Show POULTRY YARD Chaff on the poultry house floor is desirable de-sirable a a means to cause the fowls to work Scatter wheat barley oats and a little buckwheat in the chaff as a daytime day-time feed Hot mash of boiled potatoes turnips and table scraps for morning a little meat twice a week green vegetables vege-tables and grain just before dark This is a good system of feeding A quaurt of mash in the morning a pint of wheat at noon and a quart of whole grain at night is about the right quantity of feed for fteen fowls Corn burned to a crisp and then pulverized pul-verized or even fed In a broken form mixed with soft feed is an excellent corrective and tonic for fowls Scaly leg is caused by a parasite Anoint the legs with a salve of kerosene and sulphur rubbing it In thoroughly When eggs are sold off the farm it is simply a change of the forms of the food consumed A bushel of wheat which may not sell at a profitable price in market mar-ket may be converted Into eggs that ket in demand I is after all but the selling of the wheat in another shape the hens being the medium or agents for manufacturing eggs from other substances sub-stances I the farmer can get a higher price for one article than he can for another an-other he gains the difference but it will not pay him to kekep stock that does not give good returns for the food consumed I can go sell eggs at 8 cents a dozen and cn sel still make money with the aid of a good bone cutter and plenty of clover for them to pick both summer and winter I pay onehalf a cent per pound for bone and meat at the butchers give each bird all they wish once a day and get the best results re-sults although they are confined all the time and get nothing but what Is fed them I feed grain at night just before they go to roost throwing it in a litter where they must dig to find i all and change the grain frequently The table waste with a little middlings mixed with it makes their breakfast with the cut bone and meat at noon an ounce for each hen this last being about the only food that costs anything I keep green clover in summer and rowen in winter where they can pick it at all times I am wintering 100 hens in small quarters and they are paying good dividends S Morgan Vt |