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Show II 1 I'M-H-M I I I HI I I I I I I-H- Poultry Hints M 1 11 1 I 1- M 1 I I I I I I 1 II I I 'I-W Jats, when first started, make excellent ex-cellent forage for chicks. I'ullets' eggs usually do not bring us hig,h a price on the market as do hens' eggs; therefore. It Is to the advantage ad-vantage of the poult ryman to bring the eggs up to normal size ns soon as possible. . " Grain, oyster shell and water are othei. essentials In a laying ration. Milk Is an excellent poultry feed and may be substituted for one half the meat scraps In the mash. If It Is kept before the hens all .he time. Alfalfa Is an Ideal pasture for poultry. poul-try. It Is perennial and probably offers of-fers the most nourishment of all the plants you might grow. Good Thanksgiving turkeys are well fed and fattened. A fat turkey carries car-ries a great deal of flesh and the meat Is of higher quality. " There Is so little dillerence In the merits of the White Rocks and Burred Rocks that few ( perts would venture to recon nend one In preference the v ther. Kgg size can be Increased, quite often, by feeding milk In some form. If skim milk is plentiful on the farm. It 13 advisable to mix a wet mash with milk Instead ol water. Milk may also be provided In the drinking foun-tains. foun-tains. There Is nothing which will improve the quality of summer eggs more than the pn (luctlon of infertile eggs. This means that all roosters should be removed re-moved from the breeding Hocks Just as soon us hatching eggs are no Jong-1 Jong-1 er needed. |