Show LATE SUMMER WORK IN POULTRY YARD 4 W a n aw A 0 W N N aw fk W 4 1 I 1 A string of whit wyandotte hens experience proves every day that alfa ifa chopped very fine or ground and mixed with other othe r feed la is very beneficial for laying hens sell off all the cockerels cockerell cocker els now but first stuff them hem for at least two weeks before taeg taking them to market it if you have never used a curtain in the poultry house try it this winter get everything ready before cold weather comes on the natural teed feed of fowls Is insects and worms and dry grain wet mash has had its day it Is poor business to ever send a loan lean fowl to market spade up every foot of the poultry yard before tho the ground freezes after the hens have raked it over smooth it down with a rake roller leaving no depressions in much puddles can form do not send poultry into winter quarters without first thoroughly disi infecting them whitewash and spray with car carbolic bolle add acid or kerosene it la Is our plan to take out every roost and loose part of tho the poultry house in the tall fall and replace it with new material whenever a poultry house Is cleaned and nest boxes and fixtures are removed they s should hould all be burned entirely or held over a flame of straw to destroy every insect that crawls too many poultry raisers study care eare and feeding too much and marketing too little what profits it a man it if he raises a cirio lot of 0 chicks and then allows tho the middleman to got get tho the biggest end of 0 the profits at the present high prices of corn and wheat the poultry ralser raiser who has haa to buy all ot of his bla feed must study how bow to cut close corners cornera or ho he will lose out it if you keep guineas turkeys and chicks build separate houses and yards for them it you confine all three varieties in one yard during tbt winter it will prove disastrous we do not believe in a tight signi house leave beave the front entirely open even it if there rheid la is no curtain fowls will seldom suffer buffer except in abnormally cold weather more blore fowls die from bad air than from cold weather the broiler business Is all right tor for those who make a close study of it but the careless care leaa man or woman will do better to stick to eggs ducks may ho bo plucked two or throe three times during the first season beason without interfering with their growth some borne people have yet to learn that ducklings duc klings and goslings gollings go slings must have wa ter at hand when fed because they I 1 always drink as they eat taking a few mou mouth tula of feed and then a sir of water |