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COPYRIGHT 1912 BY

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY

Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A.

SPECIAL NOTICE

WE believe that every earnest poultry
raiser, man or woman, who means
business will wish to retain this
Cyphers Company Catalogue — our Sixteenth
Annual — for future reference. We have
tried to make it more valuable, more helpful
than any of its predecessors. In its pages
will be found described the complete line of
poultry goods manufactured by us, with
prices of single articles and in quantities.
Goods dealt in by us, like poultry netting,
roofing paper, bone cutters, grit, oyster
shells, etc., are also described and priced.

SEE COMPLETE INDEX, LAST PAGE

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY

(Incorporated — Capital Stock $400,000)

HOME OFFICES AND FACTORY, Court and Fourth Streets,

Officers:

GRANT M. CURTIS, President.
WM. A. TRUE, Vice-President.
GEORGE H. GILLIES, Secretary.
CHAS. W. PRYOR, Treasurer.
A, E. HOLZBORN, Assistant-Treasurer.

BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A.

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GRANT M. CURTIS.
WM. A. TRUE.
GEORGE H. GILLIES.
C. A. DAMON.
CHAS. W. PRYOR.

Factory and Lumber Yards of Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y., USA

of picture and 27,000 square feet in building to left Total floor =ipace 237 i
teres of manufacturing and warehouse space exclusive of branches

American Branch Houses and Salesrooms :

23 Barclay Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 12-U Canal Street, BOSTON, MASS.

340-342 North Clark Street, CHICAGO, ILL. . 317-319 Southwest Boulevard, KANSAS CITY, MO.

1569-1571 Broadway, OAKLAND, CAL.

European Office and Salesrooms :

121-123 Finsbiiry Pavement, - - LONDON, ENGLAND

Agencies and Distributing Depots in the Principal Cities of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,

Hawaii, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Central and South America.

OF B UFFALO. NY. US A.

MANUFACTURERS OF

■•^••■5 s _ >r_

INCUBATORS

(Fire-Proofed — Insurable)
Oil Heated Gas Heated Electric Heated Goal Heated

BROODERS

(Fire-Proofed — Insurable)
M Indoor and Outdoor, Single and Sectional, With Heat and Without, Adaptable Hovers

POULTRY FOODS

(Sealed Bag Brands)

Chick, Developing, Fattening, Laying, Scratching, Growing, Fertile Egg, Pigeon,

and Beef Scrap; also Short-Cut and Mealed Alfalfa

POULTRY SUPPLIES

Colony Houses, Brooding and Shipping Coops, Egg Testers, Cabinets, Cases and Boxes,

Roofing Papers, Wire Nests and Fencing, Food Hoppers, Grit Boxes, Water

Fountains, Chick Markers, Caponizing Sets, Spray Pumps, Etc., Etc.

LABORATORY PRODUCTS

Granulated Charcoal, Lice Powder and Paint, Anti-Lice Nest Eggs, Fumigating Candles,

Napcreol Disinfectant, Chick Ointment, Roup Cure, Complete

Medical and Surgical Cases, Etc., Etc.

PROPRIETORS OF

Cyphers Company $50,000 Commercial and Demonstration Poultry Farm

PUBLISHERS OF

Cyphers Library of Practical Poultry Books

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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE

PUBLISHED BY

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY

__ ^ _BUFFALO,NY,U.S.A.

A Personal ME^ssAGE
To You, Reader

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY

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"EAR after year we have aimed to make our complete
catalogue a book of genuine, practical, down-to-the-minute
value to all persoiis who are interested in the subject of
poultry and egg production for profit — to every man and woman who
has the desire to make money in any branch of the poultry industry.
And this year we have gone farther in that direction than ever before. This year we
have produced a book that should be read and kept and studied — a book that, if accepted as a
guide, cannot fail to result in many more dollars made and saved by the small-scale poultry
keeper, and that points the way to fortune for men who are adapted to the work, who are in a
position to start right and push ahead — for men who will give their whole time and best thought
to the poultry business.

To Help Our This book also is our annual good-will greeting to a constantly increasing
Customers: number of valued customers. In these pages are to be found many facts —
many reliable, helpful suggestions which we ask you to accept and profit by,
with the compliments of Cyphers Incubator Company. We work for our customers — present
and future. That is what we are in business for, plus success for ourselves. But we hold
firmly to this view : — That on the success, the actual, expanding, profit-making success of our
customers, depends our success. And there is no other sensible way to look at it — no other
proper foundation on which to develop a great manufacturing and mercantile business.

It has been upon exactly this basis that Cyphers Incubator Company has built the largest
incubator, brooder and poultry supply business in the world — a business which for the season
of 1910-1911 passed the million dollar mark in sales, in actual shipments. In other words,
our success has been such that we know we are on the right track. Therefore, it is but natural
that we should keep straight on, endeavoring each year to be of still greater help to our
customers in every business-like way.

Worth Tens and As an example, this Year Book for 1912 fairly merits the name,

Hundreds of Dollars: "Poultry Growers' Guide." It contains many highly valuable ideas
and suggestions — and we want every reader of this catalogue to
use them, to benefit by them. Facts are given and methods are explained in these pages that
should be worth tens of dollars and hundreds of dollars to you, Reader, depending on the
scale upon which you are to operate. And much of our work and expenditure will have been
wasted if you do not make icse of this information.

We desire to have every Cyphers Company customer, present and future, obtain and
preserve a copy of each one of our annual catalogues, so long as he or she continues to produce
and sell eggs and poultry — because of the great practical value of these books— because
by this means we are able to place in your hands a large amount of latest poultry facts
and suggestions that will result in larger earnings, in greater personal success for you in your
poultry work.

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESlDEiNT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

FOR TWELVE YEARS, under the same management, Cyphers Incubator Company has
been going steadily ahead, laying a broader foundation, getting into better and better shape to
serve, to benefit its customers in all parts of the civilized world.

A competent, experienced organization — the right men for the work.

Strictly standard goods — the best article in every case for the use to which it is to be put.

Sound, reliable advice, based on facts, on first-hand knowledge, on actual demonstration.

A large and modernly equipped poultry farm on which to test, develop and originate
practical ideas — profitable methods.

Unexcelled factory facilities, with the latest machinery for turning out mechanically
perfect goods, made of high-class materials by long-experienced, skillful workmen.

That, in brief, is the story of Cyphers Company progress — is the secret of Cyphers
Company success.

And We Prove This was why we bought, years ago, a fifty-acre tract of land in the suburbs
What We Teach: '^^ Buffalo, N. Y., and laid out a poultry plant which, up to the
present time, December 1, 1911, represents an expenditure of more than
$1,000.00 per acre— more than $50,000.00 in cash.

And it has been a good investment — the best one, as we believe, that this Company has made.

Here was "born" and perfected the Cyphers Mammoth Incubator and the Cyphers
Company cradle-back, hygienic hot-water brooding system.

Here was developed the Cyphers Company's fire-proof, self-regulating Adaptable Hover
— by far the most satisfactory individual brooding device ever invented for raising chickens by
artificial means.

Here the finishing touches were added to the Genuine Cyphers Incubators — making
them automatic, certain in results, fire-proof, insurable everywhere — positively "the world's
standard" hatching machines.

Here has been tested, long and repeatedly, practically EVERY ARTICLE that is described
and offered for sale in this Catalogue.

On this fifty-acre demonstration poultry farm, under the supervision of experienced,
capable men, we have reduced to simple, practical methods most of the problems that have
perplexed poultry. keepers since chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese were first domesticated.

Here we study food values and feeding methods — plart to prevent the ailments to which
poultry is subject — strive to reduce the cost of labor and other essentials, at the same time
working to secure the largest egg yield possible, breed and variety considered, and to produce at
lowest cost the best quality of poultry meat, including broilers, roasters, capons, green ducks, etc.

In this connection, please read and study the eight chapters in this book which contain
sample Cyphers Company facts and methods, told in brief — also obtain the "Cyphers Company
Service" bulletins, leaflets, etc., in which these facts and methods, also many others are treated
at length — they are free to every Cyphers Company Customer.

New 1,000 Hen "Unit" Laying House Built on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, Summer of 1911. (No. 10 House.)

39063

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

Our New Department —
"Cyphers Company Service:"

And it was for the same reason
— on the sa.mebroad grounds, that
we have created a new department
of immediate and far-reaching value, under the title "Cyphers Com-
pany Service." The next section of this catalogue explains in detail
what the Cyphers Company Service is — on what basis the new depart-
ment is conducted, and how all persons who wish to do so can obtain
the full benefits.

The intention of this ' 'Service" — first to last — is practicallyltoMmtre
the success of Cyphers Company customers — those who act on our advice.
This is a big contract, yet we are undertaking it with our eyes open.
We have been working up to this position, step by step. It has
been a cardinal idea of the Cyphers Company for years to help its
customers actively. This is the substance — the real meaning of our
"personal satisfaction" guarantee. That is one important reason for
publishing annually these big, free catalogues — for filling their pages
with valuable facts, ideas and suggestions. This was the primary
idea also for publishing the Cyphers Company "Series of Practical
Poultry Books" (see pages 176 to 179) tens of thousands of which have
been sold. But Cyphers Company Service now is to mean a great
deal more.

New Department This new department, "Cyphers Company Ser-
Is Much Needed : vice," is much needed by earnest poultry workers,

by our customers every-
where— and it cannot fail to contribute largely
to the continued growth and success of Cyphers
Incubator Company. We are in a position
to know this better than any one else — and
the history of the progress of our company
proves it.

For years we have conducted an "Infor-
mation Bureau" and thousands of persons

have taken advantage of it, greatly to their profit. But we found it

impractical to render the right kind of service by letter writing alone.

There has been a wide-spread, urgent demand for printed instructions,

for bulletins, leaflets, etc., that would enable us to reach many thousands

with poultry facts and helpful advice, where by letter service we could

reach only hundreds — and this in a partial, inadequate manner.

Years ago we began publishing our free booklet "Hints to Begin-
ners"— also a sixteen page pamphlet entitled "Foods and Feeding."

And later on we published, for free circulation, a number of leaflets

such as, "Bill of Fare for Chicks From Shell to Maturity," "Bill of

Fare for Laying Hens," etc.

Also in compiling our seasonable circulars, devoted to the use and

advantages of Adaptable Hovers, our sealed-bag brand poultry

foods, our laboratory products — insecticides, disinfectants, etc. — we

worked into the descriptive matter a large amount of practical inform-
ation and valuable advice.

But these efforts to help and benefit our customers — all persons,

in fact, who send for and read our free printed matter — resulted in

showing us, more clearly each season, the great need, the practical value,

the business wisdom of arranging to supply such information and

timely help in some better toay — in a convenient, permanent form.

WM. A. TRUE.
Vice-President and Sales
Manager.
Mr. True has been with Cyphers
Incubator Company twelve years.
For nine years he has been an
officer and stockholder. Became
interested in poultry during early
boyhood and has bred and exhib-
ited several popular varieties.
Spent years investigating success-
ful practical poultry plants and
methods, then compiled and
edited " Poultry Plant Construct-
ion," the most comprehensive and
valuable book on this subject
published to date — Book No. 7 of
Cyphers Company Series, see
page 178. In 1904 opened the
Cyphers Company's European
headquarters at present location.
No. 121 Finsbury Pavement,
London, England. August, 1906,
was recalled to Buffalo to fill the
position he now occupies. As sales
manager and head of the foreign
department, Mr. True has full
authority to supervise every sale,
small or large, made by Cyphers
Incubator Company and to see
that every customer of ours is
treated justly and with proper
consideration.

GEO. H. GILLIES.

SECRETARY,

Head of Publication and Adver-
tising Departments.
Mr. GilUes has been with
Cyphers Incubator Company
seven years. Has been a jwultry
enthusiast from boyhood, breed-
ing several varieties. Started
•'The Poultry Gazette" at Topeka,
Kansas, fourteen years ago and
made it the most succeissf ul Poultry
Journal of its day published west
of the Mississippi River. Did
much in the Central-west to help
promote Poultry Culture and
interest men and women of social
and financial standing in upbuild-
ing the standard-bred poultry
business. Helped secure annual
appropriation from Kansas Legis-
lature for poultry development
and for seven years was a Director
and Officer of Kansas State Poul-
try Association. Is a stockholder
and director of the Cyphers
Company.

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

CHAS. A. DAMON.

Factory Manager and Mill

Superintendent.

Mr. Damon has been with

Cyphers Incubator Company ten

years. Held Chicago Agency for

Cyphers Incubators,

fourteen years ago.
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experiments with them. Entered
employ of the Cyphers Company
in 1901 as manager of Chicago
Branch House. November 1st.
1905, was called to Buffalo to take
full charge of manufacturing.
Numerous valuable improvements
suggested or madi^ by Mr. Damon
have been incorporated from time
to time in this Company's goods.
Is a stockholder and member of
the Board of Directors. Mr.
Damon has full personal charge
of the extensive manufacturing
plants of our company at Buffalo,
N. Y., and also superintends the
operation of our Poultry Food
Mill at Chicago, 111. Buys all
materials and personally super-
vises the (
line of goods.

And these conditions and facts caused us to decide to establish
the Cyphers Company Service department and to issue — at frequent
intervals — Cyphers Company bulletins, leaflets, egg-record cards, in-
cubation charts, etc., for free distribution to our valued customers,
upon whose success — upon whose continued success, depends our
continued success.

I shall be in personal charge of the Cyphers Company Service
department — because I believe this is the most valuable work I can
perform in the company's behalf and for the true benefit of its many
thousands of customers. The most helpful ideas I have learned about
poultry in twenty years of experience and travel are to be printed in
attractive, convenient shape for the guidance and profit of Cyphers
Company customers ; the best methods worked out each season by
customers themselves are to be collected and published for free circu-
lation to all our customers, and the facts and details of the successful
work that is being done each year, month by month, on Cyphers
Company's $50,000.00 experiment and demonstration poultry farm
are to be supplied in printed form to our customers — at no cost to them.

An AU-Purpose ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ *^^* *^^ Cyphers Company Poultry
Poultry Plant: ^^^m is the best equipped and largest all-purpose
poultry plant in the world, private or public —
and it is. On pages 136 and 137 of this book is to be found a bird's-eye
picture of the fifty-acre farm, and numerous other pictures, made
from photographs, are published herewith and in the poultry farm
section, pages 130-141 inclusive. Perhaps even a better idea of the
magnitude of this experiment and demon-
stration poultry plant can be conveyed by
giving a list of the principle buildings, with
their dimensions, as follows: —

— 12 X l8o feet; fifteen breeding pens. Contains White Orpingtons.

— 12 X 130 feet; eleven breeding pens. Contains White Orpingtons.

— 8 X 180 feet ; fifteen stock pens. Contains surplus birds, several varieties.

— IS X 130 feet; not divided into pens. Contains four hundred White
Orpington females.

— 12 X 130 feet; eleven breeding pens. Contains S. C. White Leghorns.

— 12 X 130 feet; eleven breeding pens. Contains Barred Plymouth Rocks.

— 12 X 130 feet; two pens 12 x 65. One pen contains White Plymouth
Rocks, the other White Wyandottes.

— 12 X 204 feet; two pens. Contains R. and S. C. Rhode Island Reds.

— 12 X 204 feet; sixteen breeding pens. Contains Trap-nested White
Rocks, Wliite Wyandottes and S. C. Rhode Island Reds.

— 20 X 287 feet; divided into four pens — a "unit laying house" for large
egg farm. Contains 1,000 S. C. White Leghorns.

— 10 X 160 feet ; one pen. Contains Rhode Island Red females.
No. 12 HOUSE: — 15 x 200 feet; a stock house for surplus male birds and breeding pens.
Separate pens for 450 male birds and 50 pens. Equipped with wash-
room, drying room, hot and cold water, living room for attendant, etc.
Part of building, 16 x 22 feet, two stories in height.
No. 13 HOUSE: — 15 x 450 feet ; twenty-five breeding pens, adult ducks and seventy-five
nursery and brooding pens for ducklings. Part of building, 15 x 30
feet, two stories in height.

No.

I HOUSE

No.

2 HOUSE

No.

3 HOUSE

No.

4 HOUSE

No.

5 HOUSE

No.

6 HOUSE

No.

7 HOUSE

No.

8 HOUSE

No.

9 HOUSE

No.

10 HOUSE

No.

II HOUSE

CHAS. W. PRYOR,

Head of Wholesale and Retail
Departments.

Mr. Pryor has held important
positions with Cyphers Incubator
Company during the last nine
years. For several years he was
Auditor and head of the Accounting
Department. Later he was elected
Treasurer. Two years ago he was
placed in charge of the Wholesale
and Retail Departn

No. 14 HOUSE: — 12 x 120 feet; contains Mammoth Incubator. Total Mammoth home offices. Mr. Pryor started

capacity on farm. 31.000 eggs. About twenty Standard machines also l^^frL i^n 7f Incubaufrs and

used from time to time. Brooders in order to qualify him-

No. IS HOUSE:— 14 x 260 feet; brooder house for chicks; hot-water heated; contains i?^ckholder^'Sd''dE?cto^ \he

twenty-three pens. Part of building 24 X30, two stories and basement. Company.

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

Ko. i6 HOUSE: — 14 x no feet; brooder house for chicks;
equipped with Adaptable Hovers; con-
tains eleven pens.

No. 17 HOUSE; — 40 x 50 feet, two stories and basement.
Main feed house; contains bins, chutes,
pressure tank, etc.

No. 18 HOUSE:— IS x 75. feet; fattening and killing
house; contains fattening, killing, pick-
ing and shipping rooms.

No. 19 HOUSE: — 15 X31 feet; carpenter and repair shop.

No. 20 HOUSE: — 16 x 40 feet, two stories and basement.
Farm offices and sleeping rooms for help.

No. 21 HOUSE: — 16 x 16 feet; orchard colony; contains
Barred Plymouth Rocks.

Nos. 22 to 28 HOUSES:— 10 x 16 feet; colony brooding
houses for chicks; equipped with Adap-
table Hovers.

Nos. 29 to 198 HOUSES: — Colony Houses of different sizes
used in fields for growing stock, also for
surplus stock in fall and early winter.
Manager's residence and large stable are modernly equipped. Twenty-five of the fifty acres are planted to

orchard — apple, plum, cherry and pear trees. Several buildings such as brooder houses, surplus stock house No.

16, killing house No. 18, etc., are heated by natural gas.

p'rfif' tn Oiir '^° eliminate, as far as possible, the risk of loss or failure in the poultry business, — that is the
main requirement, the most vital problem. First, the facts must be known, then correct

Customers : methods must be worked out, then the right kind of tools must be supplied — and, above all, the
right advice must be given.
Cyphers Company Service, as we now mean to have these words understood, embraces all this — all that the

Cyphers Company has learned, has discovered, has bought and paid for — the combined results of fifteen years

of work, study and investment, the most trustworthy data and best personal advice its officers and experienced

heads of departments can supply. And this information and advice is to be furnished free of cost to Cyphers

Company customers, not only in personal letters on any poultry subject or preplexity about which they need

facts or help, but also in a more permanent form — in neatly printed, illustrated bulletins, leaflets, etc., that will

be of even greater benefit to them.

AT THE POULTRY FARM.
Heads of Selling Departments. Branch Managers and Traveling
Salesmen of Cyphers Incubator Company at the Company's Poul-
try Farm. August 26th. during progress of two weeks annual confer-
ence held at Home Offices, Aug. 21— Sept. 2. 1911.

Not A "One
Order" House:

MODEL COCKEREL HOUSE.
Interior view of one side of what probably is the largest and
best arranged surplus cockerel house in existence. House is 15x
190 ft. in size, has separate pens for coops for 450 single birds and
larger coops for SO separate breeding or exhibition pens — birds
saved for breeding purposes and to sell. (No. 12 House).

Several years ago Cyphers Incu-
bator Company placed this
broad, personal guarantee back
of its goods: "A pleased custo-
mer, or it is not a sale." The writer of these lines had
the honor to inaugurate that method of doing business
in the sale of incubators, brooders and poultry supplies
— and the Cyphers Company goods have been brought
up to the mark, article after article, year by year, until
today any one who buys an article bearing the Cyphers
Company trade mark can promptly return it if it is
found not to be exactly as represented, or will not do
the work claimed for it.

Ours is not — has not been, a "one order" concern.
On the contrary, we sell to the same persons, to the
same poultry men and women year after year — and to a
good many we sell every month in the year. This means,
Reader, that our goods simply must give personal sat-
isfaction. Otherwise we could not keep on selling to
the same customers. And our free printed matter is full
of reports from pleased and benefited users of Cyphers
Company manufactures, who tell in their own words,
under recent dates — everj' letter signed — how long they
have dealt with us and how well they have been treated.
Our goods must be right — if our business is to grow
and prosper. Also our methods of doing business must
satisfy persons who deal with us — either this or our
customers soon would go elsewhere. Hence the policy,
the well-known practice of this company to treat its
patrons both fairly and liberally.

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

Men of Long On pages 6 and 7 are shown recent likenesses of heads
Experience: °^ departments at our home offices, and on this page a
: portrait of the resident manager of Cyphers Company

Poultry Farm — every one a stockholder in the company — and on pages
22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 are to be found portraits of each branch
manager. These men, with but one exception — Mr. Pryor — have
bred poultry and sold poultry appliances and supplies practically all
their lives. With one exception they have been with Cyphers Incu-
bator Company seven to twelve years. They know its policy, its ambi-
tion, its goods, first to last — through and through.

They, too, are to contribute to work of the Cyphers Company Service depart-
ment— at Buffalo and from the vantage points of our six branch cities. The best that
these men know or can find out — aU they know or are able to learn that will be of
value to our customers is being made a part of the Cyphers Company Service — and
the best poultry facts and advice this Service department can turn out in
personal letters, in bulletins, booklets, etc., are placed at your command, as a cus-
tomer of this company. And this advice, personal counsel and information by
letter and in printed form is free to you, absolutely so.

Magnitude of
Poultry Industry:

CHAS. E. ADAIR.

Resident Manager, Cyphers Com-
pany Poultry Farm.
Mr. Adair has been with us eight
years and is a stocliholder of the
, - , , ,.. , Company. Has been a student of

With us the poultry bUSmeSS is a kje work, poultry culture and a successful

.^ . , 111 " Ti breeder of standard fowls for

For eighteen years we have had no other twentyyears. Had long experience
have done little else but study - an inventor and manufacturer

occupation-

poultry applk

Resides

Experiment and Demonstration

industry which at the present time exceeds every other farm product fhTrg7of^rh"p1ant.'Msinten°sery

interested in experimental work
with chicks, ducklings and adult
fowls. It was under his direction
that the Cyphers Mammoth Incu-
bator was designed and brought
to its present bigb state of effi-
ciency. Mr. Adair also designed
and perfected the Cradle-back
System of Brooding House Hovers
for chicks and ducklings and has
contributed valuable ideas for the
improvement of several other
Important article
pany's manufactu

Com-

in our broad land except corn, as an annual source of National Wealth
and that is "second only to the corn crop in value."

During these years we have seen the poultry industry of this country develop
in a wonderful manner. For example, in ten years we saw the annual production of
poultry and eggs increase from a valuation of $280,686,429 in 1900, as per the U. S.
census report, to more than $850,000,000 for the year which ended June 30, 1910.
And at the present time the rate of increase is greater than ever before.

The U. S. census of 1900 gave the value of poultry and eggs at $280,686,429.

In his ninth annual report, dated November 22, 1905, Hon. James Wilson,
United States Secretary of Agriculture, said: "The farmer's hen is becoming a worthy companion to his cow.
The annual production of eggs is now a score of billions, and they are becoming a substitute for high-priced meats,
besides entering more generally into the every-day food of the people. Poultry products have climbed to a place
of more than half a billion dollars in value, so that the farmer's hen now competes with wheat for precedence."

December, 1909, in an address made by Secretary Wilson at a banquet given by the Washington, D. C.
poultry association, the speaker stated that "the poultry and egg production of the United States in 1908 amounted
to seven hundred million dollars and was second only to the corn crop in value." ji,,-

Still more recently — in 1911 — Secretary Wilson, said: "We can hardly employ ordinary arithmetic in kfeeping
track of the growth of the poultry industry. It has developed more rapidly within the last decade than any other
of the big and wonderful agricultural industries of this big and wonderful country of ours."

New 450-Foot Duck Breeding and Brooding House Built c

I Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, Sun
9

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CYPHERS COMPANY

Reasons Plain —
Results Permanent:

And there are good reasons for this growth —

sound, economic, country-wide causes. Briefly,

we refer to the higher prices of food products,
especially meats of all kinds ; to the rapid increase in population, more
particularly in cities and villages; to the marvelous additions to the
wealth of the country from many sources, including the large annual
production of gold — and, last but by no means least, has been the
adoption by the well-to-do millions of a higher standard of living.

Consumption of farm products is increasing more rapidly than
production. The corners of the earth are being searched for more land
to subdue — to reclaim, to cultivate. That is the meaning of irrigation
— of the "model farms," of agricultural college instruction, of experi-
ment station work. More farm products is the ultimate aim of all
these efforts now being made to direct people "back to the land" —
to outdoor life, to personal independence, to better health, to greater adXSofweicomlat'thlopeni^

of the thirty-sixth annual con-
vention of the American Poultry
Association, held in the Auditor-
ium, Denver, Colorado, and made
this statement: "Up to ten years
ago only three per cent, of the
poultry and eggs consumed in
Colorado was produced in this
state. Now twenty per cent of
the poultry and eggs we consume
is produced in this common-
wealth. The increase in that time
has been from $300,000.00 worth
per annum to $3,600,000.00 worth
— a tremendous increase."

HON. JOHN F. SHAFORTH.
Governor of Colorado,
August 7. 1911, del

heap as was the case twenty years

happiness.

Meats can never again be as

ago. Then "choice cuts" could be bought at ten to twelve and one-
half cents per pound. Today Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha packers
are paying nine to ten cents per pound for beef cattle on the hoof.
Hens in those days — two decades ago — sold at thirty to thirty-five
cents apiece — plump yearlings that weighed six to seven pounds each.
Now they bring tivo and three times as much in markets reaching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific — from Canada to the Gulf.

We venture this prediction: That the prices of farm products will not again go back
to the old low levels — not unless the whole civilized world is turned topsy-turvey by some
unprecedented calamity.

There was a severe pa:
effects of which are still in evidence.

1907 — a money crisis followed by four years of general business depression, the
But much to the surprise of most people, the prices of farm products held up
-notwithstanding the well-known fact that the country was harvesting bumper crops.

Truth is, it was the high prices of farm products and the wide-spread prosperity
— the solvency of the farming class throughout those four years that "saved the day"
for many — for very many merchants and manufacturers, for general business.

It was "dollar wheat" and the continued high prices of corn, oats, hay, pota-
toes, beef, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, etc., that kept the
American farmer solidly on his feet — and right now, with "general business" quite
dull in many lines, we have only to consult the daily market reports and note the
prices of all kinds of farm products to read the story told plainly in dollars and cents.

Congestion in the cities, coupled with the equally
tion in manufacturing is easy, is inevitable on account of the

fact that over-produc-
ention and use

of labor-saving devices which multiply by hundreds and by thousands the rate of
production — these well-known conditions are certain to send men and women of
intellect, independence and resourcefulness back to the soil, because it will profit them
to go, because they can make money there — and be happier.

Speaking in the large, we have described what is actually taking place — have

told of conditions that now exist. And what we have said has a most important

/».g on the poultry business— on this GREAT INDUSTRY OF THE COMMON

HON. JAS. WILSON.

Secretary of United States .

Sfor^,^pTfhV°n,,tfic7n'rQo''i t'ha? PEOPLE, to the greatncss and wonderful growth of which Secretary Wilson of the
■ • ■ ■ -poult" United States Department of Agriculture H./^S CALLED THE ATTENTION

OF THE PUBLIC REPEATEDLY AND EMPHATICALLY.

products of th

in competition with wheat for
precedence and who, in 1908,
three years later, notified the
American public that the value
of the poultry and eggs produced
during the preceding fiscal year,
as shown by the government
figures at Washington, D. C.
"Amounted to $700,000,000 and
was second only to the Corn Crop
in value "

Yours, for genuine success and

still greater poultry industry.

President and General Manager, Cyphers Incubator Company.
U. S. A., December 1, 1911.

'Cyphers Company SERyiCE"
What It Is

AND WHAT IT MEANS TO

CYPHERS COMPANY CUSTOMERS

ii ^YPHERS COMPANY SERVICE"— these are
^^ not new words to us. It cannot be said
even that they express a new idea. On the
contrary they represent the policy, the theory that has
been dominant in the management of this company's
business for a dozen years.

But here lately the words "Cyphers Company
Service" have taken on, for us, a new, greater and
far more important meaning, so much so that we
are determined to make them the central idea —
the most helpful factor in the continued growth of this
company's business, helpful to our customers, therefore
helpful to us.

The big, main reason why every poultryman and
woman raises fowls or is in the poultry business, is for
the actual cash returns — this, plus health, outdoor life,
personal independence, fondness for the work, etc.
But profits are the real object — they form the one
business-like basis.

1912 is going to be another profitable poultry year.
Eggs are going to sell at high prices. Table poultry
is high priced now — and quality poultry meat is certain
to bring higher prices year after year. That has been
the record for the last ten years, in spite of panic and
general trade depression, and it will be the record for
the next ten years, which period undoubtedly will wit-
ness another six or eight years of wonderful country-
wide development and prosperity.

On Small Scale Poultry keeping fot^profit is not
„ T .« o 1 P'ay. It means work, attention
Or Large Scale: ^o^etofe-the right start, aver-
age good judgment, personal attention. On a moderate
scale it is in the nature of a trade, an occupation. On
a larger scale it is a regular business. In all cases there
is buying to do — investments to be made. And, first
to last, management is necessary.

To produce a marketable article at lowest cost —
that is one important step. Then the product must
be sold to advantage. Later the quality needs to be
improved so that premium prices can be obtained — ,
can be demanded,, as compared with the general run
of goods offered in competition.

Looked at from any angle, this is a business propo-
sition. It involves buying, producing, selling — good
management. And it's a business proposition whether
the man or woman engaged in the work produces one

hundred chickens each season or ten thousand. The ele-
ments— the essentials of success are very much the same.

Too many persons who try poultry raising seem
to be of the opinion that "chickens" can be raised in
small or large numbers with success and profit "almost
any old way." These well-meaning persons need to
have something more than "the chance" — the oppor-
tunity. They need to know how.

It is this general wrong idea that "any old thing"
will do in an attempt at poultry raising for profit —
this mistaken idea, together with offhand advice given
by onlookers, by persons who have nothing at stake —
it is this combination that causes nine-tenths of the
failures, partial or total, that are heard of in the
so-called "chicken business."

And additional to such a handicap, the misin-
formed, misguided poultry worker very often is a victim
of the greed and cupidity of unscrupulous manufac-
turers— the makers of flimsily-built, wrongly-con-
structed incubators and of worthless, death-trap brooders
— devices put out by men who know but little about the
poultry business and who care less.

Not only are these would-be successful poultry-
men and women working under wrong principles —
employing wasteful, incorrect methods — but they are
using tools that render genuine, profit-earning success
out of the question.

Be Sure To ^^ y°"' ^^'i^'^' ^""^ going to raise
Qtcirt TlidVit poultry this season — you owe it to
Start Klgnt: ^^^^^^^y ^^ know that you have
the right tools with which to work — the right equipment
that will do justice to the time and money you invest.
And you will want to make sure that you are following
the best course — that you are on the right track.

It is a matter of simple truth that Cyphers Incu-
bators, Brooders and standard supplies will give you
greater satisfaction, better and larger results, than any
other equipment — than any other poultry tools you
can buy and use. Our many thousands of customers
know this to be the fact. Many of them bear witness
in this catalogue — every report signed and dated —
each one recent, and to the point.

CYPHERS COMPANY SERVICE— WHAT IT IS

[P^ pi^^M M ^1

CYPHERS POULTRY FARM " EGG FACTORY."
Common Sight in Leghorn Houses on Cyphers Company Poul-
try Farm During Spring and Summer of 1911. In Two Long
Houses Without Division Pens There Were Not Enough Nests to
Accommodate all the Layers at the height of the Laying Season
and some of them used the Floor.

And back of every Cyphers Company customer
now stands "Cyphers Company Service" — genuine,
comprehensive, year around help to our patrons. Its
purpose is to help you avoid the pitfalls — to solve your
poultry raising problems. It provides valuable help,
reliable data, money-making ideas — practical informa-
tion, adapted to your special needs, whatever they
may be in this field of endeavor.

Reduced to few words, it looks to your success for
our success.

We now actually co-operate in detail and individually
with every poultry raiser who is a Cyphers customer.

Our Cyphers Company Service department, in
personal charge of Mr. Curtis, with a corps of able
assistants, will gladly devote the time needed to start
you going right and to keep you on the right track —
to give you the benefit of their knowledge, of all the
new ideas, the short cuts, the profit-making, money-
saving plans we have developed and perfected on our
own $50,000.00 experiment and demonstration poultry
farm, the best equipped and most complete estab-
lishment of the kind in the world, either private or
public.

And we ask every Cyphers Company customer to
remember that this "Service" — in the form of personal
letters and numerous copyrighted bulletins, belongs
to you as good measure, and we wish to have you
avail yourself fully of its benefits. To our valued
customers, old and new, small scale or large scale,
it is free — absolutely so — and this is one of the reasons
— a big reason, why your name. Reader, should be on
our list of customers.

Please Read '^^^ ^'Sh*- chapters published in this
Carefullv ovmcal free Cyphers Company cata-

logue and poultry guide are fair
examples of the kind of poultry help and advice — data
and suggestions, that are to be found in more elaborate
form — at greater length, in the Cyphers Company Ser-
vice 6a//e/fn£, everyone of which is free to our customers,

sent postpaid. Here are the titles of the eight chapters,
with list of the pages on which they are to be found: —
CHAPTER PAGES

I — How To Get Twice as Many Eggs

From the Same Number of Hens. . 112-113
II— The 200-Egg Per Year Hen— How to

Produce Her 128-129

III — Large Sized Eggs In Demand As Well

As Lots of Them 142-143

IV — Mating and Feeding of Fowls to Get

Fertile Eggs 174-175

V — Selection and Care of Eggs for Success-
ful Hatching. ... .- 180-181

VI — Proper Care of Fowls and Chicks

With Least Amount of Work 193-194

VII— How to Brood Chicks Properly at the

Lowest Cost 216-217

VIII — Premium- Price Table Poultry and How

to Produce it 238-239

These chapters are short, are condensed — una-
voidably so. This book is a big one as it is — too big,
almost — mainly on account of our line of goods being
as complete as it is, including the detailed, illustrated
descriptions — yet we have not been able to publish
a hundredth part of the recent reports from customers
that we should like to print. The reports herewith
presented are merely samples of the thousands we have
received. If more such reports are desired, drop us a
postal card, asking for a set of out seasonable circulars
— they contain hundreds of other similar reports.

The chapters herewith, short as they are, should
be read, re-read — studied. For the earnest poultry
keeper they contain facts and ideas of genuine, practical
value — not fine-spun theories, nor broad generalities.
They are part and parcel of the "Cyphers Company
Service" — of the reliable advice and down-to-the-
minute plans and methods that every poultry man and
woman, no matter where located, should understand
and ptU in use, in order to obtain larger profits on your
investment of monev. time and labor.

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HATCHING CHICKS " BY WHOLESALE "
Picture shows part ot a hatch of thirteen compartments of the
Cyphers double-deck Mammoth Incubator on Cyphers Company's
Poultry Farm, May, 1911 — as much of the twenty-six compart-
ment machine as the camera could take in. on account of narrow
passageway. Chicks were White Rocks, White W^■andottes,
White Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Last named were at end of row.

CYPHERS COMPANY SERVICE— WHAT IT IS

First Thirty-Two "^^^ " Cyphers Company Service" bulletins are being published in sets of four, for

<»« • " R 11 <-■ • convenience in mailing, and this plan is to be continued. Each new set is mailed
oervice rSUlieimS . ^^ ^^^ customers whose names are on our lists, and new customers will get each
succeeding set when issued, also a copy of all bulletins previously issued.

We are pleased to list herewith the first thirty-two Cyphers Company bulletins, giving them by numbers and
titles, also dividing them into two volumes: —

VOLUME No. I
BULLETIN No. 1— WINTER EGGS— HOW TO GET THEM.

BULLETIN No. 2— DRY FEEDING BY THE HOPPER
METHOD.— A Great Gain. It Saves Labor, Improves
Health, Gives Results. Price 25 cents.

BULLETIN No. 3— SANITARY CONDITIONS FOR POUL-
TRY—HOW MAINTAINED.— Care For Cleanliness.
Proper Ventilation. Fresh Air and Sunshine Essential.
Price IS cents.

BULLETIN No. 4— BACK- YARD POULTRY KEEPING.—
Its Advantages and Limitations. Eggs and Poultry For the
Family. Price 15 cents.

BULLETIN No. 5— WOMEN'S BEST CHANCES IN POUL-
TRY FIELD.— Under Farm Life Conditions. Under ViUage
Conditions. Under Special Limitations, Such as Other
Business, Poor Health, Etc. Price 25 cents.

BULLETIN No. 6— POULTRY EDUCATION AS RELATED
TO WOMEN.— Poultry Education Applied In Poultry Rais-
ing. Poultry Education Applied In Teaching. Poultry
Education and Business Success. Price 15 cents.

BULLETIN No. 7 — CO-OPER.ATION FOR WOMEN IN
POULTRY FIELD.— The Home Unit. The Partner From
Without. Women Standing Together. Far Reaching Bene-
fits. Price IS cents.

BULLETIN No. 8— IMPORTANT DON'TS FOR BEGIN-
NERS TO MEMORIZE.— Dreams That Can't Come True.
Start On Moderate Scale. How To Do It. Price 15 cents.

BULLETIN No. 9— DRYNESS ESSENTIAL IN POULTRY
HOUSES.— How To Get It. Style of Floor. Curtain Front
Types. Value of Sunshine. Price 15 cents.

-BULLETIN No. 10 — COMMON-SENSE FEEDING OF
FOWLS. — "Judgment" As Important As Feed. A Grass
Run Is Desirable. Green Food Essential. How Supplied.
Price 15 cents.

BL'LLETIN No. 11— BROODING OF CHICKS FOR RAPID
GROWTH.— Proper Quarters. The Right Temperature.
Ventilation Essential. Importance of Cleanliness. Price

BULLETIN No. U — PROPER FEEDING OF LITTLE
CHICKS.— What Not To Do. Value of Exercise. How
Induced. Green Food of Great Importance. Price 15

BULLETIN No. IJ— WHITE DIARRHOEA OF CHICKS.—

Causes, Prevention, Symptoms. Treatment, Remedies, Etc.

Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 14— DEEP LITTER FEEDING OF CHICKS.

— How It Is Done. Great Labor Saver. Chicks Do Much

Better. Comparative Tests. Price 25 cents.

BULLETIN No. 15— DAY-OLD CHICK BRANCH OF IN-
DUSTRY.—Its Beginning. Its Growth. Of What It Con-
sists At Present Time. Outlook and Possibilities. Price

BULLETIN No. 16— CUSTOM HATCHING OF CHICKS
AND DUCKLINGS.— Of What It Consists. Dates From
Ancient Times. How It Is Done. Prices Charged. Profit-
able Methods. Price IS cents.

VOLUME No. H
BULLETIN No. 17— TRAP-NESTING TO INCREASE EGG

PRODUCTION.— Numerous Fowls In Average Flock Do

Not Lay Enough Eggs To Pay a Profit. How Found Out

and How Corrected. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 18— LINE-BREEDING TO INCREASE EGG

PRODUCTION.— By This Natural Method The Egg Yield
- Of Average Flock Of Fowls Can Be Doubled. Advantages

and Dangers of Line Breeding. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 19— HANDLING OF INCUBATOR TO GET

BEST RESULTS. — Where To Locate. Use and Abuse.

How To Clean and Preserve. First Aid To The Chicks.

Price 15 cents.
BULLETIN No. 20— BROODING THE NEWLY HATCHED

CHICKS.— Safe Locations. What To Do and What Not To

Do. Proper Handling During First Three Weeks. Price

15 cents.
BULLETIN No. 21— COMMON DISEASES OF FOWLS AND

CHICKS. — Symptoms. Causes. Prevention. Treatment.

Home and Commercial Remedies. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 22— EGGS AND POULTRY FOR DAILY

MARKET.— Small Egg Plants. Egg Farming. Profitable

Production of Squab Broilers, Broilers, Roasters and Capons.

Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 23— POULTRY RAISING FOR PROFIT ON

THE FARM.— Natural Place to Raise Poultry. Farmers

Great Opportunity. Poultry the Best Paying Farm Stock.

Price IS cents.
BULLETIN No. 24— POULTRY HOUSES— THEIR PROPER

CONSTRUCTION. — Fresh Air and Sunshine Most Essen-
tial. Prevention of Drafts. Dry Floor and Litter. Price

25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 25— COMMON POULTRY PESTS. LICE,

MITES, ETC.— Their Harmful Effects. Whence They Come.

How Destroyed. Means of Prevention. Price IS cents.
BULLETIN No. 26— CRATE FATTENING OF FOWLS.—

How It Is Done. The Advantages. What To Feed. Kinds

of Stock To Fatten. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 27— PRIVATE EGG TRADE— WHAT IT

DEMANDS.— How Established. Best Forms For Producer.

Its Advantages and Disadvantages. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 28— KEEPING THE. EGG YIELD UP IN

SUMMER.— All-Year-Round Supply Much Desired. What

Can Be Accomplished. Present Conditions. Price IS cents.
BULLETIN No. 29— BEST MARKETS FOR POULTRY AND

EGGS. — Prompt Marketing Very Desirable. Prices Governed

By Quahty of Product. Quantity Comes Next. Business

Expansion. Price IS cents.
BULLETIN No. 30— WHERE TO START IN THE POULTRY

BUSINESS. — Convenience of Marketing Highly Important.

Advantages and Disadvantages in Family Trade. Crating

and Marketing. Price 15 cents.
BULLETIN No. 31— COMMON MISTAKES IN POULTRY

KEEPING.— Breeding From Immature or Debilitated Stock.

Pooriy Planned, 111 Ventilated Houses. Feeding an Unbal-
anced Ration. Lack of Exercise. Price 25 cents.
BULLETIN No. 32— COMBINING POULTRY AND FRUIT

GROWING. — Best Side Lines to Combine With Poultry

THESE BULLETINS, and others that are to be published by us, covering the entire poultry subject
on practical lines, are free, postage paid, to men and women everywhere who have bought goods of our manu-
facture within a period of two years, dating from January 1, 1912, either direct from Buffalo or from our
branch stores located in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Oakland or London, England — or from
any agent of ours in the United States or a foreign country.

13

CYPHERS COMPANY SERVICE— WHAT IT IS

All persons who write to us for our annual cata-
logue or other free printed matter are treated as "in-
quirers" and their names are carded in our "inquiry"
files. When an inquirer btiys goods of us his or her
inquiry card is transferred to our "customer" files.
The free Cyphers Company Service bulletins are to
be mailed by us to every name and address in the
"customer" files.

In other words, our customers will not need to go
to the trouble of writing in to us from time to time,
„ asking for this, that or the other bulletin — they are
to be mailed regularly to you as issued. In future,
customers who buy in person at our retail stores or
in our Buffalo display and sales room are to be asked
to give the salesman their names and addresses so that
the bulletins can be mailed to them. And we wish to
receive the names and addresses of all purchasers and
users of goods of our manufacture who buy of mir
agents, domestic and foreign, so that these customers
also will be in a position to receive the bulletins regu-
larly— without having to write us for them.
Are of General, The "Cyphers Company Service"

Practical Value: ''.""'^""^ =^'''= ^l!' '°^"'^'^^^ '"

size — same as this page — and
have holes punched in the back margin so that they can
be preserved conveniently. To each customer, with his
or her first set or sets of bulletins, we furnish free of
charge a durable fiber paper binder (see illustration
herewith) that will hold sixteen to thirty-two bulletins.
Each later set of bulletins, as received, can be placed
in the binder by untying the cord, inserting both ends
of the cord in the holes in the back margin of each
bulletin, then replacing all the bulletins in the binder
and retying the cord in its proper place.

Furthermore, the pages of the bulletins are num-
bered consecutively and as often as the bulletins fill a
binder, we shall add an index to the back pages of the
last bulletin, giving the contents of all bulletins in the
_ binder, thus pro-

ducing a loosely
bound book, with
durable cover and
a detailed table of
contents, ready for
easy reference.

As may be
judged by the titles
of the first thirty-
two bulletins here
listed, the contents
deal with the
essentials of success
— they treat of
questions of vital
importance and
daily value to ever)'
BINDER FOR BULLETINS. earnest poultry man

Will hold thirty-two Bulletins, preserving and woman who

A

BULLETINS

L

out of poultry raising all there is in it — whether you
are operating on a small scale or on a large scale.

"A hen is a hen" the world around, broadly
speaking — and it is on this fact that our bulletin service
is based. What to do and how to do it, in planning and
working to make THE LARGEST PROFIT PER
HEN KEPT OR PER BIRD MARKETED— that is
the object, that is the theory and aim of these free bulle-
tins. Also — what not to do — this equally important
ground is covered with much care, aided by long experi-
ence and wide observation.

TO POINT THE WAY— to help our customers
save money in their poultry work and to make larger
profiJs, so they will increase their plants and output —
that is the mission of these bulletins. And if, for
example, we can enable our customers to raise to market
age or to maturity one-tenth, one-fourth, or perhaps
fifty per cent, more chicks or ducklings than they
otherwise zvould, then we are confident that the demand
for goods of our manufacture will increase in about
the same proportion. Hence our strong desire to have
the bulletins prove to be worth tens and hundreds of
dollars to every poultryman and woman who is to read
them and personally profit by the information and
advice they contain.

"Samples" Are ^^^ READER of this cata-
Free To All • '°^"^ ^^^ ^^""^ ^ letter or post-

card for one, two or three sample
"Cyphers Company Service" bulletins, selected from
Volume I of the list published herewith — and we ask you.
Reader, to do this. It will be a favor to us and you will
be well repaid for the trouble. We desire to have you
know just what these bulletins are — of what value they
are to poultry raisers, to all persons who are interested
in poultry keeping for profit.

It is impractical for us to mail all the "Cyphers
Company Service" bulletins to every person who is to
receive a copy of this catalogue, two hundred thousand
(200,000) copies of which are being printed — but we
would like to have every reader of these lines send
for two or three sample bulletins, the ones you judge
by the titles will be of the most interest and help to you.
We are asking you to do this because we believe these
sample bulletins will convince you that your name
should be on our list of customers.

Going a step farther, we have put a selling price on
each bulletin, so that persons who want several of them, or
perhaps the entire lot — also others that are to follow
— but who are not Cyphers Company customers, can
buy those they want, doing so at nominal cost. If less than
eight bulletins are wanted by persons who are not cus-
tomers, the prices given are not subject to reduction,
except that every reader of this catalogue is entitled
to three sample bulletins (your choice from Volume
I) without charge. For more than eight bulletins
and less than si.\teen, deduct 25 per cent. — one-fourth
the total list price of the bulletins selected. For the
entire thirty-two on one order deduct 50 per cent. —
one-half the total list price.

CYPHERS COMPANY SERVICE— WHAT IT IS

$1,000.00 OFFERED IN CASH PRIZES

As part of the work of the "Cyphers Company
Service" department we have withheld $1,000.00 of
our advertising appropriation for the season of 1911-
1912 and we are going to distribute this sum December,
1912, to the eighty-three persons — men and women —
who write us, in their own words, the best and most
helpful reports of their individual successes in raising
poultry for profit by improving tlieir personal oppor-
tunities, by taking advantage of local, home conditions.
By the "best, most helpful," we mean reports of
actual work done, of favorable results achieved, of
profits made, on either a small or large scale — reports
which, in the careful judgment of Mr. Curtis, as head
of the "Cyphers Company Service" department, will
be of the greatest value and personal benefit to the
largest number of Cyphers Company customers.

This competition is not to be a matter of big
hatches or of extra good luck in brooding the chicks.
We want these reports to cover, in a plain, matter-of-
fact-way just what is done — all that is done in making
a success of your season's poultry work.

Where you live — in city, village or country.
How much land is used for the fowls, old and young.
The hind of building or buildings used.
How many breeders or layers are kept.
What you fed — and in what way.
How well your hens laid and what you did specially
— if anything — to increase the egg yield.

The number of chicks or duckUngs (or both) that
were hatched and how many you succeeded in raising
to market age or maturity.

How hatched and how raised, whether by hens
or by artificial means.

If chicks or ducklings were hatched b>' use of
incubators, where did you operate the incubator or
incubators and what per cent, of the eggs proved fer-
tile and what per cent, of the fertile eggs produced
good sized, healthy
chicks or ducklings?
If chicks or
ducklings were
raised by the use of
brooders, where did
you locate the brood-
ers and what per-
centage of the total
number of chicks or
ducklings entrusted
to the brooders were
you able to raise
past the brooder
age?

What did you
feed the chicks or
ducklings at differ-
ent periods — h o w
did you feed, how
often, etc.?

How did you dispose of your product — or the part
of it that you sold?

If you sold eggs, were they marketed locally by
you or were they shipped away?

REPORTS OF

Successful Poultry Growers

$1000.00
ANNUAL PRIZE COffTEST

1912-1913 EDinOS

- "cyphers OOMEW SEIMCE"DEPARTMEm

BOOK OF PRIZE REPORTS.

Contents are to cost us $1,000 in
caan. Free copy to be mailed to every
1912-1913 Cypliers Company customer.

$1,000 In Cash Prizes— C onipetition Open to the World.

What portion of the eggs sold were market eggs
and what portion were sold for hatching purposes?

About what amount of eggs and what number of
fowls did you use for home consumption?

How many head of live or dressed fowls raised by you
did you sell during tlie season, or year, and was this
stock marketed locally by you or was it shipped away?

If fowls were sold for breeding purposes or as
exhibition stock, so state, giving any particulars of
general interest.

Give as near as you can — the nearer the better —
your total expenses for the care and feeding of your
fowls, old and young combined, also the cost of mar-
keting the eggs and poultry sold during the period
covered by report.

Include a statement of your total disbursements
and receipts for the period — itemized form preferred
— thus aiming to show your profit or loss on the season's
operations.

Report the number of fowls you started with at
the beginning of period covered by the report, with
estimated value, and report number of fowls on hand at
close of period, with estimated value.

State wherein you failed to do as well as you had
hoped for, in any branch or feature of the work, giving
your ideas of why this was so and telling how you believe
you can do better the next season.

Describe any favorite device you used in your
poultry work and explain any favorite method tested
by you to good advantage — devices, methods or ideas
that you believe will help and benefit other poultrymen.

It is not expected that any one report will cover
all these points. We have merely outlined the charac-
ter of the reports wanted. HOW WELL were you
able to do — and how did you do it? This is what we
desire to know — this is information which cannot fail
to be of great practical help to thousands of our cus-
tomers. For this information we are willing to pay
$1,000.00 in coiA.

CYPHERS COMPANY SERVICE— WHAT IT IS

Prize ReoortS ^^'^ these reports are to be

rr n T» 1-1 ■ I. J published in booklet form for
To Be Published: J,,, distribution to Cyphers
Company customers as part of the Cyphers Company
free bulletin service. The contents of this booklet — the
reports themselves — are to cost us $1,000 in cash, and a
copy of this booklet will be sent free to every customer
who buys goods of us direct or from any Cyphers
Company agent during the years 1912 and 1913.

The $1,000.00 is to be distributed in eighty-three
cash prizes as follows:

TOTAL

First prize $200.00 $200.00

Second prize 100.00 100.00

Tliird prize 50.00 50.00

Ten prizes, each 20.00 200.00

Twenty prizes, each... 10.00 200.00

Fifty prizes, each 5.00 250.00

Grand Total, $1,000.00
Competition for these eighty-three cash prizes
is open to the world, whether you use any of our goods
or not. There are no strings tied to this offer — none
whatever, except as to the distribution of the booklets.
A free copy of the booklet will be mailed to every person
who enters the competition and sends us his or her
report — also to every Cyphers Company customer, as
before stated. Reports that do not win prizes, but that
are used in the booklet will be paid for by us. Other
reports will be returned to_ the senders, on request.

The practical value of this booklet should be
great indeed — and we propose to get out one like it
every year. These reports are to represent actual
achievement under widely varying conditions, in all
parts of the world — successes won by men and women
by their own personal efforts.

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IMPORTED WHITE ORPINGTONS.
In this house on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm at the time the photograph was taken
there were 350 White Orpingtons — part of the shipment of 600 imported from two foremost

LATEST IMPORTATION OF WHITE ORPINGTONS.
In October, 1911, Cyphers Incubator Company received from
England in the coops shown in this picture (made from photograph)
600 fine White Orpingtons, 500 yearling hens and early-hatched
pullets and 100 choice males. This was our second importation.
In November, 1910, we received 200 hens and well-matured pullets
and 40 early-hatched cockerels. These birds — both lots — were
bought fpr Cyphers Company Poultry Farm by the manager of our
European branch house, 121-125 Finsbury Pavement, London,
England.

How to make money by keeping and raising poul-
try— in the production of poultry and eggs for market
and the home table, for breeding and exhibition pur-
poses— that is the question.

Near every city and village in this country there
are excellent opportunities to make money keeping
poultry. Only a limited number of these opportuni-
ties are being improved. The great majority are not.
And the reason is because men and women who would
like to do the work and make the money are not posted
— do not know how.

To get at the local facts, to learn more about
these opportunities, and to tell our thousands of cus-
tomers how to improve them — ^just what to do in order
to make money by taking advantage of local, home con-
ditions, that is the object of this competition.

The entire eighty - three
reports that win the cash
prizes are to be published
in the booklet for free
distribution to all contestants
and to every 1912-1913 Cyphers
Company customer — therefore
the persons most interested will
I ave the chance to judge for
themseh-es whether or not the
prizes have been fairly awarded.
Furthermore, each contes-
tant is to get the fidl benefit
of the ideas, methods, sugges-
tions, and story of success of the
other contestants. The contents
alone of this Prize Report Book-
let are to cost us $1,000.00, but
we shall have a booklet of far-
reaching interest and great prac-
tical value.

The selling price of this book-
let to non-customers will be $1 .00
per cop>', postpaid to any ad-
dress, domestic or foreign.
Yours for progress,
CYPHERS INCUBATOR CO.

Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A..
December 1, 1911.

Cyphers Company Factory
Facilities

AND HOW WE TURN OUT

STRICTLY STANDARD GbODS

EVERY one of the factory foremen whose por-
traits are shown on this page has been in the
employ of Cyphers Company twelve 'or more years.

And this means something — means something to
you, Reader, if you become a customer of ours and use
goods of our manufacture.

It means that experienced mechanics — old hands
at the work, are on gtiard in each important depart-
ment of our factory to make sure that every article is
put through, is assembled, finished, tested and pre-
pared for safe shipment the way it should be.

Benjamin F. Jones, head of the Flat Metal Depart-
ment, has held this'responsible position with Cyphers
Incubator Company more than fifteen years.

Cord Barnum, foreman of the Machine and Elec-
trical Departments also has been with us more than
fifteen years.

Frank Smalt, foreman of the Cutting-up (Wood-
working) Department has been in this same depart-
ment more than fourteen years.

Joseph B. Engel, foreman of the Assembling
Department, has been with us thirteen years.

Joseph Smith, foreman of the Finishing
Department, has been in our employ twelve years.

Not only is it necessary that dependable incubators
and trustworthy brooders shall be designed on right
lines, shall embody correct principles — they must also
be well built, must 'be MECHANICALLY PERFECT,
provided they are to do the important work required
of them and enable the operator to obtain best results.

That is why we
value highly the ability
and skill of our factory
foremen — and we are
proud of the fact that
they have continued with us all these years. This
company makes it worth while for its best workers
to remain in its employ. With us it is a well-
established principle to retain the services of the
men in all departments who prove to be competent
and reliable. This practice has meant much to us —
and it has meant still more to our thousands of cus-
tomers year after year.

Part of the Probably very few readers of

Poultry Industry: *'?'^ catalogue ^rafe what a
big institution the Cyphers
Incubator Company's factory is. And the size of this
company's manufacturing plant at Buffalo and its
§140,000.00 poultry food and alfalfa mill at Chicago
(for picture of new poultry food mill see page 114) the
mere size of these establishments is a BIG FACT in
the present magnitude of the Poultry Industry of
America.

It is because of the personal and financial interest
of every Cyphers Company customer in the goods
turned out by our factory that we are going to devote
four or five pages of this annual catalogue to publishing
a few pictures and relating a few facts, illustrating and
describing the importance and value of this part of
our all-round "Service" in your behalf.

FIVE FACTORY FOREMEN WHO HAVE BEEN WITH CYPHERS COMPANY CONTINUOUSLY
FOR PERIODS OF FROM TWELVE TO FIFTEEN YEARS.

CYPHERS COMPANY FACTORY FACILITIES

The limited number of fac-
tory pictures shown herewith —
machines, dies, etc. — are merely
suggestive. For groups of pic-
tures showing men at work (pic-
tures made from photographs)
see pages 36, 38 and 40. In look-
ing at these sample pictures you
will need to imagine an establish-
ment that last season manufact-
ured complete Standard Cyphers
Incubaiors at the rate of more
than 5,000 in the twenty-six work
days of the month; that during
the same twenty-six days turned
out 5,627 brooding devices, also
3,352 other separate and com-
plete poultry appliances, each one
finished and ready for sale — ready
for shipment. -- To do this required
a small army of men. For
example, March 15, 1911, there were 551 persons on the
payroll.

Please note the interesting picture in the center
of page 36. This illustration was made from a
photograph taken beside the Erie Canal at a point
just back of our factory and lumber yards. Season
after season we buy our white pine lumber in the
Northwest, direct from the forest mills and bring it
to Buffalo by the cargo — a shipload and sometimes
two shiploads in one order. By this means we are
able to buy lumber at as low prices as the large whole-
sale lumber dealers can buy it^and this also means
something to our customers.

It will be news even to our old-time friends to
learn that Cyphers Incubator Company has designed.

STEEL "FORM" OR GLUE PRESS.
In Presses like this all Panels for Standard Cyphers Incubators are Drawn
Into Proper Shape and Held Until the Glue " sets " or hardens.

LARGE SIZE MACHINISTS LATHE.
Used in Machine Shop for makine ni<"5. Patterns, Tools, Parts for Special Machinery, Etc.

constructed and erected a good portion of its own
special machinery — both wood-working and metal-
working machines. We make most of our own steel
dies and all of the brass patterns that are used in
molding castings by the tens and hundreds of thousands.
See pictures herewith made from photographs showing
lathes, giant draw-press, stamping machines, steel dies,
gang patterns for making castings in duplicate, etc., etc.
"In duplicate" — that is the idea! Everj'thing
true and correct to the fraction of an inch in the steel
dies and patterns — then every metal piece cut, stamped
and fashioned in exact counterpart of everj' other piece
or article that is meant to be just like it.

It took years of hard work — of study, experi-
menting and observation to design and perfect the

Cyphers Company line of incubators,

brooders, self-regulating hovers, etc., and
it took almost as long to complete the me-
chanical arrangements that now enable us
- to manufacture these goods in a satisfac-
tory manner — expertly, durably, every
article exactly like its mates. In numerous
cases the tools and machines with which
to do this work and do it right had to be
invented, as well as the goods themselves.

Number Of Parts O^hand, how

many of our
InNo. 3 Incubator: readers would
guess that there are 372 separate and
distinct pieces in a complete No. 3 Standard
Cyphers lamp-heated incubator. Probably
not one person in five hundred. Yet such
is the case, and every separate piece must
be on hand in many, many duplicates be-
fore a "shop order" can be put through our
factory for 600, 800, 1,000 or 1,200 incuba-
tors of any one of the four sizes " at
a run."

CYPHERS COMPANY FACTORY FACILITIES

SAMPLES OF BIG STEEL DIES.

Used with Giant Draw Press shown below. Several of these large Steel

Dies weigh 300 pounds apiece.

brooders, no matter how hard
they might try, unless they were
to use hand tools to cut and fit
them — which of course is out of the
question in a big factory where the
men work in "teams," each man and
each team doing some separate part
of the work and being under the
necessity of doing that part on
schedule time so that there shall be
no stoppage in the line of goods
going through — no piling up that
would mean serious delay and at
once attract the attention of the fore-
man of the department.

Not only are the metal parts of Cyphers Incuba-
tors and Brooders made in duplicate, with painstaking
care and precision, but every practical, mechanical
device known to the wood-working trades is employed
by us to make sure that all- wooden parts • of these
"standardized" and standard-built incubators and
brooders are just right — will exactly fit in the places
where they belong — can be "assembled" in a way that
will produce a perfect, finished article.

Fact is, these wooden parts are so made and so
handled that they cannot be put together wrong —
not even if a new or careless workman were to try to
doit. For example, note the picture on page 18, show-
ing one of the heavy and substantial steel frames used
for "forming" incubator panels — the panels that make up
the top, back and ends of a Standard Cyphers.

First, the boards are ripped and dressed, then
tongued and grooved, then cut to right lengths, then ten-
oned— after which they are put together in panel form.

After the center pieces are put in place and just
before the tenons are inserted in the corresponding
mortise, the tenons and grooves are treated with glue.
Then before the glue hardens or "sets," each panel is
placed in a steel form, like the one shown on page 18,
and strong leverage power is brought to bear to press
it into position — into the exact shape of the thousands
of other panels of the same size.

Later each panel is put through the sand-papering
and finishing machines and comes out a perfect dupli-
cate, ready to be assembled as part of any one of 600
to 1,200 incubators of the same size that are put
through the factory on the same "shop order."

gyjjl|. ijj PormS E/very mcuhatoT and every htooder
All Rnilt Alikp- that is turned out of the Cyphers
All BUUt Alike . Company Factory is cut to exact

lengths, is built in forms and is handled in such manner
that it would be impossible to find one of these articles
that was not correctly put together. The parts simply
have to be right — otherwise the workmen who do the
forming and assembling could not put them together —
could not build them up into incubators and

For example, turn to page 108 of this book and read
of the work done by a No. 2 Standard Cyphers incubator
which Frank \'ernum of Altoona, Kansas, bought of our
Kansas City Branch — we do not know when. With
this machine Mr. Vernum hatched 100 per cent, and
99.1 per cent, of the fertile eggs entrusted to it,
obtaining 478 chicks from 480 eggs, and as a result
he won first prize in the annual hatching contest
conducted by the Missouri \'alley Farmer, an Arthur
Capper paper, published at Topeka, Kansas, that has a
circulation of 325,000 copies per month.

It is not known to us when Mr. Vernum bought
this incubator — we have not asked him and do not
care. We do not know whether the machine used by
Mr. Vernum w this contest was made by "us last season

GIANT DRAW PRESS.
Has power of 75 to 100 tons and is capable of drawing pans 24
inches in diameter and 12 inches deep. Used for Seamless Lamp
Bowls, Hover Radiators, etc.

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Photographic Views of Home Offices, Buffalo, N. Y.
-President and General Manager. 2— Vice-President and Sales Manager. 3 — General Office.
4 — Secretary and Publication Department. 5 — Factory Manager.

CYPHERS COMPANY FACTORY FACILITIES

GANGS OF METAL PATTERNS.
Showing a few of the "Gated" Metal Patterns used in the
foundry for Molding Castings for Cyphers Incubators, Brooders,
Hovers, Etc.

or the year before, or five or six years ago — and it
makes no difference to any one. No one knew at the time
that particular machine went through our factory and
was placed in our warehouse, whether it would be
shipped westward from Buffalo to become the property
of Mr. Vernum, or would be shipped eastward to
Europe or to South Africa — or be sent down to the
Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., for
use in hatching wild partridge
eggs at the rate of fifty part-
ridges from fifty-one fertile eggs — •
see Professor F. H. Stoneburn's
report, page 82.

Exactly As Mr.Vernum's

Represented: No. 2 machine

^ was — a n d is

— exactly like several hundred
others that were put through
our factory at the same time,
on the same "shop order" — and
it is for such reasons that our
company is in a position to
GUARANTEE each and every
Standard Cyphers Incubator to
be exactly as represented in our
printed matter and to do the work
claimed for it.

Each and every Standard
Cyphers Incubator is separately
tested as to automatic regulation,
before it is crated for shipment
and an expert engineer, in the
employ of the Underwriters'
Laboratories, an institution con-
; National Board
of Fire Underwriters, also sepa-
rately inspects every incubator

and brooder manufactured by us and authorizes the
placing thereon of an official brass label, in conformity
with the rigid "Rules and Requirements" of the associ-
ated fiite insurance companies doing business in the
United States and Canada.

For full particulars about the fire-proof and insurable
qualities of Standard Cyphers Incubators and Brooders
— oil - heated, gas - heated, electric - heated and coal -
heated — see pages 50, 51 and 52 of this catalogue.

As a rule interested persons who visit our factory
and are shown through the various departments, are
truly amazed at the magnitude of the plant, at the high
class of materials used, at the large amount of special
machinery employed and at the great pains we take in
having every article jM5i right for the work for which it
is intended.

Yet all this equipment is required — plus long
experience and skilled labor, in turning out such articles
as regulating devices and water thermostats that can
be relied on to control the temperature witlmi a fraction
of a degree. The secret of the success of Cyphers Incu-
bators as the " world's standard hatching machines "
is to be found not alone in the patented principles
embodied in their construction, but also in the high-class
materials and superior workmanship that invariably are
put into them

Respectfully yours,
CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY,
Buffalo N. Y., U. S. A., December 1, 1911.

ROW OF STAMPING PRESSES
Line of Ten Stamping Presses m
'lat Metal Depai

the manufacture of Cyphi
Brooders, Hovers and other
Poultrv Appliances

New York City Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.

2i Bun-lay Street. W. E. French, Manafier.

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FIRE-PROOFED AND INSURABLE

Guaranteed Best Hatchers of Largest Percentages of Strong, Vigorous, Healthy
Chicks. Incubators vs. Hens. Success on First Trials. Every Machine Warranted.

POULTRY RAISING FOR PROFIT is no longer
a "pin money" affair. Today it exists in one of
three forms — as an important branch of farm
woric, or as a regular business, or as a money-making
side line for the villager, the suburbanite or city
dweller.

In whichever class you may be, reader, we claim
that you should "mean business" — that you ought to
have the right kind of tools with which to do your
work.

Buying an incubator is different from buying any
other article in common use. A farm wagon, a piece
of household furniture or a jack knife, if of "cheap"
make and inferior quality may answer the purpose
for awhile and should last some time, but with an incu-
bator (or a brooder) it is different — decidedly so.

And the reasons are plain. An incubator deals
with the life principle! It must be relied on to do the
delicate work of producing a living organism — a
complete chick or duckling in perfect health, with all
the vitality Nature requires.

This matter of "vitality" in chicks is of the very
highest importance. Here lies the Secret of Success,
or a hidden rock upon which an otherwise well
planned poultry venture will meet failure and heavy
losses.

It is not alone the question of "how many" chicks,
but also of HOW GOOD — of how strong, vigorous
and healthy they are — how well hatched.

The hen knows how to produce the right kind of
chicks. Nature has taken care of this — but it is the
fegretable truth that vast numbers of incubator chicks
are hatched every season which stand no show what-
ever of living to market age, on account of the flimsy,
ill-constructed "boxes" in which they are "coaxed"
into life. An incubator, to do its work right, must
meet all of Nature's requirements — it must not stop
half way.

We could easily fill this catalogue with reports
from pleased and satisfied Cyphers Company custo-
mers, treating on this one point alone — of the ease
with which they are able to hatch large percentages of
big, vitally strong and perfectly healthy chicks and

ducklings in the Standard Cyphers, but must be con-
tent with a few sample opinions from well-known
sources, as follows: —

tors give better hatches than any others we have ever tried. We
secure good percentages of strong, healthy chicks from the fertile
eggs. One point in particular I desire to call attention to: Your
incubator is simple and easy to operate. Beginners have repeatedly
secured excellent hatches with your machines." — June 18, 1907.

Horace Atwood, Assistant Agriculturist, W. Va. Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, Morgantown. — "In most of my
experimental work during several years I have used the Cyphers
Incubators on account of the uniformly good hatches which I
have been able to obtain with them. They are easily regulated,
run like clack work, the loss of moisture from the eggs approximates
very closely that found under natural conditions and the chicks
hatched are strong and vigorous." — Sept. 20, 1910.

F. S. Keith, Easton, Mass. — "On the basis of long experi-
ence I honestly beheve that the Cyphers Incubators are the best
machines made for hatching both ducks and chicks I am now
using thirty-three large sized Cyphers and this last season I had
many 300-chick hatches some of these hatches reaching 320 good,
With duck eggs / often obtain 200 to 230

eggs.

Ha

Cyphers Incubators
for thirteen years.' —
December 8. 1911.

Geo. P. Hadley,
Supt., The Manse
Farm, Dennis,
Mass. — "We have m
our cellar twelve No
3 Standard Cyphers
Incubators which
have proved satisfac-
tory in every way in
hatching duck eggs
I find that with half
a chance they will
hatch every egg that
ought to hatch and
the ducklings are
big. fluSy fellows that
live and growrapidlv "
—Sept. 16, 1909.

A. G. Gilbert,
Poultry Instructor,
Central Experi-
mental Farm, De-
partment of Agri-
culture, Ottawa,
Canada.— "Give the
Standard Cyphers
Incubator eggs with
germs of the required
strength, and it will
certainly — when run
as per directions —
hatch out every chicken
worthattempting to

1909.

-Sept

25.

"SURE TO HATCH EVERY
HATCHABLE EGG."

Photographic picture sent to us by
Albert Downing, South Hampton, N. H..
who says, under date September 15, 1911:
"Last January we purchased one No. 1
and two No. 2 Cyphers Incubators. Have
found them sure to hatch every hatchable
egi- By comparative tests with incu-
bators and hens, the Cyphers Incubators
hatched about five per cent, more than the
hens, while the chicks were equally strong
and vigorous, and had rapid growth."

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Boston Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.
12-14 Canal Street. George C. Prouty, Manager.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

W. R. Sprenkle, Manager Mentzer Duck Farm, Waynes-
boro. Pa. — "Up to August 1st I hatched 19,525 ducks in your
machines. This excellent hatching is not all of it by any means,
lor I find that your machines hatch ducks thai live — big, strong ones;
not Utile puny ducks like some incubators hatch." — August 3, 1908.

J. L. Jefferson, White Rock Specialist, Des Plaines, 111.—
"Have used Cyphers Incubators continuously for the past eleven
years and have as yet to find a better machine. Your incubator
not only hatches well, but, what is still moie of importance, the
chicks live. Have raised something over 90 per cent, of the chicks.
This year I broke the record by raising over 98 per cent. This
shows what well hatciied will do, because a well hatched chick is half
raised."— October 20, 1909.

U. R. Flshel, White Rock SpeciaUst, Hope, Ind.— "We
hatched and reared something hke four thousand birds last season
by the use of Cyphers Incubators and Brooders, and never before had
as strong chicks as we have this year. Our personal e.xperi-

cnce with your Incubators and Brooders is absolute proof, reaching
back through a period of ten years, that by the use of Cyphers Incu-
bators and Brooders as fine fowls can be produced year after year
as by the hen method — and at very much less expense." — Decem-
ber 22, 1911.

Many more similar reports^— equally favorable —
will be found in the back pages of this book.

AN INCUBATOR'S SEVEREST TEST

The severest test of a strictly first-class, depend-
able incubator is the success had with it by poultry
breeders whose business is to produce standard fowls
of the highest exhibition quality — the blue-ribbon
winners at the hundreds of winter poultry shows and
fall fairs held every season. If an incubator will turn
out, year after year, the kind of chickens these
breeders of prize stock have to produce — big, large-
boned, deep-breasted, up-in-weight specimens, in per-
fect health and condition, we may be very sure that
here we have a "hatching machine" of the right
construction and highest practical value. It simply
could not be otherwise.

We therefore ask you, reader, to turn to the sec-
tion of our catalogue headed "Foremost American
Poultry Breeders" and read what the best-known and
most successful men in this branch of the industry
have to say, under recent dates, about the kind of
chicks they are able to hatch right along, season
after season, in Cyphers Incubators. We believe that
their reports will prove to be a revelation to you.

Here are a few examples:

Wm. McNeil, London, Can., Exhibitor of International
Reputation. — "I showed twenty-eight birds at Boston last winter,
all hatched in your machines. They won twenty-eight first prizes
and all specials offered on their varieties. I can highly recommend
vour machines to any one who wants to have large, strong chicks."
—August 6, 1908.

Edgar A. Weimar, Lebanon. Pa., Capitalist and Poultry
Fancier. — "Your machines produce better lesuKs and hatch stronger
chicks, with less care, than any other machine I ever operated.
In our past twenty-four years in the poultry business we have
never before hatched such a large number of strong chicks. We give
your machines credit for this, as we use them entirely. I have
won about three hundred prizes at the Madison Square Garden.
New York City, America's foremost poultry show, on birds hatched
in your machines." — October 24, 1909.

Ernest Kellerstrass, Proprietor Kellerstrass Farm, Kan-
sas City Mo. — "Ninety-two per cent, of the 222 White Orpington
hens from which I sold, during the spring of 1910, 4,534 eggs at
S2.00 per cjg, or for $9,068, were hatched in Cyphers Incubators.
. My four premier hens and the Crystal King cockerel, from which I
sold eggs last spring at $10.00 each, were hatched in Cyphers Incu-
bators— every one of them. The five White Orpingtons that I
sold to Madame Paderewski for $7,500 also were hatched in your
machines. We use no other make of incubator on my farm and we
cannot afford to waste the time of hens acting as sitters and brood-
ing mothers; therefore every chicken hatched on Kellerstrass Farm
is hatched in Cyphers Incubators."— September 27, 1910.

Maurice F. Delano, Manager Owen Farms, Vineyard
Haven, Mass., breeders of Barred and White Plymouth
Rocks, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds and Buff,
White and Black Orpingtons. — "Hundreds of grand exhibition
and breeding birds have been hatched by us in your machines,
including many of the great national winners. The Cyphers Incu-
bators have distanced all other makes tested by us during the last
ten years."— November 4, 1909.

Eleanore Minorca Farm, M. W. Brown, Prop., Los
Angeles, Cal. — "I can recommend the Cyphers to any one needing
an incubator because it will bring out strong, well-developed chickens.
Have used three of your 240-egg size for six years and they have
brought out chicks for me that have won the majority of first prizes
on Black Minorcas in Southern California's largest shows." — July
26, 1910.

Chas. V. Keeler, Winamac, Ind., Poultry Judge and
Specialty Breeder of White Wyandottes. — "I tried about a
dozen widely-advertised makes of incubators and could not hatch
chickens satisfactorily with any of them. Invariably the chicks lacked
vitality. But the chicks hatched in the Cyphers are really stronger
than those hatched under hens and develop into larger and finer prize-
winning specimens. They have included my $500 cock. Chief
Winamac, and Chief Winamac II, which I value at $1,000."— Octo-
ber 7, 1909.

Bertha M. Story, Proprietor Rose Mar Poultry Yards,
Oregon City, Ore., breeders of several popular varieties. —
"The Cyphers Incubator is the only one I have used for five years. I
was the exhibitor at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition who won
on every entry, with 137 entries. Every one of these birds was of
my own breeding and every one was hatched in a Cyphers Incubator. I
rarely have less than a 90 per cent, hatch of good, strong chicks.
There are plenty of machines that will hatch eggs — but to get good,
strong, healthy, hungry chicks that will begin to grow before the down
is dry on them, that is another story — unless one uses the Cyphers."
—November 22, 1911.

Please bear in mind that a merely "built to sell"
incubator is a losing proposition right from the start.
First to last it will never give you the right kind, or
the right number of chicks. And it is no respector
of eggs — fertile or infertile, fancy sittings or eggs bought
at a store are all alike to the "bargain machine."
The cheap, flimsily-built, wrongly-constructed incu-
bator starts working against your interests as soon
as it starts doing anything at all.

GOOD EGGS— BIG HATCHES

The number of chicks you are able to hatch, trial
after trial, from any given number of eggs, counts
and counts big, as a matter of course. The kind of
chicks — the quality being right, then numbers
hatched is the question of next greatest importance.

Ip^ii^R?^.

SINGLE HATCH FROM A NO. 3 CYPHERS.
326 White Leghorn and Rhode Island Red Chicks hatched on
Avondale Poultry Farm, Hayden. Idaho. Said H. F. Rau. Man-
ager: "There are 326 chicks in the trays. This good hatch speaks
for itself, and is only one of the large number of similar hatches we
have had."

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Chicago Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.

340-342 North Clark Street. Sidney A. Smith, Manager.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

A COMPARISON OF HATCHES

Oftentimes a picture — or pictures — make plain a
fact or condition where printed words fail to do so.
We present below two reproductions of photographs,
one showing a hatch of 63 chicks from 120 fertile eggs,
the other a hatch of 104 chicks from 120 fertile eggs.

There is nothing remarkable about a hatch of
104 chicks from 120 fertile eggs — not if a Cyphers
Incubator is used. For proof of that statement, turn
to the back pages of this catalogue and read the
sample reports given. That, however, is not the
point. The idea — the bed-rock fact which we wish
to convey is this — and we make the statement on
the business reputation of our company: —

The first picture — Fig. 1 — represents about the
average number of chicks it is possible to hatch, the
season through, with low-priced, cheaply-built incu-
bators of whatever make, whereas Fig. 2 fairly repre-
sents the average hatch that any careful operator can
obtain season after season, for a period of ten to fifteen
years, by the use of Cyphers Incubators.

This is a clear statement of the situation — and
we ask you, reader, to figure out for yourself what it
means to you.

Multiply 63 chickens by ten and we have 630; by
twenty and we have 1,260; by fifty and we have 3,050.

Multiply 104 chickens by ten and we have 1,040; by
twenty and we have 2,080; by fifty and we have 5,200.

Next deduct 3,050 chickens from 5,200 and we
have left 2,150 chickens, which represents the differ-
ence in hatching ability of a strictly first-class incu-
bator and the average low-priced incubator.

On the fairness of this statement — on the correct-
ness of this comparison, you can rely just as sure as
one day follows another.

We know whereof we speak — and in your best
interests you should know also.

LOSS IS DOUBLE— AND SEVERE

The person who is planning to hatch one thousand
chicks in a season will want to deduct 630 chickens
from 1,040; the person who would like to hatch two
thousand chicks in a single season should deduct 1,260
from 2,080, and the person who plans to hatch five
thousand or more chickens in one season should deduct

3,050 chicks from 5,200 — in order to get the correct
difference as a basis for figuring the double loss.

This "double loss" consists, first, in the waste of val-
uable fertile eggs which, on account of imperfect incuba-
tion, do not hatch — that fail to produce chicks; second,
in the largely reduced number of chicks the poultry
raiser has to work with — that he can raise to market
age, no matter what kind of a market is in sight.

The loss of fertile eggs and of time, labor and oil
is bad enough. This loss alone, on one incubator in
a single season will amount to more than enough to
pay the difference between a low-priced, 63-chick-hatch
"bargain" incubator and a first-class, 104-chick-hatch
standard machine. Thousands of poultry raisers
have found this to be the case! Many of our best
pleased customers are men and women who first tried
a cheap make, then decided to buy a real incubator.

But it is in the shortage of chicks that the most
severe loss occurs. It is of course impossible to raise
and sell at a profit the chicks that did not hatch out —
the thirty to fifty eggs in every hundred fertile ones
that failed to hatch. Here the success of the sea-
son's work — of your entire poultry venture is at stake.

Poor hatches mean small profits — or none at
all. It is not the first fifty chicks you hatch out of
each one hundred fertile eggs that will give you your
profits — it is the number of good, healthy, vigorous
chicks above fifty that must be relied on to make your
poultry work a success.

We have referred to the loss during one season
only. Any well-made, high-grade, incubator should
last and do excellent work for at least ten years. In
this event we need to multiply the cheap incubator
losses by ten — yes, by more than ten, because the
flimsily-built machine will go entirely out of service
within one to three years.

As manufacturers of high-class goods — of incuba-
tors, brooders and general poultry supplies, every one of
which is guaranteed to do satisfactory work, we believe
we are justified — that it is part of our duty to warn
our readers not to risk the success of their poultry
ventures, small or large, upon the use of cheap incu-
bators or worthless, death-trap brooders. And we regret
to say that such articles are on sale — plenty of them.

AN AVERAGE "FAIR" HATCH.
Fig. 1.— Sixty-three Chicks from 120 fertile eggs. This would
be called a good average hatch from a cheaply-built incubator.

WHAT WE CALL A GOOD HATCH.
Fig. 2. — One hundred and four Chicks from 120 fertile eggs.
It is from the number of Chicks between 63 and 104 that the
profits are to be made..

Kansas City Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.
317-319 Southwest Boulevard. G. H. Black, Manager.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

THEY ARE "CHICKEN FACTORIES"

It is indeed remarkable what good hatching a
first-class incubator will do. Season after season users
of Cyphers Incubators get 300 to 380 chicks in single
trials from our No. 3, 390-egg size; get hatches of 200
to 235 chicks from our No. 2, 240-egg machine, and
get 100 to 140 chick hatches from the No. 1, 144-egg
Standard Cyphers. Following are a few samples
selected at random from the hundreds of recent reports
we have on file: —

Geo. A. Libhart, in Charge of Poultry Dept., Miniboya
Farm, Drewrys Bluff, Va. — "I take pleasure in reporting the
great success I have had in the operation for the twelfth year of
Cyphers Incubators, as poultryman in charge. At this farm I
have averaged better than 85 per cent, of all the fertile eggs. On
seven occasions I hatched 96-97-97-96-94-99-99 per cent, of the

fertile eggs. In repeated tests with machines the Cyphers

not only out-hatched them but every chick hatched was a
strong, want-to-live one. We hatched over 2.800 chicks in twenty-
one days with your machines. I can only repeat what others say,
that "Cyphers Company leads, others foUow." — June 10, 1911.

Mrs. C. A. Peabody, Reedsburg, Wis.— "I took 400 eggs
in my No. 3 Cyphers Incubator to the Reedsburg Fair. 1 live six
miles from town and took the machine on a lumber wagon the first
day of the fair, August 9th, and out ot the 400 eggs I got 393 chicks,
all very smart — not a cripple in the lot." — September 5, 1910.

Frederick H. Bates, Maplehurst Poultry Farm, South
Hanover, Mass. — "I have used Cyphers Incubators for the past
ten years and have found them to be perfectly satisfactory in
every respect. Last seasoil with three of your 400-egg machines
1 hatched and sold 4,400 day-old chicks, and hatched out over a
thousand for myself. Your incubators are certainly the maximum
of efficiency and the minimum of trouble." — November 25, 1911.

W. B. Edwards, Garnett, S. C— "I took off my second
hatch of chickens this morning. Out of 230 tested eggs I got 230
strong chicks — Plymouth Rocks. My first hatch came off with 174
nice lively chickens from 180 fertile eggs." — April IS, 1910.

Wittenwald Park Poultry Farm, Freeport, 111.— "We
now use nothing but Cyphers Incubators and have found them
very satisfactory. In fact, we threw out eight incubators of other
makes, having found the Cyphers the most satisfactory in opera-
ting, and in producing a large, strong and healthy chick. In the
last hatch in three incubators the result was as follows: 390-egg
machine, 326 fertile eggs, hatched 318; 240-egg machine, 211
fertile eggs, hatched 202; 240-egg machine, 216 fertile eggs, hatched
204 chicks."— November 15, 1911.

1,586 FERTILE EGGS— 1,454 CHICKS

Rockford, 111., June 25, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

No doubt you think I'm lost — I am here and so are the
chickens! I am glad to report my first Jive hatches: —

First hatch 346 Chicks from 350 Fertile Eggs

Third " 288 " " 330

Fourth " 260 " " 287

Fifth •' 300 " " 325 ■•

Total, 1,454 " " 1,586 " *:

Remember, I am a beginner, and that's going some I Never
used an incubator before — you don't need to. if it's a Cyphers. Ten
minutes a day is all I spent with my two No. 3 machines. I have
no time to talk to any one who says "it beats the Cyphers."

THEO. R. BROWN, 233 Hinckley Ave.
(NOTE — Herewith is shown one of Mr. Brown's hatches, con-
sisting of Barred Plymouth Rock cliicks.)

FOUR BIG HATCHES— WEATHER HOT

Livermore, Cal., Sept. 4, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Following are four consecutive hatches made by us in one of your
No. 3. Incubators — 400 eggs placed in machine each time at the
start: — First hatch gave us 325 chicks; second hatch, 320 chicks;
third hatch, 332 chicks; fourth hatch, 345 chicks.

Several days during last two hatches the temperature in shade
outside of incubator house reached 108 degrees. Machine regulated
perfectly. Have had experience with five other makes and do not
believe any of them could have stood this test. No better looking
birds to be found anywhere. J. H. BROWN.

"BEST ON THE MARKET"

Black Hall, Conn.. November 5, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y .—

I have used several makes of incubators and brooders duiing
the past twelve years, but take great pleasure in stating that after
several years' experience with the Standard Cyphers there is no doubt
in my mind but that your incubators and brooders are the best on the
market. Your self-regulating, self-ventilating and non-moisture
incubator is the easiest to operate and brings out more and stronger
chicks and ducklings than any other machine I ever used. ■ If the
eggs are fertile it is no trouble to hatch out a good percentage of
the chicks in a Standard Cyphers, and when entrusted to your
brooders a larger number of the chicks can be brought to maturity
than by any other method or system of brooding.

Following is a report of a few of my recent hatches: —

No. Eggs Set Fertile Eggs Chicks Hatched
No. 2 Incubator 244 Hen 217 203

No. 3 Incubator 390 Hen 347 342

No. 3 Incubator 390 Hen 333 321

No. 3 Incubator 200 Duck 153 142

From the last hatch of ducks, which were strong, healthy
fellows, I raised every one. All the chicks hatched were strong
and healthy. Yours truly,

BLACK HALL POULTRY FARM,

Louis T. Cooper, Manager.

Note, please, that every report published in this
catalogue, front to back, is dated and the name and
full address of the writer is given in each case. Every
report we publish is absolutely genuine and readers
of this catalogue are at full liberty to write any person
whose name appears in these pages.

UNIFORMLY GOOD HATCHES

At this point if you are planning to buy an incu-
bator with which to make money, let us caution you
not to be misled by reports of single hatches, nor
by the fairly good work a cheap incubator may do for
one season. It takes more than one swallow to make
a summer — also more than one or two good hatches to
"prove up" a trustworthy, dependable incubator.

When all the conditions are favorable — in May
or June, for example — a cracker-box with a foot-warm-
ing pan in it can be "coaxed" to hatch hen eggs. And
as for brooding the chicks, an inverted tomato can and
a tallow dip placed under a soap box, will suffice — in
sunny June-time!

It is little wonder, therefore, that all sorts of crude,
cheaply-built, catch-penny devices have been placed
on the market, one after another, by makers and
dealers who know little and care less about the
essentials of success in raising poultry for profit.

A BEGINNER'S FIRST HATCH.

Picture (from photograph) shows hatch of 346 Chicks from 350

eggs in No. 3 Cyphers made by Theo. R. Brown. Rockford, 111.

Said Mr. Brown, June 25, 1910: "I am sending picture of my first

hatch— 346 big, lively 'peeps' from 350 eggs. Not bad for a

Pacific Coast Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.
1569-1571 Broadwajr, Oakland, Cal. W. E. Draper,

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STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

RECORD OF TWELVE HATCHES

Jacksonville, Fla., November 7, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.~

operated two No. 2 Cyphers Incubators five months con-

But if it is your earnest wish to make out of poul-
try raising all there is in it, what jou require in an
incutator or a brooder is not a fair-weather machine,
nor a toy, but a correctly-designed, substantiall>'-built,
well-insulated standard article, automatic in action,
that can be relied on to do uniformly good work
throughout the hatching and brooding season no
matter what the weather conditions may be.

Large, single hatches show what an incubator can
do, but it takes far more than "an occasional" good
hatch to prove that an incubator is dependable —
that it is the "hatching machine" you should adopt as
the foundation of your persona? success in any branch
of the poultry business.

Following are sample reports from customers
of ours who tell of the uniformly big hatches
obtained by them during periods ranging from three
months to twelve: —

"WHICH IS PRETTY GOOD FOR A BEGINNER"

Prospect, Ohio, November 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.~

Just a few words to let you know we have been treated fine by
your company and can praise your products very highly, especially
your Incubators and Poultry Foods. Following is report of my
five hatches with one of your No. 3 machines last season: —
March 26, Set 350 eggs. Hatched 310 chicks
April 17,
May 10,

334 "

298

The above shows an average of 88 per cent., which is pretty
good for a beginner. Yours respectfully,

H. E. CAST.
Breeder of S. C. White Leghorns, Wycoff Strain.

HATCHES OF 330 TO 371 CHICKS

Petaluma, Cal., June 23, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Am pleased to advise you that we are having fine success with
our fourteen Cyphers Incubators, No. 3 size. Have been success-
ful with other makes; the results, however, have not been nearly so
satisfactory as with the Cyphers, from which we averaged to hatch
more than 75 per cent, of the whole number of eggs set, obtaining
from 330 to 371 good, strong, vigorous chicks every hatch from your
No. 3 machines. Our first hatch this season came off January 28th
and we have turned out more than 20,000 fine, healthy chicks to
date — Single Comb Brown Leghorn stock.

Yours truly, C. FLEWWELLING.

7,000 CHICKS FROM ONE MACHINE

Holbrook, Mass. In this case more than 7,000 chicks were hatched
in one No. 3 Cyphers Incubator within a period of twenty months.
Most of the eggs used were from Barred Plymouth Rocks, Light
Brahmas and White Plymouth Rocks, though some were mixed
fowls such as are still found on many farms. Said Mr. Polkinghorn;
"I put eggs in my machine two or three times after being under
hens twenty days, so that I probably hatched all of 7.000 or more
chicks in the one machine, but the totals given are for eggs taken
care of by the machine the full time."

Following are the chicks obtained by Mr. Polkinghorn, one
hatch after another: —

"March 6, 284; March 29, 254; April 22, 301; May 15, 234;
(loaned machine to Mayflower Lodge Poultry Farm, June to August

29, where 1,124 chicks were hatched); September 23, 221; October
17, 251; November 12. 186; January 11, 280; February 3, 296;
February 25, 257; March 19, 293; April 12, 271; May 4, 289; (loaned
machine the rest of the summer to B. H. Poultry Farm, which
hatched from machine in five hatches, 1,318 chicks); September

30, 277; October 23. 245; November 16, 229.

"I think this record is unapproached by an incubator of any
other manufacture in the country. This machine and several others
of your make which I own have regularly done better work than hens
sitting on eggs taken from the same pens at the same time." — Wm. H.
Polkinghorn.

tinuously this past season with very gratifying results. During
that time I hatched 2,290 sturdy Single Comb Rhode Island Red
chicks which I supplied to my day-old chick customers. The
machines came up to my expectations in every respect. The
automatic regulators worked perfectly, and I soon learned to have
the utmost confidence in them. Not one time did they get out of

account of the hatches from the two

is as follows:—

'

■

Date of Hatch

Eggs Set

Tested

Fertile

Chicks

Out

Eggs

Hatched

February 2. 1911

240

30

210

186

February IS, "

239

32

207

190

February 22, "

240

25

215

172

March 11,

240

30

210

185

March 23. "

232

30

202

187

April 5,

240

28

212

191

April 17,

239

20

219

200

April 30,

240

16

224

204

May 12.

240

17

223

205

May 25,

240

20

220

193

&.. "

232

15

217

192

240

20

220

185

Total ....

2,862

283

2,579

2.290

Yours very truly.

EUGENE W.

HARRIS

A SEASON'S GOOD WORK

Lebanon, Pa., November 8, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Please find below report of chicks I hatched

vhich speaks for itself regardii

; the!

Cyphers Incubator,
of the machine: —

1911 No. Eggs Set Fertile Eggs Chicks
April 3 240 179 179

April 26 223 196 196

May 21 208 136 136

June 12 244 137 137

July 3 244 186 186

August 3 240 122 102

I set the last hatch so it would hatch out at the Lebanon
County Fair on August 24th, something that had never before been
seen at a Lebanon County Fair in its fifteen years of existence.
There had been incubators on exhibit but none with chicks hatch-
ing out. The Cyphers Incubator is self-regulating, requires little
attention, and the chicks hatch out strong. My experience with the
highly satis-
set a chance to hold ray chicks long.
I thousand more chicks.

ALBERT H. REIDEL.

LITERALLY
aph of Wm. H. Polkinghorn, Holbrook, Mass., who

' We have probably hatched all of 7,000 or more chicks

in this one machine since March 6th, a year and a half ago." See
details of hatches on this page.

f- - iB

European Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company.
121-123 Finabury Pavement, London, England. John B. Ludden, Manager.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

INCUBATORS VS. USE OF HENS

Let us compare the use of a first-class incubator
with the work of hens for hatching purposes. Of
course on big poultrj' plants — either chicken or duck
ranches — hen hatching is out of the question, because
enough broody hens to do the work could not be
secured at the right season of the year. But how about
the use of incubators by farmers, villagers, etc.?

We state on a thorough knowledge of the subject
that if the best results — if the highest prices and
largest profits are to be secured by the use of one, two,
three or half a dozen incubators owned and operated
by the farmer, his wife, son or daughter, or by any one
else who is conducting a small or moderate-sized poul-
try business, the hen should be used only for the pro-
duction of fertile eggs — in which work she has a
monopoly and is indispensable.

As is well known, the usual number of eggs entrusted
to a broody hen is thirteen. At this rate it will require
exactly thirty hens to take care of the number of eggs
that one No. 3 Cyphers Incubator holds — 390. In the
first place, to get hold of thirty broody hens is practi-
cally impossible in December, January or February,
except in warm climates, and to obtain this number
would be a difficult matter even in March and April —
for the average poultry raiser.

Then there is the labor, losses and inconven-
ience of caring for thirty "sitters" — in feeding and
watering them, in letting them off the nests and see-
ing to it that they go back on the right nests, in
keeping them from fighting and from breaking one
another's eggs, in dusting them for lice, in clean-
ing the soiled eggs and removing the broken ones, in
replacing sick hens and in attending to a dozen other
annoying things that are certain to arise — not to
mention the out-of-the-way place or places where this
work is to be performed.

But with a first-class incubator all this work and
worry is not merely "reduced to a minimum" —
it does not exist. Positively, ten minutes in the
morning and five minutes at night will give a Cyphers
Incubator (any size. No. 0, No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3) all
the care and attention it requires — ten minutes in
the morning for filling the lamp, trimming the wick
and turning the eggs and five minutes at night to visit
the machine, air or turn the eggs and satisfy yourself
that everything is in good running order.

A well-ventilated house cellar or ordinary basement
is still the best place in which to operate one, two, or
half a dozen incubators, provided the machines are
fire-proofed and insurable. The next best place usually
available is a living room — an unoccupied room pre-
ferred, though many Cyphers Incubators are run with
complete success in rooms used daily by the owners.
Attending to an incubator — or two or three incubators
— right in the house, is a very different matter than
having to face all kinds of weather in looking after thirty
or more sitting hens in outbuildings located some

distance from the dwelling. This difference applies
with special force if women do the work.

That a Cyphers Incubator will do better hatching
season in and season out, than can be done with
hens and that the use of Cyphers Incubators is far
more satisfactory than the hen-method, has been
testified to by thousands of our customers. Today
many of these people would retire from the poultry
business or would stop raising chickens in profitable
numbers if they had to give up their Cyphers Incu-
bators and Brooders and go back to hatching and rear-
ing with hens. Read what a few of our customers
have said recently on this phase of the subject: —

Albert W. Gay, Redlands, Cal. — "The Cyphers Incubator
and Brooder have given satisfaction. The chicks were healthy
and grew up in better shape than those we hatched and brooded with
hens. I have seen a good many incubators operated but none
can compare with the Cyphers. I wouldn't take five times what
I paid for my Cyphers if I couldn't get another like it." — August
3, 1911.

H. N. Holway, Greenwood, Mass. — "I have a small 70-egg
Cyphers Incubator, and am very much pleased with it. The chicks
hatch out strong and healthy and they are growing like weeds.
/ got disgitsted with hen hatching, as I had bad luck with them either
sickening or dying on the nest breaking eggs or treading on aad
killing the chicks. Cyphers Incubator for me always." — July 14,
1911.

Jacob Staub, Bowmanville, N. Y. — "I have been using
your No. 1 Incubators since March and find that / can hatch more
chicks with Cyphers Incubators than I can with hens, and the machines
are not as much trouble as the hens. With their use I never have
any broken eggs. As for health and vigor. I cannot see any dif-
ference between the hen hatched and incubator hatched chicks.
I am glad to recommend the Cyphers to anyone." — July 20, 1911.

Jas. C Harriss, Sanford, Fla. — "I am more than pleased
with my Cyphers Insurable Incubator. It is so simple to operate
that a child can run it. /( is as far ahead of the old way of raising
chickens with hens as daylight is better than darkness. With the
Cyphers you can sleep at night, knowing that it will do its work and
do it right." — July 27, 1910.

Joseph Hartmen, Hamilton, N. Y. — "Your incubators
are perfection. We received out of 144 eggs between 110 and 120
chicks. They are all strong and healthy. Operating an incubator
is less work than hatching with broody kens. If you set many hens
they begin to fight and break the eggs, some eat them afterwards,
and then when the eggs do hatch the hens step on the chicks and
crush many of them. But with your machines this trouble is
eliminated; therefore, I am grateful to you for your good incuba-
tors. I intend to purchase another soon." — July 29, 1911.

Elain L. Davis, South Hatfield, Pa.— "I find that Cyphers
Incubators will hatch every fertile egg, that the chicks are stronger
than those hatched under the hen, and that chicks hatched arti-
ficially are free from vermin. Your incubators are well made
and so simple in operation that any person of ordinary intelli-
gence ought to be able to handle them." — November 2, 1911.

BUILT TO LAST— DURABLE

Cyphers Incubators are built to hatch and to
last. With proper care — the same care you would
give a valuable piece of household furniture — a standard
Cyphers will last an ordinary life-time. They are guar-
anteed by us to last ten years without repairs. We
make this guarantee because they have lasted much
longer than this — and are still doing first-class work.

Incubators that we made and sold ten, twelve and
fifteen years ago are still in use, are still valued
highly — are regarded today by the fortunate owners
as being "good enough for anybody." It is a fact that
many owners of Cyphers Incubators would refuse to
exchange them for brand new machines of any other
make on the market. We know this to be true.
In numerous cases poultrymen who have bought

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STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

second-hand Cyphers Incubators have written us
that they would rather own and use these second-hand
machines than new ones of other makes, judging by
a comparison of the results obtained by them and by
neighbors who were using the other kinds.
Note the following sample reports: —

Mrs. Olive Meloy, R. F. D., Carmargo, III.— "I have been
using Cyphers Incubators and Brooders for eleven years, and
think they are the only kind. I just hatched 92 chicks out of a
■ 120 size incubator bought eleven years ago this spring." — April 15,
1911.

Ellen W. Gray, Windsor, Vt.— "Cyphers Incubators and
Brooders have been a great help to me. I raise between seven
and eight hundred chickens every summer. It was eight years
ago that I bought of you a 120-egg incubator. Have used it every
season. February to May, and have never had to buy a single
extra for it or have it repaired in any particular. It is just as it
left your shop and it hatches today just as well as it did eight
years ago. I have never had a poor hatch, invariably hatching
more and stronger chicks from the same number of eggs than I
have been able to obtain from hens. Have repeatedly hatched
more than one hundred chicks from this machine at one hatching.
Anyone who buys a Cyphers Incubator cannot be disappointed.
I would not use any other make if it were given to me. When I
first got my Cyphers I didn't know anything about running an
incubator — ^in fact I had never seen one." — January 13, 1911.

G. H. Pond, Station F, Route 4, Minneapolis, Minn.—
"I have been using Cyphers Incubators and Brooders over eleven
years. I bought a No. 3 Cyphers Incubator of your agent in
Minneapolis in March. 1904, and have had twenty-six hatches
with it,, hatching out 6,228 chicks. And to show that the incuba-
tor is as good as ever, this season I had three hatches with it and
got 260, 265 and 264 chicks from the three hatches. Naturally.
I am pleased with the work this machine has done." — July 10,
1911.

Wm. H. Truslow, Stroudsburg, Pa. — "I have been using
different goods of your manufacture for a great many years and
my dealings with your firm have been very satisfactory. I still
have in constant use one of the first incubators ever built by the
Cyphers Incubator Company way back fifteen years ago. I would
like to see the bunch of ducks hatched in that one machine during
all these years." — January 16, 1911.

John R. Garbee & Sons, Billings, Mo. — "Today we got
another fine hatch of chickens from our No. 2 Cyphers Incubator
— a 98 per cent, hatch, which is good enough for anybody. This
machine has been run every season since 1896 — sixteen years — with
no trouble at all. The older it gets the better the hatches. The
regulator does its work as well or better than the first season. We
have quit using all other makes and use your make only now, as
we don't have to sit up with it at night as we did with the others
we used. We raise about one thousand fowls each year. Cyphers
Incubators do the hatching, the chicks get their start with Cyphers
Chick Food, and they win in the shows." — February 28, 1911.

Today Cyphers Incubators are better made than
ever before. The materials are higher-priced, the
workmanship is better, the finish more attractive and
lasting — this we guarantee. Therefore, when you invest
in a Cyphers you buy an incubator that will last many
years — fifteen to twenty, at a low estimate. You also
buy an incubator that you can sell at any time if you
wish to do so — and can get a good price for it, whereas
it is generally known among poultrymen that low-
priced, cheaply-built incubators "go all to pieces"
within one, two or three years and are then thrown
upon the scrap heap or broken up into kindling wood.

"BUSINESS INCUBATOR OF THE AGE"

That title has been fairly won by the Cyphers —
in all parts of the world. Cyphers Incubators are
used today on a greater number of practical poultry
plants, are used by a larger number of foremost Amer-
ican poultry breeders, are used and endorsed by more

Agricultural Colleges of the United States and other
English-speaking countries than any other make of
incubator in existence.

These American "hatching machines" — as they
are called in foreign lands — have proved their superior
merit in every corner of the earth — England, Scot-
land, Wales, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria-
Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Egypt, South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, South
America, Central America, Mexico, Hawaii, etc., etc.

The Cyphers has won its way in all parts of the
world where domestic fowls are kept because it is
different and better in construction, because of its
patented principles — because it gives best results.
Please refer to the foreign testimonial section of this
catalogue. The sample reports there presented explain
— they give the reason, the only honest reason possible
why we call our machine "The Standard Hatcher of
the World." The proof is there. No other incubator
ever invented can make such a showing. We now
do a larger foreign business alone than nine out of ten
of the incubator manufacturers of Christendom do all
told. And we are proud of it! So should you be — •
if you live in America.

FIRST— INSTEAD OF LAST

If you are going to use an incubator at all, buy a
good one — the best to be had. If you decide that
you would like to own a Cyphers, we urge you to buy
it first — not after you have "tried" some cheap machine
and met with discouraging losses. When you buy one
cheap incubator, discard that and buy another that is
no better, you are overpaying the Cyphers price,
without getting Cyphers results and Cyphers satis-
faction.

Thousands have made that mistake — and have
told us so. Beginners in the use of an incubator, or

325 BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKS.
Picture — made from photograph — shows 325 Barred Plymouth
Rock Chicks hatched in a No. 3 Cyphers Incubator by D. W.
Tobey, manager for G. M. D. Legg, Sterling, 111. Note, on page
49, photograph of equally satisfactory hatch of duck eggs.

Interior Views of Cyphers Company Factory, Buffalo, N. Y.
Incubator and Brooder Wood-working Departments.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

in the poultry business, sometimes take hold in a half-
hearted way — as though they expected failure. Too
often they decide to try a cheap machine to find out
if it will work — to learn whether or not an incubator
will really hatch chickens. We cannot emphasize too
strongly the poor economy of adopting that course —
if you are in earnest, if you mean business.

Far too many persons already in the ranks of
poultry raisers are trying hard to get ahead by the
use of poor equipment. To men and women in
that position we can only say: Do not continue to
worry along, fighting against heavy odds. If you
own a type of incubator that is not turning out plenty
of chicks — the kind "with the kick in them," the kind
that grow rapidly right from the hour they are hatched
— buy a Cyphers, any size you like, and test it one
season alongside of the other kind. For you to do
this will mean a great deal more to you than it can
possibly mean to us.

SUCCESS ON FIRST TRIALS

The Cyphers is the logical incubator for the poul-
tryman who has reached success. It also is the logical
incubator for the man or woman or boy or girl who is
beginning in the work — and who plans to get out of
poultry keeping the most there is in it.

Its perfected construction, after fifteen years in
practical use in all countries, in all latitudes, under
widely-varying conditions — its patented features,
its freedom from the "bothers," disappointments and
losses that are common to the "cheap incubator,"
makes it the best machine for the beginner to own,
first, last and all the time.

Amateurs, so-called, do successful work with the
Cyphers right from the start. Here are a few
sample first hatches. They tell the story: —

C. Kurze, Monee, 111. — "I have one No. 3 Cyphers Incuba-
tor and six Style B Brooders that have given me satisfaction in
every way. Although / did not have any previous experience in
raising chickens, from my first hatch on April 15th I got 353
healthy, strong chicles from 360 fertile eggs. These birds were
raised in your Style B Brooder and fed on Cyphers Foods, and
they now average in weight ^% pounds each, and are too pretty
to part with."— August 7, 1911.

Wm. H. Wood, Freeport, N. Y. — '1 am pleased to inform
you that I have successfully hatched from your No. 1 and No. 2
Cyphers Incubators 460 chicks from May 5th until July 1st, out
of 618 eggs. This is my first experience with incubators of any kind.
Following out to the letter the instructions in book sent with machine
proves to me that anyone can operate your incubators, even
without previous experience- We are enlarging our room and
intend ordering one or two of your No. 3 size machines for the
coming season." — August 9, 1911.

W. O. Stanton, Clintonville, Wis. — "I purchased one of
your No. 2 Cyphers Incubators last spring and the first hatch I
made with it I got 184 fine, strong, healthy chicks from 201 Black
Minorca eggs. I fed the chicks on Cyphers Chick Food, and they
weighed 3 pounds per pair at eight weeks old. Your Company
has given me the very best of treatment." — July 12, 1911.

H.R. Grant, Bricksport, Maine.— "Thought I would let you
know the results I have had with one of your No. 2, 1910-style incu-
bators. First hatch was 171 chicks in open chamber over living
room; second hatch, 195 chicks, same place; third hatch, 186 chicks
in cellar. Was not this very good for an amateur?" — June 6, 1910.

P. Furco, Hartford, Conn.— "This was my first experience
with artificial incubation but I have had very good results from the
Cyphers Incubator purchased from you. I cannot speak too
highly of its merits. My average hatches were 92 per cent. I
want to say the machine cannot be beat."— July 24, 1911.

WOMEN DO WELL WITH THE CYPHERS

There is nothing connected with running a Cyphers
Incubator that a woman cannot do just as well as
a man. Probably one-third of the total number of
machines sold by us are operated by women. The
work is light, the directions few in number, the machine
is practically automatic, and women, the country
over, do fully as good work with it as men. We have
the proof in abundance. Sample letters are printed
on pages 236-239. Here are a few brief extracts: —

Mrs. Victor Varley, 3038 N. Christiana Ave., Chicago,
111.— "I purchased two Cyphers Incubators last March, one 244-
egg capacity and one 70-egg capacity, also a Style A Outdoor
Brooder. I had fine hatches from the incubators. Out of 234
fertile eggs I hatched 231 chicks and from the smaller incubator I
got 63 chicks out of 65 fertile eggs. They were all brooded in your
Style A Brooder, which I think far excels the old mother hen, as
it is the only sure way of being free from lice and you have the
chicks under your full control all the time, which is very essential
with growing chicks. I have also hatched ducks and goslings
with equal success." — July 24, 1911.

Mrs. J. M. Claris, R. R. No. 7, Junction City, Kas. —
"I have used Cyphers Incubators, Brooders and Poultry Foods
since the spring of 1905, and can recommend them most highly.
In fact, / think I would not take a hundred dollars for my incubator
if I thought I could not duplicate it. I am a very busy housewife
and a little care night and morning is all that is needed. The
machine does the rest. I have taken off' 603 chicks in three hatches
from a 244-egg machine. My per cent, of loss in raising the chicks
has been very small." — June 1, 1911.

Kuhlman Sisters, Winona, Minn., breeders of Barred
Plymouth Rocks. — "We have four incubators, one a 120-egg
Cyphers, which is worth more to us than the other three put together.
Besides hatching nearly every chick, we find that the chicks hatched
in the Cyphers are much stronger. We hatch nearly every fertile egg
entrusted to your machine." — June 2, 1910.

Charlotte Conrad, Glenwood, Fla. — "Down here in Florida
we run our incubators all the year. Last year I ran my Cyphers
from August until June and never had a poor hatch. Biggest
hatch was 98 chicks from 102 fertile eggs. I first had a 120-egg
Cyphers but now have a 240-egg size. In regard to the self-
regulating, self-ventilating and non-moisture features would say
I find them O. K. I look at my thermometer about once a day,
but that is from habit more than anything else. / never have to
do anything to the machine except to turn eggs and fill the lamp; the
rest takes care of itself. I think the Cyphers^Incubators and
Brooders are the best made." — November 4, 1911.

South Raub, Ind., who says, under date August 16, 1910: " Enclosed
find picture of my last hatch in the No. 1 Cyphers. Obtained 93 fine,
healthy chicks from 98 fertile eggs. I like the Cyphers best of all.
It is the cleanest and easiest to operate incubator I have ever tried.'!

Interior Views of Cypliers Company Factory, Buffalo, N.

Metal-working and Electrical Departments.

STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS— THE WORK THEY DO

NOTHING "FANCY" ABOUT THEM

Cyphers Incubators are rightly priced — and the
prices at which they are sold represent the limit of
incubator value. There is nothing fancy, nothing
useless about them. Not a penny is wasted in their
construction. On the other hand, every cent is put
into them that is needed to produce an automatic,
dependable incubator — a hatching machine that will
give best results uniformly and last a Ufe-time. They
are built to hatch, and hatch satisfactorily, anywhere
that an incubator can be used. They will hatch chickens
in rooms where water freezes, and we have known them
to hatch out of doors, on porqhes, in sheds, etc., when
the outside temperature was below the freezing point.

We do not know of a place on the Cyphers Incu-
bator of today where we could safely cut down the
cost of manufacture without injuring its hatching
qualities — its practical value. It is the incubator we
would build for our own use, down to the last item
of expense — and we believe it to be the best incubator
for you. Into it we are putting fifteen years of ex-
perience— our own experience and that of thousands of
customers who live in all parts of the world.

Cyphers Incubator Company operates the lar-
gest and best equipped incubator, brooder and
poultry supply factory in the world — far the largest.
We buy lumber by the cargo — other materials in one,
three, five and ten-car lots. We employ every legiti-
mate method to keep down the cost of production so
that we can sell our goods at low prices, quality con-
sidered. Through these efforts, aided by the much
larger output, we are able to sell Cyphers Incubators
at as low prices now as we did ten years ago, although
valuable improvements have been added and the cost
of lumber and other materials has nearly doubled.

This is our sixteenth annual catalogue — which
means that ours is not a new company — that we are
not offering new and untried goods to the public. We
are done with experimenting. The many "experi-
ence letters" published in this catalogue from pleased
customers tell why — experiences that reach back
half-a-dozen to a dozen years. The average poultry
raiser will do well to let the manufacturers of new
and untried devices do their own experimenting.
Immediate personal success is what you want! To
obtain this we advise you to "pin your faith" to
goods that you know will do the work.

We could manufacture "bargain" incubators and
"toy" brooding devices — if we were willing to do so,
but we are not. Our position is that the continued
success of Cyphers Incubator Company depends
mainly on the success of our customers. The Cyphers
Company is not a "one-order" concern. We do not
sell incubators and brooders only, but manufacture
practically every standard article that is needed by
up-to-date poultry raisers of all classes. It is satisfied
customers that we want — successful poultrymen and
poultry-women who will be glad to buy of us year
after year, including poultry foods, insecticides, etc.

LET US HELP YOU TO SUCCEED

We want you, reader, to become a Cyphers Com-
pany customer, and we hereby agree to do all that
rightly can be expected of us to help you win success
in your poultry work. As a valued customer of ours,
the services and best advice of the Cyphers Company
organization, from the president and general manager
down to every salesman and correspondent in our
employ, will be at your command.

It is on this basis that we have built up the
greatest incubator, brooder and poultry supply busi-
ness in the world. We have done it by giving poultry
people a square deal — by taking a personal interest
in their success ; by getting on the right footing with
them — that of earnest co-operation and practical help.
Our ambition is to supply all classes of poultry
raisers with the means of winning the greatest success.

Cyphers Incubator Company is today the leader
in its field. With its seven places of business — Buffalo,
Boston, New York City, Chicago, Kansas City, Oak-
land, London — it brings its goods close to you — comes
near to you with practical, experienced men — in charge
of its branch offices and warehouses — men well qualified
to advise you by correspondence or who can be called
on personally by our customers at any time.

We are proud of our leadership — because of what
it actually signifies. Mere bigness — in itself — does
not mean anything in deciding which incubator manu-
facturer it will be best for you to deal with. But. the
reasons bacic of that bigness do count a whole lot.

The respect and patronage of the greatest pro-
portion of successful, thinking poultrymen and poultry-
women everywhere, in all parts of this country and in
foreign lands, could only have been won and main-
tained by the superior merit of the Cyphers Company
goods and the superior service rendered by our organi-
zation. It is these goods and this service that we
offer you.

A "CYPHERS" OVERFLOW MEETING.
How a hatch of 331 White Wyandotte Chicks looks in a No. 3
Cyphers Incubator. The nursery drawers are a great
but quite often their capacity is taxed to the limit.

LARGEST INCUBATOR CELLAR IN EUROPE.
Interior view of part of incubator cellar of Ferme Douglas, at St. Aubin-sur-Scie, France, equipped with seventy-t
Cyphers Incubators — the largest cellar and largest hatching capacity in Europe.

CONSTRUCTION-MATERIALS-PRINCIPLES

How Cyphers Incubators are Made. The Materials Used. The
Principles Embodied. Details of the Manufacture of an Incu-
bator that is Built for Business and Guaranteed to do the Work

It means safety — lower insurance, and does not inter-
fere in the slightest with the hatching efficiency of our
machines.

DO NOT TAKE CHANCES! Cyphers Incuba-
tor Company spent thousands of dollars to earn the
right to use these labels — to win the full approval of
engineers who have no financial interest in our Com-
pany. The fire-proof features of the Cyphers for 1912
are a gift to our customers, no extra charge being
made for them.

THE Patented principles that have made the
genuine Cyphers Incubators deservedly
popular throughout the civilized world are
retained in our latest-pattern machines, as offered
to the public for the year 1912. In these machines
will be found also the several substantial improve-
ments, fully protected by letters patent, which render
the Standard Cyphers the most convenient and eco-
nomical to operate, also fire-proofed and insurable, each
and every incubator we manufacture being separately
inspected and labeled in our factory, under the
direction of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

For a full explanation of what it means to have our
entire Hne of Cyphers Incubators and Brooders offici-
ally approved, as to every detail of construction,
by representatives of the associated fire insurance com-
panies that write policies in the United States and
Canada, see pages SO, 51 and 52 of this catalogue. This
matter may be of vital importance to you.

Why should you use a dangerous, non-approved
incubator or brooder when you can just as well own
and operate — in your dwelling or elsewhere — a machine
that is built in strict conformity with the published
"Rules and Requirements" of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters and that has been inspected and approved
— each and every machine — by expert engineers?

You will do well to not only "look for the label" —
but should demand it on the incubator you buy.
We could not give you better advice than this.

The inspection here referred to — the substantial
brass labels, every one bearing a different number
stamped by the use of steel dies — costs us money, but
it is money spent in the best interests of our customers.

WELL AND DURABLY MADE

Cyphers Incubators are built "strictly for busi-
ness." From the moment the lumber is selected at
the Michigan mills, where we purchase it by the ship-
load, until the finished machine leaves the hands of the
varnisher, this idea is kept constantly in mind and is
closely observed through every succeeding operation by
one or another of our factory foremen — each man a
trained expert in his department.

Factory foremen now in our employ have been with
us ten to fourteen years. The result of their long
experience — of their close scrutiny of every detail, is
the production of an incubator that we are able to
guarantee to the fullest extent — an incubator that has
caused leading poultrj'men to say: "The Cyphers
Incubator today stands for a greater measure of
success in the poultry business."

WHITE PINE MAKES BEST CASES

Cyphers Incubators are made of white pine. The
additional cost of white pine is more than offset by
the enhanced value to the purchaser, and the much

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CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

lower freight rates on account of its lightness. Fur-
thermore, it is well known that white pine will with-
stand the effects of combined heat and moisture far
better than any of the other woods commonly used.
Birch, chestnut, cypress, basswood and southern or
hard pine, such as are used generally in the manu-
facture of incubators, can be bought in different local-
ities for $17 to $20 per thousand feet in carload lots,
while white pine costs from $10 to $20 more than that
per thousand.

The manner of packing the double walls and
top of the Standard Cyphers is the most efficacious
that can be devised. The material employed
possesses great non-conductive properties. As a
result of our superior method of packing and
construction, we are able to guarantee Cyphers
Incubators to run in an apartment, the temper-
ature of which is 20° to 30° colder' than one
in which cheap and inferior makes can be
brought to the required heat, and at all seasons.

SUPERIORITY OF HOT-AIR MACHINES

The Cyphers is a hot-air incubator, and therefore
does not have a tin, galvanized-iron or copper tank
to rust out, spring a-leak and water-soak the machine,
thereby injuring or ruining the woodwork and spoiling
the hatch. With a hot-water machine, should the tank
begin leaking after the eggs are put in, the hatch will
be seriously injured, often resulting in an entire loss of
the eggs or chicks. It is not practicable to manufacture
an incubator tank for a hot-water machine that will
last more than three to five years, while as a rule these
hot-water tanks give out in one or two years — some of
them during the first season they are used. The
Cyphers, equipped as it is with a separate heater, so
constructed that direct heat from lamp does not pass
into incubator at all, and employing the original,
genuine, patented "diffusive principle," positively
has none of the defects of a hot-water machine.

Following are a few sample reports on this point
from customers: —

F. A. Behine, 3512 Rich Terrace, Mariner Harbor, Staten
Island, N. Y. — "For a number of years I used hot-water incu-
bators. In September, 1910, I bought another one which was
highly recommended, of course, by the maker. I gave it a trial
but was not satisfied with it, so in the month of March of this year
I bought a No. 1 size Cyphers Incubator. / put these two machines
side by side in the same room, put eggs of the same breeding pen
in them, and when the twenty-one days were up I had 30 per cent,
more chicks in the Cyphers than in the other one. No more
hot-water machines for me. Hot-water machines take constant
care and looking after but as for the Cyphers I light the lamp
and let her go and the machine does the rest." — July 27, 1911.

A. F. Nisle, Jefferson Park, 111.— "I had a hot-water machine
at first. With it I had one mishap after another, including a total
loss of two hatches and got just one little weak chick out of the
third trial — so you can imagine my pleasure when I bought one of
your 144-egg machines, which practically took care of itself although
operated in just an ordinary hving room. On the 26th day of Feb-
ruary I set the machine with 144 eggs gathered from an ordinary
run of chickens. Tested the eggs down to 90 and hatched 76 chicks,
which I sold when they weighed a pound to a pound and a half at
31^ cents per pound. / set the machine twice more, bringing the
three hatches up to an average of 80 per cent." — August 9, 1910.

Lawrence Larsen, Wolsey, S. D. — "The Cyphers Incubator
and the Cyphers Brooder purchased of you last spring have given
us good satisfaction. I have used incubators for the last fourteen
years, both hot air and hot water, and of several different makes,
but would advise those that intend to buy incubators to profit by
my experience and buy the Cyphers Hot-Air Incubator at the start-
One of my neighbors has a cheap hot water machine that is claimed
to have double walls, but both are made of cardboard. The regulator
works all right if you give it 15 degrees to work in. whereas the
Cyphers will work on a traction of a degree. My neighbor would
get up two to four times a night to look after their incubator and
we took care of ours but two times a day and never touched the
regulator for nine weeks. I think that is pretty hard to beat."
—July 22, 1911.

THE CYPHERS PERFECTED HEATER

The Heater and Safety Lamp Enclosure on a
Cyphers Incubator costs more to make than it
costs all told to build some of the "bargain" incuba-
tors on sale. Please examine illustrations herewith
for proof of this statement.

The time-tried principles of the old-style
Cyphers heater have in no wise been changed.
They are the same today that they have been for
ten years. While we have added to the cost of
manufacture in devising this fire-proofed heater,
its use places us in a position to claim that no
other heater on the market equals it either in
durability, efficiency or safety.

The top of the asbestos jacket on the Cyphers
heater (see pages 45-46) is covered with a one-piece,
disc-stamped metal cap that extends down over the
upper edge of heater and protects it from injury. There
is also a band of heavy sheet metal around the bottom
of the asbestos jacket, which protects the lower rim.
These features not only add greatly to the durability
of the heater, but also add
much to its appearance.

The fire insurance engi-
neers are much opposed to
the type of incubator con-
struction that locates the
lamp directly underneath
the case of the incubator,
and for good reasons. In-
cubators are still offered
for sale that use a lamp
which is hung or placed on
a shelf located under the
wooden case of the
machine, the chimney
extending upward into the
case itself. In this faulty
construction the heat pipes
or flues receive direct heat
from the lamp flame and

discharge it into the inter- Je rf''eraterf."The°e'lOTaUng'devic"
ior of the case. The ban '^ an ingenious yet very simple
. method of liftmg the lamp until

of the fire insurance world the burner properly engages the
,„ ■ _i J iU- bottom of direct heat flue,

has been placed on this ^^en it is locked in position,
out-of-date construction. Judged from the standpoint
of simplicity, durability and

There are numerous security this is unquestionably
, ,. „ , .the best lamp suooort vet

makes of so-called popular- invented.

CYPHERS INCUBATOR
SAFETY LAMP
ENCLOSURE.
Lamp in proper

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

priced incubators on the market which are heated by
locating a lamp or heater at one end of the incubator
case and conducting heat direct from the lamp into a
hot-air reservoir located above the egg chamber. This
faulty and unsafe construction is also condemned
by the Fire Underwriters.

The heater and lamp and lamp support must be
constructed according to the letter and spirit of the
standard adopted by the Fire Underwriters, and the
lamp bowl, lamp burner, flame, chimney and lower
section of the heater positively must be so protected
"that fire therefrom cannot communicate" either to
the case of the incubator or "to the floor of the room in
which the incubator is operated." — So say the "Rules
and Requirements."

The Cyphers Safety Lamp Enclosure, com-
bined with our superior heater, accomplishes
these desirable and highly important results.
The right to use the insurance labels is the proof.
Other manufacturers may claim fire-proofed and
insurable incubators, but demand the label — that is
the test! If their machines do not bear the official
label, you may be absolutely sure that they are dodg-
ing the question — or are trying to mislead you.

CYPHERS SAFETY LAMP ENCLOSURE

The Cyphers Safety Lamp Enclosure consists of
a substantial galvanized-iron drum the same diameter
as the asbestos jaclcet on the incubator heater and
about 8 inches deep, constructed without the use of
solder. Top and bottom are double seamed to the
body of the drum by the use of machinery. The top
is reinforced with a metal collar and the bottom is
oil tight. The direct heat flue of the heater passes
through and e-xtends about
one-half inch below the top
of the enclosure. When in
position the top of the
enclosure rests against the
bottom of the fresh-air flue
of the heater and is held
securely in place by means
of bolts fitted with thumb-
nuts.

The lamp slides into

the enclosure on a plate

attached to the top of the

elevating device, and may

be quickly inserted and

CYPHERS INCUBATOR removed without tilting

SAFETY LAMP and without spilling of

ENCLOSURE ^^^ Additional to this con-

Lamp elevated and locked tn .

position. To remove or replace Venient and safe method of

atfoJf"?hat' ir can'te'acram: handling the lamp, a brass

plished with one hand without vent tube, one and one-half

the discomfort of kneeling. The . , .

operator can see and adjust the mches long, IS securely

flame without removing the „4.*.„„u«^ t-^ 4.U., 4.... t ..u

lamp. The burner collar and attached to the top of the

burner are so constructed that filler cap, which further pre-
lamp must be maerted in en- . .

closure with filler cap to rear. vents a ready spillmg of oil.

The burner collar and burner on this lamp are
eccentric, as regards the top of the lamp bowl, so
that the lamp must be inserted in the enclosure with
the filler cap at the rear, or the burner will not engage
the bottom of the direct heat flue when the lamp is
elevated and therefore cannot be used.

The elevating device is an ingenious yet very
simple method of lifting the lamp until the burner
properly engages the bottom of the direct heat flue,
when it is locked in position and cannot be accident-
ally dislodged.

This Safety Lamp Enclosure withstood the repeated
tests of the engineers of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters and of the manufacturers, extending
through several months — doing so without a sugges-
tion of failure — and was passed by the Underwriters'
Laboratories (Inc.) as a satisfactory device for safe-
guarding the lamp of an incubator, in conformity
with the object of the "Rules and Requirements" of
the National Board. But this Safety Lamp Enclosure
possesses other valuable features besides safeguarding
the lamp.

First — It unquestionably is the best lamp support
yet invented, judged from the standpoint of simplicity,
durability and security.

Second — It infallibly locates the lamp burner in
the proper position.

Third — It prevents the fumes from the lamp enter-
ing the fresh-air intake of the heater.

Fourth — It allows the operator to see and adjust
the flame without removing the lamp.

Fifth — To remove or replace the lamp is such a
simple operation that it can be accomplished with
one hand and without the discomfort of kneeling.

And not one of the time-tried and well-known
Cyphers principles have had to be eliminated
in securing these several important advantages.
The lamp occupies identically the same position
it did before the insurance feature was adopted,
and no changes have been made in the con-
struction of the heater. Every part of the heater
and safety lamp enclosure is well and durably
made, therefore cannot get out of repair and will
last a lifetime.

THE DIFFUSIVE PRINCIPLE

Years ago men working in the interests of this
company experimented in many different sections of
the Union where the greatest divergences of tem-
perature and moisture exist, employing in their tests
several styles of so-called porous hatching chambers.
The system which finally was found to be the most
practical is now used in the construction of the Cyphers
Incubators. Porous diaphragms compose the upper
and lower divisions of the egg chamber, and through
these diaphragms the moderately-warm, pure air
from the protected fresh-air chamber of the heater
must pass in entering and leaving the apartment in

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

which the eggs are placed. This is a distinct advance
on the old system of radiant heat and direct ventila-
tion. It is patented by this company and may be
manufactured lawfully only by us. Infringements of
this principle have been vigorously prosecuted, and it
is our intention to protect our rights against all
persons who may disregard them.

When the Standard Cyphers is in operation,
the fresh, pure air that enters the heater is first
warmed, then distributed evenly over the whole area of
the top surface of the upper diaphragm before it enters
the hatching chamber. After being diffused through
the minute pores of closely-woven fabric, the air is
gradually forced down around the eggs and through the
incubating chamber in a slow but positive manner,
entirely without air currents or the slightest direct
draft on the eggs. Thence it is diffused through
another porous diaphragm placed above a shallow
chamber in the bottom of the incubator, and thence
is drawn out into the exhaust pipe of the heater.

This method of applying heat and insuring auto-
matic ventilation gives a larger volume of pure,
fresh air than is employed in other incubators, and
accomplishes both results without the disastrous
effects of profuse direct ventilation.

All Cyphers Incubators are equipped throughout
with removable diaphragms, which can readily be
taken out for purposes of cleaning.

GENUINE NON- MOISTURE INCUBATORS

We repeat, that Cyphers Company Incubators
are the only ones manufactured that lawfully can be
equipped with our patent diaphragms, by the use of
which the "diffusive system" of ventilation is employed,
overcoming the necessity of supplying additional mois-
ture by the use of shallow pans, wet sand, wet sponges
or moist cloths. Users of other styles of incubators
are constantly reporting many full-grown chicks dead
in the shell, and in hopes of helping them to overcome
this difficulty poultry papers continue to discuss
such questions as: — The best location for an incubator,
how much moisture to supply, when to apply it, in
what manner, etc.

Cyphers Incubators are so simple and easy to
operate, and so certain in results, that they have met
with uniform appreciation by experienced operators,
while beginners succeed with them from the first trial,
because the machine itself solves the perplexing
"moisture problem" for them: In other words, we are
able to place in their hands a practically automatic
hatcher, leaving very little to chance and to inex-
perience.

The following sample extracts were selected at
random from the thousands of letters we have received
that contain similar statements: —

Mrs. Rufus C. Hubbard, Los Angeles, Cal. — "Have been
well pleased with my experience with the Cyphers Incubators.
The temperature and ventilation is perfect, avoiding the use of
supplied moisture in a climate that varies 15 to 20 degrees in tem-
perature in twenty-four hours." — August 9, 1911.

G. H. Pond, Prop.,
Hillside Poultry Farm,
Minneapolis, Minn. —

"I have found your Cyph-
ers Incubators very easy
to operate, and the chicks
have been remarkably
strong and healthy. Have
sold thousands of day-old
chicks hatched with your
machines, and they have
given excellent satisfac-
tion. I have been sur-
prised at the adaptability
of your incubators to dry,
unfavorable conditions.
Have used one of them in
February and March of
each year, in a living
room, size 12x18, heated
with a large air-tight
heater, the temperature
varying from 70 degrees
in the day-time, to 40 or
45 degrees at night. Have
had excellent hatches with-
out paying any attention
to moisture, except to
close ventilators partly at
night and altogether at
hatching time. At hatch-
ing time the glass door gets
covered with moisture so
that a person could
scarcely see through it."
—November 9. 1911.

F. E. Schultze, D.
V. S., Little River, Dade
Co., Fla.— "I have used
your Incubators both
North and South many
years, and always found
them O. K. WiU con-
tinue to use them down
here. Your system of
regulation of moisture is
the trick in the far South."
—September 12, 1911.

Frank L. Renncrt,
Box No. 162, Valhalla,

N. Y.— "I have one of
your 244-egg size Cyphers
Incubators and have had
three hatches. First,
168; Second, 175; Third.
164 chicks. I was more
than pleased. The chicks
were large and strong. I
think you have the best
machine on the market,
and can highly recom-
mend it. In regard to

the machine would be too
dry. but was surprised to
see the glass doors covered
with moisture." — Novem-
ber 8, 1911.

Fred H. Wiebers,
Flasher, N. Dak.— "I

can not say too much in
praise of the Cyphers
Incubator. Have hatched
about every fertile egg I
put in my machines.
Never had to bother about
the moisture question. The
chicks came out strong,
and the hatches cleared up
in about ten to twelve hours.
I had tried other makes
before buying yours, and

SECTIONAL VIEW OF CYPHERS
STANDARD FIRE-PROOF
INCUB.ATOR HEATER WITH
SAFETY LAMP ENCLOSURE
ATTACHED.

In securing the several important
advantages of the Safety Lamp Enclosure,
not one of the time-tried and well-known
Cyphers principles had to be eliminated.
The lamp occupies identically the same
position it did before the insurance
feature was adopted, and no changes have
been made in the construction of the heater.
1. Top cover cap. 2. Castings
which form fire and smoke proof joints
between waste heat chamber and pipes
connecting heater with interior of incu-
bator case. 3, Casting by which heater
is attached to incubator case. 4, Cast-
ing which connects direct heat flue (8)
with waste heat chamber (7). 5, Air-
spaced asbestos jacket covering the
entire exterior of the heater. 6, Fresh-
air chamber in which fresh air is drawn
from outside the machine, is warmed
by contact with the outer surface of
flue (8), and carried into incubator at
upper connection. 7, Escape flue for
discharge of fumes from direct heat
flue (8). 8, Direct heat flue. 9, Escape
flue for surplus heat produced in fresh-
air chamber (6). 10, One-fourth inch
mesh wire protection against entrance
of mice to interior of incubator case
when machine is not in use. 1 1 , Cast-
ings which form fire and smoke proof
joints between waste heat chamber and
pipes connecting heater with interior
of incubator case. 12, Casting by
which heater is attached to incubator
case. 13, Top of lamp bowl. 14. Ele-
vating device. 15, Filler cap and non-
spilling air tube.

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

was getting badly disgusted with the Incubator business. This
year I let the hens do the brooding but will buy Cyphers
Brooders for next season. Then I will be on the right road to
success."— July 20, 1911.

Laura A. Moshier, Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. — "Am using your
No. 2 Size Cyphers Incubator and two Cyphers Outdoor Brooders.
I find your self-regulating, self-ventilating and non-moisture
machine very easy to operate, and the regulator works like a charm.
I have no hesitation in saying that your machines are by far the
best placed before the public. The self-supplied moisture and the
automatic accurate regulation is all that could be desired. Out of
three hatches I got 596 chicks and not a weak or deformed chick
in the lot. I am also using your Chick Food, Laying Food, and
High Protein Beef Scrap, all of which are giving excellent results." —
November 9, 1911.

PRACTICALLY PERFECT REGULATION

The device used on Cyphers Incuba-
tors for regulating the temperature in
the hatching chamber is a marvel of
J' J sensitiveness and reliability. No other
style of incubator regulator has been
devised that is its equal in the essen-
tial points. Sensitive and positive in
action, this thermostat, with its me-
chanically-perfect attachments, can
be fully relied on to do its work.
This we guarantee.

Briefly stated, the three ele-
ments of chief importance in incu-
bator regulation are: First, a
sensitive thermostat, one that will
regulate the temperature of a
hatching chamber to a fraction of
a degree; second, ease and sim-
plicity of adjustment; third, a
device so well made in all parts
that it will not lose its efficiency
with age.

The countless practical and
severe tests to which the Cyphers
regulating device has been sub-
jected in this and foreign coun-

I?

CYPHERS IMPROVED SAFETY HEATER PARTS.
Parts that go to make up the Improved Cyphers Safety Heater (from photograph).
Absolutely fire-proof, and guaranteed to be the best made and best-service heater manufac-
tured for use on mcubators. Nearly all other manufacturers use simply a cheap lamp and a
hght-weight metal chimney. Note the 2% -inch thick asbestos jacket (open) with dead-air
spaces, protected by a metal cap at the top and a strong band of metal at the lower rim. See
description, pages 43 and 44.

46

tries prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it will
control the temperatureof the egg chamber, day by day,
week in and week out, within a fraction of a degree.

MANUFACTURED BY US COMPLETE

We manufacture our thermostats and regulators
complete in every part, in our own factory. We are
thus able to avoid such variations in quality of materials
and workmanship as would render useless all care that
might be taken in putting the numerous parts together.
(See illustration of parts.)

Incubator operators who have had sad experiences
with other styles of regulators were quick to recognize
the superior value of this thermostat, whereas those who
are not familiar with devices of the kind will readily
comprehend the working principle and merits of the one
herewith described and illustrated. In many machines
of the present day, changes of outside temperature will
affect the thermometer in the incubator to the extent of
four or five degrees, and even more. Positively this
is not so with the Standard Cyphers.

EXPERIENCE OF CUSTOMERS

As proof in support of this assertion, permit us to
present herewith an extract from a poultry paper which
was brought to our notice, also a few sample reports
from pleased Cyphers Company customers: —

"I use the Cyphers Company's Incubators. Why? Because
I find them more accurate as to holding an even temperature. I
never knew one of them to get out of repair. The 'spring' regu-
lator or thermostat never changes, while in other makes wafers or
discs get out of shape in a year or so, and you have a horrible
hatch before you realize what is the matter." — OSCAR WELLS.
Farina, 111., in Profitable Poultry.

G. E. Hendrickson, South Wayne, Wis.— "Last fall I
purchased one of your 240-egg size Cyphers Incubators. I have
operated the machine this season with good success. Although
the weather changes were frequent and various I have found that
the Cyphers runs as steady as a clock. I can only say to those who
contemplate buying an incubator and are not well versed on the
subject, choose a Cyphers. They are almost "fool proof," and a
person need not sit up nights with them in order to keep the regu-
lator working right. I have tried several machines and under
various conditions, but the Cyphers has stood the test and won
out at every trial." — July 27, 1911.

Guy U. McDavld, Irving, IlL—

"Wish to inform you that we attribute
our success to your incubator. I have
used the Cyphers and several other
makes under the same conditions, and
your machine did by far the best work,
being automatic in regulation, also self-
ventilating. / consider eggs placed in
your machine safer than under a hen.
All the eggs from our White Wyan-
dottes winning first at the Missouri
State Show have been hatched in a
Cyphers Incubator and we have a very
promising bunch of youngsters." — June
16, 1910.

Fred W. Bassler, Green Mea-
dow Ranch, Wickenburg, Ariz. —

"The Cyphers Incubator bought from
you last spring has given good satis-
faction. With your machine (/ *s
710/ necessary to slay up nights. The
temperature is very regular and I rec-
ommend the Cyphers to anyone wh6
wants to hatch chickens without
trouble. It is the best machine on
the market."— July 11, 1911.

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

incubator is 90 to 100 degrees in temperature, the
exchange of fresh pure air into the hatching chamber
is slow in action and limited in amount — is insuffi-
cient for best results.

To overcome this difficulty, the two large-size
Cyphers Incubators — the No. 2, holding 244 eggs, and
the No. 3, holding 390 eggs — are equipped with what ws
call a drop-bottom. The bottom panel of each machine
consists of a substantial frame, enclosing a hinged bot-
tom that can be let down any distance until it reaches
the floor. By this means, much of the under surface of
the lower felt diaphragm is exposed, thus materially
increasing the automatic ventilation of the hatching
chamber and nursery department, especially the latter.

We recommend the drop-bottom method of sup-
plementary ventilation when the incubator is
operated during the warm months of May, June, July
and August in the temperate zone, and during other
periods of theyear in the torrid zone; also when thetem-
perature of the apartment in which the machine is
operated ranges above seventy degrees Fahrenheit.

Actual and severe tests reported from all parts of
the United States and Canada have established the
fact that the use of this drop-bottom system of maxi-
mum ventilation has increased the hatches to an im-
portant extent and produced better chicks and duck-
lings, thus overcoming, very largely, the adverse con-
ditions of summer heat and lowered vitality.

Following are sample reports received from our

customers; — •

White Rose Poultry Farm, Kaufman, Pa.— "We have
been using Cyphers Incubators for the past seven years and think
they can't be beat. We used two other makes but discarded them
both and are now using nothing but the Cyphers. We think the
ventilating features on your machine, including the drop-bottom,
the best on the market, and your regulator works like a clock.
We hatch from 2,000 to 3,000 chicks annually. The Cyphers
Incubator Company has always treated us fine in all our dealings
with them." — November 15, 1911.

Small size Standard Cyphers Incubator, latest-pattern (No. 0
and No 1) showmg Split lower diaphragm removed and egg
tray and upper diaphragm partb drawn out. The top diaphragm
IS easib removable without interference with the thermostat or
other working parts No 0 Incubator capacity 70 eggs. Price
$15, and No. 1 Incubator, capacity 144 eggs, Price S22, are aUke
in all respects except size.

P. A. Schryver, Rhinecliff, N. J. — "I purchased one of
your 244-egg Cyphers Incubators last January. I am so well
pleased with it that I intend to purchase two more of the same
size the first of the year 1912. After trying others I find the
Cyphers is the only one in the market that has a perfect regulator to con-
trol the heat. And the chickens can't be beat that are hatched
in it."— July 17, 1911.

Loe Addy, Newcomerstown, Ohio. — "I operated the Cyphers
Incubator in a room with one of another make and while the tem-
perature of the room varied until at times we had to watch the
fire at night to keep the temperature of the other machine within
range of the regulation, the Cyphers thermometer stayed at 103
degrees as though glued. The Cyphers is good enough for rae."
—August 9, 1911.

We could readily present hundreds of similar
reports. See back pages of this book for further testi-
mony on practically perfect regulation.

OUR SYSTEM OF VENTILATION

In the Cyphers Incubators for 1912 we retain the
return-draft style of heater, as used on the original,
genuine Cyphers, for the sole reason that we know it
to be the correct principle. This construction pro-
vides an entirely automatic system of ventilation that
is sufficient in itself to produce excellent hatches,
especially where the machine is operated in an apart-
ment the temperature of which ranges below 60 to 65
degrees, even though all ventilators are kept closed,
either as a result of carelessness or lack of experience.
In other words, the Cyphers is practically "neglect
proof" and is certain to bring off good hatches, so far
as ventilation is concerned, provided the lamp is kept
going and the regulator adjusted.

DROP-BOTTOM FOR SUMMER USE

(Patented July 17, 1906)
The larger the number of eggs that are being incu-
bated in one compartment, the more air (oxygen) we
should supply, yet direct drafts must be avoided. In
hot weather, or in a warm climate, the movement of
air is sluggish. For example, if the air outside of an

No. 2 Standard Cyphers Incubator, latest-pattern (No. 3 same
pattern), showing method of removing top diaphragms without
interference with thermostat or other working parts. Drop-bottom
also is let down. See description, pages 47 and 48.

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

Bertha M. Story, Rose Mawr Poultry Yards, Oregon City,
Ore. — "I rarely have less than a 90 per cent, hatch of good, strong
chicks. In -warm weather I keep the drop-bottom daion until the 19th
day and I believe that this system of ventilation, especially for warm
climates or late spring and summer hatching, is the secret of the suc-
cess of the Cyphers in surpassing all other incubators. ' ' — June 21,1911.

H. J. Blanchard, Groton, N. Y. — "The old Cyphers was a
self-ventilating, non-moisture machine, but your latestpattem, with
ihe drop-bottom, can be adapted to afar wider
range of conditions. I regard your latest-
pattern incubator as the best hatching
machine made, and invariably recommend
them to my friends. In my eleven years'
experience with your Company I have found
its methods square and honor-
able."—August 28, 1909.

A. \V. Rowell, Principal
Clark University, South At-
lanta, Ga. — "I am well pleased
with your incubators and espec-
ially emphasize the value of the
drop-bottom for this warm climate.
Twice this season I have had a
better than 92 per cent, hatch.
Your machine regulates so much
easier and so much more accur-
ately that it seems perfection
when compared with any other
regulating device I have ever
tried."

N. P. Husted, Petalutna,
Cal.— "Iwish to complimentyou
on the latest-pattern Cyphers
for California climate. It is no
trouble to operate in hot

weather, when the days are hot and the nights cool — keeping an even
temperature, the drop-bottom fitting California weather to perfection.
The six Cyphers machines I am operating have averaged 90 per
cent, for the past year, several hatches running as high as 98 J'2 per
cent. I most heartily recommend your machine to the novice as
the shortest cut to success with poultry."

A. B. Soyars, Proprietor Peconic Duck Farm, Riverhead,
L. I., N. Y. — "After operating your machines for four years along
with other makes of incubators we find the Cyphers beats them all for
duck hatching. We kept a tew more than 400 laying ducks this year
and from them we hatched 20,780 strong, healthy ducklings, which
shows what Cyphers Incubators are doing for us. Yojir patented
drop-bottom feature is Just the thing for duck hatching, especially as
warmer weather comes on."— Sept. 11, 1909.

For numerous additional reports see back pages.

HANDY NURSERY DRAWERS

(Patented May 22, 1906)
The No. 2, 244-egg capacity, and the No. 3, 390-
egg capacity, latest-pattern Cyphers Incubators are
each furnished with two nursery drawers — see illustra-
tion on this page. The drawers occupy the nursery

Latest-Pattern No. 2 Standard Cyphers Incubator, 244-egg,
capacity. Price $32. Showing nursery doors open; left-hand
nursery drawer is in position; right-hand drawer is let down and
ready to draw out. No. 3 Incubator, 390-egg capacity (Price $38)
is identical with No, 2 except in size.

CYPHERS STANDARD REGULATOR.
Standard Cyphers Toggle-Lever, Double-Action Regulator. Manufactured complete by us
in our own factory, and guaranteed to be the most sensitive and trustworthy regulating device
invented to date for use with incubators. A — Base-casting. C — Connecting tube. D — Counter-
poise weight with two lock nuts. E— Tin Disc. F— Thermostat. G — Metal Nipple, making
thermostat fast to connecting tube. H — Wooden arm. I — Knife-edge bearings of pivot casting.
J — Connecting rod with upper steel thumb nut.

space underneath the egg trays and are reached through
solid wooden doors, located below the glass-panel door
that opens into the upper portion of the hatching
chamber where the egg trays are situated.

These drawers will be found of great convenience
in removing the chicks or ducklings from our large-
sized incubators. B)> their use the operator is enabled
to remove the dry chicks or ducklings as often as may
be;deemed advisable, without interfering in any way
with the remainder of the hatch. In all large-
sized incubators that are not equipped with nursery
drawers the operators have met with difficulty in get-
ting the chicks or ducklings out of the rear portion of
the nursery section without injuring them, owing to the
distance from front to back. Furthermore, with the
old-style of machines, if it is desired to remove the chicks
before the hatch is completed, it is necessary to open
the egg-chamber door, thus allowing both heat and
moisture to escape to a harmful extent. Duck
men, particularly, found this style of machine incon-
venient to operate. The nursery drawers furnished in
the two large-sized latest-pattern Cyphers Incubators
completely overcome this difficulty. These drawers
are raised automatically, when pushed intoposition,
by means of inclined cleats fastened to the sides of each
compartment so as to keep them well up near the
source of heat. This improved construction is fully
covered by letters patent bearing date May 22, 1906.

No. 0 AND No. 1 STANDARD CYPHERS

All improvements herein described as embodied in
the latest-pattern Cyphers Incubators will be found in
the No. 0, 70-egg size and the No. 1 , 144-egg size, except-
ing the nursery-drawers and drop-bottoms. These two

CONSTRUCTION OF LATEST-PATTERN STANDARD CYPHERS INCUBATORS

umber of

smaller-sized machines have
the new metal-cap, banded
heaters, the latest-improved
thermostats, the removable
top diaphragms, the inclined
egg trays and the split lower
diaphragms.

These smaller-capacity,
shallow-depth Cyphers Incu-
bators have not been found
to require nursery drawers
nor supplementary ventila-
tion, but the hatching and
chick nursery apartments of
each of these machines have
been deepened one inch,
as compared with the earlier
styles, thus securing a larger
volumeof airin the incubating
chamber and a greater depth in the nursery section for
use of the chicks first to hatch. It will be noted also
that the capacities of these two machines have been
increased thirteen and twenty per cent., respectively.

COMBINATION HEN EGG AND DUCK
EGG MACHINES

The No. 3 size Incubators are supplied with extra
ventilating tubes, by means of which these large
machines may be used with maximum results for
hatching both hen eggs and duck eggs. In other words,
they are combination hen-egg and duck-egg incu-
bators— a fact that has been abundantly proved by
experienced operators whose reports are to be found
throughout the pages of this catalogue.

Here are a few brief extracts from customers who
are using this machine to hatch duck eggs: —

F. S. Keith, Easton, Mass. — "I have been using your incu-
bators for many years and they have given perfect satisfaction.
Tliis season have been having the best hatches on ducks and
chickens I ever had. My best hatch was 320 chicks from 360
untested eggs and 236 ducklings out of 300 untested eggs just as
they were put in machine." — January 9, 1911

Charles J. Heh-ath, Talmo, Kas. — "Last season I operated
here five of your Standard Cyphers Incubators I took off twelve
hatches with hen eggs and five with duck eggs all -with good results
We hatched 84 to 96 per cent, of all eggs after la^t test — July
22. 1911.

D. H. Folks, Carbondale, Kas.— "In a No 2 Cyphers out
of 210 hen eggs I hatched 204 good, strong chickens Out of 52
fertile duck eggs I hatched 48 ducks. This was in the same machine
Only 52 duck eggs were, in the machine during the hatch I started
this spring the 1st of March and hatched out and raided more than
SCO chickens successfully." — August 8, 1910.

Wm. Kiff, Huntington Park, Cal.— "I have used the
Cyphers Incubator for four years. Three years I used them with
numerous other incubators in the same room with the same eggs
I got from ten to twenty per cent, better hatches from the Cyphers
than I did from the other machines and stronger and better chicks
and ducklings. This year I have used the Cyphers exclusively
and have hatched over 2,600 ducks and about 2 000 chickens '
—August 7, 1911.

A VISIT TO OUR FACTORIES

We wish every customer of the Cyphers Incuba-
tor Company could visit our factories to see for himself
how well equipped we are to manufacture strictly high-
grade goods, and to inspect the Cyphers Incubators
and Brooders in the process of construction. Money

es of high-grade materials used in

has not been spared in equipping our factories through-
out with the most improved machinery, and we
are in a position to know that this Company's fac-
tories are by long odds the largest and best-equipped
establishments of the kind in the world. We manu-
facture, under the supervision of competent, experi-
enced persons, practically every part of every
incubator and brooder we offer for sale, including
the woodwork, heaters, regulators, lamps, etc., also the
Cyphers full line of specialties for poultrymen — up-
wards of one hundred useful and popular articles.

Every incubator made by us is carefully tested
as to regulation before the machine is crated
for shipment, also every thermometer sold by us.
Each Cyphers Incubator has a "packer's slip"
attached to the wall of the hatching chamber,
wh ich bears the name of the inspector and the date
on which the machine was packed and approved.

See Cyphers Company guarantee on pages
76 and 77.

HATCHES DUCK EGGS EQUALLY WELL.
Picture is from photograph showing a No. 2 Cyphers Incuba-
tor used by G. M. D. Legg, Sterling, 111., for hatching duck eggs.
Said D. W. Tobey, manager for Mr. Legg: "In this hatch we got
201 ducklings from 217 eggs left in "

INSURABLE

STANDARD CYPHERS

INCUBATORS AND BROODERS

Standard Cyphers Incubators of all sizes are built in strict compliance with detailed
specifications adopted by the NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS in the
form of "Rules and Requirements," and every Incubator manufactured by Cyphers
Incubator Company is separately inspected' IN THE COMPANY'S FACTORY at
Buffalo, N. Y., by the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.), UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS, and bears the OFFICIAL LABEL
of the Associated STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES doing business in the
United States and Canada.

DURING the spring and summer of 1908 expert mechanical and electrical engineers, working under the
direction of the Committee of Consulting Engineers of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, after
a long period of investigation, completed a set of detailed specifications covering the construction of
Insurable Incubators and. Brooders. These specifications were then adopted by the National Board
of Fire Underwriters and published in booklet form, bearing this title: —

" Rules and Requirements of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters for the Construction and Installation of
Incubators and Brooders as Recommended by its Com-
mittee of Consulting Engineers. Edition of 1908."

The National Board of Fire Underwriters

Is an organization that represents practically all the Standard fire insurance
companies now doing business in the United States and Canada. The
Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.), with headquarters at Chicago and branch
offices in eighteen of the principal cities of the United States, are conducted
under the direction of the National Board. The directors of the Underwriters'
Laboratories are chosen from the officers of the National Board of Fire Under-
writers, the National Fire Protection Association, the Underwriters' National
Electric Association and the leading Fire Insurance Companies.

Meaning of the Underwriters' Labels

Incubators and Brooders

Booklet containing Rules and
„ Requirements" of the National

THESE LABELS mean that every purchaser of a Standard Cyphers Board of Fire Undenvnters for
Incubator or Cyphers Brooder which bears the Underwriters' Official Label ^/Br?oders"'"°° °^ ^cubators
will get what he desires — namely, an Inspected and Insurable Incubator or
Brooder that is built in strict conformity to the "Rules and Requirements" of
the National Board of Fire Underwriters and that has been approved by fire insurance experts who have no
direct interest in their sale.

BELOW ARE FAC-SIMILES OF THE UNDERWRITERS' OFFICIAL LABELS:

Un

DERWRI

TERS~ U

^BORATORIES,

NC. !

INSPECTED

INCUBATOR

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_^N5

1 1^

Underwriters' Laboratories,
INSPECTED BROODER

c ^H^ I T^ =

ARE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD

Cyphers Incubator Company the first in the world to build Incubators
and Brooders which comply with the requirements of expert mechanical
and electrical engineers, acting under the direction of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, and the first to be granted the Insurance Labels

M FTER THE RULES AND REQUIREMENTS of the Consulting Engineers had been adopted by the
_2T_ National Board of Fire Underwriters, and after Cyphers Incubator Company had devised means to
comply with same, the Engineers of the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.) repeatedly visited the
factory of Cyphers Incubator Company and examined, tested and reported on the fire-proofed articles sub-
mitted for examination. These engineers were painstaking and exacting in their work, so much so that a
number of alterations and additions were found necessary in the four types of hatching and brooding apparatus
manufactured by this company (oil-heated, gas-heated, electric-heated and coal-heated) before the numerous
articles were passed and the Laboratories were authorized to issue the official labels as reproduced on the opposite
page, for attachment to all styles and sizes of Standard Cyphers Incubators and Brooders.

OCTOBER 15 AND NOVEMBER 1, 1908, Cyphers Incubator Company received official notice of the
approval of its Incubators and Brooders, as follows: —

UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES, INC.

Under the direction of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters

Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago, 111., October 15, 1908.

Dear Sirs: — 'We enclose herewith for your information a card on which is
given summary from our report on the appliances which were received from
you for examination and test.

A duplicate of this card has been forwarded to each insurance company,
insurance organization and inspection department , // .

subscribing to our work. (//r^. cAilAyCuLZ)

Respectfully yours,

104-Oct.l5,.1908

INCUBATORS AND BROODERS

IncuSator.-Oil Heated. Cyphers Incnbator Company,
llanafactnrer, Bnflalo, N. Y.

dactedby Underwriters' Laboratories, Iixcto be in accordance
-"ith tbe requirements of the National Hoard of Fire Under-
Titere, and examined and tested at factories under the super-
ision of UnrierwnteiB' Laboratories, Inc., have labels fastened
) the front reading

INCUBATORS AND BROODERS

Brooder,Oil Heated. Cyphers I

104— Nov. 1,1908

: Company,

Manofacttirer, Buffalo, N. Y.
Oil-heatM Brooders (Class B) shown by tests and examinations con-
ducted by Underwriters' Laboratories. Inc., to be in accordance
with the requirements of the National lioard of Fire Under-
^v^iter8, and examined and tested at factories under the super-
vision of Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., have labels fastened
to the front reading.

UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES, INC.,
INSPECTED BROODER.

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY was first in the history of the poultry business to manufacture
Incubators and Brooders that meet the requirements of the Associated Fire Insurance Companies, and also
the first company in the world to be granted labels by the Fire Underwriters covering inspected and insurable
incubators and brooders built in conformity with the specifications of their expert engineers. Label No. 1
for "Inspected Incubator" and Label No. 1 for "Inspected Brooder" were issued to Cyphers Incubator Com-
pany and are illustrated on opposite page. These labels are stamped with serial numbers, which means that
no two Incubator labels and no two Brooder labels can ever have the same number.

This fact alone is a guarantee that every Incubator and every Brooder that bears
the Fire Underwriters' OFFICIAL LABEL must be one that has been INSPECTED
AND APPROVED by representatives of the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.).

FACTORY INSPECTION:— Every Cyphers Incubator and Standard Cyphers Brooder descrihed and

offered for sale in this catalogue has been separately and personally inspected in the factory of Cyphers Incu-
bator Company by engineers employed by the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.) and has had affixed to it the
official label of the Associated Fire Insurance Companies, placed thereon under the direction of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. These metal labels are equivalent to the official signature of the Underwriters'
Laboratories (Inc.) as representing their inspection of the incubator or brooder to which it is attached.
Demand the Label ! It means safety. It means protection. IT MEANS CHEAP INSURANCE.

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PATENTED PRINCIPLES UNCHANGED

No changes were made in the time-tried and patented principles
of the Standard Cyphers Non-Moisture, Self- Regulating and
Self-Ventilating Incubators in complying with the Rules and
Requirements of the Associated Fire Insurance Companies

MBSOLUTELY NO CHANGE has been made in the time-tried and patented principles of the Standard

_2T_ Cyphers Non-Moisture, Self-Regulating and Self-Ventilating Incubators in complying with the

Requirements of the Fire Insurance Underwriters, therefore the manufacturers have placed the same

sweeping guarantee of superiority on these world-famed hatchers for the season of 1911-1912 that has

covered their standard make of incubators heretofore. (For Warrant of Superiority, see pages 76 and 77.)

The Label Service Explained

IN THE BOOK OF "GENERAL INFORMATION" published by the
Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.), the management explains and strongly
recommends the label service method of inspecting articles manufactured in
compliance with the "Rules and Requirements" of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters, as follows: —

"The newer form of supervision, which is considered superior by the
Laboratories' management , consists in inspections by Laboratories' engineers
of devices and materials at factories and the labeling of standard goods by
means of stamps, transfers or metal labels, whereby they can be recognized
wherever found. By means of this ser\'ice the quality of goods in factories
where approved articles are made is carefully observed, and the use of labels
restricted to such portion of the output as meets in all essentials the standard
of efficiency shown by the sample originally tested-and on which approval
was based.

"Experience has shown that this method is in every way superior for the
purpose of bringing to the consumer the article he desires, for the purpose
of placing competition between manufacturers beyond the point where deteriora-
tion in the quality of the output is made necessar>', and for the proper protec-
tion of the Laboratories and the organizations co-operating with them who are
giving substantial recognition to efficient fire protection appliances."

Booklet of "General Informa-
tion" of Underwriters' Laboratories
(Inc.). First paragraph in this
booklet reads as follows: "The
work of Underwriters' Laboratories
is confined to investigations having
a bearing upon the fire hazard,
and is undertaken as one means of
securing correct solutions of many
of the problems presented by the
enormous and disproportionate
destruction by fire of property in
the United States."

ALL STYLES Every style and size of Standard Cyphers Incubators and

AND SIZES Brooders is built in strict conformity to the "Rules and

Requirements" of the National Board of Fire Underwriters

and has been officially approved as to all details of construction by the

laboratory engineers. This statement applies with equal force to —

Cyphers Oil-Heated Incubators and Brooders, to

Cyphers Blue-Flame Burner Gas-Heated Incubators and Brooders, to
Cyphers Electrically-Heated Incubators and Brooders, and to
Cyphers Mammoth Compartment Coal-Heated Incubators and
Hot- Water Brooding Systems.

In short, all Incubators and Brooders bearing the name "Cyphers" and manufactured by Cyphers Incubator
Company are built absolutely in conformity with the "Rules and Requirements" of the fire insurance world,
governing the construction of incubators and brooders; therefore, they represent the maximum of safety
and are everywhere insurable.

Sound and Timely Advice to All Classes of Property Owners

Do not risk life and property by operating cheaply-built incubators and fire-trap brooders. You

need not take chances of this kind. Buy and use incubators and brooders that are built in strict conformity
with the requirements of disinterested fire insurance experts, whose sole object in adopting such require-
ments was to reduce the fire risk to the minimum in oil, gas, electric or coal-heated devices, without inter-
fering with the principles or efficiency of the machines. Remember that in this matter the interests of the asso-
ciated fire insurance companies of the United States and Canada, and your interests, are identical. Why
not reap the benefit of the valuable work these experts have performed ? Look for the labels — they are the proof t
THEY PROTECT YOU. REFUSE EVERY INCUBATOR OR BROODER THAT HAS NO LABEL.

52

>g

CYPHERS COMPANY
BROODERS

FIRE-PROOFED AND INSURABLE

domplete Standard Line for Outdoor and Indoor Use; Employ Top-Heat and
are Self-Ventilating and Self-Regulating; Are Built on Colony House Plan
(except indoor type); Are Substantially Made; Are Fire-Proofed, and Every
One Bears the Fire Insurance Underwriters' "Inspected Brooder" Label

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY manufactures for its customers a complete line of individual brooders
that are as well constructed and as well adapted for the uses intended as are its Standard Incu-
bators. These brooders, without exception, are built to do the work required of them, cost price being
treated as of secondary importance. They not only are Are-proof and insurable, but are claimed by us to
be the best designed, the most durable, the most convenient and the most efficient indoor and outdoor
individual brooding devices thus far invented and placed on the market.

Cyphers Company manufactures high-grade brooders only. This company concluded some years ago that
the fact that it had built up the largest incubator business in the world by the sale of strictly high - grade
incubators, fully justified it in believing that the same class of trade would pay the necessary prices for strictly
high-grade brooders. It decided, therefore, to abandon any further attempt to serve the temporary interests
of its customers by trying to save them a dollar or two per brooder on their original investment when to
do so will mean the loss, later on, of many times the amount in a wasteful mortality of chicks.

When it became necessary for us to build brooders in conformity with the "Rules and Requirements" of
the Associated Fire Insurance Companies, or to place our customers in a position where they either would
invalidate their fire insurance policies or would have to go without fire insurance, we decided to introduce
a truly standard line of oil-heated brooders — a line of brooders fully as good for the purposes intended as are
the Standard Cyphers Incubators. We realized that it had been just "that extra dollar or two" on each brooder
which was needed to complete the device and make it a first-class article.

A properly designed and well constructed brooder is as necessary to success in raising chicks and duck-
lings by artificial means as is the use of the best incubator obtainable. Manufacturers of brooders have known
this for years, but the competition in cheap brooders has caused them to make and sell brooding devices that
have been either inadequate for the purpose or not durable enough to last and give satisfaction during a
reasonable length of time.

Usefulness Reduced Fifty Per Cent. If Not Insurable

It was very evident that our full line of Standard Cyphers Brooders must be insurable, otherwise their
usefulness and real value would be reduced at least one-half. At one time or another the poultry keeper
is sure to want to use his outdoor brooders in or near valuable buildings. This is true in every case with
indoor brooders, and it is true also of outdoor brooders. At certain seasons of the year it may suit the poultry-
man to locate his outdoor brooders in a field or an orchard, far from his residence and other buildings, but early
in each season he will find it both profitable and convenient to operate them either indoors or in a sheltered
position near some building. This made it clear to us that an uninsurable outdoor brooder would be worth
only about fifty cents on the dollar, because it could not be used with safety except at a considerable
distance from insured property and away from combustible material of any kind that might endanger insured
property. Also, there was the matter of the extra labor and inconvenience in attending to brooders, especially
early in the season, that must be located at a safe distance from buildings and other insured or exposed property.

nEMEMBER, please, that Standard Cyphers Oil-Heated Brooders, both outdoor and indoor, all sizes and styles,
■«* are built in strict conformity with the Rules and Requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
and every one bears the Factory Inspection Label of the Underwriters' Laboratories, placed thereon under the
direction of the National Board; therefore, they can be used anywhere at any time without refusal on the part of
the Fire Insurance Companies and without danger to the property of the policy- holding operator.

NO. 4.

NO. 5.

WORLD'S CHALLENGE ADAPTABLE HOVER AND BROODER HEATER. FIRE-PROOFED— INSURABLE.

{Patented.)
Detailed Scale Drawing of Adaptable Hover and Brooder Complete (except casing) illustrating: No. i — Vertical
Section of Adaptable Hover showing interior construction, including section of Brooder lamp chamber, double heat dome,
heater compartment, direct heat pipe, fresh-air flue, hover, waste-heat pipe and T-fume vent and wind-break. No. 2 —
Horizontal Section of Adaptable Hover showing method of conveying warm air to hover compartment from lamp
chimney (f) through inner heat dome (e), thence through direct heat pipe (d) into heat drum or radiator (c). No. 3 —
Lamp Chamber of Heater Compartment, showing deflector and guide plate. Nos. 4 and 5 — Inner heat dome, forced
draft chamber between the walls of the double dome through which chamber warm air is drawn, fresh-air flue, which
surrounds heat dome and conveys pure warm air to hover compartment.

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CYPHERS ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

Standard Fire-Proof Brooder Heater. Self-Regulating, Self-
Ventilating and Adapted for Safe and Convenient use Anywhere
that is Suitable for Confining or Yarding Chicks or Ducklings

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY never
rendered the Poultry Industry a greater ser-
vice than when, after four years of costly exper-
imenting, it perfected the device which it named the
World's Challenge Adaptable Brooding Hover for
-chicks and ducklings.

TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, at a low estimate,
was expended by us in the long series of experiments
which resulted finally in the production of this Adapt-
able Hover. For a full decade this company had been
working on the problem of a lamp-heated brooding
device that would meet all the requirements. It was
said to be an easy task to hatch chickens in incubators,
but a difficult matter to raise them in brooders. That
was the cry for years ! We believed that the fault lay
mostly in the brooding apparatus and in the feed-
ing methods employed, and later developments —
the later successes obtained by thousands of Cyphers
Company customers, have established the fact that we
were right.

In the course of time several styles of brooders
were designed by us and carefully tested. The best
of them were catalogued and sold to customers located
in all parts of the civilized world — which is the real
test of a device of this kind. These different types of
Cyphers Brooders gave general satisfaction, as com-
pared with other makes on the market, but we felt sure
they could be improved upon and therefore held to
the task, regardless of expense. The outcome was the
invention of the World's Challenge Cyphers Com-
pany Adaptable Hover — and this invention meant an
easy road to a greatly improved complete line of oil-
heated indoor and outdoor brooders, because the
heating and hover equipment may well be said to
comprise the very heart and lungs of a practical
brooder — they represent the two vital elements of
successful brooding by artificial means.

SELF-REGULATING AND SELF-
VENTILATING

FOR TWENTY YEARS manufacturers of incu-
bators, and brooders, not alone in the United States,
but also in leading European countries, have been seek-
ing to develop a practical type of self-regulating and
self-ventilating brooders. Their wish has been to
place these devices on a par with the best incubators
in use. The Cyphers Company for years worked faith-
fully at this problem, but did not meet with real suc-
cess until it invented the Adaptable Hover.

WE HAD LONG BELIEVED that brooders, to
be entirely practical, should be automatic in regula-
tion and self-ventilating, especially at night. As at
present equipped with our Adaptable Hover, every
lamp-heated brooder manufactured and sold by us is
both self-regulating and self-ventilating. The
same high-grade zinc and steel thermostat is used on

the Adaptable Hover that we employ in regulating the
latest-pattern Standard Cyphers Incubators, and the
fresh air, which is drawn automatically into the hover
space for use of the chicks, is WARMED before it
reaches them, and no draft from the source of heat can
possibly get under the hover. It should be noted that
the Cyphers Company's Adaptable Hover is self-regu-
lating and self-ventilating as a separate device
irrespective of the brooder case or other enclosure in
which it is used. It is the temperature underneath
the hover that is regulated, and pure, warmed
air is delivered to this point from the fresh-air cham-
ber, regardless of other conditions.

LAMP FLAME WILL NOT BLOW OUT AND
DOES NOT SUCK OUT

REMARKABLE AS IT MAY SEEM, this hover
is so constructed that it could actually be used out of
doors without the protection of a case or other enclos-
ure and the lamp would not blow out. This favorable
condition arises from the fact that there is no con-
nection whatever in the form of an air passage
between the lamp chamber and the space underneath
the hover; therefore, fumes from the lamp cannot
possibly reach the space where the chicks sleep, nor
can the action of the air on the interior of a brooder
case, colony coop, portable house or other enclosure
affect the flame of the lamp in the slightest degree.
It is on this account that the lamp chamber can be
opened at any time, in any location, for filling the
bowl, trimming the wick or adjusting the flame, and the
blaze positively will not suck out, regardless of
whether the doors, windows or chick exit to the

brooder case, roosting coop, or poultry house are

open or closed.

CYPHERS COMPANY ADAPTABLE HOVER.
(Patented.)
Fire-Proofed — Insurable. Can be used anywhere.
Fig. 1. — Shows side view of combined Fire-Proof Heater and
Standard Adaptable Hover, ready for use. Device can be mounted ;
tliat is, joined togetlier, in less than thirty seconds' time. When
uncrated will be found to consist of five pieces (not including regu-
lator arm, regulator disc and thermometer), as follows: Heater
compartment, hover, two sections of waste-heat pipe and T-fume
vent and wind-break.

CYPHERS COMPANY'S ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

CAN BE USED ALMOST ANYWHERE, AS
NAME INDICATES

THIS BROODING DEVICE is called "Adapt-
able" because of the many practical ways in which it
can be utilized by poultrj' raisers. As before stated,
it is used in every style and size of Cyphers Standard
Oil-Heated Brooders; it is also used with uniform suc-
cess in one of the several long brooding houses on the
Cyphers Company's fifty-acre poultry farm, Buffalo,
N. Y., and it can be used with good results in other
makes of brooders, provided the cases are not less than
2}^ X 3 feet in floor space and 24 inches high; also as
individual brooding devices in home-made cases, con-
sisting of large goods boxes, organ or piano boxes; also
in roosting coops, in colony houses and other portable
poultry houses; also in connection with any ordinary
hen house, closed shed or other out-building where a
space can be partitioned or wired off for the chicks.
Many of these hovers are in use in vacant rooms of
dwellings, also in stables, barns, etc. See pictures in
following pages of this catalogue that suggest the vari-
ety of uses to which this readily portable, easily handled
fire-proof hover may be "adapted" with profitable
results.

CYPHERS COMPANY ADAPTABLE HOVERS
are machinery-made throughout. Special stamping
machines and costly dies are used in their manu-
facture. The weight and quality of metal and all
details of construction are governed by the Fire Under-
writers, on penalty of a refusal by them to issue to
us the official labels. Each hover is separately
inspected in our factor^' by a representative of the Fire
Underwriters and is approved and labeled, under the
direction of the National Board of Fire Underwriters,

CYPHERS COMPANY ADAPTABLE HOVER.
{Quartering View.)

Each separate hover bears the official iltstlrance label.
Fig. 2. — {From photograph.) 1, Heater compartment; 2,
Inlet to fresh-air cliamber; 3, Fresh-air flue leading from forced
draft chamber of double-dome heater to space underneath hover;
4, Asbestos-lined metal hover; 5, Air inlet to lamp chamber, con-
sisting of slide with one-inch hole for winter use and two and one-
half inch opening back of slide for indoor use; 6, Cell-board asbestos,
metal-covered backing to which heater compartment is bolted and
which, in use, is bolted to brooder case or other wooden structure ;
7, Rectangular metallic flange that spaces direct heat pipe; 8,
Encloses direct heat flue leading from lamp to radiator; 9. Waste-
heat and fume pipe; 10. Insulating collar that spaces waste-heat
pipe from case of brooder; 11, T-wind-break and fume exit.

Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc.
INSPECTED BROODER
« ^m I Ifc .

FAC-SIMILE OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS' OFFICIAL LABEL
Form of Brass Label to be found (in serial numbers) on every
Cyphers Company Adaptable Hover. Each device separately
inspected in our factory. For your own best interests and the
safety of the chicks Demand the Labels.

before it is boxed for shipment. There can be no
variation, therefore, in the construction of these devices
nor in the quality of the materials — they are always the
same, always strictly first-class.

NOT ONE OF THESE HOVERS HAS BEEN
RETURNED TO US

During the last three years many thousands of
these Adaptable Hovers have been sold by us and our
agents for use in every part of the United States and
Canada, and not in a single case have we been
asked to take one back or to replace one on account of
its being defective. This is a record that we believe
has never before been approached, let alone equalled,
in the manufacture and sale of an Oil-Heated Brooding
Device for chicks and ducklings.

We invite the most exacting comparison of
the Cyphers Company Adaptable Hover with any
other Brooding Device on the market and if the pur-
chaser does not find that it contains at least twice
as many truly valuable points in its construction and
use as its competitor, he can return it to us within
a reasonable length of time and we will promptly
refund the price.

GUARANTEED TO SATISFY EVERY
PURCHASER

The fact that we sell the Cyphers Adaptable Hover
and our complete line of Outdoor and Indoor Brooders
under a broad guarantee that they shall give per-
sonal satisfaction to every Cyphers Company cus-
tomer, whether a direct customer or the customer of
one of our agents, should be a sufficient endorsement
of these goods, on the strength of this company's
business standing and financial responsibility — yet
we find pleasure insubmitting, on pages 69, 70, 71,
72 and 73 a fair sample of the many favorable
reports we have received from customers who are using
these standard devices. We could multiply these
reports by the hundreds, or by the thousand, if it were
necessary.

ON YOUR PART, READER, please study care-
fully the illustrations and detailed description herewith
and use your own good judgment about the value
of our Challenge Adaptable Brooding Hover, as com-
pared with other articles of the kind on the market,
and your special attention is directed to the econom-
ical and satisfactory method of brooding chicks by

CYPHERS COMPANY'S ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

the use of the Cyphers Company Adaptable Hover,
as originated by R. P. Ellis, proprietor of the Aurora
Leghorn Farm, Brooklyn, N. Y. — a plan that we
recommend for minimum investment per chick
capacity. See pages 74 and 75. Also read carefully
the various methods mentioned in customers' reports,
pages 72 and 73.

DESCRIPTION IN DETAIL OF CYPHERS
COMPANY STANDARD ADAPTABLE

HOVER
Fig. 1 on page 55 is a view of the Cyphers Fire-
Proof Standard Adaptable Hover and Brooder Heater
put together ready for use. The device when unboxed
will be found to consist of five separate parts (not
including regulator arm, regulator disc and thermom-
eter), as follows: Heater compartment, hover, two
sections of waste-heat pipe and T-fume pipe and wind-
break. These parts can be put together by opera-
tor for use in less than thirty seconds' time.
Heat drum or radiator is shipped securely bolted in
place, and thermostat is attached and tested before
device leaves factory. Hover complete, safely boxed
for shipment, weighs 40 pounds.

The heater compartment (1, Fig. 2, page 56) is made
of heavy galvanized iron,
double seamed and riv-
eted throughout. The
interior of this compart-
ment is divided by a fire-
tight partition into two
chambers, the lower or
lamp chamber and an
upper one in which the
double heat dome, having
an air - spaced asbestos
jacket, is located and from
which chamber warm,
fresh air entering through the opening (2) is drawn
upward by forced draft between the walls of the
double heat dome and is discharged through the
fresh-air flue (3) underneath the hover (4). Oxygen
is admitted to the lamp chamber through two wire
screened openings located in the side walls of the
lamp chamber at points below the deflector plate and
opposite the lamp bowl, where a direct draft from
the outside cannot strike the oil flame. One of
these inlets is shown (5) in Fig. 2. This inlet con-
sists of a slide with a one-inch hole for winter use and
a two and one-half inch opening back of
the slide for indoor use. The larger opening
is screened with fine mesh brass wire cloth
through which flame or sparks cannot pass.
The heater and heater compartment
are "made entirely of non-combustible
material," as required by the Rules of the
Fire Underwriters, and the entire structure
is so designed "that fire therein or in pipes
connected thereto cannot communicate
to combustible material outside the

Fig. 3.— View of Insulat-
ing Collar that spaces waste-
heat pipe from woodwork of
brooder or other

Fig. 4. — Complete Regulating Device used on Cyphers Com-
pany's Adaptable Hover and Standard Oil-Heated Brooders, all
Sizes. Same thermostat is used in Standard Cyphers Incubators.
No. 1, Zinc and steel double-action thermostat; 2, Seat of knife-
edge bearing; 3, Regulator arm; 4, Counterpoise weight; 5, Regu-
lator disc; 6. Adjustment nut.

same." The heater compartment is bolted "securely
to a metal-protected backing (6, Fig. 2) consisting of
cell-board asbestos that is covered on the heater side
with galvanized iron, which backing, when device is
in use, is bolted to the brooder case or side of poultry
house. The lamp chamber has a rear wall of extra
thick galvanized iron where it rests against the metal-
covered, heat-resisting backing, and the front or door
side of this chamber is also double, allowing the
gravity (or self-closing) door to slide upward between
the double walls, making it impossible for fire to
issue therefrom or for the weather to beat into the
lamp chamber at this point.

Fig. 2-7 shows the form of rectangular flange
that spaces the direct heat pipe and fresh-air flue (3)
from the woodwork of brooder case or other struc-
ture. The direct heat pipe is on the interior of this
fresh-air flue (see page 54, illustration No. 1) and the
outer flue is wrapped with asbestos. A one-half inch
space exists around the direct heat pipe, between it
and the fresh-air flue, thus allowing free passage for
moderately warmed air which itself serves as insula-
tion around the direct heat pipe where this pipe-passes
through the brooder case. In Fig. 2 is also shown
the metal collar (10) which spaces the waste-heat
pipe (9, 9) a distance of one-half inch from the wood-
work at points where pipe emerges from brooder case
or wall of poultry house or colony coop and connects
with T-wind-break and fume exit (11). For enlarged
view of collar, see Fig. 3.

The above described construction, combined
with that further illustrated and described on
page 54, is such, as proved by repeated tests,
that fire or sparks from the lamp, from the heater
compartment or from pipes connected thereto
"cannot communicate to combustible material

Fig. 5. — Shows closed and open views of Fresh-Air Inlet to lamp chamber
in heater compartment of Standard Adaptable Hover. Ventilating slide <

Is closed in winter time out of doors, and is opened part — — i— "•

illustration at right) during warm weather or when device

CYPHERS COMPANY'S ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

outside of heater." This construction complies
strictly and in alldetails with the "Rules and Require-
ments" of the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
otherwise it could not bear the inspection label.

Fig. 5 presents views of double opening, fire-
protected fresh-air inlet to lamp chamber through
which oxygen is supplied to lamp flame. Back of the
slide (Fig. 5) in side wall of the lamp chamber,
near bottom of chamber and below the metal deflector
and guide-plate, is located an opening two and one-
half inches in diameter, which is covered with fine-
mesh brass wire screen through which flame or
sparks] cannot pass. The inch hole is for use out-
doors in cold weather, and the two and one-half inch
opening is for use indoors where the movement of air
is more sluggish. By drawing slide to one side,
the amount of fresh air admitted to lamp chamber can
be varied from the one-inch hole in slide to the two
and one-half inch opening in wall back of slide.

Fig. 8 shows forms of malleable iron castings
and stamped collar used in securing smoke and
fume-proof joints and connections at all danger
points in the construction
of Fire-Proof Adaptable
Hover. Rule 2 of the Fire
Insurance Underwriters'
"Requirements" specifies
that "no part of the heater
or heater compartment
shall rely upon solder
as a fastening." By
use of castings and
stamped collars this rule
was complied with at
points where double seaming and riveting were either
impractical or inadequate, and by this means a sub-
stantial construction, as well as fire-proof device, was
secured.

Fig. 7 shows a sectional view of what is called a
bayonet-catch connection, which locks together
securely the two sections of waste-heat pipe (A,
page 54) and assists in preventing the hover part of
the complete structure from jarring or working out

Fig. 7. — Shows Bayonet-Catch Connection which locks together
the two sections of waste-heat pipe (A, page 54) and assists in
preventing separation of hover parts from heater compartment
by jarring of brooder case. To lock the pipes, section (b) is inserted
into section (o), the catch (c) entering slot (.d) and then sliding to
point (e).

Fig. 8.— Metal Ca!>tulR^ inJ stimi, d LoHu ii-,ed m obtain-
ing fire and spark-proot jomts and connections m standard Adapt-
able Hover. Center view — Heavy cabting by which heater is
securely fastened to metal-covered backing of heater compartment.
Left view — Casting which receives direct heat pipe where pipe
enters heat drum or radiator under hover. Right view — Stamped,
one-piece collar by which direct heat pipe is securely riveted to
inner fiue of double heat dome.

Fig. 6. — Seamless-Bottom Brooder Lamp required to be used
if brooder is to be approved and bear the "inspected Brooder"
label. Note interior brace which prevents "bellows action" and
prevents spilling of oil in handling lamp bowl; also note guide ring
on the burner. Same high grade lamp complete that is used for
heating Standard Cyphers Incubators.

of its proper position, relative to location of the

heater compartment and direct heat pipe. For the
same purpose one of the
metal legs which supports
the hover is turned out-
ward at the bottom and
a screw hole is located in
the bent piece or foot.
By this means the hover,
when in position, is locked
by the bayonet - catch,
which holds the top of
the hover in place, and
the screw prevents the

metal legs of the hover from jarring away from the

heater end or side of the brooder case.

Fig. 6 shows to advantage the form of seamless-
bottom lamp bowl, also the interior brace called for
by the "Rules and Requirements" and the brass guide
ring on the burner. This is the same lamp exactly
that we use for operating Standard Cyphers
Incubators and without doubt is the strongest and
most satisfactory lamp manufactured to date for the
purpose of heating incubators and brooders.

Fig. 10 shows metal hover with curtain (1) and
part of hover rim (2) cut away, exposing the unob-
structed space underneath the hover for free use
of the chicks; also position of the heat drum or
radiator (3, 3) and zinc and steel thermostat (4) that
operates regulator (5). The hover is made of gal-
vanized iron, with a five-inch rim extending downward
on all sides and confining the heat to this level.
The under side of hover and inner surface of rim are
lined with asbestos to prevent excessive radiation.
Hover has an opening (6) through its center which
is covered by the regulator disc (7), also a small
opening (8) to receive the upright thermometer (9).
Hover is supported on three metal legs, and space

CYPHERS COMPANY'S ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

underneath hover is enclosed by a double-fold,
woolen felt curtain that is slit at convenient points
to allow chicks to pass in and out.

REMOVABLE AND CLEANABLE
HEAT DRUM

Fig. 9 shows circular heat drum or radiator.
Drum is held in position under hover by means of
screw bolts (1, 1) and is removable for cleaning.
Triangular pieces of metal (2, 2, 2) are employed to
separate the top of drum one-half inch from asbestos
lining on under side of hover, thus leaving space for
circulation of heated air above and around drum. A
three-inch circular flue (3) is located in center of
drum for passage of air upward from beneath drum,
thence outwardly toward sides of hover space, thus
distributing and equalizing the heated air. In the
bottom of the heat drum (see B, page 54,) near edge
of drum and at a point farthest from the inlet to the
direct heat pipe, is located an air-tight filler cap open-
ing, one and one-half inches in diameter, for use of
the operator in cleaning interior of drum when
gummy soot forms from ordinary burning of oil, or
should lamp smoke by accident. Washing soda in
water will cut and remove the gummy soot, and liquid ,
can be drained out through filler cap opening.
Should soot form in heater, it can be swabbed out
by use of stiff wire and a piece of cloth inserted in
filler cap hole, also through direct heat flue entrance.

VENTILATION IS AUTOMATIC

Fig. 11 is a sectional view showing how interior
of hover is ventilated automatically by forced draft,
and without possibility of lamp blowing out if door
is open to brooder or poultry house in which Adapt-
able Hover is used. There is no direct connec-
tion between the interior of the brooder case or
other enclosure and the lamp chamber of this device.

REMOVABLE AND CLEANABLE HEAT DRUM OR RADI-
ATOR USED IN CYPHERS STANDARD
ADAPTABLE HOVER.

Fig. 9. — Radiator is located one-half inch below asbestos-
lined under surface of metal hover and immediately above backs
of the chicks. 1, 1, Show screw bolts which hold radiator in top
of hover.^ 2,2,2, Are triangular pieces of metal which space radiator
one-half inch from under surface of hover top. 3, Is circular tube or
flue in center of radiator through which air circulates to equalize
the temperature underneath hover. Radiator is readily removable
from its position underneath hover and can be washed out or
swabbed when oily gum or soot collects on interior and interferes
with maximum radiation. '

Fig. 10, — View of Hover Section of Cyphers Fire-Proof Brooder
Heating Device with part of hover, hover rim and hover curtain
cut away, showing unobstructed space under hover for free use of
chicks. This construction does away with central heat dome and
chick guard, thus giving chicks more room and avoiding crowding
against any stationary object.

therefore an open door has no effect on the lamp
flame. This same condition is true if the door to the
lamp chamber is open. In other words, there is no
passageway for air from any point underneath of or
outside the hover leading back through the device
into the lamp chamber, the result being that this
. Adaptable Hover, with fire-proof heater attached,
(jiiiSpit be placed out of doors without a brooder
case around it, and a back draft underneath or
around the hover could not blow out the flame.

Fig. 12 shows front view of fire - proof heater
compartment of Adaptable Hover with sliding door
pushed up between double walls, also lamp in place
and metal deflector and guide-plate which protects
lamp bowl from radiated heat and holds lamp burner
in proper alignment with chimney and heat dome;
also mirror attachment used by operator in view-
ing lamp flame without opening door to chamber,
and in noting height of flame of lamp when
adjusting same. Backing extends one inch below
bottom of lamp chamber, therefore bottom of cham-
ber is that distance above floor of room at all times
when device is in use.

The construction shown in Fig. 12 is such that it
complies with the insurance "Rules and Require-
ments" which provide that the lamp support "shall
be so designed as to permit of the lamp being readily
removed and replaced by the operator without spill-
ing of oil," also that the lamp shall be so supported
"that oil cannot drip from the lamp" to the floor of
the room in which the brooder is operated, and so
that fire from the lamp cannot "communicate
therefrom to the floor of the room in which the
brooder is operated." The lamp is inserted and
removed from the heater compartment of this device
practically on a level, and without danger of spill-
ing oil; the bottom joints of the lamp chamber are
double seamed and oil tight; the self-closing door is
flame-proof, and all inlets and outlets to this chamber
are covered securely with fine mesh brass fire-screen
that will prevent the issuance of flame or sparks should
the lamp by any mischance get in trouble.

CYPHERS COMPANY'S ADAPTABLE BROODING HOVER

between walls of double-dome heater without possibility of lamp
blowing out if door is open to brooder case or poultr>' house in
which Adaptable Hover is used. There is no passage way for air
from interior of brooder case or poultry house to the lamp chamber.
As will be noted by the arrows, the outer fresh air enters lamp box
through the screened opening (a) and passes into space (6) between
walls of double heat dome, thence through space (c) and under-
neath the hover (d).

OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS

Still other details of construction were required
by the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.) before they
granted labels for use on brooders of this company's
manufacture. The first paragraph in the booklet of
"Rules and Requirements," as adopted by the National
'Board of Fire Underwriters for the construction of
incubators and brooders, consists of a note which
reads as follows: —

"NOTE — The portion of these rules relating
to design and construction are but a partial
outline of requirements. A device which
fulfills the conditions of these requirements
and no more will not necessarily be acceptable.
All such appliances should be submitted for
examination and test before being introduced
for use."

In the construction of the Cyphers Company
Fire-Proof Brooder Heater and Standard Adaptable
Hover several of these other details were: Extra
weight of metal in heater compartment; fineness of

brass fire-screen adopted; size and strength of bolts
used; character of every seam, every joint and every
pipe connection; distance of bottom of lamp chamber
from floor of room in which brooder is to be operated,
etc.; but it would seem that enough has been
stated in this direction to convince the interested
reader that the fire insurance engineers "meant
business" when they framed the Rules adopted by
the National Board, and that they "attended to
business" when enforcing the Requirements.
CHEAPLY-BUILT, DEFECTIVE BROODERS
CAUSE HEAVY FIRE LOSSES
CHEAP AND WRONGLY-CONSTRUCTED
BROODERS have caused the loss of many thousands
of valuable chicks, also of property of still greater
value. That was precisely why the representatives of
the Associated Standard Fire Insurance Companies
of the United States
and Canada adop-
ted rigid rules gov-
erning the con-
struction of devices
of this kind that
the companies are
willing to insure.
Their interests and
those of the owners
of valuable prop-
erty are clearly
identical and users

of poultry brooders - ^

cVirviiM fnJ^£> full Fig. 12. — Illustrates

snouia taKe tUU ^f y^^^^^ Attachment in viewing lamp
advantage of the fiame in fire-proof heater compartment
, . , , . without opening door to lamp chamber;

highly important also in adjusting height of flame without
work the I'noiiranfp operator having to get down on Imees.
work tne insurance Looting downward from point (a) to
engineers have per- mirror (6) the flame can easily be seen
^ J reflected on mirror from opening (c) in

formed. chimney.

Fire-Proofed and Insurable Incubators and
Brooders cost more than the cheaply and
nimsily built kinds, but they are safe to use — ■
anywhere, any time!

WM^

^"^5^-^

"AS TIME-SAVERS, BEAT ANYTHINQ I HAVE TRIED"

Lisbon, New Hampshire, July 28, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. V. —

It gives us very much pleasure to report the success we have
had from your "Time-Saving" ADAPTABLE HOVERS, used
in connection with a home-made colony house, fitted with a run at
each end. The accompanying photograph shows my colony house
equipped with the Adaptable Hovers. The chicks in picture are
White Leghorns, four weeks old.

The Cyphers Adaptable Hovers are very easy to regulate,
the chicks take to them readily, and are always comfortable.
Practically all I have to do is to attend to the food and water
supplies— t/ic hovers do the rest. As time-savers they beat
anything I have ever tried in the way of brooders.

J. E. COLLINS.
" WHAT MORE COULD BE ASKED FOR "

Sterling, Pa., March 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. I'.—

This is my second season usini; your Adaptable Hover. /
find it all that you recommend it to be. I now have eighty
newly hatched chicks in it, in an outdoor brooder. Last night
was a very bluatry night. I had the partition in the brooder
closed and the ventilator open part way. This morning I found
the temperature underneath the Hover where the chicks <
brooded was a little above 95 degrees. What
asked for?

CYPHERS STYLE A OUTDOOR BROODER

(Known as Storm lUng Previous to 1909)

FIRE-PROOFED— INSURABLE

SPECIAL ATTENTION is called to the sub-
stantial wooden cases of the Cyphers Company
Outdoor Brooders. They are built on the colony
house plan and each size can be used to advantage
as a colony roosting coop. The Adaptable Hover
that is used complete in every Cyphers Oil-Heated
Brooder is readily removable, leaving the entire
interior of the case for use of the growing chicks.

Heavier and better materials are used in these
brooder cases than in lower priced goods. Each one
is built throughout of inch-thick dressed white pine
lumber,, including the floor. Every case is built in
panels, and all joints are substantially made. When
set up the roof is held in position with screw hooks
and screw eyes that are located on the interior away
from the weather. There are but six "pieces"
to a two-apartment Cyphers Style A Brooder — the
roof, floor and four sides, and only seven pieces to
the cases of the Style B and Style C three-apartraent
types — the roof, floor, four sides and the removable
partition between the hover and exercising apart-
ments. Each case is so con.structed that it can be
shipped knock-down in compact form, thus obtain-
ing low freight rates. The Fire-Proof Heater and
Adaptable Hover are securely boxed in a separate
package, thus avoiding danger of damaged parts
by rough handling in shipment.

THE CYPHERS STYLE A OUTDOOR
BROODER (see Figs. 13, 14 and 17) is recom-
mended for use of poultry raisers who feel that they
do not wish to invest in the larger sized and higher
priced three-apartment outdoor brooders. The Style A
is equipped with the Cyphers Fire-Proof Standard

CYPHERS STYLE A OUTDOOR BROODER.

(.Known as Storm King previous to 1909.)

Fire-Froofed. — Insurable.

Fig. 13. — Two-Apartment, Combination Outdoor Brooder and Colony

Roosting Coop. Self-ventilating and self-regulating. Built throughout

of seven-eighths inch thick lumber, including the floor. Has double door

for convenient cleaning and summer ventilation. Large, single-pane, 12x18-

inch window with substantial frame. Is equipped with Cyphers Fire-Proof

Standard Adaptable Hover and Brooder Heater and bears the "Inspected

Brooder" label of the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.).

61

Fig. 14. — Shows Cyphers Style A Outdoor Brooder with hover
removed and roost pole in place for use of Brooder case as a Colony
Roosting Coop. Has double door with wire mesh protection for
night ventilation.

Adaptable Hover and Brooder Heater and bears the
Fire Underwriters' "Inspected Brooder" label. It
employs top-heat exclusively, thus giving the chicks
free use of all space underneath the hover. It is self-
ventilating and self -regulating.

On page 57, Fig. 4, we illustrate the thermostat
and all other parts of complete regulating device
used on Cyphers Standard Oil-Heated Brooders, all
sizes. This thermostat is the same that is used in Stand-
ard Cyphers Incubators and is reliable in action.
Regulating device, complete, is attached to and sold
with the Adaptable Hover as a separate article, and
this hover is used in every Cyphers Oil-Heated Brooder,
including the indoor type; therefore, the Adaptable
Hover itself and the full line of Cyphers
Oil-Heated Brooders are self-regulating.
PARTICULAR ATTENTION is called
to Fig. 15 which shows the form of double-
frame door used for the hover apartment of
the Style A Cyphers Outdoor Brooder and
for the exercising apartment of the Style B
and Style C Three-Apartment Outdoor
Brooders and Combination Colony Roosting
Coops. The inner door, containing the
12 X 18-inch glass panel, opens upward
for ventilating purposes, and is held in posi-
tion by a heavy wire hook. The length of
this hook is such that it holds the glass-panel
door at the right slant to prevent rain from
beating into the brooder. To the inside of
the outer frame, i. e., to the 26 x 19-inch door
frame that opens to the left, wire-mesh
screen is fastened securely. It is galvanized
instead of being painted, hence will not
corrode for several years.

BY THE USE OF THESE DOUBLE-
FRAME DOORS we secure several

CYPHERS STYLE A OUTDOOR BROODER

advantages, including the following: A large door
opening to one side, out of the way for cleaning
purposes; a door, the sill of which is on a level with
the floor of the exercising room, which facilitates clean-
ing; a convenient means for obtaining ample venti-
lation, while at the same time preventing cats, rats
and other enemies of chicks from gaining access to the
brooder, and a protection against rain beating in when
the inner door is hooked open for purposes of ventilation,

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS will note with
approval that no top light, through glass placed in the
roof, is supplied to the interior of Cyphers Outdoor
Brooders. Top light, through glass that admits the
direct rays of the sun, is a common cause of over-
heated chicks, resulting in losses from bowel trouble.

An inspection of the numerous illustrations

herewith (see following pages also) will demonstrate

the ease with which all styles of Cyphers Outdoor

Brooders can

be thoroughly

cleaned.

NOTICE: —
This brooder,
like all other
Cyphers styles
(A, B, C and D)
can be used
indoors as well
as outdoors
with equal
success and
safety. Re-
member that
every Standard
CyphersBrooder
bears the Fire
Underwriters' "Inspected Brooder" label; therefore,
buildings in which or near which they are operated
are insurable.

Dimensions: Floor space, 32 x 32 inches; height,
32 inches in front, 24 inches at rear. Capacity
(normal), seventy-five newly-hatched chicks; hover

Fig. IS.— Shows convenient form of Double
Door used for hover apartment of Style A
Cyphers Outdoor Brooder and for exercising
apartment of the Style B and Style C
Three-Apartment Outdoor Brooders and
Combination Colony Roosting Coops. Cleats
are used in place of rabbiting, thus avoiding
weakness in window and door frames.

Fig. 16. — Shows Home-Made Exercising Apartment used in con
Style A Outdoor Brooder. This Apartment, consisting of a packing c
roof, floor and window added, costs a few cents less than one dollar,

Fig. 17.— Rear view of Cyphers Style A Outdoor Brooder with
part of rear wall cut away, showing location of hover. Cover is
raised for cleaning purposes. Note position of Fire-proof Heater
Compartment, mirror attachment, etc.

space for twice that number. For price of Cyphers
Style A Fire-Proofed Insurable Brooder, see page 79.
HOME-MADE EXERCISING APARTMENT
Cyphers Company Customers who buy the Style A
Two-Apartment Brooder (above described and
formerly known as the Storm King) are advised to
construct a home-made exercising apartment for use
of the chicks during inclement weather. An
exercising apartment is of great value when chicks
have to be kept confined in an outdoor brooder several
days at a time, unless the brooder itself can be moved
indoors without too great inconvenience, in which
case the room or enclosure in which the brooder is
located will furnish exercising space for the chicks.
See Fig. 16 for illustration (from photograph) of
home-made, well-lighted exercising apartment,
built out of a goods box or packing case, at a cost of
less than one dollar, not includ-
ing labor. For a suitable window,
buy a stock-size single or double-
pane ordinary- cellar window sash,
hinge it at the top, and have the
bottom rail three or four inches
above the surface of the floor. This
brooder will then be of the same
tj'pe as the Cyphers Style B and
Style C, as illustrated and described
on the following pages: — By long
odds the best type of out-
door brooders thus far in-
vented for use in different
with Cyphers climates and during severe

■n a slant, with

t counted. Weather.

CYPHERS STYLE B OUTDOOR BROODER

(Known as Style A previous to 1909)

FIRE-PROOFED— INSURABLE

Most Popular "Foster Mother" Made and Sold in any Country at Any Price.
Tens of Thousands in Use, and They are Giving Universal Satisfaction

THIS BROODER possesses all the valuable
features found in the Style A two-apartment
brooder and is twice as large. It is equipped
with the Standard Cyphers Fire-Proof Adaptable
Hover complete and bears the Fire Underwriters'
"Inspected Brooder" label.

Cyphers Style B Outdoor Brooder is a three-
apartment brooder, and for this reason is strongly
recommended by us to all poultry raisers as the best
product of our fifteen years' experience in outdoor
brooder construction. Remember, it is not a question
of price — it is a question of raising the chicks!
This brooder will do it where all others fail. It is
durably built, automatic in action and with proper
care will last ten years or more.

THREE APARTMENTS:— The apartment under
the hover is the warmest at all times when brooder is
in operation; the apartment in which the hover is
located is next warmest; then there is the cool exer-
cising room, with large glass window and double
door, in which the chicks obtain the necessarj' exercise
during stormy weather and become gradually hard-
ened before they are allowed freedom out of doors
during the cold days of early spring.

Fig. 18 shows the Cyphers Style B Outdoor Brooder
complete, with both large doors closed for the night
or on account of stormy weather. Note the sub-
stantial construction of this brooder, its convenient
shape and the large, single-pane windows which insure
plenty of light for the chicks and healthful conditions.

This brooder is practically automatic in opera-
tion. It is both self-ventilating and self-regulating
and takes care of itself, day or night, Uke a Standard
Cyphers Incubator. The chicks entrusted to it require
attention only three times
daily — at feeding times. Its use
saves time, saves labor and
saves the lives of the chicks.

The operator of this brooder
does not have to run to it every
hour — or oftener; does not have
to nurse it like a sick child; does
not have to pen the chicks up in
a corner or small space every
stormy day; does not have to
"put the chicks to bed and tuck
them in" every night or when
the weather turns cool. If you
value your time, your chicks
and your peace of mind, buy
and operate an outdoor brooder
worthy of the name, not some
make-shift affair simply because
it is cheap. If you cannot raise

the chicks, you cannot succeed in your poultry work! It
is of no use to hatch chickens unless they can be safely
and profitably raised to market age or to maturity. In
planning your poultry enterprise, this brooding question
is of vital importance. Better stick to hens than buy
and use a cheap and worthless incubator. And it means
a double loss to entrust little chickens to a flimsily-
built, wrongly-constructed, death-trap brooder.

Fig. 20 shows the Cyphers Style B Brooder in
use, with the smaller door of the exercising apart-
ment part way open. This door is held in position
by a wire hook, and protects the interior of the
brooder from rain. Back of this door may be seen
the heavy wire screen that protects the interior of
the brooder from cats and other animals that prey
on chicks. Practical poultrymen will at once appre-
ciate the value of this feature.

In this illustration showing the exterior view of
the Cyphers Style B Outdoor Brooder we again call
special attention to the large single-pane window lights,
also to the substantial window and door frames. This
brooder is well lighted, durably built, and symmetrical
in appearance. The floor is in one piece, and the
floors of the hover and exercising apartment are on
the same level, avoiding the use of steps or inclined
runways for the chicks to climb. All of these valuable
features combine to make this the most popular
type of brooder In use at the present time. They add
somewhat to the cost of construction, but they save
the chicks — and that is what counts!

Fig. 15 shows the convenient form of double
door of the exercising apartment of the Style B and
Style C Cyphers Outdoor Brooders and of the hover
apartment of the Style A type. This form of double

CYPHERS STYLE B OUTDOOR BROODER.
Most Popular Brooder In Use.
Fire-Proofed. — Insurable.
18.— Shows Brooder closed for the night and on stormy days. Is both self-ventilating

CYPHERS STYLE B OUTDOOR BROODER

door — wire protected — has never been excelled in out-
door brooder construction. It is highly valuable, both
for ventilation and as a protection to the chicks.

AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE in the Cyphers
Style B and Style C Outdoor Brooders is illustrated
in Fig. 19. We refer to the unique construction of
the chick doors in the partition which separa,tes the
hover and exercising apartments. An opening or chick
door is located at either end of the partition, close
to the floor, which leaves the center board in place
on a line between the outdoor chick exit and
the space underneath the hover, thus furnishing a wind-
break to protect the chicks under the hover. This con-
struction also does away with four corners in these
brooders, thereby practically eliminating the danger
of small chicks losing their way to the hover. Each
of these chick openings is covered with a slitted felt
curtain, and the double wooden door is closeable at
night or at any time it is desired to confine the chicks
in the hover apartment for greater warmth, or to the
exercising apartment while the hover apartment is
being cleaned and aired.

Fig. 23 shows a valuable feature to be found on
all styles of Cyphers Outdoor Brooders, consisting of
a metal door with grooved metal slides for closing
the chick exit in a water tight manner. See illus-
tration. This metal door will not swell, split or stick.
Engaging the turned metal runways and jam in the
way that it does, it keeps out rain, snow and wind.

The fronts, ends, backs and tops of all Standard
Cyphers Brooders are built in panels, like well-
constructed incubators. In place of being cheaply
thrown together and fastened with cleats, these panels
are built of selected, tongued and grooved pieces,
tenoned and mortised at the ends and securely glued
and nailed together, making air-tight joints, thus con-
fining the heat and excluding the cold.

CYPHERS STYLE B OUTDOOR BROODER.
(Formerly known as Style A.)
Fire-Proofed. — Insurable.
c=if ^5;.?''-~Three-Apartment Combination Outdoor Brooder and Colony Roosting Coop.
Self-ventilating and self-reEulating. Built throughout of seven-eighths inch thick lumber.
F oors of hover and exercising apartments on same level. Large, single-pane. 12 x 18 inch
windows with substantial frames. Double doors to exercising apartment for ready cleaning.
4^, "''^,"'"'■2 "^ ° °I 4"™"?er ventilation. Is equipped with Cyphers Fire-Proof Standard
writer^lib t^"'- fl 1° ^^"^'' ''"'' "^^^ "Inspected Brooder" label of the Under-

Fig 19 — Shows chick doors in partition between hover and
exercising apartments in Cyphers Stile B and Sts le C Outdoor
Brooders Form of construction avoids four comers Doors are
hung with slitted felt curtains, and center board protects space
underneath hover from direct druft through outdoor chick exit.
Double wooden door is closeable at night or during extra cold
weather.

Fig. 22 shows the Cyphers Style B Outdoor
Brooder with the Adaptable Hover (or hover part) and
the apartment partition removed, with roost pole in
position for use of this substantial and roomy structure
as a colony roosting coop. The chicks brooded in this
combination brooder and roosting coop can thus be
kept in the same enclosure from the day they are first
placed there until they are ready for market or to be
separated as to sex.

Customers who buy these brooders, instead of
relying on home-made brooders, not only get the bene-
fit of our long experience, but get brooders that are
complete in fact, not hit-or-miss affairs that are
liable to be defective in some essential point.
Please remember that every feature in the design and
construction of these standard brooders is really
important. We know this to be true — and so do
our thousands of customers. Our sincere advice is:
buy the right kind of brooders at the start.
Do not waste time, labor and money killing chicks
in cheap, worthless makes. Use the best from the
first, and our word for it you will save the difference
in cost within six months'
time. The main reason why
many people who "try their
hand" at poultry raising do
not meet with better success is
because they invest in poor tools
to work with in hopes of saving
money. Do not make this
common mistake.

Dimensions of Cyphers Style
B Three-Apartment Colony
Brooder: Floor space, 32 x 62
inches; height, 32 inches in front,
2-1 inches at rear. Capacity
(normal), one hundred newly-
hatched chicks; can accommo-
date one hundred and fifty chicks.
Shipped knock-down.

For price of Cyphers Style
B Outdoor Brooder and Colony
Coop, see page 79.

CYPHERS STYLE C OUTDOOR BROODER

Has Double-Insulated Hover Apartment

FIRE-PROOFED— INSURABLE

THIS SELF-VENTILATING AND
SELF-REGULATING, Three-
Apartment Outdoor Colony
Brooder has all the good points of the
two brooders hereinbefore described, and
one more — it is built extra warm for
use in northern latitudes and dur-
ing severe cold weather. The hover
apartment is double walled with a dead-
air space between the walls; the roof has
double insulation and the hover apart-
ment window is fitted with double glass
with an air space between. This brooder
is of the same dimensions as the Standard
Style B, and is recommended for use in
the more northern States and in Canada during the
wintry weather of February and March by poultry
keepers who wish to entrust extra valuable chicks to
the care of an individual outdoor brooder. Expense
has not been spared on this
brooder in building it to~meet the
demands of a comparatively small
but important class of trade.

Fig. 21 shows an excellent view
of the Cyphers Style C Colony Out-
door Brooder, with door to hover
apartment open, showing Standard
Adaptable Hover in position and door
of exercising apartment ajar, with
smaller door hooked up for summer
ventilation, exposing interior of apart-
ment and showing weather-proof
metal door to chick exit. Below
lower rail of hover apartment is a removable wooden

Fig. 22.— Shows Cyphers Style B (also Style C) Outdoor Brooder with Adaptable
Hover and apartment partition removed for use of brooder case as a Colony Roosting

■ght ventilation.

Coop. Note roomy interior and heavily screened double door for i

Fig 23 — \ lew of Chick E\
C\ phers Indoor and O u t d
Brooder- all t,t\ le» show ing stc
proof and water-tight const
tion. Metal sliding door is used
that does not swell with moisture.
Metal door sill is water-tight.

Strip which enables the attendant to clean this

? Style A previous

CYPHERS STYLE C OUTDOOR
Fire-Proofed, Insurable, Self-Venlilaling aiid Self-Regulating.
Fig. 21. — Same in all respects as the popular Style B Brooder (known a:
to 1909) except that hover apartment has double walls with air-tight space betweeii, and'
to hover apartment has double glass with air space between. Recommended for special use in
more northern latitudes and very early in season for extra valuable chicks. Is equipped with
Cyphers Fire-Proof Brooder Heater and Standard Adaptable Hover and bears "Inspected
Brooder label of the Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.).

ment with ease. When this strip is removed the floor
to both apartments is on a level with the door sill;
hence litter, etc., can be scraped out without obstruc-
tion. This same advantage will be found in -the Style B
Outdoor Brooder.

Fig. 24 shows the Cyphers Style
C Three-Apartment Brooder with
top removed and placed back of case,
also with front removed and placed at
right hand of case. This view shows
interior of case, including partition
with double chick door between the
two apartments, also double walls to
hover apartment and double insula-
tion to roof of this apartment. The
floor of the Style B Three-Apartment
Cyphers Outdoor Brooder consists of
one piece, hence the floors of the
hover and exercising apartments are on a level and
there are no steps or inclines for the chicks to
run up and down. By locat-
ing the floors of the two apart-
ments on a level the heat in the
two apartments equalizes to
better advantage, and the exer-
cising room is several degrees
warmer in this type than was the
case in the older styles of out-
door brooders in which the floor
of the exercising apartment was
a number of inches below that
of the hover apartment.

Fig. 22 shows the Cyphers
Style C Combination Outdoor
Brooder and Colony House with
the Adaptable Hover and the
partition between the two apart-
ments both removed and a roost
pole located in a convenient posi-
tion for the use of growing
chicks. By removing the hover

CYPHERS STYLE C OUTDOOR BROODER

and partition the chicks in the
Cyphers Style B and Style C Out-
door Brooders have a roosting space
3.2 X 62 inches in size. When either
of these brooders is used as a roost-
ing coop the smaller door to the
exercising apartment is raised and
hooked in place, thus giving ample
ventilation, while at the same time
the heavy wire mesh that is fastened
to the inner side of the larger door
protects the chicks at night.

The Cyphers Style C Brooder is
equipped with the Cyphers Fire-
Proof Heater and Standard
Adaptable Hover, and therefore is insurable, each
brooder bearing the "Inspected Brooder" label of the
Underwriters' Laboratories (Inc.).

Dimensions: Floor space, 32 x 62 inches; height,
32 inches in front, 24 inches at rear. Capacity (nor-
mal), one hundred newly-hatched chicks; can accom-

Fig. 24. — Shows the Cyphers Style C Three-Apartment Outdoor Brooder and Colony
Roosting Coop with top and front removed. e.\-posing interior of case. Note double walls
of hover apartment and double insulation of roof. Also note position of two chick doors in
partition between hover and exercising apartments.

modate one hundred and fifty chicks. Shipped knock-
down at low freight rates. For prices of Cyphers
iire-proofed and insurable brooders, see page 79.

NOTICE— This brooder, like all other Cyphers
Company styles, can be used indoors as well as out-
doors with equal success and safety.

"WOULDN'T BE WITHOUT YOUR BROODERS"

Oakdale, Cal., August 3, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I got one of your small Outdoor Brooders last spring and was
very much pleased with it. During the month of March we had
a week of continual rain. The little chicks ran in and out and not
one of them died during that storm. I raised two lots of
chicks in it last spring. I wouldn't be without your Brooders and
attempt to raise chickens. BEN RINEHART.

"DECIDED TO USE ONLY THE CYPHERS"

Route 5. Pine City, Minn., July 23, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

Having decided this spring to go into the poultry business rather
extensively, the selection of the make of incubator and brooder was
a rather difficult matter, so / selected three incubators and
brooders of different makes so as to give them a practical test.
I have decided in the future to use only the Cyphers Incuba-
tor and Brooder^ as I have had the best results from them.

J F CONROY.

CYPHERS COMPiW \D\PT\BLE HON ER
IN SERVICE
One of the mans w a\ =; m which the C% phers Company
Adaptable Hover can be adapted to suit the various require-
ments of poultrymen The illustration from photograph, shows
brooder on "Fostercraft Poultry Farm Chas E Foster, Pro-
prietor, Danvers, Masi

" DURING ZERO WEATHER CHICKS WERE
COMFORTABLE"

Forest City. Iowa, November 21, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. F.—

During the past season I have used one of your Style C Outdoor
Brooders. I have had experience with several other brooders but
your Style C is far superior to any of the others. It does all that
you claim for it, and more, as I had occasion to use it during zero
weather and the chicks were kept as comfortable as they
would have been under " Biddie," and the brooder was placed
out in the open and had no protection from the weather.

Your Beef Scrap is the purest of any I have ever used, and no
poultryman ought to be without your Scratching and Developing
Foods, as the use of them means dollars to the poultryman.
J. A. PETERS

" I HAD THE FIRELESS CRAZE "

Moodus, Conn., March 6, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y.^

I had the " fireless " craze this February and tried one early
lot on the fireless plan. On the third day, after loosing more than
thirty per cent, of the chicks, I put the balance in one of your reg-
ular Style B Outdoor Brooders, equipped with your Self-Regulating
Adaptable Hover, and now, four weeks later, have all of the
chicks left but one. No more " fireless " for me for early hatches
when I can get your brooders to do the job. / have eight of
these brooders now in use and shall not again "take chances."
CONECREST POULTRY YARDS, C. A. Russell.

"MONEY WOULDN'T BUY THIS BROODER"

R. R. No. 3, Clarksville, Iowa, May 29, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y. —

Perhaps you would be pleased to know how I like your Out-
door Brooder, Style B, 1909 pattern. It is the best Brooder I
ever saw. Met with the mishap of getting poor oil in lamp; the
pipes filled up with soot, but lamp was burning all O. K. and no
damage was done to chicks or brooder in spite of heavy wind and
an April snow storm. Money wouldn't buy this brooder if I
couldn't get another like it. It is as you advertise — it is right in
every way. MRS. G. W. BROCKWAY.

"WARM, COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY"

Willmar, Minn., May 27, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

1 received the three-apartment Style B Outdoor Brooder in fine
shape and everything fitted correctly. I think the brooder is a
dandy — the best I have seen, and I have seen a good many. Now
have a fine bunch of 28 chicks in it. iVo matter how stormy the
weather is a person can see the chicks in the brooder — warm,
comfortable and happy. HAROLD J. HENNINGS,

CYPHERS STYLE D INDOOR BROODER

For Use in Dwellings, Stables, Poultry Houses, Etc.

FIRE-PROOFED— INSURABLE

AS before stated, the usefulness and
j\ actual value of a non-insurable
outdoor brooder is reduced fully
fifty per cent, as compared with an insur-
able outdoor brooder, because the former
cannot be used in or near valuable property
that is covered by fire insurance, whereas
the value of an indoor brooder that is not
insurable is practically destroyed by
action of the associated fire insurance interests
in refusing to permit the use of such devices
in buildings that are insured or the contents
of which are insured, or in any place that
exposes insured property to danger of loss
by fire. It, therefore, is of prime importance
to every poultry raiser who wishes to use an
Indoor Brooder that the device shall be
fire-proofed and insurable. Such a
device we offer in the Cyphers Style D '
Indoor Brooder.

This insurable Indoor Brooder is
practically the same in all respects as the
Style A outdoor type, described on pages 61
and 62, except that the upper half is more
convenient in shape and construction
for indoor use. Fig. 26 shows the large
glass window put in on a slant to face the sunlight or a
window of apartment in which the brooder is to
be used; also top of brooder, part of which is a cover
or lid giving access to the interior of the case at rear
in caring for the chicks and regulating the heat under
the hover. Immediately beneath this hinged lid is
located a wire-covered frame that slides back and
forth under the permanent part of top of case. This
wired and rat-proof frame is for night ventilation and

Fig. 25. — Quartering view of Cyphers Style D Indoor Brooder,
with part of case cut away showing interior of hover apartment
with hover in position. Note large single-pane window and its
convenient position for cleaning interior of hover apartment.

CYPHERS STYLE D INDOOR BROODER.

(For use in Dwellings. Stables, Poultry Houses, etc.)

Fire-Proofed — Insurable.

Fig. 26. — Same in all respects as Cyphers Style A Outdoor Brooder (see

Fig. 13, page 61). except that upper half is designed specially for convenient

indoor use. Is equipped with Cyphers Fire-Proof Heater and Standard

Adaptable Hover, and bears the Fire Underwriters' "Inspected Brooder" label.

enables the attendant to control the chicks confined in
the brooder while caring for them, cleaning out litter,
etc. This type of brooder, equipped complete with
the Standard Cyphers Adaptable Hover, is for use in
any kind of building where chicks may be kept, including
rooms in dwellings or suitable places in barns, sheds or
poultry houses. They furnish a comfortable lodging place
for early hatched chicks direct from the incubator.

The Style D Cyphers Indoor Brooder should be
used in rooms or enclosures in which the chicks can
exercise freely during the day time, or in poultry
houses equipped with pens to be used by the chicks as
runways. Interested persons should bear in mind first
to last that growing chicks, in order to do well, must
have abundant light, pure air, proper food and
PLENTY OF EXERCISE.

The purchase of a brooder, for either indoor or
outdoor use, is a highly important matter. Too often
persons who invest in Standard Cyphers Incubators — ■
and who say that they would use no other make — seem
to be indifferent about brooders and are induced, from
one cause or another, to try cheaply-built, wrongly-
constructed brooders, and then find it impossible to
raise a satisfactory percentage of the chicks they
hatch. Cyphers Brooders will not disappoint you.

Dimensions of Cyphers Style D Indoor Brooder:
Floor space, 32x32 inches; height, 32 inches in front, 24
inches at rear. Capacity (normal), seventy-five newly-
hatched chicks; hover space for twice that number.

For prices of Cyphers fire-proofed and insurable
brooders, see page 79.

Improved Cyphers Chick Shelters

For Use in Connection with the Cyphers Styles A, B and C Outdoor Colony Brooders

TO meet the needs of our many customers and the
poultry pubhc generally we designed the Im-
proved Cyphers Chick Shelter, as illustrated on
this page, with a view to affording greater protection to
the chicks than is offered by the ordinary home-made
wire-enclosed runs. By use of this shelter the chicks
have an outdoor run, and they are protected from sun

most natural impulse being to run to the point nearest
the brooder.

SPECIAL — We supply storm-screens of water-
proof sheeting, two for the small-size shelter and
four for the large-size, in the form of closely fitting
panels that fit in over the wire netting {see illus-
trations), so as to close the side of the shelter that

The weather-proof storm-screens keep
out wind and rain, but let in light. Are
worth many times their cost.

Chick Shelter, with Storm-Screens in Place.

and storm and also from marauding animals that so
often reduce the flocks, especially where chicks are
reared on town and city lots.

This shelter is made in two sizes, the larger of
which is 12 feet long by 3 feet wide. It is 20 inches
high in front and 14 inches high in the rear. The small
shelter is one-half as long as the large size, the other
dimensions being the same. The front and back are
made of stout wooden frames covered with small-mesh
wire netting. One end is made to fit the front of the
Style A, Style B and Style C Colony Brooders. The
opposite end is closed. These Chick Shelters also fit
the Cyphers Style A, Storm King and Self-Regulating
Colony Brooders made and sold by us prior to 1909.

Among the improvements in this Chick Shelter will
be found a chick door on either side of the shelter next
to the brooder, so that when the chicks are allowed to
run outside they will readily find their way back, their

is toward the wind, thus forming an effective
wind-break, affording positive protection against
wind and storm, and insuring a comfortable,
enclosed outdoor shelter and nursery, so that the
chicks can have an open-air exercising space and
will be safe under all weather conditions.

The roof of the large-size chick shelter is con-
structed in two separate sections so that the roof of
either section can be raised independently of the other.

PRICES OF CHICK SHELTERS
(Shipped knock-down at low freight rate.)

Small-size Chick Shelter, 3 by 6 feet, complete

with waterproof screens $5.50

Large-size Chick Shelter, 3 by 12 feet, com-
plete with waterproof screens 8.50

— a method by which the chicks are under
complete control and entirely safe from

or Style C SeU-Regulatln£ Outdoor Colony Brooder.

Sample Reports— Cyphers Company Brooders

ADAPTABLE HOVERS IN HOME-MADE BROODERS.
Under date of June 26, 1911, Noah R. Kramer, Souderdown,
Pa., wrote: " I am very well pleased with the Adaptable Hovers.
The picture sent herewith will show the hover at work in home-
made brooders. The photo shows my four sons— one with a White
Wyandotte, one with a Black Leghorn, one with a Leghorn cock,
and the other has a Partridge Wyandotte hen. The chicks in the
brooder are White Leghorns. There are 145 in all, which is too
many, but as I did not have any more hovers I put them all in and
they are healthy. All the goods I got from you were satisfactory.'

"WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT BROODER FOR FIVE TIMES
ITS COST"

Baldwin, L. L, N. Y., November 13, 1911.
Cyphers Jncubaim Co., Buffalo, N. I'.—

Have been using a Cyphers Incubator for two years and am
well pleased with it. I purchased one of your Brooders last season,
and consider it one of the best investments I have yet made. Do
not see how it can be improved upon. The way it takes care of
chicks is certainly wonderful, and they grow like weeds in it. J
would not be without this Brooder for five times its cost.
I can heartily recommend your Chick Food also, as I have found
it the best I ever used, and I have used quite a number of other
brands. When I feed Cyphers Chick Food, the chicks have no
bowel trouble. Your Chick Food has given excellent results and
chicks grow like weeds. ALFRED W. BEDELL.

"ABLE TO RAISE 90 TO 97 PER CENT."

Muskegon, Mich., April 27, 1910.
Cypheis Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We are using your goods extensively — Incubators, Brooders,
Chick Food, Developing Food, Laying Food, etc., also Alfalfa and
Beef Scraps. We are able to raise 90 to 97 per cent, of the
chicks in your Brooders, fed with Cyphers Chick Food and
Developing Foods. Shall want several more Incubators, also
several Brooders in the near future. C. A. KEEFER,

Edgemere Farm.

"PASSED THROUGH SEVERE STORMS"

Port Clinton, Ohio, December 5, 1911.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

My first hatch this season was 94 chicks from 115 eggs. The
chicks were bright, healthy httle fellows (White Leghorns). I
put them in a Cyphers Style D Outdoor Brooder and raised all
but two, which I consider fine. They passed through some
severe storms and continued bad weather, but they grew
right along as usual in your Brooders. I fed them your Chick
Food and Developing Food, Beef Scrap and Grit.

MRS. MATTIE £. MOORE,

R. F. D. No. 2.

"SHALL THROW THEM ALL OUT AND USE CYPHERS"

Orleans, Mass., August 26, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have been using the Cyphers Incubators and Cyphers
Brooders, both Indoor and Outdoor, and they have given the best
of satisfaction. I have several other makes, but shall throw
them all out the coming season and use nothing but Cyphers,
as they are so far ahead of the other makes that I have used.
J. W. RICHARDSON.

"WHOLE FARM EOOTPPED WITH CYPHERS GOODS"

Lansing, Kas., October 7, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

For hatching we use only the Standard Cyphers Incubator,
believmg that with it we can hatch the largest per cent, of good,
strong healthy chicks, and with the least amount of trouble. We
ha\e a number of your No. 3 size. 390-egg Cyphers Incubators
which have been in use three years and they are as reliable
and dependable as the new ones purchased of you a week ago.
We are also using the Style D Indoor Brooders, which are giving
complete satisfaction. In fact, my whole farm is equipped
\ith C\phers Company goods, even to the drinking fountains.
A. M. GRAFF.

THESE ARE NOT FAIR WEATHER TOYS

Naperville, 111., August 24. 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y.—

■ Your Brooder that I got will please any one. / never lost
a chick from the first brood and have never had chicks
grow as well as they did. They were taken out of my Cyphers
Incubator and put in Brooder last spring during the time that
we had a snow storm that killed all of the fruit. 1 use
your Chick Food, and it is the best that I have ever used.

E. G. SIMPSON.

"COST A LOT OF MONEY TO GET EDUCATED"

Memphis, Tenn,, December 13, 1911.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, ^^ Y. —

You certainly have the goods. A man could not give me
anything but Cyphers Incubators and Colony Brooders. It cost
me a lot of money to get educated up to this point, but I am proud
to say that now I can go to bed at night, sleep soundly and
never give either incubator or brooder a thought. 1 tried
several of the hot-water "tanks" and cracker-box brooders, and

when I got up to the I thought I had reached the top.

but I was mistaken, as that brooder was certainly the Umit. Many
a morning I found all my chicks as black as coal or nearly dead
from lamp fumes. I have four big Cyphers Incubators now going,
and two have just hatched. I will keep them going until summer.'
In January I will buy four more Cyphers Brooders.

W. H. BALLARD.

THIS WOMAN HAD FAITH IN THEM

Coulwood, Va., August 24, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y .—

In May I paid a high price for a sitting of fifteen eggs from
the famous White Orpington that produced 263 eggs in 272 days,
mated to a son of Crystal King and Peggy. / had just received
two of your three-apartment Style B Brooders and I decided
to place my twelve precious babies in one of them. It did all
and even more than you claimed for it. / still have my twelve
babiesl They are three months' old and weigh nearly 3 'A lbs.
each on the average. / raised 75 Brown Leghorn chicks in
the other Brooder and have never had a sick chicken yet.

No more mother hens for me. .. , „

MRS. S. A. JOHNSON.

NO FAILURE HERE !
Photographic view sent to us October 9, 1911, by A. H.
Weisburg, Nevada, Mo., who says : "The eight Cyphers Style B
Brooders shown in picture each successfully raised three broods of
Cyphers-hatched chicks this season. Am also using other Cyphers
Company appliances and supplies, and am well pleased with all."

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS COMPANY BROODERS

"ONE OF THE COLDEST NIGHTS"

Lincoln Park, N. J., March 13, 1910.
Cythers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

In view of the satisfactory manner in which your Brooders
have operated with me the past winter I feel called upon to write
you these few lines. I have three of your Style B Brooders,
which have been in operation since the last week in January,
and we have had some very severe cold weather; in fact, one
night in particular it went down to zero. That night when I
went to bed the thermometer in the Brooder I was then oper-
ating registered 96 degrees and to my amazement in the morn-
ing when I looked at it again it registered 94 degrees —
having varied only two degrees in what was one of the coldest
nights this winter. That Brooder, as well as my other Brooders
of your make, have been standing outdoors all season with-
out any shelter whatever, and they have not been found lack-
ing, but have operated to my entire satisfaction. I put 115
chicks into these three Brooders early in the season and have
only lost five, and the oldest are now going on their sixth week
of age. If these few Unes will convince any one in doubt as
to what kind of a Brooder to buy, you are at liberty to use

the same.

CHAS. CAESAR.

"IN ZERO WEATHER HAD NO TROUBLE"

Orange, Mass., November 18, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

We have used Cyphers Incubators and Brooders for the past
seven years, and always with uniformly good success. We had
previously used several other makes and found them to require
more or less constant care, whereas your machines require
practically none. Have brooded and raised to time of transfer
to colony houses as high as 100 per cent, of the chicks. In one
particular case we put 86 chicks in a Cyphers Brooder and took
the same number out at time of transfer. 'Have run your brooders
in zero weather, with no protection, and had no trouble with

We consider both Cyphers Incubators and Cyphers Brooders
thoroughly rehable, and we also wish to thank you for the very
fair and courteous treatment we have received in all our dealings
with your company. VAN DYKE POULTRY FARM.

W. H. Dyke, Prop.

HAS TRIED FIVE DIFFERENT MAKES

Danbury, Conn., July

1910.

Cyphers Incubator Co., Bui

Have used three different makes of Incubators, but so much
prefer the Cyphers that I shall buy another in the spring. Have
also used five different makes of Brooders. The Cyphers is
the only one I am satisfied with. Shall buy two more of you next
spring. Chickens that were not doing at all well in one
Brooder (same price as Cyphers), when I took them out and put
them in the Cyphers, straightened up at once and- did the best of
any. / think a Brooder the most important part of chicken
raising. MRS. E. H. RYDER.

READY FOR ANY WEATHER.
Under date of August 2,1911, Mrs. Wm. W. Davis, Queens, N. Y.,
says: "Enclosed find photo showing 65 White Leghorns and 75
Plymouth Rocks in two Cyphers Style B Brooders, taken at one
week old. The chicks — all Cyphers hatched, are a.s comfortable
and happy as can be."

"A FOOT OF SNOW ON GROUND"

Westfield, N. Y., July 17. 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have a Cyphers Style C Brooder. It beats the old hen by
a great deal. I had chicks in it when the thermometer stood
eighteen above zero and there was a foot of snow on the
ground. The cold had no effect on the Brooder except the blaze
had to be higher than when it is 95 in the shade. It can't be
beat, that's all. All the Cyphers goods I have used are perfectly,
satisfactory.

LEE BOWEN.

BOUGHT IT "SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AGO"

Fruitvale, Alameda Co., Cal., August 7, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have a Cyphers Brooder I bought before you opened your
branch on the Pacific Coast, seven or eight years ago. / can
still raise 90 per cent, of the chicks in it every time, and
a number of times have raised 95 per cent, of the chicks entrusted
to this Brooder. Your Chick Foods are the best on the Coast.
JAMES C. B. READ.

"JUST THE THING FOR MICHIGAN'S COLD SEASON"

Akron, Mich., Novembers. 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Your Style B Brooder is just the thing for Michigan's
cold and wet season. While birds were dying all around me
this season my chicks were thriving and growing, well satisfied
with the Adaptable Hover for a mother. The thermostat on
Hover is all you claim for it.

I fed your Chick Food with phenomenal success.

T. M. KRAR.

"ICE IN DRINKING FOUNTAIN— CHICKS O. K."

East Orange, N. J., July 19, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y .—

If I had to depend entirely on hens and not on Cyphers Incu-
bators and Brooders to raise my chicks, / would not stay in the
business over night. They are simply indispensable on a
mone> -making plant. Have had excellent hatches this year and
chicks are sturdy and strong. First hatch off this year in March;
found ice in drinking fountain on the first night off. Chicks under
hover all O. K. Pullets about 4 pounds at 4 months.

R. J. HOUSTON, Jr.
Breeder of White Wyandottes and Black Orpingtons.

"SAFE AND SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG"

Sharpsville, Pa.. November 21, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have a Cyphers Outdoor Brooder, and I always put the chicks
in it and keep them there until I have another hatch, or longer if
I do not need it for newly-hatched chicks. I have scarcely any
die. It is remarkable how few year after year die, at least until
large enough to run out where hawks and other enemies of young
chicks sometimes get them. When I am putting the little chickens
out in the Brooder I always think of your motto, "Safe and snug
as a bug in a rug," for they surely are safe, and so happy. If I
was investing in Incubators and Brooders again, they would be
Cyphers, MRS. JOHN R. MILES.

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS COMPANY BROODERS

"RIGHT IN THE SNOW OF THE ADIRONDACKS"

Saranac Lake, N. Y., November 13. 1911.
Cythers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have used the Cyphers Incubators exclusively during the
past year, starting the hatches about March 1st, when the weather
is still very severe in the Adirondacks.

When hatched, the chicks were placed in the Cyphers Style
B Outdoor Brooders, right in the snow and in the bitter March
winds or the Adirondacks. I will state that 98 per cent, of
all chicks lived and thrived and were the attraction of the sur-
rounding country. That chicks could be raised in that manner
in March and April, in this climate was beUeved impossible.

The chicks (Brown Leghorns) are laying now. I used Cyphers
Grit, Charcoal and Beef Scrap, and they grew and matured won-
derfully. From the time the chicks were placed in the Hover
until six weeks old. Cyphers Chick Food was used, being fed in
Utter on the floor of the brooder coops. There was not one case
of cold or sickness of any kind. The only deaths were those
of one or two weak chicks in each hatch, which should have been
destroyed. The regulator on Hover was used, and gave perfect
satisfaction. There was not one case of chilling or over-heating.
As this is the start of what is intended to be a large egg farm, it
has given me ever>- encouragement.

ARTHUR L. SULLIVAN.

CHEAP IN PRICE AND CHEAP IN QUALITY

Haverhill, Mass., May 21, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I use Cyphers Incubators and Brooders and consider them
the best on the market. Have no use for cheap incubators
or brooders, as I find anything cheap in price is usually cheap
in quality. Fifty per cent, of the failures in the poultry
business around my section have been caused by cheap
equipments. I have hatched with Cyphers Incubators 90
per cent, of all fertile eggs and have raised 95 per cent, of
all chickens placed in Cyphers Brooders. Have matured
White Wyandotte pullets in these Brooders at 5}^ months old.
Many such chicks raised in your Brooders have made records
of over 200 eggs per year. Had three birds that made records
of 272, 267 and 252 eggs — without a doubt the three highest egg-
record hens owned by any one man in the United States. All
were hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised in Cyphers

Brooders.

RICHARDSON.

"RAISED 98 PER CENT."

Waquoit. Mass.. November 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.—

I have had good success the past season both in hatching in
my Cyphers Incubator and raising the chickens in the Cyphers
Outdoor Brooders. I have hatched as high as 290 chicks in your
large size machine, and have had an average the season through
of 250. / have raised 98 per cent, of chicks in your Outdoor
Brooders in Februarj', and considering the cold weather we had.
it certainly speaks well of them

HILLSIDE POULTRY FARM,

Colhns & Fisher, Props.

"JUNIOR PARTNERS."

Reproduction from photograph sent to us by A. C. Stout,
Stockdale, Texas, who says: "I enclose picture of my two little
girls, MoUie, two years old, and Dola. four years with some
little Single Comb White Leghorns in Cyphers Style A Brooder.
It Brooded several hundred on my plant this year.

Illu

"BEGIN WITH CYPHERS, AND END WITH CYPHERS"

Towson, Baltimore Co., Md., November 20, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

In our seven years' experience with them, the Cyphers Incu-
bator has proved to us that they never disappoint. Our hatches
have averaged 92 per cent. We run three (3) machines all the ,
year. One machine has been in constant use for the past seven
years, and is still making good.

Cyphers Brooders measure up in every particular, because
when once regulated you can depend upon them. We raised
over three thousand strong, vigorous chicks this season.
We feed nothing but Cyphers Foods. In fact, we begin with
Cyphers, and end with Cyphers. Then we know we are on the
road to success. ROCK POULTRY FARM.

Rodgers & Rodgers, Props.

"ECONOMICAL, EASY-TO-KEEP-CLEAN"

Gambier, Ohio, March 13, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

During the past twenty years we have used many different
makes of Incubators and Brooders, but find that the Cyphers
give us the least trouble, and are the most satisfactory of any.
We used our first Cyphers Brooder twelve years ago. and the
past three years we have used nothing else. We also have
used your Adaptable Hovers, sometimes in common boxes indoors,
sometimes in colony houses, sometimes in home-made brooders.
We can trust them in all kinds of weather, cold and warm.
Our chicks always grow, up strong and healthy, and never give
us anv trouble. To any person wishing a reliable, economical,
easy-to-keep-clean brooding device, one they can always rely
upon we recommend the Cyphers, as we believe it to be the best
on the market today. G. H. HILLIER & SON.

R. F. D. No. 3.

"YOUR GOODS ARE BUILT FOR BUSINESS"

Port Byron, 111., July 30, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

We obtained 216 chicks out of 219 eggs in our No. 2 Cyphers.
Hatches for the season have averaged nearly 95 per cent. We
are usmg two Style A, two Style B and three Style C Cyphers
Outdoor Brooders. We consider them the best Brooders on the
ma'-ket and have raised nearly every chick placed in them.
They are fire proof and safe in every way. Your goods are built
lor busraess. M. S. JACKSON.

"MORE ROOMY THAN ANY OTHER"

Mount Sidney. \'a., November 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. K.—

I am using one of your Style B Outdoor Brooders, and am
much delighted with it. It is more roomy than any other I
have used. Also the sanitary arrangements are far superior
to any other. I also used your Chick Foods and find them to be all
you claim for them. In all of my dealings with Cyphers Incu-
bator Company I have found them to be men cf tlie highest type,
honest in their trading and always willing to do a Uttle more than
they promised. I will enclose a photo of a shipment of birds
raised in your Brooder.

CHAS. C. WINE.

to Bermuda Islands that

Sample Reports— Cyphers Adaptable Hovers

ALL YOU CLAIM
FOR IT"

Casdosia, N. Y.,

ji : I ' July 28, 1911.

f\ " ] Cyphers Incubator Co. ,

'■■ ' ' Bufalo, N. Y —

I have used your

Adaptable Hover and

found it to be all you

claim for it. / used

it in a home-made

brooder, constructed

from a large dry goods

^ box, with a separate

X attached (for run)

144-e
Outdoor (or Indoor) Brooder by use of the Cyphers Incubator
Cyphers Company Adaptable Hover, with splendid success.
I raise S. C. White
Orpingtons and S. C .
R. I. Reds, and have better success with incubators and brood-
ers than with hens. STATES RAY.

"EVEN TEMPERATURE WITHIN ONE DEGREE"

Ridgewood, N. J., September 1. 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I enclose herewith photograph showing use of your Adapt-
able Hovers in home-made brooders. These brooders were
made by myself and were patterned to some e.\tent after yours.
I have used the Self-Regulating Hovers^in these brooders in
all kinds of weather, including zero weather, and have been
able to hold an even temperature within one degree. They
. have been very satisfactory and I expect to use a large number
next season. WHITE ROSE POULTRY FARM,

H. M. Ford, Proprietor.

IN FEBRUARY-

Cyphe:

FIVE INCHES OF SNOW

Paris, 111.. February 24,

1910.

Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—
I am using your Incubator this year, and it is the only machine
that I have ever found that will do the work in the right way.
My hatch this month was 95 per cent. Am using your Adaptable
Hovers, and they are just the thing. They keep the chicks
warm and dry. Am using them in brooder cases out of doors
with five inches of snow on the ground.

EMERY EVITT, 910 Browning Ave.

A GREAT BOON TO POULTRY RAISERS

Needham, Mass., September 26, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We have three of your Hovers installed in a brooder house
of my own design, and every one who sees it says it is the most
complete and practical house they ever saw — thanks to the
mechanical completeness of the Cyphers Adaptable Hovers.
The enclosed photographs showing view of these Hovers are the
best testimony of what the lamps can stand in stormy
weather, without in any way disturbing the even temperature of
the inside. These Hovers are a great boon to poultry raisers.

JOHN GODSELL.

"PUT 75 CHICKS UNDER EACH HOVER"

Needham Heights, Mass., August 26, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

The past spring / used eight of your Adaptable Hovers
and found them O. K. I put 75 chicks under each Hover, making
a total of 600 chickens in all. and I raised 526 chicks to maturity —
good, strong, healthy birds. These Hovers proved so
good that I am going to get more of them next spring. This
was my first experience in the chicken business.

D. L. WAGNER.

"HAVE HAD PRACTICALLY NO LOSSES"

Gillette, Wyo., August 16, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

We use your Style D Brooder and Adaptable Hovers. Are
using your Adaptable Hovers in A-shaped Colony Houses
with grand success. Have had practically no losses since
installing Cyphers brooding devices. This is our first year with
Cyphers goods. We shall use nothing but Cyphers another
year. S. D. PERRY & SONS.

"EVERYTHING SIMPLY ARRANGED"

White Bear, Minn., July IS, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I cannot say enough for the Adaptable Brooding Hover. I
use mine in a colony house. I make a platform of boards 3x6
feet. 8 inches high. On this I put a frame 24 inches high in rear
and 18 inches high in front, the back and ends covered with boards,
the top and front enclosed with one inch mesh wire netting. The
top is in two parts, hinged to the back. There is also a movable
partition through the center to keep the chicks close to the Hover.
This can be removed in a few days or as soon as the chicks learn
where the warm place is. By this method everything ia so
simply arranged that it can be removed, cleaned and stored
ready for use at another date, and the house used for other
purposes, or it can be reset in almost no time. If the Adaptable
Brooding Hover is given the most ordinary decent kind of atten-
tion, it will take care of itself. J. E. JARGO.

"I ENTRUST MY BEST CHICKS IN IT"

Gouverneur, N. Y., May 23, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I am running your Self-Regulating Portable Hover, and
have only words of praise for it. Started same in March, when
outside temperature went below 10 degrees, and was able to
maintain a 95-degree heat under the Hover with ease.
This speaks for itself. In all my experience with poultrj- I have
never found anything the equal of this Hover, I entrust my
best chicks in it, for I know it will be found in the morning
where it was placed at night. The point of importance to
the average poultryman is the small amount of oil it requires.
/ fiU mine only once in three days. It's a cracker-jack, and
another year will find several more of them in my yards.

HARVESTDALE POULTRY YARDS, H. A. D. Leggett.

"LOST HALF THE CHICKS WITH CHEAP BROODER"

Marlinton, W. Va., June 19, 19U.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, A'. Y. —

I have my Adaptable Hover in a home-made brooder. Through
the cold spring months I had it set in a brooder house, but as the
weather warmed up I put the hover out of doors, and in both
places raised nearly all the chicks hatched. I kept in my
hover from fifty to seventy-five chicks, I remove them when
about four to five weeks old.

Last spring I lost about half the chicks with a cheap brooder.
The lamp would go out and the chicks would freeze to death.
I thought it might be the grade of oil. I sent away and got 10
gallons of oil made for that purpose, but it went out just the same.

Last spring I did not use Cyphers Chick and Developing
Foods, but this spring I did — and the chicks grew twice as fast. I
need to say about the value of these products.

guess that

WALTER HOBART.

"PURE AIR
WINNING POINT"

Hinckley, 111.,
November 4, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.,

Buffalo, A', F. —
The Adaptable
Hover has given me
excellent results. It
was placed in a coop,
air tight on all sides
excepting the front,
which allowed plenty
of fresh air to enter.
I consider the Adapt-
able Hover perfect,
and will use nothing
else. The regulator
I consider a neces-
sity. The passage
of pure air into the
Hover is the winn-
ing point of your
Hover, and strong,
growing chicks must
be the natural result.

Yours truly,
DR. GEO. C. FRY.

ADAPTABLE HOVER IN COLONY
HOUSE

be Installed or Removed in One to Three
Minutes Time. When Taken Out The
Chicks are Left to Roost in Quarters to
W^ich They are Accustomed.

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS ADAPTABLE HOVERS

"PURCHASED TWO MORE"

Clarke, Neb., June 19, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. I'.—

I am using three of your Adaptable Hovers, and they are
giving satisfaction, as do all of Cyphers products I have ordered
thus far. I installed my first hover in a case made out of a goods
box, with a pitched roof, shingled. In the front of the case I
placed a window 24 inches square. The floor is raised 8 inches
from the ground. The first Hover proved so satisfactory that
I purchased two more, and installed them in c;
on the ground, 4 feet high in front and 3 feet
Each case has a shingled roof, windows, and the
from the ground like the first.

I 4 feet !

TRIED FOUR— BOUGHT SIX MORE

Rehoboth, Mass., March 29, 1910.

Cyphers Incubator Co.,
Buffalo. N. v.—

We've already
mstalled, and with
success, four Cy-
phers Adaptable

decided to use the
Cyphers poultry
implements e.xclu-
sively, and will
send you another
order soon.
ROCKY HILL

EASILY C^RED FOR— FIRE PROOF
Lamp can be Remo\ ed and Replaced While

Door, Wmdow and Chick-L ,_„ ^, , .. „

and Flame Cannot Suck Out. Device is War- Mr and Mrs. P.
ranted to be Absolutely Ftre Proof, No Matter Martines, Est.

Where Used.

"INCREASED BUSINESS THREE FOLD"

Dover, Mass., June 27, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.—

This season I increased my supply of Adaptable Hovers,
and I have the pleasure to state that they are surely the best
article of the kind on the market. I have used your Ada])table
Hovers in two ways: placing them in two-apartment brooders
of my own make, and in colony houses. I generally put about
75 chicks in the brooder, and at the end of three weeks place them
in the colony house, except in severe weather. By means of your
self-regulating heater I have increased my business three-fold,
rearing chicks in zero weather with fine success. At one
time I put 94 chicks in a brooder and after six weeks removed
them, losing only one chick during this time. I breed R. and
S. C. Rhode Island Reds exclusively. F, A. FARM ENTER.

"ABLE TO RAISE GREATER NUMBER"

Lumberville, Pa., June 26, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. V. —

I bought three of your Adaptable Hovers this year, and they
gave excellent satisfaction. We used the hovers in colony houses,
8x8 feet. We kept chickens under the hovers for four weeks,
then moved them to other colony houses with fireless hovers, with
excellent results. We placed from 50 to 66 chickens under hover
when taken from incubator. We have been able this year to
raise a greater number of chicks under hovers than we ever
could with hens.

S. L. PAXSON.

"HAVE NINE HOVERS"

Westport, Conn., July 6, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. ¥. —

I have used your Adaptable Hovers with success, and have
taken pleasure in recommending same to interested parties who
have visited my plant. / have nine of your Hovers — five in a
6 X 10 brooder house, and four in colony houses — two in each of
the houses. The Hovers have home-made cases, 30 inch square
base, 21 inches high, covered with muslin and with removable
top and front. I have raised 1 ,700 chicks in your Hovers.

SAUGATUCK POULTRY FARM,
R. F. D, No. 11. Geo. W. Harris, Prop.

"WITH THE LEAST TROUBLE"

Lancaster, Mo., September 26, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

I consider that the Adaptable Hover has raised some of the
best birds I have ever owned, and with the least trouble. I put
from 40 to 50 chicks in the hover, placing the hover in one
end of a colony house large enough to carry these chicks to
maturity. I constructed a temporary roof or ceiling about 30
inches above the floor that the hover sets on, across the end of
the house, 3M feet wide, dropping a heavy canvas down in front.
As long as the chicks needed heat I had the hover in this house,
and then removed the hover to another house.

B. F. McDANIEL, R, F. D. No. 5.

"AS FINE AS AN EIGHT-DAY CLOCK"

Mt. Gilead, Ohio, September 28, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. V. —

I tried the fireless plan of raising chicks, but could not use
it on account of being away from home so much, so / bought
your Adaptable Hovers, and the success with them hae
been all that I expected and more. I have two of them, each
in a small colony house 4x6 feet. This plan has worked as fine
as an eight-day clock, and I would not think of trying anything
different. The chicks were placed under these Self-Regulating
Hovers right from the Incubator in February and March,
remaining there through all the changeable weather, growing
every day. DR. R. L. PIERCE.

"NO TROUBLE HOLDING HEAT"

Apulia, N. Y., June 24, 1911,
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. ¥.—

I have used one of your Adaptable Hovers in a home-made
brooder, and have had no trouble in holding the heat. After
a hard trial through all kinds of weather I have found the Adapt-
able Hover all you claim for it. The hardest wind does not affect
the lamp in the least. Have lost no chickens from crowding or
chilling. I shall want more Hovers next season.

H. J. KNAPP.

"WANT TWELVE OR FIFTEEN MORE"

Franklin, Va., September 24, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. F.—

I received the Adaptable Hover which I bought of you, and
in order to make a selection I purchased three others.
Your Hover is by far the best of those I bought and have tested.
I will want twelve or fifteen more Adaptable Hovers Just as
soon as I can build my brooder house. Some time in the
near future I propose to build a brooder house heated by steam,
on the plans I purchased of you. C. W. GARY.

INDIVIDUAL BROODING IN BROODER HOUSE.
View (from photograph) of Fire- Proof Heaters and Standard
Adaptable Hovers in use in Brooder House on Cyphers Company
Poultry Farm, Buffalo, New York. House is supplied with auxil-
iary heat from the hot water pipes located waist high along rear wall
of house. By use of this system, one brooding device, or two, or a
dozen can be started whea needed, thus avoiding waste of fuel.

Economical Brooding of Chicks

Plan Devised by R. P. Ellis, Brooklyn, N. Y., Founder of the Aurora System of
Branch Egg Farms. Utilizes Regular Laying Houses for Brooding Purposes
During Proper Season. Strongly Endorses Cyphers Company Adaptable Hovers

DESCRIBING his efficient and economical method
of converting laying houses into brooding
houses by installing the Cyphers Adaptable
Hovers, Mr. Ellis writes: —

"It was not until the Cyphers Company's Adapt-
able Hover was put upon the market that I found a
satisfactory solution of many problems in brooding.
Using a few outdoor brooders is all right, but when
it comes to attending to forty or fifty oil lamps and
broods of chicks, all in the open, one longs for some-
thing more labor saving and comfort giving.

"Herewith
find illustra-
tions— Figs. II
and III — of our
fourteen foot
square laying
house, with
wire screen
doors covered
with upper and
lower sets of
muslin frames.
This house has
a floor space of
196 square
feet. The

, , - ^ angement of house is 4^

Cyphers Company Adaptable Hovers in , , . ,

type of Laying House used on Aurora Leghorn teat nign on

Farm. Brooklyn, N.Y. t,,^ ^y^^ (;„.

side measurement) and 7 feet in the ridge (inside
measurement). It is the lowest laying and brood-
ing house I know of, hence the air space is re-
duced to the minimum. This house we equip
with six Adaptable Hovers, three on a side, with a
3 to 3}4 foot center aisle — see diagram herewith.
Fig. I.

"The hovers are set on a temporary platform,
running the length of the house, high enough to allow
the lamp to rest in the center aisle on the floor of

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the house. At this point the lamp can be cared for
without entering the pens or disturbing the chicks.

"Each of the hovers is surrounded or enclosed
by a muslin frame, which we make ourselves. The
frame is made of 1 x 2 inch furring strips, and ordi-
nary unbleached muslin is tacked on. The sides
of the frame stand 18 inches high, and
the floor it covers a floor space
of 3 feet X 3 feet. The top
of the frame is hinged so as to
lift up and allow access to the
hover. There is a door on one
side of the frame to allow the
chicks to enter and leave the
hover. Over this opening hangs
a curtain of felt — to conserve
the heat.

"When the chicks no longer
need artificial heat, the hovers
and the platforms they rest on
are removed. By this time all r p ellis,

cockerels are removed, leaving Brooklyn, N. Y.
from 125 to ISO pullets in the house. When these get
to the colony house size, all wire partitions are
removed and half of the pullets are taken to a new
laying house (built for them), or else are put around
in cheap colony coops. In this way the laying and
brooding house is used straight through the year.

"Also find herewith a diagram illustrating our
yarding plan — Fig. IV. A study of this drawing
will show that each chick has from 8 to 10 square
feet of yarding room outside the house, depending
upon the number of chicks placed under one hover.
I would advise that no more than fifty chicks be
placed under any hover.

TRIED "FIRELESS" BROODER PLAN

"Before learning of and adopting the Cyphers
Adaptable Hovers, I tried the 'fireless' plan. In

Fig. n. — ^Aurora Farm Combination House i
Process of Erection.

Fig. in. — The Aurora Farm Combination Laying
and Brooding House Complete.

ECONOMICAL BROODING OF CHICKS— ELLIS PLAN

the summer of 1909 I experimented with various
fireless brooders, and, backed up by the experience
of 1910 as well, I reached the following conclusions
concerning fireless brooders: — -

"First — It is possible to raise some chicks by the
fireless method.

"Second — The death rate is far too great unless
weather conditions are ideal — which they seldom are.

"Third — The economy, so-called, in a fireless
brooder consists in making it much smaller than
heated brooders, because the saving in oil is
offset five to one by the item of extra labor.

"Fourth — A fatal objection to the 'fireless'
method is that the attendant must practically
live with the chicks. The care and attention
the 'fireless' chicks require make the plan
entirely impracticable on a commercial poultry
farm where a person's time is an important
item of value, and labor is expensive.

"I must confess that I turned reluctantly
from the 'fireless' field — what its advocates
claimed for it were so tempting ! But we tried
the best advertised methods and followed them
faithfully, only to meet with loss — both loss of
labor and an excessive loss of chicks.

"It was no wonder, therefore, that we were
glad indeed to find complete success in the use of your
Adaptable self-regulating Hovers. They have proved
to be exactly what we were looking for. For us
this hover has filled ideally every condition, to
enumerate: —

"First — The cost is far below that of any indi-
vidual brooder or pipe system of the same capacity.

"Second — The principles of self- ventilation, with
heat from above, etc., are correct, not only in theory,
but in practice.

"Third — Its installation — immediate and simple.

"Fourth — Its construction (all galvanized sheet
iron, solidly bolted and riveted together) makes it
indestructible — so much so that its purchase becomes
an investment, not an expense. It will last for
years — perhaps a lifetime.

"Fifth — Its maintenance (cost of repairs) is
practically nothing, whereas any wood-work requires
expensive repairs, as I have found to my cost.

"Sixth — Its efficiency — of the highest, because
we have raised larger percentages of chicks in
it than in any other brooding device we ever used.

"Seventh — Its economy of time and labor. Six
of these hovers in our 14 x 14 feet laying house enable
us to care for 300 chicks under one roof.

VARD 3

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YARD 6

Fig. IV. — Diagram showing the Ellis Combination House equipped
with Hovers and Chick Runways, also the arrangement and si2e of the
yards enclosed by temporarj' wire fences surrounding the Laying House
while it is being used as a Brooding House by having Cyphers Company
Adaptable Hovers temporarily installed.

"Eighth — The low cost of oil — using only a one-
inch wick, and its dependability. It 'stays on the
job' day and night, and the self-regulation adds
much to the care-taker's ease of mind.

"We used the above-describecf brooding plan on the
home farm of the Aurora System and on most of our
branches during the season of 1911 with the greatest
success."

SPECIAL NOTICE
Mr. Ellis has worked out this combination plan in detail
in a complete set of blue-prints and has published printed
instructions not only for building a house and installing the
Adaptable Hovers, but for operating the latter, including
feeding and general methods, as practiced on his farms.
These blue-prints are for sale and can be obtained by apply-
ing to Mr. Ellis at his Brooklyn, N. Y. address — No. 2406
Flatbush Avenue.

Using 200— Will Use 300 More

AURORA LEGHORN FARM
R. P. ELLIS, Proprietor
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY
New Main Farm at Tenafly, N. J.

TO LAY

High- Record Trap-
nested Breeders
2406 Flatbush Avenue,
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Brooklyn, N. Y., December 12, 1911.

Our main farm and numerous branch farms are using your Adaptable Hovers with excellent
results for brooding purposes. I cannot speak in too high praise of this superior brooding device.
It is economical, efficient, indestructible and hygienic. Its principle of introducing warm, fresh air under
the Hover and of having no central drum or other spot warmer than the rest, thus not inducing
huddling or crowding, are features that meet my unqualified endorsement. Such also is the mechan-
ical perfection of the lamp and heating chambers that I have never had a lamp go out in one of your
Adaptable Hovers on my farm. If I could say this of the several other brooding devices I have used
in the past five years, I would be better off to the extent of a good many hundreds of dollars that
were lost in the form of valuable chicks. Have bought nearly two hundred of these Adaptable Hovers
thus far and expect to use about three hundred more on our new branch farms this season, additional to
thirty ordered by me for our main farm. Cordially, R. P. ELLIS.

GUARANTEED TO YOU
—PERSONALLY

There's a lot of difference between an agreement that guarantees an Incubator or Brooder
to you, personally, and one that merely warrants a device to be "as represented."

Note your protection in the Cyphers Company Guarantee.

This Guarantee covers every vital point of Incubator construction and Incubatory

Note also that this Guarantee gives you ample time for the necessary fair trial — fair
to you and fair to us. It gives you time ior four hatches — time to thoroughly test our machine
and prove its superior merits.

THE CYPHERS COMPANY GUARANTEE

Sin Hil?nm Jt

We, the Cyphers Incubator Company, legally incorporated
under the laws of the State of New York, and each member
thereof, hereby agree, as a Company and as individuals,
that if in any case Cyphers Incubators, Brooders or other
Manufactures are found not to be as described by us in this catalogue, or will
not do the work claimed for them, they can be returned at any time within
ninety {go) days of the date of purchase, and if in good condition, less reasonable
wear, we will immediately refund the price paid for the same.

Special Guarantee on Cyphers Incubators

THE PATENTED, EXCLUSIVE FEATURES of the genuine Cyphers Incubators
place us in a position to positively warrant and guarantee all Cyphers Patent-Diaphragm,
Non-Moisture, Self-Ventilating and Self-Regulating Incubators manufactured by us and sold
under registered trade-mark, either by this Company or its authorized agents, as follows:

First — To be precisely as represented in construction, materials and workmanship, and,
if given reasonable care, to last ten years without repairs.

Second — To be easy to set up and positively automatic in operation (except as to trimming
the wick, filling the lamp and turning the eggs) and to operate with less expense than any
other make of incubator.

Third — To be in all essentials the simplest and easiest to operate and control, requiring
less attention than any other make or style of incubator.

Fourth — To be self-regulating, being equipped with the most reliable, sensitive and durable
regulator thus far invented.

Fifth — To require no supplied moisture, under normal conditions, thus solving and dis-
posing of the troublesome "moisture question."

Sixth — To be self-ventilating, the air in the egg chamber remaining pure at all times by
its own gentle but positive action.

Seventh — To produce larger, stronger and healthier chicks and duckhngs than any other
style or make of incubator.

Eighth — That when it is run in competition with any incubator of a different make, it
shall, in three or more hatches, bring out a larger average percentage of the fertile eggs in'good,
healthy chicks and ducklings than does its competitor.

Finally, we guarantee every Cyphers Incubator and Brooder to be Insurable, in compli-
ance with the rigid requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

Signed,

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY.

Buffalo, N. Y., December 1, 1911.

^<zJ^ ^. tg--^&>

Price List of Standard Cyphers Incubators

Fire-Proofed— Insurable

No. 0— Capacity, about 70 Hen Eggs, 56 Duck Eggs $15.00

No. 1— " " 144 " " 112 " " 22.00

No. 2— " " 244 " " 200 " " 32.00

No. 3— " " 390 " " 300 " " 38.00

We supply an X-Ray Egg Tester, a tested Standard Cyphers Incubator Thermometer, and our booklet,
"Directions for Operating and Hints to Aid the Operator," packed in every incubator.

SPECIAL NOTICE. — The prices of incubators and brooders given in this catalogue are those charged by
us and by our authorized agents in all territory east of the Rocky Mountains and north of Texas.
Beyond this boundary line agents' prices range somewhat higher, owing to the freight, which is especi-
ally high to inter-mountain points. If you live in high-freight territory write us for prices; also for name and
address of nearest agent who buys in car lots and carries our goods regularly in stock.

Terms. — Cash with order. Send money by bank draft, express money order, post-office money order or
registered letter. Phase do not send personal checks. In the United States and Canada, goods will be sent C. O. D.
when SO per cent, of price accompanies order, but not to other countries, owing to ocean freight rules.

Weight (about) Crated

No. 0 90 pounds No. 2 215 pounds

No. 1 145 " No. 3 260 "

Weights and Measurements for Foreign Shipment. — For the convenience of those wishing to send
our Incubators to other countries, we print the following table of weights and measures when specially crated
for ocean shipment.

Net Weight Gross Weight Cubic Feet Net Weight Gross Weight Cubic Feet

No. 0 Incubator.... 70 lbs. 110 lbs. 9J No. 2 Incubator .... 170 lbs. 290 lbs. 32

No. 1 Incubator.... 108 lbs. 200 lbs. 20 No. 3 Incubator. .. .210 lbs. 360 lbs. 42

Standard Incubators Furnished in Rights and Lefts

For the convenience of those who are fitting out large plants, and all who, when purchasing a number of
Standard Cyphej^ Incubators, desire to economize space in their incubator cellars, we manufacture No. 2 and
No. 3 size machines that are rights and lefts. By this is meant that the heater is on the right or left-hand side
of the machine. This permits arranging the machines along the sides of the incubator cellar in such a manner
that space is saved, and two heaters are brought next to each other for the greater convenience in tending the
lamps. If you desire your machines rights and lefts, please so specify in your order, naming the number of each
desired. Unless othenvise ordered, rights invariably will be furnished. No. 0 and No. 1 Incubators are not made
in lefts.

Floor Space Required for the Standard Cyphers Incubators

(Figures allow for projection of heater.)

No. 0 1 ft. 10 in. X 2 ft. 7 in. No. 2 3 ft. 3 in. x 4 f t. Hn.

No. 1 2 ft. 5 in. X 3 ft. 8 in. No. 3 3 ft. 11 in. x 4 ft. 9 in.

"Directions for Operating Standard Cyphers Incubators"

An illustrated booklet, entitled "Directions for Operating Standard Cyphers Incubators __— -- — --^.^-..

and Hints to Aid the Operator," is supphed with each standard-pattern machine. This book
contains full and complete instructions for setting up, regulating and operating the Standard
Cyphers Incubator. The purchaser is told where to locate his machine, how to place it in the
proper position, how to adjust the regulating device, how to care for the lamp, and how to
heat up the machine, with full particulars concerning proper temperature, turning the eggs,
cooling and airing; also special instructions for operation of Cyphers Incubators in high
altitudes and exceedingly dry or tropical climates.

A large portion of this book is devoted to a chapter entitled "Hints to Aid the Operator,"
consisting of questions from amateur operators of incubators or brooders, with answers by an
experienced operator. Besides these questions and answers, considerable space is given to
Incubator and Brooder "Don'ts." which tell the beginner what he should not do. A careful
study of this booklet is advised. Supplied only to purchasers of Standard Cyphers Incubators.

78

Price List of Standard Cyphers Brooders

Fire-Proofed— Insurable

CYPHERS ADAPTABLE HOVER, Self-Regulating, Self-Ventilating, for use in home-made Brooders,
Colony Houses, etc., etc.; may be moved from one Brooder or Coop to another at will; complete
with Standard Cyphers Regulator, Tested Brooder Thermometer and bearing "Inspected Brooder"

label, safely boxed $ 8.50

CYPHERS STYLE A OUTDOOR, Self-Regulating, Self- Ventilating, Two-Apartment Combination
Brooder and Colony Roosting Coop, equipped with Adaptable Hover, Complete, and bearing

"Inspected Brooder" label 12.50

CYPHERS STYLE B OUTDOOR, Self-Regulating, Self-Ventilating, Three-Apartment Combination
Brooder and Colony Roosting Coop, equipped with Adaptable Hover, Complete, and bearing

"Inspected Brooder" label 16.50

CYPHERS STYLE C OUTDOOR, Self-Regulating, Self- Ventilating, Three-Apartment Combination
Brooder and Colony Roosting Coop, with Double-Wall and Double-Glass Insulation, equipped

with Adaptable Hover, Complete, and bearing "Inspected Brooder" label 18.50

CYPHERS STYLE D INDOOR, Self-Regulating, Self- Ventilating, Brooder equipped with Adaptable

Hover, Complete, and bearing "Inspected Brooder" label 11.50

SPECIAL NOTICE. — The prices of brooders and incubators given in this catalogue are those charged by
us and by our authorized agents in all territory east of the Rocky Mountains and North of Texas. Beyond
this boundary line the prices range somewhat higher, owing to the freight, which is especially high to inter-
mountain points. If you live in high-freight territory write us for prices; also for the name and address of nearest
agent who buys in car lots and carries our goods regularly in stock.

Terms. — Cash with order. Send money by bank draft, express money order, post-office money order or
registered letter. Please do not send personal checks. Goods will be sent C. O. D., in the United States or Canada,
when 50 per cent, of price accompanies order. Prices are F. O. B. Buffalo and all Branches except Oakland.

Weights (about) Crated

Adaptable Hover net weight, 29 lbs. ; weight crated, 37 lbs. ; cubic feet, 5^

Style A Outdoor Brooder (knock-down) net weight, 80 lbs.; weight crated, 135 lbs.; cubic feet, 8}^

Style B Outdoor Brooder (knock-down) net weight, 138 lbs.; weight crated, 200 lbs.; cubic feet, 13 Ji

Style C Outdoor Brooder (knock-down) net weight, .148 lbs.; weight crated, 220 lbs.; cubic feet, 13J^

Style D Indoor Brooder (knock-down) net weight, 69 lbs.; weight crated, 120 lbs.; cubic feet, 7

REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT FOR POULTRYMEN

tion, we have established a Registration Department through

NEED A POULTRYMAN? ''^\'^ those seeking competent poultry farm managers or

assistants and those open to engagement as such can be brought

into communication. We furnish to any one asking for it a complete list of available applicants who

have registered with us; they then open correspondence and arrange matters between themselves.

Applicants for positions need not go into details with us as to qualifications. State name and
address, also the kind of a position you are competent to fill, you to agree to notify us as soon as you
have accepted a position. We also ask employers to notify us whom they employ from those whose
names we furnish them, so that we can drop these names from the list of available men.

No charge is made for this service. In time past we have missed many opportunities for bringing
employers and competent men together, through inability to recollect names and locations — and for
this reason we established the above department. Customers and friends are welcome to avail
themselves of it.

Cyphers Company's Six Places of Business

OWING TO the rapid growth of this Company's business, and the widespread demand for goods of its manu-
facture, we recognized twelve years ago the necessity of establishing branch houses and distributing
depots, provided we were to serve the interests of our customers promptly and satisfactorily. At that
time we opened modest trial ofifices at Boston and Chicago, which since have grown in volume of ttade until he
former Boston location proving inconvenient for our customers, we have opened a new store at 12 and 14 Canal
Street, which will result in a saving of time to the many out-of-town customers who make it a point to call upon
us when in Boston. (See page 24.) Our growing business at Chicago also required increased accommodations
and our branch house in that city now occupies a double store located in the business center at 340-342 North
Clark Street (see page 26). Also see page 114 for picture of our warehouse building and poultry food and alfalfa
mill erected in the summer of 1910 in the Central Manufacturing District, Chicago, 111. This district is called
Central because it is located in the geographical center of the corporation limits of the western metropolis.
Ten years ago we opened an office and salesroom in New York City, but the quarters soon proved inadequate,
and in 1902 this branch was moved to No. 23 Barclay Street (corner of Church Street), which location for
eight years has been most convenient for our customers in and around New York City on account of its
nearness to depots and docks. (See page 22.) November 1, 1904, a branch house was opened by us at
Kansas City, Mo. Our Kansas City Branch is now located at 317-319 Southwest Boulevard, where we occupy
an entire building located on a railroad switch and have every facility for handling an increased business, both
retail and wholesale (see page 28). In December, 1904, we opened a store and branch office on the Pacific Coast,
which sinte the San Francisco fire has been located at No. 1S69-1571 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. (See page 30.)

It was, and is, highly important that we place our goods as near our customers as practicable, so that they
can receive our printed matter, obtain answers to correspondence and have their orders filled with the least possible
delay. To save time and money, therefore, we ask all customers (meaning retail customers) to address
our nearest office invariably (see above map). No matter to which office you write, you may rest assured of
prompt and courteous treatment. At each of these branch houses and salesrooms we carry on display a full
line of incubators, brooders, appliances, foods, and all other goods manufactured and sold by this Company.
Customers and visitors are always welcome. Call to see us if you can, and buy "on sight."

As heretofore, all Cyphers Company goods for the American and Canadian markets (except poultry foods
and alfalfa products) will be manufactured at Buffalo, N. Y. We ship them in carload lots to New York City,
Boston, Chicago, Kansas City and Oakland, ourselves paying all transportation charges to these cities,
thus not alone working an important saving in time to our customers, but also in money, the purchaser paying
the charges only from our place of business nearest his home town or railway station.

Very truly yours, CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY.
BUFFALO, N. T., Conrl and Fonrth St.. CHICAGO, ILL., 340-342 North Clark St. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.. 23 Barclay St.

BOSTON. MASS.. 12-14 Canal St. KANSAS CITY. MO.. 317-319 Southwest Bonlevard. OAKLAND. CAL., 1569-1571 Broadway.

80

Low Freight Rates on Cyphers Company's Goods

On this page will be found freight rates on the various articles manufactured by the Cyphers Incubator
Company, from Oakland, Kansas City, Chicago, Buffalo, New York City or Boston, to prominent points located
in the territory accessible to our home office or branches. Shipments of retail orders are always made from the
office nearest to destination.'

The freight rates given on this page are only intended for the convenience of our customers, in estimating
the approximate cost of delivery of their orders to their.freight station. These rates are subject to change with-
out notice, and in no case are we to be held responsible for freight charges or any changes therein.

Intending purchasers should bear in mind that no bill of lading is made out for less than 25 cents, and to
obtain the cheapest freight rates from their station, they must buy in sufficient quantities to obtain the lowest
rate. For instance, it costs 25 cents to send one bag of grit from Boston, Mass., to Nashua, N. H., and it costs
the. same for two bags, while four bags will be delivered for 36 cents. It is advisable for customers to combine
with their neighbors and buy goods in as large quantities as possible, so that they may obtain the benefit of the
best prices and lowest freight rates. See " Assorted Order " notice at bottom of page 153.

Incubators take first-class rate in all territory. Brooders take third-class rate in Northeastern States, second-
class in about all territory south of the Ohio River, and first-class west of the Mississippi River. Feed takes
fourth-class west of the Mississippi River, fourth-class in Northeastern States, and even lower in many of the South-
eastern States. We will be pleased to quote rates to any point upon request.

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from Buffalo, N. Y., to

1st class

... S1.28

Baltimore, Md

.39

Binghamton, N. Y. . . .

.33}'2

Cincinnati. Ohio

... .nyi

Harrisburg, Pa

.39

Jacksonville, Fla

.95

M°°«°P^!^'Ala

... 1.31

New Orleans, La.

Atlantic City. N. J.
Bridgeport, Conn.. .
Burlington, N. J. . .
Camden, N. J..t . . .
Cape May, N. J.. . .

Carmel, N. Y

Danbury, Conn. . . .
Easton, Pa

Augusta, Maine .

Ayer. Mass

Bangor, Maine.. .
Bellows Falls, Vt.
Brattleboro, Vt. .
Concord, N. H.. .

Dover, N. H

Fitchburg, Mass..
Greenfield, Mass.
Lewiston, Maine.
Manchester. N. H
Nashua, N. H....

4th class

1st class

Norfolk, Va $0.59

Ottawa, Ont 44

Pittsburg, Pa 35

Raleigh, N.C 1.09

Rochester, N. Y.. . .

Toledo, Ohio

Toronto, Ont

Troy. N. Y

Washington, D. C.

.27

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from New York, N. Y., to

Kingston, N. Y. .
Newark, N. J . . .
Newburgh, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Poughkeepsie, N.
Reading, Pa. . . .
Stamford, Conn.

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from Boston, Mass., to

Portland, Maine.. .
Providence, R. I. .
Rochester, N. H. . .

Rutland, Vt

Springfield, Mass..
St. Johnsbury , Vt .
Westerly, R, I. . . .
Woonsocket. R. I. .
Worcester, Mass. .

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from Chicago, 111., to

Billings, Mont. .
Bismarck, N. D.
Cheyenne, Wyo.

Lansing, Mich 36

Madison, Wis 38H

Nashville, Tenn 84 "^

Natchez. Miss $1.10

Owensboro. Ky 48

Pierre, S.D 1.22

Portland, Ore 3.00

Springfield. Ill 38H

St. Louis, Mo 44W

St. Paul, Minn 60

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from Kansas City, Mo., to

Denver, Colo $1.25

Ft. Worth. Texas 1.47

Guthrie, O. T 95

Santa Fe, N. M 1.70

Topeka, Kas 29

Des Moines. Iowa.
Little Rock, Ark. .
Natchez. Miss. . . .
Omaha. Neb

Freight Rates per 100 Pounds from Oakland, Cal., to

1st class
Boise, Idaho (via PoO;Iand) $1.95

Los Angeles, Cal 60

Portland, Ore 51

Seattle, Wash 96

Bakersfield, Cal 83

Phoenix, Ariz 2.24

Salt Lake City, Utah 1.72 i/^

Lewiston, Idaho $1.80

Ashland, Ore 1.63

Logan, Utah 2.13

Spokane, Wash.

Tucson, Ariz..

2.15
SPECIAL— Be sure

)8 Fresno, Cal..

>5 HoUister, Cal

)7 Corning. Cal

15 Hanford. Cal

' AsBorted Order " notice, see j

81

INTERESTING -ASTONISHING

Cyphers Incubators will Hatch Successfully Anything
"Hatchable," from the Invisible Eggs of Insects up to
the Four Pound Eggs Laid by Ostriches — the Proof

ANY kind of hatchable eggs can be incubated

J^\_ successfully in Cyphers Incubators, ranging

from the invisible eggs of insects up to ostrich

eggs that weigh three to four pounds apiece and have

Special Ostrich Chicks Hatched in Cyphers Incubators by
Roelof B. Kotze, on Ostrich Farm at Middleburg, Cape Province,
British South Africa.

shells a sixteenth of an inch in thickness. This broad
statement has been proved repeatedly under widely
varying conditions.

For twelve to fifteen years. Standard, lamp-
heated incubators of our manufacture have been used
by bacteriologists, entomologists and biologists in
their technical, scientific laboratory work and during
the last ten years we have sold hundreds of our regular
No. 3 machines for ostrich hatching in British South
Africa, in Florida, Arizona and California.

These so-called 'ostrich machines are simply our
regular No. 3 Incubators equipped with an extra deep
and extra strong egg tray or drawer — each such
machine having a capacity of thirty-six to forty
ostrich eggs, in place of 390 normal sized hen eggs.

In 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
N. Y., Frank Bostock, the world-famous animal
trainer, hatched snake eggs in a Cyphers Incubator
on public exhibition and the Buffalo daily papers
reported the successful hatches.

Among the kinds of fowl and bird eggs that have
been hatched with good success in Cyphers Incubators,
reports have been sent to us in time past covering the
following: Humming bird, canary, English sparrow,
quail, pheasant, partridge, grouse, pelican, swan,
pea fowl, pigeon, ostrich, guinea fowl — also the eggs
of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.

As evidence of the splendid and universal hatch-
ing ability of the genuine Cyphers Incubators, we
publish on this page and the page following three
recent sample reports that tell their own storj' and
fully sustain our strong claims for the "World's Stan-
dard Hatching Machines."

Highly Superior Work of Standard Cyphers

Incubators in Hatching Ostrich Eggs

in South Africa

Following is a letter that was published in the
November, igio, issue of the "Agricultural Journal of
the Cape of Good Hope," a monthly paper in magazine
form issued under the direction of the British Govern-

" To the Editor,

" Agricultural Journal.

" Cape Town.
"Sir:—

" ' Certain it is that some of our most successful breeders as
regards numbers of healthy chicks per nest keep their breeding
birds under as natural conditions as possible and make little or no
use of the incubator.'

" The above is an extract from the reply of Professor Duerden
to Mr. A. G. Erlank of New Bethesda, re. sterility in ostrich eggs,
and published in your last issue.

" Out of fairness to the incubator, I am forwarding you the
following particulars:

"All our chicks are incubated in Cyphers Incubators and
most of the parent birds were also incubated. You will see by
our egg record that we have sixteen camps of breeding birds, one
cock and two hens to a camp. Of these only fourteen laid; the
other two were only mated this year.

" For reasons of our own we separated our birds at the end
of September, although you will notice they were mostly all
laying well at the time, but of the 603 eggs we hatched 410
chicks, nearly 400 of which are alive and doing splendidly.

" This, in a year when so- many are complaining of having few
or no chicks you will admit speaks well for the incubator.

BOWDEN HALL EGG RECORD, 1910

Total, July 110

Total, August 238

Total, September 255

SOME OF OUR BEST HATCHES

40 Fertile eggs 40 chicks

38 Fertile eggs 35 chicks

38 Fertile eggs 36 chicks

37 Fertile eggs 37 chicks

39 Fertile eggs 38 chicks

41 Fertile eggs 40 chicks

" Altogether, out of 603 eggs laid, 430 were fertile, from which
^ got 410 chicks.

Yours truly, ROELOF B. KOTZE.

A 100 PER CENT. HATCH.
Writing of this picture, Mr. Kotze said: "A machine just
hatching out. From this lot I got 40 Chicks from 40 Fertile
Eggs. "

INTERESTING AND ASTONISHING HATCHES WITH CYPHERS INCUBATORS

THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL

COLLEGE

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

Department of

Poultry Husbandr

FREDERIC H. STONEBURN,

Professor of Poultrj' Husbandry

Storrs, Conn., August 14, 19H.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

For quite a series of years it has been evident to the sports-
men of this state that the supply of native game birds is decreasing
with great rapidity. In fact, conditions have reached such a pass
that many well posted men feel that there is danger of complete
extermination of both quail and partridge.

In view of this fact the State Fish and Game Commissioners
have been giving much thought to the problem of restocking the
natural covers of the state with these birds. As a result of their
investigation on the subject, they concluded to attempt artificial
propogation, and this work was begun a few months ago. The
experiment is being conducted on the grounds of this institution,
State Ornithologist H. K. Job being in charge.

During the natural breeding season of the partridge several
clutches of eggs were secured from nests in the vicinity. In some
cases these eggs were practically fresh, while in others they had
been partially incubated by the breeding birds. In all fifty-one
eggs were secured, and these were placed in one of your small-
sized incubators, with the following results ;

Number of Eggs Set

Number of Eggs Hatched

50

Quail are being kept in confinement here and a considerable
number of eggs have been produced by the quail in the small
breeding pens. The fertility is not as high as in the case of wild
birds, but is satisfactory when the conditions are taken into
account. We have used two of your machines for hatching these
eggs, running them through the entire twenty-four day period of
incubation. Results have been satisfactory to all concerned, the
average of all hatches being over SO per cent, of the total number
of eggs set.

The work thus far accomplished leads us to believe that in
the near future methods of management will be worked out whereby
our native game birds can be reared in large numbers under
artificial conditions. Very sincerely yours,

F. H. STONEBURN.

THE MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL
LABORATORY

Embryological, Entomological, Botanical and Other Zoological

Preparations for Schools, Colleges, Museums and

Private Collections

P. G. HOWES, Manager

Stamford, Conn., August 2, 1911.

Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

To be sure it does not seem like very much when
we say that all one needs to hatch chicken eggs is a
proper and unvarying temperature and a certain
amount of care. But to obtain these essential points
not once, but on each and every occasion that one
has to raise embryos, was not such an easy matter
until we began to use Standard Cyphers Incubators,
of which we now use four of the No. 2 size.

We were many months in gairting what we wanted
— what we had to have — but we finally found it in
these "hatching machines" built for poultrymen.
Not only did we find a heating plant which burns so
steadily that the temperature remained always at the
proper degree, but we also found that although it
dropped one or two points when the doors of the
incubators were opened for experiment or testing,
the remaining eggs were not injured in any
degree, so quickly did the heating plant dispel the
cold air which had gained entrance to the egg chambers.

This is a valuable point in favor of the hot-air
type of incubator, particularly during the early
stages of development within the egg, when the
embryo is undergoing the most delicate changes.
Proper heat is what we have found most necessary
in the formation of strong, vigorous chick embryos
and the Cyphers is a machine that possesses this
most desired quality in an incubator.
Very truly yours,

PAUL GRISWOLD HOWES,

Curator of Ornithology.

Group of " Mounts," Containing Chick Embryos Developed
to Desired Stages in Cyphers Incubators at Maplewood Biological
Laborator>', Stamford, Conn.

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MOST SUCCESSFUL, CONVENIENT AND ECONOMICAL INDOOR BROODING
DEVICE OF THE AGE. SUITABLE FOR ALL-YEAR-ROUND USE IN ANY WELL
UGHTED ROOM OR APARTMENT. MAKES EARLY CHICKS A CERTAINTY.
BEST POSSIBLE NURSERY FOR HARDENING NEWLY-HATCHED BROODS

ANNOUNCEMENT: In 1909 Cyphers Incubator Company, (:

incubators, brooders, poultry foods and standard supplies, bo

Paradise Brooder Company, a New York State Corporation with

dollars, doing so because we desired to add to ofir line of

practical device that is built under broad and exclusive United States and Canadian patents owned by the

Brooder Company. Cyphers Incubator Company, by contract with the Paradise Brooder Company, has the sole right

to manufacture these brooders.

t a controlling interest in the capital stock of the
authorized capital of seventy thousand CS70,000)
lufactures the Paradise Indoor Brooder, a strictly

EQUIPPED WITH A CYPHERS INCUBATOR,
any size, and with one or more sections of
the Paradise Brooder (one section will answer
nicely for a No. 0 or No. 1 Incubator, whereas a
complete four section brooder should be used for the
No. 2 and No. 3 Cyphers machines), the thrifty
housewife or wide-awake poultryman can hatch and
raise chicks in any well-lighted living room or
other apartment with the minimum amount of labor
and expense — and this can be done early in the
season when prices are highest and the profits largest.
One or more Cyphers Incubators and one or
more Paradise Brooders can be operated in the same
room, the work thus being kept together, or the
incubators can be operated to special advantage in
a basement or cellar and the brooders in any ordinary
living room — two brooders in a room that is 10 x 13

FIG. 1. — Four-Section Paradise
Brooder. Capacity, 400 chicks in eight
separate lots of 50 chicks each.

feet in size or larger, these brooders having a com-
bined capacity of eight hundred chicks in sixteen
separate lots of fifty chicks each, the ideal number
per flock.

With this equipment there is no need of build-
ing costly poultry houses. The chicks in small or
large numbers can be raised conveniently, economic-
ally and successfully to broiler age in this sectional
one-lamp brooder, or they can be kept in the Paradise
Brooder until the chicks have feathered, then they
can be put out in cold brooders or roosting coops
with perfect safety and will continue to do well.

For broilers that are to be raised to eight, ten
or twelve weeks old,_no better place can be found
for their health, safety and rapid growth than the
Paradise Brooder, but if the chicks are to be kept for
breeding stock, requiring special development of bone
and muscle, we advise that after the
fourth or fifth week they be placed
out upon the ground where they will
get the full limit of exercise.

For brooding ducklings during
their early and risky days, the Para-
dise Brooder is unexcelled. It fur-
nishes a continuous supply of fresh
water for them, yet the source and
supply are protected so that they can-
not get wet — a condition that often is
fatal on account of chilling.

In brief, the Paradise Brooder can
be used with ease, safety and success
in any well-lighted apartment in any
kind of a building and by its use a
man or woman who is resolved to
do so can carry on quite an exten-
sive business in raising chickens
for the home table or for market
with only a small outlay for re-
liable incubating and brooding
equipment.

THE PARADISE BROODER
is just the thing for poultr>-men deal-
ing in day-old chicks who need com-
fortable and safe quarters in which to
keep newly-hatched chicks a few hours
or a few days until they are shipped
away on orders. It is equally valu-
able for all persons who buy day-
old chicks.

DESCRIPTION OF PARADISE BROODERS

How They are Made and How They are Used. Are Unlike Other Brooders. The Advantages are
Numerous and Self-Evident

ON the basis of our many years experience in
the manufacture and sale of all styles of
brooding apparatus we believe the Paradise,
one-lamp, sectional brooder to be the best indoor
brooding device invented thus far as a practical,
convenient and satisfactory nursery for newly-hatched
chicks and duckhngs.

This brooder embodies the correct principles
of brooding chicks and ducklings by artificial means,
naipely, heat, light, ventilation, room for exercise,
fresh water, etc., combined to an unequalled
extent with economy of installation, of space occupied,
of fuel consumed, of labor required, of money invested
and of time and attention in caring for the chicks.

Futhermore, the attendant has the chickens
under perfect controlatall times —
in fact, can see the three or four
hundred inmates of this thoroughly
lighted brooder at any moment
almost at a glance.

Another highly important point
is that the chicks are up off the
floor of the dwelling house room or
other apartment in which the brooder
is located and therefore are away
from the coldest atmosphere and
from dangerous floor drafts. They
also are safe from the attack of rats,
cats, etc.

ON MARKET The Paradise
SIX YEARS : B r o o d e r is the
result of years of
study and test by practical poultry-
men. A number of these brooders
were sold six] years ago and it has
been in general public use five
years, giving great satisfaction. It
is sold in one, two, three or four
sections. The brooder complete con-
sists of four sections and in this form
is the most economical and convenient, where a capa-
city of three hundred to five hundred chicks is desired.
Each section consists of two entirely separate
apartments, the rated capacity of each compartment
being fifty to seventy-five newly-hatched chicks.
Fifty chicks in each lot is the number recommended.

The illustration of the Paradise Brooder that
is shown on the preceding page has eight separate com-
partments and an equal number of long, well-lighted
runways for ais many different lots of chicles.
Chickens can be of one age and size, or of eight lots,
varying in age from just hatched to several weeks
old. Operator can use one section or several sec-
tions at a time — one lamp and water tank does for
all. If preferred, one section only can be purchased
originally (see illustration on this page) and then
other sections can be added later as needed to meet
requirements.

The Paradise Brooder is 3 feet wide and 7 feet long.
A single section is equivalent to two brooders
of the ordinary size, giving a capacity of one hundred to
one hundred and fifty chicks. Each section is twelve
inches high. The base section (shown complete on this

page) stands nineteen inches above the floor, to allow
space for the heater, etc. This brooder is very easily set
up and can be carried through any ordinary doorway.

METHOD OF
HEATING :

Economy of heat is important in
any brooder and in the Paradise
Sectional Brooder we have the
limit of economy, because 300, 400 or even 500 chickens
can be brooded successfully at one time, with one
lamp, and in a small amount of space. The
ages of the chicks may vary from one day to eight
weeks and yet all may be given the proper hover
temperature.

The floor space of each section is 36 x 84 inches.
There are two distinct brooders in

FIG. II. — Complete Base Section of Paradise Brooder. Includes Heater, Fresh-Air
Intake, Cover, Six Legs, Ventilating Cap and Large Water Can, which are sent with Base
Section only. Section has two separate Hovers and Runways and is equal to two
ordinary brooders, each having a capacity of 50 to 75 newly-hatched chicks.

each section, with a capacity of fifty to seventy-
five chicks each.

The heat generated by the safety oil stove ascends
through the several sections and by means of dampers
conveniently arranged on each section the varia-
tion and regulation of the heat supply to any hover
compartment can be readily governed. Heat enters
the hover by slight radiation from above, less from
below, a little from one side, while from the other
side there is a constant yet mild inflow of pure,
fresh, warmed air entering the hover at all times.
Also a body of warm air passes over the backs of the
chicks constantly while they are in the hover com-
partment. A half-width glass partition or curtain
partly separates the hover compartment from the
runway and retains a body of fresh, warm air over
the backs of the chicks while they are in the hover.
See («) Fig. V.

The lamp is not a safety device in name only,
but in reality. The oil tank is located away from the
flame, there being at no time more than a spoonful
of oil under or near the flame. In this lamp the
oil is kept cool by a current of outside air

THE PARADISE BROODERS— HOW MADE AND HOW USED

through the center of the oil receptacle. This current
of air also enters the center of the circular flame,
making combustion perfect and thus insuring it
against smoking. The filling of the oil tank is simple
and in no way interferes with the flame. There is
only one lamp to look after, whether you have one
section or four sections.

THE PLAN OF Ffesh pure air is brought in
through a pipe from outside
the building and is warmed and
distributed to each section. The shutting off of the
heat supply does not interfere with the fresh air
inlet. The constant movement of this current of
air makes the ventilation perfect, regardless of weather
conditions, there being almost a complete change
of air in the hover every few minutes. This abun-

VENTILATION :

FIG. III. — Showing Paradise Brooder with four Sections,
containing Eight Compartments and Eight Runways — Equivalent
to Eight Separate Brooders, each having a capacity of 50 to 75
newly-hatched chicks. Notice the ease with which attendant can
care for the chicks and clean the brooder.

dance of fresh air and oxygen makes the chicks healthy,
hungry and hardy— the three essentials for success
with chicks. The ventilator on the waste pipe above
the machine carries out of the room all foul odors
and thus makes it safe and satisfactory to brood
large numbers of chicks in even a small room.

This automatic system of ventilation gives the
chicks such outdoor conditions as are beneficial to
them, while the detrimental conditions of outdoor
brooding, such as dampness, constant changes
of temperature, cold, driving winds and the many
inconveniences in caring for an outside brooder,

are eliminated. The feeding, watering, caring for
lamp and cleaning of the Paradise Brooder are all
done indoors, regardless of the weather, making
poultry keeping a pleasure instead of a hardship.
E.xperienced poultrymen will acknowledge that fresh
air is a feature sadly lacking in the average indoor box
brooder, especially when several of them are used
in one room or poultry building. The many lamps
make the air foul. Thorough ventilation is one of
the strongest features of the Paradise Brooder.
UYTU A -WITT T Light is as essential as oxygen,
rw-xTT^r; feed or water in the normal and

LIGHT t-U: ^^^-^^ development of chicks. The

Paradise Brooder is the best lighted indoor or
outdoor brooder on the market. In this respect
it has no equal. See illustrations. The hover com-
partment has a glass door which permits of a ready
inspection of the chicks while in the hover, without
disturbing them. The little chicks can be given
their first meal in this hover compartment, where it
is light, warm and comfortable. If the chicks are
being forced specially for broiler purposes, a lamp,
gas jet or electric light can be placed near the brooder
at night, which will allow the chicks to eat and drink
late at night, also extra early in the morning, and this
plan will help materially in their quick development.
When in use the brooder should be placed with the
screen end towards a window, and in this position
all parts of the runways and hovers will receive plenty
of light during the day.

ii*i7'T'ii/-»T-> nn This is one of the best features
wA^^»?Ni^ °f the Paradise Brooder. From
WATERING : ^ i^^.^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^f brooder, the

water is allowed to drip slowly into the first water
cup in top section. This cup is placed in the middle
partition so that chicks from either side can drink
from it. The cups are narrow and long and the chicks
cannot get into them and become wet or foul the
water. From the overflow section of the top cup fresh
water direct from the large can drops downward
through an open trough to the supply cup in the
next section below. All water in each section comes
direct from the fresh supply in the can or reservoir.
The long cups permit o dozen or more chicks
in each compartment to drink at one time. The
cups are removable and can be cleaned and ster-
ilized daily. The water in these cups, being farthest
from the heat of the hover section, remains cool and
refreshing at all times.

In the ordinary box brooder the water is liable
to be neglected and becomes foul, and little chicks
that drink such water soon develop bowel disease
in one form or another and simply fade away, dying
in large numbers. In the Paradise Brooder the
running water, although the movement is merely drop
by drop, will remain clean and fresh. It gives you
a contented feeling when you are absent from the chicks
to know that they always have fresh water before
them. The final drip from the lowest section passes
into a pail, or can be conducted by pipe outside the room.
It is a real pleasure to feed and
care for the chicks in this type
of indoor brooder. Each section
or compartment receives its allowance of food — varied
to suit the age and condition of the chicks. The

FEEDING
THE CHICKS :

THE PARADISE BROODERS— HOW MADE AND HOW USED

opening of the slide doors on the end or side of
runway does not lower the hover temperature, which
is located in the rear or closed end. If short-cut or
shredded Alfalfa is kept on the floor of the runway
and Cyphers Chick Food is scattered in this, it is a
delight to watch the hardy little chicks scratching
away even on cold wintry days.

This exercise is essential for growth and de-
velopment. In the slide doors which enclose the
runways are located neatly arranged sheet metal
troughs in which a supply of grit, beef scrap and
charcoal can be kept. They also can be used for forc-
ing food in growing broilers. These troughs tip
upward and outward while being filled and
fall back again into place so that the chicks can
pick in them, but cannot scratch out the con-
tents. With this brooder there is no need to
travel long distances either indoors or out-
doors to care for and feed several broods of
chicks. The attendant merely stands at the
side of the brooder and can feed three to five
hundred chicks in a very few minutes, all
work being done indoors and in a standing
position.

EASY TO
KEEP CLEAN

If a brooder is hard to clean
it will be neglected many
times. Filth is fatal to
healthy chicks. While cleaning a compartment
or section of a Paradise Brooder, the chicks are
shut in the hover compartment by a dummy
door and are kept there comfortably while the
runways are brushed out. The slide doors in
the side of brooder are removable and this
makes the runways easy to get at, so that
cleaning out does not seem like real work. The
litter is all brushed out and falls in a long box
kept under the brooder for this purpose. Each
hover compartment is cleaned from the rear
end through the slide door with glass panel.
Moving this slide to one side exposes the
entire length of the brooder. Meanwhile the
chicks are in the runway end, eating and drink-
ing in comfort.

It pays to clean daily, hence the great
practical value of a convenient method for
cleaning. In the Paradise Brooder there are
no cloth curtains to retain filth and shut out
health-giving light. The little chick can see
from the end of runway, where it gets a
drink, right back through to the hover com
partment, and chicks always find their way back
into the warm hover of this brooder without assistance
There are no steps, no inclines for them to learn
how to use — no dark corners for the chicks to ge
lost in or to huddle in.

higher at this point than in the end of the runway
farthest from the hover compartment proper.

To each section of the Paradise Brooder there are
two distinct compartments, each with its separate
hover and separate runway. A removable screen
slide divides the section into these two compartments.
Both compartments can be used as one, it desired.

The long, well-lighted runways with fresh, cool
air make very satisfactory quarters for developing
the chicks. Shallow boxes previously sown with rye
in about two inches of earth will furnish the chicks
excellent green food during the winter time and early

LARGE, LIGHT
RUNWAYS :

The part of runway farthes
from the hover compartmen
is enclosed by a screen slide
doorP both at side and end, and this section of the
runway takes the temperature of the room which,
to get the best results, should be about sixty degrees
in cold weather. The part of the runway (between
it and the warmest compartment) is enclosed by a
glass slide door, which keeps the temperature a little

FIG. IV. — Showing how the sections of the Paradise Brooder are
separable, including cover. The sections are light and easy to handle
and will pass through any doonvay. When tiered up the sections fit
snugly one on the other, with cover on top.

spring. These boxes can be placed in the runways
when the rye is about two inches high. After all is
nipped off remove the boxes and let the rye grow
up again. Several of these shallow boxes can be
kept growing on shelves in the room or brooder house
at all times. This plan is of great help in raising
winter broilers.

Sprouted oats also are excellent for chicks four
weeks old and older, but should be given sparingly.
In the spring and summer white clover sod may be
used with fine results — or any other tender green food
that chicks are fond of on range. At all seasons of the
year Alfalfa meal or steamed short-cut Alfalfa or Clover
form a valuable substitute for fresh vegetation.

It is a fact that the broiler business has never been
fully developed — chiefly because of the lack of proper

The paradise brooders— how made and how used

brooding facilities for the early chicks. The Paradise Brooder
now makes it possible to brood successfully practically all the
early chicks that are hatched and to grow them to broiler size
in safe, comfortable quarters in a remarkably short time —

two pound broilers in eight weeks or pound and a half broilers
in six weeks. On a test in a room 16 x 20 feet, more than 3,000
broilers were raised successfully i

one season.

J (a)

the lamp (b) up through the eev
latins cap (e) placed near the ceiling of the room which
carries away both the foul air from the room as wiell as the
fumes from the lamp.

The cold fresh air taken in by a 3-inch pipe connection
from outside the room enters tlie cold air box (d) which
surrounds the lamp (bj and passes into the heating and ex-
pandmg chamber (e). By pushing in the damper (]) against
the hot air flue (a) tliis fresh warmed air is direct©! through
the space underneath the floor, outward, then up through
the screen (g) at the side of the hover compartments (h).

The foul air is constantly being withdrawn from this

in the side waU, into the space between §ie hot air flue (a)
and the side wall of hover compartment (h).

It older chickens are Kept in any section the bottom heat
is taken away by pulling outward the damper as in (jj),
which allows the warm air to pass upward without passing
luiderand heating the floor, thus lowering the temperature,
(k) is the small eliield covering whatwould be the warm-
est Bide of the hover compartment. This makes all sides of
I lie hover compartment equal In heat radiation.

(I) Is the glass slide door in the side of the rimway next to
hover compartment (h), while (m) is the screen slide door on
*' '^--^'- - ■• t from the hover compartment.

, ascurtamwhic

npartment i

at all times, and yet i

(0) are feed troughs arranged in the
permit feeding without opening hover

I sections to pass up and ai
ventilating cap (c).

i the conducting flue for supplying fresh i

FURTHER
ADVANTAGES :

If you are in the poultry business on a
small scale, one section of the Paradise

Brooder with its two compartments

may be sufficient. As the business expands you can add more
sections and tier them up; each fits securely on top of the other.
The one heating device does for all and there is but one
cover. As each new section is added the cover is raised and
placed on top. See Fig. IV.

Chicks of different ages are right at home in this brooder —
each lot in a different compartment, yet there is but one
lamp to fill and care for. The temperature of any section
can be regulated for chicks of any age.

It is a delight to feed, water and care for the chicks in this
type of brooder — there is no heavy work, no kneeling down
on damp ground to fix the lamp — everj'thing is right up in
front of you and indoors. The brooder is perfectly safe to use
being doubly protected by metal and air space with a standard
safety lamp.

BEST FOR Being so easy to operate the Paradise Broo-

XHF ivnvirp • ^^'' '^ ■'^^ *^^ thing for the novice or
'beginner. Directions for operating are
furnished with each brooder; also instructions as to methods
of feeding. Chicks in these brooders do well from the very begin-
ning and grow steadily with no set-backs. Unlike chicks
kept in the average ill-lighted indoor bo.x brooder, the chicks
in the Paradise do not crowd, are not overheated, do not
become chilled, but have plenty of light and plenty of
health-giving oxygen, with fresh water to drink.

The experienced poultr^'man can readily see the numerous
advantages of this brooder. Many such poultrymen are
adopting it to replace old style box brooders of inferior construc-
tion, especially the indoor types. A single section requires
more floor space than the ordinary box brooder, but has a
capacity of twice as many chicks. Yet each one hundred
chicks have a space of 3 x 7 feet. Remember that you do not
have to shift the chicks in the Paradise Brooder to get a
change of temperature. The dampers take care of the regula-
tion of the temperature — a separate damper for each com-
partment.

CARE OF
THE CHICKS

UoTer compartment.

Chicks in the Paradise Brooder do not have
to endure a temperature detrimental to their
growth. They are at liberty at all times
to select a temperature that suits them — that suits their
age and the weather conditions. Keep hover compartment
always warm enough; if too warm at any time the chicks will
move out in the first runway (protected bj^ glass) and will still
be comfortable. Chicks in ordinary box brooders that must
huddle in the dark hover half the time to keep warm will,
not develop as rapidly as they should.

In the Paradise we keep the hover compartment Warm
enough so that the chicks will feel the heat quickly then
they will hurry out again and hustle and scratch for a few
more grains of chick food scattered in the litter of each runway.
A chick that never gets a chill and has blood that is well oxyge-
nated (which can only be the case in a well ventilated brooder)

THE PARADISE BROODERS— HOW MADE AND HOW USED

will spend but little of its time in the hover com-
partment except at night. Many times we have
heard poultrymen say, "I can hatch chicks, but
brooding is the stick." To these poultrymen we
recommend the use of the Paradise Brooder.
For the basis of this recommendation see the sample
reports herewith from actual users. This brooder is
the result of j'ears of study and experimentation by
practical poultrymen and was thoroughly tested
before being offered to the public.

PLACES "^^^ Paradise Brooder can be operated
TTCir . '^^''^ success in a dwelling house, store
* room, stable, poultry' building or other
structure where the temperature does not go
down to freezing. It will give excellent satisfaction
in any of these locations. No better or more convenient
place can be found than near a window in a room in an
ordinary dwelling — a south or east room preferred,
where the sun will shine in on bright days. Two brooders
complete, four sections each, having a combined capacity
of eight hundred (800) chicks, can be operated with
every convenience in a room 12 x 14 feet in size.
Dimensions of each brooder (floor space) are 3x7 feet,
and an eighteen or twenty-four inch aisle is needed at
sides, and twenty-four or thirty inch aisle at ends, for
convenience of attendant.

SEPARATE CIRCULAR— There is room in this section of ou
are using Paradise Brooders — see next
us other reports, also pictures showing i

One of these brooders complete can be located
to advantage in each runway of an ordinary
brooding house that is heated by hot-water pipes
or equipped with individual floor brooders and will
serve as a first-class nursery for newly-hatched
chicks, thus greatly increasing the capacity of the
house and giving the owner a place in which to brood
his youngest chicks where they will be under perfect
control every hour of the day or night.
p^|, Tjci? Many customers will prefer to use

.^^ „ 'j^ _ gas, either natural or artificial,
' instead of oil, and in such cases we
can supply the Paradise Brooder equipped with the
Cyphers Blue-Flame Gas Burner instead of the usual
oil heater. If gas heater is desired it must be so
stated on order.

Price of Paradise Brooders

F. O. B. Buffalo, N. V.. Boston: Mass., New York City. N. Y.,
Chicago, 111., and Kansas City, Mo.

Base Section, complete (including Heater,
Fresh-Air Box, Cover, Legs, Ventilating
Cap and Water Can, which are sent with
Base Section only), crated ready for
Shipment, with complete Directions
for use $20.00

Additional Sections, each 15.00

Shipping Weight, crated: Base section, about 250 pounds; other

sections, each, 150 pounds.

r catalog to publish only a few sample reports in condensed form

page. If specially interested, please send a postal card for large, free

,vhere and how these brooders are being used to excellent advantage.-

TWO P.A.R-4.DISE BROODERS (COMPLETE) IN LIVING ROOM. U x 14 FEET.

Dwelling House Room. 12x14 feet, with two windows is an ideal location for two tomplete Paradise Brooders holding a total of 800

chicks — sixteen different lots of 50 chicks each, ages varying from just hatched to several weeks old. Leaves 2}4 -foot passageway at enda

of brooders, 2 feet aisle against each wall, and 4 feet of space between the two brooders. Most practical, convenient, safe and economical

way for the average poultry raiser to brood large numbers of chicks in winter and early spring while weather is cold and changeable.

Sample Reports— Paradise Brooders

" MINE WOULD BE PRICELESS "

Chardon, Ohio, August 4, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. V. —

Too much cannot be said in praising your Paradise Brooder.
If I had the only one in the worlds without a chance of getting
another, mine would be priceless. I start my machine and
place loo newly-hatched chicks in each section. Have never
raised better stoclc than this year, and in your different brooders
have raised over 4,000 chicks, I am sending you under separate
cover a view of my Paradise Brooder in operation.

CHAS. W. ROSS.

NONE OTHER " IN THE SAME CLASS "

Greenville, Miss., July 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.—

I know of no indoor nursery or brooding device that is in
the same class with the Paradise — it is so easy to regulate and
keep sanitary, is light and airy, without drafts, and the ventilating,
heating and feeding devices are about perfect. No more trouble
to care for 400 chicks in the eight compartments than 100
in the average brooding device. The percentage of loss of
chicks that are strong when they come from the incubator is almost
nothing, and the chicks grow rapidly. Had first-class success
with it — several times had as many as 60 chicks in each compart-
ment. GEO. WHEATLEY.

"OUT OF 225 CHICKS LOST ONLY TWO"

Redfield, S. D., May 30, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. l'.—

I am more than pleased with the Paradise Brooder. Out
of 225 chicks placed in it I lost only two. The first lot I kept
in it until three and one-half weeks old and everyone who saw
them said they had never before seen as strong and healthy
chicks in any brooder. I have 1 18 in it at the present time,
two weeks old. You could not give me any other kind of a brooder.
/ do not think you advertise its good qualities strong enough,
O. BENNETT.

LOST ONLY 20 CHICKS IN 3,000

Hope, Ind., July 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I have been wanting to write you of the splendid success
I had with one of your four-section Paradise Brooders this season.
We have always heretofore had quite a loss among our little chicks
for the first ten days of their lives, and it seemed to me that your
Paradise Brooder would stop this loss, which I am pleased to
say it did. We carried something like three thousand chicks
through the Paradise Brooder and our loss was not over twenty
chicks out of the three thousand. The first four hundred and
fifty chicks run through this brooder resulted in a loss of but four
chicks. / think the death rate in baby chicks can be almost
entirely done away with by the use of the Paradise Brooder,
V. R. FISHEL.

Note: — 1911, Mr. Fishel ordered three more of these Brooders.
His brother, J. C. Fishel, upon learning of the fine work done by
the first Paradise bought by U. R. Fishel, ordered one for his own
use and had it sent to him by express.

WORKS RIGHT, BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER

Hawthorn, Pa., July 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffah, N. Y.—

It affords us much pleasure to give our experience with the
Paradise Brooder. The room in which it is located dropped am
low as 40 degrees last winter and went up to 95 degrees this
summer, but it kept the chicks comfortable at all times. We
brooded about five hundred chicks in the Paradise this spring,
with very low mortality. We have had experience with all the
principal makes of brooders on the market and consider the Para-
dise superior to the others for these reasons — convenience in
feeding, chicks in view at all times, running water, good
supply of pure air, facility in cleaning, and general sanitary
qualities, ARBUTUS FARM,

per D. M. Dunsmore.

"NEVER HAD CHICKS LOOK SO FINE"

North New Salem, Mass., July 7, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.~

I installed a two-section Paradise Brooder and used it through
April, May and June for chicks and ducklings. / kept forty to
fifty chicks in each compartment until they were three
weeks old. They were fed Cyphers Chick Food in litter and I
never had chicks look so fine or grow as fast, and I raised 98 per
cent. Ducklings did equally well and grew like weeds. Raised
120 chickens and over 300 ducks. This brooder cannot be extelled
and is all you claim for it.

W\'OLETTE POULTRY YARDS,

R. L. Chamberlin, Proprietor.

"HIGHEST QUALITY BIRDS"

Urban Farms, Pine Ridge, Buffalo. N. Y., November 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Facts talk — and hereare some facts:

September 26, 1911, we placed the following Jine quality
chicks in the three lower sections of our No. 1 Paradise Brooder:
28 White Rocks; 8 Anconas; 4 Houdans; 18 S. C. White Leghorns;
8 SUver Campines 14 Black Langshans— total, 80 chicks. Up to
this date, November 10th, one chick has died and only one — a
White Leghorn. The other chicks are in fine healthy con-
dition.

October 23, 1911, we placed the following chicks in three
upper compartments of our No. 2 Paradise Brooder: — 38 White
Wyandottes, 29 Plymouth Rocks, 1 Houdan. 10 Anconas. S Silver
Campines, 10 Black Langshans, 2 Black Tailed Japanese Ban-
tams— total, 95 chicks. Up to this date, November 10th, we have
lost two chicks from this lot — one White Wyandotte and One White
Rock. The other chicks are in fine healthy condition and
growing steadily.

We regard the Paradise Brooder as the best device thus far
invented for starting young chicks, as a chick nursery — and
we prove our faith by entrusting to these Brooders our highest
quality birds. Have now used these Brooders three years with
uniformly good results. GEORGE URBAN, Jr.,

Proprietor Urban Farms.

B«

HATCHING CHICKENS
BY ELECTRICITY

EASIEST, CLEANEST AND SAFEST METHOD KNOWN TO MANKIND
FOR HATCHING AND BROODING CHICKS AND DUCKUNGS

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IMAGINE the process of successful incubation by
artificial means reduced to the mere task of
unscrewing an incandescent lamp from its socket
in any room, office or other apartment, by screwing
into its place a screw-plug attached to a cord, then
turning the key on the light fixture, the same exactly
as you do when you turn on an electric light — imagine
this simple operation and you have done all there
is to do in furnishing heat, ventilation, moisture and
automatic regulation to hatch chicks or ducklings
in a Cyphers Electric Incubator, or to brood them
in a Cyphers Electric Brooder.

Cyphers Incubator Company is the originator
of Electric Incubating and Brooding Devices of prac-
tical value. Our investigations in this field were begun
years ago, and successful hatches were made by us,,
using electricity as the heating element, as far back as
the spring of 1899. After years of experimental work
in the laboratories of the Company, Electric Incuba-
tion was demonstrated to be practical, economical
and desirable. The different styles of apparatus
that have been devised and patented by us are illus-
trated and briefly described herewith.

We are proud to be the first in the field in
developing and introducing this process of hatching
and rearing domestic poultry by artificial means.
How popular it is destined to become is fairly
indicated by what the pioneer users of tliis
method have to say in the sample reports herewith^
on pages 94, 95 and 96. Note that these reports are
from all parts of the United States, also from Canada.

TWO IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS

In devising and improving the electrical incuba-
(ing and brooding apparatus olifered for sale by this
Company, particular attention has been paid to two
important requirements: —

FIRST — These de\'ices operate successfully by
the use of the electric lighting current obtainable
from an ordinary incandescent light fixture in any
residence, office building or other structure that is
equipped for electric lighting or with electric power,
and where current is supplied twenty-four hours of
every day, Sundays included, during the hatching
season of the year.

SECOND— A\l electrical devices offered for sale by
this Company are built in strict conformity with
the "National Electric Code" of the Underwriters

National Electric Association and are inspected and
labeled by the Underwriters Laboratories {Inc.,)

under the direction of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters.

These incubating and brooding devices can be
used, therefore, in any building, no matter how
valuable, without objection on the part of the fire
insurance companies, when properly installed.

The advantages of the use of electricity for incu-
bating and brooding purposes are many. Briefly,
they are: Economy in use, labor included; conven-
ience in location of incubator; absence of fumes and
gases; perfect distribution of heat in the egg chamber;
simplicity and accuracy of regulation.

COST OF OPERATION

Tests have demonstrated that it costs about one
half more to operate an incubator of any given size
by -electricity, at the average rates for current, than
it does by the use of kerosene oil, — when no account
is taken of the labor saved. The actual cost varies
from 50 cents to 80 cents per hatch for the No. 1
Electrobator holding five dozen eggs, and from 60
cents to 90 cents for the No. 2 Electrobator holding
ten dozen hen eggs — see reports of users, pages 94-96.

An electrically heated incubator, being entirely
free from odor and gases, can be operated in a living

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ELECTROBATOR {Regtstered Trade Mark )

No 1— Capacity 60 Eggs

Fig. !. — An Electrically Heated and Regulated Incubator

designed expressly for poultry keepers who require small hatching

capacity. Fire-Proofed and bears Fire Underwriters " Inspected

Incubator" label. See price list, page 93.

HATCHING CHICKENS BY ELECTRICITY

room where the temperature averages above 70 degrees
and therefore comparatively little electric heat (or
current) is required to create and maintain a hatching
temperature of 103 degrees in the well-insulated egg
chamber.

When electricity is used the labor item is prac-
tically nothing. There is no lamp to be cleaned
and filled, no wick to be trimmed, no dirt, no waste,
and the machine can be located where it will be the
most convenient for the caretaker.

An electrically operated incubator or brooder
has another advantage over a lamp-heated machine.
We refer to the fact that in the electric incubator
the heat (or current) is "cut out" as soon as the tem-
perature in the egg chamber reaches 103 degrees, and
thereupon all expense stops instantly, whereas when
the regulator on a lamp machine opens the damper
above the lamp flame, the consumption of oil continues,
the surplus heat being discharged into the apartment
in which the machine is located.

CURRENT SHUT OFF

Persons who read these lines may ask, "What
about accidents to electric power plants, shut-downs
for repairs, etc.?" Little anxiety need be felt on
this score. In the first place, a shut-down or "ab-
sence" of current during a period of one to ten hours
will not harmfully affect the hatching of chicks and
ducklings by use of the electric devices here described.
We make this statement oh the basis of repeated
tests, ranging from one to twelve hours.

In the second place, comparatively few shut-
downs now occur from any cause in operating electric
light and power plants, and those that do occur seldom
last more than thirty to sixty minutes. If in any
doubt on this point, consult the management of your
home-town electric light plant. In cities these shut-
downs are now decidedly infrequent. Buildings that re-
ly upon electricity for light cannot be left in darkness for
any considerable length of time — nor are they.

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•ELECTROBATOR" {Registered Trade-Mark.)
No. 2— Capacity ISO Eggs.

"THE ELECTROHEN" (.Trade- Name.)

Fig. 3. — An Oval Glass. Electric Hatching Device used
for Advertising and Educational Purposes — For Advertising
Purposes in Store Windows, at Poultry Shows, etc. : for Educa-
tional Purposes in College and High School Laboratories, in
Classrooms and Kindergartens for Nature Study, etc. Each
device bears Fire Under%vriters' "Inspected Incubator" label.
Price list, page 93.

ELECTROPLANES

"Electroplane" is our trade name for an asbestos
board, metal-bound, electrically heated and regulated
diaphragm, designed for use in the upper part of the
egg chamber, either in an Electrobator, our registered
trade-mark name for an electric incubator, or in an
ordinary lamp machine such as the No. 0 and No. 1
Standard Incubators, or in the Electrohover, our elec-
tric brooding device. Fig. 4 shows an Electroplane,
equipped with an electric thermostat invented by us
expressly for this use.

Fig. 5 shows the method by which an oil-heated
Standard Cyphers Incubator can be readily con-
verted into an electrically heated and regulated
machine — the owner quickly and easily' making the
alterations. Numerous customers have made this
change and we have not received a single report of
failure. As a rule, excellent hatches have been
obtain

ELECTROBATORS— TWO SIZES

"Electrobator" is our registered trade name
for an electric incubator, built in two sizes, designed
for the use of poultry raisers who reside in cities or
villages where ordinary electirc lighting current is
obtainable, and who do not require large hatching
capacity. The No. 1 Electrobator holds five dozen
(60) eggs, and the No. 2 size holds ten dozen (120)
eggs. Both sizes have wooden cases built of quarter-
sawed oak with mission finish, which gives them
an appearance as attractive as a music box.

To use an Electrobator, the operator has but to
unscrew a glass bulb from an incandescent light
fixture in any house, office building or store, and
then screw the loose end of the cord to the fixture in
place of the glass bulb. Nothing could be simpler.

HATCHING CHICKENS BY ELECTRICITY

THE ELECTROPLANE (Trade Name )
Fig. 4.— An Electric, Self-regulatmg, Non-mflammable, Fire-proof Heater for
! in Standard Cyphers No. 0. No. 1 and'No. 2 Incubators. Each Electroplane,
' Inspected Incubator " label of Fire Insurance

Inasmuch as no odor, gas or dirt of any kind attaches
to the use of an Electrobator it can be operated and
will do satisfactory work in living apartments where
the owner of a lamp machine would not find it desir-
able to run an incubator heated by kerosene oil.

The Electrobator is as odorless and as free from
dirt in all respects as an ordinary electric light fixture
and is practically as easy to use. The operator
merely turns the button of an ordinary electric light
fixture and "the silent current does the rest." The
heat distribution is very equal, regulation is auto-
matic and high percentage hatches of large, strong
and vigorous chicks are the result.

ELECTROHOVER

(Adaptable)

This device is shown to ad\'antage in Fig. 7, on
page 94. Its use is to take care of the chicks and
ducklings after they are hatched. This hover is
adaptable to almost any location. It can be inserted
in an ordinary brooder, either indoor or outdoor, or
can be used independently. Is fire-proof throughout
and bears the official inspection label of the
associated fire insurance companies.

We also furnish a wooden case similar to the
Style D Oil-Heated Brooder (see Fig. 6, page 94) to
customers who desire to operate the hover in a room
not supplied with auxiliary heat.

ELECTROHEN, OR GLASS GLOBE
INCUBATOR

"Electrohen" is our trade name for a unique
and artistic oval glass electric hatching device that is
used for advertising and educational purposes —
for advertising purposes at poultry shows, in store
windows, etc.; for educational purposes in college
and high school laboratories, in class rooms and kinder-
gartens for Nature study, etc.

As is the case with an Electrobator — also with
Standard Cyphers lamp machines of the ordinary type
that have been equipped with Electroplanes — this
attractive novelty, the Electrohen, is readily con-
nected to any electric lighting circuit, either
alternating or direct current, of 104 or 110 volts, by
use of the flexible cord and screw plug, which we
furnish with every device. It is only necessary to "turn
the button" and sufficient heat will be provided in the
Electrohen for hatching and brooding the chicks
at the same time in the one machine.

The Electrohen, like the other electrical apparatus
here described, is entirely free from odors, escaping gas

and an i 1 1

or other offensive elements, hence can be
introduced into the handsomely furnished
and electrically equipped homes or offices
of fastidious persons, including professional
or business men, also into schoolrooms or
laboratories without inconvenience or
disagreeable effects.

PRICES

Each incubator or brooder is shipped
complete, ready for immediate use, equip-
ped with new style thermostat, special
thermometer, necessary plugs and fix-
tures, ten feet of reinforced flexible cord,
St rated circular of directions for
installation and use; boxed securely for shipment.

ELECTROPLANE, No. 0 size, dimensions
14 x 1-2% inches; for use in Cyphers No. 0 Oil

Incubator; weight, IS lbs $ 8.00

ELECTROPLANE, No. 1 size, dimensions
23 x 14J^ inches; for use in Cyphers No. 1

Oil Incubator; weight, 20 lbs 10.00

ELECTROPLANE, No. 2 size, 12^ x 28
inches; for use in Cyphers No. 2 Oil Incubator;

weight, 30 pounds complete, per pair

ELECTROBATOR, No. 1 size, 60 -Egg

Capacity; weight, 40 lbs

ELECTROBATOR, No. 2 size, 120-Egg

Capacity; weight, 65 lbs 20.00

ELECTROHOVER, ADAPTABLE,
dimensions, 21 inches in diameter, 9J^ inches

in height; weight, 30 lbs 10.00

ELECTRIC BROODER, complete, with
Electrohover and Wooden Case; weight, 60 lbs. 14.00

ELECTROHEN, or Glass Globe Incuba-
tor; weight, 65 lbs 25.00

18.00

16.00

IN POSITION.
-Shows Outline Drawing of No. 1 Standard Cyphers
Incubator of lamp-heated type converted into an Electric Incu-
bator by substituting an "Electroplane" for removable top di^i-
phragra and attaching outer end of 10-foot flexible cord to ordinary
electric light lamp socket. Scores of these Electroplanes have been
put to this use and are giving complete satisfaction.

Sample Reports— Electrical Incubators and Brooders

" PERCENTAGES PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY "

ELECTRIC POULTRY PLANT

Breeders of Single and Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds and Single

Comb Black and White Orpingtons

All Stock Hatched In Electric Incubators

Winners Highest Awards Virginia State Fair and Virginia Poultry

Exhibit, 1909 and 1910

Barton Heights, Va., August 29, 1910.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We have been using your Electric Incubators (the Electro-
bators) for two years, hatching many fine chicks in them.
We first started with your 60-egg machine, in order that we might
make a test of its ability to hatch. After using same for some
time we decided to put in two of your 120-egg Electrobators,
so much pleased were we with the results.

We have found these Electrobators to be of little or no trouble,
as they are practically self-regulating. The percentage of
chicks hatched from fertile eggs has been perfectly satis-
factory and we have no hesitancy in recommending them to any
one desiring a first-class incubator. «-

Several of your Electrobators have been sold in this city on
the strength of our recommendation and in every ca»e they
have met the requirements of those purchasing.

The chickens hatched in our Electrobators have proved
to be as healthy as any we have raised by hens — in fact.
we consider the incubator chicks superior to those hatched by
hens. We took first prize at the Virginia State Poultry Associa-
tion on birds hatched in our electric incubators.

ELECTRIC POULTRY PLANT,

G. B. Mountcastle, Prop.

" MUCH BETTER THAN WITH HENS "

Lincoln, Neb., July 8, 191!.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. I'.—

I have been breeding and exhibiting Barred Plymouth Rocks
for thirty years and in that time I have used many different
kinds of incubators, but have never had any that could com-
pare with the Cyphers Electrobator that I bought of you last
winter. The only place in which I had electric current was in
an old shop in which the temperature varied from 40 to 60 degrees
and at times went below zero. In spite of this and other un-
favorable conditions I had excellent hatches, much better than
with hens. Once I was away from home on an important errand
tor two days, locked up the place and left no one to look after the
machine, but when I returned I found it running as nicely as
when I left it.

The Chicks hatched in your Electrobator are strong and
plump and I have noticed particularly the absence of cripples.
Next season I am going to have one of your Electric Brooders.
I am delighted with my Electric Incubator and in future wilt
use no other, if I can get electric current.

Yours respectfully, F. C. HINMAN, M. D.

brooder.

ELECTROHOVER— ADAPTABLE.
Fig. VII.— An Electrically Heated, Non-Combustible, Self-
Regulating Brooding Device for use in any make
either Indoor or Outdoor, that is sufficiently large '
date a Hover twenty-one inches in diameter and ten inches in
height. Is fire-proofed and each Hover bears Fire Underwriters*
"Inspected Brooder" label. Also used separately in any moder-
ately warm apartment.

" ALL CHICKS LARGE AND STRONG "

Ambler, Pa., August 2, 1910,
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We are delighted with tlie 120-egg Cyphers Electrobator.
Have gotten as high as 90 per cent, of the fertile eggs — all chicks
being large and strong.

The Electrobator bears the same relation to the oil heated
incubator that electric lights do to the oil lampsi That expresses
our opinion of your electric hatcher.

As near as we can estimate the cost for current, it was in the
This
oil, but considering all thing
believe the cost is less.

We turned the eggs twice daily and cooled them once a day.
but paid no further attention to the machine. We have
an elegant lot of BufT Orpingtons as a result of our test of your
Electrobator. With us oil incubators in future will be relics
of the past — so long as we have access to an electric current.
W. F. PATTERSON.

OPERATED IN BUTLER'S PANTRY

Beloit, Kansas, August 6, 1910.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I used your Electric Incubator last season and was highly
pleased with it. The automatic arrangement for regulating
the heat is perfect. The freedom from smoke and dirt inci-
dental to the use of oil lamps in the old style incubator, together
with the absolute protection from fire risk, makes the electric
system a perfect one for the hatching of chickens. I placed my
Cyphers Electrobator in the butler's pantry and the care for

MRS. R. M. ANDERSON, 909 North Mill St.

Cyphe,

ELECTRIC BROODER, COMPLETE.
Fig. VI. — Shows Hover in Brooder Case for ust
that newly-hatched chicks can be kept with safety.
on page 93.

" RAISED BETTER THAN 90 PER CENT."

WHITE VILLAGE POULTRY RANCH

Boise. Idaho, July 11, 1911.
Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. I'.—

This spring I completed my Incubator cellar and brooder
house, equipped for brooding exclusively with electricity
and shall use from five to fifteen Cj-phers Electric Hovers this
season. I used one of your Electric Hovers all last season and
nothing else will suit me in future but electricity for brooding-

On December 1st last, I put 140 chicks into the Cyphers
Company Electric Hover and owing to a wide-open cellar, which
was just the same as hatching out-of-doors, the hatch was late
in coming off, therefore some of them were weaklings.

In spite of this fact, I raised better than 90 per cent, of the
chicks with the Electric Hover. If I had brooded bj- any other
method I would not have raised 30 per cent, of them. My expense
f6r brooding in mid-winter (December) was less than one cent
per chick per day.

Have not hatched by electricity thus far, but expect to do so.
Please send me some literature on this subject.

Respectfully, JAS. A. WHITMORE.

SAMPLE REPORTS — ELECTRICAL IlvJCUBATORS AND BROODERS

"WONDERFUL SUCCESS WITH YOUR ELECTROBATORS "

CHARLES R. HUNTLEV, President & Gen'I Manager HiIpjr4Tn rtriMFPAT vi B-nxuir- r-rM>iT,AMi,

GEORGE URBAN, Jr., 1st Vice President BUFFALO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

DANIEL T. NASH, Secretary and Treasurer '

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Buffalo, N. Y., October 18, 1909.

You may remember that at the close of the Buffalo Industrial Exposition which was held during the week ending December 19, 1908,
I got from you some White Leghorn chicks that you had hatched in your Electrobator which was on exhibition there. I saved nine pullets
and a cockerel, and raised them in one of your Style C Brooders. They have done so well that I feel sure you will be interested in knowing
of the record they have made.

When they were three days less than five months old they began to lay. That was on the 14th of May, and they have laid splendidly
ever since. The following is their record beginning with the 14th of May and ending with the 30th of September, 1909: 14th May to
31st May, 35 eggs; June 1st to 30th, 140 eggs; July 1st to 3Ist, 181 eggs; August 1st to 31st, 145 eggs; Sept. 1st to 30th, 132 eggs. A total
of 632 eggs in 136 days from nine young pullets.

During the above period you will notice that there were only two days on which we did not get an egg, and that was before they were
fairly started, namely, on the 15th and 21st of May. From the 14th of May down to yesterday these nine pullets have laid 632 eggs. This
speaks well indeed for the egg-laying qualities of the birds from your farm.

/ have had wonderful success in hatching eggs in your Electrobators, of which t have had three in operation. The hatches
have ranged from 85 per cent, to 92 per cent, of the eggs, and the chicks generally come out early, the hatch being complete
by the 21st day of incubation; and the chicks are always very strong and active.

You will be further interested in knowing that on the 2nd day of July we hatched our first chicks from eggs laid by these nine pullets
and it is my opinion that it will not be long before these newly hatched chicks will be laying. I am certain they will lay within a year
from the time their parents were hatched. This will give me two generations, both laying within twelve months. I am sending you a
photograph of the nine original pullets, now mothers; also a photograph of the
taken on the I4th .of August.

I can not speak too highly of the stock from your poultry farm, and the Elec-
trobators and Brooders you manufacture. They excel anything I have used
during the many years I have bred poultry for pleasure — and not without profit.

Yours respectfully,

chicks, their daughters. These photographs were

Cypher

"NEVER HATCHED CHICKS THAT WERE STRONGER"

Champaign, 111., November IS, 1911.
: Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y .—
It is with pleasure that I recommend the Cyphers Incubators and Brooders. The No. 2 Electrobator which I purchased of you
last spring gave the best of satisfaction, requiring no attention except to turn the eggs. I never hatched chicks that were
stronger or that grew taster than those hatched in your Electrobator.

After having used a number of different brooders with anything but satisfactory results, it was with some doubt as to what I
might expect that I bought one of yours, but the Cyphers Self-ventilating and Self-regulating Brooder happily surprised me, for at
no time throughout the season was there a change of temperature at night that the regulator did not take care of to perfection. /
consider your Incubators and Brooders the best on the market and in a class by themselves.

Yours truly, R. W. GAULT.

DOMINION OF CANADA-DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

A, G. GILBERT, CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM VICTOR FORTIER,

Poultry Manager Poultry Division Ass't Poultry Manager

Ottawa, August 30, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

I send you photographs of chickens hatched in one of your incubators operated by electricity, and the same chickens reared in one
of our home-made brooders fitted up with one of your electric hovers. It was very hard to get the number of chicks I would like to have
had, because some would not come out of the brooder.

I also send you photographs of chickens hatched and reared in your electric fitted Standard Cyphers Incubators and Brooders.
We had to take them in small groups, for there were 500 to 600 scattered about the place and the man with the camera would insist on
placing himself where he liked.

We have been particularly successful in hatching chickens by electricity, as adapted to your incubators and brooders.
On page 299 of the reports of the different experimental farms, you will find a paragraph on the use of electricity as applied through your
machines. I trust this letter will afford you as much gratification as the use of your goods has given us.

A. G. GILBERT, Poultry Manager.

Photographic Views Showing Electric-Hatched ;

Electric-Brooded Chicks, Central

95

Farm, Ottawa, Out., Canada.

SAMPLE REPORTS — ELECTRICAL INCUBATORS AND BROODERS

South Dakota College of Agriculture

STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS
ARTHUR A. BRIGHAM, Ph. D., Principal

Brookings, S. D., November 9, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

We have here one of your Electrobators and I ran it during the summer school
at the State College. It operated nicely and I consider it a very fine hatching
machine. During the day time Sundays, when
the electric current was off, we used flat water
pans, filling them with hot water and thus maintained
the temperature in the egg chamber with very little
trouble. Yours ver>' truly,

ARTHUR A. BRIGHAM.

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" 92 CHICKS FROM 95 FERTILE EGGS "

Huntington, L. I., N. Y., April 28, 1910.
Cyphers Incubalor Co,, Buffalo, N, Y. —

It gives me pleasure to inform you that we have just taken
off a hatch of 92 chicks from 96 fertile eggs in your No. 2
Electrobator. There was a steady temperature throughout the
entire hatch and we did not find it necessary to supply moisture.
Needless to say, / am much pleased with this splendid hatch,
my first one by the use of electricity. J. J. GEOGHEGAN.

" SHALL NOT USE ANY OTHER MACHINE "

Athens, Ga., August 5, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Want to say that your Electric Incubator is the best and
easiest operated hatching machine that I know of. Through
the Season I have averaged about 85 per cent, of the fertile eggs.
The cost of operating has been about seventy-five cents for
three weeks.

I shall not use any other kind of incubator this coming season.
I hatched a few chicks with hens last season and my Electrobator
chicks were fully as strong and vigorous as those hatched
by the hens; in fact, you could not tell the difference today,
R. E. BRODBERRY.

RESULT IN FAVOR OF ELECTROBATOR

Danville, Va., July 13, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y, —

I have been operating one of your No. 2 Electrobators and
being somewhat skeptical at the outset of what these machines
were capable of doing, / was greatly surprised at the results.

Your Electrobator has hatched for me practically every
hafcchable egg, averaging between 80 and 90 per cent, and one-half
of the eggs incubated had been shipped hundreds of miles.

To fuHher test its qualities I set hens with eggs from the
same lot placed in the machine and the result was in favor of
the Electrobator. Have had no trouble at all in keeping the
temperature at the required point.

The little chicks to all appearances are as strong or stronger
than hen-hatched ones and are as lively as crickets — none dying
by disease, only a few through accidents. Prospects are bright
for some fine Rhode Island Reds for my breeding pens this fall.

P. P. PATTESON.
Breeder of Rhode Island Reds, "The Red Kind."

" 76 FINE LIVELY CHICKS "

Paris, Tenn., April 15, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co,, Buffalo, N. Y .—

Was waiting for a hatch in one of your Electric machines
before writing you. Your Electrobator is a success! Mr.
Dumas, this morning, took 76 fine lively chicks from our No. 2
Electrobator, one day ahead of time. We shall want more of
these machines for early fall delivery.

J. W. BLANTON & CO.

" NEVER HAD SO MUCH COMFORT AND SUCCESS "

White Plains, N. Y., October 15, 1911.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

The past season I hatched in your Electrobators about six
hundred strong, healthy chicks — every hatchable egg — not
one deformed chick in the lot. The ease and simpUcity with
which these machines are operated makes them, in my estimation.
the best incubator that has ever been put on the market.
I have never had so much comfort and success in hatching as I
have since I began using your Electrobators and while all around
me the general complaint is "poor hatches," the friends who come
to see my chickens say '''How do you do it?" Remember / am
in my eightieth year and still working. In future shall use
nothing but Cyphers Electric machines for hatching.

CHAS. J. QUINSY.

" I NOW HAVE FORTY PULLETS "

Glen Cove, N. Y., August 10, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

In reference to your Electric Incubator. I msh to advise you
that I purchased a No. 2, 120-egg Electrobator last February and
started a hatch March 1st with 110 eggs, which tested down
to 80 that appeared to be fertile. From the eggs left in the machine
I obtained 68 fine chicks at a cost of 90 cents for electricity.

I ran this machine three times last spring and on no hatch
was my cost more than 90 cents. I had just as good luck in
the other hatches as I did on my first. My chicks all lived
excepting four and their loss was no fault of the machine.

Out of my first hatch / now have forty pullets that should
be laying within the ne-xt two or three weeks. I very much favor
the electric incubator for several reasons, the chief one being the
small amount of labor in operating it, also in doing away
with the smell and danger of oil and the small cost of bringing off
the hatch. / can honestly recommend your Electrobator to
all poultrymen who are situated so that they can get electric
H. W. VALENTINE.

F. C. ELFORD.

MacDonald College

STE. ANNE DE BELLEVUE, QUE.

POULTRY DEPARTMENT
F. C. ELFORD, Manager P- O. MacDonald College, Que., Canada

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — No\-embcr 8, 1910.

We have used your Electrobator and Electric Hover here for the last tu-Q seasons
and for poultrymen having a constant supply of electricity they should prove highly
satisfactory. The Electric Hover will rear chicks equal to any hover we have
used. To get the best results out of the
Electrobator we supply a little moisture.
Both of these devices are easily handled,
neat in use and could be operated in a
parlor, if necessary.

Very truly yours, d Mgr. Poultry Dept.

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FOR CUSTOM HATCHING, FOR THE DAY-OLD CHICK

f^^-- TRAD£ and for use on egg farms, DUCK RANCHES,

•3r«i^2^,2i^sETC. CAPACITIES RANGE FROM 4,000 to 60,000 EGGS

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CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY, for fifteen
years a pioneer in the development of improved
methods of artificial incubation, began its
experiments in the construction and operation of
duplicate compartment, or so-called Mammoth Incu-
bators, twelve years ago. During the last eight
years these experiments have been carried on every
season without interruption — and with gratifying
results.

Six years ago we installed our first permanent
Mammoth machine on the Cyphers Company's fifty-
acre Poultry Farm, located at Buffalo, N. Y. This
machine had a capacity of 12,000 hen eggs and was
a practical success. We operated it experimentally
during two seasons, hatching thousands of chickens
and ducks in it.

The first Cyphers Mammoth Incubators offered
to the public were sold in 1907. These big machines
were erected on Long Island, N. Y., and were for duck
hatching. A 38,240 egg machine was installed by
us for A.- J. Hallock, proprietor of the Atlantic Duck
Farm, Speonk, L. I., and we installed an 8,250 duck-
egg machine at about the same time on Forge River
Duck Farm, Center
Moriches, L. I., N. Y.,
T. V. Cox, Proprietor.

Both of these
machines did excel-
lent work, the result
being that Mr. Hal-
lock ordered another
Cyphers Mammoth of
12,000 egg capacity,
which we installed for
him in the fall of 1908,
and October 1, 1910,
we were given an order
to double the capacity
•of the Cox machine.

Furthermore, E.
O. Wilcox, next door
neighbor to Mr. Hal-
lock, watched the work
of the Hallock 38,240
duck-egg machine and
in the fall of 1909 gave
us an order to install
a forty - compartment
Cyphers Mammoth on

his plant, known as the Oceanic Duck Farm. After
using this machine through an entire season, Mr.
Wilcox, under date of September 12, 1910, gave us an
order to install a second Cyphers Mammoth for him,
consisting of twenty-four compartments.
EVERY HANDY '^^^ Cyphers Mammoth today is
FEATURE : ^ practically .perfect hatching

machine. In the first place, it
was designed, built and thoroughly tested by men of
experience; in the second place we carefully studied
the practical, every-day needs of men engaged in
all branches of the poultry business where large
hatching capacity is required and we are certain,
therefore, that the 1912 type of Cyphers Mammoth
Incubator embodies every handy feature that could
add to the efficiency, convenience and durability of
the machine. For proof of these claims, please read
the sample reports from customers on pages 100, 101
and 102 herewith, and send for special 20-page Mammoth
circular and supplementary testimonial sheet, which
will be mailed free to any address on request.

These cases set a good example, because repeat-
edly since those early days of Mammoth building

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Lower Tier Were Hatching Wlien Photograph was Taken.

CYPHERS MAMMOTH INCUBATORS

WHERE CAN
BE USED :

SINGLE COMPARTMENT OR "UNIT."
Showing single compartment of Cyphers Mammoth Incu-
bator with door open-on near side and four egg trays in place
readv to receive eggs. Trays are square and interchangeable.
Same kind and size of door on both sides of compartment giving
handy access in caring for eggs, also insuring uniform cooling ot
eggs.

and mammoth installation we have sold the second
machine to customers who tried one, put it to a prac-
tical test, and then bought another Cyphers Mammoth
or had the first machine enlarged. Two noteworthy
sales of Cyphers Mammoths made lately by us
consist of a 16,800 duck-egg capacity machine sold
to Messrs. Weber Bros., New England's famous mar-
ket duck growers, Wrentham, Mass., annual capacity
100,000 ducklings, and a 10,400 hen-egg machine sold to
Mr. U. R. Fishel, Hope, Ind., the well-known breeder of
"Best in the World" strain of White Plymouth Rocks.
Suffice it to say, as a general proposition, that
in principles of construction and operation, in mater-
ials, workmanship and finish, the Cyphers Mammoth
Incubators are fully equal to the small-sized, port-
able Cyphers machines that have been on the market
fifteen years and are now recognized as "standard"
in all parts of the civilized world. The Cyphers
Mammoth is built in "units" or compartments, each
compartment having a capacity of four hundred hen
eggs. There are four egg trays to each compartment,
each tray holding one hundred eggs.

The Cyphers latest type hot-
water Mammoth Incubator is
shipped knock-down, thus ob-
taining low freight rates to all points. Where
machines are to be shipped long distances this saving
is important. Blue-prints and photographs are fur-
nished for use in setting up each machine. Any man
who is handy with tools can do the work. With-
out exception the parts are built in sections, in a
workmanlike, durable manner, using first-class, sub-
stantial materials. All parts can be put together
quickly and easily. Every part is marked or lettered
showing plainly where it belongs. The trays are
dovetailed, nailed securely and the wire is tacked on.
The piping can be quickly and properly put in place.
During the fall of 1911 eight of these Mammoths,
ranging in size from 4,000 to 16,000 eggs in capacity.

ARE SHIPPED
KNOCK-DOWN :

were shipped to points on the Pacific Coast, the install-
ing to be done in every case by the purchasers.

These Mammoth Hot-water Incu-
bators (see heating system shown on
next page) can be used in cellars built
for the purpose, or in any fairly large room or
apartment built above ground, such as a poultry
house, store building, etc. Entire machine can be taken
down on short notice without injury and moved away.
Every 42 inches in length of the Cyphers Mam-
moth Incubator gives the owner a capacity of 800 hen
eggs. This is on a basis of double-tier construction.
A room 10 x 40 feet in size is large enough for a machine
of 8,000 hen-egg capacity and a room 18 x 40 feet in
size is sufficient for a 16,000 hen-egg machine, with
plenty of room between the sections or double tiers.
It is entirely practical to install this type of Mammoth
Incubator two tiers high, one above the other. The
egg chamber doors of both tiers are at a convenient
height and machines installed in this manner are
easy to care for and operate.

A 4,000 hen-egg machine is as small
as we would recommend. Below
this size the cost, as compared with
an equal capacity of lamp-heated machines,
is in favor of the portable oil-heated incubators. The
smaller sizes of the Cyphers Mammoth are equipped
with the same size ot hot-water heater, with the same
high-grade water thermostats and other regulating
parts, with the same style of auxiliary tank and pipe
connections; therefore, the larger the capacity of the
machine, the lower the price can be made per one
thousand eggs. For the 4,000 hen-egg Cyphers
Mammoth we charge $500; for a 5,600 hen-egg machine,
$650, F. O. B. factory, Buffalo, N. Y. For each
additional l.OCO egg capacity, up to 10,000 hen eggs,
add $100. From 10,000 to 16,000 hen-egg capacity,
add $90 per 1,000 egg capacity. The price in every
case includes all parts complete, also thermome-
ters, etc., and detailed blue-prints and directions for
setting up and operating.

LARGE SIZES
COST LESS :

TRAY ELEVATING DEVICE— CYPHERS MAMMOTH.
,'ing four Egg Trays located on Tray Elevating Frame •

capacity ot 100 hen eggs.

CYPHERS MAMMOTH INCUBATORS

At the present time a large majority of the men
and women engaged in the day-old chick trade are
using small portable incubators, and the same is
true of most of the duck ranches and other big prac-
tical plants. If a capacity of less than 4,000 eggs is
desired, or if you wish to begin on a modest basis and
test out the work as you go along, we would advise
that you use the Standard lamp-heated Cyphers
Incubators of 244 or 390 hen-egg capacity and buy
as few or as many of them as you need.

In other words, there is a place in the rapidly
growing poultry industry for the Mammoth Incuba-
tor, also for the small-sized portable machines. It
is for you, reader, to decide which of the two is better
suited to your conditions and will serve your interests
to special advantage. In either case, if you entrust
your order to us we hereby agree to co-operate

CIRCULAR ;

with you in the work and to give your commands
the prompt and careful attention to which you will
be entitled as a valued customer of ours.
SPECIAL 20-PAGE headers of this catalogue
MAMMOTH "^^'^ think favorably of

installing a Mammot h
Incubator are asked
to write for our 20-page (9 x 11-inch) special cir-
cular which fully illustrates and describes the
Cyphers Mammoth Incubators; contains num-
erous pictures of these incubators in successful
operation in widely separated parts of the coun-
try, reports from numerous operators, and gives
price list, floor space required, etc., for Cyphers
Mammoths ranging from 4,000 to 16,000 hen-egg
capacity. CIRCULAR WILL BE SENT FREE
TO ANY ADDRESS ON REQUEST.

HEATING SYSTEM
CYPHERS MAMMOTH
INCUBATOR.
(Patent Applied For.)
Picture shows the
Heater in pit and the pipes
leading to auxiliary and
expansion tanks. Also
shows _ twelve radiating
pipes in each tier of a
double-tier Mammoth
machine with Regulating
Device above auxiliary
tank. Light lines show
wall of heater pit, wood-
work of incubator com-
partments, etc.

Sample Reports — Cyphers Mammoth Incubators

Quality Baby Chicks

THE MIDLOTHIAN POULTRY FARMS

JOHN G. POORMAN. Manager

for Hatching
White Plymouth Rocks
Barred Plymouth Rocks
White Wyandottes
S. C. W. Leghorns

Cyphers Incubator Company , Buff alo , N. Y.— Tinley Park, 111., July 12, 1911.

At the close of our second year of operating a 6,000-egg Cyphers Company Mammoth Incubator we find
that our increasing business in baby chicks demands a larger incubator capacity.

We have just taken off a 4-compartment hatch of 1,624 chicks from a total of 1,998 eggs set. Our eggs
have been running about 75 per cent. . fertile, therefore the record shows that we have hatched practically
every fertile egg.

Next week the carpenters will begin to increase our incubator house to double its present size and we
herewith enclose our order for a second Cyphers Mammoth to consist of 30 sections, of 500 hen-eggs each
(15,000-egg capacity,) to be delivered October 1, 1911. JOHN G. POORMAN, Mgr.

"UNHESITATINGLY RECOM-
MEND IT"

Moriches, L. 1., N. Y., Oct. 9, 1911.
-Cyphers Incubator Co. .Buffalo, N. Y. —
I take great pleasure in reporting
my experience with the Mammoth Incu-
bator. On account of simplicity of
construction any person of ordinary
intelligence can run it, and it requires
much less labor and attention than I
formerly was compelled to give tothe
incubating process. I find there is a'
saving of about 60 per cent, in fuel.
The hatches have been wonderfully
good — about 90 per cent, of the fertile
eggs coming out, producing strong,
healthy chicks full of vitality. I
am thoroughly pleased with my Cyphers
Mammoth and unhesitatingly
5,00O-Egg Capacity Cyphers Mammoth Incubator (From Photograph) In Use Two Years recommend it tO every poultryman.
On The Midlothian Poultry Farms, Tinley Park, 111. (Near Chicago.) ERNEST LANGE.

TRIED ONE— BOUGHT ANOTHER

p. C. FISH

POULTRY YARD AND HATCHERY

Baby Chicks. Incubators, Large Orders — of Popular Varieties

Custom Hatching Baby Chicks — Our Specialty

4334 Belleview Capacity, 20.000 Eggs Visitors Welcome

Kansas City, Mo., October 12, 1911.

Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Early in the year 1910 you installed for me a
10,220-egg Cyphers Mammoth. With this large
capacity was unable to take care of my rapidly growing
trade in day-old chicks, therefore gave you an order
for another slightly larger Cyphers Mammoth,
which you installed in Februar^', 1911, and must say
that with your automatic damper control, large aux-
iliary hot-water supply tank, master compartment
thermostatic valve control of water flow, and your
simple device for raising and lowering the egg trays
in each compartment, it is practically impossible
to Injure the eggs from overheating or chilling.
The heat control in each compartment is all that could
be desired. These features, combined with your
scientific moisture and ventilating method, is what
produces these large, blocky, healthy chicks in
percentages heretofore unobtained in artificial
incubation. P. C. FISH.

SAVES FUEL AND LABOR

CONEJO FARMS
A. E. WRIGHT, Manager

Fancy Table Poultry
Broilers, Roasters
and Fresh Eggs

Eggs for Hatching and

Day-Old Chicks Every Month

in the Year

Huntington, L. I., N. Y., July 13, 1911,
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

The 11,000-Egg Mammoth Incubator you installed
for us a year ago last winter continues to give excel-
lent satisfaction. We have found by our own
experience that it will do first-class work at all seasons
of the year.

At the present time we are getting very good
hatches of large, strong chicks right along, although
the thermometer for the last two weeks, for example,
has been from 95 to 102 degrees in the shade nearly
every day.

I have never had as good chicks as those pro-
duced by the Cyphers Mammoth and we can run the
big machine with 50 per cent, less fuel, can save
at least 75 per cent, on labor and we get from three
to five per cent, better hatches right along than we
do with lamp machines. A. E. WRIGHT, Mgr.

SAMPLE REPORTS- CYPHERS MAMMOTH INCUBATORS

THE BABCOCK POULTRY FARM

White Plymouth Rocks
Capacity 30.000 Annually
Custom Hatching
Fredonia, N. Y., October 11, 1911.

S. C. White leghorns
Baby Chiclts
Eggs for Hatching
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.-

After having operated our 14,000-Egg Mammoth Incubator for two complete seasons, we are glad
to say that we are highly pleased with its workings, both as to low operating expense and results in
hatching chicks.

As compared with the oil machines we formerly used, we find that the cost of fuel is approximatelg
one quarter of that used in incubating an equal capacity of eggs with oil lamps and as near as we
can figure it your Mammoth machine saves over 50 per cent, in labor.

We have used Cyphers Incubators for the past seven seasons and have had ample time to find out
that they are the best machines on the market, and you are at liberty to use our name in any reference
you wish.

The sale of an incubator or any of your products is merely the beginning of a helpful acquaintance.
You are always willing to be of assistance, even though the sale was made years before, and your
co-operation under such circumstances reflects great credit upon your company.

BABCOCK POULTRY FARM, Frederick M. Babcock, Prop.

"THE KIND THAT LIVE" "

INWOOD FARMS
N. Y. Branch Store, 243 Columbus Ave.
All Products Are Guaranteed ot
Finest Quality
Deal Beach, N. J.,
August 26, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.-
In regard to your inquiry about
the 12,000-egg size Cyphers Mam-
moth Incubator which you installed
here at Inwood Farms, would say
that it has done fine work, hatch-
ing from five to ten per cent, more
chicks than the lamp heated
machines (with eggs from the same
breeding pens, at same time), and
the chicks were big fluffy fel-
lows, the kind that live.

Yours truly,
THOMAS LOCKWOOD,

r, , , . , „ Cyphers Mammoth Incubator, Owned by the Babcock Poultry Farm, Fredonia, N.

Poultryman tor Inwood Farms. Capacity, 14,000 hen eggs. Mr. Babcock First Tried a 6,000- Egg Cyphers

Mammoth, Then Increased to 14,000 Egg Capacity. See Report.

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" EVERYTHING SATISFACTORY "

THE MODEL CHICK HATCHERY
FRED. H. McCUNE, Proprietor
Custom Hatching by the Hundred or by the Thousand

Ottawa, Kan., May 25, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

The 20-section, 8,000-egg Cyphers Mammoth Incu-
bator you installed for me the past season has not been
a disappointment in any particular — hatching as
large percentages of good, strong chicks as we have
obtained with the small, portable machines after years
of -experience with them.

The contract entered into by your company for
installing this Cyphers Mammoth has been faithfully
carried out — in fact you have gone "the limit" in
making everything satisfactory.

For a long time I have used the small-sized, lamp-
heated Standard Cyphers Incubators with excellent
success, as ray neighbors and customers are well aware
and I can honestly recommend the Cyphers Mam-
moth to prospective purchasers and any one coming
hereto visit my plant and see the big machine will not
be disappointed.

FRED H. McCUNE.

"HEN EGGS AND DUCK EGGS"

NIAGARA POULTRY FARM

W. R. CURTISS & CO., Props.

Market Poultry and Fancy Poultry. Eggs and„Stock For Sale

Poultry Supplies and Cut Clover

Capacity of Plant 100,000 Head Annually

Ransomville, N. Y., October 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

We have used one of your large Mammoth Incu-
bators this last season with excellent results on
both hen eggs and duck eggs. This machine has
hatched about five per cent, better than the small
machines, on an average. The cost is only about
one-tenth as much for fuel and labor, provided the
poultry raiser wishes to hatch a large number of eggs..
We find that the stock hatched from the Cyphers
Mammoths is stronger and easier to raise than
chicks and ducklings hatched naturally, or with
small machines.

We shall install more large machines as fast as
we have use for them and "want you to quote us
price on another Cyphers Mammoth.

W. R. CURTISS & CO.,
Per W. J. C.

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS MAMMOTH INCUBATORS

L. A. Richards
Rhode Island Green Geese
Geese Feathers, Geese Quills, Etc.

C. M. Austin C. E. Austin

^TeSi ^l^kr ■ C. M. AUSTIN & CO.

Sale In Season

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Mansfield, Mass., July S, 1911.

Last Fall you installed for us a Mammoth Incubator holding 7,200 hen eggs, or 5,400 duck eggs.
This machine, we are pleased to report, has given complete satisfaction — in fact, the simplicity and
ease with which it was operated from the very start made us feel at once that we had not made a mistake
in purchasing same. We are still hatching, and on June 8, out of two compartments, holding 300
eggs each, we received 420 ducklings, which we consider excellent for this time of the year.

When the hot weather broke in we rather expected to have some difficulty in keeping the heat down, but
were agreeably surprised to find that this was not the case. We consider this feature a decided
advantage for the reason that in warm weather as high a temperature is not required for duck eggs as
during the cold weather. For ease and efficiency of operation, as well as low cost of labor and fuel,
we can heartily recommend the Cyphers Mammoth Incubators. C. M. AUSTIN & CO.

"FAR BEYOND EXPECTATIONS"

MILLS AND GOLD COMPANY

Proprietors, Gold-Mills Poultry Farms

Lower Preakness, N. J., July IS, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. F.—

Relative to the Mammoth Incu-
bator (4,000-egg capacity) which you
installed for us last spring, the results
obtained therefrom have been far
beyond our expectations and we
consider it much superior to the small
machines.

The Cyphers Mammoth is not
alone a useful piece of mechanism, but
is ornamental as well, and therefore
adds greatly to the appearance of our
incubator cellar, which we took pains
to construct in keeping with this
fine piece of workmanship.

In operating on a large scale,
without the benefit of your Mammoth
Incubator, the cost of operation
would be increased considerably.
At the first opportunity we propose
installing another Mammoth and
shall be highly pleased if it works
as well as this one does.

MILLS & GOLD COMPANY.
R. F. D. No. 1.

7,200-Egg Cyphers Mammoth owned by C. M.

, & Co., Mansfield, Ma

THE FIRST DUCK-EGG MAMMOTH
SOLD BY US

ATLANTIC FARM

A. J. HALLOCK. Proprietor, Speonk. L. I.
BROOKSIDE FARM, Center Moriches, L. I.

Speonk, L. I., N. Y., October 29, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

The Mammoth Hot-Water Incubator that you
installed for me in January, 1908, has given excellent
results. The machine requires very little attention,
as regulators on heaters do the work satisfactorily.

We consider that we save over 50 per cent, in
fuel and 70 per cent, on labor in operating, as com-
pared with the old style lamp-heated machines. With
the eighty-three old-style lamp-heated incubators of
another make we formerly used, it required one man's
entire attention for the filling and trimming of lamps,
regulating the machines and turning and cooling the eggs.

We hatched 49,000 ducks in the Cyphers Mam-
moth Incubator this year and we would have hatched
more if we had had enough eggs on the home farm to
keep it filled. ^ A. J. HALLOCK.

MR. HALLOCK TRIED ONE-
ANOTHER

THEN ORDERED

ATLANTIC FARM

Speonk, L. I., N. Y., September 8, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Three years ago this season you installed a ninety-
six compartment Hot-Water Mammoth Incubator on
my Duck Farm and last season we ordered of you
another Cyphers Mammoth, this second machine
consisting of thirty compartments.

Our ordering the thirty-section Cyphers Mam-
moth after using the ninety-six compartment machine
two seasons is the best proof we could give you of
our continued confidence in the Cyphers Mammoth.

Our hatches averaged 66 per cent, for the entire
season of 1910 with the Cyphers Mammoths, as shown by
the records. Our best monthly average was 74 per cent.

E.xperienced duck men who operate on a large
basis will appreciate the fact that these are high hatch-
ing averages. -■\. J. HALLOCK.

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CYPHERS COMPANY
HOT WATER BROODING SYSTEM

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THE CYPHERS PATENTED AND THOROUGHLY TESTED HYGIENIC, CRADLE-
BACK BROODING SYSTEM IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR BEST RESULTS

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CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY has in its
employ a number of men who are competent
to plan, lay out and direct the construction
and equipment of large, practical poultry plants.
On request we will furnish men for this work, charging
a reasonable sum per day, plus their actual expenses.
We are prepared to equip large, practical plants
and to co-operate with the builder in obtaining
suitable materials of all kinds at the lowest prices.
Where the advice of our men is followed we
guarantee the equipment of these large plants
to do the work required.

We are able to point with pride to the fact that
the poultry plants on many of the best known pri-
vate estates in the country . have been constructed
entirely in accordance with our ideas, and the
same is true of many of the largest commercial plants,
both east and west. On these plants the incubating
rooms and brooding houses have been constructed
exactly in accordance with our plans. The numer-
ous testimonials received by us — see back pages of
this catalogue — prove that our plans have enabled
Cyphers Company customers to hatch and raise the
maximum of strong, healthy chicks at the mini-
mum cost.

It should be understood by persons intending
to enter the poultry business that a plant laid out
especially for the production of exhibition fowl is
not well suited for breeding market poultry, and
the reverse also is true. The houses should be
planned differently, located differently and as a rule
there is a considerable difference in the cost.
Furthermore, houses and runs that are well fitted
for one breed may not be the best adapted to the
needs of some other breed or variety.

During the past seven years this Company has
been making a close study of brooding house require-
ments on its own poultry farm located in the

Fig. 1.— Separate Hygienic Cradle-Back, Cyphers Company Hover

for use with Hot Water Pipe System in Brooder Houses

lUuatration showa the rear of Hover, closed.

Fig 2 — Separate Hygienic Cradle-Back Cyphers Company Hover.

Illustration shows the chick runway side or front where

chicks pass m and out.

suburbs of Buffalo. Thus far we have expended
more than $50,000 in establishing this farm, our main
object being to test and develop practical systems
that will enable our customers to raise poultry to
the best advantage.

The attention of all interested poultrymen is
directed to our new booklet entitled, " Cyphers System
of Hot Water Brooding," illustrated and described on
page 106, which gives in detail the results of our sev-
eral years' experimental work in brooding chicks on
Cyphers Company Farm.

HYGIENIC BROODING SYSTEM

On the Cyphers Company Poultry Farm we
have developed a system of brooding that we believe
to be unequalled by any other plan that employs
the circulation of hot water through pipes as the
heating element. The Cyphers special brooding
house heaters are used, as per illustrations herewith,
and the Cyphers Company's Patent Hygienic Cradle-
Back Hovers are used. These hovers do away with
all cold corners and insure continuous automatic
ventilation without drafts striking the chicks at any
time, from any source. Herewith are shown two
illustrations of the type of brooding house hover
invented and patented by this Company. Fig. 1
shows the rear view of hover, closed, and Fig. 2 shows
the chick runway side or front.

Illustrations are shown herewith of the Cyphers
Hygienic Cradle-Back Hovers, as used during the
last six years on Cyphers Company's Poultry Farm
with uniform success, the death rate ranging from
2 to 6 per cent., depending on the season of the year.
The chick mortality at no time in the six seasons
has exceeded six per cent.

CYPHERS COMPANY HOT-WATER BROOfifNG SYSTEM

HYGIENIC CRADLE-BACK SYSTEM

Several years ago we started on the Cyphers
'Company Poultry Farm experiments in brooding
■chicks along several independent and indefinite lines.
One experiment involved the use of a new type
of hover which we termed the Hygienic Cradle-
Back Hover. The object of this experiment was
to find a satisfactory way of circulating heat
through the hovers so as to accomplish three things;
namely, a free circulation and even distribution of
warm air through the hovers without causing draft.
Second, an application of heat that chicks of all sizes
'Could get the benefit without crowding or bunching
up. Third, to distribute a portion of the heat into
the house without the necessity of its radiating from
the hovers, thereby overheating them.

Our first experiments with the Cradle- Back Hover
proved so satisfactory that we studied and improved
this style of brooding until we developed and per-
fected what we now term the Hygienic Brooding Sys-
tem and we firmly believe that this system of brooding
is unequalled by any other plan that employs the
circulation of hot water through the pipes as the
heating element.

We use a boiler specially designed for this class
of work and the water is maintained at the correct
temperature by an auxiliary circulating system as
described on page 105, the water being conveyed
through the hovers by eight lines of 134 inch pipes.

Figures 1 and 2 show the front and rear views
of the Hygienic Cradle-Back Hover above referred to.

PRICES FOR HYGIENIC CRADLE-BACK
HOVER

With the Riglit to Manufacture Duplicates for Purchaser's
Own Use Exclusively

Although this Cradle- Back Hover is fully patented
and protected by law, we are pleased to give other
poultry breeders the benefit of our experiments in
brooding by offering one or more of these hovers as

Fig. 3. — Shows Interior View of Nursery Section in Brooder House
on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, with Hygienic, Cradle-Back
Hovers in Use (closed).

samples or working patterns, with the right to manu-
facture as many duplicates of it as any one purchaser
may desire for his own use, at the following prices and
conditions:

One Sample Hover, set up complete, safely
crated, with the right to manufacture duplicates
for own use, $50.00.

Ten Hovers, complete, one set up and safely
crated, the other nine packed and shipped knock-
down with the right to manufacture duplicates for
own use, $100.00.

The purchaser in every case is to agree in writing
not to manufacture these hovers or parts of them
for sale or to enter in any way, shape or form into the-
manufacture of any hovers except those required;
for his own personal use. Purchasers of one or more
Hygienic Cradle-Back Hovers will be supplied with
any of the Blue Print Plans of poultry' buildings
offered in this book and will further be supplied with
a copy of the book, entitled "The Cyphers System of
Hot-Water Brooding," without further charge.

Fig. 4. — Shows Interior View of Nursery Section of Brooder
House (same House as Fig. 2), with Covers of Hovers raised,
and the Removable, Drawer-like Floor of Hover (second Hover
from front) pulled out for Cleaning.

Fig. 5. — Shows Interior View of Fresh- Air Brooder Section of
House on Cyphers Company Poultrj' Farm, with Inner and Outer
Covers raised to show construction; also with one of the Remov-
able Floors pulled out for Cleaning and Rebedding.

CYPHERS COMPANY HOT-WATER BROODING SYSTEM

CYPHERS BROODING SYSTEM

Cyphers Incubator Company has spent fifteen
years of hard work and careful study, on how best to
hatch the chicks, and after they are hatched, — how to
raise the greatest number of them in the easiest, most
economical and satisfactory manner.

We have spent a great deal of money experi-
menting with different brooding devices on our Experi-
mental Poultry Farm, near Buffalo, always striving
to develop some new or improved idea and to be in
a position always to give our customers — the poultry
public — the newest and best in brooding systems.

The new features of the Cyphers System of Hot-
Water Brooding are:

First — An auxiliary tank to provide a constant
circulation of water at an even temperature, irre-
spective of the hover temperature.

Second — An effective regulator on the boiler to
control the draught directly from the temperature
of the water as it leaves the boiler.

Third — A dependable valve regulator on the flow
pipe which controls the flow of hot water through the
pipes.

Briefly, the advantages of this improvement will
immediately appeal to everyone having any knowl-
edge of hot water heating
systems. In brooding
systems of the past, the
hover pipes were con-
nected up with the boiler,
in a free flow system of
water circulation, so that
the water at whatever
temperature would con-
stantly circulate
through the hover; a
regulator of some sort
was placed under the
hover to open or close the
boiler draught, or in some
cases a float regulator has been used in the expan-
sion tank to regulate the draught.

The objection to this equipment has been an
uneven and inconsistent heat under the hover, at an
unnecessary consumption of fuel. For instance, the
draughts in the boiler would be open, the fire would
burn up briskly and gradually increase the tempera-
ture of the water which is always circulating through
the hover, the heat radiating from the hover pipes.
When the hover reaches the required temperature the
thermostat shuts off the draught, — but it does not
shut off the increase of heat.

With our new system of auxiliary tank and regu-
lators, we keep the water circulating through the
boiler to the auxiliary tank, and back to the
boiler again, at the correct temperature always, and
the boiler draughts are operated directly from the
regulator placed on the flow pipe. The minute

Cyphers Damper Regulal

for Brooding Houses.

Price, $30.00.

the hover temperature
raises too high the flow
of water is cut down
and on the other hand,
if the hover tempera-
ture has a tendency to
run a bit too low an
increased flow of hot
water is fed into the
hover pipes direct from
the auxiliary tank. In
this way we not only
control the tempera-
ture of the water in all
parts of the system
but we also control
the flow of the
water. Yet these
features are offered
to the public at a
very slight increase
over the cost of the
old system of brood- ^^"''"^ ^"'"''"'^ "°"''= ""=''"■
ing, and the regulators are substantial and absolutely
reliable. In fact, we use on this brooding system the
same system of regulation that we use on our Mam-
moth Incubators, and which we have found by three
or four years of severe test, to be wholly satisfactory.

CYPHERS ELECTRIC REGULATOR FOR
BROODING HOUSES

We have devoted much study to an electric regu-
lator that would govern the temperature of a large room,
and this electric regulator for brooding houses is the
result. The electric regulator illustrated herewith has
been used by us on the Cyphers Company Poultry
Farm and by numbers of our customers during sgveral
years, and can be relied upon to do the work. The
Cyphers Electric Regulator consists of a thermometer,
motor, battery, wire, chain, etc. Price, each, com-
plete, $22.00.

CYPHERS COMPANY HOT WATER BROODING SYSTEM

cypherssystem
Brooding

Our new booklet illubtral
descnbing the C\ phers S>
Brooding

SYSTEM OF HOT WATER
BROODING "

This book of helps
and information has
been compiled to meet
more particularly the
requirements of those
who contemplate build-
ing and equipping a
brooder house. In
other words, it tells the
poultry raiser how to
take care of the chicks
after they are hatched,
what kind of building
to erect, what style of
construction to use and

how best to equip it and with what material. The
book shows what kind of heating apparatus to install,
what kind of boiler to use, where to locate the boiler,
number and size of pipes, with full outline of how the
entire equipment is put in, piece by piece. It is illus-
trated with full-page drawings, to which drawings refer-
ence is made in describing different parts of the house
or equipment. It contains a description of a practical
laying house and the importance of trap-nests, and shows
how these are built and used. It contains valuable data
on feeding and rearing chicks. This information is
not theory; we give the figures showing the results
of experiments in feeding that we made on the Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm covering a period of four
years. The book also contains other information
that can be used to advantage by ever>' breeder of
poultry. Price 50 cents, postpaid.

Blue-Print Plans and Specifications for Poultry Buildings

rx^O MEET the demand for plans of poultry build-
I ings we offer for sale at small cost a complete
set of blue-print plans and specifications for
practical, time-tried poultry buildings.

All drawings we supply are planned with a view
to economy in construction and a saving of labor
in caring for the fowls. To save labor means to
save money. These plans are carefully drawn to
scale by experienced architects, acting under our
direct supervision.

An additional charge is made for architect's
specifications when supplied with blue-prints of
breeding, laying and combination houses, as noted
below. These specifications are the same as would
be eupplied by an architect if the buildings were
especially planned for each individual customer.
Such service from an architect would cost from $25.00
to $100.00, according to the size of the building.

Equipped with our blue-print plans and specifi-
cations the customer will be able to place same in the
hands of a carpenter or contractor and can learn just
what the buildings will cost before beginning their
construction.

FOR LARGE POULTRY PLANTS

Blue-print plans of combination building for
large poultry plant, including incubator cellar, food
and storage rooms, with upstairs sleeping rooms for the
workmen, heater-pit and nursery' brooder wing adjoin-
ing, also cool brooder wing, all conveniently arranged
and admirably planned, price $1.50, postpaid.

A small combination house with feed room,
heater-pit, and nursery brooder wing, price $1.00,
postpaid. If architect's specifications for either
combination building are wanted, add $2.00 each to
the price of the blue-print plans.

BREEDING HOUSE PLANS

Breeding house blue-print plans, 16 feet wide
by 120 feet long, divided into 8-foot pens, price $1.00,
postpaid. These houses can be built any length
desired. If architect's specifications are desired, add
$1.00 to price of the blue-print plans.

PLANS FOR LAYING HOUSES

Laying house blue-print plans, 16 feet wide by
120 feet long, divided into 16-foot pens with a room
at one end floored over to be used as a feed room or
otherwise, price $1.00, postpaid. These houses can
be built any length desired. If architect's specifi-
cations are desired, add $1.00 to above prices.

CYPHERS LAYING HOUSE

This plan shows a type of laying house that is
used exclusively on the Cyphers Company Poultry
Farm and which we have found to be highly satis-
factory. Complete building notes as supplied by the
architect are supplied with each drawing. Price,
75 cents, postpaid.

BROODER HOUSE PLANS

Blue-print plans for brooding houses of the follow-
ing sizes are kept in stock and will be mailed
promptly, postpaid, upon receipt of price.
14 feet wide by 16 feet long, 25 cents postpaid
16 ' " " 20 " " 30 "

16 " " " 25 " " 35 "

16 " " -" 30 " " 40 "
16 " " " 50 " " 60 "

16 60 " '■ 70 "

16 75 " ■' 80 "

16 ' 100 " '• 90 "

Specifications are not required for the foregoing brooder
houses, as the blue-print plans contain the contractor's notes
giving necessary information.

Round Fireless Brooders

Not to be Used Outdoors Except in Boxes, Brood Coops, Roosting Coops, Etc.

r I >HESE handy, all-metal "fireless" brooders or

I hovers will do satisfactory work in mild climates
and during moderate weather, such as we have
in the vicinity of forty degrees north latitude during
April, May and June. They should not be used out
of doors (by themselves) as a separate or complete
brooding device, hut in all cases should be enclosed
in goods boxes, brood coops, colony roosting coops,
etc. Indoors they can be placed almost anywhere

Round All Metal Fireless Brooder Ready for Use.

and in a fairly moderate temperature will be found
to give excellent satisfaction.

For best results — especially when cold nights are
still the rule — not less than twelve nor more than
fifty chicks should be placed in one of these fireless
brooders. They are made in three sizes — small size
holding twelve to twenty chicks, the medium size
twenty to thirty chicks, and the large size thirty to
fifty chicks. Less than twelve chicks is inadvisable
because the little chicks must rely on their own
bodily heat to keep warm at night, whereas more
than fifty chicks in one brooder or hover will invite
danger from crowding.

When ready for use, the fireless brooder has two
or three inches of cut clover, cut alfalfa or some other
warm litter or "bedding" material placed in the bottom;
then the chicks are put in the nest and the thick
cushion or pillow (see illustration) made of muslin
and filled with cotton batting is lowered until it
rests on the chicks' backs. They are now snug
and warm — both above and below. Their warming
or sleeping apartment is ventilated by a series of small
openings that do not allow a direct draft to blow in
upon them. As they grow in size the cushion is
raised to give them head room and more air.

The chicks soon learn to run in and out of this
type of brooder, and there are no corners in which
they can crowd, as is the case with fireless brooders
built square and of wood. These circular, all-metal
fireless brooders are easy to clean, are practically
indestructible and will last many years if taken care
of when not in use.

Persons who buy day-old chicks after cold weather
has passed and it is safe to ship newly-hatched
chicks by express, will find these fireless brooders
well adapted to the care of the chicks that have been
hardened by their journey. In cold weather, however,
we do not advise placing chicks in any type of fire-
less brooder — especially chicks just taken from an
incubator. Many valuable chicks have been sacri-
ficed by poultry raisers who have made this experi-
ment. On the other hand, it has been found that
after chicks are ten days to two weeks old they will
get along in this circular type of fireless brooder and
do well, provided the outdoor temperature is not

Prices of Circular, All-Metal Fireless Brooders :

Small Size, 12 to 20 Chicks $1.50

Medium Size, 20 to 30 Chicks 2.00

Large Size, 30 to 50 Chicks 2.50

Per Set of Three (One of Each Size) 5.00

F. O. B. Buffalo, N. Y., and any Branch House,
except Oakland, Cal., and London, England.

The cushion is raised or lowered to suit the size of the chicks,
and also the temperature of room in which Brooder is operated. The
illustration shows a part of the cushion cut away to indicate
method of packing.

"FIFTEEN YEARS AGO"

GreenviUe, Miss., July 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.~

I have been using a 200-egg Cyphers Incubator that I pur-
chased from the Cyphers Incubator Company fifteen years ago.
This machine has given satisfaction all these years without a
dollar's worth of repairs, and during the last season made an
average hatch of above 80 per cent, of all fertile eggs.

GEORGE WHEATLEY.

" A FEW MINUTES EVERY DAY "

Hawthorne, N. J., November 9. 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I find your Cyphers Incubators no trouble to operate. A
few minutes every day to fill the lamp and turn the eggs is all
that is required. Often I do not take the trouble to look at the
thermometer, feeling confident that the temperature is correct.
The machine is absolutely self-regulating and self-ventilating and
solves the moisture question. C. L. RIVERS.

WON FIRST PRIZE-2,000 HATCHES RECORDED

I

The Average Farm is Still the Cheapest Place to Produce Poultry
and Eggs for Profit, and-ihe Farmer is Still the Natural Poultryman

T IS STILL tlie poultry produced annually on the farms of the United States that form
the solid foundation of the Billion Dollar Poultry Industry of this country ! The basic
value of domestic fowls is found in the world-wide use of poultry meat and eggs as human
food. The poultry-fancier, so-called, has done and will continue to dc a
truly great work for poultry, but the farmer is the natural poultryman and
it is on the farms of America that the thousands of tons of poultry meat
are produced and the millions of dozens of eggs are laid each year.

The farmer and his wife, son or daughter are still very much in the
lead when we come to tabulate the immense figures that pile up into a
Billion Dollar Poultry Industry. The poultry instructor is doing his
work ; the poultry press is indispensable ; the active fanciers in every
locality are leaders in creating a demand for " better poultry and more of
it ; " but when all is said and done it is the farmer and his every-day helpers
ivho are sending the train loads of poultry to market and supplying the break-
fast tables of the world with new-laid eggs.

As an example of the kind of hatching a farmer can do with a first-
class, dependable incubator, we submit the following letter and public
evidence : —

Altoona, Kas., Farmer
who hatched 478 chicks
from 480 Barred Ply-
mouth Rock and White
Orpington Eggs and
Won First Prize in the
Fourth Annual Hatch-
ing Contest of the Far-
mers Mail and Breeze,
Topeka, Kansas.

Letter from Frank Vernum, Farmer, Altoona, Kansas.

Altoona, Kas., September 11, 1911.
Manager, Kansas City, Mo., Branch House, Cyphers Incubator Company

"I am going to write to you just as soon as I can and tell you about this incubator contest
as reported on newspaper sheet enclosed.

"The Incubator is the one I got of you in March. The papers never told it was the
'Cyphers' and I have received letters from all over, this soon, asking me the name of that incu-
bator. I answered fourteen cards and letters this morning.

"I live on a farm and I have just the most work to do, but I will
one. The account in the paper is just as it was.

"I am so glad I got this machine and I am going to tell you what
that money. I want another incubator just like the one I have, and i

Hover. And what are you going to ask me for both? I will send my order just as soon as
they send the prize money to me. Yours truly, FRANK VERNUM."

try and answer every

I am going to do with
Cyphers I5rooder or a

With the foregoing letter Mr. Vernum enclosed a two-column clipping from the Sep-
tember issue of " The Farmers Mail and Breeze," an agricultural paper published weekly at
Topeka, Kansas, from which clipping we quote as follows : —

THE 1911 INCUBATOR CONTEST

Two Thousand Hatches

"FIRST PRIZE— Cash price of his incubator
to Frank Vernum, Altoona, Kas. Set 240 eggs
March 25 ; tested out none March 31 ; hatched
240 live chicks April 16. Per cent, of first hatch,
100 Set 240 eggs April 17 ; tested out 2, April

24 ; hatched 238 live chicks May 6 ; Per cent, of
second hatch 99.1 Report sworn to and wit-

"The fourth annual incubator contest of Farmers
Mail and Breeze was won this year by a man, Frank
Vernum of Altoona, Kas., in a contest in which 2,000
hatches were recorded.

"Mr. Vernum with a record of 100 per cent, and
99.1 per cent, respectively, for two hatches with a

240-egg incubator, wins first prize this year. The
prize is a check covering the cash price of his machine.
His first hatch was 240 live chicks from 240 eggs.
Second hatch, 238 live chicks from 240 eggs. These
are records hard to beat.

"More than 2,000 records of hatches were submitted
in the contest between January 1 and May 30, 1911,
when it closed. These records came from all part.s
of the Middle West and South-west. Some came from
far-distant states.

Object of the Contests

"The object of these annual incubator contests
is not a test of the various makes of incubators — the
purpose is to test the skill of the operator and to pro-
mote greater interest and knowledge in up-to-date
methods of poultry culture, the methods that pay the
profit.

WON FIRST PRIZE— 2,000 HATCHES RECORDED

HOW MR. VERNUM WON

" Mr. Vernum's report of the two hatches which
won him the incubator, follows: —

.March 25

(FIRST HATCH)

Number of eggs set

Date set

Number of eggs tested out none

Date tested March 3 1

Total number of live chicks hatched 240

Date hatch was taken off all April 16

Per cent iOO (perfect hatch)

(SECOND HATCH)

Number of eggs set 240

Date set April 17

Number of eggs tested out 2

Date tested April 24

Total number live chicks hatched 238

Date hatch was taken off May 6

Percent 99.)

KIND OF EGGS HE SET

" People came from quite a distance in his vicinity
to see Mr. Vernum's hatches. He writes as follows
concerning his success: —

" I got ray incubator in March. I liked the way a
certain maker of incubators advertised his machines
and sent for his catalog. I selected a 240-egg machine
and my success has been perfect. I set it the first
time March 25, on 240 Barred Plymouth Rock eggs.
They hatched April 16, every egg, 240 chickens.
These eggs were carefully tested.

"My next hatch was set April 17. I set 200
Barred I'lymouth Rock eggs and 40 White Orpington
eggs. All hatched May 6 but two of the White Orping-
ton eggs. My incubator is the only one of its kind in
this vicinity and people have come for miles to see it
and the chickens." FRANK VERNUM.

Altoona, Kas., May 13, 1911.

Thousands of farmers, or other members of their families, are having fine success, year after year, with
Cyphers Incubators — are getting big hatches of healthy, vigorous chicks and are making large profits
from the production and sale of poultry and eggs. The farmer is the natural poultryman and the farm
the cheapest place to raise poultry. On the farm there is no land rent to pay, so far as keeping poultry
is concerned. The buildings required are few and inexpensive and the flocks on range not only pick up
most of their living during a good portion of the year, but are "worth their keep" as vigilant destroyers of
harmful insects, bugs, worms and larvae. Fowls are careful gleaners of waste grain and do more good to
fruit-bearing trees, bushes and vines than all the spraying ever done on the average farm. And there is far
more waste food, waste grain, waste fruit, etc., on a farm than most people imagine, because as a rule no
attention is paid to it.

The prices of poultry and eggs for human consumption have been increasing steadily, in fact rapidly,
during the last dozen years. The records show that these prices have about doubled in the last decade
and the increase is still going on. The prices of all forms of meat are certain to range high in future
and there can be no doubt that the prices of poultry and eggs will continue to do likewise. One set of
prices follows the other.

These higher prices have proved attractive to many thousands of farmers and farmers' wives, as well as to
poultrymen who are engaged regularly in business. The result has been that the farms of the United States
and Canada are today producing several times more poultry and eggs than was the case only a few years
ago. Poultry raising is now an important branch of farm work — not merely raising enough fowls and eggs
for the home table, but a large surplus for the nearby or distant market. Improved methods are being used
and the latest appliances are in demand. Poultry Husbandry today is a profession. This is true
whether it is taught at a college or is practiced on the average farm b}' an intelligent and progressive member
of the farmer's household.

Free Poultry Instruction
in Country Scliools

POULTRY Raising for profit, health
and pleasure is now being taught
in State Agricultural Colleges, in
the Public Schools of cities and in
Country or District Schools. The accom-
panying illustration, made from photo-
graph, shows some of the Prize Winners
in the boys and girls Poultry Contest
conducted under the direction of the
Green County, Mo., Educational Authori-
ties and held at Springfield, Mo., October
20, 1911. In front of the winners will be
seen a number of choice birds that were
given as prizes.

Cyphers Shed-Roof, Canvas-Lighted House

Simple in Design. Inexpensive. Easy to Set up.
No Windows to Break. Roomy, Healthful, Convenient,

a dirt floor; for winter use a board floor. If young
chicks are to be kept in this house at any time of the
year, in a neighborhood where rats abound, and a board

THIS is the simplest type of poultry house that
can be built, and is also the least expensive.
While it is not ornamental in any sense, it is
strictly ser\'iceable and will answer the purpose as well
as though it had a mansard, gable roof, with a gold-
leaf rooster on top of it for a weather vane.

The dimensions are as follows : Floor space, 5 feet
10 inches x 6 feet. Height in front, 6 feet. Height at
rear, 4 feet. Droppings board, 26 inches x 6 feet. The
door opening is 2 feet wide — the inner or screened
door slides while the canvas covered door swings out.
The house is provided with three nests.

Material used, J^-inch, kiln dried selected white
pine, dressed on both sides, tongued, grooved and
closely matched.

The droppings board is made of the same material,
thus insuring light w'eight and low freight rates. The
roost is of basswood, therefore is tough and strong.

There is no glass to this house, water-proof sheeting
being used instead, thus removing all danger of broken

windows, either in shipment or when moving the house
from place to place, and while in storage. The best
quality of water-proof, paraffined sheeting is used, which
freely admits the light, but keeps out wind and rain.

We regard this low-priced and simple shed-roofed
house as one of the best, cost considered, that can be
designed for use on large poultry farms where ample
range is afforded, or for a pen of fowls in any small en-
closure. Such a house can be readily moved from
place to place. With 40 such houses we could "house"
400 head of laying stock, and give them such care,
with a minimum of labor, that they would thrive well
and pay big returns on the outlay.

With the object of saving cost, also expense in
freight charges, no floor is furnished with this house.
The purchaser can either furnish a rough-board floor
locally, or set the house up on brick or stone, and then
fill it in to a level of the sills with cinders, gravel, sand
or drj' earth, as preferred. For summer use we advise

Shed-Roof, Canvas-Lighted House, closed,
floor is not provided, then one-inch-mesh wire netting
should be securely nailed across the bottom of the
house, and then the gravel, earth or sand filled in on
top of this, thus rendering the house rat-proof when
closed for the night.

Style and price considered, we regard this as the
best portable poultry house devised to date. It is
painted attracti%ely in two colors — green with red
trimmings, double coat. Will accommodate 8 to 15
fowls, depending on size of breed — 8 of the Asiatics, 10
to 12 of the American or English breeds, or 15 of the
Mediterranean class.
Price, complete, f . o. b. cars $22.00

Cyphers Large Size Colony House

For Growing Stock on Range and for Use with Adaptable Hovers or Fireless Brooders in
Raising Day-Old Chicks to Time of Separation

The Cyphers Colony House (shipped in knock-down
shape) is built in sections and is easily put together. A
door, in two sections, 17 inches wide and 34 inches high,
gives the caretaker free access when necessary. The adjust-
able hoods offer protection against the sun and rain, and
during cold weather they may be lowered flat against the
front.

The sides and ends of the Cyphers Colony Houses
are painted a neat shade of green, and the roof is red. A
comfortable perch is provided. We have sold great
numbers of these houses, some customers buying from 20
to 50 each. We ship them in knock-down shape, thus
securing the low freight rates charged on ordinary lumber.

Price of Cyphers Colony Houses
Each $12.00 In lots of six, each. .$11.50

The Cyphers Colony House in Use. WEIGHTS: One, 120 lbs.; six, 720 lbs.

CYPHERS COLONY HOUSE, in addition to its
widely popular use for growing chicks, makes
one of the best single-pen breeding houses that
has thus far been designed. It is also an ideal place
in which to locate an Adaptable Hover or Fireless
Brooder and raise little chicks, either those you hatch
yourself or day-old chicks that you buy. Fifty or more
chicks can be raised with fine results in this roomy and
substantiEil coop until the time comes to separate the
cockerels from the pullets.

This Portable Colony House is 3 x 6 feet in size, is 36
inches high in front and 24 inches high at the, back. It is
built of a high grade of J^-inch dressed lumber, tongued and
grooved, and is put together in a thoroughly workman-
like manner. The bottom is of matched boards laid on
cleats and is removable, making it easy to set the main
coop to one side, thus rendering the cleaning of it much less
burdensome than is the case with houses that have
stationary floors.

Cyphers Model Brood Coop for Raising Chicks

For Hen with Chicks, for Raising Day-Old Chicks and for
Colonizing Growing Stock

and a wire-enclosed shelter or exercise room. The house
part — I foot 9 inches x 2 feet — is provided with a remov-
able floor, and is separated from the exercise room by a
wooden partition with galvanized wire-cloth window
and door which admit light and air. , The exercise room
— 2 feet 6 inches x 2 feet — is closed at the end and screened
with fine-mesh galvanized-iron wire back and front, pro-
viding a roomy shelter for the inmates. The combination
door in the front of coop permits the chicks to enjoy the
advantage of free range, while the mother hen is safely
confined. A number of these coops with broods of chicks
may safely be placed in the garden or berry patch, where
the little chicks can range at will and thrive on bugs and
worms without injury to the garden or crops. In addition
to protecting the chicks from the weather, the Cyphers
New Model Brood Coop provides safety from cats, rats, etc.
Cyphers New Model Brood Coop is attractively
painted in green and red, and if properly cared for will
last many years. It not only will serve all purposes for
which It waa designed, but at the same time will make
more attractive the part of the farm or yard that so often
is disfigured by ill-advised attempts at cheap construction.
The price of Cyphers New Model Brood Coop is lower than
a coop of equal quality and workmanship can possibly be
built for by home mechanics.

Price of Cyphers New Model Brood Coop
Each $4.00 In lots of six, each. .$3.85

WEIGHTS: One, 42 lbs.; six, 252 lbs.
Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

THE Cyphers Model Brood Coop is intended for a
hen with chicks, but may be used as a home for
the chicks long after they are weaned by the hen;
also for day-old chicks that are being raised in warm
weather without artificial heat; also for chickens that are
old enough to be taken from the brooder or brooder house
and colonized out of doors.

Cyphers New Model Brood Coop is 4 feet 6 inches
wide, 2 feet deep, i foot 9 inches high in front, and i foot
3 inches high at the rear. As will be seen in the illustra-
tion, it has two apartments — c closed or house part.

Cyphers Model Coop for Raising Chicks.

SPECIAL— Be sure to read

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CHAPTER I

HOW TO GET TWICE AS MANY EGGS FROM THE
SAME NUMBER OF HENS

Means by Which the Egg- Yield of the Average Flock of Layers Can be
Doubled. Some Hens Lay Twice and Three Times as Many Eggs as
Others. Let us Weed Out the Drones. Trap-Nesting is the Means of
Proof. Value of Comfortable Quarters, Suitable Food and Good Care

(.Copyright January, 1912, Jiy Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.)

pOW to get twice as many eggs from the same
number of hens" is not a catch phrase, is not
some "fake" idea or "system" plan — it is a

straight and simple business proposition. The average

farmer or farmer's wife, we might say the average poultry-
man, can double the egg yield without keeping any more

hens than at present, if they wish to do so and will follow

the plan here described and recommended.

This desirable result cannot be obtained where the

layers are given free range, not definitely and satisfac-
torily, because there is no way to make sure, under such

conditions, how many eggs each hen in the flock is laying

— not while they are depositing their eggs in hedge rows,

under barns, in hay lofts, etc. To put this plan into

successful use, it is proposed that the fowls shall be com-
fortably housed and yarded — also that they shall be fed

and cared for in a manner that will enable them to do

their best work in egg production.

Food that is eaten by domestic fowls has three main

functions to perform — to supply flesh, bone and feather

tissue, to supply heat, and to supply the materials of which

the eggs are composed. If the food is insufficient for the

bodily requirements of the fowl, including warmth, we

cannot reasonably expect her to produce a large yield of

eggs. Her bodily wants must first be supplied — then if

she has a surplus of "food units" she can convert this

surplus into eggs.

First, as regards suitable quarters. The hen should

be given enough food to keep up her bodily weight, to

restore all waste in body tissue, and enough more food

to supply heat — to keep her blood rich in fats and her

body warm. Comfortable quarters for the fowls, especi-
ally in cold weather, will save "food units" that otherwise

would go to produce bodily heat. Hens that are per-
mitted to roost in open sheds or other exposed places,

cannot be brought to lay well in the winter time. Too

many of the "food units" consumed bv them are used PARTS OF HOME-MADE TR.\P-NEST.

in keeping the body temperature up to normal. Fig. I— A— Galvanized Iron Door, 9 x 9 inches square.

' o . F f Edges turned to stiffen. Upper edge has No. 9 fence wire inserted

in fold, this wire extending about H, of an inch at each end beyond
sides of door. B — Wooden Trigger, % k % oi an inch in width
and thickness, by 2H inches in length. Has notch cut in lower
end. Upper end has common wire staple driven in part way, with
an e\tra staple looped through this one. Is fastened to cross Top
Rail (iee Fig. II) so that galvanized iron door will just clear it
nicelv when raised. C— Top Rail Vs of an inch x 2 x 12 inches.
Trigger (B) is to be attached to this Rail. D and E — Front and
back of nest — duplicates; 12H inches wide x lOJi inches high.
Bottom Rail. Va of an inch x 3 x 12K inches. Top Rail, Ji of an
inch \ IM X 12 J^ inches. Side Rail, fi of an inch x 2 x 6 H inches.
Strips are %,x Ji of an inch x 10?i inches. Back of nest can be
made solid if desired. F and I — Sides of nest each Vs of J
101^ -v 20 V5 inches. G— Bottom of nest or flc
X 12^ X 20M inches. H— Strip K of an inch
Used mid-way between front and back of nest to hold nest material
m place. See Figs. II and III, next page, for construction of nest
and nest in use.

The farmer, therefore, who prefers to allow his hens
to run at large and shift for themselves, will not be able
to double the egg yield of his flock, unless he is willing
to adopt a different and better method of keeping poultry.
Fowls running at large on the average farm are profitable
—no doubt of that; but in order to double the egg yield
and thus increase the profits to a large extent the poultry
keeper or farmer-poultryman will find it necessary to
adopt a plan that will enable him to know definitely what
results are being secured by his extra efforts.

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USE OF TRAP-NESTS.

Showing Leghorn Hens waiting to be released from type of
Trap-Nest used in Passageway Poultry House on Cyphers Company
Poultry Farm.

ENTERING TRAP-NEST.
Fig. II — Shows hen entering Trap-Nest that is built of piec(
shown in Fig. I. Near side of Nest Box is omitted in picture t
•use. Letters agree with Fig. I.

HOW TO GET TWICE AS MANY EGGS FROM THE SAME NUMBER OF HENS

per hen in one year, and Rhode Island Reds and White
Orpingtons that have done quite as well.

Selection of the best individuals will help a great
deal, good care and proper feeding are necessary and com-
fortable quarters are essential, but it takes the trap-nest,
to "tell the story" — to enable the owner of the birds or
the caretaker to find out, to know positively, which hens
are producing the most eggs; therefore, we are presenting
heresvith illustrations of a simple style of trap-nest, with
dimensions and instructions for home manufacture.
There are a dozen or more trap-nests on the market,
most of them selling at low prices. The one illustrated
and described herewith can be built in an hour's time
by any person who is handy with tools, and will serve
the purpose first-rate. For type of trap-nest used in
long passageway poultry houses on Cyphers Company
Poultry Farm, see Cyphers Company Service free bulle-
tins Nos. 17 and 18, entitled respectively "Trap-nesting
to Increase Egg Production" and "Line Breeding to
Increase Egg Production." Full liberty is hereby given
to Cyphers Company customers to use either of these
trap-nests in any number desired.

The layers that are to be trap-nested should be
equipped with leg-bands, each band bearing a different
number. These bands are made in several styles.

There should be about three-fourths as many trap-
nests as there are layers — that is, for eight nr ten large-
breed hens like Brahmas, Langshans, Orpingtons, Plymouth
Rocks, etc., we would recommend six to. eight nests
to the breeding pen, or eight to ten nests for every twelve
to fourteen Leghorns.

Despite your best efforts, and even if a nest were
provided for every hen in the pen or flock, some of the
pullets or hens will persist in laying on the floor of the
house or will drop some of their eggs on the roost boards,
or out in the yard. This is inevitable, and such eggs should
be marked "Not trapped." They cannot be credited to
the hen or hens that laid them.

Where trap-nesting is practiced the layers should be
released and the eggs marked and gathered three or four
times daily, especially during freezing weather. The
hen cannot leave the nest box until she is released. There
is plenty of room for her to get off the nest, thus saving
the egg from breakage, and there also is plenty of air.
At the time the hen is released her leg-band number is
marked on the egg, also the date, in case it is desired to
keep track of the freshness of the egg. The eggs are
removed from the nest at this time and the trap-door
is reset, thus placing the nest box in readiness for the next
layer that desires to use it. And this is al! there is to the
operation. By this simple process, however, we are able
to learn which hens are laying and which are not; also
exactly what size and shape of egg is produced by eacli
layer in the trap-nested flock ; also which hens lay fertile
eggs and which lay the infertile ones. .

According to the United States census of 1900, the
average American hen twelve yeafs ago laid only sixty-
six eggs per year — :and this was not at all bad, when we
consider the indifferent way in which a large majority
of farm fowls are kept and fed. We are told that in 1910
the yearly egg yield of the average American hen had been
increased to eighty eggs, a gain of fourteen eggs per hen per
year in the ten years between 1900 and 1910, but the ofl5-
cial United States census figures covering this matter have
not been made public up to this date, December i, 1911.

We should judge that if the average farm hen is
■laying eighty eggs per year at the present time, she is
doing quite well, considering the average conditions
under which she is compelled to do the work. Of course
this average, low as it is, is helped out greatly by the
pure-bred poultry now found on many farms and by the
good laying that is being done by farm fowls that are well
housed and that receive favorable treatment.

But allowing that the average farm flock is now pro-
ducing eighty eggs per hen per year, this number of eggs
can easily be doubled — can readily be increased to an
average of one hundred and sixty eggs per hen per year
for the twelve months of heaviest egg production in the
lifetime of each layer, i. e., between the ages of six months
and eighteen months, on the average. Many a hen in
the average farm flock is laying less than eighty eggs per
year — a good many less. ~Some are laying less than
sixty eggs, others less than forty and plenty of them only
twenty-five to thirty eggs. Testing the matter will prove
this surprising statement to be a fact.

In starting out to double the egg yield without in-
creasing the number of layers, we should provide suitable
quarters, should select long-bodied, deep-bodied birds,
should use pullets and yearling hens, should feed well on
egg-forming foods, and should adopt some simple plan of
trap-nest that will enable us to "prove up" our success — that
will make it possible for us to tell which layers are doing
good work and to weed out the drones, the poor layers.

Six and seven years ago when we began the work of
establishing heavy egg-yield strains of fowls on the Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm, Elma, N. Y., (see pages
130 to 141, inclusive, this catalogue) we were surprised
to find that we had Leghorn hens in our flocks that laid
less than ninety eggs each per year. Barred and White
Plymouth Rocks that laid less than eighty eggs each per
year, and White Wyandottes that laid less than seventy
eggs each per year — all of these hens being less than
three years old at the time. And the original stock had
been purchased from some of the foremost poultrymen
of this country.

At present, after five, six and seven years of special
care and trap-nesting, we have scores of Leghorns with
egg records ranging from 200 to 251 eggs per hen, have
Barred and White Rocks vrith records of 200 to 236 eggs,
have White Wyandottes that have laid 200 to 237 eggs

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CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS

INCLUDING CHICK, DEVELOPING, GROWINa LAYING,
FATTENING, SCRATCHING, FERTILE EGG AND PIGEON
FOODS, GREEN ALFALFA, HIGH PROTEIN BEEF SCRAP

XTOTTPll? For the protection of our
Trade- Mark, each

all Cyphers Ready-Mixed Poultry Foods and Alfalfa

CYPHERS Incubator Company is conducting at Elma, N. Y., a suburb of Buffalo, the largest and best
equipped all-purpose poultry plant in the world. We place special emphasis on the term "all-
purpose." On this farm we raise chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese — everything standard-bred, no
mongrels, no nondescripts. June 30, 1911, at inventory time, there were more than 11,000 head of poultry
on the Cyphers Company Poultry Farm.

All work on this fifty-acre poultry plant is done with some definite object in view. Here we are testing
different methods, proving or disproving different theories and claims — weeding out the worthless and holding
fast to that which is good. And this work, in nine cases out of ten, is being done with the object of benefiting
Cyphers Company customers — of placing them in a position to attain greater success, because the better they
are able to do and the larger profits they are able to make, the more of our manufactures they will need
in carrying on an increased business.

By "all-purpose" is meant that we are testing and proving on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm practically
every popular and worth-while branch of the poultry industry. The main point is that we desire to be in a posi-
tion to Icnow what we are about — to be able to instruct and advise our thousands of customers on the basis
of actual experience — on the solid ground of proved results. That is why we call our poultry plant an Experi-
ment and Demonstration Poultry Farm. Here we test and prove all goods of our manufacture, but what is of
even greater importance, on this fifty-acre poultry plant which has cost us more than $50,000.00, exclusive of the
value of the fowls thereon, we are testing and proving the methods we recommend and the advice we give.

This is not strictly a commercial poultry plant. It is not conducted with the object of seeing how much
money we can make each year or season by the sale of poultry and eggs. Yet we want it to be self-supporting
and mean that it shall be. But the main objects of conducting this poultry establishment are as here stated.
It is essentially an experiment and demonstration poultry farm, and the chief aim is to find out for ourselves
"what is what" in the profitable production of poultry and eggs, so that we can be of great practical service to
Cyphers Company customers.

Three Problems of Far-Reaching Importance to Poultrymen

FOR TWELVE YEARS Cyphers Incubator Company has been working hard, at large expense,
trying to help solve three problems of great and far-
reaching importance to the Poultry Industry and
to individual poultry raisers. These problems are: —

First — How to reduce the enormous loss of newly-
hatched chicks that is caused by improper feeding;

Second — How to enable poultry raisers to produce
the best broilers and roasters in the least time, at
lowest cost;

Third — How to increase the average egg-yield
per hen and thus add greatly to the profits of the
poultrymen and to the sum total of National wealth.

Every year in this broad land millions of eggs are
set and many hundreds of thousands of chicks are
hatched, but who can tell us what per cent, of these
chickens are raised to maturity? One thing is sure:
If the census takers for 1910 had reported on this
death rate, on this enormous national loss, the
facts would have been astonishing. And this great,
but needless, waste occurs every year of our lives!

THE MAIN CAUSE of this country- wide waste in
chick-life is the very general practice of feeding the
chicks wet mashes, sour or unclean food and guess-work,

TESTING FOOD VALUES.
A Nine Pound and Four Ounce Barred Plymouth Rock Capon
on the Scales. Produced on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm
Summer and Fall of 1911.

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CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS-THEIR VALUE IN PRACTICAL RESULTS

VIEWS IN CYPHERS COMPANY'S POULTRY FOOD MILL— FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.

Producing Clean and Wholesome Balanced-Ration, Ready-Mixed Poultry Foods that are Uniformly Granulated and of Exact

Proportions is a Complicated Process — Far more than the average Poultry Man or Woman would imagine.

coarse-grain mixtures. The absolute remedy is the use of dry-grain, well-granulated, machinery-mixed
chick food, composed solely of sound, wholesome grains that are rightly batenced to supply every need, every
requirement of the growing chick — bone, sinew, flesh and feathers.

Greatest of Modern Discoveries in the Poultry Field

Among all the valuable discoveries made in behalf of poultry keepers during the last dozen years, the greatest
in vital importance is the use of dry-grain, evenly granulated, properly-balanced food for little chicks in
place of the raw and "cooked" messes and the coarse-grain, irregular mixtures that were fed to chicks "any old
way" until recent years, even by well-informed poultry raisers.

Open-front or curtained houses for adult fowls, thereby doing away with frosty walls and moisture-soaked,
disease-breeding litter was a valuable discovery. The self-regulating and self-ventilating type of brooding
hover without central heat dome, which prevents the chicks from over heating, from chilling and crowding
and from breathing vitiated air at night — this also was a long step in advance. And the introduction of
hopper - feeding for adult fowls and of deep -litter feeding for chicks was an important addition to the
practical knowledge of up-to-date poultry keepers.

But the discovery of the great benefits to be obtained by the use of a dry-grain, well-granulated, properly-
balanced, scientific ration for little chicks, whether hatched in incubators or by hens, was by long odds the
most valuable, because of the actual saving it produces for each individual poultry raiser and the enormous
annual waste it is certain to stop as soon as it is everywhere adopted.

Ml \\s i\ ( \i HI K^ COMPANY'S POULTRY FOOD MILL— FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.

These Sample Pictures Illustrate the Character and Amount of Machinery Required in Manufacturing The Cyphers Company's

Sealed-Bag Brand of Special Purpose Poultry Foods — Foods that Positively Will Produce 20 to 50 per cent.

Better Results Than Any Other Brand on the American Market.

CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS— THEIR VALUE IN PRACTICAL RESULTS

Roasting Chickens (Soft Roasters) Produced on Cyphers Company Poultr>' Farm, Season

of 1911. By use of Cyphers Company Balanced-Ration Poultry Foods. Birds

were killed when 20 weeks old and averaged 6 lbs. each dressed.

The Profitable Produc-
tion of Broilers, Soft
Roasters, etc.

It is odd how little we know,
as a general rule, of what other
people are doing, even in our
own line of trade or business.
Keeping abreast of the time is
not an easy task! Doing things
"in the same old way" becomes
a habit with most of us. But ii
is very likely to be a costly habit
— because of losses sustained,
because of chances missed, be-
cause of wasted energy, because
we are growing older one day
at a time.

For example, take this matter of producing choice market poultry — of forcing broilers, or of developing
soft-raeated, plump, yellow-skinned roasting chickens for the table. Are you sure. Reader, that you are con-
ducting your poultry work in the best way for your own profit? — that you are feeding your chicks and fowls
in the right manner and feeding the right ration? If you are not sure about this, would it not be a good
idea — a safe plan — to try our method, our special Fattening Mash just once? The experiment will mean far
more to you than it can possibly mean to us.

By adopting our method— hy purchasing one single bag of our Sealed-Bag Brand Forcing and Fattening
Food — you get the full benefit of our twelve years' experience. And we ask j'ou in this connection to remember
that we have spent thousands of dollars in experiments, have paid for many costly analyses of grain and food
formulas, have invented and patented special mixing machinery, have established a $50,000.00 poultry farm
of fifty acres in extent for demonstration work, have sent men to foreign countries to study the poultry feed-
ing problem, and last, but by no means least, have erected at Chicago, 111., the \yorld's great central grain
market, the largest, best equipped and most modern poultry food and alfalfa mill in existence.

ALL THIS HAS BEEN DONE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS. Today we offer
the patrons of Cyphers Incubator Company the benefit of every dollar we have expended, of every fact we have
learned, of every bit of knowledge we possess— f/ie fruits of our twelve years of hard work in this import-
ant field of investigation and progress. That is what a Sealed Bag of Cyphers Poultry Food actually con-
tains— and the most successful poultry raisers in America have found it out, to their immediate and lasting
profit. If you. Reader, are going into any branch of the poultry business, go in right. If you are now in the
business, make sure that you are up-to-date, that you are keeping abreast of the times, that you are using
good judgment and
doing the self-evi-
dent things which
will enable you to get
out of the poultry busi-
ness all there is in it.

TheAverageEgg

Yield of Hens

Can and Should

Be Doubled

According to the
census of 1900 the aver-
age American hen laid
only sixty-six eggs per
year. What the average
egg yield per hen was
for 1910 no one can tell
until the complete cen-
sus figures are pub-
lished. But it is now
a well-known fact that
a pullet-hen (a hen six

tnpicrlntppn mnntfic nlfl) Barred and White Plymouth Rock Capons produced on Cvphers Company Poultry Farm

toeignteenmontnsoia; ^^^.^^ ^g^^ j^^ ^^^^ ^j Cvphers Company Sealed-Bag Brand Poultry Foods.

can easily be brought to These birds at 7 M to 8 months old, weighed 9 )^ to 1 1 lbs. each.

CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS— THEIR VALUE IN PRACTICAL RESULTS

lay twice sixty-six eggs during this most productive period of her life and it
is well for us to consider what it would mean to poultry raisers and to the
National wealth of the country if an average of one hundred and thirty-
two eggs per hen could be established in place of sixty-six eggs per hen.
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, reported
in his Ninth Annual Report dated November 22, 1905, that the hens of the
United States that year laid twenty billion eggs. This enormous produc-
tion could have been increased at least one-half by special care and feeding
— the result being an enormous addition to the National wealth of the
country and a great increase in the profits of poultry keepers.

CYPHERS EGG-YIELD MASH, SHORT-CUT ALFALFA AND HIGH
PROTEIN BEEF SCRAP, when fed according to the few and simple direc-
tions found in our booklet "Foods and Feeding," will positively increase
the egg yield of the average flock of hens twenty-five to fifty per cent.

These food products, fed as we direct, have never failed to produce
satisfactory results where fowls are given a fair chance in houses, barns or
other quarters that protect them to a reasonable extent on stormy days
and at night. We do not warrant our foods and feeding methods to make
hens lay that are left to roost in trees and that must eat snow, for example, in
placeof having water supplied them; but if they are housed in ordinarily com-
fortable quarters you can rely
on getting one-fourth to
one- half more eggs if you
use Cyphers Laying Food,
Green Alfalfas and Beef Scrap.
In many cases the egg

yield has been more than . Z^'" °^ Roasting Ducks (Pekins) pro-
" . , , .^, . ^ •• " •• (juced on Cyphers Company Poultry

doubled within two weeks Farm, 1911. Raised on Cyphers Com-
fimp hii the iivp nf theve pany Foods. Weight of pair at 14 weeks

lime oytne use ot tnese o^ i2i,.|bs. (Not fattened.)

v^ 1 ' ■ - foods. Order an assortment

/\ POULTRY FARM of five bags (two of Laying, two of Short-Cut Alfalfa and one

% X ^^ ,^ 7^ of Beef Scrap) and test our claims.

W PRIMES ROA Figure up what this increase will mean to you in the fall,

winter and early spring when eggs are most in demand — when
prices are highest and the profits largest. Consider also what
it will mean to the Poultry Industry when enterprising, progres-
sive poultrymen and women by the use of reliable, guaranteed
methods are able to add ten billion eggs to the annual production
of the American hen ! The increase in National wealth will be
something enormous, and the much greater profits to poultry
raisers are well worth striving for.
CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY is doing its share to
help bring about this great increase. Are you. Reader, doing
yours ? Our interests are practically the same. The Poultry
Industry of which we form a part is no longer a small and
insignificant affair. Today it is of immense proportions and is
worthy of our best thought and efforts. Furthermore, it is highly
profitable if gone at in the right manner. We are doing our
best to help point the way.

More Than $250,000 Worth Used Last Season

Last year down-to-date poultry raisers of the United States,
Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America and South Africa used
more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of Cyphers
Sealed-Bag Poultry Foods and Alfalfa Products. During 1912
they will use still larger quantities. And these successful, pro-
gressive, wide-awake poultry men and poultrj' women have not
hesitated to tell others the good news ! Brief extracts from their
letters of endorsement will be found scattered through the pages
of this catalogue. On pages 125, 126 and 127, are quite a num-
ber of reports of this kind selected from the many we received.

We ask you to read what these customers say, many of whom
have been using our poultry foods exclusively for years. They

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PREMIUM-PRICE POULTRY
Fancy Prime Roaster produced on Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm, 1911, bv use of Cyphers
Company Sealed-Bag Brand Poultry Foods.
Weight (dressed) 6 lbs. at 20 weeks old.

CYPHERS COMPANY
POULTRY FARM

FANCY
PRIME ROASTER

READY FOR PACKING

Fancy Prime Roaster Produced on Cyphers Com-
pany Poultry Farm, Wrapped and Ready for Pack-
ing in Special Carton on which it rested when
photograph was made.

CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS— THEIR VALUE IN PRACTICAL RESULTS

know ! They have paid
the price, used the
goods, watched the
results, benefited by

the difference in value
— therefore their signed
and dated statements
of fact should carry
weight, should con-
vince you that there is
truth in what we say, in
our strong claims of
merit and superi-
ority. Cyphers Ready-
Mixed, Sealed-Bag Poultry Foods cost a few cents more per bag than do the ordinary brands sold in bulk or in
unsealed bags, but the difference in value is there every time. What our customers have said has convinced
us that there is no other brand of poultry foods on the American market at the present time that comes
within twenty to forty per cent, of equalling the Cyphers Poultry Foods in feeding value and inpractical results.

The Cyphers Company Poultry Foods are Guaranteed by Us

CYPHERS POULTRY FOODS, as they exist today, are the result of years of careful investigation on the
part of men whohave gathered the world's best knowledge on the value of food stuffs — who have studied the
science of feeding domestic fowls, and have applied this information to the practical, every-day needs of
poultry raisers in all branches of the industry. This work has been faithfully performed, our customers
have testified to its success, and we hereby assure them that the quality of these foods will not be
allowed to deteriorate, regardless of competition in the form of inferior foods sold at lower prices.

We grind, mix, sack and seal all Cyphers Poultry Foods and guarantee them to consist of sound and whole-
some grains. No weed seeds, by-products or inferior materials of any kind are used in their
manufacture. As a word of warning, let us state in this connection that the ordinary miller positively cannot
duplicate these balanced-ration, machinery - mixed poultry foods. This is true, first, because he does not possess
the special knowledge; second, he does not have the necessary machinery.

Owning our own mill, the most complete in the world, and buying our grains solely for the purpose
of making poultry foods, we are in a position, on the authority of expert analyses and repeated experiments,
to guarantee all Cyphers Brand Poultry Foods to be sound and wholesome and to contain the proper
ingredients in the right proportions to accomplish the results for which they are recommended.

Remember that our foods are twelve years tested. When you buy and use them you take no chances.
Look for the Cyphers trade mark ! Demand the sealed bags. Accept no substitute as being "just as good."
If you pay for the genuine article, see that you get it.

Our Book No. 8, "Profitable Poultry Feeding," Free to Customers

_ TO EVERY PURCHASER of Cyphers Poultry Foods it is our practice to supply free a sixteen-page booklet
entitled "Foods and Feeding," which gives definite information on how to use Cyphers Poultry Foods. Additional
to this (for the season of 1911-1912) we shall give to every customer who buys a 100-pound bag of Cyphers
Chick, Developing, Fattening, Growing, Fertile Egg, Laying or Scratching Food, a copy of Book No. 8 of the
Cyphers Series on Practical Poultry Keeping, entitled "Profitable Poultry' Feeding," a book of sixty-four large pages

that contains much valuable information on the most suc-
cessful methods of poultry feeding, both for chicks

and adults. Only one copy sent to each customer Ask

for your copy when you send in your first order

^ DLIRING 1912 we shall give away thousands of

copies of this book so that every Cyphers Compan\

poultry, food customer will be sure to profit b\ the

timely _ and important information it contains. Read

ing this book will help you to raise a larger percentage

of the chicks you hatch, will ensure more rapid

growth, will give you a greater egg yield, and ^\lll

enable you to secure these results at less cost for feed

and labor, thereby reducing the work necessary to be

done in the care of chicks and fowls and increasing

your profits therefrom.

Moreover, we look at it in this way: If you buy a

100-pound bag of our poultry foods (any kind) and use

it as we recommend, this will place you in a position

to compare the article itself with other brands on the

market, also to test the actual results obtainable by the

use of our foods and our methods— icfticft cannot fail

to be to our mutual advantage.

119

opy of 1
mailed FREE to any-
! upon request.

One copy sent FREE to each
Customer Buying Cyphers Com-
pany Poultry Foods.

Cyphers Chick Food

A Complete, Scientifically Compounded Food for Young Chicks. No Weed Seeds,
By-Products or Grit. Is Composed Solely of Sound, Sweet Grain

fCHicK roos

W^

(SFAUn B\C

"E WERE PIO-
NEERS in the
manufacture and
sale of granulated, dry-
grain food for little chicks.
Our lirand of chick food
has been in successful use
twelve years 1 We sell mil-
lions of pounds of it every
season. Each spring and
summer a rapidly increasing
number of experienced, suc-
cessful poultry raisers use no
other grain food for their
small chicks. Year after year
the same customers buy
and use it Ijecause they get
unequalled results and
have found they can rely on its uniform quality. All
chicks produced on the Cyphers Company $50,000 poultry
farm are fed this food and we grow them every year by

the

ids.

CYPHERS CHICK FOOD consists of six different
grains and is a properly-balanced, long-tested, scien-
tific ration. It is a complete food for young chicks —
no other grain ration being reciuired or advisable. This
food is guaranteed by us to be composed entirely of sound
and wholesome grains — no weed seeds, no by-products,
no waste materials, no grit. It is granulated and mixed
by special, patented machinery and is always the same —
always reliable.

CYPHERS CHICK FOOD— the genuine article-
is put up in sealed bags to prevent substitution and
to protect the interests of thousands of earnest men and
women who year after year are raising chickens
the "Cyphers Company way."

CYPHERS CHICK FOOD is sold in 50 and 100
pound, tightly woven burlap bags. To every customer
we furnish free, postpaid, full directions for correct
feeding. A lOO-pound bag will feed one hundred newly-
hatched chicks the first four weeks, or will feed fifty
chicks six to seven weeks. One pound of this balanced
ration, well granulated food will go as far and do more
good than two pounds of ordinary waste product "chicken
feed." It is always ready to use — and there is no waste.
It preserves perfect chick health — the natural state;
it insures rapid growth and is equally valuable for
hen hatched and incubator chicks.

Prices of Cyphers Chick Food
F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago and
Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.40

100-lb. bag 2.50

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.65

100-lb. bag 3.00

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods.

alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest' branch house. Sample mailed freo

on request.

Cyphers Developing Food

For Promoting the Growth of Young Stock. A Carefully Balanced, Dry Grain Ration,
Prepared Expressly to Follow the Use of Cyphers Chick Food

S ITS NAME IM-
PLIES, this is a
special dry grain

A=

aure intended for prop-
y maturing chicks
alter they are ready to be
weaned from Chick Food, and
to carry them along to the
age when it is desirable to
place Scratching and Laying
Mash before the pullets.

CYPHERS DEVELOP-
ING FOOD is properly bal-
anced to supply the materials
required for the rapid growth
of bone, muscle and feath-
ers. It is the best food on
the market for developing
>oung stock for show purposes or the breeding
pen, both in size and plumage, and also for hastening
the growth of chickens that are being raised for market
purposes.

CYPHERS DEVELOPING FOOD contains a
selected variety of grains, in sizes and quantities
exactly suited to the purpose for which it is intended.
It insures uniform and even growth, with normal health
and feathering. During the period when the chicks
are growing rapidly and feathering out it is as beneficial
in results as our Chick Food. Should be fed between
the ages of four and twelve weeks.

CYPHERS DEVELOPING FOOD is a dry grain
mixture. It may be fed from hoppers if desired, but
nd that for best results it be scattered broad

cast or in litter so that the sturdy, active chicks can
work for it, as exercise is required to aid normal diges-
tion and promote health. Developing Food should be fed
three times a day in deep litter, and a hopper of Cyphers
Growing Mash should be kept constantly before the
gromng stock. See that they are supplied also with
oyster shell and grit.

The quality of the poultry meat produced, where
Cyphers Developing Food is used in connection with
Cyphers Growing Mash, will be found to be much
superior to that of ordinary farm-fed chickens, and the
Cyphers-fed specimens will be as plump and fat as it
is desirable for healthy growing chicks to become.

CYPHERS DEVELOPING FOOD is sold only in
SO and 100 pound sealed bags, bearing the Cyphers Com-
pany trade mark and closed with a Cyphers lead seal.
Directions for feeding supplied free to every customer.

Prices of Cyphers Developing Food

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago and

Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25

F. O. B. OaUand, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL — Be sure to read '

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of
our sbc places of business on five and ten bag lots, also
by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,
alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free
on request.
Assorted Order** notice, sec page 153.

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Cyphers Fattening Mash

Specially Designed to Promote Rapid Formation of Flesh in the Profitable Production
of Broilers, Roasters and Capons

TO SECURE THE by poultry experts, by men who have studied carefully

HIGHEST MAR- the exact requirements and who have at their command

K E T PRICE for the best equipped poultry food mill in the world. Cyphers

tTATTf MIMr WA^Hl dressed or live poultry, it Fattening Mash, when fed according to our directions,

llnlitilNillU nAliUJi is necessary to place the will produce results that cannot be obtained by any

3^GS) l^ fowls on the market in an other method.

attractive condition so that pQj^ ^^g PROTECTION of our customers against

>''"^^'l 'hey will possess both the adulteration or substitution, Cyphers Fattening Mash is

^l^^^^Ur^ ?*\ 9"° ' * °"° guan i y ot j. -^^ ^^^ ^^^ pound sealed bags only, every bag

IQO^'V^BS '• meat required by consumers ^^^^.^^ „„, registered trade mark. Directions

Z° prices"for"'an a?Ucle of '^'^ ^^'^'^'^^ ^'^ ^"PP"^^ ''"' '° '^^'^ ^^P'^^^^ C°'"P^"^

I CYPHERS INCUBATOR g, food 'tharmeets thetr wthe^! ™^'°™'='^-

I BUFFALO, N.Y..^ A HEAVY FOWL is Prices of Cyphers Fattening Mash

J U. S. A. WSl not necessarily up to these „ „ „ „ », „ . „. „ „ , „. .

/ Mk requirements. The weight ''• °- «• »°^"'°' ^^w York C.ty. Buffalo, Chicago, and

^— !■■ may be made up chiefly Kansas City.

of bon(^(fte frame of a 50-lb. bag $1.25

fowl may be big, but it may carry but little meat. To 100-lb. bag 2.25

be entitled to the highest market price the fowl must be p, o. B. Oakland, Cal.

"finished;" it should have a liberal supply of soft, tender 50-lb. bafS $1 50

meat on its frame, and this can be obtained only by 100-lb' baS 275

the nnishing or fattening process, whether the fowl is '

intended for broiler, roaster or capon. SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

THERE POSITIVELY is no other finishing food our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

on the American market that is worthy to be compared by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,

with Cyphers Fattening Mash. This is true for the reason alfalfas and beef scrap.

that tills composition, like all other Cyphers brand poultry Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free

foods, is the result of years of experience and is prepared on request.

Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash

A Properly Balanced, Bulky Mash, the Purpose of Which is to Secure the
Maximum Number of Fertile Eggs

E

1 VERY experienced poul-
tryman realizes that in
addition to proper care
and management, intelligent
feeding is necessary, if he is to
secure from his fowls the maxi-
mum number of strongly fer-
tile eggs. To secure a large
number of eggs is one thing —
to have these eggs well-ferti-
lized and rich in chick-forming
materials is a different matter.
Cyphers Laying Mash is meant
to increase the yield o'f eggs,
regardless of whether they are
/ u. 3 A to be marketed as "sterile" or

''-'-"■ 'nil II MiiiV"-'* ^ germless" or are to be pro-

duced under ordinary condi-

On the- other hand. Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash has
for its special object the production of well-fertilized
eggs in large numbers — eggs that po.ssess in abundance, also
in proper proportions, the rich materials needed to develop
and feed the chick embryo so that the chick at hatching
time will be large, vigorous and in perfect health.

Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash, therefore, is not to be
fed for the single purpose of forcing egg production. Its
mission is to aid the fowls in producing the maximum
number of strongly fertilized eggs — the largest
number of such eggs that a fowl can produce in normal
condition and still remain in perfect health.

Fanciers and market poultrymen whose aim it is to
secure the best hatching results will find that this mash
will do the work — that surprisingly satisfactory returns
can he secured by its use.

Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash may be fed dry in hoppers,
keeping a supply before the fowls at all times, or can be
used as a wet mash, feeding it in this form once a day.
Cyphers Scratching Food thrown in deep litter to keep
the fowls busy, should be used also.

Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash is sold only in 50 and 100-
lb. sealed bags, bearing the Cyphers Company trade mark
and closed with a Cyphers lead seal. Directions for
feeding are supplied free to every customer.

Prices of Cyphers Fertile-Egg Mash

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago, and

Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25 "

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of
our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also
by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,
alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free
on request.

SPECIAL— Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice.

153.

Cyphers Laying Mash

A Balanced Ration of Ground Grains and Blood Meal, Ready Mixed for Hopper Feeding.
Promotes Health — Increases the Egg Yield

mmmm

100 ""^S*^ LBS. ;

I CyPHERS INCUBATOR £

BUFFALO N.V.
U S. A.

flflK returns

E POULTRY
KEEPER who as a
rule gets the poorest
returns from his hens in the
shape of eggs is the one who
thinks that all they need is
an irregular supply of wheat,
corn, oats or some other one
grain. To secure a large yield
of eggs the fowls must be
given an ample amount of
strongly nutritious food that
contains, in proper propor-
tions, all the materials

_ eeded for egg making.

/ ^ It was with the object of

fc- -- -■ . ,..jg«B supplying these materials and

thus inducing the hens to lay
more eggs that Cyphers Laying Mash was developed,
based on years of experimenting. The number of
eggs that are laid by the average hen may be said to pay for
the cost of production; the additional 25 to 50 per cent.
that can be obtained by proper feeding represents
profit, and it is by feeding Cyphers Company's balanced-
ration Laying Mash that these additional, profit-
bringing eggs are obtained.

CYPHERS LAYING MASH is not in any sense
a condiment or an egg stimulant. On the contrary, it
is strictly A FOOD— a palatable, highly nutritious, bal-
anced egg ration, ready mixed for the daily mash, and
is manufactured by us to meet the demand of poultry-
men, who as a result of unfavorable experiences with
cheap mash foods manufactured from by-products and

inferior or damaged grain have learned the importance
of using only such poultry foods as are produced
from perfectly sound grains.

Poultrymen who wish to obtain the greatest food
value for their money will realize that it is to their advan-
tage to buy of manufacturers who are specialists in the
production of poultry foods and who positively guar-
antee their goods under seal. We ask you to remember
that there is a big difference between poultry foods made
up of the leavings and sweepings of stock food and
breakfast food manufactories, and the whole grains
ground specially by us in our own mill — a mill that is
devoted exclusively to the production of poultry foods.

FOR THE PROTECTION of our customers against
adulteration or substitution. Cyphers Laying Mash is
put up in 50 and 100 pound sealed bags only, every bag
bearing our registered trade mark. Directions
for feeding are supplied free to every Cyphers Company
customer.

Prices of Cyphers Laying Mash

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Bufialo, Chicago, and

Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods.

alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free

on request.

Cyphers Growing Mash

An Easily Assimilated Food for Hopper Feeding. Promotes Rapid Growth of Bone and Muscle

D

^RY FEEDING of ground
grains, properly balanced
complish definite
results — using rat -proof food
hoppers — is a practical and
economical plan for feeding
fowls that undoubtedly has
come to stay. The early pre-
judice against "dry feeding by
the hopper method" is rapidly
giving way, because poultry
men and women who try this
plan invariably discover that
it has important advantages.

Dry feeding of ground
mixed grains, in rat-proof hop-
pers, saves labor, saves feed,
and by this method the fowls
can be given the proper proportions of different food values,
whereas if permitted to select their choice of grains, either
whole or in cracked form, they will eat their fill of what
pleases them, whether it is best for them or not. For
example, the average fowl will eat whole corn to the
entire exclusion ot any other grain or food mixture, despite
the fact that corn alone is not sufficient for their bodily
requirements, nor as an egg-producing food.

We recommend that a hopper of Cyphers Growing
Mash be kept constantly before the young stock. They
will eat only such quantities as they require, but will go
to this food frequently and its ingredients are such that
the birds will develop rapidly, at the same time continu-
ing in perfect health. This food contains ingredients not
found in cracked grain mixtures — and it is these extra
ingredients that fill out the ration and produce the desired
result in the production of bone and muscle.

It should be remembered that when the object is to
induce the rapidly growing birds to consume the maxi-
mum amount of food, a variety must be furnished. It
was largely for this reason that Cyphers Growing Mash
was placed on the market. We strongly recommend the
use of Growing Mash in connection with our Developing
Food until the chicks are three months old, when the Deve-
loping Food should be replaced by Scratching Food — both
of these last named foods to be fed in deep litter.

Cyphers Growing Mash contains no by-products or
damaged grains. It is composed exclusively of clean,
sweet materials — absolutely nothing else enters into its
composition. The results to be secured by its use will
please you and prove highly profitable.

Cyphers Growing Mash is fed dry, just as it comes to
you; therefore much labor is eliminated and the danger
of sour food is entirely avoided. Our Growing Mash
is sold only in 50 and loo-lb. sealed bags, bearing the
Cj'phers Company trade mark and closed with a Cyphers
lead seal. Directions for feeding are supplied free to
every customer.

Prices of Cyphers Growing Mash

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago, and
Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of
our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also
bj' the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,
alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free
on request.

Cyphers Scratching Food

An Ideal Dry Grain Mixture — Affords Variety,

SCRATCHING FOOD
fills one of the most
important require-
ments of the poultry raiser if
correctly prepared. It is
not sufficient to provide grain
to be thrown into the litter of
a "hen house," even if in
imitation of the original
Cyphers Company product
it happens to bear the name
of "scratching food."

A Scratching Food, rightly
made up, is composed of
such a variety of grains,
properly balanced, as will
meet a range of conditions
extending throughout the
year, incliidini; the laying and breeding season, the
moulting period, etc. A well composed Scratching Food
must contain an attractive variety of grains such as will
induce the fowls to scratch for more and keep at it.
It must also be proportioned to meet the hen's require-
ments as an egg machine.

Such is CYPHERS SCRATCHING FOOD. Exer-
cise is absolutely necessary to promote digestion, main-
tain health, insure a continuous egg yield and produce
fertile eggs. Remember that breeding fowls cannot

100
PIIEPAHEI) BY

CYPHERS INCUBAlDRflli

BUFFALO N.Y.,
U. S A.

kept vigc

■ong by
and plenty of

tethod

Promotes Exercise, Insures Health and Vigor

In selecting and preparing the grains and seeds
for Cyphers Scratching Food we crack or cut them suffi-
ciently small so that the fowls will have to work to find
them and cannot eat the food all out of the litter
in a few minutes. It would defeat the purpose to feed
nothing but whole grains. While we leave some whole
wheat in our Scratching Food, together with whole barley,
buckwheat, sunflower seed, etc., still fully three-fourths
of the mixture is as small as whole wheat. On the other
hand, we screen out the meal and by this means avoid

CYPHERS SCRATCHING FOOD is put up in
50 and 100 pound sealed bags, each bag bearing our trade
mark. Directions for feeding are mailed free to every

Prices of Cyphers Scratching Food

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago, and
Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of
our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also
by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,
alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free
on request.

Cyphers Pigeon Food

A Mixture of Properly Seasoned Grains, Specially Selected for Pigeons

IN COMPOUNDING a
food for pigeons the
proper selection of var-
ious grains is of great
importance. The peas it
contains should be of a
certain age. The wheat
must be red, never white.
The proportions of millet,
hemp-seed, kaffir corn and all
other materials that enter
into it must conform to
the known needs of the
birds and be absolutely sweet
and free from mustiness.

DURING THE

BREEDING season and
when squabs are to be
marketed the importance of a correct food cannot be
over estimated. The health of the birds and the rapid
growth and weight of the squabs is dependent upon it.
Squab raisers need to use every possible means to enable
them to market squabs that will weigh above the
average, as the largest profits are to be found in extra
weight over and above the standard sizes. It costs no
more to use a food that will produce these results
than it does to travel in the old rut of haphazard feeding.
We have combined in CYPHERS PIGEON FOOD
the mo.'it reliable and satisfactory mixture of the best

grains obtainable for this purpose. It is practically
impossible for any feeder to purchase on the open market
materials of this kind and quality and assemble them
in the proper portions at as low a price as we offer
our sealed-bag brand.

CYPHERS PIGEON FOOD is pronounced to be
indispensable where the best results are desired and
if IS used extensively in lofts where the birds are in
the healthiest condition and the output of squabs is
heaviest. We advise that CYPHERS PIGEON FOOD
be kept before the birds at all times in a suitable hopper,
except in the case of Homers and Flying Tumblers in
training, which should be fed at stated intervals, as this
is an important part of the training.

Prices of Cyphers Pigeon Food

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago, and
Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.75

100-lb. bag 3.25

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods,

alfalfas and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free

on request.

1,000 TO 1,500 CHICKENS EACH YEAR

Pomfret Center, Conn., March 15. 19U.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y .—

Have used your Chick Food for five years and consider it
the best feed on the market for small chicks. It is clean, free
from dirt, pure and wholesome. It possesses the qualities to
insure rapid growth of the chicks, early starting of the
feathers and produces plump and vigorous bodies. Each
year I raise from a thousand to fifteen hundred chickens on your
Chick Food alone. WALTER E. BROWN.

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order'

m

CHICKENS ARE JUST CRAZY FOR THEM"

Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 2,

Cyphers Incubator Co., Buff all

Send me as soon as possible
Cyphers High Protein Beef Sci
Cyphers Forcing F ' "' '^

Therefore I ■

ther hundred pounds of

I and a fifty-pound bag of
Beef Scraps are the best I have
put them in the hopper the chickens
four Chick Food cannot be beat.
Cyphers Forcing Food.

EDWARD WILKOMMEN.

notice, see page 153.

Cyphers Short-Cut Alfalfa

Guaranteed 95 Per Cent. Pure Alfalfa. Alfalfa Possesses From 14 to 17 Per Cent.

Protein, Mangels, 1.5 Per Cent.; Grass, 6.65 Per Cent. Protein is the

Most Valuable and Most Expensive Element in All Foods

AMONG GREEN When used as the foundation of a moist mash, our

FOODS for domestic SHORT-CUT ALFALFA is mixed dry with other foods

animals and for poul- and is then scalded or boiled with them, as the poultry-

IQBT'-^ffiHf try during the seasons of the man desires. When fed in connection witli dry grains

_ — . . nA«j -^^'' ^^'hen fresh vegetation it should be scalded in a trough or other vessel and left

^LFALFAS cannot be had Alfalfa stands for the fowls to eat at will.

(SEiiEDBAGS) ^ at t he top. For best results CYPHERS FIELD-GREEN ALFAI.FA guaranteed

in the growth of chicks and gs per cent, pure, is put up in 50 and 100 pound bags

to increase winter egg pro- every bag bearing our trade mark and seal. Directions

duction, a vegetable food for feeding mailed free to every customer.
mn^^^B'' TBC SB such as alfalfa is india- _ , „ . „, „..,.,

iDa-*'tB&^ ^^^^^^i^ Prices of Cyphers Short-Cut Alfalfa

irVDUCDf'njrilCIA'TnD rn ALFALFA contains F- O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago and

fCTPHERS INLUBATOR a ,„,, re protein than any other Kansas City.

BUrrALDNY ,,lant in general use as food. 50-lb. bag $1.15

4 and if properly cured and 100-lb. bag 2.00

-^^ pure it is cheaper. In F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

other words protein, the most 50-Ib. bag $1.40

valuable "content" of poultry foods, when bought in 100-lb. bag 2.50

the shape of alfalfa, is low in price; but the alfalfa SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

you use should be of good quality, free from weeds, our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

grasses, etc., and should be pea green when moistened. by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods and

Alfalfa must be properly cured and should be cut or beef scrap.

ground immediately thereafter, otherwise it loses Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free

much of its nutritive value. on request.

Cyphers Mealed Alfalfa

Guaranteed 95 Per Cent. Pure Alfalfa. Specially Suited to Small and Growing Chicks

M

'EALED ALFALFA is
a boon to poultrymen
when it is pure in
quality and properly ground.
We say this advisedly because
there are a number of brands
on the market sold as ground
Alfalfa, mealed clover, etc.,
that arc not pure alfalfa
and are not properly mealed.
This is true because it
requires special machinery to
properly grind alfalfa or clover
and the process is an ex-
pensive one. These tough,
fibrous plants are not like
grain; they cannot be ground
in an ordinary mill. It re-
quired six years of costly
experimenting for Cyphers Incubator Company to
develop special machinery for the cutting, mealing and
shredding of alfalfa.

CYPHERS FIELD-GREEN MEALED ALFALFA
is properly ground and is guaranteed to be 95 per cent,
pure alfalfa. Mealed alfalfa should be used ,as the founda-
tion of mashes for poultry of all ages, but it is especially
valuable (in the mealed form) for young chicks on account

of its finely pulverized condition. It aids digestion
and affords bulk to grain foods which are often too
concentrated.

If more alfalfa meal were fed to young chicks there
would be far less mortality, and this applies equally
well to mature fowls, so far as improving their general
health and vigor is concerned. Nothing exists in the way
of a food protMtct that is of greater value than alfalfa
to increase the egg yield and produces fertile eggs.

CYPHERS MEALED ALFALFA is put up in 50
and 100 pound bags bearing our trade mark and seal.
Directions for feeding mailed free to every customer.

Prices of Cyphers Mealed Alfalfa

F. O. B. Boston, New York City, Buffalo, Chicago and
Kansas City.

50-lb. bag $1.25

100-lb. bag 2.25

F. O. B. Oakland, Cal.

50-lb. bag $1.50

100-lb. bag 2.75

SPECIAL PRICES will be quoted from each of

our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, also

by the ton and for assorted orders, including foods

and beef scrap.

Address nearest branch house. Sample mailed free

on request;.

"SIMPLICITY OF THE METHOD"

Canton, Ohio, January 3, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo. N. V .—

I am a strong advocate of Cyphers Chick Food for the simple
reason that I have raised more ana better chicks by feeding
it exclusively from the first, tfum by any other method.
By use of this food I am able to avoid the customary chick
ailments and can readily bring my stock to weigh 2 to 214 pounds
at eight to ten weeks old. Coupling these results with the
simplicity of the method, one could hardjy^ ask for^ more.

"RAISED 96 PER CENT. OF ALL CHICKS"

North New Salem, Mass., January 27, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.—

Have used several different brands and mixes of poultry foods
but am now using the Cyphers and prefer it to all others. Chicks
eat it greedily and grow better and faster than on all other
foods I have tried. Have raised 96 per cent, of all chicks hatched
by the use of your foods, and my Wliite Rock hen with a_ record
of si-vLty-one eggs in sixty-five days, as well as my prize-winning
birds were raised on Cyphers Foods.

RAY L. CHAMBERLIN.

SPECIAL— Be sure to read ".Assorted Order"

page 253.

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Fig. I — This Flock of Ducks '

3 Reared Withou
: beginning of thi

High Protein Beef Scrap

A Standard Meat Food for Poultry of All Ages — Thousands of Tons Used Annually

HIGH PROTEIN BEEF SCRAP is an especially valuable meat food for poultry
and gives very satisfactory results when fed dry from a food hopper. "Any
kind" of beef scrap will not answer for poultry feeding. Poor beef scrap scours
the birds and otherwise injures them. Where a reliable brand of beef scrap is used the
results are uniYorm/!/ ffood.

WE GUARANTEE our brand of Beef Scrap to be the best on the market. Cheap
scrap means cheap material used in its composition — means low feeding value and
an article which, if fed to chicks or ducklings, may cause exceedingly harmful results. A
trial will convince you of the superiority of our HIGH PROTEIN BEEF SCRAP
Two-ounce sample package mailed free on request. Address our place of business

THE TWO FLOCKS of ducks illustrated on this page show the value of beef scrap
as a poultry food. Figure I shows a flock of duck" that was reared without meat food.
Figure II shows a flock of ducks that was reared under the same conditions, except that
these ducks were fed a ration of HIGH PROTEIN BEEF SCRAP from the start.
At the beginning of this test the number and size of the duckhngs in each flock were the
same.

Prices of High Protein Beef Scrap

Please address nearest branch house (Buffalo, Boston, New York, Chicago, Kansas City or Oakland) for current
prices of Beef Scrap. Prices vary twenty-five to fifty cents per loo pounds at the different points on account of the
cost of freight and storage.

SPECIAL PRICES can be quoted from each of our six places of business on five and ten bag lots, or by the ton
and for assorted orders including beef scrap, foods and alfalfa.

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Sample Reports — Cyphers Poultry Foods

Cyphers In

1 HAVE LOST FEWER CHICKS"

Broadview, Mont.. March 3, 1911
■Co.. Buffalo. N. ¥.—

As for your Chick Food, I have used it for over two years and
have raised over a thousand birds on it, and it is the best
food I have found vet. It is clean and sweet, free from any wa.=ite
and the chicks eat every particle of it and come out with
well developed bodies — plump and feathered out well, and
I ha\i lo t fewir clink from Cypher^ Chick Food than from any
otlier I hi\e tried J D. HIRST.

"CAN USE LETTER AS TESTIMONIAL"

Rockville Center, L. I., N. Y., March 2. 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y. —

/ have raised about 1,500 chicks September, 1910, to
February, 1011, feeding nothing else but your Chick Food and
I want to tell you about it. I tried another brand of chick food,
only to return it. There is nothing to equal your Chick Food
and your Developing Food. Chicks fed on it are healthy and
plump, are well covered with feathers and turn out better
than if given some other food claimed to be '*just as good."
This I know from personal experience. Have found your Sealed-
Bag Brand of Chick and Developing Foods absolutely free from
dirt or waste material and sweet to the last morsel. You can use
this letter as a testimonial.

CLEARVIEW POULTRY FARM,

W. O. Krope, Supt.

"ABLE TO RAISE 97 PER CENT."

Weirsdale, Fla., July 17, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

- ; I have used your No. 3 Standard Cyphers Incubator and your
Outdoor Brooders this season and feel that they cannot be spoken
of too highly. The regulation is perfect. Have repeatedly
hatched 95 per cent, of the fertile eggs and always got big,
strong chicks. My last hatch gave me 351 fine chicks from 360
fertile eggs. By the use of Cyphers Brooders, also your Chick
Food, which I use exclusively, I have been able to raise 97
per cent, of my chicks. I am more than pleased with your
goods, including Incubators. Brooders, Foods and Supplies, and
expect to install a mammoth machine of your make in the near
future. Yours truly,

HUGO EBY.

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FOODS

"GROW FASTER AND LAY MORE EGGS"

Lake View, Me., November 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Have used large quantities of your prepared, balanced-ration
Poultry Foods and consider them the best on the market.
Have given your various foods a thorough test alongside of
other brands and find yours far superior to any other. There
being no waste to it makes it go much farther than other foods
and pullets fed on Cyphers Scratching, Developing and Forcing
Foods grow faster and lay more eggs than when fed on other
commercial foods or on home-made mixtures.

In our opinion you manufacture the best Incubators and
Brooders on the market today. Have used numerous poultry
supplies made by you and they have given complete satisfaction.
Yours respectfully. WALTER COBB.

IS A "FARMER'S WIFE," NEVERTHELESS

Griswold, Iowa, June 15. 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

During my experience in raising poultry I have tried several
brands of chick food and other poultry foods, but never have
found any that equals the Cyphers. Have found it one of the most
valuable preparations on the market today. I cheerfully recom-
mend your Foods. Being a farmer's wife, I nevertheless con-
sider Cyphers Ready-Mixed Foods cheaper than we can
grow them, judged by results. I breed R. C. Rhode Island Reds
that win for my Customers. As Chicks they are all raised on
your brand of Chick Food. MRS ANNA M. LEMBKE, Prop.
Pleasant View Poultry Farm.

FOUR MONTHS OLD; WEIGHT fA LBS.

CALDER'S POULTRY YARDS

Kellerstrass Strain Crystal White Orpingtons and S. C. Rhode

Island Reds

Fairbury, Neb., July 17, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

We are much pleased with the No. 3 Incubator we bought of
you this spring. We have tried many other makes, but none of
them filled the bill. With the Cyphers Incubator we have had no
trouble at all to hatch good, healthy, vigorous chicks. It
is very economical in the consumption of oil, using only a little
more per twenty-four hours than a 120-egg machine of another
make. We consider it the best incubator made.

We use your Balanced-ration Poultry Foods to raise our
chicks and it excels all other foods we have tried. We have
proved this to our own satisfaction by actual test. We breed
and exhibit S. C. Rhode Island Reds and S. C. White Orpingtons.
We have White Orpingtons four months old that weigh over
four and a half pounds that are being raised on your foods
entirely. This proves what the Cyphers Poultry Foods will do.
Yours very truly. C.4LDER BROS.

NINETEEN WEEKS OLD; WEIGHT, 7 LBS.

Mansfield, Mass., August 19, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

I enclose some views of some of my Lily White Strain of
White Plymouth Rocks. These birds were hatched in a Cyphers
Incubator, raised in a Cyphers Brooder and fed your Chick Food
and Beef Scraps. My birds did well on your Chick Food and
developed rapidly. Some of the cockerels weighed seven pounds
at four and one-half months. H. G. WEBSTER.

Sample of Round - Bodied. FuU-
Meated Chick Raised on Cyphers Co's
Dry-Grain Balanced Rations. Weight,
3 lbs. at 10 weeks old.

"WEED SEEDS

GAVE THEM

DIARRHOEA"

Healdsburg. Cal.,

July 9, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co.,
Buffalo, N. ¥.—
About three years
ago my little chicks ate
some weed seeds that
gave them diarrhoea.
Knowing from experi-
ence that I could de-
pend on your Chick
Food I wrote your
Oakland House to rush
some up to me — which
they did without loss
of time. I penned up
the chicks, fed nothing
but Cyphers Chick
Food and short - cut
clover and it was sur-
prising how soon they
began to improve, and
in less than a week
were on the high road
to recovery. Your

Short-Cut Alfalfa and Chick Food are a combination hard to beat.
Have also used with good results your Forcing Food and
Scratch Food. It gives me pleasure to recommend your poultry
foods and suppUes to people who want reliable goods.

MRS. S. SWAYSGOOD.

"USING ONE AND ONE-HALF TONS EACH MONTH."

TOP NOTCH POULTRY FARM
Bred-To-Lay S. C. Rhode Island Reds

Elcho, Wis., November 21, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

During the past nine years we have used your Incubators,
Poultry Foods and Supplies and have found them to be the best
goods I can obtain and fully up to all your representations.

Five per cent, will cover all my losses after chicks are hatched
and this I attribute largely to the excellence of your Sealed-
bag Brand Poultry Foods, though of course I know that chicks
hatched in Cyphers Incubators are larger and stronger than
when hatched in cheap, crowded affairs known as incubators.

Am using one and one-half tons of your poultry foods
each month on Top Notch Farm, and while the first cost is more
than most other brands. I consider them cheaper in the end, as
there is no waste, all grain being sweet and clean. I have a
fancy trade in eggs, getting five and ten cents a dozen above market
prices, because my customers know my method of feeding and
that my hens get no mouldy or dirty food. There is a different
taste to eggs when hens are fed on clean, sweet grains.

Shall want more of your Incubators next year, as I have
greatly enlarged my plant. I also wish to assure you of my appre-
ciation of your courtesy and square dealing at all times.

Yours truly.

mm^

White Plymouth Rocks hatched in Cyphers Incubator, raised
in Cyphers Brooder, and fed on Cyphers Foods. Some of the
cockerels weighed seven and one-half pounds at four and one-half
months. Owned by H. G. Webster, Mansfield Mass.

"LOST FORTY OF THE SIXTY CHICKS"

Kenwood Park, Iowa, November 19, 1911.
Cyplers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

It gnes me pleasure to advise you that I have used the dif-
ferent kmds of Cyphers Sealed-bag Brand Poultry Foods and have
found them to be the best at any price. Last spring I raised
two hundred chicks on your Chick Food exclusively and never
lost one with white diarrhoea. Later I had a hatch of sixty
chicks and being out of your food bought a different kind from a
local merchant and lost forty of the sixty chicks with bowel
trouble. Have found your Forcing and Developing Foods to be
all you claim. ., „ ,. j

Also used your Full-Nest Egg Food and it, like all other goods
manufactured by you, proved entirely satisfactory and I got
good results from its use. I have found your company fair
in all its dealings with me and you always seem to be greaUy

''TLBElTr%OLE.

SAMPLE REPORTS — CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FOODS

NEIGHBORS HAD SAME EXPERIENCE

Marengo, III., March 3, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. 1 —

I have fed your foods for young cincks the last five years and I
raise six or seven hundred a year. Have found your Chick Food
by far the beat for young chickens that I ever saw. It is a
balanced ration — proved so by test — and after my personal experi-
ence I would not try to raise chicks without it. A number of times
I have run out of your Chick Food and for a few days would feed
some other brand, but the chicks would begin to die. but were all
right again when put back on the Cyphers Food, Others
in this neighborhood have had the same experience. I know
something about feeding live stock and the success of your poultry
foods is largely due to the high-class, pure grains used in them.
Have been a poultry breeder and fancier thirty-one years
and would not consider a poultry plant complete without a supply
of your Sealed-Bag poultry foods.

GEO. A. CARMACK.

"PLUMP-BODIED, WELL-FEATHERED"

West "Alexander, Pa., March 7, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.—

For six years we have used your Chick Food and Developing
Food. Our baby chickens do so well on these foods that we have
converted most of our poultry raising neighbors to the
"Cyphers way." Since using your Chick Food our little chickens
have never been troubled "with white diarrhoea. Out of 390
chickens last spring we lost only twenty-nine from all causes,
including accidents. The others grew up into plump-bodied,
well- feathered fowls. The pullets laid all winter. Most of
the cockerels went to market and brought a higher price than
common fowls, because of their plump condition. They were
fed first, Cyphers Chick Food, then your Developing Food, finally
your Scratch and Laying Foods — in fact outside of "green stuff"
they were Cyphers-fed chickens from egg to maturity.
Your foods are all sweet and clean and prove to be exactly what
the chicken hkes — there is not a grain wasted.

F. W. DONALDSON.

TWO CYPHERS FOOD CAPONS; WEIGHT, 27 LBS.

O. W. HOUGHTON
Breeder of Cycle Strain White Wyandottes

10 Marble St.. Stoneham, Mass.
August, 16, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y.

I can heartily recommend the Cyphers Chick Food for best
feeding results. For the past seven years J have been favored
with first and second prizes for single cockerels and pens at the
Brockton Poultry Show. These birds were hatched in Cyphers
Incubators and raised on Cyphers Poultry Foods. Find here-
with picture of first prize pen. These are Cyphers Poultry Food
stock. Fourteen weeks ago I caponized a pair of birds that
weighed five pounds each. They now weigh twenty -seven
pounds and at the present market price for soft roasters would
bring a total of $9.18 for the pair. These birds were fed first
to last on Cyphers Poultry Foods.

O. W. HOUGHTON.

TWELVE WEEKS

OLD; WEIGHT

3 LBS. 5 OZS.

Hu

, Mo.,

September 21, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.,
Buffalo, N. F.—
Enclosed find photo
of one of my pens of
Crystal White Orping-
tons— birds that were
hatched in one of your
No. 3 Incubators and
fed from first to last
on Cyphers Chick
Food, Developing
Food and Scratching
Food. At twelve weeks
old the one I hold in
my hands weighed
three pounds five

thepu

A L Billmgs Hume Mo and hig
flock of C\ pher', hatched Cj phers-
brooded and C\ phers fed Crystal White
Orpmgtons The bird held by Mr
Billmgs weighed three pounds and five
ounces when twelve weeks old.

months old were laying.

I can recommend your

Incubators as the best

in the world. I hatched

from 84 to 97 per cent.

of the fertile eggs. I

find the Cyphers

Brooders to be very successful and recommend them in preferen

to using hens ever>' time.

A. L. BILLINGS,

"FAR ABOVE THEM ALL"

Toms River, N. J., March 4, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.-~

I have used Cyphers Chick Food for ten years — the same
mth your High Protein Beef Scrap. Meantime, have tried several
other brands, but have found the "Cyphers" far above them all.
With your Chick Food I can raise 95 per cent, of all I can hatch.
Have never lost a chick with bowel trouble that was fed exclusively
on your food. They grow extra fast and feather quick. After
my long experience I would not use any other kind of chick food.
If every poultry raiser would only use Cyphers foods they would
stay in the business longer and make more money. Too
often they adopt a poor grade of feed and the heavy losses dis-
courage them or put them out of business. Try the "Cyphers

! of bu

be withou

"MORTALITY REDUCED TO THE MINIMUM"

Richards, Mo., June 8, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y .—

I want to congratulate you on the excellence of your Poultry
Food Products, especially on Cyphers Chick Food and Cyphers
Developing Food. / firmly believe that much of my success
in bringing my birds into winning condition is due to their
rapid and correct development by the use of these foods.
Since using Cyphers brand Chick Food my percentage of mortality
imum. M. S. BRADY.

has been reduced t

Pen of White Wyandottes winning first at Brocton Show,
hatched in Cyphers Incubator and rai.sed on Cyphers Foods.
Owned by O. W. Houghton, Stoneham, Mass.

"NEARLY 3,000 CHICKS— RESULTS WONDERFUL"

FRANK M. ROSS,

Breeder of White and Barred Plymouth Rocks

and Rhode Island Reds.

Kentland, Ind., August 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Have operated two of your No. 3 Incubators and the results
have been even more than we hoped for. Hatches have been large
and the chicks good strong ones — full of hfe and able to make a
fight for it. After taking them out of the machines I placed
them in your Outdoor Brooders, fed them on Cyphers Chick
Food, and the results were wonderful. I raised nearly
three thousand chickens this year from these two machines, and
they are the finest lot we have ever had. Your Chick Food
is the cleanest and finest that I have ever seen. There is no
stale or defective grain in it. If even a beginner uses your
Chick Food as directed by you he cannot fail to raise better and
more chickens. FRANK M. ROSS.

CHAPTER II

THE 200-EGG PER YEAR HEN-HOW TO PRODUCE HER

Plan Adopted With Success by Cyphers Incubator Company in Establishing
Strains of 200-Eggs per Year Layers of Several Popular Varieties. How the
Average Egg Yield of Any Flock of Healthy, Vigorous Fowls can be Increased
50 to 100 per cent. Other Ways of Making a Right Start and Winning Success

(Copyright January, 1912, by Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.)

PERHAPS this cHapter heading would better ha\e
been "A2po-Efeg Per Year Strain of Layers — How
to Produce ' It,'.'" but it is not strictly correct to
speak of a strain of layers as a "200-Egg Per Year Strain,"
doing so on the ground that several birds — or a good
many birds of the strain — have laid 200 or more eggs in
one year's time, repeating
this performance through
several generations.

However, it will be

of interest and help to

our readers to be told

just how we developed a

strain of White Leghorns

on Cyphers Company

Poultry Farm that has

produced 166 hens within

the last three years that

are KNOWN to have

laid from 200 to 251

eggs apiece within twelve

Hen No. 361. months time. And this

Laid 242 Eggs in One Year. number of hens, 166, prob-

Single Comb White Leghorn Hen ably represents less than

with whichthe Cyphers Company's one-half the number that

S^teY-gM-inml^'^^'""^^ really laid 200 eggs per

year and upwards.

By the end of the third year of our experiments we

were able to trap-nest less than one-half the total number

of line-bred specimens, on account of lack of room in

laying houses that were equipped with trap-nests.

We started our 200-egg White Leghorn strain by
purchasing three high-egg-record hens from the Utah
Experiment Station, of which "Hen No. 361, Record
I," illustrated herewith from photograph, was the best
in Leghorn type and had the best egg record. This
hen, at the Utah Station, during her year of heaviest
egg production, laid 242 eggs — the largest number of
eggs produced by a single specimen of any breed or vari-
ety at that station up to that date, season of 1904-1905.
During the six years that we have been trap-nesting
our Leghorns and working to build up a 200-egg-per-year
strain, we have been able to excel the work of this hen
only four times — three times during the season of 1909-
1910. with hens Nos.
"I-4462," "I-4470" and
"I-4499," each of which
laid 248 eggs in trap-
nests within 365 days
and again in the season
of 1910-1911 (September
I, 1910 to August 31,
1911 inclusive) when
hen No. "J-0687" shown
herewith, laid 251 eggs,
the largest number pro-
duced (laid in trap-nests)
thus far on Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm,
by any breed or variety.
Numerous other White
Leghorn pullet-hens
have nearly equalled
these performances.

laying 237, 238, 241 eggs, etc., but up to the present
time the four records here given are the highest. At the
close of the season of 1909-1910 we had sixty-seven White
Leghorn hens with trap-nest records of 200 to 248 eggs,
and by August 31, 1911, this number had been increased
to 166 hens, the high record being 251 eggs. As before
stated, the number of such hens and the pullets hatched
from their eggs soon became so numerous that we were able
to trap-nest, with proper care, less than one-half the number.
Last season — 1910-191 1 — we were able to trap-nest less than
one-third the number on hand, on account of lack of
trap-nesting equipment for this variety.

At the same time we were trap-nesting several gen-
erations of Barred and White Plymouth Rocks, White
Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds — also six pens of
White Orpingtons, birds of this variety imported by us
from England in the fall of 1910. During the season of
1910-1911 we trap-nested 140 Leghorn females. For
1911-1912 we have facilities to trap-nest 210 Leghorns.

There are two ways to produce a 200-egg-per-year-
hen. One is by selecting and trap-nesting your own
layers, thus building up a heavy-laying strain based on
the best egg-producing individuals in your own flocks;
the other is by purchasing high-egg-record stock to use
for breeding purposes, or day-old chicks or hatching
eggs from such stock.

When Cyphers Incubator Company decided that it
wanted to develop and own a heavy egg-yield strain,
we felt that time was valuable, therefore we looked about
for a reliable source from which to obtain "a right start"
and in buying "Hen No. 361" of the Utah Experiment
Station we saved several years time. This company has
followed the same course with the other breeds and varieties
handled on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, doing so
in every case where we were able to buy stock or eggs
that we felt sure we could rely upon.

Many poultrymen who have strains of their own
and who would like to increase the egg yield, can readily
do so by trap-nesting and by selection. First, install
the trap-nests so that you can know which hens are laying
the most eggs for you, then "put under trap-nest test"
only the specimens that are best in shape and color points
— the kind nearest to standard requirements and therefore
believed to be the most valuabl e as breeders or otherwise.

yfe»y

No. I — 4470. No, I — 4499.

Laid 248 Eggs in One Year. Laid 248 Eggs in One Year.

THREE RECORD LAYERS— GREAT-GREAT-GRAND-DAUGHTERS OF HEN NO. 361.
Three S. C. White Leghorns Produced on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, Season of 1909-1910.
Sixty.four Sisters of These Birds Laid from 200 to 241 Eggs Each During the Same Year.

128

THE 200-EGG PER YEAR HEN— HOW TO PRODUCE HER

You will find that some of them will lay from fifty to
one hundred per cent, more eggs than others — yet all will
be under the same roof, will occupy the same exercising
space, will be fed the same food and roost on the same
perch at night.

After you learn which of the individual hens are the
best layers, it is a simple matter to mate up these "best
layers," generation after generation — selecting as breeders
each succeeding year the best-shaped, best-colored, best-
marked specimens to put under the trap-nest treatment,
also taking special pains to preserve and strengthen the
male line by using as cock birds and cockerels the sires
and sons of high-egg-record hens. By following the plan
here outlined, the average poultryman can increase the egg
yield of present-day flocks to a highly profitable extent.

If the other plan is adopted, that of buying stock or
eggs from an established strain of heavy layers, then be
sure to obtain your start from a reliable source of supply
and be content to rely on the same source for "new blood"
for a few seasons until you get your own double or parallel
blood lines well established. You can invest in stock,
in eggs for hatching or in
day-old chicks, as you
prefer.

Looking at the situa-
tion from the viewpoint of
a small investment, if you
own a flock of healthy,
vigorous, well-bred fowls
of any popular variety, the
chances are that you can
increase the egg yield to a
large extent by the pur-
chase and use of a male
bird from a high-egg-
No. J-0687. record strain of layers.

Laid 251 Eggs in One Year. The male bird is "half the

Eggs were laid in Trap-Nest, pen" or flock and the egg
Sept. 1, 1910 to August 31, 1911, power that we are work-
inclusive. Direct descendant, fifth ■ <■ ■ renresented in
generation of Hen No. 361, shown '"« lor is representee in
un preceding page. the male, as well as in the

female line. A typical,
vigorous male bird from a strain of 200-egg-per-year hens
or the son or grandson of a high-
egg-record layer, should add very
materially to the egg yield of the
average flock of hens — any \ ariety
It was not until Cyphers Incubator
Company got its male line of White
Leghorns fairly well established
that it began to make satisfactory
progress with the offspring of the
Utah hen, No. 361. We were
handicapped two or three years,
waiting for male descendants of this
hen to mature so that they were
what we wanted as breeders.

Another inexpensive way to get
started is to buy hatching eggs or
day-old chicks. A majority of
poultrymen will sell hatching eggs
from their best specimens — perhaps
from their best individual hen —
where they would not part with
these specimens at any price within
the bounds of reason. In all such
.cases we advise the reader to buy
■either eggs or day-old chicks — unless
you feel at liberty to invest a con-
siderable sum of money in a pair,
trio or breeding pen.

Whatever you decide to do, or
feel able to do. give careful thought

to three points: First, the value of time; second, the right
start from the right individual hen or mating ; third, a
strictly reliable source of supply, not only for your first
purchase, but also for later purchases to secure new blood.
It costs money and time to build up a trap-nested strain of
heavy-egg-yield fowls, as compared with the hit-or-miss
practices that have been followed so long, and that still
are in use by many poultry keepers. Furthermore, it is
easy to make "big claims" that may not be well
founded.

Be sure, therefore, of the integrity of your source of
supply, otherwise you are quite certain to waste one or
more years in finding out that you are on the wrong track.
You will need new blood in order to avoid the dangers
of inbreeding and this new blood, as a rule, ought to come
from the original source of supply. If you invest in a
pair, trio or breeding pen the poultryman of whom you
buy should see to it that the birds are properly mated —
are not too closely related, but if you invest in hatching
eggs or day-old chicks it will be advisable to invest later
on in one or more male birds of the same strain, but of
a separate "family," to be used with the pullets obtained
from the hatching eggs or day-old chicks.

For a more extended treatment of this interesting
and important subject, see free bulletins Nos. is and 17
of the Cyphers Company Service department, entitled
respectively "Trap-nesting to Increase Egg Production"
and "Line Breeding to. Increase Egg Production."

CYPHERS COMPANY HEAVY-EGG-YIELD WHITE LEGHORNS.

'Unit" House (No. 10) on Cyphers

. „ .. __ ... There are four hundred pullets

All bred from selected layers. Note the length of bodies.

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POULTRY FARM

DEVOTED TO THE PRODUCTION OF QUICK-MATURING, HEAVY EGG-YlELD
JTRAjNS OF STANDARD-BRED FOWLS OF THE MOST POPULAR VARIETIES

THE Standard-bred department of Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm represents an idea.
It is being conducted strictly for the produc-
tion of fowls intended for breeding purposes —
fowls that possess special qualities or values. These
special values are: Constitutional vigor; standard
shape and color; early maturity in form and weight,
and heavy egg yield.

We sell stock from this department of our Farm
for breeding purposes only. The stock is sold in
three forms: As mature fowls ready for breeding;
as day-old chicks carefully toe-marked, and in the
form of eggs for hatching.

We prefer to limit the sales of mature birds to
single males, to trios (a male and two^non-related
females) and to breeding pens made up of a male and
four to ten non-related females. By non-related, we
mean that the male and females shall not be nearer
than three removes in blood lines. We cannot offer
trap-nest record or pedigreed stock by the hundred.

Good reasons exist for our not wishing to sell
large numbers of mature specimens to any one custo-
mer. In the first place the supply to date is limited.
We never yet have been able to produce enough of
the right kind to go around. Second, the present
and future success of Cyphers Incubator Company
depends very largely on how well its many customers
are able to do in the poultry business. Therefore,
it is much to our interest to help our customers in
every way we can.

ABSOLUTELY Constitutional vigor in the
breedmg fowls you use as the
ESSENTIAL foundation for

your poultry enterprise is abso-
lutely essential. To obtain this
vigor in domestic fowls that are more
or less confined, is a study — a pro-
fession. That is why we now have
chairs of Poultry Husbandry at the
leading State and Provincial agri-
cultural colleges of the United States,
Canada and other progressive
countries.

We believe that more men
and women have met with poor
results in their poultry work
on account of being handicapped
with weakly, debilitated stock.

than from any other cause. The eggs from such
stock- do not hatch well and the chicks that
manage to get out of the shells are small, weak
and soon die off. This has been a common stumb-
ling block to many poultrymen for years — to our
certain knowledge.

So far as it is possible to do so. Cyphers Incubator
Company wants to help remedy this condition —
especially among its own customers. The best way
for us to do this is to produce the right kind of stock —
the right kind of breeders.

OUR BIRDS ARE Cyphers Poultry Farm birds
ALL STAN- ^^^ mated and bred in close

DARD-BRED conformity to the require-

ments of the American Standard
of Perfection. We believe firmly in the combina-
tion of " utility and beauty " in domestic fowls,
and would no sooner think of using a deformed,
disqualified or unsightly specimen as a breeder
than we would of placing diseased fowls in the
mating pen.

We are strong advocates of beauty of form and
color in poultry, as the pictures herewith clearly show.
We do not make a practice of exhibiting specimens,
but in the majority of cases our first and .second selec-
tions, if placed on exhibition, would share the honors
at fall fairs and winter shows. This has often proved
to be the case. Customers of ours have won many
prizes in the United States and in foreign countries,
with choice birds furnished by us, also on specimens
hatched from Cyphers Company Poultry Farm eggs,
or raised from day-old chicks purchased of us.

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No. I— 4457.
Laid 238 Eggs in One Year.

We have demonstrated beyond question that
fowls of the egg-laying and general-purpose breeds or
varieties can be standard-bred (i. e., bred in close
conformity with the requirements of the Standard
of Perfection) and still be strongly vigorous and
highly productive. That is the basis on which we
are proceeding with our work in this department —
our desire being to help as many of our customers
as we can, realizing that we can produce only a small
portion of the fowls and eggs they will need each season.

FOR BROILERS
AND ROASTERS

As regards early
maturity, this is
mainly a question of
blood lines and feed-
ing. Families of fowls
can be bred to a
point of early matur-
ity so that they will
round out earlier
as broilers and roast-
ing chickens, and so
that they will begin
laying three to five weeks earlier than the average
for the breed or variety. Care needs to be observed in
this connection to prevent a decrease in size of
frame and to avoid debility from loss of weight.
These are questions of real vigor and of feeding.
The right food rations will develop frame and supply
the excess materials for extra meafand an increased

Hen No. 361. Foundation of our
Strain of Heavy-Egg- Yield S. C.
White Leghorns. Laid 242 Eggs.
See page 128.

No. 1—4470.
Laid 248 Eggs in One Year.

egg yield. We have proved these facts by many
experiments, and so have our customers.

Touching briefly on the problem of securing a
largely increased egg yield, this is a matter of
selection, of blood lines, of constitutional vigor and
of special feeding. That there is an "egg type" in
fowls we do not doubt, but we believe it to e.xist only
on general lines. For example, the body of the layer
can be shortened too much. Furthermore, a thin-
headed fowl with a narrow body and pinched tail is
quite certain to be lacking in stamina and vigor,
without which the high record "egg machine" is an
impossibility.
MAKING THEM ^°'' Leghorns, Barred and White

„ „ ^„„ Rocks, White Wyandottes,

EGG MACHINES ^^hite Orpingtons and Rhode
Island Reds, .our ideas of "egg type" are shown in the
birds of these varieties illustrated in the pages of this
book and our Special Poultry Farm Circular. Notice
that all these birds are choice Standard specimens;
also that they have long bodies, alert, healthy look-
ing heads, well arched necks and tails carried
m.edium low and well spread.

It is truly remarkable the number of eggs that a
specially-bred hen can produce during the twelve
months of her maximum egg yield — a White Leghorn,
for example. In more than one hundred and fifty
cases we have had a Leghorn hen produce in one year
more than eight times her own weight in beautiful
white eggs, and in several cases these record-hens have
laid eggs within the year that weighed more than
nine times as much as the hen herself.

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No. B— 5278.
Laid 234 Eggs in One Year.

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Two hundred and thirty Leghorn eggs will average
to weigh about twenty-five pounds. In good laying
condition a Leghorn pullet-hen, six to eighteen months
old, should weigh about three pounds. We have had
Leghorn pullet-hens that laid twenty-seven and twenty-
eight pounds of eggs each in 365 days — birds that at
no time during the year weighed more than two
pounds and fifteen ounces. Pullet-hen No. I, 4462,
illustrated herewith, made a record of two hundred
and forty-eight eggs in three hundred and sixty-five
days. These eggs weighed twenty-seven pounds
and nine ounces, whereas the hen that produced
them reached a weight of forty-eight ounces only
twice during the period of her great egg yield. This
is a fair example of whatjs meant by the term "an
egg machine."

BUYING MATURE STOCK, DAY-OLD

CHICKS AND EGGS FOR

HATCHING

Whether to buy mature breeding stock, day-old
chicks or eggs for hatching, is a question that each
customer should decide for himself. Nevertheless, we
believe that a few suggestions from us will be of value.

If you have a flock of White Leghorns (for example)
and wish to introduce new blood and at the same
time increase the egg yield, we advise you to
invest in one or more of our pedigreed cockerels
of this variety — birds guaranteed to be the sons
of hens with trap-nest egg records of two hundred
to two hundred and forty-eight eggs per hen for
the twelve months of highest production. The use
of these cockerels will increase the egg productive

Laid 227 Eggs in One Year.

power of the progeny of the average flock of Leg-
horns twenty to fifty per cent., other conditions
being the same.

We sell these cockerels at $5.00, $10.00 and
$15.00 each, depending on the shape, color, size and
age of the individual' specimen, also on the egg record
back of him. We sell trap-nested, pedigree-layer
pullets and hens on the same basis.

Let us emphasize two facts, however: First, we do
not sell culls for breeding purposes — not at any price;
second, the birds here
quoted are worth two
and three times what
we ask for them, judged
by their triple value, by
their standard qual-
ities, by their special
vigor and by the pro-
lific egg yield they
represent. If you feel
that perhaps weare over-
stating their worth, try

Hen No. J-0687 , * . ^ r i
Laid 251 Eggs in Trap-Nest, t^e experiment of buy-
Sept. 1, 1910-Aug. 31, 1911. Direct ing the same special
Descendant of Hen 361 Shown on , , ,

Opposite Page. values elsewhere.

PRICES OF ^"'^ $5.00 White Leghorn cockerels

are the direct descendants of hens
MALE BIRDS ^;th egg records of 200 eggs each
or better for the year. Nearly one-half the chicks
that are hatched from a given number of eggs are
cockerels, therefore from the one hundred and twenty-
seven Leghorn hens we now own having records of
two hundred eggs or more per year, we have reserved

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White Plymouth Rock Hen No. 1624-A (at left). Foundation of Cyphers
Company Strain that in 1910-1911 Produced Pullet that Laid 234 Eggs. Birds at
Right are Two Daughters.

several hundred cockerels for breeding purposes. For
the very pick of these cockerels we ask $15.00 each;
for the average run of the lot we ask $10.00 per bird,
and we will furnish at the low price of $5.00 each
really choice cockerels of this 200-eggs-per-hen
strain — cockerels of good shape, size, color and excep-
tional vigor that are well suited for mating with
White Leghorns kept as layers. Any of these birds
will be big value at the prices quoted.

If a customer wishes to go farther the first
season in the line of buying mature stock — farther
than the purchase of one or more cockerels — we advise
the purchase of a trio or breeding pen. See
price list on page 141. All birds priced and shipped
by us are guaranteed to be strong, valuable
breeders, regardless of the difference in prices. We
warrant them to be of good size, shape, color and
vigor, also to be entirely free from standard dis-
qualifications.

WITH A TRIO With a trio of Leghorns you can
r»TJ A T>c-v '^^'^^ from one hundred and fifty

OR A PEN ^^ ^^^g hundred and

fifty chicks in one season; with a small
pen (four and one) you can raise twice as
many and the proportionate cost will be
less because the one male answers as the
head of the pen.

By keeping a trio or pen separate from
other fowls of the same variety, and by
toe-marking the chicks, you can select
the pedigreed stock in the fall without
chance of mistake and thus in one season
can obtain a flock of egg-record fowls
from which you can mate up a num-
ber of pens. Such a flock will be worth
several times the price paid for the parents
and the old birds are still on hand and
highly valuable as breeders.

The purchase of day-old chicks is a
safe course to adopt and we guarantee to
give you exactly what you order and
pay for. These day-old chicks — every
one toe-marked — can be shipped any

WAY TO START

distance that can be reached by
express in two days of travel, which
means eight hundred to one
thousand miles in many cases,
though sometimes the train service
is slower and allowance should be
made for this fact. We have shipped
day-old chicks to Maine, Florida,
Texas, Kansas, and to the States
nearer Buffalo, than these distant
points. More than 95 per cent, of
all chicks we have shipped have
reached destination in safety.
THE CHEAPEST Buying "eggs for
hatching is the
popular method
of getting a good start with choice stock, where
the customer for any reason does not wish to buy
mature birds or day-old chicks. Eggs to be in-
cubated can be shipped from one side of the
continent to the other and will hatch satisfactorily
if they are strongly fertilized and properly packed
for the journey. Out of fifteen eggs the purchaser
should get seven to twelve chicks — a fifty per
cent, hatch being considered fair results in cases
where the eggs have to travel long distances, also
late in the season after warm weather comes on.

It takes time, study, mon^y and painstaking
labor to establish a heavy-egg-yield strain or family
of fowls — also an expensive equipment that the
average poultry keeper does not have, in fact does
not want; but through the simple process of buying
eggs for hatching, or day-old chicks, or a limited num-
ber of mature breeders from such a flock, the enter-
prising poultry man or woman can secure, at least
within a year or two, the full benefits of this large
expenditure — ^and can do so at really small cost.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK BREEDING MALES.

of type of big-frame, heavy-bone, alert, vigorous breeding males of

CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM

PRIZE WINNING WHITE ORPINGTONS.

Specimen Birds (Picture made from photograph) showing Type and Massive Size

of Cyphers Company Trap-Nested White Orpingtons.

Naturally, however, eggs, chicks and breeders from this
trap-nested, pedigree stock, on which so much time
and money has been spent, cannot be sold at the prices
asked for ordinary values in same breeds and varieties.
ORIGIN OF OUR STRAINS OR FAMILIES OF
EARLY-MATURITY RECORD-LAYERS

We do not hesitate to explain frankly the origin
of our strains. They were started six, seven and eight
years ago and we bought at the start, the best birds
for the purpose.

Our White Leghorns originated from four females
with egg records of from 179 to 242 eggs per year. We
have increased this small flock of record-laying Leghorns
to ten breeding pens, each containing twelve to four-
teen females, every one of which has an egg record of
200 to 248 eggs in the twelve months of heaviest
production.

Besides this extra select lot of trap-nested, pedi-
greed layers we have more than 800 other White
Leghorn females with an average egg record of 184
eggs for the year of maximum yield. We do not
know of the existence of another such flock of layers.
On our Farm at this time (De-
cember 15, 1911) we have about
nine hundred fine, vigorous White
Leghorn cocks and cockerels that
are either full brothers or sons of
the above described yearling hens.
A large majority of these breeding
males are for sale.

Our heavy egg-yield, quick-
maturing strain of Barred Plymouth
Rocks had its origin in male birds
purchased at high prices from E. B.
Thompson, Amenia, N. Y., and
select pullet-mated stock purchased
from C. H. Latham, Lancaster,
Mass. Out of the progeny of these

fine birds, which cost us $20.00 to $75.00
each, we have developed a strain of our
own — individual specimens of which as
bred by us are illustrated in this book
and in our poultry farm circular. The
egg productive power of these birds makes
them doubly valuable, according to our
view of what fine fowls are for. With
us it is a case of "good looks," plus vigor
and a big egg yield. Our White Plymouth
Rocks are a combination of the U. R.
Fishel strain and the old Graves stock
(Higganum, Conn.), with special attention
paid to size, vigor and egg yield.

Our White Wyandottes have the egg
records of the best eastern breeders back of
them , and we have also kept in mind length
ofbodyandexceptionalvigor,withwhhe-
ness of plumage and yellow legs and skin.
The Cyphers Farm Rhode Island
Reds came from Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, where this highly productive breed origin-
ated. We have bred them in line three years and they
are giving a very good account of themselves as early
and persistent layers — surprisingly so.

Our White Orpingtons are made up of domestic
and imported stock. Ernest Kellerstrass got us started
in this variety by making us a present in 1909 of three
sittings of his thirty-dollar per sitting hatching eggs.
From the forty-five eggs we raised sixteen fine birds.
November, 1910, we imported two hundred and forty
choice specimens from England — one hundred females
and twenty males from each of the two most prominent
and successful breeders of White Orpingtons in the
home-country of all Orpingtons and in the early fall
of 1911 we imported six hundred more choice birds
from the same breeders, five hundred females and one
hundred males. These imported birds were bought
for us by the manager of our European headquarters,
125 Finsbury Pavement, London, England, and they
give us, in combination with the Kellerstrass blood,
probably as fine a lot of standard-bred White
Orpingtons as exists on this side of the Atlantic.

CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM.

Birds-eye View of Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, showing South Section. See paees 7 and 8

for number and sizes of the Poultry Buildings.

CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM.

Birds-eye View of Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, showing North Section. See pages 7 and 8

for number and sizes of the Poultry Buildings.

CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM

received and will be filled in rotation.

We mention these facts (necessarily in brief form)
because they will give our customers a correct idea of
the quality that existed in our strains of birds before
we began work with them on our own special
lines. With these facts before you it should be easy
to decide whether or not we can be of valuable service
to you in improving your flocks, or whether you wish
to start with our kind of poultry and work along
parallel lines, with the same or similar objects in view.
We ask all interested persons to write us as early
as they can, either ordering direct from the price list
herewith , or requesting further information. Orders
for day-old chicks and eggs for hatching are booked as
We begin book-
ing orders for
baby chicks
and eggs for
hatching as early
asDecember and
January of each
season, the
chicks and eggs
— as a rule — to
go forward i n
March, April
and May, as per
the customer's
directions.

When we
are booked full
for any week or
month oreone or
more varieties,
we promptly in-
form later cus-
tomers of the

Weighing Eggs. Wrapping Tliem and Plac-
ing in Fillers and Sealed Retail Cartons
on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm

facts. We do our best to avoid disappointing any one,
but eggs and newly-hatched chicks are not a "factory"
product and it requires just so long to produce these
"goods" in Nature's way.

THE CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY
FARM EQUIPMENT

This farm, claimed by us to be the largest and
best-equipped all-purpose poultry plant in the world,
consists of fifty acres of land located within six minutes'
walk of Elma Station, a suburb of Buff^alo, N. Y., and
represents an investment of more than $50,000.00,
exclusive of the value of the poultry. Besides the
50-acre farm proper, we lease and use several acres
of woodland and pasture for ducks and geese.

A number of the main poultry buildings are shown
in this catalogue — see pages 5, 9, 138, 139, and 239.
All pictures made from photographs, except the bird's-
eye view on pages 136 and 137, and this bird's-eye
view is a faithful representation of the lay of the land
and of the number and location of the numerous
buildings. For a list of these poultry buildings, with di-
mensions, see list on pages 7 and 8 of Cyphers Company
Service section, this catalogue. Chas. E. Adair, resi-
dent manager of the Cyphers Company Poultry Farm,
has lived on the plant the last six years, has personal
charge of mating all birds— assisted by Mr. Curtis —
and as a rule selects the stock for shipment.

CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM

Sample Reports

"TURNED OUT FINE"

Southold.L. I.,N. Y.,Sept. 2, 1911.
Ciphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Had a fine hatch of Rhode Island
Red chicks from the eggs you shipped
me and the chicks have turned out
fine. When can you ship me another
one hundred Rhode Island Red eggs ?
FREDERIC J. PORTER.

"CHICKS STRONG AND ACTIVE"

Marietta, Ga., April IS, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. ¥.— .
I received the White Leghorn day-
old chicks today. They were all alive on
arrival and as strong and active a bunch
. W. E. SCHILLING.

WASH ROOM FOR "CONDITIONING."

Mr. Adair has been a student of poultry culture
and a successful breeder of Standard fowls for nearly
twenty years. Under his personal direction the Cyphers
Mammoth Incubator was designed and brought to a
high state of efficiency. Mr. Adair also designed and
perfected the Cradle- Back System of Brooding House
Hovers for chicks and ducklings.

Visitors who " mean business " are welcome at the
Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, Sundays excepted,
but we prefer to have them apply at the home
offices of the Company, Court and Fourth Streets,
Buffalo, N. Y., either in person or by mail, and obtain
a card or letter of introduction to Mr. Adair or his
first assistant, in which case you will be sure of having
someone show you over the plant in a satisfactory
manner. Here will be found in practical use our
Mammoth Incubators, our Cradle-Back Hover System,
our small Incubators of all sizes, and our Adaptable
Hovers; also our deep-litter method of feeding chicks,
our system of trap-nesting and record keeping, our
methods of hopper feeding, automatic water supply,
etc., etc. — all of which are down-to-date and worthy of
adoption on successful poultry plants, small or large.

"STRONG, VIGOROUS '

Kingsville. Ohio,

November 20, 1911
Cyphers Incubator Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.—

The twenty-four day old
White Orpington chicks I
bought of you arrived in good
shape and have turned out to
be strong and vigorous I
have a fine lot of pullets from m\
own stock and shall mate up
five pens headed by cockerels
from the chicks bought of y ou
Yours truly,
C. O. LEFFINGWELL

"RAISED EVERY ONE"

Martinsburg, Pa., July 24, 191 1
Cyphers Incubator Co.,
Buffalo. N. Y.—

The twenty-five S. C. White
Leghorn day-old chicks I ordered
from you came through all
right and I have raised every
one of them. Have been
ordering goods from your com-
pany more or less since it was
first organized and I can
recommend you for always
giving me a square deal.
Yours truly,
REV. J. K. BROWN.

Cj phers Company Poultry
Farm Large sized 'Select
guaranteed s trl ctly new-laid
eggs for market aie put up in
paper cartons and each carton
is sealed with a Trade-Mark
"Sticker" to prevent meddling
or substitution. Each carton
holds 12 eggs. Special egg case
(returnable) contains 30 cartons.

House No. 16. Dimensions, 14 x 110 feet.

SAMPLE REPORTS— CYPHERS COMPANY POULTRY FARM

"SOLD ONE COCKEREL FOR $7.50"

Dansville, N. Y., September 1, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I am sending you some photos of the S. C.
White Leghorn chicles I bought of you last
April. The first lot of twenty-five reached me
April 7th, every one living^ and the pullets
began laying the 24th inst. Every poultry-man
who has seen my chicks thinks they are grand.
I sold one cockerel for S7.50 and have booked
twenty-one orders for sittings of eggs at S3. 00
each, which is not so bad for a beginner.
Yours very truly, G. BASTIAN, Jr.

BUFFALO, N. Y. TO DEWEY, OKLAHOMA

Dewey, Okla., November 13, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.~

I purchased twenty-five of your pedigreed
White Wyandotte baby chicks last spring and
they came through the trip, losing only one.
I think this remarkable considering the distance
they had to travel. I have succeeded i

Trap-nested, heavy-egg-yield White Wyandottes, bred on Cyphers Company Poultry
Farm. High egg-record to date made by Hen No. 360 as follows: Oct. 1910, 18 eggs;
inn ih, nir,,f nr„-t „t Whit^ Wunn^r^ft^^ ^°''- ^*- ^^'^- ^2; Jan. (1911). 25; Feb., 21; March, 26; April. 24; May, 25; June, 22;
'ng the nicest nock of White Wyandottes j^ly_ 25, Aug., UiSept..4^TotM237eggsl3id in Tt^^^

in this part of the state. Enclosed find small
photo showing my flock of Cyphers pedigreed White Wyandottes.
Jn the lot are cockerels that now weigh seven pounds at
six months old. Several pullets are laying at five months old.
Yours truly, W. T. NOLAND.

SIX HEAVY LAYERS— TWO COCKERELS

Atlantic City, N. J., November 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Have sL-£ White Leghorn pullets that I raised from the sitting
of eggs that I bought from your company in the spring of 1910.
They were hatched in May and began laying in November. They
laid an average of eighteen eggs per month for nine months
— from January 1, 1911 to September. This is what I call fine
work. From those same eggs / also have two very fine cockerels
to use as breeders. Yours respectfully, JULIUS GLOVER.

"EVERY ONE IS ALIVE"

Lawrence, Mich., September 24, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Last May I sent to your firm for one dozen of your finest
Barred Plymouth Rock day-old chicks. You sent me thirteen
— one extra for good measure — and strange to relate every one is
alive and doing fine. The cockerels are massive and the pullets
beautifully marked. Yours faithfully, MARY HOPPER.

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"TELLS YOU WHAT I THINK"

Mystic, Conn., November 9, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

The S. C. White Leghorn and White Orpington chicks that
I bought of you last spring have proved O. K. — better even than
I expected. Have had many compliments on them. The
White Orpington Club offers a special premium for the best bred
pullet in the Southern New England poultry show to be held
November 21-23, and I shall enter one of your White Orping-
ton pullets. That tells you what I think of these birds.
Yours sincerely, GEO. W. RIGGS,

25 Pearl St.

"HAVE TREATED ME VERY FAIR"

Golden, Colo., May IS, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

1 received the eggs for hatching several days ago. I wish to
thank you for replacing the eggs broken in first shipment.
You surely have treated me very fair about the matter and I
appreciate it very much. I am anxious to get a start in your
trap-nested S. C. White Leghorns. Again thanking you for your
kindness, I am. Yours respectfully, W. A. WEBBER,

Box 65. R. F. D. No. 2.

SPENT THE DAY ON OUR FARM

Moosic, Pa., November 13, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

The twenty-five young White Wyandotte day-old chicks I
bought of you proved strong and hardy. They have developed
into splendid birds and I am well satisfied. If you remember,
I called at your poultry farm for the chicks. I was more than
pleased with all I saw while going over the entire farm and
spending nearly all day studying your methods. You may be
sure I will always say "Cyphers" when I am buying anything
you have to sell. Yours truly, E.

Imported White Orprngton Hen that from January 1, 1911
to October 31, 1911 (ten months) laid 187 eggs in Trap-Nest as
follows: Jan'y, 25 eggs. Feb , 20, March 26, April, 23; May, 20;
June, 21; July, 15;Aug., 16; Sept., 18; Oct., 3. (Molted).

"100 EGGS IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS"

Campton, Ky., November 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

Wish to write you a few words in regard to the White Leg-
horns that we bought of you this year. The birds were perfectly
satisfactory in every respect. I have some fine chicks that I
raised from the hen and cockerel I got of you. My Leghorn hen
laid 100 eggs in less than six months. You have treated me
nicer than any one I ever had dealings with in the poultry business.
Respectfully, CASPER CABLE.

"CERTAINLY ARE PURE WHITE"

Milwaukee, Wis., November IS, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y. —

Last May I purchased of you ten choice Barred Rock chicks
and fifteen S. C. White Leghorns. They proved to be as fine a
lot of chicks as I ever raised. The Rocks are just starting to
lay. The only complaint I have is that I expected to get about
five cockerels from the lot and only got two. The Leghorns
have been laying for the last three months. They certainly
are pure white. I am at all times ready to recommend the Cyphers
Incubator Company. Youra truly, E. H. BASENBERG,

Care Sheriff's Office.

Price List of Breeding Stock, Day-Old Chicks and Eggs for Hatching

PRICES OF BREEDING STOCK

All prices quoted below are for birds of record-
laying, quick-maturing blood lines. As a rule the
males are cockerels and the females are pullets.

Single Males. Single Females.

Names of Varieties. So co ^u "o'co ^u

w WW m M tn

S. C. White Leghorns $15.00 $10.00 $5.00 $12.00 $8.00 $4.00

Barred Plymouth Rocks.. 15.00 10.00 7.50 12.00 9.00 6.00

White Plymouth Rocks. . . 15.00 10.00 .... 12.00 9.00 6.00

White Wyandottes 15.00 10.00 .... 12.00 9.00 6.00

Rhode Island Reds 15.00 10.00 7.50 12.00 9.00 6.00

White Orpingtons 20.00 15.00 .... 15.00 10.00 ....

Pekin Ducks 10.00 7.50 5.00 8.00 6.00 4.00

Five per cent, reduction on trios, any valuation; 10 per cent,

reduction on pens of five birds, a male and four females, any

valuation. No further reduction for quantity on trap-nested or
pedigree stock.

PRICES OF DAY-OLD CHICKS AND
DUCKLINGS

Record-Laying, Pedigreed Stock; — All Chicks Toe-marked.

S. C WHITE LEGHORNS:— Fiom yearling hens with egg
records of 212 to 251 eggs, 50 cents each; from yearling hens,
with average egg yield of 184 to 186 1-5 eggs, 35 cents each; from
well-matured pullets hatched from foregoing two lots of yearling
hens, 25 cents each.

BARRED_PL YMOUTH ROCKS:— From best matings made
up of yearhng hens with egg records of 187 to 236 eggs, €0 cents
each; from next best matmgs made up of yearling hens with
records of 178 to 202 eggs and pullets that are daughters of highest
record layers, 35 cents each.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.— Fiom best yearling hens
with egg records ranging from 181 to 234 eggs, 60 cents each;
from 60 yearling hens and pullets (daughters of best record yearling
hens), 35 cents each.

WHITE WYANDOTTES:— From 40 best yearUng hens,
representing blood lines of individual hens that have laid 190 to
237 eggs per year, 60 cents each; from daughters and grand-
daughters of these yearlmg and two-year old hens, 35 cents each.

RHODE ISLAND REDS.— From best yearling hens with
egg records ranging from 177 to 214 eggs, 60 cents each; from
other selected matings, including daughters of best record yearUng
hens, 35 cents each,

WHITE ORPINGTONS:— From best yearUng hens with
egg records (ten months laying) ranging from 162 to 187 eggs,
$1.00 each; from yearling hens and pullets, indudmg daughters
of best record yearling hens, 60 cents each.

IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS:— From select matings used
by us in hatching stock birds, 60 cents each; from run of the flock
of breeders selected to produce quick-maturing birds for market
at nine to twelve weeks old, 40 cents each.

Day-old chicks and ducklings are sold in lots of twelve,
twenty-five, fifty and one hundred. Assorted orders may be
placed by special arrangement through correspondence.

Five per cent, reduction on 50 chicks or ducklings, one order;
10 per cent, reduction on 100 chicks or ducklings, one order.

No further reduction for quantity on pedigreed chicks.

PRICES OF EGGS FOR HATCHING

From record layers and pedigreed stock, same matings as
above described under prices of day-old-chicks and ducklings.

Per 15 Per 45 Per 100

Names of Varieties. Eggs Eggs Eggs

S. C.White Leghorns... 1st Quality $5.00 $14.00 $24.00

.... 2nd ■' 4.00 10.00 17.00

.... 3rd " 3.00 8.00 14.00

Barred Plymouth Rocks. 1st " 6.00 15.00 25.00

" .. 2nd " 4.00 10.00 17.00

White Plymouth Rocks. . 1st " 6.00 15.00 25.00

" .. 2nd " 4.00 10.00 17.00

White Wyandottes 1st " 6.00 15.00 25.00

2nd " 4.00 10.00 17.00

Rhode Island Reds 1st " 5.00 14.00 24.00

2nd " 4.00 10.00 17.00

White Orpingtons 1st " 8.00 20.00 40.00

2nd •' 6,00 15,00 25.00

"NIGHT SCENE"— LEGHORN HOUSE.

Made from Photograph taken at Night by Flash Light. Four

Hundred Leghorns were on Roosts.

IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS:— Per 11 eggs, 25 cents each;

per 40 eggs, 20 cents each; per 100 eggs, $15.00. Sitting lots are
from special breeders; hundred lots are from matings used to
produce market ducks.

OTHER STANDARD VARIETIES:— For use in testing their
egg-productive powers and early-maturing qualities (also because
we admire these varieties) we have two or three pens each of strictly
choice Silver and Golden Wyandottes, Buff and Black Orpingtons,
Buff Plymouth Rocks, Houdans, Single Comb and Rose Comb
Black Minorcas and Rose Comb White Minorcas, from which we
offer a limited number of day-old chicks at 60 cents each tor best
quality and 35 cents each for second quality: also a few sittings
of eggs at $5.00 per 15 for best quality and $i.00 per 15 for next
best quality. These are high-class standard specimens bought
for the special purposes herein mentioned and selected as a rule
from a large number of birds, most of them with high egg records
and all showing exceptional vigor.

TURKEYS AND GEESE:— On our own farm we breed a
limited number of Mammoth Bronze Turkeys and White Holland
Turkeys, also Toulouse and Embden Geese. Shall be pleased to
supply our customers with what eggs we can spare at 60 cents
each for turkey eggs, both varieties, and 50 cents each for goose
eggs, both varieties. Limited amount of stock for sale.

BRANCH HOUSE Egg-record, pedigree breeding
ORDERS stock, also day-old chicks and

eggs for hatching from Cyphers
Poultry Farm special matings can be ordered from any
branch house of this Company; but all such stock,
chicks and eggs will be shipped by express from Elma
Station, Buffalo, N. Y.

FOREIGN ^^ make a specialty of foreign

cxirPA/fp-MTC shipments of fine poultry— any

stii±-jyii!,rN 1 » standardvariety— bothforbreed-

ing and exhibition purposes. Our New York City
store and London, England headquarters, combined
with a large experience in handling foreign business,
enable us to serve customers in distant lands to special
advantage. No order too small, none too large.
Prices and full information on request. Address
Foreign Department, Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A.

NOTE: — At our home office, also at the branch houses, we
accept orders for standard-bred fowls of any variety, and for
day-old chicks and for eggs for hatching any variety — in small
or large lots, from non-pedigreed stock, we to buy same from
reliable local poultry breeders. Prices for this stock and for
chicks and eggs therefrom range considerably lower than for the
special-purpose stock and eggs produced by us at extra cost for
trap-nesting and pedigreeing on Cyphers Company Poultry
Farm. We are glad at any time to quote prices on utility stock
per dozen or per hundred head, also on utility eggs per hundred
or per thousand. By utility stock, we mean a good grade of
White Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Plymouth Rocks.
White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, etc., suitable for egg
farms, broiler plants, etc.

CHAPTER III

LARGE SIZED EGGS IN DEMAND AS WELL AS LOTS OF THEM

Eggs Sooner or Later Will Be Sold Universally By The Pound. Large Sized, Heavy
Weight Eggs Now Command The Markets and Are Graded as "Selects" or "Firsts"
and Bring Top Prices. " Standard " Weights of Eggs of The More Popular Breeds

(Copyright, January, 1912, by Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.)

TAKING the markets in general, as conditions are
at present, the first aim of the poultry keeper who
is seeking to make all the profit he can by the
production and sale of eggs, should be to induce his flocks
to lay as many eggs as possible in any given length of
time, especially during the season of the year when market
eggs bring the highest prices.

But these "general conditions" are gradually changing
— in some parts of the country they have already changed
to such an extent that it now pays and pays well to do
all that can be done within practical limits to obtain
large sized eggs from the laying stock, as well as lots of
them. This is notably true in such markets as New
York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and
other large cities, also on the Pacific Coast.

In all markets the larger sized eggs have the prefer-
ence— as a matter of course. Every thrifty housewife
prefers the large eggs and if permitted to do so, will select
that kind from the grocer's basket. She has been known
to take so keen an interest that she has carried an iron
ring in her hand-bag and refused to accept as part of her
"dozen" any egg that would pass through the ring!

The agitation to sell eggs by the pound instead of
by the dozen has been going on for some time — and it
is based on common-sense and plain justice. In July,
1910, the municipal authorities of New York City adopted
an ordinance which provided that eggs must be sold by
weight. This law has not yet been put into effect, prob-
ably because the public servant who fathered it, lost his
position within the year, for political reasons.

But the fact that such a law was enacted, shows "the
way the wind blows" and should be accepted as fair
warning by prudent poultrymen who are studying the
present and have "an eye to the future." Regardless
of law, the commission men and grocers of New York
City and those of many other important markets are
now carefully distinguishing between small sized and
large sized or "select" eggs. "Mixed eggs" means, as a
rule, uneven sizes or small sized eggs, though sometimes
the word "mixed" is appUed to color of shells.

However, it may be set down as a general fact, true
in all markets, that "select" eggs, for which the highest
prices are charged, are never small in size, but invariably
are large, fine looking eggs, strictly fresh and uniform in
color — white of shell, where this color is preferred, as in
New York City, or brown of shell where brown is the
choice, as in Boston.

Out on the Pacific Coast they have gone still farther.
There the eggs that are sent to the high-priced markets
are graded as "firsts" and "seconds," BY WEIGHT, and
an egg scale, such as is illustrated on opposite page, is used
for grading purposes. This scale is a teeter-board affair,
with a weight at one end and an egg holder at the other
end. The weight is adjusted and then each egg in turn
is placed in the holder. If it is heavj' enough to raise
the weight end of the beam, it is a "first;" if not, then
it is counted a "second" and brings a lower price. This
is a somewhat crude method, but is fairer than the general
practice of selling all sizes of eggs at one price, t. e., by
the dozen, ignoring size and weight.

Enough has been said in the short space here available
to show that large sized, heavy-weight eggs are much

THIRTY-OUNCE HEN EGGS.
White Orpington Eggs laid by Yearling Hens December, 1911
on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm. Eggs weighed two and one
half ounces apiece, or at rate of thirty ounces to the dozen.

NINETEEN-OUNCE EGGS.
White Leghorn Eggs laid by a Pullet, December, 191 1. Twelve
eggs of this size weighed only i '

preferred; therefore the alert poultryman is interested
in learning how to secure them from his flocks. Let us
take this view of the situation : Here is the domesticated
hen, in her capacity as an "egg machine." What is the
most she can be made to do for us? Obviously, what we
want of her is the greatest number of eggs she can produce
in any given length of time and we also want large sized
eggs. We want, in fact, as many eggs as it is possible
for her to produce at the rate of one a day, and we want
these eggs, all of them or any number of them, to weigh
as many pounds and ounces as possible.

When we speak of the hen as an "egg machine" we
mean to use her as a "unit" in our "egg factory." And
admitting that she is equipped to produce only one
egg each day, we want that egg to weigh as much
as may be found practicable, because it is human food
that we are after and the greater the number of pounds
and ounces obtained the more we shall have to sell
or eat.

To secure large sized eggs, use as layers the larger-
sized, long-bodied, deep-bodied hens. To get these hens
use as breeders the shape of hens here mentioned, also
long-bodied, deep-bodied, broad-backed, full-breasted
males. In selecting your breeders reject the short-bodied,
shallow - bodied, narrow - backed, pinched - tailed, thin-
headed specimens, males and females. Look for great
activity — undoubted vigor in both sexes. So much for
general methods.

Next, look to your trap-nests. By the use of these
nests you can find out not only which hens are the best
layers, but also which ones lay the best eggs — the large
eggs, with smooth, attractively colored shells. The hen

LARGE SIZED EGGS IN DEMAND AS WELL AS LOTS OF THEM

that lays a given number of small-sized, uneven-shelled,
misshapen eggs in a stated number of days, is not as
valuable a member of your flock as the one that lays a
"first" grade or "select" egg — not by considerable. And

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CALIFORNIA EGG SCALES.
On the Pacific Coast if Leghorn Eggs do not weigh twenty-two
ounces or better to the dozen, they are rated as "Seconds." In
Eastern Markets the Standard Weight is twenty-five ounces to the

we are confident that within a short time the enterprising
poultry men and women of every progressive country will
be strongly and persistently ADVERTISING that their
strains lay "large-sized, standard colored eggs, as well
as lots of them.

Take the case of R. P. Ellis, Brooklyn, N. Y., as an
illustration. Mr. Ellis is the founder of the Aurora System
of Branch Egg Farms. In Brooklyn, now a part of
Greater New York, he operates several wagons, making
daily deliveries of strictly fresh eggs to private customers.
On this date, December i, igii, he is paying his branch
farms fifty-five cents per dozen on the average for their
new-laid eggs and is retailing them, delivered, at sixty..five
cents per dozen.

But Mr. Ellis does not pay the same price for all
eggs — not even for strictly fresh ones, the only kind he
handles. On the contrary, he rates a "twenty-five ounce
egg," as he styles it, as "standard," meaning that one
dozen of the right sized White Leghorn eggs should weigh
In the fall months and early winter twenty-five ounces,
and if they weigh less than this he deducts four per cent,
of the "going price" for each ounce that they fall below
standard. Some Leghorn eggs that are sent to him from
mixed hens and e£irly pullets (all Leghorns) in the fall
and early winter weigh up to twenty-six, twenty-seven
and even twenty-eight ounces, while some run as small as
nineteen ounces to the dozen — in which case the nineteen-
ounce-per-dozen-eggs poultryman would receive 41.8 cents
per dozen for his eggs (December i, 191 1) in place of
fifty-five cents.

Looking in the other direction, Mr. Ellis adds four
per cent, to the "going price" for each full ounce, in the
case of all eggs that average one or more full ounces above
"standard," and he is able to obtain the difference from
his trade, from housewives who much prefer the larger-
sized, fine looking eggs. Mr. Ellis weighs the eggs by

the thirty dozen — in the regulation cases in which they
are received from the shippers. Later, every egg is care-
fully "candled" to make absolutely certain that they are
"as represented" and are entirely free from blood spots
or streaks.

What may be styled the "standard" weights for eggs
varies with the season of the year and should be different
for different breeds. Pullets start in to lay smaller eggs
than those produced by mature hens, but the eggs of pul-
lets should increase rapidly in size, up to normal, as the
season progresses, provided the young layers are them-
selves normal in size and are well fed on the proper egg-
making foods. While they are housed and yarded, give
them bulky food, including palatable green stuff, all the
animal food they will eat after they become used to it

IDEAL HEN EGGS.
White Orpington Eggs that are laid by well-matured pullets
and hens can be brought to run thirty ounces to the dozen on the
average. A goal toward which breeders of all varieties of the
Orpingtons should strive.

and keep them busy, healthy and happy by means of
their having to dig in deep litter for all the whole or
cracked grain food they get to eat.

It is not to be expected that Leghorns will lay as
large sized eggs as Minorcas — not as a rule, but Leghorn
hens and well-matured pullets that have been bred right
and selected for large egg production — large in size as well
as large in numbers — can be relied upon to produce very
attractive eggs that will weigh twenty-five to twenty-
eight ounces to the dozen and command top prices in any
white-egg market in the country — twenty-five ounces to
the dozen in the fall and early winter and twenty-eight
ounces or a little better after the holidays, especially whert
vegetation starts and Nature is working hand in glove
with the poultryman. The eggs of Plymouth Rocks,
Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds should range one to
two ounces heavier per dozen than the weights here given
for Leghorns, and the eggs of Orpingtons and Minorcas
two to three ounces per dozen heavier, throughouf the
laying season.

TWENTY-FIVE OUNCE EGGS FOR EASTERN MARKETS.
These White Leghorn Eggs, laid December 12. 1911, on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, weighed twenty-five ounces to the dozen
and were of " Standard " size and weight to be rated as " Select " in the Eastern Markets for Fall or Early Winter Sale. Furthermore,
they are of the correct shape and have smooth, strong shells. Select such eggs for successful hatching.

OUR CHEMICAL AND MANUFACTURING LABORATORIES
ARE COMPLETE IN ALL THEIR APPOINTMENTS

Kettles for molding Ovinap-

thol N.est Eggs; wrapping

eggs in paraffine paper

to prevent evaporation in

cases.

THE CHEMIST IN CHARGE OF CYPHERS COMPANY
LABORATORIES HAS HAD THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE

Photographic Views of Cyphers Company Laboratories, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Largest and Most Complete Poultry Supply Laboratories In the World.

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CYPHERS COMPANY
LABORATORY PRODUCTS

EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED BY CYPHERS COMPANY UNDER THE
_ ,' U. S. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT OF JUNE 30, 1906, SERIAL No. 7793 _

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Insecticides, Disinfectants and Poultry Remedies

THE LABORATORY PRODUCTS manufactured or compounded by Cyphers Incubator Company are the
result of thirteen years of careful analysis and experiment, and in their present form represent the
outlay of a great deal of time and money expended by us, not alone in our own interests, but also for the
benefit and protection of our many valued customers.

Let us state frankly that products of this nature invite deception. Fraud can easily be practiced in their
preparation. Severe losses may easily be met by poultry raisers in cases where worthless or positively injur-
ious concoctions of this kind are bought and used, but the vender who has secured his profits on the sale cares
little or nothing about that.

In the purchase, therefore, of such articles as poultry insecticides, disinfectants, remedies, egg preserva-
tives, etc., it is of special importance that only standard brands should be accepted — that no articles of
this description shall be used in the protection and care of your fowls except those known to be compounded
and guaranteed by manufacturing chemists who are of the highest standing as business men or firms. These
words are fair warning to readers of this catalogue who might, through thoughtlessness, be made to suffer serious
setbacks in their poultry work.

Importance of Preserving Health and Vigor in Fowls

It is an old saying that "in time of peace we should prepare for war." The natural state of birds, both
wild and domesticated, is one of perfect health. It is only by abuse, pampering or gross neglect that fowls are
rendered unhealthy. The fault invariably is ours, not theirs! First, we should use our best judgment to prevent
ailments or disease getting a foothold; second, we should know how to treat and cure them if found to exist.

Abuse, in the care of poultry, takes several forms, but the most harmful — likewise the most wasteful — is
improper feeding. For facts and suggestions on this phase of the subject, please send for our literature
on "Poultry Foods and Feeding."

By pampering, is meant too much kindness! Fowls are naturally hardy, and they thrive best under
conditions that induce plenty of muscular activity. On free range or in large yards, fowls get the exercise they
require for good health, but if confined, as is ordinarily the case, the caretaker simply must resort to various prac-
tical methods that will compel healthful activity; that will make the birds "hustle" for what they get to eat.
Let us remember that hens have no teeth; therefore, the mastication and assimilation of their food is largely
a matter of muscular action — of common, every-day, bodily exercise.

"Gross neglect" may be putting it a bit strong, yet we Americans are a busy people; we are constantly
planning and undertaking more than we can do and do thoroughly — furthermore, with many poultry keepers,
after the novelty of spring work wears off and the sultry days of early summer draw near, it is but human to grow
careless, neglectful. Domestic fowls — even little chicks — will stand a lot of neglect if given a fair chance to
shift for themselves, but too often they are restricted in their movements, are confined where they cannot
exercise properly, cannot obtain the variety of food-stuff they require, cannot secure grit for teeth, cannot dust
themselves to destroy mites and lice — cannot even get pure, fresh water to drink.

It is an odd fact, but Dame Nature makes it a rule to set traps for indolence — for neglect. If we interfere
with her plans and then do not supply a substitute, we are sure to get into trouble sooner or later. It is this
way with poultry keeping. When we forcibly confine the fowls to limited quarters we must protect them,
must help them fight the battle for a natural, healthful and productive existence; otherwise our poultry
investment will not only be destined to failure, but becomes a plain case of cruelty to fowls that naturally are
highly productive and should be kept for profit as well as for pleasure.

In the following pages are described the Laboratory Products manufactured by Cyphers Incubator Company,
with a brief statement of what they are for and of how to use them. Full printed directions are furnished with
each package. Every Laboratory article offered for sale by us is guaranteed under the U. S. Food and Drugs Act
of June 30, 1906, and bears the Serial Number (No. 7793) assigned to Cyphers Incubator Company by the Bureau
of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

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Lice and Mites— How They Work

LICE AND MITES are two distinct species of insect parasites. Poultry lice do not suck the blood of their
J victims, while many varieties of mites are vicious blood-sucking pests. The common poultry louse is pro-
vided with powerful jaws which it employs in eating the scales of the skin and certain parts of the feathers.
While their ravages mar the beauty of a fowl's plumage, and their gnawing often causes intense irritation of the
skin, the chief danger in their presence is due to the amount of worry and fretting they cause the fowl. When
present in large numbers, they so worry and irritate a bird as to render it unable to assimilate its food, make it
unfit for breeding purposes, and lessen the egg production. Cyphers Company Lice Powder is sure death to all
forms of lice that infest poultry, both young and old.

Mites are Blood- Suckers. They live in the cracks and crannies and
joints of the. roosts and droppings boards, and under accumulations of drop-
pings. As a rule, they stay in these nooks during the day, and sally forth at
night to feast on the blood oftheir victims. The loss of blood which they con-
sume is considerable and, further, they sometimes act as carriers of disease
germs. These mites cannot be combated with a lice powder, and a
standard, reliably compounded Lice Paint is necessary to protect the fowls
against their ravages. We guarantee the Cyphers Brand of Liquid Lice Paint
to kill poultry mites of every kind.

One of the Most Common Mites is known among experienced poultry keepers as the scaly-leg mite.
This scab mite causes the unsightly ailment often met with, called scaly-leg. These mites can be held in check
by using Cyphers Lice Paint on the roosts and droppings boards, and scaly-leg can be-cured promptly by the
application of Cyphers Remedial Ointment.

Cyphers Remedial Ointment

Guaranteed to Destroy Head Lice on Chicks and Young Turkeys. A Safe and Sure Cure for
Scaly-Leg, Chicken Pox, etc.

FR YEARS THERE EXISTED among Cyphers Company customers
a widespread demand for a salve or ointment that could be used,
iDithout fear of injury, on the heads and under the wings of little
chicks, young turkeys, etc., and that would destroy mites, lice and the larvae
or eggs of these injurious pests. Cyphers Remedial Ointment was prepared
by our Chemist expressly for this use and has now been on the market six
years, giving universal satisfaction. It is guaranteed to kill head lice on
young chicks, which are highly destructive, and is equally good for scaly-leg,
chicken-pox and other Uke diseases. May be applied safely with the finger
or with a small brush. Is now put up in two packages, a collapsible metal
tube and a large-size wooden box. The small-size package will prove satisfac-
tory for a trial purchase, while regular customers who know of the value of
this Remedial Ointment will want to keep on hand the larger size. Will keep
indefinitely, remaining soft and clean, ready lor instant use. Full
directions printed on each package.

Prices: Postpaid; Small size, 25c; Large size box holding three times as much, 50c.

Ovinapthol Nest Egg (Trade Mark Name)

Kills Lice and Mites in Nests and on Fowl's Body Where they Congregate and Worry the Layers.
No Trouble to Use. Simply Put Them in the Nest

CYPHERS COMPANY'S Ovinapthol Lice-KilUng Nest Egg has
become the standard combination anti-lice nest egg. By simply
using this egg in the nest in the same manner as any ordinary nest
egg is used, or placing it in one corner of the nest underneath the nesting
material, the laying hens are relieved of lice and mites. In use (when
unwrapped) these nest eggs slowly evaporate, giving off fumes which kill
the insects. They last a long time, retain their effectiveness until wholly
evaporated and are warranted not to injure the eggs. They are of the size
of ordinary hen-eggs and are tinted a natural brown color in imitation of
natural eggs. The genuine Cyphers Ovinapthol Nest Egg bears embossed
on each egg the words " Ovinapthol Nest Egg."

Prices: Each, 10c; postpaid, 15c; per }4 dozen, 50c; per dozen, 75c. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Each, 2H ozs.; per K dozen, 1 lb.; per dozen, 2 lbs.

SPECIAL~Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page US.

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Cyphers Lice Powder

Kills Body Lice on Chicks and Fowls. Easily Applied from Our Perforated "Shaker" Boxes
in Which it is Sold

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A GENERAL COMPLAINT often
heard among poultry keepers was
that most of the lice powders on
sale did not kill the insects, but only-
drove them from one place to another
on the body of chick or fowl; then as
soon as the powder lost its strength
the lice would return to their favorite
feeding spots and the injury was as great
as ever.

Cyphers Lice Powder is claimed by
us to be the strongest safe preparation
on the American market for the purpose.
It is warranted to be a lice-killer, not a
lice-driver. Our Powder is carefully
compounded in our own Laboratory.
It is entirely our own preparation and is

guaranteed not to contain carbolic acid or other chemicals which will damage the plumage or injure the fertility of
the eggs. This Powder — put up, as a rule, in substantial pasteboard boxes, with perforated tops — is clean to handle,
easy to apply, sure in effect and can be used in the nests of sitting hens without injuring young chickens. For lice on
cattle and horses, ticks on sheep and fleas on dogs. Cyphers Lice Powder is a most effective remedy. As an insect
powder it positively has no superior. A trial package will convince you of its value.

Prices: By mail; 5-oz. package (trial size), 10c; postpaid 15c. 15-oz. box, 25c; postpaid 40c.
By freight oc express: 48-oz. box, 50c. 100-oz. bag, $1.00.

Cyphers Lice Paint

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Kills Mites on Poultry House Walls, on Roosts and in Nests. Paint Roosts with It and Kill the
Body Lice by Its Fumes. Readily Applied with Brush or Sprayer

CYPHERS LICE PAINT is a liquid lice de-
stroyer especially prepared for killing all insect
parasites of poultry. It is also useful for
killing the common forms of lice, mites and ticks that
prey upon horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.

This liquid Lice Killer is safe and easy to use,
although it is stronger than other similar preparations.
We guarantee that Cyphers Lice Paint is not diluted
with cheap adulterations which would impair its effect-
iveness. It does the work, and does it economically.
Use it freely on the roosts, walls and droppings boards
in the poultry house. The fumes arising from the
paint will kill the mites and lice on the fowls while
the birds are on the roosts at night. The spraying or
painting should be done in the middle of the after-
noon, three or four times a month. Full directions
on the label of every package for killing lice, mites,
and ticks on poultry, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
1-quart cans, each, 35c; 2-quart cans, each, 60c; 1-gallon cans, each, $1.00; 5-gallon
wooden jackets, each, $4.00. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: 1-quart can, 2 lbs. 4H ozs.; 2-quart can, 4 lbs. 7 ozs.; 1-gaIIon can, SJi lbs.; 5-gallon jacket, 45 lbs.

Cyphers Sulphur Fumigating Candle

A Microbe and Germ Killer. Also Lice and Mite Destroyer. Disinfects — Prevents Disease.
Is put up in original form with wick ready for the match

CYPHERS COMPANY'S Pure Sulphur Fumigating Candles are easy to light, easy
to extinguish, safe to use and produce a vapor that is deadly to all infectious
disease germs and insect life. The improved construction
of these candles makes it unnecessary to use a tin dish such as is
required for most other sulphur candles on the market.

All fowls and domestic animals must be locked out of the
poultry house or any other enclosure or room while it is being fumi-
gated. Simply Ught the candle and close up the house or room
tight for three or four hours, when it should be opened and
thoroughly aired before the fowls are allowed to again occupy it.
Prices: Each, 15c; postpaid, 25c; per H dozen, 75c;
per dozen, $1.25. (By freight or express.)
WEIGHTS: Each, 4H oz.; per 1/2 dozen, 1 lb. 10 oz.; per dozen, ^ , j, ,

3 1bs. SJ/^oz. Complete candle, also c

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147

Complete Medical Case of Ten Poultry Remedies

Contains Long-Tested and Dependable Remedy
for Every Common Disease of Fowls

EQUIPPED with the Cyphers Medical Case, the fancier or poultryman
will be prepared to ward off any disease that may attack his flocks.
The ten remedies are put up in a neat, strong, cloth-covered case.
Each bottle is labeled, showing dosage and the diseases which its contents
will cure and prevent. Complete directions for use, in plain English, Eire
attached to the lid of each case, and are printed on the label of each vial.
These remedies are in tablet form, and will not deteriorate or lose
strength with age, if kept in our case or otherwise protected from strong
light. This supply of medicines will last the average fancier from one to
Cyphers Complete Medical Case. five years.

WHAT THE TEN REMEDIES ARE TO BE USED FOR

Remedy No. 1. — Useful in all catarrhal colds of
poultry having rattling in the throat as a prominent symp-
tom. Cures bronchitis, croup and similar diseases.

Remedy No. 2. — Valuable for all sudden colds with
snuffles, watery discharge from eyes and nostrils and much
sneezing. Prevents and cures roup. Useful in all .dis-
eases resulting from exposure to cold and dampness.

Remedy No. 3. — Useful in all ailments where there is
a tendency to pus formation. In chicken-pox and bumble-
foot - it promotes rapid healing of the sores. It cures
chronic catarrhal colds of poultry which are accompanied
by a hard, croupy cough.

Remedy No. 4.— For all diarrhoeas of poultry. It
is the most reliable cure for cholera, and when used in
the drinking water will cure the most obstinate cases.
Valuable for diarrhoea in small chicks, especially when
accompanied by a watery or a bloody discharge.

Remedy No. 5. — Cures diphtheritic roup and all
forms of canker. Also useful in vent, gleet and all ailments
where there is a tendency to cheesy growths upon mucous
membrane.

Remedy No. 6. — For all forms of indigestion and
liver diseases in poultry. It cures sour crop, indigestion,
loss of appetite, constipation and some forms of crop-
bound. Also useful in nervous diseases, like limber neck.

Remedy No. 7. — Is useful in egg-bound. Success-
fully used to promote healthy action of the egg organs and
start hens laying after molting. Valuable in eye diseases
of poultry accompanied by the swelling of one eye, with a
collection of yellow matter under the lids. Also useful in
blindness in chicks, where there is a tendency to the gum-
ming up of the eyelids.

Remedy No. 8. — For rheumatism and cramps in
fowls or chicks, particularly when accompanied by swollen
legs, lameness and difficulty in walking.

Remedy No. 9. — Useful to get rid of worms and
other intestinal parasites.

Remedy No. 10.— This remedy is used with great
success for the cure of the disorders of egg organs, which
cause soft-shelled and blood-streaked eggs. It promotes a
healthful condition of the reproductive organs, and will
correct sterihty and impotence, thus insuring fertile eggs.

Cyphers Remedies are guaranteed by us under the U. S. Food and Drugs Act of June 30, igo6, Serial No. 7703-
Price of complete set of ten Remedies, put up in a neat, cloth-covered case (see illustration),

postpaid to any address, $2.00.

Single vials, in strong, specially prepared mailing tubes, 25c each; postpaid, 27c each. Order

separate vials by number.

Cyphers Remedy No. 4 For Chick Diarrhoea

Prepared Only in the Laboratory of Cyphers Incubator Company

THIS REMEDY, in the treatment of diarrhoea in
chicks and cholera in adult fowls, has proved very
effective as an antiseptic, sedative and astringent
to the mucous membrane of the crop, gizzard and intes-
tines, relieving at once all irritability and changing the
character of the intestinal secretions. The old idea of
using "the ax" when birds showed symptoms of
diarrhoea or cholera is no longer "good practice,"
provided Cyphers Remedy No. 4 is used. It will
cure the most obstinate cases if given in the early
stages and according to our printed directions.

The convenient tablet form in which our Remedy
No. 4 is put up will appeal to all. Each tablet con-
tains the same amount of medicine and being very
soluble is readily administered in the drinking water.
Please note that by this means the sick fowls "take
their own medicine." Being prepared from the purest
drugs and in a special and careful manner. Cyphers
Company Remedy Tablets will not deteriorate nor
lose their strength with age. All tablets are packed

Prices: Per vial, 25c; postpaid, 27c; five vials, one order, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10.

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

in glass vials, having metal screw caps, and these vials
are enclosed in strong, specially prepared, air-tight and
opaque mailing tubes, thus keeping out the light and
preserving the medicinal properties of each remedy.
Full directions for use are printed plainly on the label of
each vial. These directions should be followed carefully.

Tweezers.

Cyphers Poultry Medical and Surgical Case

Enables Owner to Save Many a Valuable Fowl That Otherwise Would Die from Disease or Accident

The combined Medical and Surgical Case contains the
following:

Ten Remediei

One Scalpel
post-mortem t

One Pair Forceps <

One Pair Scissors.

One Medicine Measuring Glass.

One Medicine Dropper.

One Roup Syringe.

One Iodine Bottle, with glass brush, enabling the operator to
make application without staining the fingers.

One Camel's-Hair Pencil.

One Tube of Cyphers Remedial Ointment for head lice, scaly
leg, chicken-pox, excrescences, etc.

One Box of Cyphers Disinfecting Tablets, for treatment of roup
and cuts, or to be used as a wash where operations are necessary.

One Roll of Rubber Adhesive Plaster, used to fasten birds' legs
during operations, for binding splints in place in case of fractures, etc.

One Package of Absorbent Cotton, for making swabs in the
application of different solutions to sores and wounds.

One 10-yard Gauze Bandage, for binding fractures, etc.

One Caustic Pencil, for canker, cauterizing, etc.

One Applicator, for applying swabs, etc.

All instruments are of good quality steel, nickel-
plated and carefully finished. The entire outfit is put up
in a handsome, strong, cloth-covered box. The remedies
are packed in metal-capped vials, and are labeled to show
their uses and the dosage in each case.

Combined Medical and Surgical Case.

THE POPULAR SUCCESS of our Poultry Medical
Case, combined with our knowledge based on
practical experience of the requirements of aver-
age poultrymen, prompted us to combine with this case
a surgical outfit, containing such surgical instruments and
little accessories as are found helpful in the treatment of
injuries, and combating diseases, epidemics, etc.

Price of Cyphers Poultry Medical and Surgical Case, complete, postpaid, $3.00.

Cyphers Poultry Surgical Case

When Fine Fowls are Worth Five Dollars to Five Hundred Dollars Each it Pays to Save Them

FR THE CONVENIENCE of our patrons who
do not require the combined Medical and Surgi-
cal Case, we can supply the Cyphers Surgical Case,
separately, as illustrated herewith, or the Cyphers Medical
Case, as illustrated and described on the opposite page.
With the exception of the ten remedies, which are
omitted, the Cyphers Surgical Case consists of identi-
cally the same instruments and accessories as are con-
tained in the combined Medical and Surgical Case.

Price of Cyphers Poultry Surgical Case, com-
plete, postpaid, $1.50.

SPECIAL NOTICE: To those who already have
an incomplete collection of remedies and instruments, we
can offer the contents of our Combined Medical and
Surgical Case separately, at the following prices:

Remedies, single vials, 27 cents each, postpaid; Scalpel,
35 cents each, postpaid; Forceps, 30 cents each, postpaid;
Scissors, 30 cents each, postpaid; Medicine Measuring Glass,
15 cents each, postpaid; Medicine Dropper, 10 cents each, postpaid; Roup Syringe, 10 cents each, postpaid; Iodine Bottle, 15 cents
each, postpaid; Camel's-Hair Pencil, 10 cents each, postpaid; Cyphers Remedial Ointment, in large collapsible tube, 25 cents each,
postpaid; Cyphers Disinfecting Tablets, 15 cents per box; Adhesive Plaster, 10 cents per roll; Absorbent Cotton, 10 cents per package;
Gauze Bandage, 15 cents per 10 yards; Caustic Pencil, 15 cents each, postpaid; Apphcator, 15 cents each, postpaid.

Surgical Case and Contents.

Sample Reports — Cyphers Poultry Remedies

Rochester, N. Y., November 18, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

There was a head disease among my fowls that I called "Scaly
Comb." I tried all kinds of lotions and everything I knew of to
cure it, but I found nothing successful until I tried your
Remedial Ointment, which cured the fowls with two applications.
This disease is contagious, and as I had 6,000 fowls on my poultry
plant I was more than pleased to find a remedy that would give
relief.

C. H. STAUNTON.

Washington, Mo., June 1, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.—

The Remedy No. 4 which I purchased from you was very
successful. Up to the time I had received your medicine I lost five
hens with diarrhoea. / tried in vain to cure them with other
remedies. When I got your Remedy No. 4 1 had three very sick
fowls, but after a week's treatment they were cured. I also used
your Remedy No. 4 for chicks, putting six tablets in a pint of water.
This was given three times a dav. The Remedy is excellent and
better than any I ever used. H. H. BUCHOLZ.

SPECIAL— Be •

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otice, see j

153.

Cyphers Roup Cure (Guaranteed)

A Complete Cure Guaranteed, or Money will be Refunded. Used in the Drinking Water

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/CYPHERS ROUP CURE is the best remedy for roup in all forms.

It is thoroughly reliable and always uniform in quality and

strength. Prevents and cures common colds, and for the cure

of canker is without an equal. Will be found to be of special value

in the cure of all forms of canker in pigeons as well as in poultry.

CYPHERS ROUP CURE is used by simply dissolving the remedy
in the drinking water. In all early stages the sick fowls take their
medicine in this easy manner. One small-size package will make 25
gallons of roup medicine.

O UR G UARANTY. — So thoroughly confident are we of the value of
Cyphers Roup Cure that -we guarantee a cure in each and every case of roup
where it is used according to our directions, except in the last and incurable
stage of the disease. If after using Cyphers Roup Cure you are dissatisfied
■with it. return to us, within 30 days of date of purchase, the empty package
with a certified statement of when and where the Cyphers Roup Cure was bought, and get your money back.

Quality and quantity considered, Cyphers Roup Cure is exceedingly economical to use. The value of one fowl
saved will more than repay the cost of a large-size package of the remedy.

Cyphers Roup Cure is guaranteed by us under the U. S. Food and Drugs Act of June 30, igo6. Serial No. 7703-
Prices: Small-size package, 25c postpaid. Medium-size, 50c postpaid. Large-size, $1.00 postpaid.

Napcreol Disinfectant (Trade Mark Name)

A Reliable, Standard-quality Poultry House and General Disinfectant. A Preventive and a Remedy.
Destroys foul odors in Poultry Houses, Dog Kennels, Stables and Cesspools

TO PROTECT their valuable flocks from disease, poultrymen find it
necessary' to adopt sanitary measures — on the well-proved theory that
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Long experience has
taught us (on Cyphers Company's 150,000 Poultry Farm, Buffalo, N. Y ) that
this object is best accomplished by the frequent and regular
use of a first-class disinfectant and deodorant like Napcreol.
Until we placed this preparation on the market it was diffi-
cult for pou! trymen to obtain a desirable germ killer and odor
destroyer, at a reasonable cost, since nearly all articles of
this nature that are reliable were manufactured expressly for
protection of human beings, and were priced accordingly.
Cyphers Napcreol is a highly-concentrated, non-
poisonous preparation which can be made ready for
immediate use by simply mixing with the required amount
of water. It is valuable fpr the disinfection of poultry
houses, stables, dog kennels,- toilets, sinks, cesspools, or
any place where a good germ and odor destroyer is needed.

One Gallon of Napcreol Makes 100 Gallons of Disinfectant of Sufficient Strength, to do the Work.

Prices: 1-qt. cans, 50c; balf-gal. cans, 85c; gal. cans, $1.50. (By freight or express.)

WEKJHTS:'--i-qt. can, 2 lbs. 6 oz.; half-gal. can, 4 lbs. 10 oz.; gal. can, 9M lbs.

Guaranteed Egg Preservative

A Tasteless, Odorless Preparation That Will Keep Fresh Eggs in Excellent Condition
Six to Ten Months. One Gallon Jug Sufficient for 65 Dozen Eggs

SAVE-AL is the trade name we gave to this
Guaranteed Egg Preservative when we
placed it on the market eight years ago.
It was suggested by the fact that this prepar-
ation positively will keep strictly fresh eggs in
usable and marketable condition for ten months
if it is desired to hold them that long — and it
saves ALL the eggs, not merely some of them.
Save-Al is easy to use and is absolutely safe
and sure. One gallon makes sufficient solution to
keep 65 dozen eggs in perfect condition for 10
months. Eggs preserved in Save-Al are superior
in every way to limed eggs. The solution has
been thoroughly and carefully tested, and critical
observers have found it difficult to detect the
difference between a fresh-laid egg purchased in
the open market and eggs which had been put down in Save-Al from six to ten months.

We Recommend the use of Save-Al to all who desire to Save Money by Preserving Eggs when Cheap and to Have Plenty
tor use when they are Scarce and High-Priced. Save-Al is never sold in bulk.

Prices: 1 gal., weight, 17^ lbs., $1.00; two gals., $1.85; three gals., $2.50. (By freight or
express.) Special prices on 10, 20 and 50-gal. casks.

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

FITLL-NIST
EGG-FOOD

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Guaranteed by Us

Cyphers Full-Nest Egg Food

A Concentrated Egg-Producer and Meat Food Possessing Valuable Tonic Properties

THIS CONCENTRATED and stimulating egg food is manufactured in the Labora-
tories of Cyphers Incubator Company at Buffalo, N. Y., and we guarantee that none
but pure and harmless materials are used in its composition.
Every enterprising, watchful poultry keeper wants eggs when prices are high. You
positively can get them by using Full-Nest Egg Food. An increase of eight eggs a month
will pay fora42-ounce package of FuU-Nest Egg Food, which will bring you many
times that number of extra eggs. Try one or two packages and test our claim!

FULL-NEST EGG FOOD is not only an egg-producer, but is also a standard con-
dition powder for all ages of poultry. Besides being an unexcelled egg producer it is a

concentrated meat food, possessing tonic properties which

promote good health and fine condition. It stimulates and in-
vigorates; it also builds up the system and helps to keep it up.
Full-Nest Egg Food will help your birds through their
molt, make the feathers develop normally and induce a
high state of perfection in plumage. Hens begin laying
sooner after molting where this egg food is used.

For growing chicks FuU-Nest Egg Food is the best substitute for insect
life. This Food contains, in a highly concentrated form, the principal food
elements supplied by bugs and insects, thus making it an ideal substitute.

FUIX-NEST EGG FOOD is guaranteed by us under the U. S. Food and
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, Serial No. 7793.

Prices: 42- oz. packages (not mailable), each $ -25

25-lb. pails, each 2.00

Brand Nodi Charcoal (Trade Mark Name)

Jnder the U. S. Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906,
Serial No. 7793

GRANULATED CHARCOAL, if pure, is a highly valuable article to feed to
poultry of all kinds. Cyphers Brand Nodi Charcoal is guaranteed to be the pure
article, and is prepared expressly for domestic fowls. It differs radically from
the ordinary commercial charcoal offered to poultrymen. It is differently screened
and packed, and does not carry large quantities of worthless dust.

Nodi Charcoal is useful as a blood purifier and disease preventive. It
is one of the best and most natural remedies for sour crop, diarrhoea and
other similar digestive troubles. That is why we call it "Nodi Charcoal" —
no diarrhoea where this charcoal is used.

We prepare Nodi Charcoal in three grades: Grade "A" (fine granu-
lated) for use in mash mixtures and for ducks; grade "B" (medium granu-
lated) for small, newly-hatched to half-grown chicks; grade "C" (coarse
granulated) for fowls and large chicks. Put up in handy paper cartons and
also in 50-pound dust-proof bags bearing our trade mark.

Prices: (In Ordering State Grade Desired, Whether "A," "B" or "C")

2-lb. cartons (not mailable), each $ .10 50-lb. sacks, each

Per }4 dozen cartons 50 Two 50-lb. sacks .

Per 1 dozen cartons (assorted if desire( ... 1.10 (By freight or express)

Cyphers Anti-Fly Pest (Our Trade Name)
Drives Flies Off Animals and Keeps Them Off. A Money-Saver When Used on Horses, A: ules, Cattle, etc.
Easy to Apply, Safe to Use, Lasting in Effect

THIS IS AN ORIGINAL Cyphers Company preparation that was
placed on the market by us ten years ago to meet an active
demand. We have sold it in every State in the Union and have
shipped it on repeat orders in barrel lots to foreign countries.

Anti-Fly Pest is lasting. It does not leave a gummy substance be-
hmd, nor injure the animal's coat. It is sure death to flies, but its
work is to drive rather than kill them. To kill flies they must come
in contact with the remedy, and this annoyance is what should be
avoided. Anti-Fly Pest, therefore, is superior to similar preparations
which have only killing properties. Anti-Fly Pest protects mostly
by evaporation — the fumes do the work.

One Application of Cyphers Anti-Fly Pest will instantly relieve
horses and cattle from the annoyance of flies, mosquitoes, gnats and
other insects of all descriptions for at least twenty-four hours. Its
effect on cows is truly wonderful; it insures them perfect rest and a
chance to feed in peace and quiet, resulting in an increased quantity of
milk with less food consumed.
Cows sprayed with Anti-Fly Pest will produce 25 per cent, more milk. One gallon of Anti-Fly Pest
is sufficient to treat 300 cows. For applying it we recommend the Climax Sprayer, for sale by us.

Prices: Half-gal. can, 50c; 1-gal. can, 75c; 5-gal. jacketed can, $3.50. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Half-gal., 41bs. 3 oz.; gal., 8Mlbs.; S-gal. jacket, 45 lbs.

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, tee page 153,

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STANDARD
POULTRY SUPPLIES^

MOST OF THE ARTICLES described and offered for sale under this heading are
manufactured by us; several are bought by us in large lots to be re-sold. Still
others are made specially for us, to meet our wishes and the needs of our customers.
All of these articles are strictly high-class — this we guarantee.

Every article manufactured or sold by Cyphers Incubator Company is warranted to be exactly
as represented and in proper condition, or it can be returned promptly and we will replace it at
once or refund the purchase price.

These Cyphers Company Standard Poultry Supplies are not high-priced. They meet
competition — yet preserve real quality. We offer nothing — we will sell nothing to Cyphers
Company Customers unless it is known to us to be worth having and profitable to use. It is
on this basis that we have built up, in the last fifteen years, the largest business in the world
in the manufacture and sale of "Everything Worth While for Poultry Keepers."
Yours for still greater success,

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY,
BUFFALO, N. Y., U. S. A., December 1, 1911. GRANT M. CURTIS, President.

High Grade Tested Thermometers

THE best incubator or brooder
manufactured is useless unless
the thermometer used therein is
accurate. Hundreds of hatches in incu-
bators fail because of inferior thermom-
eters, and large numbers of chickens
are killed in brooders owing to defective
or worthless thermometers. The oper-
ator, to be successful, must kno\V the
exact temperature in the egg chamber of
the incubator and be sure that the
chickens in his brooder have the proper
amount of heat. The thermometers here
listed are manufactured especially for us.
and are thoroughly tested before they
are shipped. Two-thirds of the thermom-
eters on the market are made from
improperly seasoned glass tubes, and
are what are termed green thermometers.
We carry thousands of thermometer
tubes in stock year after year, so as
Cyphers Brooder to avoid using anything but well-
Thermometer. reasoned glass tubes. All of our ther-
mometers have been seasoned at least two years.

Cyphers Incubators are guaranteed only when
operated with Cyphers Company's Specially-tested Incu-
bator Thermometers.

Cyphers Incubator Thermometer.

Prices

Cyphers Incubator Thermometers, each, postpaid $ .65

Cyphers Incubator Thermometers, two, postpaid 1.20

Cyphers Incubator Thermometers, twelve, by express 5.50

Cyphers Brooder Thermometers, each, postpaid 50

Cyphers Brooder Thermometers, two, postpaid 95

Cyphers Brooder Thermometers, twelve, by express 5.00

NOTE. — The price of Incubator Thermometers does not include
the wire hanger. Wire hangers will be supplied at 10 cents extra
for each thermometer. In ordering a thermometer or wire hanger,
be sure to state name and size of incubator or brooder you
want it for, also date of manufacture. This is important.
The wire on which the thermometer is suspended is a part
of the incubator, and not a part of the thermometer.
Therefore, in returning a thermometer or ordering a new one, do
not return the wire.

SPECIAV—Be

to read "Attorted Order" notice, tee page 153.

C-E-Z Thermometer Device

A Great Help to Operators whose Sight is Poor or
when Incubators are Operated in Dark Places

THIS device suspends the thermometer in its proper place
in the center of the egg chamber. When the button is
pulled out it brings the thermometer close to the glass
door of the incubator so that it may be read easily. It requires
only a few moments to install this thermometer device in any
Standard Cyphers Incubator. Packed securely in corrugated
box, with directions for installing.

When ordering, please state size of incubator and year
purchased, if possible, or give distance between upper diaphragm
and wire mesh of egg tray.

Prices: Each, 40c; 50c postpaid.

Cyphers Practical Egg Tester

CYPHERS Practical Egg Tester is the standard tester in use on large duck
and broiler farms, and embodies the best ideas to date. This tester is i8
inches high, lo inches wide and lo inches deep. The top is of galvanized
iron. It is equipped with an extra strong reflector of superior quality. The
seamless-bottom lamp is made of the best heavy, galvanized iron. No chimney
IS furnished, because of the liability of breakage in shipping. An ordinary glass
chimney, such as is used on a house lamp, will fit the burner and is exactly adapted
to the purpose. The strong light penetrates the shell and brings to view the
development of the contents of egg, making it possible to discover the degree of
fertility, or the growth of the embryo. Weight, 14 pounds.

Price, complete, including box, lamp and reflector. .. $1.25

Cyphers X-Ray Egg Tester

THE Cyphers X-Ray Egg Tester is made of block tin, and consists of a central cylinder or lamp flue 5^ inches
high, with an outside diameter of 2^ inches at the base and 2^ inches at the top. It is designed for use
on an ordinary hand lamp and fits over any style of burner with a diameter approximating that of the tester.
The test tube, against which the egg is held, is 2j^ inches in diameter, and the open end consists of a piece of leather-
cloth. The egg is held against a i}^-inch oval-shaped hole in this felt, and the light is reflected
by the polished tin through a sheet of mica that covers the narrow end of the testing tube and
allows the light from the flame to enter the tube. In a dark room this light will be found strong
enough to penetrate the shell and illuminate the interior of the egg. One of these testers is
shipped free with each Cyphers Incubator. They are thoroughly practical, and where small
numbers of eggs are to be tested will answer the purpose as well as our large tester. Where, how-
ever, large numbers of eggs are to be handled, we recommend the Cyphers Practical Egg
Tester as being more desirable.

Prices: 25c each; by mail, 35c each.

that of the tester,
a piece of leather-

AN ASSORTED ORDER WILL SAVE YOU MONEY

TN this Catalogue the weights of articles are given, so that customers of Cyphers Incubator Company can make
■*- up '*As8orted Orders" to weigh 100 pounds or more, and thus secure the 100-pound freight rate, which is much
lower than the rate for 25 or 50 pounds.

THESE ASSORTED ORDERS wlU be safely boxed by us without extra charge, regardless of whether the
customer pays the single-article, small-package prices, or takes advantage of the one-fourth dozen, one-half dozen
or dozen prices.

WITH HEAVIER GOODS: We also advise our customers to include a supply of small, light-weight articles
with their orders for heavier goods, such as Incubators, Brooders, Adaptable Hovers, Coops, Poultry Foods, etc., etc.
Often we can pack the smaller articles with the larger ones at a considerable saving, while in all cases, if there are
several packages (two or more) in a shipment, the 100-pound freight rate will apply, provided the combined weight
of the packages equals or exceeds 100 pounds.

THEREFORE, WE ASK YOU to serve your own interests by either making up an ASSORTED ORDER that
will weigh 100 pounds or more, or to Include your order for small, light-weight packages or articles with your require-
ments in heavy-weight goods.

FOR COMPLETE LIST of Poultry Appliances and Supplies, consult Index, page 245.

Prices of Extras for Incubators and Brooders

A LL goods listed below may be obtained from Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, Boston, New York,
/\ Chicago, Kansas City, or Oakland. The prices given opposite each article indicate the price at factory
■*-■*■ or branch store, and the postpaid price where stated. Customers desiring articles by mail will please
be sure to remit postpaid price with their order. All articles on which we do not name a postpaid price will
be sent by express or freight at customer's expense. In case of mailable articles where postpaid price is not remitted,
the order will be either held for postage or shipped by express at customer's expense. No extras will be sent C. O. D.
In ordering parts from this list give the number of the part, if specified. (See also our book, "Directions for Oper-
ating.") Also state whether the parts are required for 1912-Pattern Machines or for what year.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:— When ordering extras for either incubators or brooders other than 1907-8-9-10-U-12 patterns,
customers must be sure to state style and size of incubator and the year manufactured, as shown on the name-plate or packers
slip pasted inside egg chamber. To prevent error please describe machine. In case of brooders be sure to state style and
size. It is absolutely necessary for us to have this information in order to supply parts that will fit your machine. When
ordering extras for either incubators or brooders. 1907-8-9-10-11-12 pattern, always mention full number stenciled on bottom of
incubator or on cover of brooder. Unless advised to the contrary, we will always supply extras for goods of 1912 pattern. We
positively will not be responsible for errors where customers fail to give the information as above required.

Extras for Standard Cyphers Incubators

Cyphers Incubator Lamps (seamless bottom), with
burner and wick complete, No. 0, 75 cents each; Nos. 1, 2 and 3,
90 cents each.

Lamp Bowls without burner (seamless bottoms). No. 0,
50 cents each; Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 60 cents each.

Incubator Lamp Burners, No. 0, each 30 cents; postpaid
35 cents. No. 1. 40 cents; postpaid 50 cents. Nos. 2 and 3, each
50 cents; postpaid 60 cents.

Lamp Wicks. For use in Incubator Lamps only (state size
of machine for which they are wanted). For Nos. 0 and 1. per
dozen. IS cents; postpaid 18 cents. For Nos. 2 or 3. per dozen.
20 cents; postpaid 22 cents.

Egg Trays (not pedigree), No. 0, 55 cents each; No. 1. $1
each; No. 2. per set of two, $1.75; No. 3, per set of two, $2.40.

Heaters. No. 0, $2.50 each; Nos. 1, 2 or 3. $2.75 each. (Lamp
not included.)

Mica for Heater, each 5 cents; postpaid 7 cents.

Felt Diaphragms (without frame). No. 0 Incubator, each
30 cents; postpaid 35 cents. No. 1. 40 cents; postpaid 45 cents.
No. 2, per pair, 65 cents; postpaid 70 cents. No. 3, per pair. 96
cents; postpaid 98 cents.

Burlap Diaphragms, or Muslin Diaphragms (without
frame), for No. 0. each 10 cents; postpaid 12 cents. No. 1. each
15 cents; postpaid 20 cents. No. 2, per pair, 30 cents; postpaid
35 cents. No. 3. per pair, 35 cents; postpaid 40 cents.

Incubator Legs, No. 0, each 25 cents; per set of four, 75
cents; No. 1, each 30 cents; per set of four, $1. Nos. 2 or 3, each
35 cents; per set of four, $1. 25.

Lamp Bracket (for 1908 and earlier patterns), including
wooden rest. No. 0, each 55 cents; Nos. 1, 2 and 3, each 60 cents.

Flame Reducer (state size) , each 25 cents; postpaid 30 cents.

Wooden Arm for Regulator (321), each 20 cents. These
arms are all shipped extra long; customer cuts to fit machine.

Tin Disc (327) and Wire (326) (state size of machine), each
10 cents; postpaid 12 cents.

Regulator Arm (321), including counterpoise weight (323)
and rod (322), pivot casting (317), wooden arm (321), tin disc (327)
and wire (326), any size, each 75 cents.

Connecting Rods (318), No. 0, each 20 cents; postpaid
25 cents. Nos. 1, 2 or 3, each 25 cents; postpaid 30 cents.

Counterpoise Weights (323), each 15 cents; postpaid 25
cents. (With nuts for locking.)

Counterpoise Rod (322) , No. 0, each 10 cents; postpaid
15 cents. No. 1, each 12 cents; postpaid 17 cents. Nos. 2 and 3,
each 15 cents; postpaid 20 cents. (State size.)

Pivot Casting (317), each 25 cents; postpaid 30 cents.

Connecting Rod Thumb Nuts (319), (320), each 10 cents;
postpaid 15 cents. (Specify whether upper (320) or lower (319)
nut is wanted.)

Center Casting (315) and Connecting Tube (314), Nos,
1. 2 or 3. each 75 cents; No. 0. 70 cents.

Base Casting (316). each 20 cents; postpaid 30 cents.

Thermostat (312), No. 0, each$l.S0; Nos. 1, 2 or 3, each $2.

Regulating Device, complete. No. 0. $3.50. Nos. 1, 2 or
3, $4.00.

Wire Hanger for Incubator Thermometer (state if for
Nos. 0, 1, 2 or 3 Incubator), each 8 cents; postpaid 10 cents.

Incubator Thermometer (without wire hanger), each, 60
cents; postpaid 65 cents.

Chimney for 1909 or 1910 Lamp, 25 cents; postpaid 30
cents.

Screen for 1909 or 1910 Lamp Chimney, 10 cents; postpaid
12 cents.

Filler Cap with Tube for 1909, 1910, 1911 or 1912 Lamp,
5 cents; postpaid 7 cents.

Guide Ring, Small, 7 cents; postpaid 10 cents.

Guide Ring, Large, 7 cents; postpaid 10 cents.

~ i 1910 Ls " ■

I centa.

) Lamp Enclosure, 10 cents;

Extras for Standard Cyphers Brooders

Insulated Brooder Stove, 1907-8, complete, each $1.75.

Brooder Lamp, 1906 pattern, complete with burner for Storm
King and Hygienic Brooder, $1.50.

Brooder Lamp, complete with Zenith burner for Storm King
Brooder. 1906 pattern, each 90 cents.

Brooder Lamp, without Zenith burner for Storm King and
Hygienic Brooders, 1906 pattern, each SO cents.

Storm King or Hygienic Brooder Lamp Bowl, 1906, with-
out burner, 50 cents.

Lamp Wicks, for brooder lamps, 1906-7-8-9-10-11-12 pat-
tern, per dozen, 15 cents; postpaid 18 cents.

Wicks for Insulated Brooder Stove, 1907-8 pattern, per
dozen, 15 cents; postpaid 18 cents.

Brooder Hovers (1908 and earlier patterns). State which
style is wanted, wood top and felt included. Each 75 cents.

Cylindrical Wire Chick Guard (1908 and earlier patterns),
with wood top, each 35 cents. State style and size of brooder.

Brooder Ventilator Slides, per pair, 15 cents; postpaid
20 cents. (State style of brooder.)

Hygienic Brooder Thermometers, 1906, unmounted, each
40 cents; postpaid 45 cents; mounted on wooden holder, each SO
cents; postpaid 55 cents.

Brooder Thermometers, for all styles of brooders, 1906-
7-8-9-10-11-12 pattern (state style of brooder), each 45 cents;
postpaid 50 cents.

Felts for Brooders — Hover Felts, each 50 cents; postpaid
60 cents. (State style of brooder.) Partition Felt for Style A
Brooder, 1907-8, each 25 cents; postpaid 30 cents.

Regulating Device for Self-Regulating Colony Brooders,
1907-8, $2.50.

Regulating Device for 1909-10-11-12 Pattern Self-Re£u-
lating Colony Brooders, $2.50.

Wind Shield, 1907-8, 20 cents.

Burner for Insulated Brooder Stove, each 40 cents; post-
paid 50 cents.

Chimney for Insulated Brooder Stove, each 20 centa; post-
paid 25 cents.

Burner and Chimney, complete, for Insulated Brooder
Stove, per set 55 cents; postpaid 70 cents.

Chimney (for 1909-10-11-12 Pattern Brooders), 25 cents.
postpaid 30 cents.

FiUer Cap with Tube (for 1909-10-11-12 Pattern Brooders),
S cents; postpaid 7 cents.

Guide Ring for Lamp, 7 cents; postpaid 10 cents.

Mirror, 5 cents; postpaid 7 cents.

Chimney for 1905 Safety Brooder Stove, each 35 cents.

Oil Bowl for 1905 Safety Brooder Stove, each 65 cents.

Safety Brooder Stove, complete, 1905 pattern, $1.75.

Mica for 1905 Safety Brooder Stove, each 10 cents.

Water Pan and Spider Casting for 1905 Safety Brooder
Stove, each 60 cents.

Brooder Lamp, complete with burner and wick for 1909-
lO-U-12 Brooder, each 90 cents.

Perforated Screen for 1905 Brooder Stove, each 15 cents.

Regulator Arm for Adaptable Hover, each 40 cents; post-
paid 45 cents.

Galvanized Disk and Wire for Adaptable Hover, each 10
cents; postpaid 12 cents.

Connecting Rod lor Adaptable Hover, each 20 cents;
postpaid 25 cents.

Zenith Chimneyless Burner, each 40 cents; postpaid 50
cents.

Extras for Paradise Brooders

Stoves, complete, each, $3.75, by express.
Upper Reservoir, 60 cents, by express.
Valve to Upper Reservoir, postpaid 15 cents.
Feed Pipe for One Burner, with Socket and Lower
Reservoir, $1.25, by express.

Clamp, with Nut and Set Screw, postpaid 15 cents.

Wick Tube and Elbow, 75 cents, by express.

Wick, with Carrier, postpaid 30 cents.

GoUar, postpaid 15 cents.

Flame Spreader, postpaid 15 cents.

Enameled Drum, with Door, 75 cents, by express.

Pluft and Washer for Feed Pipe, postpaid 15 cents.

Cyphers Safety Remodeling Outfit

Consists of Standard Cyphers Incubator Heater and Safety Lamp Enclosure, Complete.
Installing on Standard Cyphers Incubators — All Sizes

THE installation of this Safety Remodeling Outfit will renew those
parts of the Incubator, including the heater, most subject to
wear, and thus will make the machine practically as good as new.
While we are not able to furnish these Outfits with the Insurance Label
attached, nevertheless the safety feature of the lamp and heater is the
same as in our latest-pattern machines.

Cyphers Incubator Company urgently recommends the use of these
Safety Outfits on every Standard Cyphers Incubator now in use, and for
this reason we have made the prices as low as possible.

The Safety Outfit can be attached to incubator by simply screwing
in the four screws with a screw-driver. No other tools are required.
Any poultryman can do the entire job in ten minutes. The Safety Outfit
is shipped complete, properly assembled in one piece, so that no assembling
is required by operator. Shipping weight, about 30 lbs.

The Cyphers Safety RemodeUng Outfit, complete, consists of the
following : —

Standard Cyphers Heater.

Lamp Enclosure with Hooks for attaching Enclosure to. bolts i

New Seamless-bottom Lamp, with burner collar eccentric so t
in proper alignment invariably with heat flue.

New Burner and Guide Ring, which engages heat flue and prevents smoking of

Asbestos Pads for spacing heater proper distance from wooden case of incubator.
Instructions for Ordering Remodeling Outfits
In ordering a Safety Remodeling Outfit for installation on any Standard
Cyphers Incubator — no matter when manufactured, please observe the
following, as it is highly important: —

For the purpose of securing exact measurements to send to us, remove the heater from your incubator by unscrewing
the four screws by which it is attached to machine. Take a piece of paper about 24 inches long and 4 inches wide, place
this over the end of the machine and trace thereon a diagram of the holes through which pipes enter incubator,
being particular to show the holes the exact distance apart they are on the incubator. This will enable us to determine
the size of Heater to fit your machine. Also state size of your machine and the year it was manufactured, if you know.
Prices: Safety Remodeling Outfit, complete, for No. 0 Standard Cyphers Incubator, . .$4.75
Safety Remodeling Outfit, complete, for Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Cyphers Incubators, , . , .5.50

fresh-air flue of
it burner is held

Sectional View of Standard Cyphers Incu-
bator showing how we attach the Safety Lamp
Enclosure to Heater. The Outfit is shipped
to customer properly assembled for attaching to
case of incubator in ten minutes' time.

Cyphers Safety Brooder Stove

Used in Heating Home-Made Brooders

CYPHERS Safety Brooder Stove was invented by this Company. We used
it for years in our old-style standard brooders, selling tens of thousands
of them. This stove consists of a brass oil fount and a safety water pan
of the same metal, that holds nearly a quart of water and extends out over
the entire surface of the oil bowl, thus placing a sheet of cold water an inch to an
inch and a half in thickness between the oil in the oil fount, or bowl, and the fiame.
The wick tube extends upward through the water pan and through the cast-
iron base into the flue chamber, which is composed of the best quality of Russian
sheet iron, the top consisting of a solid casting of common iron. The long wick
stem, by which the wick is turned up and down, reaches from the wick tube
outward through the side of the water pan, and is kept cool by the water.
Prices of Cyphers Safety Brooder Stove: Each, $1.75. Six, $9.50

WEIGHTS; One,

, 32 lbs.

Cyphers Insulated Brooder Stove (Patented)

For Use in Heating Home-Made Brooders

ALSO is a Cyphers Company invention. This long-bowl, improved
A% safety stove combines a heater proper, a burner equipped with
metalUc chimney, an insulating plate that serves also as a stove
slide, and an upright plate of galvanized iron that forms the door to the
brooder through which the stove is operated. (See illustration.) The
name can be adjusted and the oil-bowl filled without removing the
stove from the brooder.

The heat of the fiame is deflected away from the oil reservoir, and
the oil remains cool at all times. This stove will burn forty-eight hours
or more without refilling. We especially recommend this stove for
use with home-made brooders. There is no water-jacket to fill (or forget),
and it is absolutely safe from explosion.

Prices of Cyphers Insulated Brooder Stove: Each $1.75

WEIGHTS: One, 10 lbs; six, 60 lbs.
SPECIAL — Be sure to read 'Assorted Order" notice, see page 153

155

Cyphers Automatic Moisture Device

(Patent AppUed For)
For Use on Standard Cyphers Incubators in Arid Districts, High Altitudes, Dry Apartments, Etc.

CYPHERS patent-diaphragm incubators are known
the world over as non-moisture machines. Under
normal and ordinary conditions they require no
supplied moisture whatever. Thousands of purchasers
have used them season after season, during the last fifteen
years, without adding a particle of moisture in any
shape or form. This is accounted for by the fact that
the air which passes into the incubator
and that which is
thrown off from
the eggs through
the porous shells is
conserved by the
porous diaphragm
construction of the
genuine Cyphers,
as covered by pat-
ents owned by this
company.

Let it be under-
stood, therefore
that for the reason

„ . , . »■ ,, . x^ . above stated the

Cyphers Automatic Moisture Device. ,. , „ ,

operation of Cyph-
ers Company Standard Incubators requires no added
moisture, where the surrounding atmosphere is in its
normal condition; that is, where the moisture naturally
contained in the air has not by any means, either natural
or artificial, been removed. Generally speaking the atmos-
. phere throughout the inhabitable globe possesses at all
times sufficient moisture for the incubation of eggs and
therefore our Standard Incubators are being successfully
operated in practically all parts of the civilized world
without a particle of added moisture, by reason of their
patented mechanism, as above referred to.

There are, however, exceptional conditions existing
in arid districts and in the high altitudes of mountainous
regions, which deprive the air of its natural moisture,
under which conditions even hens cannot hatch eggs
satisfactorily. These conditions are sometimes dupli-
cated in places where the natural moisture has been
extracted from the atmosphere artificially, as is the case
in continuously heated and dry apartments. Under
such conditions it is beneficial to return to the atmosphere
a portion of the moisture it has lost. This may be done
in various ways, but the method we have invented is
believed to be the best and most convenient discovered
to date.

That such adverse conditions as we have described
do exist has been established by numerous experiments
conducted by the Cyphers Incubator Company during
several years in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Utah,
the Republic of Mexico and in the liigh altitudes of
British South Africa. The result of these experiments has
been the invention by us of an automatic self -feeding
moisture device that is attachable to ALL SIZES AND
PATTERNS of the Standard Cyphers Incubators without
the employment of hooks, bolts or other fastenings — a
device that we are pleased to recommend for use on
incubators of this company's manufacture when they are
operated at high altitudes, in arid regions, in eery
dry apartments and during droughty periods — ^BUT
NOT OTHERWISE.

Conditions Explained

When an egg is laid the contents exactly fill the shell
and the space knovra later on as the "air cell" does not
exist; but as soon as the egg is excluded evaporation begins
through the pores of the shell and an air cell soon appears
at the large end of the egg. The rapidity with which this
air space grows depends on the humidity and move-
ment of the air that envelopes the egg. Dry air
takes up moisture more rapidly than does moist air, and
air in motion accelerates the process of evaporation.

In case excessive evaporation does reduce the con-
tents of the egg beyond a certain point, the embryo will
weaken and die. Furthermore, if excessive evaporation
reduces the contents of the egg to such an extent that
the size of the developing chick is diminished to a fatal
degree the chick will be so weakened that it cannot break
the dry, tough membrane and hardened shell and will
die in the attempt, resulting in " chicks dead in the shell."
Hence the invention of an automatic moisture device.

The device is placed on the enclosure as shown in
illustration below. The absorbent material and curved
metal piece pass around the fresh-air intake of the
heater, thus exposing the surface of the water - charged
conductor to the fresh air that enters the heater and
passes upward into the radiating chamber and thence
downward into the egg chamber.

By this simple, effective and automatic method
the dry air which surrounds
the incubator is charged with
moisture as it passes into
the machine and therefore
does not draw heavily upon
the moisture contents of the
eggs. By this means the extra-
ordinary conditions that con-
front the operator of a Cyphers
Incubator in mountainous
regions, or where exceedingly
dry weather and artificially
warmed air must be reckoned
with, are overcome. This device
is not sold regularly with Cyph-
ers Incubators, for the reason
that in most cases it is not
needed — in fact would be a
waste of money and time.
We do recommend its use. how-
ever, under the conditions
described, and it will be found
to be " almost worth its weight
in gold," as one experimenter
expressed it. The Automatic
Moisture Device is the result of
much experimenting. Several
other devices were tried, but
after many experiments, were
discarded in favor of the unique. Illustration showing Auto-
convenient and infallible one matic Moisture Device in

_, . position on Incubator,

shown m the pictures. This

attachment is simplicity itself in construction, automatic
in operation, and cannot get out of order.

Prices of Automatic Moisture Device
Each, with 3 conductors, express, prepaid. ,$1.50

In J^-doz. lots with conductors, each 1.40

In J^-doz. lots with conductors, each 1.25

Special Prices on Larger Lots in Single Shipments.

SPECIAL— Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

Cyphers Combination Blue-Flame Gas Burner

(Patent Applied For)

Use of Gas for Heating Incubators is Recommended where Supply is
Uniform. Safe and Economical Device for this Purpose

MANY operators of Cyphers Incubators are so situated that they can use gas for heating
their machines in place of oil. Gas furnishes a satisfactory heat where the supply is
uniform, and we recommend its use. The Cyphers Combination Blue-Flame Gas
Burner (patent applied for), which is illustrated herewith, burns with a blue flame which pro-
duces the maximum amount of heat with the minimum consumption of gas. This burner can
be easily attached to incubator.

A blue flame is hotter than a yellow or light-giving flame of the same size; in other words, the
gas in one case produces heat almost exclusively, whereas in the other case it produces light. Fur-
thermore, a blue flame producing a certain amount of heat will consume less gas than would
a yellow flame producing the same amount of heat. Where the Cyphers Combination Blue-Flame
Burner is used the height of the flame can be adjusted with an ordinary gas-bracket key and
the mixture of air (producing a blue flame) may be readily controlled for different gas pressures.

Made in two sizes, large and small, corresponding to the two sizes of oil burners furnished cyphers Combination Blue-
with Cyphers Incubators. In ordering, mention size of burner or width of wick. Flame Gas Burner.

Price of Burner, complete, ready to be attached to gas pipe or bracket, 50c ; postpaid, 60c

Cyphers Simplicity Flame Reducer

(Patent Applied For)

For Use on Cyphers Incubators and Brooders, All Styles and Sizes. Simple, Durable and Economical.
Saves Oil and Money

INCUBATOR and brooder operators experience difficulty in maintaining a low, clear, steady flame on their lamps
in warm weather. As regards incubators this is especially true toward the latter part of the period of incuba-
tion, when the animal heat in the eggs manifests itself. As regards brooders, when late spring arrives and summer
weather is at hand very little artificial heat is required, but it will not do to extinguish the lamp or brooder stove
altogether. Under these conditions if the lamp flame on either incubators or brooders
is turned down sufficiently low to give only the proper degree of heat the result is a wide,
weak and variable flame that is liable to smoke or to be extinguished by a
sudden Jar or moderate gust of air. To meet these warm weather conditions, and at
the same time save oil — which costs money — some operators carry extra burners that
are equipped with narrow wick tubes and narrow wicks, which concentrate the same
amount of name into a. higher and narrower blaze. These burners serve the purpose,
but do not prevent waste of oil.

The Cyphers Flame Reducer (for which letters patent
have been applied) reduces the size of the flame on a No.
3 (large size) burner to that of a No. i (small size) burner
and does this without changing the wick or burner in any
manner, and the burner is instantly convertible either way.
By the same process that this burner reduces the size of
the flame it reduces the amount of oil consumed,
saving more than fifty per cent, in cost of oil.

This unique device, illustrated herewith, consists of
a special-shaped metal hood or cap that fits over the
upper end of the wick tube. It has an opening in the center, and it is the part of
the wick that is exposed at this opening which burns, producing a flame of a width
corresponding to that" which would be produced by a smaller burner with a wick
of the same width as this opening.

The Cyphers Flame Reducer is made in two sizes, large and small, of polished
copper. In ordering, mention width of wick.

Price of Cyphers Flame Reducer, either size, 25c; postpaid, 30c

Delphos Non-Overflow Oil Can

Specially Adapted for Use of Poultrymen in Filling Incubator and Brooder Lamps

THIS is more than a simple oil can. It is not only an oil retainer but in use it controls
the amount of oil .poured into the lamp in such a manner as to prevent overflow and
at the same time fill the lamp to any desired height.
Oil that has been spilled on the top of a lamp naturally becomes heated and throws off
an odor that is not only objectionable in an incubator room (more especially if the room should
happen to be poorly ventilated) but in some cases it seriously affects the hatch. After filling from
the Delphos Non-Overflow Pump Can no oil remains on the lamp to be wiped off, because it is
impossible for the oil to overflow or drip from the can on to the lamp.

The pump on the Delphos Can is made with two tubes — one conveying the oil from the can
to the lamp, the other acting as a siphon and returning the surplus oil to the can when the lamp
is filled. Users will appreciate the value of this feature, as it does away with the odor and
waste connected with the use of ordinary oil cans. It also minimizes the danger from fire.
This can is built of heavy galvanized iron and is practically indestructible.

Prices: 2-galloii can.. $1.00 3-gallon can. .$1.25 5-gallon can. .$1.50

WEIGHTS:! 2-gallon can, 3 pounds; 3-gaIlon can, 5 pounds; S-gallon can, 8 pounds.
SPECIAL— Be ture to read "Assorted Order" notice, tee page 153.

1S7

Fig. 1. — Photographic vie

ordinary burner, shown

medium-height flame.

Fig. 2 — Photographic view
of same burner as in Fig 1.
with Cyphers Flame Reducer
attached, illustrating the re-
duced flame produced with
wick same height as before.

Cyphers Perfected Pedigree Egg Tray

For Use in Hatching Pedigreed Chicks and for Keeping Separate the Chicks Hatched From
> Different Lots of Eggs Laid by Any Variety of Fowls

PEDIGREE TRAYS are in demand by poultry raisers
who use trap nests of various kinds for special
breeding purposes; also by those who wish to keep
in separate lots, until properly toe-marked, the chicks
hatched from eggs of any variety of fowls obtained from
different matings, or from different pens. They are a
valuable aid to systematic, scientific poultry breeding.
By their use the eggs placed in a No. o or No. i Standard
Cyphers Incubator can be kept in four separate lots;
also the chicks that hatch therefrom, and the eggs in a
No. 2 or No. 3 Standard Cyphers can be kept in eight
separate lots, also the chicks that hatch therefrom.

We have manufactured pedigree trays ever since the
Standard Cyphers Incubators were first placed on the
market, and have sold thousands of them. Our latest
improved pedigree trays, with removable bottoms to
the egg compartments, have now been on the market
several years and have given uniform satisfaction. The
illustrations herewith will give the reader a clear idea of
the simplicity, convenience and practical infallibility
of this perfected device. The illustration below shows the
bottom of one egg compartment in the act of being removed,
thus to allow easy access by the operator to the chick
nursery compartment directly underneath.

These pedigree trays are used only during the last
three days of the hatch, the fertile eggs being transferred
to them from the regular trays just before the eggs begin

Cyphers Perfected Pedigree Egg Tray, showing method of
removing bottom of egg compartment to gain access to chick
nursery compartment.

to pip. After the chicks hatch and gain strength they
move forward in each egg compartment toward the
light and drop through the opening into the corresponding
nursery compartment directly below. They thus
obtain the benefit of the lower temperature in the nursery
compartment until the hatch is completed. The tray is
then removed and the four lots of chicks, enclosed in the
four separate compartments, may be toe-marked at
leisure without danger of their mixing.

These trays are strongly built of high-grade materials
and are warranted to last a lifetime. We guarantee them
to work satisfactorily.

SPECIAL NOTICE:— These Perfected Pedigree Trays
fit only Standard Cyphers Incubators of the 1906 and later
patterns. We still manufacture our former type of pedi-
gree tray for use in Standard Cyphers Incubators manu-
factured previous to 1906, but the Perfected Pedigree Trays,
as illustrated and described herewith,will fit only machines
built in 1906 and later.

When ordering the Standard Cyphers Incubators, if you
want a pedigree tray or trays, be sure to say so and enclose the
extra amount with your order. If you now own one or more
Standard Cyphers Incubators, and desire to obtain a pedi-
gree tray or trays, be sure to specify in your order both the
size of the machine and the year in which it was manufac-
tured.

Prices of Perfected Pedigree Egg Trays

No. 0 Pedigree Tray, weight, 7 lbs. each $2.00

No. 1 Pedigree Tray, weight, 11 lbs. each 2.50

No. 2 Pedigree Tray, weight, 18 lbs. per pair . 5.00
No. 3 Pedigree Tray, weight, 20 lbs. per pair . 6.00

Electrobator Pedigree Egg Tray

For Use in Dividing the Hatching Chamber of Electrobators into Tivo or Three Apartments
and to keep the Chicks Separate

THIS PEDIGREE EGG TRAY serves the same pur-
pose, and is constructed of the same material as
the Perfected Pedigree Egg Tray for Oil-Heated
Incubators, described above. It is to be used in the same
manner as regards placing eggs in it only during the last
three days of the hatch. The illustration shows the Elec-
trobator Pedigree Egg Tray in position on regular egg tray.
Complete illustrated directions furnished with each tray.
When ordering the Electrobator Pedigree Egg Tray
state size of your Electrobator, and give outside measure-
ments of regular egg tray.

Prices of Electrobator Pedigree Egg Trays
For No. 1 Electrobator, weight, 3H lbs. each. $1.00
For No. 2 Electrobator, weight, 5 lbs. each. . . 1.25

Boston Dry Food Hoppers (Patented)

The Food-Saving, Rat-Proof Hopper That Made Dry-Feeding of Poultry a Success

NEW Englanders are not wasteful. On the con-
trary, they are noted for thrift and economy.
Furthermore, that section of the country, Hke
the Rocky Mountain region, the Pacific Coast States and
a large portion of the South, has to buy most of the
grain it uses, and we all know that grain has been a
costly necessity during the last few years.

It was "thrift and economy" of the genuine New
England brand that conceived and invented the Boston
Dry Food Hopper for poultry, a device that saves one-
half of the food in the day time and that is rat-proof at
night.

The Boston Food Hopper was placed on sale less than
three years ago, and thus far more than 50,000 of them have
been sold in all parts of the United States and Canada.
They are in successful use on nearly every experiment
station poultry plant in America. They are used in
half-dozen, dozen and hundred lots by the foremost
poultry breeders, such as Owen Farms, U. R. Fishel,
Ernest Kellerstrass,
etc., and are pub-
licly endorsed by
practical poultry
authorities like A. F.
Hunter, Dr. N. W.
Sanborn, I. K.
Felch, Edward
Brown (England) and
hundreds of others.
Writing for the
December, i 9 i 0 ,
issue of a prominent
poultry p a p e r , D.
Lincoln O r r , ex-
president of the
American Poultry
Large Dry Feed Size Holds 'A bushel. Association, said of
Price $1 00 Beef Scrap Hopper is the Boston Dry
Food Hopper: —

"I notice t h e
Cyphers Incubator Company has bought the Boston Food
Hopper. I consider this hopper a very valuable ad-
junct to poultry keeping. It is, from my point of view,
the very best dry- mash hopper, and while I am not
writing to increase its sales for the benefit of the com-
pany, / am writing to increase the egg yield of the
poultryman who will buy and use it. It gives
me great satisfaction, saves time, saves teed and in-
creases the egg production. I can heartily endorse it as a
good hopper."

These hoppers are made in four sizes,, two for chicks
and two for adult fowls. See illustrations and prices
herewith. Half bushel size is for dry-feed of any kind,
fed either indoors or outdoors; similar shaped smaller size
is for beef scrap, charcoal, oyster shell, grit, etc. Chick
sizes keep food clean and prevent bowel trouble.

ANNOUNCEMENT

TO THE PUBLIC—

It gives me pleasure to announce to the public
that on October i, 1910, the entire business of the
Boston Dry Food Hopper Company, together with
all rights to manufacture and sell this article in the
United States, was sold and transferred to the Cyphers
Incubator Company, who will conduct the manufac-
ture and sale of this Hopper in the future along the
lines already established. Respectfully,

BOSTON DRY FOOD HOPPER COMPANY.
F. W. Ruggles.

these hoppers
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or less in the case
of chicks. Besides
this they will help
greatly to keep your
fowls and chicks in a
healthy condition
by insuring them
clean food entirely
free from filth of any
kind. Every poul-

Hopper is locked for the night by a hook

:ing
•oof.

FREE BOOKLET
FORTY-EIGHT
PAGES :

WRITE TODAY (a postal will
do) asking our nearest place of
business for copy of free booklet
telling all about Boston Dry Food
Hoppers, how to use them and the money they will save
you. Contains valuable information on "Thrift in
Poultry Keeping"; also contains numerous favorable
reports from users of the Boston Hoppers.

Long Chicken Size. Price $1.50.

PRICE LIST :

LARGE DRY FEED $1.00

17 in. high, 8 in. deep, 13 in. wide.

Holds one-half bushel. Weight, i}^ lbs.
BEEF SCRAP, GRIT, Etc 90

17 in. high, 8 in. deep, 7 in. wide.

Holds one peck. Weight, 3 lbs.
SHORT CHICKEN SIZE 1.00

15 in. long, 8 in. high, 4}4 in. deep.

Holds one-half peck. Weight, 2M lbs.
LONG CHICKEN SIZE 1.50

29 in. long, 8 in. high, 4}/^ in. deep.

Holds one peck. Weight, 3}^ lbs.
QUANTITY PRICES :

Five per cent, discount for six on one order;

ten per cent, discount for twelve. Orders

may be assorted sizes. Take low freight rate

as tinware.

Cyphers Dry-Food Hopper

An Economical and Sanitary Self-Feeding Device for Use with Dry Food

THIS IS A FOOD-SAVING AND LABOR-SAVING device that will appeal at once to
the judgment of every thrifty person who wishes to make the most money possible
out of poultry keeping and at the same time reduce to the minimum all necessary labor
connected with the care of the fowls. It is used by thousands of poultry raisers for feeding
dry-grain food, either whole or ground.

THE CYPHERS SELF - FEEDING DRY - HOPPER is machine-made, out of heavy
galvanized iron, and has two compartments, a large one for grain mixtures, holding about six
quarts, and a small one for beef scrap, holding about three quarts. The trough of this hopper
is high enough to prevent waste and at the same time allows free access to the food. Hopper
is provided with a hinged cover, which protects the grain at all times from moisture and filth.
It is also supplied with a strong handle for convenience in filling and handling. These hoppers
should be hung against the wall of a poultry house or other enclosure where fowls are kept. The
handle serves for this purpose — see illustration.

THE HOPPER-METHOD OF FEEDING is both practical and economical. All who
are interested in dry-feeding and wish to economize on the cost of grain and beef scrap should
use these Dry-Food Hoppers.

Prices, safely crated for shipment: Each, 75c; per J^ dozen, $2.10; per 14 dozen,
$3.90; per dozen, $7.20. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Each, 1 lb.; H dozen, IS lbs.; H dozen, 25 lbs.; 1 dozen, 50 lbs.

Cyphers Grit and Shell Box

Necessary on Every Well-Equipped Poultry Plant, Small or Large

IF ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR OWN WAY about it, fowls are extremely wasteful—
especially of grit, oyster shell, charcoal, etc. They persist in picking at these materials
with their beaks and will scatter them about and trample under foot perhaps half of the
amount that is supplied in open dishes and feed troughs. Here, in such case, is a 50 per
cent, loss and these needless losses should be stopped, if your poultry investment is to be made
to pay and pay well.

CYPHERS GRIT AND SHELL BOXES not only will enable you to stop this loss, in
large part, but they possess true sanitary value, because their use prevents poultry — both adult
fowls and growing chicks — from picking up and swallowing unsanitary substances that
adhere to or become mixed with grit, shell and charcoal that are scattered on the ground or fed
in open receptacles.

CYPHERS COMPANY'S type of Grit and Shell Box— see picture — is made by special
stamping machinery, out of the best grade of galvanized iron. It has three compartments —
for grit, oyster shell and charcoal — but where a small flock is kept will serve the purpose of a
Dry-Food Hopper to excellent advantage. Like our Dry-Food Hopper, it is provided with a
cover or lid placed on a slant, preventing the fowls from roosting on'the box.

Prices, safely crated for shipment: Each, 50c; per }^ dozen, $1.40; per Y^
dozen, $2.70; per dozen, $4.80. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Each, 5 lbs.; Ji dozen, 10 lbs.; )4 dozen, 20 lbs.; 1 dozen, 40 lbs.

Cyphers Separable Drinking Fountains

Low-Priced — Easy to Clean — Will Last Many Years

THE WATER SUPPLY is the medium that sometimes conveys contagious diseases from one fowl to another.
For example, water in the drinking vessel is liable to come in contact with and be infected by the discharges
from the nostrils of roupy fowls. It is essential, therefore, that the drinking fountains used for poultry shall be
not only suitable for holding water, but should also be
easy to clean. The fountain manufactured by us is as easy
to clean and air in the sun as any milk pan, and can be boiled
in water or scalded without injury.

CYPHERS DRINKING FOUNTAINS are made of
heavy galvanized iron by the use of steel dies. We make these
fountains in four sizes. The smaller size (i quart) is designed
for chicks, and is especially handy for use in brooders, nurs-
eries, etc. The medium size (2 quarts) is for larger chicks and
ducklings, or for small or medium-sized flocks of fowls. The
3\'2 quarts size is designed for large chickens, ducklings and
adult fowls. The largest size holds two gallons and is used
extensively by breeders of ducks and large flocks.
Prices: Small size, each, 18c; per }4 dozen, 50c; per 3^ dozen, 90c; per dozen, $1.75. Medium size,
each, 25c; per J^ dozen, 70c; per J^ dozen, $1.25; per dozen, $2.40. Large size, each, 35c; per }4 dozen,
95c; per y^ dozen, $1.80; per dozen, $3.30. Special duck size, each, 50c; per }4 dozen, $1.35; per }4
dozen, $2.50; per dozen, $4.90. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Small size, each, S lbs.; Jf dozen, 7 lbs.; M dozen, 8 lbs.; 1 dozen, 12 lbs.; Medium size, each, 6 lbs. ; K dozen, 8 lbs.
a dozen, 11 lbs.; 1 dozen, 16 lbs. Large size, each, 7 lbs.; M dozen, 9 lbs.; H dozen. 16 lbs.; 1 dozen, 23 lbs. Special duck size, each,
8 lbs.; a dozen, 15 lbs.; }^ dozen, 20 lbs.; 1 dozen, 40 lbs.

SPECIAL— Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 1S3.

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Cyphers Combined Food and Water Holders

For Chickens and Ducks of All Ages

THESE Combined Food and Water Dishes will be
found convenient for feeding or watering chicks,
fowls or ducks. They are especially recom-
mended for use in feeding mashes of any kind ; also steamed
or dry alfalfa or clover. Where this protected receptacle ,
is used, a saving of 15 to 25 per cent, in food-stuff may be ■
counted on.

The guard lifts out of the pan, making them easy to
clean. There is nothing to get out of order. Cyphers
Combined Food and Water Holders are made of heavy
galvanized iron, and will prove to be safe, sanitary, saving
and serviceable. Made in three sizes.

Prices: Small size, 10 inches long, 4 inches wide, each, 30c; per dozen, $3.00. Medium size, 18
inches long, 5 inches wide, each, 50c; per dozen, $5.00. Large size, 24 inches long, 6 inches wide,
each, 75c; per dozen, $8.25. (By freight or express.)

do2Pen, 45 lbs. Medium size, each 10 lbs.; 1 dozen, 50 lbs. Large size, each 12 lbs.;

Cyphers Keep-Clean Wall Fountains

Widely Popular Style of Drinking Fount For Adult Fowls

THESE HANDY FOUNTAINS are an original Cyphers
Company product and give complete satisfaction. They
are extra convenient to handle and are more sanitary than
the ordinary fountains that stand on the ground or on the level of a
poultry house floor where they are soon kicked full of litter and
different forms of dirt.

CYPHERS WALL FOUNTAINS are flattened at the back so
that they can be hung on the wall of a building, or against a post,
tree or fence at any height. A galvanized-iron hood projects over
the water trough and protects the water from becoming soiled.
These fountains are equally serviceable for young chickens or adult
fowls, and are especially useful for pigeons. They will not break
by freezing, and are readily cleaned by partly filling with round
pebbles, pieces of rock, bits of crockery-ware, coarse grit or shot, and
shaking thoroughly.

CYPHERS WALL FOUNTAINS are made of the best galva-
nized iron, are stamped by machinery with perfect steel dies, are
mechanically finished in all respects and are guaranteed to last many
years with proper treatment.
i dozen, $1.40; per }4 dozen, $2.70; per dozen, $5.00. 2-gallon
dozen, $4.20; per dozen, $7.80. (By freight or express.)
15 lbs.; a dozen, 25 lbs.; 1 dozen, 50 lbs, 2-gallon size, each 12 lbs.; }i dozen,

Prices: 1-gallon size, each, 50c; per ;
size, each, 75c; per 34 dozen, $2.20; per }

WEIGHTS: 1 -gallon size, each 10 lbs.; M dozen
18 lbs.; H dozen, 36 lbs.; 1 dozen, 72 lbs.

Sanitary Chick Servers

For Supplying Food and Water to Small Chicks. Many Thousands of Them in Use

The type of Sanitary Chick Server
illustrated herewith is used extensively by
experienced, successful poultrymen as a
food and water dish for little chickens on
range and confined in brooders, brooding
houses, etc. Pictures show that this Server
consists of two parts and is separable,
making it convenient in use. easy to clean
and therefore sanitary. We recommend
this Chick Server for use in feeding small
chicks, also in supplying water for them to
drink.

Prices of Chick Servers
One size only, 25 cents each; $1.40
per }4 dozen; $2.65 per dozen.

WEIGHTS: One, 5 lbs.; six, 8 lbs.; 1 dozen,
12 lbs.
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Ready For Use.

Revolving Egg Cabinets

Used for Storing and Turning Eggs — Keeps Them Fresh

EGGS INTENDED FOR HATCHING should be turned daily, especially as warm weather approaches.
The warmer the temperature the more necessary it is that they be turned. Eggs for market should be turned
every two or three days if they are to be kept any length of time. Eggs for table use (not fertilized) have been
kept from two to three months in an ordinary
cellar by using these cabinets.

WOODS REVOLVING EGG CABINETS,
manufactured solely by Cyphers Incubator Com-
pany, under United States patent rights, are a
practical device for doing this work and for years
have supplied a widespread need among poultry-
men who save eggs for hatching and for table use.
Each egg is held in place by a pair of steel wire
clips and the egg racks are removable for filling.

EVERY WELL - EQUIPPED POULTRY
PLANT should have one or more of these cabi-
nets. The saving from the loss in broken eggs

and the loss of time in handling will soon equal Woods Revolving Egg Cabinet in Three Positions, Showing

the purchase price. How the Eggs are Turned.

Prices: 150-egg size, weight, 30 lbs., $3.50; 288-egg size, weight, 55 lbs., $5.50; 560-egg size, weight,
75 lbs., $7.25; 1050-egg size, weight, 100 lbs., $11.00

Eureka Egg Package

For Use in Shipping Hatching Eggs. Light — Durable — Safe

THIS is without doubt the safest, cheapest and best package on the market for shipping eggs for hatching. This
package is so constructed that each egg is encased in a cylinder made of heavy corrugated paper, which conforms
to the shape of the egg, the end of each egg resting on a cushion support, thus giving absolute protection
to the vital parts. These cylinders are adjustable to any size egg and therefore prevent breakage.

The Eureka Package is built of corrugated board and possesses great strength. Every package is supplied with
sufficient tape to seal the cover securely. Our 15, 30, 50 and loo-egg packages are especially strong and compact.

The eggs are placed in tiers one above the other, the
layers being separated by a thick pad of single-faced,
extra-heavy, corrugated paper. There positively is
no way in which the contents of this box can be
tampered with without leaving traces, when our
directions for packing, which accompany every box,
are followed.

Prices of Eureka Egg Package

Per]

15-egg size. Weight, 91^ lbs. $1.80

30-egg size. Weight, 12 J-^ lbs. 2.40

50-egg size. Weight, 18 lbs. 3.00

100- egg size, Weight, 35 lbs. 4.00

Per 100
$12.50
16.50
20.00
30.00

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! IS believing." — For 20 cents we will send you prepaid.
IS-sss Eureka Package, for trial shipment. Only one
same person.

Egg Cases for Shipping Market Eggs

Equipped with Double Hinges and Extra Heavy Fillers

WE MANUFACTURE THESE CASES OURSELVES from well-
seasoned lumber, dressed on both sides, and guarantee their
strength and durability. The covers are fitted with double hinges,
so that they may be doubled back without injuring the covers, and also are
fitted with fasteners by which the cover to each case can be locked when it
is closed down.

The partitions and fillers supplied by us with these cases are manufac-
tured from A- 1 extra heavy cardboard and will stand three times the rough
usage as will the ordinary filler. Cyphers Egg Cases are first-class for shipping
large numbers of eggs for hatching. On such occasions one tier of fillers may
be taken out to make room for the additional packing necessary. Each case is
divided into two parts, each half holding five squares of fillers, three dozen eggs
to a square. One size only, capacity 30 dozen. Weight, 18 pounds.

Prices: Complete, including fillers $1.25

SPECIAL— Be sure to

"Assorted Order" notice, see page 153,

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Paper Egg Boxes

Just the Thing for Your Family Egg Trade

THESE boxes are intended for use in delivering eggs to private families.
They are exceedingly neat in appearance and go a great way toward making
satisfied customers. They ship "knocked-down," can easily be set up
and sent by express or freight at very low rates. The customer, after using
contents, can take them apart and return them.

Prices: 1-doz. size, per doz., 15c; per 100, $1.00; per 1,000, $6.00.

WEIGHTS: 1 doz. 1 H lbs.; 100, 10 lbs.; 1.000, 100 lbs.

Handy Egg Carrier

A Favorite for Delivering Small Quantities of Eggs

IF you require a carrier in which to deliver eggs to your private customers the
Handy Egg Carrier will prove to be just what you need. These boxes are
strongly made of 5-8-inch white pine, and are finished with a gloss coat of green
paint. The cover is securely hinged and is provided with a patent crate fastener and
a neat handle.

Prices: 3 doz. size, each 40c; per doz. $4.40. 5 doz. size, each 50c; per
doz. $5.25. 8 doz. size, each 60c; per doz. $6.50. 12 doz. size,
each 70c; per doz. $7.75. 15 doz. size, each 85c; per doz. $9.50.
WEIGHTS: 3 doz. ■ ze. each 3 lbs., 1 doz. 40 lbs.; 5 doz. size, each 4i^ lbs., 1 doz. 60 1

8 doz. size, each 7 lbs., 1 c
12 lbs., Idoz. 143 lbs.

12 doz. size, each 10 lbs., 1 doz. 125 lbs.; 15 doz.

Shipping Boxes For Day-Old Chicks

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URING the past few years the day-old chick
usiness has experienced a wonderful growth,
o much depends upon the condition in which
the chicks reach their destination that the success
of the undertaking may be said to hinge upon this
one point. To meet the demand that exists for a
suitable box in which to ship chicks we have designed
and placed on the market the style of box illustrated
herewith. These boxes are well made of high test
corrugated paper, and meet all of the following
requirements: —

Strength, to prevent crushing; light weight, to re-
duce express charges and please your customers; perfect
insulation, to afford protection against heat and cold ;
low cost, lower than anything ekse that is fit for the purpose.

100 chick size, $2.50 per doz.

easily assembled, thus requiring but a minute or two of

We make these boxes in three sizes.

Prices: 25 chick size, $1.25 per doz. 50 chick size, $1.50 per doz

WEIGHTS: 25 chick size, 1 doz. 10 Ib.s.; SO chick size, 1 doz. 17 lbs.; 100 chick
Bize, 1 doz. 26 lbs.

Shipping Coops for Fine Poultry

Light in Weight; Roomy, Strong and Durable

WE MANUFACTURE THESE COOPS and warrant them to be the
Ughtest, strongest and most durable on the market. They are
made from well-seasoned white pine lumber, and therefore are
extremely light in weight, thus reducing the express charges.

These coops are shipped knocked-down, but are practically set up, as
compared with other styles of so-called knocked-down coops. The sides are
nailed to corner cleats and the ends to top and bottom cleats; hence all that
is necessary for the poultryman to do to make ready for use is to drive nails
in each corner.

Attention is also called to the dimensions of these coops. They are of sizes
which experience has taught us to be the proper ones for shipping valuable
birds safely. Many coops are too wide, thus permitting birds to turn in them
and injure the tail feathers; other coops are altogether too low, not giving
the birds a chance to stand erect; still others subject the fowls to drafts.
There positively is not a better coop manufactured for the purpose than the
Cyphers Shipping Coop, and we have found that Cyphers Company cus-
tomers who desire to have their shipments reach destination safely are willing
to pay the price necessary to get a first-class article.

No. 2, lo}^ in. wide, iS in. long, 213-^ in. high, is suitable for single birds
of any variety or a pair of Mediterraneans. Weight, lo pounds.

No. 4, loj^ in. wide, 24 in. long, 21}^ in. high, is suitable for Asiatic male,
American or Mediterranean pair, or small Mediterranean trio. Weight, 1 2 pounds.

No. 6, 19J4 in. wide, 24 in. long, 2iJ^ in. high, is for pens of five birds of any variety. Weight, 16 pounds.

In comparing prices, do not compare the prices of these coops with those charged for paper or muslin coops, or coops
made from cheap, low-grade, flimsy lumber.

Prices: No. 2, 45c each; per doz., $5.15. No. 4, 55c each; per doz., $6.25. No. 6, 65c each; per doz., $7.40.

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Practical Poultry Markers and Leg Bands

Marking the Chicks and Fowls for Identification

EVERY UP-TO-DATE POULTRYMAN realizes the
necessity of properly marking his fowls, whether he
breeds for the show room or for market. The fancier
must have some method of marking individual birds so they can '
be identified for scoring, keeping track of pedigree, etc. The
market poultryman must also have some accurate method of '
keeping tab on the age of his fowls, and thereby guard against
birds being kept until they are past the profit-producing stage '
and become profit consumers Nearly every poultryman will
want to know at some time just what birds were hatched from '
a certain pen or flock, or at a particular time.

Marking Chicks. — A popular system of marking chicks in ,
order to keep a record of hatches is to punch the web in the '
chick's foot. The operation is entirely painless to the chick, and
an entire hatch can be toe-marked in a few moments. From *
the diagram illustrated herewith it will be seen that sixteen

different breeds or matings can be toe-marked without duplication. For instance, the poultryrran can mark all the
chicks in one hatch as shown in Figure 2, and then the next hatch will be marked as in Figuie 3. By following
this plan chicks from special matings or pens, even though hatched with chicks from other matings, can be marked
for positive identification at any time.

Marking Fowls. — When the fowls have grown older, the poultryman will find that the use of leg bands, every one
bearing a number, will prove the best means for identification. A number of different styles of bands are manufactured
for this purpose. We list on this page some of the best and most reliable. The descriptive matter will guide the reader
in determining the kind best suited to his needs.

One of the best methods for applying leg bands, especially for market poultrymen, is to put the leg bands on the
right foot of birds hatched in the even year and on the left foot of those hatched in the odd year. Thus, birds raised
in 191 1 would have bands placed on the left foot, and those raised in 191 2 would be banded on the right foot, enabling
the owner to tell at a glance which are the old birds without having to refer to the band numbers.

Perfect Pocket Poultry Punch

THIS is an all-steel, nickel plated device for which there is a large demand
among poultrymen who do not require a larger and more expensive tool.
Punches a clean hole of the right size, and will not bruise the chick's foot.
Made in one size only.

Price: each, postpaid 25c

Cyphers Poultry Marker

WHEN the difference in price can be afforded, we recommend the use of
this chick marker, as compared with lower-priced markers. Con-
structed on the principle of a leather punch, it is easy to use and will
last a life time. There is a strong spring in the head of this marker, which opens
the jaws, and it makes a good, clean cut without mutilating the web as do many
cheaper punches. These markers are made of substantial materials and we guar-
antee them to meet requirements.

Price: each, postpaid 50c

Standard Lever Poultry Marker

WHERE a poultryman has several hundred or a number of thousand chicks
to toe-mark each season, and is going to continue in the business for
years, we advise the purchase of the Standard Lever Poultry Punch. It
is well worth the price.

Price: each, postpaid $1.00

Climax Leg Bands

THIS is the original "spring wire and clasp" leg band. Over one million of
these bands have been sold, and they give universal satisfaction. Many
breeders having feathered-leg varieties of fowls prefer these wire bands for
the reason that they do not break the feathers so easily as the flat bands. Not
more than three figures can be stamped on each tag. We usually number them
from 1-12, 1-25, 1-50, or i-ioo unless otherwise ordered, but can number from
i-iooo or stamp with initials if desired. The Climax Leg Band is not made in
pigeon sizes. In ordering always give sizes wanted, or breed of fowls and number
of males -and females.
postpaid: 12, 15c; 25, 30c; 50, 45c; 100, 75c; 250, $1.75; 500, $3.25; 1,

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

i, $6.0

Champion Adjustable Leg Bands

THIS is a well-known leg band. It is one of the oldest bands on the market and has met with
an immense sale during several years past.
It is well and durably made from one thin
strip of aluminum, and is used by hundreds of
successful breeders and exhibitors. Being held
by a double lock, it is impossible for them to come off.

They are made in two sizes, adjustable to fit small to medium and medium to large fowls. State size or breed.
Prices, postpaid: 12 15c 25 30c 50 50c 100 80c

Ideal Aluminum Leg Bands

perfect satisfaction. They are light, neat, strong and

IDEAL Aluminum Leg Bands meet with a large sale a
durable, easily and quickly put on, and will stay on.

This band has a double clinch, making it
more secure than the single-clinch style. The
lock is also very firm, with no room for friction,
consequently will not wear and break off where
connections are made, as so often happens with
other bands. The Ideal Band is sold in five
different sizes. The accompanying illustration
shows the exact size. When ordering, specify
the size of band you wish.

No. 2 bands are for pigeons; Jvlo. 4 are for
bantams, except Cochin bantams; No. 6 for Ham-
burgs, Polish, Cochin bantams and for all birds
in the Mediterranean class, except Minorcas;
No. 8 for Minorcas, Cornish Indians and ducks,
and all birds in the American class; No. 10 for
birds in the Asiatic class, also turkeys and geese.

Prices, postpaid: 12 15c 25 30c 50 50c 100..

Double Clinch Leg Bands

THE Double Clinch is one of the most popular flat bands on the market. It has an excep-
tionally strong fastening, consisting of two clinches which close down over the ends of the
band in such a way as to make it practically impossible to lose them off.
These bands are made in the same sizes as the Smith Sealed Bands. In ordering always
state size desired.

Prices: (prepaid by mail or express) 12 for 15c 25 for 25c 50 for 40c

100 for 65c 250 for $1.50 500 for $2.75 1000 for $5.25

Smith Sealed Leg Bands

IMITH Sealed Leg Bands provide a positive protection against fraud. They are so constructed that they cannot

^ be removed without destroying the band, and as no duplicate numbers are issued, it is impossible for one fowl

to be substituted for another without detection. These bands are used and recommended by a majority

of the large poultry associations, and
were the official bands of the Louis-
iana Purchase and Pan - American
Expositions.

Made in Six Sizes: — No. I, for
Bantams; No. 2, for Mediterranean
and Pit Game females; No. 3, for
Mediterranean males, American
females and Pit Game males; No. 4,
for American males and turkey hens;
No. 5, for large Asiatic males and
turkey toms; No. 6, for extra large
Asiatics and large turkey toms.

60 for $1.00 100 for $1.50

1000 for $12.50

Extra for stamping name and address, or not to exceed three initials on bands, 10c per 100^
or 6c for 50 or less. If name and address, or more than three initials are desired, add 15c per
letter for cost of making special steel stamp.

Price of Sealers: Plain, 50c; lettered jaw, 65c; nickel-plated
lettered jaw, 75c
Pigeon Band Sealers same prices as above.
SPECIAL — Be lure to read "Amtorted Order" notice, >ee page 1S3.

Cuts Show Exact Length.

Prices, postpaid: 12 for 30c 25 for 50c

250 for $3.50 500 for $6.50

The Smith Sealer.

Caponizing Instruments

Their Use Increases the Market Value of Surplus Cockerels Fifty Per Cent.

CAPONIZING THE SURPLUS COCKERELS each season and thereby increasing their market value about so
per cent, has now become an estabhshed branch of the poultry industry. The operation is simple, is easily
learned and can be completed in from one to three minutes, depending on the practice the operator has had.
Fatal results are seldom met with and the operation itself is practically painless, the birds making no outcry.

Curtiss Caponizing Set

THIS set is used generally by the practical poultrymen of Eastern Massa-
chusetts who produce the famous "South Shore Soft Roasters" for the
fastidious Boston market. It was invented after years of experimenting
by J. H. Curtiss, the father of the "Soft Roaster" trade in the South Shore
district. Cyphers Incubator Company, several years ago, bought the manu-
facturing and selling rights for this professional set of instruments, and by
making them in large lots was able to reduce the price from $5.50 per set to
the present low figure.

The Curtiss caponizing instruments have special features of value not
found in other sets. The lancet is peculiarly adapted to its purpose and the
old - fashioned canula is replaced by an up-to-date instrument which serves
the double purpose of cutting and removing without the aid of forceps, leaving
one hand free to manage the operation. Full printed directions with
each set.

Price of Complete Set: In neat and substantial velvet-lined case, postpaid $4.00

Greiner Caponizing Set

THE Greiner Caponizing Set is especially designed to simplify the
operation of caponizing, so that the beginner can easily master it.
We recommend it as the best low-price set in popular use. This
set consists of a lancet-shaped knife, spring-spreader, forceps, hook, ring-
probe and canula. The special spring-spreader, the spreading-strain of
which is held in check by a lock, holds open to the right extent the
incision into the intestinal cavity, making it easy to reach and
the testicles. Printed directions with each set.

Price: In substantial wooden case, postpaid $3.00

Farmer Miles Caponizing Set

r I aHE instruments combining the Farmer Miles Caponizing Set have long been recognized by practical poultrymen
I as being among the most satisfactory for the purpose on the market. They are used by many large capon
raisers and are so well known it is unnecessary to describe them at length. The set is composed of knife,
spreader forceps, sharp hook, loop forceps and all necessary cord and hooks for holding the bird. All instruments are
manufactured from the best materials obtainable and no expense is spared to make them faultless. Each set is put up
in a fine velvet-lined case and is accompanied by full instructions.

Price: Per Set, complete, postpaid $7.00

Gape- Worm Extractors

A Practical Device That Has Proved Its Value

IN some localities, partly-grown chicks are attacked by gape worms and if not properly treated will succumb to
these parasites. They lodge in the windpipe and must be extracted if the fowl is to recover. When one-
fourth or one-half grown chicks mope about, lose flesh, and are colorless about the head, look first for

lice, and if found reasonably free from lice, then look
for gape worms. If there are any, they will be found
adhering to the walls of the windpipe. The most inex-
perienced poultryman will have no trouble in removing these worms by the use of the Gape- Worm Extractor,
illustrated herewith.

Price, postpaid 25c

Cyphers Pattern French Poultry KiUing Knife

For Killing Chickens, Ducks, Geese or Turkeys

EVERY poultry raiser who kills and dresses for market either
chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys, should own one of these
knives. They are made of finely-tempered instrument steel,
with nickel handle, and will last a lifetime. Whether you have half-a-dozen or several hundred fowls to kill and
dress for market, one of these knives will prove a highly satisfactory investment.

Price, postpaid 50c

SPECIAI^—Be I

to read "Anorted Order" notice,

166

1S3.

Cyphers Powder Guns

A Necessary Article in Every Poultry Yard. Made in Two Sizes

THESE Insect Powder Guns were originally designed to meet a demand for as
large a gun as can be held in the hand. The bottom, or spout part, as may
be seen in the picture, screws on or off, and makes a large opening for
filling with powder. Just the thing for applying Cyphers Lice Powder. Made in
two sizes. Thousands of them in use — a standard article.

Prices: Large Jumbo size, each 25c; postpaid, 30c
Small size, each 10c; postpaid, 12c

Climax Spray Pumps

A Popular-Price Sprayer for Poultrymen

I REAT advantage is derived by the use of these sprayers in

exterminating potato bugs, tobacco, corn, tomato and

currant worms, and all plant insects; also in killing lice

in poultry houses. They are used extensively on horses, cattle

and swine, and for spraying clothes, carpets, cigar wrappers,

etc.; in fact, wherever a sprayer is needed. These sprayers are

light, strong, compact and well-made. Each is tested with an automatic spray pump before it leaves the factory. We

recommend this pump for spraying Cyphers Lice Paint, Napcreol Disinfectant and Anti-Fly Pest. Weight, i}4, lbs.

Prices: Each, tin, 50c; express prepaid, 70c

Success Spray Pump

for Whitewashing, Window Washing, Buggy Washing,
Tree Spraying, Etc.

MANY poultrymen have become tired of whitewashing their poultry houses in the
old way — with a brush — and are looking for an effective spraying pump, at low cost,
that will do the work satisfactorily and with far less trouble. We offer such a pump
in the Portable Brass Spray Pump, illustrated herewith. This pump is furnished with a
Calla Nozzle, which may be graduated to give a solid stream or a coarse or fine spray. The
Success has a brass cylinder and air chamber, hence will not corrode. It has a steel rod and
is designed to set in a pail or vessel of water, with the foot rest outside. See illustration.
Is also arranged to discharge a fine jet in bottom of bucket. This answers the same purpose
as an agitator, keeps the whitewash or other mixture thoroughly mixed and is especially
recommended for whitewashing, and for spraying trees, bushes, flowers, etc. Pump is
furnished complete with a Calla Nozzle and foot rest. Weight, 23 pounds.

Price, Safely packed $3.75

Wire Nests

Easy to Keep Clean, Vermin-Proof, Indestructible

■^HESE nests are strongly made from heavy japanned steel' wire, iJ/^-inch mesh, and
wiU last a lifetime. They are intended to fasten to the wall with screws or screw
hooks. There is no room on them for lodgment of lice or vermin of any kind; they

easy to keep clean and are far superior to wooden boxes. Weight, i doz., 4 lbs.
Prices, each 15c Per dozen $1.50

Food or Water Cups (For Exhibition coops)

M

ADE of galvanized iron, strong and durable; hold one-half pint each, enough
for all ordinary purposes. The wires can be bent to secure them to any
style of coop. Will soon save their cost in preventing waste of food.

Prices: Each 15c; per dozen, $1.50. If to be
add 5c each for postage

Porcelain Nest Eggs

>HESE eggs are made of first-dass flint glass; they do not break easily and will last indefinitely. It is not advisable
to remove from the nest all the eggs laid unless you provide a nest egg such as the one we offer.
Prices of Porcelain Nest Eggs: Two, 5c; per dozen, 25c

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

167

Mann's Green-Bone Cutters

Easiest to Fill, Easiest to Clean, Easiest to Turn — Warranted Against Breakage
Construction — Never Get Out of Order

-Simplest in

THE FEEDING OF RAW BONE AND MEAT pro-
duces more eggs when you want them most; makes
eggs more fertile; insures more vigorous chicks;
matures broilers quicker; makes fowls lay earlier; often
stops egg eating and feather pulling by the flock and helps
to insure the flock against roup and
other ills.

WE HANDLE AND OFFER
FOR SALE the Mann's Green- Bone
Cutters because they are the stand-
ard make for this use and have been
for years. The Mann's Cutter
cuts more rapidly than any other ; its
knives are in action all the time.
The Mann's has a perfectly self-gov-
erning automatic feed. You do not
have to use one hand for controlling
No. 5B. Price $8.00. thefeed— a tiresome, tedious, awkward
process. You drop the bone into the open cylinder, on
one side or both sides of the partition, as you like, drop the
follower in place, clasp on the feed handle, and you are
ready for business, with both hands free to be used one at
a time for turning. The feed is both automatic and self-
governing, a feature not successfully accomplished by any
other bone cutter. All Mann's machines are equipped with
an automatic governing spring feed, and all machines of
No. 7 size or larger have a hinged cylinder which gives
instant access to all working parts.

No. 5 C. This machine
is exactly the same as the No.
5 B, with crank handle instead
of a balance wheel. Weight,
35 lbs.

Price, Complete, $6.(

No. 5 B. This machine
is exactly the same as the No.
5 B. M., except that it has not
the iron stand. The capacity
is the same. Weight, 6o lbs.

Price, Complete, $8.00

No. 5 B. M. Made
Mann's 1903 Model C.ftPr the same principle as

the

No. 7,For Flocks of 100 to larger sizes, and equipped
200 Hens. Price $12.00. with a patented automatic
spring feed handle. The cylinder is 6 inches in diameter
and 4 inches deep. The cutter is mounted on a substantial
iron stand 'which can be fastened to the floor. Weight,
8o lbs. Capacity, about }^ lb. per minute.

Price, Complete, with iron stand . .$10.40

No. 7 Model, is equipped with automatic govern-
ing spring feed. Large, open-hinged cylinder, giving
instant access to all working parts. Six special knives.
Gear guard, anti-clog device. Heavy balance wheel, with
adjustable handle, besides all the best features of all
old-style machines. Weight, 107 lbs. Cylinder, 7)^

inches in diameter, 5}^ inches deep. Capacity, J^ to i lb
per minute.

Price, Complete, $12.00

No. 7 1-2. New

Model, is a combina-
tion hand or power Bone
Cutter. Adapted to
run either way with-
out changing any part.
Meets the demand for
a small power cutter.
Cylinder same size as
No. 7. Capacity, 50 to
100 lbs. per hour.
Weight, 150 lbs.; diam-
eter of the pulley, 1 1 J^
inches, 2^-inch face.
Speed of pulley, 300
revolutions per minute.
Horse power required,
J^ to I.

Price, Complete,
. $16.00

No. 9, New Model, is intended for flocks of 500 to
1,000 hens. This machine is similar to No. 7, but has a
much greater capacity. Weight, 170 lbs. Cylinder, 9
inches in diameter, 6 inches deep.

Price, Complete $18.40

No. 11, New Model, is intended for large flocks when
the machine must be run by hand a portion of the time.
It is the same as No. 9 except it has power attachments.
Horse power required, i to i}^. Weight, 215 lbs.
Diameter of pulley, 15 inches, 3}^-inch face; speed of
pulley, 300 to 3S0 revolutions per minute. Cylinder
same size as No. 9.

Price, Complete $26.00

No. 12, Power Cutter. This machine costs but
$4.00 more than the semi-power, the No. 11, yet is
heavier, stronger, better and more durable. It is
strictly a power machine.
It has all the new pat-
ented improvements ;
open cylinder, auto-
matic governing feed
anti-clog device, ample
space for large box to
catch the product. In
addition, this cutter has
a grab clutch, an im-
portant and novel de-
vice by which it can be
started and stopped in-
stantly. Capacity, 120
to 150 lbs. per hour.
Weight, 260 lbs. Diam-
eter of pulley, 16 inches,
4-inch face; speed of
pulley, 300 to 350 revo-
lutions per minute;

diameter of cylinder, 9 inches. Horse power required, i t
Price, Complete $30.00

No. 12 Power Cutter. Price $30.00.

SPECIAL— Be

read "Assorted Order*'

153.

Mann's Clover Cutter

THIS is a standard machine in every respect. It is made entirely
of iron and steel and cannot warp or shrink. This cutter was
designed with the special object in view of making the knives
simple to adjust and easy to sharpen. Cuts any kind of hay or clover,
either dry or green; cuts it to lengths suitable for poultry, and does the
work more rapidly than any other hand cutter of the same size on the
market. Each revolution of the balance wheel produces twelve cuts,
while other cutters produce only three to eight. Weight, without stand,
60 pounds; with stand, complete, 75 pounds.

Prices: Without stand (for use on bench or table) $ 8.00

With iron stand, all complete 10.00

Banner Root Cutter No. 7

THE illustration shows Banner Root and Vegetable Cutter No. 7,
a cutter made expressly for poultrymen. It quickly cuts the
vegetables into long, round, ribbon-like slices that resemble a
bunch of angle worms, which fowls readily eat up to the last morsel.
This is a strictly high-class machine and at the low price will pay for
itself in a short time by improving the health, vigor and productiveness
of the fowls. Weight, 30 pounds.
Price: Complete $5.00

Root Cutter No. 28

To meet the demand from large plants for a power root cutter we list Root Cutter No. 28. This cutter has
eight steel knives — four corrugated and four plain. We offer it with a crank for hand power and with crank
and pulley for hand or power. This machine cuts all roots and vegetables like beets, potatoes, onions, apples,
turnips, cabbage, etc., so fine that all stock can feed on them without danger of choking. Weight, without pulley. 140
pounds; with pulley, complete, 150 pounds.
Prices: With crank (no pulley) $18.00 Complete with pulley and crank . $20.00

Dry-Bone and Shell Mill

THIS is one of the handiest appliances in use by thrifty poultrymen. It is the best
mill on the market for grinding dry bone, oyster or clam shells, coarse grains like
corn, charcoal, etc. The low price at which it is sold places it within the reach
of every poultry raiser. Diameter of hand wheel, 20 inches.
Prices: Without stand, weight, 33 lbs. $5.00
With stand, weight, 64 lbs . . 7.00

Tennessee Grinding Mill

ALOW-PRICED and handy grinding mill used only for grinding or cracking
grain. Just the machine for the poultryman with a small or moderate
sized flock, or for farm and family use. It is readily taken apart for clean-
ing or oiling. Easily adjusted for fine or coarse grinding of wheat, corn or other
dry grain or spices. All bearings are chilled ; crank is of malleable iron. Grinding
plates made of hardest and strongest metals. Weight, complete, 12 pounds.

Each $2.00 Extra Grinders, per set

Balance-Wheel Grist Mill

A WONDERFULLY rapid grinder, and most desirable in every way. May be
adjusted for coarse or fine grinding. Burrs made of special iron. Grinds
corn and grain of all kinds, also coffee, spice, etc. Can be bolted to a table.
Balance wheel adds steadiness and momentum. Capacity one-half to one bushel per
hour. Weight, 25 pounds.
Price: Each $2.25

SPECIAL— Be i

read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

Lice-Proof Perch Support

in Two Style

T

A Cyphers Company Invention. Thousands Now in Successful Use. Made in Two Styles

THIS all-metal Roost Support was placed on the market by
us to supply the demand for a support sufficiently strong
to withstand the rough usage to which it is subjected, and
is unequalled by any other similar device now in use by poultry
raisers. Thousands of them have been sold by us and our agents
and they have received the endorsement of many repeat orders.

CYPHERS LICE-PROOF PERCH SUPPORTS are manu-
factured of cast iron and with ordinary care will last a lifetime.
They are cheap in price, easily put up and if once tried will always
be used. They are attached to the wall or droppings board with
screws. The oil cup is covered with a cap to prevent an accu-
mulation of dust. Fill each cup with Cyphers Lice Paint or
with ordinary kerosene oil. When the little cup contains the
Wall Perch Support. ^il or lice paint, it is impossible for lice to pass from the walls of Upright Perch Support,
building or droppings board to the roosts or from the roosts to the walls or droppings board.

If you are troubled with lice in your poultry house it will pay you well to purchase a sufficient number of these
Lice-Proof Perch Supports to equip your poultry house so that the fowls can rest in comfort.

Cyphers Lice-Proof Perch Supports are made in two styles. The Wall Perch Support is designed for use where
the perch can be supported from either end, allowing a free space below perch. The Upright Perch Support will be
found convenient for attaching to the droppings board, at ends of perch, or in the case of extra long perches one or
more supports can be placed in the middle.

PRICES OF LICE-PROOF PERCH SUPPORTS:
Wall Support: Per pair, 30c; postpaid, 65c; per }^ dozen single hangers, 90c; per dozen single
hangers, $1.75. (By freight or express.)

Upright Support: Per pair, 40c; postpaid, 90c; per }^ dozen single hangers, $1.10; per dozen
single hangers, $2.10. (By freight or express.)

WEIGHTS: Wall Support- " ■

12 lbs. ; per dozen, 24 lbs.

pair, 3 lbs.; per H dozen, 9 lbs.; per dozen, 18 lbs. Upright Support — 1 pair, 4 lbs.; per ^ i

Hexagon Poultry Netting

This Grade is Galvanized After Weaving and Meets the Requirements

THERE ARE SEVERAL MAKES of comparatively worthless poultry netting on
the market — as many poultry keepers have learned to their sorrow. In line with
our established policy. Cyphers Incubator Company handles a high-grade article
at a popular price. We warrant each bale of Hexagon Poultry Fencing sold by us
to be of full width, of full length, of standard mesh and to be as satisfactory in all respects as
can be bought anywhere.

In comparing our prices with those of other dealers, please take into consideration the
important fact that our No. 19 wire and No. 20 wire are both guaranteed to be full gauge,
to be galvanized after weaving and coated extra heavily with spelter, making it
far more lasting than the cheaper grades.

We quote the 2-inch mesh fencing woven from No. 19 wire, and the i-inch mesh fencing
woven from No. 20 wire. Two-inch mesh fencing made from No. 20 wire is quoted by us at
much lower prices than the prices at which we sell that woven from No. 19 wire, but we
do not recommend fencing of larger mesh than i-inch that is made from wire lighter
than No. 19. Where i-inch mesh is required No. 20 wire is sufficiently heavy. We do not
sell less than full rolls. Carried in following sires: —

ONE-INCH MESH— No. 20 wire: 12, 18, 24 and 36 inches in height.
TWO-INCH MESH— No. 19 wire: 24, 36, 48, 60, 72 and 84 inches in height.
PRICES VARIABLE
Quotations on request. Write for special circular giving lowest prices; for
immediate acceptance.

Poultry Fence Staples

These staples are made from heavy galvanized steel wire, best suited for poultry fencing.
Poultry Fence Staples, Price per pound, 9c.

Perfection Staple Driver

Don't Pound Your Fingers— Use a Perfection Staple Driver. It will Stretch the Wire Also

The crowning feature of the Perfection Staple Driver is that by its use there is no possible chance of pounding
your fingers. This tool overcomes all disagreeable features encountered
in erecting wire fencing. By its use the wire can be stretched and the
staple driven with ease. The wire can be stretched evenly at every angle,
and the staples driven at the points they will do the most good. The
wire can be drawn taut and the staple driven where, without the Staple Driver, it would be impossible. One man
using a Perfection Staple Driver can erect more wire fencing and in better shape than two men can without it.

Price 25c Postpaid 30c

SPECIAL — Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page IS3.

170

Cico Roof Covering

Special Brand and Quality Made for Cyphers Company Customers

CICO IS OUR TRADE-NAME— a contraction of Cyphers Incubator Company—
for a high-grade roofing manufactured for us in large quantities for use on
poultry houses and other buildings; also on roosting coops, brood coops, out- MtnoBFi
door brooders, etc. ■PDSEI

CICO ROOFING is fire - resisting, water - proof, weather-proof and of a quality
to resist extremes of heat and cold; also the heaviest stoTms of rain, hail or
snow. The composition with which it is saturated will not run nor sweat out on hot
days, nor crack during cold weather. It is water-proof throughout — not merely on
the surface. Made from high-grade, long-fiber wool felt, if will out-last, by several
seasons, the usual grades of roofing in general use. Its tough flexibility makes it easy
to lay on any kind of roof. It is odorless and does not taint rain water, as a cheaply-
constructed roofing will do. It is of an elastic nature, which admits the making of joints
around corners and chimneys without breakage or cracking, as do many cheap roof-
ings on the market.

EACH ROLL is 32 inches wide and contains 216 square feet, being suflfi-
cient to cover two squares and to allow for two-inch lap. It is also put up in
half-rolls containing 108 square feet, including two-inch lap. It is ready and easy to
lay, and does not require an expert. Sufficient cement and nails come with each roll.

PRICES OF CICO ROOFING

JPLT: 1 toSiq., pertq. $1.50; 6 to 10 sq., per sq. $1.45; 11 to 30 sq., per sq. $1.40; 31 sq. and over, per sq. $1.35

1 PLY: 1 toSsq., persq. 1.90; 6 to 10 sq., per sq. 1.85; 1 1 to 30 sq. , per sq. 1.80; 31 sq. and over, per sq. 1.75

2 PLY: 1 toSsq., persq. 2.75; 6 to 10 sq. , per sq. 2.60; 11 to 30 sq., per sq. 2.55; 31 sq. and over, per sq. 2.50

3 PLY: 1 to5sq., persq. 3.25; 6 to 10 sq. , per sq. 3.15; 11 to 30 sq., per sq. 3.00; 31 sq. and over, per iq. 2.90

Shipping weight per 2-square roll: H ply, 30 lbs.; 1 ply, 37 lbs.; 2 ply, 47 lbs.; 3 ply, 57 lbs. (By freight or express.)

Cyphers Red Rope Building Paper

A Standard Paper for Lining Houses, Coops, Etc.

DRAFTS ARE FATAL TO FOWLS that are quiet, especially at night. Ventilation is essential to fowl health,
but it must not be in the form of drafts blowing directly upon them. Roofs of poultry houses should be air-
tight as well as water-tight, and the closed outside walls should be draft-proof.
CYPHERS RED ROPE PAPER is recommended by us for this use. It is manufactured especially for us by a
reliable manufacturer. This paper is woven, not coated, and is the same all the way through. It is water-tight,
durable, strong, impervious to air and is not affected by heat or cold. For sheathing and siding we recommend it as
the best paper we have ever used, or that has been brought to our attention. Sold in rolls of 100 and 500 square feet.
Prices: 100 square feet, per roll 90c 500 square feet, per roll $4.00

Neponset Papers

Neponset Red Rope Paper, 100 square feet to the roll $1.00

Neponset Red Rope Paper, 500 square feet to the roll 5.00

Black Neponset Waterproof BuUding Paper, per roll, 250 square feet 1.00

Black Neponset Waterproof Building Paper, per roll, 500 square feet 1.75

Samples supplied upon request.

Tin Roofing Caps and Roofing Nails

These roofing caps are %-inch in diameter, with a hole punched in the center of each to receive the nail. One pound
of tin caps is required for each roll of roofing.

The wire nails are barbed, are ij/g inches long, and should be used with the tin roofing caps for fastening roofing
paper to the roof boards. One pound of nails is required for each roll of roofing.

Price, per pound: Roofing Caps 7c Wire Nails 7c

"C. C." Waterproofed Sheeting

Improved Substitute for "Oiled Muslin"

POULTRYMEN have learned that it is a serious mistake to shut up fowls in tight, ill-ventilated houses. The open-
front or canvas-front poultry house is now the rule with experienced, up-to-date poultry keepers, with the result
that damp litter, frosty walls, colds, roup and generally-debilitated fowls, especially in winter time, are almost
things of the past. This new and better method of housing poultry gave rise to a demand for a suitable waterproof
cloth for use on the fronts; also for covering window frames and extra doors. Oiled muslin was tried, but it rotted
quickly, owing to the rapid oxidizing of the oil. What was wanted was a waterproof curtain material that would shut
out the drafts and at the same time permit a gentle inflow of fresh pure air, to the great improvement of the health of
the flocks and preserving the much-desired dryness in the house.

After long experimenting. Cyphers Incubator Company met this demand by offering its special brand of "C. C."
Waterproofed Sheeting, which is more durable and far better in the essential features than oiled muslin; also much
cheaper to the consumer than if he were to put up curtains of ordinary muslin and then try treating them himself.

Prices : "C. C." Brand Waterproofed Sheeting (40 inches wide) . No order filled for less than ten yards.
Less than 50 yards, per yard, 20c. In 50 to 90-yard lots, per yard, 19c. In 100-yard lots, per yard, 18c.
SPECIAL — Be lure to read "Auorted Order" notice, tee jM^e 153.
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Cyphers Complete Grit

A First-Class Product in Extensive Use by Successful Poultrymen

IT IS AN ESTABLISHED FACT among poultrymen that, in order to make poultry
raising a success, a first-class grit must be used. Ordinary water-washed smooth
pebbles are not "grit." Soft, crushed limestone will not answer the purpose.
Good poultry grit must have a formation which enables it to retain its grinding qualities
under the relaxation and contraction of the fowl's gizzard.

CYPHERS COMPLETE GRIT is as hard as flint, and in addition to its grinding
properties, it contains lime in soluble form. This is highly valuable, as lime is a necessity
for making egg shells.

nimercial grits sold for fowls varies fully as much as do the

There are good grits for this important purpose and there are

oft and practically worthless.

Complete Grit is low, quality considered. We depend for our

nade the price as low as grit of this quality

The value of comr.
value of poultry foods.
poor kinds. Some are s

The price of Cyphers
profits on the large i

■ sell and have i
be sold for. We supply three sizes : No. i for brooder chicks, No. 2 for half-grown
chicks, and No. 3 for hens, turkeys, ducks and geese. No. i is used by many large duck
breeders with satisfactory results.

PRICES

100-lb. bag 70c

500-lb. lots (in 100-lb. bags) 65c per 100 lbs.

1000-lb. lots (in 100-lb. bags) 60c per 100 lbs.

Crushed Oyster Shells

An Egg-Shell Maker and Aid to Good Health in Poultry

WE purchase these goods in car lots, hence can offer them at the lowest rock-bottom
prices. Every pound of Oyster Shells offered by us is dried by a patent,
hot-air process, and not by direct fire, which burns out some of the most
desirable qualities.

Our shells are crushed and ground to the size which expert poultrymen agree to be
the best. If you have purchased other brands of Oyster Shells, you have noticed that
there are 10 to 25 pounds of waste, consisting of dirt and dust, mixed in with every 100
pounds of shell. This means a loss to you. Every pound of shell we sell is all
shell and no waste. It is needless for us to enlarge upon the value of crushed
Oyster Shells for poultry. Every poultryman realizes their importance as an egg-shell
maker and general promoter of good health.

We can also furnish fine crushed oyster shells for pigeon keepers.

PRICES

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500-lb. lots (in 100-lb. bags) 70c per 100 lbs.

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A Line of Standard Foods and Appliances that
Helps Make Pigeon-Keeping Easy and Profitable

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SO closely is Pigeon-Keeping allied with the poultry industry that seyeral of the supplies used in the latter
are adapted for the pigeon-keeper as well. In the preceding pages will be found a number of such articles.
Among them we refer to Crushed Oyster Shells appearing on page 172 and to Leg Bands on page 165.
The following are special pigeon supplies: —

Cyphers Pigeon Food

CYPHERS PIGEON FOOD is a mixture of properly-seasoned grains specially selected for pigeons. In the com-
pounding of a food for pigeons the proper selection of the various grains is of great importance. During the
breeding season, when squabs are to be marketed, the importance of a correct food cannot be overestimated.
The health of the birds and the rapid growth and weight of the squabs are dependent on it. We have com-
bined in Cyphers Pigeon Food the best and most satisfactory mixture of the best grains obtainable for this purpose. It
is used by fiundreds of the large growers and fanciers in all parts of the country and is preferred by them to any com-
bination they could make. This food is manufactured by special machinery in our new $125,000 Poultry
Food and Alfalfa Mill — see page 114. We control and guarantee every ingredient. Sold in sealed Bags under
Cyphers Company Registered Trade-Mark.

For prices see page 123.

Salt Cat for Pigeons

THIS is a standard preparation possessing aromatic and tonic properties
of such roots, herbs and seeds as gentian, anise, caraway, cummin
and corriander; also bone, crushed oyster shells, granulated charcoal,
crushed limestone, rock salt, sulphate of iron, etc. It aids digestion, invigor-
ates the system and promotes good health. It is put up in brick form, which
keeps the birds busy picking at it and prevents waste. Is manufactured in
our complete Laboratory, and we therefore control and guarantee the value of
every ingredient. See page 144.

Prices: Per brick 15c Per doz $1.50

If sent by mail, add 20c per brick for postage.

Foust's Health Grit

THE one first-class grit available to the breeder of fancy pigeons. It possesses medicinal and strengthening
properties which no other pigeon grit contains, and develops the highest physical vigor, purest blood,
rugged health and extra endurance. The standard for many years.
Price: 100-lb. bag $2.00

Cyphers Pigeon Perch

THIS is a Cyphers Company invention. It is a neat, strong perch that can be placed
anywhere in the loft. Practically indestructible. Will remain rigid when the
birds light on it. Will improve the appearance of any flock. Unequalled by any
other perch on the market. Made in one size only.

Prices: Each, .. lOc; postpaid ,. .18c 12. .. $1.00 100 $8.00

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Pigeon Nests

carry in stock at our different Branches a full
supply of Pigeon Nests, on which we can quote
attractive prices, based on the quantity desired.

If interested, please write to our nearest Branch Office for complete description

and prices.

Pigeon Nest.

Leg Bands For Marking Pigeons

OPEN BANDS— Made from aluminum, with smooth edges, and formed into circular shape ready to put on. Can
be opened or dosed sufficiently to fit different sizes of pigeons. Furnished numbered to order at the following prices:
Prices, postpaid: 12, 15c; 25, 25c; 50, 40c; 100, 65c; 250, $1.50; 500, $2.75; 1,000, $5.25.

10 cents extra per 100 bands, or 5 cents for 50 or less, when bands are to be stamped with not to exceed three initials of customer.
SEAMLESS BANDS— Made from aluminum and well finished. Three sizes: Small, medium and large. Order
by size number, and state how bands are to be stamped. Will be numbered from one up unless otherwise ordered.
Prices, postpaid: 12, 30c; 25, 50c; 60, $1.00; 100, $1.50; 250, $3.50; 500, $6.50; 1,000, $12.50.

;ra per 100-, or 5 cents for 50 bands or less, when

SPECIAL— Be sure to read "Assorted Order" notice, see page 153.

CHAPTER IV

MATING AND FEEDING FOWLS TO GET FERTILE EGGS

Number Of Birds to the Pen. Separate the Sexes. Making Sure the ■
Eggs are Fertile. Animal Food Much Needed. Green Food Essential.
How to Sprout Oats. Home-Made Fertile Egg Food, etc.

(Copyright, January. 1912 , by Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.)

IN mating up a pen of breeders from which to secure
good hatching eggs, bear in mind that the male bird

is "half the pen," as regards breeding results, there-
fore the importance of selecting a large, healthy, vigorous
male that is "typical" of the breed, i. e., of correct shape
and weight, as called for by the American Standard of
Perfection.

If you have a number of males to choose from, select
a bird with good sized comb; bright, alert eyes; back broad
at shoulders; fairly long body; tail well spread; full, well-
rounded breast; stout legs set well apart at juncture with
body and standing well apart at knees. He should be
active, sturdy looking — full of fight.

Select pullets or hens of good size for the breed, with
short, medium-sized heads; bright eyes; red combs; level,
broad backs; fairly long, deep bodies; medium low tails
and stout legs set well apart. Be sure to avoid thin,
"snaky" looking heads, narrow backs, pinched tails and
knock knees — both in males and females.

If you are breeding fowls of the Mediterranean class
— ^Leghorns, Minorcas, etc. — mate fourteen females with
male; if of the American, English or French classes —
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds,
Orpingtons, Houdans, etc. — mate ten females with male;
if of the Asiatic class — Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans,
mate eight females with male. If birds have free range
these limits can be increased twenty-five per cent, with
safety, but size of matings should be as stated if birds are
kept in usual small yards during hatching season.

If you buy breeding stock, insist that the males and
females shall not be brothers and sisters. They should
be of different "families," even if bought of the same
poultryman. Line breeding is safe, if properly done,
but persistent inbreeding is injurious — is harmfully debili-
tating. For reliable information on this important sub-
ject see bulletin No. i8 of "Cyphers Company Service"
department, entitled "Line Breeding For Increasing Egg
Production."

If you buy hatching eggs from an experienced, suc-
cessful poultryman who knows how to avoid the serious
effects of inbreeding, at the same time retaining and in-
creasing the valuable qualities of his strain, it will be safe
for you to mate brothers and sisters one season. The
next season select your best cockerels and mate them
back on the original pullets — now hens — and use the
original males — now cock birds — with the choicest of the

OUTDOOR "GREEN FOOD" PROTECTOR.
For use when fowls are kept in small, bare yards. Made of
6-inch boards and covered with ordinary 2-inch mesh Poultry
Netting. Sow oats, rye, lettuce, kale, etc.; put enclosure in place,
then after "Green Food" grows up the fowls will eat from day to
day all they can reach.

pullets. If the poultryman of whom you bought the
eggs has taken proper care to keep up the size, stamina
and vigor of the breeders that produced the eggs, you
will be safe in this course, but later on you should introduce
"new blood" from time to time — see bulletin No. i8.
To avoid the ill effects of inbreeding, the same care has
to be practiced with trap-nested flocks and individuals.

Do not keep your breeders "mated" the year around.
At end of the hatching season separate the sexes and give
them free range if you can do so. Literally "turn them
out to grass." Before mating the breeders we like to
have them out on free range as much as we can. Remem-
ber that fowls have no teeth. Muscular activity, there-
fore, has to take the place of the usual form of mastication.
Good health, rich blood and fertile eggs depend largely
on plenty of exercise, on the use of sound, wholesome
grains for food, on regular feeding of well-balanced rations,
on a constant supply of pure water and on fresh air and
sunshine. As a rule. Leghorns do not require enforced
exercise, on account of their natural activity, but the
heavier breeds do, more particularly when they are housed
or yarded.

If you have to leave the males with the hens, especi-
ally on range, doing so is not fatal; however, do not do
this if you can avoid it. Better keep them separated
until the beginning of the hatching season — until ten days
or two weeks before you wish to start hatching or to sell
eggs for this purpose. It should be understood that the
advice given in this chapter is meant to apply chiefly to
the care and feeding of breeding fowls kept in confinement.
Fowls that have free range, like the average farm flock,
can shift for themselves to a large extent and still will
produce fertile eggs when they begin laying in March
or April.

If the plan is to obtain your breeders from young
stock, that is hatched from eggs bought of some other
poultry raiser, be sure to separate the sexes as soon as
the cockerels begin to crow — when three months old or
a little older. The pullets in this case will do much better,
especially in the case of growing stock that is confined in
yards. Early hatched pullets are desirable, as a rule,
and it is highly important to keep them growing steadily.
While they are chicks do not let them get seriously chilled.
As half grown pullets make them work for what they get
to eat, inducing as much healthful exercise as you can.
Give them dry quarters — indoors — day and night and be
sure to prevent drafts striking them at night. Even an
open crack near the roosts may do serious damage. Fresh
air is essential day and night, but drafts must be avoided.
Dryness of litter and of atmosphere on the interior of a
poultry house is essential to fowl health and profitable
productiveness. See bulletins Nos. 9 and 24 of Cyphers
Company Service department.

Allow fowls to go out of doors daily, when not rain-
ing, snowing or blowing too hard.

After mating the fowls, wait ten days to two weeks
as a rule, before incubating the eggs or selling them for
hatching purposes. Eggs have been known to be fertile
on the third day, but the period given is the safe rule.
Some male birds are useless as breeders. This can soon
be learned — and it should be done before any eggs are
shipped away to customers. Set some of the eggs after
ten days have passed, and by the fifth or sixth day you
can tell by "testing" whether they have been fertilized.

Certain males do not fertilize the eggs of certain
pullets or hens. This frequently will be found to be the

MATING AND FEEDING FOWLS TO GET FERTILE EGGS

case. For example, in a flock of eight to fourteen females,
the male is liable to have favorites. It may be, therefore,
that twenty to forty per cent, of the eggs gathered daily
from this mating will be sterile. Such females should
be removed from the pen and mated with another male
bird. If necessary, try small matings, even cooping or
yarding these birds in pairs or trios. Now and then a pullet
or hen is found to be barren. She should be disposed
of as table poultry, if hatching eggs are what you want.

To get fertile eggs keep the fowls busy — at work I
Exercise is absolutely essential. Feed all whole grain
and cracked corn in straw litter eight inches deep. Loosen
the litter daily so that the grain will work down into it,
then scatter the grain well. This is important. In feed-
ing mash food — mix it crumbly wet, not sloppy — and give
them only as much as they will eat in about fifteen minutes,
then remove what is left.

Do not over-feed. If you see whole or cracked grain
left in the litter and the fowls are not digging for it, stop feed-
ing more grain until all is found and eaten. As regards mash
food, your fowls should meet the attendant at the door or
gate at the regular feeding time and show plainly by their
actions that they are hungry — are ready for more food.

Feed at regular hours and notice the movements of
the birds. As near as you can, keep them scratching
most of the time. They must not be allowed to become
too fat. If this happens, they will slack up on the egg
yield and there will be an increase in soft-shelled eggs
and a falling off in fertility. The healthy, happy hen is
the one that digs for food most of the day and keeps at
it until nearly dark. Beware of the lazy hen that mopes
about in the day time and goes early to roost — she is the
over-fat kind, the drone, the non-producer.

Fovvls must have animal food in some form if you
are to get strongly fertilized, large sized eggs and plenty
of them. Use beef scrap, chopped fresh meat or cut
green bone. This is especially advisable in fall, winter
and early spring. If fowls are not accustomed to these
foods, start their use gradually. Place the scrap, meat or
green bone before them during only two or three minutes
the first three or four days. This will avoid bowel trouble.
After that the beef scrap can be kept before them all
the time in a dry food hopper — See special rat-proof
Boston Hopper for beef scrap, page 159. Feed fresh
meat or green bone on boards, in troughs or dishes. They
also can be mixed in wet mash, the same as beef scrap.
Many experienced poultrymen prefer this method of
feeding animal food, so that each fowl will get its portion.

In order to produce a large yield of well-fertilized eggs
the fowls must have green food in liberal quantities. For
green food use steamed short-cut alfalfa or clover, sugar beets
mangel wurtzels, cabbage, turnips, carrots or apples. Apples
(culls) are first class. Cooked potatoes (boiled) will
answer if no other form of green food is available.

Sprouted oats are excellent. Place ordinary oats
in a tub or other large vessel, cover with luke warm water
and allow to stand over night. Spread on dry floor an
inch deep in room where temperature remains about
seventy to seventy-five degrees, or place in flat trays or
shalfow boxes. Sprinkle daily with luke warm water and
sprouts will grow to be five inches in length in ten days
and one bushel of oats will make five bushels of feed.
Fowls are very fond of it. Begin feeding the tenth day
and continue daily, giving fowls about one inch square
as taken from the sprouting pan.

Be sure to feed beets, turnips, cabbage, etc., in a
manner to induce exercise. A good plan is to cut in
halves or quarters and hang up by coarse string or wire
so the fowls will have to reach for it and follow the food
as it swings back and forth.

Keep sharp grit and a good grade of oyster shell
before the fowls all the time — in grit and shell boxes.
See type of sanitary box on page 160. Granulated char-
coal also should be kept before the fowls at all times,
as an aid to digestion and as a bowel corrective.

If you do not find it convenient to buy and use a
standard, machine-mixed brand of fertile egg food, like
the Cyphers Company's "Fertile Egg Mash," (see page
122), the following mixture will be found to do good work
as a substitute: One bushel of bran, one bushel of heavy
middUngs, one bushel of ground oats, two bushels of corn
meal, one pint of salt, two pounds of granulated charcoal.
Mix thoroughly. By heavy middlings is meant a grade
that contains a good deal of flour, most of the bran
having been removed. Used as "dry feed," keep this
mixture before the fowls all the time in rat-proof hoppers
and supply animal food and green food separately. Used
as a wet mash, add thirty per cent, of steamed cut clover
or alfalfa at time of feeding. To steam the clover or
alfalfa, place it in a tub or other vessel, pour on boiling
water, cover with a lid and allow it to steam a couple of
hours. Then use with above home-made fertile egg food,
or it can be fed separately. The more green food the
fowls can be induced to eat, the better it will be for them.

Gather eggs four times daily in winter time and twice
a day in warm weather. For advice about the selection
and proper care of hatching eggs, see Chapter V, page 180.

DO THESE HIGH-RECORD-LAYERS SUGGEST AN "EGG TYPE" ?
White Rock, Hen No. 3844-R. Barred Rock, Hen No. 863-R. White Wyandotte, Hen No. 360.

Laid 234 Eggs in One Year. Laid 236 Eggs in One Year. Laid 237 Eggs In One Year.

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THE Library of Practical Poultry Books published by us is acknowledged by experienced poultry raisers
and instructors in Poultry Culture to be the most complete compiled to date, devoted exclusively to the
successful production of poultry and eggs for market. It is entitled "The Cyphers Series On
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These Books were compiled by well-known authorities on poultry subjects and are published for the
instruction and financial benefit of our thousands of customers. They are not devoted to the sale of goods
of our manufacture, but are meant to be authentic sources of reliable information and advice that will help
the readers to greater success.

The titles of the books forming the Cyphers Series are as follows:

BOOK No. 1— PROFITABLE POULTRY KEEPING IN ALL BRANCHES.

BOOK No. 2— PROFITABLE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY.

BOOK No. 3— PROFITABLE POULTRY HOUSES AND APPLIANCES.
BOOK No. 4— PROFITABLE EGG FARMING.

BOOK No. 5— PROFITABLE MARKET POULTRY.
BOOK No. 6— CAPONS FOR PROFIT.

BOOK No. 7— POULTRY-PLANT CONSTRUCTION.

BOOK No. S— PROFITABLE POULTRY FEEDING.

Book No.

Book No. 1 — "Profitable Poultry Keeping in
AU Branches "

This is a book for all
who have become interested in the
poultry business in a general way
and wish to know something defi-
nite about it. The 12 chapters
of the book take up the most
popular and profitable branches
of poultry keeping, tell the reader
what is being accomplished by
successful poultrymen and how it
is being done. While many valu-
able articles on feeding, housing and care of fowls are given,
the chief object of Book No. i is to help the reader decide
which branch or branches of the poultry business is best
suited to his locality, markets, resources and taste. The
book contains valuable chapters on "The Housing and
Yarding of Fowls"; "Profitable Egg Farming"; "The Pro-
duction of Squab-Broilers, Broilers and Roasters"; "Com-
bination Poultry Farming"; "Profitable Duck Growing";
"The Standard-Bred Poultry Business— What It Is, What
It Amounts To. and Its Future"; a very complete chapter
on "Starting in the Poultry Business", containing practical
articles by well-known, successful poultrymen; a chapter
on "Capons and Caponizing"; one on "Woman's Work
with Poultry"; one on "The Employment of Artificial
Means in the Production of Poultry on a Large Scale";
and one on "The Use of Incubators on the Farm and on
the Village Acre."

This book is fully illustrated with numerous fine
halftones (reproductions of photographs) and original pen
drawings; 128 pages, size 7^ x io3^ inches; durable,
attractive, linen-finish cover, printed in two colors. Price,
postpaid to any address, 50 cents.

Book No. 2 — " Profitable Care and Management
of Poultry "

This is one of the most thoroughly practical and
up-to-date working text-books ever published. It takes
the reader in hand after he has decided to embark in the
poultry business, and proceeding on the assumption that
he is a beginner, with little knowledge of the work before
him, tells him what to do and how to do it. This book
is full of valuable information from cover to cover. Its
10 chapters treat of the actual work, as follows: Chapter
I, "Location of Plant and Construction of Buildings."
Chapter 2, "Breeding Stock; Foods and Feeding." This
chapter tells how to select suitable breeding stock, how
to build up a strain and establish a flock that will give
lasting results, and about the proper size of the- flocks.
Very complete information is given concerning food for
poultry, including what foods are for, the various kinds
in common use and how to feed them. The dry feeding
method is fully explained, giving the results of four years

of dry feeding by an expert on this subject. Suitable
rations for large and small flocks are given, with formulas
of the most reliable of well-tested rations, including the
moist mash method of feeding. Chapter 3 tells of "The
Use and Abuse of Incubators," giving full information
about buying and locating the incubator, with an article

on "How to Operate a

Modern Machine for

Best Results." Direc-
tions are given for

incubating hen eggs,

duck eggs and goose

eggs. Chapter 4. "The

Care and Handling of

Eggs," tells all about

the uses of eggs, about

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keeping and marketing eggs, preserving eggs and how to
increase the egg yield. Chapter 5. "The Care of Brooder
Chicks," gives common-sense advice on brooding chicks,
including food, care and management "from the egg to
eggs." Chapter 6, "The Care of Growing Stock," gives
rations for growing chicks, broilers, roasters and stock
birds. Chapter 7, "Marketing Guaranteed Fresh Eggs,"
tells how to build up an egg trade. Chapter 8, "Killing,
Dressing and Marketing," gives complete instructions
on this important subject. Chapter 9, "The Prevention
of Disease," tells how to have and keep fowls healthy.
Chapter 10, "Common Poultry Diseases and Their Treat-
ment," is a brief treatise on poultry diseases, insects
affecting poultry, and the worm parasites, giving simple
and effective remedies for these ailments.

This book is fully illustrated with halftones and pen
drawings; 128 pages, size 7^^ x loj^ inches; durable,
attractive, linen-finish cover, printed in two colors.
Price, postpaid to any address, 50 cents.

Book No. 3 — " Profitable Poultry Houses and
Appliances "

This is a practical
handbook, devoted to
the description of many
styles of practical
poultry buildings, and
numerous handy, labor-
saving, time-saving
appliances and fixtures.
It contains plans for 60
poultry buildings, in-
cluding single poultry
houses, colony houses, closed houses, open-front scratch-
ing-shed houses, scratching-room houses, brooder-houses,
incubator houses or cellars, laying houses for ducks,
etc., with full plans and specifications. The introduction
treats on "Locating the Poultry House," "Selecting
Materials to be Used in the Poultry House" and
practical hints on building. The pages following con-
tain nine chapters, namely: Chapter i, "Scratching-
Shed Houses," containing plans and specifications of a
number of the most up-to-date buildings of this type.
Chapter 2, "Scratching- Room or Combination Poultry
Houses," giving plans for five different styles of houses of
this kind. Chapter 3, "Closed and Continuous Poultry
Houses," including a house for laying hens, a house for
Asiatics, a plaster poultry house and other good buildings.
Chapter 4, "Curtain-Front Poultry Houses." Chapter 5,
"Miscellaneous Poultry Buildings," including modern
houses in sufficient variety to meet all conditions, with
suitable buildings for hot and cold climates. Chapter 6,
"Colony Houses." Chapter 7, "Duck Houses," with com-
plete plan for a modern duck plant. Chapter 8, "Incubator
and Brooder Houses," including brooder houses with
the pipe system, a house for sectional brooders and a
house for individual brooders, with a special article on
brooder-house heaters, and specifications for heaters and
piping for pipe brooding systems. Chapter 9, entitled
"Poultry-Plant Appliances, " tells about many labor-saving
appliances, practical chicken coops, shelters, roosting coops,
brood coops, trap nests, poultry fencing, fattening crates,
a box- trap cat catcher, etc.

This book is fully illustrated with numerous halftones
and special pen drawings; 128 pages, size 7^^ x lol^ inches;
durable, attractive, linen-finish cover, printed in two colors.
Price, postpaid to any address, 50 cents.

Book No. 4—" Profitable Egg Farming "

A most valuable and helpful book, devoted exclu-
sively, as its title indicates, to this highly important
branch of profitable poultry keeping, all parts of the sub-
ject being exhaustively treated. Its introduction gives
"The Use of Eggs," "The Place of Eggs in the Diet."

"Description and Composition
of Eggs" and a discussion of
the physiology of the egg.
Additional to this there are
nine chapters, as follows:
Chapter i, "The Natural
Habits of the Hen and What
Domestication has Done;
Including the Early History of Domestic Fowls Their
Origin and Gradual Development Some of the Results
already attained and the Probabilities of the Future."
Chapter 2, "Thorough-bred or Bred to a Purpose; The
Leading Practical Breeds," in which the best breeds for
egg production are described and illustrated. Chapter
3, "Pedigree Breeding for Egg Production; Building Up
and Maintaining an Egg Laying Strain; Practical Uses of
Trap Nests." Chapter 4, "Pullets for Layers, Year-Old
Hens for Breeders; Winter Eggs Pay the Best Profit."
Chapter 5, "Practical Egg Farms; Houses and Yards;
Continuous Houses with Yards; Colony Poultry Houses."
Many successful poultry plants are illustrated and de-
scribed. Chapter 6, "Foods and Feeding; Best Rations
for Egg Production; Some Tested Egg Rations." Chapter
7, "Collection and Care of Eggs; Catering to the Market;
Guaranteed Strictly Fresh Eggs." Chapter 8, "Combi-
nation Egg-Farming; Combining Eggs and Poultry; Eggs
and Fruit Growing; Eggs and Bee Keeping; Profitable
Combination Crops." Chapter 9, "Selling Stock for
Breeding Puriioses and Eggs for Hatching; When and
How to Advertise; Poultry Farm Bookkeeping."

Fully illustrated with halftones and pen drawings;
128 pages, size 7% x 10}^ inches; durable, ■ attractive,
linen-finish cover. Price, postpaid to any address, 50 cents.

Book No. 5 — " Profitable Market Poultry"

This book aims to tell all about this important branch
of poultry work, including the production of squab-broilers,
broilers, roasters, turkeys, ducks and geese for' market.
The introduction contains important suggestions for better-
ing the quality of market poultry. There are 1 1 chapters,
as follows: Chapter i, "Market Poultry; Leading Vari-
eties." Chapter 2, "Locating the Market Plant and
Location of Buildings." Chapter 3, "Profitable Broiler
Raising." Chapter 4, "Winter Chickens or Roasters,"
including the production of expertly-produced "South
Shore" chickens, which are in great demand in the Boston
market. Chapter 5, "Poultry Fattening," containing a
detailed description of the methods employed, with direc-
tions for feeding. Crate fattening as practiced in Canada

instructions are given for the
Chapter 6, "Killing,

is described at length
use of the crammii
Dressing and Mar-
keting," with com-
plete instructions on
this important part
of the work, including
"Best Methods of
Dry Picking and
Packing Poultry for
Shipment." Chapter
7, "Combination

Poultry Farming," '^°°^^ '^°^- ^ =""^ «■

including "Poultry and Eggs"; "Poultry and Fruit";
"Poultry and Bees." Chapter 8, "Money in Ducks." Tells
all about growing ducks for market, with instructions for
laying out and building a modern duck plant. Chapter 9,
"Geese for Profit;" "Best Breeds for Business;" "How
Quality Counts;" "When and What to Buy." Chapter 10,
"Profitable Turkey Raising." Chapter 11, "Guinea
Fowls for Profit."

This book is fully illustrated with original halftones
and pen drawings; 128 pages, size 7^ x io}/2 inches; dur-
able, attractive, linen-finish cover, printed in two colors.
Price, postpaid to any address, 50 cents.

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Book No. 6—" Capons for Profit," by T. Greiner

This book is a revised edition of "Capons for Profit,"
being rewritten and" brougfit down to date especially for
this series. It is essentially a book for the beginner, and
though from the pen of an expert in the art of caponizing
it is treated from a beginner's standpoint. "Capons for
Profit" is, we believe, the only text-book on capons and
caponizing which treats the whole subject so that this
profitable field of poultry work becomes as plain and easy
to learn as the alphabet. This book contains 12 chapters,
as follows: Chapter i, "What a Capon is and What He
is Good For." Chapter 2, "Something About the Capon
Maker; The Man in the Case; Who is Fit to Operate and
Who is Not." Chapters, "The Victims and the Tables —
Best Birds and Best Breeds for the Beginner; Simple
Operating Tables." Chapter 4, "Tools and Other Requi-
sites; What Implements are Best Suited for the Beginner,"
with complete illustrations of the caponizing instruments
recommended. Chapter 5, "The Operation— When and
How Best to Perform It," with illustrations showing the
bird ready for operation and diagram showing where to
cut and how to hold the knife. Chapter 6, "The After
Treatment; How to Hasten the Healing Process." Chapter
7, "Feeding for market — How to Obtain the Best Results
at Least Cost." Chapter 8, "How to Kill, Dress and Pack
Capons." Chapter 9, "Some Odds and Ends; Hatching
and Hatchers; Brooding
and Brooders," with an
article on "Artificial Incu-
bating, and Brooding," by
the Editor. Chapter 10,
"Diseases and Insects
Affecting Capons; Preven-
tion Preferable to Cure."
Chapter 11, "There is
Profit in Capons — Im-
proved Quality in Demand ;
Some of the Advantages of
Caponizing." Chapter 12,
"More about Capons and
Caponizing Tools."

This book is fully illustrated with halftones and pen
drawings; 64 pages, size ^% x io}4 inches; durable,
attractive, linen-finish cover, printed in two colors. Price,
to any address, 50 cents.

Book No. 7 — "Poultry-Plant Construction"

This book contains full-page drawings in detail of prac-
tical poultry buildings needed in the operation of an up-to-
date poultry plant, together with specifications in detail,
and so far as possible an estimate of cost based on average
prices of material. Among these plans will be found incuba-
tor houses, brooder houses for chicks or ducklings, scratch-
shed laying houses, closed laying houses, colony houses, etc.,
etc.; also for piping of brooder houses, hovers of chicks,
electric regulator. The plans are so clear that they
will not permit of mistake, and anybody who is handy
with tools can erect the buildings according to schedule.
Size of book, I2j^ x gj^ inches. Price, postpaid to any
address, li.oo.

Book No. 8—" Profitable Poultry Feeding "

This book covers the subject of feeding poultry from
beginning to end. The profitable feeding of newly-hatched
chicks, growing chicks, broilers, _

roasters, ducks, geese, etc., etc ,
is taken up separately, givmg
the reader the benefit of years
of experience of the authors as
well as that of some of the most
successful poultrymen in the
country — experts in the business
It treats upon the subject of
balanced rations, and instructs the
poultryman how to feed success
fully for egg production, market
poultry, etc. Fully illustrated b\
halftones and pen drawings; size
1%, X loj^ inches; durable, attract-

30k No. 8.
ive, linen-finish cover. Price, postpaid to any address,
25 cents.

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Other Standard Poultry Books Sold By Us

THE FOLLOWING POULTRY BOOKS are
believed by us to be the best on the market,
treating on the respective subjects and we there-
fore recommend them to our customers:

American Standard of Perfection. — 1911 Color-plate
Edition, profusely illustnited. The only authorized guide for
producing standard-bred or exhibition fowls. Copyrighted by the
American Poultry Association. It is the book that poultry judges
use at the poultry shows and that expert poultry raisers use in
selecting and mating their breeding stock. It contains names
and descriptions of every standard variety of chickens, turkeys,
ducks and geese. 320 pages, 160 illustrations; durable cloth
binding. Price, postpaid, $1.50 per copy.

The Asiatics : — Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans. — 96 pages
and cover, 10 x 12 inches in size. Profusely illustrated, includ-
ing two full page color plates from oil paintings by Franklane L.
Sewell; also full page charts showing Standard shape and markings
of Light Brahmas, Dark Brahmas, etc. Contributors include
such well known authorities as A. F. Hunter, F. J. Marshall, W. S.
Russell, Sharp Butterfield. Theo. Hewes, D. T. Heimlich, H. N.
RoUins, D. J. Lambert, F. H. Schellabarger. T. F. McGrew, G. W.
Cromack, I. K. Felch, George Purdue, Charles A. Ballou, J. D.
Neviua, A.W. BeU, O. E. Skinner, Geo. W.MitcheU, C. H. Rhodes,
John Hettich, L. A. CUne, L. E. Meyer, Jesse T. Bateman. F. L.
Sewell, and others. Price, postpaid, $.50.

Philosophy of Judging Fowls, by Felch, Babcock & Lee. —
An illustrated companion to the Standard, by which the amateur
is assisted to select the best birds for exhibition or breeding. It
is a manual upon the scoring of exhibition fowls, intended to
meet the wants of the breeder and exhibitor as well as the pro-
fessional judge; 275 pages, cloth binding; price, postpaid, $1.00
per copy.

200 Eggs a Year per Hen; How to Get Them, by Edgar L.
Warren. — A practical treatise on egg making and the profits in
poultry. It is a thoroughly practical book on how to breed and
feed fowls for prolific egg production; the best varieties for the
purpose; individual record keeping; best size for flock; how to
introduce new blood; the law of sex; how to get fertUe eggs, etc.,
etc. Price, postpaid, $.50.

Orpingtons:— Black, Buff and White. — Compiled and
edited by J. H. Drevenstedt. Just off the presses, December 4,
1910. 96 pages and cover, 9 x 10 inches in size. Fully illus-
trated by Franklane L. Sewell. A. O. Schilling, I. W. Burgess and
others. A complete and authoritative te-xt book and instructive
treatise giving the origin of the different varieties of this world-
wide popular breed, including how to mate for best results and win
in the show room. Chapter 1, Orpington origin; Chapter 2,
Orpington type; Chapter 3, Black Orpingtons; Chapter 4, Buff
Orpingtons; Chapter 5, White Orpingtons; Chapter 6, Non-stand-
ard varieties; Chapter 7, Orpingtons as exhibition fowls; Chapter
8. what breeders say; Chapter 9, OrpUigtons as utility fowl. Price,
postpaid, t.75.

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Poultry Culture, by Arthur A. Brigham,
Professor of Poultry Husbandry. 290 pages and cover 5x8 inches
in size, cloth bound, gilt lettered, illustrated. A text book of
study and practice in the keeping of poultry for profit and pleasure.
Written by a student of poultry culture of many years experience
and a well-known authority on the subject. Used as a text book
in fifteen to twenty of the leading Agricultural Colleges of the
United States and Canada for reliable poultry instruction. Price,
postpaid, $1.50.

Reliable Poultry Remedies: — A revised and enlarged edi-
tion, 84 pages and cover, 6 x 8M inches in size. Chapter 1, Requi-
sites for Health; Chapter 2. Head. Throat and Lung Diseases;
Chapter 3, Roup, Symptoms, Causes and Treatment; Chapter 4,
Diseases of the Lungs; Chapter 5, Gapes, Means of Prevention;
Chapter 6, Injuries and Diseases of the Comb; Chapter 7, Diseases
of Crop and Intestines, Diarrhoea. Cholera, etc.; Chapter 8,
Bowel Trouble in Small Chicks; Chapter 9, Diseases of the Liver;
Chapter 10, The Abdomen; Diseases of the Egg Organs; Chapter
11, Legs and Feet, Their Diseases; Chapter 12, The Skin, Its Dis-
eases; Chapter 13, Poultry Parasites; ""
Habits. Principal contributors, Drs.
Sanborn. Price, postpaid. 25 cents.

Plymouth Rocks:— Barred, White and Buff.— 1910
Ekiition, Wm, C. Denny, Editor; 144 pages and cover 9 x 12 inches
in size. Profusely illustrated, including three color plate inserts
from oil paintings by Franklane L. Sewell. A book worthy of
America's greatest addition to the world's races of domestic poul-
try. Illustrated by the world's best artists — Sewell, Schilling
and Burgess. Contributed to by the foremost successful Plymouth
Rock breeders of the United States and Canada. Leading chap-
ters include: Origin and early history of Plymouth Rocks;
characteristics of Plymouth Rocks; Plymouth Rock shape; Ply-
mouth Rock color; 1910 Standard changes; non-standard varieties
of Plymouth Rocks, etc. Among the contributors are E. B.
Thompson, Victor Bradley, A. C. Hawkins, C. H. Latham, E. L.
Miles, F. W. Richardson, D. F. Palmer, Maurice F. Delano, C. H.
Welles, U. R. Fishel. F. H. Davey, A. R. Eariy. C. H. Ward, L. H.
Wible and many others. Price, postpaid, $1.00.

Wyandottes: — Silver, Golden, White, Black, Buff, Part-
ridge, Silver Penciled and Columbian.— 1910 edition, 160
pages and cover, 10 x 12 inches, profusely illustrated, including
three full page color plates from oil paintings by Franklane L,
Sewell. Edited by J. H. Drevenstedt, America's foremost authority
on the Wyandotte breed. Gives history of Wyandotte origin;
history of standard-bred Wyandottes; important changes in Wyan-
dotte type. Tells how to mate, condition and exhibit Wyandottes.
Treats on Wyandottes as market fowls. Tells how to judge
Wyandottes. Illustrates and describes non-standard varieties
of Wyandottes. Explains all Wyandotte changes in 1910 edition
of American Standard of Perfection and contains valuable arti-
cles by J. C. Jodrey, Arthur G. Duston, Henry Steinmesch, J. F.
Van Alstyne, Ira C. Keller, John S. Martin, Maurice F. Delano,
E. O. Theim. A. C. Hawkins, Charles D. Cleveland, August D.
Most valuable book on Wyandottes

The Chick Book:— 80 pages, 9 x 12, illustrated. Guide
to success in rearing chicks. "Experienced poultry raisers furnish
information on all problems connected with the breeding, rearing,
developing and fattening of chicks. Article and chart on line breed-
ing. The day-old chick business, etc. 1910 edition. Price, post-
paid, 50 cents.

The Practical Poultry Keeper :— Lewis Wright. Entirely
new, revised and considerably enlarged edition. A standard
guide to the management of poultry for domestic use, the mar-
ket or exhibition. Eight beautifully-colored plates, showing
25 breeds, painted from life, by J. W. Ludlow and numerous
illustrations in the text. 320 pages, bound in cloth with gilt
stamping. Contents: Houses, Runs and Accommodation; Domes-
tic Management of Adult Fowls; Natural Hatching and Chicken
Rearing; Artificial Hatching and Rearing; Table Poultry, Fatten-
ing and Killing; Poultry on the Farm; Poultry Farming; Breeding
for Points; Breeding and Rearing of Prize Stock; Exhibition;
Cochins; L^ngshans, Brahmas, Malays, Aseels and Indian Games;
Game Fowls; Dorkings; Spanish, Minorcas, Leghorns, etc; Ham-
burgs; Polish, Sultans, French Breeds; American Breeds; Miscel-
laneous Breeds; Bantams; Turkeys, Guinea fowl, Pea fowl; Water-
fowl; Diseases, Vices and Vermin. Price, postpaid, $2.00.

The Diseases of Poultry — By D. E. Salmon, D. V. M,
This is the only book that contains a complete list of illustrations of
the different diseases of poultry. Written by Dr. D. E. Salmon,
Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, D. C.
With chapters on Diseases of the Organs of Respiration. Diseases
of the Organs of Digestion, Diseases of the Peritoneum, Liver and
Spleen, Diseases of the Organs of Urination and Reproduction,
Diseases of the Brain, Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels,
Diseases of the Feet and Legs, Diseases having a tendency to affect
more than one set of Organs, Parasites and Diseases of the Skin.
Injurious Habits and Vices, etc. 250 pages and 72 illustrations.
Price, postpaid, 50 cents.

Duck Culture— By James Rankin. This book is filled from
cover to cover with information of great value to every duck
breeder. No man is better fitted to write on duck culture than
Mr. Rankin, and the ideas advanced in this book will be read with
much interest by all those engaged in the duck business. Price,
postpaid, 50 cents.

Leghorns:— Whlte» Brown, Buff, Black and Duck Wing.

—1911 edition, 144 pages, 10 x 12 inches in size. Profusely illus-
trated. Color plates by Artist Sewell. showing White Leghorns
and Brown Leghorn feathers. Edited by J. H. Drevenstedt,
breeder and judge. Contributors to the book include the foremost
poultrymen of America and Europe. It tells how to select and
mate for the breeding pen; how to prepare them for the show room
and how to judge Leghorns. Some of the great commercial egg
farms described and illustrated. Price, postpaid, SI. 00.

and cover. 10 x 12 inches in size. Profusely illustrated, including
full page color chart, showing feathers of male and female Rhode
Island Reds in natural colors. Illustrations are by A. O. Schilling,
Franklane L. Sewell and others. Tells now to mate, exhibit
and judge. Gives origin and standard history of the breed.
Covers utility values and describes all Standard requirements.
Contributed to by the foremost successful Rhode Island Red
breeders of the United States, both east and west. Price, post-
paid, 75 cents.

The Bantams: — Contains 68 pages and cover, 10 x 12
inches in size. Treats of all popular varieties. Edited by
T. F. McGrew. Describes and illustrates different varieties, males
and females. Tells how to house, care for and feed for best results.
Describes best matings, illustrates shape and markings, treats of
diseases, symptoms, cure, etc. Price, postpaid, 50 cents.

Turkeys: — Their Care and Management. — 1909 edition,
96 pages and cover, 9 x 12 inches in size. Contributed to by lead-
ing authorities on successful turkey raising for show room and
market, including Charles McClave, D. E. Hale, Franklane L.
Sewell. S. B. Johnston, Mrs. M. L. Singleton. James E. Lord,
E. M. and W. Ferguson, W. J. BeU, Ralph S. Mosely, J. F. Crangle.
B. F. Ulrey. B. F. Hislop, J. T. Thompson, Mrs. J. M. Randolph.
Mrs. Bettie Glover Mackey, Mrs. H. R. Schlotzhauer, E. F.
PuUin, Mrs. Charles Jones. Mrs. Nellie Bullock, John R. Garfaee.
J. A. Leland, C. C. Herron, Robt. Lee Blanton, S.T.Jones, Fred
Haxton, H. A. Nourse and others. Covers all branches of success-
ind
Price, post-
paid, 75 cents.

Ducks and Geese: — New 1910 edition, 104 pages and cover,
9 X 12 inches in size. Covers the subject exhaustively. Profusely
illustrated. Chapter 1, Origin of the duck; Chapter 2, Pekin
Ducks for market; Chapter 3, The Long Island Duck Industry;
Chapter 4, The Pennsylvania Duck Industry; Chapter 5, Ship-
ping to market; Chapter 6, Duck rearing abroad; Chapter 7,
Domesticated Geese; Chapter 8, Goose growing for the farmer;
Chapter 9, Profitable goose growing for market; Chapter 10,
Artificial pond for water fowl. Persons interested in the breeding
of water fowls, or in the production of ducks and geese for market,
will find in this book the information sought. Price, postpaid,
75 cents.

Successful Poultry Keeping:— 160 pages, 9 x 12, illustrated.
A text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in
better poultry and more of it. Contains the "Secrets of Success,"
both for pleasure and profit. New and valuable information on all
branches of the poultry business. Price, postpaid, $1.00.

Artificial Incubation and Brooding: — 96 pages, 9 x 12,
illustrated. Solves all problems of artificial incubating and
brooding. Tells how to obtain strong germed, fertile eggs, how
to operate incubators and brooders, grow the greatest percentage
of chickens, etc. Price, postpaid, 50 cents.

Egg Record and Account Book: — 32 pages. 6 x 10.
f method of keeping correct account of expenses and inco
I record of all eggs laid, set or sold; chicks hatched and s
Price, postpaid, 25 cents.

An

Eggs and Egg Farms: — 96 pages, illustrated, 9 x 12. Is
made up of articles by experienced breeders, giving methods
of housing, breeding and feeding to increase egg production and
make egg farming profitable. Article on pedigree breeding. Price,
postpaid, 50 cents.

Poultry Houses and Fixtures: — 96 pages, 9x 12. illustrated.
Used as a text book at Cornell University. Shows plans of low
cost, practical and labor saving houses, designs for inside fixtures,
roosting coops and coops for young chicks, and appliances for
the poultry yard, 7th edition. Price, postpaid, 50 cents.

Poultry Craft — This is a book for all classes of poultry keepers.
Chapters on poultry keeping and poultry keepers, location, sit-
uation, poultry houses and yards, poultry fixtures, fowls described,
choosing a variety, buying stock, foods and feeding, science in
poultry breeding, selection and care of breeding stock, hatching, and
rearing chicks, selling poultry and eggs. Exhibiting poultry, dis-
eases, parasites, and enemies of fowls, bantams, turkeys, ducks,
geese, etc., etc. By J. H. Robinson. 272 pages and 95 illustra-
tions. Price, postpaid, $1.50.

Diseases of Pigeons — J. A. Summers, This book treats
on every disease that pigeons are heir to giving an exhaustive
description of symptoms and treatment. This is the most reliable
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has so much valuable information on the subject been published in
book form Price, postpaid, 50 cents.

CHAPTER V

SELECTION AND CARE OF EGGS FOR SUCCESSFUL
HATCHING

Time And Money Wasted If Poor Eggs Are Incubated. Thin-Shelled And
Misshapen Eggs Should Be Rejected. Safe Temperatures In Which To Keep
Hatching Eggs. Prevent Excessive Evaporation. Do Not Hold The Eggs Too Long

{Copyright January, 1912, by Cyphe

WHEN the farmer's wife prepares to set a
broody hen, giving her thirteen to fifteen
eggs, she selects the eggs with care, picking
out good sized, shapely fresh eggs— every one of them
— because she has plenty of eggs, as a rule, from which
to select so small a number and she is anxious to have
the hen hatch practically all of them.

In starting an in-
cubator the conditions
often are quite differ-
ent. The operator
either buys his eggs or
waits until his limited
flock lays them. Too
many sellers of eggs

EGG CABINET.
Fi ve-Hundred-and - Sixty - Egg
Capacity Revolving Egg Cabinet,
for safe keeping of Hatching Eggs.
Can be turned half-way over in a
Moment of Time.

are ov

fill orders and there-
fore ship eggs that are
not suitable for hatch-
ing purposes. On the
other hand, the poul-
tryman who is waiting
for his own hens to fill
the incubator is liable
to value his eggs highly
and so he puts into
the machine a number of the first eggs laid by imma-
ture pullets, also misshapen eggs, some with ridges on
them, others too large or too small; also eggs that
have thin or mottled shells — eggs that either will not
hatch at all, or will produce small, weakly chicks or
cripples.

The condition of the breeding stock that produces
the eggs is of the highest importance, but it is none
the less important that normal-size, normal-shape,
normal-shell eggs be selected, if the broody hen or
an incubator is to bring off a large hatch of proper
sized, healthy, vigorous chicks — the kind "with the
kick in them."

If you value your time and wish to make all the
money you can out of your poultry work, do not

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"set" thin or rough-shelled eggS, nor under-sized eggs
such as are laid by immature pullets, nor misshapen
eggs, those that are big at both ends or that have
ridges around them, nor extra large eggs. On the
contrary, take pains to select those that are of the
correct "egg shape" (see illustrations herewith) and that
have smooth, strong shells of a clear, "healthy" color.

Thin-shelled eggs are extra porous and allow the
contents to evaporate too rapidly. The same is true
of mottled or water-spot eggs, so-called. Nature
must use the contents of the egg as the material from
which to produce the living chick and if this supply
of material is cut down too much by excessive evapo-
ration the chick cannot attain full development or,
if it does, it will be too small or too weak to liberate
itself from the shell — and then we have complaints
of "chicks dead in the shell."

As a rule, thin-shelled, water-spot and soft-
shelled eggs result from a lack of sufficient egg-shell
substance — from a lack of lime in such form that the
fowls can use it. To prevent this waste it is necessary
to provide plenty of shell-forming material. Crushed
oyster or clam shells are unexcelled and are low in
price. Crushed lime stone, especially the flinty kind,
will answer the purpose fairly well; so will old plaster,
coal ashes, etc., but crushed oyster shell is strongly
recommended.

Hens that are too fat — that are over-fed and do
not exercise enough — such hens will lay soft-shelled
and thin-shelled eggs, especially as the hens increase
in age. Pullets do not offend in this manner nearly
as often as do the older, less active birds. Fowls on
free range do not lay as many soft and thin-shelled
eggs as do birds that are confined in limited quarters.
This calls for the use of intelligence and extra precau-
■tion where birds are confined in houses or yards during
the hatching season.

With some hens the production of soft-shelled,
thin-shelled, or misshapen eggs is an organic trouble.
Sometimes there is no cure for it. These birds should
be removed from the breeding pen and used as table

eproductions on opposite page for illustrations of what isj

SELECTION AND CARE OF EGGS FOR SUCCESSFUL HATCHING

poultry. Pullets may lay soft-shelled or thin-shelled eggs
for a few days or for a week or two and then will stop the
practice if they can get enough shell-forming material.

In winter time, gather the eggs four times daily
to prevent freezing or chilling. During the spring
months gather the eggs twice a day. Collect them in
a basket or bucket, using some soft material in the
bottom to prevent breakage. Mark each egg with
number of pen and date laid. If from trap-nested
stock, also mark with leg band number of hen that
laid each egg.

To keep hatching eggs in safety, use a revolving
egg cabinet (see page 162), which will enable you to
turn them daily or every other day in a moment's
time, without danger of breakage, or put them in
shallow trays or drawers, covering the bottoms with
some soft material and turn them by hand, rolling
them half way over at each turning. They can also
be packed small end down in bran or oats placed in
boxes, the cover of each box to be nailed on when box
is full and then the entire lot can be turned quickly and
with certainty by simply turning the box half- way over.

It is a common practice to keep hatching eggs in
open baskets and turn them two or three at a time by
hand. It does not hurt hatching eggs to rest on the
side, if they are turned regularly — half-way over at
each turning. If the eggs are marked as to kind,
band number, date laid, etc., these marks will assist
in keeping track of how far over to turn the eggs each
time. For example, have the marks all up or all down.

The temperature of the room in which hatching
eggs are kept may range with safety from forty to
seventy-five degrees. Do not trust eggs in a room
where the temperature goes below forty degrees.
That would be getting too near the freezing point.
Looking in the other direction, a temperature of
eighty-five to ninety degrees will cause the germ in
the egg to enlarge, resulting in an addled or rotten
egg, if it is allowed to remain in such a temperature
several hours and then is kept some days longer before
it is placed under a hen or in an incubator.

If hatching eggs are to be "set" within ten days
to two weeks after they are laid, it is not necessary
in the average climate to do anything to prevent
normal evaporation through the porous shells, in case
the shell itself is normal, i, e., not extra thin or mottled
with water-spots. In arid districts and at high alti-
tudes it is advisable to keep the eggs in moist places,
like a basement or cellar, where the air is pure, or to

READY FOR EGG CABINET.
Tray of Eggs Ready to be placed in Revolving Egg Cabinet.
Eggs held securely in place by steel wire clips.

cover them with moist cloths or enfold them in a damp
blanket. The material on the inside of the egg —
mostly water — must be preserved so that Nature
can build out of it a large, strong, healthy chick, other-
wise all efforts at good hatching will meet with partial
or total failure.

If the eggs are to be kept longer than two weeks,
in the ordinary climate, it will be well to pack them in
oats, which will conserve their moisture or water
contents. Eggs can be kept four to six weeks and
will hatch quite well, provided they are protected
from cold, heat and excessive evaporation, but it is
better to set them while they are comparatively fresh.
The new-laid egg has an air-space in the large end
that is only about one-fourth of an inch in diameter.
This air-space increases in size daily, as evaporation
takes place, thus steadily reducing the quantity of
chick-forming material at Nature's disposal within
the egg shell. Furthermore, if the egg is not incubated,
the life-germ in it gradually weakens and finally dies.

Keep hatching eggs in pure air, away from rank,
foul odors or poisonous gases and also keep them out
of strong drafts. Foul odors and poisonous gases
readily penetrate the porous egg shells and drafts
are certain to increase the rate of evaporation.

Wash all soiled eggs. To do this place them in
a bucket or other vessel, pour warm water on them
— not hot — and wash with hands, cloth or brush.
Wipe with cloth or place them in racks or drawers
and allow them to dry without wiping. Use nothing
in the water. Keep eggs away from grease or oil of
any kind. There is no harm in handling eggs with
clean hands, but do not allow anything to happen
that may stop up the pores of the shells.

SAMPLES OF MI
Types of Abnormal-Sized and Misshapen Hen Eggs that should no

too large or too small, or are lacking in True Egg Shape

INSTRUCTORS IN POULTRY CULTURE AT LEADING AMERICAN AND CANADIAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND
EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
1 — Wm. P. Brooks, Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass. 2 — T. E. Quisenberry, Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station,
Moui^tam Grove, Mo. 3— F. S. Jacoby, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas, 4— W. R. Graham, Ontario
Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont. 5— James E. Rice, New York State Agricultural College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
6— Horace Atwood, West Virginia Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va. 7— Jas. G. Halpin, Agricultural Experiment Station,
Madison, Wis. 8— H. C. Pierce, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 9— A. G. Gilbert, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., Can.
10— W. E. Vaplon, Colorado State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo. 11— F. H. Stoneburn, Connecticut Agricultural Col-
lege, Storrs, Conn. 12— H. L. Kempster, Missouri Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo. 13— F. B. Linfield, Montana Experiment
Station, Bozeman, Mont. 14— A. W. Foley, Department of Agriculture. Edmonton, Can. IS— Wm. A. Lippincott, Iowa State College,
Ames, Iowa. 16— Roy H. Waite. Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park, Md. 17— J. S. Jeffrey, Agricultural
Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C. 18— Wm. F. Kirkpatrick, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural College,
Miss. 19— D. J. Lambert, Rhode Island Agricultural College. Kingston, R. I.

GOVERNMENT POULTRY WORi

SOME IDEA OF WHAT THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS (GENERAL,
STATE AND PROVINCIAL) ARE NOW DOING IN
BEHALF OF POULTRY RAISING FOR PROFIT

THE United States Government is conducting an Experiment Poultry Plant at Washington, D. C. This
plant is not large, but it has now been in operation about five years and had been increased each season.
Cyphers Incubators and Brooders are in use on the U. S. Government Poultry Plant — and have been for
four years. We first sold the Department of Agriculture one Incubator and one Brooder for the Poultry Depart-
ment; then a year or two later we were favored with a second order. The U. S. Department of Agriculture does
not furnish reports for publication.

More than twenty States of the Union are now conducting poultry work on e.xperimental lines, and a majority
of this number now teach regular courses in poultry husbandry, several of them giving two annual courses, a
short three-weeks' demonstration course and a twelve-weeks' text book and demonstration course.

In the Eastern States, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut have taken the lead in this work, with
Maine, Massachusetts, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland well to the front, while in the West, Mis-
souri has taken the premier position, with Utah, Oregon, Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois,
Kansas, Colorado, California and several other States making good progress.

One of the last official acts of Charles E. Hughes as Governor of New York State (now a member of the United
States Supreme Court) was to sign a bill enacted by the General Assembly appropriating the sum of $90,000.00
to be used in the erection of a Poultry Instruction Building at Ithaca, N. Y., as part of the State College of Agri-
culture. The Trustees of the College had previously set aside fifty acres of choice land for this building and the
poultry parks.

Within the last year — during 1911 — a dozen or more states have made new or enlarged appropriations of
public funds for the further development of the poultry industry. Notable among the number — in addition to
the $90,000.00 appropriated by the State of New York — is an appropriation of $31,200 made by the Missouri
Legislature. With part of this money a tract of choice land has been purchased at Mountain Grove and here
the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station has been established. Buildings have been erected and at present
(January 1, 1912) a National Egg Laying Competition is being held under the personal supervision of T. E. Quisen-
berry. Secretary of the Missouri State Poultry Board and Director of the Poultry Experiment Station.

Another example of progress in this line is represented by an appropriation of $15,000 made by the Legis-
lature of New Jersey. The same bill that appropriated this money, established a Poultry Experiment Station
and regular poultry course at New Brunswick, as part of the New Jersey College of Agriculture. The Legislature
of Minnesota at its last session appropriated $10,000 for poultry investigation and the Legislature of Ohio appro-
priated $7,500 for the same line of work. Regular poultry courses are now conducted in connection with the
Minnesota and Ohio Agricultural Colleges.

Indiana has established a poultry department in connection with Purdue University at Lafayette. Illinois
is conducting a regular annual poultry course as part of the State University work at Champaign, and in the fall
of 1911 the Legislature of Texas made the first appropriation in the history of the State in behalf of poultry culture.
A new and important step in the line of public instruction has been taken lately by the state educational
boards of Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Louisiana, with the object of teaching poultry culture in the public
schools. This movement is well organized in Arkansas, where the state superintendent of education is the presi-
dent of the public school poultry club. Poultry Culture is also being taught in some of the district schools of Missouri.
Some idea of what the poultry industry now amounts to in leading states of the Union may be had by reading
the following quotations from a letter written to the President of Cyphers Incubator Company by T. E. Quisen-
berry. Secretary of the State Poultry Board of Missouri: — •

"Statistics just issued by our State Labor Bureau show that nearly $46,000,000 worth of poultry products

were marketed in this State last year. The eggs were figured at fifteen cents a dozen and the poultry at ten cents

a pound. The live and dressed poultry amounted to about $23,000,000, the eggs something over $22,000,000.

"These figures are not guess work, but are compiled each year by the State at large cost, the same Bureau

furnishing the figures for all other products as well as poultry.

"Our surplus of poultry products now amount to about three times that of the dairy, eleven times that of
fruit, and exceeds either our surplus of com or wheat, and amounts to five or six milUon dollars more than our
combined surplus of farm crops.

"Missouri is a great mining State, and we have some of the largest lead and zinc mines in the world, yet our
surplus poultry products for the last fiscal year amounted to ten million dollars more than our surplus from the
mines and quarries."

THE DOMINION OF CANADA for years past has appropriated public money to aid the development of the
poultry industry, and a number of the Provinces now have important poultry plants in connection with their
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. We should judge that Canada is keeping fully abreast of the
times, as compared with the Mother Country, also with the United States. At Guelph, Ontario, is held each winter
one of the largest and best Standard-bred and utility poultry shows conducted either in the new or old world.

For a- correct idea of the intelligence and character of the men who, as professors of Poultry Husbandry at
American and Canadian Agricultural Colleges and as poultry managers at State and Provincial Experimfent
Stations, are now devoting their lives to Poultry Cultiire, see group of recent photographs on opposite page.

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J. E. RICE, Professor of Poultry Husbandry
C. A. ROGERS, Assistant Professor in Poultry Husbandry
R. C. LAWRY, Assistant in Poultry Husbandry
CLARA NIXON, Assistant in Poultry Husbandry

W. G. KRUM, Superintendent of the Poultry Plant
H. SCHULL, Assistant in Poultry Husbandry
H. BACHELLER. Assistant in Poultry Husbandry
W. S. LYON, Assistant in Poultry Husbandry

Newr York State College of Agriculture

AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

ITHACA, N. Y.

L. H. BAILEY, Director

DEPARTMENT OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Ithaca, N. Y., October 9, 1909.

The Cyphers Incubators continue to stand high in our estimation and in the estimation of our
students, who have a good opportunity to compare a large number of machines of widely
different types. This opinion is based upon a comparison of
results in hatching, covering several years, rather than upon
theories on Incubator construction and management.

Respectfully yours,

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Photographic Views of Poultry Instruction Work. Cornell University Experiment Station.

W. J. KENNEDY, Professor and Vice-Director of Experiment Stati(

WAYNE DINSMORE, Associate Professor

A. LEITCH, Assistant Professor and Supt. of Dairy Farm

H. H. KILDEE, Assistant Animal Husbandman

H. C. PIERCE, Assistant Professor in Charge of Poultry-

E. N. WENTWORTH, Assistant Professor

W. H. PEW, Assistant Professor

R. K. BLISS, Extension Lecturer

L. E. TROEGER. Extension Lecturer

H. F. LUICK, Extension Lecturer

C. R. BUSH, Extension Lecturer

W. A. LIPPINCOTT, Student Assistant

R. F. MILLER, Graduate Assistant

Iowa State College

DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND EXPERIMENT STATION
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Ames, Iowa, July 11, 1910.

Regarding the Cyphers Incubators which we are using at this Station, it gives me pleasure to be
able to state that they have given us satisfactory results. We have been exceptionally pleased with
the evenness of temperature and ease of operation. In reply to letters of inquiry, we have recommended
the Cyphers Incubator as being one that has given good results at this Station. We can say the
same of your Outdoor Brooder and Adaptable Hovers, which we have not only used with excellent
success but they have given exceptionally good results when handled by students, some of whom
have probably never seen Brooders before.

We also have obtained successful hatches from the Cyphers Electrobator, The Electrohen,
or glass globe electric Incubator, also manufactured by you, has been a great aid in instruction and
incubation, as it has enabled us to show the method of y

hatching the chick from the egg better than ariy way yd

before devised.

Yours very truly,

Assistant in Charge of Poultry.

G. E. ADAMS. Chief Agronomy H. BURDICK, Dairying

F. S. PUTNEY, Animal Husbandry D. J. LAMBERT, Poultry

G. R. CROSS, Horticulture E. A. MALLETTE, Florist

Rhode Island State College

HOWARD EDWARDS. President

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
Cyphers Incubator Company , Buffalo, N. Y. — Kingston, R. L, December IS, 19n.

We now have twenty-three (23) Cyphers Incubators for instruction and student practice.
When we consider that these machines are run by so many different operators, / think they do
remarkably well. The record shows average hatches of over 50 per cent of all eggs put into the incu-
bators for the entire year. The Short Course students hatched 67 per cent of all fertile eggs; the regulars
(all beginners) 32 per cent, while my assistant got 70 per cent. .

later in the season. Kindly note that the Short Course //

students did their hatching in January when eggs are not <^<Cy-^
usually well fertilized. One of our students hatched 91 chicks
out of 94 fertile eggs. Yours truly, C^ College Poultry Department

Photographic Views of Rhode Island Agricultural College Poultry School.

University of Maine

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

WILLIAM A. BROWN,

Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Orono, Maine, August 23, 191 L

We have used your Incubators and Poultry Supplies several years in connection with our poultry work
and have found your goods generally satisfactory. Am pleased
to state that your company has treated us fairly and squarely
in business matters. Yours truly.

Kansas State Agricultural College

Agricultural Experiment Station

H. J. WATERS, President
DEPARTMENT OF DAIRY HUSBANDRY
ED. H. WEBSTER, In charge of Dept.
A. B. NYSTROM. Assistant
A. MIYAWAKI, Assistant
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

ED. H. WEBSTER, Dean and Director

DIVISION OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY
F. S. JACOBY, Assistant and in Charge.
T. E. SCHREINER, Superintendent of Plant

Manhattan, Kas., October 12, 1910.

In reply to your letter of the 7th inst., I would like to state that the Cyphers Incubators have

always given satisfaction here at the College. We are planning to i
have in our cellar for hatching our best breeding stock next
spring. We are not yet in a position to give the students instruc-
tion in running Incubators, but when the College furnishes a more
adequate building, we shall install several more of your
machines. I am. Very truly yours.

the two machines which we i

Hatch Elxperiment Station and Meissachusetts
Agricultural College

WM. P. BROOKS, Professor of Agriculture and Agriculturist
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. F.— Amherst, Mass., June 18, 1907.

The continued use of Cyphers Incubators confirms me in the favorable opinion I had formed con-
cerning them. We find that your Incubators give better hatches than any others we .have ever
tried. We secure a good percentage of strong, healthy chicks from the fertile eggs. One point in par-
ticular I desire to call attention to: Your Incubator is simple and easy to operate. Beginners have
repeatedly secured excellent hatches with your machines. An assistant who had never before
run an Incubator of any kind hatched 138 good chickens in one of your 220-egg machines. Three machines
of this size have been used this year by students in the College, none of whom ever before had any experi-
ence in running an Incubator. These students, it should be remembered, were doing the full regular work
of their College course and were running these Incubators ^~

as laboratory work. Considering the circumstances, I regard /^^^ /^-^ j/^^ -•.-•^

the 'results obtained by the students as very satisfactory. ^/z?* f r ^ ■ fi'.^^'^ ■»'V«.a.

Yours sincerely,

Poultry Buildings, Hatch Experiment Station.

The State Agricultured College

Fort Collins, Colorado

W. E. VAPLON, Poultryman

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Fort Collins, December 18, 1911.

My experience with Cyphers Incubators has been rather limited, but entirely satisfactory. We used
the Cyphers the past two seasons at our Experiment Station and shall continue to use them for student
practice. The materials and workmanship of the Cyphers are certaiiajy first class. I know enough in
favor of your Incubators to .say a good word for them. They

are well thought of in this section. Another season we shall ^-^^ I / /^/?
be in a position to send you reports of the machines, telling how //; O . W (Xyj ^f-'^^^O^l^^ — ^

they hatch at this high altitude in the hands of our students.
Very truly yours,

S. S. TWOMBLY, Agrii

ALFRED G. LUNN, Poultryman

California Polytechnic School

A SECONDARY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, MECHANICS AND

DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— San Luis Obispo, June 24, 1907.

I have had very good success with the Cyphers Incubators, and can truthfully say that they have
given me the best results of any machine I have ever used. We now have four Incubators and two
Brooders in use at our school. We expect to place an order with you next spring for more Incubators.
With best wishes, we remain, Yours very truly,

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL,

Alfred G. Lunn, Poultryman.

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WM. SAUNDERS, Director A. G. GILBERT, Poultry Manager VICTOR FORTIER, Ass't Poultry Manager

Dominion of Canada. Depeurtment of Agriculture

CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Ottawa, Can., September 25, 1908.

I have much pleasure in assuring you that our experience with your 1906-pattern Standard
Cyphers Incubator has been most satisfactory, for the following reasons: (1) Ease of operation;
(2) Accessibility to all parts; (3) Regularity with which the correct temperature is kept; (4) Convenient
arrangement of thermometer, trays, drawers for chicks to fall into and lamp. These features are
important, particularly to the amateur, who is usually timid and easily disconcerted in his first
attempts.

Perhaps the most im-
portant improvement
is the admirable sys-
tem of ventilation. This
all-important feature of
an Incubator is frequently
lost sight of in many
machines on the market
and some of which we
have tried. I can say
no more than what I have
said before: "Give the
Standard Cyphers In-
cubator e y g s with
germs of the required
strength, and it will
certainly — when run as
per directions — hatch
out every chicken worth
attempting to rear."
The import of this re-
mark may not be plain
to the tyro in artificial
hatching, but it will cer-
tainly be appreciated by
the experienced operator
who neither desires to
have nor will rear weakling
chicks.

Yours faithfully

Ont£urio Agricultured College

POULTRY DEPARTMENT
G. C. CREELMAN. B. S. A.. M. S., President W. R. GRAHAM, B. S. A., Manager and Lecturer

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Guelph, Can., September 13, 1905.

We have every confidence in your machines and always feel that the eggs are safe when in the

Cyphers. It is a pleasure to operate an Incubator when the chicks hatched from it are so strong and

healthy. We have used the

Cyphers Incubators for six
years, during which time the
machines have worked very
satisfactorily. The regula-
tion of the Cyphers is as
good as one could ask for.

As for your make of
Brooder, will say that we
are using two of the Style A
Outdoor Brooders and have
found them satisfactory in
every way. We are send-
ing you, under separate cover,
a photo taken of one of
your Brooders just after a

snowstorm. We were somewhat surprised to find that the Brooder maintained its temperature to a nicety

imder such severe conditions. Regarding your 1906-pattern, I may say that we have found this machine

to be very satisfactory indeed. I think this new

machine is a great improvement upon those made by

you in former years. Yours truly.

West Virginia Agricultural Ebcperiment Station

MORGANTOWN
J. H. STEWART, Director

J. H. STEWART. Agriculturist
B. H. HITE. Chemist
W. E. RUMSEY, Entomologist
N. J. GIDDINGS. Bacteriologist
HORACE ATWOOD, Asst. Agricultu
FRANK B. KUNST, Asst. Chemist

CHAS. E. WEAKLEY. JR., Asst. Chem. D. C. NEAL, Asst. Bacteriologist

A. L. DACY, Asst. Horticulturist KRISTIAN HV. KNUDSEN. Asst. Chem.

J. H. BERGHUIS, KRAK, Asst. Chem. HUBERT HILL, Asst. Chemist

T. F. IMBACH, Asst. Horticulturist W. J. WHITE. Auditor

J.WILLIAMFIROR.Asst.Horticulturist ALICE ENGLE, Secretary

G. A. ROUSH, Asst. Chemist

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Morgantown, December 12, 1911.

We have used Cyphers Incubators at this Station for the last ten or twelve years, or practically
from the time when they were first placed on the market; in fact, we now have one of the machines manu-
factured at Wayland, N. Y., and although it has been so long that I have forgotten when it was purchased,
tfet it is in first-class condition and the joints are as tight as on the day it was purchased.

In most of my experimental work during several years I have used the Cyphers Incubators on account
of the uniformly good hatches which I have been able to obtain with them. They are easily regulated,
run like clock work, the loss of moisture from the eggs approximates very closely that found under natu-
ral conditions, and the chicks hatched are strong and vigorous.

In my judgment, many people make a serious mistake when they buy a cheap Incubator. For exam-
ple, a cheap wagon will be fairly satisfactory for a time, or at least until the paint wears off and the wheels
get rickety, but the purchase of a poor Incubator is worse than a dead loss, as one loses the eggs
placed in it, the oil used for heating, the time spent in its operation; and furthermore, one loses the oppor-
tunity to make a profit from the chicks which should have been hatched. Even if some chicks are hatched
in a poor machine they are seldom or never profitable, for if
their vigor is reduced they are handicapped from the very
start. The most important step for a beginner in artifici; '
incubation is the purchase of the best machine on the market.

Sincerely yours,

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Poultry Buildings i

Department of Agriculture, Alberta

OFFICE OF

POULTRY SUPERINTENDENT

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Edmonton, Can., September 26, 1910.

With reference to your Incubators, I may say that / used them for a number of years in connec-
tion with the poultry branch of the Dominion Government, and for several years past in connection
with the Alberta Government poultry plant and at the short course
schools conducted by this Department.

/ have at all times been exceptionally well pleased with
their icork, and in my own experience, at least, believe the y- .

Cyphers Incubators to be the best on the market. /^^'

Poultry Superintendent.

.J^'^^ai^

I am, sirs, yours very truly.

University of Minnesota

NORTHWEST EXPERIMENT FARM
E. W. RANDALL, Director WM. ROBERTSON, Superintendent

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Crookston, Minn., November 14, 1910.

Your Incubators are giying splendid satisfaction at this station. In fact, every chick we hatched
last year was hatched in your incubators. Next year we hope to spend several thousand dollars in
extending our poultry plant. Of the many different makes of incubators
I have used, yours gives the least trouble to operate. So far as '
can see your thermostat is as near perfection as we could wish for.

Sincerely yours.

^ -C-f^SASriP^^xy,

The Connecticut Agricultured College

STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT FREDERIC H. STONEBURN

Department of Poultry Husbandry STATION Professor of Poultry Husbandry

Cypliers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Storrs, Conn., December 9, 1911.

My first Cyphers Incubator was purchased in 1899. Since that time I have used a large number
of your machines, both commercially and for purposes of instruction and investigation, and it is a pleasure
for me to state that I have found them uniformly satisfactory. Your machine is to be commended
for its durability and ease of operation.

As you may imagine, we put Incubators to a very severe test here. They are operated by
inexperienced students a great portion of the time, as follows:

During the Winter term by the Winter Poultry Course students, the Spring term by the regular Agri-
cultural Course men, and by the Summer School Poultry Course students in mid-summer. Hatches
under these conditions are usually satisfactory, which speaks volumes for the efficiency of your
machine. Very truly yours, FREDERIC H. STONEBURN.

Professor of Poultry Husbandry.

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Photographic Views on Storrg Agricultural Experiment Station Poultry Farm.

Mississippi Agricultural Elxperiment Station

Wm. F. Kirkpatrick, Poultry Husbandry . W. J. Branning, Student Assistant

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Agricultural College, Miss., October 17, 1911.

We are not at this time in a position to make an intelligent report on the use of your Inculjators in
Mississippi, because it was only last July that we installed four of your machines at this station, but
I am glad to say that in another state I found them thoroughly satisfactory.

As to the Adaptable Hover manufactured by you, our brooder house is equipped with this device
exclusively. We classify it among the most sanitary and I am tempted to say that it is the best brooder
we have ever used. Very truly yours, WM. F. KIRKPATRICK.

Photographic Views on Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Photographic View of Some of the Poultry Houses at Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.

OFFICERS AND STAFF :
H. J. PATTERSON, B. S., Director and Chemist
S. S. BUCKLEY, D. V. S.. Pathologist
J. B. S. NORTON, M. S., Botanist
THOS. B. SYMONS, M. S., Entomologist
C. P. CLOSE, M. S., Horticulturist
NICKOLAS SCHMITZ. M. S., Agronomist
GEO. EDWARD GAGE, Ph. D., Biologist
CHAS. O. APPLEMAN, Ph. D., Physiologist
E. H. BRINKLEY, Farm Superintendent
T. H. WHITE, Gardener

A. B. GAHAN, M. S., Associate Entomologist

ROY H. WAITE, B. S. Associate Poultryman

W. R. BALLARD, B. S., Assistant Horticulturist

A. J. NORMAN. M. S., Assistant Botanist

L. B. BROUGHTON, B. S.. Assistant Chemist

A. L. STABLER, B. S., Assistant Animal Husbandman

E. N. CORY, B. S.. Assistant Entomologist

THOS. R. STANTON, B. S. Assistant Agronomist

R. S. ALLEN, Assistant Dairyman

L. B. KIMBLE, Stenographer

EDW. J. GARDNER, Clerk

Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station

College Park, Prince George Co., Md.

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— College Park, December 11, 1911.

On taking charge of the poultry investigation work of this Station I find, among the Incubator equip-
ment, two Cyphers Incubators. These, judging from what I have been able to learn concerning their
action, have given entire satisfaction. Previous to coming here I have used a number of your Incuba-
tors and Brooders, and have always been well pleased with

the results obtained.

Very truly yours,

Associate Poultryman.

Photographic View of Michigan Agricultural College Poultry Department.

Michigan Agricultural College

DEPAJITMENT OF POULTRY

H. L. KEMPSTER

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— East Lansing, Mich., October 19, 1909.

Our experience with the Cyphers Incubators and Brooders has been such that I feel that I can
safely recommend them to anyone contemplating the pur- ff\.j /j y ^,^^

chase of an Incubator or Brooder. Wishing you continued ^f , J^ ^ />; i -^,x'L jy^^lL 'fc* »"*
success, I am. Yours very truly, '

College of Agricultural and Agricultural E^xperiment Station
of The University of Wisconsin

CHARLES R. VAN HISE. President of the University JAMES G. HALPIN, Poultry Husbandry

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Madison, Wis., September 16, 1910.

Replying to your favor of recent date, I would say that the Cyphers Incubator Company's goods
have been satisfactory with us in every way. We have been

able to hatch a large percentage of the eggs entrusted to your /O ^ In •

machines and our results with your make of Brooder ^■^^i^-v^w^.^j^ ^y^. t//<»_-C;i^>~-
have been very satisfactory indeed.

Yours truly,

Photographic Views of Poultry Buildings, Wisconsin Agricultural College.

Agricultural Experiment Station of the North Carolina College
of Agriculture and Mecheuiic Arts

J. S. JEFFREY, Poultryman C. B. WILLIAMS, Director

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— West Raleigh, September 19, 1911.

Replying to yours of the 13th, I would say that I do not know just how long your Incubators have
been in use here. My connection to this institution covers nine seasons, and when I came here
there were two of your machines here that had evidently been used two or three seasons, and perhaps longer.

In regard to what we think of your machines, I believe that
the best we can say for them is that we are using nine of them
and not more than one of any other make. We find them
especially satisfactory for our students on account of their sim-
plicity of operation.

Yours truly.

University of Tennessee

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Knoxville, Tenn., September 30, 1907.

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — ^»» ^-- — .

We have been using your Incubators two seasons, and find their ^^fc*-^ ^^^<,-i^^

work very satisfactory. The regulator, under ordinary conditions, // //^ '

holds the temperature almost constant. Yours truly, C-^ (^

South Carolina Agricultural' Experiment Station

J. N. HARPER, Director

Clemson College, S. C, July,15, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

We have been using the Cyphers Incubators for the last few
years and have found them very satisfactory.

Very truly yours.

(y Director.

Photographic Views

Missouri State Poultry ELxperiment Station

T. E. QUISENBERRY, Director, and Secretary of the State Poultry Board
Poultry Institutes Poultry Statistics

Poultry Bulletins Co-Operative Experiments

State Poultry Shows Investigation and Instruction

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Mountain Grove, Mo., December 13, 1911.

We have been using several of your incubators and brooders at the Missouri State Poultry Ex-
periment Station at Mountain Grove, and they have given us most excellent satisfaction. We con-
sider yours one of the best and most perfect incubators ever manufactured. We sincerely hope that
our Missouri farmers and fanciers will quit wasting their time, money and eggs on cheap and poorly
constructed incubators, and invest in such machines as yours.

We have yet to see our first incubator of your make in this state which is not giving excellent
results. A good machine like yours is far the cheapest in the end. It is a pleasure to operate
them. They will hatch all hatchable eggs, and they are an ornamental piece of furniture as well.
We like our "Cyphers Incubators and Brooders.'' Yours very truly, T. E. QUISENBERRY.

Agricultured College of Utah

JOHN A. WIDTSOE, A. M., Ph. D., President

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Logan, Utah, September 10, 1907.

The two small incubators which you furnished the Brigham Young University last spring were given
several careful tests. They were operated by students who had never before handled incubators,
and with very successful results. The Cyphers Incubator is certainly a very excellent one.

Yours truly, JOHN A. WIDTSOE.

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Logan, Utah, September 26, 1906.

I have used Cyphers Incubators for a number of years at this Station as well as on the Cyphers
Poultry Farm and can honestly say that / know of no better machine. In my experience, with eggs
from good, vigorous stock and with proper care in the operation of the incubator, the machine gives
satisfactory hatches. Yours very truly, JAMES DRYDEN, Poultryman.

DEPARTMENT OF POULTRY
F. B. LINFIELD, Professor
WM. F. SCHOPPE, Asst. Poultryman

The Montana Agricultuiral College and
Experiment Station

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y — Bozeman, Mont., October 20, 1910.

We have used your mcubators for several years and have always found them reliable and look

to them to do the best work of any we have mstalled at the station. At this altitude, which is over 4,900

feet, we find it necessary to put mois-
ture pans in the bottom of the nursery
trays. When we have used these pans,
we have been able to secure our largest
hatches and the chicks have come
out strong and vigorous and we
have very small death rates.
Yours very truly,

CHAPTER VI

CARE OF FOWLS AND CHICKS WITH LEAST AMOUNT OF WORK

study Their Needs and Habits, Then Take Advantage of the Latter in Supplying
the Former. Dry Feeding by Hopper Method. Gravity-Drip System for
Watering Fowls. Passageway Poultry Houses. Deep-Litter Feeding of Chicks

{.Cotyright, January, 1912, by Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.)

;e advantage of their

K-INCH STEAM
COCK.

Standard make.
Used on Cyphers
Company Poultry
Farm with Pressure
Tank System.

IN planning the proper care of fowls and chicks, with
the least amount of work, the place to begin is with
the birds themselves. They have their needs, and
also have certain habits. In planning to supply their
needs, it is proper and sensible to take advantage of thei
habits — of their natural instincts.

Fowls need healthful exercise
and plenty of it. To induce this
exercise, the prudent poultryman
resorts — for example — to the simple
but invaluable method of scatter-
ing all whole or cracked grain
chicken food in deep, dry litter and
this makes the healthy, hungry fowls
scratch actively for the food they
like best.

The thrifty, dead - in - earnest
poultry raiser who is determined
to make his labor go as far as he
can, because profit is what he is
after, and he is well aware that time
is money — such a poultryman
should take full advantage of the habits of both his adult
fowls and chicks and also should
p||||Hp^ see to it that his equipment,

fA his houses, poultry appliances,

^^_j|pl^^^JJ«— . etc., are labor-saving in style
j^Hjjj^m^Dim and arrangement.
f^f^B^^^^^ '^^'^^ the simple matter of

Vm dry floors and dry litter — the

result, as a rule, of proper ven-
tilation. Damp houses threaten
serious trouble and make it
necessary for the poultryman
owner or caretaker to change the Utter quite often — ■
once a week perhaps, and this operation costs money
— costs money for new litter and for labor to do
the work. A correctly built or properly ventilated
poultry house is important, therefore, when we come
to figure on "making money" in the care of fowls and
chicks by "saving money."

Adult fowls can now be fed and watered once a day
and will not need further attention, unless they are being
fed or handled in some special manner for a special pur-
pose. The wide-spread adoption of dry feeding by the
hopper method has proved a great labor saver. By
"dry feed" is meant finely or coarsely ground grains
that are mixed by hand or machinery, in the form of
hit-or-raiss or balanced rations — this ground, dry-mLxed
food being fed in hoppers and kept before the fowls all
the time, allowing the birds to eat as much as they want.
Once they get used to this method, the birds will not
overeat, not even on beef scrap, which now is commonly
fed in the same manner. But the fowls — also little
chicks — still much prefer whole or cracked grain and
therefore can be relied on to dig in the deep, loose litter,
hunting industriously for the food in the form they like
it best.

Let us build our poultry houses so that all doors

K-INCH BIBB COCK.

Standard make. For

use with Gravity Drip

System. Buy anywhere.

and windows can be operated easily and safely with the
least amount of work, so that the roosts can be cleaned
and the eggs
gathered with
the minimum of
labors then let
us adopt meth-
ods of feeding
and watering
.the fowls that
will be as near
automatic a s
possible, so to
speak. For the proper construction of poultry buildings,
see our Cyphers Company Service free bulletins — also
obtain the entire set of bulletins, as issued, for detailed
treatment of many important points that can be only
touched on in the space here available. These bulletins
are free, postpaid, to our customers — free for the
asking.

Note herewith picture of the "gravity drip system"
for watering fowls and chicks, as used with undoubted
success on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm. Any farmer
or regular poultryman can easily fit up, at small expense,
a three to twelve gallon water tank, with a half-inch iron
pipe leading therefrom to each breeding, laying or brood-
ing pen. with a simple, inexpensive, standard drip cock,
discharging fresh, clean water, drop by drop into a suit-
able drinking vessel placed in each separate pen, or set
on a low platform in an opening in the pen partition, in
which latter case, the fowls or chicks in two adjoining
pens can drink from the one vessel, thus giving the care-
taker one drinking fountain to clean each day instead
of two.

The water tank (most any water-tight receptacle will
answer the purpose) can be filled once a day or can be
connected with the supply tank of a wind-mill, or any
other source of supply. If a pressure tank is used the
ordinary bibb cock should be replaced by a steam cock.

GRAVITY DRIP SYSTEM.

Method of Watering Fowls that saves labor and insures the

birds having fresh, clean water at all times.

CARE OF FOWLS AND CHICKS WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF WORK

PASSAGEWAY POttLTRY HOUSE.
Use of aisle or passageway lends convenience and saves labor
in wet mash feeding, in gathering eggs and in cleaning the roost

which will take care of the variations in pressure and
insure a uniform discharge of water into drinking dishes.

Poultry houses with a rear aisle or passageway are
labor savers, particularly as regards convenience and a
saving of time in cleaning the droppings boards, gathering
eggs and feeding wet mash. See illustration herewith
showing form of wet mash feed trough used in passageway
of most of the long breeding and laying houses on Cyphers
Company's Poultry Farm — picture made from photograph.
The trough has been turned downward and outward by
the attendant. When the feed is in place, he pushes the
trough back into its original position. The fowls inside
the pen then eat from the trough. They cannot at any
time get out into the passageway. These troughs are
made V-shaped and can be cleaned quickly and thoroughly.

Above the trough (aa, in above picture) is the hinged
door that allows access to the darkened nest boxes, and
above this door (bb, in picture) is the canvas-covered larger
door that opens upward and outward, allowing the atten-
dant to clean the drop boards from the passageway and
remove the droppings — doing all this work in a handy,
time-saving way, without disturbing
the fowls, not even those on the nests.

Deep litter feeding of chicks is
a method that we highly recom-
mend, doing so on the basis of many
tests extending over a term of years.
Time and again we have tested sep-
arate lots of chicks side by side, feed-
ing one lot by the old method, giving
them foods of various kinds, four, five
and six times per day, but without
exception the deep-litter fed chicks
would excel the others in growth and
weight, also in low mortality.

Not once have we found a food
ration and method of feeding that has
equalled the deep-litter plan, using our
regular sealed-bag brand of finely
granulated chick food, where the two
methods were tried side by side on

chicks hatched at the same time, in the same manner,
and brooded in exactly the same way.

For an account of what this deep-litter feeding
method consists of, as practiced year after year on Cyphers
Company Poultry Farm, see Chapter VIII, on page 238
entitled "Premium Price Table Poultry — And How To
Produce It;" also send for Bulletin No. 14 of the Cyphers
Company Service Department.

There are two main reasons for using this method of
feeding chicks — chicks ranging from four days old up to
six to twelve weeks old, depending on what is to be done
with them. First, it is decidedly more healthful for them,
because it keeps them busy, keeps them actively at work
digging for food they like; second, it is a great labor saver.
One "feeding" in three or four weeks is all that is required,
so far as the supply of granulated or cracked grain food
is concerned. They also should have green food in some
form, chick grit, granulated charcoal, etc.

Wlien chicks are fed by the deep-litter method it is
a common thing for the attendant to find them digging
away in holes in the
eight-inch litter —
holes made by them-
selves that are so deep
that the chicks can-
not be seen until you
step close to the
holes. Little chicks
thrive finely under
such active condi-
tions— and by "little
chicks," in this case, is
meant chicks all the
way from those four
days old up to husky
two and three pound-
ers that are being rais-
ed for early layers or
to be used as breeders.

All due pains should be taken to prevent rats finding a
home in or near poultry buildings, Rats will carry off a
large amount of poultry food if they can get to it, and they
are death to Uttle chicks. In feeding adult fowls use rat-
proof hoppers so far as may be found practicable, and in the
case of little chicks their quarters must be made rat-proof.

n

NON-WASTE, R,\T-PROOF DRY,
FOOD HOPPER
Large dry feed size. Holds H
bushel. Beef scrap hopper is half this
peck.

, and holds c

A SIMPLE METHOD OF INSTALLING A GRAVITY DRIP SYSTEM.
The illustration shows how a small, inexpensive water tank, with half-Inch Iron
piping, can be made to supply fresh, clean water to brooding or laying pens.

MRGE PRACTICAL PLANTS

"' \ WHOLESALE PRODUCTION OF EGGS, BROILERS, SOFT
/ ^ ROASTERS AND GREEN DUCKS FOR MARKET. SALE
'^hj OJ, DAY-OLD CHICKS. CUSTOM HATCHING, ETC.

STEP BY STEP, during the last twenty years, poultrymen and poultry investigators
have been solving the problems of correct mating, of proper housing and yarding, of
sanitary feeding and watering, of nutritive food rations, of incubation and brooding
on a large scale by artificial means, of attractive marketing of products, until at the present
time there is a steadily increasing number of large, practical poultry plants in the United
States and Canada that are on a basis of permanent success, making satisfactory annual
profits.

Odd as it may seem, it was the duck growers who first won the victory on a large scale.
We say " odd " because the duck men had to create their market. There was no demand for
green ducks, meaning ten and twelve weeks old Pekins, weighing four to five pounds each,
until James Rankin, Easton, Mass., known as "the father of the Pekin Duck Industry in
America," built up trade in this line by sending pairs of tender green ducks of his production
to friends and acquaintances in and around Boston.

At present there are numerous successful duck farms on Long Island, in New
England, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc., on which twenty to fifty per cent, is
being cleared annually on the money invested. Owners of these plants are now
making $3,000 to $20,000 per year in net profits. The eggs of domestic ducks do
not hatch in as large percentages as do hen eggs, but the ducklings once hatched live
and grow, the mortality being small, as a general rule. Ducks eat heartily and grow
twice as fast as chicks — that is, a chick at ten weeks old should weigh two and one-
half'pounds or a little better, whereas a duckling at this age, if correctly fed, should
weigh five pounds.

The Leghorns have made Egg Farms profitable. Hundreds of flocks of Leghorns
are now paying the owners a handsome profit, these flocks ranging in size from a few
hundred to thousands of layers. There are egg farms in the Eastern States with five
to ten thousand layers, and the same is true of far-away California, Petaluma being
the best known city of egg farms on the Pacific Coast.

A large number of practical poultry plants combine eggs for market with broiler
raising and the production of roasting chickens and capons. Broilers consist of chicks
eight to twelve weeks old, weighing from three-quarters of a pound to two pounds each,
chicks grown older until they weigh three to six pounds each. In many cases the surplus cockerels are converted
into capons, the popular weights being six to ten pounds. The Boston market prefers the lighter weight capons;
the Philadelphia, New York and Chicago markets use the heavier birds.

The sale of day-old chicks came near being "something new under the sun" in the poultry world — on account
of modern transportation facilities — although the Egyptians no doubt sold day-old chicks two thousand to twenty-
five hundred years ago, as part of the custom hatching they did on a large scale. The Egyptians are still operating
the big "hatching ovens" that were told of in history more than a hundred years B. C. and it is known that the
Chinese hatched eggs by artificial means long before the modern nations of the world came into existence.

It is indeed a surprising fact that many farmers and farmers' wives should have their annual crop of chicks
hatched at so much per chick by poultrymen who are operating large numbers of small, portable incubators or
who have installed mammoth machines, yet this condition now exists, and it is certain that there is to be a large
increase in this branch of the industry from this time on.

Custom hatching and the sale of day-old chicks go hand-in-hand, and the one fact that newly-hatched chicks
and ducklings can be shipped by fast express hundreds of miles in perfect safety is going to have an important
bearing on the poultry business of the future in all civilized countries.

lO.S

JAS. RANKIN.
Called "The Father of Pekir
Ducklndusti

Roasters are these same

to Lay
High Record Trap-Nested Breeders
A Matter of Correspondence

AURORA LEGHORN FARM

R. P. ELLIS, Proprietor
Single Comb White Leghorns Exclusively —
Day-Old Chicks and Hatching Eggs Executive Department and Breeding

From America's Leading Strain Farm of the Aurora System

Of Record Bred Layers of Branch Farms

Formerly of 2406 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tenafly, N. J., December 4, 191 L
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

Our hatching results in your incubators are so uniformly good that a recapitulation of figures
gets monotonous. Two years ago we set a standard from February to October by hatching 25,268
fine, saleable chicles from 36,414 eggs placed in the machines. After allowing for infertile eggs,
totaling nine per cent., it will be found that your incubators hatched for us 84 per cent, of all fertile
hatching eggs.

Last year 45,000 eggs were set on our farm with equally good returns and this past season 59,400
eggs placed in Cyphers Incubators — sixteen (16) of your 390-egg machines— produced for us 43,717
good, live, vigorous chicks. We think this is another high record of fertility and hatching results.
I hear every now and then of some phenomenal single hatch, but here are 148 hatches, covering a
period of seven months. Such results show the dependable qualities of the Standard Cyphers
Incubators. We have had plenty of 95 per cent, and better hatches, our record being a 99 per cent,
hatch — only four eggs not hatching.

I cannot speak in too high praise of your Adaptable Hovers. This is a most excellent brooding
device. It is economical, efficient, indestructible and hygienic. Perhaps I can best testify to my com-
plete satisfaction with your incubators and hovers by placing
herewith an order for twenty-two (22) more of your 390-egg
machines and thirty (30) of the Adaptable Hovers to be delivered at
my new and enlarged main farm at Tenafly, N. J., the end of
January, 1912.

Operating 74 Standard Cyphers — Some in Use lO Years

H. MENOUGH

WALKER

J. D. BURN
OXFORD POULTRY FARM
Eggs and Stock in Season IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS A SPECIALTY Capacity 50,000 Ducks

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Oxford, Pa., December 12, 1911.

. We continue to have the same high opinion of the Cyphers Incubators as heretofore. Our
experience with them dates back about twelve years, and we have always found them satisfactory.

At present we are operating seventy-four of your Standard No. 3 machines. Some of them have been
in successful operation more than ten years and still do uniformly good work. These facts are the best
evidence we can offer regarding our high opinion of your make of Incubators. Simplicity in handling, together
with other good qualities, make them the most desirable Incubators on the market today.

Yours truly, OXFORD POULTRY FARM.

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White Wyandottes
White Leghorns
Pekin Ducks

Capacity, 200,000 Head Annually

NIAGARA FARM
W. R. CURTISS & CO., Proprietors
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Ransomville, N. Y., April 22, 1911.

We are using your Incubators here in the largest incubator cellar in the world. We also use your
Poultry Foods, Supplies, etc. Your Incubators have always given us good hatches and all of your goods
have been very satisfactory. We are pleased to recommend the Cyphers Incubator to the poultryman who
wants a first-class machine and to also recommend the Cyphers Incubator Company to any one who is in
need of anything in their line. Very truly yours, W. R. CURTISS & CO.

Photographic Views on Niagara Poultry Farm, Ransomville, N. V.
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Photographic Views of California Chiclien Farm. Guy Van Alstyne, Sec, Mayfield. Cal.

California Chicken Company

LOUIS APPY, President. GUY VAN ALSTYNE. Secretary W. E. GRIGSBY, Treasurer

Mayfield, Cal., September 30, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

We have found pleasure in handing to the Manager of your Pacific Coast Branch our order for a 16,000-egg
capacity Cyphers Mammoth Incubator to be installed without delay on our poultry plant. We are glad to
testify to our satisfaction with your equipment and Sealed-Bag Brand Food products. We have had most
excellent results with both and will be pleased to have you refer any inquiries to us as a reference. We now
have on hand some thirty thousand birds and their splendid condition is a direct compliment to the machines
and feed we have purchased from you. Find herewith some pictures of our plant — one of which shows a good
view of your Brooders equipped with self-regulating Adaptable Hovers. As you know, we are using sixty of
these Brooders, Very truly yours,

CALIFORNIA CHICKEN COMPANY,

Guy Van Alstyne, Secretary.

Portsmouth Road Poultry Farm

E. W. CUNNINGHAM, Proprietor
Breeder of High-Class S. C. Rhode Island Reds

Exeter, N. H., November 7, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

Have always considered myself fortunate in having chosen a Cyphers for my first incubator. I have
never dared to take chances by trying other makes. Operated ten (10) of the 244-egg size Cyphers last season,
hatching thousands of fine chicks. 1 also operated twenty-five (25) of your Adaptable Hovers with excellent
results, besides a number of Cyphers Outdoor Brooders. I have an 80-foot brooder house equipped with ten of
the Hovers, which supply all the heat necessar>'. / always recommend Cyphers goods and could not afford
to be without them myself.

We have at present over one thousand fine pullets and two hundred cockerels, all selected free range, vigorous
stock. Practically all of my exhibition birds are hatched and reared with Cyphers equipment. In
ten years breeding I have never had what some people call a bad year. Much of the credit is due to goods of your
manufacture. Yours very truly,

E. W. CUNNINGHAM.

198

Photographic Views of Polo Leghorn Farm, C.

Polo Leghorn Farm

C. E. TRUMP, Proprietor
WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY

Heavy Laying, Trap-Nested Strain.
Bred for Size and Large Egg Production
Fancy White Table Eggs a Specialty

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y-

Eggs for Hatching, Day-Old Chicks and

Utility Stock for Sale in Season
Satisfaction and Safe Delivery Guaranteed

Polo, 111., July 6, 1911.

We are using Cyphers Incubators with fine success — the No. 2 and No. 3 sizes — also twelve (12) of your
Adaptable Hovers and they do the work every time. Any one who will follow the directions can make big
hatches with Cyphers Incubators and can raise the chicks with these Adaptable Hovers. We never fail to
hatch a big percentage of all fertile eggs — and we do it with less care and worry with Cyphers Incubators than
with any other machine I have ever tried. The Hovers are easily regulated, are well constructed and they
take care of the chicks as well as any hen could with a great deal less worry and trouble.

We intend to use your full line of goods in future as we believe it is true economy to do so and therefore
profitable. Am to enlarge my plant next fall and shall install more of your Incubators and Hovers. If any one
is skeptical as to the quality of Cyphers goods I invite them to visit my plant and see for themselves.

Yours respectfully, C. E. TRUMP, Proprietor.

' Breeding Houses on La Grange Farm, La Grange. 111.

S. C. White Leghoi
Wyckoff Strain
Eggs for Hatching

'Apparently Will Last a Lifetime'

LA GRANGE EGG FARM

GEO. M. GEAR, Proprietor
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — La Grange, 111., November 20, 1911.

During the past season we operated twenty-one (21) of your machines, hatching as high as 80 per cent, of
all eggs set (we do not test) which is very satisfactory work. We have ordered ten (10) of your machines
for next season so that we may be better equipped to take care of our rapidly increasing trade in day-old
chicks.

I like your machines because they give me maximum results with the minimum of anxiety, which
counts for a great deal when a large number of fertile eggs are under incubation. We are operating five Cyphers
machines that have been in use nine years and the past season they gave
the same uniformly good hatches as they did the first year we owned
them. Apparently they will last a lifetime. I tried and discarded several
other makes of incubators. Can heartily recommend the Cyphers.
Very truly yours, LA GRANGE EGG FARM,

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Proprietor.

199

Been Using Incubators Eighteen Years

AFTON FARM

E. W. TWINING, Proprieto

Stock and Eggs for Sale in Season

Reference:
First National Bank, Yardley. Pa.

Yardley, Pa., June 13, 1910.

Mammoth Imperial Pekin Ducks

Single Comb White Leghorns

Barred Plymouth Rocks

Cornish Indian Games S. B.

White Wyandottes

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.

We are using thirty-three (33) of your Incubators and twelve (12) of your Outdoor Brooders, also your Chick
Food, with fine success. We take pleasure in recommending the Cyphers Incubator to be a well-made machine
and a good hatcher — one that will hatch large, strong chickens or ducklings, the kind that the owner has
a good chance of raising.

We have been using incubators for the past eighteen years, and during that time we have tried
most of the leading makes. Eight years ago we purchased one large-size Cyphers for trial, and since then have
bought more each year, until we now have thirty-three (33) of your large machines, which is the capacity of
our plant. We now keep the business running the year around, raising both ducks and chickens.

Yours truly,
. S. B. & E. W. TWINING.

Photographic Views of S. B. & E. W. Twining Poultry Yards, Yardley, Pa.

Incubators, Brooders, Poultry Foods

CHAS. F. THOMPSON & CO.

POULTRY YARDS

ONE OF THE LARGEST BREEDERS OF FANCY STOCK IN THE UNITED STATES

Rhode Island Reds (Rose and Single Comb) Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes

Cyphers Incuhalor Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Lynnfield Center, Mass., Oct. 23, 1911.

We hatch from 12,000 to 15,000 chicks in the Cyphers Incubators every season. We have several
of your Outdoor Brooders, which do fine work. We also use the Cyphers Chick Food, and_are very much pleased
with it.

We are using eighteen (18) of your incubators, var^'ing in size from the 144egg
to 390-egg machines, and I can see no difference in the per cent, of hatches in
any of them. Repeatedly we have hatched over 300 chicks at a time with your No. 3
Incubators holding 390 eggs, and they are as bright, smart appearing chicks as ever
were hatched by hens.

I am satisfied that your firm sells nothing but reliable, tested goods and that you
use your customers right. Season before last we put in one of your Hot-\\'ater Heaters
which we used to heat our office and brooder house. We found there is a saving of

fully 25 per cent, in coal over a heater we are using in our old brooder house.

Yours very truly, CHAS. F. THOMPSON & CO.

By

Chas. F. Thompson.

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Photographic Views of Mertsheimer Poultry Farm. L. L. Mertsheimer. Prop., Pleasant Hill. Mo.

Mertsheimer Poultry Farm

L. L. MERTSHEIMER, Proprietor

BREEDERS OF WHITE^PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES AND RHODE ISLAND REDS
Breeding Stock and Hatching Eggs In Season Breeders of Homing Pigeons and Pit Bull Terriers

Cyphers Incubator Company. Biifalo, N. I'.— Pleasant Hill, Mo., October 12, 1911.

The best endorsement we can give your goods is to report that this plant, one of the largest and most com-
plete in the west, is equipped with Cyphers Company manufactures from, beginning to end — from incubators
clear down to drinking fountains. Furthermore, we are much pleased with our equipment and expect to
continue to buy and use your goods as long as we are in the business.

At present we have ten (10) of your 390-egg incubators, two (2) of the 70-egg machines, forty (40) of your
Adaptable Hovers, and we are planning to install twenty more of these Hovers this fall.

We have an annual production of from seven to ten thousand head of poultry and in addition to this
we breed Homer pigeons and Pit Bull terriers. We use your Sealed- Bag Brand poultry foods for our fowls and
your pigeon food for our Homers. You may put me down on your list as a thoroughly satisfied customer.
We know what your goods are because we have put them to the test. We sincerely recommend your
goods and can speak in high terms of your method of doing business. Yours truly,

L. L. MERTSHEIMER, Proprietor.

Photographic Views of Throop Poultry Farm, Theo. Throop, Prop., Enterprise, Fla.

Throop Poultry Farm

THOROUGHBRED WHITE LEGHORNS

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Enterprise, Fla,, October 11, 1911.

I have a White Leghorn plant here in Enterprise and run about 2,000 head of layers each season. I
hatch my chickens with incubators, using your machines among others and have found that I get the best results
from your incubators. Therefore shall add several more No. 2, 244-egg Cyphers to my equipment this season
because I am convinced they are the best — the safest to buy and use. In answering numerous inquiries on
the subject of incubation I have no hesitation in recommending Cyphers Incubators as the very best I have
used. Am enclosing herewith two photographs which will give you a correct idea of my poultry plant. It is
making money for me and I give full share of credit to your make of incubators.

Yours truly, THEO. THROOP, Proprietor.

201

"The Home of The South Shore Rosister"

J. H. CURTISS 'CURTISS POULTRY FARM g.w. CURTISs

LIGHT BRAHMAS WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

West Norwell, Mass., Julv 17, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

We have used your Incubators for many years, trying them side by side with
other leading makes, with the result that we have found the Standard
Cyphers superior to all others.

The Cyphers machines are used almost altogether in this section (the
home of the South Shore roasters), where chicken-raising is the principal
industry. Yours very truly, J. H. CURTISS.

Views on the South Shore Roaster Plant of J. H. Curtiss, West Nonvell. Ma

"The Most Convincing Sign"

G. A. DREW, Manager CONYERS MANOR

Cyphers Incubator Company. Buffalo, N. Y. — Greenwich, Conn., December 13, 1911.

We are pleased to report another successful season in our poultry work. Our success in hatching
and rearing with your Incubators and Brooders is all we could hope for. Perhaps the most convincing
sign is the fact that we are contemplating materially increasing our
poultry plant, both in the production of eggs and broilers. We shall
continue to use your products and advise others to do the same, as we

Yours very truly.

have done in the

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Views of Conyera Manor Poultry Plant, Greenwich, Conn.
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MR JAMES RANKIN-

RAN KINS'
DUCK
FARM

PEKIN DUCKS

EN ROUTE TO MARKET

Monarch Incubator

JAMES RANKIN, Proprietor
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — South Easton, Mass., September 4, 1906.

We have used your Incubators the past season and have found them to be all that you represent. Having
been a manufacturer of incubators myself and always in strong public competition with many of the leading
machines, / have no hestitancy in saying that I consider the ^ ^^ ^ ,

Standard Cyphers Incubator, latest pattern, the leading // /J/^ /

machine on the market today. The regulation is simply '/^ ^/ C^::^^2'<^-t^/^^5«s->-'Z--^

perfection. Wishing you all success, I remain. Yours truly, C/

Views of Hartman Stock Farm. Columbus. Ohio.

Using 57 Large-Size Cyphers

THE HARTMAN STOCK FARM CO.

Importers and Breeders of Buff, White and Partridge Wyandottes, Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C. White Leghorns

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Columbus, Ohio, October 24, 1910.

I personally have used the Cyphers Incubators in large numbers during the past ten years and have
always found them to fulfill every claim you make for them. They cause less trouble than any machine I have
ever operated, and I have tried a few! I find in the Cyphers a machine that any one can operate if they will
but follow the instructions that are sent with each machine and not try to rebuild it, as it is self-regulating
and practically automatic.

The fact that we now have in use fifty-seven (57) of your largest size Incubators, including ten
of your latest pattern, equipped with nursery drawers and improved system of ventilation, and the fact that
a plant of this magnitude uses the Cyphers Incubators exclusively,
should be ample proof of what we think of your machines.

We shall hatch during the coming season 20,000 chicks for our
own use and from 30,000 to 50,000 for our day-old chick trade.

Respectfully yours, HARTMAN STOCK FARM,

^ Supt.

of Poultry.

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Photographic Views on Poultry Farm of C. Flewwelling. Petali

330 to 371 Chicks Every Hatch

la°byCht^s^'''°'^'"' C. FLEWWELLING

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Petaluma, Cal., December 3, 1911.

Our second year with Cyphers Incubators has been even more successful than the first. You will recall
that last season we obtained 330 to 371 good, strong, vigorous chicks every hatch from our No. 3 machines, hatch-
ing a total of more than 20,000 fine, healthy chicks. The past season we ran fifteen (15) of your No. 3
Incubators from January 1st to July 1st and every machine has turned out big hatches of fine, strong
chicks. For example, April 22nd two of the incubators gave us 744 chicks from 765 fertile eggs — and not a
cripple in the lot. Hearing so many complaints of other makes of incubators, we are more convinced than
ever of the superiority of your machines. Yours truly, C. FLEWWELLING.

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Views of Kaufman's Poultry Fan

Hatched More Than 60,000 Chicks'

BREEDERS OF
Kaufman's Utility Strain. Whi
Wyandottes, Barred Plymoutl
Rocks, Rhode Island Reds

KAUFMAN'S POULTRY FARM

OUR SPECIALTIES

Day-Old Chick.'i

Eggs for Hatching

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. F.-

Burlington, Mass., July 30, 1911.

We thought 1910 would be our banner year in the poultry business, but 1911 has proved even more
satisfactory. In 1910 we hatched some 50,000 chicks in twenty (20) of your No. 3 Incubators, but this past
season has given us more than 60,000 chicks — same number of machines — and they are not at all tired of
hatching, in spite of our running them continuously for seven months out of the twelve.

Using your machines, we have become so accustomed to good hatches that we not only "count our chickens
before they are hatched," but we bank the money for the chicks before placing the eggs in the incubators. It
is not unusual for us to get 290 chicks from a single machine, and the average is about 250.

Our customers are so certain of receiving their chicks on the day promised that they make remittances at
time of ordering, and we have never failed to send the exact number on the promised date. Now that is
something we could never do before using your machines. Yours truly,

KAUFMAN'S POULTRY FARM,^

M. Kaufman.

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Poultry Plant of R. H. Loveland, Lamar, Pa,

'Operated Your Machines For Ten Years'

Day-Old Chicks

Eggs for Hatching

R. H. LOVELAND

Breeder of Heavy-Laying Strains

Barred Plymouth Rocks and S. C, White and Brov/n Leghorns

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Lamar, Clinton Co., Pa., December 12, 1911.

I have operated your machines for ten years and have never failed to bring off a satisfactory
hatch. The coming season shall increase my hatching capacity to 50,000 chicks, which shows I have faith both
in the poultry business and in the Standard Cyphers.

Am enclosing you photo of my concrete incubator cellar, which contains thirty (30) of your No. 3 Standard
Cyphers machines, in which I hatched the past season (in about four months) 30,800 chicks, mostly Barred
Rocks, which were shipped to nearly every state east of the Mississippi River, and with uniformly good results.
The other photo shows a single shipment of 3,000 chicks ready to be taken to the express office.

Very respectfully, R. H. LOVELAND.

Barred and White
Plymouth Rocks
White Langshans

White Wyandottes
Rhode Island Reds
Bronze Turkeys

Views on Rowe Poultry Farm, and Hatchery, Groton, Mass.

"Hatched About 45,000 Chicks"

R O WE POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY

Headquarters for Pure-Bred Baby Chicks
SELECTED EGGS FOR HATCHING
TEN AWARDS ON POULTRY AND BIG BROWN EGGS AT 1910-11 BOSTON SHOWS
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Groton, Mass., September 10, 1911.

Having operated personally sixteen (16) of your incubators (14 No. 3 and 2 No. 2 machines) the past few
years I feel well qualified in stating that they have demonstrated time and again to be superior to other
makes running beside them under the same conditions. The chicks from your machines are husky little
fellows, and give my customers much satisfaction.

/ hatched about 45,000 chicks this season, distributing them all over the New England and Middle
States, and at this early date have received letters from seven different customers stating that the pullets
from the incubator chicks received from me this spring had begun to lay, which speaks well for the
vitality of the chicks hatched in the Cyphers Incubators. It is a
pleasure to have the privilege of recommending your machines to any
one desiring a simple operating and thoroughly reliable incubator.

Yours truly,

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Annual Capacity 100,000 Ducks

WEBER BROTHERS

Breede:

of

IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS ANNUAL CAPACITY, 100,000

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Wrentham, Mass., November 1, 1910.

In response to your inquiry as to our continued success with the fifteen (15) No. 3 Cyphers Incubators we
have been using several years, we want to say that we never had such phenomenal hatches as we have
had in these incubators from beginning to end. We believe it to be impossible to build a more successful
hatching machine and shall always heartily endorse and recommend your incubators to every one who

asks for our opinion on the subject.

In our long experience in the poultry business
we have had the opportunity to try an experiment
with every well-known make of machine on the
market and we have proved to our complete
satisfaction that for reliability, uniformity of
temperature, simplicity of action and ease of
operation, the Standard Cyphers Incubator
has no equal in the market today.

We shall continue to use and endorse your
Incubators in the future above all others.

Very truly,

Views of Weber Bros. 100-Acre Duck Ranch, PondviUe, Mass.

Seven Seasons— Never Had Poor Hatch

THE M A P L E W O O D POULTRY F A R kl

Farm at Ridgewood Road and Poultry and Egg', Incubator Eggs

Milbum Ave.. Maplewood, N. J. Incubator Ci::ks a Specialty

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Milburn, N. J., Januarj' 17, 1911.

We desire to state that at the present time we are using fifteen {15) of your Incubators and that during
the seven full seasons in which we have used your machines we have had uniformly excellent results. We have
never spoilt a hatch with your incubators and last season (1910) had such good hatches that the very fact
the hatches were so good so crowded the incubators that we had to remove some of the chicks lest some might be
smothered. Not only were the hatches good, but the quality of the chicks was such that they were readily
raised and today we have one of the finest flocks we have ever had on the place. In the near future we hope to
install a Mammoth Incubator and you may be sure yours will first of all be examined.

Not only have your Incubators given us perfect saiisfaction, but all other goods bought from you we have
found to be of a uniformly high standard. Yours verj- truly,

MAPLEWOOD POULTRY FARM,

Henry M. Reeve, Proprietor

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Photographic Views of Parle Ridse Poultry and Squab Farm, Park Ridge, III.

"Does Hatch Practically Every Fertile Egg"

PARK RIDGE POULTRY AND SQUAB FARM

HENRY HAMANN, Manager

Hatching Eggs Breeders of Breeding Stock for Sale

Day-Old Chicks White Rocks, White Wyandottes, S. C. White Leghorns, Also, Homer Pigeons

S. C. Rhode Island Reds, and S. C. Buff Orpingtons

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Park Ridge, III., December 12, 1911.

I believe there is no other incubator manufactured that can compare with the Cyphers as a hatching
machine. Have tried several other makes, but they were comparative failures. I could not afford the
loss sustained by using incubators that do not hatch most of the fertile eggs. After we adopted the Cyphers we
found that it does hatch practically every fertile egg, bringing out strong, healthy chicks, such as no mother
hen could excel. There is not the least trouble in operating your incubators. I operated six of the No. 3
size last season and repeatedly during an entire hatch there was not a bit of variation in the temperature from
beginning to end. / hatched about 7,000 chickens, which means that I got good hatches — very good hatches.

I have found that your machines will hatch 95 to 98 per cent,
of the well-fertilized eggs. Am going to use nine or ten of your
No. 3 incubators this coming season and expect to hatch upwards of
10,000 chicks. Respectfully,

</f^/v*/Uif^

Manager.

Photographic Views of F. S. Keith's Poultry Farm, Easton, Mass.

'Have Used Cyphers Incubators Thirteen Years'

Imperial Pekin Ducks,

Pekin and Indian Runner Ducklings,

Chicks and Eggs — Eight Varieties

F. S. KEITH

R. and S. Rhode Island Reds

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Easton, Mass., December 8, 1911.

I honestly believe, on the basis of long experience, that the Cyphers Incubators are the best machines
made, for hatching both ducks and chickens. I am now using thirty-three (33) large-sized Cyphers and this
last season I had many 300-chick hatches, some of these hatches reaching 320 good, strong, healthy chicks.

With duck eggs / often obtain 200 to 230 ducklings from 300 eggs — in one case taking out 236 big, husky
ducklings from one of my hatches. I ship these chicks and ducklings all over the country, besides raising a great
many myself. All my customers were pleased and had good success raising the day-old chicks and ducklings,
thus proving that they were properly hatched. Have used Cyphers Incubators thirteen years. Tried
others, but they could not duplicate the work of the Cyphers.

Yours very truly, F, S. KEITH,

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Photographic Views of P. & M. Poultry Farm, Sparks, Nev,

In the Dry Air of Nevada

M

POULTRY FARM

Stock and Eggs for Sale in Season

P. AND
Single Comb White Leghorns Our Specialty
Other Popular Varieties
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Sparks, Nevada, August 2, 1910.

All of the new machines have arrived in good shape. The last No. 3 machine to arrive was put to work
without delay and the first hatch was a good one — especially for the very dry air here in Nevada in the
month of July. The hatch came off July 16th, giving us 72 2-9 per cent., which would be a good hatch in this
section of the countrj' at the height of the hatching season. Enclosed find picture of our new incubator cellar
which is to contain fifteen (15) No. 3 Cyphers; also pictures of one of our brooder houses, 20 x SO feet in
size, and our double-deck laying house, capacity 3,500 hens, one of the largest poultry houses in America.

We intend to install eleven (11) more No. 3 Cyphers Incubators this coming fall. All of your machines
have given us the best results of any we have tried. We never get less than 60 per cent., and a majority
of the hatches run closer to 85 per cent., now and then exceeding this high per-
centage. We are so well pleased with the Cyphers Incubators that in
the future we will use the Cyphers only.

Yours respectfully, PEARCE & MACK, Per

Photographic Views of Spaulding Poultry Farm. W. H. Happersett, Prop., Lyons,

Spaulding Poultry Farm

w

Baby Chicks

Hatching Eggs

H. HAPPERSETT, Proprietor.
46th St. and Joliet Road
BREEDERS OF ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
"Winter Laying Strain"

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — , Lyons, 111., November 25, 1911.

Last season we hatched and sold over 25,000 "Ruby Red" baby chicks, and we attribute our success in
this work to the use of Standard Cyphers Incubators. Repeatedly the comment has been "How large, fluffy
and strong your chicks are." We are working harder each year to induce our customers who buy hatching
eggs to incubate them in Cyphers machines on account of obtaining better results, both in number of chicks
hatched and in quality. This is a matter of vital importance to us, because we guarantee to replace all infertile
eggs sold for hatching.

We are enlarging our incubator cellar so as to increase our hatching capacity to 10,000 eggs at one hatching

for the coming season, using your No. 3 machines exclusively. We never think of getting up nights to

watch the Cyphers Incubators. We are also using your Sealed-bag Chick Food with fine success. No more

cheap chick foods for us. Since we came to this decision we have had absolutelv no trouble with white diarrhoea.

Yours very truly, SPAULDING POULTRY FARM,

W. H. Happersett, Prop.

** Cyphers Incubators Do Work Satisfactorily in Colorado'*

THE BEAR CREEK POULTRY COMPANY
C. J. COOPER, President Milk Fed and Dry Picked Broilers Our Specialty J. RYLANDS, Manager

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Denver, (Fort Logan,) Colo., September 20, 1911_.

Believing you will be interested to know our results with j'our Incubators, as Colorado has the reputation
of small hatches, I want to tell vou how our hatches came off the past season.

During the early part of this year we operated twenty-three (23) of your 244-egg machines, hatching
a little over 17,000 chickens. We succeeded in hatching a little more than 60 per cent, of all the eggs put in
the incubators. I do not know the exact number of non-fertile eggs, but we hatched approximately 85 per cent,
of all fertile eggs set. So you see that the Cyphers Incubators do the work very satisfactorily in Colorado
if they receive the proper attention. Yours very truly, C. J. COOPER, President.

Photographic Views on Bear Creek Poultry Farm, Den

Using Fifty Cyphers Brooders

STRAFFORD POULTRY FARM

HENRY D. RILEY, Proprietor

BREEDER OF PRIZE-WINNING BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Strafford, Pa., December 13, 1911.

Being a firm believer in all your methods for the advancement of the poultry industry and your
fair and square way of always doing business, I feel that I would like to write and at least let you know how you
have helped me.

Five years ago I equipped my plant entirely with goods of your make and I have never had cause to
regret it. I have ten (10) of your No. 3 Incubators, and about fifty (50) of your Style A Outdoor Brooders, and
they have given me entire satisfaction. I think I can truthfully say that the Cyphers Incubator Company
has been a big help to me in gaining the reputation that I think I now have. It is always a pleasure to recom-
mend your Company and your goods to my friends and customers. Yours very truly,

HENRY D. RILEY.

Photographic Views of Strafford Poultry Farm, Strafford, Pa. The left view shows the Incubator Cellar equipped with 10 No. 3

Standard Cyphers Incubators. The right-hand picture is a partial view of the Brooder House

furnished with Cyphers Brooders.

"Because They Outhatched Other Makes'

MONMOUTH POULTRY FARMS

J. COURTNEY PUNDERFORD, Ow

EGBERT WILSON, Jr., Supt.

Breeders, Exhibitors and Exporters of
utli Strain" S. C. Buff and Wliite Legfiorns
Extiibition Birds Always In Stock

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Freneau, N. J., August 24, 1911.

For the past eight years I have been using your Incubators and Brooder House Sj-stem with the most
gratifying results. Since 1905 have operated Cyphers Incubators exclusively simply because they out-
hatched all other makes which I had in my cellar. During the last five years three-fourths of my New York
and other prize winners have been hatched in your incubators.

Your incubators are practically self-ventilating and self-regulating. They are indeed easy to operate
and I can heartily recommend them to the fancier as well as to the beginner. Your brooding system,
to my way of thinking, is without an equal. It is a system which
any one with commonsense and a little judgment can run with perfect
satisfaction. When we tell you that last season our loss in the brooder
house did not quite reach 8 per cent, you can Judge for yourself the
satisfaction it has given. Yours very truly,

^^c^-^r-"-

^"IIAIN BROODER HOUSE.

Poultry Farm, Freneau. N. J.

Peerless Poultry Farm

Bred-To-Lay Breeding Stocli, Day-Old Chicks
and Hatching Eggs In Season

Fresh, Sterile Eggs From Nest To You, Delivered
Daily By Messenger
Garnett, Kas., November 17, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

We use nothing else but Cyphers Company products on our entire plant. We use Cyphers Incuba-
tors and Adaptable Hovers exclusively and are also operating two (2) of your four-section Paradise Brooders.
Right here we want to say that there is not a brooding method in existence today that compares with
the Paradise for raising chicks to four weeks old. They are fool-proof, time and labor-saving — certainly a
grand success.

We earnestly believe that our success has been due to the fact that we started in business with
dependable equipment — the best goods for the purpose. Your foods are all right or we would not continue
to use them and we use large quantities, as your records will show. We cheerfully recommend Cyphers Incu-
bators—^in fact all your goods to any one who is in the market for this class of merchandise.
Yours very truly, PEERLESS POULTRY FARM,

Fred. P. Spraul, Manager.

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Yardley Duck Farm, W. H. McCormick & Son, Proprietors, Yardley, Pa.

Using 104 Cyphers Incubators— " Best Ever Used"

YARDLEY DUCK FARM
Imperial Pekin Ducks JOHN C. McCORMICK, Proprietor Eggs and Stock in Season

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Yardley, Pa., December 13, 1911.

We have nothing that we can add to our report of September 1, 1908, on the value of your Incubators.
We still hold to the opinion that they are the best machines we have ever used.

As you know we are operating one hundred and four (104) Cyphers Incubators. With these machines
we have hatched as high as 235 duckUngs to a machine. We have found them to do equally good work in
hatching chicks, averaging about 200 chicks to a machine. These machines produce good, strong chicks
and ducklings and the losses are low. Yours very truly,

JOHN C. McCORMICK.

Views on Wilson's Poultry Farm, Hollis, N. H.

Chicks From 40,000 Eggs Fine and Large

VvHLSON'S POULTRY FARM

HENRY A. WILSON, Proprietor
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS STRICTLY FRESH EGGS INCUBATOR CHICKS

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y— Hollis, N. H., October 27, 1910.

It affords me pleasure to state that the thirteen (13) Standard Cyphers Incubators used by me gave the
same good results last season as in former years. The chicks I hatched the past spring from 40,000 eggs
placed in your machines after January 1st, 1910, proved to be particularly fine and large and gave uniform
satisfaction in my own hands and when sold as day-old chicks to
many customers. 1 am using three of your electric regulators and
would not be without them, as they save coal and can be relied on to
keep an even temperature. Yours truly,

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,500-Hen Egg Farm, Mansfield, Mass.

Stock and Egg

"Paid Over $400 for Other Makes"

ELM P O U L T R \- FARM

\VM. S. HARRIS, Proprietor

1,500 LAYERS Incubator Chicks for Sale

Breeder and Exhibitor of Record-Laying Strains of S. and R. C. Rhode Island Reds
Cyphers Inaibator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— ' Mansfield, Mass., November 24, 1911.

/ have had twenty-five years' experience with several makes of incubators and thus far have found
none that can. equal the Cyphers. Your Incubator was a success the first time I tried it years ago, and with
the continued improvements it is now as near automatic as possible in a device of this kind. Those who may
be in doubt as to what incubator to buy can make no mistake in the Cyphers. For >'ears m>' record-
layers and prize winners have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators.

Your Incubators are the only ones I am now using. I paid over $400 for other makes and gave them a
thorough trial. The Cyphers side by side with the other makes invariably hatched larger percentages
of chickens with less variation in temperature, the eggs being from the same flocks and all other conditions
ftcififfeguai, aside from the machines themselves,
investigation with the insurance
meets with their approval. Yours truly,

III LciiiijcidLuie, Lue e^gb ueiiig iiuni Liie same uulks unu uu uiner conaiiioni
ichines themselves. Lastly, I found on ^o ^ ^

people that your safety attachment Li^^h^^'^/^:P'r ^<!^^-7^ *^

Yours truly, -^ ^ <-<-^ ^ r:^ ^t^^iyl-'t-t^

Photographic Views of Parkside Poultry Farm, N. P. Easling, Proprietor, Pekin, III.

Largest Egg Farm In the Middle West

P.\RKSIDE POULTRY F.\RM

240.000 Market Eggs Sold Annually

N. P. EASLING, Proprietor
SISIGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSI\-ELV
Capacity, 1,500 Laving Stock
10,000 Chicks Hatched Yearly
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. V.— Pekin, III., December 11, 1911.

. During the past season I operated eight (S) of your 244-egg Incubators, ivith uniform success. Several
of tjiese machines are ones that I used when I first started in the poultry business over six years ago and during
the past season these machines hatched as good as during the first years I owned them. / do not see how the
Cyphers Incubators can be improved upon. From your 244-egg machines we have hatched as high as 217
chicks — practically every fertile egg. Many other hatches have been around the 200 mark. Do not believe
that during tlie entire season we had a hatch come off that gave
us less than 165 to 170 chicks. All you have
Incubator is to have eggs that are good and fertile.
will do the rest. / recommend Cyphers Incubators
customers.

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Yours %'ery truly, *■ • * aBBw^^^^ f^

Photographic Views of Midway Poultry Yards. Santa Cruz, Cal.

"Hatched Several Thousand Chickens'

MIDWAY POULTRY YARDS

Hatching Eggs and Steele
Incubator Chicks in Season

Santa Cruz, Cal., October 21, 1911.

Single Comb White, Buff and Brown
Leghorns and Buff Orpingtons— White
Leghorns a Specialty

Cyphers Incubator Company. Buffalo, N. Y.-

I wish to again testify to the efficiency of Cyphers Incubators and your Brooder Heaters after another
year's experience with them. Am especially pleased with the Mammoth Incubator which I installed last
spring. Your Incubators and Brooding devices have proved to be the best on the market and I am glad to
advise poultry men that they cannot make a mistake in buying and using your goods. "Buy the Cyphers and
only the Cyphers" is my rule for success after having tried other makes. I know that the Cyphers goods are
made "upon honor". Have found this out by personal test — that
is why I write with such emphasis. Have used your Incubators and
Brooders to hatch and raise thousands of chicks and adult fowls
and know whereof I speak. Yours for success,

Photographic Views of Peconic Duck Farm, Riverhead, L. I., N. Y.

"The Cyphers Has Beaten Them AH"

PECONIC D IT C K FARM

A. B. SOYARS, Proprietor Superior Pekin Ducks

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— Riverhead, L. I., N. Y., September 11. 1910.

After operating your machines for four years, along with some of the leading makes of incubator=, we find
the Cyphers has beaten them all. The longer I use the Cyphers the better hatches I get out of them.
We kept over 400 laying ducks this year, and from them we hatched 20,780 -

strong, healthy ducklings, which is proof enough of what the Cyphers Incubators ^*-^ ^^ V

are doing for us. L^ yiSi ^ ^"^ CLJ-^

We operate thirty-seven {37) Standard Cyphers Incubators. •? «' v ,

Yours truly,

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Views of Crystal Spring Poultry Farm. Rocliland, Mass,

The Opinion of An Elxpert

Hot Water Brooder Systems Installed r'T?VQ'rAT Q'PPTVr^ pnTTTTPV fAPl\yT Electric Heat Regulators, Piping

Caponizing a Specialty CKYblAL brKilNlj rUULlKY i<AKM and Light Machine Work

HENRY D, SMITH, Proprietor
Cyphers Incubator Company, Bujfalo, N. Y. — Rockland, Mass., November 30, 1911.

In the early part of February I received an up-to-date No. 3 Cyphers Incubator from you. One very cold
day I took it out of the crate, set it up in a room with three others and in two and one-half hours from the
time I lit the match it was up to 103 degrees. The hatches have been on an average with other eleven (11)
No. 3 machines of your make. Speaking of out-of-season hatching, last fall five of these machines averaged
241 chicks out of 400 eggs set, the fertility running about as usual for fall eggs. From one machine I got 280
chicks. Last August I put 400 eggs in a No. 3 Cyphers, tested them down to 329 on the 14th day and got 283
good, strong chicks. Eggs from some of my breeding pens hatched as high as 92 per cent . of all the eggs set.

Have been running incubators for the last sixteen years. I am now using twelve (12) No. 3 Cyphers
machines and they are giving perfect satisfaction. I recommend their use to every one I meet in the poultry
business. Yours very truly, HENRY D. SMITH.

Will Put in More of Them

WAUKESHA EGG FARM Fancy Table Eggs

BECHTNER & SON CO., Proprietors Stock For Sale

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Waukesha, Wis., August 9, 1910.

We have been using Cyphers Incubators with fine success over three seasons. Now have in use twelve
(12) of these machines of the 390-egg size and are going to put in more of them next spring.

Cyphers Incubators are well designed and durably constructed. We believe them to be the best
• in the market. The Cyphers is worth the price charged for it and no one can go^ SP}jp_^,J^ ^J'^H}!}?. *l}f^'

Yours truly,

BECHTNER & SON CO.

Views of Waukesha Egg Farm, Waukesha, Wis.
214

Photographic View of Oak Ranch Poultry Farm, W. R. Thomas. Proprietor, Petaluma, Cal.

'Avereige to Hatch About 90 Per Cent."

W. R. THOMAS, Proprieto

OAK RANCH

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. — Petaluma, Cal., September 3, 1911.

The continued use of the Cyphers Incubators confirms me in the favorable opinion I had formed of them.
At present I have nine (9) of these machines, and I find that they give better hatches than any others I
have ever tried. I secure uniformly a good percentage of strong, healthy chicks from the fertile eggs. I
average to hatch about 90 per cent, of all fertile eggs I entrust in
your machines. Your Incubators are simple and very easy to C\n_ ''/")
operate. The nursery trays are a very great convenience, making i/ /~, ''\o '
it easy to remove the chicks from the machine. Yours very truly,

"The Only Machine Made That >Vill Do It"

W. H. BENTLEY, Proprietor BENTLEY OSTRICH FARM FEATHERS, PLUMES, BOAS, ETC

Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y.— San Diego, Cal., June 26, 1909.

After seven years' use the Ostrich Egg Incubator I bought of you is still doing first-class work. I
so far this year hatched 92 per cent, of the fertile eggs, and they are all good, strong chicks. The
Cyphers Incubator is the only one made that will do so, as far as I have investigated, and I have tried
a great many makes. I spent a great many years experimenting, but after getting a Cyphers I found that
the experimental stage was over, and have now got down to business and raise more chicksthan all my com-
petitors in the State, all because of your machine. If I had to give up the Cyphers I would give up the business
with it. Yours very truly, W. H. BENTLEY.

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W. H. Bentley, Proprietor, San Diego, Cal.

it unsafe to entrust chicks to the care of hens out of doors.
At this time of year it is impossible to get hold of enough
broody hens to do the hatching, let alone using them in
considerable numbers for brooding purposes.

The next low-cost plan of brooding chicks that we
have to consider is known as the "fireless brooder" method
— a plan that originated in the basket behind the kitchen
stove and that has been carried to absurd lengths as regards
foolish claims made for it. Little chicks will stand quite
severe weather, provided they are protected from wind,

CHAPTER Vn

HOW TO BROOD CHICKS PROPERLY AT LOWEST COST

The Hen-Method Considered. Its Limitations. The "Fireless Brooder"
Plan Unsafe for Winter and Early Spring Use. Heated Brooding Quarters
are Necessary for the Best Results in Cold and Changeable Weather

(Copyright January, 1912, by Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.)

G HICKS covered with bagging or a piece of old carpet
can be kept with safety several days in a basket
or box placed behind the kitchen stove. And
this is one form of brooding, though a crude and expensive
one. It is expensive because of the labor involved.

The hen-method of brooding chicks might seem to
be, at first thought, the least expensive. All that is
needed, as it would appear, is the mother hen and a home-
made brood coop shaped like an inverted letter V, or just
a barrel placed on its side with a few stakes driven into
the ground in front of it to keep the hen inside and allow
the chicks to pass out and in.

But this plan also is expensive when we come to
consider it from a business point of view and compare it
with other methods.

First, is the work involved — the labor required to care
for and safeguard one hundred, two hundred or five hundred
chicks entrusted to hens, fifteen or such a matter to each hen

Second, the death loss is certain to be heavy while
the hen is confined and cannot defend her brood, and it
is likely to be still greater when she is allowed to lead the
chicks about in the wet grass or far afield to be preyed
upon by four-footed enemies, hawks, etc.

Third, the hen has a monopoly on the production of fer-
tile or "hatchable" eggs — and always will have ! Not only
should broody hens be "broken up," so they will go back to
laying, the hatching to be done by incubators — especially in
the early part of the hatching season, but it is still more
costly and wasteful to use her for brooding purposes.

This old-fashioned method — for many centuries the
only way known to man — uses up three weeks of the hen's
time in hatching the eggs, then three to six weeks longer
in brooding the chicks. Here is a loss of six to nine weeks
— forty-two to sixty-three days during which the hen
should have produced twenty-five to fifty more eggs that
could be eaten, sold or incubated.

Furthermore, the hen-method of brooding chicks is
the least reliable and most costly at the very time when
a dependable plan for brooding the chicks is most needed
— in the late winter and early spring. First, it would be
impracticable to secure enough broody hens to make a
commercial success of this plan in January, February
and March; second, it is during this important period
that the weather is both severe and changeable, making

FIRE-PROOF, ADAPTABLE HOVERS.
One or more of these AU-Metal, Fire-proof Brooding Hovers
can be used in almost any kind of a Poultry House or other
Suitable Enclosure.

HOME-MADE FIRELESS BROODER.
Can be made out of a Soap Box. with or without a Glass Top.
Chicks prefer a lighted interior.

rain and snow, and have a handy place where they can
get warm whenever they feel the need of it; but it is silly
and almost criminal to advise inexperienced persons to en-
trust newly-hatched chicks to these "cold storage brood-
ers" in winter time or during the early spring when the
temperature is very liable to drop twenty to thirty degrees
in as many hours.

Let it be granted that it is possible to stow away
twenty-five to fifty little chicks in a fireless brooder and
to wrap them up so snugly that they will not freeze to
death nor become chilled — which is almost as fatal, but
is this a practical way to raise chicks in any considerable
numbers ? Plainly, it is not. The moment they are let
out of their close quarters and warm nests, the trouble
begins. It will not take thirty minutes to chill them,
and of course they do not know enough to run back into
the fireless brooder all at the same time — which is neces-
sary if they are to produce enough heat from their own
little bodies to keep one another from freezing or chilling.
Some of the chicks will get cold sooner than others, and it
is ridiculous to claim that all will return to the cold brooder
in order to help warm and save the lives of the weaker ones.

Another serious drawback to the fireless brooder
plan of brooding little chicks in cold or changeable weather,
is the question of proper ventilation. Fresh, pure air
simply must be admitted to the brooding and sleeping
quarters of the chicks and it should be done in a manner
that will not result in drafts — by some method that will
not cause the chicks to crowd, to crawl under and over
one another, to pile up, "sweat," and trample one another
to death. Chicks in a brooder that begin to get cold
will "mass up" by crowding under and over one another
and then will "sweat," from a condensation of their moist
breath, and in this condition they chill very readily. Also
unaer these conditions they are quite sure to trample
and smother the weaker ones. Poultrymen who have
tried this fireless brooder plan in cold, changeable weather
have visited the chicks in the early morning and found
every one of them dead.

HOW rO BROOD CHICKS PROPERLY AT LOWEST COST

Coop,

equipped with AIl-Metal. Fire-proof, Self-Regulating, Adaptable
Hover for brooding the chicks in cold weather.

Fireless brooders can be used to advantage during
warm weather, or in a safely heated apartment. It is
for this reason that Cyphers Incubator Company manu-
factures and sells them, but we frankly warn all readers
of these lines not to try to raise valuable newly-hatched
chicks by this plan during the winter time or in the early
spring when changeable weather must be guarded against.

On opposite page is shown an illustration of a home-
made fireless brooder — on'e that any person who is handy
with tools can rig up in an hour's time. A sort of an imitation
hen is what is aimed at — a snug place made by suspending
strips of heavy cloth of soft material from the cover of
a shallow box, cutting a 4 x 4 inch opening in the side
of the box, three inches above the bottom, for the chicks
to pass out and in, covering this exit with a tin or wooden
slide, boring a dozen or more small holes near the top
of the box for ventilation, then covering the bottom of
the box three inches deep with soft, fine litter such as
hay-mow sweepings, cut clover or alfalfa, or short-cut
straw or hay. Planing mill shavings will do fairly well
for the purpose.

For early indoor brooding, where the poultry raiser
does not wish to go to the expense of erecting a special
poultry house, and at a time when it is impractical to use
outdoor brooders, there is no better, no more economical
and satisfactory plan for raising newly-hatched chicks
than by the u.se of Paradise Brooders — see pages 84-
90 inclusive, especially page Sg. Here the chicks can
be kept in safety and under complete control, until they
are past the danger point or until ready for market as
broilers. If they are to be raised to maturity as layers
or for use as breeding stock, they should be shifted to
outdoor brooders or to more roomy quarters when they
are three to five weeks old.

The type of indoor brooder. Style D (see page 67)
is unexcelled as an individual single compartment brooder
for indoor use, and is fire-proof, each one bearing the official
label of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Many
Cyphers Company customers make a practice of buying
the Style B, three-apartment outdoor brooder (see page
63), and using it indoors up to March ist to 15th and
then moving it out of doors, chicks and all. We heartily
recommend this plan in every case where the cost of the
equipment is not beyond the means of a poultry man or
woman. These brooders, with proper care, will last ten
to fifteen years — and they do the work.

For both indoor and outdoor use we recommend the
Adaptable Hover — a device that can be used in many
ways and that has no equal on the world's markets as
an all-metal, fire-proof, self-regulating and self-ventilating
combination heater and hover for brooding purposes.
The heater and hover apartments are the "heart and
lungs" of a successful brooding apparatus for chicks and
"ducklings, and this Adaptable Hover is as automatic

and reliable in action as it would be possible to obtain in
a device that does not have brains of its own.

For one method of using the Adaptable Hover, con-
sult the Ellis plan, see pages 74 and 75. For both indoor
and outdoor use we ask the reader to consider also the
idea of home-made cases to consist of goods boxes or
packing cases. For examples, see pages 72 and 73.
These home-made brooders, like our factory brooder.
Style B, can be used indoors with entire safety during
cold weather and then can be moved out of doors as the
season advances or after a cold snap is ended.

As a rule, chicks should not be entrusted in brooders
placed out of doors until new vegetation appears. In
fact, there is no advantage in placing chicks outdoors
until the ground is ready for planting and the grass
starts. The object in getting them outdoors is to give
them freedom — a chance to run about and scratch for
part of their food. When this time comes a home-made
outdoor brooder, equipped with an Adaptable Hover,
will do the work every time — so will the Style B or Style
C brooders — see pages 63 and 65.

An e-xcellent plan for brooding chicks is shown
above. Equipped with Adaptable Hovers, this type of
colony house, and the style of portable house shown
below, furnish safe and comfortable quarters for newly
hatched chicks, and the chicks can be left in these houses
until it is time to separate the sexes. After that the best
of the pullets can still be left in these same quarters
until they reach maturity or until it is desired to re-
move them to the laying or breeding houses.

No better plan is known to us for brooding chicks
successfully than by the use of these colony coops and
portable houses, each equipped with a fire-proof, self-
regulating and self-ventilating Adaptable Hover — unless
the poultry raiser is in a position to erect a special brood-
ing house to be equipped with individual brooders, with
Adaptable Hovers or with a hot-water pipe system, thus
going into the business on a large scale. Piano or organ
boxes can be made to answer the purpose of colony coops,
if desired, each to be equipped with an Adaptable Hover,
each to have a window, the cracks to be battened and the
interior to be warmly lined with building paper.

For full particulars about the successful brooding of
chicks and ducklings in brooding houses equipped with
the hot-water pipe system, send for a free copy of our
booklet treating expressly on that subject, see page 106.

AI^O SERVES DOUBLE PURPOSE.
Self-Regulating. Adaptable Hover, attached to Cyphers O
pany 6 x 6-foot Portable Poultry House. When chicks
large enough, the Circular Hover is removed and the R(
Board and Perch put back in place.

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FOREMOST POULTRY BREEDERS
OF AMERKA ^

SJSOMETHING ABOUT INDUSTRY IN WHICH THEY ARE ENGAGED
AND A FAIR REPRESENTATION OF THE MEN THEMSEL^^-^

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY as it exists today did not "just happen." On the contrary it has been the
result of intelligent, persistent, skillful work performed by men of character and ability who saw the
possibilities and were determined to reach the goal.

The original jungle fowl, progenitor of the present-day domestic hen and her consort, was simply a wild
bird with tough, muscular flesh of gamy flavor — a fowl that laid perhaps fifteen to thirty eggs per year Juring
the natural hatching season, and that was of trifling value to mankind.

The modern world has poultry breeders of different lands to thank for bringing about a wonderful change
in the nature, habits and productiveness of the jungle wild fowl.

These poultrymen, by scientific methods, by improved conditions, have transformed the tough, stringy,
coarse meat of the original wild fowl into tender, finely-grained flesh of palatable flavor — into the prime table
poultry of today, the kind that we all like to buy and eat.

Modern poultry breeders, as the work of about half a century, have changed the shape of domestic fowls
— have added greatly to the desirable meat portions of poultry — have given us broilers, soft roasters and capons
that "can be cut with a fork," so tender is the flesh.

Poultry men and women by careful, intelligent selection have developed the egg-producing power of bred-
to-a-purpose fowls until entire flocks now average ISO to 200 eggs within a year and individual hens of several
varieties have to their credit records of 225 to 275 eggs laid in three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days.

The same men and women — at one time spoken of in derision as "chicken fanciers" — have created one hun-
dred and thirty different varieties of domestic poultry — have given us fowls suited to every purpose, every climate,
every practical condition, ranging in size from Bantams that weigh only 22 ounces each, to Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys that tip the scales at 45 to 50 pounds.

INDUSTRY '^^^ Poultry Industry of America may be said to have had its beginning sixty years ago.

Tc TviriT^ r»T r». Prior to 1850 the "Dominickers" or Dominiques — forerunnersof the Barred Plymouth Rocks —
IS JNO 1 OLU: were the most popular barn-yard fowl with farmers and villagers. Then came the Shanghais,
next the Brahmas, then the Leghorns and the French breeds. Still later came the Plymouth Rocks and VVyan-
dottes, and these great breeds were followed by the Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons, "general purpose" breeds
that today are unexcelled as combination layers and table fowl.

The Successful Fancier, now known more generally as a Poultry Breeder, because of the increase in the com-
mercial value of his work, has held his own, first to last. At present there are thousands of experienced poultrj--
men in the United States and Canada who are making a regular business of breeding standard-bred fowls, their
annual production varying from small flocks to thousands of birds.

Prices obtained for high-class standard-bred stock range from one dollar to one hundred dollars per head,
with bona-fide sales quite often reaching such figures as $200, $300, $500, $800, $1,000 and even $1,500 for extra
choice breeding stock or exhibition specimens. Similar prices now prevail in England also — for exceptional quality.

Eggs for hatching from standard-bred fowls now sell freely at prices that would have been declared impossible
twenty or thirty years ago. Customary prices range from one dollar per thirteen
eggs to as high as ten dollars per egg. One prominent poultrj-man sold 5,944 eggs
last winter and spring for $11,888.00, which is at the rate of two dollars per egg.

Quite a number of well-known specialists of popular varieties are now being
paid one dollar to five dollars each for hatching eggs from their choicest speci-
mens, and are having to refuse orders, the demand being greater than the supply.

Day-old chicks now sell in great numbers at ten cents to $5.00 apiece,
according to quality. Americans learned this method ten or twelve years ago
from Europe, where distances are short — yet it has grown by leaps and bounds
in the United States, despite higher express charges and longer hauls.

The American Poultry Association, organized at Buffalo, N. Y., February
15, 1873, now in its thirty-eighth year, is made up of active, progressive
poultrymen and poultry instructors of the United States and Canada — more
than three thousand in number, and the membership at present is increasing at
the rate of several hundred each year.

The Standard of Perfection is the Official Guide in the United States and .
Canada to breeding, mating and judging thoroughbred or standard-bred
domestic fowls, one hundred and thirty varieties of which are illustrated and
minutely described in its pages, including chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.

In this connection special attention is called to the substantial appearance
of the men whose portraits are shown on the ten or twelve pages next following.

These men are fairly representative of the class of citizens in the LInited
States and Canada now engaged in the production of Standard-bred fowls.

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OFFICIAL GUIDE TO
JUDGING AND BREEDING.
More than 60.000 copies sold
in last five years. 320 pages; 90 full-
page ideal illustrations; five color
plates. Price, postpaid, $1,50.
We Sel' II.

OWEN FARMS

WM R VRRY OWEN, Proprietor MAURICE F. DELANO, Manager

BREEDERS OF

WHITE, BLACK AND BUFF ORPINGTONS, WHITE, BARRED AND BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS,

WHITE WYANDOTTES, S. AND R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Vineyard Haven, Mass., November 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

It gives us great pleasure to send you our hearty endorsement
of your goods. For a period of several years we have used your
incubators, brooders and various poultry supplies consisting of
chick foods, beef scrap, alfalfa, insecticides, disinfectants and vari-
ous appliances with uniformly good results and therefore we can
heartily recommend them to large and small users of same as the
best on the market.

Hundreds of grand exhibition and breeding birds have
been hatched by us in your machines, including many of the
great national winners. Cyphers Incubators have distanced all
other makes tested by the writer during the last thirteen years.

Our business here has developed
into such large proportions that we
shall use more of your goods in
future than we have ever used before, as people all over the
country have come to appreciate the fact that our flocks in our
various varieties are the leaders, both from the exhibition and the
utility standpoint.

With cordial wishes that the
sea.son of 1911-1912 will be the most
prosperous that you have ever had,
we are,

Very truly yours,

OWEN FARMS,

Photosraphic views herewith
show only a small part of the
great Owlti Farms — the largest
standard-bred poultry establish-
ment in the world. At the
New York and Boston shows
(1909-19 10) Owen Farms won
151 reqular prizes on Barred
and White Plymouth Rocks

\\ hite Wj andottes, and White,
Buff and Black Orpingtons in
\cry strong competition, a
record never before equalled at

Afa

Kellerstrass Poultry Farm

ORIGINATORS OF

SINGLE COMB CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS

The Big Winter Layers Breed Only The One Kind

First Prize Three Years in Succession at Madison Square Garden,

New York. First Prize Two Years in Succession at

Crystal Palace Show, London, England

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Stock for Sale — Eggs in Season Send for Catalogue

Kansas City, Mo., U. S. A., September 13, 191L
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —
Ki nest Kellerstrass, Founder. We use nothing but Cyphers Incubators for hatching Crystal

White Orpingtons on Kellerstrass Poultry Farm and our finest birds are hatched in them.
The First Prize cockerel that created such a sensation at Madison Square Garden last
winter, winning the blue ribbon over all American and English birds in competition, ivas hatched
in a Cyphers Incubator on Kellerstrass Farm, May 10, 1910. The five birds from which we
sold eggs at $10.00 each last season were hatched in Cyphers Incubators. The little hen
that reproduced herself by laying her own eggs and hatching nine chicks therefrom when less
than 6 months old was also hatched in a Cyphers Incubator, as well as her mother.

Can report also that more than 90 per cent, of the 320 White Orpington hens from which
we ■iold during the spring of 1911, 5,944 eggs at $2.00 per egg for $11,888.00 were hatched in
Cyphers Incubators.

The famous hen "Peggy" which we valued at $10,000.00 and would not have sold for a less sum,
ivas hatched in one of your Incubators, also the five White Orpingtons that we sold to Madam
Padcrewski, for $7,500 cash in hand.

We use no other make of incubator on this farm and we cannot afford to waste the time of
hens acting as sitters and brooding mothers; therefore, every chick hatched on Kellerstrass
Farm is hatched in Cyphers Incubators.
Thanking you for past favors, we remain.

Yours truly,

Kellerstrass Poultry Farm
for the year ending June 30.
1910, sold more than $44,149.56
worth of White Orpington fowls
and eggs, and made a profit of
$22,645.39. For every bird
that left the farm during the
year an average price of $20.68
was received, and for all eggs
sold the average price obtained
was $.99,?-^ each. Five birds
shown herewith are the ones
from which Mr. Kellerstrass
sold eggs at $io.co each or
$150 per sitting.

Winners in the South

FISHELTON

V The Best in the World" The Home of Fishel's U. R. FISHEL. Originator

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Hope, Ind., December 22, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

My winners at the Great Appalachian Exposition, Knoxville,
|| Tenn., September 25-30, 1911, were all hatched in Cyphers
I Incubators and reared in Cyphers Brooders, and their ances-
tors for ten years back were so hatched and reared. At this
great exhibition, in strong competition, my Cyphers-Hatched and
Cyphers- Reared White Plymouth Roclcs won: 1, 2, 3 and 4 cocks;
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cockerels; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 pullets; 1, 2 and 3 pens,
and the SIOO.OO Appalachian Silver cup for largest and best display.
I would state in addition that we hatched and reared some-
thing like foiir thousand birds last season by the use of
Cyphers Incubators and Brooders and never before had as
strong chicks as we have this year. In selecting out our breeders
for this season of 1912 we have found the birds large, strong and

vigorous. Our personal experience with your Incubators and Brooders is absolute proof,
reaching back through a period of ten years, that by the use of Cyphers Incubators and
Brooders as fine fowls can be produced year after year as by the hen method — and at very much
less expense. You are at liberty to use this report as a testimonial.
Very respectfully yours.

U. R. FISHEL

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a. R. FISHEL. Originator

" The Best in the World "

Winners in the Eetst

FISHELTON

The Home of Fishel's
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Hope, Ind., October 20, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. —

Have just arrived home from the Great Hagerstown Fair, October 11-14, where is held every
year one of the greatest poultry shows in America — the entries of this year numbering
nearly 7,000 birds.

I wish to write you of my success in winning with Fishelton White Rocks hatched this
season in Cyphers Incubators and reared in Cyphers Brooders. My winnings at Hagers-
town were: First and third cockerels, first pullet and first breeding pen on young birds, and on
old birds we \von first and second cocks, first and fifth hens and second pen, together with many

Every one of these prize winners was hatched by me in Cyphers Incubators, and

the same is true with but very few exceptions of all prize winning birds exhibited and sold by me
during the last ten years. You may publish this fact, and welcome. ^ ^^

Very truly yours. ^ /^gCk^

FOREMOST AMERICAN POULTRY BREEDERS

— ■- -n "EVERY YEAR HUNDREDS OF PRIZE-WINNERS"

■\ 1 1 Arthur G. Duston, South Framingham, Mass., White Wyandotte

Specialist: — "Have been a continual user of your machines since 1898 and
have sold every year hundreds oj pv iu-winner s that have been hatched from
them With me it is a repetition to tell of the good features of Cyphers Incu-
bators but to those who have never heard my opinion / mits( earnestly caution
beginners m the poultry business to make no mistake. If you want large,
healthy chicks and lots of them, use Standard Cyphers Incubators." — Novem-

ber (

1911

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*'$20 SITTING OF BEST EGGS"
Aug D. Arnold, DUlsburg, Pa., White Orpington Specialist:—

I know from personal experience that the improved Cyphers Incubator
as arrived very near the perfection point. One of my neighbors placed a $20
bitting of our best eggs in his Cyphers Incubator, which I consider very strong
his great faith in the reliability of your machines after he had hatched
peatedly." — August 3. 1910.

TWENTY-NINE YEARS* EXPERIENCE"
E L Miles, Sag Harbor, L. I., N. Y., Barred Plymouth Rock Speci-
alist — /k my twenty-nine years' experience as a poultryman, have never known
of a bettei Incubator than the Standard Cyphers. Have used your Brooders
for some years and succeed in raising practically every raisable chick, ynany
prize-winners being among the number. Am also using your Chick Food and
Developmg Food with splendid results." — November 10. 1911.

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'RIBBONS AS WELL AS EGGS"
Dunham & White, Nichols, N. Y., S. G. White Leghorns:— "The

birds shown in photograph herewith were hatclied in your Incubators and
reared in Cyphers Brooders. The quality speaks for itself. We always
get our share of ribbons as -well as eggs," — October 25. 1910.

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"AT ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, KNOXVILLE, ETC."
J P Swift & Son, Waynesville, N. C, White Wyandottes, Rhode
Island Reds, White and Brown Leghorns and BufE Orpingtons: —

We ha-\e been using Cyphers Incubators and Brooders /or seven years. Our
mcub ttor hatched chicks are the ones that win for us the blue ribbons. Our
finest birds, including many prize winners at Asheville, Charlotte, KnoxviUe,
Tenn etc., for the last four seasons were hatched in your Incubators, raised
in your Brooders and fed on Cyphers Foods." — November 6, 1911.

"THE FINEST EXHIBITION STOCK"
Jos B. Young, Irvington, N. J., White Wyandotte Specialist:—

Everi fowl on my place, including the finest exhibition stock, was hatched
m your Incubators and raised in Cyphers Brooders. I consider your Incu-
bators and Brooders to be a 100 per cent, improvement over hen-hatching
and raismg. // it were not for these conveniences I would not be in the poultry
business —June 17, 1910.

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"INCLUDING MANY PRIZE-WINNERS"
Geo. H. Ilten, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Barred Plymouth Rocks and
Mottled Anconas: — "Have tried several makes of incubators, but found
nont that would equal yours in hatching qualities. We have hatched thousands
of strong Barred Rocks and Anconas in Cyphers Incubators, including many
prize winners." — June 5, 1910.

"BETTER RESULTS— MUCH LESS TROUBLE"
Thos. B. Elliott, St. Louis, Mo., Buff Plymouth Rock Specialist: —

"Have been a fancier nineteen years and had quite a little experience with several
makes of incubators of the better class, but three years ago I sold all I had except
the Ci phers. My reason for doing so was because after numerous tests I found
the C> phers invariably gave me better results with much less trouble. Have
found that the best incubator is the cheapest every time." — November 2, 1911.

SOLD ONE CYPHERS BIRD FOR $250
Dr C. C. Goodes, MarCellus, Mich., White Orpington SpeciaUst:

— I use Cyphers Incubators exclusively. Some of our machines are several
years old but they continue tO' do satisfactory work. Sold one bird for $250 this
season that was hatched in a Cyphers. That is the high mark for this part of
the country. Nearly all of our prize winners have been hatched in Cyphers
Incubators." — November 9, 1911.

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"STRONG BELIEVER IN THE HEN"
J. E. Willmarth, Amityville, N. Y., Buff Wyandotte Specialist:—

n using Cyphers Incubators this year for the first time because heretofore
ave been a strong believer in the hen as a hatcher, but the results this season
h your Incubator have been so satisfactory that I shall continue with
le, as I find them practically automatic in regulation, ventilation, etc. ,
they hatch just as good chicks as hens, with far less trouble. " — June 22, 1910,

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"CHICKS FROM MY BEST MATINGS"
A. C. Hawkins, Lancaster, Mass., Breeder of "America's Best"
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes: — "Have used your Incubators and
Brooders with good success and have always found your Poultry Supphes
of the best quality and reliable. Chicks from my best matings have been hatched
in Cyphers Incubators, winning prizes for me and my customers. / believe
your Company always gives its patrons good value for their money." — Novem-
ber 4, 1911.

"PRACTICALLY ALL MY WINNERS"
F. C. Shepherd, Toledo, Ohio, Buff Plymouth Rock Speciahst —

"I have used Cyphers Incubators exclusively since 1899 and have ntitr had
whal tnight be called a poor hatch with them. Have repeatedly obtained 90
and 90Ji per cent, hatches. Practically all of my prize-winners ha\e been
hatched in your machines. I buy practically all of my poultry supphes from
you."— October 31, 1911.

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■HUNDREDS OF PRIZE WINNERS"
W. W. Kulp, Pottstown, Pa., Brown Leghorns, Barred and White
Rocks, White Wyandottes and White Leghorns: — 'Have used C\pher-,
Incubators and Brooders for thirteen years, hatching thousands of strong
chicles, including hundreds of prize winners — quite a number of them at jNIadi
son Square Garden, New York. Have a No. 1 Cyphers thirteen \ears old
that is just as good as the day I bought it, while two machines of another
leading make stand unused, because age put them out of commission — Octo
ber 30, 1911.

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"THE TALK OF THE SHOW"
Thos. F. Burns, Colorado Springs, Colo., White Orpington Speci-
alist:— "At the 14th annual show Pike's Peak Poultry Association, on birds
hatched in Cyphers Incubators, raised in Cyphers Brooders and fed Cyphers Chick
Food, I won as follows: 1st, 2nd. 3rd and 4th pens, 1st cock, 1st, 2nd 3rd and
4th cockerels, 1st. 2nd, 3rd and 4th hens, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th pullets This
display was the talk of the show. Have had nothing but the best results smce I
began using your incubators and brooders." — October 31, 1911.

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"SPLENDID SUCCESS WITH THEM"
Louis Lee Haggin, Lexington, Ky., White Orpington Specialist —

"I have used on my plant for the past few years nothing but your Incubators
ajtd have had splendid success with Ihem. I have tried the goods of other poultry
supply manufacturers, but have not been satisfied with any of them My
Brooder house has proven most satisfactory, heated with one of your boilers.
Have found it extremely valuable and reliable." — November 4, 1911

"WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP BUSINESS"
E. M. Monsees, Beaman, Mo., Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds —

"Have used your machines for four years and shall continue to do so, also to
urge others to do the same. If it were not for discovering the Cyphers Incubator
I would have given up the poultry business. I tried other makes claimed to be
the most successful machines made, but they could not hold a candle to the Cy Miets
All my prize ^vinners are hatched in Cyphers Incubators, because they produce
stronger chicks and more of them than any other incubator I ever used —
November 1, 1911.

"OWN MANY PRIZE-WINNING BIRDS"
Geo. W. Hey, Raceville, N. Y., Black Minorca SpeciaUst:— / awn

many prize-winning birds that have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators and
raised on Cyphers Poultry Foods. It is child's play to run a Cyphers Incubator
as they are so automatic and easy to handle and can be regulated to perfection
by any one. They are self-ventilating and need no supplied moisture other
than that furnished the egg by the hen." — October 31, 1911.

"HATCHED ALL MY PRIZE WINNERS"
John J. Rowe, Coal Blufi, Ind., S. C. Rhode Island Reds and Buff
Orpingtons: — "My winnings last season -with Cyphers hatched chicks mcluded
1st S. C. Rhode Island Red cockerel at Terre Haute. 1st cockerel. 1st hen and
1st pen at Brazil, also 1st hen, 1st puUet and 1st pen on S. C. Buff Orpmg-
tons at Brazil — all Cyphers hatched. Much prefer the Cyphers to other makes
I have used. The past two seasons hatched all my prize
your incubators." — October 78, 1911.

"YOUR SEALED-BAG POULTRY FOODS"
Wlble Bros., Chanute. Kansas, White Plymouth Rocks and Whit*
Wyandottes: — "We have been using your sealed-bag Poultry Foods and gen
eral supplies for some time past, and with them have been able to prodiu
uf the very best birds that have been shown in this country. Our experience has
been such that we shall continue to use these products, and we hig/il} rtcnm
mend them to enterprising poultrymen." — November 7, 1911.

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**SINGLE AND CHOICE MATING EGGS'^
Thos. F. Rigg, Iowa Falls, Iowa, Columbian Wyandotte Specialist:

— We depend wholly upon Cyphers Incubators and Brooders to hatch and
rear our chicks. All our single and choice mating eggs go into the Cyphers machines
and we are never disappointed. My winners, which we have produced for
\ears havt all been so hatched and have been reared in your Brooders. Our
hatches have run from 92 to 97 per cent, and the Cyphers Brooders are perfect
rearers — November 3, 1911. ^_^__

**WINNINGS AT NEW YORK AND BOSTON'*
D. W. Young, Monroe, N. Y., White Leghorn Specialist:— "1 do

not hesitate to say, for publication, that the good work of your incubators
has contributed largely to my notable winnings at New York and Boston It
took us several years to become reconciled to the idea of entrusting our best eggs
to mcubators. but we know we can do this with safety with the Cyphers
Are usmg five of your latest pattern machines ajid have had many fine hatches
— some of them truly wonderful.'^ — November 23, 1911.

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"HAVE OBTAINED PHENOMENAL RESULTS"
Lester Tompkins, Concord, Mass., Rhode Island Red Specialist

— Have recommended your incubators to a great many of my customers In
a number of cases that I know o{ they have obtained pheyiomenal results hatchmg
a \ery high percentage of chicks. Your Chick Food I have found especialh
valuable and I am convinced that the Cyphers Incubator Hs all to the good
—October 30, 19U.

"HIGH SCORING— BIG LAYERS"
E. C. Branch, Lee's Summit, Mo., Breeder of Exhibition Barred
Plymouth Rocks: — "Can recommend your goods from start to finish Ha\e
used your incubators for years. It was in a Cyphers Incubator that Missouri
Belle (score 945/4-egg record 237), Anna Belle (93'-2-egg record 201) Mmme
Belle (93J'2-egg record 211), and Verda Belle (93)2-egg record 223) were
hatched, as well as a number of other hens with egg records of 200 and o\er
They were raised on Cyphers Foods from start to finish." — November 1 1911

"HATCHED IN CYPHERS INCUBATORS"
W. N. Betscher, Canal Dover, Ohio, Barred Plymouth Rocks —

"At Cleveland. January 28, 1911, I won 3rd pullet and 3rd hen. At Canal
Dover. October 18, 1911, I won 1st. 2nd cocks, 1st, 2nd pullets, 1st 2nd hens
and 1st and 2nd cockerels — and every winner was hatched in Cyphers Incubators
That's what comes when you breed 'quality' and hatch the chicks with quality
machines. Cyphers Incubators stand alone — unequalled." — November 13 1911

"AND FED ON CYPHERS FOODS "
O. J. Austin, Pana, III., White Wyandotte Specialist — Have
been using your Incubators for five years. Tried several makes, but discarded
them all for the Standard Cyphers. My first-prize White Wyandotte cockerel
and pullet, also first-prize Light Brahma cockerel and pullet at Pana Poultry
Show, January, 1910, were hatched in a Cyphers Incubator .^r cared in a Cyphers
Brooder and fed on Cyphers Chick Food."— August 6, 1910.

"AT LARGEST AND BEST SHOWS"
Geo. H. Rudy, Mattoon, III., White Wyandotte Specialist — ' Ha%e
been using your Incubators, Brooders and Supplies exclusively since I started
in the poultrj' business six years ago, and during this time I have probabb
hatched as many high-priced birds as any other Wyandotte specialty breeder in
the country — if I do say it myself. My record of winnings at the largest and
best shows will confirm this statement. All my finest birds have been hatched
in your Incubators and raised in your Brooders." — November 25, 1911

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•HATCHED MANY A PRIZE WINNER"
Geo. M. Benham, Canandalgua, N. Y., Exhibition and Utility
Barred Plymouth Rocks: — " Have hatched many a prize winner from my old
standby, a 360-fgs Cyphers Incubator. My winners at the New York State
Fair, 1907, at the Buffalo shows, 1907 and 1909, were all hatched in a Cyphers
except one pullet that won second. These birds in their infancy were fed your
Chick Food. Can heartily endorse your goods, also your method of doing
business." — June 3, 1910.

' 'HATCHING MANY PRIZE WINNERS"
H. W. Halbach, Waterford, Wis., White Plymouth Rock Specialist

— "For years 1 have been a user of Cyphers Incubators and have alw
the best of success, hatching many pri:
Fair I won every prize
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peted for except one — over 1,000 birds competing
hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised on C\ phers

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"SEEM TO IMPROVE WITH AGE"
Chas. C. Fair, Sharon, Kansas, White Plymouth Rock Specialist:

— "My 1st. 2nd, 3rd and 4tli cockerels at the Kansas State Show January,
1911, were all hatched in a Cyphers Incubator. Cyphers Incubators seem to
improve with age. Each year they give me better satisfaction. Your poultrj
foods are first-class and I would not do without them."— November 12 1911

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"BETTER WORK THAN TRUSTY HENS"
Edward H. Knapp (Knapp Bros.), Fabius, N. Y., White Wyandotte
and S. C. White Leghorn Specialists: — "Speaking from twenty-five years'
personal experience with incnbalors, I do not see how the Standard Cyphers —
latest improved — can be further improved upon. The best results we have
ever obtained by the use of incubators, both in numbers and quality of chicks
have been by the use of your machines. For us they have done better work
than trusty hens." — November 7, 1911.

"TO ANY ONE, EXPERT OR NOVICE"
W. S. Russell, Ottumwa, Iowa, Barred Plymouth Rock Specialist:

— "The Standard Cyphers Incubator has been used by me during the past
six years, and I have always found it to be non-moisture, self-ventilating, and
the regulator is the best I have ever used. Am pleased to recommend the Cyphers
to any one, expert or novice, who wants a first-class Incubator." — October 31, 1911.

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"INTEND TO PUT IN TWO MORE"
C. L. Buschmann, Indianapolis, Ind., Rhode Island Red Specialist:

— "We have used Cyphers Incubators for'halching many of our best eggs and
intend to put in two more of these machines this coming season. Have found
the pedigree trays very helpful with our thoroughbred stock. Have used
many of your goods and always found them satisfactory. The word "Cyphers,"
backed by your trade mark, seems to stand for "the best." — November 2, 1911.

"LARGE MAJORITY OF OUR WINNERS"
J. C. Punderford, Freneau, N. J., S. C. White and Buff Leghorns,
White and Buff Plymouth Rocks: — "First we tested five of your Incuba-
tors with eleven others of five different makes. Your machine so far out-classed
the others, both as to number and strength of chicks hatched, that threeyears
ago we discarded all but yours, doing so strictly as a business proposition. A
large majority of our winners at New York and other shows are hatched in
Cyphers Incubators. We are now installing one of your 14,000-egg Mammoth
machines. We placed our order for this big machine after we had inspected
other Mammoths. After looking into every detail carefully we decided that the
Cvphers Mammoth was the machine to which we could pin our faith." —

October 31, 1911.

"OUR MOST VALUABLE BIRDS"
G. A. Clark, Seymour, Ind., Rose Comb Minorca Specialist: — "We
are using Cyphers Incubators exclusively in our work. Our most valuable
birds have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised in Cyphers Brooders.
Cockerel that won the American Poultry Association medal .at .St. Louis, also
"Perfection," our First Prize Cock at Madison Square Garden, New York, last
winter, were hatched in Cyphers Incubators. We trust our best eggs in these
machines without hesitation and heartily recommend them to other poultry-
men." — November 4, 1911.

"CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, ETC."
Edwin R. Cornish, Ann Arbor, Mich., Rhode Island Red Speci-
alist;— "Have been using your Incubators and Poultry Foods for the past
sn>en years. Your Incubators have always proved satisfactory. Have never
had a really bad hatch with one of your machines. A large proportion of my
prize-winners at Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit,
etc., the past several years have been hatched in your Incubators and raised
. on Cyphers Company's Foods." — June 4, 1910.

"DURING MY THIRTEEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE"
C. S. Byers, Hazelrigg, Ind., Buff, Black and White Orpingtons:—

"During my thirteen years' experience breeding high-class White, BufE and Black
Orpingtons, have found that no other incubators have proved so efficient and
durable for hatching and rearing prize-winning birds by artificial means as the
Standard Cyphers Incubators and Brooders. Can heartily endorse your goods
for fancier and market poultryman aUke." — November 1, 1911.

"SINCE 1898 WITH UNIFORM SUCCESS"
Wilber Bros., Per A. M. Wilber, Cleveland, Tenn., White Leghorn

Specialist: — "We have been using Cyphers Incubators, Brooders, Foods
and suppUes since 1898 with uniform success and satisfaction. We give Cyphers
Incubators and Brooders — also your Sealed- Bag Brand Poultry Foods — much
credit for our great success in hatching and rearing our prize winners the past
ten years at Charleston, S, C, Charlotte, S. C. Atlanta, Ga., Louisville, Ky.,
Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn. Have often hatched 95 per cent, of the
fertile eggs." — November 1, 1911.

"HATCHED IN YOUR INCUBATORS"
Gage & Huston, Williamsport, Pa., Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C.
Buff Leghorns: — "Each year finds us stronger in the belief that the Cyphers
Incubators and Brooders are the best on the market. Our 3rd prize Barred Rock
cockerel. Rochester. N. Y., December, 1909, and 5th prize cockerel at the
Great A. P. A. Show, Williamsport, Pa., same month, also our 1st and 2d
Buff Leghorn cocks at Elmira, N. Y., January, 1910, and 1st hen, 1st cock,
and 1st pullet, Rochester, N. Y., December, 1909, were hatched in your Incu-
bators, reared in your Brooders and fed on your Foo<is,"=^November 5, 1911,

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"BEST RINGLET EGGS IN CYPHERS"
, Thompson, Amenla, N. Y., Originator, Ringle

Barred Ply-
mouth Rocks: — "During my nearly thirty years' experience in breeding exhi
bition Ringlet Barred Rocks. / have never seen or used the equal of Cyphers
Incubators and Brooders. I feel safe in putting my best Ringlet eggs in the
Cyphers, whereas I would not trust them in a machine in which 1 did not
have perfect confidence. Your Incubator runs to perfection and is practically
a perfect hatcher. I also had remarkable success with your Outdoor Colonj
Brooders. I put 41 Ringlet Barred Rock chicks in one of these brooderb and
raised 39 of them to maturity." — November 22, 1911.

"ALL OF THE PRIZE WINNERS"
Chas. V. Keeler, Winamac, Ind., White Wyandotte Specialist —

"I am doubling my Incubator and Brooder capacity and am installing nothing
but Cyphers machines. For the last thirteen years I have used your Incubators
and found them entirely satisfactory. Had tried several other makes but -nith
indifferent results. All of the prize winners that I have exhibited and furnished
my customers the last eleven years in America, England. South Africa etc
have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised in Cyphers Brooders —

November 10, 1911.

"NEVER HEARD A COMPLAINT"
D. T. Heimlich, Jacksonville, 111., Barred and White Plymouth
Rocks, White Wyandottes and S. C. Rhode Island Reds:— ■■Ha\e recentlj
bought a 244-egg Cyphers — which tells its own story. / always speak a good
word for Cyphers Incubators and the Cyphers Incubator Co., because I know
that the goods and the company are all right. In my long experience as a
Poultry Judge, traveling all over the county, / have never heard a complaint
agaiyist your Incubators." — November 4, 1911.

"FOR THE PAST ELEVEN YEARS"
J. L. Davis, Grand Junction, Mich., S. C. White Leghorn Specialist

— "We have used your incubators and brooders for the past eleven yeais and
they have given entire satisfaction. All of the best poultry plants in this vicinity
use Cyphers machines and I have never heard of a single complaint. This section
of Michigan, the fruit belt, is rapidly becoming a second Petaluma as fruit
and poultry work well together." — Decembers, 1911.

"BY FAR THE BEST HATCHES"
Dr. I. W. Hall, Camargo, 111., Barred Plymouth Rock Specialist

— "Have used three other makes of incubators. Yours gives me b\ far the
best hatches. Used one hot-water machine, but with disastrous results, hence
discarded it. Am using your Chick Food, Developing Food, Laying Food
and high-protein Beef Scraps with excellent results." — October 31, 1911.

"FIRST-PRIZE ORPINGTON COCKERELS"
Wm. Cook & Sons (by P. A. Cook), Scotch Plains, N. J., Originators
of the Orpington Fowls: — "We set about forty hens this season for com-
parison and found that our Cyphers Incubators hatched a bigger percentage of
fertile eggs than the hens did. In one case a customer in California purchased
100 eggs from us, put them in one of your machines and hatched every fertile
cgs. getting 87 chicks. Our first-prize Madison Square Garden, New York,
1909, White and Black Orpington cockerels, were hatched in one of your Incu-
bators. " — November31, 1911.

"RELIABLE IN EVERY WAY"
Herbert J. A. Bodine, Black Rock, Conn., White Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— "Have found the Cyphers Incubator reliable in every way. It gives
me much pleasure to endorse Cyphers Company goods, because your Incuba-
tors and Poultry Supplies have given me entire satisfaction, and I never fail to
recommend them to my friends." — October 31, 1911.

"NEEDS NO EXCESS MOISTURE"
A. J. Stanbury, Newport, Tenn., S. C. Rhode Island Red Specialist:

— "Have been using a Cyphers Incubator for two years and it has given entire
satisfaction. Have found it very little trouble to operate, as it is self-regulating,
self-ventilating and needs no e.xcess moisture. Have hatched fine prize birds

in your machine."— June 21, 1910.

"TURNING OUT PRIZE WINNERS"

J. H. Jackson, Hudson, Mass., White Wyandotte Specialist:—
"I am using Cyphers Incubators to hatch many of my best winners, turning out
prize winners for myself and for my customers. Have used your line of poultrj'
supplies /or many years and they have given satisfaction, first to last." — Novem-
ber 6, 1911.

"SPECIALTY OF SHOW BIRDS"

Kemp & Waterman, London, Ont., Can., Exhibition BuCf and

Black Orpingtons :-

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"FOR MYSELF AND MY PATRONS"
Wm. F. Brace, Victor, N. Y., S. C. Brown Leghorn Specialist —

"Am pleased to express my entire satisfaction with the Standard Ciphers
Incubators. / have used ihem twelve years and found them to be non-moislure
and self-ventilating. The chicks hatched in your machines come all at one
time and are fine and strong. Have hatched hundreds of prize-winners tn them
for myself and my patrons." — November 1. 1911.

"HAVE WON HIGHEST HONORS"
W. H. Bushell, David City, Neb., BufE Orpington SpedaUst:— "For

twelve years, ever since we began breeding our prize winning breeds of Buff
Orpingtons all our chicks have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators. They have
not seen a mother hen in all that time. The flock comes stronger every year
and the egg yield is fine. Our chicks are extra strong and grow well with small
loss in the brooders. Have repeatedly won highest honors on Cyphers hatched
birds; so have our customers." — November 3, 1911.

"IN COMPARING MY RECORDS"
W. H. Maxwell, Topeka, Kansas, S. C. Buff Orpington Specialist —

"In comparing my records with those of some others who were shipping baby
chicks and who are losing many in transit, I have come to the conclusion that
it is on account of mine being hatched in Cyphers machines that I am losing
practically none, and that it is also due to this that my customers report being
able to raise practically all the chicks I ship them. Am using four of your
largest size machines. I like your goods and I like the way your company does
business." — November 10, 1911.

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"5,250 BIRDS ON EXHIBITION"
Tom H. Woods, Fayette, Mo., Brown Leghorn Specialist — "I

hatched in Cyphers Incubator and reared in Cyphers Brooder the following
ptize-winning birds at Missouri Stale Show, St. Louis, December, 1909 5 250
birds on exhibition: 1st, 2nd and Sth prize S. C. Brown Leghorn cockerels,
1st prize pen cockerel, and 1st prize pen pullets. I like your Brooders better
each year. Last season 1 raised over 90 per cent, of the chicks entrusted to it "
—October 13, 1911.

"OUR CHIEF ASSET TO SUCCESS"
J. M. Williams, North Adams, Mich., Orpington SpeciaUst -

"Cyphers Incubators and Brooders are our chief asset to success. We ha\e
used them for years and could not conduct our business successfully uilhout
them. Their reliability makes them indispensable. Have hatched hundrdi
of our prize winning birds in Cyphers Incubators." — October 31, 1911

"MANY PRIZE-WINNING LEGHORNS"

W. E. Gabhart, Bohon, Ky., S. C. White Leghorns: — 'Many of
our prize winning Leghorns during the last seven years have been hatched m
Cyphers Incubators. The last two seasons we have used your Brooders and
they have done fine work for us. Your poultry supplies and foods have pro\ed
to be the best on the market." — November 10, 1911.

"RATHER THAN WITH HENS"
Henry Trafford, Binghamtcn, N. Y., S. C. Rhode Island Red Speci-
alist:— "My confidence in Cyphers Incubators is such that I would prefer
to entrust high price eggs in them, rather than with hens. The finest prize bird
I ever produced was hatched in a Cyphers Incubator and brooded in your
Style B Outdoor Brooder." — October 30. 1911.

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ALL WINNERS CYPHERS-HATCHED
E. A. Haring, South Kent, Conn., Buff, Black and White Orping-
tons:— "We have been using your Incubators, Brooders. Chick Food and
Beef Scrap for the past eleven years and have found them very satisfactory
After trying out several other makes of incubators, brooders and foods we can
say at this time that our entire stock of prize-winning birds is Cyphers hatched
brooded and reared." — March 15, 1911.

"AT LEADING EASTERN SHOWS"
J. Frank Van Alstyne, Niverville, N. Y., Silver and Columbian
Wyandotte Specialist:— "We have used our Cyphers Incubator six years
.im using the same machine today with the very best of success. I believe the
Cyphers Incubator will hatch as many and as good chicks as a hen Have
hatched numerous prize-winners in your Incubator — winners at leading Eastern
Shows. Every article we have ever bought from your company has been very satis-
factory."— November 9, 1911.

"ADDED MORE MACHINES LAST SEASON"
L. C. Piser & Son, Shushan, N. Y., Buff Wyandotte Specialists:—

"After experimenting with different makes of incubators we have discarded
all others and now use the Cyphers only. Careful study and tests with your .Adapt-
able Hover have convinced us that its sensitive regulator is superior to the
fireless brooders. We added more Cyphers machines last season." — October
31, 1911.

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"IT'S ALL IN THE MAKE" fj-t'--- -^

Henry Steinmesch, St. Louis, Mo., Silver Wyandotte Specialist:—

"I ha\e a No. 2 Cyphers Incubator Uwt I have been using for ten years and this
machine does just as good work today as it did when I bought it. All the
C5 phers macliines that I am using do very satisfactory work, but I feel a per-
sonal attachment to 'Old Ironsides,' as I call the ten-year veteran — a Standard
Ciphers that continues to hatch 80 to 85 per cent, every lime. 'It's ali in the
make —November 13, 1911.

"MANY OF MY PRIZE-WINNERS"
Geo. H. Burgott, Lawton's Starion, N. Y., S. C. Rhode Island
Red Specialist: — "The Cyphers Incubator still leads all others. I say this
after ha\ ing had experience with something like fifteen different makes. Many
of my prize-winners have been hatched and reared in Cyphers Incubators
and Brooders. Am saying this for the benefit of the amateur breeder, as 1 have
no axe to griKd."— August 24, 1911.

"TRIED SEVERAL OTHER MACHINES"
D F. Palmer & Son, Yorkville, 111., Barred Plymouth Rock Speci-
alists — "All of our first prize winners at recent Chicago shows were hatched
tn Cyphers Incubators — so you see we trust our best eggs in your machines.
We tried several other machines, but the Cyphers proved to be the best. It
IS ver\ easy to operate and you are always sure of a good hatch when the direc-
tions are followed. We never hesitate to advise our friends to buy the Cyphers
Incubators." — November 4, 1911.

"NUMEROUS 1ST AND 2ND PRIZES"
Joseph Reifl, Fayetteville, Pa., R. C. and S. C. White Leghorns:—

Hatched more than 2,500 chicks this season— ite best season I ever had. In
rax Cj phers 390-egB machine / averaged 87 per cent, hatches. The first prize
R C W. Leghorn cockerel at the Great Hagerstown Fair, 1911, woj Cyphers
hatched The last four years Cyphers hatched chicks have won numerous 1st
and 2nd prizes for me at Hagerstown and Baltimore, Md," — October 31, 1911.

"YOUNGSTERS DEVELOP FAST"
Marshall H. Mackey, South Haven, Mich., Barred and Columbian
Plymouth Rocks and Buff Cochin Bantams: — "I have used the Cyphers
Incubators for the last three years and find them to give the best of satisfaction.
Cj phers Chick and Developing Foods are used in our yards exclusively, and
the result is that the youngsters develop fast and there is Utile loss of life among
them — November 1, 1911.

"REPEATEDLY HATCHED PRIZE WINNERS"
C H. Welles, Stratford, Conn., Barred Plymouth Rock Specialist:

— Have used Cyphers Incubators for ten years with uniform satisfaction.
They are more easily operated than any other incubator I have tried and I
also find they will hatch a large percentage of strong, healthy chicks. Have
repeatedly hatched prize winners in Cyphers Incubators. Am using your different
foods and poultry supplies and they give entire satisfaction," — November
9 1911

"THE STANDARD OF MERIT"
F W. C. Almy, Tivcrton-Four-Corners, R. I., R. and S. C. Rhode
Island Red Specialist: — "Another year's use of the Cyphers Incubators
but increases my confidence in them. Have always found your goods satis-
factory and reliable — in fact, the standard of merit. Have found all your
goods well adapted for their respective uses. We entrust our best eggs to Cyphers
Incubators." — November 1. 1911.

"RAISED THEM IN YOUR BROODERS"
John W. Brown, Thorn Grove. Tcnn., Single Comb Rhode Island
Red Specialist: — "Hatched the 4th prize S. C. Rhode Island Red cockerel
and 4th prize pen at January Show, Knoxville, 1910, in your Incubator and
raided them in your Brooder, These Brooders work as well as the Incubators,
which IS saying a great deal — in fact, I raise nearly every chick placed in them."

— "August 29, 1910.

"BEST INCUBATOR I EVER OPERATED"
J H. Crossley, Magnolia, N. J., Rhode Island Red Specialist:—

I am running one of your 244-egg size machines, which does excellent work,
giving fine hatches. My 2nd Philadelphia cockerel and 2nd and 3rd Phila-
delphia pullets, all shown January, 1909, by me, were hatched in your Incuba-
tors also my 1st cockerel. 1911, at Philadelphia, and my 1st pullet at Hagers-
town October. 1911. Yours is the best Incubator I ever operated and burns
less oil — November S, 1911.

EVERY SEASON FOR NINE YEARS
W A. Congdon, Waterman, 111., Barred Plymouth Rock Speci-
alist — We have used one of your Incubators that we purchased of you in
1901 running from five to seven hatches each season, and at present the machine
IS in good shape and condition. We also use four of your Style B Outdoor
Brooders in connection, with good results."— May 28, 1910.

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"MANY PRIZE-WINNERS IN CYPHERS"
F. W. Richardson, IUcksvHle, Ohio, Barred Plymouth Rock Speci-
alist:— "We cannot speak too highly of the improved Cyphers Incubators. We
thought the old-style Cyphers — of ten years ago — about as good an incubator
as could be made, but you certainly have improved it of later ydars The
drawers for catching the chicks are a fine improvement and the saving of oil
is very noticeable. We have hatched many prize-winners in the Cyphers."
— August 8, 1910.

"NUMEROUS PRIZE WINNERS"
C. J. Andruss, Canandalgua, N. Y., Columbian Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— "Can only write in words of praise of Cyphers goods, which I ham
used extensively for years with great satisfaction. Used Cyphers Incubators
and Brooders nine years and have found them very satisfactory. I consider
your poultry foods indispensable. Have hatched and brooded
prize winners in Cyphers Incubators and Brooders, including blue ribbon %
at New York City, Baltimore, etc." — November 4, 1911.

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"USE MY NAME AS REFERENCE"
D. Lincoln Orr, Orr's Mills, N. Y., Columbian Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— "For three years now some of my very best birds have been hatched
in Cyphers Incubators. At present I have some mighty fine youngsters
hatched in your machines that I am counting on winning again for me. I
would not do business' without the Boston Food Hoppers. They save time,
save feed, save money. Moreover, this hopper is an egg producer. Use my
name as reference — and welcome." — November 14, 1911.

"CHICAGO, DETROIT, NEW YORK, ETC."
S. D. Lapham, Dearborn, Mich., Buff Plymouth Rock Specialist:

— "Have been showing at the largest Shows the past eight years and have
won the lion's share of the regular prizes, and most of my winning birds were
hatched in your machines. Have won highest honors on these birds at Chicago,
Detroit, New York City and elsewhere. Your Incubators in my hands have
been highly satisfactory."— iune 15, 1910.

"MANY OF OUR PRIZE BIRDS"
Turley & Scobee, Mount Sterling, Ky., White Leghorn Specialists:

— "We have used your Incubators and Brooders for the last ten years and they
are all you claim them to be. Many of our prize birds have been hatched in
Cyphers Incubators. Last spring we installed sixteen of your Adaptable Hovers
and are so well pleased with them that we shall discard all other individual
brooders. Can raise 25 per cent, more chicks than by the old method of brooding.^*,
—Octobers, 1911.

"ALL HATCHED IN CYPHERS INCUBATORS"
Robt. P. Adams, Lynchburg, Va., Buff Leghorn Specialist: — "At

the Bristol (Va.-Tenn.) Show, December, 1908, we won every first but one.
At Baltimore, Md., January, 1909, won first cockerel and first and second
pullets. Washington. D. C, 1909, won three firsts, one second and two
fourths: Baltimore, January, 1910, won one first, two seconds, four fourths
and one fifth. At Grand Central Palace, New York City, December, 1910,
won first cock and first and fourth hens. These prize winners were all hatched
in Cyphers Incubators and raised in your Colony Houses." — November 9, 1911,

"HAVE WON HIGHEST HONORS"
H. C. Sheppard, Berea, Ohio, Ancona Specialist: — "Beg to state
that hatches taken from my Cyphers Incubator have averaged over 90 per cent.
The best hatches I have obtained from other makes were about 75 per cent.
Have hatched in your Incubators superior quality birds that have won the
highest honors at Madison Square Garden, New York City, at Cleveland,
Ohio and other foremost exhibitions." — October 30, 1911.

"MY PRIZE-WINNING BUFF LEGHORNS"
Chris. H. Leltner, Elgin, 111., Buff Leghorn Specialist:— "I have
just had a 95 per cent, hatch of ducks come off in your machine. As regards
my prize-winning Buff Leghorns, most all of them were hatched in Cyphers
Incubators. I tried other makes of machines, but never got the fine results
I am able to get with the Standard Cyphers." — June 25, 1910.

"BEFORE FIRST SEASON IS OVER"
Geo. A. Kersten, 119 West 52nd St., Minneapolis, Minn., Colum-
bian Wyandottes and Light Brahmas: — "We shall use Cyphers Incuba-
tors this next season for hatching our prize stock eggs, because experience has
demonstrated that they are superior to all other makes we have tried. While
they cost slightly more than other high-grade machines they fully make up the '
difference before the first season is over." — November 13, 1911.'

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"ALL OF OUR BEST BIRDS"
A. H. Koenlg, Hanover, Kansas, White Wyandotte Specialist: —

"Cyphers Incubators and your Poultry Supplies have given us great satis-
faction. All of our best birds have been hatched in your machines. Cyphers
Poultry Foods are the best of any we have been able to buy. / gladly recom^
mend your goods to all poultry raisers." — November 8, 1911.

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"WINNERS AT LEADING EASTERN SHOWS"
Daniel L. Shove, Fall River, Mass., Rhode Island Red Specialist:

— "Have used two of your 1906 Incubators for five years and am well pleased
with them. Bave hatched 7iumerous prize-winners in these machines — winners
at the leading Eastern Shows. If I were to buy more incubators they would
be the Cyphers."— November 11, 1911.

"300 PRIZES AT MADISON SQUARE"
Edgar A. Weimar, Lebanon, Pa., Importer and Exporter of Standard
Varieties: — "I did a lot of experimenting with different makes of incubators
and brooders and arrived at the conclusion that the Cyphers was good enough
for me Cyphers Incubators produce better results, hatch stronger chicks, with
less care than any machme I ever operated. Have won about three hundred
pnzes at Madison Square Garden, America's foremost poultry Show, on birds
hatched m your machines — November 9, 1911.

"OUR EXHIBITION BIRDS"
W. R. Spcrry, Cortland, N. Y., White and Columbian Wyandottes,
S. C. White Leghorns — 'After another season's use of our Cyphers Incu-
bators we are more thoroughly convinced than ever of their merit as hatchers of
strong iigorous chicks We attribute much of the success enjoyed by our
customers m raismg our day-old chicks, to the correct incubating principles
of your machines Our exhibition birds are hatched in your incubators." — Novem-
ber 4, 1911.

"TWO OTHER MAKES DISCARDED"
H. E. Townsend & Co., Albia, Iowa, Partridge Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— "The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it. We have used your
incubators for years to hatch our Partridge Wyandottes and last spring bought
another 390-egg size to take the place of two other makes that were discarded.
We now use none but the Cyphers and have no hesitation in recommending
your goods to all persons interested." — October 30, 1911.

"IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES"
W. J. ThomUey, Marietta, Ohio, Ancona Specialist: — "I have been
using Cyphers Incubators ever since they were introduced in this country and
can safely say today, they have no equal, but are in a class by themselves.
Am never afraid to tell my customers that the birds I sell them are hatched in a
Cyphers Incubator." — November 11, 1911.

"HAVE WON 62 REGULAR PRIZES"
A. Jensen, Independence, Mo., Columbian and Partridge Wyan-
dotte Specialist: — "Have used your Incubators for two years with far better
success than any other make. In your machines I have hc'.rhed the greater
part of my prize-winners at American Royal Show, Kansas ■ Missouri State
Show, at St. Louis, etc. In two years have won 62 regular pr.zCo on these birds."
June 25, 1910.

"THIRTY OF THE THIRTY-TWO BIRDS"
Clare E. Hoflman, Allegan, Mich., Silver Wyandotte SpedaUst:—

"You will be pleased to learn that of the eight birds exhibited at our State
Show at Detroit in 1909, seven were hatched in my Cyphers Incubator, raised
in Cyphers Brooders and fed Cyphers Chick Food. This was also true of
30 of the 32 birds which in 1909 and 1910 made a clean sweep at the Western
Michigan Poultry Show at Grand Rapids."— June 22, 1910.

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"NEVER FAIL TO RECOMMEND CYPHERS"
Henry H. Pearson, Stonewall, Man., Can., R. C. Rhode Island
Red Specialist:— "My belief in the value of the Cyphers Incubator has
only been strengthened since last year. For a beginner or for running in a room
of uneven temperature, it is in a class by itself. I have many opportunities
of advising customers as to the best make of incubator and I never fail to
recommend the Cyphers. Have found by personal experience that the Cyphers
will hatch practically every egg that has any chance of hatching at all, the
percentage of dead chicks being less than under hens." — November 3, 1911.

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"FIND THE SAME HIGH STANDARD"
Guy U. McDavid, Irving, lU., White Wyandotte Specialist:—

"All the eggs from our White Wyandottes winning first at the great Missouri
State Show were hatched in a Cyphers Incubator, and we have a very promising
bunch of youngsters. Have also used your Brooders and Chick Food and
find the same high standard as in your Incubators. I replace eggs where Cyphers
machines are used." — June 16, 1910.

"SPECIAL FOR THE WHITEST BIRD"
Fred C. Llsk, Romulus, N. Y., White Wyandotte Specialist:—

"1 consider the Cyphers Incubators first-class machines. The wonderful
White Wyandotte cockerel that 1 bred and showed at Rochester, that won first
prize and special for the whitest bird in the Show was hatched in a Cyphers
Incubator. First-class, vigorous birds can be hatched in your Incubator.
/ know this by personal experience." — October 30, 1911.

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"BIRDS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY"
J. C. Fishel & Son, Hope, Ind., White Wyandotte Specialists —

"For years we have used Cyphers Incubators exclusively for hatching prize
winners — birds of the highest quality. Have won many prizes on Ci phers
hatched White Wyandottes and our customers have had the same success from
Ihe Atlantic to the Pacific in practically every state in the Union — also in Canada
and foreign countries. 'We would not think of using any other incubator
than the genuine Standard Cyphers — the best. During an entire season we
have averaged better than 90 per cent, of the fertile eggs set. Could not ask for
better results." — October 31, 1911.

"CONSIDER THEM THE BEST"
Bradley Bros., Lee, Mass., Barred Plymouth Rock SpeclaUsts —

"Your Standard Incubators are the only ones we use. We consider them the
best and would not want to do without them in our fancy poultry busmess
We are very free in our recommendation and praise of Standard Cyphers Incu-
bators and Brooders." — January 5, 1911.

"FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS"
W. A. Doolittle, Sabetha, Kansas, Partridge Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— " Have used your short-cut Alfalfa and Alfalfa Meal for the past
three years and consider it the best on the market. Many times I have heard
the good work done by your Incubators praised by leading successful poultry
men. My customers use them with success and speak well of your Company

—June 9, 1910.

"SCORES OF PRIZE-WINNERS"
Geo. A. Eyrich & Son, Sta. C, New Orleans, La., S. C. White Leg-
horns and S. C. Rhode Island Reds: — "In the last several years have hatched
scores of prize-winners in Cyphers Incubators — winners at Dallas, Tex.. Jackson
Miss., St. Louis, Mo., etc. Cannot speak too highly of your Incubators Brooders
and Poultry Foods. In future shall use nothing but Cyphers Incubators and
Brooders on my poultry plant. This tells the story."— November 20, 1911

"EIGHT OR TEN OF YOUR HOVERS"
L. A. Downing, Enfield, Mass., S. C. White Leghorns and S. C.
Rhode Island Reds: — "Because of the good work done by Cyphers Incuba
tors in competition with other makes (hot-water machines) we shall discard
the other machines this season and install two more of 390-egg fire-proof Cyphers
We also intend to install eight or ten of your Adaptable Hovers in our Outdoor
Colony Houses. We strongly endorse your latest fire-proof Incubator Have
obtained as high as 315 fine lively chicks from one hatch. The Cyphers runs
ihe easiest, requires the least oil and hatches more chicks and better chicks." —

November 29, 1911.

"HAVE HATCHED PRIZE BIRDS"
G. N. Seltzer, Middletown, Pa., White Leghorn SpcciaUst:—
"Your Incubators have given me complete satisfaction. Tried several other
makes, but disposed of them. Have hatched prize birds in your machines,
never supplying any mo-'sture and the Incubator working to perfection. Several
times I have hatched every fertile egg."— May 29, 1910.

"HAVE CUT OUT USE OF HENS"
R. J. ElUott, Mansfield, Ohio, S. C. White Leghorn Specialist: —

"Tried out some of the sand tray machines last season along side of my Cyphers
but am still swearing by the Cyphers. I expect to enlarge my capacity again
this year and your company will get my order. We have cut out the use of hens
as hatchers, because we find we can obtain a larger per cent, of strong healthy
chicks with less trouble by use of Cyphers Incubators," — November 1, 1911.

"MY CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS"
T. Reid Parrish, Nashville, Tenn., Columbian Wyandotte Speci-
alist:— "Have used Cyphers Incubators exclusively for the past six years.
Have previously used three other popular makes, but the Cyphers iias given
me better satisfaction, and / invariably tell my customers and friends who are
m the market for an incubator to buy the Standard Cyphers." — November 4,

1911.

"94 PER CENT. OF THE FERTILE EGGS"
Fred. Huyler, Prop., Peapack Farm, Peapack, N. J., White
Plymouth Rock SpeciaUst:— "I am perfectly satisfied with every article
bought from your company. We have hatched 94 per cent, of the fertile eggs
and our average brooding results have been nearly as good — which speaks very
well for Cyphers Incubators and Brooders. I can safely recommend your
goods and your way of doing business — both are first-class " — November 15,

1911.

WHITE WYANDOTTES OF QUALITY
Fritz Bros., Chanute, Kansas, White Wyandotte Specialists: —
"We have used Cyphers Incubators for six years and have always found them
excellent hatchers of good, vigorous chicks. We find they are very easy to run,
are self-ventilating and do not require moisture. Have had 95 per cent,
hatches of chicks that grew fast from the start. Our 1st cockerel, score 95,
1st pullet, 95 K. 1st hen, 94Ji, and 1st pen. Parsons, Kansas, 1909; also 1st
cock. 94M, 1st cockerel, 94^, 2nd pullet, 95 >^, 1st hen, 95 J^, and 1st pen
at Chanute, Kansas, 1909, were hatched in a Cyphers Incubator, started with
Cyphers Chick Food and Beef Scrap."— yi&y 31, 1910.

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"HATCHED MANY PRIZE-WINNERS"
Irving F. Rice, Cortland, N. Y., S. C. White Leghorn Specialist —

"Have used my Cyphers Incubators for years under all sorts of conditions
and have hatched many prize-winners in them. Obtained uniformly good
results. The regulator simply needs adjusting at the beginning of the hatch
and then may be left to itself — therefore the amateur can secure as good results
from your Incubator as an experienced operator. Have used your prepared
Chick Food and it does the work," — October 31, 1911

"VERY BEST OF SUCCESS"
A. W. Huskins, Los Angeles, Cal., White Wyandottes and White
Orpingtons: — "I have been using one of your 144 egg size Standard Cyphers
Incubators the past season with the very best of success It is a pleasure to care
for this machine as it is so little trouble and I feel assured of results I expect
to use more of your Incubators and Brooders next season as I do quite a hatch-
ing business." — July 29, 1911.

"SELL MANY EXHIBITION BIRDS"
C. H. Wyckoff, Aurora, N. Y., S. C. White Leghorn Specialist —

"After nearly thirty years" experience in artificial hatching we have found the
Cyphers to be the leader among incubators. For nine years we have used j our
machines exclusively with such good results, hatching extra strong and iigorous
chicks that we are not looking for anything better in an Incubator We sell
many exhibition birds every year — and they are all hatched m Cyphers Incuba
tors."— October 3, 1911.

"ENTRUSTING BEST EGGS AND CHICKS"
Harry H. Collier, Commissioner of Poultry, State of Washington,
Tacoma, Wash.; — "I have used both the Cyphers Incubators and Brooders
entrusting my best eggs and chicks to them. Both have worked to my entire
satisfaction. 1 do not hesitate to recommend your goods and your Company
—June 24. 1910.

"STRONG AS THOSE RAISED BY HENS"
A. A. Carver, Chardon, Ohio, Rhode Island Red Specialist — We

prefer Cyphers Incubators because they are perfect hatchers — also fire proof
and insurable. This section of the country is filled with Cyphers Incubators
and / have never heard a complaint about them. Unfortunately I cannot sav
this of other makes. Chickens raised in your Brooders are just as large and
strong as those raised by hens." — October 29, 1911

"HAVE HATCHED 90 PER CENT."
R. A. Richardson, Haverhill, Mass., White Wyandotte Specialist

— "We continue to use Cyphers Incubators and Brooders because we have
found them to be the best on the market. Have hatched with the Cyphers Incu-
bator 90 per cent, of all fertile eggs and have raised 95 per cent cif all chickens
placed in Cyphers Brooders. Had three birds that made records of 272 267
and 252 eggs — all hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised in Cyphers Brood-
ers."— November 4, 1911.

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"I SHALL INSTALL SIX MORE"
Geo. B. Ferris, Grand Rapids, Mich., S. C White Leghorn Speci-
alist:— "Cyphers Incubators are still giving the same splendid service and I
shall install six more of the 390-egg size this coming spring Am now usmg
six of that size, with which all my prise-winners at the late shows for sneral
years past have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators — November 2 1911

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Ghas. Parsons & Son, Conway, Mass., Barred Plymouth Rock

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"DURING THE LAST SIX YEARS"
Chas. Iden, Cromwell, Ind., Breeder of Eight Popular Varieties:

— "Have used your Incubators very successfully during the last six years.
We are operating in our hatchery two of the 240-egg size and four of the 390-
egg size. These machines are non-moisture, self-regulating, easily operated
and will do the work required of a first-class incubator." — November 1, 1911.

"TO HATCH AND RAISE PRIZE-WINNERS"
Sam'l S. Bliem, Pottstown, Pa., White Leghorn Spedallst:—

"Your Incubators, Brooders and Foods give entire satisfaction. I have hatched
1^*3 thousands of chicks in your Incubators and raised them i

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FOREMOST AMERICAN POULTRY BREEDERS

"NEARLY TWELVE YEARS AGO"
Chas. H. Bartlett, Prop., Ivywlld Poultry Yards, Colorado Springs,
Colo., S. G. White and Brown Leghorns:— "In 1900 — nearly twelve years
ago — I purchased a No. 2 Cyphers Incubator as a starter in the poultry busi-
ness. Had never seen an Incubator in operation. That machine has been
in use every season since then and I have never had a poor hatch from it. This
machine is in as good condition apparently as when purchased. Also have
six of your three-apartment outdoor brooders that have been in use every season
for years and they are still in good working order. Used them last season with
fine results." — October 4, 1911.

"OUR RECENT PRIZE WINNERS"
W. O. Chase, Hillsboro, 111., Black Minorca SpeclaUst:— "For the

past ten years we have been using Standard Cyphers Incubators and lately
have put in more of them. I honestly believe your latest pattern incubator
is as near perfect as possible. The chicks hatched from these machmes are
extra strong — in fact seem to do better than hen-hatched chicks. This past
spring we put in 24 of your Adaptable Hovers and we believe that the brooding
problem is solved by their use. We intend to put in 24 more of them this tall
Our recent prize winners were all hatched in Cyphers Incubators and raised
in Cyphers Brooders."— September 14, 1911.

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R. A. Hewes, Crete, III., Black Langshan Specialist: — "For years I
have used Cyphers Company goods, from your incubalors down through the
list and have found them entirely satisfactory. Can depend on your goods
being exactly as represented. Have always been treated fairly by your com-
pany and I attribute my success in building up the greatest prize-winning strain
of Black Langshans in America to the fact that I have hatched them in Cyphers
Incubators, reared them in Cyphers Brooders and fed them on Cyphers Sealed Bag
Poultry /oo(f5."— January 5, 1911.

"ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY"

A. E. Martz, Arcadia, Ind., Buff Orpinfiton Specialist:— "My first
prize Buff Orpington Cock and first prize Buff Orpington Hen at the recent
Chicago Show were hatched in Cyphers Incubators and brooded in your Style B
Outdoor Brooders. I now have two thousand husky youngsters romping about,
many of them weighing over six pounds apiece. We have never had a poor
hatch with your machines and your Brooders have been entirely satisfactory " —
August 1, 1911.

"FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS"
Wm- F. Fotterall, Oxford, Pa., Partridge Plymouth Rock Speci-
alist:— "I can recommend the Cyphers Incubators above all others. Have
three other makes stored in my bam, out of use. Have hatched all my Madison
Square Garden winners for the past six years with the Cyphers machine My
show record proves the quality of birds that the Cyphers Incubator turns
out." — Novembers, 1911.

"I WISH TO COMMEND YOU"
J. Hildreth Crow. Oakland, Cal.. Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks
and Andalusians: — "As a poultry fancier for many years who has had
long experience in buying and using poultry supplies, I wish to commend you
on the quality of your Incubators and Brooders, Poultry Foods, etc All
of your goods that we have used have proved to be the best obtainable. I al<«> wish
to commend you on the courteous treatment received from your company on
all business transactions." — September 30, 1911.

"NEVER HAD A POOR HATCH"
Wm. H. Hirsch, Irvington, Cal., Proprietor Irvington Poultry,
Duck and Goose Farm, Breeders of Popular Breeds Chickens, Ducks,
Geese, S. C. Rhode Island Reds a Specialty: — "It gives us great pleasure
to recommend Standard Cyphers Incubators, Brooders and Poultry Foods
Not only have all of our prize winning birds been hatched in Cyphers Incubators,
but they have been reared in Cyphers brooding equipment. We have hatched
in your Incubators every variety of fowl we raise, including geese, and we
have never had a poor hatch, therefore we do not hesitate to recommend Cyphers
Company goods at every opportunity:' — November 27, 1911.

"ALL WERE HATCHED IN CYPHERS"
Geo. H. Northup, RaceviUe, N. Y., Black Minorca Specialist:—

" Have used Cyphers Incubators since 1903, increasing the number of machines
every year since. Last year we sold one of our Rose Comb Black Mmorca
breeding cocks for S300 and quite a number of S. C. cocks for $100 each, all
of which were hatched in Cyphers Incubators.'" — ^August 24, 1908.

"WOULD LAST MANY YEARS LONGER"
J. T. French, Toledo, Ohio, Barred Rock Specialist:— "We have
here a No 0 Cyphers Incubator that was bought eleven years ago and it is still
doing good work. Last season this machine hatched fully as well as the hens.
It looks today as though it would last many years longer. Have always found
\our goods to be satisfactory in every respect. I have galvanized dnnkmg
fountams of your make that have been in use five or six years and they are
still m good condition — further proof that all your goods are well made and put
up to last " — November 13, 1911.

"TO FEEL AT PERFECT LIBERTY"
S. A. Noftzger, No. Manchester, Ind., Partridge Plymouth Rock
Specialist: — "I want you to feel at perfect liberty to use my name m recom-
mendation of your goods, because I consider them to be the best on the market
in their respective lines. It gives me great pleasure to recommend Cyphers
Incubators and Brooders as well as other products. Have repeatedly advised
my friends to buy goods of your manufacture." — November 21, 1911.

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FOREMOST AMERICAN POULTRY BREEDERS

"ALMOST A CLEAN SWEEP"
Wm. McNeil, London, Ont., Can., Canada's Most Successful
Exhibitor: — "It is with much pleasure Ihal I endorse Cyphers Incubators.
Have had experience with quite a few different incubators, but no other machine
itas as easy to run or would hatch as large a percentage of eggs as the Cyphers;
also the chicks are stronger ajid grow belter than those from any other machine
I ever used. Last year at Boston. Buffalo, and Guelph, Ont., / made almost
a clean sweep with birds hatched in Cyphers machines." — October 27, 1911.

"WITH SIX OTHER MAKES"
Dinsraore & Co., Kramer, Ind., White Wyandotte Specialist:—

"This last season for the first time we used Cyphers Incubators exclusively, they
having been in competition with six -other makes during the last two years. At
the beginning of this season we discarded every other machine, selling some of
them for what we could get and giving away one or two in order to get rid of
them. Never before in our experience have we had as good success in raising
chicks hatched. Since starting in the business we have bought nearly all our
poultry appliances from you. You have handled, our business in a fair and
square manner, first to last." — November 23, 1911.

"HUNDREDS OF PRIZE WINNERS"
N. V. Fogg, Mt. Sterling, Ky., White Leghorn Specialist:— "My

hatches this sea.son with the Cyphers Incubators have been very satisfactory.
I find them automatic in regulation, self-ventilating, and they do not require
supphed moisture. Have bred and sold hundreds of prize winners, all of which
for the past four years have been hatched in Cyphers Incubators. I would advise
any one wishing the most convenient, safest and best, to buy Cyphers equip-
ment."—October 31, 1911.

"1500 EGGS— FROM TEN HENS"
C. B. Snaveley, Lititz, Pa., S. C. White Leghorns and S. C. Rhode
Island Reds: — "This year we added some of your latest pattern machines and
have had some of the best hatches smce we began using your incubators.
Have shipped baby chicks hatched in your machines to the New England.
Southern and Middle-western states with perfect success. One of our cus-
tomers reports over 1500 eggs in twelve months from ten hens raised out of a
Cyphers hatched shipment." — November 4, 1911.

"INSTEAD OF UNDER HENS"
Chas. Earle Hart, Elmira, N. Y., White Orpington Specialist:-

"My experience with your incubators during the season of 1910-11 luas even
belter than previous years. Chicks have been absolutely free from bowel trouble
— not a case in my yards. Have such confidence in Cyphers Incubators that I
placed in them all the eggs from the fine hens imported by me from England, instead
of under hens." — November 1, 1911.

"WON SEVENTY-ONE FIRST PRIZES"
B. F. Kahler, Hughcsville, Pa., Columbian and Silver Penciled
Wyandotte Specialist: — "I showed at the WiUiamsport (Pa.) A. P. A. Show
SO "entries, at the State College Show 16 entries, at Lititz three entries and
at Bloomsburg Show, 40 entries. At these Shows I won 71 firsts, 13 seconds
9 thirds, 4 fourths and 2 fifth prizes. With very few excebtions. all these winners
were hatched in Cyphers Incubators and reared in your Brooders." — June 27, 1910.

"WITH WHICH I WON FIRST"
Frank Langford, Nashville, Tenn., Rhode Island Red Specialist:

— "It may interest you to know that the cockerel with which I won first at
Jamestown and also at Madison Square Garden, was hatched in a Cyphers
Incubator and raised in a Cyphers Style A Brooder. This Brooder has been
in use seven years and is still good. I have used most of your poultry supplies
and found them perfectly satisfactory. Your baby Chick Food is especially
clean andsound." — October 27, 1910.

"GOOD, STRONG, LIVABLE CHICKS"
Arthur A. Hunter, Merchantville, N. J., R. C. Rhode Island Red
Specialist: — "After testing several of the different prominent makes of incu-
bators, my experience has proved that the Cyphers has no equal for producing good,
strong, livable chicks. All birds shown by me as per my last mating list, were
hatched in your Incubators. Also used Cyphers Chick Food and find it
superior to any other I have tried." — May 23, 1910.

"WON EIGHT BLUE RIBBONS"
Walter E. Holmes, Marinette, Wis., Rhode Island Red Specialist:

— "At the Marshfield, Wis., poultry show I won eight blue ribbons, also two
silver cups— W. C. Ellison, judge, and at the State Poultry Show I won five

Jas. A. Tucker, judge. These birds W'
Incubators and raised on Cyphers Chick Food. You ;
to use my name in public endorsement of your goods.'

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October 28, 1911.

"BY FAR THE BEST HATCHER"
J. P. Heck, Pittsfield, lU., White Orpington Specialist: — "I con-
sider the Cyphers Incubator the simplest, easiest operated, most durable and
by far the best hatcher of any machine on the market today and have no hesitancy
in recommending it as the one Incubator which experience has taught me will
hatch the strongest and healthiest chicks from the greatest number of fertile eggs.
Your various appliances and products merit the high esteem in which they
are held by poultrymen." — November 6, 1911.

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EXAMPLES OF WHAT WOMEN ARE ABLE TO DO AS
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HUNDREDS OF WOMEN in the United States— north, south, east and west— are breeding Standard fowls
and selling choice stock, day-old chicks and eggs for hatching at profitable prices. At the Fall Fairs and
Winter Shows women are prominent as exhibitors and seldom fail to win their share of the cash
prizes and coveted ribbons. In many cases the finest specimens of standard-bred fowls that are exhibited i ' well
known poultrymen represent birds hatched and raised by women — by the wives or daughters of these pouit.ymen.

Probably, if the truth were known, one-third to one-half of all the market poultry produced in the United
States is raised by women — by the wives of farmers, in large part. Women are specially well adapted to taking
care of poultry with successful results. They look after the needs of the fowls, are painstaking and
conscientious.

We should judge that twenty-five per cent, of the customers of Cyphers Incubator Company are women —
either direct or through their husbands — and that fifty per cent, of our Incubators (not including those on large
plants) are operated by women. It is a rare case when a woman fails to have good success with a Cyphers
Incubator or Self-Regulating Brooder.

Herewith are a few interesting examples of success met with by women as poultry raisers; also a limited
number of reports telling of the excellent results they are able to obtain by the use of Cyphers Incubators, Cyphers
Brooders, Cyphers Poultry Foods, etc.

REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF MRS. BERTHA M. STORY

Oregon City, Ore., November 22, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

The Cyphers Incubator is the only one I have used for five
years, and will continue to be the only one. so long as I stay in
the poultry business. As you may be aware. I was the exhibitor
at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition who won on every entry,
with 137 entries. Every one of these birds was ol my own breed-
ing and every one ices hatched in a Cyphers Incubator. I
use your Scratch Food and Chick Food and always recommend
both, as well as the Cyphers Incubators and Brooders.

I rarely have less than a 90
per cent, hatch of good, strong
chicks. In warm weather I keep
the drop-bottom down until the
19th day, and I believe that this
system of ventilation, especially for
warm climates or late spring
and summer hatching, is the
secret of the success of the Cyphers
in surpassing all other incubators.
There are plenty of machines that
will hatch eggs — but to get good,
strong, healthy, hungry chicks
that will begin to grow before-^
the down is dry on them, that is
another story — unless one uses the
Cyphers.

I have exhibited at fifteen
Fairs since the season of 1905,
beginning with the Lewis & Clark
Exposition, where I won on every
entry, getting every first and second
premium possible. I won two cash
specials, one on Polish and one on Hamburgs, for best exhibit
in each variety, also the Lewis & Clark Silver Tea Set for
best exhibit in show, and also the $100 Loving Cup for best

I did not exhibit again till 1907, at Oregon State Fair, where
I sent 22 birds and won everything possible in regular prizes, and
several specials.

In 1908 I exhibited at Oregon State Fair, Washington State
Fair, Inter-State Fair at Spokane, and Valley Fair. The two

BERTHA M STORY
Oregon City Oregon

latter shows were held the same week, making 147 birds in the
show room at one time. Yet I won on every entry at all four

In 1909 I exhibited at the Oregon State Fair, where I entered
115 birds, and won on every bird. At A. Y. T. Exposition, Seattle,
I entered 137 birds and won on everything, including three Silver
Cups as specials.

In 1910 I exhibited at Oregon State Fair, Western Washing-
ton Fair, Southwest Washington Fair, and Valley Fair, winning
on every entry, besides many specials.

In 1911, owing to ill health, I made only a small exhibit at
Oregon State Fair, sending 62 birds; also 90 to Southwest Wash-
ington Fair on same dates. I won on each entry at both places.
At Washington State Fair 1 entered 70 birds and won on every
entry as usual, besides specials.

Every bird exhibited by me in five years has been hatched

by me in a Cyphers Incubator.- Remember that this is not on

one 01 two varieties, but all the eight standard varieties of PoHsh,

the six standard varieties of Hamburgs, and my line-bred Anconas.

BERTHA M. STORY. Prop.,

Rosemawr Poultry Yards.

SILVER LACED POLISH.
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WOMEN ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH POULTRY — RIGHT EQUIPMENT NEEDED

USING FIVE INCUBATORS AND FIFTEEN BROODERS

Dayton, N. Y.. November 20, 1911.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We still think the name of Cyphers Incubator Company on
our goods the best guarantee of our success. In going through our
plant with visitors we tell them that this name stands for "a square

deal every time," that when you buv

a Cyphers article you get some-
thing that will last you years.

We used five of your Incuba-
tors and fifteen Cyphers Brooders
this year. We did not get the in-
cubator cellar banked up before
snow came, and with snow in cellar
and temperature sometimes 45 de-
grees, the Cyphers Incubators never
varied a point.

We like your Adaptable Hovers
and Brooders very much.
There is no danger of fires, and one
can be always sure of strong,
healthy stock raised in them. They
never get a set back, and are ready
to start laying early.

We find a big saving in feed
by using the Boston Hoppers for ground food, and the Cyphers
Wall Fountains keep the water clean and cool.

We will want more incubators this year, as we expect to hatch
three thousand chicks for our own plant. From the birds we bought
at your farm last spring we have picked out the best two hundred
for next year's breeders, and they are fine ones. We were also
pleased with the cockerels we got this spring for the breeding pen.
Yours truly, ANNIE BENSON, Secretary,

C. C. Benson & Sons.

"I HEARTILY RECOMMEND THE CYPHERS"

Boonville, Mo., August 10, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I have been using a No. 2 Cyphers Incubator for live years
and am greatly pleased with it. Usually set it four times
each year and have had as high as 202 chicks at a hatching. The
regulator keeps the temperature at the right place, and when
away from home I have no fear of finding my eggs too hot
or too cold when I return. I heartily recommend the Cyphers
Incubator to any one who wants maximum results with the min-
imum expenditure of labor and fuel. MRS. W. A. HURT.

MRS. BENSON.

USED ADAPTABLE HOVER IN HOME-MADE BROODER

White Haven, Pa., July 25, 1911.
Cyphers Incuhator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

I rasied 190 chicks this season in a home-made brooder,
heated with your Adaptable Hover, and I had the very best of
luck. I kept them in the brooder for four weeks, and I didn't
lose one chick. I fixed the lamp every morning, and that was
all that was necessary until the next morning. I used very little
oil in heating the brooder, which is 4 x 3)^ ft., 30 inches high.
We have used Cyphers Incubators for eight years, and can recom-
mend them also very highly. Very respectfully,

MRS. WM. MASON.

" KNOW WHEN WE GET THE RIGHT GOODS "

Rockford, 111., November 10, 1911.
R. F. D. No. 1.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We have used one of your 144-egg Cyphers Incubators, and ■
one Cyphers Adaptable Hover. We had first started out with
another make of incubators, but had every trouble imaginable
with it, and after growing desperate we decided we would afford
a higher priced machine in order to get one we had confidence in.
It did not disappoint us in any particular. Each hatch went
through the Adaptable Hover until the next hatch came off, and
the older ones were sent to fireless brooders of home construction.
We lost not one chick in the hover and not over five or six in the
fireless brooder.

Have used most of your appliances and foods, and can find
none of the many we have tried to equal them. I am not sending
this letter as a bouquet, but because we are proud of the results
we have had with your goods.

Next spring we intend to enlarge our plant, and it will be done
by putting in "Cyphers Hens." We will get large sized machines.
Have had ample experience with other makes of brooders and
one other incubator to know when we get the right goods.

MRS. J. G. BRANDT.

"DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT"

Richmond, 111., April 20, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

We have used our 220-egg Cyphers Incubator for five years
and it works now just as good as it did the first year, and I
know we have better hatches than do our neighbors who use other
kinds. / set my Incubator from three to four times a year.
If it's a Cyphers you do not have to worry about it.

MRS. THOS. E. HODGE.

•' THANKS TO CYPHERS INCUBATORS AND FOODS "

Ludlow Falls, Ohio, July 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubalor Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

Six years ago I came to the country, and knew nothing of
incubators. I got your 1905 Catalogue and studied it thoroughly,
then purchased a 120-egg Standard Cyphers Incubator. I also
got fifty dollars worth of your different poultry foods, except
Beef Scrap. The chicks grew well and I lost very few. This year
I have used your Beef Scrap and can see a wonderful improve-
ment in my Beef-Scrap chicks. I have raised 800 chicks this
year and they have averaged ten weeks at marketing. Owing
to the results of my success, thanks to the Cyphers Incubator
and Cyphers Foods, my husband intends putting up more poultry
buildings and fence off several lots this fall solely for my chicks
another year, so I will have room to raise more chicks.

MRS. HALLIE DE VERE.

"FOR SIX YEARS"

Garretuville, Ohio, August 24, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I have used one of your Cyphers Incubators for six years,
and have had the best of luck with it. The chicks are strong and

Your Brooders are the best I have ever used or seen. Their
main point is the lamp. It will run in the windiest weather
without going out or blazing up and smoking, and in cold
weather it holds the heat even. Another valuable feature is that
the compartments are so high and well ventilated. The Style B
will hold seventy chicks until a month old, but of course fifty is
better to put in. / use my Cyphers Brooders right outdoors
in all kinds of weather. MRS. J. C. FELT.

THE LARGE,

N. Hackensack, N. J., June 30, 1908.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—

I have been operating the Cyphers Incubators for a number
of years past with very satisfactory results. The beauty of
this machine is the large, fluffy chicks taken from the hatches,
which thrive from the start. / have raised to maturity 143
chicks out of 145 hatched, although I must say that one of the
chief factors in the raising of chicks is to start them aright in good
brooders that give the chicks at all times good, pure air. This,
I believe, the Cyphers Brooder does, which I have used since the
purchase of my first machine. My flock has been hatched
exclusively in Cyphers Incubators for eight years past and
this season I have hatched about 2,000 birds; never have
seen a finer lot, or more healthy, or raised a greater percentage of
those hatched than this season. H. C. CABLE.

WOMEN ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH POULTRY— RIGHT EQUIPMENT NEEDED

"PAID FOR ITSELF MANY TIMES OVER"

Auburn, N. Y., March 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y, —

For years I have used Cyphers Incubators and Brooders, and
have also used Cyphers Cliick Food, Lice Powder, and other
poultry supplies. I have found them so satisfactory that I have
not needed to test the goods of other manufacturers.

Ten years ago I purchased a
360 - egg Cyphers Incubator. /
always count on at least 225 to
250 chicks from that machine,
and have had as many as 260. It
has paid for itself many times

At the time I bought the incu-
bator I used hens to hatcli with
also, as I had such a demand for
day-old chicks and ducklings I was
unable to supply the demand. I
would have from fifteen to twenty
hens sitting weeks at a time, getting
sometimes fourteen or fifteen chicks
from fifteen eggs, but never aver-
aged moce than eight or ten chicks
each for the lot. The hens had
to be dusted with insect powder and' have regular attention, and I
found hatching with incubators much less work and mind stress.
Tlie incubators are easily regulated, are self-ventilating, and but
a few moments each day are required to operate them.

My chicks hatched in Cyphers Incubators are large and strong
and are bound to live. None of them have ever had White
Diarrhoea or any other bowel trouble. I brood them in Cyphers
Brooders, give them good care, and, barring accidental deaths,
raise practically all of them.

/ have found the sale of day-old chicks so profitable that
I recommend it to other women who wish to earn money at
home,

I have found Cyphers Bureau of Information, conducted by
the Cyphers Company for the benefit of customers, to be most
helpful, and the Cyphers Company most pleasant to deal with.
Yours truly. MRS. ANDREW BROOKS.

MRS. ANDREW BROOKS.

"CHICKS GREW FASTER"

Kinmundy, III., February 10, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have used a No. 2 size Cyphers Incubator for five years,
and it hatches just as good, and runs just as regular as it did when
it was new.

Two years ago I bought my first Cyphers Brooder. Last
year I bought another and soon you will receive an order for
another incubator and brooder. I have not the time to hatch with
hens; besides, / think the incubator and brooder the cheaper
way. No more hens for me. My chicks grew faster in brooder,
and were far less trouble than with hens. I also used your Chick
Food to start my chicks on. I think they grew better than when
I tried to raise them on home-grown foods. I hatch annually
about 1500 chicks. This year they will be all hatched in Cyphers
Incubators and raised in Cyphers Brooders, for I use no other kind.
Yours truly, MRS. ETHEL HILL,

"FOR TWELVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS"

Blackstone, Va., August 10, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo. N. Y. —

I have used my Cyphers Incubator for twelve consecutive
years and it is still first-class in every respect. Before
becoming acquainted with the Cyphers I tried several other kinds
with varied success, but none of them could equal the Cyphers.
/ expect to continue to use Cyphers Incubators and Brooders
as long as I am in the poultry business, and I want nothing
better. MRS. A. A. CARLISLE.

"WHAT MORE COULD BE ASKED FOR"

Sterling, Pa., March 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y. —

This is my second season using your Adaptable Hover. /
find it all that you recommend it to be. I now have eighty
newly hatched chicks in it, in an outdoor brooder. Last night
was a very blustry night. I had the partition in the brooder closed
and the ventilator open part way. This morning I found the
temperature underneath the Hover where the chicks are
brooded was a little above 95 degrees. What more could be
asked for? MRS. J. J. UBAN.

BELIEVES IT WILL LAST A LIFETIME

Sharpsville. Mercer Co., Pa.. April 11, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. —

I have now used my Cyphers Incubator eight or nine years.
Have had splendid success first to last, and it still looks like a
new machine. I believe it will last a lifetime.

MRS. JOHN R. MILES.

"CAN ALMOST SEE THEM GROW"

BoUvar, Mo., March 1, 1911,
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. F.—

Have used your baby Chick Food, also your Developing
Food for four years with the very best results. Have averaged
to raise 90 per cent, of the chicks hatched and I know it to be a
fact that I raise more chicks as a rule than any one around
me. I firmly beli&ve it is because I use your Chick Foods exclu-
sively. We always find the Cyphers brand clean, free from dirt
of any kind and the chicks always eat it up clean — no waste what-
ever. / begin feeding the Developing Food when they are
about three weeks old and we can almost see them grow
from oue day to the next. We consider your foods the cheapest,
first, because it raises the chicks; second, they always eat it up
clean. MRS. W. W. DRURY.

WHITE ORPINGTONS— RAISED ON ROOF OF
WELL-KNOWN BOSTON HOTEL

Quincy House, Brattle Square. Boston, Mass.
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y.— August 29, 1910.

It may interest you to learn the following particulars regard-
ing stock raised in the Standard Cyphers Incubators and fed
exclusively on Cyphers Poultry Foods.

I recently sold chicks and stock of the White Orpington
variety that fetched me the handsome prices quoted:

Per Lot

26 Cockerels $75.00

12 Pullets and 1 Cockerel 41.00

25 4-weeks' old Chicks, each 1 . 50

The pullets were hatched March 25th and began laying July
17th.

From 351 eggs placed in my No. 0 Cyphers Incubator I
received altogether 245 chicks, between February 1st and June
30th, dates of first and last hatch respectively. These eggs came
from different breeders, and considering that they may be termed
a "mixed lot," I regard the output as highly satisfactory.

All these chicks I raised in my two Standard Cyphers Brood-
ers (Style A Outdoor and Style D Indoor), and for facihty of
handling and good, safe, sure brooding they cannot be too
highly commended.

The Cyphers Poultry Foods are remarkable for their
flesh-forming and weight-giving qualities, and as an instance
may mention that chicks hatched Tune 12th averaged 2% pounds
on August 20th. At fourteen weeks old I had pullets that aver-
aged 6}4 pounds in weight and cockerels that averaged 7 3^ pounds.
MISS ANNA B. SANDERSON. '

P. S. — You will no doubt be further interested in knowing
that all my poultry was raised on the roof of the "Quincy House,"
Boston, and the eggs mcubated m a No 0 Cyphers machine on
the sixth floor of same buUdmg.

CHAPTER Vra

PREMIUM-PRICE TABLE POULTRY-HOW TO PRODUCE IT

Outlet for Surplus Leghorn Cockerels. Best Varieties for Squab Broilers,
Regular Broilers and Roasters. How to Care For and What to
Feed. When and How to Fatten Broilers and Milk-fed Soft Roasters

(.Copyright January, l9i2,byCyphe

IN writing the eight short chapters for this Annual
Catalogue and Poultry Growers' Guide — two hun-
dred thousand copies of which are to be printed for
free distribution — we have aimed to serve the interests
of the many, rather than the few; therefore these chapters
in the main are addressed to men and women who are
making, or who propose to make, a regular business of
raising poultry for profit, on either a small or large scale.
For example, take this subject of prime table poultry
and how to produce it. Farm raised chickens, turkeys,
ducks and geese, if young and healthy, should make good
table poultry, but we do not think that is what the readers
of this chapter would prefer to be told about. Raising
a few dozen or two or three hundred head of poultry on
the average farm and giving them free range, is one thing;
but making a regular business of poultry and egg pro-
duction is a different matter.

Unfortunately, these chapters are too short to enable
us to do justice by the important subjects. What we have
sought to do, therefore, is to say all we can in the limited
space, using small type and but few illustrations. For
a more thorough treatment of each topic, see the Cyphers
Company Service bulletins, which are sent free of charge,
postpaid, to every Cyphers Company customer.

Prime table poultry, in the sense here meant, includes
squab broilers, broilers, roasters and capons. Squab
broilers consist of chicks eight to ten weeks old that weigh
three-fourths of a pound to a pound; broilers consist of
chicks eight to fourteen weeks old that weigh a pound to
two pounds each; roasters consist of chickens that weigh
three to five pounds apiece — in the average market —
and capons consist of castrated cockerels that weigh from
five or six pounds each up to ten to fifteen pounds, depend-
ing on breed, age and care.

We find a market for the surplus White Leghorn
cockerels produced on the Cyphers Company Poultry
Farm by selling them as squab broilers and regular broilers.
For squab broilers the Buffalo market pays Ji.oo to
Si.2S per pair; for regular broilers I1.25 to $1.50 per pair.
We also make a business of catering to this demand during

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the late fall, winter and spring, and find' it profitable m

connection with other branches of the poultry work.

Leghorns lay well in the fall and winter as compared
with other breeds and the eggs hatch extra well, as a rule.
Leghorn cockerels make excellent squab broilers, also
choice regular-size broilers up to two pounds weight, if
they are handled and fed right and are "softened" by two
or three weeks of special fattening before being killed.

On the Cyphers Company Farm we begin hatching in
October for the squab broiler market and keep it up
through the winter. All October, November and Decem-
ber hatched birds, both cockerels and pullets, are sold as
squab broilers and regulars. After the first of the year
we begin to save out the most hkely looking pullets and
save these for layers and breeders.

For s p r i n g
broilers — regular
size— White Ply-
mouth Rocks,
White Wyan-
dot t e s , White
Orpingtons and
Rhode Island
Reds give excel-
lent satisfaction.
Barred Rocks
are good also, ex-
cept for the dark
pin feathers. All
the buff varieties
make choice broil-
ers, if the breed-
ing stock is
vigorous. 'White
Leghorns clean-
pick very nicely
for broiler use —
as do all other
white varieties.

Our broilers
are raised in
brooding house
pens 5x8 feet in
size. When first
hatched we leave
them in the nurs-
ery of the incu-
bator forty-eight to

CHOICE CAPONS.
Pair of Sample Capons produced on
Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, Season of
1911, which weighed 9?4 lbs. apiece at nine
months of age. Raised by methods de-
scribed in this chapter and in Cyphers
Company Service Free Bulletins.

•two hours to "harden" them
a bit and get them used to a temperature of 90 degrees.
Next we place them under the cradle-back hovers in the
brooding house, or in Adaptable Hovers, and there we
continue the temperature of 90 degrees. We do not rec-
ommend a higher temperature than this.

The newly-hatched chicks are not fed or watered in
the incubators. After removing them to the brooders
we feed every two hours the first day, using a nursery
food consisting of one-third stale bread, one-third rolled
oats and one-third hard boiled eggs, using shells and all
(infertile, misshapen, soft-shelled, thin-shelled eggs, etc.)
mixed with sweet milk if we have it, other^vise with water.
Mix crumbly, not sloppy, and feed all the chicks will eat
at each meal.

The second day feed the same nursery food and also
sprinkle a small amount of finely-granulated chick food
on the litter to start them picking at it. The third day
give them one or two meals of the nursery food, then sup-
ply the Chick Food exclusively, by the deep-litter method.

PREMIUM-PRICE TABLE POULTRY— HOW TO PRODUCE IT

j CYPHERS COMPANY
! POULTRY FARM

FANCY

MiLK-FEDBROaERS

Produced on Cyphers Company Poultry Farm. Fall of 1911
One is wrapped. Both are to be wrapped, then packed in thi
Cardboard Box and Marketed.

For deep-litter feeding of chicks, cover the entire
floor of the pen with two inches of good Utter — short-cut
clover or alfalfa much preferred. Then scatter over this
fifteen pounds of the Chick Food. Next repeat with two
inches more of the litter, then fifteen pounds more of the
food, until you have eight inches of litter and sixty
pounds of food in a pen about 5x8 feet, that is meant
to accommodate fifty chicks. This supply of food will
last fifty chicks about six weeks, on the average, together
with the milk they are to get to drink and the beef scrap
and green food that are to be supplied.

Give these little chicks sweet milk to drink the first
week in the brooding pen. Use drinking vessels that will
keep the milk out of the chicks eyes, thus avoiding sores,
blindness and loss. Use chick size drinking founts — see
page 160, or the Chick Server shown on page 161. Be
sure to clean and scald these milk dishes thoroughly every
morning. Give no water to broiler chicks the first
week. On the seventh day place water before them
and start giving them beef scrap in small quantities.
Omit milk after this, up to the time the chicks go to
the fattening pens or are placed on Forcing Food. Give
nothing else up to the end of the fifth week except green
food.

Supply all the green food the chicks will eat, begin-
ning the fourth day and continuing until they are ready
for fattening. At first use mealed, finely-cut screened
clover or alfalfa. Later on a coarser grade can be used,
also sprouted oats. Steam all clover or alfalfa and feed
on boards or in shallow pans or troughs. If short-cut
clover or alfalfa is used as litter, the chicks will pick up
a good deal of green food from this source, which is
desirable.

The sixth week begin feeding mash food. On Cyphers
Company Farm we use Forcing Food (see page 122),
feeding it dry in hoppers — also continuing the beef scrap,
which is now kept before the chicks all the time and they
still have the chick food in the litter. Grit (chick size)
and finely granulated charcoal also are kept before them
constantly in self-feeding hoppers. When the chicks
reach the right size or weight we remove them to the
special fattening pens or remove the litter and fatten
(soften) them where they are. This process requires
from fourteen to twenty days — usually about seventeen
days. We now mix the Forcing Food with buttermilk
or sweet milk — buttermilk preferred — • and feed it three
times daily, all that the chicks will eat up clean, mixed

to the consistency of gruel, so that the food will run off
the end of a spoon or can be poured.

This fattening process not only adds fatty tissue, but
softens the muscular tissue that has been developed by
the chicks digging for weeks in the deep litter. But the
digging is conducive to health and growth. If some of
the chicks appear to be "off their feed" during the fatten-
ing process, place these back on deep-litter for a few days.
On the average, seventeen days of fattening will give
maximum results.

Roasters may be said to be regular broilers "older
grown." Many practical poultrymen prefer to keep
their chicks after they reach the broiler age and market
them as roasters. The death rate is heavier up to the
broiler age, very few chicks dying from natural causes
after that time, hence the advantage of keeping them
until they weigh three to five pounds apiece, provided
you are near a good market for choice milk-fed soft roast-
ers or prime roasting chickens.

If the chicks are to be developed into roasters, keep
them on the deep-litter until they are fourteen weeks old.
Feed as recommended for broilers, continuing the sixth
week ration until the chicks are ten weeks old, then begin
feeding Developing Food, see page 120.

At the start throw only a handful at a time of this
coarser food into each pen, thus weaning the chicks from
the finely-granulated Chick Food. Then within two or
three days stop giving more Chick food and bury the
Developing Food in the litter so that the chicks will
dig for it and thus keep busy. Meanwhile, continue
the Forcing Food and beef scrap in hoppers and also
supply all the green food the chicks can be induced
to eat.

After the to-be-roasters are fourteen weeks old, place
them in colony houses or large-sized roosting coops on
practically free range until you are ready to put them up
for fattening. On range continue the Forcing Food
and beef scrap in hoppers and feed Developing Food in
litter or scattered about out of doors. If green food is
plentiful on range this supply will answer, otherwise
some form of green food must be furnished by the
caretaker.

When fattening time arrives put the birds back in
the 5x8 pens or place them in regular fattening crates.
These crates are built of slats, one crate above another,
each 16 X i6 X 30 inches in dimensions, by 16 inches high.
For full particulars on crate fattening see Cyphers Com-
pany Service Bulletin No. 26, a free copy of which will
be sent postpaid to every Cyphers Company customer
on request.

For complete information on the subject of capons
and caponizing obtain Book No. 6 of the Cyphers Com-
pany Series as described on page 178 of this catalogue.

IXG AXD KILLIXG HOUSE.
Cyphers Company Poultry Farm, used for
Fattening, Killing, Dressing and Boxing Fancy Broilers. Roasters,
" ~ ' ■ ■ 16x75 feet. Equipped

FATTE>
House No. IS,

CYPHERS INCUBATORS
IN FOREIGN LANDS

Why We Call Our Machines the "World's Standard
Hatchers." They are Used and Strongly En-
dorsed in Every Civilized Country on the Globe

THE GOLD MEDAL and HIGHEST HONORS were awarded
Standard Cyphers Incubators at the Pan-American Expo-
sition, Buffalo, N. Y., 1901, at the World's Fair (Lousiana
Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Mo., 1904, at the Lewis and Clark
Centennial Exposition, Portland, Ore., 1905, and First Prizes for
Tost Hatches and on Mechanical Excellence have been given to
these machines in the leading countries of Europe. For years we
have met all comers, both at home and abroad — without once
experiencing defeat in competition.

The foregoing facts, together with the high endorsements our
Incubators have received in foreign lands from men in authority
as poultry inspectors, as judges, as practical experts, etc., led us
to style our Incubators the "World's Standard Hatchers," because
no other incubator thus far invented and placed on sale has equalled
or approached the world-wide record made by the Cyphers during
the last dozen years.

Cyphers Incubators are now in successful use in every country
(in the globe where poultry is grown for market. For obvious
reasons they have been received with special favor in English-
speaking countries. In the pages next following we present as
many reports as we can spare room for in this catalogue, telling of
the satisfactory results obtained by our customers. Our foreign
catalogue — a book similar to this, contains full information upon
these points and many more testimonials than we can print here.

In order that our trade and friends in foreign countries may be
protected against "pirated" imitations, we have taken out in each
country a registered trade-mark, as shown on page 34, in order
that all may know whether or not they are buying the "Genuine
Cyphers, made in the U. S. A." Every genuine Cyphers Incu-
bator, no matter where found, bears this trade-mark.

CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY.
Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A., December 1, 1911.

Sample Canadian Reports

AFTER SEVEN YEARS

Rosetown, Sask,, Can., November 20, 1911.
Cythars Incubator Company: —

I have used Cyphers Incubators and Brooders for seven years,
and still have the same machines I shipped from Wisconsin to
Western Canada, and then freighted them over one hundred miles
across the prairie. They are in fine condition, standing excel-
lently all changes of climatic conditions and usages. The
machines are actually self-regulating. The Brooders give the best
of satisfaction. I have had several makes, but none take care
of little chicks so well as the Cyphers.

A. W. NOBLE.

POULTRY JUDGE AND INSTITUTE LECTURER

Ottawa, Can., June 25, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

Have used Cyphers Incubators the past ten years and have
always found them satisfactory in every respect. As I do a
lot of judging and institute work I have an unusual opportunity
of getting the opinions of poultrymen in different parts of the
countrj' and I find that the general impression is very favorable
to your Incubators.

GEORGE ROBERTSON, P. O. Box 242.

"HATCHING FULLY 90 PER CENT."

Ashbank, Gorebridge, N. B., July 1, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

The Incubator I got from you this year worked splendidly,
and gave every satisfaction, ■ha.tch'mg fully 90 per cent, on an
average. I may say that I had one three years which was worked
alongside of two hot-water machines, but I much preter the hot-
air machines; in fact, / find the Cyphers is all that it is repre-
sented, and the self-ventilation is all that is claimed tor it. I can
thoroughly recommend your machine to all.

THOMAS A. TORRANCE.

USING THEM IN DAY-OLD CHICK BUSINESS

Vancouver, B. C, August 25, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

We have been using Cyphers Incubators exclusively for the
last five years and they have given us every satisfaction. The
hatches have been large and the chicks strong and vigorous —
better, we believe, than from any other incubator we have ever
come in contact with. Your Incubators are easy to operate and
the quality of the chickens highly satisfactory. We have
shipped them at one day old all over the country in very large
quantities and the percentage of mortality on account of the
strength of the chicks has been insignificant.

WHITE WINGS POULTRY RANCH,

J. J. Wilson, Prop.

"AT LIBERTY TO PUBLISH THIS LETTER"

Ayton. Ont., Can., June 3, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

/ am using several of your Incubators — 240 and 390-egg
size — on my poultry plant, and find them satisfactory in every
way, I do not hesitate to recommend the Cyphers Incubators
to be first-class and reliable. You are at liberty to publish this
letter. VAL. GLEBE.

"HAS NOT VARIED A FRACTION"

Berlin, Ont., Can., March 27, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I received the Cyphers Incubators O. K,, and must say they
work like a charm. It really is a pleasure to hatch eggs with a
reliable machine. I put the eggs in on the 18th inst., and the heat
at 103 has not varied a fraction. No matter when you look at
the thermometer it always is the same, and ventilation is
perfect. OTTO SACHARE.

"THEY ARE MY STAND-BYS"

Ayton, Ont., Can., June 8, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

At present I am using one No. 2 and three No. 3 Cyphers
Incubators. They are my stand-bys. I first tried another leading
make that it was claimed would hatch stronger chicks, but I
found it Just the other way. Am running a commercial poul-
try farm and sell day-old chicks as a specialty. Am handling
bred-to-lay White Wyandottes and Single Comb White Leghorns
/ wouldn't want to be in the poultry business without the
help of Cyphers Incubators. W. H. FISCHER.

CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THEM

Simcoe, Ont., Can., November 22, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I have used your goods since 1907, and have nothing but
praise for all I have ever purchased. One can always have con-
fidence in Cyphers goods.

I have at present one Cyphers Incubator and three Brooders,
and it is always a pleasure to operate them. I am also
pleased with your Poultry Foods. I have used your Chick, Devel-
oping, and Scratching Foods, and they have given good results.
EDW. McCARTEN.

Cyphe,

"PROVED MY WORDS TRUE"

Browns Flats. B. C, August 5, 1908.
i Inciibator Company: —
/ am pleased to report that the Incubator purchased
from your Company in 1905 is still giving splendid results.

A few weeks ago I met a man in the poultry business, who had
seen my letter in 1907 catalogue. He told me that the claim,
"chickens hatched in your Incubators, and reared in your Brood-
ers, are so thrifty that in less than three weeks two brooders are
required for the chickens taken from one incubator." was a "blow-
hard," but this spring he bought a Cyphers Incubator and
Brooder and proved my words true. |MRS. F. E. McKEEL.

"THE CHICKS WERE IN PILES"

London, Ont., Can., November 30, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

We are using one of your No. 1 Cyphers Incubators and must

say they are the best made. I have tried the , also

the , and two other well-known makes, but no one could

get my Cyphers away from me unless he pays more than I
could get a new one for. Mr. Gilbert. 40 Maple Street, this
city, has one of your machines; so has G. Wells of Pattersburg.
Mr. Wells' machine is the No. 3. and I saw it hatching last
Sunday. The chicks were in piles ! It would have made you
smile to see the bunch hatched out. There must have been
three hundred of them.

ADAMS BROS.. 127 Hamilton Road.

A Single Shipment of Cyphers Ostrich Incubators to Cape Colony. South Africa. The illustration, from photograph, shows the three
large funuture-size cars necessary for this shipment being loaded in front of Cyphers Company factory at Buffalo, N. Y.

SWITZERLAND

Gorbeyier. Sur Aigle, Vallee Du Rhone, July 14, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I have been busy preparing pens for the chicks hatched in
your incubators.

I am pleased to report that my No. 3 Standard Cyphers
Incubator gave me 287 chicks out of 289 fertile eggs, and my No. 1
Cyphers brought 98 chicks out of 110 untested eggs.

Your machines recommend themselves to all who see them.

Cyphers hatched chicks are strong and vigorous and
develop quickly, especially if reared in Cyphers Brooders.

Regulating and working a Cyphers Incubator is child's play
and for me I would never work or advise other incubators.

A. DEQUIS, Grand Hotel Victoria.

Cypher

EGYPT

Cyphers Incubator Company: — Alessandria. April 6, 1908.

The No. 0 Cyphers Incubator reached me in very good condi-
tion. I have pleasure to tell you that, so far as I can see. your
Incubator is perfect in every respect. The result of my first
hatch was 88 per cent. Am enclosing you order herewith for one
No, 3, 360-egg capacity Incubator, also one Cyphers Indoor
Brooder. J. MONTESINI.

SWEDEN

Cyphers Incubator Company: — Skebg, Kallby, June 5. 1909.

/ have nothing but praise to say of your Incubators, as
they have been doing excellent work» having hatched about 500
chicks this summer, besides some 50 ducklings, all strong and
healthy. The Style A Brooders have also done their duty
finely. AX. AHLSTRAND.

BELGIUM

Santhoven, Nr. Antwerp, June 23, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: — ■

I beg to inform you that my last hatch from your Standard
Cyphers Incubator has been 153 splendid, strong chickens from
200 eggs. I am especially well pleased considering that poultry-
men generally report that the hatches this year have not been
very successful at all on account of the adverse weather conditions
we have experienced during the hatching season.

Your incubators are really as represented. They are in fact
non-moisture machines; self-ventilating as claimed, and
the regulator does its work perfectly. I shall be glad to"
recommend the Cyphers Incubators freely to all my friends,
because they are first-class machines and do the work required of
them. G. HOEPFNER.

PORTO RICO

Cyphers Incubator Company:^ Manati, August 2, 1908.

As previously reported, my second hatch with your No. 1,
120-egg size Cyphers Incubator, gave me 125 chicks out of 127
eggs. I have just obtained a hatch of 123 chickens out of
125 tested eggs — one egg being infertile and in the other the germ
was dead. During the three hatches made thus far I have not
added moisture, relying entirely on the machine to do the work
well. After thoroughly learning what can be expected of a Cyphers
Incubator, / have no hesitation in recommending it to
any one desiring to buy a good hatching machine. The
same is true of my brother Ramon Velez. 1020 Ocean Ave., Brook-
lyn, N. Y., who keeps two large Cyphers constantly in operation.
B. VELEZ.

TURKEY

Constantinople,
May 8. 1906.
Cyphers Incubator
Company: —
Though I have
bought many ma-
chines from other

have never suc-
ceeded in obtain-
ing chickens from
85 per cent, of the
eggs, whereas

eggs. 1 am send-
ing you herewith
two photographs,
one showing a
hatch being taken
off from your
No. 2, 220-egg
size hatching
machine.

SHEREF ALI
JAFFER.

AUSTRIA

Incubator Company: — Kapfenberg, May 17, 1909.

I am very much satisfied with the Cyphers Incubator,
has hatched 350 chickens out of the 360 eggs which were pi
in. The apparatus in question does its work wonderfully well an
gives no trouble whatever.

ERSTE KAPFENBERGER DAMPFBRAUEREI.

RUSSIA

Gole, Province of Warsaw, February 3, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

The 120-egg Cyphers Incubator I bought of you last year
proved satisfactory in every respect, especially in the early hatches,

First Hatch:~FTom 125 eggs, 28 were mfertile on test; the
remaining eggs produced 64 lively chicks.

Second Hatch: — From 122 eggs. 31 were infertile on test;
the remaining eggs produced 88 lively chicks, with only three not
hatched.

The chicks so hatched were sound and vigorous and
grew excellently, exciting the admiration of the peasantry, many
of whom expressed a desire to buy an Incubator.

Yours very truly, M. KARCZEWSKA.

GERMANY

Cyphers Incubator Company: — Crefeld. May 14, 1906.

I wish to add my testimony to your list of successful users
of Cyphers Incubators and confirm that the Cyphers is in fact a
non-moisture and self -vent Hating incubator that does the
work claimed for it.

After experimenting since 1896 with several different makes
of incubators, I bought in 1904 a Cyphers, and I will admit that
the success in hatching and raising poultry dates from the time
I began using your incubators and brooders. I have now
averaged about 80 per cent, of 1,171 fertile eggs from December,
1905, to April. 1906. P. SWEERS.

ITALY

Gagnola, Milan, Italy, June 12, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

Permit me to say that your machines alone are perfect, well
built and work with great accuracy, thanks to your automatic
regulator. They are economical and solve the problem of profit-
able poultry raising. The above is my experience.

Referring to itiy work in connection with your machines
amongst high poultry authorities, it has given me much pleasure
to hear the satisfaction and approval which your excellent
machines have given. I myself repeat to you the same satisfaction
and approval. GIULIO BERTONI.

FRANCE

St. Aubin-Sur-Scie, France, June 13, 1908.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

Here at Ferme Douglas, your machines are giving entire
satisfaction. We are agreeably surprised with results of hatches,
from eggs laid by our Rouen ducks.

1 find that it makes no difference whether it is in U. S. A.,
England or France, the "Cyphers" is always equal to the occa-

It is now some eight years that I have been running the
Cyphers Incubators, and in my experience I have not been able
to find any other machine that will give as good results,

particularly with so little attention. We are operating 72 of your
large size machines. FERME DOUGLAS, Geo. Luck, Regisseur.

NORWAY

Tungenes Lighthouse, via Stavanger, August 18, 191C.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

N Have been very glad of my purchase of the 140-egg Cyphers
Incubator and the two Style A Brooders which I bought last
spring, as the result of the four hatches have been very surprising.
To get 341 chicks from 371 eggs seems to say that Cyphers is
the non plus ultra of Incubators. First hatch came March 16th,
with 56 chicks from 67 eggs; second hatch, 79 chicks from 92 eggs;
third hatch, 102 chicks from 105 eggs, and fourth hatch. 104 chicks
from 107 eggs. I lost two by accident and killed three weak ones,
but the rest are very strong and healthy chicks. Chicks of
the first hatch commenced to lay at four months old.

E. MASSEN, Lighthouse keeper.

Cyphe

HUNGARY

Incubator Company: — Temesviar, May 1, 1907.

We, the undersigned, have much pleasure in testifying that
the three Cyphers Incubators which the association possesses
have given the greatest satisfaction, namely, the splendid result
of from 82 to 96 per cent, hatches. The Cyphers machines have
enormous advantages over other incubators, in that they are
reliable, easy to handle, and for these reasons we can warmly
recommend them to everybody.

CARL ZASHURECZKY,
Manager of the Farmers' Association of Temesviar.
JOHN JUNGBERT. Secretary.

DENMARK

Vegen Station, June 12, 1908.
Cyphers Inciibalor Company: —

I am very pleased with the Cyphers Incubator. After sev-
eral years of misfortune with incubators 1 looked around for
a new and better one. Have found it in your machine. It hatches
80 per cent, of the fertile eggs. Have never used any moisture in
it. It ventilates perfectly and the regulator keeps the heat
exactly on the point it is set for. The Cyphers is the only
machine I can recommend to my friends, and I find pleasure in
doing this often. DITLEV M. FREIBERG.

SOUTH AFRICA

Seymour, Cape Colony, So. Africa, September 12, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

Am pleased to say that I have used your Hot-Air Cyphers
Incubators for several years now in hashing ostrich eggs, and
my success with the Cyphers is the one thing that warrants
my trusting valuable ostrich eggs in them. They are reliable
and do uniformly good work. A. G. RANDALL.

JAPAN

Yokohama, October 5, 1907.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

In January I had the opportunity to buy a brand new 120-egg
capacity Cyphers Incubator. It works very well indeed.

R. SCHUFFNER.

HAWAII

Haleiwa, Oahu, July 4, 1907.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

We recently purchased one of your 120-egg Incubators and
find it all that you claim. It may interest you to know that
before purchasing we looked over a poultry journal, picked out
IS of the principal advertisers, covering territory from Maine
to Washington State, and wrote to them asking their candid
opinion as to which was the best incubator. Every one of them

said "Cyphers." Some of them said "Cyphers or ," etc.,

but all said "Cyphers." You could not receive a greater
compliment. Trusting that our order is on the road, we remain,
F. J. CHURCH, Mgr. Haleiwa Hotel.

URUGUAY

Colonia, Uruguay, So. America, January 24, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I find the Cyphers Incubator and Brooder very satisfactory
indeed, and would hke to use nothing but Cyphers products if
possible to get them here. MRS. EUGENIA M. GALVIN.

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

San Vincente, F. C, Sud., November 6, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

For some time I have been intending to write to you to express
my appreciation of your Standard Cyphers Incubators and
Brooders. I have completely discarded clucking hens, and by so
doing have reduced the labor by one-half; also I have been enabled
to sell day-old chicks, which I should not have been able otherwise
to do.

The chicks hatched in the Cyphers Incubators come out
strong, grow up splendidly, and give no trouble, and I have
to bring up about 1,000 yearly.

This country is newly awakening to the necessity of scientific
fowl rearing. Hitherto the scrub hen has been thought sufficient;
tree roosting methods have prevailed; fowls have been fed with a
few grains of whole maize, and eggs are gathered when the middle-
man is expected. About 20 eggs a year, as the maximum, is the
production per hen. The result is that in winter our importation
of eggs from Italy and England is enormous. The Provincial
Government is taking the matter up now and probably there will
be some improvement. Faithfully youra,

ROBERT J. PURVES.

POLAND

Riga, June 12, 1906.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

At the Twelfth Poultry Exhibition of the Riga Club of Poultry
Raisers, February 2-6, 1905, your machines were exhibited by
your agent at Warsaw. As your apparatus was absolutely un-
known to us, it was decided to make a trial hatch with your
machine, and I was asked to run through this trial hatch as
Secretary of the Association and one that had experience in arti-
ficial incubation. I operated the machine according to your
instructions and obtained brilliant results. It was found that
your apparatus was very easy to operate and very practical. We
have made experiments with other makes of incubators and find
the Cyphers system in its construction and results superior.

In view of the advantages and practical construction of the
"Cyphers." the management of the Riga Poultry Club has decided
to award the Cyphers Incubator Company for their incubators the
large golden club medaL GEORGE LACKS, Secretary.

iws ill iiilil I i T f''

AUSTRALIA

Carisbrook Poultry Farm and Duck Ranch,
Cyphers Incubator Company: — Kalgoorlie, West Australia.

We used three of your No. 1, 120-egg capacity, Standard
Cyphers Incubators with marked success. As a result of their
good work we then bought ten of your 360-egg size, and you
will remember that a few months ago we placed another order
with you for ten more of the largest size, making 23 of your
Incubators we are now operating in our cellar. Needless to say,
considering our repeated orders, we have found your machines
all you represent them to be. They have done very satisfac-
tory work in our hands. Today we are operating the largest
poultry and duck range in Western Australia.

CARISBROOK POULTRY FARM,

Per A. A. Fuller.

HOLLAND

Utrecht, June 11, 1907.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

The four Cyphers Incubators I bought of yju five years
ago have given excellent results, and the three Style A Brooders
you sent me have proved a perfect success. The regulator on
the Cyphers is the best in existence; that is the reason beginners
can operate the Cyphers without trouble. I never saw another
incubator that was, in fact, a non-moisture machine. It is a
pleasure to me to recommend the Cyphers-r-^ machine that
has done so much for.Lhe poultry business. The Cyphers will be
the incubator used by all progressive poultrymen in Holland.

J. W. PLANTEN.

NEW ZEALAND

LINFIELD POULTRY FARM
Pah Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, October 25, 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I am using three of your 1905-Pattem Standard Cyphers
Incubators, also three other makes, but I must say the Cyphers
is undoubtedly the best machine I have operated. They
do not vary a fraction of a degree in keeping uniform temperature.
My hatches this season have been as follows: Four, 85 per cent.;
four, 90 per cent.; one, 95 per cent.; and one 98 per cent., which
ALBERT W. IRVINE.

marvelous.

MEXICO

Hacienda Robinson, Chihuahua, Hex., August 19, 1908.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

For about a year I have been using one of your Cyphers
Standard Incubators of 240-egg capacity, also two of the Cyphers
Three-Apartment Outdoor Brooders and Colony Coops which I
purchased from you, and I am well pleased with the results
obtained. I think the self-regulating devices the best and most
accurate on the market, and I cheerfully recommend the Cyphers
machines to any one wanting good reliable artificial hatchers
and brooders. , E. S, PLUMB.

CUBA

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Santiago, de las Vegas Cuba, November 26, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I am pleased to let you know that we are using now two of
your Incubators that were purchased by the former chief of
this department, from which Incubators we have obtained very
satisfactory results.

Perhaps in a near future we will be able to purchase some new
incubators, and then I will be pleased to correspond with your
house.- DR. EMILIO L. LUACES,

Chief Department Animal Industry.

Highly Endorsed In British Isles

"THERE WAS NOT THE LEAST TROUBLE"

Dublin, Ire.. June 26. 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

The largest hatch I got from the Standard Cyphers Incubator
purchased from you last April was over 90 per cent. The 8elf-
ventilating and regulator arrangements on the Cyphers
are a great comfort to the operator.

From the day the eggs were put in until the chickens came
out there was not the least trouble except, necessarily, the oiling
and cleaning of the lamp once a day and airing the eggs.

N. CUSACK.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND'S POULTRY
YARDS

Welbeck Abbey, Worksop. Eng.. October 4, 1909.
Cyphers Incubator Company: — •

After twenty years' experience with various machines, both
hot water and hot air, / have no hesitation in saying that your
machines are by far the best placed before the public. In
my opinion the self-supplied moisture and the automatic ventila-
tion combined with the accurate regulation is all that could be
desired. The incubators I have of yours were bought second-
hand, which have worked splendidly, never varying scarcely a
degree right through the season. The average right through
the season works out about 80 per cent.

W. BUSH.
Head Poultryman to His Grace. The Duke of Portland.

EARL OF ROSEBERY'S POULTRY YARDS

East Craigie. Cramond Bridge, near Edinburgh. N. B..

Scot.. June IS. 1908.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

I have much pleasure in informing you that I am delighted
with the Standard Cyphers Incubator. 140-egg size. I got from
you in the beginning of the season. The results have been most
satisfactory, and far above my other machines. My best
hatch was 112 chicks out of 120 fertile eggs, and about 88 per cent,
of the season's hatch. The Standard Cyphers Incubator is a non-
moisture machine, self-regulating, and the regulator is simply
perfect, as it never varies a degree either in hot or cold weather.
Any novice could manipulate the Standard Cyphers. / can
thoroughly recommend any one who is going in for a new
incubator to get a Standard Cyphers and I am sure they
will never regret it.

JOHN P. HARLE. Poultry Mgr.

WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH JUDGE AND
POULTRY EXPERT

WILLIAM H. COOK
Poultry Judge. Breeder. Exhibitor and Expert

St. Paul's Cray, Kent, Eng., July 20. 1908.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

With reference to the three large Standard Cyphers Incuba-
tors purchased from you and which I have had working on my
farm for nearly two seasons — I have pleasure in stating that
they have in every way given me entire satisfaction, always being
reliable and hatching out strong chickens, no matter how severe
the weather might be. I consider the Standard Cyphers Incubator
the best hot-air incubator obtainable.

WILLIAM H. COOK.

Photograph sent to us by Gertrude Linche Walther, Cleve-
land, Herts, Eng., who under date of June 17, 1910, says: "I enclose
picture of hatch. We have been most successful both in hatching
with Cyphers Incubator and in raising the chicks. Are delighted
with machine; it is so little trouble, and is simple to work."

i^§

:-Made Brooder Equipped with a
Cyphers Adaptable Hover.

SUCCESSFUL HATCHES OF DUCK EGGS

Fordingbridge, Hants, Eng., June 26, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

We can freely recommend the Standard Cyphers Incubator
to our friends, as we are quite satisfied with it. My largest
tiatch of ducks has been 120 from ISO eggs, and we have
averaged 65 per cent, for the season. The ventilation in the
Cyphers Incubator is excellent. We have run our hatches with
the drop-board right down. I enclose a photograph of the 120
hatch of ducks round one of your Style B Outdoor Brooders.
W. H. CROWDV.

"USING 25 MACHINES OF VARIOUS SIZES IN OUR
DAY-OLD CHICK TRADE"

Bedfont. Feltham. Middlesex. Eng.. August 20. 1910.
Cyphers Incubator Company:—

Since writing you in August, 1906, we have had further
grand results with incubators of your manufacture, and
take this opportunity to let you know we are still highly satisfied.
We have found the Cyphers Incubators to hatch well, and to
time in all seasons. We can thoroughly recommend them to any
one wanting a good business machine, we ourselves using 25 of
various sizes in our day-old chick trade.

hatching that pipped, and this without any applied moisture, clearly
demonstrating the Cyphers to be a non-moisture machine and
thus doing away with all complications and trouble that the
operator gets with a moisture machine.

BENNETT BROS.

EUROPE'S FOREMOST POULTRY AUTHORITY

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, READING, ENGLAND
College Poultry Farm, Theale,

Theale, Berks, Eng., March 26, 1906.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

During the past season we have given very careful tests to
the 1906-pattem Standard Cyphers Incubator, and have found
the improvements made in this machine, as compared with
the previous pattern, very excellent indeed. Some of these
add greatly to the faciUty in working the machine, and also
minimize labor. The drawers into which the chicks drop after
hatching are a very great convenience, and we believe that the
greater depth in the machine thus secured is advantageous in other
ways. The regulation of the machine has been excellent in
every way. During the test of the 360-egg machine we found
that it only varied about one degree. After several hatches
we have therefore pleasure in saying that this machine has
worked excellently. EDWARD BROWN.

Lecturer on Aviculture.

HARPER-ADAMS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Newport, Salop, Eng., July 16, 1911.
Cyphers Incubator Company: —

During the past season I have given the Latest-Pattern
Standard Cyphers Incubator very careful tests, and have found
it very simple and economical to work. The regulator has
worked splendidly, not varying more than one degree during the
six times it has been used. All the chicks hatched came out
healthy and strong, and have grown well since. I can
freely recommend the Cyphers as a self-ventilating, non-moisture
machine. F. W. RHODES,

Lecturer on Poultry Keeping.

V. CLEMENT CO,
Bl/r FAIO

COMPLETE INDEX

.151

Bands, Leg 164-165

Beef Scrap 125

Blue-Priot Plans for Poultry Buildings 1 J6

Bone Cutters 168

Book of Directions 78

Boolcs. Cyphers Series 176-179

Book, "Cyphers System of Hot Water Brooding" . 106

Boston Branch, Views of 24

Boston Dry Food Hopper 159

Boxes, Grit and Shell 160

Boxes, Paper Egt; 163

Branch Views 22-33

New York Branch 22

Boston Branch 24

Chicago Branch 26

Kansas City Branch 28

Oakland (Pacific Coast) Branch 30

London (European) Branch 32

Brooders, Electric 91

Brooder Stove, Cyphers Safety 155

Brooder Stove, Insulated 155

Brooders, Fircless 107

Brooders, The Paradise 84-90

Brooders, Price List of 79

Brooders, Style A, Outdoor 61-62

Brooders, Style B, Outdoor 63-64

Brooders, Style C, Outdoor 65-66

Brooders, Stvh D, Indoor 67

Brooders, Weights 79

Brooding, Ellis Plan of 74-75

Brooding House Heaters 105

Brooding Systems, Hot Water 103-106

Building Paper 171

Chapter I— "How to Get Twice as Many
Eggs from the same Nnmber of Hens"

Chapter II— "The 200-EggPer Year Hen-
How to Produce Her"

Chapter III — "Large-size I Eggs in Demand
as well as Lots of Them"

Chapter IV— "Mating and Feeding Fowls to
get Fertile Eggs"

Chapter V — "Selection and Care of Eggs for
Successful Hatcliing"

Chapter VI — "Care of Fowls and Chicks with
the Least Amount of Work"

Chapter VII —"How to Brood Chicks
Properly at Least Cost"

Chapter VIII— "Premium-Price Table Poul-
try— How to Produce It"

Caponizing Instruments

Charcoal, Nodi

Chicago Branch, Views of

Chick Food, Cyphers

Chick Servers, Sanitary

Chick Shelters, Cyphers

Clover Cutters

142-143
174-175
180-181
193-194
210-217

Coop, Cyphers I

Delphos Non-Overflow Oil Can

Developing Food, Cyphers

Directions for Operating Incubators. .

E^e Bo\es Paper

...163

Egg Cabinets, Revoiving.'.' '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.

...162

Egg Cases for Market Eggs

...162

Egg Food, Full-NcFt

...151

Egg Package, Eureka

...162

Egg Preservative, Save-Al

... 150

Egg Tester, Cyphers Practical

. .153

Egg Tester, Cyphers X-Ray

...153

Egg Trays, Pedigree

...158

Eggs, Porcelian Nest

...167

Eggs, Ovinapthol Nest

... 146

Eggs, Price List of

... 141

Electric Incubating and Brooding Devices

.91-96

Electric Brooder

.93-94

Electric Regulator

. . , 105

Electrobators

Electrobatof Pedigree Egg Tray

.'..158

Electrohen

...86

Electrohover

....93

Electroplanes

...03

Ellis Plan of Brooding

.74-75

Employment Bureau

...79

Extras, Incubator and Brooder

...154

Factory Facilities

..17-21

Factory, Views of 2, 36, 38

40. 144

Farm, Cyphers Company Poultry

130-141

Fattening Mash, Cyphers

...121

Fencing, Wire

.171

Fertile Egg Mash, Cyphe]

Fireless Brooders

Flame Reducer

Fly Pest. Anti-.

and Water Holders, Cyphers Comb

Food Mill, Cyphers, View of

Fountains, Cyphers Keep-Clean Wall, .
Fountains, Cyphers Separable Drinking.

Freight Rates

Full-Nest Egg Food

Fumigating Candles

Gape Worm Extractor

Gas Burners. Combination Blue-Flame. .

Grinding Mill, Tennessee

Grist Mill, Balance Wheel

Grit, Cvphers Complete

Grit and Shell Box

Guaranty for 1912

Hatching Chickens by Electricity

Heaters, Brooding House

Hoppers, Boston Dry Food

Hoppers, Cyphers Dry Food

House, Cyphers Colony

House, Cyphers Shed Roof

Hovers, Cyphers Standard Adaptable. . .
Hover, Hyigenic Cradle-Back

Incubators, Cyphers Electric

Incubators, Cyphers Mammoth

Incubators, Standard Cyphers

Incubators, Standard Cyphers, Prices of.

Labels, Underwriters

Lamp Enclosure, Cyphers Safety

Laying Mash, Cyphers

Leg Bands

Library, Cyphers Poultry

Lice Paint, Cyphers

Lice Powder, Cyphers

London Branch, Views of

Mammoth Incubators

Markers, Poultry

Medical and Surgical Case, Cyphers Poult;

I Medical Case, Cyphers

■ Mill, Cyphers Poultry Food, Views oF. . . .
; Moisture Device, Cyphers

Napcreol, Disinfectant, Cyphers

NestEsgs

Nests, Wire

New York Branch, Views of

Nodi Charcoal

Oakland Branch, Views of

! Oil Can, Delphos Non-Overflow

Ovinapthol Nest Eggs

Oyster Shell, Crushed

Paper, Building

' Pedigree Egg Trays

Perch Support, Lice Proof

i Personal Message from President

Pigeon Food, Cyphers

Pigeon Supplies

Plans for Poultry Buildings

Poultry Farm, Cyphers

Poultry Markers

Poultry Papers, Price List of

Poultry Instruction in Country Schools. .

Poultry Instructors, Portraits of

Poultry, Price List of

Powder Gun, Cyphers

I Registration Department for Poultrymen.

i Remedial Ointment, Cyphers

I Remedy No. 4 for Diarrhoea

I Remodeling Outfit, Cyphers Safety

: Roofing

I Root Cutters

j Roup Cure, Cyphers

Salt Cat for Pigeons

Save-Al Egg Preservative

Scratchins; Food. Cyphers

, Servers, Sanitary Chick

Shed Roof House, Cyphers

Shell Mill, Dry Bone and

I Shipping Boxes for Day-Old Chicks

! Shipping Coop. Cyphers

I Spray Pumps

■ Sulphur Fumigating Candles, Cyphers..

j Supplies, Standard Poultrv

j Surgical Case, Cyphers Poultry

Thermometer Device, C-E-Z

I Thermometers. Incubator or Brooder.
Thermostat. Prices of

Vernum, Frank — Prize Contest

Water-Proof Slieeting

TESTIMONIALS

Government Poultry Work, Reports of 181

Alberta Deuartment of Agriculture

California Polytechnic School

Canada Central Experimental Farm

Colorado State Agricultural College

Connecticut Agricultural College

Cornell University

Hatch Experimental Station

Iowa State College t

Kansas State Agricultural College

Mac Donald College

Maine University

Maryland Agricultural College

Michigan Agricultural College

Minnesota University

Missouri Poultry Experiment Station

Mississippi Agricultural Experunent Station..

Montana Agricultural College

North Carolina Experiment Station

Ontario Agricultural College

Rhode Island College of Agriculture

South Carolina Experiment Station

South Dakota Agricultural College

Tennessee University

Utah Experiment Static

Large Practical Poultry Plants

Austin, C. M. & Co., Mansfield, Mass

Babcock Poultry Farm, Fredonia, N. Y. . ,

Bear Creek Farm, Denver, Colo

Bentley Ostrich Farm, San Diego. Cal. . .
California Chicken Co., Ma>-field, Cal, , .

Conejo Farms, Huntington, N Y

Conyers Manor, Greenwich, Conn ,

Cunningham, E. W., Exeter, N. H

Curtiss Farm, West Norwall, Mass

Curtiss, W. R. & Co., Ransomville, N. Y.l

Easling, N. P., Pekin, 111

Ellis, R. P., Brooklyn, N.Y

Elm Poultrv Farm, Mansfield, Mass

Fish, P. C. Kansas Citv, Mo

Fishel, U. R., Hope, Ind

Flewwellmg, C, Petaluma. Cal

Hallock. A. J., Speonk, N. Y

Hartman Stock Farm. Columbus, Ohio. . .

Inwood Farms, Deal Beach, N. J

Kaufman's Farm, Burlinetun, Mass

Keith, F. S., Eastnn, Mass

Kellerstrass. Ernest, Kansas Citv, Mo

La Grange Farm, La Grange, 111

Lange, Ernest, Moriches, N.Y

Loveland, R. H., Lamar, Pa

Maplewood Farm, Milburn. N.J

McCune, Fred H., Ottawa. Kas

Mertsheimer, L. L., Pleasant Hill, Mo

Midlothian Farms. Tinley Park. Ill

Midwav Poultry Yards, Santa Cruz, Cal..

Mills & Gold. L. Preakness. N. J

Monmouth Farms. Frcneau, N. .T

Owen Farms, Vineyard Haven, Mass

Oxford Poultry Farm. Oxford, Pa

Pearce & Mack Farm, Sparks, Nrv

Park Rid-e Farm, Park Ridge, HI

Pcconic Farm, Rivorhcad, L. I., N. Y

Rankin, James, So. Easton. Mass

Rowe Poultry Farm. Groton, Mass

Smith. Henry D., Rorkland, Mass

Spaulding Poultry Farm, Lvons. Ill

Spraul. Fred P., Garnett, Kas

Strafford Farm, Strafford, Pa

Thomas, W. R.. Petaluma. Cal

Thompson. C- F.. Lynnfield Center, Mass.

Throop, Theo., Enterprise, Fia

Trump, C. E., Polo, 111

Twining, S. B. and E. W., Yardley, Pa, , .
Waukesha Egg Farm. Waukesha. Wis. . . .

Weber Bros.. Wrentham, Mass

Wilson Poultry Farm, Hollis. N. H. . .
Yardley Duck Farm. Yardley, Pa.

Women Successful with Poultry