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Show POULTRY NOTES. A 110 rooster Is generally cheaper than a 12 one. The good blood will tell the second year. Oyster shell Is absolutely the best shell making rood for the bens. Keep it before them constantly. The market garden furnlnSx-s a large amount of waste products which mny be utilized for poultry food. The March pullets ore the ones that will begin to lay In November If they have been given the proper care. If you buy a homer that has large warts on bis beak you may be sure that It la more than two years old. The best place In the world for the poultry yard Is the orchard any kind of an orchard where Insects abound. A woman who makes a success of poultry raining has the laugh on the man who makes a failure at farming A hen Is a good deal like a row; she likes to bo let alone to wander at her own sweet will wherever she pleases. Keeping many breeds Is a poor way to succeed. Get down to one or two varieties and give tbem the best ol care. Uuck eggs do not hatch as well If they t.'d to Im washed. Therefore keep the duck pen bedded with clean litter. If the hens were compelled to work a little harder these (lays for what grain they get It would be a good thing for them. It Is alinoxt a waste of time on your pnrt as well as that of the hen tn set her In a nest and In a house Infested In-fested with vermin. The poultry raiser who Is too laiy to keep his poultry house absolutely free from vermin does not deserve suecess nor will he have It. Kegs In March and early In April may not prove as fertile as tbone laid In "nature's" own time, but once hatched, you can hardly kill an early chick Now U the time to beln to think of the molting seanon and prepare for It. Ptudy the subject carefully as It his an Iriiiortant bearing on winter cxg production Winter eggs are eggs of gold nowadays. |