Show POULTRY NOTES Tho best egg stimulant Is a good variety of healthful food Begin fighting the mites and lice before they get a start A clumsy hen seldom makes a good mother Bread crumbs are splendid feed for the young chick Tho science of rearing healthy chicks has to be learned chiefly by experience It is well to know how to cure poultry I poul-try diseases but It is moro profitable to know how to prevent them Too much soft food Induces disease Feed a light warm bulky mash In the early morning and feed grain the middle of the afternoon and at night Now Is a good tithe to spade up tho runs The fowls will like tho worms and the ground will bo much healthier As an appetizer and an exercise scatter millet seed in litter on tho pen floor and let tho youngsters hustlo for it A knot hole in the side of a house where the hens roost is moro dangerous danger-ous than If you loft a window open Never giver your chicks sloppy food but make It so that It will crumblo when thrown on tho feed board Fowls half fed are never In good condition for mariset or laying eggs and honce rarely prove profitable When the cockerels are three or four months old they should bo kept separate from the pullets Both lots will thrive bettor and grow faster for tho separation Hawks and crows which took somo straying young poults especially tho former are such vermin destroyers that they are not unmitigated pests If ono is shot and hung up In plain sight it seems to frighten tho others away and total destruction Is not necessary nor probably desirable Poultry houses that are too close and too warm are worse than those that are supposed to bo too cold A fow years ago the ogg recordbreak ing hen roosted all winter on the top of a coal abed |