Show POULTRY N NOTES OTES r 21 91 iS cJ Never feed wet sloppy food Scald the drinking vessels often The well-fed well pullet makes the the early J layer Do not buy poor stock because It Is cheap The market has never yet been overstocked with br broilers llers Set every broody hen but not on pullet eggs that eggs that Is birds under nine I months' months old Renew the sand In the poultry yards Clean all the houses and pens and whitewash Give the Interior of the poultry houses and all the outbuildings a coat of whitewash early in the spring Feed the poultry earlier than you did a month ago When daylight comes the chickens want their feed Young chicks chicles are generally considered con- con I ready for the broiler market when ten weeks old They should weigh at that time two pounds each alive aUve While many people have taken up the broiler industry as a business not all have made the venture a financial success Learn and observe the hens hen's summer summer summer sum sum- mer diet Make her winter diet as near like Uke it as you can and she will respond In eggs Continual dig dig scratch scratch in clean dry litter Utter for food c carelessly thrown there Is what invigorates and increases the egg yield Pullets which are early hatched should not be subjected to any forcing process during the summer months Their frames should be kept growing as long as possible The Tho chicken business is usually looked after by the farmers farmer's wife but it It It- would pay the farmer himself to look into the matter a little The chicken business pays A hospital in which to Isolate sick fowls is a good thing to have Many of the poultry diseases are spread by allowing allo the ailing birds to eat and drink with the well ones |