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Show DOULTRT NOTECl , . . . ; ic-JU Ijiwn clippings and green waste from tbe garden make good chicken feed. f'.lve the fowls a variety of feed. I Serf scraps are good for young chicks. Sweet oil will remove tar from feathers. Always crush egg shells before feed-lag feed-lag them to bens. Neglected poultry will soon develop Into unprofitable poultry. Salt Is Just as essential to pigeons snd fowls ss It Is to man. Kgga are spot rash at all times; so Is the well-fed fowl or chickens. Charcoal and grit are two of the necessities around a poultry yard. If you want to make the chirks work, dig up a spot, rake In some millet mil-let seed snd let them scratch for It. If you were unsuceesnful at this season's shows, now Is the time to prepare pre-pare for tbe next No one can succeed with chickens kept In a hot, dark and filthy coop The larger the hen, the bigger the feed bill. and. as a rule, the smaller Ihe egg money. Young hens that are now bright and active, that have always b-en well, thst have laid right along and that nave good ancestry back of them, are the onea to choose tor producing dock. |