Show poli k MANNER OF STICKING FOWLS common pocketknife pocket knife with medium sized glade blade makes excellent instrument ment for operation when the market calls for a bira to be bled the beat plan Is to scicli it in ill the mouth and by so doing avoid the unsightliness so BO commod where they aro are backed about tbt th throat using this method onit on should first of all hayo bayo a stout cord rr ROO ar X orate where to stick a bird fastened bened to the colling ring with A two pound weight attached to the dowat end this should bo lust just high enough to hang the bird to bo picked at a convenient height tho the weight to I 1 used to save nave tying L knot each time OB as all that la Is la Is to wind the string airing around the birds legs and the weight will hold bold it securely ua box or barrel to catch tho the leathers feathers and a small paint can with a hooli fastened to the handle ba aillo la is hooked into the blada birds mouth to catch the tb blood and prevent its soiling tin thit fen feathera feathers it requires very little arao tico to kill the birds in this manner after the bird la Is hanged by the legs cross the wings at it the back and grasp the head in the left hand band tha th back of the head la in tile the palm and with the end of the second i linger hold tho mouth open then with me knife in the right hand make a ding onal cut across tho root roof ot of tho the mouth just where the arteries enter th tb head then with tho the point of th made blade tho brain lif hi about tbt flit of tho the roof of af the mouth the operation operation Ts Is fini slie bird plu c k 0 din a ahi is 6 harder to pick A common kocir aniro with a medium sized makes a good instrument fo for ins DUST BOX FOR WINTER combination of hard coal ashes and powdered tobacco stems keep hens free from lice thinking the hens hena did not iaia aiso their dust bath an much as aa they ought and believing the reason for this to bo be because tho the dust material was so cold we changed conditions in this way A dry goods box three feet long twenty inches wide by eighteen inches deep was obtained says a writer in the homestead the bottom boards were retno removed ved and a new bottom bottani nailed balled on which was one fourth inch thick another bor just enough larger to allow tha first to slip blip inside easily was waa next found this athla was waa placed in tho the sun bun mast spot in n tho the hen house and tilled filled to within four inches of at the tor top with fresh horse manure on top of ihla ibis the smaller box was set and filled to lo A winter dust box within six inches of 0 tho the top with sifted hard coat coal ashes and some powdered tobacco stems in a short time tho the ashes felt warm and the tha hens soon found this out they have kept remarkably free from lice due wo we believe to tho the tobacco fresh horse manure to Is put in two or three times during tho the winter SALT IN THE POULTRY FOOD no living tiling thing can get along entirely without it and chickens should have food salted many people labor under the impression that no salt should ever be 09 put laid poultry food simply because highly salted food such buch as salt fish vr or pickled meat has bor lacs killed rh chickens ickens As aa EL a matter of fact no alv r ing thing can got along entirely wa out salt sait la in some form chickens can always get salt in buniger by eating grass which absorbs a cert certain atIL lamount from tho the eoll but in winter tt it la is different during cold weather ill prepared chicken food such as an mashes and boiled vegetables should bo salted in about the same proportion as for human food it if this ls aone abao aba tb poultry will f bo be alwer nd more productive |