Show act C clean the poultry house every day lime sprinkled about the poultry housa lg a good disinfectant impure drinking M ater Is one of the most common causes of sickness in chicks A well cared for flock of hens will pay a bigger dividend than an thing else on the farm dont have too much poultry house furniture it occupies space and affords a biding place for lice aa a general thing the fowls thata have plenty 0 range and good variety of teed do not lay thin shelled eggs if some folks were fined for all the bad eggs they have sold there bould be no profits for them even in the poultry business it la a good time odthe year to whitewash the ben bouse put new hay in the nests also to look out for lies under the ro poles A good grain ration to feed the la ing bens during the summer months Is composed as follows one halt wheat one fourth oats and one fourth corn buckwheat may be substituted for the oats it desired when the hen house Is close and hot and particularly it infested with mites and lice who can blame tho hen that has sense enough to hide her nest such a bird Is to be commended and encouraged |