Show POULTRY MUCH NEGLECTED IN SUMMER y WW ny tr y 1 k ic T ral tt r ii good type of poultry house showing proper amount of glasa and muslin covered windows A partition divides it into two compartments by MILLER PURVIS farm poultry Is usually very much neglected because most people think fowls can find most of their feed during the warm weather and farm work presses and time la when any thing that does not plainly bhoj the necessity tor attention la likely to be left undone AB a matter of fact poultry requires attention every day in the year and there are many duties about the poul try yard that call lor performance especially during the summer months I 1 think abo moet important thing that calls for attention during the summer months Is the destruction of insect pests or measures to prevent them from appearing at all it Is entirely unnecessary to have insects about a poultry house and 1 look upon their presence as proof positive of carelessness the very best way to combat Is to begin before they appear and prevent them from appearing at all this Is about the easiest taste that an be tet for a I 1 bavo or many years kept my pol v houe free from all kinds of insect pests by using common coal oil once a week I 1 simply swab the perches top bottom and sides every square inch of the surface every week with coal oil I 1 use a common paint brush and apply the oil liberally occasionally I 1 go over the walls with the oil this anil two liberal coata of whitewash on the inside of the bouse will keep from getting a lodgment or an to increase the whitewash helps to keep the poultry house in a sanitary condition but attention to cleanliness and plenty of sunshine Is better clean the house often and have big windows facing eoute which are kept open so the sun can shine into the house and microbes mic robes will not flourish the poultry house in which foul odors abide Is not fit for fowls to sleep in fowls should be fed as regularly in the summer as at any other time but the quantity of feed may be considerably sider ably reduced it the birds have the freedom of the farm feed corn and wheat and have a bas tI scrap in a dry place aba kens can get to it at any alma r A 1 1 |