Show footed comb Corn bot breeders bleeders Bre eders of largo large combed breeds of fowls have more or less annoyance from frosted combs if they do riot not provide warm frostproof abiding places at night and even the daytime A cockerel will deliberately stand in some poorly sheltered spot and allow his comb to get frosted sooner than go into a warm hous during the day his desiro desire to stand staid sta id around must bo be cut short he must tie be restrained and kept within bounds it is a fact that more combs got get frosted i in a daytime than at nights and it does not take very long to frost them either cither when a 1 bird gets its comb frosted it needs immediate attention or you will have a sorry looking bird pretty soon to draw out the frost and cure the hird bird is the question the poultry news says we like tho the old method of anointing the comb und and wattles with turpentine and placing it in no a warm dark dry underground der ground cellar this y will vill draw out the frost quicker than rny anything thing wo we have ever seen tried to heal the wound after the swelling has subsided wo we apply a mixture of lard and glycerin half and hall half glycerin applied to the comb arid and wattles is a 1 good preventive against frost and cold reed feed whole grain and provide a drinking cup that the bird can only got get its beak into if the bowels become loose put a small quantity of ginger in the water |