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4 POULTRY CULTURE August, 191.1. SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS Philadelphia, Cleveland and Pittsburg champions, A few settings of eggs at half price after June 1, 1913. Young stock for sale. Pend for free Illustrated catalogue. Pohcnlcy Height Poultry Farm, J20i Commonwealth Plttfthurgli, Penn M.

G. Scudder, Central City, tells me that he Is going to parude his White Orpingtons at Kansas greatest Bhow next winter. I am glad he Is coming Into our good stute to rub elbows with those other good White Orpington breeders whoso birds show up promptly on time each year at KunsuB best shows. I tut what I wunt now, Is for some one to tell me which will be Kansas greatest show. Here Is a chance for your Kansas show secretaries to tell Just how big and great your show Is going to be next winter.

I will be glad to pass the Information on to our good Nebraska friend and all others Interested. REDS ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND yearling breeders for sale. Good males fit to show at dean up prices. See what $10 will get for you. Some for $5.

Females $2.50 to $5.00 ANNESLEY M. ANDERSON, MORTON, PA BLOYDS Ringlet Barred Plymouth Rocks are wlnnern at such leading shows as Kansas City, Mo. Leavenworth, Kan. '100 fine breeders, Including many of my winners, for sale at bargain prlees to make room for young stock. KB.

HI.OY1), Spruce and Grand I.1CA VKNWOKT1I, KANSAS. PET STOCK CAVHiS, (GUINEA PIGS), VARIETIES UK RABBITS AND IIARES, PIGEONS. ETC. 10 years a breeder, importer and exhibitor. No btter quality in the West.

My prlees are you want. Enclose stamp a post-card Is only V. PAG SAUNA, KANSAS. to bantams If the breeders were Interested enough to write some articles for us. Incidentally, I mentioned that among our thousands of subscribers there were a large number of peoplo who surely would buy bantams if the breeders would advertise them with us.

A. T. Modlln, Dallas, is one of the bantam men I wrote to. Mr. Modlln promptly sent me a 17-word classified ad and a two-inch display for our June issue.

On June 19 Mr. Modlln wrote us follows: We are getting inquiries from the ad from all parts of the country. This is another link in the chain of evidence. Good letters like those from Mr. Harrison and Mr.

Modlln keep coming to my desk right along. We have enough of these good reports from pleased advertisers to fill a whole lot of spajee in Poultry Culture, but I am sure you folks who have poultry to sell do not need uny more proof than what I have already given you to show that Poultry Culture pays Its advertisers. But if you want more proof Just let me know and I will gladly furnish it. The season for selling breeding stock for next years use and exhibition birds for the coming show season is almost upon us. The wise poultry breeders will start their ads next month so as to make sure of getting their share of the trade from the thousands of Poultry Culture subscribers.

All requests for rates and information about advertising in Poultry Culture will be given prompt attention. I hope that our new cover design will meet with the approval of all Poultry Culture readers. Personally, I think it is a great Improvement over the old one and that it adds very much to the appearance of our paper. The next time you write to Poultry Culture let us know tiow you like this new cover, and also make any suggestions which you think would help to make Poultry Culture a jetter poultry paper and of greater value to its subscribers and advertisers. what and tell Hcud of me exactly Stock.

right, a Joke. Write 2,000 White Indian Runners THE LAST WORD IN EGG MACHINES Air. Scudder views the poultry situation this way: Believing that this year will bo a very profitable year for the fancy breeder, as the farmer Is selling his poultry short because of the price, commercially, I am trying to raise an extra amount of good breeding stock, and think that Is the thing for all breeders to do. Ilats off to L. II.

Wlble of Chanute, Kan. In ten months time Mr. Wlble has secured 42 new Kansas members to the American Poultry Association. A man who does things like that is worthy of honors at the hands of the association. Will some one please pass the pie? An unsigned article, mailed at Cherokee, has reached my desk.

The article Is headed, Line Breeding As a Means to Improve Your Stock. Poultry Culture is not printing the article, because alter reading It I am convinced that the of the article Is not fully posted regarding the subject he or she wanted to discuss. For instance, one paragraph reads: Line breeding is a graded way to Improve the quantity and quality of your poultry to an extent of advantage over that of your neighbor who raises the mixture. I cant see It that way. Can you? The first and second prize pens at Kansas City are In our yards.

A few choice breeders at $8 per trio while they last. Splendid drakes $3 each. HARRISON FARM, Box 55, HICKMAN MILLS, MO. Bingers Buffalo Strain Buff Orpingtons are better than ever this year. Great big cockerels and pullets that are fine in shape and color.

We are ready to quote prices on young stock for either exhibition or breeding. Some gplendid bargains in this years breeding stock. G. II. B1NGEU, JOfh and Fruzler, TOPEKA, KAN.

Partridge Wyandottes Winners at the leading shows. Hardy, quick to mature and Great Winter Layers. Attractive prices on high class breeding stock. Write for information regarding valuable cash prizes offered our customers at the Ohio, Illinois and New York State Fairs. SHEFFIELD FARM, H.

B. Hark, Mgr. Poultry GLENDALE, OHIO One woman says that when her chickens are all comfortably housed for the night, she places a basin of water in the house so If the hens desire a drink through the night they may have it. I sometimes get thirsty In the night and get up, and run against the door or fall over a chair In my effort to get a drink, but Ill be hanged if I believe any of my chickens get off the roost and wander around in the dark trying to find the water pan. Harrisons Laying Strain Rhode Island Reds (S.

Cockerels, pullets or pens. Choice birds ready for shipment. Send for egg record. Winter layers. Prices reasonable.

Satisfaction guaranteed. ROBERT A. HARRISON, DAVID CITY, NEBRASKA Bargain Sale of Breeders single comb RHODE ISLAND REDS cm We are now offering some great bargains in breeding stock at less than half price. Here Is a great opportunity to get some good stock at bargain prices. Eggs at one-half price the rest of the season.

Send for free mating list. We will have young stock ready to win for you at the fall fairs. Our Beautiful Catalog of 64 pages, printed In three colors, contains much valuable Information, sent for 20 cents in cash or stamps. BUSCHMANN PIERCE RED FARMS, BOX 38, CARMEL, INDIANA Same woman says: Chicken raising is very consequence and it also affords great ecstasy to complete the necessity of a country life. Maybe so, maybe so.

What do you think? Same woman again speaks: First, build a house containing three partitions. In the first unoccupied space, keep the hens that are laying; in second, keep the hens that are setting; in the third room, keep the little chickens, thus giving them ample room and plenty of freedom. New, heres a problem. If there are three partitions in the house, that makes four rooms. No provision made for filling the fourth room.

Lets see. If the first space Is unoccupied, it cant be filled up with hens, so they must be kept in the fourth space. No, it says they are in the first space. Now, I have it the hens that are laying are in the first space, so it must be that the fourth space, which was not mentioned, is for the hens that are not laying. But that first space is unoccupied.

pshaw! I cant figure it. Lets forget the hens and see about the little chickens. They are in the third space which gives them ample room and plenty of freedom. How do I know? Maybe its a small space and there are lots of chicks. That wouldnt mean much room and freedom.

I give up. Trying to- figure this out is too much like trying to catch a flea you think you have him, but you dont. Same woman still talking: I think it is a good policy, where one intends to make chickens pay, to sell them twice a year. Now, why couldnt I have thought of that? I have felt pretty good over selling my chickens once and that for all time, too. But to sell them twice a year thats going some! Wonder how she gets them back after selling them the first time.

Washburn College is located right in the southwest corner of Topeka. On west of the college grounds is quite a settlement of people, most of whom have business or employment in Topeka. These people have all the way from an ordinary city lot to several acres of ground, and a good many of them live outside of the city just so they can have a garden and raise chickens. A few years ago Chas. S.

Luengene bought five acres out that way. He built a cozy little house for limself and wife. Then he built a poultry house, and he has been building poultry houses on his place ever since. Each year he needs more house room to take care of the additional breeding stock he finds he must keep in order to meet the demands of his growing business. Charleys place is on a high piece of ground overlooking the surrounding country for miles on all sides.

For this reason the place Is called- Overlook Farm. This little farm Is the home of a fine flock of Orpingtons Buff, Black and White. The original stock consisted only of Buffs, but later the Black and White varieties were added. The three varieties, however require too much time, and as Charley is employed every day in Topeka he cannot successfully handle more than one variety. Mrs.

Luengene is very fond of buff color, therefore it has been decided to dispose of all the Blacks and Whites. The middle of July I drove out to Overlook Farm and spent a couple of hours look-ng over the stock. There are upwards of 300 young birds on the place. I handled a number of very promising chicks, some of which will be on exhibition at the fairs this fall. Mrs.

Luengene devotes a great deal of time to the young which, no doubt, accounts for the splendid condition of all the birds. This years crop of youngsters is the best lot of birds that las ever been grown on Overlook Farm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Luengene are to be congratulated on the advancement they are making each year in breeding good Orpingtons, and next year with only the Buff Orpingtons they will surely make still greater progress with this one variety.

On the way out to Overlook Farm I stopped at Thos. Owens home and talked chicken and State Poultry association affairs for half an hour. Mr. Owen has a fine home and an ideal place for poultry. By the time this issue of Poultry Culture is in the hands of its readers, I will 3e at the American Poultry Association convention at Atlantic City, New While in the East I will visit a number of places and if I find out anything of nterest to western poultry breeders, I will tell about it In Poultry Culture next month.

Duff Wyandotte Breeders. Every Buff Wyandotte breeder should ae a member of the American Buff Wyandotte Club. We elect our officers and decide place of meetings by mail vote, so that every member has an equal voice in club affairs. One dollar will pay your membership fee and we will credit you with a paid up membership to Octo-aer 1, 1914. Send for application blanks and any other information you may de-sirp.

J. E. Willmarth, Amityville, N. Y. You Can Win With Ease those coveted prizes at your fall and winter shows If you will give us your order.

Never have we been in as good position to furnish you winners as we are this season and at prices you can afford to pay. U. R. FISHELS WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS have won the best prizes at 22 LARGEST SHOWS and 5 EXPOSITIONS and are conceded to be THE BEST IN. THE WOULD.

Write me your wants, please, and let me quote you prices. SELECTED BREEDERS, EXHIBITION AND UTILITY FOWLS Remember, when you buy Fishels White Plymouth Rocks, you secure blood lines no other breeder can give you. Our SPECIAL SALE LIST IS FREE and contains some bargains you cannot well afford to miss. U. R.

FISHEL, Box 50 Hope, Indiana The Same Amount Of Feed hi Raise Each DOUBLE PRICES On the market capons bring double price and are cheaper and easier to raise; they require less feed and less care. Caponizing is easy and soon learned. FILLING CAPON SET Will enable you to caponize all your young cockerels and add greatly to your poultry profits. Sent prepaid, with Easy-To-Use directions, on receipt of $2.50. Any one can do it.

You can make money caponizing for Others. Write to-day for our booklet on Caponizing. Its Free. G. P.

PILLING SON CO. 23rd and Arch Streets Philadelphia. Pa. Here is one right hot from the griddle: The same mail that brought my July copy of Poultry Culture also brought two Inquiries for stock and eggs, and the next mail two more, and all referred to my ad in that issue of Poultry Culture. Me for you! The above was written to me on July 12 by A.

O. Harrison, breeder of White Runner ducks, Hickman Mills, Mo. This is simply another link in the chain of evidence that I have been submitting regarding Poultry Culture as a good advertising medium. Why should you worry over how you are going to find buyers for your stock when a little advertising in Poultry Culture will do the business? Speaking about advertising. In May I wrote a number of letters to breeders of bantams and told them that Poultry Culture would devote some of its space When Answering Advertisements Always Mention Poultry Culture..