Show POULTRY AND EGOS The red combed hen Is the layer Bank the hen house with earth or h rse manure Mangers are out of date fpr hens pet5 Dont let the hens become too fat nowA scarcity of esss is usually the breeders own fault The egg lle bean porridge hot Is best when it is one day old Be sure that your bIrds have plenty of fresh water before them at ali times Incubators are manufactured for the purpose of aiding In hatching chicks Investigate When hen are laying they nus have extra food as they cannot make eggs without the requisite material About now see to it that you do not pleep until you know your chickens are all right and comfortable for the night If poultry breeders want the cream of the best trade plant an advertisement advertise-ment in these columns The early bird sets the worm If hens are permitted to freeze ng starve half the winter It Js idle to expect ex-pect that decent care for the balance of the time win make them profitable To stimulate the hens to lay feed warm soft food In the middle of the day Make Ifc of bran shorta and mashed vegetables And a half cup ful of grease with salt and pepper In severely cold weather a good covering cov-ering of dry straw oyer the floor of the poultryhouse will help materiall In keeping the fowls comfortable during dur-ing the day when they are 9ft the roosts In order to know how to succeed In poultry keeping you must have actual experience A great deal can bQ learned from the poultry press but It takes practical experience to obtain satisfactory results To many poultry raising seems a small business but it pays The I farmer works for money and nothing which produces It should be overlooked I While the care of the flock in the win tar season entails extra work the wellrfllied egg basket will be the re munerfttfonj n4 eggs sell for cash remember re-member Cheap animal foods are excellent t Induce hena to lay They require food rich Jn i albumen when they are layin and If fad exclusively on grain wIll not give any profit In egg Clover hay chopped fine and scalded Is ot of the best things to help out a < varlet Do not tool away time with fancy feathered breeds None dress better look better nor sell better than Ply mouth Rocks or Wyandottes Do not mix the variety you have with another an-other under the sun or you will spoil both Keep the color and size as unh form as possihl |