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Show Food flavors the egg. Dry houses prevent roup. Too much raw meat produces worms. It is easier to check disease at the start thau to cure it later. The first essential in the production o' eggs is the health of the hens. Poor drainage in the chicken yard always results In unhealthy birds. Some markets demand white-shelled eggs, where others prefer a brown-shelled brown-shelled product. Feeding cannot be properly regulated regu-lated when a mixed flock of large and i small fowls are kept It would be a good thing to move the poultry yards occasionally giving the hens new, clean grounds to live on. With young chicks there Is as much danger of overfeeding as underfeeding. underfeed-ing. Feed often and regularly, instead in-stead of too much at one time |