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We design and print anything from a business card to a sale cata- log or association report, and all on the principle of "Satisfaction or your money back." Write for prices on anything you may need printed. PLAINDEALER PRINTING CO.. Charleston. 111. POUmr FENCE " STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF Bottom wires 1 inch apart. "Will not sag or hag. Re- quires no boards — top or bottom — and fewer posts. Costs less than netting:. W« pay freight. Send for Catalog. The Brown Fence & Wire Co. Dept. 94 Cleveland. Ohio. II Stock for sale that will win in the show room and fill the egg basket. Our birds are big, White, beauties, strong in good WHITE ROCKS WHITE WYANObftES ffist^t^^r" BERWYM POULTRY YARDS, liveng prices. BOX P,, BERWYM, ILL, 200 Pages CREIDER'S 100 Illustrations FINE CATALOG ^<. m bat( each Tayhrh ^^^^fr^^"^ show the amount of moisture (humidity) in in- ^^^ cuhators. l>on't risli eicK!*, time and money when you injure hatcheH with "Tyeof" instrumentM. A "Tyco*** ^ Thermometer is the Quality Murli iu an incubator. Ituy the hine equipped with It. Insiston the Kenuine. ''Tyco*'* Incu- ThermometerH, each, 7.5c. * 'Tyco*** Incubator Ilyterometers, 5<». 8end for free booklet, "Incubator Thermo- trument Companies. '"''*''•■ ^^"^^"^^ ^"'**** Kno«'n«f" ROCHESTEK, N.Y. Best reference book of pure bred poultry, for 1911, over 200 pages. 57 large pictures of fowls in natural colors. Calendar for each month. Illustrations, descriptions, pho- tos, incubators, brooders, infor- mation and ail details concern- ing the business. Tells where and how to buy fine poultry, eggs for hatching, supplies, etc.. at lowest cost. In fact, it is the greatest poultry catalog ever published. Send 15c for this handsome book, postpaid. THIS BOOK has guided hun- dreds of poultry raisers to success. Testimonials sent. B. H. CREIDER. Box lOt, Rheem«. Pa. BARRED ROCKS S.C.&R.C.R.1.REDS BUFF TURKEYS 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. ORPINGTONS KELLERSTRASS^ STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS We did not raise as many birds this year as «ehave lieretotorr We ,?rnoTra sW^i^f„a ,y V^^^^^ ^on^^WXx them ro^K^I [S*Sl?ir;,^3lT:/^?l' iTe^^^ '' ^^^'^ ^«^' ^— ^«" remember ?ie*l,^;J'Xr?ll;'^^ ^"^ei^7h^t^3 S aT^L^f- Pirst on Cock, First on Men, First on Cockerel, First on Pullet and First on Pen mjiking a clean sweep, and 181 birds In the class, from America. Entrland and all DMrts of thf^ wnrhi w^h...^ , , . . lets hatched the early part of January, that now tip the scales t«V2 ml 7*,,?^ and pnl- dnr ng the coming show season, and if you are In need of any wb.ners. write snd te 1 is ust whnVvon w nt^^^^^^^^ ^'""^ willing to pay, and we are sure we am supply you with the BLUE RIBBON WINN liRS ^^^ *°" ^^® Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo. • t • Vol. XVI CHICAGO. ILL.. JULY. 1911 No. 1 Arrange for Green Food for Next Winter Now is the Time to Prepare for a Supply of Some of the Best Articles. Suggestions Upon What is Suitable and How Summer Vegetables May be Preserved for Winter Use. By DR. L. E. PITCHER. < ).\ll'. kind of i>recn food is necessarx for llic health of the fowls. 1 1 is an essen- tial for the successful rearing of chicks, and only 1)\- its being sui)i)lie(l in some form can the poult rxinan expect to real- ize the greatest good from his poultry work. If you have not already made provision for voiu' winter's suppl\ of green food, there is still time t(t do so if \ou have a few s(|uare feet ^^\ garden spot. Little white Ikit I )utch turni])s are very good and the fowls like them es])ecially well when cliopi)ed hue. Thev will grow (piickly, can he planted between the rows of other xegetable.s, and even when planted or sown broadcast in .\ugust will xield a great amouiU of food. The tops are relished by the birds. In winter I i)Ut a few turni])s into a shallow box of >an(l in the window of the warm ])art of the basement and water occasionally. The to])s will grow. They can be used as well as the roots for food. S])route(l oats produce a succulent {ii cubators. Don't risli eietcH, time and money Nvben yoa ean insure hatches with "Tyecs" iuHtrumentN. A*'Tyco«" ^ Ty lermometer is the Quality Murlc in an incubator. Buy the machine equipped with It. Insiston the genuine. *'Tyco«" Incu- »ator TheriuumeLers, each, 75e. "Tyco*" Incubator Hydrometers, each, 91.541. Send for free booklet, "Incubator Thermo- 'bfht Instrument CompameSL "leter* acts worth Knowing." ROCHESTER, N.Y. I r^J. CREIDER'S I FI]>?E CATALOG Best reference book of pure bred poultry, for 191 1, over 200 pages. 57 large pictures of fowls in natural colors. Calendar for each month. Illustrations, descriptions, pho- tos, incubators, brooders, infor- mation and all details concern- Ingf the business. Tells where and how to buy fine poultry, eggs for hatching, supplies, etc., at lowest cost. In fact, it is the G^reatest poultry catalog ever published. Send 15c for this handsome book, postpaid. 8. H. CREIDER. Bo« 101. THIS BOOK has guided hun- dreds of poultry raisers to success. Testimonials sent. ^vRvOfltSf PS* 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 ORPINGTONS KELLERSTRASS> STRAIN Of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS t^hZ?^V?rtrn;t1XrdTl[;:tTh^'^^ Are you going to show We did not raise as many birds tbls year as we have hrretJ) ore^ ^"PP^^ you with them. K^l '^l^it^:'^, :^^. i;To^ ^ ^^^'^ ^^^' because yo,r;eS[e^nCrrKX^;^?^^^^^ ^^^eStiS Sl^^ a^B^TT. First on Cock, rirst on tiein^ First on Coclcerei, First on Pullet and First on Pen making a clean sweep, an-i 131 birds In the class, from America. En L'land and all nnrta of th«i»«ri.^ w^ »,„ i , ^ . lets hatched the early part of January, that now'tlp the Sfat 6^^ and 7 Soundr The^^^^ and pnl- durlng the coming show season, and If you are In need of any winners write mMnd tin n^^ncf SLf ^^ ^^^^ *^'" J^^ ^^^^"^ ^^^^ willing to pay, anH we are sure we «in supply you with the BLUE RIBBON wSiJi^^^^ ^ ^ ^''" ""^"^ ^""^ "^^^^ ^°" «^ Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo. • # Vol. XVI CHICAGO. ILL. JULY. 1911 No. I Arrange for Green Food for Next Winter Now is the Time to Prepare for a Supply of Some of the Best Articles. Suggestions Upon What is Suitable and How Summer Vegetables May be Preserved for Winter Use. By DR. L. E. PITCHER. ( )]\1E kind of green food is necessary for the health of the fowls. It is an essen- tial for the successful rearing of chicks, and only by its being supplied in some form can the poultryman expect to real- ize the greatest good from his poultry work. If you have not already made provision for your winter's sup])ly of green food, there is still time to do so if you have a few square feet of garden spot. Little white flat Dutch turnips are very good and the fowls like them especially well when chopped fine. They will grow quickly, can be ])lanted between the rows of other vegetables, and even when planted or .sown broadcast in August will yield a great amount of food. The tops are relished by the birds. In winter 1 ])ut a few turnips into a shallow box of sand in the window of the warm part of the basement and water occasionally. The tops will grow. They can be used as well as the roots for food. S])routed oats produce a succulent feed. Rye can also be sprouted and is gen- erally cheaper than oats. The grain itself is not of much value as a poultry food and the fowls do not like it but eat the sprouts greedily. Mangel Wurtzel beets are fine and are good keepers as a winter food. A good plan when gathering is to remove the tops when gathering, before frost, and put the beets in the cellar. Then procure a number of water-tight barrels, cut the to])s of beets or of turnips into short lengths in a feed or clover cutter or with a knife. Pack the barrel full and tight, pour in all the water ])ossible, place a cover inside weighted with a stone, and you will have fine ensilage, h'reezing does not injure it. only it adds the labor of thawing it when wanted for use. Some feed these in the mash. To feed the beets themselves T drive a number of nails through a board and impale the beets upon the points of the project- ing nails. This holds the beets in place so that the fowls can eat them readily. Cabbage is a good feed when it can be procured cheaply, likewise head lettuce. Onions cut fine, tops and all, are relished and are good for the young stock and breeding birds, but do not feed them to the hens which furnish the table eggs unless you wish your eggs seasoned with onions. Clo- ver fed dry, cut fine, or steamed, or made into en- silage, is a staple feed and can be procured in the market. Lawn clippings should also be saved and used. Potatoes, rutabags, carrots, in fact I can not think of a vegetable which is not good either fed green or boiled. Most of them are better chopped fine. Lettuce is an ideal green food for chicks. Swiss chard, sea kale, rape, are others that will give a con- stant supply for summer feeding and will last until late fall by using the outside leaves or letting the fowls have the run of the ])atch. Any growing vege- tation which the fowls will eat seems to be good for them. They seem to know by instinct those plants which are injurious and avoid them. Weeds from the garden add to the green food supply and help to furnish scratching litter for the pens. Every locality has its own kinds of herbage and so-called weeds which can be utilized. Many of our cultivated garden flcnvers and ornamental plants are fed upon by the fowls. The Sweet William which grows in our yard seems a favorite resort for the birds. Dock, Plantain, shepherd's purse, pingweed, wild mustard, and the much despised Canada thistle are good for the fowls : however, I would not advise their propaga- tion for that purpose. These weeds found in the garden can be pulled and prove a double benefit to both fowls and garden through their disposal in this way. The one best food for fowls during hot weather is plenty of fresh, cool water. It costs less and is worth more than any other single article of diet. At about this time, the backyard breeder, pro- ceeds to the poultry runs and spades them up. The worms turned up make luscious food for the hens, and the fresh earth gives them delight and promotes their health. 1^ Page 2 POULTRY FANCIER- V Tuly. '11 Discussion of Breeding Questions Interesting Comment Upon Some of the Laws of Nature Which Control the Color Forms and Characteristics of Fowls — Some of the Deeper Problems Which Should be Considered by Breed- ers in Their Work By B. S. HARMON. F WE accept as a fact that the domes- tic fowl, in all its breeds and varieties, is descended from one wild original, the Callus Bankiva, we shall have to accept the further fact that the va- rious markinos of the several breeds and varieties are in some way related to each other, for they are and have l)een derived from a common source. As a theory there is none in connection with poultry more thoroughly substantiated than that of the descent of the domestic fowl from this one wild original. It rests upon many incontrovertible facts, and no fact has yet been advanced which this theory is unal^le to accommodate and account for. We have seen it stated somewhere, and quite re- cently, that "the law of lacing had no relation to the law of penciling." Just what was intended to be meant by that statement we do not know, but if it was intended that there is no relation between pen- ciling and lacing we l)elieve the statement is erro- neous. By "i^enciling" it is assumed is meant trans- verse markings acn^ss the feathers, sucli as occur in the Penciled Hamburg's. If concentric markings, following the contour of the web of the feather, were meant, the statement would confute itself, for Silver AVvandottes are not only laced, but sometimes show this form of penciling. For which reason we pre- sume such penciling cannot be intended. l)Ut it has always seemed to us that transverse penciling or barrings have an intimate relationshij) to lacings. Many chickens in their first feathers are ])arred, especially across the primaries and second- aries, whicli as adults are laced. And this fact clearly indicates that l)arriug and lacing are related, and suggests the ])robal)ility that barring may be an earlier form of marking than lacing. The embryo repeats, in shortened ])rocess, the varicnis stages of development from the lower to the higher form : and, reasoning by analogy, the chicken in its first feathers shows the markings of the stock from wliicb it is descended. The first feathers may be regarded in a not unreasonable sense as the embry- otic plumage of the fowd. The relationshi]) of markings is also seen in spangled fowls. Chicks from s])angied fowls are sometimes barred, especially in the tliglit feathers, but these moult out and the ])ro])er markings ap- peur. Spangled and crescentic markings, which are imperfect lacings, and even ])erfect lacings, are un- (juestionably related, Un- Polish fowls are sometimes spangled, and sometimes laced, and sometimes show the intermediate form of crescent-shaped markings. Taking the first feathers into consideration, we have here an illustration of the relationshi]) of barring, spangling, crescentic marking and lacing. lUit, of course, this was what was to be expected, if the domestic fowl was a descendant of a single species of wild gallus. And it is to be added that, because such relationship in markings api)ears, we have an. additicMial reason for believing in such a descent. We have aNo seen it stated recently that "In wild animals like begets like unerringly." When a pair of blackbirds produce a white "sport," when in size,, color and other characteristics variation takes place, as Darwin, Eimer, Weismann and other scientific writers assert, does "Like beget like unerringly" ? Is it not possible that the author of that statement, in his desire for emphasis, has over-emphasized the distinction between wild and domesticated animals in breeding? We have examined many wild birds, and animals, and have observed that, in a greater or less deuree, each varied from the other, though of the same breed and variety, that in fact no two were in all respects exactly alike, and wdiile, as a rule, the- variation in domestic animals and fowls is much greater in extent and much more conspicuous in character than in the wild, yet the variation does exist and like does not beget like unerringly anywhere. Indeed, if it did, the whole doc- trine of the evolution of s])ecies would be over- thrown and the writings of the great investigators, like Darwin, Wallace, W eismann, Eimer, and others, would be discredited. We should expect variaticMi to be greater in domesticated th.an in wild animals and birds, because in the domesticated ani- mals and birds natural selection has been sup])lanted by artificial selection, the struggle for existence no- longer takes i)lace, and food and shelter are fur- nished at all seasons by man. Hlien, too, existing species of wild creatures have been bred to their present ty])e with minor variations for many gener- ations, and with them atavism, if it takes place» harks back to a very similar, but not identical, form. When domesticated animals and fowls have been bred to one tyj^e for as many generations as the w ild have been, we may ex])ect that the difi'erence in amount and character of variation nc^vv existing be- tween the domesticated and tlie wild animals and' fowds will (lisapi)ear. I hit that time is so far in the future, like the time when the sun shall cease to oive out light and heat and the earth shall become an inert, frozen mass, that we can ha\'e in it but a. feeble and speculative interest, in the meantime, we may be glad for the great amount of variation \vhich the domesticated fowl exhibits. \^ariation is the fancier's hope and despair; despair when it takes the wrong direction and undoes the work he has so carefully wrought; ho])e, because it is only through favorable variations that improvement is possible. If variation ceased, or shrunk to verv slii>ht dimen- sions, poultry breeding would lose its charms and the poultry fancy would die. lUit there is no danger of this occurring, for variation is one of nature's unchangeable laws, and, working in a new environ- ment provided by man, it has increased and will in- crease. OU\ breeds will continue to be improved, new breeds and new varieties will be originated, and the interest in poultry breeding will constantly grow. Watch 'em grow! There is certainly ])leasure in it. and there probably is profit in it. ' It is a sure thing that there will be no profit in the chickens if they don't grow. • # • D t # • July, '11 POULTRY FANClERe Page 3 Advantages of Movable Poultry Houses Houses of This Character Are Cheaply and Easily Built and Have Many Features to Recommend Them. The Following Plans Are Good Ones. By GRANT DAVIS. HE writer is of the opinion that more attention should be given to movable poultry houses. I refer to a kind of building to which you can hitch a team of horses and draw it to an adjoining field, and which is so constructed that it can readily be taken apart, making five pieces — four sides and the roof — easily loaded on a wagon. The movable buildings are a great convenience to the renter and also to the man who owns his land, for he does not know when he may find it of advantage to remove to some other location. It is less work, it is true, to attend to a lot of fowls in one large house, but it is the universal opinion that they do better in small fiocks. Espe- cially is this the case on the farm or w^here there is enough land to give some range. If the houses are movable they can be moved from year to vear according as the land is cropped and where it may be desirable for the hens to run. Eollowing this meth()d there is the least chance of damage from infectious diseases which are sometimes so trouble- some when poultry keeping is conducted on an intensive plan. With one whose hobby has been, for a long time, the saving of man are on the farm, it has been a source of regret that so much of the poultry drop- ])ings are lost. Poultry manure is a valuable fer- tilizer and where grain is raised for the fowls it should be carefully l(M)ke(l after. I'nder ordinary circumstances a good part of the droppings are left around the permanent hen houses and farm build- ings where they are not only no good but a detri- ment in different ways. A house that can be moved from one place to another avoids the ill effects of the accumulated droppings and leaves the ground where it stood in a permanently improved condition. The limit of size of a movable house is about eight feet by twelve feet. I build with one sloped roof five feet high at rear and seven in front. Most nnv kind of material mav be used but something light is to I)e preferred. Seven-eighths inch white pine, matched and dressed, is excellent for the sides. The roof boards arc covered with some good roofing material which does not need annual painting. The cuts shown herewith ex])lain the house better than would a detailed description. It is to be ob- served that the roof is nailed to cleats and not di- rectly to the side frame in order that the house may be readily taken apart, if it is so desired. The foundation frame should be strongly braced if no board fioor is used. One can get along very well without a board fioor if a ditch about six inches deep is dug around outside of the house and the dirt thrown within. On this is hauled a load of river sand and gravel. The house has an ordinary tight door besides a screen door inside. Phe win- dow^ of glass is a sliding one and may l)e taken out entirely in summer when it is not needed. The opening is protected by a screen of poultry netting. As for inside fixtures, there are none, excepting we so term the roosting platform and the feed trough in front of it, and the movable nesting boxes which hang on the walls. If a ground floor is used, stakes are driven to make supports for the roosting l)oles. A board separates that portion of the floor space beneath the roosts. The remainder of the FIG. I w<},i>?.>AA^J.:'.J.'/'A;i.. j^'. i^jr^-/i^^^^!^'^J"'j:^' I'-'j^''^'^'"//!".'^, CB> Yr \t v^\^A '//. ^>/. h ^. "A. ^ "';■>..•"' FIG. 3 PLANS FOR MOVABLE POULTRY HOUSE. Fif?. 1. Runners iipcjn wliich the house is V)uilt. Fig. 2. Show- ing cleat running- .ilong sides and ends of house to which the roof is attached. Fig. 3, Exterior view of house. floor is for scratching and the house is thus scratch- ing shed, roosting quarters and laying room, all combined. The feed trough is pinioned to the sup- ])()rts in front of the roosts and when not in use is turned out of the way, thus keeping it clean and in- creasing the floor space. The lice problem becomes very much simplified in a house of this kind. It is calculated to accom- modate twenty-five to thirty hens and will cost complete, as to material, from $15.00 to $20.00. This is for glass window, best roofing material and dressed lumber. Gi\'e the late chickens — en' which there are many this year — the best possible chance for rai)id growth and early de\elopment. Cold weather is coming and will prt)bal)ly arrive on time, and the chickens should be developed sufficiently to endure it and not suffer nor be dwarfed bv it. b>ed liberally — all that the chicks will eat. This does not mean that food should be unnecessarily wasted, but it is better that some should be wasted than that the chickens should go hungry. The most wasteful system of feeding is that where the chick- ens are not given enough to eat, and consequently fail to make proper growth and development. Turn the chickens out to grass, if you can ; if you cannot, turn the grass in where the chickens are. While not a grazing bird, like the goose, the chicken is a grass-eater and the eating of grass d(~>es it good, "(io to grass" is a welcome order to the chicken. Send the chickens to the grass or the grass to the chickens. Page 4 POULTRY FANCIER July, '11 POULTRY FANCIER Page 5 3* Standard Illustrations as Guides A Discussion of Their Value and How Far They Are Authoritative as Guides for Judges and Breeders. The Text of the Standard is the Real Authority Regardless of Good or Bad Illustra- tions. By H. S. BABCOCK. T may, i)erhaps, serve a useful purpose to discuss what part the illustrations in the Standard ])lay in the matter of breeding and judging exhibition fowls. What will be said will not relate to the excellence, or want of excellence, of the illustrations in the latest edition of the American Standard of Perfection, but will concern the stibject of illustrations in a more general wa5\ The word, illustrate, from its derivation, signifies to throw light upon a subject; hence illustrations are a sort of sign language, a pictorial representation of an idea or set of ideas. They are intended to repre- sent to the eye, the ideas embodied in language, in order that the ideas may be the more readily and clearly apprehended. Even a ]X)or illustration, provided it is not positivelv misleading, is better than none, although the more perfect the illustration is, the more valuable it will have in assisting the understanding. The ilhis- trations in the Standard are, therefore, a ])ictorial comment upon the text of the work, and are intended to assist the reader to a clearer understanding of the meaning of the te> t. But are they authoritative exi)onents of the text? If they are. then it is as necessary that they should be perfect as it is that the text — the descriptions of the fowls — should be perfect. Omitting the illustra- tions, which appear in the "Glossary of Technical Terms," and which by reference to them by numbers appear to have been made a part of the text, the only reference in the Standard, which seems to have a bearing upon this subject, appears in the ''Introduc- tion," where it is said, "The descri])tions and illustra- tions now ])ublished in this latest revised edition of The American Standakd of Perfection are those agreed upon by the high authorities consulted, as cor- rect re])resentations of ideal specimens. In the con- ception and formation of these ideals, the artistic in form and color, and the ]K)ssibilities of nature, were the guides, while beauty and utility are the results sought to be obtained." This language. api)ropriate as an introducticMi to the work, does not explicitly state nor necessarily iui])ly that the illustrations have any binding authority upon the exhibitor or judge. In the address ''To the Poultry Associations of America," and in the "Instructions to Judges," where one would most naturally seek for such authority, if it existed or was intended to exist, we find no direct reference to the illustrations. Nor have we found a reference to the illustrations in the general description which precedes the detailed standards of the several breeds. So far as our examination has gone, the illustrations of the several varieties in the Standard are nowhere referred to except as aho^'e stated. The inference, therefore, seems to be clear that the variety illustra tions were intended to be nothing more and nothing less than a ])ictorial comment upon the several breeds and varieties and to have no authoritative eflfect upon the award, of judges. A judge would be at liberty to give as much or as little elTect to such illustrations ^.< be deemed best. So far as they are in harmony with the text, wliich is and which ought to be con- trolling, he would follow the illustrations; wherever thev w^e're out of harmony with the text, and especially where they were ])()sitively misleading, it would be his right and his duty to ignore the illustrations and make'^his awards in conformity to the text of the Standard. Such a course would give to good illustra- Mons their full effect, and would minimize the ill ef- fects of ])Oor and imi)erfect illustrations. A casual insuection of the illustrations in the Stand- ard will show that they are not all of ecpial merit, as pictorial comments upon the text, and, therefore, to do justice by the fowls in exhibitions, the judge must ado])t the course which the American Poultry Asso- ciation evidently intended that he should ])ursue. He must recognize the authority of the text, which is the atithoritative part of the Standard, and discriminate between the more or less ])erfect illustrations. And we think the American Poultry Association did wisely in refusing or neglecting to make the illustrations of varieties authoritative. If it had done otherwise, and the contention over the ]3resent illustrations were will- founded, the present Standard would be found un- workable. As it is. while imperfect illustrations are certainly regrettable, the Standard can be safely used until the illustrations are changed. Plan we never so wisely and yet our ])lans may miscc;rry. There is always the possibility of the omis-ion of some obscure factor which may Avholh^ change the expected result. Watch the down giving way to feathers and re- member that the grow^th of feathers demands a proper food sup])ly. lmi)roper or insufficient food may result in im])erfect plumage. When it can be done, it is best to remove cock- erels out oi sight and out of hearing of the pullets. They won't get jealous of each other if they are not in the immediate vicinitv of the fair sex. Cull as early as you can safely in order to give the best chickens a better chance for perfect devel- ()])ment. I^^arly culling should be sup])lcmeute(l by frecpicnt culling until only the finest (piality re- mains. Good breeding recpiires, among other things, good fences. A hole in the fence has accounted for more than one off-colored chicken, and has been respon- sible for more tban one "s])ort." .\ poultryman, like a politician, nuist spend some time in mending his fences if he hopes to succeed. If the fowl runs smell foul, a fact which one can kn(^w from his nose on a dewv morning, and it is inconvenient to dig them over, try s])reading on them some gyi)sum or land-plaster. Air-slaked lime is perhaps as effective in laying the odors, but its effects on the feet and shanks of the fowls is not desirable. Land-plaster does not affect the fowls feet badly, and is, therefore, preferable to use. # • ii t t f # Suggestions for July Work The Usual Budget of Timely Pointers for the Month. Hot Weather Conditions Claim the Spe- cial Attention of the Poultryman at This Time and the Suggestions Presented Herewith Should be Acted Upon. By B. S. HARMON. BOUT this time expect hot weather," the almanac warns tts. ikit don't waste yotir time in expectation of but in prep- aration for hot weather. Hot weather need not be dreaded. Except for a very few days the warmth will not be oppres- sive, and it may be even enjoyable. In the prepara- tion for hot weather there are three things which must not be forgotten if vou would have your chickens and fowls thrive — lice, shade, water. Lice are ])rolific, and hot weather makes their natural breeding season. As a bov vou found the multiplication tables difficult to learn, btit they are natural multipliers and find multiplication easy to practice. Upon this prolific subject I am not going to write a long essav. I shall give but a hint. Let your warfare upon them be unceasing. Kill, slay, murder incessantly: use every known means of de- struction and invent a few not already known. F'owls and lice can not both be kept at a profit. Choose the fowls and destroy the lice. Shade. — Sunshine is a good thing, but there can be too much of a good thing. The best shade is that which nature sup])lies — low growing shrubs and bushes are best. Then in order of excellence come trees, broad leaved ])lants and vines, artificial sbelters. If you have permitted or assisted nature to furnish the shade, you have done well ; if you haven't, do the best you can now. \\'ater. — When the days are hot, the water growls warm (|uickly and therefore should be frequently renewed. 1 suppose that a ben undergoes some- thing analogous to our sweating; at any rate that her blood becomes undtily heated and the juices of tbe i)()dy need to be diluted by a greater (juan- tity of water in hot than in cold weather. She certainly gets thirsty in hot weather, and if she has the chance will drink freely of cool water. One of the secrets of success in caring for fowls is to keep them comfortable. Hens will be health- ier, lay more eggs, and pay better ])rofits, and chickens will grow more rapidly and develo]) more satisfactorily if they are kei)t comfortable. And, in hot weather, an abundance (^i pure, cool water is a luinister of comfort to tbe adult ben or grovviuir chick. It is said that when an ancient law-giver was criticized because in his code there was no i)enaltv for paricide, be rc])lied, "I didn't think any one could conunit such a crime." In the three things named as essential for fowls in hot weather, no mention was made of food, because it was thought that no one would omit that. Vei nuich could be said upon the subject of hot-weather fc^od. The adults need more green stuff and less heating foods now. Corn, one of the best of foods for hens in cold weather, should be fed s])aringiy at this time of the year. An oat diet, or one composed largely of oats, in connection with an abundance of green stuff, seems more suitable for the hottest days ; and yet even during these days I feed my stock some corn, not so much as in the cold months, but enotigh to give body to the food. During this month, if ever, an American has a right to let the eagle scream. If he hasn't, he does it at any rate. In the world of poultry we have,, indeed, a just claim for pride. American breeds, for general purpose fowls, I believe, are not ex- celled. I know the Orpington, an English-made breed, has won a great reputation, but it has not yet put the American breeds out of business. The most popular variety to-day is the Barred Plymouth Rock. And it is popular not only in the Unite;! States but abroad. I sincerely believe, though I have not the statistics to prove it, that the Barred Plymouth Rock is the most popular single variety in the world. But we have invented other popular and useful varieties and breeds. The White, Buff, Partridge and Columbian Plymouth Rocks, the W^yandottes with their bewildering variety, the Rhode Island Reds, and others, attest the skill of the American breeder and help to maintain his rei)utation as a producer of beatitiful and useful fowls. Xor has his skill stoi:)ped at the making of new varieties. He has also taken the pn^lucts of other lands and so improved them as almost to make them new. Take the Leghorn for example. While it may claim Italy as its original home, it was the American breeder who refined away its crudities and exploited its merits. From the Amer- ican breeder the English people received the Leg- horn. So, too, the Brahmas and Cochins. Out of crude materials received from over the seas the .American breeders produce these wonderful fowls and sent them abroad again to other nations. While it is true that the English fancier, since receiving- these breeds iroiu America, has further modified them, still it remains true that the Leg- horns, the Brahmas and the Cochins are essentially American in make, and, indeed, have been claimed by some to be American breeds. But we do not need to go so far as this. The naked truth is enough to place the American breeder in the front rank as a maker of new and imi)rover of old breeds with no su]KM-ior and few equals. I'he scream of the eagle in respect to poultry is heard and re- peated the world over. Wany a promising^ chick has been ruined as a breeder and show bird through neiilect during the first two or three months of its existence. If vour are too tired to redouble your efforts in caring for the chicks when warm weather comes, vou need not ex])ect the greatest success in de- veloping the young stock. When v\ c know nnich more than we (]("> now, w^e may be able to predict from the down the character of the first feathers, and from the first feathers the character of the adult i)lumage. At present there are but faint glinunerings of the light that may shine in the future. h I Page 6 J POULTRY FANCIER July, ^11 H*i EDITORIAL PAGE Poultry Fancier Published under the name Fancy Fowls for 1 0 years, 1897 to 1907. Knteied as Second Class Matter, Sept. 28, 1907, at the Post OfYice at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. Published the 1 5 th of each month by POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO. FRANK HECK. President 357 Dearborn Street, Chicago, III. FRANK HECK. Editor Subscription price in United States and po$- •essions 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 1st of ihe 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- Hshed 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. 1911 The Unexpected The French have a proverb which may he rendered, ''The unexpected al- ways happens." Its meaning is in the nature of a warning to l)e prepared for even worse things which one thinks will not occur. The poultryman may well ado])t this proverl) as a hasis of action. In his work there are many things occurring, which he thought would not. hut against the occurrence of wliich he might have guarded. Broods are de- stroyed by rats, cats, dogs, weasles and other means, because they were not proi)erly protected. Their (|uar- ters seemed reasonably safe; they had not been disturbed in the past; loss was unexi)ected. And yet loss canif. And it would have been so easy to have prevented it — that's the worst re- flection of all. We can easily bear the ills against which we can not guard, Lut tliose which we might have pre- vented, trouble us exceedingly. But the unexpected is not always disagreeable. Many a young breeder has entered fowls in an exhibition, ex- pecting to gain exi)erieiice, l)ut not expecting to win any prizes, and has fr)und the coops of his fowls decorat- ed with prize ribbons or i)rize cards. Many a l)reeder has placed a modest advertisement in a i')oultry publication, expecting to make his name known to his fellow breeders, but not expect- ing to make any sales, and has re- ceived substantial orders for eggs or stock. The unexpected is thus, like Janus, two-faced, one a face of grim despair, the other a face of cheerful aspect, r.ut it is wise to be prepared for eith- er, to meet and prevent or overcome loss, and to welcome and get the benefit of success. And the prepared man, the man who is ready for any fate, is the one who has the greatest assurance of both temporary and per- manent success. It is necessary to be jn-epared for wdiat must and for what may happen, for the expected and the unexpected in order to win the fullest and greatest success. American Breeds Perhaps it ought not to be so, but there is some confusion of thought on what makes a breed of fowls to be American. There are those wdio think that no breed is truly American unless it has been evolved from the so-called native stock, the common barnyard fowl, and that all others which have been produced by amalgamating for- eign breeds, or a foreign breed with native stock, are not really American. If this were so then we should have but one genuine American breed, the Dominicpie, which was the flowering of all that was best in the so-called native stock, the product of selection from the old-fashioned hawk-colored fowls of our fathers' and grandfath- ers' days. Even the Barred Plymouth Rock would be denied the designation of American, because it was produced from the American Dominicpie, al- ready an established breed, though not bred to a very strict standard, and the P.l.'ick Java, concerning the origin of wdiich there is and probably al- ways will be more or less doubt. The error of this position rests upon the implied assumption that the native stock wms indigenous to this country, that it was in no sense a foreigner. But this assumption is the most obvious error. The so-called native fowls were brought into this country from foreign lands by the early settlers of America. They were as truly imi)orte.d fowls as were the Cochins and P)rahmas, the Leghorns and Spanish, or to take more modern instances, the Langshans and ()ri)ing- tons. In their veins flowed foreii^n blood, not reduced into well-organ- ized channels, so to speak, but never- the less foreign in the truest sense of the word. They, i)erhai)s. came as near being the raw materials of a breed or breeds as it was possible to be, for they had not been differenti- ated by selective breeding into defi- nite breeds and varieties, but were a conglomerate of characteristics and tendencies, full of possibilities, but lacking in i)erformance. lUit that really makes no difference to the ciuestion under discussion — they were foreigners, just as all the others were foreigners. .Among .American breeds we reckon the .American l)omini<|ue, the Javas, the Plymouth Rocks, the Wyandottes, the Rhode Island Reds and the Buck- eyes. Of these breeds the Javas and the Rhode Island Reds approach the nearest in the method of pro.duction to the American Dominiques. They grew, like Topsy, without, at first, a definite idea of the formation of a new breed. Still the Reds certainly and the Javas possibly are due to crossing of other breeds. lUit they all originated upon American soib were i)roduced by American poultr}^ men, and have been developed by American breeders. While many of their qualities are due, and may, per- haps, be traced, to the breeds from which they sprung, they each repre- sent a new combination of (pialities and characteristics, produced in America, and it is this new combina- tion so produced which makes them American breeds. Take the Wyan- dotte for an illustration. While it made a draught upon the blood of oth- er breeds, still it is as something un- like its predecessors; it was ])roduced in America by Americans; it was christened by the name of one of the tribes of American Indians, it has been developed and perfecterl in America; it has nothing foreign about it, except that its distant ancestors were foreigners. But that is true not only of American breeds of poultry but of American people. Trace back the ancestry far enough and we all shall find the roots of our genealogical tree in some foreign country. All breeds of fowls that originated and were developed in America, whether slowly evolved from the "imported" native stock, gradually^ i)ro.duced from promiscuously-bred ancestors, or man- ufactured from direct crosses among established breeds, are American breeds, with a title which can not be successfully questioned and which can not be overthrown. And fc^rtunately for the reputation of .American breed- ers American breeds possess fjuali- ties and characteristics which are worthy of and receive the admiration of i)oultry breeders throughout the world. "Like produces like," when it doesn't produce something else, wdiich it fre(|uently does. Breed for health by using only healthy fowds for breeders. No one can be sure that a cured fowl is cured. Corn meal mixed with water and fed raw is a very common and a very bad food. ^ S^ Keep the scratching pens well lit- tered with straw. Have it about six inches deep. ATost any soil and climate are suit- able for i)oultry raising. Care and food count most The cure of disease is important, but its prevention is vastlv more im- ixrtant. Sick fowls, temporarily, at least, are alwavs unprofitable fowls, while those which are well, and kent so, are the ones from which profits are derivable and derived. # • t # i t ^ • « POULTRY FANCIER* •iwjM 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 invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely. THE STANDARD OF BEAUTY. There is no natural, absolute stand- ard of beauty among fowls. All our standards are artificial and relative, and depend for their acceptance upon habit. The Cochin, with its meek docile carriage and its abundant soft, plumage, is as beautiful in its way, as is the Exhibition Game, with its long limbs, neck and head, its proud, bold <:arriage. and its short hard feathering. Habit declares that the tall comb of the Spanish is a mark of beauty, and decrees that the Game cock must be •deprived of his comb, wattles and ear- lobes to attain his greatest beauty and grace. The short tail of the Asiatic and the long tail of the Japanese are beautiful, while b>izzles, Xaked Necks and Rumpless each are regarded by their special admirers, those who have acquired the frizzled, naked-necked, •or rumpless habit, as among the most beautiful among poultry creations. And yet, it may be possible, that there is a certain reasonaljlness in all this; that fashions in fowls are not so arbitrary as fashions in attire, especial- ly in feminine attire, for in the realm of clothes no man is the natural leader. It may be in some sense reasonable that, each breed should have a separate and distinct standard of beauty. And if this be granted, then we may be able to ascertain that in the details of these several standards there is something natural and reasonable. For example, the art characteristic of the bLxhibition Game is '"reach." The details of its standard of beauty should 1)e in har- mony with this characteristic. Not only should the legs and the neck be long. 1)ut the plumage should be short, the tail narrow and carried low, and the coml) so trimmed as to give the head a long, lean, snaky look, because all these details heighten the impression of "reach," are naturally correlated with it, grow out of and in harmony with it. They are natural and not arbitrary re- quirements for a "reachy" bird. Or, take the Cochin, which should be char- acterized by ''roundness." Grant this as the characteristic of the 1)reed, and the long soft feathering, the full cush- ion, the meek carriage, and the nearly aborted tail, all contribute to the im- pression of "roundness," and hence are natural requirements of the standard of beauty for the breed. And the same will be found true of the standards of the various breeds to a greater or less extent. That beautv should be predicated of "reach" in one breed and of "round- ness" in another, and of other charac- teristics in other breeds, is, so far as we can see, due to habit or custom ; is in fact arbitrary and not founded upon any natural reason. It varies with dif- ferent men. To a Cochin fancier an Exhibition Game is an abomination; to an Exhibition Game fancier a Cochin is detestable. But let either abandon his favorite variety and take up the breed- ing of the other, in time he will learn to admire the very qualities which at LAYERS and PAYERS Royal Orpingtons WHITE— B UFF—BLJCK Eggs for hatching $5 ll' $9 Per 26 SHOW STOCK $3.00 to $500 per head. Eggs for hatching from $3,000 pen of Royal Columbian Plymouth Rocks $3.00 each. Stock and eggs shipped to any part of the Let us know your wants. WOODWORTH FARM, WILTON, CONN. L world. .J EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM UTILITY STOCK ONE HALF ABOVE PRICES first disgusted him. He has only to form the requisite habit, and former ugliness is transformed into present beauty — the frog becomes a prince and the mouse a princess. But. as we have indicated, the details of the standard, once the foundation characteristic has been accepted, grow out of it as natur- ally as the rose grows out of the bud. There is no chance of disputing about beauty. Men are so constituted that some will admire one breed and others will admire another breed, as it hath been said, "What is one man's meat is another man's poison." We must take men and breeds as we find them. And it is well for the poultry industry that these several standards of beauty have been formed through habit or custom, and that they have been fixed through written Standards and the adjudications at exhibitions. The industry needs for its growth and development all the va- riety which such breed standards of beauty have rendered possible, so as to attract all classes of men to its support. If all poultrymen were agreed and all chose one breed, poultry shows w^ould lose much of their interest. Thev would present the tiresome sameness of a des- ert. But now they are diversified with breeds of all shapes and varieties of all colors, like a landscape with mountains, valleys, rivers and trees, and make a strong appeal to the various minds of all classes. Arbitrary or not, these sev- eral beauty standards are powerful helps in sustaining and broadening the beneficent influences of the poultry in- dustry. H. S. Babcock. A PLEA FOR THE BUFF WYAN- DOTTE. I am not a writer. However T feel it is my duty to say a few words in honor of the Huff Wyandotte. In se- lecting a breed of poultry, there are three very important (juestions, which everyone intending to embark into the business is to consider: A good winter layer, a bird that will mature cjuickly and make a fine market fowl, one whose color and other points make them attractive as an exhibi- tion bird. Some people select for egg l)roduction, while others for market, and a great many for beauty. lUit the wise poultry man is the one who, after careful study and experiments, selects as near as possible the breed tliat will make the best general pur-. l)ose fowl; one that is pc^pular and will be in demand; one that has prov- en beyond a d(nd)t to be a splen.did fowl and one unsurpassed as an ex- hibiticui bird. One that will not make a handsome appearance in the show room will never be popular as an exhibition fowl, nor command the best prices. There is no fowl more beautiful than the lUiff Wyandottes when they are in the pink of condition. The •^ » Page 8 golden plumage; nice fitting rose comb, or emphaticall}' a bird of curves; short deep body; full feath- ered yellow shanks, make them a splendid exhibition fowl. When once you try them, you will have no oth- ers. lUiy the best you can afford. Give them a trial an.d aim to get the standard of perfection. Study theni and select out of the Hock your best l)irds and exhibit these at the poultry shows, so breeders, as well as new beginners, will know what kind of stock you have. Advertise in some good poultry papers and success will be yours providing you give the birds the care they should have. Whatever you do in breeding do not sacrifice shape to color, or color to shape. Breed to perfect both of these (|uali- ties and then you will have birds that will win. When starting in the poultry busi- ness, don't invest $:)00 if that is all the money you have, for, if you should have a little hard luck at first, you must have something to fall back on. The cheapest and most convenient poultry house is made of piano boxes or large store boxes. Get good birds first and then the fine house later on, as well bred stock will bring in the money and not the poultry house. If you are a beginner and thinking of investing in a few thorough-breds, give the Buff Wyandottes your seri- ous consideration. If you cannot af- ford to buy a goo.d pair of breeders, invest in a setting of eggs of some reliable fancier. After once you have the Buff Wyandottes. 1 am safe to say that you will always keep them. There is no sight more beautiful than a well bred flock of these birds. There- fore my advice to people that want to go into the poultry business is to stop, think, and listen. Make up your mind as to the kind of a strain of poultry you want that is an all around good fowl, and I am sure you will find there is not a better bird bred today than the beautiful G(d(len lUiff Wyandottes. Williamsport, Pa. L. W. Winner. SUGGESTIONS FOR BEGINNERS ON WHAT TO FEED. POULTRY rANClERe^^^^^J* I My advice to beginners in the poul- try business is never to feed poor feed, it pays to use the best. You cannot get good results from dam- aged feed. Don't starve your fowls. Always give them enough to eat and give them a variety. I'\'ed in clean troughs or in clean litter. If the fowls have to exercise to obtain their food, more eggs will result. I fnid wheat to be the best grain to use. If wheat cannot be procured. I use buckwheat. Corn is good in cold weather, but it is fattening. it may be fed whole, on the cob or cracked. I^ran and wheat middlings are good for mash. Corn meal is good for a change. Oats are very good. I al- ways use ground oats with mashes. Peas, beans and sunflower seeds are very good. Millet I find to be tirst class. Skim milk ;is best to mix •mash with. Stale bread is relished when soaked in milk or water. I consider beef scraps to be indis- pensable. Any one who desires the highest measure of success should have a green bone cutter and fresh cut bone shoul.d, be fed at least twice a week. Green cut clover should be fed in mash every day if possible. Sprouted oats is also much used. Vegetables are very healthy and should be fed freely. I find cabbage, carrots, tomatoes and apples to be best suited. Linseed meal should also be fed during the moulting season. Never be without grit. Keep pure water constantly before the fowls. Always feed at regular hours. I al- ways feed twice a .day, but some fanciers feed three times with good results. Mohawk. \. Y. Floyd E. Ackler. ^ m Directions for successful poultry keeping cannot be compressed into a few simple rules. The rules, indeed, may be formulated but each retpiires pages of comment. Environment exerts a great in- fluence in the making and fixing of breed characteristics. From the coun- tries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea came such breeds as the Leghorn, Andalusian, Ancona, Minorca and Spanish, all possessing many char- acteristics of shape in common, and all having the common characteris- tic of prolific laying. Man has modi- fied, but did not create, these charac- teristics. Environment and time are after all pretty good breeders. In the comparatively small num- ber of new breeds — small as com- pared with the number of new varie- ties— it would be difficult to point out many absolutely new characteristics. These new breeds are made up of old characteristics in new combinations for the most part, but they are none the worse, but rather the better, be- cause this is true. It is possible that some characteristics are new, because the combination of old elements may so result. The study of breeds has resulted in improved varieties; the study of feeding has been productive of better rations and improved results; the study of breeds and feeding has brought greater success. 5^ ^ Extremes are to be avoided. W^ith us all it should be, not beauty or util- ity, but beauty and utility. The utility breeder should learn from the fancier and the fancier should learn from the utility breeder. Aim to combine, so far as possible, utility with beauty, and beauty with utility. ^^^-»»»»«-»»i>»>0»»»0»0»»»»»»»»»»»»»0»0»»»»0»»»»»»»0»»»»»»»0 0^^ Hildorfer's BLACK MINORCAS You can get in the lead and stay there if you will put some of our high quality stock into your yards or set some eggs from our pens of grand prize winning birds. They are great big black fellows true to the new Standard type. We have defeated strongest competition at the large National shows, including Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Hagerstown, Chicago, Johnstown, Madison Square Garden, New York, - World's Fair, Cincinnati and Boston. Write for prices on stock and eggs. We can send you just what you want and the prices are right. L Hildorfer's Black Minorca Farm, Jos. P. Hiidorfer, Prop. Saxonburg, Butler, Co., Pa. SEE THAT HEAD? Want Some Like It? We can spare a few eggs At $5 per 13 THAT WILL PRODUCE THEM Our Minorcas have >von 96 specials; 46 firsts; 28 seconds; 16 thirds at the big Eastern shews. That Cockerel was hatched in June and as cock weighed 10 lbs. THAT TELLS THE SIZE WE HAVE All orders filled in rotation C. H. STAUNTON, 406 Flower City Park, Rochester, N. Y. # i » t Pertinent Paragraphs By EASTERNER A poultry reform doesn't necessar- ily require the making over of all ihe established breeds and varieties. * * * Ground hog — the sausage, that is, w^hen it isn't ground dog. * * * "Don't breed from winners." The only sensible reason we can think of for not doing it ourselves is the ab- sence of winners when the pens are made up. A bird that hasn't the stamina to win and breed better not be shown or bred. 3|C ^ ^ Mr. Poultryman, have you paid that debt which you owe to the industry? POULTRY FANCIER^ that your imagination has outrun your veracity. Ninety-nine per cent is pretty good even for a maximum. * * * The only sure way of raising every chicken hatched, is to carefully lift each one from the floor. '1* ^ 'T C. F. Hunter, in Poultry Success, advises the men who are going to r3enver to take a light overcoat with them. P>ut if all signs do not fail it is likely to be hot enough at the A. P. A. meeting to make an overcoat a bothersome superfluity, especially when the 1910 Standard comes up for discussion. Who will you get to hold it, when the argument begins? * * * In Colorado the A. P. A. ought to be able to take a broad view of things. r • S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON COCK. One of the noted male birds that has made Buff Orpinprton history, and assisted mucli in tlie estabHshment of the noted C. S. Byers' strain of Buff Orpingtons. Owned by C. S. Byers, Hazelrigg, Ind. Also the debt you owe to the publish- er? + * * When a customer asks "fool ciucs- tions," Mr. Seller, don't lose your temper. Remember that " irritability is not necessarily a sign of genius," and in fact geniuses are not apt to be good business men any way. ^ 'K 'r Now is the time to tell of tlie big hatches with hen or incubator. Be careful not to get the percentage over one hundred, for if you do some blundering mathematician will suspect The mountains arc numerous and high enough for it. * * * Mr. Babcock evidently believes in luck but he doesn't believe in it to the extent that he would trust to luck rather than to good sense properly applied. Luck, as a debt payer, would get a low rating in any commercial agency. * * * The "Half-Way Coop" and the "Sun and Rain Shed," evolved by Mr. Tormnhlen, look like good and use- ful appliances for the poultryman. In the practical line the man who anti- cinates Mr. T. will have to get up early in the morning, and then do part of his thinking in bed. * * * Mr. W. H. Card says, 'Tn wild ani- mals like begets like unerringly." Our sympathies are extended to the writ- er, for we once made the same mis- take. ''We. too. have lived in Area- dy." * * * When one allows his prejudice against the "Poles" to extend to the Polish fowl, he is carrying the joke too far, and in fact the ioke is on him, for the Polish fowls have no connection with Poland. ^ ^ 31* If we take the Braekel-Campine at Madame A. V. Van Schelle's valua- tion, we should name the fowl after a once famous apple. "Seek-no-fur- ther," for it is represented to be the very flower of laying breeds, the long sought 250 egg hen possibly. >H * ^ It will not be long before the hens will be unfeathering themselves. In order to put on a new suit they have to strip, as well as their owners, the difference being that they take more time in dofling the old and donning the new. The fact that they make their new suits out of themselves is immaterial; in these days, a man has to take it out of himself in order to get a new suit. * * * And so the two busy Bees, Babcock and Ballard, believe in establishing recruiting stations for new fanciers. SJC 3j€ 3p Under comparison judging. Dr. Ballard, Easterner votes for the bird rather than the illustration, both be- ing standard, every time. * * * And so Mr. Babcock thinks the do- mestic fowl is still evolving but he seems a trifle in doubt whether, the evolution is up or down. For our part we don't see the necessity of getting a Leghorn hen's tail up to make the eggs come down. ^ 5je 3|C W^e make no comments on "Fowl Cholera." It is a foul subject and the sooner it is got rid of the better. * * * If the readers of the Poultry Fan- cier read dillieently they ouijht to be able to build a chean and good house for their fowls. Mr. Almend- inger is the latest addition to the architectural competition. * * * We agree with you, Mr. Editor, that there is still the possibility of new breeds. * * * Let's see! Are you in favor of re- pealing all disqualifications except crossed beaks, crooked backs and wry tails: of making all poultry edi- tors ineligible to office: of adonting the decimal scores of points: of nen and ink drawings instead of half tones: of reinstating the 190.") stand- ard: of selecting one poultry journal as the offlcial organ of the .\. P. A.: of declaring the 1910 Standard "ob- solete"; of recognizing the Speckled Sussex and the Barred Minorcas as standard; of licensing another lot of judges: of having new illustrations- r Page 10 »«)«*»«*i»«e*3Wo&i«i-«*i-.;t-aB.s for the 11)10 Standard: and of any other old or new thing? Well, wheth- er you are for or "agin" these and other propositions, go to Denver, and take in the grand reception, the out- ing to White City, the banciuet, the theatre party, the farewell reception, and the all day trip up Moffat road. Maybe, by so doing, you will ac- complish your purposes. ;i: :|; sjs Gee! lUit the entertainment part of the coming A. P. A. meeting looks .attractive, don't it Dr. I'allard. and you and I and a few others ought to be there? There's something to be said in favor of convention going, * :■: :|: l)y the way, will the cigars at the •convention be "Colorado Maduros"? * ■•;■ * We presume the water is good in Denver. P)e sure and try some, so .as to be able to report on your re- turn. It will be a safe and sane thing to do. especially when you tell your better-half how things went out in Denver. * * * Where is the "bloomin' idjit" who was kicking only a little while ago about the cold weather? "T -T* ^ dared to make the "Is it hot enough POULTRY FANCIER ''Cheep! Cheep!" but the price of broilers at the hotel figures just as high as ever on the dinner bill. * * * If any one wishes to hatch eggs now, what's the matte*- with putting them out doors in the shade? l>e careful not to get them into the sun as they may not hatch if they get overheated, 5JC 5}C ^ Say, now. wasn't it really a stren- ous Fourth even out on the farm? And didn't the old swimming hole look good! an 'ole hen what wuz the barn an aigs, an' done aigs she jest Has any one original remark. for you?" * * * You can't 1)elieve all you hear. For instance, the chicks continually cry Thare wuz bound fer tu set, Tho' doused in the wash-tub till her fethers wuz wet, So she stole under made her a nest. An' she sot on them her dum'd best, p]ut in vane, for them biled, yeou kin bet, Thet's what I kails a hot wether eppysode, Obediah Hezekiah Smith. * jK * Down in Chelmsford, a suburb of Lowell, Mass.. lives one Gilbert Weight, and he owns a most sensible hen. During the broiling, shrivelling and sizzling heat of early July she came to the conclusion that it was too hot to work and abandoned the eggs upon which she had been sit- ting, leaving- it to the sun to finish THE BROWN LEGHORNS hatched from my eggs this season are already showing "the stuff from which they w^ere made." It is a sight to make any poultryman's heart glad to see how^ my blue-blooded of the blue-blooded chicks thrive and grow. No white feathers or droopy chicks in my bunch. My Ever-Lay strain has established a record for prolificacy and fertility this season. Many clutches hatched every egg. My hens just wont stop laying now even when eggs are cheap and they never think about setting. H. V. Tormohlen, 1st Nat. Bank BIdg, Portland, Ind. Foster's Black Orpingtons Spring of 1911, $10 Eggs for $4 for 15, Why are they $10 eggs? Because they are the equal of any $10 eggs in the United States, and all from my celebrated Duke of Kent Strain the greatest prize winning strain of Black Orpingtons in Am- erica. Send a one cent stamp for a 9x12 chromo and the history of this greatest of all winter layers. FOSTER & JOHNSTON, R. R. No. 7, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Hon. State Vice-President, American Orpington Club. THE BEST BOOK ON SUCCESS WITH POULTRY IS 998 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS By FRANK HECK THE author claims and provea that this book contains information upon a greater variety of subjects than any book on poultry ever written. It has also drawn out more unsolicited testimonials from authorities and experts. Why worry and wonder and grope m thedarkl Why learn by expensive experience and disap- pointment when everything is offered you at so small a price? The knowledge gained by yean of experience is contained in this book. The methods and secrets of the foremost successful breeders and exhibitors in the show room are given in full. Thousands of Copies Have Been Sold and Every Purchaser a Pleased One It contains 128 pages, is handsomely bound, printed on good paper with fine large type eagy to read. Price 50 Cents per Copy Or the book and Poultry Fancier one year for 65 cents. Address orders to Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearborn St., Chicago, HI. July, '11 3J TT'vrrr'^ z^szzsszsa the Jul), Her judgment was i^ood, for as the latest report ten cliickens had been hatched and others were expected. When "Old Sol" is on the job. hot air is a good enough incuba- tor. ^ 'T* -I* What's the use of testing eggs, when one Ihids that in live clutches, under as many hens, there is not one infertile egg? This is a fact which can be veritied. Score one for the na- tural breeding season? * * * With the thermometer at 102, Bos- ton must tind it difficult to get fresh eggs. And what an admirable excuse is this furnished to the honest farmer who robs the setting hens of eggs and markets them as strictly fresh! Lay it all on to the excessive heat. Denver will probably point with pride at its own temperature record, and tell the "Bean- Eaters" that that is why the A, P. A. wisely decided not to visit Boston in lull. ^c ;j; :)« With 107 in the shade in New Hampshire, people will probably take excursions to Florida and other semi- tropical States in order to get a breath of coolness. :^ ^ ^i Thought isn't like grease or mo- lasses— intense heat doesn't make it flow freely; it is more like mud, which loses its fluidity witii the evaporation caused by the heat. This doubtless is as clear as mud, «•- ^t- «t* ■i- ■;- -1- The cat, which watched the hole through which the mouse went in but didn't guard the hole through which the mouse went out. is about as wise as the poultryman who attends sedul- ously to the hatching and carelessly neglects the rearing of his chicks. What shall it profit a cat to watch an empty hole? :Jt * * W^iich would you rather, die of lockjaw from an insane or die from sunstroke from a sane celebration of The Glorious b'ourth? When we can combine "safe" with "sane" we shall have done something worth while. Some Kdison should invent in these days a "reducer" of the sun's rays, so that we can take our heat in homeo' pathic doses. The sun this year is an out and out alloi)atli and no mis- take. The fool-killer should attach the sun to his trained corps of as- sistants. * --!: H-- An ICngli>h law lirm. for a named consideration, issues a check book containing ten prepaid checks, each go(j(l for a legal in(|uirj.'. A poultry breeder might issue a similar check- look for eggs, each check good for a dozen. The holder of the book could then tear out and mail a check and L^et his eggs in return. This would be a great scheme for the the breeder, who would receive his money in a lump sum. and wlu) wouldn't be offended if the hold- er of the book never used the checks. What the buyer would think f)f it — but, then what's the need of obtain- ing his oi)inion? T>et him buy the check book. * * * Have you bought any guaranteed winners? Did they win? Your an- # € # i ^ > ;2SZE2Sa2ESSSES32S2S Tuly. '11 •swer to these in(iuiries will prove whether or not you are able to ex- press a sound opinion upon this phase of the business. Speak gently to the setting hen, Though broods you want no longer: Persuasion try, to change her mind, Not force, though you are stronger. She's laid her best, and needs a rest, Perhaps she'll heed your kind reciuest, And cheerfully desert her nest. And lay again at nature's best. If not, then let the fool be blest With yoke, or rags, or swiuf^ing nest. Or other things you may deem best To turn her from her ill-timed (|uest. The A. P. A. is a wonderful presti- (ligitatur — it has taken an Indian and changed him into a Cornishman. The "Indian Game" has been rechristened, "Cornish." Down in Hempstead, L. I., it is said, stands a monument hearing this in- scription: "This monument was erected by the humane ])eoiile of -Queens county to the memory of the shipwrecked crew — out of the money found on the bodies of the deceased." The generosity of those who erected it, reminds one of that of the man ■who sells eggs for three times their A^alue and offers in the event of a poor hatch, to duplicate the order at half price. * * It is a depressing commentary on the practical or commercial side of poultry rearing that no poultry jour- nal devoted exclusively to that side ■of the industry has l)een able to sur- vive long. One of two things hap- pens— the fancy side is admitted to its columns, or it suspends publica- tion. Tt may profess to be devoted to the commercial side — may stoutb; champion that side — yet there will be found the leaven of the fancy, nevertheless, which keeps it from fail- ing, if it survives for any ccMisiderable period. Recommended investments for the poultryman are. (1) convenient houses, (2) thoroughbred fowls, and (3) well pla'.ed advertisements, and the last is by no means the least. Chicago's proudest boast-— the pub- lication center of the best in poultry journalism, the home of three i)oultry journals, and all of them excellent, "Kindly omit flowers," When Josiah Little was courting Matilda Long, their favorite duet was "Love me. Little: love me. Long." And that, slightly altered, is the song of the fancier of Game Bantams. "1 love you little, and 1 love you long." No. William, fanciers don't raise ^'crackerjack^" on a sole diet of crack- ers. Said the "Down Cast Philosopher." T love a good liar. l)ut some men suit me too well." Since a i)hysician in Wa>hington. 1). C, recently removed a sprouting lem- on seed from the thund) of a patient, it seems necessary to warn judges how they hand out lemons to exhibi- POULTRY FANCIER tors in the future. The practice — nev- er popular — will be more unpopular in the future than ever before. It is so easy to be a poultry critic — just iind out what the judge has done and then disagree with him. Those who are too diffident to write for the poultry papers, might begin l)y writing for catalogues and circu- lars. Almost anybody can do that, and a good many do. Three feet may make a yard, but you must use your hands to make the chicken coop. The Campine seems to le "camping on the trail" of the Leghorn just now, and occupying .considerable space in the poultry journals. If they camp in, will they by and by have to camp out? That's, the ([uesticm the in- Paee 11 vestor ask. m this new old fowl needs to "How about your calves?" asks an agricultural paper. Well, ours are all right, except for a little soreness from the last long walk we took. * * There is no danger of poultry rais- in ■: being overdone, but if it is not d ,.e right, it may have to be done over. * * Anybody can keep hens, but every- body cannot make the hens keep them. * * The man who has "no flies on him' will permit no fleas on his dog and no mites in his hen house. When it comes to speed, electric cars, racing autos, aeroplanes and bad news are licked to a standstill by the reputation for being an easy mark — 6 4 YEARS I. K. Fdch & Sons Poultry Company HAVE BRED Light Bratimas, White Orpingtons, 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 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 15, Brahmas |3 50 to |10 for females; $o to $20 for males. White and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes, |2.50 to |8 for fe- males; $4 to $15 for males. Eggs from all, |4 for 15, |7 for 30, |9 for 45, and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 to Sept 1, all yearhngs before moulting sold at 40 per cent off of catalogue prices. For catalogue and other particulars if K? FELCH & SON. Box 176, N ATICK, MASS. YOUR ChlCKEliS HEALTHY UOOK I RE. AD ! An up-to-date>treatise just off the press on all the ailments peculiar to chiclcens BY J. GAYLORO BLAIR poultry; DISEASES : ■ AND TXem RCMCMtS a k ■ — — « Price 50 Cents \ • J CAVlOltD nuiR « EVERY POULTRYMAN SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK This new book cover? every disease known to poul- try. It has the following chapters: I. Requirements of Health. II. The Skio. III. Legs and Feet. IV. Head, Throat and Nasal Passages. V. The Lungs. VI. The Crop and Intestines. VII. The Abdomen and Egg Organs. VIII. Parasites IX Habits. It tells how to cure and prevent every disease known to poultry. One article on Whitt Diarrhoea or Boivel Trouble is worth the price of the book, 50c, and will .save you many dollars during the hatching season. It not only .ells how to cure and prevent poultry di- seases, but also gives valuable points on housing, feed- Jng, caring for small chicks, mating, etc. THE PRICE 18 ONLY FIFTY CENTS ' Order your copy now and be ready to doctor all your sick birds and also learn how to prevent aH diseases known to affect poultry and double your profits. A Your Profits Ars Sure If Yoi- Follow Thksk Simple Instruc- tions Laid Down In This Book. SEND ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearborn St., Chicago I «i « -a « « I that is the thing whose velocity the best speedometer can't measure. The editor, with sounding rap, Smote the copy on his lap; *'Xo sweetness here — 'tis only sap, Boil it down." Why is the Standard like Heaven? Because only in it can perfection be found. There's many a Buff, which is only a "bluff." * * For a good model for a flying ma- chine, how would a Penciled Ham- burg pullet do? And now do you know why a cock crows in the middle of the night? Be- cause he wants to. The insurance agent declares that he can furnish a better policy than honesty. And atavism, what is that, but the unexpected recollection — physical rec- ollection— of some long forgotten an- cestor? Physical memory is a "mas- ter key" by which we may unlock many tightly fastened doors — provid- ed there is any such thing as physical memory. H heredity is physical memory, as has been asserted, we can attribute the uncertainty in color breeding of blue fowls to a poor memory. They simply forgot to breed true to color. Hens are superior to dogs in this, if you breed a poor specimen of CaUiis Domcsticus, you can eat it. but a duffer among dogs is not edible. This argument, however, doesn't hold in China. Make your way, or get out of the way, is nature's law. 'AVhat's the matter with the Exhi- bition Game?" "Oh, it has gone up — on its legs." A polish breeder ought to be a good voter — he makes so much of the polls. * * A tree will grow while you are sleeping, but your poultry business will not: you must be wide awake to make that grow. Make much of your business, and it will make much for you. * * Patrick Henry excalimed. "Give me liberty or give me death!" JUit we moderns have remodeled that sen- tence, and adapted it to present needs, for we elo(|uently and elegantlv shout, "Give me business, or T bust!" * * Fanciers arc men of extremes. Hiev pay particular attention to hea.ds, legs and tails. * * Tn pitching pennies, it is "Heads. T win. tails you lose," but in showing fowls you must have both heads and tails to win. * * ^ "Why have you given ud l)reeding Cochins?" asked one poultryman of another. "Because," was the rei)ly. POULTRY FANCIER "pantalettes have gone out of fash- ion." It is unnecessary to adcl that second speaker was not our friend, Dr. Ballard. It is strange, but nobody seems to have thought of it! We propose to make a new breed of fowls, "The Val- ued At" breed. All valued at $200 or over to be eligible to this new standard class. ]\Iakers of new breeds should take warning, for a lady contributor has July. '11 said, "We have enough new breeds for the present." But, on second thought, we advise them to go ahead, for they are not making new breeds for the present (or a present), but for the future. The old breeds are looking up — when they are drinking. * * I. K. Felch says that the record of the Light P)rahma female, which laid 313 eggs within a year, is still un- broken. No chance for a controversy Wood's S. C. Brown Leghorns WINS, LAYS AND PAYS At the largest show in America, (Mo. State, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1910), 6000 birds on exhibition, I again won grand prize for best display, making three years in succession. Alsy won 1st Pen, 2nd and 5th Cockerel, 3rd Cock, 3rd Hen, 3rd Pullet, best shaped male. A. S. C. Brown Leghorn Club Cup. Twice as many first prizes on Cocks and Cockerels as any competitor at Mo. State Show the last five years. Cham- pion male and female at St. Louis, Dec, 1909. Five firsts at Topeka, Kan., Jan., 1908. Five grand matings. Circular FREE. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mention S. P,J. TOM H. W^OODS, Route 4, Box 11, Fayette, Mo. *i* * iFox Orpington Yardsi I Breeders of Buff and White Orpingtons •I* «|* Won at 1911 show in Kittanning, Pa.: Buff Orpington, 1st Cock, 1st Cockerel, 1st, J» 2nd, and 3rd Hen, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pullet, 1st Pen and $100 Silver Cup for best T display. Won in White Orpingtons, 2nd Cockerel, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Hen and 1st, if 2nd and 3rd Pullet, 1st Pen and Silver Cup for best display in a class of 100 birds. ^ Birds scoring from 93 to ^S% points. % Eggs $3 and $5 per dozen I H. P. FOX, Mgr., Box B. Kittanning, Pa. J I I Barred Rocks I Brown Leghorns j Silver and White Wyandotte s Our birds have been leaders for years. They always win for us and our customers. Illinois State and Missouri State First prize winners are in our yards as well as winners in other leading western shows. We can send you stock bred from these and other equally good birds. I GRAND LOT OF STOCK FOR SALE 7 I I I I We have both qualitv and quantity this year and we can pick out just the kind of birds you Mf^ant. We have satisfied hundreds of customers during our many years in the business and wc can more than please you. Eggs from prize winning pens that will produce winners for you. Send for elegant new catalogue and enclose stamp if convenient. THE PRACTICAL POULTRY FARM MR. & MRS. C. L. CARNEY. Prop*. Route 3, Charleston. III. • 4 i # i .1 • on that statement, if the Brahma rec- ord is admitted. The P)rahma is a big fowl, and ought to have a big record. 9i m J f Longfellow had been a poultry fancier, he might have used these words as applicable to a hen setting on ten dollar eggs: ''Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee — are all with thee!" Be self reliant. Have confidence in yourself. But it isn't necessary to tell everybody about it. Some poultrymen boast that they are "live wires," but live wires are dangerous to touch, if they happen to be high power wires. It is strange vv'hat subjects men will use for boast- ing over. It is generally known that "The love of money is the root of all evil, and it is shrewdly suspected that money, itself, is some sort of a root, for men have to dig to get it. If "Beans are good chicken feed," as E. E. Whitney suggests, what a place for raising poultry Boston must be. But perhaps, the Bostonians would begrudge the beans for the poultrv. Reliability is a cjuality which is greatly prized in a man, a watch and a setting hen. ^ m "Judge not lest ye be judged" ap- plies with peculiar force to the poultry judge, for while he is scoring the fowls, the unfortunate exhibitors are scoring him. No exhibitor yet has been able to prevent his fowls from being disqual- ified, by assuring the judge that the disqualifying cok)red features were due to mental impressions. Good breeding depends upon good breeders. This applies to men and hens alike. From the hen's point of view, a full crop produces a sense of satisfaction. This also is true of the producer. Few things are more satisfactory than a full crop of chickens. $f m The Brown-tail moth lays from 200 to .'iOO eggs in a season. If the brown- tailed hen wouldn't save her reputa- tion, she will have to get busy. A well dressed man and a well dressed chicken differ in this, the for- mer is clothed and the latter un- clothed. There are two ways of keeping in the "public eye," do something good or bad enough to attract attention, or advertise. The latter is the surer method, and is available to all. Talk about the lasting effects of advertising. Mr. TI. S. I^abcock in- forms us that he has just received a letter with this statement: "Some POULTRY FANCIER^ Paee 13 twenty-two or three years ago I pur- chased Pea Comb Barred and Pea Comb White Rocks from you (eggs) and I am writing to know if you are still breeding them," and incjuiring for those varieties as new blood was desired. In this case it would look as if the bread cast upon the waters was very many days in returning. m '£ One of the things the future is ex- pected to produce is the perfect bird. As a grammarian might say, the per- fect bird is, and always will be, ex- pressed in the future tense. The argument seems to be this: If the A. P. A. pays the fares of its of- ficers, it will fare well; if it doesn't, it will be farewell to the officers. Politics in non-political organiza- tions are impolitic. There is a very simple way of rais- ing the Standard, and it is strange no one has mentioned it before — just take it from the desk and raise it to a high shelf, and the thing is done. Sunshine is good, but sun-stroke is bad. Have enough, but not too much, of a good thing. 'M ^ Get into the sun, it \v\\\ do you good; get into the shade, it will re- fresh you. The good old earth ad- vances in its course "half in sun and half in shade," and as you are of the earth, learn the lesson she teaches. The man w^ho doesn't care for his feathered stock will soon have no feathered stock to care for. Take care that you take care. "That was a tight squeeze," said the hen when she laid a double-yolked egg. % 'M It is easy to breed fine fowls when you know how; but some can't do it nohow^ If among all the productions of a writer there be a single thing with enough virile force to live, he has not written in vain. To dig in the garden is verily hard work for a strong man, but for a weak old hen it is simply fun. If men had more of the spirit of the hen, how it would lighten labor! ^ S^ Some nervous folks object to the crowing of a cock in the early morn- ing hours, but they don't object to nice broilers. They can't have the latter without the former, until some safe method has been found to ex- tract the crow from the cock. What is handsomer than a perfect specimen of your breed? Two such specimens, of course. The fruit the poultryman most af- fects is a pair, especially about the mating season. For a new variety in poultry breed- ing, how would it do to take up se- riously some meritorious old variety? The Fancier, by cultivating enthus- iani, teaches the world how to re- main young. Here's to the young old boys of the poultry fraternity. "The water is never fine" to the boy who goes a swimming, and only stands around on the bank shivering in his shirt tail, and the Exhibition is not enjoyable to the exhibitor who through fear keeps his birds at home. A man, attempting to do house- work, is about as handy as a rooster trying to incubate a clutch of eggs, and the results are similar. Be a poultryman, a fancier if you may, a utility man if you must, but be a poultryman at all events. The Englishman is apt to think that "there are no ruins in America," and therein display his ignorance of the broiler business in New Jersey. Let him hunt up an old file of Jacobs' pa- per and become wise. CORN HARVESTER with Binder Attach- mcnt cuts and throws in piles on harvester or winrow. Man and horse cuts and shocks equal with a co-n Binder. Sold in every state. Price S20 with Binder Attachment. S. C. Montgomery, of Texaline, Tex., writes:— "The harvester has proven ail you claim for it. With the assistance of one man cut and bound over loo acres of Corn Kaffir Corn and Maize last year." Testimonials and catalog free, ihowing pictures of har« vester. New Process Mfe. Co., Salina, Kan. POULTRY FARM WANTED Must be making money. Give full description, best price and terms in first letter. PRINCIPALS ONLY HAANEL & BRANDENBURGER, St. Louis, Mo. PETERSEN'S HOUDANS The Undefeated Champion Strain of America Send for SO-pajfe book on The Houdan. 30 full puKcd phites of prize winners, Houdan Standard, Mating for Kxhibition. Management and many other important chapters. PostaKe 20 cents. Rev. C. E. PETF.RSEN. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. 16 Waverly St., Porlland. Maine White Indian Games ^^^^\^ H. S. BABCOCK, 77 Summit St., East Providence, R. I. i\ Page 14 POULTRY FANCIER Nicws or POULTRY SHOWS (& SPECIALTY CLUBS Notices sent to us by secretaries wifl be pub- lished in this department without charge THE ARKANSAS-OKLAHOMA INTER. STATE FAIR, FT. SMITH, ARKAN- SAS, OCT. 16-21, 1911. Great plans are being made by the management of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Interstate Fair in the Poultry Depart' ment, and unless all indications fail they will pull off one of the biggest and most successful Fall Shows in the Southwest They are now erecting a magnificent Poultry Hall, built in the form of a mal- tese cross, one hundred feet each way and fully e Judges Denny, Fishel, Kimimer and' Hntcliison have l)een emploNed to place the ribbons, and all exhiltitors know the character and ability of these men. Manager Audigier e&tal)lished for himself a record for fairness in holding this show last year that will stick to him as long as he is in the show business. A square deal and fair treatment is assiu-ed. Re- member the dates — Sept. 25 to 30. Last year- over $200 in entry fees were re- turned because the entries came too late; and they close positively at midnight, Sept. 12, 1911. Send for a premium list and see the great increase in prizes over last year. BIG FAIR SHOW AT FT. WAYNE, IND. The Fort Wayne P^air Association of Fort Wayne, Ind., is making preparations for the largest poultry show ever held at the fail' grounds. The dates are Sept. 12 to 16. They are making extensive im- l)rovements on the "Poultry Hall" to make it roomy and better lighted, and no doubt will be the best in Northern Indi- ana, which will enable them to accommo- date a larger number of birds than in former yeais, when in many cases they were ol)liged to return entry money. The- association has recently joined the Amer- ican Poultry Association through the efforts of that energetic fancier, Philip Koehlinger, and the show will lie held' strictly under A. P. A. rules. They have secured tiie services of Chas. I. Fishel, of Hope, Ind., as judge of the show. The ])remium list is ready for mailing and can be had by writing to P. T. Strieder, Fort Wayne, Ind. PIQUA, OHIO. The Miami Poultry Fanciers' Associa- tion will give its second annual show in Pi(|ua, Ohio, Jan. 8-13, 1912. The cash- specials, which made such a "hit" last year will be increased in amount and numliers. This, with the cups and the- great numlier of birds competing, will make the coming show well worth attend- ing. Piemium list ready Oct. 15th. Ad- dress Sherman D. Syler, Sec"y. for any information desired. ) EGGS $1.00 PER DOZEN From fine Partridge, Buff, Black and White Cochins; White, Buff-Laced and Golden Polish; S. C. Black Minorcas, S. C. White Leghorns, White Plymouth Rocks, and White Orpingtons. DR. H. F. BALLARD, - CHENOA, ILL. RATS&MICE V EXTERMINATED ;: SCIENTIFICALLY without danger— No odors— Ask the Pasteur Laboratories of America Room 854, 443 So. Dearborn Strtot, Chicago li tb« Qnallty Hark In Inmbatori. Thn hiicher Krade nachtnps are eqnipppd with "Tyco*" Indtrn- in«>nt«. ItiRlnt on the g>«nnln«. **7yC0>t" Ineahator Tli«>rmom<>lpr8,<>a<>li. 75e. "TycOS** ln«nbator HyKro- mptprn, narh, f 1 .fiO. Spud for frpp bookl«W "In- I riihaUir Thprmomptpr Fapts Worth Knowlnjf.'* T^jkr Instrument G)mpanis^ kochkstibi • ♦f i f # POULTRY rANCIER Page 15 Ml^^ CLASSIHED 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 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 1 0 per cent given on ads running for 1 2 months. I 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 fcr 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. BBEEDEBS' SEVEBAL VABIETIES. EGGS, BREEDING STOCK, BARRED AND White Plymouth Rocks, S. C. White Leg- horns, Buff and Diamond Jubilee Orpingtons. A thousand breeders, great layers. Circular free. Milton A. Brown, Route 3, Attleboro, Mass. . . 42 FOR SALE — EGGS FROM PENS SCORING 91 to 95. White and Buff Orpingtons, R. C. White and Black Minorcas, R. C. Reds and Buff Rocks. Send for circular. Geo. Leas- ure. .305 Hamline Ave., Zanesville, O. 33 ANCONAS AND HOUDANS. EGGS FROM winners $1.50 for 15. C, C. Freese, La Porte, Ind. 33 EGGS FOR HATCHING. S. C. WHITE I.,eghorns $1 and %1 per 15. $5 per hundred; Buff Wyandottes, $2; Buff Cochin Bantams, $1 for 12; White Pekin Ducks, $1 for 12. Dr. Logue, 243 Pine St., Williamsport. Pa. 33 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. Eggs, best pens, 15 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 RINGLET BARRED ROCKS DIRECT FROM Thompson's best matings. Eggs $1.50, $2.50 and $5 per 15. Fertility guaranteed. Also Pekin duck eggs from our Illinois State Fair and Decatur show winners. $2 per 12 or $3.75 per 25. Maple Grove Farm, R. 9, i:)ecatur. 111. 33 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. BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS. SWEDBIIRG BUFF ROCKS ARE STRONG and vigorous. Swedburg will furnish you with good stock. Give him a chance. Write at once for prices on eggs. N. E. Swed- burg. Hildreth, Neb. 33 BUFF ROCKS— BRED TO WIN AND LAY. 1st hen, 1st pullet and 2nd cockerel at Janes- ville. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. Stock for sale. August Kramer, Supt. Hoard's Farm, Ft. Atkinson, Wis. 24 WHITE WYANDOTTES. GIMLIN'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. HAVE exhibited and won leading poultry shows in 1909, including Illinois State Show 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- lin. Taylorville. 111. 9-10-12 PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES. PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES— BLUE RIB- bon winner Chicago 1910. and three other large shows in past winter. Eggs reason- able. Send for 1911 mating list. Few good cockerels left. G. S, Culver, Sandwich, 111. 33 SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. Orii SHOW KECORD THE LAST FEW years places our Silver Wyandottes in the front rank. No better laying strain to be found anywhere. Eggs $2.50, $3.50 and $5 per 15. W. A. Marner, M. D., Miles, la. 33 COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. GET SOME GOOD COLUMBIAN WYAN- dottes. Buy the Royal strain and you will not be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest competition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will please you. Jacob Heck, Station 23, Detroit, Mich. 121012 GET SOME GOOD COLUMBIAN WYAN- dottes. Buy the Royal strain and you will not be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest competition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will, please you. Eggs for sale from my best pin, including many prize winners, $3 per 15. Jacob Heck, Station 23. Detroit, Mich. 121012 OBPINQTONS. BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO- day for club book! Tells why Blacks are best of Orpmgtons. 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 QUALITY HILL HATCHERY & BREEDING Co. offers the best baby chicks and eggs from the best noted strains of Buff. Black and White Orpingtons. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Prices ten to fifteen cents each. Write for prices. W. J. Seavolt, Mgr.. Attira. 0._ :'.4 BHODE ISLAND BEDS. ROSE COMB RHODE ISL.\ND REDS— Pen (1) male scoring 931/4. by F. H. Shellabarger; eight pullets scoring 89^ to 92»/4. Eggs, $3. Pen (2), eggs, $1.50. Ralph A. Hicks. Maquoketa, la. 44 KING'S QUALITY R. C. RHODE ISLAND Reds. Eggs $2 and $5 per 15. Heavy lay- ing strain. Good shape and color. Satis- faction guaranteed. Orders given prompt and careful attention. E. J. King, Pine Grove. W. Va. 52 SINGLE COMB REDS— BEST PEN HEADED by a winner. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. If Inter- ested in good Reds It will pay you to write. W. F. Close, Fort Wayne, Ind. 44 BRAHMAS. LIGHT liU.\HiM.\S, STOCK AND EGGS. Prize winners wherever shown. Catalogue free. Correspondence solicited, Chas. Hunt, riarksville, la. ^ FOR SALE— LIGHT lUi.\HM.\ EGGS AND stock. No better this side of lioston; win the blue wherever shown. Beulah Hill and Corn Belt strain. See our yards before buying. Chandler & Son, 220 N. Ave. 23, I..OS Angeles, Cal. •^•'i 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. Part of my best breeders for sale. Unscor^d 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 96^4, females 96 1^. 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 LEQHOBNS. BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN 1909 at Springfield 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st an.d 3d cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, 1st pullet, 3 entries, 1910. At the Grand Central Palace, 4th cock, 5th hen, 2d cockerel, 4th pullet, 6 entries. At Madison Square 4th hen, 6th pullet, 5 entries. 15 eggs for $3; 30 for $5. W. J. Blake, Burnside, Conn. 21112 B. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. EGGS F^ROM CHICAGO AND KANSAS City winners, R. C. White Leghorns. Bred to lay and win. Winning at Illinois State Show, 1911, 1st and 2d hen, 1st and 2d pullet; best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet. None better, so send me your order for eggs. $2 per 15 or $3.50 per 30. Circular free. J. J. Peters, Lily White Poultry Yards, Lincoln, 111. 4,3 S. C. BBOWN LEGHOBNS. 25 INV^INCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS at $2 up. Write for descriptions and sam- ple feathers. Your chance to get winners at ■•make-room" prices. Be quick. Harry T, Trainer, Carpenter, O. 11-10-12 ANCONAS. .\NCONA EGGS $l..-.0 PER list and show winnings free. Ornnto Falls, Wis. 5. MATING John Meyer, 43 BLACK MINOBCAS. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. EGGS FROM 4 pens; selected trapnested hens; large black beauties. Standard bred; heavy egg pro- duction combined with finality that brings home the blue. Send for mating list be- fore ordering elsewhere. Richard Oetzel. New Richmond, Ohio. 33 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, 112s Palmer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 126 UlLLHURST GIANT YOUNGSTERS. THREE months old, $1 each. Mated pairs, $5. Will rai«o Bquabs weighing 10 to 18 pounds per :tyy^tr^.i^^-^::f^v'n^.i:xT F. W. Van Sant "«™- i-s^eeX" Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Single Comb Brow^n Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 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 $10peryear.^ Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule, made exceptionally low on this account. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. The cost is The price is BUFF & BLACK ORPINGTONS 10 males and 20 females in trios or singles for breeding, $3 up. Eggs $1.50 £? $3 for 15, from birds scoring 90 to 95. W. L. YATES - Butler. Ind. BARRED P. ROCKS 50 per cent off on Eggs from Pen No. 2, 3 and 4. W. H. SHA\^, CANTON, ILL. ROSE COMB REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kennels and Poultry Farm Box 58 ; : Shrewsbury, N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons, Pheasants. Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies, Stock 6f Eggs cheap. New 60 page cat. 4 cts. F. J. Damann. Farminafon, Minn. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Can send you cgfirs that Avill hatch winners GET OUR PRICES E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape, size and color, bred frotn 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. BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS "Winners at Phila., Allentow^n, Scranton and w^herever shown. Al'ways ^win my share of prizes. EGGS $1, $2 and $3 per 15. CHAS. J. KREMER Box 23, Sonderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R.I. Reds ^ery fine Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central West. W^rite for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club, Iowa Branch. U. S. C. R. I. Club. JOHN KISSINGER GREENFIELD^ IOWA p Polgreen's Columbian Wyandottes < The Better Kind Color intense black and wliite, shape also has not been negrlected. Have won 1st and 2nd prizes at New York State Fair the last three years, won this last year 1st pen and 1st cock. EgRfs f2 per ]5, cheap at double the price. H. W. POLGREEN, Albany. N. Y. JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winners for years al Americas leading shows Three grand matings, that are sure to produce winners for any competition. Eggs 13 and <* $5 per 15. Free Mating List. f B. F. Jones, R. 3. Box 1 1 , Naryville, No. ■ Sacrifice Sale White Leghorns Owing to recent fire losses I must raise funds for rebuilding and w^ill sell 150 of my choicest breeding hens. They are from my best mat- ings. "Will almost give them aw^ay. The price is $9 per dozen. C. C. FOSTER, R. F. D. 1, Quincy, Mich. KELLERSTRASS and COOK < rCollinrsrcrA^^ Strain of S. C. White Orpingtons. A few^ hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt, "Washington, low^a. BARRED ROCKS Winners of the f50. cup at Philadelphia for best pen in Entire Show, also 2nd Cock, 4th Hen, Cup for best pen to produce exhibit females. Eggs flO. per 15, will hatch Sure TOP NOTCH FARMS Water Mill. N. Y. COLUMBIAN PLYMOITH ROCKS. Prizewinning stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. While Leghorns bred from leading strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for mating list. G. W. Garlock, box 5, Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK, N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston, Chicago. Buffalo and Pittsburg in last two years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA iCadino Varieties of land and water fowls. Write me what you want. Have some fine surplus stock. Eggs of all varieties strongly fertile J2 per 15, Incubator Eggs 18 per 100. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, quality the best, satisfaction guar. BRADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy. Pa. R. Ci. K. 1. REDS First prize winners at Des Moines and Cedar Raprds PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list. L. Slierman Kline li%TT8^A WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my 'w^inners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS, Poultry Judge Box F, 215, Le Grand. Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have >von 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are w^inners. heavy layers, quick growers. Get started w^ith Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftrger, North Manchester, Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your w^ants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R, Clinton Falls, Minn. Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers iy2 lbs. at 10 w^eeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show^ quality, 5 first on ft ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2, $3 and $5. Eggs Si. JO for 15 , S? for ?o. S4 for 45, $6 for 100. $50 for loco A.M.SPELMAN & SON. Box 75. Rootstown. O. \^HITE PLY. ROCKS Eggs from my best birds SI. 00 per 13. S5.OO per 100. to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards, Dt Fond du Lac, W^ IS. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It is free W. D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. MISS GORDOI ORPINGTOf iRD! In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. BufFs and Blacks. Cook and Ow^en Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they w^ill produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. "Will be pleased to write you about my stock. FAfRflELD POULTRY FARM Thos Peer, Prop. Caldwell, N. J. Americas' Best strains of Silver Ducking Leghorns S. C. Buflf Leghorns and Blue Andalusians. Eggs for Hatching my specialty. If you want the best from Madison Square Garden winners write me. Mymofto; Sijuaro and Honest dealings with all. c> u i> 1 N c; T 0 N s S.C. Duff A Black CHAMPION DIaod Dreetfers. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. luifrcll. Route P., Waverly, III. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans, Wyandottes, Dorkingn, Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro. Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Co., Pa. ^ S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading^ Minn, shows. Great layers. Etjgs from pens $1.50& $2 per 15 Utility Ekl's $1 per l.S. IS per 100. Satisfaction Kuaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON, St. Charles. Minn. I.ICillT IIH .MINI AS "None better East or "West." Every bird in yards a show^ bird. Of entire crop of birds last year, onlv tw^o scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95 54. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs 6f stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T.^Edson : : Schaller. Iowa MY S. C. buff LtGnO'RNS' Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 1 3 years and shown for 1st time N Y State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booked for eggs and satisfaction guaranteed. " ^ GILBERT. ff;7^^_:]^^^_TyLLY._K.T • • f • • • THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Ejgs at $1 00 per 15 bal- ^"i*= 2i *i*J,°Jl, r?J"*l<^" *of "'e « bargains. S. D. ECKLER, - Ashtabula, Ohio. M^My^^^m^L, <,. v>. ixi:N TOOLS I are "easy to use." A "PilMnR" Capon Set with 'complete Kulde and instrurtfonssent postpaid forrJ.iiO. I»ooklpt.'M}uideforCaponi7;in(r"l'ree C.P. PILLING & SON CO., 23d& ArchSts..PhiUdelphi.,Pa! Big Bargains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50, $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you "want eggs ask ho'w to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin 6f Son, Fairmont. Minn. CS0METHIN6 TO CROW ABOUT HEN-E-TA y^ SUNSET REDS l^^^'L^, Show quality, line bred and ^'ith a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class sno'w birds. OUINCY ADAMS COSHOCTON. OHIO J0UT30%PURE BONE ASH NO OTHER I NO OTHER BONE NEEDED I 6R[T NEEDED ^KOMORE BONE CUTHRS NEEDED' INOMORB BEEF-SCRAPS NEEDED- NO MORE CHARCOAL NEEDED* NO MORE 0Y3TER-SHELLS NKffiD iOO lbs • • $2.2S 800 lbs • . 9.00 Balanced Ration Formulas Free If you will give us your dealers name and address. HEN-I5-TA BONE CQ NEWARK. N^ ;PEP77.. >»• fLEMINCTON.Vy.VA. VALUABLt BOOKLET rnn Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains orer 50 pages, including cover, which is printed in three colors, and all on good half* tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this mosi complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it tells you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub- scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $l.25» DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co. 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, III. Pape 16 POULTRY FANCIER- -^ "■"■■'■'.-■/-^•^^•■"A.^WI 1/ 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. $10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule, made exceptionally low on this account. The cost is The price is ^!i!Z^ ORPINGTONS 10 males and 20 females in trios or singles for breeding. $3 up. Eggs $1.50 t? $3 for 15, from birds scoring 90 to 95. Vw. L. YATES - Butler, Ind. BARRED P. ROCKS 50 per cent off on Eggs from Pen No. 2, 3 and 4. W. H. SHAW, CANTON, ILL. ROSE COIV1B REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kennels and Poultry Farm Box 58 : : Shrewsbury. N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas. Pigeons, Pheasants. Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies, Stock & Eggs cheap. Ne^v 60 page cat. 4 cts. r. J. Damann. Farminqton, Minn. tiii-^i'r. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Can send you ckks that will hatch w inners c;et our pricks E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape, size and color, bred from the be.st 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. BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS Winners at Phila.. Allentovn. Scranton and ^^'herever shovn. Al>vays win my share of prizes. EGGS $1 . $2 and $3 per 1 5. CHAS. J. KREMER Box 23. Sonderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R.l. Reds iV^Ine Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central West. W^rite for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club. Iowa Branch. U. S. C. R. I. Club. JOHN KISSINGER GREENFIELD. IOWA Polgreeii'K Columbian Wyandottes The Better Hind Color intense black and white, shape also has not been neglected. Have wM01IH ROCKS. Pri/.ewinnink- stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several tine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. While Leghorns bred from leadinsr strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for niatinjr list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK. N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have •won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden. Boston. Chicafjo. Buffalo and Pittsburt; >n last tw^o years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA All Leading Varieties ':^J^i^;[ Write me what you want. Have some fine surplus stock. E^gfs of all varieties strongrly fertile 52 per 15, Incubator Kj^'gfs 58 per lOU. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- Sf)nable. riualitv the best, satisfaction cuar. F. I. BRADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy, Pa. D /^ D 1 First prize •winners at Des 1\. V^. 1\. I. Moines and Cedar Rapids 7 PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list. L. Sherman Kline l^^^^glSi,,, REDS WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my winners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS. Poultry Judge Box F, 215, Le Grand, Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are >vinners. heavy layers, quick groAvers. Get started with Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzgcr. North Manchester. Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R, Clinton Falls, Minn. :te July, '11 ZZZZZZISS F. w. Van Sant ""-- '^;;-;!>-|;,.. Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. Sacrifice Sale White Leghorns Owing to recent fire losses I must raise funds for rebuilding and will sell 1 50 of my choicest breeding hens. They are from my best mat- ings. W^ill almost give them away. The price is $9 per dozen. C. C. FOSTER, R. F. D. l. Quincy, Mich. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Homt of the Brahmas. Cochins, Langshans. Wyandottes, Dorkingf, Leghorns. Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Co., Pa. ^ \^HITE PLY. ROCKS Kggs from my h<'st birds 5100 por 13, *5 00 per 100. to m't you started. Thcsi- birds have won the past rtve years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards. Dept. A. Fond du Lac, W^is^ Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS W. ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It is free n. HART. - ASHLAND, MO. S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leadintj Minn, shows. Great lavers. Ekk- from pens $1..S0& $2 per l.S IJtilitv Fees SI per lf>. $5 per 1(K). Satisfaction truaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON, St. Charles. Minn. GORDON'S ORPINGTON \l In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and Owen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they will produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. Will be pleased to write you about my stock. MfRMtLD POULTRY JrXkM Thos Peer, Prop. Caldwell, N. J. Americas' Best strains of Silver Ducking Leghorns S. C. ButT Leghorns and Blue Andalusians. Kggs for Hatching my specialty. If you want the best from Madison Square CJarden winners write me. My motto; Scjuare .nid Hom-'-t dj-aliniis with all. ( ) K 1 » 1 N c ; T < ) N s S.C. BuU & Olack CHAMPION Blood Breeders. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. lulirrll. Roufe F„ Waverly, III. WY s». c. buff LUinotitsb Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 1 3 years and shown for 1st time N Y State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booke:! for eggs and satisfaction guaranteed. ' '^ MI.BKRT f' TULI.Y, ^ "* • • • * • • THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Eggs at $1 00 per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bargains ECKLER. - Ashtabula, Ohio. S. D. /ANSDEN S. C. REDS. Have won more prizes over all competitors in the largest shows in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $ 1 0. Two sets $15. H^B. Lansden & Son, Manchester, Tenn. DON'T OVERLOOK THIS. I other people would read your ad if it were ' here, just the same aa 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, ♦ Chicago. IIL S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively, Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Show. 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers. Gordon Ave.. Peoria. 111. ?v^E J*?l J«0>^N _r0WLS I nDEALPOULfRTYARDS White Rock Cockerels 51.00 and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. 13.50 and up- Hens $3.00 each. TheWhite African (Guineas, the farmers "watch dog" at SL25 each. Circular free. J. C. Baker, Rt. 1. Plainville, 111. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks \ Eggs from my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus. Akron. Canton. W^ooster and Youngstown, O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER, Orrville. O.. Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. kN A CON AS Are among the best in the United States They have the quality, vigor, size and markings. They will win anywhere. They are the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Kggs from exhibition matings, J?.oo per 15. From utility stock, Jr. 50 per Ij. Write for circular. GEO. WARNER. Bushnell. 111. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred \ SlTr/ilf Rhode Island REDS Bred for vi^or, size, shape, color. Prize winners, (ireat layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON, ILL. ROSK COM 15 l^l:l>s Do you ■w^ant to win at next fall shows? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize "winners. My Reds are red. free from smut. Eggs $1 .50 to $3 per 1 5. Baby chicks 15 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE, Preston. Minn. Stafford's Barred Rocks 'Won on 58 entries under five leading judges. 48 ribbons and 4 silver cups. Four grand yards mated for eggs. Send for circular. C, P. Stafford. La Moille, 111. Rose Comb Black Minorcas Won 1st cockerel. 2nd cock. 2nd pen. 1st. 2nd. 3rd and 4th pullet at 111. State Show. 1911. EGGS AND BABY CHICKS. Mating list free Van Doren Brothers, Loami. 111. Big Barjjains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff W^yandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners. Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. W^rite for description, and if you want eggs ask how to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W. J. Ct)ffin £f Son, Fairmont, Minn. SUNSET REDS |;"„y,e'"l.B Show quality, line bred and with a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class show^ birds. J. QUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON, OHIO Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, III, L>SK COMi; 1vinners. Get our illustrated cata- logue, NORMAN H. WATSON. R6. Mystic. Iowa. WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICE now tor all Ejjgs. Get eggs and raise Rods from our Famous Hens, "Polly" which was chosen over 1st Madison Square Pullet of igog-io, from 1st and id Providence, 1st Frankfort, 1st Knoxville, ist Cleveland, etc.. at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain lo make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards, Geo. L. Wolfe. Prop.. Rogersville. Tenn. Double PfofiU I brintf Pro(fre.'!8lve poultrymen know that ordinary poul- try hrinjfs 10c. to I.'m-. on the market, while Capons readily sell foricOo. to.SOc. a pound, and often lujrher. Capon.s are / easy to raise and brin^; double price- double profits. PILLING CAPON TOOLS .are "easy to use." A'Pillintj" Cnpon Set with 'complete tfuide and instruotionssent imstpnid for ^•.'..'"lO. Kooklrt.'MJuifle for ('(tponizinir" free t P. FILLING & SON CO.. 23d& Arch SU.. Philadelphia, Pa! RHODE ISLAND REDS How to Breed and Judge Them By THEQ. HEWES Is the Best and Ooly Complete Treatise Ever Published op this Great Variety There is no breed so widely advertised to-day as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes perfection. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes ever^* sec- tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defe NO MORE OYSHR-SHELLS NEEDED VALUABLt 100 '»>• - - $2.25 Balanced Ration Formulas Free If you will give us your dealers name and address. HEN-E-TA BONE CO. NEWARK. N.J." ,THPT..:J}>- PLEMINCTON. W.VA. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains over 50 pages, including cover, which is printed in three colors, and all on good half* tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select yom show birds; in fact, it tells you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub- scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $1.25* DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co* 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, III. -<«•• It Is Not Because We Call Our Columbian Wyandottes SUPERIOR STRAIN That they are SUPERIOR. It is because they have proven themselves SUPERIOR in many of "The Best Show Rooms" in competition with "The Best Breeders" in the country C In the past three seasons at Chicago they won more pretnitim^ and prizes than any two competitors. AsWinter Layers No Breed Can Surpass Them C We are willing to meet any breeder of reputation in an " Egg Laying Contest" to prove this. No breed is "more profitable" or'"more beautiful" than Fenton Farms Superior Strain of Columbian Wyandottes C Birds now mated for Season of 1911. Eggs, Baby Chix, Selected Breeders and Show Stock C?3 CX3 Cj3 Send for Literature L FENTON FARMS, ML CLEMENS, MICH. LARGEST EXCLUSIVE BREEDERS OF COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES P. S.— If you are going to buy— buy the best. "It pays. » • • • OP IMIHVUTaNCK To lHJtTl.TUY UUICl!:DKUs^ Did it ever occur to you that of all the people v/ho zna'wer your ads very fe^v ever see you. vour flock or your breeding pens? If they did. you \irould w^ant to make a favorable impression, have your pens looking well- kept and prosperous, and your flock at their best, wouldn't you? Since a prospective buyer doesn't see you. but transacts his business by correspondence, how important it is that your printed stationery should be of a style and quality in keeping with that which you pro- claim for your flock. Well-printed stationery and advertising literature w^ill increase your business because it attracts attention and gives dignity to your business. Quality printing for live stock and f)Oultry breeders is our specialty. We design and print anything from a business card to a sale cata- og or association report, and all on the principle of "Satisfaction or your money back." Write for prices on anything you may need printed. PLAINDEALER PRINTING CO.. Charleston. 111. AMBOE'S Partridge W^yandottes Layers and w^inners alw^ays. Clearing sale on now^. W^e must make room for our 450 promising youngsters. Write us a postal to- day ior prices on this year's breeders, some show^ birds among them. Address A. K. AMBOE 6f SON. Marinette. Wis. 1 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 good WHITE WYANOOTTES ^^"^^^ BERWYM POULTRY YARDS, ■■^~~"~" liveng prices. BOX P., BERWYM, Ul, Fine Partridge, Buff, Black & White Cochins; White, Buff- Laced & Golden Polish & S. C. Black Minorcas. $2 to $10 each. Prize w^inners 29 years. Dr. H. F. Ballard. Impor- ter, Breeder and Judge, Chenoa, Illinois. VYTS** Hygrometer ^^^^f^^^^ show the amount of moisture (humidity > in In- ^^^ cubators. I>on't ristli egien, time and money w lien you can insure hatches with "Xyco*" instruments. A "Tycos" 'hermometer is the Quality Marli in an incubator. Huy the niueliine equipped with it. Insist on the Kenuine. '"Tycos" Incu- >ator Tlieruiometers, each, 75c. * *Tycos" Incubator llyeroineters, each, J^l.oO. 8end for free booklet, "Incubator Thermo- trfkr Instrument Compame.% ^i'^i^Z^^^""'^ Knowm./- ^ POULTRY FENCE" STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF Bottom wires 1 inch apart. Will tiot sasr or bag. Re- quires no boards — top or bottom — and fewer posts. Costs less than netting. W« pay freight. Send for Catalog. The Brown Fence & Wire Co. Depl. 94 Cleveland, Ohio. S.C.&R.C.R.I.REDS BUFF TURKEYS BARRED ROCKS ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^*"^"^ ^^* ^^ ^^^^^^ "^^'^^ ^"^ females to offer I\ V/ \^ IV O ^)ur 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 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. ORPINGTONS KELLERSTRASS' STRAIN of CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS show theiin. but BALTI- rirst on Cock, First on Hen, First on Cockerel, First on Pullet and First on Pen ranking a clean sweep, and 181 birds In the class, from America. Entjland an.l all parts of the world. We have cockerels and iml- lets hatched the early part of January, that now tip the scales at (iVa and 7 pound.'. Thev are the kind that wiH iTheard fm diir ng the coming show season, and if you are in need of any winners, write us and tell us lust what you want and what you T« willing to pay, and we are sure we ain supply you with the BLUE KIBBON WINNilRS. Kellerstrass Farm 585 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo. •w^yw^ # -f»* .- ^^^sm- i -—itf-- 'TniMi.r.'iim— > ■'\nm Vol. XVI CHICAGO, ILL, AUGUST, 191 1 No. 2 Get Ready for the Shows A Little Good Straight Talk That Ought to Favor- ably Impress Every Breeder of Standard-Bred Fowls. Every Word of It Is True, and Every Successful Breeder and Exhibitor Will Agree With the Writer. BY H. S. BABCOCK. \\\'\ |)t»ultr\" show is coming. It will S( >i »n l)c licrc. ( icl ready for it. '\\\\> advice ai)])lies not onl}- t( » the fall >ho\\ , which is preliiiiinar} t<' what is to follow, hut as well, and perhaps with e\en i^reater force to the winter exhibition. 'The exhibitor wh(t is ready will ha\e the io\' of entering his fowls, of contending' U^v supremacy, and ])erhaps of winniniL;- the premier prizes. The breeder who is nut ready will ha\e the jo>- ( ?) of i;eltin^- left. Readiness for an exhibition means that the fowls liaxe been properly i;i"own and developed, properly ])repared and trained. All these things are essen- tial: they all contribute to one of the objects i»f exhibiting, winning the prizes. The breeder who is unwise enou_iL;h to exhibit specimens not in read- iness for slKtwiuL; has no cause for conii)laint if his more pre])are(l rixal carries otV the h<'n<>r>. it is a ^o<»(l thiui^ t<» exhibit e\ en if one win^ only defeat. The next best thinin' to winniuL; is losiuL;. Ihe loser has the i)leasure of competition and he, also, has the experience of losing. r.oth are too xaluable to be missed. The loss of a ])rize may. indeed, teach a more \aluable lesson than the winninin (tf >e\eral i)rizes. We learn more from otir defeats. ]>roperly u-ed, than we do froni our successes. liut the winning- of ])rizes is n<»t the sole object of exhibiting-. It is an object, but not the object. The chief object is to sup])ort the poultry exhibi- tion. The ])oultry exhibition helps, and ,i;reatl\ helps, to make the \alue of exhibition birds. If all poultrx exhibitions were wiped out i>t existence, and no others were established, a _L;reat i)art i^\ the value of exhibition birds would be lost. \ot all ol the \alue. for men, e\en if there were no shows, would still pay more for fine hM.kim^ birds than tor u^ly ( ir common])lace specimens. r>eaut\' always has and always will enhance the \alue of all kinds of li\e slock. lUit to kee]) the price where it is now, the exhibition is a necessitx . it is a duty, therefore, which the breeder of tine fowls owes to the industry and to him>elf to exhil)it. and. it he is to exhibit, he mii^ht as well do what lie^ in hi>> ])ower to ^et his 1)ir(l> read\- to win. The breeder al>o should i^et himself ready for the ])oultry show. lie should tr\' to real- ize what the poultry chool himself to ob- -er\e the ethics (»f the show ritoms. to 1)ear de- feat with cheerfulness and to acce|)t \ ictory with humility. lie should n< 't be either discourai^ed in the one case or b(>astful in the other. Me should eschew trickery and hate fakim^. lie shho\v. Ila\e the birds in a condition to slutw at their best, for every bird in ^uch a condition helps the show and the industry, while birds, which are iu poor condition, acttially injure the show. Cidtixate the amenities of the show room, that the jniblic may learn that poultrymen are worthy citizens, honorable men. and i;enuinel\- interested in e\er\- thini^ which makes for i)ro_iircss. and i^et ready n<»w. k'.arly ])re])aration usually means thorom^h preparation. To ha\e plenty of time in which io prepare the l)irds will make their ])rei)aration a pleasure and will, at the ^ame time, materially increase their chances ^A winnin|Li' the ceat. ^et ready, and now, for the ])oultry UTi%.NC^fc: 'VO lH>tTI.TUY BUUUUKUs^ Did it ever occur to you that of all the people w^ho answer your ads very few ever see you, your flock or your breeding pens? If they did. you w^ould w^ant to make a favorable impression, have your pens looking ivell-kept and prosperous, and your flock at their best, w^ouldn't you? Since a prospective buyer doesn't see you. but transacts his business by correspondence, how important it is that your printed stationery should be of a style and quality in keeping with that w^hich you pro- claim for your flock. Well-printed stationery and advertising literature w^ill increase your business because it attracts attention and gives dignity to your business. Quality printing for live stock and f>oultry breeders is our specialty. We design and print anything from a business card to a sale cata- og or association report, and all on the principle of "Satisfaction or your naoney back." Write for prices on anything you may need printed. PLAINDEALER PRINTING CO., Charleston. 111. AMBOE'S Partridge W^yandottes Layers and winners always. Clearing sale on now^. W^e must make room for our 450 promising youngsters. Write us a postal to- day f3r prices on this year's breeders, some show^ birds among them. Address A. K. AMBOE Gf SON, Marinette. Wis. i 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 good WHITE WYANOOTTES ctt^f^S""^ BERWYM POULTRY YARDS, ■■"■-"■" liveng prices. BOX P., BERWYM, ILL, Fine Partridge, Buff, Black & White Cochins; White, Buff- Laced & Golden Polish & S. C. Black Minorcas. $2 to $10 each. Prize winners 29 years. Dr. H. F. Ballard. Impor- ter, Breeder and Judge, Chenoa, Illinois. ^^^^Ir ^"^ show the amount of moisture (huiQldlty) in In- ^^^ cubators. Don't rlsii esiCM, time and money when yoa insure hatches with "Tyeo«" Instruments. A "Tyco«" ^ ^ Thermometer is the Quality Mark in an incubator. Buy the r machine equipped with it. Insiston the genuine. *'Tyco<" Incu- bator Thermometers, each, 75e. * 'Tycos** Incubator Hydrometers, each, #1.5eauty always has and always will enhance the value of all kinds of live stock. Ihit to keep the price where it is now, the exhibition is a necessity. It is a duty, therefore, which the breeder of fine fowls owes to the industry and to himself to exhibit, and, if he is to exhibit, he might as well do what lies in his power to get his birds ready to win. The breeder also should get himself ready for the poultry show. He should try to real- ize what the poultry show means to his indus- try, wdiat his proper attitude toward it should be, in what frame of mind he should acce])t victory or defeat, and what he can do to make the show a success. He should school himself to ob- serve the ethics of the show rooms, to bear de- feat with cheerfulness and to accept victory with humilitv. He should not be either discouraged in the one case or boastful in the other. He should eschew trickery and hate faking. He should win honorably or not at all. Unnecessary pro- tests and indecent kicking are alike to be avoided. L'nder all circumstances he should be a gentleman. The success of the industry shcnild mean to him, as it really does mean, more than any personal success at a particular show^ Get ready, therefore, for the poultry show\ Have the birds in a condition to show at their best, for every bird in such a condition helps the show and the industry, while birds, which are in poor condition, actually injure the show. Cultivate the amenities of the show room, that the public may learn that poultrymen are worthy citizens, honorable men, and genuinely interested in every- thing which makes for progress, and get ready now. Karly i)reparation usually means thorough ])reparation. To have plenty of time in which to prepare the birds will make their preparation a pleasure and will, at the same time, materially increase their chances of winning the coveted hon- ors. Therefore, we repeat, get ready, and now, for the poultry show. Page 18 POULTRY rANClER- August, *11 ^^*S5i3^«^^»«K«* «ii«»r*»*»'4«-^ Fanciers Should Take a Broad Outlook The Specialist Is Apt to Become Narrow in His Views. He Should Be Up to Date and a Care- ful Student of All Things Which Have Any Connection With or Influence Upon His Work. BY A FANCIER. T is the universal tendency of a spe- cialty to narrow a man's outlook on life. Specialists are apt to become narrow men. Dwelling", as they do, among- the thoughts which relate to their specialty, their mind becomes intense and deep in one direction. They look only in one way. This is true of all specialties, whether in science, the so-called learned professions, or in business pursuits. In a less restricted way it is also true in poultry breeding. Xo one desires to be a narrow man, and no one needs to be. A man may be a specialist, and, despite its narrowing tendencies, may also be a broad-minded man. And this, certainly, is a result that is to be desired. A potdtryman may devote his energies to the perfection of a single variety. Fhe more intensely lie studies this variety, the greater will be, other things being ecpial, his chances of success. lUit if he would not grow narrow-minded, he ought to study the science as well as the art of breeding his chosen variety. He should learn that all knowl- edge is relative, and he ought to understand the relation which his specialty bears to other knowl- edge. Suppose that he is breeding lUackbreasted Red I^lxhibition ( lames. He must first master the art of their breeding. Then he should study the principles which underlie that art, and learn that they apply with etpial force to the breeding of not only other varieties of Games, but to such diverse breeds as Cochins and Brahmas. The great laws of heredity, reversion, ata\ism, correlation, regression, variation and the like are limited to no l)ree(l or variety, but are of universal a])plication. The fact that the breeding of a single variety is thus related to the breeding of other varieties, and in fact to the breeding of all forms of terrestrial life opens a vista which gives him a broad outlook. This relativity of knowledge will also disclose to him the further fact that the breeder of exhibition fowls and the breeder of market fowls have many things in common ; that while their immediate purposes and aims are different, they still are re- lated to one another; and that, therefore, there is no necessary and inevitable antagonism ])etween them. They are both breeders of poultry and, as such, are engaged in the same occupation. Such a conception will lead him to consider the purpose and magnitude of poultry breeding. Me will see that its primary object is to ])rc)motc the general welfare of the people and increase their comfort and happiness. Me will understand that in his operations he is contributing to this great purpose, and that he is adding to the resources of the nation and the world. Me will tluis come to rcQfard himself as one of the inan\. and lliat his relationship does not end with those engaged in similar pursuits, 1)ut extends to men engaged in the most divine occupations. Like the old philoso- pher, he will understand that "Xothing which touches man is foreign to him," and that, while he is specially a breeder of lilack-breasted Red Exhi- bition Games, he is a citizen of the world and vi- tally interested in the world's work and progress. His narrowness will thus drop off from him like a castoff garment and he will enjoy a broad out- look upon the world and upon life. We said in the first paragraph, that the tendency of a specialty to narrow one's outlook applied "in a less restricted" way to poultry breeding than to many other occu])ati()ns. And we said this because the poultry industry, even wdien carried on as a specialty, is by its very nature a varied industry and calls into action various faculties. In the pro- duction of its products the ])oultry industry re- sembles a manufacturing establishment wdiere raw material is converted into finished goods; in the purchase of supplies and the sale of eggs and fowds the poultryman is carrying on a business somewhat similar to that condticted by a merchant; and in breeding to improve the stock the scientific and ar- tistic capacities of the breeder find an oppc^rtunity for employment. The words "less restricted" seem, therefore, to be justified, and the danger of be- coming narrow to be less imminent to a poultry specialist than to a specialist in almost any other occupation. The tendency undoubtedly exists, but fortunately in a minor degree. We, therefore, find that there is, as we might reasonably expect, but a small percentage of narrow minded men among poultry specialists, and that the great body of poul- try men have a broad outlook upon life and the work of the wc^rld. lireed for the l)est only. Under no circumstances should a breeder of fancy fowls place a bird with any serious defects in the breeding pen. A strain of prizewinners may be bred up from foundation stock of only fair (piality, but it's time wasted in trying to do it. It is much more satis- fact(^ry, more certain and takes less time by start- ing with a foundation of good stock. Study the feathers of the chicks. There is a lot to be learned by so doing. If you are looking for pullet-l)reeding males to head next season's pens, now is the time to make the ])reliminary selection. 'The cockerels which show the desired female colora- tion are worth marking for future pullet breeders. "( )ut of sight, out of mind," may or may not be true when applied to human beings, but it seems to be true when applied to cockerels. A fiock of cock- erels, separated from the pullets, removed from their sight, will dwell together in j)eace, but bring the pullets into sight and they will strive to live in pieces. Just the sight of a lot (^f pullets will pre- cipitate among the cockerels a general war, and for- mer friends on the instant will become enemies. • » • • • POULTRY FANCIER Plasticity in Breeding Fowls An Explanation of the Condition Which Makes It Possible for Fanciers to Produce a Multiplicity of Breeds and Varieties. Reasons Why a Com- mon Ideal Is Necessary. BY H. S. BABCOCK. LASTICTTY is that quality which en- ables a thing to be moulded into any desired form, and, as api)lied to fowls signifies their capability of indefinite modification. It is the quality through which improvement becomes possible. Without it any advance in breeding would be an impossibility ; what the fowls now are, that they would remain despite the efiforts of breeders. Plasticity is Plasticity, and Variation is its prophet ; it is evidenced by and works through vari- ation. The breeder is enabled to mould his fowds to his will only by his control and use of the vari- ations which occur. Those which favor his purpose must be seized and used. He cannot, like an artist working in clay, produce the visible expression of his thought at once, but he has to build up his living materials, like a mason laying a wall, little by little, generation after generation, until his thought finds its ade(iuate exi)ression. He must be both mechanic and artist, producing beauty by a slow, mechanical process. To accomplish his purpose the breeder must have an ideal constantly before him as a guide in the se- lection and use of his materials. Every variation which resembles that ideal will be of service ; all that tend in an opposite direction will be a hin- drance. lUit it will often happen that the breeder must use, as materials, fowls which vary towards and against the ideal, and to do this successfully will test his skill to the utmost. Still he must pa- tiently plod on his way, true to his ideal, and never be wholly discouraged when matings fail to ])r()- duce anticipated results. The formation of the ideal will be a ^ood test of the breeder's ability to see and ai)preci..te what is really worthy. A mean ideal will produce mean results; a high ideal, results that are worth while. In making use of the plasticity of a fowl, it is well to first secure and fix in mind' a worthy ideal, and, that done, to adhere to it. Hiere will always be a temptation, during the period necessary for the re- alization of a high ideal, to lower one's standards so as to bring them nearer to what has already been attained. lUit such a temptation should be re- sisted. The only justifiable departure from an es- tablished ideal is that which experience has shown to be still more desirable — a lifting up and not a letting down of recjuirements. As breeders dififer in their characteristics, if left to themselves, each would set up an independent ideal, and these ideals would differ as much among themselves as would the breeders who formecl them. This would prevent breeds and \arieties from develoj)ing along common lines and would tend to confusion of breed with breed and variety with variety. Hence the necessity of a common ideal to unifv the efforts of breeders. Such an ideal is found in The Standard of Perfection, which is. in tact, a book of common ideals of the breeds and \arieties therein described. These ideals are the composite results of many individual ideals super- imposed upon each other. lUit as the individual ideals were the creation of men experienced in, breeding and in breeds, as they represent the prod- uct of many years of hard study, the composites may be unhesitatingly accepted as good, if not the very best, ideals, and as worthy to be followed in the development of a variety through the use of the plasticity of its nature. 1diis is the great value of an accepted standard, that is furnishes a common ideal, unifies the work of breeders, and thus hastens the perfection of each breed and variety. If it did nothing more a standard would be worth all and more than all its cost. Plasticity is the foundation upon which a fancv rests securely. If the domestic fowl did not pos- sess a ])lastic nature, the poultry fancy could not exist. Pecause it does have such a nature, because it can be moulded into almost any shape and cov- ered with a plumage of almost every hue, arranged in man\' patterns, the poultry fancy exists, flour- ishes and increases from year to year. Com])are, or rather contrast, the fancy in domestic fowls and in water-fowls; the first is a thousand-fold greater than the second, due mainly, ])ut not wholly, to the difi'erence in the plasticity of the creatures. 1^he higher the degree of plasticity, the greater will be the fancy and the more numerous the fanciers. In this country there are three well developed fancies, in fowls, pigeons and dogs, and all three creatures possess great plasticity. lireeding of creatures which possess btit a limited plasticity becomes com- mercial in character — it is a business, not a fancv — and is conducted more com])letely for gain than for the ])leasure derivable therefrom. In case the plas- ticity and the commercial character of the occupa- tion diminishes, increase it sufficiently and a fancv arises. Plasticity, therefore, has made and sus- tained the poultry fancy and all other fancies in breeding living' creatures. United we stand, divided we develop, is the way to read it for cockerels and pullets. Separated, they will develoj) faster and better than when kept together. Ignited, they seem to stand still, so slow is their development. Preparation of exhibition fowls for the season of l!)ll-12 should ha\'e been begun some five or ten years ago. 'Tt takes a hundred years to make a gentleman," that is about three generations, as the average of human life now is, and it certainlv takes as many generations to produce an exhibi- tion fowl of high (juality. As, however, we cannot turn back the hands on the clock of time, we must, perforce, make the best of it, and begin now, by careful selection and appropriate feeding, to de- velop the finest (pialities of the chickens which we have. I'etter begin this work at once so as not to have to hurry it. There will be encnigh demands on one's time when the final preparations have to be made. The preliminaries shcnild then be all out of the way. «^.j«w*M*y-'i«'^>*ywM.'<*'<^^!.-'f-v iaw»tfto««aw*!3*«!«&i«?3<«jr tair* « OULTRY PANCIEIt RandomThoughts AboutTimely Subjects Including Some Valuable Suggestions Regarding the Feeding and General Care of Young Stock in Order to Develop the Greatest Exhibition Ex- cellence. BY OBSERVER. The difficulty of securinj^- an agreement on shape is well illustrated in the |ulv issue of the Ameri- can Poultry World. Agreement as to general char- acteristics is easy ; as to partictihir details almost impossible. It will be necessary to compromise in order to secure harmonv. * * * * Mr. H. B. May, the veteran judge and breeder, has added to his stock the newest variety of the Cornish, the White Laced Red. Judge May has been a constant breeder of the Bared Plymouth Rock for many years, but we remember that he flirted with the \Vhite Wonders, and his latest flir- tation is now on record. It is "dollars to dough- nuts," as the Rev. Mr. Peterson would say, that the Barred Rock is still the prime favorite in Judge May's poultry yards. If he is (^n with the new love, he is not off with the old. Some of our readers may not know, and others may have forg-otten. that the Barred Plymouth Rock has a dash of (iame blood in its veins. And it owes this (iame blood to Mr. H. B. May, who, in the early days of the variety, crossed in a Black Red Game to liven up the somewhat sluggish tem- perament attributed to the Asiatic blood of the fowl. Certainly the l)arred Rock has proven itself game, and has stayed in the game for many years wn'th increasing prestige. 5jC *#* 'i* ^* The more one studies poultry and ])oultry breed- ing", the UKjre fully conscious of his ignorance he becomes. Socrates, who was reported the wisest among- the Greeks, is reported to have said, in effect, "I know that I know nothing; the others d(^ not even know^ that." It is worth a good deal to a breeder to learn Ik^w ignorant he really is, for then he is in a ])osition to learn something. * * * * Mr. W. H. Card deserves to be commended for describing, in his acccnnit of the origin of the White Laced Red Cornish fowl, the appearance of the chickens. "When hatched they are of a primrose color. 11ie first feathers are snow white and so continue till they are seven or eight weeks old, when color is noticed, and the changes and grada- tions of color continue till they are six months old, when the cpiality of markings can be ascertained." Such a brief description will prevent a deluge of unnecessary complaints and save a multitude of needless explanations. l>reeders of other varieties may well follow such an example. * * * * .\lr. W. B). Athcrton says: " I\ggs ha\e not hatched as well as usual and no one seems to be able to account for it." vSo far as our observa- tion goes this is true only of the early eg-gs. Late eggs liave hatched extremely well, showing a high deirree of fertilitv. The crv of "i)oor hatches" is heard annually, and we venture to assert that each season is unusually (?) bad for the early ones. There must be a reason for this yearly complaint. '»» 'i* 'i* 'J* Bantams are becoming more appreciated from year to year. They offer an enticing field for ac- tivity to the backyard fancier, and are really valu- able to the man who has very limited space and yet desires fresh eggs for his table and an occa- sional broiled chicken. They can be kept in the most limited space and some of the varieties are excellent layers. They are not a bad commercial proposition for the home market. If a hen ever deserved i^^ood feeding and good care it is during what many deem the unprofitable season of moulting. A great demand is then made upon her phvsical resources and if the owner helps her to meet it with proper feeding, he will later on be well repaid for his wise liberality. x'« «f<> *i^ ^0 '»» 't* •!* ^ It is a safe bet that not one in one hundred be- ginners knows the peculiarities of the coloring and marking of the down of many varieties of newly hatched chickens. It is worth while to dissemi- nate such knowledge among prospective buyers to save trouble, and it may be worth while to study the subject more closely for the possible indica- tions of what the adult plumage will be. Xor are beginners the only persons ignorant of the sug- gestions which the down may afford. -*- *•- o- *•* '(» 'C 't* '»» As they need it, don't forget to give the chick- ens the iron. For the colored specimens, in order to guard against white and to deepen the tone, give it in the form of tincture of sulphate ; for the culls the best form is in the shape of some sharp-cut- ting instrument administered in the neck just be- low the head. 'i* 'i* •»• ^ For those who have not prepared for it, there is now a shortage of green food for the fowls and the chickens. Still this may be supplied by feeding- sprouted cuts, and now is a very good time to use them. ♦ * * 5fe Up to a certain stage of their growth, the chick- ens thrive remarkably well on a diet of the commer- cial brands of chick feed now on the market. But later on these foods need to be supplemented by others, designed for older chicks. But don't make the change from one form of feeding to another suddenly. Gradually diminish the use of the chick feed and gradually increase the amount of the more mature foods. B>y so doing the digestive apparatus will be kept in good order, and growth and develop- ment be promoted. 5'J t' :i: j!s A fancier ought to cultivate, in himself and in his family, a taste for broilers. Such a taste solves the problem <^f what to do with the culls. =!: -!: -\' :!: Correct culling is a necessary part of the art of breeding exhibition fowls, and the rule, announced in reference to voting, "early and often," applies admirablv to cullinir. t f t • August, '11 POULTRY FANCIER^ Page 21 Relationship of Feather Markings Additional Comment Supplementary to an Article Which Appeared in July Poultry Fancier. Mr. Harmon Quotes the Maine Experiment Station Records in Support of His Views. BY B. S. HARMON. OME time ago T wrote an article, which was published in the July issue of Poultry Fancier under the title, "Discussion of Breeding Questions," in which, among other things, I dis- cussed the relation of various forms of markings to each other. Since the publication of this article I have found confirmatory evidence of the position therein taken in an interesting^ arti- cle in the August number of Farm-Poultry. In commenting- upon ''Maine Experiments With Cross-bred Poultry," the editor says, ''Barring in plumage is not limited to varieties that are barred all over, or nearly all over. Bars occtir as faults in penciled, laced, and striped i)atterns. I have found striped, laced, barred and spangled feathers together in nearly every section of Part- ridge Cochin females, that if you were not looking for such markings you would say, on ordinary in- spection, were beautifully, and regularly penciled Without undertaking anything like a systematic examination of birds for the purpose — just looking over specimens as I found them when the subject was on my mind and T had opportunity — I have found it so common for a bird with any color pat- tern to have all the other common color patterns either plainly marked or strongly suggested in some feathers, that T would feel reasonably safe in as- serting that I could find the full assortment on al- most any parti-colored female that had not been bred to a particular pattern with the g^reatest care, and — I would add — carefully plucked to remove all such feathers." One recalls that Mr. Charles Darwin discovered bars on the skin of some of the specimens of the wild irallinaceous fowls which he examined, and every judge and nearly every breeder knows that "purple bars" are a common exhibition defect on so-called solid black fowls. Indeed, the more 1 consider this subject the more T feel assured that the different forms of marking are intimately related to each other, and that the laws governing their production must be related each to the other. This discussion grew out of my reading some- where that "the law of lacing- had no relation to the law of penciling," but unfortunately I have not at hand the context to know just what the author of that statement might have meant. Tt is entirely possible that he used the words in a sense different from that in which T have discussed them, and ihc'it, in that particular sense, the statement may embody an important rule in breeding. But T am obli'.aui to confess that I have no idea of what ihat ])articular sense may be. With, as I believe, many others, 1 should be glad to learn in what sense it is true that the law of lacing has no relation to the law of penciling. As breeders and as stu- dents of the art and science of breeding we are naturally interested in every newly discovered prin- ciple or law relating to the subject. A priori, it would seem, that, if we find the dif- ferent colored patterns a])pearing upon the same fowl we should expect in breeding to perpetuate any particular pattern, that we would have to adopt a rule, similar in ])rinciple, to that required in breeding to perpetuate any other pattern. The rule might differ in detail while remaining fundamen- tally the same. For example, the breeder of liarred Plymouth Rocks finds it necessary, in order to produce exhibition ])atterns, to use a very light col- ored male ; and the breeder of Dark I irahmas and Partridge Cochins, in order to produce exhibition pullets, also finds it necessary to use a lighter col- ored male, that is, one whose breast is not solid black, but is mottled or splashed or penciled with the lighter of the colors which make uj) the male plumage. In both of these instances the principle is the same, but the details of the rule would be somewhat differently stated. But a priori reasoning can not stand against con- trary facts. One may be logical as possible, but a single adverse fact may upset the most skill- fully devised concatenation of reasons. It may be a fact that in some sense — and perhaps an impor- tant sense — the laws of lacing has no relation to the law of penciling. And I sincerely trust that, if the author of that statement should read these words, he will make the truth of his statement clear to us all. Until this is done, for the reasons previously given, I shall be compelled to believe, in any sense in which I can conceive the words are employed, that the statement is erroneous, and that the true statement would be that the law of lacing is related to the law of penciling, and to the law governing any other well defined form of marking. High class birds, properly mated, should produce chicks that are an improvement in quality over the parent stock. Matings that have not given such re- sults should not be used again. Feed regularly, but do not overfeed. Regular feeding of the pro])er kind and quantity of food is as important to the proper development of show birds and birds to be used in the breeding pen to produce show l)irds as it is to the proper develop- ment of layers. A whole lot of people fail in the fancy poultry business because they are not willing t(^ work hard enoutrh to attain success. This hard and often vex- atious work is where the pleasure comes m to the true fancier, as well as in enjoying the success which results from such w(M*k. It is human to comjilain when we have exhibited and lost, but it's showing the white feather when we do it. lietter take defeat (piietly, no matter if we do think the judge was imfair. Comi)laining does no good, but keei)ing still and "sawing wood" will sooner or later win the coveted prizes. POULTRY FANCIER August. '11 POULTRY FANCIER Page 23 EDITORIAL PAGE Poultry Fancier Publuhed under the name Fancy Fowls for 1 0 years, 1897 to 1907. Kiilered as Second Class Matter. Sept. 28. 1907. at the Post Office at Chicago. 111., under Act of March 3, 1870. Published the 1 5 th of each month by POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO. FRANK HECK. President 357 Dearborn Street, Chicago, HI. 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. August. 1911 Building a Business and a Reputation in Luilding up a poultry lousiness one needs first of all to build up a reputation. His reputation should consist of certain elements, as, for example, the breeding of high class stock an.d the giving of a sciuare deal to every customer. To gain a reputation for breeding higii-class stock one must be able to produce the birds. He needs to be- come a real breeder, knowing and observing the rules of his art. Bet- ter still, he should know not only from experience and observation the rules of breeding, but should also know the reasons upon which such rules are founded. Having produced the birds, he should let the public know the fact. He may do this by exhibiting and by advertising. These are the two wings which will enable him to fly to the summit of the mount of success. If only one wing is used, he must flut- ter more slowly, for he can not fly, though, if he use but one wing, the one named, advertising, will help his progress most. Hut both are needed, for exhibiting furnishes the material for and verifies the aimouncements of advertising, and advertising gives the necessary publicity for the growth of reputation. The reputation of giving a square deal to every customer is as neces- sary as that for breeding birds of the desired (|uality. With the first only, the breeder may gain admiration, but will lack sales. With the second he will gain the confidence which brings Inisiness. "A pleased customer," it has been said, "is the best advertisement." Pleased customers are certain to re- port to others the way in which they have been treated, and this helps to spread the good tidings which even- tuate in a desira])le reputation. Con- fidence is established an.d conhdence is the business-bearing plant. P.uild up a reputation by breeding, exhibiting and advertising good stock and by giving every customer a scjuare deal, and one's business will be limited only by the capacity of his plant. Those in want of the stock which one breeds will turn to him to supply their wants as naturally as water seeks its level. It takes some time to do this, for reputations do not spring up over night. A single insertion of an advertisement may, or may not, bring business, but it is the tirst step in gaining public no- tice. One does not ex])ect to make a long journey by taking a single step, and succcj may be at the en.d of a journey of considerable distance, but one step at a time, persevered in, will bring the longest journey to an end. The building of a good reputa- tion as a breeder demands the best that is in a man. and is worth all the efTort which it costs. Poultry Breeding as a Hobby We believe that every man should possess a hobby, and should ride that liob.by for the ])uri)ose of relaxation when and as he can. The people of this country are prone to turn their hobbies into business proi)ositions and to i)rosecute the business with seri- ous assiduity. lUit hobbies are not to be regarded so seriousl}'; they are not for work but for play; they are to relieve, not to continue, the tension ui)on our nerves and faculties. In this countr}' there are thf)usands and thousands of ])eople who are so situated that the breeding of Doultry as a business would be an impossibil- ity, but the breeding of fowls a^ a hobby would l^e both possible and de- sirable. Poultry breedinij: as a busi- ness is legitimate, desirable and neces- r that reason needs less emphasiz- ing; while the advantages of poultrv breeding as a hobby need to be brought out into the "white light of Duldiritv;" because hobbies, beintr •^trictlv personal and individual affair^, tend to shrink from the public gaze and seek a modest seclusion. I'oultry breeding may lu' a healthv occupation, but there are many en- craged in it who are not breedinia: fowls for their health. Make a note ')f that when you wish to buy an ex- hibition or stock bird Some poultrv exhibitors evidentlv have gone to the mule and learned of him. The mule is a famous kicker, as all the world knows. » « '' .1 • # 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 invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely. COMMENT UPON THE "ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE WHITE LACED RED CORNISH." A friend has sent us the originator's listory of the White Laced Red Corn- ish fowl, from which we extract the following uni(|ue passage, "Strange as it may seem the crossing of the Brah- ma and Cornish produced a fowl that is of lighter weight than the Cornish, but a fact easily explained; for in- stance, a barrel of stigar weighs liOO pounds; tamped down with a heavy iron, .')0 pounds more can be added to the barrel, yet the barrel is still the same size; simply the grains of sugar are closer together, and hence harder. This represents nature's work- in the Dark Cornish and accounts for I'^o ti.i2:ht fibre and remarkable weights of the breed for this size. Now. again. loosen up the grains of sugar and 300 pounds could hardly be again placed in the barrel. This represents nature's method in a breed of loose, tender tibre and accounts for the fact of the less weight of the White Laced Cornish." The above is the originator's ex- planation of the lighter weights of the White I.aced Red Cornish, but it seems pertinent to remark that if two receptacles of sugar, one rep- resented by 9 and the other by 12 were found together and divided into two equal parts, each part ought to be represented by 10'/2 in- stead of 8. Perhaps, if one reads the account of the origin closely, he will note that inbreeding was extensiveh- practiced in the production of this new variety; and perhaps, since inbreediim has a tendency to reduce size, he will arsfue that inbreedine: is the truer ex- planation of the lighter weight of the The Undefeated Champion Strain of America PETERSEN'S HOUDANS Send for 80-page book on The Houdan, 30 full pagred plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard, Mating for Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents. Rev, C. E, PETF.RSEN. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. 16 Waverly St.. Portland. Maine THE BROWN LEGHORNS hatched from my etftfs this season are already sho'wing "the stuff from 'which they 'were made." It is a sight to make any poultryman's heart glad to see ho'w my blue-bloodedfof the blue-blooded chicks thrive and ^xow. No white feathers or droopy chicks in my bunch. My Ever-Lay strain has established a record for prolificacy and fertility this season. Many clutches hatched every egg. My hens just wont stop laying now even when eggs are cheap and they never think about setting. H. V. Tormohlen, 1st Nat. Bank Bld^:, Portland, Ind. RSI LAYERS and PAYERS Royal Orpingtons ffHlTE— BUFF— BUCK Eggs for hatching $5 13 $9 Per 26 SHOW STOCK $3.00 to $500 per head. Eggs for hatching from $3,000 pen of Royal Columbian Plymouth Rocks $3.00 each. Stock and eggs shipped to any part of the Let us know your wants. WOODWORTH FARM, WILTON, CONN. A world. mmm mmmM EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM UTILITY STOCK ONE HALF ABOVE PRICES new variety. However, 8 pound cocks are of an excellent .size, in whatever way they were produced. Another peculiarity about the White Laced Red Cornish, which the origi- nator has not explained or attempted to explain, is set forth in the sentence. "As flyers they can teach the famous Leghorns." The variety was made, ac- cording to this account, from Shamo- Japanese Game, Dark Cornish Brah- ma. White Cornish and White Wyan- dotte. The Shamo-Japanese Game, at least those which we once had. were short-winged, heavy fowls, as big as the Dark Cornish, but on shorter legs. Not a high-flying breed in the ances- try, and yet the White Laced Red Cornish can give lessons to the Leg- horns in the art of aviation. Where did they get this flying ability? That's the question we should like to see answered. Tt looks mysterious, now, don't it? Tt must be a new character- istic originating from the exten- sive crossing. We commend the reading of "The Origin and ?Tistory of the White Traced Red Cornish Fowl" by its origi- nator, Mr. W. TT. Card. Manchester. Conn., especially by those who are ambitious to produce a new variety. Tf it does nothing more, it will teach them that the making of a new variety is not tlie simple thing so many sud- l)ose it to be: that it requires judg- ment in the selection of materials: a definite ideal to be realized; infinite courage and patience in the work: years of time, which may in the end be wasted unless the ideal has been :hosen wisely: a broad and comprehen- sive knowledge of breeds and breed- ing: an understanding of the market's demands: and a faith in one's ability to meet every demand which will be made, overcome everv obstacle in the ])ath of success, and win a victory against all odds. Tf one feels that he possesses all these qualifications, let him go ahead with the work of pro- ducing a new variety, but, otherwise. let him wisely give up the attempt and devote himself to the simoler but admirable work of improving the qual- ities of some variety already pro- duced, TT. S. Rabcock. East Providence. R. T. A STRONG PLEA FOR THE SCORE CARD. In judging poultry at either large or small shows the main object sought should be correct work and not quick work. The breeder who has spent the whole season in pre- naring his birds for the show room is far more interested in having them judged correctly than (|uickly. And anv experienced judge will tell you that he can judge a show as ciuick by Score Card as he can by Com- parison when his aim is to give every bird its proper place. The Score Card judge is compelled to study and Page 24 (lUalify himself for his work. Xo poultryman of experience will dis- pute the fact that a competent judge can score the birds correctly and place the awards where they belong. And certainly no association should em- play any but thoroughly competent judges. If the Score Card was the t)nly method used in judging poultry there would today be less than half the number of men judging at our sh(nvs than now are. The exhibitor is entitled to the judge's written opin- ion of each and every specimen he pays his entry fee on. Tt shows him at least what the judge thinks of hi> birds, and whether it is shape or color that is defective, and also what sec- tion the defects are in. Away back in the early eighties, when I first l)ecame interested in poultry. I at- tended a few shows at which the old veteran. 15. X. Pierce, officiated. 1 closely watched his scoring at two shows, and there learned more about how to judge poultry than I could possibly have learned in years of study otherwise. And 1 know T can teach the amateur more in scoring his birds one time than I can by com- paring them a dozen times. A bird scored at Madison S^piare l).") by Judge Smith is worth no more than one scoring •.).") at a small show in Illinois by the ^ame judge. The score of 95 gi\e^ the bird's record or value. So the winner at the small show has the same value as the winner at the large siiow, provided the score is the same and by the same judge: but take the same two birds and let one win at Madison Square and the other at the small show and the Madison Square winner will sell for ten times as much as the winner at the small show, it may possibly be to the in- terest of some of the large shows to hold to Comparison, as no one will ever know that the winners there are no l)etter than hundreds of birds that are shown at smaller shows through- out the country. Xo record is given to show just how good the winners are. A horse that can trot a mile in one minute at Athens, Tenn.. is worth just as much as if he had made the record in Xew York or Chicago; and the bird that scores as much at the small show is worth as much as the one that scores the same at the large show. We are going on the theory that the judge is competent and that judging poultry is a science and not a farce. A horse's record is the fast- est time lie has ever made. A bird's record is the highest it >cored. More inaccuracies l)oor work are discovered Card judging l)ecause you cards that show it up. In Compar- ison, if you had the judge's written opinion on each specimen he passed on you no doubt would find the same difference in judges' opinion and the same amount of rotten work. The Score Card soon places the judge where he belongs as to his ability to do correct work. Xow, let the i)Oul- trymen of America decide which is the best and most correct way of judging poultry, and adopt that meth- od, regardless of whether it is the (|uickest or not. Correct work is never done (|uickly. and the associa- tion that endeavors to have all rib- bons up the first day need not expect has ever and more in Score have the POULTRY FANCIER to have every specimen properly ex- amined, judged and placed. When the Score Card is abandoned then you will see the smaller shows all over the country begin to drop out, until finally only a few in such cities as New York, Chicago, etc., will hold shows. Tt is the Score Card that makes the small shows. Make the people of the country believe that the Score Card is a farce and you will make them believe that judging poul- try is a farce. When only properly (jualified judges are allowed to judge our shows and apply the score card. 5S3W August, *11 then will breeders have more respect for the Score Card and value it more. The A. P. A. should take hold of this matter and make it impossible for incompetent judges to get work. Hold to the Score Card, employ only judges that are fully competent to apply it, and the poultry interests will continue and increase. It is too often the case that judges who have a pull with certain mem- bers of the Association are employed on this account, in place of their su- perior (lualifications. Athens, Tenn. D. I\F. Owen. Wood's S. C. Brown Leghorns WINS, LAYS AND PAYS At the largest show in America, (Mo. State, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1910), 6000 birds on exhibition, I again won grand prize for best display, making three years in succession. Alsy won 1st Pen, 2nd and 5th Cockerel, 3rd Cock, 3rd Hen, 3rd Pullet, best shaped male. A. S. C. Brown Leghorn Club Cup. Twice as many first prizes on Cocks and Cockerels as any competitor at Mo. State Show the last five years. Cham- pion male and female at St. Louis, Dec, 1909. Five firsts at Topeka, Kan., Jan., 1908. Five grand matings. Circular FREE. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mention S. P, J. TOM H. WOODS, Route 4, Box 1 1, Fayette, Mo. I I I 1 ^4.4.«}»4.,{.«f^^4.«f,{.^4.^»4.4.^,]..{..^.]*4.,f.^^^4•«^.^«$.^•^^*^.^•^•^•^4••^4•4•4**^•^4••^4•*^•^*^^ t Fox Orpington Yards Breeders of Buff and White Orpingtons Won at 1911 show in Kittanning, Pa.: Buff Orpington, 1st Cock, 1st Cockerel, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Hen, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pullet, 1st Pen and $100 Silver Cup for best display. Won in White Orpingtons, 2nd Cockerel, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Hen and 1st, 2nd and 3rd Pullet, 1st Pen and Silver Cup for best display in a class of 100 birds. 4. Birds scoring from 93 to 95)4 points. _' "T t t Eggs $3 and $5 per dozen Box B, : .' -Ik.'- -^ t H. P. FOX, Mgr., Box B, Kittanning, Pa. ? •t^ *X* 4. .^4.,{.^4.4*.^4. 4.4.4*4* 4*•^*^4•4**f*i•4••^•^•^•^•^*^*^•^•^•^•^•^•^4*4*•^4*•^4*4•4*•^4•«f•^*^•^•^4••^«^^^ I K Barred Rocks ^ Brown Leghorns j Silver and White Wyandotte s Our birds have been leaders for years. They always win for us and our customers. IlHnois State and Missouri State First prize winners are in our yards as well as winners in other w !<^ading western shows. We can send you stock bred from these 1 and other equally good birds. ^ GRAND LOT OF STOCK FOR SALE? We have both qualitv and quantity this year and we can pick out just the kind of birds you ^vant. We have satisfied hundreds of customers durinif our many years in the business and wc can more than please you. Eggs from prize w^inning pens that "will produce winners for you. Send for elegant ne\v catalogue and enclose stamp if convenient. THE PRACTICAL POULTRY FARM MR. & MRS. C. L. CARNEY, Props, Route 3. Charleston, 111. • • « t • POULTRY FANCIEI^ Making Winners of Late Hatched Chickens ZaSSSS2E22SSZSEHE! 2£Z2EZ Page 25 Owing to the unusually poor hatch- ing season the past spring, the fall will find hundreds of breeders with late hatched and immature stock. How to complete the growth is of serious import to many. A great deal can he done to lengthen out the growing season, hut it takes care and patience, and the results will he com- mensurate to the care taken. It has been stated over and over again that late chickens will never mature, and will only be an expense to the breeder. In some measure this is a truth, for with very 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 novelty to watch and care for them and to see how they grow, Init brood after brood is hatched, the novelty wears away, and finally all sorts and all sizes are left together. Tt simply is a case of the survival of the fittest, the strong- est and oldest chicks get the most of the rations, the next of size in the succession get the rest, and the last comers go without, and when fall comes to hand abuse is heaped on these unfortunates because they can- not grow into fine chickens on noth- ing but fresh air and sunshine. We have found that the late hatched chickens must be separated from the rest of the fiock. given an abundance of food, and although, perhaps, they 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 flock to fight their way through. We have seen chickens hatched as late as July that grew into fine birds, but these few chickens w^ere all there were on the place. They had all the care that was necessary, no larger chickens to abuse and trouble them, and as a consequence they came along finely and winter found them in fair- ly good trim, and not so very far be- hind their earlier hatched relations. We don't want any one to under- stand 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 ♦*«^^->4 >»»o»»»«>»»»»»»^»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»o»»»»»»»»»» Hildorfer's BLACK MINORCAS You can get in the lead and stay there if you will put some of our high quality stock into your yards or set some eggs from our pens of grand prize winning birds. They are great big black fellows true to the new Standard type. We have defeated strongest competition at the large National shows, including Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Hagerstown, Chicago, Johnstown, Madison Square Garden, New York, -World's Fair, Cincinnati and Boston. Write for prices on stock and eggs. We can send you ju«t what you want and the prices arc right. ; L Hildorfer's Black Minorca Farm, Jos. P. Hiidorfer, Prop. Saxonburg, Butler, Co., Pa. SEE THAT HEAD? Want Some Like It? We can spare a few eggs At $5 per 13 THAT WILL PRODUCE THEM Our Minorcas have won 96 specials; 46 firsts; 28 seconds; 16 thirds at the big Eastern shoAVs. That Cockerel was hatched in June and as cock weighed 10 lbs. THAT TELLS THE SIZE WE HAVE All orders filled in rotation C. H. STAUNTON, 406 Flower City Park, Rochester, N. Y. Xoveml)er proper care and attention is given these late comers that they will make much larger and better birds than where this care is with- held. First of all, w^hen the bleak Octo- ber days come along, although in many places October is a beautiful month, the care begins by giving ex- tra good food and plenty of it. The days are getting short and the sun is not as warm as it used to be, but the sun rises early, and here we may be- gin to lengthen out the growing sea- son, 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 many is the daily occurrence. If you cannot let them out at sun- rise, do the next best thing. After dark in the evening scatter the neces- sary grain, and a few handfuls of ^;reen food about in the house that they may have it to keep busy on un- til 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; 4 parts of corn-meal; 1 part of white middlings; 1 part of linseed meal; 2 parts of beef scraps. Mix this together well, make a mash or feed it dry, as you may choose, but to force grow^th 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 pan of beef scraps and plenty of grit and water before them. Put the grain where they can read- ily get at it; don't try to save it. for it is only by the ])est 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 suffers from underfeeding than from over- feeding. Next to the care in feeding comes proper housing, which is of the great- est importance. They must have plenty of room. They must not be crowded. They must not be let out on rainy days. They must have a house that is dry and perfectly clean. They must have a house well venti- lated. These are the main points to be considered and cannot be neglected if success is to be expected. There 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 drop])ings every morn- ing and there is nothing cleaner, bet- ter, sweeter and of more value to the poultry house than sawdust, and this we know to be a fact, for wc have tried it for a whole season with the very best of results. We followed in the old rut for a good many 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 y(ni think that a chicken is foolish enough to eat sawdust any more than you are. Portland. Me. C. E. Peterson. TT Page 26 POULTRY FANCIER; August, '11 Valuable Ideas on the Handling an Care of Moulting Fowls d General Several days after the chick is hatched the downy covering of the body begins to give place to a growth of real feathers and after a lapse of six or eight weeks, as a rnle, this "feathering out" is so far advanced that the protecting care of hen or brooder is no longer needful and the chick begins to look out for itself in every way. But this first suit of feathers does not suffice until the little bird grows up to full size. As development advances more and more feathers are produced and the first set are shed from time to time, so that the cockerels and pullets are really supplied with a third covering before they enter upon their first winter, and this serves them until they are about sixteen months old. Then the first real moulting takes place and the process is repeated each year after- wards. It is quite common for these first feathers to show irregularities in color; there are often white feathers where there should be black ones, or black ones where there should be red or buff. Many a novice, who has paid a higii price for eggs, has been dis- mayed to find the chicks off-color when the first feathers have appeared, and has roundly abused the fancier who sold them. Hut experience teaches him after awhile that it is not wise to judge of the color of a l)ird until the first feathers have been shed and the second set ha\e been fully developed. The moult usually takes place dur- ing the summer and extends over a period of about three months, but there is no fast rule that binds either the date or the duration of the moult- ing i)rocess. Some birds begin to moult earlier than others and some need a longer time than others to get through with it. Moulting may occur at any time of the year, even in mid- winter. The loss of feathers on the back of the hen early in the season, in the breeding pen, which is usually at- tributed to excessive attention on the part of the male bird, is often a first indication of an early moult. Irregu- larities in time and mode of moulting are objectionable, but it is worth while to know that feathers may be renewed at any and all times. When- ever a feather is completely removed, either by violence or during the na- tural process of moulting, the feather cells in the skin ->et to work at once to form a new one. So, in case an im- portant feather, such as a sickle, for instance, has been accidentally brok- en, a new one may be secured by pull- ing out the broken stub. P>ut if the stub is allowed to remain in its socket no new feather will appear until the next general moult takes place. There are many reasons why it is desirable to have the moulting over by early autumn, and yet not too early. Fowls that moult very early in the year sometimes moult again in winter, — a most unseasonable proced- ure that exposes the bird to much dis- comfort and robs the poultryman of its eggs, for the moulting hen, as a rule, does not lay many eggs. When the moulting goes on during the sum- mer and is completed in October the hen will begin to lay just at the time of year when the price of eggs begins to rise and will be likely to keep on producing eggs through the winter when prices are high. lUit when the moult does not begin until October or November the process is often pro- longed so late that the hen does not get back to laying until spring and is an exi)ense instead of a profit during the winter. It is the early hatched chick that may be expected to become the early moulting hen and so the poultryman seeks to get his chicks out early in the season, with an eye to future prollts. And the fancier, also, is interested as well as the commer- cial poultryman in the early hatched chicks. He wishes to have the moult over before the winter shows are un- der way, for a bird always looks its best in its new suit of feathers just after the moult is completed. Chicks hatched in June and later in the sum- mer may be profitable egg producers in the following spring and summer. l)ut they are apt to moult so late in the season that it is not always profit- a1)le t(^ carry them over the second w inter. The disadvantages of late moulting bing so decided, many are led to make use of artificial means to bring on early moulting in those birds that incline to put off the process until too late in the season. This is termed "forcing the moult" and con- sists essentially in subjecting the birds to scanty diet for two or three weeks and then following this up by a course of high feeding. The ten- dency of this method, when properly managed, is to bring about a rapid shedding of the old feathers and a development of a new set. Tt does not succeed with every bird, but it will usually affect a fair proportion of a fiock. It is a method that is in gen- eral use and yet it is only fair to state that some of the breeders of experience are strongly opposed to it, holding that such radical interference with a natural function is likely to l)e injurious. No doubt much de- pends upon the manner in which the details of the procedure are carried out — taking care that the flesh and strength of the birds shall not be re- duced too fast or too far, nor the change in diet be too sudden or too generous. About the end of July the hens that are to be treated are placed on range where there is plenty of shade and grass. They re- ceive only a scanty supply of barlej'' (^r oats at evening, all meat scrap Foster's Black Orpingtons Spring of 1911, $10 Eggs for $4 for 15. Why are they $10 eggs? Because they are the equal of any $10 eggs in the United States, and all from my celebrated Duke of Kent Strain the greatest prize winning strain of Black Orpingtons in Am- erica. Send a one cent stamp for a 9x12 chromo and the history of this greatest of all winter layers. FOSTER & JOHNSTON, R. R. No. 7, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Hon. State Vice-President, American Orpington Club. YOUR CHICKEliS riEALTHY UOOK I RBAD t An up-to-date.treatise just off the press on all the ailments peculiar to chickens ~ BY J. GAYLORD BLAIR EVERY POULTRYMAN SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK This new book cover^ every disease known to poul- try. It has the following chapters: I. Requirements of Health. II. The Skin. III. Legs and Feet. IV. Head, Throat and Nasal Passages. V. The Lungs VI. The Crop and Intestines. VII. The Abdomen and Egg Organs. VIII. Parasites IX/ Habits. It tells how to cure and prevent every disease known to poultry. One article on ]Vhite Diarrhoea or Bowel Trouble is worth the price of the book, 50c, and will save you many dollars during the hatching season. It not only lells how to cure and prevent poultry di seases, but also gives valuable points on housing, feed- ing, caring for small chicks, mating, etc. ~ THE PRICE 18 ONLY FIFTY CENTS Order your copy now and be ready to doctor all your sick birds and also learn liow to prevent all diweawH known to affect fwidtry and double your profits. YoiTR Promts Ark Sfrk If Yk on poultry cvei written. It has also drawn out more unsolicited testimonials from authorities and experts. Why worry and wonder and grope in thedarkr Why learn by expensive experience and disap pointment when everything is oflFered you at sc small a price? The knowledge gained by yeart of experience is contained in this book. The methods and secrets of the foremost successful breeders and exhibitors in the show room at f given in full. Thousands of Copies Have Been Sold and Every Purchaser a Pleased One It contains 128 pages, is handsomely bound printed on good paper with fine large type eai> to read. Price 50 Cents per Copy Or the book and Poultry Fancier one year for 65 cents. Address orders to Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearbpra St.. Chicago. lU. Page 28 7r:;'V':,-'"t'rf7w"i'rn^' have any star boarders amoiiyr your hens, the sooner you jj^et rid of them the quicker will your prolits increase. rooded in the same brooders, and run on the same infected land, and loss from these diseases was less than 5 per cent. After this most thorough and successful demonstration, Mr. McClung organized a $50,000 corporation. All the stock was locally subscribed. Representatives w^ere sent to the leading poultry plants of the country to demonstrate OCTLT^M, and in not one instance did it fail in its mis- sion. It was demonstrated for weeks and months on the plants of A. C. Haw- kins, T'. R. Fisliel, C. H. 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Hale, judge and breeder, and the con- tributors of articles are the leading breeders and judges of the country. Fully illustrated by Messrs. and Burgess. "Rhode Island Reds" printed on first class l)aper cover. A color l)y Sewell. Price 75 cents postpaid. With a year's subscription to Poultry Fancier 90 cents. CORN HARVESTER. Hena fed cut green bone lay I , more eggs. Get a Crown Rone Cutter. Send to-day for catalogue. WilMB Br*s., Box 8aa SMtoo, tm. EEST MADE Binder Sewell, Schilling contains So pages paper with heavy plate of feathers A most practical corn harvester is made by the New Process Manufacturing Co., of Salina, Kan. It will do almost anything that a corn binder will do and costs only a fraction as much. With it Attachment with Corn Harvester cuts and throws in piles on harves- ter or winrow. Man and horse cuts and shocks equal with a corn Binder. Sold in every state. Price 520 with Binder Attachment. S. C. Montgomery, of Texaline, Tex., writes: — "The harvester has proven all you claim for it. With the assistance of one man cut and bound over 100 acres of Corn Kaffir Corn and Maize last year." Testimonials and catalog free, showing pictures of har- vester. New Process Mfg. Co., Salina, Kan. #- RATS&MICE M^^% EXTERMINATED ^> SCIENTIFICALLY without danger— No odors— Ask the Pasteur Laboratories off America Room 854, 443 So. Doarborn Stroot, Chieaoo ^ $2,000,000,000 Poultry Product Builder Oculum. based on U. S. Government diaijrnosis. comes to the relief of the long-suffering poultry producers with this momentous asser- tion: "I can inoculate your fowls and increase the annual value of the poultry of the U. S. from 81.000.000.000 to $2,000,000,000. Let me help you. Oculum has overcome and thrust to the heart. White Diarrhea. Cholera. Roup and (iapes. You can raise fowls in any quantity at a ft sure profit. Oculum destroys the Cholera. Roup and White Diarrhea germ that kills yearly 51 of all fowls hatched, and also the Gape Worm. From Bradley Bros.. Lee, Ma** 'Oculum" appears to Ix'tho lonK-neeflod remody for cnm's of liver and bowel trouble, heretofon' regarded UH incurable. Have tried it also with natisfactory re- sults upon a few cases of Iniby chicks-' incurahle* —which bid fair to fully recover. From A. G. Duttin, Rote Lawn Poultry Farm South Framingham, Mass. I enclose $!.(K) for l)ottle of "Ocnlum." I broke my bottle accidentally and find I cannot keep house with- out it. not so much for a cure all a» for a smart tonic. What about handling this for you ? Raising chickens, ducks and turkeys will in the future be both a pleasure and profit. Oculum is the best tonic for all fowls. Large poultry plants are buying Oculum in quantities to be given away with orders for day-old chicks to insure the raising of them. The financier, poultryman, farmer, mer- ff chant, in fact, all who raise, buy or sell poultry, will be enormously benefitted by the use of Oculum. Oculum is a scientific remedy recom- mended by America's poultry leaders— U. R. F'ishel. Bradley Bros.. AG. Duston. Foxhurst Farm J C Fishel «S: Son. P. J. Armstrong. Mrs. Ellen Jacque. Oscar E. Miles. J. Gaylord Blair. Geo. A. Riiessler. N. R. Reynolds. Lewis T. McLean. Hugh Ross and hundreds of others. Don't cling to the exploded theory that "nothing will cure," but join the army of money- making poultry raisers, who. after demonstration, are marching to success with the Oculum banner waving in the breezes. Join now For sale in two sizes, Jl.OO and 50c, by all progressive dealers and druggists. If yours does not handle it. send us his name and address. On receipt of price, Oculum will be mailed direct to you. Circular with Government diagnosis of Cholera and White Diarrhea free. Order now and help make poultry a $2,000,000,000 industry. Sample with dropper, 10c. (7) Hancock Inoculatum Company, Inc., Box T, Salem, Va. OCULUM August, '11 POULTRY FANCIER- NK^urs or POULTRY SHOWS (& SPECIALTY CLUBS Notices sent to us by secretaries will be pub- lished in this department without charge GREENFIELD, MASS. The show of the Gieentield Poultry Clul) will be one of the best in Massa- chusetts this season. It is always a big success and exhibitors are given fair treatment. The dates of next show are Dec. 12-14. The judges are D. K. Tasker and G. N. Weed. Write for i)remium list to Otto K. Keller, Greenfield, Mass. MINNESOTA STATE SHOW. The dates of the Minnesota State Show are Jan. 11-17. The judges are Geo. D. Holden and E. G'. Roberts. The casli l)rizes will be exceedingly liberal and many silver cups will be awarded. The secretary is F. W. Van Sant, Station F, Minneapolis. MISSOURI STATE FAIR. New features are being added in the pindtry department at the State Fair in Sedalia, Mo., this year. The fair will lake place Sept. .30 to Oct. 6. Most liberal premiums will be paid on all varieties of poultry, $3.00 being offered for first prize, ;ji2.00 for second and $1.00 for third. For the benefit of the patrons of the Missoini State Fair i)oultry show, we have decided to make the following offer: We are preparing a number 10xl5-foot yards out on the open lawn, as many as will l^e necessary to accommodate the l)irds sent, and will allow our friends to use these pens as display and sales yards for any surplus stock they may want to dispose of during the fair. These yards will accommodate from 20 to 50 birds each. It would be a great advertisement for any breeder to show a flock in this way. He can put up his own signs and advertising matter on the pens, and sell the birds from them to be delivered at the close of the fair. If we can secure the entry of a number of pens in this way, this exhibit will attract a great deal of attention. A fee of 20 cents will be charged for each bird put in the display yard to cover the actual cost of care, feeding and watering. Those who are in- terested in this proposition shoidd let T. E. Quisenl)erry, Mountain Grove, Mo., who is superintendent of the poultry de- partment, know by Sept. 15th, whether they want a yard reserved for them or not. No yard will be reserved until the money is paid. There will also be on displa.v views of the poultry buildings and appliances at the State Poultry Experiment Sta- tion at Mountain Grove, Mo, Model poultry houses which are best suited to the farmers of the state will probably be erected near the poultry building, and other interesting features will be added which will make it worth your while to make an exhibit at the Missouri State Fair, and get in touch with the thou- sands of farmers and poultry raisers who visit there each year. NOTICE TO SHOW SECRETARIES. The Hlack Orpington Club offers to every show and fair in the Tnited States and Canada the following awards: To every member in good standing who wins a first In competition with one other member a gold-plated medal. If ten members compete in the show a cup will be offered for the best display, points to count. All breeders of Black Orpingtons should join the club before the shows start. Dues are $1.00 per year, payable to the secre- tary-treasurer. Those who join during September will have their dues credited to October 1, 1912. All members who send in two or more members will re- ceive free the club cut just adopted. The winning of the three years* laying con- test by the Black Orpingtons in Australia is greatly booming the breed and the club is very desirous of securing five lumdred new members at once, so that tlie new catalog may contain at least 1,000 names. Milton W. Brown, Secy.-Treas. PORTLAND, ND. The Eastern Indiana T'oultry Associa- tion, Portland, Jnd., one of the older and most reliable associations in the state, reorganized and incorporated under the laws of the state of Indiana, will hold the second big sliow under tlie new man- agement the second week in January, 1912 (.Jan. 9-13, l!a2). Tlie associiition is in a thriving condition and the show this year promises to be bigger and bet- ter than ever before. Ribbons from the Eastern Indiana show carry prestige and are worth going after. J. C. Clipp has ])een engaged as judge. Their seci'etary is the well-known poultr\- writer, H. V. T'')rmohlen. He will l)e glad to answer all (lueries. Tlie catalogs will l)e off the l)ress the lattei- i)art of November. m m ATLANTA, GA. The Southern International Poultry As- .sociation will hold at Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 11-16, what they claim will be the South's greatest poultry show; $3,000 in gold will be distributed as i)remiiuns. There will be many magnificent silver cups offered and hundreds of otlier special prizes. The following specialists will do the judging: Percy A. Cook, Scotch Plains, N. J., White, Black, Buff and Julnlee Orping- tons; U, R, Fishel, Hope, Ind,, White Plymouth Rocks; D, W. Young, Monroe, N, Y., White Eeghorns; E. B. Thoinp.son, Amenia. N. Y., Barred IMymouth Rocks; .lohn W. Foley, Royersford, Pa., Buff Plymouth Rocks; H. B. Lamsden, Man- chester, Tenn., Rhode Island Reds; Mrs. L. H. Graves, Southl)oro, Mass., White Wyandottes; Mrs. Florence Forbes, New Decatur, Ala., Brown Eeghorns; H. H. Verdery, Augusta, Ga., all colored Wyan- dottes and Buff Cochin Bantams; Mr.s. .1. C. Schaufmer, Mulberry, Tenn., Bronze Turkeys; George P]wald, Cincinnati, O., Pigeons and Pait Bantams. For premium list and full information write to Thos. M. Poole, Secy., Box 943, Atlanta, Ga. MEMPHIS, TENN. The 1911 premium list of Tri-State Poultry Association is just out. It is the handsomest of the year and is full of in- terest to those who intend exhiliiting in the South this fall. This show has always stood for the V)est. Its management is liberal and business like. Its officers are spoitsmen. And they have shown their usual good judgment in the selection of Richard Oke. Chas. McClave and H. B. Savage to award their prizes this year. Exhil)itors may feel sure of fair treat- ment at the liands of these men who for so many years have stood at the top of their profession, not only as judges, but lis breeders as well. The association has 11 n active, aggressive membership of over four hundred fanciers. Their show is held in connection with Tri-State Fair in a sj)lendi(lly liglUed and ventilated building erected for their .sole use. Situated as Memphis is at the cor- ner of three states, Tennessee. Missis- sippi and Arkansas, and being the only city of importance from a radius of one hundred miles, this fair draws great crowds of rich planters who come to buy the best that is to be had in the wa.v of live stock and poultry. Cotton prices are high and they are prosperous. They liave money to spend and tliey spend it with a lavish hand when something of interest Page 30 . appeals to them. Memphis is offering again this year a solid gold leg band, each, to the best cock, cockerel, hen, pullet and pen in the show. These are declared champions and are placarded as .such in beautifully decorated coops set aside for this purpose. This feature proved the chief attraction of their show last fall. Their gold bands went from Massacliusetts to Texas. The manage- ment this year has appointed, from its entire membership, committees to have charge of each breed. The ciiairman of these will see that his breed is well rep- resented and that shipments to his de- jiartments are promptly and efficiently handled, cooped, fed and shipped under tlie general direction of Superintendent R. B, Buchanan, of 322 S. Main street. Memphis, who is also secretary of the Tri-State Poultry Association. Write him for premium list. THE GREAT TOPEKA SHOW. The poultry sliow held last winter in Topeka, the beautiul capital city of Kan- sas, went down in history as being one of the most successful highest class, (luality shows of the year. Poultry from seventeen states foimd tiieir way to the Kansas town; this included exhibits from Canada, Mississippi, New York, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minne- sota, Iowa, Nebraska and many other states. The judging last year was done by the comparison method and eight of the world's best judges were employed. This year arrangements have been made to judge by the same system and twenty of our best national judges will be on hand with instructions to take their time and place every award where they belong. On account of the keenness of the com- petition, tlie prizes will be carried on down to seventh place, and some of the best cash prizes ever offered will be paid. Several of the large specialty clubs have already decided to hold their national meeting and show in connection witli the Topeka show. The Kansas branch of the American Poultry Association will hold its annual meeting at Topeka during show week. Russel F. Palmer was made secretary of the show for this year, which will be held Dec. 4-9, and is now hard at work getting out the premium list. As the Topeka show will close Satiu'- day night at 10 o'clock, and as the Chi- cago show does not begin until Wednes- day or Thursday of the following week, it is going to enable eastern breeders to show at Topeka one week and then drop back into the Chicago show the next week. The entries for Topeka show will close Friday, Nov. 18, to enable the man- agement to get out a catalogue of the show and to arrange and number the uniform cooping, thus having everything in readiness for the opening. Every poul- try breeder should write Russel F. Palmer. Toi)eka, Kan., to sen dthem one of the r)remium lists as soon as it is off the press. ?7ven if a breeder is not sure at tlii.s time that he will be able to show at Topeka, he should get one of the pre- mium lists anyway and then be prepared to enter when the time comes, should he decide to do so. The i>remium lists are sent free to all who write Secretary Palmer for them. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. A strong Association has been formed at Winston-Salem, N. C, and Dec. 27-29 are the dates selected for the first show. It will undoubtedly be to the interests of North (\arolina breeders to send their best birds to this show. The secretary would like to send a premium list to prospective exhibitors. Address R. C. Taylor. Box 433, Win.ston-Salem, N. C. WINONA, MINN. Minnesota breeders should not fail to show at Winona .January 1-6. The fan- ciers back of this show are making ar- rangements for the best one ever held in Winona. There are cash prizes of- fered amounting to $500, and there are $250 in silver cups and specials. Henry Hess will flo the judging. Write to Wm. Knhlmann for premium list. FAIRMOUNT, MINN. The Fairmount Poultry Association will hold its next show Dec. 19-21 with Geo. D. Holden as judge. E. W. Christiansen is secretary. t • f t August, '11 'waft.4«*!K«»ai*ir,'*»i*a!r:^ OULTRY FANClEHe Page 31 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Numbers and initials count the same as words. 30 words or less one month, $1. For more than 30 wordi 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 1 0 per cent given on ads running for 1 2 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 fcr 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. EGGS, BREEDING STOCK, BARRED AND White Plymouth Rocks, S. C. White Leg- horns, Buff and Diamond Jubilee Orpingtons. A thousand breeders, great layers. Circular free. Milton A. Brown, Route 3, Attleboro, Mass. . . 42 FOR SALE— EGGS FROM PENS SCORING 91 to 95. White and Buff Orpingtons, R. C. White and Black Minorcas, R. C. Reds and Buff Rocks. Send for circular. Geo. Leas- ure. 305 Ilamline Ave., Zanesville, O. 33 ANCONAS AND winners $1.50 for Ind. HOUDANS. EGGS FROM 15. C. C. Freese, La Porte. 33 EGGS FOR HATCHING. S. C. WHITE Leghorns $1 and $2 per 15, $5 per hundred; Huff Wyandottes, $2; Buff Cochin Bantams, $1 for 12; White Pekin Ducks, $1 for 12. Dr. Logue, 243 Pine St., Williamsport, Pa. 33 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. Eggs, best pens, 15 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 RINGLET BARRED ROCKS DIRECT FROM Thompson's best matings. Eggs $1.50, $2.50 and $5 per 15. Fertility guaranteed. Also Pekin duck eggs from our Illinois State Fair and Decatur show winners. $2 per 12 or $3.75 per 25. Maple Grove Farm, R. 9, Decatur, III. 33 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. BUTF PLYMOUTH ROCKS. SWEDBURG BUFF ROCIvS ARE STRONG and vigorous. Swedburg will furnish you with good stocl<. Give him a chance. Write at once for prices on eggs. N. E. Swed- burg. Hildroth. Neb. 33 BUFF ROCKS— BRED TO WIN AND LAY. 1st hen, 1st pullet and 2nd cockerel at Janes- ville. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. Stock for sale. August Kramer, Supt. Hoard's Farm, Ft. Atkinson, Wis. 24 WHITE WYANDOTTES. GIMLIN'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. HAVE exhibited and won leading poultry shows In 1909. Including Illinois State Show 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- iin, Taylorville, 111. 9-10-12 PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES. PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES— BLUE RIB- bon winner Chicago 1910, and three other large shows in past winter. Eggs reason- able. Send for 1911 mating list. Few good cockerels left. G. S. Culver, Sandwich, 111. 33 SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. OUR SHOW liECORD THE LAST FEW years places our Silver Wyandottes in the front rank. No better laying strain to be found anywhere. Eggs $2.50, $3.50 and $5 per 15. W. A. Marner, M. D., Miles, la. 33 COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. GET SOME GOOD COLUMBIAN WYAN- dottes. Buy the Royal strain and you will n.ot be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest competition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will please you. Jacob Heck, Station 23, Detroit, Mich. 121012 GET SOME GOOD COLUMBIAN WYAN- dottes. Buy the Royal strain and you will not be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest competition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will, please you. Eggs for sale from my best pin, including many prize winners, $:{ per 15. Jacob Heck, Station 23. Detroit, Mich. 121012 ORPINGTONS. 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 QUALITY HILL HATCHERY & BREEDING Co. offers the best baby chicks and eggs from the best noted strains of Buff, Black and White Orpingtons. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Prices ten to fifteen cents each. Write for prices. W. J. Seavolt, Mgr.. Attica, O. 34 ^"^".^i"'*.."*— "^■"— ^■"•»^"™""^^"^^*^'"*""""~"^""""""" ' ■ "•>""^^— • RHODE ISLAND REDS. ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS— Pen (1) male scoring 931/4, by F. H. Shellabarger ; eight pullets scoring gg^A to 92V4. Eggs. $3. Pen (2). eggs, $1.50. Ralph A. Hicks, Maquoketa, la. 44 KING'S QUALITY R. C. RHODE ISLAND Reds. Eggs $2 and $5 per 15. Heavy lay- ing strain. Good shape and color. Satis- faction guaranteed. Orders given prompt and careful attention. E. J. King, Pine Grove. W. Va. 52 SINGLE COMB REDS— BEST PEN HEADED by a winner. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. If inter- ested in good Reds it will pay you to write. W. F. Close, Fort Wayne, Ind. 44 BBAHMAS. LIGHT BRAHMAS. STOCK AND EGGS. Prize winners wherever shown. Catalogue fr«'e. Correspondence solicited. Chas. Hunt. Clarksvillo, la. 53 FOR SALP:- LIGHT BRAHMA EGGS AND stock. No better this side of Boston; win the blue wherever shown. Beulah Hill and Corn Belt strain. See our yards before buying. Chandler & Son, 220 N. Ave. 23. Los Angeles, Cal. 35 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. 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 9»%, 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 V^. 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 1909 at Springfield 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and 3d cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, 1st pullet, 3 entries, 1910. At the Grand Central Palace, 4th cock, 5th hen, 2d cockerel, 4th pullet, 6 entries. At Madison Square 4th hen, 6th pullet, 5 entries. 15 eggs for $3; 3^0 for $5. W. J. Blake, Burnside, Conn. 21112 R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. EGGS FROM CHICAGO AND KANSAS City winners, R. C. White Leghorns. Bred to lay and win. Winning at Illinois State Show, 1911, 1st and 2d hen, 1st and 2d pullet; best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet. None better, so send me your order for eggs. $2 per 15 or $3.50 per 30. Circular free. J. J. Peters, Lily White Poultrv Yards. IJncoln, 111. 43 S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS. 25 INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS at $2 up. Write for descriptions and sam- ple feathers. Your chance to get winners at "make-room" prices. Be quick. Harry T. Trainer, Carpenter, O. 11-10-12 ANCONAS. ANCONA EGGS $1.50 PER 15. MATING list and show winnings free. John Meyer Oconto Falls, .Wis. 43 ^ ^ r— T— ^^^^^^ ^^M BLACK MINORCAS. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. EGGS FROM 4 pens; selected trapnested hens; large black beauties. Standard bred; heavy egg pro- duction combined with quality that brings home the blue. Send for mating list be- fore ordering elsewhere. Richard Oetzel. New Richmond. Ohio. 33 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, 112s Palmer Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 126 HILLHURST GIANT YOUNGSTERS, THREE months old, $1 each. Mated pairs, $5. Will raisp aquabs weighing 10 to 18 pounds per dozen. IliuatrHiud cm.taiuK, 10 ^h*. Tigcj^i >»aof p. ij Orchard P*rlc. N. T. %\ 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 I'lN HEAD OATS — THE GREAT CHICK starter. $2.75 per 100 lbs. Write for Feed l'ri(»" List. J. G. Hermann & Co., Indian- apolis, Ind. 35 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.. Mnnchpster. la 10-> FARMS FOR SALE. FARMS FOR RENT OR SALE ON CROP payments. J. Mulhall. Sioux City, la. 15 POULTRY FANCIER 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. BUFF & BLACK ORPINGTONS 10 males and 20 females in trios or singles for breeding. $3 up. Eggs $1.50 fe? $3 for 15. from birds scoring 90 to 95. W. L. YATES - Butler, Ind. \^ATSON'S R. C. B. MINORCAS Are w^inners among the ■world's best. Catalog free. Norman H. "Watson, R 6. Mystic. la. 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kenne's and l^ouhry Farm Box 58 : : Shrewsbury. N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks. Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons. Pneasants. Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies. Stock & Eggs cheap. New^ 60 page cat. 4 cts. F J. Damann. Farminqton, Minn. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Can send you egss that will hatch winners GET OUR PRICES £. 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. Minorcat Club, Dover, N. J. BUFF ROCK SALE Cockerels $2 to $5 each, pullets $1.50 to $3 each. Bred from Philadelphia. Allentown 6f Scranton w^inners. Satisfaction guaranteed. Chas. J. Kremer, Souderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R.I. Reds ^c/y Le Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central West. W^rite for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club, low^a Branch. U. S. C. R. \. Club. JOHN KISSINGER GREENFIELD, IOWA Polgreen's Columbian Wyandottes The Better Kind Color intense black and white, shape also has not been neglected. Have won 1st and 2nd prizes at New York State Fair the last three years, won this last year 1st pen and 1st cock. EgRfs f2 por l.S. cheap at double IGREEN, Albany. N. Y. JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winners fur years al Amerieas leading shows Three grand matings, that are sure to produce ^^inners for any competition. Eggs $3 and ♦5 per 15. Free Mating List. D. E. Jones, R. 3. Box 1 1, Naryville, Mo. i KELLERSTRASS and COOK Strain of S. C. "White Orpingtons. A fcAv hens for sale. Eggs for hatching ^1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- i.sfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt, "Washington, Iowa. BARRED ROCKS Winners of the $50. cup at Philadelphia for best pen in Entire Show, also 2nd Cock. 4th Hen, Cup for best pen to produce exhibit females. Eggs $10. per 15, will hatch Sure "W^inners. TOP NOTCH FARMS Water Mill. N. Y. COLIMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Prizewinning stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. White Leghorns bred from leading strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for mating list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak La-wn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK. N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston. Chicago. Buffalo and Pittsburg in last tw^o years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA Write me what you want. Have some fine surplus stock. Eggs of all varieties strongly fertile f2 per 15, Incubator Eggs $8 per 100. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, quality the best, satisfaction guar. FM^RADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy. Pa. K. Ci. K. 1. REDS First prize w^inners at Des Moines and Cedar Rapids 7 PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list. L. Sherman Kline |?.%r'^8^A WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my ^vinners. at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS. Poultry Judge Box F, 215. Le Grand. Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain arc winners, heavy layers. Suick growers. Get started w^ith Partridge P. .ocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzger, North Manchester. Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R. .Clinton Falls. Minn. 3222E3EES2 August, '11 F. W. Van Sant "«™- "^i^^Zl^ Breeder of "Blue Ribbon*' Single Comb Brow^n Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. Sacrifice Sale White Leghorns Owing to recent fire losses Imust raise funds for rebuilding and w^ill sell 150 of my choicest breeding hens. They are from my best mat- ings. Will almost give them aw^ay. The price is $9 per dozen. C, C. FOSTER, R. F. D. 1, Quincy. Mich. Collins S. C. White LEGHORNS Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers 114 lbs. at 10 weeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show quality. 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs $1.50 for IS , S? for go, S4 for 4?, $6 for 100, $50 for looo A.M.SPELMAN & SON. Box 75. Rootstown. O. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas, Cochins. Langshans. Wyandottes. Dorkings. Leghorns, Guineas. Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Co., Pa. WHITE PLY. ROCKS Eggs from my best birds SI. 00 per 13. $5 00 per 100, to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards, Dept. A._ _ Fond du_ Lac, _W^i9. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It is free W. D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. I Ml iTOf n and near SPRING VALLEY. MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and Owen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they will produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. W^ill be pleased to w^rite you about my stock. C> U 1> 1 N Ci T O > S S.C. Buff & Blacl( CHAMPION Blood Breeders. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. Luirrfill. Route F.. Waverlj, III. "None better East or W^est." Every bird in yards a show bird. Of entire crop of birds last year, only two scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95 '/2. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs tf stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T.Edson : : Schaller. Iowa M Y !». c. BiJhP Ltlinoursb Are the best egg machmes on earth. Bred for eggs for 1 3 years and shown for 1st time N Y State Fair Sept. 1909. 1st and 2nd pens, and have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booke--" for eggs and satisfaction guaranteed ■^ C. CIIBKRT ^.;,^,..,^.Ji__^jilLLY._H. S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading Minn, shows. Great layers. Eggs from pens $1.50 & $2 per 15. Utility Epes $1 per 15. $5 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON. St. Charles. Minn. • • f • THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Cd. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons »l«e Ribbon Winneri. EcKi at $1.00 per 15 bal- •■J* fi "«*^°,1.» «^"^*" 'o' "'e *< bargains. S. D. ECKLER. - Ashtabula. Ohio. w^^w..^.. «• ■«. w^M^. wi^vt won more pnzei over all competttorf in the largeat ahows in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden ^jSpn. Manchester. Tcnn. : DON'T OVERLOOK THIS \ other people wbuldread your ad if it were here, just the same as you are reading this «ne. See the rates and conditions at iht head •f tills deftartment and send In an ad. It will krifK you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, »57 DMrborn Strett, # Chicago, III. S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exdusivelv. "Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at lU. State Show. 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers. Gordon Ave.. Peoria. IlL BEST FARM CROWN FOWLS I l IDEAirP6ui?rRYYARm White Rock Cockerels $1.00 and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. f3.50 and up- Hens J3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas. the farmers "watch dog" at J1.25 each. Circular free. AC Baker. Rt. 1. Plalnvllle. 111- Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- Booth Rock. Large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great larert. Winners at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHELMINA POULTRY FARM E. L._Geisel,_P_roj). Moreanville, N. J. Bhe Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks Egtfsfrom my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus. Akron. Canton, Wooster and Yoantfstown. O. Send for matintf list. KARL MICHENER. Orrville, O.. Dept. F. life member American Poultry Association Mcmbej- Buff Plymouth Rock Club. ^.Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred Sr^'tf Rhode Island REDS Bred for vigror. size, shape, color. Prize winners. Great layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS Weat Mam Street EVANSTON. ILL. ROSE COMB RKr>S Do you \vrant to 'win at next fall shows? I tfuarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize winners. My Reds are red, €ree from smut. Eggs $1.50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 1 5 cents each. ^ARTHUR CHASE, Preston, Minn. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W. H. SHAW Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize w^inning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS. Loami, III. BisfBarg:ains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff "Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners. Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you want eggs ask huw^ to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin fif Son. Fairmont. Minn. SUNSET REDS ?i"„y.e"^o„b Show quality, line bred and ■with a family Ikiatory. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class shovvr birds. I. OUINCY ADAMS COSHOCTON, OHIO Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, 111, "Winners of 3rd pen at National Red Show. Topeka. Kan., Jan., 1911, best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different shows. Eggs $5, $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize winning Columbian W^yandotte Eggs $2 per 15. Mating list of both breeds free. A. p. Williams. Box 58 Minneola. Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS "Winners at Madison Square. Philadelphia and all the large shows. Bred to lay as w^ell as win. 'Write for circular. A. L. Russell, Box 1 20. W^ashington, N. J. RHODE ISLAND REDS How to Breed and Judge Them By THEO. HEWES Is the Best and Only Complete Treatise Byer Pfihlished on this flreat Variety There is no breed so widely advertised to-dar as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide di Terence of opinion at to what constitutes perfe<5lioB. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THEM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes every sec- tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defe<5tive 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. Rose and S. G. R. I. Reds Eight pens properly mated for egg trade. Every pen headed by prize winner. Send for mating list. Few^ choice cockerels yet for sale w^ith score eards. Breeders for sale after June 15. Fred W. Oertel. Box F. Brighton. Ill, Fine breeders and very choice young stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD, LA MOILLE, ILL, »■ , :^f»^«!» ^V \ ^ ' '«." '■} * ^'*«>. V^^ =^^..,. ■/■■ f- a. ■i ■■ ■■- - . :i ^' .'.'«..<■ '* ■ X'"'" s* ■ .<"'S> ; /^^"V'f*' WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICE now for all E^gs. Get eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens, 'Polly" which was chosen over 1st Madison Square Pullet of iQog-io, from 1st and zd Providence, 1st Frankfort. 1st Knoxville. ist Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain to make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchficld Poultry Yards, Geo. L. Wolfe. Prop.. Rogersville, Tenn. Double Prof Mm _ ProgrreBBlve poultrymen know that ordinary poul- try brings 10c. to 15<'. on the market, while Capons readily sell for 20c. to 30c. a pound, and often hijfher. CaponMare, easy to raise and bring double price- double profits. PILLING CAPON TOOLS I are "easy to use." A "Pilling" Capon Set with 'complete guide and instructions sent postpaid forf'J.M). H(>('klet.'-(5ulde for Caponizinjr" free UP. PILLING & SON CO.. 23d& ArcIiSts.,PhiUdelpliia,Pa! .■ »' .»," (SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT ) HEN-E-TA OUT 30% PURE BONE ASh| NO OTHER I NO OTHER BONE NEEDED I GRIT NEEDED HO MORE BONE CUTTERS NEEDED' MONQBE BEEf^SCRAPS NEEDED NOMOR£CHARCX)AL NEEDED* HONORE OYSUffiSHEIiSNEEIXD^ 100 lb« • • $2.2S Balanced Ration Formulas Free If yoti will give ns your dealers name and address. HEN-B-m BONE CO. WILL «AKE Size of Book 11 1-2 by 8 1-2 in. Containa over 50 pagea, including cover, which ia printed in three colors, and all on good half- tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are Dumerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it tells you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $ 1 .00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub- scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $1.25, DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co. 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111. «^..*.. : POULTRY FANCIER F. W. Van Sant ■•"™"" "t^,,,. Single Comb eggs for sale. 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. $10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule, made exceptionally low on this account. Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Brown Leghorns, Stock and Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn The cost is The price is Sacrifice Sale White Leghorns Owing to recent fire losses I must raise funds for rebuilding and will sell 1 50 of my choicest breeding hens. They are from my best mat- ings. Will almost give them away. The price is $9 per dozen. C. C. FOSTER, R. F. D. 1. Quincy. Mich. < BUFF & ^ BLACK ORPINGTONS KELLERSTRASS and COOK fcdihTrFwhirLEGH^ 10 males and 20 females in trios or singles for breeding. $3 up. Eggs $1.50 £»" $3 for 15. from birds scoring 90 to 95. W. L. YATES - Butler, Ind. NVATSON'S R. C. B. MINORCAS Are ■winners among the w^orld's best. Catalog free. Norman H. 'Watson. R 6. Mystic, la. Strain of S. C. W^hite Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs f(jr hatching $1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt. 'Washington, Iowa. BARRED ROCKS Winners of the *50. cup at Hhiludelphia for best pen in Entire Show, also 2nd Cock, 4th Hen, Cup for best pen to produce exhibit females, Egffs 510. per 15, will hatch Sure Winners. TOP NOTCH FARMS Water Mill. N. Y. ROSE COMB REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laving strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Punpi's for sale. Lincroft Kenne'a and I'nultry Farm Box 58 ^ ; ^ . _ :_ _ _ Shri'wuhury. N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons. Pneasants, Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs, Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies, Stock tf Eggs cheap. New 60 page cat. 4 cts. F J. Damann. Fcirminalon, Minn. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Can send you esRS that will hatch winners GET OUR PRICES E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape, size and color, bred from the best blood obtainable and winners at the leading shows. Write for prices and full particulars. THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President. S. C, B. Minorcas Club, Dover, N. J. Polgreen'!>* Culunibian Wyandotke$> The Better Kind (?()lor intense black and white, shape nl'^o has not been nej^Iected, Have won 1st and 2n(l prizes at New York State Fair the last three years, won this last year Jst pen and 1st cock. Kirk's 52 per l.S, clieap at clouble ■ price H. W, POIGREEN, Albany.^ Y. Kissinger's S.C.R.l. Reds cVy fine Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a fe>v of the best matings in the central West. Write for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club, Iowa Branch. U. S. C. R. I. Club. JOHN KISSINGER GRCENFIFLO, IOWA JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winners fur years al Amcrieas leading shows Three grand matings. that are sure to produce ^vinners for any competition. Eggs $3 and $5 per 15. Free Mating List. f D. F. Jones, R. .1. Box 1 1, Maryvllle, Mo. ' COLIMBIAN PLYMOIIH ROCKS. Prizewinninj,- stock bred to conform to tlie new Staniianl. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. While Leghorns bred from leading strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for niatingr list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Fl. Atkinson. Wis. Oak Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK, N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have >von all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston. Chicago, Buffalo and Pittsburg in last t>vo years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA All Leading Varieties ;;ater"Jmvls! Write me what you want. Have some fine R. C R. 1. REDS First prize winners at Des Moines and Cedar Rapids 7 PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list. L. Sherman Kline |^^^^^85^a WHITE ORPINGTONS •KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my winners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS. Poultry Judge Box F, 215. Le Grand, Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are winners, heavy layers, quick growers. Get started •with Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzgcr, North Manchester. Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhihition quality. 1 50 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction, CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS _Bpx R. Clinton Falls, Mmn. Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers I'j lbs, at 10 weeks. Records 2b5 to 296 eggs per hen. Sho>v quality, 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2, $3 and $5. Eggs 51.50 for I? , 5^ for ?o, 54 for 4s, S^i for 100, $50 for looo A.M.SPELMAN & SON. Box 75. Rootstown. O. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas. Cochins, Langshans. W^yandottes. Dorkings, Leghorns. Guineas. Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Syivania, Brad. Co., Pa. \^HITE PLY. ROCKS KgKS from my best birds 5100 per 13, *5 00 per 100. to m-l you started. Ttu-so liirds- have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants toda\'. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards, Dept. A, Fond du Lac, W^is. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It i.s free W. n. HART. - A.SHLAND, MO. IVIV !». t. biJfh LtOfHIKNV Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 1 3 years and shown for 1st time N Y State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders bookec tor eggs and satisfacfion guaranteed _K, c. (;ii,Bi RT ^ Tiiij.Y, r: S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading: Minn, shows. Great lavers. EtrK'^ from pens $1..S0& $2 per I.S Utility Eirirs SI per I.S. S.S per 100. Satisfaction iriuiranteed. CD. SMITH & SON, St. Charles. Minn. GORDON' In and near SPRING VALLEY. MINN. Bufifs and Blacks. Cook and Owen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they will produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3. $5 and >10 per 15. Will be pleased to write you about my stock. FAIRFIELD POULTRY FARM Thos. Peer, Prop.. Caldwell, N. J. Will sell some of my breeders in Silver Duckwings and S. C. Bufl Leghorns. Must have the room for >ounjj stock. Any one in need of ^''od breeders for •Tnother season will do well to write me before pur- chasing el-cwher- Prices ri^ht considering stix k OK I» 1 N < ; T <) .N s S.C. Bufl & Black CHAMPION Blood Breeders. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure. and your protection. ^- liMTHI, Roule F„ Waverlv, IN- ! • • • • THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blae Ribbon Winneri. Eggi at f I.OO per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bareains S. D. ECKLER. - Ashtabula. Ohio. _ANSD£N S. C. reds. Have won more prizes over all competitors in the largest shows in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden fif Son, Manchester. Tenn. J DON'T OVERLOOK THIS Otlier people would read your ad if it were here, just the same as you are reading this one. Sec the rates and conditions at the head •f this department and send in an ad. It will bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. 3B7 Dearborn Strett, ^ Chicago, III. S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively. Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Show. 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers. Gordon Ave.. Peoria, 111. S^Sl J*«£ ««05.N im^ IDEAL POULTRY YARDS White Rock Cockerels Jl.OO and up; W. Hoi land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. 53.50 and up; Hens $3.00each. TheWhite African Guineas. the farmers "watch dog" at {1.25 each. Circular free. J. C Baker. Rt. 1, Plainville, 111. Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- mouth Rock. Large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great layers. Winners at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHELMINA POULTRY FARM H. L. CeiscI •1, Pi Morganville, N. J. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks Egtfs from my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus. Akron. Canton. Wooster and Yountfstown, O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER, Orrville. O.. Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. AC ON A I Afc among the best in the United States. They have the quality, vigor, size and markings. They will win anywhere. They are the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Eggs from exhibition matings, ii.oo per 15. From utility stock, fr.50 per Ij. Wfitc for circular. GEO. WARNER. Bushnt Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred t!r^l' Rhode Island REDS Bred for vigror. size, shape, color. Prize winners, (ireat layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON, ILL. ROSK COMR l^i:OH Do you Avant to 'win at next fall show^s? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize winners. My Reds are red, free from smut. Egt^s $1 .50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 1 5 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE^ Preston. Minn. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W^. H. SHAW^ Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding; yards of hi^fh class and prize winning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS. Loami. III. t • Bijr Barjj^ains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff W^yandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you want eggs ask ht)w to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. '^. J. Coffin (sf Son. Fairmont. Minn. SUNSET REDS ?i°7,e"l„,b ShoiPT quality, line bred and w^ith a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings. sure to produce high class snow^ birds. J. OUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON, OHIO Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, III, •Hl^J CJOMIJ UKns W^inners of 3rd pen at National Red Show. Topeka. Kan.. Jan.. 1911, best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different shows. Eggs $5. $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize winning Columbian W^yandotte Eggs $2 per 1 5. Mating list of both breeds free. A. D. W^illiams, Box 58 Minneola. Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS W^inners at Madison Square. Philadelphia and all the large show^s. Bred to lay as well as w^in. W^rite for circular. A. L. Russell. Box 1 20. Washington. N. J. Rose and S. C. R. I. Reds Eight pens properly mated for egg trade. Every pen headed by prize w^inner. Send for mating list. Fe^v choice cockerels yet for sale w^ith score cards. Breeders for sale after June 15. Fred 'W. Oertel. Box F. Brighton, 111. Fine breeders and very choice youns: stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD. LA MOILLE, ILL. WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICE now for all E^gs. Get eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens, 'Polly" which was chosen over 1st Madison Square Pullet of igoQ-io, from 1st and id Providence, 1st Frankfort, ist Knoxvilie, 1st Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain lo make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards. Geo. L. Wolfe. Prop., Rogersville, Tenn . Doubfo Prof Urn Progressive I'oultrynien know that ordinary poul- try brink's 10c. to l!x'. on the market, while Caponsreadily sell for 20c. to 30c. a pound, and often hiprher. Capons aro ea.sy to rai.se and brint; double price- double profits. PILLING CAPON TOOLS 1 are "easy to use." A "Pillinpr" Capon .Set with 'complete pruide and iiistruotions sent postpaid forP*i..M). Hoiklet.'Miuifiefor Caponiziiiir" free G. P. PILLING & SON CO., 23d& Arch St«., Philadelphia. Pa! I brii-ifS (SOMETHIKg To CROW ABOUT )] HEN-E-TA ^BOUT30%PURE BONE ASH m NO OTHER I NO OTHER AH BONE NEEDED [ GRIT NEEDED ^^^K0 MORE BOME CUTTERS NEEDED JNOMOfiE BEEF-SCRAP5 NEEDED NO MORE CHARCOAL NEEDED MOMOREOYSmSHELLS NEEDED VALUABir 100 <»»• - . $2.25 BOOKLET 500 lbs - . 9.00 mil Balanced Ration Formulas Free If you will give tis your dealers name and address. HEN-B-TA BONE CO. NEWARK, N.r' WEPT.. '"■ rtEMlNGTON. W.VA. , ^■■■■■■■■■■^■■^■iHM RHODE ISLAND REDS » » How to Breed and Judge Them By THEQ. HEWES Is the Best and Only Complete Treatise Ever Published on this Great Variety There is no breed so widely advertised to-dav as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes perfedlion. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes everj* sec- tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defedtive 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. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains over 50 pa^fes, including cover, which is printed in three colors, and all on good half- tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it tells you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub- scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $1.25, DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co. 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111. ■•rfVk M^j j^lK ijaij It Is Not Because We Call Our Columbian Wyandottes SUPERIOR STRAIN That they are SUPERIOR. It is because they have proven themselves SUPERIOR in many of "The Best Show Rooms" in competition with "The Best Breeders" in the country , » C In the past three seasons at Chicago they won mote premium^ and prizes than any two competitors. AsWinter Layers No Breed Can Surpass Them C We are willing to meet any breeder of reputation in an " Egg La3ring Contest" to prove this. No breed is "more profitable" or*"more beautiful" than Fenton Farms Superior Strain of Columbian Wyandottes We have hundreds of young and old birds that will win m strong icompetition Send for catalogue and write for prices on what you want. FENTON FARMS, Mt. CLEMENS, MICH. LARGEST EXCLUSIVE BREEDERS OF COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES P. S.— If you are going to buy— buy the best. " It pays." • # t 15,000 Young Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS 1,000 Yearling Breeders at $2 Each and up to make room and hundreds of show birds reasonable. I have the largest Buff Leghorn Farm in the world and can furnish you stock much cheaper than small breeders with small flocks. Remember, Smith's Buffs are the money-makers and the great Winter layers. We have won at Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Toledo, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton. Columbus, Hamilton and the great Kansas City shows. Send your order in while I have thousands of birds to select from. / also have one of the best flocks of Indian Runner Ducfts and have a thousand birds for sale at $2 and up F. S. SMITH Box I and J Hamilton, Ohio • • • ■an- w^'wiiaa /•iJi'iM Hftfaottlt^^'^ Vol. XVI CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER, 1911 No. 3 Certification of Prizes Susfsestions for a Plan that Will Make Known the Actual Merit of Birds that Win Prizes. A Rem- edy for Evils that Exist Under Present Condi- tions. BY A FANCIER. \\\\\ arc two adxcni^cnienl^. <>f tlic -anic \arict\ of I'owl^, and each rca(l->. "I'.n- UTcd i>nl\ a pair and \\( >n t\\() tir^t^." I'Toni lliis in It •i"niatii >ii it wiuild apjicar that llic l"(t\\l^ were on a ])ani\, and llial one niii^iil a^ well draw Jnt^ to dctcnninc lit "in wliich oi the l\\<> to |)nrcha>c c,l;i;^ or >t(»clv. ihit wlial arc the fact">: < )ne of the panic- entered hi- fo\\l- for exhihitioii at a -liow held under .\nierican Tonhrx \--ociation rule-, and thi- fact a--nre- that the hird- nui-t ha\"e -cored ss point- each i n" more. The -how wa- a lar^c one. and tlie cla--. in which ihe-e fowl- were entered, wa- a -tron^ one. wliich pr(i\-e- that the\ were the l)e>t one- there, and ])rol)- al)l\ -cored -e\"eral point- aho\e the niinininni o| ss point-. riu' hird- at ihi- lart^e -how were indited h\' a ])onltr\ jnd^^e of national re])ntation. which make- it |)o-ili\e tliat they de-erve the prize"- w hicli the\ won. The other parly e\hil)ited at a -mall -how. held in an ol)-cnre \illai;"e. and not held under American I'oiiltrx .\--ocialion rule-; the hir(l> were the only t\\<» ol that \aric-t\ on e.xhihilion ; the judi;in.iL; wa- doiK- hy a com- mittee of three men. tioiu- of whom ])rote>sed t<» know amthini; ahoiii tine ponlti-y. The pair nii,i;ht ha\e heeii "crackeriack>," "'world-heater>.*' or the\ mi|L;ht ha\e heen -orr\ "scriih-," til only for llu pot. .\llhonL;h the\ won tir-t prizes, there i- no a>-nrance that the\ w ere hird- < >f any merit. .\llhon,L:h tile .\merican ronllry .\-sociation, in the |)arai;rai»h entitled "'.Scores hjitillini; Specimens to Trizes/' nnder •' I nsirnctions to Indices," in the .Stand- ard of rert'ection, has done somethini; to insure that a tir-t prize means a hird of merit, it is possihle that something- more mii.'hl he done for the protection ol llie j)nrch:isiniL; pnhlic. The rule is sufficient, -o lar a.s shows held nnder .\merican roultrv Association rules are concerned, and that douhlle-- wa- a- lar a- the association felt it could i^o. |t cannot pre\enl. and it (tii,ijht not to attempt to prexenl. the or<;anization ot j)oultr\ association-, and the hoidin,i;' of exhihition- un- der aii\ rule- which the-e a--ociation- may deem tit lo make for their ,i;o\ ernment. These little indei)endeni oi\^anizalions are a sion of life and _i;ro\\th in the in- luion. 1> there a remedx . and. if so. w hat r The follow ini: tenlalive suo<.esti( .n i- made in the '.^ .^.-»' hope that. e\en if it proxe inade(|uale. it xxill lead l(» other -ui^'^e-tioii- or ])lan- \xhich xxill meet the -itii- aliou fullx. The American roullry .\--ocialion miiiiit juoxide for the certiiicatiou of prize- xxon. -hoxxin,^ \xhere. when and under what circum-lance- ihex were won. \x ho was ihe iud.L^e. xxhat xx ere ihe scores, it -cor- \]\iX XX a- done, and xxhat xxere the merits, it compari-ou iudLiini; x\ ere emi)loxed. To make the plan more rizes axxarded: the num- ])vv of hirds in com])etition in the classes in xxhich he won; whether the sliou wa- held under American Ponltrx Association rules or otherwise: and -nch oilier fads as he max deem nece>sar\ tor ihe intormalioii ;V 1 5,000 Young Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS 1,000 Yearling Breeders at $2 Each and up to make room and hundreds or show birds reasonable. I have the largest Buff Leghorn Farm in the world and can furnish you stock much cheaper than small breeders with small flocks. Remember, Smith's Buffs are the money-makers and the great Winter layers. We have won at Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Toledo, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton. Columbus, Hamilton and the great Kansas City shows. Send your order in while I have thousands of birds to select from. / also have one of the best flocks of Indian Runner Duclts and have a thousand birds for sale at $2 and up I F. S. SMITH Box I and J Hamilton, Ohio • • i t:-'.t?^ii'>--"-'';^;¥**^*^-'^**^-'''=*;s^aft?i^^^ mmms^^ Vol. XVI CHICAGO, ILL. SEPTEMBER. 191 1 No. 3 Certification of Prizes Suggestions for a Plan that Will Make Known the Actual Merit of Birds that Win Prizes. A Rem- edy for Evils that Exist Under Present Condi- tions. BY A FANCIER. Z\\K are two advertisements, of the same variety of fowls, and each reads, "Imi- tered only a pair and won two firsts." I^^rom this information it would a])])ear that the fowls were on a parity, and that one might as well draw lots to determine fi"om which of the two to purchase eggs or stock. Ihit what are the facts? (^ne of the parties entered his fowls for exhihition at a show held under American Poultry Association rules, and this fact assures that the hirds must have scored SS points each or more. The show was a large one, and the class, in which these fowls were entered, was a strong one. which ])roves that they were the best ones there, and i)rol)- ahly scored several pcnnts above the minimum of S-',-.-^'.'^'^-^T---f.7..-„,rTVv>?, The Main Road to Success Some Valuable Advice Which Ought to Be Acted Upon by Thousands of Fanciers Who Are Neglecting Their Opportunities and Losing Trade. BY H. P. McKAY. 'SSUMIXC; that the breeder has bred his Rock up to Standard requirements and is in a position to furnish fancy stock and eggs for hatching, this arti- cle will endeavor to state some things in relation to disposing of the above products in a businesslike and profitable manner, things which many breeders neglect or fail to give the proper attentio-n, and wdiich many others con- sider of slight imi)ortance. 11ie first stej) in establishing a trade in pure-bred stock and fancy eggs can be attained in either of two ways, or in both. These are by showing at some reputable poultry show and by advertising judiciously in some o'f the poultry publications. Both of these are important and of mutual aid to each other, but of the two, advertising is of the greatest importance and the one to which the poul- tryman should devote the most thought. Jn placing advertising, the following things must be considered: cpiantity of stock to be disposed of, amount of money available for the purpose, and the medium. If only a small number of birds and eggs are to be disposed of, it would certainly only be a waste of money to carry a i)age or half page ad when a small card in the" classified column would accom- plish the same purpose. It is very nice to receive plenty of orders, but it hurts when you have to return money and too many breeders are tempted to go out and buv stock to fill these extra orders, wluch is very bad policy, for it is sailing under false colors. >)etter keep your ads running in pro- portion to the amount v(nt have to supply the de- mand with and gradually increase them as you have increased facilities for taking care of more orders, thus saving money and keeping in the straight path of honesty at the same time. . Tn considering the cost of advertising, especially if the amount to be expended is limited, it is best to divide u]) the amount in a way to secure the "■reatest benefit and value f(^r the money. Tt is a proven fact that some poultry pul)licati(^ns are bet- ter mediums than others and good judgment must be emplnved to get the journal or journals that will bring the best returns in ])rop(n-tion tn the cost. Tiw to place vour name before as many readers as pcissible, and'keep it there. In time, readers will look for vour advertisement each month and it will become part of the pai)er. Spasmodic advertising, while better than none at all, does not accomi)lisli the <'reatest amount of good that it should. i»nt vouiMiame alone is not sufficient. That is, not until Vou have a well-established rei)Utation and trade. 'Do not divide up advertising in such small i)arcels that none of them have any worth. P.etter have fewer ads and stronger ones. ^ Al)ove all, make vour advertising attractive and original, if possible. Do not be funny, hupiacious or sarcastic, and avoid rei)etition. Neatness and conciseness are very important factors. 1 believe in stating prices in an advertisement ; not neces- sarily a complete schedule, but enough to give a prospective buyer some idea of the range of your terms. He is then more apt to wTite to you than to some other advertiser who simply states that he has Barred Rocks, White Leghorns, or some other l)reed for sale and leaves the price an unknown cpiantity. Illustrations from life are one of the best ways in which to attract attention in advertising matter, for they show just what your stock looks like, lie truthful in your statements. You have the right to ])lace your stock and ])lant in the best pos- sible light, but it is bad practice to claim the finest l)lant and the best stock if you cannot show the goods. Someone who reads your claims is a])t to happen along to your i)lace some day, and if the plant and birds do not fulfill your descri])tion, it would be (piite embarrassing for you, I should imair- ine. So, 1 say, ])aint your lousiness, equi])ment and winnings in as glowing terms as are justifiable, but do not exaggerate. After placing advertising in the above manner, and supplementing it with articles for the poultry press and by exhibiting at some of the shows, the foundation is laid for a good trade. Re]:)lies and incpiiries will begin to come in and the battle is half fought. l)Ut perhaps the hardest half, at least to some people, and the one the most neglected, is the correspondence relating to these inquiries. This should be carried on in a ])rogressive, prompt, busi- nesslike manner, in order to derive the greatest ben- efit from the advertising. I could never understand how poultrymen would s|)end time and money in advertising and then take care of the accruing cor- respondence as indifferently as some of them do. It is as bad as spending money for fancy buildings and not knowing how- to raise enough stock to fill them. Several of the most serious faults met with are lack of proper materials, poor writing, insutlfi- cient re])lies, and lack of promptness. Get good, attractive stationery and printed mat- ter, with good cuts, even if it does cost more. Tt and what is written on it are your agent and what you will be judged by. Don't use a common, every- day cut of your breed, such as are turned out by the dozen to anyone wdio will ])ay the i)rice. Get some pictures taken of your fcnvls and ])lant and have some attractive half-tones made from them. P>e dif- ferent— be original — above the throng. It is the untisual man who is the successful (>ne. It will cer- tainly cost more, but less in proportion to results. Cuts can always be made use of in ycnir catalogue and in advertising, and in some cases good pictures leave a more decided, lasting impression than any amount (^f word descri]:)tion would. If poultry is just a side line with you, keep it sep- arate from your other business, and do not use vour regular stationery in conducting your poultry correspondence. 1 believe the majority of people like to think, at least, that they are dealing with a poultryman who is (le\-oting all his time to it, and not just his s])are moments. S(^ if you are a banker or a druggist, keep it apart fri^m ycnir poultry inter- / '( Page 36 ^■^■■■-T^:PC■'^^::-'^;^'■;^^-;".^^;v^^';v^^^■-^,■i^^r..^ POULTRY FANCIER 2I20EE:2ZI2ZZ2S! September, '11 /^ ests, and do not ^ive peo]:)le the impression that poultry is only a fad with you, and that ])r()l)a1)ly someone else is lookini;' after your l)irds for you in an indifferent manner. It is a serious handica]) not to be able to write well, but one that is usually easily remedied. If you are a poor writer, try and get someone to write for you, for it is disappointing;' to ^et a letter tliat can be deci])hered only with difficult w and it leaves a poor inii)ression. If \-our wife or son or daughter are not available to write for you, buy or rent a tyi^ewriter. In this ai;e nothini^' i^'ives such an air of business stabilit}' as does the typewriter. \'ery serviceable machines can be had for little money, and the advantaj^'e of a typewritten letter cannot be overestimated. Always i^ive an incpiiry a C()m])lete re])ly. Merely sending- a catalog- in answer to all incpiiries will not suffice. Manv times a catalog- does not contain the exact information to ht the case, and, besides, a j^er- sonal letter shows that the poultryman takes a real, live interest in every sale, be it lar^e or small. lie prompt in your corres])ondence, above all thini^s. It may tend to make a i)ros])ective cus- tomer think that you are doin^' a rushing- l)usiness to dela\' answeriuj^' his letter for a few days, but he may conclude yoti are so ])usy that you will not .give his order the proper attention, and, therefore. send it elsewhere. Then, also, he may have sent several incjuiries for prices and, being in a hurry, the first answer gets the l)usiness. Anyway, to keep correspondence from accumulating, take care of it each day and it will become a ])leasant occu- pation instead of a task. To be sure, you will i)rol)- ably get man\- incjuiries merely from curiosity, but doii't take any chances in not answering from this fact. The incpiir}' at least shows interest on the writer's ])art, and perha])s some day he will have some monev to spend and he will remend)er you. I l)elieve in the follow-uj) system to a certain extent, sav. to the second or third letter, but after that, vour letters are ai)t to l)e thrown aside without much attention. Conduct poultr}' raising on conunercial lines and m a business way, if you would succeed. Respect \our husmess and it will command res])ect from others. The time is ])ast when the chicken busi- ness was a laughing-stock, and it is now a legiti- mate, paying vocation — in fact, a science, when carried on along u])-to-date, intelligent methods. If carried on with the same careful attention to de- tails and the same energy as is necessary in any other business to make it a sticcess, then poultry raising as a business is bound to be a successful, ])aying venture and one of which no one need be ashamed. It Is Not All Peaches and Cream The Fanciers' Work is Not a Continuous Round of Pleasure, but There is Much to Compensate Hiin for the Drawbacks. BY B. S. HARMON. H h^ ])each is a popular fruit. Its delicate bloom, rich color, delicious flavor and juicy meat make it to be regarded as the .syml)ol of all that is excellent in the fruit line. Indeed, so strongly is it re- garded as a synonym of perfection that the yoimg men of to-day, when they wish to ex])ress the highest ])itch of admiration for a maiden, com- l)oun(led of all ])erfections, exclaim: "She's a peach." In like manner cream is the best and most valued con- stituent of milk. The man who gets the best of every- thing is said to get the cream. And when these two words are compounded in the phrase, ])eaches and cream, the ])opu]ar idea of ])erfection, excellence, all that is or can be desirable, finds its comi)lete expres- sion. The life of the i)oultryman has many delights, more ])erhaps, than falls to the lot of a man in any other occupation, but the poultryman's life is not all i)eaches and cream. The most careful matings sometimes fail to ''nick," and the ])rogeny therefrom is inferior to either ])arent ; the most valuable eggs occasionally fail to produce a full brood, and now and then produce not a single chick; the chickens, though hatched, do not always survive, for lice lie in wait for them and white diarrhoea may get them ; the surviving chickens flo not all develop properly, for some are runts, some are deformed, some go light, some are "off" in i^i:;- iire or color; the best of them sometimes fail to win even a second, third or foiu-th prize, and once in a w xN'hile one is discpialilied ; chickens will not feed and care for themselves and hen-houses are not self- cleaning; disease is no respecter of fowls, and the best birds may get sick and ])erhaps die; work there always is and in abundance, without which success is impossible. And yet, despite all these drawbacks, if indeed they are drawbacks, the poultrxman gets a liberal helping of |)eaches and cream. If the ])()ultryman's lot were all i)eaches and cream his life would be monotonous, and he would grow weary of it. In a ])icture it is necessary to have dark shadows in order to have the figure stand out from the canvas. The brighter the sun shines on a summer's day, the dee])er will be the shadows cast bv each ob- ject in the sunlight. A friend of ours, who' had origi- nally lived in Xew I^ngland, where there may be forty varieties of weather in a single day, spent some years in a land()f almost perpetual sunshine, and then went back to live out the rest of his davs in Xew I Jigland. 'A'es," he said to us, •'the climate was delightful and the land beautiful. The days were full of sunlight and the flowers were ever in bloom. IhU there wa^s noth- ing to look forward to. Today was like yesterday, and tomorrow would he like today — no change, but one monotonous sameness. T]) here there is perpetual change, spring is succeeded bv summer, summer bv autunm, autumn by winter. Snow, hail, rain, sunshine, all these follow in delightful varietv, and I am content to live out my days where variety and not monotonv exists." There is assuredlv no lack of varietv in the poultryman's life. He always has something to which to look forward. These drawbacks after all are "blessings in disguise." I f they did not exist the poultryman would neither have to work nor think. If "every man is as lazy as he can afford to be," work is not his second nature. lUit • • • i • • t ^^.^^i' »!: v^ ■AStumi4a»*i(r a first exhibit select a near by show, provided it is one where good birds will ])robal)ly be shown, and where the judging will be done by ex])erts. lUit be sure of these two things, for yoti wish to compete with birds, to win over which will be an honor, and you need to learn the intrinsic value of your stock. It is better to go down in defeat in good comi)an\, where awards; are correctly i)laced, than to be victoricnis over a lot of scrubs, and then to have even such a victory in doubt because of the unskillful judging. A near 1)y sIkhv decreases the transportation charges and makes it less exi)ensive for you to attend continuonslx . Exhibit vour stock in the best i)ossible condition. Clean them up, washing them if necessary. Have them tame. Train them to assume an agreeable pose. Get them up in weight. Then, having done all in your power in the way of preparation, trust the results to the good sense of the management and the goa] judg- ment of the expert judges. Don't feel nervous; but if vou cannot hel]) so feeling, don't appear nervous, if you are beaten, don't join the band of kickers; there are enough of them already and it will do you no honor to be elected to membership among them. Take your medicine quietly, whether it is victory (^r defeat. Show neither disai)pointment nor exultation. Kvery breeder should exhibit. That's the rtile, to which there may be few exce])tions. The veteran should exhibit to keep his name before the public ; the beginner to get his name before the ])ublic. The vet- eran should exhibit to show how the thing shotild be done ; the beginner to learn how it is done. breeders shotild exhibit for a great variety of rea- sons, (a) l>ecause the exhibition is an important fac- tor in making the prices of fine stock. While it is not the sole, it certainly is a controlling, factor in stich ])rices. (b) Because the poultry industry demands that the exliibitions should be sustained, and a ])rac- tical hel]) towards sustaining them is to make them as large and as interesting and attractive as possible, (c) Decatise the exhibition teaches many important lessons which both veteran and beginner need to learn. ( d ) Recatise exhibitions stimulate breeders to ftirther and more determined eft'orts which result in the further improvement in the c|uality of the stock bred. ( e ) Piecattse exhibitions ftirnish meeting places for kin- dred spirits, interested in the same or similar things, conveying and receiving helj^ful hints, and resulting (^ften in delightful friendships, (f) Because the ex- hibition is to a certain extent a mart for trade in fine fowls and many fine specimens are there bought and sold to the mutual benefit of buyer and seller, (g) Because exhibitions furnish the best possible material for advertising, and to some extent act directly as advertising mediums. (h) liecause to build u]) a trade in exhibition stock one must sectire ])tibh*city and the exhibition directly and indirectly contributes to the necessary publicity, (i) l>ecause the exhibition makes converts to poultry breeding, and the luimber of breeders is by it increased. These fresh accessions become first of all buyers and add at once to the vol- ume of trade. In the end they become j^roducers and add to the wealth of the nation. Vov these, and other reasons, breeder and exhibitor should btecome almost synonomc^us terms, each should imply the other be- cause to be one should mean to be the other also. In what has been said we have attempted to bring together in a condensed form certain thoughts upon exhibiting, in tin hope that they might be heli)ful, especialh to the beginner who needs more than the veteran such help, and to the end that the number of exhibitors, seeing the many reason^ in favor of ex- hibiting, might be increased many times. When a breeder fiillv realizes how vital a thing is exhibiting to the industry at large and to his individual share or part in that industry, he must perforce become an exhibitor. Altruistic and selfish motives, usually ar- rayed in hostility against each other, are, in res])ect to this one subject, faithful allies, working with a com- mon i)urpose for the accomplishment of a common end. Page 38 POULTRY FANCIERe September, '11 EDITORIAL PAGE • Poultry Fancier Published under the name Fancy Fowls for 1 0 years, 1897 to 1907. Entered as Second Class Matter, Sept. 28. 1907, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. Published the 1 3 th of each month by POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO. FRANK HECK. President 357 Dearborn Street, Chicago, HI. FRANK HECK. Editor Subscription price in United States and f>os- tessions 23 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 1 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. September, 1911 Start Right The words ''Start Ivi.^lit" may have a familiar look, luit tliey are words that need to l)e repeated and empha- sized year after year. They mean more tlian some tliink when they use them. As s^n^'rally emjiloyed, they refer to the stock with which one he- gins his l)ree(lini; operation>. (iood stock is necessary, and, though it costs more, it is the cheapest in the end. Even witli tlie best >tock, there will be produced more or less culls, and culls are not desired l)y any breeders. Rut to start ri,u:ht one needs something more than j^cx^d stock. He needs, for example, a good plant. Expensive buildings, however attract- ive, are not absolutely necessary, but buildings adapted to the needs of the stock are necessary. A good build- ing is one which affords suHicient room for the fowls, and insures that they shall have plenty of fresh air, without unnecessary exi)osure to draughts; that the care of the fowls will be comparatively easy because of the conveniences which are afforded; that cleanliness will be certainly se- cured without unnecessary labor; and that in everything necessary to be done the doing will be rendered as easy and expeditious as i)ossible. To start right also means that the breeder shall start with a well-delined purpose. He should at the outset de- termine what he intends to accom- plish, and should make all his plans with reference to that particular aim. And he should determine that he will accomplish what he sets out to do. Success is for those who will to have it. The will is a tremendous, though often overlooked, factor in success. The old Romans had the correct idea when they prepared their maxim, which may be rendered into English, "I can because I think I can," or more freely, "I can because I will." A right start, also, means that one has competent knowledge, or a will to acquire such knowledge. Few be- ginners can have competent knowl- edge of the art and science of breed- ing, but they can have the founda- tions of such knowledge upon which to build as experience points out the way. There are scientific treatises to study; helpful books to read; poultry journals to peruse; poultry shows to attend; experienced breeders with whom to advise. All around them are helps towards the knowledge which will make them successful l:)reeders, and. if they use these helps as they are needed, failure will be impossible. Rut to start right one thing more is requisite, lacking which the begin- ner will lack everything. \yithout this one thing, good stock is in vain, a good plant useless, a well-defined purpose an idle dream, and competent knowledge a wnll-o-the-wisp. With- out an inherent love for fowls and tlu'ir breeding, one can never succeed. Such a love will lead to the acquire- ment of the knowledge necessary for the proper mating, care and rearing, through which good stock, in a good plant, can be made to realize the well- (lelined aims and purposes of the breeder; it will lead to the study of the fowls and their needs; to the use of the manifold helps towards suc- cess; to the work necessary to make the knowledge count in results. A man, with love for fowls and their ])ree(ling, will study books, read pa- pers, visit i^oultry shows and mingle with other breeders. No opportunity to learn something about this work will be neglected. H he doesn't go to bed with the hens, he will take the hen> to bed with him. As Isaac K. belch once said, "I used to lie awake nights thinking how to make my mat- ings." As another breeder once said to us, "T talked hens all day. and dreamed hens all night." That's the kind of feelings whicli makes suc- cessful breeders. To start right, then, is not such a simple thing as we have been wont to consider it. it means not one but many things. it means good stock, as every one knows; but it means, as well, suital)le houses, i)roperly locat- ed; a definite jiurpose, clearly defined; a determination to succeed; compe- tent knowledge, or a will to secure it, and above all a love for fowls and for their breeding. It means much study and much work, but the work is forgotten and is really not work, i)ecause it is done for the wel- fare of the fowls. It means a mind actively employed upon the problems of breeding, as w^ell as hands busily engaged in doing the necessary work. Keep Agoing We have advised the beginner to start right. It was, is, and ever will be, good advice. But it is not enough to start right. Once started, he must keep agoing. in a race, many horses start at t'ht word, ''Go," but if they don't keep agoing, it doesn't make any difference how good a start they made, they will never w^in the race. Every beginner is a starter in the race for success; the prize is worth the winning; and the secret of winning is to keep ago- ing. To keep agoing, one needs pluck. He mustn't balk at any obstacle; he mustn't quit at any difficulty. Balkers and ([uitters are never winners. Pluck is luck and something more. It is luck plus the determination which laughs at hindrances and perseveres when things go wrong. Pluck is the magician who turns ill into good luck, and transforms failure into success. To keep agoing one needs to make use of all the possil)le aids to suc- cess. He must read and study and work. P>ooks there are and journals to read and study; his fowls must be inspected with minute attention and their development, needs and care mu>t be seriously studied; and hav- ing learned what is necessary he must do with his might the work necessary and at such times as it should be (lone. He should never lay back on his oars but bend his back to propel his boat ever farther forward. A suc- cess won should be simply an induce- ment to strive for other and greater successes. To keep agoing also means to keep on growing. A breeder should be every year a bigger man than lie was the year before. He should have more knowledge and be better able to apply hi> knowledge for the end at which he aims. If he produces good fowls this year, he should produce better fowls next year. If he luakes a profit one season, he should make a larger profit next season. He should keep agoing. The more one learn>. the more he will see there is to learn. The nearer one approaches, his ideal, the higher will his ideal rise. Like the horizon an ideal recedes as one approaches it; like the horizon an ideal is never at- tained. But improvement is constant- ly making; successes are realized; profits are made. And all these are but stepping stones to further im- provements, greater successes, larger profits. The breeder who keeps ago- ing enjoys his work. 'JMiere is no joy in standing still. it is movement which makes life enjoyable, and with- (Hit which life ceases to exist. Stag- nant waters are dead waters; moving waters are living waters, full of life and bestowing life along their courses. If a beginner would not be a dead poultryman he must keep agoing. I?V V • t r • t • ''September, '11 POULTRY FANCIER^ Page" 39 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 invitation is extended to all our readers to use the department freely. THE EFFECT OF WEATHER UPON THE CHICKENS. During the extremely hot weather, which occurred in July and in August, the old fowls seemed to suffer more than the chickens. There were a good many losses attributed directly to the extreme heat among the adults, but few deaths, traceable to it, among the growing broods. The resistant power of the chickens to extreme heat seemed to be much greater than that of the adults. During the wet spell, which occur- red the latter part of August, the adult fowls seemed to suffer but little, but the chickens, and especially those which were hatched late, were badly .affected, some dying and the most being retarded more or less seriously in their growth. Even the late broods, which were housed and not permit- ted to run out and get wet. were in- juriously affected. It has often been noted that such weather as September and October usually being cool at night, with a temperate degree of heat during the middle portions of the day, is excel- lent for the growth and development of chickens. Its beneficial effects up- on adult fowls is somewhat obscured by the fact that, as a rule, many of them are in moult at this time. The latter part of April, the month of May. and the early portion of July, usually give, also, a good growing and de- veloping temperature. Extreme cold, like extreme heat, is not desirable weather for fowls. The food at such a time is largely expend- ed in keeping up the bodily heat, and is, therefore, in the case of matured fowls, diverted from production, and, in the case of immature fowls, from growth. Bantam breeders take ad- vantage of it to prevent the miniature fowls from attaining full size, and those breeding large fowls complain of its stunting effects. The breeder, and his name is legion, who has hatched out July chickens, needs to push the broods as hard as he can during the developing weather of September and October, so as to get them to a point where the cold weather will not stunt them. For- tunately much can be done during September and October to hasten the development of the late chickens, and The Undefeated Champion Strain of America PETERSEN'S HOUDANS Send for 80-paKe 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. PETF.RSEN. President American Houdan Club, 19'JO to 1907. 16 Waverly St., Portland, Maine r LAYERS and PAYERS Royal Orpingtons SI WHITE— B VFF—BLJCK Eggs for hatching $3 'I' $9 Per 26 SHOW STOCK $3.00 to $500 per head. -X' V--.- - ' A wor Eggs for hatching from $3,000 pen of Royal Columbian Plymouth Rocks $3.00 each. Stock and eggs shipped to any part of the Let us know your wants. WOODWORTH FARWI, WILTON, CONN. J EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM UTILITY STOCK ONE HALF ABOVE PRICES if November and the first half of December do not happen to prove inclement — and these months often give us many delightful days — the late broods will develop so as to have sufficient resistant power to the severe winter weather when it arrives and will avoid the stunting process. Many a prize bird, even of the largest breeds, has been hatched in July, made full size and secured per- fect development. Still it is the part of wisdom, when it is possible to do so, to hatch the chickens so that they will have the best developing weather in the early part of their career, as well as the admirable growthy weath- er which the autumn brings. It is not too early to sugest that prepara- tions for 1912 broods should now be- gin to be made. H. S. Babcock. A FEW TIMELY THOUGHTS. Now that the young stock is ap- proaching maturity and we look over our flocks, how many of us see our mistakes in mating and say to our- selves if we had only left certam fe- males out of that pen or it we had not used that male bird— or if we had mated a difTerent way-we would have had better results.^ We all say things like that at this time in the year, but we go at it again next year with the same lack of system and at- tention to details. That is why we have so many oi¥ colored specimens and so few good ones, but we should 1)lame ourselves and no one else when we do it over and over year after year. Now is the time when many ot us put ofY doing things until tomorrow, such as cleaning off the roosts in the iu'n house, furnishing clean straw for the scratching shed, or taking the pick or spade and turning the ground n the runs to freshen them and get rid of that sour smell that cannot be renewed except by turning over, or we neglect to spray. the house or dust the chickens especially the youns ones for lice. Many of us are in- clined to be lazy and tired and it i.s so easy to say "well tomorrow will do and it will stay clean longer. Try and have your hens moult early so that they will commence laying in November and December and push your early pullets to lay in October because eggs are going to be scarce and prices high this winter— the high- est yet— and the fanciers are going to be depended upon to supply a part ot the demand. Fanciers and owners of egg farms are after early hatched pullets already some offering $1.00 each for pullets weighing three pounds. Just think of it, and then some people say that the chicken business does not pay. It depends upon the way the business is conducted. — W. C. McKenny. Page 40 POULTRY FANCIER^ September, '111 Report of 36th Annual Meeting of A. P. A. at Denver Tlie ;{(>th ananual nu'etin^^ was held at Denver, Colo., accordiiii^ to sched- ule. .\u;>i. T to 10. It was in many respects the most notable meetin.i>- ever held liy the Association and this is particularly true in rei^ard to the opportiinities presented to members for their entertainment and the elab- orate program provided by the Colo- rado I^ranch of the Association. The Colorado members made good all their promises and prcnided more pleasurable and social features than have ever before been found at an A. P. A. convention. The meetiuL^- was called to order Monday mornino-, Au*?. 7. with nearly ~M)0 mendjers present. The governor of Colorado and other prominent citi- zens delivered addresses of welcome, which were responded to by members of the Association. The followinii^ states were represent- ed at roll call: Arkansas. California, Colorado. Connecticut, Georgia. Illi- nois, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana. Michigan. Massachusetts, Missouri. Minnesota, Nebraska. New York. Xew Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma. Pennsylvania. South Dakota. Tennes- see,^ Texas, Virginia, Washington. Nearly 1,200 new members were elected, wdiich represents the increase in membership during the past twelve months. The Colorado P)ranch guar- anteed ;{()0 new members if the meet- ing was to be held in Denver and they kept their promise by procuring 47:]. Charters were granted to fourteen new branches of the Association as follows: Indiana, Iowa, Georgia, Ken- tucky. Louisiana. Missouri, Michigan, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, South Da- kota, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Washington. The charters of the Midwest and Southwest branches w-ere revoked. This action w\as taken because of the various state members wishing to organize as state branches. Much discussion followed a motion to adopt the report of the Standard Revision Committee. Such action would have had the effect of dis- charging the committee and making it necessary to a])point a new one to assume the duty of correcting the er- rors and illu>trations in the present book and issuing a new edition. It was claimed by some of the members that under the Constitution and By- Laws a new committee w^ould not have authority to make any changes whatever in the Standard and this would mean that the present unsat- isfactory one would have to be used till li)!.'). Many were also of the opinion that the old committee should be given an opportunity to correct their work. The matter was settled by referring it back to the original committee with instructions to make all necessary corrections in text and illustrations and to have printed at once a new edition of 2."), 000 copies of the Standard. A motion was adopted wdiich i)rovided two plans for protecting the people who have ])urchase(l the pre.'-.ent incorrect book. One was to permit all owners of the Standard to return their old book with (>() cents to the secretary of the Association and a copy of the new book would then be mailed to them. The other plan was to issue a sup- plement containing all corrections and new pictures and send this to all who remitted 10 cents for it. The mo- tion was referred to the Revision Committee for action. A new revision committee was ap- pointed who will have charge of the I'.n.') revision of the Standard. The members are W. S. Russell. J. H. -Drevenstedt, A. C. Smith, Richard Oke, P. J. Marshall, E. C. Branch and \V. C. Pierce. The treasurer's report showed a balance m the treasury of $10,.521.05. Twenty thousand copies of the Stand- ard have been sold since the last re- vision. The president was instructed to ap- point a committee wdiose duty it shall be to ascertain wdiat the Association can do to aid in the movement for a parcels post and to use whatever ef- fort it can toward this end. The com- mittee will be selected later by Mr Hicks. The Committee on Express Rates and Abuses reported that much pre- liminary work had been done and that they had arranged for a hear- ing before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The committee was re- tained and instructed to vigorously continue its w^ork. All of the amendments to the Con- stitution and liy-Lavvs recommended by the Executive Board were adopt- ed. The P»oard also offered a num- ber of changes in the Association Show Rules and these will be acted upon at the next annual meeting af- ter being submitted to meml)ers by mail sixty days ])revious to the meet- ing. The following parties were giv^en Judges' license: General License, Lurrier. Case, Culley, Haskell, Kerr, Johnson, Otto, McClaskey, Wells, Smith. Whitney, i\app and Wales; Special Breed License, Messrs. Piatt and Stream. Invitations for the next annual meeting were received from Nash- ville, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit and Toledo. David L. Nichols, Shelton, Conn., was re-elected treasurer of the Asso- ciation. F. L. Kimmey was elected to the office of Election Commission- er, but immediately resigned. O. L. McCord, Danville, 111., was selected for the position. The Association authorized the publishing of a bulletin to be sent to all members and the poultry press. It is to contain news and information which wHll prove of interest to mem- bers and the general public. The bul- letin is to be issued in sheet form and will appear not oftener than quarter- ly. The entire matter is left to the judgment and action of the secre- tary. The ofticial jjroceedings of the :{(>th annual meeting are to be print- ed and mailed to all members within sixty days of the closing date of the meeting. A committee was appointed whose duty it shall be to devise ways and means to encourage the teaching of poultry culture in schools, farmers' institutes, etc. An ajipropriation of # • September, '11 $500 was made for the use of the committee and it is to be expended under the direction of the president. A motion was presented which pro- vided that a committee be appointed to prei)are and offer at the next an- nual meeting a Standard for market eggs and dressed poultry. The mo- tion was favorably received, but was referred to the Executive Board for action. The matter of issuing separate breed standards was discussed at length and a resolution, offered by Mr. A. C. Smith, was adopted as fol- lows : "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the President to prepare and publish a breed standard of all varieties of Plymonth Rocks, namely. Barred. White. P.uff. Colum- bian. Silver, Penciled and Partridge Plymouth Rocks. That this ])reed standard contain the (second edition 1!)10) Standard description of each of the above named varieties, and an outline drawing of male and female to be a reproduction of the best type of Plymonth Rock in the (second edi- tion P.»10) Standard, and reproduc- tions of the best feathers obtainable from each of the aforesaid varieties printed in colors, and other features that seem advisable to the committee. "That this committee, with the con- currence of the I'inance Committee, be empowered to engage an artist to do this work at a price subject to the approval of the Mnance Committee." It is impossible to report all of the important matters brought before the .Association because of the fact that the Executive Board assumes the duty of handling nearly all questions which, arise and the matters are dis- cussed and acted upon in the secret meetings of the committee. The re- i:)ort of the committee is then sub- mitted to the Association and adojn- ed, but the major portion of their de- liberations is omitted from the re- port and many (|uestions which would provoke lively interest and discussion never get before the members in open meeting. This practice was vigor- ously denounced and resulted in the offering of a motion that all meet- mgs of the Executive Board be onen to the members of the Association. POULTRY FANCIER- The majority of the Executive l>oard was opposed to the motion, and as many of the members of the Board liad proxy votes ranging in number from a half dozen to fiftv. the mo- Page 41 tion was lost when voted upon. The vote was 242 for and 252 against. 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Every Buckeye Standard Incubator bears The Insurance Underwriters' Label off Approval No other incubator has so many points of merit. Let us tell you all about Buckeye Incubators and why they are best. A postal card request will bring you our book, "Incubator Facts," and a copy of our five-year guarantee — also the name of our nearest dealer. Read the book and guarantee first — then go to your dealer and examine the incubators. That's all; you'll buy a Buckeye. Send your postal today. THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., 542 Euclid Ave., Springfield, Ohio \. "Anybody Can Hatch Chiokans With a Buckeya" On the Markat 21 Years Over 228,000 In Suceessful Operation J .JST 7-l^,*]l ^^ Page 42 Pertinent Paragraphs By EASTERNER There is a strcm.u' resemblance be- tween a boy with his lirst pair of pants, and a young breeder with his tirst order for stock. We have been both and speak from a pleasant expe- rience. '0. ^ Query; Is the honest farmer, who puts a layer of big apples on the top of a barrel to conceal the small fruit undersieath, a fakir, as well as the poultryman who removes a stub from the shank of a Wyandotte, or burns off the white tip of a black feather? The price of red flannel shirts ought to advance since a Massachusetts "hen-crank" has discovered that "there is a psychological something about the intluence of a red shirt on a hen's brain that makes her lay pro- digiously." If you wish to be patri- otic and make your patriotism pay, just keep white fowls in houses fur- nished with blue glass windows and wear a red shirt when attending them. Hooray for the red, white and blue. This beats "the old flag and an ap- propriation." By the way, how do you put "a red shirt on a hen's brain?" "Are table scraps good for fowls?" asked a beginner of the Learned Edi- tor. "Not for the ordinary fowls," was the reply, "but they may do for Pit Games, although if f were you, I wouldn't let the public know about it. Knowledge of such scraps is best kent concealed. The talde is a poor place for scraps anyway." >fe-: In poultry breeding, as well as in everything else, rules were made for man, not man for rules. They are ex- cellent guides but wretched masters. The man who cannot rise above a rule is a slave. The particular use to be made of a given object depends upon local conditions. In the West, it is said. rotten eggs are hurled at objection- al)le speakers, while in the refined F.ast such eggs are used by bakers in the production of delicious cakes for delicate ai)petites. ^ ^t Some men, not poultry men. lie eas- ily and even fiercelv, standing in an upright position. They don't need an easy bed, but an easy and elastic conscience to enable them to lie easil}-. Be a face card in the i)ack, don't be a pesky deuce or tray, which re- minds me of a story I recently heard. In slave davs a Southern gentleman was entertaining a guest and his old house-servant addressed the gi^est with a cheerv, "Mahnin' General." But T am not a general." said the guest. "Excuse me, Sah, Ah meant. Admiral." "I»ut I am not an admiral. I am a bishon." "Law sakes!" exclaimed the servant, "but T suah knowed vou was one of de face cabds in de ])ack, T suah did. Mahnin'. Bishop." When there appears in the various poultry ])ubHcations. at about the same time, an article in praise of some one breed or variety, the only POULTRY FANCI£I^ comment necessary is that some things are altogether too spontaneous. l'\)rced spontaneity, so to speak, savors of "malice aforethought," and in poultry matters indicates an at- tempted boom. 0, ^ He was a wise guy, the boy who named his sister May's fellow "April showers," because he brought May flowers. For training a cat around the poul- try yard, use a reliable shot gun, and train it on the cat just back of the front leg. Pull the trigger and the gun will do the rest. All fruit is improved in flavor by being fully ripe — except hen-fruit. Exhibitors are very patriotic — they fairly worship the red, white and blue. There are limitations to every one's ability. There are some things which even a skillful breeder cannot be ex- pected to do. He cannot, for instance, breed exhibition fowls from scrubs in a single generation. If one can't find the one best breed, let him make it. if he can. That's the way the best breeds come into exist- ence in these progressive davs. ^ . 5^ . Many a new variety is like a comet. coming unannounced and disappear- ing unregretted. What we love, we imitate. That's why, perhaps, so many poultry breed- ers are constantlv crowing. A poultry man has devised a coat of arms consisting of a bull dog and a postage stamp — both emblems being chosen because thc}^ will stick to their business. When a man has bred a certain variety for many years, and then adds a new one to his stock, don't think him fickle or changeable; he probably loves the old one as much as ever, but needs the dollars which he thinks the new variety will bring in. The reason why we condense so mucli poultry ])hilosophy in these short i)aragrai)hs has been well stated by the poet. Poi^e; "^^^)rds are like leaves, and where they most abound. >iuch fruit of sense beneath is rarel}' found." The suffragette who exclaimed, "1 want no favors, 1 ask only to be treat- ed like a man." seemed somewhat sur- prised, when she was invited to "Come right in, what'll you take?" If she had acce])te(l. would she have later on been obliged to say, as a friend of ours said, in reference to Southern hospitality. "I was never treated bet- ter in mv life, nor more fre(|uently"? Things are getting dull around here. We havn't heard of the production of a new variety of fowls during the last two days. Our feathered Burbanks would better wake up. We have read about lyre birds in the I^ast. but bird liars have a much wider geographical distribution. Like the political orator they know no East nor West, no North nor South, September, '11 but claim the whole wide world as their habitat. The doctor needs patients; the hen- man patience. 0 When you have a white cock, with plenty of brass on his back and shoulders, you might arlopt the ])hraseology of an old-time White Leghorn breeder and si)eak of it as "richness of coloring." \Mien peaceful argument is power- less to convince a breeder to exhibit, use a club on him, that is a specialty club of his favorite variety. We have always had a genuine re- spect for the man who "stands up to the rack, fodder or no fodder." For such, however, the "fodder" is sure to be forthcoming in the end. According to a New York dispatch. Max Epstein, of that city, jumped off the roof of a five-story tenement after he was dead. But what is there remarkable about that! Hasn't every- AMBOE'S Partridge "Wyandottes Layers and winners always. Clearing sale on now^. "We must make room for our 450 promising youngsters. "Write us a postal to- day for prices on this year's breeders, some show birds among them. Address A. K. AMBOE £? SON, Marinette, Wis. Poultry Owners! Stop throw^ing your feed to the Sparro-ws. Get rid of these Pests. Let us tell you how. Send 25 cents stamps or silver. BOX 217, OAK PARK, ILL. POULT/fY FENCE n STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF Bottom wires 1 inch apart. Will not sag or bag. Re- quires no boards — top or bottom — and fewer posts. Costs less than netting. W« payfreiRht. Send for Catalog. The Brown Fence & Wire Co. Dept. 94 Cleveland. Ohio. ^arh, $ I. .'><>. 8<>iid for fror booklet* *'In- rnbator Thprmometpr FarU Worth Knowlnir.** • • • t • body seen a hen after she has been killed, make marvelous leaps as she is flopping around with her head cut off! To say nothing of the hundreds of "dead" men we see every day in the community, going through the motions of doing business! But, then, will some one tell us just what life and death are, and just when death occurs? 0 0 "Why do you call that hen 'Mac- duff?'" "Because I want her to 'lay on.' " "Lay on what?" "An average, of course — about 250 would suit me." We fled, for fear we should be obliged to hear more. 0 0 How pleasant it is for the poultry man to receive an order for stock which he cannot lill! There is one thing pleasanter. and that is to receive an order which he can fdl. 0 0 As another has remarked the hen was the original advertiser — she first laid an egg then advertised the fact. What was a cackle with her has be- come a calculation with us, but we reverse the order for we advertise first so that we may lay by a snug egg to cheer our declining davs. But we have as yet few declining days, so far as orders are concerned; we usual- ly accept them. 0 0 It is not always a compliment to describe a person as "a very ])romis- ing young man." He may promise in an hour more than he will perform in a lifetime. ^0 0 Tt is something to know what you are talking about, but it is more if the other fellow, also, knows what you are talking about. A good advertisement of good stock in a good medium, means good busi- ness and evidences good judgment. 0 0 A man who puts no monev into his business can reasonably expect to draw no monev out of it. Experienced help is sometimes poor help — it seems impossible to teach them anvthing. 0 0 "Why is a hen a hen?" asks Sim- plicimus. Because she isn't a rooster. Which reminds us of that other fa- mous intpiiry, "WHien is a hen not a hen? " The answer to which is, "At night, because she is then a rooster." 0 0 For a hen which would shed her feathers there are more appropriate places than the wood-shed. 5^ ^ Now, then, speak up! Lets have a good word for the neglected 1)reeds, Many of them are beautiful, all oi them" are i)rotital)le to a greater or less degree, and yet few of them find their Homer to sing their i)raises. 0 0 Two of the most beautiful breeds in existence are the Hamburgs and Polish. Some real fanciers still breed them, and always will, for it would be akin to a crime to let such beauty perish from the earth. 0 0 In the older works on poultry there are references to a Black-Crested White Polish, but it has disanoeared as completely as "the lost tribes of Israel." For the breeder who will OULTRY FANCIER»% Your Profits Arb Sure If Yoit Follow Thksf, Simple Instruc- tions Laid Down In This Book. SEND ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearborn St., Chicago Page 44 POULTRY FANCIER NKivs or POULTRY SHOWS (& SPECIALTY CLUBS Notices sent to us by secretaries wifl be pub- lished in this department without charge September, '11 J regard to the work of this Club. The annual Club Show and MeetfuK- will be held at Hld, witli a neat gold fringe at the bottom. These spec-ial ril)bl('. Jicrt'tolorr n-iiiinlcil iiH incuraOle. Jbive tried it also with sat isfactopN rc- Buhs npal)y fhicks— "'/ucu/'uti/es" —which l)i(l fair to fidly recover. From A. G. Dustin, Rose Lawn Poultry Farm South Framingham, Mass. I ••nchise SI.OO for hottle of "Ornliim." T hroke my bottle ac«'iout hundlinK this for you t Raisins: ehickens, duck.s and turkeys will in the future be both a pleasure and profit. Oculum is the best tonic for all fowls, Larjre poultry plants arc buying Oculum in quantities to be Rfiven away with orders for ilay-old chicks to insure the raising: of them. The financier, poultryinan, fanner, mer- 99 chant, in fact, all who r;iise. buy or sell poultry, will be enormously benefitted by the use of Oculum. Oculum is a scientific remedy recom- mended by America's poultry leaders — U. R. Fisliel. P.iadley Pros.. A ( J. Duston. I<"oxliurst Farm. J. r. Fishel tSj Son. P. J. ArmstronRf. Mrs. Pllen J.icf)ue. ( )scar V.. Miles. J. Gaylord Blair, (ieo. A. Ruessler. N*. R. Revnolds. Lewis T. McLean. Huj^li Ross and himdreds cf others. Don't clinfif to tlie exploded theory that "nothing will CMrc. "but join the armv of nton^'y- mttkinfr poultry raisers, who. after demonstration, are marchiny to success witli tlie Oculutn banner wavin^r in the breezes. Join now. For sale in two sizes, 51.00 and 50c, by all profifressive dealers and druu'Rrists. If yours does not handle it. send us his name and address. (Jn receipt of price, Oculum will be mailed direct to you. Circular with ( Joverniuent dia>,mosis of Cholera and White Diarrhea free. Order now and help make poultry a f2, 000,000.000 industry. Sample with dropper, 10c. (7) Hancock Inoculatum Company, Inc., Box T, Salem, Va. • < f • • ciation lia.s purchased a .sufficient num- ber of patent steel cooi)s and its i)rospects for the third annual show, whicli will be held Nov. L'9th, .30th, Dec. 1st and 2nd., of llie present year, are very encoura^- ins. due largely to the efficient shows held 111 i.ievious years. Mr. A. P. Ingram, of West Chester, I'a., and B. W. Mosher, of .Johnstown, N. Y., have been secured as judges. Chas. D. Leinljach. of Wonielsdorf. Pa., as secretarv. Premium lists ready Nov. Lst. Fiftv silver cups and about .$l(io.(io in cash will be offered as si)ecials. NEW ORLEANS. LA. Never in the history of poultiy raisins' in the south has interest in breeding high grade, pure bred feathered stock been so gieat as at the present time. The reason for this increase in interest, it is evident, is the splendid exhibitions of poidtr.\ given at the various fairs and special sliovvs in practically all of the southern states during the past year or so. All through the south splendid shows are in ineparation for the coming fall. Atlanta, Memi)his, Knoxville. .lackson. Miss., Shreveport. La., New Orleans anci many other southern cities will all hold great shows, and in each of these cities, where shows have been held on previous years, a [rreatl>' increased entry is ex- pected. New Orleans especially, is notable for the increase of interest shown, as for several years previous to 1!)10 no sem- blance of an exhibit had been held. The fine S(i(i bird show held there on Decem- ber It; to ll>, 1910, was a comi)lete success in every way. in fact a quality show, and from present indications it is rei»orted that fully double the number of entries will be made for the coming show, which will be held on November 20th to Decem- ber 4th. This show is given by the I^ouisiana Poultry Flanders Association of which (Mcero A. Ramsey. :J41 Carondelet Street. New (Irleans, is secretary, and already incpniies in hundreds have been received by him, from all ])arts of the country, for catalogue antl premium list of the show, and entries totaling several hundred birds have been promised. Cat- alogue will be issued November 1st. The judges of this show will be .Messrs. Chas. V. Keeler. of Indiana, and F. .J. Mar- shall, of (leorgia. Twenty-five si'.ver cups, several liundred dollars in cash and nu- merous special prizes have been offered and the show is looked forward to by southern fanciers, as one of the bright- est spots on the horizon of the southern poultry world. EVANSVILLE, IND. The fancios of Fvansville, Indiana, and surrounding territory have organized an association with a membership of forty-three, known as the Ohio Valley Fanciers Association. The first show will l)e held at Evans- ville. Indiana. .lamiary S-i:;, ]:d2, and prizes will be offered for Poultry. Pigeons and Dogs. The following iuil.ges have been secured to place the rewards: O. L. Mct^ord. Danville, Ills., poultrv; K. J. Muir. Chicago. Ills., pigeons; \V. H. \Mn(lIe. Dayton, Ohio. dogs. For premi- um list and further information address, IL .1. Reimer, Secy., 113 Heinlein Ave.. Fvansville, Indiana THE MISSOURI STATE POULTRY SHOWS. State poultry shows will be held at four places in Missouri this year. They have held the last two shows in St. Louis and Kansas City, and they were said to be two of the best ever "held in the Fnited States. The state legisla- ture makes appropriation for Missouri shows, and the state shows will be held at the following places this vear: Sikeston. Nov. 21-24, 1911; Fulton, Dec. 5-S. 1911; Butler. Jan. 2-5, 1912; St. Jo- seph, Jan. 2:}-2t;. 1912. Liberal prizes and specials are offered and uniform coops will be furnished free at each i)Iace. There will also be lec- tures by piominent i)()idtrymen and a bancpiet will be spiead for all visitors. Russell, Hale, Branch, Finny, Southard. Thomi)son, McCIaskey. Blakemore. Woods and Miss Ferry will officiate as judges at 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 good WHITE WYAKOOTTES ffi^e/^ilnTs"- BERWYN POULTRY YARDS, ""-"""■ liveng prices. BOX P., BERWYN, ILL, i."l fc . n WjkfL MM 1 ^..i;ii,„i.»rtfj THE BROWN LEGHORNS fiatched from my eggs this season are already showing "the stuff from which they were made." It is a sight to make any poultryman's heart glad to see how my blue-blooded of the blue-blooded chicks thrive and grow. No white feathers or droopy chicks in my bunch. My Ever-Lay strain has established a record for prolificacy and fertility this season. Many clutches hatched every egg. My hens just wont stop laying now even when eggs are cheap and they never think about setting. H. V. Tormohlen, 1st Nat. Bank BIdg, Portland, Ind. 6 4 YE ARS I. K. Feleh & Sons Poultry Company HAVE BRED Light Brahmas, White Orpingtons, Barred Roclcs, White Plymouth Roclcs, White Wyandottes and jtidged 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 THHY NOT, when none but specimens to score 90 to 96 points find place in 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 15, Brahmas f3 50 to ^10 for females; $5 to |2() for males. White and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes, |2.50 to |8 for fe- males; |4 to 115 for males. Eggs from all, |4 for 15, $1 for 30, |9 for 45, and S15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 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 176, NATICK, MASS. . -V'^^rni?,^'*",'^ •^''•'''''^- ^'««^' treatment and a square deal is assured. mmr.n'*.'n''''V'".,'''^\ '''^'^ ^'>^'e you infor- mation about all shows. Make nrptiara •■nines «",ir ,"' ""f <"• "■"■-e ,r!hem: T. E. Quisenbeiry, Secy. Mountain Grove, Mo. NEW ALBAIW. KANSAS. The fanciers of AVilson Co. Kan havp orMamzed an association to e km/un a? the W ilson County I^ndtrv a.ul Pet Stock s?ve Air T^ a''*'!]!^' ^^^^•^"i»>er 4-:., Inclu- K:/n..iJ- 1 ,^- '^toner of Wichita, one of fv?"?ds Th'i'"-.^-0"^Parison meth- ods, this beins necessitated by the large number of entries expected. Avhi-h vvouhl Reason ''ofVT ^'^"'^ ^'^^'^^' i"n)ossibIe. by leason of the time retiuired to uronpi-lv- U'^c^h-fm'ei Y"^''-'^'--' ''-'l. 'eLarli!e^s'\?f wui 1 • ^''' •'' "'■'^^- i^^"" information Hs ]^,.^'y^" '" ^^^ complete prem um seci-et.rv f?," ^^'^ . ^l"'<*^'^ to write the res- ird n^ H ' "V '"f<>li"^ition you wish legarciinj? the show. Parties wishing •. -py of the premium list mailec U> Them \Mll please notify the secretary. L. M. Curson,' Sec. Ft. Smitli, Ark. SCHWENKSVILLE. PA. ,.,''^M^ .vf/r/''^' ^''^ ^^'""^'^ ^^'^«^^' '^re Dec 1. '--..., with Rummer and Fell as iudi,-es S. R. Crom. secretary, will gladlv send £ premium list to all applicants COLUMBUS. a IND. One of h«iH ^o I ^ ''®^t shows in Indiana is held each season at Columbus. The sixth annual show will be iield Jan. 8-13 It \Ml be judsc'd l)y score card. The work sA ,,'r '^T.^ }'y F'- ^- Sites and Z D The slfow."- ^- ^^""^^"'^ '^^ ^-ecretary of YOUNGSTOWN. O. nZ 11 i«®^ ?5 •''''. ^'^""^'«town show are Show- ,,f Vu •* '-^ ^^vn as the 'Quality Sho\x of Ohio and has well earned the leputation. ()hi.» exhibitors c^annot af- ford to OA-erlook it. Premium list niav Lo.?^*'""^'^ '•^' writing to J. L. SimontoH. ^ec I eiai \ . LOGANSPORT, IND. The fourth annual show of the Loirans- port FancMers' Club will be held Jan. 16- -0. J. W. Mullinix. judKe. Wm. Grace, secretary. Indiana fanciers should ar- range to show theii- birds at La Fayette ELMORE, OHIO. One of the tjood Ohio shows for this season is tlie KImore show, which will be held Jan. !>-»;. .1. k. Kault will 9 to Jan. L\ W. F. Stantield. judge. "*The members are hustling for a good show and there is every indication of success. For information, write to Jno. A. Hartge- rink. Secretary. \ Page 46 POULTRY FANCIER f..'«g.'^.x '- -^> TV?J^,^- !^7-V'T^ September, ii-ji. Answers to Readers are invited to use this department editor for any information desired. There ii Question.— One morning- alnnit 0 a. m. found one of my liens dead on dropinng board- at ^'2 m found '>ne in nest in same condit'ion, and l)efore night two more. In davs lost L'S; all died in the same natural till blood that the symptoms of diai-rlr»t'a due in part to the cabbage. may be ten wav, rombs appearing , ^ stops fireulating. I watch dropping board continuallN for some sign ot disease but can detect nothing. I had about 150 hens all winter in a new house llixTr»xr> ft. in rear, 7 front; front has Mi windows 14x:io ,r]ass -1 liglUs to each window, with mus- lin -hs'.V between windows. The hens have' used 2 loads of stiaw as litter since Dec 1st, all grain, wheat and corn being thrown into it. For about three w'eeks before hens l>egaii to die I had been feed- ing mash, consisting of about 4 s. ],ut svmptoms are exactly same. The hens lost are White Leghorns. Since T wrote this morning •_» more hens bave died and I opened both They were caused bv fat. could hardly get without ])reaking. The out which can I isn't give them Answer the birds are the sole cause horns are not apt and, even if they did apt to cause so great time, it seems e hich foi- and l)e so full, gizlanrw^.s' grown' fast'ti. body all around S^N the fat. The liver in l>otli was near X twice its normal size; (.ne looked health> and all right, the other a bh.ish f'aV' t;*; onlv one found in all that did not look all rigid In both was a nest of eggs. 1 have put them on a small bran diet again and what forage they can get, much on a city 1 >t. What to reduce the fat? —There is one thing evident, too fat, and that may be of the loss. Yet. as T.eg- to get so fat as these, as fatness is not a loss in so sliort a ■ntirely possible that the fowls mav have eaten something \y poisoned them.— some poison placed rats or rats which had eaten poison afterwards were eaten by the fowls. To reduce their fat the bii-ds slioidd fed scantily— giving thein about half ra- tions—upon non-fattening food. Oats are excellent for this j.urpo.se. The fowls should have plenty <.f water and full ac- cess to irrit. Onlv dry grain and little ot it should be given. Kxcessive fatness mav cause livei- disease and avvorilexy, as well as derangement of the heart. From the full description given there seems lit- tle indications of liver disease, but heart disease and apoplexy mav have been the Immediate cause of the deaths. Question.— I have a pick hen. received from England last week. T'pon her ar- rival she aj)i)eared well and liveVv but she seems to have taken a cold. She sits around with loose feathers, picks a little at her" food, but doesn't seem to get much in her crop, which remains soft and flabby. She seems to have a kind of white diarrlioea, passing but little solid matter but principally thin watery drip- l.ings of a white and green '^ olor. Her passages are (luite fre«iuent. I bave been feeding whole corn at night, but during the da,\' a mixed feed containing different kinds or grain; also a little cabbage. All food is warmed before feeding. Answer. — Change of climate is apt to upset man. beast or bird. Horses taken from ->ne part of the Fnited States to an(»ther almost invariably have a form of distemper. Change of food, evtm without change of climate, sometimes ui)sets tlie digestive organs. AVIule it is impossible to say without examining the bird .iust what the trouble is, the symtoms seem to indicate that the change from l<]ngland to this country, with change of food, has upset the bird. A good dose of castor oil, followed by light feeding of ground grain, will probably in a few days set the bird right. If tlie symptoms of cold are marketl a "J-grain (piinine pill once a day will l)e helpful. This will tend also to re- store her appetite. Put a little suljihate of iron, enough to slightl\- discolor the water, into her drink. Keep grit and shells before her to pick at as she desires. Don't overfeed her, l)Ut let her have only what is necessary, and gradually get her on to the diet with which she will here- after be fed. The cabbage should be taken away at first. Cabbage is good for hens accustomed to it, but it is possil)le Question. — I am enclosing a feather from the tail of what I bougiit to be a good cock bird. Wlien I bought him lie was in the moult, and by all appearance is yet. His tail »loes not seem to grow a biti and seems to me there is something wrong. The tail feathers are all like the sample and his fluff and under feathers all seem more or less ruffled ui) and have not tlie smooth ai)pearance they should have. Now I bought the bird last Sep- tember and he had the same appearance then. Is there anything I can do to get him in sliape? I also have a case of vent gleet though the fowl seems about well again, but 1 have been afraid to put her back in the pen with the rest for fear of spread- ing the disease Is there any danger of that? What is the cause of it? The pullet that lias it lays right along. Answer. — Twisted feathers are of more or less frequent occurrence. Pulling them out sometimes remedies the objecticm and sometimes it doesn't. The twist seems at times to get into the feather-producing gland, and there is tlien no remedy. All that one can do is to pull the feathers, and if they come straight, well and good, and if they don't, well and bear it. The cause of vent gleet is not definitely known, but is probably due to some bad humor in the ])lood, ])ossil)ly induced through long and injudicious inbreeding. The inl)reeding is i.robably not the cause but the occasion for the development of the trouble. In some cases the disease assumes a cancerous character and when it does this, and doesn't yield in treat- ment, it is a wise policy to destroy and burn or bury the afflicted fowl. It is con- tagious. White Indian Games H. S. BABCOCK, 77 Summit St., EGGS $3 per doz. East Providence, R. I. ^ Hildorfer's BLACK MINORCAS You can get in the lead and stay there if you will put some of our high quality stock into your yards or set some eggs from our pens of grand prize winning birds. They are great big black fellows true to the new Standard type. We have defeated strongest competition at the large National shows, including Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Pliiladelptiia, Hagerstown, Chicago, Johnstown, Madison Square Garden, New York, -World's Fair, Cincinnati and Boston. Write for prices on stock and eggs. We can send you just what you want and the prices are right. LHildorfer's Black Minorca Farm, Jos. P. Hiidorfer, Prop. Saxonburg, Butler, Co., Pa. | THE BEST BOOK ON SUCCESS WITH POULTRY IS 999 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS By FRANK HECK THE author claims and proves that this book contains information upon a greater variety of subjects than any book on poultry evet written. It has also drawn out more unsolicited te.stimonials from authorities and experts. Whv worry and wonder and grope ni thedark> Why learn by expensive experience and disa^v pointment when everything is offered vou at so small a price? The knowledge gained by yeara of experience is contained in this book. The methods and secrets of the foremost successful breeders and exhibitors in the show room are given in full. Thousands of Copies Have Been Sold and Every Purchaser a Pleased One It contains 12« pages, is handsomely bound, printed on good paper with fine large type eaiy to read. Price 50 Cents per Copy Or the book and Poultry Fancier one year for 65 cents. Address orders to Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearborn St., Chicago. 111. • • • • • 7)^v-rAr^.-:r--^'_^.'Vff-T.;v'ijy>?;:na: iC!iEiEZ^I>POULTRY FANCIER *■";v-^..v,l.'■■^7-v^^>^^.l^f^ Page 47 CLASSIFIED 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 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 1 0 per cent given on ads running for 1 2 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. Pouhry 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. EGGS. BREEDING STOCK, BARRED AND White Plymouth Rocks, S. C. White Leg- horns, Buff and Diamond Jubilee Orpingtons. A thousand breeders, great layers. Circular free. Milton A. Brown, Route 3, Attleboro, Mass. . . 42 FOR SALE— EGGS FROM PENS SCORING 91 to 95. White and Buff Orpingtons, R. C. White and Black Minorcas, R. C. Reds and Buff Rocks. Send for circular. Geo. Leas- ure, 305 Ilamline Ave., Zanesville, O. 33 ANCONAS AND HOUDANS. EGGS FROM winners $1.50 for 15. C. C. Freese, La Porte, Ind. 33 EGGS FOii HATCHING. S. C. WHITE I..eghorns $1 and $2 per 15, $5 per hundred; Buff Wyandottes, $2; Buff Cochin Bantams, $1 for 12; White Pekin Ducks, $1 for 12. Dr. Logue, 243 Pine St., Williamsport, Pa. 33 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. Eggs, best pens, 15 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 RINGLET BARRED ROCKS DIRECT FROM Thompson's best matings. Eggs $1.50, $2.50 and $5 per la. Fertility guaranteed. Also Pekin duck eggs from our Illinois State Fair and Decatur show winners. $2 per 12 or $3.75 per 25. Maple Grove Farm, R. 9, Decatur. 111. 33 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. BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS. BUFF ROCKS— BRED TO WIN AND LAY. 1st hen, 1st pullet and 2nd cockerel at Janes- ville. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. Stock for sale. August Kramer, Supt. Hoard's Farm, Ft. .Atkinson, Wis. 24 WHITE WYANDOTTES. GIM LIN'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. HAVE exhibited and won leading poultry shows in 1909, including Illinois State Show 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- Un. Taylorville, 111. 9-10-12 PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES. l'ARTRl]3GE WYANDOTTES— JiLlJE RIB- bon winner Chicago 1910. and three other large shows in past winter. Eggs reason- able. Send for 1911 mating list. Few good cockerels left. G. S, Culver, Sandwich. 111. 33 COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES. GET SOAl K (}()i»l) C( )1J"MHI.\.N WYAN- dottos. Buy the Royal strain and you will not be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest compttition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will, please you. Eggs for sale from my best pin, including many prize winners, $3 per 15. Jacob Heck. Station 23, Detroit, Mich. 121012 GET SOME GOOD COLUMBIAN WYAN- dottes. Buy the Royal strain and you will not be disappointed. My birds are line bred for generations. They always win in hottest competition and they will breed winners for you. You can't afford to pass this ad with- out writing me. I can, and will please you. .lacob Heck, Station 23, Detroit, Mich. 121012 ORPINGTONS. 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 QUALITY HILL HATCHERY & BREEDING Co. offers the best baby chicks and eggs from the best noted strains of Buff, Black and White Orpingtons. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Prices ten to fifteen cents each. Write for prices. W. J. Seavolt, Mgr.. Attica, O. 34 RHODE ISLAND REDS. ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS — Pen (1) male scoring 9314, by F. H. Shellabarger; eight pullets scoring 89^ to 92V4. Eggs. $3. Pen (2), eggs, $1.50. Ralph A. Maquoketa, la. Hicks, 44 KING'S QUALITY R. C. RHODE ISLAND Reds. Eggs $2 and $5 per 15. Heavy lay- ing strain. Good shape and color. Satis- faction guaranteed. Orders given prompt and careful attention. E. J. King. Pine Grove. W. Va. 52 SINGLE COMB REDS— BEST PEN HEADED bv a winner. Eggs. $2.50 per 15. If inter- ested in good Reds it will pay you to write. W. F. Close, Fort Wayne, Ind. 44 BRAHMAS. iJGlIT TUtAHiMAS. STOCK AND EG(JS. Prize winnt'rs wherever shown. Catalogue free. Correspondence solicited. Chas. Hunt, (Marksvillo. Ta. 53 FOli SALE— LIGHT BKAIIM.V EGGS AND stock. No better the blue wherever Corn Belt strain, buying. Chandlf.r T>os Angeles. Cal. this side of Boston; win shown. Beulah Hill and See our yards before & Son, 220 N. Ave. 23, 35 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. 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 9i%, females 96 1^. 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 1914. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis. Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton. Wi.s. 11-9-12 SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. E. Olf{ SHOW RECORD THE LAST FEW years places our Silver Wyandottes in the ^ front rank. No better laying strain to be found anywhere. Eggs $2.50, $3.50 and $5 T.pr if; ^v a. Marner M. D.. Miles. Ta. 33 S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN 1909 at Springfield 1st cock, 1st hen, 1st and 3d cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, 1st pullet, 3 entries, 1910. At the Grand Central Palace, 4th cock, 5th hen, 2d cockerel, 4th pullet, 6 entries. At Madison Square 4th hen, 6th pullet, 5 entries. 15 eggs for $3; 30 for $5. W. .1. Blake, Burnside, Conn. 21112 R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. EGGS P^ROM CHICAGO AND KANSAS City winners, R. C. White Leghorns. Bred to lay and win. Winning at Illinois State Show, 1911, 1st and 2d hen, 1st and 2d pullet; best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet. None better, so send me vour order for eggs. $2 per 15 or $3.50 per 30. Circular free. J. J. Peters, Lily White Poultry Yards, Lincoln, 111. 43 S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS. 25 INVINCIBLE S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS at $2 up. Write for descriptions and sam- ple feathers. Your chance to get winners at "make-room" prices. Be quick. Harry T. Trainer, Carpenter, O. 11-10-12 ANCONAS. ANCONA EGGS $1.50 PER 15. MATING list and show winnings free. John Meyer, Oconto Falls, Wis. 43 BLACK MINORCAS. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. EGGS FROM 4 pens; selected trapnested hens; large black beauties. Standard bred; heavy egg pro- duction combined with quality that brings home the blue. Send for mating list be- fore ordering elsewhere. Richard Oetzel. New Richmond. Ohio. 33 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, 1128 Palmer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 126 HILLHURST GIANT YOUNGSTERS, THREE months old, $1 each. Mated pairs, $:>. Will rais.^ iquabs weighing 10 to 18 pounds per rio^en. liiuairama cmtiiuB, Xi ^^», Pi^r^wi Dept.. a. 18, Crch«jrd Park ;,', T. t^ 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 r 1 X II !•: .\ D O ATS— Tli E G RE AT CH ICK starter, $2.75 per 100 lbs. Write for Feed Price List. ,T. G. Hermann & Co., Indian- apolis. Tnil. _ 35 Foit S.\LE— .{tMi EX Ml 1'. ITK ).\' C()(H'S FOR pnultry. complete with lioUoms and horses, with wooden rod fronts, for sale at a very low i)iice, p.s we must vacate oui- store room. Wisconsin Feathered Stock .\ssn., Albert T. Keipijcr. Secy., HOl First St.. Milwaukee. Wis. ^ 12 PRINTING. PRINTING — POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, card^ tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500, fl.2^ postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en- gravings. Beautiful samples for stamp. Model Printing Co., Manchester. la. 10-S FARMS FOR SALE. FARMS FOR RENT OH SALE ON CROP payments. J. Mulhall, Sioux City, la. 15 POULTRY FANCIER* i^fi(ei/fy*sBmaittieif^e^aa^^<^^. September, '11 Ads will be inserted in this department under the followinK 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. $10 per year. Payment strictly in advance. No exceptions to this rule, made exceptionally low on this account. The cost is The price is T^ct ORPINGTONS 1 0 males and 20 females in trios or singles for breeding, $3 up. Eggs $1.50 £? $3 for 15. from birds scoring 90 to 95. W. L. YATES - Butler, Ind. \^ATSONS R. C. B. MINORCAS Are winners among the world's best. Catalog free. Norman H. W^atson, R 6, Mystic, la. KELLERSTRASS and COOK Strain of S. C. White Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt, Washington, low^a. BED ROCK STRAIN OF S. C. W. LEGHORNS Are noted for their good laying, large size, pure white and show winning qualities. Send for cir- cular with price on stock and list of show winnings its free. We have no other breed. C C Foster, Prop , R_lj Box JO, Quincy, Mich. ROSE COMB REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppifjs for sale. Lincroft Kennds and l^oultry Farm Box 58 _ „: : Shreioshury. N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry G :ese. Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons, Pheasants. Pea-Fow^ls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies. Stock £f Eggs cheap. New 60 page cat. 4 cts. r. J. Damann. Farminnlon, Minn. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Can send you ckks that will hatch winners GET OUR PRICES E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape, size arid 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. Minorcat Club, Dover, N. J. Kissinger's S.C.R.I. Reds CcJyZc Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central West. Write for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club, Iowa Branch. U. S. C R. L Club. JOHN KISSINGER ORCENFIEin^ IOWA Champion Barred Rocks Winners of the North American Cup for best pen of birds in the Show. 51 pens competinn, Philadelphia, Igio. Fine show stock and breeders for sale. Top Notch Farms. Box 12, Water Mill,N.Y. JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winaers for years al Americas leading shows Three grand matings, that are sure to produce ^vinner» for any competition. Eggs $3 and $5 per 15. Free Mating List. D. F. Jones, R. 3. Box 1 1 . Maryville, Na. i COLUMBIAN PLYMOLTH ROCKS. Prizewinnini? stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. White Leghorns bred from Jeading: strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for mating list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK. N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston. Chicago, Buffalo and Pittsburg in last two years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 1 5. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA All Leading Varieties ;;l,[^^flc:ii; Write me what you want. Have some fine surplus stock. EgrgfS of all varieties strongly fertile J2 per 15, Incubator Eggs S8 per 100. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, fjualitv the best, satisfaction guar. " " BRADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy, Pa. K. d. K. i. REDS First prize w^inners at Des Moines and CeHar Rapids 7 PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list L. Sherman Kline |S,^^;:^^8^A WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my ■^vinners. at reduced prices. One choice pen at .t bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS, Poultry J .dge Box F. 215. Le Grand, Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are w^inners. heavy layers, quick growers. Get started w^ith Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzger, North Manchester, Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R, Clinton Falls, Minn. F. W. Van Sant ■»-- "-sSs. • Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. Columbian Wyandotte Sale A few well marked, early hatched cockerels at $3 to S5 each Direct from N. Y. State Fair first pri/.e winners. Must have the room, firs.t come first choice H. W. POLGREEN, ALBANY, N. Y. W. ALWAYS WIN Write for mating: list. It is free D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. Ml GORDON'S ORPINGION YARD! In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and Ow^en Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they will produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3. $5 and $10 per 15. W^ill be pleased to write you about my stock. FAIRFIELD POULTRY FARM Thos. Peer. Prop., Caldw^ell. N. J. Will sell some of my breeders in Silver Duckwings and S. C. Burt Leghorns. Must have the room for young stock. Any one in need of good breeders for another season will do well to write me before pur- chasing elsewherr. r>ricfs right considering stock. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas. Cochins, Langshans. Wyandottes, Dorkings, Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Co., Pa. ^ WHITE PLY. ROCKS Eggs from my best birds SLOO per 13. f$.00 per 100, to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today. Blue JRibbon Poultry Yards, Dept. A, ^ Fcind du Lac, "Wjs_. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading: Minn, shows. Great layers. Eggs from pens $1.50 & $2 per 15. Utility Ejrirs $1 ix^r 15. $5 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON, St. Charles. Minn. C> U 1» 1 N (i T O N' S S.C. Buff & Black CHAMPION Blood Breeders, mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my H live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. I ulfrell. Roufe f., Waverlj , III. "None better East or W^est." Every bird in yards a show bird. Of entire crop of birds last year, only two scored below^ 90. Most score much better, up to 95!/2. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs tf stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T. Edson : ; Schaller. Iowa MY S. C. btJhf LtGnUKNS Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for ^ eggs for 13 years and shown for 1st time N.Y. J State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and J have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th , hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders bookei forjeggs and^atisfacfion guaranteed. J E^ C. CII-BER1 • • t # # THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Eggs at $1.00 per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bargains. S. D. ECKLER, - Ashtabula. Ohio. ^DS. Have w^on more prizes over all competitors in the largest show^s in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden & Son, Manchester. Tenn. RHODE ISLAND REDS ^'4f- DON'T OVERLOOK THIS. other people would read your ad if it were here, just the same aa 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. > •^^^^•s^N^^^^^' S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively, Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Show, 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers, Gordon Ave., Peoria, 111. BEST FARM GROWN FOWLS White Rock Cockerels Jl.OO and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. S3.50 and up; Hens S3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas, the farmers "watch dog" at $1.25 each. Circular free. J. C. Baker. Rt. 1, Plainvllle, 111. IDEAL POULTRY YARDS Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few^ choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, 111, Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- mouth Rock. Large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great layers. Winneri at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHELMINA POULTRY FARM E._L^ Geisel, Prop. Morganville, N. J. 'Winners of 3rd pen at National Red Sho'w. Topeka, Kan., Jan., 1911, best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different sho^vs. Eggs $5, $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize grinning Columbian Wyandotte Eggs $2 per 15. Mating li.st of both breeds free. A. D, Willian\StBo_x_58 Minneola. Kan. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks «; < ni tccct i 'c aatuixi? d apitq Eggs from my winners at Philadelohia. Pa., 'i S KUoOE/L/L* O YV 111 i Ej IvI/VjIVO Eggs from my 'winners at Philadelphia, Pa., Columbus, Akron, Canton, Wooster and Youngsto'wn. O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER, Orrville. O., Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Metnber Buff Plymouth Rock Club. How to Breed and Judge Them By THEQ. HEWES Is the Best and Only Complete Treatise Ever Published on this Great Variety • There is no breed so widely advertised to-dav as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide ditference of opinion as to what constitutes perfe<5lion. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because ft goes into detail and describes every sec- tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defective shape and color, thus making scoring so simple that anyone can understand. Some sections have four or five illustrations showing the several defects that may be found in them, with the prop- er discount for the same as applied by our leading judges. W^inners at Madison Square. Philadelphia and all the large shows. Bred to lay as •well as w^in. Write for circular. A. L. Russell, Box 1 20, W^ashington, N. J. Are among the best in the United States. They have the quality, vigor, size and markings. They will win anywhere. They arc the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Eggs from exhibition matings, S^.oo per 1$. From utility stock, $r.$o per 1$. Write for circular. GEO. WARNER, Bushnell, 111. Rose and S. C. R. I. Reds Eight pens properly mated for egg trade. Every pen headed by prize w^inner. Send for mating list. Few^ choice cockerels yet for sale with score cards. Breeders for sale after June 15. Fred W^. Oertel, Box F. Brighton, 111. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred So",*;,' Rhode Island REDS Bred for vigror, size, shape, color. Prize winners. Great layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS Weat Main Street EVANSTON, ILL. Fine breeders and very choice young stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD. LA MOILLE. ILL. ROSK COMB UKDS Do you w^ant to w^in at next fall shows? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize w^inners. My Reds are red, free from smut. Eggs $1.50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 1 5 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE. Preston^ Minn, BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W. H. SHAW Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize grinning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS, Loami, III. WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICE now for all Eggs. Get eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens, "Polly" which was chosen over 1st Madison Square Pullet of igog-io, from 1st and id Providence, 1st Frankfort, Ist Knoxville, 1st Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain to make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards, Geo. L. Wolfe, Prop., Rogersville, Tenn. Double ProflU^^ ProjfresBlv© poultrymen know that ordinary poul- try brings 10c. to Ibc. on the market, while Capons readily sell for 20c. to 30c. a pound, and often hijrher. Caponxarei easy to raise and bring double price- double profits. PILLING CAPON TOOLS V are "easy to use." A "Pilling" Capon Set with 'complete guide and instructions sent postpaid for 82.50. H«n)klpt.'-()ulde for Caponizlng" free. G.P. PILUNG & SON CO., 23d& ArchSb..Phibdelpki«.Pa. Big Bargains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50, $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you want eggs ask how to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin &f Son, Fairmont, Minn. SUNSET REDS singic"comb Show quality, line bred and with a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class show birds. J. OUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON. OHIO (SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT J ^v HEN-E-TA J0UTv30% PURE BONE ASH 'ii nootheR I noother , V% BONE NEEDED | GRIT NEEDED VoMORE BOHECUTTEfS NEEDCD )NONOBEfi£d^SCRAPS NEEDED' NOMORE CHARCOAL REEDED KOMOREOYSIEBfiBEUJSNEEIED^ ^__ tOOKLCT 800 lbs • • 9.00 Balance} Ration Formulas Free If you will give tis your dealers name and address. HEN-B-TA BONE CO. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains over 50 pages, including cover, >«rhich is printed in three colors, and all on good half- tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti* cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select yout show^ birds; in fact, it tells you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. Tlie price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis* fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub* scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $ 1 .2% DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co. 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111. POULTRY rANCIER**^^^^^^ SPKCIAL 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. F. W. Van Sant ""--' 't^,^,. Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Sinjile C«nTib Brown Let?horns, Stock and e^tis t<»r sale. Send tor circular. .'S4()2 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. »«■ Columbian Wyandotte Sale \ A lew wi'll marked, early iKitctxil cockcrcU at S3 \ to S5 each Direct from N . '\ . Stutc Fair Hrst prize C wiiimrs. Must li;i\i' the room, tir.i inmc Hrst choice > H. W . POLCRFI.N, ALBANY, N. Y. > BLACK 10 males and 20 females in trios or singles tor breeding. $3 up. Eggs $1.50 £?" $3 for 15. from birds scoring 90 to 95. \/v. L. YATES - Butler, Ind. ( \^ATSON'S R. C. B. MINORCAS Are winners among the world's best. Catalog tree. Norman H. Watscjn. R 6, Mystic. la. Strain of S. C. White Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 15 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. >ValJschmidt, "Washington, lo^va. BED ROCK S TRAIN OF S. C. W. LEGHORNS Are noted for their uood laying, larye si/.e. pure white and show winning; qualities. Send for cir- cular with price on stock and list of show u innings ii» trif. We have no other breed. , Hox ?o. (iiiincy. Mich. ROSE €01^18 REDS 5 pens of selected birds from to years of care- ful mating. Extra laving strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremac>'. Puppies for sale. Lincroft K'enne s and /-otWfry Farm Bt)\ 5H S'lreu'shurv. _N. J._ 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry G.'ese, Ducks, Turkeys. Gumeas, Pigeons, Pheasants, Pea- Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubat<»r>. Brooders and Poultry Supplies. Stock Lf Eggs cheap. Ncnv toO page cat. 4 cis. F. J. Damdnn. Parminalon. Minn. LINL BRLI) I OR 20 YLARS (iaii send voii ckks that will hatch winners (;i: I oi R pric:ks E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS' S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape size atid color, bred from the best blood obtainable and winners at the- leading shows Write for prices and full ]»articulars. THOS. H. PHILLIPS State Vice President. S. C. B. Minorcas Club, Dover. N. J. BUFF ROCK SALE Cockerels $2 to $5 each, pullets $1.50 to »3 each. Bred from Philadelphia. Allentown fc? Scranton winners. Satisfaction guaranteed, Chas. J. Kremer. Souderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R. 1. Reds vVy Le Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central West. ^X/ritc for mating list Lde member American Poultry Asst»eiation, American R. I. Red Club, Iowa Branch. U S C R. \. Club. JOHN hlSSINOfH (iRffNflFIO. lOW/V Champion Barred Rocks WininTS of the North American Cvip for tx-st prn of tiirils in the Show, $l pens comprtiiii:, J'hikulelphia. Kjio. Fine show stock and breeders for sale. Top Notch Farms. Box 12, Water Mill, N.Y. JONES S. C. BUI F LEGHORNS Winners for years al Amerieas leading shows Three grand matings, that are sure to produce winners for any competition. Eggs $3 and .' $5 per 15, Free Mating List, f D. f . Jones, R. 3. Box I I.Maryville, Mo. ■ COLIMBIAN PLYMOITH ROCKS. I'ri/c winning' stock bred tc t'l'titnrni to tlio new Standard. Several line cockerels for sale. 1 also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. While Leghorns !)red from U-adinj,'' strains witlienviahk' show n-t'ord of their own. Send for Tiiatin^ list. G. W. Garlock, Box 5, Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak. Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS K(;(;s OAK LA\^N FARM NY.^CK. NY. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden. Bost(»n. Chicago. Buffalo and Pittshurg in last two yeors. Wd! ship eggs irom Fehruary 20 r>er 1 5 . a: $5.00 pt Ml NRV lUNNITT IIROWN. \V. VA All Leading Varieties .vate;;!,;;:' D /^ D I First prize winners at Des I\. \J, I\. 1. Moines and Cedar Rapids D F"n^ 7 PENS MATED FOR THE IVJZiJ^O EGG TRADE Send for mating list L. Sherman Kline ^^i%T^?,^A WHITE ORPINGTONS •KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected hreeders, including mv winners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at :\ h.T-gain. Gl.EN F. RICHARDS, Poultry f idire Box F. Zl.'S. I.e Grand. Iowa NOFTZGERS PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 3 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago ;ind Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are >vinners. heavy layers, quick growers. Get started with Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzger. North Manchester. Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhihition quality. 150 of this years hreeders for sale at a hargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R, Clinton Falls, Minn. I'ullels layiiiK' :<( I months and 20 days. Broilers 1 'j Ihs. at lO weeks. Records 2t)5 to 29o eggs per hen. Show^ quality, 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice ct»ckerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs ri .50 tor K . *? tor ^o, -4 for 4?. f'l tnr lou, f so for looo A.M.SIMI.M W & SON. Box 7.S. Rool^^(.\vn. () SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans. Wyandottes, Dorkings, Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. .1. F. Monro, Prop., Sytvania. Brad. Co., Pa. ^ \^HITE PLY. ROCKS KuKS from my best birds 51.00 per I'.i. if?. 00 per 100. 10 i;«'t you started. These bird'- have won the past live years and arc h»-tttT than ever. Bett«'r write \ our want'- tOil;i\ Blue Rihhon Poultry Yards, Depr. A. Fond du Lac, Wis. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for ni-.itiim list. It is free W . 1). M \K I, - ASIII.AM), MO. S. C. & R. C. REDS I'irst and second prize winners at leading Minn, shows. (Jreat layers. Kuu* from pons$I..SO& $2 per LS I tilitv F.vri's 81 per I.S. S.*? per l(K). Satisfaction i iriiaranteed. C.I). SMrpil & SON. St. Charles. Minn FAIRFlfcLD POULTRY FAR^4 Thos. Peer, Prop., Caldwell. N. J. Will sell sdinc ot my breeder"- in Silver Duckwiriiis .i^d S. C F^iirf l.e^horns. Must hav«" thr roorn tur S'Miti;; stock. Anyone in ruM-d of ^jood brteders for :in()ther Season will do w«dl to write me before pur idn'i'ic clscwhrr' . ''rices riijht cori'-idi'ring ■.tuck MY S». i:. bUhh LtOnOKN!* Are the hest egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 1.3 years and shown for 1st time N.W State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have won where ever shown. 1st and 4th hen. 4th cijck Buffalo 1911. Orders hooked for eggs and satisfai'^'on guaranteed. ~ '!'- :: TIILLY. S.C.Buif& Black CHAMPION Blood Breeders, mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. lulfrpll. Route I,. Waverh. III. I • ORPINGTONS \ KELLERSTRASS and COOK < { Collins S. C. White LK(;hORNS i A ^^ lllVJAV^ k^/ S g^^^.^ ^j g_ Q_ White Orpingtons. A few ? < I'ullels layinK' :i« » months and 20 days. Broilers < ^P \ # THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Eggs at Si. 00 per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bargains. S. D. ECKLER. - Ashtabula, Ohio. < DON'T OVERLOOK THIS \ other people would read your ad if it were C here, just the same as you are reading this V one. See the rates and conditions at the head V of this department and send in an ad. It will ' bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER, 357 Dearborn Street, « Chicago. III. BEST FARIVI GROWN FOWLS White Rock Cockerels SLOG and up; W, Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. $3.50 and up; Hens $3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas, the farmers "watch dog:" at $L25 each. Oirculd,r free J. C. Baker. Rt. 1. Plainville. 111. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks Eggs from my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus, Akron. Canton, 'Wooster and Yountfstow^n, O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER. Orrville, O., Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. ^VjK R>S ON AS Are among the best in the United States. They have the quality, vigor, size and maritings. They will win anywhere. They arc the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Eggs from exhibition matings, S^oo per 15. From utility stock, Sr.jo per I5. Write for circular. GEO. ^WARNER, Bushnell, III. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred ?'"«lf Rhode Island REDS Prize Bred for vig-or. size, shape, color, winners, (ireat layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON, ILL. ROSK CCXMH Ui:i)S Do you want to win at next fall shows? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize w^inners. My Reds are red. free from smut. Eggs $1.50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 1 5 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE, Preston, Minn BARRED PLY. ROCKS i; SHAW j; CANTON, ILL. W. H. SHAW Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize w^inning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS, Loami. III. Bijj Bargains, Almost Giviiij; Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y., Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridgeat $7.50, $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you want eggs ask how to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin t? Son. Fairmont, Minn. SUNSET REDS l"„':,rL^^ Show quality, line bred and with a farnily history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings. sure to produce high class snow birds, J. OUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON, OHIO .ANSDE.N S. C. REDS. Have won more prizes over all competitors in the largest shows in the South including the Jamestow^n Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $ 1 0. Tw^o sets $15, H. B. Lansden £f Son, Manchester, Tenn. RHODE ISLAND REDS ^ ■» S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively, W^on 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Show^, 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Filers, Gordon Ave.. Peoria. Ill, IDEAL POULTRY YARDS Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R, 1, McConnell, III, W^inners of 3rd pen at National Red Show, Topeka, Kan,. Jan., 1911, best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different shows. Eggs $5, $3 and $1 per 15, Also prize w^inning Columbian W^yandotte Eggs $2 per 1 5. Mating list of both breeds free, A. D. W^illiams. Box 58 Minneola, Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS Winners at Madison Square, Philadelphia and all the large shows. Bred to lay as well as w^in. W^rite for circular. A. L. Russell, Box 120, Washington, N. J, Rose and S. C. R. I. Reds Eight pens properly mated for egg trade. Every pen headed by prize -winner. Send for mating list. Few^ choice cockerels yet for sale with score eards. Breeders for sale after June 15. Fred W^, Oertel, Box F, Brighton, 111. Fine breeders and very choice young stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD. LA MOILLE, ILL, WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALK PRICK now tor all Eggs. Get eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens, "Polly" which was chosen over 1st Madison Square Pullet of i(>oq-io, from 1st and 2d Providence, 1st Frankfort, I9t Knowille, 1st Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a barg;iin to make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards, Geo. L. Wolfe, Prop., Rogersville, Tenn. Doublo Profits ^ Proprresslve jxiiiltrymen know that ordinary poul- try brings lOe. to l.V. on the market, while Capons readily sell for20e. to.'iOe. a pound, and often hijrher. Capons are | easy to raise and brintj double priee — double profits. riLLIXG CAPO> TOOLS , are "easy to use." A "Pillinpr" Capon Set with 'eon)plete >rui NO MORE 0Y5TEMEILS NKDED IRQW.^^l^'VALUABLe 100 »»»S . - $2.25 U^ J=^^ BOOKLET 500 lbs • • 9.00 Balanced Ration Formulas Free If you will give us your dealers name and address. HEN-B-TA BONE CO. NEWARK. N.r'VCePT.. /"• rLEMlNCTOW. WVA.. How to Breed and Judge Them By THEOJEWES Is the Best and Ooly Complete Treatise Ever Published on this Great Variety There is no breed so widely advertised to-day as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes perfe<5lion. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes every sec- tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defedive 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. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains over 50 pages, including cover, v^hich is printed in three colors, and all on good half- tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this mosi complete series of arti* cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it telU you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $ 1 .00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's »ub« scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $1.25. DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co. 357 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111. K. C. (;il.HI R INTENTIONAL 2ND EXP It Is Not Because We Call Our Columbian Wyandottes SUPERIOR STRAIN That they are SUPERIOR. It is because they have proven themselves SUPERIOR in many of "The Best Show Rooms" in competition with "The Best Breeders" in the country H^ In the past three seasons at Chicago they won more premium^ and prizes than any two competitors. AsWinter Layers No Breed Can Surpass Them C We are willing to meet any breeder of reputation in an " Egg Laying Contest" to prove this. No breed is "more profitable" or*"more beautiful" than Fenton Farms Superior Strain of Columbian Wyandottes We have hundreds of young and old birds that w\\\ win m strong competition. Send for catalogue and write for prices on what you want. ^ FENTON FARMS, Mt. CLEMENS, MICH. LARGEST EXCLUSIVE BREEDERS OF COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES P. S.— If you are going to buy— buy the best. "It pays." / / • • - I # / Wible's White Rocks & White Wyandottes WIBLE BROS.. Box 40, Route 2, Chanute, Kan. EGGS WRITE FOR MY FREE BOOK "Ihe CJolden Egg " — tells how to get eggs now and all the year — gives facts about my Bone Cutler ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ — unlike others, it makes play of ■^^^■■IM^BWB cutting fresh hone, K'ves you eggs and a paying poultry yard. HUMPHREY Ea8( St. Factory. Joliet. Hi. r BUCKEYE 1912 The Standard Hot Water Incubator Guaranteed to Hatch Every Hatchable Egg and remain in perfect workin;; order For 5 Years Made in three sizes — 60 eggs — 110 eggs — 220 eggs — and Sold as Low as $8^ by dealers throughout the United States — from coast to coast. Buckeye Incubators are heated by circulating hot water — the system that is used by all the big hatcheries and acknowledged by all experts to be the best. The temperature is regulated by a metal thermostat! The ventilation is self-regulating! No artificial moisture is required! They are purely automatic in every way and are equipped with every modern device that can possibly add to incubator efficiency. Nothing has been over- looked in making Buckeye Incubators ''The Best on Earth." They are built with double walls of California Redwood and Cabinet finished. Every Buckeye Standard Incubator bears The Insurance Underwriters' Label of Approval No other incubator has so many points of merit. Let us tell you all about Buckeye Incubators and why they are best. A postal card request will bring you our book, "Incubator Facts," and a copy of our five-year guarantee — also the name of our nearest dealer. Read the book and guarantee first — then go to your dealer and examine the incubators. That's all; you'll buy a Buckeye. Send your postal today. THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., 542 Euclid Ave., Springfield, Ohio "Anybody Can Hatch Chickens With a Buclceye" On the Market 21 Years Over 226,000 in Successful Operation DON'T neglect that first sign of sneezing, coughing eind wheezing. Keep your birds free from colds and roup. Go to the nearest dealer and get a package of Conkey's Roup Remedy and put it in the drinking water. Let the chickens doctor them- selves. No need for you to lose any fowls from Roup. Conkey's Roup Remedy is used the world over. No risk. It's the old stand-by. And be- sides, you get your money back if not satisfied with results. Price 50c and $1.00. If your dealer is out of Conkey's, mention his name with your or- der and we will supply you direct. Include 4c in stamps and we will send you Conkey's new 80-page Poultry Book free. The G. E. Conkey Co. Dept. 83 • Cleveland, U. S. A. Agents Wanted Everywhere A $2,000,000,000 Poultry Product Builder 1 OculuTn. based on U. S. Cioverntnont diaRrnosis, comes to the relief of the long-suffering poultry producers with this momentous asser- tion: "I can inoculate your fowls and increase the annual value of the poultry of the U.S. from fl.OO().(M)0.0()l»t() SL'.OOO.OOO.IKK). Let me help you." Oculum has overcome and thrust to the heart, White Diarrhea. Cholera, Roup and (Japes. You can raise fowls in any quantity at a f ^ sure profit. Oculum destroys the Cholera. Roup and "White Diarrhea germ that kills yearly 3\ of all fowls hatched, and also the (iape Worm. OCULUM Raising chickens, ducks and turkeys will in the future be both a pleasure and profit. Oculum is tlie best tonic for all fowls. Large poultry plants are buying Oculum in quantities to be given away with orders for day-old chicks to insure the raising of them. The financier, poultryman, farmer, mer- 99 chant, in fact, all who raise, buy or sell poultry, will be enormously benefuted by the use of Oculum. Oculum is a scientific remedy recom- mended by Atnerica's poultry leaders— U. R. Fishel. Bradley Bros.. AC. Duston. Foxhurst From Bradley Bros., Lee, Mau '■Oi'uiiitii'* appeiirs to Ix- the lonc-iHUMled reniody for Crtws of liver aixi howi-i tiH)iil)l<'. Iieretofore n-mirdcd us iiu-uriiliie. Have trie*! it alsul(l sav 1)\ all means raise none hut tlmrou^hhrcd fowls. If tlic fann- ers tlirou^houl tile eoimlry leali/ed how inneli more interestinL; it is. and liow mncli more may l)e realized Irom a IJoek of tli< iroUL^lihred fowls, llian from the same iuiml)er of mon^rel>, they wouhl certainly sell the mongrels at once and imest the amount receixed in thoroUiLihhred i)onltry. There are two ways to i^et a start. One is t(^ l)urchase stock and liie other is to secure ei^.^s and liatch them. If sutficient outlay can he s])ared and the i)urchase can he made in the fall or early win- ter, we think it adxisahle to huy stock. If intend- iiiL: to rai^e fanc\- fo\\ 1^, it i'^ hest to ])urchase a trio Ml- |)rn of the hest that can he secured. It is l)etter t<» hu\ a trio rightly mated f r< nu a reliahle hreeder. for >»i. than to huy a dozen hirds that are worth only that much. If one intend.^ t< • raise poultry for utility ])tir- l)o>e>, certainly fowl> not scorinii;" so hi^h. if .^ood strong;" .si)ecimen>. of -ood laying" ([ualities, are se- cured, ma\- he depended ui)on for as i^ood results as the higher >corin<4 hirds. If only a few dollars are t(> he inxe^ted in f<>niidation stock x\ e would sti.i^"- ^est i)nrchasinL; at lea>t three ^ittin'_:> of e^.^s from a rehahle hreeder, with the recpiest that i>ne ^ittin^ of ei;^s he from a mating not closely relati'(l to the other tw"». The c-<»ckerels from the special matiuL: Could he Used next hreedimi" season xxith ])nllets fr< Mil the < "tlier matin^s. In huxin^- e.^i^s, one has a chance of jLicttini; hird^ as j^ttod as the ]arent stock, and at a much less e\- ])en(liture. when selectinLi' stock for the hreediivr pens, take (>nlx the choicest hirds. 1 )o uid make the mistake, often made hx tlu' heLjinner. of thinkiuL^ that all the females must he u>v(\ in the hreedin- l)en, ]V^{ hecause the e^L;> from \x hich the}' xxere hatched were i)roduced hy a mating' of ])rize w in- ner>. ( iradin<^ the l1ock hy selectin,^' the hest, must alwaxs he done, to jjroduce the l)e>t result^. I'su- allx- the suri)lus i^tx .d cockerel> and utility i)ullets max- he >old f( ir sufficient t( • c! of the After the he^inner has decided what xariety oi fo\xl> to take up, he should learn all that is possi- hle to learn ahout that hreed. and stick to it. Try to make it a more ])erfect hreed. In order to do this, it i> necessarx- to haxe a C( ip} of the '"Stand- ard" "'f that ])articular hreed, and also to read at least one i^ood p(»ultry journal, and it i^ t< > adxan- ta.^e to read sexeral journals. .\ls(t xisit as manx- ]>oultrx- sh(i\x> as is practica- hle. Tliere are alxvays fanciers there who are xvill- iiiii and anxious to slioxx- their foxxls. and much max- he learned in this xxax, and you xxill then l)e ahle to select x-our hest s])ecimens to cxhihit at the next sli< >\x . W hen xxritin^' to hreeder> for prices, he sure t(^ state XX hat \ on xxant, that i>, xxhether fancx- < ^r oulv Utility stock. Then do 11..1 ask for the hest stock he has, or as i^ood as any, and expect to .i^et it fo]- just xxhat utility >tock is xx-orth. ( )ur experience is that it pax>- to raise and adxer- ti>e oiilx- tile hest. W hen the xx riter adxertised ei^^s, txx<> L^rades and two prices, at least nine times out of ten. the ])urcha>er wanted the higher priced ei^XS, and the income fr< mi tho^^c hi,i;h scoring hens \xas C( >rre>pondinL:lx i^realei'. We haxe learned that it paxs to hreed (lulx the he>t. \\ lien i)iircliasinL; >tock. it is xxell to make sure that the hirds haxe nexer heeii seriously >ick. and that thex are the ])roL;enx of stroUL; healthy stock. for certainix no one xxants to start in the poultry husiness \xitli stock that is of xxeakened constitu- tion and readily susceptihle to xarious diseases. I'Aeii after this precaution it is xxell to (piarantine all stock for len days, and see that no xermin o7 trace of disease is ])resent hef(~>re i)lacim;- the hirds in their permanent h< discs. Wible's White Rocks & White Wyandottes WIBLE BROS.. Box 40. Route 2, Chanute, Kan. EGGS WRITE FOR MY FREE BOOK 'The Golden Egg" — tells how to get eggs now and all the year — gives facts about my Bone Cutter — unlike others, it makes play of cutting fresh hone, gives you eggs and a paying poultry yard. HUMPHREY. East St. Factory. Joliet, III. BUGKEYEi 1912 The Standard Hot Water Incubator Guaranteed to Hatch Every Hatchable Egg and remain in perfect working order For 5 Years Made in three sizes — 60 eggs — 110 eggs — 220 eggs — and Sold as Low as $822 by dealers throughout the United States — from coast to coast. Buckeye Incubators are heated by circulating hot water — the system that is used by all the big hatcheries and acknowledged by all experts to be the best. The temperature is regulated by a metal thermostat! The ventilation is self-regulating! No artificial moisture is required! They are purely automatic in every way and are equipped with every modern device that can possibly add to incubator efficiency. Nothing has been over- looked in making Buckeye Incubators "The Best on Earth." They are built with double walls of California Redwood and Cabinet finished. Every Buckeye Standard Incubator bears The Insurance Underwriters' Label off Approval No other incubator has so many points of merit. Let us tell you all about Buckeye Incubators and why they are best. A postal card request will bring you our book, ^'Incubator Facts," and a copy of our five-year guarantee — also the name of our nearest dealer. Read the book and guarantee first — then go to your dealer and examine the incubators. That's all; you'll buy a Buckeye. Send your postal today. THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., 542 Euclid Ave., Springfield, Ohio "Anybody Can Hatch Chickens With a Buclceye" On th« Market 21 Y«ar« Over 22S,000 in Sucoessful Operation DONT neglect that first sign of sneezing, coughing etnd wheezing. Keep your birds free from colds and roup. Go to the nearest dealer and get a package of Conkey's Roup Remedy and put it in the drinking water. Let the chickens doctor them- selves. No need for you to lose any fowls from Roup. Conkey's Roup Remedy is used the world over. No risk. It's the old stand-by. And be- sides, you get your money back if not satisfied with results. Price 50c and $L00. If your dealer is out of Conkey's, mention his name with your or- der and we will supply you direct. Include 4c in stamps and we will send you Conkey's new 80-page Poultry Book free. The G. E. Conkey Co. Dept. 83 " Cleveland, U. S. A. Agents Wanted Everywhere =^ $2,000,000,000 Poultry Product Builder Oculum. based on U. S. Government diagrnosis, comes to the relief of the long-suffering pouUry producers with this momentous asser- tion: "I can inoculate your fowls and increase the annual value of the poultry of the U.S. from 51.000.000.000 to f2.000.000.000. Let mehelpyou." Oculum has overcome and thrust to the heart, White Diarrhea. Cholera, Roup and (Japes. You can raise fowls in any quantity at a f f sure profit. Oculum destroys the Cholera. Roup and White Diarrhea germ that kills yearly % of all fowls hatched, and also the Gape Worm. OCULUM 99 From Bradley Bros., Lee, Mau ■■Oonluin" nppeurn to bo the long-nee Large poultry plants are buying Oculum in quantities to be given away with orders for day-old chicks to insure the raising of them. The financier, poultryman, farmer, mer- chant, in fact, ail who raise, buy or sell poultry, will be enormously benefitted by the use of Oculum. Oculum is a scientific remedy recom- mended by America's poultry leaders— U. R. „ . ^ ^, , , „- ^ , Fishel. Bradley Bros.. A. (J Duston.Foxhurst Farm. J. C. Fishel & Son, P. J. Armstrong. Mrs. Ellen Jacque, Oscar E. Miles. J. Gaylord Blair, Geo. A, Ruessler. N. R. Reynolds, Lewis T. McLean, Hugh Ross and hundreds of others. Don't cling to the exploded theory that "nothing will cure," but join the army of money- maktng poultry raisers, who. after demonstration, are marching' to success with the Oculum banner waving in the breezes. Join now. For sale in two sizes, fl.OO and 50c, by all progressive dealers and druggists. If yours does not handle it. send us his name and address. Or receipt of price, Oculum will be mailed direct to you. Circular with Government diagnosis of Cnolera and White Diarrhea free. Order now and help make poultry a 52,000.000.000 industry. Sample with dropper, 10c. (7) Hancock Inoculatum Company, Inc., Box T. Salem, Va. r^-W-Jj^-^™ • • ***««**?»•»'! ^mtmSm<\ mvriromwmMf^' Vol. XVI CHICAGO, ILL, OCTOBER. 1911 No. 4 Some Advice to Beginners Pointers on How to Start and How to Invest Lim- ited Funds. Best Plans to Get Ahead Quickly. By J. C. DEATON. ( ) all who contemplate raising poultry, we would say by all means raise none hut thorouii^hhred fowls. If the farm- ers throui^hout the country realized how much more interesting^ it is, and how much more may be realized from a flock of thoroui^hbred fowls, than from the same number of moui^rels, they would certainly sell the monizrels at once and invest the amount received in thoroui^hbred poultry. 1'here are two ways to get a start. One is to l)urchase stock and the other is to secure eggs and liatch them. If sufficient outlay can be spared and the i)urchase can l)e made in the fall or early win- ter, we think it advisable to buy stock. If intend- ing to raise fancy fowls, it is best to purchase a trio or pen of the best that can be secured. It is better to ])uv a trio rightly mated from a reliable breeder, for $*/r).(io, than to btiy a dozen birds that are worth only that much. If one intends to raise poultry for utility pur- poses, certainly fowds not scoring so high, if good strong specimens, of good laying qualities, are se- cured, may be depended upon for as good results as the higher scoring birds. If only a few dollars are to be invested in foundation stock we wcmld stig- gest purchasing at least three sittings of eggs from a reliable breeder, with the recpiest that one sitting of eggs be from a mating not closely related to the other two. The cockerels from the special mating could be used next breeding season with i)iillets from the other matings. In buving eggs, one has a chance of getting birds as good as the parent stock, and at a much less ex- penditure, w lien selecting stock for the brecdiirr pens, take only the choicest birds. Do not make the mistake, often made by the beginner, of thinking that all the females must be used in the breeding ])en, just because the eggs from which they were liatched were produced by a mating of prize whin- ners. Cirading the flock by selecting the best, must always be done, to produce the best results. Usu- ally the surplus good cockerels and utility pullets mav be sold for sufficient to cover the cost of the ei.^2:s. After the beginner has decided what varietv of fowls to take up, he should learn all that is possi- ble to learn about that breed, and stick to it. Try to make it a more perfect breed. In order to do this, it is necessary to have a copy of the "Stand- ard" of that particular breed, and also to read at least one good poultry journal, and it is to advan- tage to read several journals. Also visit as many poultr\' shows as is practica- ble. There are always fanciers there who are will- ing and anxious to show their fowds, and much mav be learned in this w^ay. and you will then be able to select your best specimens to exhibit at the next show. When writing to breeders for prices, be sure to state what you want, that is, wdiether fancy or only titility stock. Then do not ask for the best stock he has, or as good as any, and expect to get it for just wdiat utility stock is worth. Our experience is that it pays to raise and adver- tise only the best, \\dien the writer advertised eggs, two grades and two prices, at least nine times out of ten, the purchaser wanted the higher priced eggs, and the inccMiie from those high scoring hens was corres])ondingly greater. We have learned that it pays to breed cmly the best. \\'iien ])urchasing stock, it is well to make sure that the birds have never been seriously sick, and that they are the progeny of strong healthy stock, for certainh- no one w\ints to start in the poultry business with stock that is of weakened constitu- tion and readily susceptible to various diseases. hAen after this precaution it is well to quarantine all stock for ten days, and see that no vermin or trace of disease is present before placing the birds in their ])ermancnt houses. INTENTIONAL 2ND EXPOSURE Page 50 POULTRY FANCIER^ October, i:-->J'^'V^.,^q 11 !f-:':r^''^:-^.'.\i-^:^i'ii^.r..AZ^j^ Home Made Exhibition and Shipping Coops Descripticn and illustrations of home made coops that are easily and cheaply made. Why proper coops are a real necessity and how they prevent loss and help a breeder to win. By H. V. TORMOHLEN. HEN 1 planned to make my first ex- hibit at a Poultry show 1 was in quite a (|uandary to know^ just what kind of coops 1 would need in which to shcnv my ])ir(ls, how hii^- they should l)e, what they should be made of, etc. It took quite a lot of searching before I could even find the dimensions of a standard coop. Todav there are any number of firms who sell exhibition and shi])ping coops knocked down and all finished except i)utting the nails and screws in them. A great many poultry fanciers lil^e to build their own i)oultrv houses and coops for hen and chicks and likewise would have the spare time and much enjoy building their own exhibition coops. It does not take uiany tools to make an exhibition coop but to make nice, neat looking coops tl:.it will bottom of the C(;op. The floor may be made to slide in as a ch-awer in this door to facilitate rapid cleaning or the fioor may l)e built to the coop and cleaned through this little door with a miniature hoe made by tacking a juece of galvanized iron to a broom handle. I have built several coops together making a string as long as ten feet but 1 find that five oi-^six feet sections are more satisfactory. The beaut\- in making coops several in a section is that they can ))e made stronger and they are not tossed about with as much ease by the strong armed expressmen as are the single and pen size coops. The coops as well as the birds are thus insured better treatment while in transit. When shipping a string (^f birds in exhibition coops it is advisable to tack lath cpiite freelv over the canvas part to make it as unhand v as ])ossible for the drayman to shove a foot through the side of the coop and release a fine bird or two. The top of the coop ma\' be covered either with canvas or slats but I prefer the slats as they admit more light and make the coop more substantial. The front^of the coop should be covered with a drop curtain of E^'hibition an,l sln-ppin^^ <.<,ops described by Mr. Tormohlen in accon.panyin,^ arti.l show ofif to advantage the fine birds they are to contam, pains must be taken in their construction The first thing to find out after vou have decided to show at a certain show is whether thcv furnish exhibition coops or recpiire the exhibitor to furnish them. If the exhibitor is re(piired to furnish them, figure out how many single specimens vou intend to show as well as pens. I'rom the sketch of coop and the sketch showing frame and fioor construc- tion which ai)pear in connection with this article, the mode of constructing an exhibition coop can be easily seen. 11ie wooden rods from which to make the front of the coop are ordered at a nearby plan- ing mill and should be a little less than a half-inch Ihick. Or if preferred large iron wire mav be used and painted as the wooden rods are. The dimensions for standard exhibition coop which will accommodate either single birds or pairs is 24x24x;J(i inches hidi and the pen size is the same 111 height and width but 10 inches louf. The reader will note a little drop door at the unislm securely fastened while the birds are in transit Inquisitive loafers at the depots cannot tor- ment the birds and if the weather is at all chillv or p.>h as It generally is during the show season,' the birds should be thus protected to kee]) them from be- ing exposed to drafts and taking cohl and roup. In btiildmg exhibition coops the thought should l)c constantly in mm<| to make them as light as pos- sible and yet have them strong and durai,le. L Idit soft pnie IS best tor frame work and hard pine 7or he rods. I, the coop seems weak after i is mi together it may be strengthened bv twisting wires across as is done in strengthening old chaii-. When shipping, securely fasten the driiikin'<>- and n her cups <.^ the d (.IS. Never use anything but nice, clean rve Wim^-'V'""' "^ 1-ddingdown the "o^^ ! SonKtimes, shavings or sawdust are used in the shi,)ping coops, but such bedding is undesirable e- catise It gets into the plumage of the fowl n nriv 'Ictract from its show condition. ' ■cH-r^if'>-.Vdg..gi-^^A"-'-iVV4!>^'y"uishing mark on every side. Then vou won't have to look for shipping tags on every coop in a dark hall piled high with coops on the last evening of the show in order to find your shipping coops. You can tell vours bv the yellow or white initials at a glance ten feet away. The address in full should also be painted in smaller letters on the coop so that if tags are lost the birds will not go astray. I learned this valuable lesson one time at a large show when I found that the stiperintendent's assist- ants had gotten coops mixed and a cockerel of mine went to a party in another state. It took another week to get mv bird and he his. Preparing Birds for Exhibition Proper Condition of Fowls Intended for Exhibition Is Often Half the Battle— Many Good Birds in Poor Show Condition Lose the Prizes to Inferior Specimens That Are Carefully Groomed for the Occasion. By C. E. PETERSON. I^W men are wise by their own coun- sel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was taught only by him- self had a fool for his master. T^e- membering this wise saying from lien Jonson, 1 have not only given my own methods in preparing fowls for exhibition, l)Ut J have also gatiiered honey from many a strange hive not easy of access to my brother fanciers, in pre- ])aring our birds for showing there are a number of factors that combine in making a successful issue, any one of which if neglected may send us back home without the much coveted ])rize we went out to get. 1liis disap])ointment in a majority of cases mav be attributed to ignorance on the part of the exhibitor, in pre])aring an otherwise good bird, so as to show up well in the show-rocun, and in conse- cpience a less good bird, but in the ])ink of condition, and fitted up by a man who knows how, gains the day. \\> have visited show after show, in which we have found birds that would have 1)een good enough to win if they had ])een fit to handle, but dirty, and out of condition, no judge would have given them even a ])assing glance, except ])erhai)s in disgust, and justly so. It is not a science, nor a very dif- ficult job to get a bird into show condition, but it does mean considerable work to do it well, and the man who is not willing to give work and time to fit his birds, should never attempt to show in re- spectable com])any. There are of course a number of the so-called secrets, in ])reparing a bird well, btit every one of them may be classed among the natural pnK^esses of doing things well. It has been stated that a child's education should begin years before its birth, and this statement is equally as well adaptable when it comes to prepare birds for exhibition, as not only the training of the birds in hand, but the i)arents of this very bird have much to do in making or marring our success; con- tinuous vigilance, from shell to exhibition, is the ])rice of Sticcess. .\s show begins to follow show, in rapid succession our fanciers are getting their birds ready for some show or another where they wish to exhibit. At this time a more liberal class of feed- ing becomes necessary so as to ])ut the birds in what we call "show condition," btit without fattening the specimen to be shown, as such a proceeding would unfit it for future use in the breeding pen. Many a fine i/ird has been utterly ruined for future use in the breeding pen by ])eing made butter fat before exhibition. All kinds of stimtilating foods and nostrums should be avoided, that is if you care for the future health of your birds. There is no doubt in my mind that excessive showing and stimulating food, have more to do with the infertility of eggs from prize birds than any other catise, and it may well be said that the love of blue ribbons is the root of all evil in the breeding yard. Condition is the desired point to be attained, and good care, good sound food, and good sound sense on the ])art of the care-taker will never fail to ])roduce it. PTandle the birds every day as tameness should be encouraged by every possible means. How often really good specimens are passed over by the judge simply because they being of a wild and timorous nature, crouch in the corners of the pen. and look their worst, at a time when so much depends on their looking their best. .Many an exhibit(U* knows this only too well, when he came to compare his own afraid-of-every- thing-and-exerybody specimen with the one next to him who stood bolt upright in his coop, ap[)earing only too pleased to court observation. Therefore any treatment conducive to the last mentioned result should not be lost sight of. Tt may be well to sqy here for future reference, if of no immediate \alue, that 1 start in very early han- dbng my birds, from a few days old, tintil T can pick them tip most anywhere, and they seem to like it, after they get to know I am their friend. Xever use a fretty, afraid-of-you, suspicious-of- evervthing hen for a mother, as she will teach the whole brood her own wicked ways and make ycntr work harder, and losing ycnir temper easier. l)y the way, though T digress just a little, T have never seen an ill tempered man (m* woman ever succeed with poultry, and that is why, and the only reason why. that the poultry fraternity is as a whole \__ Page 52 POULTRY FANCIER- tlie best lot of fellows on the earth; tliey have learned to l)e snnny and ^ood natured. i^ot to be to keep poultry, and yon will lind out that I am tell- in<^- tl.e irnth, when you eonie to wash \()ur own little beauties. X'aluable birds are frecpiently unfitted for exhibi- tion throu;^h the untimely loss (.f their feathers, more particularly those of'the tail. And where the com])etition is so \ery keen as it is toda\- at our avera.^e show, the loss of even a point may be dis- astrous to show honors, hence the importance of looking- after this matter shar])ly. It is mainly caused in small yards by their beinj^- constantly worried by tyrannical companions; to oet away Irom them the unfortunate bird rushes into corners and out-of-the-way places Xo escape punishment, and before you know the mischief is done. And as it takes from six to ei.i^ht weeks to i^row a sickle feather, precaution is in this case much better than cure. After yardin-- the birds you intend to exhibit, watch them carefully so you mav be sure that they are on s^-ood terms. \\herever conditions are such that the birds can be penned single before exhibition, it should be done, as it helps the bird to become familiar with the coop, and the exhibitor to apply the fmishim,- touches. A g-ood way to brin."- out the (pialities of a youno- male bird, and to put on him "exhibition October, '11 ^, Style," is to .^i\e him a week or so before exhibition, the comj;any of a few females. Xature is nature all o\er the world, and as the boy is e\er proud of bein.^' flirted with by the opj)osite sex, so likewise we see how youn^ male animals, and birds jiarticu- larly, strut and ])liime themselves when ])lace(l in company with females of the same class. Stich a treatment will brim;- him out with no mean opinion of himself when he makes his debut at the first show. In making a ])en up for exhibition, be careful that the birds, as far as ])ossible, match one another in markiui^s, size and style. If crested fowls are to be exhibited, see to it that their crests are uni- form in size and sha])e, as one sini^ie bird with a lar.^er crest than her companions, will com])letelv outclass the others ])enned with her. It is also well to bear in mind, that the male bird is the half of the ])en, therefore make a wise selection, and see that he match the females in breed characteristics. Xe\er use an old "passe" cock to put in an exhibition pen, as to the intelli- .^ent breeder it only shows that you are deficient in exhibition birds, and it is our opinion that a bird not fit to breed from is not fit to exhibit. h\)wls should on no consideration be sent to a show with their crops full of hard ^rain, such a practice bein.^" particularly unadvisable. Hiey .i^et hot and feverish, and thus lose condition. Don't Grow Weary of the Work Don't Think That the Poultryman's Work Is More Unpleasant and More of a Drudgery Than Other Vocations. The Three Principles That Make Success Assured. BY H. S. BABCOCK. IIMKI^ is much work connected with the care of i)oultry and not all of it either easy or a.i^reeable. As work, spadino- uj) yards and cleanino- drop- piii,^ boards do not ai)peal to a "son of rest." nor to the aesthetic faculty. lUit even if it is hard and disa.i^n-eeable it must W done. Xor is this the worst ])hase of the subject. There is a j.;-ood deal of monotony about some of the work. Dropping ])oards, for instance, must be cleaned day after day, and the fowls must be fed several time's a day. seven days in tlie week and fifty-two weeks in the vear. Ab)notony is more vvearin*^- than hard work, if the latter is varied. "Constant (lrop[)ing will wear away the stone." r.ut despite all this, or perhaps because of all this, "I^on't .i^row weary." In every callin<^r o,- b^gj. ness in life there are many wearying- details. The minister must not only read and study to prepare his brilliant sermons, but he must visit the sick, burv the dead, comfort the desolate, and make hundreds of calls upon tiresome people. The lawyer is not always trying- cases in court. The spectacular part of his life is but a small ])art of his professional du- ties, lie must listen to wearisome tales from weary- ing persons, must draw long, dry, tiresome papers, must hunt up precedents to sustain his cases bv toilsome search through volumes dry as dust, must examine witnesses, many of whom 'are stupid and bore him with their stupidity, and do a thousand and one things of which the world is not aware, 'idle doctor's life is ecpially full of tiring details, much of the work disagreeable and distasteful, and' even at night he is not sure of that slee]) "which knits up the ravelled sleeve of care." And in mer- cantile and other kinds of business, details make the bulk of the work. Xo profession, business or trade lacks wearing and wearving details, is free from monotony, and is wholly' agreeable. So true IS this that it is a common saving that everv man's work IS the hardest, and every man thinks' that, if he had done something else life would have been more delightful. i>ut success depends upon not growing wearv and not neglecting the many little pestering details. I hey are little only when considered one at a time, .tor nothing is really small uptm which success de- pends. And it is our profound conviction that, after studying as well as we have had the opportunity to do so the work of the world, the poultrvman has less of hard, disagreeable and monotcMKms labor, and more oi varied and cheerful duties, than falls to the lot of most men. A man, who would grow weary in performing the duties of the poultrvman, would have a hard task to find any occupation in which life would seem altogether pleasant and sat- isfactory Such a man would have a mightv poor outlook for the future. ' The secret of not growing wearv is to put one's lieart into his work, and look, not' at the laborious (Ictails, but at the results which flow from their proper performance. Jntercst in one's ^m^xV always • • • • • % <» ' * October, '11 POULTRY FANCIER^ Page sri^ makes it less disagreeable and less difficult, and otten makes it pleasant and easy. And if to this present interest he has "respect for the recompense of the reward," if he looks forward to the results to be achieved, he forgets that what he is doing and must do is labor at all. His work is but preparation for future delight, and some of that delight he al- ready enjoys in antici])ation. ^ So we repeat. "Don't grow weary," but cheer- tully do each task as it arrives, knowing that by so doing the reward is certain and the end deligh'tful. Realize that poultry breeding demands w^ork and study, but the work and study will be forgotten in the results attained. Put your heart into your work, don't lose interest for one minute, and d'on't forget that every detail is a step which brings you nearer the ultimate goal of success. The poultryman to be sticcessful should keep in mind the warning which is dis]dayed at all crossings on our modern railroads: "Sto])! Look! Listen!" ddiese three words ap])ear in bold letters at each crossing. ^ Due diligence requires the traveler, when he ar- rives at the crossing, to stop, look in all directions, and listen intently, even if he sees no train approach- ing, which, if he does, he will avoid danger and es- cape mjury. The ap])licati()n of the warning is very appropriate to the i)oultryman. He should sto''), which means that he should not go ahead recklessl\- with his work, but should take the ne-essar\- time to phm it thoroughly before he begins upon its ex- ecution. The man who works from a good plan will do good w( rk. And in i)lanning his work he should consider first what he desires to accom])lisli. That S. C. WHITE LEGHORN MALE. A prize wiiiiiei- and typical of the stoek l)red by C. C Foster. Hte. 1, Box 50, Quincy, Mich. ^ rustei. kept clearly in mind, he should plan by what means it can be accom])lished. lie should look. Observation is a faculty worth cultivating. Not one man in a hundred is an accu- rate observer. Most men see but a few salient points, and fail to take in the hundred and one mi- nor ])oints. Yet on these minor ])oints success often depends; and this is particularly true of the poultry industry. Notice the man who sees the whole in all its details, and you will see a successful breeder. It is these little points, fine points, which make the (lifi'erence between a fifty dollar and a fifty cent fowl. They are minor in the sense of being' small, but they are majcr when success is under considera- tion. He should listen. No breeder should ever get be- yond the place where he will take advice. A man, wise in his own conceit, can never learn anything. The know-it-alls are the. true know-nothings.' Poul- try breeding, wdth its myriad of unsolved mysteries, ought to make a man have a humble oj^inion of him- self; it should teach him the necessity of listening S. C. WHITE LEGHORN FEMALE. One of the many prize winning lernales \nn\ hv C. C. Foster. Rte. 1, Box 50, Quincy. Muh. to the experience, not only of those older and wiser than he, Init also of those who are freshly entered into the ranks of breeders. As much mav some- times be learned, not from the opinion, but from the experience of a beginner, as from the experience of a veteran. Experience is experience, whoever may have had it. Our ears should always be open to its voice and our minds to its teachings. The breeder who stops to plan his work,, looks t<> learn what the facts are, and what dangers and difficulties may arise, and listens to what experience may teach, will be likely to have ample success. He will know what to do and how to do it. and will un- derstand what to avoid and how to avoid it. The object he desires to accomplish will stand out boldly on his mental lu^rizon. and the means for accom- idishing his object will be clearly and accurately de- fined to his mind. He will gc^ about his work, not as one who knows not what to do and trusts to luck to show him, but as a master who knows the de- sign and all the means needed for making that de- sign a reality. To stop, look and listen means, as applied to poultry breeding, the making of the work pleasant, certain md successful. Study to improve your variety. better fowls are of greater consecpicnce than 'more fowls, but the true ideal is more and better. P>reeding stock demands the best of care, for upon the health of the breeders dei)ends the viability of the chickens, and hence the success of the season's operations. Page 54 POULTRY FANCIER aa.'ivafi October, '11 ^■;tfy5VirV,...{:- EDITORIAL PAGE • Poultry Fancier Published under the name Fancy Fowls for 10 years, 1897 to 1907. Entered as Second Class Matter. Sept. 28, 1907, at the Post Oflfice at Chicago. 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. Published the 1 5 th of each month by POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO. FRANK HECK. President 357 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. 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 lime 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 1 0th of the month. The circulation of Poultry Fancier is national in character. It is the only poultry journal pub- Ushed 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, 1911 Looking Ahead. Lookini;- alu'ud is prolitabK'. It en- ables one to anticii)atc diflicultio and foresee hindrances. An obstruction foreseen may be removed out of the way, or a way may l)e found around it. It isn't necessary to learn tlirouj2,li !.>ettin^ wrecked, and it is desirable to learn how to i)re\ent beinj; wrecked. Lookin*; ahead means somethinLi more than living from hand to nioutli. It means to plan for what must he and for what may be. It means growth, and growth signil'ies i)rogress. Xo breeder should be content to re- main where and what he is. lie should plan to advance and to be a better breeder from year to year. Stagnation is death or the forerunner of death. "I'etter the leap of tlie tor- rent than the stagnation of the swamp." i>e ali\e. grow. plan, look ahead. The man who hatches a lot of chickens needs to plan for their growth and de\elopment. lie needs to i)rovide the necessary acommoda- tions for the increased numbers. Me must make i)r()vision for the ultimate sale of the surplus stock. .\nd to do these things he must look ahead. The man who looks ahead regards the excellencies of his present stock as promises of greater merits in the future. He studies how to mate, how to feed, how to develop, how to lit for exhibition. In the egg he sees the blue ribbon which shall proclaim the chicken to be hatched from it as the winner of the first prize in its class. It may be a long look from the egg to the blue ribbon, but if he will win the latter he must essay the look ahead. The man who makes his fowls pay must look ahead to the means and methods of selling them. One may rear the finest lot of chickens in ex- istence, but if he doesn't understand how to sell them they are worth only meat values. He must therefore learn how to advertise, when to advertise, where to advertise, and then advertise. lUiyers have to be found — they will not lind you. Look ahead then and be alive about it. Answering Inquiries. An advertisement does its destined work, and does it well, when it intro- duces the man who wishes to buy tt) the man who desires to sell. It some- times does even more than this, be- cause ocasionally orders for stock are received without any i)reliminary cor- respondence. This we should regard as the excei)tion rather than the rule, as the full purpose of tlic advertise- ment plus its recognized drawing l)owers. If it brings incpiiries it has done its part; the sale o\ the goods is the part which the seller is expect- ed to perform. Some men are natural salesmen. They ha\e a genius for making in- i|uirers purchase. Hut while all men may not hope to ri\al this class, which is a class ai)art, all men may become reasonably successful salesmen by ob- serving a few simple rules of the art. When iiKjuiries arri\e they should be an>were(l promptly. Promptness creates a good impression. If a man is prompt in answering in(|uiries, the in(|uirers will unconsciousl}' attribute to him i)romi)tness in other things, and believe that he is a man who does what is necessary to be done when the thing ought to be done, which is an important characteristic of a good, breeder, hi other words, the prompt- ness in answering incpiiries will hel]) his reputation as a breeder and inspire the in(|uirer with conlidence in him and in his stock. Xor does the benefit of promptness end with such conlidence. Some men act from impulse instead of settled purpose. Today they have the im- pulse to buy a certain variety. Next week or next month that imi)ulse is gone and they are impelled in the di- rection of some other variety. The breeder who "strikes while the iron is hot." who answers their iiKpiiries while the purchasing impulse lasts, is the one who makes sales to such ])ur- cha^ers. With this class of men '"de- lays are dangerous." One must take them on the wing or miss them al- together. Answers to in(|uiries should be ex- plicit. A stamp, a sheet of paper, an envelope, and a little ink are no great exi)ense, but many men will not waste them in asking for further explana- tions. What the iiKpiirer asks for should be answered clearly and fully, but with no unnecessary waste of words. There is a real art in condens- ing much information into few words. All of us can ac(|uire a reasonable de- gree of the i)ower of expressing much in few words. If, however, one must err, it is better to err on the side of too much than too little, for, however expressed, the information asked should be given. Answers to iiKjuiries should be courteous. Courtesy is a winning- card always and everywhere. It is true that the ])oultry breeder receives many in(iuiries which are ab- surd and ridiculous, but even these should be answered i)olitely, and not dismissed with contempt. The ignor- ance of the inciuirer may be dissipated and in time he may become one capa- ble of granting favors. Vou may find y(nirself some time in a position where a good word from this now ig- norant in(iuirer would be of great value to you. Every inquiry should be regarded as an opportunity to make a friend, and it may prove such if it is courteously answered. And finally there is the "follow up" letter, the postscript, as it were, to the answer to the original in(iuiry. Good taste and great delicacy and tact are rccjuired, if one would get benefit from the "follow up" letter. In the "follow up" letter the breeder should, in case he gets no response to his answer in a week or two, deli- cately suggest that if the inciuirer wishes to avail himself of the advan- tages of the offer made, he should do so without further delay, as others may wish the stock priced to him. Ihit unless one can do this in a way which will neither annoy or (offend the receiver he would better not do it at all. If in(|uiries are answered promptly, explicitly and courteously and are sup- plemented by the right kind of a "fol- low up" letter, the breeder will have done his i)art to make his advertising prolitable. Don't liope for success: work for it. Don't exjject to win every prize for , which you compete. Don't forget that a little neglect may be the father of a ])ig failure. Don't be impatient when a buyer asks for unreasonable things, but show him his error. Don't fail to su])port the poultry shows; they make the high |)rices for exhibition birds possible. Don't 1)e too tender with the culls; tender yli the top or entry p(jrtion of them. The card or cards can then be torn off as the judge and clerk come to them, leaving the 'utrv cards attached to the coops, l^ach bunch of cards is then placed in its proper enveh^pe and returned to the secretary or committee ap- PETERSEN'S HOUDANS ^^'y:m^.^rr"" Send for BO-piijfe l>ook on The Houdan,30full pasred plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard, Matint; for ICxiiibition, Management and many other important chapter.s. Postage 20 cents. Rev. C. E, PETRRSEN. President American Houdan Club, 1950 to 1907. 16 Waverly St., Portla-d. Maine MI, A LAYERS and PAYERS Royal Orpingtons IVHITE—B VFF—BLJCK Eggs for hatching $5 '3 $9 Per 26 SHOW STOCK $3.00 to $500 per head. Eggs for hatching from $3,000 pen of Royal Columbian Plymouth Rocks $3.00 each. Stock and eggs shipped to any part of the Let us know your wants. WOODWORTH FARM, WILTON, CONN. A world. mamm .J EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM UTILITY STOCK ONE HALF ABOVE PRICES l)ointe(l to foot them up. Such a committee should consist of two or three persons that each may verify- the accuracy of the others. In add- ing them the cards showinj^' the winners in a class should be marked by the jiid^e, who should also settle all ties. ]f ties are to be broken it is his duty to do it. If two or more birds score alike and the association has a rule, or by mutual agreement among competitors decide to make the cards "tie," thus dividing honors, it should be their privileg-e to do so. The most im})ortant feature of a score card show is to furnish a clerk to tbe judge that is accustomed to puttin'-> down figures and who can ui\-e his or her undivided attention to the judge, one who can be deaf, ('um'^ and blind to his surroundings should the \vr)rk be done from cooi> to coop. The best plan, however, is where each coop can be brought to some place where there is uniform light, and the public and exhibitors kept ( ut and away. When these rules are followed the work can and is done with care, accuracy, and a saving of time. The judge then ha>^ time to talk to exhibitors and more fully explain Standard demands. Thus he can make a school of in- struction of his work, anfl more full}' till his honorable position both as a judge and instructor to the fraternity and the interested i)ublic. Where this plan has been tried it has worked, and held together associations that woidd possibly have only lived the usual two or three years. Where confusion, bickering:, and contention dominate the organization is short lived.— 1). T. Heimlich. Late entries is one of the evils that handicap the secretary, the ex- hibitor and the judges. Inexperience on the part of the secretary and su- perintendent also (|uite fre(|uently causes delay. The foremost thing is for the secretarj' to keep his work well in hand. if he does not have the time to make out the coop tag:s from the entry sheet, secure a com- petent clerk and as fast as entries are received make out the coop tags. .\ separate tag for each bird entered makes it easier for the judge, than where all are put on one tag. Tack the tags sei)arately upon the coops: never string them, or hang or tack them in a bunch. As fast as the tags are made out they should be g:iven to the superin- tendent that he may tack them on exhibits as fast as received. If the above plan is followed the weighing of the ))irds can be started promptly. — W. S. Russell. IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND To Mark Chickens CHEAPEST AND BEST 12forl6c; 25— 25c; 60-40c: 100-750. Sample Rand Mailed for to Stanijn, Frink Mytrt. Mfr. Box 68i Frcsport.lll, Page 56 Pertinent Paragraphs By EASTERNER It is better to succeed in a small way than to fail in a large way. A great success is only the sum of nu- merous little successes. The man who attempts to raise sporting dogs among his chickens, if he don't watch out. will lind his chicken business going to the dogs. We believe in the doctrine of cor- relation— the association of one char- acteristic with another, — because those having the best luck in poultry keep- ing have almost invariably been those who had the most pluck and used the most intelligence. Luck is correlated with pluck and intelligence. A poultry breeder should possess imagination. Tic should be able to create in his mind the fowl he desires t(^ produce. And candor compels us to acknowledge that, after listening to the fairy tales of certain breeders, such men are highly imaginative. A breeder's imagination, however, should be directed to a scientific and' not to a commercial use. Through the clouds, the eastern sky. Through the winds, which wliispering pass b}', Through the neigh of the horse within his stall. Through the crow of the cock on the garden wall. ThrouL'h the low of tlie kine in the meadows sweet. Through the bleat of the sheep as the}' browsing eat. Through the smell of the upturned mould in the held. Through the scent that new-mown grasses yield. Through the flowers that deck the waysides brown. Through the brook that babbles over the down. Through sun and sharle, through calm which tloat in and blow. Through things things which move and which grow. The voice of nature insistingly calls Away from the stony streets and walls, Awa}' from the busy marts of trade. Where fraud looks on all undismayed. Away from the dust of toil and strife, I'ack to the peaceful, simi)le life. For the benefit of contributors, we state that "whack," in the sense of share or i)ortion, and "whack up," in the sense of divide, are slang expres- sions, not in good usage. The ex- l)letive, "Gee." probably was not de- rived from the initial of the first president. G. Washington, but more likely is a profanity toned down to the usages of those whose lips refuse to utter wicked words, and is some times misunderstood by youth, as was the case with the school boy, who said: "The hen is runnin','' and when the teacher suggested that he had omitted the "g," he corrected the to "Gee! The hen is run- As ]''asterner is a jiurist he never sees a slang word in a com- munication to him without pain. Tf sentence • > '• nin . POULTRY FANCIER^ slang must be used, he prefers to use it himself. Savoy? When the Madison Square building- goes down, will the Madison Square show go up? The Boston poultry show is a true agricultural exhibition, the space is measured by acres. There are only two reasons why any i)oultry show fails of greatness — space in which to hold it and the necessary birds to illl the space. Some of his opponents think that "Link" Orr is rightly named — he car- ries a blaze in front and sets a fire in the rear of where he goes. But really they are too bitter — the link he carries may simply light a belated and benighted wayfarer on his way to home and safety. Thirteen of the nineteen dealers in live i)oultr3', who were recently put on trial in Xew York City, were tound guilty of consi)iracy to injure trade and commerce. This should help producers of poultry in getting a reasonable price for their products. October, '11 The law some times little. Three months' and a tine of $500 health V deterrent. helps just a imprisonment to be a ought If you study the geneological tree you will see that Careful Thought be- got ]">nest Effort and Ernest Effort begot Creditable Performance, and Creditable Performance begot Com- plete Success. Lurther than this last- named descendant most of us do not care to go. Isn't it about time that some one announced a guessing contest with some such subject as "How many Q I M Q P ^ Q $25,000.00 from one-half ^^ * ^^ ^" '^ ^* acre. Easily grown throughout U. S. and Canada. Our booklet No. 6 tells particulars. Send 4c for postage. McDOWELL GINSENG GARDEN, Joplin. Mo. RATS&MICE EXTERMINATED SCIENTIFICALLY without danger— No odors— Ask the ^^ Pasteur Laboratories of America Room 854, 443 So. Dearborn Strtot, Chicago f/^/lS** Hygrometers ^^^^^^^^"^ Khow the amount of molHture (humidity ) In In* ^^ ^^^ cubators. Don't risk ckkm, time and money when you ^H can Insure hatches with "Tyco*" Instruments. A "XycoJ** Thermometer Is the Quality Mark in an Incubator. Ituy the machine equipped with it. Insist on the greuuine. '"Tycos** Incu- bator Thermometers, each, 75c. "Tyco*" Incubator Hydrometers, each. $!..'><►. Send for free booklet, "Incubator Thermo- Taylor Instrument Companie.% RocutsTERr"'-*' ''^"""'"''n" y. \liiHKTF J9/V/^ IV^O ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^'^ ^^^^ ^ill ^in in the show ^W mmm m ^ #■%#%##%<■# room and fill the egg basket. Our birds — — ^— -»^».»^.i.^_i.. are big, White, beauties, strong in good WHITE WYANOOTTES ^^I'^^^Z BERWYN POULTRY YARDS, I BOX P.!"b£RWYM, ILL. White Indian Games ^q^^?^. . %6 per doz. H. S. BABCOCK, 77 Summit S!., East Providence, R. I. . 6 4 YEARS I. K. Feleh & Sons Poultry Company HAVE BRED Light Brahmas, White Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, White Plymouth Rocics, 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 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 15, Hrahmas f J 50 to $10 for females; $5 to f20 for males. White and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes, 12.50 to |8 for fe- males; |4 to 115 for males. Eggs from all, |4 for 15, $1 for .'JO, $\) for 45, and §15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 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 176, NATICK, MASS. # « • • I • • October, '11 feathers are there on Rock nen— shank and barred?'' a Plymouth toe feathers The chicks are growing; so are the feed bills. '^ ^ Ability as a breeder means capac- ity for improving the average of the nock. A dozen f I Page ^Tj^ Query: How would it do to feed Pit Games on suli)hur? Our friends "over the water" have produced a Blue I'yle Game P>antam. These are new colors for an old ar- rangement; or is it a ment for old colors? new arrange- One by one the romantic mysteries of our youth are explained away in the light of cold reason. It has re- Petaluma, Dec. 5-9. H. R. Oakland, Nov. 21-27. Wm. San Dieso. Jan. 12-18. E. Stockton. Nov. 7-11. Wm. Show Dates— Season of 1911-1912. Arkansas. Fort Smith, Dec. 11-16. U M. Cur.son, Sec y., Rhodes and Thompson, Judges. Helena, Dec. 18-20. S. P. Hanly. Secy., Emry, Judj?e. Littlerock, Dec. 4-9. Jas. V. Johnson, Secy., Elmory and Marshall, Judges. Paragould, Nov. 2-4. A. W. Fligor, Secv., Orinlin. Judge. Pine Bluff, Nov. 27-Dec. 2. K. W. Phillips, Secy., Savage and McClave, Judges. California. Campbell, Secy.. Collier and Venn. .Judges, T. Frost, Secy., Venn, Collier and Cobbledick, Judges. V. Davis, Secy. H. JMcKay. Secy. Colorado. Boulder, Dec. 18-24. W. G. Nelmes, Secy., Southard. Judge. Colorado Springs, Dec. 11-16. H. II. Chase, Secy., 1422 N. Corona St., McClave, Judge. Denver, Jan. 17-20. Fred P. Johnson. Secy., Russell, Judge. Grand Junction, Dec. 25-30. F. J. Hendershot, Secv. Holly. Nov. 29-Dec. 2. D. M. Bodwell. Secy. Pueblo, .Ian. 2-6. Geo. Loomis, Secv., Heimlicli, Judge. SterJing. Jan. 13-16. A. R. Waldo, Secy. Connecticut. Bridgeport, Dec. 13-14. W. E. Hulse, Fairlield, Conn.. Secy. Bunnell. Graves and Ives, Judges. Cheshire, Nov. 7-9. Geo. A. Tucker. Secy., Card. Judge. Meriden, Dec. 29-.Ian. ]. D. T. Hedeler. Secy., Shove. Bonfoev and Ives, Judges. ^Vaterbury, Jan. 17-20. G. Fred Moore, Secy.. Card and Wells. Judges. West Haven, Nov. I'S-Dec. ]. W. J. Maher, Secv., Box 1525, New Haven, Conn., Andrews. Card. Smith, Graves and Buiniell, .Judges. Georgia. C. O. Harwell Secy., Coinman, Myers and Shaylor, Judges. T. M. PooU-, Secy., Cook, Fishel. Young, Thoiupson, Foley, Pans- .ludges. H. H. Verdery, Secy., ^Vliitnian and .Marshall, Judges. ]\r. L. Hunt, Sec.v., Pierce, Judge. S-13. 11-16. Atlanta, .Tan. Atlanta, Dec. den and Graves, Augusta, Nov. 6-11. (\)lcliester, Dec. 5-li. Dalton, Nov. 27-30. Savannah, Nov. 27-30. J. F 22-27 l^lackfoot, .Jan, Jerome. Jan. 16-20. R. Twin Falls. Dec. 12-16. AVendell, Feb. 6-10. — S D. >) Bernhardt, Secy., Brown, Judge. Idaho. B. Willis, Secy.. Gimlin. Judge. P. Pence, Secv.. Collier, Judge. W. F. Edwards, Secy.. Collier, Judge. . Secy., Collier, Judge. Illinois. A. Macauley, Sec.v.. Heimlich, .Judge. ; Dr. G. K. Worden, Secy., .lohnson and Rapp, Judges. E. P^renier, Secy., Heck. Judge. Albion. Dec. 18-20. Alton, Nov. 3(i-Dec Auiora. Jan. 23-27. . _. , . ., ... . „^. Blue Island, Jan. 17-20. Chas. F. Volp, Secy., Heimlich, Judge. Canton, Dec. 25-3(>. K. D. Geiger. Secv.. Russell. .ludge. Casey. Dec. 11-16. J. .1. Elder. Secy., Thos. Campbell, Judge. Centralia, Nov. 9-11. D. W. Hubbard, Secy.. Gimlin, Judge. Champaign, Dec. 26-30. C. E. Cox, Secy., I..eland, .ludge. Chicago. Dec. 14-19. Theo. Hewes, Secy., Indianapolis. Ind., Tucker, Russell. SheUa- l)aiger, Falkner. McCord, Pickett. Kaye, Rikteoff, VanWinkle. Ellison and Cook. Judges. Colchester. Dec. 5-9. M. P. Hunt, Secy., Pierce, .Tudge. DeKalb. Jan. 22-27. Wm. H. Hyde, Secy.. Shellabarger. Judge. Dixon, Jan. 22-27. J. A. Rosebaugh. Secv., Rhodes, Judge. Du Quoin, Nov. 27-29. Fred C Reiss, Secy., Heimlich, Judge. Elsrin. Jan. 8-14. C. I.,eitner, Secy., Noithup and Warnock. .Fudges. F^airtield. Dec. 13-16. D. K. Davis, Secv.. T. M. Campl)fll, Judge. Farina. Dec-. 11-14. A. W. Whitford. Secy., Heyl, Judge. J. S. Walker, Secy.. Palestine. 111.. Tavlor, Judge. Fred J. Bold, Secy., Pickett. Judge. Carrie Allen, Sec.v., Heimlich, Judge. W. H. Hammett, Secy.. Shellabarger, Judge. J. V. M. Greene, Secy., Hale. Judge. .1. S. Walker, Secy.. Palestine, 111., Shaw. Judge. C. A. Flore.v, Secy. W. T. Pierce, Secy., McCord and Pickett. Judges. O. F. Mlttendorf, Secy., McCord. Judge. K. Kirkpatrick, Secy. Oscar Hogberg, Secy.. Myers. Judge. . 4-9. A. R. Merrill. Secy.. Gimlin. Judge. 12-15. O. P. Rawlings, Secy., Dagle. Judge. 12-15. 15-19. 13-15. 27-30. 16-18. Flat Rock, Dec Galesbuig, .Ian. (Ji-eenfield, Nov Hennepin. Dec. Hillsboro. Nov. Hutsonville. .Jan. 2-d Kenney. Dec-. 27-30. Kewanee. Dec. 4-10 Pincoln. Dec. 11-16. I>itchfield, Dec. 5-8. Moline, Dec. 13-17. Mount Vernon. Dec Muj-ph.vsbc^i"o. Dec. Paris. .Jan. 8-12. J. S. Walker. Secy., Palestine. 111., Hevl and Shaw. .Judges Pekin. Dec. 19-23. H. P. Smith, Secy. Polo. Dec. 18-23. W. H. Snook, Secy.. Hale. Judge. T'rinceton. Dec. 11-15. AV. T. Naugle. Secy.. Shaner, .ludge (,)ulncv. Nov. 23-26. Albeit D. Smith. Secv.. Russell. Judge. Rockford. Jan. 15-20. (\ H. Zuck, Secy., RoscMie, 111.. AJcCord and Hale. Judges. Rnshville. Dec. l!»-20. .\. IT. Dace. Secy.. Russell. Judge. Salein. Dec. 3-9. Owen M. T..ewis. Secv.. Mvers. Judge. Si)ringfield. Jan. 1-6. Theo. S. McCoy. Secy.. 817 No. 5th St.. Russell Rhodes. Hale. Johnston. Deland and Klein, .ludges. . C. A. Fritz. Secy., .Tohnston. .ludge. Scoville. Secy.. McClare. Judge. C. A. Moxley. Secy., Shellaliarger. Judge. H. O. Sundav. Secv., Heimlich. Judge. 10-13. IT. F. Palmer, (Mirm.. 9521 Bishop McCord. Kceler, Staunton. Pec. 26-29. C^ias Sterling. Dec. 18-23. A. T. Tavlorville. Nov. 26-Dec. 2. Thomnsonvillo. Nov. 21-25. Washington Heights, .Tail. Keeler and Ploehm, .Tudges. St. Waukegan, Jan. 8-14, ^\'oodstock. Jan. 3-7. Zion City. .Tan. 2-6. Robt. C. Conally, Secy.; Byers. Rihkoff and Ec-kert. E. P. Hayes, Secy.. Hackett. Judge. John D. Thomas. Secy.; Warnock. Judge. Indiana. Auburn. Jan. 24-27. B. C, Imhoff, Secy.. Myers. Judge. T^erne. .Tan. 2-6. Saiuuel Simlson. Secy. Bloomington. Jan. 15-20. W. J. A'on Behren. Secv.. McCracken, Judge Columbus. Jan. 8-13. H. K. Valland. Secy.. Sites and Struble. Judges. Converse, Dec. 18-23. C. B. Judy. Secv.. Pickett. Judge. Panvllle. .Jan. 1-6. Martin Mitchell. Secv., Zike. Judge. Evan.sville. Jan. 8-13. II. J. Reimer. Secy.. 113 Heinlein Ave., McCord. Windle, Judges. Chicago, Judges. Muir .-md Page 58 cently been discovered that the ^old woman who lived in a shoe," and "had so many children she didn't know what to do," was a motherly old hen which attempted to brood the hatch of an incubator. It is better to be "a born fool" than to spend a lifetime in accpiirini^- noth- inj^- but folly. ^'ou "get there" (piicker, % % "Is there money in hens?" "You bet there is! I've got a small pile invested in mine." % m A hen can't measure success with a tape worm. \\'h( len tnmgs go wrong don't sit down and wring your hands, believ- ing that you are hoodooed, but in- vestigate the causes and remedy the faults. The beauty of an exhibition bird IS all on the surface: under-color don't add to the appearance: yet to pro- duce line surface color is not shal- low ness. Give the hens a chance to moult. Ihey will lay again when they lav aside their deshabille and are in full dress once more. Despite the Xew Jersey law against leathers being worn, feathers are still in style on the legs of Asiatic towls. and many an old hen, even in Jersey, wears 'em. What's the difference between a tancier and a practical i^oultryman ^ I)on't you know.^ A fancier raises birds while a practical poultryman •Hily keeps hens. It's all very simple when vou know. In poultry breeding, as in billiards a .scratch don't count. A chance blue- nbboner is not a certificate of merit as a breeder "I.iyes of great men all remind us," 'i hat's the way in which to rise,' And to get there with both feet firmly Is constantly to advertise. m m We are all inclined to take too nar- row a view of the meaning of the term, "workingman." The man who works with his brains is just as truly .•I workingman as the one who \vork< with liis hands. All men have their trials, the i)oul- try man among the rest, but the only one who seems to enjoy them i^ the lawyer. One of the <|ualities which we should strive to graft into our chick- ens is viability. Too many of them get weary with this world before the poultryman can realize anything but trouble on them. ^. m The man in search of the perfect chicken is. and always will be. con- stantly chanj^iiiig the breed which he keeps. "^ *^ The duck which laid a four-yolked egg, at the Orangeville I'oultrv Farm. Raltimore, Md.. was probably in- POULTRY FANCIER yC^r^srsHsr- ■T"»^,i:v','V''-.' 1 Oc tob er, '11 L,n,f (viV,'/ •j'v^;-- •^u.M. '•-I'lr-^irTi i^l^ Spencer, .Ian. 22-27. Sid Telle Haute. Jan. 16-20. Tipton, .Jan. 1»-14. Hallie Youns" America, Jan. l-(i. J U(1«e. .ludse. Midi. St. Judge. Ft. Wayne, Jan. 17-22. J. C. Howenstine, Secv., Nortluip. Judge. (loshen. .Ian. 5-12, li. K. Krutz, Secy.. Strong, Judge. (}reen(a.stle, Dec. 25-30. Henry O'Hair, Secy., R. 1, I^iiinbiidge, Ind.. Zil-30. Louis Wirth, Secv., Shaw, Judge. Remington, Jan. 9-14. AV. K. Peck, Secy., Dippel, Judge. Ren.sselaer, Jan. 2-6. II. B. Murray, Secv., Pickett, Judge. Richmond. Jan. 24-27. Frank I.. Waidele, Secv., McCracken, Shelbyville, Dec, 12-16. PYank Hale, Secy., McCracken. Judge. Sheridan, Jan. 24-29. G. R. McMurtv, Secv. Mvers. Judge. South Hend, Dec. 2S-Jan. 1. Paul A. Heiermann. Secy., 1716 S. Mathes. Secy. O. H. Tessman, Secy., Lane, Judge. Lane. Secy., Pickett, .ludge. A. D. Wood, Secy., Flora, Ind.. Gimlin. Iowa. Algona, Jan. 16-20. Frank H. Hendricks, Secv.. Rountree, .ludge. Ames, Dec. 11-15. W. H. Daggett, Secy., Halden, Judge. Anamosa, Jan. 15-20. L. A. Trump, Secv., Shanklin, Judge Cedar Rapids. Jan. 3-6. E. D. Monilaw. Secy., Russell and Shellabarger, Judges. Centerville, Dec. 21-23. J YZ. Butler, Secv., Russell, Judge. C^hariton, Nov. 21-22. F. AV. Frost, Secy., Russell. Judge. Charles City, Jan. 16-19. A. B. Shepard, Secv.. Musser Clarinda. Dec. 4-10. Martin Rohn, Secy., Dare, Judge Corydon. Dec. 4-9. F. B. Selby, Secy., Greenwald. Judge. Dallas Center, Jan. 2-5. Guy H. Hall. Secy., Dagle, Judge. Davenport, Nov. 20-25. H. A. Skelly. Secy., McCord and Hale, Judges. iKibuque, Dec. 26-30. A. H. Dehnliardt, Secv., Heimlicli, Judge. Kddyville. Dec. 27-30. .1. S. Oldham, Secv., Dixon, Judge. Fdgewood, Jan. 2-5. D. W. Newman, Secy., Shanklin, Judge. Fairfield, Dec. 7-9. S. A. Power, Secy., Russell and l>agle. Judges. Forest City, Dec. S-12. C. K. Nelson, Secv.. Slianer, .ludge. Ft. I>odge, Nov. 21-25. Mrs. Jas. Martinek, Secv., i:iliso!i. Judge. Glenwood. Dec. 7-9. J. C. Kates, vSecy.. Shellabarger. Judge. Grinnell, Dec. 26-30. D. A. Hopkins, Secv., Dagle, Judge. Jefferson, Dec. 4-6. D. E. Troxell. Secy., Mills, Judge. W. Reid, Secy.. Dippel, .ludge. J. Rankin, Secy.. Sliellabarger, Judge. Goetch, Secy., Shellabarger, Judge. H. Hougliton, Secy.. Shaner and Ellison. \'. Bickel. Sec-y., Shanklin, Judge. Hinkley, Secy., Ricliards, Judge. • • Judge. Lowden. Dec. 12-15. Chas. Matjuoketa, Dec. 12-22. Manning, Jan. 9-14. H. Marshalltown. Dec 4-7. Mason (Mty, Jan. 9-12. .Me. X'crnon, Dec. 13-15. Muscatine, Dec. 4-9. J New Hampton, .Tan. 29-Fel) New I.ondon, Dec. 4-7. A New A'iiginia. Nov. 2 Oskaloosa. Dec. 20-23. M. C. F. M. M. (\ Judges. Collins, Secy., Shanklin. Judge. 5. P. .1. Cooney, Secy., Rhodes, Judge. M. Cornwell, Secy., Sliellabarger, Judge. 30. 1^. E. Wilson, Secy., Shaner. .ludge. H. A. Snuftin, Secy., Dagle, Judge. Hale. Judge. Richland, Dec. 12-15. Meile Fearis, Secv., Warnock. Judge. Sioux (^ity, Dec. 28- Jan. 1. D. G. Wcrtz, Sec.v.. Elliott and Mc(\ukell, Judges. Storm Lake. Dec. 6-8. A. G. Hoch. Secv., Dippel. Judge. Tipton, Dec. 19-22. R. E. Kent, Secy., Shanklin, Judge. Vinton, Jan. 3-6. H. N. Gilmore, Secv.. Dixon .ludge. Waterloo. Dec. 12-14. V. J. Schneck, Secy.. Russell, Judge. Kansas. Chen-yvale, Jan. 8-1 ::. \\. Clark, Secy., (Jimlin, Judge. Clay Center, Dec. 19-23. AY. S. Binkley, Secv.. Stoner, Judge. Coffeyville. .Tan. 8-13. Alva T. Dillon. Secv.. Southanl, Judge. Dodge City. Dec. 4-9. F. A. Etrick, ^^v\., CMipp. Judge Eldorado, Dec. 18-23. Rali)h B. Earp. Secv., Atherton Judge Newton, Dec. 10-16. E. I^. Sanner, Secv.. Heimlich, .ludge. F»ar.sons. Dec. 25-31. F. B. Si)icer, Secy., 2226 Belmont Ave., Pittsburg. 13ec. 12-15. P. J. Atkins, Secv., Southard Judge. Topeka, I^ec. 4-9. R. F. Palmer. Secy. Kentucky. Ashland, Jan. 8-11. J. S. Secrest. Secv. Winchester, Dec. 13-16. J. H. Newberry, Secy., Fischell, Louisiana. Jennings, Dec. 18-23. G. A. Connley, Secv., Gimlin, Judge. Monroe. I3ec. 7-9. PI S. Eby, Secy.. Marshall .ludge. New Oileans, Nov. 29-Dec. 4. (Mcero A. Ramsev. Secv., Keeler and Marshall, Judges. Maine. I*. Coffin. Sety., Bnllon, Bartlett. Shove and WaLson, Judges. v. Crockett. Secy., (%)ffin and Shove. Judges. Maryland. O. Brown, Secy., Nichols, Schwab, Witt man. Card, Denny, Carman and Kriner, Judges. Judge. No. :;n Carondelet St. Freeport. Dec. 26-29. Geo. South I^aris, Jan. 2-4. E. Baltimore. Jan. 2-6. Geo. Oke, Hnyler, Seaman. Bel Air, Jan. 8-13. Norman L. Kisling. Secy. Boston. .Tan. •♦-13. AV. 13. Atherton. Secy., 30 liroad St., King, Judge Greenfield, Dec. 12-14. O. R. Keller, Secy., Tasker and Weed, Judges'. Hol.voke. Nov. 22-24. Percy M. Alden. Secy., Williamansett. Mass., Card and Ta.sker, Judges. AVilliamsett, Nev. 22-24. Percy M. Allen, Secy., Card and Ta.sker Michigan, Bay City, Jan. 30-Feb 4. A. J. (^)pcland. Secv. Hathawav Judge Calumet, Jan. 1S-2W. (\ T. Bashore, Secy.. (Mii)p, .Iuv-^^5fn^ U.O£!£ber. 'uJ^pOULTRY FANCIER^ lUienced by the name of the farm, and went long on the orange and short on the white color. Many feathers in the yard mean few e.Ligs in the nest. WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICK now for all Eggs. Get eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens, "Polly" which was chosen ovi-r 1st Madison Square Pullet of lyog-io, from 1st and 2d Providence, 1st Frankfort. 1st Knoxville, isl Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain to make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from all matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards, Geo. L. W^olfe, Prop.. Rogersville. Tenn. THE WORLD' SGREATEST Strain Partridge Wyandottes 300 Choice pullets and 150 Beautiful cock- erels, to select your exhibition stock from. Descendcnts of BOSTON and MADISON SQUARE WINNERS. Write your wants to day to A. K, AMBOE & SON MARINETTE, AVIS. Consider this Offer!! We will give you $35.00 worth of thorough- bred poultry free of charge as per our combi- nation poultry outfit offer. W^rite for full particulars. Beautiful colored chick picture iree. WESTERN POULTRY FARM 923 Harriet Street Winona, Minn. Doublo Prof Ha I blintf. Progressive lioultrymen know that ordinary potil- try brinKS 10c. to Ihc. on the market, while Capons readily sell for'Oc. toSOc. a pound, and often higher. CapoPH are easy to raise and bring double price — double jirotits. PlLLIXi} CAPON TOOLS are "easy to use." A "Pilling" Capon Set with ^complete guide and instructions sent postpaid for8'2..")0. liyle, Secy., Gault. Judtre. Dec. 3. J. R. Humbach. Secv.. Box 125. Jane, Judge. 11-16. A. E. Moon. Secy., Falkner. Judge. C. S. .\ngle-?.Iyer. Secv.. McClave, Judge. W. T^eitz. Secy.. Gault and Struble. Judge. H. J>. Adai^s, Secy., Mcintosh. Judge. Claude E. Coe. J^exington. O.. Secy.. McClave, Stream ^Tnmilton, Nov. 28- .Teffersonville. Dec. 1 ectonia. Feb. 7-10 Lima. Dec. 4-9. F. Lisbon. Jan. 8-13. Mansfifld. I^ec. 4-9. •ludges. .Marion, Nov. 21-25. Massillon. Jan. 10-15. A^edina, Jan. 9-13. '1 Aiilan. Dec. 6-9. Tj. Nnlsonville. .Jan. 1-6. and Case T. V. AVilson. Secv., T^ne and Keller. Judges. Thos. Kesser, Secv . P. Hallock. Secy.. B. Samsen, Sc.;^'. V. B. Carty, Secy., Campbell. Judge. Sti-eam. Judge. McCracken. .ludge. Clipp. Ju. Da vies. Secy. Zancsville. Jan. 15-21. Frank C. (^lester. Secy.. Myers, Judge. Oklahoma. l<:i R^no, Dec. 26-29. Jno. (Jililan, Secy. Fi. v;mith, Viev. 11-16. L. M. Crusom. Secv.. Rhodes and Thompson. Judges. H\(lio, Dec. 6-9. Miss Lulu G. Thrales. Secy.. Gladish, Judge. Kingfisher, Dec. 5-9. y. G. Thrown. Secv. Muskogee. Jan. 8-13. (\ R. Binding, Secy., 223 N. Maiti St., Ellison. Judge. Shawnee. Dec. 12-1(5. K. W. T..eitc}i, Secy., Emery. Judge. ^??7--^?^-'.P^..:i;J.JM->Vy^ry )?-JBr Page 60 AMERICAN LEGHORN CLUB. on single 211(1 prize, prize. 5th I Ills club will liohl its annual meeting lor tlie election of officers and to tran- sact any other business tliat may come up l)etore it (luring- the (heat Southern In- ternational l»oultry Show, to l)e held in Atlanta, (la.. December 11-l»i, l!Ul. Date and hour of dub meeting- to be 'Phursday, December 14th. at 3 o'clock, p. ni.. in the show room. It is most earnestly re- quested that each club member be pres- ent and lielp make this meetins' the larg- est and most heli)ful meeting- of anv ever held by the club. Here are the i)rizes al- ready offered, and more to follow— 1st prize, $1(1; 2nd prize. .$5; ;5rd prize $4: 4th prize. $2; 5th prize. U: birds. On ])ens. 1st i)rizc .$15- |1<|; .'!rd piize, $5; 41 h prize, $4; •pi. Five dollars in gold to the member winning most points in S. C. Whites, H acks. Browns, Buffs and R. C. Whites, Blacks. Browns and Buffs each and $■> 50 in gold to members winning second most points in above varieties. Other si)e- cials will be announced as offered To each new member who joins between now and December 11th will ])e given a handsome fountain i)en, valued at full $1. Membership fee is only .$1, with dues paid until .July 1st. 1912. Mr. Doring Brown, of Cymrna. Cfa.. will gladly accept any meml)er who wislies to joint this club. Send him vour U and he will do the rest. THE AMERICAN BUFF WYANDOTTE CLUB. The next annual meeting of the Amei-- ican Buff Wyandotte Club will be iield at the (Jrand (Vnlral Palace Show in Tsew York City on Wednesday. Dec. 0, 1911. at ;] p. m. This will surelv be the best clul) meet of this club as tiiere will he .$200 in cash offered in special prizes and the money is put up in sucli a wav that all will have a chance at it. Strong- efforts will l)e made to break all the records for Buff Wyandotte exhibits, we should have fifty exhibitors and three hundred birds. Join the club and get in the game, for the good of the bree.l We ask members and all interested to contribute and make entries. It is up to you. Members are asked to send in tiieir ^*'"- 'T'^ges. Everett.. .Tan 9-12. l-T. H. Petersbageii. Sec v.. T^ar m' t't Jp* ' j,,due Kennevvick. Jan 2-5. R. C. AJoun.sey. Secv . Coll er.'judWe North A'akima. Jan. 9-13. D. A. Gillette. Se v ] b^An m^^^^^ Clympia. Dec. 26-30. Chas. A. Burr Secv I'^ixon t ii. V PoinfToi' Iti^r' iw oo IT . T """• '^^'.>-. iJixon. .judge. ioineio>. iJec. lS-2.^. H. a. T.oudagan, Secv. Collier liul"*:. Port Townsend. i:)ec. 23-30. Arch C TweediP sJr^x r m t i niarleston, .Tan. 15-20. G. R. Edgal^Sc^.''.'^^'"',"- judge ■ A arlin.sburg. Nov. 29-T)ec. 2. Tavh.r M." bffer.so Secv ■ Morgantown. Jan. 10-13. S. B. Allen Secv Case Tn.irf.? l'hillir.i, .Tan 2-5. Geo. E. J^arnes Secv ,' AI dnt?;slf " l^/i. ' ■ St Mar.v.s. I3ec. 13-18. F. J. Rife. Secv. " Ar.I dos, jii. Je Salem. ,Tan. 23-26. C. T. Shain, Secy..' Ablnt/.sh. Indg^:. \ii T^ .„ .^ Wisconsin. .Albany, T)ec. 12-16. liichard J^engillv. Secv Gi-eenwiM T.wi..^ Cambridge. Nov. 21-23. Rev. K ( \ 1 o ler \se< v Tlae^ Dodgeville. Dec. 19-22. T)r. (^has. Scl n tt Secv ' ICei or V,, '/'' ^^''• Green liay. Keb. 1-4. Louis H. ifebel Se^v ' ^ ^^''^''' 'T^'^^^- LeCrosse, Dec. 5-11. .L 'TT. Poehling ' Secv." Hoffm-m Inrio-n Lake Geneva, T>c. 12-15. TL F. CoA^oft. Se'cv ' •'"*^*^'^- Kie. T)ec. 28-31. AVin. Ree, Secy., Gre.nwald Judge Madison. .Tan 9-13. Ja.s. TJalpin.. Secy.. 'Pucker .udge Alanitowoc. Nov. 28-Dec 3 \ p qf.i.oni.,,, o,/.., r i , -r^ Milwai.kee:. .Tan 12-14^ Theo.''Koss,^Secv i" .Hn ich ludg;!" ='"' ""''''"'' '^"•^^^^• Mineral Point, Jan. S-13. Allen Tucker. Secv I^eler dU> Monomowoc, Dec. 6-10. (^ha.s. Behrend. Jr ' SVc ' ^ ' . r'l'r'-'' V, •^'^"- ^^-'^^- J^-'^- Ii'vine. Secv.. Tucker juduc IMatteville, Jan. 1-6. Tly. Pargman. Secv. SM a'w age Sparta Jan 29-I^>b. .3. J. J.. Ilerbst. Secy. (Jimlin lult^o s;pSo;."Wn''-> -"^''tt^T Vt T^-««>r^. Sec-y.. I la.k'ett '7udge. rtui^erioi. .Jan. 22-2(. TT. .T. Hammerbeck. Secv Robeits Tndirp Wat^rtown. Jan. .3-8. A. J. Gamm, Secy.. Greenwaid. judg^^^ < * • 'j October, '11 POULTRY FANCIER; 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 a fair price for an ex'er fi'om lars. good wlier* Question.— AVhat is exhibition bird? An;-wer.---lt depends upon tiie varietv and ui.on how g.Mxi the individual is. If the individual bird is of a verv popular varuty. m which there is severe compe- tition, aii.l IS a "top-notcher," scoring higii e!ioii,-ii 1,1 the nineties to win w^here- showii, he is worth almost anv price one hundred to two tiiou.saiid dol- Jt ot a less popular \aiietv, and enough to win in an ordinary sliow competition is not verv close he may command a price ranging 'fioni tvven- ty-hve to fifty or seventy-five dollars It IS simply impossible to give an absolute answer to such a (fuestion, there are so man\- ( ircumstances to be considered Question. — Wiiat is a fair pii. e for a good breeding bird? Answer.— See previous question and an- swer. The value of a good breeding l)ird depends upon the sex— males are woitli more tlian females— the poi)ular- it.v ot the breed and variety, and the individual excellence. In a general wav good breeding males are worth from teii 4lollars up. and good hreeding females Irom five dollars up. The upper limit -T^^ ^"•'^*"^' -^^^^^ n« ( e.ssaiii.\ so. b.-cause the wliole make-up of the bird, including sfze, must o the^u r;;"'^ irnpres.sion upon th^e mind or tne nidge. J he rule n the Standard night be made clearer, but such seems a •u e ^"^^.^P^tation. especially whin the lule is read in connection with that in the previous Standard. " Question.— AVill you kindlv t40l ON SUCCESS WITH POULTRY IS ^^ Milwaukee. Wis THE BE5ST ROOIf T"^^ r"-*^°^ ^;*'"^' ^°** p^°^*» that th,s boo^ * * **^ A#J:^%J 1 OV/V/IV 1 ^o"t«»n""nfornn»tion upon a greater variety of subject.sthan any book on poultry ever written. It ha.s also drawn out more unsolicited testimonials from authorities and experts Why worry and wonder and grope in the dark> Why learn by expensive experience and disap- sniall a price? The knowledge gained by year. ♦ uPS"^"S^'^ contained in this book. The methods and secrets of the foremost successful breeders and exhibitors in the show room are given in full. Thousands of Copies Have Been Sold and Every Purchaser a Pleased One It contains 12H pages, is handsomely bound printed on good paper with fine large type eaiy Price 50 Cents per Copy Or the book and Poultry Fancier one year for 65 cents. Address orders to Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 357 Dearbora St., Chicago. III. V^:^^^^ n • i-i v<"^.-^iiuii.— >Mii you kindlv an.swer in Keipper Cooping Company your next month's edition of the ••Poui- First St. Milw«„kp. W!« ''■\vL^"'r.r::,.,^'\^JV!'o^^'^"^ question: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS By FRANK HECK Uh.it would be the proper quajititv of whole corn to feed fifty pullets, the whole U'Mt ''V'^^ *''^ evening feed? H reed Hhite Leghorns and I-Jarred liocks f have fifty birds of each variety ' ^ rniV'''fy,7"7'S-'^ ''iiPV»«i»Jle to lay down a Mile for feeding which will cover all cases. \ot (,nly d,, different varieties re.iuire different quantities of food but he hens of the .same variety differ in their needs, and even the .same hen re- MUires more food s.)me times than .slie does at other times. The old rule to h7^\Zl^'\u ''•'" ''^ ^^'^^" "l^ *'l^'"^ cannot be gieatly improved upon. In a gen- eral way it may be .said that flftv White Leghorn pullets— full grown— would re- Minre tor their evening feed about three «iuarts of whole corn, and fiftv liarred Rocks would re lu Lilt? 1 eaci V tr \\ i iiuei >. I'^itfll JlKI^e will l)e «^iven a supply of "('oniinended" ril)l)ons and will be instiiicted to plaie as many in each c-lass of ail varieties, soiitl and i)arti-colored as in his judgment the birds ale woithy. PRINCETON, IND. The secon.l annual exhihit of the I'lince- lon Poultry Association will be held the we^k cf Dec. 25-;]0. l!»ll. Tiiis show, last season, was a ^rand success in ever.\- re- spect and this year we will atteini)t to outdo all former attenii)ts. .Judj^e F. L. Shaw will i)lac"e tlic awards. Premimn lists n:ay be had by writing Sec'v Louis .1. Wiith, R. R., No. 5. or Ass't Sec'y .Jolm \V. Coi-der, both at Princeton, Ind. WAUKEGAN, ILL. The sixth iiimual exiiil)ition of tlie Ill- inois Poultrx- Flanders' Association will h.f- iieUl .January Nth to 14th, inclusive, 1912, at Battery C Armorv, \Vauke'4an, 111. C. S. Hyei-s, H. F. Rihkoff and Geo. ICckert iiave l)een en.{4aj;ed to place the awards. .Mr. H>ers will jud^e tlie Amer- ic-an, Asiatic and English classes; Mr. Rihkoff the Mediterranean and Mi'. i^:ck- ert will lijive the i)et stoik. The Wauke- San sliow for each of the past two \cais has had well over a tlunisand l)ir(is on exhibition and preparations ha\e l>een made for a still lar,i;er entry this .\ear. Besides the le^ular cash preniivnns an in- (-•reascd amount in specials and cu]is will be placed for c-om])etition. For premium list and other information address the Secretarv, Robt. C. Conollv, \\'aul\e,i;an. 111. AMERICAN CORNISH CLUB. At the meetinj; to be held in Ralti- inore, .Jan. 1-H. I!tl2, the Club will offer about .$15(1.00 in cash i)rizes to Club .Mem- bers. We are j^oiUK' to make these iirizes so all idaces will win money clear down to tenth place on singles and down to iiftl". on i)ens and to liiird on displa.w We ur^e all members to send their bii'ds and to attend this 10 cents for catalogue, or bership and set one free.— Sec, Eureka. 111. ELGIN, ILL. meeting. Send .$1.00 for mem- H. C. Hayes, The Fl^in show will be held .Jan. S-l*', with Nortiiui». Warnock and Mosher as Judges. Anions the special prizes of- fered are ten silver cups and $400.00 in cash. Ten dollars is offered for liist pen in all varieties. Write for iiremium list to Chris, n. Leitmer, secretary. BUCYRUS. OHIO. The third amiual show of the Bucyrus poultry Association will be held Dec. 11- IG. The judges are lOu^ene Sites and Ira C. Keilcr. This show will, as usual, be one atronized l)y e\ery breeder who can ptjssibly send his l)irds. Wiite to 1). M. Odaffer, secretary, for i)remium list. TOPEKA, KAS. Secretary Russell F. I'ahner, of To- peka, Kansas, writes that it is keeping liim on the .jump these days to answer the many letters from breeders who ex- pect to exhibit at Topeka, Kan.sas, De- cember 4-9. Mr. Palmer has arranged with Judges C. H. Rhodes, F. W. Rankin. Ji. V. Hicks and C. F. Smith, of Kansas; C. W. f^rehm and (J. D. McClaskey, of Nebra.ska; F. C. Van Winkle, of Texas; \V. C. FUi.son an■ lilank. — Sam l^lack. Secretary. NOTICE TO SHOW SECRETARIES. The International Rose Coml» Black •Minorca (^lub wishes to offer siXM-ial prizes at all i)oultry shows in the I'liited Stales and Canada the coming season and re(|iiests that the following notice be posted in youi- i)ieiniuni list and cojjv of same sent to the secretar.\' of the club: ••The International Rose Comb P>lack Mi- noi-ca Clul) offers five si)ecial silk badges, one each for bes'. cock, lien, cockerel. j)ul- let and ])en. These are j'.wardt-d to -bib members only and those wishing to com- l>ete for same should send $i'.oo to the national secretary, Llo.vd C. .Mishler. North Manchester, Ind., l)efore judging begins. This pays for initiation and first year's dues and allows .m>u to compete for the badges at this and other shows. Also state chami)ionship awards will be mad.^" PARTI-COLORED BIRDS ROCHESTER. AT The poultry iiress has been teaming lately on the subject of cockerel and pul- let, or doul)Ie matings and the useless mating, it be- l)lace for them of this great feature and those that ha\e already been made known to you through this paper the "(Jreat Roch- ester Show" will award commended ril)- and i)arti-colored as in his judgment the birds ale worthy. In liie Standard Exhibition I'en classes there will he a division, viz.: old and >ciun'j, i)ens will compete against each other onl\' and not young against old or old against young. Siher troiihy cups are being offered by the specialty clubs and the cash specials already indicate a ]>renuuin list overMow- ing and with scjmething for everyone. Better get one of these premium lists from John F". Tallinger, Secretary, Box Xo. S4, B.'rnards, N. V. The siiow dates arc Dec. 11-lt;. m ^ THE GREAT ST. LOUIS SHOW. Tlie St. Louis Poultry. Pigeon and Pet .Stock Association has issued the most attrac-tive i)remiuiii list ever offered in the West. It is full of Cash Specials, and Silver Cups, and large cash specials avf offered on Turkeys and Capons, a Chaiii- l)ion Trophy which co.st $5oo.(Mi, the most expensi\e trophy e\er offered at any l)oultry show in the world is offered on S. C. \\'hite Leghorns. St. Louis will surel\' ha\e a Banner Show this year, as large inducements are offered on all classes. The show will be cooped thi'ough- out by Spratts I'atent, and judged b.\' comparison. The Secretary advises that he is in receipt of over 1.500 recpiests for entr;.' blanks. Tiie entry is limited to :!,(»00 birds and closes November 15th. For i)remium list and entr\- blanks, a 1). m., Tlnirsda.\-. .Ian. ISth, i:n2. .ludge .1. H. Minshall has been engaged esjie- ciallx' for the occasion and he has the reputation of being one of the best judges of this \ariet.v in America. Alread>' three siher c ui)S are promised besides a large amount of cash prizes so that it will ])a.\' ever.N'one who possibl>' can to make an exhibit at Scianton. We still ha\e a few copies of the 1!»10 issue (»f the club catalogue to distribute ami all those interested in Minorcas should send for a coi).v at once as our supiily is lim- ited. For catalogue and an.\' further in- formation regarding club, address LIo\d C. Mishler, secretary. North Manchester, Ind. AMERICAN CAMPINE CLUB. The American Campine Club will hold a meeting at Madison S(|uare (Jardeii, New York show, Thursday, Decembei^ 21st, at 2::>o p. ni. At that time a per- manent organization will be formed, of- licers elected, etc. It is expected that the Rev. K. Lewis .Jones, Hon. Secietaiy )f the Campine Club of (ircat Britain, will be present. This will be a splendid opi)or- t unity for atl interested in the C^impines to hear Rev. .Jones rthe best lixing au- thority on Campines) talk on this grand breed. AH interested j-arties ai^e asked to join the club, no initiation fee being charged to those who appl.v for member- siiip i)rior to Decemlier 21st, P.m. $Loii sent before December 21st. 1911, covers dues for the year l!tl2. M'he following i)remiums are open to foreign or American bred birds: Chal- lenge Cup. Handsome sterling silver, value $50.00. For best display of Ameri- can bred Silver Campines, points to count, cuj) to be won three times, or twice in succession before ownership can be claimed. $20.0(1 gold piece, for best display (»f Campines, both varieties competing, lioints to counts. Silver and Golden Cam- pines, $5.00 gold for best ( ock, hen. cock- erel, pullet and pen. Handsome Club Ril»- bon for best male, b<»st female, best col- ored male, best colored female and best hen. These specials are in addition to the regular premiums offered by the New York Show management. Address all com- munications to M. R. .lacobus, secretary liro tern, American (-ampine Club, Ridge- field, N. J. • • • i # October, '11 POULTRY FANCIER; CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS )ers and initials connr tUp «am» ». w^^J- .... . . Numbers and initials count the same as words. 30 words or less one month. $1. For more than 30 wordt add two cents tor each additional word. 30 words or less, three months. $2. For more than 30 word, add o 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 aftord 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 fcr 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. SJl^*'^' J^I^E^DING STOCK, BARKED AND White Plymouth Rocks. S. C. White Leg- horns. Buff and Diamond Jubilee Orpingtons A thousand breeders, great layers. Circular free. Milton A. Brown. Route 3, Attleboro. Mass. . . ..; FOR SALE— EGGS FROM PENS SCORING 91 to 95. White and Buff Orpingtons R C jy^i^^^^"^ BInck Minorcar^. R. C. Reds and Buff Rocks. Send for circular. Geo. Leas- ui-e. .30,) Bambne Ave.. Znnesville. O. 33 ANCONAS AND HOUDANS. EGGS FROM winners $1..^,0 for 15. C. C. Freese, La Porte 3:? Ind. EGGS FOR HATCH LVG. S. C WHITE l,*"^^"!""^ ^1 and $2 per 15, $5 per hundred; Buff Wyandottes. $2; Buff Cochin Bantams $1 for 12; AVhite Pekin Ducks, $1 for 1" Dr. Logue, 243 Pine St., Williamsport, pa. 33 BARRED PLYMOUTH ROUKS. IHE WORLD RENOWNED RINGLET Barred Rocks. Won first on cock, cockerel, pullet, hen. pen, two silver cups at Wiscon- sin State Show, 1909. Eggs, best pens. 15 tor $3; 30 for $5. As they run. 13 for $1; 100 for $4. Cockerels. $2 and up. Crit- phette's Poultry Farm, Markesan. Wis. 124 KLXGI.IOT BARRED ROCKS DIRECT FROM I'honipson's best matings. Eggs $1.50. $2.50 and $5 per 15. Fertility guaranteed.' Also l'e] SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. Ol II SHOW RECORD THE LAST FEW yoars placM.s our Silver Wyand<.ttes in the front lank. No better laying strain to be found anywhere. Eggs .$2.50. $3.50 and $5 _3\^ A- Marner. M. P.. Miles. Ta. 3:! for 1 ORPINGTONS. BOOK ON ORPINGTONS! SEND 10c TO- f^y ^°^ cliib 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 i".io QUALITY HILL HATCHERY & BREEDING Co. offers the best baby chicks and eggs from the best noted strains of Buff, Black and White Orpingtons. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Prices ten to fifteen cents each. Write for prices. W. ,1. Seavolt, Mgr.. Attica, O -{4 RHODE ISLAND REDS. ROSE COMB (1) male scoring 9314, RHODE ISLAND REDS— Pen ^ ,. by F. H. Shellabarger; eight pullets scoring S^M to 92%. Eggs. $3 Pen (2), eggs, $1.50. Ralph A. Hicks Maquol S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. ?ono^'^?o ^- ^- ^VM^TE LEGHORNS WIN InL^'l SP^^/field 1st cock. 1st hen. 1st and od cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, 1st ll\n'' ^^.T''^^ ^^^^- ^^ the Grand Centrl Palace. 4th cock. 5th hen. 2d cockerel 4th h!^n rth ^""uK^^-n ^* Madison Square 4th hen. 6th pullet, 5 entries. 15 egers for «3- no^for $5. W. .1. Blake, Burnside, cinn 21112 R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. EGGS FROM CHICAGO AND KANSAS City winners. R. c. White Leghorns Bred S^how"^ l%Yi 'T; ^I'^T:^ at^l,ii'n"ois S^ nnll^;- ]l\' ^^\ ^""^ 2d hen, 1st and 2d vnn! 'k ff' ''°''^' cockerel, hen and pullet None better, so .send me your order for eggs. $2 per 15 or $3 50 pe'^r 30. Circula'r ^^^^^^Pet^ers, Lily White Poultry ANCONAS. AN cox A EGGS $1.50 PER 15. MATING — 43 BLACK MINORCAS. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. EGGS FROM 4 pens; selected trapnested hen.s^ large blSk beauties. Standard bred; hea^y ele pro duction combined with quality that brfnes tn.me the blue. Send for mating list bf- ordermg elsewhere. Richard Oetzel Richmond. Ohio. 33 DUCKS AND GEESE. fore Ve»\ WlLKlXs won at .St. del- eggs now. lens $2.0(1 per Wilkins. Routt Qr.Xi.ri'^ largt . I'EKIN Dl-CKS 1..0UIS. Kansas Citv hreveport. etc. As ' " 11 1. Dallas. ,, . ^^ they grow. Or- len A $5.00 per 11, other '•'• ■I' 11.'. MO per 100. R. ()|)el(>usas. La. R. 410. PIGEONS WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMFR i?"f p , "^S^hest prices paid. S. Gilbert 112s Palmer Street. Philadelphia. Pa 126 HILLHTRST GIANT YorNcj.STERS THIM-M^" months ol.i. $1 each. Mate.l pahs $V wm raise squabs weighing l.» to Is pounds ner doz(-n. Illustrate,! catalog, lo cts pl^i^fn I>ept.. R. l;{. (),-,.hard I'a.k V Y * '^^'''^ POULTRY SUPPLIES. GAPES IN CHICKS. BUY BUCKEYE treatment and you will have no gapes It's .,sale and sure. Sent by mail on receipt of price. .lO cents and $1 per box. G. B Sle- genthaler. Canton. O. 6-4 PIN HEAD OATS— THE GREAT CHICK starter. $2.75 per 100 lbs. Write for Feed Price List. .J. G. Hermann & Co.. Indian- apolis. Tnd. .^c; PRINTING. PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL. NOTE heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards tags. 100 either. 40c; 250, 75c; 500. I1.2R postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en- giavlngs. Beautiful samples for stamp. Model Printing Co.. Manchester. la 10-S FARMS FOR SALE. FARMS FOR RENT OR SALE ON CROP payments. J. Mulhnll. Sioux City. la, \fi EXCHANGE. WANTED— TO EXCHANCi:. CHOICE S. C. Brown Legho-ns for Reds or Buff Cochins. Fine cockerels $1.50 up. Write for descrip- tion, telling what you have to offer. Harry T. Trainer. Carpenter. Ohio. 111012 PERFECT COOPS AT RIGHT PRICES. The leadiim faiu-iers are convinced thnt it s!n' possible, to luive their birds make a noper showing, and have them win their -hare of prendunis at the shows whi^-h s!) iuslly belong to them withont l)einu- pi-operly trained in a hist class ex- hibition coop. What is true oi t;e veteran is tine to the novice, and ou^ht to he consi.h'ied by every fancier. F(.llo\vins this process ot reasoniiif;, I lu KeiPJ.er dnvmv^ Co. liave (k'Si.i^ned and ecpi 1 ped themselves for the manutac ure of the Keipper (^)llapsihle Toops, c-omb n- inu the hi^iliest ronceptnm ;>f,.\'"<'l' ' ' ^/\ .'' rn^^ed strength and stal)i biy. that ai - dentlv apieals to every fancier, and w n h CO i.sit es a money valne nnaffected by anv use to winch a c.op may be snb.iec e.l. The fani'ier who does not wish an aiiis- tic effect combined with f.iuliless service: who does not wish hiuh .grade material fashioned by handicrafi that insnres^^but thai (,'oI- with hnd ,,ne coop expenditure m a htetime not appreciate the energy and ettort have produced for him the Keipper lapsible Coop. , . Associations cooping their shows the Keipper Collaosible (V)oi)S. will nearly all the work of setting np coops done away with, as these coops e^m ')e set np as fast as the platforms can be laid on the horses, and fold so as to use hardly anv spac-e when not in use. These coops reallv pav for themselves in a few shows bv the saving of labor. We su.ggest to oiu" readers that they send for the free cata- logue describing these coops. Address Keipper Cooping Cc, 14 First St., Alil- waukee. Wis. ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL FOR OCULUM. . Sept. 'M CO.. 1. lltll. please T'niontown, Pa. HANCO<"K INOCri.ATl Salem. Ya. Centlemen: , . , Enclosed find $1.00 for which send to me one bottle "()culu»in.' T^ast fall 1 moved my chickens (1;)0) and for three nights had them in a wire pen without anv shelter and they caught severe ccdds which later develo])eil into Roup, which from the very start I tried to break u]) by using almost every known remedy except •'Oculum." I killed ont tU hens and pullets, and the pullets were fully matured, but was getting only an egg everv two or three days. I got a bottle of your "Oculum" and used it as directed (during a very cold spell) and the second day after using it we could notice a redness in the combs that shows us that the medicine was do- ing the work, then we began to get eggs, in less than two weeks we got as high as 28 in a day and they k»pt it u]) anv specimens. We guarantee satisfaction. W. L. YATES, BUTLER. IND. \^ATSONS R. C. B. MINORCAS Are winners among the world's best. Catalog free. Norman H. 'Watson. R 6, Mystic. la. ROSE COMB REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kenne}s and Poultry Farm Box 58 : : Shrewsbury. N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons, Pheasants, Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies. Stock £f Eggs cheap. New bO page cat. 4 cts. r. J. Damann. Farminglon, NInn. LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Choice cockerels at special prices. WILL IMPROVE YOUR FLOCK E. M. Buechly, Box 10, Greenville, Ohio PHILLIPS* S. C. BLACK MINORCAS Noted for shape, size atid 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. BUFF ROCK SALE Cockerels $2 to $5 each, pullets $1.50 to $3 each. Bred from Philadelphia, Allentow^n tf Scranton w^inners-. Satisfaction guaranteed, Chas. J. Kremer, Souderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R.I. Reds ^ery fine Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few of the best matings in the central W^est. Write for mating list Life member American Poultry Association. American R. I. Red Club. Io>va Branch, U. S. C. R. L Club. JOHN KISSINGER OREENFIFin, IOWA Champion Barred Rocks Winners of the North American Cup for best pen of birds in the Show, Jl pens competing, I'hiladelphia, i(>io. Fine show stock and breeders for sale. Top Notch Farms. Box 12, Water Mill.N.Y. JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winners lor years at Amerieas leading shows . Three grand matings. that are sure to produce ^ I w^inners for any competition. Eggs $3 and .' y ^"^ per 15. Free Mating List. f ^ D. F. Jones, R. 3. Box 1 1, Naryville, N«. ■ Strain of S. C. "White Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt, "Washington, low^a. BED ROCK STRAIN OF S. C. W. LEGHORNS Are noted for their ^ood laying, lar>;e size, pure white and show winning qualities. Send for cir- cular with price on stock and list of show winnings its free. We have no other breed. C C. Foster, Prop., R 1, Box i;o, Quincy, Mich. COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Prizewinning stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. While Leghorns bred from leading strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for mating: list. G. W. Garlock, box 5, Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak Lawn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAW^N FARM NYACK, N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston, Chicago. Buffalo and Pittsburg in last two years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA All Leading Varieties of land and water fowls. Write me what you want. Have some fine surplus stock. Egrgfs of all varieties strongly fertile $2 per 15, Incubator Eggs $8 per 100. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, cjuality the best, satisfaction guar. F. I. BRADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy. Pa. K. C R. 1. REDS First prize w^inners at Des Moines and Cedar Rapids 7 PENS MATED FOR THE EGG TRADE Send for mating list. L. Sherman Kline I^^T'iS^A WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including my winners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bargain. GLEN F. RICHARDS, Poultry Judge Box F. 215. Le Grand, Iowa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are w^inners. neavy layers, quick grow^ers. Get started with Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzger. North Manchester, Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. "Write us your w^ants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS ivon Falls. Minn. • • • • F. W. Van Sant "«™- ''i^^,^,. Breeder of "Blue Ribbon'* Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Cf78tal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Eggi at |I 00 per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bargains. S. D. ECKLER. - Ashtabula. Ohio. Columbian Wyandotte Sale A few well marked, early hatched cockerels at $3 to $5 each Direct from N. Y. State Fair first prize winners. Must have the room, first come first choice H. W. POLGREEN, ALBANY, N. Y. ^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 ef this department and send in an ad. It will bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. 357 Dearborn Strett, « Chicago, III. Collins S. C. White LEGHORNS \> I BEST FARM GROWN fOWLS Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers 1/4 lbs. at 10 weeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show quality, 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs $1.50 for i; . $? for ?o, $4 for 4?, $6 for 100, |?o for I000A.RLSPELMAN & SON. Box 75, Rootstown, O. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans, "Wyandottes, Dorkings. Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. r. Nonro. Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Ca., Pa. W^HITE PLY. ROCKS Eggs from my best birds $1.00 per i:?, S$.00 per 100, to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards. Dept. A, Fond _du_ Lac,_ "Wis^ Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS w. ALWAYS WIN Write for mating: list. It is free D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. S. C & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading Minn, shows. Great layers. Epgs from pens $1.50 & $2 per 15 Utility Eetp's $1 per 15. $5 per 100. Satisfaction jruarantecd. CD. SMITH & SON. St. Charles. Minn. GORDOf IPINGTON In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and O'wen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they 'w^ill produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. "Will be pleased to ■write you about my stock. FAIRFIELD POULTRY FARM Thos. Peer, Prop., Caldwell, N. J. Will sell some of my breeders in Silver Duckwings and S. C. BufI Leghorns. Must have the room for young stock. Any one in need of good breeders for another season will do well to write me before pur- chasing elsewhere. Prices right considering stock. O U 1» 1 N Ci T O N H S.C. Doll It Black CHAMPION Blood Breeders. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. Luirrrfl, Route F.. Waverly. III. n IT" lill XTlS\ .V!S "None better East or West." Every bird in vards a show bird. Of entire crop of birds last year, only two scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95V4. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs fif stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T. Edson ; _ ^ : Sghaljer._ Ipuyq MY S». C tSUI-f LtGnUKrNS Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 1 3 years and show^n for 1st time N.Y. State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have "won w^here ever sho'wn. 1st and 4th hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booked for eggs and satisfaction guaranteed. GILBERT. Jt._ ^ :: ^« JULLY. H.T.^ White Rock Cockerels fl.OO and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. $3.50 and up; Hens $3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas, the farmers "watch dog" at $1.25 each. Circular free. J. C. Baker. Rt. 1. Plainville. 111. Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- mouth Rock. Large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great layers. Winners at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHELMINA POULTRY FARM E. L. Geisel,_Prop. Morganville, N. J. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks Eggs from my winners at Philadelphia, Pa., Columbus. Akron, Canton, Wooster and Youngstown. O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER, Orrville, O., Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association ^ ' ' Buff Plymouth Rock Club. Are among the best in the United States They have the quality, vigor, size and markings. They will win anywhere. They arc the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Eggs from exhibition matings, $^.00 per 15. From utility stock, $r.so per I5. Write for circular. GEO. W^ARNER, Bushnell, 111. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred SJT^If Rhode Island REDS Bred for viffor. size, shape, color. Prize winners. Great layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON. ILL. ROSK COMH RKDS Do you >vant to ^vin at next fall sho^^s? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize w^inners. My Reds are red, free from smut. Eggs $1 .50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 1 5 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE, Preston, Minn. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W^. H. SHAW^ Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize \vrinning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS, Loami, 111. Big Barg^ains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you "w^ant eggs ask ho'w^ to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin fif Son, Fairmont. Minn. SUNSET REDS Rose and Single Comb Sho^v quality, line bred and \vrith a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings. sure to produce high class shou^ birds. J. OUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON. OHIO rSDEN^ S. C. REDS. tiave •won ntore prizes over all competitors in the largest show^s in the South including the JamestO'wn Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich cl^an red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden £f Son, Manchester. Tenn. S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively, Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Snow^, 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers, Gordon Ave., Peoria, 111. IDEAL POULTRY YARDS Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few^ choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, HI, W^inners of 3rd pen at National Red Show, Topeka, Kan,, Jan., 1911. best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different shows. Eggs $5. $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize w^inning Columbian Wyandotte Eggs $2 per 15. Mating list of both breeds free, A. D. Williams, Box 58 Minneola, Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS W^inners at Madison Square, Philadelphia and all the large show^s. Bred to lay as w^ell as 'wia. W^rite for circular. A. L. Russell, Box 1 20, W^ashington, N. J. ROSE AND SINGLE COMB REDS PEKIN & BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS 40 one year old bree ers, scoring: from 91 to 9i}4 at $3 to $15 per head. Young: stock at same price. Plenty of good breeders and exhibition stock for sale. FRED W. OERTEL. Box F, Brighton, III Fine breeders and very choice young stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD, LA MOILLE, ILL. In The Very Heart of Denver's Business Activities The Albany Hotel DENVER COLO. I PERFECT COOPS ^T RIGHT PRICES. October, '11 Tli;" Ifatlitm r;m 'V fl-.v r:iii'l''l'- , ' , ,i..Mns.-lvrs r..r 111.; Minniitarnnv .„•' ,|',;. ,<..■„.,...,• c.iiMisiM.- <;....! s. '•■•;";"- ,Mu 111.' Iiiulifsi .un.-.M'tinn ;'?, .'""1' ■•," V ■ luuu.'.l sli.-lit^lh an. I stalillil>. that ai- .,,ntlv apM'al. l...-v.-vy taM.-i.T. ';"'! ^v u.- . r,,nsntiil.-s a m Mu y xaluc una .! r.-l v.l !•> ,,i\ lis.' t.. wlii'li a CO.. I. iiia.N Im- siil..i.-.I.;.l. 'V\'v laii.iiT wlio «l"<-s IK. I vish an ai tis- ,;.. , lY.M-t .Mini. ill.' I Willi faulilfss sri-virc. wli.. .l.M-s not wish l.iuh .^iM.I.' niatrna f:,slii..n.'.l l.v liali.li. TMfi tlial himm-.'S hut ,n, p ,.x|...n,litniv in a l"/'"'.'"'- '\;:; i.ut appreciate llic .-n.-ruN aial .'ttoit tha. liiivf pi-<..lnc»-.l for him i h.' K'Ti'iH-r « o. ■ lapsilih- < 'oop. I \w II. I'a.. St'i.t. 1. I'lH. I j.\N<'< x'K 1X< uMi..\'ri'.\l •'< ».. Salfiii. \'a. < Ifnth-nifii : l-:ii.'l..s.Mi lin.l -SI."" for which pi.'as.- Send !(.» nif one hot 1 \i- '■< »illlllnn." I.asl fall 1 inov.'.l in\- .hi.k.'iis d.'.'" and fur three ni.nhts had thnn in a wire jten with. nil an\- shcller and the.v .an^hi se\-,.i',. c'lds wlii
  • (iiliini." I killed .piit.' a nnn'ilte!- and .piite a nninher .lied, aiul ah..m tlie liisl <.f .\lar.h I liad ahoiil .'i liens and jmllets. and tin- iiiillets wei.- inllN inatiire.l. hiil was ^ettinu onl\ an ej;^ e\ er\ tw<> or three .lavs. I ,i;(»t ;i l.utth- of yonr •M>.-nhinr" an. I nse.i it as .lireeted (during a very eohi sp»'lh and tile st'cm.i day after nsin.u it we .'(Mild notice a re.lness in the conihs that shows lis that the medicine was .tnr luniltry in.if- itsV II so. .\«>n will lin.l it t<» x'.Mir in- leie.st (o .'.tmmnni.a te witii the rastein l.alHtratories of Anieri.a. I i:: South l>eai- hoiti St.. <'hiS 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 wdvertiser to use the same space each month. Adc 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. \^ATSON'S R. C. B. MINORCAS Are winners among the world's best. Catalog free. Norman H. Watson. R to. Mystie, la. 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kenne}^ and Poultry Farm Box 58 : : Shrewshurw N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks, Turkeys. Guineas, Pigeons, Pheasants. Pea-Fowls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies. Stock ^ Eggs cheap. New bO page cat. 4 ets. r. J. Damann. Farminglon, Minn. KELLERSTRASS and COOK Strain of S. C. White Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 1 5 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. NX/aldsehmidt, W^ashington. Iowa. BED ROCK SI RAIN Ol s. c. w. lec;horns Arc nntcil for their i;o(>d laying, hirjic si/c, purr white and show wiiniinu iiualitic^. ^eml for cir- cular with prire on stock ami list ot shou' winnings Its tree. W't- ha\i' no other breed. C r Foster. I'rop , R 1. Mo\ i;o. Quincy. Mich. COLIMBIAN PUf^OLIH ROCKS. Prize winnini,' stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also havi- Barred Plymouth Rocks an3 each. Bred from Philadelphia, Allentown tf Scranton Nvinners. Satisfaction guaranteed, Chas. J. Kremer, Souderton. Pa. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have won all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston, Chieaj^o, Buffalo and Pittsburji in last two years. Will ship egjjs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. IIF.NRY BKNNF.TT BROWN. W. V.> )i land and water fowls. All Leading Varieties Write nie what yon want. Have some tine surplus stock. Ejrj;s of all varieties stronj,dy fertile *2 per LS, Incubator I-.j^^s 5H per lOd. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, (jualitv flu> best, satisfaction yuar. F. L BRADFORD^ _ _R^ F._D, 64_ Troy, Pa. R. C. R. I. First prize -winners at Des Moines and Cectar Rapids P FF>^ 7 PENS MATED FOR THE JXJ-iryO EGG TRADE Send for matinj? list L. Sherman Kline g^^TmwA Kissinger'sS.C.R.l.Reds;,Vyi\no Cockerels for sale. Egtfs from a few of the best matings in the central West. Write f(jr mating; list Life member American Poultry .\ssociation, American R. I. Red Club, Iowa Branch. U. S. C. R. L Club. JOHN KISSINGER GREENFIFin, IOW/\ WHITE ORPINGTONS "KELLERSTRASS CRYSTAL" Selected breeders, including' my winners, at reduced prices. One choice pen at a bartJain. GLEN F. RICHARDS, Poultry Judjie Box F. 215, Le Grand. I«)wa Champion Barred Rocks W imuTS of the North American Cup for lust prii of t)iri!»> in tht- Shou , 51 pens cnmpi-tiiii;. I'hilatiflphia, l per cent of all prizes ;it Chicago ;«nd Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are winners, heavy layers, quick throwers. Get started with Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzjicr. North Manchester. Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bart^ain. Write us your w^ants. We (guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R. Clinvon Falls. Minn. • • • • F. W. Van Sant ••»™- ^i^Z.r Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis, Minn. W^HITE PLY. ROCKS Eggs from my best birds SIM per i:\, S5.OO per 100, to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and are better than ever. Better write your wants today. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards. Dept. A, Fond dji_ Lac. 'Wis. Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It is free W. D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading Minn, shows. Great layers. E^^^ from pens $L.SO& $2 per 15 Utility Eire's $1 per IS. $5 per 100. Satisfaction >riiaranteed. CD. SM'TH & SON. St. Charles. Minn. fARDS In and near SPRING VALLEY. MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and Owen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am confident they will produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. W^ill be pleased to Nvrite you about my stock. i> II I* 1 N c; T O N H S.C. Buff & DIack CHAMPION Blood Breeders, mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. Iiiirrr'l, Route F.. Waverly, III. l.lCillT JiR.vri>I.V?S "None better East or W^est." Every bird in yards a show^ bird. Of entire crop of birds fast year, only two scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95'?. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs £f stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T. Edson : : Schallcr. Iowa MY *>. C. BUhP LtGnUMrNS Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 13 years and show^n for Ist time N.Y. State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have w^on w^here ever show^n. 1st and 4th , hen. 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booked , for eggs and satisfaction guaranteed. _ - . .. TULLY. W.*^.^- Columbian Wyandotte Sale A few well marked, early hatched cockerels at $3 to $5 each Direct from N. Y. State Fair first prize winners. Must have the room, first come first choice H. W. POLGREEN, ALBANY, N. Y. 5 Collins S. C. White LEGHORNS Pullets layinj? at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers \% lbs. at 10 weeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show quality. 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs $1.50 for n . $? for ?o, $4 for 4s, S6 for 100, |?o for loooAJVLSPELMAN & SON. Box 75, Rootstown, O. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas, Cochins. Langshans, W^yandottes. Dorkings. Leghorns. Guineas. Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. r. Monro, Prop., Sylvanla, Brad. Co., Pa. ^ THE GREATEST LAYERS THE GREATEST PAYERS Col. Wyandottes & Crystal W. Orpingtons Blue Ribbon Winners. Eggs at f I 00 per 15 bal- ance of season Breeders for sale at bargains S. D. ECKLER. - Ashtabula, Ohio. .ANSDKN S. C. REDS. Have won more prizes over all competitors in the largest show^s in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden £? Son, Manchester. Tenn. rz , ^PON'T OVERLOOK THIS V 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 ) ef this department and send in an ad. It will > bring you good returns. POULTRY FANCIER. > 357 Dearborn Street, « Chicigo, III. > S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively, Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at III. State Show^, 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Eilers, Gordon Ave.. Peoria, 111. BEST fAHM GROWN fOVlLS I rurvXTpnUlTRy'^^^ White Rock Cockerel.sffl. on anH iin- VV TT„1- ( > M.U£jI\Lt rWUL* 1 IV I I /\I\L/k3 White Rock Cockerels JLOO and up; W. Hoi land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. $3.50 and up; Hens S3.00 each. The White AfricanCiuineas, the farmers "watch do^" at $L25 each. Circular free. J.C. Baker. Rt. 1, Plainville. Ill Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- mouth Rock, large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great layers. Winners at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHEl.MINA POULTRY FARM E. L. Geisel, Proo. Morganville, N. J. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks Eggs from my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus. Akron. Canton. Wooster and Youngstown. O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER. Orrville, O., Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. amon KOSi: COM 1 5 ui:i)s Do you want to ^vin at next fall sho\vs? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize \vinners. My Reds are red, free from smut. Eggs $1.50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 15 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE, Preston. Minn. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W^. H. SHA^W Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize winning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS. Loami, 111. Big Bargains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you w^ant eggs ask hov/ to get r«*gular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin 6f Son, Fairmont. Minn. E^ C. Gil SUNSET REDS ^rzrL„^ Show quality, line bred and with a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class snow birds. Dr. Holmes* Trap-Nested Standard-bred S'o"^!,'^ Rhode Island REDS Bred for viffor, .size, shape, color. Prize winners. Great layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON. ILL. Consists of Barred P. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg- horns and S. C. Black Minorcas. A few choice Cockerels for sale. EGGS IN SEASON. Address, Edward Wagner, R. R. 1, McConnell, III, Winners of 3rd pen at National Red Show^, Topeka, Kan,, Jan., 1911, best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different shows. Eggs $5, $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize w^inning Columbian Wyandotte Eggs $2 per 1 5. Mating list of both breeds free. A. D. Williams, Box 58 Minneola. Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS W^inners at Madison Square, Philadelphia and all the large show^s. Bred to lay as well as w^in. W^rite for circular. A. L. Russeil, Box 120, W^ashington, N.J. ROSE AND SINC;i.E COMB REDS PEKIN & BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS 40 one year old bree ers, scoring from 91 to "fPA at $i to $15 per head. Young stock at same price. Plenty of good breeders and exhibition stock for sale. I RED VV. OERTEL, Box F, Brighton, III Fine breeders and very choice younRT stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD, LA MOILLE, ILL. J. OUINCY ADAMS COSHOCTON. OHIO In The Very Heart of Denver's Business Activities The Albany Hotel DENVER COLO. INTENTIONAL 2N It Is Not Because We Call Our Columbian Wyandottes SUPERIOR STRAIN That they are SUPERIOR. It is because they have proven themselves SUPERIOR in many of ^The Best Show Rooms'' in competition with "The Best Breeders" in the country 41, In the past three seasons at Chicago they won more prenuum^ and prizes than any two competitors. AsWinter Layers No Breed Can SurpassThem C We are willing to meet any breeder of reputation in an " Egg Laying Contest" to prove this. No breed is "more profitable" or'"morebeautifuF jian Fenton Farms Superior Strain of Columbian Wyandottes ' We have hundreds of young and old birds that will win in strong competition. Send for catalogue and write for prices on what you want. FENTON FARMS, Mt. CLEMENS, MICH. . LARGEST EXCLUSIVE BREEDERS OP COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES P. S.— If you are going to buy— buy the best. " It pays.*' • • • Wible's White Rocks & White Wyandottes WIBLE BROS.. Box 40. Route 2, Chanute, Kan. If Anyone Tells You that they are building, selling or using an incubator that is better than a "Buckeye," send for ovir book called ^^Incubator Facts." Compare the "Buckeye" with any other incu- bator at any price and judge for yourself. After you have read our book, go to your nearest dealer and see the machines — convince yourself that Buckeye Incubators are all we claim for them — and more. BUCKEYE Incubators are made in three sizes — 60 eo;p;s, 110 AS LoW eggs and 220 eggs — and they are sold aS $8>00 by over a thousand dealers throughout the United States. Every incubator is guaranteed to hatch every hatch- able egg and remain in perfect working order for five years. Send for our book to-day and we'll send you the name of your nearest dealer so you can examine a Buckeye. THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO. 542 Eoclid Ave., Springfield, Oliio ** Anybody can hatch chickens with a Buckeye. *' IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND To Mark Chickens CHEAPEST AND BEST 12 1(.rliK';2r)..2U<-; nO-li:.,-: Icn-BOc SiiiMple Band Mailed for 2te Htamp. Frank Myers, Mfr. Boi 68* FrMport. tH. Your Money Back Quick if ever any package of CONKEY'S ROUPP fails to cure Roup, Colds or Canker in Fowls or Pigeons. The old reliable remedy. Given in the drinking water. C. W. Fowler, breeder of Buff Plymouth Rocks, Smyrna, Georgia, w^rites: "1 believe that every 50c package of your Roup Cure saves me $50 in birds." It Kills the Germs! An absolute preventive! A splendid tonic. If your dealer cannot supply you, we will. Prices, 50c and $1.00, postpaid. We make remedies for all the known poultry diseases. "The Famous Conkey Poultry Book" sent FREE if you give name of your supply dealer and enclose 4c postage. Address THE G. E. CONKEY CO. Dept 83 Conkey Laboratories Cleveland, Ohio m kK. Odors ScientiticallK Poitonous niil^ PASTEUR LABORATORIES' RAT VIRUS h:i.-y to use- Harmlt's.s fopc Krv, domtstic animals and man. Write for full pJ rficuljirs immefiiately. PASTEUR LAPORATORrrs OF AIVERICA I';ir!s--N» w YorkChicnp'o- S- n P>:tci'-< o, etc. Room 878, 443 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago HEADS WIN <^4--f n •x^^^; V ii 1912 Buckeye Standard' 3 An un-retouched photo of one of the cocks in my yards. Four years old and alAvays housed in open front house. Note the un- frosted comb and great dis- play of vitality. In scor- ing Brown Leghorn heads count 34 points of the 1 00. Where >vnuld you cut this fellow? High class stock only and a square deal. H. V. TORMOHLEN First National Bank Bldg. Portland, Indiana A $2,000,000,000 Poultry Product Builder '^ Oculuni. based on U. S. (lovornment diairnosis, comes to the relief of the long-sutTerinj; poultry producers with tills momcctoiis asser- tion: "I can inoculate your fowls and increase tli(^ annual value of the poultry of the U S. from «I.OtK).()()0.0(»!> to Sl'.UOO.OOO.OOO. Let me help you." Oculum has overcome and thrust to the heart. White Diarrhea. Cholera. Roup and (iapes. You can raise fowls i:i any quantity at a Cf sure profit. Oculum destrciy^ the Cholera. Roup anroke my bottle aeeidentallv anrl find I eaiiiiot keeji house with- out it, not HO niueh for n cure all a* for u mmirt tunic. What about huudlinK this for .voii V Raising? chickens, ducks and turkeys will in the future be both a pleasure and profit. Oculum is the best tonic for all fowls. Lar^re poultry plants are buyinjjr Oculum in quantities to be Riven away with orders for day-old chicks to insure the raisinjr <'f them. The financier, poultryman, farmer, mer- 99 chant, in fact, all who raise, buy or sell poultry, will be enormously benefitted by the use of Oculum. Oculum is a scientific remedy recom- mended by America's poultrv leaders — U. R. Fishel.P.iadley Bros.. A (i. Duston. Foxhurst Farm. J. C. Fishel iV- Son. V.J. Armstronsr. Mrs. Ellen J.icque. Oscar K. Miles. J. Gay lord lijair. (ieo. A. Ruessler. \. R. Reynolds, Lewis '1\ .McLean. niij,di Rf)ss and hundreds of others. Don't clinsr to the exploded theory that "nothing will cure," but join the armv of tnonoy- makhifjc poultry raisers, who, after demonstration, are marching to success with the Oculum banner wavinj; in the breezes. Join now. For sale in two sizes, 51.00 and 50c, by all projriessive dealers and druvrsrists. If yours does not handle it. send rs his name and address, (^r receipt of price, Oculum will be mtiiled direct to you. Circular with (iovcrnment dia«:nosis of Cnolera and White Diarrhea free. Order now and help make poultry a f2. 000.000.000 industry. Sample with dropper, 10c. (7) Hancock Inoculafum Company, Inc., Box T, Salem, Va. f » # * • • Vol. XVI CHICAGO. ILL, NOVEMBER. 1911 No. 5 Show-Room Etiquette Some Very Pointed Remarks by an Old Timer. Nearly Every Show Has Exhibitors Who Should Act Upon the Advice Here Given. \()11) talkiiiL: t<>" imu-li. I a'I your birds (1(1 tlio talking fur yoii. 1 1" they arc the hot in the liall the judiL;c will (liscnxcr ilu' fact and conlinn y(»nr Mpinion: if they are not, you will not be sclf-c'din ictcd of lia\in|Li' < »\crostimate(l their \ abie. .\bo\e all tliini;> (bdi't talk alxdit \<>nr C( »nii)etit(>rs' bird^. unle>> t< • ])raise them, and e\en that is unnecessary a> i)r(>l)ably their owners ha\ e a ^iithciently hi,L;h (ii)ini<>ii <)| their merits and d< • n«'i need your laudation. I )o not handle the birds of a eoinpetitor unless in hi> i)resence and at his inxitation. It you do and there >hoidd hai>i)en to \)v a broken or niis>inLi feather < 'i' I wo. appearaneo would be against xou. Xexer ])Ut \<»ur>elf in a defen^ixe pf^ilion. lor e\ en if \ucce>sfull\ defend your arts and motise^. there nia\ remain an underlying; sus])icion that \(»ur defence is specinu> rathei than true. 1 )( . not make yourself cons])ieuous. Like Brer Possum lie low. ^'ou are not entered |(»r a prize. \i)U\ birds ma\- be as consi)icuous as i)ossil)le : that's what they are in the show for: and you should not dixert an}- of the attention from them to \(tursell. Do not fix up your birds for exhil)ition in the show rooUL When they ,L;et there the time for preparation is pa>t. If the\ needed an\ "tixiuL;" it should have been done in the ])ri\aey of your home. .Most birds reipiire this, some e\en need to be "faked," but all which re(|uire fakini; should be sent to the market, not to the exhibition, ^'ou cannot alTord to ^et the reputation of bein.i; a faker and yoii can less attord to l)e a laker without the reputation. If you fix up vour birds in the sho\v room there may be a suspicion of fakini;-, which is almost as bad as the real thini;. Do not try to hx the jud.ux'. If he is tit to be a judiic and vou attempt to lix him, he will probablv "fix vou, and it mav be serious work to j^et out ot the lix in which \(>u may find yourself. Attemj)ts to iix the judiie are more dangerous than attempts to tix the fowls. Do not crow if y( »u win. A cock which has de- feated a ri\al announces his victory bv crowins^'. Jt is all ri^ht for him: that is the way his education tends and he knows no better. I hit \-ou are not a Cock, but a man, and you should act as a man. Do not be unduly depressed by defeat. It is un- manlw The bow who >h()\\s that other bo\ s annov him, i> the boy who is alw.'iys *'])icked up<>n.'" As the boy L;ains in ex])erience and knowledjLje he know >> that it i^ better to coimnand his feelings than be Commanded by them. Although \ ( .u mav be <.>ne (>l "the l)<>y->."' y()U are net kdmer a bisv, and liaxiuL: reached man's estate should act the ])art of a man. Do IK 't wish t( • win unless yotir birds deserx c the honor. lA erx jxddtry breeder desires, or oU;l;1u to, that the p(>ultr\ industry should make ])roL;rcss. lAcry time an inferi(>r bird wins o\ cr a su])erior. the hand> on the dial of ])roL;ress are set back. NOur best interests are >ubser\ed when the best birds xxin. and an unmerited prize robs you of something of more xalue than the prize. Do not be a kicker. \)i^ you wish to announce xourself as the rixal of the mule, that beast which has '*n(» i)ri(le of ancestry and no hope of pos- leritx ?" Better sutYer unmerited defeat in silence than to cast the aspersion upon your father that he was an ass. By kicking you will only make your defeat more conspicuous, and it don't ])ay to adver- tise such thiniLis. If you keep still the pul)lic will forget it, and you will suffer comparatively little damaiic, but if you show your heels and bray dis- mally you x\ ill keep the public in mind n\ yoiu' de- feat and a,Li|L;ra\ ate the damage which has fallen upon \(>u. Do not fail U^ con|L;Tatulate ycMir successful rival upon his xictory. Tliat will make him feel even better than he already does, and he xxill count you, not only as a j^ood felknv, but also as a man of excellent jud_ij;tnent, for he will see or think that vour iudt^nient agrees with his. "Mow well he / Wible's White Rocks & White Wyandottes WIBLE BROS.. Box 40. Route 2, Chanute, Kan. If Anyone Tells You that they are building, selling or using an incubator that is better than a "Buckeye/* send for our book called ^Incubator Facts." Compare the "Buckeye" with any other incu- bator at any price and judge for yourself. After you have read our book, go to your nearest dealer and see the machines — convince yourself that Buckeye Incubators are all we claim for them — and more. BUCKEYE Incubators are made in three sizes — 60 eggs, 110 AS LoiV eggs and 220 eggs — and they are sold aS $8«00 by over a thousand dealers throughout the United States. Every incubator is guaranteed to hatch every hatch- able egg and remain in perfect working order for five years. Send for our book to-day and we'll send you the name of your . nearest dealer so you can examine a Buckeye. THE BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO. 542 Eaclid Ave., Springfield, Ohio ''Anybody can hatch chickens with a Buckeye. " IDEAL ALUMINUM LEG BAND To Mark Chickens CHEAPEST AND BEST 121<)rl&c;25-2(k-: M-IiV; l('0.-60c. Sample Band Mailed for fSo Btamp. Frank Mywt, Hfr. loi 68t FrNport. Ilf. Your Money Back Quick if ever any package of CONKEY'S fails to cure Roup, Colds or Canker in Fowls or Pigeons. The old reliable remedy. Given in the drinking water. C. W. Fowler, breeder of Buff Plymouth Rocks, Smyrna, Georgia, w^rites: "1 believe that every 50c packcige of your Roup Cure saves me $50 in birds." It Kills the Germs! An absolute preventive! A splendid tonic. If your dealer cannot supply you, we will. Prices, 50c and $1.00, postpaid. We make remedies for all the known poultry diseases. "The Famous Conkey Poultry Book" sent FREE if you give name of your supply dealer and enclose 4c postage. Address THE G. E. CONKEY CO. Dept 83 Conkey Laboratories Cleveland, Ohio xtermmateRats & Mice Scientifically ^•0 0d3rs Pen Poisonous vdLh PASTEUR LABORATORIES' RAT VIRUS Ea.-y to use- Harmless tope Krv, domtstic animals and man. Write for full pcrficulars immediately. PASTEUR LAPORATORIFS OF AMTERICA I'ariB-New York ("Mcapo- S- n Frrrci^i o. etc. Room 878, 443 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago HEADS WIN 'Standard' An un-retouched photo of one of the cocks in my yards. Four years old and al>vays housed in open front house. Note the un- frosted comb and great dis- play of vitality. In scor- ing Bro'^^n Leghorn heads count 34 points of the 100. Where -would you cut this fellow? High class stock only and a square deal. H. V. TORMOHLEN First National Bank Bldg. Portland. Indiana $2,000,000,000 Poultry Product Builder Oculum, based on U. S. Government diagnosis, comes to the relief of the long-suffering: poultry producers with this momGctous asser- tion: "I can inoculate your fowls and increase the annual value of the poultry of the US. from $1,000,000,000 to 52.000.000.000. Let me help you." Oculum has overcome and thrust to the heart, White Diarrhea, Cholera, Roup and Gapes. You can raise fowls in any quantity at a « sure profit. Oculum destroys the Cholera. Roup and White Diarrhea grerm that kills yearly Vi of all fowls hatched, and also the Gape Worm. OCULUM From Bradley Bros., Lee, Matt "Oculum" appears to be tho long-nooded reiiiedy for caaeB of liver and bowel trouble. heretc will discover the fact and confirm your opinion; if they are not, you will not be self-convicted of having overestimated their value. Above all things don't talk about your competitors' birds, unless to i)raise them, and even that is unnecessary as ])rol)ably their owners have a sufficiently high o])inion of their merits and do not need your laudation. Do not handle the birds of a competitor, unless in his presence and at his invitation. If you do and there should hai)i)en to be a broken or missing- feather or two, api)earances would be against you. Never put yourself in a defensive position, for even if you successfully defend your acts and motives, there may remain an underlying suspicion that V(nir defence is specious rather than true. Do not make yourself conspicuous. Like Brer Possum lie low. You are not entered for a ju-ize. Your birds may be as conspicuous as possible; that's what they are in the show for; and you should not divert any of the attention from them to yourself. Do not fix up your birds for exhibition in the show room. When they get there the time for preparation is past. If they needed any "fixing" it should have been done in the privacy of your home. Most birds require this, some even need to be "faked," but all which require faking should be sent to the market, not to the exhibition. You cannot afford to get the reputation of being a faker and you can less aitord to be a faker without the reputation. If you fix up your birds in the show room there may be a suspicion of faking, which is almost as bad as the real thing. Do not try to fix the judge. If he is fit to be a judge and you attempt to fix him, he will probably fix you, and it may be serious work to get out of the fix in which you may find yourself. Attempts to fix the judge are more dangerous than attempts to fix the fowls. . i V . Do not crow if you win. A cock which has de- feated a rival announces his victory by crowing. It is all right for him ; that is the way his education tends and he knows no better. But you are not a cock, but a man, and you should act as a man. Do not be unduly depressed by defeat. It is un- manly. The boy, who shows that other boys annoy him, is the boy who is always "picked upon." As the bc)y gains in experience and knowledge he knows that it is better to command his feelings than be commanded by them. Although you may be pne of "the boys," you are no longer a i)oy, and having reached man's estate should act the part of a man. Do not wish to win unless your birds deserve the honor. Every poultry breeder desires, or ought to, that the poultry industry should make progress. Every time an inferior bird wins over a superior, the hands on the dial of progress are set back. Your best interests are sul3served when the best birds win, and an unmerited prize robs you of something of more value than the prize. Do not be a kicker. Do you wish to announce yourself as the rival of the mule, that beast which has "no pride of ancestry and no hope of pos- tcritv?" Better suffer unmerited defeat in silence than to cast the aspersion upon your father that he was an ass. By kicking you will only make your defeat more conspicuous, and it don't pay to adver- tise such things. If you keep still the public will forget it, and you will suft'er comparatively little damage, but if you show your heels and bray dis- mally you will keep the public in mind of your de- feat aiid aggravate the damage which has fallen upon you. Do not fail to congratulate your successful rival upon his victory, liiat will make him feel even better than he already does, and he will count you, not only as a good fellow, but also as a man of excellent judgrnent, for he will see or think that vour judgment agrees with his. "How well he ^•< . ■'•\.- .Nr-^Viv^ ^i AL 2ND EXPOSURE Page 66 POULTRY FANCIER^ argues," said one, when the person spoken of was settino- forth the speaker's own ideas. Do not fail to learn, in a (juiet and inconspicuous manner, wherein your competitors' birds surpass or are inferior to your own. Use your ears to hear what you can which will be of service to you at an- other show^ ; use your eyes to see all the excellen- cies and defects possible in the birds on exhibi- tion, and especially those of your own variety ; use your brain in thinking out to a safe and sane con- clusion what your ears have heard and your eyes have seen : but hold your tongue, that unruly member which may get you into trouble. Don't forget that while you are a poultry man and em>aiie(l in the gentle art of breeding one of the most interesting creatures on this footstool, that you are "hrst, last, and all the time" a gentle- man. To speak as a gentleman and act as a gen- tleman— on these hang all the laws of etiquette of the show room — and if you do this, you w^ill not make any false step, but will hnd an exhil)ition a ])lace wdiere you can do and get good, and from wdiich, whether successful or defeated, you wall return with a contented mind, a peaceful s])irit and hrm resolution to breed more birds and better ones the ccMiiing season. Poultry Diseases and Remedies A Detailed Description of the Causes, Symptoms and Cures of Some of the Most Common Poultry Diseases. BY J. WESLEY GRIFFIN. T is unquestionably true that a large number of failures in poultry enter- l)rises are due directly to disease and that these diseases are, as a rule, not of a contagious nature, but rather the result of mismanagement, un- skilled feeding, and too little attention to general sanitation. Any system of feeding and care which does not keep the fowls active, bright-eyed, of keen appetite, sleek in aj^pearance and of hard flesh is fundamentally wrong. It is by careful housing, feeding and management that the diseases described in the following para- graphs may be prevented. One must recognize that disease is a sign that proper care and sanitation have not been practiced and must take immediate steps to rectify these conditions. The individual treatment of fowls is expensive and unsatisfactory, for after the fowl is cured it usually takes a little longer time to get her back into laying condition. The preventative method of treatment is the safest and most economical. For this reason importance should be attached to sanitation. The pens should be thoroughly sprayed with a disinfecting solution or white- w^ashed three or four times a year. It is advisable to spray the nest boxes and perches frequently during warm weather. As danger and death linger in damp and filthy accumulations, do not let the droppings become damp and filthy ; clean the drop- ])ing boards every other day, or at least twice a week. Sprinkle ashes or land plaster over the clean boards and again over the droppings between clean- ings. This practice not only keeps the pen cleaner and sweeter, but makes it easier to clean the drop- ping board and greatly increases the value of the manure, because it absorbs the licpiid and retains the nitrogen. A dtist wallow should be pn^vided in which the fowls can remove the scurf from their bodies and better fight the lice that suck and sap up their vitality. For disinfecting with whitewash the addition of one pint of crude carbolic acid to every tw^o gallons of the mixture makes it nuich more effective in destroying both animal ])arasites and bacteria. For spraying the nest boxes and perches during the summer months, a solution of three parts kerosene and one part crude carbolic acid will give excellent results. I will not describe many of the diseases to which poultry are susceptible, just a few of the most com- mon, and which are the first to make their appear- ances. nUMlU.EFOOT. I)UmbIefo()t is a term commonly applied to the condition when an injury has resulted in the for- mation of pus in the fleshy part of the foot. The injtiry may be received in various wavs, such as lalling or dropping from a high perch or tree onto a bare floor, or scratching among cinders or other sharp and hard substances. The formation of pus causes a swelling and w^ears away the tissue until it breaks forth either at the upper or lower surface. A scab forms over this opening, but the continued formation of pus repeatedly forces open the w^ound. For treatment, remove the scab or lance the swollen area and thoroughly clean and disinfect the cavity with a diluted solution of carbolic acid or hydrogen peroxide. Keep the sore well greased with carbolated vaseline until healed. BLINDNKSS. There are several causes for blindness: 1st, ac- cident ; '^d, the effects of other diseases : and :Ul, a parasite. When accidental, the fowd is blinded in one eye only : there is no economic treatment. The inflamed part should be bathed in a weak solu- tion of boracic acid and greased with vaseline to effect a speedy healing of the sore. The most common forms of blindness closely folknv or ac- company other diseases. When due to roup a swelling among the tissues of the eye, caused by the hardening of the mucous secretion of the head and eyes, destroys the sight. When roup has pro- gressed to tiiis stage, there is little profit in treat- ing it. There is also an eye worm or parasite which infects poultry, causing inflammation of the eye and occasional blindness. This ])arasite can be removed only by surgical means. The wound sliould be bathed with a weak solution of boracic acid and kept greased with vaseline until healed. r.LACK IIKAI), P>lack head is a disease common and fatal to young turkeys and cpiite serious among young- chickens. Tt is usually recognized in the turkeys by the stunted, growth and the emaciated condi- tion of the body. Internal examination usuallv discloses large, discolored discasesd areas on the i^ f 1 f # * t • • November, *11 POULTRY FANCIER* rt'*?i<:'a«"»»jja«sa«»«a*.-«».vifc, ^Page 67 |) liver and greatly enlarged caeca (blind intestines) If recognized in time and careful, sanitarv condi- tions are provided in brooding and feeding, manv of the affected chicks can be saved. Sour skim'- milk has been found quite effective in checking the disease. After one experience with the dis"^ ease, it will be readily conceded that the preven- tative method is most satisfactorv CHOLERA. It is a common error for the amateur poultry- man to think that every disease among his fowls which manifests itself by a looseness of the bowels^ a yellowish discharge and a pale or yellow color about the face and head is cholera. As a matter of fact, this disease is common only in the warm climates and is rare elsewhere. It is communi- cable and very destructive. Fowls often die within a few^ days after being exposed to the disease, even before they are suspected of being stricken. In other cases it takes on a chronic form. It re- quires a bacteriological examination definitely to recognize the disease. Scientists have failed to' find a cure for it. Thorough disinfection of the entire plant and a rigid separation of exposed from the non-exposed flock should be practiced. DIARRHOEA. 1 diarrhoea in some form accompanies and is a symptom of many common communicable dis- eases. Because of this fact the beginner inter- l)rets the diarrhoea as the indication of a dangerous disease. As a matter of fact, diarrhoea is more often the result of indigestion. It is caused by over-consumption of rich, highly stimulating foods, by tainted meats, by musty grains, green or milky grain in the stalk, irregular feeding of green food's in the winter, excessive amounts of green cut bone, or a stale or irregular supply of water. The best treatment for such diarrhoea^ is to remove the irri- tant or to shut in the fowls from it, giving them a regulating ration. 11iey will soon readjust them- selves. GAPES. The frequent gasping for breath by chickens suf- fering with parasitic worms in the windpipe is called gapes and the worm, the gape worm. The difficulty of eating, combined with the weakening effect of the parasites, stunts the growth of the chickens. The feathers become soiled, torn and ruf- fled for lack of proper nourishment. The w^orms are coughed up by the chickens onto their food or into the drinking water, where they are con- sumed by other chickens. In this way the para- site is transmitted. A common method of treat- ment is to worm them, or to take the worms from the throat of the affected chicks with a twisted horse-hair or the stem of a plant of blue-grass, sat- urated with turpentine. The turpentine loosens and kills the worms. Those not withdrawn when worming are coughed out. An easier and (piicker method is to smoke the chicks with tobacco. The affected chicks are placed in a basket, covered with a piece of burlap or any old cloth that will confine the smoke, tobacco stems are placed on burning coals, and the basket containing the chicks is helcl over it until they are pretty well overcome by the fumes of the burning tobacco. The fumes over- come and even kill the worms. TJCE. 'Jliere are many ki'ivis of lice which are common among (lomesticate(( fowls. 1^hev have the same i general characteristics, however, and all are com- bated in the same way. Some kinds stay on the body of the fowl both day and night, some just dur- ing the night ; these do their devilment during the period when the poultry are asleep, it is neces- sary to apply treatment to the perches as well as to the fowls. As before stated, a mixture of one ])art carbolic acid and three parts kerosene applied with a force spray pump gives excellent results. The spray pump drives the solution directly into the cracks and crevices, thus killing the mites by contact, llie fowls are best treated by dusting a dry powder, one containing a burning and drying effect, rather than an offensive odor. The dust fills up the pores on the body of the mite and suf- focates it. The most economical way to keep a pen free from lice is to spray the perches and nest boxes when necessary and to provide a dust wallow of coal ashes, land plaster or road dust, in which the f(jwls can wallow and kill the lice. This dust wal- low should be in a dry and sunny place in the room, so that the fowls will be attracted to it. If a small amount of air slacked lime and sulphur is added to the dust bath, it will help to keep off diseases. In no other occupation is the old adage more applicable than in that of raising poultry, **An ounce of prevention is w^orth more than a pound of cure." Don't try to breed up from poor stock ; it takes too long, and good stock is cheap enough for you to start with it. If looking for an occupation that will return pleasure as well as profit take up the breeding of fancy poultry. Don't expect to win every first prize. There are a good many breeders in this country and quite a number of good birds beside your own. Many poultrymen wait till there is urgent need for certain knowledge, before they attempt to ac- quire it. That is bad policy and often causes great loss. The amount to be fed a flock is a matter of ob- servation. The general rule to feed what will be eaten up clean should be supplemented by careful observation u))on the effects of the food supplied in the condition of the fowls. Don't worry if you do not make sales as soon as your advertisement appears. A customer, like a woman, is not to be won at the first meeting, but must l)e wooed by constant attentions. That's why it pays to advertise continuously. The best condition in which breeding fowls can be kept is where the body is fully ncnirished, the muscles well filled out, and but little fat is produced. Tt is a condition midway between undue leanness and overfatness, a condition favorable to health and activity. Health and activity are closelv asso- ciated, for a healthy fowl will be likely to be active, and an active fowl is generally healthy. See to it that you do not by underfeeding or overfeeding divorce these two closelv married characteristics. ^-^ / ^' Page 68 POULTRY FANCIERe November, '11 Advice to Amateur Exhibitors Seasonable Suggestions That Should Be Acted Upon by Fanciers, and Especially Beginners — Pointers Upon Preparing Birds for the Show Room. BY A. T. H. FORTESCUE. OW the poultry shows are on in ear- nest. While the old-time exhibitor will not need any pointers as to how to prepare his birds for the best pos- sible results in the show room, there are lots of beginners who will show this season for the first time, to whom a few words as to how to o-et their birds in good condition will not come amiss. There are some breeders who think it is wrong- to wash and dress a bird to take it to the show room. Thev think the specimen should be shown in its natural condition, possibly covered with dirt, grime, lees all over dirt, both on and under the scales ; yet when we meet some of these same breeders at the show we find them all dressed up in their finest. They want to make a good impression on people, and if such is the case, why should they not think the same o{ their birds, dress them u]) a little, wash their faces, coml)s, wash and clean their legs and toes? Tt will make them attractive and make a bet- ter im])ression on the people who see them. A poultry show is in a sense a school where we are taught by the object lesson method, and if }'ou have good birds and desire to exhibit them, why not take them dressed in their best to be the proper kind of an object lesson to some one who is looking for just such a lesson? Now for a few words as to preparation. With the parti-colored or black birds it is seldom that the feathers are washed. A few weeks before you w^ish to exhibit, go through your flock carefully and pick out your best, yard them separately and give them a little extra attention. If the legs are in- clined to be rougli or scaly, rub them well with vaseline to soften the scales. After they become soft, wash the legs in warm soft water, using some good soap and a nail brush to rub them with. This should get all roughness ofif, if i)roperly done. Now keep them on nice clean straw until about a week before your show, when they should be put in coops and accustomed to the confinement. Han- dle them carefully to avoid having any broken feathers, and go about the coops as often as pos- sible so that tliey will not get scared on ai)pr()ach. Keej) coops clean with plenty of clean straw in them so that there will be no soiled feathers. Keep all smooth-legged varieties scratching in clear bright straw, as this kind of exercise gives a good gloss and excellent polish to both feet and legs. Some breeders of white varieties who do not wash their birds claim that it destroys the natural gloss of the feathers. There is no doubt that if a bird is kept on clean bright straw^ and given a box of clean sand to dust in, that bird will do a better job of cleaning itself than many amateurs could do by washing. However, if you have to wash your birds, the following is a very satisfactory method to i)ursue for either white or colored birds: Have three tubs of water prepared, one quite warm, one lukewarm and another with just the chill taken oil. Have an assistant to hold the bird on its side in the tub of warm water while you open the flufi:' and all other sections of short feathers and work the water into the plumage thoroughly. Soak the stiff feathers in wings and tail well, and after the entire plumage is well soaked ap])ly good white soa]) (mind, white soap) and rub it well into the feathers, rubbing only one w^ay, the way the web of the feather runs. After the fowl has been well washed in the first tub, remove it and rinse it wxdl in the second tub. If you do not do a good job rinsing, getting every particle of soap out of the feathers, ycni will have trouble, as the soap will make the feathers split and also cling together when dry. After you are sure you have rinsed out all the soap, inuuerse the bird in the third tub, in which there should have been dissolved a small quantity of bluing, about the same quantity as would be used for rinsing- clothes. Work the blue water well into all sections of the plumage to get an even color, and when that is done hold the fowl above the tub and press out all the water possible from the feathers. After rubbing as dry as possible place the bird in a coop littered with clean bright straw and place near a hot stove, gradually drawing the coop back from the stove after the feathers are fairly dry on the outside, and the fowl will soon begin to ])lume itself and arrange its feathers properly as they dry. Now, if you are satisfied with your work and have done a good job, don't go and spoil it all by ship- l)ing your birds to the show in any kind of an old box. Ship in a neat and attractive coop, and then if you don't win the coveted ])rize you can feel sat- isfied that y(^u did all you could towards that end. Luckily I won't hear the "blessings" of all the ])eginners who make a hash (»f the job, and all the pretty words said when no j^rize is given their ex- liibit after all the trouble they had been to. Now you beginner who is likely to jib at the job of washing, just read paragra])hs 4, 5, 6 and 7 and let it go at that. The clean bright straw and the clean sand will do the trick if you will but put your birds away a week or two before thev are needed for exhibition. A month in such nice surroiuidings w'ell cared for will do no harm. The poultry business, like every other line of lousiness, has a few shysters connected with it. Sorry to say it, but it is the truth, nevertheless. Poultry men as a rule are as good a class of people as are on earth, but there is occasionally a black sheep among them. There is an old saying that honesty is the best policy, but it is the only policy. Dishonesty could not be counted a i)olicy. Tt is certainly true that honesty pays anywhere and it applies to the poultry business as well as anything else. Poultrymen have been known who tried to get rich quick by doing a dishonest business, but it would not work. You can fool part of the people all the time and all of the pe~)ple part of the time. • t f # • • • Page 69 POULTRY FANCIER November, '11 but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Beat a man once and, take my word for it, you will not get a chance to do him the second time. \Vhen you read an advertisement that says eggs at a dollar a setting from birds scoring 96 points give it the miss, for no man can afford to sell eggs from ninety-six point stock at such a price. In getting stock buyers are very often to blame, as they do not state what the birds are wanted for, whether for breeding purposes or for show room, or for utility. If buyers would say just what they wanted, wdiat they wanted them for, and what price they wished to pay, they would get much better satisfaction. A Strong Plea Favoring Inbreeding Argument to Show That Inbreeding is the Only Successful Method of Producing the Greatest Permanent Uniformity in a Flock of Fowls. BY G. W. SMOKEY. NY reliable knowledge of perfecting, a strain is very important and val- uable to every poultry breeder, and one which he may study with profit. Upon a poultryman's knowledge of how to properly mate fowls and of the effects of inbreeding depends a great deal of his success. Let us first consider how nature perfects a strain of any species of animal. Consider, the prairie chicken. These 'are physically perfect specimens bred in and in, and reproduce themselves exactly year after year, one prairie chicken being the coun- terpart of every other except for a fe\y minor variations. IJy reading Darwin we learn that nature selects the best of a kind by the most vigorous methods. Her severest method is her unmerciful weeding out of w^eaklings. Of a flock of wild birds the weak- lings all perish from some cause which thev are unable to combat and cope with, and only the fit- test are allowed to live on and propagate them- selves indefinitely. The weakling may fall behind the others in their search for fo(xl and starve, or become fatigued while crossing large bodies of water and drown, or bad weather may kill them, oi^ birds and beasts of prey devour them. Only the strongest which are able to survive these hazards live on to reproduce themselves. The closest in- breeding is practiced in all animal nature. A brood of prairie chickens keep closely together until the next breeding season, and we have every reason to believe that the offsi)ring of the same parents mate together the following season. In nature we see that when perfect s])eciniens breed together the closest inbreeding is not detri- mental to health or re])roduction, for their offspring- are usually healthy and vigorous and rarely ill. \{ we follow this method of nature as nearly as possible we shall be able to perfect a strain, or even an entire new variety, which will breed true to color and shape and reproduce other (pialities which we may desire to become a characteristic of the strain. iUit under the conditions usually found in the breed- ing of domesticated fowls, nature's method of the survival of the fittest is hindered. We furnish the wxak with a plentiful supply of proper food, and protect them from the inclemency of the weather and from their enemies, and ofttimes we nurse them to the age of maturity. Thus we can readily see that it is almost impossible to separate the weakest from the strongest, altlio it is an easv matter to separate those '*off color" and "off shape." Inbreeding under these conditions usually becomes the open door to disasters of all kinds and means failure, unless the breeding stock is carefully and in- telligently selected. Inbreeding is certainly very desirable in order to perfect a strain. One wild bird is like another be- cause unnumbered years of inbreeding have made the blood of its parents identical, so that variations are seldom seen because of this rarity. From Dar- win and from observation we learn further that like usually produces like, but sometimes a single indi- vidual may differ from its progenitor with a wide divergence and frequently with unusual exceptions will produce the same variations in its offspring. The different varieties of poultry today may have had their origin in such occasional variations, altho no definite statement can be made as facts upon the subject are not easily obtained. Another law that affects the breeder is atavism, or reversion of species. This is the tendency in animal life to produce offspring that resemble or possess some peculiar trait of some remote ancestor. An individual bird having in its veins the blood of various types of birds is likely to reproduce off- spring that will revert back to some obnoxious ancestor. Some birds and animals have a irreater power than others to reproduce themselves. Such creatures are called prepotent, and if of the desir- able shape and color and of vigorous jdiysical con- dition, are very valuable as breeders in fixing the characteristics of a particular strain. If the breeder carefully detects variations from the fixed type and immediately rejects such birds from his breeding pen, and if he has carried mbreed- ing on long enough, the blood of almost every fowl in the strain will be nearly homogeneous, and enough so that marked variation from the original type will be rare. I certainly believe that the closest ud)reeding may be followed in domestic breeding as in nature in order to perfect or to ])erpetuate a certain type. Jf vou select vour breeding stc^ck carefully and in- telligently you will have no trouble from lack of rigorous health and reproductive cai)acity in your strain. Some of America's greatest ])oultrymen have originated a strain of poultry by inbreeding and have perpetuated it by inbreeding, and have never experienced harm or failure because they have selected their breeding birds wisely and care- fully. Some one has suggested the following as a safe way to inbreed fowls: Separate flocks may be bred in widely separated sections of the country, the difference in environment and climate making enough difference in the blood to perpetuate vigor and reproductive capacity without any of the dan- gers of inbreeding. t Page 70 POULTRY FANCIER* November, '11 IHH *^ y November, '11 POULTRY FANCIER Page 71 EDITORIAL PAGE ♦• LETTERS FROM READERS Poultry Fancier Published under the name Fancy FowU for 1 0 years, 1897 to 1907. Entered as Second Class Matter. Sept. 28, 1907, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. Published the 1 3 th of each month by POULTRY FANCIER PUBLISHING CO. FRANK HECK. President 337 Dearborn Street, Chicago, ill. 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 p*id. Requests for advertising rates will be given prompt attention. Changes of ads must be received by the 1 st of die 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- tion of all profit and pleasure in poultry raising. N ovember, 1911 First, the Plan. A man, wlin contemplates makinu^ a journey over routes unfamiliar to him, does several thinj^s before he starts. He determines the place he desires to reach; studies the roads leading to that i)lace; considers the means of conveyance; calculates the expense, and settles the details of his itinerary. Unless he did all of these things he would he accounted as a very foolish man, and the chances of his getting to any specific i)lace would he reckoned as small. Something sim- ilar to this should be done by the person taking up poultry breeding, lie should have a well detined plan of what he intends to do, with as many details as possible of how he is going to do it. This plan should lirst of all contain his purpose, whether that be to breed exhibition fowls, market poultry, produce eggs, or be a combination of two or more of such purposes. This is necessary because the selection of his stock and the construction of his buildings, to a greater or less extent, will depend upon the object to be ac- complished. Quite different fowls will be demanded by the raiser of market poultry and the producer of market eggs. The breeder of exhibition fowls needs cockerel pens, in which to keep safely a number of line males, and training coops in which to discipline the competitors for prizes; the breed- er for market can dispense with these, though conveniences for killing and dressing fowls should form part of his plant. This plan should also include a study of how to dispose of his stock to the best advantage. The breeder of exhibiton fowls must learn what he can about shows and showing, study the niceties of feather breeding, keep in touch with the leading poultry journals, carefully prepare effective advertisements, etc. The practical man may also do all these things with advantage, but he must study market quotations in order to know when and where to sell his poultry products to the best advantage. Both should study economical feeding, but the practical man must do it in order to succeed; the breeder of exhibition fowls having a wider margin between cost of production and sale prices is under less necessity of making a close study of this subject, though it will increase his profits if he does so. This plan should contem])late only success, no place for failure should be left in it. A man determined to suc- ceed, who starts out with a well-de- fined purpose, and who is willing to learn the right methods and put them into i)ractice, can not fail. Hut the men. who consider failure as a possi- ble contingency, are the ones who^ are likely to realize this possil)ility. They lack the will i)ower to overcome ob- stacles, and the result is that when obstacles arise they will overcome the men. A good plan always contemplates the possibility of changes in details. It remains, like the laws of the Medes and iVrsians. unchangeable in its main outlines, but it is more elastic as to the means to be used in accom- l)lisliine the object in view, l^xperi- ence brings knowledge; improvement of methods become possible; and the right sort of a plan accommodates it- self to such things. Were it otherwise there would be no chance for improve- ment; the breeder would be bound by anti(|uated methods, and while his brethren made rapid advancement, he would find himself relegated to the rear. The Use of Imagination in Breeding. In the poultry industry there is a place for the use of the imagina- tion. I'oultry breeding depends large- ly but not wholly on facts. Ideals are always tli ■ product of imagina- tion and poultry breeding has much to do with ideals. The man who can not imagine, can not produce l)eforc him a mental picture of the fowl which he wishes to ])ro(luce. is but ill- titted to breed exhibition birds. By dint of sticking to facts — facts of breeding as discovered by others — he may succeed in breeding good fowls and in holding the ground already won, but he is not likely to make any new conquests. Nearly all steps in the progress of science have been anticipated by im- agination before they have been es- tablished by investigation and exper- iment. New theories are imagined, then tested, then logically justified. lUit imagination has been the pioneer, l)laziiig the footpath through the woods where later run the highways of success. And poultry breeding has much to do with science, especially witli that l)ranch of science called bi- ology, and so it has much to do with imagination. Investigation collects scattered facts, and imagination fuses them in its fire, producing a theory. Scat- tered facts teach us l)ut little until they are reduced to order in theories. One natural law is worth all the facts which it explains, and true theories are natural laws. So, in the discov- ery of natural laws, we are still the debtor to imagination, and poultry breeding rests upon natural laws. As l)reeders we should cultivate all of our faculties which are useful in l)reeding, observation, memory, rea- son and imagination; as men, as well as breeders, every facultv should be cultivated. We are only too apt to forget that imagination is a faculty, not only useful to us as men but also useful to us in the actual work of breeding. The scientific use of the imagination wonderfully increases our l)ower of winning success in the poul- try industry, and if we are wise we will not neglect its cultivation. In the delil)erate making of a new ])reed or variety imagination is indis- ])ensable: without it the work can not be done. The new fowl must be seen with the mental eye as clearly as, when produced it can be seen with the physical eye. Mr. W. fT. Card, the maker of the White Laced Red C'ornish fowl, for example, .-.ays that upon seeing a pair of fowl> in a neighbor's yard, that "In my miii(r> eye I saw a bird so laced in every section, which with snow-white un- dercolor would be the acme of a fan- cier's and marketman's delight." Mr. H. S. l-.abcock. who has produced several new varieties, declares that "the fowl to be produced was as truly a mental visual object at the outset, as the produced fowl was a physical visual object." .\n(l this, necessarily, must be true in all cases of a similar character. The mind must project the fowl to be, in order that there may be a clear ideal to work from. The architect must draw his plans before the carpenter can build the house, and imagination is the architect of new breeds and varieties intentionally l)ro(luce(l. It is true that some breeds have been jjroduced without definite intention; like Topsy. they just "growed;" but they do not invalidate the rule. The Rhode Island Red is the best example of a breed so pro- duced in this country which occurs to our mind. But breeds so produced have had to l)e developed by men who made use of the imagination, es- tablished ideals, and bred up to them. When the fancier first took hold of the Rhode Island Red it was rather the promise of a breed than a breed, and, until imagination had been em- l)l()yed upoi, it. it was something quite different fron- what it now is. f « « • I • • 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. SINGLE OR DOUBLE MATING? There has been so much talk about this single and double mating ques- tion that the beginner in the poultry business does not know what to do. What does the beginner know about the double mating system? If he wants to raise exhibition birds he has to have two different breeding pens, two different matings, with two kinds of chickens. Take for instance Barred Rocks, which are especially handi- capped in this respect. If an ama- teur wants Barred Rocks he has to have double mated pens and double mating means you must mate dark colored males with dark colored fe- males to produce exhibition cocker- els, and mate light colored males with light colored females to produce ex- hibition pullets. It can be done, but who wants to start in the fancy with that looking him in the face when other varieties can be bred with single mating with half the work? Why has the demand for certain varieties taken a drop in the last three or four years? Just be- cause of this double mating. Thou- sands of people are ignoring these breeds for that reason alone. Where is the money going that the thousands of people, who are getting into the poultry business, and have only a little space for their birds, are spending? They are spending it for breeds of single mating that produce fowls of both sexes conforming to the Standard. In the case of breeders with a lim- ited space, what are they going to do with two matings? They have not the room for them, so it is up to them to have one, either a pullet line or a cockerel line. Show me the man who wants to have one pen and that pen mated to produce nothing The Undefeated Champion Strain of America PETERSEN'S HOUDANS Send for 80-page book on The Houdan, 30 full paged plates of prize winners, Houdan Standard, Mating tor Exhibition, Management and many other important chapters. Postage 20 cents. Rev. C. E. PETF.RSEN. President American Houdan Club, 1900 to 1907. 16 Waverly St., Portland, Maine While Indian Games .^^^\^ — %6 per doz, H. S. BABCOCK, 77 Summit St., East Providence, R. I. LAYERS and PAYERS Royal Orpingtons WHITE— B VFF— BLACK Eggs for hatching $5 "Jy $92%' SHOW STOCK $3.00 to $500 per head. Eggs for hatching from $3,000 pen of Royal Columbian Plymouth Rocks $3.00 each. Stock and eggs shipped to any part of the Let us know your wants. WOODWORTH FARM, WILTON, CONN. I world. .J EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM UTILITY STOCK ONE HALF ABOVE PRICES l)ut exhibition cockerels and cockerels alone. So it is with the breeder who has a pen mated to produce exhibition pullets. There is no doubt that he will find it interesting-, but let him go to his flock in the fall to pick out show birds, he will find he has his one pen mated to produce exhibi- tion pullets and a lot of fine pullets, but he has no cockerels. As he wants to show a full line of them he goes out and pays a good price for some, when he knows he has no room for them. He has a lot of fine pullets and an exhibition cock and cockerels. What is he going to do with them? He has no room for them. And as he is a lover of fine poultry he does not want to get them in with his pul- let line. Then he becomes disgusted with them and gives them up to go into a breed that will produce exhibi- tion birds of both sexes from a single mating. The time is coming when breeders of Barred Rocks and other similar varieties will wake up to the fact that they have killed the goose, etc. Then they will get in line with the rest of the breeders with their single mat- ings. F. N. Perkins, Jr. THE MAN AND THE BIRD. Poultry raising in my section of the country (Virginia) until the last two or three years has been more or less along the barnyard line, but re- cently the boys who have cast their lot with the feathered tribe are mak- ing things "cackle," and right here I will be consistent with the heading of this article by stating that it is the "man behind the bird" that makes the cackling. The fellow who is suf- ficiently interested to be on his job all the time, is the one who gets eggs and blue ribbons. It is just as im- possible to go to town, sit around and discuss politics and expect to raise, either layers or winners, as it is to run an automobile without money. In the beginning buy the very best ))irds from the most particular breeder you can locate, but don't pay all you exi)ect to invest in chickens alone, as tliey have to eat, and a little money to your credit in bank will make you feel more like feeding them a variety of good wholesome food. Don't follow my example of some years ago and buy a lot of mongrel hens in the spring from any one who will sell them, for if you do you will llll your houses with vermin and dis- ease, get a few eggs during the spring months and then have the pleasure of lighting the above mentioned pests, feeding your g-ood feed the following summer and winter and getting no re- turns except what you receive from the huckster for a bunch ot old, com- mon, over-fat hens. Hut. Reader! / Page 72 everything happens to the man in the chicken l)usiness, so don't give up, sell those old hens if you have them and buy some good ones; don't quit and say, "I wish I could raise chick- ens like ^Ir. So. and So." Stick to it and never ''wear your wishbone where your backbone ought to be." Go right after it, get those good birds and give them good treatment. Put them in a house with front partly open, and always keep it that way, door on east side, that they may bask and scratch in the early morning sun; face it south so that same old sun can hit it in the middle of the day, shining right in the dust box, which should be placed on the west side near the front. Have the opening within two feet of the ground, so it can shine full on "Biddy" when she stretches herself for a sun bath on the nice clean litter which you have placed on the floor to feed your morn- ing feed in, which should consist of good, clean, wholesome grains. You can buy a good scratch feed from any poultry supply dealer. Look closely at each bird; if one looks droopy and is not busy, take her out and give one-quarter grain calomel tablet. If there is any discharge from the nostrils give one two-grain qui- nine tablet and put in the drinking water some good disinfectant. Give fresh water, as this is most necessary for their general welfare at all times Then comes the noon feed of .mash, which should be mixed with hot water. Don't make it sloppy. Use two parts bran, one part cornmeal, one part wheat middlings, one part oil meal, one part beef scrap. In it put a little pulverized charcoal and feed in clean troughs. At night give a full feed of wheat or corn or both, and don't forget the fresh water; then after they have gone to roost enter each house and if you can detect any wheezing remove it. This is the first symptom of cold, wliich, if not at- tended to, will develop into roup and cause untold trouble. Yes, there are many little things that we must watch, but if we want eggs and show birds you must keep everything in good condition, especi- ally the birds. This is the way we handle cur birds at this season, and we not only get a good egg yield, but take these very same R. C. Reds to the shows, where we have won from the blue to the green. Read the poul- try journals, everything in them. They will give you courage to with- stand the knocks you get from your neighbors, who will eventually buy eggs from you and ask your advice, and don't forget that success cannot be attained for you by the l)ird alone. It requires the combined effort of the man and the bird. M. C. Richardson, Jr. Gl lU Q p lU /^ $2.S,000.00 from one-half ■ *^ *^ "■ *^ ^* acre. Easily grown throughout U. S. and Canada. Our booklet No. 6 tells particulars. Send 4c for postage. McDOWELL GINSENG GARDEN, Joplin. Mo. WOLFE'S REDS LEAD THE WORLD HALF PRICE now for all Eggs. C.ct eggs and raise Reds from our Famous Hens. "Polly" which was chos»*n over 1st Madison Square Pullet of i(X)Q-lo, from 1st and 2d Providence, 1st Frankfort. Itt Knoxvillc, 1st Cleveland, etc., at half price. Breeding stock for sale at a bargain to make way for the young Reds. Baby Chicks and older Chicks from ail matings at right prices. Clinchfield Poultry Yards. Geo. L. Wolfe, Prop., Rogersvillc, Tenn. POULTRY FANCIER Pertinent Paragraphs By EASTERNER A lame man is handica'.ped for a race, and a halting man will not win success as a breeder. One must be prepared to "go the gait" if he would not be classed with the "also ran." "Heads 1 win," said the exhibitor, whose birds were uncut on that sec- tion. "Tails you lose," said the judge as he disqualified the specimens for wry and squirrel tails. You may feed a cull on balanced rations and rear it in the most san- itary environment and by the most scientific methods, but it will be only a cull. The Campine market is surely look- ing up when one English breeder can report the exportation of 3G0 birds to American shores. It really looks as if Campines might be doing busi- ness for a while at least on this side of the big pond. A poultryman's language ought al- ways to be profitable, but it some- times happens — very, very rarely, of course — that the most expressive words are blue-penciled by the pub- lisher. Some exhibitors can talk "a blue streak" when a yellow card is given to their best bird. And blue is hardly the complementary color of yellow, is it? One ought not to get blue when he wins a yellow or green ribbon, now, ought he? m ^ Whoever saw a poultry exhibitor who was color blind? He never has any difficulty in distinguishing blue and red from f)ther colors when the November. '11 cards or the ribbons are tacked up on the coops. S^ ^ To find a bird with a wry tail causes the breeder to make a wry face. There is this disadvantage in bemg a poultry writer — it takes so much time to tell others w^hat to do that you have scarcely enough time to do what you ought to do, and that makes a pretty "how-de-do" with your own fowls. Much study may make some men mad. but the most of us are not running great risks in that direction. Reduce your poultry stock by weeding out the undesirables. Not . how many but how good should be your motto. True economy does not consist in buying cheap stock at a small ex- penditure of cash, but in buying the best at reasonable prices. Now that the edict has gone forth that R. 1. Red breeders must not ad- vertise "Non-fading Reds," we won- der what they will do to get around the edict. Better keep on breeding the birds with fast colors at any rate. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth," may be good advice, but you should look over very carefully gift poultry, if they are to be used in the breeding yard. Thinking is real hard work, and there are, therefore, many dreamers but few thinkers. » m Literature owes an immense debt to the poultry man. The first i)ens were made from the feathers of a goose. Strange as it may seem, it WHITE ROCKS ^^™^— — are big, White, bea WHITE WYANOOTTES p°'"' '=««''°'"»- Stock for sale that will win in the show room and fill the egg basket. Our birds are big, White, beauties, strong in good BERymrM poultry yards. choicest matings at ^^— ^— liveng prices. BOX P., BERWYN, ILLm 6 4 YEARS L K- Fdch & Sons Poultry Company HAVE BRED Light Brahmas, White Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, White Plymouth Roclcs, 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 THP^Y NOT, when none but specimens to score 90 to 96 points find place in 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 15, Rrahnias |;3 50 to |1() for females; $5 to |20 for males. White and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes, |2.50 to $8 for fe- males; |4to 115 for males. Eggs from all, |4 for 15, |7 for .'iO, |9 for 45, and $15 for 105 eggs. From May 15 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 176, NATICK, MASS. • # t 1 t < • • • is a fact that, while the goose-quill pen has gone, the goose still keeps on writing. And poultrymen are still making up pens. ^ $^ What has become of our friend Dr. Ballard? We miss his genial con- tributions and friendly comments, even if he w uldn't give us the title of "Rev." Tt is said that Judge Drevenstedt came within a D. of being a D. D. He was "Drev." which is ''Rev." with one D. The fall shows are over — they were over the whole country a while ago. but now are things of the past. But the winter show is looming large, and that is. after all. the real thing. The fall show is simply the preparatory school for the regular winter exhibi- tion, and the latter promises to be something w..rth while. Get ready and go with your birds to the most profitable "aviation meet" yet devised. ^ 'M The dearest thing on earth is a cull cock to head your pen, even if he comes as a gift. We have often noticed that the ex- hibitor who doesn't mind defeat is POULTRY FEMCE1 STOCK STRONG-RUST PROOF Bottom wires 1 inch apart. "Will not sag or bag. Re- quires no boards — top or bottom — and fewer posts. Costs less than netting. W« pay freight. Send for CatalofiT. The Brown Fence & Wire Co. Dept. 94 Cleveland. Ohio. ^A9663^ SAMPLES FREE S«Dd iikme on |i<>ital iiuw fur free akmples of most coiii|>lete line of highest quality banijg Smith S>'alfd foreveiyuae. yr order nnw from this Klvertisement. ^ Money bacit If yoiiwnntil. SMITH SEALED. Used by America's lealinn Fanciers. Prices: 1'.', aOc: 2>, ."i'tc-.d), |l; KK). tl.:><)Oii", 16 &(V, l(Ki(), |12.r>";poBtpnid. 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J, Stanton of New York City Spratts Patent will have charge "L ^"^, f'ooi)ing and feeding. The prizes «)fTered will exceed those of last sea- .son, wlien thirty cups and a liberal amount of cash was donated. The officers of the association and the committee which is making everv effort to have this show the best in tlie are Pres. Chas. Nixon Cornish, Treat.. A. S. ' H. Cyphers; Executive W. Dilts, J. M. Kase. H. Cornish. F. H. Castner, sell. Vice- Pres Harle, Sec. Committee: E. Ru.ssell. and A. L. state J. B. Wm. (Jeo. J. B. Rus- S. C. WHITE MINORCA CLUB. The American Single Comb White Mi- norca Club will hold its annual meeting in Madison Square Garden, Thurs-14 O. R Keller. Secy., Tasker and Weed. Judges. Holyokll Nov 22-24 Percy M.Alden. Secy., Williamansett, Mass., Card and Tasker, WillianSett. Nev. 22-24. Percy M. Allen, Secy., Card and Tasker. Judges. Michigan. Bay City, Jan. 30-Feb 4. A. J. Copeland. Secy.. Hathaway. Judge. Calumet Jan. 18-26. C. I. Bashore, Secy., Clipp. Judge. DetrSt, Jan 25-30. J. A. Turner, Secy.. Lan.sing. Mich.. Tucker. Oke and Wells. Judges nowaeiac Dec 5-9. H. H. Taylor. Secy., Tucker, Judge. „^ tt t ^ r^*^^ G^^nd Rap/df Jan 9-1.. Geo. H. Williams, Secy., 944 E. Fulton St., Heck and Otto. Jaclfs"on^^Dec 30-Jan. 4. W. O. Wellman, Secy.. Tucker and Travis. Judges. KaSaioo, Jan 15-20. F. W. Hough, Secy., Stanfield and Shellabarger, Judges. Kalamazoo Dec. 25-30. J. J. Vanderberg. Secy.. Shaner. Judge. Kent Citv Nov. 27-Dec. 1.— W. J. Burrows. Secy. Lawrence,' Dec. 13-16. C. N. Whittaker. Secy Hemenway, Judge. Manistee. Jan. 11-14. M. A. Fortler. Secy.. 187 15th St Muskeeon Dec 19-22. P. M. Hanson. Secy.. Tucker. Judge. LansinI? Jan 1-6. J. A. Turner. Secy.. Tucker and Wise, Judges. Saginaw. Feb. 12-17. F. Plumb Jr.. Secy.. Cimlin. .Judge. Vlcksburg. Dec. 27-30. C. A. Morse. Secy Tucker .Judge. Wyandot? Jan. 2-6. W. S. Martin. Secy.. 75 Orchard St. Minnesota. Duluth Jan 30-Feb. 4. J. B. Greenfield. Secy.: Tucker Judge ^lirmont Dec 19-21. E. W. Christianson. Secy.. J^olden. Judge. Mankato. Jan. 5-9. J. W. Konman, Secy. Tucker. Judge^ Minneapolis Jan. 11-19. f^W. Van Sant. Secy., Holden and Owatonna Feb. 1-3. Gu.s^ A. Cedardahl. Secy.. Parcher and Roberts. Judges. Holden, Judges. Page 75 of the officers that this meeting shall be a banner one and that all the mem- bers attend, as considerable business of importance, as well a.s plans for a more extensive and vigorous campaign of pub- licit v, is to be discussed, because it is our desire to ac(iuaint the poultry world witli this "peer of i)reeds." At Madison Square Garden, there will be offered a $10.00 Silver Cup, $10.00 in Cash, hand- some silk "Club-special" ribbons, and other miscellaneous i -izes. We invite all S. C. White Minorca breeders to join us and compete. C. Augustus Raschke, Secy., Kingston, N. Y. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. twenty -five prizes, such These, to- merchandise The Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Chautau(iua County Poultry Association, which will be held tlie week of January S-13, 1912, promises to surpass any show ever held by them. There will be of- fered as special premiums silver trophy cups and other as pieces of furniture, etc. gether with other cash and specials, will l)ring out a large entry We have secured as Judges, Messrs. Fred D. Maunders of Buffalo, N. Y., and O. ^^ . Preston of .lamestown, N. Y. The pre- mium list will be ready December Isl. 1911, and may be had by sending a means busiiress. Good fellowship to a marked degree, an open hand and heart, have not failed to l)ring breeders nearer to us and to our shows. All premiums are settled as soon as the awards are up. Tliese are some of the reasons for our success in the past, and with this rec- c rd we come l^efore you in extending our invitation to our sixth annual show. Our uremium list is by far the l)est we have ever issued. A copy is yours for the asking. Address the secretary. F. A. Newman. P. O. Box 472, Rochester, N. Y., for any information you may desire regarding our coming show, the best ever. A BIG SHOW FOR NEW ORLEANS. With poultry shows now going on through every section of the South, evi- dences of the great growth of the in- dustry are i^lentifid. Reports of the shows past, present and futme fill the columns of the press. At all points where shows have been hehl in past years, secretaries' reports show a great increase in number of birds entered, and many new shows have been Inaugurated during the past season. An evidence of the interest in the fancy in the larger cities, is the fact that New Orleans, wliicii last year gave its first show in about eight years, will this year present one with an entry fully twice as large as that of 1910. The New Orleans Show is being given imder the auspices of the Louisiana l^oultry Fanciers Association, and accord- ing to present reports an entry of abou* VI 1,500 birds is expected. These will come, It is believed, not only from tlie South, but as last year, from all the great poultry centers of the country. Last year nine states were represented at the show, in- cluding- New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, \ irginia and other sec ions nearer to the seat of the exhibit. This year with cups and special and cash prizes many times the number of last year, and with a proportionately larger number of inquiries received, the entry will undoubtedly keep Dace. An es- pecial attraction this year will be the splendid competitive exhibit of water towl, a strong movement having been made by one of the enterprising agri- cultural journals to form an organiza- tion to increase interest in, and foster the breeding of this class of feathered stock. Fanciers and breeders from everywhere are cordially invited to New^ Orleans and coming from the South, this invitation carries with it the well known hospitality of the South. Come and see what the feouth IS doing and stay if you so de- sire. We of the South shall be more than pleased if you do. Information regarding the New Orleans Show can be had by addressing the sec- retary, Cicero A. Ramsey, Ul Carondelet street. New Orleans, to whom reipiests for catalogue and premium lists should also be sent. CROOKSTON, MINN. riie Fourth Annual Show of the North- ern Minnesota Poultry Association will be held December 14th to 18th at Crooks- ton. Large cash and special prizes will be offered in addition to fifteen handsome silver cups. H. H. Benjamin will do the judging. All premiums will be paid promptly and in full. Write for premium list to Mrs. F. C. Mitchell, Sec'y. m W: WINSTED, CONN. The Winsted Poultry Association will hold another big show^ this season and the dates selected for it are Januarv 9th to 12th. R. s. Seymour, Sec'y, will gladly send premium list and full information to all who write for same. COWRIE, IOWA. One of the best season will be held 26th to 29th. S. R. retary of the show. sh nvs in Iowa tliis at jowrie, December E. Anderson is sec- NORFOLK, VA. A big combination show will be held at Norfolk this season under the man- agement of the Virginia Poultry Associa- tion and the Tidewater Poultry Associa- tion, both of which organizations have combined for the purpose of holding one of the best shows ever held in the state. The dates are December 12th to IGtli The judges are Wittman, Storv and Rom- mell. Premium list and other information may be obtained by writing lu Geo K Ouvernator, Sec'y, Barton Heiglits, Rich- mond. Va. ATLANTA, CA. One of the largest shows in the South this season will be lield at Atlanta by the Southern International Poultry Asso- ciation. Twelve of the best judges from all sections of the counti-y will place the awards. Over .$:{.(IOO in cash prizes will be awarded in addition to manv handsome silver cups. A large number of specialtv clubs will hold their meetings at Atlantii this season. The dates are December 12th to 16th. Write to T. M. Poole Sec'.v, for premium list and otiier de- sired information. SPOKANE. WASH. One thousand dollars in gold, eleven cups and numerous ribbons will be award- ed to winners in the various classes at the fourth annual show of the Inland Empire Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- tion in the State Armory, Spokane. Wash.. December 12th to 17th. J. C, Clipp of Saltillo, Ind., will preside as judge, using the comparison method instead of scor- ing by points. John L. Smith of Spo- kane, president of the association, says that exhibits are promised from varioiis parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and OULTRY FANCIER Novembe Rochester, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. D. L. Williams, Secy.. Holden, Judge. Winona, Jan. 1-6. Wm. Kuhlmunn, Secy., Hess, Judge. Mississippi. Meridian, Dec. 11-16. Fred R. Ziller. Secy., Johnson, Judge, lupelo, Dec. 5-7. W. F. Jordan, Secy., Fishel, Judge. Missouri. Belton, Nov. 13-18. W. R. Meador, Secy., Southard, Judge. Chilhcothe, Nov. 28-29. Mrs. L. M. Ott, Secy., Russell and Rhodes, Judges. Columbia, Jan. 8-12. Elizabeth Hodge, Secy., Thompson. Judge. De Soto, Dec. 20-23. Jno. J. Schmidt. Secy., Heimlich, Judge. Edina, Dec. 5-9. C. H. MuHnex, Secy. Jefferson City, Nov. 23-24. B. M. Houchin, Secy., Southard, Judge. Kirksville, Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Manvile Carothers, Secy., Russell, Judge. LaBelle, Nov. 22-24. L. G. Lamb, Secy., Warner, Judge. Lowell Jan. 8-12. F. Malz. Secy., McCracken, Judge. Maryville, Dec. 13-16. J. H. Sayler, Secy., Thompson, Judge. St. Louis, Nt)V. 27-Dec. 3. T. W. Orcutt, Secy. Montana. Missoula, Jan. 9-13. L. W. Austin, Secy., Collier, Judge. Nebrsslo. Fremont, Dec. 11-15. C. H. Green, Secy.; Shellabarger, Judge. Norfolk, Jan. 3-6. H. B. Dixon, Secy., Southord. Judge. Pender, Dec. 7-9. R. W. Seymour, Secy., Ellison, Judge. T^ x^ «^ «^ l^ew Hampshire. Derry Dec. 26-29. E. E. Buzzett, Secy., May and Benson, Judges. Manchester, Jan. 2-5. G. F. Miller, Secy. o -^ * 1.T «^ ^ New Jersey. J^udges 29-Dec. 2. Paul G. Springer, Secy.. Huyler. Stanton and Hixon. Camden, Jan. 2-6. W. Lee Springs, Secy. Hammonton, Dec. 6-7. B. P. Gray, Secy Passaic, Jan. 11-13. W. D. Hundertmark, Secy. ^^^«f A ^^^' i^"i^ P- Terwilliger, Secy.. 96 Monclair Ave.. Tompkins, Card, Young. Bonfoey and Stanton, Judges. ^^^J^dg^es' ^''^' ^^-^^''' 2- F. H. Hodges. Secy., Sprague. Seaman and Munich. Salem, Dec. 20-23. W. H. Nineville, Secy. A u T -^ « New York. Auburn, Jan. 15-20. A. Linnenbach. Secy. M^xrif'tj,?™?; ^^^u"'^^ A- Merkley, Secy., 36 Coal and Iron Exchange Bldg.. Corn^n^ n'pc 19^1^^^' Schwab Card, Tucker. Webb, Jarvis and Maunder. Judges. ^' Looming, L>ec. 12-15. H. R. Starner, Secy. Sow^^?;/^"t\ ^^'lo'.J^^'^^^ ^- Stapley, Secy., Webb. Judge. New Platz, Dec. 12-15. W. H. Van Wagenen, Secy. New York (Grand Central Palace), Dec. 5-9. L. D. Howell Mineola N Y Secv Ro?hesfe?' ^fn' V^l^' i/°^." S' Tallinger. Secy.. Box 84, Bafna^ds n! Y. ^" ^^''^• and Bradford, judjes. ^^'^"'^"' S^^>'- ^^x 472, Webb. Denny. Stanton. Mosher Utica, Jan. 15-19.' F. W." Batsford, Secy., 37 Watson PI.. Ingalls, Judge. . , .,, ^ North Carolina. Asheville, Dec. 12-15. Paul P. Brown, Secy.. Marshall, Judge. GailoX' I^e'c.- i's'^H.^Jt'te^^'iTcT' ^''^■' ^'" '''' """^"^ ""^ ^^"^"^^"^^ '^^^'^^ Greensboro, Dec. 19-21. W. M. Montgomery, Secy Henrietta, Jan. 11-13. O. R. Caffield, Secv., Ellenboro, N C Simmons Judee Lincolnton, Nov. 28-30. Miss Lena Rheinhardt, Se^y " ^'"''"°"^' *'"^^®- Morganton. Nov. 22-24. C. D. Farney, Secy.. Simmons. Judge. ^ho^h.?^^!?""' E^^i. '^-^'Ix. "• ^- Guthrie. Secy.. Simmons. Judge. Shelby. Dec 14-16^ J. W. Suttle. Secy.. Simmons, Judge. Winston.-Salem, Dec. 27-29. R. C. Taylor. Secy., Box 433. Ohio. Alliance, Jan. 30-Feb. 4. C. H. McCowan, Secy.. Mcintosh and McClave Tude-es Be efonta ne, .Tan. 16-20. F. W. McKinnon, Secy. Dipple" Judge 'f^^ses. Bellefontaine, Jan. 16-20. F. W. McKinnon, Secy.; McClave and Dipnel Judges Bucyrus, Dec. 11 16. D. M. Odaffer, Secy. ; Sites and Keller Judges "J^^^^es- Bradford, Jan. 16-20. A. L. Brubaker, Secy., Nash Judge. ' ^ ' Cambridge, Jan. 31-Feb. 3. ,L C. Sarchet. Secv. Heck Judge Carey Dec. 4-9. Carl F. Pflueger. Secy.. Falkner, Judge. ' 7tedt^'and"K?ng judged: ^^"'^^^'^ ^056 E. 4th St., McClave, Faulkner, Oke. Dreven- Crooksville, Jan. 10-13. M.G. Calhoon, Secy.. Haswell Judge Cincinnati, .Tan. 8-13. E. B. Rogers, Secy., Pierce, Lane anVl Case Tudffes Coshocton, Jan. 2-6. Dr. Geo. M. Boone. Secy. Falkner Judge •^"*^^^^- Dayton. Jan. 1-6. Frank TTamberger. Secv.. Pierce and Case Indies Defiance. .Tan. 15-20. John H. Vincent, Secy., Falkner Juffge Dennison, Dec 18-23. W. E. Hart. Secy., Corfman. Judge. East Liverpool. Dec 25-30. J. F. Gro.scross. Secv., T M Camnbell Tude-e Eaton, Jail. 15-20. Ora Overholser, Secy.. Stanfield and Acton ^Judges ^ Elmore. Jan. 2-6. Bert B. Rice. Secy.. Gault, .Tudge. ' •'"''^^^• Gabon, Dec. 5-9. G. C. Court, Secy.. Lane, .Tudge. Genoa, Dec 11-15. W. M. Hassan, Secy., McNamee, Judge. Knadenhutten. Dec. 26-29. W. O. Lyle, Secy.. Gault Judge Hamilton. Nov 28-Dec. 3. .L E. Humbach. Secy., Box 125. Lane Judge Jeffersonville Dec. 11-16. A. E. Moon, Secy.. Falkner .Tudge Lectonia. Feb. 7-10. C. S. Angle-Myer. Secv. McClave .Tudge Lima, Dec. 4-9 F. W. Beitz. Secy., Gault and Struble, J d|e' Lisbon. .Tan. 8-13 H. L. Adams, Secy.. Mclnto.sh, Judge JI*- X^\1''''' •^^"- ^-13. R. W. Sattler, Secv.. Fell and Mcintosh Tudees ^'"".Tudges.'''"- '■'• "^''""^^ ^- ^'^"' I^exington. O.. Secy..' MTc,kve.^|fream and Case Massillon, Jan. 10-15. Thos. Kesser. Secy., Campbell Tudee Medina. Jan. 9-13. T. P. Hallock. Secy.. Stream. Judge Milan, Dec. 6-9. L. B. Samsen, Secy ^^u^e. Nelsonville Jan. 1-6 V B. Carty, Secy., McCracken. .Tudge. Norwalk, .Tan. 2-6. C. O. Jack.son. Secv., Clipp Judge I'iqua. Jan. 8-13. Sherman D. Syler Secy Pemberville, Jan. 23-27. L. G. Bowlus. Socv.. Box 58 Gault Tudee Salem. Dec. 18-23. Carroll Beck, Secy., Falkner, Judge '^"^^®- Tiffin, .Tan. 9-13. B. F. Cockayne, Secv., Pierce, fudge Upper Sandusky, Jan. 1-6. A. H. Owen. Secv., Gault ' Judge Van Wert. Dec. 12-16. L. C. Blake. Secv. N^rthun ' Tud^e Waynesyille Dec. 14-16. H. H. Wadsworth. Sec\- Case Judge Woodyille. .Tan. 31-Feb. 3 W. H. Burns. Secv.. ' McClave .Tudge Wooster. Jan. 9-13. Albert S. Sanrer. Secy. Falkner Judjr Wakeman, Feb. 6-9. H. H. Haskin.s Secv McClnve Tudirp Xenia, Dec. 26-31. .L R. Beacham. Secy .Sites Tudge Youngstown, Dec 11-16. R. L. Davies Secv ' Zanesville. Jan. 15-21. Frank C. Clester. Secy.. Myers, Judge. T-.1 T-. ^ «^ « Oklahoma. El Reno. Dec. 26-29. Jno. Gllilan. Secy. Kingfisher. Dec 5-9. F. C. Brown, Secy. ''»♦"■". -nR^ge. # f r- # i # November, '11 POULTRY FANCIER Muskogee. Jan. 8-13. C. R. Binding, Secy.. 223 N. Main St.. Ellison. Judge. Shawnee, Dec. 12-16. E. W. Leitch, Secy., Emery. Judge. Stillwater. Jan. 16-20. Jno. H. Potter, Secy., Stoner, Judge. Tulsa, Jan. 1-5. J. W. Binding. Secy., Savage, Judge. Waynoka, Dec. 12-16. H. 1. Rankin, Secy., Stoner, Judge. Woodward, Dec. 6-9. C. C. Hoag. Secy., Stoner, Judge. Oregon. Astoria, Dec. 6-9. Jas. Gait, Secy. Eugene, Dec. 11-16. B. Keeney, Supt.. Brace, Judge. Pennsylvania. Beaver, Jan. 10-13. J. M. Ecoff. Secy., Corey, Judge. Bethlehem, Nov. 29-Dec 2. H. J. Schneller, Secy, Denny and Bear. Judges. Butler, Feb. 6-10. P. E. Puff, Secy, Kummer, Judge. Canonsburg. Jan. 1-7. J. J. Cannon, Secy.. Kummer. Judge. Coatesville, Dec. 7-9. J. W. Harlan, Secy. Du Bois, Dec. 27-30. J. M. Griesemer, Secy., Schwab, Judge. Duquesne, Nov. 27-Dec. 2. S. E. Lowry, Secy.. 1020 Kennedy Ave. East Greenville, Dec. 26-30. F. G. Christman. Secy., Fell, Judge. Easton, Jan, 9-13. S. W. Godley, Secy., Walsiefer and Bean, Judges. Evans City, Jan. 9-13. J. F. McFarland. Secy. Glen Rock, Dec. 7-9. Allen M. Seitz, Secy., New Freedom, Pa.. Hoke and Eberly, Judges. Greensburg, Jan. 16-20. R. M. Zundel, Secy. Grove City, Jan. 17-20. C. H. Daugherty, Secy.. Mosher. Judge. Knoxville, Dec. 5-8. W. L. Newton, Secv. Lebanon, Dec. 13-16. Sam Black, Secy.;; Cornman and Eibel, Judges. Leechburg. Dec. 26-30. D. V. W. Hawk, Secy., Case, Judge. Lewistown, Jan. 2-5. J. A. Carodiskey, Secy. McKeesport. Dec. 22-30. W. N. Soles, Secy., Kummer and McClave, Judges. Mohnton, Nov. 28-Dec. 2. J. H. Fichthorn, Secy., Cornman, Judge. Mount Carmel, Nov. 28-Dec 2. T. F. Owens, Secy., Berley and Helwig, Judges. Philadelphia, Dec. 12-16. C. C. Kempton. Secy. Pittsburg. Jan. 15-20. G. H. Hildebrand, 4005 Jenkins Arcade Bldg., Graves. Kummer, Ri'ggs, Tompkins and Ulrich, Judges. Pottstown, Dec. 26-30. J. W. Warren, Secy., Webb. Judge. Pottsville, Jan. 8-14. J. W. Beck, Secy. Reading. Dec. 5-9. C. H. Glase, Secy., 1331 Perkimen Ave., Reading. Ridgway, .Tan. 16-19. Geo. Bartholomew, Secy., Corey, Judge. Scottdale, Dec. 5-9. W. G Sherrick, Secy., Everson, Pa., Keeler, Judge. Scranton, Jan. 15-20. O. W. Payne, Secy., Seamans. Alden, Minshall. Brown, Stan- ton. Barber, and Albers, Judges. Spring City, Nov. 23-25. Frank Kline, Secy., Bean and Fell. Judges. Vandergrift, Dec. 6-9. Geo. L. Rudolph, Secy.. Apollo, Pa., Bean, Judge. Williamsport, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Geo. P. Stryker, Secy.. Corey. Schwab and Braun, Judges. Womelsdorf. Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Chas. D. Leinbach, Secy.. Ingram and Mosher. Judges. South Carolina. Spartanburg, Dec 5-9. E. B. Lemmond, Secy. South Dakota. Mitchell, Jan. 29-Feb, 3. W. A. Wheeler, Secy.. Russell and Shaner, Judges. Tennessee. Bristo, Dec. 11-16. L. S. McGhee. Secy.. Gimlin. Judge. Chattanooga, Dec 11-16. W. T. Marey, Secy. Hartsville, Dec. 6-8. S. R. Tinsley, Secy.. Teaney, Judge. Humboldt. Dec. 14-16. E. S. Byers, Secy.. Dyer. Tenn. Texas. Beaumont, Dec. 18-23. J. L. McKinley, Secy., Northup and Marshall, Judges. Dallas, Jan. 18-23. C. P. VanWinkle, Secy. Gatesville, Dec. 14-17. F. A. Story, Secy.. Savage, Judge. Greenville. Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Burt Stapp, Secy.. Skoggs, Judge. Hillsboro. Dec. 12-15. G. G. Escott, Secy. McKinney, Dec 4-6. O. E. Smith, Secy. Palestine, Nov. 28-Dec. 1. A. T. Head, Secy., VanWinkle, Judge. Vermont. Bellow Falls. Dec. 5-7. A. T. Pierce, Secy.. Tasker and Shove, Judges. Montpelicr. Dec. 26-30. Edward Chesser, Secy.. 35 Currier St., Barre, Vt. Virginia. East Falls Church, Dec 12-14. H. E. Demarest, Secy., Cornman, Judge. Richmond, Jan. 10-13. Geo. E. Guvernator, Secy., 807 No. Ave.. Barton Heights, Richmond, Brown and Story, Judges. Washington. Aberdeen, Nov. 30-Dec. 2. J. E. Hutchinson, Secy., Coates. Judge. Belli. igham, Nov. 27-Dec 2. Lloyd Hilderbrand. Secy., Collier and Dixon, Judges. Colfax, Dec 18-23. E. H. Rosenkranz, Secy., Dixon, Judge. Everett, Jan. 9-12. H. H. Petershagen, Secy., Barnett, Jr., Judge. Kennewick. Jan. 2-5. R. C. Mounsey, Secy., Collier, Judge. North Yakima, Jan. 9-13. D. A. Gillette, Secy., Dixon. Judge. Olympia, Dec. 26-30. Chas. A. Burr, Secy., Dixon, Judge. Pomeroy, Dec 18-23. H. A. Loudagan, Secy.. Collier, Judge, Port Townsend, Dec. 23-30. Arch C. Tweedie. Secy.. Collier. Judge. Seattle. Dec 11-16, C. H. Barnett, Jr., Secy.. Dixon, Judge. Spokane, Dec 12-17. H. J. Fuller. Secy., 310 Wall St.. Clipp. Judge. Tacoma, Jan. 2-7. Frank T... White. Secy.. Dixon and Coats, Judges. Walla Walla, Jan. 15-20. R. C. McCracken. Secy., Gimlin, Judge. West Virginia. Charleston, Jan. 15-20. G. R. Edgar, Secy.. Case, Judge. Martinsburg, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Taylor H. Jefferson, Secy. Morgantown. Jan. 10-13. S, B. Allen, .Secy., Case, Judge. Phillipi, Jan. 2-5. Geo. E. Barnes. Secy.. Mcintosh, Judge. St. Marys, Dec. 13-18. F. J. Rife, Secy., Mcintosh, Judge. Salem, Jan. 23-26. C. L. Shain, Secy., Mcintosh, Judge. Wisconsin. Albawy, Dec. 12-16. Richard Pengilly. Secy.. Greenwald, Judge. Beaver Dam, Dec. 5-10. O. J. Winning, Show Secy., Hacket and Warnock, Judges, Beloit, Jan, 15-20. Henry J. Anderson, Secy., Hackett, Judge. Cambridge, Nov. 21-23. Rev. F. C. Boiler, Secy.. Hackett, Judge. Dodgeville, Dec. 19-22. Dr. Chas. Schmitt, Secy., Keeler, Judge. Green Bay, Feb. 1-4. Louis H. Hebel, Secy. LeCrosse, Dec 5-11. J. H. Poehllng. Secy., Hoffman, Judge. Lake Geneva. Dec. 12-15. H. E. Cocroft, Secy. Kiel. Dec. 28-31. Wm. Ree, Secy., Greenwald. Judge. Madison, Jan. 9-13. .Tas. Halpin, Secy., Tucker, Judge. Manitowoc Nov. 28-Dec. 3. A. P. Schenian. Secy.. Tucker and Ewald, Judges. Milwaukee, Jan. 11-16. A. T. Keipper, Secy., 1401 First St. Heimlich, Greenwald, Verges and Ewald, Judges. Mineral Point. Jan. 8-13. Allen Tucker. Secy., Keller. Judge. Oconomowoc. Dec. 6-10. Chas. Behrend, Jr.. Secy. Oshkosh. Jan. 11-15. Jas. Irvine, Secy.. Tucker. Judge. Plattevllle, Jan. 1-6. Hy. Pargman, Secy.. Shaw. Judge, Bparta, Jan. 29-Feb. 3. J. L. Herbst. Secy., Gimlin, Judge. Stoughton. Dec. 11-16. H. H. Kc3sler, Secy., Hackett. Judge. Superior Jan. 22-27. H. J. ^iammerbeck. Secy.. Roberts, Judge. Walertown, .Tan. 3-8. A. ^J. Gamm, Secy., Greenwald, Judge. Montana. Breeders in the Inland Empire have been bettering their stock during the last twelve months and as a conse- quence it is expected tliere will be more high-class birds than ever on exhibi- tion. H. J. Fuller, secretary, announces tiiat a large number of liandsome and valual)le cups will be o fered in various classes. AMERICAN BUFF LEGHORN CLUB. The annual meeting of tlie American Buff Legliorn (Mub will be held at the Madison Square Garden Show, New York, on Tliursday, December 21st. Officers will be elected for tiie coming vear and many questions pertaining to the welfare of tlie club and of great importance to breeders will be discussed at this meet- ing. All members are urged to attend. LAKE GENEVA, WIS. The dates of the Lake Geneva Show aie December 19th to 22nd. This is one of the best sliows held in Wisconsin each season. All l)reeders should make ar- rangements to send at least a few of their birds. The awards will be placed by Judge Johnston. H. P:. Cocroft is sec- retary. ST. ALBANS, VT. Tlie Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Vermont State Poultrv Association will be held at St. Albans, January 16th to 19th. This association always holds large and succe.ssful shows. Tlie coming one will, undoubtedly, be better than all of its predecessors as the members of the as- sociation are making special arrange- ments for it. The judging will be done by D. P. Shove and H. B. Mav. Pre- mium list may be obtained by writing to \V. B. Witters. Sec'v. MORGANTOWN, W. VA. The dates of the Morgantown show have been changed to January 31st to February 3rd. A number of special fea- tures have been arranged for, including lectures by a number of prominent poul- trymen. This will, undoubtedly, be of great benefit to exhibitors who can at- tenjl the show in person. Prof. Jas. E. Rice of Cornell Universitv will be one of the speakers. Judge Case will place the awards. S. B. Allen is secretary of the show. ANDERSO^ IND. The Hoosier Fanciers Association will hold their Fourth Annual Show, Janu- ary 30th to February ;h(l. The associa- tion has practically the same officers that have managed the three former shows. Tins is ample evidence that the coming show will be handled in a busi- ness-like manner and tiiat exhibitors will receive a square deal in every way. Write for premium list to M. M. McCullough. Sec'y. WATERBURY. CONN. Connecticut fanciers should not fail to l>lace the Waterbury show on their list this season. It will be held Januarv l7th to 20th. W. H. Card and C. H. Welles will do the judging. The secretary, G. Fred Moore will gladly send premium list and full information to all pros- pective exhibitors. (^ ^ LEAVENWORTH, KANS. The Leavenworth Poultry Association will hold its annual exhibition. January 16th to 19th. John McFarland is secre- tary of the association and would like to have all breeders write to him for the big premium list of the show. It will be one of the best shows in the state and breeders should not fail to attend it. TOWER HILL, ILL. Some of the mosf enthusiastic fanciers in the state of Illinois are pushing the Tower Hill show this season and all breeders in that section of the state should be sure to write for premium list and investigate the conditions concern- ing the show. A special effort will be made to please exhibitors in every way. J. J. Klein will judge the bird;-. * ly. K. Patten is secretary of the association. Page 78 POULTRY rANClEIMJl2^e!2ber, ^v.'--{v^i"i;^/.v'.^:^.i,-A.W •^ * '■Mfiiif ■ ■ '^ THE BEST BOOK ON SUCCESS WITH POULTRY IS 999 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS By FRANK HECK THE •uthor claims and provea that thia booa contains information upon a greater variety of subjects than any book on poultry evet written. It has also drawn out more unsolicited testimonials from authorities and experts. Why worry and wonder and grope in the dark) Why learn by expensive experience and disap- pointment when everything is offered you at so small a price? The knowledge gained by yeart of experience is contained in this book. The methods and secrets of the foremost successful breeders and exhibitors in the show room are given in full. Thousands of Copies Have Been Sold and Every Purchaser a Pleased One It contains 128 pages, is handsomely bound, printed on good paper with fine large type eaiy to read. Price 50 CenU per Copy Or the book and Poultry Fancier ont year for 65 cents. Address orders to Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 35? Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. really feminine lookinf<" pnHets. but some pullet.s art' t|uite masculine and some cockerels quite feminine in appearance, and it is difficult to distinguish the sexes of these at a very early a^e. Question. — Can you tell me liow to mix different grains, ground or whole, tlior- oughly, so that wlien they are fed each fowl will have a chance to get an equal part of the several grains? Answer. — There are mixing macliines manufactured and put upon the market, which, presumably, will do tlie work re- (luired of them. If, however, you do not feel warranted in purchasing such a ma- chine tlie pouiing method may be em- ployed. This consists of putting the re- (juired (piantities of the different grains or other feeding stuffs into one vessel and pouring them into another. By repeating the process a number of times the dif- ferent materials will become thoroughly intermixed. % w. Question. — Of what benefit is the Stand- ard of Perfection? Answer. — The Standard of Perfection makes it possible to have distinct breeds and varieties and keep them distinct, by describing in detail the various sections of each breed; it furnishes a common ideal for each recognized variety, and this enables all breeders to work for same end, which is a great help in fecting each variety; it furnishes means of making judging uniform thus promotes the poultry show; l)y moting the i)Oultry show it makes a mand for exhibition fowls, and mand increases the prices at w the per- the and p ro- de- this de- hich sucli fowls can be sold. Without the Standard of Perfection, or some substitute for it covering similar ground, the fancy side of the industry would languish and decay, and so much of the practical side as de- |)ends upon keeping varieties separate and distinct would suffer a great loss. n m Question. — What is the difference be- tween the (Jampine and the Braekel fowl? Answer. — The difference is largely one of size; the Campine coming from the sandy districit of La Campine in Belgium, where the forage for years has been in- ferior to that afforded by other parts of the country, is the smaller of the two. They differ, also, somewhat in type and carriage. Cnder P^nglish breeding there will probably be an effort to bring both to tlie Campine type and the Braekel size. It seems probable to many poultry breed- ers that l)Oth of these fowls have been derived from the Hamburg by intermix- ture with the fowls common to their re- spective districts, and that, having been bred primarily for practical i>urposes, es- pecially for laying, they are substantially a single-combed, unrefined Hamburg. Be that as it may, they differ somewhat in their markings from the i)enclled Ham- burg, and there can be no question that as layers they are a very prolific fowl. In recent years they have been much im- proved in markings by the skill of English fancieis who have taken up their breed- ing. Question. — VVill you please answer the following (|uestions about Indian Runner Ducks: I have 5 ducks and 2 drakes from eggs that I bought through an adv. in your journal. The drakes are larger and darker than the ducks, both green on heads, one has green bar on wing. I en- close one feather from each of tlie drakes and one from a duck. I woidd like to know if they are Standard shade. Answer-. — You neglected to state fiom what section you plucked the feathers, and which one from the drakes and which from the duck. We assume, however, that the largest is the duck's feather. The drake should be somewhat darker a birKaOXi»4. A. Stransky, Pres. Eastern Wis. Poultry & P. S. Assn., Chilton. Wif. 11-9-12 S. C. WHITE LEGHOBNS. SILVEB LACED WYANDOTTES. --L BLAKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS WIN 1909 at Springfield 1st cock, 1st hen. 1st and 3d cockerel, 5 entries. At Madison Square, Ist pullet, 3 entries, 1910. At the Grand Central Palace, 4th cock, 5th hen, 2d cockerel 4th pullet. 6 entries. At Madison Square 4th hen, 6th pu' ot, 5 entries. 15 eggs for $3- 30 for $5. W. J. Blake, Burnside, Conn. 21112 R. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. LL,C,fe FROM CHICAGO AND KANSAS City winners. R. C. White Leghorns. Bred to lay and win. Winning at Illinois State Show. 1911. 1st and 2d hen, 1st and 2d pullet; best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet. .\one better, so send me your order for eggs. $2 per 15 or $3.50 per 30. Circular tree J. j. Peters. Lily White Poultry _Vards. Lincoln, 111. 43 ANCONAS. ANCOXA EGGS $1.50 PER 15. MATING ist and show winnings free. John Meyer. Oconto Falls. Wis. 1, 43 BLACK MINORCAS. S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. EGGS FROM 4 pens; selected trapnested hens; large black beauties. Standard bred; heavy igg Dro- ductlon combined with quality that brings home the blue. Send for mating list be- fore ordering elsewhere. Richard Oetzel New Riphmond. Ohio. 33 DUCKS AND GEESE. WILKIN'S 'QrALITY'- PEKIN DUCKS uon at St. Louis. Kansas City. Dallas Mireveport. etc. As large as they grow Or- der eggs now. Pen A $5.00 per 11 other pens $2.00 per 11 or $12.00 per 100 R R \\ ilkin.s. Route 1, Opelousas. La. '410! PIGEONS WANTED— 5,000 COMMON OR HOMER ^L^oS^^-.. ^f/ ^' '!^^* 25c pair. 5.000 small chicks, poultry, guineas, live rabbits, dressed squabs. Highest prices paid. S Gilbert 1128 Palmer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 126 HILLHURST GIANT YOUNGSTERS. THREE months old, $1 each. Mated pairs, $5 WiP raisi squabs weighing 10 to 18 pounds pei dozen. Illustrated catalog, 10 cts. Plgeor T>ept.. R. 1;?. Orchard Park, N Y 84 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. 50 cents and $1 per box. G. B. Sle- genthaler. Canton, O. 6-4 PIN HEAD OATS— THE GREAT CHICK starter, $2.75 per 100 lbs. Write for Feed Price List. J. G. Hermann & Co., Indlan- apolls. Ind. 35 PRINTING. PRINTING— POULTRY, GENERAL, NOTE heads, envelopes, postcards, labels, cards tags. 100 either, 40c; 250, 75c; 500. $1.2.^. postpaid. Circulars, everything. Finest en gravlngs. Beautiful samples for stamp. Modfl Prlntlne- Pn.. Mnnr>hAat«>r In 10-!» FARMS FOR SALE. FARMS FOR KENT OR SALE ON CROP I>aynipnts. .7. Mulhall. Sioux City. la. 15 EXCHANGE. WANTED— TO F^XCHANGE, CHOICE S. C. Hrown I/Cghorns for Reds or Buflf Cochins. l<^in.' cockerels $1..'".0 up. Write for descrip- tion, telling what you have to offtM-. Harry T. Trainer, Carpenter, Ohio. 111012. ^Ji:. *i,iam»Ku:»»*u(^^>^exm^t»useit:.-^ ii&£sLL y>-fY^FV^.,^>:^.ttAVA"v^J.^'-.>,v;jr POULTRY FANClER^fNo^ger^ 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 n made exceptionally low on this account. *5» Buff and Black Orpingtons About 300 young and year old birds to sell in the next two months. Some extra fine sho\v specimens. We guarantee satisfaction. W. L. YATES, BUTLER, IND. \^ATSONS R. C. B. MINORCAS Are -winners among the w^orld's best. Catalog free. Norman H. Watson, R 6, Mystic. la. 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful mating. Extra laying strain. Eggs $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppies for sale. Lincroft Kennels and Poultry Farm Box 58 ____: : Shrewsbury, N. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Guineas, Pigeons. Pheasants, Pea-Fo-wls and Rat Dogs. Incubators. Brooders and Poultry Supplies, Stock df Eggs cheap. New 60 page cat. 4 cts. F. J. Damann. Farminnton, Minn. t^m-^ •-ifWiA LINE BRED FOR 20 YEARS Choice cockerels at special prices. WILL IMPROVE YOUR FLOCK 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 Minorca* Club, Dover, N. J. BUFF ROCK SALE Cockerels $2 to $5 each, pullets $1.50 to $3 each. Bred from Philadelphia, Allentown & Scranton winners. Satisfaction guaranteed, Chas. J. Kremer, Souderton, Pa. Kissinger's S.C.R.l. Reds ^„y fin. Cockerels for sale. Eggs from a few^ of the best matings in the central West. W^rite for mating list. Life member American Poultry Association, American R. I. Red Club. low^a Branch. U. S. C. R. I. Club. JOHN KISSINGFR GREENFIFin, IOWA Champion Barred Rocks Winners of the North American Cup for best pen of birds in the Show, $l pens competing, Philadelphia, 1910. Fine show stock and breeders for sale. Top Notch Farms, Box 12, Water Mill.N.Y. JONES S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS Winners for years •! Amerieas leading shows Three grand matings, that are sure to produce C ^vinners for any competition. Eggs $3 and C aA per 15. Free Mating List. S B. r. Jones, R. 3. Dnx 1 1 , Naryvllle. No. J KELLERSTRASS and COOK Strain of S. C. White Orpingtons. A few hens for sale. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per setting of 15 eggs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. A. J. Waldschmidt. W^ashington. Iowa. BED ROCK STRAIN OF S. C. W. LEGHORNS Are noted for their good laying, large size, pure white and show winning qualities. Send for cir- cular with price on stock and list of show winnings its free. We have no other breed. C C;Fostej\Projv^Rlj COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Prizewinning: stock bred to conform to the new Standard. Several fine cockerels for sale. I also have Barred Plymouth Roclts and S. C. Wliite Leghorns bred from leading strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for tnatingf list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Ft. Atkinson. Wis. Oak La"wn Strain of SILVER WYANDOTTES MADISON SQUARE GARDEN STOCK CHAMPIONS EGGS OAK LAWN FARM NYACK. N.Y. Bennett's Red Pyle Games I have w^on all Firsts at Madison Sq. Garden, Boston, Chicago. Buffalo and Pittsburg in last tw^o years. Will ship eggs from February 20 at $5.00 per 15. HENRY BENNETT BROWN. W. VA All Leading Varieties of land and water fowls. Write me what you want. Have .some fine surplus stock. Eggs of all varieties strongly fertile $2 per 15, Incubator Eggs S8 per 100. Write for prices on baby Chicks. Prices rea- sonable, quality the best, satisfaction guar. F. I. BRADFORD. R. F. D. 64 Troy, Pa. "Crystar* White Orpingtons "The ever w^hite kind." Some excellent breed- ing cockerels, mated pens and trios. Glen F. Richards, - Le Grand, Iowa. POULTRY JUDGE. R. C. R. I. REDS 10 one year old cock birds, exhibition quality, prices very reasonable. 100 cockerels and 100 pullets, fit to win in strong competition. $2 to $10 each. L. SHERMAN KLINE Box 44 Scranton. lo'wa NOFTZGER'S PARTRIDGE ROCKS 1 5 years the leaders. Have •won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are w^inners. heavy layers, quick grow^ers. Get started w^ith Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftrger, North Manchester, Ind. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. W^e guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R, Clinton Falls. Minn. RHODE ISLAND REDS t ^■»- How to Breed and Judge Them By THEQ. UEWES Is the Best and Only Complete Treatise Ever Published on this Great Variety There is no breed so widely advertised to-day as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes perfedlion. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes every sec« tion, with numerous illustrations, showing ideal and defe(5tive shape and color, thus making scoring so simple that anyone can understand. Some sections have (our 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. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contaiiis over 50 pages, including cover, which is printed in three colors, and all on good half* tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breeding. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it telU you how to grow, exhibit and make mon* ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub* scription to this Poultry Journal, both for $1.25. DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., ^37 So. Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. • # # • # F. W. Van Sant "«™- 's^S,,. Breeder of "Blue Ribbon" Single Comb Brown Leghorns. Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis, Minn. Columbian Wyandotte Sale A few well marked, early hatched cockerels at $3 to $5 each Direct from N. Y. State Fair first prize winners. Must have the room, first come first choice H. W. POLGREEN, ALBANY, N. Y. Collins S. C. White LEGHORNS Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers lj4 lbs. at 10 weeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show quality, 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs ll.jo for 15 , $? for ?o, $4 f«r 4?, $6 for 100, $50 for I000A.M.SPELMAN & SON. Box 75, Rootstown, O. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas. Cochins, Langshans, Wyandottes. Dorkings, Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Sylvania, Brad. Co., Pa. W^HITE PLY. ROCKS Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mating list. It is free W. D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second prize winners at leading Minn, shows. Great layers. Errs from pens $1.50 & $2 per 15 Utility Epps $1 per 15. $5 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON, St. Charles. Minn. ORPINGTI In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and O'wen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially strong this year and I am conftdent they >vill produce birds of real quality. Eggs $3, $5 and $10 per 15. Will be pleased to ■write you stock. my FAIRFIELD POULTRY FARM Thos. Peer, Prop., Caldwell, N. J. Will sell some of my breeders in Silver Duckwings and S. C. Buff Leghorns. Must have the room for young stock. Any one in need of good breeders for another season will do well to write me before pur- chasing elsewhere. Prices right considering stock. O U 1» 1 N Ci T 1> X S S.C. Duff & Black CHAMPION Blood Breeders, mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. Lulfrrll, Route F., Waverl), III. "None better East or West." Every bird in yards a show bird. Of entire crop of birds fast year, only two scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95/4. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs fif stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T. Edson '■ ■ - - SchaVer. Iowa NY S. C. ULJPF LtOiiOMrxb Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 13 years and shown for I at time N.Y. State Fair Sept. 1909, Ist and 2nd pens, and have won •where ever sho'wn. Ist and 4th , hen, 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booked - for etftffl and satisfaction guaranteed ., — ,^ :: _ _ TULLY, i.^- ' HLBEI WHITE ORPINGTONS A few choice cockerels and pullets left, good enough to w^in. FOR SALE CHEAP. >^RITE S. D. ECKLER, ASHTABULA, O. 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, # 367 uearborn Stre«t, ^ Chicago, III. 1 BEST TARIVI GROWN FOWLS White Rock Cockerels $1.00 and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. $3.50 and up; Hens $3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas, the farmers "watch dog" at $1.25 each. Circulfiir free J. C. Baker, Rt. 1, Plainville, 111. Barred Cuckoo Wyandottes Shape and Comb of Wyandottes, Barred like a Ply- mouth Rock. Large size. A Bird of Beauty. Great layers. Winners at Madison Square Garden. Ring- let Barred Plymouth Rocks. Have bred winners for ten years. WILHELMINA POULTRY FARM E. L. Geisel, Prop. Morganvilie, N. J. Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks \ Eggs from my winners at Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus, Akron, Canton, 'Wooster and Youngsto'wn, O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER, Orrville, O.. Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. AUNKK'JS A< )NA Are among the best in the United States They have the quality, vigor, size and markings. They will win anywhere. They arc the best of layers and prettiest of birds. No stock. Eggs from exhibition matings, $t.oo per 15. From utility stock, $r.5o per Ij. Write for circular. GEO. ^WARNER. Bushnell, 111. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard-bred SiTr/lJf Rhode Island REDS Bred for vigror, size, shape, color. Prize winners, (ireat layers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street EVANSTON, ILL. KOHi: COMli Ri:iJH Do you want to win at next fall sho^^'s? I guarantee chicks hatched from my best pens to produce prize w^inners. My Reds are red, free from smut. Eggs $1.50 to $3 per 15. Baby chicks 15 cents each. ARTHUR CHASE. Pre.ston, Minn. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W^. H. SHAW^ Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high clasit and prize Tvinning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS, Loami, 111. BigBarg^ains, Almost Giving Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridgeat $7.50, $10and $15 each. W^rite for description, and if you w^ant eggs ask how^ to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W^. J. Coffin 6f Son, Fairmont. Minn. SUNSET REDS r„';.r^o™b Show quality, line bred and w^ith a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class sho^v birds. J. OUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON, OHIO !' .iyr-:.'.' ■.-,■■'"■>'■■"!' ">} SPKCIAL DISPI^AY 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^ Buff and Black Orpingtons I \ KELLERSTRASS and COOK About 300 youruz and year old birds to sell in the next two months. Some extra fine show specimens. We ^.'uarantee satisfaction. W. L. YATES. BUTLER, IND. \^ATSON'S R. C. B. MINORCAS Are winners an^ont^ the world's best. Catalut^ free. Norman H. 'Watson, R b. Mystic. la. Stram of S. C. White Orpint^tons. A few hens for sale. E^^s for hatchiniJ $1.00 per settinj? of 1 5 e^gs for balance of season. Sat- isfaction jfuaranteed. A. J. Waldsehmidt, "Washinjjton. Iowa. BED ROCK SI RAIN OF S. C. W. LEGHORNS Arc noted for thiir utw'd laying, lar^e si/.e. pure white and show winning qualitii-s. ijend for cir- cular with price on stock and list of show winnings it> free. We have no other breed. C C Foster. Prop.. R 1. Hox ?o. Unincy. Mich. ROSE COIVIB REDS 5 pens of selected birds from 6 years of care- ful matinti. Extra laying' strain. Egijis $2.50 per 15. Scotch collies sired by imported Southport Supremacy. Puppi'"s for sale. Lincroft Kennels and I^oultry Farm Box 5H . : Shrewsbury. N. J COLUMBIAN PLYMOtlH ROCKS. I'j i/cwinnin^' stock bred to oonfonii to the new Standard. Several tine cockerels for sale. I also liave Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. G. While Leghorns bred from leadinsf strains with enviable show record of their own. Send for ttiatinji' list. G. W. Garlock, box 5. Ft. Atkinson. Wis. 40 Varieties Fancy Poultry Geese. Ducks. Turkeys. Guineas, Pigeons, Pheasants. Pea-Fowls and Rat D' Pa. BUFF ROCK SALE Cockerels $2 to $5 each, pullets $1.50 to $3 each. Bred from Philadelphia. AUentown tsf Scranton winners. Satisfaction guaranteed. Chas. J. Kremer. Souderlon. Pa. **Crystar* White Orpingtons "The ever white kind." Some excellent breed- in(? cockerels, mated pens and trios. Glen F. Richards, - Le Grand. lo-wa. POULTRY JUDGE. Kissinger's S.C.R.l. Reds C:, few very fine Cockerels for sale. E|?t?s from a few of the best matinf^s in the central West. Write for matint? list. Life member American Poultry Association. American R. I. Red Club. Iowa Branch. U. S. C. R. L Club. JOHN KISSINGFR OREENFIFI 0, IOWA R. C. R. L REDS lO one year old cock birds, exhibition quality, prices very reasonable. 100 cockerels and 1 OO pullets, fit to win in stronj^ competition. $2 to $10each. L.SHERMAN KLINE Box 44 Scranton. Iowa Champion Barred Rocks Winners of the North American Cup for best pen of birds in the Show, $l pens competing, Philadelphia, I910. Fine show stock and breeders for sale. Top Notch Farms, Box 12. Water Mill.N.Y. NOFTZGERS PARTRIDGE ROCKS 15 years the leaders. Have won 90 per cent of all prizes at Chicago and Indianapolis in recent years. My strain are winners, heavy layers, quick growers. Get started w^ith Partridge P. Rocks and make money. Send for free litera- ture. S. A. Noftzgcr, North Manchester, Ind. JONES I winners for any competition. Eggs $3 and ♦S per 15, Free Mating List. It. F . Jonf s. R. 3. Rnx I 1 . Nary vifle, M«. i S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Of highest utility and exhibition quality. 150 of this years breeders for sale at a bargain. Write us your wants. We guarantee satis- faction. CLINTON FALLS POULTRY FARMS Box R. Clinton Falls. Minn. lillOOE ISLAND REDS • ^ ■ »■ — How to Breed and Jiidge Them By TIIEO. IIKWES Is llie Best and Only Coiii|iltio Trealisc Ever I'ulilislicd on tills (ireat Varielv There is no breed so widely advertised to-day as the Rhode Island Reds and no breed in which there is such a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes perfecftion. RHODE ISLAND REDS; HOW TO BREED AND JUDGE THFM is better than the STANDARD OF PERFECTION because it goes into detail and describes everj," 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. Size of Book 111-2 by 8 1-2 in. Contains over 50 pa^es, including cover, which is printed in three colors, and all on good half« tone paper. PRICE $1.00 In addition to this most complete series of arti- cles on scoring, there are numerous articles from America's foremost Red breeders on every phase of Red breedmg. This book tells you just what you want to know. It tells you how to mate your pens; how to grow your chicks; how to select youi show birds; in fact, it telU you how to grow, exhibit and make mon- ey out of Reds. This book is sold on approval. The price is $1.00, and, dear reader, if you are not satis- fied with your bargain, send us back the book and we will refund your money. SPECIAL OFFER A copy of this great book and a year's sub- scription to this Poultry Journal, both (or $1.25. DO IT NOW and be up-to-date. SEND ALL ORDERS TO Poultry Fancier Pub. Co., 537 So. Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. t # I I # # F. W. Van Sant ••«™- '^s^tSs." Breeder of "Blue Ribbon'* Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Stock and eggs for sale. Send for circular. 5402 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis. Minn. WHITE ORPINGTONS A few choice cockerels and pullets left, good enough to win. FOR SALE CHEAP. WRITE S. D. ECKLER, ASHTABULA, 0. Columbian Wyandotte Sale A few well marked, early hatched cockerels at $3 to $5 each Direct from N. V. State Fair first prize winners. Must have the room, first come first choice H. W. POLGREEN, ALBANY, N. Y. J Collins S. C. White LEGHORNS Pullets laying at 4 months and 20 days. Broilers lYi lbs. at 10 weeks. Records 265 to 296 eggs per hen. Show quality. 5 first on 5 ex- hibits. Choice cockerels $2. $3 and $5. Eggs $l.$o for I? . 5? for ^o, J4 for 4?. 56 for 100. |?o for loooA^M^SPKLMAN & SON. Box 75. Rootstown. O. ^ 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. > BEST FARIVI GROWN FOWLS White Rock Cockerels Jl.OO and up; W. Hol- land Turkey Toms 20 to 25 lbs. «3.50 and up; Hens $3.00 each. TheWhite African Guineas, the farmers "watch dog" at $1.25 each. Circular free. J. C. Baker, Rt. 1, Plainville. III. SYLVAN POULTRY YARDS Home of the Brahmas. Cochins, Langshans. Wyandottes. Dorkings. Leghorns, Guineas, Ducks and Geese. Stock for sale. Eggs $1.50 per setting. J. F. Monro, Prop., Sylvanla, Brad. Co., Pa. <^ Eggs from my best birds SI 00 per If?. $5 00 per 100, to get you started. These birds have won the past five years and arc better than ever. Better write your wants todav. Blue Ribbon Poultry Yards. Dept. A, Ffind du_Lac._Wjs_. \^HITE PLY. ROCKS \ \ Blue Ribbon Buff Plymouth Rocks \ Hart's Single Comb BUFF LEGHORNS ALWAYS WIN Write for mutiny: list. It is free W. D. HART, - ASHLAND, MO. S. C. & R. C. REDS First and second pri/.e winners at leading Minn, shows. Great lavers. Ekk^ from pens $1..S0& $2 per 15 Utility Ejrt^s SI per IS. $.S per 100. Satisf.icfion guaranteed. CD. SMITH & SON. St. Charles. Minn. ,. MISS GOKDON'S ORPINUTOIN YAUDS In and near SPRING VALLEY, MINN. Buffs and Blacks. Cook and Owen Farms stock foundations. My matings are especially stront; tbis year and I am confident they 'will produce birds of real quality. E((gs $3. $5 and $10 per 15. Will be pleased to "write you about my stock. FAIRFIELD POULTRY FARM Thos. Peer. Prop.. Caldwell, N. J. Will sell some of my breeders in Silver Duckwings and S. C. Butf Leghorns. Must have the room for young stock. Any one in need of good breeders for another season will do well to write me before pur- chasing elsewhere. Prices right considering stock. <) 1 1 N ( i '1' ON S S.C. DuH & DIack CHAMPION Blood Breeifers. mated trios and pens, must please or return at once at my expense. This and my II live ckicks per sitting proposition, are my pleasure, and your protection. S. Luirrrll, Route F., Waverlj , III. i ;i c ; 11 T 1 { K . V 1 1 M .\ >^ "None better East or West." Every bird in yards a show bird. Of entire crop of birds last year, only two scored below 90. Most score much better, up to 95 'r. Some good cockerels yet forsale. Eggs (^ stock in season. Member American Light Brahma Club. T. Ed.son : • _ <^chn)]er.^ Iowa Are the best egg machines on earth. Bred for eggs for 13 years and shown for Ist time N.Y. State Fair Sept. 1909, 1st and 2nd pens, and have w^on w^here ever shown. 1st and 4th hen. 4th cock Buffalo 1911. Orders booked for eggs and sati.sfaction guaranteed. ^ eggs E. C. (;il,»Kl Eggs from my w^innersat Philadelphia. Pa.. Columbus, Akron. Canton. Wooster and Youngstown. O. Send for mating list. KARL MICHENER. Orrville. O.. Dept. F. Life member American Poultry Association Member Buff Plymouth Rock Club. Dr. Holmes' Trap-Nested Standard bred SiTr^lf Rhode Island REDS Bred for viR-or. size, shape, color. Prize winners, (ireat lavers. RED ROBE POULTRY PENS West Main Street - EVANSTON, ILL. BARRED PLY. ROCKS CANTON, ILL. W. H. SHAW Rose Comb Black Minorcas Five breeding yards of high class and prize w^inning one year old breeders FOR SALE. Also a Scotch Collie dog of the most fashion- able breeding $10. VAN DOREN BROTHERS, Loami. III. Hij; Bargains, Almost Giving? Away Partridge and Buff Wyandottes bred from N. Y.. Boston and Chciago Winners, Pens of Partridge at $7.50. $10 and $15 each. Write for description, and if you want eggs ask how to get regular $5 eggs for $1 per setting. W. J. Coffin fsf Son. Fairmont. Minn. SUNSET REDS s^*^«'r^„.„b Show quality, line bred and w^ith a family history. Cocks and cockerels at special prices to quick buyers. Eggs from matings, sure to produce high class show birds. J. QUINCY ADAMS - COSHOCTON. OHIO JSDt.'N S. C Kbu:>. Mave ^von more prizes overall competitors in the largest sho'w^s in the South including the Jamestown Exposi- tion than any 3 of the next most prominent breeders combined. Noted for their perfect type and rich clean red color. Eggs from best pens $10. Two sets $15. H. B. Lansden £? Son. Manchester. Tenn. S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS Exclusively. Won 1st hen and 2nd cock at 111. State Show. 1911. Get our prices on birds to improve your flock. Ben Filers. Gordon Ave., Peoria. 111. In The Very Heart of Denver's Business Activities Albany Hotel DENVER COLO. ) Ideal Poultry Yards For sale. 1 year old S. C. White Leghorn hens at $1.25 each. Fine lot of young cockerels at $1 each if taken soon. Edward Wagner. Rte 1 . McConnell, 111. Winners of 3rd pen at National Red Show^, Topeka. Kan.. Jan.. 1911. best pen by Kansas exhibitor, and many other prizes at different show^s. Eggs $5. $3 and $1 per 15. Also prize winning Columbian Wyandotte Eggs $2 per 1 5. Mating list of both breeds free. A. D. W^illiams. Box 58 Minneola. Kan. RUSSELL'S WHITE ROCKS Winners at Madison Square. Philadelphia and all the large show^s. Bred to lay as well as >vin. W^rite for circular. A. L. Russell. Box 1 20, >J^ashington. N. J. ROSE AND SINGLE COMB REDS PEKIN & BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS 40 one year old hree 'ers, scoring from 91 to 9.?lo at %h to $15 per head. Young: stock at same price. Plenty of good breeders and exhibition stock for sale. I KKD W. OERTKL. Box F. Brighton. Ill Fine breeders and very thoice young stock for sale Stafford's Barred Rocks Are winners under leading judges. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. C. P. STAFFORD. LA MOILLE. ILL. I It Is Not Because We Call Our Columbian Wyandottes SUPERIOR STRAIN That they are SUPERIOR. It is because they have proven themselves SUPERIOR in many of "The Best Show Rooms'* in competition with "The Best Breeders" in the country C In the past three seasons at Chicago they won more premilim^ and prizes than any two competitors. AsWinter Layers No Breed Can Surpass Them C We are willing to meet any breeder of reputation in an " Egg Laying Contest" to prove this. No breed is "more profitable" or*"more beautiful" than Fenton Farms Superior Strain of Columbian Wyandottes ' We have hundreds of young and old birds that will win in strong competition. Send for catalogue and write for prices on what you want. FENTON FARMS, Mt. CLEMENS, MICH. LARGEST EXCLUSIVE BREEDERS OF COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES p. S.— If you are going to buy— buy the best. "It pays."- I • • !