to maio ben pay I 1 I 1 magazine I 1 made dome practical elutil ments last of value I 1 alk I 1 regard to leap in the first place I 1 wish to say that it is simply it ellams that more at tell tiou is not paid to the chicken business in this country if prop erly attended to it is one of the most profitable branches of farm in austry but it is generally chalue fully neglected every kernel 0 f I 1 corn that I 1 is fed to hens is considered i w asted the hens are F improperly the result ii i i that they are un comforts ble abey fretee their feet and nearly starve to death during the winter the result is that it takes them until the middle of illy to recruit sufficiently to be in condition to lay hens kept a this way are truly unprofitable there is to portion of this country that is too cold for profitable chicken culture I 1 this is by the fact that we import learly two million dollare worth of eggs annually from canada A gre deal has been I 1 said about elih and fisheries whiled I 1 in fact the balue of eggs imported I 1 from canada every year exceeds that of fish by m re than dizh A hundred thou dollars this should not be we ought not to import IL sing Is egg from canada ano t her special wonder to tile i that so lew ampre civite hat tire in kaising spring fur early war att they are alays ought after and tire invariably chicke U arm give the bru boue a aduth arll in fiuty of goud lah L A h to increase tile do not leave cracks to adail kun and waud it you find that the tin ill ait be I 1 tut to ivard the howe a small T it awve will pay handsomely the cost of ru this is so small coal I 1 with the profit tb 2 t will 1 carue that it foes ejot pay to basi i tate on that po i nt in tho summer the sashes can either be removed and slats substituted or the als s can be covered with curtain to keep out lite direct rays 0 I 1 the sun A e should be cleaned out once A whiteway hed once in six I 1 it there is no ot herway to be ertain of keeping out lice and making sure that the hens will be healthy I 1 the beast boosts roosts are light trestles about eighteen iti clies high ahne can be made of inch strips about fol ur act long and as many as ate nece sary it is not best to have boosts roosts too high the boosts roosts should be made movable for in cleaning I 1 above all thing scare should be taken with the riehm fresh straw t hould be put in whenever the house is cleaned some may object that all this is a matter of trouble so is anything ehst brings profit on a farm the at tables ate cleaned every day it is not a 1 1 difficult or along clean a I 1 chicken houge the principal ifa to get in abe way of doing it at IA other chores are dune there is no 11 halfway is worth doing in the I 1 chicken business either a con sid erable brood should be kept sod proper cara given them and thus inake them pay or none at fill should be kept