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Show IDOULMNOTEC 'ramrK.' "i i'j 1 ai( 1 1 f.-." ;. -. r" U Don't crowd your young chicks. The loft should be cleatii'd out eve ry month, nt b ast. Ilesolve lo si't no eggs this year from a weak, crippled, or ailing hen. Ik not catch ducks by their li'gs. It Is much safer to handle them by the ! necks. ! Warm (barred com Is fine for the llwr. nnd sends biddies happy and warm to bed. Have removable nests, not too many logether. so you can dump them and fumigate when necessary. It Is 1111 unpleasant fact that much spraying Is done badly; this means that much money is thrown away. A good male bird Is half the pen. nnd h'a Influence on the entire progenj Is very marked. Keep fhe brooder perfectly clean, nnd always feed the chicks In a clean lnc0 If you want them to live and thrive. Nests should be placed In any little sheltered corner and should be so nindes that they can be closed when neeedeel. Where pb nty of nests are provided little troub'e will be expcrti-ticcd with hunting eggs In the tall grass or with egg eating hens. Farmers who raise I. Ml to : in t hick-I hick-I ens -very season could raise double the number with half the labor by tho use f Incubators. ( Artificial Incubation has been r-1 r-1 i-hierel to such a science that It Is j e omp.irntlvely an easy matter to ' hatch any number of cl le ks. j A Pennslvfuil.i woman raised $" ! we reh of young turkevs from three ' tutt-cy luns last year, an unusual record, but what has ben-n done, can be repeated. 1 beise who ral e poultry on tin exit ex-it nsire plan get luttcr results and mere priests by i.slt g the Incubator than when dependence Is placed s.oie 'y on the hens. A most cieel'cTit mature for clean-leg clean-leg the henhouses one of carboHa acid and whitewash. Paint all the Interior with It. using an oum e of th acid to a pail of whitewash |