always be avoided if
sufficient effort is made to accjuire
the necessary knowledge and anyone
who can read can learn. Some people
do not learn because they do not ap-
preciate the importance and the nec-
essity of learning. Others do not
learn because they think they know it
all and, therefore, make no' effort to
learn.

The writer has these conditions
brought to his attention in two force-
ful ways. One is through editorial
correspondence and the other through
judging in the show room. We al-
ways feel like congratulating and re-
joicing with the exhibitors whose
birds carry away the honors. We like
to see anyone succeed and get the re-
ward to which he is entitled. On the
other hand our feeling of sympathy
IS just as keen for the fellow who
loses. Our experience as an exhib-
itor has been such that we can real-
ize the pleasure of winning and know
the disappointment of losing. We
can, therefore, appreciate conditions
on both sides. Tt is always a source
of special regret to us when we get
in touch with cases where an ambi-
tious breeder loses the honors be-
cause of inexcusable ignorance. These
cases are numerous at most every
show and this little preachment is
presented to readers at this time in
the hoi)e that many who need it will
read it and profit by it.

Our object is to help a lot of people
who aro not making the proper ef-
fort to help themselves. This may be
a thankless task and a seemingly pre-
sumptuous one, but it is pardonable
in view of the fact that these same
people are strivinjr in a crude way

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to accomplish certain results and that
they take defeat greatly to heart. Our
advice to them briefly is — start right
now to learn all about the variety
of fowls you are breeding. Do this
by reading all you can find relative
to it. Don't be afraid to spend a
dollar or two for poultry literature
including a copy of the Standard of
Perfection and then make use of it
after you get it. At every poultry
show many dollars are thrown away
in paying entry fees on birds that the
breeder ought to know cannot win
and upon disqualified specimens.
This waste of money and the some-
times keen sting of defeat could be
avoided if breeders would learn be-
forehand what is required in their
fowls. ^ Failure is bad enough when
unavoidable, but is worse and all the
more humiliating when caused by
wilful ignorance.

Be Sure of Proper Type in Your

Breeding Birds.

Right now is the time for the
breeder to consider well the type of
birds which he places in his breed-
ing pens. This most vital point is
too often overlooked in the wild de-
sire for color characteristics. The
majority of breeders do not p-ive to
Standard shape the consideration
which it deserves. The old expres-
sion "shape makes the breed, and
color the variety" is just as true to-
day as it ever was. In no two breeds
is there so much confusion of type
as in Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes
and it is particularly noticeable in
the White varieties of these breeds.
Many White Wyandottes possess no
characteristics to stamp them as
Wyandottes except the rose comb.
'1 he Wyandotte should 1)e shorter on
the legs than the Plymouth Rock and
should have a nluinp well-rounded
body with shorter thicker neck,
shorter back and lower tail. Many
hieeders seem to think that most any
kind of a white bird with a rose
comb ought to win over one that is
excellent in shape but defective in
color. Judges in the show room can-
not help discounting severely such
specimens of White Wyandottes as
resemble White Rocks in type, and
many disappointed exhibitors cannot
or will not understand just why their
birds although clear white have not
been placed over other specimens not
nearly so good in color. The fancier,
no matter what his variety, who
wishes to gain the greatest success,
needs to study carefully the Standard
shape description of his breed and
let it be the first i)oint of excellence
which he demands in his breeding
birds. There is no nleasure or profit
in exhibiting one's stock and repeat-
edly failing to win any of the most
coveted honors. Likewise there is no
good excuse for repeated failure if we
put the right sort of determination
into our efforts. Now at the beginning
of the breeding season is a good time
to turn over a new leaf and lav the
foundation for future success, ff the
stock is not properly mated, nothing

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on earth can make high grade birds
out of the chicks hatched from the
eggs. Don't handle this branch of
the business by guess work. Tt is like
building your house on the sands
Perhaps half the birds in your breed-
ing pens ought to be thrown out.

We are speaking now, with refer-
ence to breeders who are trying to

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produce exhibition excellence in their
stock and who wish to reach the posi-
tion occupied by the foremost fan-
ciers whose sales of stock and eggs
for hatching reach into the thousands
of dollars each year. The fr)undation
of success is to have the right sort of
stock. The way to get this is to
mate only the best birds regardless

of quantity. If you have only two,
three or a half dozen good ones, then
mate only that manv. And in select-
ing the best let type be the'first test
that the birds must pass. If they are
greatly deficient in shape of any sec-
tion do not place them in the breed-
nig pen, regardless of what their
color may be.

Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

"There is monev in chickens." Yes,
if you reckon up your grain bills.

At the present high price of poultry
the rooster makes a sound like
money.

As an evidence of wealth the
chicken-coop lords it over the garage.

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The Mayflower descendants, of the
female gender, are advertising their
descent by wearing "Chanticler" hats
of the Plymouth Rock variety But
ought they not be barred?

To beat the cold storage fellows
restaurant keepers are boiling their
eggs and saving the broth for chicken
soup.

Chicken stew really requires chick-
ens, too, or at least some veal and
chopped feathers.

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We are now told that panes of blue
glass in brooders and brooder houses
will prevent disease and promote
growth. Tn blue glass days, it was

said that cucumbers grew so fast,
that a man who planted the seed and
subjected it to the rays of light that
came through the blue panes, had to
hustle to keep from getting hope-
lessly entangled in the swiftly-grow-
ing vines. One experimenter testified
that he tried the experiment and be-
fore he could get away he had to use
his knife freely and then found that
he had a ripe cucumber in his pocket.

Foreign fashions may be all right,
but when it comes to eggs wearing
paraffin coats it is time to draw the
line.

"Live and let live" used to be con-
sidered a seasonable motto, but now-
adays one can give thought only to
the first part of it and its pretty dif-
ficult to realize even that.

S. Swaysgood says: "Come to the
and of sunshine; of comets; of
brains." It seems to be a good place
to go to for brains, for they appear
not to have got out of the state, as
yet. None seems to have escaped
through the "system."

Two hundred egg strains, eh? Who

has th«m? Tt is like the old game,

Hutton. button, who has the button,"

POLISH "S;™' '" '"""■■s.'effi.Trt.rgsiT.va*
BREEDERS ?sSEH^-Si i'S^S

A T T E N T 1 0 N F^tS=.»rSa^S

Chicago or New York. Our White Qr^st^i m^v%^uX^^^\^^^ '^°" ^ ^"^ P"^^ "^ ^^^her
nersfrom the greate.st shows of the countrvfho„ ^^^^ ^/^^ ?^°' contains more prize win-
our first pens Ire $5.00 «"d highe? qSaYuy ?annS?be foundT^^ ^^^^V /^^« ^^°"^

by a Chicago or St. I^ouis first prize winne? only J2%0 Wri?^ ?nr f?.^"fi' ^T^ of them headed
fowl ever published. D 1 r> I* I n i xr ^^^^%^^^ the finest cstalogr on Polish

Roya' Pol's'i Poultry Yards, Station A, Ashland, Wis.

Don't Mistake the Hearse for
the Bandwagon

jPopular taste NO COMB TO FREEZE

i n poultry

i.1 ^ 1 . •-^ changes, like

the styles in women's hats. In selecting your breed

choose one that's ' 'coming in. " not one that's ' 'going out. ' '

Hardy Hoiidans 1?;^^'" ^ p^^^^^ ^^ ^j^J^^e

, r, with. Houdans are Winter

Layers of large, white eggs, and lots of them; they are
non-«itter«; their flesh is unrivaled for table use; they are
tame contented, rugged, handsome and profitable. Most
popular fowl in France and England. The ideal "Town
v^hicken. Winners wherever shown; silver cup and blue

THE HILLCREST ROOKERIES

FRANK WICKIZER, Prop.,

ST. JOSEPH, MO.

but with this exception, in the game
some one really had the button.

To count one abnormally prolific
hen a.s a strain is straining the
definition of "strain" pretty hard.
It is like reckoning that one swallow
makes a summer.

There are other Peggies than Kel-
lerstrass' that are worth $10,000 or
more, but it would be considered un-
complimentary to call them "old
hens." Some are young.

An auto isn't necessarily a sign of
wealth. Some poultrymen own a
buzz wagon."

Down in Boston thev are claiming
that a certain poultry editor, despite
his heat, has not lessened tlie coal
bills of the past winter.

"Drev" ought to be more careful
about his utterances on faking or he
will give his chief considerable work
ni explaining. Witticisms and edi-
torials don't jibe well.

An utterance which needs explana-
tion would better be not uttered It
should die just before it is born.

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The beginner, "in wandering mazes
lost, ' doesn't know whether he needs
fifty acres or fifty square feet of land
whether houses in winter shall be
closed or open, whether— and here he
throws up his hands.

It has been suggested that a spring
chicken is so named because it is
springy, like India rubber. We cer-
tainly have tried some of that char-
acter and consistency.

And still the modern poultry breed-
er thinks he is going some if he gets
a hen to lay 200 eggs in twelve
months; and he is.

"Constant Reader" is informed
that to the best of our knowledge S
Swaysgood is not financially inter-
ested in a blue glass factory.

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"Pro Bono Publico" we think is
l?r ^"Tfr .^" s^^^ting that Hon. Nelson
W. Aldnch and S. Swaysgood have
formed an illegal combination to ad-
vance the price of food stuffs. It is
a mere coincidence that their plans
tend to this common end.

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For some months to come, the
Hotels and boarding houses will have
to depend upon old hens for their
spring chickens. So will the poultry-
man who doesn't use an incubator. .

1 hat was a solar plexus blow Uncle
Isaac dealt to the trap-nesters. when

he told of a Lieht Brahma hen
which laid 313 eggs in a year, long
before the trap nest was invented.
Query. Would a trap nest have ver-
ified such a record?

In Rostand's ne\y play, "Chanti-
cler," the cock imagines that he con-
trols the sun, which can rise only
because he has crowed. It is to be
feared that there are not a few chan-
ticlers among the members of the
human race, and that they are not en-
tirely wanting among the poultry
crowd.

Freak legislature is supposed to be
the prerogative of the several states
in the Union. For example, notice
the following acts which have been
introduced by learned legislators, ac-
cording to a prominent newspaper:

IN NEBRASKA.
To compel all hotels to have bed
sheets nine feet long, clean towels
and disinfect all linen once a sea-
son.

IN COLORADO.

To make it a misdemeanor to give
or take a tip., excepting only the
sleeping car porter.

IN OREGON.

To prohibit the wearing of a hat-
pin more than nine inches in
length, anything else to be declared
a deadly weapon.

IN DELAWARE.
To tax bachelors and gypsies, both
of whom are classed as undesirable
citizens.

IN UTAH.

To make it a misdemeanor not to

bathe at least once a week.
IN TEXAS.

To make it a criminal offense to

swear over the telephone.

But it begins to look as if the con-
gress of the United States had been
assuming some of the carefully
guarded prerogatives of the states,
for under the tariff list, paragraph 560
provides that "Eggs of birds, fish and
insects (except fishi roe, pressed for
food purposes) may be admitted
free." while paragraph 256 provides,
"Eggs not specifically provided for in
this section, five cents per dozen."
These provisions have led to the
question, "Is a hen a bird?"

If a hen is a bird, hen's eggs would
not have to pay a duty when im-
ported into this country. If she isn't
a bird, her egg would be dutiable at
five cents a dozen. Hence importers,
in New York City and in Providence.
R. T.. have raised the question. **Is a
hen a bird?"

The custom house officers declare
that, in the tariff provisions, hens
eggs arc not birds c'^^t^s. and they
rely, in part, upon the decision in Sun
Kwong On vs. United States, where
duck eggs, nickled and packed in salt
and mud. after the Chinese fashion,
were held to be not birds' eggs, and
therefore, of course, that ducks were
I'ot birds. If ducks are not birds, it
is reasonable to suppose, reasoning
by analogv. that hens are not birds.
So when a fancier grows enthusiastic
over his birds, one needs but to say:
*'Sh! There's a custom house officer
at hand and he may overhear your
remarks," in order to stop his flow of
eloquence. It would seem that there

POULTRY FANCIER^

are birds and birds, and whether any
living creature is a bird or not de-
pends upon when and by whom the
definition is made. In the theatre, for
example, if one should say, as a wide
hat trimmed with long plumes, comes
down an aisle, to the accompaniment

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of the rustle of a silk gown, "She's
a bird," he might be as correct in his
definition, as would be a custom
house officer when he declares that a
hen is not a bird. In the woods a
bird is one thing, in the tariff another,
and in the theatre still another.

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First WhiteBearde:dPol!ShHenBoston'o9

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The above cut is a good picture of un-
doubtedly the most noted Polish fowl in
America, a white bearded Polish hen,
owned by the Royal Polish Poultry Yards,
Ashland, Wis., where the highest qual-
ity is bred. This little hen has travelod
more extensively and won more prizes
than any other Polish fowl in existence.
During 1908 she won first prizes at points
widely separated, among such places be-
ing poultry shows at Hartford, Conn.,
Boston, Chicago. Janesville, Wis., and
Duluth, Minn. She is pronounced by
John R. Gough, superintendent of crested
breeds at the great Boston show, to be
the most perfect specimen of Polish fowl
he has ever seen. At several shows
where she has been exhibited she won
silver cups or gold prizes for being the

highest scoring bird in the show. At
Janesville she was scored 97 by Judge
Heimlich, being cut only % a point on
shape. At Duluth. Minn., she was again
the highest scoring bird on exhibition, be-
ing scored 96 by Judge Tucker, with a
cut of only V^ a point for shape of body.
•Judges who have passed upon her have
declared that her crest and beard are
practically ideal in shape, and all of them
have agreed that her body very nearly
conforms to the standard requirements.
She is one of a pen of remarkable prize
winning birds. The cock bird heading
the pen has won first prize at Chicago.
Memphis and Minneapolis, and among
the other female birds are the first pul-
let at St. Ivouis, '09, first and second hen
at Chicago, '08, first and second hen at
Memphis, '09, and first and second hen at
Minneapolis. '10.

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cockerels, pullets and hens for sale. <; grand pens mated for the egp trade

WHITAKER ca McCUNE, ASHTABULA, OMIO

Lt. BRAHMA,
LEGHORNS

Strictly high class stock in every particular. Winners
for years. Record this season at Illinois State Show
, ^. , . , . , ^. ^"^ ^* Decatur, 7 firsts, 10 seconds, 4 thirds and 6

fourths, also specials, including best shaped male and female Brahmas.

Light Brahma Egg» from Winners, $5 and $3 per 15

Single Comb Brown Leghorns, $3 and $2 per 15

Eggs from utility Barred Rocks $6 per 100. Mammoth Bronze Turkeys
highest quality. Eggs $4 per 1 1. Catalog free.

I absolutely guarantee satisfaction and can more than please vou.

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lo !u ru ?*" " ^^^ •'"'■•'**''* "^ «^'^^«^ publicity to the view, of our reader, who
would hke to expre,. themselve. briefly upon topic, that are of interest. A hearty
mvitation is extended to all our reader, to use the department freely.

Editor Poultry Fancier:

Dr H. F. Ballard in the February
number of the Fancier states that two
letters in the preceding number sug-
gests his article. As he proceeds to
pay his respects to my reply to Mr
Wright's article in the December
number, I suppose I must plead guilty
to being one of the offenders He
says: As to Mr. John E. Davis's tirade
against the Asiatics it needs no an-
^^''^'t- , T;''^^^? Really my dear doc-
tor i had no wish or intention to in-
dulge in a tirade against any breed
or breeder. I have nothing but good
will for any man who is keeping
poultry for profit or pleasure. I have
found both pleasure and profit in
them since I was a boy when, in my
spare moments, I kept a little flock
ot mongrels, but I always tried to
make them pay and as I grew older I
looked around always for the variety
that would pay me best. My circum-
stances were such that I could not af-
ford to keep any one variety because
i liked their particular color or
shape. They must give me something
more substantial. I tried the Brah-
mas but they consumed too much
food and gave me comparatively
nothing in return. I next tried the
Leghorns but did not like their cani-
bahstic propensities, so they gave

way to the Plymouth Rocks which I
kept for 26 years or more until the
Reds caught my fancy some thirteen
years ago which I still have and ex-
pect to have until something better
turns up.

In regard to this "tirade": I had
been reading a bitter and sarcastic
complaint from a breeder of Buck-
eyes who accused the Red breeders of
trying to keep the Reds out of the
Standard and sundry other wicked
things and when I read Mr. Wright's
article in the Fancier it just seemed
as though every disgruntled breeder
whose favorites were not paying him
thought it was his duty to have a
crack at the Reds or some other of
the popular varieties. And it would
seem as though some of the genial
doctor's remarks assumed something
of the nature of a "tirade." Let him
breed Rhode Island Reds or Geor-
gia Shawl Necks or Massachusetts
Browns or anything that any other
state in the union can make, but some
of us who know how to succeed
where somebody else has failed do
not propose to give up our good
things to try some one else's new
patent. Doesn't this verge a little
on the "tirade" doctor? And again,
you say making windy assertions
without proof may stuflF some people

H A K E B U F F WYANDOTTE S

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ROSE COMR RHODF ,A^^o»«Io» of youngsters for sa^breds
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COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

TRUE IN TYPE AND COLOR .?" "?" " '-" ''*

I c . r . . , ,. V^^*-»^*^ shows this season my birds

have won fourteen first prizes including first prize hen at Madison Square
Uarden in the hottest of competition. I shall breed ten matmgs of high class birds
this year from which I offer eggs for hatching, same as I use for myself. Mating list
cheerfully mailed for the asking. Dr. C. J. Andniss. Canandaigua, N. Y.

but when they learn by experience
they will know better. Vm afraid this
kind of argument won't afford much
mformation to Mr. Wright in regard
to the origin of his favorites.

Another M. D., Dr. Lott, also rises
for information. It would seem as
though the whole medical fraternity
was aroused by my little defense of
the popular varieties. My question
as to whether the Dark Brahma was
the result of a cross or a series of
crosses he replies to in the negative.
Now I have no wish to dig up the
origin of this variety because I have
no interest in it and, further, I am not
looking for an argument, but I think
if he will pursue his investigations a
little further he will learn more about
his favorites. Read "Poultry Culture,"
edited by Dr. D. W. Judd in 1886, doc-
tor, and you can add a little more in-
formation in regard to the Dark
Brahmas to that which you possess.

John E. Davis.
Marblehead, Mass.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF FAKERS.

.WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCKS

Allen Tucker's

WHITE ROCKS

^. . , again made good

this season by winning every Bine competed for;

also silver cup winners. Three grand pens com-

posed ofthese prize winners mated for this season's
egg trade. A limited number of choice cockerels and pullets for sale
at reasonable prices.

ALLEN TUCKER - . MINERAL POINT. WIS.

Editor Poultry Fancier:

Faking and what constitutes it and
what does not seems to be an all-
absorbing topic just now. Some say
do it to match your unscrupulous (?)
competitor, a few say don't do it, oth-
ers define or try to define a line be-
tween it and legitimate conditioning,
one or two say do as the ancient
Spartans did — teach it to the youth,
practice it as skillfully as possible,
but don't get caught at it, as therein
lies the disgrace.

How would it do if we were to ex-
tend or direct the discussion to the
fakers who illustrate their winnings
in the poultry journals by taking ad-
vantage of their advertising privileges
and having cuts of their winners pub-
lished broadcast and some even go-
ing far enough to have scores printed.
Is not this a species of faking.'' tak-
ing the beginner who looks at the pic-
tures and thinks if the score is there
and the bird right over it, it must be
so. Even worse sometimes the name
of the judge will be added. Such
owners must surely be in ignorance
as to what they are doing or they
would never do it, for what older
breeder who knows what a bird
should be would think of recom-
mending a man who did not know
how much harm he was doing to him-
self as well as others by a fake of
this kind, an improper cut. showing
a bird said to score 94 or better. Few
birds will stand in a natural position,
but most of them will assume a scared
look, while others are badly repro-
duced by the photographer who is
generally a man who knows nothing
of poultry but does know when they
are in focus and snaps them just aft-
er they leave a good pose. This, of

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course, does not refer to all cuts, nor
any in particular, but the writer has
seen many cuts in many journals that
come as near fakint? as anything that
is done to the birds themselves in
order to gain an unfair advantage.

There is one other method of prac-
tice which might be called faking
and that is the advertising of some
people wdio belong to specialty clubs.
These, whether their birds are placed
or not, win color specials, shape spe-
cials, etc., and so advertise. One case
in particular 1 call to mind was that
of a hen in a well-tilled class. She
was not placed by the judge, but her
owner was the only club member in
the class and, of course, got the shape
and color specials and she w^as hardly
worth the entry fee and express

■•^(ff;^.,A^.WJ>A''

March

charges. This is forbidden ground,
of course, but such winnings might
be used to catch the uninformed, but
more disgusting than all other fakers
is the kicker at a show who always
has the best birds, but is always
beaten by a crooked (?) judge whose
friends are there, etc. He draws at-
tention to himself when he is un-
worthy of any, disgusts the public
and the show management by his ig-
norance and injures the fancy all he
can. Ts he not the worst fake or
faker in the business? Like a mug-
wump who belongs to one party and
votes with the other and would it not
be better if he could be disqualified
and cast out like the bird with stubs
and kept out? W. N. Watson.

Sun bury. Pa.

Awards at Indianapolis, Ind.

EXHIBITOKS AT INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

Ackelery. U E Frankfort. Ind

Ackley. A. F Woodstock, 111.

AUee, Thaddeus Chicago, 111.

Anderson, Geo. O Rushvllle, III.

Bantam. Eli Portland, Ind.

Barkdoll, Geo West lenity. C)

Barkei-. Fred W Westfield. ' Ind

Barks. S. M Thorntown. Ind.

Barnett, H. W Springfield. O

Baugh, C. B Indianapolis Ind

Beck. E. E Hammond, Ind

Bender. E. B Zionsville, Ind.

Benifleld, T. M Shelby viile. Ind

Settles, Ralph E La Porte, Ind

Biermann. E. H Bloomington. Ind'

Blue Ribbon Poul. Farm Columbus, Ind.

Bowers. W. R Baltimore. Md.

Bowker Poul. Farm Dublin. Ind

Bradshaw, Herman Lebanon. Ind!

Bradshaw. Mrs. H Lebanon. Ind.

Broner. Hariy L Rochester, Ind.

Brown. C. P Colborn. Ont., (^an.

Browne, W. F Delphi. Ind.

Bryant. Cliff Hamilton. O.

Bushmann, C. L Indianapolis. Ind

Byers. C S Haz(>lwood. Uul.

',"' ter. h.. t, Knoxville, Tenn.

(hapman. Dr. W. A Indianapolis. Ind

Chambers. Edw Aurora. Ill

( hristian W. H Indianapolis. Ind

Church, .1. A Xt-wm-in in

Clark. Cliff H.. ■.:.■.■. lb. rnia' Mo

W^v\ ^-^' o Seymour. Ind

Cobb. \\. S Jackson. Mich.

Coen. J E Wingate. Ind!

^""^'t' Pfeston B Indianapolis. Ind.

cook, \A . J Indianapolis. Ind

Corn we 1 Mrs. .1. W Newman. 111'.

Cornwa 1. Miss L. S Newman. III.

Cottingham. H. O Noblcsviile. Ind.

Coulter. C. c Frankfort Ind

Cox & .Son, E. M Kingman. In.l.

Cresswell Lew Fairland, Ind.

Crookc Albert E („,on, Ind.

Crumbly, c. C Veedersburg. In.l.

Daab Bros (^Humbia. Ill

Danner. H. A Frankf<.rt. Ind.

^ •^'' : 'I, -^""'^ ' Filmore. Ind.

Devoir Mr. and Mrs. C. T. .. .Franklin. Ind.

R n^' "..'"^^ M ^^' Crawfordsville. Ind.

R J] *^\F^' Maderia. ().

Dunkle M. J Mrdwav. ( ).

Edwards Oliver C Mace." Ind

Ehman. Mi.-^s Lou Indianapolis, ind

Eisenman J. C Greensburg. Ind!

Erf with. Wm

— .9235 Commercial Ave.. .So.' (Miicago, 111

Ewbank E E Kingman Ind

Faulbush. H. H Lawr.nceburg. Ind

Fosfnaught Bros Van Wert o'

Fountain Farm Lebanon Ind"

Frash At Son. John Huntington". Ind'

Gamber, Robt Wakcman. o

Gaylord Farm Walingford. Conn

Gl!b<-rt «t Son. .\. K Clavton Ind

r.illogly. Dr. R. (" Newman. III.

A^'^y^^' "•• ^' Logansport. Ind.

>?.£"• ,9'^'? Indianapolis. Ind.

Griffin. Major Glenwood. Ind

Grimes. A. E Decatur, ()'

Hackney. Oliver A Indianapolis Ind"

Hadley & Hammock Danville, hid

Haines Bros Dayton. ( >'.

i'*'*"- •'■ 1> Tndianapfdis. hid

Hallam. Dr. C. L . . . Mooresville Ind

Hawkins. Robt Bridgepc.rt Ind

Henderson. W. W Bridgeton. Mo

Herron. C. (^ Hope. Ind'

TTershman. Wm Medarvsville. Ind.

"»". B F Indianapolis. Ind

Hoover. G. Earl Mathews. Ind

Hornaday. E. M Zlonsvllle. Ind.

Houghland. R. G Booneville. Ind.

Huffman, A. D Wanamaker. Ind

Huffman Poul. Yds Roanoke. Ind

Hunter. D. F Franklin. Ind.

Hurl. Peter .S Thorntown. Ind.

Jacobs. Mrs. L. M Georgetown. O.

James, Rev. Henry.
Johnson. Clair F. . .

Frank P..

S. B

F

E

.lohnson.

Johnson,

Jones. S.

Jones. T

Kline, Geo

Krone, O. C

Krome, W. P

Lambert, T. N

I^ane. S. B

Lieber. Albert

Lindenburg, W. F. . . .

List. Robt. G

Longfield Poul. Farm

Lovell. F. J

Ludlow. Mi-s.
Fail

r>undstrom, C.

Lundstrum. A

Lytle, H. S. . .
McGuire. Wm.
McKinney. R.
McKinster. E.
McMillen. R. H. . .
McQuinston, J. A.

Mack. Jas

Mahan, Mrs. F. .1.
Mahan, W. W. . . .

R. S.
view
H.. .

M.
\. .
L.

Kent. O.

Rushville, Ind.

. . .Indianapolis, Ind.
Fairland, Ind.

Fiankfort. Ind.

Catlin, 111.

, Downeis Grove, 111.
Richmond, Ind.

El wood, Ind.

Rose Hill, 111.

Spiceland. Ind.

..Indianapolis, Ind.
. . . .Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Southport. Ind.

Bluff ton, Ind.

Danville, 111.

Park, Indianapolis. Ind.

Indianapolis. Ind.

Omaha, Neb.

Mattoon. 111.

Broad Ripple, Ind.

Indianapolis, Ind.

Corydon. Ind.

Kansas City, Mo.

Gieenwood, Ind.

Indianaijolis. Ind.

Piqua, O.

Lizton, hid.

Marsh, Dr. John L Brownsburg, Ind.

Martin Poul. Farm Nashville. Tenn.

Mathena, E. A CrothersvUle, Ind.

Mathews, L. I* Thorntown, Ind.

Matthews, Thos. B Newman, 111.

Meeks, Pearl Parker, Ind.

Mehler, Wm Louisville, Ky.

Miles, A. S Plainfield, Ind.

Moore, J. W Cambridge Cit.v, Ind.

Murphy, Ed. B Carmel, Ind.

Murphy. E. W^ , Carmel, Ind.

Nash, M. J W. Toledo, O.

Neal, Tavner Brownsburg, Ind.

Newby, C. J Carmel, Ind.

Newby, S. M Rochester, Ind.

Noftsger. S. A No. Manchester. Ind.

Norton, W. D No. Girard, Pa.

Norwood. Mrs. A Southport, Ind.

Oliver, C. F Macy, Ind.

O'Neall, J. H Indianapolis, Ind.

Ornbeck. Ben Edwardsville, 111.

Overman, T. P

...E. Meridian Heights, Indianapolis, Ind.

Palmer, W. H Zionsville. Ind.

Pangborn, Geo. W Indianapolis, Ind.

Phillips, Chas Irvington, Ind.

Picket, H. A Greentown, Ind.

Porter, A. W Bridgeport, Ind.

Powel, Geo Carmel, Ind.

Prospect Poul. Farm. . Orleans, Ind.

Ratcliff, S. M Kingman, Ind.

Reed, Martin Hope, Ind.

Reiber. Frank Greenville, Ind.

Robinson. J. M Indianapolis, Ind.

Rodenbeck. F Arcadia, Ind.

Root, Dan E

c-o Joske Bros., San Antonio. Tex.

Rubush, Wm Irvington. Ind.

Ryan. John Toledo, O.

Sanders, W. M Odon, Ind.

Sanford, W. J Lebanon, Ind.

Sawyer, D. M Hazelwood, Ind.

Schmedel, Roy Indianapolis. Ind.

Schmidt. Geo. F Martinsville, Ind.

Scranton, B. H Rising Sun, Ind.

Shriver, A. W Bradford, 111.

Shutts. Harry I Rose Lawn. Danville, 111.

Smiley, T. S Matthews. Ind.

Smith, F. S Hamilton. O.

Smith, Wm Indianapolis, Ind,

Soper, M. A. & T. B Danville. Ind.

Spaugh. C. E Rugby, Ind.

Stephenson. B. N Salem. Ind.

Stewart. O. E Bridgeport, Ind.

Stuckmyer. E. A Indianapolis. Ind.

Sturtevant. R. W Beloit. Wis.

Swain. B, O Zionsville. Ind.

Thomas. Claud B Moores Hill, Ind.

Thurman. J. C Richmond. Ind.

Trobaugh, J. H Delphi. Ind.

Trueblood. Mi-s. E. A Salem, Ind.

Tuttle. Morton Huntington. Ind.

ri)Ian.l Poul. Farm Decatur, 111.

Walker. 1). H Orleans. Ind.

Over 300
prizes won at
large shows in

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS

CHAMPIONS of the West '^^ y**""*- Record unequalled. Right color and size

15, both matings. Circular free."'" """'" ''^'- ^^ '""" *^-^« '" «3«« P"
C. F. LANG - 1812 FRONT STREET . LA CROSSE, WIS.

Silver Laced Wyandottes and Salmon

Winninjafs for HUO
at Minneapolis and

He^or^tiH.. V tui^A • »u , , DulutH. 1,3 first.s, 6

rPC we?t ilin Jn»;.\".^^^ largest and best cla.sses ever shown in the
t: 5 Z^- ^ ^'" guarantee satisfaction on anything
$2 00 peris. Stock for sale. Send for catalogue

C. p. McANDREW

Eggs

ELLSV^ORTH, WIS.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS T' ^^ -" Tl".

^— . -v../-* -.v^ Have made a wonderful
record in the past winter shows. Egg at LIVING PRICES from ten gran.l pens

E. M. LONG, . BOX P. F, OSCEOLA, IND.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES
AND LIGHT BRAHMAS

"THE BEST IN THE NORTHWEST"

5 firsts. 6 seconds and 3 thirds at the ,8ro Minneapolis show

GEO. A. KERSTEN

_n9Wesl52nd Street (Washburn Park , Mmneapol.8, Minn.

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Wallmer, Dan. .
War ton, Mrs. L.
Weckler, A. L. . .

Wesner, T. .1

West View Farm...
Wheeler, W^m. H. . .
White Feather Poul
Whitman, Joe C.

Wildiff, John

Wilhite, Ben W. . . .
Wilkins & Co., Geo
Williams, Clyde . . . ,
Wilson, Clarence B. ,

Wil.son, E. E

Winierate, J. J

Winnans, Geo. C. . .
\Vise & Son. A. K. .
Wooley, Frank
"Wright. Mrs. 1
Wyant Bros. . .
Wyson, Ross . .
Young-, Dr. M,

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B.
J.

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. . .Huntington,
. . -Indianapolis,
. . .Bunker Hill,

Smedley,

Columbia City,
Indianapolis,
rm. .Southport,

Advance,

Irvington,

Crawfordsville,

Atlanta,

Parker,

Aurora,

...Indianapolis,
Craw lords ville,
klahoma City, Okla

Westfield, Ind

I-.ebanon,

. . Bainbridge,

Colfax,

Lebanon,

. . Indianapolis,

Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
Ind.
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Ind.
Ind.

AWARDS AT INDIANAPOLIS IND
BARRED PLVAIOITH ROCKS

Henderson: 1. ck; 1, .5, hen- 4 5 nul • 1

& Son. 2 ck. Day: ;5. ck; 4. 5. ckl. Cot-
tingham: 2, hen; ;?, pen. Burnett: 3 4
hen; 1. 2. pul. Neil: 2. ckl; 5. pen. jdhn^

peii.

son: 1, ckl. Bowker Poul.' Far'm
Hoover: 4, pen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Trobaugh: 5. ck; :i. pul; 4, ckl; 5. pen.
Cond.t: 1. 2 .3 4, ck; 2, S, hen; 1. 2 ; ckl ;

I' V, ^'xxP"'\ ^- -• •^' ^' P*^"- Gilloghly:

3, ckl. Wright: ."), ckl

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROC KS.

CTiurch: 1, ck; 4, pen; 2, ckl. Browner:
o. hen; 2, pen. Dunkul : 2. .{, hen; .5, pul.
Weckler: 1. hen; 1, .3. 4. ckl; 1. 4. pul; 1,
pen. Jacobs: 2. .-,. ckl; 2. 'A pul

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Reed: 1, ck; 1. hen; 1. ckl; 1. pul; 1 * pen

WHITE WYANDOTTES. ^

Pangborn: 2. ck; 4, hen; 3. pen. Bronwe-

5, ck. Cobb: 1, ck ; 3, hen; 2, ckl; 1 r>'
pul Lytle: 4, ck; 1. ckl; 3, pul; 4. pen!
McKmster: 3. ck; 1, hen; 3, ckl; 2. pul.

§^ Vi"^U •\^*'": 4. 5. ckl; 4, pul; 1. 2, pen.
Shults; 5, hen,

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Jones: 5, ck; 3, 4, hen; :5. pen. Wesner

6. ck; 3, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 2, pen. Johnsop-

4, ck; 2, hen. Ackley: 1, ck. Grace, Jr.: 2.
ck. Ratcliffe: 1. hen; 1, 4; ckl; 1, pen. Eh-
man: 2. ckl. McGuire: 5, ckl; 4, pen. Lane:

5, pen.

lULTRY FANCIERr

GOLDEN WYANDOTTES.

Meeks: 2, ck; ■. pul. Dillon & Bell: 3, 5.

5,Hkl; TpuV. '• ''^'= '' ^"'' '' P^"- ^'^^^'^
SILVER LAC ED WYANDOTTES.

ck; 1, 2. 3. hen; 2, ckl. Grimes: 4 hen- i
ckl; 3, pul. Williams: 2 4. pul

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.
Erf with: 1, ck; 1. ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1. pul.
Phillips: 3, 4, ckl. Rodenbeck: 2 ckl- '^ nul
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES "
Martin Poul. Farm: 1, hen. West View

1 . "; o' r^^' }' P"'- Stephenson: 2 prize
ckl; 2, 3, 5, pul. Hall: 4, pul.

BUFF ORPINGTONS.

,, Cli ambers: 2 ck, 4, hen; 5, ckl; 5, pul
Griffin: 1 ck; 3 hen; 3. ck. Wyant Bros..

1, hen; 4, ckl; 1, pul. Walmer: 2, 5. hen

2, ckl; 3, 4, pul. List: 1. ckl; 2 pul; "'
pen. Byers: 1, pen. Smith: 3, pen.

WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Young: 1, hen. Wilson: 1, ckl; 1. 2, pul.
Edwards: 1, pen. ... i^"'.

BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Blue Ribbon Poul. Farm: 1 2 ck- 2 4

^''"= h \ ''^^'' -' 5' P"': 2, pen. ' Tuttle: Z,
ck. Nash: 4. ck. Swain: 1. hen; 1. ckl;

3, 4 pul. Murphy: 3, hen; 4, ckl. Crane:
■o, ckl; 1. pul. Byers: 1, pen.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Scranton: 3, 4, ck ; 2, 3, 5, hen; 2, 3, 5,
ckl; 1, 2. 3, 4, pul; 1. 2, pen. Wooly: 2
ck; 4, ckl. Hill: 1, ck; 3, pen. Rubu.sh !
^, ck; 5, pul; 4, pen. Longfield Poul. Yds •
5, pen,

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Beck: 4. ck; 2, ckl. Bushman: 1 2 ck-

1, 2, hen; 1, 4, ckT; 1. 4, pul; 1. pen. ' Dil-
lon & Bell: 3. ck; 4, hen. Coulter: 3, hen :
o' ^' ,^"1, Barker: 3, ckl; 3, pen. Bender:

2, ckl. Robinson: 3, pul. Barnard Bros.- 2
pen. Christian: 5. pen.

LIGHT BRAH3IAS.
Cornwell: 1, 3. ck ; 4, hen; 2, 3, ckl; 1 •'
pul; 1 pen. Winnans: 4, ck; 5, hen; 5, ckT.
Byers: 2 ck. Johnson: 5, ck; 1, 2, 3. hen;

1, 4, ckl; 3, 4, 5, pul; 2, 3, pen. Coen:

2, 3, pul: 4, pen. Church: 1, ck ; 1. hen;

1. pul. Wise & Son: 2, ck ; 3, hen. Cress-
well: 2, hen; 4, pul.

BUFF COCHINS.

Church: 1, ck; 1, hen; 1. pul. Wise & Son:

2, ck; 3. hen. Creswell: 2, hen; 1, ckl-
4, pul. Coen: 2, 3. pul.

BLACK LANGSH.ANS.

Gilbert & Son: 1. ck ; 1, ckl. Wilkins &

White Wyandottes, ?• C- Buff. R. C. Brown and R. C. White!'

c!"b MrfafS:^ ZTw Wvln^di^f^r "^"r «'y»"do..e,sa„d R"*a'Brow'n'l"eghVrns"' /ncfud „1
V- ID .vieaai on he.st W Wyandotte hen. My winners are in mv breedine pens mated to nrodiir>f
winners I v ou order eggs you will get the be.st without reserve at ^00 peri 5 S^mechS^^^
for -sale SatistHction guaranteed. Highland Poultry Yard.. C. Capener^Pr^op .R.F.D Sarab^.^^^^

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Winners at Milwaukee, January
1910, Ist pullet, 3rd cock, 4th cock-
won all firsts and Gold Special lor best display in American cUss^" Two grand^Jens ma*^ed7oi^
the egg trade headed by and including these winners with other females of equal aualiWEJSs
s;^sfac?ro^^gTrfn?ee^' "^ P" '' "^^'""^ '''''^'- ^ '^^ ^^^^ cockereTs al"d pu'lell'^or ^sf 1?
QUALITY WHITE ROCK POULTRY YARDS. W. R. ABBOTT. Prop.. Ft. Atkinson. Wi..

"DONAGHETS REPy^

have won for the second season in succes-
sion the R. I. Red Club Cup and the Araeri-

M ,. ci. A , .1 ^ i^ T^ — I ] —; *^*" Class Cup. at the Baraboo Valley Poul-

t, > Show Also their share of first and specials at other leading shows. Eggs for hatching as
follows: first pen |3 00 per l.V .second and third pens f2 00 per 15. utility stock having exilfent
farm range IL.'^O per l.V When ordered in lots of 30 eggs w/ll allow adi.scount of 15 per ceSt and
lulots of50 or larger 10 per cent dKscount will be allowed. Both single and rose con?b

J. T. DONAGHEY

BOX 117, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

S. C. R. L REDS £««* ^f^o a ay

OLD CHICKS

i i \ w U

want

egg.s or chicks from birds that lay eggs the year round, I have them. They ar< #?l O too Write
tor free mating list.

— Busiftrss BIRDS Of auAijrr==^
Tim Natah Pauiiiry fartfi, R. P„ Ggigjtill, P,€*§3., Eh-Jto, W/s.

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RFXrFlFT?'Q COLUMBIAN

iJl^i^l^lLlV O WYANDOTTES

BRED TO WIN AND LAY. STOCK AND
EGGS FOR SALE. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH

Address A. M. BENDER, 1231 WALTON AVE., FT, WAYNE, IND.

Co.: -' .i. ck; 2, 5, hen; 2. 4, ckl; 4, pul; 3
pen. Barker: 4, ck ; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 4 pen
Moore: 3. hen; 3. ckl; 2, pen. Hershman.'
4. hen; o, ckl; L'. 3, pul. Mahan: 1, pen.
WHITE LANGSHANS.
Stewart: 1, ck ; 2, pul. Hawkins: 2. ck;

i'^P."'- J^^\%^- ^'^ '*• ^^": -• 5. ckl; 1, 4. pul
Porter & Co.: 1. 2. hen; 1, ckl; 3, pul.
Us.selman: 5, hen. ' ^

8. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

. ^f'^^r/- ,^'^^' "^^^'^ ^' P"»; -. pen- Up-
land Poul. Farm: 5, ck ; 4. hen; 2, pul.
Muehler: 4. ck ; 2. ckl. Bowers: 3. henT 5.
ckl Stuckmeyer: 2. 3. ck; 5, hen; 3, ckl;

1. 3 4, pul; 1, pen. Lovell: 2, hen. Gay-
lord Poul. Farm: 2, pul.

8. C, WHITE LEGHORNS.

Lundstriim: 1. 5, ck; 3, ckl. Bradshaw:

2, ck; 1. 2, hen; 1, 2. 4, ckl; 1, 4. pul; 1.
pen. Wildig: 4. ck. Sanders: 3. ck; 4. hen.
Wysong: a, hen; 5, ckl; 2, pen. Crook: 3
pul. Beirman: 3, pen.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Norton: 2, ck; 2. hen. Powell: 1. ck; 1,
hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen.

8. C. BIFF LEGHORNS.

c."*"v!'^-.-' !^^'' ^' ^*'"' ^' P'^l: 1. 2, pen.
Smith: 4, ck; 2, ckl; 2, pul. Eiseman: 1,
ck; 4, hen; 3. ckl; 3, pen. Schmedel: 5. ck.
rhurman: 3, ck; 3, hen; 3, pul. Krome: 2.
hen; 1, ckl.

ANCONA8.

All to Palmer.

8. C. BLACK MINORCAS.

Wilson: 2, ck; 1, 2, hen; 2, 4, ckl; 2, 3,
pul; 2, pen. McQuinston: 1, ck; 3, 5, hen;
3, ckl; 4, pul. Wilhite: 4, hen; 5, ckl; 5
pul. Lindenburger: 1, ckl; 1. pul; 1, pen. '
R. C. BLACK .MINORCAS.
Clark: 1, 2, 3, ck; 1. 2, hen; 1, 2, 4, ckl;
1. 2, pul; 1, 2, 3, pen. Houghland: 3, 5.
ckl; 3, 4, pul.

SILVER BEARDED POLISH.
Young: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen.

GOLDEN POLISH.
Miles: 1, ckl; 1, pul.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.
Miles: 1, ck; 1, hen. Young: 2, ck.

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH.
All to Young.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
All to Young.

HOLDANS.
Smiley: 1, ck; 2, hen; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 2, 3, 4,
pul. Prospect Poul. Farm: 3, ck; 1, 3, hen;
4. 5, ckl: a, pul. Trueblood: 2, 4, 5, ck;
1, pul.

PIT GAMES.

ENGLISH BLACK RED GAMES.

Mack: 1, ck.

CLAVBORN GAMES.

Mack: 1. pul.

WHITE DOMINIC GAMES.

Grittin: 1. ck ; 1. pen.

BL.4CK BREASTED RED <i.\MES.

Young: 1, pen.

SHAWLNECK GAMES.

Hackney: 1. ck ; 1, hen.

YOKAHOMA GAMES.
Young: 1, ck; 1. hen.

BLACK COCHIN B.\NTAMS.

Bovvers: 2 ck; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1. pul. De-
Volr: 3. ck; 4, hen; 1. pen. McKiney: 1,
ck; 2, 3. hen; 3. ckl.

BUFF COCHIN B.4NT.4.MS.
Newby: 3, hen; 2, 3. ckl; 1. 3, pul. Mc-
Quinston: 2, ck; 5, hen; 1, ckl; 2, .">, pul.
Cook: 1. ck : 1. 2. 4. hen; 1, pen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTA.MS.
Thomas: 2. ck; 1, hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul.
Marsh: 1. ck.

WHITK POLISH B.\NTAMS.
Young: 1. hen.

IMRTRIIMiE (OCHIN BANTAMS.
Cornwell: 1 hen: 1, ckl: 1. 2. 3. 4, pul.

R. C. WHITE B.\NT.4MS.
All to Faehbush.
BLACK BREASTED RED GAME BAN-

T.AMS.
Christian: 1. ck ; 2, pul. Bowers: 1. ckl;
1, pul.

LICiHT BR.\H.>L\ BANT.AMS.
All tu K.van.

(JOLDEN SEBRKiHT BANTAMS.
Brown: 1, 2. ck ; 1. 2. 3. hen; 1, 2. 3, 4,
ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul; 1, pen. Young; 2, pen.
BRONZE TIRKEYS.
I.,ambert: 1, old cock; 1, hen. Krome: 1,
young cock. .Anderson: 2, hen; 3. 4, ckl; 2,
pul. Mahan: 2. ckl; 3. pul. Picket: 1. ckt;
1, pul.

WliriE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
All to Creswell.

WHITE BR.4ZILIAN DUCKS.
.Ml to Young.

Bl FF ORPINCiTON DUCKS.
.Ml to Swain.

PEKIN DUCKS.
Herron: 2, 3, old drake; 1, 2, old duck:
3, 4, young drake; 1, 2. young duck. Picket:
1. old drake; 3, 4. old duck; 1, 2, young
drake.

INDI.AN Rl'NNKK Dl'CKS.
Hurt: 3. ck; 3. hen: 2. pul. Bradshaw:

1, drake; 2. duck. Bender: 2, drake; 1,
hen; 1. young drake; 1, young duck. Wlng-
ert : 1, pen.

WILD MALLARD DUCKS.
Hunter: 1. 2, 3, 4. drake; I. 2. 3, 4. duck;

2, 3. 4. .^1. young drake; 1. 2. 3, 4. youngs
duck. IJndstrom: 1. young drake; 5. young
duck.

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Awards at Waterford, Wis.

EXHIBITORS AT WATERFORD, VVIS.

Albrecht, F. J Waterford, Wis.

Anderson, Oscar Burlington, Wis.

Barnes, Symour Waterford, Wis.

Beaumont, Floyd Kansasville, Wis,

Berger, Harry C Waterford, Wis,

Berger, Julius Waterford, Wis.

De Grave, Jos Waterford, Wis.

Grueter, John Burlington, Wis.

Halbach & Bros., Ludwig. .Waterford, Wis.

Hatelstad, Miss H Waterford, Wis.

Hatelstad, Peter Waterford, Wis.

Heningfeld, W. F Waterford, Wis,

Hulbert, Arthur Waterford, Wis.

Kordentick, Edwin Waterford, Wis.

Munson, Nels Burlington, Wis.

Noble, Bert Burlington, Wis.

Noll, Alfred Waterford, Wis.

Noll, Frank Waterford, Wis,

Pierce, C L Waterford, Wis.

Plucker, Floyd Waterford, Wis.

Tindall, F. B Waterford, Wis.

Topp, Albert Waterford, Wis.

Vogt, L. C Lyons, Wis.

Wangeline, Elmer Waterford, Wis.

Wiemer, Lawrence Rochester, Wis.

Wilberwyn Poul. Yds Berwyn, 111.

AWARDS AT WATERFORD, WIS.

BARRED PI.YMOUTH ROCKS.

Kortendick: 1, ck, P. Hatelstad: 1, 2,
hen; 1, 3, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Tindall:
2. ckl; 3, pul; 1. pen. De Grave; 3, pen
Hulbert: 3, hen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Hennlngfeld: 1, ckl; 2, 3, hen; 1, 2, pul;
1, pen. Munson: 1, hen; 3, ckl. Noll: 2, ckl.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Vogt: 1, ck; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1, hen; 1, pul.

\^TIITE WYANDOTTES.
H. Berger: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 2, hen; 3, pul;
1, pen. Noll: 2, ckl; 3, hen; 1, pul; 2, pen.
Barnes: 2, ck; 1, hen; 3, pen. J. Berger:
3, ckl; 2, pul.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
All to Vogt.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.
Wilberwyn Poul. Yds.: 1, ckl; 1, 2, 3,
hen; 1, pul.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Noble: 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul. Wange-
line: 3, ckl.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Plucker: 1, 2, hen; 1, pul.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
All to Anderson.

BUFF LEGHORNS.
Greuter: 1. ck; 1. 2, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1, 2,
3, pul; 1, pen.

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH.
All to Topp,

PIT GAMES.
All to Wiemer.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
H. Tatelstad: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2, hen;
1, 2, 3, pul; 1, pen. Holbach : 2, ckl; 2, pen;
3, hen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.
H. Berger: 1, ck; 3, hen; 1, pul. H.
Hatelstad: 2, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 2, pul;
1, pen.

TOULOUSE GEESE.
Hulbert: 1, gander,

AFRICAN GEESE.
Beaumont: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2, goose.

Awards at Great Falls, Mont.

EXHIBITORS AT GREAT FALLS. MONT.

Allen, J. W Great Falls, Mont.

Babcock, V. J Great Falls, Mont.

Bauer, Daniel Great Falls, Mont.

Bennett, Robt Great Falls, Mont.

Broadle, John Truly, Mont.

Bole, Mrs. Jas. P Bozeman, Mont.

Canfleld, Roy Great Falls, Mont.

Clark, H. O Great Falls, Mont.

(Mingan, Eugene Great Falls, Mont.

Coppens, Louis Great Falls, Mont.

Dlbb, Richard Great Falls, Mont.

Edmunson, Harry Great Falls, Mont.

Ferguson, Mrs. Gordon Cascade, Mont.

Flaherty, Edward Great Falls, Mont.

Ford, Lee M Great Falls, Mont.

Hawkins, S. S Great Falls, Mont.

Hazen, Hal Great Falls, Mont.

Jones, Mrs. J. S Cascade, Mont.

Kluge, Chas Great Falls, Mont.

Kneeland, Chas. Great Falls, Mont.

Le Grand, Noel Great Falls, Mont,

Leuchars, George Great Falls, Mont.

Longeway, Dr. G. E.... Great Falls, Mont.

Longeway, H. H Great Falls, Mont.

Longeway. Miss M Great Falls, Mont.

Moore, W. M Ulm, Mont.

Muhllg, Cha.<? Great Falls, Mont.

Murphy. Raymond Great Falls, Mont.

Newcomb, Guy F Great Falls, Mont.

O'Mahony, J. J Great Falls, Mont.

Pullen. C. E Great Falls, Mont.

Remington. W. A Sun River, Mont.

Schmit, Mrs. F. J Great Falls, Mont.

Schmit. F. J Great Falls. Mont.

Thisted, Andrew Great Falls, Mont.

Turner, Wm Belt, Mont.

Van Tighen. Gust Great Falls, Mont.

Watkins, Lloyd Great Falls, Mont.

Wendling, W. A Great Falls, Mont.

Wocasek, Mrs. F Great Falls, Mont.

Zimmerman, A. J Great Falls, Mont.

AWARDS AT GREAT FALTvS. MONT.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Newcombe: 1, ck; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2. pul; 2,
pen. Thisted: 2, ck; 1, 2, 3, hen; 3, pul;
1, pen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

All to Newcombe.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Babcock: 1, ck; 2, 3, ckl; 1, 2, 3, hen;
1, 2, 3, pul; 1, 2, 3. pen; sweepstake on
ck, hen and pen. Edmunson: 1, ckl. Wo-
C£LS6l{ ' 2 ck

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Ford: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, pen. .«^chmif : 2,
ck; 2, ckl; 1, 2, 3, hen; 1, 2. pul; 2, pen
Coppens: 3, ckl; 3, pul; 3, pen.

GOLDEN LACED WYANDOTTES.
All to Hawkins.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Bennett: ], ck; 1, 3, hen. Kneeland: 2.
hen; 1. pul.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.
Mrs. Jones: 1, ck. ; 1, 2, 3, hen; 1. pen.
Wocasek: 1, ckl; 2, pen.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.
All to Clark

8. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.
Flaherty: 2, ckl; 3, hen; 2, pen. O'Ma-
hony: 1, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1, pen. Kneeland:
8, ckl; 2, 3, pul; 3, pen. Moore: 1. ck; 1,
pul.

8. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.

All to Kneeland.

8. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.

All to Remington.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Pullen: 3, ckl; 1, hen; 1, 2, 3, pul; 1,
pen. Clinga: 2, ckl. Turner: 2, hen. Dibb:
1, ckl.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Pullen: 1, ck; 2, 3, ckl; 1. hen; 1, 3, pul;

1. pen. Clingan: 1, ckl. Turner; 3, hen.
Kneeland: 2, hen. Bauer: 3, pen. Wend-
ling: 2, pul; 2, pen.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Schmit: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 2, 3,
pul; 1, pen. Kneeland: 3, hen; 1, pul;
sweepstake, pul. Zimmerman: 2, 3, ckl.
R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Edmunson: 1, ckl.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
All to Mrs. Ferguson.

R. C. HROWN LEGHORNS.
Boadle: 1, 2, ckl, 1. 2, hen; 1, pul; 1. pen.
Remington: 3, ckl.

8. C. BUFF LEGHORNS.
Longeway: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, hen; 1, 2, pul.
Murphy: 2. ck.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Kluge: 3. ckl; 1, 3. hen; 2, 3, pul; 1. 2.
pen. Watkins: 1, ckl. Leuchars: 2, ckl;

2, hen; 1, pul.

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HOUDANS.

All to Allen.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

Longeway: 1, ck; 3, ckl; 3, hen; 3, pen.
Mrs. Bole: 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1, 2. 3,
pul; 1, 2, pen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTA»IS.

Schmidt: 1, ck; 1, 2, hen.

BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

All to Longeway.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.

Boadle: 1, drake; 1, duck.
PEKIN DUCKS.

Wocasek: 1, 2, drake; 1, 2. 3, 4, duck.
TOULOUSE GEESE.

Wocasek: 1, gander; 1, 2, goose.
SPECIAL PRIZES.

Chas. Kneeland, awarded silver medal by
American Poultry Association for best ckl
in the American, English, Asiatic and Med-

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Srf

March, *10

POULT RT FANCIER

ONE OF THE GOOD KIND.

A winning Barred Rock pullet, typical
of the strain of E. M. Buechley, Box 10,
Greenville, O., whose birds have been bred
in line for 20 years.

iterranean classes. V. J. Babcock, awarded
the Frank Powell gold medal for sweep-
stake pen. V. J. Babcock, awarded .$25
in gold by the Northwestern Stockman and
Farmer of Helena, Mont., for best Sisplay.
V. J. Babcock, sweepstake cock, hen and
pen. Chas. Kneeland, sweepstake cockerel
and pullet.

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POU! TRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry Association. Member Buff Rock
eggs.- WCHLAND^IOWr^ ^""^ ^°" ''""'" ""^""^ "^ '"" ^^^ ^'«^ ^^"^« st4 anS

R. C RHODE ISLAND REDS. ^^ ^^^^ '^*^ *K»^n *t the Wg Missouri
!I"!T'"^"""'"'"""''^™^^~^^""'"""'''""^""^"™ii"""i"^^^™i™ State Show, St. Louis. Dec 190Q l<5t 9A

IT o'r TZ'iZT^'- 't^'V^^l ""• ''" '"-^ ■■ ^ "'" '" " ='«- »' '«^ ^- •"■<^' J^nd «^?

VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. Fayette. Mo.

BOGARDUS' ORPINGTONS

S. C. BUFF AND S. C. BLACK

First prize winners
a t Chicago, 111.,
Hager.stown, M d .
Cincinnati, Ohio;

^^rcU'^'c^aL^i w^ilT^^^^^^ P"^^^^« ' '^'^ ^•-^- «^°- ^-^« that^:'Iir\l?&7Sit m^

O. A. BOGARDUS,

BOX A, WARSAW, KY.

WHtTE ROCKS stock for sale that wm win in the show
WW mmm m m^ r^%^%^a^m9 room and fill the egg basket. Our birds

mmammm'w^w^ mmmmZ ^ --1L^^'^' ^^^*^' beauties, strong in good

WHITE WYANDOTTES ffis.'^-|[^S"aJ

liven j:^ r>''

BERWYN POULTRY YARDS,

BOX P,, BLRWYN, ill,

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EXHIBITORS AT KANKAKEE, IIX

Andrews & Sons. C. H Champaign,

Baker, Howard Kankakee

Bergner. H. P so. Chicago,

Blackstone. Mrs. J. w Bourbonnais

Danforth. E. S Kankakee,

Davjs & Dynes Zionsville,

Day. O. L. Kankakee.

Dewey, C H. Morris,

S?k"'"S' ?• '^ Kankakee,

^"by H. a. St. Anne

Gowdran. Fred Kankakee,

Graham, Ben j Custer Park,

Gras.son W. . Wlchert

Grmnell Guy L Kankakee

Hay ward, E. G Cooksville

Hicks, F. J Onarca

Hobble, W. R kankakfe,"

McConnell, Wm Rantoul

McKinstry, B. F Kankakee,

Mann, Ansel Manteno,

Mann, ^ames Bourbonnais,

i^.^T^'.^ r^ H Manteno,

ONeil, C. J Manteno

Osburn, Wm Morris

Patchett. Frank W Reddick'

Peterman Geo Kankakee.'

Rantz. Edwin Kankakee,

Ruessler. Theo Kankakee,

St. John, Chas Kankakee,

St. John, P. A Onarga,

0 ®^',, o ,r.' ■ Monee,

Small & Vining Kankakee.

Stellwagen, P Monee

Stokes, Mrs. J. M Kankakee',

Styke, Henry st. Anne!

Swope. A. H Buckingham,

Townsend, Geo Onarga

Tracy, C L Kankakee'.

^in'ng. \Valter R. 2, Kankakee.

Williams, Robert Rantoul

Wilson, Mrs. H Bonfield!

Yeates. A. A Bradley,

Yeates, L. E Kankakee,

AWARDS AT KANKAKEE. ULI..
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Small & Vining: 1, ck; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1, 2

R. C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A tew grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won manv prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. ' 4ggs now for
12.00 peris f r«m pens mated to produce high class
exhibition stock. Harry Sower. Rome City, Ind.

Prouty's Partridge Plymouth Rocks

Good trio for $8 if taken at once, are worth more
but I must have the room. Eggs $S per setting,
express prepaid. O. I^. PROUTY,

Box 115, New lyOthrop, Mich.

S C RROWN Choice cockerels
uf. V^. OlXV^/VVi'l for sale. Bred in line

1 FnHORN^s ^or several years. Cock-
l-l^VJtlV^rVi'^O erel bred females to spare
Excellent layers Prices reasonable.

H. E. MARQUARDT. WAUSAU. WIS.

WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS

for hatching. After March 1st, from hens and
pullets rconng from 92 to 94'^, price $2.00 per 15.
Hggs guaranteed. Elizabeth Dupons,
Kenosha, Wis.

BIG BROWN BEAUriES

Eggs from pen scorine im% by Shellaberger.
Onlv limited number of orders taken. $S to $5
per 15. Pullet or cockerel mating. Brown Leghorn
Poultry Farm. J. H. Ryan. Prop.. Kenosha. Wis.

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN, PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
r»om. 30 years a poultry man.

fireider's Fine Catalogue

of pure bred poultry for 1910 is bigger
and better than ever, 200 pages, hand-
somely Illustrated, 150 engravings,
photos, .•» fine colored plates, de-
scribes 65 leading varieties of land
and water fowls. Gives low prices of
stoclt and eggs, also Incubators, poultry _

supplies, etc. Calendar for each month. Tells
how to care for poultry, giving full details.
The price of this book is only 10 cents.
Write for it to-day.

B. H. CREIDER. Box 101. Rhnams, Pa.

PILImlNG^ iNSTIiUMENTS

i'lilli.jt Milk 1 »i»t U.iil.i fi.t ».! i;i;:i;^ t ron mmeiirtecl

. hy U. iS. A(frlo>iltur»l P»p<., price Vi.W. SiW«r Milk
, Tiihei .V)c; Teat HUtoury »1.50; Teat Opener 75c: CmMIe
Trocar for l)l.*t t\ M; Capon Tfiole. Poultry In»tr\nnenU,
" Horee and Cattle Syrinirei. All Pilling Ingtrti-

Ti<>nt« are of fine quality— none better. Full
dlreotiong. Write fc<lay for free book,
•'CowTr..»l»iUi.."

Q. P. PILLING * SON CO.,

?73<1 «.(.h St . Philarfplphii. Pt

hen; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Day: 2, ck; 3. hen:
3. pul. Ruessler: 3, ck; 2, pen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Hay ward: 1, ck; 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul; 2, pen.
Downing: 1, ckl; 3, pen. Rautz: 2, ck;
3. ckl; 1, 2, 3, hen; 3, pul; 1, pen.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

A. Yeates: 1, ck; 3, ckl. St. John: 1, 2,
ckl; 1, 2, 3, pul; 1, 2. 3, pen.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

J. Mann: 1, ck ; i, 2, 3, ckl; 1, 3, pul; 1,
pen. Grinnell: 2, ck; 1, 2. hen. Small &
fining: 2, pul.

SILVER WYANDOTTES.

Bergner: 1, ckl; 1, pul. McKinstry: 2, 3,
pul.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

Townsend: 1, ck; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, 3, hen;
1, 2, pul; 1, pen.

BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Ij. Yeates: 1, ck. Rantz: 2, ckl. A.
Yeates: 1, ckl. McConnell: 3, ckl.

WHITE ORPINGTONS.

All to Mrs. Stoke.s,

BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Rantz: 1, ckl; 1. pul. L. Yeates: 2, pul.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Patchett: 2, ckl; 1, 3, pul; 3, pen. A.
Mann: 1, ckl; 2, pul.

LIGHT BRAHMAS.

All to Day.

DARK BRAHMAS.

All to Wilson.

BLACK COCHINS.

All to Andrews & Sons.

WHITE COCHINS.

All to Andrews & Sons.

BUFF COCHINS.

All to Andrews & Sons.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.

All to Dowring.

WHITE LANGSHAN8.

All to Williams.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

Peterman: 1, ck ; 3, hen. Wilson: 1, 2,
hen. Small & Vining: 3. hen.

WHITE LEGHORNS.
Small & Vining: 1, 2, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2, hen;.
1, 2, pul. Day: 2, 3. ckl; 3, pul.
BUFF LEGHORNS.
All to A. Yeates.

SALMON FAVEROLLES.
All to Davis & Dynes.

GOLDEN SEBRIGHT BANTAMS.
Townsend: 1, ck; 1, ckl; 1, 2. hen; 1, pul..
Small & Vining: 3, hen.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
Day: 1, 2, ckl; 1, 2, pul. Baker: 3. ck;.
1, hen.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
All to Hobbie.

PEKIN DUCKS.
Small & Vining: 1, ck; 1, 2, 3, ckl; 1. 2, 3,.
hen; 1, 2, 3, pul. Ruessler: 2, ck.
ROUEN DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

CAYUGA DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

GRAY CALL DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

WHITE CALL DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

COLORED MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

WHITE MUSCOVEY DUCKS.
All to Small & Vining.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Small & Vining: 1, ck; 1, hen. Davis &
Dynes: 2, ck; 2, 3, hen,

WILD MALLARD DUCKS.
Small & Vining: 1. ck; 1, ckl; 1, hen; 1,
pul. Ruesler: 2, ck; 2, hen.

EMBDEN GEESE.
All to Small & Vining.

BROWN CHINA GEESE.
All to Small & Vining.

WHITE CHINA GEESE.
All to Small & Vining.

WILD GEESE
All to Small & Vining.

BITF GEESE.
All to Mann.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
All to Small & Vining.

Awards at Mendota, 111.

EXHIBITORS AT MENDOTA, ILL.

-\drian, John Paw Paw, 111.

Anthony, A. W Berwyn, 111.

Asche, A. H Princeton, 111.

Auringer, Paul Mendota, 111.

Balcom, C. A Ohio, 111.

Ballon, Jas. W Dixon, 111.

Bander, Dr. C Mendota, 111.

Beatty, Geo. L Farmers City, 111.

Barret, Wm Mendota, 111.

Brown, Edward Mendota, 111.

Chase, M Mendota, 111.

Childs, Ralph O Princeton, 111.

Cork, S. L Peru, 111.

Davis, Fred T Mendota, 111.

Denen, Wm Aledo, 111.

Dewhart, Ed. C Mendota, 111.

Diller, C. W Steward, 111.

Dunovan. H. I^. . .6520 Laflin St., Chicago, 111.

Farley, E. H Leland, 111.

Fleisher, H. A Ohio, 111.

Fox, E. M Walnut, 111.

Genther, Gabriel Mendota. 111.

Gonigan, L. E Walnut, 111.

Good. R. O Polo, 111.

Hoover, Wm. H Polo, 111.

Huber, C. E Dixon, 111.

Hunter, G. M Paw Paw, 111.

Johns, Geo. H Oglesby, 111.

Jones, Mrs. Chas Paw Paw, 111.

Katzwinkel, August Mendota, 111.

Keller, V Naperville, 111.

Klein, J. A Mendota, 111.

Kutter, Herman Mendota, 111.

Leffelman, Louis Mendota, 111.

McClennahan. V. D Dixon, 111.

Meihsner & Son, C. C Walnut, 111.

Meyer.s, Truman I Naperville. 111.

Moore. L. H Mendota, 111.

Nisley, Geo Mendota, 111.

Ott, Calvin Prophetstown, 111.

Pohl. Chas Mendota, 111.

Prescott. G. F Dixon, 111.

Rawson, J. H Princeton, 111.

Head, Everett R Galena, 111.

Relg.'l. Chas. J Mendota, 111.

Rosebaugh, J. A Dixon, 111.

Schaller. Gilbert Mendota, 111.

Scheidcnhelm, Geo. J Mendota, 111.

Scheidenhelm, John Mendota, 111.

Schildberg. Otto Mendota, 111.

Skinner, Frank E Sandwich, 111.

Snader, G. W Walnut, 111.

Stacy, Wm I.a Moille. 111.

Stafford. C. P La Moille, 111.

Strong. W. V Leland, 111.

Walker. Q. A Polo, HI.

Wallia, Bert Walnut. 111.

Wallis, Harold Walnut. 111.

White, Elmer Mendota, 111.

Wilklns. Chas Troy Grove, 111.

Wills, E. B Mendota, 111.

Wilson, Robert Woosung, 111.

Winter. A. J Mendota. 111.

Winter, John Mendota. 111.

Wise Bros Earlville. 111.

Wormley, H. J

Youngman & Son. S. W. . .

.Mendota, 111.
.... Dixon, 111.

AWARDS AT MENDOTA, ILL.

BARKED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Beatty: 3, ckl; 2. 4, pul; 4, pen. Walker:

2, hen; 1, pul. Brown: 1, 2, ck; 1, hen.
Hoover: 2, ckl; 3 hen; 5, ck; 1. pen. Fleish-
er: 3, ck; 5, pen. Stafford: 4, ckl; 4 hen*,
5, pul; 2, pen. Cork: 4, ck ; 5, ckl; 5, hen;

3, pul; 3. pen. Gonigam: 1. ckl.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Wilson: 1, ck; 3. ckl. Winter: 1, 4, ckl;

5. hen; 1. pen. Kutler: 2. ckl; 3. 4. 5. pul.

Prescott: 5, ckl; 1. 3. hen; 1. 2, pul; 2, pen.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

All to T. Meyers.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.
Read: 5, pul. Skinner: 2, ck; 1, 2, ckl;
1, 2, hen; 1. 2, pul; 1, pen. Fox: 1, ck; 3,
ckl. McClannahan: 3. 4, pul.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.
Snader: 2, ck ; .t. ckl; 5, pul; 3, pen. Bat-
corn: 1, 2, 3, 4. ckl; 2. hen; 1. 2. 3. 4, pul;
1, pen. Rawson: 1, ck ; 1, 3. 4, hen; 2, pen.
<JOLDEN WYANDOTTES.
Auringer: 3, ckl; 3, pul.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Dewhart: 3, ck ; 1. 2, hen. Katzwinkel:
1. ckl; 1. pul.

COLUMBL4N WYANDOTTES.
Ott: 2. ck; 1. 2, 3. ckl; 2. hen; 1, 2, 3,
pul; 1, pen. Anthony: 1, ck; 3, 4, hen; 4,
pul.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.
Mlsley: 1. 4, ckl; 2. pul; 2, pen. Duno-
van: 4, 5, hen; 1, .5, pul; 4. pen. Wendell
& Son: 2. ckl. Scheidenhelm: 3. ckl; 4, pul;
3, pen. Rosebaugh: 1. ck ; 1. 2, 3, hen;
3, pul; 1. pen.

8. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.
Moore: 3. ckl; 3, pul.

K. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS.
Keller: 1. ckl; 1, 2, 3. 4. hen.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS.
Wise Bros.: 1. 2, ck; 1, 2, ckl; 1, hen;
1, 2, 3. 4, pul: 1, pen.

8. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Adrian: 1. 2. ckl; 2, pul. Katzwinkel:

3, ckl; .'). pul. Stacy: 4. ckl; 1, hen; 1. 3,

4, pul; 1, pen.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Ballon: 2. ck; 3, ckl; 2. hen; 3. pul: 2,

pen. Hunter: 2. ckl. Klein: 4, .t. pul.

Katzwinkel: 5. ckl. Good: 1. ck; 1. ckl:

1, 3, hen; 1, 2, pul; 1, pen. Relgel: 4. ckl.

BUFF COCHINS.

All to Wendell & Sons.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.
All to Wilklns.

BLACK LANG8HANS.
Aache: 1, ck : 2. ckl; 1, 2, hen; 1. 2, pul:
1, pen. Meihsner & Son: 2, ck ; 1. ckl; 3.
hen; 3. 4, 5, pul; 2, pen.

WHITE LANGSH.\NS.
.411 to Farley.

--^■-^-•^^ ■■ - v^...^^il.....>POl^I^RY FA'NCIER^I March,

Ml to V;.. "";''' "" I K(mOKNS. WendenT'^;''''V'^.«^^^^^'^^ » ^ «' ^ » LEGHORNS.

K. C". BKOWN LF<iHORNs t ^f,? i S-/V,*"''- ^' ^"^^ ^' ''^^' ^- •^- h^" = R'^«": 3, 4. pul. Dunbar: 1, ck; 1, 2, 4.

Wormley: 2 ck" Fleisf^^^Pp^ul Gon- !' cff i ''•>^ 4'^'rf,;., =^- ^'^^ = -'• '!<'■ '^^^^'Ji^: h^n; 1. 2, 4. ckl; 1. 2. pul; 1. pen.' Church

5. pul: \V-^-^^^^^ , All to "allis *"'^ BANTAMS. r e. BIFF I.KGHOKNS.

S. t. UHITK I.K(iHOI{NS. BKON7F TITRKi,v« ^11 to Sweet.

mil Hu,u«'.r\.Kr4 "^eOlannahan: :l, 4. ^^^ _BorKBOX KEI) TIKKEVS, All (o Williamson.

V..u„„„':-a,r-/!s;^,r«,;";^-<!«';-\-- „ , , ^,„ »VHn||;„„L,.AND TIRKKVS. Plseher: :,. 4. ^K^''^ ?,%, pul. r.. Dun-

hon.,,. ., ::. 4. pul: i pen. ' Sc.alW: J-EKIN ,.,rCK« „ . ''"-^ '-XiiilliliAA' iW,V,QV,ir^ '' ■■"'•

SII.VFK SI»AN<iLKI) H\MB1 K(iS i ., V - ' , ', ' -' ^^^^ 2- 3- ''• ^en. All to C. Dunbar.

All to Barret. *^*"^*^" HAMBl KOS. 1 -'' 4. .> pul; 1 pen. Wendell & Sons: ^^j, ^^ME^

Ai, f w, •. '" (iAMES. Bander: 3, ck; 4,' ckl. ' ^ ' " ^ Poindexter: 2. ck. Flynn: 3. ck ; 1. 2.

rOKMSH IXni4X« .,. ^ KOrEN DFCKS. ^^"^ ^- ^^- Brabazon: 1. ckl; 4, CR.

All to Denen IM>IANh. All to W intei; BIFF COCHIN BANTAMS.

BLACK BKEASTED CiAME BANTAMS. All to Wiitei «^'^'^*^« HtCKS. All to J edlan & Bartuska

All to Childs. '° ToVlors*^ f^^^^^ BLACK COCHIN BANTAMS.

<iOLI>EN SEBRKiHT BANTAMS. All to Kutler f«EESE. All to Welker

Walli.v.: 1. 1'. :], 4. ckl; 2. hen; 1 pul \VHITF AFRirAx: /^r-fv^^^^c ^' ^- BI-^^'K BANTAMS.

John.s: 1. .^k: i. hen. ' ' ^ au to Winter <.IINEAS. Ernest: 1, ck; 1, hen; 3, pul. Gormley:

" "bronze Tl'RKEVS.

^ All to L. Dunbar.

Awards at Delavan, Wis. . ^i?'h ' ; ' ^'^'hen?^^*^4';' cki church:

*' TT lo. .i, ekl; 4, pul. Besecker: 1, 2, ck; 1, 3, ckl;

EXHIBITORS AT HELAVAN, WIS. BUFF WYANDOTTES AYLESBURG DUCKS.

Anderson. .1. O Delavan, Wis. , Miller: 3. ckl; 3, hen; 3. pf^n. l^nderwood ^Church: 1. ckl; 2, pul. (\ Besecker: 1,

Austin. E. S Delavan, Wis. j. ck- Davis: 1, ckl; 2, hen; 2 3 4 pul- 1 ^^^'' ^' P"'-

Bassler. J. S Darien Wi.s ^' P^"- Dunbar: 1. 4, hen- 1 bul- '> ck- 4 ROUEN DUCKS.

Be.secker. ('has Delavan. Wis] ^"kl; 2. pen. Gormley: 3, ck Lar'sen-' ">' Watson: 3. ck ; 3, ckl; 3. hen; 4, pul.

Besecker, Walter Delavan Wis ^kl. ' " ' -• Sweet: 2. ck. Church: 2, pul; 2, hen; i.

Bowers. Mrs. H Delavan.' Wis. ^ ''ARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES *^*^'- ^- Besecker: 1. ck; 1, hen; 2, ckl;

Brabazon. Jesse C Delavan Wis. Rodman & Son: 2, 3, 4 ck- 1 '•> ^ 4 •^' P"^- Bri^KS: 1, ckl; 1, pul.

Brabazon. John Delavan. Wis. ^^1: -'. 4. hen; 1. 3. 4, pul;' l' "•>' pen CAYUCJA DUCKS.

BrisRs. W. W Delavan, Wis O'Connor: 1. ck; 1. 3. hen: 2 pul "' ' Watson: 1. ckl. Sweet: 1, ck. Church; 1,

Bri.stoi. Sadette S Delavan, Wis.' COLUMBIAN WYAXHOTTK* P"^' "' ^^'- ^'- Besecker: 1. hen.

Bunker. W. W Avalon Wis Sweet- ' 4 nul 4 elf ^ n i , CiRAY CALL DUCKS.

Chri.vlian. B. W Delavan Wis' " hen 3 ckl' Merrell : 1. pul; All to Church.

(Mark (ieo Delavan,' Wis. ' ' 's. C " BUFF ORI»IXT-roTV« BLUE SWEDISH DUCKS.

Church. Roy Elkhorn. Wis. All toAhe'rxvell **'*"^^^' 1<>^S. All to C. Besecker.

Cowles. Percy Elkhorn. Wis. S. C. WHITE ORI»IN(;TONS . .. VVHITE CRESTED DUCKS.

Davis, Truman Delavan Wis Trenfield • ■? 4 r^n t5 , , ' ' . ^11 to C. Besecker.

Dun;>ar. C. S Elkhorn,' wSs! ckl; 1 L'^'V. 4' pul •''f o"f,::"'^- ^' "• ^' ^' INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.

Dunbar. Harry Elkhorn. Wis. R. C WHITE 'o"rpIN<;tox« Church: 1. ckl; 1. hen; 2. 3, pul. C.

Dunbar. Lula Elkhorn. Wis Austin: 1 pul"* ckl Bristol f' ekl Besecker: 1. ck; 2. ckl; 2. hen; 1. pul.

Earnest. Frank Delavan Wis S. C BiAc'k ORPIvi'TOxi' COLORED MUSCOVEY DUCKS.

Fischer. Gre^or Elkhorn W s" Anderson: 3 ck. short j'^^^^'o o , , W Besecker: 1. 2, ck ; 1. 2. 3. hen; 1. 3.

gSTn'^^;^ ''\ .•.•::Se!S;4';: w!l F.%tu'rt^;rant-'4^"c'kl.-'ll' S^^^tlva^t"' 1 ^k^: ^„ ^ WHITE MUSCOYEY DUCKS.

Gulicks.,n Mrs. A Delavan. Wis. 1. 2. 4. pul; 1. pen. ^lui^tvani. l, ckl, All to Church.

S^win ^^''• i ^ ^^*^»" ^'*t^-- Bl. DIAMOND JUBILEE ORPINGTONS nu ^^ I.*^", >«ALLARi) DUCKS.

Ha.Nden^ Frank A Beloit. Wis. Christian: 2 3. pul "««»>»'lONS. Church: 1, ckl; 1, hen; 1. pul; 2. ck. C.

Heck Bros. Lyons. Wis S. C. RHODE ' ISLAND RFOS Besecker: 1, ck ; 2, ckl; 2, hen; 2, pul.

g^>'^»-- H- -r Darien Wl.s Clark: 3. ck; 4 ckl pTudame^^^^ 9 Brig^s: 3. ckl; 3. hen; 3, pul.

Hoover. Wm. H po o Hi' 3. ckl; 2 3 4 pul 1 Ven rVm..i'«-^ ' ?' TOULOUSE GEESE.

Hunsbusher. B. J Darien Wis ck ; 1,'ck'l; i 2, pul ^ Gulickson: 1, Sweet: 1. hen; ], ckl. Williamson: 1, 2.

Jedlan ^: Bartusko Chicago, HI. R. C. RHODE ISLAND KFUS 'i"'' T ^**'- Church: 3. ckl; 3. pul. C.

i-"J3'T"'ii ;^- V T.yons 'Wis. Ha.vden : 2. ck , 1 2 .r 4 >ul ' ckl • 1 Besecker: 4, ckl; 4, pul. BrisKs: 1. ck;

Keef & Babcock Delavan. Wis P^'H. Shulz: 1 ck • 1 'ekl " ' " "■ ^'^"-

Lambert Fred C Beloit. Wis' LKiHT BR VIM \S c KMBDEN CiEESE.

]:tJ7ni T- /: Delavan. Wis. All lo Williamson '•^^- n^Z^^'\'- 'V'. '''^^'y^' ■>■ -K': -• Pul.

Mn T rV \- '^"lo»i ^^'"Is. Ill- I'ARTRID(;K COCHINS T i^.T'i ''•.-' /"^ ^ .-• ^''"- Briggs: 1. ck;

Miller, <'eo A Beloit. Wis. All to Williamson. '''''"= ^' ""iv^.^^A. ,

Monear. Earl Solon Mills HI BLACK LANCJ.SH \NS ,.. ^. AFRICAN (JEESE.

Morton. IWe Darien. Wis." All t-, Hunsbusher ' ,."?'"'"^i V ^''^' ' "• »^''"- ^'- Besecker: 1,

O ( onnor, M. J Darien Wis S C BROU'N 1 K^iKki^x-u ^'^'' ^' ^^'^ 1- 1^^": 1- P"l-

O-Connor. P. D i,^]^: ^l^T^ Welko.?:' 1." pu"^ *^) \kl;^'3"*hen Rice- 1 rn »«f>^\^' CHINESE (iKESE.

?in-VJ^'^V Delavan. Wl.s. -'. 4. hen; 2.'^3. pt^l; 3 ckl. Monear • ' 1 etV'"'T ^ T' *'%•'• '!"'• *^ ^^^^^cker: 1. ck.

Peffer. \\. F Delavan, Wis ckl; 4. pul. . '• ivioneai . 1. 1, ekl; ], hen: 1. pul.

Po.nde.xter. Ed Delavan. Wis! K. C. BROWN LEGHORNS r^u ^^^"'P^ CHINESE GEESE.

Prudames. AH.s. c Delavan. Wis All to Ba.s.sb.,-. r.i.in,uA». (^hurch. 3. ck ; 3, hen: 3, pul; 4. ckl.

Reed. Melbourne o Darien, Wis! S. C. WHITE LE<iHORNS Sweet: 1, pul; 2, ck. (\ Besecker: 1, ck;

Rice. n. R Delavan, Wis. Jedlan <SL' Bartuska: ] ckl M.s* Harnlv '''''"• «.., ,

R. .belts Br<.s Lvons Wis L ■!. ck ; 2 4 ckl- 1 •'" 34 hl^'-^ Pa WILD GEESE.

Rf.dman & Son, A Darien, Wis. Pul; L l»f'n'. 'simo'ns:' I' ck - '• nul'- •'• eui' , ^^"'■'.;'' \ •'• ''^'' ■'• '^^''^ ' '• Beseck.-r: 1, 2,

Rodman. D. B Darien Wis R. C. WHITE LFGH<»KV^ ' " ''^' • ^' "• ''^"^ ^' -• ''^^- 1- -• Pul.

Sherwell. Edwin Delavan'. Wi.s' A II to .Ang^ns"" "^^ '^^^*'"""^-^- ^„ ^^, BUFF GEESE.

Short. J. H Rock ford. Hi _^__^ ■^" ^'' f^l'urch.

Shulz. H. F.. Lyons. Wis! ~" " ■ ■ ■ .

EEa^^w>;■K.■■b:;;;;:;;S!;■ 11? Columbian Wyandottes -dLS;^;;??^

Stuitevant. 11. w Delavan' viTia /Tlfc'*- _:■ «>* •xujc,-., ity. large blockv

Sweet. Jr.. Ed ■■.'.■.■. Darien" Wis' ( KiCfiarClSOIl Str Silll) I'k'^-^'i'-"^ ^^'''"^ '" ^"^'^^^^*"^ Wyandotte .shape.

?re^,;a'' -V"^" ^ Lake GenevS; ^Is! females- H..s this .season 5P..0 and ?2 00 per 4.' Vf^o^'i^^^^^^^^^^^

?^n;i^;^oS^''Ro?'-.-.'.-.'.--.v -'^^^ Cr^st^l White Orpingtons "^-i^^^JiS^f^TRAiN

VoRt. u r. ...-. V... Hvons. Wis: ^ M. JACOBS. BARABOO. WIS.

Watson. FU)\vland Elkhorn Wis ~ — " — _»_

we^'ko!": H'vVnR'o:::::::;^^.^;^^^^^^^^^^^ HIGH CI ASS S f R I RFFIQ ?'r,"*""i,"^i^°'- ^^^-^^>o -^as

William.son. A ! . . . ! ! feela^an' Wis ***^** V^UnOO U. K^. S\. 1. IVLUlJ 5°"°;;:f: P«^kw°°^^^ ^°^''^' ^ov. 17-
lst, .3rd pullet, l.st pen. Richland, Iowa, Dec 14-17 icxK) Da^le TnL;^.t9T'-!"'^^f=i^'^°^^^^^

^^rVTciC- ^"SVn.';. -/•,;;;?' ^ '■ P^"- "•^"" Z^ CHALUPA. ; R. 2. PLEASANT PLAIN. IOWA

.^^€r^KPn:jPr^A^Psirtridge Plymouth Rocks

hen; 4. ckl; 3. pul ; 2, pen. Redman: 4, pui ^ur xxrr^, wr^«..,r^ * ^ W. *^ O

OieKory: 1. pul: 3. 4. hen; .1. pen THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROC KS. J A HAflFIVIAN an. . ^ m.. 1„,^

Vogt: 1. ckl. Toplin.ski: 1. .S. 4. pul: 4, ''* ^' "AUt^MAIN, . . CHARLOTTE MIPH

hen; 4. ckl. Morton: 1 2 3 hen- '' nul- P..-.:j » d » -j »• . ^ ^* *^-^*x»-.v-r 1 1 il,, lVll\^ri.

2, 3, ckl: 1. pen. " ' ' ™__ President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

^"^]thr l^^'pul^^Kee^TRlhc^ock: 1. c* ; PETERSON^S HOlJDAN^ ^^^ Undefeated Champion
•J, ckl. Cowles: 1. hen; 1. 4, ckl; 3. ck; 3. VT *-■'» ^•^ V-r A ^ v^ * A V-T V^ JLy/-Vi lO Strain of Am^rio-

pul. Christian: 3. ckl. I'effer: 2. hen; 2 Send for 80-page book on The Houdan 30 full nao-pH niot*.c «f ^ • «" "^ America.

ok Bowers: 3. hen; 4, pul Parrish : 4. ck; Mating for Exhibition. Management and many iThertmnor^^^ wintiers. Houdan Standard,

^- hen. ^ Rev. C.E.Peler.en.Presidenr American Houdan Cl^^^^^^^ Postage g) cents

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Awards at Three Rivers, Mich.

EXHIBITORS AT THREE RIVERS, MICH

Abbott. D. D Three Rivers,

Fred Constantine,

Rivers,
Rivers,

Astling.
Avery, Clyde
Barnes. Mrs.
Barnum, J.
Belote, Carl
Bennett, Ed.
Bowie, R. A
Carl, Frank
Cox, C. G. . .
Cheisman &

Flora.

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..Union City,
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Three Rivers,
Three Rivers,
Three Rivers,
Three Rivers,
Son Sherwood,

Craft. L. E Three Rivers,

Crandall. M. I Three Rivers,

Dent, Joe Three Rivers,

Donovan. Oliver J Three Rivers.

Eagleton. Geo Three River.s,

Elvving, W. L Vicksburg,

Farrand Bros Colon

Faust. C. H Vicksburg-,'

Fitting, Samuel Three Rivers.

Foster, C. C

Gebhart. E. E Three

Gosskunze, M Three

Hagenback, Chas Three

Hart, E. P Three

Havens. F. H Three

Hecox, Frank Three

Herndon. H. A. . .
Herndon, J. W. . .

Hill. C. O

Hudson. C. J

Hunter. Mrs. F. . .
Huss. Edward . . .
Huss, Mis. Marion

Huss Bros

Kaiser. E

Karchner. J.
Klocke. Carl

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Quincy,

Rivers,

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Three Rivers,

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Exclusively S"^' ""*

S. C. Black Minorcas VenZt

show one of
— best shows ever held
in northern Indiana. Jan. 4-8. 1910, won silver
cup for best display in Mediterranean class,
points to count. Eggs from birds scoring
92 to 95 $3 00 per 16.
G. A. GAGE LA GRANGE, IND.

S. C White Leghorns

The right type and color. Line bred
for years. Winners at Yonngstown
and Warren, O. Stock eggs for sale.

RrPTrmr 336 wirt street.

DClV 1 VlllX, YOUNGSTOWN, O.

'^'i^iotlt'h '" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville. Ind., Jan. 4-8, Tucker. Judge; 2
3 cock. 2 cockerel. 1, 2. 4 hen. 1, 2 pullet, 1. 2
pen. 20 females average 92 1-6. Richmond,
Ind., Jan. 12-15, Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered; 1 cockerel, 1, 2 hen. 1.
2 pullet, 1 pen. two specials. I breed my own
winners. Write for mating list
IRA FORD - LA GRANGE, IND.

S. C. Rhode Island Reds

Some fine cockerels $3 each. Eggs
from birds scoring 90 to 93, $1.50 per
J 5. One cock and 6 hens. Partridge
Wyandottes for sale cheap.

D. E. MILLER, ROME CITY, IND.

Barred Plymouth

FLOr^K^ Mulloy's Ringlets nre
*^ ^^-'^^^ *• '-^ good Rocks. Won 1st
cockerel 1st pen chicks at Nebra.ska State Fair
I901> Write me for stock and eggs. Eee.-^
$1.50 and $2 50 for 15,

CHAS ^^. MlTI.f.OY

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BROODER

CLOUGH'S

CHICKEN

Tele.scopic. Always one story. The best
free literature. Address

Clough's Lampless Brooders

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Krull, J.
Little, H,
Lyon. r.
Morri.son.
Naylor, Wm. . .
Palmateer Bros.

Prior, B. Li

Rohrer, F. A. . .
Sibley. Irving A.
Strickland, W^m.
Tackabery,
Thorns. F.

D Schoolcraft,

C Three Rivers,

A Kalamazoo,

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Quincy,

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Three Rivers,

Hayes Three Rivers,

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Trickey, Geo Three Rivers.

Warner. Earl Tekonsha.

WilnuKhby. A. S Three River.s.

Wright. H. I Three Rivers.

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AWARDS AT THREE RIVERS. MICH.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Havens: 2. pen 3, ckl; 2, 3, hen; 4, ck;
4, pul. Herndon: 3. pen; 4, hen. Crandall:

2, pul; 3, ck. Barnum: 1, pen; 1, 3, pul;
1, 2. ckl.

WHITE PLYMOITH ROCKS.
Hudson: 1, pen; 2, 3, ckl; 2. 3, pul. Palma-
teer Bros.: 1, 2, 4, hen. Bower: 4, pul
Barnes: 3, pen. Cox: 1, 4, ckl; 1, pul; 1, ck;

3, hen.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Karchner: 1. 4. ckl. Goosbunge : 2, ckl;

4, pul; 3, pen. Belote: 1, pen; 2, hen; 1, ck ;
3, ckl; 1. 2. 3. 4, hen; 1, 2. 3. pul.

WHITE WYAXDOTTES.
Gebhart: 1. pen; 1, 2, 3, 4. ckl;

Ewing:

pen;

2, 3, 4,
1, ck;

3. ckl.

hen; 1, 2. 3. pul
1, hen; 1, pul.

HI FF WYANDOTTES.
Astlins: 1. 2. pul; 1. ck ; 2. 3, hen

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Kaiser: 4. hen.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.
Ewing: 1, pen; 1, ck; 1, 3, ckl; 1, 2, hen;
4, pul. Pryor: 2, pen; 2, 3, ck; 2, 4,

1,

ckl; 3, 4, hen. Huss: 3, pen; 2. 3, ck; 3,
4, hen.

BLACK ORPINGTONS.

Mrs. Hunter: 4, ckl.

WHITE ORPINGTONS.

All to Knapp.

BUFF ORPINGTONS.

All to Lyon.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Tackabery: 1, pen; 3, 4, hen; 1, 4, pul;

1, ckl. Eagleton: 2, 3, pul. Huss Bros..

2, ckl. Farrand j Bros.: 3. ckl.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

Sibley: 1, 2, pen; 1, 2, 3, 4. ck; 1, 2. 3, 4,
ckl; 1, 2, 4, hen; 1. 2, 3, pul. Thoms: 3,
hen; 4, pul.

LIGHT BRAH3IAS.
All to Abbott,

BLACK LANGSHANS.
Cheisman & Son: 1, 2, pen; 1. ck; 1, 2, 3,
ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4. hen; 1, 2, 3, 4. pul.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
Herndon: 3, ck ; 1, 2, hen; 1, pen; 1, 2, 3,
pul; 3, ckl. Tackabery: 2. 4, ck.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Foster: 1, pen; 1, 2, 4, pul; 1, 2, 3, ckl;
1, 2, 3, hen; 1, 2, ck. Craft: 3, ck; 3, 4,
ckl; 4, hen; 2, pen; 3. pul.

BUFF LEGHORNS.

Warner: 1, pen; 1, ckl; 3. 4. hen; 1, 2, 3,
4, pul. Little: 2, pen; 1, ck; 1, 2, hen. Hill:

3, pul; 2, ckl.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Krull: 1, pen; 3, 4, ckl; 3, 4, hen; 3, 4,
pul. Naylor: 1. hen.

BLUE ANDALU8IAN8.
All to Willoughby.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.
All to Wright.

PIT GAMES.
All to Abbott.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
All to Ewing.

JAPANESE BANTAMS.
All to Cox.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
All to Fitting.

Awards at Baraboo, Wis.

EXHIBITORS AT BARABOO, WIS.

Ahrensmeyer, G. F. ... North Freedom, Wis.

Alwin. Wm Baraboo, Wis.

Benedick, G. W Baraboo, Wis.

Blachly. J. M North Freedom, Wis.

Black, H. C Baraboo, Wis.

Cahoon, Wilbur Baraboo, Wis.

Cahoon Bros Baraboo, Wis.

Capener. Clifford liaraboo. Wis.

Catlin, F. W Baraboo, Wis.

riaik, C. A Reedsburg. Wis.

Conway, D. F Elroy. Wis,

Crosley. Alex Elroy. Wis.

Da vies. G. W. . . North Freedom. Wis.

Donaghe.v, J. T North Freedom, Wis.

Gahagan, .1. M La Valle, Wis.

Gibbins. Chas Baraboo, Wis.

Gibbins. P. H Baraboo. Wis.

Hackett, G. W North P'reedom, Wi.s.

Hake. W. S Elroy, Wis.

Harkins. Mrs. Mary... North Freedom, Wis.

Helm, L Baraboo. Wi.s.

Jacobs. I.., M Baraboo. Wis.

Kelley. H. D Reedsburg, Wis,

Koppke, Henry Baraboo. Wis.

Lange. Wm North Freedom. Wis.

McGuan. .las Baraboo, Wis.

Mader, H. F l.,a Crosse, Wis.

Maxham. H. L Reedsburg. W'is.

Newell. F. H Baraboo. Wis.

I'addock. B. E La Valle. Wis,

Powell, Mrs. Anna. ... North Freedom. Wis.

I'owell. E. L North Freedom, W'is.

Ringling, Mrs. Al Baraboo. Wis.

Kingling. Mrs. C Baraboo, Wis.

Ruggles, Miss Mary Baraboo. Wis.

Sanderson. Ernest Baraboo. Wis.

Schacht. P'red Baraboo. Wis.

Schellenberer. Gus North Freedom. Wis,

Seails. W. M Elroy. Wis.

Shalt. Wm Baraboo. Wis.

Snydei-, ,7(>hn Madison. Wis.

Sladler. Roy Baraboo. Wis,

Stoinbrink. Ed North Freedom. Wis.

Teni))lin. Albert Baraboo. Wis.

Tempi in. Fred Baraboo. Wis,

Vilas. C. N Baraboo. Wis.

Voeck. .Tohn North Freedom. Wis.

Wells. Louis Baraboo. Wis.

Wickern. Wm Baraboo. Wis.

.\W.VRDS .\r BARABOO. WIS.
BARRED I'LVMOI TH ROCKS.

Mader: 1. 2. hen; 1. 4, pul: 3. pen. Hack-
ett: 1. ck; 1. 3, ckl; 3. 4. hen; 1. pen.
Black: 2. 4, ckl; 2, 3. pul; 4. pen. Pad-
dock: 2. ck.

WHITE PLY.MOl TH RO( KS.

Catlin: 1. ckl; 1, 2. 3, hen; 2, pul; 1. pen.
Newell: 3. ckl; 3, pul.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Capener: 1. ck ; 1, 2. 3, 4. hen; 1. 3. ckl;

1. 2. 3. pul; 1. pen. Cahoon: 3, ck. Shale:

2, ckl; 4. pul; 2. pen.

BUFF" WYANDOTTES.

Hake; 1. ck; 2, hen; 1, 2, 3, 4, pul; 2, ckl;

1. pen. Crosby & Alexander: 1. hen; 1, 3,
4, ckl; 2. pen.

SILVER LACEI> WYANDOTTES.

A. Templln: 1. 3, ck ; 3, 4. hen; 2, 4,

4,
4.

ckl; 1. pul; 2. pen. F. Templin: 2. 4. ck;

1, 2, hen; 3. ckl; 2. 3, 4, pul: 3, pen.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.
Jacobs: 2, ck; 2, 4, hen; 2, ckl; 2, pul;

2, pen. Hackett: 1, 3, 4. pul; 1, 3, hen;

3, 4, ckl; 1, pen.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS.
Hackett: 1. 2. ck; 1. 2, 3, 4. hen; 1. ckl;

1. pen. McGuann: 2, 4. ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4. pul;

2. pen. Gahagan: 3. ckl; S. pen.

S. C. WIirrE ORPINCiTONS.
Wichern: 3. ck; 3, hen; 4, ckl; 1, 2, 3, f,
pul; 1. pen. Jacobs: 3, ckl.

S. C. RUFF ORPINGTONS.
Kelley: 1, ck ; 1, ckl; 3, pul; 3, pen. San-
derson: 2, ck; 3. 4, hen; 4, pen. Ringling:

3. ck; 1, 2. hen; 2, 3, 4. ckl; 1, 2, 4. pul;
1. 2. pen. Vilas: 4. ck.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Donaghy: 3, ck ; 1. 2. 3. hen: 1. 3. 4. ckl;
1. 2, 3. pul; L pen. Blachlv: 2, ckl; 4. pul,
R. C. RHODE ISLANI> REDS.
Hackett: 2, ck ; 2, ckl; 3 pul. Clark:
ck; 3. hen. Wichern: 3, hen; 3, 4, ckl; 2,
pul; 2, pen.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
All to Gibbons.

R. c. BROWN le<;horns.

Capener: 1. J. 4. ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4, pul; 1,
pen. Maxham: 3, ckl; 2. pen.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Ringling: 1. ck, T.,ange: 2, ck; 3, hen;

1, 2. ckl; 1. 2. 3. pul; 1. pen. Voeck: 1. 2,
hen; 3. 4. ckl; 4, pul; 2. pen. Conway: 4,
hen; 4, pen. Steinbrink: 3. pen.

R. C. WHITE LE(iHORNS.
Ahrensmeyer: 1. ck; 1. 2, 3, 4. hen; 4. ckl;

2, pul; 1. pen. Maxham: 3, ckl; 1. 4. pul;
2. pen.

S. C. BUF'F LE<iHORNS.
Catlin: 1. ck; 1, 2, hen: 1, 2. ckl; 1, pul;

1. pen. Capener: 3. 4, hen; 4, ckl; 3. pul;

2. pen. Davles: 3. ckl; 2, pul. Schellen-
berger: 4. pul,

S. C. BLACK LEGHORNS.
All to Schacht.

ANCONAS.
All to Hackett.

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS.
Davles: 1. ck; 1. 2. 3, hen; 1, 2, 3. ckl;

1, 2. 3, 4, pul: 1. 2. pen.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH.
Burdick: 1. ck ; 1. hen; 1. ckl. Cahoon:

2. ckl; 1, 2, 3, 4. pul; 1. pen.

HOUDANS.
Newell: 3. hen; 3. ckl; 2. i)ul.

SILVER SPANGLED HA.MBURGS.
Ail to Kellev.

BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS.
All to Snvder.

WHITE COCHIN BANTAMS.
All to Kelley,

BLACK BREASTED GAME BANTAMS.
All to Cahoon Bros.

BRONZE TURKEYS.
All to Wichern,

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
All to W, Cahoon,

TOULOUSE (;eese.

All to AlwIn.

wAl M CI £.• |?r

March, '10

S2I2SESEaaS3SS2:SS

March, '10

ULTRY"

Mir-ws OF

POULTRY SHOWS (©,

Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub-
lished in this department without charge

KANKAKEE, ILL.

E. P. Vining, Secretary of the Kanka-
kee Association, reports that the next
show will be held January 9 to 14, 1911.
Chas. McClave has been secured as judge,
ihis IS one of the best shows in northern
Illinois.

MOUND VALLEY, KAS.

A7o^?® next annual show of the Mound
Valley Poultry Association, will be held

wnr^n^^Ji.^^ -^S, ^^' 1^11- ^- A. Stone?
S r-^^m^^® judging. The secretary is
M. C. Taylor, of Mound Valley.

■3f "St

WOONSOCKET, R. |.

The sixth annual exhibition of the

J^?d in^'^^f -^^i^'^r/ Association will be
held in Harris Hal . which is one of thP
best lighted halls in New EnglLd the
same week as usual. Dec. 15, 16, 17, 'l910
Single cooping, good judges, large regu-
lar premiums, and a big list of cish

^enl^'lL^^'S^'^^r ^^^^ thf good manSle
ment that has characterized the show in
the past, we expect will make it more
successful than ever next December

C. O. Smith, Sec'y.

RICHLAND, IOWA.

PmiUrl?®!;^!"""^' meeting of the Richland
Poultry Fanciers' Association, the follow-

qfo.^'^'^^^'L^f"? elected for the yelr
dent T w ^^"iV ^^T'"^^ ^'^^^^ vice-presi-
T w A,T^- Hallowell; secretary-treasurer,
J. W Allen; superintendent, W. C Jones'
assistant superintendent. F O D^ke
Dates for next show Dec 1^ 14 A i?'

was- nati'Th.^"' ""'ftf.Sjin^ Iniebtel'niss
was paid, the association still had a nice
ittle balance left in the treasury. ThI
last show was a success in evefy way
Judge Dagh. gave such good satisfacS'
placing the awards at the last show that

season" Th." ^"^^^^.^ ^^^^'^ ^^r next
season. The association will offer ten
silver cups to be awarded at the nex"

Pi^M.^^i^v.^^'^^^^,' ^f t*^^ business men of
Richland have also offered to donate sil-
ver cups. We shall follow the same rue
everv'^^exhfhif^r^ /'-^^ '^^'' ^"^^ ^uarantel

d« v of thi'^f.^P''^"'*^'?' "^^"^y "" the last
fhi^g^thL'^eason.- ^' ""' ^^ ^^« ^^^^

Richland. la. ^^ ^- ^"^"' ^^'y-

^ -H-
CRESTED FOWL BREEDERS' ASSO-
CIATION.

To Breeders of Crested Fowls of every
variety, we oflfer a most cordia invitation

nnnifrt K^'''' ^^^ producing varieties of
fimi^^S.^r'^'V^''^^^ -^s at the present
hiVro f ^^'^^ '^?1^^ ''^"^ gentlemen who
have formed this organization are only
too well aware of the unduaiified right of

Hon^So?"!? ^"^^*^.l ^^^^^^« *« the diltinS-
tlon placed upon them by the poultrymen

?Lul^'^ f"*"^ ^'y ^^"^ '"^"^^1 them the ever-
lasting layer.

With the object in viou- of domcwi-

fi^JilT-^ ^"^ ^!L® T>M^c in general the
splendid qualiflcation.s of the Crested
Breed in every variety this organization
is dedicated. Note the following remarks
of the editor in a recent i.ssue of Amer-
ican Stock-keeper:

"The splendid display of Polands at the
Boston show emphasizes the vast amount
of work the Crested Fowl Breeders' As-
sociation of America is doing to advance
the Interests of the crested breeds

Every exhibitor of Polish was a* mem-
ber of this organization and competed for
Its premiums. The quicker the breeders

of Houdans. Silkies, Sultans, Creve Couer,
and La Fleche realize this fact it is our
hrm belief the better it will be for them
as It stands to reason that what it does
tor one breed it can undoubtedly do for
them all,

}}^\,^^^^^rshxp lists are open to all
reliable breeders of these various varie-
ties, including Crested Ducks and Ban-
tams although so far the Poland breed-
ers seem to be about the only ones
to appreciate this fact and their large
entry at Boston simply emphasized the
amount of faith they have in it

The first annual meeting was held in
rf^^c^-i}"^' Mechanic's building. January
IS, 1910, and the first election was held
resulting as follows:

President, Wm. McNeil; vice-president,
A* A Reynolds; secretary,treasurer, John
A. Gough; associate secretary, James
Cutting.

Directors— Charles L. Seely W B
Atherton, Miss I. E. Ives. Eliot Hub-
bard, Rev. C. C. Petersen. F. L. Andrews,
Robert Horte, Edgar A. Weimer, James
Abernethy, Richard Oke, Wm. Minnich,
George E. Winters."

John A. Gough,

Secretary.

NATIONAL COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE

CLUB.

The annual meeting of the National
Columbian Wyandotte Club was held
.January 13, in room 14, Mechanics build-
mg, Boston. In the absence of the
president the meeting was called to or-
der by Vice-President Campbell, Secre-
I^^^' mv,^^® American Poultry Associa-
tion, ihe members present were enthusi-
astic over the fact that Columbian Wyan-
dottes were the largest class in the show.
The year has been a good one for the
club, both to increase of membership and
hnancially, about eighty new members
having joined during the year and a
balance of $122.00 Is in the treasury The
club has issued a catalogue of 48 pages

?""io^n^^®r^^^'®^^^^"^ ^s to issue another
for 1910. The officers elected for 1910 are
president, Horace Porter, Ridgefleld,
?*^"";.', vice-president, Walter G. Fenton,
Mt. Clemens. Mich.; secretary- treasurer
Geo. F. Eastman, Granbv, Mass. Execu-
tive committee, the president and secre-
r^^^iT^c^- Campbell, Mansfield, Ohio;
r\ ^- ^''k\' ^}' Thomas, Ont.. Can.
( harles D. Cleveland, West Orange N J •
T. Reid Parrish, Nashville, Tenn.;' Milan
A. Brayton, Fall River. Mass. With a set
of officers who are enthusiastic Columbian
Wyandotte breeders, with the fact that
at three of the largest New England
shows. Boston. Mass., Providence R I
and Portland, Me., the Columbian 'wyan'-
dottes were the largest class in the show
is It any wonder that the club looks
toward the future with renewed con-
fidence.

A donation to the club of a $25.00
silver cup from Mr. H. W. Buckland
Lower Wick, Worcester, England, to be
given at the ghow where the annual meet-
mg IS held, to the best shaped Columbian
Wyandotte, was acknowledged and the
donor thanked.

Notice of the death of former Secretary
E. E. Mcintosh last July, was brought be-
fore the club and resolutions of symnathv
for his family adopted.

George F. Eastman, Secretary.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCK
CLUB.

At the annual meeting of the American
Columbian I'lymouth Rock (^lub held at
Buffalo during the week of tlie Inter-
national Show, the officers and executive
committee for 1910 were elected.

In addition to this two committees were

appointed, one to draft a club standard,,
and one to dratf a constitution and by-
laws, both to be published in the cliib
catalogue.

Committee to draft a standard consists
of D. M. Green, Syracuse, N. Y., Geo. H.
Sweet, East Aurora, N. Y., and H. W.
Partlo, Ingersoll, Ont., Canada.

Committee on drafting a constitution,.
Dr. E. B. Kaple, Elbridge, N. Y.. F. M.
C emens. Mechanicsburg, O., and S. M.
Clemo, Welland. Ont., Canada.

The club is in a flourishing condition
at the present time, but a vigorous cam-
paign to double the present membership
will be waged during the year. The club-
catalogue will be a model of its kind,
and will contain not only Information
indispensable to the breeder of Columbian
Rocks, but interesting and valuable to-
any breeder of poultry. Persons inter-
ested and desiring a copy should address
the secretary to that effect ,and their
request will be filled and a copy mailed
them as soon as issued.

^,^ ., ^ E. B. Kaple,

Elbridge, N. Y. Secretary.

AMERICAN LEGHORN CLUB MEETING.

At the annual meeting of the Amer-
ican Leghorn Club held in Baltimore,
Md., Jan. 4 to 8, 1910, the following offi-
cers were elected: President. W. F
Brace. Victor, N. Y. : first vice-president,
W. R. Bowers, Baltimore, Md.; second
vice-president, G. L. Wheeler. Penn Yan,
^; 7.\} third vice-president, W. E. Bright,
Waltham, Mass.; fourth vice-president.
Frank McGrann, I>ancaster, Pa.; secre-
tary and treasurer, Norman L. Kisling,
Bel-Air. Md. The club will have a state
Vice-president in each state and will of-
fer handsome ribbons at all shows. an(J
asks show secretaries to get in touch with
Secretary Kisling at once, so arrange-
ments can be made to supply all This
is one of the strongest clubs in the U. S.
and embraces breeders of all varieties of
the Leghorn family. Addres all corre-
spondence to

Norman L. Kisling,
■r. o« ^ , Secretary and Treasurer.
Box 22, Bel-Air. Maryland.

F. L. POULTRY FARM

Rhode Island REDS .^^i^^^

in red hot competition at Hagerstown. Chi-
cago. McKeesport. Butler and Pittsburg Pa
Stock, egg.s and baby chicks. Write for cir-
cular and mating list.
F. L. OBER. R. F D. NO. 1, VERONA. PA.

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LEGHORNS-HOUDANS-ROCKS

Houdans to February 28th, 18. Total for
year 947. Send for my 1909-10 show record.

H E ROHFR^ 929 MISS. ST.

"• *^* '^^^litV^ LA CROSSE. WIS.

Silver Laced Wyandottes t^rbox

iiri . ««r « irtain direct

White Wyandottes ^^uston strain

■ ■ » . Pure

Houdans Mc AVOYTA YLOR strain
h!f 1, , . ^^ff'^ ^2 00 per 15. Poor

hatches replaced at half price

B. H. BACON. R. F. D.. Elroy. Wi«.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts : : : $.5.00 per dozen

Phoenix Fowls : : 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will

be sold The Argonaut is a pea coml^d bird

^)!lf° "r^'^^r^^^JPJ^ shanked, general pur:
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese
Cash in advance with all orders.

fTH . o "• S- BABCOCK

77 Summit St.. . Ea«t Providence. R. I.

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Some White Orpington Facts

Written for Poultry Fancier by Ernest Kellerstr

ass.

I have before me a copy of the lUus-
$^r^^^5 Poultry Record, the Feathered
World, Poultry. Feathered Life, the Aus-
tralian Hen, South African Poultry Jour-
nal the first four named being- published
m London and the others in the countries
suggested by their titles. Each journal
has been scanned through and then gone
over agam. I have tried to unearth all
the matter pertaining to the most popular
breed and variety in the text. What I
was trying to get at was the foreign at-
titude toward the Orpingtons, because
they have been bred and shown in Eng-
land many years, something over ten in
fact, before they were introduced here in
America.

Have they worn well there, you ask'>
Well^ let me point to a few things that
I have noticed in my perusal of the for-
eign poultry press as it affects this great-
est of all fowls. The fancy in England
was all going over to, or I might say had
gone over to, the Wyandottes when the
Orpingtons came upon the scene. These
good birds, the Wyandottes, had for years
held the place of popular esteem with the
utility poultry keepers in the United King-
dom, and of course the fanciers followed.
As I look at the fancier's task of breed-
ing better birds it seems to roe that he
follows the procession of utility poultry
people. I do not state this for a fact.
But it looks to me that way. A bird that
has as much prejudice against it as the
Orpington had when it first made its bow
to the public must win its honors with
those people who make up the foundation
of the fancy first and last: those people
who keep pure bred poultry because it Is
better than stock of mixed breeding for
practical purposes.

This class of poultry keepers will make
a fowl show its true value in the meat
and eggs class before it can find a way
into the permanent scheme of their poul-
try keeping. Then come the fanciers and
they take it up because it is popular with
those who are buyers and general breed-
ers. Let me say that the first Orpingtons
that were shown were given the guffaws
that were received by most every made
breed when it first came out into the light.
The Orpingtons were popular in England
before they came to America. The Eng-
lish fancier had to be shown that they were
a meritorious fowl before he would adopt
them. They made good with him and then
were seized upon by the fanciers of that
country and now oyer a third of the ad-
vertising done in the English papers is
done by breeders of this great bird.

America is not going crazy over a
chicken. It has taken the Orpington up
because there was room for it. It had a
mission to fill and is filling it in every
corner of the land. No idle breed or va-
riety boom is behind the tremendous
popularity of the breed. The reason they
have abroad supplanted varieties which
have had a great amount of popularitv is
that they have made good in the utility
way before being taken up by the fan-
ciers. We learn recently that about one-
half of the advertising "done in the Ger-
man poultry papers is with the Orpingtons
as a basis. This fowl was known in that
country before it was here in America.
The work of poultry keeping there is
mostly of a practical nature. The birds
that win their way to the hearts of this
great empire of poultry growers must
first prove themselves in the e^-g laving
pens and on the tables of the best homes
in the country. Then they begin to be
taken up by the fanciers.

I am often asked the reason why the
White Orpingtons are such ^reat layers
and why their meat is of such high qual-
ity for the taVjle. In the making of this
great fowl constitutional vigor was the
first thing demanded. Th«,'y must be a
bird that would do well in anv climate
and thrive wherever located. To this
end great strength of body and actual
breed characteristics were secured by the
most careful breeding and selection. Now
it is well known to all breeders and stu-
dents of breeding problems that vigor and
bodily stoutness will produce a large sup-
ply of eggs for the simple reason that
the ]>ird has the digestive apparatus to
assimilate feed enough to keep up its own
supply of body building tissue, and sup-
plying enough over to generate the multl-
farous cells of the ovaries which sooner
or later are developed into eggs. This
breed faculty must be In the foundation

of the variety in order that it be a domi-
nant trait of the fowl. Remember that.
There must be an inherent ability to pro-
duce eggs and lots of them or else the
breed will not do what is claimed for it in
the egg pens.

It is well known that good fowls, those
bred with the egg habit in view and then
neglected in the hands of incompetent
poultrymen, will after being supplied the
right food and management, so surprise
one in egg laying as to be almost beyond
belief. Fowls that are bred well do not need
the continued pampering that some seem
to imagine to keep them doing their func-
tions well. They need the material to
work with and have the vigor to transform
it into poultry products. If there is a
breed that has more vitality to put into its
work in the laying pens, breeding yards
or general purpose work on the farm I do
not know what it is. The Orpingtons ex-
cel in these characteristics.

In cold climates it is necessary that a
certain amount of heat produced by the
combustion of the food go into keeping the
fowl comfortable. The remainder goes
into the egg basket. The excellent suit
of heat retaining plumage that covers
the Orpington is sufficient for it in any
climate. If the cold not severe enough in
the houses where they are quartered to
freeze their combs they will lay as well
as in the springtime. It may be said in
passing that such ill treatment as is ac-
corded all fowls when they are given too
cold quarters will for the time being
stop the good work of any fowl.

Another place in the scheme of keeping
fowls where the exceptional vigor of the
White Orpingtons comes in well is in the
growing of early chicks. If the parent
stock is not well equipped in the matter
of strong constitutions the rearing of
early hatched chicks will be very hazard-
ous. I have proven after years of ship-
ping eggs in all climates from Alaska to
Mexico that the White Orpington has this
one great quality. Every shipper of eggs
for hatching knows what treatment they
get at the hands of some of the express
porters. But the uniformly good results
which have attended our shipping of eggs
for hatching is proof enough that thev
are from birds that have the greatest
of vigor and bodily strength. Early
hatched pullets that go to laying earlv
in life and keep it up during the fall and
winter are the money-makers for the
farmer's wife and for the utility poultry-
man.

Now as to the White Orpington's value
as a table fowl: Firstly, a fowl for the
table must be one of good breast develop-
ment. It must have in addition to a deep
meated and long breast, a well rounded
pair of thighs and some well placed tender
meat upon the back. There must not be
a great amount of waste in the oflfal.
The percentage waste should be small and
the smaller the better, in. sav. a nine-
pound fowl. It is easily proven that a
nine or ten-pound Orpington has less
waste in the oflfal than most any other
fowl. This is accounted for when we
show that the shape and characteristics
of the White Orpington all make for even
and well-rounded growth of chicks which
make the most out of their feed. The
modern, low-down Orpington, with his
ability to turn the forage of the free
range into meat and quick growth and
his adaptability to Intensive poultry cul-
ture, is the best showing of the work of
the poultry breeder and fancier.

Is it any wonder that the Orpington is
doing thinsrs in the way of crowding the
crest of popularity? It had so long been
needed that it was snapped up bv those
who wanted such a tvpe of fowl very
quickly after its introduction to America.
We were in need of a barefoot large bird.
Do you not remember the attempts to
give the public the l^arcfooted Asiatics,
and the arguments which were advanced
for them? Do you not remember the
White Americans? This breed was not
one of those that was not worth a chance,
but no one could tell why thev did not
catch on. The name Orpington is euphon-
ious and easily remembered, having a
dignity all its own, yet it was not the
name that caught the first admirers of
the breed. It was the fowl itself.

White Orpingtons are as primarilv a
fancier's fowl as aoY other breed. There
is room for still greater combinations of
type, color and size. They present to the

^i..*,

man or woman who has a taste for the
esthetic a problem in breeding and rear-
ing and exhibiting such as no other fowl
affords. They will not lose one iota of
their popularity. On the contrary this
will increase in proportion to the chances
they have that will make them win public

We have often heard that white fowls
are easily bred. This is the general ^
pression of the unacquainted amateur and
the novice. But are they? Have not the
men who are today producing the oret-

•V^.L^' l^? ^^^Vi^« h^^ J"«t Ss muc'^^of
a task before them as the breeders of
parti-colored fowls, They have. While it
M essential that the breeding birds hive

Mn.. "^tV^^^^f ^ ^^ .^^°«d' ^« it were, be-
^r,2 tjejn. there is enough in the rear-

o^^brl«i5^®.^'"^ """1 general care to make
or break the good qualities which the
breeding stock mav have in it In one
fu^^^^ V^e careless breeder can waste

the carefu fancier can attain a degree of
breeding skill and heighth that will make
now fr^^P^.^ous beyond his dreanis Ri|ht
now there is room for more careful White
Orpington breeders. There will continue
WM?/*'^'^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^««d breeders^' thi
^ sea^son.'^''"'^ ^"^^ ^''^^'^ ^^^"^ «^^son

thl" Whitr^^'^''^ plants of the country
Iri^,, -^^^ Orpingtons have made good
impressions wherever tried. Thev will
continue to grow in demand for plants
i^fnn.n .1^'^^ ^^^^^ ^hick is wLted t?
has bnH ^^f. "market. The broiler business
the vifalifTnft?.'' K^^^ i« contend with in
taken nn^,?^ 1}"% ^""^^^.^ ^^^^h have been
taKcn up by it from time to time hut

from what we hear about the suc?lss at-
tained with the White Orpingtons wlmav

o?the^nofmr'^V^^^-°^ ^^^« Irani Tra^?K
or the poultry business. The White Or-
pington is ready for the table from the

s?ale ^?'i^" P^"f^ ^^ the^oft roaste?
stage. It does not run to lees anri bono

carries itself along, deve oping the frame-
work to carry the muscle and mlat I? It
fll.E^^^^"^- f^° ^'ther chick can pu? on
flesh so evenly as the White Orpington

I want to say a word now to the breed-
ers who are working to make thi White
?JP^"&,ton even better than it is and who
have the best for the breed at helrt
Keep good size and shape in view alwavV

?^tn °h' "i'l" '^^^'^" the cSfor hobby and ?me
It to death. Color is well and good in Us

t^e'breadth'1,n^'^i'%^.''P^"^^«"^"«t'Lve
true n? fh^ and depth and conformation
tiue of the breed. Do not overlook the
matter of good colored legs and skin
Have the le^rs on the male breeding birds
especially well placed on the body and
hZl^ u\^ "l^^fy thigh. Work for heivy
bone, but not clumsy frame-work. Full-

2n ^i P.^i*""^^^ *^ o"ly to be sought to
fill out the beautiful lines of the body
Keep special note of the best egg layers
in the flock and choose from them thi
breeding stock where it is possibl^ S^
not breed from too large combed males

In working for broad birds do not get
theni short in body and think that is

h«nH ■f^H^i'®"' h""?^^- ^^®P the scales at

land and know what you are doing. Avoid

too high-tailed females and the kind that

drop down behind so far that they may

?nr. ^h^^K ^-"^^y^^ Stick to the Standard
for the breed. Keep down to date In all
things and when there is an opening speak
the word for the White Orpingtons Too
much eood cannot be said of them. Thev
deser\'e all the kind words and have not
been disappointing to the old heads of the
business who have taken them up. Go to
the shows with your birds and strive to
make clean, honest, strong competition,
there is room for us all at the work of
breeding them and the more good White
Orpingtons we can produce and show to
the public the faster will the breed carry
Its standard to the front. Let your shib-
boleth be, "I Will."
Kansas City. Mo.

STANDARD ALUMIlSflM
LEG BANDS

iii'g[|P''"'::|y :!jiiiiiiiiiiiiii''''';.iiii'!iiiiiii»!jiipi'';!;.ii!iiiiii;)

Price 12 bands 15c, 25-20c, 50-
35c, 100 60c. Send for catalog
of trap nest, egg shipping boxes
drinking fountains, feed hop-
pers and other supplies.

GEO. STIRDIVANT

SHEBOYGAN FALLS. WIS.

Page 74

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POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES.

The Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co.
lias just issued the seventh edition of
then- popular buok^ "Poultrv Houses and
Fixtures." This book has just been re-
vised and* brous:ht lipht un to dnte.

The most valuable points covered are
as follows: Building poultry houses of all
kinds, i. e., closed -front houses, scratch-
mg-shed iious^s, oren-front or fiesh-jiir
houses, giving- details of botli the popular
"Woods" and "Tolinan" open-front
houses; portable houses, also all kinds of
interior and exterior fixtures.

The plans for each st\ie liouse. to-
gether with the approximate cost of each
house, are so explicit that anv amateur
who can handle a hammer and saw will
understand just how much lumber to or-
der for each house and liow to build or
superintend its construction.

This book contains over 150 illustra-
tions and is unquestionably the most in-
structive and comprehensive wcirk on the
construction of poultry houses and fix-
tures that has been compiled to date.
Every house and fixture described in this
book is in use on the plant of a success-
ful poultryman. The price of Poultry
Houses and Fixtures is 50 cents per copy,
Or the book and Poultry Fancier for one
year for 65 cents.

DUCKS AND GEESE.

The Reliable Poultry .Journal Pub Co.
has recently completed the third edition
of their book, "Ducks and Geese," which
has been revised to conform to the 1910-
1915 American Standard of Perfection It
contains articles by the foremost duck
and goose breeders, giving complete in-
structions regarding the breeding rear-
ing, feeding, housing, marketing and ex-
hibiting of these profitable fowls It is a
complete guide to profitable duck and
goose raising, and is illustrated by the
world's leading poultry artists. Frank-
lane L.. Sewell and Arthur O. Schilling
The price of Ducks and Geese is 75 cents
per copy or the book and a year's sub-
scription to Poultry Fancier 90 cents.

ECONOMY IN POULTRY RAISING.

A bone cutter is as much a part of a
poultry tarm as the chickens themselves,
(xreen cut bone is the best cut food tb"
can be given them. It is better than tlie
commercial products and cheaper With
a bone cutter of his own the "poultry
farmer IS not paying the jobbers' profit.4
nor IS he spending money in freight and
expense bills for prepared foods that are
not at hand.

Cut bone is easily prepared if the poul-
tryman has a Crown Bone Cutter He
can secure his cut bone fresh every day
^o poultry farm should b<> without 'a
Clown Bone Cutter, for, besides the fact
of Its being a necessity, it is amply low
in price. Write to Wilson Bros.. Box 822
of pHc'e^ ^"^ ^'*''*'" ''^^'^^^Sue and .scale

"EASY TO USE'" CATTLE

MENTS.

INSTRU

Our readers are doubtles.s familiar with
the advertisements of the Pilling cattle
instruments and remedies

We believe that this firm sells in(,re
hor.se and cattle instruments direct to

line '^1'^ Vi'''". ^?"-^' °^^^'' '^•^"''^^^ >" tl'^^Jl*
line. The oldest house in the business in

this country. They have through a course

of probity and fair dealing extc^nding over

foTVlL^.^^^^^fy ^"^If "P a «oli,l bu^^i es.s
for the 'easy to use" Pilling instruments
and remedies. It is well fo? all oHs to
remember that accidents and emergen-
cies will arise on the farm which rcduire
prompt action In order to save the 1 fe
and u.sefulness of an animal and on
case of milk fever saved by the prompt

b?^fh2''«".^^ '''^.'''r ^roatr^ent enTiTd
i?^ M®^^w"^^:\H ''^ Animal Industry and

fov^^U^tu^^^ H^'', '^^"^^ ^'"' P«y ^'ie bill
for all the veterinary instruments that a

farmer can use in a lifetime. Treating

a case of garget successfully so as to save

a useful udder, tapping a hoven cSw to

prevent death from bloat, removing ob-

eowfl?,"^ ^°"', ^^^ ^^^^« ^^ hard milking
iT/\f'^ ""^ ^" ^"''"r^ Pretting all the milk
that the cow can give without the annoy-
ance to cow and operator which is inci-

^r/,f' i^.i'^^'^'J "^^^^^^S, represent a few
of the fields of usefulness of these reme-
dies and instruments.

This firm is absolutely reliable and we
urge all our readers to get into corre-

POULTRY FANCI

spondence with them and see how cheaply
they can be supplied with cattle cases,
hard milking outhts, garget outfits, arti-
ficial im|)regnation outhts, as well as a
full hue of good remedies.

Send a postal to George P. Pilling- &
Son Compan.N. 22:]9 Arch St.. Phila.h-Iphia.
Pa., and get a free book. Send today,
loti may need help tomorrow.

REAL GALVANIZING.

Tndouljtedly the farmers of this coun-
try have wasted a great many thousand
dollars in recent years on pr.or wire fence
Many of them have been unable to un-
derstand why what seems like a good
fence will become utterlv useless in such
a short time. Their eyes have lecently
been opened < n tiiis (piestion dv a little
booklet written by an expert on "this sub-
ject, who knows how in' the rush to get
rich quick many manufacturers have
neglected the fundamentals of good fence
building. They have built fences with
light uprights, and have used wire that
was hardly galvanized at all. Mr. Brown
tlie author of the book, points out that
in true galvanizing, the galvanizing com-
pound IS not merely washed on the wire
like cheaply plated jewelrv. but tliat a
chemical action takes place whereby the
spelter used for galvanizing becomes a
very part of the wire. It is not a simple
covering for the wire, but a part of the
wire Itself. He attributes the long life
and durability of the Brown Fence to its
superior galvanizing and its extra heavy
uprights. We know every one of our
readers will be interested in Mr Brown's
l!^^'^..boo^. Write to the Brown Fence
^ Wire Co., Dept. 94, Cleveland, Ohio,
and ask for it.

March, '10

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NOMINATIONS FOR AMERICAN

POULTRY ASSOCIATION

OFFICES.

Following is a list of the parties
who have been successful in getting
their names on the nominating bal-
lots for A. P. A. officers:

For President.
C. M. Bryant received ;{:30 votes.
H. V. Crawford received 15 votes.
Grant AT. Curtis received 5 votes.
James E. Rice received .2.5 votes.
Henry Steinmesch received 5 votes.

For First Vice President.
L. H. Baldwin received 250 votes.
IT. H. Collier received 6 votes.
H. B. Donovan received 8 votes.
C. K. Graham received 24 votes.
Henry Steinmesch received 7 votes.

For Second Vice President.
L. H. Baldwin received 8 votes.
Chas. D. Cleveland received 9 votes.

C. K. Graham received 227 votes.
O. L. Ale Cord received 15 votes.
Miller Purvis received 11 votes.

For Secretary-Treasurer.

J. Y. Bicknell received 1 vote.
Geo. O. Bown received 2 votes.
S. T. Campbell received 346 votes.
Chas. H. Ring received 5 votes.
W. S. Russell received 5 votes.

For Executive Board.

L. B. Audigier received !i votes.
Henry Berrar received 25 votes.
Chas. D. Cleveland received 10
votes.

Harry H. Collier received 41 votes.
H. V. Crawford received 205 votes.
Grant M. Curtis received 2:!4 votes.
U. R. Fishel received 120 votes.
W. R. Graham received 22 votes.
Theodore Hewes received 111 votes
Wm. Barry Owen received S votes.
Charles G. Pape received 10 votes.
Irving A. Sibley received 41 votes.
W. P. Smalley received 14 votes.
P. H. Sprague received 26 votes.
T. E. Quisenberry received <):i votes.

Place for Next Annual Meeting.
St. Louis received 196 votes.
Niagara Falls received 14 votes.
Buffalo received S2 votes.
Toledo received 14 votes.
Purt Huron received 6 votes.

The regular election ballots are now
being mailed to members and are re-
turnable in thirty days. Each mem-
ber IS entitled to vote for one nom-
inee for each office except for mem-
bership on the executive board, where
there are three vacancies to be filled.

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POULTRY FENCF

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Madeofextraheavydoublegralvanized wires
nu- u?-^°Ji "^r ^""'^ ^^^^^ required
Chick tigrht-bottom wires only l in apart

^ COSTS NO MORE THAN NETTING

yet will last five times as lonr.

bend tor catalog— we have

lao st>^les and

can save you

money.
Write today

m^

BROWN FENCE &WIBECO. DEPT. a4, a »/FiJi)jn^

60 Years '' Z^r' I. K. FeichTs^

Eviv PATRort '" r''" ''"? ?''" ," '^' ""'°» ^i'hout a protest.

fey SmULD fHF'Y"NOT^^ •''^ 1'°"^ '°' the money paid.

. OA . V , V . . '' ^^^' when none but specimens to scorp Qfl
to 96 pomts find place in their breeding pen ? Which '^ '™^"' '° "°'^ ^"

WIN AND BRKFD ON

m the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they aooroorinl.
their patrons winmngs to their advantage. appropriate

From Sept I to May 15, Brahmas $3.50 to $ 1 0 for females- $5 .« *7n

t files. St$ rl f^'"i '''^^^ '"1 '^''^ wya^dtrusV o1?

f:;45"t/$l5lVmreS"FrS«^t°75^ '«• ''t''^'"'

pTrttl-itlf - «-^ »' -& ^icl^'??o; -faC a«-

jJC^FELCH & SON. Box 176. NATICK. MASS.

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BROWN LEGHORNS WITH A

ORD.

REG

C F. Lang. La Cio.sse. Wis., i.s one
of the western Leghoin bieed^^rs who
can justly lay claim to the title of
eader. For over 20 years he has been
breeding the best in S. C. Brown Leg-
horns and he lias won more than 300
prizes in competition witli the best west-
ern breeders and .some of the best stock
from east-rn yards. His circular and
mating list this season give full infor-
mation regarding hi.s birds and he will
gadly send a copy of it fiee to all ap-
plicants. It you want to raise some top
notchers there is no surer way of doing
it than through stock or eggs from Mi-
Lang's yards.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS.

POULIRY FANCIER

won on Singh' Comb Reds. 1st cockerel
1st, 2nd, :iid. 4tli pullets and 1st pen!
He had no old birds entered. He ahso
won the Silver Cup for best display of
Rose Comb Birds and the shape and
color specials of the two Rhode Island
Red c-lubs. At Pittsburg he won on
Rose Combs, 1st. 3rd cocks. 1st, 4th hens
and 5th pen. On the Single Combs he
won 1st, 5th cocks. 3rd, 4th. 5th cocker-
els, 3rd, i3th pullets, and 3rd pen, with

If you are looking for Orpington stock
or eggs don't fail to write for the mating
list of E. M. Long. Box P. F.. Osceola,
Ind. Mr. Long has made a remarkable
record on his birds in the show room
and his customers have also been verv
successful. He breeds Single Comb Buff
Black and White Orpingtons and his
breeding pens this season contain the
best birds he ever owned. Tliis means
much, because in the past he has de-
feated competition from some of the best
flocks in America. His prices are very
reasonable and our readers can send him
their orders, feeling assured that thev
are getting the biggest value that their
money can buy anywhere.

H. S. Wentz, Quakerstown Pa. is In
position to supply Poultry Fancier read-
ers with Buff Rocks or eggs for hatch-
ing, and he guarantees satisfaction.
His birds have been prominent winners
at some of the best eastern shows He
has a record at the Big North Penn
Show of 1st cock, 1st and 3rd hens, 2nci
cockerel, 1st pullet, also Silver Cup for
best display and six other special prizes
He also has a record at the East Gran-
ville Show of 1st, 3rd. 4th hens, 3rd, 4th
cocks, 1st pullet, 2d. 3rd cockerels. His
show record is ample evidence of the
high ciuality of his stock.

F. L. Ober. Route 1, Verona, Pa., re-
ports the following winnings this season:
At Butler. Pa., on Rose Comb Reds, he
won 1st and 2d on cock, hen, cockerel and
pullet, also 3rd pullet and 1st hen. He

FIRST MILWAUKEE PULLET.

First prize White Plymouth Rock pul-
let at Milwtiukee, 1910. Bred and owned
by W. R. Abbott, Ft. Atkinson, W^is.

no hens entered. He also won the color
specials at Pittsburg offered by the two
clubs in the Single Comb class. Mr.
Ober has a few good breeding cockerels
and yearling hens for sale which will
breed winners for his customers. This
is an excellent opportunity for some of
Poultry Fancier readers to get some *^x-
tia good birds at reasonable prices.

Among the breeders of the best Rhode
Island Reds in the middle west is H E
Donaghey, Box 117, North Freedom, Wis

Page 75

Mr. Donaghey spared no expense in get-
ting the foundation stock of his flock
and he obtained the best that could be
procured from the leading eastern flocks
He has by careful mating improved his
birds until at the present time there is
not a better flock anywhere. Owing to
the pressure of his duties as a public
official of his town, he did not exhibit
his birds much during the past season,
but he won nearly everything wherever
he did show. He is president of the
Baraboo Valley Poultry Association and
has held that office foi- the past three
years. We cheerfully recomend him to
all buyers who ar« looking for stock or
eggs for hatching.

Our readers who are interested in Hou-
dans should write to Quimbv and Brown
109 U. High St.. Ipswich. Mass., asking
for a copy of their catalogue and list of
matings. It will prove of special inter-
est to buyers. This firm is an unques-
tioned leader in the Houdan fraternity
and their birds have been prominent
winners at many of the best shows in
the east. Their birds have also won in
all sections of the country in the hands
of customers.

We wish to call attention to tlie ad of
Ira Ford, La Grange, Ind., which appears
on another page of this issue. Mr. Ford
is a regular advertiser in Poultry Fancier
and is an old experienced breeder. He
breeds S. C. Brown Leghorns exclusively,
and has won many prominent prizes at
good shows in strong competition. His
birds have scored as high as 94 1^ by
well-known .judges and he has a number
of times won sw^eepstake prizes with ten
birds with scores averaging from 93 to
94 points. He will be glad to send a
copy of his 1910 circular to all who write
for some. His prices on stock and eggs
are very reasonable

AMATITE ROOFING

MINERAL SURFACED NEEDS NO PAINTING
_ . _ .SenH for free sample.

BARRETT M'F'G CO., ^f,Tc a'g'o

iDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BiNQ

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

lgforl,5c; 2.5—2.^; 50— 40c ; 1 00— Too,
Sample Rjuid Mailed for 2c .Stamp,
frink Myers Mfr. Bii68. Freeoort.lJI,

REDS

JL\.* \t^'

. C. Rhode Island Reds

Hundreds of birds for sale at reasonable prices. Exhibition and breeding birds of highest
quality. Birds on approval. Satisfaction or your money back, Mated pairs, trios and nens

EDWIN R. CORNISH, 1426 Pontiac Street, ANN ARBOR, MICH.

BARRED ROCKS,

RHODE ISLAND REDS, Both Combs

We have a fine lot of cockerels and pullets to offer our customers at prices ranging
from $1.50 to $25.00 each. Before placing your order write us describing what you
want and receive our catalog, which will be sent without charge. We guarantee every-
thing as represented and all orders are shipped subject to approval. Our pens will
be mated up early in December. Our new incubator house with twenty large
machines will be ready for use in a few weeks. When you get ready for eggs or
day-old chicks from first class stock, write us. Address,

WILLIAM OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM,

BOX P, MORRIS, ILLINOIS

l-ff^g'/.-'igy/xyK-^a^gii^ftCTSi

POULTRY FANCIER^

SPECIAL DISPLAY ADS

«/!-■ 'i^'CHElfrTFARMRAlSED'

the kM,?'?^*'* *"** '^ C. White Leghorn.

the kind the new standard calls for. Of 16
entries won 6 firsts and 4 seconds. Pens
headed by these grand cocks and cockerels
eggs from these pens by the setting or hun-
dred. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write your
wants E..H. Reichert. Virdin. III.

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Ne.ted, Standard-bred,

g'-it Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog.

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Mam Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or egffs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.

I ^^Ih'B.lfl^^- ^ ^"^ "OJ"® t^an please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

COLUMBIAN WYAN-

DOTTES ^'■^^ ^'^^^ *^e best stock

~7 . * * ^-"^ money can buy

Strain. Satisfaction ga'uranteed.

and 13 00 per setting.

LOUIS WESTFALL. R. 3 WAVERLY. NY

money can buy (Keating's
Eggs $2.00

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Redil ^°°* better. 40 first and second
oa fen P'"'"'!.^ ^^ *^ Sedalia and Kansas
Cit^ 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now

D. J. Bri8S. Carthajre, Mo.

AnCOna^ exclusively, l^eaders for I2'
rmucuuas years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won bv us and our customers
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you

6?A%??-'^V.^'^"".. W H. Branthoover.
61 15 Station St.. East End. Pittsburg. Pa

.President Ancona Club of America

Houdans and Buff ^Sr^^in.lrl

WvAnffnff-»« °^ highest honors on Hou-
TTjrauuuilC5 dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $3^ Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden. CliFton Sprinifs, N. Y.

EZ£

5 LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS

( Some very fine cockerels for sale. Eggs at
r right prices. Illustrated circular free. \

J^M. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio 5

Kellerstrass and Cook Strain of

White Orpingtons

Barred Ply-

S. C,

Kggs $2.00 per

mouth Rock eggs $1.^ per 15. SatisfacMon
guaranteed A. J. WALDSCHMIDT.
'^^ Washington. Iowa

BARRED ROCKS f°^kerel mating of
D It * 1- . ,.^ the very best strain.
Pullet line is direct descendants of '%ouis-

f^'^'TT^^f-.^^^^^^f ^^'' '^^°- Kggs ^ to $5 for
*i r:A y ,^y "°^^ headed by prize winners
$1 50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F..Centerville,Iowa

Red Cockerels rS^<^

Few choice

Single Comb ^,,„, ^„^

Special cockerel of Decatur, 111. in a class 75.
Also Rose Comb Reds. Beck strain direct.
Score cards furnished after November 27th
Prices $2 00 up.

FERD. W. OERTEL. BRIGHTON. ILL

«^« »«,^'5K1'*^ COMB »

BUFF ORPINGTONS

Eggs from exhibition and utility stock Send
for Mating Ust. A few breeding cockerels
for sale. H BREVOOR7 ZABRISKIE,

17 Elm St., Woburn, Mass.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Kegs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. Hopkinsville. Ky.

LEGHORNS ^i^j,\ r.riz\^^'

erels for .sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eees
for hatching. -^kk^

C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

^hite Plump FarmP^^i^^^^'^^^s^^
uuc I luiiie rarm y^^ n^^d to buiid

up your flock. All prize winners. White

wXu^w^i^^'.^^r' 7^^'^^ ^f"^^" Guineas.
White Holland Turkeys. White Pekin Ducks

Z^l c^*'?'?'^^." ^^**^- Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed

J. a _BAKER. Proi>.. Rt. l^lainville. III.

WATSONS CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Conib Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess, laid 291 eggs in a year; .50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c
IRA WATSON. . FREDONIA, N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

Ur^^.^-,^.- ^^own Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson. Buchtel. Ohio, L. Box M-

Silver J,ace<l U yaiidot««M. W hUv Crested

I, '*. J,"**'*^ ""<* Barred IMytnouth
J(«>(;kH. Direct desceudants from Madison Square
aud Cblcago winners. Won twenty eight reeular
?'^'^*'.^°? ^"^^ diplomas at Oelwein, lows, Jan.
4-9. JH09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards.
Wm. Neiers. Prop., I., II. 4r,, CaKca<le, la.

REED'S ? ^^ BROWN Lt:GHORNS and
IVCEiU O R c. RHODE ISLAND RF;ds

Winners of first at Chicago.Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois vState Shows. Get my de.scrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the eeir
season. DR. F. M. REED.

Wyanet. Ill,

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

Kg^s from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09. won 11 prizes and $10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. ./Females score from 92K to 95.
3d prize ck. score 92^ and ckls. for sale.
MrsJRd. Bartlettlfigi/J Oak St New Ca«!t1e Pa

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D, A- WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora, 111.

S. C. R. I. REDS

Eggs for hatching from some grand pens

$5.00 and $3.00 per 15

J. E. SCHUTTE. Lebanon. So. Dak.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH Ji"" ^|| -fi!

ROCKS ^^^ ^^^^ ^"^^^ *^'® y^"^- ^"ces
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION, IOWA

S.C. and R.C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from New

J,*^'''^^^.^*'?,P*^'^' **'* ^'''6 "<^>ld Glory" and "Red
Cloud. Rose comb descendants of O. E. Miles

J!f ^P®^', ^"P^'''^^ *^®'o''' fl°e combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

Choice Collie Puppies SJ^S^omtbul

as I make a specialty of Whites. I do not place
as high a value on the colored ones that come
along with them and so offer them at low
Sov^o^ SERVOSS COLLIE KENNELS
BOX 220, - EDISON PARK. ILL.

Walker's White Rocks ^!r?^*Nt^

Ca.stle's big show they won all firsts, 3 .sec-
ond, 2 thirds, 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $S and

BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Castle, Pa-

COCHINS HOMK. Headquarters for Amer-
ica B greatest Coehlus and Brahmas First Drlz-^
and silver cup winners ailWlnnepeg. Can., Seattle

6T-^»,?*'°°- ^"•' *"^ ^- I^*'^- State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
JN.y Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
qusllty. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 3.'>, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKS Young

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

bpeciai prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett. Box 8, New Albany. Pa.

At Indian«poli., Ind. State Show my

Barred P. Rocks ^°" l""^ p"'"^'- ^^^

1 * io^ ,r hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hfn in 1910
Springfield. O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen 2nd
cockerel. 3rd pullet. 1910 also Silvef Cuo
H^^^s $3 00 for 15. H. W. BARNETT ^'
^24J?uihnelLBld»_.. . Springfi^^ld

St'^alnT^H'lil.tr.lrVV""* '^"^^^^ (Sweet's
Strain.) Black-tailed .lapanese and Buff Cochin
HantauiH, Barred liocks. A few choice cockereg
of each variety for sale. Let me book vo„r
order early for eggs from my choicest mat^S^s
at «3.00 per 15. »5.(X) j.er 30. Bantam eeKs^ii2^.^
per 1.5, t4.(M) per 80. "umui eggs ai ^..W

E. B. ROBERTS CANASJTOTA, N. Y.

Single Comb Reds exclusively

has the Nicest Keds here In BrlKhtin wh?.%"'
cause nay Strain comes from Bennett'^ famm«
pr ze-wlnners scoring from 9() to !M RecSjid r^
prizes lately. | Write forr-rlces of eWs Mat/i;:

J P'raijifer?' ''^ «'^^'«^«-^'-" R«u?fn"ieed*V"^
• ■'*'"P«'-*- BrlKhton, III.

m I fP

•

• •

ji^( March, '10

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's

Strain are prize winners. They win fo? me
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Leeseville. Mich. Station 23. Detroit, Mich*

S. C. Rhode Island Reds and ^^"

win.

Barred Plymouth Rocks f,^^ i^i^i^"

and breed-
Write us for description

ing stock for sale.

and prices.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE. 20, IDAVILLE, IND.

America's Foremost Strains Jjfiu y

Hirprf *°^ lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
A^iicvi. c. White Leghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games. Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th. ,5 eggs free.
Chas H.,Ziegenfu«j._ Box Z. Betlilehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILUPS State Vice President,
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES ril

irst pen
_-id Silver

Cups at Mo. and Kas. State shows. '08. First
pen Mo. State Fair Oct. 09. First pen 6
straight years at Sedalia .shows. Sweepstake
pen Dec. '09. over all breeds. Males 95%.
females to 9(5. Be^t eggs $2 50 per 15.
S. G. WHJPRECHT, Box H, Sedalia, Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMA5

vSize. fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS, UTILITY FARM, R. 19,

Ow^ensville, Ind.

TOULOUSE GEESE ^'hSr^i

Also
Chinese

(Jeese and Fawn Headed Indian Runner
Drakes for sale. Breeder and shipper of fancy
land and water fowls. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER. Box F, Lancaster. Mo.

FILE'S CATALOtiL'E gives

prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and e^RS In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFILE
Freport, III, Dept. A

Quality Strain 1$ARRKI> ROCKS have
been line bred for lo yeurs from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matings
for sale, from these winners or bred In line.

C. C. r>RAKE & SON,
Lock l$ox ^:J2, La Harpe. III.

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190f;, my
RarrprI RnrL-c won 1st cockerel, 2d cock.
UctnCU I\UCKS Silver Cup; Feb. 1908. l.st
cock, 1st cockerel; .Sept. 1909. 1st and 3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too. Stock with quality for
sale W. W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN. IND

Buff Rocks, Btiff and Silver
L, A c e d W y s% rkdotton, ai\<1
AVKite Holland XurKeys, choice
Cockerels for sale from prize winning stock.
Egg orders booked now, prices reasonable.

I^. C. VOGT, LYONS, "WIS.

POULTRY rANCIER«*C!^

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders booked now from my 200-egg
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know Just what I am
doing. Birds scoring 91 to 95 with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal,

H. O. SWIFT.— F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Gilden Wyandottes ?S?cJo"D^e'c"'7"

12, 1909, 66 in class, won 5th cock, 4th cockerel
3rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show, St!
Louis, Dec. 6-1 « , 1809. 64 in class, won 2d cock
3'1 cockerel. 4th pullet, with 5 birds.
J. S. Pennington. Box F, Plainfield. lU.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnas' Black Lang-
shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7, Box 15. Winchester, Ky.

White

real
strain

uti:
known.

Sing!
^^^^

eyes, great vigor and' greatest" possible egg
producers. Eggs $1.50 per 15; $6.00 per 100.
Honesty ffuaranteed.
~ ' MOSELEY,

leComb

nrn« ^°^^^ ^°^ size U]4 to 7 Ib. hens)
^**** color, typical shape, deep bay

LAKE SHORE POULTRY FARM

Breeders of

llijcli ClasH Silver Laced Wyandottes
Exclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BERGNEK. Pros. HENRY MAU, Mgr.
South Chicago. Ills. li.F.D. No 34. Kenosha, Wis.

BXJFF IVYANDOTTB:^ Cxclu-

sively. Ideal shape, solid buflf color.
Guaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT.
EDEN CENTER. - . N. Y

•< raultless" Hot&dans, 287
C|(^ Straii^. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider. Box 105. Kansas. Ills.

R.in^let Barred PlymoutH
RocKs won all firsts at Oshkosh. 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 .50 up.
Eggs, best matings $3.50 per 15. $5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lake View Poultry Farm.

T. W. Crltchette. Markeaan. Wis.

Baby

rkirlra Eggs for hatching. White
VlllClkS Orpi

-pington. Barred Rock,
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safety anywhere. Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton, Va.

S. C. BlacK and -WHite Minor.

cas bred for size aud egg production.
Stock and eggs for .sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH Oh Son

Box 454 North Itaitimore, O.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Redi

Light

Brahma Bantams '^"'"'" » '

Madison
Square. N. Y., Baltimore, Hagerstown, Md.,
Philadelphia, Nazareth. Allentown and Read-
ing. Pa._ S^ockand eggs. Hillside Poultry
Yardi ' "

J.S

Prop., Dept R, Nazareth. Pa.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS :*;-; l".

Great Milwaukee Show, 1910. Kggs and

birds tor sale. Send for circular. Eggs from

prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN

LEGHORNS.

Dist. Atty. Philip Lehner. Princeton. Wis,

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Minorcas
and R. C. R. I. Reds f^.TfrZ^'l'^l^'e

Incubator eggs

winners at $1.50
$5.00 per 100.
H. S. WENTZ.

per

QUAKERTOWN, PA.

Columbian RockH, Columbian Wyan-
dottes, R. C. Bufl'LefirhornH, bred from New
York, Buffalo and Rochester winners, .5 firsts 2
seconds on 7 entries at Rochester show Dec 1909
Cockerels $S to tlO pullets n2 to «6, Trios #7 to #1.'5
Eggs «3 per 1.5, t5 per 30. Free setting from best
pen with each f lo order. Stock ciiaranteeed
F, A CAMPBELL HONEOVE, N. Y.

O. C dLACJv at Columbus show

nRPINHTONS 1909also several at Ocon-
Vri\XJnUIV^lli3 omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 $5 per 15 : pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall Rirer, Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Eggs from 1st pen,

Rl^fl* Prizewinners. „^ , ,

i\iu» setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland, III.

S. L. AND W. WYANDOTTES, R. C.
RHODE ISLAND REDS Winners at the
big Centervllle. Iowa, and St.Louls shows. Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KEARSE, R. 1, Coatsvllle. Mo.

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK „.

Eggs

Cockerels and

p u 1 lets for

sale. Birds score from 945^ to %

and will improve your flock.

Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this

quality of stock.

W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS folV'Sc^.

bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $6

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R. 5. Box 0022, RushvUle, Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

Tl IRK'FVQ *^^^^ ^y ™y g^^a* prize

lWAVrvi:«I»J winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S . L.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA, MINN,

WYANDOTTES AND LANGSHANS.

Winners at St. Louis Show. 1909. also two $i5.u0
sllvercupsat big Ferry county 1909 show In hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and Buff Wyandottes $2 per 15. 3 setting for $5.
Black Langshans 1.50 per 15. Buffs Bred by R- B.
Schlndler. Partridge and Langshans bred by ,Iohn
Allen. Allen & Schlndler Perryvllle, Mo-

I fr;i-IT^'^CLUSIVELYl2years«b
*^*^^* * * er. My stock is excellent

BRAHMAS

breed-
high
scoring, great layers,
will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to select from. Prices
right. Eggs, .single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN

Wv;)nf1oHl»S SILVER and WHITE Blue
ff JdUUOUeS Ribbon Winnersat Defiance
and Toledo. Ohio, 1910. Eggs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2.W per
15. Illustrated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter,
Prop.. R. No 3. Box A. New BaTaria. Ohio

EGGS f BARRED^ J>LYMOUTH. £QQS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynold.. 111.

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BBEEDEBS' SEVEBAL VABIETIE8.

WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH WHITE
Plymouth Rocks, Houdans and Java cock-
erels and trios for sale. The very best
strains. Eggs in season. Theodore A.
Moritz, 569 St. Georges Avenue, Rahway, N.
£; 12-4

S. S. HAMBURG AND BARRED ROCK
cockerels for sale. Birds fine in all points.
If you could see them I know I would get
your order. Be sure and get my prices.
Correspondence answered promptly. Egg
orders booked. Mrs. C. R. Thompson, Box
23. Randall. Iowa. 1-3

ST. LOUIS AND STATE FAIR SHOW
birds. Won. 1st cockerel, 2nd pullet, 1st
pen. Black Leghorns and Black Javas.
Birds. $2 to $5. Eggs, $2 per 15. Also
choice White Wyandottes. Try a specialist.
H. C. Hunt. Delavan, 111. 1-3

FRENCH SALMON FAVEROLLES, SICIL-
ian Buttercups and Indian Runner Ducks.
Non-setting hens. Booking orders now for
spring delivery. E'ggs per setting, hens $1
per 13 eggs. Ducks. .$1 to $2 per setting
12 eggs. Send order now. Davis & Dynes
R. 30, Zionsville, Ind., Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. ^.3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES, McINTOSH
strain. Eggs. $1.50 per 15. White. Golden
and Buff Wyandottes. Rose and Single Comb
Brown Leghorns. Kulp's strain. From prize
winning stock. Eggs, $1 per 15. Circular
free. M. L. Musselman. Bethlehem, Pa. 1-3

EGGS AND STOCK FOR SALE. BUFF
and White Leghorns, Rocks. Silver Ham-
burgs,, Partridge Cochins, Pearl Guineas,
Toulouse Geese, Pekin Ducks, English Phea-
sants, Belgian Hares, White Rabbits, Canarv
Birds. O. W. Zeigler, Harmony, Pa. 1-3

FOR SALE. I OFFER STOCK AND EGGS
for hatching from the following: S. C.
White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, Black
MInorcas, Buff Orpjngtons, Light Brahmas,
White Rocks, White and Columbian Wyan-
dottes. Also day old chicks. Get my prices
Jos. M. Fay, 808 Howard Ave., Altoona, Pa!
. ^ 1-3

QUALITY R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS,
Kulp & Gale strain. Greens Curgh and
Unlontown winners. 1st pens, 1st cock, 2nd
ckl., 1st, 2d pullet. 1st, 3rd hens. Eggs
both matings. Closing out R. C. W. Leg-
horns. Show birds, first prize winners at
bargain prices. Write me. W. Hipklss,
Scottdale. Pa. 1.3

SENECA LAKE FARM, HIMROD. N. Y..
breeds beauty, utility. White Wyandottes,
R. C. W. Leghorns and Lakenvelders, the
beautiful and prolific new breed. Eggs $2
setting; $8 per 100. Orders given prompt
and careful attention. 3.3

kf:llerstrass strain s. c. snow

White Orpingtons; also beautiful Golden
Wyandottes. Eggs 10 cents each. Schuyl-
kill Poultry Yards, Pine Grove. Pa. 3-3

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eggs $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick PfafP, Box
638, Anadarko, Okla. 7-9-12

YOUNG STOCK OF QUALITY FOR SALE
4 firsts on 7 entries at Greenfield, 111., Nov.
15-20, 1909; 8 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds
on 16 entries at Pittsfield, 111., Dec. 15-18.
1909. S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks and
White Holland Turkeys. Write your wants
to Thos. M. Stubblefleld, R. 6, Jacksonville,
J"' 6-9-12

BOURBON RED TURKEYS AND R. C.
Brown I..eghorn8 our specialty. We aLso
raise White Wyandottes, Indian Runner
Ducks and Pearl Guineas. Eggs for hatch-
ing at right prices. Mr. and Mr.s. G. W.
Price, Belmont, O. 2-3

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BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER GET
my prices on eggs and stock. S. C. BufT
Orpingtons. Barred Rocks, Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys and Indian Runner Ducks. Birds
have farm range and are strong and healthy.
Mr.s. Higgs, R. 1. Henry, 111. 2-4

PENS. TRIOS AND COCKERET^S OF 32
varieties poultry, including Wyandottes
Brahmas, Cochins, Rocks, Polish, Reds, Ham-
burgs, Leghorn. Andalusians, Houdans and
Minorcas. Booking egg orders now for spring
delivery. Stamp for catalogue. Simon C.
Kulp, Box S'. S.. Hatfield. Pa. I-3

EGGS $2 PER 13, 3 SETTINGS $5 FROM
Kellerstrass Yhite Orpingtons and Brown
& Coleman's Black Orpingtons. Black
Minorca eggs 10 cents each, any quantity.
Alson Indian Runner Ducks of finest quality.
Berry & Sawyer strain. J. A. Dickson 42
Division St., Ashtabula, O. 2-4

CLAY HILL POULTRY FARM. FULTON
Iowa., Jay Breeden, Prop. Breeder of Black
Langshan.s, White and Silver Laced Wyan-
dottes. Eggs from pens scoring ninety-five,
$3 per 15; pens scoring ninety, $2. Cock-
erels for sale cheap. My birds are prize
winners. o 4

FINE BOURBON RED TURKEY EGGS $3
per ten. Rhode Island Red eggs. $1 'per
in; $5 per hundred. Orders given prompt
attention. Send me yours. Mrs. A. G Friesz
Keytesville, Mo. ' £-4

BABBED PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

GET MY CIRCULAR ON BARRED ROCKS'.
Have some fine ones for sale at prices that
will surprise you, considering the quality
Let's get In touch with each other. I know
I can please you. Egg orders booked. J.
W. Bell. Box H.. Chetek, Wis. 1-3

BARRED ROCKS, HIGHEST QUALITY
Eggs from special prize matings, $1 and $2
per 15; $5 per 100; utility fiocks, $1 per 26-
$3.50 per 100. Choice cockerels, $2 and $3
each. Circular free. Chas. Spangler Kent-
land, Ind. ' 2_3

BARRED ROCKS, O. C. K. STRAIN.
.Something grand In either cockerel or pullet
matings. A few good exhibition cockerels
and pullets. Prices reasonable for quality
Eggs. $3 per 15; $5 per 30. Write for mat-
ing list. Mrs. Minnie McConaughy, Martelle
Iowa. 1 n
1.-0

THE FAMOUS ORCHARD STRAIN BAR-
red Plymouth Rocks, bred for vitality and
productivenes.s. Eggs, $2 per 15. Send for
booklet, "Starting with Poultry." Orchard
Poultry Farms. Doylestown. Pa. (Hatching
Department.) 2.4

RINGLET BARRED ROCKS. E. B. THOMP-
SON strain. Nicely barred, good yellow
legs, fine layers. 13 eggs $1, 26 for $1.50
Honorable dealing. Orders promptly filled
E. H. Barden. North East, Pa. 2-3

BARRED ROCKS OF HIGHEST QUALITY
i he Beauty strain; fine Barred and stand-
ard-bred; from oxhihitlon winners. Remem-
ber we are originators of the Beaut v strain
lon'^'Ky -^^ for 1.1. Otis K. HoSSsf KIrby-

^ o~l

SPECIAL BARRED ROCK SALE. ON Ac-
count of lack of time I will dispose of 2
very good dark cocks, one pullet breeding
cock, 25 cockerel bred hens and pullets and
15 cockerels. Get prices now. Dr F A
ShufTelton. Saint Marys, O. ■ . ^.

BARRED ROCKS. KNOXDALE STUATN.
Well barred and very strong In vltalltv
good .size and splendid layers. Stock pro-
duced from careful mating with the double
mating system. Egg.9, $2 por setting- $1
Mnn ''n'^^^r^n ^''^ers given prompt at'ton-
tlon. C. W. Coleman, 200 Joffras Ave., Find-
.ay, O. 2-4

"PEERLESS" BARRED ROCKS. BREED-
mg Barred Rocks our exclusive business.
Our manager a poultry expert. Breed only
line bred stock. Announcement 1910 sent
free. Fifty-cent booklet, "Incubation and
Brooding," sent for 20 cents during Febru-

fH' ¥^/?}^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^o all who mention
this ad. ' Our show record almost clean
sweep in hot competition. We can please
you. Peerless Poultry Plant. Inc., Clinton,
Wis. 9_^

WHITE PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

WHITE ROCKS— STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

WHITE ROCKS. HEAVY WINTER LAY-
ers. Pullets from this stock laying at 514
months this season without forcing. Not
one dissatisfied customer last season. ' Book-
l^^.o?? orders, $2 per 15. S. P. Evans, 3838
E. 78th Street, Cleveland, O.

FISHEL STRAIN WHITE ROCKS EXCLU-
sively. Eggs from first pen, $2 for 15; sec-
ond pen. $1.50 per 15. 10 cockerels for sale,
$2 to $5 each; pullets, $1.50 to $5 each
Order early. A. L. McLaughlin, St^arland!
^"- ^^_^ '^

WHITE ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY, "FISHEL
Strain." Eggs from large, snow white, farm
raised birds. 15 $1.50, 30 $2.50, 100 $6
Special pen of high scoring exhibition birds"
rRussell, Judge,) $2.50 per 15. Jesse C.
Brabazon, Route 4, Box E, Delavan, Wis. 2-4

WHITE ROCKS, FISHEL STRAIN, CHALK
White, grand shape. My birds are as good
as the best. Eggs only $2 per 15. Satis-
faction guaranteed. W. R. Greer. Auburn
^"d- 2-4

WALKER'S WHITE ROCKS AT NEW
Castle won In a class of 63, 1st cock l^t
cockerel; 1st, 2d, 3d hen; 1st, 2d, 4th pullet;
1st 2d hen. Eggs $3 and $5 per 15. Bob
Walker, 233 Porter St.. New Castle, Pa. 2-2

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WINNERS
at Peoria, Ottawa, Galesburg. etc. Three
yards, headed by exhibition and prize wln-
n ng males Eggs, $2 per 15. From good
utility stock on range. $1 per 15. $3 per 60
Wm. C. Goodwin. Chlllicothe, 111 2-4

WHITE ROCKS— EGGS FROM PEN HEAD-

BUFF PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

BUFF COCKS. ORDER EGGS FROM
quality birds. Eggs from pen headed bv
New York and St. Louis winierg. $5 plr U-

V-^^""^' J^' l^ and $3. John D WiTklnV
Pocahontas, 111. vvuKin.s.

_ 2-4

BUFF ROCKS. THE FARMER'S FRIEND
Prize winners. 1st cockerel, 2d pullet at
Jeffersonvllle, Ohio, Poultry Show r»n^
1909 Eggs. $2.50 the ?" The Buff Roci^
Poultry Farm, JefFersonvIlle. O i^^

GOLDEN BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Large, golden, glittering buffs. Heav?Yay^rs
of big, brown eggs. First prize winners It
Chicago and other big shows. Eggs from
prize winners. $3 per setting. Catalog freT
P. C. Jungels, Box 1, Lomont, n^^'^^ ^^gl^z

s;/,^i;..'iis; /^°^;^v^'' i^riisis

Moorhead, la. iiiillott,

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COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings Eggs
irom my Chicago winners $10 per 15- other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. a. Judy. D^catu?,

PABTBIDGE PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? SEND ME YOUR
order for Partridge Plymouth Rocks and

^^r-^^7 ^Vr ?^ \^^ ^^^*- 1^0"'^ take my
word for it. Look at my show record at
Chicago, Detroit and other strong shows,
consider the competition and you will see
who has the quality. Some choice breeders
at reduced prices and young stock that will
please. Paul LaFrombolse, Mt. Pleasant.
^^^^- ^^ 4-9-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

BUSINESS WHITE WYANDOTTES. OURS
are great layers, have farm privileges, essen-
tial to success. We aim above all to please
customers. Write your wants. Stock. $3
to $5 each. Egg.s, $1.50 per setting C
N'- Hostetter, Manheim, Pa. ' 1-3

SUTTON'S WHITE WYANDOTTES WIN
again. On an entry of sixteen birds I won
1st cock, 3rd cockerel, 2nd hen, 1st. 3rd
pens, 1st, 2nd pullets, silver cup. best dis-
play, best cock hen, cockerel, pullet and
pen. More prizes, than all competitors.
Eggs $10 and $5 per 15. F. D. Sutton. 68
St. Louis Ave.. Youngstown, Ohio. 2-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FOR SALE
from choice matings. Strong, vigorous stock,
pure white and good shape. Write for circu-
lar containing prices and description Men-
tion this paper. Richard Bloom, "Fulton,
Mo. 2-4

EGGS FROM MORROW'S PRIZE WINNING
White Wyandotes. At Montezuma. la., I
won 1st pen, first, second sweepstakes. Eggs
from exhibition matings. $3 per 15; other
grand matings. $2 per 15. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Address Frank Morrow. Barnes
City, Iowa. 2-4

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

BUFF WYANDOTTES. HAVE BRED THEM
since 1895. making me the oldest breeder
of this variety in Ohio. Young stock from
my Chicago and Cleveland winners. Eggs
from the best matings I ever had, $3 per 15
V. Crabtree, Tiffin, Ohio. 2-4

THIMSEN. BUFF WYANDOTTE SPECIAL-
1st. Eggs from Buff Wyandottes that win In
the strongest competition. Eggs from pen,
1. $3 per 15; pen 2 and 3, $2 per 15. If
you are in the market for stock or eggs I
can please you. F. P. Thimsen. Blooming
Prairie. Minn. 5-9-12

SILVEE LACED WYANDOTTES.

REEPMEYER'S SILVER LACED WYAN-
dottes in good competition won 6 firsts 6
seconds. 3 thirds. $10 special and Presi-
dent's Silver Cup. Best display, all varieties
competing at Schenectady, N. Y., big show.
Breeders or show birds for sale. J. Reep-
meyer. Crai- Schdy. Co., N. Y. 1-3

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES, A SPEC-
lalty. My pens are line-bred and prize wln-
ner.s, scoring 91 to 93%. They are bred to
lay. weigh and win. Eggs for hatching, $2
per 15. or $3 per 30. Try a setting. I
guarantee satisfaction. Peter J. Becker,
Geneseo. 111. 2-4

NELLIS' SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Prize winners wherever shown. Score at the
big show of The Western Connecticut Poul-
,!r^^^^^°^'*^tIon held at WInsted, Conn., 1907-
1909: 91%, 92, 92. 92%, 94%; pen, 184%.
First and third pullet, third cock. Eggs
for setting. $3 for 13. Orders booked now.
E. A. Nellls, Winsted. Conn. 2-3

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS
from first cock, third cockerel, fourth pul-
let, Chicago and Detroit and Grand Rapids
winners; females that score to 95; $3 per
15. Claro Hoffman, Allegan. Mich. 3-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. EGGS FROM
choice matings, the same that I use to pro-
duce my prize winners. $3 per setting. Fine
trios. $7 to $10. O. R. Eddy, Box F. Ocono-
mowoc. Wis. 5-9-12

OEPINGTONS.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. LOOKING
for good blocky shaped ones, nicely laced
tails, clean hackles? Farm raised from New
York and Boston winners. Great vigor. Eggs
very fertile. You must be satisfied or its
no sale. Address Ralph Woodward. Box 82.
Grafton. Mass. 1-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES, EXCLU-
sivoly. You need our free circular giving
winnings and description of matings. Eggs
and stock reasonable. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Highland Poultry Yards, Box B.
Highland Park, Mich. 3-3

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautlfin of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati, O. 12-10

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. EVERY ONE
a show bird, winners in the leading shows
of Northern New York. Cockerels, $5 and
up. Orders booked for eggs at $2 and $3
per 15. Day old chicks, 25 cts. each.
Brook View Stock Farms. Rte. 3, Pulaski,
N. Y. _____^^ 12^

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS', ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who. naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons. Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
^ 1-10-12

12 FINE S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON COCK-
erels, $2.50 to $6. according to score. These
birds will put new vigor In your flocks.
Have mated some extra fine pens, eggs, $3
per 15; 30 for $5. You will be sure to be
pleased if you send me your order. Jas.
C. Olson, Harlan, Iowa. 1-3

SINGLE COMB BUFF AND KELLER-
strass White Orpingtons. Eggs from 3 pens
Buffs correctly mated, $2. $3 and $5 per 15.
Limited number eggs from 2 pens extra
fine Whites $5 and $10 per 15. Circular
free. Alice J. Morrlss. Big Rock, 111. 1-3

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. OWEN BROS,
strain. Fine stock for sale from prize win-
ners. Eggs from choice mated pens. Prices
within reach of all. Mrs. H. Wedderspoon,
Cooperstown, N. Y., Perthmoose Farms.

1-3

BLACK ORPINGTON CARRY THE

world's record for best winter layers. Eggs
for hatching In season. Scored cockerels for
sale. Write me for prices. W. J. Schmitt,
Donnellson, Iowa. I-3

CLEAN SWEEP ON S. C. BUFF ORPING-
tons at Omaha and Lincoln. Neb., winning
1st cockerel. 1st pullet and 1st pen at each
show, besides other prizes and specials, plac-
ing our Buffs unquestionably In advance of
competition in the middle west. Ask for
free 1910 mating list. Prewltt. Box W.
Onawa. Iowa. 2-8

S, C. WHITE, BLACK, BUFF AND DIA-
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs, $2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed, Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers.
Wis. 2-5

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS FROM CHICA-
go. New York and Canadian winners. Will
have but one very choice pen of rich, even
colored birds. Sound In hackle and saddle.
Eggs $5 per 15. Few cockerels to spare.
V. Crabtree, Tiflln, O. 2-4

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS FOR
sale. Fine farm range hens and pullets
mated to extra fine big boned cockerels.
Eggs ri-25 per 15; $5 per 100. Herman
Hunt, Clarksville, la. 3-3

BHODE ISLAND BEDS.

HIGH CLASS S. C. R. I. REDS FOR SALE.
Original birds direct from Lester Tompkins.
Scoring 91 to 93. Eggs from pens 1, 2, 3.
$1, $2, and $3 per 15. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Isaac H. Painter. Chrisney. Ind.
1-3

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Exclusively. I showed 6 pullets and 4 cock-
erels at Peoria. 111.. Dec. 1909, and won 8
prize.s. I showed no old birds. Will sell
the four cockerels. Also eggs In season.
Write for prices and matings. Davis Crows,
Ilanna City, 111.

S. C. R, I, RED COCKERELS FOR SALE.
Fine birds at reasonable prices. Eggs from
best matings at $2 per 15. Free range
stock, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Mrs. H. L.
Alsop, Sylvia. Iowa. 1-3

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS. WON
first at Peoria. Dec, 14 to 18, 1909; first
at Lincoln, Dec, 14 to 17, 1909. Eggs, $3,
$2 and $1 per 15, Utility, $5 per 100. J.
B. Garber. Hopedale, 111. l-j

CHOICE SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND
Red cockerels for sale. Eggs In season, all
from excellent stock. Maple Grove Cottage
I'oultry Yards, Mi.ss LInnle Alston, R. 3,
Coulterville, 111. 3.1

LIBERAL POULTRY YARD. SINGLE
Comb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs: First
pen, $2.50 per 15; second pen, $2 per 15;
third pen, $1,50 per 15. Incubator eggs
from other pens, $4 per 100; farm range
$2.50 per 100. C. L W. Adkisson. Galatla.
i|^ 1-4

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Eggs in season from excellent laying strain

^w" j^*°- }• *2 per 15; pen No. 2, $1.50 per
J8d 91 10 SI jad x$ 'Moou Aj^na -gx
hundred. Mrs. Harvey Trultt. R. 1. Farm-
ington. 111. J. 3

MY ROSE AND SINGLE COMB RHODE
Island Reds are first prize winners wherever
^^^^^x , ^°" *^® "°'^'s '^hare at Springfield
and Holyoke. Can send you birds that will
improve your flock. Egg.s. $3 per setting
Valley Farm. 94 East Main St.. Amherst,
Mass. ,_«

HAVE YOU DECIDED WHERE YOU ARE
going to place your order for S. C R I
Red stock of eggs. If not. write a postal
It , .^ Poultry Yards, Antwerp. O.. for

their catalog. Six years exclusive breeding.

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ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Persistent layers. The right shape and

wl?f; ^^^^^ ^■''''^ ^^ *^ *5 per sitting.
Write for particulars and mention Poultry
l^ancier. Septimus Mawer. Grand Rapids,
^- ^ 3-3

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. 1
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F C
Eidridge & Son, Bourne, Mass 9-9-12

ROSE COMB REDS. AFTER FIVE YEARS'
caretul mating fur eggs, shape and color,
our Reds lay like Leghorns, and grow like
1 lymouth Rocks, with female plumage, that
pure deep red. First time to offer eggs
from these grand Reds. Prize winners in

nTrLffn"- ^^^J *- P^^ 15; $3 per 30. Sari"
pie feathers. Ernest E. Lienard, Route 8.
Box 21, Lancaster, O. 3.3

LANGSHANS.

THE

shans

don't

order.

your

now

show

Write

Mo,

quality: of MY BLACK LANG-

is proved by their show record. You

take chances when you send me your

I can start you right or Improve

flock with some of the grand birds I

have for sale. Scores to 95% In

room. Prices right. Eggs In season.

me. Mrs Frank Camerer. Gazette.

1-6

21 YEARS A BREEDER OF TH» BEST
Black Langshans, Have a show record un-
der leading judges unequaled by any other
breeder. Male birds each season score to
95%. females 96%. Buy where you know
that you will get the highest quality at
reasonable prices. Have some grand cocks

f Qr:f/°^^®,^^^^ *° ^P^*"®' scoring from 94
to 95%; also some extra choice hens. Made

\ ^^^H. ^^^^P ^^ '^e Eastern Wisconsin
show this season and won silver cup for
best pen in the show three years, all breeds
competing score 191%. A. Stransky. Pres.
Eastern Wis. Poultry & P. s. Assn.. Chilton
^^^- __^_ 11-9-12

fan^<S.n^^^^^^?o BLACK AND WHITE
hfrj ii^^K ^If,^^' *2 per setting from pens
headed by blue ribbon winning male birds.
W.H. Hefner. R3. Columbia City. Ind. 2-4

f?i.^^«'^^^ WHITE LANGSHAN MAN.
f™ u ^^ J'^^- ^«S« 'o'- setting. 3

from each of five pens at $2 per setting.
First premium winners at the largest show
fSrd IlT^"'- ^' ^- ^^««"«^. C. No. 18. Rock

WHITE LANGSHANS. FIRST PEN HEAD-
ed with cockerel which won first prize and
first and second hen. Eggs $1.50 for 15
Second pen $1.50 for 30. Anconas bred
from imported stock. Eggs $1.50 for 15
Londinf O^^^""^ "°'^- °^°- ^cCague. New

A HE lOU LOOKING FOR SOME FINE
iilack and White Langshan eggs at $1,50
per setting? if so. send to us We will
guarantee them to hatch. Second pen $1
per setting. Stock at reasonable prices.
John & Gust Shonk, Lancaster. O. 2-3

WHITE LANQSHAMS WHITE DIAMOND
Strain. Eggs $1 per 15 and up. T, J. Us-
selmann, St. Libory, 111. 3.2

S. C. WHITE LEQHOBNS.

BUFF COCHINS FOR SALE. HENS. PUL-
lets or trios. My stock is first class. Won
27 prizes in 1909. Send In your order now

V^^'r,^??^- ,^'*'' ^^'P ^^6" you want them.
J, C, Baughman. Topeka. Kan. 2-3

BLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, Ist hen. 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside, Conn. 2-10-13

Page 80

POULTRY

BARGAINS IN S. C. WHITE LEGHORN
cockerels $1 and $2 each for dandy birds.
Order now and get your pick. Eggs $1
and $L per 15, according to quality. Either
mated pen or range flock. Reasonable hatch
guaranteed. James Keegan. R. 1. Box 72.
J hor. Iowa. 2-4

^ NGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS
Choice stock for sale. We make a spec-
ialty of supplying breeders with foundation
stock. Prices from ?2 to ?10 for pullets
and cockerels, according to merit. Eggs

Dam Poultry Farm, Montgomery, N. Y. 2-3

B. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

L^l^^n^r^^^.'^^^ HIGHEST QUALITY
io.„^ <-• White Leghorns, both in stock and
eggs and my prices are reasonable. Some
choice trios for sale. Eggs from my Chi-
cago first prize pen shipped promptly. My
Diras are first prize winners at Chicago in
competition with the best in the west. Mrs
\\ Jones Williams, The Maples, Maywood.'
ill: 2-4

ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS, THE
world's record for best layers. Have bred
''^V^^V^^ o^'' nineteen years. Get the best—

fnr^l?^ w'^"". ^^^« *=^ Pe'- 15; stock
for sale. Write for catalog. Rocky Valley
Poultry Co., No. 66 "The Oaks." Deerfleld.

^ **

R. C WHITE LEGHORNS, ELEPHANT
fi.i"fi"'o ^*^^"le. 1st cockerel; Iowa state, 2
hists, 2 seconds, 2 thirds and state cup

u^n\?'l^\'^ ^ ^^^"^^ «^^h. Range, 10 cemsj
pen, lb 2-3 cents each. Catalogue. Rogers
Ranch, Box 11, Pleasanton. la? 3-3

S. C. BROWN LEOHOBNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
l^i" ^^^''W ^'■'^i^; Athens, I'jio. Cock scoring
Jo%. pu ets 94, pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3

S^ggtJif ohTo"^ ^^^"- ^--^ ^' ''z'h

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
.shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting

V m^"'t.^. ^^^*'- "• ^- ^""y^^- ^- 2. Bechtell-
__'_5!___^' • • 11-y-i''

B. C. BROWN LEOHOBNS.

R. C. BROWN LEGHORN (242-EGG
strain), female line, eggs and stock for sale
reasonable, according to quality. I won the
highest honors on all that I entered at the
last Schenectady show. Correspondence so-
licited. Wm. Gaffey, South Worcester, N.
2-4

BUrr LEOHOBNS.

fc. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2
f; and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock.'
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs. $2 per
lo. F. D. Kemp, Sparta. Wis. 12-4

ROSE COMB BUFP^ LEGHORNS. OUR
birds are good layers, large and healthy
with good combs and good buff color. Just
the kind you want. Eggs. $1 for 15, $5 for
100. No stock for sale. Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. C. C. Glasgo, Loudonvllle, O. 1-3

BUFF LEGHORNS. SINGLE COMB. BRED
from Chicago winners. Two pens mated
Produce show specimens only. Low. well
spread tails guaranteed. Elegant, golden
even buff. Eggs, $3 per 15, produce speci-
mens equaling the best. Dr. C. E Hoover
Edgerton, O. ' i_3

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. EGGS
Irom premium birds, line bred, as fine as
ever wore feathers, n per 15. Eggs from
choice selected birds on the farm, |4 per
100. S. M. Keltner, Anderson. Ind. 3-3

BLACK MINOBCA8.

MUST SELL AT ONCE. FEW VERY FINE
^.', ^J.^^^ cockerels from my noted "Oul-
o«"i Minorca. Booking egg orders. Blacks
T Yi'n^^^' I'uHet record. 27 eggs in

Jan., 1909. Six ribbons on 7 entries 1909.
Oscar F. Sampson. Franklin. N. Y. 1-3

S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. WON TEN
firsts at the two leading shows in Michigan
1910. (Five at state t-how, Detroit.) Large
size, beautiful color, typical shape. Cir-
cular free. W. B. Osborn, 430 Williams St..
Jackson, Mich. 3.3

I BREED FOR QUALITY AND SIZE S
C. Black Minorca eggs, $2 per 13. Cockerels
for sale. 1. Allison, Florence. Neb. 1-4

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. WIN-
ners of 7 first and 3 cups at Allantown,
WiUIamsport and Scranton this season
Judge T. F. McGrew, In reporting Scranton's
Quality show, says: '.Mr. Tobey has on
exhibition an number of specimens of such
remarkable quality as to call for the high-
est praise; anyone who can rear Black Min-
orcas and show them In such beautiful con-
dition, has the right to claim the honor of
being an expert with poultry." C E. Tobey
Scranton, Pa. ' 2-3

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS, Ex-
clusive winners of 5 firsts at Shelbyville.
Lebanon and Sheridan poultry shows.
Scores, 93 to 94^, by Judges IVcCracken,
Kummer and Greer. Eggs, $l.o0 and S2
per 15. Fertility guaranteed. H. A. Brat-
li^n, Brazil, Ind. 1.3

w^^P ^P^^ BLACK AND ROSE COMB
White Minorcas. First prize winners at
New lork, Chicago. St. Louis and all large
shows. Breeding stock and eggs for hatch-
ing guaranteed. Large stock. Great layers.
Catalog mailed free. G. A. Clark, Sey-
mour Ind. ^_3

GLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS. ROSE
Comb Black Minorcas exclusively. Clean
sweep at Peoria with one si igle exception
which resulted in a tie. Stock and eggs
guaranteed $2.50 per 15; $6 per 50; $10
per 100. Charles White. Route 36. Peoria.
^"- 2-4

CORNISH

CORNISH FOWL. MADISON SQUARE
Jamestown Exposition. AUentown. Trenton'
Hagerstown. Philadelphia winners. Old and
young stock for sale. Egg orders given
prompt attention. Circular free. R. D
Reider, Middletown. Pa. 3.3

POLISH.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH, LINE
bred for 25 years. Winners at World's Fair
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly Is the veteran Polish breeder of America
Stock for sale; eggs in season. Jhas. L. Seely
Pres. Am. Polish Club, Afton, N. Y. 5-9-12

W. C. B. POLISH. A FEW CHOICE
coclierels for sale. Bred from winners at
Herkimer, Utica. Rochester and Buffalo.
Birds are sure to please. Eggs after Feb.

w T^?"?^ ^\\^ ^° ^^^ ^y prices. Warren
W. Dickens, Box 93. MiddlevJlle, N. Y. 1-3

NINETY-FIVE FIRST PRIZES, FORTY-
four seconds, twenty-two thirds, and several
fourths and fifths were won by as on Polish
towl during the past show .season at Chi-
cago, St. Louis, Memphis. Minneapolis and
other great shows of the country. No
bi-eeder of I'olish fowls has ever made any-
where near such a record of winnings in
two months. We breed White Crested Black
lolish and Silver, White and Golden Beard-
ed I olish, and in each variety our first pen
IS headed by a male bird that has won a
nr.st prize at either Chicago or New York
Our White Crested Black Polish first pen
contains more first prize winners from the
greatest shows of the country than can be
found anywhere else. Eggs from our first
pen are $5, and higher quality cannot be
lound. Other pens, some of them headed
by a Chicago or St. Louis first prize winner
only $2.50 Write for the finest catalogue
on Polish fowl ever published. Royal Polish
Poultry Yards, Station A, Ashland. Wis. 3-I

BANTAMS.

o'l^^*,^^^^^^^' GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright. Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams Hleh-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-1^

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Birds scoring 93 to 95%. Won at
Newton, 111., in lively competition, first cock
first and second cockerel, first, second and
third pullet. Eggs after March 1, $3 per
setting. Dale Arnold. Newton, ill. 1-4

II AVE SHOWN BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS
smce^ 1904 at all the leading shows in east-
ern New England. During that time I have
won 133 firsts, 103 seconds, 86 thirds, 110
specials. 10 sliver cups, and a number of
championships. Eggs from 2 pens that
score from 931/2 to 9«>, $2.50 per 13 Harry
E. Smith, Box 723, Middletown, Conn. Mem-
ber of Conn. Poultry Assn., Middletown
AsHn.. and National Bantam Assn. 3-3

BLACK BRKASTED RED GAME BAN-
tams. On ten entries, seven scored 95^^.
two 96. one 96 1/2. Write for World's Egg
Challenge. Eggs $2 per 15. J. F. Kale &
Sons. Warien. O. 3.2

HOUDANS.

HOUDANS— MY BREEDERS ARE TRAP-
nested and bred for eggs; also have some
fine show birds. Won all firsts and 2 8^!
onds at oshko.sh. Wis., on 6 entries Eggs
pen 1 12 per 15; per 2 $1.50 per 15 kuI?-
antee 10 fertile or replace setting free. John
C. Meyer, R 9, Oconto Falls. Wis. 2-4

HOLJDAN EGGS FROM McAVOY'S AND
Dr. Taylor's strain. Have raLsed them 3
years. Have 50 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 15. or $7 per 100. J. D. Payne. Water-
loo. Ind. I 3

IT IS A RECOGNIZED FACT THAT "Q &
B." Houdans are "the best." If you start
with "the best" you will save time, money
and annoyance. If you want a flock of prize
winners and record layers, d(!mand "Q &
B." Houdan.s. Write for our beautiful de-
scriptive catalog: it is free. Eggs. $2.50.
$j and $10 per 15; ten chicks guaranteed to
hatch. Quimby & Brown, lOy-U High St
Ipswich, Ma.ss. 2-4

LARGE CRESTED, HEAVY LAYING HOU-
dans. Eggs from four grand pens. Ten
years a breeder. Guarantee good hatch Mv
first year with Orpington.s. Whites and
Macks. Hattie P. Franks. Worth. 111. 5-9-12

LAKENVELDERS.

LAKENVELDER'S. FOUND AT LAST

what this paper is dedicated to: "The
most beautiful in fowLs." Exhibition stock

vf^? ^,",.^5^^^"- Anson van Voorhees. Mar-
shall, Mich. 2-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America See Campine advertisement.

Ridg7fiePd:"N^. T"^' ^'- ^' ^-«^-' ^-,P-.
SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belglums Great egg

vvhitcst dozen eggs in shov, Boston 1910
2-6

DOMINIQUUS.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIOIIFC!
won at New York 1908 every first prizlof^
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds'
Write for circulars and prices. W H Dav
enport. Coleraine. Mass 5^9 ^2

BABY CHICKS.

f/, AND D. HATCHERY. YARDLEY PA "
shippers of day-old chicks and eggs fr^

E#p^ref^ilid''rn^ °' /^^ leadlng^^vlwitTeT
eas^ o? ^hl ^^ ■ ^^^^ arrival guaranteed
east of the Missis.sippi river. Write for
list of varieties and prices. }?J

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising A naU^ o^
Pheasants are worth from |25.!o tt ??50.?0
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authoHtv

^hla^lcnSH ^^««^'^/. and ^earn au' abo^^
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by maJl
^rom A. V. Meersch. Poughke^p^^l^ N^^
I2I2: 9-Og-tf

Da^r^^^r^i ^INGNECK PHEASANTS. $5 A
Sa r WrJl^ Rln&neck Pheasants. $7.50 t
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomlngton.

— '. ____^__ •-•

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH BliUNZK TURKEYS SCOIt
^^^^; G,aU„h „..„.. r.,.S.%%U. 'cV,

0-0

k?y^ SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TUR-
Kcys. A fine strain of good layers larc-e

trom prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early Trices rea
sonable considering quality Mrs Ma?y
Schoonmakcr. R. 1, Meshoppen. Pa I-4

BRONZE TURKEY EGGS. $2 PER 10 AND
genuine Wild Mallard Duck eggs $1 50
per 10. Order early. Will shfo ih'fn
wanted. H. W. Fairall. Iowa city.^ ?owa

_^^ 1-'*

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
n any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chaN
lenge squab companies or dealers to nrndn^.
better stock at twice thls'^'price' 'fi^Imiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my Drlces
on Rupts. Carneaux and Maltese Heiia InH
save dollars. Charles IC Gllbe?? itS!' K^^t
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa 8-^^12

WANTED— 5.000 COMMON OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. inKliTst
P'l?«« paid for Guinea Fowls, L?ve R^hb?tl
and Guinea Pigs. S Gilbert 1190 ^ ? .^
St., Phlladelphll Pa.* ^"^^^'' ^^28 Palmer

MISCEULA.NEOUS.

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A FINE 160-ACRE FARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas, 19 miles from Abilene,
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being used for pasture,
good wire fence, good water the vear round
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns it and
has no use for It. Some improvements.
Address K F care Poultry Fancier, 357
Dearborn St.. Chicago. Ill .00.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS

Winners of l.st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pullets,

2ud pen in a strong class at the big

Baraboo Valley Show, January 1910,

Asrook*>r^l last «^i.>.,.„ i,^ .. »x ^ . Pcn headed by 1st cock at above .show.

T^hf f^lJi f .^^"^'^r" *statl,a Crosse and 1st at the Wi.scon.sin State A.ssociation Show

The females in ray yards are full of quality, bred from the best blood lines in Amer ca I wm suppTv
my customers with eggs from these without reserve at $3 per 15. |5 per 30 They will produce winners

JAS. McGUAN,

-WANTED-' -- PIGEON DUNG. WRITE
Pfister & Vogel Leather Co.. Milwaukee.
Wis., for prices, etc. 1.3

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

POULTRY FEED—PRICE PER 100 LBS.
Beef scraps $2.75. meat and bone $2 25

fr«""'^.H^^''r ^2.25 hen scratching grains
?1.8o. chick scratching grains $2. poultry
mash $1.80. pigeon grain $2.25 alfalfa
clover meal $1.50, crushed oyster shells
65c, crushed clam shells 60c. mica crystal

ir^A ''•rn?^^'"^ ^""^^ ^^<^' medicated charcoal
$1.50. The meat and bone, shells, grit
and charcoal In both hen and chick size.

rl""^ t"^^,"" *''^^! °^^^''- J- G- Hermann &
Co., Indianapolis, Ind. ^.g

PRINTING.

BARABOO, WIS.

have again made
a record breaks
ing Winning at

the Baraboo

Raven Rock Poultry Farm

Valley Show January 1910. We won on BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKs' 1st

cock 3d and 4th hens, 1st and 4ih cockerels, 1st pen, best display and B P R
Club Cup on best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet-54 entries in the class. On
:>. ^. Black Orpington* we won 1st, 2nd cocks, 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th hens 1st
cockerel, 1st peti, English Class Cup and $10.00 Gold Sweepstake for best'dis-
play, open to all classes. In Columbian Wyandottes we entered only seven
birds winning 3 firsts and 5 other prizes, also cash special for best pen of Wyan-
dottes all varieties competing. x- j

i^olr^oTn var^d^'s' ^Th^ev''wai?!.?h ' winnings in former years andour winners were produced
in our own yards. They, with other.s of equal merit compose our breeding oens for this sea-
son from which we w 11 .supply our egg trade without re.serve. We havrusertran^nests for
l^^nv ""r"^ '"^^f*" nothing for breeders, but those that make good records aMaylng ChoicI
stock always for sale. Eggs f3 per 1^ l^per 30 from one or all pens. Satisfactio^i g^ra^iteed
GEO W. HACKETT. Prop. BOX 111. NORTH FREEDOM. WIS.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards
tags, 100 either. 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.2-^'
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamo
Model Printing Co.. Manr>hf^<3tpr Ta loTfi

BROWN _LEGHORNS

THE EMPIRE STRAIN
ALWAYS WINS.

"CATALOGUE FREE

GEO. H. BURGOTT,

UwTONs. Erie Co.,

EXHIBITED AT

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

"MAJESTIC I."
5th Cockerel. Chicajjo Dec '08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

A N D

ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack^
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, 111., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. ^

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

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Page 80 I

BARGAINS IN S. C. WHITK J.KGlloiiX
cockerels $1 and $2 eaeli lur dandy hirds.
Order now and yet your i.iek. Kg^s $1
and ?, pur 1... aiioiding lo quality. Either
mated i-en or range Hock, lieasonable hatch
guaranteed. Janies Keegan, K. 1. Box T2
I iii'r, Iowa. 0.4

SINGLE COMB WIIlTi: I.J]( ; H( .KXS
Choice stock for sale. We make a .spec-
ialty of suj>plyiny: breeders with foundation
stock. Prices from $- lo ?10 for pullets
and cockerel.s. according to merit. Eggs

V-In 'T.'"''l^'' ?r J^'-^'- l^J ^-> P^'f 30. Beaver
Dam I'uultry Farm, Montgoni.ry, X. Y. !.*-:{

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

ANCIER

Ml hi MOLL AT ONCE. FEW VEliY FINE
S; ii.^^ cockerels from my noted "Oul-
cout Minorca. Booking egg orders. Blacks
and whites. Pullet record. -7 eggs In
Jan., i;m)1». Six ribbons on 7 i-ntries litOy
<'^^"tr F. Sampson. Franklin. N. V. 1-3

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINOliCAS. Ex-
clusive winners of 5 firsts at Shelby vi lie,
Lebanon and Sheridan poultry shows.
Scores. 1*3 to 941/2. by Judg-s J'-jCracken.
Kummer and Greer. Egg.s, $l..,o and $i!
per lu. I'ertility guaranteed. H A. Brat-
Im. Brazil. Ind. 1.3

L'-iPJ'^J^^ r'^^^ HIGHEST QUALITY
m Ji. L. ^^hlte Leghorns, both in stock and
my prices are rea.sonable. Some

from my Chi-

promptly. Mv

winners at Chicago in

best in the west. Mrs.

The Maples, May wood,"

2-4

cgg.s and

choice tiios for sale. Eggs

•ago lirst prize pen shipped

birds are first prize

(•ompetition with the

\V. Jones William.s

111.

ii^^^ ^?-^^^^ JiLACK AND KUSE COMB
NVhite Minorcas. First pri; - winners at
New \ork, Chicago, St. Louis and all large
shows. Breeding stock and eggs for hatch-
ing guaranteed. Large stock. Great layers.
Catalog mailed free. G. A. Clark, Sev-
moui- Ind. j'_2

L(JSL COMB WHITE LEGHORNS. THE
vurds record for best layers. Have bred
•n^-n'-'"^ i^^" ^?»nt'teen years. Get the best—

for Jilf w'"' "•". ^^^•'^ ^^' '''-'• 15 i stock
for sale. ^\ rite for catalog. Rocky Vallev

oultry Co., No. 06 "The Oaks." Deerfield^

<iLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS. ROSE
Comb Black Minorcas exchisivelv. Clean
sweep at Peoria with one si igle exception,
which resulteil in a tie. Stock and eggs
guaranteed. $2.50 per 15; .^G per 50; $10
per 100. Charles White. Route" 36. Peoria.
' ''■ 2-4

CORNISH

in-,iV; ^yW"^ LEGHORNS, ELEPH.XNT
H.lf. .. '^^■"^'^*^^.' l«t cockerel; Iowa state, 2
!" ' -..«''^''"i*l«. -' thirds and state cut).

HMf^'ir . '/^' ^ "^^'-'"^^ ^'^^''*- -l^^^'ia^'. 10 cents;
I'..:.). ,". ^'*^"^« .t^.^^^li- c:atalogue. Rogers
l^anch. Box 11 . Pleasanton, la. ;;-;;

S. C. BROWN IiEaHORNS.

< OliMSll FOWL. MADLSox ^i^[M{K
.laniestown Exposition, .MIentown, Trcntiui'
Hagerstown, I'hiladdphia winner.*^. Old and
.voung stock for .sale. Egg orders given
prompt attention. Circular free. R D
Iteider, Middlttown, pa. •}_•>

POLISH.

IN\IN(IBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four lusts, Athens, liHu. Cock scoring
^oV4. pu ets 1)4. pen ISO-'s. Eggs. $2 to S3.

C.iipcnter, Ohio. ^.j,.^2

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH, LINE
bred for 25 years. Winners at World's Fair
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly Is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale; eggs in season. Jhas. L. Seely
Pres. Am. Polish Club, Afton, N. Y. 5-9-12

S. C. BK(.)WN LEGHORNS BRED Full
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chiek.s .*1U per 1<JU. Eggs by the setting^
ucular tree. H. M. Moyer, R. 2. Bcehtels-
""•■• ^"- 11-1>-12

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

U. C li. POLISH. A Fl;:w CHOICE
cockerels lor sale. Bred from winners at
Herkimer, Utica. Rochester and Buffalo.
Birds are sure to please. Eggs after Feb

aV'" tP ^" ^ '^V^ ^^ ^"^^ ^^y prices. Warren
W. Dickens. Box ys, Middlev lie. N Y !-•{

H. C. BliOWN LEGHORN (242-EGG
strain;, female line, eggs and stock for .sale
reasonable, according to quality. I won the
highest hoiiois on all that I entered at
a.st Schenectady show. Correspondence
hcited. Wm. Gaffey. South Worcester,

the

so-

N.

2-4

BUrr LEQHORNS.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2
U and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock!
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs $2 per
lo. F. D. Kemp, Sparta, Wis. ' 12-4

K(^SE COMI! BUFF LEGHORNS. uUR
birds are good layers, large and healthy
with good combs and good buff color. Just
the kind you want. Eggs. $1 for 15, $5 for
100. No stock for sale. Sunnyside Poultry
Farm. r. C. fJIlasgo. Loudonville. O. I-3

.\lXLTy-Fi\K FIRST PRIZES, FUiiTl--
our sec.nds, twenty-two thirds, and several
ourths and fifths were won by us on I'olish
l<»\vl during the i)ast show seas..n at Chi-
cago, St. Louis, Memphis, Minneapolis and
ulher great shows of the country. No
hrccder of Polish fowls has ever made any-
where near such a record of winnings in
two months We bne.l White Crested Black
I ohsh and Silver, White and Golden Beard-
ed 1 olish and in each variety our first pen
IS headed by a male bird that has won a
first prize at either Chicago or New York
our Whit,- Crested Black Polish first pen
contains mor.- first i>rize winners from the
greatest shows of the country than tan be
h.und anywhere els«.. Eggs from our first
pen are :$,,, and higher qualitv cannot be
Ound. other pens, some of them headed
I'y a Chicago or St. Louis first inize winner
-.nly .n'.r.o. Write f..r the finest catalogue
on Polish lowl ever publishcl. Roval Polish
I '"u I try Vaiils. .^tMii.Mi A. .Ashland". Wis. 3-1

BANTAMS.

SIXGLK COMB BIFF 1J:g IK )RX.S. Er.i'.a
Irom piemium birds, line bred, as line as
ever wore feathe.-.s. if:i per lo. Eggs from
choice selected hiids uii the farm.
KejiMer, .\H(lersoii, |nd

loo. S. M.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright. Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantam.s. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. I'roner &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

GCJLDE;n SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Birds scoring 93 to 95%. Won at
Newton, 111.. In lively competition, first cock
first and second cockerel, first, .second and
I per i /!'^ pullet. Eggs after March 1, $3 per
• 1»» setting. Dale Arnold. Newton 11 1-1

HOIDAN I'Zr.iiS FROM AlcAVOV'S AND
L>r. Taylor's strain. Have raL^fd tliem 3
years. Have 50 pullets and hens, from
which will ship eggs for hatching at $1.50
for 15. or $7 per 100. J. D. Payne, Water-
loo. Ind. 1.3

11' IS A iM-:co(;.\izi:i) fact jmlvt ••<,). \.

li." lloiidaiis are "the best." If you .s'tart
with "the best" you will save time, money
and annoyance. If you want a fiock of prizi'
winners and lecord layers, demand "Q &
li." lloudans. Write for our beautiful de-
scriptive catalog; it is free. lOggs, $2.50.
$5 and $10 per 15; ten chicks guaranteed' to
hatch. guimhy iSj nr(.wn. 109-U High St
Ipswich. Mass. .,_•'

LAliGE ('RKSTi:i>. HFAVY LAYING HOU-
nans. Eggs fmm four grand pens. Ten
.vears a breeder. Guarantee good hatch My
first year with Orpingtons, Whites and

filacks. Ifaitie P. I.'ranks. Worth,

111.

-9-12

LAKENVELDERS.

i-AKi':x\ELi)i:i:\s. found at last

what this pap«'r is d.'dicatcd to: "The
most beautiful in fowl.s." Exhibition stock
J'.gys in season. Anson van \
sli.'ili. Mich.

oorhees, Mar-
2-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GR.VV DuliKlXGS. B l-]ST TVP.LE
lows. Splendid layers year around; New
wirk and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement,

herry (.rove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop.,
KulKetield, N. J. or

SILVER CAMPINES.

SIIALR CAMPINFS. ORMINAL IXTRO-
iucer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
umes7'Tl '^"■^^'••^' ^vi^te egg.s. First priz.s
c le -v c,' ' ."'^''•' '" ^'''^•^' Boston, 1910
<'>'M.> C.rove Farm, M. R. Jacobu.s, Prop.,
la, N. .1. 2-G

Ridgelieh

DOMINIQUIJS.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIOUFS
won at New York 1908 every first pri^e^f
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and seconds
Write for circulars and prices, w H Dav
enport. Coleraine. Mass. 5^ n

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising A nah^ of

PheJsant sfnn /^r'^»: ^^^^ ^^« Reliable
I neasant Standard, the recognized authorltv

?his^^ieh't"i breeding, and ^learn aU affl

f?om A ' v"^M^' ^l ^^"^^ ^ ^oPy by mai
YoiS • Meersch, Poughkeepsie. New

i° , 9-Og-tf

DaTi^'^^rn- ^^^^GNECK PHEASANTS. $5 A
S?r" w'".^ Ringneck Pheasants. $7.50 a
pair. Write Jennie Milner. Bloomington.

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TURKEYS.

BLACK MINORCAS.

v\' < > \ T !•: .\

S. <'. BLACK MINORCAS ,

firsts at the two leading shows in .MichigiiiV
lUlO. (Five at state .-how. Detroit.^ Large
size, beaulilul color, typical shape,
cular free. w. B. Osborii, 430 Willia

.lacksnn, .Mich.

Cir-
ms St.,
3-3

IIA\f. .SHOWN BIFF CCX'HIN B.VXTV.MS
since^ 190 4 at all the leading shows in east-
ern New Lngland. During that time 1 have
won l.M firsts, lo:! .scm.imI.s. sG thirds, 110
specials. 10 .silv(M- cup.s, and a number of
eliampiuMship.s. Eggs fmni 2 p.. 11s that JNiuNZlO

"iK 9 1>.4 up with blood from World's Fa r
pel' . "^'1"!,^ AV'^;^ 'r^\ "-»«• I-^^tJ $2\?,'$J

^ •* ~ o

FOR SALE MAMMOTH BKoXZI.: TUR-
Kc>b. A fine strain of good layers larue
.one and frame, and nicely iiariLd- b ed
Irom prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early. Prices e,
tunable considering quilit/ Mrs. Miiy'
S.hoonmaker. R. ]. Meshoppen, i>a. 1-4

I HREEIJ FOR gi ALITV AND SIZE, S.
C. Hla<k Minorca eggs, $2 per 13. Cockerels
for sab'. I. Allison, Florence. Neb. 1-4

score trom 93U to 9<i. $2.50 per 13. llarrv
L. smith. Box 72;{. Middletown, Conn. Mem-
l.cr of Conn. P..ultry Assn.. Mi. 1,11. town
.\ssn.. ■•ind Xiili.iiial l'.;int;iMi \ssn ' •

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. WIN-
r.V/".'!. "^ '^ fl^«* ^"^ 3 cups at Ailantown,
VVilllam.sjM.rt and Scran ton this season
Judge T. F. McGrew. in reporting Scranton'.s
Cjtiality show, says: '.Mr. Tobey has on
exhibition an number of specimens of such
remarkable quality as to call for the high-
est praise; anyone who can rear Black Mln-
f»rcas and show them in such beautiful con-
dition, has the right to claim the honor of
being an expert with poultry." C E Tobey
Scranton, Pa. ' " 2-^

I'.I..\CK |{Ri:.\STi:i> liici) GAME B\N-
tams On ten entries, seven scored :i.-,*i.,
two 9(.. ..ne 9tJlij. Write for World's Egg
( hall.ng... Eggs $2 per 15. J. f. Kal
Sons. Warren, ( ).

1-4

PIGEONS.

HOUDANS.

IIOL'DA.N'S-
n.^sted and

MY

i{iH>:i':i)i-:i;s aim-: ti;ap

l"'<'<i '■"»• egKs; als.» have
lin.' show bir.l.s. W..n nil nists
"11. is ill OHhUosh. Wis. on n
pen 1 $2 \,i'V I.-,; per 2 $!.,-,0

antee ](» f.rtib' ..r replac.; setting free
(-. Meyer, li 9, (Je..nlo Falls, Wi

som<i

and 2 sec-

.ntries. lOggs

per 1 5 ; guar-

John

•s. 2-4

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
n any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chaU

lelfer'^t^o'ck 'T^r' 7. ^^^^^''^ to"pro'hfce
oeiier stock at twice th s price R.-mt if.ii

White Homers. $1.50 a pair Get my nrlcei
«)n Runts. Carneaux and Maltese He^is anl
save dollars. Charles K. Gilber? 15tn Vn^t
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia Pa 8-^ 12
WANTED--5.000 COMMON OR HOMER

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A FINE 160- ACRE FARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas, 19 miles from Abilene
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being u.sed for pasture,
good wire fence, good water the year round.
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns it and

^^A "° V..^^ T.^^*" ^^- Some improvements.
Address K ^-^care Poultry Fancier. 357
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS ^

'/Vi^'Vj^'^iMilf^jU^b,^

Winners of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pullets,
2nd pen in a strong class at the big
Baraboo Valley Show, January 1910.
A«;rr,r>t*»r«-i lacf c*.^^ ^^" headed by 1st cock at above show.

AS cockerel last seasuu iic won ist at La Crosse and 1st at the Wisconsin State Association Show
The females in my yards are full of quality, bred from the best blood lines in America I w°?l suppTv
my customers with eggs from these without reserve at $3 per 15. |5 per 30. They will produce winders

JAS. McGUAN,

"WANTED" — PIGEON
Pfister & Vogel Leather
W^is., for prices, etc.

DUNG. WRITE

Co., Milwaukee.

1-3

POULTEY SUPPLIES.

BARABOO, WIS.

POULTRY FEED— PRICE PER 100 LBS.
Beef scraps $2.75_. meat and bone $2.25,
.S2.2o. hen scratching grains
scratching grains $2, poultry

ground bone
$1.S5. chick
mash $1.80.
clover meal
65c, crushed
g-rit 65c, pearl grit
$1.50. The meat

$2.25, alfalfa

and charcoal in both
Give us a trial order
Co., Indianapolis, In.l

pigeon grain

$1.50, crushed oyster shells

clam shells 60c, mica crystal

60c, medicated charcoal

and bone, shells, grit

hen and chick size.
J. G. Hermann &
11-6

PRINTING.

have again made
a record break-
ing Winning at

the Baraboo

Valley Show, January 1910. We won on BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 1st

cock, 3d and 4th hens, 1st and 4ih cockerels, 1st pen, best display and B PR
Club Cup on best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet-54 entries in the class. On
b. C. Black Orpingtons we won 1st, 2nd cocks, 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th hens 1st
cockerel, 1st pen, English Class Cup and $10.00 Gold Sweepstake for b-st'dis-
play, open to all classes. In Columbian Wyandottes we entered only seven
birds winning 3 firsts and 5 other prizes, also cash special for best pen of Wyan-
dottes all varieties competing. f j

™ur*oTn vL^ds' ^Th^ev'^wUi^^.^H'' ^i"«i°gs /" fof^er years andour winners were produced
in our own yard.s. They, with others of equal merit compose our breeding pens for this sea-
son from which we will supply our egg trade without re.serve. We hav^us^d traS^nests for
years and retain nothing for breeders, but those that make good records ariayi'ng Choi?e
stock always for sale. Eggs f3 per 15 $5 per .30 from one or all pens. SatisfactioTi g^aranteS
GEO. W. HACKETT, Prop.. BOX 111. NORTH FREEDOM. WIS.

PRIjSTING— POULTRY, GENERAL. NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250. 75c; 500. |1.2S
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp
Model Printing Co., MnnohPQtPr Ta 10 9

BROWN lEGHORNS,

THE EMPIRE STRAIN
ALWAYS WINS.

GEO. H. BURGOTT.

'CATALOGUE FREE LAWTONS, ERIE CO.,

EXHIBITED AT

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

N. Y.

"MAJESTIC I."
."ith Cockerel. Chicago Dec '08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND
ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack>
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, 111., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910,
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings!
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

EDGAR BRIGGS

Poultry Expert

READ WHAT THE BRIGGS SYSTtM WILL OU fOR YOU

SUCCESS Willi POULTRY ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED BY THE USE OF BRIGGS

SYSItM AND SECRETS

Feea for crovlnc chicks und maklnc <»• .t I5c. per buihel e.pWned b, the Bri,,. Syitem. No machinery no cookln,

957c, OF ALL CHICKS HATCHED CAN BE RAISED

2000 Inyrra and .?Onn chicks rnn be rnred for witbout help
by one person and still linvt- tiiiir lor otln r work.

$J5 00 snred on tvery liumlred chuks ruiacdi to maturity
by tliis wonderful Uri^ns systt-m.

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poultry men Iliindredtt of unuualiUeU ieatiinuiiiuls
lu oar poascBBioii.

"PROFITS m POULTRY KEEPING
SOLVED"

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INTENTIONAL 2ND EXPOSURE

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SIBLEY'S :-.™i:^3

R it. At the Big

F T% Q Indiana State Fair this season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most coveted prize, Ist pen. Also
Ej iJ^ |3 ^»* ^^^ 3rd cocks, 2nd cockerel and many of the other winners were decended from our flock.

They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows. At

Detroit January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 11 others. At
Chicago, December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September
1908, 11 prizes including 5 firsts.

Our winnings at Detroit, January, 1909, in one of the strongest classes of Reds ever
gotten together were: first, second, third and fourth on cocks, first, second, third
and fourth on hens; first, second, third and fourth on cockerels; first and fifth on
pullets; first and second on pens. The four club specials for color and shape.
The silver loving cup (valued at $25.00) offered by the Mayor of Detroit for the
best display of either Rose or Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. The silver loving
cup (valued at fiO.OO) offered by the Hotel Normandie for the best display of rose
comb Rhode Island Reds and other valuable specials.

MIN-NE-HA-HA Ist prize winner, Chicago,
Dec. 16-19, 1908. Detroit, Jan. 9-14, 1909.

THE SIBLEY REDS HAVE ALWAYS WON EAST AND WEST

2000 BIRDS RAISED DURING THE PAST SEASON FROM WINNERS

Some of the cream of this year's production is still in
our yards and if you are looking for a choice bird or two
we can more than please you at right prices.

We will have ten grand pens mated for the egg trade. Book your orders
early. Prices |3.00, $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, $20.00 and $25 00 per setting. Send

for catalogue describing our matings and telling all about the Sibley Reds.

Irving A. and Frank Churchill Sibley, South Bend, Ind.

4 $

THE FAMOUS HEM, "PEGGY."

VALUE $10,000. First prize winner at Jamestown
Exposition, Madison Square Garden, New York, and every-
where else she has been shown. The reason we value the
above hen at Ten Thousand Dollars Is because we refused
•2,500 for her after we sold five of her chicks for 17,500; and
we will Kive $10,000 for a •♦ Crystal ♦» White
Orpinfirton Hon that will equal her in every way.

KELLER87RA8S FARM, KANSAS CITY, MO.

KELLERSTRASS**

White Orpingtons

ARE THE BIGGEST PAYERS

Because they have proven to be

THE BIGGEST WINTER LAYERS

straYS "CRYSTAL ••

White Orpingtons

Are the GRANDEST UTILITY birds on record today and as to
their FANCY QUALITY they won first at Madison Square Ga^
New York 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908; also at Crystal Palace, London
v1?Sto 1a£!?1^?/^ ^^*^ Boston. If you need some birds to IMPROVE
YOUR STOCK or for tlie SHOW ROOM write us. We have then
^"^ \^^^J^.^ ^^^^ ^^NS. as our past record shows. STOCK
TOPQ ^-/ovci^A'^^^'Lri'^^^V. I^emember, we are the ORIGINA-
JP^^^l ^^^^"^M.- White Orpingtons, and breed only the«Iin»
kind. We devote our who'e time to this one breed.

SEND KOR OUR CATAI^OGUE

Ufe Members American White Orpinsrton Club and the American PoultryA

HELLERSTRASS FARM

KRNEST KEI.I,ERSTRASS. Proprietor

Originators of Crystal White Orpingtons
R. r. D. No. 1 KANSAS CITY. MO,

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REGAL BLUE HARRED ROCKS

I" eggs I am giving quality

that few can equal and

none surpass Try a set-

• ., ., . ting ai|4 00, compare them

with those costing vou $5 (X) up to $16.00 per setting, and be convinced

A^L. KMERSON. ... INKSTEIR. MICHICAN

BUFF

CKvS

Winners ai D arhorn, Mich.,
Dc-cember. 1909. 1st and 4 li

3rd puUets i,. a s.ron, class of birds Have 4 pens head^'bv ™cl^eJ;>?:corh;g ^^l
^- ■»•_>« ATTHEWS - - WA.YNE. MICHIGAN

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize

wmners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

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Save Time, Effort & Moeey

Buy S. C. White l^eghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong health v
chick in each .specimen. I guarantee this
ai.d also .safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can afford to
hatch them. ^ ^ j^y^E,

R. F. D. No. 1 Rocky River, Ohio

Big Brown Beauties

Kggs from pen .scoring 18(5}^ by Shellaberger.
Only limited number ot orders taken. $2.00
and $3 00 per 15. Pullet or cockerel mating.

BROWN LEGHORN POULTRY FARM
J. H. RYAN, Prop., Kenosha, Wisconsin

"HA

WHITE ROCKS

■H.^;^ S tJ.-.imm-f^XfXHiSf'^-

ta^»wwtt«<^^£mn>suuattu<60H

**B>UNB9CTMgM3e5ti»W1iWW(Wi

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me o7hatreTfr'^!n' Frrl\'° ^^Tu^ '^^' *" ''^f '?" '° "''""'"« >'^^'' ^"^^ ^^^^^ ^irds purchased from
me or hatched from EGCIS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show

"henScTa^eT S^'"^ '■^'''T^k":^''".^^^^ PRIZES but I honestly bdieve this honor belongS to
the purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will pmblish your winnings
as mine For the season of 1910 I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list whicli descHbes mv
Er,^TK""/'='"''1 °f "LEADER" my ist1:HICAGO COCKEREL a",d other famot"^^^^^^^^^
chmcelot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford; WiJ

A C

AN SWEEP

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to ,0 1909
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, i.st, 2d and 3d pullet
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
3rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to q.
by Tucker. ^'*

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including .some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choice.st matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulonse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, p^p., Bo, P, Dearborn, Mich.

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No. 4

Th

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Some of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Profitable
Specimens of the Feathered World Are Found in
the Bantam Families, the Midgets of Poultrydom

By M. K. MILLER

( ) more intcrcsiing work can be found
in tlie poultry yard either for pleasure
or profit than the breeding of bantams.
We arc oiicn asked the question, why
do you breed bantams? W'c always
answer, because we arc interested in
them. Many people imagine bantams are only a small
chicken and of no value except as pets for children.
The child part of it is true; where is the child that
does not love the small things in Nature? All house-
keepers are more or less interested in chickens, but
when someone speaks of bantams they do not con-
sider them, either for eggs or meat. While the fact
remains many families living in towns could, if thev
desired, keep a few bantams and be supplied with
fresh cgg.s at a very small cost. P.antams can be kept
protUably in a very small place. They are very small
eaters and in numl)er will lay more eggs than the aver-
age large hen will. Of course, the eggs are not as
large, but three bantam eggs will more than equal
two of the average hen's eggs. They are very nutri-
tious, the yolk being large in proportion to tbe Qi:^^^:;.
We sometimes wonder where the material comes from
that creates them, being such small eaters and at the
same time such veritable little Q<r^ machines. They
will, with reasonable care -md attention, such as any
member of the family can bestow upon them at meal
time, pay their way. Usually there is enough .scraps
left from tbe family table to iced several bantams.
This, together with a little grain in the evening, makes
an ideal food for tbem. .\s a table fowl, while small,
they are a very choice morsel, as all wlio have ever
eaten them will testify. They not oidy pay their way

in eggs for culinary use, but they are in good demand
for breeding purposes. Anyone who will take the time
to hatch and raise a few will find a very ready sale
for them at prices that will make the average person
'\sit up and take notice." Bird dealers will pay from
$LUO to $2.00 per head, while choice breeding and
exhibition birds bring from $3.00 to $10.00 each. We
now have reference to the well bred, aristocratic kind,
tliat everybody admires and are as cheaply kept as
the mongrel that has no value exceeding twentv-five
cents each. Now, dear housekeeper, who having'tried
keeping chickens in your back yard and gave it up be-
cause you could not keep then'i profitably in so small
a place, try two or three times the number of bantams
in the same space, and I am sure you will find it not
only profitable, but interesting, especially to your bov
or girl, if you are fortunate enough to have either.
Send to some reliable breeder for a setting of eggs, or
if you do not have the time and place to hatch and
rear them, send for a pair or trio of the variety you
fancy and give the child the care of them. You will
find it not only an interesting pastime, but a profitable
one for the child as well as yourself. We have been
breeding several varieties of these little pets of the
poultry yard and speak from experience. The longer
we breed them the more fascinating and interesting
they bc'-omc to us. The variety to^ keep will be the
kind you admire most. If you are interested and can-
not 'k^cide upon a variety,' go to some good poultry
show, where you will find them in all their glory— the
aristocratic little Seabright, the saucv Rose Comb, the
proud Japanese, tbe beautiful Cochins, the stately
Game, as well as a number of other varieties, each one
baving tbeir admirers, and each variety vicing with
the otliers for first place in the hearts "of tbe^vers
of the midgets in poultrydom. The Seabright is with-
out doubt the aristcKrat of them all, but each variety
lias some fascinating characteristic to commend them
to the lover of bantams.
Pottstown, Pa.

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REGAL BLUE BARRED ROCKS -^Tei ?ari",Lr'ii;s

^■— — — K ".o"«* surpHss Try a set-

,„;»v, ,. tiiigai J4 00. cotiipaire them

with thostr covtuiK v(.u $6 00 up to $16.00 per setting, and be convinced

A.. I^. KMERSON. ... INKSTEIR. MICHIGAN

UFF ROCKiS

Winners ai D arhorn, Mioh.,
December, 1909. 1st and i h

A. -y-MATTHEWS - - W^YNE. MICHIGAN

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize

winners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE. IND.

Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White I^eghorn Day Old Chicles
from me and you get a good strong healthy
chick in each .specimen. I guarantee this
aiid also .safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can afford to
hatch them. c. E. KYLE.

R. F. D. No. 1 Rocky River, Ohio

Big Brown Beauties

Kggs from pen scoring 18(5J^ by Shellaberger.
Only limited number ot orders taken. ^.00
and $3 00 per 15, Pullet or cockerel mating.

BROWN LEGHORN POULTRY FARM
J. H. RYAN. Prop., Kenosha. Wisconsin

ALBACH'S WHITE ROCKS"

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

me oJSTd'tol.' Frr I'' T° ^^Tu' '^^' '" ^^f '?" *° ^''""'"«^ ^^^^ ^^'^^ ^^^^^ ^irds purchased from
me or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the larg;est shows in the country. I could mention show

tie'^^rcTaseT 'so"",'"^' ""T "^ '^%^^^^ P^^'^ES but I honestly belie've this honor bdonSt"

Is m^ne Pnr' th.^Z ^^ "? u'"^' ^'■'"^'"'' ^^^ "'^^'^ "°' ^^ ^f'"'*'^ "'^^ ^ ^^'" P-^li^h your winnings
as mine For the season of iqio I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list which describes niv

chofce"lotTl'""d?'"'"''"t°' "LEADER" my ,st CHICAGO COCKEREL a„^. otheT alrWrd" A
chMcelot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford, Wis!

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LAPHAM^S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
1st pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a class of 87 birds, one of
the .strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, 'ist and
Srd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners Also
single birds both .sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Tonlonse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, prop., Bo, P, Dearborn, Mich.

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CHICAGO. ILL.. APRIL. 1910

No. 4

Th

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Little

antam

Some of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Profitable
Specimens of the Feathered World Are Found in
the Bantam Families, the Midgets of Poultrydom

By M. K. MILLER

O more interesting work can be found
in the poultry yard either for pleasure
or profit than the breeding of bantams.
We are often asked the question, why
do you breed bantams? We always
answer, because we are interested in
them. Many people imagine bantams are only a small
chicken and of no value except as pets for children.
The child part of it is true; where is the child that
does not love the small things in Nature? All house-
keepers are more or less interested in chickens, but
when someone speaks of bantams they do not con-
sider them, either for eggs or meat. While the fact
remains many families living in towns could, if they
desired, keep a few bantams and be supplied with
fresh eggs at a very small cost. Bantams can be kept
profitably in a very small place. They are very small
eaters and in number will lay more eggs than the aver-
age large hen will. Of course, the eggs are not as
large, but three bantam eggs will more than equal
two of the average hen's eggs. They are very nutri-
tious, the yolk being large in proportion to the egg.
We sometimes wonder where the material comes from
that creates them, being such small eaters and at the
same time such veritable little egg machines. They
will, with reasonable care and attention, such as any
member of the family can bestow upon them at meal
time, pay their way. Usually there is enough scraps
left from the family table to feed several bantams.
This, together with a little grain in the evening, makes
an ideal food for them. As a table fowl, while small,
they are a very choice morsel, as all who have ever
eaten them will testify. They not only pay their way

in eggs for culinary use, but they are in good demand
for breeding purposes. Anyone who will take the time
to hatch and raise a few will find a very ready sale
for them at prices that will make the average person
"sit up and take notice." Bird dealers will pay from
$1.00 to $2.00 per head, while choice breeding and
exhibition birds bring from $3.00 to $10.00 each. We
now have reference to the well bred, aristocratic kind,
that everybody admires and are as cheaply kept as
the mongrel that has no value exceeding twenty-five
cents each. Now, dear housekeeper, who having tried
keeping chickens in your back yard and gave it up be-
cause you could not keep them profitably in so small
a place, try two or three times the number of bantams
in the same space, and I am sure you will find it not
only profitable, but interesting, especially to your boy
or girl, if you are fortunate enough to have either.
Send to some reliable breeder for a setting of eggs, or
if you do not have the time and place to hatch and
rear them, send for a pair or trio of the variety you
fancy and give the child the care of them. You will
find it not only an interesting pastime, but a profitable
one for the child as well as yourself. We have been
breeding several varieties of these little pets of the
poultry yard and speak from experience. The longer
we breed them the more fascinating and interesting
they be'-ome to us. The variety to keep will be the
kmd you admire most. If you are interested and can-
not -kcide upon a variety, go to some good poultry
show, where you will find them in all their glory— the
aristocratic little Seabright, the saucy Rose Comb the
proud Japanese, the beautiful Cochins, the stately
Game, as well as a number of other varieties, each one
having their admirers, and each variety vieing with
the others for first place in the hearts 'of the lovers
of the midgets in poultrydom. The Seabright is with-
out doubt the aristocrat of them all, but each varietv
has some fascinating characteristic to commend them
to the lover of bantams.
Pottstown, Pa.

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I for Neglected Varieties

Two of the Many That Are Specially Deserving and
That Possess Points of Merit Which Make Them
Worthy the Fullest Consideration

By DR. GEO. B. EDWARDS

BOUT twenty years ago, when the
Minorca boom was so strong in this
country, we imported a few Whites
from England, anticipating not a little
pleasure, as well as profit, from our in-
vestment. But as we found the variety
to be somewhat tender and unprolific, our experience
with it quite naturally covered but a short chapter.
However, we have always felt it a pity that the White
Minorca has not reached the same stage of develop-
ment as attained by the Black, which, as a variety, has
become well and favorably known, with the odds of
color against it.

And popularity, it must be admitted, improves a
variety in every w^ay, because of rivalry and the ex-
tent to which it is bred. But someone must take the
helm fearlessly and courageously, and pilot the weak,
neglected varieties to a position of prominence and
usefulness, and this, perhaps, is more profitable than
the creation of so many new varieties.

Who, then, will take up the White Minorca, and be
to them what Northup has been to the Blacks? For
they now appear to be in the hands of only a few,
struggling breeders, who are just about able to keep
them from going down and out.

If, in the Leghorn family, the White variety has for
so many years been gaining over the others, including
the Blacks, why is it that the reverse condition has
prevailed among the Minorcas, the Black variety hav-
ing left the Whites so far in the rear.

Let no one imagine that we are now seeking to act
in the capacity of promoting the White Minorca to
any personal advantage, for such is not the case. We
only feel impelled, by a sense of what is really due a
meritorious fowl, to deplore the unsteady and un-
healthy growth they have hitherto enjoyed. It may be
said that they are not as hardy as the Blacks, and that
breeders, therefore, have not been able to increase
their size to any extent above that of the Leghorn.
Be this as it may, it still remains that there are great
possibilities wrapt up in the White Minorca fowl, pro-
vided their hardiness can be increased, which rnight,
we doubt not, be gained l)y an infusion of blood from'
the Blacks. No one may hope, however, that there will
be any special demand for them, apart from such a
transformation in size and general vigor, as suggested.
A bit of costly experience mav here be introduced
possibly for the good of those not long on the way!
In those days of our novitiate, we had a brood of pret-
ty White Minorca chicks, upon which we suspected
lice were beginning to prey. We did the innocent
thmg, then, when we administered to each little head
a drop of pure peppermint oil— but, oh, the (lisap])oint-
mg, the heart-rending results that appeared the fol-
lowmg morning. Of course, all the chicks were dead
And then, like a chastened child we said, '1 will never
do it any more." But now we take three or four
ounces of sweet, or olive oil, and one of sassafras, mix
them, and we have an ideal unuent for anointincr the

heads of chicks at all ages. An ordinary dropper may
be used to administer it, or better, a little oil can such
as go with sewing machines. Mention is made of this
because the head lice are most to be feared, and, if
one can cope with them, the chick w^ill ordinarily deal
with the others, if a dust bath is accessible. Though
some chicks, like some individuals, do not appear to be
too scrupulous about the cleanliness of their bodies.

And then the beautiful Silver Wyandotte, where
have they been drifting all these years? They have
been "putting on their beautiful garments," and have
almost become one of the ornamentals. They have
lost ground, while the Whites have been gaining, un-
til to-day the White Wyandottes are to be seen every-
where, the Silvers rarely. And yet these are, perhaps,
the most attractive of the Wyandotte family, while
their place, strictly speaking, has been usurped by
their more fortunate rivals. The Silvers have grown
up, not in popular esteem and demand, but like the
shut-in, city urchin, narrow and flat chested, instead
of a broad and compact development, bespeaking great
sturdiness and vigor.

During the 80s, when there was a greater demand
for Silver Wyandottes than there were good birds to
supply this demand, we were so fortunate as to se-
cure a pen from a farmer, who, while he gave rea-
sonable care to his birds, allowed them unlimited
range, with an entire absence of inbreeding. But
those were splendid birds, and to this day we recall
them with great pleasure. They were darker in color
than the finest bred stock of to-day, but they were
vigorous and well developed, and, therefore, their eggs
were plentiful, and their chicks were born to live.
And they lived and developed on wholesome food with
just ordinary care. Now I do not keep Silver Wyan-
dottes, but I must confess that down in my heart there
IS a corner which they have alwavs filled And I
would like to see them putting on the Wvandotte shape
again, and occupying the place they so richly deserve
as the first Wyandottes.

But the '' color scheme," which has never been al-
together a success with this variety, must, if needs be
be sacrificed, and more attention given to shape and
strong, inherent constitution by out-breeding if neces-
sary, if the variety is ever to get fairly in the race
again. "^

But manifestly there is plenty of trouble ahead for
other part.-colored varieties, if this color craze does
not abate. And vvc shall see the solid colored varieties
supersede those more and more, because more atten-
tion has been given those in the matter of physical

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Laceyville. Pa.

Tf the other fellow lias succeeded, why not yon?

One of the most important points in poultrv raisinjr
IS clcanhness. I.,ltl,y houses and runs are reallv re^
sponsible for more di.sease and loss than any other

Haphazard matiiiff and breeding does not pav no
•..alter what the quality of your stock. Even in ' fio cl
of sen, fowls there are a few that are better Uian";';
HsI. I lace only the best you have in the breeding pen.

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Some Thoughts for the Consideraton of Fanciers
Who Wish to Attain Success and Prominence
Quickly with Small Financial Outlay.

By J. E. WILMARTH

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N Ni^ARL.V every Poultry Paj^er we
l)ick up we find some one asking the
(|uesti()n, which breed shall I take up?
the questioner generally naming over
several varieties, and nearly every
time the answer is to keep the most
])()pular breeds. The reason given is that there is
a greater demand for them. \Ve don't dispute that
fact, but many ])e()ple do not stoj) to consider that
there are also many more breeders of the more
po])ular kinds of poultry, and therefore there is
more competition with them, not only in the show
room, but also in selling them, and when one goes
to buy stock to commence with, if he wants good
birds he will probably have to pay from three to
five times as much for comparatively the same
ciualitv in the very ])o])ular varieties as he would
have to pay in the rare breeds.

Take the Barred Rocks for instance, for a good
breeding trio one would have to spend from fiftv
to one hundred dollars, and for a bird that could
win in any of the larLjer shows, a hundred would
likelv be the price. This is all right for the man
with plentv of money, but the ordinarv poultrv
keeper finds this a little more than he can afford,
and nian\^ paying these kind of prices get discour-
aged when their birds fail to win or breed winners,
as thev have paid all thev feel thev can afTord, and
consequentlv thev ''get out of the liame."

Put suppose we take un one of the rare varieties.
\\q can get a good trio for ten to twenty dollars
and a first class show bird for twenty-five dollars,
that would probablv win first at most anv show,
where one would be luckv to get a fifth with his
more popular variety at four times the price. And
when one wanted to sell stock, see the bunch of
ads of the popular varieties in the poultrv papers,
much of a chance has the little fellow o-ot

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with a small ad telling about his fifth prize win-
^ ner fif he is luckv cnouoh to have one), and while
there mav be a thousand looking for fwe will sav)
A\^hite W'yandottes. there w^ould be a hundred ad-
vertisers, with odds strono-lv in favor of the "Pig
Guns" of Poultrydom, while with the Pyle \.q^-
horn ffor instance) one would likelv be the onTy
advertiser. There might be ten interested in this
breed, and he would iyQ\ all the enquiries, with a
strong possibility of making several sales.

'T)Ut," vou say, ''in the show room T will have no
competition." but this condition does not exist lonq-
for others seeing them, will be impressed bv thoTr
rarity, and you will probably have competition an-
other year at your local shows, and with a little
missionary work on your part, vou can get up cjuite
a strong class in a few vears. You can also send a
string to some of the large winter shows, with a
good chance of winning out. With the resultant
biisinoss that this kind of advertisino- (helped along
ith a little poultry paper advertisino), will be

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sure to bring to you, combined with the ])remium
money won, you will be better off financially at the
end of the year, than you would be by taking up
one of the very popular varieties.

This article is written for what we might term
the "liack Yard Fancier," as the larger breeder
would probably find the popular breeds more to his
liking, but for one living in a village or on a small
suburban place, the rare varieties of ])oultry often
fill the bill just right. Here one wants to keep a
few to supply his own wants, in eggs and an occas-
ional chicken dinner, and at the same time have
something that he will be proud to show to his
friends. Pet us see what particular kinds are
adapted to our ])articular wants. If eggs are the
chief consideration, something in the line of the
Mediterraneans will answer, provided one has a
suf^ciently high fence to confine them, if they can-
not be given their liberty. The Rose Comb Peer-
horns are all good layers, and fair table fowl, if not
allowed to get too old before being eaten, and one
does not mind how many he kills. This can be said
of all the smaller breeds, as they are all active, and
when aged, their tal)le qualities are not improved.
There are the Puffs, P>lacks, lirovvns, etc., none
very poi)ular in Rose Combs. The Hamburgs are
another good kind, great layers, of rather small
eggs, the Golden and Silver ])enciled being the less
popular ones. The Anconas are another good kind,
closely resembling the Peghorns in utilitv points.
Then there are the Alinorcas, cspeciallv the Rose
Combs: but if one finds the flying abilities of any
of the above to be too much for tiiem, why not try
some of the Polish? These are fairly good layers,
and a small active bird, but their crests preVent
them from seeing to fly very much. Or in the
American breeds we have, first of all, the Domi-
ni(|ue, a grand old bird, when properly bred. Then
there are the Silver and (lolden Wyandottes, the
Silver Penciled, a very showy bird, "the I'.lacks, all
good general ])ur])()se birds, closely resembling their
more po])ular brothers of the Wyandotte family,
both in table and Q^rir qualities and general dispo-
sition. Tn Plymouth Rocks we have the Silver
Penciled, the other Rocks giving promise of being
loo popular for our consideration here. Then we
have the Puckeves, a good breed, not generally
fully appreciated, through the tendencv of the
breeders of the more popular "Reds" to treat them
as a joke. For one wishing nice quiet birds, the
Asiatics will answer. There are the Dark P,rah-
mas, one of our oldest breeds, also all varieties of
Cochins. These may be kept in quite small runs,
but re(|uire special judgment in feeding to see that'
they get enough to eat to enable them to lav, and
at the same time not get too fat. Thev also should
have dififerently arranged houses from the smaller
breeds, as they are better oflF without any roosts,
and should be bedded down the same as a horse.

Any of the abo\e breeds will give a fancier a
nice looking flcx^k that will be an ornament to his
place, will lay him plenty of eggs, give him an
occasi()naI Sunday dinner," and he' can show them,
and win with them, and sell his surplus to gocxi
advantage, first among his neighbors being" at-
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throiio-h his winninos and advertising-. ]f one has
only small runs, not covered with grass, I should
advise him to keep clear of any breed having- many
white feathers, as these present a dilapidated ap-

pearance from sIiowin<:^ soil on their white plu-
mag-e. The buff colors are the best for small runs,
lollowed by the blacks, and black and red.
Amityville, Pa.

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uiiiLiaii Wyandotte BreedersTroubles

One of Them Fears the Breed Will Be Ruined.
Says the Brahma Standard Should Not Be Aped.
Why Not Work in Harmony with Nature?

By C. H. BATCHELDER

T is in interest of the Columbian Wy-
andottes, that I write these lines. It
may well be asked "What of their fu-
ture? What effect will the 1910-
15 Standard have? Will they be bet-
ter or worse for the changes?" If I
could have my own way I should breed for clean
white backs, breast, body and fluff, with only a tinge
of blue m the undercolor of female, and nothing
darker than light to medium slate in the undercolor
Ox male. I should want a suspicion of blue in the
surface white which carries with it better black
sections and eliminates to a considerable de.o-ree
the tendency to creaminess in females and brassiness
in males. I should strive for intense black in neck
and tail, with nice lacing, and let the wings take
care of themselves. I am no crank on wing color
although I am compelled to satisfy my patVons in
this respect by furnishing- what they call for

I am inclined to think this craze for black prim-
aries, which the new Standard will call for wtll be
the undoingr of a beautiful variety tnat was last
approaching- the present Standard. If bred for the
points I have named above the primaries of females
would run "black to predominate," but to call for
a solid black primary, except the edging of white is
asking- too much. It is inviting' ruin. Already
prominent breeders (and we small ivy have to tollovv
their example) are sending out breeding males so
dark that it is difficult to determine at a criance to
what breed or variety they belong. Some of the
brecdin.g females are so dark in slate undercolor that
black would be a better description. These birds
tnrow a large percentage of very dark chicks and
when grown two-thirds of them go to the cull-pen.
1 cppcr and black splashes .galore appear in the backs
of females. The males have slate fluff, solid prim-
aries without edging, splashed feathers back of
thigiis, sides of breast and under throat. A few
g:ood specimens result, and there is black enouHi
in the female wing to satisfv the most enthusi-
astic b ack-wing- crank. Time comes when the
cockere s must go to market, and we may also in-
clude the old hens. Feathers good for nothing;
inky pin-feathers; turkey colored meat; inferior
quality; inferior price- That's about it. All this
and a lot more just to breed for a section that's
out of sight— a section that is never seen except by
force or when the bird stretches itself. No wonder
certain breeders wanted to insert and did insert in
color description of female these words, ''Occasional
black in web of feathers shall not be a serious de-

fect!" Why? r>ecause wing-cranks cannot breed
solid black female primaries and keep the backs
clean, and they want to make the breeding of their
pet wings easily possible, even to the detriment of
color sections in sieht.

Conservative Columbian men have been breeding-
for years to eliminate striping in saddles and sad-
dle-hangers and now we must have some of it or
take a back seat. For my part I would have a g-ood
heavily striped saddle and hangers. It would make
a better balanced bird. But w^hv didn't they let us
know about this ten years ago? It would have
helped us immensely over the brassiness and
creaminess barrier that has loomed up ahead these
many years. A moderate amount of striping- adds
l)eauty and finish to the male's back, and'^good

lieavy stripino- would he still better. What I am
<lnvinff at is that the Brahma Standard is hein-
aped in so far as it easily can be followed. Why not
switch off and make a Colimibian Standard and
dr.ne w,th ,t. The variety is able to stand on its
own merits without any P.rahn.a props. It has color
characteristics of its own and is entitled to its own
color description. To change the male's saddle and
han.crers will not entail a qreat amount of work for
It comes naturally. A black female primary doe.s not
come naturally with li,c,.ht undercolor and'will spoil
the variety for reasons siven above. With striped
saddles there will be less tendency to smutty hTk
.IS rar^cved tail lacinn- and creaminess in females, ancf

a, ''" '\''''^'^«' ^a'^tor in eliminating straw color
and brassiness in males.

T say set up a Slamlard of our own ami call for
a i-erfcctinir of the sections in siijht with a -ood
clean nndercolon one that does not .spell ruin"^to a
now worthy utility variety.

No. Haverhill, N. H.

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■POULTRY

Every Breeder of Poultry Who is Trying to Produce
Standard Bred Fowls, Whether He Be a Beginner
or Old Veteran, Should Read and Profit by This
Poultry Sermon— The Truths Are Old Ones, But
Are Too Often Overlooked.

By J. F. DAVIS

a long lane that

HEY tell us it is
has no turn." The proverb is capable
of a double meaning. It may be
taken to mean that our way may grow
mountainous and wearisome because
it lacks variety, in which case, the
proverb is an exhortation to patience, or the pro-
verb may mean that, sudden turns of fortune may
be expected and, thus interpreted, suggests a word
of caution. He is a very wise and self-sufficient
poultryman who does not need continually the sav-
ing voice of the proverb.

The exhibition season is over, the breeding season
is here. A few exhibitors have had a sort of royal
procession through the show rooms and are now
joyously flaunting a string of blue ribbons. Others
have not been so fortunate: thev have won some
prizes, perhaps none. 1^he mood in which victory
or defeat is taken is apt to tell on all future ventures
and is therefore a very important matter. It should
be remembered that a show-room record taken by
Itself is a small affair to the minds of observant
people. I would not cast suspicion or scorn at such
record ; my aim now is to point a way to make the
record worth while. The essential thing in a show
record is latent. It is not the record but wdiat we
do with it and because of it that tells. Happy is
the man who has made a clean sweep yet has
enough ballast to keep him on even keel, and
equally happy is the man who has suffered defeat
and has grace enough to (piietly "take his medicine"
and i)roht by it. In the poultrv business it is as
''true as gospel" that, "the race 'is not to the swift
nor the battle to the strong," but to the faithful
plodder. Let the man with his string of winnings
remind himself that the lane will turn the wrong
way if he don't keep going right. Let the de"^
feated man assure himself that the lane turns pres-
ently but he will never reach the turn if he does
not keep going.. Yea, his defeat mav prove itself
the turn it he has eyes to see it. Both winning
and defeat call louclly for extra caution. Who
hears and heeds and profits mostly by the experi-
ence is surest of the future.

l^Lxhibition stock in the breeding-pen is always a
questionable quantity and qualitv. The exposure
incident to transi)ortation to and from the show,
the strange surroundings and unusual conditions
tell greatly on the physical vigor of the fowls. The
more shows a fowl has been exhibited at the greater
the exposure and the less likelihood of its" value
as a breeder. It does not alter the fact to say "the
fowl looks all right." A month's extra cafe and
feeding is necessary to get a breeding bird back
into breeding form. This mav seem a strong and
summary way of putting the matter but, vears of

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hard knocks in the school of experience has tauoht
one that; it is good sense. "^

It has been generally believed that the foremost
breeders dispose of their show specimens, which I
assume to be the case. But how have thev kept at
the front ? By breeding inferior birds with superior
skill.-' So we are told, and I do not believe it. No
doubt they have the superior skill and inferior birds,
but they^ are wise enough to breed only 'vigorous
stock. The exhibition specimens sold as top-
notchers, which they are, do not reproduce them-
selves simply because they sometime lack vigor.
We are apt to be very thoughtless about this
matter. A first class record of a high class fowl is
worth exploiting— it brings business and it is most
natural to put the best side out. There is genuine
satisfaction in blazing abroad a mating that is the-
oretically hard to beat. But there is no ultimate
gain above the practical value of a mating. This
IS the thing we must consider. Animal nature has
Its limits and when subjected to undue strain mav
not break down but as we say "fizzles out " Such
often is the result of high class matings. Ee-s
are infertile. A superior male of impaired vigor
by reason of exhibition exposure, is mated with
vigorous females, the greater vigor of these inferior
females outweights the depleted strength of the
superior male. "The chicks from such a mating have
small chances of life. They mav be successfullv
reared but it is doubtful if a single one of them will
equal the poorest female in the pen.

Another thing. Show birds are mated and the
show-record and matings are duly exploited This
is more than advertising— it is the breder's miar-
antee that these fowls are in prime breeding con-
dition and, otherwise such as to warrant confidence
that the progeny will make good. This is the in-
terpretation the buying public is expected to give
and does give to the breeder's advertisement Here
however, is where many a breeder has struck a rock!
1 he breeder has been honest ; his show records have
been honorably gained, but, because of the afore-
mentioned facts his matings have not made good.
Now what is the remedy? How can we oive value
to merit ? Well ! begin here. It is not by undue
stimulation with drugs, compounds and confounds
It IS not by replacing free infertile eggs, nor bv fair
promises sweet words and over generous dealing.
Ordinarily folks are satisfied with square dealincr
rhe trouble with much of our square dealing hcis
been that it was round, however, much of it we
dispensed. ] here have been corners unfilled We
have simply relied too much upon and conjured too
nuch with exhibition stock. Merit has lost value
because it lacked vigor. The thing needed is just
h,s— give these fowls that have been exposed to
the rigors ot the show a chance to fully recuperate
T>reeders and buyers alike have lost their heads
in the mad rush for the spectacular. There is i
senseless craze for high-scores, big noise and
emptiness. It is not that any one should let down
in the passion for excellence. Let all strive for the
best, the very best. But I am a firm believer in the
idea that nature yields her best onlv to those who
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AJatings should be made with consideration of these
laws and discovered facts. Score cards and show
records are very poor guides to mating. The
breeder should know and must know the individual
qualities of his fowls that not merely warrant but
endorse his matinfjs.

Moreover, high scores need generally to be taken
with a grain of suspicion. It is not for me, nor in
me, to reveal some mysteries of the score card.
Just now I merely point a moral. Here is a pullet,
scored 95 in the early show, given a pound in
weight. To-day she is not an ounce heavier nor a
bit larger than she was three months ago. There
may now be other faults developed, also. Now it
is manifestly a dishonorable and perilous thing for
the breeder to ignore these facts. Such a fowl
scores but 93 and has a two point cut for weight —
a very serious cut. Here is another, scored 93 at
the same show. She was given weight also, but
to-day she is a well-developed and rugged specimen,
big boned and strong, with an eye that sparkles
with vitality. Surely there is enough contrast be-
tween these two to save any one from confusing
scoring qualities with breeding qualities.

Again, the average of the flock and not the high-
scorer is what the breeder realy has to sell. To
raise this average year by year is the breeder's
problem. To do it is rather more success than
many gain. It is worth all one's effort and striv-
ing to attain. I have tried to emphasize the truth
that other merit fails in the absence of strong
vitality. It is not too late to re-canvass every breed-
ing pen and cut out every unworthy specimen.
Those birds that have been on exhibition should be
most thoroughly considered. A small pen of choice
fowls is far more worthy than a large pen made u])
of exceptionally fine birds of weak vitality and
others of indifferent quality. Let the money ques-
tion drop out of mind and a little. Let the ''garrish
glitter" of show-record and score card go and
actually be a breeder for this season at least. I do
not say that vigor is everything. I merely point
out this fact — the individual fowl, however meri-
torious, otherwise has every good quality vacated
by the absence of vigor, and a vigorous gowl if
rightly mated may be depended on to reproduce
himself and more, if there is right breedino- behind
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A Brown Leghorn Breeder Relates Some of His
Experiences and Believes that He Is Undoubt-
edly Right in His Views.

By W. E. LUND

ILL breeding for exhibition spoil Sin-
gle Comb IJrown Leghorns for ^gg
production? That is a question that
has for some time been worrying
breeders of the "little brown hen.''
Let me say I have found it not to be
the case. What's that 1 hear? Prove vour case.
Well, I'm not a writer, only a breeder' of Single
Comb Brown Leghorns, but I'll do my best. ]'m
sure my literary friends will excuse all my gram-
matical errors in doing so.

Two years ago I mated a cock to a brown hen
that had a trap nest record of 145 eggs in one year.
Of course this is not an exceptional record but she
had the color, the carriage, length and breadth of
back and symmetry that T wanted and I bred her*
with others to this cock bird. From this mating I
got six exhibition birds and thev have made an
average egg record of 163 eggs in 365 davs. T
cannot tell you how much these pullets scored as
they were all entered in comparison shows, but for
color and shape as well as Qgg production they
certainly improved my flock.

In breeding for exhibition, you would not choose
a bird for your breeding pen that would be short
backed, narrow at the rear of back, short legged
and squatty. Now, look at your largest egg pro-
ducers that you would choose in breeding for egg
production. Has your largest e:gg producers short
backs, pinched tails, squattv legs or any of the
defects T have mentioned? Well, T guess not. Does
your Standard call for short leiis, short backs, nar-
row at the rear and i^inchcd tails for exhibition? T
can assure you it does not. The chief characteris-

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tics of tlie egg producing fowl, the exhibition fowl
and the Standard are synonymous. It has always
been my fortune to have my best egg producers
prove to be my best exhibition birds. ' As to color
It would do you no good to exhibit a bird that is
fine in color and poor in shape, symmetry and car-
nage. No sane judge in the country would place
a prize on a demented looking, poor'shaped, unde-
veloped bird that had fine color as its one redeemin.-
leature. Competition is too keen these days tS
allt)w us to consider placing such a bird in competi-
tion. '

Did I hear some one say they had a hen whose
egg production is fine (which also means fine in
shape and carriage) but whose color, head and
comb IS poor? Although I am a sticker for a fine
comb, head and color, I would rather breed from
such a bird than to breed from a bird with poor
shape, carnage, short back, legs and narrow at the
base. I would mate the above described hen to a
cock bird extra fine in the color points that were
weak on the female, and be sure that his head and
comb are extra strong. T can assure you that vour
fowls so mated will produce more exhibition sneci-
mens than ,f mated with a fowl that is fine in color
comb and head and weak body shape, carriage
and symmetry mated to any cock bird vou care to

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that IS ,q:ood in tfr^ production that has a pood car-
nage and short legs but never a bird with a short
back and narrow at the rear. These hens will al-
ways be in the minority. You will always be able
to find p enty of ...^ producing hens among yZ
flock that have good heads, combs and fair color
If you haven t many of these birds it is best to do
away with vour w'holc flock at once and buy a-ain
as (he birds yon ha^■e will never pay for the feed
thev eat.

T^ook over any farm that is specializing in eee
production and count the birds that are nearest to
the Standard in shape, size. length and breath of

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back. You can count them without trouble. In
color they may not be up to the Standard but per-
mit me to assure you that they do not consider this
Item first in breeding for egg production. This
lack is usually made up with the cock bird if pos-

sible. Try this policy and if you do not get all show
specimens you will at least have healthy egg pro-
ducing fowls. You will also come closer to the
Standard requirements than by any other method.
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The Importance of Giving This Matter Special At-
tention. Where to Set, How to Make Nests,
Size, Nesting Material and Care of Hen.

By J. B. BARNARD

AKE a nest box out of thin lumber
1G inches square and 15 inches high
with top covered ; cut the front of
box down to 6 inches from the bottom,
hang a door on the front that will
swing up and fasten. When door is
down it serves as a bridge for the hen to walk into
the nest without breaking the eggs, bore a few
holes in the sides near the top of the box for ven-
tilation and it is ready for the nest.

Put in 3 or 4 inches of moist earth and shape out
a shallow^ nest, then put in a good supply of straw
or hay cut fine and the nest is ready for the hen.
Set the hen at night on china eggs and let her
set until she wonted to the nest, and will come off
and go back on the nest all right.

Now dust the hen and nest thoroughly with Per-
sian insect powder and put in the eggs for hatching,
not over 14 to the largest hen ; if the eggs have been
shipped very far they must be unpacked and let
them rest 24 hours before setting, so thev will settle
to their normal condition.

The hen must be set in a building where none
but setting hens are allowed. On the" floor in front
of the nest should be placed corn and sometimes a
little wheat, but corn should be the principal food.
While the hen is setting always have fresh water
and crystal grit close by the corn, and a box with
road dust or hard coal ashes in it for the hen to dust
in.

Have a regular hour each day to open the door of
the nest box and let the hen come oft* and not stay
off to exceed 15 or 20 minutes at a time. She must
be watched at first, and if she don't go back on the
nest by that time, she must be put back and the
door closed. Most hens will soon learn to come off
the nest when the door is opened and go back at
the proper time.

Every day when the hen comes off the nest the
eggs must be examined; if any should be broken
all must be taken out of the nest and those that are
fouled must be washed with warm w^ater and wiped
dry with a cloth; the nest must be replaced with
clean, fresh material and the eggs but back soon as
possible.

If the contents of a broken Qgg is allowed to re-
main on the eggs they will not hatch but rot, as
It closes the pores of the shell and germ dies.

The eggs must be taken out of the nest occasion-
ally and the nest filled up with the soft materia],
so the nest will not get too deep and cause the eggs
to roll together too close. The nest should at'Tll

limes be so shallow that the eggs will roll away
from the hen's foot when she steps into the nest;
in such a shaped nest there will seldom be any eggs
broken.

In ten days from the time you set the hen, give
her and the nest another dusting with the insect
powder. This is to kill what lice, if any, that have
hatched since she was dusted before.

The hen should come off the nest every day to
air the eggs up to including the 19th dav, then she
must be shut in and not allowed off again until all

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the eggs have hatched that will ; during this time
give the hen a little corn and water while on the
nest, being careful not to disturb her.

While the chicks are hatching disturb the hen as
little as possible, but occasionally run your hand
under her to remove shells that none may become
telescoped over those not hatched and smother the
chicks.

Have a nice coop to receive the brood when
hatched; the coop must be roomy, with a storm-
proof roof, tight board floor, with door to let down
in front and shut up at night, rat proof with a
slat door to let down on the inside to keep the hen
in when the chicks are small. Pieces of boards
must be fitted in the corners of the coop to make
them octagon instead of a square corner. Square

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corners in a coop are death traps to the chicks when
small, often being crowded in a corner and smoth-
ered by the hen.

This coop must be set on elects to keep it up from
the ground at least two inches and a wire run at-
tached the width of the coop, and 5 or 6 feet long
which is cat proof. With such a coop, with the
door closed every night, you wont be raising- chicks
for rats and cats to eat.

When the eggs are all hatched that will, take
the hen and dust her again with insect powder,
also dust the chicks; use none but Persian insect
powder as it wont hurt the little chicks. Place the
hen and chicks in the coop with plenty of dry chaff
on the bottom. Shut the door to keep it dark so
the hen will brood the chicks and not get uneasy;
:Mj to 48 hours after the chicks are hatched place a
shingle covered Avith fine sharp sand before the hen
and sprinkle it with stale bread crumbs rolled in
sand. This is the first feed for the chicks.

From this time on fed nothing but dry feed, such
as bread cruni])s, pin-head or steel cut oatmeal,

Alillet seed, cracked wheat, etc., or what is better
is some of the prepared chick food now on the
market.

Always have fresh water before them in little
fountains so the chicks can drink but not get their
feet wet.

Faithfully follow these instructions in setting the
hen — place the brood in a coop as above described —
move the coop and wire run on to fresh ground
every day, feed no wet food, everything dry and
you will raise nice strong chicks that wall be a
pleasure to you instead of a disappointment.

The high state of perfection which incubators
and brooders have attained in the last decade is
wonderful, and the old setting hen sadly contem-
plates the onward march of science and invention
that is fast taking from her the greatest pleasure
of her life, but the fact still remains that the brooder
has yet to l)e invented that will supply the life-
giving warmth and magnetism to the little chicks
equal to the mouther hen.
darrcttsville, O.

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Mating and Hatch

How to Get Fertile Eggs. Proper Feed and Care.
Confining Birds in Small Yards. Caring for and
Handling the Eggs.

By J. GAYLORD BLAIR

J I E hatching season is now here again
and we must all be ready to welcome
the "chirp" of the small chick. And
for these chicks to be healthy and ro-
bust, we must study the eg<^ that
produces them. The writer does not
propose to present an essay upon embryology, but
it will be sufficient for our purpose to say that the egg
must be fertile or, in other words, hatchable, and this
l)rings us at once to the subject of fertilitv. I have
given it a great deal of study in the last 'few vears
and the more I study it the more interesting it be-
comes.

First let us consider the egg that produces the
chick : of course the egg gets its fertility from the
male bird, but the female must be in the very best
of condition at the time the egg is laid, because'if she
is not in the very best of health the germ will be very
weak, and if it hatches at all the chick will not live
very long. This has been demonstrated time and
again in the writer's own experience. Hens that are
suffering from disease or infested with vermin may
lay a few eggs, but eggs from such hens rarelv hatch,
and if they do, the chicks will not mature into
healthy and vigorous birds. Hence, in order to se-
cure eggs that have strong germs, the birds that pro-
duce them must he in the pink of condition, fed on a
variety of food and must have plcntv of exercise.
])o not try to force your hens for eggs, for if you do
the eggs will probably not hatch Veil. ( iive your
hens a variety of food and they will lav plentv of eggs,
because it is natural for them to do so. Do not fe'c'd
corn day after dny and year after vear, for this will
not help fertility along any, neither will it help the
hen's egg record any. A mixed diet in the grain line.

such as wheat, cracked corn, oats, l)arlev, rve, kaffir
corn, suniiower seed, etc., will help fill the egg basket;
also feed ca1>bage, turnips, beets, etc., and gr'een bone
three times a week (one ounce per hen is a big ra-
tion). Keep grit, oyster shell and charcoal before
them at all times, also plentv of pure fresh water
i hey must be kei)t free from lice and must have
l)lenty of straw or litter to exercise in. Birds that
have free range, need less attention than those that
are kept in small yards, and their eggs are usually
more fertile. We should give our birds all the vard
room that we can possibly provide for them.

Some people do not believe in mating their birds
and keeping them in their small vards. This is the
'wrong idea, as it is a necessitv for a breeder to mate
us best birds so as to improve them along both ex-
hibition and utility lines. Some disagree 'as to how
many females should he mated with one male bird •
some say ten and some three. I have alwavs had the
))est success mating about eight females with' one male
One should exercise some oversight as to the matin^r
of his fowls and should regulate liis breeding pens
accordingly. In the flock where there are three or
.our females the male will so annov and worrv his
inates or small flock that but few eggs will be' pro-
duced and but few of that number xvill hatch. Resides
this, the hens of the small flock will l)e jealous ner-
vous, and (inarrclsome, and if vou will give this 'same
male a large flock he will keep them contented and
iiarmonious. J believe it is best to mate about eight
and not more than ten females to one male If vou
are so situated that you can alwavs mate a cock bird
to i)ullets and a cockered to hens,' you will get good
strong, healthy chicks that will thrive and grow ^rop-

[iru .ri'iirr''"^ 'T/"' ^'^^''^'^^'^' ^nicard those
that aie il shapen and that have ridges on the shell.

liy o get all of them of the same size, color etc
nud (h.canl eggs that are too small or too large' I et

he selection he influenced bv the average i)roduct of
the breed or hen. An egg of unusual length or one
of unusual rotundity should not be placed in an in-
cubator or under a hen. Most eggs of that kind are

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infertile or will hatch a cripple. Freshness is a prime
necessity ; fresh eggs will hatch earlier and the chicks
will be much stronger than the ones hatched from
eggs that are several weeks old. As a rule, eggs
should not be set if they are over ten days old'; they
should also be clean and free from dirt and filth, i^f
they are not clean they should be washed in tepid
water and carefully dried with a clean soft cloth.
Washing does not injure the egg, but it should be
done very carefully. As soon as the eggs are washed
they should be covered with a layer of clean cloth or
absorbed cotton to prevent them from becomin^>-
chilled. ""

Bear in mind that eggs set the same day they are
laid will hatch several hours earlier than others that
are a week older. In saving eggs for incubation they
should be kept in a room with an average temperature
of about 50 degrees F. ; they will stand a variation in
temperature of about from 50 to 90 degrees, but this
will tend to weaken the germs somewhat. They should
not be exposed to currents of cold or hot ai'r, steam

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or vapor. A very good way to turn eggs is to place
them in a shoe box or something on that order, wrap
each egg in paper and fill the box just full enough for
the top to go on easily, tie with good string; now you
have them so you can turn them all at once and as
many times as you like by merely turning the box over
but once a day is sufficient. Or still better, you can
get an egg cabinet with special egg turning travs at a
very small cost. Do not set eggs that are over a week
old or ten days at the outside, if it can be avoided.

In order to get fertile eggs that will hatch strong
healthy chicks, there are three points that a breeder
must keep in mind. First, the fowls that produce
the eggs must be in the best of health. Second, they
must be housed properly and have the right kind of
exercise. Third, they must be fed upon an assorted
or balanced ration. A little attention to these simple
rules will make quite a difference in the possibilities
of fertile eggs and will greatly help the chicks grow
into large, robust birds.

Carlisle, Ky.

Pointers on Successful Advertisin

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Advertising Is the One Absolute Necessity If a
Breeder Expects to Attain Prominence and Make
the Business a Financial Success.

By WALTER E. LUND

F ALL the important factors of success
as a fancier, nothing is to be given
more attention than advertising. No
matter how good your stock may be,
or how many prizes you may have won
at the poultry exhibitions, it is all for
naught if people do not know that you have such
stock for sale. The only way you can let them know
you have the birds they are looking for is to adver-
tise.

In advertising, do not expect returns from your
ads ten days or so after your first ad appears. I well
remember a little of my own experience along this
line I had won six prizes on the first six birds I
had ever shown. I advertised eggs for sale from
these birds and the birds that produced them in a
classified ad in a good poultry journal. Returns failed
to come after I had advertised six months. I had re-
ceived but two inquiries. I corresponded with the
editor and asked him to explain why my ad didn't
bring greater results. I discontinued the ads in his
journal and heard no more about the matter till the
following autumn, and then the results commenced
to come in from my spring ads. My eggs didn't
sell, but after I had raised tiie birds from these eggs
I sold enough to many times pay for the advertis-
ing. A great many people keep their poultry jour-
nals for future reference, and when they wish to
buy poultry or eggs they get out some old journals
that in some cases may be several years old and
v^rite to the advertisers. I have done the same
thing in my early experience.

In advertising as in most other things, it is the
stayer who wins.

There are some people who aspire to be success-
ful fanciers who will pay $25 to $50 for a sino-le

bird, but who will not spend $1 to advertise it.
Then, they wonder why they don't get to the top.
There is not a successful fancier in the field today
who did not reach his position through advertisino-
Don't forget that. =.-

Raising the prize winners and making the busi-
ness a financial success are two different proposi-
tions and require different brands of ability.

Another branch of advertising which is important
IS your letter-heads, envelopes ^ and a good line of
stationery and circulars. If you have received an
inquiry from your ad in a poultry journal it is up to
you to land the business. No matter how well your
letter may be written, you will not have the advan-
tage of your competitor who may not write quite so
well, but who has neat, attractive stationery and cir-
cular matter. Tell people abotit your fowls, matings,
prizes, etc., in as brief a wav as possible and it will be
more effective.

Another method of advertising is to have neat and
light packages to ship and also to have a neat
placard or shipping card on every coop or egg pack-
age containing your name and address and where the
stock or eggs are going. Many a shipper sends a con-
signment of fowls to a customer in any old box he
can find. ^Hiese boxes are oftentimes so heavy that
they incur extra express charges. This is a detriment
to future trade. A neat package creates a good im-
pression and some times causes a prospective cus-
tomer to decide in your favor.

When placing your order for stationerv and poultry
printing, it is better to give the work to a firm mak-
ing a specialty of this class of printing than to a local
printer. These specialists are always prepared with
excellent cuts of birds and other necessarv appliances
for this class of work. Their ads can always be found
in journals that you take and the editor of the paper
always stands good for them and their work. In this
way you are always sure to get something good. I
hope that these few hints on advertising will be of
some benefit to at least a few readers.

Erie, Pa.

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Poultry Fancier

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1897 to 1907.

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Post Office at Chicago, 111., under

Act of March 3, 1879.

Published the 1 5 th of each month by

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FRANK HECK,

Editor

Subscription price in United States and pos-
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All subscriptions are immediately discontinued
when the time expires for which they have been
paid.

Requests for advertising rates will be given
prompt attention.

Changes of ads must be received by the 1st of
the month. New ads must be received not later
than the 1 0th of the month.

The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
in character. It is the only poultry journal pub-
lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
don of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

April, 1910

Bii}- a Standard, not as an orna-
ment for yonr library table, but as a
! (Mjk of frequent reference. Make
yourself so familiar with the ideal of
your breed, througli constant study of
Standard re(|uirements that you will
:iot need to refer to the printed page.

It doesn't pay to boost your prices
sky high just because some other
breeder can do it successful) v. If
you have not the reputation and" show
record to support the prices you will
never get them.

Try for the impossil)le. Aim at the
sun. Though you will never hit tlie
sun with your arrow, it will go higher
than if you took a lower aim.

The Standard describes tlie ideally
perfect bird. Such a bird never wa*s
and never will be. But this "counsel
of perfection" teaches us what to
strive to produce and enal)les us to
produce something 1)etter than would
have been possible with a lower
Standard.

It is not all in the egg. Rearing
exerts a powerful influence in making
tile possibilities of the eggs realities
in the chickens. Good breeding must
be supplemented bv good care and
good feeding.

A Few Reminders for Buyers

and Sellers of Fggs for

Hatching.

In the midst of the season, when
eggs for hatching are liberally bought
and sold, the seller and the buyer
should spend a little thought upon
what their relations to each other
should be; what ought the seller to
give and the buyer to expect?

The seller ought to "make good"
on all of his representations. The
eggs which he ships should be "true
to name," that is, laid by fowls
of the particular breed advertised;
they should be reasonably fresh, so
that a fair hatch can be "anticipated
from them: they should be of good
shape; that is, free from abnormali-
ties, like ridges and bends; they
>hould have a firm shell, neither too
thick nor too thin; they should be, as
nearly as possible, of the average size
laid by the breed, the very small and
the uimaturally large ones being re-
jected: they should be of nearly uni-
form color, though this is a point of
minor importance; they should be
from a pen mated long enough to
make it reasonablv certain that the
eggs are fertile, and it would be well
if the breeder would test a few be-
fore shipi)ing any: they should be
properly packed in suitable boxes or
baskets and shipped as promptly as
cn-cumstances will permit: and the
l)uyer should be notified promptly, if
any unforeseen cause will necessitate
a delay in the consignment.

So much should the seller do and
so much the buyer may expect. But
the buyer cannot reasonably expect
every egg to hatch. If he gets fifty
per cent in chickens from the eggs,
he has done well. If from thirteen
t'Rgs he gets eight chickens he has
reason to congratulate himself, while
live ought not to cause him to com-
plam. He must not expect that every
chicken will be a prize bird. Matin<'-
has not yet become such an exacl
science that there are no culls. The
best of breeders produce them. And
It is a fact that the rearing often will
make a chicken a cull or a ])rize bird
according to whether it has been ill'
or good. b:xpress comi)anies do not
ahvays handle with care the eggs
committed to their tender mercie<=
and for what they do, the seller
should not be held accountable.

T.et both i)arties try to be reason-
able and deal with each other honest-
ly and nuich of the friction of the
egg trade will disappear.

Don't "Knock'' Other Breeds.

A "knocker" is an undesirable citi-
zen. He is a hindrance to progress.
His pessimism negatives, to the ex-
tent of his influence, the optimism of
others. Tf the world jrenerally acted
upon his advice, advancement would
be impossible.

Many poultrymen. without so in-
tending to be. are "knockers." We
receive many articles in the course
of a year, extollinrr the merits of vari-
ous breeds and varieties, claiming for

them the whole round globe which
we call the earth. Each breed sur-
passes all others in prolificness and
in table qualities, in beauty of color
and grace of figure, in hardiness and
economic feeding; in fact, in every de-
sirable duality. And not content with
setting forth the merits of the breed
under consideration, the writers in-
stitute comparisons with other
breeds, greatly to their disadvantage.
In other words these writers are un-
conscious "knockers" of all breeds
but their own.

We are charitable enough to be-
lieve that the enthusiasm of the writ-
ers for their own favorites, and not
an intentional hostility to other
breeds, has obscured their sense of
justice and blinded their eyes to the
harm which they are doing, for such
statements are unfair and harmful in
many ways- This w^ould be true,
even if their statements were always
correct, but unfortunately blind zeal
often leads to i)ositive misstatement
of facts. It should never be forgot-
ten that no one breed ever had, has
now, or ever will have all the good
features to be found in domestic
poultry. In the nature of things this
would be impossible. Some qualities
are antagonistic. The greatest pro-
lificacy and the greatest table quali-
ties can never be combined in one
fowl; they will no more mix that oil
and Walter. While there are fowls
that unite these qualities in a good,
even in a high degree, as is the case
with the best general purpose fowls,
the fowls which are supreme in the
realm of laying never can be supreme
as table fowls, and vice versa. And it,
too, should be remembered that all
breeds have some good cpialities.
There is no breed that does not have
merits which make it valuable to some
one, none which is not able to prove
Its value as a profitable fowl.

.\ poultry paper, as it stands for
all. must be just to all. It can not
pu])lish articles in which appear vin-
dictive references to and odious com-
parisons with other breeds. To do
so would convert it into a partisan
advocate of some single breed, and
make it wage an "unholy" war
against the welfare of breeders in
general. Moreover such articles
would be harmful to the uninformed
reader, and lead him to accept error
in the place of truth. Writers upon
special breeds should stick to their
text. They can tell what their breeds
are and what they have done, without
"knocking" others. And in general,
writers should select more frec|uently
topics of generab interest and helpful
information, such as the proper mat-
ing of breeding stock, the various
factors that must be attended to in
breeding, the necessarv conditions
for successful rearing, and the like
Such articles will be of interest to
all. and assist all in the breeding of
better specimens of their chosen
l>ree(ls. We are glad to publish such
articles, and it is our aim to help the
breeders of all varieties in every legit-
imate way. Not for ourselves but for
others, not for one but for all, is the
Diirpose of this publication.

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By EASTERNER

Here is a choice collection of ante-
quated "trade pullers" which we no-
tice are doing their full duty again
this season. They are horriblv over-
worked.

In my flock of 100 hens there is
less than twenty that lay over 800
eggs a year and less than fifty that
lay 250 in the same length of time.

The male that heads pen 4 weighs
something less than 13 pounds— he
should sire size.

Aly birds won 1, 2. 3 cocks; 1, 2, 3,

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4, .5 cockerel; 1, 2, 3, hen; 1, 2, 3, 4,
5 pullets; 1, 2, 3, pens at the Small-
ville show, with competition open to
the world. This is the record win
of the universe. (Eggs $1.00 per 15;
$3.. 50 per 100).

I did not show last season as had
sold an enormous number of birds
for exhibition purposes. It is not po-
litic to compete with one's custom-
ers.

I do not show because the judges
are not straight; but I furnish high
class stock for exhibition purposes.

T paid $200 to for the cock-
erel that won at , have mated

him to 10 hens of splendid quality.

BARRED PLY. ROCKS, S. C. BLACK ORPLNGiONS
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES AND ?^'' ^ii;^^ ^°" "^^'"^ p"-^'

n. ^ m. » *^«^*^^ « u X. 1, , ^-^A-^Jur than all our competitors at the

R. C. R. I REDS ,Ba'-aboo Valley Show. Our breeding pens contain the grande.st
t- ,r • r A'vm-im-rK./ j^^ Qf breeders we ever had. Eggs at $3 00 oer 1.5 reduced to

half price after May 15th. Some grand breeders at reduced prices^ SatisfacUoSguarlnteed^

RAVEN ROCK POULTRY FARM
GEO W. HACKETT, Proprietor BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

White WyandotteS. ^- C- Buff. R- C Brown and R. C. White

I rr-lirvfUkTC Jn^r.^. o. ^ i • ^^ the recent Baraboo Valley show I won nine firsts, six

LEGHORNS ™ r^ "^ several minor and special prizes including the Mediterranean class
of all firsts in Wh^? ^tl^^^.^ ^''^^ Sweepstake all classes competing. I made a clean sweep
mnJl?r^cl«H ^ Wyandottes including club specials. At Madison. January 1910, I entered
C Sb Medafon w'w w°^ P['^f ' S" ^\'i^ Wyandottes and R. C. Brown I^eghorns including
Club Medal on best W Wyandotte hen. My winners are in ray breeding pens mated to oroduce
winners If you order eggs you will get the best without reserve at $2.00 peri5 Some choice °tock
for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. Highland Poultry Yard.. C. Cape„er!>r^op.. R.F.D I^I^abro.l^,

Porter White WYANDOTTE YARDS

send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES. P'^*'^"^ ^°

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-
dottes? If so, will

CHAS. DAVIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

a

DON A n HF V'^ R F n^" ^^"'^ ^°" f°^ ^^^ second season in succes-
M^K^k^I^KJUlMZs I >J MXELmU'O sion the R. I. Red Club Cup and the Ameri-

' ,.. , , '' . ■ . . ^' " • " '" can Cla.ss Cup. at the Baraboo Vallev Poul-

try Show_ Also their share of first and .specials at other leading shows. Eggs for hatching as
follows: first pen |3 00 per 1.5. second and third pens |2 00 per l.f utility stSf ha vine- excel len?

u'lotro^.n^'-?' P"*" '5n "^^^^ .°^^^^^^ ^° '"f'f ^f 30 eggs wSl allow a d&ount of f^pe^r ce^t and
in lots of 50 or larger 20 per cent discount will be allowed. Both single and rose comb.

J. T. DONAGHEY - BOX 117. NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

zj

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

"Mahogany" Strain ^^ "vt "^^H^anE^ "Ir a. ^IT^

Win eleven
first s at

they grow. Get them from the originator.

THOS. OSBORN, - 309 IOWA AVENUE.

good
MUSCATINE. lA.

Light Brahmas, Single Comb Brown Leghorns
and Mammoth Bronze Turkeys ^^^^^^^^^u^?^

■ ..,£,, J a. large share of the ribbons. I

have some grand stock for sale, and eggs at reasonable prices. If you deal with me vou can
expect a square deal. Send for free catalogue.

L. H. JOSTES & SON, . . R. F. D. NO. 2, MACON, ILLINOIS

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES
AND LIGHT BRAHMAS

-THE BES 1 IN THE NORTHWEST'

5 firsts, 6 seconds and 3 thirds at the tSio Minneapolis show.

GEO. A. KERSTEN

119 West 52nd Street (Washburn Park) Minneapolis, Minn.

This pen MUST produce winners.
Have been breeding? this class of
chickens for 30 years and know a
.i?ood one when I see it. Note — Won-
der why he doesn't raise the $200
kind?

The hone§t chicken men are all
dead excepting myself and I am feel-
ing sick.

I conld not show last season as a
chicken killing dog got^ into mv
yards (or was it a skunk* or a hu-
man biped, or hawks, or something?)
and killed the good ones.

My birds were overweight so lost
out. Mv birds were hatched in July
so were under weight.

^ly early hatched birds were past
their best. But for a black feather
m my cock, hen. cockerel or pullet
I would have had every first.

Had no time for preparation so
caught the birds the night before,
etc., etc.

Comb got hurt fighting — it wasn't
a side sprig.

"There is nothing new under the
sun," says Uncle Isaac, ''might have
been true when Solomon uttered it,
but he evidently didn't foresee the
breeds of fowls that would be in ex-
istence in A. D. 1910."

The poultry lore which one may
find in the ordinary newspaper is not
confined to the reading columns, as
the following advertisements in one
of the prominent dailies will prove:
"For Sale — Five cocks and one roos-
ter, Inquire, etc." What sex was the
rooster?

"Rooter" is informed that tlie
goose eggs that the base ball reporter
so frequently alludes to are not the
kind laid by any of the standard
breeds of domesticated geese; they
are produced by healthy bats. It is
well to remember that all "bats" do
not produce goose eggs: some are
said to produce cephalgia, excessive
thirst, and tight hats on "the morn-
ing after." ,

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Dear mother, may T go out and lay?

Oh! yes, my darling daughter;
Fly to the loft with its fragrant hay.
For eggs are dropping in price each
day.

And drop an egg as you ought ter.

S. Swaysgood and his critics
seem to have lost sight of Uncle
Rastus' system of raising poultry,
lie, too, believed in the influence of
the moon. "De right time to raise
poultry," he tells us, "am in de dahk
ob de moon. Folkses who attemp' to
raise it at any odder time, am liable
to hab bad luck. In de light ob de
moon one kin shoot straighter dan
in he dahk ob de moon. Yas, sah!
I knos. 'Spehiunce am a good teach-
ah."

Mongrel fowls, in these enlighten-
ed days, ought to be like the mule,
without pride of ancestry or hope of
posterity.

As there is always the class of be-
ginners, the poultrv journal needs to
furnish elementary instruction as
well as to discuss the more recondite

L«j»»-i(«CM.«*y5i©KMa«jase4i,Mk:^c

»«ai3e*«i*SMoi i<?iv*»i»-at9

phases of the great industry. It is
as important to publish the romance
of settmg a hen as to expound the
doctrines of heredity, and one may
be as useful and interesting to some
as the other is to others.

The term "sage," Rusticus is in-
formed, in such expressions as "the
sage of Natick," "the sage of Po-
dunkville," and the like, does not re-
fer to the plant grown by our grand-
mothers from which they concocted
a useful medicinal drink. We are sur-
prised at your suggestion.

Now, for a little while, England
will be able to boast of having an
Englishman who can spring a joke
and who knows one when he meets it
in the road. Matt Baldwin of Sioux
City sails for England May 15 on
a pleasure trip.

No matter what happens. Editor
Robinson has told us it is coming.

Having the A. P. A. meeting cinch-
ed. St. Louis does not mind the slurs
about its climate in August.

One touch of early summer makes
the sitting hen get busy.

Speaking of universal favorites
fanciers would elect the early sitting
hen to anything it might go after.

Really we should elect our A. P.
A. officials this spring without taking
too much into consideration the poli-
tician's feelings.

Uniform judging is still waiting for
the judges to act.

There are fewer old hens in the
country now to enjoy the advent of
spring than there would have been
had chicken meat been cheaper. But
this IS merely one of the trials of
greatness.

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Make room now for the White
Diarrhea microbe and the chick cem-
etery.

Let us hope that the faking ques-
tion will soon be only a memory.

The big daily papers and the gen-
eral magazines are now running their
usual spring articles giving a lot of
misinformation about how to raise
spring chickens.

"If I were the editor"— ah! if you
only were, what bright things you

Mlllin'lll'inniHlinH'llMIIIMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiMii.»,||ni„„,.ir»M. ■..■iiiiiinmim/im.rm;

POULTRY FeNCFI

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Made of extra heavy double «:alvatiized wires
^t. . ?^?. ^?P °^ bottom boards required
Chick tigrht-bottom wires only l in apart. ,,
COSTS NO MORE THAN NETTING y<4
< yet will last five times as lonr y\/jL
Send for catalog— we have ^ ■''^
leo stales and
can save you

money.
Write today

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POULTRY FANCIER

would say, and how you would boom
the paper! It is so easy to do it. It
is said that President Wayland was
once told by a student that he didn't
think the proverbs of Solomon were
very wonderful, and the President of
Brown University simply replied:
"Make a few." If any of the readers

April, '10

of this journal are bursting with bril-
liant things, let *em burst forth. The
publisher is ready to be shown; he
has paper and type.

Would it be well to limit the time
during which the officers of the Amer-
ican Poultry Association can hold

1900 EDELWEIS STRAIN 1910

*,-cH^* "5^^"'''^ LEGHORNS \Zl "^^^M^^ 'i^SSl

and Chicago. Write for our list of winnings, and mating list for 1910.

WHITAKER AND McCUNC . ASHTABULA. OHIO

HIGH CLASS S. C. R. I. REDS

My winnings for 1909—1910 are as
follows: Packwood, Iowa, Nov 17-

1st 3rd pullet 1st pen. Richland. Iowa. Dec. U-17, 1909. Dagle. JuVe'^^t%"n?iy^^^^^ 'ndTrd'ith
pu et, 1st. 2nd pen. West I^iberty, Iowa. Jan. 4-7, 1910. Rhodes JucTge; Is . 2nd cockerel lsr'>nd 4 h
ghinl'l n''?"^^^". Cash special for highest scoring ten in clkss. Cedar Rapids Iowa Jan 17 22
Shankhn. Judge; 2nd cockerel. 2nd pen. Write for mating list. Egg froni three special mated
pens. Incubator eggs $3.00 per 50, $5.00 per 100. ^ om mree special mated

FRANK CHALUPA. ^ , R. 2. PLEASANT PLAIN. IOWA

HAKE BUFF WYANDOTTE*

Aiiain winners of tHe bltx« at La Cross* and Baraboo
Specialty sale this month breeding pens and trios. I have a number of

«,iiir„of^ -.u T ! iiii^iiLH cockerels, scored by Roberts and vShellabarger which I

fTr m^UnV; St PenVwIiVS''^^'^^ ^^^^^^'^'J^ '° ^^0 for the trios and $7 to $25 for the^pens Send
bv Hale anH wir,^!^ f ^^f' again headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy.- scored 95^
pL all sconWQ^?/ L LT^^^^ Minneapolis in 1908. Si/pullets in thit

pen all scoring 91^ to 94^. $3 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE, ELROY, WIS.

Columbian Wyandottes "dLSss^AT

/■n* 'L^ J ^.^ . ^ T ,a 7 ^ ity. large blocky

( tVlCIlCiI*<lSOl\ Stt*A.il\^ birds, fine lacing in hackles and Wyandotte shape.
> , ,. ,. T ^^ ■* breeding pens con.sisting of high scorine males and

females- Kggs this season $1.50 and $2 00 per 1.5. 3 for $.5 00 Stock for .sale ''^oring maies ana

Crystal White OroincftonsP^^^o^*^***''*'^'^** strain

^^ ^ w>«.M« ▼» «a««,^ ^^« f AAA^B,VXBSK^rgs $2 00 and $3.00 per 15, $.5.00 for 30.
L. M. JACOBS, BARABOO, WIS.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

TRUE IN TYPE AND COLOR ?" '1'' '■"" ^S°}

L £ r . . 7 1 ^ 'wvF»jv/A% shows this season my birds

have won fourteen first prizes including first prize hen at Madison Square

harden in the hottest of competition. I shall breed ten matings of high class birds
this year from which I off er eggs for hatching, same as I use for myself. Mating list
cheerfully mailed for the asking. Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua N Y

Silver Laced Wyandottes and Salmon
Faverolles

C. p. McANDREW

Winnings for 1910
at Minneapolis and

!5^°."'^'V ^ }-}}^^^^> i" t^ie largest and best cla.sses ever shown in Uie

^L 00 per 15. Stock for sale. Send for catalogue.

Eggs

ELLSWORTH, WIS.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS T' ^'^t '"' w':

^^ * 'v^A i»^ Have made a wonderful
record in the past winter shows. Egg at LIVING PRICES from ten grand pens

E. M. LONG, - BOX P. F, OSCEOLA, IND.

S. C. R. L REDS ^f^Gs and day

OLD CHICKS'^ ""''

??r^?re; mL^t^g'S ^^^^^'^ '''^' '^^ '^^' *^^ ^^ --'^' ^ '-ve them. Th'^frT^?!, too" Writ^

BUStMESS BIROS OF OUAUTYz

Top Notch Poultry Farm, R. P. Guptlll, Prof^., Elcho, W/s.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

^y.'""*" *t Milwaukee, January
1910, 1st pullet, 3rd cock, 4th cock-
won all firsts and Gold Special for best di.splav in AraerTcL rW^"V^^' ^*" ^^* *"*• Atkin.on.
the egg trade headed by and including the?e winner^with nfW ^^^ ^"^^ grand pens mated for
from the.se matings at 1.3 00 oer l-i withm,. ™V a f ^1^^*^ females of equal quality. Eggs
Satisfaction guarfnfeed ^ without reserve. A few choice cockerels and pullets for sf le.

QUALITY WHITE ROCK POULTRY YARDS. W. R. ABBOTT. Prop..

Ft. Atkinson. Wis.

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office? There is much to be said on
both sides of that question. Every
member probably has his opinion
upon what answer should be given
to the question. In the meantime,
however, the wise fancier will not
neglect the hatching and rearing of
prize winners.

The publication committee need
not be afraid of getting the new
Standard out too early in the fall.

Theodore has his axe ready and it
is said he hews to the line. Has he
tackled a job too big for him? is
what some of the boys are asking.

All men are useful, some more use-
ful than others, but no man is indis-
pensable. When it comes to men we

R. C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won manv prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. " x5ggs now for
|2 00 per 15 from pens mat edto produce high cla'^s
exhibition stock. Harry Sower. Rome City, Ind.

Prouty's Partridge Plymouth Rocks

Good trio for $8 if taken at once, are worth more
but I must have the room. Eggs |,3 per setting,
express prepaid. O. 1,. PROUTY,

Box 115, New L,othrop, Mich.

S. C. BROWN
LEGHORNS

Choice cockerels
for .sale. Bred in line
for several years. Cock-
erel bred females to spare
Excellent layers. Prices reasonable.
H. E. MARQUARDT, WAUSAU, WIS.

WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS

for hatching. After March 1st. from hens and
pullets rcoring from i»2 to 94'2, price $2.00 per 15.
Eggs guaranteed. Elizabeth Dupons,

Kenosha, Wis.

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN. PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and stTaightforwardly honest work in the show
room. 30 years a poultryman.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
^ CHEAPEST AND BEST

18 for 16c; 25— 2.5c; 50— 40C; 100—750,
Saniplo nand MalJcd for 2c Stamp.
Frank Myers Mfr. Box 68. FreBporf.MI,

',/.

f^^ Crown Bone Cutter

Hens ft'rt cut fl^TWn l>oii.' hiy
iiioro f'KKs. Get a Crown I{..u"e
, <*iittiT. Siiiil to-d.av for catiilonue.
Wilion KroR., Box N'i'i, £Mton, Pa.

BEST A\ADE

Lowest
m Price

F. L. POULTRY FARM

Rhode Island REDS ^i-i^nl^g^h^e 's-Se
in red hot competition at Hagerstown. Chi-
cago. McKeesport. Butler and Pittsburg. Pa.
Stock, eggs and baby chicks. Write for cir-
cular and mating list.
F. L. OBER. R. F D. NO. 1, VERONA, PA.

LEGHORNS-HOUDANS- ROCKS

Houdans to February 28th, 18. Total for
year 947. Send for my 1909-10 show record.

H E ROr.FRS 929 MISS. ST.

11. L.. I\V/UE.I\J LA CROSSE. WIS.

Silver Laced Wyandottes .T,l«»,«?,
White Wyandottes duston s.r.i„

H n 11 rl a n c McAVOY-TAYLOR Strain
11 U U U d nS Kggs $2 00 per 15. Poor
liatches replaced at half price.

~ H. BACON, R. F. D.. Elroy, Wi«.

B

AMCIEfR^

have only to settle the question which
is the more useful — we can eliminate
the idea of indispensability.

Vote early and vote your own opin-
ion. Hear what is to be said, but
decide for yourself.

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Concerning the value of certain
theories recently advanced, one says
that it reminds him of the words of

Page 93

^'•''^^^'-"■■""■''■'-*' •*'-''-=^''--"-^ "''^''-'

(Preacher says it some more.)

Mob: "Are the>' barred to the
skin?"

''Have they red eyes?"

"Are they yellow legged?"

"What strain are they?"

"What do they weigh?"

"What did they cost?"

(All these questions have to be
asked at same time, same as any mob
would do when Barred Rocks was the
subject; any other questions may be

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A ROCK HILL FARM WHITE LEGHORN.

best S. C Wliito Legliorn fVniah's shown last season. She. with

F. W. Corey, Mgr., Ossining, N. Y.

One of the
many others, are in the yards at Rock Hill Farm

"He had been eight
project for extracting

Dean Swift:

years upon a

sunbeams out of cucumbers, which

were to be put in phials hermetically

sealed, and let out to warm the air in

raw, inclement summers."

Scenario.

Characters: Preacher (a
be): Mob (which is looking
truthful ])rcachcr).

Mob: "What do you do to
yourself outside of clerical duties?"

Preacher (humbly): "T keep Barred
Rock chickens."

Afob: "What? ! ! !"

would-
for a

added to the voice of the mob — it's
all good business.)

(7'he preacher gives the regular
answers — which need not be given
here, for we all know them — but then
the chief elder rises.)

Elder: "And what is the ej
ord. brother?"

Preacher (who is a
of course, rising and
l)reast franticallv') : "

'^g rec-

amuse nie! and still Ah me!

truthful man,

beating his

■A h me ! Ah

What can I

will convince

say. dear brother, that ....^v

you that T would answer your ques-
tion truthfully? If T sav that the 200
hens average 100 per hen per year,

mm^mZj^itZ3^aiJvtK)r fancier^

""k*

you will give me the horse laugh. If
/^y -^^^ >'^" ^vill question as to
whether I'm over or under-stating it.
If I tell the truth!! and say 267 eggs
per hen, mcluding in the count of
hens all the roosters, you will refuse
me the job. Ah me! Ah me!! Ah
me.!! (Sobs in the audience.)

Mob (falling on his knock delight-
edly): "At last the truth! At last

Rock is like, and as to how it should
be judged.

This also "ain't so."

The sacred flock of geese is said
to have saved the city of Rome; a
t,^ander is just reported to have saved
a child's life, but in the attempt lost
Its own beneath the street car wheels.
In true heroism the modern goose

S. C. Black Minorcas IcUdai '

Kvrlii«ii/#»lv ^'>^l^. I"d. show one of
i^Ji.l.iU91VCiy the best shows ever held
in northern Indiana, Jan. 4-8, 1910, won silver
cup for best display in Mediterranean class
points to count. Eggs from birds scorini?
92 to 95 $3.00 per 15. ^

G. A. GAGE LA GRANGE, IND.

'^"i^'StlS '"" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville, Ind., Jan. 4-8, Tucker, Judge- 2
3 cock, 2 cockerel, 1, 2, 4 hen, 1, 2 pullet, l'. 2
pen. 20 females average 92 1-5. Richmond,
Ind Tan. 12-15. Zike. Judge;I won eight prizes
with five birds entered: 1 cockerel, 1, 2 hen, 1,
2 pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Write for mating list.

IRA FORD

LA GRANGE, IND.

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCK HEN
iTiany rniz. ^vi'.mMs bred and owned at Rock Hill Farm.

Core?"Mff/ Os^inine" k" v V?"","''ri-/,"f" ""^' owned at Rock Hill Farm F W
this varYeTy." ^^'•^"""^' ^- ^- ^^^^'^ J^'" ^^«^nn i.. beadqnarters for liigluvstTualfty ?„

the truth!! You get the job at dou-
ble the salary offered."
Amen. Amen. Amen.

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It is rumored that the A. P. A.,
which governs all our goings and
comings and shortcomings, is going
to give the status of an egg sold for
hatching purposes.

This is splendid news— but it ain't
so.

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It is rumored that the American
Plymouth Rock Club is ^oing to
make a standarrl that will in some
sense describe what a real Barred

seems to have the better of the
ancient. Who says that we are retro-
grading?

It is rumored that there's a real
live judge who knows how to breed
Rood chickens— but he isn't much of
a judge.

It i.s rumored that some Barred
Rock breeders "allow" that the Cre-
ator may have known what a Barred
Rock should look like. So does Sew-
el — but Sewcll has the advantage
when It comes to knowing something
about under-color.

Barred Plymouith

ROC MS "^"lloy's Ringlets are

^S^f^^^^i^"?! P*" c^^c-ks at Nebraska State Fair
1909. Write me for stock and eees Epp-s
11.50 and |2..'iO for 15. ^^ ^^^

Cff AS. Mr. MULI.OY
BOX lO. FRKMONT, NEBR.

BROODER

1

CLOUGH'S
CHICKEN

Telescopic. Always one story. The best
free literature. Address

Clough's Lampless Brooders

AURORA, ILL.

S. C. White Leghorns

The right type and color. Line bred
for years. Winners at Yonngstown
and Warren, O. Stock eggs for sale

BERT COLE, ^^o«u'S({fs\J??N^^5:

COLUMBIAN
WYANDOTTES

% Bred to win and lay.

Won
at

^ H'}"|jnKton Ind.. 1910. 2nd cockerel, 2nd,

«. 'JSm^V'/^'^^i- Won at Ft Wayne. Ind.
& 1^10, 3rd cockerel, 1st. 2nd. 3rd pullet

^ Send for Mating List.

A. M. BENDER

1231 Walton Ave. FT. WAYNE, IND.

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photos, .TO fine colored plates.T-
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Some More Thoughts on Faking

By EASTERNER

Can a great educational institution
be a fakir, Was it faking when Cor-
nell induced a hen to lay pink eggs
from eating dye stuff? Was it faking
Avhen the University of Chicago, by
mingling dyes with corn meal, caused
hens, not only to lay colored eggs
iut to grow colored feathers? Is it
any less faking to dye from the inside
than It IS to dye from the outside?

Wc respectfully call the attention
of a certain eastern editor to the
fact that these great educational insti-
tions, through the public press of the
•country, have been teaching that dye
stuffs may be fed and that when fed
they are able to change artificially
the color of the plumage of the fowls.
He might take this matter up before
the American Poultry Association.
Certainly this would be a good case
for him.

But can feeding be faking? Wheli
I feed White Wyandottes white corn
to keep them white, or when I give
yellow corn to Buff Wyandottes to
enrich their buff coloring; or when I
add sulphate of iron or tincture of
iron to the drinking water of Brown
Leghorns to prevent or correct a ten-
dency to white types, am I guilty of
faking? If I am not a fakir in such

instances, do I become one when I
dabble in dyes, applied internally?

Is faking a matter of degrees? May
one feed stuff which has a tendency
to affect color and remain an honor-
able breeder, and feed something a
little stronger and become a fakir?
Is that what faking means? If it is,

Just ahead of the best of them. Par-
tridge Wyandotte cock, "Red Bov, Jr."
hist at Davenport. St. Louis arid Des
Moines. Score 94% bv Russell. Bred
and owned by Thos. Osborn. Muscatine.
Iowa.

are not poultry breeders in a position
similar to that of doctors, who may
administer strychnine in minute doses
as a tonic and be hailed as life pre-
servers, but if they give a slightly
larger dose be called murderers? Is
it only a matter of degrees?

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock tor sale, bred hom
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red.
Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

ISLAND REDS

ANTIGO, WIS.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

My Reds lead again at the big Missouri
State Show. St. I,ouis, Dec. 1909. l.st, 2d

Pullet; 1st. 3d Cockerel; 2d. r,th Hen; 4th, 5th Cock : 3d Pen in a class of 148 R. C. Rhode Island Reds.
Also R. I. Red (State Cup) the fourth year in .succession. Cup for best Male and Female, special for
best Cockerel. Some good stock to spare yet.

VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. Fayette, Mo.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS

Over 300
prizes won at
lars2e shows in

CHAMPIONS of the West 20 years. Record unequalled. Right color and size

^^ ^ with yellow legs. Eggs from $1.50 to $3.00 per

15, both matings. Circular free.

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"MAJESTIC I ••

5th Cockerel. Chicago Dec 08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND

ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack.?
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, III.. 1909. 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910.
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

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If, as Professor Cscar F. Riddle
of the University of Chicago is re-
ported to have said, a dye called,
"Alizarin," when fed to hens, will
cause them to lay eggs with pink
shells: and if other dye stuffs, when
mixed with the hen's food, while the
plumage is growing, will cause her to
take on "to a degree the color of the
dye"; and if an q^q, colored within
through such feed, when hatched, will
produce a chicken whose fat parts
will be colored; if all these things
are so, must we not revise Hamlet's
question so as to read "To dye or not
to dye?"

The hen seems to be coming into
her own of late in the public press.
Not only are Cornell and the Univer-
sity of Chicago furnishing copy for
the newspapers, but the great city of
Paris has gone wild over Rostand's
drama, "Chanticler." If there should
ever be an Americanized version of
this play, one can imagine some trag-
edian stalking across the stage with
inde.x finger laid upon a white brow
corrugated with intense thought, and
uttering in a deep, sepulchral voice:

"To dye or not to dye: that is the

question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the show to

suffer
Defeat and lose the longed-for pre-
mier prize,
To have one's birds, in short, disqual-
ified.
Or by judicious feeding stop all that
.And wnn the honors. Ah! To feed;

to dye:
To dye; perchance to rudely be found

out,
And basely to be caught with the vile

goods;
Re caught and fakir named: aye,

there's the rub.
For in the terror of that awful name
Defeat, dishonor, loss, are firmly

joined,
And thc}^ must give us pause."

In all that has been said let no "vile
caitiff" say or think that we favor
faking. Wc do not. We condemn it,
in season and out of season. But
like many another seeker after truth,
we are longing for a clear definition
of the offense. Some things are
clearly faking and some are not, but
there is a misty borderland, of indefi-
nite width, where it is difficult to say
what is and what is not faking?
Where is the Moses to lead us out of
this Egypt? Who will give us a defi-
nition so clear that it will banish the
darkness which envelopes this sub-
ject? We arc all attention. Hrcthren,
don't all speak at once.

After all, there is nothing new in
the announcement that the coloring
of birds can be affected by food. Dar-
win and W^allace have pointed out
striking instances of its effect. Cay-
enne-fed canaries have been sold in
the bird stores for many, many years.
T\\Q fact, as a fact, has been long
established. The facts which are not
generally known are what foods will
affect these changes. Even some of
these foods are known; some are dis-
puted; and many probably remain for
future discovery. It was said of old
"There is nothiu"- new under the
sun," and certainly this saying seems
to find support in the main fact that
fond (joes affect color of plumage.

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POULTRY FANCIER

FROM READER

This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would hke to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

A CURE FOR RATTLING IN THE
THROAT.

I wish to relate my experience in
regard to a cure for wheezing, or rat-
tling, in tlie throats of our grown-up
chickens. I do not know what to call
the disease, but I will describe it as
well as I can and then tell what cured
mine in less tlian twenty-four hours.
It seems like a bad case of asthma in
a human being where it is difficult for
the patient to breathe. My first case
was that of a hen that was housed
near a public walk and one evening
as I was passing the house I heard
a noise that fairly lifted me off my
feet, metaphorically speaking. I en-
tered the poultry house to find one of
my best hens breathing as though she
had the death rattle. My wife, who
IS somewhat acquainted with the med-
ical virtues of some of the leading
drugs, suggested that we place a lit-
tle sulphate of iron in powdered form
down Its throat by dropping it from
a little piece of paper. I held the
bird s mouth open while my wife
dropped in the powder. The next
morning all signs of wheezing were
gone. Last week one of my handsom-
est pulets was affected in the same
manner. The same remedy was ap-
plied in the evening and it was the
end of the rattling in the throat. It
has done the work three times for me
and I have come to the conclusion
that It must be all right.

^ ^ Jas. Lawrey.

Carson, Iowa.

COOPING THE CHICKS.

In raising last year's flock, one
should have learned several good
points along the line of properlv coop-
ing the growing chicks. One may
have ever so good eggs from the
very best yards and yet ruin his whole
Hock by improper cooping. In looking
at some fine Huff Orpingtons at our
County Fair last fall a party said, "Mv
Orpingtons don't look like that man's
ami yet I got the eggs from him
They are so long in legs." The trou-

h.^ '^M i'^ ""'^^ "" "^^ beginner and
had tailed to coop them rightly He
IS wise who profits from his own or
others failures. The trouble is we are
ail loathe to give plenty of breathing
room to our chicks, and room is one
of the big elements of our success and
yet the least recognized. It took me
20 years to learn it. I^arrels and dry-
goods boxes were used and I lost in

any one year enough chicks from rats,
skunks, etc., to have made me coops
sufficient to have supplied me for the
20 years.

Out of the various designs of coops
that have passed through my brain,
the one that I have used for years is
the best all round coop that I have
seen or used. Anyone can make it.
I use shiplap, smoothed on both sides.
It IS 3x4 feet, 2 feet on back, nearly
^rJ^^^ J" f'*o"t, with slanting roof.
ihe bottom is made separate and the
boards are nailed to 2x4 scantlings.
This keeps the chicks up off the
ground and thus dry. The coop itself
fits neatly and extends down over the
floor ] inch, thus conducting the rain
from the floor. The little ^2 x 2 inch
corner posts lack the inch of reaching

to the bottom of the coop proper.
This lets the posts rest on the floor.
A long, narrow opening for ventila-
tion up near the top in front is cut,
over which is nailed screening. The
door in front is 18x24 inches but I
have an extra door made of a frame
and screen to slip in during the hot
summer nights. Here you have a coop
large enough to keep a brood of
chicks till fall and one in which you
can teach your young stock how to
roost. I place roosts in later in the
season. It can be moved into your
breeding yards and used for a small
breeding pen, or for cooping your
males after breeding season or during
winter. In fact, there are more than
a dozen uses they can be put to. Easy
to clean out. Simply tip back or lift

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Popular taste NO COMB TO FREEZE

i 11 poultry

the styles iu women's hats. lu^telecting 'youf brlil^r
^oose one that's • 'coming in ," not one that's 'Agoing out .' '

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off from the bottom and you have
access to every part of the coop. Try
one or more of these coops. Make a
few and see if they don't fill the bill
perfectly. John II. Wolfe.

Tecumseh, Nebraska.

SENSE AND ENERGY VS. CASH

AND THEORY — IN POUL-

TRYDOM.

While I do not set myself up as the
only authority on poultry culture, may
I have the floor for a few minutes to
talk to those who are yet young in
the mysteries of poultrydom? Surely
there has been enough written in re-
gard to the ways, whys, and where-
fores of poultry breeding to make
every one an expert, but there seems
to be about as many failures yet as
there are in any other business. 'What
the poultry world is suffering for to-
day is some good hard common sense
beat right down into our brainpans,
with a water-elm club, and I'll take
my share with the rest.

We have had enough of the 10x12
houses, with ventilators up through
the roof, feeding corn the year around
and dozens of other senseless ideas.
Do you expect a team to go out and
work all day on one feed? Do you
ieed your horse one thing the whole
year around? Are you content to live
on only one article for a meal and fol-
low it up? Surely not. Then why
ask it of your fowls and condemn
them because they do not lay eggs
two-thirds of the year, with their bod-
ies covered with vermin, or with an
old ramshackle of a board coop just
large enough to crawl into to get out
of the storm, and every crack and
crevice filled with mites, — millions of
them sucking the very heart blood out
of every fowl,— and yet you say if
they can't lay, you simply kill them
<which is a humane act, but by acci-
dent). Suppose, my friend, you just
build a house for the fowls not less
than 10 X 14 ft., for say 25 to 30 fowls,
make it warm, with plenty of yard
room, i)ut the roosts upon a platform
Avith the nest boxes on another plat-
form on the opposite side, with a good
low stone jar for water, with gravel,
oyster shells and charcoal in separate
boxes, using the whole ground floor
for the scratching shed, with plenty
of straw and a little wheat thrown in
it at least once a day, — except in mid-
summer when they may have a good
J?rass run. ivQi\' a variety twice
daily. (I ])refer a mash in the morn-
<ng) the wheat in the straw is not a
feed, but a by-feed, simply to keep
them at work, fight the lice and mites.

POULTRY E

and see if "Biddy" doesn't pay you for
all you have done for her; in other
words, use your own brains, and work
with an energy, instead of the idea
of paying out large sums of money on
some novice's theory, and I'll wager
my experience against your time that
the poultry business will bring you
a profit instead of a loss.

D. L. Weaver.
Fremont, Mich.

THE TERM "THOROUGHBRED.

»>

A certain writer assures us that we
are using language incorrectly when
we speak of "thoroughbred fowls."
He contends that this term applies
only to the English race-horse and
that other breeds have no right to
Its use; that what we mistakenly call
"thoroughbreds" are, correctly speak-
ing, "pure breds"; and that clearness
of thought requires us to drop the
term with reference to everything
but the race-horse.

Customary use, within certain lim-
its, fixes the meaning of technical
terms, but the use must be by those
who are familiar with the subject to
which the term applies. Common
u.sage may tend to fix the meaning
of common words, but technical
usage is necessary to fix that of tech-
nical terms. It is possible that,
among horsemen, the term "thor-
oughbred" ought to be restricted to
the running horse, because this breed
of horses, for many generations, has
been so called. When one speaks of
a "thoroughbred" horse, the English
race-horse is at once associated with
the name; no one thinks of the
Percheron, Belgian, Orloff or other
breed of horses. In the sphere of
horse breeding this term, through
customary usage, has acquired a spe-
cial significance.

But such a train of reasoning does
not apply to our domesticated fowls.
No single breed among them has
monopolized the name "thorough-
bred." When one speaks of a thor-
oughbred fowl, the term calls up the
mental usage of no particular breed;
a Langshan is as likely to be sug-
gested as a Leghorn, a Cochin as a
Hamburg. Had Dr. H. P. Clarke
succeeded in securing the admission
of the Pit Game to the standard un-
der the name of "Thoroughbred
Game," in time the necessity of aban-
doning the term "thoroughbred," as
ai)plied to other fowls, might have
arisen. But, happily, this' attempt
failed. These words are applied not
to the admission of the Pit Game to
the Standard, but to its admission
under the proposed name. I will

Bogardus' Orpingtons

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All for sale. A rare chance to
secure high class stock at a low
price, 22 Buff Cockerels, $3 to |]0, all have sound wings, good eyes, fine shape and
color. 2 Buff cocks $S each, 26 Huff hens and pullets $2 to H each, 8 Black cocks
and cockerels f ] to |10 each, 18 Black hens and pullets $2 to IG each. Every bird
on the place must go at less than half price. They have won for me at Chicago,
Hagerstown, Jamestown Kxposiiton and other large shows. Write me your wants.
O. A. BOGARDUS, - . BOX A, WARSAW, KENTUCKY

grant, without argument, that if any
breed deserves the distinction ot that
name, it is the Pit Game. It is one
of the oldest of our breeds; it most
nearly resembles in type, and, in une
variety, in color, the wild original
from which all domesticated races of
fowls have descended; its type is a
happy combination of beautv and
utility, in my opinion, one of the
most desirable types among poultry;
and I should have heartily welcomed
its admission to the Standard under
some other name. The term "Pit"
is objectionable, because cock-fight-
ing, rightly or wrongly, is under the
ban of the law^ I suggested long ago
as a suitable name for this breed,
the "Bankivan Fowl," a name sug-
gestive of its early origin and its dis-
tinctive type. But I object to the
term "Thoroughbred Game." because
It clearly implies that the Exhibition
Game is not a thoroughbred, and
more or less distinctly suggests that
no other breed is entitled to be so
regarded. Good as the Pit Game un-
questionably is, it is not good enough
to monopolize this term; no breed is.
I am glad, therefore, that this at-
tempt failed. And as it did, and as
the term has been so long used in
poultry nomenclature as to have
among breeders a fixed and well un-
derstood meaning, there seems to be
no sufficient reason Avhy "pure-bred"
should be substituted for "thorough-
bred," as applied to fowls. a

In what has been said no reference
has been made to the definition of
this term by lexicographers. Permit
one brief reference. From one of
the standard dictionaries we take this
definition: "Thoroughbred, bred from
the best or purest blood or stock."
Such a definition anolies to all kinds
of live stock, from a draught horse
to a canary bird. As has been said,
the usage of horsemen seems to have
modified or restricted the meaning of
this term with reference to horses.
But among breeders of other kinds of
live stock, and particularly among
breeders of poultry, where' can one
lind customary usage which would
limit or restrict the meaning of this
word?

The tendency has been rather to
enlarge than diminish its meaning.
"And" should be substituted for "or'*
in the quoted definition, so that it
would read "Bred from the best and
purest blood and stock. " The term
thus defined means more than "pure-
bred"; that means bred within the
blood lines of the given breed, but
"thoroughbred" means all that and,
in addition, the breeding from care-
fully selected and judiciously mated
stock. Not only must the blood be
kept pure, but the stock must be of
the best.

The term is convenient and neces-
sary, its use creates no confusion of
ideas, and I believe that poult rymen
will, as T think that they ought to,
continue to use it in preference to the
proposed substitute, "pure-bred." It
will take more than one writer's dic-
tum to displace this term from the
poultryman's vocabulary and secure
the substitution of another of sim-
ilar but more circumscribed meaning.

H. S. Babcock.

East Providence. R. 1.

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POULTRY FANCIER-^

A Talk to Breeders of Buffs

(^■l':iK/i^r-',^--'M^t.o'.j/.^;£

April, '10

It William Cook could take three
different breeds and in ten years pro-
duce a fowl that would come true to
his ideal, isn't it a shame that we as
breeders of Standard bred fowls go
on year after year with only one breed
making scarcely no improvement and
some of us none at all? I hear you
say if we continue to improve each
year vve would get to perfection. Well,
don t be afraid of this, dear breeder.
But I will tell you what we can do.
By being patient and observing, and
by proper mating, we can have a flock
of Standard bred fowls that will pro-
duce a greater per cent of good ex-
hibition quality.

The trouble with some of us is that
we have no ideal, but each year we
use a type and color, or shade of color
that suits our fancy. And some breed-

BUFFALO PREPARING FOR ANOTHER
BIG SHOW.

BARRED ROCK PULLET.
1909''^R?iif^«E']"^^ at Michigan State Fair

ers in five or six years' breeding have
used as many different types and
color fancies. How can you ever ex-
pect to produce a flock of Standard
bred fowls that will give you any
great number of good exhibition birds
by breeding in this manner? You can
never do it. You will never be able
to produce more than a chance good
specimen, and it will be practically
worthless as a breeder. Why? Be-
cause It has in its make-up a half
dozen of your fancies with very little
more disposition to transmit its ao-
^'%Y/"^u'^,V^''ty than its hidden ones
We believe that the main reason
tor this manner of breeding is that
this class of breeders want prize-win-
ners and they want them quick— im^
mediately, ,f not sooner. But you had
just as well come back and %^t in
line, if you want a flock of birds that
will be a profit to you and a benefit
o your customers. You can gain
time by buying a breeding pen of
really fine birds that have been bred
o highest excellence, step by step, and
have their fine qualities so firmly fixed
m their breeding that they will have
^hZ^ %u"^ disposition to reproduce
them. Otherwise you will have to be
content to start at the bottom and
come up, step by step, year after year

breeding out the defects, and fixing
tirmly 111 your Hock the disposition to
ti-cinsmit Its desirable qualities to its
offspring.

. One of the most important things
in breeding a flock of fowls to a high
standard is to have an ideal. For in-
stance, if the standard of your breed
calls for breast full, you can easily
hx this type of a bird in your mind
as an ideal, and then breed for it.
Don't expect to get it by using full
breasted birds this year and hollow
breasted ones next year. But by using
only birds of fine breast shape, you
can in three or four years have a flock
of fine shaped birds in this respect.
Use the same shade of color each
year, and use only birds that breed
true to It. By following this method
you can have a flock coming remark-
ably true to your ideal color in five or
SIX years. Most every year we have
in our flock of youngsters a fine bird
that IS entirely different from the gen-
eral flock both in type and color. We
just can't imagine where he came
trom. He looks pleasing and more so
because he is so different from our
main flock. He looks so good we are
tempted to use him as a breeder, but
don t do It Stick to your ideal. We
call these fellows misleaders. To use
hmi would be practically to ruin our
efforts m the past. But each year if
we will use only birds that are our
Klea in the main, and are especially
good in some one section (or more
If possible), we very much desire to
improve, we can in time have a flock
of bird.s that will be coming our way
and will give us a world of pleasure
and considerable profit. i^'^'^^^^e

T7t u ^r J- T. Rice.

Elsberry, Mo.

At the stockholders' meetine- of th<^
Buffalo .PouItr.v. Pigeon and Pet Stock
Association, G. M. Soverhill, the presi-
dent gave an intere.sting report on the
great international show held in January
which was a grand success. Vincent
nni • } R ti^>asurer gave a detailed re-
port ot the financial condition of the a^-
l??n^nn''"Vr^''''"^^ handled during the year
h. T^, Q \^'\/";T^°'''^ ^"^PO^'t was read
b^ Dr. S. A. Merkley and gave the stock-
holders an insight in the great work ac
complished during the yea?. Thly ad?S-"
cated the opening of the sale of the stock
selling enough to carry out greater plans
for holding on the week of"^ January 15
1911, the greatest show ever held in
America. The stock was then opened
and several liundred dollars worth wli
subscribed for in ten minutes. It was
the most enthusiastic meeting of fan-
ciers ever held, all seem of one accord
UonafT7.n/° ^^^'P ."^^^e the interna -
f^^^ I", ,^^11 '^ great success.
The following officers were elected b\-
the unanimous vote of all the stockhold-
ers present: »i.ui.Kiioia-

Hoiiorary president from United States
H. p Kirkover. Jr.. Buffalo- honoVArv'

TonJnt'o ' %T- ^^""^^^- \' «'• ^^"^;^n.
ioionio^ Oni.; president, j Thoma^i

vS^^k-^^'ft"'^^'^^ Z''^ bresident TSd-
Msoi>), j. p. Knox, Buffalo- secon.i \inc^

president Tadvisor.y). Wilham TlcNe 1

vfsS?y)' w'-'r*'^^^^' iT^^^ president (aci:
\isor.\). \\ . R. Graham, Guelph Onf- -

tary'^n;-' ^'T^'l'r R?^'^ BuS? sSfre-
tai>. 1)1. S. A. Merklev. Buffalo- a^si<^t

ant secretary, C. E. Rilev. Buffalo Di"

rectors G.M Soverhill. Peter Ales rSr'

knov m"w'^'.H- ^- I^>Ithousen. J p
S ,? • ^V. ^- ^^^' Vincent Roth G T

Ph h'"t^-/,- ^""''^- Howard J 'Y?ung'
PJnlhj) I.andel, all of Buffalo -^'JunS-

ncr.s at Madison S<iiiare Gardon New
^ork and otlier big shows He I, ,,„
■Uiestronably in position to satlsfv ,hl

bre«, !?e"'^.a„^/jl^;^i', '^•Lt'^-;„rt"ma'^

PETERSON^STiOUDANS

Send for 80-page book on Th«. HnnHo,, r>n ...,. .. . * ^"^

--^^ ^^M^^tr^K^^ ^^^ tTndefeated Champion

Send for 80-page book on The Houdan ^ f,.n , , . ^^ Strain of America.

Mating gr Exhibition. ManageSenfand"^^^^^^ ^i„„ers. Houdan Standard

Rev. C. E. Peter,en. President Americai. HoudL?CIub,7Kol90^ ^^ ' ^o^^age 20 cents '

"■ Bridirton, Maine

60 Years *' '^^r' I K. Felch &lon

and judged all breeds in nearly every Statp in ,k- • l

Every PATRON has been LtlX^ ,1, .L ""'.°", '^"''°"' ^ Pf°'«f-

WHY SHOULD THEY NOT ^1 ^' t!°^^ '°' '^' ""^"^^ P^'d-
.o 96 points find place in their bSin^pTn ?"" Whl"h "'"""^"' '° '^°" ^^

,k V J . L^'^ ^^^ BREED ON

for pC '^^iie'^nfele'd fcnf 41° '^ '">-'^i= ^' ^ $^0
for females: $4 to $15 for n^ale? F f u ^Y^"''"""' ^2-50 to $8

for 45. and $15 for 105 eg^rFroW::"?/' f '^ '5. $7 for 30, $9

moulting sold at 40 per cent off of caTat T '' "" r^'"'"«' ''-'ore

particular, address catalogue pnces. For catalogue and other

iJ^^E^CH & SON. Boxjre^TICK. MASS.

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M E m^ s or

POULTRY SHOWS <Sh
SPECIALTY CLUBS

Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub-
lished in this department without charge

TRI-STATE SHOW, MEMPHIS.

We have just received a copv of direc-
tory of the Tri-State Poultry Association
of Memphis, Tenn. It is very JastHy got-
ten up and shows that the Memphis boys
are hustlers and that the Tri-State PoS!
try Association is one of the largest and
strongest poultry organizations in the
country.

voU^^^ J^^^ ^ ^^'^^' ^^«t fall that was a
record breaker and everybody is hustling
for a much larger and better show this
fall, which will be held during the Tri-
State Fair, Sept. 27th to Oct 4th 1910

NOTICE TO BLACK ORPINGTON
BREEDERS.

rluiV'^^^ ^^®- ^'^^'^ ^°"^^ Buff Leghorn
Clul) of America one of the best.

R,,f?"r' f"^ ^^^^ ^"^ better Rose Comb

for H. ^'^f''!'"^^^"'^ a large membership
tor the club. Fraternally.

Howard J. Fisk,

Falconer. N. Y ^^^^^^ary-Treasurer.

NATIONAL BANTAM ASSN. YEAR
BOOK.

The great two year Australian Agri-
cultural Government laying contest re-
turns for the first twent'y-one months

iM«H ?n '?iJ ^''k'"'"^ i'^^ B'^ck Orpingtons
lead all other breeds with a record of
2.088 eggs for the first twenty-one
!iyi">^^' r'^'^ defeating the summer lay-
mg breeds in total number of eggs laid
o .say nothing of the greater value of
their winter laid eggs.

in order to get at once a large num-
Ho'^^fi"'"'^ ''^"^' members all who men-
oi?,K ^IV"", P^?®^ '''*" ^et the new 1910
club catalog for one stamp postage

Qfo T ^. ¥"<^0" W. Frown, Sec'y.
Sta. L., Cincinnati, O.

NATIONAL WHITE WYANDOTTE
CLUB CATALOGUE.

Whif^^A^r^^^^'",' secretary of the National
u , 1. ny^'^"'^""n <^^"^' Youngstown, O

.lo" . fo^nu ^^"""^.-^ ''''^^ «f the club cat-
i \Vhifo Av' f^TV^^ ^^'^o ^''^ interested

n White Wyandottes and who will send

Vtamn"''M^n^"^.^?,^"^'"? ^^^'^ ^ two-cent
wn-VJo;. c?'""^-^' °/- ^''^ P^"^ members have
Z\u t^ ^""^^ articles for the book and it

of the bried. "^^'^ ^"^^'^"' ^'^ ^" '^^'«^^

TO ALL BREEDERS AND ADMIRERS
OF ROSE COMB BUFF LEG-
HORNS.

RnnJSJ^l^ ^^""l'- B^o^ o^ the National
Bantam Association is ready for mailing.
It contains much information that wHl
be of interest to Bantam breeders and in-
cludes a list of the winnings of members
fhJT'^x.''^ the leading shows. A copy of
pint, f?^.?"^^ ^® obtained by sendiAg 10
cents to the secretary of the association,
Geo^ ].. Young. 349 11th St.. Brooklyn!

AMERICAN S. C. BROWN LEGHORN
CLUB CATALOGUE.

n

'^fiL^^^^T^'^^f'^^"^ "^ the American S.
Brown Leghorn Club is being mailed

...m*"!^'^^^"^ that there is nothing which
nil ^"""iZ '•"?. holp make a breed i^^pular
ike a specialty club, a few of our prom-
^£"J. ^^^^e*^ers have joined hands in form-
Amovi'lo^''''® ^""'^' B"ff Leghorn Club of

We are^ ^oing to ask all breeders of
Buff Leghorns to help us in this work.

h»% ^'Jfur. ""^ ."'^ ^r^^^ »^ today that has
^o«,^ booming of any kind that has as
many admirers and has become so verv
popular as the Rose Comb Buff Leghorns.
nromnf2^^r^J" forming this club is to
SrS^H H«^^'' breeding and welfare of this
grana towl; in so doing every breeder

t'TecVnh''^"^"'^^' ^"t in order•^o make
:11S*}*^ ^ success we must have the co-
Pr«hii*'"p of every breeder. The mem-
nershJp fee for one year will be $1.00
^^4 "^^"ibership will be $5.00 with no

We earnestly request as many as pos-
sible to take out Life Membership so
that the club will have no draw-backs
hnancially the first few years, which are
always the hardest.

As soon as we get a sufflcicnt member-
Irh? ^^'' f,^/^u" ^^t out a club catalogue in
wnicii will be articles from our members
K^Ji"v .. <?xP«^rience in raising and
^ w'^'"^: Hose Comb Buff Leghorns

r^wfiL ''^u" ''^^^^ "ff<^^ premiums at the
winter shows which shall be competed
for by members in good standing onlv.
fr. ,^"*' 'y^ ^'""'' membership at once arid
'ei me place .vou among the first to help

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P«^V.Ac,-^°S,^^^^' «ecy.-Treas. American
Partridge Plymouth Rock Club. North
Manchester. Ind. i>"ilii

w^o?^ ^}^^^'^^ to all applicants, by E
W. Staebler. Sec'y.. West Park. O. This
club deserves the hearty support of all

^reb"tn ?.^V??v, ^''^eders as it has done
much to hold the popularitv of the breed
and advance the interests of breeders

WHITE ROCK CLUB REPORT.

The special meeting of the White Plv-
mouth Rock Club, was held at Madison
Square Garden, N. Y. City. Wednesdav
Dec. 29. 1909. at 3 o'clock ni.^ric?VIce^:
Presdent Fred. Huyler in the chair.

After a few informal remarks the sec-
retary reported that, in replv to* a special
notice, published in severif papers caM-
Ing for payment of dues and vo'te on
meeting place, about 300 members had
responded with payment of dues

Fred Huyler was elected president for
the present year, and Chas H Ward
secretary-treasurer. v^.ira,

Nominations for members at lar^e of

fion "o7 V^"'^*^^^' ^'^^"^ted In th.'^ele?-
tion of F. H. Davey, Yonkers, N Y
J. D. Koons, Trelchler Pa ChaV h'
Ring. Decatur, Mich. ' ^''' "•

The executive committee was emnow-
ered to use their judgment in isl ng a
catalogue or a quarterly bulletin fnd

hrc"lu\''a1id^ft^ r'r' advantageous'^to.
-^i ^^ and Its tuture progress
The treasurer's report for the year oast
showed receipts for the year $i4o^^
tllT^O t'^^H-^^^^ents. $283.3r Liabiiuies:
$135 50, leaving a cash balance of $21 96
The eastern division raised $25 cash

onds?'$roo-on''thlrds" "'"'"■ *'■'' °» ^«<=-

Next year it Is hoped tliat a lar^e

special may be raised tor each of the

large shows and members in the°r re-

to" ^-o^ef^t'l.^ ^"^ '"^•'^'o- "- -'-^tld
Bethel, conn. Se^r^ftl, "irS^S^er.

ANNUAL REPORT AMERICAN CORN-
ISH CLUB.

«.??tQ^^'^Tff • balance on hand. Dee 15 1908
li^fi 0^ ^,f,^"^bership dues to Jan 24 1910
$136.00. Total receipts, $160 83 '

Expenditures: Club Ribl>ons Postal*.
Circulars etc $ii4 iff td'/, ' ^osiage^

Jan. 24. i910?- $46 67 ""^'"^^ °" '^"^'

19?Jf?8f '''''' ^^^•'^^' ^^''' 115; Jan. 24,
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President. R. D ReidS
1st vice-president. C. S. Brenf 2n? vieJ'
president, Chas. T Cornman ' q^^ •^^'
oresidenf n^rw w\t7-Sl\- ^"' ^^^ vice-
mesMe^t, Geo.^W^ Webb: secretary treas^-

If you want your name in our new cata
log It will only cost you $1.00.

Eureki Til c. ^* ^- Hayes,

ii^ureKa. III. Secretary-treasurer.

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THE BUFF ROCK CLUB.

Bjfpfy"n';o"Slh'"l^a°tfb*i^as^S'=^at

elected offliers for thi"ensuinT'?e*ar"''^
„ Executive Committee.-Joln w polev
president. Royersford, Pa.: Wm A Stolta'

Dfeati?? in' p't"- ■,>■''"'? ^- Waddell,
jjecatur. III., C. L. Pensyl. Bloomsburg,

frn^-T^.r- §.^"i!fi^oir' s^^-'-i^^oS'^F

Southern, Thos. a' Ffuii?.'- G^e'enville'^V
^•i,N*;w England, M. J. Corev Smine-'
ufl?A ¥f^^7 Northwestern. I.' M H-
bjeld. Alcester. S. D. : Pacific Coast n
J. Beinhart. Kennewick. Wash ' ^•

tion ^'?«,jl«c;?ed to continue the publica-
tnn ^f*^® Quarterly for the dissemina-
tion of special Information about Buff
Rocks as heretofore.

William A. Stolts, Secretary.

Februarv%^"i"cnn^';'^ ^1 Indianapolis. Ind..
Plymouth %nni%}^^^ American Partridge
J-ij mouth Rock Club was organized with

in^i'TDl^^^^^''^' ^^ President. W. T Bu

Tretsuflr^''"'= ^' ^- ^^^tzger. Secretaiy-

Tl7o'^| Tn^r^e^sV^^^^in^^ir ^gr^^^d^ t^l 'IZ
IdVes^sT A^ A"oftV°"^ thr^Vu^b^^onct

S. C. Rhode Island Reds

Some fine cockerels $S each. Eees
from birds scoring 90 to 93, |1.50 per
]o One cock and 6 hens. Partridge
Wyandottes for sale cheap.

D. E. MILLER, ROME CITY, IND.

PILLING, £

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STRUMENTS

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PiUiiigMiik r»K.r ill. lilt fur »ir «r«mlmi.nt fponmrnfT.!
hy U. 8. Aifrioiilrtirkl Dept.. price $.( (H). Silver Milk
, TubM 60c: Te»t BUtoury $1.60; T»t Op«n«r Kh-. < »«(1,
Ttoo»rf.ir Bl<«t V.M; C»pon TooU, Poultry iB.trumont*.
■^^ Uorts and C««tle 8yr)n|r*i. All PUllnjt InstrM-
uiinu %T» of fine quality— none batter. FuU
dlreotlon*. Write t<'<lay for free Kok,
• (Jow Trcml-lM "

a. p. PILLING A SON CO..
?73?l dreli SI . Phibrtrlphi*. Pi

April, '10

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Answers to Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

^■%,-^'

Question. — I am raising Black Orping-
tons and got my start from two of the
largest breeders in this country. The
progeny of the stock from both breeders
show plenty of purple, and now my young
birds are coming the same way again
this spring. What I want to ask is, can
you tell me something to eliminate this
purple? There are Blacks that don't have
it and lots of them. Now is there some
thing in the feed, or is there something
I can give them that will keep out the
black while they are growing? Can you
give me any light on this subject? If it
is something I give them, or something 1
don't give them that causes more of it to
come than in other people's black chick-
ens I would like to find it out.

Answer. — There is practically no way
to eliminate purple from black plumage
other than to breed from birds which do
not show it. We never saw a flock of
black fowhs where every specimen was en'
tirely free from purple. Purple in black
birds is a natm-al defect, just as is brassi-
ness in white birds, and it nmst be over-
come in the same way, namely, through
proper mating and breeding.

It is sometimes claimed that i)rolonged
exposure to the hot summer sun has a
tendency to aid in bringing out purple
barring, and it is also claimed that when
chicks receive occasional set backs in
growth, either through illness, neglect,
improper feeding, etc., that the periods
of retarded growth in the plumage are
represented by purple barring.

Question.— Will you kindlv tell me if
there is any remedy for a flock of chick-
ens eating their eggs? Does any one
make a nest that will remove the effc as
soon as it is laid?

An.swer.— There is no nest that
know of such as described by you

A good method of overcoming the
eating habit is to trim the beaks of
chickens down to a point where they
almost ready to bleed. The beak is then
very tender and the bird will not make
more than two or three attempts to break
the shell of an eg^. It would be well at
the same time to scatter a few china nest
eggs around on the floor of the ciiicken
house and in the nests.

These are old-fashioned remedies but

^fff '^^'^cP^^^r. ^^^^'^ of »">' that were
better. Sometimes it is impossible to
break birds of this habit, and the only
thing to do IS to dispose of them

Question. — Please answer the following
questions in the next issue of P F
What is inbreeding? What is outcross-
ing and line breeding? How can line
breeding be carried on successfully with-
out introducing new blood? Which is
cheaper, line breeding or the opposite?
Can l)etter exhibition fowls be gotten
from line breeding than by constantly
adding new blood? Can J)etter exhihitioii
R. C. Rhf)de Island Reds be produced by
inbreeding than by outcro.ssing? How
old should a R. C. Rhode Island Red be
when exhiliited as a cockfi*]. As a i)Ullet"
How .soon can cockerels and pullets
hatched in June be exhibited with suc-
cess? In raising exhibition and breeding
stock should the cockerols be separated
from the pullets as .soon as they can be
distinguished? Which is the best way of
feeding when you are raising oxhibi'tion
and breeding stock, hojjpc,- or litter feed-
ing?

Answer.— To answer all these questions
fully and in detail would rp<iulre an ar-
ticle of several pages, and we therefore
reply briefly in the order in which the
questions are asked. Inbreeding as the
term is generally used, means tllo indis-
criminate mating of related fowls as a
sire to his daughters or a male bird to
his dam or the mating of sisters and
brothers. Outcrossing means biinging
into a flork a bird of another strain of
the same breed. Line biecding is ju-
dicious inJn-eeding. or the mating of re-

lated birds, but not to the extent of close
inbreeding which would cause deteriora-
tion in health, vigor, prolificacy and the
power to strongly transmit desirable fea-
tures in tne ofl-spring. J.ine breeding
may be carried on successfully if these
points are observed. Line breeding is,
of course, cheaper than introducing new
Dlood each season. Better exhibition

the cockerels from the pullets as soon
as the sex can be distinguished, but it
is not necessary at so early an age Both
hopper and litter feeding " are good but
a combination of both is perhaps best

Question.— I have a Black Langshan
pullet in which three feathers in each
wing are tipped with about one-eighth of
an inch of white, and two of the tall
feathers have about three-eighths of an
inch ot wliite. Would this disqualify the
bird? It not. would such a bird fairly
good in other sections score from 93 to
95 points.' AVould you advise using such
bird!^^ ^" ^ breeding yard to produce show

ont^h.TIfiTjH''^ Standard provides that
^.^; ^i .'."^^ .'''' "^"''® ot white in any
P.fJf.SH^''? plumage, except in foot or
wSn !''''"^', f '^^'^ disqualify. Your bird,
tieietort'. could not be disqualified but

I muc^h^'mo'^'''"'"^"^^ '"lathers constitute
a much more serious defect than would
one feather with a half-inch of white in
It. We might under some circumstances

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A BUFF ROCK BEAUTY.

.'' P^oi^t^r^ SdS' i^oT'p'* De'arbo^il^'M?"/' ^S"^"r ''\ «• '^- ^-P'---
sMe IS a rare specimen, true to type, a^nd'^in ''even^^so" t buff Vrom 'tip fo^tfp" ^'"'"^ ^'^"^
fowls

First i)rize
I'rop.. Dearborn

fi,n« y^^^ secured through line breeding
than by constantly bringing new blood

nir t^h«\f f *•'' ^"^^ ^^ '^''^'^^ ^'y J*»e breed-
ing than by frequent outcrossing but
not by in.)unous inbreeding R f Rfwi

•ulv"'!!^]:" '''%\ "."'^^'^''^ \V^>' '>^' *'xhibi{ed a
•in> af,e i h.-ir condition in regard to
sze. weight, maturity and condition of
I'lnmage should g<.ye,n. Ti.e ,"erage
HKo ,s S to 10 months. .June ha c ed
bird.s require special care, f.-ed etc 1

shows^"tf '") ^^"^^t^"" fo'' the January
■shows. It is a good idea to separate

l)reed from an excellent line bred bird
from a good flock, even though one-half
nch of white appeared in one feJthe •
but the bird you describe should not be
placed in a breeding pen at all We doubt

sco'Ie" i^ V-f ''"-^^^ n^^ -i^^^e Who wouW
•scoie It 93 points. It is cnstomnT^r f^

judges to cut birds of this ki?Tso sp

verely in the defective sec fons that theC-

Th"e ou^fn ""• • ^'^''"^^•' whatever^to win
iM^o.^^ for wn.gs in this instance should
l>e at least three points, and for tVi Itvvn
points Other color and sha e cits wouTd
l>Mng the score down to ab< ut 90 oi less

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS ^o„ «ii j„.. «„<. .pecuu ,.

1>J> per IX $3 per 30. Sat^fachon^aranteed. F. W. CATLIN, BARABOO, WIS.

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS ^ii— °;.'^a;^nyi^n^?^i't-:

' »-«____. Haraboo Valley Show. January 1910

As cockerel last sea-oi, lu- won 1st al l,a Crosse and 1st at th^^w u. '• ^y '^t^ockat above show."
The females in my yardsare full of qualUv bred tro^^^^ -^^^^^ A.s.sociatiou Show

my customers with e«gs from t^^selitnol!^t''rlti%Ti ^^^^^^ \ will supply

I AC %M.r>tJA^r * h"^' Ji». ♦•} per ,5u. 1 aey will produce winners

JAS. McGUAN,

BARABOO, WIS,

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BREEDEES' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

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SENECA LAKE FARM, HIMROD, N. Y.,
breeds beauty, utility, White Wyandottes,'
R. C. W, Leghorns and Lakenvelders, the
beautiful and prolific new breed. Eggs $2
setting; $8 per 100. Orders given prompt
and careful attention. 3.3

KELLERSTRASS STRAIN S. C. SNOW

White Orpingtons; also beautiful Golden

Wyandottes. Eggs 10 cents each. Schuyl-

kill Poultry Yards, Pine Grove, Pa. 3-3

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
.dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eggs $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick PfafT, Box
638. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

YOUNG STOCK OF QUALITY FOR SALE.
4 firsts on 7 entries at Greenfield. 111.. Nov.
15-20, 1909; 8 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds
on 16 entries at Pittsfield, 111., Dec. 15-18,
1909. S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks and
White Holland Turkeys. Write your wants
to Thos. M. Stubblefleld, R. 6, Jacksonville,
111- 6-9-12

BOURBON RED TURKEYS AND R. C.
Brown Leghorns our specialty. We also
raise White Wyandottes, Indian Runner
Ducks and Pearl Guineas. Eggs for hatch-
ing at right prices. Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Price. Belmont. O. 2-3

BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER GET
my prices on eggs and stock. S. C. Buff
Orpingtons. Barred Rocks, Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys and Indian Runner Ducks. Birds
have farm range and are strong and healthy.
Mr.s. Higgs. R. 1. Henry. III. 2-4

EGGS ?2 PER 13, 3 SETTINGS $5 FROM
KellerstrasR Yhlte Orpingtons and Brown
& Coleman's Black Orpingtons. Black
Minorca eggs 10 cents each, any quantity.
Alson Indian Runner Ducks of finest quality.
Berry & Sawyer strain. J. A. Dickson. 42
Division St.. Ashtabula, O. 2-4

CLAY HILL POULTRY FARM. FULTON.
Iowa.. Jay Breeden, Prop. Breeder of Black
Langshans. White and Silver Laced Wyan-
dottes. Eggs from pens scoring ninety-five.
♦ 3 per 15; pens scoring ninety. $2. Cock-
erels for sale cheap. My birds are prize
winners. 2-4

FINE BOI'RBON RED TI^RKEY EGGS, $3
per ten. Rhode Island Red eggs. $1 per
Ifi; $5 per hundred. Orders given prompt
attention. Send me yours. Mrs. A. G. Frlesz,
KeytesvlIIe, Mo. 2-4

TTOT^DAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks.
Hinglet strain. Eggs. $2 per 15. Stock
tor sale. EInior .lolin.snn. Argyle. Wis. 4-3

(*.\L\IN R. GROSS. EXHIBITOR AND
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks and S.
C. Brown Leghorns. Eggs, $2 per 15.
Square Deal Yard."?, Box SI, Baraga.
Mich. 4.3

TIIOROITOHBRED STOCK AND EGGS FOR
sale from prize winners. Indian Games,
Brahmas. Cochins. Reds, Rocks. T^eghorns
and White Wyandottes. Eggs, $1 per 13.
$2 per 40, $5 por 1(»0. For quick sale, prize
winning pen of Partridge Cochins. Get
price. Mrs. Clara Reichenbach. Coopers-
biirc. Pn ^_-\

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

"PEERLESS" BARRED ROCKS. BREED-
ing Barred Rocks our exclusive business.
Our manager a poultry expert. Breed only
line bred stock. Announcement 1910 sent
free. Fifty-cent booklet. "Incubation and
Brooding," sent for 20 cents during Febru-
ary, March and April to all who mention
this "ad." Our show record almost clean
sweep In hot competition. We can please
you. Peerless Poultry Plant, Inc., Clinton,
Wig. J.4

THE FAMOUS ORCHARD STRAIN BAR-
red Plymouth Rocks, bred for vitality and
productiveness. Eggs, $2 per 15. Send for
booklet, "Starting with Poultry." Orchard
Poultry Farms, Doylestown. Pa. (Hatching
Department.) 2-4

RINGLET BARRED ROCKS. E. B. THOMP-
SON strain. Nicely barred, good yellow
legs, fine layers. 13 eggs $1, 26 for $1.50.
Honorable dealing. Orders promptly filled
E. H. Harden. North East, Pa. 2-3

SPECIAL BARRED ROCK SALE. ON Ac-
count of lack of time I will dispose of 2
very good dark cocks, one pullet breeding
cock. 25 cockerel bred hens and pullets and
15 cockerels. Get prices now. Dr. F. A.
Shuffelton, Saint Marys, O.

BARRED ROCKS, KNOXDALE STRAIN.
Well barred and very strong In vitality
good size and splendid layers. Stock pro-
duced from careful mating with the double
mating system. Eggs, $2 per setting; $S
per hundred. Orders given prompt atten-
tion. C. W. Coleman, 200 Jeffras Ave., Find-
• ay. O. 2-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHITE ROCKS— -STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

WHITE ROCKS. HEAVY WINTER LAY-
ers. Pullets from this stock laying at 5 V2
months this season without forcing. Not
one dissatisfied customer last season. Book-
ing eg^ orders, $2 per 15. S. P. Evans, 3838
E. TSth Street, Cleveland. O.

WHITE ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY, "FISHEL
Strain." Eggs from large, snow white, farm
raised birds, 15 $1.50, 30 $2.50, 100 $6.
Special pen of high scoring exhibition birds.
TRussell, .ludge,) $2.50 per 15. Jesse C.
Brabazon, Route 4, Box E. Delavan. Wis. 2-4

WHITE ROCKS. FISHEL STRAIN, CHALK
white, grand shape. My birds are as good
as the best. Eggs only $2 per 15. Satis-
faction guaranteed. W. R. Greer, Auburn,
Ind. 2-4

WALKER'S WHITE ROCKS AT NEW
Castle won in a class of 63, 1st cock. 1st
cockerel; 1st. 2d. 3d hen; 1st. 2d. 4th pullet;
1st, 2d hen. Eggs $3 and $5 per 15. Bob
Walker, 233 Porter St.. New Castle. Pa. 2-2

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WINNERS
at Peoria, Ottawa, Galesburg, etc. Three
yards, headed by exhibition and prize win-
ning males. Eggs, $2 per 15. From good
utility stock on range. $1 per 15, $3 ner 60.
Wm. C. Goodwin. Chllllcothe, 111. 2-4

WHITE ROCKS— EGGS FROM PEN HEAD-
ed by prize winning cock at Chicago show
$2.50 per 15; from other prize stock $2.
Address Gaberk Hennery, 1316 Michigan
Ave., Chicago, 111. 3-3

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

BUFB' COCKS. ORDER EGGS FROM
quality birds. Eggs from pen headed bv
New York and St. Louis winners. $5 per 15;
others. $1, $2 and $3. John D. Wllklns.
Pocahontas, 111. 2-4

GOLDEN BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
Large, golden, glittering buflfs. Heavy layers
of big. brown eggs. First prize winners at
Chicago and other big shows. Eggs from
prize winners. $3 per setting. Catalog free.
P. C. Jungels. Box 1. Lemont. 111. 2-2

GOLD lil'FF ROCKS. THE GREATEST
winning strain in the West. Pens headed
1)V district prize- winning males. Great lay-
ers. Eggs. $7. $5 and $1.50 i)er 15. Guar-
anteed hatch. Circular free. J. Elliott.
Moorhead, la, 3.3

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur.
IH; 3-4

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? SEND ME YOUR
order for Partridge Plymouth Rocks and
you are sure of the best. Don't take my
word for it. Look at my show record at
Chicago, Detroit and other strong shows,
consider the competition and you will see
who has the quality. Some choice breeders
at reduced prices and young stock that will
please. Paul LaFromboise, Mt. Pleasant,
Mich. 4-9-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

SUTTON'S WHITE WYANDOTTES WIN
again. On an entry of sixteen birds I won
1st cock. 3rd cockerel, 2nd hen, 1st, 3rd
pens, 1st, 2nd pullets, silver cup, best dis-
play, best cock hen, cockerel, pullet and
pen. More prizes, than all competitors.
Eggs $10 and $5 per 15. F. D. Sutton. 68
St. Louis Ave., Youngstown. Ohio. 2 4

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FOR SALE
from choice matings. Strong, vigorous stock,
pure white and good shape. Write for circu-
lar containing prices and description Men-
tion this paper. Richard Bloom. Fulton.
Mo. 2-4

EGGS FROM MORROW'S PRIZE WINNING
White Wyandotes. At Montezuma. la., I
won 1st pen, first, second sweepstakes. Eggs
from exhibition matings. $3 per 15; other
grand mating.s, $2 per 15. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Address Frank Morrow. Barnes
City, Iowa. 2-4

AVH ITIO W V.\ .\ I X )TTES— EGGS FROM

pen of 8 hen.«. 1 cock picked from 284
Iiirds. $2 per 15, $3 per 30. farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Strueblng. Freeburg.
111. 4.3

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

BUFF WYANDOTTES. HAVE BRED THEM
since 1895. making me the oldest breeder
of this variety In Ohio. Young stock from
my Chicago and Cleveland winners. Eggs
from the best matings I ever had. $3 per 15
V. Crabtree, Tiffin. Ohio, 2-4

THIMSEN. BUFF WYANDOTTE SPECIAL-
l«t. Eggs from Buff Wyandottes that win In
the strongest competition. Eggs from pen.
1. $3 per 15; pen 2 and 3. $2 per 15. If
you are In the market for stock or egga I
can please you. F. p. Thimsen, Blooming
Prairie, Minn. 5-9-l'>

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES, A SPEC-
lalty. My pens are line-bred and prize win-
ners, scoring 91 to 93 ^. They are bred to
lay, weigh and win. Eggs for hatching $2
per 15, or $3 per 30, Try a setting. I
guarantee satisfaction. Peter J. Becker
Geneseo, 111. 2-4

NELLIS* SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.
Prize winners wherever shown. Score at the
big show of The Western Connecticut Poul-
try As.soclatlon held at WInsted. Conn., 1907-
1909: 91%, 92, 92. 92i^, 94%; pen. 184%.
First and third pullet, third cock. Eggs
for setting. f3 for 13. Orders booked now
E. A. Nellis. Winsted. Conn. 2-3

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS
from first cock, third cockerel, fourth pul-
let. Chicago and Detroit and Grand Rapids
winners; females that score to 95; $3 per
15. Clare Hoffman, Allegan, Mich. 3.3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

POULTRY FANCIER^^^CIS^

^i?plv V ^ WYANDOTTES, EXCLU-
w.-n^y* You need our free circular giving
inS ^fn.if"^ description of matings. ^Eggf
tnfpprf M. ^^f «°»able. Satisfaction gul?!
utZina "lJfr^il-"g,,e^;-"^^-^ ^^'''' ^'^ 3^^

frlos "^^ r'^fn'"'^''^'''' ^3 per setting ^ ^n^

mowoc'.'w'is'''- ""■ ^- ^^^^'^ ^^'^ F.^Ocono!
- 5-9-12

RHODE ISLAND WHITES.

wiu/.V'' Thi'"n ^^T^'^^ lillODE ISi.AND
,1,, f "*^^^' ^»"^'*^^^ cxcells in egg pro-

S in''vo„."'^'"''"^ qualities. Intfocfuce
Plea"e \nu^ I 'V'^^'' '^^'^^ '''^•'^"It will

ii 7^^ • ^'"'V.^ ^'''' catalogue and mating
din;, ]f\^''''''' Poultry Farm. ]?ox 50. Boro-

4-1

LANGSHANS.

ORPINGTONS.

d^J^fr. *^^ ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are

brled'uPe'^^tlfrfp""" • T^^^ favoriL of all%"ho
Austra «n o. varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of lavlne- su

flr^.^r'' "'^'^ '•^P^^'y manuring fowr
largest per cent of white meat; largest and

B,^nwn ^^^"t^f"' of Orpingtoni ^ MiASn
gincrAatt'o^^"^'"' ^^^""^ ^°"'''->' ^-£

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. EVERY ONE
^ «]l«^v, l^ird. winners in the leadfng slum?
Of Northern New York. Cockerels^$5 an!

per 15 Day old chicks. 25 cts each
Brook View Stock Farms. Rte. 3. Pulaski!

-: : 12-4

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their orici
sTx'clnts^o' "^\"?".>'' have the best sL^nd
V^^ ^^ f ^°^ catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons. Box C. Scotch Plains. N j

* 1-10-12

CLEAN "sweep ON S. C. BUFF ORPTNp"
tons at Omaha and LincolrT Neb wfnn^ng
1st cockerel. 1st pullet and 1st pen at each
show, beside.s other prizes and sp^c^als plac^
ing our Buffs unquestionably in advance of
oompeti ion in the middle west Ask foJ

On.?wl.^^wr^^"^ ''^'- ^--^"- ^- ^

^- ^- WHITE, BLACK. BUFF ANn t^ta"
mond Jubilee Orpington eg£s to f.. \-^'
chicks three weeks old 40c fach-%n ^^ '
^teea. Hamilton & Kauf'^aTTw^^Rf^e^;:

— : ^___ 2-.'",

''^^ ^'^. BVFF ORPINGTONS FROM (^HTP\

have but In"" ^"^ Canadian wiS^.rs':"wm
have but one very choice pen of rich, even

in hackle and saddle.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANr

don^' /,\P'-°r^ ^^ 'h^''- show record '?ou
order ^^^e chances when you send me your

your flock w?th^'^''^ ^°V '■^^^^ "'^ J'^Prove
now hnJi f ^ ^"""^^ °f *he grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to q'iiA in
show room Pricp<5 rirrv,f ir , •'^ /2 in
Writo T>Vr TiV ^ usht. Eggs in season.
W^ite me. Mrs Frank Camerer. Gazette.

— : _^^__ 1-6

BlaJk^tL^ t ^^EEDER OF THE BEST
de? ^eadfnl ?,fr- "^^^ ^ ^^^'^ ^^cord un-
bi-eedl? Mn^"'^!*^^""*^^"^'^^^ t.y any other
uieeuer. Male birds each season score to
'01/2, females 06 V^. Buy where you know
li^Lr^nZ ^'^^^ ^^' *he highest quality a^

a^d cScL^erers'^fo ^^''^ "°"^^ ^' ^"^ ^^-^s
f^Qf;i/ , ^ **^ spare, scoring from 94
to 951/2; also some extra choice hens Made

?how''^'! i '^''''^^P ^* th« Eastern Wisconsin
show this .season and won silver cup for
best pen in the show three years all breeds
competing, score 191 y„ A Strn'nfkl^
Eastcn Wis. Poultry t P.^.Tssr&hmon^.'

— : , 11-9-12

SJLn"';.^™?, BLACK AND WHITE
_x^. -tierner. R.3. Columbia City. Ind. 2-4

vvn'^ V '''^^^^^ WHITE LEGHORNS. THE
\ or Id s record for best layers. Have bVed
.eghorns for ninc>teen years. Get the best^

••I'h.llip.s Strain." Eggs $3 per I.5! sTock

p;!nftl'v''n^^'x.^ ^r catalogue. Rockv Riv^or
Joultry CO.. No. GG "The Oaks," Doerfiold!

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS

o'T 'Z\J'''A '"'''''r- ''''■ Cock scoHnI
Jo-^. pullets 94. pen 186%. Eetrs S2 tr, «■?

Mating list ready soon. Harrff Tra°nl?'
Carpenter. Ohio. trainer,

?ha£- ^^fOWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
chfrPu; «7n°'' ^"il, laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting
Circular free. H. M. Moyer. R. 2. Bechtelf--,
viiie. ±-a. 11-9-12

S. r. lUlnWS LECHloliNS. EXHlJilTlON
and utility birds. Get prices on stork ^^n^

Bnf.l. T'- T^ •'''^" ^^'^^^'^ ^'«"- Ralph N
Batcholor. Fairview, Mass. 4.3

t

•

R. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

R- C. BROWN LEGHORN r'>4'> Fm
strain), female line, eggs and stock for s2l1
reasonable, according to quality, i won the

M?. 's?v^''"T",'^" all that I entered a?

ic'ited w""''"'!^' Z^'"'"'- Correspondence
Hcited. Wm. Gaffey. South Worcester.

the
so-

N.
2-4

BUFF LEGHORNS.

I AM

]{ird.s

from each of

Eir.st premium

in the west R

ford. 111.

line as silk. Eggs for setting, 3

live pens at $2 per scttine

winners at the largest show

S. Messner. C. No. 18. Rock-

2-3

WHITE

ed with

first and second hen.

Second pen $1.50 for

irom imported stock

Hooking orders now

J-.<»n(]on, O

HANGSHANS. FliLST PEN HEAD

cockerel which won first prize aSi

Esgs $1.50 for 15.

30. Anconas bred

Eggs $1.50 for 15

Geo. McCague. New

3-3

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FTTMTT-
cockerels for sale. They are be?i?Pes ft "^2^
$.{ and 5 each, sired by a son of first cock
Madison Square Garden. 1908. Eggs $2 ne;
I'- F. D. Kemp. Sparta. Wis. ^"^ ' ^\^tl

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. EGGS
from premium birds, line bred, as fine as
ever wore feathers. ^3 per 15. Eggs ?rom

'iar'%^"\^'''^^ ^'"'^^ on the farm^^|4 pS
100. S. M. K.ltner. Anderson. Ind. 3-3

BLACK MINORCAS.

— _ „„^ W...C yay <jll

colored birds. Sound
Eggs $5 per 15. Few
V. Crabtree. Tifiin. O.

cockerels to

spare.
^_^_^ 2-4

^le'^'" wt^l^'f ORPINGTON EGGS FOR
rn^t'ed o extra^'fin^^"!^ ''r' ^"^ P^'l^ts
Eggs ri 05 npr ir^,-^'«^ ^o"^d cockerels.

H?ft. ^Ciarks';n,e''fa ^"^ ""''' '''■ "^''"l^"
— 3-3

OKPINGTOXS— OIK BOOK IS

you nunti-.n this paper. It tells
bes layers; where to get best

I'auns. Cineinnati, Ohio.

FI{|-]|-: 11-'

of wuihTs

eggs lur

Cheviot

4-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

third
from
$2.50
HI.

iicH'^sivelv^^^'^'v. ''"P?^ ISLAND REDS

r-mEItAl, POUI.TItV YAUD siNi-l 1,-

?°n'"\/^|;°tr 'f'r" ""-S'- ESR-. Flr."^
pen. ?_..,o per 15; second pen. $2 per 1=5-

pen. $1.50 per 15. Incubator eggs
other pens. $4 per 100; farm rin^^
per 100. C. I. w. Adkisson.'^Gllatll:

1-4

H.VVE YOU DECIDED WHERE YOTT AuT
liolng to place your orde, for s c it 1'
To U 's°"a "i 7*^-^- " "«'• ^''Jte a postal
fScii- St^og^-^fj%I^^.--er^;^£^^o^

. . ^ 2-4

HOSE COMB RHODE ISLAND 1777^7
Persi.stent layers The riSi^f 1, ked.S.
^lor. Eggs\rom 1 to'lV ptr^^sUthl^^
Write for particulars and m.ntfon Pou t, v
I'^ancier. Septimus Mawer, Grand Rapids.
■ 3_3

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R I REDS T

have a limited number of eggs to sell Trom

Fldrfdl'e" J'"^"'"^ T?""- Nonl,"^ better'" F C
EldHdge & Son. Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

ROSE COMB REDS. AFTER FIVE YEARS^
careful mating for etrtrs shnT... o^.i ,

our Reds jay "like ^.eJl^f/rnsfXl \"r^ow'"k'e
Plymouth Rocks, with female plumage that

?rn^ ?rP ^''*^- ^"-^t tl^e to offtr eggs
from these grand Reds. Prize winners tn
every pen. Eggs $2 per 15; $3 per 30 Sam

BOX 21, Lancaster, O. 3.3

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOAIF Kivi^
Hlaek and White Lang.shan eggs at Vi r';;
per seftinir'? t-p ,.^ ""u cg^b at $1.50

Si'l^lr E'^-?"jr'!,er"f^ Z"r^ DIAMOND

I.NVEOST IN A SKTTIX,; , ,|.- My ill uT-
Langshan (-tiirs- it i.jii ■ ' •>! 1 i'i..\Llv

times: $2 p,;,' s-ettinL'"'-V'"/* Hundred
•-ckerel.s for .Ule Pn-d , S'P"/^- ^^^'-'o"-
iilu,-^. N. V. • '^aehman. Rom-

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BUFF COCHINS FOR SALE. HENS PUT '
lets or trios My stock is first clal?" Wnr,'
27 Drize«5 in lono c?„ ^ . "'•^'^ ciass. won

(■•>r <.sS wir- =.,ii^ ? '" >"'"'■ "'•''«'• now

Pui7o.?;g;.J ^-J^^ lo^[i'„r-wT"kit

Burnside. Conn Blake,
"• 2-10-13

H A RG A I NS IN S. C. WHITE I l.^r-wr.uxT
cockerels $1 and $2 each"tVr^andv'"bi'rd?

?n$o "«"''' /^"'^ «^^^ y^"'- Dick Eggs $1
'<nd $2 per lo. according to aualifv t^i.v,

Su"ai^nfe'e"l"'' T"^^ "x^^" ^^'-ona^ble ^ha'eh
^hor^'^w!,- '^''"'"" Keegan. R. 1. pox 72
1- 2-4

rhat;;:-^'%.~v^'-^

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

i'n'?r'(?Whi?e''T'^'?'' HIGHEST QUALITY
eggs and mv nH;!«"''""' •^''*" '" ^^^^^^'^ ^^'^^
ch5ice^"tl2^^fo?" 'Zl '^'•|g^.?ro"m''^my "^^.^

.-onipetition with the be.?t [n t he west Mr"
W. Jones Williams, The Maples." May wS

2-4

iV.. y- ^y'l''i'H LEGHORNS, ELEPIIWT
Strain. Seattle. 1st coeluMx-l; lou'l s,a,'. •
firsts. 2 seconds, 2 thirds ti. i «t..f ' "
Eggs, utility 5 cents eaS iia^e % cenii"

H?n,." T^' ^^1^'" ^*^h- CatalogSe. Rogers
Hanch. Box il. Pleasanton, la? 3.3

S. C. BLACK MlXoiiCAS. WON TEN
1910. (Five at state show. Detroit ) Lartre

cuTaV S"'^x^ ^"""T.'. *^P'^^' «^"P«- C'r!
.lack'sonr Mic'T- ^^ ^''"'"' '^''^ Williams St..

•w^ O ~o

I ^I'fEED FOli QIIALITV AND SIZE. S.

for in e ^;"^'/,t- ""^^""'Jr P^'" ^^^^ Cockerels
ro' sale. I. Allison. Florence. Neb. I-4

ROSE COMB BLACK MINORCAS. WIN-
ners of 7 first and 3 eups at Allantown
^^dL'eTT^T n"^ S-'-^nton this season!
Ou^mv .hnw ''^''*^'^' *" '••^Portlng Scranton's
Quality show, says: '.Mr. Tobey has on

r?^.'^'l'T, ^" """^^^•' '^f specimen's of sucS
remarkable quality as to call for the high-
est praise: anyone who can rear Black Min-
orcas and show them in such beautiful con-
dition, has the right to claim the honor of
being an expert with poultrv." C E Tobev
Seranton. Pa . • y^. t^. J^obey
- 2-3

GLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS ROSF

Comb Black Minoreas exelusfvely. ^ean
s^yeep at Peoria with one single excentlon
which resulted in a tie Sfnr'il o r.^ "^ '
.'uaranteed. $2.50 ner ''l5: ^^ er ^fo- Ifo
y;;r lOO. Charles White. Route' 36. Peoria

— : ■ 2-4

CORNISH

Piompt attention. Circular free R n
Hr-i'ler. Middle! own. Pa. ^'- ^^

#

POLISH.

:^^V'>^^"^-

L..i£Si^^ POULTRY FANCIRRHT"

GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS FOR
sale. Buds scoring 93 to 95% Won nt
Newton. 111.. In lively competition; first ?oci
first and second cockerel, first, second and
third pullet. Eggs after March 1 $3 oer
setting. Dale Arnold. Newton, lil. 1.4

BLACK BREASTED RED GAME B \N
tams. On ten entries, seven scored q^iA
two 96. one 96 V3. Write for Wor'd's Egt
Challenge. Eggs $2 per 15. J. F Kale I
Sons, Warren, O. 3-2

SEND VOIR oIJUKli.s f,,,. HEALTHY
pnze-winnmg G.dden Sebright I?antams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1, Cobleskill, N. Y Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching" $1 p^r
settmg. ' ^ '^_^

DOMINIQUE S.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every first prize of
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and siconSs.
Write for circulars and prices. W H Dav-
enport. Coleraine. Mass 5^9-12

PHEASANTS.

HOUDANS.

HOUDANS— MY BREEDERS ARE TRAP-
nested and bred for eggs; also have some
fine show birds. Won all firsts and 2 sec-
onds at Oshkosh, Wis., on 6 entries Eggs
pen 1 $2 per 15; per 2 $1.50 per 15;' guar-
antee 10 f.rtilo or replace setting free. John
C. Meyer, li 9. Oconto Falls, Wis 2-4

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PER
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150 00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
?^i pheasant breeding, and learn all about

i™ "'i' ^'^?"^][P- '^^ *=®"^« a copy by mail
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsle. New

5°^^- 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

IT IS A RECOGNIZED FACT THAT "Q &
B." Houdans are "the best." If you start
with "the best" you will save time, money
and annoyance. , If you want a flock of prize
winners and record layers, demand "Q &
B." Houdans. Write for our beautiful de-
scriptive catalog; it is free. Egg.s. $2 50

.MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS SCOR-
ing 94 1^ up with blood from World's Fair
and Kansas state fair firsts. Eggs $2 to $3
per 9 Jas. Gladish (Pres. Leahy Mfg. Co.)
Higginsville, Mo. 33

$5 and $10 per 15
hatch. Quimby
Ipswich, Mass.

. ten chicks guaranteed to
& Brown, 109-U High St..

2-4

LARGE CRESTED, HEAVY LAYING HOU-
dans. Eggs from four grand pen.s. Ten
years a breeder. Guarantee good hatch My
first year with Orpingtons. Whites and
IMaeks. Hnttie P. Franks. Worth, 111. 5-9-12

HOIDANS EXi'LCSIVELY. COCKERELS
lor sale also, one and two-year-old stock
All well-l)red birds and will please. Egg.s
shipped promptly. Send in vour order now
Price right. R. F. Dolan. Fiilda. Minn. 4-3

LAKENVELDERS.

l-OR SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TUR-
keys. A fine strain of good layers, large
bone and frame, and nicely marked; bred
from prize winning stock from Madison
Square Garden. Order early. Prices rea-
sonable considering quality. Mrs. Mary
Schoonmaker, R. 1. Meshoppen. Pa. 1-4

BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, $2 PER 10, AND
genuine Wild Mallard Duck eggs, $1.50
per 10. Order early. Will ship when
wanted. H. W. Fairall, Iowa City, Iowa.

1-4

MAMlVloril WHITE HOLLAND TIRKEVS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 p(«r setting of 10. W. A Smith
Burnt I'rairie, 111. 4.3

^

PIGEONS.

LAKENVELDER'S. FOUND AT LAST

what this paper is dedicated to: "The
most beautiful in fowls." Exhibition stock.
Eggs in season. Anson van Voorhees. Mar-
shall, Mich. 2-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop..
Ridgefield, N. J. 2-6

1 OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. 8-9-12

WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Highest
prices paid for Guinea Fowls, Live Rabbits
and Guinea Pigs. S. Gilbert. 1128 Palmer
St.. Philadelphia. Pa. i2-5

MISCELLANEOUS.

SILVER CAMPINES.

5sIL\ ER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
tiucer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
pi-oducer.s. Largest white eggs. First prize.
Whitest dozen eggs in show. Boston. 1910.
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus. Prop..
Hidgefield, N. J. 2-6

A FINE 160- ACRE P^ARM IN THE WHEAT
belt of Kansas. 19 miles from Abilene,
county seat Dickinson county. Four miles
from R. R. Now being used for pasture,
good wire fence, good water the year round.
Will sell below the market on reasonable
terms. Non-resident widow owns It and
has no use for it. Some improvements.
Addre.ss K. F.. care Poultry Fancier. 357
Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111.

>.^.Vi''-^7-Vt^'^..'J.^fW

Page 103

t\vI':l\i-: months \\'(jrk in the poul-

try yard by Judge Wittman. Tells what to
do <a(h mf.nth of the year. Free to yearly
sub.seribers of our journal. Will run Special
lireed Numbers until November; 35 cents
per year. National Poultry Journal Co
Box 114. Kittanning, Pa. 4.1

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

POULTRY FEED— PRICE PER 100 LBS.
Beef .scraps $2.75, meat and bone $2 25
ground bone $2.25, hen scratching grains
$1.8.'), chick scratching grains $2, poultry
mash $1.80. pigeon grain $2.25, alfalfa
clover meal $1.50, crushed oyster shells
65c, crushed clam shells 60c, mica crystal
grit 65c, pearl grit 60c, medicated charcoal
$1.50. The meat and bone, shells, grit
and charcoal in both hen and chick size
Give us a trial order. J. G. Hermann &
Co.. Indianapolis. Ind. jj.g

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads. envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.2B
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp
Model Printing Co.. Manchester. la. 10-9

STANDARD ALUMINUM
LEG BANDS

lPiiiii;';ilii|;illlliiii;;ilHliii';;;;i||l|lllni^

Price 12 bands 15c, 25-20c, 50-
35c, 100 60c. Send for catalog
of trap nest, egg shipping boxes
drinking fountains, feed hop-
pLirs and other supplies.

GEO. STIRDIVANT

sh'=:boygan falls, wis.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts : : : $5.ro per dozen
Phoenix Fow^ls : : 3.00 per dozen
Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - East Providence. R. I.

d

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POX ISH t t^T^
bred for 25 years. Winners at wi?M'8F^f
New York and Boston. Remember J hntciol'

ZnXT "^t"'^" ^''"•^^ bre^Jd^r'^Sf 'A'^^'erlcl"
Stock for sale: egga in season. Chas L leew'
Pres. Am. Polish Club. Afton. N Y ' 5 9-/2

BANTAMS.

# i9

HARIO BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SIT VWM,
5^'bright. Buff and Black Cochin iV^oTyi^
Plack and Blaek Red Game Baniams ' gij^''
est honors New York. 800 bi^Ss Prober &
» o . St^hoharjp N. Y roper &

u<m ]:{■{ iii<5fR in-j \,.^ , ^ lime I have

" j.^.s nisis. 10.3 seconds, gfi fhlrrl«j iin

sp.'cials. 10 silver cunvi t«.i !! in'riis, no

A8s„.. and National ira„tam-Aaa'J"""'"°rj

BARRED ROCKS
S.C.&R.C.R.I.REDS

— — ^^™— — — — — ■ ■

BUFF TURKEYS

™^— — — ^— —

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK
Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P. MORRIS, ILL.

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1 .50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS
at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

.

^£i£A::j:^S»^.^l:iJ'?.'ggP?S?5?r

C^^^J^POULTRY FANCIER

.k i^u ^' i*»« inserted in this department under the followine conrl:t:»».. Tl,« •
•hall be uniform, each ad occupying three-ouarter. of «!? ;.I!!k *=?"°'*'0"f •* The size
advertiser to use the same soace ear K .^^^*K a j *"l** "'."^'^ column Each

month, if desired No\Ts w1!I\\^n7erte^; ^^less^li^n"?^ Vk"^ **^^"*

$10 per year. Payment strictly in advaSce^oexceSio^s to th?.^^^^^ ^l,*"^ *^°** "
made exceptionally low on this account. exceptions to this rule. The price i.

the {h„^?^'*» '"«* '^ C. White Leghorns

the kind the new standard calls for Of l *

tliT% C^°'l '' ^'^^^ ^"d ^ seconds.' Pens
pfc/f^ ^y lt^«^ 8^^^"d ^°^ks and cockerels

fv«nf« '^^t'-'^fa^^^o" guaranteed. Write your

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
fcjquare, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standardbred.

^'o^iSb Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, .sizp, shape, color. Stock and
eggs II) seaso'i PVee catalog

w . J^^^c,^^^^ POULTRY PENS
West Mam Street, - EVANSTON, ILL

Buff Cochins That Win

special for best 10. I can help you win too If
you send me your order for stock or egg" G?knd

J. C. MITCHEM. : Marshalltown, Iowa

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS^

other people would read your ad if it Vere >

• • f-- ^ • ^"^ jyjuL «iu II 11 were /

««I 'o^^^^li^^ ^^^^ *^ yo" ^^^ reading this >
?fi- J the rates and conditions at the head )

[twill )

ICIER, ;>

Chicago, III. /

of this department and send in an ad. It will >
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, >
357 Dearborn Strett, ^

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Red^ ^°"^ better. 40 first and second
rr*, i/o P"''!f 5^ ^^ Sedalia and Kansas
*>ity 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place eRs^ orders now

I>. J. HMS'i;. Tarthasre, Mo.

AnCOnas exclusively, l^eaderstor 12
iniicuiiad years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won bv us and our customers
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put vou
upamong the leaders^ W. H. Br.nthoover"
61 15 Station St., East End. Pittsburg. Pa
^;5^^^^^AnconaClub of America

Houdans and Buff cVukiitT*^ wlnnlr"
Wyandottes l^^^So^l^^ 't.ll

andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps Hou-
dan eggs $.1 Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y.

5 LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS I

I Get prices on eggs and .stock before buying 5
i elsewhere. Illustrated circular free. >

?E^M. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio I

BARRED ROCKS pickerel mating of
P.,n . 1- ,.^^**^'^ the very brst strain.

Pullet ine is direct descendants or -Louis-

J?rf^F^'V-'y fl«ck headed by prize winners

?1 .>0 for 1;) eggs Catalogjie free

S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. F., Centerville. Iowa

s7n^iectm\Red Cockcrels ^^"^^

Special cockerel of Decatur. 111. in a class ir,.
Also Rose Comb Reds. Beck strain direct

p''r?ce^s|2 w'^u r"'''^^'^ ^^^^"^ November 27th.'
FERD. W. loERTEL. BRIGHTON. ILL

w^w — ^^'^^^^ COMB

BUFF ORPINGTONS

Eggs from exhibition and utility .stock Send
for Mating I,ist. A fe
for sale. H BRE

breedi
VOORl ZABRISKTE

Img cockerels

17 F.lni St.. Wob

urn, Mass.

^S»-^i^>^^^\

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Kees for
hatchiTig. Have bred Corni.sh IS ^^r,rc

ggs
Corni.sh 18 years
Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92, Hopkinsville, Ky.

hatchiTig. Have
Cockerels for sale.

St prize win-
rs at Metidan.

Rose Comb Brown f,l\

LEGHORNS !^''^f°'-^^- Worcester and
^vaiAvri%il.j Hoston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Fees
for hatching -^-sks

C^FLCLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

White Plume Farm p"^^' J"^*^ft»»e fovv

up your flock All ™^^:^^s''' ^^
r,^!"f'^l\,?°i^AWhite_ African Guineas

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF

5,,^fn ^°"?*' .^.'?<?.'^^ '^'""^ '*«d« Golden
PiiMCfs.s laid 291 eggs ,n a year; .50 hens

averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
trom this great .strain for sale; a recipe for
.sure cure for lice, 10c ^

IRA WATSON, - FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C Brown Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes. Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

Kl'.w?^H*'V* )Vyandotf,.s, Whit.- C rested
i$la<k Polish ami ISarred J'lymouth
li«>ekM. Direct desceiidantH from Madlsou square
and Chicago winners. Won tweuty elKhc reKuiar
?o^*'^!J''? '"^"^ dlplomaH at Oelweln. Iowa. Jan.
• ,.^' '", "trong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade roultry Yards
Win. Neiers. Prop., L. lj.4r,, Casrade. la!

IVCCU O K. c. RHODE LSLANI) REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee, Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. (;et my descrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the ese
'''"""^" DR. F. M. REED.

Wvanet. Ill

.season.

'10

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

hggs trom high-scoring prize winning stock
12 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle Pa
'09, won 11 prizes and $10 gold special for best
display 111 Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92K to 95.
3d prize ck. score 92^ and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Rd Rirtlett 16914 0.qk <5t Newcastle Pa

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

vVe head the Kellerstrass strain and hav.
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eges Both for
^^'^"oj^. Write us D, A WEDGE.
215 Galena Street Aurora, III

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS '^s*" f^"- '"""

„, .. r "^^ *** »*>-'v**vuc u p winners.
Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a
complete li.st of our winnings
E. H. DOWNS. RTE, 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH 2".^ '§L°^i\7
ROCKS -^- ^1^^^" ^"^^^ ^'"•'' y^^^- Prices

OSCAR E.

right.
WOOD

UNION. IOWA

S.C. and R.C.RHODE ISLAND REDS

vn.?-^ h ""''"^^'^ i^!''''''^ descendants from New

Cloud. Rose comb descendants of O. E Miles

oh?iKir'T'''''/^'''f'*' ""« *•«•"•'«• Be«t stock
ohtalnahle. l-or stock and eggs write

Dr.E. B. CRAMHLIT, AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES r^'^'l'"' ^ '

Ivyons, Delevan and Waterford." Fges^^rom
select matings that will produce wfnnerT
W rite for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyo^ WU.'

Walker's White Rocks Aiway.^win.

^""^^'o'l^'? ^^°.'^ t^'^y won all firsts, 3 s^e^
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials What

$5pe"]r"' ^^"^^ *^^° ^^'^^ Eggs $3 and
^BOBWALKER. Porter St., New Ca.tle, Pa.

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica s greatest Cochins and Brahmas. First prlzo
and sliver cup winners aiJWlnnepeg, Can.. Seattle
A.i.P Minn., 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden

mi«Htv R«Hrf P'"m®^ ^^^''''^ y*'" ^"y birds of
quality Satisfaction guaranteed.

C. M. Atvvood, Box Z. ,35, Dundee, Minn

BUFF ROCKS

sired by a 95 point male. AI
Special prices for short time.

o u n

o c

g

Y
S I
so yearlings.

L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind. State Show my

Barred P. Rocks i^""" ^"^ ^'"^^*^^ -^^d

1 . * • *^"^IV5 hen; li»U9 again thev
<;i'" ^'L^'!,'^ -'^ ^'""^^- 3d and 4th h?n in 1910
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen 2iid

u ^^^if L^;^ P"^^^»' 1910 a»«o Si ver Cup

24 R?I^ n RM "• ^- BARNETT ^
,24m»hnelLBId8L.. . Springfield,

hirain.) Hiack-rallcd .Japanese and IJutT Cochin
Hantams. Marred liocks. A few choke cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book vo, ?
onlcr early for e^Ks from my chok^st maHn^i
at #: .(H. per 1.5. i.^.tM) ,,er ;5(.. Bantam eKK8°Jft2^^
per I.'), !|4.(Mi per :50 "i."m okkb at 94,^

K. R. KOKEKTS CANASTOTA, N. Y.

Mas ih,. Nice.Mt Ue.ln here In HrlKhton whv- He
'Husemy strain comes from Renneft'^ f^«,
P'ze winners scoring from SS to S4 Reclreri'.'

V P 7Rmn^^?^ Satisfaction Kauranteed.

. i.ampert. Hrf^jhton. ill.

«:•

•

Columbian Wyandottes ?^*=^ ?i f^. p. rocks & s. c. w. leghorns

Strain are prize winners. They win for me
they win for ray customers. Tfiey wiU win
for you. Old and young stock for sale prkes
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Leeaeville, Mich. Station 23, Detroit, Mich*

Egg orders booked now from my 200-eirff
strains. Trap nests used. I know Jusrwhatl am
i2^''^\ K^l'".'^^*^?'*'"^ ^1 ^ ^ ^'tt> a famous etS
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT.-F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

?^^'!l»* |;??-"d°b™<PspY4'?'fS^ Golden Wyandottes ^Z.^'''j^?

Louis Dec 6-11, 1809. (54 in class, won 2d cock
3d cockerel, 4th pullet, with 5 birds '

J. S. Penninffton, Box F. Plainfield, lU.

Rr* n , A"^-""'*'","**^"- special strains

Y*/^^" Safe arrival guaranteed. Send
Babies u\ circular today. Servo..
Hatchery. Box 220, Edbon.

111.

America's Foremost Strains " f I'Jf^
Direct r°w\?u ^t' p';!^^'' °° ®- ^- ^^^^^ s

p-," ^- ^i*^ Leghorns. Duck wing and

Pit Gaines BuflF Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th, .5 eggs free.

»nf«M. Box Z. Bethleb*

)a.

'lei

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOSH PHILLIPS State Vice Pre.ident.
^. C a. Minorca. Club, Dover, N. J.

Cups at Mo. and Kas. State shows. "08 First
pen Mo. State Fair Oct. m First pen G
straight years at Sedalia .shows. Sweepstake
pen Dec. '09. over all breeds. Males 953/
females to 9(5. Be«:t eggs $2 50 per ] 'i
S- GJ^V^IPRECHT. Box H, ^ iVdalia. Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing etc. Kggs $2.00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS. UTILITY FARM, R. 19,

Owensville, Ind.

S. C White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Gee.se
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Langshans'
Can plea.se you. Write for prices
W. M SAWYER. Box F. Lanca.ter. Mo.

PFILE'S CATALOGUE gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and egprs In season
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book,

HENRY PFII.E
Freport, 111, Dept. A

Quality Strain BARKED KDCKs bavo
heen Ine l.red for K. years from foremost wln^
ners In America. Winners at leadli^ "h™
Cocks hens, corkerels nn,l pullets both matCg
for sale, from these winners or bred In 11m ^

C. O. DRAKE & SON,
I oek R«»x '4:i'4, I,a Harpe, 111.

At INDIANAPOLIS February V.m. my

Barred Rocks ^.?"i^t cockerel. 2d cock.

«^u«ivu **"^«Vd Silver Cup: Feb 1Q08 1st

?sTn;i'' Tk^"'!,'U^^P^- ^^ f^t and 3dTock;
nnlK I b^<?f<i Ro.e Comb Red.. Indiana^
polls winners too stoc k with quality for
'^ale W. W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN IND

H«fm In 'h ^'^ )^ «"."r''- He mak..H no «uch
wlJnlrL It r. ^,***M.""*'"" ^Vyatidottew were
winners at Klmlra I'ouliry Show. .Ian. I'.uo, first

inl^'f r*JJ 1. ""T*" coikerelH. first an.i third pullotH

"ottfriK (KeaMnKN (;hftll(!nKe Strain.)

l.oi.iK AV>Htfall. R. :i, WaverlF, N. Y.

Langshan -Hills Poultry Farm.
Home of Barnos' Black Lang.

Snans, winners whenever shown. Wnte
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2 50 each
Hens $L50. Napoleon J. Ba»«s
R. D. 7, Box 15. Winche.ter, Ky.

SingleComM^S^^
Legh

lOrnc Noted for size (4>^ to 7 lb. hens)
iwiua color, typical shape, deep bay

eyes, great vigor and greate.t po.ssible eej

producers. Kggs $1.50 per 15; |<J.00 per m

Honesty ffuaranteed.

R^S. MOSELEYXambndgj;. N^Y. ..Poultry Judg^-

I.AKE SHORE POtl^TRY FARM

Breeders of
Hisrji Class Silver Laced Wyandottes
Exclusively. Stuck for sale at all times. Ekc
odrers booked now.

l^- Kl^fi^^'^^^^- P'"^"- HENRY MAU. Mgr.
bx.nth ChlcaKO, Ills. K.F.D. No 34, Kenosha, Wis

BUFF WYANDOTTES Cxcl«i.
sively. Ideal shape, solid buff color,
(niaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN
EDEN CENTER.

H. BURGOTT,

N. Y

• «

Fat»ltl«»s»'» Ho«iLcians, 287
KeS strain. Five carefully mated pens
ol large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
.scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider. Box 105. Kan.a., III.

Rini^let Barred Ply-tnotitH
RocUs won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909 two
Sliver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 .50 up
Eggs, best matings ^3..50per 15 $5 per 30 gen-
eral stock $1.50. LAKK View Poultry Farm.
T. W. Critchette, ^larkesan. Wis.

Babv Chicks Eggs for hatching. White
vT.uV^ . Orpington, Barred Rock,

White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with .safety anywhere. Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yard*. Croxton, Va.

f 1P*iS*h"^^*^ *■*«* WHlte Minor.

?ioH^o«H fo'",s'^e and egg production.
Stock and eggs for .sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

O. B. SmitH (Sb Son.

Rox 454 North Haiti more, O.

R. C WHITE LEGHORNS ^^.'^I'l

Great Milwaukee Show. 1910. Eggs and

birds tor sale. Send for circular. Eggs from

prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN

LEGHORN.*;

Di.t. Atty. Philip Lehner, Princeton, Wi.,

o « . ^' .V^^*"^« ''""ed from New Vork
on^lt'tl''^ Hochester winners, 5 firsts Tseconda
on , entries at Rochester show, Dec \m) Ciu-k
erels «3 to tio, pullets 12 to $6, THob •: to $15
fcKgs $8 per 15. r, per .30. Free setting from best
pen with eacli tio orcler. Stoc-k K-mra'SiSeed.
*. A. C AMPHKM,. UONKOYK, N. Y.

_- C. BLACK ^°" «" fi'^st prizes
^Uj^I.JtlJlX'C^y^ ^t Columbus show

ORPINGTONS 1909«J«o«everalatOcon-
f I / o ,°'"°^<^ and silver cup

for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 $', per 15 : pen No. 2 |2
per 15. Dora Jame. Pick Fall River. Wi..

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Reds ^V/-^ Winners. Eggs from 1st pen,
»^cu» setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd

t%T*€v tK ^tfv^ «-«•#-. dM> nr^ r^_ - * - -

pen, setting 15 eggs $2.00

orders of 100 or more.

faction. William Kenney, Sparland, lU.

Special prices on
Guaranteed .satis-

RHODE ISLAND BKD8 WlnJ;^; Jt' the
blK Centervllie Iowa, and St.Louls shows. Wrltl
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty Egg orders booked. Guar

JOHN KKARSE, R. 1, C oafsville. Mo.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^J-ff-/^, -^

w^ ^'\.^'<»mw 1 ■ ,.. , p 11 I i e I s tor

ROCK ^**^l- ^S^^l« score from 94X to iw;
^s^^w^m. ajj(j ^jjj improve your flock

W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS gl^'^^

bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $6

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo O. Anderson

R 5, Box 0022, Rushville. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE
TURKEYS ^:7^ |Tp',S^i\^

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S I

Wyandottes. c. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA, MINN.

WYANOOTTE8 AND LANOSHANS.

v\ Inner* at ht. Louis Show. l%9. also two r^5 (»<i
silver cups at big Perry county 19(»9 show lu hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and BufT Wyandottes 42 per l."). H setting for «5
Black Langshans l.fW) per ir,. HulTs BrM t)y H B
8c.hlndl«>r. Partridge and Langwhans bred by .John
Allen. Allen & .Schindler FerryvJll*^, Mo

LIGHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
DD A Lim'iia o^' ''"'^*''' excellent, high
BRAHMAS scoring great layers.
«^«^^-a.a AiVA^^kj ^ J pj jj ■!

particular. Flock of 200 to .seTect from. Pn?es
HAPoi?f "k A V/jL*" «^"<"8^sor incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

o../'r 1 y^ V^u- '^»*>*x>n Winner. at Defiance
and Toledo, Ohio, 1910. Kggs from irrand
mating that will produce winners $2 00 per
15. Illustrated circular free
Four Si.ter. Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter.
Prop.. R. No. 3. Box A. New Bavaria. Ohio

EGGS ^ BARRED^ J^^LYMOUTH EGGS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Cha.. F. SCHLUETER, Box K. Reynold.. III.

^m

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POULTRY FANCIER

...4JmiiiinmiutunB<ji

SPECIAL DISPLAY AI>S

Ads will be inserted in this department under the folIowin<7 ^««J.»- tl

•hall be uniform, each ad occuoyine thre*. r,n«r/-l-«f ^ u *=?"a't«on»: The size
advertiser to use the samrspace lach monftT A%1 "" *"u^ *\"»'« column Each
months if desired. No aTs wIR be in^er^eH^J Uss^lfan^^ie?^^^ "t\"^^ *^^"-*

$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance No excepL^tr^^^^ T^^ "•'* ?'

made exceptionally low on this account. exceptions to this rule. The price is

lYe k!,K??h'^' *"^ '^ F White Leghorns

ine kind the new staiuhtrd calls for ot k;

f/i^n"':; k''"'.^ '• ^'""^^ '-^"^J ^ seconds; Pens
kU. f -'' !u*'''^ ^""^"^^ ^"^^•'^ '-^"fl cockerels

dred Satisfaction prnarantted. Write vour
''''"^' Js>JiRd£ll^»Virdin.ni

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Egg;

from special iiialed pens, Madisoi
Square, Chicago and Hoston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred,

coiSb Rhode Island REDS

Hred for viiror. siz<-. slinpc, color. Stock and
eggs in seaso'i Free ci talojr

«/ . ^I^^^c.^^^^ POULTRY PENS
West Mam Street, - EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kapids. I svon all flrHts •m.l
Bpeclal for best lu. i can belp you win too
you send me your order for stock or eggs, (irand

J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

S DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

J other people would read your ad if it wei
\ tiere, just the same as you are reading this >
/ °?f^- o t"« rates and conditions at the head >
V ot this department and send in an ad. It will >
J 5^'"gyo" Rood returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
l^ Dearborn Street, Chicago. III. )

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Red^ ^'""^ better. 40 6rst and second
rif T'\ ^''^■''I .""^ ^^ Sedalia and Kan.sas
City loO grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now
I). J.

I8MSS. Cartbnjr*-, M<».

AnCOnaS exclusively. Lea'lerstor 12
r&ucuiia5 y^ars. Hundreds of prizes m
hotconipetition won bv us and our customers
Voung and old stock fL.'iO and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put vou

lip among the leaders W H R*. n.
«:iiec* I- el i- ^^ "' *'r«nthoover,

61 15 Station St East End. Pittsburg. P«

^^i^^Ti^ljIJliAncpna Club of America

Houdans and Buff ;;:^;;,r^ wl,,,;;: I

Wyandottes ll^.'.'^lT^'oJirjr a';,',', l^lHl:

andaigna. making nearly clean sweeijs Uuu-
dan v^K>J^ \Vva„<lolte e^^- $2 Circulars. '
Mrs R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y

<^-ifjgmm

LINE BRED FOR 20 YF >.; }

Oct prices on eggs and stock before buying >
^elsewhere. Illiistratt-d circular free. >

} E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio l
i ^ _ J^

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

IsKUs tr(.m high-scoring prize winning stock
II* 00 i)er \^. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'OH. won 11 prizes and JIO gold special for best
<iisplay in Asiatics Pens headed bv <)3 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92^4 to 95.
Hd prize ck. .score 92\f and ckl.s. for sale
Mrs.Kd Rqttlett ]>]()K Onk «?t NewCactlp Pn

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

vve head the Kellerstrass strain an<l haw
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when vou
se'id us an order for stock or eges Hoth'for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE.
2 l.S Galena Street Aurora, 111.

BARRED ROCKS ^,«ckeiel matng of
,. ,, .. ^"-^ the verv bi-st strain.

Pullet line is direct descendants or' -Louis-
ana, i/jt- Worlds Fair hen. K«gs $3 to $', for
L liniy flock ht-aded bv prize winners

IT)

51 .'Ofor 15 eggs Catalogue free.

S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. F.. Centerville.Iowa

S. C. R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS *^^^«" ''°"> '' "

„, ., „ -^^ » »» *%vv*t».»jc u p winners.
U rite for oiu IHlO mating list which gives a
complete list of our winnings
E. H. DOWNS, RTE, 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

Single Comb Rcd Cockcrels Fi^i^lnd
Special cockerel of Decatur. 111. in a cla.ss 75
Al.so Ko.se Comb Red.s. Beck strain direct
Pr?cesJ2oo'^i .'"""''^''^^^ after November 27th.'
FERD. W. OERTEL. BRIGHTON. ILL

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH .':^tr '?^^:tz

ROCKS ^^^ ^^^" ^^'^'' ^^"'' y^^^- P''i^«^s

OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

SINGLE, COMK

BUFF ORPINGTONS

hggs from exhibition and lUilitv stock Send
for .Mating List. A few breeding cockerels
for sale. H BRRVOORT ZABRISKTR

17 rin, .St.. U'ohnrn. Ma'ss.

S.C.aiulR.C. KHODi: ISLAM) RKDS

Slnf.de coml.N duvet .lc.s,-en.i.-mlN from New

?Mmw.^ T'"""- *"«/'/••■ -'"'l <;io'y' nnd -IJed
Cloud. I'ONc comb (lesceiidantHof (). K Miles
lirst pen. Hiiperlor color, line comhs. Best stock
ol.tafnnhle. iv.r .stock Mnd e^-^-s write
Dr. i:. 15. rUAMULIT, A M KS, TOWA

!ornish Indians. Superb Matings.

est imi)orted and domestic blood. Kggs for

Hes

hatching. Flave bred Corni.sh

Cockerels for .sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore. Box 92, Hopkinsville, Ky.

IX years.

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES i.:^;"^^;nev '

Lyons. Delevan and Waterford. Hees^"rom

select matings that will produce1?in lurs

U , ite for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyon., Wi.

Rose Comb Brown ,';*;:' ,}

prize will-

LEGHORNS !/ -^f-^^"^ Worce.sVjr"trd
«^viiivft%iW Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Fges
lor hatchuiL' *-«>-•-'

C^HjCLARK, BOX F, COBALT. CONN.

Walker's White Rocks ^'rrN^^'w

^^^^If ""J'^ •''^°'^' ^^'^y ^^"'i '»11 firsts, H ^eo
ond, 2 thirds, 1 fourth and all .specials What

$.?peMr"' ^^"^^ ^''^" ^^""- ^'^^'^'^'^ and

BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Ca«tle, Pa.

's the fow 1

up your tlock All prizrwin7iers.^° While
P ymouth Rocks. White African Guineas

Vhl e ''u'Vf Turkeys. White Pekin D ck
White hmhden Gee.se. Write for prices on
eggs Satisfaction gnaranterd P"*^*''^ on

^:i^^UiliiJS.lSiii Jl^i^il!^^^ ^ L i' L" i mil I c . J If

< OCHINS HO.>IE. Ileadquiirtern for Ani.T
K a 8 fjreateHt LocblnH and Hrahnms. Kirst nrlz-
and sllvercup winners aiJWlnnepej.'. (an.. Seattle

katp, Minneapolis and Madison S(,uare (Jardeu

m;«Hfv CaM^'^'^'ir^*' ^'^^'^''^ >'0" •'">• birds of
quality. SatlRfftctlon jruaranteed.

r. M. Atwood, lt«,x Z, .'ir>, l>un<lee, Minn

WAT.SON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode I.-.land Reds. (.olden
iMMcess l-.ul -i)i cKgs in a vear; 50 hens
averaged L>40 in a year; eggs and cockerels
tioni this great strain for .sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice. 10c
iRA WATSON. ; FREDONIA, N. Y.

BUFF ROCKS T°""?

II ^_ o t o c k

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

special prices for short lime.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

IIm'". •'^,V. "'"'''" I'<'e»i"rns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

At Indianapohs, Ind State Show my

Barred P. Rocks ,^"" '•''^ '^""^^- •^»''i

• **w«-ivd hen; n»9atrain thev
won 1st and I'd pullet. M and 1th h?n n 910
Springfield O., 1st and 2nd hen. l.st pen 2nd
^"""^""i-fL^/^ P""^^- 19H'«lso Silvef Cup
24 R ^k"^ n"iM "■ ^- BARNETT ^
3d&5hr«'LB'd«L- - Springfield, O.

t 9

'>

*

• •

Columbian Wyandottes J^^^^s

strain are prize winners. They win for me
they win for my customers. They will whi
for you. Old and young stock for sale prkls
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Lee.ev.lle. M.ch. Station 23. Detroi?, Mich*

Radiant ^t?P,^PJ"F^ varieties

n ^^1 ^^»"dard bred. Special strains

R. C. Red w?P^'. '^*° ^«g« «^°d ,urer.
Y*/*^" Safe arrival guaranteed. Send

Babies u\ ^'^''"'^'^ *«>***y- servo..

^"^ Hatchery. Box 220. Edison, 111.

America's Foremost Strains "Jfi'Jfi
Direct ^"wi?jTf ? ^'i""^^ ^'^ ^- ^- ^^^^> »

•m *.v* c. White Leghorns. Duckwintr and
Pit Games. Buff Cochin Bantams. Wrife fo?
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th, 5 egg! free
Lha. ti. Z^egenfuss^SoxZ, Bethlehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

f?.^Klf°Ki''^^Pl\^^^^^"^ '^°'«''- ^^ed from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the

panloflars^"^'- "^"'^ ^°' ^"""^ ^"^ ^""

THOS.H. PHILLIPS State Vice President,
a. C a. Mmorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

Kirst pen

Cups at Mo. and Kas. State shows.^'08 ^Fi>st
pen Mo. State Fair Oct. 09. First pe n G
straight years at Sedalia .shows. Sweepstake
pen Dec '09. over all breeds. Males 95%
feniales to 9(; Be^t eggs $2 50 per 15 "^

S. G.JVVH1PRF,CHT. W H, "^Sedalia, Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMAiS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Kggs 12.00 per 15. Please send orders

earlv

JNO. F. WOODS. UTILITY FARM. R. 19,

Owensville. Ind.

S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

fJ^° '^'"rV" Chine.se and Toulouse Geese
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Langshans.'
Can please you. Write for prices
W. M. SAWYER. Box F. Lancaster. Mo.

1* FILE'S CATALOGUE gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and eggs In season
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFIT.E
Freport, III, Dept. A

Quality .Strain «ARREI> ROCKS Lave
been Ine hred for lu years from forem^.st win
ners In America. Winners at lendlnt^ Itow'
tar^I^iJ'T'' cockerels nn,l pullets hoth^^matrgs
for sale, from these winners or bred in line

O. O DRAKE & SON,

tock Uox «:J-4, La Harpe, m.

At INDIANAPOLIS February I90f; my

Barred Rocks ^?" ^''*- cockerel. 2d cock.

^wtitu ^^"^'^^ Sliver Cup; Feb. 1<X)8 1st
f °^^' *«t cockerel; Sept. 1909. 1st and .3d^cks

noli^^i ^ ^"^^f^ '^**** <^°»"»> R«ds. Indiana:
polls winners too .stock with (luality for
'^ale. W. W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN. IND

r^fm .. t *, ,"* J? >^ inner. He makes no such
winners «f'KM^.***M?"'»""' ^Vynndottes were
fhir. o at Llmlra Poultry Show. .Ian. 1!M0. first.
1m1 « r.^ V""!"^^ <-oi-kerels. fir.st and third pullets
H mno ? *"" '" ^ '*'*''" "f '^^ ^'0«^ <^"es. I hav..
HBttlnn ( KeathiK's Challenge Strain )
L<MHs \V,»stfalL R. .i, Waverly, N. Y

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders hooked now from mv 2()0-P£r»
n'.'in "^- J'\«P°««t8 used. I knowTus^what^ am
doing Birds scoring 91 to 95 with a famous eee

sfz^e'^'^^wru^^i^/'"- "*^-« '^^ stiape color aSd
size. Write me for a square deal

H. O. SWIFT.-F. CastleWood, So. Dak.

Goldi

len Wyandottes ?2^ Em strain

12 1909 66 in class, won 5th cock??fh co?kerel'
3rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show St
Louts. Dec 6-11 , 1809, 64 in cl^ss. won 2d co4
3d cockerel. 4th pullet, with 5 birds. '

J. b. Pennington. Box F, Plainfield. Ill

Langshan -Hills Poultry Farm.
Mome of Barnes' Black Lang,
snans, winners whenever shown. Wnte
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7. Box 15. Winchester, Ky.

utility
known.

Single Comb White « t"^ «^? n'^
Legh

eyes, great vigor and" greatest ^'pass^ble egi
producers. Eggs $L50 per 15; J6.00 per m
Honesty guaranteed.

^ ^QSELEY, Cambridge. N. Y.. Poultry

LAKE SHORE POULTRY FARM

Rreetlers of

?i^Ii, ^*''*?* Silver Laced Wyandottes
li.xclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Ekk
odrers hooked now.

c ■ ^; ?.^P^^*^|^- ^''68. HENRY MAIT, Mgr.
South Chicago. Ills. li.F.D. No 34, Kenosha, Wis

BUFF WYANDOTTES Kxclti-
sively. Ideal shape, solid buflf color.
Guaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT
EDEN CENTER. . '^''^ V n. Y

• «

«.I\V***.^*«» Hot»aan«, 287
£66 Strain, Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring
A few males at low prices. Circular free
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105. Kansas, Ills

Ringlet Barred Pls^moutK
KocKs won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909 two
Mlver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels |1 .50 up
Eggs best matings J3.50per 15 |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lake View Poultry Farm.
T. W. Critchette, Markesan, Wis.

Babv Chirk<i Eggs for hatching. White
rTru .^„r , Orpington. Barred Rock,

White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey
All prize winning stock and grand birds
Shipped with safetv anywhere. Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton, Va.

f *P*l5^*^** «^"*«* IVHlte Minor.

StorTflnH fo"" Size and efi^g production.
?i?^ "J"^ "^^^^ ^°^ ««^e in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

O. B. SmitH (Sb Son

Rox 4o4 North Baltimore, O.

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS .^-J*,'

Great Milwaukee Show, 1910. Eggs and
birds tor sale. Send for circular. Eggs from
prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN
LEGHORNS.

Pi*l* ^**y- F*»«''P Lehner, Princeton. Wis,

^

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Miaorcas
^?_i'^-.C:.R- '• Reds fn^f/rrri^;

Incubator eggs

winners at $1.50 per 15.

$5.00 per 100.

H. S. WENTZ. QUAKERTOWN. PA.

i]^« ■ ^'.V*^^*-^' '""ed from New i'ork
orwpnfr.".'^ Kochester winners, 5 firsts Tseconde

ere B tS ?o Sin' ^%^f^^!^ '^""^^ ^««- ^^'^- Cock
ereiB 13 to 110, pullets $2 to t6. Trioa 17 to sk,

EKgs $8 per 15, «5 per 30. Free set tlntr from best

"^T'f'l'^i'Jl'l'"'^'- Sto, k Kuari'n ee?. '
F. A. CAI>IPIJELL. HONEOYE. N. Y.

S. C. BLACK Won all fir.st prizes >
^Ui^I»™:^C;« ^* Columbus .show ''

ORPINGTONS 1^ also several at Ocon.
f V. **'^*^*^»^ omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 |5 per 15: pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River, Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Reds ^"^-^ Winners. Eggs from 1st pen.
i\cua setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland, III.

S. L. ANli W. WVANl>orTH'>< vt f^
RHODE ISLAND KEDS Wlim^rs S* the

blK Cen ervllle, Jowa. and St.Louls shows. Writ I
for catalogue describing the largest nure hreri
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fa#cy aSS utniu
fnr^^fV^3''^^^^yu Kgg orders booked. GuaV-
JOHN KEAR.SE, R. 1, Coatsville. Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH

Cockerels and

r^^^^r^mw , • . pullets for

ROCK """'J- ^\^ds score from 94K to 9<;

* .^^^*^ and will improve your

Prices rearonable. Eggs fc

quality of stock.

W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

^ - flock,
sale from this

BARRED ROCK EGGS IllVS^^.

bator eggs |4 per 100, M. B. Turkey eggs $6

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo O. Anderson

R 5, Box 0022. Rushville. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE
TURKEYS ^^IV/.T, i?^*,St\^

Tom. Finest stock to be found. ALso S L
^'"-rr ALEXANDR,^/- ^nT^"'*'

WYANDOTTES AND LANGNHAN.S.

\V Inners at bt. Louis Show, 1909. also two f25 iMt
sllvercups at big Perry county 19()9 show In hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and Buff Wyandottes $i per 15, :i setting for $5.
Black Langshans 1.50 per 15. Buffs Bred by R B
Schlndler Partridge and Langshans bred hy.Iohn
Allen. Allen & .Schindler Ferryville, Mo

LIGHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-

DD A 1 lKi\^^' ^'''''^'■'' ^^-^'l«^°t, high
ORAHMAS ^^^^iV'^^; 8^^^*» layers,
particular. Flock of 200^o'.se?ec?rroL'.^pSc^^
Hapo^^.^'^aIV^L^ settings or incubator lot.s.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN

Wyandottes litL^i^vJ-^ ^"»?'r? ,^'"«

o^J^T" 1 J ^..Kibbon Winners at Defiance
and Toledo. Ohio, 1910 Kggs from crand
niating that will produce wfnners |2.(» per
15. Illustrated circular free
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter,
Prop.. R. No. 3, Box A. New Bavaria. Ohio

EGGS"«A««E'J,oP^YMOUTH £QQ5

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas._F^SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynolds. III.

INTENTIONAL 2ND EXPOSURE

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SIBLEY'S :-.?,' is:;

Rw^ «^ f J- o r. ^^' ^^ ^^^ Big

P r\ C 'ndiana State Fair this season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most coveted prize, Ut pen. Also
•■-^ I^ O ^** *"** 3rd cocks, 2nd cockerel and many of the other winners were decended from our flock.

They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows. At

Detroit January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 11 others*. At
Chicago, December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September
1908, 11 prizes includmg 5 firsts.

Our winnings at Detroit, January, 1909, in one of the strongest classes of Reds ever
gotten together were: first, second, third and fourth on cocks, first, second, third
and fourth on hens; first, second, third and fourth on cockerels; first and fifth on
pullets; first and second on pens. The four club specials for color and shape.
The silver loving cup (valued at ,«25.00) offered by the Mayor of Detroit for the
best display of either Rose or Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. The silver loving
cup (valued at |20.00) offered by the Hotel Normandie for the best display of rose
comb Rhode Island Reds and other valuable specials.

MIN-NE-HA-HA 1st prize winner, Chicago,
Dec. 16-19, 1908. Detroit. Jan. 9-14. 1909.

THE SIBLEY REDS HAVE ALWAYS WON EAST AND WEST

2000 BIRDS RAISED DURING THE PAST SEASON FROM WINNERS

Some of the cream of this year's production is still in
our yards and if you are looking for a choice bird or two
we can more than please you at right prices.

We will have ten grand pens mated for the egg trade. Book your orders
early. Prices |3.00, |5.00, ^10.00, |15.00, |20.00 and $25 00 per setting. Send

for catalogue describing our matings and telling all about the vSibley Reds.

Irving A. and Frank Churchill Sibley, South Bend, Ind.

THE FAMOUS HEM, "PEGGY.''

VALUE $10,000. First prize winner at Jamestown
Exposition, Madleon Square Garden, New York, and every-
where eloe ehe has been shown. The reason we value the
above hen at Ten Thousand Dollars Is because we refused
$2,500 for her after we sold five of her chicks for |7,5(K): and
ive will srive $10,000 for a "Crystal" White
Orpington Htn that will equal her in everyway.

KELLER8TRA8S FARM, KANSAS CITY, MO.

" RELLERSTR ASS "

White Orping'tons

ARE THE BIGGEST PA YERS

Because they have proven to be

THE BIGGEST WINTER LA YERS

^U^ERSTRASS "CRYSTAL"

White Orping'tons

fheir^FANCV^OUA?FTV f^'^^^^"'^''^ ''V^''"'' io^^y-^»i»
rneir rApjCY gUALlTY they won first at Madison Sauare Oanlpn

New York 1905, 1906, 1907. 1908; also at Crysta" pXce LmSS*

JnTtL KIND THAT WfS^^^ ^^^^ ^"*" "^- ^^ ^ave themT.
fnH prrQ^ . T ^'^^' ^ ^"*" P^st *'^c«»^d shows. STOCK
TOrI o?-CrVsV^^^^^ Remember, we are the ORIGINA;

WinH^ w.^ r '^ J^^'*^ Orpingtons, and breed only t:ie<
kind. We devote our who'e time to this one breed.

SEND FOR OUR CATAI^OGUE)

I,ife Members American White Orpington Club and the A

raerican Poultry

KELLERSTRASS FARM

ERNBST KEl.I.ERvSTRASS, Proprietor

Originators of Crystal White Orpingtons
R. F. D. No. 1 KANSAS CITY, MO

REGAL BLUE BARRED ROCKS i^^^'^^r^'^i^

riiwmi iii«w Muny iiB ^^«ifc.-ffm^tw>iitii»M«'nw

none surpass Try a set-

., , ting at J4.00, compare them

with those costing you $5.00 up to $15.00 per setting, and be convinced.

A. 1^. KMERSON, - - - INKSTER, MICHIGAN

BUFF ROCK^V

Winners at Dearborn, Mich.,
December, 1909, 1st and 4ili
q J ^ 11 . . , , cockerels, 1st pen, 2nd and

drd pullets in a strong class ot buds. Have 4 pens headed by cockerels scoring 92^
^uV^'^ Females in these pens are high class birds scoring 91 to 93 under Tucker
ine birds and score cards to show. Write for prices on cji-^
A. S. MATTHE'MTS - - \¥AYNE., MACHiGAK

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
wmners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White I^eghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong healthy
chick in each specimen. I guarantee this
and also safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can afford to
hatch them. c. E. KYLE,

R. F. D. No. 1 Rocky River. Ohio

Big Browii Beauties

Kggs from pen scoring 18G% by Sliellaberger.
Only limited number of orders taken. $2.00
and $3 00 per 15, P\illet or cockerel mating.

BROWN LEGHORN POULTRY FARM

J. H. RYAN, Prop., Kenosha. Wisconsin

"HALB

.^rM^csXim-c^f mmmmmui^srimmimm''imm^^y'Ji*i^.,m<im^:.- mm.m--'«v>mB i4.m^m^'^-,.^;^;

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY, 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

You would be surprised to know, that in addition to winning year after year, birds purchased from
nie or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show
after show, where my birds have won the BE5T PRIZES but I honestly believe this honor belongs to
the purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you neei not be afraid that I will pmblish your winnines
as mine For the season of igto I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating li.st, which describes nTy
pens and contams pictures of "LEADER" my ist CHICAGO COCKEREL and other famous birds. A
^^hoice^of breednig cockerels left at $3 to $.0 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford Wis

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BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, ist and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a ckss of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
3rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

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ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT !)! LAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulouse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for

prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM, prop.. Box P, Dearborn, Mich,

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A Prominent and Successful Fancier Explains Fully
His Methods of Care and Feeding Which Pro-
duce Show Birds Up to Standard Weight and of
Highest Quality.

By C. E. PETERSEN

i 1 1'' care of the little downy balls that
we call chicks is n<»t only a ])leasure
and recreation i<> ilie l*'ancier, but to
\ ery man il lias been the rir>t l<>ncli
<»i' .\alure that <>])oned the eyes n\
those formerly blind In lu-r manifold
lieaulies. Il was the be^innim^ of better tliiiiLiS, it
was the nn folding; <»f one feature of animal life, that
little by little opened ii]) to ns the whole mar\elous
realm of her domain. The *'peej)," "])eei)*' of the
chick taught n> to listen to the obir]) of the sparrow;
and the cliirj) of the s])arrow to the sinLiim.;. <(»arin^"
meadow lark, until our f;aze was lifted from earth
to sky, and for one brief moment, we realized that
there is a reli.i^ion in evcrythiiiLi- arimnd us — a calm
and holy relii^ion in both the brealhini; and nn-
breathiiii; things of .\atiire, which man would do
well to imitate. The interestini^ features of ponltrv
>ar(ls and chick life lia\e been so well described b\-
l\e\ . ( iilbert White in bis \vorld-famon< \-olume.
"The Xalnral History of Selborne."

X( » inhabitants of the ponltrv \ar(] seem jx'ssessed
ot such a \ariety of expression and so copious a lan-
i^iia^e as what we commonly call onr chickens. Take
a chicken of four or li\e days old. and if tliere is a
l1y within its reach, it will immediatcK >eize its ])rev
with a little t witlerini; of complacenc}' : bnt if a was])
or a bee, at once, its note becomes harsh and expres-
sive of disai)probation, and a sense of damper. When
a pullet is ready to lay, she intimates the e\ent b\ a
joyous and easy soft note. ( )f all the occurrences
of their life, that of laying seems to be the most im-
portant, for no sooner has a hen disburdened herself
than she rushes t'orlh with a clamorous kind of jov.

which the cock and the rest of his mistresses imme-
diately adopt.

As soon as a hen becomes a mother, her new rela-
tion demands a new language. She then runs cluck-
ing* and calling- about and seems as ai^itated as if
possessed. J he father of the tl(»ck has also a con-
siderable \ ocabularv ; and if a l)ird of prey passes
over, with a warninni- voice he bids his family be-
ware. The c^allant ehanlicleer has at command his
amorous phrases and his terms of defiance, but the
sound !)}• which he is best known is his crowing', !>>'
this he has l)een distinguished in all ai;es as the
C(»untryman's clock or alarm, as the watchman he
l)roclaims the divisions of the night. Thus the poet
elemanlly styles him:

"The crested cock whose clarion sounds
The silent hours."

To the fancier, all these ditYcrent sounds of the
c<>ck, hen and chicks seem so much music. i^ie
youiiiL;' br(»ods become objects of intense interest and
a i^reat deal of time may be spent anionic' them ; they
are creatures (^f lo\e, and that love us. How eajE^er
we are that the\ >hould thrive. We examine their
points anxioiisK- and can almost in their early in-
fancy pronounce upon the future prize winners.
P'rom that moment the\' arc marked birds and re-
cei\e special attention: all the tidbits fall to their
share, and if there is a better coo]) or a choicer spot
of ground than an(»ther it is theirs. And this close
attention and s])ecial care is necessary, for, at this
time, {he youn^- chick'Mi has e\ erythiniL'; to make, and
L^ood and nutritious feeding;- is an absolute essential
until the ])rocess of feathering is com])leted, so as
to make U]) for the imustial demand on the system.

It is in this res])ect that so many breeders fail in
prod uci 1154' stock up tn the rc(|uire(l Standard size,
and we say size knowiiiL^ly. for if the size is there, a
bird in c>-ood condition v ill be u]) 'o Standard weisiht
also, n^he strain on the system of the y(^uni^sters,
at this time, is i^^reat, and if ])ro])er care and food
is not i;i\en them, the result will be undersized, or

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BUFF ROCK.S

Winners at Dearborn, Mich.,
December, 1909, 1st and 4th
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ine birds and score cards to show. Write for prices on egijs
A. S. MATTHEWS > > ^ WAYNE. MICHICAK

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
winners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Save Time, Effort & Money

Buy S. C. White Iveghorn Day Old Chicks
from me and you get a good strong healthv
chick in each specimen. I guarantee this
and also safe delivery and the price is only 12
cents each. Cheaper than you can afford to
hatch them. ^ ^ ^YLE,

R. F. D- No. 1 Rocky River. Ohio

Big Brown Beauties

Kggs from pen scoring 18GJ^ by Shellaberger.
Only limited number of orders taken. $2.00
and $3 0{)per 15. Pullet or cockerel mating.

BROWN LEGHORN POULTRY FARM

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^^HALBACIfS WHITE ROCKS"

Established a BIG RECORD by winning
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO JANUARY 1907
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER, 1908
BEST DISPLAY AT CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1909

You would be surprised to know, that in addition to winning year after year, birds purchased from
me or hatched from EGGS I sold have won at the largest shows in the country. I could mention show
after show, where my birds have won the BE5T PRIZES l)ut I honestly believe this honor belongs to
the purchaser. So, when you buy birds from me you need not be afraid that I will pmblish your winnings
asmine For the season of 19m I have mated 15 grand pens. Write for mating list, which describes nTv
pens and contams pictures of "LEADER" my ist CHICAGO COCKEREL and other famous birds. A
choice lot of breeding cockerels left at $3 to $10 each. H. W. Halbach, Box 7, Waterford Wis

A CLEAN SWEEP

LAPHAM'S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Win all First Prizes at the Michigan State Fair, Detroit. Mich., September 2 to 10, 1909.
Winning ist and 2d cock, i.st and 2d hen, ist, 2d and 3rd cockerel, ist, 2d and 3d pullet,
ist pen. At the Dearborn, Michigan Show, December, 1909, in a ckss of 87 birds, one of
the strongest ever gotten together in the West, I won ist. 2nd, 3rd and 4th cocks, ist and
3rd pullets, 2nd and 3rd cockerels, ist. 2nd. 3rd and 4th hens, with birds scoring to 94
by Tucker.

ONE THOUSAND BIRDS FOR SALE

including some of the cream of my old stock and the cockerels and pullets of last spring's
production. I can mate up pairs, trios and pens that will win and produce winners. Also
single birds both sexes in lots to suit. Write for prices on eggs from my choicest matings.
They will put you in the lead.

DONT DELAY, WRITE TO-DAY

20 young Toulouse Geese from Chicago and Detroit winners (never beaten.) Write for
prices. Catalogue free. Please mention this paper when writing.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS, S. D. LAPHAM. prop.. Box P, Dearborn, M.ch.

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Chick:

A Prominent and Successful Fancier Explains Fully
His Methods of Care and Feeding Which Pro-
duce Show Birds Up to Standard Weight and of
Highest Quality.

By C. E. PETERSEN

HE care of the little downy balls that
we call chicks is not only a pleasure
and recreation to the Fancier, but to
very man it has been the first touch
of Nature that opened the eyes of
those formerly blind to her manifold
beauties. It was the beginning of better things, it
was the unfc^lding of one feature of animal life, that
little ])y little opened up to us the whole marvelous
realm of her d<^main. The ''pee])," "peep'' of the
chick taught us to listen to the chirp of the sparrow ;
and the chirp of the sparrow to the sini^ing, soarino-
meadow lark, until (nir gaze was lifted from earth
to sky, and for one l)rief moment, we realized that
there is a religion in everything around us — a calm
and holy religion in both the breathing and un-
brealhing things of Nature, which man would do
well to imitate. The interesting features of poultry
yards and chick life have been so well described by
Rev. (iilbert White in his world-famous volume,
"The Natural History of Selborne."

No inha1)itants of the poultry yard seem possessed
of such a variety of expression and so copious a lan-
guage as what we commonly call our chickens. Take
a chicken of four or five days old, and if there is a
fly within its reach, it will immediately seize its prey
with a little twittering of complacency ; but if a wasp
or a bee, at once, its note becomes harsh and expres-
sive of disapprobation, and a sense of danger. When
a pullet is ready to lay, she intimates the event by a
joyous and easy soft note. Of all the occurrences
of their life, that of laying seems to be the most im-
portant, for no socMier has a hen disburdened herself
than she rushes forth with a clamorous kind of joy,

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which the cock and the rest of his mistresses imme-
diately adopt.

As soon as a hen becomes a mother, her new rela-
tion demands a new language. She then runs cluck-
ing and calling about and seems as agitated as if
possessed. The father of the flock has also a con-
siderable vocabulary ; and if a bird of prey passes
over, with a warning voice he bids his family be-
ware. The gallant chanticleer has at command his
amorous phrases and his terms of defiance, but the
sound bv which he is best know'n is his crowincf. ]>v
this he has been distinguished in all ages as the
countryman's clock or alarm, as the watchman he
proclaims the divisions of the night. Thus the poet
elegantly styles him :

''The crested cock whose clarion sounds
The silent hours."

To the fancier, all these difl'erent sounds of the
cock, hen and chicks seem so much music. The
young broods become objects of intense interest and
a great deal of time may be spent among them ; they
are creatures of love, and that love us. How eager
we are that they should thrive. W> examine their
points anxiously and can almost in their early in-
ifancy pronounce upon the future prize winners.
From that moment they are marked birds and re-
ceive special attention : all the tidbits fall to their
share, and if there is a better coop (^r a choicer spot
of ground than another it is theirs. And this close
attention and special care is necessary, for, at this
time, the young chicken has everything to make, and
good and nutritious feeding is an absolute essential
until the process of feathering is completed, so as
to make up for the unusual demand on the system.

It is in this respect that so many breeders fail in
prcKlucing stock up to the required Standard size,
and we say size knowingly, for if the size is there, a
bird in good condition will be U]) to Standard weight
also. The strain on the system of the youngsters,
at this time, is great, and if proper care and food
is not given them, the result will be undersized, or

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still worse, stunted specimens. Give them all they
require and no more, avoiding- pampering with con-
dition powders and chick specihcs. Nature does not
demand such things. \\'hen you use them, you yiol-
late Nature's laws and practically weaken, debilitate
and finally destroy entirely the vitality of your birds.
\A'ell hatched, strong, vigorous chicks given plain
food at regular intervals will keep in fine trim and
grow to their full size.

For 'Zi hours after the chicks are hatched, they
do not need any food, as Nature has provided the
first few meals for them in the yolk absorbed just
before the exit from the shell, but this is the limit,
and 1 think the extreme limit, to which any one
using rational methods should go. After that length
of time the yolk has-been taken into the system en-
tire and there is no necessity of starving the chicks
for from 1*;? to 18 hours longer, as some breeders
advocate.

The fact is, that a newly hatched chick will not
eat, as 1 have proven over and over again and that
others require food as early as from 1'^ to 1(S hours
after exclusion from the shell. Nature is a "ood
teacher; follow her teachings and we will not £ro
very far out of the way. For the first meal I give a
little fine grit, but never mix it with the food, and
then, for the next few days bread and sweet milk;
that is. crumble the l)read and then moisten it with
the milk.

Mr. Charles A. Cyphers, who has made many ex-
periments in the feeding of little chicks, writes as
follows:

"Without an exception, bread and sweet milk
make the best food for a day or two, if not for the
first two weeks. At the time of exclusion the crop,
gizzard and intestines are filled with uric acid and
other excretions, of which they should be cleaned.
I have fed nearly every food usually employed, and
killed and dissected by the third day over one hun-
dred chicks. Of all the foods experimented with,
bread, softened with sweet milk, clears the crop, giz-
zard, and starts the chicks growing the quickest."

This diet may be followed with steel-cut oatmeal
(sometimes called pin head oatmeal), to scratch for,
and a little later hulled oats, cracked wheat, and
cracked corn may be given. Too much cannot be
said in favor of oats as a frame builder. 1 feed it
freely in all forms, cooked and raw, and 1 do not
know of any other single grain as valuable in bone
and flesh-forming properties as well-cooked oatmeal,
steel cut oats and hulled oats. \\\Xh me, it forms
a steady diet as a grain food from time of hatching
to maturity. After that, I feed regular unhulled oats
as part of their ration.

A little cooked meat chopped fine will also be rel-
ished by the little fellows, and fresh green bone
finely cut can also be fed to advantage, where a bone
cutter is handy. It is a valuable food to facilitate
gro\yth, particularly where the range is limited.

Give the hulled oats, cracked corn and green
bone and I will, without any other means of feeding
build up a strain of birds with frames so large that
they will more than reach the difi'erent weights re-
quired in the Standard, and not be spoiled for breed-
ing by an excess of fat. Of course, we take for
granted that summer chicks have all the green food
they want; if not, it must be supplied. AVhen green
bone is not handy, bone meal mixed in the soft food
is excellent. Wherever it is used, there will be no
complaint of leg weakness. I use it continuously,

and if its valuable properties were fully understood
it would form one of the staple articles in chicken
diet, especially where the chicks must be kept in
confinement.

]f you have plenty of spare milk, don't feed it all
to the pigs. Give the chicks all they want to drink
of it, but not to the exclusion of clean, cold water,
as there are times with chicks, as w^ith human
beings, when nothing but water will do. For the
first two wrecks feed every two hours all they will
eat up clean. For the next three wrecks every three
hours, and after that four times a day until they
reach maturity.

If the youngsters have plenty of range, feed three
times a day, or even less will be enough. Yet it is
necessary to say this : Chickens having all the range
they desire and compelled to hunt all day for their
living, mature far too rapidly to make large ex-
hibition fowls. Runs of medium extent sufficiently
laroe to su])ply all the green food needed, aft'ord the
best facilities after all. They, moreover, are con-
ducive to that regularity of feedimr so essential to
success, and so hard to practice where the range is
very extensive. Do not, under any circumstances,
leave food around to sour and then feed to the chicks,
as it will kill oft* the best flock by causino- bowel
trouble. As wet foods will sour rapidly after mak-
ing, particularly in hot weather, no more should be
made at a time than needed. A little more trouble,
but it pays well, like everything else, that is done as
it ought to be done.

\Mien the mother hen leaves the chicks to care for
themselves, they should be moved to quarters where
they will not crowd one another. They will thrive
best if kept in small flocks, say of about twenty-
five chicks in each flock, for, if at this time they are
at all crowded, it will be detrimental to their' wel-
fare. Young chickens kept in ill-ventilated crowded
quarters where the heat is extreme will never do
wxll, and they would be better, if roosting on the
bare ground under the shelter of a bush or'a tree.

I am using to great advantage roosting coops, 6 by
3 feet, with wire front coming down twelve inches
from the top of coop, running the whole length six
feet. The lower part is wood, that keeps the wind
from blowing the rain in on stormy days. There is
also a hinged hood that keeps the rain from coming
through the wire netting. It can be thrown back
upon the roof on bright days. This admits the sun-
light to purify the coop. Such a coop kept scrui)u-
lously clean makes an ideal shelter for young stock.
See that the chickens in each flock are all of the same
age, or at least that they do not vary too much in
size, or those of larger growth w^ill tyrannize over
their younger companions, gorge themselves with
food while the others of lesser growth will, for a cer-
tainty, go short unless some' special provision be
made so all will get their proper share.

Jf the birds are reared for exhibition, or to be sold
at fancy prices, the cockerels must be separated from
the i)ullets as soon as they show signs of becoming
troublesome, which they generally do at an age rang^
ing from eight to fifteen weeks, according to the
variety bred. If this is not done, they will attain
maturity too soon, notwithstanding all the care that
may be betsowed on them to get them large and well
proportioned. It is a dilemma to know just what to
do with a number of cockerels from "five to six
months old, for a breeder that does not have a cock-
erel house where each bird can be kept separate. If

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they are kept together in one pen, they are bound to
spoil each other's plumage in a very few weeks. A
good strong, courageous cock will keep order to
some extent and also keep them from fighting, but
every expediency fails at last, therefore the necessity
of the cockerel house. Anyhow, whatever male
youngsters are selected for exhibition must have a
seperate coop and run in which to be fitted.

During the hot months be vigilant and observant
regarding the needs of your young stock. Provide
plenty of shade, plenty of cold water and feed regu-
larly, and do this without fail. Let them out early
in the morning when the sun is still low; they will
hunt and enjoy life during these morning hours. At
11 a. m. feed them well, and you will see them lounoe

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A Talk to Amateur Fanciers Upon the Necessity of
Intelligent Care and Conditioning if They Expect
to Compete with Professional Exhibitors.

HEX the amateur comes into competi-
tition with the professional in the show
pen the result is seldom satisfactory to
the former, nor does it cast credit upon
his exhibits. Without a doubt one's suc-
sess in the poultry Fancy depends to a
very large extent upon how one shows one's birds,
and, nowadays, when there are so many professional
poult rymen, the man who cannot or will not take pains
with his exhibits has a very small chance of winning
any substantial reward. Many professionals pen their
exhibits in a style that compels admiration ; and many
novices pen theirs in a manner that extorts disgust.
This fact occasionally gives rise to bitterness. For
instance, a bird that has won many prizes for a pro-
fessional is sold to an amateur, who experiences a
series of reverses, and who consequently blames the
vendor, the judges, and everyone but himself, although
it is entirely his own fault.

Now, there is only one course open to the amateur,
and that is to follow the professional as closely as pos-
sible. This will necessitate a very great amount of
trouble, and not a little expense; but there is more
hope for the amateur who sets out to beat the profes-
sional at his own game than for him who occupies his
time writing to the papers about the rapaciousness of
pot hunters and the wickedness of professional
poultry-keepers in general.

And what is the method bv which the professional
succeeds? Well, the real truth of the matter is that
he takes care of his birds by every means in his power.
While the amateur considers it quite sufficient to leave
his birds out in the open, exposed to all weathers,
when they are not required for show, the professional
will keep his in sheltered runs, not necessarily pam-
pered and softened by close confinement, but sensibly
fed, sensibly cared for, and withal protected from the
evil influence of sun and rain.

In the breeding season the amateur in most cases
lets his birds take their chance, and at the end his
beautiful exhibition fowls are simply a mass of ragged
weather-stained feathers. The professional will have
his eye on the summer shows, and while he will get
all the value he can from his birds as breeders, he
will contrive to preserve their color and condition,
and protect his hens from the too vigorous attentions

in the shady places during the intensely hot hours
of the day, every now and then making a dart for a
fly or some insect coming within range. Then a
few hours before sunset they will again scatter until
fed the last meal, and then retire happy and con-
tented with chick life.

Examine closely for vermin and dust freely with
some good insect powder, at least once a month.
With such treatment as described, I have never
failed to raise strong, hardy stock, and chick mortal-
ity with me has been so rare an occurrence that it is
not worth mentioning, and I use both natural and
artificial methods of rearing my chickens. Common
sense is the best manager in the poultry yard.

iiridgton, A^Te.

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of their mates. How is it done? Not by letting mat-
ters take their own course. Shade has to be provided
m the first place, and if it cannot be arranged in any
other way, the professional will not consider it too
extravagant to go to the expense of canvas screens.
1 his means confinement in a comparatively small run,
and m order to keep a bird healthy in such circum-
stances constant care has to be exercised. It may be
said that it is impossible to keep poultry in health and
strength in small runs, but dozens of town poultry-
keepers can give the lie to that. It is all a question of
whether one will take the trouble to make the subject
a study, and devote his whole knowledge and as much
time as he can spare to his birds. I do not say that
the amateur who does his best in this direction will
meet with the same amount of success as the pro-
fessional did. But he may comfort himself with the
assurance that he is on the right road, and that he
will always have an advantage over those amateurs
who neglect to pursue the same tactics.

Showing poultry is an art in itself, and there are
cornparatively few poultrymen in England who can
claim to be masters of that art. I personally know
several who are among the cleverest at staging a fowl
in tip-top form, and my opinion is that the talent is
acquired throtigh experience and constant practice,
l^iere may be little personal secrets which every man
will keep to himself, but generally speaking it is not so
much the system as the care with which it is applied
that accounts for the sticcess. A poultryman above
all things should be thorough in all that he undertakes,
and an amateur will certainly sooner or later meet
with success if he acts upon this principle.

One fact that a great many exhibitors fail to re-
member is that one cannot get a bird ready for a
show in twenty-four hours, and let it take its chance
the rest of the year. The weather has an eflfect upon
birds of every color, and half a day's rain, followed
by a few hours of sunshine, may take 50 per cent of
the exhibition value of a fowl. If the amateur has a
bird that he intends to show, he should treat it ac-
cordingly, and not as he would one that is required for
breeding purposes only. It does not necessarily fol-
low that if one keeps a bird for show, one cannot
also use it for breeding, though it must be remembered
that the more one shows a bird, and keeps it closely
confined, the less likely it is to prove a reliable breeder.
To keep a bird shut up in an exhibition |x?n for
months on end has the same eflfect upon it as confine-
ment in a cupboard would have upon a man. That
is why every fancier should provide sheltered accomo-

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elation in some form, and even a little cockerel house
with small covered run is better than nothing at all.
I am quite ready to admit that this sort of thing is
not so good for the health and vigor of a bird as

May. '10

free range upon a farm, but then if one intends to go
in for exhibiting one must show birds properly, or be
content with "commended" cards, or probably less. —
IV. M. Elkinton in Poultry, London, Eng.

Gettin

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A Few Reasons Why the Egg Business is not Al-
ways Satisfactory and How Buyers and Sellers
Should Work Together.

By J. E. WILMARTH

JUS season adds to the ranks of those
poultry breeders who state that they
will not sell c"-2:s for hatching-, mving-
as their reason that the business is
unsatisfactory. Who is to blame for
these conditions? Some times it is
the seller, but oftener the buyer is at fault, in that
he expects too much for his money, especially the
beginner. He will probably pay $3.00 for fifteen
eggs, that being the beginner's limit, as a rule, and
they arrive in good condition, and a few^ days later
he sets them, every thing seemingly favorable for
a good hatch, and then gets four chicks. Of course
he kicks, and calls the seller a rascal, but never stops
to think that the eggs may have been chilled, or,
what is worse, overheated while in charge of the
express company, or they may have been handled
roughly. Yet there is a chance to come out on the
right side, even if the seller w^ill not replace the eggs,
for you may get one bird out of the four that is
worth, say, five dollars, and two of the others, tw^o
dollars each, the other being a cull, worth a dollar
to eat. Here is ten dollars. Cost of eggs, $3.00 ; ex-
press, 50 cents; cost of raising, $4.00; total cost,
$7.50; profit, $2.50; yet this is what most ])eoplc
would call a poor hatch. The writer has had a little
experience. The biggest hatch T ever had from eggs
T bought was seven chicks. I raised five, and the
best one was possibly worth three dollars, a couple
of the others two dollars each, and the others culls.
Here is much larger hatch, but net results w^ere not
as good. My next ex])erience was two settings. Got
four chicks, raised two, a cockerel and jnillet, the
former made a Sunday dinner, the other was the
mother of some the best stock in my yards today,
and was the first absolutely solid bufi* bird 1 ever
ow^ned. 1 wrote this breeder the results of this
hatch, and he shipped me two more settings, and 1
got out four from them, and they turned out fairly
good stock. Then T bought two settings of extra
high grade stock, hatched six out of eight fertile
eggs (early in season), raised three, all pullets, one
cull. The two others have produced some of my
best stock. I consider that I got good value for my
money in every one of these cases, yet many people
would have made any one of these results a basis for
a strong kick. I know of another party who hatched
a first ])rize winner in a big show out of a three-dol-
lar setting. Buying eggs is taking chances of having
good luck, or, in other words, is gambling, but many
are like the woman who did not complain of her
husband's gambling until his luck went aginst him,
and he lost considerable money. Tn buying stock
we can see what we get, as soon as it is received, but

in eggs there are so many things that can influence
the results that the best of eggs when shipped may
give very poor results, although I think that the
great majority of buyers get much more than their
money's wT)r'th when ])uying eggs. The results
should not be compared with results obtained from
eggs set from your own stock, as conditions are very
apt to be unfavorable in eggs that have been shipped^
wdiile we have control over the eggs laid by our own
stock from the time they are laid until set.

lUit the l)uyer is not always to blame. The seller
is also at fault sometimes. I do not mean the dis-
honest ones, for I really believe they are scarce, but
it is the careless ones that cause the trouble. A few
are careless about their matings. Others are care-
less in taking care of their eggs, and let them get
chilled or overheated, or fail to keep a record of the
time the}' were laid, and thus send out old eggs, but
these kind of breeders are also scarce, as their care-
lessness borders pretty closely on dishonesty. The
fault with the great majority is ])Oor packing. They
mean t(^ be perfectly honest, but many have an idea
that their responsibility ends when they deliver the
package to the express company, and it does legally,
but as fanciers they should take all possible care to
see that the eggs reach the customer in a good,
hatchable condition. There is just one package that
will carry eggs, with a reasonable surety of their
reaching their destination in good shape, and this is
a handled basket. This is the one ])ackage that will
receive reasonable care from the express handlers.
Hiey will instinctively handle a basket carefully, and
always associate such a package with the idea of
fragilitv. You can cover a box with "EGGS,"
•W ITIT CARE," "FRAGILE," etc., and it will not
receive the consideration from an expressman that
a basket without a mark of this kind on it will get.
The handled boxes are next best, paper being better
than wood, as they will seldom place heavy packages
on top of a paper box, when they would not hesitate
to ])ut a ton on a thin wooden box. An upright handle
also i)revents other packages being set on top of it.
A box without a handle has but a small chance of
oonung through without some eggs broken. While
there is danger of a l)ox being crushed, there is more
danger of its contents getting damaged from rough
handling. Expressmen very seldom carry a small
box, but either throw it or slide it along the floor,
where they would pick up a basket by the handle
and carry it from one part of the building to another.
Suital)le baskets can generally be bought at the
stores for five to eight cents each and in quantities
at a much cheaper rate. The best way to pack eggs is
t(^ wrap each Q^y^r in paper, then roll excelsior around
this, making a ball. Having lined your basket on
all sides with excelsior, about an inch thick, place
the i)repared eggs in closely, put a layer of excelsior
on top, tie cardboard, or sew on a cloth cover, and
your eggs are ready to travel any distance in good
shape. When shipi)ing in large quantities, a bushel

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basket is good, or if not large enough use a barrel,
as it will carry them much better than a box.

Let the shipper use all possible care to have his
eggs reach the customer in good hatchable condi-
tion. J le can not have control of the eggs after they
leave his hands and cannot prevent their being set
alongside a hot steam pipe or out on a cold j^^latform
where they will get chilled, nor can he prevent the
expressmen throwing them or dropping the package,
but he can take care to use nothing but healthy
stock, mated to the best of his ability, keep the eggs
properly, and pack them in a way so that they will
stand any ordinary amount of ro'ugh handling, and
this is what the buyer has a right to expect. The
buyer has no control of the eggs before they reach
his hands, but as soon as received from the express
company he should handle them carefullv, not ride

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One of the Originators Tells How to do it and Calls
Attention to Present Methods of Breeding Which
are Detrimental to Success.

By T. REID PARRISH

N the April issue of Poultry Eancier
appears an article by C. H. Bach-
helder on Columbian Wyandottes,
which brings up a question that
should have most serious consider-
ation. Mr. liachhelder's article is
partially the cause of me writing this, but the prin-
cipal reason is the ex])erience that I am having with
beginners.

It is almost invariably the case that in shippinj
eggs to a beginner, and sometimes to those wh
have been breeding the Columbians for several years,
they will write as soon as the hatch is off complain-
ing that some of the chicks are very dark, some w^ith
black spots in the back, etc., and it is almost impos-
sible to persuade a customer to accept stock that is
dark enough to be classed as high-grade breeding-
irds.

Now the (juestion which confronts me, and J sup-
pose many others, is whether we are to breed the
Columbian Wyandotte and depend principally upon
the breeders that have already a pretty thorough
knowledge of the kind of matings it takes to pro-
duce Standard birds, or whether we shall go after
the new man for our sales. I believe that all will
agree that it is better to have the trade of the begin-
ner and hold him until he has the fever around the
103 point, than to depend on the older breeder for
money to pay our advertising bills.

]f we want this class of trade we have undoubted-
ly got to put the Columbian Wyandotte in a shape
that will appeal to the masses and they positively
will not tolerate a dark bird.

This article will undoubtedly surprise some
Columbian breeders who are familiar with the stand
I have taken heretofore, that of advocating the same
wing and undercolor in both sexes. The preference
always given the Brahma females by our judges and
the many years spent in breeding Light Brahmas
have caused me to contend for these dark females.

them over a rough road, where they will get more
jarring than they would on the train, nor keep them
a week or two before setting, nor use a hen that does
not know whether she wants to set or not, or an un-
reliable incubator, or give the hen or incubator im-
proper care, nor keep the eggs in a place that is too
hot or too cold, but he should use all proper care,
more so than he would do with eggs from his own
stock, and if he does not get good results, a proper
complaint to the seller will generally receive proper
attention. ]f you do get good results, let the breeder
know about it. He will appreciate your kind words,
and it \y\\\ encourage him to put forth extra efforts to
please his next customer. Let both do this share
and we would soon hear the end of this t^g for
hatching business not |)avini»-.
Amityville, N. Y.

yandottes on Top

Another reason was, knowing how difficult it is to
secure a solid black wing in the female.

My show-room experience dates back for more
than ten years, and for about that long or longer, the
Standard Aving for the Light Brahma w^as black to
predominate with a w bite under color. I have never
yet seen a Light lirahma female with a solid black
wing and slate under color lose to one with a per-
fect wing and undercolor if it was anywhere near as
good in other sections. This brings us to the point
that the whole thing hinges on. W'e will never be

One of tlie main breedlns house.*? on the plant of C. H. Barnes.
Kalamazoo, Mich., breeder of some of the best Buff Rocks in
America.

able to keep some breeders from trying for that fe-
male wing that fascinates all judges alike. And so
long as the judges give preference to a Columbian
female that has solid black primaries, even with a
little black, that long w^ill Columbian breeders
strive for that kind of females.

Possibly the reason some one has not written
along these lines before is, that they are afraid some
other fellow would think it was because they could
not produce these wings in the females, but believ-
ing as T do that the future of the Columbian depend^
on this matter, 1 have decided to brave these criti-

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cisnis. I l)elieve most breeders who know anvthine
of ni}' stock will see it is not sour grapes with me,
for ] have boasted in my advertising that I had the
strongest color lines of any breeder and stood ready
to prove same. I have possibly a dozen females with
solid black primaries and have had breeders all over
the country begging for them at any price, and
would not sell, but I would be glad to know that
every one of them would be discjualified at shows
this winter.

I am satisfied there is no other breeder of Colum-
bians that can show as many good wings in females
as 1 have, yet if the Columbian breeders feel that
this article is prompted from the fact that I can not
produce the female wing that will be recpiired by
the new Standard, that is their privilege and it will
not worry me at all.

It has been my experience that what is one man's
trouble with the breed is generally the trouble with
the majority, and while it is possible that there are
many breeders that are not having the same troubles
that 1 have, it is, I am sure, from the fact that they
are not mating dark enough. Those who have dark

A BUFF LEGHORN OF QUALITY.

One of Hurt's Blue liloodod Single Comb Buff Legliorns, the
kind that win, lay, weigh and pay. as Mr. Hurt expresses it.
His catalogue may be obtained free bv addressing Peter S.
Hurt. Box 345, Thorntown. Ind.

birds and are using them for breeding, are having
the same things to contend with that 1 have, and it
is useless for them to deny it. I do not believe the
majority of Columbian breeders are favorably in-
clined to the present Columbian Standard. If they
are, I am willing to continue breeding dark speci-

mens for show rooms and supplv a few breeders
with dark birds, but I will most assuredly, after this
season, mate for lighter birds to supply the novice,
and if it is the desire of the majority of the officers
"ind members of the Columbian Wyandotte Club to
correct this e\'il, J am readv and willins: to assist

Scene on the farm of C. H. Barnes. Kalamazoo. Midi., show-
ins: the stvlp of colony house used bv liim in raising liis ])rize
winning Buff Rocks.

as far as possible. If there is anything to be done
along these lines, it must be done immediately.

First, there must be a club Standard, with an ef-
fort to have this adopted by the American Poultry
Association. In this Standard the wing in the fe-
male sh(nild be one-half 1)lack, with more than two-
thirds black a defect.

Second, an effort to secure the assurance of all
licensed American Poultry Association judges that
they will consider more than two-thirds black in the
l)riniaries in females a defect and cut as severely for
same as for less than one-half black.

Third, that every breeder realize that it is imi)os-
sible to stop this dark wing craze unless the judges
will agree to consider a wing darker than the Stand-
ard a serious defect.

T am writing this article for Poultrv Fancier, be-
lieving that it will reach many Columbian breeders,
and trusting that every breeder, whether a member
of the National Columbian Wyandotte Club or not,
will write the secretary his views on the matter and
off'er any criticisms he may desire.

It is the desire of the National Columbian W>an-
dotte Club to do anything possible for the advance-
ment of this breed, and if this is a step forward, the
next step should be taken quickly. Tf it is a step
backwards, the props should be knocked from under
Parrish before he takes another o'.ie.

Nashville, Tenn.

The way to build up a flock of lavers is to breed
only from your best laying birds.

Many fanciers are expert breeders and poor busi-
ness men. 1 hey won't listen to advertising advice.

Financial success as a fancier depends verv little
upon the bred of fowls. Advertising is what reiru-
lates the matter. ^

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A GROUP OF REGAL STRAIN WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Tv>r..».nJ^o ^'^^"ve illustration is a photograpliic reproduction of some of the noted Wlute Wyandottes bred and owned bv Jno H
United' S^?fp«^'«n5'^^°''^'; Canada. Mr. Martin has bred a large share of the prize winners at some of the best 'shows in * the
United States and his customers have l^een remarkably successful with stock and eggs purchased from him.

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P(^T TI 'TRY' FAMr^IlTD ^^^^' '^ ^^^'^>"8^h their influence more
_^^^^'-'^*^^ *■ -rAl>IV-.IIl.r\ specimens of the breed are exhibited

than would otherwise be shown, and.
as "nothing succeeds like success,"
such exhibits increase the demand for
the breed.

To advise a breeder of a fowl, for
wliich a club has been formed, to join
such club would be like advising a
man to seek his own interests. It
seems unnecessary to do so, and yet
the fact is that there are hundreds of
l.reeders who ought to be members of
specialty clubs, who are still "out in
the cold." Can one man accomplish
what fifty men could, and can fifty
(1() the work which one hundred
might do? If one would succeed, he
must use all the available means for
success, and one of these is the spe-
cialty club.

Published the 15th of each month by

POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO.

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FRANK HECK.

Editor

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The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
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who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
bon of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

May, 1910

The Value of Specialty Clubs

In this country specialty clubs are
one of the later developments in the
poultry industry, but abroad they
were the foundation of the organiza-
tions to advance the interests of
breeders of exhibition fowls. The
Sebright Club and the clubs, if they
can be so called, which led to the ex-
Inbition of Hamburgs, antedate the
greater modern poultry show organi-
zations. Hut though of comparatively
recent origin in the United States,
they have given a good reason for
their existence, and have become a
permanent feature of the industry.

A specialty club, formed of breed-
ers who own and breed a given fowl,
certainly ought to be of great assist-
ance in formulating a correct and heip-
ful Standard for the breed which they
represent. Among the breeders of
any one breed, if anywhere, the neces-
sary knowledge about that breed
ought to be found. Such breeders,
if any one can, should be able to give
the basic facts upon which to erect a
proper Standard.

Specialty clubs may. and do. prove
helpful in advancing the interests of
the breed which they are orgatrized
to foster. They give prizes to be
competed for; they publish facts of
general interest to the breeders; they
bring together the breeders and in'-
duce them to work for a common ob-

Buy Tested Breeders

Tn one of three ways, the beginner
makes his entree into poultry breed-
ing; he buys eggs for hatching, or
young stock, or yearling or two-year
(,ld fowls. These ways are popular
in the order given, tliat is. the largest
numbers begin with eggs and the
smallest buy adult fowls.
^^ Kach method has its advantages.
The eggs cost less money, and with
not a few beginners the initial outlay
is a matter of sotne importance; they
must start in this way or not at all,
or not at present. But the disadvan-
tages are that a year's time is lost,
and one may have, through lack of
experience, but indifferent success in
rearing the chickens hatched, so that
the second season may be begun with
birds of mediocre cpiality, from which
a beginner cannot reasonably hope to
win any very marked success. Eggs
for hatching are all right, are a first-
class investment, but are adapted
rather to the needs of the experienced
than to those of the inexperienced
breeder.

The buyers of young stock, whether
of a pair, two or more, has the advan-
tage of the whole of their future use-
fulness. If the fowls, for illustration,
will be good for four breeding sea-
sons, he can have them for all of those
seasons. Young stock, too, is gener-
allv more attractive in appearance than
old fowls, and this is an advantage.
Indeed, it is the attractive appearance
which usually determines the choice
between the nurchase of young and
old stock. The be^'^innei buys them
for what they appear to be and not
for what they will produce, with the
result, in some cases, that their vis-
ible fiualitv delavs his ultimate success
as a breeder. Tie pays more for the
chickens than he would have to pay
for fowls, because their better appear-
ance makes them more salable and at
a higher price.

The buyer of adult fowls, especial-
ly if he purchases them in the so-
called dull season, can usually pro-
cure what he needs for a moderate
cash outlay, something more than
eggs would have cost and consider-
able less than he would have had to
pay for voung stock. lie ac(|uires
what he knows was considered good

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enough to have been used by a breeder
with a reputation, and so has a well-
founded assurance that the fowls had
quality as chickens, whatever may be
their present appearance. He buys
them ntn for their looks but for their
ability to produce fine stock. He
starts with an assurance of success
and, if he properly rears the young
broods hatched from their eggs, will
meet with success from the start.

If a beginner aspires to win a ren-
ntation as an exhibitor, he will pur-
chase exhibition birds. They will
cost something, but if they win, the
buyers w^ill be amply compensated for
their cost in the prize awarded and
in the satisfaction experienced. But
if he desires to gain a reputation as
a poultr3^ breeder, as one who, in his
own yards and from his own mat-
ings, produces winners, let him pass
by the prize birds which have com-
pelled his admiration and invest in
the breeding stock which produced
them. Buy tested breeders, and buy
them at the time when their owner is
overstocked and needs room for the
more perfect growth and develop-
ment of his young stock. The best
time to buy is wdien one wishes to
sell, and there is always a period,
between the close of the hatching
season and the opening of the fail
trade with the early shows, when
breeders are glad to sell excellent
stock at reduced prices.. This is the
beginner's golden opnortunity to pro-
cure a pen of tested breeders for a
moderate price with which to start
aright ui)on his purposed career. He
should carefully study our advertising
columns for the announcement of
bargains in tested breeding stock, for
he will be certain to find there just
wh;»t he needs.

We believe that the beginner who
purchases eggs for hatching does
wise; that he who buys young stock-
does better, and that "he who invests
m tested breeders does the best of
all. The three wavs of entering the
poultry industry should be reversed
bv the bei?inner. and wbpt is now his
first should be his last choice.

The keynote to success in poultrv
breeding is found in the word "im-
provement." Whether one's fowls are
more perfect than those of another is
not the question, but whether they are
more perfect this year than they were
last year is the vital matter. Improve-
ment IS success— not simply a means
to ultimate success, but success itself.
Let every breeder so study his fowls
that he can mate his pens 'to produce
something better each year.

Raiseevery chicken you hatch This
IS a counsel of perfection, for you can-
not do it. Init it is what you should aim
to do. And those ine words imply
much meaning, for to realize them one
must produce ideal conditions for
growth and development. Sanitary
surroundings, sensible care and sound
feeding are all implied. No room is
left for the slightest neijlect. You
will have to be "at it and always at it'*
to approximate a realization of this
advice.

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This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

IN SUPPORT OF MR. BATCHEL-

DER.

I read with interest the article in
April issue by Mr. Batchelder regarding
the troubles of Columbian Wyandotte
Breeders. I am of the same opinion as
the writer.

It appears to me that the craze for
black primaries will be the undoing of
this breed for utility purposes and that
it will suffer as much if not more in
the matter of improvement as an ex-
hibition bird. I cannot understand why
Columbian Wyandotte breeders want
to sacrifice this grand variety just to

breed for a section that is out of sight.
How many birds can we find in this
variety that have a solid black wing
that do not have turkey colored flesh,
splashed back and legs anything but yel-
low. I hope that other breeders will
express their views through the columns
of Poultry F.\ncier.

Joseph Stephens.
White Mills, Pa.

HE CAN'T SEE IT THAT WAY.

Having read Mr. C. H. Batchelder's
articles in the F.ancier, in which he
predicts that the Columbian Wyai-

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the styles in women's hats. In selecting your breed,
choose one that's "coming in, " not one that's ' 'going out. ' '

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ST. JOSEPH, MO.

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dottes will be. ruined if they are bred
to the Light Brahma markings; as a
breeder of both varieties, I will say
that the closer the Columbian Wyan-
dottes are kept to the Light Brahma
markings the better it will be for the
breed.

I have bred the Light Brahmas for
.'5.5 years and during that time have seen
them pass from the early light winged
(such as IMr. Batchelder advocates for
the Columbian Wyandottes) to the
present beautiful marked hackle and
black wing with lower white edge as is
re(|uircd by the present Standard and
as it will be required by the new
Standard for the Columbian Wyan-
dottes.

It is my candid opinion that this is
one of the best things that could have
ever been done for this breed for I
have discussed them with breeders of
other varieties and they all say that
when the Columbian Wyandotte shows
that it can be bred with a strong hackle
and wing they will only be too glad to
adopt them and push them to the front
where they are surely going as is clear-
ly shown by the large number of en-
tries at the Eastern shows last winter.
No one can, or will even try to, con-
tradict the fact that the white and black
markings of the Light Brahma makes
one of the finest birds that has ever
been produced. Then why not produce
the same markings on the Columbian
Wyandottes instead of going back to
where the Light Brahma started and
thereby losing twenty years' time for
they would eventually come to markings
the same as the Light Brahma has.

The principal reason that we took up
the Columbian Wyandotte was that
there were a great many people that ad-
mired the beautiful markings of the
Light Brahma but objected to the feath-
ers on their legs and toes and also
wanted a fowl that would mature earlier.
So six years ago I took up the Colum-
bian Wyandottes and after giving them
a good trial, have decided that they fill
a long-felt want.

Last year I made some matinjjjs that
produced some extra fine shaped birds
and that had wing, tail and hackle
equal to our best Light Brahmas : fur-
thermore, my past experience has taught
mc that in order to keep the black pri-
maries and strong hackle wc must have
good slate undercolor. Of course, some
breeders, in order to obtain the required
black wing, are mating an extra dark
male with their females that have weak
colored wings, and no doubt such a
mating of extremes produces a great
many chicks that are splashed with
black feathers in the back and there-
fore go to the culls but you will find
that the chicks (even if they are only
a few in each hatch) that have clear
backs will be found to have good under-
color, also fine wings with the proper
white edge and black tail. As we all
know that in making a short cut in
breedinji for any particular point, we
must expect to have a certain per cent

that will go to the culls, but by taking
the few good ones that we do get and
carefully mate them up we will soon
have what we have been looking for; a
Columbian Wyandotte with good slate
undercolor, good hackle, good black
wnigs edged with white, black tail, and
last, a male bird that is free from bras-
siness.

Mr. Batchelder claims that this can-
not be done without detriment to other
sections but I know that it can be done
as well with the Columbian Wyandotte
as it has been done with the Light
Brahma and if anyone can show me a
better combination of white and black
than is required at present for a Stand-
ard Light Brahma, I for one have
never seen it.

Furthermore, Mr. Batchelder claims
that it is the cranks that have brought
this about. What would ever have
been accomplished if it were not for
the cranks m this world.

Now, if Mr. Batchelder wants to
make a White Wyandotte out of the
Columbian, all he has to do is to keep
on using his light winged female and
in a few years he will have them entirely
white without any black in any place,
but a quicker way would be for him to
drop the Columbians and take un the
Whites.

As to creaminess in the females, we
have never had any in our Columbians
and know that as long as the slate
undercolor and black primaries are re-
quired the greater will be the advance
of the Columbian Wyandottcs.

Geo. a. Kerstex.
Minneapolis, Minn.

COLOR CHARACTERISTICS OF
WHITE FOWLS.

A few years ago it was not uncom-
mon to find blue ribbons on coops
containing very creamy a-id brassy
birds, but nowadays a bird in the pop-
ular classes must be pretty wMiite to
win even in light competition. The
Standard demands that all white
breeds of chickens must be white in
all sections, both in surface and under
color, and these are the kind of birds
that all fanciers strive to produce.

White birds mav be divided iu sep-
arate classes to determine their value
hirst— Birds that are very creamy
and brassy, generally have very yel-
low legs and skin and are of little
value to a fancier, but are all ri<rht
for breeding utility stock for market
and eggs. Tn the second class I
vyould place those birds that are white
throughout, but turn brassy on being
exposed to the sun. Such birds have a
sort of dead white plumage if kept in
the shade, while their under color is
usually good.

They are often bred from stav-white
matmgs and in such cases they are apt
to breed all right if mated to females
of very strong white color. This class
as a rule do not show any ticking in
their plumage. The third class ' are
those that until fully matured have a
great deal of creaminess in their plum-
age which gradually whitens as the
feathers mature. Such bird«; have gen-
erally very yellow legs and skin, as it is
the skin that imparts the yellow pigment
to the quill.

These birds as they feather out be-
come very white and stay white as the
sun has no effect on them to tan them.

POULTRY FANCIER-

The final effect is very pleasing as we
have a bird with very white plumage
and yellow legs, which is not the easiest
thing to get. This class causes much
unjust criticism from amateurs who
often conrleiun the breeder from whom
they bought their stock or eggs. They
often get discouraged with their stock
when in reality they ought to be well
pleased. I wish to warn the amateur
breeder and even some of the older
ones that they should learn to distinguish
between brassiness and creaminess. The
first is a defect resulting from external
causes, as for instance, the sun tans
the surface of the feathers. The second
is caused by internal conditions, namelv.
from the yellow skin.

With these birds ticking is not found
to any great extent. Such birds as de-
scribed in this class make very desir-
able breeders as they are certainly very
strong in stay-white qualities. To see

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them half-grown, however, an inexper-
ienced breeder is not favorably im-
pressed on account of their creamy
plumage. The experienced breeder
knows that as the feathers mature, all
this creaminess will disappear if the
bird is properly fed.

In the next class we place those birds
which have a silvery white plumage at
all times. 1'hey haye a light colored
skin and until matured the quills show
a pink appearance and no cream. Even
the new feathers are white and the ef-
fect of the sun is to make them look
all the better with that silvery white-
ness.

The chief defect in the third class is
the creaminess of the immatured feath-
ers, which causes them to be discounted
by judges as chicks or at any time when
growing new plumage. The defects in
the last class are a tendency to light
colored legs, especially noticeable in the

Light Brahmas, Single Comb Brown Leghorns
and Mammoth Bronze Turkeys J?,^

ve bred them for 26 years and in

iing shows have won for years

rge share of the ribbons. I

If you deal with me you can

have some grand stock for sale, and eggs at reasonable prices
expect a square deal. Send for free catalogue.

L. H. JOSTES & SON, - . R. p. D. NO. 2, MACON, ILLINOIS

BARRED PLY. ROCKS, S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS,
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES AND Pv,"'^ ^i^^^ -°» ^°^^ p '^-'

R^ rfc ¥ nr^r^r> n k ,/T, ot. VtT than all our competitors at the

. C. R. I REDS Ba/»^oo valley Show. Our breeding pens contain the grandest
t, ir • r? ,, A'^'-t*-''*^ lot of breeders we ever had. Eggs at J3 00 oer 15 reduced to
half price after May 16th. Some grand breeders at reduced prices^ Satisfacliorguarant^^^^

rro «/ u RAVEN ROCK POULTRY FARM

GEO. W. HACKETT, Proprietor BOX HI. NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Winners at Milwaukee, January
1910, 1st pullet, 3rd cock, 4th cock-

QUAUTY WHITE ROCK POULTRY YARDS. W. R. ABBOTT, Prop.. Ft. Atkin«„. Wi..

Silver Laced Wyandottes and Salmon

Winnings for 1910
at Minneapolis and

Fa VArnllo C weT'^'i ^ ^^'''^'- ^" '^" ^^.'r^' ^"^ bVst cla-ssls ?vJr 's^hown^In 'the
a VerOlieS :^*=^^J,7'^l|y«^^"tee .satisfaction on anything bought of me Eggs

?rl5. Stock for sale. Send for catalocn*. '^*

$2 00pe!

C. P. McANDREW

Send for catalogue.

ELLSWORTH, WIS.

60 Years *^ S"^ I. K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS. BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. WWTE WYANDOTTES

Evlr PATRON 't '" r"'^ "'"? ?'"=• l'" ,*= "™°" ^'•'O"' » P'°'e»t.

w77y SHOU. n THFv"m'Ax''''^ t^"*' '^^ f"^^ '<» "^^ "'°'«'y paid-
.nQft ,^ i^? THEY NOT when none but specimens to score 90
to Vb points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

"WIN AND BRE.E.D ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons winnings to their advantage HH"Jpriaie

Ur ^T ^ Wk I '" "^l" ' \ S'^'r" ^3-50 to $1 0 for females: $5 to $20

o fei e,. S , %'k P'^'^i ^°'^^ '"1 ^4' Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
or females $4 to $ I 5 for males. Eggs from all. $4 for 1 5, $7 for 30 $9

for 45. and $15 for 105 egg. From May 15 to Sept. I, al yeailngs before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and o her

particulars address ^ ^^^^

I. K. FELCH & SON. Box 1 76. NATICK. MASS.

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adult fowls and also a tendency towards
ticking in plumage. Some of the
whitest and most valuable birds have a
great deal of this. Not only must white
birds be bred right to gain notice in
the show room but it is also necessary
that they be fed properly.

I am thoroughly convinced that voung
birds of the very best mating can be
ruined by feeding too much yellow corn.
Try feeding oats, wheat, barley, and all
the white corn the birds will eat either
cracked or whole, and you will not have
to bleach your white birds for next sea-
son's shows.

W. P. Yetter.
New Bavaria, O.

WHAT IS A FAIR DEAL?

1 wonder if people in general who
invest in eggs for setting from vari-
ous breeders do not expect too much
for their money. Fanciers and farm-
ers in this vicinity seem to expect
that they will hatch ten to fifteen
chicks from eggs that have been car-
ried one hundred to one thousand
miles by transportation companies.

For example, let us suppose that a
fancier who is in the business of sell-
ing eggs for hatching, mates up a pen
of one male valued at $25.00 and ten

POULTRY FANCIER

females valued at $5.00 each, making
a total valuation of $75.00 for the
pen, a very moderate price at which
to place them, considering these days
of inflated values and fake prices. In
this illustration we want to keep with-
in the limit of prices and values that
will strike the general average of the
poultry fanciers of this country. To
proceed, we will suppose that this
fancier charges $5.00 per sitting of
fifteen eggs, which is a fair price, I
believe, at which to sell eggs from
pens of above value. If these birds
have proper breeding behind them
and if they are individual good
specimens and worth the value placed
upon them and properly mated for re-
sults, they should Droduce offspring,
fift- per cent of which should be as
good or better than the original
stock. At least fifty per cent should
be as good on an average as the sire
and dams. The other fifty per cent
should at least pay the expenses of
feeding the whole brood to maturity.
Now we will suppose that we raise
to maturity two chicks, one a pullet
as good as the mother or worth $5.00,
the other a cockerel, a cull that will
pay the cost of feed. This is not a
profitable investment, but still no ma-
terial loss except the disappointment.
Or suppose we should raise two to

HAKE BUFF

YANDOTTES

A^ain winners of tHe blti« int La Cross* ana Baraboo

Specialty sale this month SSF^I^^ ^^?? ^J^P trios. I have a number of
™iii*«of^ -^u 7 / ****>t«i,»i cockerel.s. scored by Roberts and Shellabareer which I

will mate w th scored and unscored pullets at $5 to $20 for the trios and $7 to $25 for the pens Send
for mating list. Pen 1 will be again headed by my grand old prize winner 'El rovBov ^scored QsS

nL"/i^..''°^ "^oJV/I °LT/^**1?^ ^^^^^''^ ?^°""^ cockerel at Minneapolis in lS)8 ^SiS^pulfets fn ?his
penallscoring9l-Kto94K. $3 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length ICI A MPi Dl^nQ
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red. IOI-i/Tl1N L^ JvJZil/O

Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr., '

ANTIGO, WIS.

The handsome
and coming van-
ity, large blocky

Columbian Wyandottes

( RiclieilTClSOIl StfA.ii:\^ flr^^'J^"^ lacingin hackles and w'yandotte shape.
> 7 Jz \. T ^*^** •*«»»y 4 breeding pens consisting of high scoring males and

females- Eggs this season $1.50 and $2.00 per 1.5. 3 for $.'> 00 Stock for .sale '''-""ng maies ana

Crystal White Ortiindtoiis kj^llcrstra^jp strain

^*^* ^ .9«.«*a ▼▼ mmM^,^^ ^ir* |#SAA^«,%^AAC» h^^.^s $2 (X) and f'KX) p<r 15, $r..00 for .30

I^. M. JACOBS. BARABOO, \(riS.

Over 300
prizes won at
large shows in

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS

CHAMPIONS of the West 20 years. Record unequalled. Right' color TnTsize

,c K *!, .. ^. . ^ with yellow legs. Eggs from $1.50 to $3.00 per

1 5, both matmgs. Circular free. ^

C. F. LANG . 1812 FRONT STREET - LA CROSSE, WIS.

K£RST£N*S Coltimbiark Wyandottes and

l«rlgtlt Ufa inn as can always be found among the winners.

119 "West 52 St. 'W^asHbxirii FarH; Minneapolis, Minm,

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

TRUE IN nPE AND COLOR £;„rE'L.::X^ti

have won fourteen first prizes including first prize hen at Madison Square
Garden in the hottest of competition. I shall breed ten matings of high class birds
this year from which I offer eggs for hatching, same as I use for myself. Mating list
cheerfully mailed for the asking. Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

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maturity ,the best being a cockerel as
good as the sire worth $25.00; we are
$20.00 to the good if we expect to
raise fancy poultry. I think that in
both these cases nine breders out
of ten would make some settlement
for unsatisfactory results. This, of
course, is a very low fertility, hatch-
ability, or the result of bad luck or
mismanagement on the part of some
one. But suppose that we hatch out
four chicks and raise them to matur-
ity. One pullet and one cockerel as
good as the sire and dam, value
$30.00, the other two to pay cost of
feed. We are $2.'). 00 ahead on the
deal. Or suppose we hatch and raise
six to maturity, three good ones and
worth as much as the sire and dams,
one cockerel value $25.00, two pullets
value $10.00, total $35.00, profit $30.00.
Most all eggs will do this well and
some much better, and of course occa-
sionally there are cases of total failure,
but I believe that any man who pays
a fair price for a setting of eggs and
hatches out a trio or a pair in keep-
ing with the price at which eggs
were purchased, that is, if the price
was fixed fairly and after due consid-
eration of the value of the stock
which produced them, he ought to be
fairly well satisfied, and if he does
better than this he ought to be mighty
well pleased.

Sometimes, from reading glowing
testimonials, purchasers get tlie idea
that eggs will travel a thousand miles
and lay around a month after being
laid and hatch out 80 or 90 per cent.
True, such cases do sometimes oc-
cur, but where one man gets such re-
sults under these circumstances, there
are a dozen who get less than 50
per cent. Distance and the season
should be taken into consideration,
and those who invest in eggs for
hatching should not expect too much,
then they will not be badly disap-
nointed. The old rule, "Don't count
vour chickens before they are
hatched," applies very aptly in this
case, and T might add, "Don't count
vour chickens until they are ma-
tured," as such snow storms and
fri)sts, winds and rain as we had in
Indiana this April are very much in-
clined to upset vour plans.

<^-ceola. Tnd. E. M. Long.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

Argonaut.s :
Phoenix Fowls

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

: $5.00 per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen
Only a strictly limited number of egg.s will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - E«.t Providence. R. I.

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Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

Let us learn to swear by, not at,
our poultry journals.

Plowever fond he may be of the
hen's egg with his breakfast, the
baseball rooter prefers goose eggs —
for the opposition team.

"Speaking of heredity," said a
young man, "I think there is plenty
of hair-red-ity in the B. family." If
you knew this red-headed family, you
would think so, too.

"He that is down needs fear no
fall" is true of men and eggs and all.

The man who is the most profuse
in promises is not usually the great-
est in accomplishment. The rooster
makes more fuss over the new-laid
tgg than the hen which laid it.

A blind chicken was hatched. It
died young. Perhaps knowing how
easy^ it would be to get on its "blind
side," it did not care to live and learn
about any of the modern systems of
intensive poultry keeping. Haec fab-
ula docet, but this is not a fable.

If one man can make chicken food
at lifteen cents a bushel, and another
can keep hundreds of fowls in a back
yard, and still another can clear
thirty-six hundred dollars in one year
from thirty fowls, the easy road to
millionairism" seems to be pointed
out. If all men were millionaires,
who would l)e rich?

Two men were walking alone one
of New York's business streets. One
of them was smoking. Said the other.
"If you should take the money you
spend on cigars and put it at interest,
you could own one of these business
blocks." The other asked, "Do you
smoke?" "No." "Have vou ever
smoked?" "No. never." "Will you
not then please point out your
block?" The moral of this lies in its
application, and each reader is asked
to lind it for himself.

For a bad case of eggs it is useless
to summon the doctor.

When a hen cackles it is probable
that she has dropped an Qf;;^ some-
where and forgotten where she laid
it. At least, that is the explanation
given by the young son of a local
fancier.

A Massachusetts solon has intro-
duced in the legislature of that state
an act to prohibit the killing of
skunks, but the chicken-raising farm-
ers rallied to the public hearing to
oppose its enactment. Even skunks,
it would appear, have their virtues

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which make for them friends and sup-
l)orters. If this act were to become
law, what a delightful place of resi-
dence the rural districts of the old
"Hay State" would be! About Dun-
can's cattle It was said,

"The heaven's breath
Smells wooingly here";
but would the fragrance of the coun-
try air, where skunks were allowed
to increase and multiply under pro-
tection of law, be equally inviting?
The introducer of the act ought to
reside in such a place for a few years
to test the virtue of the proposed leg-
islation.

The cock-pit has been abolished by
law, but the wheat-pit still flourishes;
but .then, fowls were injured in the
former, and only men in the latter.

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Consumption has been called "the
great white plague," and the con-

May, '10

sumption of eggs has proved a plague

to many a city housekeeper because

of the difficulty of finding the price

in the household purse.

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The "top-notchers" which could
sweep the deck but which never see
the inside of an exhibition coop are
very numerous — in the talk of those
who never exhibit. What a pity it
is that so many good birds never have
a chance to show their merit!
"Full many a gem of purest ray
serene
The dark, unfathomed caves of
oceans bear;"
And many a fowl is hatched to
scratch unseen.
And hide its beauty in some back-
yard lair.

For the fellow who is never satis-
fied but always wants something
more, the combination of a skunk,

JOSEPH DAGLE. Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry Association. Member Buff Rock
Club. I want to judge your show and do yonr private scoring aad sell you high class stock and
eggs. RICHLAND. IOWA.

FETERSON^S HOUDANS '''' "suiHTlJ^Z""-

Send for 80-page book on The Houdan, 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Petersen, President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton. Maine

S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS

Winners of 1st, 2nd. 3rd and 4th pullets,
2iid pen in a strong class at the big

__^^_^_^__^^___^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Baraboo Valley Show, January 1910.

■"■""■■^■■^ Pen headed by 1st cock at above show.

As cockerel last season he won 1st at I^a Cro.sse and 1st at the Wisconsin State Association Show.

The females in my yards are full of quality, bred from the best blood lines in America. I will supply

my customers with eggs from these without reserve at $3 per 15. $5 per 30. They will produce winners

JAS. McGUAN,

BARABOO. WIS.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES

Win eleven
first s at

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Mahogany" Strain ^Tr^T^' ':"m?"' «'t. koines. Mating

^ J v**»» |jj.j fj.gg ji^g ^'Mahoganies" are as good as

they grow. Get them from the originator.

THOS. OSBORN, - 309 IOWA AVENUE,

MUSCATINE, lA.

"DONAGHEY'S REDS"

have won for the second .season in succes-
sion the R. I. Red Club Cup and the Ameri-

, e» M ., , rr , can Cla.ss Cup, at the Baraboo Valley Poul-

try .Show Also tluM! shatf of first and special.s at other k-ading shows. P:ges for hatchinir as
follows: fir.st pen $3 00 per 15. .second and third pens |2 00 per 15. utility stock havinjr excclfent
farm range $1.50 per 15. When ordered in lots of 30 eggs will allow a discount of 15 per cent and
lu lots of 60 or larger 'lO per cent discount will be allowed. Both single and ro.se comb

J. T. DONAGHEY

BOX 117, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

Porter White WYANDOHE YARDS

you give us a trial so that we can convince you that there are none better in Standard sha'oe and
beauty and as eg^ producer.s? We have both combined in our birds We will be nleased to
send you our mating list COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES

CHAS. DAVIN & SON . . PORTER, MINN.

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-
dottes? If so, will
shape and
pleased to

RP r^ C R. C. and S. C. Rhode Island Reds
i ^^ I W ^Tj Hundreds of birds for sale at reasonable prices. Exhibition and breeding birds of hichest
m — ^ m^.^^ ^bi-^ quality Birds on approval. Satisfaction or your money back, Mated pairs, trios and oens
u'u .. ,.r. ^.. ^ a specialty. Catalogue Free. AMERICA'S LEADING JUDGES recommend mvb^rds In

?aS^^w- Winners at Chicago. Cincinnati. Indianapolis. Toledo. Detroit. Milwaukee. Get some eggs froTmybeTt pens and

EDWIN R. CORNISH, 1426 Pontiac Street, ANN ARBOR, MICH.

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a coop and a brood of chickens is
recommended, for if the .skunk gets
the chickens and the fellow gets the
skunk, he will assuredly get some-
thing more.

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Some malicious gossip says that
McGrew was heard at the last meet-
ing of the American Poultry Associa-
tion to soliloquize as follows:
"O woman! in our hours of ease.

1910 with S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville, Ind.. Jan. 4-8. Tucker. Judge; 2
.3cock 2 cockerel. 1.2. 4 hen. 1. 2 pullet 1. 2,
R H ■ T^ ;%"??^^«.f ^'erage 92 1-5. Richmond.

L r; 7i^"^K'^^' '^'^^' J^^S^; I ^o" eight prizes
with five birds entered; 1 cockerel, 1, 2 hen. 1
- pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Kggs from best pens only $1 for 15
after May 15th IRA FORP^ La Grange. Ind.

Partridge, Buff, Black and Wfiite
Cochins: Wiiile, Black, Buff , Sil-
ver and Golden Polish: ^t^'l^oe;

15. Prize winners 28years: Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge, Importer and Breeder. Chenoa. Illinoi..

S. C. Black Minorcas V^A^^^t

tvrill«iv**lv ^il^t^. Ind- show one of
i^Ji^^lUSlveiy the best shows ever held
in northern Indiana. Jan. 4-8. 1910. won silver
cup for best display in Mediterranean class
points to count. Eggs from birds scoring
92 to 96 $3.00 per 16.
G. A. GAGE LA GRANGE, IND.

mmn leghorns

THE EMPIRE STRAIN
ALWAYS Wlt*S.

CATALOGUE FREE

GEO. H. BURGOTT.

Lawtons, Erie Co..

EXHIBITED AT

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

J COLUMBIAN*
« WYANDOTTES t

I Bred to win and lay. ^r

Huntington, Ind.. 1910. 2nd cockerel, 2nd,
3rd. 4th pullet. Won at Ft Wayne. Ind.,
1910. 3rd cockerel, Ist. 2nd. 3rd pullet.
Send for Mating List,

ll A. M. BENDER

ll 1231 Walton Ave. FT. WAYNE, IND.

'POULTRY FANCIER-

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her

face,
We first endure, then pity, then
embrace."
We repeat this in order to deny it;
we nail this base slander as a men-
dacious lie; "Mac" never did and
never could have said it.

"The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
may be all right, but the lay of the
old hen "takes the cake," or makes it.

The every-egg-hatched crank is
with us today.

So is the other fellow.

So is the fellow that "onlv" got 13
chicks out of 15 eggs.

So is the fellow who only hatched
three and is sweet about it.

<' •*'

H. H. Stoddard, former editor and
publisher of "The Poultry World" and
•'The American Poultry Yard," is
doing a valuable work in writing his
reminiscences for the younger gen
eration of poultrymen.

"Bucky" Read, station-master at
Warwick. R. L, has a Rhode Island
Red cock which wears pants, lies

L

S. C. Rhode Island Reds

Some fine cockerels $3 each. Eggs
from birds scoring 90 to 93, |1.50 per
35. One cock and 6 hens. Partridge
Wyandottes for sale cheap.

D. E. MILLER, ROME CITY, IND.

make: yourwknsXay

PRICE PER 100 LBS.

Beef Scraps - - fi.76

Meat and Bone - - 2.25

(iround Bone - - 8.26

Alfalfa Clover Meal . 1.50
Chemically Pure Charcoal 1.60

Broken Oyster Shells - .05

Mica Crystal Grit - - .65

Pearl Grit - - . .oo

J. G. HERMANN & CO., Indian«poli». Ind.

M.E.

ROGERS

LEGHORNS

- LACROSSE "
WIS.

R. C. Brown

Black

Anconas

W. F. B.

Spanish

POULTRY FENCE*'

STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF

JJottom wires 1 inch apart.
Will not sa? or bagr. Re-
quires no boards — top or
bottom — and fewer posts.
Costs less than netting:. We
payfreieht. Send for catalog.
The Brown Fence & Wire Co.

Dcpt. 94 rVvpland, OliJo

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST '

AND
ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you Iack.>
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, 111.. 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910.
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

^thco^u^rTc^^^S^e^onecosOde L. RatikJii. Maywood. 111.

down when requested, crow.s at com-
mand, walks a cane like a tight-rope
performer, and shakes his head in de-
nial of a demand which he does not
like. There are other *'cocks" who
wear pants that are not half so well
trained.

The writer recalls a Brown Leg-
horn cockerel, which a lady trained
to crow when he wished food, and,
if the crowing was not sufficiently
vigorous, on a second request, he
would crow very loudly. This cock-
erel would also, at command, lie
down and roll over. Seems like a
fish story, but it is sober truth. If
any one doubts, he can see the farm
where the cockerel was kept and
trained, or for additional proof may
inspect the hen house where he
roosted.

If one could only train a hen to
lay two eggs a day, as easily as male
birds are trained to do tricks, there
would be some inducement to go
into the poultry training business.

•*• ^

If "Bucky" Read's Rhode Island
Red rooster wears pants, it may be
singular but it is not precedented.
I^ver}' dog in hot weather wears a
hairy coat and pants.

Say, but it's lucky, now isn't it,
that that Rhode Island Red is a roos-
ter? If it had been a h^n, what an
encouragement it would have been to
the gentler sex! But do they need
such encouragement?

•!• •••
'•• ••»

It is rumored that one of the
l)ig breeders paid another big breeder
two hundred dollars for a rooster.

This is the truth ? ? ? ? ? etc.

(Each succcedintr interrogation sign
should be larger than its predecessor.)

Send in copy for ad. at once stat-
ing that it's the June and July chicks
that make the best show birds — espe-
ciallv for score-card shows.

>!• •!•

A Conundrum.

Name the biggest liar in the
chicken business.

Chorus: The man I bought eggs
from last spring and the man I
bought birds from last winter.

Right — ever}' answer correct — each
pupil will take his (or her) place at
liead of the class.

•»' •»■■

Another Conundrutn
Name the most successful chickener
in the country.

Chorus: Me! Me! Me!! Me!!! etc.
(This is the right answer to the first
conundrum.)

* ♦

They say the Colonel, when he gets
back to this country, is going to start
a poultry ranch on a most elaborate
scale. This hob-nobbing with kings
and kaisers and hunting lions and
tigers in Africa is all well enough:
but when a man is looking for a real
strenuous occupation that will bring
out all the energy and self-reliance
th.'it is in him, there is nothing else
in the world that can hold a candle to
the poultryman's job.

When a voung writer sarcastically
called I. k. Fclch "The Sage ot

Page 118

Natick," the quick-witted veteran
adopted it as a compliment, and the
name has stuck as an honorable title.
The wisdom of this act proved him
to be sage indeed.

* *

A farmers' institute in these days,
without poultry keeping as one of the
topics, would seem like acting Ham-
let with Hamlet left out. Poultry-
men are leaving their impress upon
the agricultural world.

'I' •>

It is pleasing to note that Ed. De
Graff ill his new catalog does not lay
claim to everything in sight. Al-
though he says he is the greatest
breeder on earth and has the best
birds and the best catalog to describe
them all, still, with characteristic mod-
esty, he declines to claim pre-emi-
nence in the art of faking. He admits
that he has many competitors in this
direction.

Some Questions and Answers.

If I sell one egg for $2.00 and it
proves infertile, what'll I get? !!!!!!

Suppose T pull the leg stubs on a
cockerel and win the blue, and an-
other party offers $r)0 for him: what
shall I do?

Ans.: Put the price at $1,000 and
notify the world at large that I've
refused $099 for him. (It won't be
true but it's good advertising.)

How many years is a man en-
titled to advertise a win on purchased
birds? (Am supposing, of course,
that he never breeds a winner and
hasn't the means of buying others.)

Ans.: There is no established rule
governing the situation.

What's the value of the stock bred
by such a fancier(?)?

Ans.: Eggs, 35c per doz. Males,
$1.50 to .$3.00. Females. $6.00 to
$12.00 per doz.

Why does a Barred Rock fancier
exarnine the skin of a good looking
specimen?

Ans.: He's probably looking for
fleas. (Fleas are a nuisance and

Dr. MundelF^ Wonderful Diccorery kiUs
Muuvii o jjj,^ permanently. Send .Wc
tor recipe worth |1000 to all poultry raisers.
Money refunded if not satisfactory.
DR. MUNDELL. NEW BERLIN. ILL

R. C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won manv prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. ' iCggs now for
12 00 per 15 from pens mated to produce high cla«-s
exhibition stock. Harry Sower. Rome City, Ind.

Prouty's Partridge Plymouth Rocks

Good trio for $8 if taken at once, are worth more
but I must have the room. Eggs |3 per setting,
express prepaid, O. t,. PROUTY,

Box 11.5. New Lothrop, Mich.

WHITE WYANDOTTE^GGS

for hatching. After March 1st, from hens and
pullets rconng from 92 to 94 1^. price $2.00 per 15,
Hggs guaranteed. Elizabeth Dupons,
Kenosha, Wis.

W THEO, WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN. PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and sttaightforwardly honest work in the show
r«Oin. SO yrars u poiiltrynian.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

IBforUK-; «f>_«f,r. !,i>~-40c; 100- 75<9.
Brunpto Itatml Mall<<) fur «c StAnipw

fnckMjttu mu, 10188, frMport.lJI.

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All About Broilers 40 5x6 .25

American Fancier's Poultry Book.. 166 6x9 .50

American Poultry Culture 265 5 x V/a 1.50

Artificial Incubating and Brooding 96 9 x12 .50

Asiatics (Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans) 100 9 x12 .50

Mrs. Basley's Poultry Book 200 6x9 1.00

Biggie Poultry Book 162 4 x 5i/a .50

Broilers and Roasters 96 51/2X 7'/2 -50

Buff Wyandottes — How to Breed 24 6 x 9 .25

Built and Used by Poultrymen 94 6x9 .50

Capons and Caponizing 44 5x7 .50

Capons for Profit 64 7%x10>/2 .50

Chicks — Hatching and Rearing 126 5x7 .25

Chick Culture 80 5 x7 .25

Columbia School of Poultry Culture Course (12

paper bound books 274 8 xlO 2.00

Common Sense in the Poultry Yard 192 5x7 .50

Common Sense on Poultry Raising 78 6x9 .50

Common Sense Poultry Doctor 176 5x7 .50

Cream from a Poultry Scrap Book (Part 1) 64 3x6 .10

Cream from a Poultry Scrap Book (Part 2) 64 3x6 .10

Diseases of Poultry 248 5 x 7'/2 .50

Don't Kill the Laying Hen (Potter System) 102 5x7 1.00

Duck Culture 133 5x7 .50

Ducks and Geese 112 9 x12 .75

Easy Poultry Keeping for Invalids 90 4'/2X 5</2 .25

Egg Money — How to Increase It 128 5x7 25

Egg Record and Account Book 32 5 xlO .25

Eggs and Egg Farms 96 9 x12 .50

500 Questions and Answers 43 6x9 25

Facts About White Diarrhea (one bottle of

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Farm Poultry . 341 5x7 l'25

Farm Poultry Doctor 43 6x9 .50

Feeding Under the Hopper System 13 4'/2X 6 50

First Lessons In Poultry Keeping (Vol. 1) 168 6x9 50

First Lessons in Poultry Keeping (Vol. 2) 160 6x9 50

From Shell to Show Room 40 7 xlO !50

Guinea Culture 15 4x6 .25

How to Dress Poultry 24 4'/2X 6 25

How to Get Eggs in Winter 66 4x6 25

How to Build Poultry Houses 64 S'/sxII'/a 50

How to Build up a Heavy Laying Strain 63 6x8 *50

How to Grow Chicks 24 5 x 7 *25

How to Make Poultry Pay 116 7 xlO 1 00

How We Make Ducks Pay 136 6x9 1.00

Incubation and Brooding 50 5x7 50

Incubators and Chicken Rearing Appliances

(How to make out and use them) 35

Industrial Poultry Keeping 127 5x7 ^50

Leghorns — All Varieties 74 9 x12 50

Lehman's Poultry Doctor 96 5x7 75

Letts's Poultry Keepers' Account Book ino

Little Chicks 166 6 x9 .50

Making Poultry Pay 324 5 x 6'/» 100

Marshall's Secretary's Entry Book {qq

MInorcas — Every Comb and Color 72 6x9 50

Money in Broilers and Squabs 143 6x9 50

Money in Hens 54 4'/2X 6 '25

Morgan's Poultry Accounting -12 10 x16«/2 .'50

Nevitt System of Profitable Poultry Culture 30 6x9 1 00

999 Questions and Answers 128 6x8 50

100 Formulas and Recipes for Poultrymen 20 4x7 25

Origin and History of All Breeds of Poultry 64 8'/ix11'/a l!oO

Perfected Poultry of America 250 6x9 2 50

Phllo System Progressive Poultry Keeping 64 6x9 1 00

Plymouth Rocks 70 6 x 9 sn

Plymouth Rocks— All Varieties .160 9 xi2 inn

Pocket Money Poultry 167 5 J 7 Sf

Poultry ■■ 80 5 x8 "SI

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Poultry Architecture 125 5 v7 tn

Poultry Craft '/.'/.ZtI 6 x9 1M

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Poultry Culture for Profit (Published in London

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Poultry Diseases and Remedies 80 6x7 9c

Poultry Feedlnrj and Fattening 160 B v 71/ 'In

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Poultry Houses— Coops and Equipment 96 5x7 '^

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Rhode Island Reds and How to Judge Them..!:: 68 7 xlO l'?0

Secretaries' Entry Book by Hewes 9 nn

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I W^ Page 119

should be hunted at every opportun-
ity.)

Later.— It isn't fleas he's hunting;
Its bars. 'Pears that bars are more
necessary near the skin than else-
where. (Pardon this oversight.)

Supposing the Creator exhibited
some chickens, made as He intended
they should be made; what would he
win?

Ans.: Nix.

Supposing that they were judged
under the score card system; what
would they score?

Oh, rats!

What's the value of a hen who's
eggs sell for $5.00 apiece? Don't ask
such fool questions, may be she don't
lay any.

"You'se fellows M^ho's selling roos-
ters with several ciphers after the
original numeral," what is the high-
est price you ever paid for a rooster?

Hush! A hesitating whisper from
the chorus: "We never bought any
we made our own." (The original
whisperer from the west in loud
tones ) "I paid $100 for a rooster that
was disqualified at the only show I
ever sent him too.

What is the highest price ever re-
fused for one single specimen!'
'^norus in acclaim: "$_00000000000
etc., in ciphers, any old figures in
front.

What is the mission of the poultrv
magazine?

What's the answer?

At this query a listening and inter-
ested mob of poultry editors turned
their heads as though they had not
''^^•^^ swinging gently on their well
shod heels, they each and everv one
(nearly every one) sauntered' off
one humming the "Dead March from
^aui. others with experience, chant-
ing the wedding march as though
they had just been given a divorce
from their last wife. It certainly was
a sad sight. (I mean a sorry sight.)

White Plymouth Rocks Cjio'ce breeding stock from
^ 1 r. , ^"*s seasons niatine^s for

sale after June l.st. Remember our Flymouth
veers' ^°"^„^^[7blue competed forin the fa?t twS
vears Also silver cup winners. Choice stock
always for sale. Allen Tucker, Mineral pjjnt. ^^.

S. C. BROWN ^^°'^*' cockerels for
I T-r^X x^r^rl^ ^*\*^- ^'■^^ »» line for

LEGHORNS ^^^^^^al years. Prices
.. -. *v-rivii^j reasonable. Eggs now

$1.50 per 15.

H. E. MARQUARDT.

WAUSAU. WIS.

Rf^ DmC So">«^ of the
• V^e IVILL/O best in Ameri-

^ ^f PV^^*^^"^*^ June 1st. About 30 ' goSf Hens'
will sell cheap. Write today. *^ '

Vmat BLAKEMORE, FAYETTE, MO

wyandottFeg(^^

Silver and White Jf ^J's^;/^ ^°' ^*>-°^^

B. H. BACON. R. F. D.. EI.ROY. WIS.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

vStock and Eggs at greatly reduced price.
E. M Long. Box (P F) 0«ceo!a. Ind.

Singlemb Co Black Orpingtons

Best Winter layers.* Scored stock for sale.
JAS McGUAN BARABOO WIS

Page 120

POULTRY FANCIER

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FRY SHOWS (Si,

Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub-
lished in this department without charge

TO ALL ADMIRERS OF ROSE COMB
BUFF LEGHORNS:

Realizing that there is iiotlnns' which
will lioom and help make a breed popu-
lar like a specialty club, a few of our
prominent breeders have joined hands in
forming- the Rose Comb Buff Leghorn
Club of America.

We are going- to ask all breeders of
Huff Leghorns to help us in this work.
We know of no Jjreed today that has had
no booming- of any kind that has as
many admirers and has become so very
popular as the Rose Comb Buff Leghorns.

Our object in forming this .Club Is to
promote the breeding and welfare of this
g-rand fowl. In so doing every breeder
will be benefited, but in order to make
the Club a success we must have the
co-operation of every breeder. The mem-
bership fee for one year will be $1.00.
Life membership will be $5.00 with no
dues. We earnestlv request as manv as
possible to take out Life Membership, so
that the Club will have no drawbacks
financially the first few years, which are
alwa.vs the hardest. As soon as we get
a sufl^cient membership we shall get out
a Club Cataloge in which will be ar-
ticles from our members telling their ex-
perience in raising- and breeding Rose
Comb Buff Leghoins.

Wo shall also offer premiums at the
winter shows which shall be competed
for by members in good standing only,
so send me your membership at once

and let me place you among the first to
make the Rose Comb Buff Leghorn Club
of America one of the best.

Yours, for more and better Rose Comb
Buff Leghorns and a large membership
for the club.

Howard J. Fisk, Secv.-Treas.
Falconer, N. Y.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

We take pleasure in informing fanciers
that the Tenth Annual Show of the Wis-
consin Feathered Stock Association will
take place in Milwaukee .January lltli,
ll'th, 1.3th. 14th and 15th. 1911. We have
always had the largest and best show
in this state, and our next show prom-
ises to be better than any of our previous
ones. It is our ambition to have the
best conducted and managed exhibition
in the Northwest, and we are working
hard to make it so. Our Prize Monev is
promptly paid and all exhibitors receive
the best of treatment. The following
judges have already been appointed: Ira
C. Keller. Geo. A. Heyl and Thos. B. Mc-
Cauley. Several more judges for Pigeons
and Pet Stock will yet be eng"aged. A
committee has been appointed to prepare
the Premium List, and their work is be-
ing- pushed with energy. Those who are
interested in this show and desire a copy
of the premium List when it is issued
are invited to write to tlie Secretar.v.

Theo. Koss, Secretary.

488 National Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.

American Poultry

Following are the successful candi-
dates in the annual election held this
month :

President. Chas. M. Bryant.

First Vice President. L'. IT. Baldwin.

Second Vice President, C. K. Gra-
ham.

Secretary-Treasurer. S. T. Campbell.

Members of Executive Board— Grant
M. Curtis, U. R. Fishel, T. E. Quisen-
berry.

Place of holding Annual Meeting. St.
Louis, Mo.

Time of meeting, second week in
August.

The various candidates received votes
as follows :

PRESIDENT.

Chas. M. Bryant 951

Jas. E. Rice 2

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.

L. TT. Baldwin 955

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT.

C. K. Graham 942

Miller Purvis 2

Association Election

SECRETARY.

S. T. Campbell os.-,

MEMBERS E.XECl'Tn K I!().\RI).

U. R. P'i.shel .-,88

T. E. Quisenberry .",65

Grant M. Curtis .-,64

H. V. Crawford 511

Harry H. Collier :J79

W. P. Smallcy 123

P. H. Sprague 84

Chas. G. Pape 71

W. R. Graham 1

PLACE OF HOLDINC. \.\M AL MKI.IIXG.

St. Louis, Mo 648

Buffalo, N. Y 172

i'oledo, Ohio 80

Niagara Falls, N. ^' 32

Port Huron, Mich 18

Los Angeles, Calif 1

TIME OF HOLDINC. MEETING.

Second week in August 1 36

First week in August 45

Third week in August 41

Fourth week in August 25

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS TZ^^i^t:

19 10. Pen headed by Madison Square winner. Some fine scored cockerels for sale, reasonable. Egg
$3 per 15, $5 per 30. Satisfaction guaranteed. F. W. CATLIN, BARABOO, WIS.

F. L. Poultry Farm Rhode IsIaiiirReds Hage"rXwn

Chicago, McKeesport, Butler & Pittsburg. Breeders for sale after May 15. Write
for circular and mating list. F. L. OBFR. R. F. D. No. 1. Verona, Pa.

May,

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r:,y..i'\j-..yi,i>ii''!L-

Irving A. Sibley, South Bend, Ind.

Rhode Island Red breeders who Imve
never met Mr. Irving A. Sibley will be
interested in the above picture, which is
a g^ood likeness of him. Mr. Sibley's
hun(1:eds of friends in all sections of the
country are enthusiastically supporting
him for the presidency of the Rhode Isl-
and Red Club of America. His election
\vould mean greater progress for the club
and the breed.

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FREE BOOK ON BUILDING POULTRY

HOUSES.

The Department of Poultry Husbandry
of the State College of Agriculture at
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., has is-
sued bulletin No. 274 upon the subject,
"Building Poultry Houses." A copy may
be obtained by addressing- Prof. Jas. E.
Rice, who is in charge of the department.
The bulletins issued from this source are
extremely valual)le to poultrymen and are
authoritative.

Fred W. Oertel, Box F, Brighton. 111.,
has a fine lot of breeding- bir-ds for sale
at about half their real value. He breeds
S. C. and R. C. Rhode Island Reds, and
his foundation stock was of America's
leading strains. He will furnish score
cards with birds referred to and he guar-
antees that the stock will please pur-
chasers. He is also selling eggs at re-
duced prices from his five pens of ex-
hibition matings.

Thos. Osborn. ^09 Iowa avenue. Musca-
tine, la., has some extra choice Part-
ridge Wyandottes that our readers can
buy at unusually low prices. These are
grand birds that will win in strong com-
petition and that could not have been
bought at all earlier in the season. He
is also making a special price on eggs
for hatching. He is the originator of the
Mahogany strain, and his birds have
many times defeated all competition at
leading western shows.

E. M. Long. Box P. F.. Osceola. Ind.,
is now offering stock and eggs at greatly
reduced prices. He breeds S. C. Buff.
Black and White Orpingtons and lias won
many first prizes at more than a dozen
of the best western shows, including Chl-
• •ago. There are really no better Orping-
tons bred than those in Mr. Long's yards,
and he is disposing of some of his best
l)ieeding birds at prices that are almost
like giving them atvay.

Readers of P. F. who are Interested in
S. C. or R. C. Rhode Island Reds should
write to p. L. Ober, Route 7. Verona Pa.
and get prices on some of his best breed-
ing birds that he is now selling to make
room for his young stock. He is offer-
ing some genuine bargains in highest
Muaiity stock. He has manv prize win-
ners in his yards at shows "like Chicago,
IMttsburg. Hagerstown. McKeesport and
Butler.

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in White Wyandottes should look at the
S? °f Elizabeth Dupons. Kenosha. Wis.
hhe is offering guaranteed eg^'s at only
$2 per 15 from birds scoring 92 to 94%.

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Aeswers lo Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question.— What is the best method of
feeding a 11 months old S. C Black
Minori'a cockerel in order to get the
greatest possible weight on him next
fall. He has a grand head and is fine
in shape, but is a little light. H'is sire
was a heavy biid. Would mating him to
ten hens clieck liis growtii.

Answer. — This question is a live one
for breeders of all varieties and the ad-
vice is applicable in connection with all
breeds. Tiie tirst thought would be to
feed the bird articles of food that are
specially fattening in character, but this
would be a mistake. None bat market
chickens should be suljjeci'sl to the fat-
tening process and it is p.irticularlv 'et-
rimental to birds that are to be used for
breeding purposes. The biid aoove re-
ferred to should be fed ordinary foods,
including good sound wheat and oats
(clipped or hulled oats preferable), green
bone or similar animal matter if insects,
worms, etc., are not available. The
habit that most male birds have of
standing off at feeding time and letting
the females eat all the
son for many of them
tlie Standard weight for
object should be to see
and that they have plenty of
ishing food. Special care should
given them in this respect during
molting season, and it is desirable
they be separated from the females,
females is not too many for a good,
orous Minorca male properly fed
cared for.

Question. — Please give the best known
remedy for W^hite Diarrhea in chicks.

Answer. — In the May number of Suc-
cessful Poultry .Journal, Dr. W R.
Fisher writes fully and authoritatively
regarding the White Diarrhea problem,
and for the benefit of the above inquirer
and many other P. F. readers we print
herewith a portion of Dr. Fisher's re-
marks. He says:

"Prevention must be our main reliance
in dealing with White Diarrhea, for
treatment by medication offers slight en-
couragement. Chicks are frail and ten-
der creatures during early life, not well
adapted to stand up against an exhaust-

food IS one rea-

not maturing to

cock birds. The

that they do eat

good nour-

be

the

that

Ten

vig-

and

ing disease nor to endure a vigorous
course of treatment in an effort to sub-
pos-;d, from time to time, for the treat-
ment of W^iii-e Diarrhea; most of them
of very little benefit. Knowing as we
now do. tiiat the disease arises from li\'-
ing organisms in the bodies of the sick
birds, we can realize how difllcult it
must 1)6 to antagonize these minute
growths without doing injury to the
chicks lliat contain them. Sulpho-car-
bolate of zinc, five grains to the quart
of water as a drink, is an effective a
blimate in tablets of one one-thousandth
Woods; but care must be taken that no
mistake is made about the quantity for
the remedy is highly poisonous if "taken
in excess. The old remedv, Douglas'
Mixture, has long been regarded as most
valuable for bowel complaints in chicks.
It is made by adding an ounce of sul-
phuric acid to a gallon of water and then
dissolving half a pound of sulphate of
iron m the mixture. A teaspoonful or
two in a quart of drinking water is suf-
rl( ieat for littl" chick?.

If there is reason to believe that the
breeding stock is badly infested with
germs of White Diarrhoea it is best to
get rid of the birds and make a fresh
start witii healtiiy material, although
Dr. (J. B. Morse says that a svstematic
use of purgatives with the laying hens
will do much to clear out molds and bac-
teria from the bowels and diminish the
risks of infection very materially. H^
ndvises Bpsom salts to be given in a
mash in the proportion of a third of a
teaspoonful to each hen. once a montli.
Douglas' Mixture, a tablespoonful in
each (juart of drinking water will tone
up the digestive organs and help to re-
tard the development of molds and bac-
teria. Dr. Leo Rettger suggests that the
use of sour milk by chickens of all ages
would be likely to act as a protection
against infection, since lactic acid is
known to arrest bacterial activity — a
plan of treatment that is worthy of " ex-
tended trial by poultrymen. Since infec-
tion is carried sometimes on the egg
shells, it is recommended to wipe them
olT carefully with a disinfecting wash be-
fore eggs are put under the hen or into
the incubator. Alcohol, 95 per cent
strong, has been advised for this pur-

pose; .so also cerolin. and other coal-tar
products, about one part to twenty of
water. Contamination from the egg
shells and the droppings of the chicks
must be prevented in every possible way
The nests must be kept clean; incu-
bators and brooders must be cleaned out
thoroughly and disinfected after each
hatch. Care must be taken to prevent
the use of moldy straw or litter and
above all. of moldy food. Cleanliness i;i
everything, even in the soil, which
should be dug up or plowed often and
contamination prevented by the free use
of lime or the growth of vegetation to
cleanse it from impurities.

Question.— Two years ago I paid a re-
liable breeder of Buff Wyandottes $10 for
a cocvcerel. After I had him awhile he
developed stubs of feathers on shanks
and some of his chicks also came witli
stubs on legs. I culled all these out and
did not use one of them this year but
sorne of the females raised from' this
cockerel and which I have in my breed-
ing pens this season are producing
chick.s with stubs on legs. What would
you advise me to do? Are Buff Orping-
U^"^ f,^"^^. general purpose fowls than
Buff Wyandottes? I have some birds
\vhose ear lobes change in color. Some-
times the lobes are a nice red the same
shade as their wattles and at other times
they are a lighter red and even white
v^ hat is the cause?

Answer.— The only thing vou can do in
regard to your Buff Wvandottes is to
throw out every specimen which shows
stubs on shanks. ^o not breed from
any of them nor keep tliem in vour pens

, ^^^^1^.^'^^ ^'^^ ^^'^^' finally eradicate the
defect from your flock. You should dis-
continue using the cockerel as a breeder
and al.so discard the hens which are
throwing the defective chicks if you can
ascertain which thev are The BufT
Orpingtons are not more of a general
purpose fowl than the Buff Wvandottes
except that they are a larger bird and
matured specimens when sold for mar-
ket purposes will of course weigh more
and therefore bring a better price for
each individual bird. The condition of
the ear lobes described by you is a nat-
ural one with some birds. There are
thousands of birds of course which never
show this variation in color, but at the
same time some very good specimens are
subject to it.

Question.— Please tell me how to test
eggs before they are put into the incu-
bator so that I can tell if they are fer-
tile.

Answer.— There is absolutely no way
to distinguish a fertile egg from an In-
fertile one until they have teen under
a hen or in an incubator for a few days.
There is no way to tell until the germ
has developed so that it can be seen

S. C. & R. C. R. 1. REDS
BUFF TURKEYS

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Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

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BREEDEBS' SEVERAL VABIETIES.

SENECA LAKE FARM. HIMROD, N. Y.,
breeds beauty, utility, White Wyandottes,
R. C. W. Leghorns and Lakenvelders, the
beautiful and prolific new breed. Eggs $2
setting; $8 per 100. Orders given prompt
and careful attention. 3-3

KELLERSTRASS STRAIN S. C.

SNOW

White Orpingtons: also beautiful

Golden

Wyandottes. Eggs 10 cents each.

Schuyl-

kill Poultry Yards. Pine Grove. Pa.

3-3

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eggs $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff. Box
fi38. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

YOUNG STOCK OF QUALITY FOR SALE.
4 firsts on 7 entries at Greenfield, 111., Nov.
15-20, 1909; 8 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds
on 16 entries at Pittsfield, 111.. Dec. 15-18.
1909. S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks and
White Holland Turkeys. Write your wants
to Thos. M. Stubblefleld, R. 6. Jacksonville,
Til 6-9-12

BEFORE Pr.ACING YOUR ORDER GET
my prices on eggs and stock. S. C. Buff
Orpingtons, Barred Rocks. Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys and Indian Runner Ducks. Birds
have farm range and are strong and healthy.
Mrs. Higgs, R. 1. Henry, 111. 2-4

EGGS $2 PER 13, 3 SETTINGS $5 FROM
Kellerstrass Yhite Orpingtons and Brown
& Coleman's Black Orpingtons. Black
Minorca eggs 10 cents each, any quantity.
Alson Indian Runner Ducks of finest quality.
Berry A: Sawyer strain. .1. A. Dickson. 42
Division St.. Ashtabula, O. 2-4

CLAY HILL POULTRY FARM. FULTON,
Iowa.. Jay Breeden, Prop. Breeder of Black
Langshans. White and Silver I.,acpd Wyan-
dottes. Eggs from pens scoring ninety-five.
$3 per 15; pens scoring ninety, $2. Cock-
erels for sale cheap. My birds are prize
winners. 2-4

FINE BOURBON RED TURKEY EGGS. $:i
per ten. Rhode Island Red eggs. $1 per
1 .^. ; $5 oer hundred. Orders given prompt
attention. Send me yours. Mrs. A. G. Frlesz.
KeytesvillP. Mo. 2-4

HOI'DAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville. also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs, $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer .Johnson. Argyle, Wis. 4-3

r.XLVIN R. GROSS. EXHIBITOR AND
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks and S.
r. Brown Leghorns. Eggs, $2 per 15.
Square Deal Yards, Box 81. Baraga,
Mich. 4-3

E(;<;s FROM HARREl). HUFF AND
White Rocks. $l.r.(» for 1.'.. Single Comb
BiMwn. Buff and White I.,eghorns ?1 for l.">.
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd. Ills. 5-4

BARBED PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

BARRED ROCKS, KNOXDALE STRAIN.
Well barred and very strong In vitality,
good size and splendid layers. Stock pro-
duced from careful mating with the double
mating system. Eggs, $2 per setting; $8
per hundred. Orders given prompt atten-
tion. C. W. Coleman. 200 Jeffras Ave., Flnd-
:ay. O. 2-4

THE FAMOUS ORCHARD STRAIN BAR-
red Plymouth Rocks, bred for vitality and
productiveness. Eggs, $2 per 15. Send for
booklet, "Starting with Poultry." Orchard
Poultry Farms, Doylestown. Pa. (Hatching
Department.) 2-4

SPECIAL BARRED ROCK SALE. ON Ac-
count of lack of time I will dispose of 2
very good dark cocks, one pullet breeding
cocic, 25 cockerel bred hens and pullets and
15 cockerels. Get prices now. Dr. F. A.
Shuffelton, Saint Marys, O.

"PEERLESS" BARRED ROCKS. BREED-
Ing Barred Rocks our exclusive business.
Our manager a poultry expert. Breed only
line bred stock. Announcement 1910 sent
free. Fifty-cent booklet, "Incubation and
Brooding," sent for 20 cents during Febru-
ary, March and April to all who mention
this "ad." Our show record almost clean
sweep In hot competition. We can please
you. Peerless Poultry Plant. Inc., Clinton.
Wis. ?-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win In the show rooin and fill the egg
tKisket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong In all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

WHITE ROCKS. HEAVY WINTER LAY-
ers. Pullets from this stock laying at 5 V2
months this season without forcing. Not
one dissatisfied customer last season. Book-
ing egg orders, $2 per 15. S. P. Evans, 3838
E. 78th Street. Cleveland, O.

WHITE ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY. "FISHEL
Strain." Eggs from large, snow white, farm
raised birds, 15 $1,50, 30 $2.50. 100 $6.
Special pen of high scoring exhibition birds,
^Russell, .ludge.) $2.50 per 15. Jesse C.
Brabazon, Route 4, Box E. Delavan, Wis. 2-4

WHITE ROCKS, FISHEL STRAIN, CHALK
white, grand shape. My birds are as good
as the best. Eggs only $2 per 15. Satis-
faction guaranteed. W. R. Greer, Auburn,
Tnd. 2-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WINNERS
at Peoria, Ottawa, Galesburg, etc. Three
yards, headed by exhibition and prize win-
ning males. Eggs, $2 per 15. From good
utility stock on range. $1 per 15, $3 ner 60.
Wm. C. Goodwin. Chllllcothe, 111. 2-4

WHITE ROCKS— EGGS FROM PEN HEAD^
ed by prize winning cock at Chicago show
$2.50 per 15; from other prize stock $2.
Address Gaberk Hennery, 1316 Michigan
Ave.. Chicago, 111. 3-3

BUFF PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

BUFF COCKS. ORDER EGGS FROM

quality birds. Eggs from pen headed by
New York and St. Louis winners. $5 per 15;
others. $1, $2 and $3. John D. Wllklns,
Pocahontas, 111. 2-4

GOLD BUFF ROCKS, THE GREATEST
winning strain in the West. Pens headed
by district prize-winning males. Great lay-
ers. Eggs, $7, $5 and $1.50 per 15. Guar-
anteed hatch. Circular free. J. Elliott,
Moorhead, la. 3-3

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct In
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,
Til. 3-4

PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH BOCKS.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? SEND ME YOUR
order for Partridge Plymouth Rocks and
you are sure of the best. Don't take my
word for It. Look at my show record at
Chicago, Detroit and other strong shows,
consider the competition and you will see
who has the quality. Some choice breeders
at reduced prices and young stock that will
please. Paul LaFrombolse. Mt. Pleasant,
Mich 4-9-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

WHITE WYANDOTTES — EGGS FROM

pen of 8 hens. 1 cock picked from 284
birds, $2 per 15. $3 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Strueblng, Freeburg,
111. 4-3

SUTTON'S WHITE WYANDOTTES WIN
again. On an entry of sixteen birds I won
1st cock. 3rd cockerel, 2nd hen, 1st, 3rd
pens, 1st. 2nd pullets, silver cup, best dis-
play, best cock hen, cockerel, pullet and
pen. More prizes, than all competitors.
Eggs $10 and $5 per 15. F. D. Sutton. 68
St. Louis Ave., Youngstown, Ohio. 2-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FOR SALE
from choice matings. Strong, vigorous stock,
pure white and good shape. Write for circu-
lar containing prices and description. Men-
tion this paper. Richard Bloom, Fulton.
Mo. 2-4

EGGS FROM MORROWS PRIZE WINNING
White Wyandotes. At Montezuma. la., I
won 1st pen, first, second sweepstakes. Eggs
from exhibition matings. $3 per 15; other
grand matings. $2 per 15. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Address Frank Morrow, Barnes
City, Iowa. 2-4

GOOD WHITE W^YANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J. Tre.«ter, Rushford.
Minn. r,_o

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

BUFF WYANDOTTES. HAVE BRED THEM
since 1895. making me the oldest breeder
of this variety in Ohio. Young stock from
my Chicago and Cleveland winners. Eggs
from the best matings I ever had. $3 per 15
V. Crabtree. Tiffin. Ohio. 2-4

THIMSEN, BUFF WYANDOTTE SPECIAL-
1st. Eggs from Buff Wyandottes that win In
the strongest competition. Eggs from pen,
1. $3 per 15; pen 2 and 3, $2 per 15. If
you are in the market for stock or eggs 1
can please you. F. P. Thimsen. Bloomlns
Prairie, Minn. 5-9-T^

SILVEB LACED WYANDOTTES.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES, A SPEC-
lalty. My pens are line-bred and prize win-
ners, scoring 91 to 93%. They are bred to
lay, weigh and win. Eggs for hatching, $2
per 15, or $3 per 30. Try a setting. I
guarantee satisfaction. Peter J. Becker,
Geneseo. 111. 0.4

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS
from first cock, third cockerel, fourth pul-
let, Chicago and Detroit and Grand Rapids
winners; females that score to 95; $3 per
15. Clare Hoffman. Allegan. Mich. 3-3

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES, EXCLU-
sively. You need our free circular giving
winnings and description of matings. Eggs
and stock reasonable. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. Highland Poultry Yards, Box B,
Highland Park, Mich. 3-3

OBPINQTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
1-10-12

S. C. WHITE, BLACK, BUFF AND DIA-
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs, $2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers.
Wis. 2-5

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS FROM CHICA-
go, New York and Canadian winners. Will
have but one very choice pen of rich, even
colored birds. Sound In hackle and saddle.
Eggs $5 per 15. Few cockerels to spare.
V. Crabtree, Tlfl^n, O. 2-4

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f^le v?r.Ji ORPINGTON EGGS FOR
SitpH ^^\^*^''"'«''^"^« hens and pullets
E^es n 2^^/^ 1"."^,^^^ ^«"«d cockerels.

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are

br^L^'.vP^'P.l^^'^"^- Th« favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing ?ow";
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. MlltSn

Cl'ncTn^^H^'^o^^^"^' ^^^''^ot Poultry Farms
Cincinnati, O. 12-16

ORPINGTONS— OUR BOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff, Black, White. Cheviot
Farm.s. Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-3

RHODE ISLAND BEDS.

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Exclusively. I showed 6 pullets and 4 cock-
erels at Peoria, 111.. Dec, 1909. and won 8
prizes. I showed no old birds. Will sell
the four cockerels. Also eggs In season.
Write for prices and matings. Davis Crows.
Hanna City, 111.

H.VVE YOU DECIDED WHERE YOU ARE
going to place your order for S C R I
Red stock of eggs. If not, write a postal
to J. S. A Poultry Yards?. Antwerp. O.. for
their catalog. Six years exclusive breeding.
^_ 2-4

ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.
Persistent layers. The right shape and
color. Eggs from $1 to $5 per sitting.
Write for particulars and mention Poultry
Fancier. Septimus Mawer, Grand Rapids
^- 3-3

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C
li.ldrldge & Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

ROSE COMB REDS. AFTER FIVE YEARS'
careful mating for eggs, shape and color,
our Reds lay like Leghorn.s. and grow like
Plymouth Rocks, with female plumage, that
pure deep red. First time to offer eggs
from these grand Reds, Prize winners In
every pen. Eggs $2 per 15; $3 per 30. Sam-
ple feathers. Ernest E. Lienard. Route 8,
Box 21. I^ancaster. O. 3.3

LANGSHANS.

THE

shans

don't

order.

your

now

show

Write

Mo.

QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-

Is proved by their show record. You

take chances when you send me your

I can start you right or Improve

flock with some of the grand birds I

have for sale. Scores to 95% In

room. Prices right. Eggs In season.

me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,

1-6

PRIZE WINNING BLACK AND WHITE
Langshan eggs, $2 per setting from pens
headed by blue ribbon winning male birds.
\v. H. Hefner. R3. Columbia City, Ind. 2-4

WHITE LANGSHANS. FIRST PEN HEAD-
ed with cockerel which won first prize and
first and second hen. Eggs $1.50 for 15.
Second pen $1.50 for 30. Anconas bred
from imported stock. Eggs $1.50 for 15.
Booking orders now. Geo. McCague, New
London. O. 3..'^

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulvKs. N. Y. ' 4.3

1U(] n.\ [{(JAINS NOW IX GRAND lUKDS.
I'art of my best breeders for .sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshan.s. Have a show
record under b-adlng judges unequaled bv
any other brei-def. Male birds each season
score to 9514. f.-males 961-. Made a clean
.sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
reason and won silver cup for best pen in
tht> show three years, all breeds competing,
score 191/2. A. Stranskv, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry >S: r. S. Assn.. ('liilton. Wi«. 1I-9-I1'

S. C. WHITE LEOHOBNS.

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside, Conn. 2-10-13

BARGAINS IN S. C. WHITE LEGHORN
cockerels $1 and $2 each for dandv birds.
Order now and get your pick. Eggs $1
and $2 per 15, according to quality. Either
mated pen or range flock. Reasonable hatch
guaranteed. James Keegan. R. 1. Box 72.
Thor, Iowa. 9.4

POULTRY FANCIER

B. C. WHITE LEGHOBNS.

I OFFER YOU THE HIGHEST QUALITY
in K. C. White Leghorns, both in stock and

rbnf. ^"i^- "^K P'"^^^^ ^'•^ reasonable Some
choice trios for sale. Eggs from mv Cb

bfr^H^ "'■"' r'^^ P^" «^'P^?^ prSSpUy. ^Mv
birds are first prize winners at Chicago In
competition with the best In the west Mrs
W. Jones Williams, The Maples. Maywood

•._■ _«_^ _^_ 2-4

Strain- ^SlTi^ LEGHORNS, ELEPHANT
nr«fi 9 Seattle 1st cockerel; Iowa state, 2
F^it' ,?fHf''°^'^^' 2 ^^'""^^ and state cup.
DeT'lfi y^'^.l.?"^^ .^^^^- ^^"ee, 10 cent?
pen, 16 2-3 cents each. Catalogue. Rogers
Ranch, Box 11. Pleasanton, la 3"

S. C. BBOWN LEQHOBNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts Athens. 1910. Cock Scoring

M^Hnr ^^^ ^^^^'^ 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer
Carpenter, Ohio. u ,,

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
l^^^,^' i;°i°^ ^^^ laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting

SvV^l^. ^^^^- ^' ^- ^°y«^' ^- 2. Bechtels-
vuie, pa. 11-9-12

S. C. BROWN LE(JHORNS. EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N
Batchelor. Fairview, Mass. 4.3

B. C. BBOWN LEGHOBNS.

; ,^.- ^^ROWN LEGHORN (242-EGG
strain), female line, eggs and stock for sale
reasonable, according to quality. I won the
highest honors on all that I entered at the

pt Schenectady show. Correspondence so-
licited. Wm. Gaffey. South Worcester, N.

2-4

BUFF LEGHOBNS.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS— SOME FINE
cockerels for sale. They are beauties at $2
l^ ^- S^each, sired by a son of first cock!
Madison Square Garden, 1908. Eggs $2 per
lo. F. D. Kemp. Sparta, Wis. ' 12-4

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. EGGS
from premium birds, line bred, as fine as
ever wore feathers. fs per 15. Eggs from
choice selected birds on the farm, $4 per
100. S. M. Keltner. Anderson, Ind. 3-3

BLACK MINOBCAS.

S, C. BLACK MINORCAS. WON TEN
firsts at the two leading shows In Michigan
1910. (Five at state show, Detroit.) Large
size, beautiful color, typical shape. Cir-
cular free. W. B. Osborn, 430 Williams St.,
Jackson, Mich. 3.3

GLEN OAK MINORCA YARDS. ROSE
Comb Black MInorcas exclusively. Clean
sweep at Peoria with one single exception
which resulted In a tie. Stock and eggs
guaranteed. $2.50 per 15; $6 per 50; $10
per 100. Charles White. Route 36, Peoria.
111. 2-4

COBNISH

CORNISH FOWL. MADISON SQUARE
Jamestown Exposition, Allentown, Trenton'
Hagerstown, Philadelphia winners. Old and
young stock for sale. Egg orders given
prompt attention. Circular free. R. D
Relder, Mlddletown, Pa. 3-3

POLISH.

WHITE CRESTED BLACK POLISH. LINE
bred for 25 years. Winners at World's Fair
New York and Boston. Remember that See-
ly Is the veteran Polish breeder of America.
Stock for sale; eggs in season. Chas. L. Seely.
Pres. Am. Polish Club. Afton. N. Y. 5-9-12

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. SOO birds. Proper &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

HAVE SHOWN BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS
since 1904 at all the leading shows In east-
ern New England. During that time I have
won 133 firsts, 103 seconds, 86 thirds 110
specials. 10 silver cups, and a number of
championships. Eggs from 2 pens that
score from 93% to 96, $2.50 per 13. Harry
E. Smith, Box 723. Mlddletown, Conn. Mem-
ber of Conn. Poultry Assn., Mlddletown,
Assn.. and National Bantam Assn. 3-8

si<:.\i> voiK < )|{|)i:k.s for m:,\[/rHY

prlze-winniJiR Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1, Coblesklll, N. Y. Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching, $1 per
setting. 4 3

H0UDAN8.

HOUDANS— MY BREEDERS ARE TRAP-
nested and bred for eggs; also have some
fine show birds. Won all firsts and 2 sec-
°"^^,4„^^^^°^^' Wis., on 6 entries. Eggs
P^? ^ A^.P^"". ^^: P^^ 2 $L50 per 15; guar-
antee 10 fertile or replace setting free. Johtt
C. Meyer, R 9. Oconto Falls. Wis. 2-4

^„^^^ J^^COGl^lZED FACT THAT "Q. &

?W>,^°.V.*^^K^ .^r^ "*^^ ^^^^•" If you start
\Mth the best" you will save time, money

and annoyance. If you want a flock of prize

winners and record layers, demand "Q &

B. Houdans. Write for our beautiful de-

$5 and $10 per 15; ten chicks guaranteed to
hatch. Quimby & Brown, 109-U Uleh St
Ipswich. Ma.ss. ^ ^_'^

LARGE CRESTED. HEAVY LAYING HOU-
dans. Eggs from four grand pens. Ten
iears a breeder. Guarantee good hatch. My

iZl^.^^^L Z^^^-r. O^Pl"&tons, Whites and
Blacks. Hattie P. Franks. Worth, III. 5-9-12

HOUDANS EXCLUSIVELY. COCKERELS

Au ?, ^^"i- x°."^ ^^^ two-year-old stock.
All well-bred birds and will please. Eggs
shipped promptly. Send in your order now.
Price right. R. F. Dolan, Fulda. Minn. 4-3

LAKENVELDEBS.

LAKENVELDER'S. FOUND AT LAST

What this paper Is dedicated to: "The
most beautiful in fowls." Exhibition stock

?ha^l. Micr''''"' '^''^°" ^^"^ Voorhees. Mar-
- ' 2-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLF
yZu- ^^'^"'^'^ ^^^^'•^ year around; New
Ipr^T ^%1^- VZllL ^ireVt^?e^^en\^
JM^eLir N- I--' "• ^- ^-cobus.-Tr^;:

SILVER CAMPINES.

&ILVER CAMPINES^ ORIGINAL INTRO
duc-er improved strain Belglums Grea?^?;
producers. Largest white Iggs First pr?ze
whitest dozen eggs in show! Boston T91S'

m!Zle?a:T l^'"-' ^- ^- Jacobus!^' Pr^P^

2-6

DOMINIQUES.

DAVENPORT'S AMERICAN DOMINIQUES
won at New York 1908 every first pri^e of
fered; 1909 six of the ten firsts and second!
Write for circulars and prices W H Dav
enport. Coleralne, Mass 5?9!'r2

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken ralsTng A pa^^JJ
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $t50.?0
Iv, * breeder yearly. Read the RellabU
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
?hl.^.oH^^°i breeding, and learn all aboS

J?om A * v"^i7- ^l ^«"^'' ^ ^°Py by mail
from A. V. Meerach. Poughkeepsle. New

°^*^- 9-Og-tf

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS SCOR
ing 94^4 up with blood from World's Fair
and Kansas state fair firsts. Eggs $2 to $3

wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A Smith
Burnt Prairie. 111. ' ".^

PIGEONS.

1 Oi<P^ER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
n any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
xvl\fl T""^ at twice this price. B?amifu*
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. 8-9-12

P;^e^nf^"^^'^^\ COMMON OR HOME7R
Pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. Highest
prices paid for Guinea Fowls. Live SabbUs

Sr i?m2h^, ^\^^«^- «"^«^t, 1128 Palmer
St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 12-5

PRINTING.

postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp
Model Printing Co.. ManPh^«tor V- ^^T2^^

ting Co., Manchester, la.

10-9

CSSSL

POULTRY FANCIER

MBteMMH

Sl'lilCIAL DISPLAY ADS

Ad» will be inserted in thi» department under the following conditions : The size
•hall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column. Each
advertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

f>

i S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS ]

\ EGGS FOR HATCHING ^^Z f'."'^! I

i pen headed by a son of a first prize Madison $
5 Square Garden Cock. $2. for 15, J*;, for 50. >
5 H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE >

Jl? ELM STREET. WOBURN. MASS. >

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested, Standard-bred,

|;"»t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free cataloe:

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for beet 10. I can help you win too. If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•8 per 15, $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

other people would read your ad if it were
here, just the same as you are reading this
one. See the rates and conditionsat the head
of this department and send in an ad. It will
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER.
367 Dearborn Strett, » Chicago. III.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

None better. 40 first and second
prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
Cit^. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

D. J. Hf.ISS, Oarthasre, Mo.

Reds.

Anrnna^ exclusively.

^"*'""<*5^ years. Hundred

ders for 12
years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our customers.
Young and old stock |1..50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders. W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St., East End. Pittsburg. Pa.

President Ancoiia Club of America

Houdans and Buff SL7;.T"w,n„ir"

Wvanrlnffoe "^ Highest honors on Hou-
Tf JdllUUllCS dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $.3. Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs, N. Y.

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS I

Get prices on eggs and stock before buying 5
elsewhere. Illustrated circular free. ^

E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10. Greenville. Ohio \

^ E. A

BARRED ROCKS

Cockerel mating of
the very best strain.
Pullet line is direct descendants of "Louis-
ana." the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to |5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
11.50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.. Centerville.Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB ?,«„«„

PPHQ five strictly exhibition matings at
I\i:.Lra $3.00, $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain.
FRED. W. OERTEL. Box. F. Brighton. III.

Reichert's White Rocks and ^Ty
R. C White Leghorns i^er If rplV

50, $5. per 100. Also some choice breeders at
living prices. These are bargains worthy
vour consideration. Satisfaction guaranteed.
E. H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILL.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore. Box 92. Hopkinsville. Ky.

Rosp rnmh Rrnwn ^^^^* P"^* ^*"-

I\U»C \xUmU DrUWn „ers at Metidan,
I F^HORN^ Hartford, Worcester and
LiLiUllVriXnO Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

White Plume Farm

produces the fowls
you need to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, Prop., Rt 1 , Plainville. III.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess laid 291 eggs in a year; 50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure ciire for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON, FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyaiidottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, Lm. Box M>

Silv«>r Laced VVyandotttis, White Cr«Ht«*d
Hlack I'oliHh and Barred I'iymouth
KockM. Direct descendautH from Madison Square
and Chicago winners. Won twenty elghc regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln, Iowa, Jan.
4-9. Ift09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cancade Poultry YardH,
\Vm. Neiers. Prop., I.,, It.4/>, CaM<>a<l«, la.

RPFn'^R ^'^f^^^WNLEGHORNSand
IVCCLF J R c RHODE ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of .six grand matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M. REED.

Wyanet. 111.

May, '10

^

Light Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On U entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males, .» Females score from 92^4 to 95.
,3d prize ck. score 92% and ckls. ifor sale.
Mrs.Ed. Bartlett.lfiQi/^ Oak St New Cactle Pa

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE.
21 5 Galena Street Aurora, 111.

S. C. R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ff^"^^i^:^.

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS, RTE. 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^i"« 'f |„°1,Vt!

Di^/~'I^O ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Slnia:le combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E, Miles
first pen. superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, ICWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES i..T;"°gVLvV

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from

select matings that will produce winners

Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons, Wis.

Walker's White Rocks ^iTrN^^e w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$5 per 15.
BOB WALKER, Porter St.. New Ca.tle, Pa.

COCHINS HOMK. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brahmas. First prlz'^
and silver cup winners aiJWlnuepeg, Can.. Seattle
A.Y.P., Minn., 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, ,3.'>, 1>undee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKSI°^\«

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind. State Show my

RArrpfl P Rnrlcc ^°" ^^^ puiiet. 3rd

Ddrrea r. IVOCKS hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, .3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
Eggs $3 00 for 15. H. W. BARNETT
24 Bu«hnell BIdff.. - SorinefJeld.

Columbinn I*lyniouth liocks (Sweet's
Strain.) Ulack-tallcd .lapanese and Huflf Cochin
Bantams, Barred Rocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for eggs from my choicest matings
at •;i.(K) per 15, #5.00 per .30. Bantam eggs at 12.50
per 15, |4.(Kiper80.
K. H. HOIU'.KT.S r.ANASTOTA, N. Y.

le Comb Reds f^^h^VJ^^-J^

has the Nicest Iteds here In Brighton, why Be
cauHe my Strain comes from Bennett's famous
prizewinners scoring from 9(1 to 94. Received 5
prizes lately. # Write forprlces of eggn. Mating
list ready Feb. 15. Satisfaction gauranteed. «
J. P. Lamport, Brighton. Ill

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•

•

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's
o. • Royal

Strain are prize winners. They win for me,
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Hock
Leeseville, Mich. Station 23. Detroit, Mich*

R;«r1ianf ^ND 7 OTHER VARIETIES
A'vct.uia.aat. Standard bred. Special strains
R r RpJ Cheaper than eggs and gurer.
**• ^* ***'«* Safe arrival guaranteed. Send
R»Ki^« ^^^ circular today. Servoss
UC1U1C5 Hatchery. Box 220. Edison. Hi.

America's Foremost Strains "ufu t y

Dirtfirf *"^ lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
1^11 cci c. White I^eghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February l.'ith, .5 eggs free.
Cha« H. Zie8renfu»«._ Box Z. Bethlehei

srn.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorca* Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males scoring to 95% females to 9().
Eggs balance of season $1 ,50 per 16.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNd. F. WOODS, UTILITY FARM, R. 19,

Owensville, Ind.

THE LITTLE RED HEIN"
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Originators of Manataug Strain.

If you are looking for red birds without smut,
write us. »

John E. Davis & Bro. Marbl^head, Mass.

S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Geese,
Indian Runner Ducks and Black I^angshans.
Can plea.se vou. Write for prices.
W. M SAWYER, Box F, Lancaster. Mo.

P FILE'S CATALOGUE gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowlH, Farm raised
stock for sale and eggs in season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFILE
Freport, lU, Dept. A

(luality Ntraiii ItARRED ROCK.S have
been line bred for Id years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows
Cocks, hens, cockerels «nd pullets both matings
for-sftle, from these winners or bred in line.

C. C. DRAKE & SON,
Lock Box '434, La Harpe, IlL

At INDIANAPOLIS I-ebruary liH>;, my

R;>rrpr1 Rnrlf c ^^°" ^^^ cockerel. 2d cock.
uail CU IXUCKS Silver Cup; Feb. 1908, 1st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 1909. Ist and M cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Red*. Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with (juality for
sale W, W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN, IND

Westfall is a \> inner. Ho makes no such
elflim but his Columbian WynndotteH were
winners at Klinira i'omtry .show. .Ian. I'.Md, first,
third and fourth cockerels, first and third pullets
ano first hen In a class of 31 good ones. 1 have
Nhftpc. color Hud size. KgKS «2.(K) and t3.(K) per
settlnK (Keatlnjfs Challenge Strain.)
Loui.s WeHtfall. R. 3, Waverly, N. Y.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

E^iK orders booked now from my 2()()-e^j?
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know Just what I am
doing. Birds scoring yi to 95 with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT —F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-
Shans, winners whenever shown. Wiite
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2 50 each.
Hens $l.r)0, Napol&on J. Barnos
R. D. 7. Box 1.5o Winchester, Ky.

le Comb White

ility

Greatest uiilil
strain known.
I pahnrnc Noted for size (1^ to 7 lb. hens)
i-iCglluiUd color, typical shape, deep hsiy
eyes, great vigor and greatest po.ssible egg
producers. Kggs $1,50 per 15; filOO per 100,
Honesty guaranteed.
~ ' MOSELEY.

LAKK SHORE POULTRY FARM

Rreeders of

Hisrh Class '<!ilver Laced Wyandottes
-Kx^rlusively. Stock for saU; at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.
H. F. BERGNER. Pres. HENRY MAU, Mgr.

outh Chica^-'o. Ills. U.F D. No 34. Kenosha. Wis.

BVrF -WYANDOTTES ElxcltA-

siveljr. Ideal shape, solid buff color.
(Guaranteed to plea.se you,. PCggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT,
EDEN CENTER, - - N, Y

" FatAltl««ftft" Houdans, 287
£^^ Strain. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105, Kansas, Ills.

R.in{flet Barred PlymotitH
Rocks won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 50 up.
Kggs, best matings ?,3..50 per 1 5 |5 per 30 gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lake View Poultry Farm.

T. \V. Crit<hette, Markesan, \\i».

RaKv riiirlfe Eggs for hatching. White
uauy \«U1CK5 Orpington, Barred Rock,
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with .safetv anywhere. Hook vour
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards, Croxton, Va.

Buff Rocksy S. C. Black Minorcas
and R. C. R. I. Reds irJ^L "^^

bret-ders Grand birds at half their value.

H. S. WENTZ, QUAKERTOWN, PA.

ORPINGTONS

1909 also several at Ocon-
oraowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
F:ggs from pen No. 1 $5 per 15: pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River. Wis.

HIGH
CLASS

Single Comb Rhode Island

Rpric Pfi^^ Winners Eggs from 1st pen,
IXcUd setting 15 eggs $2. .50 Fijjgs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland, III.

S. L. ANO \V. WVANDOTTKS, K. C.

KH01>K ISLAND RKI)^ WlnuerH at the
big Centervllle, Iowa and St.LoulH shows Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty. Egg orders hooked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KEARSF, R. 1, Coatsville. Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

sale.

and

Prices rearonable
quality of .stock.
W. R. GEIER

Cockerels and
pullets for
Birds score from 94K to 9«»
will improve your flock.
Kggs for sale from this

REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS

f2forl5 $3 50
for 30. Incu-
bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $6
per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville
and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson
R 5, Box 0022, Rushviile.Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

nri TIJICPYQ sired by my great prize

* w*VIVC« 1 hj winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Al.so S . I,.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA, MINN.

WVANIJOTTK.S AN1> LANfi.SllANS.

Wlnnera at M. Louis Show, l!)(i!». also two «25.tHt
silver cups at big Perry county liMfJ show in hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and BufT Wyandottes t'2 per 1.5. S setting for #5.
Black Langshane 1.50 per Ifi. Buffs Bred by H B.
Schlndler, Partridge and Langshans bred by .John
Allen. Allen & Schlndler Perryviiie, Mo-

S. C. BlacK and IVKit* Minos-

cas bred for size and egg production.
.Stock and eggs for sale in sea.son. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (SL Son,

H.>x 4">4 North Baltimore, O.

I inWT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
^-'^^^^ * * er. Mv stock is ea

My

BRAHMAS

excellent, high
scoring, great layers,
will please the most
particular. Flock of 300 to .select from. Prices
right. Hggs, single settings or incubator lots
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Light Brahma Bantams Tn?s on

Scjuare N. Y., Baltimore, JIagerstown, Md.,
Philadelphia, Nazareth, Allentown and Read-
ing, Pa Stock and eggs Hillside Poultry
Yards, J.S Fry, Prop,. Djspt^F., Nazareth, Pa.

Wvan«1nHi»« SILVER and WHITE Blue
ff janaOUeS Ribbon Winner* at Defiance
and Toledo. Ohio. 1910 tC^gs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2.00 per
l.'S. lUu.strated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P, Yetter,
Prop.. R. No. 3, Box A. New Bavaria. Ohio

R. C WHITE LEGHORNS ri'li'^

Great Milwaukee Show, 1910. Hggs and

birds tor sale. Send for circular Kggs from

prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN

LKGHORNS

Diat. Atty. Philip Lehner, Princeton, Wi»,

EGGS' BARRED^J>^LYMOUTH £QQS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating aiul prices free.

Chaa. F. SCHLUETER, Box K. Reynolds. III.

*'«Jit»i.v..jfcr*'

;.H' ^.1 'r-r'V,^ i. i.- ^^■ y^t^n^ KiSVt.

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POULTRY FANCIER^

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SPECIAL DISPLAY ADS

Ads will be inserted in this department under the following conditions: The size
•hall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column Each
advertiser to^ use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

«5»

I S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS S

\ EGGS FOR HATCHING ^IS?' ''"' ^

< pen headed bv a son of a first prize Madii
( Square Garden Cock. $2. for ].'.. fi\. fo

< H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE

< 17 r

lour J
First >
iison )
r 60. >

ELM STREET.

WOBURN,

MASS.

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N, Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred.

I'.'St Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in seasoM Free cfitalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kapidp. I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too. If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
*3 per 15. $5 per 8(t. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown, Iowa

< Oth

DON'T OVERLOOK THIsH

other people would read your ad if it were /
here, just the same as you are reading this )
one. See the rates and conditionsat the head >
of this department and send in an ad. It will )
< bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
( 357 Dearborn Strett, ^ Chictgo, III. >

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

None better. 40 6rst and second
prizes at at Sedalia and Kan.sas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers. Place egg orders now.

1>. J. I5MSS. Tarthau'**, Mo.

Reds.

EXCLUSIVELY. Leaders for 12
years. Hundreds of prizes in
hotcojni>etition won bv us and oiir customers.
Young and old stock $L.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover,
61 15 Station St., East End. Pittsburg. Pa.

President Ancona Club of America

Houdans and Buff .V.k-i'i'.T'w'.nnU"

WvoTiflnl-f AC **^ highest honors on Hou-
TTjrdllUUllC^ dans at Rochester and Can
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dati eggs $.S Wvandotte eg^s $2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y.

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS (

Get prices on eggs and stock before buying 5
-elsewhere. Illustrated circular free. ^

J E. M. BUECHLY, Box 10, Greenville. Ohio <

BARRED ROCKS

Cockerel mating of
the very best strain.
Pullet line is direct de.scendants or "Loui.s-
ana." the Worlds Fair hen. PZggs |3 to $^ for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
$1..50 for L5 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.. Centerville.Iowa

PPnC five strictly exhibition rnatings at
MXL^UO 1.3.00. $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain

FRED. W. OERTEL. Box. F. Brighton. III.

Reichert's White Rocks and ^T(
R.C. White Leghorns ;,lv If r^r

50, I.'), per 100. Also some choice breeders at
living prices. These are bargains worthy
vour consideration. Satisfaction guaranteed.
E. H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILL.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Kggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore. Box 92. Hopkinsville, Ky.

Rose Comb Brown

First prize win-
ners at Metidan.
I Fr^HORN^ Hartford, Worcester and
L.L.UlI\7I\llkJ Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN

White Plume Farm

produces the fowls
you need to build
up your tlock. .All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks. White African Guineas.
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Uucks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKFR. P-

P . Rt 1. Pl.iinville. in.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. C>olden
Princess laid 291 eggs in a year; ,50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure tor lice. 10c.
IRA WATSON, FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Islatid Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

Silver Laced Wyandottes. Wliite OeHled
Itlark INiliHh an<l Itarred I'lyiuoutii
Ko<-kM. Direct (hiscendantH from .MadlHou Squar«?
ami ChlcnKO wlnnerH. Won twenty elubc regular
prl/i!H and two dIplomaH at Oelweln, Iowa, ,Ian.
■!•'.♦. JMO<t, In Htrong corapetlon. Choline Htock for
Hale. Circular free. CaHcade Poultry YardH,
Wm. NeierH. Prop., I>, n.4r», C'ltKrade, la.

ircu

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won U prizes and 510 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv it.*-} and '.»4
pt. males. .'Females score from 92\i to U^t.
.3d prize ck. score 92K and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Kd. Bartlett lrt9i< Onk St New ra<=t1e P.-i

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS f^F^'^l^H:"

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE. 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f ,^o^^^ \ 1; prize winning

WHITE PLYMOUTH ,^ir'p^"nT;Vt!

D|^/^I^O ter than ever this year.
OSCAR E. wood

Prices

UNION. IOWA

S. C.and K, C. RHODK ISLAND RKI>S

Sln^^le combs direct descendnnts from New
York Champion, his eire '"Old (rlory" and "lied
Cloud." KoHc comb deiscendantB of C). E. Miles
first pen, superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. 15. CKAMHLIT, A3IE.S, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ui^^l^l^.^,

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Kggs from

select matings that will produce winners

Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons. Wi».

Walker's White Rocks ^'r^N^e^w

Castle s big show they won all firsts, li sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do vou want better than this? Eggs $3 and
|r. per 1.5.
BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Castle. Pa.

<"<)CIIINS IIO.MI-:. Ileaihiuarters for Ani.-r
lca'8 greatest Cochins and Hralinms. Flr>*t prlz"
and silvcrcup winners aiJWlnnepeg, (Jan., Seattle
A.V.P.. Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Ciardcn,
N.V. tJet my pricee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
V. M. At wood, Hox Z. liTt, Dundee. Minn

BUFF ROCKSI°„%\«

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short lime.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind. State Show my

RarrpH P RnrLc ^°" '^^ puiiet. :^rd

Ddrrea r. IVOCKS hen; 1HU9 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. M and 4th hen in ]'.)ld.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2tui
cockerel, 8rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup
Kggs $,3 00 for 1.5. H. W. BARNETT
24_B_u«hnell_Bldg,. . Springfield, O

ii«M iiic .\neHi iiiMis riere in itrignton. wriy: r.i-
cause my Strain comes from Hennett's famous
prizewinners s(-orl?ig from 'm: to iM. Kecnlvcd r,
prizes lately. # Write fori»rlces of eggn. Mating
list ready Feb. l.'i. Satisfaction ^rauranteed. «
.1. P. Lamnert. • itri.r).^^.., m

Kriirhton. ill.

•

•

•

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's
^. • - Royal

Strain are prize winners. They win for me
they win for my customers. They will wiii
for you. Old and young stock for .sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck
Leeseville, Mich. Station 23. Detroit. Mich'

Rarlianf- AND 7 OTHER VARIETIES

*^*****'****' standard bred. Special strains
R r RaJ Cheaper than eggs and surer.
a%. V*. *%cu Safe arrival guaranteed. Send
R^Kl^e ^^^ circular today. Servoss
Uc&UICSi Hatchery. Box 220. Edison. III.

America's Foremost Strains "Jfu t y

Dirprf *"^ lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
LTiiCCl c. White Leghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February i5th, ."> eggs free.
..Qjl?! H._Zieffenfu88. Box Z. Bethlehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bied from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club. Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males scoring to 95^ females to 9(;.
Kggs balance of sea.son $1.50 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Kggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS. UTILITY FARM. R. 19,

Owensville. Ind.

THE LITTLE RED HEN"
Rose Comb Rhode island Reds
Originators of Manataug Strain.

If you are looking for red birds without smut,

write us.

John E. Davis & Bro.

Marblehead, Mass.

S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

.\lso from Chinese and Toulouse Geese,
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Langshans.
Can please vou. Write for prices.
W. M SAWYER. Box F. Lancaster. Mo.

I' FILE'S CATALOGCTE gives
piiceH of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and egga in season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HENRY PFIT.E
Freport, III, Dept. A

QualitF Strain I5AKIIEI> KOCKS tmve
l.fen Hne bred for Ki years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, (tockereis and pullets »)oth matlnga
for sale, from these winners or bred In line.

C. C. DRAKE & SON,
Lock l$ox ,i:V4^ La Harpe, III.

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190<;, my

Rarrpfl RnrL c ^^°" ^^^ cockerel. 2d cock.
0driCU IVUCKS Silver Cup; Feb. 1908, 1st
cock, Lst cockerel; Sept. 1909. Ist and .3d cock.s,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with cpiality for
sale. W. W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN, IND

Westfall is a >\'lnn<»r. He makes no such
cinUn Imt his Columbian WyandotteH were
winners at Klinira roultry Show. .Ian. i;»I0. Urst.
third and fourth cockerels, first and third pullets
mm first hen In a class of .SI good ones. 1 have
HliniM', color and size. Eggs «2.(K) and tSAX) per
settlnu (Keatlngs Challenge Strain.)
I I'* W»>stfaiL R. .•?, AVaverlF, N. Y.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Ek'k orders booked now from my 200-eKf?
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know just what I am
doing. Birds scoring 91 to !>,') with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT — F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Buff Rocksy S. C. Black Minorcas

and R. C. R. I. Reds -rt/is "^^

breeders Grand bird.s at half their value.

H. S. WENTZ, QUAKERTOWN, PA.

COI.IMISIAN R<>< K.S, COLIMBIAN
WYANDOTTKS, bred frcm JJew York,
liuffalo and Rochester winners, 5 firsts 2 si condB
on 7 entries at Kochester show. Dec. li«i9. Cock-
erels *8 to «lo, pullets «2 to *fi. Trios «7 to ^If).
Kfigs II. 7") per 1'. «8 per .K». Free setting from
l.est pen with each <1<) order. Stock guaranteed
F. A.CAMPBKLL, HONKOYK. N. Y.

Shans, winners whenever shown. Wiite
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2 50 each.
Hens|I..'30o Napoleon J. Barnes
R. I). 7, Box 15o Winchester. Ky.

Single Comb White

Greatest utility
strain known.

I palinrnc ^°'^<^ ^^^ ^^^^ i-^^A to 7 lb. hens)
l.«CgllUlU9 (.qIq;- typical shape, deep bay

eyes, great vigor and srreatest pos.sible egg

producers. Kggs $1..50 per 15; $6.00 per 100,

Honesty guaranteed.

R. S. MOSELEY. CambrirlR^. N. Y.. Poultry Judp^

HIGH
CLASS

LAKE SHOKK FOUI.TKY FARM

l$reed*»rs of

Hi;fh ClaHs ««ilver Laced Wyandottes
Kxelusively. Stuck for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.
H. F. BERGNEIi. Pres. HKNRY MAU, Mgr.

"^outh Cliica^'O. Ills. n.F I). No :u. Kenosha. Wis.

S. L. ANL> W. WYANDOTTKS, K. C.
KHODE ISLAND RED.S Winners at the
big CentervlUe, Iowa and St.Louls shows. Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KKAKSF, K. 1, ( oatsville. Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH 'il'fflll 7Jl

ROCIC ^*'^- lairds score from 94 K to 9<;
*^^^^^*^ and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON. IND.

"Fat&ltless" Houdans, 287
E^^ Strai«\. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
.scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider. Box 105. Kansas, Ills.

BARRED ROCK EGGS foX'^S

bator eggs |4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $5

pet 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R 5. Box 0022, Rushville. Ind.

R.in^let Barred PlymoutH
Rochs won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909, two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $] .50 up.
Kggs. best matings J3.r>0 per 15 |5 per 30 gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lakk View Poultry Farm.

T. W. Crlt<hette. Markesan, Wis.

RaKv riiirlrc Eggs for hatching. White
DAUy \^IllCKb Orpington. Barred Rock,
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safety anywhere. Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxtoa. Va.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

Tl IRICPY^ sired by my great prize

* ^ IxlVI-i I O winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Al.so S . L.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN.

AYYANIJOTTJIS AND LANGSHANS.

Winners at St. Louis 8how, 1909. also two f^.tH_»
silver cups at big Perry county 19(»9 show in hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and Buff Wyandottes 12 per 1,5. '.i setting for $5.
Black Langshans 1..50 per 1.5. Buffs Bred by R- B.
Schlndler, Partridge and Langshans bred by .John
Allen. Allen & .Schindler Perryville, Mo-

S. C. BlacK and IVKite Minor-
cas bred for size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in sea.son. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (Sb Son

liux 4r.4 North Baltimore, O.

I inHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
*-'*^^* * * er. My stock is excellent, high
RRAHMA^ scoring, great layers.
lJlxi^mvi^A.O will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

Wvan«lnHA« SILVER and WHITE. Blue
TT yanaOneS Ribbon Winners at Defiance
and Toledo. Ohio, 1910. E^gs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2.C» per
15. Illustrated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter.
Prop., R. No. 3. Box A, New Bavaria. Ohio

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS ^fnl'l '< '!■ EGGS' barred jn.Y mouth £ggs

Great Milwaukee Show, 1910. Eggs and

l)irds tor sale. Send for circular. Kggs from

prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN

LEGHORNS.

Dist. Atty. Philip Lehner, Princeton, Wis,

ROCK
FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K, Reynolds, 111.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm.i JS C BLACK Won all first prizes 1 1
Home of Barnes* Rlar^lr I ann » (' Ul-i-kV^IV at Columbus show '

rL°T5 ,?L, "f '^."u®^...5^*u*l^„'-*"9" S ' ADDIWrTAMC 1909 al-so several at Ocon- ,'

flRPINrTflN^ 1909 aLso several at Ocon-
VrlVf lilUi\/llkl omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No, 1 $.5 per 1.5 : pen No. 2 |2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River, Wis.

Single Comb Rhode Island

Ro#1e Pi^i^-^ Winners Eggs from 1st pen,
iVCUb setting 15 eggs $2.50 Eggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland. III.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SIBLEY'S:--,'-

it. At the Big

Rr F^ C! '"*'**"* State Fair this season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most coveted prize, l«t pen. Also
JEli J^-'^" 1^ ^** ^^^ ^'"'^ cocks, 2nd cockerel and many of the other winners were decended from our flock.

They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows. At

Detroit January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 11 others. At
Chicago, December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September
1908, 11 prizes including 5 firsts.

Our winnings at Detroit, January, 1909, in one of the strongest classes of Reds ever
gotten together were: first, second, third and fourth on cocks, first, second, third
and fourth on hens; first, second, third and fourth on cockerels; first and fifth on
pullets; first and second on pens. The four club specials for color and shape.
The silver loving cup (valued at $25.00) offered by the Mayor of Detroit for the
best display of either Rose or Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. The silver loving
cup (valued at |20.00) offered by the Hotel Normandie for the best display of rose
comb Rhode Island Reds and other valuable specials.

THE SIBLEY REDS HAVE ALWAYS WON EAST AND WEST

2000 BIRDS RAISED DURING THE PAST SEASON FROM WINNERS

Some of the cream of this year's production is still in
our yards and if you are looking for a choice bird or two
we can more than please you at right prices.

We will have ten grand pens mated for the egg trade . Book your orders
early. Prices |3.00, $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00 per setting. Send
for catalogue describing our matings and telling all about the Sibley Reds.

Irving A. and Frank Churchill Sibley, South Bend, Ind.

MIN-NE.HA-HA 1st prize winner. Chicago,
Dec. 16-19, 1908. Detroit, Jan. 9-14, 1909.

THE FAMOUS HEN, "PEGGY.

fp

VALUE $10,000. First prize winner at Jamestown
Exposition, Madison Square (iarden, New York, and every-
where else she has been shown. The reason we value the
above hen at Ten Thousand Dollars Is because we refused
•2.r)(X) for her after we sold flv.' of her chicks for »7,5<)(); and
we will ifive 910.000 for a "Crystal" White
Orpinston Km that wii! equal her in everyway,

KELLER87RASS FARM, KANSAS CITY, MO.

"RELLERSTRASS"

White Orping'tons

ARE THE BIGGEST PAYERS

Because they have proven to be

THE BIGGEST WINTER LAYERS

KELLERSTRASS «« ^^ "O "V CS 'W* A T ♦•

STRAIN V-xtvlOlAL,

White Orping'toixs

w
Are the GRANDEST UTILITY birds on record today, and as tO
their FANCY QUALITY they won first at Madison Square Garden.
New York 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908; also at Crystal Palace, Londoo,
England. Chicago and Boston. If you need some birds to IMPROVE
YOUR STOCK or for the SHOW ROOM write us. We have them,
and the KIND THAT WINS, as our past record shows. STOCK
and EGGS for sale at all times. Remember, we are the ORIGIJNA-
TORS of " CRYSTAL" White Orpingtons, and breed only the 000
kind. We devote our whole time to this one breed.

SEND FOR OUR CATAI^OGUE

Ufe Members American White Orpington Club and the American Poultry,

kelle:rstrass farm

ERNBST KEI.I.ERSTRASS, Proprietor
Originators of Costal White Orpingtons

R. r. D. No. 1 KANSAS CITY. MO,

PETERSON'S HOUDANS ^-' 'i^^JlTL^^-!'""'

Send for 80-page book on The Houaau. 6u run paged plates of prize winners Houdan Standard
Mating for Exhibition. Management and many other important chapters. Postkge 20 cents '

Rev. C. E. Petersen. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton. Maine

BUFF ROCKS '^^i

HAKE

U p J"

over 500
g hardy
j'oungsterson free
range, bred from my prize winners last fall and
winter. Ilinebreed for quality not quantity. Kggs
and stock for sale. AS Matthews. Wayne, Mich.

YANDOTTE.f Prouty's Partridge Ply-

Af^ain winners of tHe bltie at I^a Crosso arxci iSaraboo
OPeCialtV sale this month BRjEEOING pens and trios. I have a number of

„iu ^ Z ^**f IllUntn cockerels, scored by Roberts and Shellabarcer which I

Torme.tnJ'n.'^ scored and unscored PuHets at $.5 to $20 for the trios and $7 to $25 for theTe'is Send
K i5li ^ J •• •^^" h '^''1 ^^ ^f?^"^ headed by my grand old prize winner "Klroy Boy ^ scored 95*^

vl^an^cl^rfnT^^V^^^^^ MTuneapolis in 1908 "^Six^^uUets fn ?hil

pen an .scoring 91% to 94 K- $-^ 00 per .setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE, ELROY. WIS.

ROSE COMB RHODE

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red.
Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and layinc strain in

ISLAND RED"

Will close out
_ . all my season's

mnilfn Rnrlrc ''rteders at sacrifice prices
mOUm l\OCKS for cjuick sale. Real bar-
gains, (iet prices.
O L. PROUT Y. Box 1 1 5. New Lothrop, Mich.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C BIk. Orp., Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Reds. Breeders at

grt Jtlv reduced prices GEO W HACKETT

BOX 111. NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

S FDELWEis s. c. w. !r::z:i

ANTIGO, WIS.

LEGHORNS s rr;r.;j,.,:r-

Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

KERSTEN'iS Columbian Wyandottes and

LigHt Bra h m as can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KCRSTEN
llO W^est 52 St. ( WasHburn ParR) Minneapolis, Minn.

COLUMBIAN WYAN-
OTTES

ers for sale.

A.sk for new mating list
Kggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breeu-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

ijw(iMiwii)iwi,iiia)i»wiapiiwMiMiat«W!M^

S. C. & R. C. R. I. REDS

B

TURKEYS

BARRED ROCKS ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^"^ ^^* ^^ ^^^^^^ "^^'^^ ^"^ females to offer

V/ V U our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.

Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MAYINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLDCHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. QSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

WHY BUY EGGS? when you can buy BABY CHICKS

There is always more or less dissatisfaction in buying eggs, therefore, I have
decided to sell baby chicks.

LAPHAM'S GOLD MEDAL CHICKS

will win for you! You can get one day old and up-hatching capacity 2000
per month. o 1 j

LAPHAM'S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKS

From pens i to 6 40 cents each, i to 4 days old; from pens 6 to 10, 25 cents each
I to 4 days old: Prices ciuotcd on chicks i to 6 weeks old

I can also furnish you day .Id chicks in Barred Rocks 25 cents each. White
Wyandottes 25 cents each, Single Comb White Leghorn. 15 cents each
your money refunded if vou are not satisfied. '

20 swarms fine Italian Bees at $5.00 each, good new hives.

DEAKRORN POULTRY YARDS,

Mention this Paper

BOX F, DEARBORN, MICH.

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CHICAGO. ILL, JUNE. 1910

No. 6

Does Like Beget Like

Sometimes It Does and Sometimes It Does
Some Interesting Facts for Fanciers.

By W. C. LENZ.

Not.

to

liable
birds,
si and arc!

\\\' l)c\iLi"iniiers arc misled in ibe snp-
position tluii pnrcliasin«j;- a i)air of
prize \\inner> or eg\G^s from tbc same
are l)(»und lo ])roduce winners; some
do, l)ut a i^ood many otiiers do not.
if tbe mating- is proper, vou will be
|L;et a i4"o(»(l pr( (portion of liimli class
lirds nmst l)e mated to a lixed
or else we are liable to produce a
k)t of cull.^. To many ibe pbrase of "like l)emets
like" is familiar, but how few of us can i^^^ive an cx-
l)lanation of the same, with the rules that uovern.
Alany l)reeders recognize this principle, and practice
alone has i^iven them the ])ower to mate with o-ood
results; they know how to produce the result, but
the reason and explanation of the same thev are
unable to ^-ive. To breed correctly we must haxc an.
ideal fixed in our mind that bears out the require-
ments of the standaid (»f that breed: then we can
mate with S(.)me deiiree of success. A <>()od defini-
tion of the phrase of •'like bei^ets like" is that the
essential f|ualities of the parents will be transmitted
to the offspring-; opposed to this law or principle,
we might say, are the laws of \ariation and atavism.
\'ariation is descril)ed as being the tendency to ])ro-
ducc characteristics of reseml)lance opposed to the
parents, while atavism is the inborn tendencv of a
reversion to the original type.

The following rules to a certain extent ha\ e a i)ar-
tial control upon the principle of like producing like ;
first, the purity of the breeding; second, the length
of such purity of breeding; third, the closeness of the
relationship of the ])arents. The longer we breed
pure the remoter is the tendency to revert to the
original type, and up to a certain point the closer
we inbreed the less liability of producing character-
istics of resemblance opposed to the parents. A

nnifonnity (»f ty])e slK.uld be- ilic guiding >iar (»f
the breeder. The possession of the secrets of this
law has been the means of the Arabian producing
the most highly prized horses in the world today.
Surrounding conditions many times serve to modi-
\y the law of "like begets like"; especialK neglect
\vhich tends to a degeneration. Without this law
h would be impossible to make an im])rovement
in breeding. In other words, exolution hinges on
this law. J Mace a mixed flock of thoroughbreds to-
gether, and immediately degeneration from the orig-
inal type takes i)lace, and the process of moulding
a new breed has begun ; but, on the other hand,
properly select a flock, and improvement will be
the order. Here the law of atavism steps in, and
a variation of the type in some sought for charac-
teristic is produced. r>y breeding this characteris-
tic we intensify the production of the same, and
stanij) its good (jualities into the Hock.

Prepotency, or the superior power the one parent
has over the other in determining the character of
the off'spring has much to do with the improvement
hi the law of "like begets like," for the reason that
if the parent's power of transmission is stroni:
enough to stamp certain desirable (jualities upon
its offspring, a step toward improvement has taken
place. As stated above, purity of breeding is one
of the rules that govern like producing like. liy
this it is meant that alien blood or new blood in
certain instances will disturb the transmission of
the qualities, as it tails to harmonize with the ele-
ments of the original ; in other words, to use an ex-
pression familiar to p(»ultrynien. it does not "nick."
Tln' length of the purity of breeding is another dom
iiiant factor in transmission, for the reason that the
longer we breed within certain limits the more fre-
(|uent is the general type produced; c^r, in (»ther
words, the longer we breed a certain t \ pe the more
fixed does the same become and its liabilitv to be
transmitted enhanced. Tiie third rule of the closer
the blood relationship the more a])t are the cpiali-
ties to be transmitted; in other words, inbreedine

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PETERSON'S HOUDANS ''" 'i^:lt:!^:""'

Send for 80-page book on The Houdau. 30 full paged plates of prize winners Houdan Standard
Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters Postage Scents'
Key. C. E. Petersen, President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton, Maine

HA K^ BUFF WYANDOTTE*

A^aif^ winners of tKe blt&e at La Crosso and Baraboo
OPeCialtV sale this month breeding pens and trios. I have a number of
tu^^'^^^^aiKj oaic 1111& Ilionin cockerels, scored by Roberts and Shellabarger which I
f^r m^Hncx'^Uf scored and unscored PuHets at $5 to $20 for the trios and $7 to $25 for the pens. Send
hv H«l*. =VJ JLi« " h "^''i ^1^ asrain headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy.- scored 95^4
oL all scorfn^q^ V fo''L"^^'^^^^^ Minneapolis in 1908. Six pullets in this

pen an scoring9]^ to 9i}{. $3 00 per .setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE, ELROY, WIS.

BUFF ROCKS

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock (or sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length

of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red.

Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

ISLAND REDS

ANTIGO, WIS.

I have over 50o
strong hardy
youngsters on free
range, brt-d from mv prize winners last fall and
winter. Ilinebreed for quality not quantity. Kggs
and stock for sale AS Matthew, Wayne, Mich.

Prouty's Partridge Ply- ^;lf^Z,^l

mouth Rocks torilSi^U^safe"' R^^.P-irr!

gams. Get prices

O. L. PROUTY. Box 1 1 5. New Lothrop. Mich.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C Blk. Orp., Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Red*. Breeders at
gre .tly reduced prices GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111. NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

EDELWEis s. c. w. !r^:zz

eggs balance of season.
Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

LEGHORNS

L

KERSTEN'S Coltimbian Wyandottes and

I-fl||ot ISr^aomaScan always be found ambng the winners.

OKO. A. KKRSTEN
IIQ 'West 52 St ^MI^asKbtirn ParR) Minneapolis, Minn.

COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTES

ers for sale.

Ask for new mating list
Eggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breed-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS
b. C & R. C. R«I. REDS
BUFF TURKEYS

'•'"fftmaiiMKHiKMfitti

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy
pleased with results.

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don^t fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM, OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

WHY BUY EGGS? whe„

you can

•>"y BABY CHICKS

Jed^ed'loldXbrchicks.'"' dissatisfaction in buying eggs, therefore. I have

LAPHAM'S GOLD MEDAL CHICKS

will win for you! You can get one day old and up-hatching capacity 2000
per month. *> 1 j ^

LAPHAM^S BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKS

From pens i to 6. 40 cents each, i to 4 days old; from pens 6 to 10, 25 cents each
I to 4 days old; Prices quoted on chicks i to 6 weeks old

lean also furnish yon day old chic^^ Barred Rocks 25 cents each, White

Wyandottes 25 cents each, Single Comb White Leghorns 15 cents each,
your money refunded if you are not satisfied. '

20 swarms fine Italian Bees at $5.00 each, good new hives.

DEARBORN POULTRY YARDS,

Mention this Paper

BOX F, DEARBORN, MICH

Vol. XIV

CHICAGO. ILL.. JUNE. 1910

No. 6

oes

Lik

liable
birds.

Sometimes It Does and Sometimes It Does Not.
Some Interesting Facts for Fanciers.

By W. C. LENZ.

ANY be^^inners are misled in the sup-
position that purchasing- a pair of
prize winners or eggs from the same
are bound to produce winners ; some
do, but a good many others do not.
If the mating is proper, you will be
to get a good proportion of high class
Birds must be mated to a fixed
standard or else we are liable to produce a
lot of culls. To many the phrase of 'like begets
like" is familiar, but how few of us can give an ex-
])lanation of the same, with the rules that govern.
Many breeders recognize this principle, and practice
alone has given them the power to mate with good
results; they know^ how to produce the result, but
the reason and explanation of the same they are
unable to give. To breed correctly we must have an
ideal fixed in our mind that bears out the require-
ments of the standard of that breed; then we can
mate with some degree of success. A good defini-
tion of the phrase of "like begets like" is that the
essential qualities of the parents will be transmitted
to the offspring; opposed to this law or principle,
wc might say, are the laws of variation and atavism.
Variation is described as being the tendency to pro-
duce characteristics of resemblance opposed to the
parents, Avhile atavism is the inborn tendency of a
reversion to the original type.

The following rules to a certain extent have a par-
tial control upon the principle of like producing like ;
first, the purity of the breeding; second, the length
of such purity of breeding ; third, the closeness of the
relationship of the parents. The longer we breed
pure the remoter is the tendency to revert to the
original type, and up to a certain point the closer
we inbreed the less liability of producing character-
istics of resemblance opposed to the parents. A

Lik

c

uniformity of type should l)e the guiding star of
the breeder. The possession of the secrets of this
law has been the means of the Arabian producing
the most highly prized horses in the world today.
Surrounding conditions many times serve to modi-
fy the law of "like begets like"; especiallv neglect
which tends to a degeneration. Without' this law
it would be impossible to make an improvement
in breeding. In other words, evolution hinges on
this law^ Place a mixed flock of thoroughbreds to-
gether, and immediately degeneration from the orig-
inal type takes place, and the process of moulding
a new breed has begun; but, on the other hand,
properly select a flock, and improvement will be
the order. Here the law of atavism steps in, and
a variation of the type in some sought for charac-
teristic is produced. IJy breeding this characteris-
tic we intensify the production of the same, and
stamp its good qualities into the flock.

Prepotency, or the superior power the one parent
has over the other in determining the character of
the offspring has much to do with the improvement
in the law of ''like begets like," for the reason that
if the parent's power of transmission is strong
enough to stamp certain desirable qualities upon
its offspring, a step toward improvement has taken
place. As stated above, purity of breeding is one
of the rules that govern like producing like. By
this it is meant that alien blood or new blood in
certain instances will disturb the transmission of
the qualities, as it fails to harmonize w^ith the ele-
ments of the original : in other words, to use an ex-
pression familiar to poultrymen, it does not ''nick."
The length of the purity of'breeding is another dom-
inant factor in transmission, for the reason that the
longer wc breed within certain limits the more fre-
cpient is the general type produced ; or. in other
words, the longer we breed a certain type the more
fixed does the same become and its liability to be
transmitted enhanced. The third rule of the closer
the blood relationship the more apt are the quali-
ties to be transmitted ; in other words, inbreeding

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to a certain point intensifies the type bred from.
The writer recognizes the general cry that is raised
in regard to inbreeding, but in justification we wish
to say that without this practice it is impossible to
obtain a fixed type. When good, healthy speci-
mens are used to eradicate certain features no evil
will result, but, on the contrary, the good points
become intensified and fixed, and a step nearer per-
fection has been gained. This is easily seen in that
the progeny of closely related animals bear a closer
resemblance to the parents than those of more dis-
tant relationship. This is caused by the stronger
afBnity or power of adhering that the elements of
one bear to the elements of the more foreign. After
we have a fixed type to guide us, and use parents
closely adhering to these lines, we are more apt to

produce counterparts than were the lines of breed-
ing farther apart. The transmission seldom, if ever,
takes place in equal parts, for the reason that in
one the power of transmitting certain qualities is
stronger than in the other, and, therefore, the
stronger overshadows the weaker, and we strike
a composite.

The lesson to be drawn from this is that birds
should be bred as pure as possible within certain
lines, and according to a fixed type ; that inbreeding-
should be used to stamp the good qualities of the
one upon the other, and thereby decrease the un-
desirable qualities ; this makes the improvement.
From this it will be seen that the ideal can never
be reached, as latent, inherent defects will crop out
and overshadow the good qualities.

M

ore

Wyandotte A

ment

Mr. Kersten Replies to Mr. Parrish and Tells How
to Mate to Procuce Standard Wings and Hackle.

By G. A. KERSTEN.

ROM what Mr. T. Reid Parrish says
in Poultry Fancier last month in sup-
port of Mr. Batchelder's arguments in
reference to being opposed to the black
wing with lower white edge and slate
undercolor in the Columbian Wyan-
dottes, he evidently has not been able to breed them
in sufficient numbers to supply the demand from
other breeders (at large prices, as he states) or he

another breeder that knows a good bird and is will-
ing to pay what a good bird is worth.

In this connection I will just relate an instance in
my own experience. This spring I had an inquiry
for a price on 200 Columbian Wyandotte eggs.

I made my price what I thought low, but did not
get the order from the inquirer. He had also asked
for prices from another breeder and getting a lower
price gave him the order. This second breeder came
to me and placed his order for 200 eggs for his own
use at my price which showed that he considered
my eggs worth a higher price than his own. This
goes to show that the first inquirer made a great
mistake when he purchased the cheaper eggs and

The kind of Columbian Wyandottes bred by Geo. A. Kersten, 111) West 52d St.. Minneanolis Minn

breeds good ones and has sonne excellent birds for sale. '

Mr. Kersten

does not realize that selling a high-class bird at
from $10 to $50 to a breeder that knows what a good
bird should be, is more profitable and less work than
selling birds of medium grade to beginners at from
$2 to $5, for a beginner will seldom pay more than
$2 for a pullet, and when he pays $5 for a cockerel
he expects to get a bird that is a Madison Square
Garden winner.

For my part I will every time prefer to sell to

shows that the beginners nearly always consider
price instead of quality.

If those breeders that are having trouble with
their chicks coming with dark feathers in their
backs will take and mate these pullets back to a good
strong undercolored male bird they will find that the
result will be extra fine clear backed chicks with
good wings and hackle.

If Mr. Parrish and Mr. Ratchelder will ask some

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of the old Light Brahma breeders how to get rid of
these black feathers in the backs no doubt they will
get the above directions.

I hope some of the other Columbian Wyandotte
breeders will let themselves be heard on this matter
for that is the only way that we will be able to come
to a satisfactory understanding as to what the re-
quirements of the Columbian Wyandottes should be.

If any of the breeders that are advocating the y^
or % primaries white will take the trouble to make

The Columns of Poultry Fancier are Open to Breed-
ers Who Wish to be Heard in Defense of the
Fanciers Ideal.

By WILLIAM RUFUS.

PROMINENT judge has lately said in
an article on the Rhode Island Reds,
that the breed does not carry much
Leghorn blood. In a sense that is
quite true, for the tendency of the
times is certainly towards the sup-
pression of the evidences of that admixture of Leg-
horn blood which distinctly marked some of the
Reds before the breed was taken up by the fanciers.
But the Rhode Island farmers who laid the founda-
tion more than half a century ago for the Reds of to-
day, were interested solely in getting plenty of eggs
and saleable fowls for market, and the late Doctor
Aldrich, who knew as much about the early historv
of the breed as anyone of his time, asserts that cross-

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE COCKEREL.

ings with Leghorns took place on many of the
farms. Undoubtedly this was done to counteract
the heaviness and sluggishness that was shown in
the progeny of some of the Asiatic male birds. In
those early days the commercial (pialities of the
Rhode Island fowls were their sole attraction, and it
is reasonable to suppose that the vivacity and im-
proved egg-production which followed the intro-

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inquiries of the old Light Brahma breeders as to
what different stages the Light Brahma went
through before they came to their fine hackle and
wing as they have at present, they will find that
almost 15 years ago there were a great many dark
Light Brahma males that were splashed in the back
with black feathers, but that by careful mating this
defect entirely disappeared leaving a bird with a fine
strong hackle, clear back and a wing that is black
with lower edge white ; in fact a bird of beauty.

R

1

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iciers

>

duction of Leghorn blood caused the birds on farms
where these crossings were made to be sought for
as breeders, and their eggs to be in demand for
hatching purposes. In this way the Leghorn blood
came to be distributed quite extensively throughout
those parts of New England where the red birds
were bred, and it shows itself today in the persis-
tence with which white feathers and white earlobes
and lopped combs crop out, in spite of the strenuous,
efforts of the fanciers to get rid of them.

Although the solid foundation which supports the

A KERSTEN COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE.

reputation of the Rhode Island Reds at the present
day was laid long ago, the history of the breed from
the fancier's standpoint dates back only to the year
1898. Since that time the development and growth
of the Reds has been phenomenal. Thev have
spread with surprising rapidity over this country
and Canada and the recent organization of a Rhode
Island Red club in England indicates that, thus far,
there is no limitation to their popularity. Along-
side of the booming and the rapid growth of the
breed, changes quite as rapid and radical have been
taking place in the birds themselves, under the mani-
pulations of the professional breeders. The Rhode
Island Red of today is a different bird in shape,
color, and other characteristics as well, from the
Red of ten years ago. The bird of commerce is
giving way before the bird of the show-room, and
the show-room is demanding artificial methods of
mating t(^ meet the requirements of an artificial

POULT RT FANCIER^

June, '10

^POULTRY FANCIER^

Standard. \\'e have been rattling along with changes
and modihcations at a rate far too fast for safety,
hnt apparently we have not yet reached the limit.
The official standard, that is supposed to govern
and guide us in mating, seems to get very little at-
tention from some of the breeders who aim to keep
in the front rank at the great shows. So far as color
goes, it is quite in order to disregard the wording
•of that standard: — the "rich, brilliant red" and
"harmonious blendino'' that it calls for are not to
be seen at shows where the judges are known to
prefer darker hues and more decided contrasts. The
standai-d says that the combs of the single comb
variety should be moderate in size, fashion says they
should be small ; and so we must breed for combs as
small as we can get them, even though we may in-
cline to the popular belief that fowls with large
combs are the best layers.

Conditions as they now exist in the show room are
forcing the double mating system upon the breed-
ers of Rhode Island Reds : — a vigorous and prolific
breed, whose superiority sprang from judicious out
breeding, and whose development under scientific
methods was carried on with the highest success by
single mating, must now endanger its future pros-
I)erity under the artificial methods of professional

breeders. It will not do to lose sight of the fact that
form, and shape and size, and color, and so on, in-
dicate distinctive qualities in the bird. You cannot
twist and change these characteristics without at the
same time modifying more or less the qualities that
underlie them. What has been the effect of present
methods upon the vitality of the Rhode Island Reds?
Are the high-keyed, high-priced, prize-winning birds
of todav as vigorous and productive as the old time
stock? ]\lany conservative breeders say that they
are not so.

While it is quite true that the present popularity
of the Reds is due to the fanciers, it is also quite
true that fancy points alone cannot sustain that
popularity. The experience of the past teaches
plainly that the breeds which hold their owai are
those that excel as ^^g producers, and the long list
of breeds that once were popular, but now are far
in the background, tells us how destructive the
fancier's work may be when it is misdirected. Some
of these have disappeared entirely ; others ha\e
dwindled dow^n to mere fancy breeds, — playthings
and toys. For no breed can be kept in popluar favor
after the utility qualifications have been bred out of
it. Wliich way are we tending with our Rhode
Island Reds?

A Successful Breeder Tells Poultry Fancier Readers

How He Manages to Produce Prize Winning

Birds.

By E. M. LONG.

OW^ about your 1910 crop of chicks?
Are they growing and developing as
they should? Are they up in the
morning looking for their breakfast
and foraging about the runs as long
as they can see at night?
Now is the time to ''put in the licks" that will
bring the size and vigor necessary to go into the
winter shows and win or into the breeding pen and
produce stock their equal. It is of greatest
importance that the chicks be started right.
When they are hatched out and the hen is re-
moved from the nest or the chicks from the incu-
bator, we must begin the war against lice and mites
and keep the war up as long as they remain our
foes. This means that we must keep on fighting as
long as we own a chicken. The more regular and
concentrated our efforts the easier will be the con-
flict. Perhaps I am rather old-fashioned, but the
first thing I do when removing the hen from the
nest is to grease her well with melted lard and ker-
osene, not too much kerosene by the way, but just
enough, perhaps a teaspoon ful to a half teacup of
lard. If one lives where he can purchase "signal
oil" it will serve the purpose as well and is always
in a thick liquid state and easily applied. The
grease should be rubbed on the breast beneath the
feathers, under the wings, between the thighs and
at the upper part of the shank where the feathers
leave ofT and the thigh begins. After the hen
'broods the chicks a few^ hours they are so well
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fear of head lice. At the end of a week the hen
should be thoroughly dusted with some good lice
killer. These applications should be continued
every two or three weeks, as long as the hen re-
mains with the chicks, and after weaning the chicks
should be treated regularly to the same'application.
Chicks that are infested with lice will not grow^
well and their plumage never reaches that glossy
state or the perfect condition necessary to win in
the winter shows. Another thing to make the start
right, we must not overload the^ stomachs of these
new-born chicks. The first 24 hours after leaving
the nest should be the hovering period, and if the
hen is well fed and watered she will move around
very little during this time. The second day we
may feed them a light feed of bread soaked in warm
milk, and if the weather is not too severe the hen
and chicks may be given their liberty. Bread and
milk makes a pretty good ration for the chicks for
the first week. After that, we may add millet seed
pm-head oats, finely cracked corn or chick feed!
Animal food is not needed if the hen has her libertv'
She will find plenty of insect life to fill this reciuire-
ment.

The main thing is to keep the chicks eating exer-
cising and growing. I like to see a hen range out
forty or fifty rods from her brood-coop and depend
to a great extent on her own industry for the chicks'
ivmg. I ast year ] had a great big black Orping-
ton hen that I would not see all day long but she
always came back at night with her 'little band well
provided for, and these chicks grew to be first-class
specimens, excelling in size all the others I raised
As soon as the chicks reach the broiler staee we
can commence culling, and this should be kept up
until the birds reach maturity. They are more prof-
itable at twenty-five and thirty cents per pound
when in the growing stage than at ten to fifteen
cents per pound at maturity if we intend to dispose

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of them on the market. This constant culling will
give the remainder more room, better care and con-
sequently they will develop more perfectly than
might have been the case in crowded quarters.

As soon as the cockerels show signs of sex they
should be separated from the pullets and kept sep-
arated until sold or needed for the breeding pen.
This will tend to keep them growing and also keep
them from fighting, as would be the case if they all
ran together. Do not be in too much of a hurry to
dispose of cockerels that are a little off in comb, a
little long in leg or awkward in movement. These
slow growing cockerels often make the best of
breeders and usually prove to be the largest when
developed.

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I have no use for a cockerel that commences to
crow and has comb enough for a yearling at three
or four months, neither have I any desire to raise
pullets that lay at four or five months old ; that is,
in the breed which I am handling, the Orpingtons.
A pullet that lays at seven months is good enough
for me and a cockerel that is fully feathered, up to
Standard weight and in vigorous condition at eight
or nine months of age is the one I prefer to use in
the breeding pen. Let us not try to hurry matur-
ity, but rather to build up a strong frame, large
size, robust constitutions and smooth feathered,
glossy plumage, an indication of health and reserve
productive powers, and the utility part will be taken
care of.

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General Care What to Feed and How to Feed It.
Plans Tested by a Colorado Bieeder.

By J. D. STEVENS.

E shall attempt to briefly discuss a mat-
ter which has interested those engag-
ed in poultry raising, for a number
of years ; about w hich a great deal
has ap])eared from time to time in
the various poultry journals and con-
cerning which, so far as we have been able to learn,
no definite plan or method of feeding to bring about
the desired result has been generally followed.

Under ordinary conditions it requires from three
to four months for hens to complete their molt and
get a dress of new^ plumage, during which time the
production of eggs virtually ceases. Some hens will
continue to lay longer than others and, perhaps, a
very few will be laying when they are practically
bare of feathers.

As soon as our hens begin to show signs of molt-
ing, and even though a considerable number of them
may still be laying, we make a radical change in their
diet. We cease to feed for if^^ production, but put
I hem immediately upon an almost exclusively veg-
etable diet — lettuce, cabbage, mangels, etc., being
their principal feed. They get lettuce in the morning
— and nothing else. At noon a cabbage is split and
half of it given them to pick at ; or half a mangel, if
a large one. At night each fowl gets a scant table-
s])oonful of wheat, oats or barley (no corn) and this
is all the grain food they get during what we call
the ''molting period." It is necessary, of course, to
give them just a little grain otherwise the exclu-
sively vegetable diet would cause too much loose-
ness of the bowels, and this we wish to avoid.

Our object in this method of feeding is to stop all
^§;§^ production and by remoxing this drain upon
the system the fowls are able to stand this entire
change of diet without injury. Of course they lose
flesh and vitality, but this is precisely the object we
wish to accomplish, for, having no flesh-forming or
feather-forming food, the old feathers ''ripen" quick-
ly and fall out.

This method of feeding is rigidly followed for not
less than three weeks, by which time all ^^^ pro-
duction has ceased, the fowls are rather thin in flesh,
but healthy and active — and ravenously hungry.
We now change their diet again and begin feed-

ing for feather production. They still get their green
food, but in addition thereto get wdieat and barley in
the morning, a tablespoonful to each fowd ; at night
a light mash of ground oats, in which we put a
quarter ounce to each fowl of oil meal, moistening
the mash with a little water, or, better still, skim
milk. The Russian sunflowers are now ripe, and
w^e cut off a head and put it in the yard, allowing
the hens to pick out the seeds, which are full of oil
at this time. At night they get another light feed
of the grain. After about a week of this feather-
producing diet they begin to molt rapidly, the new
pin feathers literally pushing the old plumage out.
We continue this method of feeding for three weeks,
alternating in the noon mash, oil meal, meat, meal,
fresh cut green bone and other high protein foods,,
not forgetting, of course, their daily ration of green
food of lettuce, mangels, etc.

At the end of this period the fowls should be well
feathered and have most of their new plumage, and
from this time on we gradually increase their grain
and meat ration until w^e are feeding the regular
amount for laying hens.

Last August we put twenty-three year-old Plym-
outh Rock hens in one yard and fed them as above
indicated, with the result that the first hen laid in
eight weeks from the time we began the experiment,
and at the end of nine weeks a goodly proportion of
them were laying, and they continued to lay all win-
ter, whereas, under ordinary circumstances, they
would have been the usual three or four months
completing their molt, at the end of which time it
would have been winter weather and they would not
have laid much before January.

Before closing this article we wish to say a word
in reference to -feeding green cut bone. Our experi^
ence has been (and we blieve it so generally con-
sidered) that this is one of the very best egg-produc-
ing foods now available to the poultryman if fed in
the proper amount, and we do not hesitate to say
that it is one of the worst of feeds if fed too liberally.
When we first began the feeding of this fresh cut
bone we followed the general instructions and fed
about an ounce per hen, twice a week, with most
unsatisfactory results, as in less than two weeks half
of our flock has bowel trouble. It is a too highly
concentrated food to give to the fowls in this pro-
portion. Some of them will assimilate it all right but
<nit best results were obtained when feeding about
a quarter-ounce per hen every other day.

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June, I9I0

Blue ribbon winners are often
spoiled in the rearing:. If a chicken
is bred ri^ht. from sire and dam, and
a lono- line of sires and dams, of the
right stamp: if it is hatclied out strong
and vigorous, it may be ruined by im-
proper care and feeding in its rearing.
Sometimes one hears of a lot of
chickens, hatching from valuable eggs,
which are little better than rank culls.
Were the eggs at fault? Not at all.
It was the rearing which was at fault.
Too much or too little food, or food
of irnproper character; neglect of
cleanliness; lice, or some other cause
prevented the proper development and
turned the prize birds into culls.

Use Others' Experiences.

It is folly not to profit by the ex-
periences of others. The breeder who
attempts to rediscover well-known
principles is wasting his time. If all
men pursued such a course, progress
would cease and every age would be
a dark age. We should always be be-
ginning but never arriving. The
proper course is first to learn what
has been discovered, and use that as
a starting point for further investiga-
tions. The views of our successful
breeders should be considered, and
■good poultry literature should be
studied.

The poultry breeder who does not
avail himself of these aids enters the
race for success with a serious handi-
cap; he carries too much weight to

hope reasonably to come under the
wire a winner. If he gets rid of this
handicap, he will find the running
much easier. A dwarf, standing on
the shoulders of a giant, can see far-
ther than the giant, and a breeder of
even moderate ability, who uses in-
telligently the discoveries of others,
will be able to win greater success
than one of great ability who neglects
to avail himself of such aids.

If success is desired and desirable —
and it is — what folly it is for a breeder
to shut his eyes to the sunlight of
discovered truth and blindly grope in
darkness, illumined only by the elow-
worm light of his unaided intellect!

The Relative Position of the

Poultry Fancy in this

Country.

Any intelligent and reasonably ob-
servant man will notice that some
kinds of live stock are cultivated as a
fancy, while other kinds are not. He
will observe that chickens, pigeons
and dogs have many fanciers, while
turkeys, geese, ducks, horses and cat-
tle have fewer fanciers; that the first-
class constitutes a strong and vigor-
ous fancy, while it is almost a
misnomer to call the second class a
fancy at all. And he will naturally
ask why this is so. What characteris-
tic fits one creature and unfits another
for a fancy?

The answer can be summed up in a
single word, "plasticity." By this term
IS meant that quality or characteristic,
which enables a breeder to mould and
fashion the creature to his will, some-
what as a sculptor moulds and fash-
ions the clay into the shapes his
imagination creates. Plasticity, in liv-
ing creatures, depends upon the power
to vary. The greater the variation,
the more plastic is the creature. Chick-
ens, pigeons, and dogs vary greatly;
turkeys, geese and ducks vary but lit-
tle. Chickens, pigeons and dogs
therefore, possess great plasticity and
are the subjects upon which fancies
are budded. Other things being equal
the greater the amount of plasticity'
the more widespread will be the fancy
But other things are not always equa'l
and while there must be plasticity
in order to have a fancv. the relativV
greatness of the fancy is dependent
to some extent at least, on some one
or more of these other things.

The poultry fancy in this country
overshadows in importance all other
fancies, in the value of its products
and the number of its adherents. It is
doubtful if this statement would be
entirely true in all other countries,
for it is said that in Belgium every
third man is a pigeon fancier, and
this may be true of other people than
the Belgians. But in the United
States the chickens are first, with
pigeons or dogs second onlv bv a long
interval.

The reason for this is not far to
seek. The American people are in-
tensely practical and they carry this
quality or characteristic into all they
do or undertake, even into their fads
and fancies. With them the first ques-
tion is, "Will it pay?" And that ques-

tion is answered in the affirmative
with a more pronounced emphasis by
fowls than by any other kind of fancy
stock. For many of the people the
question must be answered in the
affirmative if the fancy is to be taken
up at all, for the demands made by
the high standard of living in this
country, much higher than it is in
many other lands, absorb the earnings
of the would-be fancier. But, since
the poultry fancy does pay, even the
laboring man can afford to engage in
it, and by so doing increase his in-
come somewhat. He gets a profit out
of his pleasure, which enhances rather
than diminishes his enjoyment. Even
our well-to-do people do not object to
have their pleasure pay cash dividends.
And because poultry, as a fancy, pays,
and pays better and more certain
dividends that any other fancy, it has
been generally adopted by the Ameri-
can people.

All classes of the American people
are found in the poultry fancy, from
the day laborer to the multimillion-
aire; from the uneducated toiler in
the mills and factories to the college
professor; clergymen, lawyers, doc-
tors, merchants, manufacturers, bank-
ers, teachers, clerks, laborers, they are
all poultry fanciers. This well nigh
universal adoption of the poultry
fancy makes it a very democratic in-
stitution, which well accords with the
genius of a people where the artificial
distinctions of rank are unknown, and
where, before the law. all men are
equal. There is no fixity of social po-
sition in this countr}'. The poor bov
may be, a few years hence, the rich
man; the son of an obscure and un-
successful farmer may become the
chief executive of the nation and wield
"a scepter more potent than that of
the Caesars." From the people and
to the people distinguished families
arise and descend, like waves upon
the bosom of the ocean. It is, there-
fore, appropriate and fitting that the
nation's greatest fancy should be emi-
nently democratic, and that, because it
is democratic, it should be almost uni-
versally adopted.

One of the signs of the times is the
earnest way in which prominent daily
papers are advocating "back to the
land, with fruit raising and poultry
keeping as prominent objects.

During the hatching season there
IS frequently a flourishing crop of
complaints, and the peculiaritv about
It IS that the poorest soil is generallv
the most productive. The less experi-
ence one has the greater is his suc-
cess in raising this crop.

Th

ere

IS a sufficient degree of in-
compatibility of temperament between
a hen with a brood of chickens and a
newly-made flower bed to warrant a
divorce in any state in the Union

"Spoils" politics in anv poultry or-
ganization spoils its chances for use-
tulness.

A chicken plant and a planted chick
en are quite different things.

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HOW TO PROVIDE SHADE.

This is an old subject, but one that
<:annot be too strongly impressed upon
the breeders, especially the amateurs
and beginners.

Where the yard will admit, berry
bushes should be grown in clumps in
fence corners and along division
fences, in double rows. Currant bushes
<ire also fine for the purpose.

An asparagus bed also furnishes ex-
cellent shade for young stock. Grape
vines properly trained are also excel-
lent. All of these furnish a valuable
crop, besides furnishing shade. Next
in order perhaps, are Quince bushes,
kept lo\\- down.

Where none of these are available,
clumps of castor beans, sunflowers,
climbing cucumbers or morning glor-
ies on a horizontal trellis, or even
green corn will answer fairly well.

If none of these shade producers

much circulation of air. A roof or
awning eighteen inches to two feet
from the ground with sides or cur-
tains to close it up on the east and
south sides, will accomplish the de-
sired results; but if this roof is of
cloth, paper or thin lumber, it should
be made double, that it, two roofs,
about six inches apart, with free cir-
culation of air between, and the top
one should be light colored, white or
pale green, so as to reflect the heat
rays. Sprinkle the ground underneath
occasionally just enough to keep it
moist.

Have several of these structures
scattered about your yards, so that all
birds will have a chance at them
without crowding or quarreling.

To many, this may sound like "old
Granny" talk. To such I would say
it you are raising poultry without
sufficient natural shade, just construct

not only this but they will soon prove
to you that you have made a profit-
able investment by an increased de-
posit in the egg basket or a much
more rapid, vigorous and healthy
growth.

When you are thoroughly convinced
that it pays, build some more, get
chesty, and congratulate yourself on
being so much of a humanitarian,
good Samaratin, or something of that
sort. You might even propose your-
self for membership in the S. F. T.
P. O. C. to chickens.
Detroit, Mich. S. Z. Harroun.

SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS.

I'm a truthful man, but enjoy lying
about my chickens; it furnishes a cer-
tain amount of excitement in a rather
prosaic undertaking.

If in a mating of cockerel bred

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can now get da.y old chicks of highest quality in any number desired. Note ad on another page and address Dearborn
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have been arranged for earlier in the
season then we must resort to some
other plan which may eflfect the pur-
pose without being as satisfying to
the eye as green vegetation.

The variety of shade that poultry
enjoy most in hot weather is produced
by some object quite near the groimd
so that the shaded earth will remain
cool and moist and the soil should
be kept loose and mellow; to produce
these effects there should not be too

some such a shelter and watch your
birds enjoy it when they have found
it. See with what contentment they
will stretch out under it and half
bury themselves in the cool, moist
earth. When you are satisfied that
they really enjoy it, just keep on
watching and see how rapidly they
improve in appearance, and change
from miserable, panting, half-baked,
dejected looking "critters" to bright,
cheerful, healthy appearing fowls, and

Barred Rocks, that out of twenty male
chicks two show high-class exhibition
(|uality: the remaining eighteen rang-
ing from fair to pretty good; how
many of the pullets are we likely to
discard from the same mating? How
will we know which to discard if we
discard any? This is a serious ques-
tion.

What should a good pullet breeding
cockerel look like? Those that look
the best seldom sire the best pullets.

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1 shipped two settings of eggs to a
party who was so excited over his in-
vestment that he met the train that
carried his future fortune, and he saw
those eggs hoisted by main force out
of the car and thrown to the platform.
He enjoyed watching them fall some-
thing less than four feet, but after
cussing everybody concerned, was
much surprised to find that not a
single egg was cracked, therefore he
had no recourse against tlie express
company, but has that jar injured the
hatchability of the eggs? What can
be recovered from the express com-
pany supposing that the eggs fail to
hatch? These questions are not jokes,
but thank goodness if there's a poor
hatch it won't be me that gets the
roasting.

I can think of a lot of funny things
sometimes. For instance, I bought a
rooster for $50. He was a crackerjack
according to what the fellow said who
sold him to me, but I was injured
soon after getting him and had to re-
main in the house, so when it was nec-
essary to ship stock on orders my wife
had to do the selecting, and one order
called for six cockerels at $2.00 apiece
for farm breeding, so my wife selected
the .stock and the boys boxed it and
got it to the train. A few days later
I got a letter stating that the birds
got there all right and were O. K.,
excepting one; he could buy that kind
at 50c apiece at home, so was return-
ing it at my expense.

It was the same bird that I had paid
$50 for. I tried to sell it to another
farmer for a dollar, but it's no use.
These high-priced birds are liard to
sell. I'm trying to i)ersuade a neigh-
bor to let it run with his Hock, as I
want to run it over for next year, but
he doesn't act like he'd like to do it.
although he'd go a good deal out of
his way to please me. If he looked (T
mean the rooster, of course) like good
eating I'd make a mistake and kill
him in the dark. My wife has several
suspicions, and I don't dare let her in
on it. so it's got to die by accident;
but it doesn't look nearly as good eat-
ing as others that didn't cost nearly as
much.

(This is supposed to be a joke on
somebody. If I had mv monev back
I'd laugh too.)

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A GOOD BROOD COOP.

Last season after considering a

number of styles of brood coops, I

gathered what seemed to me to be

the best points of each and built one

which embodied these points and

which has proven entirely satisfactory

The coops I have made are :} feet

wide, 6 feet long and 18 inches high.

They should be at least 18 inches

high in order to give plenty of head

room for the hen. One end of the

coop is made into a roosting room by

boarding up the sides for a distance

of 2 feet, and making the end tight,

in fact walling it up on three sides.

The balance of 4 feet on each side

is covered with one inch wire netting

as is also the other end. Over the

roosting end, I make a hip roof to

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shed water both ways and make it in
one piece so that it can be taken off.
This roof extends 2 feet from the end
which makes it cover that portion of
the coop which has been walled up
at that end and for 3 feet along the
sides. Over the balance of the top
of the coop, 1 place a frame covered
with wire netting, and to make the
whole space rain proof. I make a
removable roof 3^ bv 4 feet running
the water ofT at the end. This coop
can be made by anyone and with the
exception of the 6 foot strips used
for the frames which make the sides,
the material can all be procured from
old drygoods boxes. The advantages
of this coop are many. It is hawk, cat
and dog proof. If the weather is wet,
it is all under shelter and still out
of doors. It gives little chicks an
early morning run on dry grass even
though a heavy dew has fallen dur-
ing the night. I give them the run
of the entire coop all the time and
see that they have water and feed
for breakfast before I quit for the
night. Thus they lose no time in the
morning. On a bright windy day the
large roof is lifted off and serves as
a wind-break which all people who
raise early chicks will appreciate. The
coop has no floor but when the
weather is wet, I set a box in it for
the chicks to sleep in. The coop can
be moved to fresh ground daily thus
keeping everything wholesome and
>aving the work of cleaning which is
necessary with a coop containing a
board floor or one that it not mov-
able. 1 make each piece l)y itself,
sides, ends and the three top pieces
and simply nail the ends and sides
together enough to hold. Then in
the fall they can be taken down and

June, '10

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Stored in a very small space. The
roof hooks on and the top frame is
furnished with cleats to hold it up.
The large roof lays on loose. These
coops rightly made will last a life
time with reasonable care if kept
painted or whitewashed.
Robbinsdale, Minn. H. E. Cotliii.

♦ ♦

VALUE OF SUNFLOWER SEED.

At no time does a fancier accord
his fowls more fastidious care than
when preparing them for exhibition
in the show room; for upon their ap-
pearance at that time depends the suc-
cess or failure of the event. It is
but the natural order of things that
fowls of the farms having advantage
of ample range, will go through the
moult without special care. Nature
fosters them during that period, pro-
viding the food necessary to nourish
the new growth of feathers and build-
ing up the system. The animal ele-
ment of their food is sufficed in the
abundant supply of insects, while the
other requisite element of their food,
the vegetable portion, is satisfied by
the grasses, the combination of which,
with the animal food tend to enter
into the new epoch of flesh, blood
and feathers.

It is an axiom acknowledged by all
breeders that specimens bound in re-
striction, as the greater number of ex-
hibitors' fowls are, will not manifest
in the show room a mature feathering
unless aided by certain care during the
season of moulting. The shrewd fan-
cier is now according his fowls the es-
sential care.

Numerous rations are suggested by
fanciers to assist moult. These ra-
tions are all more or less similar in

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Winners at Milwaukee, January
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"MAJESTIC I."
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their ingredients, that is, each is rich
in the elements productive of renew-
ing the feathers and blood. But there
is one ration that is far superior to
any other yet advaiiced. It is nothing
more or less than sunflower seeds.
And the most excellent of sunflower
•seeds are those of the Mammouth
Chinese sunflower known to have at-
tained a circumference of four feet.

Every fancier should plant a few of
these gigantic flowers in his yard for
the benefit of his fowls.

Last summer I had several of the
phmts growing in the rear of my
premises and one of these produced a
blossom 3>^ feet in circumference.
From actual experience I have found
them to be more beneficial to my
loirds than any of the preparation con-
cocted by breeders who have culti-
vated the study of fowls, and their
needs until they have made it a
science. L. £. Altwein.

St. Joseph, Mo.

TRY FANCIER-

♦:♦ ♦:•

IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL
SURROUNDINGS.

Tt is an established fact, the nearer
all live to nature and her unalterable
laws, the better health we enjoy. This
applies to all living beings as well as
the human family. It is well known
that the majority of poultry fanciers
keep their stock remote from natural
surroundings. Consequently there is
a lack of vigor in nearly all breeds.
They are stuffed and pampered until

they have but little constitution and
their progeny are devoid of healthy,
hardy chickenhood. If you have choice
stock you are desirous of keeping
over send them out to some country
farm where they will have to hustle
for a living and scratch for dear life.
One single trio so summered will be
worth more than a dozen kept in close
quarters and over-fed. If you are ob-
liged to keep stock in town don't feed
too heavily. Oats, bran, milk and
such light food is best. If possible
make them scratch for every mouth-
ful. Keep only the best and a limited
number. The only doctoring neces-
sary is lice remedies. All chicken
dopes are a delusion and a snare and
should be discarded. No fowl is of
any value that needs such treatment.
The famous cherry tree implement is
the best remedy for chicken ailments
and should be used vigorously in most
cases. Proper food, shade, pure wa-
ter and plenty of it and your fowls
will do well. Don't crowd, don't over
feed, don't sacrifice vigor to some
trivial and useless show point. Don't
dope. Don't read this unless you will
heed the advice of one of the oldest
lanciers whose experience dates back
to the days of the ''hen fever" and the
advent of the grand old Asiatic fowl
which was the avant coureur of the
present popular and still growing in-
terest in that fascinating and healthful
recreation, fancy poultry raising.

C. M. HUTCHINS.
Highlands, Tnd.

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Page 133

Some Chicken Jokes.

The old fighting colonel was re-
miniscent.

"Geese saved Rome," he began as
he lit his black cigar, "and, gentlemen,
at the battle of Bull Run my men
were saved by a flock of chickens
dying in front of them. It was the
greatest coup of the battle, sir"

"That's pretty good, colonel."
laughed the comedian boarder. "I
suppose you would call that a chicken
coup."

♦ ♦

Indignant Diner — Look here, waiter;
I just found a button in this dish of
roast turky.

Calm Waiter — Yes, sir; it is part of
the dressing.

♦ ♦

Lady — What! Thirty-eight cents a
dozen for eggs! Why, that's more
than three cents for one eggl

Grocer — Well, mum, you must re-
member that one egg is a whole day's
work for one hen.

♦

"Mamma," said Elmer, who was
feeling bad after dinner, "I guess I've
got the chickenpox."

"Why, where could you have got
it?" queried his mother.

"I think I ate too much chicken,'*
explained the little fellow.

»!•

Two Irishmen were out hunting,
with one gun between them. The
man with the gun saw a wild turkey,
and took careful aim at it.

"For the love of heaven, Mike!""
shouted the other hunter, "don't
shoot! The gun ain't loaded."

"I've got to," yelled Mike. "The
bird won't wait!"

•*• •:«

The big stray dog loomed up from
behind an ash barrel.

"Look here!" he growled savagely.
"I have a bone to pick with you."

The multimillionaire's bull pup
looked up with wounded dignity.

"What?" he responded in the dog
language. "Pick a bone? Why, I never
ate anything but boneless chicken
and ham in my life. On your way,
you tramp!"

And leaping into his master's .$20,-

000 automobile he was whisked off
to the park.

Mrs. Hen, having performed her
function of laying an egg, took a con-
stitutional around the yard. Return-
ing to her nest she found it empty
and clucked angrily.

"What's the trouble, ma'am?" asked
the rooster.

"It's mighty funny," she grumbled,
"that I can never find things where

1 lay them!"

^ -Jf-

The hobo arrested for stealing
chickens was pleading for pity.

"It's dis way, yer honor," he whined.
"I don't git no chance. Everybody's
agin' me — dey're all conspirin' to kep
me down."

The judge beamed benevolently.
"Well, nobody shall say that I joined
in that conspiracy." he said. "Trying
to keep you down, are they? Well,
the shan't do it. I'll send you up."

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POULTRY FANCIER

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June, '10

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Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER.

There
weather

It is a

is nothing certain about the
except its uncertainty.

* *

L safe gamble that the unex-
pected will happen.

l^>om addled brains, like addled
eggs, little good can he expected.

Sunshine is always f(ood, no mat-
ter what you may think about it.

* *

Who is the Theodore Roosevelt of
the American Poultry Association?
There are several claimants.

* *

It is said that there are Democrats
who voted for Jackson at every pres-
idential election. Will the same some
time be said of members of the Amer-
ican Poultry Association concerning
its present efficient executive head?

* *

A vote by mail is a good thing, if
the voters will use their "head-pieces"
and vote according to their own con-
victions, not according to anyone's
"say so."

Wouldn't it be nice if the members
of the American Poultry Association
would wake up and take a general
interest not only in voting for candi-
dates, but in making nominations?

* *

Don't waste your good breath in
crying "Ring, ring." There can be
no ring except through general
apathy.

Have you joined the noble order
of hen-men? If not, send five dol-
lars for an initiation fee, and you will
receive certificate in the shape of a
setting of eggs. You will thus learn
incidentally that it is the first step
which costs. The initiation will come
later when you try to hatch the eggs.

* *

Said the preacher to the young cou-
ple he had just married. "You have
now come to the end of your trou-
bles."' But he didn't add which end.
It is sometimes so with the purchase
of the first setting of eggs by the
young man beginning the life of a
poultry breeder. Rut with plentv of
grit, success will be assured.

* *

Did you ever receive a letter like
this: "Sir, I bought a setting of eggs
of you and paid you three dollars.
You sent me fifteen and only four-
teen hatched. What are you going
to do about the egg which didn't
hatch?"

* *

Said the breeder, as he removed the
solitary remaining chicken from the
brooder after the lot had pursued a
course in white diarrhoea, "I'll name
you *E pluribus unum,' for you truly
are one out of many."

Poultry politics are necessary. The
great industry must be shaped and
guided; standards must be perfected;
and exhibition rules must be made

clear and definite. Be thankful that
there are some competent and willing
to do this work. But for the most of
us, the rearing of our fowls and the
care of our stock are the primary and
essential matters.

A brooding man and a brooding hen
are each an unpleasant proposition to
deal with.

* *

The moon is a mighty handy satel-
lite to have around, because one can
always lay his mistakes and failures
to her malignant influences.

* *

Down is worn as usual by this
year's newly-hatched chickens.

Stripes, solid colors and polka dots
are still the style.

* *

So long as Halley's comet is able
to return, it will be possible for those
who believe in supra-terrestrial influ-
ence to find an excuse for poor
hatches.

* *

"The best method of breaking up
a broody hen," says the beginner with
a little experience, "is to purchase a
five-dollar setting of eggs, with addi-

tional express charges of about ninety
cents, and put them under some per-
sistent clncker. She will sit steadily
for about three days, at the end of
which time she will suddenly discov-
er that she has no desire to rear a
brood. The eggs will be spoiled,
your hopes blasted, but the hen will
be broken of all inclinations to sit. It
works like a charm, though you may
not be charmed at the working."

* *

Anent a broody hen which was cov-
ering two brick-batb and a limestone,
the owner said, "I have great hope>
of that hen, for she may hatch out a
quarr}^ or a brickyard."

* *

"Said the Governor of North Car-
olina to the Governor of South Car-
olina"— no, I'm wrong, said the two
hens belonging to the negligent poul-
tryman, as they contemplated the
empty water fountain, "It is a long
time between drinks."

"Boodle," "graft" and "spoils" are
words of foul meaning, and, there-
fore, have nothing to do with fowls.

* ♦

Josh Billings, or some other phil-
osopher, has said that the best time
to set a hen is when she wants to set.
But a neighbor managed to set a
rooster, by fixing a nest, with two
holes ill the bottom of it, through

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry Association. Member Buff Rock
eggs.' RICHLAND ^OwT^^°'^"°'^'^°^°°'' ^"''^^^ *''°"''^ ^""^ '^" ^""^ ^'^^ ^^^'' '^°^^ ^"^

TOP NOTCH s. C. R. I. REDS

r\}A nUiry^,-^ T? aI I-

are all the name im-

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^^^ old Chicks. Free mating list

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM, R. P. Guptifl, Prop., Elcho, Wis.

F. L. Poultry Farm Rhode Island Reds Hige"rTtown

Chicago, McKeesport, Butler & Pittsburg. Breeders for sale after May 15. Write
for circular and mating list. F. L. OBER. R. F. D. No. 1. Verona, Pa.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - . CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
winners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.
ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

a

DONAGHEY'S REDS"

have won for the second sea.son in .succes-
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farm range $1.50 per 15. When ordered in lots of 30 eggs wSl allow a diS:ou^t of n V^5r o.^f '^"i
n. lots of 60 or larger 20 per cent discount will be alloi^d Both s7ngl^^ am" ro.?^^ ^^"' ^"^

J. T. DONAGHEY . BOX 117, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

Porter White WYANDOTTE YARDS

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-

you give us a trial so that we can convince you that there are none h^tt^r i« «fl«Ho!.^ ^l *^°' ^'11
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send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES

CHAS. DAVIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

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which the rooster's legs were thrust
and attaching weights to his feet'
This was a •'Natural Rooster Incu-
bator," though rather unnatural. The
results were not encouraging.

The lives of great men all remind us
That we may set the eggs with care,

l.ut the hckle hens, confound them,
Iransforms our hopes to dire de-
spair.

'•The eggs which never hatched" is
the burden of many a poultryman's
lament.

* *

A poultryman is less interested in
the law than in the profits (proph-
ets).

* *

A hen with a brood of chickens,
like an industrious chambermaid,
keeps busy in stirring up the beds.

FOU LT RY FA N C ! F, R:»^Zpage tsT^*

Many a man, who can set a watch,
cannot set a hen.

Chicken-killing cats make good fer-
tilizer for grape-vines, especially for
the Catavvbas.

There are several Babcocks known
to poultrymen, but who ever heard
of a Bab-hen?

* *

With the roup threatening one end
of the alimentary canal, and the white
diarrhoea the other, it is hard to de-
cide whether the former or latter end
of the chicken is the worse.

Halley's comet is like a poultry-
man's money — it goes fast.

It is suspected that the New York
hens, w^hich have been laying black
eggs, are guilty of trying to increase

Silver Laced Wyandottes and Salmon

Winnings for 1910
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Kggs

C. p. McANDREW

ELLSWORTH, WIS.

ve r 300
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the betting odds on Jack Johnson.
By the way, were they Pit Games?

With the la.st swish of the comet's
tail, it will be necessary to find an-
other excuse for the infertility of
eggs.

The gas in the tail of Halley's
comet will not cause a reduction in
your bills for illuminating your house
or heating your incubator.

According to Swaysgood the most
important personage today in the
poultry world is the Man in the
Moon.

The man who has to buy his win-
ners every year is not a breeder and
the man who buys from him knowing
the circumstances (which he doesn't)
is a chump; for he's being buncoed.

* *

If I buy a fine bird and make a big
winning with it, how many years am
I allowed to advertise that win with-
out dating it? We refer you to the
A. P. A. and they don't know. The
answer is unsatisfactory, but we can't
help it.

* *

Every man who expects to invest
in a bone-cutter looks for one that a
woman can run; wonder why?

Big farms, few chickens; small
farms, many chickens; what's the rea-
son?

* *

If you know anything about chick-
ens tell the editor what you know,
he wants to publish your views if they
are reliable.

* *

Matt Baldwin, whose presence in
England will be a godsend to a joke-

Partridge, Buff, Black and White
Cochins: White, Black, Buff, Sil-
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1.5. Prize-winners28years:Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge, Importer and Breeder. Chenoa, Illinois.

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CATALOGUE FREE LAWTONS, ERIE CO.,

EXHIBITED AT

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Jj Bred to win and lay. ^?''

Huntington, Ind., 1910. 2nd cockerel, 2nd,
3rd, 4th puUet. Won at Ft. Wayne Ind
1910. 3rd cockerel, 1st, 2nd, 3rd pullet.'
Setxd for Mating List.

A. M BENDER

U 1231 Walton Ave. FT. WAYNE. IND.

less nation, is the husband of the
Sioux City woman who raises high-
class Persian cats.

If one can judge correctly from the
number of articles published, the
most popular topic among poultry-
men is "The White Diarrhoea."

on the counter,"
'so that we can
are just laid."

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"Lay the eggs
said the grocer,
truthfully say the>

Wouldn't it jar you to learn that
the fresh eggs, for which you paid
thirty cents a dozen, and the cold-
storage eggs, for which your neigh-
bor paid twenty cents a dozen, were

all taken from the same case?

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Someone, somewhere, has said that
Caesar was the champion duck eater,
and appeals for proof to these pas-
sages: "Caesar, imperator et dux."

"How many did he eat?"
Brute."

''Et tu.

Set two hens on Friday. Result —
one broke up, the other broke up the
eggs, and both broke up my plans.
Moral: Don't set hens that don't

White Plymouth Rocks choice breeding stock from
, "' this seasons matings for

sale after June 1st. Remember our Plymouth
Rocks won every blue competed for in the last two
years. Also silver cup winners. Choice stock
always for sale. Allen Tucker, Mineral Point. Wis.

S. C. BROWN
LEGHORNS

$1.50 per 15.

H. E. MARQUARDT.

Choice cockerels for

sale. Bred in line for

several years. Prices

reasonable. Eggs now

WAUSAU, WIS.

K. C^. JKEDS ^?S1nAmeri^-
^^ ^"^ ca. Kggs at

half price after June 1st. About 30 good Hens
will sell cheap. Write today.
VIRGIL BLAKEMQRE. FAYETTE. MO

WYANDOTTE EGGS:

Silver and White l\fJZV' '" ^"'''"'

B. H. BACON. R. F. P.. ELROY, WIS.

Single Comb Black Orpingtons

Best Winter layers.
JAS. McGUAN,

Scored stock for sale.
BARABOO, WIS.

Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks, S. C.

Brnwn I Pahnrnc !"gJ'*^-'^t awards at lead-
OrUWn L.egnOrnS ing shows, some choice
yearling breeders for .sale at reduced prices Cat
L. H. JOSTES & SON. R. R. No, 2. Macon. III!

R. C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won many prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows, iCggs now for
$2 00 per 15 ft«m pens mated to produce high cla-s
exhibition stock Harry Sower. Rome City, Ind.

M.C.

ROGERS

LEGHORNS

LACROSSE
WIS.

R. C. Brown

Black

Anconas

W. F. B.
Spanish

POULTRY FENCE"

STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF

Bottom wires 1 inch aixirt.
Will not sag or bag. Re-
quires no boards — top or
bottom — and fewer posts.
Costs less than netting. We
pay freight. Send for catalog.
The Brown Fence & Wire Co.

Drpt, 94 rifv^lnnfl, Ohio

POULTRY FANCIER

want to set, on Friday or any other
day,

Among my borrowings I have bor-
rowed this:

Parson (to new girl, who sings in
the early morning) — Jane, I am de-
lighted to see you know that beauti-
ful hymn, "Glory, Glory."

Girl — Why, Lor' bless yer 'art, sir,
that's th' Vmn J cooks th' heggs by
— two verses for soft an' four for
'aard!

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Some editors seem to prefer a pitch-
fork to a pen with which to do their
work.

Do you wish to know which is the
best breed? Read a special breed issue
of some poultry publication.

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It used to be said, "There is no
best breed." But that was an error.
Every breed is the best, and there
are many best breeds. So perishes
another of our youthful illusions.

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Funny things find their way into
the advertising columns. I remem-
ber to have read one after this fash-
ion: "Eggs for hatching from Brah-
mas, Rocks, Wyandottes, and Collie
Dogs."

June, '10

:-ir^:

When the initiate at a base ball'
game Mas hit by the ball the "fan"^
sitting next to him said. "That was a
foul." "Fowl," said he: "I thought
it must have been a mule, at least."

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair.""
contains no allusion to fowls exhib-
ited at an agricultural fair, although
the fair is often foul, and the fowls
frequentlj' are fair.

According to carefully compiled sta-
tistics there are 35,000 poultry raisers-
in this country that raised more first
prize winners than anj-- other poultry
raiser; in all, there was about 'steen
billion first prize birds — this includes
those sold for the other fellow to ex-
hibit.

How long ago was it when chil-
dren, women, idiots and poultry keep-
ers were thought worthy to be classed'
together? It looks a long way ofY,
but in reality some of the living
breeders remember the time very
clearly.

A poultry breeder, "A youth to for-
tune and to fame unknown." recently
exclcaimed, on learning of the death
of one of the most eminent fanciers.
"Great goodness! Another one of us
is gone."

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SHOVELS STRAIN OF ROSE AND SINGLE
COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS EliSSS

^"~~~" ^-^^^— ^— — — — ^ .some of the best that has

been Exhibited at the leading Exhibition.s. Have been breeding the Shove Strain of Houdant
for over 30 years. Can furnish .some good birds this season, Also Embden and Toulou.se
Geese, and Pekin Ducks. Write and de.scribe yonr wants. Eggs from our winners will pro-
duce winners for you. Our motto. A Square Deal To All. Address,

DANIEL P. SHOVE,

FALL RIVER, MASS.

REDUCED PRICES NOW

HOOVER^S BARRED ROCKS

Mating

list and

, ,, photos

free. I^ook up my record. All my breedmg stock now for sale at a sacrifice. Grand

birds for showing and breeding. Eggs at half price that will produce winners. Have

over 800 head of young stock and tnust make room.

This is Your chance. Dont Overlook it.

MAPLE LAWN POULTRY YARDS

WM. H. HOOVER Props. RTE 2, POLO, ILL.

More Evidence That
Sibley^s Reds

are in the lead and will hold it. At
the Big Indiana State Fair last
season, our Rose Comb Reds won the most
coveted prize, Ist pen. Also Ist and 3rd cocks,
2nd cockerel and many of the other winners were descended from our flock.
They have an unbroken chain of victories to their credit for many years at leading shows.
At Detroit, January 1909 they won 23 prizes including 12 firsts and 1 1 others. At Chicago
December 1908, 17 prizes including 10 firsts. At Indianapolis, September 1908, 1 1 prizes
including 5 firsts.

Sibley's R. C. Rhode Island Reds Slgo^'oetlo^rind!

ianapolis and Buff alo, 1906-7-8-9-10. At the great Michigan State Poultry Show, held at
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1 1-18, 1910, we won Ist and 3rd on cocks, 2nd and 4th on hens, 1st,
2nd and 4th on cockerels. Ist and 2nd on pullets, 1st on pen, Ist for best exhibit for either
Rose or Single Comb Reds, the four club ribbons for color and shape. Let us ship you
some stock or eggs and you can win just as we do. Reduced prices during the summer
months. Send for catalogue. Send for our mating circular.
IRVING A. & FRANK CHURCHILL SIBLEY 1032 Jefferson Blvd. Box E, South Bend, Ind.

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Woiidarful Discoveries Made by the Originator of the PHILO
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from the incubator can be raised without artificial heat every day in the year including the
coldest winter weather. The improved methods are not confined to rearing the baby chickens as
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The demand for instruction by Government Experts, State Agricultural Colleges, Governors,
Supreme Court Judges, Mayors, Preachers, Lawyers and thousands of the best people of the land
made it necessary to buy and equip a large tract of land for educational purposes and some of
the massive buildings are now nearly completed and the educational work will commence at once.

Every Man or Woman who would like to handle a profitable poultry business either for
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a Very Small Cost, and in a very short time learn to handle the business and accomplish the
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uesiions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question. — Are Indian Runner ducks
pure bred that lay green or tinted eggs?
Do the drakes have the black or green
heads or should it be some other color to
conform to the Standard?

Answer. — Off-colored eggs are not an
indication of impurity of breeding. Green
or tinted duck eggs are not extremely
rare. The head of an Indian Runner
should be light fawn or gray and white.
The cap and cheek markings are light
fawn or gray with a narrow white line
dividing the cap from the cheek. The
base of the bill is also divided from the
head markings by a line of white about
one-eighth of an inch wide.

Question. — Kindly tell me if you can,
what is the cause of a hen laying an egg;
without a yolk. I got an egg of this kind
recently from one of my best birds.

Answer. — The hen may be too fat or
there may be some disease which has
weakened the egg organs and interfered
with their muscular action. The albu-
men or white of the egg was not held
in the proper place long enough for the
yolk to become enclosed and the shell
was formed around the white alone. Such
eggs are usually very small.

Question. — When will the new Standard
of perfection be ready for sale? Will the
shows next winter be judged by it?

Answer. — The time when the book will
be ready for delivery cannot be predicted
by any one with any degree of certainty,
although there is every reason to be-
lieve that by Nov. 1 it ought to be ready.
It may be ready sooner and it may be
later. Something definite will be known
after the meeting of the American Poul-
try Association at St. Louis in August at
which time action will he taken regard-
ing the illustrations which are to ap-
pear in the book and other details of
publication will be arranged. The ques-
tion as to whether the shows next win-
ter will be judged by the new book will
also have to be settled by the Associa-
tion at the above mentioned meeting. It
is supposed and generally understood
that the changes in the Standard will
be effective immediately upon the ap-
pearance of the book but there is a dif-
ference of opinion in regard to the wis-
dom of such a condition and especially if
the book is not ready till November or
December. Many breeders maintain that
one breeding season should intervene
between the issuing of the book and
adoption of the changes specified in it.

Question. — I have two fino cock birdsr
that are losing all the feathers on their
necks; can you please tell me what is
the trouble and what I can do for them.
I have baby chicks that aro two months
old and their wings are verv smutty.
When they lose their baby wing feathers
will they be any clearer or smuttv just
the same. They are Barred Rocks.

Answer. — Perhaps you have one or
more feather-eating birds in your flock
and they are picking the feathers from
the necks of the male birds. This often-
times happens and you can tell whether
or not it is the trouble In your case if
you will watch the birds closely. There
Is also a species of lice, called the de-
pluming mite, which works on the heads
and necks of the birds and often destroys
the plumage. As good a thing as vou can
do in either rase, is to annoint the
lieads and necks once a day If possible
with carbolated vaseline. The wings of
your Barred Rock chicks will come out
much brighter and clearer aftf-r the
chick feathers have been molted.

Question. — Please tell me what the
trouble is with a hen whose crop Is
swollen badly and seems to be sour. The
bird eats Hhd drinks but does not seem

at all for about twelve hours, and then
begin feeding by giving milk for a day
in small (luantities at a time, then al-
lowing soft foods, principally mashes, and
in four or five days whole grain and the
regular diet may be given.

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN. PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and stTaightforwardly honest work in the show
room. 30 years a poultryman.

to get over the trouble. It has been run-
ning out on range and has been fed
mostly on grain.

Answer. — Your hen no doubt has a case
of "crop bound."

Mild cases can be cured by giving a
lablespoonful of sweet oil and one or two
lablespoonfuls of quite warm water, af-
ter which knead the crop gently and
force the contents out of the mouth,
holding the bird's head downward. If
the crop is hard and much distended and
the above treatment fails to give relief,
an operation is necessary to remove the
obstruction. Make an incision in the
outer skin with a very sharp knife. It
should be near the top and should be up
and down, not more than two inches in
length. Force the crop to one side be-
fore making an incision in it, so that
when the w^ounds are sewed up the one
in the crop proper will not b*- opnosite the
one in the outer skin, but will be entirely
covered by the skin. After making the
second incision remove the contents of
the crop, after which cleanse it thor-
oughly with warm water in which has
been placed a small quantity of any good
antiseptic solution, four drops of carbolic
acid to an ounce of water will answer the
purpose. Stitch the cuts with silk thread,
being particular not to fasten the crop
to the outer skin. The wounds should
heal in five or six days. Give no food

*'''i9io"t"?h '" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville, Ind., Jan. 4 8. Tucker, Judge; 2.
3 cock. 2 cockerel, 1. 2, 4 hen, 1, 2 pullet 1, 2.
pen. 20 females average 92 1-5. Richmond,
Ind. . Tanl 2-15, Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered; 1 cockerel. 1, 2 hen, 1,
2 pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Eggs from best pens only $1 for 15
after May 15th IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

: $5.00 per dozen
: 3.00 per dozen
Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - East Providence, R. I.

60 Years « IS'^ I. K. Felch & Son

?.rf J^wH^"'^ BRAHMAS. BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.

t^yf ^V ^ISV.^r. h? ^^^" "^^^^^^ "^'^^ ^^e stock for the money paid.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT. when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place m their breeding pen ? Which

^WIN AND BREED ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons winnings to their advantage.

From Sept 1 to May 1 5. Brahmas $3.50 to $1 0 for females; $5 to $20
tor males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
tor females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all. $4 for I 5. $7 for 30 $9
for 45. and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 to Sept. I. all yearlings before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars address

I. K. FELCH & SON, Box 1 76. NATICK, MASS.

ON SUCCESS WITH
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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS

By FRANK HECK

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Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub-
lished in this department without charge

BIG KANSAS CITY FAIR SHOW.

Kansas City will have one of the
largest poultry shows of the coming sea-
son n<^vt .Spnt«^mbef, It will be helri in
connection with the Mo. Valley Fair &
Exposition Sept. 24th to 28th, 1910. This
fair will be held at Electric Park "The
Coney Island of the West," a beautiful
amusement park built at a cost of $500,000
It is filled with artistic and commodious
buildings giving ample accommodations
for this the 2d annual fair. Last year
the poultry show was a great success.
1.500 birds were shown. The plans for
the coming season are on a larger scale.
The association offers large and most lib-
eral premiums, cash specials and cups
galore. You must get the premium list
to appreciate its inducements to poultry
breeders. Premium lists are now ready.
Address;— C. S. Hunting, Supt. Poultry
Dept. 1304 1^ Main St. Kansas City, Mo.

MR. SIBLEY ENDORSES MR.
BURLEIGH.

I am in receipt of a letter from Mr.
Geo. P. Coffin of Freeport, Maine, sav-
ing that he will not be a candidate for
re-nomination for the office of Secretary
of the Rhode Island Red Club of America
I am sure that all, who like myself are
personally acquainted with Mr. Coffin,
and know his sterling good qualities, will
regret that his time is .so wholly occiinied
with other business cares, that he does
not feel able to attend to the duties of
the office after the expiration of the
present term.

I trust however that we may always
enjoy the pleasure of having hini with iis
at our annual meetings.

I have learned that Mr. W. F. Bur-
leigh, of Larrabees Point, Vt., (now
Secretary of the National Rose Comb
Rhode Island Red Club.) will if nomin-
ated, accept the office of Secretarv of the
Rhode Island Red Club of America, and
as Mr. Burleigh is a man of experience,
ability, and with time to devote to the
office. I trust that he will receive such
hearty support at the hands of the mem-
bers as to inspire him to do his best if
elected.

We are certainly fortunate to have one
with his experience willing to serve us.
and I take great pleasure in endorsing
him for this position. Irving A. Sibley.

South Bend Ind.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

.Tudges Thoo. Ti'ewes, A. F. Kummer
and F. .1. Marshall have been selected by
the Tri-State Poultry Association to
judge at the big poultry show to be held
at the great Tri-State Fair. Memphis.
Tenn.. Sept. 27. to Oct. 4. These judges
all have a national reputation, and the
management should be congratulated on
their selection. Exhibitors can depend
upon pelting a .square deal if they show
at Memphis, C. L. Baker. Secy.. 292
Madison Ave.. Memphis. Tenn.. will give
you any information regarding show.

AMERICAN WHITE ORPINGTON
CLUB.

No other specialty Poultry Organiza-
tion has made such' a wonderful growth
In so short space of time as the Ameri-
can White Orpington Club. When the
club's Book on White Orpingtons was Is-
sued last November the membership list-
ed only 74 persons. This book, however,
was sent broadcast to breeders of this
grand breed of fowls and the membership
was rapidly increased. As many as 23
names were received In one day, and to-
day this live organization has over 300
members located In practically every
state In the TTnlon as well as members In

Mexico, Canada and England. Every

breeder or fancier of White Orpingtons
should become a member, it is for their
interest.

Special prizes are ottered at all the
shows over the country open to compe-
tition of members only, the winning of
which stamps their stock as that of qual-
ity. The fee of initiation is $1.00. which
pays for the year's dues in which you
.join, and annual dues are only $1 00
thereafter. Life membership $10.00. Full
information and club book can be ob-
tained by writing F. S. Bullington Secy.

Richmond. Va.

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI SHOW.

T^,^li® poultrymen of Omaha, Council
Bluffs and South Omaha, and many other
leading breeders of Iowa and Nebraska
are working hard to insure a great suc-
cessful show to be held under the man-
agement of the Trans-Mississippi Poul-
try Association. This will be their sev-
enth annual show. It was held three
years in South Omaha and three years in
Omaha and rumor has it that Council
Bluffs, Iowa, which is directly across the
river from Omaha, will get the show for
the next three years. Council Bluffs has
a large, new. well-lighted auditorium, as
large if not larger than the one in Omaha
Plans are under way to coop the show
with Empire Uniform Cooping and the
Comparison System of placing the awards

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Will prevail. Anton Lundstiom of Oma-
ha, Neb., the hustling secretarv writes
us that Judge W. S. Russell of Ottumwa,
Iowa, W. C. Ellison of Minneapolis,
Minn., Russell F. Palmer of Fremont,
Neb. Thos. W. Southard, of Kansas
City, and Victor O. K'obbs. of Trenton,
Mo., will place the awards. There is
no fiuestion about this being one of the
great shows of 1910-11.

RICHLAND, IOWA.

The Richland, Iowa, show will be held
next season, Dec. 13 to 16. Special prep-
arations are being made for a record
breaker. Ten silver cups and many other
valuable specials will be offered". Jos.
Dagle will do the judging, j. W Allen
is secretary of the Association.

WILLIAMSTOWN, W. VA.

The Ohio and West Virginia Poultry
Association was organized a few months
ago and will hold their first annual show
Dec. 12 to 17 with F. G. Bean as judge.
W. P, Miller is secretary.

HOLYOKE, MASS.

The fifth annual show of the Holyoke
Poultry Association will be held Dec 7
to 10. This show is always one of the
best in New England and breeders should
not fail to put it on their list. The judges
are U. H. Lard, D. P. Shove and D. E.
Tasker. Secretary is Geo. A Lamb

NATIONAL COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE
CLUB CATALOGUE.

The second annual catalogue of the
above club is now being mailed to mem-
bers and to all breeders of this variety
who write for a copy. It shows the
club to be in good condition financially
and it contains much that will prove of
interest to all breeders of Columbian Wy-
andottes. The club is preparing to boom
the breed more than ever before and the
support of all fanciers is solicited. A
copy of the book may be obtained free
by addressing Geo, F. Eastman. 9ec.-
Treas.. Granbv, Mass.

The handsome
and coming van-
ity, large blocky

Columbian Wyandottes

(Richardson strain) rbt^J-l*."^^^^^^^^^

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BBEEDEBS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WTAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock epprs $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
638. Anadarko, Okla. 7-9-12

HOUDAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs, $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle, Wis. 4-3

CALVIN R. GROSS, EXHIBITOR AND
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks and S.
C. Brown Leghorns. Eggs, .$2 per 15.
Square Deal Yards, Box SI, Baraga,
Mjch. 4-3

EGGS FROM BARRED, BUFF AND
White Rocks, $l..:;o for L". Single Comb
Brown. Buff and White Leghorns .$1 for 15.
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd, Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct In
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur.
Ill; 3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

WHITE WYANDOTTES — EGGS FROM
pen of 8 hens. 1 cock picked from 284
birds, $2 per 15, $3 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Struebing. Freeburg,
Il]j 4-3

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J. Trester, Rushford.
Minn. 5-2

ORPINaTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C., Scotch Plains. N. J.
1-10-12

S. C. WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA-
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs* $2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all gruar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers,
Wis. 2-5

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

ORPINGTONS — OUR BOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff, Black, White. Cheviot
Farms, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge & Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans Is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95 V6 In
show room. Prices right. Eggs In season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
Mo. 1-6

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L, Bachman, Rom-
ulus, N. Y. 4-3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 951/2. females 96%. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing,
score 191/^. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. Assn.. Chilton. Wis. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEQHORNS.

BLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning Ist
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEQHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens, 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94, pen 186%. Eggs, $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. u-»-i2

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. H. M. Moyer, R. 2. Bechtels-
vllle, Pa. 11-9-12

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
Batchelor, Falrview, Mass. 4.3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOT'Ii ORDERS FOR HEALTHY
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1, Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching, $1 per
setting. 4.3

HOUDANS.

HOUDANS EXCLUSIVELY. COCKERELS
for sale also, one and two-year-old stock.
All well-bred birds and will please. Eggs
shipped promptly. Send in your order now.
Price right. R. F. Dolan. Fulda, Minn. 4-8

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and lioston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Camplne advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop..
Ridgefleld. N. J. 2-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belglums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest dozen eggs In show, Boston, 1910.
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefleld, N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PATS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsie, New
York. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TURT<rF.YS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith,
Burnt Prairie. 111. 4-3

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. 8-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IX CHK'K.S. BL'V BUCKEYE

treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. .'>0 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
MTenthaler, Canton, O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING — POULTRY. GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.26,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, Ia_ 10-9

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

vStock and Eggs at greatly reduced prices
E. M Long. Box (P F) Osceola, Ind.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

12 for I60 ; 25—250 ; 50— 40c : lOO— 75a
Sample Itexid Mallott for 8o Stajnpu
Frank Mrert Wfr. B0168. Frieoorl.lll.

rown Bone Cutter

Moro vgicH.

irot., itoz H*i2, Eatton, I

BEST /v\ADE

Lowest

in Price

^^ Big Profits in Capons

[CAPON
TOOLS

Caponiziji^ is easy— soon
learned. Complete outfit
with free instructious
postpaid $2.50.

Ir.ape Worm Extractor 25c

Poultry Murker 25c

I'Yonch Killing Knife50c

I Capon Book Free.

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made exceptionally low on this account.

\ S. C. BUrr OR.PINGTONS~l

\ EGGS FOR HATCHING l^^f p'°"J l

pen headed bv a son of a first prize Madison 5

Square Garden Cock . |2. for 15, pi for 50. >

H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE >

17 ELM STREET. WORURN, MASS. )

\ 171

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Neeted, Standard- bred.

?'„°^t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street, - EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar RapldB, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can belp you win too, If
yoQ send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•3 per 15. $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM, Marshalltown, Iowa

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

other people would read your ad if it were
here, just the same as you are reading this )
one. See the rates and conditionsat the head )
of this department and send in an ad. It will )
briTigvou good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
367 Dearborn Strett, ^ Chicago, III. >

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

O^J_ None better. 40 first and second
I\eQS« prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers. Place eg»: orders now.

D. J. ISI.ISS. Carthasre, Mo.

AnrnnAC EXCLUSIVELY. Leaders for 1 2
/UuvUliao years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put 3'ou
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St.. East End. Pittsburg. Pa.
President Ancona Club of America

HoudanS and Buff quaUty.^"'' winners

Wvan/lnffAC of highest honors on Hou-
ffJctlltlUllca dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. makitig nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs J,*^ Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs, N. Y.

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS

^ prices on eggs and .stock before buying ^
where. Illustrated circiilar free. r

A. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio \

BARRED ROCKS

Cockerel mating of
the very best strain.
Pullet line is direct descendants or "Louis-
atia," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
fl.50 for 15 eggs Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. F., Centerville.Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB P,^^^

pCpiC five strictly exliibition matings at
SS-CiUO $.3 00, $4 00 per 16. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain
FRED. W. OERTEL. Box. F. Brighton. IlL

Reichert's White Rocks and ^^;
R. C. White Leghorns J^^er^ffe^^l^r

riO, $5 per 100. Also some choice breeders at
living prices. These are bargains worthy
vonr consideration. Satisfaction guaranteed.
E, H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILL.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for .sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92, Hopkinsville. Ky.

Rose Comb Brown ^fr? a?"M„idin:

Hartford, Worcester and
Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK, BOX F. COBALT, CONN.

LEGHORNS

White Plume Farm %l "eed^to buTid

up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks.
White Erabden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, Prop., Rt. 1, Plainville. 111.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess laid 291 eggs in a year; 50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c,
IRA WATSON, . FREDONIA, N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and K C. Rhode Islatul Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M*

Silv«^r I^aced \Vyandf>tles, WIilt«« Crested
Itlark I'oliHh and Barred i^iymouth
I{(tr,kH. Direct dosceiidantH from .Mrtdtsoti square
Biid (;hI«'«jfo winners. Won twenty I'lti^lK regular
prlzTH iind two diplomas at Oelweln, lows, .Jan.
4-!«. JM(H», In strong conapetlon. <;holc,e stock for
sale.. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
Wm. Nei©r«. Prop., I.,, 1i.4/>, Cancade, la.

DI7Cn'Q R^ BROW N LEGHORNS and
iVCEiU O R c RHOOR ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago. Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. OR V M RKED.

Wvanet. 111.

Liifbt Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

ICgkfS from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entrie.s at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won U prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92^^ to 9ri.
M prize ck. score 92^ and ckl.s. for sale.
Mrs.Kd Bartlett IfiQ'^ Oak St Newcastle Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both "for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE.
21 5 Galena Street Aurora, 111.

S. C. R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ??,«;'^Zn^i'e;^

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS, RTE, 20. IDAVILLE, IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH Z«' ll^HVu

Ti/^/^V'O ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION, IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from .New
York Champion, his sire 'Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comt) descendants of O. E. Miles
flrst pen, superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For 8t()<;k and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, lOT^A

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ^^^i^:,

I^yons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
select matings that will produce winners.
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons. Wis.

Walker's White Rocks ^irr'N^e^w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$?> per 16.
BOB WALKER, Porter St., New Castle, Pa.

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brahmas. First priz •
and sllvercup winners aiJWInnepeg. Can.. Seattle
A.Y.P., Minn., HI., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Mau-
kato, Minneapolis and Madlnon Square Garden,
N,Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction (fuaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, l»undee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKSI°„"^g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Speciai prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind- btate Show my

D_^^_J p P^-L-e W^o" '""^ pullet. ;^rd

Dairea r. IVOCKS hen; 1909 again they

won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, Srd pullet, I9l0al.so Silver Cup.
Eegs $.S 00 for 15, H. W. BARNETT
24 Bushnell Bldt- ^ _ _ Springfield,

C<»liiiubiaii l*lynioutli Rooks (SwfH'fn
Strain.) Hlack tnllcii ,iiipan<^se and Buff tlocliln
Bantams, U«rr«*d Koc^ks. A. few choice cocker»'l9
of each variety for sale. J^et me book your
order early for orks from my choicest matinK«
at ».<.if) per IS, ».'>.(K) per 30. Bantam eggs ai #2.50
per ir>, 14. (N» per 30.
K. B. KOBKRTS €.\NASTOTA, N. Y.

»^^i^Si^>^N^W

Will now clo.se out the
cream of my S- C. R. I.

For Oklahoma

t\r Rii<t '^•** Stock consisting of 15 yearling
or DU51 fine birds .scoring high. 2finecock-
erels, 150 chicks hatched front March 15 to May
If) .sold at bargains.

J. P. LAMPERT, BRIGHTON. ILLINOIS

GEO. P. PILLING & SON, PHILADELPHIA, PA,

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BBEEDEBS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2- YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock effps $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
638. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

FTOT-DAN ROGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and DodRoville, also Barred Rocks.
Ringrlet strain. Eggs. :;'^2 per 1',. Stock
for sole. TOlmer Johnson. Aigylo, Wis. 4-3

CALWIN R. GliOSS. lOXIIIBITOR AND
Brofdcr of Barn-d Plynx.utli Rocks and S.
C. Brown T..eghorns. Eggs, $2 per 15.
Sqijare Deal Yards. Box SI, Baraga.
Mich. 4-3

lOC.t'.S I'ko.M i:.\imm:i>. i: ri-j-

Wliitf- Rocks. $l..')n iov 1.',. .Single
iJiitwn. Hriff and White Leglionis ^1
Malinin \- T'ros., Wintorrowd. Ills.

AND

< '(inih
for 1.-,.

5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur.
liL 3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

win'ri-: wv.xxix )'r'i'i':s— kcc..'^ from

lien of S hon.s 1 cock picked from 284
l>irds. $2 per K., $3 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Struebing, Freeburg.
111. 4-3

GOOD WHIT J-:
factory iiricts.

Minn.

WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
G. J. Trestcr. Jtuslifnrd.

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to tlieir origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C., Scotch Plains, N. J.
1-10-12

S. C. WHITE, BLACK, BUFF AND DIA-
niond Jubilee Orpington eggs, $2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rlver.<5.

Wis.

2-f

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

(jRl'lNGTi iN.S— OUR JiOOK IS FREE ]V
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff, lUack, White. Cheviot
Farms. Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge & Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

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LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95'/^ In
show room. Prices right. Eggs In season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
Mo. 1-6

INVK.^T IN A SETTING OF MY P.LACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; .$2 per setting. Grand, \ igorous
cockerels for sale. Fred 1j. liaelnuan. Rom-
iilus, N. Y. 4-3

BIG BAliGAINS NOW IN GRAND lURDS.
J'art (it my best breeders fur salt*. I'nscored
females $2 each. Scored fi-males at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
iif the best Black Jjangshans. Have a show
ree ird nndei- le.iding judgts unequaled by
any other breeder. Male liiids each season
score to 951,0. females 90'-. Mailo a clean
sweep in the lOa.stern Wisconsin show this
.■reason and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three ycai-s, all breeds competing,
score 19 ir... A. Slransky, Pi-es. Eastern Wis.
Toulti\- A: P. S. Assn.. < '11111011. Wis. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Egg-s $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens, 1910. Cock scoring
93%, pullets 94, pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. u-»-l2

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. H. M. Moyer, R. 2. Bechtels-
vllle. Pa. . . 11-9-12

S. C. HROWN LEG.UmRNS. EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
l?atchelor, Fairview, Mass. 4.3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOUR ORDEI^S FOR HE.VLTHY

jtrize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1, Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock
at light prices. Eggs for hatching, .$1 per
setting. 4-3

HOUDANS.

IK >ii >.\x.>^ i:x« LI SI \ i:i>v. cockerels

for sale also, one and t\\ o-yeai'-old stock.
All well-bicd birds an<l will please. Eggs
shipped promptly. Send in your order now.
Prico right. H. F. Dolan. Fulda. Minn. 4-3

DORKINGS

SILVER GliAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and lioston winners. Finest yards In
America. See Camplne advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield, N. J. 2-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belglums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest dozen eggs in show, Boston, 1910.
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield. N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from |25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsle, New
York. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

MA.M.M<»TII WHITE HOLLAND TrK'^'l-^VS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith,
Burnt Prairie. 111. 4-3

PIGEONS.

1 OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1503 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. 8-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

(JAl'E.S i.\ cillCK.s. |;i V IJUCKKVI':

treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure .Sent li\ mail on icecijtt of
juice. .",ti cents anrl $1 per bo.\. G. \i. .sie-
uciit lia ]. T. < 'aiil nil. ( ». r,- t

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
giavings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

Stock and Eggs at greatly reduced prices
E. M Long. Box (P F) 0«ceola, Ind.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
^ CHEAPEST AND BEST

18 for 16c ; 26— a-Jo; 60-400: 10O-75O,
Sample IJand Mailed for 80 Stamp.

Frank Myeri. Mfr. B0168. Freaport.lll.

Crown Bone Cutter

ili'ii.s fill cut gricii tioiie Jar I
iiion; t-KKX. (J<t ii Crown B„iie|
...!.""'■'■• ^•■""> <"-'l!iy for ciitiilf.ifu.-.
WiUon HroK., Mux sU'i, KMU»n,l>B.

BEST /*\ADC

Lowest
in Price

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CAPON
TOOLS

OSO. F. FILLING &

lig Profits in Capons

r'upotu/iin^' i.s cu.sy -soon
learned, ilomplete oultit
with free; In.stnictions
postpaid $'J.5().

Idape Worm Kxtraotor 25c

I'oiiltry Marker 25c

I''rt'ncli Killin-j; K n i fc o(.H3

|Cai)on IJook Frco.

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shall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column. Each
advertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may b«s changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months,
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule,
made exceptionally low on this account.

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{ S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS ]

\ EGGS FOR HATCHING

From
pens.

< H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE

< 17 r

four )
First )

pen headed bv a son of a first prize Madison >
Square Garden Cock. $2. for 1,^), f{\. for 50. ?

ELM
<

STREET,

WOBURN, MASS.

^SS. 5

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested, Standard-bred,

?™t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. EVANSTON, ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kapide, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
yon send me your order for Btock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
f3 per 15. $=> per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown, Iowa

y)ON'T OVERLOOK THIS
er people would read your ad if it were
e, just the same as you are reading this )
. See the rates and conditions at the head )
tiis department and send in an ad. It will >
' bring vou good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, >
357 Dearborn Strett, '^ Chicago, ill. )

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

0 Jj None better. 40 first and second

rvcClo* prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at .special prices to
quick buyers. Place egg orders now.

I>. J. BI.I.SS. rarthasre. Mo.

'AnVftna«'E'X'<^LUSlVELY. l^eaders For 12

/milCUUas years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover,
6115 Station St., East End, Pittsburg, Pa.
President Ancona Club of America

Unsurpassed i n
quality. Winners

Houdans and Buff

W«7on«l/\ftAe ^^ highest honors on Hon
TTyanaOUeS dans at Rochester and Can
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $.3 Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y.

II IlllftllW^H f I I lllttMlltl M

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teLINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS \
prices on eggs and stock before buying 5
where. Illustrated circular free. '

4. BUECHLY. Box 10. Greenville. Ohio \

Kellerstrass and Cook Strain of

S. C. White Orpingtons

EUgs $2.00 per 15. also extra fine Barred Ply-
mouth Rock eggs $1 .50 per 15 Satisfaction
guaranteed A. J WALDSCHMIDT,

W futhinnlon. Iowa

RADPrn DAPyC Cockerel mating of
DAKKLU KUtKd the very best strlin.
Pullet line is direct de.scendants or "Louis-
ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
$1.50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. F., Centerville.Iowa

s
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ROSE AND SINGLE COMB ff^,

pcnc five strictly exhibition matings at
IVCUc) $3 00, $4 00 "per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May .30
at a bargain
FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton, IH.

Reichert's White Rocks and '^\

:ier

R. C. White Leghorns J,'„!i«fe''pi

50. $5 per 100. Also some choice breeders at
living prices. These are bargains worthy
vour consideration. Sati.sfaction guaranteed.
E. H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILL.

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92, Hopkinsville, Ky.

Rose Comb Brown V:,^i a?"Me
LEGHORNS

win-
[eridan,
Hartford. Worcester and
Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

White Plume Farm frneS'lo luTid

up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks. White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks.
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER. Prop.. Rt. 1 , Plainville. III.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Priiice.ss laid 291 eggs in a year; .50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice. 10c.
IRA WATSON. - FREDONIA, N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M*

Silver Laced Wyjuulottes, Whit*' Crested
ltlii<*k Polinh an<l Harred I'lyiuouth
KockH. Direct descendantH from Madison ."square
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eight regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, Jan,
4-9. Ifl09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
W"in.Neier«. Prop., L. ]S.4/>, CaHcade, la.

REED'S I

.C. BROWN LEGHORNS and
. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my de.scrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. i:)R F. M. REED.

Wyanet. III.

Light Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and $10 gold special for best
display in A.siatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92% to 9.'i.
.Sd prize ck. .score 92K a"d ckls. for sale.
Mrs. Ed. Bartlett lfi9V4 Oak St New CactV Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora, III.

I. C. R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^,Tv'°^^^n^l

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE, 20. IDAVILLE. IND,

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH .^i^r '11,,° b"!

1>|^/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODK ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire '"Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Kose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, fine combs. Beet stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, ICWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES Jy^^l^l

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
select matings that will produce winners.
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT. Lyons. Wis.

Walker's White Rocks ^ir^NTw

Ca.stle's big show they won all firsts, 3 sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$f) per 15.
BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Castle. Pa-

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest (Jochlns and lirahmas. First prlz;'
and silver cup winners ailWInnepeg, Can., Seattle
A.Y.P.. Minn., 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden,
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKSI°„-;g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Specia^ prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis. Ind- State Show my

;Srd

n».>»>A<1 P R/^/«Lre Won 1st pullet.
Darrea r. IVOCKS hen; 1909 again they

won 1st and 2d pullet, 3d and 4th hen in 1910.

Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd

cockerel. 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.

p:ggs $3 00 for ir>. H. W. BARNETT

24 Bushnell BldR.. Springfield, O..

Columbian I*ly mouth Rocks (Sweets
Strain.) Black-tailed .Japanese and HufT (Jochlu
Hantams, Harred liooks, A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for eggs from my choicest matings
at ».'^.(K» per l.'S, f5.00 per ;?t». Bantam eggs at $2.50
per 15, «4.t)()per80.
E. B. ROBERTS CANASTOTA, N. T.

For Oklahoma

Will now close out the
cream of my S- C. R. I.
nr Rii«t *^*** Stock consisting of 15yearling
"■ DU51 fine birds scoring high. 2 fine cock-
erels. 160 chicks hatched from March 16 to May
16. sold at bargains.

J. P. LAMPERT. BRIGHTON, ILLINOIS

tiCilJ

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's
Royal
Strain are prize wiutiers. They win for me,
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale, prices
rea.sonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck,
LeesevUIe, Mich. Station 23, Detroit. Mich.'

RarlSanf AND 7 OTHER VARIETIES

*^<*'^*»'»**' Standard bred. Special strains
P C DpJ Cheaper than eggs and surer.
!%• V. ^^VU Safe arrival guaranteed. Send

Babies

for circular today. Servo»»
Hatchery. Box 220. Edison. III.

America's Foremost Strains "Jf h t y

Dirprl* ^"'^ lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
I/liCC( c. White I^ejfhorns, Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February ISth, 5 eggs free.
Chas H. Ziegrenfuss, Box Z. Bethlehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males .scoring to 95K females to 9<i.
Eggs balance of season $1.50 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHM AS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Kggs $2 (X) per 15. Please send orders

JNO. F. WOODS. UTILITY FARM. R. 19,

Owensville. Ind.

S. C White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Geese.
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Langshans.
Can please vou. Write for prices.
W. M SAWYER, Box F. Lancaster. Mo.

FFILE'S CATALOtitK give.s
prices of all the leading varletleB of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for Hale and ep:K8 la season,
bend 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFII.E
Freport, III, Dept. A

Quality Strain ItAKKKD ROCKS have
been Hue hred for H» years from foremost win-
ners tn America. Winners at leadfut? sbows
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matlngs
for sale, from these winners or bred in line.

C. C. DRAKK & SON,
Luck Ko.v '4^-4, La llari»e. III.

At INDIANAPOLIS Hebruarv 190«;, my

RarrpH Rnrlfc "'"" ^^^ cockerel. 2d cock.
Ddriea IVUCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908. l.st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 1909, l.st and .3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds. Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with (jtiality for
sale W, W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN. IND

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

EpTg orders hooked now from my 2(K)-egg
strains. Trap nests used. I know just what I am
doing. Birds scoring 91 to 95 wlih a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT— F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-

Shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each,
Hens$l..')0, NapoleoA J. Barnes.
R. D. 7. Box 15„ Winchester, Ky.

Single Comb White

Greatest utility
strain known.
I Pffknrnc Noted for size H% to 7 lb. hens)
LiCguuilia color, typical shape, deep bay
eyes, great vigor and greatest possible epg
producers. Eggs |1..50 per Vr, $»>.00 per 100.
Honesty guaranteed.

MOSELEY. Cambridge. N. Y.. Poultry,

LAKE SHOKK POl I.TRY FARM .

Breed«»r.s of

Hitfh ClasH Silver I^aced Wyandottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BKRGXEIi. Pres. HENRV MAT, Mgr.
South Chicajfo. Ills. R.F D. No :U. Kenosha. Wis.

BUFF 'WYA.NDOTTE^S Cxclt^-

sively^. Ideal shape, solid buff color.
Guaranteed to please you. Eggs and Baby
chicks. Write me today.

GLENN H. BURGOTT.
EDEN CENTER, - N, Y

"Faultless" Hotadans, 287
Eg^ Strain. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low pri<es. Circular free.
Wm. C Snider. Box 105. Kansas. Ills.

Ringlet Barred PlytnotitH
Rocks won all firsts at Oshkosh, U^. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 50 up.
Eggs, best matings $3.i>0 per l") $5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1 50 Lake Vikw Poultry Farm.

T. W. Critchette. Markesan. Wis.

RaKv rhirlfc Eggs for hatching. White
uauy VUlClid Orpington, Barred Rock,
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safety anywhere Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton, Va.

S. C. Black and IVHite Minor*

cas bred tor size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (Sb Son

Box 4.>4 North ISaltiiuore, O.

con MBIAN KOCK.S. COLliMBIAN
WYANliOTTKS, bred from New York.
Buffalo and Rochester winners, 5 firsts 2 st'conda
on 7 entries at Rochester show, Dec. li)()9. Cock-
erels #:} to *l(i. pullets «2 to *rt. Trios #7 to »ir>.
Kt,'Ks #1 7:'> per 1", »8 per :M). Free setting from
I'.est pen with each i?l(» order. Stock guaranteed
F. A.CAMPBKI.r, HONKOYE, X. Y.

S. C. BLACK

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show
ORPINr^TON^ 1909 also several at Ocon-
KJIXI IIIVJIV^IIO oniowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Kgijs from pen No. 1 |5 per 15 : pen No. 2 |2
ptrl5. Dora James Pick Fall River. Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Rofle P'^i^-e Winners FCggs from 1st pen,
l\CUd setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed .satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland. III.

^. L. ANI> \V. WVANDOTTKS, K. C.
RHUI>K ISLAND RHID^ Winners at the
bIgCentervIlle, Iowa and St.Louls shows Write
for catalogue describing the largest purebred
JPoultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matings a specialty. F:gg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chlck.H to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KEARSK, R. 1, Coatsville. Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

Cockerels and
pullets for
sale. Birds score from 94K to 9*;
and will improve your flock
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS nX':'ifc^.

bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $6

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R 5. Box 0022, Rushviile. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

TI IRICFY^ ^^^^^ ^y "^y g^^'a^ prize

t V^ixrvi^ I fcj winner and d i p 1 o ma
Tom. Finest stock to be found. Al.so S. L
Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA, MINN.

LANti.sHA.N.S. I

*. also two «i55.<Ai c
1909 show in hot- <

VVYANl>OTTK.S ANL» LA

Wjuueis at 8t. Louis Show, 1909. a

?<ilver cups at big Perry county 1909 ..

test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge

and Ruff Wyandottes ri per 1.5. 'A setting for «5.

Hiack Langshans l.r>o per l.'). Huffs Bred by li B. «

Schlndler, Partrldgeaud Langshans Itred by ,lohn I

Allen, Allen & .Schindier l*erryviile. Mo- c

\

LIOHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed
*^^* * * er. My stock is excellent, high
BRAHMA S scoring, great layers.
UI\^ni¥I/\0 will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to select from Prices
right. Eggs, .single settings or incubator lots
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Light Brahma Bantams JJf'a" d'fs oM

Square N. Y , Baltimore. Hagerstown, Md.,
Philadelphia, Nazareth, Allentown and Read-
ing, Pa Stock and eggs. Hillside Poultry
Yard*,^ J.S Fry. Prop,. Djspt^ F.. Nazareth,

Wyandottes ^^\^Y^^ *"** white, eiue

Tf jrctllUUUe^ Ribbon Winnersat Defiance
and Toledo. Ohio. V.HO. Kggs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2 00 per
15. Illustrated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter.
Prop.. R. No. 3, Box A, New Bavaria. Ohio

WeHtfall in a AViiiii«^r. He makes no such
claim but his Columbian Wyaiiiloit«H were
winners at Klmlra Poultry Show. .Ian. 191(», first,
third and fourth cockerels, tirst and third pullets
ano first hen In a class of ;u good ones. I have
shape, color and size. Eggs •2.<K) and IG.OO per
setting ( Keatlngs Challenge Strain. )
LouiH WeHtfall, K. .3. W^averly, N. Y

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS ^rd'^

Great Milwaukee Show, 1910. Eggs and

birds tor sale. Send for circular. Eggs from

prize winning S. C. WHITE and BROWN

LEGHORNS.

Dist. Atty. Philip Lehner. Princeton. Wis,

EGGS' ^aR'^e'J^o'ck''''''^" eggs

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K, Reynolds, III.

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PETERSON'S HOUDANS ''' ^".l^'~rr.l^r°" BUFF ROCKS

Ma"tir/^fo?£l?,1h^H?>» M Jo*" "''"^^"•30 full paged plates of prize winners. Houdan Standard.

Mating for Exhibition. Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. EJ>eter>en. President American Houdan Club. 1900 to 11H)7. Bridgton. Maine

HAKE BUFF WYANDOTTE .9

A^ain winners of tKe blu* at La Crosso and Baraboo
ODeCialtV sale this mnntKl breeding pens and trios. I have a number of

wili m^f^ t^ f , monin cockerels scored by Roberts and Shellabarger. which I

for L^H.?„^ L^ scored ami utiscored pullets at $n to $20 for the trios and $7 to $25 for the pens. Send
H^. «o, ^ J^'-- ^^" h '^''] ^^ ^'?*'" headed by my grand old prize winner -Elroy Bov," scored 95^
^L , ^- "'nlVf *■ °^ '^edal as highest scoring cockerel at Minneapolis in 1908. Six'pullets in this
penallsconng9lK to 94%. $:i 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS.

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red.
Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

ISLAND REDS

I have over ."SOq
strong hardy
youngsters on free
range, bred from my prize wiiiners last fall and
winter. Ilinebreed for quality not quantity. Kggs
and stock for sale. AS Matthewi. Wayne, Mich.

Prouty's Partridge PlyT^T^j^^iEri

mout!. Rocks ^r'^:^,^\^"'^,rs^

gains, (iet prices.

O. L. PROUTY. Box 115. New Lothrop. Mich.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C Blk. Orp . Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Reds. Breeders at

greatlv reduced prirt-s GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

ANTIGO, WIS.

EDELWEIS S. C. W. .ToTk":
LEGHORNS

IS in

an d
eggs balance of season.

Send card for circular.

Whilaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

KERSTEN'iS Coltiinblafi Wyandot tes and

^*S*^* orailinaS can always be found among the winners.

GHO. A, KICRSTEN
119 MTest 52 St. (MTasKburn P^rH) Minneapolis. Minn.

COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTES

ers for sale.

Ask. for new mating list
Eggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breed-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

BA

ROCKS

TtriiTnii'l rwi mi mn I'UmiwiirfliiiiiiiiiWMHWl

o. L. & K. L« R.I. REDS

||Mt4-«<«»«W.«^<K^,ia<^ :«

BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS
at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK
Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chici<s.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS. ILL.

RPINGTONS

KFI I PRSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL VVMITE ORPINGTONS

Have you gotten your show winners ready lor the early fjill shows? The state fairs are ri^rht here at hatxl. Are von soU\s to show
there? I! you are not sat shed that tlie hints you raised this \ear will ^et >on the MLrE HIHHONS. we can sunnly \ou with ti.l^ m
>\e did not raise as many hinls this .\ear as ue have heretoiore uv are n..t raisin- as nianv t)inls as we have in past veaVs i nr
MnprMn*'VrC'iM«V'iIm^^ ^l*^'-^ ^'^ exhihited Wits at BALT I-

MORK in JANUARY. 1910, where we won

rirst on Cock, First on Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on F*c:n

making a clean sweep, and VM birds in the class, from America. Endand and all parts of the world. We have cockerels -md n
lets hati'he«l the early part of January, that now ti[) the scales at til/ij and 7 pounds, Thev are the kin<I that will he lieard fr.
during the coming show season, arnl if you are in ne^d of any winners, write us ami tell us just what you want and what von •
willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINNhRS *

mm^rnxvuf^vim v inmrnmamiiLMHiM Mw«g» !><iM««vr.«i« mivwmm^ s, ],jri«.j»juuM&»iw.x

''■ *-^^-" S«^ WCpoH Road K.„..Ci,,M„. |

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CHICAGO, ILL, JULY. 1910

No. 7

JS

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vagant

5

An Old Fancier Who Sees Things Impartially Ex-
presses His Opinions Regarding Overdrawn
Claims for Various Breeds

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

HEX a puultry crank tells me he has
f(jiincl the best breed of fowl on earth,
and every person who does not im
mediately sell out, or give away every
chicken he has on the place and in-
vest in his new found hobby; 1 im-
mediately disi)lay tu his astonished imagination
that J am from Missouri and will have to be shown ;
and 1 do this without the quiver of an eyelash to
let him know or sus])ect that I am one of'the poor
fools who don't know any better.

My thoughts upon this subject are prompted
by the readini; of several articles in some of the
poultry journals, boomino- some varieties to the
utter exclusion , destruction and annihilation of all
the balance.

Now I do not want to say a word against anv
A-ariety in the standard, new or old. Such is not
my ])urpose. Hut 1 do believe that the exaooerated
statements and claims made by some entiuisiastic
breeders are destined to do more harm than -ood.
It seems to be an impossibility for some people
t(' look at their own belonu;in.i>-s except throuf^h tlie
bjo- end of a ma.i;nifyini^- olass ; while their short-
sio-hted nei.qhbors are seen only through the small
end of the miscroscopc. ATr. A. continues to try
to foist his old-fashioned Li.crht Brahmas, or White
Leo-horns on a ^uilible public! Whv don't he
cut their heads off? they are no ^ood'; and raise
Rhode Island Reds; don't he know that inside of
live years there will be nothinn^ but Rhode Island
Reds in the world?

()r Mr. X. is tryin^ to make people believe that
a Cochin can lay an e.G:,J4- and then set on it with-

out breakino- it! Haint he learned vet that a
( ochin can't lay. They set. That's what all those
leathers on their iei^s are for— to set on. And how
on earth can a hen with feathers on her le.qs lay
tVrtile eo-s? Any fool knows it is an utter im'-
possibility. Cochin eo-s that are fertile are alwavs
\'iid by some other hen; and the fool Cochin hen
just sets on them thinkinor she laid them herself,
and the feathers ^irrow on 'the chickens' lei;s after-
wards from "maternal im|)ression !"

Then along- comes the Columbian W'vandotte
man. I Fis birds are the "best in the world;" lay
more dollars worth of eggs in a year; best winte'r
layers; ai.rpass everything ever before introduced
as broilers and roasters: "he" challenges the world
to produce a more beautiful bird. You may
travel from Afaine to the Golden Gate and you
will not find a fowl that has all the qualities (I
presume he means good qualities) of the Columbian
Uyandotle. Xo. there you are Mr. Red man.
[letter sell out yonr Red's and buy those wonder-
tul chickens; won't be anything else around in a
few years.

But this has been going on for twentv-tive <'i-
thirty years. Before the time limit is up that vou
set to wipe everything but Reds oft' the earth, there
may be three of four new varieties to c('>nteii(l
with.

Don't try to make everybodv believe vou have
found a variety that is at least fiftv per cent better
than any other: there are too manv old heads in
the business who know better. Besides, every time
you persuade an amateur to sell off everything
he has and try something new, vou are in'jurin'o-
the whole poultry fraternity. Xiiie-tenths of thein
quitni a tew years disgusted, while, if you quit
makmg- such ridiculous statements, or rather mis-
statements, more n\ them might stick to what they
have and make a success of it. It is ikm the varietv
that maketh the successful breeder: it is the ma
behind the \ariet\.

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PETERSON'S HOUDANS ''' ^."tTA^^el^^r " BUFF ROCKS

Ma°Hn^f^l^^^^^°•''^ °v^ '^*'*' Houdan 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Kxhibition. Management and many other important chapters. Postage ■>" cent^

Rev. C. E. Peter.en. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to liH>7 Bridgton Maine

I have over 50o

strong hardy

youngsters o!i free

range, bred from ray prize winners last fall and

winter. Ilinebreed for ({iialitv not (juantity. Kggs

an(i stock for sale.

Al* ^ BUFF WYAN DOTTED Prouty's Partridge Ply

ly priz
lorcni;
AS Matthew*, Wayne, Mich.

A^ain winners of tHe blu« at I^a Crosso and Baraboo
OpeCialtV sale this monf-h breeding pens and TKIOS. I have a number of

wiiir^o* .u f ! muntn cockerels scored by Roberts and Shellabarger, which I

f^r m^Hno^lc? ^^^^^^ ^nd utiscored pullets at $5 to $20 for the trios and |7 to $25 for the pens. Send

hv h/iJ o^Jj ■ h "^''i ^.*' ''*^.a!'\headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy," scored QS^i

SL flll,rorr«rQ?,V^r°L\T'*^i.f^.^/'^^^''^''''''''y^^°^^ Minneapolis in 1908 Six pullets in this

pen all scoring 91 34 to 94^. $3 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS.

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length

of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red.

Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us.

LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

ISLAND REDS

Will close out
all my season's

mniifK Rn/*L-c ^'feeders at sacrifice prices

momn I\0CKS for quick sale. Real bar-

gains. Oet prices.

O L PROUTY. Box 115, New Lothrop, Mich.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C Blk. Orp , Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Red«. Breeders at

greatly reduced prices GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

ANTIGO, WIS.

HERSTEN'wS Coltimbian Wyandottes and

l-lgot Oratim as can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KERSTEN
11^ West 52 St. ( WasHbt;irn Pi^rK) MiiifieapoHs. Minn.

EDELWEIS S. C. W. frrand

I PPHORNQ ^^^^ balance of season.
LiEiVinUIMliJ Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTES

ers for sale.

Ask for new mating list
Eggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breed-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS
S.C.&R.C.R.1.REDS
BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

~ at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

pleased with results.

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DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

ORPINGTONS

KfiLLERSTRASS

Nof CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have >ou gotten your show vvinners ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are rljrht here at han*!. Are yon going to show
U'*' H.- 'V""! '"■'' ""^ S'it shed that th.' bmls you raised this xear will get >on the BLUE KlfiHONS. we can snpp j vou wiuf ther
We did not raise as nwuiy hir.ls this >ear as we have heretoiore We are n.-t rai-lntr as n.anv binis as we have In imst veirs bnt
MORE [n JANUARV/l!Jr(t whe're we'won^ ''' '"^'''^'^ ^'''' ''^"'^''^ '^'' re.nember the last show where we exhibited mis at bI'ltI-

rirst on Cock, First on Hen, First on Cockerel,

rirst on Pullet and Pirst on li^^ni^\

making a clean sweep, and 131 birds in the class, from America. Entrlan.l and all parts of the world. We have cockerels and nni
lets hatcheil the ear y part of January, that now tip the scales at tiVg and 7 pounds. Thev arf' th«^ kind that will t.e he- rVl f?nm
dur ng the coming show season, and if you are In need ..f any winners, write us and tt-U us just what you want and what von nte
willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the BLUE RIBBOM WI>N ^ KS

Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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CHICAGO. ILL. JULY. 1910

No. 7

About Making Extravagant CI

aims

An Old Fancier Who Sees Things Impartially Ex-
presses His Opinions Regarding Overdrawn
Claims for Various Breeds

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

HEN a poultry crank tells me he has
found the best breed of fowl on earth,
and every person who does not im-
mediately sell out, or give away every
chicken he has on the place and in-
vest in his new found hobby; I im-
mediately display to his astonished imagination
that I am from Missouri and will have to be shown;
and I do this without the quiver of an eyelash to
let him know or suspect that I am one of the poor
fools who don't know any better.

My thoughts upon this subject are prompted
by the reading of several articles in some of the
poultry journals, booming some varieties to the
utter exclusion , destruction and annihilation of all
the balance.

Now I do not want to say a word against any
variety in the standard, new or old. Such is not
my purpose. But I do believe that the exaggerated
statements and claims made bv some enthusiastic
breeders are destined to do more harm than good.
It seems to be an impossibility for some people
to look at their own belongings except through the
big end of a magnifying glass; while their short-
sighted neighbors are seen only through the small
end of the miscroscope. Mr. A. continues to try
to foist his old-fashioned Light Brahmas, or White
Leghorns on a guilible public! Why don't he
cut their heads off? they are no good; and raise
Rhode Island Reds; don't he know that inside of
five years there will be nothing but Rhode Island
Reds in the world?

Or Mr. X. is trying to make people believe that
a Cochin can lay an e^^ and then set on it with-

out breaking it! Haint he learned yet that a
Cochin can't lay. They set. That's what all those
feathers on their legs are for— -to set on. And how^
on earth can a hen with feathers on her legs lay
fertile eggs? Any fool knows it is an utter im-
possibility. Cochin eggs that are fertile are alwavs
'aid by some other hen; and the fool Cochin hen
just sets on them thinking she laid them herself,
and the feathers grow on the chickens' legs after-
wards from ''maternal impression !"

Then along comes the Columbian Wvandotte
man. His birds are the ''best in the world;" lay
more dollars worth of eggs in a year; best winter
layers; ^i.rpass everything ever before introduced
as broilers and roasters: "he" challenges the world
to produce a more beautiful bird. You may
travel from Maine to the Golden Gate and you
will not find a fowl that has all the qualities"' (I
presume he means good qualities) of the Columbian
\yyandotte. No, there you are Mr. Red man.
Better sell out your Reds and buy those w^onder-
ful chickens; won't be anything else around in a
few years.

]>ut this has been going on for twenty-five or
thirty years. Before the time limit is up that you
set to wipe everything but Reds off the earth, there
may be three of four new varieties to contend
with.

Don't try to make everybody believe you have
found a variety that is at least fifty per cent better
than any other; there are too many old heads in
the business who know better. Besides, every time
you persuade an amateur to sell off everything
he has and try something new, you are injuring
the whole poultry fraternity. Nine-tenths of thein
quit in a few years disgusted, while, if you quit
making such ridiculous statements, or rather mis-
statements, more of them might stick to what thev
have and make a success of h. It is not the varietv
that maketh the successful breeder: it is the man
behiiul the varietv.

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POULTRY FANCIER

ism an

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elanism

A Few Thoughts Upon these Two Features of Re-
version Which Exert More or Less Influence Upon
the Fancier's Work

By H. S. BABCOCK

X "XiiL^ht 1^li()ui;hts," Edward Voiiiii
says: "An iindevoiit astronomer is
mad." We mi^lit amend this to
read, without sacrificing any of the
truth : "An undevout poultryman is
mad," for the ])oultryman lives amon^-
the inexplical)le mysteries of life, deals with them
as constantly as a 1:)anker does with coins and l)ills,
and yet, thoug"h used as un(|uestioned facts, they
remain profound mysteries. Life itself is the mys-
tery of mysteries. The transforming of an egg',
])y the mere application of heat, into a downy
chicken is a profound mystery; the doctrines of
heredity, rexersion, atavism, and the like have
never been fully explained and possibly never will
be; and for such facts as albinism and melanism,
science has ])ractically no explanation at all.

At the time when the so-called "white boom"
appeared, when W'liite PI \ mouth Rocks, White
Wyandottes, White Javas. Snowfiakes, Dirgos
and other white phmiaged l)reeds made their advent,
all)inism loomed up large. That some of these
white breeds or varieties were directly descended
from the colored breeds, as for example the White
1 My mouth Rock from the liarred and the White
W3'andotte from llic Silver, without resorting to
an outcross, there can be no doubt. About that
time I i)urchased a flock of Pea Combed liarred
Plymouth Rocks from a breeder in Melrose, Mass.,
and among them was a ])ure white cockerel, one
of the whitest birds 1 ever saw. This flock was
so kept, confined to wired-in inclosures, that there
was no possible chance for an outcross with a white
breed. The breeder kej^t only Pea Combed I)arred
Plymcnith Rocks and l>lack P.reasted Red (lame
liantams and if these had been a cross between
these fowls — not an easy thing to accom])lish on
account of the des])arity in size — a white bird would
not have been reasona])ly expected. Ihit whether
tliese white '*S])orts" were the result of albinism or
of atavism it might be diflicult to say, iov some-
where back in the ancestry of the liarred IMymouth
Rocks there was undoubtedlx a white fowl, and
possibly there may have been one also in the an-
cestry (^f the Silver Wyandotte, lint whatever
may have been the true reason for the appearance
of these white "S])orts" there is no doubt about the
fact of albinism. A\'hite blackbirds and white robins
have been known. 1 have myself seen a white
sparrow in a flock of the brown I^^nglish s])arrows.
A white (|uail was shot some years ago in Southern
Rh(Kle Island. And white cubs have been seen
among the young of the black bear. P)Ut who can
explain the cause of albinism?-' T once asked a dis-
tinguished naturalist and his rei)ly was "the depig-
mentation of the ])igment cells." "Yes," I said, "in
other words they are white because the coloring
cells contain onlv xvhite color." And he lau'diecl

and admitted that was the correct and only answer
that naturalists had been able to give to the ques-
tion. The fact we know as a fact, but the reason
is a mystery, — of that we know^ nothing.

Melanism' is the reverse of albinism, b'or some
reason, to science unknown, l hough Karl Semper
makes a rank guess at it, a creature which should
be of some other color is wholly black. In fowls-
melanism is of rarer occurrence than albinism. Tn
making crosses, in my experimental work, I have
])roduced from fowls, which were buff, black-red
and duckwing in coloration, chickens that were
largelv l)Ut not com])letely black. I have heard of
a case, ha])i)ening some years ago, where a pure
black chicken appeared in a flock of thoroughbred
Partridge Cochins and when a cross with a black
fowl could not be sus])ected, as the Partridge
Cochins were the only breed kept upon the place,
were confined to wire runs, and had been bred in
line for many generations. Of course this case
might have been a case of atavism, but if it was it
was a "harking back" over a very large number of
generations. It seems to me to have the "ear
marks" of melanism, and as such I have always been
constrained to regard it.

It is said, but upon how good evidence I am not
prepared to state, that albinism is most likely Uy
occur among black fowls and melanism among white
ones. In the former case, it is true, we have the
instances where black docks have produced white
chickens in such breeds as the l>lack Spanish, P.lack
Minorca, lUack Java, lilack Russian and the like.
In the latter 1)reed 1 can refer to an instance where
1 sold eggs for hatching and in one of the broc^ds
a pure white chicken was re])orted to me 1)\ the
buyer to have been hatched. lUit I do not know
of a case — at least 1 can not recall one at this writ-
ing— where a i:>ure black chicken was hatched from
the eggs of ])ure breed, uncrossed white fowls.
Yet, as no one can possess com])lete knowledge. I
do not deny that the statement is true. I believe it
to be true in res])ect to albinism, and it does not
seem to be unreasonable that it should be true in
respect to melanism. lUit we need more facts be-
fore we can draw a general conclusion as au abso-
lute verity, and I should l^e glad and grateful to
have every such fact, whether relating to albinism
or melanism, with all the surrounding circumstances
which any fellow-breeder has personallv observed,
reported to me either directly or through the med-
ium of this ])ublication. Perhaps — and one does
not niake it any stronger than that— perhaps a col-
lection of such facts will help tow^ards the solu-
tion of what is now so mvsterious.

Put of what importance is a solution of such
mysteries? 1 don't know. It is possible that the
true solution would put in our hands an effective
instrument for the use of the breeder; it is possible
that the law would have a practical bearing upon
our everyday work in producing or avoiding white
and black coloration. P,ut whatever the result, we
are placed among mysteries and it is our dutv to
solve them if we can. The solution of this mystery
would give us more knowledge, and "Knowledge is
power," and i)o\ver is sometliing to be desired.

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POULTRY FANCIER'-C^^S^^

Summer Necessities

Poultry Houses Should be Constructed in Such Man-
ner that They Can be Changed to Suit Weather
Conditions. How to Remodel Unsatisfactory
Houses

By J. E. WILMARTH

X designing and building a poultry
house, the one idea of the great ma-
jority of poultry men is to make it as
near ideal as ])ossible for winter condi-
tions, and let the rest of the year take
care of itself, and most of such houses
do very well in moderate warm weather, but when
the mercury in the thermometer gets to flirting with
the top of the tube, they are far from comfortable,
as a place of abode.

1\) look out for winter conditions is all very well,
and is the proper thing to do, as winter is generally
the time of greatest profit, especially in eggs, but
when we can just as easily build a structure that
will house our stock as comfortably in hot weather
as in cold, why not do it? A little consideration of
this point is a good thing when you are planning to
build, for nearly every one keeps his stock in the
same house the year round.

The old style closed house was bad enough in
winter, but it was far worse in summer. A good
sweat box, but a poor place for any kind of live
stock to stay in, with the possible exception of the
"mighty mite and lively louse." "Hie modern open
front house is a big improvement in both winter
and summer, in winter it i)rovides sufficient circu-
lation, but we made all provisions against a draught,
but how is this in summer? \Ve human beings
generally want about all the air that is going dur-
ing these hot sultry nights. We are not afraid of a
little draught, we open every window in the room,
and let the wind have full play, why not try a little
of this same thing for our fowls?" The open part
of most open front houses is on the south side, and
this lets old Sol get in full time. The house is far
from comfortable during the day, and the hens stay
out in the yard as much as possible, if there is any
shade for them to get into, but at night they have
to go inside. There is very little circulation of air,
and the hens are sitting on the perches with wide
spread wings and open beaks, being plainly far from
comfortable and consequently not in good condi-
tion for a satisfactory egg yield. Their health is also
seriously affected.

Awnings over the sunny openings will be a big
improvement and a paying investment, and not
necessarily very expensive, for they may be made
of burlaj), tacked under the eves or at the top of the
openings or windows, and then tacked to a stri]) run-
ning along the lower edge of the burlap, then all that
is necessary are short strips sufficient to hold it
away from the building at the lower edge. This will
keep out the sun and rains, but will allow a good
circulation of air. Of course, a regular awning,
same as is used on our dwellings, will be more
ornamental, but will not answer the jnirpose any
better. These awnings keep out the sun's ravs,

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ousing

keep the houses much cooler both day and night,
and after one has used them 1 am sure he will not
want to do without them, but there is still bigger
improvement one can just as easily make, and
this is a means of providing a circulation of air dur-
ing hot weather, for you do not get any appre-
ciable circulation of air, with an opening on one
side of a building only, except there be a very
strong wind blowing, which is seldom the case dur-
ing the summer months, except when we have occa-
sional showers or w^ind storms, and this is the
time when it is cool enough, but when there is but
a light wind blowing, as is the case most of the
time, the air inside the building is practically bot-
tled up, having to come in and go out at the same
opening, which it will not do, to any great extent.
So, providing we have openings on the south side
of our building, the proper thing to do is to also
have openings on the north side. Xow don't hold
your hands up in horror, with visions of colds,
roup, etc. I do not mean for you to cut little win-
dows in the north side, and then put your perches
in front of them, but let us see how you can fix it
without bad results.

Many houses are built with dropping boards,
with the roosts above them, and are along the
north side of the building, in which case any kind
of an opening or window may be cut through the
north wall, below the dropping board, the larger
the better, and having openings on the south side,
you will get a grand circulation of air. with no
detrimental results, for the fowls being above the
dropping platform, are protected therebv from all
direct draughts, but they get the benefit of the cool,
fresh, changing air. If, perhaps, you do not be-
lieve in or your houses are not conveniently ar-
ranged for. dropping boards, but your roost's are
along the north side of the room and two or more
feet above the floor, then you will recpiire a dif-
ferent sort of an opening, or at least one differing
in shape. As stated above, with the dropping
boards, most any shaped opening will answer, but
nithout the roost platform, the opening must be
the full length of the north w^all, but need be onlv
a few inches wide, or high, and I would not advise
over a foot in height, then your fowls being on
perches a foot or more above this opening, the
draught will not hurt them, but they will get the
benefit of it. This sort of ventilation gives us out-
door conditions as nearly as we can get, and results
in a good healthy flock of hens, not using all their
strength trying to keep alive in the sweat boxes
that some breeders use, but they are comfortable
and contented, and consecjuently lay nicely all
through the warm weather, and moult out nicely
in the fall, in fact come through in fine shape in
every way, at least as far as weather conditions
have anything to do with it.

This mode of ventilation may be xaried to suit
different conditions, but some way should always
be provided t(^ get a good circulation of air through
our poultry building during the hot season. This
can easily be arranged when erecting a building
and old houses can also be fixed with little effort
or expense, the idea being to keep the fowls out
of the direct draught, and have the opening large

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enough, so that the draught will not be too con-
centrated at any one point, and it will do them
no harm during the day time. Of course panels
or tight shutters of some kind must be provided
for closing them u]) tight during cold weather, and
as they should be taken out and replaced but once

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Success Depends Upon a Proper Start. The Main
Factors are too Often Overlooked by Beginners

By A. W. ANTHONY

ITH the coming of each season there
are many persons who wish to make
a beginning in poultry breeding and
it is obviously to their advantage to
start right. While no one can prevent
the clearly unfit from entering this
industry, as no one can prevent such persons
from engaging in other lines of business for which
they are not adapted; and while no advice can be
at once so comprehensive and detailed as to enable
beginners to escape every mistake; still there are
certain well-delined principles, wdiich will assist the
novice in avoiding some of the most serious mis-
takes and some of the most discouraging errors,
the statement of which will prove helpful to them.
To start aright the beginner should start small,
with one or two sittings of eggs, or a trio or small
pen of fowls. Until one has gained experience in
the care and management of poultry, it is folly to
attempt to handle fowls on a large scale. There are
many petty details to be learned, each seemingly
trivial but nevertheless essential to success, and
these can be learned as well, if not better, with a
few chickens as with many, and at less expense and
risk. The time to enlarge one's operations is when
he has gained knowledge and confidence through
practical experience.

The beginner should start with one variety and
stick to that until he has learned all the intricacies
of its care and its breeding. Then, if he desires
more than one kind, he can add another variety,
and when he has mastered this, another, and an-
other, until his desire for variety is satisfied. But
he will find that a single variety will give him
""food for reflection," and matter for study, and the
successful breeding of it will not be the simple and
easy thing he imagined when he first undertook the
work. Indeed, he will find that many first clas^^
breeders are better satisfied to breed one variety
w^ell than to breed many varieties indiflPerently, and
most breeders are contented with a very few varie-
ties.

As the beginner will, if he is wise, start with a
very few fowls of one variety, and will stick to that
variety until he has mastered it, it is desirable that
he should start with the right variety. In deciding
this question he should be guided largely by his per-
sonal likes in regard to color and shape although
there are other factors that should not be over-
looked.

Having selected his variety, the beginner will
plan for the house in which it is to be kept and the
yards in which it is to run. Here, too, he will act

during each year, hinges are not necessary, as they
may be screwed in so as to be readily removed, and
should be well battoned to keep out all draughts
in winter. These shutters should not be removed
until nights are quite warm, and should be re-
placed as soon as nights get cold again.

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wisely if he studies carefully before he builds. Suc-
cess depends to a considerable extent upon how
fowls are housed. There is abundant literature up-
on the subject, and it should not be neglected. That
is the best house which will keep his fowls in health
and induce them to do their best. A house, which
will do this must provide for the needs of the
fowl's nature, secure the necessarv warmth, light,
pure air and the like, and must not be prohibitive
in ccst. Yet true economy takes a wider view than
the first cost, and it pays to have the house con-
venient and constructed so as to save labor. It pays
better to spend an extra dollar in construction than
two extra dollars in care. The labor bill may be
a ncu"li"ible quantitv where onlv a few fowls are
ccTncerned, but the beginner does not expect always
to keei) only a few. and, when many are kept, labor
is an important item in the cost of production. So
it pays to study and plan before beginning to build.

And finally, though the subject is not exhausted,
the beginner will wish to know where he can learn
all these things. He will find it profitable to own
at the start one or two good general books on poul-
try breeding — and more if his means will permit — •
a copy of the Standard of Perfection, and to become
a subscriber to one or more good poultry journals.
The latter he must have, because they serve a
double purpose, they keep his interest stimulated,
and they give him the latest information in relation
to the poultry industry. Published books are sta-
tionary. The truths, which they contain, always
remain true, but they do not, except as they are
rewritten and republished, provide for the advances
made in poultry breeding. But the poultry journals
do this. Each new idea is recorded, each new ad-
vance is made known, and he who would keep
abreast with progress, must know these new ideas
and understand in what direction advances are mak-
ing. So while good books are to be valued, poultry
journals are indispensable. Whatever else one de-
nies to himself, he can not aflFord to deny himself
the pleasure of subscribing for and reading his fa-
vorite poultry journal. Fortunately the subscrip-
tion price is low enough to be within the reach of
the slenderest purse, and no one need be without
on, or two, or even more, poultrv jcnirnals.

It is often a puzzling question whv some hens,
after setting eighteen days faithfully, suddenly
abandon their nests and eggs, even though they are
carefully fed and watered and have been regular] v
dusted with insect powder and kept free from ver-
min. Such actions increase one's respect for the
incubator.

Until the included yolk has been absorbed the
newly hatched chicken is not readv for food.

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Sparks from the Emery Wheel

Timely Pointers and Reminders that May be Read
with Profit. A Lot of Meaning in a Few Words

By H. S. BABCOCK

When it becomes desirable to double up broods
of hen-hatched chickens, give the older chickens to
the hen which hatched last. She will take and care
for them. Reverse the process and you may reason-
ably expect a lot of dead chickens.

The time required for a chicken to absorb the
yolk, which it takes into its body just prior to
hatchinq-, will var}^ from twenty-four to seventy-
two hours, forty-eight hours perhaps beinp^ about
the average period.

It is a singular fact that chickens, which will,

A RANKIN PHOTO AND HALF TONE.
Tlie above cut portrays a Barred Rock pullet in a pullet mat-
ing: l)en at the yards of D. F. Palmer. The photo was not re-
touched in anyway and the bird is shown just as she was taken
from the breeding pen without any preparation of plumag-e,
etc. The photo was taken by Mr. Ode I^. Rankin. Maywood. 111.,
and the cut made by his engravers. He makes a specialty
of this work for breeders of all varieties and his prices are
very reasonable. Mr. Rankin is a successful experienced
breeder. Our readers can ship birds to him for photographing
and know that the stock will be properly handled and cared for.
Write to him for prices on work you man need done now or
later.

when mature, have laced feathers, are in their first
plumage barred.

Sunshine is good for the fowls and good for the
poultryman. A man upon whom the physical sun
shines and in whose light he constantly dwells, is
apt in some way, to transmute these rays into spirit-
ual sunshine, which makes him an agreeable com-
panion and a helpful associate. "Get out of my
sun," was the demand of Diogenes; get into the
sun is the command of wisdom.

Tnless one is very familiar with a variety he will
be unable to cull the chickens for defective plumage
until they get their second feathers.

It is no uncommon thing for the flight feathers
of a young chicken of a buff or a black-red variety

to be white, and for such chickens, when they get
their second feathers, to replace the white flights
with those of the proper color.

Tn black-red fowls, the first plumage of the male
chickens is similar to and often identical with that
of the females. The male coloration comes only
with the second crop of feathers.

A peculiarity of the moult of a black-red Game
Gock is that the narrow hackles of the neck are at
first replaced with broader feathers, usually very
much darker than the true hackles, and these in
turn are replaced by the narrow, pointed hackles,
so that a double moult is required for the neck of
the Game Cock.

The Rouen drake, like its progenitor, the Mallard,
undergoes a double moult annually, assuming first
a plumage somewhat similar to that of the duck,
to be followed by the resplendent plumage of the
drake.

Monstrosities, like four-legged chickens, are often
interesting, but their value to the practical poultry-
man is nil.

The breeds of ducks, descended from the wild
Mallard, have this common peculiarity, that there
are recurved feathers in the tail of the drake.

The Muscovy drake has no recurved feathers in
its tail. The Muscovy is not only a different breed
but a different species from our other standard
ducks.

Crosses of different species are often possible, but
as a rule, subject to some exceptions, the resulting
j^rogeny are sterile.

An experienced breeder can usually distinguish
at a very early age the cockerels from the pullets,
but occasionally a pullet will be so masculine and
a cockerel so feminine in appearance that mistakes
will be made.

Early culling l)eing desirable, it. is necessary for
a breeder to thoroughly know his variety so as to
make no mistake when he begins the process.

Study of books is helpful, but it never can take
the place of an actual study of the breeds.

A standard furnishes a common ideal for all breed-
ers of any given variety, and is essential to unify
their efforts.

If every breeder were a law unto himself how long
would there be any unity in the breeds?

It is well to have a diversity of varieties, but it
is not well to have diversity in a variety.

A poor standard lived up to is better than a good
standard wholly disregarded.

The man who mixes brains with his chicken
food will obtain success.

Some things will not mix naturally, as oil and
water. I^ut brains will mix successfully with any
kind of effort.

*TJke produces like" with more or less unlike-
ness.

You may jump everybody else but you can't jump
the printer and succeed.

The natural breeding season is the season when
breeding is most profitable.

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Pqtji "TDV PaMPTFR Annual Meeting of the A. P. A.

Published under the name Fancy Fowls for 1 0 years.
1897 to 1907.

Entered »a Second Class Matter, Sept. 28, 1907, at the

Post Omce at Chicago, 111., under

Act of March 3. 1 879.

Published the 15 th of each month by

POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO.

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FRANK HECK.

Editor

Subscription price in United States and pos-
sessions 25 cents per year.

Subscription price in Chicago, Canada and
foreign countries, 50 cents per year.

All subscriptions are immediately discontinued
when the time expires for which they have been
paid.

Requests for advertising rates will be given
prompt attention.

Changes of ads must be received by the I st of
the month. New ads must be received not later
than the 10th of the month.

The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
in character. It is the only poultry journal pub-
lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

July, 1910

.\othinti: lu'cdfnl is too small to
(lemaiid attention.

Xo man can wholly fail who is de-
termined to prexail.

Be good to the L»rowin,n- l)roo{ls
and you will find in the end that you
have been j^ood to yourself.

What will it profit a man to hatch
out a fine lot of chickens and let
them perish for the want of proper
care?

It is well to admire a breeder who
ha.N done something worth while. ))ut
it is better t<» do .Nomething 3<>ur-
self.

You can't always control heredity
Init you can environment. Do wdiat
you can before attempting what you
can not.

Delve into the mysteries of breed-
ing as much as you like, liut don't
neglect the every-day obvious facts
and duties of food and drink and sani-
tary conditions.

It is the little things that count — do
them and the great things will take
care of themselves, or at any rate
you will be able to take care of them
when they come.

Some things are true, even if we
iiexer have seen them. Albinism is
a fact, though many breeders never
had an albino chicken. Melanism
is also a fact, though its appearance
is so rare that few breeders have
even seen a case of it.

It is the duty, as is should be the
pleasure, of every member of the
American J^)ultry Association, who
can possibly' do so, to attend the
annual meeting.

In the earlier days, some ol the
meetings of the Association were de-
xoted, for the most part, to routine
l)usiness, necessar}'. indeed, but not
of absorbing interest, and only those
meetings at which the Standard was
to be revised were regarded of great
importance by the general member-
ship. l)Ut in these days, when the
Association i> reaching out in vari-
ous directions to better the condition
of the jjoultry industr\'; when it has
a radically different constitution,
which, like all attenijits at legislation,
re(|uires amendment from time to
time to make it more effecti\e and
useful: when new propositions are
being brought to the attention of the
member >. the correct solution of
which demands the combined wis-
dom oi the membership: every meet-
ing is an imjx^rtant meeting.

Without attempting to forecast the
business which will be transacted at
its next meeting, we have no hesi-
tation in saying that the association
needs the presence of every member,
and every member who is present,
will be glad that he is there. It is
well to select and elect officers in
whose judgment and integrity im-
plicit confidence can be placed: but
it is not well to stop there and think
that one's full duty is done. The as-
sociation needs your personal coun-
sel; the officers desire your wise as-
sistance: and the great industry asks
you to contribute from your >tores
of exi)erience and wisdom suggestion
and ad\ice designed to promote the
general welfare.

-And so we urge every member,
who ])ossi])ly can be jiresent. to at-
tend the annual meeting of the
.American Pf)ultry .\ssociation. It
may be impossible for some to at-
tend, and their absence is excusable:
others may be able to attend by mak-
ing a little sacrifice, and they should
make it. for it will i)ay them well in
the long run; still others can be there
.iust as well .-i> not. by planning to do
.<o, and they should so ])]an. T.et the
attendance be the greatest in the
history of the American Poultry .\^-
sociation. and thus establi.sh a pre-
cedent for all other meetings to fol-
low.

All aboard for the annual meeting
of the American Poultry Associa-
tion at St. Louis, .\ug. l.")th to 20th.

Semper Paratus

"Semper I'aratus." always ready, is
an excellent motto for a nation or
an individual, 'ihe best guaranty of
peace is a preparedness for war. and.
acting upon this i)rinciple. the I'nited
States continues to build and e(|uip
warshii)s.

This motto is especially appropri-
ate for the fancier. The present, how-
soever satisfactory, should not blind
his eyes to the needs of the future.

Xot forgetting the things which are
behind, realizing fully the demands
of the i)resent. he should, neverthe-
less, have a weather eye for the
future.

In the near future, so near that
it is almost upon us, will come the
fall shovvs. h\)r them there will be
needed, throughout the country,
thousands of exhibition birds. Many
of these birds will be reared bv those
who exhibit them, but many of them
will be purchased. What is the fan-
cier going to do about it? A little
farther off, Init still (piite near, are the
winter shows, and for them many
thousands of specimens will be pur-
chased at very satisfactory prices. Ts
this an item of interest to the fan-
cier? And still farther off, but by-
no means distant, will be a great de-
mand for high class breeding stock.
Thousands ui)on thousands of dollars
will be paid for these birds. Does
this ]jrospect concern the fancier at
all?

The fancier, whose motto is "Sem-
l)er i)aratus," has hatched a goodly
lot of chickens and ha> done and is
doing all within his ])ower to secure
their rapid development. \\y this time
he will know about how many of them
he will ha\e for sale, about what
their (piality will be, and about how
much money they should bring him
.Xnd he will further know that this
knowledge will be of interest to others
than himself, and therefore it is his
duty to share it with the i)ublic. He
knows that, as *"The early bird gets
the worm," so the early advertiser
gets the trade. Therefore, he will be
early in his announcements, lie will
reason somewhat after this fashion.
".An early advertisement costs no
more than a late one, although it is
much more effective. If a man is
going to lish in a pool where there
are some large, handsome fish, the
best time to do it is before they have
been all caught, and while they are
still hungry and undisturbed. And
just so it is in securing customers —
the time to droj) a line to them is
when they are ready and anxious to
buy." The reasoning is sound. The
early advertisement reaches the buy-
er in time to secure his trade. .And
the tancier, who is always prepared,
will be ready with his advertisement
in time to secure his share of the cir-
culating medium, which will be paid
for exhibition birds for the fall and
winter shows and breeding stock for
next season's operations.

Is your motto. "Semper paratus"?
If not. whv not?

T(» hatch well, rear well, and sell
well, are three elements of success
in the poultry industr3^

Don't deem anything impossible be-
cause you have never succeeded in
doing it. Perhaps another by adopt-
ing a better method has succeeded
wherein your failed.

It you have accommodations for
one hundred chickens don't try to
raise five hundred. A few chickens
well cared for ])ay better than many
ill-cared for.

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This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

A CRITICISM OF THE PRESENT

SYSTEM OF LICENSING

JUDGES.

"Fools rush in," etc., is perhaps my
best excuse for writing this article
but it is high time some one devised
a plan or i^lans better than the pres-
ent method of licensing poultry judges.
What is a license? \\'ebster defines
it as "a permit." Such being the case,
a judge without a license has no right
or i)ermit to judge, and yet if he is
not a judge and has not judged sev-
eral shovvs he can not get this li-
cense or permit. This puts a would-
be judge in a position similar to the
Son of h>in that had to wear his
boots for a week before he could get
them on.

After an applicant has proved his
ability to the satisfaction of several
Associations he must get a recom-
mendation from tive licensed judges.
Perhaps some of them have judged
for the same Associations and did
not .give the satisfaction that the ap-
])licant did. but that does not matter.
he got his license simply b-- asking
for it when the first batch was
ground out. lie passed no examina-
tion and fullilled no recjuirements.
yet his ap])roval helps to obtain and
his (lisai)proval helps to defeat an
ap])lication. This may be law but is
it justice? Such plans or laws do
not reflect greatly to l)usine.s> ability
of the great .American Poultry .Assc)-
ciation. Writer has no personal
complaint to make as he has never
asked for a license and never will
until we lia\e a fair and just exam-
ination. So much for criticism now
for a plan. 1 would submit the fol-
lowing, not perfect to be sure and
would hope someone would greatly
imi)rove it.

Let there be appointed a commit-
tee to prepare and give the examina-
tion and if the ai)plicant wishes to
judge by score card let him score
several birds of different varieties,
and not only score them once but
several times. Let him state also
what the cuts are for. If he wish to
use the comparison system let him
go over the same birds several times
and see if he can pick the same
ones each time (they don't always
now). Xot only should a judge
know the value of each section but
he should know where each section
belongs. Only last winter writer
showed under a licensed judge and
had a bird cut one i)oint for crooked
heel bone, the rear of which turned
to one side, the cut was just and
right but being put in as a breast
defect it placed the fowl's breast
just back of the legs. Such slight
mistakes could receive attention in
an examination. Then why not is-
sue a certificate instead of a license?
Did you ever hear of a teacher, doc-
tor or other professional person get-

ting a few of his fellow practitioners
to sign his application and then be-
ing issued a license without a certi-
ficate of ability issued by competent
authority? Hardly, so I say give us
one and all an examiiration. and if
we pass give us a certificate that will
be of value as proof of our ability,
not merely a license that will permit
us to do the same things we are per-
mitted to do without it.
P.onaparte, la. L. G. Housholder.

THE COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTE AGAIN.

Can Air. Kersten give any logical
reason why the primaries in the fe-
male Columbian Wyandotte should
be solid black? If he cannot give a
reason, is there any other breeder
that can do this? Can he show
where this wing adds anything t,(>
the beauty of the bird as viewed in
the yard or in the show room? Can
he show where this wing adds any-
thing to the utility qualities of the
bird?

My contentions are that the other
more important sections are being-
neglected for this part of the bird
that is hidden from view. This sec-
tion cannot even be shown in a pho-
tograph without placing the bird in
such a position that you have to
i)racticallv write above the bird-
"This is a chicken." Had I looked
far and wide ! could not have found
l)hotographs that would more thor-
oughly illustrate what 1 am con-
tending for than the three females
<howii by Mr. Kersten in the June

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Poultry Fancier. While it is pos-
sible that the wings on these three
females are very good, there is evi-
dently some white showing in the
upper web of the primaries. The
wings are not suf^ciently spread to
determine this. The birds show
clean backs, but the necks arc mis-
erable excuses for that which is de-
sirable in a Columbian Wyandotte.
Mr. Kersten nor no other breeder
can produce ten percent females
with wings that have absolutely no
white showing in upper web of any
feather in the j^rimaries with the
neck that has the required amount
of black with fairly good lacing and
tail coverts with a narrow lacing
without a back that shows consider-
able black on surface.

There is no possibility of produc-
ing the wing required in the female
from birds with a clean back, both
male and female, unless both male
have this wing and a mating of this
kind will not produce ten percent of
wings like the parent stock. The
tendency in the Columbian Wyan-
dotte like the P)rahma is to breed
light, the wing more so than any
other section. There is no breeder
of Light l)rahmas that will claim he
has ever prcKluced ten percent fe-
males with absolutely no white
showing in the upper web of any of
the primary feathers in birds that
had absolutely no black showing on
surface.

A mating like Air. Kersten ad-
vises would not produce three per-
cent of the females with a wing
good enough to pass under the Re-
vised Standard unless both male and

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female had primaries that were
Standard in color.

Mr. Kersten possibly has bred the
Light Brahma and knows from ex-
perience that Brahma females with
solid black primaries were in the
majority, but the years of experi-
ence I had with Brahmas did not
prove this to be a fact and while I
do not like to boast of my achieve-
ments aloncT any line, I believe that
I had reasonable success with them.
In fact, I was so successful in breed-
ing the Brahma, that in our little
Southland I was called the Brahma
King.

It is possible to go just so far
with a Columbian female wing and
retain the white surface in the back.
I am speaking of birds that have the
proper amount in neck and tail and
not females with scarcely any black
m the neck. As far as you can go
with this wing, is two or three
feathers with absolutely no white
showing in upper web. , The other
feathers will run about one-six-
teenth to one-eighth white. You can
produce birds with this Aving at a
fairly good per cent, about fifteen to
twenty percent. The birds running
darker than this will positively show
some black in the surface Avith pos-
sibly an exception of one in a hun-
dred.

Is it worth our while to sacrifice
fifty percent of our females to se-
cure this one bird? I am still of the
opmion that we would make more
progress with the breed by giving
more attention to the neck and tail
and the shape of the Columbian
Wyandotte.

N^ishville, Tenn. T. Reid Parrish.

* *

A SIDE LIGHT ON HEREDITY.

The truth of one age is the super-
stition of the next. The last word
upon any scientific question has not
been uttered. With advancing know-
ledge theories must suffer mutation.
What seems final to-day may become
only mitial tomorrow. Further in-
vestig^ation with improved instru-
ments may wither our earlier con-
clusions. We are always presuming
but never arriving at the truth.

Consumption, long regarded as a
constitutional disease, and inherited
by the child from its parent, is now
regarded as non-inheritable. The
present view seems to be that only
a tendency towards the disease, or a
weakened resistance to its germs, is
inherited, and the cases of apparent
inheritance by the child from its
parent are explainable as the in-
heritance of an infected environment.

The latest iconoclastic statement
upon heredity appears in an English
monograph upon the "Influence of
Parental Alcoholism on Offspring."
In this, after patient investigation, the
conclusion is reached that the health,
intelligence and habits of the child
are not affected by the intemper-
ance of the father, and are affected
by the intemperance of the mother
only to the extent of her diminished
care, and an increased liability to ac-
cidents, and failure of adequate nour-

ishment. The increase of mortality,
which may be detected in the children
of drunkards, seems to be due entirely
to the latter cause. In other words
there is only an environmental, not
a constitutional inheritance.

Of course such statements as the
above are not to sweep us away from
our moorings and lead us to the con-
clusion that heredity enacts no im-
portant role in the drama of life.
But they should give us pause and
cause us to re-examine the founda-
tions of our belief in the effects of
heredity. If upon such re-examina-
tion it shall be found that constitu-
tional diseases are not inheritable but
are a matter of environment, we shall
have gained much. We shall see
more clearly than ever the necessity
of supplying a sanitary environment
for ourselves and our live stock. We
shall be encouraged to do this by the
assurance that we have it in our
power to prevent such diseases.

But we must not minimize the im-
portance of avoiding, in breeding
operations, a tendency towards dis-
ease, or a weakened resistance to its
assaults. It will be desirable to pro-
vide a sanitary environment, but it
will be even more desirable to secure
stock which is constitutionally strong
and able to resist powerfully the as-
saults which disease many make.
Germs of disease may be brought
from afar. Birds, animals and in-
sects may bring them, they may be
carried in the food we purchase and
in the water we use, or they may
ride on the wings of the wind.
Wherever they lodge, be the environ-
ment as sanitary as it may, if they
Imd living creatures with weakened
powers of resistance, if in them there
IS a tendency towards disease, the
germs will find a suitable soil for
growth, and disease and loss will
follow. But if our fowls are bred
from healthy and vigorous parents and
are reared in a sanitary environment,
they will have rugged constitutions
and be able to throw off, without
apparent injury, the noxious germs
which have been brought to them.
Despite the doubt brought upon the
inheritability of many diseases, the
practical attitude of the breeder will
not and should not change. He will
continue to select in the future, as
he has selected in the past, only
healthy fowls as breeders. Diseased
birds, birds lacking in constitutional
vigor, will still be rejected from his
breeding pens. But. and this is the
important thing, he may be led to
adopt sanitary measures with more
vigor and thoroughness, if he realizes
the importance of a healthful environ-
ment. Clean houses, abundance of
pure air, sound food, pure water —
these riiatters seem to "loom up
large," if environment may make or
break the health of his fowls. He
will strive so to breed his fowls that
they will have no tendency towards
disease, and so to rear and keen them
that disease germs will have the min-
imum tendency to appear upon his
premises and the minimum effect if
they unfortunately do appear.

TT. S. Babcock

Some Chicken Jokes

JQggPH DAGLE. Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry As.soci.tioii Member Rnff w^i.
e?gs: i--j;^^j;;\-^^-^^- scoring a^d .sell'yo^' higt'cuL^ ^;^k^^S

Even the hens are roosters — at
night.

He He

When Goldsmith wrote, "I love
everything that's old," he probably
was not thinking of, and did not in-
tend to include, eggs.

When the bibulous poultryman at-
tempted to direct his wandering steps
by the glow of the dog star, he was
making light of a Sirius matter.

"It costs a heap to keep hens,"
said Farmer Corntassel, "Mine eat
corn by the peck." So do mine.

Four pecks may make a bushel in
the arithmetical tables, but. when it
comes to hens, it takes many pecks
to make a bushel.

"All is not gold that glitters," said
the old hen, as she picked up a piece
of glass, on which the sun was shin-
ing, and swallowed it for grit.

The farmer's crops and the hens'
crops are unlike in this particular;
the first can not be too large, and
the second can.

"What made you give that hen a
hundred eggs? She can never hatch
them. "I know it," the boy replied.
"I wanted to see the old fool spread
herself."

The most economical incubator up-
to-date is the one projected by a
certain Dutchman, who filled a barrel
with eggs and set a Langshan hen
on the bung-hole.

"The yellow peril" does not refer
to the popularity of the Buff" Cochin,
though both may be referred by
China.

He He

If boards of health, in tlieir warfare
on flies, would enlist base-ball player^
and chickens, they would have a better
chance of ultimate success, for both
are famous for catching flies.

He He

The "Xaked Necks" ought to be
great society fowls. They are always
in evening dress.

"De June bug am a humbug." said
Uncle Rastus, "He bumps agin de
window panes, makin' vou a feerd
widout no reason dahfo'h. When 1
wuz in de hen-coop"— "Whose hen-
coop, Uncle Rastus?" "Suh! Yauah
cuhiosity am too seahchin.' suh."
And he walked away with indignation
on his brow.

* *

A dropped egg may be an appetiz-
ing dish^ for an invalid, or it may be
a "mess"; it depends upon how' and
when it was dropped.

♦ *

Oh! ])esky are the ways of hens,
Whate'er the breed, or great or
small!

When eggs are cheap thcv lav like
fish,

When dear they do not lav at all.

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i^ertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

H. S. Babcock. sometime and
some where, has said that you can't
have everything in one fowl. Of
course not, Mr. Babcock, for if we
did, where would the wherewithal
for feeding the other fowls be found?
We don't want everything in one
towl. It would'nt pay.

Jack London, anent the Johnson-
Jefferies fight, spoke of "aching
rounds," but we should think that a
boil on the thigh would beat any
prize fight for an aching round

^ As to the connection between prize
fighters and prize poultry a reader in-
forms us that "prize" is common to
both, and that in the fighter "fowls"
often play a conspicious part.

He *

The black cock seems to have been
too much for the white cock at Reno,
but. then, nature gifted the former
with a head for such things, so he
should have come out ahead.

* *

From the lime when the augurs
made their predictions from observ-
ing the entrails of a chicken, augur-
ies have been suggestive of crooked
things, and augurs have been great
bores.

Jefiferies declares that he heard the
call of the white race to enter the
prize-ring again, but he evidentlv

POULTRY FANClERr

heard it with only one ear. He should
hear with both ears the next time, or
not hear at all.

Now is the time to advertise the
superiority of all things black, with
suitable references to the "go" be-
tween Johnson and Jefiferies; — Black
Orpingtons, Black Wyandottes. Black
Langshans, Black Minorcas, Black
Leghorns and Black Hamburgs ought
to have the call at the present mo-
ment.

Will the provision dealers seize the
present as a suitable occasion to raise
their prices on Ham? If they do, will
the price of eggs rise simultaneously?
Ham and eggs usually go together.

Shem, Ham and Japhet — Ham has
knocked out Japhet, but where does
Shem come in? Some will perhaps
say that Shem should be spelled with
an "a" and then there would be no
difficulty in accounting for him. In
that case all three of the sons of
Noah would have been present at
Reno's Independence Day celebra-
tion.

In these "piping times of peace"
it is interesting to note how sedulous-
ly family newspapers condemn cock
fights and prize fights and how zeal-
ously they give the details of each,
of course to emphasize the need and
value of their condemnations.

* *

The New York Herald is respon-
sible for the following veracious ac-

Silver Laced Wyandottes and Salmon
Faverolles

r^^ (^7 per lo. oiocK lor saie. sena

ELLSWORTH, WIS.

Winnings for 1910

at Minneapolis and

Duluth. 13 firsts, C

wn in the

.seconds. 3 thirds, in the largest and best cla.sses ever sho ^

west. I will guarantee satisfaction on anything bought of me ISees
J2 00 per 15. Stock for sale. Send for catalogue ' ^'

C. P. McANDREW

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS I

Winners at Milwaukee, January
1910. 1st pullet. 3rd cock. 4th cock-
won all firsts and Gold Special for best display in American cUss^" Two grand'Vens miuTfo^
the egg trade headed by and including these winners with other females of equal quality. Eggs
from these raattngs at $3 00 per 15. without reserve. A few choice cockerels and pullets for sSle
Satisfaction guaranteed. ^ oa»^.

QUALITY WHITE ROCK POULTRY YARDS. W. R. ABBOTT. Prop.. Ft. Atkin«,n. Wi..

^/kfHKTF J?/1/*H^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^'^ ^^^^ ^'" w'" '" *he show
^^"'If^m mm%0%^mmm9 room and fill the egg basket. Our birds

■"■■■■""■■■~~~~"~~-~— -"—--■--------- are big, White, beauties, strong in good

WHITE WYANDOTTES Ssf1^S""aJ

liveng prices.

BERWYN POULTRY YARDS,

BOX P., BERWYN, ILL.

"MAJESTIC I."
5th Cockerel. Chicago. Dec. '08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND
.ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning ntales and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack?
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, 111., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910,
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. III.

count of the effects of food. "By
feeding his hens on a mixture com-
pound largely of fine coal dust, Frank
J. Dedrick, a farmer of Oxford, has
produced a breed of fowls that lay
coal-black eggs. What is the white
of an ordinary t^^, Mr. Dedrick says,
has entirely disappeared, but each egg
contains enough coal oil to half fill
his barn lanterns. Three weeks ago
Mr. Dedrick put a setting of thirteen
of these cgg.s under one one of the
Ethopian hens. Yesterday she
hatched out a quarter of a pound of
coke and two small lumps of pure
carbon. Four of the eggs disap-
peared, and to-night the farmer found
another hen sitting on them, having
made a nest in a coal scuttle. He
broke the eggs open and found a
slight deposit of charcoal on the in-
side of the shells."

After the portentous performances
of farmer Dedrick's hens, it was not
surprising that Jack Johnson proved
to be the ''black peril" to Jim Jef-
feries. Of course it went without
saying that, if Johnson "got there
with both feet," there would be no
standing room in Reno for Jefiferies,
— he'd have to go down.

* *

The hatching of eggs and the
hatching of ideas are very dissimilar,
although they have this in common
that considerable brooding is a pre-
requisite.

If "an egg is full of meat," as hath
been said of old, no further explana-
tion of the high prices of eggs need
be sought.

* *

\i a single feather, in the wrong
place, may disqualify an otherwise fine
cock, why should we, when an ex-
hibitor wins a notable success, speak
of it as "a feather in his cap"? A
cap is no place for a feather, at least
in these days.

The up-to-date poultrv show re-
porter no longer speaks of the poul-
try judge "donning the ermine;" he
dons the linen duster.

The duster is an appropriate in-
signia of those poor judges whose
chief business is to scatter dust into
the eyes of exhibitors.

Good judges deserve praise, poor
ones need instruction, neither get
their full deserts.

"The survival of the fittest" is a
phrase well understood by those who
know how to prepare their birds for
exhibition.

* *

"It is better," says the fakir, "to
have a feather in your cap than to
have it on the shank of a Plymouth
Rock which you arc exhibiting."

An oat is a small matter, but a
note, when your name is signed to
it, may be quite a serious matter.

"In (icrmlnnd," which the State
University of Wisconsin stands spon-
sor for, is even more audacious than
Rostand's "Chanticler." the principal
characters in which are the bacilli of
pneumonia, tuberculosis, tetanus, and
the like. Now, who will give us a
combination of the two. introducing

siiclt characters as the germs of
"black-head," white diarrhoea, "roup"
aiui so on? [lere are threat possibil-
ities for the fowl play-wright. VVould-
'nt it be a touching scene if the mas-
culine germ of black-head should fall
in love with the delicate, fair daughter
W the germs of white diarrhoea!
Bah! It would make a hen sick!

The poultryman will not increase
his stock of grit by swallowing glass
bottles or their contents, that is, some
kinds of contents.

* ^

Grit is a good thing for a hen or a
hen-man.

"Xever say die," exclaimed the
young turkey as he escaped from the
hands of the man who had caught
him for his Thanksgiving dinner.

If a hen has a crop, it is no sign
that her owner would willingly take
a "cropper."

It "it is a wise child who knows
his own father.'" it must be, in these
days of incubators, a very wise
chicken which knows its own mother.

* *

"Will you dance with me?" asked
the iJrahma rooster of the Cochin
hen. "No," she clucked. "1 am en-
gaged for this set," and she proceeded
to spread out her feathers over the
baseball and china door-knob 1)e-
neath her.

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•»* •«•

The laying hen may be a hard
drinker, but not of hard drinks.

It all depends upon the point of
view. "Water." Naid the hen. "was
made to drink": said the duck.
"Water is excellent to bathe in." And
there j-ou are.

When one l)ase-ball nine white-
washes another base-ball nine, the
white-wash is not put on with such
a brush as you use in the poultry
house, but with "sticks."

The price of eggs never can reach
a very low mark so long as the cold-
storage plants hunger for them.

*?• *••

Mt)th balls were never intended to

add freshness to stored eggs.

* *

Whitewash has many uses, the most
prominent perhaps being in making a
foul reputation smell sweet. It may

also be used in fowl-houses.

* *

The Cochins declare that the Leg-
horns are not in their set.

* *

The terrible house-tly has one vir-
tue which jioultrymen admire: it i>
a prolific layer.

•!• ••>
, 'I' '•'

The "open-air poultry house" does-
'nt mean the kind with great holes
in the roof.

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In the spring an old hen's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of eggs.

The '^fall is the time when the
hen gets her new P^^aster suit.

Tf Mr. Rockfeller should organize
an egg-trust, he might in time have
something which would surpass the
Standard Oil in odor. Sulphuretted

POULTRY FANCIER

hydrogen has few rivals among
smells, and has gasoHne beaten to a
stand-still.

*!* •!*

"Medicus" should know that the

hook worm is not the kind of worms

used on hooks for fishing and also

sometimes fed to hens.

••• »".

"Pa, the fish are biting well," said
K. R.'s son. "Well, you stick to the
chickens, and they won't bite you,"
the great "ringlet" breeder replied.

•!; -••

It is peculiar, but its a fact, that
when feathers are falling, eggs are
rising. T'or proof take your obser-
vations about moulting time.

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'•* 'i*

It is said that a bright lad, when
asked what writers did before the in-
vention of steel pens, made this re-
ply, "The pinion of one goose was
used to spread the opinions of an-
other."

♦•• «;«
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The English language is peculiar.
When we put on our clothes we say
that vve dress, and when we strip off
a chicken's clothes we also say that
we dress the chicken. An unclothed
man is undressed, but a naked chicken
is dressed, and both are bi])e(ls.

* *

There is nothing so transitory as
])oultry fame. The Rucks County
yo\\\ long since "bucked" and threw
its admirers over the fence of obliv-
ion, the Dirigo no longer directs, the
German Antlers long ago shed every
prong on which to hang a reputation,
and the fame of the Jersey Blue

July, '10

blew away on the wind of adverse
criticism. Pretty good fowls, too,
they were.

Truth crushed to earth may rise
again, and therein is superior to eggs.

Sam Jones, the chicken man, is
feeding his son yeast. He says that
he has tried everything else to make
him rise without success.

"Incpiirer" is informed that, al-
though electric-light poles may bear
currents, geese are not plucked from
gooseberry bushes. He should brush
up his knowledge of physics, horti-
culture and poultry culture.

"The width of her hat brim," said a
confirmed misogymist as a lovely
woman passed him by. "is no surer
indication of the amount of the gray
matter under it, than is the spread of
a hen's tail of the number of eggs
which she will lay in a year.''

Said the rooster, calling one of his
older wives,

"Aly dear, yc^u must beware. The
farmer told the cook this morning
that he would have chicken for de-
jeuner. He's laying for you now."

"Well, love," sighted the hen. "I
suppose I've no right to object. I've
been laying for him, you know, these
many years."

Something for all. not everything
for some, is a safe rule to apply to
poultry journalism. The article,
which may not appeal to you, may

are all the name im-
lies. Eggs and Day

TOP NOTCH s. c. R. I. REDS

old Chicks. Free mating list.

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM, R. P. Guptill, Prop., Elcho, Wis.

F. L. Poultry Farm Rhode Island Reds h^:z:^

Chicago, McKeesport, Butler & Pittsburg. Breeders for sale after May 15. Write
for circular and mating list. F. L. OBER. R. F. D. No. 1. Verona, Pa.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President PartridKe Plymouth Rock Club

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize

wmners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

"DONAGHEY'S REDS"

try Show
follow

have won for the second season in succes-
sion the R. I. Red Club Cup and the Ameri-

.,,,., , ,- . , , can Class Cup, at the Baraboo Valley Poul-

.^l^„°/ilf^l_^JV/ - J^'^^^"'^ specials at other leading shows. Eggs for hatching as

s : first pen J3 00 per 1.5. second and third pens |2 00 per 1.? utility stock haviniexnPllent
arm range $1.50 per 1.5. When ordered in lots of 30 eggs will allow a d scount of iTpe^r ceS^ a "d
ni lots of 50 or larger 20 per cent discount will be allowed. Koth single atid rose cnn?b.

J. T. DONAGHEY

BOX 117, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

Porter White WYANDOTTE YARDS

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-

Kin^'''! "J* "* ^""'^^ ''' ^Y^ we can convince you that there are none belle, in Stlndl^ .sha^p^ ^nd
beauty and as eg^ prodncer.s? We have both combined in our birds. We will be oleased to
send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES P'^"^*""^ **"

CHAS. DAVIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

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July, '10

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN, PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
*nd straightforwardly honest work in the sh«w
r«om. 30 years a poultryman.

White Plymouth Rocks p,^.°*^^^'^^^d»"8^«tqck from

■' this seasons matings for

sale after June 1st. Remember our Plymouth
Rocks won every blue competed for in the last two
years. Also silver cup winners. Choice stock
alwaysforsale. Allen Tucker, Mineral Point. Wis.

S C RRn\A/N Choice cockerels for
•J. V^. UIVV-^ VV 1"% gj^ig Bred in line for

LEGHORNS

$l.r.0 per 15.

H. E. MARQUARDT,

several years. Prices
reasonable. Eggs now

WAUSAU. WIS.

• V^. rvHii/D bestinAmeri-

half price after June 1st. About 30 good Hens,

will sell cheap. Write today.

VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. FAYETTE. MO

WYANDOTTE EGGS:

Silver and White i\fj^'r^'' '" '^''*"''

B. H. BACON. R. F. D.. ELROY. WIS.

Single Comb Black Orpingtons

Best Winter layers.
JAS. McGUAN,

Scored stock for sale.
BARABOO, WIS.

Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks, S. C.

Rrnwn ! pahnrnc '''g^^st awar<is at lead-
Drown L.egnornS ing shows, some choice
yearling hreedess lor sale at reduced prices Cat
L. H. JOSTES & SON, R. R. No. 2. Macon, 111.

R, C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won many prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. " .figgs now for
|2 00 per 15 f ram pens mat ed to produce high cla-s
exhibition stock. Harry Sower, Rome City, Ind.

Partridge, Buff, Black and White
Cochins: White, Black, Buff, Sil-

ver and Golden Polish: J;^^°,^^^3%^^^;

15. Prize-winners 28years: Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge, Importerand Breeder. Chenoa, Illinois.

M.E.

ROGERS

LEGHORNS

LACROSSE
- WIS. ^

R. C. Brown

Black

Anconas

W. F. B.

Spanish

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Will not sa? or bag. Re-
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Costs less than netting. We
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ICOLUMBIANJ

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% Bred to win and lay. ^at"

Huntington, Ind.. 1910. 2nd cockerel, 2nd,
3rd. 4th pullet. Won at Ft. Wayne, Ind..
1910. .Srd cockerel, 1st, 2nd, 3rd pullet.
Send for Mating List,

A. M. BENDER

1231 Walton Ave. FT. WAYNE, IND.

POULTRY FANCIER

solve a seriou.s difficulty for another.
^'f>ll may know how to set a hen,
but to your neighbor it may l)e the
niy>tery of mysterie.s.

"Lex" should be better informed
than to suppose that "The Hawkers
and Peddlers Act" has anything to
do with natural history, or contains
instructions of how to guard chickens
agaitist birds of prey, though some
hawkers are natural curiosities and
their cries lead us to i)ray — for a
good, h^nidy brick-l)at.

.,. ...

"Xature r^akir" should know that
the "Presidential 15ee" and the "Kis-
sing lUig" are insects harmful to the
successful prosecution of the duties
of a poultry breeder. Kill, or, at least,
do not unduly incourage, such noxi-
ous insects.

llie best cat for a poultry fancier
is either a dead cat or a live cat-
alogue.

The man. who would make an un-
feeling pun on the domestic cat, de-
serves to suffer some feline catas-
trophe.

».• ••••

The office cat is supposed to destroy
all the rejected manuscripts, while
the Post Office cat preserves the let-
ters from destruction. Strange that
environment should make such a Dr.
Jekyl and Mr. Hyde change in this
literary animal!

rhe carrion crow, we know, is
l)lack, but what is the color of the
cock's crow? It should be some
■'loud" color, like scarlet, for ex-
ample.

»•* ••#
•*• •»*

It my name were .Mann, and I had
a son. I should certainly call him
Henry, it would be such a good name
for a poultry breeder. The "boys"
would call hiiu Hen Mann, and the
old folks, more resi)ectful, would
give him the full name of Henery
Mann. He would be a living adver-
tisement.

••* »•*
•»• ••'

It has been said that the lir>t apple
was eaten by the first pair, and that
the better-half of this pair was a

'^^9io"w"?h '" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Ktndallville. Ind . Jan. 4-8. Tucker. Judge; 2.
.i cock. 2 cockerel, 1. 2. 4 hen. 1, 2 pullet 1. 2.
pen. 20 females average 92 15. Richmond.
iJid. . Tan 1 2-1."), Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five t)irds entered;! cockerel. 1, 2 hen. 1.
2 pullet. 1 pen. two .specials, I breed my own
winners. Kggs from best pens only $1 for l.*)
after May 15th IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix F'owls

: |r>.no per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
bufT colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. Tne Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. S. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - East Providence, R. I.

Page 151

peach, and she must have been if
Milton was ri^ht when he wrote,
"The fairest of her daughters Kve,"
but we are now asked by a scientist
to give up this cherished belief, as
vve have had to give up others, be-
cause, he asserts, the tirst apple was
a banana. By and by we may be
called upon to believe that the first
hen was a hen-hawk.

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*»■• '•'

Said the cat to the little boy, who
was dragging two of her kittens by
the tail, "You are hurting my tender
felines."'

**' ^*'
%• **'

To the query. "Why do you keep
opening your mouth?" the chicken re-
plied, "I gape because 1 have the
gapes."

if the doctors, who spend so much*
time in showing how the various dis-
eases of chickens are contracted,
would only teach us how to make
health contagious, they would be
doing a great service.

"Xo. Tommie, there is no danger
that the chicken doctors will so get
white diarrhoea on the Ijrain that
the}' will be like the specialist on
fits, who, when he had a ])atient.
whose disease • he did'nt understand
gave the sick man something to
throw him into fits, and then cured
the fits. VVe never heard that the
white diarrhoea was localized on the
brain."

*•* ••*
••* '••

I f the preachers preach, do the
laity lay? They do — they lay their
offerings in the contribution boxes.

«•« *•«

The cackle of the hen is a neces-
sary factor in the caculatit)ns of the
poultryman.

Wh}' is the pesteferious mouse a
conllrmed gossi])? Because he is a
constant tail-bearer.

VVouldn't it be absurd to say that
a well-conditioned Black Hamburg
was "in the pink of condition"?

Those Chicago hens which are

laving pink eggs, are trespassing upon

the age-long prerogatives of the

I'.a-ter rabbit.

4c i(c

As a nation, we have been a long
time in remembering the Maine. We
are now about to raise it. but that
should'nt prevent the poultryman
from raising as many chickens as pos-
sible.

When Michael said, "You would
better raise raisons," he did not refer
to a great California industry. The
bread; maker and the chicken fancier
are engaged in the raisin (g) bus-
iness.

^'e.'jst will raise dough, but "dough"
— not the chicken kind — sometimes
will raise ructions and investigations.

There is no fever so insidious in
attack, so rapid in progress, and so
utterly incurable, as the hen fever.
But it has this redeeming charac-
teristic that the severer the attack,
the more comfortable is the ])atient,
and. though he realizes its incurable
nature, he has no desire to get over

it. iiven
ally does,
comfort.

if it ''strikes
there is no

in," as it usii-
attendant dis-

chicken fancier,
why he walked
Tt takes money

A poultry fancier may have to get
up early to get a "look in" at the
prize money, but his is an easy lot
compared to that of a fancier of
comets.

* *

"I call that Game cock, Roosevelt,
because he is such an ardent advocate
of universal peace— even if he has to
fight for it." ''Ah, yes," was the
reply, "he reminds one of the quo-
tation, he makes a solitude, and calls
it — peace."

The weather man makes his predic-
tions, but you can not predicate the
weather upon them. If sunshine is
predicted, provide the chickens with
umbrellas and gum shoes.

If Weston were a
we could understand
across the continent,
to ride.

* *

Pedestrians, like Edward Payson
Weston, walk into fame, the other
class of pedestrians tramp into the
station house. Chicken fanciers, if
they win fame, have to make a hard
run for it.

We have butterine for butter, but
no one has yet siveu us "Chickcnine"
for chicken, although it is said that
rabbits help to supply "potted
chicken" for the market.

The chicken, which has "gone to
pot," is not necessarily a dead loss;
It well cooked you may think it a
case of clear gain.

"Jt is better to have shown and
lost than never to have shown at all,"
sang the unsuccessful exhibitor.

Harpies were foul creatures, but
the creatures were not fowls.

It is said that turkeys, which roost
in trees, come high.

* *

The live problem of the poultry
breeder is to engraft, on the size o'f
the turkey, the hrilliaiit plumage of

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a game cock, the prolificacy of the
codfish, and the abstemious habits
of an orchid. How near to a success-
ful solution this problem is one can
learn from reading some advertise-
ments.

An egg-batter and a batter of eggs
are not one and the same thing, as
every housewife knows.

Noticing that the hatching of eggs,
like the weather, is an uncertain
problem, a California writer came to
the brilliant conclusion that they were
interdependent facts, each influencing
the other, and thus evolved a remark-
able hypothesis.

To have hatched and lost is worse
than never to have hatched at all is
a statement many a poultryman real-
izes the truth of when "the sleeping
sickness" gets hold of his chickens.

Can the breeder of blue-chequered
pigeons be said to have a checkered
career?

RHODE ISLAND REDS

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what constitutes perfecflion.

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because it goes into detail and describes every sec-
tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and
defedlive shape and color, thus making scoring so
simple that anyone can understand. Some sections
have four or five illustrations showing the several
defects that may be found in them, with the prop-
er discount for the same as applied by our leading
judges.

Dr. H. F
U.S that he
of thirteen

Ballard, Chenoa, 111., writes
ha.s made another shipment
Partridge Cochins to a cus-
tomer in Mexico City, old Mexico. The
doctor's strain of Cochins is well known
everywhere and better birds cannot be
bred than the choice specimens which he
produces each season.

KIEL, WIS.

The Ei.^hth Annual Exhibition of the
Eastern Wisconsin Poultry and Pet Stock
Association (Incorporated) will be held at
Mueller's hall. Kiel. Wis., on December
29. 30, 31. 1910, and January 1, 1911.
Never before in the history of this great
association has there been so much in-
terest shown as is being evinced this year
The interest in thoroughbred poultry is
spreading fast in this part of the state
and the association is looking forward to
a large exhibition (a record-breaker) than
It ever held before. T. M. Campbell of
Darlington. Ind., an expert judge, will do
the .judging, which assures every exhibi-
tor of a square deal. Besides the cash
prizes the association offers most liberal
l)remiums and cash specials as well as a
number of cups and the usual ribbons.
1 he association will be ready to pay all
prizes and j^remiums immediately at the
close of the show. Write and get a prem-
ium list, which will be ready November
1. and appreciate Its inducements to the
poultry fanciers. For full information
i':r'\e Michael J. Wirth, Show Secretary,
Kiel. AVm.

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ALLENTOWN

FAIR POULTRY
FOR 1910.

SHOW

W. Theo. Wittman. superintendent,
writes us that tlie judges tliis year will
be W. C. Denny. Rocliester, N. Y. ; Geo.
O. Brown. Baltimore, Md.; Fred Huyler.
Peapack, N. J.; F. \X . Rogers. Brockton.
Mass.; David Nicliols. Siielton. Conn.; W.
Barl)er. Toronto, Canada; Rudolph Sweiss-
lurt. IMiiladelpliia, Pa.; WilHani Khringer.
Philadelphia, Pa. Also, that there is every
jironiise of the usual good and big shovv.
The i)remiuni list, which will be out on or
about Aug. 1, and whic-li can be had by
writing to the superintendent will show-
that in the classes, rules and arrange-
ments. AUentown has not been standing
still, but doing better than ever for both
the poultry and ])igeon fanciers. Other
poultry judges, notably a water fowl
judge may be added. As this is being
written the 748 new. additional poultry,
water-fowl display and pigeon coops,
made esi)ecially by the Empire Cooi)ing
Co.. are being i)laced in position. Entries
l)ositively close Fiiday, Sept. 9, and no
officer, employe or judge can enter or be
interested in any birds enteied. Entrv
fees: Poultry. $1.00 each; Pigeons. .50
cents eacii. First prizes: P\>ultrv. single
bird. $4.00; Exliibition Pen. $20.00; Pigeons
$2.00. two only, to till a class.

Railroad facilities and expiess accommo-
dations Al and show a three-dav day-
light show only. A tine place to sell birds
and do business, as AUentown lies in the
lieart of the agricultural and manufactur-
ing district in America, wliile the fair it-
self has the reputation of being one of
the oldest, biggest and best fairs in the
country. Try AUentown tiiis year.

* *

THE ILLINOIS STATE POULTRY

ASSOCIATION.

Every indication is favorable for
greatest i)oultry show ever held in
history of the State Association to be
in the State Arsenal. Springfield,
January 2 to 7. 1911.

There aie seveial rea.sons whv those

the

the

leld

111..

in

of the state show

have
blue

a live bunch
poultry fan-

an appro-

the ex-

liglited
rnited

:-harge of the affairs
make this assertion.

First: Because they
Df officers and trut^
ciers back of it.

Second: Because they are offeiing the
largest premiums of any associati(Hi in
the west.

Third: Because they have
priation from the state.

Fourth: Because they have for
hibition the largest and best
g^round floor building in the
States — the State Ar.senal.

No sooner had the offlceis of the Illi-
nois State Poultry Association been in-
strilled than they commenced to get busv
organizing the state. Each congressional
district in the state now has its own or-
ganization with a vice i)resideht to repre-
sent each district. Theie have been
meetings in nearly ail of the congres-
sional districts, these meetings have been
largely attended, several of the state of-
ficials have been present and offeied the!)-
assistance in every way. There are more
cash specials and silver cups offered from
the different districts than all of the
previous sliows put together. The busi-
ness men's association and the Sanga-
mon County Poultry As.soclation alone
have ofTered over $500 in cash specials.
Many of the congressmen reinesenting
the congressional districts are offering
beautiful silver cups to be divided eciuallv
among the different varieties. The mem-
bers of the State Association have set the
mark for not less than a 5.000-bird show
and the present outlook is that their ef-
forts will be successful.

A poultry institute will be conducted

in connection with the show, wiiich will
l)e l)ol]i interesting and instructive in the
advancement of poultry culture.

Governor Deneen has ofTered his serv-
ic-es to help boost the next Illinois state
sliow in every i)ossibIe way. and in ad-
dition is offeiing a beautiful silver cup,
valued at $50.

The above is but a brief outline of what
is going to happen at the 18th Annual
Exhibition of the Illinois State Poultry
Association. The piemium list will be
out in a short time and will give a full
account of the exhibit

O. L. M'CORD. Secretarv.
Danville, 111.

BUFFALO

INNOVATIONS
MANAGEMENT.

IN SHOW

and canaries, the week of .Ianuai-.\
to 29th, 1911. ever held in America.

Some of the Ijest judges that can be
obtained in the I'nited States and Can-
ada, will pass upon the l)Jrds at this
coming (Jreat International Show. Tlie
I<]mi)ire Cooping Co. will coop tlu- show
in the large hall, which is even larger
than Madison Scpiare Garden. If the list
of cash specialties and cui)s keeps glow-
ing, tliere will be one or more sjiet-ials
for each exhibitor.

A new s\-stem of judging will be intio-
duced. and tlie poultry will be handled by
experts, under the sujicrvision of the
superintendent of j)oultry. Each class of
birds in turn will be placed in the empt.v
coops, in one of the several judging rings.
No coop nimiber of any identifying mark
accompanies the bird, which is given a
temporai-y number on a small tag attach-
ed to the leg. The judge is re()uired to
I)lace the birds in their proi)er order of
merit, while the interested fanciers and
I)ublic are kept at a distance till he has
finished, when they will be allowed tr» ex-
amine the judges' work and ask (lues-
tions. With the birds arranged in or-
der, with the libbons attached, with the
best bird at the head of the row. it will
be an easy matter to impress the fanciers
and the general iniblic wMth the require-
ments of each variety as set forth in the
Standard ideal, for which all true fanciers
are striving.

This will obviate the unjust criticism
of the judges, who are frecpientlv accused
of judging the fanciei-s rather -than the
birds at some of the lai'ge shows, for thev
will not know whose birds thev are pass-
ing on. Nor will the poultrv journal
judge be a))l(^ to work liis graft.' which
some fanciers aie uncharitable enough to

With a well organized Show Associa-
tion assisted |)y one of the largest social accuse them of doing 'I
poultry clubs in the country, and backed
bv the Chamber of Comrnerce and the
leading Inisiness and professional men,
Buffalo is ])lanning to hold the greatest
exhibition of poultry, pigeons, pet stock

he birds will all
be in a good light, and under the same
conditions dui-ing the judging b\- this
method. The public will l)e alloVved to
view the birds for a short time after they
are judged, wliile the judge is busv at the

60 Years "^ '"T"^ I.

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BARRED ROCKS
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WHY SHOULD THEY NOT. when none but specimens to score 90
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IVIN AND BREWED ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons winnings to their advantage.

From Sept I to May I 5. Brahmas $3.50 to $ 1 0 for females; $5 to $20
or males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes. $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all. $4 for I 5, $7 for 30 $9
for 45. and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 to Sept. I. all yearlings before
moultmg sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars address

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tliey will 1)« re-
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next ring, after wiiitli
turned to their proper
the ribbons attached.

The poultry superintendent will have
tour asi^istants for eacli aisle of poultry
who will care for the birds, and who will
be versed in the peculiar and superior
qualities of the variety under their
ciiarge. and can answer intelligently the
many (|uestions asked bv the public and
tlius create a special interest in that va-
riety. They will also look after anv ad-
vertising wliich any exhibitor miKht" wish
to do, although he cannot himself be
present at the show, displavins it in the
suspended wire rack whicli will be
above tlie wliole line of exhibition
for the advertiser's benefit.

"Give everybody a s(iuare deal," is the
motto - • -

1911.

STANLEY

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A. MERKLEY. Secretarv.
Bldg.. Buffalo, N. Y.

A GREAT SHOW AT TOPEKA, JAN. 2-7.

The Topeka Show Association is the
name of the new organization formed at
Topeka, the capital city of Kansas. On
June 10 the following officers and direc-
tors were elected: President. .1. W. F.
Hughes. Topeka; first vice-president. S.
T. Divinia, St. Joseph. Mo.; second vice-
president. A. C. Rasar. Toi)eka; secre-
tary-treasurer, E. W. Rankin. Toi)eka;
election commissioner. W. H. Maxwell,
Topeka ;board of directors. G. H Rhodes,
Topeka; Earnest Kellerstrass. Kansas Citv.
Mo.; W. H. Vesper. Topeka; Geo. H.
Burghardt, Topeka; W. S. Binklev Clay
C^enter, Kan.; R. B. Steele. Topeka; C. J.
Page. Salina. Kan.; C. C. Eindamood,
Walton, Kan.; I^. P. Hubbard, Topeka.

The association is financed by the issue
3f stock, the members ))eing stockhold-
ers. The cai)italization is $1.(»00. Most of
the stock has already been subscribed.

The 1911 show will be held during the
first full week of January. It will be
conducted along some lines never before
attempted. Full announcement of these
new features will be made later. The
entry fee will be $1.00. Tlie show will
be judged by comparison. The birds will
be uniformly cooped.

A formidable list of .judges will place
the awards. Arrangements have been
practically concluded witii the following:
Lester Tompkins. A. C Smitli. Chas. H.
Rhodes, E. V. Branch. C. S. Bvers E. G.
Roberts and R. F. Palmer. No stronger
list of judges will a'")ear at anv show in
America. The announcement that Lester
Tomi)kins will pass upon Rhode Island
Reds. A. C. Smith upon Btnred Rocks
and Brown Leghorns, and G. S. Byers
upon Orpingtons will bring out a strong
showing of tiiese varieties. Some of the
leading breeders of the country have al-
ready announced their intention of ex-
Iiibiting.

Topeka is one of the best show towns
in the country. Its Auditorium has few
superiors as a show hall. Railroad and
express facilities are unexcelled. Kansas
is a great poultry state and Kan.sas fan-
ciers are hungry for a show along down-
to-date lines. S. T. Divinia. of St. .Joseph,
Mo., was luesent at tlie meeting of June
10. The feeling of many fanciers in other
states is shown by Mr. Uivlnia's reason for
attending this meeting. "MIs.souri fan-
ciers," said Mr. Divinia, "need a great
show in Kansas, and Topeka is the place
for it."

The attention of members of specialty
clubs is called to Toiieka and Kansas
as a splendid place for their 1911 meet-
ings. Especially liberal inducements will
lie offered to specialty clubs.

The Topeka show will be more than a
local show and more than a state-wide
show. It is certain to rank as one of
the great national shows of the season
of 1910-l!ni.

For further information, address E. W.
Rankin, secretary, Topeka, Kan.

MEMPHIS,

TENN., HAS SOMETHING
NEW.

We ha\e just received premium list of
the ])oultry show to be hehl at the Great
'Pri-State Fair. Memphis. Tenn.. Sept.
27 to Oct. 4, by the Tri-State Poultry
Association, and note that ever hustling
oftlceis have again come to the front in
the w^a.v of a leading attraction. This
feature Is a new one and no doubt will be
very hotly contested for by breeders
throughout the entire country, as compe-
tititm is open to the world. This attrac-
tion is as follows: In the center of the

POULTRY FANCIER-^C^^'^

poultry Vuiilding, in a conspicuous place,
will be placed five coops handsomely
decorated, into which, as soon as the
judging has been completed will be placed
the best cock, the best hen. the best
cockerel, the best pullet and the best
pen in the show. They will be placarded
as the champions of the show. Owner's
name and address will appear prominently
on these coops. In addition to this, these
champions will be awarded diplomas cer-
tifying them as such, and will be banded
with gold leg bands properly engraved.
The premium list is the most complete
ever issued by any association and will be
mailed free on applying to C. L. Baker,
secretary. 292 Madison avenue. Memphis
Tenn.

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HUTSONVILLE, ILL.

The Crawford County Poultr>
tion will hold their next show
sonville, Dec. 20 to
do the judging. .J.
111., is secretary.

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S. Walker,

Associa-
at Hut-
Shaw will
Palestine.

GNADENHUTTEN. OHIO.

The dates of the Gnadenhutten show
for this season are Dec. 5 to 9. Falkner,
judge; W. O. Lyle. secretary. This show
is one of Ohio's good ones.

KINGSTON. N. Y.

The next annual show of the I'lster
County Poultry Association will be held
at Kingston. N. Y., Dec. \?, to 16. B C
Deyo. R. F. D. :5. New Paltz. N. Y.. is
secretary of the association.

DOWAGIAC. MICH.

The Doe-Wah-Jack Fanciers' Associa-
tion will hold their fifth annual show Dec.
7 to 10, Chas. V. Keeler. judge. A. C.
Robinson, secretary, will send I'reniium
List and full information to all wlio write
him.

R. I. RED CLUB AT SPRINGFIELD.

The Illinois State Branch of the Na-
tional S. C. R. I. Red Club will hold its
annual meeting and election at 2 j). m..
Oct. 4; also school <^f instruction on Reds
for Judges and Red Breeders, 10 a. m.,
Wednesday, Oct. 5. at Springfield, 111.,
luring the State Fair. The meeting will
be held in a large tent near the Poultry
hall. The club offers five special ribbons
or badges to club members for best cock,
cockerel, hen, pullet and pen. All Red
breeders should join the club, attend these
meetings and compete for premiums of-
fered. J. S. Walker, secretary, Palestine.
111.

THE EMPIRE SHOW AT NEW YORK.

The Empire Poultry As.soclation (In-
corporated) will hold their fourth an-
nual show at the Grand Central Palace, a
large, well lighted and centrally located
hall, in New York City, Nov. 18, 19, 21,
22. 23. 24, 1910. Moderate entrv fee will
l)e charged and a large list of Specials of-
fered in connection with the regular
premiums. The hall will be closed on

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l^riday the first day of the show, while
the judging is in i)rr)gress. At 6 p. m.,
when the doors will be open to the pub-
lic, the ribbons will be up and on Satur-
day and Monday they will have the dif-
ferent varieties demonstrated by the
judges to exhibitors and others. ' They
have engaged the following judges- Geo
W. Weed, F. H. Davey. W. B. Atherton!
C. H. Welles. W. H. Card. C. D. Cleve-
land, Geo. Ewald, J. C. Punderford,
Jjimes M. Cutting. Geo. Young. J. B N
Fitch, Geo. Josenhans. .las. Glasgow C.
H. EUard. Anyone wishing any infor-
mation about the show, address Robert
Seaman, manager. Jericho. N. Y.

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ASHTABULA, OHIO.

The Northeastern Ohio Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold their fifth
annual show from Dec. .5 to Dec. 10, 1910.
with A. F. Kammer, Judge, and E. R.
McCune, secretary.

THE TENNESSEE STATE FAIR POUL-
TRY SHOW.

The Fifth Annual Exhibition of the
Tennessee State P'air Poultrv Association
takes place at Nashville, Tenn.. Sept. 19-
25. 1910. The Tennessee State Fair Poul-
try Show is uiKiuestionably the greatest
poultry show held in the southern states,
and one of the best held anywhere in the
country. It is patronized bv breeders
from almost every section of the Fnion.
The poultry show at the Tennessee State
Fair is one of the biggest attractions of
this great exposition. Thousands of people
attend this show for no other purpose
than to see the poultry and purchase stock
and eggs, and as a result it has the repu-
tation of being one of the greatest mar-
ket places in the countrv for pure-bred
stock. The show this year will be bigger
and better than ever. A big list of cash
Specials and regular prizes has been
posted. The association owns its own
wire-front coops and the show hall is
one of the best in the Fnited States.
The Tennessee State Fair Show this vear
is followed by the Great Tri-State Fair
Show at Memphis. Tenn.. Sept. 27-Oct. 4.
This will make a splendid circuit for all
those who care to make the two shows.
The poultry business in this section of
the country is growing at a wonderful
rate. Breeders in this section have
hardly been able to supply the demand.
Don't fail to make the great Tennessee
State Fair Sliow which opens the South-
ern show season. For particulars, prem-
ium list and entry blanks, address John
A. Murkin. Nashville. Tenn.

BROWN OEGHORNS

THE EMPIRE STRAIN
ALWAYS WIMS

GEO. H.,BURGOTT,

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breeders especially strong here and everyone, big or little, gets a square
deal. Premium list free. Write for one either to

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BBEEDEBS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

liANGSHANS.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eg^s $2 per
JL^^f^^^l stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
638, Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

SILVER CAMPINES.

HOUDAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgreville. also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs. $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle, Wis. 4-3

^GGS FROM BARRED. BUFF IJJ^
^hite Rocks. $1.50 for 15. Single Comb
Brown. Buff and White Leghorns $1 for 15
Mahaney Bros., WInterrowd. Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

THE

shans

don't

order.

your

now

show

Write

Mo.

QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-

Is proved by their show record. You

take chances when you send me your

I can start you right or Improve

flock with some of the grand birds I

have for sale. Scores to 95% In

room. Prices right. Eggs In season.

me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,

1-6

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belglums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize
whitest dozen eggs In show, Boston, 191o'
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus. Prop.
Ridgefield. N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

«S,?/^^^9*^^^^^^S' "CALUMET" STRAIN
White Rocks. "Calumet" strain are heavy
layers, high scorers, non-sitters. Have a few
hne cockerels that are from exceptionally
^•hoice stock. Firsts $10; seconds. $5; thirds,
».■• (-. I. Bashore, Calumet, Mich. 7.3

win ^wfn ^i^^S^^v?"^^^^ ^^^ SALE THAT
will win m the show room and fill the eeir

stfo^'ne- in'^^n "^'"^^ ^"? ^'^' white beauttfs^
strong In all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matlngs at living prices Berwvn
Poultry Yards. Box P, Berwynf 111 T2.4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct In
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15- other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R A. Judy. Decatu?

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman Rom-
ulus, N. Y. 4.3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95 1^, females 96%. Made a clean
.sweep In the Eastern Wisconsin show this
Fcason and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing
score 1914. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis'
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton, Wis. 11-9-19

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsie. New
"^ork- 9-Q8-tf

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH \A'HITE HOLLAND TUR^p:YS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith.
Burnt Prairie. 111. 4.3

PIGEONS.

S. C. WHITE LEQHORNS.

111.

3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

BLAKE S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. Ist hen, 1st and
Jrd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
,^.^°^^' ^ ^^^^ 3 entries, winning let
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEOHORNS.

I OFFER GUARANTEE!) MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1503 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. 8-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FROM

Pf" °f 8 hens. 1 cock picked from 284
^^''^\1- P^^ ^^' ^2 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Strueblng. Frefburg

J« ^ 4-3

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES \T SATIS
factory prices. G. J. Trester.* Rushford!
^^^""- _^ 5-2

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
To^y? ^°"r, ^""^i^J Athens. 1910. Cock scoring
93% pu ets 94 pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,

Carpenter, Ohio.

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ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
n«?n^'f ""^^l^^^' ^?" "^"^^ ««"d to iheir origl
?ix rJnf^ f^' "^^"^ally. have the best. Send
0^1 ^"f ^°^ catalog, history of Orpingtons

n^nn^'^T,''" ^^"'^^y koepinl. William Cook
& Sons. Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.

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S. C WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA
mond Jubilee Orpington eggl 1^ for i^
chicks three weeks old. 40c^fachran guir:
^^t^eed. Hamilton & Kaufman. Two RWers.

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?£°?- ^^ ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
best nTnr^^ ?°°''- o.?^"^ ^hy Blacks are
hrppH t>S^l"^^°"^- . ^^® favorite of all who
J,f^, \]'^ ^^'■®® varieties together. Tells of
nr/r!,?"^" Government proof of laying sS-
fl^I^^^' """^^ rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
SrnL ^^l^""^"' of Orpingtons. ^ MluSn
ClnoTn;*?''-^®**'*^' Cheviot Poultry Farms.
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

ORPINGTONS— OUR BOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buflf, Black, White Cheviot
Farms. Cincinnati. Ohio. 4.8

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

^ C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.

^uV%l ''■^^- ^- ^- ^°ye^' ^- 2. Bechtels-
"^"'e, Pa. 11-9-12

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS. EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N

GAPES IX CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. 50 cents and $1 per box. G. B Sie-
genthaler. Canton. O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY. GENERAL, NOTE-
heads. envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either. 40c; 250, 75c: 500. $1.25,
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp
Model Printing Co.. Manchester. Ta. 10-9

Batchelor, Fairview. Mass.

4-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR HEALTHY
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1, Coblesklll, N. Y. Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching, $1 per
setting. 4_3

HOUDANS.

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

Stock and Eggs at greatly reduced prices
E.M Long. Box (P F) Osceola, Ind.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

-To Mark Chickens
.CHEAPEST AND BEST

Ufor 16<'; 25_a5o; M^AOc, JOO-TSflL
Banipio Tlan.l MntN-d for io HUtuwH
Freak Mrari Mfr. box68. Fre»porf.ll|.

?:tA Crown Bone Cutter

HOUDANS EXri.rSlVELY. COCKERELS
for sale also, one and two-year-old stock
All well-bred birds and will please. Eggs
.shipped promptly. Rend In your order now
^'''f^e right. R. F. Dolan. Fulda. Minn. 4-3

DORKINGS

Hfns fed cut ^mn hone ]hv\
r -noro oKKs (,,.t a Crown Bone

W.lw. Hr..., Bo, N22, K^utoo,!^ '

BEST /v\ADE

Lowest

in Price

Big Profits in Capons

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TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS I
have a limited number of egga to sell from
^X, Pr*^® winning: pen. None better. P c
Eldrldgre & Son, Bourne, Mass 9-9-12

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards In
America See Camplne advertisement.

S?dTeLir N. T""' ^' ^- •^-^^-- ^^t-^

[CAPON
TOOLS

Capon izinK is eus\ -.-,0011
learned. Complete outfit
with free Instructions
postpaid $2.50.

ir.ape Worm Extractor 25c
oultry Marker 25c

I;rench Killln-KnifeSOc
|(apon Book Free.

QUO. P. PILLING & SON. PHILADELPHIA. PA.

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SPECIAL DISPLAY

Li«ht Brahm&s. Fetch Strain Direct

KgRS from hi^h-scoring pri/.e winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle Pa
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for b^-t
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. / Females score from 924^^ to <»:')
3d prize ck. score 92K and ckl.s. for sale
Mrs.Kd. Bart1ett.lf>9'4 Onk «t Nn-wractV p-,

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] EGGS FOR HATCHING ^,r p'?;"J I

BARRED ROCKS Cockerel mating of
i^ n . V *>.^'"'^'^ the very best strlin.

Pullet hne is direct descendants or "Louis-
?"*''' ^^f.World.s Fair hen. Eggs $S to $^ for

J. ..A F^^l'i^ ^°^^ headed by prize winners

$1 .50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.

S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.. Centerville.Iowa

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron MilU, N. Y.

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKSf ?/;' °„ri^-

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a
complete list of our winnings
E H. DOWNS.

ngs.
RTE, 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f ,'^/„^

RFD^ ^'^^'^^ -strictly exhibition matingsat
SKCU^ /10O.$4 0Oper 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain ^

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton. III.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH rir^P^fnTt?
ROCKS ^?^h'f ^" """' '""'^ ^^^'■- ^""""

OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested, Standard-bred.

S°^t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
We»t Main Street, - EVANSTON. ILL.

R. C. White Leghorns ^rl'l^'^r

.)U, f,->. per 100. A Lso some choice breeders at
hving prices. These are bargains worthy
^'''li^""J'j;!rr^^2."- Satisfaction guaranteed.
E. H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILL.

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND RED.S

blngle combs direct doscendants from New-
York Champiou. his sire -Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Hose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For 8t<»clc and ef?gs write
I>r.JE. B. CRAMBLIT, A>1E.S, IOWA

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kaplds, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
I.i per 15. $1 per .30. I will more than please you.
^J^C^^MITXHEN^^ Iowa

DON'T OyERLOO»rT»^

other people would read your ad if it were >
here, just the same as you are reading this >
one. See the rates and conditionsat the head >
of this department and send in an ad. It will )
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
357 Dearborn Strett, * Chlcigo, III. \

Cornish Indians. Superb Malings. \ 5Hf *" ^^^KS and BUFF

Best imported and domestic blood. Kggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. HopkinsviUe. Ky.

WYANDOTTES ^^:^^:

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from

select matings that will produce winners

Write for prices. L. C. VOGT. Lyon.. Wi..

LEGHORNS e^^-^. fT^g^oTco^k^^

erelsfor sale from the 1st Boston cock. Hjtks
for hatching -^rk-

C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

Walker's White Rocks ^k'^N^w

Ca.stle'.s big show they won all firsts, 3 .sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$5 per 15.
BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Ca.tle. Pa.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island i i White Plume Farm

R#^r1« None better. 40 first and .second
*'%.^u». prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City 150 grand birds at special prices to
qmck buyers Place egg orders now

D. ,J. BLISS, Carthasre, Mo.

produces the fowls

^ , ,. you need to build

lip your flock. All prize winners. White

«^^°'^^^,^''5^^■ ^^'^'' African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed
J C^ BAKJR^ Prop.. Rt 1, Plainville. Ill

COCHINS HOMK. Hendquarters for Amer-
ica's ^'reateflt Cochfn.s and Hrahnia». First prlz »
andsllvercupwlnnersatlWlunepeK. Can., SeaUio
\.\ .P.. Minn.. 111., rtud S. Dak. State FalrH. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N.V. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. IVI. AtwocMl, Box Z. 35, I>uridee, >f inn

Anrnn;t« EXCLLfSIVELY. Leadeisiorl'i
f*"^""** vears. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won bv us and our customers
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will nut you

«?i\T."f-*^V^*'^*''^t. ^ "• Branthoo^er.
61 15 Station St.. East End. Pittsburg, Pa.

President Ancona Club of America

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess laid L>91 eggs in a year; .50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
trom this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice. 10c.
IRA WATSON. FREDONIA. N. Y.

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BUFF ROCKS

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearling;

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prices for short time

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns. S. C Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes Barred
Rocks and R. C Rhode Island Reds, '

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

^^ig^^^-s^

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS

C Get prices on eggs and stock before buying J
i el.sewhere. Illustrated circular free. /

? E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10. Greenville. Obio I

Kelierstrass and Cook Strain of

IS. C. White Orpingtons

At Indianapohs, Ind. State Show my

Barred P Rorlc« ,^°" ^"^ pmiet, .ird

uaiicu 1 . I\UCKS hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910
Springfield, O.. 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen 2nd
cockerel. .'Srd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup
Kg^s $,3 00 for 1.5 H. W. BARNETT
.24_B_u«hnelLBId8r ,. . Sorinfffield, O.

(ttlumbinii I'lymouth KorkH (Swe.t h
MTKln.) Hlack-tall.Ml.hipancHe and Buff Cochin
Hautams. Harred Rocks. A few choice cockcrtMs
of each variety for sale. Let me hook your
ordpr early for offKs from ray choicest matlnxs
at SS-OO per l-l, •.«).(«> j.er -M). Bantam egga at $2 M
per 1.'), •4.iKt por io.
K. B. KOBi^]KT8 CANASTOTA, N. Y,

' Hggs 12 00 per n. al.so extra fine Barred Ply
^mouth Rock eggs $] r^ per l.n. Satisfac'ion
A. J WALDSCHMIDT.

•guaranteed.

Wathinaton, lo

wa

REED'S "^-^'^^^^'^'LKGHOK.NS and
ACCl/ D R c. RHOI)l<: ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewan^e Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of six gratxl matings for the egg
"^ea.'ion i)K. F. M. REED.

Wyanet. III.

For Oklahoma

Will now close out the
cream of my S C. R. I.
or Rust ?*** Stock consisting of 15 vearling

, "^'- f'i'ehirdsscoringhigh 2fi'necock-
« Tcis l.'iO chicks hatched from March 15 to May

It) s(>I(l ,it Ivifgaiits.

J P LAMPERT. BRIGHTON. ILLINOIS

4*1^*1

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POULTRY FANCIER

July. '10 ;;

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Poultry Fancier is published the 15th of each month. All
ads must reach us not later than the 5th. Advertisers receive
the paper free each month that their ad appears.

BREEDEBS' SEVERAIi VARIETIES.

LANGSHANS.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock epss $2 per
JL^T"^,""^^ stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
♦>3S. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

SILVER CAMPINES.

HOl'DAX EGGi^ FR( LM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks
Ringrlet strain. Eggs. $2 per If,. Stock
tor sale. Elmer Johnson. Arsyle, Wis. 4-3

THE

slians

don't

order.

your

now

show

Write

Mo.

QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-

is proved by their show record. You

take chances when you send me your

I can start you right or improve

flock with some of the grand birds I

have for sale. Scores to 9514 In

room. Prices right. Eggs in season.

me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette.

1-6

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgium.s. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize
whitest dozen eggs in show. Boston, 1910
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus Prop
Ridgefield. N. J. o.g

PHEASANTS.

BUFF AND

Single Comb

EGGS FRO-M BARRED,
Wliite Ilocks, $1.50 for 15 .^...e,.- ^
Brown. Buff and AVhite Leghorns $1 for 15
Mahaney Bros.. Winterrowd, Ills. 5.4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

^1101. 1. -■.m'ki:j:els, -calumet- .strain

Mv L' "";'''^- '•^'•^'"JHef strain are hoavv
av.-i.s ingh «cnnr.«. non-sittors. Have a few
1111. • cu.kervis that are from excoptionallv
_hoice ^-tnck. Fir.sts $10; seconds. V, thirds.
^■- < • I. Ijashore. Calumet, Mieli. 7.3

win ^wfn ^fi^^^?^~v?'^°^^ ^OR SALE THAT
vviii uin in the show room and fill the esa

strong m all good points. Eggs from our

Poultry \ards. Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
eofkerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus. N. Y. 4.3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unseored
lomales $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
uj); males $10 and ui>. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unoqualed by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 951/2, females OGV,.. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
.<^eason and won silver cup for best i)en in
the show three years, all breeds competing
seore 19 V^;. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis
I'oultry & P. S. Assn.. Chilton. Wis 11-9-12

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsle, New
"^ork. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

.M.XM.Mo I'M ^^•|^TE HOLLAND Tl l;<-i:VS
All large birds and first prize winners
v.herever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith.
Burnt Prairie. 111. i^.^i,

PIGEONS.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTII ITV
Beauty brewed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs

ienT ^'^'nfr"^^^"^^'""^^^ 510 P«^ 15: other
pens %o per lo. Mrs. R. A. Judy. Decatur,

-^ . 3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BL.AKES .S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
'}*^ 1 ^P*"',"^^^'^- 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
ord cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Egg.-i $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. ^-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my price.s
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Plens. and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1503 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. S-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

WHITE WV.A.NDOTTES— EGGS FROM
P?" -'^„ ^^"•''- 1 ^^^^ picked from 284
l.ird.« .S2 per 15. $3 per 30. farm ra^ge $4
per ir... Rev. G. C. Strueblng. Freeburg
' 4-3

GOOD WHITE W'YANDOTTES \T SATIS
l^ac^tory prices. G. J. Trester. lUishford.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
^uol) ^''"r, ^''^1^; ^^thens. 1910. Cock scoring
93^4. pu lets 94. pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer
Carpenter. Ohio. \ . .1 1 n

ORPINGTONS.

S^ C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting

S'i''"^?,'' ''■^^- "• ^- Moyer, R. 2. Bechtels-
Mlle. Pa. . . 11-9-12

<rAPES IX CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE

treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. 50 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
urenthaler. Canton. O. n-4

PRINTING.

I'OR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. \NY OF

n«?nrf'*'^l'^^' ^'?" """^^ ««"d to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons

& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains, N. J.

._ 1-10-12

'^- ^- WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA "
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs. {2 for l1-
chicks three weeks old, 40c each* all guar^
rui^t^eed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two RKer^.

— ;..: ^__^^ 2-5

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
Jay for club book: Tells why Blacks are

wf ^''^.>?'"Pl"^^°"^- The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together Telirof
Australian Government pro?f of laying su-
premacy: most rapidly maturing fowL
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. MluSn

.^.nc7n"natt a^'^^' ^'^^'^^ ^^"'^^^ ^"Ti^o

S. C. BR(nVX LEGHORNS. EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
P.atehelor. Fairview, Mass. 4.3

BANTAMS.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250. 75c; 500, $1.2;.
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp
Model Printing Co.. Manchester. la 10-9

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams High
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper <fr
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOTi; r>|{l)i:RS FOR IIIONLTHY
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1. Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock

at right prices,
setting

Eggs for hatching, $1 per

4-3

LONG^S ORPINGTONS

Stock and Eggs at greatly reduced price.
E. M Long. Box (P F) O«ceola, Ind.

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

*^^I^^'®'"•* Chickens
,o?"^'^'',EST AND BEST

l»!r<,r |6<-; 2.0— 5JfK-; 6O-40C: 100— 75a.
B/iiMf.h. Fland Maile.I for ia KtAiiip:
Frank Myers Mfr. B0168. Fraeport.lll.

HOUDANS.

ORPINcJTONf^— OUR ROOK IS FREE 1[F
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Ruff, Black. White. Cheviot
Farmf. Cincinnati. Ohio. ^ne\mt

lOl DAN.s EX("LIS1\ ELY. COCKERELS
(or sale also, one and two-year-old stock
All well-bred birds and will please. Eggs
shippfMl i)romptly. Send In your order now
Price right. R. F Dolan. Fulda. Minn 4-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

DORKINGS

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. P. I. REDS I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F C
Rldrldg-e & Son. Bourne, Mass 9-9-12

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New

Big Profits in Capons

i :i|>om/in;j: is eas\ .-,0011
learned. (.Complete outtit
with tro«! instniftjous
po.stpaia $•,*..'>().

< ;:ipe Worm Extractor 2.5c

•onltry .MarloT 2r>c

I' pencil Kill in- Knifc-HH;
Capon liook Frco.

[CAPON
TOOLS

GSO. F. PiLUNG & SON. PHILADELPHIA. PA.

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madreVcVp^ion'lXTow o^Vhf. acctn""* "^^ ^^"''*'^"* '" '»^" ^'^ ^he price U

\ S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS \

\ EGGS FOR HATCHING H^ ^°- >

< pen headed by a son of a first prizi Madi

< Square Garden Cock. $2. for 15, ?<;. foi

WOBURN. MASS. )

\ i7Ft«-"o^^^^^OORf'ZABRISKIE

rour J

First >

dison )

)r 60. >

ELM STREET,

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs

from special mated pens, Madison
Square, Chicago and Boston winners
circulars. JAMES CRAWFORD.

Cameron Mills. N. Y.

Trap-Nested. Standard-bred.

Dr. Holmes'

^eitl Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in sea.son. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
Wc.t Main Street, - EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for best lu. I can help you win too If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
*. ^^^1^:B P®'' ^'^- I ^"1 more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

other people would read your ad if it were ,
here, just the same as you are reading this >
one. See the rates and conditions at the head >
of this department and send in an ad. It will >
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, >
357 Dearborn Stre«t, ' Chicigo. III. )

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

R#^r1« ^°°^ better. 40 first and second
a^^uo. prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City 1.50 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. .J. I$M.SS. < arthasre. Mo.

Anrnna<: t,xcLUsiVELY.

AUCOnaS year.s. Hundred

I^eaders tor 12

. . . year.s. Hundreds of prizes in

hot competition won bv us and our customers

Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low

for quality. Our stock and eggs will put vou

"P\%°"f.»hV^'^*'"r. ^^ "• Branthooier.
61 15 Station St.. Ea.t End. PitUburg, Pa.

President Ancona Club of America

Houdans and Buff ^'^kTuT^wmnir"

WvAnrlnff AC °^ highest honors on Hou-
ff jraiiuuilC5 dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps Hou-
dan eggs $;^ Wyandotte eggs $2 Circular*. '
Mr«. R Y. Bowden. Clifton Spring.. N. Y.

;22S3

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS X

Get prices on eggs and .stock before buying J
^ el.sewhere. Illustrated circular free. >

?E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10. Greenville. Ohio \

Kellerttrass and Cock Strain of

;S. C. White Orpingtons

^Eggs 12 00 per lf». also extra fine Barred Ply-
▼ mouth Rock eggs |1 ."iO per 1.^ SatisfacMon
Jguaranteed A. J WALDSCHMIDT.

Waahinston, Iowa

BARRED ROCKS t?^:^.'^^^^^^.

Pullet line is direct desceridants of *%ouis-

ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $.5 for

Ltility flock headed by prize winners

1.5.

II .50 for 1.5 eggs. Catalogue free.

S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.. Centerville.Iowa

s
III

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB fh\

REDS fi^'^ strictly exhibition matings" at
K T ,J3 00. $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain ^

FRED. W. OERTEL. Box. F. Brighton. Ill

Reichert's White Rocks and ^iTy
R. C. White Leghorns l^^r if i^'plV

r>0, $5. per 100. Also some choice breeders at
living prices. These are bargains worthv
your consideration. Satisfaction guaranteed'
E. H. REICHERT. VIRDEN. ILl!

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18
Cockerels for sale. Can help you .

T. D. Moore. Box 92. Hopkinsville. Ky.

years.

Rose Comb Brown ^^4' a?X,idir
LEGHORNS 1?-'--^, iT^^l^t

erelsfor sale from the 1st Boston cock. Kees
for hatching. -^rk^

C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

lume

up your flock. All prize winners. White
m^^°Vi^,^°?^^• ^^^^^ African Guineas.
IK5-^ "^""J'i^ Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Erabden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed
J. C. RAKJIR, Prop , Rf. l.Plainville. HI.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Prince.ss laid 291 eggs in a year; ,50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
trora this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON. . FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown I^eghorns. S. C Black and
White Minorcas. White Wvandottes Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds. '

Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

.Silver Laced WyaiKlotteH, Whit*- Cre.sted

I, '*V** T.T"'"*!* ""** Harred IMyiuouth
KocKH. Direct (lescendanlrt from MaaiHoii >(juart'
and (JdlcaKO winners. Won twenty elKhc regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. lows. Jan
4-:j. J«09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale UrcHlar free. Cascade Poultry Yardn,
U m. Neiers. Prop., L, B.4r», Cascade, la.

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

P.ggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entries at New Castle Pa
'09, won 11 prizes and $10 gold special for be^^t
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males, > Females score from 92^^ to %
3d prize ck. score 92K and ckl.s. for sale
Mr^i.Ed.Bartlett lfi9'4 OakSt NewPactV Pt"

We head the Kellerstrass strain and haw
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You dont take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eges Both for
sale now. Write us D. A WEDGE.
215 Galena Street Aurora. III.

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^T^,''°^^^r.

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE. 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^il" T.^l^^S.

ROCKS ^^^ ^^^" ^^'^'' '^^^ y^^^- ^"ces
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODK I.SLAND R£DS

femgle combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire 'Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. F(ir stock and eprgn write
Dr. E. B. CRA>IHLIT. AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ^^^^

I^yons, Delevan and Waterford. Eges from'
.select matings that will produce winners.
W nte for prices. L. C. VOGT. Lyon.. Wi,

Walker's White Rocks ^Jt^'nT^w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 .sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$5 per 16. 00 »-

BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Cattle. Pa.

COCHINS HOxME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochlua and Brabmas. First priz*
and silver cup winners atJWinnepeg, Can., Seattle
A.r.P.. Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N'.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction pruaranteed.
C. >I. Atv\oo»l, Hox Z. .'ir., Dundee, Minn

BUFF ROCKS^o-g

o t o c k

Also yearlings.

sired by a 95 point male.
Special prices for short lime.
A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis. Ind. btate Show my

Barred P Rock<; ^°" '**^ ^"'•^^^ •^'^^

AJaiicu 1. IXUCKb hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and '2d pullet. .3d atid 4th hen in 1910
Springfield, O.. 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen 2nd
cockerel. 3rd pullet. 1910 also Silver Cup
Kegs $.3 00 for l.V H. W. BARNETT
_24_Bu«hnell Bldsr . . Springfi«Id,

Columbian I'lymouth Rocks (Sweets
Strain.) Hiaiktalled .Japanese and Muflf Cochin
Hantams. Harred Hocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for e^KS from my choicest matlnns
at r..(K» per 15. %^.m per %). Bantam eggs at $'2 50
per 15, 14. (HI per .su. *'* * '

K. B. KOHKRTS TANASTOTA. N. Y.

For Oklaht

inm;i ^^'11 "ow clo.se out the

B luiua erearn of my S C. R. I.

ncf *>«a .S.toclc consisting of 1."^ yearline
"^»- fine birds scoring high. 2finecock-
t rels. l.iO chicks hatched from March 15 to May
lb sold at bargains.

J P. LAMPERT. BRIGHTON. ILLINOIS

JU^IJ

stock

Jacob
etroit

B P. ROCKS & s c. w leghorns] < g^ff r^,^,^ §_ (;. Black Minorcas

Ekk ordciH hooked now from my 2<t()-eBR
Btralus. Trap nefts used. I kuow Just what I am
doing. Birds scoring l»l to t»5 with a famous egg
record 1)ehlnd them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. (). SWIFT —F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

CHOICE COLLIE PUPPIES

Jli>.'ti-brt'<l and haiid.-i<iiie. luii a~ 1 inakf a fpi'cialty
of Whites. I do nut placr as hnih n value ou tlie
colori'd ones that come alon;.' with tliein and so of-
f»"r thtMU at low pricts.

Servoss Collie Kennels, Box 220. Edison Park, Illinoi.s

America's Foremost Strains "ufu t y

D* - _|. aud lowest prices on S. C. Reds. S.
llcCl c. White L,eghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February ifjth. ."> eggs free.
Chas H. Ziegenfuss. JBpx Z._BethJehein._Pa.

Golden Wyandottes ?S?cag^o^%^ec.''7"

12, 190it. 60 in class, won .5th cock, 4th cockerel,
8rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show St.
Ivouis. Dec. (Ml, 1S09, ()4 in class, won 2d cock,
3'1 cockerel. 4th pullet, with 5 birds.
J. S. Pennington, Box F, Plainfield, 111.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS J

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

htv

Single Comb White s t^'afn^^ known

LiC^llUl lid color, typical shape, deep bay
eve.^. great vigor and greatest pos.sible egg
producers. Eggs $1..^0 per 15; $t).00 per 100.
Honesty guaranteed.

R S. MOSEl.F.Y. Cambridge. N. Y.. Poultry Jud?f>

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males .scoring to 95^ females to 9t;.
Eggs balance of season $1.50 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders

JNO. F. WOODS, UTILITY FARM, R. 19,

Owensville, Ind.

LAKE SHOKK I'Ol LTRY FAR3I

l$reeders of

Hi«:h Class Silver I.aced AVyandottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrerH hooked now.

11. F. BP:RGNEK. Pres. HENRY MAU, Mpr.
South Chlcajro. Ills. K.F.I). No :?l. Kenosha. Wis.

Fatxltless" Houaans, 287
"E,^^ Strains. PJve carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105, Kansas. Ills.

"THE LITTLE RED HEN"
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Originators of Manataug Strain.

If you are looking for red birds without smut,
write us. ^

John E. Davis & Bro. Marblehead, Mass.

R.inglet Barred Plymot&tK
RocHs won all tirsts at Oshkosh, 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 .50 up.
Kggs, best matings $3.50 per 15 |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lake Vikw Poi-i.try Farm.

T. W. C'ritrhette, Markesaii, AVie.

S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale. ;| Baby Chicks gfp«f,4To!;"%*'aV"rld ^o4^

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Geese.
Indian Runner Ducks and Black L,angshans.
Can please vou. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER, Box F, Lancaster, Mo.

White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safetv anywhere. Book vour
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton. Va.

I» FILE'S CATALOCil K Kivts
prices of all the leading: varieties of
laud and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and epps In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFIT.E
Freport, III, Dept. A

S. C. BlacK and "VITHite Minor*

cas bred for size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. StnitK (Sb Son.

Hox 454

NiH'th Italt iinore, <).

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Special prices
on this years
Grand birds at half their value.

and R. C. R. I. Reds

breeders.

H. S. WENTZ, QUAKERTOWN, PA

C<»Ll.>ll$IAN KOt KS, COLIMBIAN
AVYANOOTTES, bred frcm New York.
UulTalo and Rochester winners, ^ lirste 2 seconds
on 7 entries at Rochester show. Dec. 19t)9. Cock-
erels 18 to «1(). pullets $2 to *«. Trios »7 to #1").
Epps f 1.7") per r-, 13 per .'.ii. Free settlnp from
I'.est pen with each tlO order. Stock puaranteed
F. A.rAMPBKLI., HONKOYE, N. Y.

SP" Df \CiC Won all first prizes '>
• ^« I->l-«/A.V^IV at Columbus show *

ORPINGTONS

1909 also several at Ocon-
omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 $5 per 15: pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River. Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

p _ J_ Prize Winners. Eggs from 1st pen,
IVeaS setting 15 eggs $2.50. P:ggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland, III.

.S. L. AM> AV. WVANnOTTES, K. C.
KHOIJE ISI.ANL> RED.S Winners at the
big CcntervUle, Iowa, aud St. Louis shows. Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matlnps a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
.JOHN KEARSE, R. 1, COatsville. Mo.

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

Cockerels and
pullets for
sale. Birds score from 94% to 9<!
and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS

f2forl5.$3.50
for 30. Incu-
bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $6
per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelby ville
and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson
R 5. Box 0022. RushvHle, Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

TI IRICPY^ sired by my great prize

* ^ I\.IVl-« 1 k^ winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S. L.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN,

AVYANliOTTli

Winners at St. Lou

silver cups at big

test class of Wyand

and Buff Wyandottes $2 per 15. -i setting for «5.

Black Langshans \.5() per l."i. Buffs Bred by li- B.

Schlndler, Partrldpeand Langshans bred by ,lohn

Allen. Allen A: Schindler IVrryville, M«>.

Quality Strain ISARRED ROCKS have
been Hue bred for I'l years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matings
for sale, from these winners or bred 'n line.

r. r. DRAKE A: SON,
JaOvU. IJo\ 4'.i'>S, La il.«rpe. III.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds

Light Brahma Bantams T^T's oM

Sfjuare. N. Y.. Baltimore, Hagerstown. Md..
Philadelphia, Nazareth. Allentown and Read-
ing. Pa Stock and eggs. Hillside Poultry
Yards. J.S Fry. Prop., Dept F.. Nazareth, Pa.

I iriHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 vears a breed
*^*^^* * * tr. My stock is excellent, high
BRAHMAS scoring, great layers.
"*^''^* ^^^^'^'^ will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single .settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN

At INDIANAPOLIS Februarv 190<;. my
RarrAfI RnrL-c ^^on 1st cockerel. 2d cock.
DdriCU I\UCIi5 Silver Cup; Feb. 1908. 1st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. lfK)9, 1st and 3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds. Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with (juality for
sale W, W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN. IND

"IVestfall is a AVinii<*r. He makes no such
olnim Itiit his Columbian AVyandottes were
winners at Klinlra I'ouury show. .Jan. lUKi. lirht.
third and tounh cockerels. Hrst and third pullets
ano first hen In a class of ;i4 good ones. 1 have
shape, color and size. Ej?gs !fJ.iK) and |;3.(k» p(^r
setting ( Keatlngs Challenge St rain. )
I>ouis Wf'Ktfall, K. ;j, AVav«'rly. N. V.

Wvandnttp<: silver and white. Blue

" JdnaOUeS Ribbon winner. at Defiance
and Toledo, Ohio, 1910. Eggs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2.00 per
15. Illustrated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter.
Prop., R. No. 3, Box A. New Bavaria. Ohio

S. C. and R. G. White Leghorns

Won first at the Great Milwaukee Show. 191(1. .\

fi'W ytar-Mid hens f.ir .-air. Cii pTlrcw now.

Dist. Affy. Philip Lehner, Princeton, Wis.

EGGS' ^ARRED^J^LYMOUTH £(JQS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynolds. 111.

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ON'S HOUDANS

The Undefeated Champion
Strain of America.

BUFr ROCKS

Send for 80- page book on The Houdau. 6U luil paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Petersen. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton. Maine

I have over HOo
strong hard y
youngsters on free
ijuiyf. brfd from my pii/.e winners last fall and
winter. Ilinebreed for (juality not (luantity. Ks:gs
and stock for sale. AS Matthews, Wayne, Mich.

HAKE BUFF WYANDOT TILA Prouty's Partridge Ply-

A^ain virinners of tHe bltie at L/a Crosse and JB^kraboo
SriP^rialft/ «a1«» fKic morifVi BREEDING PENS AND TRIOS. 1 have a number of

K^pc^^tdliy sate lllia lllUIllIl cockerels, .scored bv Roberts and Shellabarger, which I
will mate with scored and unscored pullets at $5 to $20 for the" trios and $7 to $25 for the pens. Send
for mating list. Pen 1. will be again headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy." scored 9^yi
by Hale, and winner of medal as highest scoring cockerel at Minneapolis in 1908. Six'pullets in this
pen all scoring 91 '< to 94 K- $3 00 per .setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE, ELROY, WIS.

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length IQI A TVfri |? p F^Q
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red. Ifc-^-sl-*/* « ^ *.- l\L.rfl->'fe,J
Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us,
LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

ANTIGO, WIS.

Will close out
all my season's
mmifk P/><*L-e l)rt^eders at sacrifice prices
niUUin AOCKS for quick sale. Real bar-
gains. Get prices.
O. L. PROUT Y. Box 1 1 5, New Lothrop, Mich>

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C. BIk. Orp., Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Reds. Breeders at

gre^tlv reduced prices GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM, WISCONSIN

EDELWEisTcTwTrJrHTa

eggs balance of season.
Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohia

LEGHORNS

HlERSTCN*S Colvifiiiiiati^k Wyijtndottes smd

^^8*^^ OratimaS can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KERSTEN
llO MTest 52 St. (^ITasKburn ParK) Minneapolis, Minn.

COLUMBIAN WYAN-

¥\/\nn'J^r'0 Ask for new mating list

LIU I 1115 Kegs at half price after

^^ June 1st. andafevv breea-
ers for .sale.

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS

S.C.&R.C.R.I.REDS

■Mm<^mm^Mfmm/vaf!mmmsmLm^,,.i3irm»iSi!m

BUF

KEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS
at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

RPINGTONSi

KFI I FRSi KASS* STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINCTOINS

^^^^^^^^^ ■■ II HIM ■» ■■■■■■■■■■M Mill I ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^WWWWWWWBBWMBBBBWmWWW

Have you gotten your show winners ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are rljiht here at hand. Are von eoinK to show
there? if you are not satisfied that tiie birds you raised this year will get you tiie HLTE HIMHONS, we can .suprriv vou witli tiiein
We did not rai.se as many hirds tins vejir as we iiave heretotore. We are not raisirm as manv birds as we have in" na.st vears but
we are raising better ones, which is .saying a whole lot, because you remember tlie la.st show where we exhibited was jit BALTI-
IIORK in JANUARY, 1910. where we won

First on Cock, First on Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

makl?ig a dean sweep, and 181 birds In the class, from America. Knu'land and all parts of the world

lets hatche<l the early part of Jainiary. that now tip the .scales at (Jl/a and 7 pounds. They are the

during thecomlng show sea.son, and if you are in need of any winners, write us and tell us ju.st what"yo"u"want ami' what" vou' 'sVre

willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the liLUE RIBBON WINNliRS

We have cockerels and pul-
vind that will be heard from

hclit rslrass Farm 583 Westport Road Kansas Cily, Mo.

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CHICAGO. ILL. AUGUST. 1910

No. 8

All Ideal H

ouse ior

f

reeaers

An Excellent Plan for the City Fancier Who Has
Only a Limited Area (or the Poultry Houses and
Yards. Can Be Built at Low Cost.

By A. F. ALMENDINGER

I (•- Inaisc Iktc (lc>cril)c(l and il!ii>iralc(l
is i(.i- a cily ]<.i ahoiil •!') ])\ :;(» k-cl and
l«'r l..\\ t-t.si. lu'allli of ftiwl^ and r<>n-
\ciiic'iu-c- in caring for ^anu-. i d(i not
lliink can l)c iniproxcd on. It i> Hi 1)\
I" Kct in >i/r. Tlu' fi-oiit wali 1 \vv\
liii^h. The rear wall '» feet lii.uli. Tlic do, .i> arc :! feci
wide an<l the heiL-lit of llu' hiiildini^ with openiiiL;^
!<• iiudie-- 1»\ II in(die> for fowls to l^o in and out.
I lie-e can ]k' clo^rd with >.lidin;; dot irs. Tlu' win
dow >. are \*n:v in nmnher. each (Hie 'J ' _. I)\ " j ' . feet.
I lu- lw<i npjjer ont'> ai\' hinL:e<l at the lo]) and open
ont. loiMiiinu:- a liL^iil awnin-^ in >tonn\ weather when
ihry are ojun. I he lower ones are hinged at the
•>ide^ and aNo •.pen onl, forniin^ wind hrealo. The
hoiivi^' ha> a >-he»l ro(.t and is etwcred r(iof and side>
lir^t with a lio. ,(| ^hcathiiiL: pa])er and then with .\e-
poii^el Ked l\iMie Ko.tlinL: >ecni'e(l 1)\ strips ".s 1)\ ^y,
inche-, placed 1> inches ai)art. Make the sills and
plates 1»\ hal\inv, v 1)\ i"s and place in jxisjiidn nsin-
no sUkK e\vcpi in the front and nail the hoards vi'^Ui
lo sill^ and plates. I ns^' f(.nr studs of '! h\ Ts in
the !ront to --ii-en^then it and piaee ihein sm as to
l<»rni tin- ^ides i)i the w in(lo\\ and (hx.r frames, ("oin-
plete the window frames hy nsiiiL' '* 1)\ !"> where
needed. I iise one '^ hy I across the center <»f roof
tci sni)port it. and in the center of house one nprii^hi
V hy I lo prtwent the rodf from saj^i^iiiL:. A 1 h\ '■>
inch strip is nailed 'i ' _. feet from the lloor all the
way ar<.nnd tlie east, north and west sides. This
stidens tlu' walls and the dropping hoard and nests
re>>l on it ^o the low Is ha\ c the entire Moor space.

h'oiir '! 1>\ IV inch |)lanks are placed « m edj^e just
iiisirle the -ills with t<»p^ on a le\el with the ti'|)s of
sills. The liciisc faces tlie south and rests (^n stones
r»r can Ix.' <et on posts '» feet apart and ahoiit s inches
ahoxc- tlu' -round. It is Idled up inside with I'j inches

of dry earth and sifted coal ashes. The oiit>ide is
.i^raded so water runs away from the l)uildin-. The
door inside is perfectly dry and the fowls need no
dust heaj). The lio<»rs are coxered with (i inches of
>traw into whieh all -rain is tlir. w\n >., the hen.s
ha\e to work. The windows all ha\ e wire -creeiis
placed just inside the saslrand the two iij)per one>
also ha\e curtains made of eomnion factorx plaiX'd
on the inside. In summer windows and d'o^rs are
all i-emo\ed and wire do. .r.s put in place of W(M.(k'n
ones, hi winter on pleasant days all windows, and
<'"'"■ <"i the south side are open aiK*. in stt-nm
weather either one or hoth of the u])])er window's
ai-e ••pen and the curtains let down t(» keep out the
snow, so tlu' house is i)ractically open e\ er\ da\ t.-f
the year, no matter what the weather is.

I he inside arran-emfuts are a droppin- hoard of
mat(die(l I inch hoards .U\ inches wide and tiie width
of the huildin-. wnh a 1 ])\ :\ inch strij) nailed alon-
^'i^' iront lo stilVen it. At ihe west end '.^ ' _. feet is
pa.rtitioned ofl" with ' i inch mesh wire nettin- for a
coop tor exfa Cock or foi- a trio of hirds hein-- ))re-
pared '"or show. Tw<. roo>ts >^t V hy ;; inch stulT
\\!lli the t.)p edi^es sli,i;htly rounded. ; feet Ion- and
|)laced nine inches a1)o\ e the (lro|)pin- hoard are
nailed to two | hy :> inch pieces which are hin-ed
to the wall S( t roosts can he raised when droppin-
hoard i- cleaned. Two lei^s sup])ort the front end.
Ia'-s and hin-es are ke])i well oiled with kerosene
oil.

A row oj .') nests each I'l hy i;) inches and Pi
inches hi-h is hooked to the east wall. The\ ha\e
a perch s inches wide in front for hens to ali-ht on.
A curtain of sackin-- han-s from the top of nest to
within an inch (.f the hototu. This darkens the nest
and ])re\ents e-- eatin-. It is much easier to -ath-
ei- e,--s than when passa-e for hens i< in tj^. j-^..^,-
When indixidual hen rc-crds are kept a tra|) door
is hiiiL^ed to front of nc-M and ciirtain«< rem<.\e(l.

Al)o\e the nests are ."5 exhihitiou coops each V h\'
•! leet. i>artitions hein- ' , inch mesh wire nettiiiL:'
with Iroiits of three-sixteenths inch iron rods.

.\ curtain of eomnioii factory liaiiiL^s from the root
in iront (.| ritosts and extends ahout (I inches helow

PETERSON'S HOUDANS '"'' ^^!::i'^J^-r'°''

Send for 80- page book on The Houdau, 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Petersen. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to P,»07. Bridlgton, Maine

fTaTk e buff mtyand o^"t E ,s

A^ain ivinxners of tHe l>lu« At l#a Crosse and Baraboo

^r»#:»rialft/ «al*» fKic morifK BREEDING PENS AND TRIOS. I have a number of

^^pcv-io-iij aaic 11H» lllUllLli cockerels, scored by Roberts and Shellabarger, which I
will mate with scored and uiiscored pullets at $5 to $20 for the trios and 17 to $25 for the pens. Send
for mating list. Pen 1. will be again headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy," scored 95^
by Hale, and winner of medal as highest scoring cockerel at Minneapolis in 1908. Six'pullets in this
pen all .scoring 91% to 94 '.^^ $3 00 per .setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE, ELROY, WIS.

BUFF ROCKS

I have over 50o
strong hardy
youngsters on free
range, bred from my i)ri/.c winners '.a.st fall and
winter. I line breed for (juality not (juantity. P'ggs
and stock for. sale AS Matthews, Wayne, Mich.

Prouty's Partridge Ply-
mouth Rocks

Will close out
all my season's
breetlers at sacrifice prices
for quick sale. Real bar-
gains. Get ])rices
O. L. PROUTY, Box 115. New Lothrop, Mich.

ROSE COMB RHODE

A choice lot of stock for sale, bred from
the best winning and laying strain in

America. They are red to the quill and possess the length TClf A 1\JT^ RFr^^
of body and symmetry of form so desirable in a typical Red. *^-/J— </^l ^1-/ M\L^A^»^
Eggs for sale that will produce winners. Write us,
LUMBERTON POULTRY CO., JAY B. DEUTSCH, Mgr.,

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ANTIGO, WIS.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C BIk. Orp., Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Reds. Breeders at
gre..tlv reduced prirts GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

eggs balance of ' sea.son.
Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohia

LEGHORNS

KERSTEN'5 Columbian Wyandottes and

*^*S*^^ OrarHWaiS can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KERSTEN
IIQ l^est 52 St. (WasHbu-rn. ParH) Minrkeapolis. Minin.

COLUMBIAN WYAN
DOTTES

t-rs for sale.

Ask for new mating list
Eggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breeu-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

BARRED ROCKS

BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer

our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.

"j Write us describing what you want and asking for our

iJ. L^. & MX. i^m IV« 1. IvtiLliJ catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-

- tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MAYINGS

'''''•''''•'•''•'''''''''••'^^ ^|- reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLDCHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

ORPINGTONS

KELLERSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have yon gotten your show winners ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are rijiht here at hand

there? " ....

We

WH

MORE in JANUARY, 1910, where we won

ive you goiieu your snow winners re.uiy lor ine eariy laii snows? ine state fairs are rlfint here at hand. Are yon Kolng to '

^re? If yoji are not satisfied that the birds you raised this year will get >on the BLUE RIHHONS, we can supply voii with ti

» did not raise as many hlrds this year as we have heretotore. We are not raising' as niariv binis as we have In past vears

are raising; better ones, which is saying a whole lot, because you remember the last show where we exhibited was 'it BA

Are you going to show

hem.

but

exhibited was at BALTI-

Flrst on Cock, Pirst oo Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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No. 8

An Ideal H

f

ouse ror oma

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11 B

reeaers

An Excellent Plan for the City Fancier Who Has
Only a Limited Area for the Poultry Houses and
Yards. Can Be Built at Low Cost.

By A. F. ALMENDINGER

J I l{ house hero desorihedand illu.stratcd
is f(»r a oily lot about ■v^■) by 'M) feet and
tor low cost, liealtli of fowls and con-
\enience in cariiiiL; for same. 1 do not
think can be ini])rove(l on. li is |(i 1)\-
In leel in size. The front wall ^ feel
hii^h. The rear wall ."i feet hi^i^^h. The doors are :> feel
wide and the heii^ht of the building with o])eniniis
10 inches by 1 I inches for fowls to i^o in and ont.
These can be closed with slidini^- doors. The win-
<lows are for.r in nnnd)er. each one 'i ' _. b\ •;?':. feel.
The two upper ones are hiuLied at the to]) and open
out. torniiuLi- a lii^iit awnin-; in storm}' weather wlien
they are open. The l<iwer ones are hinged at the
sides and aI<o open «»ul, formin«^ wind breaks. The
house- has a ^hed roiif and is coxered roof and sides
first with a i^ood shealhiniL;- ])a])er and then with \e-
])onset ked Kope l\oohn|L; secured by strii)s -^s by Is,
inches, placed is inches apart. Make the sills and
])lates by halving: -^ by I's and place in position usini;
no studs except in the front and nail the boards rii^ht
to sills and i)lates. I use four studs of 'i b\ I's in
the front to ^treui^lhen it and place them so as to
form the sides of the window and door frames. I'om-
])lele the window frames by usim-; *i 1)\- I's where
needed. 1 useone '! by I acros.s the center of ro(tf
to support it, and in the center of house one uprii^ht
2 by I \n prevent the roof from sairi;in^-. A 1 by :\
inch stri]) is nailed 2K' feet from the flo<)r all the
way around the east, north and west sides. This
stiffens the walls and the dropping board and nests
rest on it >« • the fowls ha\e the entire floor space.

h'our '^ by. 1*^ inch planks are placed on ed^e just
inside the sills with toi)s on a level with the to])s of
sills. The house faces the south and rests on stones
or can be set on i)osts ') feel apart and about S inches
abo\e the u: round. It is filled up inside with Ti inches

of dry earth and sifted coal ashes. The outside is
.i^raded so w^ater runs away from the buildin|Li. The
door inside is ])erfectly dry and the fowls need no
dust heap. The floors are cov<?red with (> inches Of
straw into which all j^rain is thrown so the hens
have to work. The windows all ha\ e wire screens
I)lace(l just inside the sash 'and the two up])er ones
also have curtains made of common factor\- ])laced
on the inside. In summer windows and doors i are
all removed and wire doors put in ])lace of wooden
ones. In winter on pleasant days all windows ^'ind
door on the south side are open anc. in sloi-m\'
weather either one or both of the upper window's
are o])en and the curtains let down to keej) out' the
snow, so the house is i)ractically oi)en every (la\ \»f
the year, no matter what the weather is. ' ' '*
The inside arrangements are a drop])in,ii- ])oar(l of
matched 1 inch boards :)(; inches wide anc'. the width
of the buildiui^-. with a 1 by ;i inch strij) nailed alon^
the front to stifl'en it. At the west end <?'/. feet is
partitioned ofl" with '4 inch mesh wire neltiui^ f<)r a
coop for extra cock or for a trio of birds beiui^ pre-
])are(l for ^how. Two roosts of '> by .] inch stuff
w ith the to]) edi^es slit^hlly rounded, f feet lonjLi" and
placed nine inches above the droppiui^ board • are
nailed to two 1 by 3 inch pieces which are hini^ed
to the wall so roosts can be raised when droppTn^-
board is cleaned. Two leiis sui)port the front encb
Le.i^s and hini^es are kept well oiled with kerosene
oil.

A row of ."i nests each i:i by i:] inches and 1?
inches hiiih is hooked to the east wall. Thev have
a perch s inches wide in front for hens to alij^ht on.
.\ curtain of sackiu"^ hani^s from the top of nest to
within an inch of the bolom. This darkens the nest
and prevents ei^j^- ealini;. It is much easier to leath-
er e.^L^s than when passa,^e f<»r Kens is in the rear.
When indi\i(lual hen records are kept a trap door
is hin.i^ed to front of nest and curtains removed.

Above the nests are :{ exhibition coops each 2 by.
.') feel, partitions beinjti '4 inch mesh wire nettint^
with fronts of three-sixteenths inch iron rods.

.\ curtain of common factory han^s from the rool
in front of roosts and extends about H inches below

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the dropiiii^ board, to be used in extremely cold
weather. There is a similar curtain in front of exhi-
bition coops. All curtains are raised by cords the
same as a veranda drop curtain.

A coop for breakinj^ up settin^^ hens 11 by 14
inches and 15 inches hioh with slat bottom and 4
sides and top of wire nettini:; hangs on a couple of
nails from the center post. This coop will accom-
modate two hens at a time.

(jrit ])ox has 5 compartments and is self-feedini^"
in which are always kei)t i^rit, charcoal, dry i^round
bone, oyster shells (g-round) and beef scraps.

Feed tray for mash is 4 feet lonj^-, (5 inches wide. 4
inches from the floor with l^^ inch strips nailed to
sides. Its ends are 10 inches wide at the bottc^m and
narrow to 2 inches at the top and 10 inches high. A
two inch strip 4 feet long is nailed to tops to keep
fowls from soiling their food, \\nien ncjt in use it
is hung on a nail on the wall.

\\'ater vessel in winter is a porcelain granite pan
14 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, placed on
a shelf near the west door 9 inches from the floor.
These pans are high priced but will last and are eas-
ilv cleaned. In summer I use a one-gallon butter
crock.

Scraper for dropping board is a piece of galvan-
ized iron ri by 12 inches, turned up 2 inches on one
end and a 1 by 2 piece of wood nailed to it. The
sides are turned up 1 inch with the ends cut to a
])oint same as a dust pan.

A small shelf is placed near the door which is con-
venient to keep a few necessary things such as a

LIGHT BRAHMA MALE.

One of tin- Ktrsten kind. Bred and owned by Geo, A. Kersten,
Washburn Park, Minneapolis, Minn.

bottle of Douglas Mixture, a bottle of kerosene oil,
a small can of kerosene, sweet oil, etc.

All the fixtures in this house are removable as
nothing is nailed but are fastened with either hooks
or hinges and this house itself is built in sections,
each one of the four sides being built separately
and the roof is in two sections. The whole is put
together, and held by hinges. I use a loose pin

hin^e and the whole house and fixtures can be taken
down in about half an hour. I use two yards, one on
the south side, 10 by 20 feet, the other on the west
side, 10 by 15 feet, using the yards alternately, sow-
ing the one not used to rye, etc. , I use balance of
lot to raise chickens.

Fences are 2 feet of boards at bottom, above which

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is four feet wire netting. As I breed only Buff \Vy-
andotts they never fly over these fences.

This same house can be used on a farm or the
largest poultry plant, making a long continuous
house. Foundation could be laid with stone, brick
or concrete, if desired.

Ilave pens 10 by 10 feet, with inside arrangements
same as this house. Solid partitions between all
pens. Doors between pens swinging both ways and
a car with overhead rollers to facilitate feeding,
watering, cleaning, etc.

Material required: Four pieces, 2 by 12 inches,
10 feet long; 7 pieces, 2 by 4 inches, 10 feet long; 2
pieces 2 by 4 inches, 10^' feet long; 5 pieces, 2 by 4,
7 feet long; 420 feet, 1 inch rough hemlock; 4 sash-
es; 280 feet % by }i strips to secure paper; matched
boards 10 feet long, ;3 feet wide ; matched boards G
feet long, 2 feet wide; 2 pieces, 2 by 3, 7 feet long
for roosts; 400 feet sheathing paper; 40(» feet Rep
Rope Roofing; 31 square feet V^ inch mesh netting;
85 feet, 4 foot poultry netting; ,S pairs hinges ; 1 gal-
lon good paint.

There are just two things needful to secure trade,
have the right goods and tell the public about them.

The breeder who doesn't advertise is like the
man who seeks conspicuousncss bv hiding himself
in some dark corner.

Variation is at once the hope and despair of the
breeder; it makes improvement possible and de-
stroys improvement already made.

Good care requires something more than food
and drink and cleanly quarters. It requires the in-
terest which IS quick to detect everv need of the
lowls.

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Toleration for Believers; Not for B

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A Few Ideas Upon the Principles of Controversy
Prompted by the Faking Question

. By H. S. BABCOCK

'OLERATE no belief which you deem
false and of injurious tendency,
but arraign no believer." Thus wrote
Coleridg-e, and the sentiment is one
worthy of universal adoption. Be-
tween exposing- the falsity of a doc-
trine, and aspersing- the character of those who
hold it, there is a wide difference. The former is
a duty and high privilege; the latter is censurable
and dangerous.

The temptation to attack the believer rather than
the belief is strong. It is easier to attack a man
than a doctrine. The man is concrete, the doctrine
abstract, and the concrete attracts more strongly
than the abstract. The man is something tangible,
is seen, and easily thought to stand for the doctrine
he holds. And so, acting u])on the crude thougli
forcible dictum t(^ hit a head whenever and wher-
e\er one sees it. the man is at once attacked.

The f(dly of this method is a])parent upon a verv
liltle consideration. Though the advocate of a be-
lief, "false and of injurious tendency," may be
silenced, the belief itself suffers no seVious harm.
It will rise up uninjured and be advocated afresh
by other holders. "The bhuxl of the martyrs is
the seed of the church" is a maxim whose trust-
worthiness ages have demonstrated, and its appli-
cability is not limited to matters religious. The
l)rinciple is universal Destnning the advocates is
simply increasin.g their numbers and rendering the
destruction of the doctrine many times more diffi-
cult.

P)Ut if the belief itself is attacked, instead of the
believer, if evidence sufficient to show its falsity
and its injurious tendency is brought forward, I'f
the weak arguments in its defence are met by
strong arguments in opi)osition, if rea.son is hurled
against unreason and folly, the belief itself will be
(lestroyed. A false belief can not bear the clear
light of reason; in its rays it will shrivel up and
disappear.

The object of attacking a false belief and one of
injurious tendency, is to destroy the belief and pre-
vent the injury it might do. livery attack upon it
should keep tlfis object clearly in view. And if at-
tacking the believer will not and attacking the be-
lief will accomj)lish this object, there is evidently
but one right ctnirse of procedure, let the believer
alone but annihilate the belief. Tf, for exami)le. A
believes in and advocates faking as something nec-
essary and desirable, it will not hurt faking a great
deal to call A a thief, a liar, a robber, a cheat, and
many more - obnoxious epithets. The general
public doesn't care very much who and what A is.
.\ may be all that he is called, and more, and fak-
ing still be something necessary or desirable. lUit
if it is shown that faking is neither necessarv nor
desirable; that it is something dishonest and dis-
honorable: that it injures the man who indulges
in the practice and injures the poultry industrv :
that it elevates poor specimens into the places

righttully belonging- to the good; that it deters
honest men from exhibiting- and puts a premium
upon dishonesty and fraud; that in a word the
doctrine is false and its tendency injurious and de-
structive; the belief in faking wdl receive a severe
injury, if it is not wholly destroyed. ]n so attack-
ing the belief the attention is diverted from the
advocate and concentrated upon the doctrine.
Faking-, and not A, holds the center of the stage.
And the arguments, pro and con, will be apprais^ed
at their real value. But if A were attacked the
attention would be diverted in whole or in part
from the belief to the believer; the arguments
^vould be weighed in connection with controver-
sialists, and the friends of A would rally to his
support and cheer him on with their belie'f in him
and therefore in his cause; and this wrong-ly di-
rected or divided attention would so obscure the
real object of the attack that faking", like a snake,
would wriggle off in the obscurity undestroyed,
and ready to rear its head, hiss, and strike with its
fangs at some later passerbv.

Eet us then adopt this 'sentiment of Coleridge
and while we will not tolerate for a moment anv
belief which we deem to be false or whose tend-
ency IS clearly injurious, we will exercise the
widest toleration for those who hold it, and will
always discriminate in our attacks between the be-
lief which is to be destroyed and the believer who
is to be kept alive and rescued from false and per-
nicious ideas.

But while we hold to the above doctrine, it some-
times happens that in controversies one is assailed,
and in his own defense it mav become necessary
to attack the assailing party.' In such cases the
advice of Polonious to Eaertes is not inapt:

'*I>eware of entrance to a quarrel, but being- in,
i>ear 't that the opposed may beware of thee."

()ne has the right to repel s'uch assaults upon
his good name and judgment, and to do so may at
times be warranted in assailing the other. But—
everv time these personal attacks occur, the atten-
tion IS diverted from the subject under discussion
to the participants in the discussion, and the real
argument comes to a standstill. And sometimes,
even under severe provocation, it may be better to
leave ])ersonal attacks unnoticed and stick closely
to the matter in controversy. A man having a
great purpo.se to accomplish 'can not afford tc? be
hindered by mosquito stings and flea bites, but
should keep straight on to the end. At any rate,
no c^ne can afford to be the aggressor. If he may
repel personal attacks, he shouldn't begin them.
Eet his opponent begin the personal business, and
let him keep out of it so long^ as he can, but if the
attack becomes so severe that human flesh and
blo(Kl canned stand it, let him strike with the fury
of a thunderbolt, and as briefly, and then return
to the discussion of the controverted doctrine.

It is a profitable study to watch the growth of
the chickens, not only because one learns some ex-
cellent lessons but also because he is quick to de-
tect the approach of unfavorable svinptoms and can
apply remedies when remedies ' will accomplish

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Both Are Absolutely Necessary for Best Results, but
Are Often Not Provided. How to Furnish Both
with Little Effort.

By F. W. TAYLOR

^^ \\ lia\e a \ ery stroni;- liking- for these
two important and necessary thin.^s
in tlie p(mltry \ ard, and as this is the
season wlien ( )ld Sol lieL^ins to iL^a-t in
his l)ri:L;ht work with a will, we will
take shade lirst. 'Hie hens with youn^
chicks shonld not l)e imprisoned in a close coop
and exixxsed to the sun's ])urninj4- rays all day,
so we are very careful to have coo])s under
shad\' trees in the orchard or j^rove. Of the two
J much ])refer the orchard, because there is
plenty of ij:rass there which is not Ioul^ ; the chicks
can run aroTuid without danger of hein^ drowned in
a thunder-s'jower, and yet i^et plenty of tender pick-
im^s from the sh<»ots. Another ])oint in fa\'or ot
the c(K>ps l)ein^- in the orchard is the fact tliat the\
art' I'caviniLC i)ehin<l ^<hk1 fertilizinj^ material, as well
as picking- u]) many a yoimi; huL^" and worm that
would at an\^ rate do no .t^oo<l there, and miii^ht do
nuich harm. Then ai^ain another ])oint in fa\'or d
shadv spots for old and vouul;- st(»ck throui^h the
summer is the fact that the water in their drinkin.i;
\'essels stavs cooler Ioniser, and at no time .^ets hot
and sickeninj^. Readers of this. i)lease do not l)e-
L;rudL;e the trouble of ^ixin^- fresh cool water .'it
least twice a day, oftener if you can si)are the time.
Did vou ever suffer real thirst on a hot summer
dav, and only have sun warmed water to drink? 1
was caught in that fix out in a boat once— my day's
exi)erience with warm water.

Shade ap])lies to your old ftnvls which havQ to be
])emied u{> in yards, so be sure that you i^ive them
shade of some sort, n(» matter where you may be
liviuiT- If vou are in a small \ illaiie. there are woods
< »r bushes thai you can cut brush and branches
from and throw o\er one or two corners of their
yard; if in the city, you can ,^et a few old burlaj)
sacks and spread o\er corners. If not that, you
can take the windows out of your poultr}- houses
and let the fowls go in there for shade, with as much
air as possible t(» be had. Windows should be taken
out of everv henliouse in spring-, and kept out until
late fall.

AX'hat 1 consider one of the most \a1uablc pieces
of land on my place is a s])ot of wild briars and con-
fusion that is a thick mass all the sinnmer. Friends
often say to me: "Wh} don't you clear that untid\
spot away, it vvotild make the ])remises a lot tidier?"
For answer i take them to tlie edi^fc of the "juniilc"
and partin;^ the bushes show them what is J^oin^
on inside. There in spots are half i^rnwn chickens
hiiii;- contentedly stretched out, or scratching
amonjT last fall's leaves, but all enjoying; themselves
immenselv. Fverv now and then we throw a hand-
ful of wheat amon^ the bushes and that finds the
youngsters plenty to do when thev feel like work.
] would not touch that spot for dollars, as lonj; as
T keep ''chickens.'* We jc^et a c^ood supply of ei.ijLis
in mid and late summer when the nei.^hbors don't

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It IS a .li-ood thm^i; to take a leaf /rom nature's
book, but we must not for-et that the domestic
tow IS no lou-er a wild bird. With its centuries
of domestication it has necessarilv become some-
what of an artificial production,' and that fact
should indicate that in some thin-s nature'- teach-
ings C(»ncernin.o; the wild fowl can not be fullv fol-
lowed with reference to the modern domesti'catcd
fowl.

see one, and, apart from the fact that all our fowls
[ire carefulh bred and ke])t pure, I believe the ])rime
reason for these eiL^L^s is the shade provided. When
I see a person i)uttini;- uj) a new chicken house and
\ar(l with no shade I can be ])retty sure that no
fortune will be made from these fowls.

\o\v ab(»ut i^reeii food. M> readers may think
that talk about .^reen food at this time is like carry-
ini; water to the well; 1)Ut that is where a bad mis- ^

take may l)e made. 1 freely admit that nearly ev-
er} one has j^reeii food of some sort to throw into
the fowls just now; liow man\- i)eople make a ])oint
of doiiiLC this with the \e.^etable scraps, the weeds
from the kitchen or llower n^arden. or the cuttings
from the lawn? Some do. and m< .re don't. lint
that is not what I want to call attention to. It is
not now that the want ot L;reen food is felt, but in
the winter months. How much .^reen food. .\lr.
Reader, did xou ^i\e your fowls last winter? Xow
if you cannot look me in the face and say that you
^a\e them a full share, this is the time to provide
better for next winter. All of my readers who ha\e
kitchen-gardens are haviiii; ])lenty of spare plats
from which they lun e Leathered peas, beans. (Hiions.
and are dii^xiu!^' ])otatoes. W hy not ])lant the^e
si)ots with cabbai^e, turnips and beets? In this wa\'
you kill two birds with one shot — pro\-idc winter
proxender for your poultr\- and kee]) the weeds
from takino- possession of your garden ; not to s])eak
of the im])roved appearance that same garden will
present. Later in the season don't forj^et to sow
a i;o()(l lariL^e spot of rye. l^ssex Rape is another
i^rand i^reen winter forage i)lant. and one that is es-
])eciallv liked 1)\- poultrw If vou want summer ei/us
\()U must ha\e shade, and if vou want e<^\!Lis in
winter, nothini^- will help more in the food line to
keep your fowls in thrifty condition than plentx of ,
,i4reen food. A\'e like celerv ; so do you. I exi)ecl.
especially with y<Hir Thanksi^i\in-- turkev. I'lant
a .i^ood sup])ly of this api)etizer. and your h.wls will
enjoN the outside leaves, while your wife, children
and friends will thank you heartily for the deli-
cious nutty hearts and crowns. Put your thinkini:
ca]) on. and whatever winter -reens i^row well in
\<)ur latitude be sure to plain as much as \-ou can
s])are time for. I'^)r the readers who live in the citv.
and who do not have any i^ardens. let me ask them
t<) make a nunio of the need of _l;<»<»(1 clover, or al- . ^
falfa. as advertised by the poultry siii)p1v houses. W

1 don't believe in buying- anvthin- >hat l" can i)ro-
duce myself; but if un;d)le to do this, there are a
few thino-s that T do buv. Ovster shells, for in-
stance, T have on hand at all' times, and these 1
have to buy. althou-h 1 am within a few miles of
Maltimore. the .i^reat oyster center of the I'nited
States.

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Timely Pointers and Helpful Thoughts Tendered to
P. F. Readers by One of the Old Timers

By H. S. BABCOCK

]IF ])oultry man's brains were jj^iven
hi^ii to use, and the mc^re he uses
them the better will be the results
he will obtain.

Wise men make i^ood standards,
and wise breeders make jL^ood use
of them.

The making- of a ^ood standard for a breed re-
(piires thoujLi^ht; the raising- of a fowl to meet the
re(piirements of such a standard also requires
thou<;"ht.

Dissatisfaction with one's work turns it into the
hardest kind of slavery. If a man doesn't like
fowls and enjoy takin^j- care of them; the j^oultry
business is not for him.

It is hard for one to ])ut himself into another's
place. It is entirely reasonable to suppose that
there are men so constituted as not to care for
fowds. but, somehow, we find it practically impos-
sible to realize this fact. We may "ive the state-
ment mental accpiiescence, but that is not realiz-
inof its full meaning-.

Ilecause the poultry business necessitates much
hard work the poultry man should not, on that ac-
count, make it harder than it is necessary for it to
be. Ife should make use of labor saving devices
and a])pliances. Never send a man where a ma-
chine will do the work eipially well, is as Qood ad-
vice in the poulfv business as in any other.

\Vhen one i)lans a ])oultry house, the iirst con-
sideration is the welfare of the fowls, and the next
his own welfare. Convenience should be sou|L4^ht
for Use the head in order to save the lej:^s. "If
the head fori^ets the lei^s will have to remember."

Xo man ever re.^retted hard work which ])ai(l
well. It is the hard work which l)rin<.;s no ade-
cpiate return, that men rei^ret, and which looks even
harder in retrospect than in ])rospect. Misdirected
efforts make the work hard, and resultless; it
therefor, ])ays to think before one acts.

If one's fowls are in ^ood health they need no
tonics or other remedies. It is a mistake to be con-
stantly dosinjLi- well fowls, a mistake, how^ever,
which not a few make.

IJreed from healthy fowls, keep the premises in
a sanitary condition, sui)i)ly i)roper food and drink,
and the medicine shelf will seldom need to be \is-
ited.

Don't be discouraged if you lose an occasional
chicken. Xo breeder ha.s yet accpiired the art of
raisinja: e\'er\' chicken which is hatched.

O. K. Sharp, at one time prominent in Indian
(iame 1)reedinj4, used to say that he didn't mind the
loss of a few chicks, that the hardiest and most tit
sur\ived and those were the <^nes he wished to
raise. Jle certainly raised some i^ood ones.

A lireman realizes that the hrst few moments of
a fire are the most important ; a small blaze may be
extin,!^'uished without much loss. And it is a i^-ood

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deal the same way vvitli chicken ailments. If they
are cared for as soon as the hrst symptoms api)ear
a few simple remedies will ])ut them to rights, but if
the disease is allowed to protjress the chances are
that the hatchet and shovel will need to be used.

if one is a thorouj^h^oinj^ poultryman he will ex-
])ect lonii" hours and hard work, but in the results
obtained, he will rej^^ret neither.

Some <4()od men fail in poultry breefHn.ir, and the
causes of failure are not one but many. Too much
or t<K) little capital, the attenii)t to realize results
without preliminary training, lack (;f adaptation of
means to end, unfitnes.s for this special industry
and many other reasons account for failures.
'Alake haste slowly" is an admirable maxim, and
the beginner should apply it to the poultry industry.

Meat, in some form, is an essential element in
poultry feeding-. It may 1)e fed in the form of
scra])s, i^^reen cut bone, animal meat and the like.
Chickens at liberty obtain a certain amount of
meat in the bui^s and worms they capture and de-
vour, but all chickens cannot be allowed their lib-
erty and their needs must be otherwise supplied.

The fowl demands a variety of food in order to
produce bones, muscles, fat, feathers and the con-
stituents of ei;^s. Meat and force must be kei)t
up. As no one food will supply all that is needed,
\ ariety is indis])ensal)le.

A failure in the poultry business does not stop
with the one who makes it, but it ])revents manv
others from enj^aqinn- in what for them mij^ht pro\ e
a profitable industry. Remember there are suc-
cesses as well as failures.

Sitting hens have a bad habit of exposing one or
more e.L^xs at a time while coverinj^ the rest. The
result of this habit is that all the eii^gs may be ex-
posed durini; the period of incubation, and one of
two thinj^s naturally follows, either that the ej^i^s
hatch irre;4ularly, some hatchiui^ on time and some
delayed from one day to a week in hatchinjLi^, or the
e.2^i4S fail to hatch, in whole or in i)art. Two reme-
dies are sufj'i^ested, either jnrive the hen fewer ci^q^s,
say from eii^ht to ten, or use an incubator. This
habit will explain many poor hatches, and the sell-
er of the e.^i^'s often j^-ets the blame which beloUi^s
to the broody hen.

A breeder i^ives us this information. "Durinii"
the ])ast season," he says, "the fertility of the ei^j^s
laid by my hens has been so hi-^h that 1 abandoned
my usual testini^ of them at the end ot a week's in-
cubation. At the bei^inninj^- of the season I tested
them and infertile e!Lii;s were almost as scarce as
hen's teeth, lint, while I have ))a<l hens hatch
every ei^^g, some hens brought off small broods, and
in a few cases no chickens at all. The hen that
hatched exery e.^ji^- had, as a rule, comparatixelv
small hatches, about eleven es^i^s. Those that
hatched poorly had the regulation number of thir-
teen. The hens, sittin*^ on the larger clutches, I
noticed, would, at times, have one or more ej^gs un-
covered, and though, when these were discovered,
I tucked them under the hens, the results were
not satisfactory. I think we set too manv ei>j:>s un-
der a hen. 1 shall try to reform in this next
season."

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Clean iij). In these days of \\'v^\\
l)rice>. you >till ha\e your own lahor
and you can ])rocure time, sufficient
tor your purposes, at a very moder-
ate expenditure of money. P)Urn or
otherwise destroy the refuse, remove
tile (Iroppiuijs to the garden or lawn,
and decorate tiie inside of the poul-
try houses with a j^jood coat of white-
wa>li. Then note how much brij^lit-
er the houses look, how much fresher
the> ^mell and liow much healthier
lliey mu>t l)e for the fowls and their
attendant. Jf you should add a lit-
tle carbolic acid to the whitewash it
Would do no harm, and it mij^ht do
much ijjood.

It i> an old thought, but wortii re-
peatiiii^, that the fancier by breeding
1owl> true to standard re(|uirements
i> doiny^ somethin«j: worth while. I!*'
not (>nly finds in it an elevatinj^ rec-
reation, but he preserves in their
purity, types that have a tested value.
He not only solves difticult problems
in breeding and thu-^ increases his
mental j)Owers, but he ])roduces ma-
terials for the practical poultryman
to use in his useful, more i)rosaic,
work. While not directly aiming to
do so. he is adding to the material
resources of the nation, both by what
he produces and by what he enables
others to produce. When it comes to
practical poultry matters th(> fancier
is a man who can not be jumped
without material loss to the poultry
industry.

The Fall Show.

With the advent of September,
with its ripeninj^- or ripened crops,
comes the fall show. As a rule such
.shows are held in connection with
and as a feature of j^^eneral Agricul-
tmal l"airs. For this reason, and be-
cause the time is not wholly favor-
al)le. the chickens, except the earli-
est broods. beini.>" immature, and the
old fowls ragged in moult, the fall
show does not appeal so strongly to
the \eteran fancier and breeder as
the exclusive poultr}' shows which
will be held later in the season. At
one lime, there was an even more
serious objection to the fall show:
the judging was not performed by
experts. But tha.t reason, in mosr
cases, no longer exists, the agricul-
tural societies having realized the
necessity of employing good judges
to i)ass upon the merits of the poul-
tr\- exhibits.

I')Ut while the winter show is the
one the fancier looks forward to with
the greatest interst. he does not ig-
nore the fall show wholly. Man\-
good breeders exhibit, and many
keen exhil)itors at the winter shows
attend for the puri)()se of studying
the (|ualit\- of the l)irds and to pick
up some i)romising specimens for
the winter comjietitions. And it not
infre(|uently happens that these prom-
ising specimens change hands at re-
munerative i)rices. And some vet-
eran exhibitors show these early in
r)r(Ier to ascertain the quality of
their birds, to learn so far as pos-
sible what their chances will be in
the later exhibitions. And it is no
bad arena in which to try out the
promising \'oungster>, for these ex-
it ibitions are often large, with keen
competition among chickens of real-
ly high (piality.

lUit the fall show is jieculiarly the
beginner's show. It is here that he
takes "a heart of grace" to make hi>
(irst exhibit. lie is afraid to enter
the sharp competition of the winter
shows, where veteran competes with
veteran, and where the fowls have
received the most complete condi-
tioning and training. But he does
"screw his courage to the sticking
point" and enters one or more speci-
mens at the fall show. .\nd he
learns, after a little experience, that
he need not have been so fearful
that if his birds have the necessarv
(|iiality they will win. and that young
iireeders sometimes are able to win
over the grizzled veteran, though he
may have been the hero of a hundred
shows. He gets training and cour-
age that makes him an exhibitor at
the winter show, and not always an
unsuccessful exhibitor either. To
him the fall show is not only a bat-
tle field but a training ca'mp for
greater battles in the future. He here
receives the discii)line which trans-
forms a raw recruit into a fmished
\ eteran.

The fall show is already a great
institution but it should be made
even greater. .Ml classes from the
beginner with no experience to the
professional exhibitor with scores of

years exi)erience should exhibit in
increasing numbers. For all poul-
try shows are educational in their
tendencies, and the fall show reach-
es more ])eople, who need to be edu-
cated in poultry matters, than any
other institution. At the winter ex-
hibition the attendance is limited and
a good percentage of it is m^de up
c>{ thoroughgoing fanciers and breed-
ers, but at the fall show^ there are
thousands upon thousands of people,
very many of whom don't know the
difference between a Bantam and a
Brahma. 'J^his great throng is to be
reached and to be taught to appre-
ciate thoroughf)red fowls. Only the
fall show can reach these peoj^le.
Therefore it is desirable that the ex-
hibit should be large, contain speci-
mens of many breeds and varieties,
and that the quality should be high.
so that the most ignorant of the at-
tendants may understand the marked
superiority of the highly bred f(nvl
over the mongrel. Such high quali-
t}" is necessary in the winter show,
chiefly in order to enable the birds
to win prizes, but in the fall show it
is necessar}' in order that they may
win converts to the i)oultry industr\\
In view of the large attendance
that the fall show reaches and the
tremendous influence it is capable of
exerting ui)on the poultry industry,
poultry breeders ought to i)atr^»nize
it liberally, exhibit at it freely, and
generously strive to build it up in
both numbers and (|uality, for in so
doing they will be heli)ing to fulfill
the truth in the maxim "The gods
help those who help themselves."

Hero worshi]) is good but heroism
is better, .\dmire success in others
and win success for yourself.

Don't try to do too much. One
hen will hatch more chickens from
eleven eggs than she will from thirtv.

There is nothing good enough but
the best for the poultryman and his
flocks.

Good enough means to fall short
when the best is possible. .

Some breeders are behind their
orders because the orders are so num-
erous: others are behind their orders
because they are too lazy to keep
up with them.

Contentment springs from a love of
one's occupation. A poultryman. who
loves his occupation, has a right to
be and will be contented.

Some men neglect practical duties

in their efforts to solve problems

which have only an academic inter-
est.

Pure science is an aid to applied
science, but the latter is what the
breeder must make use of.

Don't attempt the inii)o>sible. The
possible is so u:reat that it is bevond
the powers of most men to exhaust
it wholly.

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LETTERS FROM READERS

This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
mvitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

ABOUT MENDEL'S LAW.

Mendel's law is coming in for some
criticism in these days. While it is
a useful and useable law in respect to
unit characters, it has been found that
all characteristics are not unit charac-
ters, and the application of the law
in poultry breecling is not so easy or
so general as was at first thought.
The making of new and improved
varieties of fowls will continue to be
a slow process despite the light
thrown upon heredity by the import-
ant discovery of Mendel. This law.
like all other laws, is undergoing a
searching study to discover what its
limitations are. The United States
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
says that "Menders discoveries, and
the discoveries of his disciples fol-
lowing his methods of research, have
given us some valuable principles
which have use at least in a narrow
range of breediny operations.'' And.
again, he says. "The range of the use
of Mendelian i)hiloso])h3' in recom-
bining in new types the most desir-
able of the unit characters found in
available types, forms a much less por-
tion of the field of economic breeding
than Mendelian enthusiasts at first
claimed." Tt is simply the old story
of claiming all at first and finding out
later just what one has got.

BEAUTY OF FORM AND COLOR

DESERVING THE HIGHEST

REGARD.

Will the editor i)ermit me to make
a brief quotation from an address
up<)n "Recent Science in Plant and
.Animal Breeding." which does not

seem inappro]iriate for a publication _

of the character of the Poultry Fan- ^

cier. where beauty of form and color ^

in fowls is considered as worthy of ?

attention as dozens of eggs and [|

pounds of meat. Others than fan- Z

ciers, so-called, seem to have ideas S

in harmony with those held by the '%,

highest tyi:)e of fanciers. ~

"(^nce the breeding of living things *

reaches that development of which it p

is capable, it may be that those most ^

brilliant in creative breeding will have —

the highest place at the head of the g

class (1^ artists. Certain it is that the ^

molding of living things which ex- J

press the greatest beauty of form, g

color and fragrance will give to him ^

who can anply science and art to liv- q

ing protoplasm, a scope for scientific g

knowledge, i)roi)lietic vision, and art- u

istic skill far beyond that ])ossible ^

to apply through the chisel or P

through the brusli alone." This was g

not written by TT. S. T^.abcock. who. ^
according to Mr. John H Robinson,

"can De depended upon to aopear
periodically with an article in glori-
fication of the fancier as the 'god
from whom all blessings flow' in
poultry culture," but by the Hon.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture at
Washington, D. C, upon whom Mr.
Robinson can train his "quaker guns,"
if he feels so disposed, with the rea-
sonable certainty that the victim will
not shoot back, because he probably
will never know he has been hit.

A Fancier.
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THE REASONS FOR BLACK

PRIMARIES.

Answering Mr. Parrish in regard
to the Columbian Wyandotte wings
I will say that there are several good
reasons why they should be black
with the lower edge white as the new
.standard will require.

The principal reason is that with-
out these black primaries you will
never be able to get a good hackle
or tail, the very things Air. Parrish
wishes to favor but which he will
never be able to accomplish with his
white or marbled wings.

If Mr. Parrish will take the trouble
to read Mr. Doevenstedt's article in
the July American Poultry World or
get a copy of the Reliable Poultry
Journal's book on Wyandottes, he
will lind a great many reasons by
the foremost Columbian Wyandotte
breeders why he should breed to the
black primaries.

b'urthermore to judge from what
he says in regard to his experience
as a Pight Brahma breeder, the ad-
mission he makes in reference to the

results he had shows that he was
breeding too* light and therefore had
such a large per cent of light col-
ored wings.

Another reason for this black wing
is that without it and the slate under-
color we will never be able to get
rid of the brassiness in the males.

His criticism of the Columbian
Wyandotte in the June Fancier
clearly shows that he is trying to
make a mountain of a mole hill, for
if he can produce wings in his birds
that are their equal he will not ad-
vocate a light colored wing and the
hackle and tail will be nearer the
standard than those he advocates.
And if he had taken into consider-
ation the angle from which these
photos were taken he would know
that in order to have the hackle show
up the photo would have to be taken
at nearly right angles when the birds
are in their natural position and not
on a horizontal as these were.

Vxova one hundred chicks in the
first hatch taken off this spring and
that are now four months old the
following table will give the per cent
of the different grades of chicks

24 light hackles and wings.

.'{ toes turned in.

1 1 i)oor combs.

().? good chicks that will make good
breeders and of which 21 look like
good show birds.

1 trust that Mr. Parrish will take
the trouble to read the two aforesaid
articles and that he will be able to
learn something new from them, al-
so that he will be able to see a way
by which he can get a greater per

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Plymovitli Rocks I

Will will lor you and as I will do no g
exhibiting tliis year will be able to fur- *
nlsh you the best chicli.s I have. S

Lapham^s Buff ^
Ply- Rock Chicks ^

from three weeiis old to five months *

old. Will have matured cockerels and ■

pnlletvS for August and September ^

shows. Kindly remember your money H

will be refunded if you ar»> not satisfied, fi

21) swarms fine Italian Bees at S^) each. ^

Rood new hives. M»^ntlon this naper "

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with photographs, describing some of the best Rhode
Island Keds ever mated up. both combs. Winners

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cent of yood chicks than he has been
able t(i do.

Oiir eiHh.«avor has always been f-

develop the Columbian for shape as
well as tor color and comb.

Minneapolis, Minn. Geo. .\. Kersten.

IN DEFENSE OF THE REDS.

1 have noticed several articles re-
cently on Rhode Island Reds and un-
der various titles such as "Are
lanciers ruinin^^ the breed/' are they
"losing vijjor and commercial quali-
ties," "that Leghorn blood is beinj.
bred out." etc.

Where did our j)oultry come from
and how was it first obtained. The
origin of all poultry is the wild jun-
gle fowl of India which in its native
state produced .'> to S eggs each year.
I'Vom these birds fanciers have
through careful mating and good
breeding produced over a hundred
\arieties. some of these producing
over two hundred eggs. Many of
these breeds have been bred by fan-
ciers for years and never have been
perfected, many however, bred true
but never perfect. They are all
made up of combinations and for this
reason re{|uire scientific breeding.
The Rhode Island farmer laid tlic
foundation for the Reds more than
half a century ago. The commer-
cial (|ualities were their ^ole attrac-
tion, plenty of eggs and salable
fowls for the markets. Their origin
is supposed to have been .\siatic>.
^^e(literraneans and (iames. They
were bred for utility purposes in
Rhode Island and .\ew England
>tates for over fifty years without
any special regard to type, »hape or
color and were crossed similar to the
way many barnyard fowls are bred
t()day, varying according to the ideas
of the individual with utility <|uali-
ties for their standard guide.'

In IHJJH fanciers took hold of this
noble breed and bv scientific mating
have produced in the Red one of the
most beautiful and prolitable breeds.
'Iliey have bred out discnialiiications
and undesirable features just the
sanie as have all breeders of other
varieties and have made wonderful
progress. The straw hackle and
varied colors of the rainbow have
given way to the beautiful even color

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in all sections, and the best strains
are now breeding as true as are any
of the older breeds, while stamina,
vigor and laying (pialities have been
full\' retained. Wliat i> any breed
without a standard or a business
without a systeiu. The fanciers have
secured a standard for the Reds and
are breeding them as near standard
re(|uirements as any parti-colored
breed. Vou can attribute this to the
artificial methods of professional
breeding, double mating or other-
wise, it is the only way to procure
good birds of any breed. The Red
nien are making good. The develop-
ment and growth of the Reds have
been pljem menal. They have spread
with wonderful rapidity over this
country, Canada and .South America
and are being rapidly introduced in-
to all foreign countries on the globe.
I'orget the past, lopped combs, white
e'lr lof)es, and smut. We are living
now, get ol¥ the roost, get out in the
sunshine and boost.
Liberty Hill. Tex. G. A. Smith.

A NEW SCORE CARD.

It is with much diffidence that a
new score card is offered to the pa-
tient and long suff'ering jjublic. S(^
ni.an\- have been ])resente(l that the
first inclination will be to turn away
in (lisgust from so stale a toi)ic. lUit
this card is something novel in char-
acter and application, and an exam-
ination of it will, without effort, dis-
close its worth or worth lessness. As
it is self-explanatory, no further in-
troduction is necessary:

The Success Score Card.

Thoroughbred cock l() points

Thoroughbred hens K)

Correct mating of cock and

hens 10 '*

Constitutional vigor lo **

(iood health pi

Proi)er feeding, including...

drink lo '<

Cleanliness and (piarters ...10 "

hVeedom from vermin lo

h'resh air iu

Sunshine « jo

''"otal l()()i)oints

.\o column of "outs" is provided,
because there are no out> in a card
like this. Xo place is reserved for

60 Years "" 'L'iT'^ I. K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.
i^yfX, .^T*^^'^ *'*' been satisfied with the stock for the money paid
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT. when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

IVIN AND BRKED ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons* winnings to their advantage.

From Sept I to May 15. Brahmas $3.50 to $10 for females; $5 to $20
for males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all. $4 for I 5, $7 for 30 $9
for 45. and $15 for 105 eggs. From May I 5 to Sept. I. all yearlings before
mouhing sold at 40 per cent otf of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars addre.«»s

I K. FELCH & SON. Box 1 76, NATICK. MASS.

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August. '10

the jndf^e's name, because each breed-
er is expected to be his own judge
and do his own scoring. No place
is left vacant for the name of a poul-
try society, because the card is for
"home consumption only.'' Every
breeder is expected to so apply the
card that a >C()re of 100, and success,
will follow.

A few comments may be illnmin-
atini>. A thoroughbrecl counts ten
and a monj^rel is of no account what-
ever. The cock is representetl as
"half the pen," countinj^: for as much
as all of the hens associated with
him. Correct mating is considered
as equal in value to the head of the
pen or his m;ites, for thoroughbred
fowls do not count for full value un-
less properly mated. Good health
and constitutional vigor deserve, and
receive, etjual consideration. Fresh
air, in these days of sanitation, is
considered as important as proper
feeding, and sunshine, the great in-
\ igorator and life-giver, as import-
ant as fresh air. In fact the decimal
sjj^stem. a card of ten sections, each
of the value of ten points, was adopt-
ed after mature consideration, be-
cause each essential to success is as
important as every other one, and
because, in fact, to do nine essential
things and to leave the tenth essen-
tial undone, is to iiivite failure and
to be wholly undone. But if every-
thing which is essential is attended
to, success, and only success can
follow.

The Success .Score Card is not
copyrighted, and breeders generally
are invited to use it. It is as free
as the air we breathe, or in the
word of another all can have it
"free, gratis, for nothing." We be-
lieve it will work well — indeed we
hazard nothing in saying that we
know- it will work well, — and there-
fore it is of advantage that it be well
worked, especially as there is no in-
tention, in any way. to work those
who use it. Kast<

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CORN HARVESTER.

A most i)ia(tical corn harvester is made
l>.v the New Process Mf^. Co.. of Salina,
Kansas. It will do almost anything that
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naction as much. With it a man can cut
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and It is so simi)le in construction an<l op-
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heen s(>l<l in every state in the Union, and
has Kiven universal satisfaction. It will
pay for itself in hss than one season an.l
IS .so comi)act and well made that it will
last for >ears.

If you will write them, mentioning (his
l>aper. they will sen. I you full particulars.

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How an Iowa Breeder Handles His Old Stock

During the Summer Months

Miinilestly, every one has not the
same difficulties to meet. So far as
I lie i)roblem is specialized by local
and incidental factors one must be
left to his own resource. IJut. funda-
mentally the summer of old stock is
essentially the same problem in all
localities and under all circumstances.
The old stock has passed through
an exhausting period in the breeding
pen, and is kept with future breeding
use, exhibition purpose, or both in
view. The early decay of vital pow-
ers in fowls is evidenced by the lesser
egg production of the second year.
Depleted strength may he the effect
of defective parentage. Vermin, heat
of summer, hlth, the moult, all con-
spire to sap the strength of the fowls.
Rest and recuperation are demand-
ed. Rest does not mean cessation of
activity but change and relaxation,
lo invite recuperatit)n we need to
throw open the channels of life to
the forces of nature. If one has large
range at disposal the matter is sim-
l)lilled. Where quarters are small one
must provide as best one can, by in-
tensive measures what the other has
extensively. In either case the sum-
mer care should begin in the spring.
Stock intended to be kept over should
not be unduly forced. The hens that
^how signs of failing during the
breeding season should be allowed to
"sit" near the close of the breeding
season. All hens to be summered
over should be permited to raise a
brood of chicks, if they desire. This
not only satisfies the maternal instinct
but, is the most natural, sure and easy
way ()f systematic change. When the
breeding pens are broken up separate
the ^exes, and keep the males out of
.^ight of females. Give the stock new
(juarters if possible, or work as radi-
cal change in the old as you can. Free
the fowls of lice and keep them free.
Clean out and clean up both houses
and runs. Turn up the soil to the
>un and let the sun shine into the
house. Whitewash the house if you
choose; it is not needful, any good
disinfectant will answer. I like coal
oil and carbolic acid, one-half ounce
of the acid to one gallon of coal oil.
ai)plied with a good sprayer and shot
into every ct)rner and crevice. In-
stead of removing soil from the floor
of the house. 1 cover well with air-
>lake(l linie and spade under. The
runs should be treated in like man-
ner. If other range is available, the
old runs may be sowed with oats (^r
wheat; this will freshen them. If
plenty of shade is not at hand, fasten
old sacks or pieces of muslin across the
corners of the fence, or on temporarv
frames and place where the stock can
get under. Shade there must be.
h'resh water should be given at least
twice a day, in vessels that will ex-
clude dirt, that are kejit sweet by fre-
(|uent washing aiid airing. Once a
week add to each gallf>n of water 40
or .")0 droj)s tincture of ir(ni, unless
your fowls are white, in which case
you would better omit the iron, but
a mild tonic of some kind should be
given. The {q^A will be somewhat

regulated as to (piantity by the size
and richness of the range. Despite
the many ''tables of food values, etc.,"
no one has yet been able to measure
the individual needs and capacity of
fowls. No one can tell you how much
to feed, but fowls should have enough,
and have it when they want it, espe-
cially the old stock, whose physical
being is to be renewed, should have
and abundance of food and easy of
access. A mixture of Indian corn
and oats, etpial parts, ground coarse,
to which is added an etiual part of
wheat bran, fed dry every day in an
open trough, will supply all delicien-
cies as to cpiantity, is greatly relished
and of high (juality. Feed wheat and
oats alternately night and morning.
The males should be treated in the
saine way, except that whole corn
may be given them two or three times
a week. Grit, oyster shell, granulated
bone charcoal and meat meal should
be accessible to the fowls at all times.
Table scraps and milk in any form
make variety. Green food should be
supplied fresh every clay and in abun-
dance. Stock on good clover range
enjoy garden truck by way of change

Nothing here set forth is "theory."
This is my wa3\ It is vindicated by
several years' ])ractice. The old stock
has come through the summer in lin-
est form. The for)d is light em)Ugh
that the organs are not taxed in as-
>imilating it and nourishing enough
to sustain good llesh and vigor.
Gombs are red, the moult is passed
through without aj)parent depletion^
and we are never without fresh eggs,
though I have not kept more than
1.") hens through the summer and lUiff
Cochins at that.

Make the old stock comfortable and
invite relaxation by environment; pro-
mote health by change, cleanliness:
rest; restore depleted energy by sub-
stantial, agreeable and easily assimi-
lated foods, giving siifhcient variety
to temi)t and satisfy natural appetite,
regulating the ([uanity by accessibil-
ity and demand rather than by meas-
ure and the old stock will re-create
"in the good old summer time."

Macedonia, la. J. V . Davis.

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Partridge, Buff, Black and White
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Judge, IniiMjrterand Breeder. Chanoa. Illinois.

R.C.an(lS.C.R.I.Re(ls

Winners at llapcrsfown. Clilcajfo, McKoesport.
IhithT and IMttsburg. Ifest yuuug stuck 1 ever
raised now reudy to Khip. Write me. The stock
Is rl|?ht and the prices ;in* rljjlit. : : : : : : : :

F. !.. Ober, R. F. D, 1, Verona, Pa.

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^*IN TIME OF PEACE, PREPARE
FOR WAR."

Wlien the weather is warm and
l)leasant, too many chicken raisers are
<ipt to neglect the little duties which
in many cases tip the balance between
-ncccss and failure. The leaky roof,
the hole in the fence that lets the
dogs and cats in and the chickens
out. the coop that needs whitewash,
the dust to be stored for Biddy's bath
• •n a rainy day, these and many more
little things should receive your at-
tention now. If you see a watering
<lish or fountain dry or dirty take
time to^ fdl it with fresh water at
once. You cannot discipline a hen to
teach her to stop soiling the water by
dei)ri\ing her of it. You are but re-
ducing your own profits, for it takes
water, and lots of it. to make eggs.

When putting brooders, colony
houses and other fixtures away for
the Avinter see that they are renovated
and repaired. A hook gone, a hinge
broken, etc.. can be replaced better
then than to wait until the rush sea-
son, when they are needed for use.
Always have housing capacity in ex-
cess of the maximum amount of stock
kept.

A large flock roosting in quarters
intended for half that number is an in-
vitation to disease and disaster. f
might enumerate "hints" and "don'ts"
galore, but suflice it to say that the
wideawake poultryman will learn to
see the "stitches" in time to "save
uine." Experience and the Success-
ful Poultry Journal are a team of edu-
cators that will unravel any "stitches"
that snarl in the sewing

Dr. [\. [•:. Pitcher.
Xeillsville, \\is.

THE CARE OF FOWLS DURING
THE MOULTING PERIOD.

'rhi> is the time of year when we
nui>t think of the comfort of our birds
if we expect them to pass through the
moult in the best possible condition.
It is perhaps impossible for me or
any one to say that any special May
is absolutely the best, so 1 will only
speak of what T have found through
experience to be the best for me.

One of the first things to do is to
-eparate your male birds from the
dock and give the hens all of the room
possible. If yarded, cull out all of the
birds that are not up to the recpiire-
ments of your flock, and market them:
this will leave you more room. If
on range, this does not matter so
much. Having separated the males
from your pens, provide a good, com-
fortable coop for them, then give the
hens a good cool place to roost at
night, and have plenty of shade during
the day.

If one has any particidar birds that
arc vyanted for shows, it is a good idea
to give them eggs and let them hatch
an(l brood chicks in July and August.
This gives them rest and they seem
to moult out brighter and (piicker.

Of course this is impossible with the
non-setting breeds. As to feed, T find
a whole grain ration, with an occa-
sional mash, say once or twice a week,
brings very good results, b'or grain.
T have to vary, according to price and

(piality, but oats, cracked corn and
wheat (when 1 can get good, at any-
thing like a living price) and meat of
some kind make up the ration for
.summer. I use a little buckwheat once
in awhile. My feed is usually about
one-half oa-ts, the other half corn,
cracked preferred, but whole corn may
be used, and wheat, or you can mix
the grain all together to feed, if pre-
ferred.

The meat I find is very essential
and may be given in the form of green
cut bone, meat scraps or meat meal,
the latter will need to be fed in the
mash, but the other can be fed in
troughs or dishes, just as it is and
should be given to the fowl at least
three times a week. Of course you
must bear in mind that green food

August, '10

must be given and it is better when
the birds can get it themselves. If
they are yarded and cannot, then it
must be provided in some other way.

Grit and shell is always needed, as
is also plenty of good fresh water.

In the mash for fowls in moult. I
use a little oiF meal, about a handful
to four quarts of the dry mash.

White birds will moult out whiter
if kept in the shade and anj^ bird \v\\]
feel better and be happier if they
have good shade to get under on a
hot day.

There are lots of ways and methods
for caring for poultry: some have
quick moult methods, etc., but this is
the way I get good results.

L. E. Olmstead.
Bethel, Conn.

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By EASTERNER

We have noticed, as an interesting
coincidence, that those publications,
which do not carry the advertisements
of various "systems" and "secrets" in
poultry keeping, exhibit a remarkable
ho.-tility to sucii things.

"Something for nothing" is a math-
ematical problem, that no number of
failures will i)revent the people from
trying to solve by the use" of each
new method of solution proposed.

Rev. C. ]{. I'etersen writes about
"St 'II Room at the Top." If the room
at the top is in a sky-scraoer it would
naturally be still— at least as com-
l)aieU v\ith those lower down.

%• •;»

Michael K. I'.oyer talks about the
prohtable goose, but most men, when
they have dealings with such a goose,
pocket the profits and keep silent
about the goose. Boyer should be
nidre reticent.

* *

W'hen we offered our chickens some
lettuce, they said bv their actions,
"Let us have some white clover, such
as we have been having."

TVom an educational ])oint of view,
the fancier stands ahead of his more
practical brother, according to Mr'. W.
T. Spillman, connected with the Agri-

'tr%3\JiLfm. WL T 1* i^ W *w*- 1 Kr 1^

cultural Department of the national
government, who says that the breed-
ing of fancy poultry "requires a large
amount of special knowledge." The
"Dean of Ready Writers on Poultry
in America" will please take notice.
He might hurl this solid chunk at his
inveterate friend, the editor of Farm-
I'oultry, when next he writes in glori-
fication of the fancier.

"Fancier" declares that fancy breed-
ing is the most certain form of breed-
ing "If you breed for feathers you
will get feathers; if you breed for
eggs, you will get — feathers."

* *

Among the unverified rumors which
have reached us are these: John H.
Robinson has taken up the breeding
of fanc\' fowls and will make a large
exhibit at the next Boston show. IT.
S. Ilabcock is going in strong for
commercial poultry breeding, has
abandoned the fancy and has given
up all experimental work. F. B.
Thompson has traded his flock of
"Ringlets" for a lot of Pit Games.
Dr. Clarke has washed his hands of
the Thoroughbred Game, otherwise
known as the Pit Game, and will de-
vote his time in the future to breed-
ing Buff Cochins. 1. K. h\dch has
disposed of all his Light Brahmas and
is actively engaged in the attempt to
produce three new breeds. F.rncst
Kellerstrass has sold out his White
Or])ingt()ns, with the "good will" in
their breeding, for the modest sum

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Also their .share ot tir.st and .specials at other leading shows. Eggs for hatching as

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BOX 117, NORTH FREEDOM, WIS.

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dottes? If .so. "will

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f2 00 per 15. Stock for sale. Send for catalogue.

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at Minneapolis and
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in the
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C. P. McANDREW

ELLSWORTH, WIS.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Winners at Milwaukee, Januarv
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IS.

of S.-J.OOO.OOO, and a large number of
shares in the Standard Oil Company,
and will in the future breed Bantams
only. U. R. Fishel will no longer
show the white feather, having sold
out his White Plymouth Rocks and
invested the proceeds in Anconas.
Rev. C. E. Petersen has abandoned
the Houdans and henceforth will
breed Creepers only. President Bry-
ant has announced that never again
will he run for office in the American
Poultry Association. Franklane

Sewell will never draw anything after
this date except a salary. Tom Mc-
Grew will sever his connection with
all things relating to poultry and will
edit a political newspaper. "Drev."
is seriousl}' considering taking up
evangelistic work in company with
Billy jMcNcil and Sharpe Butterfield.
We have not been able, after com-
mendable diligence, to verify any of
these rumors, and so we give them
for what they are worth. Each one
must judge from internal evidence
of their probable truth; we express
no opinion.

Tf every rumor were as true as it
is active, this old earth would be a
pretty lively place, and there would

be "shake ups" in all directions.

* *

One of the new breeds, on which
T. K. Felch is said to be at work,
is to be named Rumor, because it will
be active, go evervwhere. and be a
high flyer. Another, the very anti-
thesis of the above, will be called
Truth, because, though it is slow, in
time it will get there with both feet.
The first is for (|uick introduction:
the second for permanent use. The
Sage is still sage.

John H. has a grievance in that he
couldn't buy the Deacon's book, be-
cause he wouldn't agree to complv
with the terms made to all. But what
would John fT. be without a griev-
ance?

Single matings is a beautiful theory.
We believe in it — as a theorv.

Dr. TT. E. Ballard is right when he
says, in effect, that it is a safe bet that
"the best birds in the world" mav
have to acknowledge in a few years

that there are better.

4> *

Tt is fortunate that the claims of
new varieties are not lesal tender.
Vou don't have to accept them unless
vou wish to.

* *

Of making extravagant claims about
new varieties, like the making of
many books, there is no end, and the
study of both produces a similar re-
sult, much weariness to the flesh.

* *

The old breeds are good, we have
proved their virtues: the new breeds
should be good because thev have
inherited their virtues from the old,
"For out of the old fields, as men

saithe.
Cometh all this new corne fro yere

to yere."

* *

A. W. Anthonv tells the beginner
how to start in the poultry business.
.\fter starting, keep agoing. The
poultryman who stands still is either
going back or falling down, and we

1-^;:

>>M>>stiari/aia!iht. .vgmir.*»^

say this, though we did not come from
the Kmerahl Isle.

* *

We like the old breeds and we like
the new, may their race increase.

J. E. Wilmarth writes upon "Sum-
mer Necessities in Poultry Housing."
In some articles upon such topics we
have been obliged to make the com-
ment, "Summer necessities and ^um-
mer not."

.'. »v
.,. .,•>

Did the editor of Poultry Fancier,
when he gave as a title to oue of II.
S. Babcock's contributions, "Sparks
from the Emery Wheel" — which l)y
^the by was a pretty bright title — mean
to imply that IJabcock was a success-
ful grind? We assume, perhaps
wrongly, that the editor furnished this
title, though he has never told us

about it.

* *

T. Reid Parrish writes about ''The
Colunibian Wyandotte Again." What
again? And so soon, too!

We are now convinced that ''Semper
Paratus" is a good motto for the
poultrvman.

Where did IJabcock get his title.
"A Side Light on Heredity"? Was
he thinking of the mutton-cho]) brand
of whiskers, sometimes called "Side
Eights." a not inai)pro])riate name
when the whiskers were of a flaming
red?

••• «*«
••• *»'

Poultry Fancier tells us that "Tt is

the little things that count," but we

were under the impression that

grown-ups" also knew something

about counting.

••< ••<

When Drevenstedt told his son that
"The early bird gets the worm," the
young hopeful replied, "What do I
want of worms? Ma won't let me go
fishing." P»y the way, can you tell
me whether Drevenstedt has a young
son or not?

We like Anthong's idea that a
poultryman should subscribe for one
or more poultry journals. Tt is a good
thought upon a most excellent subject.
To keep up with a procession one
must follow the band, and the drum-
major is the poultry journal. If vou
are with him you are at the head of
the procession.

* *

R(jbinson must have been in his
most generous mood when he wrr)te
of P>abcock, "Tlis work is always read-
able, ancl occasionally informing."
This is a great concession for him to
make, probably the greatot he ever
made. Who. after this, will dare to
say that his is a hopeless case? Tn
a few generations he might — but we
refuse to speculate upon what might
happen in such .1 length of time.

* *

There is a good deal of "are" in the
initials of the fowl R. C. R. T. R..
which shows that the Rose Comb
Rhode Island Red is a fowl in the
present tense, and of the i)resent day.

5ft *

"W. W." and "W. E." are not col-
lege degrees, but the agricultural col-
leges and experiment stations are an-
preciating their real significance bv
degrees. Where White Wyandottes

POULTRY FANCIER

and White Eeghorns are known the
degree of their appreciation is the
superlative.

Peterson declares that his favorite
towls are Jloudans, not lloodoos.

The initials of the White Orpington
may be W. O.. but the fowls them-
selves spell joy to the owner. Reading
notices like the above come high. For
terms apply to the office.

It is rumored that the Rhode Island
College is about to bestow the de-
gre of R. F. D. — ])resumably meaning
Doctor of Red I^^jwls, though the
letters, which have a familiar look,
may stand for something else — upon
Theo. Hewes for his excellent work
upon Rhode Island Reds, but we
have been unable to secure an}- con-
fn-mation of this rumor. \\'e fear
that there is nothing in it — we don't
mean the book, but the rumor.

"Drev." who has, for lol these many
\'ears. lived, and we may almost say,
slept, with the Wyandottes — for did
he not at one time write notes headed,
"TVom the lulitor's Perch," or words
to that effect? — has edited a book uj)-
on this breed of many varieties, and
from his experiences it ought to be ().
K., as he surely is a Johnny on the
Dot when it comes to the Wyandotte.

If our notice of the above two books
seems meager, the authors are entirely
to blame for not sending " I^asterner"
a copy for review. lie delights in the
solemnities of book re\iewing. and
is always ready to prepare a snita1)le
obituary notice or appreciative epit.inh
upon any new work on i)oultrv. Imi-
tnre writer> will i)lease take notice.
The copies cm be addressed in care
of this journal and will surely reach
us.

"Of making many books there is no
end," but every book must have an
end. and. let us hone, a good one.

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The poultryman. who wronglv de-
lights in a cocktail, must feel en-
couraged, when he learns that on the
farm of Henry Sharf. in the suburbs

of Snohomish, Wash., there stands a
cherry tree twelve feet, seven inches
in circumference midway between the
ground and the first great branches,
fifty-live feet in height, with a spread
of seventy feet, and which in 1905
produced a ton of fruit. Quite a
shrub, that I

".Awnings over the sunny openings"
may be a good thing, but yawnings
over any opening are bad. even if
yawning, of itself, makes an open-
ing.

* *

One of our newspapers says that
money is to be plentiful, but we fear
it will be just as hard as ever for us
to get any of it.

The latest feat in laying (or lying)
is that of an .\noka hen which lays
her eggs in a crate so as to have
them ready for shipping.

Nineteen hundred and ten will go
down in history as the annus mira-
bilis in the poultry }:iird, for eggs are

^^tlTl^ah •" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville. Iiid , Jan. 4-8, Tucker, Judge; 2.
8 cock. 2 cockerel, 1. 2. 4 hen. 1, 2 pullet 1, 2.
pen, 20 females average !>2 1.5. Richmond.
Ind. .Janl 2-1.") Zike, Judge; I won eight prize.s
with five birds entered;! cockerel. 1, 2 hen. I.
2 pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Kggs from best pens only $1 for 15
after May 1.5th IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

: $5.00 per dozen
: 3.00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
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tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

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Partridge Plymouth Rocks

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hitest ca.se beiiiLi one with the extra
le^s folded under tlie win^.s of the
chick; eggs are hiid with a handle,
like a gourd, presunialdy adapted for
the convenient use of ev^g shakes; and
big four-ounce eggs, double and sin-
gle yolked, are produced almost with-
out number. The hens are np to all

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN. PA.

General TudRe all varieties Poultry. Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
raom. 30 years a poultryman.

White PIvmOUth Rocks ^''olce breeding stock from
^ •' "thus season.s niatitigs for

.sale after June 1st. Remember our Plymouth
Rocks won every blue competed for in the last two
years Also silver cup wiiuurs Choice st<>ck
alwaysfor sale Allen Tucker, Mineral Point. Wis.

SC RROWN Choice cockerels for
. V^. DlVV^Wn ^ale. Bred in line for

LEGHORNS ---^y— • prices

|1 .")0 per 1.5.

H. E. MARQUARDT.

reasonable.

Eggs now
WAUSAU. WIS.

R. C. REDS

Some of the
best in Ameri-

u ,r • r ^*- Kggs at

half price after June 1st. About 30 good Hens
will sell cheap. Write today.
VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. FAYETTE. MO

WYANDOTTE EGGS:

l~i for balance
R. F. D.. ELROY. WIS.

Silver and White V^^^,,

B. H. BACON.

Single Comb Black Orpingtons

Best Winter layers. Scored stock for sale.
JAS. McGUAN, BARABOO, WIS.

Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks, S. C.

Rrnwn I pa!inrn« '"k*!*^'^^ awards at lead-
Drown L.egnornS ing shows, some choice
yearling breeders for sale at reduced prices Cat.
L H. JOSTES & SON. R. R. No. 2. Macon. III.

R. C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won many prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows. " iCggs now for
|2 00 per Ih f i ©m pens ni a' cd to produce high class
exhibition stock Harry Sower. Rome City. Ind.

M.E.

ROGtRS

LEGHORNS

LACROSSE
^ WIS.

R. C. Brown

Black

Anconas

W. F. B.

Spanish

POULTRY FENCE

STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF
Bottom wires 1 inch apart.
Will not snjr or bag. Re-
(iuires no boards — top or
bottom — and fewer posts.
Costs Itss than netting. We
pay freight. Send for catalog.
T( p Brown Fence & Wire To.

Dcpt, 94 Cleveland. Ohio

COLUMBIAN*

* WYANDOTTES \

%

Bred to win and lay. ^r

Hiititington, Ind.. 1910. 2nd cockerel, 2nd,
3rd. 4th pullet. Won at Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
1910, 3rd cockerel, 1st, 2nd. .3rd pullet.
Send for Mating LisL

A. M. BENDER

1231 Walton Ave. FT. WAYNE, IND.

POULTRY FANCIE

sorts of stunts, and there is no know-
ing where this freakishness will end.
Is there any connection between these
things and the Swaysgood theory of
hatching by the signs in the Zodiac,
or is it a mere coincidence that the
annoninicement of this theory and the
occurrence of these events were near-
ly simultaneous?

*•* *•«
•♦• •»•

"The ruling passion, strong in
death," is to get something for noth-
ing, a feat, which would be easily ac-
complished if the various get-rich-
(luick schemes were onlv based on

truth.

>;: *

Whenever one is tempted to lose
faith in the goodness and benevolence
of man. he should read some pro-
moter's circular, and note how elo-
(juently it pleads for the opportunity
to make all men rich ahd happv.

The Minnea]>olis Journal says that
the left leg of a turkey or chicken
i> tough and stringy. That is why it
i> left, isn't it?

'*Phunnicus" asks this conundrum,
"When is the right leg of a chicken
not the right?" When it is left, of
course. Ask us an easier one.

With an acreage of 420.000,000 of
nnim])roved farming land in the
United States according to the
twelfth census (1900), it would seem
that lack of space would not be a
convincing argument in favor of the

intensive forms of poultrv keeping.

* * '

Don't strive for praise but strive
to deserve praise.

Take care of the little things and
the big things will take care of them-
selves.

Chart your course carefully, study
yftur chart industriouslj% follow your
way accurately. A good pilot is bet-
ter than a dozen life-preservers.

,.•• »•-
't* '.*

It was Virgil, was it not, who wrote
that the descent to Avernus was easy,
but the ascent from that lower region
was laboriousl}' difficult. Tn modern
terms that means it is easy to get into
the down-and-out class but mighty
hard to get out of it. "Down-and-
out" readily suggests "Avernus" to
many minds, though the down-and-
outer usually makes use of a synonym
of .Avernus to express his feelings
ui)on the subject, a short term having
a geograi)hical significance and indica-
tive of a high temperature.

* ^•

In the great .\merican game every
nine has its innings and Casey is not
always at the bat, but in the greater
poultry game there are a few who
think, or seem to think, that they are
not playing, unless they are at, or
rather on a 'M)at."

.\ "mascot" is a something which
brings good luck. Mvery poultryman
should have a mascot, and should
select for it intelligence in plan and
diligence in execution.

.\ coat of arms ma}^ warm the
cockles of an Englishman's heart, but
a coat of fur or of wool suits the
plain .American better dm'ing the cold

months of the year. The ladies prefer
the fur.

The breeder of Polish fowls is a
believer in crests.

The double-mating system comes in
for some hard knocks now and then,
but those who practice it keep on
winning prizes. Tho knockers will
have to knock louder to make the
double-maters hear and heed under
such circumstances.

* ♦

Collecting is usually an interesting
and harmless fad, but a few pervert
it by collecting a large and uglv as-
sortment of grievances, which gives
joy neither to the collector nor to his
would-be friends.

* *

One of the crying needs of the
times is a code of ethics relating to
the proper conduct of poultry con-
troversies. The elimination of per-
sonal abuse would be a great help
in arriving at the truth upon contro-
verted subjects.

* *

To understand one's limitations and
write accordingly is undoubtedlv a
good thing. If everybody did tliis,
there would be a much snialler vol-
ume of ^ voluntary criticism. The
"Groseur' 'as an advocate of practical
poultry culture, for example, would
be less likely to attack the aims and
methods of the fancier, which he
neither understands nor appreciate^.

Truth, like a ray of light, is made
up of various colored strands. Some
see one col()r, others see other colors,
anfl their descriptions of what they
see may be true without being the
truth. Only he who sees the whole
at one glance, can truly describe its
transparent character, can tell us
what the truth is.

* *

"The Dean of Ready Writers on
P(niltrv in America'' informs us that
he is doing business still at the same
old .st.and and in the same old wav,
that is, he is studying fowls .ind their
needs as carefully as he has been for
years past, trying to prove all things
and hold fast to that which is good.

* *

The m.in who never does anything,
is the only one. who makes no mis-
takes.

* sk

When one reaches the condition in
which he is not liable to fall into
error, the climate of earth is not
siiited to his needs. Tfe should spread
his wings and fly away to a more
congenial clime.

* *

A boastful ])Otdtryman reminds one
of a hoy whistling as he passes a
gravevard at night — he makes a noise
to keep his ccnirage up.

.A brave man does not need to boast
of his courage, a successful breeder
does not need to brag of his success.
To both the doctrine. "Res ipsa loqui-
tur," The thing if<^elf speaks, applies.

* *

P»e neither a radical nor a con-
servative, the (nie allows no virtue to
the old, the other sees no good in
the new. Pe .i r.idical-conservative
and see good in all things, new or
old.

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News OF

POULTRY SHOWS (&
SPECIALTY CLUBS

Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub-
lished in this department without charge

LA CROSSE, WIS.

The next show of the Western Wis-
consin Poultry Association will be held at
La Crosse, Dec. 7 to 12. 1910. e. H.
Hoffman will do the jud^inj?. For pre-
mium list and other information address
Jos. H. Poehlingr, secretary.

TENNESSEE

J2, ^

STATE FAIR
SHOW.

POULTRY

The fifth annual exhibition of the Ten-
nessee State Fair Poultry Show will be
held at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 19-24 1910
ihis show is conceded to be the greatest
annual poultry exhibition in the Southern
states and one of the best State Fair
^how-s in the Union. A big premium list

•f, ^een posted and many cash specials
will be offered. The Tennessee State Fair
Poultry Show is recognized as one of the
best market jjlaces for pure bred poultry
in America. For premium list and entrv
I)lank.s^ address John A. Murkin. Nash-
ville, Tenn.

COOPS FURNISHED FREE AT KANSAS

CITY.

Arrang>-ments have l)e(>n completed
wheivby uniform cooping will Ije provided
for all exhibits shown at the great Poul-
try Show to be held in connection witli
the Missouri Valley Fair and Exposition
at Klectric Park, Kansas Citv. Mo. Sep-
tember 24 to 28, 1910, and the Pigeon Sliow
September 29 to October 2. An entry fee
of 25 cents on singles and $1.00 on pens,
same J)irds competing. This fair offers a
most liJ)eral cash prize list and a great
number of cash specials. Seventeen sil-
ver cups are already placed on poultrv
and more will be added. Do not forget
this show. For a list of premiums and
specials, address C. S. Hunting. Supt.,
1304Va Main St., Kansas City. Mo.

MISSOURI STATE FAIR POULTRY
ASSOCIATION.

The Mi.ssouri State Fair. Sedalia. Mo.,
which is held Oct. 1-7. is offering good
premiums for the standard breeds of poul-
tr.v. 'j'ht? poultry list has been revised and
the premiums offered are $.3.00 first, $2.00
second and $1.00 third on single entries;
$5.00 tirst. $.3.00 second and $2.00 third on
breeding i)ens. All poultry entered free.
The poultry building is one of the newest
and finest in the country. It is equipped
with Empire coops and every convenience
is furnished for poultry exhibitors. W. S.
Russell. Ottumwa. Iowa, will judge the
birds, and a postal card to the .secretary,
John T. Stinson. at Sedalia. Mo., will bring
you the regular premium list.

NOTICE TO SHOW SECRETARIES.

The International Rose Comb Black
Minorca Club will offer special silk badges
at all poultry shows which will publish
the club notice In their premium list and
send a marked copy to the secretary of
the club. Write for particulars to IJoyd
C. Mishler, North Manchester, Ind.

NOTICE TO BREEDERS OF ROSE COMB
BLACK MINORCAS.

The International Rose Comb Black
Minorca Club is preparing to issue one of
the best catalogues they have ever gotten
out. All those who wish to become mem-
bers of the club this season should send
in their application for membership now,
.so that their name and address will ap-
pear In this Issue. Those desiring a copy
of the new catalogue may send their ad-
dress now with postage included if pos-

sible and a copy of the new catalogue
win be sent as soon as it is off the press.
Those who expect to compete for club
specials at the opening winter shows
should call the attention of their local
show secretaries to the badges offered by
our club. For application blanks, infor-
mation, etc., address Lloyd C. Mishler
Sec, North Manchester, Ind.

OCONOMOWOC, WIS.

The sixth annual show of the Oconomo-
woc Poultry & p. s. Association will be
held Dec. 14 to 19. Jas. A. Tucker judge
and Chas. Behrend. Jr., Sec'y. The show
will, as usual, be one of Wisconsin's best.

•5f •?€•
ROCHESTER, N. Y.

The next annual show of the Genesee
Valley Poultry and Pigeon Association will
be lield .lanuary 9-14. 1911. at City Ex-
liibition Hall. Rochester, N. Y. Judges-
F. D. Maunder, W. J. Stanton, Geo. W.
\Ve])b. E. D. Cornish, Wm. F. Brace, A. J.
Hraun. Secretary: F. A. Newman, P. O.
Box 472.

GOSHEN, IND.

Tlic Maple City Fanciers' Association
will hold their second annual show Janu-
iiy 2.3-28, 1911, with J. W. Mulinix. of
Toledo, Ohio, and R. J. Stange. of Adrian.
Midi., as judges. The association will
offer 15 silver cups and $500 in cash as
specials. This was one of the biggest
shows in Indiana in 1910. H. E. Krutz,
secretary.

COWRIE, IOWA.

The dates of the next Gowrie, la., show
are Jan. 2 to 6. S. E. Anderson, Sec'y.
C. H. Rhodes will place the awards.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

The "Quarter Century Show" of the
Minne.sota SU^ite Poultry Association will
be held at Minneapolis. Minn.. Jan. 11 to
17. 1911. Judges: Geo. D. Holden, C. H.
Rhodes and E. G. Roberts. A large num-
ber of silver cups will be offered in ad-

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di^;i to our large cash premiums. Pre-
mi^j©. list Dec. 1. Chas. O. Jo

Sec'y

SILVER

WYANDOTTE
AMERICA.

Johnson,

CLUB OF

1 he recent election resulted in the
choice of the following officers for the
Sliver Wyandotte Club of America-

President, Henry Steinmesch, St. Louis
Mo.; vice-president. John C. Jodrey, Dan-
yers, Mass.; secretary-treasurer, Waldo
H. Dunn, Wooster. Ohio; executive com-
mittee Jacob Miller, Wathena, Kans. ;
Gabriel Cannon, Spartanburg, S. C; Chas
J. Brown, St. Johns, Quebec, Can.

The club now has a membership of
about 200, and is doing a great work
All who are interested are requested to
write the secretary for club publications,
information, etc.

■X- ^

THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL AT

BUFFALO.

When the Chamber of Commerce and
Manufacturers' Club of Buffalo signified
their intention of assisting financially the
Great International Show of Poultrv
Pig;eons, Pet Stock and Canaries, to be
held January 23 to 29, 1911, by giving a
part of the $100,000 just raised for the
booming of Buffalo, the poultry boys held
a jollification meeting, and began at once
to devise plans by which all exhibitors at
this coming show will be well cared for
with a magnificent list of cups and well
distributed cash specials, while every ex-
hibiting member of the live Specialtv
Clubs will receive from 15 per cent to
25 per cent of their entry money back to-
gether with their share in one of the' five
grand cash prizes which will be awarded
to the five Specialty Clubs making the
largest entry. This rebate on the entry
will lielp the Specialty Clubs to increase
their membership, and the Fancy will be
bettered thereby.

The judges secured are: Butterfield,
Schwab, McNeill, Burgott, Maunder, Webb,
(^ard. E*wald, Lange and Kirkover.

The superintendents are: Poultry G M
Soverhill; Pigeons, H. J. Young; Pet Stock',
Wm. Gaudc; Canaries, Mrs. A. Butterfield

The Buffalo Poultry and Pigeon Club,
with a membership of over 300, will assist
the Show Association in every wav, and
will look after the entertaining *of all
visitors to the show.

Tlie International idea will be carried
out again at the 1911 show. The Canadians
are coming over strong and expect to
clean up again as they did in 1910, but
Tncle Sam won't be caught napping.

Premium list ready Dec. 1.

Stanley A. Merkley, Sec'y.

309 Brisbane Building. Buffalo, N. Y.

¥: ^
ALEDO. ILL.

The third annual show at Aledo. 111.,
will be held Dec. 19 to 23. with W. G
Warnock as judge. Willard Ruse is sec-
retary of the show.

JOSEPH DAGLE. Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry Association. Member Buff Rock
Club. I want to judge your show and do yonr private scoring and sell you high class stock and
eggs. RICHLAND, IOWA.

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■ GREAT AL-L-EirslTOXA/^IM fair i
1 F^OUL-TTRY SHOV^i

Allentown, Pennsiylvania,
Sept. 20, 21 , -Z'Z, ^3, 1 e I c>

The best fall poultry show in America. Has everything^ the big win-
ter shows have and some things they don't have. Amateurs and small
breeders especially strong here and everyone, big or little, gets a square
deal. Premium list free. Write for one either to

Entries Close Friday, Sept. 9th

i W. Theo. Wittman, Supl.-Mgr. Poultry Depf. or Harry Edelman, Supl.-Mgr. Pigeon Depf

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the paper free each month that their ad appears.

BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock epKS $2 per
13 from Al stock, Frederick Pfaff, Box
fi38, Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

HOUDAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
.Madison and Dodgevllle, also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs, $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle. Wis. 4-C

EGGS FROM BARRED, BUP^F AND
White Rocks, $1.50 for 15. Single Comb
Brown, Buff and White Leghorns $1 for 15
Mahaney Bros.. Winterrowd. Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS,

I'HOICE COCKERELS, 'CALUMET" STRAIN
White Rocks. "Calumet" strain are heavy
layers, high scorers, non-sitters. Have a few
fine cockerels that are from exceptionally
r-hoice stock. Firsts, $10; seconds, $5; thirds
$3. C. I. Bashore, Calumet, Mich. 7-3

WHITE ROCKS— STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P. Berwyn, 111. 12-4

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct In
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur

111

3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES,

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FROM
pen of 8 hen.<5. 1 cock picked from 284
birds. $2 per 15, $3 per 30. farm range $4
per 100. Rev, G. C. Strueblng. Freeburg.
J''- _^ 4-3

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J, Trester, Rushford.
Minn. r.o

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, historv of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
1-10-12

S. C. WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA-
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs, |2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old. 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman. Two Rivers
Wis. 2-5

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c To-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl:
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms.
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

ORPINGTONS— OUR BOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff, Black. White. Cheviot
Farms, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4.3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I, REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge St Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

SILVER CAMPINES,

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95Vfe In
show room. Prices right. Eggs In season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette.
Mo. 1.6

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus, N. Y. 4.3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male biids each season
score to 95 1^. females 96 Vo. Made a clean
.^weep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing,
score Id Ml. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis,
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton, Wis. ll-9-l'>

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belglums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest dozen eggs in show, Boston, 1910
Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop.
Ridgefleld, N. J. o.^

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to 8 breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
i'heasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkecpsie. New
York. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TUR^'EYS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith.
Burnt Prairie. 111. 4.3

PIGEONS.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. —

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
ord cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
New York. I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

I OFFER GUARANTEED M.STEU HOMEU>
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and clial-
lenge squab companies or denl^rs to product-
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1503 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. «-9-12

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens, 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94. pen 186%. Eggs, $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon, Harry T. Trainer
Carpenter. Ohio. ' .,-:>- 1'

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs bv the setting
Circular free. H. M. Moyer, R. 2. Bechtels-
ville. Pa. . . 11-9-12

S. C. BROWN LPXJHORNS, EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
nntfhelnr. Falrvlew. Mass. 4.3

BANTAMS,

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright. Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
niack and Black Red Game Bantams High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper *
<"n . Srboharie. N. Y. 8-9-1"

SEND yn\M ORl>KIlS FOR III^ALTHV
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. p. Karker. R. 1, Coblesklll, N. Y. Stock

per
4-3

CrAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
l)rice. 50 oent.s and $1 per box. G. B. Sle-
ccnthaler. Canton, O. r-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL. NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either, 40c; 250. 75c; 500. $1.25.
jtostpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
ATnrlpi Printing Co.. Manchester. Ta. 10-9

MISCELLANEOUS.

GI.VSKNG SEEDS AM' K()«)rS i'OK S.\LK
*5(i.iiiM».(M» is a conseiv ;it i\ (• estimate for one
m'vc of (Jiustng. Easil\ raised In connection
with i)oultiy. J'le.isiuit Lake Ginseng Farm.
Lock \',n\ 102 ('jidillnc. Mich 8-1

at right prices.

setting.

Eggs for hatching, $1

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

l8fori6<-; 2ii— afx*; 60-40C: 100— 75<j.
ftuiiple Band Maile«l for 8c HtAinp.
Frank flly»f« Mfr. |oi68, FrMporl.lll.

HOUDANS.

Crown Bone Cutter

i'HK HES'I' 'I'HAT AllK BRED L\ HOl-
<l!ins. Winners at Cblcago and Minneapolis
lor sc\cial years in su<'ccssion. A lot of
Pice ones for sale. IT. M. .Sp;nlM.c. "W^-bsfcr

' "i t ,\ . IdWM. in.^

H< ti8 fill cut i5rc«-ii tM>iio iayl
more vk^h. (j.-t n. (^rown Bone
( iitt.T. S-,m! fo-(l!ivf..rc!iliiIoa;,R'.
Wilton Hr«,., Hox sijj, IvmUb, !•».

BEST /v^ADE

Lowest

in Price

V-

Big Profits in Capons

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement
Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop
Ridgefleld. N. J. o.r

CAPON
TOOLS

( '.'iporii/.ini,' i>< eus\ -soon
h'liriiud. Couipleif outlit
with fro(> Insinu'tions
po>,t|)aid $:j.5<).

Uiapp Worm lOxtractor Q5c

Poultry Murker '25c

French Killin^,^ KnitcXm

U'iiiK)!! Hook Free.

GKO. P. PILLING & SON. PHILABELPHIA. PA.

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Is. C. BUFF 0R.p7nGX01«S~^

I EGGS FOR HATCHING ^™» ;?- ]

< pen headed by a son of a first prize Madison >

C Square Garden Cock. $2. for 1.5, $(l for 50 >

5 , ^ p. .-"u J8REVOORT ZABRISKIE
\ 17 E

ELM STREET,

WOBURN, MASS

50. >
lSS. }

BARRED ROCKS fSf^^^{^.

Pullet line is direct descendants or "Louis-
ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Kggs |3 to $.5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
$\ .50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F., Centerville.Iowa

R. C. Brown Leghorns I

stock from Madison Square and Boston winners
Cockerels and pullet? that can win at the Fali
fairs. Choice early pullets. Write wants. Circular.
Jas. Crawford :: Cameron Mills, N. Y.

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f «/,
REDS

m

five strictly exhibition matings at
13 00, $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of

breeders for sale with score cards after May .30

at a bargain

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton. III.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred,

gir^t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. - EVANSTON. ILL.

REIGHERT'S

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kaplds, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or ejjRS. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•3 per 15. $"i per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM Marshalltown, Iowa

White Rocks and
R. C. IV. Leghorns

Special prices on li. C. W. Leghorn cockerels In
lotsof three or more. $1.30 each, for thi.s month
Satisfaction guaranteed. : : : : : ; ; ;

K. H. lleichert - :- VIrdtn. IlliiiniH

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Kggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can hel]) you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. Hopkinsville, Ky.

L DON'T OVERLOOK THIS^

\ other people would read your ad if it were )
here, just the same as you are reading this >
one. See the rates and conditions at the head )
of this department and send in an ad. It will >
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
357 Dearborn Strett, ^ Chlcigo, III. >

Rose Comb Brown ?■;? r^Lilt.

! F^HORN^ Hartford, Worcester and
L.L.UnUI\lli3 Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.

H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT, CONN.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Rf^rlft None better. 40 first and second
1VCU9. prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City, 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place cg:fi: orders now.

I>. ,J. HI.ISS. iarthau'*', ^To.

AnrnilAC EXCLUSIVELY. LeaTleTlfoTTf
micuiiao years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won bv us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover,
61 15 Station St., East End, Pittsburg, Pa.
President Ancotia Club of America

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess, laid L'9l eggs in a year; 50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON. . FREDONIA, N. Y.

Houdans and Buff .^SyP^^^^^^^^^ EGGS FOR HATCHING

ity.

Wvanf1tf%ffoe <'^ highest honors on Hou-
ff J'dllUUlie^ dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $.3 Wvandotte eggs $2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton SprinRO. N. Y.

from vS. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M«

ps^mn^m

ZXocKs

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS \

Get prices on eggs and stock before buying 5
^elsewhere Illustrated circular free. ^

) E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio <

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON '

EjrprH for (ialc at :^1 \n"c 1.") for tlie lmlaiic>' of rti-aHon
wltti limited Hiiioimt. Stock for sale after Dt'ccin-
l»er 1, li>l(). Have a few Marred Rocks for Hale also.
Cockert'l nuitiiiMr. Will close tliem out at a t)arKa!n.

A. J. Waldnchmidt : : Washington, Iowa

Silv«>r La<^«*<l Wyandot tcs, WhiU- CreHted
Itlack I'oliHh and iiarred IMytiioiith

Ko<-kH. Direct deHceu'iaiitH fiiirn Madlison square
and ("hlcflKO winners. Won twenty eight regular
prIzt'H and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, Jan.
J-!». JH09. In strong competlon. Choice stock for
8alp. Circular free, rascado Poultry Yards,
Wni. Nei«rs. Prop., L. 15. 4r>, ('awradt*, la.

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

HgKS from high-scoring prize winning stock
|2 (X) per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and 510 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 98 and 94
j)t. males. Females score from 92 'i to 95.
.Vi prize ck. .score 92K an^l ckls. jfor sale.
Mrs.Rd. Bart1ett.lH9'4 O^k <;t New Castle Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and haw
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora, 111.

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH KQZY&fT^''Ti^:^l

Write for our 1910 mating, list which gives a

complete list of our winnings,

E. H. DOWNS. RTE, 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^i^f ^^f,°'i,V.-

DQ^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION, IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAN D REDS

Slnj?le combs direct deHcendants from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Ked
Cloud." Hose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
ilrHt pen, superior color, line combs. Best stock
obtahiat)le. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. 15. CRA:>II?LIT, AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ^"^^^l

Lvons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
select matings that will produce winners.
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons, Wi«.

Walker's White Rocks ^iT^Nt w

Castle's big show tliey won all firsts, 3 sec-
0!id, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do you want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$5 per 15.
BOB WALKER, Porter St.. New Ca«tle, Pa.

COCHINS HOME, lleadqunrters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brabmas First prlz?
aiul fill vtTCup winners aiivvinnepeg. Can., Seattle
A.Y.P.. Minn., ill., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Squar«? Garden.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atvvood, Box Z, '.\r>, 1>iindee. Minn.

BUFF ROCKS I°-g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind- State Show my

Rarrpil P Rnrlcc ^^^" '^' puiiet. ;ird

OdIICU r. IXUCliS heti; 1(<09 again they
won 1st and 'id pullet, 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Spiingfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen. 2nd
cockerel. 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
h:ggs $3 00 for 1.^ H. W. BARNETT
24_Ru«*^i'?ILBM«L _ _ 1 Springfield,

Columbian I'iyinoiith Rockn (Sw<'ft n

Strain.) Black tailed .(apniiese niid Muff C'o<- Inn
Bantams, Barred Hocks. A few choice cockorela
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early tor eKJis from my choicest matlnsrs
at t:^^Hl per lf>, ♦.5.00 i>er 80. Bantam eggs at i2.M
per 1.'), 14. (HI per. SO.
K. It. KOKKRTS CANASTOTA, N. Y.

PFFn^Q K^' »RO\VN LIXiHORNSand
IVCCU O K (I RHODE ISLAND REDS

Witiners of first at Chicago, Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M. REED,

Wyvinef. Ill

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Fine breeders or show birds f»<>m my
MIsHouil and KHUsas state Show win-
ners. Siillsfrtctlon K'larantecd. :: ::

S. <;. Whlprorht. Itox H. Sodalin, Mo.

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2- YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-

dotte rocks for .«!ale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eprps $2 per
13 from Al stock, Frederick PfafT, Box
M38. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

liOri'AX KC.d^ Flio.M WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks.
Hin,£,'Iot strain, Egg.«. .$1' per If). Stock
for sale. Elmor Johnson. Ai-gyle, Wis. 4-3

EGGS FROM BARKED. J : T 1 F AND
White Rocks, $1.50 for ir.. Sinsh- Comb
r!ro\vii. ]^t)ff and White r.,eghorns ^[ toy \:,
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd. Ills. r>.'\

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

ilL>i« l-: ("OL'KEllE

ELS. 'CALUMET- STRAIN
Wlutt. Rocks. "Calumet" strain are luavv
layers, liigh .scorers, non-sittors. Have a few
line (.oekorels that are from exceptionally
•hoif.- stock. Firsts, .SIO; seconds, $:, ; thirds
?:L c. J. Bashoro. Calumet. Mich. 7-S

w;hite rocks— stock for sale that

will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
-strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matlngs at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P. Berwyn, 111 19.4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

• 'OLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur.

IIL , 2ii

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FROM

pen of S hens. 1 cock picked from "84
birds. $2 per lii. $3 per 30. farm range $4
per lo.j. Rev, G. C. Strueblng. Freeburw.

4-3

111.

iiOtjL< WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. .1. Trester. Riishford.
Minn. - o

ORPINGTONS.

FOIi THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, hlstorv of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry kee|,in^^ William Cook
it Sons, Box C. Scotch Plains. N. .1.

I-IO-TJ

S, C. WHITE. BLACK. lUJFF AND DIA-
mond Jubilee Orpington eggs. $2 for 15-
chicks three weeks old. 40c each; all guar-
anteeiL Hamilton & Kaufman. Two Rlvpr«
Wis. o.r.

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laving sti-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown. Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms.
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

(jrpin(;tons— oiR hook is free if
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where tr) get best eggs for
least money. Buff. Black. White. Cheviot
Farms-. Cincinnati, Ohir.. 4.3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. 1
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge & Son, Bourne, Mass. 9-9-12

""■•ill- |Tlp***'**^'*'*°*'™%|)||||g|1f*°'

LANGSHANS.

LXVEST IN A SETTING OF MY
Langsh;ui eggs; it will pay you a
limes; $L' per setting. Grand.
<«'<kerels for sale. Fred L I5;uliin;
iilus, N. Y.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

LL.VKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. 1st hen. 1st and
:;rd cockerel. ', entries. At Madison Square
New Y''ork. I made 3 entries, winning 1st
I»ullet. Eggs $2 per setting, W. J. Blake.
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts. Athens. 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94. pen 1S6%. Eggs. $2 to $3
^Lating list ready soon. Harrv T. Trainer
("arpenter. Ohio. ,-»-j-i

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOIi
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks .$10 per 100. Eggs bv the setting
Circular free. H. M. Moyer. R. 2, Bechtels-
ville. Pa. 11-9-12

s. c. rntowN LE(;FfoRNs. iLxmiinio.v

and utilily birds. Get i»rices on stork and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
I !n t <'li<'lor. T'-niiview. Masc. 4.-]

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sel.right. Buff and Black (\jchin. Rose Comb
niack and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New Yoik, SOO birds Proper K-
f"n. S.'lioharie. N. Y s-o.i'

SEX I) N'ol l; 01; I > 1:1 IS 1'(>R lli:.\LTllV
IMize-winning Golden Sebright P.njitams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1. Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock
at liglit prices. Eggs for hatching. $1 per

^■'■t'ing. 4.^

HOUDANS.

iiii': i;i:sT 'I'iiat .\ri-: i:ui:d ix ikji -

'laiis. Winners at C|ii<.;m,, and .Minneapolis

for si\i ral .\«'ars in sm-cssion .\ lot ..f

I'ir.' ones foi- siile. I|. M . Sp;!)!.... W..hst<l'

< "i I \ . I>i\\ .'I. «;. ••

DORKINGS

SILVER GR.\Y DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and l?oston winners. Finest yards in
America. See (.'amplne advertisement

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus Prop
Ridgefield. N. J. o.fi

.«#!*'

SILVER CAMPINES.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
slians is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have
show room.
Write me.
Mo.

for sale. Scores to 95 y2 In

Prices right. Eggs In season.

Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,

1-6

SILVER CAMPINES, ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgiums, Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest ^ozen eggs in show. Boston, 1910.

Prop..
2-«

Cherry Grove Farm, M.

RidgeJield. N. J.

R. Jacobus.

PHEASANTS.

BLACK

liLindreti

vigorous

n. Rom-

4-3

BIG liARGAINS NOW IN ilRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of ilie best Black Langshans. Have a show
i-eeord under leadin.n .judges un.M|iialed by
any other breeder. Alale lairds »•.«. h stasoii
score to 95 1^, females iM".'-. M;ide a elean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
.'■eason and won silver euj) for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing,
score 19 Va, A, Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. Assn.. <'hilton. Wis. ii-;ui'

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising, A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to p breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry, 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V, Meersch, Poughkeepsle. New
York, 9-0«-tf

TURKEYS.

.MAM.Mo'lll WHITE HOLT.^AND TUR^-'EYS
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith.
T.urnt Prairie, 111. 4-3

PIGEONS.

1 OFFER GUARANTEi:i) .M.\l ED HO.\li:i;.-
in any ((uantity. at $1.00 a pair, and clial-
lenge squab companies or de.ilers to ynoduc'
lietter stock at twice this price Bejiutifu:
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my priees
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens. an<l
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 15r,3 East
.Montiromerv Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. «^-9-T:

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

C..\1'ES IN CUKKS. liFY BUCKEYE

treatnuMit an<l you will have no gapes It's
safe iind surr. Si-nt by mail on re«-iipt of
price. .",0 <ciits and .•^1 jxr box. G. I^. Sit>-
i;<nthaler. Cimton, «» t;.,^

PRINTING.

PRIXTING — POLLTRV, GENERAL. NOTE-
h.-rids, envelopes, iiosteai'ds. labels, cards,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500. $l,2r..
postjiaifl. Cireuhirs, everything. Finest en-
gra\ings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Mixb-l Printinj; Co.. Mancbestpr. Ta 10-9

^ MISCELLANEOUS.

<;lxse.xg si:i;its .\.\i> i;«m>is i-in; s\li;

.v.',i).i;(m.(Mi is ii coiiser\ at i\ e estimalc for on.
;i< r> oi Gins. lit;. fOasilx raised in e.>inif.t ion
with jMiiiitiy. I'l.asiinl L.iKe C.ins.-n:; F;irm.
Lock |;.,N pi:- (^olillMc M ieli S-1

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To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

18for 16<-; afi— af)0; 60—400; 10O-75O.
wunple Ran<l Maile<l for 8c Stamp.
Frank Myers Mfr. Box 68, Freeporf.lll.

Crown Bone Cutter

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I EGGS FOR HATCHING f.lT /fr^I >^

C pen headed by a .son of a first prize Madison >
5 Square Garden Cock. $2. for L'), |(;. for 50 >

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S 17 ELM STREET. WORIJRN MASS 5

WOBURN, MASS.

R. C. Brown Leghorns

stock from Ma<li8on Square and iJo.stou winners
("ockerels and pidlett^ that ran win at the Fall
fairs. Choice early pullets. "Write wants. Cireular.
Jas. Crawford : : Cameron Mills, N. V.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested, Standard-bred,

S'°^t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, .size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in sea.son. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. - EVANSTON, ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar IJapids. I won all flrstB and
special for best 10. I can help you win too. If
you send me your order for stock or brrs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce wluners.
»3 per 15. $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM Mar.halltown. Iowa

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R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Reds.

None better. 40 first and second
prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. J. I5LISS. Carth;i«:<-, Mo.

Houdans and Buff ^.'''a'mT'winnt;;

Wvanrlf^ffAc "^ 'nK^iest honors on Hou-
TT JdllUUllCb dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $.3 Wvandotte eggs $2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y.

LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS I

Get prices on eggs and .stock before buying 5
> elsewhere. Illustrated circular free. ^

) E. M. BUECHLY. Box 10, Greenville, Ohio \

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON

Kv-'KH for sale al ♦! ]ht 1,") for tlic balaix't* of sfaaon
with limited amount. Stock for sale after Di'fcm-
ber 1, 1910, Have a few Marred Ilorks for sale alno.
Cockerel niatinjr. Will close theni o\it at a barpaln.

A. J. Waldschmidt : : Washington, Iowa

BARRED ROCKS '^^^^{^.

Pullet line is direct de.scendants or "Loui.s-
ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
II .50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. P.. Centerville.Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f,%^„

REDS f'^^^^^'^^'y^'^hibition

s
ni
xnatings at
$3.00, $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain.

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton. 111.

REiCHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. LV. Leghorns

Special pricrs 011 li. C. W . Leprliorn Cockerels In
lots of three or more, .tl.no each, lor tlii.s month
Satisfaction pTuaiantecd. :; ;;

K. H. lleifhert

Vlrd«n, Illinois

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best itn ported and domestic blood. FCggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help yon.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. Hopkinsville, Ky.

Rose Comb Brown I'Jrf £''ll ^^"

LEGHORNS

leridan.
Hartford, Worcester and
Boston. A few good cock-
erels for .sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK, BOX F. COBALT, CONN.

you need to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.

iL.i^i>JSi'^^rL<H^ • Rt 1. Pl.iinville. III.

WATSONS CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess laid '19\ eggs in a year; .50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON. . FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M'

silver Laced Wyandottes, White Crewted
Itlaek PoliHh and ISarred Flyiuouth
Ko(^krt. Direct descendantH from .Madison S(4uare
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eljjhc regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa. Jan.
4-!). i«09. In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
"Wm. Nei«r«. Prop., I... IS. 45, Caseaile, la.

RFFH^^ R.C. BROWN LECiHOR.NS and
IVCCU O R (^; RHODE ISLA.ND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee, Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
sea.son. DR. F. .M. REED.

Wyanet, III.

Light Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and $10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. F'emales score from 92;'4 to 9.5.
3d prize ck. score 92^4 and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Rd. Rartlett.ltW>4 Oqk <;t NewCactle Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You dont take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora, III.

S. C. R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^^^''^^.

Write for our 1910 matin:^ list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS, RTE, 20. IDAVILLE, IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYrvlOUTH ^i^ ^^^.f/t?-

D^/^I^ C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION, IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODi: ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champiou. his sire --Old Glory" and "lied
Cloud." Hose comb deticendants of O. E. Miles
first pen. superior color, tine combs. Be.st stock
ol)talnahle. For stock and eggs write
Dr. K. 15. CRA:>II5LIT, A3IES, IOWA

BUFF

BUFF ROCKS an
WYANDOTTES ,^^^.1.^1

Lvons, Delevan and Water ford. Eggs from

.'.elect matings that will produce winners

Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons, Wis.

Walker's White Rocks ^'rrN^^'w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth'and all specials. What
do vou want better than this? Eggs $3 and
%f) per 1.5.
BOB WALKER, Porter St., New Castle. Pa.

COCHINS HOIK. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochlus and Hrabmas. First prlz-^
andsllvcrcup winnersailWtnnepeg. Can., Seattle
A.Y.P.. Minn.. III., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and .Madison Square Garden.
N.V. Get my pricee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atuood, Itox Z. '.\ry, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKS I ^"^t«

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short lime.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis. Ind- State Show my

DdllCU r. IXULK^ hen; 1909again they
won 1st and '2d pullet, 3d and 1th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen, 1st pen. 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
P:cgs $3 00 for 15. H. W. BARNETT
24 Rushnell Bldor.. ■ Sprin«fi«>ld,

Colutnbian Plymouth lincks (Sweet's

Strain.) Hlack-tallcd .lapanese aud Huff Cochin
Hantams, Harrcd IJocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for e^^s from my choicest matlnpa
at 1:100 per 15. f5.00 j.er Uo. Bantam eggs ai %2,^)
per l."!, ^.(M) per so.
K. B. KOBKRTS r.4NA.«TOTA, N. Y.

WHITE WYANbOi i£S

Flue breeders or show birds from my
MisHouri and Kansas state Shuw win-
ners. Siitlslactbiu giiHrnntetd. :: ::

.S. Ci. Wliii>r«Tht, lU>x H, Sedalin, Mo.

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's
Royal
Strait! are prize winners. They win for me,
tliey win for mj' customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob Heck,
Leeseville, Mich. Station 23. Detroit, Mich.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Ekk ordt'r.s liooked now from my "JtMt-epp
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know just what I am
dolDg. BlrdH scoring yi to '.»,') with a famous egg
record l>ehlud them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT —F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

CHOICE COLLIE PUPPIES

llit-'li-brt'i; anil lianil.-oine, but a>^ 1 uiakf !i spi-ciaily
of Whites. I do not place as high a value ou tlie
(•olored unes that come along with thein ami so of-
fer them at low prices.

Servoss Collie Kennels, Box 220, Edison Park, liiiaois

America's Foremost Strains qufil t v

qual

T\» _ -i and lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
i/llcCl c. White lyeghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and pr^'ijcs. Kgg orders booked
before February 15th, 5 eggs free.
Ch«*» H. Zte(r«nfuss, Box Z._Bethlehein. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size aiul color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males scoring to 95% females to 9(;.
Kgp:s balance of season $\.f)0 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHM AS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Kggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders

JNoVf. woods, utility farm, R. 19,

Owensviile. Ind.

"THE LITTLE RED HEN"
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Originators of Manataug Strain.

If you are looking for red birds without smut,
write us. '*

John E Davis & Bro. MarbUhead, Mans.

R.in^let Bctrred PlymotitK
Rochs won all hrsts at Oshkosh, 1909. two
.silver cups, cjean sweep. Cockerels $1 .50 up.
Eggs, best matings $3.50 per 1 5. |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lakk Vikw Poultry Farm.

T. AV. Critihette, 3Iarkesan, AVie.

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S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale. ;1 I Rahv f hirlts ^^^^ ^^"^ hatching white

^ '*° 5 S "*■'/ VUIClva Orpington, Barred Rock,

Also frotn Chinese and Toulouse Geese,
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Ivangshans.
Cat! please vou. Write for prices,
W. M SAWYER. Box F, Lancaster, Mo.

White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safety anywhere. Book vour
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards, Croxton, Va.

ri ILK'.S CATALO<ilK gi't-H
prlies of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and opK8 In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFIT.E
Frepoit, Hi, I>ei>t. A

S. C. BlacK ana MTHit* Minor-
ca* bred for size and egg production.
Slock and eggs for sale in sea.son. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. StnitH (Sb Son

1$<>X 4r>4 Xortli ISaltiiuore, O.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-
shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7. Box 15, Winchester, Ky.

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Minorcas

and R. C. R. 1. Reds on^^Uns ^'ears
breeders. Gratid birds at half their value.

H. S. WENTZ, QUAKERTOWN, PA.

COLl 31ISIAX KOCKS, iOLlMBIA N
WYAN DOTTKS, bred frcm New York.
Uiiffaio and KoctieHter winners, 5 firsts 2 seconds
on T enirle^f nt Kocbester show. Dee. 1!K)9. Cock-
erels «:i ro »1(), pullets ri to *»>. Trios «T to «1.").
Kkjis 111.?:") per 1", t8 per :^(t. Free setting from
best pen with each !#l(t order. Stock jiuaranteed
F. A.< AMPHKLL, HONKOYK, N. Y.

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show
iy09 also several at Ocon-
oniowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Kggs from pen No. 1 $.')perl.'S: pen No. 2 $2
per 1.5. Dora James Pick Fall River, Wis.

S. C. BLACK
ORPINGTONS

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Red

Prize Winners Kggs from 1st pen,
S setting 1,5 eggs $2.50. Kggs from 2nd
pen. setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland, III.

S. I.. ANL> W. W VAN DOTTKS, K. C.
KHOI>K ISLAND BEDS Winners at the
blK CentervUle, Iowa and St. Louis shows. Write
for catalo^rue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm in North Mo. Fancy and utility
matlntis a specialty. EsR orders booked. Guar-
antee !• chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KKAKSK, K. 1, COatsville, Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

Cockerels and
p u 1 lets for
.sale. Birds score from M% to 9«)
and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON. IND.

WYAN DOTTKS A NO I.ANGSHANS.

Winners at St. Louis Show, 19Ui>. also two $25. uu
silver cups at big Perry county 19()9 show in hot-
test class of Wyandottes ever shown. Partridge
and l$ufT Wyandottes 9'i per l.'i, :> setting for $5.
Ulack Langshans 1.50 per 15. lUiffs Hred by 11 B.
Schlndler. Partridge and Langshans bred by.Iohn
Allen. Allon A: Srhin<ller I'erry vill*-. IVlo-

Quality Strain ISAKRKD ROCKS have
been Hue bred for in years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading sbows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matings
for sale, from these winners or >)red in line.

O. C. ORAKK & SON,
Lock Ilox '4'.\'4, Ijti Kitrpe, III.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds

Light

Brahma Bantams "^"'""'^ ^ '

Madison
Square. N. Y., Baltimore, Hagerstown, Md..
Philadelphia, Nazareth, Allentown and Read-
ing, Pa. Stock and eggs. Hillside Poultry
Yards, J.S.Fry. Prop.. Dept P., Nazareth, Pa.

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190«;. my

Rurr-Afl RnrLe ^°" ^^^ cockerel, 2d cock.
Dariea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. VMS. 1st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 1909, 1st and 3d cocks,
1st pen, I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too. Stock with qtiality for
sale W. W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN. IND

AVestfall Ik a Winner. He makes no such
clnini but bis Columbian "Wyandottes were
winners at Klmlra Poultry Show. .Ian. r.MO. first,
third and fourth cockerels, ttrst and third pullets
ana llrst hen in a class of ;Jt good ones. I have
shape, color and size. Kggs #2.t»u and t;}.(Kt per
setting I Keatlngs Challenge Strain. )
I.ouU Wrstfall. K. ;?, Waverly, N. V

LIOHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-

^^* * * cr. My stock is excellent, high
BRAHMAS scoring, great layers.
lJrVi-irHVl/\0 will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Kggs, single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

Wvanrlntfp«5 silver and white. Blue

TT yanaUlCeS Ribbon Winner, at Defiance
and Toledo, Ohio, 1910. F:ggs from grand
mating that will produce winners $2.00 per
15. Illustrated circular free.
Four Sisters Poultry Farm, Will P. Yetter,
Prop.. R. No. 3, Box A, New Bavaria. Ohio

EGGS' ^^'^'^e^rJck'^''^^" eggs

for HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynolds, 111.

BARRED ROCK EGGS ^^'^^

bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs |5

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R 5, Box 0022. Rushville. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

"Tl IRICFY^ sired by my great prize

* wIxIVI-j I O winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. F^inest stock to be found. Also S. L.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN,

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Send for 80- page book on The Houdan, 30 full paged plates of prize winners. Houdau Standard,

Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Pcterien, President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton, Maine

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

A praiirt Hock of youiigstf'ra ?rowln?. (iet i>rlc('.-< on liirds for early .^liows.

A. M. Bender 1231 Walton Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana

I have over 50(
strong hardy
youngsterson freo
range, bred from my prize winners last fall and
winter. I line breed for quality not quantity. Kggs
and stock for sale. AS Matthews, Wayne. Mich.

Prouty's Partridge Ply-
mouth Rocks

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PEERLESS" WHITE ROCKS

winners of Blue IJlbbon.^, silver cliallonge cups, pold specials and manv other eov<-t<«l I
prizes in theshow room a^'alnst winners at .lanesville heloit. Madison and Platte- li
ville. Gran<l «rock©relH i(ii<l luillets for the winter sliows at r< a-onalde prices.

Allen Tucker, Mineral Point, Wisconsin

Will close out
all my season's
breeders at sacriSce prices
for quick .sale. Real bar-
gaitis Get prices
O. L. PROUT Y. Box 1 1 5. New Lothrop, Mich.

Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
B. P. Rock, S. C Blk. Orp., Col. Wyan-
dottes and R. C. R. I. Reds. Breeders at

gre>tlv reduced prices GEO. W. HACKETT

BOX 111, NORTH FREEDOM. WISCONSIN

EDELWEis s. c. w. !:r::Ja

eggs balance of season.
Send card for circtilar.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

LEGHORNS

KERSTEN'S Columbian Wyandottes and

M^lQtlX 15 1* cAO in as can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KERSTEN
IIQ MTest 52 St. (\irasKburii ParK) Minneapolis, Minn.

COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTES

ers for sale.

Ask for new mating list
Eggs at half price after
June 1st. and a few breeu-

Dr. C. J. Andruss, Canandaigua, N. Y.

RED ROCKS

'^UFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
C/^ On/^ninrTkO Write us describing what you want and asking for our
iJ* C« & K. Le K« L REDS catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MAYINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLDCHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

RPINGTONS

PI I FRSTRASS'STRAINof CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

to show

ith tliem.

rs. but

BALTI-

rirst on Cock, Pirst on tic^n. First on Cockerel,

First on Pullet and First on Pen

making a clean sweep, and i:^l birds in the class, from America. Ermlan.l and all parts of the world. We have cockerels and mil-
lets hatched the early part of January, that now tip the scales at «iV2 and 7 pounds. Thev are the kind that wiU be lie; r«l from
dur ng the coming show season, and if you sire In need of any winners, write us and tell us just what you want and what you are
willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINNERS

mMmfimtit»tmmmmni»m»MMa

Krilerslrass Farm 583 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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and made it possible to secure Large Profits from poultry in a small yard and with but very little
capital. The thousands of successful Philo System poultry plants in all parts of the world have
awakened an interest in poultry keeping never before dreamed of and thousands of people in all
walks of life, from all sections of the United States and foreign countries are visiting the origi-
nator of these phenomenal discoveries, to see and learn at first hand how baby chickens fresh
from the incubator can be raised without artificial heat every day in the year including the
coldest winter weather. The improved methods are not confined to rearing the baby chickens as
all branches of the work have been revolutionized.

The demand for instruction by Government Experts, State Agricultural Colleges, Governors,
Supreme Court Judges, Mayors, Preachers, Lawyers and thousands of the best people of the land
made it necessary to buy and equip a large tract of land for educational purposes and some of
the massive buildings are now nearly completed and the educational work will commence at once.

Every Man or Woman who would like to handle a profitable poultry business either for
themselves or for others at a good salary can now get the necessary instruction at first hand, at
a Very Small Cost, and in a very short time learn to handle the business and accomplish the
wonderful results that have required over thirty years of the originator's time to discover and
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A postal card will bring full particulars.

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Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

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A grand rtock of youngsters growing. Get prices on birds for early shows.

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BUFF ROCKS

I have over 50(
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Prize Winning Chix. Hundreds growing.
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I^lgtlt iSranmaS can always be found among the winners.

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COLUMBIAN WYAN-
DOTTES

ers for sale.

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Eggs at half price after
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.'STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

I shows? The state fairs are rit?ht here at hand. Are yon going to ;
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)lore. We are not raisin t? as many birds as we have In pa.st vears

show

them.

but

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there? If you are jiot satisfied that the birds you raised th
We (lid not nilse as many birds this vear as we have heretol

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rirst on Cock, rirst on Vic^n^ First on Cockerel,

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ecrets of Expert Exhibitors

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cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting the;r birds
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Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
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How to Straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.

How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and
Wattles.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up In Red Ear
Lobes.

How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the
Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.

How to Clean the Plumage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show
Without Washing.

Removing Creaminess and Brasslness from White Birds.

Covering up Off-Color In Black Plumage Including Purple
Barring.

How to Improve the Color of Any Partl-Colored Bird.

How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show
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How to Add Lustre to Plumage of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
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How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from thg Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have IVIissing op
Broken Feathers In Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
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How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

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How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

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A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

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How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

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to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
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One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers In Parti-Colored

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How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

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What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

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ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
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CHICAGO, ILL., SEPTEMBER. 1910

No. 9

Symmetry — Is It a Farce?

Wide Difference of Opinion Among Judges, in Dis-
counting for This Section, is Responsible for Much
of the Lack of Uniformity in Judging

By H. S. BABCOCK

NAJMI^TRV is a term in the Scale of
Points, wliich in tlie past has \)vo-
\()ke(l much, and sometimes acri-
monious discussion. Mr. I. K. Felch
used to denominate it as a *'rol:)ber.'*
which he declared caused a double
cut for shape, and his opinion was shared by others.
'J'his sentiment became so stroni;- that, at one time,
the term was removed from the Scale ^>\ Points and
"Typical Carriai^e" substituted.

^Ir. 1). X. Pierce, who was for manv years recou-
nized as a, if not the, leading- Western ])Oultry
judi^e, had a method of treating- symmetry in his
scoring;-, which was novel and which he declared
prevented a double cut for shape. Although "Sym-
metry" stood at the top of the scale, it was the last
section whicli he marked. If he were scorini^- a
ri\niouth Rock, for example, and had made the
followini^- "cuts" for shape, neck lA ])oint, back I
point, breast 1 point, tail /j j^oint. a total of :>
points, and if the shape points hi^ured '.V'\ points,
there would be a discount of a Httle more tlian 9
per cent, and, if symmetry were valued at <S points,
!> ])er cent w^ould be .72 of one point, or about V^
of a point, and he accordin.<;ly would cut symmetry
•H <>" the score card. This certainlv was better
than markini^, in the Secretary's office, before the
judinnij' bcL^an, all the cards with a cut of 1 point
for symmetry, as it has been diarized was some-
limes done. This cut f(^r symmetry was essentiallv
a cut for shape, and. as ai)plied, distributed the <S
points allotted to the secti(»n to the whole of the
points j^iven to shape.

P.ut ouj^ht this cut to have been based upc^n the
total shai)c i)oints or only on the points allotted

to the sections defective in shape? It will doubt-
less be admitted that if there were no section for
symmetry (or for wdiat is know^n as symmetry un-
der some other name), the points now allotted to
that section w^ould be distributed amon^r the sec-
tions and added to the valuation of shape in those
sections, because symmetry has nothing- to do with
color. As construed by Mr. Pierce in the actual
work of scoring-, synmietry was shape or a some-
what or something- intimately connected with or
arising- from sha])e. P.ut as the points allotted to
symmetry would presumably have been distributed
to all the shape sections, if symmetry has been elim-
inated from the Scale of Points, and as only a por-
ticMi of these sections were defective, the question
arises wdiether the symmetry cut should have been
based on the total points for shape or on only the
points for shape given to the sections which were
defective. If to the latter, what would have been
the result? The t(^tal value of the shape points for
neck, back, breast and tail is IT) instead of oH
points; the defects for shape were valued at :>
points; and the percentage, therefore, would be
')-!''), or 20 per cent. ( )n this basis the symmetrv
cut would have been 20 per cent of 8, or L6 points,
and would have probably been marked on the score
card AYz out for lack of symmetry, a cut twice as
large as was made by the other method.

\\'hich, then, would be the correct method, if
eitlier?

According to the definition given by the Stand-
ard, symmetry, though arising from the shape sec-
tions, is not shape, l)ut the perfect prop(^rtion of
section to section. Tn other words, a fowl might
have a perfect head, comb, wattles and earlobes,
neck, back, breast. Ixxly and fluff', wings, tail, and
legs and toes, when each section was considered
independent of every other section, and yet when
considered as a wdiole the fowl might be very un-
synnnetrical, and while the shape sections should
be uncut, a cut of T)!) per cent of 8 points, or 1
jx^ints, might be necessary under the section of
symmetry. And supposing a judge should do this.

nY FANClEft

September, '10

what think yon wonld be the resnlt? W'onid there
not somethini; like a riot arise al)ont his sacred
person? A l)ird i)erfect in shape and yet cnt 1
p(^ints on synnnetry ! And yet that might be a. cor-
rect judgment, llie fact is that when a judge says
a bird's neck is too long' or its l^ack too short, he
says it in reference to the other sections of the
particular bird. He does not consider each section,
independently of but related to all other sections.
It is i)erfectly natural tliat he should do so. To do
otherwise would be to be condemned b\ all inter-
ested exhibitors and intellii^ent observers. J balance
(^f parts, perlection of pn^portion, relation of sec-
tion to section, consciously or unconsciously de-
termine his jud.Q^menr upon each individual section.
While it is possible, therefore, to defend symmetrv
as something independent and apart from the sec-
tion ujxm shape, and the cuts for symmetrv as
something entirely different from the cuts for

saving method, is now cjuite frecpiently employed
at the larger shows, although it has the serious dis-
advantages of a temptation to inadecpiate examina-
tion of the fowls and of leaving no permanent rec-
ord of the absolute value of the birds in competi-
tion ; indeed, it leaves only a record of the relative
value of the winning specimens and no record what-
ever of those unplaced. The second method, though
it violates a strict construction of th.e Standard, by
allowing symmetry, however ai)plied, to affect the
cuts for shape, is now generally employed, and
presumably \w\\l be employed in the future so long'
as symmetry is retained as a secticm in the Scale
of Points. If its eff'ects are clearly recognized and
frankly acknowledged, and the poultry public is sat-
isfied, no special harm will come from the practice,
as all birds will be aff'ected alike. It will be taking-
two or more bites at a cherry instead of one, that
is all : the cherrv will be consumed in the end. If

A PEN OF LIGHT BRAHMA WINNERS.

'^''.V'-^^,^:^^*'''^"^ specimeim of thi.s siaiKl old breed were bred and aie owned l)v Oeo A Kersten Washburn Park Min-
neapolis. Minn. Mr. Kersten also breeds Columbian Wyandottes of the same high quality '^*''^'*^"- ^^'^s'l'^^^n ^arK. Min

shape, in theory, at least, in i)ractice, in the actual
apidication of the recjuirements of the Standard to
the work of judging fowls, Mr. I. K. Felch is jus-
tified in declaring- that a cut for symmetrv is a
double cut — not necessarily in amount but twice
made — for shai)e. Judges do not, they cannot, and
they oug^ht not, in view of the demands of the pub-
lic, to consider the several shape sections independ-
ently ; they must view them as related ; and s\ m -
metry not only demands its toll under its own ap-
propriate section, but also demands it in everv sec-
tion cut for shape. Symmetry causes, not tvv(\ but
three, four or more cuts in the score of a bird, the
exact numi)er depending upon, the number of sec-
tions cut for shape.

What are you going to do about it? Inhere arc
three pc^ssible solutions — (1) eliminate svmmetry
from the Standard's Scale of Points; (2) ignore to
a certain extent the Scale (^f IV^ints, I hat is, judge
symmetry as symmetry, and let its influence be
felt and acknowledged in every cut for shape: (-M
adopt comi)arison judging, and be freed from the
shackles imposed by the Scale of ]\)ints. The
American T'oultry Association, in all probability,
will not for some years to come, if ever, eliminate
.symmetrv from its Scale of Points, althoucfh this
would be the logical solution of the problem. Com-
pari.son judging;, because it is regarded as a time-

this method is to ])revail in the future, as it has in-
the i)ast, in scoring; a fowl synuuetry should be cut
first, irrespective of the cuts to be made for shape,
which, it will be perceived, is not following the
practice of the late P.. X. Pierce. While we can.
never admire to(^ nuich the eminence, ingenuitv
and skill of this judge, we feel compelled to dift'er
from him in this particular. After symmetry, as aj
section, has thus been (lisi)osed of^ each secti(^n
should be cut for the discovered defects, basing the
estimate of the value of the section not only upon
itself but also upon its relation to the other sec-
tions, as al)()ve suggested. The poultrv judge, who
does this, will do the best ])ermissil)le for him to
do under— and in a sense, alreadv intimated, out-
side of the Standard of Perfection. His construc-
tion of the Standard may be theoretically incorrect,
but it will be practically' correct and the only work-
able construction possible so long as symn'ietrv is-
retained as a separate section in the .Scale of Poi'nts^.

It IS to be exi)ected that from time to time new
breeds and varieties will appear and it is well tlu't
they should. They put new life into the fancv add
to the attractiveness of the exhibitions and 'some-
times fill a want that the older breeds and varieties
cannot supply. All new breeds and varieties arc-
not better than the nld and all are not worse

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Low-Cost Poultrv H

Those Who Have Limited Room and Capital Will
Find the House Herein Described Highly Satis-
factory for a Flock of 25 to 30 Fowls

By A. S. CROFT

OAIP of my fellow fanciers who keep
a small Hock of their pets on a town
lot are undoubtedly in the same fix as
myself with a limited si)ace, nuicli
more limited capital, a small wife and
a large family. So all things consid-
ered, I had to get to work and build just as com-
fortable a ])oultry house as 1 could with tlie s])ace
and cash at hand.

I built, on a lot ."io l)y :]() feet, the house illustrated
in the accompanying- plans and 1 have found it S' >
Cf)nvenient that were I to take a small pcmltrv farm
of 15 to -^0 acres, ] wcndd build mc^^t of the colony
houses after the same idea. The house is for '^y to
30 fowls. The entire cost of this combination
house and scratching- shed was less than ^IT), an-l
although only about a third of it was made of new
lumber, all the sec(md-]iand stuff was used in such
a way that it was not exposed to the weather ; there-
fore the house is as useful as though built of the
most expensive materials. The full height is 7 feet
front and 1'/ feet at the rear. Length ^'^ feet,
width (; feet. The scratching shed, which is built
<»nto the front as a kind of lean-to, is !) feet fi inches

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Interior Art-Mjftmtnt
'»*a.»n entrance m> house.. B-aoJr- to scratchi*)^ ^hocL.
'traf>doot'fOrfowi&. /V-HC&ts. Vp^rches. W-vi'indews

Interior aiiaiijieineiit of Mi-. Oroft's liou.se.

in length by (i feet (I inches wide, giving '> feet G
inches for the door.

The Moor of the roosting house is C) inches deep
of clean road sand secured where it was washed
down by the rain. The scratching shed (> inches
deep of same material, but with (; inches of cut
straw on toj). The partition between the two is of

slats nailed as in the fcorm of lattice work, .so there
is ])lenty of ventilation at all times, although in
severe weather a burlap curtain is dropped to divide
tlie main house and the scratching- shed. The frame
C( insists of 2 by -^-inch posts on a :? by 4-inch hard-
wood foundation. The first ])art of tlie house three
feet up from the ground was build of new three-

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A-tra^ door ^r fowls. S^ventdator't-dvop door B-Ma\n door
i^.t-wmdow. FF-hin^ed windows

Fioiit and .side views of house (leseiil)efl by A. S. Croft in

aceonipanyin>4 article.

(juarter inch Xorth Carolina pine, the remainder
with the roof was made of heavy boards, from
strong dry goods boxes, care being' taken to' select
only those boxes with heavy smooth boards,
tongued and grooved.

After the outside was finished, the inside was
lined with all the odd boards placed end up, and
the roof, together with the sides of the building
down to the new lumber, covered with 3-ply root^
ing paper. This not only makes a double thick
wall, bnt all lumber not new is neatlv covered with
roofing and all the exposed woodwork is painted
to give a finish. The nest boxes are placed in the
corners of the roosting house, the scratching shed
is kept clear and a side drop door placed in the side
of scratching shed to throw in the ieed. This is a
good idea when the snow is verv deep and one
cannot keep fowls waiting for breakfast until di<>--
ding out time. ^

There are five windows in all, two large ones in
front of .scratching shed and three smaller ones in
roosting house, two on .south side and one on the
east. IJetwcen the two windows in the front of the
house is a bliiul window used as a ventilator. Tt
is made of a double frame, one being covered with

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line wire and the other of i)aintc(l burlap. The
place is therefore perfectly ventilated without there
beini^ a draught.

The interior of roostinj;- room is very simple.
The nest boxes in corners are only G inches from
ground, but covered with boards to prevent the
droppiui^s i^ettini;- into them. The two stroni^- roost-
in.cr poles are 2 by 3-inch posts. There are no drop-
ping- boards, as I have done away with tliem en-
tirely. I found them only in the way. The only
use of a droppini^- board is to keep the droppings
right up upon the noses of the fowls, so feeling" for
the fowds, 1 have thrown the boards out altoj^ether.

l\ly idea in building- this house was to i^et the
greatest amount of floor space, at the same time
keep the cost of material down. I have found it
answers well, as it is warm, light and has plenty

FANClEMvS,epUmber^:i0j^|

of ventilation, without draughts. The cost of the
house was as follows :

10(1 feet of ^ in. No. Carolina Pine, 3>^> ft. . .$ 4.50

2 2x4: Hemlock Posts l.(><>

(S 2x2 14 Chestnut Posts l.'^-')

2 Extra heavy dry goods boxes, 2r)c each. . .r)0
10 Extra heavy boxes at 5 for $1.00 2.00

3 Small windows, new% 5r)c each 1.05

2 Second-hand sashes, 2r)c each 50

Glass for same ^'^

3 Rolls 3-ply roohng at 05c 2.85

Putty, paint, etc '<'5

Total '$1G.30

All nails used were taken from the dry goods
boxes.

ereditary 1 raits in rowls

Some of the Things That Every Fancier Should
Know. Principles of Breeding by Which Any
£jiven Objects Are Most Easily Attained

By H. V. THORMOHLEN

HE hal)it an individual has intensified
bv lonu use becomes a trait and a
hereditary characteristic.

To the ordinary layman, it would
seem to be stretchini^: the point i)retty
far to make the assertion that ani-
mals and fowls iidierit little indixidnal trails or
characteristics wliich cannot be credited to the
breed or variety as a whole just as individuals in-
herit ])arental traits. Tlie more intelligence the
dumb brute displays the more marked will be the
individual characteristics which he transmits to his
offsprini^-.

\Ve want to draw the line clear between heredi-
tary traits in i^eneral in certain breeds and varieties
of animals and fowls and the individual traits. h\)r
it is easy to prove that different breeds of do^s, for
exami)le', inherit different characteristics in the way
of traits. Also it is cc^mmon knowledge that horses
of different breeds transmit this ([uality or that
(juality accordin.i:: as to h(nv it has been intensified
and cultivated in that i)articular strain. I'ut how
did a particular breed of do£^s become esi)ecially
proficient in tracking human beings, another in
trackinji^ foxes, another in scentini^- birds in. the air
or bush and so on innumerably, or certain breeds
of horses have identic, amiable dispositions, while
others always show marked vicious tenij^eraments?
Decades past some one had a ])U]) amon^i^ a litter
that showed a particular fondness for trackini; his
master. Likinji;- this trait the master disposed of
the other pups. Then this pup became mature and
another litter of pups came, the one or two puj^s
ac:<'^i" showinp^ this trait were picked out and i^rad-
ually l)y a process of elimination aud intensifying^",
\vh()le litters would unmistakably show this char-
acteristic until finally this trait that showed itself
in a sinjLile isolated individual is made a character-
istic wdiich transmits itself without fail from gen-
eration to generation.

Animals and birds each have habits and char-
acteristics common only to certain species or vari-
eties. Certain characteristics can be attributed
to the ^oat and sheep in common, but it is easy
to see that in many things they differ and have
traits in common, only, to a certain extent. The
i^oat has his distinguishimr characteristics and the
sheep has his, each of which is not common to the
other. The peculiarity of habit or action is trans-
mitted from generation to i^eneration with a pre-
cision that cannot be compared to anything- else,
so unfailini^ does the rule work.

But suppose an animal is taken into domestica-
tion or is taken from its original habitat, then
gradually the new habits which are formed throui^h
necessitv iiraduallv become traits and as the traits
are intensified they become fixed characteristics.

The horses which were turned loc^se and lost in
Texas and Mexico by the first Si)anish explorers
were fine saddle army horses and nnich larger than
the herd horses now found on the i)lains in a wild
state. Xo doubt the Spanish horse was of a far
diff'erent temperament than the wild Texas pony.
Left to shift for himself (^n the plains the Spanish
horse .gradually became smaller, more agile and of
a lighting disposition which made him able to take
care of himself under almost any circumstances.
After several generations these traits which were
not in the first S])anish horses, or if so, onlv in
occasional si)ecimens, finally became lixed charac-
teristics, and it would take as manv and cpute
likely many more years to breed them out again as
it did for the horse to accpiire them, as it is harder
to breed from the wild than to it.

The peculiar i)art about all animal life is that if
we study one animal closly enough and the varietv
in cc^mmon we find each specimen has individual
traits whicli the varietx in common does not have.
l)y selection then in generation after generation
man can cultivate certain desirable traits in ani-
mals until they become fixed characteristics which
will invarial)ly be inherited by the offspring.

There is hardly a horseman, stockman or fancier
of fowls or dogs that does not understand this rule
as applied to getting shape or colors, or i)hvsical
(|ualities, but when it comes to delving into dis])o-
sitions or traits which seem to have their ori"in in

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the brain of the dumb brute (I was about to sav
mind) then the rules and theories become more
complex.

The horseman knows that by breeding the finest
racing horses year after year and generation after
generation and selecting the best graduallv a
swifter horse is the result. In this case the speed
can probably be increased very noticeably the first
generation or tw^o, but after a certain limit is
reached it is very hard to make an improvement
only as an improvement is made in having a greater
number of colts each year wdiich have the high-
speed characteristics. The rule applies equally
true in all animal or plant life that the nearer you
reach perfection the harder it is to make an 'im-
provement on the succeeding generation. This is
the logical extent of the rule and not the beginning
though, and need not trouble us here.

In the first flock of fowds that w^ere my own I
noticed each specimen very closelv and took pride
in noting- the individual characteristics. My three
best hens had individual traits that I will mention.
One had a peculiar way of meeting me with her

LIGHT BRAHMA FEMALE.

One of the many prize winners in tlie yards of Geo. A. Kersten,
Washburn Park, Minneapolis, Minn.

head up in the air wdien I brought out the feed.
She was very anxious to partake of the food, but
she didn't seem to grasp the situation and get
busy when 1 would throw the feed upon the ground.
Another had a ])eculiar little ''don't touch me"
cackle which she was continually using- from morn-
ing until night, and as a result she was picked on
by the rest c^f the flock and almost ostracized. A
third had a peculiar fondness for flying- over the
fence and hiding her nest. As these Were my best
hens then ] took care to raise a goodly number of
their chicks and they were the foundation of my
present flock to a great extent. To this day I can
pick out the chicks that are the descendants of
these three hens by their peculiar individual char-
acteristics as well as by distinctive individual mark-
ings and shape which each hen had. I haven't
many of the offspring of the hen that was contin-
ually fussing because the fussing all the time
seemed to tend to make each generation smaller

and less able to take care of themselves, with the
result that I became disg^usted with this hen's pro-
geny, although they Were exceptionally well
marked, and disposed of them.

Although there are many varieties of fowds and
each displayin<^ different temperaments in general,
yet to the careful fancier the importance of getting-
the best there is in his fowls in the way of disposi-
tion, as well as color, shape and Standard require-
ments in general and egg-laying- qualities, should
appeal strongly.

If the fancier has the welfare of his variety at
heart he must keep u]) the process of elimination
along this line as well as along the standard re-
quirement lines. ViQ it remembered that every va-
riety in the making was culled and inferior ones
unmercifully eliminated. The hen that had a dis-
position to be untamable and never suited wdth the
surroundings that the rest of the flock were con-
tented with had to be taken out of the breeding-
pen, although she w^as w^ell marked. Only by their
many good qualities and amiable disposition does
a breed or variety in the making live. The dis-
appointing feature of it all is that after the outside
world once learns of the new variety and the re-
deeming cpialities for an excuse for whv it should
ever have been brought out, then the fowls that
have been so rigorously culled now find that everv
specimen that will in the least come up to the
standard requirements is placed upon a little throne
all her own, and every chick, cull and the best
alike, are placed in the breeding pen and thus the
process g-oes on for four, five or six years until the
offspring of the culls are so much m the majority
that they have changed the tide of popular opin-
ion concerning them and another new varietv is
introduced to alike go through the same experience.

A good breeder is a good culler. "Early and
often'' is the rule.

Patronize the b'all shows and later patronize the
\Mnter shows. There is no better way to draw
patronage to yourself.

Prize birds have to be grown into prize birds.
The eggs from the best specimens, ideally mated,
will not hatch prize birds unless the chickens are
properly developed through necessary feeding and
care.

It has been said that one can hold a penny so
close to his eye that he can't see a five dollar bill
a little way off. Niggardliness doesn't pay in the
l)oultry business. One should be liberal Without
being- lavish. lie should l)e willing to give up a
dollar when by so doing he can make two or more,
(iood stock, good feed and good care cost some-
thing, but they pay.

Some kinds of short-sightedness can be remedied
by the use of glasses, but looking through too
many glasses is short-sightedness itself. Spectacles
will not remedy the short-sightedness of the man
who scrimps on the purchase of his foundation
stock, but experience will open his eyes in the
course of time. P.etter spend a few dollars at the
beginning than lose a good many dollars at the
end.

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111 lie rs

From Late Hatched Chicks

One of America's Leading Fanciers Tells How to
Produce Them. Methods of General Care, In-
cluding What to Feed and How to House the Birds

By REV. C. E. PETERSEN

A\'IXG to the late spring- this year and
the consequent late hatches, the fall
season finds hundreds of breeders
with immature stock, and how to
complete the growth is of serious im-
])ort to very many. A great deal can
be done to lengthen out the growing" season, but it
takes care and ])atience. and the results will be
commensurate to the care taken.

It has been stated over and over again that late
chickens will never mature, and will onlv be an ex-
pense to the l)reeder. In soiue measure this is a
truth, for with \ery many the late hatched chickens
get little care, and many times they are left to shift
for themselves. The early broods that come out in
season get plenty of attention; it is a pleasant no\'-
elty to watch and care for them and to see how they
g:row, but brood after brood is hatched, the ncnelty
Avears away, and finally all sorts and all sizes are
left together. It simply is a case of the survived
of the fittest, the strongest and oldest chicks <>et
the most of the rations, the next of size in the suc-
cession get the rest, and the last comers go with-
out, and when fall comes to hand abuse is heaped
on these unfortunates because they cannot grow
into fine chickens on nothing but fresh air and
sunshine.

We have found that the late hatched chickens
must be separated from the rest of the flock, given
an abundance of food, and although, i)erhaps, thev
will lack somewhat in size when late fall arrives,
they surely will be in much better shape than if
they had been left with the rest of the llock to fighl
their way through.

We have seen chickens hatched as late as Julv
that grew into line birds, but these few chickens
were all there were on the place. They had all the
care that was necessary, no larg^er chickens to
abuse and trouble them, and as a conse(|uence thev
came alongr finely and winter found them in fairlv
.good trim, and not so very far behind their eailier
hatched relations. This is about the secret of suc-
cess with late hatched birds. Where failure is the
result it is entirely due to lack of i)r()per care.

We don't want any one to understand from this
that we mean that a July hatched chicken will grow
into as large and as fine a bird as one hatched in
March, for we do not mean any such thing, but we
do mean that if in the early fall and during Xo-
vember proper care and attention is given these
late comers that they will make much larger and
better birds than where this care is withheld.

First of all. wh.en the bleak ( )ctol)er davs come
along-, although in many places October is a beau-
tiful month, the care begins bv gfivinir extra ijood
food and plentv of it. The davs are gettini?- short
and the sun is not as warm as it used to be, but the
,sun rises earlv, and here we niav begin to lengthen

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out the growings season, for the birds must be let
out at sunrise. They are anxious to get out and
it will be a drawback to keep them in their houses
until seven and eight in the morning-, which with
manv is the daily occurrence.

If you cannot let them out at sunrise, do the
next l)est thing". After dark in the evening- scatter
the necessary grain, and a few handfuls of green
food about in the house that they may have it to
keep busv on until you get there and open up for
them so they can get out. Then let them have
their soft food, and the very best growing food we
have ever used is compounded as follows : 2 parts
of bran, i parts of cornmeal, 1 part of white mid-
dlings, 1 part of linseed meal, 'I parts of beef scraps.
Mix this together well, niake a mash or feed it dry,
as vou mav choose, but to force growth we prefer
to wet it slightly.

Feed of this mixture all they will eat up clean
three times a day, and besides this, give them a
mixture of corn, oats and wheat, or any good
scratching feed, and keep a Dan of beef scraps and
plenty of grit and water before them.

Tut the grain where they can readily get at it :
don't try to save it, for it is only by the best of
feeding that the late hatched chicks will come to
maturity. You cannot overfeed a growing fowl, if
the proper feed is given. More growing stock suf-
fers from underfeeding than overfeeding.

Xext to the care in feeding comes proper hous-
ing, which is of the greatest importance. They must
have ])lenty of room. They must not be crowded.
Iliey must not be let out on rainy days. They
must have a house that is dry and ])erfectly clean.
They must have a house well ventilated. These
are the main points tc^ be considered and cannot
be neglected if successs is to be expected.

Hiere is nothing that will hinder growth as
much as uncleanliness, and the body of the bird
must be free from vermin, and the house clean from
the accumulation of droppings. Clean out the
dro])l)ing-s every morning and there is nothing
cleaner, better, sweeter and of more value to the
poultry house than sawdust, and this we know to
be a fact, for we have tried it for a whole season
with the best of results.

W'e followed in the old rut for a good manv
years, for it was said that sawdust was of no value,
that the chickens would eat it, and that it would
hurt, if not kill them outright. It is all nonsense,
and don't you think that a chicken is foolish
enough to eat sawdust any more than vou are.

W'e have a friend who used it all the season in
his brooders, lie would l)egin to sprinkle the
brooder floors with it when the chickens were two
weeks old, and he also found it of great value.

W'e have used it all this season, as above stated,
and it has given us less work, is a clean, sanitary
and healthy material for the ])oultrvman to use,
and where once tried it will become' a permanent
and satisfactory hel]) in keei)ing the houses clean
and neat.

When real cold weather comes on, particularly
the cold nights of December, cover the roosts, so
as to keep the birds warm during the night. 11iis

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will hel]) to hnish up the growth, for if this is done
no great amount (^f the food will go into the mak-
ing of heat and the birds will continue to grow.

This may seem a great deal of trouble, Init it is
not so much in reality as it looks in print, and
where valuable stock is concerned it may mean a
good many extra dollars, and a good manv more
winners at the winter show\s.

There is no such thing as "too much trouble" for
the real fancier, as he will go to anv length of ex-

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tra care if by so doing he can add to the success of
his establishment.

This year a number of the fanciers who depended
upon the broody hens for their chickens were dis-
appointed, and with a season so bad as man's mind
cannot recollect the chicks were late. These chick-
ens may be materially helped if they are given the
extra care here described, and in this case, anyhow,
the Jesuit maxim, "The end hallows the means/' is
true.

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By A FANCIER

If your neighbor advertises and sells his fowds
don't waste your time in envying him, Init "get a
move on" and do some advertising- yourself.

Read your poultry journal : don't skim it. It
isn't like milk. The cream does not rise to the top,
but is often found in some small paragraph.

The thing to do for neglected breeds is not to
neglect them.

The tame fowl is easier to keep and more satis-
factory than a wild one. Rememl)er ])oultrvmen
are not engaged in l)reeding wild fowls, ])ut do-
mesticated poultry. Afake and keep them tame.

The practical ixultryman who went to schc^ol to
the fancier learned a great manv things of value.

The secret of the fancier's success in a nut shell
is, breed good fowls, exhibit them and advertise the
prizes won.

Making the first exhibit is like going in swim-
ming. Don't shiver on the bank, but plunge in and
see how good the water feels. The anticipation
only is chilly.

One of the best (pialities for poultrvmen to have
is the old-fashioned \irtue "stick-to-iti\-en(\ss."

Anticipation may be better than realization, but
that need not disturb the poultry breeder, because
he is in a position to enjoy the pleasures of both.

There is a keen pleasure in watching the develojv
ment of a growing chicken. b^igure, color and
markings change from day to da}', and it is not
always the most precocious one that develops into
the winner, but some brawny, gaunt, big-boned
fowd which needs only time and flesh to make his
lines as graceful as those of a (ireek statue.

In the race for success as a fancier (piality will
beat (piantity everywhere and every time.

The best cure for a hoi)elessly sick fowl is de-
caj)itation ; in other words, cut oft its tail just back
of its head.

It is not a safe criterion of the \-alue (^f a breed
to count the number of its advertisers, but it is a
safe proposition that the number of advertisers
measures the breed's ])resent chance of popularitv
in the immediate future.

"Time enough yet" is an admirable motto to get
left on.

The ideal poultry exhibition is one where all
breeds and varieties in goodly numbers and all high
(luality are assembled. The nearer we can ap-

proach to that ideal the greater a success will the
exhibition be, both educationally and financially.

The rare breeds draw the ordinary visitor; the
popular breeds attract the fancier, and both make
the pcniltry show interesting. We need them all.

Stock which results from careless, haphazard
methods of mating naturally cannot compete with
stock bred intelligently for a definite purpose.

Poultry judges, too, are men and have the feelings
common to man. If a kick would hurt you, perchance
it may hurt them.

Study your fowls and study your Standard if you
would be a winner.

Don't advertise your defeat by kicking. It will be
found out soon enough if you keep still.

In poultry matters, as in morals, there is no such
thing as standing still. ( )ne must go backward or
forward.

Have you a weed-patch? Let the hens have the
run of it, for thev will eat manv seeds. Have vou
stubblefields? Turn the hens into them, for
they are excellent gleaners. Have you mead-
ows from which the hay has been jjathered?
Let the hens wander over them, gathering an after-
math of green food and a luscious harvest of insects.
Let the hens hel]) you in these several wavs.

The census, by not taking account of the thou-
sands of small poultry keepers, will give an inade-
(piate idea of the greatness of the poultry industry,
because this is an industry especially characterized
by the numbers of those engaged in it in a small
way. lUit with all of its deficiencies the census will
probably show that the poultry industry is one to
be reckoned with when the resources of the nation
are reviewed.

We once heard a well-known poultryman observe
that he never went to call up(Mi a certain breedei
without finding him either going to or coming from
his poultry houses, that is, when he did not find him
in them. That meant a "whole lot," didn't it? It
meant that the care of the fowls was a constant !abor
and a constant delight, that their needs were always
attended to, that they had what they wanted when
they wanted it ; that no lalx^r was too great to be per-
formed and no need too slight to be neglected. And
the result of this care spelled success in capital let-
ters, for the hens responded with eggs and the chick-
ens with rapid growth, and the prize winners in
those flocks were numerous.

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September, 1910

Pluck is every time and everywhere
the master of luck.

Every faihire in breeding, properly
used, will be a stopping stone to suc-
cess.

Success is possible to all men. The
highest success is possible to the few.
Try to be one of the few.

Whether "Like produces like" or
not, you can't expect to raise good
stock from inferior fowls.

When things are flat, encourage
yourself by the thought that when
they change, as they will, they must
rise.

Your breed is a good breed. Ad-
mire and praise it. Rut don't forget
that others have good breeds which
they ought to admire and praise.

Have self-respect. It is not what
you think of yourself but what the
world thinks of you which makes your
reputation, but the world, to some
extent, is influenced in its opinion of
you by your own opinion of your-
self.

Self-respect and egotism are not
the same thing. One is based upon
real, the other upon imaginary ([uali-
ties. The first inspires the respect
of others, the second awakens their
contempt.

The First Exhibit

We have sympathy for the young
breeder contemplating the making of
his first exhibit. He has had but lim-
ited experience in breeding and none
in showing. His mnid is full of
(hniuts as to the relative merits of
his fowls compared with those of
others. They look absolutely good to
him, but how will they look to the
judge? How will they compare with
those of other breeders? He goes
over the best specimens for perhaps
the hundredth time, studying each
section in detail with his Standard
open before him. The result of this
study seems satisfactory, but the
doubt still remains. He resolves one
minute to show them and the next,
aghast at his temerity, he determines
not to exhibit. And so "halting be-
tween two opinions," changing from
one to the other from day to day or
hour to hour, he is the embodiment
of doubt and unrest. Finally, at the
last moment, he seizes, with an air
of desperation, the entry blank, fills
it out, and sends it ofif to the secre-
tary of the show, uncertain whether
he has done a wise or a foolish thing.
lUit the die is cast, the Rubicon has
been crossed, and he has entered the
lists as an exhibitor.

One thing has been decided, and
to that extent his mind is at rest,
but the wisdom or unwisdom of his
determination is still debatable and
still debated. He will not know real
peace of mind until the fowls have
been sent and the judging has been
completed. But as all things have
an end. even this must have one. and
the fowls are in their places and the
judge has done his work. He finds,
as he walks up and down the aisle
where his specimens have l)een
cooped, that while others may look
fine, his fowls do not look discred-
itable. And when the awards are up
he finds that, while he has not won
all the ribbons, there is at least one
ribbon, not a blue or red, to his
credit. A third prize looks better to
him now than many first prizes will
look hereafter. He is satisfied — aye,
more than satisfied — and he wonders
why he was so long in doubt about
the advisability of exhibiting. fTe has
gained confidence and begins already
to plan for the next year's show.
And he has, also, gained knowledge,
for he has studied the birds "higher
up," learned wherein they were su-
period to his, and has resolved to
correct the discovered deficiencies in
his specimens. The next year, win
or lose, he will be on hand with
more and better birds than he has
now, and. if defeated, the winners
will have to be better than those
shown at this time.

T.ack of confidence holds back-
many a young breeder from exhibit-
ing. Tt ought not to be so, for exhib-
iting is the best possible school for
the one who desires to breed prize
birds. Much may be learned hv
<fndvJntr the poultry journals, text
illustrations; much may be acquired
by the study of books on breeding.

scientific w(M-ks, the Standard, and
works illustrative of preparation,
showing and judging fowls; but to
make this learning practical actual
experience in the show room is in-
dispensable. That experience teaches,
as no other can, how the principles
he has learned are actually applied.
Theory is valuable, but practice is in-
valual)le. The one is necessary, the
other indisi)ensable. Both have their
])lace. and the breeder who employs
only one is like a bird which tries to
fly with only one wing.

While, for the sake of the poultry
industry, we advise all breeders to
exhibit, for the sake of the young
and inexperienced breeder we espe-
cially advise him to do so. Let him
not be deterred by the fear of los-
ing. Loss of prizes will not harm a
reputation which is to be made. Only
those breeders who have an estab-
lished reputation have any just rea-
son to fear the results of exhibiting;
the loss of several firsts may mean
something to them in a business way.
But the young breeder has every-
thing to gain and nothing to lose by
showing. H he wins, it helps to es-
tablish a reputation for him; if he
loses, he is no worse off than he was.
The veteran breeder, with a reputa-
tion at stake, seldom hesitates about
exhibiting. He knows that his rep-
utation will wane if he is long ab-
sent from the show room; he must
show and must win to hold his trade.
But the young breeder is troubled by
none of these things; hence his fear
is unreasonable. He must do it some
time, and the sooner he begins the
better. Xow is the accepted time,
now is the day to begin to build up
a reputation as a breeder of fine
fowls by exhibiting the best one has
and learning from actual exi)erience
what the exhibition has to teach the
thoughtful man.

The poultry exhibition is a reliable
teacher for those who would learn the
art of breeding prize birds, because it
shows just what a prize bird is and
wherein it fliffers from one incapable of
winning a prize.

To do the right thing at the right
moment, is the characteristic of the
truly successful breeder. To do the
wrong thing at the right moment, or
to the right thing at the wrong moment,
is to invite failure.

All breeders should exhibit, not only
for the sake of winning prizes, and
gaining the experience which comes
from showing, but for the sake of build-
ing up the i)oultry industry by showing
the public what fanciers can do and
have done.

Don't be a back-yard exhibitor. H
your fowls have glories let them shine
in the exhibition coop, not in your talk.
The man who bas better fowls at home
than any at the show, comes pretty near
belonjring under the classification of
nuisances. Seldom, very seldom indeed,
do these left at home fowls, jian out
in merit when criticallv examined.

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OUIS

Something less than 200 members
attended the :{.5th annual meeting of
the American Poultry Association
held at St. Louis Aug. 16th to 19th.
It was expected that a much greater
number \v'ould be present because of
the i'act that the illustrations to ap-
pear m the new Standard were to be
approved at this meeting and other
matters concerning the publishing of
the book were to be discussed and
acted upon. The meeting was a rep-
resentative one, however, and com-
pared favorably with others that have
been I'tld in recent years. The St.
Louis members of the Associatioi
had the earnest support of various
civic bodies and were unusually
thoughtful and liberal in providing
entertainment of various kinds for
visiting poultrymen. The expected
unpleasantness and trouble over the
prices paid to artists for making the
pictures for the new Standard did
not develop. The discussion was
somewhat heated at the start and re-
sulted in a resolution being offered
by Grant M. Curtis asking that the
charges of graft, etc., be investigated
and the matter be entrusted to a
committee composed of the Presi-
dent, Secretary and Finance Commit-
tee of the Association. This resolu-
tion was finally "laid on the table"
by practically a unaninious vote and
the (juestion was not brought up
again. The action of the Associa-
tion seems to indicate that the ma-
jority of the members consider the
matter largely in the nature of a per-
sonal controversy between those
who have been agitating it in the
l)ress, or at least that there was not
suflicient foundation for drastic ac-
tion by the Association. The various
pictures presented by the artists
were placed before the members in
')]'en meeting and in nearly all cases
were referred to committees who re-

tired from the meeting, taking the
pictures with them for the purpose
of considering them in detail and
conferring with the artists regarding
proposed changes. The work of the
committees was afterward approved
by the Association and the pictures
are to be changed and delivered to
the Standard publication committee
at the earliest possible date. Several
new pictures were ordered made and
a number of breeds will be illus-
trated which were not originally in-
clude.! in the list. Among them are
R. C. White Leghorns, Silver Pen-
ciled Plymouth Rocks, White Laced
Red Cornish, Embden and China
geese.

The following new varieties were
admitted to the Standard; Partridge
Plymouth Rocks, Columbian Plym-
outh Rocks and Aseels, this latter
being a variety of the game family.
The api)lication of the Thoroughbred
Games for admission to the Standard
was refused because they were al-
leged to be fighting games. Barred
Minorcas and Rose Comb Barred
Rocks also failed to get admitted.

Mr. Sewell stated that it would re-
ipiire at least ten weeks for him to
finish the new pictures allotted to
him and to make the changes in
those submitted at the meeting. A
number of pictures were also re-
ferred back to the other artists with
the request that entirely new ones be
made. The new Standard will there-
fore not be ready for delivery before
Nov. 1 and perhaps later. The Asso-
ciation voted full authority to the Ed-
iting and Publication Committee to
have 2.'), 000 copies of the book print-
ed and that they be ready for deliv-
ery not later than Dec. 1 regardless
of conditions.

The secretary announced the result
of the count of all Standard varie-
ties at the shows last season bv

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry Association. Member Buff Rock
Club. I want to judge your show and do yonr private scoring and sell you high class stock and
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wliich method the l)reeds which are
to first have separate breed standards
will be selected. The Leghorns had
the largest record and they will
therefore be the third breed to be
represented. The Plymouth Rocks
and Wyandottes have already been
chosen.

Invitations for the next annual
meeting of the Association have been
received from Denver, Boston, Buf-
falo, Toledo, Detroit and St. Paul.

Illinois members were granted a
charter for the Branch which was re-
cently formed. This action leaves
the Mid-West Branch with the states
of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa.

Four entirely new branch associa-
tions were formed, namely, Nebraska,
Colorado, Arkansas and Texas.

Future meetings of the Association
will not be confined to the month of
August. Members will be permitted
to vote for any dates between July
15 and November 15.

A motion was passed unanimously
which ])rovides that any member of
the Association be expelled who
advertises that his birds were used
as models from which to make the
pictures for the new Standard. Art-
ists who may reveal the information
are subject to the same penalty.

Five hundred and fifty new mem-
bers were elected to membership in
the Association during the past year.

Missouri members made good their
promise to present 100 new members
and a check for $1,000 at the :J5th an-
nual meeting provided it were held
at St. Louis.

Hon. David A. Nichols of Shelton,
Conn., was elected treasurer of the
Association. He is the first person
to fill that office. One individual has
previously held the office of secre-
tary-treasurer.

Mr. S. A. Noftzger explained that
hi> alleged violation of the copyright
of the Standard was not intentional
and that he regretted the occurrence
as well as having made all possible
reparation. The charges against him
were dropped.

The Constitution was amended to
provide for the division of the L^nited
States and Canada into ten sections
and the employment of organizers to
thoroughly cover their respective
territories and secure as many new
members to the association as possi-
ble. They will receive a fee of $3
for each new member secured.

Mr. E. T. DeGraff's application for
reinstatement to membershi]) in the
Association was not favorably acted
upon.

Chas. E. Cram was suspended for
one year for having exhibited a bird
which was faked. His claim is that
he secured the bird in that condition
and was not aware of it.

The association instructed the sec-
retary to write to poultry associa-
tions that are members of the A. P.
A. and recommend that they refuse
entries (^f the E. F. McAvoy, breeder
of Iloudans. This action was the
result of an investigation and recom-
mendation of the executive board.

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Septei

:mber, '10 Jh^-

ETTERS FROM

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would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

THE GOLDEN BARRED PLYM-
OUTH ROCK.

One is sometiines astonished to Ihul
the return of the old heralded as the
new. 1 am led to make this remark
from having seen various references
to a so-called new variety of tiie
Plymouth Rock fowl, the Golden
Barred. That this variety may have
been newly produced 1 do not ques-
tion; that its originator is entitled to
the honor of producing it is not dis-
puted; that it may he i)eautiful in ap-
pearance is not doubted; but that it
is new, in the sense of never having
appeared before, is denied.

Somie years ago, perhaps twenty,
but J do not remember the exact
time, there lived in western Massa-
chusetts a professional exhibitor, who
each fall went out with a large string
of birds, mostly of the rarer kinds,
and exhibited them at the county
fairs. He told me, at one time when
1 visited his place, that he cleared
about $1, ()()() a year on his exhibits.
He was not a breeder, as we under-
stand the term in the.se days, but
bought most of the birds which he
exhibited. ITe had on his premises a
long poultry house, provided with
numerous narrow pens, in which he
kept his exhibition stock when not
on the road. In one of these pens
he showed me a pair, a cock and hen,
that were Plymouth Rocks in size
and figure, but their i)lumage con-
sisted of feathers marked with al-
ternate bars of gold and white. He
called them, as they certainly were in
ai)pearance. Golden Barred Plymouth
Rocks. At that time they did not
greatly impress me as a desirable va-
riety, and, so far as 1 know, they
we'-e neA-er perpetuated.

Some time ago I addressed a gath-
ering of students and others at the
Rho(ie Island College, and in conver-
satit)n with a minister, who was a
keen fancier, he said, in effect, that
the next improvement in Plymonth
Rocks, and one that he considered
very desirable, ought to be the pro-
duction f)f a variety with white and
golden 1 ars. As I had, just before
th*^. '^'^en the statement made in the
-^dvertis^-ient of a western breeder.
T was able to tell him that such a
variety had been produced, or it was
claimed that it had been prodnced.
-And that conversation brought back
to my memory the early j^air of
Golden r>arred Plymouth Rocks
which I had seen so many years be-
ff)re in western Massachusetts. I
have tried to recall the name of this
exhibitor, but while his appearance
and that of his premises and his
fowls are readily presented to my
nn"nd, the name still escapes my rec-
ollection.

The i)resent Golden Barred Plym-
out.i Rocks are therefore rather a re-
creation than a creation, the remak-

ing of a forgotten variety rather than
the origination of something entirely
new. This, of course, does not in
the slightest degree detract from the
honor due to the re-creator. Even
if he had known of the previous ex-
istence of such birds — and 1 venture
to say that he never even dreamed of
such a thing — while it might rob his
conception of its originality, would
not diminish the skill required in the
production of the Golden Barred
Plymouth Rock. With him, 1 doubt
not, the conception was original and

the work was the production of
something entirely new to him. Such
things have occurred in other lines
of work. The same principles have
been discovered by investigators,
working independently and apart;
the same inventions have been made
by inventors who never had heard of
each other. These co-discoveries are
usualh' made at about the same time,
but old principles, the discovery of
which had been forgotten, have been
rediscovered, after a long interval of
time, by other investigators. It is

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not theretore surprising that this
shuuld have occurred in the making
ot a new variety, although it is an
interesting fact, and to me, at least,
It adds to ra.ther than detracts from'
the interest in the Golden Barred
IMymouth Rock.

1 have seen feathers plucked from
specimens of this new variety and
they were quite evenly and hand-
somely barred. 1 have, also, seen
various references to it in the poultry
press. Rut I am getting cautious as
time goes on and have no desire to
predict what the future of the va-
riety may be. Jf i have an opinion
i-.pon that subject, I prefer to keep it
to myself, and let time, the great

OULTRY FANCIER

top of the hill and going down the
other side.

How many breeders of note are
satisfied with their efforts during the
past season? Many perhaps are
pleased with their progress, which is
well and good, but are they not plan-
ning to make more strenuous efforts
the coming year?

Improvement should only encour-
age us to greater effort in the fu-
ture. The better one understands his
breed or variety the farther he re-
alizes his distance from perfection.
The harder the problem to solve, the
greater charm it has for the wide-
awake mathematician. The more dif-
ficult it is to breed a variety of poul-

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sifter of varieties, determine whether
it sliall attain a pronounced success
■or sink into the silence of obscurity.

11. S. P>.\BCOCK.

East Providence, R. I.

PERFECTION.

livery man or woman who is in-
terested in the production of thor-
<<UL,dibred horses, cattle, hogs, sheep,
and poultry is seeking perfection. We
poultry breeders have a "Standard
of Perfection," a description and rep-
resentation of the perfect specimen
in each of the different breeds and
varieties that have been found suf-
liciently perfected to be worthy of a
place therein. Kvery live breeder is
endeavoring to produce stock com-
plying as nearly as possible with the
specifications of this standard. This
IS at it should be. It matters not
whether your income is in the hun-
dreds or thousands, as long as you
strive for this "will o' the wisp" all
is \yell: but you and I nuist never
attain it.

Perfection is a C(Uiipletion and a
cessation of effort. It means satis-
faction with our work, and when one
sees a poultryman who is satisfied
with his work and the progress he
has made in a season or a number of
j^easons, he sees a man who is on the

try to the standard re(|uirements, the
more interesting it is for the fancier.
So let each of us use our greatest
efforts toward improvement, with the
knowledge that there will always be
a field for work along these lines.

E. M. Long.
Osceola, Tnd.

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Answers to Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

to remov^e
liave time

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Question.

Question. — I have a Barred Rock cock-
erel two months old wliose flisht feathers
grew out crooked. As I want to show him
in the winter, I clipped them off close
to the skin, hut they failed to die and
drop out. as I expected.

Will you please tell me ho\A
them so that new ones may
to «row out before winter?

Answei". — You should have ,

feathers from the wins of the cockerel.
Clipping' the feathers will do no s^ood,
as the stubs will generally remain until
moultinfi- .^'ime, just as the complete
feathers \»>» uld have done. If you will
pull the sl>^ >s of feathers now, it is very
t now feathers will srow out
/ill be perfect in form,

-How long before a bird is
to l)e exhiJrited can a sickle or other
large feather be pulled and have the now
one gre\y in?

Answer.— fFrom four to five weeks.

Question. ^Will you oblige me by let-
ting me know which is the best White
Ciosted Black Polish cock; one with a
horn-like comb or one without?

Answer.— In order for a White Crested
Black Polish to be perfect in comb as
specified by the Standard, it should not
nave any comb at all. There should be a
natural absence of comb. There are very
few specimens, however, which do not
have combs and in judging them the
bird with the smallest comb is given the
preference if .all other things are equal.

Question. — When speaking of fine fowls
which is proper, thoroughbred, pure bred
or Standard bred?

Answer.— The birds are bred to con-
form to the requirements of the Ameri-
can Standard of Perfection, and thev are,
therefore, properly termed Standard" bred.

Ik ^

Question.— What causes wry tail, and is
it hereditary?

Answer.— It may be constitutional de-
fect, in which case it would to some ex-
tend be transmitted to the offspring. It
may also result from an injury or forced
carriage of the tail, in which case it is
not hereditary, and may be overcome in
the specimen affected.

Question. — Is it possible for adult fowls
to naturally develop off color in one
or more feathers?

Answer. — Yes. In exceptional cases
serious debilitating illness may cause it
or an injury to plumage, such as a broken
feather while it is growing. Such featii-
ers should be pulled, and they will gen-
erally grow in again true to color.

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Question — How can beets, turnips and
other like vegetables be fed raw with the
least waste and to best advantage?

Answer — Take a piece of board, prefer-
ably one inch thick, five inches wide, and
of any convenient length, three feet being
a good size. Drive wire spikes into it
six inches long, and have them about six
Inches apart. Place the vegetables upon
these spikes, forcing them down till they
rest on the board. Set the board in a
convenient place and allow the fowls to
eat at will. To prevent the spikes from
falling out, another board of the same
size may be nailed over the first one,
covering the heads of the spikes.

Question — How can a l)roody hen be
prevented from sitting?

Answer — Confine her in a small pen or
coop with a vigorous male bird for a day
or two. Place her in a coop with a slat-
ted bottom and raise off tlie ground feed-
ing largely green food and giving an am-
ple supply of cool fresh wHt«^r to drink.

If the coof) can be arranged to swing
back and forth a few minutes occasicjn-
ally, it would be better.

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Question — How can the sexes be dis-
tinguished in ducks?

Answer — The first noticeable feature in
young birds is the drake's longer bill,
neck and body and a more upright car-
liage. When about two months old the
duck can be distinguished by her coarse
voice. The drake has a finer voice, and
with age the curled feathers appear in
the tail.

Question. — Does the feeding of yellow
corn have a tendency to increase or main-
tain the brassy and cream color in wliite
fowls?

Answer. — There is more or less common
belief that it does, l)ut no one has ever
yet satisfactorily proven it.

are all the name im-
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TOP NOTCH s. C. R. I. REDS

old Chicks. Free mating li.st.

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM, R. P. Guptill, Prop., Elcho, Wis.

Barred Plyiiiouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
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ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

60 Years *^ ^f ^ I. K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

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5 particulars address

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REDS

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By EASTERNER

Miller Purvis evidently was in a
complimentary mood when he de-
clared that one of John II. 's state-
ments was "a pure case of malicious
misrepresentation, and Robinson
knew it at the time he wrote it.''
Tut! Tut! brethren! The iirst you
know you will get to quarreling.

Judging from the controversies in
wliich he is embroiled. John II. is
the champion peacemaker of the
poultry press; only he spells peace,
"piece."

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"When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the corn is in the shock,"

When all the youthful peepers are
now a well-grown liock,

Then we study each new feather, and
we con each point with care,

To select the choicest chickens to ex-
hibit at the fair.

Who was the first man? Prince T.
Woods says that he fears his name
may have been John. We are sorry
he has made this suggestion, for it
may make the editor of I'^arm-Pdul-
try a tritie egotistic, and his has been
so perfect and modest a character in
the past that to mar it with even a
trace of egotism is lamentable.

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What's in a name? We were
amazed to find a man by the name
of Maize engaged in the business of
selling maize. There was a certain
fitness in his name at any rate.

Drevenstcdt writes upon "The Pass-
ing of the Huckster." l^verybody
should be glad that he didn't pass
their way, and pas^ off any of his
goods on them. That surely would
liave brought them to an unfortunate
])ass.

1'. W. Taylor has written about
"(Jreen Food and Shade." Undoubt-
edly green shade is the best for
fowls and chickens, but shade of any

other color will prove helpful.

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Dr. L. E. Pitcher is evidently not
the kind of a pitcher that is liable
to get broken, for he would have all
things done, when they should be
done, the neglecting of which makes
many "go broke."

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What does Rev. E. P». Templer

think, when there appears in the same
magazine, his contribution upon "The
Philo System in a Hack Yard," and
the following advice, "Plenty of exer-
cise in the open during hot weather
insures the birds being in better con-
dition to stand confinement when
cold, stormy weather comes?"
Wouldn't it puzzle a Philadelphia
lawyer to Harmonize the two.

We ought to have sympathy for the
chronic critic and kicker, because it
is so easy for a weak man to fmd
fault, and because that is about all
he ever will iind in this imperfect
world.

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.-^.ccording to a St. Louis paper, Mr.
John H. Robinson is now c|ualified
to express an opinion upon the cogen-
cy of the argumentum ad whisker-
andum, but you cannot always trust
newspaper reports implicitly. St.
Louis is a warm place anyway.

If Robinson and Curtis each pub-
lish an account of their argument at
St. Louis over standard illustrations,
it is rlollars to doughnuts that the
accounts will be Hooded with light
of different hues. Xo two men can
see alike, and the points of view of

these two men will be wide apart.

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"There will be a hot time in the
old town tonight" would seem to be
an appropriate song to have preceded
some of the sessions of the A. P. A.
at vSt. Louis.

The ancients regarded "three" as a
sacred number; the moderns find it
useful. L(jr instance, in graft charges
the development consists of three
stages, asseveration, negation, inves-
tigation: and the chemical elements
are present, water, the universal sol-
vent, potash for the lye it contains,
and lime as an essential element in
the customary whitewash.

If there were any truth in the in-
sinuations about the prices of illus-
trations of the forthcoming standard,
it would simply prove that art had
been taking a few lessons from mod-
ern business methods.

It has been asserted and reasserted
that this is an age of combinations.
May business combine at pleasure and
art be denied the like privilege?

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Lest we be misunderstood, we has-
ten to assert that we shall believe in
graft charges only when they are

Porter White WYANDOTTE YARDS

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-
. , dottes? If so, will

you give us a trial so that we can convince you that there are none better in Standard shape and
beauty and as eg^ producers? We have both combined in our birds. We will be pleased to
send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES.

CHAS. DAVIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

WHITE ROCKS

Stock for sale that will win in the show
room and fill the egg basket. Our birds
arc hi^, White, beauties, strong in good

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BOX P., BERWYN, ill

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proved. An optimist, like Easterner,
cannot be expected to take a pessi-
mistic view of human nature without
the clearest proofs. Insinuation, in-

uendo and assertion are not proof.

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And so Reese V. Hicks, Charles D.
Cleveland and Thomas F. McGrew are
already announced as candidates for
the presidency of the A. P. A. in
1911. Did any one of these gentle-
men ever hear of the dangers of an
early boom? A good many things
may happen before the nominating
ballots for J<)11 are sent out. luirly
booms often go astray. The other
interested ones should send in their
names at once, so that we, of the
rank and file, may pick out our win-
ner from the full field. In the mean-
time prepare your platforms, gentle-
men, and get into training for the
race. We are from ^Missouri and
want to be shown. We wish more
definite and detailed information than
was given by the Irishman who. when
asked, as a funeral procession went
by, who was dead, replied. 'XT don't
rightly know. sor. but Oi think it
must be the gintlemon in the coffin."

"The bark of the dog is worse than
his bite" is a statement which evident-
ly refers to one which has lost his
teeth.

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The man who arose at "cock-crew"
must have had a long day before him.
for cocks crow in the middle of the
night.

By actual count there are 270 vol-
canoes in active operation. This
statement was made previous to the
last meeting of the A. P. A. If the
census had been taken then

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Von Der Donk. an earlv Dutch his-
torian of Xew Netherlands, is author-
ity for the statement that whales were
once numerous along the water front
of Xew York city and used to ascend
the Hudson river as far as the great
Cohoes h\alls. In 1647 one was killed
at the foot of these falls, which was
so fat that, after hundreds of gallons
of oil had been taken from it. "Ye
whole river was oily for wekes and
covered with grease." We can the
more readily believe this tale after lis-
tening to the accounts of the fish
taken nowadays by poultrymen, who
have put in a few spare hours upon
some of our inland waters, M-hich
said accounts harmonize very well
with certain egg-laying records.

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If you don't believe in the superior-
ity of the East, you perhaps will be
convinced when you learn that at
l':astport. Me., the tide rises 18 feet,
and at Xew Orleans there is no tide
at all.

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T. I'. .McCirevv was telling a grew-
some tale, and it grew some by the
telling, but what it was and how it
«reu some other nuist be telling.

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If any one is disposed to doubt the
\alidity of the Swaysgood theory of
hatcliintr. let him remember that the
dentists have officially declared that
their business is largely dependent
upon the weather, and during a wet

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spell is increased lifty per cent over
that in time of drous^lit. and the moon
is popularly supposed to influence the
weather.

i'rof. R. L. Garner believes that
a]Jes may have a languaj^e- Instead
of goin^ to Africa to find out about
this, if he would attend a poultry
show, and listen to the remarks he
may hear there uttered b}' the un-
instructed, he would be sure of it.

The action of the A. F. A, on the
])etition for the admission of the
"Thorouj^hbred Game" shows that
there is plenty of tij^hting blood in
the members even if they do not wish
such blood to appear in recognized
standard breeds.

The old saying, "All thing; come
to him who waits," doesn't apply to
customers. One has to advertise for
them.

A little money now and then is rel-
ished by all poultrymen.

A dry cow gives no milk and a dry
hen lays few eggs. Keep the water
bucket fdled.

Old reputations yield no present
returns. There are no birds in last
year's nests. P»e up to date. Adver-
tise and exhibit.

Mr. Cram will be more careful in
the future in 1)uying show birds. No
one will be able to cram a bird with
a dyed tail down into Mr. Cram's
coop, we venture to think.

Concerning Mr. DeGraff it seems
that the American I'oultry Associa-
tion has not yet changed its mind.
Will it ever l)e "not yet but soon"
with his case?

Here's to the good health, long life
and increasing usefulness of the Poul-
try Press Associati<m of .America.

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"I'^all l'\'iirs are on," says a contem-
l)orary. On what?

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'i'he si)ortsman who "shoots folly
as she flies," must be kept in good
practice these days.

Many a man is able to advertise
an undefeated strain because he never
exhiibts.

Stick to your breed but don't get
-tuck on it, but even that is better
than getting stuck on yourself.

1 have no show in this show sighed
the exhibitor whose birds were dis-
qualified.

Don't buy pedigree alone but buy
some fowl to go with it.

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The man wlio spoke for his party
and voted against it did all he could to
defeat it. He is not without a parallel
in some poultry societies.

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1^'or a novelty in marking where is
the breeder who will give us a fowl
with a barred hackle and saddle and a

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body longitudinally striped. We have
.iliout exhausted other styles of mark-
ing.

W hen temporarily defeated remem-

l)er there is always another day.

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Pray for your enemies and even more
ferventlv pray to be delivered from your
friends if you are a candidate for an
office in a poultry (organization.

"All's w^ell that ends well;" that's
why one likes a good comb and tail
on a thoroughbred cock bird.

An agricultural paper advises to
kill all the old cocks. This sounds
like advising indiscriminate man-
slaughter.

We were shocked beyond expres-
sion when we saw an article by the
Rev. C. E. Patterson about "Still
Room at the Top." What should a
minister of the gospel know about
"stills" and "still rooms" and why if
he does should he joarade such knowl-
edge i>efore the public?

It appears that when Geo. .\. Ker-
sten gave his "Reasons for P)lack Pri-
maries" he was not discussing the
"Race Question" nor advancing sep-
arate caucuses for colored voters.

T^ditor Curtis would make a poor
witness in court if in :jf/, columns he
is not able to answer the simple (jues-
tion "Can a hen's egg really be worth
$10?" His i)lace would be at the
lawyers' table rather than in the wit-
ness box, still we agree witli .Mr.
Curtis.

In the grammar of advertising
there is only one degree of compari-

September, '10

son, the superlative. How poultry-
men have simplified their study I

Xo man can be a successful poultry
dealer who doesn't own and fre-
(juently use a good sharp axe. In
breeding fowls, the way to success
is a bloody one. red with the blood
of the culls, butchered to make an
American holiday.

The life of the ball exhibitor is full
of Fair davs.

The 3^oung cockerel's first attempt
to crow, like a young man's first at-
temjit to make a speech, is not much
of a success, but it is full of promise.

Who can tell how many 9.")-point
birds are annually lost to the world
simpl}- because the eggs did not hatch?
Some of us know that all our Do-
point Pirds must have gone that way,
as none of them were found among
the chickens we raised.

If you have a lot of chickens you
cannot sell, sell them out and get
some you can sell. There's no sell
about this either. Speaking of sells
there's no sell like a damsel.

Jukes — Too bad, isn't it, that the
Avork of taking the census must all
be done again?

Dukes — I should say so; but for
what reason?

Jukes — IJecause none of the enum-
erators has been able to find Kelly.

It is rumored that John 11. Robin-
son is to open a College of Poultry
Journalism. .\. I'\ Hunter will lecture
upon the subject. "The Hunter Hunt-
ed: or. What I Know About Field
Artillerw" The four vears' course

HAKE BUFF WYANDOTTE*

A^ain -virinners of tHe l>l«a* at L<>a Cross* and Baraboo

^n#*rialfv «n1^ fKw monfK BREEDING PENS AND TRIOS. I have a number of

L^pCCldliy »aie UlIS mOIlLll cockerels, scored by Roberts and Shellabarger. which I
will mate with .scored and unscored pullet.s at |5 to $20 for the trios and $7 to $26 for the pens. Send
for mating list. Pen 1. will be again headed by my grand old prize winner "Elroy Boy," scored 95^
by Hale, and winner of medal as highest scoring cockerel at Minneapolis in 1908. Six pullets in this
pen all scoring 91 K to 94^. $3 00 per setting of eggs. W. S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

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Allcntown, Pennsylvania,
Sept. 20, 2 1 , 22r, :23, 1 S 1 O

The best fall poultry .show in America. Ha.s everythinj^ the bij? win-
ter shows have and some thinj^s they don't have. Amateurs and small
breeders especially strong: here and everyone, bij^ or little, j^ets a square
deal. Premium list free. Write for one either to

Entrie* Close Friday, Sept. 9th

I

W. Theo. Wittman, Supt.-Mgr. Poultry Depf. or Harry Edelman, Supt.-Mgr. Pigeon Depf ■

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will terminate with the degree of
A. S. S. Anyone who stays as long
as that will richly deserve the de-
gree.

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Some famous questions: "Who
struck Hilly Patterson?" "Has any-
body here seen Kelly?" "Who is \
V. Jhinter?" "Why is John If Rob-
inson?

Robinson's criticism must have
been drawing, for it drew little Me
Too Hunter out of his black ob-
scurity for one delicious trembling
moment, long enough for him to ex-
claim to dear Mr. Robinson, "How
we apples swim!"

It used to be considered that "that
dark-brown taste" in the mouth was
proof positive of a night out, ])ut now
it is referred to the reading of ar-
ticles about the Orrocco Farm.

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Tf this discussion doesn't revive
the Orrocco Strain of Plymouth
Rocks it is because they have gone
to join the Dodo.

Did Robinson get the man higher
np? Well I guess not — the man
higher up would be more likely to
get him.

Prestidigitator Robinson challenges
the world to produce his e(iual in the
feat of balancing a chip on his
shoulder. Xo one dares to accept
the challenge because Robinson is
recognized as an expert in this kind
of jugglery. For a continuous rec-
ord no one is known to approach
him. Hurrah for Prestidigitator
Robinson !

To the incjuiry "Is Mr. John H.
Robinson of Jrish descent?" we are
obliged to confess that we do not
know but he exhibits a trait of Irish
education such as is exemplified at
Oonnybrook h\air, for he hits a head
when he sees it.

In a Xew England city we are
informed there is a strenuous adver-
tiser known as "John, the Shoeman."
A somewhat less well-known char-
acter is "John, the Showman." The
difference between these Johns is
that one runs a shoe shop and the
other attemi)ts to run the poultry
])ress of the countr}-.

John the Showman: "Step right
lip, brethren, step right up. Til sliow
you how to edit a poultry paper. I'll
show yiMi the real value of your con-
tribution. !ii show you my wisdom
and your foolishness. Steji lixcly, for
the .show is about to begin. Ad nis-
sion only fifty cents."

^ "Let me see," .said "John, the
Showman," "f don't agree with M\\-
ler Purvis, nor with Hicks, nor with
C. S. Tait, nor with bVank Heck,
nor with (irant Curtis. nor with
TrafTord, nor with Corning, nor with
the editor of the Poultry Yard, nor
with the Poultiy Digest, nor with
]?urhans. nor with l^abcock, nor with
Prot. Hateso:i, nor with many others.
l)artly agree with Hunter, that is, so
parti yagree with Hunter, that is, .so
far as he agrees with me."

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Partridge, Buff, Black and White
Cochins: White, Black, Buff, Sil-
ver and Golden Polish: f^^^s^^^^^p^e^

15. Prize winners 28 years: Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge, Importer and Breeder. Chenoa. Illinoi..

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLLNTOWN. PA.
General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
room. 30 years a poultryman.

s. c. BROWN sr,°:^=B?e°5f f ,f^e gf

LEGHORNS --™'.

$1.50 per 15.

H. E. MARQUARDT.

years. Prices
reasonable. Eggs now

WAUSAU. WIS.

R. C. and S.C.R.1. Reds

Winners at Haprerstown, CIMcago, McKeesport
Mutler and Pittsburg. Best young stock 1 ever
raised now ready to ship. Write me. The stock
is right and the prices are rlglit. : : : : : : : ;

F. L. Ober, R. F. D. 1, Verona, Pa.

BINDER

Attachment with Corn Harves-
ter cuts and tlirows in piles on
harvester or winrows. Man and
horse cuts and shocks equal with
a Corn Binder, Sold in every state. Price 120 with Hin
der Attachment. S. C. Montgomery, of Te.xallne, Te.x
writeci: "The harvester has |)roven all von claim for It.
With the assistance of one man cut and Itound over IIMJ
acres of Corn, Kaffir Corn and Maize last year." Test!
mf)nlals and catalog free, showing i)tctu re of harvester
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B. H. BACON, R. F. P.. ELROY. WIS.

Single Comb Black Orpingtons

Best Winter layers. Scored stock lor sale.
JAS. McGUAN, BARABOO, WIS.

Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks, S. C

Brown Leghorns liighe.st awar(l.s at lead-
UIUWII l^egliurns ,„g shows, some choice
yearling breeders for sale at reduced prices Cat
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Chanipioiif of the entire west; over 300 prizes in
twenty years, liecord unequalled. Kigiit color
fiize and shape. Ini.rderto make rr)()ni will sell
some of my breeding hens for ^l.-W up.

Chas. Lan^, Box 10, LaCrosse, Wisconsin

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A fine lot of yonng stock for sale from my

winners at Milwaukee and

other shows.

W. R. Abbott, Prop,, Ft. Atkinson, Wis.

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SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

: $.'>.00 per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen
Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
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buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
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tatled breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

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77 Summit St., Eatt Providence. R. I.

1910 with S* C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville. Ind., Jan. 4-8, Tucker, Judge- 2
^ cock. 2 cockerel, 1. 2, 4 hen. 1, 2 pullet 1 2
pen. 20 females average 92 1.5. Richmond,
Ind .Tan 1 2-1.'), Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered;! cockerel, 1, 2 hen. 1,
- pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Kggs from best pens only $1 for \h
after May 15th. |RA FORD La Grange. Ind.

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Costs less than netting. We
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September, '10

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Nfii.'ws or

POULTRY SHOWS (Si,
SPECIALTY CLUBS

Notices sent to us by secretaries wifl be pub-
lished in this department without charge

Big cash prizes and silver cups are tlie
drawing cards for tiie quality show of
the west. More sales at Ions price are
made at the Indianapolis show than many
of the eastern sliows can boast of.
Specialty clubs both state and national
are again making this their round-up
show (»f the year. Ten of the best .iudg»-s
in tlu' rnited States Avill place the awards
in the different departments and do this
in a very short time so that exhibitors
have very little time to wait for the de-
cisions of the judges. F'or i)rosi)ectus and
other information of the best show of the
west, write the secretary, C. R. Millions,
Lebanon. Ind. AVe have some big cash
prizes outside of our regular specials.

C. R. MILHOl S, Secy.

•X- 4f
BELLE PLAINE, lA.

ST. JOSEPH, MO.

After a lapse of a coui)le of years the
Interstate show at St. .Joseph, Mo., has
"come back." Heretofore the one thing
that i)revented it froin being the success
it deserved to be was the lack of a
suitable show hall. But this obstacle has
l)een reinoved. St. Joseph now has one
of tile finest auditoiiunis in the west,
and it has been secured for the Inter-
state show Jan. 23-28. 1911. Experts have
|)ronounced it one of the best buildings
for poultry show purposes in the coun-
try. The arena, wiiich is large enough
to coop several thousand birds comfort-

An attractive list of special premiums
will be announced when the catalogue is
printed. The regidar premiums will be
as liljeral as any in tlie countrv.
The Interstate has always Ijeen the big
sweepstakes event of the middle west—
the place where winners from four states
contest for final honors of the season.
It will ])e the <:>nly l>ig s
end of the season in the
This ought to bring out
late youngsters.

The management has never experi-
mc^nted with unseasoned judges. It costs
more mone\- to secure men of national
reputation, but it pays in tlie end. Keep

low toward the
west this year,
a large list of

The Progressive Poultry Breeders &
Fanciers Association will hold their third
annual poultry show at Belle Plaine. Iowa,
on Nov. 28 to Dec. 3. with Judge (J. D.
Holden of Owatonna. Minn., to judge the
l)irds. Write to E. M. Ewen, secretary-
treasurer, Belle Plaine, Iowa, for cata-
logue.

CORNISH CLUB CATALOGUE.

The 1910 catalogue of the American
(^Ornish CMub is hot from the j)ress. It
is full of interesting articles and good
cuts of all varieties of the Grand Cornish

CONVENTION HALL WHERE THE KANSAS CITY SHOW WILL BE HELD.

abl.v, is a building by itself — which is in-
side the main structure — a double wall
house, if .vou please, with an air space
of 30 to 50 feet between the walls. This
does away with the disastrous drafts
which are the l»ane of the showman's
life. The ])uilding has plenty of sky
light and the heating and ventilating sys-
tems are unexcelled

The Interstate is not sui^ported by
legislative appropriation, but it has a
"lich uncle." Tlie business men of St.
Joseph, realizing that a poultry show is
one of the best diawing cards of the
year, liave determined that the Inter-
state shall be one of tiie best. It is
backed by the Ad Club, the Retail Mer-
chants' Association, the Business Mens'
J.,eague, the Commercial Club and other
organizations which raised $10,000 th*-
coldest da.v last winter bring a Western
League base ball team to St. Josepli.
The same spirit is back of the poultry
show and this ought to be sufficient
guarantee that every one of the associa-
tion's obligations will be fidl.v met.

in touch with 1-]. T>. McDonald, secretary,
foi- further information. It will be well
wortli .\'our while.

NATIONAL COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE

CLUB.

The National Columl)ian Wyandotte
Clul) will hold its annual meeting in Chl-
c-ago, during the December show.

The crul) offers its members $.^)0.0(i in
cash specials on single entries. The same
amount on pens. Also the $25.00 P>uck-
land cup for best shai)ed Cohmil)ian Wy-
andotte.

These inducements should bring out a
large entry at the Chicago show.

HORACE I'ORTER. Secy.

Ridgefield, Conn.

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

Fowl. This catalogue will be given free
to all apiilicants enclosing ,$l.(i(» member-
shi|) fee, and it will l)e sent free to all
members in good standing. The piiee
to interested fanciers is lOc^ in stamps

H. C. HAYES, Secy.
Eureka, 111.

EL PASO, TEX.

The Fanciers' Association of Indiana
as usual will hold a (combination show of
poidtry. dogs, cats and ]>igeons Feb. (;-1(i.

The El Paso Poultry Association will
liold its second annual show in connection
with the 101 Paso Fair. Oct, 29 to Nov G

Our local prizes are $1.00 for first, 50c
for second and badges for third, fouitli
and hfth i)iizes for single entries and
$3.00 for first and $2.00 for seconds and
l)adges for third, fourth and fifth for
pens. In addition to this we have 17 cups
and more than $10(1.00 in c-ash prizes.

Om- i)oultry show last year was the
feature of the El Paso Fair and from
the T)i()gress already made, we think this
years show will ))c twice as large at
least.

Judge C. P. Van Winkle of Dallas will

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judge the show and entries will be held
open until Monday morning, Oct. 31.
Judging will l)egin Tuesday morning,
Nov. 1, at 10 a. m. and will be bv score
card. The Silver Challenge Cup, "offered
by the association, is valued at $100.00
and will be given for the best pen in the
show, all breeds competing, and will have
to be won twice. The other cups range
in value from $12.50 to $90.00 each.

Our catalogues will be off the press
within the next week and any one desir-
ing a copy can get it by adclressing the
writer. We are going to have one of
the liest, if not the best poultry show
in Texas this year; anyway, we will
make some of the older shows look to
their laurels. L. E. GILLETT, Secy.

A NEW ORPINGTON CLUB.

A copy of a letter from the National
Rose Comb Orpington Club has just
reached us, setting forth the advantages
and possibilities of their birds. We un-
derstand their list is growing very rapidly
and it will probably be of advantage to
all breeders of Rose Comb Orpingtons to
write to their secretary, :Mr. A. R. Pollock
of Plqua, Ohio, for full information and
advantages of the club.

THE BIG MISSOURI STATE SHOW.

Every breeder of poultry in America
should make a special effort to attend the
great Missouri State Poultry Show in
Convention Hall. Kansas City, Nov. 29-
Dec. 3, 1910. The program for the week
will be about as follows:

Monday — Judges' day. All exhibitors
and visitors will be excluded from the
building until the birds are judged.

Tuesday — Institute da.v. Judges will tell
exhibitors why they tied the robbins on
certain Inrds. Also an illustrated ad-
dress by W. H. Card, Manchester, Conn.,
and other prominent men.

Wednesday — Governor's day and spe-
cialty clubs' day. An address by Gover-
nor Herbert S. Hadley. Meetings of many
specialty clubs.

Thursday — American Poultry Associa-
tion rally day. Address b.v Secretary S.
T. Campbell. Mansfield. O. Meeting of
the members of the Southwest Branch
and other members of the associatic^n.

Friday^ — Missouri hens' da.\-. Annual
business meeting of the state association.
Bancjuet at night to all visitors and ex-
hibitors.

Saturday — Kansas City day.

The most prominent breeders and au-
tliorities on correct color and shape of
many popular varieties will be present to
discuss these c|uestions and tell how to
mate and breed your birds to get proper
shape and color. Soine of the prize win-
ners, and some that do not win. also dis-
<iualified iiirds. will be taken from their
cages and stood before the public as ex-
amples of good and bad. Their defects
will he pointed out. and you will be told
how to ])reed out many of these defects
and how to maintain the good points.
Some men have spent a lifetime, and
others will spend many years and lots of
money in finding out what you cvin learn
here in two or three days from piominent
judges and breeders at this show. We
don't see how any man or woman who
expects to keep abreast the times and to
make a success of the business can af-
ford to miss this great show. Many
clubs will hold their national annual
meetings at this show, and there will be
lots of cash and special prizes oitered in

POULTRY FANCIER

addition to the regular premiums, which
are the largest paid at any show in
America.

The Missouri State Poultry Show not
only lias the reputation of holding one of
tlie largest poultry shows in the world,
but the quality of the birds is eciual to
any in America. This reputation has been
established and it means much to tlie ex-
hibitors and winners at this show. For
an example, after the last state sliow
held in St. Louis, one exhibitor sold $800
worth of stock within three weeks after
the show to people who saw his birds in
the show and heard of his winnings, and
another exhibitor sold over $4,000 worth
of stock and eggs the past season as a
result of his winnings. Many others had
sales nearly equal to these and the egg
orders from the exhibitors have been
enormous. Dozens of letters have been
received from exhibitors stating that they
never before had such an egg trade and
that they will be with us at Convention
Hall, Kansas City, No. 29-Dec. 3.

Kansas City has the reputation of turn-
ing out to a poultry show as no other
city in America does. Thirty to thirty-
five thousand people will see your birds.
We feel safe in saying this. More l)irds
were sold at the Missouri show in St.
Louis than were sold at any other
show held in this country last year. The
Kansas City papers will give big write-
ups of the winners, and every premium
will be paid before the birds leave the
show-room, and if you do not attend the
show your premium money will reach you
before your birds return home. Several
large specialty clubs will hold their an-
nual meetings liere. There will be a big
institute, and a great laying contest.
P^verybod.v is headed toward the great
convention liall at Kansas City, Nov. 29-
Dec. 3, and you had better write T. E.
Quisenberry, secretary, Columbia, Mo.,
that you will be there too. Write at once
for a catalogue and it will be sent you
as soon as they are ready. We expect
to see this one of the best shows ever
held; we are making great preparations
for it, and the breeders should appreciate
it anci turn out in great numbers. T. E.
Quisenberry. Sec'y, State Poultry Board,
Columbia, Mo.

MINERAL POINT, WIS.

The next annual show of the Mineral
Point Poidtry Association will be held
Jan. 9-13. .James A. Tucker, judge, and
Allen Tucker, Sec'y.

COLUMBUS, IND.

The fourth annual Columbus show will
be held Jan. 9-14. W. A. Corey has been
engaged to place the awards. H. K. Vol-
land. Sec'y. will send premium list and
full information to all who write for
same.

SCHWENKSVILLE, PA.

The dates of the second annual ex-
hibition at Schwenksville. Pa., are Dec.
20-24. Preparations are being made for a
good show which should be well attended.
S. R. Crom is secretary of the show and
F. H. Davey will do the judging.

FROSTBURG, MD.

Indications are favorable for the Frost-
l)urg show to be the greatest ever held in
Frostburg, Md. The dates are Dec. 13-17.

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This is the fifth annual show of tlie as-
sociation and it will be judged by com-
parison, Chas. F. Cornman. Dr. T. T^. Rit-
ter is secretary of the show.

WEST HAVEN, CONN.

The West Haven Poultry Association
has selected Nov. 29-Dec. 2, as the dates
for their coming show. The judging will
be done by Drevenstedt. Card and Welles.
Write to W. J. Maher, Sec'y, for premium
list.

ELMORE, OHIO.

The fourth annual show of the Elmore
Association will be held Jan. 3-6. This
is one of the best shows in that section
of the state and breeders should place
it on their list. Phil Fell will judge the
show. Geo. A. Neis is secretary of the
show.

NEWTON, ILL.

The next show of the Illinois National
Poultry Association will be held at New-
ton. Dec. 26-29. The judging will be
done by Chas. McClave. The secretary
of the association is Floyd Clark, New-
ton, 111.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE BREEDERS
ASSOCIATION.

Phil Koehlinger, Ft. Wayne, Ind., act-
ing secretary and treasurer of the Coluin-
bian Wyandotte Breeders Association,
asks us to announce that the first meet-
ing will be held during the Chicago show
Dec. 8-14, at which time permanent of-
ficers will be elected. Plans are under
way to issue a quarterly publication and
for establishing an information bureau.
Mr. Koehlinger writes that the club will
have more than $100.00 in cash specials
to offer at the Chicago show. Only
breeders of the club can compete for these
specials, but the club membership fee is
only $1.00 and all Columbian Wyandotte
breeders are urged to join the associa-
tion. The membership fee should be for-
warded to Mr. Koehlinger. who will
promptly send receipt for same.

DAVENPORT. lA.

The Tri-City Fanciers' Association,
composed of breeders at Davenport, la..
Rock Island and Moline, 111., will hold
their sixth annual show at Davenport
Nov. 21-26. Russell and McCord will do
the judging. For premium list and other
information write to H. A. Skelly, Sec'y.
Davenport. la.

RICHMOND, IND.

Tlie next annual show of the Richmond
Poultry & P. S. Association will be held
Dec. 7-10. The secretary of the asso-
ciation is Frank T^. Waidelle. The judg-
ing will be done by S. B. I^ane.

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MENDOTA, ILL.

The Mendota show will be held this
season, Jan. 17-21. with O. L. McCord as
judge. Edw. Brown of Mendota is again
secietary of the association, which is
ample evidence that the show will be
handled in a businesslike manner.

KENDALLVILLE, IND.

Th<> dates of the next Kendallville
show will be Jan. 2-7. This is one of the
best shows in Northern Indiana. Several
hundred birds were shown at this exhi-
tion this season and the management is
working for an increase of at least 50
per cent. G. M. Patterson is secretary
of the show and (^has. McCleave has been
secured as judge.

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COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.

The fourteenth annual show of the Pike
Peak Poultry Association will be held
Dec. 12-17. Premium list may be ob-
tained bv writing to H. IT. Chase. Sec'y,
1442 Corona St. D. T. Heimlieii will do
he judging.

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock epps $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick PfafC, Box
fi38. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-T_2

HOUDAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs. $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle, Wis. 4-o

EGGS FROM BARRED, BUFF AND
White Rocks, $1.50 for 15. Single Comb
Brown, Buff and White Leghorns $1 for 15.
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd. Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

cjioKMO (M)ckI':kkls. "calump:t"

stiain Whitf Rock.s. Their motheis all
have trap ne.st rec-ords of 2<t(t eggs and bet-
ter. Big white Standard shaped fellows.
Selected birds $2 ui». «'. 1. Hasliore. Calu-
met, Mich. '-''2

-HOICE COCKERELS, 'CALUMET" STRAIN
White Rocks. "Calumet" strain are heavy
layers, high scorers, non-sitters. Have a few
fine cockerels that are from exceptionally
choice stock. Firsts, $10; seconds, $5; thirds,
$3. C. I. Bashore, Calumet, Mich. 7-3

WHITE ROCKS — STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
bajsket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P, Berwyn. 111. 12-4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,
111. .^ __lil

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

GIMLINS WHITIO \V V .\ ND< ) I'Tl^S. ilAVH
exhibited and won leading poultry shows
in 190!<, including Illinois .state Show and
Illinois Slate I'^air. Have furnished win-
ners for shows that have won the blue.
Send for fi-ee catalogue, list of winnings
and prices on slock and eggs. Elmer Gim-
lin Tavlorvillc, III. Jt-in-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FROM
pen of 8 hens. 1 cock picked from 284
birds, $2 per 15, $3 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Strueblng. Freeburg,
UK ^

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J. Trester. Rushford,
Minn. ^

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

PAKTRIDGK WYANDOTTES— A CHOICE
lot of cockeiels for sale. Also a few cocks
and hens. Good ones. W. Rodman (St Son.
Darien, Wis., Directors National rartri<lge
Wvandotte Club. ''-3

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.

1-10-12

S C WHITE, BLACK, BUFF AND DIA-
niond Jubilee Orpington eggs. |2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers.
Wis. 2-5

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown. Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms.
Cincinnati. O^ t2-in

ORPINGTONS— OUR BOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best layers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff, Black, White. Cheviot
Farms. Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. L REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Rldrldjje & Son. Bourne. Mass. 3-9-12

LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95% In
show room. Prices right. Eggs In season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer. Gazette,
Mo. 1-6

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
I^angshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus. N. Y^ 4-3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95%, females 96%. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing,
.score 19%. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. Assn.. Chilton, Wis. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning Ist
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

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S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens. 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94. pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. .j-»-lZ

S. C. BROWN LEGHOI^NS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. H. M. Moyer. R. 2, Bechtels-
vllle. Pa. 11-9-12

S. C. HUOWN LKc; HORNS, EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
Batchelor, Fairvlew, Mass. 4-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantam.s. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOT'R ORDERS FOR HEALTHY
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker, R. 1, Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching. $1 per
setting. 4-3

HOUDANS.

THE BEST THAT ARE BRED IN HOU-
<lans. Winners at Chicago and Minneapolis
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. H. M. Sparboe, Webster
City. Iowa. S-3

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield, N. J. 2-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMPINES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest dozen eggs in show, Boston, 1910.
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
Ridgefield, N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PHR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $26.00 to $150.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authorIt]r
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meerach, Poughkeepsle, New
York. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

.MAMMO'i'H ^ 'UTR HOLLAND Til n'S

All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith,
Burnt Prairie, 111. 4-3

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.60 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1563 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. R-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mall on receipt of
price. r.O cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
genthaler. Canton, O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels. cardJ^
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, $1.25,
postpaid. Circula:*s, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co., Manchester, la. 10-9

MISCELLANEOUS.

ClNSEXG SEEDS AND ROOTS FOR SALE.
$.")0.000.00 is a conservative e.'^timate for one
acre of Ginseng. Easily raised in connection
with poultrv. Pleasant Lake Ginseng Farm,
Lock Box 102, Cadillac, Mich. 8-1

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BARRED ROCKS

Cockerel mating of
the verv best strain.
Pullet line is direct descendants or "Louis-
ana." the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
$1 .50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F., Centerville.Iowa

R. C. Brown Leghorns ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f,V,

stock from Madison Square and Boston winners
Cockerels and pullets that can win at the Fall
fairs. Choice early pullets. Wrire wants. Circular.
Jas. Crawford : : Cameron MIIIh, N. Y.

REDS

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five strictlv exhibition matings at
$3.00, $4 00 per 16. A grand lot of

breeders for sale with score cards after May 30

«t a bargain.

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton, III.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred.

^:^: Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season . Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

REIGHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. IV. Leghorns

Special prices on IJ. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels In
lots of three ormore, 11.50 each, for this month
Satisfaction guaranteed. : : : : : : ; ;

K. H. Reiohert - :- Vlr<l«,n. Illinoii

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that Mil produce winners,
$3 per 15. $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM, Mar.halltown. Iowa

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Kggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. Hopkinsville. Ky.

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367 Dearborn Street, <"

Chicago, III.

Rose Comb Brown ll\f ,?"Me
LEGHORNS T^^^l^.'^

win-
[eridan,
Worcester and
A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

R. C. & S. C. RhodTlsiandl \ l^t^}^J^'^l^J^.

Rtf^rlft None better. 40 first and second
*^^'^** prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

D. J. BLISS. Carthasre, Mo.

produce.s tlie fowl.«
you need to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, Pron^ Rt. 1 Plainville, III.

rs tor 12
prizes in

Anrnnae EXCLUSIVELY. Leade
/%UCUU<15 year.s. Huudreds of pi
hot competition won by us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St.. East End. Pittsburg. Pa.

Presi<letit Ancona Club of America

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess, laid 291 eggs in a year; .W hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON. . FREDONIA. N. Y.

Houdans and Buff ^SST'^i^rL^

Wvanrlnffoc ^^ ^ugliest honors on Hou-
fTjauuuilC^ dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $?,. Wyandotte eggs |2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden. Clifton Springs. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, .S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, While Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

i^^X!$?^:j;^dfeg^?TOg^

I^ine Bred For 20 Years

Special prices on cockerels and pullets. Young stock
better than ever this season. (iyt prires now.

E. M. Buechiy. Box 10, Greenville. Ohio

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTON

Kjrgs lor sale at $1 i>er 1.^ f<.r the hiilaiiee of season
with limited Hinount. Stock for sale after Deeem-
her 1, 1910. Have a few Marred Hoeks for sale also
Oockert 1 niatinp. Will close them out at a harKSin.

A. J. Waldschmidt : • Washington. Iowa

Silver Laced Wyan«lottes, White Crested
ItljM-k I'oHhIi antl I5arre<i riymontli
KockH. Dlroet descendants from .Madison Scjuare
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eight regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, Jan.
4-9. 1«09, In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yardn.
Wm. NeierH. Prop., I.,, l$.4/>, Casca<l«\ la.

PFFn'Q R.C. BROWN LK(;H()KNS and
IVCCiLr O ^ (^ RHODE ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Ciet my descrip-
tive circular of six gran<l matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M. REED.

VVyanct. III.

Light Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15 On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headea bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92^ to 95.
M prize ck. score 92K ^^d ckLs. for sale.
Mrs.Ed. Bartlett lfi9i/i Oak St New Cacti*. Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and havv.
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
.sale now. Write us. D. A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora. III.

S. C R. I. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^^"^^S.

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E H. DOWNS. RTE. 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH 11^:^ ^If^t"

D#^/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices

OSCAR E. WOOD

UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHOIJE ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Ked
Cloud." Rose comb descendantB of O. E. Miles
first pen, superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES .Xr^H^l

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
select matings that will produce winners.
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT. Lyon.. Wi«.

Walker's White Rocks ^^Tt'^N'^e w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 ."^ec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do vou want better than this? Eggs $3 and
%:^ per 16.
BOB WALKER. Porter St.. New Castle. Pa.

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brahmas First prlz'»
and silver cup wlnnerHSilvvinnepeg. Can., Sea' tie
A.Y.P., Minn.. III., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madlpon Square Garden.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKSI°„%"g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At fndianapoiis, Ind- htate Show my

UdllCU f . IVUCIV^ hen; 19()9again they
won 1st and 2d pullet, 3d and 1th hen in 1910.
vSpringfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
K«gs $3 00 for I.'). H. W. BARNETT
24 Bushnell Bldff.. - Springfield,

<U>lunil>ian IMynioiith ICockn (Sweet's
Siraln.) Black-tailed .lapaufse and HufT Cochin
Hantams, Barred Hocks. A few choice cockerels
(»f each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for eggs from my choicest mathiKS
at •;5.()(» per 15. i.'i.iKi per 30. Bantam eggs at 12.50
per 1.5, »4.(H) per .so.
K. B. ROBERTS CANASTOTA. N. Y.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Klnr hrocderN or flliow birds from my
Miwi-onri and KaIl^all^ .'>ta><' .sih.w win-
ners. Satisfaction guarantetd. :: ::

S. Ci. Whlprerht, Hox II, Somalia, M«>.

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September,

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-

dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock eprps $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff. Box
fi38. Anadarko. Okla. l-^-y2.

HurDvx Er.r.s from winners at

Madipnn and Dodgrcville, also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs. $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle. Wis. 4-o

EGGS FROM BARRED. BUFF AND
White Rocks, $l.rjO for lo. Single Comb
Brown, liiitf and White Leghorns $1 for 15.
Mahaney Bros., Wintcrrowd. Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

(11, ii( 'lO ' ■< " "K i;Ki:i..<. •■«■ A l-IM V.'V

strain Wliil.' K-'fks. Tluir niutii.Ts ail
lia\c iraji iifsi i-.-<-<'i<ls ..f :;nu t-ggs and b.-t-
i, 1-. I'.ig wiiilf Slainiaifi sliapt'd ffllnws.
S.-ii'ct.d birds .*!' iil>- *' '• I5asb..r<-. Calu-
nift. Mich.

:t-l

'HUlCE COCKERELS, "CALUMET" STRAIN
White Rock.s. "Calumet" strain are heavy
layers, higli si^orors, non-sitters. Have a few
tine cockerels that are from exceptionally

•hoice stock. Firsts, $10; seconds, $". ; thirds,
%?,. C. I. Bashore. Calumet, Mich. 7-3

WHITE ROCKS— STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big. white beauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry Yards, Box P, Berwyn. 111. 12-4

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,
111. .^

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

3-4

C. IMIJNS WMri'l-: WN .\M»< )-!"!• ES. 1 1 .\ \- K
.•xiiibitrd and \\<'n l.inliiiK poultry sliuws
in l'.tt>;t. iiicliKliiiK lllintiis State Show and
lllin-.is Sialf l-'air. Mavf rmnisli<(i win-
ners for shuus that liaxr wui tlir bluf.
,-:.nd for frc.- catalitgii.-. list <>r wiiininus
and iirifcs on siixk and c^ns. Elmrr Gim-
lin. Taylorvill.'. ill

'.t-lM-i -1

WHITE WYANDOTTES— EGGS FROM

pen of S hens. 1 cock picked from 284

birds $2 per IT., $3 per 30. farm range $4
per 100. Rev. G. C. Strueblng. Freeburg.
Til. ' "

4-3

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J. Tre-^ter. Rushford^
Minn. ^'"2

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

i-AKi-Kii»<;i-: w v.\.\i)< •■i"i-i;s .\ «mi(»i«1':

lot of cuckert-ls lor salf. .\ls<i a Uw coiks
an<l hens. Good oins. W. l{o(lnian iV: Son.
Darieii. Wis.. Dir.ctors .Naiional I'arliidg"'
Wyandoit.' Club. "-''

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.

1-10-12

S C WHITE, BLACK. BUFF AND DIA-
niond Jubilee Orpington eggs, {2 for 15;
chicks three weeks old, 40c each; all guar-
anteed. Hamilton & Kaufman, Two Rivers.
Wis. 2-5

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown. Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms.
Cincinnati^ O^ ^'--^"

OKFINGTONS— OL'R liOOK IS FREE IF
you mention this paper. It tells of world's
best lavers; where to get best eggs for
least money. Buff. Black. White. Cheviot
Farms, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-3

RHODE ISL.xND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. L REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Efdridge & Son. Bonrne. Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans Is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95 V^ In
show room. Prices right. Eggs In season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette.
Mo. 1-6

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for
ulus. N. Y.

sale. Fred li. Bachmnn,

Rom-
4-3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95 Mj. females 90 1^. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup fur best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing.
score 19 V^. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton, Wi.«. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning Ist
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens. 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94. pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. ..-h-12

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. H. M, Moyer, R. 2, Bechtels-
ville. Pa. 11-9-12

.s. c. i:k(»\\n !-i:i;n()KNs. exhibition

and utility birds. Get prices on stock and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
P.atehelor, Fnirview. Mass. 4-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. SOO birds. Proper &
Co.. Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

SEND YOT-R OliDERS FOR HEALTHY
prize-winning Golden Sebright Bantams to
L. D. Karker. R. 1. Cobleskill, N. Y. Stock
at right prices. Eggs for hatching. $1 per
setting. 4-3

HOUDANS.

Till-: i!i:si- THAT .\i:i-: jsked in hou-

dans. Winners at Chicago and MInneai)olis
for several years in sneeession. A lot of
nice (iiifs fur sale. H. M. ."^parboe. AVebster
Cit v. j.iw a. ^-."^

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
rjdgefield. N. J. 2-6

SILVER CAMPINES.

SILVER CAMI'INES. ORIGINAL INTRO-
ducer improved strain Belgiums. Great egg
producers. Largest white eggs. First prize,
whitest dozen eggs in show, Boston, 1910.
Cherry Grove Farm, M. R. Jacobus. Prop.,
P.idgefield, N. ,1. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING PAYS 800 PBR
cent better than chicken raising. A pair of
pheasants are worth from $25.00 to $150.00
to P breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich Industry. 75 cents a copy by mall
from A. V. Meersch, Poughkeepsle, New
York. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

.MAMMO'M 'MITE HOLL.VXD Tl I ^S.

All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98.
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith,
Burnt Prairie, 111.

4-3

PIGEONS.

1 OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1..^)0 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert, 1003 East
Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia. Pa «-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
saff and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. .".0 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
^enthaler. Canton. O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, card.s,
tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500. $1.25.
posti)aid. Circula -s. everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co.. Manchester. la. 10-9

MISCELLANEOUS.

( ; 1 .\ S 10 N < ! SE !•: us AM) 1 L 0( JTS F(J 1 1 SA LE.
$."(0,000.00 is a conservative estimate for one
acre (»r Ginseng. Easily raised in connection
with poultry. Pleasant Lake Ginseng Farm,
Loik l!ox lu2. Cadillac. Mich. 8-1

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•hail be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column- Each
advertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

S. G. BUFF ORPINGTONS

::::H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE::::

17 ELM STREET - WOBURN. MASS.

R.C.Brown Leghorns

stock from Madison Square and Boston winners.
C^ockerels and pullets that can win at the Fall
fairs. Choice early pullets. Write wants. Circular.
Jas. Crawford : : Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred,

S;",5t Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street, EVANSTON, ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Kaplds, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or egjfs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
13 per 15. $5 per .30, I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

^PON'T OVERLOOK THIS

other people would read your ad if it were
here, just the same as you are reading this
one. See the rates and conditions at the head
of this department and send in an ad. It will
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER,
357 Dearborn Streat, ^ Chicago, III.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

R^r1« None better. 40 first and second
*^*''^^* prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place c^^ orders now.

I). ,T. HLI.SS, Carthaare, Mo.

AnrnriAC EXCLUSIVELY. LeaTlers Tor 12"
•""*-""*** year.s. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won bv us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
lip among the leaders W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St., East End, Pittsburg. Pa.

President Ancona Club of America

Houdans and Buff ,V:ai','.r^^^1„„i.;;

Wvanrlnff AC "^ bighest honors on Hou-
TT j<tUUUllC5 dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. makitig nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $8 Wyandotte eg^s %2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden. Clifton Springs, N. Y.

Line Bred For 20 Years

Special prices on cockerels and pullets. Young stock
better tliiin ever this season. (Jet prices now.

E. M. Bucchly, Box 10, Greenville. Ohio

BARRED ROCKS S"e^^rry bSfJuliS'

Pullet line is direct descendants or "Louis-
ana," the Worlds P'air hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
$1.50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson, Dept. P. F., Centerville.Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB f,\^
REDS

s
- m
five strictly exhibition matings at
$3.00, $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain.

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton, III.

REIGHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. IV. Leghorns

Special prices on U. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels. In
lots of three or more, f l.,5U each, for thi.s month.
Satisfaction guaranteed. :: :: :: ;;

K. H. Reirhert - :- Vird«?n, IllinoiH

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T, D. Moore, Box 92, Hopkinsville. Ky.

Rose Comb Brown ^ ri^.^it^;.

I PHHriRN^ Hartford, Worcester and
ijL.UIlV.fI\ni3 Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

White Plume Farm Pi^u-'nlff'tf g;r,^

up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks. White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks.
White Embden Geese, Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. _C. BAKER. Prop.. Rt. 1 . Plainville, III.

lTSON

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. While Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M-

Silver Liace<l Wyandottes, White Crested
ISIaek Poligh an<l ISarred I'lymouth
Hocks. Direct descendants from .Madlsou t^quare
and Chicago winners. Won twenty elghc regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln. Iowa, Jan.
4-!). Ifl09. In strong competlon. Choice stock for
sale. Circular free. Cascade Poultry Yards,
Wm. Neiors. Prop.. L, IS. 45, Cascade, la.

RFPn*^ R.C liROWNLLCiHORNSand
IVLCU O K. C. RHODL ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago.Kewanee, Prince-
ton and Illinois State Shows. Get my de.scrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M. REED.

Wyanot. Til.

Light Brahmas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females .score from 92K to 95.
3d prize ck. score 92K ^^d ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Ed. Bartlett.169'4 Oak St New Cactlp Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and havv.
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs. Both for
sale now. Write us. D, A WEDGE,
21 5 Galena Street Aurora, III.

S. C. R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^Tp'°^i^i^l

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE. 20, IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH l^' '||„°;1,e?.

D/^/^I^C ter than ever this year
OSCAR E. WOOD

Prices

UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Single comba direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. MUea
first pen, superior color, fine eombs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRA]>II5LIT, AMES, IOWA.

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF

Winners a t
Lake Geneva,
Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
select matings that will produce winners
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons. Wis.

WYANDOTTES

Walker's White Rocks '^!r?'N"'w

Castle's big show they won all firsts, 3 sec-
ond, 2 thirds. 1 fourth and all specials. What
do vou want better than this? Eggs $3 and
$5 per 15.
BOB WALKER, Porter St.. New Castle. Pa.

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest CochluH and Hrabmas. First prlz'
andsllvercup wlnnersai^Wlnnepeg, Can., Sea'tle
A.Y.P.. Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, S.*?, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKS ^°„"^g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short lime.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind. btate Show my

Rarrpri P RnrLc ^°" ^""^ puUet, 3rd

UdllCU 1 . I\ULK5 hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield. O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
p:Kgs $3 00 for 1.^. H. W. BARNETT
24 Bushnell Bldgr.. - Sprinefield,

Columbian I'lymouth KockH (Sweet's
Strain.) Hlack-talled .Japanese and HufT Cochin
Hantams, Harred liucks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sale. Let me book your
order early for eggs from my choicest matings
at »;5.(Hi per 1.*), ».5.(>0 i»er .'50. Bantam eggs at »2.50
per 15, i4.(M)per:W. ,

K. R. KORKRTS C ANA*TOTA, N. Y. '

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Fine hre«'(lers <ir 8ln>w t>lr(ls from niy
Missouri and Kitnsa» State Sh«/w win-
ners. Sutlsfactlou guaranteid. :: ::

S. G. Whiprerlit, Hox H. S*Mialin, Mo.

INTENTIONAL 2ND EXPOSUR

Columbian Wyandottes

Heck's
Royal
Strain are prize winners. They win for me,
they win for my customers. They will win
for you. Old and young stock for sale, prices
reasonable, write your wants. Jacob H«ck,
Leeseville, Mich. Station 23. Detroit, Mich.

America's Foremost Strains ^ufuTy

r|» |. and lowest prices on S. C. Reds. S.
I/ircCt c. White L,eghorns, Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th, 5 eggs free.
Chas H. Ziegenfuss, Box Z. Bethlehem. Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorca* Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males scoring to 95K females to 9i].
Eggs balance of season $1.50 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

LIGHT BRAHM AS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders

JNCKF. WOODS, UTILITY FARM. R. 19.

Owensville, Ind.

"THE LITTLE RED HEN"

Rose Cunrtb Rhode Island Ked8. Origi-
nators of MaiiatMue Strain. If yoii aie

looklug for red birds without smut, write us.

John E. Davis & Bro., The Maples, Mason, N. H.

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Geese,
Indian Runner Ducks and Black Langshans.
Can please vou. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER. Box F. Lancaster. Mo.

P FILE'S CATALCKil K gives
prkeB of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
Btock for sale and eggs In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFILE
Freport, 111, Dei>t. A

Quality Strain RARRED ROCKS bave
been line bred for in years from foremost win-
ners In America. Winners at leading shows.
Cocks, hens, cockerels and pullets both matlngs
for sale, from these winners or bred lu line.

C. C. DRAKE & SON,
Lock l$ox 'Z'.i'4, i^a Karpe, III.

At INDIANAPOLIS February liXXI, my

Barr^rl RnrLc won Lst cockerel. 2d cock.
anea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908 1st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 1909. l.st and .3d cocks,
l.Ht pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too Stock with quality for
sale W. W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN. IND

WeHtfall is a AV inner. He makes no such
claim but his Colninhian AVyandottea were
winners at KImIra Poultry Show. .Ian. r.H(», first.
third and fourth cockerels, first anrl third pullets
una first hen In a class of 34 good ones. I have
Bhaj)e, color and size. Kggs i2.(Hi and IS.iHt per
setting (KeatlngH Challenge Strain.)
LouiK WeHtfall, R. 3. Waverly. N. Y.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders booked now from my 20()-egg
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know just what I am
doing. BlrdB scoring yi to U5 with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT.— F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-
shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. I). 7. Box 15, Winchester, Ky.

Single Comb White

Greatest utiin
strain known.
I arvlinfnc Noted for .size {i% to 7 lb. hens)
LiegnornS color, typical shape, deep bay
eyes, great vigor and i^reatest possible ejfg
producers. Eggs $1.50 per 15; Jti.OO per 100.
Honesty suaranteei"
MOSELEY.

LAKE SHORK POULTRY FARM

ISreederH of

Hiffh Clans Silver Laced Wyandottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BERGNER. Pres. HENRY MAU, Mgr.
South Chicago. Ills. K.F.I). No 34. Kenosha. Wis.

••Faultless" Hotxdans, 287
^^f^ StraiVA* Hive carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider. Box 105. Kansas, Ills.

Oshkosh.
Cockereh

RaKv riiirlfc Eggs for hatching White
DaDjr \^niCK5 Orpington, Barred Rock,
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with safetv an v where. Book vour
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton, Va.

S. C. BlacK and 'WHite Minor*

caa bred for size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH CSX* Son

l?<>x 4.~>4 North Italt iinore, (>.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Light Brahma Bantams TlTi

ers a t
son

Scjuare N. Y., Baltimort'. Hagerstown, Md.,
Philadelphia, Nazareth, Allentown and Read-
ing, Pa Stock and eggs Hillside Poultry
Yards, J.S.Fry, Prop.. Dept. F., Nazareth, Pa.

COLl MiilAN ROCKS, COLL.nUIAN
WYANliOTTKS, bred from New York.
Buffalo and Rochester winners, 5 lirsts 2 seconds
on 7 entries at Rochester show. Dec. lWi9. Cock-
erels 18 to tld. pullets »2 to ««>. Trios «T to ilf).
Kggs «1.7"> per 1". »3 per 30. Free setting from
best pen with each #10 order. Stock guaranteed
F. A. rAMPBKf.L. HONKOYK. N. Y.

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show

S. C. BLACK

ORPINrTON^ 1909 al.so several at Ocon-
"Ivr inVJl v/iiiJ omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 J5 per 1.5: pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River, Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

n J Prize Winners. Kggs from 1st pen,
I\eaS setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen, setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland. ill.

S. I.. ANO AV. WVANI>OTTKS, K. C.
RHODK ISLANIi REI>8 Winners at the
big CentervUle, Iowa, and St. Louis shows. Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matlngs a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KK.4KSK, R. 1, CoatHville. Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

Cockerels and
pullets for
sale. Birds score from 94K to 9<!
and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER * REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS fo[VSf..t

bator eggs $4 per 100. M. B. Turkey eggs $5

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R 5. Box 0022. Ruahville. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

sired by my great prize
winner and d i p I o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. AlsoS.L,.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN.

TURKEYS

with score caiilh for saif. iii«luiiiii(j .--t l...uis win-
inTs. Huff A: Part. \Vyaii(h)ttc8, Ulack :.aiig«haiis.
V(tuiig stock: Huff, W. A: Part. Wyandottes, lilk.
Langshans, ,S. V. W.. Hr. and Huff Leghorns that
will win. Huff Wyandottes hretl exclusively,
other varieties hred by .John Allen.
Allen A: Sohln<ll»'r Terrvvilie, Mo.

I iriHT EXCLUSIVELY 12 yeai
*-'*^^** * T. My stock is excell

BRAHMAS

irs a breed-
llent, higli
scoring, great layers,
will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to .select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single settings or inctibator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN.

Buff Wyandottes] H^^f^v,'^'?^

i F •/ > C silver and White. \\ nneis

K.veluslvely— All blue ribbon birds for sale. Prices
upon request. Winners at Huflalo, etc. Also some
•"and young stock at right i>rlces.

) \ Glenn H. Bur^ott : Eden Center, New York

S. C. and R. C. White Leghorns

Won first at the Great Milwaukee ."^how. 191(». A
(• w yiar-old hens ff)r sale. (iet [(rices now.

Disf. Atty. Philip Leiiner, Princeton, Wis.

silver and White. Winners
Voting 8t>'Ck (omlng on tine and

TTESj

wherever shown. /
iinl will t)e heard

EGGS'^^'^^^%';:^,JMouTH EGGS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giving witining, mating and prices free.

Cha«. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynolds. 111.

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PETERSON'S HOUDANS ""• "i^i^T^^-"- BUFF ROCKS

Send for Sapage booiL ou The Houdau. 30 full paged plates of prize winners Houdan Standard
2?*'^?,^ for Exhibition. Management and many other important chapters. Postage sS cents '

Rev. C. E. Peters en. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton Maine

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

A giaml lloi-k ot .\uiu,Kster8 growing, (iet prices on birds for early shows.

A. M. Bender 1231 Walton Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana

I have over 50|
strong hardy
youngsters on free
IV priz
winter. I line breed for quality not nuantity. Kggs
and stock for sale. AS Matthew*. Wayne. Mich.

range, bred from my prize winners last fall and

EERLESS" WHITE ROCKS

W Innereof Blue Ribbons, silver challenge cups, gold specials atid majiy oHmt c.vct.M
I^V,^''^^" "'•'^''<^wn>om a^rainsr wiuiifTs atJaiiesville Heh.ir-. Madison and IMatic
ville. Orand cocker«^lH {iiui i>ullets f(jr tlie winter shows at ra-onalde pricrs.

Alflen Tucker, iVIineral Point, Wisconsin

Hacketf s Columbian Wyan-
dottes and R. C. Reds

Special prices on extra fine stock if taken
before Dec. 1st.

CEO. W. HACKETT

Box 1 1 1 North Freedom, WFs,

EDELWEIS S. C. W. froTr.J"

eggs balance of season.
Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

LEGHORNS

1 1/lllf iJv^«lll»rt«ir! ^^""S and old, bred from the winners of 2
JLlUlll |ji Ollilloa strong shows (Decatur and Springfit^ld. III.)
,Vj . ^^ *^^^*^ youngsters that look like thev

could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS we have some
extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at 111. State Fair, 19. 0.

BR01>5'F TiS^kEV^* ff ^^^***,! '"^""w ^ ^'■''"?'^ l''^^^ Cockerels at reasonable prices. Also

BKUN/:e turkeys that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalog.

L. H. JOSTES f> SON. MACON. ILL.. R. R. No. 2.

AT THE IJUO
Minnesota State Fair

We won on Columbian Wyandottes: 1. 2 ,3 Cock-

1. 2, :i Pullet; 1, 2, 3. Hen; 1 Pen.

On Light Brahmas: 1 Cock; 1.2. 3 Hen; 1.2.3
Cockerel; 1. 2. 3 Pullet; 1, 2. Pen.
GEO. A. KtRSTFN
119 West 52 Street MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.

BA

ROCKS

S. C. & R. C. R. I. REDS

B

URKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK
Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

RPINGTONS

trt L ERSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have you gotten your 8how winners ready lor the earlv fall shows" The state f-ilrs ifa riirht ».«r^ ..f i...„ i »

First on Cock, First on Men, First on Cocl^crel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

Kellersfrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING

v/v/XuLw OX

And Easy Lessons in Judging — By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac-
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION — BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

ffow to straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and

Wattles.
How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear

Lobes.
How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the

Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.
How to Clean the Plumage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Errring.
How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.
How to Add Lustre to Plumaqe of Dark Colored Fowls.
How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.
Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.
How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.
How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.
How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock

Pli.mage.
Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.
How Foreign Color is Removed from thg

Feathers.
How Dark Streaks are Removed from the

Feathers.
How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Bten

vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.
Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing

Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.
Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.
Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

Edges of Large
Quill of White
Known to Pre-
or

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Le-'s.
How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A good Stimulant and Preventive of Colds In Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers In Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.
What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.
Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb, Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.
Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemically

Bleaching White Birds.
How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

Have you ever bought a poultry book on general topics or disclosing some system or so-called secrets,
and upon receipt of it had your expectations drop with a dull thud of disappointment? Well! this isn't that
kind of a book.

THE PRICE OF THE BOOK IS $2 AND IT IS WORTH THE PRICE.

E kCH PURCHASER AGREES TO NOT DIVULGE THE SECRETS OF THE BOOK EXCEPT TO MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.

DONT PUT OFF SENDING YOUR ORDER. YOU NEED THE BOOK NOW. ADDRESS

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SUCCESSFUL POULTRY JOURflAL f^R^'^Jfxoy^cK 355 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, 1

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PETERSON'S HOUDANS

The Undefeated Champion
Strain of America.

Standard,

BUFF ROCKS

I have over 50(

strong hardy

youngsters on free

range, bred from mv prize winners last fall and

winter. I linebreed for (juality not (niantity. Kggs

and stock for sale.

(juamy noi (ji
AS Matthews, Wayne, Mich.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

Agrandtlock of youngsters growing. Get prices on birds for early- shows.

A, M, Bender 123! Walton Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana

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PEERLESS" WHITE ROCKS

Winners of Blue Ribbons, silver challenge cups, gold specials and many other coveted
prizes in tliesliow room a^'ainsr winners at Janesville lie.li.lp. .Madison and I'latte-
ville. Grant! <H>ckerelH tind ]>ulletK for tlie winter sliows at r-asonalile prices,

Allen Tucker, Mineral Point, Wisconsin

Hackett's Columbian Wyan-
doltes and R. C. Reds

Special prices on extra fine stock if taken
before Dec. 1st.

CEO. W. HACKETT

Box 111 North Freedom, W?s

EDELWEis s. c. w. rrrn;"

eggs balance of season.
Send card for circular.
Whitaker & McCune, Ashtabula, Ohio

LEGHORNS

I 1#wh# Dv^nhvn An ^^""S ^"^ old. bred from the winners of 2
LilUlll ul alllllaS strong shows (Decatur and Springfield, 111 )
U ** *^* *««»«»»wi^ ^^ ^^^^ youngsters that look (ike thev
could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS we have some
extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at 111. State Fair, 19 . 0.

RBftiw^'t'^'JS^^'Evc*.?®^'^*,! '"^'^."^^ ^'■^"^ "'^^* Cockerels at reasonable prices.' Also
BKONZL TURKEYS that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalojr.

L. H. JOSTES l^ SON. MACON. ILL.. R, R. No. 2.

AT THE 1910

Minnesota State Fair

We won on Columbian Wyandottes: 1, 2 ,3 Cock-

1.1', .H. Pullet; 1, 2, 3. Hen; 1 Pen.

On Light Brahmas: 1 Cock; 1. 2, 3 Hen; 1, 2. 3
Cockerel; 1. 2. 3 Pullet; 1. 2. Pen.
GEO. A. KERSTEN
1 19 West 52 Street MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.

S.C.&R.C.R.I.REDS
BUFF TURKEYS

BARRED ROCKS ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^"^ *^^ ^^ ^*^^^' ^^^^^ ^^^ females to offer

I\\/Vi\iJ ^yj. customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.

Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

«-..^======= ^^^^ FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

ORPINGTONS

KELLERSTRASS* STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have jou gotten your show »intiiTs ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are rleht here at hand Are ton ■rnt„» t„ .i.«»

First on Cock, Plrst on Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

mM?5 '*! '^'r;'," '''^''*'i^' '"'"*? 131 birds In tlu' class, from AnuTica. Eni,'l..n.l an.l all parts of tlu> worhl We have cockerels ind nnl
lets huK^hed the eail.v part of January, that now tip the scales at (iVa and 7 itonnds Thev ure the 'kiridth'.twniKlhoo^^^^^
dnrint; the coming show season, and If you are In need of any winners write m and tenslnst wh-U im, w- nt • n..^th T*^*^ ^^"^^^
willing to pay, and we are sure we am supply you with the HLrE RIBBON wVNNhR^ ^ ^ ''"^ '^""'^ ''^''^ ^'''" ''^^

Kellerstrass Farm 585 Wesfport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING—

Secrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessons in Judging— By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac-
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION — BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

How to straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.

How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and
Wattles.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear
Lobes.

How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the
Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.

How to Clean the Plumage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show
Without Washing.

Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds-
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple
Earring.

How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.

How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show
Coop.

How to Add Lustre to Plumage of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from thg Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing op
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Le-js.
How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A rjood Stimulant and Preventive of Colds In Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers in Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.

What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb, Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.

Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemically

Bleaching White Birds,
How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
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CHICAGO, ILL. OCTOBER. 1910

No. 10

Symmetry Should be R

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An Old Fancier Expresses His Views. Late Chicks
for Show Birds. Large Breeds in Small Runs

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

jO R. IIAIjC()CK'S article on symmetry
should he read and pondered hy every
jiuli^e and hreeder of fancy ]X)ultry in
the country.

1 cannot agree with Mr. Felch that
SNinnietry is a "rohher," and I should
not he in favor of eliminatino- it from the Standard.
J do not helieve that it makes a douhle cut for shai)e,
and 1 do not see any reason for throwing it out on
that g:round. As Mr. liahcock says, "a hird mioht
have a perfect head, comh, wattles and earlohes, neck,
hack, hreast, hody, Huff, wings, tail, legs and toes,
and yet he very unsymmetrical in its general carriage
and way of holding- itself. This general carriage or
make-up of the fowl is what should he considered in
judging symmetry, and 1 helieve can he he.st done the
first thing hefore the specimen is taken hold of at all
to jud^e the sections.

And this suggests another thing that 1 think judges
are mclined to do; and that is to let their judgnnent
of one section influence them too nnich in considering
another section. In a variety where symmetry has.
say. ten points. I should make the cut in that first
m its general ai)plicati()n, regardless of any other sec-
tion, e. g., the general shape or carriage of a ])er-
fect hird heing ten i)oints. and only ten, there would
he httlc or no reason to cut any specimen more than
two points on symmetry that is good encnigh to enter
the show room at all. That would giye a leevyay (^f
tvyo points; or say >_>, 1, 1 •_, or •> points on sym-
metry, which places .symmetry ahout on the same
level with other sections in regard to the numher of
points generally allowed to he cut. We all know that
a cut of three points on any one section that only con-
tains ten to eight points 'in the whole .section' is an
outrageously hig cut, enough almost to dis(|ualify a
fowl for defonnity in shane, or oflF-color.

The idea of cutting all the hirds in a show a half
IX)mt or one whole point is a farce sure enough, and
serves no purpose whatever except to prevent the
scores from "running- too high." If that is the way
It is going to be done, then 1 should sav throw sym-
metry to the winds.

The alternative to adopt comparison judging cer-
tamly will not do away yyith symmetrv, but will rather
at'centuate it, because 1 believe judges noyv, under
that method, put almost the entire burden of shape
on symmetry in their ovyn minds, whether they real-
ize it or not.

So, as Mr. Rabcock says, "in scoring a fowl sym-
metry should be cut first, irrespective of the cuts to
be made for shape.

Let us "consider the \yords of the preacher" I

mean lirother l^eterson. He gets off some ^i^ood stuff
this month (September) on late hatched chicks. I
know from personal ex])erience that late hatched
chicks will often make show birds. 1 have now a
White Cochin hen hatched the ir)th of last August
.'ind she is going to make at lea.st an eight-pound hen
rnd is one of the finest feathered Cochins 1 ever saw,
ccjual to any lUiff in leg and toe feathering. The
>ecret of it is, as Mr. Peterson says, in the fact that
she has been kept gn)wing for a scilid year and seems
to be growing yet. You know a Cochin will grow
until they are eighteen to twenty-four months old;
that is one rea.son 1 like them. They are nearly always
better shaped and better color the second y'ear than
the first.

Another good thing about a late hatched chick is
that it is ready for the show room early the second
fall, when your early birds are in the midst of the
nunilt and not fit to show. The hen I mentioned
above is now (September '^2(1) all moulted out and
nearly heavy enough for the show room, as pretty as
a picture; I wish 1 had 25 like her. T believe 'our
hatching sea.son should run from January to October
at least; then we could extend our show'season from
jnly to the following March, or even A[av, as thev
do in "Merrie England."

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can be raised on a small piece of ground. (Jn a lot
ninety feet square 1 raise every year about one bun-
dred cbicks. I always farm out a lot of eggs, but
I generally bave better success than the farmers with
their unlimited range we hear so much about. There
are a few varieties of fancy jioultry ( the pit games

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for example) t!:at will do wcil without any kind of
care on a big range, but most varieties will do better
on small range plus the care. All the large varieties
Hkc Cochins, Ih-ahmas, Langshans, Dcjrkings, etc., will
do better in sm:dl runs, if i)roperly cared for, than
if allowed to run at large without attention.

nous Cases of Packed-Crop

The Prevalence of Packed-Crop or Crop-Bound
This Season Has Prompted the Following Article
Upon the Subject

By H. S. BABCOCK

ACKED CROP," as every poultry-
man understands, means the condi-
tion arising from the food failing to
pass from the crop into the gizzard,
by reason of which the crop becomes
distended with a hard compact mass.
This sometimes arises from the fowls taking into
their crops stems of grass, feathers and other sub-
stances too large to enter the passage from the
crop to the gizzard and of a nature which the se-
cretions in the crop cannot sufficiently soften to
render such passage possible. But it' may arise
from some other cause or causes.

A chicken, which recently died with a packed
crop, disclosed the fact that the crop contained
only particles of food which were of sufficiently
small size to have readily passed into the gizzard.
The grain in the crop was partially softened, and
there was no apparent reason why' it should have
been retained in and distended the crop as it did.
In this case the packed crop seems to have been
the result of some other functional derangement, a
product of disease rather than itself a disease. It
may have been the result of some inflammatory
condition of the organs— though inflammation did
not seem to be present— of an attack of acute indi-
gestion, or of some other trouble.

The only absolutely effective remedy in such
cases seems to be the opening of the crop, the re-
moval of the contents, washing the crop out care-
fully, sewing up the cuts, and separating the patient
from the flock and feeding on some l)land food,
like bread and milk, until the cuts have healed. But
all this is too much trouble to take unless the bird
is a valuable one, and a simpler but efficacious rem-
edy is needed. It is probable that for the cases
where the crop becomes distended with large and
insoluble substances the surgical is the only rem-
edy possible, but for cases,' such as the one de-
scribed, there may be some other effective remedy.
This is written in the hope that some one may be
able to suggest such a remedy.

In order to the intelligent understanding of this
particular case it is necessary to state that the bird
affected was fed in the same way as manv others
which suffered no ill effects. The morning feed
was prepared in the following manner: Whole
oats were soaked in a tub of water for tw^entv-four
hours: to them was added bv measure an ecpial
(piantity of each of the following ingredients:
>round beef scraps, cornmeal and wheat bran, the

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whole thoroughly mixed together. Cracked corn
formed the midday and evening meals, (jrit was
furnished at all times and als(^ ground or cracked
oyster shells. And water for drink was kept con-
stantl}' before the chickens. Several others were
affected in a similar manner, but the crop of onh-
one was opened. There was no undue looseness
of the bowels. Wdiite clover, cut short, was uiven
as green food. The chicken referred to was about
two and one-half months <»M at the time of its
death.

A similar case in the \ ards (^f another breeder
has been reported to me. This occurred in an
adult cock — a line show bird — and the crop was
opened by a veterinary surgeon, the contents re-
moved, and the cock recovered. In this case, also,
there was nothing in the crop of a nature which
ought to have produced a packed crop. The food
was all flne enough to ha\e readily passed into the
gizzard.

The symptoms of the aflected ])irds were a draw-
ing down of the neck, a humping of the back, a
roughing uj) of the feathers, a general appearance
of dullness, a standing around in a listless attitude,
toilowed by an apparent sleepiness, increasing
weakness, and at last by death. The packed crop
was present in all cases. Some of these symptoms
suggest while diarrhoea, but are probably present
in many diseases, and as there was no diarrhoea
apparent, it seems reasonably safe to reject that as
the cause of the sickness.

Upon these matters being brought to my atten-
tion I was compelled to confess that my experience
suggested no sufficient cause for the 'trouble and
no efficient remedy except the resort to surgerv.
if other chickens, similarly kept and fed, had not
been doing well, I would "have suspected that the
feeding was at fault, and perhaps that mav have
been the cause. It is possible that the har'dier ..f
the chickens throve on a diet which was not suited
for those whose digestive powers were weaker. Il
is possible, though T have i)ersonallv \v(\ soaked
oats to my own chickens and fowls f(ir vears with-
out encountering such a difficulty, that" the cover-
mg of the oats may have irritated the crop's linin-
and caused enough inflammation lo close, parliall\\
the i)assage from the cro]) to the gizzard. At any
rate the fads are as presented, and they oft"er a
nice problem for solution.

Suggestions as to cause are the most important.
'T-^revention is better than cure," even though the
cure be simple. If one knows the cause, ire will
know vvhat to avoid. lUit suggestions of a simple,
effective and easily administered remedy, as of
something which may be given in the food or drink,
wdl be of value to those who may have the mis-
lortune to have a flock similarlv affected.

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Some People AreToo Cheap to Succeed

A Straight Talk That Hits a Big Lot of Fanciers
Just the Same as Though it Was Made Especially
for Them

By JOHN L. WOODBURY

E know of few more troublesome reefs
infesting the waters of poultrydom, for
a lar^e class of would-be voyagers,
than those lurking about the rock of
parsimony. The more liberal-minded
and far-seeing navigator avoids their
dangers by steering boldlv out into the open sea, but
the avaricious or timid soul, fearfully hugging the
shore, is forever striking upon them.

The parsimonious man — and somehow nine out of
every ten men get ])arsimonious when it comes to mat-
ters of hens, if they never do respecting anvthing else
—makes a mistake at the outset by buying too cheaply.
He either buys stock or eggs of a neighbor who has a
heterogeneous lot of fowls'and will sell them at about
the regular market rate, or grudgingly sends an order
lo the breeder whom he has found by an extended
examination of advtn'tising columns to offer his w^ares
at the very lowest figure. Tn this way he thinks he is
.sha])ing a safe course, whereas he is really bound to
strike a rock before even getting out of the harbor.

The fact is, one rarely gets more than he i)ays for
in any investment. The commercial man does not
expect to get flour of a six dollar grade for four dol-
lars per barrel, nor nnislin or silk for the price of
calico ; nor would a man starting out to breed high-
class horses, sheep or cattle be satisfied to select his
foundation stock from ordinary, ill-favored and
poorly-bred subjects, no matter at how low a figure
they could be obtained. And the same rule holds good
in the jioidtry business. If a man buys cheaply, he
gets cheaj) fowls, and when he disposes of surplus
stock or eggs for hatching he must sell accordingly.

The advertiser who offers .stock or eggs at a verv
low i)rice may be honest in his intentions, but as a rule
he is merely a beginner and knows comparativelv lit-
tle pertaining to the proper rearing, mating and gen-
eral care of fowls. He probably bought cheaply, too,
at the beginning, l^rst-class fowls cannot possibly be
p,rocured at small cost. They are something that can-
not be produced in unlimited quantities. Stock indi-
vidually and ancestrally good as a foundation and
knowledge in the breeder l)orn of years of study and
practical experience, are the only factors by which
high-class fowls can be continuously i)roduced. The
breeders who have accjuired the art are relatively few.
They know the worth of their birds, and as the de-
mruid for such is always in excess of the supi)ly. are
not going to dispose of them at less than their true
value. No one should any more think of getting $5.00
stock or eggs for $2.50 than he would a $500 horse or
l)iano for half that money.

H the parsimonious man by any means manages to
get some good stock, his close-fistedness prevents him
from making it yield him the proper revenue. He
does not give it sufficient room perhaps, because he is
anxious to keep every bird possible in a given space.
He does not give it proper food, for he thinks good

corn and shorts are good enough for hens. W'heit,
oats and barley are, in his mind, simply expensive
luxuries ; and as for shells, grit, charcoal, grotmd bone,
beef scraps, clover, green stuff and the like— he looks
ui)on them as gotten up to make money, nothing more
nor less. Consequently his fowls are always in poor
condition, never doing or looking their best. They
lay only when eggs are cheap, and in the breeding
season produce infertile eggs. They pick feathers,
eat eggs, get lousy and fat and generally unprofit-
al)le and bad looking, when with the proper diet,
care and quarters they would be a handsome and
remunerative flock.

Such a man cannot sell his surplus stock or breeding
eggs to advantage, for he will not pav out the money
necessary to advertise the same. Advertising, it seems
to him, is just so much money thrown awav. ' He does
not stop to think that from being known to' only a few
breeders within a short distance of his home, the ex-
penditure of a few dollars would |)ut his name and
stock before thousands of people in every part of the
land, many of whom are doubtless interested in the
very class of stock he keeps. So he thrusts the in-
significant sum (leei)er down into his pocket, and sells
iiis fine eggs at a few cents per dozen, and chops off
the head of many a s])lendid cockerel to sell it merely
for its market value, and growls and grumbles when
he reads in the poultry journals that "there is always
a demand for good stock.'' Perhaps he does relax his
purse strings so far as to insert a few of the briefest
l)ossible notices in the jjaper quoting the very lowest
price, and possibly has a little stationery and a few
cards printed of the poorest quality and most abbre-
viated size. Then if he gets an order— and he will be
indeed lucky if he gets even one — in his niggardliness
of spirit he picks out some inferior bird from his flock
—-one that he knows he himself would not be satisfied
with at the price — or eggs that he has kept so long
that he would not like to set them himself, and there-
by makes a disappointed customer, which invariably
means loss in the end. He would like some early chicks
to take to the shows, or to be laying in the fall when
eggs are high, but he cannot get them in any consider-
able number without an incubator, and — well these
cost money, so he continues to dwaddle along in the
old-fashioned, slow-going way with hens. If he does
buy a machine, after a long struggle with himself, vou
may believe il will be one of the cheapest varietv, and
with such his experience can have but one end. Then
when he gets an aggravatingly small hatch, or per-
haps no chicks at all, after three weeks of trouble, he
is firmly convinced that all the much-heralded innova-
tions and improvements are shams, that the publishers
of the poultry journals and the advertisers are dishon-
estly leagued together, and he clings to his m(^ney
even closer than before.

And so it is through the whole catalogue of methods
and transactions with the parsimonious man. For the
sake of saving one dollar at the present, he is losing
the chance, the certainty we may almost say, of get-
ling ten dollars later on. No wonder he soon gets
discouraged in the business, gives it up, and will tell
you he ''knows by experience there is no monev in

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The plain fact is, the poultry business is analogous
to every other k\i;itiniate business ; money must be in-
vested before one can hope for money to come in,
and the character of the investment has much to do
with the ratio of return, as the (juality of seed the
farmer puts in the ground is an important factor in
determininj; the worth of his crop. Then per-
sistency, industry, o()od judgment and scpiare deal-
ing- are bound to win in the end.

But, Brother Fancier to be, don't expect profits to
come in too quickly. Pa}- for good stock at the outset
anyway; you will never get it unless you do. You
may not even then, for there are some scamps in the
business, but try again. The dishonest breeders are
comparatively few, and you will soon come to recog-
nize them instinctively. Feed and house }our birds
well, and don't sell an extra good specimen as soon as
you get it. Wait a while till you have all you need
yourself. \\'hen sure you have an excess of good
stock, advertise and as liberally as the size of your
flock will warrant you to do. Don't be surprised if
you make no sales the first few weeks, or even for

the entire season. The money is by no means wasted,
if you have selected a good medium. Hundreds have
noted vour name and will recall it when they see it
another year — for you uuist have it right there an-
other vear. A breeder will never draw much business
until he has shown that he is not one of the mush-
room kind, destined for only a short-lived existence.
When customers begin to come in, as they are bound
to do if you persist, use every man S(|uarel\ . Send
birds exactly as you represent, and sell no poor stuff
at an\- price. When you l)u\ , whether it be stock, feed
or any kind of fixings, pay a good fair ])rice, and see
that you get the worth of your moue\-. Take one or
more good poultry journals. Much that is published
is something of a rehash it is true, but there will be
hardly a co])y in which you will not find something
worth many times a year's subscription. In a word,
do as you see successful men in other kinds of busi-
ness are doing. And al)ove all, while not allowing
yourself to be lured out of the true course by the false
lights of Fxtravagance. steer wide of the rocks of
Parsimonv.

hite Laced Red Cornish

Something About This New Breed Just Admitted to
the Standard. Some Cornish History and Other
Comment

By H. S. BABCOCK

AM interested in the admission of the
White Laced Cornish fowl to the
Standard of Perfection. As the read-
ers of this journal doubtless know,
J)r. II. P. Clarke, of "Thoroughbred
(iame" fame, and myself have been
friendly contestants for the honor of the earliest
introduction of the original variety of the Indian
Game into this country. It is, perha])s, also known
that ( ). K. Shar])e and myself years ago originated
independent strains of the \\ hite Indian (iame, by
using the colored variety upon white fowls. In the
case of Mr. Shar])e, he used, I think. White Aseels
and White ]\lalays. I know, for a fact, that at a
poultry show held in Philadelphia he i)urchased
(|uite a stock of these birds. 1 used tlie White
l-lymouth Rock. I think Mr. Sharpe's selection of
materials was wiser than mine, for he had fewer
difficulties to overcome in shape, closeness of feath-
ering and character of comb, but in the end we
both succeeded. After a time ] sold out my strain
of White Indian (iames, and they probablv were
mingled with the stock originated by Mr. Shar])e
and disappeared wholly as a strain. I i)resume,
therefore, that the White Indians of todav, now
called White C(^rnish, are ])roperly considered as
liaving originated with Mr. Shar])e.

In the course of crossings, made to i)roduce the
White Indian (lame, I bred cpiite a number of
chickens marked like the White Laced Red Cor-
nish. They were striking fowls in api^earance, the
lacings and the body coloring affording a bold con-
trast. I had a passing thought of perpetuating the
variety, but, as I was restricted for room, and as

my main object was to produce a white fowl with
the Indian (iame characteristics, the thought was
abandoned. ]>ut this experience has suggested to
me the method in wdiich this new variet}' mav have
originated. It seems to me that its originator prob-
ably resorted to the crossing of the colored and
white varieties of the Indian (lame, and by careful
selection of the best marked birds produced the
new Standard fowl.

However it was produced, we now have it, and
as it is a handsome fowl, and must possess admir-
able table properties, it deserves a hearty welcome
to the ranks of standard-bred ])(.ultr\. \\'hile it is
possible to reproduce it by making the necessary
crosses and using careful selection, it will be vastly
chea])er, in both time and money, for those, who
desire to possess the variety, to buy it rather than
attemi)t to make it. And in sa\ing this I am speak-
ing from a somewhat extended experience in the
production of new varieties. 1 think I can sav.
without being charged with egotism, tliat I know
something about this subject.

What its future will be no one can safelv predict.
Predictions upon the i)opularity of a variety have
an unpleasant way of proving false. 1m )r example,
when the Columbian Wyandotte first ai)])eared, as the
Prah-Wyandotte, I did not hesitate to predict that,
as the AX'hite Wyandotte was very i)()i)ular, and as
ihe new variety was white in bo'dv coloring with
Idack markings, and therefore so closely resend)le(l
the white variety, the American ])ul)lic would not
generally accept the new variety, and that it prob-
ably would never be verv p()|)ular. Im.t (|uite a
nund)er of years this prediction seemed to be veri-
fied by the facts. The Columbian Wvandotte sank
mto a deeper and deeper (»l)scuritv, until it seemed
practically to be forgotten. Ihit ''never" is a long
word. The variety was not dead. Here and there
were breeders who were keeping il alive and grad-
ually i)erfecting its characteristics. And then, after
its years of obscurity, it again emerged from the

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darkness of seeming neglect, grew rapidlv in favor,
achieved a great popularity, great enough to carry
a related variety with similar markings into the
Standard, and is today to be reckoned with when
popular varieties are to be considered. After this
experience, as "a burnt child dreads the fire," J
have become chary about predicting what the' ca-

reer of a variety may be. If I have an opinion, I
keep it to myself, and then, for my i)ersonal satis-
faction only, watch to see the variety confirm or
disappoint the preconceived opinion. But this can
be safely said, in the White Laced Cornish w^e have
a striking fowl that will deserve all the success
which it may win.

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By B. H. SEELY

HAT the climate has a modifying influ-
ence upon the size and conformation
of the domestic fowl is evident from a
study of the fowls belonging to the
Mediterranean class. This general
Leghorn tyjie, coupled with rather
small size, will be found to prevail to a greater or less
extent in countries whose climate corresponds to that
of the original home of the Leghorn, except in the
instances where the breeder has by selection inter-
fered with the work of Dame Xature. There will al-
ways be a tendency to yield to the modifying influence
of climate, and it is the breeder's work'to control or
overcome this tendency: he must pit his intelHgence
against the blind forces of nature and make good the
boast that "knowledge is power."

There cannot be too many good birds shown bv
any exhibitor ; of poor ones, there cannot be too few.
The expert judge is rapidly weeding out the poor
specimens from the exhibition hall. ' The huckster,
the man who shows quantity but not qualitv, is
doomed, but the large exhibitor, the man of quantity
and quality, will always be needed.

One of the things an exhibitor cannot do without
is the Standard. Xo matter what his experience mav
have been, he must know what is required in a prize
fowl or get left.

The chief btisiness of a poultry organization, like
that of a railroad train, is to get somewhere. And
while a brakeman may be a necessary part of the
train's crew, his duties are less conspicuously needful
than those of the fireman and the engineer. The
trouble with some ])oultry associations is that there
are too many brakemen and too few firemen and en-
gineers, with the result that the as.^ociation gets no-
where, but remains at a stand-still on some siding.
Don't seek the position of brakeman. There is alto-
gether too much competition for the place. A good
brother in a ])rayer meeting said, "1 shall be content
with the lowest place in I leaven." Another brother
replied, '*.\o use, brother. 11iat place has long been
sj^oken for." The ])lace of brakeman in a poultry
association has already been spoken for. Try for some
other position.

He must have been a very patriotic man who
wished to make the Rhode Island I'lues. We have
already the Rhode Island Reds and the Rhode Island
\\ bites, and with this proposed variety made, the
smallest State in the Union would have the red,
white and blue breeds bearing its name. Three
cheers for the red, white and blue, would mean
three cheers for "Little Rhody."

To moult or not to moidt, that is the (piestion.
Whether 'tis better to allow natiu'e to take her course

and shed the feathers as they ripen, or to force the
moult by reducing the food and partially starving the
body, and then, later, to increase the food, and add
linseed meal and beef scraps to the ration, with sun-
flower seeds perhaps, may give some pause. But if
there is no unreasonable delay in shedding the ma-
tured feathers, and the fowls are intended for future
breeding operations, it may be on the whole that the
way which is easiest is best, and let nature have her
will and way.

How much profit did you make on your fowls last
year? Don't know? Better open an account with
them this year and see how they pan out.

To make a small profit, when a larger one is possi-
ble, is not success but failure.

Cse the head as well as the hands in the poultry
business. Brain rules brawn, thought governs action,
and there is room for both in the poultry business.

"Know thyself," said the ancient (jreek. "Know
where you stand," commands business ability.

Knowledge of present business methods is indis-
pensable to improvement of such methods in the
near future.

To plan well is admirable ; to execute well is praise-
worth v ; but to do both is nece<sarv for the attainment
of success.

A man who doesn't think is like a ship without a
rudder — he can only drift.

If you would take anything out of the ])oultry busi-
ness you must put something into it. llie man who
is putting the best there is in him into the business —
brains, labor, care, good hard-headed common sense —
is sure, by and by, to take out something worth the
while.

In the poultry game there are no blanks to be
drawn by the thinker and worker; all of them have
been spoken f(M- by the lazy and shiftless.

When will the fancy poultry business end? When
the last song has been sung, the last work done, the
last thought expressed, and the last man has disap-
peared from the face of the earth.

If fowls pay others and don't ])ay you, don't blame
the fowls. Henry Ward lieecher, the great Brooklyn
pulpit orator, is reported to have once said, 'AVhen
the people get sleepy in my church they usually wake
up the preacher." This mutatis luutaiiilis ap|)lies to
the paying (pialities of fowls in the hands of others
and of yourself.

Polish and llamburgs, withal excellent lavers,
are reckoned nowadays among the rarer breeds,
but what an added interest they give to an exhibi-
tion. Would that more were sIkhvu, and that no
exhibition lacked a good exhibit of these highly
ornamental fowls!

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"Blood will tell," but that doesn't absolve the
breeder from the necessity of takinj^ o;ood care of the
chickens. I Hood and care will tell more and more
satisfactorily.

The chief pursuit of life is happiness. One seeks
his happiness in the accumulation of wealth, and
for that he toils and moils, ])inches and starves, but
if his "pile" increase he is not missing- his aim.
Another seeks his happiness in fame, and for the
securing of that he "burns the midnight oil," and
robs his cheeks of the roses of health. And still
another seeks his happiness in the care of his fowls.
The necessarv work, which mi^ht be disagreeable
labor to another, to him is pure delight, for he looks
not at it but at the inevitable results, lie sees his
chickens developing new beauties each da}' and his

heart is full of jo}-. Each man will succeed in the
proportion that he is able to turn labor into pleas-
ure, for it is after all the pursuit which makes hap-
piness.

It is recorded of an eminent teacher that he never
entered his class-room and stood before his pupils
without reverently baring his head, because he
knew not in the presence of what great genius he
might be standing. \\'e like the spirit of this
teacher. It is far better than the si)irit which
tempts one to laugh at the crude exhibit of a be-
o-inner. If he has it in him, it is possible that in
a few years the veteran may see snatched from his
eager grasp the coveted ribbons by the 1)eginner
whose first attem|)t at exhibiting only excited his
risibilities.

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Ideals Are Unobtainable

An Explanation of the Principles Which Make a
Standard of Perfection Necessary and Why the
Ideals Should Be Continually Changed

By A FANCIER

HAT'S the use in describing a bird
which no one can breed!" How often
this exclamation is uttered, especially
b\- l)eginners, when thev are studvini*-
the Standard I That it is frequently
uttered |)roves that e\ery one does
not yet understand the nature and use of ideals.

An ideal would not be an ideal if it could be
realized. It must always be somewhat in advance
of possible attainment. It should represent perfec-
tion, and j)erfection can never be achieved in this
world. The mark of im])erfection is upon everv-
thing here, from the noblest attributes of human
nature to the most worthless pebble on the shore.
A ])ractical ideal should be one whose perfectness
is not so far in advance of possibility as to dis-
courage the breeder, nor yet so near as to make
its realization occasionally possible. Such an ideal
could be made by selecting the most i)erfect head
and its adjuncts from one fowl, the most jXM-fect
neck from another, back from still another, and so
through all the sections. The i)erfecti()n of the
ideal thus might be realized in one or more sections,
and still remain impossible of realization as a
whole. And such ideals the Standard must set
forth, if the scores of !)."), DO and !)T points, some-
times reached, mean anything; for while, theoretical-
ly even 97 points might be reached with a trilling cut
in every section, i)ractically it would be impos-
sible to secure such a score unless some sections
were regarded as perfect.

But when the judge in scoring iinds a fowl per-
fect in one or two or three sections, the ideal, as
to those sections, has vanished, has completely
ceased to be, for its definition demands that it be
unattainable. The ideal of the complete fowl may
yet remain, for some sections are still imperfect,
but the ideal of the perfect sections has become a
reality. When such a case is found there arises
the question whether the standard re(|uirements for

those sections ought not to be advanced, and the
ideal raised somewhat higher. If many of the sec-
tions were found perfect there would and could be
no (juestion but that this ought to be done. Fancy
and fancy breeding rests upon an unattainable
ideal.

An ideal is necessary for an insi)iration to the
breeder. Unless tliis is fixed in his mind there will
be little inducement to try for any improvement.
If he realizes that there is something better to be
obtained he is spurred on to renewed effort.

An ideal, also, serves as a guide to his efforts.
It shows him wdiat direction they should take.
Without it. he would be like a mariner sailing the
sea with no home port to be reached, lie might
enjoy the sailing but he would get nowhere. With
it he knows where he wishes to go. and trims his
sails accordingly.

But not only an ideal 1)nt a common ideal is
needed for the improvement of any particular breed.
If every man erected his own ideal, there would be
as many ideals as there were men. There might
be some common features, but there would be cer-
tain to be nuuiy divergencies. There would be lack-
ing a force to unify these individual efforts. The
Standard furnishes such a unifying force. It sets
up a common ideal for all breeders of the i)articular
variety. Hiey all strive to attain the same results.
1 hey are all sailing for a connnon port. Some ma\
arrive at the port — or near it — earlier than others,
but all will be going in the same direction with the
same haven in view. With such united efforts the
\ariety will improve, and improve in definite i)ar-
ticulars. This is the great work of the Standard,
a work which it has creditably done as a whole
in the past, is now doing and will c(^ntinue to do.
B>ecause of this work every breeder needs a Stand-
ard. It is in(lisi)ensable. And he needs the latest
edition of the Standard, because ideals necessarilx
change. If he follows an outgrown ideal, no mat-
ter how valuable it was in its day, he is liable t<- 1)e
shipwrecked upon some new rock or reef — perhaps
of volcanic origin — which has come into existence
since his last chart was made. Tie can not afford
to do that. The Standard he must have; the latest
edition of the Standard must be his. Many thing.s
are luxuries but this is a necessitv.

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Hitch Your Wagon to

A Little Poultry Sermon Which Ought to Be Read
by Ev-ry Fancier Who Earnestly Desires the
Greatest Success

By B. S. HARMON

Mb:RlC.\X STAR was, lono before
the Ci\il W'ar, a famous stallion be-
lon^ini; to a man by the name of
Seeley. His j^et became noted as
roadsters and some of his descend-
ants have found their way into the
annals of the trotting- turf. American Star mares
became distributed throughout New Enc^land and
New York and were popular with the farming- com-
munity. Tf one w^ould not sink in the social scale
he must ])()ssess and drive one of these famous
steeds. And it came to pass that, if one farmer
passed anotiier on the road, he would look back
and banteringly call out, "Why don't you hitch
your wagon to a Star?"

Ralph Waldo l^merson, it is said, had often heard
th's remark, and in 1S(;-^, when lecturing on "Amer-
ican ("ivilizatiou" at the Smithsonian Institute, he
made itse of it for the first time, advising mankind
in general to "Mitch your wagon to a Star." lifting
the bantering remark from the plane of the material
to the realm of the immaterial, making the fact be-
come a figure. And this advice of luiierson has
long been (luoted to induce men t(^ have hiuh aims
and to aspire to better things. It is advice that
the jxjultry breeder will do well to heed.

We do and we do not believe in discontent and
discontented men. There is a noble as well as an
ignol)le discontent. The ])oultryman whose discon-
tent arises from en\y, who makes himself miserable
because some one else seems to be more fortunate
and more successful than he. deserves onlv con-
tempt and condemnation, liut the ])()ultryman who
has a noble discontent, who is dissatisfied with his
efforts because he sees that they have been misdi-
rected or not well directed, who is unwilling to rest
easy with the results he has attained because he
believes better results are possible, who counts a
partial success as a failin-e, because a fuller success
may be secured, is a man worthy of ])raise and imi-
tation. Tie has hitched his wagon to a star and
will rise to better things.

The advice to aim high should be heeded because
there is little likelihood of one surpassing his aim.
He may not hit what he aims at, but he will be
sure to reach a higher mark than if his aim were
l(»w. .\im at the sun; rise as high as ])()ssil)le; do
not limit vour results i)\ the n-ieanness of vour pur-
poses. As a breeder of market poultry let your aim
be to i)roduce the best ])ossible fowls — ])lump in
fk^sh, (|uick in growth, with the minimum of off'al
and the maxinnnn of (juality. As a breeder of lav-
ers seek to deNclo]) strains of fowls which will lay
the largest nund)er of eg^gs in a year; if others
have hens which lay <?(i(i or '^."id eggs, push vour
limit to 'M)i) or .'^"io. As a breeder of exhibition
birds aim to produce those which will score 100
points, and will reach that score not in some soli-

tary instance, but in the majority of the flock. Of
course you will fail; perfection is unattainable; but
you will fail nobly, and your failure will look to
the world like a magnificent success.

The advice to "Hitch your wagon to a star" de-
serves to be heeded because of its effects upon you
as a man. A man of mean purposes must become
a mean man, while a man of high and noble pur-
poses can not fail t(^ develop into a superior man.
As the (iood Hook assures us, and as a study into
our nature corrob(n-ates this assurance, "As a man
thinketh in his heart, so is he." We are compounded
of matter and spirit, of the material and immaterial,
and the greater of these is not matter and the ma-
terial. The influence of mind upon matter is really
greater than the influence of matter on mind,
though each exercises upon the other a potent in-
fluence, lint even if the reverse were the truth,
the fact would still remain that the man with high
purposes would develop into a higher type of man-
hood than would be possible for him if his pur-
poses were low. And note, it is not as a man
"thinketh." but as he "thinketh in his heart," that
is, as he fully, deliberately and resolutely wills and
])urposes, which determines what he shall be.

This ad\ice is worthy of consideration because it
will build u]) the poultry industry, and that is an
object meriting our best efforts. We make the in-
dustry and the industry makes us. Our

"Xature is sul)dued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand."

If the poultry industry grows in importance, if
it becomes not only one of the greatest, but the
greatest, of industries, those who engage in it will
profit socially l)y the advance. Its g^reatness will
reflect some shadow of greatness up(^n even the
humblest member. A great industry will attract
to it the better classes of men. not the merelv rich,
but men of character and attainment, men of mind
and might. It is now a great industry and it is
drawing such men. but if it can be made greater it
will draw them in greater numbers. To be asso-
ciated with the best men of our age is a worthy am-
bition, because such association is imi)roving- and
uplifting^. And the higher our aims the more cer-
tain are we to bring about such a development in
the poultry industry.

Iiecause, then, it will enable the breeder to make
a greater success in liis work ; l)ecause it will react
favorably upon his character; and because it will
build up and develop the great ])oultry industry, all
should determine to follow this ad\ice to "TTitch
\ onr wasj-on to a star."

.\o one will succeed with fowls unless he loves
them. Work which is unpleasant is labor; work
which one enjoys is pleasure. Xo one labors ex-
cept under the stress of obligation ; every one seeks
pleasure of his own free will. I'nless his heart is
in his work, the work w^ill be neglected, and neglect
ends in tadure. I>ut if the care of fowls becomes
a pleasure, every need will be promptly attended to.
and success will follow.

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The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
in character. It is the only poultry journal pub-
lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

October, 1910

Let us cherish our good old 1)rce(ls
— not 1)y opposing any new-comer,
but by making them e(|ual to or bet-
ter than the debutante. By so doing
we shall protect vested rights without
opposing new claims.

Don't let your fowls get thirsty.
They may drink so much that it will
injure them. Keep fresh, pure water
always before them and we will in-
sure them from the danger of exces-
sive drinking for a very small pre-
mium.

The makers of new breeds and vari-
eties often make the mistake of oflfer-
ing their productions to the public
too early. Better wait until the new
characteristics are firmly fixed. It
will be better for the makers, better
for the breed or variety, and better
for the public.

Most of the "silver-grays" in the
fancy can remember when the whole
of the Wyandotte breed, the white,
buff, partridge and varieties other
than the barred of the Plymouth
Rock, the Rhode Island Red. the
Rose Comb Alinorcas and other
breeds and varieties were new. Sup-
pose it had been possible to stamp
them out of existence, and the stamj)
act had prevailed, would not the poul-
try world have l)een poorer tlian it
now is? Let us tliink of these things
when the next new one is announced.

Preparation for the Winter
Show

The wise cxliibitor does not wait
until the winter show arrives before
he begins his prei)aration for its con-
tests. In a certain sense he began
his preparations last winter with tlie
mating of his l)reeding pens from
which the winning specimens were
to be produced. This preparation
was continued by the hatching of the
eggs, the rearing of the young, the
culling of the tlocks and the effort to
secure the most perfect development
in shape, size and coloration of the
more perfect specimens. But in a
special sense more specific prepara-
tions are now demanded.

The most perfect specimens of the
reserved chickens are now to be se-
lected. The standard by which they
are to be judged is to be consulted
and studied, so tliat every reciuire-
ment will he perfectly familiar. And
with the knowledge the one, two,
three or more specimens are to be
selected for fmal preparation for ex-
hibition.

Special feeding will perhaps need
to be employed to bring up the ^peci-
ments to standard weight. One or
two pounds can be added in a short
time to a bird wiiich is underweight,
but it is better to allow sufficient time
than to hasten unduly this process.
At least four weeks' feeding should
be given to promote the growth, and
the special diet reserved imtil the
very last, and then resorted to only if
it is absolutely necessary to do so.
Natural growth, upon proper diet, is
to be preferred to forced growth, but
forced growth is better than loss in
weight.

Of ecjual, if not greater, importance
is the taming and training of the show
specimens. A fancier ought to rear
his chickens so that they will be tame,
but he does not always do this. lUit
they must be tame to show to the
best advantage. And not only must
they be tame, but they must be
trained to stand properly. It pays
to put the birds in an exhibition coop
for a few hours a day and have the
different members of the family look
at them when so caged. In fact, the
nearer exhibition conditions can be
imitated the better, so that when the
birds are cooped in the show they
will be to some extent familiar with
such surroundings. It is not a diffi-
cult matter to tame and train the
birds and the results of such taming
and training will c(Hmt when the
judge appears to make his awards.

White birds may need washing, but
colored birds, with the exception of
shanks and toes, can be proi)erly
cleaned by keeping them for a time
ui)on clean sand. Washing does not
imi)rove the gloss of the birds and
for that reason in the brilliantly col-
ored specimens it is well to avoid it.

The shanks and toes should be thor-
oughly washed, and scales removed
in time for the new ones to grow,
and the condition of the bird be ren-
dered as nearly perfect as possible.

It is not the province of an edito-

rial to go into the details of all these
several processes, but rather to point
out in a general way what needs to
be done and the reasons for it. Spe-
cial works have been written upon
these topics and many articles pub-
lished treating of one or another
phase of preparation. The exhibitor
should familiarize himself with such
instructions by reading up these arti-
cles and studying the instructions in
such works.

The reasons for such preparation
are obvious. If they are made, the
birds show to the very best advan-
tage. The preparation of a show bird
is just as reasonable and just as nec-
essary as the preparation of an ex-
hibition horse. What would i)e
thought of a man who showed a stal-
lion all covered with dirt, whose coat
had not been curried and brushed and
whose mane and tail were full of tan-
gles and knots? An exhibitor of a
fo\yl not properly prepared for exhi-
bition would be on a par with such a
horse-exhibitor. First prizes are rarely
won by picking up a fowl in the yard
and shipping it at once to an exhibi-
tion. It may not be impossilde to
win in this way, but it is highly im-
probable. And birds are exhibited to
win. Prizes mean something to the
breeder. Nor is it treating the public
aright to show birds not properly
conditioned and prepared. They can
see them in their yard condition with-
out paying an admission fee. They
wish to see them at their best and
they are entitled so to see them. The
exhibitor owes it to the public, to the
poultry industry and to himself to
make all necessary preparations for
exhibiting his birds at their best, and
now is the time to begin such prepa-
ration. Delays are always dangerous
and fre(|uently fatal to success. Bet-
ter begin too early than too late.

Plan your career before you start.
The man who goes a day's journey
and returns to the starting point, and
continues this process, never goes
very far.

The young fancier should remem-
ber that the first feathers are no true
indication of what the mature plum-
age will be. Bars have a way of be-
coming lacings, white feathers disap-
pear or api)ear where there were
none, barring may break into stripes
or stippling, and various other
changes may result. A verdict based
on the hrst feathers is seldom relia-
ble.

It is sometimes difficult to decide
whether it is better to improve the
(dd or to originate the new in poul-
try, but for the generality of poultry-
men it is doubtless more profitable
to do the former. The manufacture
of a new breed or \ariety takes time
and means the loss of profits for
<|uite a number of years, and only
those who have an imperative "call"
to do this work should undertake it;
while the improving of an old breed
means the receipt of a good profit
durmg all these barren years.

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LETTERS FROM READER

This department is for the purpose of giving publicity to the views of our readers who
would like to express themselves briefly upon topics that are of interest. A hearty
invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely.

GRAY FEATHERS AND GOOD
ADVICE.

Well, here we are, almost in that
glorious old Thanksgiving month, the
month in which many a poor, un-
fortunate fowl seeks it perch for its
farewell sleep, the month in which
most fanciers are passing through
their flocks searching for ribbon win-
ners and singling out those that by
some misfortune have failed to de-
velop into what might be called fair
specimens, to grace the table on that
great Thanksgiving Day.

VVhat a brushing up and putting on
airs there would be among the feath-
ered tribe, could they but realize their
position today. While looking over
my own flock and wondering which
of my birds I should favor with a
week at the show, my thoughts went

back to my fir^t experience in select-
ing show birds, and how disappointed
I was to find so much gray in wings.
I wonder how many of my fellow^
fanciers are doing the same this fall
with the same results, condemning
the one from whom they have pur-
chased stock or eggs, declaring they
have been badly dealt with; that Mr.
So-and-So is a fraud, they are sure of
it; his stock is not what it was repre-
sented to be, and that if he were only
there now how they would give him
a piece of their mind. But. just a
moment, my friend! Did it ever oc-
cur to you that you vourself might be
at fault?

What were the conditions under
which your birds were raised? Have
you, like many others, after hatching
your chicks, kept them in small quar-
ters, where in a week's time the grass

Porter White WYANDOHE YARDS

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you give us a trial so that we can convince you that there are none better in Standard shape and
beauty and as eg^ producers? We have both combined in our birds. We will be pleased to
send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES.

Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-
dottes? If so, will

CHAS. DA YIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

"MAJESTIC I."
.5th Cockerel. Chicago Dec '08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND

ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack?
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, 111., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910,
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

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pullets for August and September =

shows. Kindly rememl)er your money ^

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2() .swarms fine Italian Bees at .SH each, =

goofi new hives. Mention this paper —

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was entirely j^one, fed them on corn-
meal because it was easy to get and
continued to keep one hundred birds
in quarters that were only large
enough for twenty-live? If so, you
are entitled to a little extra color in
wings.

True, the breeding of high scoring
birds is a science and one that re-
(|uires much time and study to pro-
(Itice from the student an artist. We
cannot be successful by simply mat-
ing our birds intelligently, however.
Much depends on the conditions un-
der which our birds are raised, and
unless we resort to nature's laws, we
cannot hope to reap the full benefits
from otir efforts.

Did you ever see a robin, a black-
bird or a crow with white in the
flights of their wing? No. At least I
never did.

God created all creatures with an:
appetite for different food as the dif-
ferent seasons come and go, from
which food comes the coloring of their
coat.

So it is with our domestic fowls.
We must make the conditions as near
natural as possible, and if necessary
to raise them in confinement, don't
try to raise too many in a small place.
Give plenty of green food at all times,
meat and ground bone about four
times a week, dry chick food of some
kind in plenty of litter to furnish
that much-needed exercise, lots of
fresh water and ])lenty of grit, and
you will have but little, if any, trouble
with gray in wings.

1 would like to say in conclusion
that my favorite is the S. C. R. Leg-
horn and that one pullet in particular
that was a disappointment to me. hav-
ing her flights badly splashed with
gray, the following fall, under favor-
able conditions, during the moidt. de-
veloped into a tine-colored hen, and
that winter at the s-how took first in
a good class.

J. FRED ROLFE.

Aurora, Til.

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CHICKS.

I would like just a word with the
amateur. It isn't necessary to write
for the experienced breeder, for most
of them know more than I do. I am
not. however, exactly a beginner, hav-
ing been in tlie business about four-
teen years. I want to say to the un-
fortunate beginner who has lost his
early broods, don't be discouraged,
but keep pegging away. This spring
I lost all my early chicks through an
explosion of brooder lamp. 1 had
some more hatched out the first week
in June, and kept setting hens all
smnmer. As a result 1 have a fine
lot of youngsters coming on. June
chicks make about the finest breed-
ers— I have Leghorns — being whiter
than the early birds. Larger breeds.
of course, must be hatched earlier. In

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raising summer chicks, however, es-
pecial attention must be given to
keeping them free from lice. Septem-
l)er chicks need extra care and warm
quarters all winter nr the cold will
stunt them, but 1 think the July and
August chicks will develop. They will
not bring quite so high a price, be-
cause there is always a demand for
early hatched chicks regardless of
(|uality, but with the same care and at-
tention 3'ou can raise a larger per
cent of those hatched. 1 know some
old breeders will disagree with me
on that point, but the trouble with
them is, they don't give the late
chicks the same care that they do the
early ones. 1 give my chicks only
dry feed generally, but a little clab-
ber cheese is good for them. T'or a
single feed nothing is better than mil-
let, but cliicks should have a varietv.
MRS. JEXXIE E. W.ARREX."
Cottonwood Falls, Kas.

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THEY SHOULD BE CREDITED.

There is in my estimation a great
deal of credit due the fancier, who
on a small city lot, limited as he is
to probably a dozen or so breeding
birds, with two breeding i)ens at the
most, and not able to raise more than
twenty-five or at the very limit fifty
chicks every season, and who on an
average you'll find in the first rank
at our exhibitions. Such a fancier
and breeder, therefore, shows more
thorough study and knowledge, and
more judiciou-^ care and forethought
in selecting and mating hi> birds than
the breeder of more pretentious facil-
ities. Tf, for example (and we get
proofs of it at all of our shows), the
city fancier raises say twenty-five
birds and from that number lands a
couple of winners, is he not entitled
to more credit than the owner of a
plant who raises say five hundred
birds under the most favorable condi-
tions, and who possibly in a whole
season does not land more than a
dozen winners? Take a novice at the
business, with all facilities and condi-
tions such that he is installed in a
plant where he raises ;")()() birds, say
from five or six different pens, luck
must have deserted this earth alto-
gether if he does not haphazard get
a half dozen show birds, not through
his breeding instinct, but through the
much bigger odds he gets than does
the city lot fanciers. We who admire
the fancy should give these little city
fanciers a great deal more credit than
they get. for they certainly must use
sonic forethought and a considerable
knowledge to raise winners from such
a small percentage of stock. There
are a number of such breeders and
they have done a lot in the line of
giving us good specimens of standard
1)red stock, and as it is more of a
hobby for them, a relaxatif)n from
their daily drudgery in a shop or ^tore.
into which they enter for i)leasure.
M-hich imbibed with the ambition of a
true fancier, they show a great deal
more study of their hobby fancy, and
thus they do more on an average {(*
increase the standard of perfection
than the man who raises so many that
he is bound to get a few prize win-
ners anvhow. Give the city fanciers
credit. W. T. KTl-.l-T.

Middletown, Conn.

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POULTRY SHOWS (Si,

Notices sent to us by secretaries wifl be pub-
lished in this department without charge

TO BREEDERS OF ROSE COMB BLACK
MINORCAS.

The next annual meeting' of the Inter-
national Eiose C'oinl) Black Minorca Club
will be held Dec. Kith, 2 p. ni.. in the
Coliseum at Chicago in connection with
the Chicago Poultry Sliow. Kvery breeder
of thi.s variet\- is retiuested to be jjiesent
at this meeting, where matters of vital
interest to the club will be considered.

Anyone who is able to make an exhibit
this season of Rose Comb Black Minorcas
should not fail to send at least a few
specimens to this annual club show. The
i'ef?ular cash prizes amount to $4.^). Cash
specials have ])een donated amounting to
over $;55 and a $:15 silver cup will be
g^iven for best display. Two of the best
known judges will place the awards,
judges who thorougjilx' understand Minor-

cas. .ludge Sharpe Ruttcrfield will place
the awards in cock birds and hens; Judge
W. S. Russell in cockerels, pullets and
pens.

Send for premium list to Theo. Hewes.
Indianapolis, Ind.

The specials ar<' open to club meml)ers
only. Full particulars concerning mem-
IcT-ship ma.\- be had by addressing Lloyd
C. Mislder, Scc.n.. North Manchester, Ind.

SCRANTON. PA.

'i'hc S'-ianton (Pa.) Poultry Show will
be held in the new town hall during the
week of Jan. 16 to 21. The new building
in which the show will l)e held is a min-
iature Afadi.son S(|uare Garden, with no
posts oi- pillais to interfen^ with tiie coop-
ing of fowls and tiie liall is large enough

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry A.ssociation. Member Buff Rock
Club. I want to judge your show and do yonr private scoring and sell you high class stock and
eggs. RICHLAND. IOWA.

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, . - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

"DONAGHEY'S REDS"

have won for the second season in succes-
sion the R. I. Red Club Cup and the Ameri-

.^„ ev,^„, Ai .u • V, f£ . J ^^, can Class Cup, at the Baraboo Valley Poul-

try Show Also their .share of first and .specials at other leading shows. Eggs for hatchine as
follows: first pen f 3 00 per 15, second and third pens |2 00 per 15. utility stock having excellent

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to comfortably care for more than 2,500
birds. The qualit.v show is the name by
which the Soranton show has been known
for many years and this year they hope
to have a better show tlian ever as there
will be plenty of room in the new town
hall and there will be many hundred dol-
lars offered in special prizes, as well as
cups and other prizes of equal value.

Mr. Oscar Payne, Washington Ave.,
Scranton, Pa., is the secretary of the
Soranton show. Send to him for the
premium list which will soon be ready
for distribution.

OWATONNA, MINN.

One of Minnesota's best shows is held
each season at Owatonna. It will be bet-
ter than ever this year and deserves the
support of all fanciers who can send
their stock. The dates are Dec 27-30.
George D. Holden, judge, and A. J. Boss-
hard, secretary.

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MANNING, IOWA.

The Association at Manning, Iowa, will
in future be known as the Western Iowa
J'oultry Association, as the membership
of the organization has extended into
several counties. A bigger show than
usual will be held this season, Dec. 6-8,
with F. H. Shellabarger as judge. West-
ern Iowa breeders should write to W. B.
Parrot t, secretary, for premium list and
other information.

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WOONSOCKET. R. I.

exhibition of
Association will
Woonsocket, R.

the
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The sixth annual
Woonsocket Poidtry
held in Harris Hall,
Dec. 15, 16, 17, 1910.

Woonsocket show has been exceeding-
ly liberal in the past in the matter of
regular premiums, and this year will be
no exception. $2.50 first and $1.0(» second
with a 75i- entry fee should be something
of an inducement. The Association cash
specials will be the largest in the history
of the club, and will cover practically
all the varieties of poultry. These, with
judges that are specialists in the classes
they are to handle, and a hall that is
one of the lightest in New P^ngland, gives
the fancier something to think ab<nit
when he is making uj) Ids show list.

Our treasury is in an encouraging con-
dition, and witli the state appropriation
our financial standing is and has always
l>een the l)est. All premiums will )>e T)ai(l
the week immediately following the sliow.
C O. Smith, secretary.

LAKE GENEVA.

WIS.

The T..ake Geneva Poultry Association
will hold their next show Dec. l!>-24. E.
G. Roberts, Judge; H. J*]. C'ocroft. secre-
tar.v. This is one of Wisconsin's good
shows.

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VICKSBURG, MICH.

The coming show of the \'icksl)urg
Poultry Association will be held Dec. 28-
Jan. 1. with James Tu(T<ei\ judge, ano
C. A. Morse, secretary.

CANANDAIGUA. N. Y.

The second annual Canandaigua show
will be held Jan. 17-21. Premium list will
be read.v for mailing Dec. 10, and a copy
ma.v be obtained by wilting to Dr. L. D.
Sutherland, secretary.

DEFIANCE, OHIO.

The T^cfiance. Ohio, show will Itc held
Jan. 16-21. There is not a more pro-
gressive association in the state and the
breeders back <^)f this sliow can be de-
pended upon for a representative exhibi-
tion which Oliio breeders cannot afford to
overlook. The judges this season are Ira
C. Keller and .1. O. TiOng. The secretary
of the show is J. II. Vincent,

WEST HAVEN, CONN.

The ninth annual show of the West
Haven I'oultry Associati()n will 1)6 held
Nov, 29-Dec. 2. The management of this
association claims ihat for eight years
the.v ha\e held the bannei' show of New
England and that with new life in the of-

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Show Dates Season of 1910-11

Gadsden, Dec. '10-14. J. C. Green,
Montgomery, Oct. 19-28. George T.

Alabama.
S-ecv., Marshall, Judge.
Barnes, Secy., 727 Bell Bldg.

Arizona.
Phoenix, Nov. 5-10. C. E, Conner, Secy.

Arkansas.
17-20, B. F. Muzzy, Secy.
Dec, 6. A. H, Rerg, Secy.; Van Winkle, Judge,
Oct, 10-15. George R. Belding, Secy.
Nov. i:]-l!». C. B. Maxwell, 121 W. 2d St., Secy.,

Carlisle, Oct.
Fort Smith,
Hot Springs,
Little Rock,

Judges.
Marian na, Nov.
Pine Bluff, Dec

Emry and Rhodes,

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13-1

W. A
E. W.

Thornton, Secy., T. Reid Parrisli,

Oakland, Nov. 22

field. Judge.
San Diego, Jan.
San Gal)riel, Jan.

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A.

K.

Phillips, Secy., Savage

California.
Healy, Secy.. 2214 San Jose

Judge.
Judges.

and Brown,

Alameda, Cal. Stan-

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Ave.

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Dec.

Colorado Springs,
Fort Collins, Dec. 12-16.
Fort Morgan, Colo., R.
Greeley, Dec. 16-18. W.
Pueblo, Dec. 19-24. F. V.

Eldridge, Secy., 764 Newton
A. H. Memmler, Secy.

Colorado.
12-17. H. H. Chase, Secy., 1442 Corona St.; Heimlich, Judge.

O. E. Collins, Secy. ; Rhodes, Judge.
.1. Nothwehr, Secy. ; Hewes, Judge,
C, Loney, Secy.; Rhodes, .Judge.
Kay, Secy.; Rhodes, .Judge.

Connecticut.
Bridgeport, Dec. 20-22. Geo. Seltsam, Secy, Sylvan Ave.. R,
Cheshire, Nov. 15-17. Edmund H. Williams, Secv..
Danbury, Nov. 21-25. Fred Olmstead, 66 North St.
Guilford. Dec. 8-10. Paul P. Ives, Secy.

Middletown, Dec. 13-16. Charles L. Fisk. Secy.; Bunnell, Shove and Coolidge, Judges.
So. Manchester, Nov. 15-18. J. H, Minikin, Secy.; Card, Bonfoey, Ives, Judges.
Waterford. Dec. 22-29. Hayward E. Beebe, Secy.
West Haven, Nov. 29-Dec, 2. W. J. Maher, Secy., 254 Howard St.. East Haven, Conn.;

Drevenstedt. Card and ^^'elles, Judges.
Winsted. .Jan. 17-20. D. P. Capwell, Secy., 72 Hindale Ave.; Corey and Welles,

,Iudges.

Box 185.; Card Judge,
Card and Shaylor, Judges.

Wilmington, Nov. 29-D'ec.
Pensacola, Nov. 7-12. W.

Atlanta, .Jan.

Judges.
.\ugusta. Nov
Dal ton, Nov.

9-15.

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Delaware.
Charles Simmons. .Ir., Secy

Florida-

.. Witticii, Secy.; Marshall.

Georgia.
Harwell, Secy., 112 N. Pryor

. ; 211 Washington
ludge.

St.

St.; l^iniy and Marshall,

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Boise, Dec. 26-31
Twin Falls. Dec.

. Cameron, Secy.; Wittman. Simmons and Ewald. Judges.
Davis, Sec.\'. ; Browji, Judge.

Idaho.

Meldo Hillis, Secy.; Purvis, .ludge.
26-31. O. W. Dougherty, Secy.; Dixon, .Judge.

Illinois.

Aleda. Dec. 19-23. Willard Ruse, Secy.; Warnock, .Judge.

Aurora, Jan. 10-14. Herman Moser, Secy.; Rountree, Judge.

Bloomington. .Jan. 18-23. Frank Peitsch, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.

lilue Island. .Ian. 18-21. A. W. Doermann, Secy,; Heck and .Jansen, Judges,

Bradford. Dec. 19-23. B. D. Phenix, Secy.; Heimlitli. .Judge.

:^amp Point, Nov. 21-24. C. G. Gay, Secy.; Heimlich, .Judge.

Casey. .Ian. 23-28. J. J. Elder, Secy,; Keeler, Judge.

Charleston Dec. 19-21. (\ I^. Cainey, Secy,; Klein, .Judge.

Chicago. Dec. 8-14. Theo. Hewes, Secy., Indianapolis, Intl. Burgott. Butterfield,

Faulkner, Kummer. Keeler. McCord, Pierce, Russell, and Tucker, .Judges.
Decatur. Jan. 9-13. Wilbur G. Watt Secy.; Klem and Johnston .Judges.
Dixon, .Jan. 16-21. A. G. Hill, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Downers Grove, .Ian. 13-14. A. B. Snow, Secy.; Shellabarger, .Judge.
Du Quoin, Nov. 21-25. E. G. Teaney, Secy.; Clipp, Judge.
Fairfield, D'ec. 12-15, J, H. Robey, Secy.; T. M. Campbell, .ludge.
Faun*,. Nov. 21-25. Oscar Wells, Secy.; Shellabarger, .ludge.
Geneseo, Dec. 26-31.— Matthew O. CN)nnell, Secy.; Ott. Judge.
Girard, Oct. 21-22. H. C. Rathgeber, Secy.; Hale, Judge.
Greenfield, Nov. 14-1<. Miss Carrie Allen. Secy.; Fell. Judge.
Havana, Dec. 26-31. Ben L. McFadden, Secy.; Heimlich, .Judge.

Hillsboro, Nov. 15-18, T. Kirkpa trick. Secy,. Litchfield, 111,; Hale and Pierce, Judges,
Hutsonville, Dec, 20-23. — J. S. Walker, Secy., Palestine, 111.; Shaw. Judge,
•loliet. Dec. 5-10. Alta Martens, Secy, Minooka, III.; Northrup, .ludge.
Kankakee, .Ian. 9-14. E. P. Vining. Sety. ; McClave, .ludge,
Lincoln. Dec. 12-15. Wm. Corwine. Secy.; McCord, Judge.
Mendota, .Ian. 25-29. Edw. Brown; McCord, Judge.

Mounioutli, .Ian. 9-14. S, E. Hamilton, Secy.; G. D. McClaskey, .ludge.
Murphvsboro. Dec. 20-23. O. L. Rawlings, Secy.
Newton, Dec. 26-29. Floyd Clark, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Oregon. Dec. 21-26. F. C. Potter. Secy.; IMcrce, Judge,
Peotone. .Ian, 23-26. A. C, Ginter. Secy.; Penny, .Judge.

Polo, .Ian. 2-7. Frank Niman, Secy.; Russell, Judge.
Princeton. Dec. 12-16. Walter As( he. Secy.; Rapp. .ludge.
Ouincv. Nov. 24-28. C. I>. Tillson. Secy.; W. S. Russell. .ludge.
Rockford, .Ian. 23-28. Chas. S. Gilbert, Secy.; Rus.sell and Heindich.

Judges.

Si)ringtield. .Ian.

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Sullivan. .Jan. 9-14. J. L
Tavlorsville. Nov. 30-Dec-.
Warsaw, Nov. 30 -Dec. 3.
Waukegan, .Jan. 6-13, T.
Weldon. Dec. 19-24. Dr.

L. McCord. Secy., Danville. 111.
McPherson, Secy.; Rapp, .ludge,
;;. Mrs. Laura B. Evans, Secy.; Pieice. Judge.

Harry F, Bliesener, Secy.; Warnock, Judge,
B. Gleave. Secy.
A. V. Foote, Secy.. Box 2!».; Stanfield, Judge.

Zion City, Dec. 27-31. Jolin D, Thomas. Secy.; Waineck, .ludge.

R.
T.

Attica, .Ian 17-2(i. W
liutler. Nov. 23-26. D
(\)lumbus. .Ian. 9-14. H
Danville. .Ian. 23-28. Wilbur
Fort Wavne, Dec-. 14-19. W.
Franklin, Jan. 16-21. Walter
Galveston, Jan. 8-14. Harry
(Joshen, .Ian. 23-28. JI
Huntington, Jan. 17-21.
Indianapolis, Feb. 6-10.
Kendallville, .Ian. 2-6.
La P(»ite, Jan. 25-28.

Indiana.

(tihnore. Secy.; Zike. .ludge.
Melroy, Sec\'.; Sites. .ludge.
K. Volland, Secy.; Corey, Judge.
Hadley, Se^y. ; Lane. .ludge.
H. i:>edier. Secy.; Kummer. Judge.
\\. Farmer, Secy.; Myers. .Judge.
Gray, Secy., R. R. 13.; Pickett, Judge.
F. Krat/.. Secy.; Mulinix and Stange, Judges.
Herbert Zahn, Secy.; Campbell, .Iudt;e.
C R. Millions, Secy., Lebanon. Ind.
G. M. I'atterson, Secy.; McClave, .Judge.
J. Osburn Brijdi, Secy.; Keeler. Judge.

Lebanon. .lati. !•-!

Frank B Wooley. Secy.; Zike, .Judge,

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rtcers and with scores of fancieis ulio
Jiave recently joined the association thev
are goni«- to hold the crowning siiow o'f
the series. Hieeders who intend to e\-
Inbit at West Haven should wiite for
premium list to W. H. Malier se retarv
254 Howard St., ICast Haven. Tonn The
judges are Drevenstedt, Card and Welles

^ -X-

GRAND RALLY OF THE SOUTHWEST

BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN

POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

On I hursday. Dec. 1, 1910. there will be
held at Kansas Tity. Mo., a bis" meeting
and grand rally of all members of the
.Southwest Branch of the American Poul-

^'p-^'.,'^^'"'!"^^'^**^*"- ^'^^ ^>"1>' the members
of tlie Southwest branch are Invited but
all other members of the association' and
visitors, whether you belong- to the asso-
ciation or not are especiallv invited We
expect to make this meeting so interest-
ing- that If you do not attend vou will l)e
sorry you missed it. There will not be
a dull minute during the meeting, many
speakers of prominence will address the
ineetingr on subjects of vital importance
to down-to-date poultrymen and poultrv-
women. Addresses by Secretarv S T
Campbell. Mansfield, Oliio- Reese' v'
Hicks. ;ropeka, Kans.; T. E. 'Quisenberry'
Columbia. Mo., and others to be an-
nounced later. Everybody come and let
us make this the largest and best meet-
mg ever held by a branch association

E. C. BRANCH,
„, , President Southwest Branch

W. S. ROBINSON. Sec'y-Treas.

MUNCIE, IND.

The dates of the Muncie show this sea
son are Jan l';^-l'8. .Judg-es Heyl and
Pickett will place the awards. Premium
list may be had by writing to .J Earl
Fonts, assistant secretary.

NATIONAL S. P. WYANDOTTE CLUB.

The National Silver Penciled Wvan-
dotte Club will offer their handsome set
of silk ribbons at all Poultrv Shows that
prmt our notice in their premium list

One for tiie best Cock-Hen-Cockerel-
Pullet and Pen. .$2.00 pays fee and tirst
.vears dues. .Join the club before the
show opens to compete for ribbons

JAMES S. WASON.
„^ „ , Sec'y and Treas.

30 Genesee Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.

AMERICAN PLYMOUTH ROCK CLUB

Thougli the affairs of the American
I'lymouth Rock Club have not appeared
very Irecjuently in the papers during the
past few months, the clul) has still been
active in promoting the interest of this
variety. Last season we put out 400 rib-
bons for shape and color throughout tlie
I nited States. These were of handsome
design and pleased the winners as thev
were made of the best material. The
state cups are getting more populai- and
they are a great deal above the average
of any cups offered at the poultrv shows
and are the e(|uals of anv $25.00 cuj)s'
The club is very fortunate in obtaining
these through a manufacturer who is verv
much interested in poultrv. What the
officials of the club really desire is that
one or more of these cups be offered in
every state in the union, and in every
province in Canada. It re(|uires twentv
members in good standing to secure one
of these cups, and a cup Is also offered
for every additional twenty members in
a state. We ask every exhibitor to in-
terest themselves in the affairs of the
club, and in these cups and ribbons par-
ticularl.v.

At the last annual meeting of the club
Mr. C. H. Welles. Stratford, Conn., was
re-elected president, and A. C. Smith,
Waltham. Mass., was re-elected sccie-
tar.v — both were elected unanimous! v The
vice presidents elected were:

J. F. Anderson. Waldron. Ark.- M W
Baldwin, Sioux (Mty. la.; O. V. Bennett'
Wasliington, 111.: li. S- Davis, Charlotte!
N. C; W. F. Fotterall, Oak Ford. Pa.;
S. H. Page, Waverley. la.; C. If. Latham.
Lancaster. Mass.; K. B. Thompson,
Amenia, N. Y.

The executive committee elected com-
prises the following well known breeders-

O. I J. King. Walnut Grove. 111.; D. M
Covert, Willoughb.v, O. ; John Pringle

POULTRY FANCIERr

•7-'v.'^:^.-'Mr>

. October, '10

Il^- '-tt *

Lake Charles, Nov. 28-30.

Logansport Jan U-21. Win. Grace, .Jr., Secy., 3JG Market St.; T. M. Campbell. Judge
Micingan City, Jan. 17-22. A. L. Peterson, Secy., 40!. Earl IM.; McC^lave, Judge '

Moniicello. Jan. 30-Feb. 4. Thos. A. Roth, Secy.; Nortliiup and Hanawait. Judges
Mt. \ernon, Jan. 31-Feb. 4. John A. Schenck, Secv.; Heimlich, Judge "

Mimcic, .Jan. 23-28. J. Earl Fours, Asst. Secy.; Heyl and Pickett, Judges.
Richmond, Dec. 6-9. Frank L. Waidele, Secy., W. 7th St.; Lane. Judge
South Bend, Dec. 26-3L T. E. Hans, Secy.

Iowa.

lielle J'laine, Nov. 28-Dec. 3. E. M. Ewen, Secy.; Holdeii. .Judge

( ediir Bapids, Dec. 26-3L E. L. Monilaw, Secy.; Russell and Slianklin, Judges.

Centerville Nov. 30-Dec. 3. Jonas Gott, Secy.; Russell, Judge.

Corydon, Nov. 30-Dec. 3. C. L. (^lark. Secy.; Heimlicli. Judge

Davenport, Nov. 21-26. H. A. Skelly, Secy.; Russell and McCord, Judges.

Des Moines, Jan. 7-12. K. H. Guthrie, Secy.; Rhodes, Russell and Elli.son, Judges.

Donnellson, Dec. 5-8. H. G. Kirchner. Secv., R. R. 4 • Coolev, Judge

Ft. Madison, Jan. 3-6. Albert M. King, Secy.. West Point, ia.; Elli.son, Judge.

Cowrie, Jan. 2-6. S. R. Ander.son, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Iowa Falls, Dec. 12-16. H. S. Dixon, Secy.; Shanklin Judge.

Le Grand. Dec. 14-17. L. C. Knudson, Secy.; Mills, Judge.

Manning, Dec. 6-8. W. B. Parrott, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.

Maijuoketa, Dec. 20-24.— N. J. Rankin. Secy.; Shellabarger Judge.

Muscatine, Dec. 20-25. Fred W. Herman. Secv.; Shaner Judge.

New Hampton, Jan. 23-27. J. C. Mueller, Secy.; Shan'klin. Judge.

New London, Jan. 10-13. A. M. Cornwell, Secy.; Shanklin. Judge.

New Virginia, Nov. 28-30. L. E. Wilson, Secv.; Shaner. Judge.

Packwood, Nov. 16-19. G. A. Spielman, Secv.; Russell Judge

Panora, Jan. 18-2L K. M. Wilson, Secy.; Wilson, Judge.

Richland, Dec. 13-16. J. W. Allen. Secv.; Dagle Judge

St. Charles. Dec. 15-17. J. M. Brown, Secv.; Todd Judge

Tipton Nov. 29-Dec. 2. R. M. Gregg, Secy.; Sliellabarger, Judge.

WVipello, Dec. 14-17. H. B. Kellv, Secv.

Waterloo, Jan. 9-14. C. F. Schenck, Secy.; Russell and Hale, Judges.

Winheld, Dec. 6-9. Chas. Jaggard, Secy.; Dagle, Judge.

Kansas.
Garden Cit.v, Dec. 14-17. M. R. Easley, Secy.; Stoner Judge
Independence, .Ian. 10-15. D. R. Kinkead, Secv

Leavenworth, Jan. 17-20. Fred T. Nye, Secy.; Branch and Palmer, Judges.
Mound Valley, Nov. 16-19. M. C. Taylor, Secv.; Stoner, Judge.
Mulhnville, Dec. 29-31. C. F. Voss, Secy.; Atherton. Judge
Pansons, Dec. 26-31. A. E. Blaker, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge
balina, Dec. 27-Jan. 2. Samuel E. Hoover, Secy.; Clipp, Judge.
Topeka, Jan. 2-7. E. W. Rankin, Secy.; Tompkins, Sm'itli, Rhodes, Branch. Byers,

Roberts, and Palmer, Judges.
Wichita, Jan. 9-14. Thos. Owen, Secy., Topeka, Kan., Sta. B. ; Thompson, Johnson,

and Stoner, Judges.

Kentucky.
Bowling Green, Oct. 26-29. B. E. Webl). Secy.

Louisiana.
H. K. Ramsey, Secy.; Davis. .ludge.

Maine.
Freeport, Dec. 28-30. George P. Cottin, Secy.; Watson. Atherion, Ballon, and Bart-

lett, Judges.
South Paris, Jan. 3-5. E. P. Crokett, Secy.

. Maryland.

Baltimore, Jan. 3-7. (ieorge O. Brown, Secv., :i(i'7 E Nortli We
Frostburg, Dec. 13-17. Dr. I. L. Ritter, Secy.; Chas. F. C\)rnman ' Judge
Hagerstown, Oct. 11-14. W. T. Spahr. Secy.

Massachusetts.
Boston, Jan. 10-14. W. B. Atherton, Secv., 30 Broad St
Dalton. Jan. 10-14. W. H. Griswold. Secy.; Felch and Tasker, Judges
Hol.yoke, Dec. 7-9. Geo, A. Lamb, Secy.; Card, Shove, Tasker, Judges'.
Miltord, Dec. 6-8. W. H. Pyne, Secv.

North Adams. Jan. 17-20. C. A. Larabce, Secy.; Tasker and Weed Judges
Springfield, Jan. 3-6. E. P. Tilton. Secy.; Wedd, Card, and Ballon, Judges.

Michigan.
Ca<lillac. Jan. 23-27. C. A. Sanders. Secy.; Otto. Judge.
Detroit, .Jan. 25-Feb 1. J. A. Turner, Secy., 703 Seymann St.. Lansing Mich.; Tucker,

Marshall and Wise, Judges.
Dowagiac, Dec. 7-10. A. C. Robin.son, Secy.; Keeler, Judge
Grand Ledge. Jan. 2-7. W. G. Shaw, Secv.; Otto, Judge
Grand Rapids, Jan. 16-20. W. L. Kupp.s. Secy., 42 Will St.; Tucker, Wise and Otto,

Judges.

Hastings. Feb. 13-18. Thos. E. Waters. Secv.; McClave Judge

Holland. Dec. 15-21. .1. B. Hadden, Secv.; .j. C Clipp .'judge

Hougiiion, Jan. 26-28. John T. McNamara, Secv.; Travi.ss Judge

Ithaca, Dec. 6-9. E. J. McCall, Secv.; R V. Otto Judge '

Jackson, Dec 31 -Jan. 5. W. O. Wellman. Secy.; 'Schwab' and Traviss. Judges

Kalamazoo Jan. 9-14. F. W. Hough, Secy.. ;}oi-2 Press BIdg.; Shellabarger and

Stanfield, Judges.
Lansing. Dec. 26-31. J. A. Turner. Secv.; Tucker and Wise Judges
Muskegon. .Jan. 5-7. P. M. Hanson. Secv.. R. 7; Tucker Jud'ge
Port Huron, Jan. 18-21. Robt. S. Ta.vlor, Secy.; Wise and Coburn Judges
Reading, Dec. 12-16. Harry Adams, Secv.; Tucker Judge ' "

Salem. Dec. 20-24. F. W. Roberts. Secv.; Otto, Judge
V^icksburg. Dec. 28-31. C. A. Morse. Secy.; Tucker, .ludge.

Minnesota.
All)ert Lea, Dec. 27-31. Harry E. RuJ)ie, Secv.; Rhodes .ludge
Austin, Dec. 20-24. Alfred A. Ziemer, Secv.; Ott, Judge
Mankato, Jan. 5-12. Fred O. True. Secv.; Holden, Judge
Minneapolis. Jan. 11-17. Chas. O. Johnson. Sec.v. ; Hoiden, Rhodes, and Robert.s,

Owatonna, Dec. 27-30. A. .1. Bosshard, Secv.; Holden .ludge

Rochester, Dec. 7-12. D. L. Williams. Secy.; Holden 'and Whitney, Judges.

Mississippi.
Meridian, Dec. 12-17. F. R. Ziller, Secy.; Hutchison. Judge.

Missouri,
lielton, Jan. 18-21. Ben Hu])er. Secy.

Braymer, Nov. 8-11. R. F. Nickels. Secv.; Branch. .Judge
Carthage. Nov. 9-12. E. C. Williams. Secy., 710 W. Chestnut St.; Rliodes and Emrv

Judges,
Centralia. Nov. 22-24. W. S. Robinson. Secy.; Favette, Mo.- Branch ludge
(^linton. Dec. 14-17. A. L. Armstrong, Secy.; liranch, .lud'ge
Concordia, Nov. 16-18. John F. Bruns. Secv.; Branch, .Judge
Hannibal, Dec. 13-16. W. S. Hoke, Secy.; Johnston, .ludge '
Kansas City. Nov 29-pec. 3. T. E. Qui.senberry Secy.. " Columl)ia. Mo.; Ru.ssell,

Oke, Rhodes, Heimlich, Hale, Thompson, Southard, Roberts Palmer Picket and

I<lwald, Judges.
Kirksville. Dec, 7-10. C. B. Clanahan. Secy.; Rhodes, .ludge
La lielle. Nov. 31 -Dec. 2. L. G. LamJ», Secy.; Branch, Judge

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London, Ont ; W. S. Ru.s.sell. Ottumwa,
la.; H. P. bchwal), Irondei|uoit N Y ■

Jiwa- aty,"!'/;: '-""• '•^"^■^ "• '^- ^^'•"'«^''
It is most earnestly desired that those
in arrears pay their dues imniediatelv .so
that the club otticials mav decide in\le-
tail the plans for club work for the en-
suing year. Members who wish to get
in their votes for dispt)sition of state cun^
must do so before Nov 15th
^ ,, A. C. SMITH, Sec'y-Treas.

C. H. WELLES Pies

ATTRACTIONS FOR THE
CITY SHOW.

KANSAS

No show perhaps ever held in the world
will offer as many attractions as tlie ex-
hil)itors, lireeders and visitors will find
when they visit the Missouri State Show
at Kansas City, November 29 to Dec 3
There will be an exhibit of 150 birds

and perhaps birds from

countries. The largest

at any show in America

More people attend the

in Kansas City than any

from Belgium
other foreign
premiums paid
will be offered,
poultry sh(nv

which makes

the largest in
be beautifully

top. A great
hicli there will

other i-ity in this countrv
it a great sales show.

The show will be cooped with Em-
pire co(.ps and it will be .iudged bv some
of the most prominent judges of the
Ignited States and Canada. Governor
Herbeit S. Hadley will be present to de-
liver an address. S. T. Campbell, secre-
tary of the American Poultrv Association
and Franklane L. Sewell, of Niles. Mich.',
the world's greatest poultry artist, will
Southwest brancii of the American Poul-
try Association will hold a big institute
and rally.

The show room is one of
this country and it will
decorated from bottom to
bancpiet will be held at w"
be addresses and after-dinner talks bv
the leading judges and poultrvmen of this
country. We will have the state, district
or national meetings of eacli of the fol-
lowing clubs: National S. C. Rhode Island
Red Club of America. National S. C.
White (Orpington Clul), National Buff Or-
I)ington Club, Western Wyandotte CluJ)
of America. American Buff Plvmouth
Rock Club, National Pekin Duck Club,
Kansas City Pigeon Club, National Wliite
Leghorn Club, National Black Orpington
Club, American Cornish (^lub, Columbian
Wyandotte c:iul), Buff Leghorn Club Na-
tional R. C. Rhode Island Red (Mub, Black
Langshan Club and several of the othei-
large specialty clubs will either hold their
meetings with us or offer their specials
at this show. If you do not send a few
birds to this great show, you will al-
ways regret the fact that .vour tlock was
not represented at the l)est siiow ever
held in the world. Write for a catalogue
to T. K. Quisenberry. Columbia. Missouri.

NOTICE TO NATIONAL S. C. R. I. RED
CLUB MEMBERS.

The National Single Comb Rhode Island
Red Club will hold its next annual meet-
ing and election of officers In connection
v.itii the Mis.souri State Show at Kansas
City N(»vember 28th. 1910. at 7:30 p. m.
The otTicers to J)e elected are a presi-
dent, thiee vice-presidents, a secretary-
treasurer, seven executive committee
membeis. one delegate to .\. I>. A. con-
vention. The club will also amend its
by-laws and transact sucli other business
as ma\' properl.v come before the meeting.
Also to make ariangements for a large
clas.s of Single Comb Iie<ls at the coming
National F^air — location soon to be an-
nounced. In connection with this meet-
ing the club offers .$75.00 in cash special
prizes to did) members onlv.

J. H. VAJ^LIERE. Sec'y.

R.

I. RED SCHOOL OF

INSTRUCTION,

The Rhode Island Red School of In-
struction, given by the National Singh-
Cond) Red Clid) will l)e held in connection
with the Missouri State Show at Kansas
City, November 28th. I'.MO. at 2:00 p. m.
All judges and breeders are cordially in-
vited to attend this meeting. Here the
real live birds will be on the stand to
demonstrate to the breeders of lieds. the
true shape an<l ideal color, as well as
their markings. And another very im-
portant point will be to see the changes
to ai)pe-ir in the coming standards. Sev-
eral judges will l)e theie and readv to
discuss any and all (juestions on Reds.

POULTRY FANCIER

Page 207

Mar.vville Dec. 14-17. Joseph II. Sayler, Secy.; Thomp.son. Judge
Mexico, Nov. 9-12. W. S. Eller, Secy.; Branch, Judge ^

Mountain .rove, Jan. 3-7. E. J. Green, Secy.; Emry, Judge.
Plea.sant HU , Nov 7-9. J. P. Farmer, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Judges •'^"- ''■^«- '"■ '- ^^-^■-r.nUl Secy.; Rhodes, Shellabarger and Thompson.

'^'- 'L "ii"' C^mpb;n:'^ud^s ^- ^"^--"' ^««t. Secy.; Riggs. Hettich. Ewald, and
Trenton. Nov. 1«;-19. V.O.Ho^jbs, Sec.v.; Rhodes and Southard. Judges.

Vandalia, Nov.
Whitesville, Dec

22-25.

5-8.

J. A. B. Keith, Secy.; Stoddard, Judge
J. F. Case, Secy.; Branch., Judge.

Adams, Nov. 23-25. E.
Fremtmt, Dec, 12-16

Ncbr3sk3
W. Campbell, Sec.v.; Rliodes, Judge
, . , , _ Chas. W. Mullo.y, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge

Lim-oln Jan 16-20. A. H. Smith, Secy.; Rhodes. Johnson and Somhard ludges
Nebraska City Nov. 5-9. F. M. Cook. Secy.; McClaskev, Judge ' ■'"'*^^^-

Pender Dec. 15-16. R. Chow. Secy.; Mrs. Blattler, Judge
West Point. Dec. 1--I6. Rudolph Brazda, Secy.; McClaskev. Judge

New Jersey.
Paul G. Springer, Secy.; Stanton, Huyler, Wolsuffer, and

Asheville, Dec.
Charlotte, Dec.
Gastonia, Nov. 29-Dec.

Bridgeton, Nov. 23-26.

Holmes, Judges.
Dover, Nov. 22-27. W. H. Bidgood, Secy.
East Orange, Nov. 21-26. George Eckel, Secy., 46 Washington Terrace

Tn(V'NMxon.^Juct4s. ^^'""''^ ^^ ^^^''^'^'''^''' ^^^'y- ^^hester, N. J.; Stanton, Heller,

Paterson, Nov! 30-Dec. 3. L. Thonnerieux, Secv.. 52 Pell St • Drevenstedt Davev
Stanton, Nixon, and Anderson, Judges ' ^^^^^"^^eat. Dave.\,

Red Bank Dec. 7-10. P. J. Gislison. Secy.; Davey, Stanton, and Minnich Judges
Ruthertord. .Ian. 12-14. F. A. Minnerlv Secy. n en, .juuges.

Vineland, Dec. 1-3. G. E. Smith, Secy.
Washington. Jan. 10-14. Wm. H. Cyphers. Secy.

New York.

Buffalo, .Lm. 23-29. Stanley A. Merkley, Secy., 309 Brisbane Bldg • Butterfield

Schwab, McNeill, Burgott, Maunder, Webb. Card, Ewald, Lange, and Kiikover

Canandaigua, Jan. 17-21. Dr. L. D. Sutherland, Secy. , ^ , tviiKover.

Jamestown, Dec. 12-17. A. J. Hammerstrom, Secy., 627 English St - Burgott and

Denny. Judges. "' ^

Kingston. Dec. 13-16. B. C. Deyo. Secy.. New Platz. N. Y
New Berlin. Jan. 23-27. R. F. Talbot. Secv.; Jaquins, Judge

New York City. Nov. 18-24. Robert Seaman, Mgr., Jericho, N Y • Weed Davev
Atherton. Welles. Card. Cleveland. Ewald, Punderfoi-d Cutting" Young Fitch'
Josenhaus. Gla.sgow, and Ellard. Judges. ' ^' ■^*'-^"'

Peekskill. Nov. 22-26. G. A. Aschenbrenner, Secy.; Drevenstedt and Davey ludges
Rochester, Jan. 9-14. F. A. Newman, Secy., P. O. Box 472; Maunder, Stantoii ' Webb*

Cornish. Brace, and Braun. Judges.
Schenectady. .Tan. 16-21. R. B. Shauber, Secy.; Ballston Lake, N. Y.

North Carolina.
8-12. Chas. Beers. Secy.; Drevenstedt. Judge.
28-30. C. W. Best, Secy.; Brace and Simmons, Judges
S. S. Morris, Secy.; Marshall, Judge.

Ohio.
Ashtabula. Dec. 5-10. E. R, McCune. Secy.; Kummer. Judge.
Athens. Dec. 6-10. S. M. Johnson, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.
Attica. Jan. 3-7. J. Hobart Sutton. Secy.; Cram. Judge.
Bucyrus. Dec. 13-17. D. M. Odaffer, Secy.; Heck, Judge
Cleveland, Jan. 23-28. J. T. Conkey, Secy.. 2337 K. 4th" St.; Drevenstedt Faulkner

Hawkins. King, McClave, and Oke, Judges.
Coshocton. Jan. 2-7. Dr. Geo. M. Boone, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Defiance. Jan. 16-21. J. H. Vincent. Secy.; Keller and Long, Judges
Delar»'are, Oct. 12-15. Ed. S. Mettler, Secy.

East Liverpool. Dec. 26-31. J. S. Groscross, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Edon. Jan. 3-G. S. D. Kaiser Secy.; Taylor. Judge.
Elmore, Jan. 3-7. Geo. A. Nets, Secy.; Phil Fell. Judge.
p]lyria, Jan. 4-8. A. J. Laundon, Sec.v., 114 Cheapside; Falkner, Judge.
Genoa, Dec. 12-17. C. F. Coleman, Secy.; P3mch, Judge.
Gnadenhutten, Dec. 5-9. W. O. Lyle, Secy.; Falkner. Judge.
Mansfield. Dec. 5-10. Sherman Bowden, Secy.; I.,ane. Judge.
Marietta. Jan. 26-31. Fred C. Snodgrass. Secy,; Pierce, Judge.
Marion. Nov. 22-26. M. G. Dickerson, Secv.; Bean, Judge.
Medina. Dec. 6-I0. H. S. Ross, Secy.; Gault, Judge.
Montpelier. Dec. 28-31. Will Welch, Secy.; McClave. Judge.
Mt. Vernon. Jan. 16-21. Luther A. Stream, Secy.; Felch, Judge,
Norwalk. .Ian. 10-14. ('haiies O. .Jackson. Secy.
Salem. Dec. 12-17. Carroll Beck, Secv.

Shelby. Dec. 19-23. W. O. Smith. Secv.; McClave. Judge.
Tiffin. Jan. 10-14. B. F. CV)ckayne. Secy.; Falkner and Struble. Judge.
Toledo, Jan. 9-15. F. W. Hoff. Secy., 2415 Trenton Ave.; Mulinix. Shepherd. Northup

and Barrett. .Judges.
Tuscarawas. Dec. 27-31. O. B. Schumacher. Secy.; Close. Judge.
Van Wert. Jan. 17-21. L. C. Blake. Secv.; Shaner. Judge.
Wakeman. Dec. 14-18. C. M. McWhorter, Secv.; McClave Judge.
Wapakoneta. Dec. 13-18. V. M. Bowers. Secy., 511 K. Pearl St.. (^ase. Judge.
Wooster. Jan. 31-Feb. 4. Arthur H. Smith. Secy.. 8 Columl)us Ave.; McClave. Judge.

Oklahoma.
Alva. L-ec. 6-10. A. H. Bullis, Secy.; Dudley, Judge.
Hydro. Dec. 7-10. Mrs. Lulu Thralls. Secv.; Stone, Judge.
Medf(;rd, Dec. 7-10. C. L. Bickerdike, Secy.

Oregon.
W. C. (^)nner. Secy.. Main and Fourth Sts. ; Collier

Cottage Grove

Portland, Dec.

Judges.

Dec.
5-10.

14-17.
J. C.

- .. Judge.

Murray. Secy., 1005 1-:. 14th St.. No.; Collier and Coates,

Pennsylvania.
Wertzberger, Secy., 1322 10th Ave.; Cornman and Ewald.

Altoona, .Jan. 9-14. .1. L.

•Judges.

Apollo. Dec. 8-10. George L. Rudolf. S<'cy.. Box 117; Auerswold. Judge.
Beaver, Jan. 11-14. .1. Mays Ecoff. Secy.; Kummer, .Judge,
Bethlehem, Nov. 23-26. Herman .1. Schueller, Secv.; Lennv. Judge.
Columbia. Dec. 26-31. M. S. (John. Secy.; Davey. Judge.
Dallastown, Nov. 21-26. Jacob El)erly, Secy.; Minnich and Holsc. .Judge.
Easton. Dec. 12-17. S. W. Godley. Secy.; Drevenstedt and Webb, .Judges.
Evans City, Jan. 11-15. J. F. McFarland. Secy.; Gault. Judge.
Glen Rock. Dec. 1-3. Allen M. Seitz, Secy., R. R. 2. New Freedom, l»a.; Hoke and

Eberlv, .ludges.
I,el)anon. Dec. 13-17. Samuel Black, Secy.. 1121 Nufflin St.; Corey and Eibel. .Judges.
Lititz. Dec. 27-31. .lamt'S H. Breitigan. Secy.; Cornman and (^orev. .Judges.
McKeesport. Dec. 23-Jan. 1. W. N. Soles. Secy., 2\\% 5th Ave.; Kummer and Keeler,

.Judges.
Mohnton, Nov. 22-26. .lohn H. Fichthorn, Secy.; Webb. Judge.

Mt. (\irmel. Nov. 22-26. Thomas F. Owens, Secy.. 224 K. 7th St.; Eberlv. Judge.
New (^istle. .Ian. 2-7. C. L. (^arson. Secy., 75 K. North St.; .Ja<iuins, Judge.
Noiristovvn. Dec. G-lo. (Jeorge C. Whittam, Secy., 1529 Arch St.; Davev, Nevins and

Pole.v, Judges.

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Any breeder will have permission to ask
questions about Reds and to take part
in discussions. J. Jl. VAIJJEUtJ, Sec'y.
D. T. HKlMl.KMl, Chairman.

* *

MEETING OF AMERICAN WHITE
ORPINGTON CLUB.

The regular meetiuM of the American
\Vhite Orpington Club will be held in
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. I'y to Dec. 3,
1910, during the Missouri State Show.
Members are lequested to be piesent.
Election of otlicers for 1911 will take
place during the meeting. Several silver
cups have been offered on White Orping-
tons and the State Association lias offered
$50.00 in gold as special prizes. These
specials should l)i mg out the largest and
strongest class of White Orpingtons ever
exhibited in tlie world, and it is the de-
sire of tlie club to have every breeder of
White Orpingtons take part in the show.
Breeders desiring membership in the club
should send for club books to F. S. Bul-
lington, See'y, Box 328, Richmond, V"a.
Membership fee is $1.0(». For premium
list of show address T. A. Quisenberry,
Columbia, Mo.

* *

WAUKEGON, ILL.

The memljers of the above association
are now completing all arrangements for
their fifth annual exhil)ition to l)e held
Jan. 6-13. The show will be cooped by
one of the large cooping companies and
the services of Mr. C. S. Byers, of Hazel-
rig, Ind., and Mr. T. M. Campl)ell. of
Darlington, Ind., have been securetl to
judge the show. The secretar.\' will send
premium list to all applicants. Address
T. B. Cleave, Waukegan, 111.

VINELAND, N. J.

The Vineland Poultry and Pet Stock
Association expects to have one of the
largest and best poultr.v shows ever held
in the state, on December 1, 2, 3, 1910.
Great preparations are lieing made to
make this their baimer show. An at-
tractive premium list will offer cash
prizes, five very beautiful ribbons, many
silver cups and special cash prizes. This
association is progressive in anything
the.v attempt and this year they will in-
troduce a special utility class which will
be a ver.v interesting feature of the show.
The hall, the Old Armory, is the largest
liall in Vineland and is well lighted and
ventilated, and with the association's new
Empire coops, make a very pretty show.
Two judges have been engaged. Train
service to and from Vineland every hour.
Thousands of people visit this show and
here is where the poultryman gets good
advertising for his money. Do not forget
this show; it will help you. For informa-
tion and catalogue write

G. E. SMITH, Sec'y.

Vineland, N. J.

■X' -X-
BRADFORD, ILL.

The Bradford Poultry Association will
hold its fourth annual show Dec. 19-23.
D. T. Heimlich will judge. Our past
shows here have been a great success
with our large number of members a»id
the extra quality of the stock in this
locality we are second to none. We guar-
antee a square deal and all premiums
paid in full. Show with us and get the
finest ril)bons you ever won. A corn
show will ])e a new feature this year in
connection with the poultry exhil)it. An
expert judge will pass on the corn. Be
sure and send for premium list.

B. 1). PHENIX, Secy.

WILMINGTON, DEL.

The Great A\'ilmington Show, great in
every i>articular except in size, will be
held November 29 to December 3, 1910,
and with the same liberal prizes, brcjad
guage rules, courteous treatment and
general goodness of preceding years, we
anticipate a big success from a fancier's
standpoint.

Our cups and other specials are offered
absolutely outright, and every exhibitor
of last year has promised to Vie with us
Apraln this year, so the true fanciers will
lose by overlooking Wilmington. Premium
lists will be out about November 1st,
and entries close November 19th.
dress Charles Simmons, Jr., Sec'y,
Washington St., Wilmington, Del.,
full information.

WILLIAM KIRK, Pres.

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POULTRY FANCIER

October, '10

ks223^

Parkers Landing, E'ec. 12-16. J. S. Brady, Secy.; Andrews, Judge.

Philadelphia, Dec. 13-17. C. Carroll Kempton, Secy.

iMttsburg. Feb. 21-26. Geo. C. Sutch, Secy., 4 Lydia St.; Denny. Gardner and Jaquin,

Judges.
Reading, Doc. 6-10. C. H. Glase. Secy.. 1331 Perkins Ave.; Edwards and Webb, Judges.
Schwenksville, Dec. 20-24. S. R. Crom, Secy.; Luvey, .Judge.
Scottdalc, Dec. 6-10. W. G. Sherrick. Secy., Everson, Pa.; Cornman, Judge.
Scranton, Jan. 16-21. Oscar W. i'ayne, Secy., 140 Wash. Ave.; Denny, McGrew, Mosher,

Wittman, Alden, Barber and Stanton, Judges.
Somerset, Nov. 23-26. A. D. Shaffer, Secy.; ISlcClave, Judge.

Williamspoit, Nov. 30-Dec. 3. James T. Huston, Secy.; Schwab and Wittman, Judges.
Womelsdorf. Dec. 1-3. Chas. D. Leinbach, Secy., Ryeland, Pa.; E'avy, Judge.

Rhode Island.
W'oonsot-kct, Dec. 15-17. C O. Smitii, Sec.w

South Carolina.
Spartan])urg, Jan. 10-12. C. W. Anderson, Secy., 133 Magnolia St.; Brown and Owen,
.Judges.

South Dakota.
Sioux Falls. Dvc. 12-16. L. (i. (iranger, Secy.; Keeler, Judge.

Tennessee.

Knoxvillc. Jan. 1.S-21. John E. Jennings. 621 N. Cential Ave.; Emry, Judge.

Texas.

Arlington. Dec. 1-4. W. T. Tlunnian, Sec.\'. ; Davis, Judge.

Beaumont, Nov. 21-26. J. L. McKinley, Secy., 1228 Harrison St.; Northup, Judge.

Clebiu'ne, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. G. E. Sears. Secy.; Savage, Judge.

L'allas, Jan. 9-13. C. P. Van Winkle. Supt.. P. O. Box 281; Hewes, Judge.

El Paso, Oct. 29-Nov. 6. L. E. Gillett, Sccv.; Van Winkle, Judge.

Honev Grove, Nov. 22-25. L. K. Erwin, Secy.; Fife, Judge.

Palestine, Dec. 14-17. O. B. McReynolds, Secy.; Van AVinkle, Judge.

Roscoe, Nov. 17-19. J. M. Wallace, Secy.; Van Winkle, Judge.

Utah.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 9-14. C. J. Sanders. Secy.; 3335 So. 7th St.; E. Heimlich, Judge.

Vermont.
Barre. Dec. 27-30. R. S. Currier, Secy.; Card, Judge.
Bellows P'alls, Dec. 6-S. A. T. IMerce. Secy.; Felch, Judge.
Bristol. Jan. 24-26. Geo. S. Farr, Secy.; Shove, Judge.

Virginia.
Front Roval, Nov. 15-17. M. C. Richardson, Jr.; Wittman, Judge.
Richmond, Jan. 11-14. W. R. Todd, Secy., 426 N. 6th St.; Simmons, Judge.

Washington.
Bellingham, Nov. 22-26. Lloyd llildebiand. Secy.; Dixon and Coats, Judges.
Spokane, Jan. 2-7. H. J. Fuller, Secy.; Warnock and Norton. Judge.

West Virginia.
Charleston, Jan. 9-14. Elijah Steen, Secy., 307 Penn. Ave.; Sites, Judge.
Fairmont, Jan. 11-14. C. E. Smith. Secy.; Taylor, Judge.
Huntington, Eec. 26-31. Fred L. Summers, Secy.; Nortiujp, Judge.
Keyser, Nov. 22-25. C. E. Everhart, Secy.; Hill, Judge.
Morgantown, Dec. 20-23. M. Dille, Secy.; Case. Judge.
Smithfield, Dec. 13-16. F. E. Funk. Secy.; Sites, Judge.
Williamstown, Dec. 12-17. W. P. Miller. Secy.; Bean, Judge.

Wisconsin.
Beaver Dam, Dec. 15-18. Otto J. Wimiing, Secy.. 412 W. 3d St.; Keeler, Judge.
Beloit, Jan. 9-14. Geo. A. Miller, Secy., R. 28.; McClave and Hackett, Judges.
Blanchardville, Jan. 3-6. L. Hattery, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Fond du Lac, Feb. 8-13. E. R. Zamzoro, Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Green Bay. Dec. 15-19. J. M. Franssens, Secy.; Campbell, .Judge.
Janesville. Jan. 16-21. F. J. Holt, Secy.; Heimlich, Judge.
Kenosha. Jan. 27-Feb. 1. E. J. Huber, Secy,; Hale, Judge.
Kiel. Dec. 29-.Ian. 2. M. J. Wirth, Secy.; Campbell, .Judge.
I,a Crosse. Dec. 7-12. Jos. H. Poehling, Secy.; Hoffman, Judge.
Lake Geneva. Dec. 19-24. H. K. Cocroft, Robert. Judge.
Milwaukee. Jan. 11-15. Theo. Koss. Secy.. 488 National Ave.; Keller, Heyl and Mc-

(^auley. Judges.
Mineral Point, Jan. 9-13. Allen Tucker. Secy.; Jas. Tucker, Judge.
Oconomowoc, Dec. 14-19. Chas. Behrens, Jr., Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Platteville, Jan. 10-13. Henry Pargman, Secy.; Mill, Judge.
Stevens Point. Jan. 17-20. Frank J. Blood, Secy.

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Single Comb Black Orpingtons

BEST WINTER
LAYERS

YouiiiG^ and old stuck for Hale. Write for prices.
JAS. McGlTAN, - - - IIARAIIOO, WIS.

y

Barred Plymouth Rocks Exclusively

Eggs from 5 grand pens, $2 per 15. Have many prize
winners in my yards. : : : Satisfaction guaranteed.

ERNEST WAGNER, - KENDALLVILLE, IND.

i

WHITE ROCKS

Stock for sale that will win in the show
room and fill the egg basket. Our birds
are bij». White, beauties, strong in good

WHITE WYANDOTTES Zfe t'^^«""J

BERWYN POULTRY YARDS,

■— — -" liveng prices.

BOX P,, BERWYN, ILL.

KERSTEN'S Coltimbiai^ Wyandottes ssiocl

l^lglVl, IJratriTnCiS can always be found among the winners.

C-RO. A. KRRSTEN
IIQ ^West 52 St. rW^asHbtxrn ParR) Miimeeipolis, Minn.

•

Octcber, '10

Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

In writing an article, as in makin^.^
soup, the more yon l)()il it down the
stronger it will ))e.

A poultry writer advises to: "Be
on guard against drafts." It is good
advice, unless you have the where-
withal to meet the drafts when they
come.

1. K. h>lch used to declare that the
Exhihition Game resembled a pair of
tongs, a little hall of fiesh mounted
on two long legs. Pictures(|ue, but
not flattering, wasn't it? But wouldn't
a handsome boy mounted on stilts be
a more appropriate comparison?

And the Cochins and the Brahmas
— do they not look as if they had
bloomers on? And the Creei)ers and
Japanese Bantams appear as if, when
le^s were being given out, they
failed to be around. And, in fact,
are not all the styles interesting ancl
the variety tliev make deliu:]itful i^ It

Prouty's Partridge Ply-
mouth Rocks

Will clo.se out
all my season's
breeders at sacriSce prices
for quick sale. Real bar-
gains. Ciet prices

O. L. PROUTY. Box 115, New Lothrop, Mich.

Columbian Wyando(fes

A choice lot of Chockerels and Pullets from
first prize winners at Madison Square, Buf-
falo and Rochester Shows. 19 0. Send for
illustrated catalog-.

POULTRY DEPARTMENT. HILI HURST FARM

J. B. Casterline. Mgr. ORCHARD PARK. N. Y.

THE HAKE

Buff Wyandottes

60 COCKERELS. (a - - $3.00
50 PULLETS, (d' - - - 1.50
20 YEARLING HENS, to 1.50
5 COCKS, to 4.00

Exhibition stock a matter of correspondence

WALTER S. HAKE. ELROY. WIS.

Pres. Baraboo Valley Poultry Assn.

Savings Invested In Realty,

Put your money in residential build-
ing lots. Be sure they are in improved
sections. Buy close to a big city. Pur-
chase early, don't let others make pro-
fits out of you. The greatest fortunes
were made by realty investments. We
>vill ofler 1000 choice building lots on
I>ec. 1st. at prices that will pay very
handsome profits. Terms of purchase,
$25.00 cash, per lot. balance in 36 equal
payments. No interest or taxes during this
period. If you die before completinir your
payments, a deed is given your heirs, with-
out further cost. Size of lots . 25x120 and up-
ward. Price of lots :?75.00 and upward, ac-
cording- to location. By Investing in land
you own something for your money. Invest-
ments in stocks and savings accounts are
under the control of others. We guarantee
you a profit of at least 2Si for the first year.
Subscription lists are now open. By remit-
ting us JIO.OO per lot, subscribers get first se-
lections. The first .500 subscribers will also
receive a credit of 10* on their purchase.

Act now. Let us make money for you and
protect your savings. We want agents in
your locality. Write us the names and ad-
dresses of somo of your nei>,'1ibors. Do it
now. BUFFALO LAND SECURITY CO.,

Ellicott Sq., BufTalo. N. Y.

POULTRY 1^NCIER*>€ p^zoalN^

wouldn't shave the thickness of a
sheet of paper off from the length of
the Game's legs, nor add a similar
shaving to that of the Japanese Ilan-
tam's legs. 1. K., all are O. K.

Said Cnrtis of another, so it is

reported, " is so lo(|uacious that

only the tootliache can make him
hold his jaw."

AIcGrew, our own Thomas, walking
down one of Scranton's busy thor-
oughfares, was accosted by a friend,
with a pleasant "How are you? Fine
day, isn't it?'' McGrew, looking about
cautiously, replied, "Excuse me if I
do not answer your (luestion." His
friend, in surprise, inquired, "Why
so^ What's up?" To which he re-
ceived the following response, "A
candidate for office cannot be too
careful about expressing an opinion."

How different are the "ducks" in
our homes and in the poultry yard!
The former have the longer bills —
especially from the dressmaker and
the milliner — while with the latter it
is the males which have the longer
hills.

It has always been a puzzle to us,
knc^wing that ministers preferred yel-
low-legged chickens, why the ReV.
C. E. Petersen should breed Houdans?
With their mottled shanks and five
toes it always was toe much for us.

The correspondent who wrote that
grapes were good for fowds was some-
what chagrined when he found that
his "grapes" had been changed to

LONG'S ORPINGTONS

Stock and Eggs at greatly reduced price*
E. M Long. Box (P F) Otceola, Ind.

Partridge, Buff, Black and White
Cochins: White, Black, Buff, Sil-
ver and Golden Polish: ^Ul^'Tt'r

15. Prize-winners 28vears: Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge, Importer and Breeder. Chenoa.fllinoi*.

R.C.aD(IS.G.R.I.Reils

Winners at HaKerstowii, Chicago, McKeesport,
Uutler and IMttsburg. liest young eU^ck I ever
raised now ready to ship. Write me. The stock
Is right and the prices are right. : : : : :: : :

F. L. Ober, R. F. D. 1, Verona, Pa.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

: $5.00 per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H. 5. BABCOCK
77 Summit St., - East Providence, R. I.

"gripes "

It doesn't look like a start-
lingly strained change either.

We can understand McGrew's posi-
tion. It was a natural change from
Cochin fowls to coaching people to
breed fowls.

If Cleveland should invite the A.
P. A. to meet there at its next session
and C. D. Cleveland should be a can-
didate for the presidency of the asso-
ciation, would Cleveland vote for
Cleveland?

Did the A. P. A. refuse admission
to Pit Games because of its inherent
repugnance to anything like a ring,
even one of sawdust or tan bark?

Which, think you, was the greater
magician, Keller or Kellerstrass?

'«* 1*

"I am sorry," he said, and he bowed
his fair head.
While the unrestrained tears be-
dimmed his bright eyes,
"And the goal is unwon, and the gold
unsecured —
I neglected, alas, the advice, Adver-

tise.

*

Gee! What would Columbus say
if he should discover us now, with a
hundred varieties made, and more
a-makingi If he could have inter-
ested a Kellerstrass in his proposed
voyage. Queen Isabella would have
been saved the necessity of pledging
her jewels, and Kellerstrass would
have needed only to sell a pen of
fowls.

"Mental Impression,*' says: "When
you put in your annual supply of coal,
keep the white fowls at a distance if
you don't wMsh to have black feathers
in your Hock." Thanks for the ad-
vice. The coal, if dusty, will be quite
likely to cause black feathers, irre-
spective of mental impressions.

* *

"Easterner is nothing if not con-
sistent." So writes a correspondent.
We thank him for the compliment,
because in these times of change only
the inconsistent cart be consistent.

"If Easterner thinks that these are
times of change," says the compositor,
"he evidently is better off than the
most of us." To which we reply that
these are times of change — small
change — very small change and little

of it.

* *

The poultry editor who devoted a
column to "P)egged, Borrowed and
Stolen," was accused of misleading
his readers, because it contained noth-
ing which had l)cen begged or bor-
rowed.

Poultrv producers pronounce "Per-
tinent. Paragraphs" profitable propo-
sitions. Seven peas in a pod are
surely prodigal productivity.

The "You're another" form of ar-
gument admits the charges made.

* *

Is symmetry a farce or a force?
What weight is to be given to it when
weighed in the Scale of Points? Does
the judge using these Scales give full

}

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Page 210

weight? Don't all speak at once,
brethren, though we would like to
know your answer.

Now that Robinson and Curtis have
each given their version of the neck-
tie and shirt front episode at St.
Louis, let the incident R. I. P.

To be tacked ui) conspicuously ii
the hen house:

The Hen's Prayer. .

Dear Master, on whom I am de-
pendent for all my needs, since
through domesticatif)n I have been
deprived of the free wild life my an-
cestors lived, hear, thou, my earnest
prayer. Feed me daily, at regular,
stated intervals, on a variety of sound
food >uited to m\' wants; forget not
the need of green food or some suit-
able substitute: remember my thirst
and keep the drinking vessels clean
and tilled with pure water, as nature
has provided me with no teeth, give

R, C. R. I. REDS & BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS

A few grand red cockerels for sale at reasonable
prices. My birds have won many prizes at the
leading northern Indiana shows, .figgs now for
12 00 peris fiom pens maiedto produce high cla^s
exhibiiion stock Harry Sowcr, Rome City, Ind.

M.E.

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Dept. 94 Cleveland, Ohio

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nic an ample siii)ply of j^rit with
which to grind the grain I nuist eat;
lime in some form 1 must have, pro-
vide thou, therefore, a supply of
groimd oyster shells: guard me
against the attacks of lice and mites;
protect my health through clean
premises; vitalize my blood by an
abundant supply of fresh air; let the
sunlight shine in upon me to promote
my vigor: and thine shall be the
praise for having done well, and
thine, too, shall be the reward which
I will render in increased production

Amen.

of fresh eggs

The most profitable interest that a
l)OUitryman can get on his capital is
th.e interest he takes in his hens. It
can't be measured by i)ercentage.

Says the exhibitor who is "in the
swim, ' to the one who is of two minds
about the advisability of showing,
"Come in, the water's fine."

E. M. Long gives us the long and
short of it \\hen he says that per-
fection is something we should seek
diligently but earnestly pray that we
nia.v never find.

"Rleak October," Mr. Petersen, is
about the most genial month in the
whole round year,

C. E. Petersen says you can't feed
chickens on sawdust. It's all non-
sense, for the chickens have too much
sense to be deceived thereby.

M ;. Thormohlen seems to know
ho\\ to separate the sheep horn the
goats even in this world.

bVesh air and sunshine are i)retty
go(^(l, but a little corn is also a help

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLEISTOWN, PA.

General Judge all varieties Poultry. Careful
and straightforwardly honest work in the show
r«om. 30 years a poultryman.

R. C. REDS

Some of the
best in Ameri-
ca. Kggs at

half price after June 1st. About 30 good Hens,

will sell cheap. Write today.

VIRGIL BLAKEMORE. FAYETTE, MO

IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND

To Mark Chickens
CHEAPEST AND BEST

12 for l.-^K-; 2/)-2.'x>, jt>— 40e; 100— 75<J,
Sajiipic \\iuad Mailed for 2o StAinp.
Frank Myers Wfr. Box 68. Freeport.UI.

1*^^ Crown Bone Cutter

BEST A\AOE

Lowest
in Price

"""isiS";"!!; '" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville, Ind., Jan. 4-8, Tucker, Judge; 2
:\ cock. 2 cockerel, 1, 2, 4 hen. 1, 2 pullet 1. 2,
pen. 20 females average 92 15. Richmond,
Itid. .Janl 2-15, Zike. Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered;! cockerel. 1, 2 hen, 1.
2 pullet. 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Kggs from best pens only $1 for 15
after May 15th IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

Quality

WHite
RocK

Yards

A fine lot of yonng stock for sale from my

winners at Milwaukee and

other shows.

W. R. Abbott, Prop., Ff. Atkinson, Wis.

in rearing chickens. We should keep
our fresh-air ideas under proper re-
straint.

A. S. Croft has a i)retty good work-
ing knowledge of the btiilder's craft,
when he can construct a house for a
flock of twenty-five fowds at a total

cost of $ir).:50.

If you have a hen "meaner 'n pus-
ley," don't breed from her. says Mr.
Thormohlen. Pretty good advice
too. if 3'ou know how mean "pusley''
reallv is.

The reign of summer cner. we
naturally anticipate the rain of au-
tumn.

There may be some doubt as to
what causes a wry tail, but the cause
of a "rye tale" is often disclosed the
next morning to the police judge.

Sometimes a rye tale is told with a
wry frace.

-I* •*•

In Kansas it is believed that it is
better to sing "Comin' through the
rye," than to have the rye coming
through you.

«!- *•*

'I* 'I*

If some hents don't like rye, some
men do.

The teller of a rye tale is apt to
be somewhat awry.

There is a su))tle connection be-
tween a dry tale and a rye tale, if
one could but Inid it.

To raise rye in fields is preferable
to raising it in glasses.

Be sure that you don't rue the rye.

The kicker was at hrst a kickee.

.1, .1-
-■■ -)'

Kicking is a useless waste of en-
ergy. The power thus used up, if
proi)erly directed towards some
v.orthy object, would do away with
the need of or temptation to kicking.

The cull chicken, anticipating his
end, desparingly cries, "I'm in the
soup.''

Young chickens for broilers, old
fowls for boilers.

If it were always fair weather, we
certainly would long for a storm.

Man wants change — the more the
letter. Half dollars preferred to
Lents.

To "Inexperienced": You will
never get a buff bird from a white
one simply by feeding yellow corn.

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.Mahomet, it is said, used tf) feed
his pigeon by putting peas in his ear.
Poultrymen often i^i^iX their hens with
corn in the ear. and they are not
proi)hets either.

It may be difficult to tell always
what causes a wry tail, but the cause
( f a wry face can generally be easily
ascertained.

The way to win is to win.

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jiswers to Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Que.stioii.— M.v U. 1. Red (%)(k lias some
peculiar disea.^e of tiie head. It is cov-
e?-ed with a while substance wliicii peals
off IfJt ret'.irns. When the atnios[)lieie
is danip it leave.s to some extent. I also
liave two cockei-els that are taking it.
F find nothing in the p(»uitr.v hooks that
seem-; like it in an> wa.v. Kindlv tel!
me wiiat tlie trouble is, and tjivc "me a
reniedy.

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Answer. — This condition of the comb
known as white comi), or Favus. and
not checked will cause the couib
ciack and fall to one side, desi loxins
l»(iitior) of i) iu the same manner as
cancer. It may also spread to the skin
«)f the head and other parts of the fowl.
The Krowtl' i.s of a fun.uus nature ami
may l)e communicated by contact. As
nuicj! of ilie crust as can be scraped off
without causing bleedinji should l)e re-
moved. Apr)ly tincture of iodine dailv.
also an ointment made of 1 part of reci
oxide of mercury to 8 parts of vaseline.
If the case is too severe to yield to this
ireatmont ai>i)ly an oiiument made of
three i^rains of nitrate of silver tliorough-
\\ mixed with a iialf-oi'nce of vaseline.

Ciuesti<Mi.— I was told that a new Amer-
ican Standani of Perfection is about to
be issued, ('an a new Standard be is-
sued within ten years of the date of the
last one published?

Answer. — The new revised edition will
be ready for delivery December 1st. The
constitution of the .Xmcrican Poultry
.\ssociati(»n pr(»vides that tlie Standard
cannot be revised oftener than every five
\ears.

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Que.stion. — 1 n.ixe liad altoul a dozen
cases recentl.N' of croj) trouble. In the
niorniii!; l)efote feeding 1 would notice
the crop distended, though not iiard.
Kneading it qentl.w it would decrease
somewhat in size. The birds would mope,
shru;; their shoulders and act as if they
didn't care whethei" tliey ate an.vthin^ or
not. Some were on ranse, some weie
.\ai-de<l. I think 1 had one
ni.\steriousl.\ disai)i)eared. I
wandered fai- away and died,
have now r'^covered. I fed
!ittU> foi- several days and
witii powdeied charcoal; usuall.v it was
moistened bread, choppecl onion an(l char-
coal. I had been feeding i|inte liberally
wheat in tiie mcniiing. corn at niKht. at
iioon a mash cd" Ijoiled potatoes (old) and
bran, a little meal and a pinch of salt.
Tiiejt about every <dher da.v 1 sid)sti-
tuled eithei morniuK or evening oats
tliat had .soaked .several hour.s and usu-
ally boilel. They always had water,
what I thought was grit-a-plenty, but 1
neglecte<l the charcoal su[)ply. Now
like to know what caused the trou-
I want to feed oats again, and they
them better swelled. Please give me
-onie light.

was ceitainl.\- n«dhin.i^
could lia\e r-aused the
coidd ha\e been the
oats, and they could not have caused it
if they had been well soaked and the
sharp ends thoroughl.v softened. We are
inclined to believe that the birds must
ha\'e had access to something else whicli
they have eaten which has caused tlu-
trouble. F'erhaps they have eaten small
pieces of straw, \\i\y, dried grass or other
similar substajices (»?■ it nia.v be i»ossible
that the\ nave eaten ouite a numl»er of
feathers, eitiier picked from the ground
or plucked from other chickens. The
thing to do in a case «)f this kind is to
<<l»cn the crop (d' one of the dead chick-

death. He

suppose he

The others

Iheni \-er.\

mixed that

iiad

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like

Answer. — There
in the feed which
tiouble inile.ss It

ens and ascertain what has caused the
troulde.

Question. —The enclosed twisted feath-
ers are from a n^-lb. Buff Orpington.
Come from the back just above tlie tail.
Have had probably half a dozen cases
this year. The first and worst was an
April hatched bird that has outgrown it,
weighs 5 lbs. now and is a dandy young
cockerel. Would you u.se him as a breed-
er? The rear end of the back, including
tail, has the appearance of l)eing curled.
The feathers seem to h.ave a sort of a
twist, as you see. and just at the tip
are a shade lighter in color. In the
Itreeding pe!i from wiiich they came, I
used one yearling c(»ck and one cockerel,
both good birds and ciulte vigorous. One

a little darker than the other. These I
alternated. Will be glad to have vour
opinion as to the cause.

Answer. — Tlie twisted feathers which
you have taken from the back of the
cockerel are such as we often times find
In various sections of a bird. They are
a freak of nature and we do not know
that anyone has ever found a satisfac-
tory explanation of th© defect. If there
are not a good many of the feathers
twisted It is a good plan to pull them
out, and in many cases the new feathers
will come in straight. If there are very
many you might pull a few at a time,
that is, 3 or 4 feathers every few da vs.
If the new feathers when they come in
again are twisted the Idrd should be
disposed of as a cidl. Such a bird should
not be used as a breeder.

TRANSFER

OF COLUMBIAN
DOTTES.

WYAN

Canandaigua, N. Y., Sept. ]5th, 1910.

I have ths day sold and delivered to
Hillhurst Farm, Orchard Park. N. Y.. my
entire stock (d" Columbian Wyandottes,
including cuts and good will.

This stock combined with the stock the
Hillhurst Farm already has should place
them well in the front rank of i'olum-
bian breeders. gi\ing them a large stock
of ver.v high <iualitv.

C. .1. AXDRT'SS.

TOP NOTCH S. C. R. I. REDS

^^_ <dd Chicks, :^ree mating list.

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM, R. P. Guptill, Prop., Elcho, Wis.

are all the name im-
lies. Eggs and Day

60 Years *^ "L^T"^ I. K. Fdcli & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.
Every PATRON has been satisfied with the stock for the money paid.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT, when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

WIN AND bre:e:d on

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons' winnings to their advantage.

From Sept. 1 to May 15, Brahmas $3.50 to $10 for females; $5 to $20
for males. White and Baired Rocks and While Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all, $4 for 1 5, $7 for 30, $9
for 45, and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 to Sept.l, all yearlings before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
particulars address

L K. FELCH & SON, Box 176, NATICK, MASS.

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QUESTIONS
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REDS

jr>«^ A Cs»isM§g%nut» ^*^^ photoKraph.s. Descrlptlon.s and prices on 3.0(H) Rhode lslan<l Red cock
. Cr ^I^tff lO^iie erels and pullets, bre4l from the World's Best stock, the flne.nt that h»ig W«-
Mppeared at New York. Boston. Clncafjo. Detroit, etc. Ahso orje and two-yettr-old exhibltUm and utility bird*;- Ijo^h
cond)s. Everyblrdgnaranteedtoplea.se. ' »• . »~».u

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2- YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and "Barred Rock epRS $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
638. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

HOUDAN EGGS FROM WINNERS AT
Madison and Dodgeville, also Barred Rocks.
Ringlet strain. Eggs, $2 per 15. Stock
for sale. Elmer Johnson, Argyle, Wis. 4-3

EGGfcJ FROM BARRED, BUFF AND
White Rocks, $1.50 for 15. Single Comb
Brown, Buff and White Leghorns $1 for 15.
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd, Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

CHOK'l': <'<JCKE]iELS. TALUMET'

.stiain VVhitL- Rocks. Tlu-ir mothers all
have trap nest records of 200 eggs and bet-
ter. Big wliite Standard shaped fellows.
Sei«Mt.<l birds .$2 up. C. I. Hashoie. Calu-
mt-t. Mirh. H-1

('HOICK COCKIER ELS. •CALl'ME'r'

i^train Whiti- Ro(.k.-<. Theii- mothers all havt-
trap nest reeords of 200 eggs and Itetter. Big
white Standard shaped fellows. SelocttHl birtis
$2 up. C. I. Bashore, <'alunu-t. Mich. 10-

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R, A. Judy, Decatur,
UK 3^

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

GIMLIX'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. HAVE

exhiltitt'd anil won leading poultry .shows
in liMt'.t, including Illinois State Show and
lUinoi.s State Fair. Have furnishe<l win-
ners for slmws that have won the blue.
Send for free catalogue, list of winnings
and jiriccs on stock and eggs. Elmer Olm-
lin. Tavlorville. HI. 9-10-12

WHITE WYANDOTTES — EGGS FROM
pen of 8 hen.s. 1 cock picked from 284
birds, $2 per 15. $3 per 30, farm range $4
per 100. Rev, G. C. Strueblng, Freeburg.
111^ 4-3

GOOD WHITE WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factory prices. G. J. Trester, Rushford.
Minn. 5-2

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES— A CHOICE

lot of cockerels for sale. Also a few cocks
and hens. (Jood ones. \V. Rodman A: Son,
Darien, Wis.. Directors National Partridge

Wyandotte dnb. ;t-3

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. ANY OF

the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
1-10-12

S. «• <»KPINGT()NS — A FINE LOT <)K

cockt r.ls for sab'. Eggs for hatching in
s«asoii. This stock is l)rt'd for size, type
ami iolur !,. !•:. .\ckcrl\. I''raiikr<>i t. Iiul.lo-j

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of ail who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton

Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

KELLEKSTK.ASS WHITE OKI'INGTON

<o<kcrc]s. Jircd from prize winners at lead-
ing shows. Dav old chicks in season. Also
White Rocks, White Wyandottes, S. C. White
Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds. Get
jniccs. .1. A. Roy. Netcong. N. J. 10-."!

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldridge & Son, Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shans is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 9b\^ in
show room. Prices right. Eggs in season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
Mo. 1-6

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus, N. Y. 4-3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95 »^, females 96 V^. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing,
score 19 lA. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton. Wis. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
.3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
won four firsts, Athens, 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94, pen 186%. Eggs. $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer.
Carpenter, Ohio. u-»-i2

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. H. M, Moyer, R. 2, Bechtels-
vlHe, Pa. 11-9-12

S. C. l^ROWN LECHORNS. EXHIBITION
and utility birds. Get prices on stork and
eggs now. Can please you. Ralph N.
Batchelor. Fairvlew, Mass. 4.3

BANTAMS.

HARE B.AHGAINS, CJOLDE.N ANL .^IL\ lOK
Sebright. Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
niack and Black Red Game Bantnnis High-
esi iinnoiQ New York. SOO bii-ds. I'roTier K-
Co., Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

HOUDANS.

THE BEST THAT ARE BRED IN HOU-
dans. Winners at Chicago and Minneapolis
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. H. M. Sparboe, Webster
City, Iowa.

8-3

HOUDANS— BEFORE BUYINiJ STOCK OR

eggs write me. Have cock birds and hens;
also, fine bunch of cockerels and pullets to
select from. L. A. Sedgwick. 1510 E. Gan-
son St.. .Jackson, Mich. 1(1-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop..
Ridgefield. N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

I'HEASAXT JiREEDlXc; i'AVS NKO PER
cent belter than chicken raising. A ptiir or
phea.sants are worth from .$!'.'.. oo 10 !S150.0(>
lo a breeder yearly. Iiea<l the Reliable
Pheasant Slandaid. the rcct.gnized authority
on i)heasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich liMJustiy. T.'i cents a copy by mail
Ironi A. \'. Meersch. i'oughkeepsie. New
V<»ik. 9-OS-tf

TURKEYS.

.\JAAJA,(»i 11 iUTE HOLLAND TLHl ^VS.

All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A Smith'
Burnt Prairie. 111. 4.3

PIGEONS.

I OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stock at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert. 1503 East
Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. 8-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. 50 cents and ^1 per box. G. B. Sie-
genthaler. Canton. O. 6-4

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<:INSEXG SEEDS AND itOOTS FOR SALE
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with poultry. I'loasant Imke Glnsentr Farm
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17 ELM STREET . WOBURN. MASS.

R. C. Brown Leghorns

stock from Madison Square and Boston winners.
Cockerels aud pullets that eaii win at the Fall
fairs. Choice early i>ullet8. Write wants. Circular.
Jas. Crawford :: Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested, Standard-bred.

a-St Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, .size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street. EVANSTON. ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all flrsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stoclc or eggs, iirand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•3 per 15. $'> per 3(». I will more than please yoti.
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367 Dearborn Stratt, ^ Chicago, III.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

None better. 40 first and second
prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
Cit^. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. ,J. BMS.S. Carthasro, Mo.

Reds.

AnronA^ EXCLUSIVELY
AUCUUas years. Hundr<

Leaders for 12
years. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by usandour customer.s.
Young and old stock ll.'iO and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St.. Eaat End. PitUburs. Pa.
President Ancona Club of America

Houdans and Buff ,y,;L'';;,T''win„U"s

Wvan«1nHoe "'^ highest honors on Hou-
fTJTdUUUllC^ dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua, making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $3 Wyandotte eggs $2 Circulars. '
Mrs. R Y. Bowden. Clifton Springs, N. Y.

pi^i^m

Line Bred For 20 Years

Special pricf-Hun <'.ut kerflnaiid piiUt'ts. Voiingstock
better than ever this season. (;t>t prices now.

E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville. Ohio

Cockerel mating of
the yery best strain.
Pullet line is direct descendants of "Louis-
ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs $3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
Jl-.W for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.,Centerville.Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMBf,''o'=„
REDS

s
m
five strictly exhibition matings at
$3 00, $4 00 per 16. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
at a bargain
FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton. 111.

REICHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. W. Leghorns

Special prices on K. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels, in
lots of three or more. $1.50 each, for this month.
Satisfuction guaranteed. : : : : : : —

K. H. Reichert - :- A'irden, Illinois

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and domestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Cornish 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore. Box 92. Hopkinsville. Ky.

Rose Comb Brown

First prize win-
ners at Meridan,
I F^HriRN^ Hartford. Worcester and
LiLiUllVIVnO Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Bggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

bite Plume

•arm p*^***

cu lit you need

luces the fowls
to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks. White African Guineas.
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks.
White Emhden Geese. Write for prices ou
eggs. .Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. _C, BAKER, Prop.. Rt. L Plainville, III.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode island Reds. Golden
Princess laid 291 eggs in a year; 50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice. 10c.
IRA WATSON. FREDONIA. N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas. White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio. L. Box M*

HilverLaced Wyandot ten, Wliite Crested
Black PoliMh and liarred I'irmouth
Kockri. Direct deRceudantH from Madlsou ."square
and Chicago winners. Won twenty eight regular
pr!/e8 and two diplomas at OolweJn. lows. .Tau.
4-!». Jft09, in fltrong competlon. Choice nUyrk for
sale. Circular free. Cancadn Poultry VardN,
Wm. Neiera. Prop., L, K.45, CaM<'a«l«, la.

PPI^n'Q K C BROWN LEGHORNS and
aCCiU O R c RHODE ISLAND REDS

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee, Prince-
ton and Illinois .State Shows, (iet my descrip-
tive circular of six grand mating"? for the egg
season DR. F. M REED.

Wyanet. III.

A9ht Brahmas. Fetch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 15. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09, won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females .score from 92K to 9f).
3d prize ck. score 92% and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Hd Bartlett PW>4 Onk <5t New^qctl*' Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and havs.
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
.send us an order for stock or egjfs Both for
sale now. Write us. D. A- WEDGE.
215 Galena Street Aurora, ill.

S. C R. 1. REDS AND BARRED
PLYMOUTH ROCKS f^^f^^i^:^

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS. RTE, 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ri:;^'^f„°lS?

D/\/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

i. C.and R. C. RHODE ISLAND R£DS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire 'Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud," Hose comb descendants of O. E. Mllea
flfHt pen. superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ^^-I'-^W

l,yons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from

select matings that will produce winners

Write for prices. L C. VOGT. Lyona. Wia.

Walker's White Rocks

ALWAYS WIN

Write for prices on stock and eggs.
ROBT. WxVI.KER. - S«>brintf. Ohio

COCHINS HOME. MeadQuarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Rrabmas First prizs
and silver cup winners ailWlnnepeg, Can.. Seattle
A.Y.P., Minn.. 111., and S. Dak. State P'alrs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Gard»^n.
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF RGCKSI^o^j

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolift, Ind- btate Show my

Rarrpfl P Rnrlr« ^'^" '"** puiiet, 3rd

DOrrca r. IVOCKS hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
ccM:kerel. 3rd pullet. 1910 also Silver Cup.
Kggs $3 00 for 1.5. H. W. B ARNF.TT
' 24 Buthnell BIdff.. - Sprinfffi*>ld. O. <

Cvolnmbiati Plymouth lioekH (^Sweet's
Blrnln.) HInck tulled .Inpanfae ninl HulT Cochin
Hantams, HtrrtMi liocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sa'e. Let me book your
order early for ejrjrs from my choicest mattntrs
at ia.lXt per 15. t.'S.uc) i»er lUK Bantam e^gs at •2..50
per ir», •4.(K)per.'iO.
K, B. ROBKKTS CANASTOTA, N. Y.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Fine breeders or show b|rrls f?nm my
MiHHonii and Kitnt-aH state Sh..w win-
ners. Sitiis(..cll(»n K'i«rHntet(l. :: :r

S. O. Whiprecht, llox li. Sodnlia, Mo.

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2- YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
(lotte cooks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Tiarred Rock epp:s %1 per
13 from .Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
fi38. Anadarko. Okla. 7-9-12

nor DAN E(;g.<; from winners at

•Madison and Dodfrcvillo, also Barred Rocks.
Ring-let strain. Eggs. $2 per 15. Stock
for salp. Elmer Johnson. Argryle, Wis. 4-.1

EG'-JS FliOM DAIUtED, J^.UEF AND
Whit<' Itoeks. $1.50 for 15. Single Coml.
P.rowii. J^uff and White Logliorns $1 for l.J.
Mahaney Bros., Winterrowd, Ills. 5-4

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

«'iit»i<'i': t ■> M KERioLs. -iw LiM i:t'

vtijiiii Wliit. Ritcks. Tlicir mothtis all
liavf lr;i|« m-st i-.-rord.s nf 'Jiiii i-ggs iiii<i ln-i-
lii-. I!)l; wliii.' ."-^i :itnl;i nl shaiM-d r.'lhiws.
Scjiitiii Mills >L' up. « '. I. I SmsIhm-.'. »';i1vi-
III. •!. Mi-h !'-1

t'lK ih'i-: ft ). -KiMiioi.s. •■•'ALrMi-n- •

sir.iln Whit.- R'»i K.-. 'I'IkIi- iii'Uhi'rs ah ha\f
trap iitsi I'oiids lit' L'nii i'gj;s ami iuMtir. I5i.n
white Starnlaril shaiuMl fi-llnws. Silrti .ij liii-ds
i<2 lip. «' I. I'.ashiin-. «'al\iiii<t. Miili. Kt-;:

wiirri-: i;'mi<s s'|-<m-k i'<>r .'-;.\i.i; tilxt

will win in i hi' slpiw inuiii ami till lln' >-A'a
hasski t. • Mir Pinls art- Iml;, whiti- Inaiiti.'S.
strong ill all giiiMl pujiiis. 10.y.L;s linin oiir
ihoiicsi inaliiifus al li\in.!4 pricis. Ucrwyn
l^oultrv "Sarils. R.ix I'. l!.i\v\n. 111.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLL'.MBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty l>ret-d. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15; other
pens $5 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,
111. 3-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

<;i.Mij.\'s wiirri-: w va.\d< n'Tios. ii.wi-;

I'Xh iliil I'll ainl will) h-ailiiiK poiiltr\- shuws
ill l!Mi:i. iiiiliiiliiii; IHiijiiis Stat<- Slinw and
Jlliiiois .*~taii' I'air. ilasc furnishiMl win-
ners i.ii ^liiiwv that ha\<' wi>n the blue.
Sen<l |iii fife ialaltigu<\ lisi nf winnings
and prill— nii sioi-k and ogg-s. I']inn'i' C.ini-
liii. Tax l..r\ illr. 111. !t-I(>-12

wiirn-: wvANDt > i rEs— eggs from

pen iif *^ hens. 1 cock picked from 284
l.irds. ^^2 j>er 15, $3 per 30, farm range $4
per lOn. Rev. G. C Struebing. Freohurg.
111. 4-3

good white WYANDOTTES AT SATIS-
factoi\- prices. G. J. Tre-^ter, Rushford.
Minn. 5-2

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

i'.\ i; ri: 1 1 )• ;i-: w ^' \ \i »< ittics .\ nmir^E

lilt III i.nekelels tiil' sal''. .\|S'| a few cilckS

and hens. imkkI mies. W. Riidman »V- Sun,
Daiiei). Wis.. I )ire(|((is .Xali'Mial I'aitridge
W\a iiiii'T le t'liiii. ;•-::

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANY OF

the varieties, you must send to their origi
naiors, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Ori)ington.«
and hints on poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons. Box C, Scotch Plains, N. J.

1-lO-TJ

S. < ■. < MM'I .\<;T< ».\S .\ I'l-XE L< IT Ml-'
eiicUi III.- |iir sal' . I'uus jui haleliiny in

SeaSMll. This stiieU is bred \\\y si/e. I .\ pe

mill «..!.. I I,. !•'. .\iKiil>. l-'ra Ilk lull . Iiid 1 n I

«saft3s»?w«f Jiaa^ajK«i

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton

Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

K i:i.i.i:i:.<Ti: A.-;.^ wiini-; < iimm .\<rr< »n

eiickeiils. I'.ieil iiitiii pii/,e winners at lead-
ing shiiws. I>a,\- i>|il iliicks in seasun. Alsw
White R.ieks. Wliite Wvandi't te.s, ,^. < '. While
Leghiiiiis and Klmde Island Reds. Get
priees. .1. .\. R,i\. Net inn g. .V. .1. ln-:'.

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Rldridge & Son. Bourne. Mass 9-0-12

LANGSHANS.

THE QUALITY OF MY BLACK LANG-
shan.s Is proved by their show record. You
don't take chances when you send me your
order. I can start you right or Improve
your flock with some of the grand birds I
now have for sale. Scores to 95 V^ In
show room. Prices ri<?ht. Eggs in season.
Write me. Mrs Frank Camerer, Gazette,
Mo. i-fi

INN'EST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a Inindred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
euckei-els for sale. Fred L. ]?acliman, Rom-
ulus. N. X. 4-3

i:iG j:.\i:c.AiN.s now in grand JURDS.

Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best P>lack Langshans. Have a show
r<'c;)rd under leading judges unecjualed by
anj other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95 lA, females rtC'/s. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastein AVisconsin show this
.<^onson and won silver cu]) for best i)en in
the show tliree years, all breeds competing,
score 191,1.. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis.
Poultry & P. S. A'^sn.. Chilton. Wis. 11-9-12

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

liLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square,
New Y"ork, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
jiullet. Egg.s $2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside, Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

I.\'\IN<"IP.LE .S. C i'.ROWN LlCGHOItNS
won four firsts, Athens, 1910. Cock scoring
93%. pullets 94. pen 186%. Eggs, $2 to $3.
Mating list ready soon. Harry T. Trainer,
Carpenter, Ohio. u-Hi-l2

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS BRED FOR
shape, color and laying qualities. Baby
chicks $10 per 100. Eggs by the setting.
Circular free. IT. M. Moyer, R. 2, Bechtels-
ville, I'a. 11-9-12

s. «• i-.RowN Li:<;m)RNS. exhiihtion

an<l utility bir<1s. Get prices on stock and
eggs now, <:an please you. Ralph N.

1 '.a ti liejnr. Fairvicw, Mass. 4.0

BANTAMS.

K.MIF HAIIGAINS. GOLDEN A .\ 1 • .>-ll.\ ER
Sebright. Jiuff and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
P.lack and Black Red Game Bant.mi"- High-
est h..ni«i« New Yo»k. .sOn birds Prmier X-
Co. Sclioliaiie. N. Y. 8-9-12

HOUDANS.

THl-: REST THAT ARI-: BRED IN HOF-
dans. Winners at Chicagii and Minneapolis
iiif several years in sueco.v^sion. A lot of

ni' nes for sale. n. .M. Sjiarboe. Webster

«'ii.\. \^<\\;\. 8^

ih dDA.vs i:i;i'< »i: I-; ihvlng .stckms <>k

e^t;s write nie. Have eiicdi hirds and Inns;

alsi), line Imneli id eixdiends .and pullets to

select fioin. L. .\. Seduwiek. 1 .". 1 (i \\. <;an-

snn ."^t.. .I.ieksiiii. .Miili. 10-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
Yorlv and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

< 'berry Grove Farm. M. R. .facobus. Prop..
Ridgefield, N. .1. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

riii:.\s.\NT i:i:i:i:i>i.\<; pays mmi per

•••■111 I.eller tll.lli eliieKeli lalSlllg. A \K\.\V iit

plnasants an- wnitli I'luin .■> l' ,'. . i n i in .si.'.u.du
I" a breeder .\eail.\. Read ilie Reliable
I'heas.ini Siandaid. tin- nengn ized aiilhuriiy
'•II jdieasant breeding, and leaiii all about
this rieli indiisir.v. 7.'i eeiits a ei.py l»y mail

ll'lln .\ . \. .Meil .•<e|| 1 •ollLlllkel jisie, Nt'W

V"i k !t-os-tf

TURKEYS.

.\IA.\I.\ ( M II iliri-: HOLLAND 11 Ic :VS

All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
i:ggs %'i per setting of 10. W. A. Smith!
r.miit Praiiic, 111. 4.3

PIGEONS.

1 OFFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $l.uo a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers to produce
better stuck at twice this price. Beautiful
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get my prices
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K. t'.ilbert, 15(;,} East
Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia. Pa. S-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

(JAPES IN CHK'K.'?. BFY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on leceipt of
[irice. 50 cents and $1 per liox. G. B. Sie-
uenthaler. <^nnlf>n. O. f^.4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY. GENERAL, NOTE-
heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either. 40c; 250. 75c; 500, $1.25.
postpai(L Circulars, (everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
.Model Printing Co., Manchester. la. 10-9

POULTRY BOOKS.

S< llO.NCl.: ANI» AKT <.|.- |'<MLTRY CI I.-
""'■'•" ''.V Earl I 1. Hawks, praetjeal j.oiiltiv
exiMTt and inanagi 1 id large jmiiltiv jdani.
Textbouk lur I'luinners and e.\i,ert.s. <un
."■•erxaliNe and eumpieheiisix e. <"<.\ers s .-

called secrete ;i||i| S.VStelUS. also entile III

dustiy. <"li)ili hound, .'.nn pages. ."^eiid im
I'ircul.ar. P'm); Cm.k < ••.. i I>e).t \ , Clin-
'::"■ J\''>- in-.;

MISCELLANEOUS.

<;in.-^i:ng si;i;i».s and liuuis vk)\{. .sale
^..(i.iniu.iMi is .1 lonscrvativc estimate for (me
ai 1.- of (Jinscng. Easily iais,>d In connection
with poultry. Pleasant Lake Ginseng Farm
l.oek |:..\ l.cj, Cadillac, Midi. ,1; {

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Ads will be inserted in this department under the following conditions: The size
•hall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column Each
advertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS

::::H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE::::

17 ELM STREET - WOBURN, MASS.

R.C.Brown Leghorns

stock from Madison Square aiui Boston winners.
Cockerels and pullets that can win at the Fall
fairs. Choice early pullets. "Write wants. Circular,
Jas. Crawford : : Cameron Mills, N. Y.

Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested. Standard-bred,

a-'t Rhode island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Stock and
eggs in season. Free catalog

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street, EVANSTON, ILL.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all firsts and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•3 per 15. $.t per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown, Iowa

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

Other people would read your ad if it were
here, just the same as you are reading this
one. See the rates and conditions at the head
of this department and send in an ad. It will
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER.
357 Dearborn Street, ^ Chicago. III.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

Rtf^rle None better. 40 first and second
^T^*^***" prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 1.50 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I). ,J. «LISS. Carthasre, Mo.

AnrnilAC EXCLUSIVELY, Leaders for 12
/Tiiwuiiaa year.s. Hundreds of prizes in
hot competition won by us and our customers.
Young and old stock $1.50 and up. Prices low
for quality. Our stock and eggs will put you
up among the leaders W. H. Branthoover.
6115 Station St., East End, Pittsburg. Pa.

Presidetit Anemia Club of America

Houdans and Buff "■•^•;.T"w1n„U"s

rs
Hou-

Wvanflntf AC "^ highest honors on
TTjTdnUUlieb dans at Rochester and Can-
andaigua. making nearly clean sweeps. Hou-
dan eggs $3 Wyandotte eggs |2 Circulars. *
Mrs. R Y. Bowden, Clifton Springs. N. Y.

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BARRED ROCKS S?e^'tr4'b?Lri"rliS'

Pullet line is direct descendants of "Louis-
ana," the Worlds Fair hen. Eggs |3 to $5 for
15. Utility flock headed by prize winners
11.50 for 15 eggs. Catalogue free.
S. R. Patterson. Dept. P. F.,CenterviUe,Iowa

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB ff^^

PpnC five strictly exhibition matings at
I\\a\JO $3 00, $4 00 per 15. A grand lot of
breeders for sale with score cards after May 30
bargain

at a

FRED. W. OERTEL, Box. F. Brighton. HI.

REiCHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C IV. Leghorns

Special prices on II. C. W. Leghorn Cockerels. In
lots of three orrnore. fl.50 each, for thi.s month.
fcatlsfHCtion guaianteed. :: :: ::

K. H. Beiehert - :-

Vlr«Ion, Illinois

Cornish Indians. Superb Matings.

Best imported and dotnestic blood. Eggs for
hatching. Have bred Corni.sh 18 years.
Cockerels for sale. Can help you.

T. D. Moore, Box 92. Hopkinsville, Ky.

Rose Comb Brown J'S' a?Te,idi;;:

I F^HORNQ Hartford. Worcester and
L.i:iUnUI\iliJ Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK, BOX F. COBALT. CONN.

White Phimp Farm pi^*'duces the fowls

Tf UilC r lumc rarm you need to build
np your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, Prop.. Rt. 1 , Plainville. III.

WATSON'S CELEBRATED STRAIN OF
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Golden
Princess laid 291 eggs in a year; 50 hens
averaged 240 in a year; eggs and cockerels
from this great strain for sale; a recipe for
sure cure for lice, 10c.
IRA WATSON, . FREDONIA, N. Y.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

from S. C. Brown Leghorns. S. C. Black and
White Minorcas, White Wyandottes, Barred
Rocks and R. C. Rhode Island Reds.

C. Jackson, Buchtel, Ohio, L. Box M*

.Silver Laced WyandotteH, White Crested
Itlark FoHmIi and liarred I'lymouth
Kovkrt. Direct descendants from Madison square
and Chicago winners. Won twenty elghc regular
prizes and two diplomas at Oelweln, Iowa, .Ian.
4-9. Ifl09, In strong competlon. Choice /itock for
sale. Circular free. Cancade Poultry Yards,
AVm. Neiern. Prop., L, It. 4/>, CaH<'nd«\ la.

LiKht Brahntas, Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from high-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09. won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females score from 92K t^o ^5.
3d prize ck. score 92% and ckls. for sale.
Mrs. Ed Bartlett Ifiqi^ Oak <;t NewPqctle Pa.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstrass strain and hav^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggs Both for
sale now. Write us. D, A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora, 111.

S. C. R. I. REDS

BARRE!

PLYMOUTH ROCKS ^TJ'°^i^:"

Write for our 1910 mating list which gives a

complete list of our winnings.

E. H. DOWNS, RTE. 20. IDAVILLE. IND.

PRIZE ^V1NNINQ

WHITE PLYMOUTH „^i"« '^l°l'^.

D/^/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices

UNION, IOWA

right.
OSCAR E. WOOD

S. C. and R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendaDts from New
York Champion, his sire 'Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. MIlea
first pen, superior color, fine eombs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

BUFF ROCKS and BUFF
WYANDOTTES ^^^roT^^l

Lyons, Delevan and Waterford. Eggs from
-select matings that will produce winners.
Write for prices. L. C. VOGT, Lyons, Wis.

Walker's White Rocks

ALWAYS WIN

Write for prices on stock and eggs.
ROBT. WALKER. - Sebrin^. Ohio

COCHINS HOME. Headquarters for Amer-
ica's greatest Cochins and Brabmas First prizs
andsllvercup wInnersatlWlnnepeg, Can.. Seattle
A.Y.P.. Mlun.. 111., and S. Dak. State Fairs. Man-
kato, Minneapolis and Madison Square Garden,
N.Y. Get my prlcee before you buy birds of
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C. M. Atwood, Box Z, 35, Dundee, Minn.

BUFF ROCKS ^°„\"g

sired by a 95 point male. Also yearlings.

Special prices for short time.

A. L. Fawcett, Box 8, New Albany, Pa.

At Indianapolis, Ind- ^tate Show my

Ddrrt;U I. IVOCKS hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet. 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
Kggs $3 00 for 15 H. W. BARNETT
24 Bu.hn*.!! RldJK ^ SprinefJ^ld,

Columbian Plymouth Rocks (Sweet's
Strain.) Hlack-talled Japanese aud Huff Cochin
Hantams. Harred Hocks. A few choice cockerels
of each variety for sa'e. Let me book your
order early for eg^s from my choicest matings
at t:^.(K) per Ifi. t.'i.UO per 30. Bantam eggs at $2.50
per 1.5, f 4.(M) per 80.
E. B. KORERTS CANASTOTA, N. Y.

WFFn'^R <^-»R^>^^ LEGHORNS and ; SlTTflirf- ITT ^r A TiTf\ i->. t-t-t-o

Winners of first at Chicago, Kewanee. Prince-
ton and Illinois State vShows. Get my descrip-
tive circular of six grand matings for the egg
season. DR. F. M. REED,

Wyanet. III.

Flue breeders or show birds from my
MlHst>uri anil KansaM State Sh.tw win-
ners. Sailsr..ctl(in gijiirantetd. :: ::

S. <}. Whiprecht, llox II, Sedalia, Mo.

America's Foremost Strains Jlfiuy

r|* _ _|. and lowest prices on S. C. Reds, S.
I/ireCt (2, White l,eghorns. Duckwing and
Pit Games, Buff Cochin Bantams. Write for
show record and prices. Egg orders booked
before February 15th, 5 eggs free.
Chas H. Ziegrenfuss. Box Z. Bethlehem, Pa.

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

Mo. and Kans. state show and Silver Cup
winners. Males scoring to 95% females to 9G.
Eggs balance of season $1.50 per 15.

S. G. WHIPRECHT Box H Sedalia Mo.

<«

THE LITTLE RED HEN'

RoHe C'<»nil> HhtMie iKlaiMi Ke<iK. Oriuri-
nators of 3faiiatHUKr StrHiii. If >(hi ai<?
lookliiK tor rt'd liirtls without .smut, write us.

John E. Davis & Bro., The Maples, Mason, N. H.

r FILE'S rATALO<ilJK Rlvts
prlceH of all the leading varletleH of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
nlock for wale and e^KS In BeaHou.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFILE
Freport, 111, Dept. A

Quality Strain ItARKKO ROCKS have
been Hue lined for Id years from foremost win-
ners In Amerk'.ft. Winners at leadfnff shows.
Cocks, hens, eockerels and pullets hoth matlnKS
for sale, from these winners or »)red In line.

i\ C. I>RAKK A- SON,
Liock Box :5:?*4, La Karpe, III.

At INDIANAPOLIS Hebrnary 190«;. my
HskrraA Rn/*L-a ^°" ^^^ cockerel, 2d cock.
uariCU I\Ui.lV5 Silver Cnp; Feb. 11)08. l.st
cock, 1st cockerel; Sept. 19(K». 1st and .3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Ituliana-
polis winners too Stock with quality for
sale W, W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN. IND

Wentfall is a W inner. He niakeH no such
claim but his Columbian Wyandottett wete
winners at Klmlra Poultry Show. .Ian. I'.tio. first,
third and fourth cockerels, first and third i)ullets
and first hen In a class of M Rood ones, i have
shape, color and size. P^gKs «2.<H» and |3.(H) per
setting ( KeatlnKs Challen^*^ Strain. )
LouIk Wentfall. R. ^^, Waverly. N. V.

IGHT BRAHMAS

.Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2 00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS, UTILITY FARM. R. 19,

Owensville, Ind.

S. C. White Leghorn Eggs for sale.

Also from Chinese and Toulouse Geese,
Indian Runner Ducks and Black L,angshans.
Can please vou. Write for prices.
W. M. SAWYER, Box F, Lancaster. Mo.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders lx)oked now from my WO-egg
strains. Trap nests used. I know just what 1 am
doing. BlrdH scoring 91 to 9.5 with a famous egg
record behind them. Have the shape, color and
8lz«. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT.— F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

Golden Wyandottes ??,?ca|f' c^ec "V"

12, 1909. 60 in class, won .5th cock, 4th cockerel,
8rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show, St.
I^ouis. Dec. 6-11, 1809, 64 in class, won 2d cock,
.Sd cockerel. 4th pullet, with ,5 birds.
J. S. Pennington, Box F, Plainfield, 111.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of 3arnes' Black Lang-
shanSi winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2. .50 each.
Hens $1. .50. Napoleoz^ J. Barz^es
R. D. 7, Box 15. Winchester. Ky.

SingI
Legh

itest

h

Iti Vf uLK%.%i Strain known.
Noted for .size (4>^ to 7 lb. hens)

e Con "^

OrnS color, typical shape, deep bay
eyes, great vigor and greatest possible egg
producers. Eggs |1..50 per 15; |H.OO per 100.
Honesty guaranteed.
R. S. MOSELEY. Cambridge. N. Y.. Poultryjudar

LAKE SHORK FOll.TRY FARM

Hreeders of

Hi»rh Class Silver I.,aced ^Vyaiidottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BERGXEli. Pres, HKNRV MAU, Mpr.
South Chicatro. Ills. H.F.I). No 34. Kenosha. Wis.

• <

Faultless'* Hotidans, 287
£^|^ Strairk* Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
scended from tV.e greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider. Box 105. Kansas. Ills.

R^infflet Barred Plymot»tK
RocHs won all hrsts at Oshkosh. 190i<. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 r>0 up.
Kggs, best matings $3.50 per 15 |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock $1.50. Lake Vikvv Potjltry P'arm.

T. 1¥. Critchette, Markesan, Wis.

Baby

riiirlrc ^^S* ^°^ hatching. White
VlllCfVa Orpington, Barred Rock,

White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze Turkey.
All prize winning stock and grand birds.
Shipped with .safety anywhere. Book your
orders now. MISS CLARA L. SMITH
Landon Poultry Yards. Croxton, Va.

S. C. BlacK and 'WTHite Minor-

caa bred for size and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (Eb Son

Hox 4r>4 North Italt imore, O.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Light Brahma Bantams T^Ti's oM

Square. N. Y., Baltimore, Hagerstown, Md..
Philadelphia, Nazareth. Allentown and Read-
ing, Pa. Stock and eggs. Hillstde Poultry
^Yards^^J.S Fr^, Prop.,_D_ept F.. Nazareth,

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

Won first at the ^rcat .Milwaulcce Show 191(1.
A Cockerel hatched from e>,^K:s I sold won
1st at the Wisconsin State Fair. 1!>10
Hena and rockerela lor Sal© THKAP
DIsl. Affy Philip Lehner. Princeton. Wis.

COI.L3IH1AN BOCKS, COIA -'V1BIA>
VVYAISDOTTKS, bred frcin New York.
Huffalo and liochester winners, .5 firsts 2 seconds
on 7 entries at liochester show, Dec. 1»(»9. Cock-
erels •» to IIO, pullets $2 to t«. Trios $7 to «15.
KjiKs ll.?") per 1"^, «3 per 80. Free setting from
hest pen with each #10 order. Stock guaranteed
F. A.CAMI'IJKM., HONKOYE. N. Y .

S. C. BLACK
ORPINGTONS

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show
1909 also several at Ocon-
omowoc and silver ctip
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Eggs from pen No. 1 |.5 per 1,^ : pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River. Wis.

HIGH
CLASS

S. L. AN1> W. WYANDOTTES, K. C.
RHODE ISLANIi REDS Winners at the
big Centervllle, Iowa and St. Louis shows. Write
for catalogue describing the largest pure bred
Poultry Farm In North Mo. Fancy and utility
matlngs a specialty. Egg orders booked. Guar-
antee 9 chicks to the setting or will replace.
JOHN KEAKSE, R. 1, €oatKvill«, Mo,

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

sale.

and

Prices rearonable
quality of stock.
W. R. GEIER

Cockerels and
pullets for
Birds score from 94% to 9<)
will improve your fiock.
Eggs tor sale from this

REMINGTON, IND.

BARRED ROCK EGGS

$2 fori.-). $3.50

for 30. Incu-

bator eggs |4 per 100. M, B. Turkey eggs $5

per 10. Won leading prizes at Shelbyville

and Indianapolis shows. Geo. O. Anderson

R 5. Box 0022, Rushville. Ind.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

Tl IRICPY^ sired by my great prize

* ^ AXIVC* 1 O winner and d i p 1 o ma

Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S. L.

Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN.

I in HT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
■-•*^^*** cr. My stock is ea

My

BRAHMAS

excellent, high
scoring, great layers,
will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to select from. Prices
right. Kggs, single settings or incubator lots.
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN.

Single Comb Rhode Island

p^J- Prize Winners. Eggs from 1st pen,
IVeaS setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen, setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland, 111.

WYAMDOTTES^

Silver a n <1 White. Winners wlier.'v.T shown. ^

heard

EGGS'" BARRED^ JJi.YMOUTH . £(J(JS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue >
giving winning, mating and prices free. ]•

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynold*, lit. ('

\t ^%< w>

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Send for 80-page book on The Houdan. 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Petersen, President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton, Maine

IAN WYAJNDOTTES

A graud ilucU ot yuun^i,u-r>i growinK. Get i)rlce8 ou birds for early bhuwb.

A. M. Bender 1231 Walton Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana

COLUW

Single Comb White Leghorns

Low tailed, high stationed, chalk white.
scoriniT to 96%. Show birds my specialty
Write ynur wants to the originator of the
Kdel>vei8 Strulu.

D. D. WHITAKER. ASHTABULA, OHIO

ERLESS" WHITE ROCKS

winners of Blue Klbbons, silver ehallenge cups, gold specials and many other coveted
prizes in the show room a!,'ainst wiiiiMTH at .Janesville Jielolt, Madison and IMatte-
ville. Grand cockerels and pallets for the winter shows at reasonable prices.

Allen Tucker, Mlineral Point, Wisconsin

Hackctt's Columbian Wyan-
dottes and R. C. Reds

Special prices on extra fine stock if taken
before Dec. 1st.

CEO. W. HACKETT

Box 111 North Freedom, Wis

¥ S#«i^i Il«»Al^«%^c%n Young and old. bred from the winners of 2
UUIII lil 2lll!IiHS strong shows (Decatur and Springfield, HI.)
UAgMKK M^M, UA£JlftlU»J ^^ j^^^^ youngsters that look like they

could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LKGHORNS we have some

extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at 111, State Fair, 19 1 0.

«IfSiJS^*^4l^^!Vrl^i^Y* ROCKS, Some grand lififht Cockerels at reasonable prices. Also
HKUIM/;!:. TURKEYS that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalog.

L. H. JOSTES l^ SON. MACON. ILL., R. R. No. 2.

1

AT THE 1910
Minnesota State Fair

We won on Columbian Wyandottes: 1, 2 ,3 Cock*
1.2. 3, Pullet; 1, 2, 3, Hen; 1 Pen.

On Light Brahmas: 1 Cock; 1, 2, 3 Hen; 1. 2, 3
Cockerel; 1. 2. 3 Pullet: 1. 2. Pen.
GEO. A. KERSTEN
1 19 West 52 Street MINNEAPOIIS. MINN.

RED ROCKS

S.C.&R.C.R.1.REDS

B

TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

__^^^^^_____^^ EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

RPINGTONS

KELLFRSTRASS^ STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Si.^i^".P" " your show vvinners ready tor the early fall shows? The state fairs are rl^'ht here at hand. Are you golne to show
y^'^'^r.H ' V'^'? ''^'"^ "''^ SHt shed that the birds you raised this year will get you the HLUE RiHBONS. we "an sturnirvol^with then7
We did not rai.se as many birds this year as we have heretotore. We afe not raisint,- as many binl^as we lave i r ast v^^^^^^^^
MORE [nfA^UARY.TyUK wK we'w^n^ '' ^^"'^ '^'' ^'^"^"^'^^ ^'^^ remember the last show 'where we exhlbUed '^.l^ it^BALTI-

First on Cock, First on Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

l°flM"f '} ^'rV\" ^^"^^i^' ^^'} ^'j\^^^^^^ «" the cla.ss, from America, Ent^hind and all parts of the world. We have cockerels and mil-
lets hatthe<l the early part of January, that now tip the scales at 6V2 and 7 ponn.li. They are the kirid that wUl be heard from
diir ng thecomir.g show season, and if you are In need of any winneTs, write us and tell us just what you writ ami what^y^
willing to pay, and we are sure we am supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINNERS

Kcilci sira:is Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

i

November, '10

POULTRY FANClERr

Page 213

S

THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYINC

T

Expert Exhibi

And Easy Lessons in Judging — By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac-
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION — BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like

Know

Hovj to straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and
Watties.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear

Lobes.
How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the

Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.
How to Clean the Plumage of Parti-Colored fowls for Show

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Earring.
How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.

How to Add Lustre to Plumane of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from thg Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers,

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing or
Broken Feathers in Mnm Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barrinc in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.

How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In

Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Le^s. *

How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A nood Stimulant and Preventive of Colds in Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers in Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.

What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite in Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing in White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb. Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.

Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemically

Bleaching White Birds.
How Black or Gray Specks fn White Plumage are Hidden

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR IIJE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

Have you ever bought a poultry book on general topics or disclosing some system or so-called secrets
and upon receipt of it had your expectations drop with a dull thud of disappointment? Well! this isn't that
kind of a book.

THE PRICE OF THE BOOK IS $2 AND IT IS WORTH THE PRICE.

BICH PURCHASER AGREES TO NOT DIVULGE THE SECRETS OF THE BOOK EXCEPT TO MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY

DON»T PUT OFF SENDING YOUR ORDER. YOU NEED THE BOOK NOW. ADDRESS

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Rend for 80 page book on The Houdan, 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard,

Mating for Kxhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents

Rev. C. E. Petersen. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. Bridgton. Maine

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES

A giMiid iloclc ot yuungsters growing. Uet i)rlce8 ou birds for early shows.

A. M, Bender 1231 Walton Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana

Single Comb White Leghorns

Low tailed, high stationed, chalk white,
scoriniT to 96%. Show birds my specialty
Write your wants to the originator of the
Kdelweis Strain.

D- D. WHITAKER. ASHTABULA, OHIO

"PEERLESS" WHITE ROCKS

Winners of Bhie Klbbons, silver challenge cups, gold specials and many other coveted
prizes 111 the show room against winners at Janesville lielolt, Madison and Platte-
ville. Grand cockerels and i>ullets for the winter shows at reasonable prices.

Allen Tucker, Mineral Point, Wisconsin

Haekett's Columbian Wyan-
doltes and R. C. Reds

special prices on extra fine stock If taken
before Dec. 1st.

CEO. W. HACKETT

Box 111 North Freedom, Wis

¥ lorlttf Dva«%l«««*tf%ri Young and old, bred from the winners of 2
LilUIII til 2111 IHnS strong shows (Decatur and Springfield, 111.)
*^*^*** mr* MAKmKKuiwy ^^ Y^^^^ youngsters that look like they
could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS we have some
extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at 111, State Fair, 19 10.

5!f^J^'i'*J?.^Jl^l^l^Y* ROCKS, Some grand light Cockerels at reasonable prices. Also
HKUl^lZli. lUKllEYS that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalog.

L. H. JOSTES t^ SON. MACON. ILL.. R. R. No. 2.

AT THE 1910

Minnesota State Fair

We won on Columbian Wyandottes: 1, 2 .3 Cock-

1, 2, 3, Pullet; 1. 2, 3, Hen; 1 Pen.

On Light Brahmas: 1 Cock; 1,2, 3 Hen; 1,2,3
Cockerel; 1. 2. 3 Pullet: 1. 2, Pen.
GEO. A. KERSTEN
119 West 52 Street MINNEAPOIIS. MIIVN.

BARRED ROCKS

BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1 .50 to $25.00 each.
~~ o n /^ rfc 1 rir«rwn ^^^^^ "^ describing what you want and asking for our
O. C« & MX. C/» K« 1« KhiOiS catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.
^^____^___^^^^^^^^ EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

ORPINGTONS

KELLERSTRASS* STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

♦^.^"[.^.^"".P"^" your Show 'ylnners ready for the early fall shows? Th^ state fairs are rifiht here at hand. Are you koImk to show
wrniH JL^'''] '''''^ """^ «Ht stied that the birds you raised thi.. year will get you the BLUE RIBBONS, we can supplj %1 with then7
We did not raise as many birds this year as we imve heretofore. We are not raising as many birds as we have In last years biit
MORE fn JA^UARY/!l!ro.'wl^?e we'w'on^ '' ^^^'^ ^°'' ^^'"^"'^ ^^" remember the last show 'where we eSted S;hs' it'BALTI-

rirst on Cock, rirst on Men, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

KfJ'hlf :|i'rt.'L^'^''7' ^^'} ^5'/*^^'^« '" the class, from America. England an<l all parts of the world. We have cockerels and pul-
lets hatihe<l the .-ar y part of January, that now tip the scales at 61^ and 7 pounds. They are the kind that will brheard f?om

i%u^ W"""'''^''^ '•''''" '"'''''"''"' •'^"'^ '^ 5""" V^ *" "^^^^ "' '*"y ^Innefs. writA us and tell us just what you want and what you are
willing to pay. and we are sure we «»n supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINNERS.

Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING—

Secrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessens in Judging— By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever published
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterprising breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and the honors ac-
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING AND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION - BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

How to straighten Lopped Spikes or Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and

Wattles.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up in Red Ear

Lobes.
How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the

Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.
How to Clean the Plumage of Partl-Colored fowls for Show

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brassiness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Earring.
How to Improve the Color of Any Parti-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.

How to Add Lustre to Plumaae of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from thg Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing op
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.
How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In
Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Leqs. *

How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A good Stimulant and Preventive of Colds In Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Blrd$ are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers In Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.

What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brassiness from Appearing In White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops or Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb, Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.

Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemlcallv
Bleaching White Birds.

How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.
THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

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CHICAGO. ILL, NOVEMBER, 1910

No. 11

Interesting Col

Some Things About Color Characteristics That All
Fanciers [Should Know. Don't Expect Too
Much Uniformity of Color in the Newer Breeds.

By H. S. BABCOCK

TAIvTlXCi four \ears ai^o with fowls
which were in color, huff, wliite, wheat-
en and (lolden Diickwinj;-, in addition to
reproducing- these colors. T have heen
ahle to ])rodiice these with the following-
colors and markings :

Kcds, similar to the coloring of the Rhode Island
Reds.

Silver Duckwings, like the ( lames of that coloring.

(iolden Piles, resemhling: the Red Pile Game, with
the exception of a heautifnl golden color in place of
the red, and a black instead of white tail.

Light Prahma markings, some very clear and ac-
curate.

Dark Rrahma markings, hut w ith more black in the
•color than is desirable.

lilack and white barred s])ecimens like the P.arred
Plymouth Rock.

Ihiff' and white barred sj)ccimens, the males some-
-wliat deficient in the buff' barrings and the females de-
ficient in the white barrings.

Partridge, the ])encilings being excellent on the
l)reast and deficient to a greater or less extent in other
parts.

lUack-breasted Reds, like the ( iames of this color,
and one pure black specimen, with the exception of a
verv few feathers tinged with gray.

Oi course, in addition to these, there were many
chickens irregularly >])la<hcd. mottled and mixed with
two or more colors and .showing no definite ])attern.

Tn some of tiiese instances it is probable that the
colors and markings were due to atavism, particularly
in those showino- barring- like the Plymouth Rock ; in
others the transition was but slight, as the change from
Golden Duck wing to Silver Duck wing, or to Black-
breasted Red ; and of course buff and red in fowls is a
related color. lUit in other cases it is more difficult to
understand the origin, though, if it were possible to

or Experiments

trace the fowls used in the various experiment> back
far enough, probably the exi)lanation might not be so
very difficult.

Ihit after making all due allow^ances for heredity, the
experiment tends to prove that color and markings are
due to variation; that with the judicious use of selec-
tion, given time enough, all the well-known colors and
markings in domestic poultry might be produced from
a very few colors ; and 1 believe that one might go
even farther than this and assert that they could all
be ]:)roduced from a single variety. The experiment,
not made for this purpose, therefore, would tend to
confirm the hypothesis that all our domestic fowls were
descended from a single wild species, provided, of
course, that the above conclusions are warranted.

The results were so varioi>^, and in some instances
so unexpected, that I thought the mere statement of
them might ])rove interesting to others, and that they
might enable beginners to understand better the vari-
ations which are possible in their fiocks. A [any be-
ginners are unaware of the mutations liable to occur
in color and markings, and through this lack of knowl-
edge are led to unjustly imagine that their stock is not
pure bred. Of course in old breeds and varieties, vari-
ations are reduced to the minimum, except, ])erhaps,
in fowls of a blue color, like the Andalusian. In the
newer breeds and varieties the variations are more
numerous and of a wider range, and it is well for a
beginner not to expect too nuich. If he purchases one
of the newest varieties he ought to expect that there
will be a considerable difference in the chickens, and
that only a moderate percentage of them will be suit-
able for high-class breeding stock. If one must market
as dressed poultry, twenty-five or more chickens out of
one hundred, in an old variety like the Light Ih-ahma,
how many ought one to expect to market from the
newest creation? 1 am not going to say. but if I
could get twenty- five good breeding birds out of one
hundred chickens of any new variety, 1 should not feel
that I had any grounds for comi)laint ; and if I got only
ten. I hardly think I should make much of a kick.
Color and markings are, so to say, artificial creations,
and it takes quite a number of generations to fix them
so firmly that they will be uniformly reproduced.

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Advertising Hints for Beginners

The Success of the Fancier Depends More Upon
Advertising than Upon Any Other Thing.

By A FANCIER

I)\1{RT1SK, from the Latin ad z'crto, to
turn to, si<^nifies the turnino- of the mind
to some sul)ject in which the reader is
interested or is to l)e made interested.
The first object of an advertisement,
therefore, is to attract the attention of

the reader and interest him in tlie sn])ject. To do this

certain things are necessary :

(a) The advertisement should not 1)e too
crowded, many words in an inch of space are
not so hkely to attract attention as are a few
words. To see an object clearly one needs to see
around it. and if the whole space is occupied bv words,
there is no chance to see around the advertiseinent ; in
other words, it doesn't stand out boldlx'. If one must use
many words, he should use a corresjxmdino- amount of
space. JUit a great deal of information can be crowded
into a few words, if the words are fitlv chosen.

(b) 'Hie prominent words should have the prominent
position. It may happen that a breeder is so well
known and his stock is so much sought after, that his
name should be the prominent object in the advertise-
ment, l)ut this is not the usual case, and it is never the
case with the breeder who has not already won his
spurs and achieved a reputation in connection with
some breed. John Smith may. indeed, be an interest-
ing- person to himself and his immediate friends, but
that interest is not generally shared in by the jniblic.
What John Smith has to sell is the interesting fact to
the reader, and if John Smith has what the reader
wishes, he will then look up the advertiser's name and
address.

(c) The breed or variety is important, but the char-
acteristics which distinguish the advertiser's strain are
even more imi)ortant. If, therefore, one has stock
which has won prizes, or which is characterized by
untarnishable i)lumage, or which is remarkable for
prolificacy, or which has some ])rominent characteristic
like richly colored legs or deeply colored eyes, these
peculiarities deserve and should receive prominent
notice in the advertisement. ^Fanv others niav be
breeding- and advertising the >ame varietv. but the ad-
vertiser alone may have fowls with these distinguishing
characteristics.

(d) An advertisement should seem to speak the
truth. The advertiser should have just what he adver-
tises. It is pennissible. i)erha])s, for him to speak of
his stock as be sees it himself, because in this day of
the free use of superlatives some discount will be made
to nearly every advertised statement. h\'icts, like win-
nings, however, carry much more conviction than an
owner's necessarily prejudiced opinion, however favor-
able it may be. P)Ut. wh«'ther facts are (juoted or
opinions stated, they should be set forth with such a])-
parent candor as to itnpress the reader that the truth
is spoken or attempted to be spoken.

(e) Ilhistrations, especially actual portraits of fowls,
as well as syml)olic representations, serve to attract
attention, but to hold it the subject matter is to be re-
lied upon. Portraits of individual fowls are, indeed.

part of the subject matter, for they are pictured de-
scriptions oi the advertiser's stock. Other jMctures
should be used chiefly for the purpose of catching the
eve of the reader. \\'here the illustration dominates
th.e reading matter its infiuence is hurtful, for the
reader remembers only the picture and ignores what
is offered for sale.

The ultimate object of advertising is to bring trade.
An advertisement conceived and executed in the right
s])irit and placed in the right medium is bound to ac-
com])lish this ])urpose. Hut its results will be greater
or less according- to

(a) The reasonableness of the advertiser. ( iood
stock is worth a good i)rice, but rei)utation is also
worth something'. The beginner cannot expect to get
the same price for a bird of given qualities as the
breeder with an established reputation. A, known the
countrv over for his successful strain of fowls, de-
serves to get more than !>. who is unknown, for it is
worth something' to the bu\er to be able to say that his
bird is from A's strain. It will induce customers to-
come to him and pav their money for stock or egg's.
Ihit to say that the bird is from li's strain will be of no
advantage to the buyer, so long as j', remains unknown.
It is unreasonable for the beginner to ask and ex])ect
to get the same ])rices as the veteran.

(b) The business methods of the advertiser. When
the advertisement has introduced the reader and the
advertiser to each other, it has done its legitimate work.
If the advertiser is unbusinesslike in his methods, if
he fails to answer (luestions and delays replies to let-
ters of in(|uiry. he ma\- wear out the ])atience of the
most eager customer and lose his trade. Whereas, if
he is ])r')m])t and businesslike in all his methods, even
a halt'-hearted incpiirer may be changed into a cus-
tomer.

(c) Continuous advertising gives better results than
spasmodic advertising, because the continuous adver-
tisement creates a feeling of confidence in the stability
and reliability of the advertiser. Such an advertise-
ment makes the advertiser known to the ])ublic. until'
the i)ublic half conceives that it is ac(|uainted with him.
indeed th^t he is a friend .)f long standing. And so
when anything which the advertiser has for sale is
wanted, his name is suggested and he has the first
chance at the trade. lUit si)asm()(lic advertising has a
tenclency to raise a (juestion in the mind of the reader
as to the st'ibilitv and reliability of the advertiser. He
may be all right, but — And so he hunts u]) the man-
wlio>e advertisement he has read month after month,
and gives him the i)referenix'.

These brief hints upon advertising are given in the
liope that they may ])rove useful, esi)eciallv to those-
who need assistance of this kind. The veteran adver-
tiser does not need them, for ex])erience has taught
him how, when and where to advertise. Ihit the be-
ginner, with his experience all before him, mav find in
them some suggestion which will be of service to him
in ])rei)aring and placjng an advertisement so that the
foundations of a successful business may be securely
laid.

lUessings on the man who shows a big string of"
standard-bred fowls. He is doing a great educa-
tional work and deser\es credit.

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In Defense of the C

rowm

Cock

A Simple Occurrence Which is Cause for Reflec-
tion and a Matter of Peculiar Interest to the Stu-
dent of Poultry Nature.

By H. S. BABCOCK

IK) can ex])lain the clear resonant mid-
night crow of the cock? He is not
saluting the dawn, for the earth is
steeped in darkness, and the only light
is that shed from the over-arching', star-
bestrewn depths of the skv, a dim, eerie,
spectral light, the shadowy ghost of the light that il-
lumes the day. Jt is past the midnight hour, that

"witching- time of night.
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
contagion to this world."
\\'hen unt>as\ s])irits wrdk abroad, and defy the
clods to hold them. And. it is said, that at the'voice
of the cock these si)irits hasten back to their earthv
beds. ])owerless to harm the weakest among mankind'.
To those who thus believe, the cock is the watchman
of the night and his crow is the watchman's cheerv
"All's well."

There is an ( )riental fable t(^ the efifect that a holv
<lervish, worn with travel and weary, was undulv awak-
ened from his slee]) by the noisy crowing- of the cock,
anrl that this holy man had retained enough of the un-
holy spirit of wrath to curse the cock and condenm him.
and all of his kind, to crow every hour in the twenty-
four. \{ this fable were true, the C(^ck would be in
reality what he has sometimes ])een designated, "the
clock of the universe," striking ench hour as it arrived.
lUit I^astern curses don't seem to be j^otent in this
Western world, for the cock does not crow at all hours
of the nigh.t. I l.e goes to roost with the setting of the
sun and remains still u])()n his ])erch until the mid-
watches of the night, when he awakens for a brief
space and crows vig'orously, and then sul)si(les intc;
silence until the dav begins to dawn.

Nor is the po])ular belief th.'it the cock crows exactly
at midnight warranted b\ the observetl facts. He sel-
dom crows before midnight, though occasiou'dK this
occurs. lUit from midnight until one or two o'clock in
the morning is the period when he awakes for a brief
moment and sends forth his ringing challenge. ( )ne
.season I had seven brood cocks, who used to crow
about ha!f-])ast twelve at night, or, more strictlv speak-
ing, in the morning. Xight after night, with but little
variation in time, I would hear their voices. And \
learned to distinguish each of the seven voices, and
could unfailingly name the bird from the sound of his
crowing. There is a marked individuality in the crow-
ing- of cocks, in pitch, timbre, volume and time. The
cocker, the admirer of Pit — excuse me, of "Thorough-
bred"— ( iames, prefers a bird whose crow is sharp,
clear and sna])py, the last note of which is cut off
sharply. The Cochin cock, slow of movement, slug-
g^ish in dis])()siti()n, holds on to the last note of his crow
as if he were reluctnnt to end it, as if, indeed, there
were ))lenty of time and there were not the slightest
need to hurry. The Hantam, with his high-pitched
voice, is the coimter-tenor, and the I>rahma the secc^nd
bass in this choir of singers.

.And yet there are in this world peo])le who profess

to be disturbed by the crowing of cocks, who would, if
they could, keep the hens in' per])etuar widowhood'iii
order to get rid of their noise. In manv large cities
ordinances are enacted, under the grenerai ])olice
powers granted to such bodies, to prohibit the keejnng:
of crowing cocks. And yet, in these same cities the
rattle of the street car, the jangling of bells, the puff-
ing', snorting- and screeching of engines, the rumble of
drays and other heavy vehicles over the stony pave-
ments, and other noises, exist, and are allowed to exist,
and these noises continue, without interruption,
through the greater part of the twenty-four hours, sel-
dom stopi)ing until after one in the ea'rly morning, and
beginning again at two or three o'clock, before dark-
ness has begun to disi)erse. In all this din it would
seem that the noise of crowing cocks would be utterlv
submerg-ed. With such ])eopie. those who cannot en-
(hu-e the crowing^ of a cock, a poultryman can have
little sym])athy. To me the soimd is ])leasant, cheerfuP,
reassuring-. I delight to lie snugly in bed. and hear
one brood cock l^reak in ujxm the silence with his clear
voice, and then (jthers in turn, one after another, pick
up the theme and repeat it, like the singers of an an-
them in a well-trained church choir. And then 1 like
to hear the cocks from neighboring- estates repeat the
calls, growing fainter and fainter as the distance in-
creases, till thev soimd afar like elhn horns faintly
blowing'.

After discharging hi.s duties as night watchman, the
cock next assumes the character of "the herald of the
dawn." After

"Xight's candles are burnt out, and jocund day »
Stands tii)toe on the misty mountain tops/'

the cock announces the fact in his clarion call. He be-
cohies the alarm chx'k of the neighborhood, and calls
the drowsy sleepers to awake to a new day of labor
and enjoyment. To this call, only those who have
turned night into day, even in crowded cities, can find
cause to object. And even then, if their ears were
l)ro])erly attuned and their minds dwelt more u])on
natural and less U])on artificial objects, would find
pleasiu'e in the crowing of the cock.

I want nt) mute birds about me. Poultry keeping
would be robbed of one of its i)()tent charms if the
crowing of cocks should be >u])])ressed. To hear the
cock crow vigorously at night, salute the dawn with
clarion voice, and cliallenge his foes throug^hout the
day with his notes of defiance, is a ])leasure that I
would not give up lightly.

The habit or custom of awakening in the middle of
the night is not characteristic of the cock alone, but is
shared by other creatures, kobert Louis Stevenson,
in his "Travels with a Donkey," referring- to this "one
stirring hour unknown to thove who dwell in houses/*
says, "It is then that the cock first crows, not this time
to announce die dawn, but like a cheerful watchman-
s])eeding the course of night. Cattle awake on the
meadows; sheep break their fast on dewv hillsides, and
change to a new lair among the ferns ;' and homeless
men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their
dim eyes and behold the l)eauty of the night."

It is because the cock not only awakens, but an-
nounces the fact that he is awake by his clear-toned

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voice, that this wakeniiii; of creatures in the iiij^ht has
g'eneraUy, hiit erroneously, heen reijardecl as ])ecuhar
to liini.

Why do creatures thus wake up and then resume
their rest? "At what inauihhle summons," asks Stev-
(cnson, "at what .gentle touch of Nature, are all these
sleepers thus recalled in the same hour to life? Do the
stars rain down an influence, or do we share some
thrill of mother earth helow our restinj^- l)o(hes?" And
lie adds that "I^ven she))herds and old country-folk,
who are the dee])est read in these arcana, have not a
ti'uess cis to the means or ])ur])ose of this nii^htly resur-
rection.'' We cannot hope, with our imi)erfect chances
for ohservation, to hetter a condition of ignorance
shared in hy those who watch their flocks In- ni.uiit and
note their every movement, and yet we hazard tlie

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suiixestion that this hahil i< a survival from the wild
hfe when watchfulness was necessarx for the preserva-
tion of existence. The cock which slept all night lon^^
mii;ht prove an easier ])rey than the one which waked
at the hour when enemies would l)e most likely to as-
sail. The sleepy cock would, therefore, stand a
stronger chance (jf elimination, and thus hy natural
selection the vigilant cocks would he the ones to leave
descendants. Ages of such selection woidd hx the
hahit hrmly, ancfit would i)ersist long after its useful-
ness had ceased. The suggestion may he a mere fancy,
and is to he appraised at its intrinsic value, but, in the
absence of a better ex])lanation, il may serve tem-
l)orarilv as a reason for a habit which is at once in-
teresting and mysterious, thougli uncknibtedly resting
on some substantial natural basis.

equired of the Poultry Judge

His Duties are Often Too Lightly Considered.
What His Qualifications Should Be. How New
Judges Should be Introduced.

By B. S. HARMON

TN^ poultry judge is an important fac-
tor in the deveIoi)ment of the aes-
thetic side of i)()ultry breeding. He
in a considerable measure is responsi-
ble for the direction in which certain
develoi)ments in fowls proceed. He
is, of course, popularlv s])eaking, governed b\ the
Standard, but in a more restricted, and yet impor-
tant, sense he governs the Standard.

Words have to be defined. Hie most carefully
constructed work, especially if it be a work, like
the Standard, dealing in color and iigure terms, is
iiable to more than one interpretation, 'idie judge
is the ultimate interpreter of the terms used in the
Standard. Limit him as closely as one may, define
terms as accurately as ])ossible, and yet there will
always remain something for him to interpret. The
use of illustrations, and i)articularly of colored ones,
will reduce the extent but will not remove the
necessity of such inter])retation. The exact pro-
portions in figure, and especially the exact shade of
color, must be decided by the judge, even though
the Standard makers, the artists, and the ])rinters
liave done their best to remove uncertainties and
reduce the fiexibility to its minimum. Dead pig-
ments cannot fully rei)resent the shades of living
colors: printer's ink cannot com])letely and ])er-
fectly, to the last detail, pc^rtray the niceties of
*^hape.

According: as he is competent or incom])etent.
iis his work is perfect or imperfect, his in-
ter])retation of the Standard, in the actual a])plica-
tion of it to fowls upon exhibition, will help or
binder their proper (levelo])ment. Lie needs, there-
fore, a clear understanding of Standard recjuire-
inents — not only of the words, definitions and illus-
trations, but of the intentions of those who used
the words, prepared the definitions and produced
the illustrations — and he needs, also, the sculptor's
perception of figure and the artist's sense of color.
The recpiirements of a poultry judge are so high
and his responsibilities so great, that it is an office

not lightlx' to be sought, and its work, a work not
carelessly to be undertaken, h^xperience he must
have, if his work is to be done properly, and yet
the industry must have judges, and judges are not
born exj)erienced. In poultrv judging, as in the
])ractice of law or medicine, }-oung men must be
employed and gain the necessary experience, or else
the race of experienced judges will die out. How
to get this experience, without injury to the poultry
industry, is a problem not easy of solution. The
following suggestions may ])rove helpful :

'l^he judge toJ)e can gain ex])erience in \arious
ways, lie can, and should, be a breeder of fowls,
and these he should study carefully in his own yards
and score and rescore tliem. lie shoidd study all
that he can obtain of the works and articles U])on
the art. ])ractice, science and ])hilosophy of judging.
Hie books treating u])(^n this subject are not manv,
and the best of them should be bought, read and
thoroughly digested. Jlis Standard he should know
from title i)age to finis. He should, during his
preparatory stage, study the work of experienced
judges at shows. I'o clerk for a good judge will
be of great service to him. llis first shows should
be small sIk^ws. where his mistakes, if any, will not
be seriously felt. If he discovers a mistake he
should promptly recti f\ it, and determine that this
particular mistake w^ill never again lie made by him.
One often learns as much, if not more, from his mis-
takes as he does from his correct solution of prob-
lems. He should never begin judging until he has
confidence in his ability to do the work well, and
that confidence he shott'ld carefully cultivate, yet he
should not become conceited or i>et a "bijj head."
And as his ex])erience increases, if he makes good at
the smaller shows, hv w ill \]u(\ that his services will
be sought for by more im])ortant and larger exhi-
bitions, and that the work, which once seemed so
formidable, though il will lose none of its impor-
tance, will cease to lill him with dread, for the
novice will have jiassed through the i)rei)aratorv
stages, the novitiate will have ended, and the be-
ginner will have become an experienced judge, qual-
ilied to do the exacting work recjuired of hiiii.

An early separation of the sexes will result in the
more perfect development of both the cockerels and
the pullets.

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F

ancy vs. Utility

An Old-Time Fancier Freely Expresses Himself and
He Charges That the Utility Breeder Gets Only
the Work and None of the Pleasure of Poultry
Breeding.

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

rrilOUT considering the question of
(kjllars and cents (if possible) for a
moment, .Mr. Poultryman, which ap-
peals to you more strongly, the fancy
or the utility idea in the breeding of
poultry? Of course we breeders who
are in it from the true sportsman's point of view,
expect our ])oultry to at least pay their own way.
Not many of us would stay in it if we were contin-
ually paying out more than we were taking in. and
with a very small plant, hardly large enough to be
called a jdant, my account stands so far in this
monili of ( )ctober not yet fmished, at $ln.(;o paid
out, and exactly $•^^()(^ taken in, besides having a
chicken for dimier each Sunday (I eat my culls,
what few 1 have) and eggs enough to supfdy a
family ni three, which is not so bad from a busi-
ness run just for the fun of it.

If 1 were breeding for money 1 should l)e looking
at the size of my Hock. Instead of that, 1 am look-
ing at the size and c(»lor of the crests on mv Polish,
and the length of feathers on the feet of mv Cochins.
I am watching the penciling on the feathers of mv
Partridge ])ullets, and the gradual change from the
reddish |)lumage on the breasts and bodies of the
cockerels to the black we so much like to see. 1
am looking to see how many points there will be
on the combs; whether the eyes are bay, yellow or
pearl, in color; the size and shape of the "tails; the
oft-colors in wings, necks and backs. 1 am anxious-
ly watching- to see whether the feet of the lUack
Cochins hatched from some of the eggs bought of
"leading breeders" will be pink or yellow. 1 am
wondering why the feet of the \\1iite Cochin chicks
should be so different in regard to the amount of
foot feathering, from the liuffs and the Partridge.
There are so many ])oints about our birds to inter-
est the fancier; wliere the utility breeder sees noth-
ing but eggs and pounds of flesh.

Taking all these, and many more of the same
kind, into consideration, it is amusing to read the
controversies and contentions of the breeders of
the so-called ])opular all-purpose fowls, as to which
is the best variety. Prom a fancier's standpoint
there is no best \arie1\.

Tlie fancier is working towards an ideal. He
studies the standard a while; then he studies his
fowls awhile. liack and forth from standard to
the lixing specimen, he is continually striving for
an improvement; now in one section, then in an-
other; he watches the feathering from the first ap-
pearance of the little bunch of wing feathers on
the two-weeks'-old chick to the last moulting of the
two-year-old fowl. In the same specimen they are
never the same. 1 never saw a hen that Icioked
like she did when a pullet, never in anv variety.
She is not only different in color, but she is diifer-
ent in shape. The same is true of the male birds.

A Polish crest the second year will be a third larger
than it was the first ; and' the same is true of the
Cochin foot feathering. A letter from a veteran
breeder of Polish in "old England'' not long- ago
states that he never sells chicks, nothing under 18^
to 24: months old. They take time to do things
over there. On this side, we want a bird fully de-
veloped in six months; and some breeders claim to
have them ; but it is all poppycock. Suppose your
jHillet does lay an Gg<y at four and a half months
of age. She is not worth tw^o cents to show, and
the chances are she never will be. You can't ])ush
precocity and endurance at the same time time ;
your early-laying pullet will fizzle out about show
time. Ten chances to one she will never reach near
standard weight in any variety that requires the
weight clause. She will moult her feathers at the
wrong time and when aou want her for the show
room she will look like Meandering Alike or \\>ary
\\^illie when he knocked at your door for a hand-
out.

Not so the big, finely feathered specimen that is
looking forward t(^ a life of competition with the
other aristocrats in the show room. The euiz- has-
ket and a Rooseveltiaii family are not bothering
her proud little head. She does not believe in early
marriages. Put with a well-de\el()ped physical ap-
])aratus she will start in when she does start, and
the blue-blooded, finely-feathered, big-bodied ])rog-
en\- that she does bring forth, will be worth dollars,
where Aliss Precocity's youngsters will be worth
cents. And thus, you see, we have gotten back to
the dollar valuation again; and Mr. Utilitv Man is
still counting his eggs, and selling his day-old chicks
like a machine, and that is about all the pleasure he
gets out of it.

The man who is much with his chickens, is the
man who who makes much out of them.

Condition, as applied to a show bird, is a term which
includes cleanliness, freedom from disease, soundness
of plumage, and muscular development. A well con-
ditioned fowl stands a better chance of winning than
one which is lacking in condition.

Rocks, D(^ts and Or]>ingtons, like the poor, we
have always with us. (irand breeds they are, too,
but their excellencies are better seen when they
ha\e as a foil a fine collection oi the more uncom-
mon breeds at the poultrv show.

"He l)ol(l, be bold, but not too bold," is good ad-
\ ice to the l)eginner. contemplaiing making his
fn-st exhibit. In exhibiting, as in everything else,
it pays to begin small, and increase with increasing
knowledge. A certain breeder began exhibiting at
tlie New^ York show. His hrst exhibit was a pair
of chickens. He won nothing but experience. The
next year he did a little better, for he won a **C."
r>ut his was a Ix^ld s])irit. Defeat taught him his
weaknesses, but did not daunt his courage, and he
continued, until, with large exhibits, he was able
to win his full share of firsts, and became recog-
nized as one of the most successful exhibitors at
Madison Square Garden.

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November, '10

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FRANK HECK,

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Changes of ads must be received by the I st of
the month. New ads must be received not later
than the 10th of the month.

The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national
in character. It is the only poultry journal pub-
lished solely in the interests of fanciers, the people
who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

November, 1910

Thanksgiving

We extend our tliaiik> to all our
patrons; to onr subscril)ers for >ub-
>cri])tions, adxertisers for advertise-
ments, eorrespondents for interest-
in.u: and instructive articles. These
thank> are not perfunctory hut sin-
cere and hearty.

We not only extend thaiikh but \vi>li
poultrymen everywhere, and especial-
ly those who belong- to the h'ancier
family, a u:oo(l Thanksi>i\ iim trade,
in cull> for market, in l)ree(lin,!.i- >tock
and in show birds.

\Ve wish them further a joyous day
around their own hroides or the tire-
sides of their friends, witli all the
delights tiiat api)eti/.in^ dishes, friend-
ly unions and communions, and cher-
ishe(l domestic associations can brinu.

baiiures on^ht to be only steppinj.^
stones to ultimate success. Use them
in this way and the day will come
when you will prize them at their
real value.

To the 5:::enuiiie fancier the develoi)-
ment of beauty is the main thinjj:;
the makiipj: of money frr)iii his fowls
is only an incident, albeit a very nec-
essary and desirable incident.

The payinjj^ kind of fowls is the
kind which pays you; the handsom-
est fowl is the one which does most
handsomely. "Handsome is as hand-
some does," says the old maxim.

A Few Suggestions Relative to
Judging

If we estimate the numl)er oi poul-
try shows that will be held this season
as five hundred, and the average num-
ber of si)ecimens that will be shown
at each at five hundred — estimates
probabh' well within the limits — a
<piarter of a million birds will have to
be judged. livery specimen will de-
mand and should receive a careful ex-
amination, sufticient to determine at
tile least its relative merits in the ex-
hibition at which il appears. .Ml this
will necessitate an immense amount
of work and recpiire the services of
maiu' men.

'J'he iudi.>ini4' at poultry shows
should be accurate. This is the most
important consideration, before whicli
all others sink into insignificance. The
best bird represents much thought,
labor, skill and care, and it is a poor
reward for all this if an inferior speci-
men is placed over it. The best bird,
everywhere and alwaNs, should win.
Inaccurate judging would rob the ex-
hibitor of his just rights, would re-
ward lack of skill and care in breed-
ing, rearing and conditioning, would
discourage others from exercising
their best endeavors, would create a
lalse ideal and would mislead the pub-
lic mind. All these things would in-
jure the -fancier's side of the poultry
industry, and do a deal of harm all
around. .Vccurate judging, iherefore.
is indis])ensable.

The judging. also, should be
prompt. l^xhibitors are entitled to
this, but they could, if necessar}', "pos-
sess their souls in patience." i)Ut the
general public, from whom the poul-
try show derives a part, and some-
times a large part, of its support de-
mands promptness in judging. The
people desire to know which are the
winning specimens, so that they may
not only gratify a natural curiosity,
but also study the awards and learn
why one specimen is better than an-
other. A show which is not promi)t1y
judged loses much of its educational
force, and it is for the interests of
all to make that force as .great as
possible. If accessions to the ranks
of poultr\' breeders is desirable, and
no one (piestions its desirability, any-
thing which lessens the educational
power of the exhibition renders it less
potent in gainin.g such accessions and
should be avoided. The judging,
therefore, should be prompt.

M'o secure proni])! and accurate
judging it is necessary that competent
judges in sufficient numbers, depen-
dent upon the size of the' exhibition,
should be emi)loyed. Unless the
judges are sufficient in number the
awards cannot be made with the nec-
essary i)romptness. I'nless the judges
are competent the judging will not
be accurate. It is poor economy to
emi)loy unskilled judges, or to em-
ploy skillful judges in insufficient
numbers. There is a limit to the
work that any judge can do. Jf too
much work is put upon him, he must
make undue haste, and the (juality of
the work i> likely to suffer. lUit with

a sufhcient number of competent
judges employed, every facilit}^ for
doing the work accurately and
pr()mj)tl\- should be ])rovided. The
hall should be selected and arranged,
so far as it is possible to do so, with
reference to furnishin.g a good light
for the judges to work in. Defects
disappear to a greater or less extent
in semi-darkness, and excellencies are
also obscured. Jt is not always pos-
sible to obtain a properly lighted
hall, but care in the arrangement of
the coops will help somewhat. Plenty
of room, in which to work, should be
supplied, and the jud.ges should be
l)ermitted to work in such room with-
out interference. if a judge, while
doing his work, is surrounded 1)y in-
terested spectators, whether exhibi-
tors or the general public, if his at-
tention is distracted by innumeraldc
(|uestions, it is not i)ossii)le for him
to work so rapidly or so accurately
as he could if he were not interfered
witii. Much, too. can l)e accomplished
in the way of expediting the work,
if tlie exhibits are in place promptly,
proi)erly weiglied, tlie necessar}- iden-
tifH'ation cards up, and all other
things done, which ou.ght to be done,
before the exhibition oi)ens its doors
to the public, 'i'lie exiiibitors and the
officers of tlie association liave their
parts to do in making the judging
accurate and prompt.

if all these matters are attended to,
if competent judges in sufficient num-
i)ers are emphjyed and the officers of
the sliow do their full duty, less com-
plaint will be heard about inaccurate
and tardy iudging of i)oultry shows.

It is very good pliilosoplu- to l)e
content witii your lot — until you can
change it for one a lot better.

The man who can fnid no pleasure

in the contemplation of his .growin.g

broods was never cut out for the
poultry bu.siness.

A success won by chance will not
la^t. Only the success, wliich is built
upon knowled.ge and experience, will
])Q permanent.

In the poultr}' business the only
"scrul)" which we can conscientiously
recommend is tile one connecte<l
directly or indirectly witii cleanliness.

Have \ou collected any road dust
for tile dust i)aths and for a cheap
disinfectant of the premises, as well
as to catch and liold the ammonia in
the droppings?

'idiere is i)lenty of advice to be liad,
and good advice is worth liaving.
i.earii to distinguish i)etween the l)ad
and good so as to avoid the one and
profit i)y the other.

Tile key to success in the poultry
business is made of an amalgam com-
posed of good stock, competent man-
agement. ai)undant energy, hard work,
ai)un(lant i)rains and sufhcient capital.
Such a key will unlock almost any
door — it is a master key from whicli
l)articular key.s for i)articular doors
are made.

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Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

However fashions may change.
•checks are perennially popular with
tlie i)ayees.

It is suspected that "How to l)e
happy though rich" is not the prod-
uct of a poultry fancier's pen.

if any one finds this a cold, cold
world, he should not be utterly cast
•down; the next may i)rove warmer.

John H is at it again. This time
he thinks he has set the woods
< i'rince T.) on lire, by attempting
"to mix with the rest of mankind."
Sure he must be a hot 'un.

How awkward a man must be, who
feels obliged to say, "in my efforts
to mix with the rest of mankind 1
so frequently tread on their corns
or l)ark their shins." Still he
shouldn't despair. He slionld "mix"
more until he is able to manage his
pedal extremities witlioiU endanger-
ing the toes and shins of others. In
time -nch awkwardness will wear off.

i'lie chickens may cry "cheep,
vheep," but tliat will not make poul-
try cheap.

"Men may come and men may go."
but the makin.g of new varieties ap-
])arentl3' will go on fore\er.

Link Orr will iia\e to "let out an-
other link" before lie answers the
Deacon's reference to "Horse Se-
crets." Wonder if the Decon had
been reading the secret on "Land-
ing a sucker" just before he ])ai(l his
"Respects to the Knockers." 1 won-

POULTRY FANCIER

der. too. if Dr. A. S. Alexander will
lose his professorship in the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, and if the Farm
Journal will go out of business, when
the sentiments of Mr. Orr on "Se-
crets" become known.

The claims of the Rose-combed
liarred Plymouth Rocks and the Am-
erican Dominicpies would make pret-
ty good grounds for an interference
suit. The Dominitpies ought to win
out on the claim of priority of in-
vention.

The Huff or Golden P>arred Ply-
mouth Rock is singing, "I have not
arrived but I am on tlie way."

Kansas has a celebrated 1)reeder of
cattle and swine with the somewhat
unusual name of Drybread. If there
is anything in a name, would he not
be very well e(|uii)ped for engaging
in the poultr}^ business?

Mr. J. I'>ed Rolfe shows us that
"Gray I'eathers and Good Advice"
may be associated togetlier, as well
as gray hairs and good advice.

We ^econd the motion of ~S\r. W.
J. Kieft that great credit l)e given
to the small and successful breeder.

We wonder if Dr. II. P. Ballard
thought he was citing a case of un-
e(jually yoking a believer with an
unbeliever, when, in the same article,
he paid his respects to tlie Rev.
Petersen and .Mr. liabcock.

Let us all hitch our wagon to a
star, but beware how we get "hitch-
ed" to a stage "Star."

.Mr. John L. \\'oodbury evidently
does not think that patrimony and
parsimony are associated as result

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Stock for sale that will win in the show
room and fill the egg basket. Our birds
are big. White, beauties, strong in good

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Are vou a Fancier
of White Wyan-
dotte.s? If so. will

you give u.sa trial .so that we can convince you that there are none better in Standard shape and
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and cause and does believe that cheap
men will win only cheap .successes.

In the October h'ancier, ]i. S.
Harmon was literally a "Star"
writer — ".American Star" that is to
say.

* *

Sometimes "Random Thought.N" do
not wander far from the mark.

The "Mysterious Cases of Packed-
Crop" of which Air. Habcock wrote,
thouj^h they may have had some-
thinjj- to do with untimely deaths,
were not matters demanding the in-
vestigations of the sleuth hut rather
of the veterinarian.

If T. K. Felch is thinking of apply-
ing to General Court for a change of
name, we modestly suggest that he
have the initials changed to O. K.
for we have alwavs found I. K. to
be O. K. It would only be legaliz-
ing a change already made by the
poultry public.

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Tf astrology were a science, we
should be inclined to believe that a
large ])art of humanity was born
when the dog star was in the ascend-
ant, for so many men take them-
sedves "Sirinsly."

\\ the world took every man as
seriously as he takes himself what
a grave place this old earth would
be, a regular graveyard in fact! For-
tunately it does not, and there re-
mains a place for the saving sense
of humor.

The most pitiable man on God's
footstool is the poultryman who has
no sense of humor. All of his vex-
ations, and he has many, augment his
misery. Hut the poultryman, who
can e.xtract a smile out of disap-
pointment and a laugh out of failure,
who sees the humorous side of seri-
ous things, is safe, sane and satis-
lied.

Tn the game of life the short faces
out-bat, out-lield and out-run the
long faces, or. if you prefer, the
short faces hold all the trumps.

McGrew: Learn how to raise chick-
ens by mail.

Von Slew: Ach! Aber fy vould I

vant to raise sehickens py mail?

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Truthful James says that the man,
who advertised roup-proof chickens,
proved, (^n investigation, to be a
dealer in dressed i)ouItry. The only
roup-proof chicken, like the only
good Indian, is a dead one.

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"Take things as you find them,'' is
V>v. h'rank Crane's advice. P>ut yon
w(Mild better be sure that the "cop"
don't lind you; at anj' rate be pre-
pared to give up the goods at the
owner's demand, and have your ex-
planaticm ready.

The poultry keeper, whose favorite
recreation is taking care of his fowls,
will succeed in his business.

One of the most difficult things to
be borne cheerfully is for an old man,
who in his ])rime exercised a control-

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ling inllueiice, to see yoiniKtM* men
filling his place successfully. lUit he,
too, should remember that in his
clay of power other men may have
had to bear a similar burden. The
remed}' is never to grow old.

Down in Jersey, it is said, the fel-
lows wishecl to keep open the poul-
try show on Sunday, on the ground
that it was a sacred exhibition, for
they said, "We have Moses in the
ticket office and the profits at the

door."

* *

It is much easier to love the
competitor we beat than the one
who beats us. Love, as a rule, don't

spring up from a beating received.

* *

It is well to hope on, but is is bet-
ter to hop on to the train where des-
tination is Success.

* *

Before you condemn another con-
sider carefully your own frailties.
The dis(iualilication you point out
in another's bird may lead to the dis-
cover}' of a disqualillcation in yours.

A lie flics with the speed of an
aeroplane, and like an aeroplane is
sometimes smashed at its landing.

Truth may be a shnv coach but in
it the passengers ride with safetv.

Variety names arc getting to be
ponderous. There ought to be an
attempt made to shorten them. Such
names as "Silver Penciled Plymouth
"Rocks" and "Wliite Laced RedCorn-
ish." though descriptive, arc too
long. If we keep on. some one will
come along with a name like "Pea
Combed P,lack P.reasted Long Tailed
Japanese." Varieties must be dis-
tinguished, but they ought not to
carry a whole standard in their
name. If they do somebody will be
making an illustrated Christmas book
out of the name of some new variety
of fowls.

We ha\e seen men. who. though
rheumatism, could uot lift up their
arm. but they had no difficulty in
lifting uj) their voice: — the rheuma-
tism never attacks the voice. Impor-
tunate for the i)oultry spell-binder,
isn't it?

The poultryman's daughter thus
rendered "Twinkle. twinkle little
star :

"Cackle, cackle, little hen,

llow r wonder where you've been.

Out among the weeds so high.

To hide your nest from every eye,"

In the poultry business all are
looking for ])rorit> but no (mo is
looking for prophets.

The man who is not cut out for
the poultry business would better
"cut it cut."

The "sooner" p(.nltrymaii would
sooner sit around and snnke than
take care of his fowls. Don't be a
**sooner."

* *

Even an exact science, like mathe-
matics, has its coutradictious. For
example, the more you take from a

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hole, the more hole there will be,
which is addition by substraction;
and in the lowest forms of animal
life the creatures increase in numbers
by splitting in two, which is multi-
plication by division.

If the breeders of the rare varieties
do not advertise they need not be

surprised if the rare becomes rarer,

* *

In voting for A. P. A. officers, do
not vote for principles, or for men,
but for men with principles.

"The salad days" of a man are in
his youth, but the salad days of a
chicken usually come in extreme old
age.

A poultry LLditor. is not an or-
dained minister but a lay i)rcacher.

November, '10

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For want of humor in a luan.

There's naught that fully can atone.
L\ir one without a merry thought

Will surely lack the funny-bone.

Shady transactions are not always
done on a hot day,

"Llow 3()U read Crabbe's talcs?"
he asked. "No. but 1 have red hens'
tails," said the poultrynian.

Robinson ought to be grateful to
IJabcock for furniNhing him so much
material out of which to make
"copy." To Robinson, at any rate,
IJabcock seems to be a ver\' sugges-
tive writer.

Many an article upon Symmetry
may prove, dopite its title, unsym-
metrical.

The judge's work is to score birds,
not to score men.

"Judge not lest ye be judged" is
an admonition that some, who are
anxious to shine as v>f>iiltry judges,
wotild do well to heed.

Judging by his explanations, Curtis
has joined the ever-growing club of
those with whom Robinson does not
agree, "We could have agreed upon

R.C.an(IS.C.R.I.Re(ls

Wlunere at Hagerstown. Chicago, McKei'sport.
MuUer and IMttsburR. IJest young stock 1 ever
ralBt'd now ready to ship. Write me. The stock
is right and the prices are rJuht. :: :: :: ::

F, L. Ober, R, F, D, 1. Verona, Pa,

"""isiot"?;; '" S. C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville. Ind.. Jan. 4-8, Tucker Judge 2
:i cock, 2 cockerel, 1, 2, 4 hen, 1, 2 pullet 1,' 2,
pen. 20 female.s average 92 1-.'), Richmond,
Ind. .Tanl 2-15, Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered; 1 cockerel,!. 2 hen, 1.
2 pullet, 1 pen, two specials, I breed my own
winners, Kggs from best pens only $1 for 1.')
I after May l.-^th. IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

Quality

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Yards

A fine lot of yotirii,' stork for sale from my

winners at MiiwauUee and

other .show.s.

W. R. Abbott, Prop., Ff. Atkinson, Wis.

a verdict," said the juryman," if it
hadn't been for the other eleven
obstinate men on the jtiry,''

There is nu)re in pluck than in

luck — one letter more; but one letter

more will change an "ass" into a

*lass." which shows the importance of

a single additional letter.

The poultrynian, with a penchant
for using Latin, when asked if he
were sick, replied "Sic sum," (I am
so).

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on a ])oultry farm — they don't have
to be taught to obey orders.

With the unnecessary talk elimi-
nated some long poultry articles^
would be reduced to the dimension
of tlii-- paragraph.

It is f(dly to envy your neighbor's
line fowls: it is wisdom to get some
e(|ually good or somewhat better
yourself.

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tives are >o convinced of the baleful

Donaghey's Reds are Winners

SINGLE and ROSE COMB

Get my prices on ,Show Birds or utility
stock. Have some choice ones in my
yards.

J.T.Donaghey. Box 117. North Freedom. Wis,

Barred Rocks Exclusively

Bred from leading strains.

Let me send you a tine show bird. Have
a fine lot of cockerels and pullets that
will please.

ERNEST WAGNER, Kendallville, Ind.

Columbian Wyandoftes

A choice lot of Chockerels and Pullets from
first prize winners at Madison Square. Buf-
falo and Rochester vShows, 19 0. Send for
illustrated cataloj^^.

POULTRY DEPARTMENT, Hill HIRST fSRM

J. B. Casterline. Mgr. ORCHARD PARK. N. Y.

Partridge, Buff, Black and White
Cochins: White, Black, Buff, Sil-
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1.5 Prize winners 28 years: Dr. H.F. Ballard.
Judge. Importerand Breeder.Chenoa, Illinois.

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EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

: $5.00 per dozen
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Only a .strictly limited number of eggs will
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buflf colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
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tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

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effects of the moon, tliat on moonlit
nights they always carry an um-
brella^ to protect themselves from the
moon's rays. The Swaysgood theory

would be readily adopted there.

* *

If you wish to settle down in a
nice, (|uiet little i)lace in the country,
all you liave to do is to buy a ceme-
tery lot and give the undertaker a
job.

The troubles, which make life most
burdensome, are those which never
come.

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One does not need to be versed in
many languages in order to tell the
truth.

The second best cock in the show
is the one which beat yours.

So Boston is to have a new poultry
publication. "Profitable Poultry," to
l)e edited by A. V. Hunter, is to enter
the field of "1%'irm- I'oultry," edited
by J. 11. Robinson. What was the
toast that congressmen used to drink
when our Teddy was going to Africa
to hunt lions? Ah! yes. thank you.
"Here's to the lions!" lUit in this
case, who will be the lion? .\s the
pr()spectu> issued promises the avoid-
ance of "all controversies, nuickrak-

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leading northern Indiana shows, iCggs now frjr
$2 00 per 15 fiotnpens maedto produce high cla^s
exhibiiioii slock Harry bowcr, Rome City, Ind.

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Three chickens from two sittings
of eggs are not one and one-half
chickens from each sitting. You can
divide a chicken in halves by mathe-
matics, or with a hatchet, but you
can't hatch it.

Speaking of mathematics reminds
one of the schoolboy who, when
asked what an average w^as, replied
that it was something hens laid on,
for his father often said his hens
laid on an average one hundred and
>ixty eggs.

"Amatite" may be a good roofing
for a hen house, but a poultryman
should never be in a condition in
which he feel> it necessary to ask
ihe question, "Am T 'tight'?"

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Two poultr^men were conversing.
Said A., "AToney is very easy now,"
Said B., "Money may be easy but
those who have it are not."

Roosevelt and Robinson begin with
R. Roosevelt had his "Ananias Club"
and Robinson has his "Don't .\gree
With Me Club." There the resem-
blance ends.

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W'itlumt com])ass or chart, a poul-
tryman and a ship can steer only one
(N^urse successfully, straight down to
the bottom.

In a New Kngland town meeting,
that mirsery of local salons, Brown,
a well-known i)oubryman, though his
name isn't Brown, had made a mo-
tion, which was opposed by James
Mullin and Timotliy Coffee, (jueer
names. perhai)s, but real. In reply-
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is difficult to distinguish between
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both are stout and woolly. As to my
other opponent, 1 need only to say
that, in the future, I think I will
drink 'Postum,' for I Imd Coffee
doesn't agree with me."

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The boarding-house mistress, wha
e.xplained the toughness of the chick-
en served at dinner as due to the
tough weather of the preceding
spring, evidently agreed with Mr. H.
li. Stoddard that climate exerted an
influence upon the character of the

])oultry.

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''Thompson is nowhere,"- read the
placard that his rival hung on E. B.'s
coops, but, when the blue ribbon was
hung up on that coop, everybody read
it as, "Thompson is now here."

* *

"Everybody," said E. B.. "tries to
wring from me the confession that I
am in a ring with my 'Ringlets,' but
they may ring all the changes they
please, so long as the 'Ringlets' are
•still in the ring.' "

* *

When the henhouse, which con-
tained all his Phoenix fowls, burned
down, 11. S. Babcock was observed
to be carefully w^atching the ashes.
'Jo the question, "What are you
doing?" he replied, "1 am looking to
see if the Phoenix are going to make
good their reputation and spring up
in a glorified form from their ashes. "^
He is still looking. They probably
will not spring before another spring.

It was Sunday and the silence was
broken only by the deep tones of
the church bell. McGrath leaned
over the fence, talking to his fancier
friend Moroney. "Phat wud yez be
a>kin'." he incpiired, fur thot Rock
cockerel?" "Oi'U take tin dollars fur
him." said Moroney. "Oi'll take him,"
said McGrath, "but (^i*m surprised
thot you wud be sellin' him on Sun-
day. Oi tht)cht you wudn't do busi-
ness on the Sabbath." "Do business-
on th' Sabbath? Xaw. thot I wud
not: but. moind yez. sellin' thot cock-
erel for tin dollars is not doin' busi-
nes.s — thot's merely charity."

* *

it is reported that a Jai)anese trav-
eler in Central Asia has discovered a
manuscript written in a language un-
intellitrible to any living man. It is
probably some lost contribution on
poultry: we have seen many such.

* *

In the .\. !'. .\. an election by mail
i>, broadly speaking, an election by
male, for the female members (God
bless 'em I) are greatly ont-numbered
by their brethren.

The grumblers about the neglect of
certain old breeds are fairly i)itche(!
out of the game by Dr. L. IC. Pitcher.
lU'tter be careful. Doctor, or some
of the big leagues will be wanting
to sign vou.

The city man and the farmer may,
as Mr. !•'. V.. Whitney suggests, be
often arrayed against each other in-
business dealings, but the honest
farmer d<.)n't always get the worst of
it.

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Questions

invited to use this department freely. Write to the
information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question. — Two of my ilioicest niMle
birds liave beni ti^liti^i^ and the plumage
of both is bciuly stained with ])l<)()d.
Please tell me how to remove all traces
of it. Would you enter at a show a lUiff
Orpington tliat is a beautiful l)uff in all
sections, yet dark in tail feathers? Also
•one that is finely colored all over but tin-
<?omb lops over.

Answer.— The best method of removing
blood stains from the i)]umase is to satu-
rate a cloth with benzine, rubbing the
feathers with it and using a clean pctrtion
of the cloth with each stroke Tlie feath-
ers themselves may be saturated with tiie
liquid if tliey are l)adly stained.

In regard to entering the two birds vou
describe, you will have to take chances
on meeting birds e<iually as good in all
other sections and not having the defects
you refer to, which, if found in exaggei-

ated foiin, nught be sufficient to prevent
an otherwise good Inrd from winning.

Question. — Will you kindl\- gi\-e n)e the
standard weights for Rose C'oml) lilack
Alinorcas?

Answer. — The wei.ghts are. pullet 5V2
lbs., hen (Ji/^ lbs, cockerel Hi/o lbs., cock
s lbs. They are one pound fighter tlian
the S. (\ lilacks.

Questioti-AVill some one please instruct
we amateurs to what e.\tenl the defects
which are considered as dis(|ualifications
in the sliow rt)om shouUl be considered
as making bini.'^ unlit for the l>ret'ding
lien, or in other words, to what extetit
can disciualilications Jk> ignored when
mating tne birds f(»r b)eeding i)urposes?

Answer— We \^•oul.l ])v pleased to ha\-e

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0 Years *^ S"^ 1. K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.
wux/^"^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^" satisfied with the stock for the money paid.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT, when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen ? Which

V¥1N AMD BREED ON

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons* winnings to their advantage.

From Sept. I to May I 5, Brahmas $3.50 to $1 0 for females; $5 to $20
for males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all, $4 for 1 5. $7 for 30, $9
for 45, and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 to Sept.), all yearlings before
moultmg sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
> particulars address

I. K. FELCH & SON, Box 1 ?6, NATICK, MASS.

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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS

By FRANK HECK

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.subscribers write their \ie\vs on this sub-
ject and send them li> us for publication
iu Fouitr.v Fancici'.

Fcisouallx-. the editor does not believe in
brcedin.i^- fi-iuu disqualified birds, no mat-
ter \vha( llie disqualillcatiou. \Vc know
that in many instances there is a temp-
tation to breed from sue!) Idrd.s^a as for
iustaui-c, an extraordinar>- tine bird with
only one or two stubs of feathers on the
legs; but tiiis as well as other seemingly
small items will surel.s' cause trouble in
making its ar)pearance in the young
stock, and oftentimes these defects are
found in the young birds that show up
the liucst in ever.v other wav.

Question. — What are the standard
weights of Ruff Orpington cockerel an(i
pullet? Jb)w light can tliey be without
being distiualiticd?

Aiiswei'. — Tile weight of tlie inillet is 7
lbs. and the cockerel SV<j lbs. ()ri)ingtons
are not (lis(|ualilied for shortage in
weight. They are cut two points on the
score card for each i)oim(l under stan-
dard weight.

Question. — To what extent does white
disqualify in the ear lobe of a White Ply-
mouth Itock?

Answer. — There is no graded scale of
dis(iualitication. To <lisqualify. moans to
throw a bird out entii-ely. The smallest
particle of pei-manent wiiite in the ear
lobe of a PlNinouth Rock, <lis(|ualifies the
bird.

CREDIT TO WHOM

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In coiiiU'Ction with
ariiiiiiUMit "'llicy Should
in October l^'ancier \\c
some crc(Ht for another
article contains oood
fancier on a town lot
brainy and ei'.thnsiastic
if as su.^t>este(l he has

CREDIT IS

Mr. Kieft's
be Credited"
wonbl solicit

. :\ir. Kieft's
lot>ic. The
ustialh- i> a
l)reeder but.

other remilar

eniploynient in office, factory or some
profession, who heli)> him in the care
of the tlock?

brom October until .Vpril probably
he does not see the Hock l)y daylij^ht
except on Stmdays and we all know
that the birds need their best care
during the short cold day>. Who sees
that 'hey are kept clean and busy,
that they have plenty of warm water
to drink dm-in^r the zero weather,
prepares the warm mash every day
and that they .yo to roost for the
loiiij: winter nij^lUs with a full crop?^
Who cares for the \entilation and
sanitation? Who ^oes otit about
lonr o'clock rain or shine to care
tor them when almost half the time
>he mnst say to her caller "Will yon
])lease excuse me wiiile I feed the
dock. I do not like to let them j^^o to
bed hunirry."' Can anyone explain
why ladies like to extend an after-
noon call until roosting time?

W'e know one stich helper wIk^
took such j^ood care of "Johtr>" dock
(resnltiiiK in a full e.t>-.ti: basket when
ei»jrs were golden) that it was cpiite
citstomary for a neii^hbor lady to
shout to her daui.ihter, "Well, for
land's sake! she's K<>iii.i4 up there
a^ain." Last and not least of the
help "John" ^ets is the careful i>ath-
eritijr of ei<M:s for early hatcliini- and
then, of course, he can run the in-
cubator and brooder all rij^ht re.^^ard-
less of weather conditions.

( iM-()m one who is t(»o loyal to her
"John" to ask him to sij^n show en-
tries and advertisements Mr and
Airs.

Of ./tl

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to hold its

The biK .January show of all
Western states this year will
Topeka, Kansas, show. This
time the Anieriean Plymouth
has ever gone so far west
meetinR.

A large number of silver cujis, silver
trophies, handsome ril)bons. and fi'om .$20(1
to $500 in eash si)eeials will \)v given to
the Baried Rocks at Topeka. besides
the regular cash premiums, which go to
$1."> for first pen and $](» for first prize in
the single. The show will be cooped with
uniform cooping. As the secretary of th«'
club, I have been engaged to judge the
Barred Rocks at Topeka. 1 want .vou to
show, so that I may see your birds, and
best of all, attend yourself.

Send me $1.0(1 today and join the club
and l)r allowed to compete for club ril)-
bons and cash specials at all shows. At-
tend the meeting at Topeka and hell)

elect a good ))unch of officers. Mr. E.
W. Rankin, of Topeka. is secretary and
will send you a premium list.

A. C. SMITFrT, Sec'y.
Waltham. Mass.

ILLINOIS BRANCH, AMERICAN POUL
TRY ASSOCIATION.

A special meeting of the Illinois Branch
of the American Poultrv Association was
held at Springheld, 111.. October 5th, 1910,
at the State Fair (Jrounds.

President Fred L. Kimmey presided and
Mr. D. K. Hale was elected and served as
Secietary pro tern.

After a free discussion as to where the
American Poultry Asjiociation (Jrand Gold
Medal. Grand Silver Medals and Diplomas
should be awarded, the motion was made,
seconded and carried unanimously that
the Illinois State Show, to be held at
Spiingtield, 111., .lanuary I'd to 7th, IIHI,

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridge Plymouth Rock Club

BUFF ROCKS

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or breeding Pen. if so, let me quote
you prices. Satisfaction guaran-

teed, or money refunded. Stock tfrown on free rantfe.
A. S. MATTHEWS.

WAYNE, MICH.

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shall be known as the Illinois State
lirancJi ot tlie Ainciican I'oultrv Associa-
tion Show, at which sliall be (iffercd tlie
American Poultry Association Medals arui
Diplomas.

On motion it was decided tliat the first
annual meetinj^ of the Illinois State
Brajich of the American Poultry Associa-
tion should be held .luring the Illinois
State Show at Springiiold, 111., January
2d to 7th, 1911.

A motion was made, seconded and car-
ried that President Kimmev recommend
to Secretary Campbell of the American
Poultry Association that Mr. F. C. Hare
Quincy, III., be appointed State Organizer
of the American Poultry Association tor
the State of Illinois.

Fred L. Kimmey, President.
L). K. Hale. Secretary yn-o tem.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN,

the "Quarter Century Show* of
Minnesota State Poultry Association
be iield in Minneapolis,
17th, 1911, with Judges
<\ H. Rhodes and K. G

The usual liberal cash
association will be paid

tlie

will

nth to

Holden,

Januarv
(Jco. D.
Roberts.

premiums of the
and are suaran-

BARRED ROCK COCKEREL.

A five months' old bird l)rcd by i: M
Buechly. Box 1(». Greenville. O., and tvpi-
cale of the stock in liis yaids.

teed by the business men of Minneapolis,
acting through the Minneaixdis Commer-
cial Club, who recognize the imi)oiiance
of the poultry industry in the Northwest
and stand sponsers foi' the success of
the show. Last year all of the premiums
were paid to exhibitors before the close
of the exhibit. Siher cui)s by the (loz(>n^-
are offered as special prizes in honor of
their silver anniyersary. They anticii.ate
one ot the greatest shows in the c..unliy
this time. A new and spe( iai feature will
be the exliibition of •'breeding yards "
Foi- other information and a list of varie-
ties assigned to the judges .se<ure a copy
of the premium list, which will be mailed
free for the asking from Ciias O John-
son, Secretary. 4203 Colfax Ayenue North
Minneapolis. Minn.

ALMA. MICH.

As the (Jratiot County T'oullry Vssocia-
tion are not going to hold a show at Itha-
• a this year the poultry breeders of Alma
have organized and will hold a show at
Alma, Michigan, l)eceml)er i:;th to u;tli
Inclusiye. Alma has good railroad facili-
li<^'^, and the breeders are taking an in-
terest In the show that Ayill make it a
winner. Roy y. otlo, one of (lie most up-
to-date and thorough .judges in the state
has been secured to place the award.s'
For further information a<Mress the sec-
retar.v, C. J. P.rown. Alma, Mi( li.

. RACINE. WIS.

The poultry men of Racine. Wis of
which there are seyenty-flye in number
have organized what is known as the Ra-
cine Feath«.red and Pet Stock Associa-
tion, and will hold their first annual slu.w
January Kith to the 21st, at the Lake-
side Auditorium, Racine, Wis. W S
Russell will i)lace the awards. It is need-

Show Dates — Season of 1910-11

Alabama.
Gadsden, Dec. 10-14. J. C. Gieen, Secy., Marshall, Judge.
Montgomery, Oct. 19-28. George T. Barnes, Secy., 727 Bell BIdg.

_, Arizona.

Phoenix, Nov. 5-10. C. E. Conner, Secy.

^ ,. Arkansas.

Carlisle, Oct. 17-20. B. F. Muzzy, Secy.

Fort Smith, Dec. 6. A. H. Rerg, Secy.; Van Winkle. Judge.
Hot Springs, Oct. 10-15. George R. Belding, Secy.

Little Rock, Nov. 13-19. C. B. Maxwell, 121 W. 2d St., Secy., Emry and Rhodes
Judges. '

Marianna Nov. 23-25. W. A. Thornton, Secy., T. Reid Parrish, Judge.
Pine Bluff, Dec. 13-17. E. W. Phillips, Secy., Savage and Brown, Judges.

^ , , ^ California.

Oakland, Nov. 22-27. E. K. Healy, Secy., 2214 San Jose Av., Alameda, Cal Stan-
field. Judge. ►^«-a.ii

San Diego, Jan. 4-7. A. Eldrldge, Secy., 764 Newton Ave.
San Gabriel. Jan, 5-11. A. H. Memmler, Secy.

_, , ^ ^ . Colorado.

Colorado Springs. Dec. 12-17. H. H. Chase, Secy., 1442 Corona St.; Heimlich Judge

Fort Collins. Dec 12-16. O. E. Collins, Secy.; Rhodes. Judge. ' ^®

Fort Morgan, Colo., R. J. Nothwehr, Secy.; Hewes. Judge.

Grand Junction, Dec. 27-31. F. .1. Hendershot, Secy., R. P. 1). No. 3, Burgess .ludge

Greeley, Dec. 16-18. W. C. Loney, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge. «nge.s, .nmge,

Pueblo, Dec. 19-24. F. C. Kay. Secy.; Rhodes. Judge.

^ . - ^ ^ Connecticut.

Bridgeport, Dec. 20-22. Geo. Seltsam, Secy, Sylvan Ave.. R. 4.

Cheshire, Nov. 15-17. Edmund H. Williams, Secv., Box 185.; Card Judge

Danbury, Nov. 21-25. Fred Olmstead. 66 North St.; Card and Shaylor, Judges

Guilford, Dec. 8-10. Paul P. Ives, Secy.

Middletown, Dec. 13-16. Charles L. Fisk. Secy.; Bunnell. Shove and Coolidge, Judges

So. Mancjiester, Nov. 15-18. J. H. Minikin, Secy.; Card, Bonfoey, Ives, Judges "

Watertord. Dec. 22-29. Hayward E. Beebe Secv . se .

^^^1^5^^^"; Sl^^A.^*^;^^^:;, ^A. T^- ^- Maher,' Secy., 254 Howard St.. East Haven, Conn.;

Drevenstedt, Card and Welles, Judges.
Winsted, Jan. 17-20. L. P. Capwell. Secy., 72 Hindale Ave.; Corev and Welles,

Judges.

,,,., . , ^, Delaware,

Wilmington. Nov. 29-D'ec. 3. Charles Simmons, Jr., Secy.; 211 Washington St.

i> , ^T Florida-

Pensacola, Nov. 7-12. W. L. Wittich, Secy.; Marshall, Judge.

.,, . - Georgia.

Atlanta, Jan. 9-15. C. O. Harwell, Secy., 112 N. Pryor St.; Emry and Marshall,
Judges. '^

Augusta, Nov 7-12. H. W. Cameron, Secy.; Wittman, Simmons and Ewald, Judges,
Dalton, Nov. 22-25. W. R. Davis, Secy.; Brown, Judge.

Boise. Dec, 26-31, Meldo Hillis, Secy.; Pu?v?s. Judge.

Twin Falls. Dec. 26-31. O. W. Dougherty, Secy.; Dixon, Judge.

Aleda, Dec. 19-23, Willard Ruse, Secy,; Wa?nock, Judge
Aurora, Jan. 10-14. Herman Moser, Secy.; Rountree, Judge
Bloomington, Jan, 18-23. Frank Peitsch. Secy.; Pierce. Judge

iiadfo'rd''?^Po^';o\^.--^-x,A^^'.^^^""^^""' Secy!; Heck and Jansen. Judges.
Bradford, Dec. 19-23. B, D. Phenix Secv • Heimlich Tnde-P

8l?e^y ''i'iSS?"^- 'V^- ^;, °- g^^' Spy HeTml'iS'' JuO%f:
^asey, Jan. 23-28, J. J. Elder, Secy,; Keeler, Judge

Charleston Dec. 19-24. C, L. Carney, Secy,; Klein Judge

Chicago Dec. 8-14. Theo. Hewes, Secy., Indianapolis, Ind. Burgott Butterfield

Decftu" San f'^'^'^^u^r^^'' J'l?''^^' ^^^^^«' ^"^^^^^^ ^"^ Tucker 'judges ''
nfvon }«n Vfi o"i^- A^^^^T^o?- c7^^" ^^^y-' ^^^"^ ^"d Johnston Judges.
Dixon, .Tan. 16-21, A. G. Hill, Secy.; McClave, Judge

DrSnoln^Mnt; -^o^i^o-^^-y- Z^' r^' ^"°^' ^ecy. ; Shellabarger. Judge.
Du Quoin, Nov. 21-2o. E. G. Teaney, Secy,; Clipp, Judge
l-.ltjni. Jan. !l-14. .M. K. Mereditli, Seey ' "^

Fairfield, Dec. 12-15. J. H. Robey, Secy.; T M Campbell Tude-P
Farino, Nov 21-25, Oscar Wells.' Sec/.;' SheUabarge'i^ Jucige^^'
Galesburg Jan. 10-21. F. W. Bohl, Secy.; Pierce Judge
Geneseo Dec. 26-31,-Matthew O. Connell, Secy, Ott Judge

riSn^fi.S'V^-^^i'. .?• S^V^^^i^^^^^' Secy,: nJle. Judge ^

Greenfield Nov. 14-19, Miss Carrie Allen. Secy.- Fell Judge

Havana, Dec. 26-31. Ben L. McFadden, Secy.; Heimlich .Judge

Hu"lonwile'''&c'-^^^^ Secy., li^chfield. Ili.- Ha?e and Pierce. Judges.

JnilStTlLn ^^n' Aif •^•.^- Walker, Secy., Palestine, 111.; Shaw. Judge.

Joliet. Dec. 5-10. Alta Martens. Secy, Minooka. 111.; Northrup Judge

Kankakee. Jan. 9-14. E. P. Vining, Secy.- McClave Judge •'"°^^-

L-incoln. Dec. 12-_15 Wm. Corwine, Secy, ; MccSVd .Tudge^ "

Alemh.ta. Jan 1<-21 l-Mwanl Hnnvu. Se,y.. AbC.nl, .ludge.

Mill shoals, l)fM-. 7-1(1. H. L. Fi!,.s. Se,.y.. (^a.upbeli. .I.alge

Monniouth, Jan, 9-14, S, L. Hamilton, Secy,; G D McClaskev Tudee

Murphysboro, Dec. 20-23, O, L. Rawlings, Secv ' ^'^'-'^'^''®^ ' •"•"^^•

Newton. Dec. 26-29. Floyd Clark, Secy.; McClave Judge

Oregon, Dec. 21-26. F, C, Potter. Secy.; Pierce jSdge

raris. Jan 2-6. C. F. Shirley. Secy. • T. M. CamphH? Judge

Peotone. Jan. 23-26. A. C. Ginter, Secy.; Penny Judge ^

Petersburg. Dec. 14-19. R. S. Rule. Secy! ; Kle" n. .lud|e.

Polo, Jan. 2-7. Frank Niman, Secy.; Russell. Judge

Princeton, Dec. 12-16, Walter Asche. Secy,- Rapp Judee

Quincy, Nov, 24-28, C. D. TilLson. Sec^^WSR,lsse^ Judge

Sal'em''Noy^"4'l6''r ?^l/-- ^^l^^^' S^^^'- Rus^eVl'and Hefmtich. Judges,
haiem, Nov. 24-26. .1. A. Storment, Secv.; T. M. Campbell Tnde-P

Springfield •^^"•2-7. O. D. McCord. Secy., Danviire 111.' ' '^^'^•

Sull van. Jan 9-14. J. U McPherson, Secy.; Rapp, Judge

Taylorsville. Nov 30-Dec. 3. Mrs. Laura B. Evans Secv.f Pierce Judge

Warsaw, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, Harry F. Bliesener, Secv.; Warnock Judgf <■

Waukegan. Jan 6-10. T. B. Gleave, Secy.; T. 'm. Campbell and B vers Judges

Weldon Dec. 19-24. Dr. A. V. Foote, Secy.. Box 29 • Stanfie Id ludee

Zion City, Dec. 27-31. John D. Thomas. Secy.; Warneck Judge.

Attica, Jan. 17-20. W. R. Gilmore, Secy." zfke^.' Judge
Butler Nov 23-26. D. T. Melroy, Secy.; Sites, Judge.
Columbus. .Jan, 9-14. H. K. Volland, Secy.; Corev, Judge
( rawfordsyille. Jan. 9-14. J. T. Norris. Sec.v.. S. (i. Ca.se Judge
Danville, Jan. 23-28. Wilbur Hadle.y. Secy.; Lane Judge

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less to say that the organization will be
a success in every way, as the men wlio
are back of it are d<'termined to make it
the leading show of Wisc'.nsin. Pur par-
ticulars address D. J. Kennedy, Secy,,
Racine, Wis. Premium list will be ready
aftei- November 10th

SILVER

WYANDOTTE

MEETING.

"On to Topeka," January I'd tu Ttii, i.s
now the war cry with Silyer AN'yaiidotte
breeders. In the final vote for choice of
shows with \yhich to hold the national
meeting of the club, Topeka. Kan., re-
ceived forty-two votes, Philadeli)liia thir-
ty-seyen, and Buffalo ten. The club is
offering $50 in cash specials besides an
elegant bunch of silk specials. The To-
I)eka Association is also offering $50 in
<-asIi sj)ecials. Numerous trophies, etc.,
besides the largest regular cash premiums
eyer offered at a C'ential Western show,
1. e., $15 for first i)en, $S and $5 foi- sec-
ond and third, while handsome silk rib-
bons will be awarded on dovyn to seventh
place. On single entries they pay .$4.
$2.50 and $1 with silk ribbons on down to
.seven til.

President Henry Stcinmesch of the Sil-
ver Club is olTering a grand $5(1 (actual
<-ost) silver loving cup, which is known as
the "President's Cup,"

The real reason why every Silver breed-

*'r
is
great

WOT-ld

Rock
also.

sliould sliow at

to make this.

success and

of good. Tl

Club meets

Let us get

least one or two birds
our National Show, a
thus do our \ariety a
le American Pl\niouth
at the Topeka show-
busy and have more
Silvers and a greater attendance of Sil-
ver men at Topeka than the Barred Rock
men. E. W. I^ankin. of Topeka, Kan., is
the secretary and will mail .^■ou a i)remium
list if you will write him.

Waldo H. Dunn.

ADRIAN. MICH.

Tliis well-known (u-ganization, the first
one in Michigan to join the A. 1'. A.,
will hold its fourth annual show January
ISth to 23d, 1911.

has been unusuall.v fortunate

past year in securing many

T^ewanee Count >■ people for

The club

luring the

pleasure Is

offer many
priyilege of

l)rominent
members.

I'his has helped the committee wonder-
full\- in their canvass for aid among
baiikeis, merchants, manufacturers, i)ro-
fessional men and farmers.

We are now al)le to posit i\ely state that
the coming show will be better financed,
nifue liberal in its premiums and better
managed than any of its i)reyious efforts.

Our i)resident. Grant A. Van Dusen,
Coimty Treasurer-elect, is particularly
well adapted to guide the craft, having
for years l)een on the Executive Commit-
tee and in charge of concessions at Mich-
igan's banner fair; then, too, he is a joli.v
good fellow, whose greatest
seeing all satisfied.

This year we propose to
grand cash prizes with the
silver cups instead, winner's choice.

For our .judge we have secure»l the
well-known expert. .1. W. Mulinix. wlio
alwa.Ns finds his entire time booked early
in each year by large shows like Detroit.
Toledo and the best and largest shows in
Okahoma, Texas, Missouri and Kansas.

Those in charge of arrangements and
exhibits are men whose exnerienc(^ ])ecu-
liarl\- (its them for theii- position and we
expect results ecjual to last years with
its record of no complaints, not a sick
bird and general satisfaction of a Job well
done.

Again — this year — we i)ro\ide a ban(|uet
for the exhibitors and hojje that every
exhibitor will be with us on that night.

Oui- special designed ribbons liaxe been
of the best in the i>ast and this year's
will be even more satisfactoi-y to the win-
ners.

Cash iirizes will be offered on all classes
and with the large entries always booked
at this show make it in every way one
well W(trth patroniziui;.

The i^jemium list will be reads Deeeui-
l)er 15th. If you expect to show any-
where .Adrian should be on xour list and
in first place.

For any information address

J. E. Hoi yoke. Se<\v.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORN MEETING.

The Iowa branch of the S. ('. Brown
Leghorn Club will hold their state meet-
Itig in connection with the Progressive

POULTRY FANCIER

Fort Wayne, Dec. 14-19, W. H. Dedier, Secy,; Kummer, Judge

Franklin, Jan, 16-21. Weaker B. Farmer, Secy.; Myers Judge

Galveston, Jan. 8-14, Harry Gray, Secy., R, R. 13.; 'Pickett, Judge

Goshen, Jan. 23-28, PI. E. Kratz, Secy.; Mulinix and Stange Judges

Huntington, Jan. 17-22. Herbert Zahm, Secy,; T. M, Campbell. Judge

Indianapolis, Feb. 6-10, C. R. Milhous, Secy., Lebanon, Ind.

Kendallville. Jan. 2-0. G. M, Patterson, Secy.; McClave, Judge

La Porte, Jan. 25-28, J. Osburn Brink, Secy,; Keeler, Judge

Lebanon, Jan. 9-13. Frank B. Wooley, Secy.; Zike. Judge

Logansport, Jan 17-21, Wm. Grace, Jr., Secy., 316 Market St.; T. M. Campbell Judge

Michigan City. Jan. 17-22. A. L. Peterson, Secy.. 409 Earl Rd,; McClave, Judge

Monticello, Jan, 30-Fjeb 4. Thos. A. Roth, Secy.; Northrup and Hanawait. Judges

ML Vernon. Jan. 31-Feb. 4. John A. Schenck, Secy.; Heimlich, Judge

Muncie, Jam 23-28. J. Earl Fonts. AssL Secy,; Heyl and Pickett Judges

Princeton. Dec, 26-31, Louis Wirth, Secy.; Myers. Judge

Rensselaer, Jan. 4-9. B. L. Brenner, Secv.. Pickett, Judge

Richmond, Dec. 6-9, Frank L. Waidele, Secy.. W. 7th St.; Lane. Judge

South Bend, Dec. 26-31. T. E. Hans. Secy. - e •

_ Iowa.

Belle Plaine. Nov. 2S-Dec. 3, E. M. Ewen, Secy.; Holden, Judge

Cedar Rapids Dec 26-31. E. D', Monilaw, Secy,; Russell and Shanklin, Judges

Centerville, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, Jonas Gott, Secy.; Russell, Judge,

Corydon, Nov. 30-Dec. 3. C. L, Clark, Secy,; Heimlich, Judge

Davenport, Nov. 21-26. H. A. Skelly, Secy.; Russell and McCord, Judges.

Des Moines, Jan, 7-12, K. H. Guthrie, Secy.; Rhodes, Russell and Ellison, Judges

Donnellson, Dec, 5-8. H. G. Kirchner, Secy., R. R. 4.; Coolev, Judge.

Ft. Madison. Jan. 3-6. Albert M. King. Secy., W^est Point, ia. ; Ellison. Judge.

r.owne, Jan. 2-6. 9. R. Anderson, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Iowa Falls, Dec, 12-16. H. S. Dixon, Secy,; Shanklin, Judge

Le Grand, Dec. 14-17. L. C. Knudson, Secy.; Mills, Judge

Manning, Dec, 6-8. W. B, Parrott, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.

Maquoketa, Dec. 20-24,— N. J, Rankin, Secy.; Shellabarger Judge

Muscatine, Dec, 20-25. Fred W. Herman, Secy.; Shaner Judge.

New Hampton, Jan, 23-27. J. C. Mueller, Secy.; Shanklin, Judge,

New London, Jan. 10-13. A. M. Cornwell, Secy.; Shanklin Judge

New Virginia, Nov, 28-30. L. E, Wilson, Secy.; Shaner, Judge

Packwood, Nov. 16-19, G. A. Spielman, Secy.; Russell Judge

Panora, Jan. 18-21. E. M. Wilson, Secy.; Wilson, Judge.

Richland, Dec. 13-16. J. W. Allen, Secy.; Dagle, Judge

St, Charles, Dec. 15-17. J. M. Brown, Secv.; Todd, Judge

Tipton Nov. 29-D'ec. 2. R, M, Gregg, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.

Wapello, Dec. 14-17. H. B. Kelly, Secy.

Waterloo, Jan. 9-14. C. F, Schenck, Becy, ; Russell and Hale, Judges.

Winfield, Dec. 6-9. Chas, Jaggard, Secy.; Dagle. Judge.

Garden City. Dec. 14-17.
Independence, Dec. 12-17.
Leavenworth, Jan. 17-20.
Mound Valley. Nov 16-19.
Mullinville. Dec. 29-31. C.
Parsons, Dec. 26-31. A E
Pittsburg, Dec. 12-17. P.
Salina. Dec. 26-31. Sam V:
Topeka, Jan. 2-7. E. W.

Roberts, and Palmer, J
Wichita, Jan. 9-14. Thos.

and Stoner, Judges.

Bowling Green, Oct. 26-29.

Kansas.
M. R. Easley, Secy.; Stoner, Judge.
D. R. Kinkead. Secy.

Fred T. Nye, Secy.; Branch and Palmer, Judges.
M. C. Taylor, Secy.; Stoner, Judge.

F. Voss, Secy.; Atherton. Judge.
. Blaker, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge
J. Akins, Secy.; Branch, Judge.
. Hoover, Secy., Clii)p, .ludge.

Rankin, Secy.; Tompkins, Smith, Rhodes, Branch, Byers.
udges,

Owen, Secy., Topeka, Kan., Sta. B. ; Thompson, Johnson.

Kentucky.
B. E. Webb, Secy.

Louisiana.
Lake Charles, Nov. 28-30, H, K, Ramsey, Secv.; Davis Judge
New Orleans, Dec. 15-18. A. Van Phelps, Secy.

Maine,
Freeport, Dec. 28-30. George P. Cofl^n, Secy.; Watson. Atherton. Ballou and Bart-

lett, Judges.
South Paris, Jan. 3-5. E, P. Crokett. Secy,

Maryland.
Baltimore, Jan, 3-7. George O. Brown. Secy., 2027 E North \ve
Frostburg, Dec. 13-17. Dr. I. L. Ritter, Secy.; Chas. F. Cornman Judge
Hagerstown, Oct. 11-14. W. T. Spahr, Secy.

Massachusetts.
Boston, .Jan. 10-14. W. B. Atherton, Secy., 30 Broad St
Dalton. Jan. 10-14. W. H. Griswold, Secy.; Felch and Tasker, Judges
Greenfield, Dec. 13-14. S. H. Stone, Secy.. 4 Walnut St.
Holyoke. Dec. 7-9. Geo. A. Lamb, Secy.; Card, Shove, Tasker, Judges.
Milford, Dec. 6-8. W. H. Pyne, Secy.

North Adams, Jan. 17-20. C. A. Larabee, Secy.; Tasker and Weed, Judges.
Springfield, Jan. 3-6. E. P. Tilton, Secy,; Wedd, Card, and Ballou. Judges.

Michigan.
Adrian. Jan. 18-2.".. ,1. K. Holyoke, Secy.. Mulinix, .hulge.
Alma. Dec. 13-16. (\ J. Hi-own, Secy.. Otto. Judge.
Cadillac, Jan. 23-27, C. A, Sanders. Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Detroit, Jan, 25-Feb. 1. J. A. Turner, Secy.. 703 Seymann St., Lansing Mich.; Tucker

Marshall and Wise, Judges.
Dowagiac, Dec. 7-10. A. C. Robinson. Secy.; Keeler, Judge.
Grand Ledge, Jan. 2-7. W. G. Shaw% Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Grand Rai)i(ls. .Ian. 16-20. E. A. Knai)p, Secy.. 451 Granville Ave., Tucker and Otto,

.1 udges.
Hastings, Feb. 13-18. Thos. E. Waters, Secy,; McClave. Judge.
Holland. Dec. 15-21. J. B. Hadden, Secy.; J. C, Clipp, Judge.
Houghton, Jan. 26-28. John T. McNamara, Secy,; Traviss, Judge.
Jackson, Dec. 31 -Jan. 5, W. O. Wellman, Secy.; Schwab and Traviss, Judges
Kalamazoo, Jan. 9-14. F. W. Hough, Secy,. 301-2 Pie^ Bldg. ; Shellabarger and

Stanfield, Judges.
Lansing, Dec. 26-31. J. A. Turner, Secy.; Tucker and Wise, Judges.
Muskegon, Jan. 5-7. P. M. Hanson, Secy., R. 7; Tucker, Judge.

Port Huron. Jan. lN-21. Robert S. Taylor, Secy.. Wise. Coburn and Alban. Judges
Reading. Dec. 12-16, Harry Adams. Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Salem. Dec, 20-24. F. W. Roberts, Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Sturgis. Jan. 30- Feb. 4. N. O. (Jrove. Secy.
Vicksburg. Dec. 28-31. C. A. Morse. Secy,; Tucker, Judge.

Minnesota.

Albert Lea, Dec, 27-31, Harry E. Ruble, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Austin, Dec. 20-24. Alfred A. Ziemer, Secy.; Ott, Judge,

Minneapolis, Jan. 11-17. Chas. O. Johnson, Secy.; Holden, Rhodes, and Roberts.

Judges.
Owatonna, Dec. 27-30. A, J. Bosshard, Secy.; Holden. Judge.
Rochester. Dao. 7-12. D. li. Williams. Secy.; Holden and Whitney, Judges.

Poultry Breeders' and Fanciers' Associa-
tion show at Belle Plaine, Iowa, Novem-
ber 28tli to December :{d. '{"ht- i)iemiums
botli in tlie regular sliow and the S. C.
Bi-own Le'^liorn Specials will be ver>- lib-
eral and wortli cominj; after. C. 1). Hol-
den, judse. For premium list wiite to
F. H. Ewen, Secy.-Treas.

GREENFIELD, MASS.

The Greenfield Score Card Poultry c'lub
^^■ill hold its twelfth annual show in
Washington Hall, Greenfield, on December
i;Uh and 14tii. and for the first time com-
petition will be open for non-members of
the club. Send for premium list t» S. H.
Stone, Secy,

CANANDAIGUA. N. Y.

The Ontario Poultr.v Assot-iation of
GanandaiKua, X. Y., will iiold their second
annual show, .fanuary 17th. ISth. IDth,
20th, 21st, 1911. The New York State
exhibit, in charge of Prof. .James K. Rice,

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AURORA, ILL.

the Fox Riv-
be held Jan-
the Armory,

The ninth annual show of
er Fancii'rs" Association will
nary l(ith-14th. 11»11, in
Aurora. 111.

We have a^ain engaged Judge Roun-
tree to place the awaids on |)oultiy. Our
premium list, giving fvdl information re-
garding- the fine line of cash and special
prizes offered, will be ready aJ)out De-
eember 15th.

When making uj) your list of shows at
which to exhibit, do not foiget t'> include
the coming Aurora show, whicii will be
biggf-i" and better than ever.

Droi) a i)ostal card asking ff>r premium
list to Herman >Moser, Secy,

ANNUAL MEETING CORNISH CLUB.

The annual meeting of the American
Gornish (^lub will be lield witli the Mis-
souri State Show at Kansas Git.w Novem-
ber 29th to December 3d, 1910.

An invitation is extended to all mem-
beis to attend this meeting. Gonsolida-
tion with the Pacific (\)rnish Fowl Glub
will be considered.

lOureka, 111. H. C". Hayes, Secy.

CROOKSTON, MINN.

The Northern Minnesota l^jultr.v Asso-
ciation will hold their third annual show
Dec-ember 15th to 20th, lltKt, and there is
every reason to believe that this year's
show will be one of the best ever held l>.v
this association. Tlie interest in thor-
ouglibred poultry is growing fast in tiiis
pait of the state. Ralpii Whitney, of
Kochester. Minn., will do the judging,
which assures ever.v exhibitor a sipiare
<leal. I^arge cash and s|)ecial piizes will
be paid, as well as a number of silver
• ujis an<l the iisual ril)bons. We have
now ample money in the treasury to ])ay
all i)remiums at the close of the show.
Wiite and get a premium list, which will
be read.N' tlie tirst <>f Decendser. This
association owns the finest c<)o])ing in
the state and the birds wil be coojied in
a neat and sanitary mannei'. An.v fur-
ther information will be cheerfully fur-
nished b\' tlie secretaiy, Mrs. F. G.
Mitchell.

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WEST HAVEN. CONN.

The West Haven, Gonn., Poultry Asso-
ciation will hold tlieir jiinth annual ex-
hibition in tlie West Huron town iiall on
November 29th and .'iOth, Decembei- 1st
and 2d. It is a fact conceded b.\' the fan-
icers of the New Fngland states that the
West Ma\en i)oultiy show is the most
po|)ular show of all in New lOngland out-
side of Boston,

Situated right alongside New Haven, a
cit>' of Hi5,00(i population to draw rroin,
and famed as the home of Yale I'niver-
sity. this exhibition grows strongei- in
pojiular fa\()r and mimlier of entries each
year, and this years exhibit piomises to
eclipse all former records.

Drevenatedt, the peer of judges in the
W.vandotte family, will be one of the
Judges, accompanied by W. H. Card of
Manchester, popular everywhere, and G.
H, Welles of Stratford, of Barred Rock
fame.

Never anywheie were better judges got-
ten together to award the riblmns.

POULTRY FANCIER^il November,

■,va.W!j;--tj>> i^rU^K' ^7.v'.:>'^..a-tff

Meridian, Dec. 12-17.

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Mississippi.
F. R. Ziller, Secy.; Hutchison, Judge.

Missouri.

M. B. Gardner, Secy. ;
Ben Ruber, Secy.

R. F. Nickels, Secy.;

E, C, Williams, Secy.

Dinwiddle, Judge.

Branch, .Tudge.
710 W. Chestnut St.

Rhodes and Emry^

Aurora, Dec. 12-16.
Belton, Jan. 18-21.
Braymer, Nov, 8-11.
Carthage, Noy. 9-12.

Judges.

Centralia, Nov. 22-24. W. S. Robinson, Secy.; Fayette, Mo.; Branch, Judge.
Clinton. Dec. 14-17. A. L. Armstrong, Secy.; Branch, Judge.
Concordia, Nov. 16-18. John F, Bruns, Secy.; Branch, Judge,
Edina, Dec. 7-10. C. H. Mulinex, Secy,

Hannibal, Dec, 13-16. W. S. Hoke, Secy.; Johnston, Judge.
Kansas City, Nov. 29-Dec. 3. T. TO. Quisenberry Secy.. Columbia, Mo.: Russell,

Oke, Rhodes, Heimlich, Hale, Thompson, Southard, Roberts, Palmer, Picket an(j

Ewald, Judges.
Kirksville, Dec, 7-10. C, B. Clanahan, Secy.; Rliodes, Judge.
Kirkwood, T, M. Campbell, Rigg, Hettich and Ewald. Judges.
La Belle, Nov. 31-Dec. 2. E. G. Eamb, Secy.; Branch, Judge.
Maryville, Dec. 14-17. Joseph H. Savler, Secy.; Thompson, Judge.
Mexico, Nov. 9-12. W^ S. Eller, Secy.; Branch, Judge.

E. J, Green, Secy.; Emry, Judge.
•T. P. Farmer, Secy.; Rhodes. Judge.
E. L. McLonald, Secy.; Rhodes, Shellabarger and Thompson,.

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Pleasant Hill, Nov. 7-9.
St. Joseph, Jan. 23-28.

Judges.
5t. Louis, Nov. 21-26

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E. "Way, Secy. Kirkwood. T. M. Campbell, Rigg, Het-
tich and Ewald, Judges.
Trenton, Nov. 16-19. V. O. Hobbs, Secy.; Rhodes and Southard. Judges.
Vandalia, Nov. 22-25. J. A. B. Keith, Secy.; Stoddard, Judge.
Whitesville, Dec. 5-8. J. F. Case, Secy.; Branch, Judge.

Adams, Nov. 23-25. E
Fremont, Dec, 12-16
Lincoln, Jan. 16-20.
Nebraska City, Nov.
Pender, Dec. 15-16.
West Point, Dec. 12-

Nebraska.

W. Campbell, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.
Chas. W^ Mulloy, Secy. ; Shellabarger, Judge.
A. H. Smith, Secy.; Rhodes, Johnson and Southard, Judges
5-9. F. M. Cook, Secy.; McClaskey, Judge.
R. Chow, Secy.; Mrs. Blattler, Judge.
16. Rudolph Brazda, Secy.; McClaskey, Judge.

New Jersey.

Bridgeton, Nov. 23-26. Paul G. Springer, Secy.; Stanton, Huyler. Wolsuffer. and

Holmes, Judges.
I3over, Nov. 22-27. W. H. Bidgood, Secy.

East Orange, Nov. 21-26. George Eckel, Secy.. 46 Washington Terrace,
Morristown, Dec, 5-10. Lloyd B. Tredway, Secy., (Miester, N. J.; Stanton, Heller,

and Nixon, .Judges,
Paterson, Nov, 30-Dec. 3. L. Tlionnerieux, Secy., 52 Pell St.; Drevenstedt. Davey,

Stanton, Nixon, and Anderson, Judges.
Red Bank, Dec, 7-10. P, J, Gislison, Secy.; Davey, Stanton, and Minnich. Judges.
Rutherford, Jan. 12-14. F, A, Minnerly, Secy.
Vineland, Dec, 1-3, G. E. Smith. Secy,
Washington, Jan. 10-14. Wm. H. Cyphers. Secy.

New York.

Buffalo, Jan. 23-29, Stanley A. Merkley, Secy.. 309 Brisbane Bldg.; Butterfield,
Schwab, McNeill, Burgott, Maunder, Webb, Card, Ewald, Lange, and Kirkover.

A. J. Hammerstrom, Secy., 627 English St.; Burgott and

De.vo, Secy.. New Platz, N. Y.
F. Talbot, Secy.; JaQuins, Judge.

Robert Seaman, Mgr,

Jamestown, Dec. 12-1 <

Denny, Judges.
Kingston, Dec. 13-16. B. C
New Berlin, Jan. 23-27. R.
New York City. Nov. 18-24

At.herton, Welles, Card, Cleveland, Ewald, Punderford

Josenhaus, Glasgow, and Ellard. Judges.
Peekskill, Nov. 22-26. G, A, Aschenbrenner, Secy.; Drevenstedt and Davey, Judges.
Rochester, Jan, 9-14. F. A, Newman, Secy., P. O, Box 472; Maunder, Stanton, Webb,

Cornish, Brace, and Braun, .Judges,
Schenectady, Jan. 16-21. R. B. Shauber, Secy.; Ballston Lake, N. Y,

Jericho, N, Y. ;
Cutting,

Weed, Davey,
Young, Fitch,

Asheville, Dec.
Charlotte, Dec.
Gastonia, Nov.

North Carolina.

8-12. Chas. Beers, Secy.; Drevenstedt, Judge

28-30. C. W. Best, Sec.v. ; Brace and Simmons, .Judges.

29-Dec, S. S, Morris, Secy.; Marshall. Judge.

Ohio.

Judge.

St, ; Drevenstedt.

Faulkner.

Ashtabula. Dec. 5-10. E. R, McCune. Secy,; Kummer, Judge.
Athens, Dec. 6-10. 9. M. Johnson, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.
Attica, .Tan. 3-7. J. Hobart Sutton, Secy.; Cram. Judge.
Belle Center, Dec. 28-31. R. C. Graham, Secy.; Falkner.
Bucyrus. Dec. 13-17. D. M. Odaffer, Secy.; Heck, Judge
Cleveland. Jan. 23-28. J. T. Conkey, Secy., 2337 E. 4th

Hawkins. King', McClave, and Oke, Judges.
Coshocton. Jan. 2-7. Dr. Geo. M. Boone, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Defiance. Jan. 16-21, J. H. Vincent, Secy.; Keller and Long, Judges.
Delaware, Oct. 12-15. Ed. S. Mettler, Secy.

East Liverpool, Dec, 26-31. J. S. Groscross, Secy.; Kummer. Judge.
Edgerton, Jan. 10-14, W, V. Niliart, Secv. ; Stanfield and Hamlin, Judges
Edon, Jan. 3-6. S. D. Kaiser Secy.; Taylor. Judge.
Elmore, Jan. 3-7. Geo. A. Neis, Secy.; Pliil Fell, Judge.
Elyria, Jan. 4-8. A. J. T..aundon, Secy., 114 Cheapside; Falkner, Judge.
Genoa, Dec. 12-17. C. F. Coleman, Secy.; Emch, Judge.
Gnadenhutten, Dec. 5-9. W. O. I^yle, Secy.; Falkner, Judge.
Mansfield, Dec. 5-10. Sherman Bowden, Secy.; Lane, Judge.
Marietta. Jan. 26-31. Fred C. Snodgrass, Secy.; Pierce, Jud^e
Marion, Nov. 22-26. M. G. Dickerson, Secv.; Bean, Judge.
Medina. Dec. 6-10. H. S. Ross, Secy.; Gault, Judge.
Montpelier, Dec. 28-31. Will Welch, Secy.; McClave. Judge.
Mt. Vernon, Jan. 16-21. Luther A. Stream, Secy.; Felch, Judge.
New London, .Jan. 17-20. B. F. Haiiison, Sec>., Barger, .Judge.
Norwalk, Jan. 10-14. Charles O, Jackson, Secy.
Piqua, .Tan, 16-22. Sherman D, Syler, Secy.; Struble. Judge.

Carroll Beck, Secy.
W. O. Smith. Secy.; McClave, Judge.

B. F, Cockayne, Secy,; Falkner and Struble. Judge.

F. W. Hoff, Secy., 2415 Trenton Ave.; Mulinix, Shepherd, Northup

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Salem, Dec. 12-17.
Shelby, Dec. 19-23.
Tiffin. Jan. 10-14.
Toledo, Jan, 9-15.

and Barrett, Judges.
Tuscarawas, Dec. 27-31. O. B. Schumacher, Secy.; Close, Judge.
Van Wert, Jan. 17-21. 1j. C. Blake, Secy.; Shaner, Judge.
Wakeman. Dec. 14-18. C. M. McWhorter, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Wapakoneta. Dec. 1.5-1S. Phon Ague. Case, Judge.

November, '10

The premium list will b»' ready for
mailing November 1st. Entries close No-
vember 22d. Send a list and address
William J. Maher. secretary. Box 1525,
New Haven, Gonn.

ORANGE, N. J.

We be^- to announce notice of our Third
Annual I'ouliry, Pigeon and Pet Stock
Show to be held November 2()th to 26th
1910, at the Riding Academv Hall, East
Orange. N. J.

To date, a large number of handsome
silver trophy cups, togetliei' with a large
list of handsome specials, as well as at-
tractive cash money prizes, have l)een of-
fered, and many more are expected to
come in between now and s!iow week.

It is expected to coop about 3,000 or
more exhibits tiiis year, this being a con-
siderable gain over i)ast exhibitions, and
illusi latins the fact that the show is well
and favorably known in this section, and
as an association that grants a ".s<iuare
deal" to all exhibitors, large and small
alike.

The Orange .-Iiow is getting to l)e well
and favorably known as being the "Glassv
Show of New Jeisey," and as such, is
well i)atr«inized I)y the largest and best
fanciers and \isitors.

All interested fanciers are re<iuested to
communicate with the secretary. Mr.
(Jeorge F:ckel, No. 46 Washington Terrace,
East Orange. N. .1., who will l)e pleased
to forward premimuni list and necessary
entry blanks. I<:ntries close November
14tli, 1910.

ERIE, PA.

The Noithwestern Pennsylvania Poul-
try, Pigeon and Pet Stock As.sociation has
been organized witli the following offi-
cers: President, Wm. Sai)per; Vice Pres-
ident, Krnest Wall; Treasurer, George
Keyser. and Secretary. L. P.. Hindman.

A complete e<|uii>ment of new coops will
be purchased and their tirst show will
be held I)eceml)er 22(1 to 28th, 1910. I J.
P. Scliwab has been seciu'ed as judge.

The premiums will be made as" liberal as
consistent with go(»d business and evei'.v
effort will be made to l)uild up a perma-
nent and successful show. I'remiums i)aid
before close of sliow.

Premium list will be gladly .sent upon
request to L. B. Hindman, Secretarx , U
lOast Kighth Street. lOrie, Pa.

POLO. ILL.

The Polo Pmiltr.v Association wrii nolo
its eiglith annual exhibition at the opera
house from Januaix- 2d to 7lh, 1911. For
tills occasion they lia\e secured the serv-
ice of Judge W. .^. Ilussell. one of the
best known and reliable .juilges on the
circuit.

The directors have decided to offer
fi"om tliirt\' to foi-t\ \aluable silver cui)s,
besides a long list of casli and sjiecial
prizes. One of the main featmcs will l)e
a series of liigit class entertainments
which are expected to eclipse an\thing
ever bef(ii-e attempted b.v the association.
For information of an\ kind, address the
secretar.v, Fiaiik Niman. I'olo. HI.

BIG SALE OF REDS.

Edwin R. Gornish. I'Mwardsburg. Mich.,
announces that he is s»'lling t»ut his en-
tire Mock of li. G. and S. G. liliode Island
Tteds. He has tliree thousand biids that
must be sold at once. All of his prize
winners and descemlants of wimiers at
America's h-ading shows will be disposed
of at froin one-third to one-half their
actual value. Write for pric-es on the
kind and «iualit>' of stock .vou desire.

Our readeis who ;ire looking for some-
thing choice in liarred liocks should
write to Frnest Wagner. Kendallville.
Ind.. for prices. He has an extra choici^
lot of birds of P»right and Latham strains
and he has \-oung birds fully niatuied
that can win easily in strong comiietition.
His prices are reasonable.

A. S. Matthews, Wayne. Mich., is <i not-
ing unusually low prices on a choice lot
of Buff Rocks. lie can furnish single
birds, trios and pens that will win for
his customers and he guarantees satis-
faction and promi)t shipment. His flock
is high grade in every wav and he is in
position to jilease the most exacting
buyers.

'POULTRY FANClER-^^^^^3^

Wooster, Jan. 31-Feb. 4. Arthur H. Smith. Secy.. 8 Columbus Ave.; McClave, Judge.
Youngstown, Dec. 12-17. John Simonton, Secy.. 42 So. Pearl St.

Oklahoma.

Alva, r-ec. 6-10. A. H. Bullis, Secy.; Dudley, Judge.
Hydro. Dec. 7-10. Mrs. Lulu Thralls, Secy.; Stone, Judge.
Medford. Dec. 7-10. C. L. Bickerdike, Secy.

Oregon.

Cottage Grove, Dec. 14-17. W. C. Conner, Secy., Main and Fourth Sts. ; Collier, Judge.
Portland, Dec. 5-10. J. C. Murray, Secy., 1005 E. 14th SL, No.; Collier and Coates,
Judges.

Pennsylvania.

Altoona, Jan. 9-14. J. L. Wertzberger, Secy., 1322 10th Ave.; Cornman and Ewald,

Judges.
Apollo, Dec. 8-10. George L. Rudolf, Secy., Box 117; Auerswold, Judge.
Beaver, Jan. 11-14. J, Mays Ecoff, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Bethlehem, Nov. 23-26. Herman J. Schueller, Secy.; E'enny, Judge.
Columbia. Dec. 26-31. M. S. Gohn, Secv.; Davey, Judge.
Dallastown. Nov. 21-26. Jacob Eberly, Secy.; Minnich and Holse, Judge.
Easton, Dec. 12-17. S. W. Godley. Secy.; Drevenstedt and Webb, Judges.
Evans City, Jan. 11-15. J. F. McFarland, Secy.; Gault, Judge.
Glen Rock, Dec. 1-3. Allen M. Seitz, Secy., R. R. 2, New Freedom, Pa.; Hoke and'

Eberly, Judges.
Lebanon, Dec. 13-17. Samuel Black, Secy., 1121 Nufflin St.; Corey and Eibel Judges
Lititz, Dec. 27-31. James H. Breitigan. Secy.; Cornman and Corev, Judges
McKeesport, Dec. 23-Jan. 1. W. N. Soles, Secy., 2111/2 5th Ave.; kummer and Keeler.

Judges.
Mohnton, Nov. 22-26. John H. Fichthorn, Secy.; Webb, Judge.

Mt. Carmel. Nov. 22-26. Thomas F. Owens, Secy,. 224 E. 7th St,; Eberly, Judge
New Castle, Jan. 2-7. C, L, Carson. Secy,, 75 E, North St,; Jaquins. Judge
Norrlstown Dec. 6-10. George C. Whittam, Secy,, 1529 Arch St,; Davey. Nevins and

Foley. Judges.
Parkers Landing, E'ec. 12-16. J. S. Brady, Secy.; Andrews, Judge.
Philadelphia, Dec. 13-17. C, Carroll Kempton, Secv.
Pi"sburg.^Feb, 21-26. Geo. C. Sutch, Secy., 4 Lydla St.; Denny, Gardner and Jaquin,

Reading. Dec. 6-10, C H Glase, Secy,, 1331 Perkins Ave.; Edwards and Webb Judges
SchwenksviUe, Dec. 20-24. S. R. Crom, Secy,; Davev, Judge. ' *" ""^''''•

Scottdale, Dec 6-10. W. G, Sherrick, Secy., Everson, Pa.; Cornman, Judge

^^^wu*' •^^"- A^?;^^' S^'^^'' ^- Payne, Secy., 140 Wash. Ave.; Denny. McGrew, Mosher
Wittman, Alden. Barber and Stanton, Judges, '

?x9.^?''^^*' ^^^- 23-26, A, D, Shaffer, Secy.; McClave. Judge.

Wilhamsport. Nov. 30-Dec. 3. James T. Huston. Secy.; Schwab and Wittman Judges

Womelsdorf. Dec, 1-3. Chas. D, Leinbach. Secy., Ryeland. Pa.; E'avy. Judge

Rhode Island.
Woonsocket, Dec. 15-17. C, O, Smith, Secy.

South Carolina.

Spartanburg, Jan. 10-12. C. W. Anderson, Secy., 133 Magnolia St.; Brown and Owen
Judges. v^vTCii,.

South Dakota.
Sioux Falls, Dec. 12-16. L, G. Granger, Secy.; Keeler, Judge.

Tennessee.
Knoxville, Jan. 18-21. John E. Jennings. 621 N. Central Ave.; Emry. Judge.

Texas.

Arlington. Dec, 1-4. W. T. Thurman, Secy.; Davis. Judge.

Beaumont. Nov. 21-26. J. L. McKinley. Secy., 1228 Harrison St.; Northup Judge

Cleburne. Nov. 29-Dec. 2. G, E. Sears, Secy.; Savage, Judge ^. e^-

Dtillas. Jan, 9-13. C. P. Van Winkle, Supt., P. O. Box 281; Hewes Judge

El Paso. Oct 29-Nov, 6, L. E. Gillett. Secy.; Van Winkle, Judge. *

Honey Grove. Nov. 22-25, L. E, Erwin. Secy.; Fife, Judge.

Palestine, Dec. 14-17. O. B. McReynolds, Secy.; Van Winkle. Judge.

Roscoe. Nov. 17-19. J, M. Wallace, Secy.; Van Winkle. Judge.

Utah.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 9-14. C. J. Sanders, Secy.; 3335 So. 7th St.; E, Heimlich. Judge.

Vermont.
Barre. Dec. 27-30. R. S. Currier, Secy.; Card, Judge.
Bellows Falls, Dec. 6-8. A. T. Pierce, Secy.; Felch, Judge.
Bristol. .Tan. 24-26. Geo. S. Farr. Secy.; Shove. Judge.
St. Albans. Jan. 17-20. W. B. Witters. Secy., Sliove and .May. Jurt^es.

Virginia.
Front Royal, Nov. 15-17. M. C. Richardson, Jr.; Wittman, Judge.
Herndon, Dec. 21-23. A. H. Kirk. Secy.; Wittman, Judge.
Richmond. Jan. 11-14. W. R. Todd, Secy., 426 N. 6th St.; Simmons, Judge.

Washington.

Bellingham. Nov. 22-26. Lloyd Hildebrand, Secy.; Dixon and Coats Judges
Colfax. Jan. 9-14. K. H. Rosenhkraz, Secy., Collier. Judge.
South Tacoma, .Ian. 3-S. Frank L. White. Secv.. I'nrvis, .lodge
Spokane, Jan. 2-7. H. J. Fuller, Secy.; Warnock and Norton, Judge.

West Virginia.

Charleston, Jan. 9-14. Elijah Steen, Secy., 307 Penn. Ave.; Sites, Judge.

Fairmont, Jan. 11-14. C. E. Smith. Secy.; Taylor. Judge. r

Huntington. E'ec. 26-31. Fred L. Summers, Secy.; Northup, Judge.

Keyser, Nov. 22-25. C. E. Everhart, Secy.; Hill, Judge.

Morgantown, Dec. 20-23. M. Dille, Secy.; Case, Judge,

Smithfield. Dec. 13-16. F. E. Funk. Secy.; Sites, Judge.

Williamstown, Dec. 12-17. W. P, Miller, Secy,; Bean, Judge.

Wisconsin.
Beaver Dam, Dec. 15-18. Otto J. Winning, Secy., 412 W. 3d St.; Keeler, Judge
Beloit. Jan. 9-14, Geo. A. Miller, Secy., R. 28.; McClave and Hackett, Judges.
Blanchardville. Jan, 3-6. L. Hattery, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Fond du Lac, Feb. 8-13. E. R. Zamzoro, Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Green Bay, Dec. 15-18. E. A. Meyer. Secy,; T, M. Campbell, Judge.
Janesville. Jan, 16-21. F. J. Holt, Secy.; Heimlich, Judge.
Kell, Dec. 29-Jan. 1. M. J. Wirth, Secy.; T, M. Campbell. Judge.
Kenosha. Jan. 27-Feb. 1. E. J. Huber. Secy,; Hale. Judge.
La Cros^ie. Dec. 7-12. Jos, H. Poehling. Secy.; Hoffman. Judge.
Lake Geneva. Dec. 19-24. H. E, Cocroft. Robert, Judge.
Milwaukee. Jan. 11-15. Theo. Koss. Secy.. 488 National Ave.; Keller. Heyl and Mc-

Cauley. Judges.
Mineral Point, Jan. 9-13. Allen Tucker, Secy.; Jas. Tucker, Judge.
Oconomowoc, Dec. 14-19. Chas. Behrens, Jr., Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Plattevillo, Jan. IC-i'o. Henr.v Pargman, Sety., Mills. Judge.'
Racine, Jan. 16-21. D. J, Kennedy. Secy.; Russell, Judge.
Stevens Point, Jan. 17-20. Frank J. Blood, Secy.

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months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS

::::H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE::::

17 ELM STREET - WOBURN, MASS.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all flrsta and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
•3 per 15, $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. : Marshalltown, Iowa

with score cards for >aif. iiu luuiii^' M. Luiis vviii-
iitTs. Huff i^- Part. W'vaiuluttes, KUck '..aiin^liiins.
Young stock: Buff, W, & Part. WyauHottes, I?lk.
LHiitJshans, S. (\ W.. i'.r. and Buff Leglioriis tli:it
will win. Buff Wyandottes bred t'.xiiusivt'ly.
otl'cr varieties bred hy .Joliii .Mien.
A lien & Sohiiidler IVrryville, IMo.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

D^J_ None better. 40 first and secoiul
I\Cuo« prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand bird.s at special prices to
quick buyers Place egg orders now.

I>. J. BLISS. Carthasre, Mo.

L'iiie Bred For 20 Years

.Special prices on cockerels and pullets. Vounn stock
better than ever this season, (iet |>rlces now.

E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2.00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS, UTIUTY FARM, R. 19,

Owensville. ind.

I* FUSE'S CATALO<iUE gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm ralwed
stock for sale and eggs In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFIT.E
Freport, 111, Dept. A

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190<;, my

Rnrr^rl Rnrlf c ^°" ^^^ cockerel. 2d cock.
Oarrea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908. l.st
cock, l.st cockerel; Sept. 1909. 1st and 3d cocks.
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds- Indiana-
polis winners too. Stock with quality for
sale. W, W. ZIKE, MORRISTOWN. IND

REICHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. IV. Leghorns

Special prices on 11. C. W. Legliorn Co<'k<Te'« I n
lota of three or more, $l..-)0 <'aeh, for this nionih
SatlsfHCtlon guaranteed. :: :: ::

E. H. Reichert - :- Vir<l«ii. IlliiioiM

White Plume Farm

produces the fowls
you need to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks,
White Embden Gee.se. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, Prop.. Rt. l.Plainville. III.

LAKE SHORE POULTRY FARM

Rreeders of

HiKh Class Silver Laced Wyandottes
Exclusively. Stuck for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked uow.

II. F. BKRGNER. Pres. HKNRY MAU. Mgr.
South Chicago. IllH. K.F.I). No :U. Kenosha, Wis.

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Faultless** Houdans, 287
Ei(i( Str«kii%. Five carefully mated pens
of large, crested, dark colored birds, de-
.scended from the greatest prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring.
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider, Box 105, Kansas, Ills.

R.in^let Barr«a Pl^rmoutH
RocKs won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909. two
silver cups, clean sweep. Cockerels $1.50 up
Eggs, be.st matings $3..50 per 15. $h per 30. gen-
eral stock %\.^. Lake View Poultry Farm.
T. \V. Critrliette, Markesan, Wis.

cas bred for size and egg production,
btock and eggs for sale in sea.son. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (SX» Son
North Baltimore, O.

Rox 454

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds

Light

Brahma Bantams ^ ""^^^ « t

Madison
Square. N. Y., Baltimore, Hagerstown, Md
Philadelphia, Nazareth. Allentown and Read-
ing Pa Stock and eggs Hillside Poultry
Yards, J^S^rv Prop.. Dent F., Nazareth. Pa.

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders hooked now from my 2(X)-egg
strains. Trap nests used. 1 know just what I am
doing. BlrdH scoring 91 to •t.') with' a famous egg
record hehlnd them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. O. SWIFT,— F. Castlewood. So. Dak.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-

shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2.50 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7. Box ]5„ Winchester. Ky.

EGGS

rppcr BARRED PLYMOUTH
CUUO ROCK

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue .-
giving winning, mating and prices free. |i

Chas. F. SCHLUETER, Box K. Reynolds, 111. <|

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^^^ IfSl^^S.

D/^/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

S. C. and K. C. RHOI>E ISLAND R£DS

Single combs direct descendants from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Hose comb descteudants of O. E. Miles
first pen, superior (-olor, fine eombs. Best stock
obtainable. For stoc^k and eggs write
Dr. K. B. CRAMIJLIT, AMES, IOWA

Walker's White Rocks

AI.WAYS WIIV

Write for prices on stock and eggs.
ROBT. WALKER. - Sel.rinii. Oliio

At Indianapolis, Ind. State Show my

OdllCU r. I\UCKS hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet, 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
.Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen, 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
Kggs $3 00 for 15. H. W. BARNETT
24 Bushnell Bldg.. - SpHnrfield.O. 'I

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Minorcas
and R. C. R. I. Reds ^tk "^

breeders. Grand birds at half their value.

H. S. WENTZ, QUAKERTOWN. PA.

<;<)Ll .>IBIAN KOCK.S, COLUMBIAN
WYANI>()TTF:S, bred from New York.
Buffalo and liochester winners, 5 firsts 2 seconds
on 7 entries at liochester show. Dec. 1909. Cock-
erels |3 to tl(», pullets 12 to If). Trios 17 to tlf).
Eggs il.7") per r-, t3 per .SO. Free setting from
best pen with each i»10 order. Stock guaranteed
F. A.CAMPHKLL, IIONKOYK, N. Y.

S. C. BLACK
ORPINGTONS

Won all first prizes
at Columbus show
1909 also several at Ocon-
omowoc and silver cup
for best pen. Several choice cockerels for sale
Kggs from pen No. 1 $7^ per 1.^: pen No. 2 $2
per 15. Dora James Pick Fall River. Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

RaiIc I^rize Winners Kggs from 1st pen,
ivcud setting 15 eggs $2.50. Eggs from 2nd
pen, setting 15 eggs $2.00. Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed satis-
faction. William Kenney. Sparland. III.

WHITE PLYMOUTH l"S\r:l\ Tor

ROCK •'**'^- ^^'■'^^ ^^°^^ f^o«» 94^ to 9<)
* , *■ ana will improve your flock.

Prices rearonable. Kggs for .sale from this
quality of stock.

W. R. GEIER REMINGTON. IND.

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE

AV^Axrvi^lij winner and d i p loma
Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S L
Wyandottes. c. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN.

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November, *10

Light Brahmas. Felch Strain Direct

Kggs from higU-scoring prize winning stock
$2 00 per 16. On 11 entries at New Castle. Pa.
'09. won 11 prizes and |10 gold special for best
display in Asiatics Pens headed bv 93 and 94
pt. males. Females .score from 92% to 95.
3d pHze ck. .score 92% and ckls. for sale.
Mrs.Kd R^rtlett lfi9'^ Onk <5t New ^j^cflp p«

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

Won first at the great Milwaukee Show 1910.
A Cockerel hatched from eggs I sold won
1st at the Wisconsin State Fair. 1910.
HeiiN and Cockerels for Sale CHEAP
Dist. Att'y Philip Lehner. Princeton, Wis.

*Kellerstrass and Cook Strain of

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS

A few Cockerels and Pullets for sale. Eggs
in season. Satisfaction guaranfe .

A. J. WALDSCHMIDT. Washington, la.

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS

Other people would read your ad if it were

here, just the same as you are reading this )
one. See the rates and conditions at the head )
of this department and send in an ad. It will >
I bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, >
( 357 Dearborn Streat. ^ Chlctgo. III. >

Rose Comb Brown ,^el

irst prize win-
ters at Meridan,
I F^HflRNQ Hartford. Worcester and
LiLiUllVriXilk) Boston A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching.
C. H. CLARK, BOX F. COBALT, CONN.

I ir'LIX EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
*-'*^^* * * er. My stock is excellent, high
RRAHMA^ scoring, great layers.
urv/-\l llVl/-\0 will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single settings or incubator lots
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE, MINN

Rose and Single Comb R. I. Reds

Breeding and I'^xhibition Cockerels, with
score cards by Heimlich and Ott. Prices
froni S2..S0 to f2.S. Send for my mating l'-■^
which will describe mv Pons also jarivo my
winnin^-s. F. W. OERTEl. Box F. Brighton, ill.

A CHOICE LOT OF

Ruff Roek and Buff Wyandotte

Youngsters bred from my list years
winners. Also several Buff Rock Cock
Birds. Write for prices.

L. C. VOGT, - LYONS. WIS.

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Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred

^" ciTr/lb Rhode Island REDS

Bred for vigor, size, shape, color. Prize
winners. (Ireat layers.

RED ROBE POULTRY PENS
West Main Street - EVANSTON, ILL.

^^^^\

r Incubator

Thermo!l£

I* thn Qn nifty Mark
in I nr II h atori. l'h)«
hlirhor pradA inarhlni-H
nrfl eqnipppd frith
"Tyco*" limtr n.
Imrnli. InNi^t on the |fpnnlnf«. 7'yco*'' Im uliator

rhormoiii<-t<'rN,oarh.7u(t« *'TyCOS'* lnriih»f«r llyirro-
mi't< rN,<>arh, $l.,'iO. 8f nil for free hooklet» **In-

riihat^ir Thprmomoter FarU Worth Knowlnir."

Jaytar Instrument Compani^ rochkstbbi

POULTRY rANCiER*'C3^S^J4'l

■if I- T- •■ i.^ -m

TYCOS THERMOMETERS ABSOLUTE-
LY ACCURATE.

After the little tube iias been filled
with mercury, sealed and laid away to
"sea.son." so that it may become perma-
nently accurate; after It is taken out of
its many, many months of "aging" in
the big vaults, and tne scale has been
titted and it has been assembled for
packing and shipping; after being tested
tlirough all these processes of actual man-
ufacture to make sure of accuracy, it
would seem tliat it might be a perfectly
safe instrument to intrust one's eggs to,

tity of "Tycos" Incubator Thermometers,
and is fitted with glass doors and win-
dows, for the careful observation of all
stages of the test, as any draft of outside
air would disturb tlie temperature of the
inside chamber. A standard "Tycos"
Thermometer is located in the chamber

of the chamber increases
is clo.sely watched until
i.s shown to be 105 degs-

and as the heat
tliis instrument
the temperature

or high Incubating tempera-

Pahrenheit,
ture.

The temperature is held at tiiis degree
for a short period, while the registration
of the thermometers to be tested is ob-
served, after which it is reduced to 103

APPARATUS USED IN TESTING TYCOS THERMOMETERS.

but even there tlie manufacturers of
"Tycos" Tliermonieters will not allow
tlicii instruments to go out upon the mar-
ket without one final test to determine
if each and every thermometer for incu-
bator u:e will perform exactly as it should
wlicn put to actual inctibation use.

To make thi.« final test, tlie Taylor In-
strument Companies have made, at great
expense, an air-tight, electrical testing
apparatus, capable of maintaining an
even temperature for an indefinite period
of time. The apparatus is illustrated in
the above reproduction from an actual
l)hotograi)h of the machine being filled
witli "Tycos" Incubator Thermometers,
preparatory to a "test." It is arranged
with a doulile deck for riolding a quan-

degs. F., or correct incul)ation tempera-
ture. This is continued until all the ther-
mometers in the case have had ample
time to register and demonstrate their
accuracy under actual incubating condi-
tions. This testing machine is in line
with the policy of the Taylor Instrument
Companies, that their instruments must
show efficiency under actual working con-
ditions.

An interesting booklet on the making
of "Tycos" Thermometers for incubators,
" 'Tycos' Incubator Thermometer Facts
Worth Knowing," may be had from the
Taylor Instrument Companies, Rocliester.
N. v., upon request. Sent free if you
mention having seen this article in Poul-
try Fancier.

JOSEPH DAGLE, Manager OAK HILL POULTRY FARM

EXPERT JUDGE AND BREEDER Member American Poultry A.s.sociation. Member Buff Rock
Club. I want to judge your show and do yonr private scoring aad sell you hiirh class stock and
eggs. RICHLAND. IOWA.

"MAJESTIC I."
."ith Cockerel. Chicago, Dec. '08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND
ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack?
Wmnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island. 111., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910.
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00. $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

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'iV»^^'teS'AfB^^*SySi«>SjSi.**«*^!

BREEDERS* SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2- YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WYAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
Wyandotte and Barred Rock e^ps $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff. Box
fi3R. Anadarko, Okla. T-O-l'

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

CHOICE COCKEKKLS. •( ■ALl'MET'

strain White Rocks. Their mothers all
have trap ne.st records of 200 eg^s and bet-
ter. Big white Standard shaped fellows.
Selected birds $2 up. C. I. Bashore, Calu-
met. Mich. f,_j

CHOICE COCKERELS, 'CALrMET"

strain White Rocks. Their mothers all have
trap nest records of 200 eggs and better. Jiig
white Standard shaped fellows. Selected birds
12 up. C. I. Bashore. Calumet. Mich. 10-;j

W'HITE ROCKS— STOCK F(»J: .^ALE THAT
will win in the show room and till the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white lieauties,
strong in all good points. Eggs fr..m our
choicest matings at living prices. Berwyn
Poultry \ards. Box P. B.M'wyn. HI

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

HE SliH-: .\NL» liEAl)
Rocks. Do you want a
breeding pen ? i,et me
Have some extra fine
guarantecfl oi- money
grown on fit-e range.
Wayne. Mich.

TUl.^
show
quote
birds.

A I). P.IEF
bird, trio oi-

.\'iU l)lices.

Sait.sfactioii

refunded. Stock

A. S. Mattliews.

11-:.

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15- other
pens $0 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy. Decatur.
ILL :<-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

GlMLiNS WHITE WVAXDOTTES. HAVE
exhibited and won leading poultrv shows
in l!»oi), including Illinois State Sliow and
Illinois State Fair. Have furnished win-
ners for sh<tws that have won the blue.
Send for free catalogue, list of winnings
and j)ri<-es on stock iiiid ocrus. Elmer
lin. Ta,\ loi-ville. 111. f,.

rOXHIBlTloX COCKERELS SIKED 1!^
■Fiieadwinner," the famous .i.'.iiu chaiiipi'in
W.vandotte co<-k. Fiist prize Pto'.t St.
exposition. .'S2. .".(». .$.", and
• ok. FOtriiiKhani. III. ll-i

Whit*

Louis-Missouii Statt
$l<t each. David .1. <

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

PARTRIDGE W V AND(JTTES— A CHOICE
lot of cockerels for .sale. Also a few cocks
and hens. Cood ones. W. Rodman & Son
I>arien, Wis., Directors National Partridge

Wyandotte Club. f,.^

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANV OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi
naiors, who, naturally, have the best. Send
SIX cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.
^___^ 1-10-12

S. C. 01iPIN(;T0N.S— A FINE LOT OF
cockerels for sale. Eggs f.,r hatching in
season. This stock is bre,i tor size tvpe
and color. L. E. Ackerly. Frankfort In'd I'o-i

cinsr.M. wiiirE ori'lnmjtons sale

now on. S(.me tine Idrds to <»fTer vou Earlv
oi-ders will get them. Write to<lay to (U,]'.
fax Smith, Clarksville. Iowa. n-i

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

KELLERSTRASS WHITE ORPINGTON
cockerels. Bred from prize winners at lead-
ing shows. Day old chic-ks in season. Also
White Roc-ks, White Wyandottes, S. C. White
Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds. Get
prices. .f. A. liuy, Neleong. X. ,1. lO-H

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldridge & Son. Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus. N. Y. 4 3

Lie liAllGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 95 >;^, females 9t)'/o. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen in
the show three years, all breeds competing
score 19'/^. A. Stransky, Pies. Eastern Wis
Poultry & P. S. Assn.. Chilton. Wis 11-9-12

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

KOSE C(.Mi{ WHITF LE( 11 lOKXS — W( JX 4
tiists at Syiacu.se. Elmira. Ro<h.'stef and
Hageist.u II. Cocks, cockerels, two trios one
pen. and a few t.sted breeders for sale
l>i. Deck, -I I'.i adfoid. .\. y. jj.^

S C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen. 1st and
^rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
New York, I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Egg.s $2 per setting. W. J. Blake.
Hurnside. Conn 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

SPEC1.\L Xo\l<:.M|;i:it PRICKS 1X\IX-
cible S. C. Hrown Lef^homs. Show bird.s and
I ullet-bi«-d cockeiej.s from flams scoring 94.
Write your wants. Circular fvcc. Corres-
pondence solicit,.d. Hairy T. Trainer,
.^^peeialist. Caipentel'. ( ). ll-lo-l-'

BLACK MINORCAS.

I'OKTERS S. C. I'.LACK MIXORCAS
win S blue ribbons in :{ years at Nebraska
State Fair. Have a few show birds an«l
breeders for sale this month. Get prices
before l>u.\ing elsewhere. .1. !•'. Poiter, p-re-
Miont. .\eb. ' 11-3

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS. GOLDEN AND SILVER

sebrlylu. Buft and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &
Co, Schoharie. N. Y, 8-9-12

HOUDANS.

THE BEST THAT ARE BRED IN HOU-
dans. Winners at Chicago and Minneapolis
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. H. M. Sparboe, Webster
City. Iowa. g_3

HOl'DAXS— BEFORE BUYING STOCK OR
eggs write me. Have cock birds and hens;
also, fine bunch of cockerels and pullets to
select from. L. A. Sedgwick, 1510 K. Gan-
son St.. Jackson, Mich. 10-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York a-nd Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Camplne advertisement.
Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus, Prop.,
FJiIgefield. N. J. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

PHEASANT BREEDING I'AYS ,800 PER
cent better tlian chicken raising. A pair or
pheasants are worth from .$2r).(iu to lir.0.00
to a breeder yearly. Read the Reliable
Pheasant Standard, the recognized authority
on pheasant breeding, and learn all about
this rich industry. 75 cents a copy by mail
from A. V. Meersch, I»oughkeepsie, New
Yoik. 9-08-tf

TURKEYS.

•MAMMoili WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Kg&s $3 per setting of 10. W. A Smith.
Btirnt Prairie. 111. 4.3

PIGEONS.

I OtFER GUARANTEED MATED HOMERS
in any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or dealers
better stock at twice this price.
White Homers. $1.50 a pair. Get
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese
save dollars. Charles K. Gilbert.

to produce

Beautiful

my prices

Hens, and

150,} East

.Montgomery Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. S-9-12

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

CAPES IX CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE

treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. 5 0 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
genthaler. Canton, O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads. envelopes, postcards, labels, card;*,
tags. 100 either. 40c; 250. 75c; 500, $1.25.
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
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POULTRY BOOKS.

•SCIEXCE AND .\KT OF POULTRY CUL-
ture," by Earl D. Hawks, practical poultry
exp«rt and manager of large poultry plant.
Textbook for beginners and experts. con-
servative and <'omprehenslve. Covers so-
called secrets and systems, also entire in-

dustry. Cloth bound,
eircular. Rock Book
ton. Wis.

iOO

pages.

n)ept.

Send for

A), Clln-

10-6

MISCELLANEOUS.

CIXSENG SEEDS AND ROOTS FOR SALE.
$50,000.00 is a conservative estimate for one
acre of Ginseng. Easily raised In connection
with poultry. Pleasant Lake Ginseng Farm
Lock Box 102, Cadillac, Mich. g-i

I

A SPECIAL GENERAL CONTEST

First Prize $100 in Gold. Second Prize $50 in Gold. Third Prize
$25 in Gold and 1 7 other Prizes consisting of $25 Pens of Birds
and $15 Trios of Birds.

$500 in Cash and High Grade Fowls

In order to interest those who desire to compete in a contest where the princi-
pal prizes are cash ones we have inaugurated a supplementary contest which
will be conducted separately and without any connection whatever with our other
contest where the $100 Pens, $50 Trios and $25 Pairs are offered.

The Prizes in this Contest are as Follows :

1ST PRIZE, $100 IN GOLD.

2ND PRIZE, $50 IN GOLD.

3RD PRIZE, $25 IN GOLD.

4TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

5TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

6TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

7TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

8TH
9TH
10TH
11TH
12TH
13TH
14TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$25
$25
$25
$15
$15
$15
$15

PEN

PEN

PEN

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

15TH PRIZE, $15 TRIO OF FOWLS.

16TH
17TH
18TH
19TH
20TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$15
$15
$15
$15
$15

OF
OF

TRIO
TRIO
TRIO OF
TRIO OF
TRIO OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

cm I nCTAII Q nC TUC nCCCD ^^^ contest doses March 15th
riliBk ■fCmiLiW Ur inC UrrCn and an prizes wm be awarded
^ ] ] "" ""■ on that date. The fowls offered

in this contest will be of the full value as stated and will come from breeders who produce and
exhibit prize-winning stock. The birds, as regards breed and variety, will be of our own selec-
tion and all leading breeds will be included in the list. We shall try to give every winner of
stock his first choice and we will undoubtedly be able to do this in nearly every case. When
entering the contest, let us know what variety of fowls you prefer. Agents who compete in either
of the twelve classes in our other contest cannot compete in this one. Every agent gets a
liberal commission on each subscription, whether he wins a prize or not.

Here is Some Inside Information

Our experience in contests of this kind is that most people think that they cannot win a
prize and the number who make an effort is very small. The result is that the prizes are usually
awarded for ridiculously small lists of subscribers. We have not the slightest doubt that some
of the $15 trios in this contest will go to agents who secure less than a dozen subscriptions, but
the birds and cash prizes are going to be given away, even if they are won with only a single
subscription. No reader of these lines who can devote a few hours of his spare time to the work
should fail to make the effort. ^ ^

A

Write Today, Don't Put It Off

Drop US a card saying that you wish to secure subscriptions in our General Contest. We
will then send you sample copies, receipt books and all other necessary supplies. This is your
opportunity. Don't let it slip. Subscriptions are easy to get. The paper is worth many times the
price and poultrymen realize this as soon as they see a copy. Address

Successful Poultry Journal

FRANK HECK'
EDITOR

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

'l Page 232

:?s^{}i

J^POULTRY FANClER^'C^mrer^'io^

ADVERTISEMENTS

Numbers and initials count the same as words.

30 words or less one month, $1. For more than 30 words
add two cents for each additional word.

30 words or less, three months, $2. For more than 30 word*
add 3 cents per word.

For any time longer than three months the rate is two cents
per word per month, but no ad will be accepted for less than 50
cents per month and the ad must appear each successive month.

A discount of 10 per cent given on ads running for 12 months.

All classified advertising is payable in advance. Positively no
exceptions to this rule. The rates are so low that we cannot
afford to take the time and trouble and incur the expense neces-
sary to keep book accounts with these ads.

Send money order, currency, draft or registered letter. Stamps
accepted fc*" amounts less than one dollar.

Poultry Fancier is published the 15th of each month. All
ads must reach us not later than the 5th. Advertisers receive
the paper free each month that their ad appears.

BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

TWO 2-YEAR-OLD COLUMBIAN WVAN-
dotte cocks for sale at $5 each. Columbian
^Vyandotte and Barred Rock e^RS $2 per
13 from Al stock. Frederick Pfaff, Box
P3S. AnatTarko. Okla. 7-!)-12

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

*i'<'J''i-: «•< HKj.:i:|.:i,s. • "ALiMirr-
siriiiii Whit.. liiM/ks. Tliiii- m..ili,.rs ail
ii.-i\e traj) nest recitids <.r I'lm t-ji^s and ln't-
ter. HIk whit.. Standard siiai..-.' r.ll-.ws
S»l.-ctc<l i.irds .•^i' up. » •, I. Rashi
met. Mici).

Ti-. « aiu-

• 'iK'ici-: «■< •< "J\i:i:j:i,s. • < • \i im i"i ••

.strain Wliit.^ Rucks. 'l-lLir mdii.-is all* haxf
trap ,,r.«t r.'c. .rd.'^ uf -m. ,.«m;s and l-rti.)-. Jiij.-
white Stanriard .shaped l-flh.w.s. S.l.ct. <l l.i,-,!^
- - "»'■ *' t fiashore. ('aliini.t. .Mj.h. id-:;

unri'j-: FtocKs .^-i-ock i'<»i: .•-;.\i.i.; i'mat

'.vill will in thf .shuw ronm and liji ih,. .i^^.
ha.«kit. oiii' hirrls ai-,. hit;, uhii.. I... antics
strong 1). all «u,m1 points. K.;«.s r,,,,„ ,,ur'
«_'hoicest matin^^s at 11 vim,- prices. U.rwvn
1 ••wlii\ ^ :u.ls. i;,,.x I', i;..i-\vvn. Ill

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

•'■' ■""' ''I' \M' i:i;.\ I) Tills .\\, 111 |-|-

Kucks. I)., y,,ii want a s\\.,\\ l,ir,| ,,-1

hrec.hn;^ p,n •.' |,..| .|U'-t. vm pi i.-,..

"«t^'' •'^' ■ 'Mia tin.- I.jr.ls. Sa i t siaci im

yiiarante.'.l ,,i- nion.\ r.lnnd.d Siu<l<

un.un ..,, |-,..,. latm.'. A. S M.mli.ws

\\ av ii.. .M j.li. , , -•

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

'-'OLUMBLW RUCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings Eggs
trom my Chicago winners $10 per in- other
pens $,- per l.>. Mrs. R. A. Judy. Decatur.
ilL — .^ :<-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

«;1MLI.\S WIIITl': WAAXIx .TlKS. }LV\K
exhil.it.d and won leadiii;; i...uliiv shows
111 1 :•"'•'. Miejiidiiit; rilinMi.< Stat.' Sl'mw and
lllin..is Slat.- Kair. Have ruiiiisli..| win-
nei-s iMi- shows that ha\.' w..n the bhie.
Send iMf u-,;- <atalugue. list ..f winnings
and ).ri..'s .in <t..(l< anr] , -i^s Islm.r "lim-
lin. T.iN Imia ill,.. Hi

H-Ki-lL'

i:x 11 !i;iTi« >.\ <•( M •!<|.:):i.;i,s .-;ii:i:i. i; v

r.i ead w inn.f." ih.. laiii.nis .-.',. m ,||,i ni pi-in
Whiti- W\and..t t.- .-...k. i.'jist pi jz-- l:m!i st
l."nis-Miss«niii Stale • xposjt j. m. si'..",m s .-. .m.i
>1" -a.'h. I>a\ id .1. <-,„,k. |-:triii:: ha m III ) l - |

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

i'A KTiM i»<;io \\A- A.xj.i n ri.:s a <-iii»i(M-:

'"' "' '-■...•k.'f. Is i.,|- .<al.', .Msm a f.w .ncU.s
•'""' li'-iis. «;uiid ..IKS w. i;,,ilman iV S..ii
I»arien. Wis.. I»ii.(t..is Xaii..nal raiiridg..
\\'\ a iiil.it !.■ I "liil.. .,; •.

ORPINGTONS.

FUR THE BEST ORPINGTONS. \NV Oi"
the varieties, you must send to their origi
navors. who. naturally, have the best Send
SIX cents for catalog, historv of Ori)inutons
and liints on Poultry k.ej.ing. William Cook
f^ Sons. Box C, Scotch Plains. N. .1.
_^ 1-in-l 2

s. <•. «»i:i'ix<;T( .xs .\ I'lxi-; i.«it oi'

e..rU,.r..ls lur .sal... E«ks {.., haiehinu in
s'-as..n. 'j'his stuck is l.ie.j i,,| si/,.. i \ pe
andeulM,- I,. K. .\ekei|\. |-'iankr..ii hi-Mn t

••lOSTAI. WHITI-: « •KI'IX'; Ti iXS S.M.I-:

n.iw <.n. Some line birds ,., ,,ir. r \.,u l-iai'iy
.nders will «.•! ih.ni. Writ.' t...la\ [>> ('(,]'-
fax Smith. < 'laiks\ ill.'. I'.\va. ii-j

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary, Cheviot Poultry Farms,
i^incinnati. O. 12-10

K KI.MCRSTR.XSS WHITI-: oRI'lXGTON

.•.M'kt'ieis. iir.'d ir.iiii jitize winners at lead-
iiit; shows. I)a\- idil ehiclss in season. Also
Whit.' Rocks. White Wxamlot i es, s. » ". White
I.. t;liorns and KIi.kI.' Island Reds. (J.'l
I'l-ir. s, .!. .\, i;o\. .X.I .•.ihl:, .\. .1 i.i-:i

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldridge & Son. Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

IX\ I':ST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
i.angshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
iiiiKs; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
• 'M'kerels for sale. Fred L. Bachman, Rom-
ulus. N. Y. 4.3

t;i<_i l^.ARGAINS NOW IN GRAND JilRDS.
I 'art of my best breeders for sale, rnscured
lemalfs $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
<d" the best Black Langshans. Have a show
recfiid under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds eacli season
scoi,. to \)'>^i>, females :m;i.>. .Made a clean
swm, p in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup I'or l)est pen in
the show three years, all br.^-ds comiMting
sc.ne 19 14. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis"
roultiy ,^- P. S. Assn.. T'liilton. Wis. 11-9-12

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Kosi-: •■••.\ii: WHITI-: li-:* ;ii( .i:xs w . .x 1

Inst- at S,\ ra.ns.'. l':imiia. 1 1. Mli-.'^t .■! and
llauiTsi .uii. t'.M'ks. cockrr.'Is. tw.. i lios. .me
l"ti. ami a I'.'W i.st.-.l l.i.'.'.j.is \,,\- s'llc
I " I ». 'k. 1 . I Sia.lf.inl, .X. V. 1 | .;;

S C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

liLAKES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

■■^iM':<i.\ I, X( »\ i':.Mi!i';i: i'Khi-;s ix\ix-

'■''■l*- >^- ' '• r.iown L.l;Ii..i lis. Sli.iw birds ami

I ""'•' hicl « k.r.ls Ir.iiii .lams scoiinu Ml.

^Viil.' .\..iir wants. ••jr.iilar ir.'.' (•.,||,.s-
pondence s..li.'ii,,,|. liaM\ T. Trainer.

>'p. .'ia list . < 'a 1 p. 11 1 .1 . ( > I 1 I 'i 1'

BLACK MINORCAS.

'■'d:ri';i:s s. c 1:1.. mk .\i i .x< >i:«-.\s

will ^ bin.' liblMiiis in :; ,\.ais ai X.braska
Slat.' I''air. Iia\.' a Lw sli..w bir.ls ami
'■i''d.is r..r sale this iieniili. 1 ;<•! priecs
b'l'ir.' bii\ ini; I'ls.'W b.r.'. .1. \' r..ri.r, I-'re-
I n " 1 1 1 . .X I ■ 1 1 1 1 - n

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
>.-i.iiyln, Bulf and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
l?lacl< and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
e.-'t honors New York. SOO birds. Proper gc
«"o . Schoharie. N. Y. 8-9-12

HOUDANS.

ITll-: JJHST THAT ARE BiiED IN HOU-
dans. Winners at Chicago and Minneapolis
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. H. M. Sparboe, Webster
'^it\. b.wa. 9.3

IK )I|).\.XS— BEI-'c >l{|-: 1{1"YI.X(J STUCK OR
'•.u.us writ.' m.'. Ila\<' eock birds and liens;
;ils.). tin.' biin.'li ..r ....k.-ii'ls and pullets to
sele.'l Irolli. I.. .\. S.'.li; w i«k. l.'.ln !•:. Gan-
!t.. .lacksoii.

soil

.Mi.

II.

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DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards in
America. See Campine advertisement.

<"heri-y Grove Farm. M. R. .Jacobus, Prop.,
Ilidgetleld, X. .1. 2-6

PHEASANTS.

I'll I':. \s.\.x'r i:i:i:i:i)ix( ; I'.\ys

'••■tit I.. Iter than eliieUeii raising,
ph.asants aii' woill'. l'r..!n .>L'.'..nii
lo ji bi'ii'ibr .\eail\.
Pheasant .'^landaid. tin
"U itlieasant breeding,
this rich !ndusti',\-. T.'i
Iroin A. \'. .Me.'iseh
v.. Ik.

^^M.» I'ER
.\ pair f)r

.>L'.'..nii t<i .si.')ii.00

R.a.l th.' R. liable

I .'Cognized aut Imrity

and learn all about

e.nts a cojiy by mail

I '.iiighkeipsie. New

;)-08-tf

TURKEYS.

.\l A.\1.M» I 111
All large birds
wherever shown,
i-:ygs .*:{ jier setting
Hurnt T'rairie,

W IlITE HOLLAND TIRKI:YS.

•^ first prize winners

from 9 4 to 98.

W. A, Smith.

4-3

and

scoring
of 10.

111.

PIGEONS.

1 UFFE1{ GLAiiAXlEED .MA'i'ED HOMERS
111 any quantity, at $1.00 a pair, and chal-
lenge squab companies or deaL-rs to produce
better stock at twice this price. B.'autiful
White Homers. $l.r.O a pair. Get mv price.**
on Runts. Carneaux and Maltese Hens, and
save dollars. Charles K Gilbert. l.".r..{ East
-Montiromery Ave.. Pbilaflelpliia pa S-p-i2

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

';ai'|-:s 1.x chkks my hu»"keye

treatment and you will have no gapes It's
sal'.' and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
priee .".(• cents and ?1 per box. G. B. Sie-

miithale

< 'an ton, O.

•^-4

PRINTING.

I 'lilNTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE-
heads. <'nveloi>es, postcards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either. 40c; 2.J0. 75c; 500, $1.25.
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Mri.ir.) T'finting Co.. Manchester. Ia, 10-9

POULTRY BOOKS.

•SC||.:\r|.; AM, \|-|' ,,|,- |M)i I/IKY CIL-
ture." by iOail I ►. Hawks, )»ractical i»oultry
j'Xpert and manag.r o|' large poultry plant.

r.'Xtbo.dv f.ir li.'ginners and experts. c.m-
ser\ ative and comprehensive. Covers so-
'•alled secrets and svstems. also .iifirc In-
dustr.w cioih bound, .'.(to pages. .<end for
eircul.'ir. R..<k B.x.k Co. (i>,.pi a > Clln-

'""■ \\"is. ___^ H)-Q

MISCELLANEOUS.

<;ixsi':.x«; si':i':i»s axd kocjts for sale.

s..<».o(M».(lO is a conser\ative estimate for one
acr.' of (Ginseng. Easily raised In connection
with poultry. IMeasant Lake Ginseng Farm
Lock Box 102, Cadillac, Mich. g-i

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A SPECIAL GENERAL CONTEST

First Prize $100 in Gold. Second Prize $50 in Gold, Third Prize
$25 in Gold and 17 other Prizes consisting of $25 Pens of Birds
and $15 Trios of Birds.

$500 in Cash and High

*'''*'*—*'*""" '■■"■■"■'''""''"'■'''■"■'■W'MIMMMWMMWWiMiMMWiW ■Ill I.IIIMMIMIBIIIMIIilMlllllllllBWWWWI^^

n

In order to interest those who desire to compete in a contest where the princi-
pal prizes are cash ones we have inaugurated a supplementary contest which
will be conducted separately and without any connection whatever with our other
contest where the $100 Pens, $50 Trios and $25 Pairs are offered.

The Prizes in this Contest are as Follows:

1ST PRIZE, $100 IN GOLD.

2ND PRIZE, $50 IN GOLD.

3RD PRIZE, $25 IN GOLD.

4TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

5TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

6TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

7TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

8TH
9TH
10TH
11TH
12TH
13TH
14TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$25
$25
$25
$15
$15
$15
$15

PEN

PEN

PEN

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

15TH
16TH
17TH
18TH
19TH
20TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$15
$15
$15
$15
$15
$15

TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO

OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

Clll I nCTAII Q nC TUC nCCCD The contest doses March 15th
rllLL UCIMiLa Ur I nC UrrCIl and all prizes will be awarded

on that date. The fowls offered
in this contest will be of the full value as stated and will come from breeders who produce and
exhibit prize-winning stock. The birds, as regards breed and variety, will be of our own selec-
tion and all leading breeds will be included in the list. We shall try to give every winner of
stock his first choice and we will undoubtedly be able to do this in nearly every case. When
entering the contest, let us know what variety of fowls you prefer. Agents who compete in either
of the twelve classes in our other contest cannot compete in this one. Every agent gets a
liberal commission on each subscription, whether he wins a prize or not.

Here is Some Inside Information

Our experience in contests of this kind is that most people think that they cannot win a
prize and the number who make an effort is very small. The result is that the prizes are usually
awarded for ridiculously small lists of subscribers. We have not the slightest doubt that some
of the $15 trios in this contest will go to agents who secure less than a dozen subscriptions, but
the birds and cash prizes are going to be given away, even if they are won with only a single
subscription. No reader of these lines who can devote a few hours of his spare time to the work
should fail to make the effort. -^ ^ '^

Write Today, Don't Put It Off

Drop us a card saying that you wish to secure subscriptions in our General Contest. We
will then send you sample copies, receipt books and all other necessary supplies. This is your
opportunity. Don't let it slip. Subscriptions are easy to get. The paper is worth many times the
price and poultrymen realize this as soon as they see a copy. Address

Successful Poultry Journal

FRANK HECK*
fDITOR

355 Dearborn S(., Chicago

ly

^WA'

MKUl

AD THIS OFFER CAREFULLY

Nearly $3,000 worth of fowls from the cream of some
of the best flocks in America will be distributed among
the agents securing subscriptions for Successful Poultry
Journal. These prizes are given in addition to liberal cash
commissions and every one gets well paid for his time.

$ 1 00 PENS, $50 TRIOS, $25 PAIRS, GIVEN AWAY

Three Prizes in Each Class

\

\

FIRST PRIZE— A $100 PEN CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND FOUR FEMALES.

SECOND PRIZE— A $50 TRIO CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND TWO FEMALES.

THIRD PRIZE— A $25 PAIR CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND ONE FEMALE.

THESE THREE PRIZES ARE OFFERED IN EV-
ERY ONE OF THE 12 DIFFERENT BREEDS.

Tht. 3 Are The 12 Classes

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE PLYMOUTH

ROCKS, BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
WHITE WYANDOTTES, COLUMBIAN WYAN-

DOTTES.
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, R. C. RHODE ISLAND

REDS.
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS, S. C. WHITE ORPING-
TONS.
S. C. BLACK MINORCAS, S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS,

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
A $100 PEN, A $50 TRIO AND A $25 PAIR OF

EACH OF THE ABOVE 12 BREEDS WILL BE

AWARDED.

Nothing to Compare with this offer has ever before
I been attempted in poultry journalism.

LJI7D|7 IC THP" PI AN I^ecide upon which one of the above mentioned varieties of
**"^^" *»^ A 11 LIj 1 1^/^i^ fowls you prefer. For example: if you want to compete for

"^^~~— ^— — "■~'~'''^^"~"-~— ^^~— " one of the three lots of Barred Rocks, write us and say that
you wish to enter the Barred Rock Contest. Each variety is in a class by itself and you do not have to com-
pete with hundreds of other agents, as is generally the case. In this way you have twelve times the chance
to get either of the three prizes in your class and it is very probable that a small number of subscriptions
will secure the first prize. The agent sending in the largest number of subscriptions in his class gets the $100
pen. The $50 trio goes to second and the $25 pair to third. These prizes are almost equally desirable be-
cause the quality of the stock is about the same. The difference between the pen and the trio, for instance,
is largely in the number of birds constituting the prize, you get practically the same quality but fewer birds!

The Contest closes March 15, 1911, and the birds
will be promptly shipped at that time.

Every agent gets pay for his work whether he wins a prize or not.
He gets this pay in the form of a liberal commission on every sub-
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T t^^M^g. n ^1 ^ ^ _ Young and old, bred from the winners of 2

l.innt KF^IIIII^^ stmngshows (Decatur and Springfield,lll.)
*^*5I*** •■'* WAlAtlCljJ y^^ Yinvc youngsters that look like they
could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LKCillOHNS we have some
extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at 111. State Fair, 19 . 0.
Also BARRED PLY. ROCKS, Some grrand lisrht Cockerels at reasonable prices. Also
BRONZE TURKEYS that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalo^r.

L. H. JOSTES ly SON, MACON, ILL.. R. R. No. 2.

Single Comb While Leghorns

Low tailed, high stationed, chalk white,
scoring to 96/4- Show birds my specialty
Write your wants to the originator of the
Kdelweis Strain.

D. D. WHITAKER. ASHTABULA, OHIO

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##ef*e

he Hatcher That Is Constructed On The
Right Mechanical Principle

other incubators may be as well made as the
X-Ray but they don't hatch like the X-Ray
because they're not made on the same principle.
Here's an example. All other incubators burn
the lam p h iyfi ul I the time— and let the excess heat escape
when the e^p-ehamherKetstoohot. We control the heat
by cutting the Haine down at the burner. That saveB
your oil. That's why

One Gallon of OH

lBenou(»h for a liatch with the X-Ray.

We place the lamp underneath, in the center.
That's why we ^et absolutely unifunn heat
throughout the eg(j-ehamber. And our lamp holds
oil. Fill it once and you never need touch it till
Latched out.

But those are not all the X-Ray advantages—
although you will admit of their importance.
Not alone do you save two-thirds of your oil and

Fill tho Lamp Onoe

—but the X-Ray is also the easiest Incubator to
ventilate and turn the eggs in. The door is on
fop and has glass jmnels. Simply raise the lid.
You can always see the thermometer without
opening; any door. Get all the facts. X-Ray
Incubators are made of all genuine California
redwood. Lst;s galvanized steel, strongly braced.
See how the X-llay works— how it hatches. We'll
4 to 8 quarts of send it out freight prepaid on liberal free trial Now send your
the chicks are name and asli for our interesting Free BoolsNo.ls Also tells
about the X Ray Rrooders— just as superior'as X-Kay incubators.

INCUBATOR

X'RAY iNGUBATOR COMPANY^ Wayne, Nebt*aska,

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S.C.&R.C.R.I.REDS

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BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer
our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.
Write us describing what you want and asking for our
catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-
tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MAYINGS
at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt

of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well

pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

RPINGTONS

xt I I f=RSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have you gotten your show winners ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are right here at hand. Are you going to s
there? If you are not satisfied that the birds you raised this year will get you the BLUE RIBBONS, we can supply you with til
We did not raise as many birds this year as we have heretofore. We are not raising as many birds as we have in past years

show
them.

we are raising better ones, which is saying a whole lot, because you remember the last show where we exhibited was" mLHAI.Ti-
MORE in JANUARY, 1910, where we won

rirst on Cock, First on Hen, First on Cockerel,
First on Pullet and First on Pen

making a clean sweep, and 181 birds in the class, from America, England and all parts of the world. We have cockerels and pul-
lets hatched the early part of January, that now tip the scales at 61/2 Jmd 7 pounds. They are the kind that will be heard from
during the coming show season, and if you are in need of any winners, write us and tell us just what you want and what von are
willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WlNNliRS.

Krilerstrass Farm 585 WestpoH Road Kansas City, Mo.

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CHICAGO, ILL. DECEMBER, 1910

No. 12

inter

Time of Preparation

Duties Which Should Not be Neglected. How the
Fancier Can Get the Most Pleasure and Profit
from His Efforts.

By A, W. ANTHONY

IXri^Iv is a lime of ])rci)aiati()ii. Il.s
loiLjiilar routine work, the care of the
lowls, the sale and sliipnient of fine
-])eciniens, and the hke, comes hrst
in order of time and in order oi im-
jxtrtance. lUit e\ en the routine <»t
carina; f(»r the fowls carries with it a sense of prc])-
aration, for the l)reedinii- stock must he uot into
condition for next season's hreediniL;' o])erations.
lUit, in other senses than this, winter is a time of
j:)reparation.

The hreediui^ stock must l)e mated so as t*^ pro-
duce the hest results. This in\(»lves a careful studv
of the characteristics of the individual specimens
and their adaptahility to each other. A ^ood hreed-
iniL; year must cou^ist not only of tine birds, but
fine birds tliat will, throu.^h the union of male and
female, produce youuj^ e(pial to or su])eri(»r to them-
sel\ es. And duriiiL^ the w inter weeks, preceding; the
actual mating;, this study should be carried on. so
that, when the time for mating actuallv arrives,
little remains to be done, except the j)h\sical act (»f
placiiii^ the birds toj^ether.

A^i^ain. the w i>e breeder should si)end some of his
spare time duriiiL;' the winter in pre])arini^ for his
season's ad\ ertisiiij^. Me must select the mediums
which will be likely to be the most profitable for
him. Mis ad\ ertisements must be so \v<»r(led as to
catch and hold ilu; attention and draw trade. 'Hie
more thoUL;ht he puts into his adxertisiuL;. the more
profitable it will be likelx to be. .Main ad\ ertise-
ments are so prepared as not to attract the atten-
tion which they should. Mashed ofV without
tliou,L;ht. they are .Ljlanced at by the reader without
results. It is surprising that soniethini^ which costs
the ad\ertiser money. soniethiiiL; which he musi
ha\e if he would do business, is uoi tliMULiht wcrthx'

ot more study and care than is .^ixen to it b\ man v.
riie winter is the time to make this ])reparation.

The winter, too. is a ^ood time to prei)are the ap-
pliances which will be needed during- the spring-
and summer. Incubators should be oxerhauled aiul
ijot ready for use; brooders should be cleaned and
disinfected : brood coops should be built or repaired ;
colony h<»u,scs ])ut in (trder: fountains for water and
boxes lor food and i^rit be made readv for use.
In t'act, e\ery api)Iiance which will be needed for the
expected broods should be fitted u]). so that when
the broods arrixe all tliin|L;s will be readv for them.

I)iirim» the winter the breeder sh(>uld aim not onlv
to carefully study his poultry journals and extract
from them the useful and helpful knowledge which
they contain, but should also study from tlie works
of iL^reat imesti^ators the ])rinciples which underlie
the science of breeding;. The lon^- winter eveniniLiS
should be so used that when s])rinL; comes tlie
breeder will ha\e a clearer and more ample kuowl-
edi^e of his occupation, throuinh the ])rei)arati(^n
which he has underj^cne.

iNailtry shows are to be \isited. fancier friends
t«» be met. »'ld friendsliii)s renewed and new friend-
ships made, and life be C(tni])elled to \ ield its ])ro])er
returns of j(»y and recreation, so that the winter
will yield to the breeder the ])h\ sical and mental
pre])aration needed for a couiini^ season of success.

Kill of\ the lice and mites. Chickens and vermin
make a ])oor combination. Between them the breeder
must make his choice, for both he cannot keep and
win success.

Chickens often i^et off their leg's, that is, they seem
to lack strength to stand erect, and they spend the
greater part of their time in s(piatting down. If there
is no swelling or heat of the joints, rheumatism is
not the cause. It may be due simply to too rapid
growth, and left alone the chickens will, in due
time, fully recover the use of their legs. Good
nourishing food in such cases is usually all the rem-
edy recpiired.

¥ 2.r«rl^4 Tfc^^^l^,,, J. ^, Young and old. bred from the winners of 2
I .llinf KFUnillnSl strong shows (Decatur and Springfield, 111.)
*^*3*** *^* tmmiillWU yyg i^a^^j youngsters that look like they

could do the trick again. In S. C. BROWN LKCillOliNS we have some
extra fine Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Won 3d Pen at HI. State Fair, 19 • 0.
Also BARRED PLY. ROCKS, Some grrand Hgrht Cockerels at reasonable prices. Also
BRONZE TURKEYS that are hard to equal. Write for prices and catalog:.

L. H. JOSTES ly SON, MACON. ILL.. R. R. No. 2.

Single Comb White Leghorns

Low tailed, high stationed, chalk white,
scoring: to 96^. Show birds my specialty
Write your wants to the originator of the
Kdelweiit Strain.

D. D. WHITAKER, ASHTABULA. OHIO

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Here's The Hatcher That Is Constructed On The

Right Mechanical Principle

Other incubators may be as well made as the
X-Ray but they don't hatch like the X-Ray
because they're not made on the same principle.
Here's an example. All other incubators burn
thela.mp high all the time— and let the execBS heat eacape
when the e^tf-chaiuber jrets too hot. We control the heat
by cutting the flame down at the burner. That saves
your oil. That's why

One Gallon of Oil

1b enough for a hatch with the X-liay.

We place tlie lamp underneath, In the center.
That's why we get absolutely uniform heat
throttghtnit the egy-chamber. And our lamp holds
oil. Fill it once and you never need touch it till
hatched out.

INCUBATOR

4 to 8 quarts of
the chicks are

But those are not all the X-Ray advantagres—
although you will admit of their importance.
Not alone do you save two-thirds of your oil and

Fill the Lamp Once

—but the X-Ray is also the easiest Incubator to
ventilate and turn the eggs in. The door is on
top and has glass payiels. Simply raise the lid.
You can always see the thermometer without
opening any door. Get all the facts. X-Ray
Incubators are made of all genuine California
redwood. Legs galvanized steel, strongly braced.
See how the X-Ray works— how It hatches. We'll
send It out freight prepaid on 1 iberal free trial iV'»(« send your
name and ask for our interesting Free BookNo.ls Also tells
about the X-Ray Brooders— just as superior as X-Iiay incubators. ^

X'RA Y IHGUBA TOR COMPANY, Wayne, Mebi*aska,

BARRED ROCKS

BUFF TURKEYS

We have a grand lot of stock, males and females to offer

our customers at prices ranging from $1.50 to $25.00 each.

"■'''"'''"■'■'^""■''""'"""■■'■■"""■^^ Write us describing what you want and asking for our

|J« \^m & I\« \^m MLVm !• Kcil/iJ Catalogue which will be sent free of charge. We guaran-

■— tee everything as represented and all orders are shipped
subject to approval.

EGGS FROM CHOICEST MATINGS

""'"'""''"'"'''"''""'"""""""'""""""""''^'''""'""^ at reasonable prices and shipped immediately on receipt
of orders. Our strains possess both fancy and utility points in the highest degree. You will be well
pleased with results.

DAY-OLD-CHICKS FROM BEST STOCK

Our incubator house contains 20 large machines in constant operation and we can fill your wants
promptly and satisfactorily. Don't fail to write us for prices on stock, eggs and chicks.

WM. OSBURN, GOOSE LAKE FARM, BOX P, MORRIS, ILL.

ORPINGTONS

KELLERSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

Have you gotten your show winners ready lor the early fall shows? The state fairs are right here at hand. Are you going to show
there? If you are not satlsUed that the birds you raised this year will get you the BLUE RIBBONS, we can supply you with them
We did not raise ?is many hlrds this year as we have heretofore. We are not raising as many birds as we have In past years but
we are raising better ones, which is saying a whole lot, because you remember the last show where we exhibited was at BALTI-
MORE in JANUARY, 1910, where we won

First on Cock, First on Men, First on Cockerel,

First on Rullet and First on Pen

making a clean sweep, and 131 birds In the class, from America, England an<l all parts of the world. We have cockerels and pul-
lets hatched the early part of January, that now tip the scales at BVig and 7 pounds. They are the kind that will be heard from
during thecondng show sea.son, and if you are In need of a?iy winners, write us an<l tell us lust what you want and what vou are
willing to pay, and we are sure we can supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINNJiRS.

Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo.

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Vol. XIV

CHICAGO. ILL. DECEMBER. 1910

No. 12

Winter a Time of Preparation

Duties Which Should Not be Neglected. How the
Fancier Can Get the Most Pleasure and Profit
from His Efforts.

By A, W. ANTHONY

INTER is a time of preparation. Its
rei^iilar routine work, the care of the
fowls, the sale and shipment of fine
specimens, and the Hke, comes first
in order of time and in order of im-
l)ortance. lUit even the routine of
cariuiT^ for the fowls carries with it a sense of prep-

aration, for ihc brecdino^ stock must be

<:i^ot into

condition for next season's breeding;- operations.
But, in other senses than this, winter is a time of
preparation.

The breodiniT stock must l)e mated so as to pro-
duce the best results. This involves a careful study
of the characteristics of the individual specimens
and their adaptability to each other. A ^ood breed-
in.c: year must consist not only of fine birds, but
fine birds that will, throu^-h the union of male and
female, produce younj^ ecjual to or superior to them-
selves. And durim^ the winter weeks, preceding; the
actual matiiij"-, this study should be carried on, so
that, when the time for matini^ actually arrives,
little remains to be done, except the physical act of
placiui^ the birds to^^ether.

Ai.iain, the wise breeder should spend some of his
spare time durinj^ the winter in preparini^ for his
season's advertising-. He must select the mediums
Avhich will be likely to be the mc^st i:)rofitable for
him. His advertisements must be so worded as to
catch and hold the attention and draw trade. The
more thoui^ht he puts into his advertising, the more
profitable it will be likclv to be. Many advertise-
ments are so prepared as not to attract the atten-
tion which thc\ should. Dashed off without
thought, they are i^lanced at by the reader without
results. It is sur])risin|L; that something which costs
the advertiser money, something; which he must
have if he would do business, is not thought wortliv

of more study and care than is given to it by many.
The winter is the time to make this preparation.

The winter, too, is a good time to prepare the ap-
pliances which^will be needed during the spring
and summer. Incubators should be overhauled and
got ready for use; brooders should be cleaned and
(hsinfected ; brood coops should be built or repaired ;
colony houses put in order; fountains for water and
boxes for food and grit be made ready for use.
In fact, every appliance which will be needed for the
expected broods should be fitted up, so that when
the broods arrive all things will be ready for them.

During the winter the breeder should aim not only
to carefully study his poultry journals and extract
from them the useful and helpful knowledge which
they contain, but should also study from the works
of great investigators the principles which underlie
the science of breeding. The long winter evenings
should be so used that when spring cc^nes the
breeder will have a clearer and more ample knowl-
edge of his occupation, through the preparation
which he has undergone.

Poultr}' shows are to be visited, fancier friends
to be met, old friendships renewed and new friend-
ships made, and life be compelled to yield its proper
returns of joy and recreation, so that the winter
will yield to the breeder the physical and mental
preparation needed f(^r a coming season of success.

Kill off the lice and mites. Chickens and vermin
make a poor combination. Between them the breeder
must make his choice, for both he cannot keep and
win success.

Chickens often get off their legs, that is, they seem
to lack strength to stand erect, and they spend the
greater part of their time in squatting down. If there
is no swelling or heat of the joints, rheumatism is
not the cause. It may be due simply to too rapid
growth, and left alone the chickens will, in due
time, fully recover the use of their legs. Good
nourishing food in such cases is usually all the rem-
edy recjuired.

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POULTRY FANCIER-

December, '10

Failures in Breeding and in Advertising

The Truth About the Advertising Question and
Why Some Fanciers Fail With Their Breeds.

By DR. H. F. BALLARD

WONDER if Mr. J5a1)cock is a lawyer!
Easterner's observation in Xovember
I^^ancier has set me to i'liessinii-. JIow-
ever. Em c|uite positive Easterner is
not a preacher! One thini^ I do know
— I would like to meet Easterner ; yes,
1 will o-o still farther, J should like to be one of a
quartette "over the tea cups," of whom the other
three members would be Babcock, Petersen and
Easterner ! ! ! "As feast of reason and a flow of soul,"
or words to that effect, to which the writer could
contribute the ears if not the ton^i^ue would certainly
be the reductive prospect. A cjuintette with Heck-
added would be still better.

A. Eancier's article on advertisiniL^ is a good one,
in the November issue. There is one thino- however,
which I believe contributes more than anv one thin^
to successful advertising and that is success in the
show room. Hie man who wins the prizes, all other
things being- ecpial, is the one who will make the
sales. 11ie foundation of the fancy or thorough-
bred poultry business is first, the i)oultry show ;
second, the conscientious judge: third, the individ-
ual breeder.

"r\ancier" says the \ariety is important: but T do
not think so. As I have said before. 1 believe any
variety will do. Hiere is too much of the idea pre-
valent that you must have a certain varietv to be
successful. A i)erson who fails with one varietv is
just as apt to fail with another, except for the ex-
perience he has already gained; and the same
amount of effort continued with the varietv with
which he failed would be just as successful if ex-
pended (<n the same, as it would by starting in new
with another variety of which he learned little or
nothing. When a person fails with a variet\-, there
are alwaws a lot of reasons besides the variety,
though the average breeder likes to throw it onto
the \'ariet\', and here are some of the reasons for
failure: I^^irst, he did not get st(X^k of good (pialitv.
Nine times out of ten this is the main reason and in-
stead of getting something of better (pialitv in the
same \ariety, he closes out what he has for little or
nothing, but always at a loss, and starts in with a
new \ariety.

\\y this time he has learned a little, so he gets a
better (juality of stock of the secon;! \ariet\-, and of
course will ha\e corres])on(lingly better success
than with the hrst.

r>nt. and here is where the iniustice comes in.
\(>u will find that man forever after an enemy of
the hrst variety and he will ne\er tire of slandering
it on any and all occasions. I know this to be true
and so do all the rest of you. but it is wrong and
you know it.

niien the fourth iliing absoluteh necessar\- to the
fancv i)oultry man is the advertising and ni\ ex-
perience along that line has been xarie-l and a short
summary of it may be helpful to ^ome.

(a) Spasmodic advertising will not pav f( r the
money it costs. An ad. three months in one ])aper

and then three months in another, continually
flopping about from one journal to another may
pay in a sort of a way if you keep it up for twenty
vears and return to the same paper at least twice
a year but vou know the average journal makes
o-ood discounts for vearlv ads. and vou will i)av
about as much for two short term ads as yoti will
for one vearlv one, and the returns are not nearly
as good. The only kind of a breeder who makes
such ads pay is the dollar man and 1 don't want
to think about him at all because he makes me tired.
(b) Having selected the journal or journals in
which you will insert your ad: then contract by the
year. If you only have a few birds to sell run a
small ad but keep it running. When your surplus
stock is all sold, don't stop, becatise you ought to
have more coming on ; three-fourths of the breeders
who write }'Ou will buy nothing anyway and you
have got to allow for the ex])ense of answering their
incpiiries, but while you are staving them oft* a
little, your young stock is coming on and you can
often give them an idea when you will have stuff for
sale, if not just ready at the time of in(|uiry. Some
of the best sales I ever made were six months in the
making: the correspondents did not forget me be-
cause they were given to understand that while 1
was out at that i)articular time, 1 had voungsters
coming on that were going to fill the bill.

I very seldom write a follow-up letter, but when I
do write I aim to make an impression on niv i)ros-
pective buyer that when he does succeed in getting
some of my stock he will be "glad it's him." Write
to him just as you would talk to him, and tell him
the truth. I ha\e received many a second letter
which began something like this, "I received your
letter and like the tone of it, but," and then he
would proceed to tell me something which would
give nie a much better idea what he wanted than he
did in his first letter, so that we could soon come
together on a sale.

Of course you will receive letters from the i)eople
who want to buy a JKI ])<)int cockerel for about '$:).
but I never waste much time on those people. A
man who really wants a !)(i point cockerel and has
got the cash to pay for it will generallv let \(>u set
the j)rice.

Some of (»ur adxertisin;^ friends can crow on pai)er
eciual to Hrother llabcock's crowing cocks, but their
crowing is not always as sincere and clear as the
cocks, still there is a little human nature even in the
cock; when he calls one of his mates to see what a
bij^-, tine worm he has found, only to gobble it down
himself when she gets there.

r>ut I must stoj). 'Hiis is thanksf.^iving dav, and
there is a twent\- jx.nnd turkey waiting for dissec-
tion and distribution.

Ma\ the fulitor and all his readers and friends en-
joy .'IS <.-o(-d a dinner as I am now antici])ating in
about an hour.

Instead of yielding to the mania for crossing,
tlie breeder slionhl select some breed which suits
hnn be-t, and stick to it. He can for a comparitivelv
^mall <vm jirocnre a decent male of the breed as ofteii
ns needcrl, and kee;)s his stock strong and vigm-ous bv

<o doing

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POULTRY FANCIER

How to

^irds m Best Sho\^

Points of Special Preparation and Methods of Care
and Feeding That Produce Certain Results in
Color and Gloss of Plumage.

By H. V. TORMOHLEN

F you are a lover of your flock, you
w^ill acknowledge that preparing
your birds for the show is the most
agreeable and i)ainstaking task of the
whole year. It is then that we
dream dreams, see visions and build
air castles. It is up to you (using- the modern
phraseology) to show your exhibit at its best. To
<io this requires no little forethought and planning.
The general health and vitality of your exhibition
stock should be looked after with care. If you are
breeding a variety that should have a w^ell developed
-cond), the females should be fed an ounce or two
of fresh beef each day. Care should be taken,
though, to not feed the male too much meat, for
the male's comb in most any variety will be the
proper size on ordinary conditioning food. If fed
mucli meat his coml) will grow too large and then
when placed in the show room, which is most sure
to be warmer than his regular (juarters. one day
will bring havoc in his comb, for instead of keep-
ing the erect position^it will turn to one side and
his chances for winning are spoiled. Always plan
to have the combs of both the females and males
under size rather than the right height and espe-
cially the males when you forward them to the show
room.

Fowls should be accustomed to being placed in
exhibition coops at least two weeks before the first
show^ to insure their becoming j)erfectly tame and
gentle. I use coops of regulation size and place
the exhibition fowls in them for a day or a half day
at a time about twice a week for a month before
showing-, just to get them over the worrvinp; and
fretting when c(^nfined. In preparing for the show
I feed two or three ounces of beef tallow to each
fowl tw^ice a week while moulting. A\'hen the fowls
are cooped preparing for show each time 1 go near
the coops I always give the fowds a few grains of
wheat or sunflower seed or anything they are espe-
cially fond of. I never permit a bird to be fright-
ened in any way. The first few days I always ap-
proach the coops slowdy", making sure the fowls
see me coming, and after letting the birds pick a
few grains out of my hand and then throw a few
more in the coop. If they are too wild to eat out
of mv hand at first, 1 throw a few grains in the
coop several times a day and try them each time
until they are tame enough to do so. Each bird is
pushed about the coop with the hand as often each
day as I possibly have time and each bird is taken
out of the coop at least once a day. The bird is
handled very gently and fed out of the hand, then
set upon a box or table and allowed to take a good
survey of the surroundings. It is surprising how
short a time is recpiired to gain the confidence of
your birds. I consider a Leghorn male reasonablv
tame when he wmII crow while carried about under
your arm. More noise and racket is made each day
jibont the coops and strangers are brought in as

often as possible and loud talking- and g^estures are
indulg-ed in just like people do every day at poultry
shows. But the matter should never be overdone.
Strange sights and sounds should be introduced
slowly, and, as stated before, never carried to the
point where the birds are frightened.

White and Ruff fowls can generally be improved
by washing a few days before the show. Plenty of
room is required and if in the late fall or w^i'nter
should always be performed in a warm room. Three
tubs or very large buckets should be handy. Plenty
of coop room should be provided in the warm-'
room. The bird should first be soaked and then
gently washed with the best toilet or Ivory soap
in warm soft water, \\diere feathers are thick tliey
should be loosened up and scrubbed gently, but
do not break a feather by rubbing the w^ong way.
The legs and feet should be thoroughly cleansed
with a small hand brush and the dirt removed from
under the scales with a blunt tooth pick. The fowl
should then be placed in the next tub wdiich contains
clean water somewdiat cooler than the first and in
this the bird should be thoroughly rinsed. If neces-
sary to entirely free the feathers of the soapy water,
rinse again. If the soapy water is not thoroughly
removed, the wdiole thing must be done over again.
The last water should be a little cooler than the sec-
ond and is the "bluing water." If you are not expe-
rienced in washing fowls, let your wife oversee the
"bluing- process" so you will not overdo the matter.

A wdiite bird that is somewhat creamy can be
washed ])erfectly white if the bluing is used right.
The fowls then should be placed in a roomy coop
near the stove, where thev will dry thoroughly. The
feathers should be loosened frequently in insure
evenness of drying. The birds will dress their
feathers after washing, as a general rule. Then an
old silk cloth should be used to rub the feathers
which will bring out the gloss. The legs and toes can
be polished with a woolen rag with a little vaseline.
To brighten the comb and wattles, cleanse wdth a
sponge and grain alcohol. If the comb is not bright
enough the alcohol treatment once or twice a dav
for a week and a little glycerine rubbed on in the
meantime will bring the comb out to a bright scarlet.

Parti-colored fowls and the darker varieties
scarcely ever need to be washed, but when thev do
they are handled in the same way as the white birds
are, except they are not put in the bluing water.
.\ silk clotl>> will generally bring out a dark fowl
wonderfully, but tallow fed when the fowls are
moidting w^ill bring the gloss out naturally. To get
the greenish sheen on black fowls and parti-black,
citrate of iron placed in the drinking water ^yhile
moulting will accomplish the desired result. vSul-
phate of iron will do the same thing.

A\Miite ear lobes often turn a reddish tint. Oxide
of zinc ointment rubbed into them three times a day
for a week or ten days will whiten them up again.

Exhibition fowls should be provided with plenty
of water, grit, charcoal and fed judiciously. The
fowls should be dusted with insect powder before
being cooped and every wxek while in the coops.
The standard coop should be two feet deep, two and
one-half high and two and one-half feet wide. Straw
should always be used for the bedding.

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Some Interesting Details of the Jungle Fowl From
Which Has Sprung the Many Beautiful and
Valuable Breeds of Fowls of the Present Day.

By H. S. BABCOCK

HE Gallns Bankiva is the orii^inal from
which sprang- the domesticated fowl.
This truth is so generally recognized
that it is assumed no one will ques-
tion it. There is always an advantage
in starting- Avith a generaly accepted
truth ; it gives conhdence in the later statements
which may not be as generally recognized as true.
It is also the logical order — one reasons from the
known to the unknown. The Callus Bankiva is,
therefore, an interesting figure in poultry history.
Long- before I had ever seen the stuffed skin of one
of these fowls I had formed a mental image of the
wild bird, which, in the main, was true, but which,
as often is the base with such preformed images, was
false in a number of details. It needed contact with
])oth the skins and the live birds to correct fully the
imagined fowl.

I first met these wild fowls in a small poultry
show which I judged many years ago at Ports-
mouth, R. L. a country ])lace adjoining N'^ewport,
wdiere the wealthiest of our w^ealthy peo])le spend
a portion of the summer months. In this show
were caged a i)air of birds — a cock and hen — dis-
tinctly labeled Gallus Bankiva. I rubbed my eyes,
took a second look, and then went to the secretary's
office and informed that official that he had evi-
dently put up a wrong card, for there was in the
show^ an excellent i)air of Brown Leghorn Bantams,
marked Gallus Bankiva. And 1 further informed
him that, if he would change the entry on his books
and put u]) a new tag I would award a first prize
to this pair of birds. This was done by the obliging
officer, and I gave first prizes to the pair, as I'rown
Legfhorn Bantams. lUit I afterwards learned that
these birds had been entered by a summer resident
of Newport, and were in fact and truth nothing
other than an admirable pair of the wild jungle fowl
from which our various races of domestic fowls
have descended.

After describing this incident it is unnecessarv
to describe the fowds, for they have been substan-
tially described in the mistake which I made.
Rather large for Bantams they were, and with some
suggestion of the Game about them, but the I'rown
Leg^horn Bantams, a variety which a])peared onl\-
to disappear, was made through crossing the orig'-
inal (lame ])antam — wdiich in luigland goes by the
name of Old English — with the Brown Leghorn.
The male, with his rich black-red ])lumagc. was
gorgeous in coloring, but the little brown hen was
dressed as modestly as a Quaker maiden. Why
are the males, si)eaking by and large, richly col-
ored, and the females dressed in somber hues?

Darwin attributed the rich coloring ni male birds
to sexual selection. He believed that the females
were attracted by their beauty and in the mating
season selected the handsomest males with whicli
to pair. And so it came about that the richlv col-

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ored males found mates and left descendants, while
those, which were less rich in coloring, either mated
later and left fewer descendants, or were condemned
to perpetual bachelorhood. The scientific world,,
though it accepted most of Darwin's theories, has-
not generally accepted this doctrine of sexual selec-
tion. It has questioned and doubted its validity,,
but it has not been able to agree upon any one
theory to account for the fact. The fact of the
richer coloring of the males needs no support other
than the observation of e\'ery poultry breeder. All:
know^ the fact, but all may not recognize the further
fact, that when a black male, for example, produces
red feathers in the hackle or on the shoulders of the
wing, or a white male becomes yellow— sunburned'
it is often called — there is Dame Nature again at-
tem])ting to give the fovvd a richer and more gaudy
coloring- than is offered to his mates.

It seems probable and reasonable that the little-
brown hen won her sober dress through the infiu-
ence of protective coloration. She made her nest
on the ground or among the reeds and sedges. She-
had to sit for three weeks ui)on her clutch of eiiirs-
m order to hatch out the brood upon which the life
of the race depended. She would thus be exposed to-
many enemies, and it became necessary that slie
should avoid them. She could not hope to cope with
them successfully in a fair fight, but she might hide-
successfully from their cruel scrutiny. Therefore, a
gaudy plumage, so dear to the human feminine-
heart, would be her destruction, while a brown
dress, harmonizing with the good brown earth, re-
sembling but a darker shadow among the reeds and
sedges, would hide her from hostile eyes, and enable-
her to bring forth her little brood in comparative-
security. And the hens, which were the least con-
spicuous in coloring, would be those whose chances
of survival were the best. 11ie little brow^n hen,,
therefore, did not choose a sober dress of her own
free will, but it was thrust upon her by necessit\ .

• Vnd the young chicks, too, in their first feathers,
before they had gained the strength for successful
flight from their enemies, needed a similar protec-
tive covering-. And that is why, even to this dav,
after centuries of domestication, the chickens in
their first plumage, irrespective of sex, are colored
like the hen— a coloring wdiich is changed in the-
cockerels at their first moult, but remains perma-
nently with the pullets. The little brown lungle
hen had her brood of little brown chicks, aiul the
l)lack \<Q(\ Game hen of our time continues to have-
broods of little brown chicks. This colorincr, no
longer necessary for i)rotection, is an interesting
survival from the days when the ancestors of the-
modern fowd lived the free wild life.

The history of the little brown hen, if fully writ-
ten, would re(|uire volumes to contain it, and each
volume would be as marvelous as a fairy tale. She-
has undergone many transformations in' size, figure-
and coloration, and the end is not vet; she has kept
students, investigators, writers, printers, artists and'
others profitably employed; she has inspired the
writmg of many books ; she has increased and multi-
plied wealth more wonderfullv than did Aladdin's-
lamp: she has been the support of the poor, the de-
light of the rich, a powerful resource of the nations..

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And yet, she was only a little brown hen, a trifle
bigger than a B>antam, somewhat smaller than a
Leghorn, which hid from her enemies, with fear and

treml)ling, amongr the sedges of the jungle. Truly
the mean things have been chosen to confound the

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Here are Some Pointers on the Color Question
That May be a Little Deep for You, Bu^ They
are an Interesting Study.

By DR. L. E. PITCHER

( )T man\ there are who give a thought
as to the reason wd-iy the rose is red
or the violet blue. Most of us take it
as a matter of fact, simply marveling
at the intricate workings of Nature,
but not seeking to understand win- all
roses are not red.

The colors with which the creations of Nature are
embellished are due to many causes, scientists tell
us. The density, the character and the shape of the
surfaces of an object determines, in a measure, the
reflectibility, refractibility and absorption of the rays
of light from the sun (the source of all light, hence
the source of all color).

These rays are divided into their component i)arts,
thrown here and there or are absorbed. Those rays
reaching the retina of the eve are what gives us the
sensation which we recognize as a color. Idie pro-
portion in which the fundamental colors of the prism
are reflected back to the eye, determines the result-
ant color.

Thus the mixture of these rays in one proportion
gi\es the eye a sensation which we recognize as
yellow, while another blending of rays we mav, per-
haps, recognize as red or as blue. It will be need-
less for me to describe the basic colors and the
shades produced by their infusion and distinction of
the use of the prism.

The chemical character of an object would natur-
ally govern its density, specific gravity and other
factcjrs to which color might l)e due. The color of
a bird's feathers then would be expected to be of a
certain character to assume a given color. Charac-
teristics and tendencies which are transmitted from
one pair of birds to their oft'spring are called heredi-
tary. Now, when these tendencies of both male and
female are in accord then the offspring may resem-
ble both parents as to color and conformation.

When these tendencies lie dormant or passive in
one parent and are exceptionally strong in the other
parent, then the ofi'spring will be apt to perpetuate
those characteristics of the latter ])arent. Some
writers designate these cpialities as negative (►r posi-
tive according to the aptitude of the birds to per-
I)etuate certain peculiarities. Just as "Rxperience
is the great teacher" in other lines, so in seeking to
determine the result of the mating of birds exceed-
ingly potent in certain respects the only certain way
is by experiment.

We find tendencies to what we term ''reversion
to type" may lie passive many generations, later to
crop out in magnified form through a certain mating.
The saying, "like will ])ro(luce like," is, then, as a
rule, uncertain and unreliable. The number of so-
called culls of anv breeder will verifx* this. That

the proper mating of one strain will improve color
and other conditions when persisted in for a long
period is, however, true. The first condition which
may govern the color of our birds is, then, "the
hereditary tendencies from which our birds sprung.
We have assumed chemical composition of feath-
ers and l)()dy to have their influence upon color,
hence we must reproduce this composition in the
newlv created chick. Proper food and vigor of con-
stitution of sire and dam wdll lay the pre-natal foun-
dation for the development of color and other feath-
ers in the progeny.

Correct air, water and food supply furnishes the
nutrition also for proper color development of the
growing chick. Many do not understand how food
can assist in attaining proper color. All living ob-
jects owe their color to the character of the surfaces
exposed to the light. These surfaces differ in chem-
ical make-up of what we call the pigment. •!
It is this pigment found in the leaf of the tree,
hair of animals, as well as in feathers, which gives
variations of color. But for chemical character and
amount of it the skin the Ethiopian would differ
but little from the Caucasian. This pigment paints
the feathers of our pets. Of what are these pig--
ments composed? Chiefly mineral basis or salts
entering- the blood of the animal or the sap of the
tree and being deposited beneath the surface to be
acted upon by the sun, producing color. Fowls re-
ceive most of this mineral from organic foods, such
as grains, grasses and flesh of other animals; how-
ever, much of it comes to them in grit, shells, and
that held in suspension or solution in the water
suj^ply. These minerals form chemical relations
within the body and through the blood and solutions
and secretions of the body reach the feathers there to
have its action upon color. The photographer rec-
ognizes the value of these minerals in his work,
(iold, platinum, aluminum, mercury and others have
their place in films, sensitive plates' and photo papers
being sensitive of imj)ressi()ns from the rays of the
sun. The action of iron upon the haemoglobin of
the blood and acted upon by the oxygen of the air
of the lungs, forming an oxide, givVs the blood a
bright red appearance.

The absence of food containing these mineral ele-
ments would then perhaps account for the wdiite,
or non-colored, feathers which occasionally crop out
in dark ccdored birds, showing improper' nutrition.
Experiments along the line <)f the influence of
heredity and nutrition upon color I imagine would
prove interesting as well as the results of crosses
of fowls wdth color variations to establish if possible
some guide for the breeder in his desire to produce
uniform results.

Hens, like men, prefer varietv to sameness in their
food.

The growth of a reputation, like the growth of the
body, requires sufficient time and proper nourishment.

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who constitute practically the entire fraternity.

The mission of Poultry Fancier is to teach
breeders how to produce the beautiful and valu-
able Standard bred birds which are the founda-
tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising.

December. 1910

Improvement in the flock is not a
means to an end but an end in it-
self.

Show us a "knocker," who, through
"knocking," has achieved a great suc-
cess, and we will show you a fool,
who, through folly, has achieved wis-
dom.

The principle success which a
kicker achieves in the show is the
advertising of his own failure.

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As nothing succeeds like success
well announced, so nothing fails like
failure well advertised. Don't adver-
tise your failures.

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Despair is an invention of the devil
and no poultryman should encourage
his Satanic majesty hy using his in-
ventions.

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A bulldog has one characteristic
that every poultryman should imitate
— when he takes hold it is almost im-
possible to loosen his grip.

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An ounce of forethought is worth
a pound of afterthought. Plan first,
execute afterwards, is a good rule
for the poultry breeder.

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Many a valuable prize has been lost
because of lack of training the bird,
A top notcher may act like a dung-
hill, and get only a "booby" prize.

The Value of an Exhibition
Bird.

llere are two cockerels, eacli weigh-
ing eight pounds alive, and will prob-
ably weigh about six pounds a piece
dressed. One cockerel is worth $1.50,
the other $150. What makes one
worth a hundred times the vahie of
the other?

The most obvious answer is that
one is a hundred times as beautiful
as the other; that, in a word, beauty
makes the difference. While this an-
swer may be true, it is not the truth,
for the analysis lias not gone far
enough, and the answer only brings
one face to face with another ques-
tion: Why should beauty make this
dilTcrence in value?

One of the elements in the value
of an exhibition Ijird is found in a
characteristic of human nature, pride
or satisfaction in possession. Men
live not only for themselves but for
others. To a greater or less extent
their pleasure in life is dependent
upon the opinions of other people. If
other people speak well of them, their
pleasure is increased; if they speak
ill of them, it is decreased. And this
feeling is carried over from them-
selves to their possessions, animate
or inanimate. Because other people
admire a beautiful house, a well-kept
garden, a smooth lawn, a beautiful
liorse or a beautiful fowl, the house,
garden, lawn, horse or fowl assumes
an increased importance and a greater
value. And as an exhibition bird, ac-
cording to recognized standards of
beauty, is a beautiful bird and gener-
ally admired, its value is accordingly
increased.

l>ut besides this element is another,
inore practical and more important
in the making of the value of an ex-
hibition bird. A cockerel is worth
$150 not only because he is beautiful
and admired, but because he can win
niore or less of the value put upon
him. If a bird can win .$150, in cash
prizes, over and above the expenses
attendant upon his exhibition, it is
a simple example in arithmetic to
show that he is wortli $150, plus his
intrinsic value. In other words, the
poultry shows of the country' aid
largely in making the value of an ex-
hibition bird. The more numerous
tlicy arc and the larger the prizes they
offer, the greater will lie the oppor-
tunities for a high-priced fowl to earn
his value for his owner. Hence it is
obvious that the support of poultry
exhibitions by the breeders of exhibi-
tion birds is an absolute necessity.
They make not a sentimental but a
commercial appeal to such men. If
they are not supported, the value of
exhibition birds will seriously decline
and a hundred and fifty dollar speci-
men may be reduced in value to fif-
teen dollars. If other things were
e(|ual. which they seldom are. in those
countries where poultry exhibitions
were the most numerous and where
the prizes were the most valuable, the
price of exhibition birds would in-
variably be the highest.

Still another element enters into
the value of an exhibition bird.

Whether it be a male or a female it
possesses the power of reproduction.
As a breeding fowl it has, through
the qualities which make it an ex-
hibition bird, a value in excess of its
intrinsic qualities. The chickens sired
by such a male or hatched from the
eggs of such a female will bring more
money than they would if their sire
or dam were an ordinary fowl. It
is true that exhibition birds are not
always and invarial)ly the best breed-
ers; occasionally they are even in-
ferior breeders; but as a rule they
stand a fair cliance of reproducing
in their young the qualities which
made them fit for exhibition. The
chance that they will do so in some
cases, and may even ])roduce chick-
ens superior to themselves in a few
instances, makes the public willing to
pay enhanced prices for the stock
which springs from them. During
the past season eggs have been sold
at one dollar, two dollars, five dol-
lars and even ten dollars each, be-
cause they were laid by hens mated
to males possessing exhibition quali-
ties.

\yhen it is considered that an ex-
hibition bird is beautiful, that it ap-
peals to the aesthetic taste of its own-
er and gratifies his satisfaction or
pride of possession, that it is capable
of winning a portion, the whole, or
even more, of its estimated value in
prizes, and that the eggs or chicks
from such a bird will bring high
prices, there is no mystery in the fact
that of two cockerels of equal weight
and of the same value for table pur-
poses, one may be worth a hundred
times, and perhaps a thousand times,
as much as the other in the current
coin of the realm.

U the chickens have to scratch for
a living it is not very singular that
their owner should have to scratch
for a living, also.

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An undeserved prize will injure not
only the winner but the whole in-
dustry.

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Tt don't much matter about a breed
bt'iiig a made one, but it does matter
whether it is well made.

The knowledge of some people
consists principally of the things they
shouldn't know.

If you win, keep cool; if you lose,
keep cool; and at any rate, in any
place, and at any time, keep cool.

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Train your exhibition birds. A well
trained bird, like a well trained man,
appears well in company.

Don't claim everything but do prove
everything.

With one variety of fowls a breeder
has often many varieties of exneri-
ence.

Marry your business, but see that
the knot IS properly tied,— there have
been too many slipper-nooses in mar-
riage ceremonies in the past.

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LIST OF

Alta ^'i.'Jta Farm. .
Allendaltr Farm. . .

Ackerlv. A. E

Allen, J. H . .

Blatchfoid, John. .

Brown, R<lw

K'/An. E. . . .
Paul E. . . .

9r)L'5 Wine-

Breuor Rro.s

Blair, J. (Jaylord. .

Bartlett. M. A

Baker, C. R

Barnes, (\ H

Bishop. R. \V

Blackburn, VVm. .1 .

Barker, M. S

Blue Bell Farm. . .
Bettles, Ralph hZ. .
Brook.s & Coff'y . . . .
Bloese, August . . . .
Benson, Elmer F. ..

Bordnei', R. 1.

Budde, .1. G., & Co
Blake, .T. .T.. & Co. ,
Badger J'oultry Co
Blanchard, A. W. .

Buell, (Jeo. L

Buschmann. Chas.

Bodge. P. V

Bradshaw. Harmon
Bennett, Beni-v . . . .
Beach, Edw. i.. . . .

Brogden, Thus

Bowers. Wm. fi

Barkwill S. A

Beisley, R. V

Burrows, .josepii . ,

])e.«?pl

Butterman, W. F. .

EXHIBITORS.

Lake Geneva, Wis.

Quincy, 111.

Frankfort, Ind.

...Walnut (}rove, Minn.
Oak Park, 111.

Mendota, 111.

South Bend, ind.

hester Av«

mpany

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lirown H

Chicago, 111.

Cary, 111.

Carlisle, Ky.

Canton, O.

\l)ilene, Kans.

..Kalamazoo, Mich.
. . . . (lUilford, Conn.

Bradford, III.

. . . Thorntown, Ind.

Glenview, ill.

La Porte, Ind.

Bowerston, O.

.leffer.son Park, 111.
. . .Whitman, Mass,

.lessup, la,

Oak I'ark, 111.

. .Galesburg, Mich.

Argyle. Wis.

Reloit. Wis.

Lorain. Ohio

. Indianapolis, Ind.

May wood. 111.

Lahanon, Ind.

. . . .Brown, W. Va.

Lincoln. 111.

. Rush Lake, Wis.
Idg.. Baltimoi-e, Md.

Harvev. 111.

Peniia. III.

aines. III.. \{. F. 1). No. i'
Hubbard Woods, 111.

Beadle, Wm. M Marcellus, Mich.

Boehm, O. L Fort Dodge, la.

Binder, E. F Wheaton, 111.

Bell, A. Duncan Paris Ky

Byers, C. S Hazelrigg,' Ind.'

Blencoe, Dr. Guy Alma Center, Wis

Bissell. W. C Galbraith, la.

Brown, Guy G Mt. Gilead, O.

Barker, K. S Evanston, 111.

Barnum. G. A I'nion City. Mich.

Crabtree. V Tiffin, O.

Cutler, F. Gage Carthage, III.

Colby, O. C Hillsboro, 111.

Church, Roy E Elkhorn. Wis

Cook, Walter .J

1-25 N. Tuxedo St., Indianapolis, Ind.

( 'lose. H. M Newark, O.

Chandler. A. R., & Son Sylvania O.

Cross. C. L Riverside, 'ill.

Connolly, R. C. & R. L

4^1 Sheridan Rd., Waukegan, ill.

Counter, Dr. J. A Sylvania, O.

Coverts Barif'd Rock Farm, Willoughby, O.

Carter, Thos. .1 lonesdale. Wis.

Condit, 1'. B Indianapolis. Ind.

<'onstant, A. B Williamsville 111.

Cornwell, Mrs. .1. W Newman, 111.

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( "hambers, Harold E\anston, 111.

Cheiiy Red Company Carv Sta., 111.

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French. Fi-ank C

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Frank. .lames M

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Willoughby, O.
. .Bradford. 111.
.Sid nan., Mich.
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Lake City, Utah

. . .Rochelle, 111.

Clemens, Mich.

.Nashvile, Tenn.

Hammond, Ind.

Smithboro, 111.

. R. No. 1, N'erona. Pa.

.Grand Rapids, Mich.

Slide Ave., Elgin, 111.

Freedom. Pa.

St., Blue Island. 111.

Dalton. O.

Dallas, Tex.

Haven, Conn.
, Chicago, 111,
. .Canton, 111.
Haven, Mich.
Marcellus, Mich.
Greensburg, Ind.

(Jalleher, R. F

Gilbert. A. E

Goetz, Wm. J. H

1150 Cadillac Ave.. Detroit.

Gale Poultry Yards .... Benton Harbor.

.Mt. Gilead. O.
East Akron, O.

Mich.
Mich.

Tiro. O.

. . . Dexington. Ky.

May wood. 111.

Bridgetown. Conn.
. Marthasville, Mo.
.Cedar Rapids. la.
Park. Chicago. 111.
Angola. Ind.

Guess. W. H

<;ordon. F. H

Huber. Henrv

Hoffman. H. A

Hasen jaeger, A. C

Herner. T. A

Haag. Elmer F.. Norwood

Hannon. Thomas G

Hillcrest Poultry Yards Kramer, Ind

Higbee, E. .1 Walworth, Wis.

Hess. Henry Winona. Minn.

Hewitt. H. H Williamsburg. Pa.

Ilcwes. Theo Indianapolis, Ind.

Huffman. .J. W

L'10:{ Montrose Ave.. Rosewo-id. 111.

Harrison, P'red E Menominee. Mich.

Tarentum, Pa.

F Atkinson, HI.

W Bri«lgeton. Mo.

Watert(nvn. 111.

H Durand. Mii-h.

Wni Waveland. Ind.

Indianapolis. Ind.

Polo. 111.

Matthews, Ind.

Shelbv, O.

Crete, III.

SheUlon.

llenning. W. E Clintnn.

Hisbip. H. F Milfonl.

Huber Bros Kenosha. W

1 1 a rmon . H. E

Hartmann, Aug. E

40.-) X. 7th St..

Huston, .1. .1

17";? Winimac Ave.. Chicago. HI.

H el man, Chas. W Waverly. O.

Hilldorfers Black Minorca Farm

Saxonburg, Pa.

Hui-|bcrt. .7. .J Moirison.

Huber. Wm Hinsdale.

Hill. A. H....3133 S. 41st Court. Chicago,
.lackson, Pru«lence (tilmore Cit.v,

Hazlett. .1. N. .
Humphreys, E.
Henderson, W.
Ililbt-rg, Henry
Herrick, Geo.
Harsiebarger. Mr
Hewes. Mrs. The
Hoover. Wm. H. .
I loover, G. Earl . .
Harrison, S. R . .
Hewes. R. .\. . . .
Hull. G. A

111.
Ta.
111.
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.CJrleans, Ind.

Ma v wood. 111.

Hicksville

Lemont.

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Haysville.

Brooktleld.

Nichols.

Downers Grove.

HI.

HI.

111.

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111.

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Mo.

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Minneapolis.
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Minn.
Mas.s.

.Jordan. Dr. H. M. . . .

.lungels. P. O

.loues, W. E

.lackson, Lawr«'nce ..

.lones. .1. W

K irchnei', Fred

K line, Geo. M

K erst en, Geo. .\

119 W. 52nd St..

Keating, .1. P

K(»Mpman. Henr.v R

...49 W. 110th PI., Rosclantl. Chicago, 111.

K renter. P"" Manchester. Okla.

Kakuska. .Anton

2:i:>:] .So. Lawndale Ave.. Chicago, III.

K««ister. H. A Bangui'. Mich.

Kott. .lohn M Orland, 111.

Kleine. Mrs. Cora E. R

R. No. 2. Crown Point. Ind.

Kakuska. Frank Berwyn, 111.

KiJinison. ('has. W Willoughby, O.

I.awndale Orpington Yards

2147 St. T.otiis .\ve.. Chicago. HI.

Lewis. 1^'ter Geo Zion City, Ta,

l.angmore. Edw. M .Somers, Wis.

I.orterdab' Farm

1S30 Lint Ave., Rogers Park, III.

l^iindstroin, Anton

.'JOliH Charles St.. (Jinaha. Neb.

l.ovell. F. J Danvillr. 111.

IJving-ston. (\ F Caipenteisvillc. 111.

l.inn (NL- Son

^t'i'^^ Iowa St.. Austin, Chiiagd. 111.

I.awson. Chas. (' Keokuk, la.

J.ove. F. M I^ewiston. J 11.

Lash, t)he Vermont. 111.

l.onsneeker, Fi-ed CayuKu. Ill-

I..vle. W. O (Inadenh'utten. O.

I.anius. Wesley (^lecnsbuiK. Ind.

hiiitield I'oultry Farni Linfii'ld, Pa.

I.iehlenwalter, E. H (Jirard. Pa.

l.inder, F. E (Greenville. 111.

l.apham. S. D Dearborn. Mieh.

l.loyd, C. J.. & Sons (Ireenshurs:. Ind.

Link. Herbert J La Porte. Ind.

I'i«t. A. (' 162S W. 101 St.. ChieaKo. 111.

Munn. Dr. R. B Hampshire. 111.

Me\'iear. Wm Jantsville, Wis.

Monilaw, E. D Cedar Rapids. la.

Miller. Jacob Walthena. Kans.

McDanell, J. H Warsaw. Kv.

MeQuire. Wm. M Broadiipplc. Ind.

AI«•(^)l•d. Claude T

ITlIt W. 101st St.. ChieaKo. 111.

Millei-. Edw Donnellson. la.

Miller. Harry B Clarks Summit, Pa.

Minf,'ea. J. F Chicago Heights. 111.

Mallatt, W. W Sheldon. 111.

Maltbie & Shelly C.ene\M. ().

Mathei-. Dr. W. J Lamoni. la.

Moeller, Herbert F La Porte. Ind.

Monear, Earl Spring C.rove. 111.

Matthews. Lawrence P 'Phorntown, Ind.

Martz. A. E Arcardia. Ind.

Maish. H. H Wheeling. W. Va.

Miller, .J. Harvey Ciiamlu rshurg. Pa.

Mitchell. G. A Pidott. 111.

McKinney. R. A

14 LeGrand Ave., in<lianai)olis. Ind.

Nichols, A. L I'lainwell. Mich.

Xowak. .lohn. 71S 2nd Ave.. Milwaukee. Wis.

Xot'tzKer. S. A North Manchest.r. Ind.

Northwestern Poultry Yards

-'S06 E. 93rd St.. So. ChicaR... 111.

Newton I. Nusbaum Middletown. Ind

Onlya Farm Box B. Moiristuwn. X. J.

Oakwood Poultry Farnt

Fox River Gros*-. Carv, 111.

Ott, Calvin Prc.phetstowji. 111.

O'Neel. M. L Oelivein. 111.

Osborn. W. B

426 Williams St.. Jackson. Mich.

Older. K. M. & E. A Carthaj;>'. S. Dak.

Peehn. J. G., M. D Coi-liss. AVis.

Palmer ,)(: Son, D. F Yorkvill.-. 111.

Phillit. F. Lewis Glenview. 111.

Peerless Poultry Farm Clinton. Wis.

Piideaux, John D Benton Harb'>r. Mich.

Piescott. Geo. F Dixon. 111.

Pape^ Chas. G Fort Wayiit-. Ind.

i'low'man. W. E Quincx. 111.

Parmi'nter. Robt. D Knoxville, 111.

Pike Poultr.v Farm Westpoint, Miss.

Preston. A. O Concord. N. H.

Pi»'ice. T.,ester E Wakeman. O.

I'eirin. F. J Walworth. Wis.

T'ullins Bros Rensselaer. Ind.

I'ickett, H. A Greentown. Ind.

T'eterson, Chas. E

1752 W. :{r.th St.. ChicaKo. 111.

Pennington, J. S Plaintield. 111.

Peterson, Wm. A Galesbui^;^. 111.

Pan^alow Farm..R. R. 12. Indianapolis. Ind.

Pool. Robt. A Butler. Pa.

T'owei- & Threckeld Maysville. Ky.

I'atterson, C. L Barberton. ().

Patterson. Clyde Sedalia. Mo.

Roseland Poultry Farm So. Kuclid. < ).

Ri\erview Poultry Yards .... Manitowoc. \\'is.

Rothpeb Bros Milfoid. 111.

Randall. J. P

ir.lS Lunt Ave.. Ro^eis Park. Chicago. 111.

Roy & Barclay Westerti Springs. 111.

Reid. W. C Harvard. Ill

Reynolds. E. N Cedar Rapids. la

T{odg:ers. Fiank D Elgin. 111.

Rocky Rivei- I^<tultry Company. Deailiehl. Ill

Ilikhoff. Herman T Indianapolis. Ind

Reed, Dr. F. M Wvant. Ill

Roberts, G. P Mt. Healthy. (•

Renner, A. T t'oshocton. ( ».

Roudebush. Ralph Nobh-sville. Ind.

Rodders. H. V Tr ly. O.

Rockanflotty Farm Southboro. Mass

Rawden. John . . . . Rid^ftown, Ont., Canad;i

Reese. C. C Downeis Grove. 111.

Riggs. F. F 42n S. Bdw.. Elniira. X. V.

Roundtree, T. J Noia. Ill

lioss Hi Ross TiOg^ansport. Ind.

Red Robe Poultry Pens

ISlT) Main St.. Evanston, 111.

Rich. D. W Mt. Pleasant. la.

Rowbotham. Geo. S. .THt Aliria St.. .\ustin. Ill

Simj)son. Edgrar G Xapeiville. 111.

Schriver. A. W R. F. D 1. PradfoiMl. III.

Strandbeig. Perry Davey. Neb.

Severe. A. D D<»ws. Ta

Shepard. F. C Toledo. ().

Salyards, R. S Lamoni. li

Success T'oultry Yards ChalHeld. Minn

Slusser. W. li Lakewood. ( ).

Sypert. (J. W Madison ville. Ky

Stannard. G. B Lake (JtMieva. Wis

Schroedei-. Aur. W Chestnut. Ill

Simmons Tiros Stockton. Ill

Shutts, H:ni-v L Dativille. 111.

Strachan. W Rockfoid. Ill

Smith. A. J Cedar Rapids, la

Shannon, A. J Appleton, Wis.

Skinner, Frank E Sandwich. 111.

Sturfievant. Mrs. R. W Springlield. ( ».

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Sh<»rt. Fred E....G16 E. A'iew St.. Elgin. 111.

Sheffield Farm Glendale. ().

Saundeis. Rufus. Co

t!2»i W. Lovell St., Kalamazoo. Mich.

St.vers, Fred Greensljurg. Ind.

Stephens. B. X Salem, Ind.

Statia. F. J (Jranville, N. Y.

Stuckey, Dr. Peter Auburn, Ind.

Sullivan, L. R Osborn. O.

Sibley, Iivingr A. & Frank C. South Bend. Ind.

Strohmeyer, I). F...R. i'!t, I ndianai)olis, Ind.

Stewait, Myron B Cleveland, O.

Sprag:ue, P. H May wood. 111.

Seamaji Farm ... Arsenal Sta.. IMttsburgr. Pa.

Springwood Poultry Farm. . Warrensville, 111.

Slatter. G. S Sioux City, la.

Sun IJght Poultry Yards Dumont, la.

Seneca Poultrv Yards Tiffin. O.

Sly. R. 1) West Clarkstield, O.

Steendall. I'. R

1017 N«dson Ave.. Menoininee. Wis.

Schehl, Henr.v Pi-oj)hetstown. 111.

Schaad. J. W...4r.l(t Linden St.. Chicag^o. 111.
Swenson. Mrs. Fmma .. Chicago Heights. 111.

Snook. W. H Polo, III.

Schmidt. John J De Soto. Mo.

Summit Farm Company .... Dowagiac, Mich.

Samuels. Thos. G Manticoke, Pa.

Smiley, Erie Bea\er Ci'ossing, Neb.

Sliei)ard, Mrs. Geo. E <Jo(tdland. Ind.

Tannenbaum Farm WillouKhby. O.

Tiuckenbrod. H. J Mendotii. 111.

Trobaugh. .1. H Delphi, Ind.

Tymmns, John Warren. O.

To<l(l. F. T.. <*;• Sons Peoria. 111.

'rhonii)kins, Lester Concord. Mass.

Tiiitle Point Farm. Saratoga Springs, X. Y.

Tecktonius. F. A Kacine. Wis.

Tazewell Poultry Yards Pekin. 111.

Tierney. Robt. A. «SL' E. C

201 Nine St., Sanduskv, O.

Teters. Max

4!M;t W. Winona St.. Jeffeison I'k.. Chicago,
111.

Thomas. R. H

7l:{2 (\n-penter St.. Chicago. 111.

riirer. J....ir.77 E. llSth St.. Cleveland, O.
\an Reener, D., (i4:!S s. Ma.\- St.. Chic-ago. III.

Vance. Mis. Wnt Washington. Ind.

Williams. .J. M Xorth .Xdams. Mich.

Windle. P. W Mt. Morris. 111.

Walmei. Dan Huntington. Ind.

Willard. .1. O Linden. Mich.

Wohlyemuth. W. J

7it:! Peini St.. St. Louis. Mo.

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Wedge. 1). A Pa. .Ave., .Aurora, 111.

Whitfield, Geo

IL'^ S. 7th Ave.. Maywood. Ill,

Wingert. .J. J Cra wfordsville, Ind.

Wooldridjjre, G. R...2021 S. 7th, Chicago, 111.

Willmette I'oultr.\ Farm Glenview, 111.

Wilson, Ralph BlootTiville, O.

AVaddle, John L Decatur. Ill

Wenzel, Chas. ^r Ed

223.") Southport Ave.. Chicago, ill.

Wildig, John L R. R. 1. Irvlngton, Ind.

White Leghf)rn Poultry Farm . . . . I'ekin, 111.

Wiebke, W. X Fort Wayne, Ind.

Welkos, Irving' AA' Elkhoin. AVis.

Wright, O. C Chicago Junction, Ohio

Wenk, B Washington, III.

Watson. E. J Gold Bar, AVash.

Wales, R. AV Iowa City, la.

Walker, (J, A Polo, 111.

AVebster. C. T Girard, Pa.

Waite, G. L Hoiicon, AVis.

Weed. Harold T Wakeman. Ohio

AVellengard. .Tohn .\ Berlin, AVis.

Wasoir, James S

■■!<• Geiieseo St.. iJraiid Rapids, Mich.

Westphal. Adolph

7!t Lake St.. Oak Park, 111.

Wilhelm. Dr. S. .\ Clarion, Pa.

Westview Farm ('olumbia City, Ind.

A'ant. .I(din W Cantoii. Ohio

A'oder. Albert Munhall, I'a.

Zier. Albert R Watertown, AAMs.

Ziller. Fred Ro.\- Meridian, Miss.

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('overt's B. Rock Farm: 3, ck ; 3, pen. Cut-
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Wales: 1,
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pen. Sypert: 3, ck; 5, hen; 5, ckl; 4, pen.
Noftzer: 1, 2, 5, ck; 1. 2. 3. hen; 2. 4. ckl;
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SILVKR WYAXnOTTKS.

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1, 2, 3, 4, pul; 5, pen. Northwestern Poul-
try Yds.: 1, ck; 3, ckl. Hazlett : 5, ck; 3,

pen. Dojan: 2, ck. Henninj?: fj, ckl. Drake:

2, 4. ckl.

<iOLI)KN WYANDOTTKS.

Hi.slop: 4, r», ck; 3, pul. J'ool: 2. 3, ck ;
.3, hen; 4, ckl; 1, 2, pul. Dillon: 1, ck.
Weed: 5, hen. M(!Dan.nell: 2, iien; 3. 5, ckl;
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pul; Ti, pen. Only Farm: 2, pen; 3, 4, ckl.
tSlannon: 3, pul.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

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5, ckl. Trod i»C: Son: 1, pul.

partkii)c;e wyandottes.

Sheffield Farm: 2. 4, :,. ck; 1. i. 3. 4,
hen; 1, 3, 4, '>, ckl; 1, .">. pul; 1. 2. pen.
Miller: .'>. hen. Erfurth: 3. ck ; 2. ckl; a
pen. Gulvei-; 1, ck; 4, pul. Bloese: 2, 3,
pul.

SILVER PENCILEH WY.YNDOTTES.

Wa.son : 1 ckl; 1. ]jul.

C OL U M B I \ N W Y A N I >0 TTES .

Jordan: 2. ck; 2, hen; 1, ckl; 2, pul; "),
pen. Styers: 5, ck ; 4. hen. Miller: 3, ck ;

3, pul; 2, pen. Keating: 1. 4. ck; ."», hen;
3, o, ckl; 1, pul; 4, pen. Dillon: 3, hen.
Wilhelm: 1. hen. Guess: 4, ckl. Benson:
"2, ckl; 1 pen. Riggs: 5, pul. Success I*oul.
Y'ds. : 4, pul.

BLACK JAVAS.
Link: 1, 2, ckl.

SINCiLE (<).>IB RHODE ISL.YM) KEDS.

Etzensperger : 1, ck. ("rowther: 2. 4, 5,
■ck; 1, 4, hen; 1, ckl; 1, T), pul; 1. 2. \wx\.
Hazlett: 3, ck. Roundtree: 5, hen. lioss «fe
Ross: 2. hen. Crowthei-; 1, 4, hen; 1, 2,
pen; 1, ckl; 1, 5, pul; 1, 2, pen. Campbell:
-3, hen, Budde & Co.: 2. ckl. Mingea: 3,
ckl. Buell: 4. ckl. Harrison: f). ckl. Malt-
bie & Shelly: 2. 4, pullet. F. L, Poul. Farm:
3, pul.

ROSE (<)>IB Rlli)nE LSL.\M> REDS.

Ktzenspei^er : 4, ck ; Sibley: G, ck ; 1, 3. .">,
hen; 1. ckl; .'., pul. Maltbie ^: Shelly: 1. 2.
ck ; 4. hen: 3, ckl; 1, pul. Coultei-; 3. ck;

POULTRY FANCIER-

4, 5, ckl. Steward: 2, hen. Rowbotham:

2. ckl; 3, pul. Tompkins: 2, 4, pul.

BUFF COCHINS.

Dietz: 3. ck ; 4, hen; 1, pul. Schaad: 2.
ck ; 1, hen; Kott : 1, ck; 2, 3, hen.

PARTRIDGE COCHINS.

Rothgel) Bros.: 1, hen; 1, pul.

LKiHT BKAH.M.AS.

Cornwell: 1, 2. 3, ck; 1, 2, 3, 5, hen; 1, 2,
4. ckl; 1. 2, 3, 5, pul; 1, pen. Evans: 4, 5,
ck ; 4, hen; 3. r>, ckl; 4 pul; 3, ij, pen.

BLACK LANGSHANS.

Monilaw: 4. ck ; 2, 4, hen; 2, ckl; 2, 3,
pul; 3, pen. Barker: 3, ck; 3, hen; 4, ckl;
4, pul. Hewes: 1, 2, ck; 1, 3, 5, ckl; 1. pen.
Blackburn: 1, hen; 2, pen. Bishop: 1, 5,
pul.

SINGLE COMB AVHITE LEGHORNS.

Easling: 1, 3, ck; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, lien; 1, 2,

3. 4. ckl; 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, pul; 1, pen. Gerber:
2. 1. ck. Ferris: 3, pen; Hubei- Bros.: 5 pen.

ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS.

Rocky River Poul. Co.: 3, ck; 4, 5. hens;

1. 2, 5, ckl; 1, 2. 4, pul; 1, pen. Beach:

2. ."», ck; 1, 2, hen. Turtle Point Farm:
1. 4, ck; 3. f). pul. Brogden: 3, hen; 4
ckl. Jurgenson: 3, ckl.

SINCiLE COMB BROWN LE(; HORNS.

Wiebke: 1, ck; 1, ckl. Damhorst: 2. ck;

4. hen. J^ovell, 4, ck. Welkor: f), ck. Bels-
lev: 3. ck ; 2. Jien ; 3, ckl; 3. pul; 2, pen.
RickhofC: 1, 2, 5. hen; 1, 2. 5, pul; 1. 3, 4,
pen. Y"oder: 5, ckl. Freedom Poultry Yds.:
4. ckl. I.,ivingston : 3, clil. Tpland Poultry
Yds.: 4. pul.

ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS.

iieed: 2. ck; 3. T). hen; 1, 2. 3. ckl; 1, 5,
pul; 2, pen. ConoUy: 1, ck ; 2. pul; 1. pen.
p'reedom Poultry Y'ds. : 1, hen; 4. ckl; 3. pul.
Gala Poul. Plant: 5, ckl; 1, pul.

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.

Tecktonius: 1. 2. 4. ck; 1, 2, 3, hen; 2, 3,
ckl; 1, 2. 3, pul; 1. 2. pen. Dunbar: 3. ck ;
.">. ckl. Ewald: 5 ck ; ;">. pul; 3. pen. Kremer:
4. ckl. Roberts: 1, ckl; 4, pul.

ROSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.

Tecktonius: 1, ck; 1, 2. hen; 1, 2. ckl; 1, 4,
pul; 1, pen. Kakuska: 2, ck ; 3. hen; 5, ckl;
f). pul. Counter: 3 ckl; 3, 4, pul. Wilmette
F'oul. Farm: 4. ckl.

WHITE IWCED BLA( K SPANISH.

Mai-mon: 1, ckl; 1, 2, pul.

SILVER DUCK WIN(i LEGHORNS.

Tazewell Poul. Yds.: 1, ckl; 1. hen; 1, pul.

.>IOTTLED ANCONAS.

Binder: 2, hen; 1, pul. Rodgers: 1, hen.
Smiley: 4, ckl; 5, pul. Lawson: 3. ckl; 2, 3,
l)ul. Tierney: 2, ckl. Huel : 5, ckl: 4 pub

sin(;le comb black minorcas.

Helldorfer: 1, 4, 5. ck; 2. hen; 1. ckl;
1. 4. pul; 1, pen.. Renner: 2. ck ; 3, hen.
Didricksen: 5, hen; 2. 3, 5, ckl; 3, 5. pul;
4, ."), pen. Pape: 3, ck; 1. hen; 4, ckl; 2^
pul; 2, pen. Hartman: 4, hen. ITelman:
:!. i)en.

ROSE COMB BL.YCK MINORCAS.

Samuels: 1, 5, ck; 1, 3. hen; 3. 4, ckl;
1, 3. r>. pul; 1, 2. pen. Glynn: 2. 4. ck.
Wright: 3, ck; 2. pul. Keistei-: 2. hen;

Partridge Plymouth Rocks

THE WOLVERINE BRED TO LAY STRAIN

J. A. HAGEMAN, - - CHARLOTTE, MICH.

President Partridse Plymouth Rock Club

Porter White WYANDOTTE YARDS stSiHi

you give us a trial so that we can convince you that there are none better in Standard shape and
beauty and as egg producer.s? We have both combined in our birds We will be pleased to
send you our mating list. COCKERELS FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES.

CHAS. DAVIN & SON

PORTER, MINN.

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5th Cockerel. Chicago Dec 08

Rankin's Barred Rocks

"BEST IN THE WEST"

AND

ADVANCING IN QUALITY EACH SEASON

Bred from Chicago winners. Pens headed by win-
ning males and specially mated to classy females for
type, surface color, under color, yellow beaks and
legs and head points. Which point do you lack?
Winnings Chicago, Dec, 1908, 5th cockerel. Blue
Island, III., 1909, 2d and 4th hens, 3d cockerel; 1910.
1st and 3d cockerels, 1st hen. Eggs, both matings,
$2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.

Ode L. Rankin. Maywood. 111.

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1, f). ckl. IJnn & Son: 4. hen, Nichols:

2. ckl. Witt. 4 pul.

SIN<iLK CO.MB WHITE MINORCAS.

Huber: 2, ckl; 1. :5, pul. Huiibert: 1 ckl;
2, pul; 1, pen.

ROSE rO.MB WHITE MINORCAS.

Wenk: 1. 2. <k : 2, hen; 5, ckl; 5, pul.
Hurlbert: 3, ck ; 1. hen; 1, 2, ckl; 1, 4, pul;

1. pen. Brogden: 3, hen; 3, 4, ckl; 2, 3,

^" SICII.LIAN BUTTERCUPS.

Peterson: 1 ckl; 1. 2, pul.

BLUE ANDAI.USIANS.

Wilmette Poulti-y Farm: 1, ck; 1, hen.
SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Williams: 3, ck; 5, hen; 2. ckl; 2, pul; 1,
pen. Seaman Farm: 2, ck; 2, 3, hen; 3,
ckl; 1, 3. pul; 3, 5. pen. Martz: 1, ck; 1.
hen; 4. ckl; 5. pul; 2. 4. pen. Sunlight
Poultry Yds.: 4, ck. Seneca Poul. Yds.: 5.
ck. Hoffman: 4, hen; 5, ckl. Bell: 1, ckl.
Eldridge: 4, pul.

SINfJUE COMB WTIITE ORPINGTONS.

.Jackson: 2, 3, 4, ck; 1. hen; 1, 5, ckl;

2, 3. 5, pul; 2, 3, pen. Goodes & Palmer:
1. ck; 2, hen; 1, pen. Blencoe: 5, ck; 3,
hen; 2. ckl; 1, pul. Hefner: 4, hen; 4, pul;
4, pen. Allendale Farm: 5, hen. Pratt:
:i'. 4. ckls.

ROSE <'OMB WHITE ORPINGTONS.
Williams: 1. hen. Miller: 1, ckl; 1. pul.
SINGLE C OMB BLAC K ORPINGTONS.
Blue Ribbon Poultry Farm: 1, 2, 3. ck;

1. 2, 4. hen; 2. ckl; 2. 4. », pul; 1. 2, pens.
McVicar: 3. hen; 3, 4. ckl; 1. put. Her-
licks: -), hen; 5, ckl; 3. pul. Blencoe: 1 ckl.

DARK CORNISH.
Hazlett: 1, ck; 1. 2. hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul;

2. pen. Munn: 2, ck; 3, hen; 3, ckl; 2, pul.
I.anjus: 2. ckl; 3, pul.

HOUDANS.
Blue Bell Farm: 1. 2, 3, ck ; 1. 2, 4, hen:
4 pul. Beadle: 3. hen; 1. ckl. Butterman:
2. 3. 4. ckl. Gordan: 5. ckl; 1, 2, 3, 5, pul.

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURGS.

Wohlvemuth: 3. ck. Sly: 1, ck; 3, hen;
2. ckl; 2, pul. Tetters: 2, ck ; 1, hen; 1.
pul. Van Reener: 2, hen.; 1 ckl.

ROSE CO>IB BUFF ORPINGTONS.
("andlei- (SL- Son; 1, ck ; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1,
pul.

WHITE (RESTED BLACK POLISH.
Swen.^on: 1, ck; 2. hen; 5, ckl; 2, 5, pul.
Snook: 4. ck; 4, hen; 2, 3, ckl; 3. 4, pul.
Kaku.ska: 2, 3. ck ; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 1. pul.
I'her: 3, o, hen; 4. ckl.

BEARDED WHITE POLISH.
Kaku.ska: 1. ck : 1. hen.

PLAIN AVHITE POLISH.

Kakuska: 1. ck : 1. hen: 1. ckl; 1. 2. pul..

SILVER BE.XKDEl) POLISH.

Kakuska: 1. i-k ; 1. hen.

<iOLI)EN BEAKDED POLISH.
Roy &• Barclay: 1. pul.

BUFF (0{ HIN BANTAMS.
Cook: 2. ck; 1. 2, hen; 1. 2, pul. Mc-
Kinney. 1 ck.

BL.\( K (OCHIN BANT.VMS.
Bowers: 1, <'k; 4, hen. Randall: '>, hen;
1. ckl. McKinney: 1. 2. 3, hen; 1, 2, pul.
P.\RTKID(iE COCHIN BANTA3IS.
Prideaux, 1. 2. ck ; 1. 2. ?,. 4. hen; 1. 2.
ckl; 1. 2. 3, 4. pul.

LKJHT BR.AHMA B.VNTA.MS.
Close: 1, tk: 1. ckl: 1. pul.

ROSE <<)MB WHPrE B.\NTAMS.
Phillit: 1. 2. ck; 1. 2, hen; 1, ckl; 1. 2.
pul.

ROSE COMB BLACK B.\NT.\MS.
Barcla\-; 1. hen.

BLACK BRK.XSTEI) KEI> <;AME BAN-
TAMS.

Cro.ss: 2, 3, ck ; 2, 3, hen. Barker: 1. ck;
1, hen; 1. pul.

GOLDEN SEABRICillT B.\NT.\MS.

Wenzel. 1, ck: 1. hen; 1. pul.

RED I»YLE (iAMES.

Bennett: 1, ck : 1. hen.

BRONZE TURKEYS.

RothRcb Bros.: 2. ck ; 3. hen; 1. ckl; 2,
pul. Pullins Bros.: 3, 4. ck; 1. 2. hen: 3, 5,
ckl; 3, 4, pul. Pickett: 1, ck ; 4, hen; 2. ckl;
1. i)ul. .Jackson: .".. hen.

WHITE HOLLAND TIRKEYS.
Shepanl: 1. ck ; 1. hen. Pickett: 4, ck ;
T). hen; 2, ckl. Allen: 2, 3, hen; 1, ckl;
1, 2, 3. 4, pul.

TOULOUSE GEESE.
Kline: 2. ckl; 2. hen; 1. ckl. Older: 1,
ck ; 1. hen.

E.MBDEN <;EESE.
Waddell: 1. ck : 1, hen.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
Ilarslebarger: 3. ck ; 3. hen. Wingert:
1 2. ck; 1. 2, 4, .'.. hen; 1, 3. 4. ckl; 2. 4. 5,
pul. Nichols: 5. ck. Wilson & Son: 4. ck.
Galleher: 2. '>. ckl; 1. pul. Ziller: 3, pul.
PEKIN DUCKS.
Riveiview Poul. Yds.: 3, 4, ck; 1. 3. hen;
3 4, ckl; 2. 4, pul. Church: 1. ck; 2, hen.;
1 ckl: 3. pul. Galleher. 2. ckl; 1. pul.
BLUE SWEDISH DUCKS.
Brown: 2, ck ; 4, hen. Dunmire: 1. ckl;
1. pul.

ROUEN 1>UCKS.

Schehl: 1. ck; 1. hen; 1, ckl; 1, pul. Wil-
son: 2, ckl; 2, pul.
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as^zissEsszsEs:

December, '10

Awards at Kansas City, Nov. 29-Dec. 2

Anders, Jas. W Liberal, Kan.

Andrews, Edgar L Ithaca, N. Y.

Avery, Chas. F Columbia City, Ind.

Austinson, Theo Lyle, Minn.

Andrews, M. L Bryant, Mo.

Arbogast, Omer L Farmer City, 111.

Afdem, M. P Blooming Prairie, Minn.

Anderson, Daniel, & Son Lamoni, Iowa

Allendale Farms Quincy, 111.

Alford, Mrs. R. Lee Vandalia,' Mo-

Ackerman, Ed

4258 E. 62d St., Kansas' City,' Mo.

Adair, Dr. H. B .

....1007 Norton Ave, Kansas City, Mo,

Alger, Fred Waukau, Wis.

Adams, D. W Wyconda. Mo.

Anderson, Edw. C..1446 Erie St.. Toledo, O

Ash. P. F Centerville, la.

Anderson, S. J

.^ 1206 Locust St., Muskogee, Okla.

Bulger, Wm. C El Paso, Tex.

Bishop, R. W Guilford, Conn.

Geo. L

Chas. A

Mr. and Mrs.

Dr. F

Tracv
R. . .'.

G.
Ave

Bargdoll, E

Bayles, F. C.

Beatty,

Bleven,

Baker,

Burger,

1328

Browers, Wm.
Braaten, M. O,
Beuoy, Geo. . .
Bloese, Aug. . .
Boomer, T. P. . .

308 New

Bloyd, Ed

Spruce & Grand Ave

Bliss, D. J

Blaker, A. E

Braunsdorf, A.
Boten. Oscar. .
Bleakley, J. .J.
Brasfleld, .7. E
Baker, C. R. . .
Bledsoe. Mis.
Barker. M. S.
Brockschmidt,
Baughman, J.

Jefferson
Jersey

C.

Chas. C,

.. .Chillicothe, Mo.
. . .Chillicothe, Mo.
.Farmer City, 111.
. . '. .Syracuse. Kan.
H. .Fruitland, Mo.

, Kansas City. Mo.
. . . .Baltimore, Md.
. .Whitewater, Wis.
. . .Cedarvale. Kan.
Park, Chicago, 111.

Ave., Holton, Kan.

Leavenworth, Kan.

Carthage, Mo.

Pai-sons, Kan.

Parsons. Kan.

Lee's Summit. Mo.

Al)ilene, Kan.

.Garden City, Mo.

Abilene. Kan.

. . . . Thompson, Mo.
. . . Thorntown. Ind.

Freistatt, Mo.

Topeka, Kan.

• Ralston, Okla.

Henry . . .

C

Barmettler. Mrs. ,T. B..

Brogden. Thos Rush Lake Wis

Brown, Pratt El Dorado Springs Mo

Briner. W. H

1 r)2S Lawn Ave.,

Birchaid, M. E

Beckwith. G. S. .324 Forest

Byler. Elmer. .
Brehm, C. W.
Bailey. .]. A. .
Benson, F. E. .

.j04;

738 14th

Kansas City. Mo.

Ilazleton. la.

Ave.. Dallas, Tex.
Orinogo. Mo.

. . .Harvaid, Xeli.

St.. Denver, Col.

E.

Kansas Citv

Mo.
Mo.

Kan.

Ind.
Mo.
Mo.
Mo.

la.

"th St.,

Blakemore. Virgil Favette

Butler, A. M '.....'

1561 Palisade St., Wichita

Buschmann, C. L

493.". .v. Meridian St.. Indianapolis,
lirown. .la.s.R. F. D. No. .",, Kansas City

Biltz. Mrs. H. C Bunceton.'

Brown, Jac-ob Ti-acv.

Browniigg. Henry

„ 934 S. 8th St.. Armourdaie.' Kan.

Boldt, Chas Watertowii. 111.

Bruce, Cora 1j

2054 Quindara Blvd.. Kansas citv Kan

Barrie, Robt Bethel. Kan.

Behrens. (Mias Jackson Mo.

Bond, Dr. Thos. P '.

212 Flynn Blvd.. Des Moines

Binger, G. H

10th and Frazier, Topeka. Kan.

Billman, Dr. G. G

309 1/2 W. 2d St.. EvansviileV Ind.

Bray. F. M Chillicothe. Mo.

Binkley. W. S Clay Center. Kan.

Brown, Emmett Ch-burne Tex

Binger, G. H Topoka. ' Kan.

Binger. G. H Orp. Yd.s.. Topeka. Kan.

Bocksthler, Rev. W. J. G

1116 W. 2d St.. EvansViile.'

Brackenbury, nias Lamoni,

Bedford, H. M StronKsvilb

Brady. M. S Richards,

Blue Ridge Poultry Farm

.617 Commeice Bldg.. Kansas Citv
Binger, Edw '.

...loth and Frazier St., T'ipeka,
Books. V. O

...624 Woodland Ave., Kansas City

Brackey, Jack Chillicothe

Bird, M. D (iianburv.

Bayles. Mrs. F. C < 'hillicothe

I^runner, Henry L Ncwto?!,

liiown, G. D. & G. G Mt. Gilead, <)

Boltz, Geo Chillicothe, Mo

Bush, J. A

....Woodland Plain, Leavenworth. Kan
Bridgeman & Seeman. . . .

Ind.

la.

'. O.

, Mo,

. Mo.

K a !i .

. Mo.

Mo.
Tex.

Mo.
Kat).

T.

Brunson, C.
Connor. S. C. . .
Crenshaw, Wm.
Callahan, L. O. .
(^ulnan. .Tohn H,
Casper, Carl B..

Cook. W. B. M Montgomery City. Mo.

Crawford, Mrs. J. li Wintcrset la.

Carter, G. H West J'lains,'Mo.

Charle.«*, Mrs. A. K Lancaster, Kan.

R. F. D.

& Co,

. . . . Oregon. Mo
1, I'aisons. Kan
. . La Mont«

Fulton

. . . Abilene,
. Maiinette,
.lielton,

. Mo.

Mo.

Kan.

Wis.

Mo.

Church, Elva Butler, Mo.

Cate, Chas Chattanooga, Tenn.

Covvles, Eugene Shelbyville, Ky.

Crowther, Harry Huntsville, Mo.

Cannon, Otto B Elsberry, Mo.

Cole, E. O

...1123 W. Calhoun St., Chillicothe, Mo.

Crank, L. W Elsberry, Mo.

Chalupa, Frank Pleasant Plain, la.

Cunningham, H Belton, Mo.

Campbell, W. J Jesup, la.

Chandler, A. R., & Son Sylvania, O.

Cure, R. M Worth, 111.

Campbell, Jas

..S. 4425 Raphael Ave., Rosedale. Kan.

Cramer. G. D Eagleville. Mo.

Clapp, Arthur S., & Co Unionville, Mo.

Cartwright. E. E Richmond, Ind.

Craig, B. E Davis City, la.

Counter, Dr. J. A Sylvania, O.

Conyers, Harry

....702 W. Kansas St., Pitt.sburg, Kan.

Chase, W. O Hillsboro, 111.

Cooper, S, W Westmoreland, Kan.

Clark, G. A Seymour, Ind.

Clark, Dr. H. P Indianapolis, Ind.

Clark, Scott A Sullivan. O.

Curnutt, Mrs. Alice Montsenat, Mo.

Chestnut. H. W Centralia. Kan.

Crosby, Fred

....3251 Gillhani Rd., Kansas Citv, Mo.
Chaney, Mrs. Walter L. . . .Warrensburg. Mo.

Gulps, Lewis Pulaski, Tenn.

Clarke, Mrs. C. W

76th and Holmes St., Kansas Citv. Mo.

Duncan, Hattie Dearborn, Mo.

Diehl Bros Fulton. Mo.

Dunmire. Mrs. Grace S Scotland, S. D.

Divinia, S. T St. Joseph, Mo.

Daniels, Mrs. F. A Vandalia, Mo.

Daniels, F. P Carthage, Mo.

Dunianey, W. P Slater, Mo.

Doolittle, W. A Sabetha. Kan.

De Line, Ira M

117 E. 17th St., Olympia, Wash.

Doering & Golterman

6525 Michigan Ave.. St. Louis. Mo.

Heitze, Gust

4416 Cullom Ave., Irving Park, 111.

Downer. Mrs. Louis Guthrie, Kv.

Drury, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. .. .Bolivar. Mo.

Dickinson, J. E Burlington, Kan.

Dunphy, T. N Nevada, Mo.

Dare, Carl Osceola, la.

Dewey, Geo. M Keytesville, Mo.

Day. Dr. C. W Vinita, Okla.

Dewey, Chas. E JefCerson. City, Mo

Doolittle, Don R Sabetha, Kan.

Dewey, C. B Brookfleld, Mo.

Elliott, Thos. B St. Louis, Mo

Erf urth, Wm

..9235 Commercial Ave., So. Chicago, HI.

Ferry, Miss Jennie Elsberry, Mo.

Fry, Jas. S Nazareth, Pa.

Field, D. M. Willis, Tex.

Felton, Mrs. Oscar Blue Mound, Kan.

Fuller Bros Dundee, 111.

Fellwock, Frank Monette, Mo.

Ferrenback, R

2014 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.

Frlesz, A. L Brunswick, Mo.

French, F. C

13th S. and Co. Rd., Salt Lake City, Utah

Felton, Mrs. May Blue Mound, Kan.

Farleigh, Robt., & Sons.... East Bangor, Pa.
Foster, Frank H

48 Columbian Bldg., Topeka, Kan.

Fox, Mrs. C. E., & Sons Moberly, Mo.

Fletcher, Mrs. W, A Smithshire, 111.

Farmer, N. L Platte City, Mo.

Fall, O. A. 1817 Lawn Ave., Kan.<5as City, Mo.
Foster, Mrs. Hattie D.... Lee's Summit, Mo.

Forbes, W. A Station A, Topeka, Kan.

Grimes, E. M Paris, Mo.

Gibson, Jr., Mrs. W. A

952 Ross Ave., Dallas. Tex.

Gay, C. Donald Camp Point, 111.

(Jittings, Paul T Excelsior Springs. Mo.

George, C. E Union City, Mich.

(Jood, Mrs. R. M Chariton, la.

(jinnette «Si; Ginette Florence, Kan.

Gray. E. E Huntington. Neb.

(Jallatin. J. L Amsterdam, Mo,

Gilday, Mrs. I-]. J Independence, Mo

more, B. R

624 Fulton, Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Granger, L. G Sioux Falls, S. D.

Gladish, W. J

Stock Yards, Kansas (^itv. Mo.

Grothe, Wm. V Chillicothe, Mo.

Gasaway, J Hume, Mo.

Gibson, W. A., .Jr

952 Ross Ave., Dallas, TeX.

Giffin, .\. 1) Willow Springs. Mo.

C.utknecht. F. C Hudson. la.

Green, J. Ed Blodgett, Mo.

Guyer, Robt

1325 Heist Bldg., Kansas City, Mo.

Gartenback, .Jno

5453 Arsenal St., St. Louis, Mo.

Gehrman, O. C

2850 Fowler Ave., Omaha. Neb,

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Single Comb Black Orpingtons

BEST WINTER
LAYERS

Youiijii and old stock for sale. Write for prices.
JAS. McGlTAN, - . - BAKAROO, WIS.

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BUFF ROCKS

Do you want a show Bird, Trio,
or breeding Pen. if so, let me quote

you prices.

teed, or money refunded. i>tock grown on free range.
A. S. MATTHEWS.

Satisfaction guaran-

WAYNE, MICH.

HERSTEN'S Columbian Wyandottes and

'-'^S"* *5l'arilTia.S can always be found among the winners.

GEO. A. KERSTEN
110 West 52 St. rWasHburn ParR) Minneapolis* Minn.

Stock for sale that will win in the show
room and fill the egg hasket. Our birds
are h\^. White, heauties, strong in good

WHITE ROCKS

WHITE WYANObttES '"'"'''■ ''^''""'"''""

iiiiii mil i— III ,„ „„,

BERWYH POULTRY YAROS,

choicest matings at
- liveng prices.

BOX P., BERWYN, III,

- ■ ' — . WIIITK

A limited number of hi^h ^rade breeding and exhibition males and females

in all varieties to spare.

K. M. LONCi,

H«x P. F.

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Gammon.s, Mr.s. Frank A

• Belle-Fourche, S. D.

'^•, Maryville, Mo.

Mejvin Stanberry,

Gross, Jno.
Gregg, Mrs
Gills, Mrs. W

Mo.

Tex.
Mo.

R

• 5t)l Browder St., Dallas,

Gossow Dr. A. A St. Charles.

Hayes, H. C Eureka, 111.

Huey. Templeton Victor Co.. Rome City, Ind

Hershman, Wm Medaryville, Ind.

Hopkins, W. I North Crystal Lake, 111.

Hall, 1. H Des Moine.s, la.

Heathman, H Rinehart, Mo.

Hanly, J H Monticello, Mo.

Hams. T. C Windsor. Mo.

Hess, Wm. A Humboldt. Kan.

Holloway F. H Lytton, la.

Henry, Mrs. Ed. I.

..3341 Montgall Ave., Kansas City.

Hansen, D. H Lamoni,

Highland Poultry Farm Nevada

Howell, Lester Monett'

Helmuth, Mr. and Mrs. J. D . '.

,^ • • • • Garden City,

Hart, W. D Ashland,

Hanson'.s Poultry Farm Dean,

Mo.

la.

Mo.

Mo.

Huber, Wm

Hudson. Claude 0.924 E. 6th

Heidemann, Henry A

Haass, Henry A

. . 7.^th and Broadway
Holloway, Mrs. A. Z . .

82 N. Henderson

Hermann, Fred W

3 305 Cedar

Hansen, Mrs. F. T

126 Cypress,

Hornbrook, Geo. L

Holmes. Walter E

Haskins. A.. & Son

Mo.
Mo.

la.

111!

Hinsdale.
St., York, Neb.
. .Brighton. 111.

Kansas City, Mo.
St., Galesburg, 111.
St., Muscatine. la.

Hariis,
Haller.

L.
C.

L.

S.

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2812 Pappleton

Hines. <^has. E

Harrison, Fred E

Hammett. Mrs. J.
Hunting, Mi's. C. S
Hamilton, Mis. W.

Haag, Elmer F

Heck, J. P

Hillbeig, Henry ....
Haggin. Louis T.,ee .

Hakes, Webster

Hosmer, A. C

.... 1 OOb Norton

Huggett Bros

Huggett. H. S

Harlow <t Phillips. . . ,

6442 P:. 15th

Huhn, Roy J

311 .Jefferson

Hitcli. Mr.s. W. E. . . .

Huey, H. A

Havens, S. A

Hughes. Geo

Kansas City, Mo.

Decatur, 111.

. . .Oshkosh, Wis.
.Jesup, la.

Ave

College View, Neb.

Ave., Omaha, Neb.

...Des Moines, la.

. Menominef, Mich.
. . . .Huntsville, Mo.

. Independence, Mo.
. . . .Clarksdale, Mo.

Norwood Park, 111.

PittsHeid. 111.

. . . . Watt'itown, 111.
. . . . Lexington, Ky.

('hariton. la.

. Kansas City, Mo.

Fulton, Mo.

Fulton, Mo.

St., Kansas Citv. Mo.

St.

Kansas City,
. . .Vandalia,

Rome Citv,

Shelby villi',

A Armourdaie,

Mo.

Mo.

ind.

Ind.

Kan.

I'rich, Mo.

Farm Atlanta, III.

H. B . . .

Poultry

V. W..
425 E. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.

Mrs. W. W Sh.-lbyvill(\ Mo.

J. H Hudson. Mass.

'. Rev. J. M Grantfork, 111.

A Independence, Mo.

J. W Brooktield, Mo.

W.

F.

Ingham.
Imperial
lv«'rson.,

Johnson

.Jackson

Jaschkt'

.fensen,

.Jones,

.larvis.

.lohnson. Thf'o.

.lui-doii, .John .1 Chiilicothf

.loiinsoii, T. S Lee's Summit

Jarvis, Mrs. Nannie Rosedale.

.Forner, J. B Cleburne.

Jarrett. A. J Mangum.

Kendall, W. R

121.'i N. Noland St., Independence

Kicmer. F Manchester,

Korsmeyer, Mrs. E. H. . . . Independenit
Kammerer & Anderson

..2504 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas Citv, Mo.

Krueger, H. F High Hill, Mo.

Kauble. X. W Oswego, Kan.

Krieghauser. F. .1

1804 State St., Quincy, 111.

. . liosedale, Kan.

Oregon, 111.

Mo.

Mo.

Kan.

Tex.

Okla.

, Mo.

Okla.

', Mo.

Kubisch

C

St., Leavenworth, Kan.
6th St., Abilene, Kan.
Av."

15th and Ottawa
Kauffmann, J. A....

I!t2 E.

Kieitler, C. R

....3229 Windsor Avf., Kansas City. Mo.

K«'arse, John Coatsvilh-. Mo.

Kerl, H I..enexa, Kan.

Knight, J. R.. Jr Montgomerv Citv. Mo.

Liiifield Poultry Farm Llnfleld, Pa.

Long. R. W.. Poultry Farm Clint, Tex.

T.<vnch, Jno. W

233 N. Main St., Edwardsvillc, 111.

liOomis, C. I' Louisvilb', Ky.

Lawson, Chas. C Keokuk. la.

Lak('si(l(! Poultry Farm . . . . Tcxarkana, Tex.

Lewis & Pratt Mobcily, Mo.

Lawry, R. C Pacitic. Mo.

Lynes, T. W Kulton. Mo.

Leitner, Chris II Elgin, 111.

Lance, S. I) Troy, O.

T.iami)ei-t. A. B Piinkman. Okla.

Lunci'Tord. Mrs. Sadie L. . . . Mai)ltti)n, Kan.

Lip*'. \V. I). . .
Morton's, .Jas.,
Majors. V. P.
McCarroli. E. C
Munroe. \V. R.
Moore, L. R. . . .
Meyer, W
Mclnt vre.
Mid West
Marshall,

Litchticld, ill.

Sons Hickman Mills, Mo.

Peru, Neb.

.Vandalia, Mo.

Florence. Kan.

. . Nevada, Mo.

A Bowling Green, Mo.

Mrs. F. W Red Oak. la.

Poultry Yds. ... Independence, Mo.
Mrs. T. N La <'ygne, Kan.

DEC. AND JAN. SHOW DATES

Gadsden, Dec. 10-14. J. C. Gieen, Secy., Marshall, Judge.

T-. .. ,.1 . , ^ Arkansas.

Fort Smith. Dec. 6. A. H. Rerg, Secy.; Van Winkle. Judge.

Pine Bluff. Dec. 13-17. E. W. Phillips, Secy., Savage and Brown, Judges.

California.
Los Angeles, Jan. 5-11. A. II. Memmler, Secv
San Diego, Jan. 4-7. A. Eldridge, Secy., 764 Newton Ave.

^ , , „ . Colorado.

Colorado Springs, Dec. 12-17. H. H. Chase, Secy., 1442 Corona St.; Heimlich, Judge.

Delta, Jan. 2-7. Geo. C. Crabill, Secv.

Fort Collins. Dec. 12-16. O. E. Collins, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Fort Morgan, Colo., R. J. Nothwehr, Secy.; Hewes, Judge.

Grand Jimction, Dec. 21-Z\. F. J. Hendershot, Secv., R. F. D. No. 3, Burgess, Judge.

Greeley, Dec. 16-18. W. C. Loney, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

Pueblo, Dec. 19-24. F. C. Kay, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.

„ .^ _ Connecticut.

Bridgeport, Dec. 20-22. Geo. Seltsam, Secy, Sylvan Ave., R. 4.
Guilford, Dec. 8-10. Paul P. Ives, Secy.

Middletown, Dec. 13-16. Charles L. Fisk. Secy.; Bunnell, Shove and Coolidge, Judges.
Waterford, Dec. 22-29. Hayward E. Beebe, Secv.

Winsted, Jan. 17-20. L. P. Capwell, Secy., 72 Hindale Ave.; Corey and Welles^
Judges.

. , Georgia.

Atlanta, Jan. 9-15. C. O. Harwell, Secy., 112 N. Pryor St.; Emry and Marshall^
Judges.

Idaho.
Boise, Dec. 26-31. Meldo Hillis, Secy.; Purvis, Judge.
Twin Falls. Dec. 26-31. O. W. Dougherty. Secy.; Dixon, Judge.

A, . ^ Illinois.

Aleda, Dec. 19-23. Willard Ruse, Secy.; Warnock, Judge.

Aurora, Jan. 10-14. Herman Moser, Secy.; Rountree, Judge.

Bloomington, Jan. 18-23. Frank Peitsch, Secy.; Pierce, Judge

Blue Island, Jan. 18-21. A. W. Doermann, Secy,; Heck and Jansen, Judges.

Bradford, Dec. 19-23. B. D. Phenix, Secy.; Heimlich, Judge.

Casey, Jan. 23-28. J. J. E^der, Secy,; Keeler, Judge

Charleston Dec. 19-24. C. T.. Carney. Secy.: Klein, Judge.

Champaign, .Tan. 23-28. M. J. Fluck, Secy., McCord, Judge.

Chicago, Dec. 8-14. Theo. Hewes. Secy., Indianapolis, Ind. Burgott, Butterfield^

Faulkner. Kummer, Keeler, McCord, Pierce, Russell, and Tucker, Judges.
Decatur, Jan. 9-13. Wilbur G. Watt Secy.; Klem and Johnston Judges.
DeKalb. Jan. 17-21. Wm. W. Hyde. Secy.. Shellabarser. Jud^e.
Dixon. Jan. 16-21. A. G. Hill, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Downers Grove, Jan. 13-14. A. B. Snow, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Rlgin. Jan. 9-14. M. K. :\Jeredith, Secv

Fairfield, Dec. 12-15. J. H. Robey, Secy.; T. M. Campbell, Judge.
Galesburg, Jan. 16-21. F. W. Bohl, Secv.; Pierce, Judge
Geneseo, Dec. 26-:U. Phineas Morrow, Secv., Ott, Judge
Havana, Dec. 26-31. Ben L. McFadden, Secy.; Heimlich, Judge.
Hutsonville, Dec. 20-23.— J. S. Walker, Secy., Palestine, 111.; Shaw. Judge.
Johet, Dec. 5-10. Alta Martens, Secy, Minooka, 111.; Northrup, Judge
Kankakee, Jan. 9-14. E. P. Vining, Secy.; McClave, Judge
Lincoln, Dec. 12-15. Wm. Corwine, Secy.; McCord, Judge.
Aiendota, Jan. 17-21. Edward Brown, Secy., McCord, Judge.
Millensville, Jan. 18-24. J. A. Bickerdike, Secv.
Mill Shoals, Dec. 7-10. H. L. Files, Secy.. Campbell. Judge.
Monmouth, Jan. 9-14. S. L. Hamilton, Secy.; G. D. McClaskey, Judge.
Murphysboro, Dec. 20-23. O. L. Rawlings, Secv.
Newton, Dec. 26-29. Floyd Clark, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Oregon, Dec. 21-26. F. C. Potter, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.
Paris. Jan. 2-6. C. F. Shirley, Secy.- T. M. Campbell, Judge.
Peotone, Jan. 23-26. A. C. Ginter, Secy.; Penny, Judge.
Petersburg, Dec. 14-39. R. S. Rule, Secy.; Kleim, Judge.
Polo, Jan. 2-7. Frank Niman, Secy.; Russell, Judge.
Princeton, Dec. 12-16. Walter Asche, Secy.; Rapp, Judge.
Rockford. Jan. 23-28. Chas. S. Gilbert, Secy.; Russell and Heimlich Judges.
Springfield. Jan. 2-7. O. D. McCord, Secy., Danville. 111.
Sullivan, Jan. 9-14. J. L. McPherson, Secy.; Rapp, Judge.
Waukegan, Jan. 6-10. T. B. Gleave, Secy.; T. M. Campbell and Bvers, Judges.
Weldon, Dec. 19-24. Dr. A. V. Foote, Secy., Box 29.; Stanfield. Judge.
Zion City, Dec. 27-31. John D. Thomas, Secy.; Warneck, Judge.

Indiana.
Attica, Jan. 17-20. W. R. Gilmore, Secy.; Zike. Judge.
Columbus, Jan. 9-14. H. K. Volland, Secy.; Corey, Judge.
Crawford.'^ville. Jan. 9-14. J. T. Norris, Secv.. S. G. Case, Judge
Danville. Jan. 23-28. Wilbur Hadley. Secy.; Lane. Judge.
Fort Wayne, Dec. 14-19. W. H. Dedier, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Franklin, Jan. 16-21. Walter B. Farmer, Secy.; Myers Judge.
Galveston, Jan. 8-14. Harry Gray, Secy., R. R. 13.: Pickett, Judge.
Goshen, Jan. 23-28. H. E. Kratz, Secy.; Mulinix and Stange. Judges.
Huntington, Jan, 17-22. Herbert Zahm. Secv.: T. M. Campbell, Judge.
Indianapolis, Feb. 6-10. C. R. Milhous, Secy., Lebanon, Ind.
Kendallville, Jan. 2-6. G. M. Patterson, Secy.; McClave, Judge
La Porte, Jan. 25-28. J. Osburn Brink, Secy.; Keeler. Judge.
Lebanon, Jan. 9-L3. Frank B. Wooley, Secy.; Zike. Judge.

I^gansport. Jan. 17-21. Wm. Grace, Jr., Secy.. 316 Market St.; T. M. Campbell. .Judge-
Michigan City. Jan. 17-22. A. L. Peterson. Secy.. 409 Earl Rd.; McClave. Judge
Monticello. Jan. 30-Feb. 4. Thos. A. Roth, Secv.; Northrup and Hanawait, Judges-
Mt. Vernon, Jan. 31-Feb. 4. John A. Schenck. Secv.; Heimlich, Judge
Muncie, Jan. 23-28. J. Earl Fonts, Asst. Secy.; Heyl and Pickett, Judges.
Princeton, Dec. 26-31. Louis Wirth, Secy ; Mvers. Judge,
liensselaer, .Ian. 4-9. R. I.,. T^renner. Socy.. Pickett. Judge
Richmond, Dec. 6-9. Frank L. Waidele. Secy., W. 7th St.; Lane, Judge.
South Bend. Dec 26-31. T. E. Hans. Secy.

Iowa.
Cedar Rapids. Dec. 26-31. E. D. Monilaw, Secy.; Russell and Shanklin. Judges
Des Moines. Jan. 7-12. K. H. Guthrie. Secy.; Rhodes. Russell and Ellison, Judges.
Donnellson, Dec. 5-8. 11. G. Kirchner. Secv., R. R. 4.: (^oolev, Judge.
Ft. Madison. Jan. 3-6. Albert M. King. Secy.. West Point, la.; Ellison. Judge
Gowrie. Jan. 2-6. 9. R. Anderson, Secv.; Rhodes, Judge.
Iowa Falls, Dec. 12-16. H. S. Dixon. Secy.; Shanklin Judge
Le Grand, Dec. 14-17. L. C. Kntidson, Secv.; Mills. Judge
Manning, Dec. 6-8. W. B. Parrott. Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Maquoketa, Dec. 20-24.— N. J. Rankin. Secy.; Shellabarger Judge.
Muscatine, Dec. 20-25. Fred W. Herman. Secv.; Shaner Judge.
New Hampton. Jan. 23-27. J. C. Mueller, Secv.; Shanklin, Judge.
New London, Jan. 10-13. A. M. Cornwell, Secv.; Shanklin Judge

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Miller, J. W rartluiRo.

Mooro. W. S l>ouisvilh',

McCarthy, C. A

109 Spring St., Kansas Citv.

Maas, Jno., R. p. D. No. 3 Kansas Citv

Mandler. R. r c'oshv

Means. Jr.. T. J Dearborn,

Mather. Dr. W. J T.amoni.

McDavkl, Guy U lr\inK

Marthi, W. G .'

-il^-, State lAm\

Moseley, G. B., & Son. . .

3200 E. 29th St..

Meberg. .Tas

McDonald, Hoy

McReynohls, S. W

McDonell, J. H

Morrison, W. A

Monsees, E. M

Miller. Jacol) AVathena,

McDavid, .Tas. L Hillshoro

Mo.
Ky.

Mo.
Mo.
Mo.
Mo.

la.

111.

Kansas City. Mo.

Kansas City,
. . i{ohinson,
. . . . Daliuut,
. . .( 'artliaKe.
.... Warsaw,
HiK*?insville.
. . . . Beanian,

McClure. Chas

Mertens, .J. C

McGruder, Mi-, and

Mo.
Kan.

Tex.

Mo.

Ky.

Mo.

Mo.
Kan.
. 111.

Tremonton. Utah

St. Charles, Mo.

Mrs. H. L

i^a. Monte,

Ansley.

Thorntown,

Mo.
Neb.
Jn(\.

Moore, Mrs. J. A

Matthews. J.. P

McDonald. T. Wayne

1712 J.awn Ave., Kansas Citv, Mo.

Mayes, J. M

1920 Lister Ave., Kansas Citv, Mo.

McDonald. A. W Elsberrv. Mo.

Mooreheard, G. B I.vnchbeijj;. Tenn.

Mishler. IJoyd C... North Manchestei-, Ind.

Minshall. .J. B Adams, Neb.

Miller, Kiney I I.aiuastei-. Mo.

Meadows, W. H Pattonsburs. Mo.

Martin Poultry Farm Nashville. Tenn.

Morrow, Mrs. T. V PiattsburK.

McCulley, R. F I.ee's Summit.

Muellei-, Alfred E R. 29, Weilstitn

Maas, H 1910 Grand, Kan.sas Citv',

Noftzger, vS. A
Nelson. Mrs. C.
Neal, John M.
Nye, Fred T . . .
Nuen sell wander

Neel, S. M

Owen, C. B. . . .
Owen, P. M. . .
Overbeck, Benj

North Manchestei

Fairfield

Ottervillo,

Leavenworth.

. .(harden City

Mo.
Mo.
Mo.
Mo.
Ind.
la.
Mo.
Kan.
Mo.

Mrs. J

..3S20 Harrison. K. C.. Mo.

...400 Ash. Lawrence, Kan.

Oklahoma City. Okla.

Edwardsville, 111.

Ott & Ott (^hillicothe. Mo.

O'Gara, John Topeka. Kan.

I'eters, John J Lincoln, 111.

I'oor, Mr. and Mrs. John CowKill, Mo.

Pennington, J. S Plainfield. 111.

Power, S. A.. & Son Fairfield, la.

Preston, C. O Garden Citv. Kan.

Porter, Mrs. J. W Holt

John Ave.

. . . Sedalia.

. . Lincoln.
St. L(niis,
.Abilene.

Florence.

. Col um Ilia.
.Topeka.

. Norboriie.

I'atterson, Clvde
Perkins. E. L, . . .
Plegge liros. .4315

Polley, Milton

Palmer, H. M

Quisen berry, Carleton

Quinton. A. B

Rhodes. S. K

Robinsf>n. Ross C DowniUK

Riek, F....r,04 San Jacinto St.. Dallas.'

Rohlfiing, W. L Berger,

Rawson, Miss Alice Big Rock,

Itigrler, Geo. A Benlons))ort

Reynold.s, E. E A'andalia,

Rice, J. T Elslxrry,

Robinson & Kochan Maysville.

Renner & I'shler St. Jo.seph,

Reiffert, Dr. W. F Quincv,

Reeder, C. W Leon,

Roudebush, Ralph Noblesville.

Rankin. E. W, & Son Toj)eka,

Root. Dan E San Antonio.

Reynolds, C. M Fulh-rton.

Richards, Robt Columbia,

Reeder. Geo Muscatin<

Roberts, Mrs. W Auxvasse

Robinson, C. A Kirksvilie.

Ragsdale. Clarence Moberiy.

Robison. W. S Favette.

Ricksecker, T. L Rosedale.

Romig, Mr.s. B. B Woodland,

Rauch, C. A Lamoni

Rich, D. W Mount Pleasant

Reisinger, Herb.. 220 E. 4th St., York.

Rolph. Fred W Ashton

Rogers, F. D

262 Jefferson Ave.. Elgin.

Rickey, Chas. II Clarence,

Root, Clarence J

.550 S. State St., Springfield,

Mo.

Mo.
Neb.

Mo.
Kan.
Kan.

Mo.
Kan.

Mo.

Mo.
Tex.

Mo.
111.
la.

Mo.

Mo.

Mo.

Mo.

III.
la.

Ind.
Kan.
Tex.
Neb.

Mo.
. la.

Mo.

Mo.

Mo.

Mo.
Kan.

Mo.
. la.
. la.
Neb.

ill.

111.
Mo.

Mo.
Mo.
M(t.

la.

O.

la.

la.

Rolley. W. C IMeasant Hill.

Roseinont Farm Webster Gr(»ves.

Smiley, Mi-s. Agnes Braddvville,

Smith, F. S Hamilton,

Statter. G. F Sioux City,

Sunlight poultry Yards Dumont,

Smith. I). H

2300 N. 29th St.. Kansas Citv, Mo.

Simonds. H. A Bothell. Wash.

Schutte, J. E Lebanon, S. D.

Scranton, B. H Rising Sun. Ind.

Sherwood, H. E Wyaconda. Mo.

Simmons Bros Stockton. 111.

Smith A. H Lincoln. .\eb.

Stronach. Wm Argentine. Kan.

Sever*
Swain

75th and

Sheffield Farm
Staples. Mi-s. .1.
Sander. E. C. . .
Schmidt, E«iw.
Steendahl, V. R
Singleton. S. R

2611 N

A. D Dows. la.

C. B

Woodland. Kansas City. Mo.

<;i<'ndale. < ).

A Lii Monte, Mo.

HiggiiisNille. Mo.

F Ottawa, Kan.

Menominee, Wis.

13th St.. Kansas City, M«».

POULTRY FANCIER

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December, *10

Panora, Jan. 1S-2L E. M. Wilson, Secy.; Wilson, Judge.

Richland, Dec. 13-16. J. W. Allen, Secy.; Dagle, Judge.

St. Charles. Dec. 15-17. J. M. Brown, Secy.; Todd, Judge.

Wapello, Dec. 14-17. H. B. Kelly, Secy.

Waterloo, Jan. 9-14. C. F. Schenek, Becy. ; Russell and Hale, Judges.

Winfield, Dec. 6-9. Chas. Jaggard, Secy.; Dagle, Judge.

Kansas.
Garden City, Dec. 14-17. M. R. Easley, Secy.; Stoner. Judge.
Independence, Dec. 12-17. D. R. Kinkead, Secy.

Leavenworth, Jan. 17-20. Fred T. Nye, Secy.; Branch and Palmer, Judges.
MuUinville, Dec. 29-31. C. F. Voss, Secy.; Atherton, Judge.
Parsons, Dec. 26-31. A. E. Blaker, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Pittsburg, Dec. 12-17. P. J. Akins, Secy.; Branch. Judge.
Salina, Dec. 26-31. Sam K. Hoover, Secy., Clipp, .Judge.
Topeka, Jan. 2-7. E. W. Rankin, Secy.; Tompkins, Smith, Rhodes, Branch, Byers.

Roberts, and Palmer, Judges.
Wichita, Jan. 9-14. Thos. Owen, Secy., Topeka, Kan., Sta. B. ; Thompson, Johnson.

and Stoner, Judges.

Louisiana.
New Orleans, Dec. 15-lS. A. Van Phelps, Secy

Maine.
Freeport, Dec. 28-30. George P. Coffin, Secy.; Watson, Atherton, Ballou, and Bart-

lett, Judges.
South Paris, Jan. 3-5. E. P. Crokett, Secy.

Maryland.
Baltimore, Jan. 3-7. George O. Brown, Secy., 2027 E. North Ave.
Frostburg, Dec. 13-17. Dr. I. L. Ritter, Secy.; Chas. F. Cornman. Judge.

Massachusetts.
Boston, Jan. 10-14. W. B. Atherton, Secy., 30 Broad St.
Dalton. Jan. 10-14. W. H. Griswold, Secy.; Felch and Tasker, Judges.
GrcenJield, Dec. i:J-]4. S. H. Stone, Secy., 4 Walnut Si.
Holyoke, Dec. 7-9. Geo, A, Lamb, Secy.; Card, Shove, Tasker. Judges.
Milford, Dec. 6-8. W. H. Pyne, Secy.

North Adams, Jan. 17-20. C. A. Larabee, Secy.; Tasker and Weed, Judges.
Springfield, Jan. 3-6. E. P. Tilton, Secy.; Wedd, Card, and Ballou, Judges.

Michigan.
Adrian. Jan. lS-23. J. K. Holyoke, Secy., Mulini.x. .Judge.
Alma, Dec. i;5-1G. (\ J. l^,rown. Secy., Otto, Judge.
Cadillac, Jan. 23-27. C. A. Sanders, Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Detroit, Jan. 25-Feb. 1. J. A. Turner, Secy., 703 Seymann St., Lansing Mich.; Tucker.

Marshall and Wise, Judges.
Dowagiac, Dec. 7-10. A. C. Robinson, Secy.; Keeler, Judge.
Grand Ledge, Jan. 2-7. W. G. Shaw, Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Grand Rapids. .Jan. 17-22. R. A. Knapp, Secy.. 551 Giandville Ave., Tucker i^- Ott,

.Judges.
Hastings, Feb. 13-18. Thos. E. Waters, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Holland, Dec. 15-21. .J. B. Hadden, Secy.; J. C. Clipp, Judge.
Houghton, Jan. 26-28. John T. McNamara, Secy.; Traviss. Judge.
.Jackson. Dec. 31-Jan. 5. W. O. Wellman, Secy.; Schwab and Traviss, Judges.
Kalamazoo, Jan. 9-14. F. \V. Hough, Secy., 301-2 Pre^^ Bldg.; Shellabarger and

Stanfield, Judges.
Lansing, Dec. 26-31. J. A. Turner, Secy.; Tucker and Wise, Judges.
Muskegon, Jan. 5-7. P. M. Hanson, Secy., R. 7; Tucker. Judge.

I'ort Huron, Jan. lS-21. Robert S. Taylor, Secy.. Wise, Coburu and Albaii. Judges.
Reading, Dec. 12-16. Harry Adams, Secy.; Tucker. Judge.
Salem, Dec. 20-24. F. W. Roberts, Secy.; Otto, Judge.
Sturgis, .Jan. .".O-Feb. 1. N. O. (Jrove, Sccv.
Vioksbuig, Dec. 28-31. C. A. Morse, Secy.; Tucker, Judge.

Minnesota.
Albert Lea, Dec. 27-31. Harry E. Ruble, Secy.; Rhodes, Judge.
Austin, Dec. 20-24. Alfred A. Ziemer, Secy.; Ott, Judge.
Minneapolis, Jan. 11-17. Chas. O. Johnson, Secy.; Holden, Rhodes, and Roberts.

Judges.
Owatonna, Dec. 27-30. A. J. Bosshard, Secv. ; Holden Judge.
Rochester. D«c. 7-12. D. L. Williams, Secy.; Holden 'and Whitney, Ju

Mississippi.
Meridian, Dec. 12-17. F. R. Ziller, Secy.; Hutchison, Judge.

Missouri,
Aurora, Dec. 12-16. M. B. Gardner, Secy.; Dinwiddle, Judge
Belton, Jan. 18-21. Ben Huber, Secy.

Clinton, Dec. 14-17. A. L. Armstrong, Secv.; Branch, Judge
Edina, Dec. 7-10. C. H. Mulinex, Secv.

Hannibal, Dec. 13-16. W. S. Hoke, Sec.v.; Johnston, Judge
Kirksvilie. Dec, 7-10. C. B. Clanahan, Secy.; Rhodes, .ludge.
Maryville, Dec. 14-17. Joseph H. Sayler, Secy.; Thompson, .lu
Mountain Grove, Jan. 3-7. K. J. Green. Secy.; Emry, Judge.
St. Joseph, Jan. 23-28. E. Iv. McE'onald, Secy.; Rhodes, Shellabarger and Thompson,

Judges.
Whitesville, Dec. 5-8. J. F. Case, Secy.; Branch. Judge.

Nebraska
Fremont, Dec. 12-16. Chas. W. Mulloy, Secy.'; Shellabarger, Judge
Lincoln, Jan. 16-20. A. H. Smith, Secy.; Rhodes, .Johnson and Southard. .Judges
Pender, Dec. 15-16. R. Chow. Secy.; Mrs. Blattler, Judge
West Point, Dec. 12-16. Rudolph Brazda, Secy.; McClaskey. .Judge.

New Jersey.
Morristown, Dec. 5-10. TJoyd B. Tredway, Secy., Chester, N. J.; Stanton, Heller.

and Nixon, Judges.
Red Bank, Dec. 7-10. P. J. Gislison. Secy.; Dave.v, Stanton, and Minnich. Judges
Rutherford. Jan. 12-14. F. A. Minnerly Secy.
Vineland, Dec. 1-3. G. E. Smith, Secy.
Washington, Jan. 10-14. Wm. H. Cyphers. Secy.

New York.
Buffalo, Jan. 23-29. Stanley A. Merkley, Secy., 309 Brisbane Bldg.; Butterfield,

Schwab, McNeill, Burgott, Maunder, Webb, Card, Ewald, Lange. and Kirkover.
Jamestown. Dec. 12-17. A. J. Hammerstrom, Secy.. 627 English St • Burgott and

Denny. Judges.
Kingston, Dec. 13-16. B. C. Deyo, Secy., New Platz, N. Y
New Berlin. Jan. 23-27. R. F. Talbot, Secy.; Jaquins, Judge.
New York City, Dec 27-31. H. V. Crawford, Secv., Montdair, N J
Rochester, Jan. 9-14. F. A. Newman, Secy., P. O. Box 472; Maunder, Stanton Webb.

Cornish, Brace, and Braim, Judges.
Schenectady, Jan. 16-21. R. B. Shauber, Secy.; Ballston Lake, N. Y.

North Carolina.
Asheville, Dec. 8-12. Chas. Beers, Secy.; Drevenstedt. Judge
Charlotte, Dec. 28-30. C. W. Best. Secy.; I?race and Simmons. Judges

C

dges.

tlge.

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•Sill, Carl A... .320 2d St., Leavenworth,

Street & Bishop Columbus

•Stokes, T. Q. ..2027 Agnes, Kan.sas Citv.

Scheiman, F. J Topeka.

Stackhouse, C. M Harlem

Sturges, Harry Independence'

Senter, Bert (^linton

Smith, Oscar

Scott, Mrs. E. M

Steele, Mrs. John & Son

Salyards, R. S

Sexton, Alvin A

Symington, Miss

2304 N.

Simmonds, Chas.

Emma.
12th St.
A

. .Plainfield
. . . Lathrop,
Chillicothe,
. . . . l.amoni
. . Abilene,

Kan.
Miss.
, Mo.
Kan.

Mo.

Mo.

Mo.
la.

Mo.

Mo.

la.

Kan.

Kansas City. Kan.

. .Camp Point. 111.

504 S. 25th St., Lincoln. Neb.

Mo.

Schreff, G. E

Sturges, Jas. R Independence

Schmidt, G. W Oille.spie

Schlotzhauer, Mrs. H. R.... Pilot Gi-ove.'

Stone. J. M Columbia,'

Scharffenberg, Mrs. A. I^

404 W. 25th St., Kansas Citv.

Stier, Frank
Spong, Alex.
Short. H. C.
Schaal, Miss

111.
Mo.
Mo.

Mo.

C Cleveland. O.

Chanute, Kan.

Leavenworth, Kan.

Lillian Lexington, Mo.

Schlotzhauer, M. H Pilot Grove, Mo.

Sawyer, W. M Lancaster, Mo.

Schlotter, F. B Keokuk, la.

Schroeder, Aug. W Chestnut, HI.

Steinmesch, Henry

220 Market St.. St. I.ouis. Mo.

Sherman, Garrard T Brunswick, Mo.

Schaal, Ernst, .3126 Leola Ave.. St. Louis, Mo.

Schrinding, Adam Springfield. 111.

Stephenson, B. N Salem,

Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Sanfoi'd Reeds".

Tombs. Mis. P. A Bowling Gieen,

Thomas. Oscar T Lamoni.

Tucker, G. C Hallsville.

Tanner, Rev. J Smithton.

Tubbs. Lester G Stewartville. Minn.

Truran. Mrs. Maybelle Trevilians Va.

Templeton, O. O Bisinaiek.'

Tearney, l.,eo F

1653 Summit St., Kansas Citv,

Turner, W. H Mexico.

Todd, Roy E Marion.

Tucker, Harry E Platt(> Citv.

•^razevvell Poultry Yaixls Pekiii.

Teaney. Mrs. J. M Lathrop.'

Tutt. R. G Kirkwood.

Thomas, G. E Woodstock,

Trippeer, J. O Dixon,

Taylor, H. E Petersburg,

Tobener, Edw. F

1412 Bales Ave., Kansas City

Veach, Mrs. Jno

^'anderschmidt, Fred,
Warner, \'. G

Ind.
Mo.
Mo.
la.
Mo.
Mo.

Mo.

Mo.
Mo.

la.
Mo.

HI.
Mo.
Mo.

111.

111.

111.

Walul. Mrs. .1.
Wil.son. T. A..
Wingerl. .1. .1 . .
Wilson. W. H.
Wells, Geo. C. ,

Mo.
. . . Keytesville, Mo.
Leavenworth. Kan.

Bloom field, la.

H I..atln()p, Mu.

Kingfisher. Okla.

< 'rawfortlsville. Ind.

Louisville. Ky.

Farina. HI.

Williams, W. A Rome City, Ind.

Wiekizer, Frank St. Joseph. Mo.

Wilkerson. W. T Mexico. Mo.

Weissenberger Bros Toledo O.

Woll", Wm

503S Montgall Ave., Kansas Citv. Mo.

Wei he, G. H

261(» Genevieve Ave., St. Louis. Mo.

Whicker. Otto Amo. Ind.

Wells, nsvav Farina. III.

Wrausmann, I'\ H

40 15 Lee Ave.. St. Louis, Mo.

"Webb. Fred Center, Mo.

Wible Bios ( 'hanute. Kan.

AVeisberg. A. H Nevada. Mo.

"Wright, Kenneth M

292S Olive St.. Kansas Citv. Mo.

Ward. R. E Cedar Rapids. la.

Ward, R. W Normal. III.

Williams Bros T>os Angeles. Cal.

Weiss. Mis. J. C Holton. Kan.

Woods. T'.m H Favette. Mo.

Walker Poultry Co Chillicotlie. M«).

Wolfe. (Jeorge I..ee Rogeis\iIIe. Tenn.

Wnicoxson, Mrs. F. A Tiffin. O.

Ward. Jas. L Parkville. Mo.

AVilliams. L. W Jackson. Miss.

AVhiprecht, S. G Sedalia, Mo.

Wells. F. E

5900 Harrison St.. Kansas City. Mo.

Wason, Jas. S Grand Kapids. Mich.

Watson, Norman H Mystic. la.

Yeoman. R. W Lawrence, Kan.

Yankee. Mrs. Z. W Lone .lack, Mo.

"Zahner, ,1. H Lenexa, Kan.

B.XRHKI) FLVMOITIf KOCKS.

Baker, G. II.: 1, ck. Kichards:

Reeder: 4. 5, ck ; 2, hen; 5, ckl
Means: 2, ck ; 2, ckl. Smith:
Baker. A. E. : 5, hen. Braunsdorf
Divina: 1, ckl; 1, 2. 3, 4.
3. ckl. Robinson: 4, ckl; 3

Poul. Yds

1,

ck.
pen,
hen.
hen.

pen. Mid -West
ler: 2, pen.

Bl FF 1»I.Y>I(>I Til

Linfield poul. Farm: 1. 2,

, pul. Kubisch :

pen. .Sliders: 1.

5. pen. Mand-

1. 2,
3, 5.
ck;
field
Ron :

3. ckl;

ck; 2,
3, hen.
: 4, ckl.

2, pell.

1, 5. pul; 3.
4, pul; 1, jien

4,

|{(K KS,

ck; 1, 2. 4. hen;
pen. Bleakey:

Vanderschmidt :
Elliott: 5, (
Dulaiiey: ."..

WINTK rLV.MOl

Long Poul. Farm: 2, 3,
l>aniels: L ck. Ingham:
^. ck ; 3. jien. Preston

3. 5. hen; 1, ckl; 1, jiul

4, hen; 4, p«'n. Schielf:
■2. ckl, McReynolds: 5.

1. Bak

er. (

'. R. : 4.

idt:

5.

hen

Bras-

■kl;

]>ul.

Robin-

]ien

III

KO( KS

ck

; 2,

hen.

; 4, ckl.

1.

ck.

Holloway :

1.

h(

•11,

Severe :

: 1,

l>«

11,

Mather:

:•.. <

•kl.

Kauff man :

•kl:

5.

pul.

Wible

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POULTRY rANC!ER--r Page 245

Youngstown, Jan. 16-21
Wooster. Jan. 31-Feb. 4.
Youngstown, Dec. 12-17.

Ohio.
Ashtabula. Dec. 5-10. E. R. McCune, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Athens, Dec. 6-10. 9. M. Johnson, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.
Attica, Jan. 3-7. J. Hobart Sutton, Secy.; Cram, Judge.
Belle Center, Dec. 28-31. R. C. Graham, Secy.; Falkner, Judge.
Bucyrus, Dec. 13-17. D. M. Odaffer, Secy.; Heck, Judge.
Cleveland, Jan. 23-28. J. T. Conkey, Secy., 2337 E. 4th St.; Drevenstedt, Faulkner.

Hawkins, King, McClave, and Oke, Judges.
Coshocton. Jan. 2-7. Dr. Geo. M. Boone, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Defiance, Jan. 16-21. J. H. Vincent, Secy.; Keller and Long, Judges.
East Liverpool, Dec. 26-31. J. S. Groscross, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Edgerton, Jan. 10-14. W. F. Nihart, Secy.; Stanfield and Hamlin, Judges.
Edon, Jan. 3-6. S. D. Kaiser Secy.; Taylor, Judge.
Elmore, Jan. 3-7. Geo. A. Neis, Secy.; Phil Fell, Judge.
Elyria, Jan. 4-8. A. J. Laundon, Secy., 114 Cheapside; Falkner, Judge.
Genoa, Dec. 12-17. C. F. Coleman, Secy.; Emch, Judge.
Gnadenhutten, Dec. 5-9. W. O. Lyle, Secy.; Falkner, Judge.
Mansfield, Dec. 5-10. Sherman Bowden, Secy.; Lane, Judge.
Marietta, Jan. 26-31. Fred C. Snodgrass, Secy.; Pierce, Judge.
Medina, Dec. 6-10. H. S. Ross, Secy.; Gault, Judge.
Montpelier, Dec. 28-31. Will Welch, Secy.; McClave. Judge.
Mt. Vernon, Jan. 16-21. Luther A. Stream, Secy.; Felch, Judge.
New London, Jan. 17-20. B. F. Harrison, Sec.v., Barger, Judge.
Norwalk, Jan. 10-14. Charles O. Jackson, Secy.
Piqua, Jan. 16-22. Sherman D. Syler, Secy.; Struble, Judge.
Salem, Dec. 12-17. Carroll Beck, Secy.

Shelby, Dec. 19-23. W. O. Smith, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Tiffin. Jan. 10-14. B. F. Cockayne, Secy.; Falkner and Struble, Judge.
Toledo, Jan. 9-15. F. W. Hoff, Secy., 2415 Trenton Ave.; Mulinix, Shepherd, Northup

and Barrett, Judges.
Tuscarawas, Dec. 27-31. O. B. Schumacher, Secy.; Close, Judge.
Van Wert, Jan. 17-21. L. C. Blake, Secy.; Shaner, Judge.
Wakeman, Dec. 14-18. C. M. McWhorter, Secy.; McClave, Judge.
Wapakoneta, Dec. 13-18. Phon Ague, Case, Judge.

Idwal Hughes. Secy

Arthur H. Smith, Secy., 8 Columbus Ave.; McClave, Judge.
John Simonton, Secy.. 42 So. Pearl St.

Oklahoma.

Alva, E'ec. 6-10. A. H. Bullis, Secy.; Dudley, Judge.
Hydro. Dec. 7-10. Mrs. Lulu Thralls, Secy.; Stone, Judge.
Medford, Dec. 7-10. C. L. Bickerdike, Secy.

Oregon.
Cottage Grove, Dec. 14-17. W. C. Conner, Secy., Main and Fourth Sts. ; Collier, Judge.
Portland, Dec. 5-10. J. C. Murray, Secy., 10^5 E. 14th St., No.; Collier and Coates,
Judges.

Pennsylvania.

Altoona, Jan. 9-14. J. L. Wertzberger, Secy., 1322 10th Ave.; Cornman and Ewald,

Judges.
Apollo, Dec. 8-10. George L. Rudolf, Secy., Box 117; Auerswold, Judge,
Beaver, Jan. 11-14. J. Mays Ecoff, Secy.; Kummer, Judge.
Butler. Feb. 1-4. F. K. Puff, Secy., Kummer, .ludge.
Columbia. Dec. 26-31. M. S. Gohn, Secy.; Davey, Judge.
Easton, Dec. 12-17. S. W. Godley. Secy.; Drevenstedt and Webb, Judges.
Evans City, Jan. 11-15. J. F. McFarland, Secy.; Gault, Judge.
Glen Rock, Dec. 1-3. Allen M. Seitz, Secy., R. R. 2, New Freedom, Pa.; Hoke and

Eberly, Judges.
Kittanniiii;, .Ian. I'l-L'S. M. A. Milliron, Sec.v.

Lebanon. Dec. 13-17. Samuel Black, Secy., 1121 Nufflin St.; Corey and Eibel, Judges.
Lititz, Dec. 27-31. James H. Breitigan. Secy.; Cornman and Corey, Judges.
McKeesport, Dec. 23-Jan. 1. W. N. Soles, Secy., 211% 5th Ave.; Kummer and Keeler,

Judges.
New Castle, Jan. 2-7. C. L. Carson. Secy., 75 E. North St.; Jaquins, Judge.
Norristown. Dec. 6-10. George C. Whittam, Secy., 1529 Arch St.; Davey, Nevins and

Poley. Judges.
Parkers Landing, E'ec. 12-16. J. S. Brady, Secy.; Andrews, Judge.
Philadelphia, Dec. 13-17. C. Carroll Kempton, Secy.
Pittsburg, Feb. 21-26. Geo. C. Sutch, Secy., 4 Lydla St.; Denny. Gardner and Jaquin.

Judges.
Reading. Dec. 6-10. C. H. Glase. Secy., 1331 Perkins Ave.; Edwards and Webb, Judges.
Schwenksville, Dec. 20-24. S. R. Crom, Secy.; Eavey, Judge.
Scottdale, Dec. 6-10. W. G. Sherrick. Secy., Everson, Pa.; Cornman, Judge.
Scranton, Jan. 16-21. Oscar W, Payne, Secy., 140 Wash. Ave.; Denny. McGrew, Mosher,

Wittman, Alden. Barber and Stanton, Judges.
Womelsdorf, Dec. 1-3. Chas. D. Lelnbach, Secy., Ryeland, Pa.; Euvy, Judge.

Rhode Island.

Woonsocket, Dec. 15-17. C. O. Smith, Secy.

South Carolina.

Spartanburg, Jan. 10-12. C. W. Anderson, Secy.. 133 Magnolia St.; Brown and Owen.
Judges.

South Dakota.

Mitcliell. .Ian. aO-F'eb. 4. Arthur Miller, Secy.

Sioux Falls. Dec. 12-16. L. G. Granger, Secy.; Keeler, Judge.

Tennessee.
Knoxville, Jan. 18-21. John E. Jennings, 621 N. Central Ave.; Emry. Judge.

Texas.

Arlington, Dec. 1-4. W. T. Thurman, Secy.; Davis. Judge.

D-allas. Jan. 9-13. C. P. Van Winkle, Supt.. P. O. Box 281: Hewes. Judge.

Palestine. Dec. 14-17. O. B. McReynolds, Secy.; Van Winkle, Judge.

Utah.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 9-14. C. J. Sanders, Secy.; 3335 So. 7th St.; E. Heimlich. Judge.

Vermont.

Barre Dec. 27-30. R. S. Currier, Secy.; Card, Judge.

Bellows Falls, Dec. 6-8. A. T. Pierce, Secy.; Felch, Judge.

Bristol. Jan. 24-26. Geo. S. Farr, Secy.; Shove, Judge.

St. .Mbaus, .Jan. 17-20. \V. B. Witters. Sec.v.. Sliove aiul May. Jurtf;es.

Virginia.

Herndon, Dec. 21-23. A. H. Kirk. Secy.; Wittman, Judge.

Richmond. Jan. 11-14. W. R. Todd, Secy., 426 N. 6th St.; Simmons. Judge.

Washington.

Colfax. Jan. 9-lL K. 11. RostMihkraz. Sec.v., Collier, .Judge.
Soiitii Tacc.nia. .lati. 3-S. Frank L. White, Secy., I'urvis, Judge
Spokane, Jan. 2-7. H. J. Fuller. Secy.; Warnock and Norton. Judge.

West Virginia.
Charleston. Jan. 9-14. Elijah Steen, Secy., 307 Penn. Ave.; Sites, Judge.

»«ir»' "^TS!

Bros.: 4, pul. Harris: 3, pul. Porter: 2.
pul; L', pen. Swain: 5, pen.

PARTKIIMiK PLYMOUTH K(K KS.

Nottzger: 1. 2. 3, 4, ck ; 1, 2. 3, 4. lien;
1. 2, 3, 4, ckl; 1, 2, 4. 5, pul; 2, 3. pen.
Hensen: o ckl; 3, pul. McDavid : 1. pen.

COLUxMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROC KS.

Patterson: 1. 2, ck ; 1, 2, hvua; 1. ckl;
1. 2. pul; 1, pen.
SILVKR PENCILKI) PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Bowers: 1. ck; 1, hen. Braaten: 1. 2,
ckl; 1, 2. pul.

BUC'KKYKS.

Towles: 2, ck; 1, hen; 1, 2, ckl; :,. pul.
Andrews: 1. ck; 3, hen; 3, ckl; 1. pul. High-
land Poul. Farm: 2, 4. hen; 4, ckl; 2, 4, pul;
1, pen. Cowles: 3, pul.

PARTRIOGK W YAM>OTTKS.

Sheffield Farm: 2. ck; 1. hen; 3, 4. pen.
Bloese: 4, ck. Gietinffs: 1. ck. George:
3. ck; n. hen; 1, 5, ckl; 2, pul; 1. pen. Doo-
Iittle: 5. ck; 2. 4, ckl; 1, 3. 4, pul; ',. pen.
Howell: 2. hen. Cannon: 4, hen; 3 ckl
Moseley: 3, hen: 2, pen. Kreitler: 5. pul.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Bond: 2, ck ; 1, ckl. Brown: 4. ck. Dewev:
r., ck; 1, hen. Blue Ridge Poul. Farm:
1, 3, ck; 3. pul; 2. 4. pens. Wible Bros.:

3. hen; 5. ckl. Lakeside Poul. Farm: 2, 4,
hen; 4, ckl; 4, pul. Moore: hen; 2. H. pul.
Whiprecht: 3, ckl. Meyer: 2. ckl. Jackson:
pul. Yankee: 1, pul. Robinson & Kochan:
1. pen. Romig: 5, pen. Andrews: 3, pen.

<;OLl>EX WYANDOTTES.
Sinimon.s Bros.: ">, ck : 2. hen. Penning-
ton: 1. 3. 4, ck; 3, hen. Smith: 2. ck ; 1,
hen. Bird: ',, hen; 5, ckl. Simmons Bros.:

1. 2. 3, 4. ckl; 1, pul. Tanner: 3. pul; 1, pen.
Brackey: i', 5, pul. Biid : pul. Warner:

2. pen.

SILVEK LACED WYANDOTTES.

Reisinger: 3, ck ; 1, ckl. Rolph : 2. ck ; 1.
hen. Chenshaw: 1, ck : 2. ckl. Brunner:

4. ck. Steinmesch; 5. ck ; 4, ckl; 1, pul;
.5. pen. Hobbard: 5, hen. Miller: 2. hen;
T). pul; :.', pen. Duncan: 3. 4. hen. Huggett
Bros.: .'). ckl; 4. pul: 4, pen. Schroeder:

3. ckl. Kerl: 2. 3. pul. Warner: 1, pen.

COLl'.MBLAN WYANDOTTES.

Schaaf 1, ck ; L'. hen; 1, ckl. Jensen- 2.
ck; 1. 3. 4, hen: 2. pen. Phillip.s: 3, ckl:
2. 5. pul. Stephen.son: 2. ckl; 4. pul: 1. pen.

pul. Doolittle:

Doolittle: 4. ckl. Well.s

1. pul. Fall: 3, pen.

BUFF WYANDOTTES.

Boltz: 3. hen; 4. pul. Powers & Son:
4. "). iH>n; 1, ckl. Forbes: 1, 2. hen. War-
ner: 3. ."., ckl. Callahan: 4, ckl; .".. pul
Bush: 2. ckl: 1. 2, pul. Anderson: 3. pul:

2. pen. Afdem: 1. ])en.

SILVER PENCILED WYANDOTTES.

Warner: 1. ck ; 1. hen; i>. ckl; 2 i)u]
Wason: 1. ckl: 1, pul.

S. C. WHITE OKI*IN(iTONS.

Street & Bishop: 3. ck ; 2. 4. pul. Haggin;
1. 4. ck; 1. hen; 1, 3, ckl; 3. pul; 2. pen.
Kendall: 2. .'), ck ; 2. hen; 1. pul: 4. pen.
Meitens: .'.. hen. .Jones: :!. 4. hen Ham-
mett: .-), ckl. Heck: 2. ckl. Hakes: 4. ckl.
Truran: .">. i)ul. Reeder: ."), pen. McDavid:
1. pen. Imperial J'oul. Faini: :!. i)en.

8. C. BUFF OIM'iN<iTONS.

Cannon: ;'.. ck ; 4. Iumi : 2. ckl; 1. pul; 3.
pen. Berger: 1. ck : 2. .".. hen; .-., ckl; 1,
pen. Sunlight I'oul. Yds.: 2. 3, ck. Firack-
enbuig: 4, ck; 4. pen. Hitcli: 1. hen. Firown :

3. hen; 1, ckl. Huggett: 4, ckl. C.rangei-:
3. ckl. McDavid: 2. pul. Farmei-: 3. i)ul.
MooreJiead: 4, .".. i)u]. Crawford: 2, pvu.
Alford: '^, pen.

S. C. BLACK ORPINCiTONS.

Day: 1, 2. ck; 1. 4, hen

4. ckl;

pul; 1. pen. Imperial F'oul. Farm: 2. hen.
<;ia(li.sh: ."•. hen. Statter: 3. hen: '.. ckl.
Neel: 1. ckl; 4. pul. To<ld : 2. ckl. Sturges-
1, 3. pul.

KOSE (O.MB WHITE OKI'INCiTONS.

1'uckei-: 1. ck : 3. pul. Reynold.s; 2, ck;

3. 4, .'). hen. Farleigh : 1, 2. hen: 1. ckl;
1. 2. pul.

KOSE CO.MB BIFF OKPINCiTONS.

l.ance: 1, 3, ck : 1. 2. hen; 1, 2, \, .".. ckl;
1. ^. •'!. 4. pul. ('haiMllir: 2. ck ; 3,' 4. hen;
3. ckl.

S. ( . KIIODE ISU.IND REDS,

Scran ton: 2. 4, .".. ck : 1, 4. hen; 1. ckl;
3. i'l. pul; :!. i)en. Stronach: 3. ck. (ramp-
bell: 1, ck; :!. h«n. Wolfe: 5, hen. Ken-
dall: 2. hen. F>unphy: ."., ckl; 2. pul; 2. pen.
Hairison: 2. ckl; ."», pen. Ricksecker: 1, .!,
ckl. I'-riesz: I. jmii. Ot r ,<C- <)tt: 1, ii.n.

KOSE CO.MB RHODE ISLAND BEDS.

Blakemore: 4, ck ; 4, pen. Cramei-; 3. ck.
I'^oster: r,, ck ; 4, hen. Buschwan : 1, 2, ck ;
1. 2. 3. r>. hen; 3. '., ckl; 1, 2. 3. 4. .-., j)ul; 1,

3, pen. Schrinding: 4, ckl. M<'lntyre: 1. ckl.
I'Metcher: ckl: .",. j)en. ScraiUcm: 2, i)en.

S. C. WHITE LE(;ilOKNS.

Rogers: 2. ck. Fioot: 3. ck. Rollev: .'>, ck •

4, ckl. Gibson: 1, 4. ck ; 1. h.n; 3. <'kl;

1. r.. pul; 1. 2, 3. r>, pen. Rickey: 4, hen.
I'^uller: r>. hen. Turner: 3, hen. Brunson :

2, hen. Campbell: 5. ckl. Williams Bros.:

1. ckl. .'Vckerman: 2, ckl. FFudson: 1, ])ul.
FFolloway: 2, 3. pul.

S. C, BROWN LEC.HOHNS.

Beckwith: 2. ck. Woods: 3. ek ; 3. hen;

2, n. ckl; 3, pul; 1. pen. Williams Bros.:

POULTRY FANCIER

December, '10

^:^^g^:v7T^:^ ^^^ \,:?: ;? :?lv,

Fairmont. Jan. 11-14. C. E. Smith, Secy.; Taylor, Judge.
Huntington. E'ec. 26-31. Fred L. Summers, Secy.; Northup, Judge.
Morgantown. Dec. 20-23. M. Dille, Secy.; Case, Judge.
Smithfield. D'ec. 13-16. F. E. Funk, Secy.; Sites, Judge.
Williamstown, Dec. 12-17. W. P. Miller, Secy.; Bean, Judge.

Wisconsin.
Beaver Dam, Dec. 15-18. Otto J. Winning, Secy., 412 W. 3d St.; Keeler. Judge
Beloit. Jan. 9-14. Geo. A. Miller, Secy., R. 28.; McClave and Hackett. Judges
Blanchardville. Jan. 3-6. L. Hattery, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge.
Fond du Lac, Feb. 8-13. E. R. Zamzoro, Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
Green Bay, Dec. 15-18. E. A. Meyer, Secy.; T. M. Campbell, Judge
Janesville. Jan. 16-21. F. J. Holt. Secy.; Heimlich, Judge.
Keil, Dec. 29- Jan. 1. M. J. Wirth, Secy.; T. M. Campbell, Judge.
Kenosha. Jan. 27-Feb. 1. E. J. Huber. Secy,; Hale, Judge.
La Crosse. Dec. 7-12. Jos. H. Poehling. Secy.; Hoffman, Judge.
Lake Geneva. Dec. 19-24. H. E. Cocroft, Robert. Judge.

Milwaukee, Jan. 5-11. Theo. Koss, Secy., 488 National Ave., Keller, Heyl, McCaulev
Verges, Kroeger, Judges. .> . ^ v^auiey^

Mineral Point, Jan. 9-13. Allen Tucker, Secy.; Jas. Tucker, Judge.
Oconomowoc, Dec. 14-19. Chas. Behrens, Jr., Secy.; Tucker, Judge.
1 latteville, Jan. 16-20. Henry Pargman, Secy., Mills, Judge
Racme. Jan. 16-21. D. J. Kennedy. Secy.; Russell, Judge.
Stevens Pomt, Jan. 17-20. Frank J. Blood. Secy.

1. 4, ck; 2. 4. hen; 1. 3. ckl; 4. pul; 2. pen.
rtosemont Farm: 5. ck; H, pul. Bowers- 5.
hen. Adau-: 1, hen; r>, pen. Short: 4, ckl.
Hornbrook: 1, 2, pul. Guthnecht : 3. pen.
S. V. BUFF T.E(iHORNS.
Poor: 3, ck; 5. hen; 4. pul. .Smilev: 4. ck ;
■K pul. Smith: 1, ck ; 2. pul: .'•. pen. F<>r-
renbeck: .■;, ck : 1, pul. FFarii.s; 2. ck. Cart-
wri^'ht: 3. hen; 4. ckl: 1, pen. Craig-: "
hen; .'., pul; 2, pen. Hart: 1. hen; 1. ckl:
3. pul: 4, pen. Hines: 4. hen. Kremer:

3, ckl. Byler: 2, ckl. McDonald: 3, pen.

KOSK (OMB WHITF LE<i HORNS.

Nelson: 1, 2, ck; 1, 3, hen; 1. ckl; 1. 2.
pul. Peters: 3, ck ; 2, hen; 2. ckl; 3. r>. pul.
Baimettler: ;">, ck ; f., ckl; 2. pen. Rifflei-;

4, f). hen; 4, ckl; 4, pul; 1. pen. (lammon.x:
3, ckl. Cross: 3, pen. Iverson : 4, ck.

BLACK LF(iIIOKNS.

Whicker: 1. h<n; ]. 2. ckl; 1. pul.

BOSK (OMB BIFF I.K<iHORNS.

Kakusa: ',, ckl. Counter: 1, 2, 3, 4 ckC
1. 2. 3. 4, .-.. pul.

ROSK (OMB BKOWN LK(iHORNS.

Wells: 2, ck ; 1. 2. hen; 4. 5. ckl; 4 o. pul
Chase: 1. ck ; 3, 4. hen; 2. 3. ckl; 1. 3. puC 1
pen. Alger: 2. pul.

SILVKR DUCK AVIN(; I.F<;HOKNS.

Tazewell I'muI. Yds.: 1 ck)- 1 " pul
BOSK (OMB BLA( K MINo"r( AS.

-Mishler: 1. 2, 3, T., ck ; 1. 2, 3. 4, hen;
1. 2. :!. 4. ckl: 1. 3. ->. ))ul: 1. 2. 3, pen'
Clark: 4. ck; Tj, hen; 2, pul. Watson: 5,
eki. Perkins: 4, pul.

S. (". WHITK MINOK( AS.

Senter: 1. 2. hen; 1, 4, mil. Huber- 1, "
ckls. 2, 3, pul.

BOSK (OMB WHITK MINOKCAS

Roudebush: 1, 2, hen; 2. .'). pul. Brogden •
1. 2, ckl; 1, 3, pul. Fellwock: 3. ckl; 4 pul.
S. ('. BLACK MINORCAS.

Wrausman: 1. ck ; 5, hen. Haass: ." ck
«)wen: 4. ck ; 2. pen. Chase: 2. 3. cli ; :;,
hen: ■). ckl; 4. pul; 1, pen. Heidemann: ';
t. hens; 4. ckl. Herman: 1. hen: 1. ckl;
1. 2, pul. Brown: 2. ckl; 3, i)ul. Riek:
:'). ckl; ij, i)ul.

BLA( K L.\N(iSIIANS.

Adams: .",. ck; 1, pen. Hayles: 3. 4. ck ;

3. .".. hen; 2. j)en. Barker: 2. ck. F^almer:

1. ck ; 4. ckl. Stackhouse: 4, hen. Hersh-
man: 1, hen; 3, pul. Johnson: 2. hen; .'>.
pen. Anders: 5, ckl; 4 pen. (Jregg: 1 ckl

4. pul; 3. pen. Staples: 3. ckl. .loVdan"

2. ckl. Bishop: 1. 2. pul. Minshali: .",. jjul.

WHITK LAN(iSHANS.

Brockscliniidt : 1. ek : 1. 2, hen- 1 ekC
1. 2. pul.

LKillT BB.AH.MAS.
Millei-: 1. ek : 1. 2. hen: 1. 2. j)ul. Felton:
1. 2. ekl.

SI'.XNISH BK.\II.MAS.
Wolf: 1. pen.

BFFF (OCHINS.

Dietze: 2. ek; 3. hen: 2. pnl. HauKlunan:
1. ck : 1. h«Mi; 1. lien. (lossow : 3, ck; 2. hen;
1, ski; 1, i)ul: 2. iien. c.ill; :•,, i)en.

PABTBIIXiK (0( BINS.

W'eihe: ."», ck. C(»oi)er: 1. 2 3 4 ck"
I, 2. 4. r,. hen: 1. 2. 3. 4. ckl; ]. 2, 3. 4.' pull
1, 2. pen. C.ill; 3, hen; 3. pen.

B. B. RKI> (iA.^IKS.

•"'••'wtlier: 1. ck; 1, 2, :!. I. lien; 1. ckl;

1. p>il.

(OKNISII INDLVNS.
'Pempieton: .'>. ck. Hayes: 3, ck ; 2. ."., ckl;
♦ . ;"'. pul. Huey, Templeton. Victor Co. ':

2, 4, ck ; 4, f), hens; 1. ckl; 1, 2. 3. pul; 2. 4,
pen. Schmidt: 1, ck ; I, 2, 3. hens. Wil-
liams: :!, 4, ckl; :!, jx-n.

si'.\n<;lki) (;.\mks.

Clarke' I. ck ; 1. h.n; 1, ekl; 1, i)ul.

HOI D.XNS.

Weisberg: 4. 5, cks; 3. 4, .".. hens; 1. pen.
Bellman: 3, ck ; 3, ckl; 3. 4. pul; 3, i)en.
Clark: 1. ck ; 1. hen: 4. ckl; 2, pul. Senter:
2. ck. Wilkeison: 2. hen; ."., ckl; 1 i»ui
Wickizer: 1, 2. ckl: .'., pul; 2. pen.

S. S. HAMBURfiS.

Binkley: 1. ck ; 2. 4. h»'ns; 1, 2, ckl; ."). i.ul.
.Martin: 4. ck. Reiffert : 2, ck ; T.. hen; 3, ekl;

1. pul: 2. pen. liopkins: 3, ck ; 4. f,, ckls;

2. 4. pul; 3, pen. Anderson: 1, hen. Reenen:

3. hen; 3, pul; 1, pen.

W. F. B. SPANISH.

Chestnut: 1, ck ; 1, 2. hens; 1, ckl; 1 2,
pul; 1, pen.

MOTTLKI) AN(ONAS.

Stier: 2. ck; 4. hen; 3. ckl; 2, pen. Bed-
lord; 1. ck; 5, hen; .">, ckl; 3, pul; 1. pen.
Crosby: 3. ck; 2. 3, hen; 4, ckl; H, pul. I.aw-
son; ]. ckl; 1, 2, 4, pul. Bockstahler: 2,
ckl. Deline: 3, pen.

BLFK ANDALUSIANS.

McCulley: 1, ck; 1, hen- 1, 3, 5, ckl; 1,

2. '). pul. Martin Poul. Farm: 2, ck ; 2. hen;

4. ckl; 3, 4. pul. Anderson: 2ckl; 1, pen!
'i'repper: 2. jien.

W. C. B. POLISH.

Csh.M-; l.ck; 1, 2. hens. Wilkerson: 1,
(kl; 1, liul; I. pen.

Bll F (0( BIN BANTAMS.

Culps: 4, ck; 4. hen; 2. 4. ckl; 1. 2. pul.
Robinson: 3. ck; 1, hen; 3, 5. ckl; 4. 5, pul.
fiungei-: 1, 2, ck; 2, 3, hen. Pleppe Bros.: 5.
lien; I. ckl. Short: 3, pul; Mid-West I'oul.
Yds. : 1 . jjen.

BLA(K ( OCHIN BANTAMS.

Weissenberprer Bros.: 2, ck ; 2, hen; 1,
ekl: 4. pul. Bowers: 1, ck; 1. hen. Policy:

3. ckl; 2. pul. Taylor: 2, ckl; 1, 3, pul.

WHITK COCHIN B.4NT.\MS.

Hanson's I'oul. Farm: 2. ck ; 2, hen. Ack-
erman: 1. ck : :!, hen. Cannon: 1, hen; 1,
ckl; 1, put.

BL.\(K AFRICAN BANTA.MS.

Weissenbei-g<'r Bros.: 1, ck ; 1, hen; I, ckl:

1. l)Ul.

WHITK AFBK.VN BANTA.MS.

Weissenberger: 1, ck ; 1, hen; 1. ckl; 1, pul.

R. C. BLACK BANTAMS.

Doeiim iV: 'Jaltennan: I, ek ; 1. pen.

LKillT BBAH.M.V B.VNTA.MS.

Fry: 1, ck ; 1. lu-n ; 1. pul. Felton: 2. ck;

2, <-kl.

SILVKB SK.\BHI(>HT B.\NT.\.MS.

Haiisuirs I'oul. I'^iini; I, ck ; 1. 2, hen.

CiOLDKN SKABRKiHT B.\NT.V.MS.

Mon.sees: 1. ck ; 1, 2. hen; 1. ck. Tobener:
2. ck; 2, pul. Jarvis: 1, pul. Diehl Bros.:

1. 2, hen; 1, 2, ])ul.

BKI) PYLK (iA.MK B.VNT.X.MS.

ilansoirs Poul. l-\irni ; 1 , hen.

M.VMMOTII BBONZK Tl KKKVS.

Schlotzhauei-: 1. 2, f., ck; 3, 4, hen; .".. pul.
Huncan: .,, ck. Scott: 4, ck ; 1. hen. Hersh-
man: 1, 4. ck ; 4, pul. Morrow: 3. ck. Stone:

2. (k. Biltz: 3, ck; 2, hen; 4, ckl. Rhodes:
;., hen; .".. rk\- 3. pul. Ferry: 1, ckl. Mead-
ows: 2, jMil. Cuinutt: 1, pul.

BOI BBON RKI) TIBKKVS.

Havens; 1. ckl; 1, i)ul.

NAKR.\(i.\NSKTT Tl KKKVS.

Haxeiis; 1, torn; 1, hen.

Willi K 1IOLL.\NI> Tl BKKVS.

Hi-own: 2. tom; 4. hen; 4, pul. Jiarrie:

3. lom; n, hen. Teaney: 1. tom; 2. hen; 1.
'■'<': '■'■ pul. Havens: ], :! hen; 2, I! 4.
<kl; 1. 2. 4, pul.

ADILT OHAKKS.

Sawyer: 1. 2. 4. 5. drake; 1. 2, 3. 4. adult
<luck: 1. 2. :',. 4. ,"), young drake; 2. 3. 4. ;'.,
young diick; I, 2. 3, 4. ^, pen. Hart: 3,
adult (hake; 1. > (umg duck.

PKKIN 1)1 CKS.

Wells; 2, adult drake; 2, adult duck; 1,
.voung drakes. Field: 3. adult drake; 4,
adult duck; 4. youuR drake. Steel & Son,
Mis. ,1.: 4. adult diake; :,, young drake.
Tiraunsdoif: .-,. adult drake. Chancy; 1 adult
'lii^lo-: 1. 3, adult ducks; 1, 2. 4, young
(lu<ks. Hrown: T., adult ducks; :!, "voim^
duck. Wai-ner: 2, 3, youn.K drake; .".. young:
• luck.

KMBDKN (;KKSK.

Steele it Son: 1, adult gander; 1, young
goose.

KOIKN 1)1 (KS.

T^iehm: 1. 2. a<Iul( drake; 1. 2. duck; 1. 2.
drake; 1, 2, young <luck.

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Pertinent Paragraphs

By EASTERNER

The best things are always the
•cheapest— fresh air and sunshine cost
nothing.

"A cock ought lo look well-
groomed— he always has a comb with
him," remarked C. "How about a
Game cock?" inquired D.

"When the hens take to crowing
and wearing spurs, it is about time I
abdicated," said "the Cock of the
Walk."

"I beat Death all hollow," pro-
claimed the cock. "The grim reaper
has only one sickle, while I have sev-
eral." But Death got him, just the
same. In the race of life, Death is
always the winner.

The tallest man is he who meas-
ures up his opportunities.

Anent Malays, the admirer ex-
claimed, "Look at those stately long
legs!" The man who didn't admire
them replied, "Bah! I breed fowls
for eggs, not for legs." And yet
some of us like the long-legged kinds.

m m

One of the best remedies for poul-
try is a lock on the hen house. It
may save your best birds.

^ m

\yhen you meet a man with a very
taking way look well to your bolt.^
and bars.

^ m

A fellow just entering college is
labeled like a crate of eggs— "Strictly
fresh."

5^ m

It is a good thing to be a severe
critic — of yourself.

m m

Our family believes in culls — they
come in so handy for broilers.

The only man who never failed is
the one who never tried.

^ ^■
Doctors should never keep ducks;
they are given to uttering too per-
sonal remarks.

^ 5M
The successful novelist is like a
Phoeni.x cock; he is able to produce
a hne tale.

^ m

The bird which a lawyer is spe-
cially fond of is a fat goose.

The duck farmer who failed said
that he made "ducks and drakes" of
his business, whereas he should iiave
made his business from ducks and
drakes.

mm

The historian, upon being asked
what he principally fed to his fowls,
replied "Dates."

The i)()ultry journal publisher's fa-
vorite tool is "ads." (adze).

m m

The editor, who was an exhibitor,
always showed a pen; it came so nat-
urally to him.

The prosperous farmer, who occa-

LlJJ,J/.^,--!^>M^'^Y.f:f.v

POULTRY FANC1ER.*C^

sionally wrote for the agricultural
papers, said that he made a good deal
o^ money out of his pen. "Steel or
pig?" inquired his hearer.

m m

The minister said that, while poul-
try would do for other men, nothing
less than a Bird of Paradise would
satisfy him.

If system is a good thing, and it is,
why should anyone seriously object
to "systems"? Can you have too
much of a good thing?

mm
"All is lost save honor," becomes in
the mouth of the poultryman, who
buries his prize birds, "All is lost save
the honors."

m m

An investigating committee, like
the man who fell into a well, should
go to the bottom of things.

George Washington was an all-
round winner, "First in war, first in
peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen." Three firsts to his
credit, at the least.

If you wish your hens to take plenty
of exercise make a few flower beds,
and carefully leave an opening so that
the hens can get to them.

5^ m

If garden seeds don't come up
promptly, let the hens have the run

W. THEO. WITTMAN

ALLENTOWN, PA.

General Tudg:e all varieties Poultry. Careful
md straightforwardly honest work in the show
r«om. 30 years a poultryman.

'^S!^ir■^',■^''A■^''<■',■^u■„^■f\T.

%^'^

of the garden and the seeds will
come up.

5^ m

"Out, on a fly," called the umpire.
"Not a bit of it," squawked the old
hen. as she flew over the fence into
the grounds, "I'm in on a fly." And
she caught it, too.

m m

It has been said that "A watched
pot never boils," and the saying
seems true, for time hangs heavy on
the hands of our waiting for the hap-
pening of any event. When your

'^^aiot"?!; *" S.C. Brown Leghorns

Kendallville, Ind., Jan. 4-8, Tucker, Judge; 2
3 cock, 2 cockerel, 1, 2, 4 hen, 1, 2 pullet 1. 2.
pen. 20 females average 92 1-5. Richmond,
Ind. , Tanl 2-15, Zike, Judge; I won eight prizes
with five birds entered; 1 cockerel, 1, 2 hen, 1,
2 pullet, 1 pen, two specials. I breed my own
winners. Eggs from best pens only $1 for 15
after May 15th IRA FORD La Grange. Ind.

R. C. and S. C. R. I. Reds

Winners at Hagerstuwn. Chicago, McKeesport,
Butler and Pittsburg. Best young stock 1 ever
raised now ready to ship. Write me. The stock
is right and the prices are right. :: :: :: ::

F. L. Ober, R. F. D. 1, Verona, Pa.

Quality

AVHite
RocK

Yards

A fine lot of yonu^ stock for salt^ from my

winners at Milwaukee and

other show.s.

W. R. Abbott, Prop., Ft. Atiiinson, Wis.

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A choice lot of Chockerels and Pullets from
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Bred from leading strains.

Let me send you a fine show bird. Have
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will please.

ERNEST WAGNER, Kendallville, Ind.

POULTRY FENCED

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Bottom wires 1 inch apart.
"Will not sag or bag. Re-
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Costs less than nettingr. W«
pay freight. Send forCntnlog.
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Donaghcy's Redsi. Winners

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Get my prices on Show Birds or utility
stock. Have some choice ones in my
yards.

J. T. Donaghey. Box 117. North Freedom. Wis.

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HEN-E-TA

BOUT 30 % PURE BONE ASH

^. NOOTHPR I NO OTHER
:B0HE NEEDED I 6RIT NEEDED

,«.5a. ^ NO MORE BONE CUTTERS NEEDED
JNO MORE BElf -SCRAPS NEEDED
mi\}^^w_ [ioxC^^A NOMORE CHARCOAL NEEDED
|«AKE^(^:=^JJ^-^VJ NO MORE OYSTER SHELLS NfiDED
CRow>^n;;;:;^^ ioolbaags^^isolb.baosi.-
^ o'»2^^ fj^t*-" ASK YOUR DEALER OR WRITE

HEN-E-TA BONE CO.

Ni WARH NJ orPI f IF. MINCTON. W VA-

favorite does not arrive on time, breeds first, he might save himself

when your choicest eggs are under a deal of criticism and correction,
going incubators, when a i)romising '-- ■>«

cockerel is develoi)ing, time's feet Pretty good advice was that given

seem shod with leaden slippers, and by Pope, and applicable to poultry

scarcely seem to move. matters:

^ ^ "Be not the first by whom the new
Salt may be good for chickens. We are tried,

have often found that a little of it Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
on roasted chickens seemed to im- ' S^ '0

prove them. The best breed, for you, is the one

,Si' 5^ < . c^ , yo" lil<e the best.

If a man. who prepares A btudy ^ i^^e

of Breeds." w-ould only study the Chickens ought to make good gar-

BENDER'S COLUMBIAN ;!rfhe";oir'' ''' ^-^-I'^^^tingiy digging

WYANDOTTES ^ " ^^ ^

COCKERELS FOR SALE Funny, is'nt it, that the Homer pig-

4. M. BENDER. 1231 S. Walton Ave.. Fori Wayne. Ind, ^«" ^^ould be t^e Carrier pigeon!

Prouty's Parlridge Plymouth Rocks The pigeon fancy must be dis-

Some of my breeding birds for sale at sacrifice heartening, there are SO many mutts

prices. Also choice exhibition birds. Real and "ruffs" in it.

bargrains. Get prices. o^ m

0. L. PROUTY. Box 115. New Lothrop, Mich. j^e only connection, so far dis-

P#^| II TTDV I^I^P"r^C^ covered, between tuberculosis in

■ ^^^*" I ri T r lLCLL/w chickens and tuberoses in the flower

Price Per Price Per Price Per garden, is that tendency of the chick-

25 lbs. 50 lbs. 100 lbs ens to scratch up the flowers, but

Hen Scratch J0.55 Jl.OO $1.85 that's a closer connection than the

Poultry Wheat Bran 1.25 .,,, , ^ ^ i . ■ i

Poultry Wheat Middlings.. .45 .85 3.45 • he duty nearest at hand is the

Corn, Cracked (Hen Size). .45 .85 J.45 most important one to do.

Corn, Cracked (Chick Size) .45 .85 1.45 Asg f,&g

(iluten Food .50 .90 1.60 , r ,...,, -,»-.. 7",. ^^ff Ur.,-.." f-.l-«

Alfalfa Glover Meal .85 1.50 " ^'^^ '^^^ '"^ ^^ hor.sc. take

Beef Scraps .80 1.45 2.75 courage in the thought that the "off'

go°e Granulated 75 1.35 2.50 j.^ j^i^t as necessary as the "nigh

Meat and Bone 7.) 1.35 2..^0 , v • .i i ,- i .

Blood Meal 1.00 1.90 :<.50 horse in the making ot a good team.

Pigeon Feed 70 1.20 2 25 ]n fact, the "off" is usuallv the

Pin Head Oats 80 1.45 2.75 ].,r„^r linr^f-

Oyster Shell J.irger nor^e.

(Hen or Chick Size) 25 .40 .65 , .,, S|l 5^

Mica Crystal (irit As an illustration ot the coming on

p^^J.H|" or Chick Size) ... .25 .40 .65 of the youn^^er generation, the seven-

^^[nen or Chick Size) 20 .35 .60 year-old heir to our name and for-

Charcoal tune recenty remarked. "Pa. you are

(Hen or Chick Size) 45 .75 ].50 ^,^ ^^^j^j ^^^^^^ you are the onlv man

We carry a complete line of Model Incubators • , i.,^,..,, „.i, , ,..«.,,- .. ♦.-,\wv ^-fr. ..11

and Brooders; also Poultry Supplies. ^'^ town who w eai .s a .string tie,— all

Write for Price List the rest wear four-in-hands."

We can use your personal check on your . ^ SM .

local bank. Dtie of the things which a real boy

J. G. Hermann & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. resents most emphatically is to 1)c>

TOP NOTCH s. C. R. I. REDS r'S.".™ z;

old Chicks. Free mating list.

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM, R. P. Guptill, Prop., Ekho, Wis.

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AS BREEDERS

HAVE

L K. Felch & Son

Bred LIGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED ROCKS

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES

and judged all breeds in nearly every State in the union without a protest.
Every PATRON has been satisfied with the stock for the money paid.
WHY SHOULD THEY NOT, when none but specimens to score 90
to 96 points find place in their breeding pen > Which

i¥iN AND bre:e:d on

in the hands of their patrons, for they do not exhibit, nor do they appropriate
their patrons' winnings to their advantage.

From Sept. I to May I 5, Brahmas $3.50 to $10 for females; $5 to $20
for males. White and Baired Rocks and White Wyandottes, $2.50 to $8
for females; $4 to $1 5 for males. Eggs from all, $4 for I 5, $7 for 30, $9
for 45, and $15 for 105 eggs. From May I 5 to Sept. I, all yearlings before
moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other
^ particulars address

I. K. FELCH & SON. Box I 76, NATICK, MASS.

December, '10

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taken for a i^irl, but the Rirls judg-
ing from the manner in which they
ape men in dress and manners, seem
to have a different view in reference
to a mistake in their sex. Cocks,
don't cluck hut hens do try to crow.

Said the man in the moon, "I've
come down too soon, for the hens
are not ready to set, hut when spring
visits again the haunts of the hen, I
will get in my work, you can het."

J'^very one who wishes away time
has a suicidal desire, for time is the
stuff from which life is made. Death
and the tax-collector, at any rate,,
will come soon enough, without wish-
ing time away.

"E pluribus unum," one from
many, implying concentration, might
do for a motto for the intensive poul-
try-keeper, while 'Plures .ex uno,"

many from one, imj^lying expansion,
would be more a])i)r(jpriate for the
extensive poultry-keeper.

Said the active little mite, almost
invisible to sight, "I am but a speck
in this wilderness of woe, but can
ligure like a clerk, and to multiply
don't shirk, and will (luickly prove
the truth of plures ex uno."

Man}' a man, who doesn't know
enough to set a hen properly thinks
himself competent to manage the
I'l nances of a state or a nation.

The failure in everything else turns
conlldently to poultry keeping with
the assurance of his ability to make
of it a success. The more difficult
and delicate the work, the greater is
the assurance of the ignorant of its
easy master}^

Where all breeds arc the best there
must be some conllict of claims. All
may be good but there can be but
one best, and we don't envy the Paris
who must award the golden apple.

The enthusiast, who declares that
inside of live years there will be no
breed but his, reckons without taking
cognizance of the persistency of con-
servatism and the activity of radi-
calism. Old breeds will hang on and
new breeds will come on, and at the
end of live years a poultry census
would pr(d)ably show a greater total
number of breeds than now exists.

WATCHEMOKET
POULTRY YARDS

SEASON OF 1909.
EGGS FOR HATCHING

Argonauts :
Phoenix Fowls

: $.5.ro per dozen
: 3 00 per dozen

Only a strictly limited number of eggs will
be sold. The Argonaut is a pea combed bird,
buff colored, yellow shanked, general pur-
pose fowl. The Phoenix is the unique long-
tailed breed produced by the "Yankees of
the Orient", the wonderful little Japanese.
Cash in advance with all orders.

H.

77 Summit St.,

S. BABCOCK

East Providence, R. I.

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GREAIEST SALE,

EDWIN R. CORNISH.

probably. In the history of RHODE ISLAND REDS. Ow-
injf to my rapidly growing publishinx^ business, must close
out all my WORLD'S BEST REDS, old and yountf. some 3.000 head, all prices.
SOME IMPOSSIBLE TO DUPLICATE. BOTH COMBS
1426 PONTIAC STREET EAST. - ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

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THE BOOK THAT EVERYBODY IS BUYING

ecrets of Expert Exhibitors

And Easy Lessons in Judging™ By Frank Heck

A book that is new in character and the most valuable and interesting production ever pubHshed
for breeders of exhibition fowls. No other book or similar publication comes within gunshot of it. It is
in a class by itself.

The time has gone by when a breeder can pick up birds right out of the yards and win with them without
special preparation. This is true even in the smaller shows. There are always at least a few hustling,
enterpnsmg breeders in nearly every locality who are keenly alive to the financial profit and th« honors ac
cruing from winning over all competitors. These breeders use all legitimate methods for putting their birds
in show condition.

FAKING x\ND LEGITIMATE PREPARATION — BOTH LAID BARE.

Faking is certainly wrong and it should not be practiced, but even in legitimate show preparation what
chance have you to win over one or more honest competitors who may have a copy of this book and
thereby possess the knowledge which enables them to fix up their birds in scores of ways that are not known
to you. Consider also the immense advantage you would have in being able to detect such forms of faking
as can be discovered in cases where there may possibly be a dishonest exhibitor in the class.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

How to Straighten Lopped Spikes op Blades of Combs.
How to Bring Out the Bright Red Color of Combs, Face and
Wattles.

How Small Patches of White are Covered up In Red Ear

Lobes.
How Back Plumage is "Fixed" to Reduce the Angle at the

Tail and Give a Nicer Curve to the Back.
How to Clean the Plumage of Partl-Colored fowls for Show

Without Washing.
Removing Creaminess and Brasslness from White Birds.
Covering up Off-Color in Black Plumage Including Purple

Barring.
How te Improve the Color of Any Partl-Colored Bird.
How to Make a Bird of Its Own Accord Pose in the Show

Coop.

How to Add Lustre to Plumage of Dark Colored Fowls.

How to Add Weight to Exhibition Birds Quickly.

Coloring Yellow Legs.

How Side Sprigs are Removed Without Leaving a Scar.

How Foreign Color is Removed from Beaks.

How the Plumage of Red Birds Is Treated to Secure a Dark-
er Shade of Color and Lustre.

How White Tips are sometimes Removed from Barred Rock
Plumage.

Removing Traces of Stubs Pulled from Legs.

How Foreign Color is Removed from the Edges of Large
Feathers.

How Dark Streaks are Removed from the Quill of White
Feathers.

How Unscrupulous Exhibitors Have Been Known to Pre-
vent a Competitor's Birds from Showing Properly.

Putting Birds in Show Condition that Have Missing op
Broken Feathers in Main Tail or Wing.

Preventing Purple Barring in Black Fowls.

Preventing Show Room Growth and Lopping of Comb.

How Feathers are Spliced.

Feeding to Produce a Darker Shade of Buff.

How White Ear Lobes are treated for Small Defects In

Color.

A frequent Cause of Large, Beefy and Lopped Combs and

How to Prevent Them.
How to Artificially Moult Fowls In Nearly Half the Regular

Time.
How to Secure and Hold Profuse Toe and Leg Feathering on

Feathered Legged Varieties.
A Practically Unknown Cause of Lopped Combs and the

Remedy.
How to Prevent Light Colored Le^s. *

How to Increase Gloss Sheen and Depth of Color In Moulting

Male Birds.
A good Stimulant and Preventive of Colds In Birds Shipped

to Shows in Extreme Cold Weather.
How to Prevent Combs from Freezing when Birds are Ex-
posed.
One of the Causes of Off-Colored Feathers In Partl-Colored

and Black Fowls. How to Remedy the Defect.
How Sickle Feathers are Shortened without Clipping the

Ends.

What to Feed to Promote Feather Growth.

Tonic for Maintaining Health and Appetite In Show Birds

and to Counteract the Effects of Confinement.
Preventing Brasslness from Appearing In White Birds.
How to Clean Paint from Birds that have Come in Contact

with Newly Painted Coops op Houses.
How to Prevent Color Cuts on Plumage by Stopping the Flow

of Blood from Comb, Wattles, etc., when Injured In the

Show Room.

Complete Detailed Instruction for Washing and Chemlcallv
Bleachmg White Birds. v^n^iriicaiiy

How Black or Gray Specks In White Plumage are Hidden.

THE ABOVE SUBJECTS ARE ONLY A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS. There are many other
equally interesting, important and valuable secrets, many of them being alone worth the price of the book.
There are many seemingly "little" things that are of great importance and that you would never think
of. THE EASY LESSONS IN JUDGING ARE ALSO A FEATURE OF THE BOOK AND WILL
TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF SCORING FOWLS.

ALL THE METHODS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND VARIOUS MODES OF
PREPARING BIRDS FOR THE SHOW ROOM ARE FULLY EXPLAINED.

You need the book to protect yourself against the dishonest fakir and you need it to put yourself on
an equal footing with your honest competitors. It will save you dollars in useless entry fees, and it will
show you how to win the coveted prizes and honors which your rivals would otherwise receive.

Have you ever bought a poultry book on general topics or disclosing some system or so-called secrets
and upon receipt of it had your expectations drop with a dull thud of disappointment? Well! this isn't that
kind of a book.

THE PRICE OF THE BOOK IS $2 AND IT IS WORTH THE PRICE.

BACH PURCHASER AGRKHS TO NOT DIVULGB THE SBCREIS OF THE BOOK EXCEPT TO MEMBERS OW HIS FAMILY

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AL DISPLAY ADS

Ad« will be inserted in this department under the following conditions : The size
•hall be uniform, each ad occupying three-quarters of an inch single column- Each
adrertiser to use the same space each month. Ads may be changed every three
months if desired. No ads will be inserted for less than twelve months. The cost is
$10 per year.^ Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule. The price is
made exceptionally low on this account.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS

::::H. BREVOORT ZABRISKIE::::
17 ELM STREET - WOBURN, MASS.

Buff Cochins That Win

On ten birds at Cedar Rapids, I won all flrste and
special for best 10. I can help you win too, If
you send me your order for stock or eggs. Grand
birds for sale and eggs that will produce winners.
$3 per 15. $5 per 30. I will more than please you.
J. C. MITCHEM. Marshalltown. Iowa

w 1th score cards for sale, iiicluclinn .st. Louis win-
ners. Huff & Part. Wyaudottes, KlA<;k l^aiigshans.
Young stock: Buff, W. & I'urt. Wyandottes, lilk.
Langshans, S. C. W.. Ur. and Hnff Legliorns that
will win. Buff Wyandottes brtMl exclusively.
Other varieties bred by .John Allen.
Allen & Schln<ller i'erryville. Mo.

R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island

O _ J_ None better. 40 first and second
IVeaS* prizes at at Sedalia and Kansas
City. 150 grand birds at special prices to
quick buyers. Place egg orders now.

D. J. BLISS, Carthasre, Mo.

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Line Bred For 20 Years

Special priceson cockerelsand pullets. Voungstock
better than ever this season. Get prices now.

E. M. Buechly. Box 10, Greenville, Ohio

PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS

Noted for shape, size and color, bred from
the best blood obtainable and winners at the
leading shows. Write for prices and full
particulars.

THOS. H. PHILUPS State Vice President.
S. C. B. Minorca* Club, Dover, N. J.

LIGHT BRAHMAS

Size, fine markings, good leg and toe feather-
ing, etc. Eggs $2.00 per 15. Please send orders
early.

JNO. F. WOODS. UTIUTY FARM, R. 19,

Owensville, Ind.

1' FILE'S CATALOtilJK gives
prices of all the leading varieties of
land and water fowls. Farm raised
stock for sale and eggs In season.
Send 2 cents for my Poultry Book.

HKNRY PFIT.E
Freport, III, Dept. A

At INDIANAPOLIS February 190t;. my
RarrAfl Rni*1f« won 1st cockerel, 2d cock.
Oarrea IVOCKS silver Cup; Feb. 1908. 1st
cock, Lst cockerel; Sept. 1909, l.st and 3d cocks,
1st pen. I breed Rose Comb Reds Indiana-
polis winners too St<)(k with <|ii.ility for
sale. W, W. ZIKE. MORRISTOWN, IND

REiCHERT'S

White Rocks and
R. C. IV. Leghorns

Special prices on li. C. W. Legliorn Cockerels, in
lots of three or more, $1.50 eaeh, for this moiitli.
SatlsfHCtlon guaranteed. :: :: ::

K. H. Reiohort - :- Vlrd«ai, IlllnoiH

White Plume Farm

produces the fowls
you need to build
up your flock. All prize winners. White
Plymouth Rocks, White African Guineas,
White Holland Turkeys, White Pekin Ducks,
White Embden Geese. Write for prices on
eggs. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. C. BAKER, P'

Rt. 1, Plainville, 111.

Golden Wyandottes ???e

Egg Strain
Chicago, Dec. 7-
12, 1909. 60 in class, won Hth cock, 4th cockerel,
3rd pullet, with 4 birds. Mo. State Show, St.
Louis, Dec. 6-11, 1809, CA in class, won 2d cock,
3d cockerel, 4th pullet, with ,5 birds.
J. S. Pennington. Box F, Plainfield. 111.

Langshan - Hills Poultry Farm,
Home of Barnes' Black Lang-
shans, winners whenever shown. Write
your wants; Cockerels and Pullets $2..')0 each.
Hens $1.50. Napoleon J. Barnes
R. D. 7, Box 15. Winchester. Ky.

LAKE SHOKK POULTRY FARM

Breeders of

Hisrh Class Silver I.,ace<l Wyandottes
Kxclusively. Stock for sale at all times. Egg
odrers booked now.

H. F. BKRGNEli. Pres. HENRY MAU, Mgr.
South Chlcayro. llln. U.F.D. No :U. Kenosha, Wis.

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Fat:iltless'* Hot;iaans, 287
£^^ Straix^* Five carefully mated pens
of large, cre.sted, dark colored birds, de-
scended from the greate.st prize winners in
America. Book your orders now for Spring
A few males at low prices. Circular free.
Wm. C. Snider.

Box 105, Kansas. Ills.

R^in^let Barred PlymotatH
Rocks won all firsts at Oshkosh, 1909, two
silver cup.s, clean sweep. Cockerels $1 50 up.
Eggs, best matings $3..50 per 15 |5 per 30. gen-
eral stock |1.!)0. Lake Vikw Pottltry Harm.

T. W. C'ritchette. Markesnn, Wis.

^. C. Black and IVHite Minor-

caa bred for si/.e and egg production.
Stock and eggs for sale in season. All cor-
respondence answered promptly.

G. B. SmitH (Sb Son

Box 4. 'i 4 North Halt imore, <).

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds
Light Brahma Bantams m'^T's o'n

Square. N. Y., Baltimore, Ilagerstown. Md..
Philadelphia, Nazareth, Allentowti and Rf>ad-
ing. Pa. Stock and efrfrs. Hillside Poultry
Y«rd«., J.S Fry. Prop.. Dept F.. Nazareth, Pa.

Buff Wyandottes

Kxcluslvely — All hjuc rlhhon birds for sale. Prices
upon request. Winners Ht Buffalo, etc. Also some
•"and youiij; stock at right prices.

Glenn H. Bur^off : Eden Center, New York

B. P. ROCKS & S. C. W. LEGHORNS

Egg orders hooked now from my 200-egg
Btralns. Trap nests used. I know .lust what I am
doing. Birds scoring 91 to {).'> wlih a famous egg
record hehlnd them. Have the shape, color and
size. Write me for a square deal.

H. (). SWIFT — F. Castlewood, So. Dak.

December, '10

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£GGS^ BARRED J>LYMOUTH £QQS

FOR HATCHING

both pullet and cockerel lines. Catalogue
giviqg winning, mating and prices free.

Chas. F. SCHLUETER. Box K. Reynolds. 111.

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

We head the Kellerstra.ss strain and hav,^
defeated the strongest competition at leading
shows. You don't take chances when you
send us an order for stock or eggrs Both for
sale now. Write us. D, A WEDGE,
215 Galena Street Aurora. III.

PRIZE WINNING

WHITE PLYMOUTH ^t'^ IfSltS-

D/^/^I^C ter than ever this year. Prices
OSCAR E. WOOD UNION. IOWA

S. C. and R. C. RHOI>K ISLAND REDS

Single combs direct descendauts from New
York Champion, his sire "Old Glory" and "Red
Cloud." Rose comb descendants of O. E. Miles
first pen, superior color, fine combs. Best stock
obtainable. For stock and eggs write
Dr. E. B. CRAMBLIT, AMES, IOWA

Walker's White Rocks

ALWAYS WIN

Write for prices on stock and eggs.
ROBT. WALKER, - Sebrlnii. Ohio

At Indianapolis, Ind. State Show my

DdllCU 1. I\UCK5 hen; 1909 again they
won 1st and 2d pullet, 3d and 4th hen in 1910.
Springfield, O., 1st and 2nd hen. 1st pen, 2nd
cockerel, 3rd pullet, 1910 also Silver Cup.
Kggs $3 00 for 15. H. W. B ARNETT
24 Bushnell BIdflr.. - Sprinafield,

Buff Rocks, S. C. Black Minorcas
and R. C. R. 1. Reds ^^m. "^t"

breeders. Grand birds at half their value.

H. S. WENTZ. QUAKERTOWN, PA.

CDLLMBIAN ROCKS, COLUMBIAN
WYANI>OTTES, bred from New York.
Buffalo and Rochester winners, Tt firsts 2 seconds
on 7 entries at Rochester show. Dec. 19<>9. Cock-
erels 18 to tit), pullets §2 to |ti. Trios f7 to 115.
Eggs II. T^ per V\ t.S per 30. Free setting from
best pen with each 110 order. Stock guaranteed
F. A. CAMPBELL, HONEOYE, N. Y.

S. C. Black Orpiiij^tons

Si.x years a breeder; won 22 firsts, 15 seconds
2 silver cup.s and several other prizes durinjj:
the past 3 years. A limited amount of stock
for sale from these winners. Eg^fs in season
Dora James Pick. Fall River. Wis.

CLASS Single Comb Rhode Island

Pprle Prize Winners. Eggs from 1st pen,
i%cud setting l.'i eggs $2..50. Kggs from 2nd
pen, setting \h eggs $2.00. .Special prices on
orders of 100 or more. Guaranteed .satis-
faction. William Kenney, Sparland. III.

WHITE PLYMOUTH
ROCK

Cockerels and
pullets for
sale. Birds score from 94% to 9<;
and will improve your flock.
Prices rearonable. Eggs for sale from this
quality of .stock.
W. R. GEIER REMINGTON. IND

FOR SALE. M. BRONZE
Tl JRICFY^ ^^^^^^ ^y '"y ^^^^^ p"^*^

* ^^ axA^a-i A t.^ winner and d i p 1 o ma
Tom. Finest stock to be found. Also S . I.
Wyandottes. C. J. KAPPHAHN

R. 8 ALEXANDRIA. MINN.

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R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

Won first at the great Milwaukee Show 1910
A Cockerel hatched from ej,^gs I sold wori
1st at the Wisconsin State Fair, 1910.
HenH and Coekerels for Sale CHEAP
DIst. Atfy Philip Lehner. Princeton, Wis.

■Kellerstrass and Cook Strain of

S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS

A few Cockerels and Pullets for sale. Eggs

in season. Satisfaction guarante . .

A. J. WALDSCHMIDT, Washintfton.Ia.

DON'T OVERLOOtTtHIS

*■ other people would read your ad if it were r
here, just the same as you are reading this >
one. See the rates and conditions at the head )
of this department and send in an ad. It will >
bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. >
357 Dearborn Stre«t. *" Chlctgo. III. >

Rose Comb Brown ^ r^\,itl-.

I FflHORN^ Hartford. Worcester and
LiLiUUV^IVilO Boston. A few good cock-
erels for sale from the 1st Boston cock. Eggs
for hatching
C. H. CLARK. BOX F. COBALT, CONN.

I |r;|JT EXCLUSIVELY 12 years a breed-
■^*^~** * * er. My stock is exc

My

BRAHMAS

excellent, high
scoring, great layers,
will please the most
particular. Flock of 200 to select from. Prices
right. Eggs, single .settings or incubator lots
HAROLD DAVIS SLEEPY EYE. MINN

Rose and Single Comb R. I. Reds

Breeding and Kxhibition Cockerels, witli
score cards by Heimlicli and Ott. Prices
from S2..S0 to <25. .Send for my mating ^■^•^
which will describe mv Pens also g-ive my
winnintrs. F. W. OERTEL. Box F. Brighton. III.

WYAINDOTTESJ

Silver and White. Winners wliercvi-r shown, 5
Vouiig st<)Clv roinliiR on tine ami will be heard
from (lurin;^ our fall fairs aixl winter shows.

lOlR SISTKRS POULTRY FARM

Will I'. Ycttcr. Prop., IJ. 3, I'x.x A, New n,ivarla, ()

A CHOICE LOT OF

Buff Rock and Buf! Wyandotte

Youngsters bred from my Ijst years
v^'inners. Also several Buff Rock Cock
Birds. Write for prices.
L. C. VOGT, - LYONS. WIS.

Partridge, Buff Black and White

Cocliiiis, White, Black, Bulf, Sil-
ver & Golden Polish: ^^;'^^^r

rv I'ri/o winners ;^8 years. Dr. H. F Ballard.
.JudiTi-, Importer and Hrep<U'i. Chenoa.III.

i^ThisBoneCutter

produces filled egg baskets.
Cuts fast and easy. Green
bone, scraps from table, vege-

tableo,scrap cake. Always

ready for use.
_ S nd for catalog.

if WILSON BROS. . Box 822 EASTON, PA.

Answers to Questions

Readers are invited to use this department freely. Write to the
editor for any information desired. There is no charge for the service

Question.— What do vou think of a
fock or cockerel ( Wliite Wyandotte) that
.shows hrassiness that has a pure white
under-color and quill? Do you think it
possihle to get a White Wyandotte cock
that will not at any time show that
color?

Answer. — Birds such as you refer to are
quite common. We do not know just
h.ow to answer your inquiry as to wliat
we think of a bird of tnat kind. It is
possihle to sret better birds, but there are
many worse ones placed in breeding pens.
It is possible to get White Wyandotte
male birds that will not at any time show
hrassiness.

Q'lestion. — Kindly advise me on the fol-
lowing points about Buff Orpingtons.
What is the correct color of legs? Sh<ndd
the plumage shoy any black feathers?

Answer. — The shanks should be white
or jjinkisii white. In fact tlie skin of tlie
entire fowl is white. Where any other
color shows up on shanks than white or
pinkish white it disqualifies. White and
black feathers in Buff Orpingtons are
common defec-ts and serious according to
the amount of either found in the speci-
men. The.v are commonly seen in wings
or tail of either sex. Althougli they may
be seen at times in under-color of neck
an<] .saddle. They are alike objectionable.
Where they are peppered through the
wings or tail in small particles they are
subject to a cut of V2 to IV^. Wliere the
feathers become as much as one-third
black it is a serious defect and would
be cut from 2 to 2*/^ points. More than
this is not usually seen in the show room.
Black is much more conmion than white
in Orpington fowls.

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Question.— For 25 years I have pub-
lished a country newspaper and find my-
self at 4() years of age with a broken-
down ner\'ous system. I have saved a
few dollars and could worry along prob-
ahl>' without toiling, but I must do some-
tiling. I have dabl)led a little in poultr.v
and like it. A friend of mine here has
made a success of poultr.v in a small
way; in fact he is evidently a born
chicken man. He has been indoors for
many years and has also cut loose. This
is preliminary to saying that we propose
to join forces and g<i into poultr.v, but we
do not know just what line to follow or
exactly how to proceed.

We have had in mind the establish-
ment of a da.v-old-chick plant, with ex-
pectation of hatching for others. We as-
sume the mammoth incul)ator is the onl.v
s.vstem foi- this business, but we hesitate
to put $1,(HM» into it without previous ex-
perience in this i)articulai' line. We had
also thought of doing this. Buy. say six
the 400-ogg size, which could give a ca-
jacit.v of about 2,4(i(» eggs; using them
in the l-.Ue winter and earl.v spring. If
we !uade a success of the venture it
would be eas.v to install the big machine
;iiul sell the incubators. If we made a
railurc the im-uhatois could be sold with-
out great loss.

Is this a practicable scheme? If not.
why not? If not, can .\<)u give us a bet-
ter stoci? As I said. 1 should not l»e de-
pendent on the revenue from ciiickens but
the other man would — he lias but little
rt\enne. But he is a wondet at making
(^•hiikens grow and live ami show up.

Answer. — With the experience of the
othci- party who will be connected with
Nou and your c\i(icntlv good business
.uulginent as indicated by yrmr letter, the
tv.'o of ,vou ought to make a big success
at tlie business. It would be possible to
v.rite se\eral pages of a<l\ice and still
IK t I'over the rratter. but in answer to
your direct question In legard to methods
of hatclung will s.iy tlial in our opinion it
would be hcitcr and safer for .nou to se-
cure (he six 40')-egg incubators than to
install the mammoth machine. You un-
d(tnl)tcdl\' have the correct idea regard-
ing the mattei-.

Question. — 1 have a male bird 15 months
old who has the sickness of "going light."
He only weighs about 3V^ lbs., mopes
around, eats and drinks, but does not
pay any attention to the hens and can not
get on the roost at nights.

Kindly do me the favor and give me
complete information. I paid $4.00 for
the bird, is a blue ribbon winner and I
should like to keep him if he is of any
value for a breeder.

Answer. — The disease you refer to is
the same as consumption in the human
family. The bird cannot recover and will
be absolutely worthless as long as it lives.
It should not be bred under any circum-
stances. The thing for you to do is to
kill the bird and bury it deeply where the
other fowls will not get to it.

m m

Question. — Please explain through your
columns what is meant by mossiness and
mealiness in the plumage of fowls. If
1 have pure bred stock and use the Felch
breeding chart for breeding, will improve
the Hock without having to go outside for
new blood?

Answer. — Mossiness is an irregular dark
penciling appearing in center of laced
feathers and destroying the desirable con-
trast of color. To illustrate: In the laced
feathers of Silver Wyandottes the prime
object should be to get this lacing and
to have the black outer edge of feathers
clear black and the white center of
feather a clear white — the white free from
the outside lacing of l)lack. Now if the
outer rim (or lacing) of feather, which
is or should be black, merges into the
center of feather which should be white
this produces a blurred and muddy look —
this is called mossiness. Work for the
clear-cut colors in such breeds as have
laced feathers. Mealiness is the appear-
ance of being sprinkled with meal applied
to buff varieties where the ground color
is stippled with a ligliter shade. It is a
mingling of a light and darker shade of
color all over the feather and is found at
times only in one section and again it
obtains almost all over the bird and
creates the appearance as if a bird had
gotten meal mixed in the buff or red
feathers. To illustrate: A Buff Orping-
ton should be one continuous shade of
rich buff with a golden tinge throughout
the surface. A mealy appearance is not
a clear buff, although it may have traces
of the proper shades in its make-up, for
this ol>jectionable mealy surface so often
found is made up of two or more shades
of color intermingled, often so fine as to
pass unnoticed by a novice.

The Felch Breeding Chart is scien-
tifically reliable and is used and en-
dorsed by many of the successful breeders
of the world. Its use makes for uniform
type and color in breeding. Get the very
i-iest stock procurable for foundation stock
and then line breed according to Felch
and if careful and scientitic in feeding
and housing success will surely follow.

Hackett's Columbian Wyan-
dottes and R. C. Reds

Special prices on extra fine stock If taken
before Dec. 1st.

CEO. W. HACKETT

Box 111 North Freedom, Wis.

AT THE l$>IO
Miiiiiesotii Stiito Fair

We won on Columbian Wyandottes: I, 2 ,3 Cock;

1. L'. .S, l'ullct;l, Z,3, lien;l Pen.

On Light Brahmas: 1 Cock; 1. 2, 3 Hen; 1. 2, 3
Cockerel; 1, 2. 3 Pullet; 1, 2. Pen.
GEO. A. KIRSTFN
119 West 52 Street MINIMEAPOLIS. MINN.

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BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

REDUCTION SA1.E OX EXHIBITIOX
stock. I'artirdge Wyandotte rockerels.

Partridge Cochin Bantams. Bourbon Red
Turkeys and Mammoth I'ekin Drakes. Pio-
neer Stock Farm, J. Otis Beeslev. Prop.,
Letts. Ind. -joo

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

THE WORLD RENOWNED RINGLET
Barred Rocks. Won first on cock, cockerel,
pullet, hen. pen, two silver cups at Wiscon-
sin State Show, 1909. EgRs. best pens, IH
for $3; 30 for $5. As they run, 13 for $1;
100 for $4. Cockerels. $2 and up. Crit-
chette's Poultry Farm, Markesan. Wis. 124

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROOKS.

CHOICE COCKERELS. -'CALUMET"

strain. White Rocks. Their mothers all
have trap nest records of 200 eggs and bet-
ter. Big white Standard shaped fellows.
Selected birds $2 up. C. I. Bashore, Calu-
met. Mich. g.j

CHOICE COCKERELS, "CALUMET"

strain White Rocks. Their mothers all have
trap nest records of 200 eggs and better. Big
white Standard shaped fellows. Selected birds
$2 up. C. I. Bashore, Calumet, Mich. 10-3

WHITE ROCKS— STOCK FOR SALE THAT
will win in the show room and fill the egg
basket. Our birds are big, white beauties,
strong m all good points. Eggs from our
choicest matings at living price.s. Berwyn
Poultry Yards. Box P, Berwvn. 111.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

BE SURE AND READ THIS AD. lUFF
Rocks. Do you want a show bird, trio or
breeding pen? Let me quote vou price.s.
Have some extra fine birds. Saitsfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. Stock
grown on free range. A. S. Matthews.
Wayne. Micli. 11-.^

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COLUMBIAN ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color marking.s. Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15- other
pens $0 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,
ilL . ^-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

GIMLIN'S WHITE WYANDOTTE.S. HAVE
exhibited and won leading poultry shows
In 1909. including Illinois State Sliow and
Illinois State Fair. Have furnished win-
ners for shows that have won the blue.
Send for free catalogue, list of winnings
and prices on stock and eggs. Elmer Gim-
lln. Taylorville. 111. !t-10-12

EXHIBITION COCKRltELS SIRED BY

^rJ'*'*"^\^w""^','-" ^^"^ famous .■;, iOM champion
White Wyandotte cock. First prize 1909 St
Louis-Mis.'^ouri State exposition. $2.50. .$5 and
IIP each. David .1. Cook, EtTingham. Ill ll-i

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

PARTRHXJE WYAXD(rrTl':s OF QUAL-
Jty. Founded on the best J>lood in America
CJhoIce exhibition >>ii-ds and »»ieeders for
sale, old and young. I'lice.s rea.sonable
Will Norman. MineiJil T^.illl, Wis. 124

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES.

GET SOME GOOD < « »i ,1 .M |{ | .\ .\ \VN\N-
dottf's. Buy the Koyal siijiin and vou will
not be disap))f)inted. My liir.ls are line ]>red
for generations. They always win in hottest
competition and they will »»reed winneis for
you. You can't afford to pass this ad with-
out writing me. I can. and will please y,ni
Jacob Heck. Station 23. Detroit. Mich I'loi*

ORPINGTONS.

FOR THE BEST ORPINGTONS, ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
nators, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, history of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. N. J.

1-10-12

S. ('. ORPINGTONS— A FLNE LOT OF
cockerels for sale. Eggs for liatching in
season. This stock i.s bred for size, tvpe
color. L. E. Ackerly. Frankfort, ind. 10-4

and

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS — SALE
now on. Some fine birds to ofter vou. Earlv
orders will get them. Write today to Col-
fax Smitli. Clarksville. Iowa. 11-1

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown. Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

KELLERSTRASS WHITE ORPINGTON
cockerels. Bred from prize winners at lead-
ing shows. Day old chicks in season. Also
White Rocks, White Wyandotte.s, S. C. White
Leghorns and Rhode Island Red.-^. Get
l>rices. .1. A. Roy, Netcong. X''. .7. 10-3

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge & Son. Bourne. Mass. 9-9-12

LANGSHANS.

INVEST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; $2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
cockerels for sale. Fred L, Bachman. Rom-
ulus. N. Y. 4 3

BIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
I'art of my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $5 and
up; males $10 and up. 21 years a breeder
of the best Black Langshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder, Male birds each season
score to 95 1^, females 96 lA. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best pen In
the show three years, all breeds competing
score 19 lA. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis!
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton. Wis. ll-g-l^

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

ROSE C(^MB WHITE LEGHORNS— WON 4
firsts at Syracuse, Elmira, Rochester and
Hagerstown. Cocks, cocken-ls. two trios one
pen. and a few tested breeders for 'sale
Dr. Decker. Bradford, N. Y 11.3

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLAKE S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and
3rd cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square
New York. I made 3 entries, winning Ist
pullet. Eggs $2 per setting. W. J. Blake.
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. O. BROWN LEGHORNS.

SPK<I.\L XOVI<:Mlil^:K PJUCES— INVIN-
' , , \ ; <'• J^''>^^'> L' ^,^horns. Show birds and
j»ullet-l>i-ed cockerels from dams scoring 94
Write your wants. Circular free. Corres-
pondence solicif,.(l. Harry T. Trainer
Specialist. Carpenter, O. 11-10-1'>

BLACK MINORCAS.

PORTER'S S. C. BLACK MIXORCAS
win S blue ribbons in 3 years at Nebraska
State Fair. Have a few show birds and
iireeders for sale this month. Get prices
before buying elsewhere. J. F. Porter, Fre-
mont. Neb. ll-i

BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Bulf and Black Cochin, Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. 800 birds. Proper &

HOUDANS.

THE BEST THAT ARE BRED IN HOU-
dans. Winners at Chicago and MlnneapoUa
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. H. M. Sparboe, Webster
City. Iowa. g.j

HOUDAXS— BEFORE BUYING STOCK OR
eggs write me. Have cock birds and hens;
also, fine bunch of cockerels and pullets to
select from. L. A. Sedgwick, 1510 K. Gan-

son St.. .lackson. Mich.

10-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards In
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. Jacobus. Prop..
Ridgefield. N. .1. 2-«

TURKEYS.

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TURKBYS.
All large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from 94 to 98
Eggs $3 per setting of 10. W. A. Smith.
Burnt Prairie. HI. 4.J

PIGEONS.

WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER
pigeons. Pay at least 25c pair. 5,000 small
chicks, poultry, guineas, live rabbits, dressed
squabs. Highest prices paid. S. Gilbert,
ni'S I'alm<-r Street, I'hiladelphia. Pa. 126

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE
treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of
price. 50 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sle-
genthaler. Canton, O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTB-
heads. envelopes, post-ards, labels, cards,
tags, 100 either. 40c; 250. 75c; 500. $1.26.
postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printing Co.. Manchester. la. 10-»

POULTRY BOOKS.

"SCIENCE AND ART OF POULTRY CUL-
ture," by Earl D. Hawks, practical poultry
expert and manager of large poultry plant.
Textbook for beginners and experts, con-
servative and comprehensive. Covers so-
called secrets and systems, also entire In-
dustry. Cloth bound. 500 pages. Send for
circular. Rock Book Co. (Dept. A), Clin-
ton. Wis. \9-%

CORNS C U I{ K D

Send 2c stamp tor FREE package of

CO R N O F F

The world's greatest discovery for the removal

of corns. CORNOFF CO.. BCUCFONTf:. f A.

• !•

•

A SPECIAL 6ENEBAI CONTEST

First Prize $100 in Gold. Second Prize $50 in Gold. Third Prize
$25 in Gold and 1 7 other Prizes consisting of $25 Pens of Birds
and $15 Trios of Birds.

$500 in Cash and High Grade Fowls

In order to interest those who desire to compete in a contest where the princi-
pal prizes are cash ones we have inaugurated a supplementary contest which
will be conducted separately and without any connection whatever with our other
contest where the $100 Pens, $50 Trios and $25 Pairs are offered.

The Prizes in this Contest are as Follows:

1ST PRIZE, $100 IN GOLD.

2ND PRIZE, $50 IN GOLD.

3RD PRIZE, $25 IN GOLD.

4TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

5TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

6TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

7TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

8TH
9TH
10TH
11TH
12TH
13TH
14TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$25
$25
$25
$15

$15
$15
$15

PEN

PEN

PEN

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

TRIO

OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

15TH
16TH
17TH
18TH
19TH
20TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$15
$15
$15
$15
$15
$15

TRIO OF

TRIO OF

TRIO OF

TRIO OF

TRIO OF

TRIO OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FULL DETAILS OF THE OFFER

in this contest will be of the full value as stated
exhibit prize-winning stock. The birds, as re
tion and all leading breeds will be included in
stock his first choice and we will undoubtedly be
entering the contest, let us know what variety o
of the twelve classes in our other contest can
liberal commission on each subscription, whether

The contest closes March 15th

and all prizes will be awarded

on that date. The fowls offered

and will come from breeders who produce and

gards breed and variety, will be of our own selec-

the list. We shall try to give every winner of

able to do this in nearly every case. When

f fowls you prefer. Agents who compete in either

not compete in this one. Every agent gets a

he wins a prize or not.

Here is Some Inside Information

Our experience in contests of this kind is that most people think that they cannot win a
prize and the number who make an effort is very small. The result is that the prizes are usually
awarded for ridiculously small lists of subscribers. We liave not the slightest doubt that some
of the $15 trios in this contest will go to agents who secure less than a dozen subscriptions, but
the birds and cash prizes are going to be given away, even if they are won with only a single
subscription. No reader of these lines who can devote a few hours of his spare time to the work
should fail to make the effort.

Write Today, Don't Put It Off

Drop us a card saying that you wish to secure subscriptions in our General Contest. We
will then send you sample copies, receipt books and all other necessary supplies. This is your
opp<irtunity. Don't let it slip. Subscriptions are easy to get. The paper is worth many times the
price and poultrymen realize this as soon as they see a copy. Address

Successful Poultry Journal

FRANK HECK
EDITOR

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

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Numbers and initials count the same as words.

30 words or less one month, $1. For more than 30 words
add two cents for each additional word.

30 words or less, three months, $2. For more than 30 words
add 3 cents per word.

For any time longer than three months the rate is two cents
per word per month, but no ad will be accepted for less than 50
cents per month and the ad must appear each successive month.

A discount of 10 per cent given on ads running for 12 months.

"-''**«Map^'

All classified advertising is payable in advance. Positively no
exceptions to this rule. The rates are so low that we cannot
afford to take the time and trouble and incur the expense neces-
sary to keep book accounts with these ads.

Send money order, currency, draft or registered letter. Stamps
accepted ft,'" amounts less than one dollar.

Poultry Fancier is published the 1 5th of each month. All
ads must reach us not later than the 5th. Advertisers receive
the paper free rach month that their ad apoear?;.

BREEDERS' SEVERAL VARIETIES.

iiiODrc-i'iox SAIJ-: ox i:.\ n ihiik >x

sttxk. I'iirtirdm- \\'\ audui i .• cockt'icls.

Pai-tiidn*' <'"<hiii Hantaiiis. Ii(>iirl.<m lifd
Turkfvs and Mainiin.tli I', kin iMakt-.'^. Pio-
neer Stock Faini. .1. ()iis H.-esj.y. I'l-oj).,

l^ettS, IlKl. ■ ij;>

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

'PHI': WoltlJ) KHX()\VX|<:i) lilXiJLKT
liarifd Jiocli.s. Won lirxt on i-oelv. cockiTel,
pullet, lien, ix-n, two silv.-i- eujts at Wiscon-
sin Stat<> Show. ] !»(•!•. Kkks. Inst pens. 1 .".
lor .$:5; .'IH lor .*.".. A.s th.-v run. 1 ;! for $1 ;
100 l(.r $1. Cockerels. f,-2 and np. Ciii-
chettc's I'onltry Farm. Maik-san. Wis. 1 l' 1

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

CHOICE COCKFJilOLS. -CAT.rMET"

strain Wliite Rocks. Their mothers all
have trap nest i-ecords of L'OO ('kks and bet-
ter. BiK white Standai-d sliapcd fellows.
Selected birds $1.' ui). C. I. Il.ishorc, Calu-
Tiiet, iSlicli. <j.i

CHOICE COCKEMEI.S. c\hmkt-

strain White Itocks. Their mothers all have
trap nest records of L>00 e^KS and better. ]iig
wliite standard shai)ed fellows. Sel.cicd birds
$2 up. C. I. Hashore, Calum.t. Mich. K)-:;

AVHITE K(JCKS- STUCK FOi: SAM-: THAT
will win in the show room and lill the egg
basket. (Jur birds are ]rm, white ]»eauties.
strong in all good points. J-:ggs from our
choicest matings at living iirices. Herwvn
Poiiltry Yards. Hox P. l^erwvn, HI.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

HE SI JIE AXI) i;i:.\I) THIS AD IMFF
Hocks. J)o you want a show biid trio or
breeding j.en ? Het me .|iiot.' von i»rice.s.
Have some extra tine birds. .^aitsfaction
guaranteed or money lefunded. Stock

grown on free range. a. S. Matth.ws

Wa> lie. .Mich.

II

COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

COJ.UMBIAN' ROCKS — THE UTILITY
Beauty breed. My own strain. Correct in
shape, with grand color markings Eggs
from my Chicago winners $10 per 15- other
pens $0 per 15. Mrs. R. A. Judy, Decatur,

I I I . f> .J

^-4

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

(JIMIJXS WHITE WVAXiHjTTES. HAVE
exliibited and won leading jiouliry slu)ws
in Ht(t:t, including Illinois State Show and
Illinois State Fair. Have furnished win-
ners lor shows that have won the Idue.
Send for free eatalogue. list ..f winnings
and Iirices f>n stork and eggs. Elmer (Jim-
lln, Taylor\ille, Til. :t-10-12

Exmmrin.v cockei;i:ls siiiEH pv

'■^,V''""'w.'"""'-"' ''^'' '■'""""•'^ •• '•'•> chami.ion
White W .\anilotte co<k. I>'irst prize 1;m»;) st
Louis-Missouri State exposition. $L'..".o. ."*.', aiui
$1<i each. David .1. Cook. I«:ffiimham. Ill ll-i

PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES.

I'APTItlDCE W V.\X|)()ir|.:.s e>|- <^IAL-
ity. Founded on the best blood in America
<'hoice exhibition biids and breeders for
sale. old and \ouim. I'ric...s reasonable.
Will .\oiMi;in, .Mjnei;ii r.ijnt, Wis. l ;.• }

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES^

CE'I' S<i.M|-: i;(M)|) C( i|,| M i; I \ \ \\^ \.\-
dottes. P,u.\ the Ko.val strain and \ on will
not be (lisajipointed. .My Idrds are Ijn,. bred
for geiieialioiis. 'I'lie.v alwa\s win in liottesi
competition and tli-y will bred winners lor'
you. Vou .ant afford lo |ia>-s this ad with-
out writing; me. | cm. and will phase \ ou.
Jacoli Meek, .'^tiijoii 1':;, iJ.irojt. .Mich. I.'idi-

^m%^j^^^^0gtt^smssmm'^^

ORPINGTONS.

FOIi THE BEST ORPIXGTONS, ANY OF
the varieties, you must send to their origi-
naiors, who, naturally, have the best. Send
six cents for catalog, historv of Orpingtons
and hints on Poultry keeping. William Cook
& Sons, Box C, Scotch Plains. X. J.

1-10-12

S. ('. OlM'lXCTi )XS -A ILMO LOT Ol<'
cockerels for sale. Eggs foi- liai<hing in
seas(»n. This stoi-k is bre.i tor siz<-. tvjje
and color. L. E. Ackerly. J-'rankfoii . liid.lo-4

<"RVSTAL WIIII'I': " •Ki'lXCIi )X.< .>^.\LE

now on. Some line birds lo offer a.iu. iOarl\-
■IS will get them. Writ*' today to Col-

»rd<

lax .<mith. Clarksvilh

I 'i\\ a

11-1

BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND lOc TO-
day for club book! Tells why Blacks are
best of Orpingtons. The favorite of all who
breed the three varieties together. Tells of
Australian Government proof of laying su-
premacy; most rapidly maturing fowl;
largest per cent of white meat; largest and
most beautiful of Orpingtons. Milton
Brown, Secretary. Cheviot Poultry Farms,
Cincinnati. O. 12-10

K l':LLI-:USTIiASS Wll IT1-: (JKl'lXGTOX

cockerels. Jired iroin prize winners at lead-
ing shows. Day old chicks in season. Also
White Locks. AVhite AV.\ andot tes, S. C. White
Lenhorns and Kliode Island lieds. rjet
]»rices. .r. A. Floy. Netcong. .V. .1. ]0-?,

RHODE ISLAND REDS.

TO BREEDERS OF S. C. R. I. REDS. I
have a limited number of eggs to sell from
my prize winning pen. None better. F. C.
Eldrldge & Son. Bourne, Mass ?l-!>-12

LANGSHANS.

IX\EST IN A SETTING OF MY BLACK
Langshan eggs; it will pay you a hundred
times; .'?2 per setting. Grand, vigorous
coc-kerels for sale. Fred L. Harhm.Tn Rom-
ulus. X Y. ' 4_3

HIG BARGAINS NOW IN GRAND BIRDS.
Part c>f my best breeders for sale. Unscored
females $2 each. Scored females at $.5 and
ui>; males $10 and tij). 21 years a breeder
of the best Black liangshans. Have a show
record under leading judges unequaled by
any other breeder. Male birds each season
score to 9.-)i/2, females f)6V2. Made a clean
sweep in the Eastern Wisconsin show this
season and won silver cup for best j)en in
the shr.w three years, all breeds competing
score 19 »i. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis'
Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton. Wis. 11 -'(-i^"

R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

LOSE «(».MP, WHITE LE( HIORXS -A\( )N 4

(lists at S\racuse. Elmira. liochester and
Hagerstown. Cocks, cockerels, two trios one
l"n. ami a lew tested breeders f.ir sale
In. I>.cker. P.raflford. X. Y ^^ i

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.

BLARES S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN
at Springfield. 1st cock. Ist hen. 1st and
3rd cockerel, r. entries. At Madison Square
New York. I made 3 entries, winning 1st
pullet. Eggs .$2 per setting. W. J. Blake,
Burnside. Conn. 2-10-13

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.

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AL .\<»\i:.MHj:i{ PLICES L\\L\-
S C. P.rown Leyhoins. Show birds and
pnllet-bied <ockiiels from dams scoring !»4
Write >our wants. Circular free. (
pondcnce solicited. Hair.v T

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Trainer.
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BLACK MINORCAS.

P(jrti:ls s. c

win N blue ribbons
State l-'air. Ha\f ;
breed<MS for sale tl
lie lore bu.vin,g elsewli

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1:LA< K .MLNORCAS

ill :; years at X.'braska

a few show birds and

his month. (Jet prices

re. .1. i\ l»orter. Fre-

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BANTAMS.

RARE BARGAINS, GOLDEN AND SILVER
Sebright, Buff and Black Cochin. Rose Comb
Black and Black Red Game Bantams. High-
est honors New York. SOO birds. Proper St

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HOUDANS.

THE BEST THAT ARE BRED IN HOU-
dans. AVinners at Chicago and Minneapolis
for several years in succession. A lot of
nice ones for sale. II. M. Sparboe. Webster
Cjtv. Town. j}_j

HOIDAXS - IHOFOliL P.IVIXG ST(JCK OR
eggs write me. Have cock birds and hens;
also, fine bunch of cockerels and itullets to
select from. L. A. Sedgwick. 1 ." Hi E. Gan-

snn St.. .laekson. MJeii. 10-4

DORKINGS

SILVER GRAY DORKINGS. BEST TABLE
fowls. Splendid layers year around; New
York and Boston winners. Finest yards In
America. See Campine advertisement.

Cherry Grove Farm. M. R. .lacobus. Prop..
Ridgefield. N. .T. 2-6

TURKEYS.

•MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TCLKKYS.
A 1 large birds and first prize winners
wherever shown, scoring from *M to 98
Eggs %:i per setting of 10. W. A Smith!
Burnt Prairie, ill. 4.5

PIGEONS.

\V.\XTE1) — .".. I <"(».M.M(»X ( >l; IIO.MER

liigeons. I'ay at least 2.".c pair. .",.m>.) small
chicks. j.oultr.N. guineas. Ii\e rabbits, dres.sed
>^'|iiabs. Highest prices paid. S. Gilbert,
Ill's I'alm. r street. I 'li iladelph la. i'a 126

POULTRY SUPPLIES.

GAPES IX CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE

treatment and you will have no gapes. It's
safe and sure. Sent by mail on leceipt of
price. .-,0 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sie-
genthaler. Canton, O. 6-4

PRINTING.

PRINTING PulLTRY. GENERAL, NOTE-
heads. envelopes, post -ards. labels, cards,
tags. 100 either. 40c; 250, 75c; 500. $1.25.
postpairl. Circulars, everything. Finest en-
gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp.
Model Printine Co., Manchester. la. 10-§

POULTRY BOOKS.

scien<;e a.\d alt of poultry cul-
ture." by Earl 1). Hawks, practical poultry
• Xpert and manager of large poultry plant.
Textbook for beginners and experts. Con-
ser\ative and comjirehensive. Covers so-
<alled secrets and systems, also entire In-
<lustry. Cloth boimd. .'lOO pages. Send for
circular. Rock Book Co. (Dept. A), Clin-
ton. Wis. 10-6

C O HNS CUR 1^: D

Send 2c stamp tor FREE package of

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A SPECIAL GENERAL CONTEST

First Prize $100 in Gold. Second Prize $50 in Gold. Third Prize
$25 in Gold and 17 other Prizes consisting of $25 Pens of Birds
and $15 Trios of Birds.

$500 in Cash and High Grade Fowls

111 order to interest those who desire to compete in a contest where the princi-
pal prizes are cash ones we have inaugurated a supplementary contest which
will be conducted separately and without any connection whatever with our other
contest where the $100 Pens, $50 Trios and $25 Pairs are offered.

The Prizes in this Contest are as Follows:

1ST PRIZE, $100 IN GOLD.

2ND PRIZE, $50 IN GOLD.

3RD PRIZE, $25 IN GOLD.

4TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

5TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

6TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

7TH PRIZE, $25 PEN OF FOWLS.

8TH
9TH
10TH
11TH
12TH
13TH
14TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$25
$25
$25
$15
$15
$15
$15

PEN OF
PEN OF
PEN OF
TRIO OF
TRIO OF
TRIO OF
TRIO OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

FOWLS.

15TH
16TH
17TH
18TH
19TH
20TH

PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,
PRIZE,

$15
$15
$15
$15
$15
$15

TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO
TRIO

OF
OF
OF
OF
OF
OF

FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.
FOWLS.

FULL DETAILS OF THE OFFER

The contest closes March loth
and all prizes will be awarded
on that date. The fowls offered
in this contest will be of the full value as stated and will come from breeders who produce and
exhibit prize-winning stock. The birds, as regards breed and variety, will be of our own selec-
tion and all leading breeds will be included in the list. We shall try to give every winner of
stock his first choice and we will undoubtedly be able to do this in nearly every case. When
entering the contest, let us know what variety of fowls you prefer. Agents who compete in either
of the twelve classes in our other contest cannot compete in this one. Every agent grets a
liberal commission on each subscription, whether he wins a prize or not.

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Here is Some Inside Information

Our experience in contests of this kind is that most people think that they cannot win a
prize and the number who make an effort is very small. The result is that the prizes are usually
awarded for ridiculously small lists of subscribers. We have not the slightest doubt that some
of the $15 trios in this contest will go to agents who secure less than a dozen subscriptions, but
the birds and cash prizes are going to be given away, even if they are won with only a single
subscription. No reader of these lines who can devote a few hours of his spare time to the work
should fail to make the effort.

Write Today, Don't Put It Off

Drop us a card saying that you wish to secure subscriptions in our General Contest. We
will then send you sample copies, receipt books and all other necessary supplies. This is your
opportunity. Don't let it slip. Subscriptions are easy to get. The paper is worth many times the
price and poultrymen realize this as soon as they see a copy. Address

Successful Poultry Journal

FHANK HFCK
tOITOR

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

AD THIS OFFER CAREFULLY

Nearly $3,000 worth of fowls from the cream of some
of the best flocks in America will be distributed among
the agents securing subscriptions for Successful Poultry
Journal. These prizes are given in addition to liberal cash
commissions and every one gets well paid for his time.

0 PENS, $50 TRIOS, $25 PAIRS, GIVEN AWAY

Three Prizes in Each Class

FIRST PRIZE— A $100 PEN CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND FOUR FEMALES.

SECOND PRIZE— A $50 TRIO CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND TWO FEMALES.

THIRD PRIZE— A $25 PAIR CONSISTING OF ONE
MALE AND ONE FEMALE.

THESE THREE PRIZES ARE OFFERED IN EV-
ERY ONE OF THE 12 DIFFERENT BREEDS.

These Are The 12 Classes

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE PLYMOUTH

ROCKS, BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
WHITE WYANDOTTES, COLUMBIAN WYAN-

DOTTES.
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, R. C. RHODE ISLAND

REDS.
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS, S. C. WHITE ORPING-
TONS.
S. C. BLACK MINORCAS, S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS,

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS.
A $100 PEN, A $50 TRIO AND A $25 PAIR OF

EACH OF THE ABOVE 12 BREEDS WILL BE

AWARDED.

othing to Compare with this offer has ever before
been attempted in poultry journalism.

U[I7D17 IQ TTl-IF PI A W Decide upon which one of the above mentioned varieties of
£i.llil\lli li3 1 nili 1 l-i-r\lN fowls you prefer. For example: if you want to compete for

■-■~------------~''"~-~~~''~~~~~~~~~~~"~~"'"~ one of the three lots of Barred Rocks, write us and say that

you wish to enter the Barred Rock Contest. Each variety is in a class by itself and you do not have to com-
pete with hundreds of other agents, as is generally the case. In this way you have twelve times the chance
to get cither of the three prizes in your class and it is very probable that a small number of subscriptions
will secure the first prize. The agent sending in the largest number of subscriptions in his class gets the $100
pen. The $50 trio goes to second and the $25 pair to third. These prizes are almost equally desirable be-
cause the quality of the stock is about the same. The difference between the pen and the trio, for instance,
is largely in the number of birds ojnstituting the prize, you get practically the same quality but fewer birds.

The Contest closes March 15, 1911, and the birds
will be promptly shipped at that time.

Every agent gets pay for his work whether he wins a prize or not.
He gets this pay in the form of a liberal commission on every sub-
scription he sends us, regardless of how few or how many that may be.

IT IS EASY TO GET SUBSCRIPTIONS °^[ n.r.e luc^dTsL. °pou^?J;

^^--^^— --—"-■■— ---"--■'"■"""-"•■"^■^■"-"-■—"—"---——---■^^ Journal easily the best paper

published. Special articles, special illustrations, increased size and other features will put it far in the lead.
We supply agents with sample copies, receipt books, subscription blanks and a letter of complete instructions
explaining how to place the merits of Successful Poultry Journal before prospective subscribers in such way
as to easily get their subscriptions.

THE BEST FLOCKS IN AMERICA

Remember that some of the very foremost breeders in America will furnish stock in this contest. Abso-
lutely the cream of some of America's best flocks will be purchased by us and the birds will be worth every
dollar of the prices placed upon them. The neunes of breeders will be announced later.

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Write u? at once for sample copies and other supplies. Address

Successful Poultry Journal

FRANK HECK
EDITOR

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

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