Show I 4 Successful Poultry Raising In raising poultry or stock it should be the aim ot every one to keep it healthy and improve it You can do it very easily by adopting some sytematic rules These may be summed up in brief as follows 1 Construct your house good and warm so as to avoid damp floors and afford a flood of sunlight Sunshine is better than medicine 2 Provide a dusting and scratching scratch-ing place where you can bury wheat and corn and thus induce the fowls to take needful exercise 3 Provide yourself with some good healthy chickens none to be over three or four years old giving one cock to every twelve hens 4 Give plenty of fresh air at all times of the year especially in summer sum-mer 5 Give plenty of fresh water daily and never allow the fowls to go thirsty 6 Feed them systematically two or three times a day and ecatter the food so they cant eat too fait or without with-out proper axercise Do not feed more than they will eat up clean or they will get tired of that kind of feed 7 Give them a variety of dry and cooked food a mixture of cooked meal and vegetable is sn excellent thing for their mealS meal-S Give soft feed in the morning and the whole grain at night exqept I a little wheat or cracked corn placed in the scratching place to give them excerciee during the day 9 Above all things keep the hen bouse cean and well ventilated 10 Do not crowd too many in one house If you do look out for disease dis-ease 11 Use carbolic powder in the dusting bins occasionally to destroy lice 12 Wash your roosts and bottom of laying nests with whitewash once a week in summer and once a month in winter 13 Let the old and young have as large a range as possible the larger the better H Dont breed too many kinds of fowls at the same time unless you are going into the business Three or lour will give your han g full 15 Introduce new blood into your stock every year or so by buying a cockrel or sittings of eggs from some reliable breeder 16 In buying birds or eggs go to some reliable breeder who has his reputation at stake You may have to pay a little more for birds but you Jan depend upon what you get Calls are not cheap at any price 17 Save the best birds of next years breeding and send the others to maket In shipping fancy poultry to market send it dressed |