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Show POULTRY NOTES. It requires some extra skill to raise er.rly chicks. During the winter the hens should be fed cut steamed hay. Don't winter a whole raft of male birds that eat about twice as much as a hen will and produce nothing. Thanksgiving turkeys always bring good prices and the sooner the fattening fatten-ing process is begun the bigger will be the turkey. Statistics go to prove that the hens in Uncle Sam's barnyard produce as much wealth in six months as his iron mines yield in an entire year. An excellent soft food for laying hens can be compounded by mixing two-thirds wheat bran to one-third clover leaves wet with scalding water. If you wish to catch a duck drive him into a corner and catch him by the neck, using a stiff wire hook if necessary. Save all the cull potatoes, cabbage and beets for the fowls this winter. Vegetables are as important an addi-ion addi-ion as meat to the feed for laying hens. Teach those turkeys that they have no right to roost anywhere but at home and you will come nearer to finding all of them about Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing time. Some breeders make a handsome I profit by preparing cocke-rels for market mar-ket at this time of the year. Feed them heavily and force them by a fattening process. If your flock is composed of half a dozen different breeds, most of them mongrels, sell off the whole hunch and start at once with pure bred eggs and a few well bred fowls. In the Blue Homer, the White Homer, the Mondain and the several varieties of Runts, we have present, to a great degree, the most desirable qualities for squab growing. By running vegetable parings, bones, small potatoes, dry bread and other scraps through a bone cutter each day and feeding it to the hens, you will have eggs when others have none. It does not pay to be constantly cleaning up the farm implements and wagon. Have a place for everything and see to it that everything is in Its place, even in case of the poultry. |