'*♦«. -* h v 4 c W*\ LIBRARY ANNEX 2 DOHIIRS^SENSE IN THE POULTRY BUSINESS The "Quisenberry Way" Makes Every Hen Pay American Poultry School Kansas City, Missouri DAV1SVILLE, R- I. MEMORIAL POULTRY LIBRARY SpmgBk CORNELL ig^^HHH - J ; J Ttj UNIVERSITY \2 . ( ■ friends and admirers >vWv'«Y»VWY»VWymVgv»\»VWy«v»VV\«^* ALBERT R. MANN LIBRARY New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics at Cornell University Date Due Library Bureau Cat. No. 1137 Cornell University Library SF 487.A51 1922 Dollars and sense in the poiritrv tjusines 3 1924 003 118 597 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924003118597 Dollars and Sense In The POULTRY BUSINESS &i'V J ^. jP' i < .:'JS^| PI8^B 1 3BBBBB H^^K' ■ *^ SI — Minna SMS | ' * ^^J^ffl*^*w^E^^ ft Eastern Demonstration Farm of the American Poultry School. This includes incubator rooms, brooder houses, laying and breeding houses, feed houses and other buildings and equipment. Two thousand April hatched pullets on the farm at Davisville, R. I. Prof. Lewis, one of our Vice-Presidents, is Manager of our Eastern office. Thirtv-acre demonstration farm of the School near Kansas City. Owned managed by W. C. and A. M. J. Schaffer under the direction of the instructors of this School. Published and Copyrighted, 192% by the AMERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL Kansas City, Missouri EASTERN OFFICE. DAVTSVIIjIjB, R. I. tn.-rt, and I Am Proud of My Students I Have Made Money for Thousands of Others, I Would Like to Help You. MORE money can be made from poultry right now and during the next two to five years than ever before in the history of the chicken business. A student of this school, living in Canada, started raising a few chickens in a made-over chicken shed in his back yard. He invested only $19.00 In poultry to start with. He kept track of every dollar's worth of expense, every dime's worth of feed, etc. He cared for his hens and fed them just as we told him to do in the lesson books of his course. This student made a clear profit in one year of $9.20 per hen, besides increasing the value of the chickens and houses on hand. Thousands of our students have recently written us in detail showing they have made from two to twenty times as much cash profit as ever before. Some of these are only raising a few dozen in their back yard; others raise from one to five thousand per year. Some, in fact most of these people, were losing money from poultry one, two or three years ago, but with the know- ledge they gained from our books and teachings added to the better money making poultry conditions, these same students are now making big money. At our Experiment Station we placed together some time ago 160 pul- lets. In ten months this flock of pullets had earned a clear cash profit of $976.67, which is $3.26 per day. All feed was bought by us at high retail prices. The pullets were housed and cared for in the exact manner described in the books which are sent to every student of this School. Another lot of 76 pullets were placed together at the same time and they made us a clear cash profit of $6.15 per pullet. Many of our students clear $5.00 to $11.00 per hen per year. You can do as well. Yes, dear friend, in all my twenty-five to thirty years' experience rais- ing poultry on both a large and a small scale, during which time I have traveled and studied poultry raising conditions in every state and Canada, I never knew a time when prospects looked so good for the poultry raiser as right now. It behooves you to "strike while the iron is hot" and "make hay while the sun shines." Don't overlook this opportunity to become more successful than ever with poultry. Start now, if you are not already raising poultry. Put your best foot forward. Give your poultry the best care at your command. Remember the old proverb, "What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." Eggs are certain to average high in price this fall and winter — at prices that will mean big profits. However, at only a 58-cent per dozen aver- age price, we made 160 pullets pay a net cash profit of $976.67 in ten months; 300 pullets fed and cared for in a like manner would have paid a cash profit of $1,830.00, while 500 good pullets would have cleared $3,050.00, and for the future the possibilities are even greater. You cannot afford to longer put off learning the best, most simple and most practical methods of making hens lay more eggs and saving money on feed. I take a personal interest in every student of this School. I have spent over $100,000.00 in preparing, illustrating and printing the greatest poultry course of its kind in the world. I started this School on $200.00 borrowed money, but my methods and the personal help I have rendered my students have given such universal satisfaction that I am now proud to state that I have over 35,000 prosperous and satisfied students in every state in the Union and in 19 foreign countries. No school in the world has a faculty that is equal to that connected with this School. I give every student personal service. I have made money for thousands of others and I would be pleased to help you with your poultry problems. I would appreciate a personal letter from you. sincerely yours. I'age Two OUR PRESIDENT PROFESSOR T. E. QUISENBERRY President of the American Poultry School One of the World's Foremost Poultry Authorities Director of the American Poultry Experiment Station Founder and Former Director of the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station (the Largest and Best Equipped Poultry Experiment Station in the World). Manager of the American Egg-Laying Contest and Formerly in Charge of the National Laying Contests, in Which Were Represented Twenty-five States, Besides Canada, England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Life Member and Former Member of the Executive Board of the Amer- ican Poultry Association. Member of Special Standard Committee and Many Other Committees of the American Poultry Association. Assistant Chief of the Department of Live Stock and Secretary and Superintendent of the Poultry Department of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California. A Licensed American Poultry Association Judge of All Varieties of Poultry. Life Member of the Missouri State Poultry Association and of the Missouri Poultry Breeders' Association. Former Secretary of the Missouri State Poultry Board. Chairman of the Committee on Reconstruction and New Construction for the American Poultry Association. Secretary of Heart of America Poultry Show and Former Secretary of Missouri State Show. One of the Lecturers at the World's Poultry Congress at the Hague. Member of the International Instructors' and Investigators' Association. Pngr Thrrr Origin and Growth of the World's Greatest School r'B American Poultry School was established in response to The first office of the American Poul- try School seven years agro. a wide demand from poultry raisers in all parts of the country for a thorough, complete and prac- tical course of instruction in the science of poultry husbandry. Mr. T. B. Quisenberry, America's leading poultry expert, saw the wonderful results that could be ac- complished when a scientific know- ledge of poultry husbandry was applied to the operations of a poultry farm. He decided to put this know- ledge within the easy reach of every man and woman in the country and the American Poultry School is the result. No man in America is so well quali- fied for this work as Mr. Quisenberry, simply because no other man so well knows how or has had such a varied experience. The American Poultry School was established more than eight years ago. It is now, as it always has been, the largest poultry school in existence. The American Poultry School is the oldest poultry school, but has the newest course. No out-of-date poultry book, split up into sections and called a poultry course. It is a course written by Mr. Quisenberry himself after years of experimenting and tests- — proven and up-to-date methods by the best authority in America. You can't go wrong when you choose the "Quisenberry Way." It is used and recommended by more than 40,000 suc- cessful students. This is the largest and oldest poultry school in existence with the newest and best course. The success of these methods is proven by the success of American Poultry School students. It is conservatively estimated that poultry, raised by American Poultry School students during the past year, contributed to the country: 750,000,000 eggs valued at over $30,000,000 15,000,000 lbs. of meat valued at 4,500,000 Over 35 million dollars sold from American Poultry School farms last year, to say nothing about the increase in stock, improvement in quality, and eggs and poultry consumed at home. These enormous results have been made possible because American Poultry School students know how to get the best results from their flocks — how to make every hen pay. Whether you judge the worth of a school by its size, by the quality of its instruction, by the success of its students, or by all of these standards, you are bound to find that the American Poultry School, by these same standards, is the most complete, and, therefore, the most worth while from the standpoint of your future success. Prove it to your own satisfaction at my risk. You take no chances if you enroll here. Present General Offices of the American Poultry School, Kansas City Mo Printing plant on first floor, our business offices above. Watch us grow ' W« give you service. Page Four Big School Expands American Poultry School Opens Eastern Office in Charge of Prof. Harry R. Lewis POULTRY raisers and all those interested in Poultry Culture will be glad to know that the country's greatest poultry school has brought its service closer to Eastern and Southern sections of the United States. The Directors of the American Poultry School of which T. B. Quisenberry is President have announced the opening of an Eastern office at Davisville, Rhode Island, with Professor Harry R. Lewis in charge. Professor Lewis, who was formerly wtih the New Jersey Experiment Station, has been sleeted a Vice-President of the American Poultry School and has placed his own poul- try farm at the disposal of the School for Demonstration purposes in testing out new ideas and formulas for the benefit of its stu- dents. The development and growth of the Ameri- can Poultry School has been quite remark- able. From a small institution a few years ' ago it has expanded year by year until now the rolls show a total of more than 40,000 men and women graduates or present stu- dents located in every state in the Union and nineteen foreign lands. The opening of the Eastern Office is, therefore, a natural devel- opment oi the expansion of this institution. The simplified course of in- struction offered by the American Poultry School is given by correspond- ence, under the direction of Prof. T. E. Quisenberry, assisted by a staff of practical poultrymen who are well known. The American Poultry School's thousands of students will now have Professor Lewis' help in solving their poultry problems. His long experi- ence and expert knowledge, coupled with his ability to impart his knowledge to others, should prove of invaluable assistance to students of the American Poultry School. Professor Lewis will devote his entire time to private poul- try work and in promoting the interests of the students of this School. Prof. Lewis has also been elected President of the International Baby Chick Asso- ciation. Students of the American Poultry School are assured practical training under the personal direction of a staff of instructors equally capable as Pro- fessor Lewis and all under the direction of Professor T. E. Quisenberry, Dean of the School and recognized as one of the best informed and most widely known poultry experts in the United States. Page Five PROF. HARRY R. LEWIS Davisville, R. I., Vlce-Pres and Manager In charge of Eastern office. INTERIOR VIEWS OF SCHOOL, American Poultry School, Office Force Employees In one office serving: our students i , (ii^SisjBiL.'..'.- ■...■.v..'JML ■ -Mw .«- - iltt • w^H m . ; 1 f" '■■■:,.:>)t mmmm 5' J^KWL r " ' 3 \ &| mil ins -fP^" ' v* sfl "' - ; ."?'.--'■-"- •■ 4H 5^r -- x " "^^^^^^M Mail, Record and Filing Department ML".** f^. Stenographers Trnnscrlnlnic Personal Letters TJIctnted l>y onr Experts American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Dollars and Sense In the Poultry Business "A FORTUNE IN POULTRY," IF— POULTRY raising, properly conducted, is one of the most fascinating, healthful, profitable and useful of occupations. To all who have heard the "Call of the Hen," it offers a dignified means of livelihood. Suc- cess awaits those who make preparation by a thorough mastery of the foun- dation principles upon which the industry is builded. Few who have not been "through the mill" realize the necessity of a thorough knowledge of absolutely correct methods in order to> make a suc- cess with poultry. The great "secret of success" with poultry is knowledge of the principles of poultry husbandry — not gold dollars, fine houses, nor broad acres. Poultry raising can be successfully conducted on the back end of a city lot, a living can be made from poultry on a few acres of ground, and very little capital is required to start — if you know how! Too many people waste valuable years in costly "experimenting," instead of profiting by the knowledge and experience of specialists who have made a life study of the poultryman's problems. THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE GREAT There is no branch of agriculture and scarcely any industry today iu which the opportunities are greater for competent and well-trained men and women than in the poultry industry. No industry is growing faster than this one. The production of beef, mutton, and pork has reached its limit. We are importing millions of pounds of these products from other countries every month. Our population is rapidly increasing. A hungry nation must depend more than ever upon the production of poultry and eggs for its meat food. Poultry and eggs can be produced on limited space in any climate, by any class of people, and by people of all ages. When properly conducted, there need be no hard times, no dull seasons in the poultry business. But it is utter foolishness for a person to enter the business, even on a small scale, without first being properly instructed, properly trained, and properly equipped. A few dollars spent in this way at the very beginning will often save hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars later, besides saving you from disappointment and distress. In proportion to the amount of money invested, there is no business which offers greater opportunities and greater returns than poultry; but you must know how or be shown the road to success by some one who has had the experience and who has made the mis- takes for you to profit by. QUISENBERRY'S GREATEST WORK Mr. Quisenberry realizes the fact that there are thousands of people so situated that it is not convenient to attend an agricultural college, yet they are desirous of making a scientific and thorough study of poultry husbandry. His work at Poultry Experiment Stations has made him ideally qualified for writing this course of instruction. He has visited and studied conditions at practically every University and Experiment Station in the United States and Canada and has visited and made careful study of the leading poultry farms, poultry markets and poultry shows of these two countries. There is no other one man in this country who has studied and profited by visits to as many poultry farms and experiment stations as has Mr. Quisenberry. He has studied the reason for failures as well as for suc- cesses. There are few, if any, who are in a position to help you as he is. In the course of lessons he has prepared he gives you the benefit of his vast experience, tests, experiments and methods. He has written a course of instruction as thorough, complete and practical as that offered by any agricultural college in the world, and more thorough than many of them. Page Seven Success Comes To Those Wh o Know He has made it possible for every man or woman who can read and write to obtain a full knowledge of poultry culture in their own home, saving the expense of attending college. The course consists of twenty-eight books, each one complete and covering a definite phase of the poultry industry. A mastery of these lessons will give you that knowledge which is so essential to the successful operation of a poultry farm — will make you an all around poultryman, able to cope with any reasonable situation that may arise. WILL SAVE YOU FROM PITFALLS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS The American Poultry School eliminates guesswork and experiments — it saves you from the pitfalls and disappointments that the inexperienced poultry raiser is bound to experience. It gives the experienced poultryman a fuller, deeper and wider knowledge of his business. It opens up money making and money saving ways to him. There is not a phase of poultry culture that is not covered by our Home Study Course, from the selection of the site to the marketing of the birds. It gives you a poultry education that can be obtained nowhere else except at an accredited Agricultural School and many of our students who have taken both say that our course of in- struction is even better than that of most agricultural colleges. You can no more learn the poultry business by haphazard reading of poultry books and poultry journals than you can become a civil engineer by reading books on civil engineering or become a doctor by reading books on medicine. It is applied and systematic study under proper guidance and direction that will enable you to master a subject and become an expert in that line. That is why the American School of Poultry Husbandry gives you knowledge you could never obtain for yourself. We feel that we are doing the poultry raisers of this country a real service when we put before them this opportunity of learning Poultry Husbandry in their own home and at a minimum of expense — not an expense, really, as these lessons pay for themselves many times over and save you far more money in one season than you have to spend for the entire course. We believe we are doing the world a service when we are teaching the 'average poultry raiser how to get two eggs where only one was gotten before, and how to raise two chickens as economically as one formerly. We are glad that we have this opportunity of performing a real service to the poultry raisers and to mankind in general. A BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS The Poultry Industry of America has reached the almost inconceivable sum of a billion dollars a year, for this is the market value of poultry products raised. This is greater than that of oats, wheat, or cotton, and all the gold and silver mined in one year would not begin to pay the poultry raisers for their products. Yet in spite of this enormous production each year we import from foreign countries large quantities of both eggs and poultry. There is no business that offers larger and bigger opportunities than poultry raising. Not only is the demand for eggs and poultry increasing more rapidly than the supply, but prices are better than they have ever been and going higher all the time. As the cattle ranges of the West become more and more restricted and the number of cattle and hogs gradually dimin- ish, there will remain an even larger demand for poultry, for it is to poultry and eggs that the American people will eventually have to look largely for their meat supply. It is one business where there is absolutely no chance of ever becoming overcrowded, for people will always eat eggs and poultry. It is a business in which the market is already created for your product. It is a business that assures health, wealth, and happiness. It keeps you out of doors in nature's sunshine where it was intended you should be. It means fresh air and exercise. It supplies you with the best of food for your own table gives you an interesting occupation and a highly remunerative one. Page Eight American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. easy xo start It is easy to start a successful poultry farm if you know how. If you do not have a thorough knowledge of poultry culture, however, you are no more apt to succeed with chickens than with any other business that you do not thoroughly understand. For many reasons the poultry business is more desirable than almost any other. In the first place large capital is not required. It is not expensive to feed poultry if you know how. You really have no selling expense as your market is awaiting you. You are assured splendid food for your own table. Not a great deal of time is required and every member of the family can help. It is certainly much healthier than office or other indoor work. Backed with a thorough knowledge of poultry culture you have every chance of success, but if you lack this knowledge it is jus.t as easy to lose money and a lot of it in a very short time. Then why take chances? FOR THE CITY MAN, CLERK OR MECHANIC For the man in the city the raising of poultry offers exceptional oppor- tunities. If you feel the strain of the city life — if you want to get out of hot, stuffy offices or shops — if you want to breathe again pure, fresh air uncontaminated by smoke, soot or germs — if the sunshine, the fields, the brooks still call to you, harken to the "Call of the Hen," for she will make many of these things possible. The city man has as good a chance raising chickens as anybody, many think better, for he is willing to admit his ignorance and study and learn. He realizes the value of knowledge and is willing to get it. "The City Farmer" has passed the stage of ridicule, for it is he who puts his poultry farm on a business basis and who nine times out of ten succeeds, for he has studied this subject. Some of the most successful poultry plants are owned and run by ex-city men. The possibilities of even a city lot can scarcely be estimated. SELLS 2,200 CHICKS FROM CITY LOT "I have hatched 2,200 chicks this spring, six hundred for myself, the rest for other people. I have already marketed 200 chicks weighing 2 and 2% lbs. Will have 200 more ready in about two weeks, and all of this on one small town lot, and done by my own hands, not one bit of help. Fifty chicks would cover all I have lost in raising this amount. — Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, Illinois." SURPRISED AT RE- SULTS ON CITY LOT "I never had young birds like I have this year. I am not sorry I have taken up the study and nover will be. I learned more than I ever expected to. Every one who sees my young flock is very much sur- prised to see such large youngsters. I have some weighing 2% lbs., cock- er e 1 s crowing " — Leo Klupp, Wisconsin. Student No. 202432 — We make back lot poultry profitable for Leo Klupp, Wisconsin. A Kansas farmer recently took a wagon load of corn, with side-boards on, to market, and along with it his wife sent a case of eggs. The farmer was surprised to find that he got several dollars more for the case of eggs than he did for the entire wagon load of corn that he had been all summer Page Nine Don't Kill the Layer. Swat the Drone growing and cultivating through the hot summer's sun. He found it paid to use better methods in raising his poultry and in producing more eggs. FOR THE FARMER AND FARM WIFE The farm is the natural home of poultry, but unfortunately on too many farms they do not get the attention they deserve. They are merely a side line. The farmer and the farmer's wife need a scientific knowledge of poultry culture as badly as anybody. Unlike other crops, poultry rightly handled will yield a year-around income. There are no off years — no bad seasons. Comparatively little labor or space is required. We urge farmers to put the poultry department on its proper basis and not let it be merely the means of a little pin money for the wife. With little effort, backed by knowledge, it can be made the most profitable department on the farm. It is far too important to be neglected. Eggs and poultry are the surest and quickest cash products the farmer has. Poultry and egg prices are still comparatively high in price and profitable when compared with other farm products. Therefore, the farmer can better afford to feed his grain to his hens to produce high priced poultry and eggs than he can to feed the same grain to his cattle and hogs to produce beef and pork. Many far- mers report a loss on raising beef cattle and hogs for market the past s«ason. With feed prices down and poultry prices still comparatively high and profit- able it is indeed a good year for farmers to devote more attention to their poul- try. Eggs sold the past season around $1.00 a dozen from coast to coast and in the big eastern cities as high as $1.35 per dozen. Poultry has been bringing a good price right along. Egg prices are now comparatively high. With feed prices so much lower there are bigger profits than ever in poultry. Now is the time to feed cheap grain -o hena and make big profits. Why ra;se live stock at a loss when you can raise poul- try much easier and make more money? Thousands of farmers who are students of the American Poultry School write me that they are now making more . „ „ , ' money from their hens than ever. Student, Mn H. A. Hume. FARMER MADE OVER $2,000.00 L.AST YEAR I did over a $2,000.00 egg business last year. T surely have been suc- cessful with poultry since becoming a stu- dent of your school. Three years ago I knew absolutely nothing about culling, feeding for egg production, fertile eggs or housing. White Leg- horns are no longer a side line with us. They are one of the main is- sues, as we realize more clear profit from our Leghorns than from any one grain crop, or the live stock raised on our 400-acre farm. — Mrs. H A. Hume, Kansas. I'age Ten Students No. 181264— Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hume, Kan- sas. I his course has made poultry more profit- able to them than grain or )ive stock. Our students on Keneral farms nil mnkr their poultry pny. American Poultry School, Ka nsas City, Mo. SELLS *1,4B6.20 IN BIGHT MONTHS Student No. 2039G6 — Mrs. J. F Dunkin, Missouri, wins blue ribbons and makes more from ber poultry than her husband does from his farm. "The first of January I had three hundred hens. I set 1,000 eggs and hatched about 700 chicks. I sold one thou- sand one hundred nine- ty-eight dollars and six- ty-four cents ($1,198.64) worth of eggs from Jan- uary 1st to September 30th, 1920. I have sold two hundred and fifty- seven dollars ($257.62) worth of chickens from January 1st to Septem- ber 1st. I still have 100 chickens to sell. Be- sides this I won four blue ribbons at one of our leading shows. Mr. Dunkin says I now make more from poultry than he makes from the farm. Thanks to your course." — Mrs J. F. Dunkin, Missouri. FOB WOMEN The Poultry Business has solved the bread winning problem for hun- dreds of women. There is no hard or laborious work in connection with a poultry plant that a woman cannot perform with a little extra help occasion- ally. Women are naturally fitted for poultry raising and bring to their work an interest that men often lack. Their maternal instinct and natural ability is a big help in raising little chicks. We have many women students and many very successful poultry plants are owned and operated by women. Backed by the knowledge gained from our course of lessons, a woman can take up poultry husbandry with every chance of success. No woman with a good poultry plant need ever fear the future, for she is amply provided for. HADE OVER $1,0011 ON 200 HENS "I do enjoy your les- sons so much and better still do I enjoy seeing better stock raised each year, that being the re- sults of the lessons I . have taken. I want to tell you what I did with 200 hens and pullets this year by following your instructions on feeding and housing, as well as mating. All together from the sale of eggs, baby chicks, broilers, cockerels and pullets I sold exactly $1,324.62 from the first of Janu- ary till August 1st and my feed bill was $322.99 for the same length of time. The eggs alone amounted to $490.92 be- sides the 276 dozen I set in the incubators. I have over 600 young chicks from one to elev- en weeks old and all are doing fine. I know my success is due to the knowledge I have gained from your books and I would not part with them at any price."— Mrs. Chas. Rooks, Ohio. Page Eleven Student No. 191178 — Mrs. Chas. Rooks, Ohio. Won prize for, 100 per cent hatch, several thousand competing. Our lady students make good and make money. Make Every Hen Lay AND PAY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS The raising of poultry offers splendid opportunities for boys and girls to make a nice income. A good sized poultry plant can easily be taken care of with no time lost from school. Young people are usually much interested in such work and the money made and business experience gained is a big asset. Many are paying their way through school raising chickens and producing eggs. The boys and girls on the farm are particularly well fitted for raising poultry and should be encouraged. It gives them spending money, a direct interest in farm life, and is the means of keeping them on the farm instead of running off to some poorly paid job in the city. GIRL WINS PRIZE, CUP AND RIBBON "I expect you know I have won a first priae, cup and ribbon, at the Con- test. I will give all the credit to The American School of Poultry. Husbandry, as every time I wanted to know anything I either asked you or went to my school books for it. Would you kindly design me a letterhead and envelope to write on and send it to me?" — Frances Mansfield (14 years old), Indiana. SCHOOL. GIRL. CLEARS $1,5B2.65 "As I am one of your Poultry Students I wish to write you telling you of the many ways In which we have made the price of our course. I am a farmer's daughter, fourteen years of age. We started the first of January with 600 Single Comb White Leghorn hens. We lost about 25 before we got your course. We lost them by wrong feeding. This year we fed according to the course, as near as we could, and the result was our hens have Just now slacked up on their egg production. I am sending you the report of our record for this year, from January 1st to October 1st. This shows the cash income only, as we do not keep a record of eggs con- sumed at home: Eggs sold Jl.883.10 Poultry sold 178.40 Total sales. . . ?2,061.50 Feed cost 468.85 Net profit $1,592.65 — Virginia A. Kober. Missouri. Student No. 283358 — Virginia A. Kober, Missouri. Four- teen-year-old girl produces 3,908 dozen eggs In nine months. We have hundreds of boy and girl students making good raising poultry. FOR THE POULTRY EXPERT, EGG FARMER, OR HATCHERY There are many branches of • the poultry business that offer great opportunities for money making. We can make a poultry expert of you so that you can successfully breed and specialize in Standard Bred poultry; keep bens by_ the thousands; manage poultry farms; engage in the day-old chick business; become a specialist in incubation, feeding, farming, housing, selling or shipping; conducting a commercial hatchery and dealing in day- old baby chicks; -do extension work for State and Government Institutions- or obtain some one of the hundreds of good paying positions that are open for poultry experts. We can train you so that you are certain of success no matter whether you engage in the business for yourself or fill a noaition for some one else. Page Twelve American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. student operated government's largest farm A. E. Anderson of Bellingham, Wash., is a graduate of this School. After completing our course he was called upon to establish and operate the largest government poultry farm in the United States. He was with this farm for three years and did his work in such a creditable manner that he was called to the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station for a year. He has recently been with the Extension Department, Washington State Agricultural College. Mr. George R. Shoup, Poultryman in charge Poultry Department Washington Experiment Station said that "Mr. Anderson is the best informed poultryman by far that has visited this section this year." Our Graduate, Air. Albert E. Ander- son, giving poultry culling demonstra- tion in the State of Washington. Mr. A. T. Flagg, County Agent, Lewis County, Washington, said in a circu- lar sent out advertising culling demonstrations that "Mr. Anderson knows the poultry business from A to Z." Mr. Anderson says of this School: "Since taking their course I have had the privilege of doing a great deal of building and their lessons on building saved me the cost of the entire course on a 2 0x2 0-foot poultry house. To any one in need of information on feeding (and most of us are) their lessons on feeding alone will more than pay the cost of the entire course on a flock of fifty hens, during one year, in increased production and lessened mortality. During my travels in various states for the past seven years I have found their methods in successful use by dozens and dozens of their students who are all loud in their praise of the school and its methods. SINGLE LESSONS WORTH COST "I am satisfied with the Course just finished. The Course is very interest- ing and there are single lessons worth the entire cost of the Course." — D. J. Kieldsing, West Virginia. EARNED AND LEARNED "I desire to thank you for the splen- did Course In Poultry Husbandry which I have just finished. I feel that I have received more practical knowledge from your Course than I would from some college and it did not cost one- tenth as much. In fact, I earned and saved money while I was taking your Course. The last lesson Is worth the price of the whole Course to anyone." — Weldon Wheaton, Ohio. VERY THOROUGH INDEED "Tour Course in Poultry Husbandry Is very thorough Indeed, and after completing this Course, Success or Failure will depend entirely upon the operator, and not on the information at hand."— S. B. Hostetter, Virginia. SAFE GUIDE TO ALL "As I now have finished my Course with your school, I wish to say that the cost of the Course does not begin to represent its true value. Tou surely will never be accused of obtaining money on false pretenses. It is a thor- ough Course and standing out all through it are the caution signals — the practice of economy — the small be- ginning and expanding." — C. L. Frost, Illinois. BETTER THAN COLLEGE COURSE "I .am. better prepared to make a suc- cess of the poultry business than I would -be had I spent three years at the Stat^ Agricultural College. I have been well paid and sorry, that it is end- ed. It Is complete as possible and worth many times its cost." — Wm. Mc- Neal. Iowa.; Page Thirteen Our Record Speaks for Itself FEED BJfcL* B8IN0 REOUCEO ■ gv Mfl,fi;KETIN position here with the largest man- ufacturer of poultry feeds and I have had great success." — C. A. Evans, Brit- ish Columbia. CARING FOR 10,000 HENS "I have secured employment on a ?2 m ^ 6 !" cIal es & farm which has about 10,000 head of poultry. I am pleased more all the time with the Course " — Dan Knowles, California American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. than the supply. No other branch of agriculture offers such great oppor- tunities. At the present time not one man in a thousand who claims to be an expert poultryman is one who can raise poultry successfully in large numbers, and therefore you hear of many failures. We cannot recommend such men to good positions. If you wish to secure a good paying position, prepare for success by enrolling in the American Poultry School. We will do our utmost to land you in a good paying position, if you do not enter business for yourself. LEARN FROM MEN WHO KNOW Our course of lessons is the result of years of experience and work, and was written with the sole idea of bettering the poultry industry. If we asked you to pay what this knowledge is really worth it would cost you $500.00 to $1,000.00. If we asked as much as some schools do in proportion to volume of text matter we would charge four times as much as we do. EQUALLED BY NO OTHER SCHOOL IN THE WORLD Our lessons cost more to print than those of any other correspondence school in America, charging three times as much as we do for our course. We know that no lessons have had more work put on them than ours, and none were written by men as well qualified' to teach this subject. We sell our course for less money and we guarantee that it contains three times as many printed pages, five times the illustrations, and ten times more down-to-date, tested, proven, helpful facts and methods than given in any other course or correspondence school in the world. FACTS ABOUT THIS SCHOOL Learn at home. Not theory, but positively proven Direct personal help. methods. Students in 48 states. Newest, best, most complete in- And 20 foreign countries. struction. Experts to guide you. Hundreds of illustrations. Largest staff of competent in- Has stood the severest test. structors. The oldest Poultry School. Used and reconimend6 d by 40,000 Your own success guaranteed. please d students. Backed by 25 years experience. r Seven years successful existence. More poultry students than all Over 40,000 prosperous students. ° the r poultry schools in the world Instruction covering every subject, combined. Brings out the best there is in you. Prepared thousands for good posi- Nearly a million dollars in tuitions tions, better salaries, and increased paid. profits. Can do the same for you. IF IT'S WORTH DOING, IT'S WORTH DOING WELL Our thousands of students wonder how we can give so much for so small a price. No school has more enthusiastic students and no school offers half as much as we give. No school backs up its course by so broad a guarantee. If you are not satisfied — if you think you have not gotten many times value received, your money will be cheerfully refunded to you, as per our guarantee. ThiB shows our faith In' our School. IT'S KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS It's the knowledge you bring into use in the management of your poul- try that will determine your success or failure. It is a mistaken idea that anybody can raise chickens. Anybody can if they know how. The chance Page Fifteen Poultry Raising Is Simple, but You Must Know How for loss is too great (or you to start without knowledge unless you have money to waste buying experience. Our course is an insurance against loss — it is a protection for the money you invest. It may mean the difference between success and failure and from a business standpoint the price we ask is certainly small enough. You could not invest any part of the sum you expect to put into poultry and equipment to better advantage, for not only will it show you how to make what you have to spend go farther, but how to make it pay the biggest profits. There is not one single reason why you should not enroll and a thousand why you should. We have purposely made the price so low and the terms so easy that everybody may have the benefit of this knowledge. We want to help you save money, not spend it. EARN WHILE YOU LEARN The American School of Poultry Husbandry was founded in response to a rapidly increasing demand for down-to-date, practical instruction in poultry raising on the part of those busy people who can afford neither the time nor the money to attend some college or university for from two to four years — for those who, through necessity or choice, desire to "earn while they learn." The American School of Poultry Husbandry is devoted ex- clusively to Poultry. Its Course in Poultry Husbandry is not a "side line"; it is the sole business of the School. The Correspondence Course offered by the American School of Poultry Husbandry is the most complete and prac- tical offered to the public. This we guarantee. You to be the judge. The courses here offered give you in fifty-three lessons practically all that you could get in a four-year college course, and also tenders the per- sonal assistance and advice of a staff of poultry specialists of national repute, even after you have completed your course and received your diploma. Each student who takes the course receives personal attention and advice through personal letters from the world's best experts and most successful poultry- men. CORRESPONDENCE INSTRUCTION VS. RESIDENT PLAN It behooves the individual considering enrolling for some correspond- ence course to carefully investigate before investing his hard-earned funds. The correspondence school of honest intent and purposes, having a systematic and carefully devised and conducted method of teaching, can and does give to the willing, intelligent student opportunities fully equal, if not superior, to those of the resident school, and at far smaller expenditure of the student's time and money. Many persons who have the desire to study and advance themselves cannot afford to do so in a resident school, for the cost of tuition, text-books, board, etc., with nothing being earned, makes it prohibitive, in too many cases. For such, the properly conducted correspondence school is his sal- vation. The instruction given by mail should be the same as that received in the class room — differing only in the method of conveying same, and in the handling of the student. The student pays only for the actual instruc- tion received, and can utilize his spare time, continuing to earn a living in the meanwhile, and can progress as rapidly or as slowly as desired or as regulated by conditions. Another matter not to lose sight of in this connection is that the price asked for our course includes all expenses complete, including text-books. At a resident school, besides the tuition, you have room and board, incidental expenses and must also buy expensive text-books for the course of study. The tuition alone, in nearly every case, is several times the price asked for our entire course. WHAT DOES THOMAS A. EDISON SAY? Thomas A. Edison educated himself in spite of every kind of handicap. He stayed up half the night to study. He said, "Instruction by correspond- ence is the cheapest and best way for the poor man." John Mitchell, the great labor leader, got his training after working long hours every day in a mine He said, "I've often thought if I could have Page Sixteen American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. had the opportunity of a correspondence course when a boy, it would have saved me many a sleepless night." Like Edison and Mitchell, nearly every great poultryman has made him- self so because of ambition and determination to improve his time by read- ing and studying good and dependable literature such as we furnish you. If you do not say that you never saw so much useful poultry information as is crowded between the covers of the many books which we furnish with our course, then you will be our first disappointed student. DID YOU MISS A COLLEGE TRAINING? A good education is to be desired, but there is no need to be ashamed if you did not get one. Ninety-seven out of every one hundred American men and American women have gone without. Some people have a mistaken Idea that you are compelled to graduate from a University or Agricultural College to be an educated or successful man. It might be well for you to remember that many of our famous men were once poor boys and never had a college education. A good education is desired and you should strive to get it, but — 'Instruction by correspondence, is the cheapest &w& best way far the poor marC Thos A. Edison, our greatest inventor, gives valuable advice which is worthy of your consideration. An article recently published in a leading newspaoer stated that the average cost of the Senior Class at a leading college Is ?4,07fi.UO Most people can't afford to pay the cost of such a course. THESE MEN HAD NO COLLEGE EDUCATION Thomas Edison, our greatest inventor; Abraham Lincoln, our greatest statesman; Commodore Vanderbilt, who gave us our railway system; Horace Greeley our greatest journalist; Walt Whitman, our greatest poet; Henry C. Frick, head of the steel industry; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, richest publisher; Theodore N. Vail, head of the largest telephone organization in the world, and James J. Hill, the greatest railroad transportation genius, never went to college but were educated in the home. The late President Harper of the University of Chicago summed up the situation in these often-quoted words: "The work done by correspondence is even better than that done in the class room. , , . ,. -,-, j "The correspondence student does all the work himself. He does twenty times as much reciting as he would in a class where there are twenty people He works out the difficulties himself, and the results stay by him. In resident work, with the teacher at his elbow the information comes easily and quickly and often goes just as quickly." Page, Seventeen An Unbalanced Ration Wastes Too Mu ch Food The late Ex-President Roosevelt once said: "I look upon instruction by mail as one of our most wonderful and phenomenal developments of this age." If you will do as our lessons direct and as we instruct you. then apply that knowledge gained, there is an opportunity for you to become as great a poultryman as anyone living today. Some men never succeed, no matter how good their training. If you can read and write; and have a reasonable amount of common sense, we can make a successful poultryman of you. YOUR OPPORTUNITY Now is the time to satisfy your desire to know the facts and principles involved in handling poultry successfully. You may earn while you learn. The opportunities for converting the scraps of the table into eggs, or for the handling of a few acres devoted to the keeping of hens, or for success in handling hens by the thousands, were never better. You need preparation, even to handle a flock on a city lot. Here is the opportunity of a lifetime to reach the goal of your ambition. Take advantage of it now. "Earn while you learn." Prepare for success in a business which is today bringing health, wealth, independence, and prosperity to thousands. YOUR CHANCE WILL COME Born in a log cabin, Abraham Lincoln had little chance for an education. But he studied at home. He said, "Some day my chance will come." He got ready and his chance did come. So will your chance come. Some day you will be able to get a good poultry position or you will be in a position to succeed for yourself. If you are ready, the opportunity will knock at your door. No matter if your schooling is limited — if you do have to work long hours. We can train you at home during spare hours. Every month Amer- ican Poultry School students are reporting promotions and greater success with their poultry and that we are saving them from many costly mistakes and helping them to make money since they adopted our methods. Abraham Lincoln said: "I will study and get ready and maybe my chance will come. fnge Eighteen American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Here Is What You Get THE COMPLETE Correspondence Course in Poultry Husbandry given by this School consists of fifty-three profusely illustrated and carefully worded lessons, covering thoroughly and practically every phase of the poultry business. Each book is a complete reference volume of 64 to 140 pages, profusely illustrated, carefully printed, durably bound. The ques- tions are graded and returned with a personal letter commenting on the answers, giving advice, etc. These personal letters alone are well worth the price of the entire Course. No student is required to pass an examina- tion on the questions unless he wishes to do so. The books are to remain your property and be kept by you as reference books after the course Is completed or paid for. 1st — COURSE: A. A complete, practical Home Study course of instruction in Practical Raising and Breeding, given by mail and studied at your convenience. Consists of 38 lessons prepared by some of the world's leading poultry experts. COURSE B. A Judging and Breeding course which covers fully in 27 com- plete lessons the entire subject of Judging, Breeding and Selecting for exhibi tion as well as egg production qualities. COURSE C. A combination of the Courses A and B, which consists of 55 lessons as above outlined. 2nd — TWENTY-THREE OR 28 BOOKS THAT ARE YOURS TO KEEP. All the books and lessons required in the course are furnithed free. Books of priceless information and which, if bought separately, would cost more than the price or the course. These books include the lessons and give you a complete poultry library. Each one Is fully illustrated and covers its field. 3rd — A FREE MEMBERSHIP ir. the Personal Service Department of the School. This membership entitles you to personal help and assistance in over- coming any troubles you may have. One letter of special advice covering your own trouble may well be worth the price of the course. In fact, many students say they have more than gotten the price of the entire course out of one letter. This seryice is free for life. 4th FREE SERVICE FROM OUR BMLOllMENT DEPARTMENT. We have a large number of calls for trained poultry men to run large poultry farms, at sal- aries from $1,200 a year up to $5,000, and even more. If you want such a posi- tion our Employment Department will be glad to help you without charge. 5th INDIVIDUAL, AND PERSONAL INSTRUCTION. When the student's examination is received it is carefully examined, criticised and graded by an expert, then returned with such personal criticism, counsel and advice as we feel is necessary. Our staff is ready at all times to furnish unlimited personal advice and solution of problems for our students. 6th DIPLOMA. On completing the Course and earning the required per- centage the student is entitled to a diploma certifying his proficiency. 7th A. P. S. COACHING. Even after you have completed our Course of Instruction we continue individual coaching and without time limitations, until the student is satisfied and successful. The Course is designed to meet your personal needs. You are certain to be pleased and benefited. 8th YOUR MONEY RETURNED IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED. WHAT WE TEACH The course of lessons of the American Poultry School covers every phase of the subject. It is a complete education on the science of poultry culture. We teach only the one subject and our course of lessons is not a side line to any other. All of our efforts are directed toward giving our students thorough and practical poultry instruction. Our interests are not divided. We claim to be experts only on poultry. We will give you instruction which you can get nowhere else. Our course is larger, fuller, more complete than that of any other school. This we guarantee. You would have to attend an agricul- tural college and a good one at that to gain such a poultry education as we give you. We are pioneers in this field and we are the oldest and largest poultry school in the world. This course is sucessfully used and recom- mended by 40,000 students in 48 states and 20 foreign countries. This is the best evidence that there is no other school or course in the world equal to this. HOW liONG DOES IT TAKE? You can complete the Course in two months to one year, if you spend a reasonable amount of your spare time studying daily. You begin to get immediate benefits. We outline your work and give you a method that you can immediately put into practice so you get immediate benefits. You don't Page Nineteen A. S. P. H. Means a S(afe) P(at h To H(enology) have to wait a day after you start our course. However, you are Si^en unlimited time in which to complete the Course, if necessary. When finished this course will completely equip you for a variety of positions, in case you do not care to go into the business for yourself. You will be equipped for positions on large poultry plants, teaching, lecturing at farm institutes, poultry journalism, and other branches of the business. The demand for trained workers in every branch of the industry is far greater than the supply. SHOW GOOD JUDGMENT BY GETTING YOUR MONEY'S WORTH We ask you to compare our Course with any other that is being offered anywhere in the world. Many of our students say they don't see how we can give so much for the money. If you do not say that our Course is more practical, more helpful, more modern and up-to-date than any other that costs you more, we will gladly refund your money. If you do not say that the American Poultry School Course is several times as valuable and helpful as some other which costs you about as much as ours, we will give you the American Poultry School Course free of charge. If you will compare our lessons with any others, we are sure you will enroll in the American School of Poultry Husbandry. Some Correspondence Schools offering Courses in Poultry Husbandry have simply taken a $1.50 poultry book and divided it into eight or ten pages to a lesson, and charge from $25.00 to $40.00 for such a course; others take a $1.50 out-of-date poultry book and sell it to you for $15.00, with Partial view of U. S. Government Poultry Farm near Washington, D. C. The re3Uits of the work done at this farm and experiment station are available to our students about one hundred questions that are not very practical; others offer a voluminous course that was written from six to ten years ago and most of their theories were out of date long since, yet they charge practically twice the cost of our Course. On the other hand, the American Poultry School's Complete Course con- tains fifty-three complete lessons that have just been written and published for the first time; there are over two thousand printed pages and about one thousand drawings and halftone illustrations. These books are being con- stantly revised and improved. We try to keep in constant touch with the latest and most important developments at every Experiment Station in this country. If you will compare these courses you will take that offered by the American Poultry School. We can show you hundreds of our students who are on the sure road to success today who had no previous instruction in poultry husbandry. When feed was cheap and conditions different, you could throw out feed to your hens; you could make a lot of mistakes, and you could do reasonably well with haphazard methods. There was never a time in the history of the world when it paid better to spend a little time and money in learning the business than at the present moment. Page Twenty American Pou ltry S chool, Kansas City, Mo. u. s. government adopts american poultry school course WHEN the U. S. Government War Department was looking around for a course on poultry husbandry to use in its vocational training de- partment in reclaiming soldiers, who were stationed at the U. S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, it chose the course of the American Poultry School. These young men are trained in poultry raising, dairying, farming, mechanics, factory work and other vocations. One of 21 large houses on the Government Poultry Farm at Fort Leaven- worth, where the course and methods of this School are used. This is a Government institution and is one of the largest and best poultry farms in the world. This School co-operates with this farm and our students get the benefit of facts and information developed there. It contains many houses like the above, besides much other equipment of the most modern kind. In connection with this Barracks there is maintained the largest Government Poultry Farm in this country. They have brooded as high as 45,000 chicks at one time and had as many as 35,000 laying hens. They have 21 houses over 200 feet long, each accommodating 1,700 layers or over 5,000 baby chicks at brooding time. The work on this farm is under the direction of Judge John Zimmer and Major Polk. These soldiers are being taught to raise poultry the "Quisenberry Way." There are 1,500 to 3,000 soldiers at this Barracks at one time. When this farm was first established, the Government called on a graduate of this School to superintend the hatchery, rearing and building and he< remained at the farm until employed by the Missouri Experiment Station in a similar po- sition. Our course satisfies no matter by whom or in what way it is used. It is endorsed and recommended by the highest authorities in all parts of the world. IS A 'WONDERFUL, SCHOOL, "I work for the government during the day, but I am wiling to do all that I can to help you and further advance the good work of your wonderful School. I must say the books I have had have done me a lot of good. I am talking and trying to persuade others who have lately bought homes to take your course. I shall always speak a good word for you and your valuable School." — James W. Garnett, Maryland. Page Twenty-one Mistakes Cost Money we supply the latest and best information Besides the work done at our own Experiment Station, the School keeps in touch with the experiments being conducted by all the leading Experiment Stations in all parts of the world, and gives you at all times the benefit of the latest and best information to be had. Each student has the benefit of this expert counsel at all times. It is the aim of the American Poultry School to get the best practical information in our course that it is possible for us to obtain. Many institu- tions fall into the rut of fads and hobbies, and when a person goes to them for information he gets but little, if anything. We are in constant touch with all poultry experiments, as well as appliances being manufactured, and through the high class practical ability of our faculty we are able to offer students the best from all sources. Students of the American Poultry Sehool will find our course extremely practical and only methods recommended that have been tried out and found dependable. SUPERIOR TO UNIVERSITY COURSE not availed myself of the privilege to "As a preface, I may say I have been write for any information, because the raising chickens three years. Took lessens are easily understood and cover University of Course, and tne subjects." — J. A. Wilkens, Ohio. Providence of Alberta Course, but coursf: of instruction ttivt never found exactly what I wanted. bourse, of INSTRUCTION UN- The first five lessons are far superior beaiable to either of the University Courses I "* am a graduate in Poutlry Hus- mentioned." — T. R. Moss, California. bandry of the University of , but want you to know for real knowl- FOJfDEST HOPES FULFILLED edge of most use to the practical man, ""One vear as-n T was <1iiV,in„= aVin„t your Course of Instruction is unbeat- corr^sU^c^st^d^^a^nThL^ ^ ^el^cnf^ IT iffW- "t 'V £o-neV k rd^h a e b n° U fo^t ^u «£ S wkWr, '&«.£* *" ^ ^ & some trashy stuff to study. This may EASY TO LEARN BY MAIL be , 1 J r i\? ™ nh som e schools, but not "Your course is sure fine. Would with the A P. S. You have fulfilled not take anything for it. Have had my rondest hopes this past year, and I fine success, and you sure can learn want to be grateful and acknowledge by mail just as easy as going to an It. me lessons are clear and concise, Agricultural College if you enroll in easily understood and with plenty of the right school, and I think the A. P. time to study and practice. I have S. is the best."— Geo. Mann, Arkansas IF WE CAN'T HELP YOU, WE DON'T WANT YOUR MONEY We could give you a lot of "hot-air" stories about the wonderful profits in the poultry business that might induce you to enroll, but we don't want your money that way. If we didn't think we could help you, if we were not positive that we could save you from financial loss and perhaps save you rrom sinking a lot of money in the poultry business, if we did not feel that we could help you to avoid a lot of mistakes and teach you a lot of things that you should know and that you can get in no other course nor in anj otner school or literature, we would not want your money. We have noth- ing to misrepresent. We would like to have you on our "roll of honor" as one of our progressive and wide-awake students, but if we did not feel and know that we could help and benefit you we would not ask you to enroll, ihere are thousands of people who cannot attend or avail themselves of the advantages of an Agricultural College to where there is one who can. It is not necessary for you to give up a good position or to sacrifice your income or your present business to take this Course. You can get just about as much training and information from the American Poultry School Course as you can from attending any Agricultural College or University; in fact, you can get more than at 90 per cent of them and at one-tenth the cost. Very few Colleges and Experiment Stations have poultrymen in charge of them who ml 6 , „?'?. of Mr ' Quisenberry or who have had the experience he has. lhis School has the benefit of his experience and his counsel, besides a corps of experts in various lines of poultry work that is equaled by no other school, university or college in the world. Page Twenty-two American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Personal Service Given Each Student HEBE IS WHAT SOME OP OUR STUDENTS HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE PERSONAL HELP GIVEN THEM VALUED BEYOND ANY SET PRICE "The knowledge I have gained from the course and the encouragement de- rived from your letters are beyond any set price. With best wishes for suc- cess of the A. P. S." — Robt. Maguire, California. PERFECTLY SATISFIED WITH COURSE "Wish to say that I am perfectly sat- isfied with your course and kind treat- ment. I sincerely hope the completion of my course will not be the end but the very beginning of our acquaint- ance." — F. J. Clovel, Colorado. PLEASED WITH PERSONAL AT- TENTION "I was highly elated at your per- sonal attention to my lessons and per- sonal inquiries, as that is something quite unusual in most correspondence schools." — A. S. Davis, Alaska. SUCCESS FOLLOWED PERSONAL INSTRUCTION "Your personal service is most val- uable. I wrote you about my sick hens and followed your directions sent me in your personal reply and have not had a sick chicken since." — Henry Rentner, Illinois. BEATS ANYTHING HE EVER STUDIED "I wish to state that I am more than satisfied with the instructions that you have furnished me, so much so, that words really fail me when I try to tell you. I wish to say that it has been a great pleasure to me to be a student of your school — your methods of teaching are fine — that lesson on the Principles of Mating and Breeding is sure a grand lesson. I read it over and over and the more I read and study it the more I prize that work. It has anything I ever studied beat a hun- dred years." — Chas. N. Metz, California. FACULTY WORTHY NAME OF "GEN- TLEMEN" "I wish to sav that no men on earth are more worthy of the name 'Gentle- men' than those who are at the head of your institution. Tou have treated me very generous indeed, and I shall always remember it." — Solomon Rod- kin, Colorado. A. P. S. SYSTEM HAS THEM ALL BEAT "Thanks for your prompt answer to my personal questions. I have tried other systems; while some are very- good, the A. P. S. has them all beat. — Will A. Piper, Iowa. MADE A SUCCESS OF THE CHICKEN BUSINESS "No doubt you will be interested to know that I am making a success of the chicken business. Last year 50U laying hens paid me $1,000.00 above cost of feed, labor, interest on build- ing etc. This March I started with 6,000 baby chicks that are now seven weeks' old and they are the finest look- ing lot I have seen anywhere around the country. Full feathered and as slick as wax. My roosters are crow- ing at five weeks old and some of the pullets are beginning to sing. Thank- ing you for the many favors. Sincere- ly yours." — Mrs. A. F. Lelght, California. NOT A MONEY GRABBING INSTITU- TION "Just received your letter and Grade Certificate for my last examination. I must say that I am more than satis- fied with the way you watch the little mistakes and points in these lessons. It shows that you have the business at heart and are trying to do your very best to see that I get my money's worth out of the Course. Put me on record as saying that the A. P. S. is not a money grabbing institution, but one that has the welfare of its students at heart, doing all they can to give students the best poultry education with utmost care." — R. L. Steely, Ohio. APPRECIATES PERSONAL LETTERS "I assure you I appreciate very much your personal letters, etc., and person- ally. I think that the course thus far is worth every cent of the money. I wish I had had lesson one when I built my buildings here, but I think that I can make good use of it in the future, as we are planning on several new buildings." — M. A. Schmidt, Minnesota. COURSE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO HER "I hope that I can repay you for all your kindness. The course has been a great benefit to me." — Mrs. D. Louis Rush, Missouri. MORE EGGS AND MORE PROFITS "Your course in Poultry Husbandry is so thoroughly scientific and correct that we have been greatly benefited since enrolling in your school. Your lessons have prevented us from using haphazard methods, as we have so oft- en dGne heretofore, and as a result, our chicks are growing better, our hens are moulting better, we are getting more eggs and more profits than ever before. Why, your lessons on 'The Baby Chick,' and those on 'The Sci- ence of Feeding,' are worth the price you ask for the entire course, to say nothing of the benefits the students re- ceive by your voluntary letters of cor- respondence." — Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bul- lis, Oklahoma. A, S. P. H. RUN TO ASSIST STUDENTS "I wish to thank you very much, Mr. Quisenberry, for the kind letter you sent me, as it has helped me very much, and now believe more than ever that the American School of Poultry Hus- bandry is not run just for the money it can get out of the people, but to give everyone their money's -worth, and more, too, in the way of teaching any one who is willing and anxious to learn how to keep poultry in the most thorough, practical way that I be- lieve it possible to do." — Wm. Naab, New Jersey. Page Twenty-three Be Sure You A re Right, Then Go Ahead You Get a Complete Poultry Library |» THESE GREAT BOOKS — -~ : ACE YOURS To KEEP THEY ARE FURNISHED FREE WITH EACH HOME STUDY COURSE Don't take our word for it. Read what our students say. Compare these books and lessons with any other course in the world. Get our per- sonal service and help and if you do not say that we give you far more for your money than any school in existence, we will gladly refund every cent of your money and our course costs you nothing. Can we make it stronger? If it is practical, helpful, dollar-coining information that you want, you can certainly get as much from the American School of Poultry Husbandry as you can get anywhere in the world. The cost is not much more than the price of a case of eggs or a dozen medium priced hens. The man or woman who cannot afford to take this Course for the price and on the terms on which we offer it, cannot afford to raise chickens, even in a small way. CAN IVOW BREED PRIZE WINNERS "I am glad to tell you of my success this season with my Royal strain of B P. Rocks. I have been to three shows and won twenty-three rbbons, thirteen of them being firsts and eight seconds. I am mighty proud of my birds and have not been able to supply the demand for both breeding birds and hatching eggs. I can say also that I would not feel safe with such fine birds without your course as a guide. The book on Diseases alone Is worth all the course cost me, and I feel that my success in the show room is due to ■knowing how to feed and condition my birds, which I learned from the 'Quis- enberry Way.' It might also interest you to know that I have more than paid for my course culling hens for my neighbors, besides having the pleasure Page Twenty -four of culling my own. I can also get more eggs by feeding the 'Qulsenberry Way' than my neighbors do when feeding egg tonics. It has paid me big to take the course." — J. B. Colegrove. Kansas. American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Cost Small — Terms Easy THE VERY lowest prices at which American Poultry School Courses can be offered are mailed you with this catalogue. A big reduction is made for cash or liberal terms are offered on the installment plan. If the price were $100.00 for each course, it would still be the very best investment anyone in earnest about the poultry business could possibly make. Whether you are a beginner or an "old-timer," a farmer or a town-lot breeder, thiB Course will save you many times the price every year that you attempt to raise poultry. The enclosed enrollment blank gives you the lowest price that it is possible to make for this course and for years of personal aid. WHY MAKE MISTAKES AND SUFFER LOSS? It is a mistaken idea that many people have that any one can go into the poultry business and get rich quick, or even make a living, without having had a lot of experience or eise getting their training from someone who has had the experience. But it matters not how much experience you have had, there are hundreds of facts told in these lessons that you will get in no other school, nor find in any other literature. Every lesson which this Course comprises is crowded with practical information, which you can put into immediate practice. The loss of a single brooder of chickens, the destruction of a single incubator of eggs, the waste of feed, shortage in winter egg-pro- duction, improper mating, death from disease of only a few fowls, unneces- sary waste of labor, faults in housing — any one of the numerous mistakes which you are almost certain to make in the course of a single season, will more than pay for your Course in the American Poultry School. Then why run the risk or take the chance of failure? Why not let us try to help you make success more certain? ENTERPRISES OF THE SCHOOL, The American Poultry School — an efficient Course in poultry husbandry by the correspondence method by which students in every state in the Union and nineteen foreign countries are being supplied with valuable and dollar- saving information. The American Poultry Experiment Station — a well equipped experi- ment station where experiments and poultry investigations are made in the interest of the students of this School. We propose to make this the best in the world. American Poultry School Demonstration Model Farm — In the suburbs of Kansas City is located one of the best poultry farms that can be found in the Central States. This farm is owned by Mr. W. C. Schaefer, and is man- aged by Mr. A. M. J. Schaefer, a graduate of this School. This farm is used as a Demonstration Farm of the American Poultry School. The farm is run under the direction and with the assistance of the instructors of this School. Weekly visits are made to the farm by our instructors, and the latest and most practical ideas in housing, incubation, brooding, feeding, etc., will be found in use on the Heart of America Poultry Farm. Some high producing White Leghorns are bred on this place and practical work is being done, in selecting and breeding. The Post Office address is Heart of America Poul- try Farm, R. F. D. No. 1, Martin City, Missouri. The American Egg Laying Contest — Where hundreds of valuable hens are sent in by students and by the general public to be trap-nested, scored, registered and tested for White Diarrhea. Page Twenty-fivq It's Your Fault If Y our Hens Do n't Lay MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED EVERY student who enrolls in the American School of Poultry Hus- bandry must be satisfied. Whether you pay cash in advance or enroll on the installment plan, if upon completion of the Course you are not entirely satisfied, both with the Course and the assistance given you, we will make an effort to give you satisfaction in every way or your money will be promptly and cheerfully refunded. We have gone to great expense to prepare this Course, and it is only fair that we be given a chance to prove its value to each student. The only requirements which we make are as follows: The student must make his complaint in writing and must give the American Poultry School time and opportunity to adjust the difficulty and, if possible, make satisfactory the points claimed in the student's statement. It is agreed that you must deal as fairly with us as we do with you. You must show justness of your claim and give us an opportunity to make the same satisfactory to you. We have thousands and thousands of poultry students in forty-eight states and nineteen foreign countries, and we have yet to hear one say we did not give him his money's worth, and more. We will let you be both judge and jury. Could any proposition be more fair? No other school dares make such a guarantee. OTJR MILLION DOLLAR IRONCLAD MONEY BACK BANK GUARANTEE ~\TTT E say "A Million Dollar Guarantee" because we \X/ have sold nearly a million dollars worth of poul- y " try courses and they have all been sold under this "money back" guarantee if not satisfied. If we can please and benefit 40,000 others, me ought to be able to please you. Also, the E. C. Terminal Trust Co., a mil- lion dollar bank, says: "The American Poultry School, of which Mr. T. E. Quisenberry is President, is a regular depositor with this Bank, and has set aside a reserve fund for use as a guarantee of satisfaction to their cus- tomers." I am so confident of our ability to train you in such a way that your results and profits will be in- creased threefold, that we guarantee to refund every cent of your money upon request from you if you are not pleased when you have completed this Course. If you want the gurantee stronger, you can write it your- self. We feel that you are going to make a big mistake if you do not send in your order immediately for our Home Study Poultry Course and let us send the first lot of books and lessons to you, so that you can begin to get personal help and advice. Do not delay. AMERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL, Kansas City, Mo. T. E. QUISENBERRY, President American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mq. OUR UNEQUALED FACULTY THE LIFE, spirit, standing and value of any institution depends, abso- lutely, upon the men who conceive, control and operate that institution, and this is especially true of any institution of learning. For this rea- son we feel that it is best to make you acquainted with our faculty and offi- cers before you become a student of this School. If you should decide to place your name upon our "Roll of Honor" as a student of the American School of Poultry Husbandry, we want you to feel a personal interest in us and we in you. So let's get well acquainted at the very beginning. In introducing to your especial notice those back of and associated with the American School of Poultry Husbandry we do so with a pardonable pride which you can never entirely grasp or understand the fullness of until you shall have come to know these men and their extraordinary personalities and attributes, and their ability to deal with every problem which contributes to one's success in poultry raising. No other school of this kind has men of equal ability and experience associated with it. Nowhere can you find a school with so many of the world's greatest poultrymen associated together for the purpose of imparting their knowledge to their students. They are not theorists, they are not "small frys," they are not "has beens" or "would bes," but they are men who do things in a big way and never undertake anything without making a success of it. They are all self-made men. They have come from the bottom up. Each has spent thousands of dollars in learning what they offer you for a few paltry dollars. We don't ask you to take our word that these men stand at the top. Read and study the life and accomplishments of each. Compare them with any other school in the world. There was never such a body of men gathered together to safely and wisely direct its students to certain success. One of the world's best authorities on the subject and one of our greatest editors recently said this in speaking of three members of our faculty: "Candidly, I do not think there are three other such men living today. I do not feel that any one of them could be replaced by a better man, so far as my knowledge goes. Prof. Harry R. Lewis, representing the metropolitan poultry and egg district of the Atlantic Coast. Mr. , representing com- mercial egg production on the Pacific Coast, and Mr. John H. Robinson serv- ing your School as the world's present highest authority on poultry breeding problems as a life-long student of this vital phase of poultry culture. "Prof. Lewis is deservedly popular in the East, has proved his unusual ability by the authorship of popular text books on poultry subjects and is probably the best liked man in this field along the Atlantic Coast at this time. He is also a distinct leader with the instructors and investigators in poultry husbandry. "With the possible exception of Prof. Dryden I would judge that your advisor stands highest on the Pacific Coast. Therefore, I feel that you have secured the best man available. A man, who is at the head of a successful plant carrying practically 10,000 layers, with 2,700 of them under trap- nests and who has produced and owns today more 300-eggers than any other man on earth, is the right sort of material to place the strength of your faculty above that of any other school now existing or possible to create. "Believe you know what I think about Mr. JohD H. Robinson as a student of poultry culture. Have good reasons for believing him to be the best posted man on this subject that we have with us today, domestic and foreign. I came to learn what he knows on the subject of poultry breeding based on a study reaching back more than twenty-five years, and his splendid work during the last two years or more has confirmed my early hopes and belief. He simply KNOWS and that is an end of it. Some others think they do, but he DOES." All the other men on our faculty are as strong in their particular lines as these three members are in theirs. Each is a specialist with Prof. Quisen- berry guiding and directing their work in connection with this School so that each student gets direct benefits and individual results which are applicable to his own poultry yards. Page Txoenty-teven If It's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Well Personal Service IN ADDITION to having the strongest faculty connected with any poultry institution or department in the world, we guarantee to give you personal service in solving your many poultry protlems such as you can get no- where else. It is easy to make promises and to use "hot air" about what we can do for you, but the best evidence as to what we can do, are doing and have done is the testimony of 40,000 pleased and satisfied students. From the lowest to the highest, from the smallest back lotter to the biggest poultry farm in the world with its thousands of hens we have put them on the road to success, and changed failure into success for thousands of them. What has done it — our secrets, our methods, our course, our in- structors and our personal help, advice and service. If we have helped 35,000 others, we can help you. Don't be deceived by promises or high- sounding phrases of other schools. The same things that make a Ford a uni- versal car, that make a Cadillac and Pierce-Arrow cars of satisfaction and quality, makes this Home Study Course and Our Personal Service meet the requirements of poultrymen everywhere. It has been tested, tried and proven not only by ourselves, but by thousands in all parts of the world. INSTRUCTION — INSTRUCTORS — SERVICE These are the three absolute essentials to be considered in securing a poultry education and they must be considered as one, each being dependent upon the other. The failure of one means the failure of the other two. This School is proud of its courses of instruction, and its instructors. It prides itself upon the service it renders to its students and to the poultry world. Education is not for one day, nor for a week, nor a month, but for life. Its essentials are Instruction — Instructors — Service. Where this three exists, the resultant good to the student is not to be measured in mere dollars and cents and is more than commensurate with the fees for tuition. In buying a poultry education, your judgement is on trial in such a way that you can't afford to jump at conclusions. Don't be influenced by mere statements from any school. Take into consideration the length of time the school has been in business and weigh every point which may have a bearing on your relations with the school and your future advancement. Your time is too valuable to be wasted in experimenting with a doubtful course — get the best — one that has been tested by time and proven a suc- cess by many thousands of poultry raisers from all sections of the world. Investigate the rourse thoroughly before you buy. A few we Its' training in the "Quisenberry Methods" is more valuable from a profit standpoint than an equal number of years of haphazard, routine, poultjy experience. Never has such a thorough, complete, dependable course on poultry culture been written as the one offered by the American Poultry School. There is no other as good. No other has stood the test of time. The great success made by over 40,000 poultry raisers all over the world proves that the course is right. The works of Prof. Quisenberry are matchless and in- comparable. His methods are true and tried. They mean your certain suc- cess and are an indispensable requisite of every poultry raiser. His personal service and the service and help of his faculty cannot be equalled anywhere else in the world. This we guarantee or our course costs you nothing. INCREASES POULTRY PROFITS which has for several years been the "I want to congratulate you. "this source of the best suggestions for by V1 po e unry r men of tne 'country 6 ' 1 ? "flSl POult ^ y , raislng - Prof - Quisenberry. cXf^en\ r ^t\oult^ e prorts r would fe b e i KfU" rfwUd^Because" o^the S^b^^ F a^e^ ^SS^^*tfSH °°'^Z1^„ m of the Poultry Department of the Pan- GUIDE FOR POULTRY WORLD ama-Pacific Exposition. After accept- To Prof. Quisenberry alone is due ing, the live stock department was the world-wide fame of the Missouri added to his duties." — St Louis Post- State Poultry Experiment Station, Dispatch. Page Twenty-eight American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. One of the World's Greatest Poultrymen T. B. QtTISENBERRY, President and Dean of Faculty THOSE in charge of the American Poultry School are experts in poultry lines — each a specialist. Each has the counsel and advice of Prof. Quisenberry, who is personally interested in the success of every student. No one has done more for the advancement of the poultry industry in Amer- ica during the past decade than Professor T. E. Quisenberry. His work at Experiment Stations, Colleges, Egg Laying Contests and large poultry and egg farms; his service as a member of the Executive Board of the American Poultry Association, and other associations; his experience in conducting the largest poultry shows in America; and his successful work with all kinds of live stock was responsible for the directors of the Panama-Pacific Exposition selecting Prof. Quisenberry as Assistant Chief of the Live Stock Department and Superintendent of that great Exposition. He is recognized throughout ■ the world as one of America's most prominent instructors and investigators in Poultry Husbandry. To have the opportunity of securing first hand results of Prof. Quisenberry's lifetime of experience and investi- gations, together with the services of other men and women of great ability who are associated with him, is indeed to be prepared for success in every sense of the word. He takes a personal interest in helping every student solve his individual problems. INDORSED BY WORLD'S GREATEST POULTRY AUTHORITIES AND LEADING EDITORS SUCCEEDED WHERE OTHERS FAILED Mr. Quisenberry bravely hitched his wagon to a star and drove straight on- ward! He had faith and \ision. We have been personally pleased to see Mr. Quisenberry and his associates "make good," doing so with a wide margin to spare. A letter of recent date received by us reports that "at the present time the American Poultry School employs regularly ninety-two people in its gen- eral offices, besides a total of ten peo- ple devoting their time to the opera- tion of incubators and the necessary handling of hatching eggs and baby chicks in connection with the poultry farm and egg-laying contest at the Leavenworth plant." As a further ex- ample of the success of this institution we quote this remarkable fact from the recent letter: "As many as 4,000 pieces of mail in one delivery were received by the American Poultry School during one day last month." Each (ff these men has had practically a life long ex- perience in different important branches of the poultry industry and each has met with success in his ef- forts. In other words, they know the business in both a practical and theo- retical way and are qualified to give valuable instruction in the respective departments to which they are as- signed. The Reliable Poultry Journal again congratulates Professor Quisen- berry and his associates, also poultry culture in general, on the wonderful progress this institution is making.— Grant M. Curtis, Editor Reliable Poul- try Journal, Quincy. 111. GREATEST POIMRYMAN LIVING "No one individual knows more, has done more, or has a deeper and wider grasp of the poultry situation and its possibilities, than has this poultry genius. Prof. Quisenberry. Some men talk; a somewhat smaller class, talk and think; the third class, act; and real leaders— whether of men or movements ■ — are derived from the third class. We have heard much about Tom Quisen- berry for years past. His words are the ripened fruit from a life-time of thought and a growing-time of action. As head of the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station for years, later in charge of the Poultry Exhibition of the great Pa.-iama-Pacific Exposition and now President of the American Poultry School, he has undoubtedly wielded a greater influence upon the Standard- bred industry than any other man liv- ing. All honor to him, and all praise to his unselfish devotion to duty." — Poutlry Item, Sellersville, Pa. GREATEST HELP TO STATE "Tour resignation will mean a very great loss to the State, and especially to those of us inside the State who are trying to make a living out of poultry." — Rolla C. Lawry, Manager Testerlaid Egg Farm Company, Pacific, Mo. . RENDERED STATE GREAT SERVICE! "I wish to say to you that you have rendered the State a great service and have made a good Director. I wish to assure you of my high regard and good wishes, and at any time I can be of service to you, I will be glad if you will call on me." — E. W. Major, Gov- ernor of Missouri. Page, Twenty-nine Don't Feed the Hen That Never Lays FIRST AND GREATEST DIRECTOR "Mr. Quisenberry, you have done a great work, and done It well. Not only does the State of Missouri owe you a great deal, but that is the case with the poultrymen of the world. You have been to many poultrymen what the lighthouse is to the ship in the storm. There is no question but what the Experiment Station will continue to do great and active work, but Tom Quisenberry, as its first and greatest Director, will be remembered always." — Poultry Topics, Lincoln, Neb. HELPED EVERYBODY "Thousands of people outside of your state will be grieved to hear of your leaving the great work you have built up at Mountain Grove. Just the 'com- mon people,' like myself, who have never known you personally, yet can- not fail to appreciate what you have done for Everybody's Hen, as well as the Missouri Hen." — Mrs. Clyde H. Meyers, Fredonia, Kas. PRACTICAL HELP FOR POULTRY- MEN "You are to be congratulated for the exceedingly practical way in which you have assembled helpful ideas for the poultrymen." — Prof. James E. Rice, Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Cor- nell University, Ithaca, N. Y. LABORS WIN MEDAL The Panama-Pacific International Exposition presented Mr. Quisenberry with a bronze medal at the close of the Exposition, accompanied by an en- graved certificate, which reads as fol- lows: "The Panama-Pacific Interna- tional Exposition by resblution of the Board of Directors hereby conveys to T. E. Quisenberry its sincere appre- ciation of his conscientious work and its gratitude for his unselfish and continued interest manifested in the affairs of the Exposition during its existence and in bringing it to such a successful and glorious close. The Ex- position directors further desire to ex- press their hope and wish for his con- tinued happiness and prosperity. — Chas. A. Moore, President, San Francisco." GOOD AS FOUR YEARS AT COLLEGE "The American School of Poultry Husbandry, of which T. E. Quisenberry is President, is offering efficient in- struction In all branches of the poultry business by the correspondence method. Through its Course this School will give anyone as practical a Course in Poultry as anyone would receive in four years at college." — Poultry Suc- cess, Ohio. COURSE HADE PROFIT FOR ME "I bought 300 day-old chicks, built a building 12x14 feet, Fool-Proof style. and fitted it with a Newton Giant Brooder. I only lost 17 chicks. Single Comb White Leghorns. At eight weeks I got rid of one-half of the roosters. They weighed a little over one and a half pounds at ten weeks. I sold the rest, averaging one pound and ten ounces. I now have 146 pullet's. I got them the 20th of April, and they began to lay the 18th of September. Every one who sees them says they are the nicest bunch of pullets they ever saw. 1 am well pleased with the lessons." — Ross C. Smith, Pennsylvania. Page Thirty KNOWN THE WORLD OVER "The citizens and poultry raisers of the State of Missouri owe much to Mr. Quisenberry for the great good he has accomplished for them, and the mem- bers of the Mountain Grove Commer- cial Club, of which organization he Is a faithful member, desire to express their thanks for the great work he has done in making the Missouri State Poultry Experimental Station and Mountain Grove known the world over."' — Mountain Grove Commercial Club, E00 members. DONE MORE THAN ANY OTHER AGENCY "In our opinion the American Poultry School has done more in favor of the argument for Standard-bred poultry through their wonderful experimental work of the past few years than any other agency. We have taken more than ordinary interest in nis reports because of the well known integrity of the man behind them." — Editor Hallett, Inland Poultry Journal. LEARNED, EARNEST AND SINCERE "Those who have come to know this unassuming, painstaking, earnest, far- sighted man are proud to call him their friend. His sincerity of purpose and his earnestness are equal to his learn- ing. Built the Great Missouri Poultry Experiment Station; superintended the great poultry show held at the San Francisco World's Fair, and now head of a great poultry educational insti- tution." — Frank L. Piatt, Editor of the American Poultry Journal. BIGGER MAN THAN EVER " 'Tom' Quisenberry is too big a man for a local job, and now that the whole country can have the benefit of his help and experience, we expect to see him become a bigger man than ever." — Ted Hale, Secretary National Poultry Show, Chicago. STATE'S GREATEST FACTOR "I was reading of your resignation and want to say that I think the State is losing a good man. One who has helped the people more than any Gov- ernor, Legislator, or political position of any kind has ever done. These are simply facts, no boquets. Positions like you hold could never be appreciat- ed by the people, unless directly con- cerned like I have been." — C. V. Gregg, Wholesale Egg Dealer, St. Louis, Mo. WORTH $100,000 PER YEAR "T. E. Quisenberry is worth $100,000 a year to trie Poultry Industry in the State of Missouri." — Poultry Culture, Topeka, Kas. American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. prof. harry r. lewis Vice-President, Instructor, and Manager of Eastern Office and Demonstration Farm. NO man in the East or in the world has made a greater success of his work than has Prof. Harry R. Lewis, formerly of the New Jersey State Experiment Station. His advice to our students on breeding, feeding, farm management, selection of the layer, culling out poor producers, and on artificial lighting are the very latest and most dependable. His "Productive Poultry Husbandry" is his greatest contribution to the poultry industry and is used as a part of our Home Study Course. As head of the Poultry Department of New Jersey State University he has had more to do with the shaping of a program for the development of New Jersey's Poultry industry than any other one man and has had more to do with putting it through and making the New Jersey industry a factor to be reckoned with the country over. PROF. LEWIS has just been elected President of the National Baby Chick Association, and has also been made a member of the Standard Revision Committee of the American Poultry Association. Prof. Lewis conceived and inaugurated the first Egg Laying and Breed- ing Contest in America and the worth of the long time breeding contest is now soundly established. Where breeding liens are summered. Lewis' Form, Davlsvllle, R. I. Here Prof. Lewis has charge of the Eastern office and Demonstration work for the American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Prof. Lewis has taken an active part in the development of the Ameri- can Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry and has been honored for the past six years by that organization with the office of Secretary and Treasurer and for the past five years he has served as edi- tor of the Journal published monthly by that organization. Prof Lewis has been a life member of the American Poultry Associa- tion since his early connection with official poultry work nearly ten years ago Prof Lewis is an active member of many National production and scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science; the American Association of Animal Production; the Amer- ican Genetic Association. Prof Lewis is active in the development of World Poultry Affairs, be- ing a member of the International Association of Poultry Instructors and Investigators and a member of the United States Council of that body. Page, TMrty-WM Don't Kill the Layer. Swat the Drone It was largely through the initiative of Prof. Lewis that there has recently been formed in the United States and Canada a Record of Performance Council which Is a branch of the American Association of Poultry Instructors and Inves- tigators. This Council will have for its duty the certification of records of per- formance made by poultry at officially recognized egg-laying contests and breed- testing projects. Prof. Lewis is Secretary of this Council. Prof. Lewis has won numerous distinctions for scholastic standing. He is a member of the honorary fraternities of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and an active member of the National Greek Letter Fraternity, Kappa Sigma. When Prof. Lewis went to New Jersey and became a member of the Faculty of the State University they had no poultry department and made no effort to render any service to the important poultry industry of that now famous poultry State. Today the poultry department of which Prof. Lewis formerly had charge of has over 7,000 adult head of poultry, including the egg-laying contests. The department is giving resident instruction to over 300 students in Rutgers Col lege, the department is conducting some eight basic research projects extending over a number of years on breeding, feeding and other managerial problems, and lastly the department is conducting a very active extension campaign working with the organized poultry interests of the State to bring about a more efficient and profitable poultry husbandry. The department is spending this year over $80,000.00 in promoting New Jersey's Poultry Industry. As an author of books, bulletins and popular magazine stories Prof. Lewis has long been active. His first book was written in 1911 and since then five standard works have been prepared by his pen and have done much to help spread the gospel of better poultry farming from the Atlantic to the Pacific. His lead- ing works are Productive Poultry Husbandry, Poultry Keeping, and Making- Money from Hens. The scientific and popular bulletins and circulars which have been prepared by his pen in the past ten years would fill many a volume. It is the results of this fund of knowledge which he has accumulated and has pre- sented to the public in his largest work, Productive Poultry Husbandry, which is a part of our Course. Along with his public life Prof. Lewis has been a poultry breeder, raising White Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks at his home, showing and winning with his birds, and birds of his breeding have often taken prizes and won special distinction at Egg-Laying Contests during the past few years. Born in Rhode Island in 1885, educated at the Providence Technical High School and the Rhode Island State College, graduating from the latter, specializ- ing in Poultry and Animal Husbandry in 1907. Spent boyhood days on a large general and poultry farm in Rhode Island. The farm flock of Barred Rocks 'way back in 1895 and 1890 was the pride of this future poultry authority. Grew up in the country where the most of our popular American breeds of today were originated. Positions held: Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Baron de Hirsch Agricul- tural School, Woodbine, N. J., 1907 to 1910. Since 1910 Professor of Poultry Husbandry, New Jersey State University, New Brunswick. Poultry Husbandman. New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station. Supervisor of New Jersey's three Egg-Laying and Breeding Contests. A flock of 100 carefully selected 3 to 5-year-old hens used for hatching eggs and baby chicks on the farm of Prof. H. R. Lewis, Davlsville, R. I., Eastern office and Demonstration Farm o' the American Poultry School. Kansas r|ty. i»1o. Page Thirty-twp American Poult ry School, Kansas City, M o. REESE V. HICKS Vice-President and Instructor AS Vice-President of the American Poultry School, Mr. Hicks brings his 25 years of actual production of poultry in the South, the West, and the East to the students of this great institution. He is a licensed judge and a breeder of poultry and live stock with a life-long experience. From boyhood he has handled live stock and early be- gan to make a special study of poultry. In his native State, Tennessee, as a young man he built up a flourishing live stock and poultry business. His work and ability attracted attention not only in his own state, but nationally. Because of his activity and ability as a poultryman and live stock breeder, he was appointed Deputy Live Stock In- spector for the State of Tennessee. Shortly atferwards he was elected a member of the Executive Board of the American Poultry Association. In this capacity he was instrumental in helping to reorganize the association on a firmer foundation. Judge Hicks then decided to take to himself the famous saying, "Go West, Young Man." He moved to Topeka, Kansas, and was connected several years with the Capper publica- tions doing editorial work and operat- ing a demonstration farm. As a man to carefully plan and then carry out his plans, Mr. Hicks has won a National reputation. While Presi- dent of the American Poultry Associa- tion, he so organized and carried out the business of that body that Mr. Hicks' terms of office were the greatest in in- creased membership, finances, and pro- gressive measures of any similar period of the organization. He was twice elected President of this great organi- zation of poultry raisers. His work attracted such attention for the broadness of its scope that he was employed by a prominent Correspondence School in the East to manage and operate their large demonstration poultry farm, known as the "Million Egg Farm," located at Browns Mills, New Jersey. This farm had an incubator capacity of over 100,000 eggs and sold day-old chicks on a very large scale, and was one of the pioneer breeding farms to go into the day-old chick business on a big scale. Over 15,000 laying hens were frequently carried through the season. A separate farm, known as the "Quality Farm," specialized in breeding birds for exhibition features, and winnings were made at Madison Square, Boston, and leading shows throughout the country. Eggs from this farm, literally by the millions, were sold in New York and other Eastern markets. In fact, stores were maintained in New York City and Philadelphia for the purpose of disposing of the immense output of the farm in eggs, broilers, ducklings, and other produce. Here Mr. Hicks for four years had a wide experience in each and every detail of poultry farm operation. Here, under his direction, eggs were produced by the mil- lions and day-old chicks by the hundred thousands each year, and as high as 50,000 chicks were brooded in a single year. Hens were handled for egg production by the tens of thousands. Page Thirty-three. REESE V. HICKS Kansas City, Mo. If We Help Others, We Can Help You While he was engaged iu managing this farm — the biggest poultry farm in the world at that time — the world war came on and the United States got into the tray. Every business felt it must have a representative; for its own industry at Washington, D. C. In fact, such co-operation was invited by the Government authorities. The poultry interests looked about to find a man of wide experience and whose acquaintance was broad. In Mr. Hicks they found that man and he was selected to go to Washington and repre- sent the poultry interests. An organization known as the National War Emergency Poultry Federation was formed and Mr. Hicks was elected Presi- dent. Mr. Hicks stayed at the National Seat of Government as a volunteer worker until after peace was declared. From that time on Mr. Hicks was connected with prominent wholesalers of poultry products in Washington until shortly before he came to the American Poultry School. Mr. Hicks has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Coliseum Show for years. He has judged at such shows as New York, Pitts- burg, Philadelphia, Washington, D. C, Indianapolis, Allentown, Pa., Tren- ton, N. J., St. Louis and Kansas City, besides numerous others. It has been well said that Mr. Hicks knows poultry conditions in an actual practical way in every section of the country. He has always been actually engaged in raising poultry and running a farm with poultry on a large scale, even while, as he puts it, "Doing a little stunt writing for the papers." On subjects like the day-old chick business, raising and brooding chicks, feeding flocks of laying hens on a big scale, marketing poultry and eggs, and many other practical sides of poultry production, there is no one in America with a broader experience at the actual work of doing the thing itself. What is more, he has the knack of telling others just how to suc- cessfully do the many things so important in poultry production. B CARLBTON QUISENBERRY Kansas City, Mo. fage Thirty-four T. CARLETON QUISENBERRY Secretary and Instructor , ORN and raised on a poultry experi- ment station. Served our National Government in the Aviation Section of the Army during the recent war. Spent several years on the Missouri State Poul- try Experiment Station, where he was em- ployed in various departments, and has had an opportunity to study the poultry business from various angles. Has oper- ated all makes of Mammoth incubators. Has hatched and brooded several hundred thousand baby chicks. Superintendent of the American Egg Laying Contests for two years. Is an expert on feeding, disease and incubation problems. Conducted a large hatchery and shipped as many as 100,000 chicks per year. Is a son of the President of this School and has been constantly un- der the training of his father for over ten years. He is a constant student of the business and we doubt if there is another man in this country of his age who has had so much and such a varied experi- ence in the business as has Mr. Quisen- berry. His has not been a theoretical college training, but one of actual experi- ence in doing the thing itself. American Poultry School, Kansas C ity, Mo. JUDGE V. O. HOBBS Treasurer and Instructor JUDGE V. O. HOBBS is a "self-made man," and we do not hesitate in say- ing he is one of America's best poultry judges. We doubt if there is an- other member of the American Poultry Association who can come as near quoting the American Standard of Perfection, word for word, as can Judge Hobbs, and he knows how to apply this knowledge. No one is in a better position to teach you the fine points of your own variety or safely guide you through your judging course than Judge Hobbs. We are fortunate indeed in having secured his services as Superintendent of our Judging Course. Mr. Hobbs is not only an instructor in our School, but is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors . No poultry breeder has a higher standing or has had broader experience than has Mr. Hobbs, which is proven by the fact that he has been called on to judge at such shows as Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and the Nebraska, Kansas, Okla- homa, Missouri and Colorado State Shows, and the Pan-American Exposi- tion held at San Francisco. Following is an extract from a letter sent to Judge Hobbs from D. O. Lively, Chief of the Live Stock Department: "I de- sire to convey my personal thanks, not only for the work you did at San Fran- cisco, but for your courtesy to and pa- tience with exhibitors." Judge Hobbs has held offices of re- nown in the poultry world. He was formerly Secretary of the National Buff Orpington Club and it was through his efforts that this grand breed was admit- ted to the Standard. He has been President of the Missouri Branch of the American Poultry Association and twice President of the Missouri State Poultry Board. He has refused offers of Governmental poultry and accounting work. At present he is a member of the Executive Board, by election, of the American Poultry Association. For years the poultrymen of Missouri had worked hard in an effort to secure an appropriation from the State for an experiment station, but all in vain. Judge Hobbs made an appeal to the poultrymen to elect him to the State Legislature, promising that he would see that the poultrymen got what they deserved. He was elected and, true to his word, introduced the bill and secured the appropriation, and the Great Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station located at Mountain Grove, Missouri, is the result. In a letter to Judge Hobbs, E. W. Major, ex-Governor of Missouri, said: "You have ren- dered the State of Missouri a good service while you have been a member of the Poultry Board." Under Mr. Hobbs' management and supervision there was recently staged at the Missouri State Fair the largest and best exhibit of poultry and eggs ever shown at a Missouri State Fair. This was but another proof of Mr. Hobbs' ability to do big things. The Editor of Poultry Topics, a poultry publication, said of Judge Hobb's poultry work: "He was one of the most experienced, most deter- mined, hardworking, keen thinking men it was ever our good fortune to know." Page. Thirty-five V. O. HOBBS Kansas City, Mo. Star t Today b u x Start Right Space will not permit us to mention the many other valuable things which Judge Hobbs has accomplished for the benefit of the poultry industry. He is one of those fellows who has little to say, but finds much to do. He has been a licensed general poultry judge' for twelve years, having judged at all the largest western shows and local shows galore. He is recognized as one of the most com- petent and trustworthy poultry judges in the western field. The fact that he has judged at Kansas City for eleven years in succession speaks very conclu- sively of his knowledge of the poultry business and his ability gained by over 21 years of extensive study and practical experience. The Secretary of the Kansas State Show and State Poultry Ass'n, says: "V. O. Hobbs of Kansas City, Mo., is well known to most of our exhibitors, having officiated at our last two shows and has given excellent satisfaction. Judge Hobbs has proven himself to be a careful and conscientious expert on poultry and places the awards where he honestly believes they are due. without fear or favor." JUDGE B. C. BRANCH Instructor in Judging JUDGE BRANCH is one of the best Judges in the United States. He judges more shows each season than any other Judge in America, and therefore is regarded as the most popular Judge in this country. He has officiated at many State Fairs, State Shows, and also Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Denver, Memphis, Des Moines and many other leading shows. He was one of the topnotchers at the Great Panama- Pacific Poultry Exhibition. Judge Branch is a member and chairman of the Standard Revision Committee that revises and publishes llie "Standard of Perfection." He is President of the Missouri Poultry Breeders' Association and holds many other prominent positions in the poul- try world. Judge Branch aided us in preparing our judging course and no poultryman in this country is in a bet- ter position to know what is needed in this course than is Judge Branch. The following letters show something of Mr. Branch's ability and his efficient work in the interest of more and better poultry: "Now that the Exposition is closing and we have an opportunity for a retro- spective view I feel that one of the things for which the Exposition deserves credit is the character, ability and efficiency of the men who made up the Interna- tional Jury of Awards, as it applied to the Department of Live Stock. "It has been my good fortune to be connected with many live stock shows, but in all my experience I have never known the judges to come so near to giving satisfaction to all the exhibitors E - c * branch as you and your confreres at San Fran- Lee's Summit, Mo. Cisco. The Exposition naturally set a very high standard in its selection of judges and the fact that you measured up to that standard is a source of much gratification to the Exposition and to this Department. "I desire to convey my personal thanks not only for the work you did at San Francisco but for your courtesy to and patience with exhibitors." — D. 0. Lively, Chief of the Department of Live Stock, San Francisco. He is one of the officers and leading members of the National Judges Association and served for years on the Executive Board of the American Poultry Association. Page Thirty-six American Poult r y School, Kansas City, Mo. JOHN H. ROBINSON Special Advisor on Selection, Mating and Breeding Problems for this School T.HE most vital problem facing any poultryman is that of breeding. Without the correct foundation you cannot build a flock of layers, breeders or winners. Perhaps the greatest authority on this subject is John H. Robinson, formerly with the United States Department of Agri- culture. His advice on this subject is of inestimable value to every student of this School. His book on the "Fundamentals of Poultry Breeding" is used in some of our courses and he is employed by this school as special advisor for our students on selection for egg production, mating and breed- ing problems. He has lectured on poultry subjects at institutes, poultry association meet- ings, agricultural colleges and schools and commercial meetings in sixteen States and Provinces.. Has been either breeding standard poultry himself or associated in an advisory way with other breeders almost continually since 1890. Living for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury in the section where interest in the breeding of standard poultry first developed and where it has been most intense, it has been his privilege to know well nearly all the men who have in the last fifty years been eminent in the breeding of standard poultry and to get the benefits of their experience at first-hand. His present connection with the Re- liable Poultry Journal Publishing Com- pany brings him constantly in touch with the leading breeders of poultry in all varieties, giving him exceptional opportunities to get their views on everything relating to the production and improvement of standard poultry. He began poultry keeping when seven years old and at twelve was familiar with the contents of Wright's Practi- cal Poultry Keeper and a regular reader of the old Poultry World. In 1879 with a younger brother he began plans to go into poultry keeping "tor a living," but the removal of the family to another city made it necessary for them to sell out within a year. After graduating from college in 1890, he went to Colorado and for the next seven years was engaged in breeding standard poultry for exhibi- tion and table purposes. During the latter part of this period he was a regular contributor to Farm Poultry. In 1897 he sold out his poultry, with the exception of a few breeding birds, and moved to Massachusetts, where for the next two years he divided his time between work on Farm Poultry and writing "Poultry-Craft" and lecturing on poultry. In 1899 he became editor of Farm Poultry, serving in that capacity until 1916. In the war period he was in Government service as special advisor to the Department of Agriculture in the campaign to increase poultry produc- tion. Since early in 1918 he has been an associate editor of Reliable Poultry Journal, giving attention especially to matters relating to standard poultry. Since 1899 he has published the following books: Poultry-Craft, Broil- ers and Roasters, the Common Sense Poultry Doctor, First Lessons in Poul- try-Keeping, Second Lessons in Poultry-Keeping, Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture, Our Domestic Birds, How to Feed Poultry for Any Purpose with Profit, Fundamentals in Poultry Breeding, and Poultry for Exhibition Pnpp TTiirty-sevv JOHN H. ROBINSON Boston, Mass. Formerly Special Poultry Advisor (or the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, now Special Advisor for thin Scliool on Poultry Breeding Problems Author of Many Popnlnr BonkM on Poultry Culture Others Succeed "The Quisenberry Way." Why Not You? HERBERT H. KNAPP Special Instructor on Hatcheries, Baby Chick Business, and Incubation Former President International Baby Chick Association MR. KNAPP started at the age of ten vears to breed Standard-bred poultry. He picked apples a whole day for bis first Brown Leghorn cockerel, worth about a quarter. He exhibited Black Langshans at the age of fifteen years. At the same time he was interested in a Laying Contest conducted for boys and girls by a farm paper, and spent the most of his time building c hick en coops and equipment. Since then, Mr. Knapp has bred all of the popular varieties of fowls. While in business at Tiro, Ohio, he came in contact with the first Baby Chick Hatchery that was established in OhWi. Upon his first visit he immediately saw the wonderful possibilities of its develop- ment into a great industry. He finally in- duced two other fellow townsmen who were fanciers to join him and a small hatchery, with an incubator capacity of 8,000 eggs, was built for the initial effort. The plant was enlarged from year to year until the war came on when the total ca- pacity of the machines was 188,000 eggs. In 1918 Mr. Knapp resigned his position! as Secretary and General Manager of the] Tiro plant and removed to Shelby, OhiS, to establish another modern hatchery in connection with extensive breeding yards. Mr. Knapp has always believed that, the highest laying qualities should be bred into hatchery chicks and is now devoting a great deal of his attention to his breed- ing yards of high producing foundation stock. To Mr. Knapp is given a large amount of the credit in the establishment of the present extensive mail-order Baby Chick business and placing it upon a safe basis of operation. He was also largely instrumental in the develop- ment of the wholesale trade in chicks, having placed the first chicks in Ten Cent Stores in 1911, later inducing dealers in other lines to feature them where they could be sold at better prices. After the trade was well established he put his attention to the improvement of quality both in egg production and Standard requirements — through his efforts but few hatch- eries produce anything but pure bred chicks. In 1916 he suggested to his fellow hatchery men that an organization be formed. This was done in August of that year at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Knapp was also instrumental during the war period in preserving the industry, as the transportation of chicks by express with safety was im- possible. Mr. Knapp went to Washington and induced the Post Master General to try out the method of sending baby chicks by Parcel Post for one year. Millions of baby chicks are now sent by mail and the service is a permanent one. He did valuable work in many ways in helping save the poultry industry during the war. Mr. Knapp was selected by the American Council of the World's Poultry Congress to represent the Baby Chick industry of the United States at the Hague, Netherlands, in 1921. Mr. Knapp says: "There are wonderful opportunities today for be- ginners. They can avoid costly errors by profiting by the experience of others. Poultry Schools and Correspondence Courses make the poultry business safe for the beginner and a sure source of profit for any one who puts such advice into practice. I would not advise any one who has not been accustomed to the poultry business to start until they avail themselves of the best information that it is possible to obtain " Page Thirty-eight HERBERT H. KNAPP Shelby, Oblo American Poult ry School, K ansas City, Mo. JUDGE WALTER BURTON Advisory Member of Faculty From the South MR. BURTON is one of the oldest and most reliable poultry breeders of the Great South, having spent a lifetime in the business. Judge Burton has bred a great many of the Standard varieties and is now an extensive breeder of White Wyandottes and interested in the best hatchery in Texas. Judge Burton has done more for the advancement of pure bred poultry tn the South than any other one man. He Judges at many of the leading shows, such as the Heart of America, Missouri State, Oklahoma State, Louisiana State, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth. Houston, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Gal- veston, El Paso, and numerous other shows. Judge Burton has built up the best exhibit of poultry at the Texas State Fair of any state in the Great Western or Southern StateB, and is also the Hub in the Wheel of the Texas State Show. Many things could be said in reference to the great work of this eminent Judge. The fact that the Government called on him to do extension work for them is also proof of his ability as a poultryman. On account of his special fitness along poultry lines he is another cog in the wheel of our unparalleled staff from whom the stu- dents of our School profit when they cast tVieir lot with us. No man in the South is better qualified to give advice that will help our students in that section than is Mr. Bur- ton. He is a Director of the American Poultry! Association; Superintendent of the State Fair' of Texas, the largest poultry show south of Kansas City, which he built from 600 entries to 4,000; Secretary Premier Poultry Show, Texas' largest winter poultry show, which he built from 1,000 to 2,500 entries in three shows; Editor and Manager of the Texas of- fice of the "OK" Poultry Journal, published at Mounds, Oklahoma. He was once the largest breeder of ducks in Texas, only work is poultry and he gives all his time to it. ■WALTER BURTON Arlington, Texas J. A. HANSOiN Advlxui y Member of Faculty of this School, Formerly With the Oregon Agricul- tural College, Owner Hanson's "College View" Poultry Farm WE are fortunate indeed in having associated with this School as mem- bers of our faculty some of the greatest poultrymen living — men who are the most successful poultrymen in the world. Among this number we are fortunate in having Mr. J. A. Hanson, of Corvallis, Oregon, who has consented to act in an advisory capacity on poul- try feeding, breeding, and farm management problems and Pacific Coast conditions. ' In speaking of his wonderful record made with his own poultry, the Country Gentleman said of him, "One of the best, perhaps the very best, poultrymen is Mr. Hanson." It was through lectures made by Prof. Quisenberry at the Missouri University during 1911 that Mr. Hanson became interested in the chicken business. He grad- uated from the Missouri University at the close of that year. He then worked on the Yesterlaid Egg Farm at Pacific, Mo. He later ac- cepted a position with Prof. James Dryden at the Oregon Agricultural College on their CoHeee Poultry Farm and Experiment Station. Several months later he be- came manfeer of a large poultry farm in the vicinity of Portland, Ore., where he soKId manf practtcal foultry problems so successfully that he decided to go into businesT for himself. As a result, in 1913 he returned to Corvallis, Ore and rented a defunct Soul try farm of thirty acres, one mile from the Oregon Agricultural College where he started the "College View" Poultry Farm. With a beginning of $1,000 capital he raised 600 good pullets, and after seven vears^ work and study on his own farm has increased his property, holdings, and wealth^ a value of more than * 40 ' 000 ' outside ° f earning a liberal living expense for the entire time. pngp Thirtv _„ inr The Proof — Read What Our Students Say Beginning with the Oregon Agricultural College strain of White Leghorns, he built up a strain that have averaged more than 200 eggs for four consecutive years and 221 eggs as a flock average for the past two years. More than this, he won the first All-Northwest Contest at Pullman, Washington, and has been a winner in every Contest in which he has made entries, having made entries in various Contests, in Washington, British Colum- bia, the All-Northwest, and the Califor- nia International Egg Laying Contests. At the present time he has three pens in various Contests, five pullets laying 122 eggs dur- ing November and winning prizes for the greatest value of eggs laid during that month. At the present time Mr. Hanson owns the largest poultry farm and the largest hatchery in the state of Oregon. Prof. Dryden of the Oregon Agricultural College in writing of Mr. Hanson said: "That a flock of eleven hun- dred layers will lay for their owner seven hundred eggs, lacking five, on Thanksgiving Day, with eggs at 75 cents a dozen, is not only a cause for thanksgiving, but the perform- ance comes pretty near demonstrating to those who understand something of 'the egg- laying characteristic' the fact that the par- ticular flock that performed the feat was a good laying flock with very few slackers and many star performers. Moreover, this single- day performance will be accepted by those who understand something of 'the egg-laying characteristic' as circumstantial evidence that the remarkable story of the Oregon poultry- man who owns the flock has some founda- tion." Can any one be in a better position to ren- der service to our students than are these successful men who are not theorists but are J. A. HANSON actually operating the greatest poultry farms CoTvallis, Oregon in the world. White Hill Demonstration Farm Progress is truly the watchword of the hour at White Hill Farms, Lit- tle Blue, Missouri, owned by Wm. Shands and conducted by him with the assistance of his wife. Out from beauttfml Kansas City over winding paved roads, through rolling hills and picturesque scenes, you travel some fifteen miles to the sequestered nook where Mr. Wm. Shands has selected his quiet retreat from the noise of the city and where he has not only built his own domestic nest, but where also he has constructed innumerable houses for as fine a flock of S. C. White Leghorns as can be found anywhere in our broad land. Mr. Shands is also a graduate of this School and carries a flock of five to ten thousand White Leghorns. On his place are bred some of the best exhibition White Leghorns that can be found in this country. He is also selecting and breeding for egg production. There are but few farms in the United States where such a large flock of fine, healthy, exhibition White Leghorns can be seen on one farm — all because of the practical methods that are used by Mr. Shands. fage Forty American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. Our Three Canadian Advisors These three prominent Canadian poultrymen were highly recommended to us by Professor W. R. Graham, of the Ontario Agricultural College. We do not believe that three better or more successful men could he found in Canada to advise our students than the three which we have se- lected. H. K. Kevell, Goderich, Ontario, Canada. MR.REVELL has been a poultry lec- turer for the Ontario Department of Agriculture and has been of great assistance to poultrymen in that province. Following his graduation from the Ontario Agricultural College he specialized in poul- try. He keeps from one to two thousand Barred Rocks and White Leghorns. He is a close student of poultry problems and has been a most successful breeder. Lewis N. Clark, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Mr. L. N. Clark was born in this coun- try and educated in Civil Engineering. For several years he was employed in the Engineering Department of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. The last twelve years he has devoted entirely to poultry farming and his farms have now grown to such proportions that his annual output is more than a million and a half eggs 100,000 day-old baby chicks, and 80,000 pounds of dressed poultry. He owns the largest and most successful egg farm in Canada. In his seven years' conduct of his business as a poultryman not a single customer has been lost through dissatisfaction. He breeds prize winning and heavy laying Barred Rocks and White Leghorns. J. W. Clark, Cainsville, Ontario, Canada. Mr. J. W. Clark has been a constant breeder and exhibitor of Buff Or- pingtons for more than twenty years. He also breeds the pedigreed laying strain of Barred Rocks as used by the Ontario Agricultural College. He is a breeder of such ability and skill that he won first cockerel on his Orpingtons three different times at Madison Square Garden. At Canadian Shows he has won hundreds of leading prizes. He is a competent judge of all varie- ties of fowls and is the oldest and largest breeder in Canada of Orpingtons. H. K. KEVELL Goderich, Ontario, Canada t*PP "R lg$ m WOULD NEVER PART WITH COURSE "I have a flock of White Wyandottes that laid at the age of five months, raised the 'Quisenberry Way,' which makes every hen pay. I am very much pleased with the books I have received from you. for they are of such great help and of such great value to me that I would never part with them." — Mar. tin Krohn, Illinois. Page Forty-one We Help A. P. S. Studen ts to Succeed DEATH CLAIMS TWO ADVISORS The past season we have lost two of our valuable advisors and assistants. These two men have been instrumental in revolutionizing two phases of the poul- try business. J. RAY CORLISS MR. CORLISS was known as the world's poultry king - . He oper- ated the largest poultry farm in the world with over forty thousand hens. As President of the Poultry Pro- ducers of southern California he was a leader in co-operative marketing - and did much to develop the reputation of the California egg. His untimely death occurred in the midst of his usefulness May, 1921. Shortly before his death when asked what he thought of the present poultry outlook, he said: "The question uppermost in every poultryman's mind at the present is, are the good times of the last three years going to continue or end in a slump like that facing the grain men. wool men, potato and onion men, and thousands of other industries? This question has been asked me many times of late, and I have spent much time coming to a decision satisfactory to myself. I have had to take into con- sideration conditions on this Coast, in the Great Middle West, and in the far East, where our products must seek an outlet. "MR. POULTRTMAN, you have nothing to fear. With lower prices for grain and mill feeds, with an abun- dance of labor at your command will- ing to do an honest day's toil for a rea- sonable wage, your future is assured. But best of all, your great co-operative marketing associations will see that you will get for your eggs every cent J. RAY CORLISS, Petaluma, Cal. to which you are entitled, whether in storage time or in the dead of winter. In short, the opportunity which confronts you is one unparalleled in the poultry industry. If you have a good flock of poultry and use reasonable intelligence in their care, your success is assured." WALTER HOGAN THE death of Mr. Hogan occurred Febru- ary, 1921, and in his death the world lost the originator of the best system of se- lecting layers. Mr. Hogan assisted Mr. Quisenberry in preparing one of the lessons offered by this chool. This knowledge was so new, so revo- lutionary, so far-reaching, so conclusive, that it set all the Government and State poultry authorities and experts to work on the idea. It set them to investigating and they finally found that the best layers in a flock could be saved and the poor layers and slackers could be culled out by an examination of the ex- ternal characteristics of a hen. Mr. Quisen- berry and this School were the first to take up this idea and promote it and improve upon it. BUT ONCE IN A CENTURY is a discov- ery made which revolutionizes an industry as this idea has done. The full details in plain and terse lan- guage are given in this lesson, so that you can understand and apply to your own poul- try work the result of all this. Under the touch of his magic hand the secret of select- ing the laying hen and of culling out the non-producer stands revealed — secrets, the value of which cannot be estimated in dol- lars and cents — secrets which have enabled hundreds of thousands of poultrymen to double their profits in a single year. Mr. Quisenberry took the Idea and improved upon It so that it never fails. -♦^•s*- VVALTER HOGAN Petaluma. Calif. fage Forty-two Americ an Poultry S chool, Kansas City, Mo. AMERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL COURSES THE American Poultry School offers three different Courses. The reason we offer the Courses in this way is in response to the desires that have have come to us repeatedly from many people. Course A is a Course on Practical Poultry-Raising, Care and Manage- ment, which covers all the branches of the poultry business, except the judg- ing of poultry. This Course consists of thirty-eight complete lessons, con- tained in 24 books, and includes unlimited help and advice from our faculty of experts. No other school offers a Course that equals this one. It sells for less than similar courses which other schools have tried to imitate but it contains ten times the information. Our secrets, methods and courses are all copyrighted by the U. S. Government so they cannot be copied by other schools. This is the only placed the world where you can get our methods which have enabled thousands to succeed and get pleasure and double the profit from their poultry. Course B is a Judging and Breeding Course and is intended for those who are students of the Standard, also those desiring information on mating, breeding, exhibiting, advertising and selling Standard-bred poultry. This Course consists of twenty-five complete lessons. This Course was prepared and is given und«r the direction of the best licensed poultry judges on this continent. It also includes personal help for each student. Course C is a combined Course of the two above Courses and contains all that is in both Courses. This Course consists of fifty-three complete les- sons, and is the most complete Course on Poultry ever offered by any insti- tution. This Course will give the students a complete knowledge of all branches of Poultry Culture, and the personal help of the world's greatest poultry farmers, specialists, experts and judges. A. P, S. STUDENTS COME PROM EVERY WALK IN LIFE It can be said, without fear of successful contradiction, that no industry, no single occupation, is so universally attractive as the poultry business. It appeals to the old and the young, the rich and the poor, alike. This state- ment is-amply borne out by the list of occupations represented by those who enroll in the" American School of Poultry Husbandry. The last 100 students who' enrolled before this prospectus went to press came from 52 different walks- of life; their occupations varied from boys who drove delivery wagons, to college presidents and railway managers. In age the above 100 students ranged from 12 to 82 years. No matter who you are, where you live, or what your present circumstances, you can succeed in this fascinating busi- ness if you are willing to be guided by the knowledge and experience of others who have been "over the road." DIRECTED BY SUCCESSFUL POULTRYMEN This School is owned, operated and controlled by practical poultry men and women. The above officers and instructors are paid members of our faculty and serve in an advisory capacity, most of whom are actually on the job and being paid for every minute of their time in devoting their knowledge to the best interests of our students, answering their questions, giving them helpful advice, and serving them in a way that assures their success. In addition to these, our Board of Directors includes such poultry- men as T L. Ricksecker, one of America's best breeders of Single Comb Rhode Island Reds; E. E. Johnston, President of the Kansas City Poultry Club and former President of the Heart of America Poultry Show ; and Paul Challis, a practical poultryman, who has made a success of a White Leg- horn commercial egg farm for six successive years. This is a practical School, owned, controlled and directed by practical poultry men and women who have your interests entirely at heart. Page Forty-three Why Set Eggs and Get Poor Hatches? SYNOPSIS OF LESSONS IN THE COMPLETE PRACTICAL COURSE "A." LESSONS NOS. 1 AND 3 The Principles of Poultry House Construction IN LESSON No. 1 the fundamental problems which must be solved In building any poultry houses are taken up and thoroughly discussed. Some of these problems are location, capacity, shape and size, foundation and floor, style of roof, light, ventilation, etc. After discussing the principles and problems of poultry-house construction, Lesson No. 2 shows how to properly apply these principles by giving students complete working plans for colony houses, breeding-houses, laying-houses, together with trap-nests, feed-hoppers, and necessary equipment. Full description and plans of the famous "Quisenberry Fool Proof" houses. Jlouses are each illustrated and described and give the automatic nature of the ventilating system. These lessons also deal with yards and yarding, and plans so that you can rotate crops and alternate yards and always have fresh soil for your poultry to range over and fresh green food to eat. Complete information on how and when to use the Colony System, Con- tinuous House System, Semi-intensive System and Combination System. How and where to locate the poultry houses. How to arrange the buildings to save labor and expense. How to plan and estimate the amount of housing space, roost space and floor space needed for any number of fowls of any variety. New ideas in poultry house construction that you can get nowhere else. Front view of a Quisenberry Fool-Proof Colony House, showing- top sash raised and exits open. An ideal house for back lot poultry raising. Complete plans for building this house and adapting- it to any climate or to any section of the country are given in our books and lessons on "Poultry House Con- struction. LOCATING AND EQUIPPING YOUR FARM We teach you how to select the site for your farm, features to be avoided and to be desired. Location is everything, and you might as well get a good site as a poor one. We show you how to build your houses at a mini- mum of cost and a maximum of efficiency. Costly, fancy and elaborate houses never made a successful poultry farm, Our houses are not only eco- Vage Forty-four American Poult ry Sch ool, Kansas City, Mo. nomical to build but they give you the most advanced ideas in poultry house construction. They are perfectly ventilated throughout, easily cleaned and mean healthy flocks. They cannot be improved upon and are the re- sults of countless experiments and tests and actual use upon thousands of farms. They will save you many times the cost of the course and give you houses that are right in every particular. Many styles of poultry houses are described for your information and benefit. We tell you the good and bad points in all and save you money in the construction of them. The equipment, the ventilation, and everything about the above house is automatic and fool-proof. SAVED COST of course: "I am frank to admit that you have revolutionized my ideas of poultry house construction. If I had taken this Course before building my houses, I could have more than saved the cost of my entire Course. I am going to pull them down and build 'Fool-Proof houses with the same lumber." — Llewelyn Miles, California. WORTH PRICE OP COURSE "Your lessons on 'Poultry House Con- struction alone are worth at least the price of the entire Course." — John Spel- gel, Michigan. VENTILATION SYSTEM BEST "The shutter ventilator is to the hen house what the 'block system' of sig- nals is to the railroad — it doesn't de- pend on the fallibility of human mem- ory or judgment for correct use; it is always there and in working order, no matter what the weather is." — Mrs. B. M. Greaves, New Jersey. NOTHING COMPARES WITH IT "I believe you have solved the prob- lem of ventilation with your 'Fool- Proof Poultry House. I have spent considerable time and money reading and buying books called 'Practical Poultry House Construction,' but have yet to find a book that can be nompared with yours." — L. J. Anderson, Pennsyl- vania. EASILY BUILT "By your plain instruction in Les- sons 1 and 2, I have been able to build my own house without a carpenter and thereby saved the price of the Course with this one lesson.". — Fred Wetzel, Indiana.- HOUSE IS IDEAL "I do not care to accept anything too flat-footedly, but I believe now after more than a year's experience with the original Fool-Proof HoUse, and the study of other types of houses, together with some experience in their use, that I can frankly state that the Improved Fool-Proof House is about Ideal. Ex- perience is the proof" — S. S. Schooley, Kansas. LESSONS NOS. 3 AND 4 Modern Poultry Houses In these lessons there is still a further application of the principles of poultry-house construction discussed in the previous lessons. The student is familiarized with other popular and practical styles of poultry houses such as the "Hendwell," the "Tolman Fresh Air House," the "Corning House," the "Woods Open-front House," and houses suited to every climate and con- Page Forty-five Don't Kill the Laying Hen dition. These houses are each illustrated and criticised, both pro and con, making a lesson of great importance in giving the student a broad working knowledge of the general subject of poultry housing. How to plan the dimensions of the house to save lumber. The depth and height of the; house and the amount of open space needed for any sec- tion of the country. How to decide on the kind of house to build to suit your needs and conditions. The actual working plans, specifications, and bills of material for the construction of the Standard Types of Houses. The kind of house suitable for a cold climate, a hot climate or a temperate climate. Cost of building-economy. Time to build, selection of building materials. How to order lumber. How to estimate the amount of lumber needed, hardware, nails, etc. An easy way to lay out the foundation. How to build the foundation. How to build the framework of the poultry house. How to build the roof, the walls, the windows and openings. Remodeling old houses. How to construct floors, partitions and ventilators. Where and how to build dropping boards, roosts, broody coops, etc. You will find this one of the best lessons in the Course. House for 1,000 hens designed by Mr. Quieenberry. Most satisfactory house in existence for a large flock. Saves labor and makes it possible for one man to care for thousands of hens. BEST EVER SAW "I have been in the building business for thirty years, but your lesson on Poultry House Construction is the best I ever saw." — B. M. Wiggin, Kansas. INSTRUCTIVE FOR ALL "Tour Lessons 3 and 4 are very in- structive. It's a big value to one con- templating the building of poultry houses, the old timer as well as the amateur." — Roland Thomson, South Carolina. A GOLD MINE "I am absolutely delighted with the knowledge obtained from your house lessons, and I sincerely consider the same A GOLD MINE for anyone who wishes to succeed." — J. E. Beauchamp, Canada. LESSON NO. 5 Poultry Equipment, Appliances and Accessories Dollars can be saved every month in the year, as well as much time and trouble, if the poultryman is properly equipped with up-to-date, prac- tical home-made, labor-saving appliances and accessories. This important lesBon is almost entirely devoted to photographs, drawings, and directions for making trap-nests, feed-hoppers, water fountains, "hen calabooses" (broody coops), flreless and hot air brooders, incubators, shipping and ex- Page Forty-six American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. ■en — — — — The right kind of nest encourages the hens to lay. Tou can save by building many of your own appliances. A splendid Trap-Nest. We can show you simple methods of building your own hoppers, nests, fountains, broody coops and other equipment. hibiting coops, etc., etc. This lesson alone, will save anyone who can wield a hammer and saw the price of the entire Course. You will get plans and ideas that will be of great practical value to you in your work. The proper size and construction of nests, dust boxes, water platforms. Where to place and how to construct trap-nests and the number of nests necessary for any given number of fowls. What you should know about yards, fences and posts. The size of yards necessary. How to build fences and gates. The proper way to clip the wing to prevent fowls from flying. How to build brood coops for hen and chicks. How to build such equip- ment as storage bins for feed, feed hoppers, feeding frames and other feed- ing equipment. How you can build these things chpaply and quickly al home. How you can easily build your own oat sprouter. Do you know how to make hoppers that absolutely prevent the birds from wasting feed? Do you know how to save by making practically all your own appliances and equipment? VERY IMPORTANT LESSON "Enclosed find answer to poultry Equipment, Appliances and Accessories. This is a very important lesson and many points in it are worth knowing. — S. E. Hostetter, Virginia. LESSONS ARE GREAT "You have several lessons worth tn» price of the Course. I cannot say that any lesson I have received is not worth the entire price of the Course." — W. S. Townsend, Texas. WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD "Enclosed find Lesson No. 5. These lessons are worth their weight in gold." — O. M. Slahy. Illinois. Every Chick You Lose Costs You 50c lessons nos. 6 and 7 Breeds and Varieties of Poultry Every poultryman does have or should have a choice as to varieties of poultry which he desires to use. He ought to love the variety he uses bet- ter than any other one variety; he ought to know all about that variety — just how it was originated, how it should be mated to get the best color and shape, and just how to handle and breed that variety to get the greatest number of eggs and the largest number of choice birds. While it is not necessary for every poultryman to be an expert poultry judge, yet he should have a general knowledge of the various breeds of poultry — their origin, chief characteristics, utility qualities, etc. This in- formation will be given you in the form of the highest authority possible. All about the history, origin and classification of poultry. How to select the right breed for your purpose. A full description off all Standard breeds of poultry. You are told the purpose for which each of these breeds and varieties are best suited. The time it takes them to mature and start laying. The Standard weights for each of these breeds. Why Standard-bred poultry will pay you more than mixed breeds, for it costs no more to house, feed and care for good poultry than for poor if you follow our methds. WORTH TWICE THE MONEY "I would not exchange the knowledge gained so far from the A. P. S. for twice the money it cost me. The poul- try house construction, the baby- chick lesson, feeds and feeding, the breeds and varie- 1L5> "2J' "^J*- tP" '■>£" ties of fowls are easily learned There are good and bad points to all varle- from your Course; and I am ties and breeds. Tou ought to know them. Ton glad I am one of your stu- should learn how to breed out the bad points dents. — E. W. Determan, 111. an -J ■feU I mm w3&t. . '-<-:/f: istJjH '<<*» • * wsmtimk **%***$<. "% Imk w&**& WORTH $1,000 PER YEAR TO HIM "If I were asked what the course was worth to me it would be hard for me to tell. I know the course is worth $1,000.00 a year in cash, and all the other good things in addition, so con- sider that I was very lucky when I wrote you asking for particulars about your School." — A. Rothwell, Florida. Page Seventy American Poultry Scho ol, Kan sas City, Mo. SYNOPSIS OF LESSONS IN POULTRY JUDGING— COURSE B TJ?-^Si URSB! 7 U1 S J V ? yo *. u aU the formation and training necessary to enable you to go into the show room and judge all varieties of poul- try successfully and satisfactorily, or to breed and sell same. Hundreds and hundreds of facts will be brought to your attention and made perfectly plain— facts that you can get in no other literature or in any other school After completing this Course, and then getting some actual experience in handling and scoring a few live birds of different varieties, and successfully Judging pure bred poultry. It is a good thing to know the good and bad points of all varieties. Do you know how tc mate to breed this kind of a wing or how much to cut it if you were judging? applying the knowledge you have gained, you ought to soon make a reputa- tion for yourself as a poultry judge, and be able to earn hundreds of dollars each season in addition to your other income. The judging season is usually during the dull season in other lines of poultry work. There would be more shows if there were more good judges. As the interest in poultry grows, there is going to be an increasing demand for poultry judges. Many shows are today forced to take very inferior judges because the demand is m,uch greater than the supply. After you have com- pleted this Course, have learned how to interpret the "Standard of Perfec- tion," know what cuts to make and the "whys and wherefores" for same, and after you have officiated at a few small fairs or shows and have given reasonable satisfaction at those places, we feel certain that you will soon be able to secure practically all the judging work you care to do and at good prices. The net profit on one poultry show will nearly pay for the cost of this entire Judging Course. Whether you wish to do much judging or not, faffe Sevm4y-one There Is Always a Right and a Wrong Way this Course will enable you to understand your own variety better and be more successful in breeding it. The demand was never greater and the opportunity for success as a poul- try judge never more certain than at the present time. There are but few, if any, men judging poultry at the present time who have ever had any systematic training before attempting to judge. Most of them have simply worked out a system themselves; that is one reason there as so many systems and so much dissatisfaction in the show room. It took these men years and they had many hard knocks and had to take many insults before they were really able to understand their subject and to give satisfaction. This Course will help you over these rough places and make success quicker and more certain. ARE YOU SELLING $15 BIRDS FOR $5 OR $5 BIRDS FOR $15? ARE YOU FORCED TO EAT GOOD BREEDING BIRDS BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SELL THEM? Let us solve these problems for you. We guarantee to make you a successful breeder, judge and salesman of Standard Bred Poultry or refund your money. If you are going to mate a bird you want to know that it will reproduce its quality, or better. If you are going to sell a bird you want to know how to pick birds that will satisfy your customers and remain sold. If you are going to buy a bird, you want to know that you are getting your money's worth. If you are going to exhibit a bird, you want to be able to pick a winner. If you are going to judge a class, you want to satisfy the exhibitors. This Course makes all of these problems easy for you. BEGINNERS OR EXPERIENCED MUST HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE You need to know the good and bad points if you are to prove a success in the business of raising, breeding, exhibiting and selling birds of high quality. This knowledge of how the judges apply the Standard to all other varieties, as well as your own, will develop and broaden your own experi- ence and prove a great help to you. You will find the instruction very plain and easily understood, but most complete. It will prove one of the biggest and best investments you ever made. One of our instructors, Judge Branch, giving a demonstration in Judging. THOROUGH TRAINING FOR THE EXPERT — NEVER TOO WISE TO LEARN You may be an old breeder, or even a judge of poultry, yet you will find these lessons so well systematized and so broad and comprehensive that you will be able to do your work much better and with greater ease. Re- member that this instruction is the result of the experiences of a group of Page Seventy-two Americ an Poultry Sc hool, Kansas City, Mo. six of the world's best experts, brought into a compact, complete and syste- matic course of judging, selecting, breeding and selling. You will learn just the "Know How" that causes these judges to be re-employed at the world's leading shows year after year. They furnish all the real "inside" information on how to be a successful salesman, judge, breeder and ex- hibitor. THE FACTS INSURE YOUR SUCCESS This Course will give you all the information and training necessary to enable you to select, mate, breed, and sell, or to go into the show room and judge your variety, and all other varieties of poultry, successfully and satisfactorily. Hundreds and hundreds of facts will be brought to your attention and made perfectly plain — facts that you cannot get in other literature or from any other school. Whether you wish to do much judging or not, this Course will enable you to understand your own variety better and be more successful in breeding it. The demand for good poultry was never greater and the opportunity for success as a poultry judge never more certain than at the present time. SOME OF THE MANY THINGS YOU WILL LEARN TO DO Knowledge is power in poultry breeding, as in all other things. Thou- sands are striving to breed and select birds that will win and lay. Thousands upon thousands of others want to buy from birds that will do both. These customers want to buy from one who knows how to breed and select the win- ning and laying bird. They must have confidence in your knowledge and ability to select and breed this kind. You can get and hold the confidence of these buyers only by really and truly knowing how to pick, select and judge your own birds, as well as the birds of others. This instruction covers all the subjects that the experts know; shapes of all breeds, weight, size, style, symmetry, colors of all varieties and their qualifications; selecting for egg production; details explaining the values that should be given all defects; what you should not do as well as what you should do to be successful in selecting exhibition specimens, and how to construe differences in the Stand- ard. All these are fully described, with many illustrations. A thousand valuable pointers for you. LESSONS NOS. 6 AND 7 Breeds and Varieties of Poultry Before you even begin to study judging, it is necessary that you be well acquainted with the different varieties of poultry. You must have a general knowledge of the various breeds of poultry — their origin, chief character- istics, utility qualities, etc. The facts contained in these lessons are the same as those given in Lessons Nos. 6 and 7 of the "Practical Poultry Course." Read the description of them. LESSONS NOS. 8 AND 9 Principles of Mating and Breeding If a judge is going to tie the ribbons and award the prizes according to the real merits of each specimen, he should understand Nature's l,aws and the principles of mating and breeding. In determining the real value of any specimen, the judge should know the most important and serious defects, and which are dominant and will be transmitted and which will not. He ought to be able to talk to the exhibitors intelligently on the principles of breeding and be able to advise them about their matings. These facts will aid him in judging and also add to his popularity in the show room. These lessons are the same as Lessons Nos. S and 9 of the "Practical Poultry Course." Read the description of them. LESSONS NOS. 10 AND 11 Selection and Breeding For Egg Production It is very important that every poultry judge knows something about the selecting and breeding of fowls for egg production. The best known method of telling the laying hen from the non-productive hen is explained fully in clear, concise language, and the latest and best information on this Page Seventy-three We Guarantee Your Success With Poultry vital subject is given in these two lessons. You are told just how to judge the very best producers without the use o£ a trap-nest. You are told defi- nitely how to select the drones and given facts which are worth hundreds of dollars to any poultry raiser or poultry judge. LESSON NO. 24 Establishing a Profitable Trade in Pure-Bred Poultry If a poultry judge didn't know something about the correct methods of building up a profitable trade in pure-bred poultry, he would not be the success as a poultry judge he would be if he knew these facts and was able to give advice. A poultry judge comes in contact with hundreds of breeders in the course of a year. He can sow seed that will result in great good to the industry. He should not be a "bone-head," but he ought to be able to offer advice and talk intelligently. The facts in this lesson are the same as those contained in Lesson No. 24 of the "Practical Poultry Course." Read the description of it. LESSONS NOS. 35 AND 36 Fitting and Exhibiting Standard-Bred Poultry A poultry judge should know how to fit a bird for exhibition and should know when one is properly fitted by the exhibitor, and how much to cut for condition. He should also be able to explain all of these facts intelli- gently to the hundreds of people who will ask him questions relative to fitting and exhibiting their birds. These lessons are the same as Nos. 35 and 36 of the "Practical Poultry Course." Read the description of them. LESSON NO. 37 Poultry Leadership, Poultry Clubs, Shows, Organizations, Etc. Every poultry judge is called upon to help organize poultry shows and clubs. He ought to be able to help start and build up such organizations, as the more of them there are in existence, the more work he will be paid to do. He ought to be able to furnish them good advice when it comes to for- mulating their constitution and by-laws or to making their rules and regula- tions which are to govern their show, or preparing their premium list so as to make it attractive to the exhibitors. Every judge is called upon to do more or less of this kind of work. Many of the largest and best poultry shows in every state are managed by poultry judges. This lesson is the same as Lesson No. 37 in the "Practical Poultry Course." Read the description of it. LESSON NO. 39 The Science of Judging Poultry The qualifications and requirements of a poultry judge are made plain. We tell you just what to do to get over the rough places and how to make yourself popular as a poultry judge. Many a worthy man, and one who was thoroughly competent, has become discouraged because of criticism of his work in the show room and he gave up in disgust as a result. We make everything so simple and plain and so train you that you cannot help suc- ceeding and giving reasonable satisfaction, if you have any natural ability at all. This lesson will mean the difference between failure and success in hundreds of cases. There is not a poultry judge today who would not have been glad to have had such help as this, and paid twice the price we ask for it, but it was not available in their day and time of learning. LESSONS NOS. 40 TO 51 INCLUSIVE The American Standard of Perfection "The American Standard of Perfection" is often referred to as "The Poultryman's Bible," because it is the final authority in judging, selecting, and mating pure-bred poultry. It is a large, cloth-bound volume, illustrating and describing perfect specimens of the various breeds of poultry, including many illustrations in natural colors. A copy of the "Standard" will be fur- nished free to each student who takes this Course. We will furnish the new and revised "Standard," which is acknowledged to be the greatest Standard for pure-bred poultry ever issued in this or any other country. This "Stand- ard" will be the guide and final authority 1n all show rooms until 1923. l J age Krwnty-four American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. These lessons will be given under the personal supervision of Judges E. C. Branch, Reese V. Hicks, V. O. Hobbs and T. E. Quisenberry, five of America's best-known and most au- thoritative poultry judges. All are licensed American Poultry Associa- tion judges of all varieties, and Judge Branch is a member of the 1921 Standard Revision Committee. They are acknowledged to be five of the best posted judges in America, and have had twenty-five years' experi- ence as practical breeders of poultry. Under their guidance you will find der their guidance you will find those lessons on judging of absorb- ing interest and lasting value. No other poultry judge in America judges as many birds each year as does Judge Branch. You are taught the fine points of every variety, so that you can tie the ribbons and be able to tell your reasons for so doing. You are taught the definitions of all the technical terms in the glos- sary. You are so instructed that you can judge either by score-card or com- parison. You are taught how to decide ties and how to award sweepstakes. You are made familiar with all the disqualifications of each variety, and are shown how to locate these quickest and best. You are shown why you should cut one defect in one variety one point and the same defect in another variety two points; in other words, you are taught just how to cut for the various defects in all varieties of poultry. You are made familiar with the value of each section of the different varieties. You are so impressed that the Standard weights for each variety will not slip your memory. You are taught the scale of points for each breed. The requirements for shape and color of each variety are made familiar to you. By the time you complete the lessons and answer the questions which we will put to you, we are sure, if you have any natural ability, that you will be able to give reasonable satisfaction in almost any poultry show room. "The Standard of Perfection," or "The Poultryman's Bible," is furnished with the Judging Course, also the Com- plete Course. This is the basis of Les- sons 6 to 17. more: sensible advice "Judging' Lessons Nos. 42 to 63 in- clusive, certainly offer the- student a generous opportunity to get acquainted with the art of judging poultry. Tour assertion that you help A. P. S. stu- dents to succeed is no exaggeration, the time and money given to learn the A. P. S. method of achieving success in all branches of poultry culture brings no regrets. I am pleased to have in my possession the A. S. P. H. lessons because each and every one gives such sensible advice, free from all foolish theories. The profitable management of poultry is no longer a puzzle when the A. S. P. H. lessons are your guide. May continued popularity and prosperity be accorded the Ameri- can School of Poultry Husbandry." — Eugene J. Good, New York. THOROUGH TREATISE ON JUDGING "I mailed you last night 'Lessons on judging,' which have given me quite a bit of hard study the past two months. I believe it would be impossible to find a series of questions treating on the Standard with the thoroughness which characterizes your 'Lessons on Judging.' " — J. C. Rheinhardt, Indiana. Page Seventy-five We Guarantee More Eggs or Your Money Back LESSONS NOS. 52 TO 55 The Practice of Poultry Judging These lessons show a judge just what cuts to make for certain defects in shape and color in every section of the fowl. They cover all varieties. They make judging so plain that it is easy to apply the knowledge which the student has obtained from our other lessons on this subject. There is noth- ing in poultry literature like this book. We do not care if you are an old time judge, you will get a lot of ideas in these lessons which will make you more consistent in all your awards. This book alone will put you on the quick and sure road to judging poultry. If you are going to follow this profession you can't afford to do without it. THE JUDGE WHO GETS THE WORK The judge who is the best posted, best trained, and best equipped is almost certain to make the fewest mistakes; the judge who makes the fewest mistakes is certain to be the most popular; he will be paid the best price for his work and will be in the greatest demand. There is no school or place in this or any other country where you can get more real information about the correct method of poultry judging than in the American Poultry School. If you want to become a licensed poultry judge, you can't afford to pass up this Course. OUR GUARANTEE If you complete our Course in Poultry Judging, we offer to give you personal instructions. We give you the privilege of writing the School and receiving this personal help at any time, and we will gladly render you any assistance that we can. There will be no additional charge for this personal instruction. The same guarantee as to the money refund applies in the Judging Course as in the Practical Poultry Course. We have, that much faith in this Course. Our Diploma to you as a poultry judge will mean that you have been well and thoroughly trained; it will be equal in value to a, license, because it represents the foundation of your knowledge, and the knowledge you have gained will be a great aid to you in securing a license. Poultry judges ought to be as thoroughly and systematically trained as other live-stock judges. We don't hesitate to recommend and stand back of our Judging Course to anyone who is seeking information in that line or who desires to equip himself to judge at poultry shows. The American Poultry Associa- tion now compels the applicant for a judge's license to pass a satisfactory examination. This course will help to prepare you for the examination and to receive a license. WHY AN A. P. S. COURSE WILL PAY YOU The real good which will come to you depends entirely upon the in- creased revenue or dividends and increased knowledge and training which you will get as a result of having taken one of our Courses. There are 53 complete lessons on over 3,000 subjects, covering over 2,000 printed pages, and illustrated by over 1,000 photographs and drawings. Show your good, ordinary, common business sense by enrolling for these Courses. MADE .$ 701 .00 FROM 140 HENS "We feed your mash twice a day in long troughs, 1x4 inches. Forty or fifty hens can eat at one time at one of these troughs. The best profit I have ever made was $701.00, from June 1st to January 1st, from about 140 hens, by using- your methods." — Mrs. T. S. Howard, Kansas. Page, Reventy-si? American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. read what our graduates say That Is the Best Evidence of What We Offer and Do for Our Students WE HAVE graduated a large number of students. We are proud of our students and graduates and of the splendid records which they are making in all parts of the world. We have received unsolicited letters from every one of our graduates similar to the following: *$$* w» 00/ m mrfu iWirf BIPI,OMl . M. ■ - - ■■ ■/■ 1 £** b kf ^ t ' IK . JX-, r.,l ,, WU ■ f& % ■a,,'- L UU fl ~ PJ * A COPT OF THE DIPLOMA ISSUED BY THE SCHOOL It is a credit to anyone to possess one of these, and they are well worth striving for. WORTH FIVE TIMES COST "Let me say in regard to your Poul- try Correspondence Course that it has been highly satisfactory. I have noth- ing but commendation. After studying and teaching agriculture, including poultry work, taking a state corre- spondence course, and reviewing sev- eral of the latest complete works on the subject, I am ready to say, with emphasis, that your Course is worth many times over the best library ob- tainable. I would not part with the lessons for five times the cost if an- other set could not be obtained. The instruction is perfectly clear and pre- sented in an interesting manner. — E. H. Bills, California. HAVE HAD GOOD SUCCESS "I completed the Practical Poultry Course under your Instruction and have been putting into practice the facts I got from you, in raising my own poul- try and looking after my neighbors flocks. I feel that I've had good suc- cess " — Geo. "W. Morris. Kentucky. THIS JAPANESE STUDENT MADE GOOD "Last year one of my neighbors bought some chickens of Tom Baron's strain, paying big money f ° r them, to make a good start. But he had no knowledge of Poultry culture so I advised him to take lessons from your School, but he didn't Seed me. So I ran a race with him. Please remember that my chickens were ordinary White Leghorns, while his were "rap nested, over 200-egg layers. Both of us hatched chicks at about the same time, but my pullets started to lav eggs over a month before his did. Also I sold over half of my cockerels for breeders, while he sold none but ate un almost all of them. And now he says there is no money in chickens! This little story tells the great importance of proper knowledge. Not only this man but some others have made miserable failures."— Geo. S. Takata, Texas. Page Seventy-seven Don't Keep Poultry — Make Poultry Keep You SAVES MANY TIMES COST OF COURSE "When I heard of your School I realized what a splendid thing a course on poultry would be, as I have worked in the dark on many subjects with poultry. Since taking your course I have a great store of practical poultry knowledge which will be a great help to me and save me many times the price of the course each year from now on." — Samuel Ball, Canada. OVER $8.00 PER HEN PROFIT IN 10 MONTHS "I had 60 hens on the first of Janu- ary and from then until October 18th they laid 10,152 eggs. 60 hens on hand January lst..$ 240.00 200 baby chicks purchased 50 00 25 baby chicks purchased 28.00 1 sitting of eggs purchased.. 3.60 Cost of feed 224.97 Repairs on house 8.00 Total expenses ? 554.57 150 chickens used @ $1.00 $ 150.00 168 hens, pullets, cock birds on on hand 600.00 Eggs sold and used 300.67 Total income $1050.67 Net profit 496.10 OVER $10.00 PROFIT PER HEN "On May 15th we received 52 Black Minorca baby chicks. We raised 4 6 to STUDENTS ALL, PLEASED "I have met a number of A. P S. students and graduates in my rounds, and not one of them but feels that he has received a world of good from the course in poultry keeping. Personally I don't see how I got along without it as long as I did, although I thought I knew the chicken business rather well before I started. I have done more to get on my feet in a financial way in the year that I h.T.ve studied A. P. S. lessons than I did in the previous six or seven that I have raised pure bred poultry. When people ask me what I think of the course, I simply tell them to go to it, for if they don't get much good out of it, it will be their own fault. Anyone with ordinary intelli- Pnge Fteventi/*eiffht "I think that does very well for one of your students." — Mrs. P. W. Ham- mands, Oklahoma. broiler age. Had 31 pullets and 15 cockerels. At age of six months and seven days, November 22nd, the first pullet laid. Between then and Febru- ary 1st we had reduced the flock to 24, 23 Black Minorcas and 1 White Leg- horn, using your method of selecting the best layers. All feeding and eare given according to your methods. The following is a report of feed, eggs laid and eggs sold: 416 doz. eggs produced sold for $334.45 Feed cost 81. .20 Net profit $253.25 "All eggs fit to sell were recorded, no broken eggs nor soft shell eggs were counted." — Mrs. Thomas Loechner, New York. gence ought to get their money's worth time and time again. I wasn't any brighter than the ordinary run, but folks regard me as a poultry expert around here." — W. C. Smith, Indiana. A_MEB_i_gA n Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. ALWAYS READY TO HELP 18 aiwavs h ™L i8 3us t what y° u ^y, it dents to J, eady J to hel P A - P- S- «tu- co?d?ne to UCOeed> and if th «y so ao- sScceef" \J?F r teachings thai will vania. —Wilbur McMillan. Penneyl- CREDIT FOR MY SUCCESS „ "Have just finished a Successful Poultry Season. I wish to let you know that I give all credit for my suc- cess to the American School of Poul- try Husbandry, for by using the know- ledge I gained by the close study of the lessons received, the above result was possible." — E. H. Hake, Missouri. BEST VALUE EVER RECEIVED "This is the best value I have ever received for United States currency. I do not see how any one can fail in the poultry business after taking your Poultry Course." — Sergeant William Stott, Pennsylvania. PROUD OP SCHOOL. "It is a pleasure to say that I am a graduate of your school, and I say it with pride." — M. B. Sibole, Minnesota. DOING GREAT WORK "I was very much elated to get my new diploma, which I prize very much. I think your school is doing a great work, and hope it shall continue." — Joseph D. Henderson, Ohio. BEEN WONDER TO ME "I have had much pleasure in study- ing. I am proud that I took your Course, as it has been a wonder." — A. S. Ralph, New Jersey. CANNOT BE VALUED IN DOLLARS "The new diploma at hand. It is a beauty and does credit to your School. I am simply proud to be its possessor and to know that I honestly earned it by many hours of hard work. It is my purpose to be a credit to your School and its Course of Study. The knowl- edge gained can not be counted in dol- lars and cents, and then the lessons are available at all times as a reference library to guide in any perplexing problems that may come up." — M. V. Woodcox, Michigan. THANKFUL FOR COURSE "I have received the diploma you sent me for which I thank you very much. I will always be proud of the same and will always think of the School and thank you for the good in- structions I received therefrom. I shall always be thankful to you for what you have done for me." — P. L Laurene, Michigan. 1,500 HENS CLEARED $3.04 EACH "This flock of 1,500 hens last year showed a profit of $3.04 per hen. Not so bad, eh. for one of your students?" — Li. M. Lottridge, New Tork. PROUD OF COURSE "My Course has been one that I am proud of." — Claud Bonner, New Tork. LETTER HELPFUL TO STUDENTS "I think if every student will put into practice what they are taught through your Course and use good judgment they are bound to succeed in the poultry business. I have found every lesson very Interesting and help- ful, and am certainly well pleased with the Course and will always speak a good word for the American School of Poultry Husbandry. The personal let- ters to the students are very helpful." — Walter J. Lockwood, Iowa. NOW GETTING RESULTS "The School has helped me wonder- fully. I have been able to raise broil- ers for the market in eight to ten weeks, capons were sold at Thanksgiv- ing averaging nine pounds. My pul- lets were laying in October. Since I have finished the Course my friends and neighbors consider me an author- ity on poultry. I certainly can recom- mend the A. P. S. to everyone as the price asked is insignificant when com- pared with the amount of instruction given." — E. E. Krause, Wisconsin. SAVES MONEY AND LABOR "The Course has really been more thorough than I ever imagined it could be. I am more than pleased. I am de- lighted with it. One lesson alone is worth more to anyone than the price paid for the entire Course. Anyone entering or thinking of embarking in the poultry business, if they wish to succeed and save money and labor, should take your Course. Each lesson is worth the price of the Course. They are all interesting and very beneficial. No one should attempt to raise poultry without taking an A. P. S Course. I am sure thankful that I did." — M. C. Todd, Washington. WINS MANY PRIZES "Made eight entries of my S. C. White Orpingtons at the Los Angeles show (the largest in the state), and pulled down: First and fourth, cockerel; first and second, hen; fourth and fifth, pullet; third, cock; first, pen. Ameri- can White Orpington Club ribbons for best cockerel, best hen and best pen. Two dollars and fifty cents (gold) for each best cockerel and best hen. Sixty- five dollar solid silver cup for the best cockerel, pullet, hen, cock and pen, making fourteen prizes on eight en- tries and over two hundred birds in the class. Must say this course has been a great help to me." — L. C. Geiser, Calif. Page 8event}Miine The "Quisenberry Way" Is the Safe, Simple Way THE PROOF DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT — READ WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them" POULTRY raising is no longer a "guessing game" with American Poultry School students. We submit the following evidence to prove our case. What we are actually accomplishing in training and equipping our stu- dents for practical poultry raising is best told in the words of the students, and our only regret is that we cannot devote sufficient space in this catalog to present more letters of approval and appreciation. The following unsolicited testimonials and those given on previous pages which have been received during the past few weeks tell their own story. We have thousands of others just as strong. RAISED 497 OUT OF 500 CHICKS "I bought 500 Single Comb White Leghorn baby chicks and started them on five meals a day. I always fed them on time and never fed more than they would clean up in fifteen or twenty minutes. I did this for the first three weeks. At the end of six weeks I had 497 healthy, growing chicks. Follow- ing is a report to date: Sold Roosters $110.00 Sold 125 Pullets at $2.00 each 250.00 Sold 851% Dozen Eggs 412.19 Total Income $772.19 Bought 500 Baby Chicks. $ 95.00 Feed Bill to date 477.69 Total Cost $572.69 Net Income $199.50 This test was made in the back yard under very crowded conditions, and 1 can truthfully say that the 'Quisen- berry Way' will make every hen pay." — Harry S. Mark, Pennsylvania. MADE $2,593.12 ON 3 ACRES "Ten years ago I started with thirty Single Comb White Leghorn pullets. EXCELS ANYTHING EVER STUDIED "I will send you a snap shot of the Improved Fool-Proof House, 14x14 feet, I built this spring. I built this all myself and made the foundation and floor, and I am no carpenter or ce- ment worker either. I have read a good many instructive articles on raising poultry, but this course which I am taking from you excels anything which I have ever studied. The lessons on the Baby Chick are simply fine. I wish to thank you for the good advice you gave me in regard to colds and roup, and also regarding the Star and King Ventilators." — Carl Coe. Indiana. Page Eighty The Plant now has six to seven hun- dred layers of the same variety in win- ter houses situated on a. three-acre town lot. The work on the Plant is all done by myself and family. The net cash profits from this Plant for the year ending October 30, 1920. was $2,791.47, and for 1919, $2,593.12. Chief- ly sell market eggs, baby chicks and twelve-week-old pullets. Am breeding for egg production, but use only the true Leghorn type of birds. I find many practical ideas in your books and lessons and refer to them to help solve my problems." — C. F. Biddle. Pennsyl- vania. American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. LEARNED TO BREED HIGH LAYERS "This hen was from a pen of ten hens, each holding State Trap-nest records of TWO HUNDRED EGGS and OVER per year at Mountain Grove, Missouri, Egg Laying Con- tests. Have had a pen in each contest for TEN TEARS, winning in all 65 Ribbons, 7 Cups, and 8 Firsts In Buff Orpington Class. At Leavenworth, in one year's Contest, won Ribbons and First Honors in class. All birds bred by owner accordng to Quisenberry meth- ods." — Miss Susie C. Fallows, Missouri. GETS $1.00 A DOZEN WINTER EGGS "My pullets laid over 60 per cent all summer and they are still laying 50 per cent. Pretty good for a beginner! We have snow for sure now and it is cold, but my hens lay just the same. I get $1.00 a dozen. My neighbors have hens, but they buy eggs from me. The lesson books are worth $35.00 a piece instead of $35.00 a course." — J. A. Wil- son, Michigan. 40 HENS OVER 300 EGGS "I have made more progress in the five years since I enrolled with you people than I had in twenty years be- fore. I trap-nest continually, along with the Hogan System. I have 200 hens. Forty passed the 300 egg mark in twelve months and one pullet reached as high as 320 eggs in her first egg year. I have fine producing birds and it is all due to the advice and training that I received from the A. S. P. H. I also have a fine hen that was eight years old the 10th of last May. She laid 305 eggs in her first egg year and has laid 1,532 eggs in seven years. She is still as spry as ever and is now laying nearly 50 per cent during her laying year. I found it no trouble to hold my blood line true, but to increase egg production was where the shoe pinched until I enrolled with the A. S. P. H. and my foot has never slipped since. ' — J. R. Harlan, Oregon. MATURE AND LAY QUICKLY "The house in the picture was built after your plan. My chickens were raised by your methods. I selected the eggs and run the incubators and then they were fed according to your les- sons. They are pictures of beauty and health. They matured very quickly and some of them began laying before they were five months old. They have never been sick a day in their lives. I hatched 384 chicks; raised 350 of these up to the time they were pretty well feathered. Any one wishingto succeed t afford .ch more in the poultry business canno to be without your Poultry Course, as many of the lessons are worth mu than the cost of the entire course."— Mrs. Harrison Bartshe, Missouri. BECAME POULTRY EXPERT S^L 1 ^oflilv answered 1 and this has given me a standing in this community that were readily answered, ana t nis " s , t letter that would take much of n your t va luIbl t e°t f irne t ?o n r n eId. LTwhat is tie use? I AM SATISFIED."-.!. M. Grant. Indiana. pagg nUg^ty^tne Spend Your First Dollar in Learning the Business WRITES WITH TEETH BUT COM- PLETES COURSE This student hasn't any hands, but writes with his teeth. Even then he made high grades, and since finishing Course has been raising poultry very successfully. Read what he says: "I think this finishes the course as far as lessons are concerned, and I can say I enjoyed every one of them. I wish I had known of the School two or three years ago, for I know my money was "well spent in taking up this course. Thank you for what you have already done for me. Just to show you what some of my pullets are doing for me in December, my first White Wyandotte pullet started to lay November 13th. She laid 15 eggs in 18 days. A Single Comb Rhode Island Red pullet started laying on November 14th and laid 14 eggs in 17 days. Another Single Comb Rhode Island Red pul- let laid 11 eggs in 14 days, and another White Wyandotte, which started to lay on November 22d, laid 8 eggs in 9 days. Eggs are selling for ?1.00 per dozen at present and I think they will go higher this winter." — Louis Schuelke. Con- necticut. MORE HELPFUL, THAN ALL OTHER LI TERATUR E "I have a way of line breeding, bul nothing to compare with yours. I have always considered myself a pretty good poultryman, but I must say I surely have learned many things in your les- sons, especially in the way of saving money and that means a lot, as you know. I have only one fault to find, and that is that I didn't take it up when I first saw your ad or heard of you. I have read a lot of different dope on chickens, also poultry papers, and as you know one will say one thing and one another, some will give good and some bad ideas, and a fellow if In doubt has to go to a lot of expense in trying them out, which I have done. Your lessons give it to a fellow right off the reel, and I have yet to see the first thing in any that I have studied that was wrong. They are RIGHT, and I know it. I am now in charge of a large poultry ranch. As I stated above I have always considered myself a pretty fair poultryman, but want to say, with many, many thanks, that if 1 had not taken your course I could not have taken such a place. I know the day will never come when I will forget the A. P. S."— A. A. May, New Mexico MAKE HENS LAY IN WINTER "Tour books are fine. The house is one I built from the plan out of one of my books and it is very satisfactory. My hens are doing fine and they lay a good many eggs. Got 2,607 eggs dur- ing the three months of February, March and April from only a few hens." — Lewis Beaumont. Illinois. NOT GUESS WORK "Will say the questions you have propounded in the lessons indicate clearly to me that if you do not know something about poultry yourself, you have certainly rubbed up very close to someone who does know." — Ren. W Crockett, Virginia. Page Mghty-two WORTH HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS "Tour Course has been worth hun- dreds of dollars to me. I assure you that I'll always be a booster for the A. P. S. and will never forget the inter- est you have taken in me." — Alfred J. LaGrandeur. Wisconsin American Poultry School, Kansas C i t y, M o. AM PLEASED WITH COURSE "I am sending you some pictures of our poultry plant. I am very much pleased with the Poultry Course. I think perhaps you could interest Mr. V. T. Pratt in the same course as I have." — E. B. Wirt, California. CAPONIZED BIRDS DOING PINE "I just took a. chance on some cock- erels. I used your caponizing methods and tools and am pleased to advise that five days have passed and all the birds are doing fine, not even a wind puff has appeared. Am expecting to be called upon to supervise the construct- ing of a five unit Improved Fool-Proof House." — D. M. Smith, New York. SOLD *577.75 IN EGGS FROM 85 HENS "Every one of our friends is surprised when we tell them we have Just been delivering fresh eggs at Thanksgiving. We had 85 hens, when we commenced your system of feeding. I have figured up the amount of chickens and eggs sold, and since January 1, 1920, it is $677.76. Will go better than $600.00. What do you think of that?"— Mrs. J. B. Belknap, Iowa. BETTER SUCCESS THAN EVER BEFORE "I have followed your lessons as best I could this year and had better suc- cess than ever before. Have sold 500 dozen eggs, plus $75.00 worth of old hens and 'frys,' and had plenty for use for a family of six besides. I now have 36 old hens and 100 pullets. Expect to do much better next year. I also have 65 turkeys." — Mrs. G. W. Erlcson, Texas. BEAT RECORD OF CONTEST PENS "I was given employment on the Poultry Plant of the Nova Scotia Agri- cultural College at Truro, N. S., my du- ties being in charge of feeding, etc. Good results came forward as per the following: Pen 15 — Single Comb White Leghorn Pullets (30 in pen) averaged for the twelve months period 182 eggs each, which was a better average than the 40 Leghorn pens in competition at the First Nova Scotia Egg Laying Con- test. The six best layers of said pen 15 produced two hundred and more eggs each. Not so bad for your stu- dent." — James H. McConnell, Canada. Page Eighty-three Right Methods Insure Reasonable Profits GREATLY BENEFITED BY LESSONS COURSE WILL PAY IF RAISE ONLY FEW CHICKENS "Will tell you that I am well pleased and glad that I am a student of your School, and also wish to say that it pays to study your courses even if one raises only a few chickens." — Martha Hood, Illinois. LOST ONLY THREE CHICKS "We bought 181 thoroughbred Single Comb White Leghorn baby chicks on the 6th and 13th of May. I followed your directions closely while raising them and had the good fortune to lose only three while small We got 93 pul- lets out of the lot, valued at $2.00 each. We followed your methods carefully." — Mrs. Prank H. Smith, Minnesota. PROUD TO BE STUDENT "Find enclosed lessons on 'Poultry Clubs and Organizations.' They are very instructive and Interesting like all the other lessons. These last les- sons are worth the price of the Course and I am proud of the day I made up my mind to take your Course." — W. S. Townsend, Texas. Page Eighty-four "I am very much pleased with your lessons and say they are good. I am thankful that I took up poultry at your School, as I have learned things I never would elsewhere. I am so interested in poultry that I sit out in the back yard most of the morning and evenings studying my poultry lessons and crav- ing to be out on a good farm where I can raise at least 500 good hens. I am enclosing you a photo of my wife and a few of my chickens and a partial view of the coop." — Joseph P. Koalsky, Indi- ana. WORTH DOUBLE THE PRICE "Anyone with reasonable judgment, who has studied these lessons, will say that any one of these lessons is worth the price of the whole course and more, too. I consider some of the lessons in- valuable. I assure you that I feel well paid for the Course, and would not sell it back to you for double the price paid for it." — O. C. Cope, Indiana. MADE POULTRY RAISING PROFIT- ABLE "I am pleased to learn the School is progressing so rapidly, but I know it will continue to grow when I think of the wonderful help it is to poultrymen. Its instructions are certainly a great help to me and they have made poultry keeping a pleasure as well as a profit- able business." — Mrs. Henry P. Farns- worth, Missouri. Ameri can Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. $780.00 FROM 140 HENS "I have sold $480.00 worth of eggs, bahy chicks, broilers and hatching eggs from a flock of 140 hens since January 1st. Also raised 300 chicks, which gives me 150 pullets, valued at $300.00. I have done all the work myself. I find my books very useful. Any prob- lem ■which comes up I find is answered in some of the lessons. Thanking you for the interest shown in me while tak- ing the course and for your help." — Mrs. Elvis A. Abney, Texas. RAISED 3,000 PULLETS — EGGS $1.05 PER DOZEN "I had Mr. T. F. McGrew here to look the plant over, and he certainly saw what he has not seen done on a poul- try farm yet, that is, the work done as to improvements and stock raised. He told me that he saw about 38,000 young stock this spring, but nothing like mine. I raised about 3,000 pullets or over, of which the first thousand are now laying about sixteen per cent mar- ketable eggs at $1.05 per dozen. I cer- tainly have done a good year s work by taking your course." — B. J. Sohm- ers, New York. ONE LESSON WORTH PRICE OF COURSE "Since I got your course in poultry I surely will make good. Last Decem- ber and January I had 98 P""*** »"£ in the month of January they laid a. total of 891 eggs On February 27th I culled £ut 45 according to your sys- tem and during the month of March theV laid a total of 886 eggs. So you seV by that I have m°« than gotten Hi« nrice of your course from one les- son, P and e t°hV?est of them are Just as good. I will give you a r eport o f my if forts at raising y°« n S c „ h f 1C the e igs spring, and how the vitality of the eggs has increased in my "° o k uai ^ ™ i-hane-B in feeding and housing i«j Sens 8 *! was feeding for eggs and had the hens housed in the winter. Assoon as the weather got warm I stopped COURSE USED IN 19 FOREIGN COUNTRIES "So talking it privately these chick- ens are all mine, with the exception of course of the house which was partly built during my spare time of since I received of the first instruction of that School. But such house was made with the expenses of the Pupils Fund ap- proved by all of my pupils under my advice. And thus two-thirds of the interest will be for the school. Please tell me when will you send and when can diploma be received so as to be sure that all friends of mine will great- ly welcome the kind and the quality of such diploma."— Francisco FetFa- von Principal Teacher, Bunawan Farm School, Philippine Islands. feeding mash and fed whole grain and turned the hens out on range; and this is how the eggs hatched. bet iou 8 °" n April 6th. Hatched out 109 chicks Got 107 left."-V. F. Joslln, Minnesota. t aptp FORCE OF EMPLOYEES TO SERVE YOU LARGE FOBt*. ur le are emp i yed I» addition to our instructors quite ao rce o ^ ^ Bgg ConteBtSj in the various departments. We nave bookkeepers, record keepers, feeding and trap-nesting, besides »t«^g™entB wit h promptness and accuracy. clerks and others trying ^to se r J e ou r ur ^ t a u e dents i8 the best evidence that we The unsolicited testimonials from our siu Eighty-five fire SHRVICH. An A. P. S. Student Eventually, Why Not Now? Facts Worth Knowing How to Get More Eggs and Save Feed Solving Poultry Problems. How to Feed for Fertile Eggs. Cutting the Cost of Feed. Why Chicks Die in the Shell. Feeding For Egg Production. How to Feed and Brood Baby Culling Out the Drones. Chicks. Feeding During the Moult. Fighting Lice and Mites. BY T. B. QUISENBEBBY President of the American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. I CLAIM that it is possible to make more money out of poultry than ever if they are properly selected, bred, culled and fed. Eggs and poultry are both high and feed is lower than for years. Proper selection, breeding, culling and feeding never meant so much to the industry as at present. I will admit that with haphazard methods and poor stock it is a waste of money to throw out good feed, but with right methods and with stock se- lected and bred for laying, there is no reason why eggs cannot be produced at a profit if eggs continue to be sold at present prices. In our American Egg Laying Contest we have made more net profit than in any previous year because the increased price of eggs per hen has been greater than the cost of feed per hen. If it is possible for us and oth- ers to make a profit on hens with feeds as high as they have been, then I believe it is possible for you to make as great a profit and in most cases more profit, if your hens are properly handled. POULTRY BUSINESS NEVER SO PROFITABLE AS NOW Wheat, corn and poultry feeds of all kinds are going down in price, yet eggs are certain to remain as high or higher than they have ever been for this season of the year. We have over 40,000 students in 48 states and 20 foreign countries prospering as never before, and one of our instructors, Mr. Ray Corliss, of California, cleared nearly $75,000 last year from about 35,000 hens. The Hollywood Farm, of Washington, has one of the greatest strains of dairy cattle in this country, but its dairy farm, with its renowned dairy herd, its ex- tensive dairy barns of the most modern type, and its certified milk, have not equalled the profit made from the poultry department of the same farm. Its poul- try department has shown greater profit for several years than has its dairy de- partment. The same is true with a large number of farms where poultry farm- ing and dairying have been engaged in side by side. The sales from this one flock of hens this last year for a period of eleven months amounted to $89,593.39. The poultrymen in the eastern states have never done so well as now. Pro- fessor Graham and Professor Brown, of Canada, state that Canadian poultrymen were never so prosperous. The same kinds of reports come from every state in the Union, north, south, east and west. It seems that it is useless to waste fur- ther space in proving to you that the poultry business is one of the most profit- able branches of agriculture at the present time. Even on a city lot the high cost of living can be greatly reduced, and a dozen to one hundred hens can be kept In a small space at a nice profit. By following the teachings which we have recommended, Geo. F. Hatch, of California, states in a letter the following: "Last month I turned $275.00 ^orth Page Eighty-sir American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. U^^oisVbVforTouTrVv ofh^r'nn",," U P °? Slble , for these P e °P le to "»• poultry If they are prooerlv hanrti»/°H r .t7 m , an , to make g00d money out of your these problems if dosbK Ld if u L, 11 !' 8 book was P"P ar ed to help you solve help to the into&r^tt&'&^^Z&ffSS™™? wl » °° °< ™ .. .,, SELECTION EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT AS FEEDING pends on cltll^aellctUyn of'fh-^t key >r t0 lncrea S|d ee& production. More de- and drones PpS S ?f P 16 he I"l\. To °. , many farm flocks are non-producers th^ J?™?„f,? " rer " a P s this is true of the entire flock, or maybe only a Dart but the drones are always responsible for the limited profits. ' A scene on the world's largest hen farm, owned and operated by one of the members of the faculty of the American Poultry School. In the neigh- borhood of $75,000.00 was made on this farm last year. By selection, I do not mean that the farmer should buy prize chickens at ex- orbitant prices, though I do believe in good blood. But selection is just as neces- sary in a flock of poultry as in a dairy herd. Now, when you ask if the farmer can afford -to keep chickens while grain is high, if you refer to the usual flock of culls, I will say, "No." Grain is too valu- able to be thrown promiscuously to non-producing hens. It may be that you will think when I mention selection that I refer to a lot of scientific and complicated experiments. I simply mean that you should go into your flock, pick out the culls and get rid of them. A hen of low vitality is a menace to the flock, because she is susceptible to disease. She is an expense to her owner because she is a consumer and not a producer. It is a funny thing, but many farmers who would be quick to get rid of a poor cow, will keep two -or three dozen hens that never have made a cent for him or never will, no mat- ter how he cares for them. Our lessons Nos. 8 and 9 on "Mating and Breeding" give the key to successful breeding. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT URGES YOU TO RAISE MORE POULTRY AND PRODUCE MORE EGGS We cannot make a more urgent appeal to you to raise more poultry and pro- duce more eggs than the United States Department of Agriculture is doing in a recent seven and a half page typewritten statement which it has sent out to American farmers and back lot poultry raisers. The statement reads in part "The auickest and cheapest way of adding to our meat supplies is to increase poultry and egg production. To double this production next year will give us 6,600,000,000 pounds of meat food in the form of poultry and eggs. "We cannot Increase any of the meat animal* as rapidly or economically as poultry. "The United States Department of Agriculture wishes every farmer to under- stand the importance of doubling our poultry production next year. It is a vital r>art of the general food production campaign, and that campaign must be carried out in all its details. The chief poultry increase must be made on the general Page FUghty-teven A. S. P. H. Means A S(ystematic) P(rogram) for H(enyard) farms of the country. It must be made as a by-product of general farming. The farmer must get his flock to such size, in proportion to his farm, that all the waste and scraps, and land available for chickens to run on will be used, and the fowls kept up from these sources and a reasonable amount of other feed. "It is an astounding fact that there are a million and a half eggless farms in the United States — an economic anomaly and an agricultural absurdity. Out of a total of 6,371,502 farms, 1,527,743 report no egg production in the last census. "This condition is one demanding every effort at correction— for each farm can, at least, produce sufficient poultry and eggs for home consumption, and thereby be a more profitable farm. It would be to the self-interest of every one of these million and a half farmers to commence poultry production." BREEDING, ENVIRONMENT AND FEEDING Hens that are not properly housed and handled, and which are not comfort- able and happy, of course, cannot be expected to produce their maximum number of eggs. Breeding, however determines the possibilities of any hen. What causes five White Plymouth Rocks from one breeder, kept in one house, to lay 500 eggs in one year, when another pen of five White Plymouth Rocks from an- other breeder, kept and fed and cared for in the same house, to produce 1,000 eggs in twelve months? It is not the feed, the house, the water, the climate, or any other one thing which can be thought of, except the breeding, the blood lines and the power or ability of one to produce more than the other. For generations one may have been bred for eggs and the other evidently had not been so care- fully selected and mated. When placed under the microscope, it will be seen that every hen has from 2,000 to 6,000 ovules or small yolks in her body. This 1b more than any hen was ever known to produce in a lifetime. The number of possible yolks and the num- ber of eggs produced seem to bear no relation to each other. The problem seems to be to so select and breed your birds that they have the ability to develop these tiny yolks. Ton may give a hen all the feed she can eat, if she is lacking in this ability she will become overly fat or break down, but will not lay eggs. Breed- ing makes it possible for a hen, when rightly fed and rightly cared for, to produce a profitable number of eggs. HOW TO MAKE SELECTION The rules that govern selection are as simple as A, B, G to any observing person. For instance, a hen that is slow to feather is lacking in vitality. Any one ought to know that. Tou cannot stuff her and make her lay eggs. She is by Nature a weakling. Hens do not lay eggs because they want to; they lay eggs because they are strong and vigorous and egg-laying is a natural result which they cannot avoid. That tendency must he bred in them. Why, if the average farmer would give half the attention to his poultry that he does to his live stock he would find the poultry the best investment in many cases. Success comes from being willing to discard. When you have culled out the poor hens and got them clear off the farm, then it is time to begin thinking about feeding for egg production and, also, let me emphasize, watering for egg production, for water is as essential as feed. At this time one of the greatest problems facing American Poultrymen is the ratio of profit between the cost of feed and the selling price of poultry and eggs. No poultryman can object to the price of feed if the selling price of poultry and eggs is proportionately high. Thousands of the more or less inexperienced poul- trymen, who were loaded with poor stock, drones and slackers, or who, because of inexperience, haphazard methods, or poor management, have been forced out of business. Many others in the same class are certain to go, but the future promises much for the man "who has the goods and who knows how to cull out the slackers and poor layers and to properly feed his productive hens. GET Rffi OF THE DRONES Before carrying your birds through another season, take one more look at them, and keep the following rules in mind when making your selection: 1. Market those which have been slow to feather or seem to lack vitality. 2. Keep the pullets which mature quickly and start laying first. Those which start laying when less than 200 days old will he the best layers if they have the right care. 3. Keep the late moulters. 4. Keep the birds with rather large, plump combs and wattles. 5. Hens with pale vents, pale beaks and pale legs have been good layers. 6. The skin of the best layers should be rather loose and flabby on the ab- domen between the vent and breast bone. 7. The pelvic bones must be thin, straight, flexible and wide apart. 8. Market the hens which are baggy behind and which have a heavy, fat, thick abdomen which hangs down below the point of the breast bone. 9. Keep the hustlers and heavy eaters that go to bed late and with full crops. 10. Birds that have long toe-nails and show no signs of being workers are usually unprofitable. 11. If a bird meets the above requirements, it should have a broad back, long body, be stoutly built and in good flesh. 12. If a bird is not moulting and still has a small dried-up comb covered with a sort of whitish substance, or if a bird has thick or crooked pelvic bones, which will be found on each side of the vent and above the point of the brea«1 bone, these are always money roseri. Page, Eighty-eight American Poultry School, Kansas City, Mo. tr»n T i?« e «t b f. st „£, I i°7 vrn .. m . ethodB of ■•leotln» the laying hen without the use of the Z?* *£? =ii?i con talnei M1 c„! W0 S? u ° ns of kerosene or crude oil with one gallon of crude carbolic fiTi. ~H/ ay "»?, interior of the house, roosts, nests, cracks and crevices with „i.u ure- Also P aln t the roost poles and Interior of the nests once a month ™r » mlx t, uro °i two parts of crude carbolic acid mixed with one part of kero- .1 e j 0r cr J"i? ° n - An ordinary paint brush should be used for this purpose. If you do not right the mites and lice in hot weather, they will spoil your chances of success. Our lesson No. 25 shows Just how to combat all kinds of "Enemies and Parasites." It is Invaluable. Sodium Pluorld Effective Against All Lice Most poultry lice powders which are placed on the market are not very ef- fective. Perhaps the best powder and one of the cheapest things for body lice is Sodium Fluorld. "The writers have found what they term the 'pinch method' to be entirely ef- fective against all lice and to have the advantage of economy of time and mate- rial. When applying the material by this method, It is placed on a table in an open vessel, and the fowl is held by the legs or wings with one hand while with the other hand a small pinch of the chemical is placed among the feathers next to the skin about as follows: One pinch on the head, one on the neck, two on the back, one on the breast, one below the vent, one on the tall, one on either thigh, and one scattered on the underside of each wing when spread. Each pinch ean be distributed somewhat by pushing the thumb and finger among the feath- ers as the material is released. It is advisable when dusting to hold the chicken over a large shallow pan, as in this way the small amount of material ordinarily lost is recovered. "Precaution should be taken not to allow sodium fluorid solution to remain in galvanized vessels any great length of time. In fact, it is best not to keep it over night in tubs or galvanized containers, as it will injure them." FEEDING AND BROODING BABY CHICKS Do not feed chicks until about 48 hours after they are hatched and dry. One of the first things should be sour milk or buttermilk and coarse sand. Cover the floor of the brooder with clover chaff or fine cut straw. Do not have this too deep. For the first two or three days feed a mixture of two-thirds rolled oats, one-third wheat bran, mixed with hard boiled eggs and a little powdered char- coal and fine bone meal. Feed a little about five times a day for the first three days. The first mixture is fed morning, noon and night and a good grade of chick feed between meals. As they become older gradually eliminate the rolled oats until you use only the chick feed and keep before them a dry mash in the following proportions: 10 lbs. wheat bran, 2V4 lbs. ground oats. 6 lbs. shorts, B lbs. corn meal, 2 ounces fine charcoal, and 2 ounces fine salt. If you cannot secure sour milk or buttermilk then mix two pounds of dry beef scrap with the above. If you use any form of milk, keep it before them at all times or at least for the first half of the day. They need some green food. Use clippings from sprouted oats or cut up some tender green feed occasionally. The above methods have proven simple and successful. It behooves every poultryman to use such methods in raising his stock aa will insure the lowest per cent of mortality and the quickest growth. Brooder stoves of many kinds are upon the market and several of these are giving ex- cellent satisfaction. We know of some who use two of these stoves of small size in one room. Then if one stove goes out, the other will protect the chicks and prevent chilling. For this method of brooding we build a house 10x20 feet or 12x24 feet. The house has a partition in the center, with the board nearest the floor on hinges so it can be raised as a runway for the chicks, and a swing- ing door for the attendant. The stove is placed on one side of the partition and the cool room is used for feeding and exercise. It is necessary to have a cool rSom so the chicks can get away from the heat ™s is one of the secrets of successful brooding. Or you may use one room that is long and narrow Place the stove at one end and the other end remains cool. If this is done the single room answers just as well as the double room. Or if it is a square room place the stove to one corner. ,.,..... i The houses for these brooder stoves are built just as we would build any . lay- inir or breeding house. We would not build a special brooder house which we could only usS three or four months during the year and then let it remain idle S„_ ♦«.» V™oiT,^oV nt th« time Every poultryman should endeavor to have as lK^HaHS , ■-^r• H^^on^^/y IrW^gMo ^oWat^^ ties, paint the window panes with a- bl u»sh or J2°& , " u I ™ Bl £ e , e p the chicks busy Page Ninety-five Poultry Offers a Quick Way to Certain Profit they show signs of developing the habit of picking at one another grind some lean meat and mix equal parts of bran, shorts, corn meal and ground meat with a little water, just enough to moisten it a trifle. After it is mixed run it through a sausage mill or meat grinder, and then feed it to the chicks every day. The frosted windows will do most to prevent cannibalism. On the hatching egg and the baby chick depends your success or failure in replenishing your stock each year. Here lies the very foundation of your flocks, also your profit or loss. Our lessons Nos. 14 and 16 cover this subject in detail as does no other book. SUPPLY SHORT — DEMAND SURE TO EXIST It seems to be the opinion of practically all that they will make a greater net profit this coming year than they have ever made in any previous year. There is a scarcity of breeding stock and the man who has the stock or hatching eggs la certain to have a great demand at profitable prices. There is no state in the Union where eggs cannot be produced at a reasonable profit, and, in many cases, a handsome profit. There is no reason to be alarmed or discouraged. American poultrymen certainly have as much backbone, as much patriotism, as much love for the business, and as much ability to adapt themselves and their methods to meet varying conditions so as to solve poultry problems, as have the poultrymen of England or China. Do not sacrifice the great American Hen. The facts and conditions do not justify it. Meet every issue with right methods and you are certain to find the business more profitable for the next twelve months than at any time in the past. The only difference between the poultry business of today and a few years ago is this: Then a poultryman could make a lot of mistakes and still stay in the business. He can make more money today than he did then, but he must know how. Feed prices are down. In my opinion, those who have stock and eggs for market or for breeding are certain to make some good money if the right methods are used in handling their poultry. OTJR PERSONAL SERVICE It cost us more than $100,000.00 to prepare the lessons in our poultry course. The illustrations alone cost more than $20,000.00. We not only furnish you the books and lessons "which give you our methods and secrets, but we give you PER- SONAL SERVICE. Any student can write us at any time concerning their poul- try problems and we give them a personal answer by letter, explaining in detail what they must do to correct their trouble. No institution in the world is in a better position to render such service than is the AMERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL. We have turned failure into success for thousands of poultry raisers in all parts of the world. The strongest recommendation that we can give for our course is the fact that our methods are used and recommended by more than 33,000 suc- cessful students in every state in the Union and in 19 foreign countries. We have thousands of statements from these students like the following: Charles Kittinger, of California, a building contractor, says: "My net earn- ings from 55 hens were $647.00, an average of $11.77 per hen." Mrs. Rooks, of Ohio, says of her wonderful results: "From 200 hens and pullets I sold exactly $1,288.50 worth of eggs and poultry in eight months. My feed cost $246.89. My success is due to your methods." Mrs. Anna Lovely, of Connecticut, says: "I was down to my last dollar when I called on you for advice. I am now getting enough eggs from 175 hens to pay for all my household bills, besides having enough eggs left for hatching and raising young stock." Mrs. Dunkin, of Mis- souri, stated: "I sold $1,194.64 worth of eggs from January 1st to September 30th. I sold $257.62 worth of chickens and still have 100 more chickens to sell. The 'Quisenberry Way' surely made poultry raising easy for me." Our methods have been tested and proven successful in all parts of the world. Our PERSONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT is not equaled by any other institu- tion of its kind. Our faculty are recognized as some of the leading poultry au- thorities of the world, and our methods have proven so satisfactory to our thou- sands of students that we have built up the greatest School of its kind. Accept this course and this personal service on our recommendation. It is sold under an absolute guarantee of money back if you are not satisfied. We have helped thousands of others, we can help you. OUR COURSE This is simply a little book containing suggestions which we send free, and which we have issued for the benefit of our students and friends who are inter- ested in the poultry business. Our books and lessons on these various subjects contain from 64 to 200 pages. Each is fully illustrated and goes into details, covering every phase of the poultry business. In addition to the books and les- sons sent to our students with our various courses in Poultry Husbandry, we fre- quently send them letters or bulletins containing monthly or timely and season- able suggestions for the solution of their poultry problems. We wish you abun- dant success in all of your poultry work whether you become one of our students or not. WHY ADDRESSES ARE OMITTED FROM TESTIMONIALS Formerly we gave the postoffice addresses of all students in all testimonials, but our literature goes to literally millions of people. This has caused our students to be flooded with letters asking for advice, help, etc. As a result many students have asked us to withhold their postoffice addresses. Every name given in this book is genuine Page Ninety-sir ■How To Save Feed EVERY hen has thousands of tiny eggs or ova within her. Hens ■with strong and properly built bodies will make eggs and produce them in direct proportion to the way they are fed and cared for. To obtain a steady, profitable egg yield for a continuous period of six months to one year, hens must be given feed in a manner which will maintain proper flesh, health, strength and leave the greater portion as material from which to manufacture eggs. Each kind of grain can be turned into a certain number of yolks and a certain number of whites. If you feed a ration which makes more yolks than whites, you waste a large portion of it. Your hens become clogged inside with fat, seldom lay; their blood vessels and egg organs become thin and tender; their liver crowded, and sooner or later hens are apt to rupture an egg organ or blood vessels, resulting in hemorrhage and death. The proper proportioning and mixing of ordinary grains, so that your hens' daily ration can be turned into practically an equal number of yolks and whites, makes it possible to turn every yolk into an egg and produce two, three or four times more eggs than at present. Feed mixed in correct proportion to make eggs saves feed. None is wasted. Hens receive 100 per cent of good from it. They make eggs from all they consume. If feed is not correctly proportioned they waste a large part of it by only making as many eggs as there are' equal numbers of yolks and whites in the feed, and they will become too fat and cease laying. If you know exactly how many yolks an<| how many whites hens can make from 100 pounds of every kind of grain, you can often use more of cheaper feed and less of the more costly. This puts you on the "profit road." You get more eggs. Less food is consumed in propor- tion to your egg yield. No feed is wasted. This information is completely and thoroughly covered in our 64-page "Feeding" book containing lessons 12 and 13, and in our 100-page "Baby Chick" book containing lessons 14 and 15. Both books are given with our Complete Practical Course. They make up part of the complete reference library which becomes your permanent property. How To Pick Out Loafers, and Feed Only Hens That Pay iO SAVE feed and make money you must know how to select laying hens. You should know which hens are producing eggs now, but — it is vastly more important to determine, quickly and accurately, the number of eggs each will likely produce during the next six or twelve months. Laying hens may soon stop and become gluttons at the feed trough or be star boarders the next six months. Your hens may not be laying now, but we teach you how to determine whether they will prove profit- able layers during the rest of their lifetime. You should be able to determine the difference between hens that will produce fertile, hatchable eggs and those that will not. These are simple methods, determined easily and quickly. They are always thoroughly understood after reading our book containing lessons ten and eleven on "Selecting and Breeding for Egg Production This valuable book is contained in our Complete Practical Course. It tells how to tell the slacker and poor layer. It explains how the poul- tryman can cull and sell half his flock— the dead beats— cut down feed bills half and still get tne same number of eggs he would have gotten from the whole flock. SEE INSIDE FRONT COVER T RAISES 6000 HEALTHY CHICKS GET EGGS WHEN NO ONE ELSE DOES OUR STUDENTS SUCCEED ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO RAISE POULTRY SUCCESS- FULLY PREVIOUS TO TAKING OUR COURSE Results Are What You Want Cleared $100.00 Per Month Last Winter "Your lessons are worth more than they cost. We are having great success raising chicks. We cleared $100.00 a month last winter from our pullets. Before taking this course was working in the dark. It's different now." G. W. T1MM, Nebraska. Could Not Get Needed Information Elsewhere "Of all colleges and people I have written to regard- ing my baby chick troubles, I did not find one that could, enlighten me till I wrote you people. The simple methods you suggest have solved fay problem and saved me many dollars. I consider the price of your course 'dirt cheap.' ' R. BRANSON, Colorado. Results Obtained From Lessons Cured All Doubts "An old breeder from our town was over to see chicks and said: 'I wish my birds would come along like yours.' I told him of some things in your lessons and he said he would take a course at once. My birds do so much better than his that he is cured of all doubt about your School." THOS. ARKLUS, JR., Ontario, Canada.