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Page Some General Advice Pay no attention to the "William Tells" who are always ready and anx ious to show you how you ought to go about it. There are thousands of them; no community is so small as to be without its specimen of this kind of poultry pest. If you are puzzled about anything in the course of business, ask the breeder from whom you pur chased your stock about it. Or else go to some one who is making a suc cess of poultry raising, and you will never find any of the pests referred to in the ranks of the successful. The man who is making a success of his business never has time to go around butting into his neighbor's affairs; nor is he so constituted anyway. You can only cu^ down the work to a certain point, no' matter how well you systematize your business. There is a certain amount of work that must be done; and no man can idle around much and make a success of poultry raising. Get the habit of fixing things as soon as they need fixing. The "to morrow" habit is the worst one that a poultry raiser can acquire and it has bankrupted lots of them. Don't waste any time over sick chickens. Leave that to your grand mother, if you have one. Your game is to keep the fowls free from disease. There is no excuse for sickness of any kind getting a start in a flock. Of course some fowl will occasionally overeat and get crop bound, or develop liver trouble, or the strain of heavy laying may result in ovarian trouble. These are things you can't help and the axe is the only remedy. But there is no reason in the world why roup, the most dreaded disease of all, should ever get started in a flock that is properly cared for; or scaly leg and all the rest of the filth or contagious V /^^■•v Shafts to .a^K L^JMp/ffJstik p°le ai"i p°ie t° 4s^P<^&mm shafts —no effort! l'F!!iWb"i tißf no tools; no rattle; no |H rink with N^^"™® Fcrnald X^//// Quick-Shifts V They fit any pole or shaft- I eye and any lniKKy. All —MM . . V»«««s»> metal. put them on your % hiiKKy; get them (in the m^ bnKKy yon hny. «;.<•. a pair—all hard- J^KK ■L ware, carriage and harness dealers, MKm ■■k. or «."><•. li tun us. ■B^^ Fernald Mfg. Co., Inc. wStPmifc. NorthE»«t.p«. $20 Say Earning Capacity Will Pay for Itself in Less Than Three Weeks. Operated by One Man. Neat, Compact, Sim- a MVZ"{«*tTtf> a-s?4l«a UTaAjlc^ pie, Strong, Light, I JjLlllg OI ifle ¥▼ Utftl3 Durable I .^^Bbip^bV w^ dd^ The 4 h. p. Waterloo ilmw\ MJt?3kfm tSS^Sk^W Boy engine ia a separ- 1 #WwJf 1 *"^ ate unit. Can be re-iU. ,j^ I IJ^R \ Will saw 20 to 40 cords of moved at M I Tif^BEß f jjj^^V \wood per day at a cost and put to^^^^^iß^jlßE^liyl,, lM\^.\ "'' till or down. Costs a liiiu(li'U(lV| »HRnnHWHB| \\\ 15 per cen* '''MS an übus. j^B^^Bnl^^^3is^?^lß^\i^» V^ other inakeH not as j^fiiv S ill I.^W^^fc. KOO(^ There's more 9^j| » 1^ JffWlW^ you ought to know. W 31 Hwi^t^Ba! •-' BBft. ()ur ca*a^°B c"v- Hj .* I Hn &^t;uii» complete and J!^^^^l^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >.■■ ■■ ■ '^H^^B BY prioos . sont ■■■■■■■IBDHSHHBHbIHSS§SH9B!!!S9HbV' l '^cc with tes- from B^B^"^^^^enthußiaßtic users. Ask For Catalog A 5 Reierson Machinery Co. PO O R R TL e A O N N D SOLE MANUFACTURERS [The Ranch^ diseases. The time that some people spend performing surgical operations or giving medical treatment to a single fowl, would, if sensibly employed, keep a good sized flock of chickens in a healthy condition and prevent any dis ease from getting a foothold. The beginner in the poultry business is often advised to keep the breed he likes the best, as his success will be greater with that breed. This advice is generally given by writers in the poultry papers who are, all too fre quently, not conversant with the prac tical side of the business. It is poor advice to follow. The breed kept should be that which will pay the poultry raiser the most money and any person who has a fondness for chickens of any kind will like a breed that pays a good profit. In the Pacific Northwest, where much market poultry is imported from the mid-West corn belt, the "egg breeds" are by far the most profitable and the Leghorn is superior to all oth ers of this type. Eggs can be produced at a splendid profit here, but there is little money in raising poultry for the market. Of all the Leghorn varieties the White Leghorn is the best known, the best bred, and out-numbers all other varieties many times over. Except in the New England states, all the great egg farms of the country are stocked with this variety of fowl. Out-num bered in the show rooms by many oth er varieties, it comprises a great ma jority of all the domestic fowls in the United States. From Denmark, a lit tle country in Europe no larger than some Washington counties, where this variety alone is kept, $8,500,000 worth of eggs were exported in 1909. The White Leghorn is much less nervous than the Brown Leghorn, easier to breed true to color, and lays a much larger egg, in fact, the eggs of the White Leghorn exceed is size those of all other breeds and varieties, except certain strains of Brahmas and Minor cas. Give the breeder a fair chance. It is hardly fair to blame him if the fowls hatched very late one year do not make good breeders the next season, or if male and females of the same hatch are bred together with poor results. Then, too, there is a great difference NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY The Pioneer and Scenic Line OPERATES DAILY FROM PACIFIC COAST THROUGH TRAIN TO CHICAGO Composed of standard drawing room sleeping cars, leather upholstered tourist sleeping cars, coaches and dining car. ELECTRIC LIGHTED. VIA ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS AND BURLINGTON ROUTE /@%\ Fast l^f M&\ ' Fine Schedule K^JmWCjJ Service Stops at principal points enroute. Close connections with Eastern trains. ; J. O. McMullen, C. P. A. C. B. Foster, C. P. & T. A. Ist. Aye. & Yesler Way, Seattle. 923 Pacific Aye., Tacoma. A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A., Portland, Or. in the quality of incubators and brood ers, and even skilled operators get poor hatches sometimes. At my place we have been using the same incubators for four years now, and they are fine machines, but still we have trouble occasionally. And so with brooding— until you have had some experience you will not get the results that the expert does. Not long ago I sent two customers 200 eggs each; eggs from the same pens and the same fowls. One of these customers got 174 chicks, the other got only 40. And another customer set 17 eggs under a hen and got 16 chicks and set the balance of the same lot of eggs in an incubator and got only a 50 per cent hatch. Now if that hen had not put it up to the incubator so nicely, I should probably have been blamed for the poor hatch. Yet, in self-protection, you should consider carefully the breeders' claims, for some of them are extravagant on their face. With good care a profit of $2.00 a hen per year can be made with White Leghorns, and $3.00 is possible, —as is shown by the report of the poultry director of the Western Wash ington Experiment Station, printed on another page; but no man can make $6.50 profit each from a large flock, selling all the eggs at market rates. Claims of profits of $25.00 to $120.00 per hen are absurd. And the best breeders do not sell their very finest fowls. Recently a buyer quit me in a huff because I would not sell him some 200-egg hens, and purchased a dozen, with records averaging 267 eggs, from another breeder. Now if I had a dozen hens that averaged up like that I should certainly keep them myself—Extract from my 1911 catalog. During the first year at the business you can't expect everything to run on schedule. Plenty of mishaps will oc cur and you will make mistakes your self. Don't let that discourage you; it has been the experience of every one who raises poultry. I have had my full share of accidents and mishaps; have 18 overheated eggs in incubator and chicks in brooder; have had pullets gobble up wire staples, tacks and the heads of matches, with fatal results; have had bunches of young ones smother, before I learned to bevel off the corners of my brooders; but it is all in the game. If poultry raising was too easy, there would be no adequate profits for those who stick to it and attend to business properly. 9CORDSIN 10HOURS BY ONE MAN with the FOLDING SAWING MACHINE. It saws down trees. Folds like a pocket-knife. Saws any kind ol timber on any kind of ground. One man can saw more timbe* with it than 2 men in any otherway. and do it ouslor. Send for rREE illustrated catalog No. A 64 showing Low Prle* and testimonials from thousands. Pirst order gets agency. FOLDING SAWING MACHINE CO. SS7-163 West Harrison St. Chicago, Illinois $3.50 Recipe For Weak Kidneys, Free Relieves Urinary and Kidney Trouble*, Backache, Straining, Swelling, Etc. Stops Fain in the Bladder, Kidneys and Back Wouldn't it be nioe within a week or so to begin to say goodbye forever to the scalding, dribbling, straining or too-frequent pannage of urine; the forehead and back-of-the-head aches; the stitches and pains in the back; the growing muscle weakness; spots before the eyes; yellow skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eyelids or anklee; legoramps; unnatural short breath; sleepless ness and despondency. I have a recipe for these troubles that you can depend on and and if you want to make a ejalok recovery, you ought to write and get a copy of it. Many a doctor would charge you $8.60 just for writing this prescription, but I hare it and will be glad to send it to you entirely free. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. K. Robinson, Kl9O Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send It by return mail in a plain envelope. As you will see when you get It this recipe contains only pure, harmless remedies, but it has great healing and pain oonqmering power. It will qulokly show its power onoe you ■■• it, so I think Voa had better see what it la without delay. I will send yon a copy free yon can nee It and cure jomtmit at k*a«. (BTWhen writing advertisers please mention The Ranch.