Historic, archived document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. * AMERICANVol. VI. JULY, 1915 No. IX. POULTRYWORLD FIRST PRIZE SILVER " FJPS TPRIZE PUL LET CAMPINE COCKEREL ^^*e+aM&&i2Z*m™ AND HEMFROM FIRST PRIZEP£H HOMESTEAD CAMP1NE FARM WAYLAND MASS- BOSTOIY SHOW WINNERS xJAN l9IS- American Poultry Publishing Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 5 Cents a Copy; 50 Cents a Year. Limited number of yearling breeders for sale. CAMPINES Now is the time to buy them right. AND SILVER Manhattan Farms, Geo. E. Noeth, Owner, Brighton, GOLDEN N. Y. COME TO HEADQUARTERS IF YOU WANT THE BEST IN DARK CORNISH Eggs from six unrivaled pens for the 1915 breeding season. Exhibition stock for sale at all times. STAMP BRINGS MATING LIST. IDEAL DARK CORNISH YARDS, DR. W. A. LOW, Prop., CATONSVILLE, MD. Mount Pleasant Farm Winners at Chicago, St. Louis, Des Moines, Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, and in the hands of our customers S.C. White Leghorns in every State of the Union. Our latest winnings are 4 firsts, 4 seconds, 2 thirds, Eggs for Hatching and fourths, two silver cups, silver medal, Diploma, Special for best display and for best Red in show. Day Old Chicks No Rose Comb Red breeder in the world has made greater winnings for a period of eight years than we SEND FOR FREE BOOKLET have. We have the blood lines, large long bodied birds of grand color. Write today for mating list, the finest matings and Mount Pleasant Farm egg prices most reasonable. One man from a big show writes: "Your strain has been winning here for MOUNT POCONO, PA. years, I want some of your eggs." D. W. RICH Box W MT. PLEASANT, IOWA CHAMPION BUFF WYANDOTTES At the great Mid-West Chicago, Coliseum show, December 1914. Won five times as many first prizes as all competitors combined. Every special offered. Best shaped male, best colored male. Best shaped female, best colored female. Best Display. Champion Buff Wyandottes are America's great general purpose fowl and the greatest blue ribbon winners in existence. Champions are wonderful egg machines. Our first pullet Madison Square Garden and Detroit 1914 laid 273 eggs in one year. Her mother laid 260 eggs and a full sister 264 eggs in one year. Those wishing to introduce new blood and to improve the exhibition and egg laying qualities of their flock, should send for our special list. BESUDEN BROS., R. W. Sturtevant, Mgr., Box 14-W, Evanston Sta., CINCINNATI, OHIO Does This Look Good To You? $3.00 Hen That Lays $21.27 in Eggs in One Year This is Why There is Such an Increasing Demand for My Anconas SHEPPARD'S FAMOUS ANCONAS Have won first at the world's greatest shows, including London, England, Cleveland and Madison Square Garden, N. Y. 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Send for Handsome New Catalog and Mating List, containing full page color plate showing my first prize buff orpington cockerel at Madison Square Garden, December 1913 in natural colors. Is free for the asking. HUGH A. ROSE, Frank Conway, Mgr. Box A- FONTHILL, ONT., CANADA YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO TRUST TO LUCK! Success in poultry raising depends upon your knowledge of tbe business. Not in any one department but a general understanding of care and management from the egg to the mature bird. Start right by hatching and raising your chicks properly. The CHICK BOOK Tells you how. It is a book of thorough and reliable instruction on rearing chicks, both by natural and artificial means. The experience of successful poultry raisers is given, and trustworthy information and advice are furnished on all problems connected with the rearing, developing and fattening of chickens 80 PAGES. 9x12 INCHES NOTE SOME OF THE CONTENTS OF LATEST EDITION Breeding: Constitutional Vigor—Line Breeding.