| Show Poultry CUCU BUT COMM0111U9 h I nncr7 That a r k Lne XUh l > ri of SouN ThoHO who wish a pliii for 11 cheap and commodious hennery that will if necoauiy rcixnmod a large number of fowls I will lo interested in ono Just coniplcUd bj a practical poultrjmau The drrwhg of the building tows tho north amlw ct sides The building is 16 by SO fot 11 10 feet high to roof peak JoiJ r prr ents the Insielo of the buildIng build-Ing ns fe jle w b 0 running < nnd encral room U egrooui feedroom etc A A A are liehts Intho recess there are three mwo of nefcta cm nbooiheoth r 6 door opening fitan i outside building n 1 door opening from fee lroom to re cets nest boxes limit otinR room rig J nest boxes 11 bj M inches These te 02 I boes are all movable for arranging to suit circuixibUuiceB By raising a board hinged one call readily xamlllo the nests from Ibo feed or egg room Should a bin wish to Bit lake I out one of tho Lost boxes turn it end for end thereby placing the end tbnt Is i eloitd up in tho rot ktlug room ihleh i remit tho other hensfiom bothering or imioyiug her It is so arranged that tire hitting hen can go out In a little yard scratch and dust without allY Inromenisneo or an uoyanco from Iho others The egg or feed room ban shelves In it and aloft which is t reached by a ladder undo fast up the side Where t lie feed ia kept 11j irerrcscuts lie costs two feet upart of bapolfras Fig 5 represents H llooring of boards with the show slant ns the roots but placed two feet away from rI = 1Z A A 110 2 I V A CONVENtENT nERIIT ILo roost The droppings falling ca these boards roll down into a trough ut tho lower end as shown In tho 1It Bide of tho house is ono large Eliding window Dud lu tho south tilde two will tvlro fenders or screens over all three A building of this blzo and kind can nc commodato SOO chickens with aiupl room Watch the Poultry When fowls are judiciously mad to take exercise and Iheir quarters kept clean and free from lico there is comparatively com-paratively no trouble with blcknobs ex cept in cases of contagion When the combs and wattles of the fowls are of a bright ml color it indicates indi-cates a condition of health When the fowls are busy scratching tho hens laying and singing and the cocks crowing these are signs of good health When you ran enter the henhouse otter dark and bear no wheeutufc It i Proves there urn not any roupy fowls Ili tho flock When tho edgo of the comb and nat ties is of a purplish reel 1 and the movements move-ments sluggish there U I something wrong ronWhcl1 When fowls Ho around 1 Indifferent to their surroundings they are too fat and death from apoplexy Indirection or liver complaint will result unlcs tbo trouble is I corrected When tho fowls taro restless and con Btantly picking their feathers they uro Infested with unnin When young poultry especially ducklings duck-lings appear to have a tore throat and swallowing difficult It Ill I the ymp I torn of the largo gray lico on the neck As soon as a few gets ill isolate It and commence doctoring it at onco The trouble with far too many is i that they wait until tho disease is I in its advanced stags before giving medicine A very sick fowl lit i difllcnlt to cure and vrhen cured it is seldom of value afterward Cable lu Jlassncluist Plowman TAirg Eggs It Is n somewhat curious fact that the weight of eggs la i materially larger lit 1 northern thin in southern climates Canadian egg for instance urn heavier than those shipped from the United States and eggs In tho northern states of this country are heavier than thOEO from the south A Japanese Runt The National museum at Washington has Just iccchcd all example of the powers I of tho Japs in thisniodo of stock breeding which cannot be found anywhere any-where else In this country Tho fowl In I question is a roctbter This rooster prol robly would not impress ono as different from tho ordinary barnyard chanticleer i wcro it not for tho enormous length of tho tall Tho tall U exactly 10 feet G inches In length and remarkable for fix grot leauty Trpja the baek of the rooster extend n doen long filament feathers any ono of which I oil lol be long In the ordlnarj fowl I I loUt three of lho feutlcrs reach ho great 1 leliRth ated TLey are Qf a bright JM ic ick blllo and Present beautiful col irlng r peclnlly In tile Bunllght |
