Show POULTRY NOTES Skimmed milk added to mash will give good results Hens that do not lay regularly should bo marketed this month Let It be remembered that the fowls need plenty of fresh clean drinking water at all times Flat perches are more comfortable than round ones and will prevent crooked breast hones Perches In the poultry house should bo far enough from the doors and windows win-dows to be out of all drafts Pullets should be at least ten months old before they are mated and only with vigorous males Throat trouble and lung diseases In fowls can often bo prevented by placing pla-cing a piece of alum In tho drinking water m 41 tho Cold storage men claim that brown shelled eggs being heavier and better than whlto thicker preserve shelled ones Never feed growing chicks Intended for layers an excess of food but fur including plenty nlsli them n variety stuff and mineral matter to of green build frame Damp foul coops are unwholesome for chickens to stay in Clean places them once a week smoke them and throw In dry road dust if the poultry house is damp It Is sign that the ventilation Is a sure poultry house In a A damp disease faulty breeder Look to the ventlla tlon your hens and ex If you shut up them to keep right on laying lust poet will have to supply the same you them with a generous feed of army kinds |