Show P Z vy broodiness AMONG HENS IS BIG WORRY the egg production in many flocks of lie hie heavier breeds Is dropping badly due to the excessive number dumber of broody broady liens hens A bird that Is penned immediately in the right kind of a broody coop fed as she should be and turned out as soon as possible sible riot not loaf more than 10 days writes W if in the dakota former farmer ratio them out of the nest the first night pen them in a well weil ventilated well ivell lighted slatted or wire bottomed broody coop feed them plenty of rood good egg making snaking food gleea material and flesh water arid and see that they are ara released as soon its as they lose the notion and they will pay you for the trouble it Is a good idea to have a special color of celluloid bands for broody lions liens and put one on a lien aery time she goes broody sell tile hie ones that get be decked like fiji islanders anti use ones without any of these bonds bands in the hie breeding pens next acar ear it takes fillies feed and time to produce cli clil liken ken blood so do not allow the tha mite to steal part of your income A thorough spraying or of the roosts boosts and nd nests in the poultry house housa ith sonic some good coal tar disinfectant UM 11 II pay lice are irritants ond and keep the lien so busy ing them that she bhe lias has no time to vork so better kill them too applying sodium powder a pinch in fluffy feathers below vent one under each fiig arid and between body and legs and one on tile the back of the head licad should rid the hens of all lice but it hlll not kill 1111 the eggs repent in about ten tell days ichen the eggs will viii be hatched ond and no more laid another way to accomplish the same sam thing Is to mix mis one ounce of sodium with each gillon gallon of warm water find and lip dip pad each thicken chicken making sure that the feathers tire are all soaked to the skin tills this must lie be done early on a warm sunshiny day so that the liens will be dry before night repeat in ten days |